Broncos HC Nathaniel Hackett, Grit Week Recap And Denver Airport Review + Mt Rushmore Of Candy

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Speaker 1 On today's part in my take, Broncos head coach Nathaniel Hackett. Awesome interview with him.
I think we're Nathaniel Hackett, guys. Big time.
Big time Nathaniel Hackett, guys.

Speaker 1 Talk to him about his rise in coaching, unbelievable Blake Bortle story, and a lot more. We also have a very packed show.
We're going to recap Grit Week. We're going to do a a little Fire Fest.

Speaker 1 We're going to do a Mount Rushmore of Candy and

Speaker 1 our third ever airport review. Let's go.
Airport review of Denver, Denver's airport.

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Speaker 1 Welcome to Part of My Take, presented by Coors Light, the greatest beer. Ooh, that sounded great.
The greatest beer ever. Today is Friday, August 12th, and this is a monumental occasion right now.

Speaker 1 If you are listening to this show,

Speaker 1 you are listening to the first ever podcast that every single member of climbed Mount Everest.

Speaker 2 Yeah, let's go, boys.

Speaker 1 Equivalent.

Speaker 2 Honestly, Mount Everest, low-key mid, for real.

Speaker 1 Dude, I mean, dogs were hiking Mount Everest. There were like old ladies hiking Mount Everest, but we did it.

Speaker 4 People were running up and down it.

Speaker 1 People were running up and down it. We're going to have a whole video next week sometime, the Mount Everest equivalent climb.
But yeah, that's maybe the week after.

Speaker 1 Bat Girls giving me the no, no, no, no, no, because it is going to be probably the hardest video to ever edit because we just walked in circles around a mountain and called it Mount Everest equivalent.

Speaker 2 Let's just put it out today. Let's put it out Friday.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, that's perfect.

Speaker 2 If the video is not out Friday,

Speaker 2 tweet at Batgirl. He's at PhillyMays on Twitter and be like, hey, when's the Mount Everest video coming out?

Speaker 4 We'll put a short, tiny clip in the YouTube video.

Speaker 1 Yeah, okay, yeah, perfect. But we did it.
We did it. You were listening.
There's no other podcast. I'll add another.

Speaker 1 There's no other podcast that is anti-Nazi and also climbed Mount Everest equivalent.

Speaker 2 For sure. No chance.

Speaker 1 So.

Speaker 2 Because any other podcast that has climbed Mount Everest is probably Nazis.

Speaker 1 For sure.

Speaker 1 So grit week. This is a finale.
Grit week. What a week it was.

Speaker 2 I had a blast with the boys. I really did.
This has been one of my favorite grit weeks of all time. We've experienced a lot of things together.
We've gone through some shit.

Speaker 2 We've experienced a little adversity. Yep.
A lot of happy times. Got some things done that maybe we didn't think we were going to be able to get done this week.

Speaker 1 Every day was, we did so much. It felt like there was just a ton.
Every day was jam-packed. We went for the hike with the boys.
We went out to dinner. We went to a bar last night.

Speaker 1 Little Sundown Saloon. Shout out the Sundown Saloon.
Probably the greatest dive bar in Colorado.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I wish there were SIGs inside there, but that's a small complaint. Yep.
Billy did some food challenges. Yeah.
Jake really showed out.

Speaker 2 Jake, wait for some of the videos that come out because Jake is

Speaker 2 an alpha mode. He's alpha plus.

Speaker 4 We've filmed a lot of stuff that's going to be coming out, which is good. It's a grit week.
And then you're also, you know, the AWS will get the

Speaker 4 runoff.

Speaker 2 Yeah, the runoff that's coming, too, that we haven't announced that's coming as a runoff of Grit Week as as well and and bat girl had a great week great first week on the road with us producing memes i'd be looking over my shoulder bat girl is uh he had a great week yeah really good week memes yeah well they are a team they are a team really good week um also shout out the guy uh the awo who gave us mushrooms yeah because those were great that was nice like like like we said we've we were given all kinds of drugs in our meet and greet i took viagra yesterday before i went to broncos training camp because i was told it would help with the altitude yeah and then pft mysteriously went to the bathroom for like 15 minutes.

Speaker 2 Like, uh-oh. It's called taking a shit.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It's also jerking.

Speaker 4 Yeah, yeah. After being like sitting on the bus was getting me really

Speaker 1 like I hit a rumble. We hit a rumble strip and I got real horny.
Well, it just chubbed up a little bit.

Speaker 2 And it doesn't make you horny. It just makes you, it redirects blood.

Speaker 4 You were bricked up watching Russell Wilson practice.

Speaker 2 I was bricked up. Well, he's got that cake.
Russell Wilson, that's one thing we learned at Broncos Training Camp. Guy's built like a dump truck.
He is. He is.

Speaker 1 He's got a fat ass. Saw John Elway stretching.
John Elway. Broncos Camp was so boring, by the way.

Speaker 1 We went to the most boring day. No, they said it to us.
Like, thank you to the Broncos because it was incredible. They had us out there.

Speaker 1 But they were like, yeah, you guys came kind of on the worst day because we're just doing no pads, like, you know,

Speaker 1 half speed scrimmage, not even a scrimmage. So, but it was cool to be out there.

Speaker 2 It was great. Condoleezza Rice was out there with the new ownership group.
So Nathaniel Hackett, he was looking over his shoulder being like, oh, head coach in waiting's here. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I think Peyton Manning was at practice as well. We believe.
We believe. Yeah.
It was a big day for the Broncos. It was cool to be out there.
Thank you again to the Broncos.

Speaker 2 They really helped us out a lot, rolled out the red carpet, made us feel welcome there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Nathaniel Hackett was coming up, but it was a great interview. Guy that I don't know how you can't root for this guy.

Speaker 2 Russell Wilson didn't miss a pass the entire time, although he was just throwing against the music. No, one interception.
One interception. Yeah, one interception.
Jerry Judy's face mask.

Speaker 1 Every pass that Russell Wilson threw ended in a touchdown.

Speaker 2 No balls hit the ground.

Speaker 2 I think it was taken directly out of his face mask from Jerry Judy.

Speaker 8 He made the defensive coordinator puke.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's right. Also, we had Russell Wilson after practice was over.
Everyone got off the field. Russell Wilson was the last guy on there doing some mental reps.

Speaker 1 So Broncos country, you guys are ready to roll.

Speaker 2 Next level.

Speaker 2 Next level mental reps. We saw our good friend Graham Glasgow there.

Speaker 2 He's a grit week veteran, right? Yeah. I feel like that's when we talked about

Speaker 1 TJ Lee.

Speaker 1 It all goes together.

Speaker 2 Yes, we saw him, saw Russ.

Speaker 2 Russ walked by. noticed big cat went over to him gave him a big hug

Speaker 2 and said hey badger to badger let's get this let's ride yeah let's ride.

Speaker 1 Anything else? I mean, it was a great week.

Speaker 1 We worked a lot, but last night we got to go

Speaker 1 to the dive bar, play some darts, play some shuffleboard, maybe have some mushrooms in our brains.

Speaker 2 It was great. Yeah, it was an awesome win in Rome.

Speaker 1 Torchies fucked me and Hank up bad because

Speaker 1 we showed up to Torchies and we thought it was a sit-down restaurant. And then Hank and I just spent like 15 minutes giggling in line trying to figure out what to order.
I ordered seven tacos.

Speaker 1 The guy behind the counter was like, I think, I think you've ordered enough. Like, he said that to me.
He was like, you, I think you're good. I was like, I don't know, man, seven?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I just went down the line.

Speaker 2 As a torchies veteran, I ordered off the secret menu. I got the Ace of Spades taco.
Highly recommend.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 2 But I ordered it and the lady stared at me like, we don't sell that taco here. And she looked at me like I was crazy.
And for a second, I was like, oh, yeah, you were on mushrooms.

Speaker 2 Maybe, maybe this might be your brain misdirecting you. Yes.
It was her first day on the job. So she didn't know about the the secret menu.
Had to educate the people.

Speaker 1 Yes. Okay.

Speaker 1 Any other grit week highlights? I mean, there's not a lot going on in the sports world. We got football games tonight.
Obviously, the news, Tom Brady has left Bucks Camp for like a week and a half.

Speaker 1 Seems like it's somewhat serious. So going to just hope that everything's okay.

Speaker 2 He's coming back after the second preseason game. Kyle Shanahan is getting into some hat beef with the NFL right now.

Speaker 2 And we're big fans of Kyle Shanahan's hats with the logos that get smaller and smaller every year in those little squares. So he said, I have such a beef with them right now.

Speaker 2 They won't let me pick out my own hat. They won't let me wear anyone that's from a previous year.
So I can't wear like an older one. I've got to wear the new ones that they give this year.

Speaker 2 Unfortunately, there's none that I like wearing. So hopefully, we can figure it out or wait till a salute to service.
I guess he likes that hat.

Speaker 1 That's weird. They're policing hats.

Speaker 2 They're policing coaches' hats on the sidelines.

Speaker 1 This might be a Goodell thing where he's going to police it, and then next year he's going to be like, everyone can wear whatever they want. Yeah, for sure.
The fun is back in the NFL.

Speaker 2 Kyle Shanahan suspended for six games for wearing the wrong hat.

Speaker 2 Coaches should be allowed to wear helmets on the side. Full pads.

Speaker 2 Or just, I was actually thinking he could have a video hat that has that tiny little square on it that says 49ers and have it just bounce around like the DVD logo.

Speaker 2 And when they score, it hits the corner. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then it breaks when he's in a playoff game in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 2 It just shuts down.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's just like his brain is just broken. Also, Deshaun Watson is starting preseason game one.
That's kind of awkward.

Speaker 1 I would say. Weird.
That is.

Speaker 1 I don't know. Yeah.

Speaker 2 What kind of reception do you think he's going to get?

Speaker 1 Is it in Cleveland? The first game?

Speaker 2 I don't. Let's just say if it's in Cleveland, he'll be warmly receptive.

Speaker 1 Oh, if he's going to get booed. Here's the nice thing about, though, Cleveland, because they have the dog pound, you could be like, oh, they're actually barking for me.

Speaker 1 Like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Speaker 2 Yeah. So if he's in Jacksonville, it would be very awkward if he got

Speaker 2 a hamstring sprint or a tear during the game. Somebody had to come out and actually massage his leg.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's where we need the chair. Yeah.
The sideline. Not the electric chair.

Speaker 1 Maybe, but no, but the actual massage chair. He needs to go to...

Speaker 1 Actually, if Deshaun Watson were smart, he would get a sharper image

Speaker 1 ad deal.

Speaker 2 Hi, hi. I'm Deshaun Watson.
I'm here for Brookstone.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I just like to sit in the chairs. They're robots, not humans.

Speaker 1 Okay, I think that's... I think we should we do Fire Fest real quick? Let's do it.
Let's do it. All right, Hank, why don't you start us off?

Speaker 2 Let's get it.

Speaker 4 My Firefest, we kind of alluded to it. We were at the dive bar.
We were playing darts. It was me and Batgirl versus PFT and Cacob.

Speaker 4 And I'm not a great darts player. I know that.

Speaker 4 I wasn't playing well. I wasn't really talking a lot of shit.

Speaker 4 And

Speaker 4 Batgirl said there's a 0% chance we lose this because PFT could barely hit the board. We had an early lead.

Speaker 2 That's just not true.

Speaker 4 And Batgirl's like, 0% chance we loses.

Speaker 4 Then...

Speaker 4 And again, I never said I was good. I never actively, I'm not touching the mic.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Touching the mic makes it. I'm just saying that's a good thing.

Speaker 4 That's a good idea. That's a difference on the mic.

Speaker 4 Anyway,

Speaker 4 Batgirl says 0% chance we lose. Jake's throwing.
He's got an unusual throwing motion, to say the least. Throws it like a baseball.
But I was watching it, and I was like,

Speaker 4 I was throwing it bad, and I was like,

Speaker 4 I can't watch this and not try it myself. Jake just turned that into bulletin board material, and like they came back and won, and he started screaming.
Like, we're in a die bar, casual, having fun.

Speaker 4 Yeah, great jukebox, old school jukebox.

Speaker 1 He screaming at me, like, you can't watch this? You can't watch this?

Speaker 1 He picked the one. He was screaming.
Oh, there was some screaming.

Speaker 2 It was an interesting dichotomy because we had like John Prine on the jukebox. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then Angels of Montgomery was going, and you were just

Speaker 1 full of mushrooms and you're screaming in your face, Hank.

Speaker 2 Which was, it was warranted because Hank is glossing over a lot of the parts where he was talking a lot of shit. And Hank, I started to make points once I understood what the rules of the game were.

Speaker 2 You fucked up by explaining the rules to me. You should have just let me go on my merry way because I thought we were playing like his way that they were playing on their, on their dartboard.

Speaker 2 But yeah, me and Jake, we just, it was a comeback for the ages. It was like 28 to 3.

Speaker 1 So what's the Firefest?

Speaker 4 The Fire Fest was that, you know, we were just having some fun on some mushrooms, and then I got Jake Marsh screaming in my face

Speaker 4 after a guarantee from Batgirl. It was tough.
It was tough to swallow. Very tough.
And it's just not, that's like kind of, it's just the vibe, not the vibe you're going for.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Killed the vibe.

Speaker 8 I was like, killed the vibe. Yeah, you killed the vibe by coming back to the fire.

Speaker 1 No, you killed the vibe. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Well, screaming in my face. Yeah.

Speaker 4 I wasn't talking shit.

Speaker 2 I enjoyed the vibe.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Strong vibes.

Speaker 1 This is good. I like the end of Grit Week because it's like,

Speaker 1 you know, it's been a great week. It's been a lot of fun.
But I think we're also all ready to just go sit in our own apartment for a minute and just be like decompressed for a second.

Speaker 2 I'm fine with it. I'm enjoying Big Cat's company.

Speaker 1 I'm enjoying all companies. I enjoy everyone's company.

Speaker 2 I think it's really just Jake and Hank

Speaker 1 that are buttonheads. We're fine.

Speaker 8 I'm fine if you're fine, Hank.

Speaker 1 I'm great.

Speaker 2 No, you just made it your fire fast. I don't know.

Speaker 1 You guys are having a great-off?

Speaker 2 Who's better? Who's greater? Yeah.

Speaker 4 Jake's better. Yeah.

Speaker 1 He's the best. Okay.
He's in the bus. Best in the office yeah best in the bus okay yeah he didn't deny that

Speaker 2 all right pft your fire fest okay this is kind of a group fire fest for us because i just got this information a second ago um so we haven't discussed it yet on the podcast but Part of my take was slated to do a live show in New York City at the Beacon Theater in November.

Speaker 2 It was going to be for the New York City Comedy Festival. We were very excited to do it.
It was going to be a massive show. Uh-oh.

Speaker 2 And I just got information that that date has been pulled from us because James Dolan owns the Beacon Theater. Oh, and we are the fucking bad boys of podcasting.

Speaker 2 We're banned from the Beacon Theater because of James Dolan. Okay, so we to Trust.

Speaker 1 That's great. Yeah,

Speaker 1 that's great. Cheers.
We all have to do it.

Speaker 2 Well, no, we're looking at other venues right now.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but cheers. Right.

Speaker 1 As of right now, that weekend, that Saturday night has opened up.

Speaker 2 But we're banned.

Speaker 1 We're banned from the Beacon Theater.

Speaker 2 That's actually great.

Speaker 1 We're so happy. We don't see your eyes.
We'll do because

Speaker 1 I thought you were going to be like, we have to do it. What was the date?

Speaker 2 November something. Well, November, what?

Speaker 1 Give me the date.

Speaker 1 Give me the date.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, I'm listening.

Speaker 1 I want to see you. Watch in your eyes.
You're like, oh, my God. Yeah, I mean, I've always said that if we could just invent a thing that just makes November 12th.

Speaker 8 Oh, God.

Speaker 1 What? It's my cousin's wedding. Oh, wow.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 So Jake's not going to be there.

Speaker 2 So.

Speaker 1 Neither are we.

Speaker 1 We don't know why we got banned technically.

Speaker 2 We've said a lot of things about James.

Speaker 1 I mean, we have an employee that hisses at him.

Speaker 2 I've been kicked out and arrested

Speaker 1 at the dog show.

Speaker 2 I think it might have to do maybe with the dog show that we got arrested at, Hank.

Speaker 4 Or the Fire Dolan shows. Yeah, Fire Dolan shows.
We've shared countless blogs.

Speaker 2 Yeah, but for

Speaker 2 whatever reasons. We've made a very powerful, hilarious enemy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, Alabama at Ole Miss.

Speaker 1 Texas A ⁇ M at Auburn. LSU at Arkansas is going to be a great game.
Yeah. Wisconsin, Iowa, that'll probably be at noon.
Definitely will be at noon. Nebraska, Michigan.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, I mean, that's, I'm okay with it.

Speaker 2 We're looking at new venues right now. So there are a couple that want us to perform there

Speaker 2 during that weekend. So

Speaker 2 we'll try to set something up, but

Speaker 2 the good news is it gives us great street cred right now.

Speaker 1 Yes. Yeah, we're from Charles Oakland.
Yeah, yeah, but we got banned. Yep.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 Next time I see him, next time I see him, it's on site. I'm slapping James Dillon.
I'm slapping the kazoo out of his mouth.

Speaker 1 Oh, shucks.

Speaker 1 We should rent out Madison Square Garden. Can we just rent it out just for ourselves and not even do a show?

Speaker 2 Not anymore.

Speaker 1 There's a price for everything.

Speaker 2 I wonder what his price is. Yeah.

Speaker 1 We get paid a lot in board apes. Let's give him all of our board apes.
Give him my.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.
And I'll toss in three Slurp juices.

Speaker 1 I'll put in some Ask Coin.

Speaker 2 I'll match. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And some cum rocket.

Speaker 1 Okay. My Firefest.
I told you guys this when we were out just playing a little frisbee golf, which is some videos coming in probably a month.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 we were at the hotel. We stayed at the same hotel in Boulder two nights.
And

Speaker 1 the person who was working the little cafe,

Speaker 1 I went to get my coffee on Tuesday. And she made my coffee.
And then she was like,

Speaker 1 I'm putting up this sign.

Speaker 2 I got to go to the potty.

Speaker 1 And it's been in my head since. And I don't, like, another adult,

Speaker 1 an adult telling another adult I have to go use the potty is the most cringe-worthy. Like, I can't get out of my head.
She said that to me.

Speaker 2 She has to be a part-time kindergarten teacher.

Speaker 1 I was just like, Are you? I was looking around, like, who is like your little kid here or something? Like, who says, I have to go. She said it twice, too.
She's like, I got to go to the potty to me.

Speaker 1 And then she was walking away and said it to one of her co-workers, like, going to use the potty. I was like, what's going on here? Maybe that's Colorado slang.

Speaker 2 Maybe that's what they said. What was the coworker's reaction? Was a coworker like cringing from it?

Speaker 1 no i think the co-workers i think i think she says all the time i think she's the potty girl yeah she just is like maybe she just got potty trained maybe like not too long ago either way it's both good and bad because i haven't got out of my head but it's good because that's a very minor fire fest that's how fun we how much fun we've had this week and uh just being with the boys and being on the road and having laughs and driving around so shout out reg by the way our bus driver reg has been killing it he's been he's been absolutely crushing it so yeah potty i that one's That one's going to stick with me.

Speaker 1 I don't know how to get that out of my head. I want to go back and just be like, did you mean to say that?

Speaker 4 Because you probably say it a lot, actually.

Speaker 1 I say it to my kids, yeah, but like, I would never say it to another adult. Never catch me saying potty.

Speaker 1 Okay, Billy, Firefest.

Speaker 2 My digestive system has been a wreck.

Speaker 2 Been doing a lot with it lately, with the food challenges. Not going to reveal what happened, but it's just been wrecking my system.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 a lot of volume, a lot of mass coming in, coming out. How's your butt doing?

Speaker 1 Terrible. Yeah.

Speaker 2 The butt's bad? Yeah. Like burning? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Do you think it has anything to do with all the cum in your belly?

Speaker 1 Sure.

Speaker 1 Come belly, Billy.

Speaker 1 Cumbelly football. Cumbelly.
Perfect. Perfect.

Speaker 2 There was one day where Billy was late getting to the bus because he was on the toilet, which would have been a great excuse for being late to the bus.

Speaker 2 But instead, right off the bat, Billy was like, this wasn't the time that we were supposed to all. Yeah, so I said.

Speaker 2 Like, if you had just just said, I was shitting out the results of the last food challenge that I did, I think that's the thing.

Speaker 2 No, because the thing was, I was pissed because I was hurrying my shit because I would have taken longer.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 2 And I was like, well, I got till 8:45. So, like, I got to get it done, got to get it done.
And then I rushed it and, you know, wasn't doing well, then got on the bus and

Speaker 2 I ate by 8:43.

Speaker 1 It was very, it was a very Billy moment because he got on the bus at 8:45. We were all on the bus.
We had said the night before, we were like, let's meet at 8:45. Actually, let's meet at 8:30.

Speaker 1 And we said 8:30. All of us were here at 8:30.
And he's like, That's not what was said, even though everyone was here. He still thinks it was said, He still thinks we were all wrong.
He was right.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I mean, just say that you were sure.

Speaker 1 We had that talk on the mountain. We had the talk on the mountain.
Like, sometimes taking little L's is not a big deal. Yes, yeah.
Also, just being like, I was 15 minutes late. We didn't even care.

Speaker 1 It was just funny because you were like, You guys are wrong.

Speaker 2 I'm right. You know, I was in a shitty mood.

Speaker 1 Yeah, literally. Yeah.
Yes. Yes.

Speaker 2 And to Billy's credit, he was a beast on the mountain. Yes, he was.

Speaker 1 He was our first. That was going to be a good thing.
He was our,

Speaker 1 what is it called? The Sherpa. No.
The rabbit who leads the pack. The rabbit.
Yeah, yeah, for the marathon. Yeah, I would say.
Yeah, you were out there leading the pack.

Speaker 2 You were a Sherpa. You were Sherpa adjacent.
It was so... I can't wait till the video comes out to see some of these views because it was so beautiful.

Speaker 1 You had a great week, Billy.

Speaker 2 And Billy found a snake, too. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Actually, do I want to say he had a great week? Because then he probably...

Speaker 2 Probably going to take a couple weeks. What are the other grades of grit? It's like alpha plus standard grit.

Speaker 1 Billy, you did your job this week.

Speaker 2 I think you had standard grit this week.

Speaker 1 There's room for improvement, even though you were great.

Speaker 2 There's no way you cannot improve enough.

Speaker 1 Right. Nice.
Nice. I just don't want, you know, sometimes when we give compliments, there's a setback, but you did a great job this week.
I did it again. Fuck.

Speaker 2 You did a standard job this week.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Standard plus.

Speaker 2 No, you can't say thank you to you did your job.

Speaker 1 So you did your job.

Speaker 1 Yes. There we go.
All right, Jake, finish this off, and we're going to get to Nathaniel Hackett. Yeah, I have two quick ones.

Speaker 8 First off, I clogged the hotel toilet at midnight last night.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 8 I had to call and they brought up the plunger.

Speaker 1 Someone clogged my toilet, too. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, that happens all the time. So, wait, Jake,

Speaker 2 how much did you have to eat for dinner last night?

Speaker 2 I thought it was a pretty standard meal. Three tacos.

Speaker 8 I chipped myself to death.

Speaker 1 Thanks. Oh, dude, I was.
I was your name, whatever.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we were sitting there eating, and I...

Speaker 1 Like, the food just wasn't out there, and I had had two whole baskets of chips. Yeah.
And I was.

Speaker 8 And the tacos are big. Yes.

Speaker 1 I had seven of them. We ordered some.
No, I took a bite of every one.

Speaker 8 Yeah. So that was tough.

Speaker 1 I did.

Speaker 2 I over-ordered for our table as well. I think it got three separate things of chips and dips.

Speaker 1 And yeah, Jake House, though.

Speaker 8 I feel like hotel toilets are usually invincible.

Speaker 1 No. No.
Wrong. No.
Wrong. You don't shit hard enough.

Speaker 8 I've only clogged like twice in my life.

Speaker 1 Oh, dude.

Speaker 1 Again, someone clogs my toilet almost every time I go to a different hotel.

Speaker 2 Jake, do you use, when it gives you the two options of which one to push, do you always go for the small one?

Speaker 1 Not if you're peeing.

Speaker 8 Well, if you're pooping. Yeah, you got to do the big one.

Speaker 2 I even go big one when I'm peeing.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. Oh, really? Yeah, you always save a lot.

Speaker 1 You got to flush that out.

Speaker 8 Yeah, there's a lot in the environment, though.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's fucked anyways.

Speaker 1 We do our parts sometimes. Yeah, we hike.

Speaker 1 Yeah, exactly. That reduced greenhouse emissions by, I don't know, what is the measurement?

Speaker 1 Two carbon footprints? I think I nailed that.

Speaker 2 If we had driven a car up Mount Everest, it would have been a lot more.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 8 And then second, quickly, you guys mentioned Broncos camp. We were with the journalists yesterday, and I felt very uncomfortable because I was wearing basketball shorts.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, I knew we were like,

Speaker 2 the guy from the Broncos pulled us aside, and they were like, hey, what's the story with old? Like, does he have a pickup game later?

Speaker 1 I saw it.

Speaker 8 We were all in shorts, and I was like,

Speaker 1 there was a writer from the athletic, and they're like, he was, he was just like, wait, are you guys like, are you trying to play? Or what's going on here? Why the fuck is this guy here? I know.

Speaker 8 So, not very big Jamie, so I apologize.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was a little embarrassing, but

Speaker 1 you're still young.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 So you can use that excuse.

Speaker 1 it's your first training camp stop stop stop doing that with the wire hank you're stepping on my wire don't touch the mics you're stepping on my wire i'm absolutely not you why does it keep going tight that's

Speaker 1 yes you're stepping on my wire okay speaking of broncos camp let's go to nathaniel hackett so we're gonna go nathaniel hackett um

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Speaker 1 We now welcome on a very special guest. He is the head coach of the Denver Broncos.
It is Nathaniel Hackett. Nate or Nathaniel? Nathaniel.

Speaker 6 Well, either one's good. Okay.
If dad's around, you got to call me Nathaniel.

Speaker 1 Okay, all right. We'll just go with coach.
Let's go with coach.

Speaker 1 So it's grit week, and we start every interview the same way.

Speaker 1 How would you define the word grit?

Speaker 6 Ooh, I have a lot of things kind of go do them all. Brain dump.
You know, I remember my dad used true grit, so that's the first thing that hits me when he was at the Pitt Panthers.

Speaker 6 And they had this awesome shirt. And they had this whole thing.
And it was all true grit, true grit, and they sucked.

Speaker 1 So right when I hear grit, I'm like, ah, it's one of those words people try to use to spice you up.

Speaker 6 But no, I think it's, you know, something, it's about toughness. It's about toughness and perseverance.

Speaker 2 Yeah. I read that your dad was the director of special projects for the Oakland Raiders.

Speaker 6 He was at a time, yeah.

Speaker 2 That sounds like a, was he a spy? What is a special project?

Speaker 6 Well, that's a great question. Special projects is somebody that's very special, I like to think.

Speaker 6 They feel good about themselves and they just do random stuff. You know, they just, whatever somebody wants to do, they'll go ahead and do it.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean, your background is interesting because your dad obviously coached for 40 years, was at every level.

Speaker 1 You were around pros your whole life. I was.
And then, but you, you know, I was reading a story that you were. 50-50 going to be a doctor at one point.
Yes.

Speaker 1 And I actually have a question about that story. There was, they alluded to it at the beginning.

Speaker 1 They're like, you had a moment of clarity where you were doing a prank on everyone and you're and no one laughed.

Speaker 2 What was the prank?

Speaker 1 They didn't say the prank.

Speaker 6 You know, I

Speaker 6 we were doing some things with an animal to try to test it. And, you know, when you, when you get those, you know, those different arteries and veins, you kind of can squeeze them off.

Speaker 6 And, you know, if you turn one and let it go, it's like a super soaker, you know, and you can still keep it alive while you're working through everything. And I thought it would be funny.

Speaker 1 You know, spray everyone with the break. I mean, it was just a little, it was an experience.

Speaker 6 You know, it's one of those things you go through these labs and you got to learn so many things.

Speaker 6 And I mean, you got to write all these papers and you're just locked into all the notes and all the different things you're doing. And

Speaker 6 it's exhausting. And so, of course, my natural, you know, being is I want to have a little fun and try to spice it up a little bit.
And some people were upset at me for that.

Speaker 6 And, but in the end, it was, you know, all for science and something we were trying to do. And knew that my personality might not work in that world.

Speaker 1 I just love the story because it's like, how did you decide you wanted to be a football coach? Well, I sprayed blood on everyone and no one laughed. That's pretty much it.
And it wasn't a lot.

Speaker 1 It was just a little bit. It's like I slipped my hands.
It's a funny prank.

Speaker 6 It wasn't even a prank. I didn't know I was going to do it.
My hands started to kind of slip.

Speaker 1 And all of a sudden, it was like, oh, I was going to cover the blood stuff.

Speaker 1 Now we're going to be good.

Speaker 2 Yeah, there's not a lot of room in the medical community for practical jokers.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I don't think you want me doing surgery on that.

Speaker 1 But then you go from that and, you know,

Speaker 1 thinking about being a doctor, and you started at the bottom. Like, you, I would imagine you could have had all the connections in the world with your dad.
Yeah. But you.

Speaker 6 That was actually funny. I think my dad might not have really helped me.
I think a lot of people were pissed off at him because anytime you'd ask somebody, they're like, nope, we got nothing.

Speaker 6 We got nothing. I sent out.
30 letters to all kinds of different teams just trying to become a graduate assistant, just do anything I could.

Speaker 6 And I got, out of those 30, I got two responses back out of the 30 and both were no. Damn.
And I was like, oh, well, maybe, maybe I should go back to med school or something like that.

Speaker 6 And then ended up at the last second, a guy that had coached me at Davis had gotten a job at Stanford and allowed me to come in and interview with Buddy Tevens.

Speaker 6 And next thing I know, I'm right back in the mix and worked through there and all over the place.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you had a great journey of a lot of guys that we know, too. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And so you worked with John Gruden, right, at one point?

Speaker 6 I did.

Speaker 2 What was he like? Was he, I've heard from some people that he can be like a mentor if he likes you.

Speaker 2 And then if it's, you know, if you're still new on the job, your job is to get coffee and that's pretty much it. Where did you fall on that spectrum?

Speaker 6 You know, I think that the amount of football that John taught me while I was with him was unbelievable. I mean,

Speaker 6 he has a Ph.D. in football.
I mean, you put in a playbook and you've got every single play ever designed throughout the NFL. And he's so good.

Speaker 6 So the amount of football I learned there, so really was kind of, you know, put yourself in a room and draw as many pass plays as you possibly could to try to keep up with his mind.

Speaker 6 And that's really all I did. I just locked myself in the room and just tried to draw every single thing I could.
I think I drew like 16,000 passes I have archived in just two years.

Speaker 6 So it was quite intense.

Speaker 2 Did he use any of your plays?

Speaker 6 You know, one time he did. One time I remember,

Speaker 6 and it was pretty cool. It was versus the, we got it from the Pittsburgh Steelers, and it was a cool play, which a lot of people start running now.
Okay. Which is cool.

Speaker 1 It's an innovator. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I kind of stole it from somebody else and thought it was a good idea.

Speaker 6 It couldn't be too innovative. You had to be sure you had the tape to show them that they would like it.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's interesting because the day that we're here, we're at Broncos Training Camp, and it's a big day for the Broncos. It is.

Speaker 2 The Walton family just officially, I guess, finalized their purchase yesterday. So there are a lot of people here.
Condoleezza Rice is here. I think Peyton's here.
A bunch of people.

Speaker 2 So an easy question to start you off, get you in good graces. What is your favorite part about Walmart?

Speaker 6 You know, they just redid the Walmart that I grew up going to when I was a kid at New Hampshire.

Speaker 6 And I think it's one of those things, going in there and seeing how unbelievably huge it was, and now they got the grocery stores in it. Yeah.
I think that blew my mind. That was kind of me.

Speaker 6 It is a nice grocery store, too. And to be able to go one-stop shop, I think, is always great.
You can get a little bit of everything. You can get some peanuts.
You can get a movie.

Speaker 1 TV.

Speaker 6 I mean, anything you want, you're going to find there.

Speaker 1 Okay, so this interview's over. We actually, the Walden family paid us a million dollars to just check.

Speaker 2 If you said that you're more of a target guy, I was going to kill you.

Speaker 1 I have a gun.

Speaker 1 I'm pretty sure that wouldn't go over well

Speaker 6 if I was doing that.

Speaker 1 Everything I've read, like you, you know, everyone talks about your coaching style and that you love laughter and not taking everything so seriously.

Speaker 1 Has there ever been a moment, though, where you maybe were joking around too much and it was like, whoops, like that was, that didn't, should have, should have been more serious in this moment.

Speaker 1 Because I love it. Like, you know, we interview football guys all the time.
A lot of them are buttoned up, you know, don't want to show any personality. Feels like you're kind of the opposite.

Speaker 6 I mean, I don't know. I'm just going to be me.
You know, I think that that's kind of what it comes down to.

Speaker 6 And, you know, I've always gone with the philosophy that when you're, you know, when you're positive, when you are the way that you are, when all of a sudden you're pissed pissed off at something it it they feel that a little more so it's not you know if you're angry all the time sometimes they don't know if you're mad and if they like if you're being nice they they don't know if like what's going on something's really wrong yeah so uh you know i just think it you know i mean i've naturally been a positive guy happy to be alive happy to be doing football and you know hey in the end you know if things aren't going right you got to hold people accountable and as long as you can speak that i love those uncomfortable moments you know i think those are always the best yeah i embrace those things when other people sometimes whether they shy away from it or don't like it.

Speaker 6 But I mean, in the end, it's about communication, accountability, and having a great time doing it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Can I ask you an uncomfortable question?

Speaker 6 Oh, it depends right now. Okay, so I mean, if I get a hint,

Speaker 1 I look embraced myself.

Speaker 1 I love that.

Speaker 6 I've had some really weird things.

Speaker 1 I look where

Speaker 2 you've been. Okay.
You've had a lot of success. Okay.

Speaker 2 You know, you've coached. You've coached some great quarterbacks.
Yep.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 2 DJ Manuel. Would you say, what would you say to all the people? Because there are a lot of them out there that said, hey, you just rode Blake Portal's coattails coattails to that AFC channel.
I did.

Speaker 6 Without a doubt. Without a doubt.
That's my dude.

Speaker 6 That is my dude. You know, he's a grinder, toughest.
I mean, smart guy. I had a blast working with him.

Speaker 2 Blake is, he is the man. He's one of our favorite people in the world.

Speaker 1 And you brought him into Green Bay. That's right.
Yeah, he's fine.

Speaker 2 So was Aaron like looking over his shoulder when Blake's like, hey, why are you bringing this guy in to take my job?

Speaker 6 We were just so excited to have him in the room. You know how Blake is.
When he all of a sudden gets in the room, it brightens it up even more.

Speaker 1 Would you like, so I told you before that I texted Blake and said that we're going to be interviewing you. Would you like me to read the text message he sent back?

Speaker 1 So he said he sent two text messages.

Speaker 6 This could be very exciting.

Speaker 1 One is great and the other is you never expect the other one.

Speaker 1 This is very blake.

Speaker 1 Yeah, this is very brief. So he said the first message was, what a legend.
He's my hero. Yes.
Okay. Yes.
The second message was.

Speaker 2 One time his youngest son told me I had a big wiener.

Speaker 1 Top three compliments of my life.

Speaker 6 That was one of the greatest moments I would say of my life also.

Speaker 1 And it was so blake.

Speaker 6 Well, the great thing was it was so simple.

Speaker 1 It was so beautiful.

Speaker 6 Well, it was, it was, here comes my, you know, when you're out there and you got the family tents, right? And the kids are so excited to come out.

Speaker 6 I mean, I remember as a kid growing up when dad was done coaching, you know, you just want to go hug dad and see dad. And so, you know, my kids were there and they were so excited.

Speaker 6 And they know Blake really well. And they, and they love, they love Blake.
And my, you know, my kid at that time, you know, he was like perfect, you know, height for

Speaker 1 trotch height.

Speaker 6 And so he sees Blake and he just, I mean, we're talking full head of steam, just running and running.

Speaker 1 And Blake's like, oh God, what do I do?

Speaker 6 And kind of like was right here. And he just runs right into his

Speaker 1 happy spot.

Speaker 6 And it was just, it was like a bounce off and just this innocent, just, just, wow, you have a huge baby.

Speaker 6 And, and Blake, and Blake's like, you are my favorite person in the world.

Speaker 1 Thank you. You know,

Speaker 1 remember this. I mean, oh, how do you forget something like that?

Speaker 6 I mean, it was absolutely fantastic.

Speaker 1 Because it was just totally instant off.

Speaker 6 Blake's got his helmet. Oh, what do I do?

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 6 it was that awkward moment.

Speaker 1 And everybody's just like, that's beautiful. Yeah, no, that was a great, that was a great moment of top three moment of his life.

Speaker 6 I would say that that was pretty spectacular to be part of. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So Blake, like, he is, we love him. He is one of our like OG guests guys.
Like, he's one of those guys we really care for.

Speaker 1 Like,

Speaker 1 when you first were around him, you're like, this guy is just cool because he is. He's a dude, man.

Speaker 6 Yeah. He's a dude.
I mean, he's one of those guys that, you know, it's funny. He doesn't say much, but I mean, he's just going to grind it out.
He's going to do everything he can.

Speaker 6 You know, he's going to try his hardest. You know, the toughest guy, I mean, he took some shots those years just watching him over and over.
And I mean, he wouldn't miss practice.

Speaker 6 He wouldn't miss, I mean, no matter what happened, I mean, that was the stuff that I had so much respect for him just throughout that whole process. I mean, he was great.

Speaker 1 So you have a lot of respect for him. You don't want to sign him? I mean, what's going on?

Speaker 6 Last I heard, I think he might have called it.

Speaker 1 No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 This is my problem because we were talking to LaFleur last week when we were in Green Bay, and he was like, oh, I miss Blake. It's like, you have the ability to change that.

Speaker 6 That is true.

Speaker 1 That is true. Right here, right now.

Speaker 1 Nathaniel Hackett, will you sign Blake Portals?

Speaker 6 You know, I think I need to have a conversation with him and the general manager and the new owners. You know, we can't get crazy here.

Speaker 1 He promises he won't give everyone COVID this time like he did last time he's on the Broadcast. It happens.
It happens.

Speaker 1 Yeah, all right. We're gonna, I think, I'm gonna hold you to that.
I mean, I was a guarantee.

Speaker 2 What better way to dramatically increase the value of your franchise right off the bat than if you signed Blake Borders? I mean, he's the best.

Speaker 6 Yeah. He's the best.
You got to love the boat. He is the boat.

Speaker 2 What about Doug Marone? He's another one of our guys. I don't know what your relationship is like with him now.
I know there was like a falling out at some point, but you were with him.

Speaker 2 You were with him for a long time.

Speaker 1 Long time.

Speaker 2 And he is, he's, the rumors are true about the amount of bologna that he consumes.

Speaker 6 Oh, he definitely can eat a lot of bologna.

Speaker 2 Did Did he try to force it on you? Because when he came to our studio, he brought probably conservatively like $300 worth of bologna and made us eat it with him. But he's a great dude and we love him.

Speaker 6 No doubt. And he definitely would talk about, hey, I'm going to go home and eat a bologna sandwich.

Speaker 6 And it's one of those things, at first, you weren't sure if, you know, because not a lot of people eat bologna.

Speaker 6 But then after getting to know him, after all those years, yep, he's going to go have a bologna sandwich and he's going to enjoy the heck out of it. Yeah, that's where it is.

Speaker 1 Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 2 Those Jags teams, man, I'm still upset about that AFC championship guy.

Speaker 1 Oh, gosh. Okay, that hurt.

Speaker 6 Why are we bringing it up?

Speaker 2 Because it pisses me off, because the Jaguars should have been in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 You guys beat the Patriots that you.

Speaker 6 I mean, you know,

Speaker 6 that's how it goes. You know, that's how the game goes.
You can control what you can control, and we still had an opportunity at the end there.

Speaker 6 But yeah, that one, I'll always go back. You know, I thought the guys played so well that whole year.
I mean, especially when you go into a season and nobody expects you to do anything.

Speaker 6 I mean, nobody thinks you're going to be good. And then you're one of the best offenses in the league.
You're number one in rushing.

Speaker 6 I mean, the way those guys came together and then, you know, going into that game and everybody, you know, after the Pittsburgh game, you know, how well they all played.

Speaker 6 And then you get into a game like that and you're rolling. I mean, you're playing with the Patriots and the guys are feeling good.
And then you blink and

Speaker 6 forever reason, whatever reason, it's all of a sudden you're in two minutes.

Speaker 1 Trying to go. I mean,

Speaker 6 that was very unique and unique situation. But hey, that's what happens.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So, all right, so you've coached a ton of different quarterbacks. Let's take Blake out of it because we love Blake and he's going to be a future Bronco.

Speaker 1 All the quarterbacks that you've coached, including Russ, who's the best?

Speaker 6 Oh, you know, they're all so great for so many different reasons. Right, but Russ, if you were to say one person, I would sit here and I'm just so grateful to be coaching everybody.

Speaker 1 You know, like you could say Russ. I'm giving you an easy out.

Speaker 6 I would say Russ and everybody.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Russ and Russia.

Speaker 1 Aaron Rodgers three.

Speaker 2 So number one, you said Russ, number two, everybody.

Speaker 1 Yeah, okay. Okay, Russ and Russia.
So it's like Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 6 There's like one A and then one A and then one A.

Speaker 1 But who's the first A is the first?

Speaker 6 Well, it depends because if you close your eyes, you can shuffle them around. They're all the same, but they're all A's.

Speaker 1 So there's one A and then there's one A R O A and then you add another A. Fat Lewis and Raymond Rodgers in the same conversation.
All of them. Yeah.
Just the best I've ever heard.

Speaker 1 They're all amazing.

Speaker 2 I was personally blown away with Russell Wilson's performance today at practice. Just like

Speaker 2 100%. Dimes.
I think he was off. What did we say, Jake? He was like 21 for 22 with 20 touchdowns.
It was pretty good.

Speaker 6 It was unreal.

Speaker 2 It's pretty best performance I've ever seen.

Speaker 6 We'd like to try to build people's confidence up here.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I've heard about his mental reps that he's been taking.

Speaker 1 And they're

Speaker 2 next level mental reps. Do you know what goes in? Like, what makes a mental rep a next-level mental rep?

Speaker 6 When it's super thought about and it's like super mental.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 2 So extra mental. So he's like putting himself into his own virtual reality and he visualizes

Speaker 2 like every fan in the stands has a unique face to him. Yeah.
He hears the play call. Yeah.
He looks around, sees protection. Is he really that?

Speaker 6 He engaged to somebody over on the side. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Is he really that fastidious? That's a nice SAT word.

Speaker 1 Wow. Is he really that?

Speaker 6 What does that mean?

Speaker 1 Detail-oriented.

Speaker 2 Is that really a word?

Speaker 2 Is he really that much more detail-oriented than other quarterbacks?

Speaker 6 I would say, you know, you always heard about how into

Speaker 6 the game he is and how he's obsessed with the process and he's obsessed with practice and all those things. And, you know, you hear that.
Everybody always says those things.

Speaker 6 But now being around him, I mean, it's facts. I mean, the guy is non-stop.
I mean, you can get a text message anytime

Speaker 6 during the day, during the night, and he's got an idea or he wants to do something to try to push the guys over the limit. So, I mean,

Speaker 6 he is definitely obsessed with the process.

Speaker 2 What's he like on text? Is he an emoji guy?

Speaker 6 Is he like emphasizes everything that he emphasizes all of his own messages? It is a great mix-up because, you know, you'll get a little voice, then you'll get a text, then you'll get some emojis.

Speaker 6 You know, it's a real good mix.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I like it. How many deep shots a game are we going for? Oh, is that something? Because we think about the sport a lot differently, obviously, than coaches.
You just want the ball down the field.

Speaker 1 You're like, dude, take a shot. Take a shot.
Yeah, like Lois, take a shot. Usually it's when I have the over.
But is there a number, though, that you're like, we want to take this many shots?

Speaker 6 You know, it's funny because after doing this as long as I have, my favorite thing is when everybody's like, oh, you're, you didn't take any shots down the field. Oh, that's so conservative.

Speaker 6 You know, and you're like, well, we called like 15 shots and the defense took it away. You don't want the guy just to throw the ball to throw the ball down the field.
No, I do.

Speaker 6 You want him to make him.

Speaker 1 It depends if you have the over or who you've got. I want to get shot.

Speaker 6 But so for us, we're always wanting to be aggressive. We're always trying to make those explosive plays.
Those are the things that get people in the stands. That's what they're excited about.

Speaker 6 So I think that, you know, you're always trying to be aggressive and sometimes they work and you get what you want. And then the quarterback has to be efficient.

Speaker 6 And sometimes you check it down to a halfback or a tight end or something like that. But, I mean, we're always going to be very aggressive.

Speaker 1 Okay, I like that.

Speaker 2 The shots all the time.

Speaker 1 Shots all the time. Everybody.
I I got a very important question. This is going to kind of decide the rest of this interview.
Okay, good. I've read a lot about

Speaker 1 you love Austin Powers so much so that you call the red zone the gold zone for a gold member

Speaker 1 It's not that good of a movie. Like

Speaker 1 yeah, like see is

Speaker 1 me saying that is that offensive like are you that obsessed with the movie because you know the content of this whole thing you know where I am with this movie.

Speaker 6 But

Speaker 6 yes, I think it's a spectacular movie.

Speaker 6 Because it's it's just it's a little bizarre to be like that's my favorite movie i'm not gonna say it's my favorite movie because we need the red zone after i'm a bit well yeah because everybody talks about third down third down is the money down yeah right so you get you know third down is the money down you got to keep the drive going well why does everybody call it the red zone i guess that makes sense why would i want to make more sense why would i want to stop yeah i mean that i mean you can call it the green zone but everybody uses that for third down and if we're talking about money i don't want

Speaker 1 i mean touchdowns give you gold. I mean, you feel like see that?

Speaker 6 And then who, and here you go, who loves gold more than anything?

Speaker 1 Gold member. Gold member.
Yeah. I knew that answer.
We're there. So now you see where it happens.
How many times have you seen it?

Speaker 6 A solid amount of times.

Speaker 6 How many times?

Speaker 1 You know, I'd say

Speaker 6 about 10, 12 times.

Speaker 1 Okay, that's not all the way through. If you were going to say like over 30, I'd have been like, dude.
Yeah, I'm not going to go there.

Speaker 6 That's reserved for Star Wars.

Speaker 1 Star Wars, definitely. So you've never seen Star Wars.

Speaker 6 Yes, I am. Very much so.

Speaker 1 Very much. Spoil it for us.
We've never seen it. Excuse me? We've never seen Star Wars.
Spoil it. No.
All right, I got to go. This is really cool.

Speaker 1 Spoil it for us. Tell us about Starbucks.
Okay.

Speaker 10 What happened to Spock Die? Yeah.

Speaker 6 Okay.

Speaker 1 Totally uncalled for. Not cool.

Speaker 6 Yes, it's very good. I recommend it highly.

Speaker 1 Okay. All right.
Star Wars books are good, too. All of them.
Yes.

Speaker 2 What about the diamond zone? Have you thought about a diamond zone? That's even more valuable than gold. Wow.
Did I just completely ruin your whole system? The blood

Speaker 1 got the gold membership.

Speaker 6 But

Speaker 6 I think we can think about that. That's like the two-yard line.
I think diamonds, we got to find somebody that likes diamonds. Yeah.
Leonardo DiCaprio.

Speaker 1 That was a really good movie.

Speaker 6 I mean,

Speaker 6 you'd have to work with me on that one.

Speaker 2 Diamonds of Sierra Leone, right? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Blood Diamond. Blood Diamond.

Speaker 1 Steeds. Yeah, Blood Diamond.
Not Blood Diamond.

Speaker 2 Yeah, probably not that one.

Speaker 6 Well, I mean, they really liked diamonds. Yes.

Speaker 1 That was the

Speaker 6 first thing that came to my head.

Speaker 2 Why don't you have a fullback?

Speaker 1 It's kind of fucked up. Good question.
We do. Do you?

Speaker 6 oh i was misinformed bad question on my beard depends what your definition of a fullback

Speaker 6 you know my my definition is a fullback like do you have a fullback or do you have a fullback so when you stress the fullback do you mean like in 1980 when they would go in there and smash mouth people and it was crazy how many cowboy collars are in your locker room right now not a lot you know cowboy collars were really in i wore one not gonna lie i wore a cowboy collar but for whatever whatever happened i thought it was really cool i felt like i looked like darth vader a little bit and uh it's totally totally gone away.

Speaker 6 Totally over my head. No, don't worry about it.
You guys, maybe when you watch something, you might know.

Speaker 1 He's a little robot.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the little guy

Speaker 1 went on with the gold guy.

Speaker 2 He's like, wait up for me.

Speaker 1 I'm like, awesome, fun guy. Yes.
I thought it was hilarious.

Speaker 2 But when you say fullback, you have H-backs or something like that.

Speaker 6 Definitely not H-backs. We definitely have somebody that we utilize in the fullback position.

Speaker 2 Okay. What does that mean? You're being very cryptic about your fullback.

Speaker 6 Because we don't want everybody to know what's going to happen. I mean, what are we trying to do? Give the answers to the test? Yeah.
Let everybody know what's going on?

Speaker 2 I get that. It's always like in training camp, coaches are like super paranoid and secretive.
And I get it. I totally understand it.

Speaker 2 But like, do you think sometimes some coaches are like way too guarded and are like, oh, we can't have anything?

Speaker 6 You know, I used to always think that.

Speaker 6 And then you get a couple little snippets of people that you know are actually looking into it, watching this interview, watching doing different things just to try to find to get any edge, any nugget.

Speaker 6 And at first, I didn't really care.

Speaker 1 That's great.

Speaker 6 Hey, we'll get, we'll get him with that. But I mean, in the end, it's, it's like, hey, if you don't have to say it, don't say it.

Speaker 1 Don't say it.

Speaker 6 It's kind of like my wife says, don't lie, just don't answer the question.

Speaker 1 Ooh, that's a good question.

Speaker 1 I wish I would have known that forever.

Speaker 1 It would have been so much better. Wait, so I have another roster question.
You have Melvin Gordon, Russell Wilson. I'm a Badger.
You have a lot of Badgers.

Speaker 1 Are you a little worried that your ceiling for your season is maybe an Outback Bowl win? Like, that's kind of the most we're going to get out of this.

Speaker 1 You know, I think that they're very, very good players. Okay, I'm just warning you.
Like, best case scenario, you lose in the Rose Bowl.

Speaker 6 Hey, I'll tell you, there's no Bowls in the NFL. So we're

Speaker 1 super bowl yeah pro bowl

Speaker 2 you probably don't haven't even thought about it super i never really looked at it from the super bowl compared to that that's bad that's the biggest one a little bit different that yeah i guess it would be for the professional level yeah when you were uh when you were going through the interview process here i have to imagine that anyone that's being interviewed in this division is asked a question along the lines of how are you going to stop patrick mahomes so what is What is your game plan to stop Patrick Mahomes?

Speaker 2 And feel free to lie about it because Andy Reid's probably listening.

Speaker 1 This direction. Yeah, he might be.
Yeah, Yeah, he might be.

Speaker 2 But were you asked that? Like, I know you're an offensive guy.

Speaker 6 You know, football stuff didn't get into it too much. You know, it's more about the person you are, how you're going to work with the team, how you're going to handle the team.

Speaker 6 I think that's kind of what most people are looking for because the X's and O's get so intricate from defense to offense. And I think, you know, a player like that, I mean, come on now.

Speaker 6 You can't stop a guy like that. I mean, it's, it's, there, he's so talented.

Speaker 6 He's so unbelievable that it's about containing him and doing whatever you can to score more points than him, which is, you know, what you're always looking to do.

Speaker 6 And, I mean, we want to try to get a lot of rushers to him. We want to make them feel uncomfortable.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Smart answer.
Score more points than him.

Speaker 6 Score more points. I feel like that was a really good answer.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's like very good.

Speaker 2 This is some next saber metrics.

Speaker 1 Hey, I'm just saying, it's the facts. Yeah.
So we looked up, you know, when you've come up in conversation on this podcast, and you broke my heart because I looked up.

Speaker 6 Well, you broke mine with the Star Wars comments.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Even? Yeah, even.
Well, let me explain it. So

Speaker 1 I looked it up. There was a podcast titled in February, Aaron Rodgers to Denver, Done Deal.

Speaker 1 And I want him out of Green Bank because you came here and he had that quote where he's like, I want to be with Nathaniel Hackett wherever he is.

Speaker 1 So that kind of sucked because you were like, you know, it felt like the tea leaves we were reading them like, oh, you go here.

Speaker 6 I like reading the tea leaves.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So that hurt me badly.

Speaker 6 Well, hey, we're very excited with what we're going on with right now.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You don't like Aaron Rodgers, right?

Speaker 6 Yeah, you know, he's, no, he's, he's wonderful. Oh, come on.

Speaker 1 You be on it. We'll turn off the cameras.

Speaker 3 Fucking asshole. I love him.

Speaker 1 Damn it. Damn it.
Damn it.

Speaker 2 Hypothetical situation. Big cat, maybe you can help me out with some of the finer points of this.
I might be misremembering some of the details.

Speaker 2 But we ask every head coach that gets their first head coaching job the same question just to kind of like gauge where they're at, if they're an aggressive guy, if they're a conservative guy, whatever the case may be.

Speaker 2 So if it's hypothetically, like fourth quarter, fourth quarter. Playoff game.
Playoff game. And you're down by

Speaker 2 eight points.

Speaker 2 That's right. Eight points.
And you have the ball

Speaker 1 on the eight-yard line.

Speaker 1 Fourth and goal. Fourth and goal from what happened.
There's two minutes.

Speaker 6 First and eighth, second, eight, and third and eight, and fourth and eight.

Speaker 2 Incompletion. You move the ball downfield, though, to the eight-yard line.

Speaker 6 Who potentially could be the quarterback?

Speaker 2 One of the best quarterbacks.

Speaker 1 A guy who threw three interceptions today, hypothetically.

Speaker 2 One of the best quarterbacks of all time.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 do you kick a field goal? And then you would give the other ball. Okay.
You would give the ball away to the best quarterback of all time.

Speaker 6 Okay, so

Speaker 6 there.

Speaker 6 Golly, I'm glad I haven't been in that situation.

Speaker 6 I wouldn't, I mean, you know, I wouldn't want to have to make that decision.

Speaker 1 Because we were, we talked to LaFor last week, and he was like, that was all hacket.

Speaker 1 So he said that you're the one who said, kick the field goal. We'll kick three field goals and we'll win this game.

Speaker 6 I'll let you know. I blacked out.
I didn't even know what was happening. You know, I'm pretty sure I fainted during that process.
I freaked out and I had no clue what was going on. And

Speaker 1 it was, you know,

Speaker 1 are you talking about the

Speaker 1 hypothetical? Hypothetical. Hypothetical.

Speaker 6 Okay, I'm just trying to get this, get this right in the head. Yeah, you know, know, I think I'd have to run it through the computers because I'm a nerd.
I know.

Speaker 6 And I'd want to go through the statistics on everything and make sure that you made the appropriate decision.

Speaker 2 I can distill it down real quick. Okay.

Speaker 2 What's more, three or eight? Three, eight.

Speaker 1 Take your time.

Speaker 1 You're a failed doctor.

Speaker 1 Eight points? Yeah, eight points. You got it.
Okay, so you're aggressive. I like that.
Smart guy.

Speaker 6 Eight points is good. Yes.

Speaker 2 Yes, I hear that. Yeah.
So failed doctor, do you ever.

Speaker 1 Very much.

Speaker 2 Do you ever like imagine to yourself, like, do you ever get the hankering to practice medicine? Or like, are you still interested in like science and that sort of thing?

Speaker 6 Sometimes, you know, I like going in the training room and taping ankles. Yeah.
You know, I think that just gets you, you know, closer with the guys and gets your fix.

Speaker 6 Sometimes I don't think that they know. You know, if a guy has a surgery, I'll sneak in and watch.
Yeah. You know,

Speaker 2 let me do one stitch.

Speaker 6 I want to make sure that they're okay, but at the same time, see what's happening, see if anything's changed within the medical world. But I don't think I necessarily want to be a doctor.

Speaker 6 I always like to say if I could do surgery on the 50-yard line with 80,000 people watching me, I'd be totally in.

Speaker 1 Okay, see, I like that.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I actually like that.

Speaker 6 I think we should ask a doctor and see if they want to do it. Yes, I see.

Speaker 1 And I want to see what happens.

Speaker 6 I mean, it might take a while.

Speaker 6 It feels like it should be really quick, but I think it takes some time. But I think you can get a lot of good on concession stance.

Speaker 2 I don't want to speak out of turn for Big Kat on this one because it's kind of a personal matter that he has. But every year he makes a pinky bet.

Speaker 2 And at the end of the season, it's like if this team wins a Super Bowl, I will cut off my pinky.

Speaker 1 It's whatever team was supposed to be good.

Speaker 2 Yep. And so

Speaker 1 you could actually own two, I pick a team.

Speaker 2 You could actually amputate Big Cat's pinky if you guys win a Super Bowl.

Speaker 10 I'm so in.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I kind of was a doctor. So you were really clean and good.

Speaker 1 Failed doctor, but I can cut a pinky. Yes, I will let you do it.
Yeah, we've had some close calls.

Speaker 1 The Texans, it was like a few years ago, they rattled off like 10 wins in a row after I said I'd cut off my pinky.

Speaker 6 And how did you feel?

Speaker 1 I was nervous.

Speaker 6 Like, really nervous?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 No team has ever gotten to the second round of the playoffs.

Speaker 6 So, would you really cut the pinky off?

Speaker 1 Yes. Tip of the pinky.
Tip of the pinky. The Colts last year.

Speaker 6 So, so we're not going full fingernails.

Speaker 6 We're just fingernails?

Speaker 1 Just fingernail. The Colts were my team last year.
I was nervous about the Colts because they were playing really well. They were.
And then they lost the Jaguars. But it's fun.

Speaker 1 You know, it's fun for everyone. I would do it.
I've already

Speaker 1 heard. Yeah, I've come to the grips with the fact that I will die without a tip of my pinky because I just, it will happen.

Speaker 6 And you're going to be like a psychic because to be able to get that would be really cool.

Speaker 1 Yes.

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Speaker 1 Have to mention the last question.

Speaker 1 You're a hip-hop dancer.

Speaker 8 I was.

Speaker 1 Do you still dance?

Speaker 6 Depends. Weddings, great times.

Speaker 1 Do you have like moves?

Speaker 6 I like to think I still do, but what happens is, is, you know, you go in, it's kind of like, you know, the old guy that thinks he can play basketball. Okay.

Speaker 6 And you go in there and all of a sudden you pop a calf or you heard something and you think about the things you used to do.

Speaker 6 And all of a sudden, you hear the music, you hear the beat, everybody starts going. And then, oh, yeah, I can do some of the things that I did.

Speaker 6 And all of a sudden, you think you popped out your hip or something. Yeah.
And, um, but no, I love helping my daughter.

Speaker 6 My daughter's a big hip-hop dancer, so I love helping her out every now and then. And, but no, yes, I was back in the old days.

Speaker 1 It's a great, like, visual. Like, not many, I would imagine not many NFL coaches are like, yeah, I'm a pretty good dancer, too.
Yeah, I feel like

Speaker 6 I would probably win a dance contest with most of most of the

Speaker 1 Andy Reed and Bill Bellichek versus Nathaniel Hackett.

Speaker 2 It'd be like a Ted Lasso moment. If you guys win a big game, you get in the locker room, put on swag surfing.
You'll go viral. I see.

Speaker 1 You'll go viral.

Speaker 1 That's really good. So

Speaker 2 when I said it, I saw

Speaker 2 your pupils dilate. You're like, oh, my God.

Speaker 2 When was the last time you really got after it?

Speaker 1 Gosh.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 All right, you've got the moves.

Speaker 1 I got a little beat there. All right.
Well, coach, thank you so much. We really appreciate it.
This has been a lot of fun. And

Speaker 1 I'm just happy that you remember the Blake Bortles moment because I made this whole interview.

Speaker 6 And if y'all could have been there, I mean, it was like, it was just so innocent and just so positive.

Speaker 6 And in Blake's face, I mean, he was genuinely, it like was the greatest thing that's ever happened because my son was just so

Speaker 1 happy.

Speaker 1 He's like, it's just, it wasn't like, yep, that's, yep, that's huge.

Speaker 1 All right, hey, let's go play football.

Speaker 1 Oh, man. All right.
Well, thanks so much, Coach.

Speaker 1 Appreciate it.

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Speaker 1 Okay, airport review number three. What's up, man?

Speaker 1 Denver International Airport.

Speaker 1 Airport built by Nazis, right?

Speaker 2 Well, it was built by the same person that, or the same company that built the underground lair.

Speaker 2 So that's interesting. There's a lot of conspiracies about this place.
There's miles of underground bunker. We're real close to NORAD.
So really just let your imagination run wild.

Speaker 2 We're going to get to the bottom of it. There's some really interesting mosaics on the ground here.

Speaker 1 That's probably New World Order.

Speaker 2 It's a very crowded airport.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I was going to say,

Speaker 1 I don't know all the conspiracy theories. I know some of them, but just judging based on airport, I don't.

Speaker 2 it's not my favorite sometimes the simplest explanation is the correct one and I think it's just so crowded because there's a lot of people here to see Jesus perform at Red Rocks yes yes that's true that is coming up

Speaker 1 yeah I my I have one time that I've been here or no I've been here a couple times one time I think I've told this story I thought I was having a heart attack because I almost missed my flight my connecting flight to Montana.

Speaker 1 And oh, Hank's giving us a slow down. Slow down.
Going to moving walkway.

Speaker 1 we're doing another everest equivalent right now all right let's stop walking hank wants to stop walking uh i was i had a connecting flight and i sprinted like the full length of of a gate and i thought my heart was going to shatter because it was high altitude but i forgot about the high altitude so i had one of those moments where i was like dude you got to get your life together and then i remembered i'm an athlete and i climbed everest yeah so no big deal yeah exactly so um i wonder how that works with the altitude up here with the planes lane it's probably cheaper to fly in and out of Denver, right?

Speaker 1 Well, there's more turbulence with the air in and out. Yeah, that's what I heard.
You got the Rocky.

Speaker 2 So speaking of Jesus at Red Rocks, all-time quote from Antonio Brown today.

Speaker 1 Yes. He dropped

Speaker 2 it. It sounded like he was retiring from football.
I don't know if that was a retirement thing or if he was just saying, I feel sorry for not being able to watch myself play football, which respect.

Speaker 1 Oh, he thinks this is Alabama basketball? Is Nate Oates here? Oh, wow. I got to talk to him.
I got to tell him to give...

Speaker 1 How does it feel to have Rico Bosco sucking on your dick the whole time?

Speaker 1 Oh, Billy said Alabama basketball. Billy saw some African Americans and was like, oh, Alabama basketball.
Basketball team, yeah. He saw one guy with an A on his shoulder.

Speaker 2 It's actually a chess team, Billy. Billy,

Speaker 1 which guy dunked on you?

Speaker 1 Who aren't you, Billy?

Speaker 1 Okay, so maybe Alabama basketball. That would be good and exclusive.
What would they be doing here, though?

Speaker 2 Training.

Speaker 1 Are you guys Alabama basketball?

Speaker 2 I don't think so. I think that was a no.

Speaker 1 That was a no. Billy, ask if they're Alabama basketball.
He literally saw just one guy in an Alabama shirt.

Speaker 2 And he's like, he's hot on the case right now.

Speaker 1 All right, so Antonio Brown. Okay.
Billy's trying right now to ask them, and he's now giggling. What happened?

Speaker 1 Kansas?

Speaker 1 Oh, he's lying to you. Wow, he got you.
Okay, so Antonio Brown said today,

Speaker 1 my biggest regret in my career doesn't involve calling my GM a cracker, showing up to Raiders camp late in a hot air balloon 1,000 feet, or throwing rocks at the UPS driver.

Speaker 1 And it definitely doesn't involve taking my shirt off and doing a victory lap around the Jets Stadium mid-game while throwing up deuces.

Speaker 2 That was a victory lap?

Speaker 1 I just want to say real quick, when I saw this quote, I didn't, someone sent it to me. I didn't see AB tweet it.
I thought it was Ball Sack Sports. Oh, I did.

Speaker 2 I saw it too, and then I tried to check A.B.'s Twitter account, and Antonio Brown blocks me on Twitter, which is bullshit. Like, my biggest regret now in life is not being able to see A.B.

Speaker 1 tweet. Yeah.
All right, so he continues, let's go over here. Let's stand over here while we just take it in, because I'm going to finish this quote.

Speaker 1 My biggest regret is that I'll never get to see me, Antonio Brown, play a game live.

Speaker 1 Sure, I can watch the game afterwards, but I can't imagine what that was like for you all to see something like that, like watching the Beatles or Jesus perform at Red Rocks.

Speaker 1 I mean, that says it all.

Speaker 2 I like how he lumped the Beatles in with Jesus. Jesus.

Speaker 2 What do you think that is? Do you think that that's them playing like, hey, Jude, with Jesus on the tambourine, like, in a joint concert? Here, here's the thing.

Speaker 1 Like, if you said, like, Jesus at,

Speaker 1 I don't know, Bonnaroo? No, or, like, just pick a random stadium, Jesus at

Speaker 1 Ball Arena here. I'd be like, no, no, I don't care.
No. Jesus at Red Rocks.

Speaker 2 That's iconic. That's iconic.
Now I actually need to see Red Rocks put on a hologram Jesus performance. Yes.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 All right, so we have we're standing now in the middle of Concourse A. Yep.
I don't understand what these train tracks are. They're going up and down.

Speaker 2 So the train tracks, there's like a bunch of train mileage underneath the state, underneath the airport right now. Yeah, there's some city tunnels, right?

Speaker 2 Some say it could go out to NORAD, some say it goes to Buckley Air Force Base, which is like 60 miles south of here, I think. Okay.
But the bottom line is there's something going on here.

Speaker 2 And we're going to get to the bottom of it.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 we also have, you know, as we came in, you have Blucifer,

Speaker 1 the blue Bronco outside. Yep.

Speaker 1 The guy who made it died, right? Making it.

Speaker 2 As he was making it, the horse's head fell on him and crushed him. And the name of the horse is Blucifer.
Its eyes glow red.

Speaker 2 And I think it was Coley that said it, that it would be an awesome statue if it was at the Broncos Stadium. Yeah.
And it like lit up when they scored a touchdown. Yeah.
But it's at an airport.

Speaker 2 That's kind of strange.

Speaker 1 And also the airport's in the middle of nowhere. Like there's, you know, it's, it's just fields around the airport.

Speaker 2 It's twice the size of Manhattan.

Speaker 1 Phew. That's crazy.
Yeah, I actually

Speaker 2 think is Manhattan even that big?

Speaker 1 No, not really. How many, how many, um,

Speaker 1 how many light posts do you think are in Manhattan?

Speaker 1 14,000.

Speaker 2 I don't know the answer. It's 14,000.

Speaker 1 It's one of those

Speaker 1 questions they make you make you do. Should we go up a level? What do we want to do? Yeah, let's go up.
Let's go up.

Speaker 2 Let's get more altitude.

Speaker 1 We also have a little issue because a future us issue.

Speaker 1 issue we probably should have done this airport review when we landed on Sunday yeah so we're not able to go through baggage claim or anything like that so we're gonna just stick around a

Speaker 1 but again I I'm just gonna say it PFT just initial vibes I I take Indy airport and Madison airport what's up

Speaker 1 and Madison airport over this airport I really like smaller airports I like regional airports that you can like see the gate once you get through security this feels like more like a shopping mall than an airport and a little bit the craziest part about this airport to me, it was built in 1995, and it feels old.

Speaker 2 It does, yeah. I don't know.

Speaker 1 Maybe that's because

Speaker 1 maybe that's a long time ago, I guess, now that I'm thinking about it.

Speaker 2 This carpet right here feels like something that you would find in like a nursing home. Yeah.
So I don't know about that. There's also a lot of tents here.
A lot of tents. Maybe a FEMA camp.

Speaker 2 This is...

Speaker 2 That's a big light.

Speaker 1 That's a light they have out on the runways. It's a big

Speaker 2 light. This strikes me as something where they were trying to clean up the airport and get rid of some of the scraps, and they ran out of room in the dumpster.
So they said, Yeah, fuck it.

Speaker 2 Let's just make it. Let's make it an art installation.

Speaker 1 Hey, Bill, throw the big light up on floor six.

Speaker 2 Actually, you know what? The more I look at this big light, the more I like it. Yeah, no, it's a very big light.

Speaker 1 I would actually like this big light in my living room.

Speaker 2 That is sick. Yeah, that's good.
Like, what if this was a strobe?

Speaker 1 Oh, wow, and it spins 360.

Speaker 2 Okay, big light, high marks for the big light.

Speaker 1 Should we take a piece of the paper? Can we turn it on? Can you? I don't think. I don't want to

Speaker 1 open the big light?

Speaker 2 You would think that if they had a giant light, there would be like a sign explaining why they had the big light.

Speaker 2 Let's take a picture in front of the iconic big light. I'm opening it on the video.

Speaker 1 Ready?

Speaker 1 Three, two, one.

Speaker 1 Big light. Big light.

Speaker 2 Iconic.

Speaker 2 Okay, yeah, let's see inside.

Speaker 2 No. What if there's like a little dude in here? Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's just like, close this. This is my big light.

Speaker 2 I think we're still on mushrooms.

Speaker 1 Yeah, there's definitely some residual.

Speaker 2 Residual. It's reminding me a little bit of

Speaker 2 going through the Hong Kong airport coming down from MDMA.

Speaker 2 Same internal vibes right now.

Speaker 1 There's some residuals.

Speaker 1 Okay, so we're...

Speaker 1 Let's take this moving walkway and then come back on the other one. Yeah, it's awesome.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm just going to say it. Like, I go Indy Madison Denver for the three that we've ranked in the seven years we've been doing this.

Speaker 2 This is in last place.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's firm last place.

Speaker 1 That's the new power rankings are out.

Speaker 2 I also think that if it was the New World Order secret headquarters, it would be a lot cooler.

Speaker 1 Well, I also, here's the thing.

Speaker 1 Here's what I,

Speaker 1 my theory on conspiracy theories are, if everyone knows, then it's, then it's probably not true. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But if everyone can just like, if everyone's fun fact conspiracy theory is the Denver airport, it's like, I don't, I don't think they let you know those.

Speaker 2 Or, yeah, stay woke on it. Maybe they just built it and put in all these little nuggets for us just to get people talking about the Denver airport.
Well, I get that.

Speaker 1 Let's have more people use it. I think this one back.
Well, yeah, they actually did a marketing campaign leaning into it. There you go.
That's what it is. Yeah.

Speaker 2 There are people that are like, oh, we could fly into Wyoming or we could fly into Denver and drive. Oh, let's check out the fucked-up airport.

Speaker 1 Well, so I read this article and it said... It said, oh, yeah, not moving walkway, not moving.

Speaker 2 This sucks. This is my nightmare.

Speaker 1 This is more marks against it.

Speaker 2 This is my nightmare.

Speaker 1 It said that they gained $1.5 million on the PR that they use.

Speaker 2 I almost tripped getting on this not

Speaker 1 moving walkway. Sorry, go ahead.

Speaker 1 $1.5 million dollars on the pr they use leaning into it that's what they gained in revenue that just means a bunch of people fucking took a flight here just to just check it out

Speaker 1 losers like that's a loser move i mean just fly somewhere to look at the airport well that was the original idea for airport reviews was to fly into airports and just do the airport reviews that was an all-time cell phone

Speaker 1 so that was a sick can you pass me my cell phone what kind of what kind of absolute dork would do something like a cell phone yeah i think we're gonna go to paris and just stay in the airport and then fly back that would would be a very funny move, though.

Speaker 2 I still stand by.

Speaker 1 I also think that would be funny.

Speaker 2 I'll adjust what you said. If you don't have a podcast and you just fly into an airport to check it out, loser.

Speaker 1 Yeah, loser.

Speaker 2 If you have a cool podcast, then that's the most alpha plus thing you can do.

Speaker 1 Oh, let's.

Speaker 1 Bathroom, real quick. Yeah, let's go.
Might as well check it out.

Speaker 2 Are you going to have to stay outside?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Hello, sir. How was that experience?

Speaker 2 Oh. I wonder if you smashed the

Speaker 2 happy face sign. Okay, this.

Speaker 2 How could this floor be wet? I'm confused.

Speaker 1 This is a carpet.

Speaker 1 That's New World Order.

Speaker 2 New World Order theories might be right. Something going on.
That doesn't add up.

Speaker 1 This might be right. I got all the documents.
I mean, trash not really clean.

Speaker 2 I'm going to take one of these urinals for a spin. Yeah, me too.
Wait, wait. Where's Ed Sharon?

Speaker 1 Wait.

Speaker 1 Hold on.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Ooh, nice air. There's some air blowing in here.
How you doing, sir? Sorry, we're doing a podcast. There's no video, so you can just walk by.
If you want to...

Speaker 1 Don't worry if you fart when you're peeing. We'll edit that out.
Okay, let's check out the flow.

Speaker 2 Sizable amount of water on these toilets. I like that.

Speaker 2 Very good idea.

Speaker 2 If you listen closely, you can hear how yellow my pee is.

Speaker 2 Oh, that's yellow. That's almost chartreuse.

Speaker 1 I just tried to fart and I almost pooped. That was bad.
That was stupid.

Speaker 2 Okay, let me shake. Hang on.
I'm wearing white pants. I can't take any chances.

Speaker 1 That was almost a live microphone in my ass. Shit, my pants moment.
Okay, I'm clean. You're tangled.
I'm tangled. I'm clean.

Speaker 2 Now I'm just using the sink just so

Speaker 2 just because I'm doing a podcast.

Speaker 1 Right hand only.

Speaker 2 It didn't work beyond my control.

Speaker 1 Okay, I'm just going to say right now, and we don't have video here, but

Speaker 1 this area, changing area, I've had to use this for my kids.

Speaker 2 I like it. It's spacious, it's very spacious.

Speaker 1 And the in the stupid fucking thing that you have to put down to do diapers, usually never like it's always broken. So, I like that.

Speaker 2 Why is that always a koala bear?

Speaker 1 The koala bear kids station.

Speaker 2 Do koalas shit themselves all the time?

Speaker 1 Probably. Yeah, definitely.
Koalas are the only animals that use diapers.

Speaker 2 And they're also, they get high all the time, right?

Speaker 1 What's up, man? Nice gun pillow. Little Dodgers, like it.

Speaker 1 Gallo, you see Gallo hit a home run last night? Yeah. Hell yeah.

Speaker 1 Dude, I could talk sports with anyone. You see that? That was sick.
That was fucking... That was a masterclass on how to chop it up with the ball.

Speaker 2 So why are people going upstairs? It seems to me like that upstairs area should not exist.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they're going to see the big light.

Speaker 2 Yeah, the big light. Good point.
Yeah, big light. Big lights up there, sir.

Speaker 1 All right, so let's do maybe one circle here and then we'll call it. I don't know.
I mean...

Speaker 2 I get the vibe. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Ooh, I like that shirt, Wife Guard.

Speaker 1 That's funny. I do have to buy a gift for my kids if we want to go Peruse right now.

Speaker 2 That's a shirt that you only wear going through the airport with your wife.

Speaker 1 Wife Guard.

Speaker 2 I wonder where his wife is. We should kidnap her.

Speaker 1 I don't know if they're going to like us videotaping.

Speaker 1 Maybe you stay out.

Speaker 1 All right. So...
I got to buy some gifts.

Speaker 2 I really like the Colorado state flag, too. Colorado State.

Speaker 1 So my son's favorite colors are blue and purple. So we're looking for blue and purple.

Speaker 1 Hi, how you doing?

Speaker 2 Good. Oh, there's a cool teddy bear over there.

Speaker 1 A little small, little extras.

Speaker 1 Let's see what this shirt.

Speaker 1 It's a good shirt.

Speaker 2 I like these flamingos, too.

Speaker 1 I think this would fit them. I don't know.
We'll go maybe small.

Speaker 2 I might get some for my mom. Yeah, do that.
Moms love presents.

Speaker 2 Alright,

Speaker 2 I should send my mom a baby shirt and she'll think that I'm having a kid. There you go.

Speaker 1 Alright, I got one shirt.

Speaker 1 Let's see. Need something for my daughter? Oh, okay, that's cool.

Speaker 1 What you got there?

Speaker 1 Sasquatch? Planes. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, for your kid, I mean.

Speaker 1 Planes always play. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Okay. Not for me.

Speaker 1 Oh, Pete the Cat.

Speaker 1 Pete the cat with his cool shoes.

Speaker 2 We got Air Force One here.

Speaker 1 I need something.

Speaker 2 Soap? Moms love soap.

Speaker 1 I need something for my daughter.

Speaker 2 Should I get my mom a soap?

Speaker 1 Maybe I'll get her a shirt too. Matching Colorado shirts.
Wait, let's stay together. I like that.
I'm going to do that. That's a cool move by me.
Matching Colorado shirts.

Speaker 2 There's a ukulele over here, the state instrument of Colorado.

Speaker 2 Compression socks. This is a nice gift shop.

Speaker 1 I got two shirts.

Speaker 1 I got a Pete the Cat.

Speaker 1 That looks like it's going to kill him or kill me. And you wind it up, then it runs around.

Speaker 2 That's metal and a lot of sharp edges.

Speaker 1 Billy, I don't think one would be a good one. Remember, it's a three and a one-year-old, so you got to buy stuff that the one-year-old won't swallow and kill herself.
Oh, here we go.

Speaker 2 What do we got here? Check this out.

Speaker 2 Look at this. It's got dogs on it.
It says be positive. That's so true.

Speaker 1 It's so true. That's a big time so true.

Speaker 2 That's a huge so-to-count chase that you know.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's true. That is cool, but that's not a three-year-old story.

Speaker 1 That thing has...

Speaker 2 It's got metal, sharp edges, and fire.

Speaker 1 I'm just trying to kill my kids.

Speaker 2 Yeah, Vicat, why don't you get your kid a lighter?

Speaker 1 Okay, yeah, oh, yeah. Here, Billy, here's a bottle opener.
Let me get that for my kid.

Speaker 1 Okay, I think I'm ready to go. Just one last look.
One last look.

Speaker 1 Anything else?

Speaker 2 Is it some hot sauce over here? Oh, I might get some green chili hot sauce. What's this? Let me see.

Speaker 1 Dog butt magnets. That's kind of funny.

Speaker 1 Dog butt magnets. Are you getting some hot sauce?

Speaker 2 I'm seeing if they got any green chili stuff over here.

Speaker 2 See, this is my big qualm about this airport. Besides this store, there's not a lot of Colorado vibes.
It doesn't give off the feel of the town.

Speaker 1 Okay, so you can tell that I've been gone for a while because the guilt has wreaked havoc on my brain. And I now have seven gifts for both of my kids.

Speaker 1 But that's okay. That's what you got to do when you're dead.
Oh, what's this? These planes are kind of sick.

Speaker 3 Shit.

Speaker 2 I'm going to get some peppers. Some pepper flakes.
We got a four-pepper blend with ghost pepper, habanero. We got one with habanero and chipotle and one with green chili and hatch.

Speaker 2 Delicious. Yeah, okay.
I'm going to get this.

Speaker 1 I'm going to get this

Speaker 2 pepper blend. Mine everything.

Speaker 1 Billy, you have stuff you want to buy?

Speaker 2 This is still on Aaron Rodgers' tab, right? From his Barcelona donation?

Speaker 1 Well, no, I stole his credit card when we interviewed him.

Speaker 2 Oh, nice.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was very smart of me.

Speaker 2 Oh, wow. That's a cool hat.
It just says Nugs. What? It says Nugs.
Where? Over there. I like that hat.
Look at this hat.

Speaker 1 Oh, no. Oh, you guys.
Nugs.

Speaker 1 I think I have to.

Speaker 2 Don't want to advertise.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 By the way, shout out to Denver Airport Security. They did a really great job.
Yeah. Not

Speaker 1 finding anything. They searched me down.

Speaker 2 Yeah, Billy got a full rub down. You got the Deshaun Watson treatment, right, Billy? They took my bags.
It was a random search, and

Speaker 2 I got a good one.

Speaker 1 I got a happy ending.

Speaker 2 Yeah, when you have a name like Billy Football, they see that and they're like, we're pulling this guy aside. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay, I think I did a good job with my gifts for my kids.

Speaker 1 Got way too much.

Speaker 1 But that's kind of how you got to do it. If you're...

Speaker 2 Are you guilty?

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Massive guilt. Are you kidding me? Being away sucks.
Hello.

Speaker 2 How's it going? I'm going to get this

Speaker 2 dried pepper blend.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 2 So that book is

Speaker 2 if I were an octopus.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and then Pete the Cat is an all-time book. Pete the Cat, he basically, just a quick synopsis for you.

Speaker 1 He has new white shoes, and then he steps in a big

Speaker 1 strawberries.

Speaker 2 Oh, no.

Speaker 1 And everyone's like, oh, no, his shoes are red. What's he going to do? And Pete the Cat so coolly goes, it's all good.
I love it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 sure vibes he keeps walking along and singing the song that's that was the whole book so it's blueberries then it's mud somebody was like what are those and Pete the Cat's like it's all good yeah and he's just having a good time then he steps in a puddle so his shoes are wet and then they become white again have you seen the octopus teacher no okay thank you 177 you should watch that movie it's about a guy that like secretly falls in love with an octopus

Speaker 2 yeah it's pretty bizarre that is very bizarre

Speaker 2 that Not to like nitpick, big cap, but that Air Force One model that you got is completely unrealistic.

Speaker 1 I'll have to tell myself. Thank you so much.
We appreciate it. We appreciate it.

Speaker 1 Okay. What else? Anything else?

Speaker 2 That's the Denver airport, basically. I think we covered all.

Speaker 1 I agree.

Speaker 2 I don't think that there's anything going on here. I think we should trust what the government tells us.
Yes. And they just made a very weird airport for no particular reason.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 So nothing to see here.

Speaker 1 Move along. Not a false flag.

Speaker 2 Nope, nope, nope. Nothing wrong.

Speaker 1 Hank, any last thoughts? Hank is... Hank, any last thoughts?

Speaker 4 There's a map of the world down here.

Speaker 1 That could be a treasure, treasure, treasure, wait, whoa, I do like maps. New World Order, yeah.

Speaker 2 Just symbolism will be their downfall.

Speaker 1 Look at that. Yeah, it's...

Speaker 2 Oh, the Earth is flat.

Speaker 1 It's a flat,

Speaker 1 yeah.

Speaker 1 It's slightly rounded.

Speaker 2 Maybe the Earth isn't flat. Maybe it's just like...

Speaker 2 It looks like a vert ramp.

Speaker 1 Yeah, everyone's been wrong. Because

Speaker 1 it's not flat or circular. It's rounded slightly.
It's angled.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's like a tent that catches a little bit of wind underneath it

Speaker 2 Okay, this is good Mason Faraday up there. That's from better call saw great show.

Speaker 1 Yeah

Speaker 1 Yep, here comes Alabama basketball team Alabama basketball team guys. What's up guys? How we doing? Sorry about Mars Nate Oates.

Speaker 1 Hey Nate Oates. Oh Nate Oates is

Speaker 1 What oh Nate Oats is he's throwing up.

Speaker 1 He's throwing up over

Speaker 2 He's thinking about the NCAA tournament. He's puking in the corner.

Speaker 1 He's thinking about only one player coming to the optional shoot around before the biggest game of their life.

Speaker 2 Yeah, we actually knew that it wasn't Alabama basketball because there were several of them here.

Speaker 1 Yeah, right. They all showed up.

Speaker 1 All right, we did the whole circle. I think we did it, boys.

Speaker 2 I think that's it. We checked out the entire airport.

Speaker 1 So we're in agreement that Denver is third.

Speaker 10 Last place.

Speaker 1 Last place in our airport review. Seven one, Madison two, Denver three.

Speaker 1 Great grit week.

Speaker 1 Till next time, till the next airport review.

Speaker 2 We love you guys.

Speaker 1 Love you guys.

Speaker 10 We drove 1,700 miles of old highway 61 the whole country top to bottom just to prove one thing comfort food can make anywhere home crave new world makes the classics you grew up with cleaned up for right now high protein no fake stuff no shortcuts bison meatloaf chicken enchiladas turkey lasagna the kind of meals that taste like saturday night even on a tuesday crave new world founded in kroger isles this october the road trip might be over but dinner's just getting good all right let's do mount rushmore Rushmore.

Speaker 1 Okay, Mount Rushmore. We're doing Mount Rushmore of Candy.
Hank and his team of misfits won for the first time in forever.

Speaker 2 Great job, Hank.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Hank got really salty because we were planning on not doing a Mount Rushmore today.

Speaker 1 Remember, we had, I literally said it on Monday, and Hank was like, you're just trying to keep us down because we finally won one. That was the plan all week, but Hank, guess what? You want to do it?

Speaker 1 You call it Mount Rushmore season or not? Yeah, we didn't do one for the Takies. That's different.
I'm just saying. Is it Mount Rushmore season or not?

Speaker 4 It is, but Takeys is a standalone show.

Speaker 1 Okay, all right. So here we go.
We're doing a Mount Rushmore.

Speaker 4 All right, we're going to go one.

Speaker 1 Okay. A lot of pressure.

Speaker 4 You guys are going to go second.

Speaker 1 Okay. Love that.
Wow. That was a mistake.
That was a huge season.

Speaker 2 You actually played right into our hand. Thank you.

Speaker 4 And Billy and Jake will go third.

Speaker 1 Okay, great.

Speaker 4 I'll let memes pick the order.

Speaker 1 It's Mount Rushmore of Candy. That was a mistake.
That was a mistake. Mount Rushmore candy.
I trust him here.

Speaker 4 I think he was. I think it was actually a great choice.
Okay.

Speaker 4 1-1. No brainer.
Pick Hat knows this. Favorite candy.
I literally had it for breakfast this morning.

Speaker 1 Reese's. Okay.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Reese's cup. Good choice.
He's classic.

Speaker 1 I actually said to PFT he's going to pick this. Yeah.
Yeah. I knew it.

Speaker 4 I knew it. The only thing I was, I was questioning whether to give Billy and Jake the first pick, not knowing if they would not pick it, but I couldn't take that risk.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I think we go.

Speaker 2 Two. Two is a classic.
Yeah, let's do it.

Speaker 1 All right. So we will go with Snickers, A very, very good classic.

Speaker 1 Candy bar. Goaded.
It also.

Speaker 1 Oh, really? Really, Bat Girl? Really? You don't, you wouldn't eat.

Speaker 1 If I gave you a Snickers right now, you wouldn't need it? No. Yeah, okay.
All right. All right.
Okay. Sounds good.
Snickers is kind of weird. Yeah.
Snickers is a great candy bar.

Speaker 2 Memes just whispered that he's never had a Snickers. Me neither.

Speaker 1 Snickers is old, reliable.

Speaker 2 Memes has never been on a moving walkway until two days ago, and he's never had a Snickers. Yep.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Go ahead. Oh, we got two.
Yeah. Yeah, you got two.

Speaker 8 All right. First, we're going to go with MM's.

Speaker 1 Okay. Good pick.

Speaker 2 Good pick. Most popular candy in America.
Okay.

Speaker 2 And then we're going to go with

Speaker 2 the classic Hershey's bar.

Speaker 1 Oh. Just plain chocolate, huh? Okay.
That is a favorite.

Speaker 2 That is another favorite. The plain chocolate Hershey's bar.

Speaker 1 No, you're right.

Speaker 2 It's like the cornerstone of candy in this country.

Speaker 1 It's like not

Speaker 1 something you actually buy.

Speaker 1 I buy

Speaker 1 all the time. It's fun.
No, it was.

Speaker 1 Listen, the plain Hershey's bar was fucking electric in 1942. That was, it was awesome.
It was like, this is cool. We're eating, we're like playing.
Did you like chocolate or something?

Speaker 1 We're going out in the back and we're going to play with like a big wooden ring with a stick and eat a Hershey bar.

Speaker 1 That's a good pick.

Speaker 8 There are stores on both of our candies because they are popular brands.

Speaker 1 Okay. Cool.

Speaker 1 Okay, so I think we go with three

Speaker 1 because then we can keep four.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Okay.
Yeah. Do you think so? What's four?

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah. All right.
Because that's a

Speaker 1 good time. All right.
All right.

Speaker 2 Okay. All right.
So number three, we're going to go Twix. The second time that we've taken Twix in this Mount Rushmore season, you get two of them, which is fantastic.

Speaker 1 Delicious candy bar.

Speaker 2 I love it. It's the only candy bar.

Speaker 1 You don't like Twix? I do like Twix, but

Speaker 4 I love the pics you didn't make.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 That's fine. Great.

Speaker 4 Nice long crunch with Twix.

Speaker 1 Then do better.

Speaker 2 Then do better.

Speaker 1 Go ahead. Try to do better.

Speaker 4 We're going to go with Kit Kat.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 I think a Twix better than a High Kat.

Speaker 4 And we'll mix it up. Go off chocolate.
Skittles.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 2 Okay, interesting.

Speaker 1 Yikes. Okay, all right.
Yeah, no, that's fine. Skittles was tier two for us.
Easy.

Speaker 6 We are bad, we'll admit it.

Speaker 8 But if we said most pop, if we did Mountain Rush for most popular sports and we said American football, you guys would be like, ooh.

Speaker 2 What, what? They gaslight us.

Speaker 2 I've been saying this for years. They, yeah.

Speaker 1 How did Lesnars gaslight you by voting you last at the time? No, Hershey's was a crazy pick.

Speaker 1 I didn't have Hershey's on my list.

Speaker 2 I think that Hershey's is a great fourth-round pick.

Speaker 1 Jake, you don't even like chocolate. I know.
That's why.

Speaker 1 So you just went straight chocolate? Okay, so you at Skittles. Mountain Rush Ward.

Speaker 8 It's our Mountain Rush.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it is your Mountain Rush War. All right, we will.

Speaker 4 Sometimes you guys just typed in most popular candies and they're just going off that list.

Speaker 1 That's fine. Yeah, we did.
Okay, so

Speaker 1 our third pick, we're going to go with peanut butter M ⁇ Ms. Easy.

Speaker 2 Money in the bank. I would take that over regular M ⁇ Ms.

Speaker 1 All day.

Speaker 1 All day.

Speaker 2 If somebody handed you a bag of regular M ⁇ Ms and wanted peanut butter, you're taking peanut butter every time.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 absolutely.

Speaker 2 Does that count?

Speaker 1 Yeah, you took M ⁇ Ms. We took peanut butter M ⁇ Ms.
They're totally different candies.

Speaker 4 And there's, you know, Reese's Peasies are better than peanut M ⁇ Ms, but that's a good pick.

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 1 Do you take Reese's Peasies? Yeah, for you. Yeah, go for it if you want a worse pick.
Peanut butter MMs are goaded. They are the M ⁇ Ms, the pre-eminent M ⁇ Ms.

Speaker 1 Yeah, even Bat Girls nodding his head. Yeah, Hank, don't try that.

Speaker 2 There's a lot of people with peanut allergies.

Speaker 1 Okay, well, those people can go fuck themselves. I don't care.
Their life sucks. Wow.
I mean, I'm being honest.

Speaker 1 If we pulled someone with a peanut allergy, they'd be like, yeah, I wish I could eat peanut butter.

Speaker 4 If I had a peanut allergy, I'd be dead.

Speaker 4 The lengths that people with peanut allergies and shelvish allergies, I feel bad, but it's like, they can't.

Speaker 4 If you have a peanut allergy, we have an editor that has one. It's like, if you eat peanut butter and you like breathe near him, can you get away from it?

Speaker 4 Sometimes when you go on a plane, it might die if you like breathe too close. Right.

Speaker 2 Sometimes when you go on a plane, the attendants will be like, sorry, we're not serving peanuts today because one person on this plane has it. That's how allergic to you.

Speaker 1 I'm not victim shaming. It sucks, but I guarantee if we had someone who had a peanut butter allergy right now on the show, they'd be like, You're fucking damn right.

Speaker 1 I'd love to have peanut butter MS, they're delicious.

Speaker 1 Okay,

Speaker 1 um,

Speaker 2 we are going with we agree on that one, okay, Twizzlers.

Speaker 1 Okay, go down to the bottom. I like Twizzlers, there you go, Jake.
You know what's the best part? You're a fucking salty bitch.

Speaker 2 Yo, you know what's the best part about Twizzlers? If you bite both ends, you can use it as a straw.

Speaker 1 That's true.

Speaker 2 So, if you have a movie theater move, get a large Coke, long twizzlers bite both ends use the twizzler as a straw for the coke twizzlers are great twizzlers are great they're they're like the off-speed pitch like i like to go when i go to um a movie theater i get popcorn peanut butter mms and twizzlers kind of mix and match put this on a quote card billy football says if you bite both ends off a twizzler it becomes a straw and you can use that to ingest coke

Speaker 1 yeah nice

Speaker 2 And our last pick, honestly, this was more of a pick from the heart.

Speaker 1 Okay, this is going to be good. This is going

Speaker 2 he's gonna be like like no no this this my mom's brownies no this this candy I think endures time and it is one of the best crunch bar

Speaker 1 is very good yeah also with the crunch bar you can take the aluminum foil and turn it into tin foil and then you can use that to make a smoking so all I'll say about crunch bar is I don't I don't know who does the marketing for crunch bar because I feel like it's just completely fallen off like no one talks about crunch bar I like crunch crunch bars crunch a bunch great but like who's doing

Speaker 1 a bunch of crunch? Who's doing it?

Speaker 2 They don't need to cheat their own horn.

Speaker 1 They're so good. No, but you know, that's not like a.
There are, if you go to a bodega or a store, it's like a 50-50 chance there's not going to be a crunch bar there. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 Like, I don't know what's who's not pushing crunch bars.

Speaker 2 Didn't they used to have like a mascot, an angry mascot that was like a monster almost? That was the crunch guy.

Speaker 1 Something happened with crunch bars. They haven't done a good job.

Speaker 2 I want to look it up. It's kind of like the honeycomb mascot.
I feel like Crunch had a guy like that. I'm not going to advertise because they're so good.

Speaker 1 But that's like

Speaker 1 you would think that they would be in every store then. They are.
No, again, I like crunch bars. I'm saying it's just a fact that like they don't get talked about.

Speaker 2 I actually personally like crunch bars over Hershey bars.

Speaker 1 Well, then you just, again,

Speaker 4 sometimes Jake doesn't like chocolate.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he shows too chocolate.

Speaker 2 This is where Billy talks 10% too much

Speaker 2 and ruins one of your other picks.

Speaker 2 Well, that's because the Hershey bar is so good.

Speaker 1 Okay. It's not as good as your fourth pick.

Speaker 1 All right, PFT, I think we go.

Speaker 2 I like the one that you sent me.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 Sour Patch.

Speaker 1 Sour Patch, Sour Patch. Trash,

Speaker 1 trash.

Speaker 1 Billy's trying to gaslight us up. You thought you had it.
You thought you had Sour Patch kids.

Speaker 2 Billy's trying to gaslight us.

Speaker 1 No, no, no.

Speaker 2 Sour Patch is for the psychos in first period who like that sour stuff.

Speaker 2 Yeah, first period. We all know those things.

Speaker 1 It's very relatable to 37-year-olds.

Speaker 2 They're eating Sour Patch kids at like 7 a.m. in the morning.
It's like

Speaker 2 Sour Patch kids is. So

Speaker 2 if I go to a movie, I'm getting two snacks usually in a drink. I don't know what my first snack is.
Usually it's something chocolatey. My second snack, always Sour Patch Kids.
People

Speaker 1 are very, very good.

Speaker 2 They're the ones who like drink like those crazy monster, like disgusting monster tasting, like mountain. Yeah, so you.
I don't do that. You definitely drink weird like energy drinks.
No, I am a pure.

Speaker 2 I'm fucking psycho. You know what I do? Sometimes I get to the end of the bag and you get the sour powder.
I just put my finger down there and just eat that straight.

Speaker 1 They're a great snack.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Notice I said snack not candy yeah no just all he does is sour patch awesome appetizer that's a bad slip by me being like yeah there's like a very like healthy three o'clock snack

Speaker 4 sour patch kids hank even though it's elite pick yeah he was about to take it oh they're definitely going to take it okay uh this is a big pick because i feel like we're right there with you yeah we've done two chocolates one non-chocolate

Speaker 4 I'm going to go from the heart here. This is just something I get every time as a child, as a youth.
I still eat them as an adult.

Speaker 1 Almond Joy. Starburst.
Oh, okay. Not a bad pick.

Speaker 2 Power rank your starburst flavors.

Speaker 4 This gets controversial. People get mad at me, but I personally like orange.

Speaker 1 Orange. Oh.

Speaker 4 Orange.

Speaker 4 Red. See.

Speaker 1 Yellow. Okay.
So. Wait, wait, pink is last? That's crazy.
That is insane. Pink is disgusting.
Pink is the one. Pink's one.
Yellow is two. Orange three.
Red four. No, red and yellow are the last.

Speaker 1 Pink one. Pink one.

Speaker 2 Red, two for me. Orange three.
Yellow four.

Speaker 1 Pink one. Pink is the goat.
Pink's the only one for me. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Of course.

Speaker 1 No contention there. All right.
What did we miss? Milky Way was a miss.

Speaker 4 Sweetest fish. I was thinking that was

Speaker 2 gummy worms, gummy bears.

Speaker 1 I also, this is a candy that I feel like gets slept on for some reason, but I fucking love it. I love a baby Ruth bar.

Speaker 4 Yep. I love a baby Ruth bar.
Milky Way.

Speaker 1 Butterfinger. Butterfinger is kind of a miss.
But Butterfinger, sometimes I get Butterfingers and they just taste stale. I don't know why.

Speaker 2 I also like Three Musketeers. A lot of people are like, that's too much nougat.
I'm a nougat hound. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Charles.

Speaker 4 Ari and Max on take five, but I'm not a fan.

Speaker 1 I don't think that that would pop on the graphic. Take five is good.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Not a fan. Oh, you're your Panthers.

Speaker 2 In other words.

Speaker 4 No, I personally like Nougat.

Speaker 2 No, you love it, but you don't think it would play on the graphic.

Speaker 4 No, if they just liked it, and I thought as the coach that it could help the team, I would take it. Got it.

Speaker 1 Got it. Most coaches do throw all their players under the bus.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Not at all. Yeah.

Speaker 2 That play would have scored a touchdown, but it would have been bad for a quarterback stats. So

Speaker 2 you're Pete Carroll wanting to give Russell Wilson the opportunity to win Super Bowl MVP

Speaker 1 throw for the two yard line.

Speaker 1 Uh, Reese's piece is definitely a miss. Yeah, I mean, that's a great thing.

Speaker 4 I couldn't, I just didn't want to do Reese's and Reese's.

Speaker 1 We were saying that we wanted to make sure we didn't do because, like, I love

Speaker 2 Reese's, Reese's Pieces, Reese's sticks.

Speaker 1 Hank and I are very similar, that we're it's peanut butter and chocolate all day, every day.

Speaker 2 You know, what's really good is the Reese's fast break. That's a great candy bar.

Speaker 1 Yep, yep. Um, yeah, Hank, Hank, my probably favorite candy of all time is the Reese's cups with Reese's pieces in it.

Speaker 1 Nerds rope? Double.

Speaker 1 Nerd's rope?

Speaker 2 I think you guys are too old for that.

Speaker 1 No, I know. I know what that is.

Speaker 2 Memes is about it. It's good.
Yeah.

Speaker 8 The new gummy clusters are really good. The nerd's rope.
Gummy clusters. They're like a very new thing.
It's just little balls of

Speaker 1 gummy bears. Gummy bears, good pick.

Speaker 1 I like sour peaches. Yeah, I like peaches too.
Peaches are good. Yep.
The frogs. I like the frogs.

Speaker 2 The sharks. Yeah, the blue sharks.

Speaker 1 Sharks and the frogs. Yeah.
These are good. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Anybody here like wax bottles? The uh, or the Coke bottles?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, as a kid, that was kind of fun, but sharks.

Speaker 2 I was a big fan of the big, gummy snakes and the big, gummy, uh, like the big ones. Oh, the giant worms.
Like the gummy crocodiles. Yeah, the giant worms are good.

Speaker 2 One time I was in Spain, I got one that was as long as my arm. It was awesome.
Oh, one time I got

Speaker 2 one of those thick, gummy, gummy worms. Yeah.
It like was huge. And then we just had to slice off pieces of like a cake and eat it.

Speaker 1 That is badass. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm trying to think if there's anything else that we missed. I do actually like almond joy.
It's like a once and every now and then.

Speaker 1 It's not something I ever goat.

Speaker 1 Basically an almond joy is if there's like a bowl of candy and almond joy is in there, every now and then I'll grab one.

Speaker 2 A lot of people think it's disgusting, but I like mounds.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't like mounds. I don't like mounds.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay. I think that's it.
I think we did it. We crushed it.
Good, should be an interesting vote, Hank.

Speaker 1 Maybe a winning streak for your boys.

Speaker 1 Okay, let's do numbers and we will end grit week. We again, we have a bonus grit week interview coming on Monday.
Get excited, all-time football guy.

Speaker 1 Let's do numbers. Send everyone off.
Great grit week. Great job, everyone in this room.

Speaker 1 Numbers. One

Speaker 1 48. 27.
27.

Speaker 1 Reggie, what number you got? One through 100. 4.
4, Reggie. Aria? 55.
55? 22. Bat Girls, 22? 3.
3 for memes. Jonah?

Speaker 1 9.

Speaker 1 47. Oh,

Speaker 1 one off.

Speaker 2 Damn. 47 is a massive repeat winner.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Yeah, it's now in second place behind 52, eighth time.

Speaker 1 Wow. Wow.
Billy, what do you got there? Billy's brain.

Speaker 1 Nope. What were you going to say?

Speaker 2 I thought it was somebody's number.

Speaker 2 That was Chris Cooley.

Speaker 4 Andrish Kalenko.

Speaker 2 Love you guys.

Speaker 3 Every day I'm hustling. Every day I'm hustling.
Every day I'm hustling. Every day I'm hustling.
Every day I'm hustling. Every day I'm hustling.
Every day I'm.

Speaker 3 Every day I'm hustling. every day I'm hustlin', every day I'm hustlin', every damn, every day I'm every day I'm hustlin' Who your suckers think you're trippin' with yet?

Speaker 3 I'm the boss 745, why don't I ask Rick Ross?

Speaker 3 I cut them wide, I cut them long, I cut them fat I keep them coming back, he keep them coming back I'm in the distribution, I'm like Atlantic I got no pretty things flying cost to Atlantic I know Pablo, Pablo, Noriega, the real Noriega, he owe me a hundred fables I ain't petty player, we buy the whole thing.

Speaker 3 See, most of my homies hustle, they still do their thing.

Speaker 3 My roof, back, roof, my money ride.

Speaker 3 I'm on the pedal, show you what I'm running like. When they snatch black, I cry for a hundred nights.
He got a hundred bite, serving a hundred likes. Every day I'm hustlin', every day I'm hustlin'.

Speaker 3 Every day I'm hustlin', every day I'm hustlin'. Every day I'm hustlin', every day I'm hustlin'.
Every day I'm hustlin', every day I'm every day I'm hustlin'. We never steal cars, but we deal hard.

Speaker 3 With it, real hard. With it, with it real hard.

Speaker 3 I call the charge, I call the charge. Whip it real hard, with it, with it real hard.
Ain't fine no funny stuff, still flipping them chickens. I'm on my money, stuff, still whipping them VMs.

Speaker 3 Major Lee, who catch it because I'm Pierchin'. Go shaking, they go just nichin' because he TNish.
I feed them steroids, just ripping up all my chickens. They flyin' over Pacific, still beast.

Speaker 3 Triple C's, you know it's fat. We hold it slack.
Something gon' rap. Run and and tell them that, tell em that, mob, mob, mo,

Speaker 3 mo-o, mo, ho, mo-co, mo-ko.

Speaker 3 Every day I'm hustlin', every day I'm hustlin', every day I'm hustlin', every day I'm hustlin', every day I'm hustlin', every day I'm hustlin', every day I'm hustlin', every day I'm, every day I'm hollow, it's time to spin my thrills, cause me spinning wheels, ain't drove and new, kill the spinny steels talk about me, cause suckers here to talk about me.

Speaker 3 Killers chalk about me, it ain't no talk about me, no, it ain't no walking round, no. See all these killers round me, lot of drug dealers round me.
Going down in the county, don't talk no 22.

Speaker 3 Maggie calls me 22, sat it on her 22. Birds go no 22.
La mama super thin, she say she 22. She seen them 22, we in room 22.

Speaker 3 I touch work like I'm convertin' who burnt, burp. I got distribution, so I'm converting to work, work.
And look in my head, yo, switch off.

Speaker 3 Steady swinging, hey, yo, my shit be bangin' at yo. Every day I'm hustlin', every day I'm hustling.
Every day I'm hustling, every day I'm hustling. Every day I'm hustling.
Every day I'm hustling.

Speaker 3 Every day I'm hustling.