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Speaker 1 On today's part of my take, we have our good friend John Anik in studio getting you ready for UFC big-time fight. Madison Square Garden Saturday night.
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Speaker 1 In the building, hopefully winning. We're going to talk some UFC, talk just general stuff with John Anick, catching up with him.
We're going going to do our picks and preview for week 10 of the NFL.

Speaker 1 It's crazy we're at week 10, but we're going to get some picks. We're going to find some winners, fantasy fuckboys, fire fest of the week, sending you into a football weekend.

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Speaker 1 Today is Friday, November 11th. And thank you for your service, Billy.
It is Veterans Day. Good job, Billy.
Let's just clap it up for Veterans Day.

Speaker 2 Also, like appreciate it.

Speaker 1 The sacrifices.

Speaker 2 105th anniversary of World War I ending.

Speaker 2 So that's kind of cool.

Speaker 1 Just a lot. The Marines, I love it.

Speaker 2 It was the war to end all wars. We've never fought another one since.
That was it.

Speaker 1 That was it. It was Mortal Lock.
Yep. War to end all wars.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they can't lose. Game of the year.

Speaker 1 War to end all wars.

Speaker 1 I do love that Marines go around and say happy birthday to each other on

Speaker 1 Veterans Day. I think the 10th?

Speaker 2 I think the 10th is the

Speaker 1 first day of the Marine Corps.

Speaker 1 That's awesome.

Speaker 2 Simplify, do or die. That's fun.

Speaker 2 Am I allowed to say that?

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 pacifist. I mean, you know Billy.
Yeah, that's true. So, Billy, any words? Congrats? I'm not in the military.
Okay, all right. Yeah, well, not presently.
But you'd give it all up. You would.

Speaker 1 You'd give it all up.

Speaker 2 You have the skills to be in the military.

Speaker 2 You do play a lot of Call of Duty.

Speaker 1 Choose your own adventure.

Speaker 2 Actually, you know what? I might bet the house on Kyler Murray this weekend.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Big weekend for him.
Huge. Choose your own adventure.
Thursday night football. We are headed to Philly for the Barstool Invitational.

Speaker 1 So if you are in Philly on Friday, November 11th, come to the games. We have two games, Wells Fargo Center.
You can also watch it at barstool.tv.

Speaker 1 We have Toledo versus UAB, which is going to be electric.

Speaker 2 A lot of points. I'm excited to see Jelly walk.

Speaker 2 Jelly captured our hearts last year. I'm so excited he's back at UAB.
And I think Jelly knows that the spotlight is on him this weekend.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 And Jelly with the spotlight on him will not, he might not pass the ball.

Speaker 1 No. I hope he scored 38 in his first game this year.

Speaker 2 He won't go for 50.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he won't go for 50. No chance.
I don't think so. And then Mississippi State versus Akron in the second game.

Speaker 1 So it's going to be great. Jake will be on the call.
Our darling Jake, I'll be there with Dave as well on the call. So go watch us at barstool.tv.

Speaker 2 So that's why we're taping early. Jake, are you excited? Like, tell me how.
I bet you've been doing prep for this for the last two months.

Speaker 7 Yeah, since Big Tac gave me the official nod, I've been doing prep every day, I'd say.

Speaker 1 I'm excited to hear you.

Speaker 2 Oh, I'm so excited to hear Jake. Like, Jelly is an afterthought for me.
I'm pumped for Jake. Jake, what is the one name that you are the most worried about mispronouncing?

Speaker 7 The Toledo head coach is actually Todd Kowalchek.

Speaker 1 Kowalchek? I think he nailed that.

Speaker 7 But

Speaker 7 it's spelled

Speaker 7 T-O-D-1-D K-O-W-A-L-C-Z-Y-K.

Speaker 1 I like that. Todd Kowalchek.
The Kowalcheks have like 11 kids. They live down the road, got great snacks at their house.
The Kualchex. Everyone's friends with one of the Kowalcheks.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I think that's a solid basketball name.

Speaker 1 How are you going to deal with doing two games? Because it's like you get all worked up and excited for the end of the first one, and then you have to kind of start back and mellow back down.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I mean, once the first game hits i don't think of the words mississippi state akron until the first game actually yeah i haven't thought of those words at all in my prep whisper those words

Speaker 1 into jake's ears during the first game i've been thinking about like should i i'm gonna do some prep but uh hank and i were talking and and basically my job is to just make sure that uh you and dave coexist and i will yeah no i know that's i'm i'm i'm gonna be i'm just gonna be glue guy jelly between the two of you yeah that's kind of my job is to like the translator between the two of you back and forth but it's gonna be fun it should be fun also i've been told we can openly talk about your bets yes and the line so like if there's i'm gonna tell you right now

Speaker 1 over in the first game i'm allowed to say oh my god there's the over hammer the over in the first game toledo plays up and down uab jelly walker we talked about it so choose choose your own adventure thursday night football so we're taping early um falcons panthers we looked at the schedule we're like yeah this is a game we could probably uh you know get everyone get on their way because pft you're going to play rugby this weekend jake's going down to Philly.

Speaker 1 Panthers tried really hard but lost.

Speaker 2 Yeah, so Sam Darnold is in the mix again for the Panthers. So that's interesting.
They've got a three-headed monster at quarterback, a log jam at quarterback, if you will.

Speaker 2 And I think all three of those quarterbacks, if you took their best assets and combined them into one quarterback, I think they would be exactly equal to how good Marcus Mariota is. Yes.

Speaker 2 Which is to say, slightly below average as a starting quarterback in the NFL. I like Arthur Smith in this matchup.
I think that Arthur is going to have him dialed in.

Speaker 2 I think Corderelle Patterson is going to get the Corderelle Patterson game that we have been waiting for. And I think

Speaker 2 the Falcons are going to win 28-17. Whoa.

Speaker 1 So kind of a blowout. Kind of a blowout.

Speaker 2 Kind of a mini blowout. It's a mini blowout.

Speaker 1 Mini blowout, yeah.

Speaker 2 And I think that, you know, the Falcons will end this weekend in first place. of the NFC South.

Speaker 1 Okay,

Speaker 1 I'm going with just a weird score because it feels like a weird score game. I'm going to say the Falcons win 25-22.
Oh, I like that. Yeah.
That's a good score. Something weird.

Speaker 1 And maybe even the Panthers miss a field goal, like a

Speaker 1 54-yard field goal to tie the game to bring it to overtime.

Speaker 2 Oh, and I'm hammering the over three and a half field goals to yes. So Youngwei Ku, this is the coup game.
Yes.

Speaker 1 What are you going to say, Hank? Over. Over.
Coldest gambler on this show, man. You are

Speaker 1 so bad right now. Hank, I have some good news for you, though.
The over is hitting. No, no, no.
I have some other good news for you. So let's do our week 10 preview.

Speaker 1 There's not an underdog I don't like. Yeah, that's fucking insane.

Speaker 2 I had to talk myself into one of the favorites this week. And even still, I'm not that confident.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 I wish I could just pick underdogs. I might just blindly bet every underdog.
I think I'm going to do a round-robin for the early games. Yeah.
Underdogs? Every single one. Yeah, I like it.

Speaker 1 Can't lose, I don't think. Cannot lose.

Speaker 2 The underdogs are actually favorites in my mind this weekend. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's crazy. I think this is...

Speaker 2 But wait, that would make the favorites the underdogs.

Speaker 1 Yes. and this also

Speaker 1 I've been doing this for a long enough time to know that there is always one week where all the underdogs do win, but you never know when it's coming.

Speaker 1 So you can't no, no, no, you can't predict it because it happens when you take all the favorites and everyone just gets wiped out at the same time. Billy.

Speaker 8 You guys really think the Texans got a chance?

Speaker 1 Oh, I think they have a chance, yeah. Sure.

Speaker 1 Why not? Okay. I mean, maybe not, but well, against the spread, yes.

Speaker 1 Do you think the I don't think the Giants are a team that beats teams by more than you know a field goal okay so that's yeah they play

Speaker 1 i don't think that the texans lose by more than 10 points ever yeah yeah they uh yeah no they uh they lost by 11 to the eagles but that was

Speaker 1 i'm counting that as as less than 10 points it was covering the spread yeah so i feel like the texans are a chippy team the giants are they're probably gonna win this game by like four points yeah all right so let's get into it let's talk about every game let's preview it uh we'll do our mountain rush more as well i fucked it up last week aaron well, I shouldn't say I fucked it up.

Speaker 1 Aaron Jones fucked it up by getting hurt. We don't injury shame, but that did suck.
He's china doll. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay, Hank. Oh, yeah, we have the records.
I feel like we're moving things in the right direction, right?

Speaker 1 Just you. No, PFT was three and one.

Speaker 7 Snip of the cap to us. The first week, we didn't have an 0-4 week.

Speaker 1 Nice.

Speaker 1 Okay. Hang the banner.

Speaker 7 Big cat at 19-16 and 1. Okay.
54%. Me and PFT tied for second at 16-20.
Hank, two games behind us at 14 and 22. Max, 13, 22, and 1, and Billy at 13 and 23.

Speaker 7 So three people separated by one game at the bottom.

Speaker 1 Billy, what was the reaction when you were just... That little tie.

Speaker 8 Yeah. A little tie put me.

Speaker 1 Well, that counts to half a point if it gets down to it.

Speaker 7 Yeah, Hank's at 1-11 in the last three weeks.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Hey, Hank. What's wrong with you? Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 Someone also pointed out, like, Hank has a major malfunction in his brain right now because we passed right over it, but he picks 17 every time for the lottery machine, never gets it.

Speaker 1 And then after Monday Night Football, he's like, Yeah, I alternate bet the Ravens minus 17 and got screwed. It's like,

Speaker 1 What's up with 17, dude? You gotta put you got a 17 problem. You addicted to 17? Yeah, you're lovely.
You're addicted to Drake 17, yeah. Yeah, it's maybe

Speaker 1 be more like Drake and get to like addicted to 14.

Speaker 1 Cover that sprint, yeah.

Speaker 2 Just buy the points, yeah.

Speaker 1 Uh, okay.

Speaker 1 Um, let's go start with favorites. It's ugly, it's very ugly, Hank.

Speaker 1 I don't even.

Speaker 2 Can you opt out of favorites?

Speaker 1 No, you cannot.

Speaker 1 I'm going to go back to the well. They killed me last week, broke my soul in half.

Speaker 1 Los Angeles Rams minus one and a half. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yep. So, do we know the status of Matthew Stafford?

Speaker 2 He's in the concussion protocol right now. So if Matthew Stafford does not play, we are getting something called John Walford

Speaker 1 on Sunday. Oh, we got that, right? Why was he on the seat?

Speaker 2 I don't mind the John Walford game.

Speaker 1 I'm changing it. I'm going Dallas Cowboys minus five.
Oh,

Speaker 1 I want to call bye week. I want to call you.
The Packers are horrible.

Speaker 2 You should be called the P word for that.

Speaker 1 And you're also the S word.

Speaker 1 Square.

Speaker 1 You're a P C word.

Speaker 2 PS. Hank, this is a bad pick.
Okay.

Speaker 1 All right. So is that your pick? The Cowboys minus five is my official pick.
Okay. First time in Aaron Rodgers' 121 career starts at Lambeau Field that he's more than a field goal underdog.

Speaker 1 And it's like,

Speaker 1 we have a lot of revenge games this week. Oh, yeah.
And Mike McCarthy revenge game. The Packers have not been this bad since his last season there when he got fired midseason for,

Speaker 1 I almost said Regis Philbin, but it was Joe Philbin.

Speaker 1 It's, this is, I don't know if the Packers are going to win this game, but I feel like they're going to cover it because you can't get lower. Like, they are as low as possible in terms of a stock.

Speaker 1 And even that Lions game, like, they probably should have won that Lions game by a couple touchdowns if they just weren't the most atrocious team ever on goal-line situations.

Speaker 2 If you bet on the Packers last weekend, there's probably a 0% chance that you're betting on them again.

Speaker 1 You're scarred.

Speaker 2 Because that's like, I'm never going back to him. You just lost against the Lions, and Aaron Rodgers threw two red zone interceptions, which never happens.

Speaker 2 So you are so pissed off about that bet, you're probably not going back. Matt LaFleur is 11-3 against the spread after a loss,

Speaker 1 which probably has taken a

Speaker 1 it's probably he probably was 11-0 until this season

Speaker 1 because he's probably just you know putting up putting up L's every single time.

Speaker 2 Yeah, uh, Aaron Rodgers is 37-18 against the spread.

Speaker 1 Also, again, also probably

Speaker 1 took a hit. Yep.

Speaker 2 And then Aaron Rodgers, 4-1 against the spread as a home underdog.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 I'm definitely going to take the Packers on this because I feel like this is Mike McCarthy revenge game, and Mike McCarthy is going to show up. And he's going to do the very definition of too much.

Speaker 1 Yeah, if you try too hard and you're Mike McCarthy, it will be detrimental to everything you want to do.

Speaker 2 Mike McCarthy is a great head coach when he's trying medium. Yeah.
When he's doing like just enough to get by.

Speaker 1 When he's just in a constant state of like

Speaker 1 miffed. He's kind of miffed at what is going, like everything that's going on around him.
He's a little bit confused.

Speaker 2 Yeah, like miffed, perturbed, aloof. When he's really dialed in, if you give Mike McCarthy, I wonder what his stats are like off of bye week, too.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Because I feel like if you give him too much time to cook something up, he really gets in his own head. He starts breaking out all the tricks, but not the good tricks like the watermelon.

Speaker 1 No, he probably spent the entire bye week trying to understand the PFF grades and then based all his game plan on that.

Speaker 2 Well, no, what he did, because he is an analytics guy, big time, he probably went to every single page that is clickable on Pro Football Focus until the pop-up came up that said like you have to pay $8.99 for a subscription

Speaker 2 subscription. And then he just went to the next page.
So he read the first article.

Speaker 1 He read the first paragraph of every article.

Speaker 2 Yeah, first paragraph of every article on Pro Football Focus.

Speaker 1 So that's the game plan the the Cowboys are going to be.

Speaker 2 That's the game plan. And I feel like Aaron Rodgers, this is a great situation for Aaron Rodgers.
It really is like nobody believes in him. No.

Speaker 2 I saw that our friend Aaron Nagler put out the theory last night that Aaron Rodgers sucks ever since we interviewed him. Yeah.
And he thinks that you poisoned him.

Speaker 1 That would be a shame. It would be a real shame.
It would be a real shame.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I think maybe we just

Speaker 2 poisoned his brain with truth.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And I text with Aaron Nagler whenever the Packers are doing poorly, and it's just, we got a long way to go, but it's just nice to know that Packers fans are legitimately like afraid of Justin Fields.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Because

Speaker 1 they have never been afraid of a Bears quarterback.

Speaker 2 Embrace this feeling.

Speaker 1 Embrace this feeling.

Speaker 2 So, yeah, I guess this was a very long way of saying that Hank is a fucking idiot. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And now the Cowboys are probably going to win by 20 because we're also idiots. It's the idiot off.
Max, your favorite, favorite.

Speaker 10 Eagles minus 11.

Speaker 1 Whoa. All right.
Shocker.

Speaker 2 Disrespect. Against the commands.

Speaker 1 Are you worried at all? Are we still doing that?

Speaker 1 Are we doing it?

Speaker 1 It's a Phillies thing. It's a Philly's thing.

Speaker 2 It's football season.

Speaker 1 Said? No? No more said? No, basketball season started. Yeah.
Did you see him beat? Yeah.

Speaker 10 He literally said it was football and baseball season.

Speaker 1 And then the day after the Phillies lost, he's like, the Phillies are over. Now it's basketball season.
Oh, okay. So James Harden hasn't played yet.

Speaker 1 Yeah. We're not.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 He hasn't played in basketball season yet.

Speaker 2 He's in the gym right now. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Working hard. What's his injury again? Oblique?

Speaker 10 It doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 What is his injury? No, he's got a foot. Is it his foot? Yeah, he's got like a

Speaker 2 mild foot sprain.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 I think he's just got gout.

Speaker 1 He's just got a little Charlie horse. The Michael Thomas.

Speaker 1 He's like, oh, Christmas, Thanksgiving coming up? Charlie horse died.

Speaker 2 No, he's got a nasty case of being locked inside the gold club.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 2 Alex Harden's going to come back for his first game still with glitter on his body.

Speaker 1 Yes, definitely.

Speaker 1 Glitter and just

Speaker 1 a lot of perfume. Yeah.
Like, whoa, where have you been, dude?

Speaker 1 Maybe even he catches the ball and there's like Vaseline on his hands. Jesus Christ.

Speaker 1 Max, I was looking at this game. Are you a little worried about the fact that just in principle, taking

Speaker 1 division rivals with a lot of points is a good strategy?

Speaker 10 My theory is

Speaker 10 they're basically coming off a little mini-buy right now.

Speaker 1 I love that people call it the mini-buy.

Speaker 2 It's almost a double mini-buy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because

Speaker 2 Thursday to Monday night.

Speaker 10 So, I mean, they're going to be well-rested.

Speaker 1 Nick Siriani needs to be well-rested. His eyes, there's a problem.

Speaker 1 He had huge bags under his eyes. He looked like he hasn't slept in weeks.
I think he was just watching too many Phillies home runs. Good.
Good.

Speaker 10 I want all my teams.

Speaker 1 Well, one of them, the Phillies are, they ought to limit it. Whatever.

Speaker 1 And also the Union, they lost.

Speaker 2 Remember that also?

Speaker 1 Yeah, same day, actually. Hank was really good.
Never been done.

Speaker 2 Latest goal in MLS history.

Speaker 10 But yeah, no, they.

Speaker 1 History. History.

Speaker 10 The Texans game that people were starting to doubt that they're starting to do the whole, oh, they don't play anyone good. They almost were tight with the Texans for a while.

Speaker 10 I think this is a stomp on their face.

Speaker 2 I honestly do think that the Commanders franchise has been on the receiving end of a lot of these types of statement games

Speaker 2 over the history. I remember the Mike Vick Monday night game.

Speaker 2 Anytime I see these two teams play on Monday night, it just gives me flashbacks to when Mike Vick broke every single record in football history.

Speaker 1 Chip Kelly changed the NFL.

Speaker 1 That one game he changed the NFL. Remember, everyone's like, the game will never be the same.

Speaker 2 I remember Deshaun Jackson getting about like three steps on Leron Landry, catching a 50-yard pass, and then turning around and sprinting to the end zone backwards while laughing at Leron Landry, trying to catch him.

Speaker 2 And the most Deshaun Jackson move

Speaker 2 of all time. Jeremy Macklin went off, I'm pretty sure that game.

Speaker 2 It was bad. It was one of those games that makes you re-examine your entire life.
So I have flashbacks going into this game.

Speaker 2 I don't think that Max is in a bad place, though, taking the Eagles and the points on this one. I think if you look at the levels of disarray that a franchise can possibly be in, I would say

Speaker 2 with the federal investigation and the D.C. investigation and the Virginia investigation and Jeff Bezos buying the team, I'd say that this is about as disarray as the team can be.

Speaker 1 How about the statement they put out last night? Yeah. Yeah, well, that's as bad as that.

Speaker 2 It was pretty bad where Dan Snyder essentially said,

Speaker 2 maybe instead of focusing on all the financial fraud that we've done over the last 30 years, how about you pay more attention to our running back that got shot two months ago?

Speaker 1 I kind of like it. Dan Snyder's got big time like last week of school vibes going now where he's like, you know what? Fuck it.
I'm just going to say some shit. Yeah.
And then

Speaker 1 everyone knew I was a scumbag behind the scenes. Let me just do it out in front of everyone.

Speaker 2 He's got senioritis. He's got Snyderitis is coming for you this week.
It's going to be bad.

Speaker 2 And I think the team can put out, like, they can tune out a lot of the stuff that's going on because Rivera is pretty good at that sort of thing, which is just saying, like, okay,

Speaker 2 we're inside of a hurricane right now. Let's just stay in the basement for a while, and all we got is each other.

Speaker 2 But now it's like your owner is being like, don't investigate me for felonies because this guy got shot.

Speaker 1 Remember that? Yeah.

Speaker 2 When he got shot everywhere. And so I think at this point, the...

Speaker 2 The walls are closing in on just about everybody. So I expect, I would not be shocked to see a blowout.
I might go to this game, though.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay. I mean, I haven't been to a commander's game in in a while.

Speaker 2 It'd be nice to see him play in a decent field.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 the craziest part about the Eagles is people are going to complain about their schedule, and it doesn't get any harder. They just don't.
They have the 27th ranked strength of schedule left.

Speaker 1 Play who you play.

Speaker 10 Play who you play. Stomp on the bad teams.

Speaker 1 Play who you play.

Speaker 1 You do have to be, though, a little worried.

Speaker 1 And I am too, but like the Eagles, let's just say they go

Speaker 1 15-2,

Speaker 1 and everyone's like, they never played anyone, and then they lose in the the first round. It's like the whole season just became a joke.
That happens every year. I know.

Speaker 10 It's always the team that has a great record. It's like, oh, they haven't played anyone.

Speaker 10 But they're stomping on it.

Speaker 1 I know, I agree. I like the Eagles a lot, but you know, it's hard to fight against.
It's narrative. It's all media narrative.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's all this fake stuff that we're putting out.

Speaker 1 It's all bullshit. Okay, PFT, your favorite favorite.

Speaker 2 My favorite favorite. I'm also taking the Rams.
I'm taking John Wolford, baby. Let's ride.

Speaker 1 No, wait, Hank has the Cowboys. So, yeah, just

Speaker 2 so, yeah, we've successfully bullied Hank off of the John Wolford game. Yeah.
Although it might be Stafford. Who knows?

Speaker 1 And it might be Stafford, and it doesn't really matter either way because McVay owns Cliff Caseberry.

Speaker 2 That's what the spet really is.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he owns the Cardinals in general. He's 11-1 straight up and 10-1-1 against the Cardinals, against the spread.
I think Buddha Baker's out. I think we have the hard knocks coming up soon.

Speaker 2 I'm so bummed out that it's the Cardinals, though.

Speaker 1 But I kind of want to watch how bad it looks on the inside.

Speaker 2 I think it's going to be boring bad because they have final cut, I'm pretty sure, over everything. Even the the commercials that they put out for it, it's like DeAndre Hopkins standing on

Speaker 2 a step stool and doing calf raises on it. Yeah.
They're just boring. I think they're just boring, bad.
This is a bet, though, on McVay over Kingsbury.

Speaker 2 And although the Kyler Murray stat about it being Veterans Day weekend, it does make it.

Speaker 1 That does hurt you a little. Okay.

Speaker 1 I'm going back to the well.

Speaker 2 You're going with the Bucs?

Speaker 1 I'm going with the Bucs, my student.

Speaker 2 I thought about it. I considered the Bucs.

Speaker 1 Okay, so here's

Speaker 1 like multiple times on Sunday, you're taking the Seahawks. Yeah, I did.
I did.

Speaker 1 And then I started looking at it more, and I think the Seahawks are good, but I do think Antoine Winfield, I think, is back for the Bucs. The Bucs, it's not never a bet on Tom Brady.
It's relapsing.

Speaker 1 It's a bet on their defense. I still think their defense is very good.
I think their defense gave the Seahawks a lot of problems.

Speaker 1 This is the one thing that makes me nervous. Do you know that Tom Brady against the spread versus Geno Smith in his career is 0-4? No, I didn't know that.

Speaker 1 The only quarterback he's worse against is Eli Manning. 0-5.

Speaker 2 That's wild, son.

Speaker 1 It's wild. So it's 2013,

Speaker 1 the Patriots beat the Jets 13-10.

Speaker 1 Geno beat the Patriots 30-27. And then in

Speaker 1 2014, the Jets lost by two and lost by one to the Patriots. So every game that he's played against Tom Brady, Geno Smith has been within three points.

Speaker 2 So Geno Smith is one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL right now against the Blitz, and that's the only way that the Bucs can get to Geno Smith. That's how they're getting to the quarterback.

Speaker 2 The thing I kind of say is in your favor is that time zones work with you this weekend. This is the biggest time

Speaker 2 of the year. So the Seahawks are going to be playing at 6:30 in the morning, Seattle time.
Correct. Which is just, it's wild.

Speaker 2 And the Bucs, you know, it's not that much better for the Bucs, but at least three hours, yeah. At least it's not 6:30 in the morning.

Speaker 2 And if you look at the stats when they're playing over in England, West Coast teams stink in England because of that very thing. This is like England Times 2.

Speaker 1 I also think it's going to be a home crowd for Tom Brady because he is like, I think, Germany.

Speaker 2 And Giselle's family.

Speaker 1 And Giselle's family. And also just Tom Brady is the one star that I would say most of the world knows about, right? There was, it was crazy.

Speaker 1 Did you guys see that there was 3 million ticket requests for this game? No. 3 million ticket requests.
The stadium, I think, holds like 80,000 people.

Speaker 1 So everyone in Munich wanted to go to the game.

Speaker 2 Do you think Aryans was coming back?

Speaker 1 They They must have. They must be like.

Speaker 1 You're going to hammer this. I'm going to have to be on a strain here.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Do you think I can make it the entire weekend without making a World War II joke about this?

Speaker 1 No, no. You've got to just go off.

Speaker 1 That's going to be your Sunday tweet. Yeah,

Speaker 1 this is your tweet of the year game.

Speaker 2 What if I just didn't do any?

Speaker 1 You can't help yourself.

Speaker 2 I didn't say anything about the Blitz earlier.

Speaker 1 I could have. Yeah, that's true.
Well, no, you did. You said Geno Smith versus Blitz.
No, but I didn't.

Speaker 1 make a joke yeah I was giving an actual stat just let me have one no yeah go for it I'm saying yeah. Okay.
You got to go for it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Marcel, Bruce. Yeah.
Yeah. All of it.
Everything.

Speaker 2 This is also a flat earth game for Geno Smith because he's also one of the original flat earther athletes. But forget that.

Speaker 2 And so he's going to see with like empirical evidence that the earth is not flat by flying all the way over to Germany. So he might just have his mind blown the entire time.

Speaker 1 All right. So my other non-football-related reasons for taking the box: this is Tom Brady would be the first NFL player to play in four different countries.

Speaker 1 So he's played twice in England, once in Mexico, U.S., and this will be Germany.

Speaker 1 Wouldn't it be like when you envision, close your eyes, when Tom Brady does retire in five years, there's going to be like that stat only player in the NFL to win in four different countries.

Speaker 2 Yeah, Mr. International.

Speaker 1 Yeah, right. That's some bullshit thing where it's like, well, he was the only player to ever play in four different countries, but whatever.

Speaker 1 And then this is actually the first time in Tom Brady's career he's playing before 1 p.m. Eastern.
So he's never played, the times that he played in England were.

Speaker 1 Remember, like back in the day, they used to play him regular 1 o'clock. So he's never played at 9.30 in the morning Eastern time.
So he's going to also be like the king of time zones.

Speaker 2 But that's great for old people. Yeah.
People get up so early.

Speaker 2 If you ever go to a golf course, if you find yourself at a golf course at like 6.15 a.m., there are guys like making the turn that are coming back home, like old retired dudes. Yeah.

Speaker 2 So this is the opposite of when he has a late-night game. Yes.
He forgets how many timeouts there are. Brady might be dialed in for this one.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so I just, there's a lot of non-football related reasons for my handicapping in this game, and also I just, I'm addicted to the Bucs possibly having a very good defense.

Speaker 2 Another non-football-related reason for this game being kind of maybe in favor of Tom Brady a little bit is that I just get the vibe from...

Speaker 2 from divorced people in general that going on a vacation is good for you. Like getting out of your normal area, seeing new things for the first time, traveling.
Stella got her groove back.

Speaker 2 This is Tom Brady. This is the equivalent of Vivica A.
Fox going to the Caribbean. Is Tom Brady going to Germany?

Speaker 1 He's 1-0 after announcing his divorce. There you go.
That's a fact. He is 1-0.

Speaker 1 And, you know, our good friend, colleague Deion Sanders, has said that he's two times been divorced, and he's like, after, it's pretty awesome. So, maybe he's just feeling great again.

Speaker 1 Dude, new lease on life.

Speaker 2 A divorce party weekend in Germany? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Has it been? Is it? Oh, no, it's not October anymore.

Speaker 2 Say October. No, but this is October Fest.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's right. That's right.
For Jake. Yeah, I hope he takes it.
All right, so I have Bucs minus two and a half. Billy, your favorite favorite?

Speaker 8 Giants by four and a half against the Texans.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's why you brought up the Giants.

Speaker 2 I just, this one's really obvious to me.

Speaker 1 I was wondering, I was like, why are you bringing up the Giants?

Speaker 8 Yeah. It's just like Houston bad, Giants good.

Speaker 1 Okay. So hopefully that checks out.
Very right.

Speaker 1 You are absolutely right with that analysis.

Speaker 8 I'm trying to be a lot simpler with the picks.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Giants buy,

Speaker 1 Texans mini-buy. Giants home.

Speaker 1 Texans away.

Speaker 8 Giants home. Giants good.

Speaker 2 Giants good. Home.

Speaker 1 Texans bad. Texans bad

Speaker 1 away. Yeah.
Boom. Okay.
Do you know the under in Giants games, home games, are 15 and one in the last 16?

Speaker 1 That's crazy.

Speaker 1 15 and one in the last 16. That's why I don't love the Giants just because I feel like it's going to be a very low-scoring, gross game.

Speaker 2 It's starting to get into the season where the Giants play those really cold but very sunny home games in the Meadowlands.

Speaker 1 Yep. Yep.
And it's yeah. And it's like a

Speaker 1 16 to 13 type of game.

Speaker 2 Yeah, like really, really bright sun, 30 degrees, windy, sucks. Everybody there is pissed off.
Big day for Safari.

Speaker 1 The Giants score.

Speaker 1 Like the other thing I feel like the Giants do is they score on like the opening drive and then their next points don't come until like a field goal with like two minutes left in the third quarter.

Speaker 1 A lot of rushing yards. A lot of rushing yards.
Oh, a little tease from Mount Rushmore. Okay,

Speaker 1 Jake. I'm going home here.

Speaker 7 I'm going Dolphins minus three and a half against the Browns. Dolphins may have said it before.
They're undefeated with Tua. Browns, they're like the biggest roller coaster this season, I feel like.

Speaker 1 They are.

Speaker 2 It is a Jacoby Brissette revenge game.

Speaker 1 It is. However, big one.

Speaker 2 It's also the Browns' defense sucks ass,

Speaker 2 but they're 14th against the pass. So they're not that bad against the pass.

Speaker 2 And I don't know, I get the feeling like this is going to be Stefancy's going to figure it out and just, we're going to run the ball, run the ball, run the ball, try to limit how many people are going to be able to do that.

Speaker 1 Whose Chubb is better?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Oh, no, I know.
Yeah. Whose Chub is better?

Speaker 2 You know that this is docking.

Speaker 1 Bradley got his first career

Speaker 1 tackle against Nick when he was a rookie in Denver. They're cousins, obviously.
So,

Speaker 1 and I went back and I looked.

Speaker 1 I think everyone knows this, but the story about Chubtown is like all time.

Speaker 1 The town that their family

Speaker 1 created in Georgia during the Civil War as an independent, like it was African-Americans during the Civil War, and they were like left alone because they were completely independent of everyone else.

Speaker 2 And probably because they would just kick the shit out of you. They were chubs, and if you showed up, they'd tackle you.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and it also, I was reading the story again, and it was Bradley, like, I guess when he was in high school,

Speaker 1 everyone, like his coach was like, hey, you see this kid who's like just killing everyone in this, like, four towns over, Nick. And Bradley went home and was like, do we know this person?

Speaker 1 He has the same last name. He's like, yeah, that's your cousin.

Speaker 2 That's crazy. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And they're, yeah, they're both awesome, awesome football. Yeah, so if you want to see that.

Speaker 2 Is Chubbtown still a thing?

Speaker 1 I think so. I think Chubbtown might still exist in Georgia.

Speaker 2 Chubbtown's probably the toughest place on earth.

Speaker 1 Yes.

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Speaker 1 Okay,

Speaker 1 Hank, let's go some underdogs. All of them.

Speaker 1 There's so many that look good. There is a lot.
Hungry Dog Parlay, this is the week it's going to hit. Are you guaranteeing this? I'm guaranteeing I'm going to try my best.
Okay, that's admirable.

Speaker 1 At least one of them will hit this week. Okay.
Guaranteed?

Speaker 1 Personal guarantee.

Speaker 1 At least one of them will hit? Yeah.

Speaker 1 What happens if none of them hit?

Speaker 1 Cut off a pinky. The next week,

Speaker 1 I'll just make it money line. I'll be so distraught from not being so bad that I will do.

Speaker 2 You'll double guarantee next week's weeks.

Speaker 1 Okay, all right, good. I'll go away from the money line and just go to pinky.
Because we've got to get a win for the people. Yeah.
But we're going three for three.

Speaker 1 Starting with the Detroit Lions, Jared Goff just came on the show. PMT bump.
Justin Fields is good. I'm just worried about his running.
He might get hurt. Takes big hits.

Speaker 1 Ultimately, though, I think this game, every single game with the Lions,

Speaker 1 they're in the game. My only concern, I think this game is going to come down to the end.
My only concern is a field goal where it's tied, but I could see this, either team winning

Speaker 1 as a

Speaker 1 spires with a field goal. It's a cornfield.

Speaker 1 I just hope it's not a tie game field goal. I hope it's like a Lions down to somehow they're in the lead.
They don't win. but the Bears hit a field goal.
It's the worst case scenario.

Speaker 2 I could definitely see the Bears kicking field goal at the last second,

Speaker 1 or the Lions,

Speaker 2 beating the Lions in heartbreaking fashion, and the Lions really wishing that they had won this game because they just try to win every game. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And Bears being like, fuck, we, I can't believe we won this game.

Speaker 1 That sucks. Yeah, no, it's a coin flip game.

Speaker 1 It is going to be cold. Are you a little nervous about that? No.
Jared and Weather. Indoor Cat.
Okay.

Speaker 2 Callie Boy.

Speaker 1 Okay. He's a Detroit guy.
That's true. He is Detroit.
What else is in the Hungry Dog?

Speaker 1 Keep going. All right, okay.
We'll keep going. You can tell us if there's something in the Hungry Dog.
Max, your favorite underdog?

Speaker 10 This one's a little risky, but I'll take Vikings plus three and a half.

Speaker 1 I'm thinking that Josh probably won't play. Case Keenum revenge game.
Yeah, yeah, sure. I'll be honest, I went through the thing.

Speaker 1 I have seven. I have

Speaker 1 seven. Seven?

Speaker 1 I need to narrow it down. So I'm open to suggestions.
All right.

Speaker 1 Yeah, this game, I hope Josh Allen plays. It feels like he...

Speaker 1 I don't. So it it feels like he isn't.

Speaker 2 I will just give a preview because this is going to be my over. Okay.
It's my lock. And I'm so confident in this game because the way I have it broken down is mathematical.

Speaker 2 It's a mathematical almost certainty this hits. I put it at 80%

Speaker 2 that the over hits. And here's why.
It's like 50-50 that Josh Allen plays.

Speaker 2 If Josh Allen plays in this game, over 44 is a guaranteed winner.

Speaker 1 What if he plays hurt, though?

Speaker 2 I have not factored that into my

Speaker 1 occasion.

Speaker 2 he wait wait wait wait you're not even letting me sorry sorry sorry sorry so 50 50 he plays yep it the over hits auto 44 points josh allen probably hits it himself if he doesn't play case keen revenge game i still give that 30 chance agreed of hitting over 44 points that means 80 chance that you'll get it the over hits this it's you'd be a certified moron not to bet the over on this game.

Speaker 1 I'd agree. I am worried about Josh Allen playing and being hurt.

Speaker 2 I did not factor that in into my

Speaker 1 equation. Also, just a heads up, we are friends with Josh Allen.
Um, I had some people reach out to me being like, what's the deal with Josh Allen?

Speaker 1 One thing I will never do is text one of our friends being like, How injured are you? Yeah, like that's that's a faux pas.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't think it would be cool for me to text Josh be like, hey, you think you're starting? How's the elbow, dude?

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's probably crossing a certain line where he's like, okay, you're just using me for money right now.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I had a bunch of people be like, can you get the inside scoop on Josh Allen? I'm like, no, I cannot.

Speaker 2 And if we did do that, we would only use that information ourselves. Correct.
And we would not put that out.

Speaker 1 Correct. All right.
So

Speaker 1 the overside, because we'll get to that, what is your favorite underdog?

Speaker 2 My favorite underdog is I'm going to take Green Bay at home against the Cowboys. And I could have gone with Chargers Niners.
I could have gone.

Speaker 2 Well, I am personally already betting on the Colts at the Raiders. Yep.
But I don't want that to be a double loser. I'm putting my money on Saturday, but I don't want to put

Speaker 1 this ongoing season-long gambling thing we have on saturday okay so i was thinking about that one

Speaker 1 i was thinking about that one i think i'm gonna go instead i'm going to five points but nice i'm gonna take

Speaker 1 oh no this is gross no you know what i'm not gonna take that i was gonna take the steelers

Speaker 1 i know i know and now that i'm thinking about it

Speaker 1 I'm gonna be picking a live revenge game. Yeah.
Oh, man. Now, it's funny because we started this being like, I love all the underdogs.

Speaker 1 Now I'm actually looking at it and I actually hate all the underdogs. How did that happen? How the fuck did that happen? I'll go with the Packers with PFT.
I like the Packers.

Speaker 1 I do think that that's just

Speaker 1 a too many points game. Yeah.
It's too many points. You can't.
Aaron Rodgers, what is it? Plus five?

Speaker 2 Yes. This would be funny because.
Too many points. This is one of the only opportunities we'll ever see to have Aaron Rodgers piss Big Cat off.

Speaker 1 Double.

Speaker 2 Double.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Well, no.

Speaker 2 Yeah, by losing.

Speaker 1 Like, Aaron Rodgers could be lost. No, but then I'd be happy.

Speaker 2 Aaron Rodgers could lose this game, and then Big Cat loses a lot of money on Aaron Rodgers losing the game.

Speaker 1 No, I'd be happy if they lost. I would just love for them to lose by four.
Yeah. That would be the perfect.
So I could have a double win. I actually can't have a double loss.

Speaker 1 Because if they lose by, like, seven, I'm still happy the Packers lost. That's true.
Yeah. So I'm going for the double win.

Speaker 1 Billy.

Speaker 8 I'm on the opposite side of the Bucs. Seahawks, two and a half.
Okay. I just, you know, the Seahawks are doing well.
Buccaneers have been shaky lately. I haven't really factored in the Germany factor.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 8 But we haven't seen Germany wearing symbols of raptors while concerned with blitzes since the last time there was a firing of a Reich in 1933. That's great.

Speaker 1 That's a great one. I read that right off the page.

Speaker 1 It took me a long time to write. It took me a long time.
I tried.

Speaker 2 The Seahawks also got rid of one of their chancellors a few years ago.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 1 Cam.

Speaker 2 Cam.

Speaker 2 He was an SS agent. Yes.
Yes. Strong safety.

Speaker 1 There's

Speaker 1 a lot of meat on the bone. A lot of meat on the bone.

Speaker 2 The scary thing is I'm already scraping it, too. I feel like I'm going to

Speaker 2 shoot my load a little bit early here.

Speaker 1 By the way.

Speaker 2 That's kind of what their army did when they split it up into two different fronts.

Speaker 1 By the way,

Speaker 1 the

Speaker 1 Russell Wilson versus Pete Carroll back and forth is awesome now. I wish they could schedule another game.
I want them to play again because I don't know if you guys saw it, but Pete Carroll said that

Speaker 1 Geno Smith is playing out of his mind, and the communication between Geno Smith and the offensive coordinator Shane Waldron has been great.

Speaker 1 And unlike former Seahawk quarterbacks, he's willing to play, wear a play

Speaker 1 card on his wristband. And then Russell Wilson said, we won a lot of games without one on the wrist for me.
So they're just having a little... That's messy.
It's great.

Speaker 2 That's one of my favorite debates or favorite

Speaker 2 pieces of antagonism going back and forth between a player and a coach is he wears the wristband. Oh, he refuses to wear the wristband because he thinks that it makes him look dumb.

Speaker 2 Is that why some players don't like to do it?

Speaker 1 I don't know. I would wear the wristband.
Like, you just have the answers to the test right there on your hand.

Speaker 2 You're an idiot if you don't wear the wristband.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's similar to when coaches don't wear the headset. Remember when Brady Hoke used to not wear the headset and Michigan was just getting killed every week?

Speaker 1 It's like you couldn't look dumber if you, like, you're just watching this game. You don't even

Speaker 1 know what they're talking about.

Speaker 2 I know another leader in Germany that made everybody wear a band on their arm. There we go.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 7 I am going with the Chargers plus seven at the 49ers on Sunday night football.

Speaker 2 Short trip, too many points.

Speaker 1 Short trip. Yeah.
Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 1 It's actually short trip.

Speaker 12 It's pretty far away.

Speaker 1 But for the NFL. And for all the Chargers fans, you know, this could be a home game for me, probably.
Yeah. Short trip, a lot of points.

Speaker 7 And this is kind of disrespectful for a 5-3 team.

Speaker 9 That's a lot of points.

Speaker 1 Okay. A lot of entry.
Better record. Yeah.
A lot of entries.

Speaker 2 It is a ton of points. And I also think that this is like people are completely out on the Chargers right now.
Yeah. Everyone hates the Chargers and they still have a lot of talent.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 Niners off of buy is probably

Speaker 1 why the points are a little bit higher. Okay.
Short trip. I like it.

Speaker 1 Hey, listen, we've, I just, I bet on the Bucs because Tom Brady, I could envision Tom Brady being the first guy to win in four different countries. So.
Short trip plays. Short trip plays.
All right.

Speaker 1 What are the other underdogs you're thinking about, Hank?

Speaker 1 The Steelers, I like a lot. The Cardinals, although, I don't know.

Speaker 1 I mean, the Colts, I feel like I have to put the Colts in. Jeff Saturday clip is unbelievable.
Jeff Saturday doing an opening press conference and saying the word bro and man

Speaker 1 was incredible. And he was just his.
Hold on, I think I have the exact quote. And the Bronx.
It's going to be Broncos and Lions, and then I need to figure out the third.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so Jeff Saturday said, actually, you know, let's keep going because I think I'm going to take that as my under.

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Speaker 1 Jake has removed himself from the room.

Speaker 2 I think he had to go to the bathroom.

Speaker 1 We've been taping for 40 minutes.

Speaker 2 Lamar Jakeshin.

Speaker 1 40 minutes.

Speaker 1 He's got to be worried about this, right?

Speaker 1 He's just got a lot of nervous energy.

Speaker 2 I think so. He's got...
Yeah, his stomach is just a nuts.

Speaker 1 He's just nervous.

Speaker 8 DK Marshcalf.

Speaker 2 Yeah, nice. That was nice.

Speaker 1 Can't just become a full punch show. I guess that wouldn't even be a pun, though.
Was just putting...

Speaker 1 Yeah. I was just putting him

Speaker 1 smacking his name in the middle of that.

Speaker 2 I just wonder if Jake is... Is he going to do some sort of gym dance giveaway after it's over? Like the tie?

Speaker 1 I will, because I bought a basketball tie, so I should. Okay, yeah.
Like a tie with basketball stuff.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, you should give it away to whoever the guy is that impressed you the most.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm going to do that. Good call.

Speaker 2 I'm looking at, by the way, they're doing some previews of this Commander's press conference that's about to happen with D.C. Attorney General.

Speaker 2 I think my picture is on one of the boards that's next to them because it said that Commanders fans demanded accountability, and there's a guy that looks like me from the chin down pointing at the sell the team shirt that I have.

Speaker 2 Jake's back.

Speaker 2 They didn't compensate me for this. Hmm.

Speaker 1 Well, you're going to see the picture. You're an ambassador, so they probably have.
Yeah, they actually probably did. You're probably going to be a picture of the purpose of my compensation.

Speaker 2 I signed away my life.

Speaker 2 Well, no, but it's the Attorney General that's doing this, not the commander. Can I see a picture? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Jake, how you doing? Really had to pee. We've only been taping for 40 minutes.
Yeah, I've been drinking a lot of water this year.

Speaker 2 Are you getting prehydrated?

Speaker 1 Yeah. I can tell.
I can tell. It's a lot.
It's a lot.

Speaker 1 Okay. Overs?

Speaker 1 Yeah, this is just purely spite, revenge. I'm in that state of my gambling season.
I've lost every European game this year. With the overs and unders.
I went under, went over, went over, went under.

Speaker 1 I'm taking the October Fest. Oh, nice.
Fun to say. Just for strictly that reason.
You could bet the other overs.

Speaker 1 But I need to win. Your spipe.
Your spipe. Yeah, yeah.
You need to win in Europe. You need to prove that you can win in Europe.
Correct.

Speaker 1 People are starting to ask questions like: Can he win in Europe? Did he puke on the blackjack table? These are the questions.

Speaker 1 Yes and no are the answers. You can win in Europe, but you haven't done it before.

Speaker 1 Yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 Max

Speaker 1 Bears Lions. Yes.

Speaker 1 I like that one too. Let's go.
Shoot out. Those are the two.
Bears just become an over team. It's going to be so much fun.

Speaker 1 So much fun. That is cool.

Speaker 2 That is a shift that at least you can always look forward to the games if they're going to be overs.

Speaker 1 Yeah, 48.5 is it? I'm taking it as well. I love it.
I love it. All right.
You have yours. I got Vikings Bills.
The Oktoberfest is 44.5. 44.5.
You're going to lose that. No.

Speaker 1 I mean, the Bucs play like every single Bucs game is 16 to 14. I wonder what,

Speaker 1 how does that total compare to PFT tweets from this game? Well, over 44.5.

Speaker 2 I was going to say things tend to end in Germany in 45.

Speaker 1 So I kind of like it.

Speaker 1 Okay,

Speaker 1 both overs. I'm going to be in my bunker for this one.
Both overs, both overs.

Speaker 1 Billy.

Speaker 8 I'm going with Lions Bears, 48.5.

Speaker 1 Okay, so that was the same as me and Max. Yeah.
Okay. We're all riding on that together.
Jake.

Speaker 7 Oktoberfest. Okay.
So we've got three on Detroit, Chicago, two on Seattle, Tampa Bay, and the FT.

Speaker 1 PFT's 80% chance. 80% as long as Josh Allen doesn't play injured.

Speaker 2 I don't know.

Speaker 2 I got to crunch some numbers on that. I don't know how that affects my life.

Speaker 1 What happens if he just goes in and hands the ball off?

Speaker 1 Okay, Unders, and then we'll do Mount Rushmore and Fantasy Fuckboys. I'm going with the risky

Speaker 1 Bills Vikings against PFT, kind of taking it off.

Speaker 7 You have a 20% chance of winning. Yeah, 20% chance of winning.

Speaker 1 Why would you do that to yourself? Bills' defense is really good against Kirk Cousins, and Josh, even if he's playing and he's hurt, they're probably going to be running the ball a lot.

Speaker 1 Like, I don't think they're going to be, let's just throw the ball 60 times if he has a fucked-up arm. And I could see the Bill's defense shutting Kirk Cousins.

Speaker 1 It does feel like a Von Miller butt-fucking Kirk Cousins type of game. That would literally just be very tough.

Speaker 1 And if you have a fucked-up arm, you have to manage that in a way that they might not play their normal style offense. Under pressure.

Speaker 2 So, the concern I would have is that,

Speaker 2 and you've already seen it start to happen, is the Vikings' Mickey Mouse schedule schedule and how all of their wins have been either against like backup quarterbacks or just all sorts of weird stuff.

Speaker 2 This would be the perfect addition to that if they did beat the Bills and Case Keenum. And it's either Case Keenum or if it's Josh Allen with a messed up

Speaker 1 easy excuse for you guys. Yeah, it's like, oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 Add that to the list of like this is the only reason why he won, but they just continue to win right in our faces. So I wouldn't be shocked.
I just did the mental math. I've now adjusted my total.

Speaker 2 If Josh Allen plays, it's a

Speaker 2 60% chance

Speaker 2 the overhits.

Speaker 2 65% chance the overhits.

Speaker 1 Wait, so now it's an 85% chance it hits? Because you have a 20% chance of Case Keenum plays.

Speaker 2 And then that's 55% chance that Case Keenum wins if he plays. Got it.
So it's balance out 60. This game now has 60% chance

Speaker 2 downgraded. I like that strategy, but it's still way more than 40.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Max.

Speaker 2 Chargers, 9ers, 45.5.

Speaker 1 I want it so bad, but I just keep getting burned.

Speaker 1 I think I've picked the wrong primetime over-under every single game this year. Like, I've been like, oh, nice.
Primetime unders. Then I'll bet it.
And then, like, the Chiefs, Bucs game happen.

Speaker 1 And then I'll be like, oh, primetime overs.

Speaker 10 Chargers just don't have anybody on offense anymore.

Speaker 2 So it's like. Keenan Allen out.

Speaker 1 Joshua Palmer? You're not a big Joshua Palmer guy?

Speaker 1 No. Austin Eckler? Austin Eckler.
Austin Eckler.

Speaker 2 I've got this bet that I'm thinking about getting out there.

Speaker 2 The double dick. I feel like Austin Eckler is going to double dick this shit out of the 40.
He might even triple dick.

Speaker 1 You got to get one in the barn, though.

Speaker 2 You might triple dick him.

Speaker 1 Okay, you're under PFT.

Speaker 2 My under is Chiefs-Jaguars. Yeah.
Because

Speaker 2 we're still thinking about the Chiefs as being an over-team.

Speaker 1 50 and a half.

Speaker 7 I don't know if the Jaguars have ever been involved in a 50-plus game.

Speaker 1 The Chiefs.

Speaker 9 In terms of over-under.

Speaker 2 The Steeler game. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 I was going to say the Steeler playoff game.

Speaker 2 The Chiefs are not, in fact, an Overs team. I think they're, what, two and five?

Speaker 1 And they also aren't a cover big spreads team. Yeah.
Every time they're favored by more than like a touchdown, I feel like they never cover.

Speaker 2 So I just feel like Etienne and his Duckfoot are going to run the ball, run the ball, run the ball. And I think that

Speaker 2 Tyreek Hill leaving and going to the Dolphins has turned a lot of these 65-yard touchdowns into like 35-yard gains to Micole Hardin. Yes.

Speaker 2 Which then in turn, you know, it eats up way more of the clock. Yes.
And I just think we need to, as a nation, like shake ourselves of the vibe that the Chiefs are an over team. Yes.

Speaker 1 Yes. I'd agree.
This is also

Speaker 1 a weird

Speaker 1 uniform matchup game. Like I'm just seeing the Chiefs in their reds and then the Jaguars just, I don't know.
This game will probably be on. We'll have this on.

Speaker 1 We have to figure out.

Speaker 2 I think Texans Giants.

Speaker 1 Maybe it doesn't go on.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah, we'll have to figure out what game gets booted.
Okay, my under is going to be Colts versus Raiders. Billy is my under.

Speaker 1 Oh, against your guy.

Speaker 8 Three offensive coordinators in three games.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's so good. That's not good for offense.
All right, so it's under 42 and a half.

Speaker 1 There's a couple reasons why.

Speaker 1 One, the Colts are, from Jeff Saturday, everything Jeff Saturday said, I think they're just going to try try to kick field goals and run the ball because he said it's hard.

Speaker 1 I was an offensive lineman, bro. It was hard for us to score, so we're going to take the points.

Speaker 1 Jeff Saturday, in his opening press conference, said the word bro and man multiple times. He said, It's me, dude.
I ain't going to change. I told him if I'm not authentic, bro, we got nowhere to go.

Speaker 1 But this is, it's who I am. He also said, here's the deal.
Everybody talks about my inexperience. I'm completely comfortable in who I am as a man.
I know I can lead men.

Speaker 1 I know the game of football, and I'm passionate about it. Bro, I spent 14 years in a locker room.
I went to the playoffs 12 times. I got five dudes in the Hall of Fame that played with me.

Speaker 1 You don't think I've seen greatness? You don't think I've seen how people prepare, how they can coach, how they can manage, how they work. I mean, I won a Super Bowl, been to two.

Speaker 1 Here's the deal, man. None of us are promised a good job.
I may be terrible at this. After eight games, I'll say, God bless you.
I'm no good. I may be really good at it.

Speaker 1 I've got no idea, but I dang sure ain't going to back down.

Speaker 1 It didn't make me me more confident. It just was like for me.
I was just like, you know what? He was honest. Like, he just said, bro, and man, a lot.
And he was like, I might suck. I might be good.

Speaker 1 I might win. I might lose.
Whatever.

Speaker 2 Yeah, no, it definitely made me more confident because he was out there. He was saying, bro, man, Jeff Saturday is for the boys.
Dude. Dude, he's like Dan Campbell mixed with Billy Mays.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And a touch of Billy football. And

Speaker 2 a little bit of Billy football. But mostly, if you look at Campbell and

Speaker 2 Billy Mays, you squish them together. You get Jeff Saturday, and

Speaker 2 you have to ride with Jeff for a little bit. Oh, yeah.
Let's see what he's got here. Like, the dude has found himself in a situation that he could have never possibly imagined himself being in.

Speaker 2 And now it's just a matter of seeing, like, if somebody who's supremely unqualified for a head coaching job can just will and effort their way into making it work.

Speaker 2 And that's what you want in an interim coach, anyways. It's just like make people play hard.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's exactly right. So, yeah, yeah, I'm taking the under in this game.
I think he's going to just try to kick field goals and run the ball.

Speaker 2 Josh McDaniel's revenge game, too.

Speaker 1 Josh McDaniel's revenge game,

Speaker 1 his brief time as the head coach that was just floated out there.

Speaker 1 And then the Colts, by the way, the weird stat from the Colts, they're 0-9 versus the first half spread. Oh.
Yeah. That's pretty crazy.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 But now we don't know because they might be different with Jeff Saturday.

Speaker 2 This might be a situation, too, where we see fake field goals, fake punts, on-side kick from Jeff Saturday because he's going to be eager to try all this weird shit out in a game. Bro.

Speaker 1 Bro.

Speaker 1 Okay, you're under, Jake. I'm with you guys.
Okay.

Speaker 7 Under 42.5. Also, for boomers, how was your Jeff Saturday?

Speaker 1 Oh, nice.

Speaker 1 I like that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay. Saturday on Sunday shirts.
Saturday on Sunday. Go buy them now.

Speaker 1 All right. Other games we missed.
The Broncos are playing the Titans. That game is going to suck.
Broncos money line.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay. Titans quarterback.
I mean, the Titans should have won that game last week. They just, you know, the quarterback.

Speaker 2 Titans are bad in these types of games. Games that people expect them to win.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. The Titans, by the way, also are the first team since 2005 Steelers to win five of their first eight games while averaging fewer than 22 pass attempts a game.
Throwback. A throwback team.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I like it.

Speaker 1 Let's see. What other games do we have?

Speaker 2 Saints, Steelers.

Speaker 1 Saints, Steelers.

Speaker 1 So I've given you the Panthers stat. The teams that have played the...
Oh, no, sorry. Yeah, the teams that played the Panthers

Speaker 1 have not won after playing the Panthers. There is a reverse on the Saints.
Teams that... Oh, no, sorry.
The Ravens. Teams that played the Ravens.
The next week they're 7-0-1 against the spread.

Speaker 1 So the Saints played the Ravens last week. So if you want to follow that dumb stat, go for it.

Speaker 2 Because they're just thankful to not have a quarterback like Lamar Jackson at their tackle.

Speaker 1 Correct, correct.

Speaker 2 So I like the Saints here because we all forget, you know, Kirk Cousins, we do talk about him in prime time a lot.

Speaker 2 Andy Dalton kind of gets a pass on that because Andy Dalton is 6-16 in those reverse vampire games where he just disappears after the sun goes down. And also, TJ Watt is returning for this game.
Yes.

Speaker 2 TJ Watt's coming back. That's what makes me nervous about the Andy Dalton thing.
I do like Andy Dalton. I am betting on the Saints, but TJ coming back

Speaker 2 with and without TJ Watt.

Speaker 2 With Watt, they're 52, 24, and 2. Without Watt, what are they? 0-7 now?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, no, they beat the Bucks.

Speaker 2 That's right. Yeah,

Speaker 2 so they're like 1-7.

Speaker 2 Their sacks per game go from 3.5 down to 1.6 sacks per game. And right now, I didn't realize this.
TJ Watt is seven and a half sacks away from the all-time Steeler record. Wow.

Speaker 2 A team that has had some pretty good defenses.

Speaker 1 Did he have like five sacks in the first game? No. No, he had one.
Oh, I thought he had more. Oh, that's just Jerry getting in my ear.

Speaker 1 He's like, TJ Watt's going to have the most sacks by the end of the year.

Speaker 2 I think he had a bunch of hits.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 I think he only had one in that first game.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, that game will be.

Speaker 1 I don't know. I just always.
Mike Tomlin is a dog. He just, he's a dog.
He's truly a dog. He had one sack in that game against the Bengals.

Speaker 2 It was an impressive sack. It was a very impressive sack.

Speaker 1 Important sack.

Speaker 1 Okay, should we do some fancy fuckboys and we'll get to John Annek? Oh, Mount Rushmore. Let's do that real quick.

Speaker 1 Saquon. Saquon.

Speaker 1 I will do

Speaker 1 pass. Someone else figured out.
Austin Eckler. Okay, I'll stop.

Speaker 2 And a bonus triple dicking on top of it. He's going to score three touchdowns.

Speaker 1 Triple dicking, Austin Eckler.

Speaker 1 I was going to pick Kenneth Walker, but...

Speaker 2 What about Justin Fields? He's not playing.

Speaker 1 Oh, I'll take...

Speaker 1 Good point, Hannah. Yeah, let's do Justin Fields.
Good call. Justin Fields.

Speaker 2 The crazy thing is, I don't even think the odds are going to be that good on Justin Fields. No, they probably won't.

Speaker 1 I think last week he was like 54 or something. So, yeah, they probably won't.
What do you got? Oh, the team Jilly Left. Chubb off.
The Chubb Offs? You're taking Nick Chubb. Not Bradley.
Okay.

Speaker 1 That would be crazy. Maybe we'll be able to get away with

Speaker 1 50,000.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Well, I mean, Hank bet Derek Watt to score a touchdown.
So

Speaker 1 that was close.

Speaker 1 So close. 15 games off.
Yeah. All right.
Finnish fuck, boys. Then we'll get to John Annick.

Speaker 1 What's up, motherfucker? What's up,

Speaker 1 bitch? Holy Ravioli Fistoli. Hey, sis.
Hey. C, Jesus.

Speaker 1 F. My stodom is Nick Cannon.
Nick Cannon, another kid? Wilding out. He's having another kid.
No, this guy won't. My stoddom, his sperm is fucking.

Speaker 1 Put him on the front lines. He's converting every time.
His hit rate's unbelievable. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Like little, tiny little fullbacks with tails.

Speaker 1 My sit him,

Speaker 1 Bitcoin. Oh,

Speaker 1 me too. All my coins are falling apart.
Cryptos and shambles. FTX is just a fucking Ponzi scheme.

Speaker 2 Oh, my ape's gone.

Speaker 1 This is why we only do cash. And my sleeper is NBA City jerseys.
Oh, shit. A bunch of them released.
Some of them are unreal. Some of them are absolutely disgusting.
The Hornets just says CLT.

Speaker 1 That's a bonk waiting to happen. Yeah.
Yeah. Too many jerseys.

Speaker 2 To wait until we find that guy at the top of the arc. You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 1 That's it. That's it.
I might start him saying. Okay.
Thanks, Persoli, for what was your name? Pat can only be.

Speaker 1 Soli. There's the energy up here, bro.
All right, let's go.

Speaker 1 Pop it up. Pop

Speaker 2 What's up, dickheads? This is your favorite mayor.

Speaker 1 Hey, don't call me a dickhead, dickhead. This is your favorite mayor, Chris Cuomo.
Oh, I'm Capo Cuomo. Oh, no.
Fredo's in the house.

Speaker 2 Fredo in the house. Hey, don't say that.
Sorry, my brother, the mayor. I'm the guy that...
You don't know that I've got nipple rings, but I got nipple rings.

Speaker 1 Hell yes.

Speaker 2 I'm starting chicken wings this weekend. You know, chicken wings.
I haven't really eaten chicken wings yet this fall. You know, I've had some chicken wings, but I haven't really gone out for wings.

Speaker 2 Hell yeah.

Speaker 1 Which is going to get some?

Speaker 2 There's a difference between going out for wings and just eating chicken wings.

Speaker 1 Plan your whole day around.

Speaker 2 I'm eating some chicken wings on Saturday. Yeah.
That's what I'm going to do. I'm sitting the hangover, the brutal hangover that I'm going to come back with on Sunday.
Grow up.

Speaker 1 Grow up. Grow up.
Or throw up. I'm not throwing up anywhere.

Speaker 2 I'm not going to throw up.

Speaker 1 Find your nearest platform table and throw up. I'm not going to say Buko.

Speaker 2 I'm not going to throw up. I'm going to be smoking SIGs inside.
I'm going to be drinking some Jell-O shots. Not Not going to be throwing up this weekend.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And then my sleeper this weekend is a very important sleeper because I'm going to, again, say that Austin Eckler's going to triple dick the shit out of him.

Speaker 1 Three dicks. Go.
Airtight. Go.
The Niners are going to be airtight.

Speaker 8 Triple dick.

Speaker 1 Let's go.

Speaker 1 All right. What's up, guys? What up, fuckheads? Hey.
What's up? My name's Giancarlo Ravioli. Hey.

Speaker 1 My stardom this week is going to be our good friend Lenny Dykstra.

Speaker 1 He got into the politics this week, reaching out to, was it Lauren Bobbitt? Lauren Boebert. Boebert.

Speaker 1 Basically saying, hey, if you need a shoulder to cry on, hit the DMs. I'll dick you down.

Speaker 1 Lenny Dykstra, the consummate gentleman.

Speaker 2 Respect. I bet

Speaker 2 when he goes down on Go, he's probably still got a cheek full of red man.

Speaker 1 Yeah, oh, yeah. You got to.
Nice flavor. Red wave.

Speaker 1 Red man beat red wave.

Speaker 1 Hell yeah. Megan, Megan.
Nice and wave. Nice on you, period.
Yeah, you need some cranberry?

Speaker 1 Yeah, sit him. Elon Musk.

Speaker 1 this dude's just fucking everything up it's fucking chaos in the streets everyone's got a check mark no idea what's going on it is a he's basically just the richest troll of all time salute i wouldn't mother got a check mark i respect it yeah salute and then my sleeper is larry david you said uh uh ftx and bitcoin no my sleeper is larry david because he did an ftx ad he got that bag super bowl ad a couple years ago and he was like i'm not investing and he's like, I'm never wrong about these things.

Speaker 1 That was supposed to be the joke, and it ended up being that he was never wrong. Yeah, you slow, slow zoom in,

Speaker 1 funny guy.

Speaker 1 I know a guy who told me. What do you mean, funny? What do you mean, funny? Funny funny guys, like a clown? Yeah, funny like a clown.

Speaker 8 Yeah, what you gonna do?

Speaker 1 Funny guy,

Speaker 1 all right. Do it.
All right, all right. It's Capo Cuomo.

Speaker 8 It's Capo Cuomo. My stardom is bum fights.
We got more bum fights coming up. We got Andrew Tate.

Speaker 1 Probably going to fight Jake Paul soon.

Speaker 8 Love bum fights. Used to do bum fights behind the place back in the day in the parking lot.
It was a great time. Used to throw cash in on this Bitcoin.
Great time. My sitem, verified Twitter.
Sucks.

Speaker 8 Too many people verified. Can just pay for it.
It's pay to play. How we like it, but it's Twitter.
And my sleeper is Arson. Arson sneaks up on you.

Speaker 8 Usually your fires are done by people you and your brothers know. Arson, sit them, lots of fires.

Speaker 9 A lot of firefighters are actually arsonists.

Speaker 2 It's not arson. It's just, you know, the 70%.

Speaker 2 The restaurant that I invested in heavily had a tragic accident.

Speaker 8 It's not like squares and rectangles. Not every firefighter is an arsonist, but there's a lot of arsonists that are firefighters.

Speaker 1 Love it. Just say.

Speaker 1 All right. Fantasy fuckboys.
Taking it into John Anick. Good job, everyone.

Speaker 2 I'd also like to put my hand up and say that it looks like it might actually be Nate in the picture.

Speaker 1 Oh! Of him pointing to something.

Speaker 1 And I know that because Nate, well, it's just...

Speaker 2 You guys look exactly like it.

Speaker 2 It's just like the tits part of it. And then Nate just tweeted out, I don't get credit for anything.
So I wanted to make sure that Nate got credit. You got dogs.
Because it's his shirt.

Speaker 2 Congratulations, Nate.

Speaker 1 All right, let's go. Let's talk to John Annick, our good friends from UFC, some Meat Paul Molly in Studio.

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Speaker 2 And now, here's John Anick.

Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on our very good friend, longtime recurring guest, has a recurring guest t-shirt that he just told us about.

Speaker 1 It is John Annick. You probably tell from that laugh.
It's John Anick, the voice of UFC. UFC 281, tomorrow, Madison Square Garden.
Our girl, Meatball Molly, fighting in it. We're calling it.

Speaker 1 I mean, let's start there because

Speaker 1 Meatball Molly, like, just pump us up because I'm going to be there. I think I'm sitting ringside, which I'm a little nervous because if she doesn't win,

Speaker 2 that's going to suck.

Speaker 1 So she's going to win, right?

Speaker 9 Well, you've seen that betting line, I'd imagine. Well,

Speaker 1 you always know the gambling line. That's why I love you.
That's why I love you.

Speaker 9 Aaron Blanchfield, her opponent, was born in 1999. That probably makes you feel pretty old.

Speaker 9 Is like minus 380 right now.

Speaker 1 Oh, no. So

Speaker 9 Molly's up against it, at least as far as the grappling is concerned. But she was actually with the Barstool family, Dave Portnoy and others, when she got the call.

Speaker 9 What do you do in November 12th, Madison Square Garden? And I will tell you guys, like, there was a time Molly McCain was 3-3 in the UFC. She's now 6-3.
She's won three in a row.

Speaker 9 Like, she has found herself, whether it's a mental thing or an emotional thing, I don't know.

Speaker 9 You know, she's far better equipped to win this fight now against Aaron Blanchfield, who's like all the rage than she was a few years ago. But it's great to be here with you boys in studio.

Speaker 1 I was on episode three of Part of My Team. Thank you.

Speaker 2 I think that might have been the first episode where we stopped with the air horns and all the crazy sound effects.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 2 you could make the argument like that's the original episode as it stands. There you go.

Speaker 9 I'll take it. But this is my first time in studio with you boys, and obviously we get excited when PMT starts talking UFCs.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and by the way, congratulations. You just re-signed with the UFC, correct?

Speaker 9 Thank you, buddy. Got my agent, Gideon Cohen, in the barstool building with me today.
And yeah, it's been 11 years, which is pretty wild.

Speaker 9 I remember in 2011, you know, I was in Bristol, Connecticut at ESPN, and took me a while to get out of Boston to get to Bristol, and then...

Speaker 9 sort of had a UFC opportunity that was unique insofar as I was going to get 20 play-by-play opportunities, right? It was hard for me to get football games at ESPN.

Speaker 9 I'd get like one a season, you're not going to get any better. But I just felt like this was the right wagon to sort of hitch myself to.

Speaker 2 It would feel so awkward to me if I was at home and I heard like your voice on a football game. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like a bit, like a, I don't know, like a Pac-12 football game on a Saturday.

Speaker 2 I'd be like, that doesn't work for me. Does your agent get mad when you get introduced as being the voice of the UFC?

Speaker 2 Because like on one hand, it means you're important to the UFC, but on the other, does that like limit the competition that's out there bidding for you?

Speaker 9 Well, I'm actually a full-time UFC employee, but there was an opportunity in 2015 to call like a national football game on FS1.

Speaker 9 It was Arizona at Washington back when Chris Peterson was coaching the Huskies. Now, I'll tell you guys, like, I'm an NFL guy, right?

Speaker 9 But at the time I got that call from my agent, I couldn't name 10 college football players, right? I literally locked myself in my bedroom and, you know, just tried to lean into my strengths.

Speaker 9 And it was just so amazing being in a college football atmosphere like that. So I would like to scratch that itch again at some point, if not, you know, the NFL.

Speaker 9 But first things first, we we gotta yeah i mean i i would say it's pretty cool to be like synonymous with a sport that is just like exploded in popularity because you just think about it you close your eyes and you're like john annick calling incredible moments like that's that's got to be very cool because you know that happens you can think about like al michaels calling big football moments or like brent musburger doing college football ufc you are ufc well thank you vice versa well it means a lot to hear you say that of course and i've just kind of as trite as it sounds tried to just keep my head down right i got hired i was the number two guy now i never would have left the spn if i didn't think i could ascend and and work with joe rogan and be that number one guy on pay-per-view but um you know dana white can be a hard guy to root for and like i have a clause in my contract sorry gideon but like they can fire me without cause at any time essentially right and i got to earn that seat saturday night you know i know that sounds like come on dude they're gonna keep you you just signed a new four-year deal but you have to you have no choice right i feel like the the call that you had in the leon edwards fight probably went a long way that was like your signature call would you say?

Speaker 1 Yeah, you saw the future in that moment.

Speaker 1 Everyone else doubted you.

Speaker 2 Do you want to walk us through that moment and what you saw that everybody else missed?

Speaker 9 Well, I think I had some good fortune, but you guys are very kind.

Speaker 9 But no, essentially, Leon Edwards had lost the first 23 minutes of the fight, and it was a listless performance, and he was lacking urgency.

Speaker 9 He didn't seem desperate enough, and he had been waiting for this championship opportunity for a long time.

Speaker 9 So the narrative at times during the broadcast became, oh, I don't know if he's trying to go the distance and get to this moral victory.

Speaker 9 You know, our coach, Dean Thomas, who works as an analyst on our broadcast, said, I don't know if he's chasing a moral victory. And that narrative got brought up again late in the fight.

Speaker 9 And I was just tired of hearing it, I think, at that point in time. So I said, yeah, but that's not the cloth from which he is cut.
And then literally three seconds later, he lands the head kick.

Speaker 9 And the most special moment for me was a few weeks thereafter when I ran into Leon. And the man's never hugged me tighter and was like, he's not cut from that clog, you know?

Speaker 9 At the forefront of my mind all the time is that like, this is the soundtrack of their professional lives and their family is watching this. You better not fucking butcher their names, right?

Speaker 1 It's like,

Speaker 9 so I take it pretty seriously. At times, maybe I take it too seriously, but yeah, it's cool to be sort of the voice of a sport, for lack of a better way to put it.

Speaker 9 And obviously, our sport is global, so it's unique as far as that's concerned. You know, most of my Instagram followers probably are not in the U.S., you know.

Speaker 1 Come from Brazil, John Annick. Yeah.
But when you

Speaker 9 grew up in Boston, right, as a mainstream sports fan, you know, I don't know that that NFL pull is ever going to go away. Now, I may never realize that opportunity.

Speaker 9 I haven't caught a football game now as I sit here with you guys in seven years, and I'm probably not going to be there first call, but I'd be lying if I said, you know, 10 years from now, there wouldn't be some regret if I don't grace an NFL booth at some point.

Speaker 1 You should have, I should start texting you what my picks are because I had Uzman to finish a money line parlay.

Speaker 1 So that's really when you should have known that Leon Edwards still had a chance because watching that, I mean, it was an incredible call, but in the moment, I remember you being like, Leon Edwards is not like done.

Speaker 1 Watch out. And I was like, shut up, John.
Shut the fuck up. Like, let's just end this fight right now.
Yeah.

Speaker 9 Well, I'm contractually prevented from betting on mixed martial arts, which you guys will probably not be surprised to hear that. Now, when I first got hired, I couldn't bet on the UFC.

Speaker 9 Now, the document says you can't bet on the UFC. You can't bet on mixed martial arts.
You can't even bet on boxing. Really? I might have to violate that part of the contract.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
Well, your agent is not happy with that.

Speaker 2 To have you locked in on all the props and you do know what the odds are.

Speaker 1 You always know the odds are. I love that.

Speaker 2 Like, to you not even be able to bet on it, but still know that. That's a That's a step, a level of professionalism I would not be able to aspire to.
Well, thank you, buddy.

Speaker 9 I don't know how I would do if I was allowed to bet on MMA, right? And obviously, we have inside information.

Speaker 9 Certainly, I sat down with Molly McCann today in our fighter meeting, and I have insight that maybe isn't necessarily out there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you want us to share something?

Speaker 1 We'll cut this part out. We'll cut this.

Speaker 9 But yeah, I just don't know that I would realize a lot of success betting that sport, even if I was removed from it.

Speaker 1 But your knowledge of gambling, because you are a gambling guy, and being able to to say the lines, know exactly when, because that is the future of broadcasting.

Speaker 1 It always drove me nuts when it's like, hey, if guys, if we're watching a Monday Night Football game, it's a blowout, like talk about it because guess why I'm still watching.

Speaker 1 And so your ability to weave that in is very important.

Speaker 1 We're sucking your dick a little too much right now, but there are a lot of people, like, you know, the internet is a mean place. Most people have haters.
You have none. Well,

Speaker 1 how is that possible? What are you doing?

Speaker 9 There was a time when my public approval rating was actually pretty low. I mean, I was getting death threats in Lamore, California after my first show.

Speaker 9 I mean, there have been growing pains, to be sure, and I still got to earn it, right?

Speaker 9 I mean, there's certainly an avalanche of hate at times when you get off the air, depending on how the fight card plays out and if a segment of the fan base feels like we've been one-sided.

Speaker 9 I mean, you're never going to please everybody, but the gambling thing obviously has been a passion for me. I remember placing my first $10

Speaker 9 three-leg baseball parlay in 1997 at Gettysburg Gettysburg College, sportsbook.ag, whatever it was.

Speaker 1 I was like, this is the greatest thing. Oh, yeah, that was the site you had to send.
I used to go to Western Union and send it to the Bahamas and like a money transfer for that.

Speaker 9 But, you know, it's like I love gambling and I love cannabis. And thankfully, everybody's coming around on those two things.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 9 there was a time where I felt like I had to hide in the corner.

Speaker 1 I got a way to make people not like you. You signed your new deal.
How much is it for?

Speaker 1 I don't even know.

Speaker 9 No.

Speaker 1 Imagine, right? You just say how much money you make, and people will be like, fuck this guy.

Speaker 9 No,

Speaker 9 it's crazy to think that at the end of this deal, I'll be 48 and 15 years in. And, you know, hopefully he doesn't terminate me with cause.
Okay.

Speaker 2 That is crazy. So maybe we can make some other people hate you.

Speaker 2 Do you still hate Stockton, California?

Speaker 9 I got my 209 tattooed. They hate me.
I don't hate them.

Speaker 1 Wait, why'd you hit the 209?

Speaker 2 Isn't that also their way of saying that they love you in Stockton? It's like actually sending you death throughout your life.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, I love him. That is love.

Speaker 9 So when Nate Diaz fought Conor McGregor the first time on my podcast, the Anakin Florian podcast, I wasn't calling the pay-per-views at that time. And this was not the first tattoo bet I've made.

Speaker 9 Like, I'm a radio guy. We do tattoo bets all the time.

Speaker 1 We have one with Kirk Cousins right now.

Speaker 9 Exactly. This one, I just happened to get the ink.
I think the first tattoo bet I did was if Ronda Rousey loses to Bechcohe, I'll get the Brazilian flag tattooed on my body.

Speaker 9 But there's always a tie-in to the tattoo. Like, I've called 27 shows in Brazil.
That nation means a lot to me, right? So the Diaz brothers, Nick Diaz was always my favorite fighter.

Speaker 9 So obviously there was a part of me that wanted the 209 tattoo. I was trying to bring attention to the podcast.
So I basically went on the air, however waywardly, and said,

Speaker 9 you know what, if Nate Diaz comes off vacation in Cabo and beats Conor McGregor with no training camp, I'm going to get a 209 tattoo.

Speaker 9 Now, the issue became that it surfaced on Nate's radar during fight week. And so he then said, you know,

Speaker 9 John Annick, you know, if he don't get a motherfucking 209 tattoo, I'm going to whip his little ass. And, you know, finally, my daughters are now at an age where they needed the proper explanation.

Speaker 9 And actually, three weeks ago, I sat them down and played them the video of Nate Diaz, motherfucking.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's awesome. They're like, good choice, dad.
I'm glad you got to do that. I wanted you to survive.
Yes, yes. We now understand the trade you made.
That makes sense.

Speaker 1 A weird part about your journey with UFC has to be that Joe Rogan, who you call almost all the fights with, has become like the most popular talked-about guy in the world. Is that when you go online?

Speaker 9 line on like a Tuesday and you see him trending are you like oh what's going on now it's just crazy it's nuts And I feel like every American male age 18 to 45 ingests like every goddamn word the guy says.

Speaker 9 So my brother-in-law knows more about my broadcast partner than I do.

Speaker 9 And I feel like we did a show in Jacksonville, Florida, and like Governor Ron DeSantis like wanted to meet Joe Rogan.

Speaker 9 So all of a sudden he like dips out during the broadcast, you know, in between fights. He is larger than life and he's the real article, super genuine guy.
He embraced me to such an extent.

Speaker 9 Like imagine you're in a broadcast booth, a two-man booth for like 20 years and it's like, hey, by the way, we're letting your play-by-play guy go.

Speaker 9 You get this new guy, and we're also bringing in a fighter. Yeah.
So his whole world sort of changed. And I don't know that he gets enough credit for sort of embracing that.

Speaker 9 You know, he doesn't get any credit nationally as far as the Emmys go for whatever the fuck reason. Like, how does Joe Rogan not have a sports Emmy at this point in time? I don't know.

Speaker 1 It's weird.

Speaker 2 Yeah, they gave everybody a sports Emmy. I feel like, like, you see, everybody out there that's ever had a show in ESPN, they've at least been nominated for it.

Speaker 2 But, like, Joe Rogan, probably, yeah, probably the most likable person in terms of commentating their sport that there is. Never one one that's kind of bizarre to me.

Speaker 2 I also feel like Joe Rogan has a pretty good head on his shoulders when it comes to, like, he knows that since he's gotten so popular, there are a lot of people that are trying to like use him left and right, left and right.

Speaker 2 And he's kind of stayed true to like who he is throughout all this. And honestly, it just seems like a good hang, too.

Speaker 9 Yeah. No doubt about it.
And what's interesting for me, a lot of people see me as a condition. conduit to get to Joe, right?

Speaker 2 So that's why we had you on. Yeah, of course.

Speaker 1 Do you want to call him? Yeah. Yeah.
Is he in the green room? Right.

Speaker 9 You can ask me if the most uh famous person my cell phone yeah but he changes his cell phone number like every six months you know so I'm my phone you see Rogan 2018 2019 you know

Speaker 9 because it just gets out of control

Speaker 9 but it was interesting we're doing a pay-per-view in Buffalo right in the whole Buffalo Bills offensive line this is like 2017 is waiting to meet Joe Richie Incognito exactly yeah incognito was front and center so for me it's like I'm a Patriots fan, but like, I can't wait to meet the Buffalo Bills.

Speaker 9 Tyrod Taylor was there, you know, and Joe just respectfully.

Speaker 1 Oh, that part about Joe, I actually am like a little jealous. He does not give a shit about any other sport.
Like, you could say,

Speaker 1 you know, any football player is like, I don't care. I only care about UFC.

Speaker 1 Sometimes I like daydream about, like, what if I just only watch one sport? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because we talk about all the sports, and there's definitely times where we sound like idiots, and we sound like idiots all the time, but like where we'll say something like, hey, name four Seattle Mariners, and we're like, oh, shit.

Speaker 2 But he grew up in Massachusetts.

Speaker 9 Like, you would think growing up in Massachusetts, you can't help but be a little bit of a sports fan, but he is not that.

Speaker 1 He doesn't care at all, right?

Speaker 9 But I got to say, man,

Speaker 9 kickboxing, boxing, anything combat, he just has such an appetite for.

Speaker 9 And I don't know if you guys feel this way, but certainly for me, and I say this with all respect to all my broadcast partners, 16 different combinations for me in 11 years, but it just feels bigger when Joe's there.

Speaker 9 And then we go to Abu Dhabi and he's not there.

Speaker 2 I wish he was there. Is he not allowed in Abu Dhabi?

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 9 a few years ago, he just basically paired it back to North America. So he did commit on the air, if you recall.

Speaker 9 If Leon Edwards, Kamar Usman 2 happens in England, we got him to commit on air to come to notice for that one. But generally speaking, he doesn't leave.
North America for the UFC, at least right now.

Speaker 2 Yeah, well, I mean, I always love the reaction shots that we get from you guys. Anytime there's a big knockout, like, and they seem totally spur of the moment.

Speaker 2 But are you cognizant of the fact that there's a camera right in your face? And you guys, they're always the best memes right after a fight.

Speaker 2 Is there one face that you feel like the three of you have pulled off together at the same time that is like head and shoulders above the rest?

Speaker 9 You know, obviously the one that comes to mind, Drakar Close and Benil Daryush were in a fight, and essentially one guy's about to knock the other guy out and then it flips on a dime and just jaws drop.

Speaker 9 We look pretty fucking homely in some of those shots.

Speaker 1 They're great though. You guys are like reaching out.
They're real, though. You're like holding each other back.

Speaker 9 Show try, like, you know, if you're about to rear-end somebody and that's what it is.

Speaker 1 It's a whole side fail action.

Speaker 2 This cat did that to me like two months ago in the car. He reached out and held me back.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was just kid reflex. Yeah, look out for my partner.

Speaker 9 But it is,

Speaker 9 you know, a lot is made of that. But, right, it's a tiny fucking camera right above Rogan's monitor.
That's like the last thing I'm thinking about.

Speaker 9 So when some people come at us and say, oh, you're playing to the cameras, it's like, yeah, no, that's the camera.

Speaker 9 No,

Speaker 9 not at all. And not for nothing.
As soon as I cap the highlight, I'm dealing with traffic. Like, dude, that's the last thing from my mind of that.
I can assure you.

Speaker 2 It's just always a beautiful guys being dudes moment, though, when you guys are just freaking out after a big knockout. I love that.

Speaker 9 No, it's a fun job, man. There's no doubt about it.
And obviously, the

Speaker 9 inconvenient truth of my job is that oftentimes we have 14 or 15 fights over eight hours and I have to leave room in my register as the fights gets bigger and making sure that I have the energy.

Speaker 9 But dude, there's nothing like it.

Speaker 1 No, there's nothing like fighting.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And so let's talk about the fight on Saturday night MSG.
What are you most excited for outside of meatball Molly? Because she's going to. Yeah.
She better get that elbow. That elbow.

Speaker 1 She throws those elbows in like just talking to her. I don't know if she's done that to you.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 But she's like, I've like joked with her, and she'll be like, watch the elbow, throw it right in my side.

Speaker 9 She is just such a sweetheart, as you guys know, and what a great rep for Barstill Sports. And

Speaker 9 I don't feel like a couple years ago, she could have been champion or been like a top-five contender. And now, without a shadow of a doubt, I do.

Speaker 9 So I give her more of a chance than the betting odds would suggest. But I get anxious as we start talking about this main event, right?

Speaker 9 Because I don't know how much your audience knows the backdrop to this fight, but Israel Atasanya is our undisputed middleweight champion, has never lost at 185 pounds.

Speaker 9 But as a kickboxer, he lost twice to this man and once was knocked out rather violently in Sao Paulo, Brazil. So that has laid a foundation for this fight.

Speaker 9 And Alex Podeda, despite the fact that he's only 3-0 in the UFC, is getting this opportunity. And there's just so much tension on this main event that

Speaker 9 I have no choice but to lead there.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I love Israel Adesanya. And partially it seems to, you know, I'm a casual.
I'm a casual UFC guy. I watched some of the larger main events and some of the bigger pay-per-views.

Speaker 2 But I remember I was high as shit in a hotel room one time, and the Adesanya Anderson Silver fight came on.

Speaker 2 And in that fight, in the span of about like 15 minutes, he must have changed his stance and style, I don't know, like 20 times. And I thought I was watching a video game.

Speaker 2 I was so high that I thought that he was in a video game. At some point, like,

Speaker 2 does he actually believe that he's a video game character when he's doing these things?

Speaker 9 His nickname's The Last Style Bender, and he feels like a lot of his success is predicated upon his ability to shift and make adjustments. I just am dying to see how he approaches this fight, right?

Speaker 9 Because he could make it a pretty pedestrian-boring fight, I think, if he wants to. Perhaps not, right? But like he can leg kick and jab and

Speaker 9 realize success at distance, right? But his last fight against Jared Cannonier, and you may recall Chris Pratt and some other guys sort of came out publicly and just felt like it was really boring.

Speaker 9 He was emotionally affected by that. You know, he was disappointed by that reaction.
Now, that is not to suggest he's going to go in there balls to the wall and and try to put on a show.

Speaker 9 But if he approaches this with a more aggressive tenor, this could be one of the greatest fights of all time because the dude he's fighting is a marauding fucking killer.

Speaker 1 And I know that it obviously, like, it definitely affects you, right, when the card isn't great.

Speaker 1 Like, very, I'm not comparing myself to you, but when we do the rough and rowdy cards and there's not like knockouts or big fights, it's like, well, that kind of sucked.

Speaker 1 I feel bad, but that's the fight game.

Speaker 1 So there are times when you walk away and you're like, shit, like, I really wish that was a better card because, or more action, because that's what the people want to see.

Speaker 9 Carla Esparza is our UFC Strawway champion. She's defending the title against Zhangwei-Li here on Saturday night.
She won the belt from Rosinama Eunice back in May, I believe.

Speaker 9 I remember that fight in one of the worst UFC championship fights in the history of the promotion, right?

Speaker 9 And I was sort of interested to sit down with Carla this week because, you know, we provide the soundtrack to that. Like, there's plenty of criticism in there.

Speaker 9 I mean, that fight was absolutely dreadful.

Speaker 9 And when Carla Esparza took the stage at the press conference here in New York City on Wednesday, like I feel like people were still booing, like the booze continued from that fight.

Speaker 9 So yeah, we get it. And sometimes the truck will say in our ears, like, Jesus, you guys got to finish out there?

Speaker 1 Like, what the fuck?

Speaker 9 You know, so yeah, we feel that. I think because we have 14 fights over eight hours and the whole thing is just such a mind warp that you can always extract something positive.

Speaker 9 But yeah, we've had some stinkers.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. And now, are you?

Speaker 1 The weird thing with UFC, I am like PFT, I buy the big pay-per-views. I love buying the big pay-per-views.
So, probably like once a month or, you know, whatever.

Speaker 1 You guys have shows, it feels like, every week.

Speaker 1 I've actually started to love the grappling. Is there a style that you like to call more? Because this is going to sound fucked up.

Speaker 1 People probably clip this, but I just love watching a dude get choked out.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Even after I said this is going to sound fucked up, it sounded even more fucked up. But something about the grappling when you're like, oh, shit, does he have his neck? Like, is this going to be it?

Speaker 1 Is there a style, though, that you prefer? If you had to pick your perfect fight, what would it look like?

Speaker 9 No, that's it.

Speaker 9 And candidly, when there's a lot of those grappling transitions on the ground with these scrambles and everything else, like I've taken six jiu-jitsu classes in my life, fucking hated it, you know, pajamas, dude, in my legs, clothes guard, not into it, right?

Speaker 9 But when the fight hits the canvas, like Dana wants me to shut my mouth essentially and let the analysts shine. So I get to lay back and sort of watch a lot of that play out.

Speaker 9 But yeah, there's no more exciting way for a fight to end for me than by submission.

Speaker 1 It's crazy because you like basically are watching a guy and you're like,

Speaker 1 he's like desperately trying to get out of this because because his life is on the line. And it's something about it is so fascinating.

Speaker 1 Whereas when I first started watching UFC, I hated the wrestling. I hated that.
Now I just love it.

Speaker 9 Yeah, the offensive submission game is a little bit of a lost start. But yeah, seeing guys gurgling as they're getting choked out.

Speaker 1 Or seeing somebody snap an arm or a leg. Yeah.

Speaker 2 But with the elbow snaps, that's always the one that I think the elbow snapping backwards is the most universal cringe backup movement that you can make.

Speaker 1 That's the danger of it. When you're like, oh no,

Speaker 1 his chin is like, he's got under his chin. This is a problem.
Yeah.

Speaker 9 There's something about it. But there was a time when I was like a boxing journalist, right? And MMA was this avalanche that was coming.
And I was defensive of boxing.

Speaker 9 So there was definitely a time where I was publicly critical of mixed martial arts and the wrestling and found it off-putting. And now I'm absolutely in line with you, Big Cat.

Speaker 9 It's all about the grappling for me. I just, I find the transitions, the scrambles to be absolutely fascinating.

Speaker 2 I think my favorite knockouts are always the liver shots. Like a body shot knockout.
And you only expect it coming because the guy absorbs the hit, sometimes takes a half step backwards.

Speaker 2 Then the pain really registers, and it just paralyzes you, and you just collapse to the ground.

Speaker 2 It's very rare that you get like a solid liver shot knockout, but I think, yeah, I think I like the liver.

Speaker 9 Have you guys ever been hit in that area? Flushed?

Speaker 1 Liver? No. No, not like with alcohol.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 I've woke up in the morning and be like, oh, God, I feel like I just took a body shot, but no.

Speaker 9 So the worst one I ever took, if you can believe it, my daughter Tatum, when she was five, we were wrestling, and she just pointed her toes right into my fucking liver and dude i was down for the count you know if they get you in the right spot i don't care if you're five years old or 25 you point the toes in the right way dude i would thought i was dying i thought it was going to be spitting up blood it's like where the nerve endings are something about where that connects to your spine or something i don't know what it just seems like magic to me when it's like in uh in kill bill where they they poke you in the chest and then you walk away and then you collapse that's what happens yeah

Speaker 1 so Y'all know that we're big fans of Cracker Barrel. And this holiday season, I will be sat at their table with a big plate of country fried turkey.

Speaker 11 And Brandon, I'll be right there with you, and I'll check it off my Christmas list in the country store while I'm at it. It'll make a nice holiday tradition.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's so cute of you.

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Speaker 1 All right, so Hank's not here right now, but we've been grilling him all year. So I want to take, I want your take, because you obviously do love the NFL.
Mac Jones the guy? No, absolutely. Oh, no.

Speaker 1 Wow. I wish he was in.

Speaker 9 Think Mac Jones is the guy.

Speaker 1 Hank is struggling right now.

Speaker 1 So Hank actually has come to grips with the fact that the Patriots are kind of middle of the road right now.

Speaker 1 And he, you can tell, you can see the hurt in his eyes because he's just like, when the Patriots beat the Jets, he was like, yeah, okay, like, that was cool, but, you know, they're not, you know, they've got problems.

Speaker 1 So like, you think Mac Jones is definitively not the guy.

Speaker 9 Oh, I mean, I would put a tattoo bet on it right now that he's not going to realize anything resembling long-term NFL success. Now, that is not to say that he won't get better, right? But

Speaker 9 everybody locally in Boston understands understands that he has a C-minus arm at best. Like, he's a good leader of men.
Like, I like him as a leader, but that only goes so far.

Speaker 9 I think he is a very limited quarterback. Bailey Zappi is even more limited than Mac Jones, but like Kenny Pickett passes the fucking eye test.

Speaker 9 Like if you watch Mac Jones every week, like 20 NFL starts, like fucking no.

Speaker 2 Wow. I mean, it's interesting because I think you're the first person that I've heard say, like,

Speaker 2 I can't stand Mac Jones.

Speaker 2 Well, definitively not the guy, but also Bailey Zappi's worst because a lot of times people are like, I don't like Mac Jones, but Bailey's got like some Moxie to him, but you're totally out on them.

Speaker 2 Out of that whole draft class, let's say the draft class were like Zach, would you rather have Zach Wilson than Mac Jones right now?

Speaker 9 You know, that's sort of a week-to-week proposition, right? Like if you ask me Zach Wilson versus Mac Jones, depending on the week, that answer could absolutely change.

Speaker 9 But certainly at the end of last season, right?

Speaker 9 Everybody would have taken Mac Jones over Zach Wilson, and that is absolutely not the case right now.

Speaker 1 What about other guys in that class? Like, I don't know.

Speaker 2 Trey Lance.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Trey Lance, Sam Ellinger, Justin Fields, who was.

Speaker 9 Well, like Sam Ellinger's an interesting cat, right? So Sam Ellinger and Mac Jones went to the same quarterback coach this past offseason.

Speaker 9 And, you know, he made some changes with Mac Jones' delivery and everything else. But it's like some of these guys.

Speaker 2 Who's that guy? Because I want to know.

Speaker 1 Tom House.

Speaker 1 Oh, the famous Tom House.

Speaker 1 He was Peyton's guy. No, he was.
Was he Brady's guy?

Speaker 9 Yeah, Brady went to see him. A lot of people have been to Tom, but Mac seemed very encouraged that, you know, his release point was essentially changed from 2 p.m.
Eastern to noon.

Speaker 9 Well, where are the results? I might actually be taking myself out of the NFL mix if I continue to check.

Speaker 1 Wait, so

Speaker 1 who would you pick out of those guys? Like, I just listened to

Speaker 1 Trey Lance, Davis Mills, Justin Fields.

Speaker 1 Oh, I like Fields a little bit, but obviously there's a little bit of a recency bias there.

Speaker 9 But I just don't understand for the life of me, if you go back and look at the Lamar Jackson draft, why Bill Belichick and all these guys passed on him, right?

Speaker 9 Like, I don't profess to be some sort of expert, but like, I don't need Michael Vick to tell me that this dude is going to be better better than Michael Vick.

Speaker 9 And was there no room for improvement for Lamar once he got to the league? Like, how did so many teams fucking miss on that?

Speaker 2 Well, now you're seeing the aftermath of it, which is teams going back, rewriting history, and Sean Payton being like, you know, I was going to take him next when Sean Payton had the opportunity to take next.

Speaker 1 He traded up like 18 picks to take Marcus Davenport. Yeah, exactly.
Who sucks.

Speaker 2 So now what Sean Payton's doing is actually very smart right now. He's positioning himself as being a free agent NFL head coach at the same time that Lamar Jackson would be a free agent quarterback.

Speaker 2 He's like, get us together, package deal. Let me have another crack at him.
Yeah, it's mind-blowing to me that so many people whiffed on that.

Speaker 9 But I think Belichick, and again, this is pure speculation, but I do think it's daunting to think about bringing in a guy like Lamar Jackson and effectively changing your entire offense to sort of fit his skill set and his needs.

Speaker 9 I think for Bill and certain staffs and offenses, perhaps a little bit long in the tooth, like that is such a daunting proposition.

Speaker 9 But dude, like Lamar Jackson, like, did he not pass the eye test for you guys at Louisville? Yeah.

Speaker 1 So, I'll say that he was one of the best college quarterbacks I've ever seen.

Speaker 1 The only thing I thought about Lamar Jackson, I think he still every now and then struggles with it, is like his short passes sometimes just aren't that accurate.

Speaker 1 But everything else has been phenomenal.

Speaker 2 And he has gotten better as a passer. Yeah, he has.

Speaker 1 But I do remember at Louisville, like, you know, a guy would be out in the flat and he'd miss me and be like, what's going on here? He's gotten way better. I mean, he's a superstar.

Speaker 1 He's, if you, like, if he actually hits free agency, I would love to see, like, every team should be knocking down the door outside of like, you know, the Bills and the Chiefs to try to get Lamar Jackson because he's that good.

Speaker 1 So who do you have winning the Super Bowl this year?

Speaker 9 So my big future tickets, you know, are on Buffalo at plus 650 and plus 675. But that's, you know, that's, I always bet against, you know, the Boston teams.

Speaker 9 I lost $6,000 when the Yankees got eliminated. I would pay that every day of the week.
My twin brother and I have probably bet over $300,000 lifetime against the Boston teams.

Speaker 9 We pay for championships. That's funny.
And it fucking works.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that that does work. That's actually brilliant.

Speaker 1 So you have the Bills $675, anything else?

Speaker 9 I did have the Raiders to win the AFC at 23 to 1, so I could probably rip up that ticket now.

Speaker 2 Can you hedge opportunity for that one right now?

Speaker 2 What is the payout on that? Probably like $2?

Speaker 1 Oh, my gosh.

Speaker 2 They've been the most frustrating team to watch.

Speaker 9 But every year I place a big future on the NFL, and all I try to determine is which team is most likely to end up in the final four.

Speaker 9 And the only one of these I've ever hit, actually, was the Chiefs like three years ago. But which team, I don't care about the the price necessarily, which team is most likely to be in the final four?

Speaker 9 For the ride. And so this year, you know,

Speaker 9 it was the Buffalo Bills. Last year it was the Buffalo Bills, too.

Speaker 1 No, you didn't get to the Final Four. I don't want to big dick you, but I have the Eagles 22 to 1.

Speaker 9 Do you really? Yeah, I love it.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And I just added the Ravens 13 to 1 to my portfolio.
That's a great price trade on that. That's my portfolio, yeah.

Speaker 1 Unfortunately, at this point of the NFL and college football season, if the Eagles win the Super Bowl, I think I would still be negative on the year, but that's fine. That's all right.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 it's the ride. Hey, if Molly McCann wins this weekend, I think I have to bet against her, though, so she can win.
Yes, you should. I think I should put her.
You can't lose parlay, yeah.

Speaker 9 And when Patty Pimblett fights Jared Gordon, you absolutely need to bet on Jared to pay for Patty Pimblet.

Speaker 1 Patty's the best. He is a real, like, he's going to be a superstar, right? Like, if he keeps winning.

Speaker 9 I think he's already, you can argue, he already is a superstar in a lot of respects.

Speaker 9 I think the question for me is: is he going to adopt the championship lifestyle 24-7, 365, that will allow him to be a- Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, just hear me out.

Speaker 1 No, no, no. You can't eat it.

Speaker 9 I love the fact that he owns that food is his favorite thing.

Speaker 9 Because other than like cannabis and gambling for me, it's probably food. Yeah.
But you can't, it's not sustainable, you know?

Speaker 9 And a lot of people look at him as maybe a future like featherweight champion, but at lightweight, I mean, have you guys seen Islam Lakashib, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Our current lightweight champion.

Speaker 9 So I do believe for Patty, as much as I love that he loves food and being himself, that eventually, to realize top 10 type success in what is our toughest, deepest division, he's going to have to make some lifestyle changes.

Speaker 1 It's the old Ricky Hatton. Remember when everyone tried to bill Ricky Hatton is going to beat

Speaker 1 Mayweather, and then you'd see him in the off months, and he would just be so fat

Speaker 1 playing darts at a pub in England. It's just like, I don't think this guy's going to beat Mayweather.
So, okay.

Speaker 1 All right. So no.
No feasting after the wins.

Speaker 9 But, you know, he's a prize fighter, and obviously he's going to make a lot of money. And there are varying degrees of championship aspiration with these athletes.

Speaker 9 Now, Patty obviously won a couple regional titles, and there's no doubt he has UFC championship aspirations.

Speaker 9 But eventually, you do have to go all in on yourself and live that lifestyle to see just how good you can be.

Speaker 1 Maybe I'll just take one for the team and just be like, Patty, whatever you want to eat, I'll eat for you.

Speaker 1 Just sit next to him. I'll get to 300 pounds so you can stay at 150.

Speaker 9 But think how good he is right now. Like, just imagine for a second if you were to take 2023 and just live that lifestyle.

Speaker 9 And when I say live that lifestyle, I mean like potentially be ready to take a short notice fight that could be a hugely high profile fight.

Speaker 1 He can't do that right now. That would be funny if he took one when he was fat, though.
If he was like, yeah, I mean,

Speaker 1 he just shows up and he's just fat.

Speaker 2 In a way, doesn't that add like a different component to your cardio if you get super fat and then having to work that off?

Speaker 2 It's almost like you get into desperation mode where you're like, okay, I really got to go balls to the wall, get all this fat off my body.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you can't be like, Diet Starts Monday. Like, it actually has to start.
Yeah, it has to.

Speaker 2 Like, I feel like that, that gives you a weird, I don't know if it's mental edge, but your body is experiencing adversity. Where if you're in good shape all the time, your body never experiences that.

Speaker 9 No, I think you're onto something.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I really do.

Speaker 2 Quick question for you. When are we going to get to see MMA in the Olympics?

Speaker 9 You know, it's a really complicated thing, right? Because obviously cuts are a big part of our sport. So you have to think about different rule sets, right?

Speaker 9 allowing guys to compete several times in a short amount of time, right? So if there's an elbow cut, maybe a guy wins the fight, but then you're looking at at replacements.

Speaker 9 So there are a lot of different variables.

Speaker 9 You know, would the UFC be willing, as a company that does 42 or 44 events a year, would they be willing to take like a six or eight week hiatus once every four years to allow for that to happen?

Speaker 9 You know what I'm saying? No. And also, you have to say,

Speaker 1 I don't speak for Dana right now, no.

Speaker 9 But obviously, like, could you imagine what it would be like for, I mean, you see

Speaker 9 for Henry Cejudo, what his Olympic gold medal means to him relative to his UFC championship belts, like what it would be like for these men and women to be able to fight fight for Olympic gold?

Speaker 2 Imagine the fans in the stands for like a championship fight. It's like you got a Brazilian guy, you got a guy from the United States fighting.
Like that would be an incredible atmosphere to be.

Speaker 1 I think it's more likely that Dana's just going to start giving out Olympic gold medals for any champion. And just be like, here's

Speaker 1 no Olympics. Yeah, here's your Olympic gold medal.

Speaker 9 All I can tell you about this company is that they are very forward-thinking, and I was privy to some things today that I saw as we look ahead to 2023 and 2024 that are going to effectively blow people's minds.

Speaker 1 We'll cut this part, so go ahead, tell us.

Speaker 9 There's something really cool that's going to happen potentially as early as 2023 that's just going to add a whole different component to machetes?

Speaker 9 I don't know if it's machetes.

Speaker 1 That would be sick. Everyone gets one machete.

Speaker 2 Oh, you're getting the Detroit Urban Survival Guy.

Speaker 1 That dude. Do you think, how good do you think he would be at MMA?

Speaker 9 Dude, can you imagine what it was like for me calling a fight and all of a sudden I get word that he's going to be in the corner of Joaquin Buckley and I get my corner audio sheet and Dale's audits.

Speaker 2 Dale's the man. He's a very strange guy.
Had the opportunity to interview him.

Speaker 2 But it'd be very funny to send somebody into the ring. Maybe like just one of the undercards.
One guy gets a knife, but they're going up against Dale.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Dale has or like five guys trying to attack him at once. He just has to like skirt around the outside of the ring.

Speaker 1 Or maybe it's like a break glass in case of emergency. Like if the card really sucks, let's just have a knife fight.
Yeah, why not? Let's just throw one in there. Yeah.
Yeah. Hey.

Speaker 1 Oh, you again has Bullet to finally fight.

Speaker 9 Well, so that's what I was going to say. You took the words out of my mouth.
So Dana White obviously has resisted like freak show type things. Like, we don't have a super heavyweight division.

Speaker 1 If we did.

Speaker 9 Well, Shaquille O'Neal probably would have fought in the UFC at this point in time if we had athletes who competed north of 266 pounds. But Dana wants a meritocracy.
Like he is a sports fan.

Speaker 9 Like he doesn't want freak show fights if he can help it. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to call a hell of a fight.

Speaker 1 You should just have like a throwback night to like, you know, UFC one. Yeah.
It's just, you know, 300-pound dudes fighting Ken Shamrock.

Speaker 9 That's actually a great idea that I haven't heard, like a throwback type night.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no rules. And it's just, you know, we actually do it because it used to be tournament style.
Yeah. And just have everyone just duke it out.

Speaker 2 A couple of the guys in the geese.

Speaker 1 I think we just created Rough and Rowdy, though. Yeah, kind of.

Speaker 1 I didn't want to cut Rough N' Rowdy down.

Speaker 9 I was going to say, it's like, man, we should do that.

Speaker 1 And maybe West Virginia. Yeah, that sounds cool.

Speaker 2 Well, is there one rule change that you'd like to see happen in the UFC?

Speaker 9 Well, you know, I don't like soccer kicks, which essentially means I can be laying on the ground and you can kick me in the head.

Speaker 9 I'm not for that.

Speaker 2 I'm not also not for that.

Speaker 9 But I am for knees to the head of a grounded old.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 2 Now, what's the difference?

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 9 so obviously, like if you're on the ground and I'm standing up, I can't really knee you in the head and get my knee going like 25 miles per hour the way I could get my leg going.

Speaker 9 But if I'm on the ground as well, right, or you're on a a knee or you're posting with a hand, right now you're a downed opponent, right? They can't knee them in the head.

Speaker 1 So you might not even be on the ground. I already did that, scumbag.

Speaker 9 And I would also like to, you know, if an opponent's on the ground, you could just shove a knee into his, you know. So I would like to see knees to the head of a grounded opponent.

Speaker 9 I would like to see them get rid of the 12 to 6 elbow rule. Like, I don't think that, like, that's open to interpretation.
John Jones, his lone loss is because of the 12 to 6 elbow.

Speaker 9 So I'd like to see elbows and knees be a little bit more liberal.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I like what Big Cat's getting at here with the Greg Hardy stuff stuff because we talk about Greg Hardy when he fights because nothing brings America together like watching Greg Hardy get his ass kicked.

Speaker 12 Like the past.

Speaker 2 Like really violently. Everybody hates that guy.
You should just have him fight someone much bigger than him with

Speaker 2 weapons. Yeah.
And just have Greg Hardy, like one weekend a year, Greg Hardy, you can sit at your clocks America, sit down, gather around, and watch this guy almost die.

Speaker 1 Fight a lion. Yes.

Speaker 9 Dude, we would get killed for like saying positive things on the air about Greg Hardy because ultimately I'm I'm trying to promote these athletes, right?

Speaker 9 I'm a promoter as much as I'm a journalist and you can really only judge people upon what they give you. Like Floyd Mayweather treated me like gold.

Speaker 9 It's not my problem that everybody else can't stand him, right? So Greg Hardy really did like treat our staff well.

Speaker 9 And yet even people that he treated well couldn't necessarily find it within themselves to root for him.

Speaker 9 And then the whole inhaler thing happened.

Speaker 9 We still don't have clarity by the way on the whole inhaler thing, but this dude puffed an inhaler mid-round.

Speaker 9 Of course he did. Of course he did.

Speaker 1 Wow. The one rule that I love when you guys have to like decipher is just anyone who grabs the cage.

Speaker 1 Does that annoy you? Because it does feel like it's actually nice because I'm a big believer. Like when everyone's like robot umps or, you know, there should be a sky judge.

Speaker 1 Like, no, no, no, let's let refs figure it out because what else would we complain about? Like we need something as sports fans after a fight to be like, that was fucked up. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Does that bother you though when it's like the ref is maybe not calling it one fight then calling it the next?

Speaker 9 That's actually a good point in terms of controversy maybe being good for sport in terms of

Speaker 9 some of the refereeing and judging i hadn't necessarily thought about it like that but no i feel like one blatant fence grab can essentially be the difference in a fighter winning and losing and which is crazy so you know we had a situation recently randy brown fighting francisco trinaldo and i got particularly animated i wish i hadn't used the word testicles on the air but essentially it was such a blatant fence grab and i felt like it changed the round and i remember that fight i said you know maybe as a referee you pull out your testicles and take a point and really try to affect change and level the playing field, right?

Speaker 9 Because Trinaldo did not get a takedown in that round. And then he got one in the third round, you know? So it is what it is.
But yeah, I get very upset with that foul in particular.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I just, I have always just been of the mindset that if you, if you like, made computer umps and everything for all sports, it would like eliminate 50% of the conversations I have. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, I like to. You just have anything to talk about with other people.

Speaker 9 No, I think there's a lot to that, you know, when I think about like, yeah, I mean, we need to be like, oh, no, that was PI for the rest of the week.

Speaker 1 And then you get screwed.

Speaker 2 You disagree with the person. Yeah.

Speaker 2 No, I don't think it was PI.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you do the screenshots on Twitter where everyone's, you know, psycho-analyzing every moment. That's that's pretty much what our human interaction has been boiled down to.

Speaker 2 Speaking of testicles, my favorite thing that you guys do sometimes is when you try to analyze whether or not it was a nutshot.

Speaker 2 When the guys like take it as time and you how much time do you get if you actually get hit in the nuts to recover?

Speaker 9 Five minutes. Five and see.

Speaker 2 Is that I too as well?

Speaker 9 So look at these fucking guys. What a great question.
So actually, within the last six weeks, that was changed. Oh.
Normally, for an I, referee's discretion, now you get a full five. Okay.

Speaker 1 Look at you. Look at you just.
I mean, we knew that. We knew that.

Speaker 9 Fucking over it.

Speaker 2 Yeah, what hurts more, getting hit in the nuts or the eye?

Speaker 9 I would say I, bro.

Speaker 1 You think so? Dude, the eye is... You got two of them.
Well, you can't see for the rest of the time. Yeah.

Speaker 9 No, I mean, one of my broadcast partners, Michael Bisping, as you guys probably know, I mean, he can take his left eyeball out. Yes.
It's fake.

Speaker 1 How often does he do that?

Speaker 9 He did it on camera several times. Has he ever done it at dinner?

Speaker 2 Like

Speaker 2 someone gets a martini and he drops it into there?

Speaker 9 He has not dropped it in the drink, but yeah, we were at Ruth Chris Steakhouse, wherever we were, and he took his eye out for the waiter.

Speaker 1 Oh my God.

Speaker 1 That's kind of badass, though.

Speaker 9 But yeah, I mean, obviously, you guys have been on the wrong end of a groin strike before, but probably not like a really bad, like corny, a scratching eye poke.

Speaker 2 Yeah, but when you're watching the replay of the groin shots and it's like super slow-mo, do you guys get in disagreements? Like, no, I think that that hit the testicle.

Speaker 2 You can see, like, right, yeah, I can envision a testicle being there.

Speaker 1 This guy doesn't have a big dick, so it probably didn't hurt him.

Speaker 9 Dude, what's amazing to me is to the fellow fighters that sit to my right to be like, eh, you know,

Speaker 9 look clean to me. The guy's like writhing in pain, you know.

Speaker 9 You know, his dick's gonna be purple in the morning.

Speaker 1 He didn't get clipped, you know.

Speaker 1 I love it. All right.
So, John, I have one last question.

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Speaker 1 Okay, can you give us one pick for, I know you can't really give us picks.

Speaker 2 Give us a fight that we have to really be like, not the main event.

Speaker 1 Or how about not Molly?

Speaker 2 How about an underdog that he thinks should not be that much of an underdog?

Speaker 1 Yeah, and you can't say Molly. Yeah, right.

Speaker 9 So I will, though, just say that the Molly McCann price to me seems out of whack. Aaron Blanchfield's a great grappler, but minus $400, given what Molly has done of late,

Speaker 9 that surprises me.

Speaker 9 You know, Dominic Reyes, who fought John Jones very closely for the UFC light heavyweight title, is minus 215. Ryan Spann is a monster, and he's plus 180.

Speaker 9 So I felt like that fight was maybe a little bit tighter. And then Michael Chandler and Dustin Poirier, arguably the people's main event, the fight that most people are looking forward to the most.

Speaker 9 I left South Florida where I live. Michael Chandler was plus 145.
He's now plus 180. I see that fight as being much closer than that betting line indicates.

Speaker 9 So I do see value on Michael Chandler, certainly north of plus 180.

Speaker 9 Not necessarily saying he's going to win because I got to call the fight, but I try to write down what I think the lines are going to be beforehand, and I was way off on that one.

Speaker 1 We do that too. Whose line is it anyway? It's a little game you play on the podcast.

Speaker 1 All right, so UFC 281.

Speaker 9 PFT is not coming, huh?

Speaker 1 Madison Square Guard, he's playing a rugby game this weekend.

Speaker 2 So So if I get through Saturday night with my Achilles tendons intact, I'm counting that as a win.

Speaker 1 He's a win. Yeah, Jake, did you have any questions for John?

Speaker 1 Big J to Big J?

Speaker 7 Hey, John, Jake Marsh. Pardon my take podcast.

Speaker 7 So UFC 281, obviously there's a lot of buzz around it. How do you not let the emotions get to you knowing that this might be bigger than some of the other UFC pay-per-views you call?

Speaker 7 Or do you treat it all the same way?

Speaker 9 This feels fucking enormous, Jake, if I'm being honest.

Speaker 9 I was getting anxious filling out my fighter cards, which like never happened. Certainly when I'm like packing for a Conor McGregor pay-per-view, it feels bigger.
New York is just bigger.

Speaker 9 Like there's a New York effect. I said in my media scrum earlier today, like there's a Ronda Rousey effect when she fought a Conor McGregor effect.
There's definitely a New York effect.

Speaker 9 It just feels bigger.

Speaker 9 And I think you can argue, I know we've had some championship triple headers here, but in terms of fan interest and fan appeal, like this is probably our most anticipated New York City pay-per-view since Connor fought here in 2016.

Speaker 9 So I'm excited. I mean, for me, like, a lot of the anxiety is in the preparation, right? Like, I remember a time where I had 10 fights, 20 fighters.
Like, think about 20 fighters versus 28, right?

Speaker 9 Yeah. And just prepping eight other fighters.
So

Speaker 9 it's the devil I know, but, you know, the next two days are going to be a lot.

Speaker 2 Who would you say is your favorite fighter's favorite fighter?

Speaker 9 So I always used to give that distinction to Justin Gaetchy because his style is just bulletproof.

Speaker 1 I've always said that. You have always said that.

Speaker 9 And I sort of said that about him on the air, and so it kind of was a calling card, I think, for him a little bit, you know. But Michael Chandler has, you know, he's an acquired taste for some people.

Speaker 9 You know, he's a really, really good dude. But I just think he's kind of taken the sport by storm.
His war with Gacey, of course, in New York City. So Chandler's a guy on that list as well.

Speaker 9 We got a lot of guys. I mean, Nico Price, you know.

Speaker 1 I'm a big fan of Nico Price.

Speaker 2 Nico Price, yeah. I love him.

Speaker 9 Fucking wild man. Five kids, though.
Too many children.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's a lot of kids.

Speaker 2 What's the right amount of kids?

Speaker 9 Well, Forrest Griffin, former UFC light heavyweight champion, told me that I was like overpopulating the planet when we ran it back for a third kid.

Speaker 9 And the only reason we had a third kid was because the dog fucking attacked all the children. And if the dog had worked out, I wouldn't have a son.

Speaker 1 I think two or three is good.

Speaker 9 I think four or five sounds pretty obnoxious. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, four or five, you become like a kid guy.

Speaker 9 Yeah. I mean, I could get behind zero kids, too, but that's a different conversation.

Speaker 1 No kids' lifestyle is not bad. You don't do anything.
You don't mean that. You don't mean that.

Speaker 9 Well, I just think that generally speaking, like a lot of people don't understand the life that they give up when they enter that life.

Speaker 9 People get offended when I talk about taking care of my kids as babysitting or childcare. They're like, it's not babysitting.

Speaker 9 They're your kids. It's like, no, no, no, it's baby.

Speaker 1 It's fucking babysitting. I'm on the clock.

Speaker 2 I can go out on a school night like that.

Speaker 1 Right. And I don't care.

Speaker 9 Well, you can come home from work, sit on your couch, pull out your cell phone, you know, R-rated movies.

Speaker 1 Oh, I can do that too, but I just, my kids are sitting there watching me. So, yeah.

Speaker 2 Okay, good night's sleep like every night.

Speaker 1 It's pretty cool. Yeah, I don't sleep.
That's fine.

Speaker 1 Sleep is overrated.

Speaker 1 Okay, well, John, thank you. We appreciate it.

Speaker 2 We're very, very excited for UFC 281.

Speaker 9 Thanks for coming and seeing you. Thank you, guys.
I'm excited. You're going to be at Madison Square Garden and don't be strangers.
I'll wear my recurring guest t-shirt on Zoom next time.

Speaker 1 Love it. Love it.

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Speaker 1 Okay, let's wrap up Firefest of the week. Send everyone on their way.
Again, tune in for the Barstool Sports Invitational, barstool.tv. You can watch it there or buy a ticket.
I can't wait.

Speaker 1 Now, PFT's Hank isn't.

Speaker 1 My Hank's not working. Hank's not on.
All of our Hanks aren't working. Well, yeah, we haven't gotten to the balls yet.
Hank, is your Hank working? Hank.

Speaker 1 Firefest of the week.

Speaker 1 My Fire Fest.

Speaker 1 Tuesday. Tuesday.
Tuesday. That's the day of the week.
Busy day. Corporate day.
Corporate retreat.

Speaker 1 Corporate dinner. The offsite.
Corporate hang.

Speaker 1 A dinner? Yeah, off-site hanging. What'd you wear to the dinner? Same thing I wore on the show on Tuesday.

Speaker 2 A three-piece suit.

Speaker 1 Color shirt.

Speaker 1 What did you eat?

Speaker 1 Bolognese. Bolognese with Ricotta.
What was anyone else?

Speaker 2 Who was on the wine list?

Speaker 1 I don't know. Did anyone else eat bolognese? Yeah.

Speaker 1 It was like... A pasta place? No, it was courses.
Oh.

Speaker 1 Olive Garden. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I didn't have a choice.

Speaker 2 Stock prices down.

Speaker 1 Did you keep all the food down? Yeah, I did. Per usual.

Speaker 1 Well, not always per usual. And then at the table, you guys have to go to the bottom.
There was a dozen event afterwards. You guys were playing trivia.

Speaker 1 I went to go show support, show support for you guys. Saw you play, saw the great walkouts.
I didn't even see you there.

Speaker 2 I didn't see Hank either. I was there.

Speaker 1 He did make sure to post

Speaker 2 a video on Instagram.

Speaker 2 So sounds like he might have just swung by.

Speaker 1 Did you think if you were supporting us, you'd come and say, like, hey, I'm here to support you. Well, I didn't want to, you guys were nervous.
I know.

Speaker 1 I didn't want to get in your guys' head before the game.

Speaker 2 Why didn't you identify yourself in the crowd when I called on you for my audience phone, a friend?

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 1 All right, so I left. I wasn't there.

Speaker 1 Everybody thought that you just left me.

Speaker 1 This also has to do with you. I wasn't leaving you, Heinrich.
I was literally going to assist you playing football, your new show with KB and Nick. It's out now.

Speaker 1 We shot that that same day, and I wanted to go back and work with Max and Shane, our new editor, because he's new and work on the show with him. So I left early to go work on that.

Speaker 1 I leave Terminal 5, put in

Speaker 1 in my Uber. You just doxed us.
Damn it. All right.

Speaker 1 I leave Terminal 5.

Speaker 1 I left Terminal 5.

Speaker 2 Wait, wait, what's the phone number of the phone that you used to put that address?

Speaker 1 All right, start over. I leave Terminal 5 and I put the address in for the office, get in the Uber, and then I'm looking down on my phone.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to lie, I was looking down on my phone, you know, checking everything, checking my emails, checking my tweets, TikToks, Instagrams, Snapchats, the whole works.

Speaker 1 And I knew it was like a 20, 25-minute drive. And I kind of caught myself.
I was like, wow, we've been driving for a while. We've got to be close.
I look up and we're going over the Brooklyn Bridge.

Speaker 1 And I then realize that the address I put in for the office has the same address

Speaker 1 all the way deep in like

Speaker 1 Park Slope, Brooklyn, which is deep in in Brooklyn. Yep.

Speaker 1 So, and I'd already been in the car for 30 minutes, and we were over the bridge, and there was like traffic. So, by the time we, I was like, fuck this.
I called Max.

Speaker 1 I was like, I'm just going to send me the email me the thing. I'll give you notes virtually because I'm not going to be at the office for another hour at this point.
And so I just got, there's like a

Speaker 1 PATH station at the World Trade Center, which is near the Brooklyn Bridge. So we turn around, and I have to pee so fucking bad at this point.
I was like, Jake,

Speaker 1 I was going to piss my pants, and it's one of those things where it was all I could think about. This is the guy who's who's in charge of the entire company.
Get out at the World Trade Center.

Speaker 1 Get out of the World Trade Center. And I know there's like it's a big, there's a big shopping center there.
It's open during the day. I know there's public bathrooms in there.

Speaker 1 I fucking, I'm sprinting. I'm like sprinting inside.
I had to pee so bad.

Speaker 1 All the stores are closed. The bathroom was closed.
And there's a little sign in front of me where it's like, you know, closed for the night. I like jumped over the sign.
The door was locked.

Speaker 1 A worker comes over. I was like, please, can you open it? I got to pee.
He's like, I would help you. It's like automatically locked.

Speaker 2 He's like, run upstairs.

Speaker 1 There's a bathroom up there. Like, they'll let you go up there.
Like, he was helping me out. Like, he, he saw, he saw my eyes.

Speaker 1 I was like, dude, please, like, I just have to fucking, like, it's an emergency. I'm going to piss my pants.
Why'd you piss outside? Run upstairs.

Speaker 1 Well, I was trying to, you know, I was, wasn't trying to be like a normal person. Like, it's kind of a busy area or whatever.
So I run upstairs.

Speaker 1 I pissed outside today. I run upstairs.

Speaker 1 And one woman stopped me. I was like, we're closed.
I was like, can I please use the bathroom? I'm like, pleading with her. She's like, no, we're closed.
I was like, I got so, I was so frustrated.

Speaker 1 I was like, why? Do you know who I am? Not even that. I was like, I was just like, please, be a nice person.
I'm dying here. She's like, nope.

Speaker 2 I like that.

Speaker 2 We should put that in shirts.

Speaker 1 Then I had to run outside and I was pissed basically in the street because at that point I had no choice.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 2 I'm so sorry that happened to you.

Speaker 1 That was my firefight.

Speaker 1 So you committed a crime. Yeah, the Uber situation, taking like a $60 Uber.
You know, that's a historical landmark. And then...
You pissed on the World Trade Center? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Not on the World Trade Center. That's what people do.
It's a financial district, Wall Street. I pissed on Wall Street.
Basically, Hank and MLB on Fox are doing the same amount of respecting.

Speaker 1 Hank pissed on Wall Street.

Speaker 1 Never forgive him for 2008.

Speaker 8 No, but a very small mistake had very large consequential actions.

Speaker 1 Okay, Billy.

Speaker 1 There were no large consequential actions. No large

Speaker 1 extremely inconsequential action. Putting in the wrong address to end up in the wrong place.
All right, Hank hit the wrong button. But I made it home.
All right. PFT, you're now.
Good job.

Speaker 2 Good job.

Speaker 2 So my Fire Fest is kind of a continuation of last week's Fire Fest. I have to go play in a rugby game this weekend, which I'm not prepared, body nor mind, to do.
But I'm just going to do it.

Speaker 2 And hopefully everything's going to be fine. I haven't been working out as much as I would like to, and I'm not prepared for this.
But I've kind of decided to flip the switch.

Speaker 2 And instead of being the old guy that gets back into shape, is the old guy that embraces being out of shape and like...

Speaker 2 smokes a cigarette like right before the game that sort of thing that guy like i might just get real fat over the next three days and be like fuck it my body's fucked up anyways might as well just embrace embrace it and get into it.

Speaker 2 That's part of my Fire Fest. My other Fire Fest is I got into a lift over the weekend and I was driving around Chicago, checking out different neighborhoods, had a fantastic time.

Speaker 2 And then I've got a perfect lift rating, by the way. Not to brag, just a fact, 5.0, 5 stars.
Nice. And I get driven around for about like 30 minutes going towards what I thought was a destination.

Speaker 2 And the person stops and he turns around and he looks at me and goes,

Speaker 2 Are you Richard?

Speaker 1 And I was like, oh, no. I was like, No, I'm not Richard.
And he said,

Speaker 2 I asked you if you were Richard when you got in the car.

Speaker 1 I didn't, I thought that you thought he was asking if you were rich. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm really rich.

Speaker 2 I was like, Yeah, that's why I use lift because

Speaker 2 I got the priority pickup time. No.

Speaker 2 And then he and he just looks at me and goes, get out. Oh, get out now.
And this poor guy has been driving me like a long distance in the car. Jesus.
And I'm like, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 What do you say at that point? It's just like, I'm sorry. Yeah.
I didn't have any money to give him for it, but I don't know what happened to the other person that had been requesting

Speaker 2 this lift. But then I just got out and felt just like an idiot.
That's bad. Just like a bad person.
And then I checked my star rating.

Speaker 2 Still five stars because I had accumulated so many five-star ratings that that one star, it's just a blip on the map. Yeah.

Speaker 2 But to that Lyft driver, if you're listening,

Speaker 2 I'm sorry. He's not Richard.
I'm sorry. I'm probably going to be blackballed in Chicago.

Speaker 1 Yeah, on the Lyft drivers. Fuck.
That's actually what happened to me, too. Yeah, that's I didn't put the wrong address in.
Yeah, Yeah, the run.

Speaker 2 The guy picked up the wrong human. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Gotcha.
That guy was going to the same address. We got breaking moose.

Speaker 1 Breaking news.

Speaker 1 The Brooklyn Nets have released Kyrie Irving Sources Tell ESPN. This is from Adrian Wojnowski.
Blue Checkbook. Martial.
At JT23556.

Speaker 1 So Breaking Moose.

Speaker 2 Yeah, the Blue Checks are.

Speaker 1 What happened to eBay? Everyone's just got to be on their toes now. Like, you got to just be on your toes because I saw this when I just, my computer in front of me, and I was like, whoa.

Speaker 1 And then I look closer. Let's see how many followers JT he's got 221 followers.

Speaker 2 My strategy is, I just turn on, I turn on notifications from Schefter

Speaker 2 and from Woge.

Speaker 1 And LeBron.

Speaker 2 Actually, no, it's funny.

Speaker 2 I've kind of backchanned my way into following Woge because I just follow Schefter's retweets of Woge. Yeah.
So the real important stuff that gets filtered through the NFL news, that's how I get it.

Speaker 2 Also, LeBron had a a great quote earlier today. I don't know if you saw his tweet that he put out.
It really made you think.

Speaker 2 Our good friend LeBron James, he is the chief LeBron James correspondent. Unpardon my take.
He tweeted out a couple hours ago,

Speaker 12 thought bubble emoji.

Speaker 2 I told you guys that I don't believe in sharing hurtful information. And I'll continue to be that way, but Kyrie apologized, and he should be able to play.
I just like how he led that off. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I told you guys already, I don't believe in sharing hurtful information. He let you guys know.
I also don't believe in sharing hurtful information.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Thank you, LeBron.
Appreciate that. Hank, you just said what happened to Udoku.
I don't know. That was weird.
They announced a new head coach. And then

Speaker 1 I thought I was dreaming for a while. Jock John Vaughn is now the head coach of the Nets, and Udoku is not with the Celtics anymore, but also not with the Nets.

Speaker 1 What did he do? I think I missed something. What did he do? Because everything I read from the Nets thing was the Nets wanted to hire him, and they were like...
They did. Yeah, no, I know.

Speaker 2 and then they just required him they looked into it more and they're like no like did he fuck a cat did he fuck a cat I don't know I think he has to tweet that he didn't fuck a cat I don't know what he fucked or what he came on or near but I'm pretty sure that it was somebody a subordinate it was either a subordinate or it was a

Speaker 2 very close individual to somebody that was very very high up in the Boston Celtics crazy and you know the story makes these owners go like if you meet another guy from the front office and you're like hey i hear you're thinking about hiring eme yeah you fucked my wife you put in his contract pro code you can't hire that guy no joe side jackson did it joe side needs to put in the contract hey eme you're hired but like very specific language you cannot fuck my wife just go eime will hire you but you have to commit you're not coming this entire year yeah no coming no coming and then you put like like a tracking bracelet on his dick yeah and you make sure you know where that dick is at all times it's crazy the whole story makes no sense all right my fire fest affects all of us.

Speaker 1 I hate that I have to say this.

Speaker 1 We're deep in the football season, and it's not going to last forever. No, it is.

Speaker 1 And college football, when I looked, I had a moment on Saturday night when I was like, oh, I wonder who, like, you know, what the big games are next week.

Speaker 1 And I scrolled and I was like, wait, it says there's only three more

Speaker 1 weeks of the regular season.

Speaker 1 And then I was like, wait, that can't be right. right.
And unfortunately, I double-checked my sources.

Speaker 1 There are three more regular season Saturdays left this fall.

Speaker 1 And that's like the first leaf turning.

Speaker 1 When college football, when you get down to the last couple weeks, you get to rivalry Saturday. And you're like, wait, okay, but at least we still have a ton of NFL left.

Speaker 1 And then you look up and you're like, wait, it's week 15? What the fuck?

Speaker 1 I just want, I want, I have held off on saying it, but I just want to say it now because it's the first time it has affected me and hit me, and I'm sad, and that is my Fire Fest.

Speaker 2 It is not true.

Speaker 1 But we need to also,

Speaker 1 this is also the time where I try to take a good approach to it, where it's like, capture these moments. Do this for me this Saturday.

Speaker 1 When you're sitting on your couch watching a million games, take a snapshot. Take a snapshot in your memory and just remember that moment.
Because once Saturdays go, I just,

Speaker 1 it sucks.

Speaker 2 Only three more weeks. It's not true.
There's, you got three more months.

Speaker 1 You got three more weeks, then you got championship Saturday. I love bowl season, but there's something about regular season college football.
I just, I don't want it to go away.

Speaker 2 It is too short. It's way too short.
It is too short. It's always weird to me that college football doesn't go through December.

Speaker 2 You always think it goes, and that's how they get you because bowl season starts, you know, around what, the 20th or something like that.

Speaker 2 There should be college football that's played throughout the month of December.

Speaker 1 And it always happens the exact same way. We get to early November.
And if you ask me right now, I don't even know what the date is. Oh, it's the 11th.
Yes. Thank you, Billy, for your service.

Speaker 1 If you asked me when Thanksgiving was, I'd be like a month away. And it's two weeks.
It's two weeks. It's two weeks.
It's two weeks.

Speaker 2 You know what I'm saying? Like, listen, we're in the age of name, image, and likeness right now.

Speaker 1 Let's get them paid more.

Speaker 2 Let's get them paid more and have them play games all throughout December. I agree.

Speaker 1 I mean, bull season is great, but it hit me for the first time. I'm being honest about

Speaker 1 my emotions because I wasn't going to jump the gun, but it finally did did hit me when I looked. It was after the LSU-Bama game, and I was like, damn, that was an unbelievable game.

Speaker 1 Who does LSU have next week? Like, wait, what? They only have three more games? Fuck. Okay, that's my Fire Fest.
Billy.

Speaker 1 Billy?

Speaker 1 Billy.

Speaker 2 Did you hear anything bad this week, Billy?

Speaker 1 Yeah, a little bit of mishap.

Speaker 12 Yeah. A little mishap.

Speaker 8 You guys lean a little bit farther back in your seats. Don't tell me how to say that.
You guys are getting on edge.

Speaker 1 Just relax.

Speaker 2 This is how I I certainly were podcasting.

Speaker 1 I was

Speaker 1 on edge right now.

Speaker 1 Why don't you explain what happened?

Speaker 8 I'm about to explain, but you guys are about to jump on.

Speaker 1 I know, no.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 I'm the neutral arbiter because I wasn't in the room. Did you say my five FS? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 I wasn't in the room. So I will judge it.
I also wasn't in the office, and I've been purposely not asking questions. Correct.
Same with me. All right.
So PFT will stay out of this for a second.

Speaker 1 Hank and I will listen to it. This is the first time we're getting the full account from you.
But what if Billy lies during this recap? Which is certainly not.

Speaker 1 I will note when I think he's lying. No chance.
I will note. I'm a good middleman.
No, he's damned. Max was around, man.

Speaker 1 I was here.

Speaker 9 Are we ready? Yeah, we're ready.

Speaker 1 I will note when I think he's lying. Okay.

Speaker 8 PFT and I

Speaker 8 were finishing a best of three breath holding contest.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Who won?

Speaker 8 PFT won two to one.

Speaker 1 So he can hold his breath longer than you.

Speaker 8 Two out of three the last times. He can hold.

Speaker 1 So you want you want to connect. That's how it all starts.

Speaker 1 He can hold his breath.

Speaker 8 Wait, can you guys let me know?

Speaker 1 No, I'm just asking a question. He can

Speaker 1 factor fiction.

Speaker 1 Fact of fiction, PFT can hold his breath longer. Out of the water in those.
No, that's not what I asked.

Speaker 1 Can we?

Speaker 1 Fact of fiction.

Speaker 8 Can we just get to the point?

Speaker 1 Fact of fiction.

Speaker 8 That has nothing to do with the five.

Speaker 1 This is exactly how the fucking thing started yesterday.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 1 Like word for word. Can you relax?

Speaker 2 You shut the fuck up and start telling the truth.

Speaker 1 I'm telling the truth. What have I lied about? I'm asking you a question, Billy.
I know nothing about this. Fact or fiction, PFT can hold his breath longer than you.

Speaker 8 At that moment, yes.

Speaker 1 So fact.

Speaker 1 At that moment,

Speaker 1 he has stronger lungs,

Speaker 1 like a stronger mental state than you.

Speaker 2 Sure.

Speaker 8 At that time, above water, not in Stu Feiner's pool. So moving on.
We were finishing up the podcast. I had gotten up and PFT was just like, admit, I'm better than you.
And I was like, no.

Speaker 2 No, because there's literally that conversation that you just had.

Speaker 1 That's

Speaker 1 precisely Billy King. So I'm walking.
You're a fragile masculinity person. I'm walking out the door.

Speaker 8 And I was going to admit he was better at me at that breath holding conversation. I was.
That was what I was doing.

Speaker 8 I go over to turn on Hank's mic to say that.

Speaker 8 Our producer, Avery, shout out Avery.

Speaker 1 He

Speaker 8 is a big player in the story later. Thank Avery so much.

Speaker 2 He's a hero.

Speaker 8 Go to turn on Hank's mic.

Speaker 8 Hank's mic is turned on by a switch.

Speaker 2 There's a switch on Hank's control board,

Speaker 2 which

Speaker 8 at that moment is separate from his main frame. I hit a switch

Speaker 8 and

Speaker 8 that switch had a catastrophic impact on

Speaker 8 how the video cameras record the podcast.

Speaker 2 He is a gold medalist in terms of using the passive voice, where he's like, I hit the switch then proceeded to go off on its own.

Speaker 1 That switch didn't do what I asked for. That switch got

Speaker 1 me into a lot of trouble. I hit the wrong switch.

Speaker 8 I wasn't trying anything malicious. I was going to say, you beat me.

Speaker 8 The Switch then turned off the mainframe, which turned off the cameras, which then, due to some device that's next to Max, the KI Pro,

Speaker 8 disrupted the processing of the video cameras and the video.

Speaker 8 So

Speaker 8 the file that had the video

Speaker 8 angles, which film Big Cat and PFT respectively, or Big T at that current time, me right now, that file of video got corrupted. At the time, we didn't know what was happening.

Speaker 8 I didn't know that the switch I had hit. So there was a lot of trying to figure out what had happened.

Speaker 1 No, I take full responsibility.

Speaker 8 I take full responsibility. For what?

Speaker 1 For

Speaker 8 cavalierly hitting a switch that was not the right switch.

Speaker 2 And you hit a switch, and that switch was disloyal to you. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's do you think that was the root of the problem, though? The switch? Or was it the fact that you can't take an L? Were your emotions high or even killed?

Speaker 1 I feel like if we're going to ever move forward, that seems like something you got to do a little introspection. Like, hey, if I lose a

Speaker 1 bench contest, if I lose a breath holding contest, if I lose a... Look, you have the softest hands in the office contest.

Speaker 2 I got that. I did beat Billy and Bench too.

Speaker 1 Yeah, like

Speaker 1 it's okay. It's okay.

Speaker 1 No one thinks of you as less of a man.

Speaker 8 So, no, you know what? Throughout my life, that skill has helped me a lot.

Speaker 1 You're holding your breath? No, I'm very competitive. I'm very competitive.
I'll admit it.

Speaker 8 I'm very competitive.

Speaker 1 And because of that. A sore loser is another way to look at it.

Speaker 8 No, I mean, if you

Speaker 2 hate

Speaker 8 it, the more you hate losing, the more you're fueled to try to win.

Speaker 1 But you don't win.

Speaker 8 Well, recently,

Speaker 8 but like, I was, I was, you know, I'm a fierce competitor.

Speaker 1 I put that out there.

Speaker 8 It is very callous and rubs people the wrong way at certain occasions, but that's just how I am, you know, adapting to an office environment with that same mentality.

Speaker 2 Now, it pushes people the wrong way.

Speaker 8 So, Billy. So, yeah, I hit the wrong switch.
Yeah. Then I got pissed off because as, you know,

Speaker 2 because you couldn't admit such a competitive podcast.

Speaker 1 Well, because you lost at recording the podcast. Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, I just didn't understand that.

Speaker 2 You got mad because you could not believe that you fucked up so catastrophically that you deleted the entire episode.

Speaker 1 But you can't. And the audio is loose.

Speaker 2 And also, maybe the funniest part, listening back to that episode, in the first minute, Billy says, this is going to be one that you're going to absolutely make sure to watch on YouTube because you should.

Speaker 2 Because there's a lot of

Speaker 1 magic. If I don't have a visual of the breath holding contest, that's it for me.
No, no, no. Interesting.

Speaker 1 I don't think Billy was doing that.

Speaker 1 He's just asking questions. Bill, you just asked questions.

Speaker 1 He's just asking questions, Bill.

Speaker 8 I know he's just asking questions.

Speaker 1 If there wasn't so much puke on the

Speaker 1 board, on the controller board.

Speaker 8 And maybe I would have figured out which one it was.

Speaker 2 As Billy eventually realized and was starting to come to terms mentally with the fact that he, in fact, did press a button that corrupted the entire video footage, and he realized that that button was on him, he delivered what I believe to be the Billy excuse quote of the Millennium.

Speaker 2 He said, yeah, I pressed the button, but the consequential action of what happened for pressing the button is not equivalent to what I did.

Speaker 2 So Billy was blaming the electronics in that moment. And just an all-time, I'm going to try to get out of this.
But to Billy's credit, he has taken some responsibility for it. We did.

Speaker 8 I take total responsibility.

Speaker 2 We were able to find the video footage, which is being processed and being uploaded right now.

Speaker 1 Shout out

Speaker 1 Andrew.

Speaker 8 Tech guy Andrew.

Speaker 1 Do you take responsibility for losing in the breath holding competition?

Speaker 1 That's really what because

Speaker 1 nothing's going to change if

Speaker 1 we don't really hammer in on that moment and what happens.

Speaker 8 Some Sundays you lose.

Speaker 1 Yes. Because that feels like that has

Speaker 1 we've seen that play out before.

Speaker 2 I beat you pretty easily both those times. So the only reason why I let Billy win the second time was because Billy was going to actually, he was going to die rather than lose.

Speaker 1 Should we do one more?

Speaker 2 We could do one more.

Speaker 1 Yeah, let's do one more. Yeah, let's do one more.

Speaker 1 Also,

Speaker 2 as Billy's punishment, I wanted to give him a natural punishment that fit the crime. Billy will be this afternoon recording a three and a half hour solo podcast

Speaker 2 by himself.

Speaker 1 through a Zephyr Guantanamo. Okay,

Speaker 1 I'll make it three hours.

Speaker 1 Waterboarding's out. I'll make it three hours.

Speaker 2 Billy's doing a podcast by himself. He's not allowed to interview anybody.
He's not allowed to have any guests. It's three hours worth of Billy's thoughts that he will be recording himself.

Speaker 2 We can't put that on the internet.

Speaker 1 That's Creed's. Notes.

Speaker 2 It's coming out on Saturday, and it's going to be powerful, shocking stuff.

Speaker 2 And it was funny because I got a text from Billy being like, I'd like to record this at home today because I'd like to use OBS for it.

Speaker 1 That's the software.

Speaker 2 And then

Speaker 2 a little switch clicked on my brain.

Speaker 1 I was like, huh, why does Billy want to do it?

Speaker 2 Because that's the

Speaker 2 thing.

Speaker 1 And then he's like,

Speaker 1 and then Billy's like, oh, also, can I live stream this? Yeah, because he wants questions.

Speaker 2 And I was like, wait,

Speaker 2 Billy wants to play video games on this and call his Twitch stream.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and have questions.

Speaker 2 He wants to play Call of Duty.

Speaker 2 And then turn that into a podcast. This is like when you ground your child and they're like, that's fine.
I'll stay in my room.

Speaker 1 I got Nintendo in there.

Speaker 8 I'm brainstorming to try to create a creative piece.

Speaker 1 Why don't you just read a book?

Speaker 8 I'm reading Moby Dick. Okay, there you go.
That's my favorite passage.

Speaker 1 Yeah, just talk about that.

Speaker 8 No, and others, cool stuff. It's called Entertaining Clients.
It's great. It's cracking.

Speaker 1 You're going to get drunk.

Speaker 1 You're not drinking.

Speaker 8 I'm not drinking, but you can if you're listening to it.

Speaker 1 Okay. So let's do a breath holding competition.
That is a good name for a podcast. Yeah, Entertaining Clients.

Speaker 8 Yeah, no, it's just last thing.

Speaker 2 It's crazy. I'm crazy.

Speaker 8 It's crazy that there's one button that Hank could press right now.

Speaker 1 So this is where I wanted to come in because I was traveling yesterday. I was on a plane and I was seeing these updates because it was getting live tweeted.
Like, Billy just deleted the footage.

Speaker 1 And at first, I was like, this is a work because in my head,

Speaker 1 I thought that the way that the system works is essentially Billy proof. And that I was running through all the scenarios in my head where it's like, what could have possibly happened where

Speaker 1 Billy deleted the video footage? Like, it just didn't, it didn't mathematically didn't make sense. I couldn't, I couldn't run the simulation in my head.

Speaker 1 And then, once I found out how it happened, it's like a nuclear bomb where it's like, now that it's happened, I'm now worried. Like,

Speaker 1 you've done the impossible. You've managed to do the impossible.

Speaker 2 I kind of want Billy to press the button right now.

Speaker 8 So, if Hank presses the button right now, all of the, just from this recording, the Fire Fest recording, is going to be not gone, but it's going to be severely damaged. So,

Speaker 8 that button right there. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Right, that's what I'm saying. It's the nuclear bomb.
Do you want to point to it?

Speaker 2 No, no, don't even point at it.

Speaker 1 So you have to push that button. It's not to be pointed at.

Speaker 1 Don't point it at it. Don't make that button anger.

Speaker 8 What happens when you hit the button?

Speaker 1 Power's on. Don't do it.

Speaker 1 All right. So you guys do.
Jake does his firefight. You guys hold your breath.
Ready? Okay. All right.
Wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 2 Wait, wait. I already beat him two out of three times.

Speaker 1 That's true. Wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 2 What are you? Dan Heron over here?

Speaker 1 There's also no chance that, Billy,

Speaker 1 you're editing and putting the podcast out yourself. Is that part of the podcast?

Speaker 8 Yeah, I honestly it's just OBS. I know how to use it, then put it into Premiere.
I'm not gonna cut any of it because I need a lot of it. And we're gonna set out clips and upload it.

Speaker 1 Okay, Jake, you're Firefest.

Speaker 7 Uh, yeah, I have my cousin's wedding in Florida this weekend. It looks like I'm flying right into a hurricane.

Speaker 1 Oh, no. Oh.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Fuck.

Speaker 7 We'll see if I get out.

Speaker 7 It's gonna be it's already close to you with this cousin.

Speaker 1 Like, is it worth dying? Pretty close. Is it worth dying? Very close.
Is it worth dying? Yeah.

Speaker 7 Really? Worth risking.

Speaker 2 I did see some of the radar updates of this hurricane.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 I'm just going to say bonk to some of our female listeners.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow.

Speaker 2 It looked like a big dick in balls.

Speaker 2 Like the projected path of this hurricane. It was crazy.

Speaker 7 Yeah, so hopefully it's not an issue.

Speaker 1 But we'll see. Hilly, you just lost.
You didn't hold your breath at all.

Speaker 1 Oh, PFT was holding his breath.

Speaker 2 I held it for a little bit. He's speaking.

Speaker 1 No, no, before he was. He was before he was.

Speaker 8 I thought we were going to do a countdown.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so a countdown.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 2 Do I have to beat him again?

Speaker 1 Yeah, just beat him again.

Speaker 9 Scared?

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 2 I'm not scared.

Speaker 1 All right. Ready?

Speaker 2 See, Billy's actually going to pass out rather than lose on this one. Three, two,

Speaker 1 one.

Speaker 1 Alright, Billy's holding his nose. PFT looks relaxed.
Billy's also got his eyes shut. Billy.
Oh, they opened up.

Speaker 1 It's very hard for him to lose at anything because he thinks that if he loses holding his breath, that

Speaker 1 he's not a man anymore or something.

Speaker 1 I actually respect the fact that he deleted the footage. Yeah, because

Speaker 1 he didn't want anyone to see it. I was talking about doing that without anything.
Yeah, it's petty as fuck, but

Speaker 1 he was smart enough to be like, oh, I thought I was hitting the mic. I'm just going to delete all this footage so no one can ever see the fact that PFT is more of a man than me.

Speaker 1 I also was thinking about it because I

Speaker 1 two times.

Speaker 1 I'm like two for like probably 600.

Speaker 1 I've lost two two episodes, two interviews. Oh, all right, numbers.
I'll do 69.

Speaker 7 Could we get 44 three times in a row?

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's a good question. 18.

Speaker 1 69.

Speaker 1 20.

Speaker 1 17? 1. 17.

Speaker 1 Oh, you already said it. You already said it.
He's not breathing, Billy. He's not breathing.

Speaker 1 I'm watching him. He's not breathing.
35? He's 35.

Speaker 1 Billy, what's your number? 20.

Speaker 1 Billy, what's your number? 5. 5.
No, 6. No, 9.
9? 6. 6.
69. No, I already picked 69.
Oh. So you can't.
Unless you want to talk.

Speaker 1 I mean, I picked 69. So what's your number?

Speaker 1 1.

Speaker 1 They're still going. Oh, Billy almost just burped.

Speaker 1 I think Billy just breathed. I'm pretty sure he just breathed.
Broth.

Speaker 1 Broathed. He just broathed.
I'm I'm pretty sure he just broathed.

Speaker 7 This is not dead air. They're just breathing.

Speaker 1 Oh, he's.

Speaker 1 Let me feel underneath his nose.

Speaker 1 No breath.

Speaker 1 It's not dead air. Well, it might be dead air if Billy dies.
Billy won that one.

Speaker 1 Alright.

Speaker 1 See, Billy was about to die. Yeah, he was.

Speaker 2 So we're two and two now. All right.

Speaker 1 Tiger's tongues can lick off skin.

Speaker 1 Hank, have you ever gotten this? No.

Speaker 1 What? Gonna write the fuck down, though. You are?

Speaker 13 2-2.

Speaker 1 Lil burp.

Speaker 1 12. Again, dude, it's fucking every week.
Whoa! That was the one with Whitney. So that's back-to-back because we did two last episodes.
It was 44-12. Oh, Hank.
This has been

Speaker 1 literally never before, dude. There's never been an easier time to get this.

Speaker 7 44-44, 12-12.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 Hank.

Speaker 1 There's never been an easier time to get this.

Speaker 2 PFT, did you accept your defeat?

Speaker 1 Well, it's tied. You should probably do a rubber brush.
We'll do a third match.

Speaker 2 Right now, I'm technically still in the lead. No, no, it's 2-2.
No.

Speaker 2 We'll do another one. Did you accept the tie?

Speaker 1 We'll do another one.

Speaker 2 Yeah, sure, I accept the tie. I don't particularly care if I'm better at holding my breath.
Well,

Speaker 1 you're sure. Well, he beat you two.

Speaker 1 As a matter of fact, I did beat you.

Speaker 1 Actually,

Speaker 1 that was a a new three-game series. He's up 1-0.
So he is in the lead.

Speaker 2 Oh, congrats, Billy.

Speaker 1 No, no, no. No, PFT is in the lead.
You have one series up on him.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, I'm 1-0 in series. Yeah, yeah.
You're 1-0 in the second series.

Speaker 1 Right, which that series isn't over. So PFT still is better than holding his breath than you.
That's just a fact. Cool.

Speaker 1 Look, Billy, this is good. If you don't delete the footage here, that's growth.

Speaker 1 I kind of want Billy to get it. That's growth.

Speaker 2 That's growth.

Speaker 8 Let's not pretend like I was trying to delete the footage.

Speaker 1 Right. I was trying to talk to the mic.
Hypothetically.

Speaker 1 You rage. So rage deleted.
So you rage.

Speaker 1 You tried to rage quit the game.

Speaker 8 Thank you for that compliment. I know how to use your switchboard and know a way that you didn't that would have malfunctioned the tape.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's pressing one button, so I guess if that's your knowledge, yeah, you're very, very smart.

Speaker 2 Press the button.

Speaker 8 Something that you didn't know.

Speaker 1 Press the button. Three, two, don't press the button.
One. Love you guys.

Speaker 1 Nope.

Speaker 1 I'm not one. Today say, I'm saying to you.

Speaker 1 Today is another day to find you shine away.

Speaker 1 Oh, I'll be coming for your love, okay.

Speaker 1 Oh, I'll be coming for your love, okay.

Speaker 1 Oh, I'll be coming for your love, okay.

Speaker 1 I'll be

Speaker 1 gone.

Speaker 1 Needless to say, I've all just said it's about feet stone away.

Speaker 1 So I learned that life is okay. Stay after me.

Speaker 1 Oh, it's the bed to be safe and sorry. It's so bad to be safe and sorry.
It's my bed to be safe and sorry.

Speaker 1 I'll be

Speaker 1 gone.

Speaker 1 Let not the one to go.

Speaker 1 I'll be

Speaker 1 gone.

Speaker 1 You're not the one to go.

Speaker 1 petrol, bad old metal, bad old metal, battle, metal.