Jake Plummer Live From His Mushroom Farm, Hard Knocks, Grit Week Midweek Recap + Mt Rushmore Of Universally Loved Things

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Speaker 12 On today's part in my take, Jake the snake plumber, all-time guy, quarterback for the Cardinals, the Broncos, almost won a national title with Arizona State and now mushroom farmer.

Speaker 13 We go to his mushroom farm.

Speaker 18 You're going to want to watch this on YouTube because we literally are sitting in a mushroom farm cooler.

Speaker 19 We have a great interview with him about his career, life after football, Pat Tillman, ton of stuff covered.

Speaker 15 We also have Grit Week Wednesday, so we're halfway through Grit Week.

Speaker 22 We talk about everything we did.

Speaker 29 We have hard knocks to recap, some stuff going on in the sports world, hot seat, cool throne.

Speaker 33 And then we finish off with the Mount Rushmore of Universally Loved Things.

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Speaker 12 Today is Wednesday, August 10th, and football is back.

Speaker 6 Officially back. I would like to issue a challenge right now.
If there's anybody out there that does have one ass cheek and three toes, I will beat the fuck out of you. Yes.
I will kick your ass.

Speaker 6 I want that person's name. Rough and rowdy, me and you.

Speaker 6 I'll put $500,000 on the line.

Speaker 22 So, so, yeah, Dan Campbell, hard knocks, incredible hard knocks.

Speaker 12 It was probably the, Hanks said that it was probably one of the best hard knocks episodes that we've had since we started this show because hard knocks has lulled.

Speaker 50 The best.

Speaker 17 Yeah, it has lulled.

Speaker 15 But it's basically the Dan Campbell biopic, and it's incredible.

Speaker 52 The exact quote he said was, doesn't matter if you have one ass cheek and three toes, I'll beat your ass.

Speaker 17 Again, I do that too.

Speaker 17 Is that...

Speaker 2 Is he beating like a handicapped person?

Speaker 54 Yeah.

Speaker 50 If you have one ass cheek.

Speaker 55 Yeah, no, I hate that person.

Speaker 34 Kick his ass. Yeah.
He also.

Speaker 48 Kick his one ass.

Speaker 1 Dan Campbell,

Speaker 25 everything everything that you want in a football coach,

Speaker 58 like, especially for hard knocks.

Speaker 12 You know, the jury's still out on actually winning games, which I think the Lions will be better this year.

Speaker 23 But

Speaker 17 the way he talks to his team, like the fact that he's always on the verge of crying, football guy tears.

Speaker 12 He's always on the verge of crying.

Speaker 17 We opened up where he said the one ass cheek, three toes guy.

Speaker 6 He also got very, very vivid in in his explanation of drowning a human being to a point where it was like have have you drowned someone dan campbell he's like we're gonna pull you into the deep end and we're gonna suffocate you and put your head underwater and you'll never breathe again and it was like wait did this is this are you saying something that happened but holy shit can that guy fire up a team he also had um a great analogy that he used i'm trying to remember his exact words well he came out wearing the grit hat and like right off the bat just straight up said like this team's about grit yeah i I feel like that was a message to us.

Speaker 6 I did not appreciate, however, it felt like a direct shot at us when he said, we have two rules, don't be late and don't be overweight.

Speaker 6 And that kind of describes this entire podcast.

Speaker 68 That is true.

Speaker 6 That was a little fucked up, Dan. Yep.
But besides that, yeah, Dan Campbell's going to be a star.

Speaker 22 He already is a star in my heart.

Speaker 6 But yeah, the crying, the spitting when he talks,

Speaker 6 that's his mouth crying when he spits out. Chaw Dog.
The updowns, Chaw Dog, big time Chaw Dog. Love everything.

Speaker 6 The crying is contagious, too.

Speaker 71 Yeah.

Speaker 44 Other players are crying.

Speaker 14 Jamal Williams was crying.

Speaker 6 I want to see an episode where a kicker gives an impassioned speech, like the special teams room, and the kicker starts crying. Yes, yes.

Speaker 27 And speaking of crying, shout out Mark Brunel.

Speaker 15 He will never escape that.

Speaker 12 Every time I see his face, I'm just like, remember when he cried on TV?

Speaker 6 He cried because of footballs.

Speaker 55 It's okay.

Speaker 48 I want to be

Speaker 47 perfectly clear.

Speaker 6 It's great to cry about football. It's awful to cry about footballs.

Speaker 74 Yes.

Speaker 41 And he was like, Tom Brady, Tom Brady took care of those balls.

Speaker 76 Dude, he played 19 years in the NFL.

Speaker 77 He has a Super Bowl ring with the Saints.

Speaker 79 He's a coach on the Detroit Lions right now.

Speaker 12 And every time I see his face, I'm like, oh, remember when he cried on TV?

Speaker 2 Like, that's just his legacy.

Speaker 74 That's just it.

Speaker 65 It's just, he cried on TV.

Speaker 48 Yeah.

Speaker 22 And not Dan Campbell cry, which is like,

Speaker 70 that's the most manly thing you could do when Dan Campbell's just screaming at them.

Speaker 67 Like, I have a plan for you.

Speaker 6 Like, the reason why we're in pads, all I do is think about you guys. Yeah, well, he also sprinkles in here and there, he always says, like, he tosses the word men in.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 And if you just put the men, the word men into a sentence, it just makes it seem like you're for the guys. Yes.
Like, I care about you guys. Yes.

Speaker 6 Billy actually said after watching the episode, he's like, I think I might be Dan Campbell's like lost child.

Speaker 10 I mean, Dan Campbell knows how to get the troops going.

Speaker 2 It was a great episode.

Speaker 12 We also had Dan Campbell, you know, explaining his coaching staff.

Speaker 22 He has just a bunch of guys who played a lot of NFL games.

Speaker 15 And then we had the clip where it was Deuce Staley and Aaron Glenn going at each other in practice.

Speaker 17 And we all kind of looked at each other watching it.

Speaker 10 By the way, shout out the AWL Kyle for hosting us.

Speaker 59 Incredible hosting job.

Speaker 85 He and his wife, like, they were, they put everything out.

Speaker 86 And Winston

Speaker 12 and Winston, the dog and their two friends.

Speaker 87 But awesome time watching at a random idiobio's house we're now three for three or four for four not getting murdered three so we're on a hot streak definitely a thousand percent yeah very cool experience

Speaker 70 record we just show up at a person's house and we're just like yeah let's watch hard knocks but um we all turn to each other including kyle and we're like is do staley and aaron glenn like are they coaching right now or are they just trying to beat each other like in this meaningless scrimmage it was a it was kind of an odd vibe they're playing live-action madden against each other they're looking at the guys that they coach, and they're like, okay, I'm going to kick your ass today.

Speaker 6 You know, it's the exact same thing as when you're playing Madden against your friend, you're talking shit. That's literally what they're doing.

Speaker 6 I feel like I hope that they go back and they look at the tape and actually coach them up.

Speaker 6 But I think more so than ever, like after every practice, they'll probably go back, look at the tape, and Deuce Staley will look at Aaron Glenn on the sidelines and find fucked up, like weird things that he's doing on the sidelines just to roast him about later.

Speaker 6 Right. Not so much like what your own players are doing.

Speaker 1 It was odd coaching.

Speaker 12 I'll just say that. It was just.

Speaker 48 I liked yeah, no, it was intense.

Speaker 6 It's great TV.

Speaker 48 Yeah, like I don't.

Speaker 87 The best part about

Speaker 92 cut around it, too. You never know if they're only using those parts or whatever.

Speaker 64 Yeah, what I was gonna say, the best part about hard knocks is every time I've ever watched hard knocks, and this happens every single year, you watch the team and you're like, this is the best team ever assembled because they're so physical.

Speaker 15 And because, you know, everything's mic'd up, and the pads and everything.

Speaker 17 You're like, this team has grit and they are going to be fucking getting after people.

Speaker 6 One thing I am worried about, though, when it does come time to cut players, Dan Campbell, the crying, he might die cutting a player because he's he's so sad to see one of his men leave yeah and you know how like they always do lip service during the cut days when the coach is like i'll always put in a reference for you i think dan campbell might spend cut day literally calling all 31 teams being like get this guy yeah because you need he needs a job yeah yeah he might just become like an outbound salesperson he also probably like will call their next of ken to notify them yeah like right after they leave he's like hey i regret to inform you that your son has been cut from the Detroit Lions.

Speaker 95 I'm very sorry.

Speaker 17 Yes.

Speaker 48 The other highlights of the show, Aiden Hutchinson singing.

Speaker 15 I just love the moment when they make rookies go up and say what their signing bonus is, and he's like 22 million, and everyone just lost it.

Speaker 12 And then we also had Jamal Williams with the quote of the night when he said, if you're going to piss like a puppy, stay on the porch, let the big dogs eat, which now is a shirt that we're selling in the Barstool Sports Store.

Speaker 48 Thank you, Jamal Williams.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I think Aiden Hutchinson, when he got drafted and before he got drafted, when we were kind of like reading the tea leaves of, yeah, you're going to go to Detroit.

Speaker 6 Den Campbell wants to draft you because he wants to just like wrestle you. He wants you around for your presence.

Speaker 6 I actually think now he drafted him just so that he could watch Penne Sewell and Aiden Hutchinson wrestle each other every single time. Iron Sharpens Iron.
Iron Sharpens Iron.

Speaker 13 By the way, Jake, all-time wild moment.

Speaker 97 Yes, Aiden Hutchinson's first youth football team. The Lions wars jersey, drafted by the Lions.

Speaker 85 His mom was like, oh,

Speaker 46 what about his mom, too? No,

Speaker 99 she said, whoa, Jake.

Speaker 100 Yeah,

Speaker 41 we had a little bit of children on our hands.

Speaker 97 I would have been happy, but I was secretly really hoping it was just the Lions.

Speaker 98 Yeah.

Speaker 6 And it was.

Speaker 70 Also,

Speaker 70 Jake's brother is here right now, and he was like, when he walked in, he's like, Jake is notoriously horny.

Speaker 74 Yes.

Speaker 50 Always. His big mom guy.

Speaker 97 Another moment. That was scary.

Speaker 103 Just like the profession.

Speaker 97 The reporter's phone going off during the press conference. Yeah.

Speaker 61 And he told me.

Speaker 97 If that was me, I would have just like turned in my phone.

Speaker 63 Did you have secondhand embarrassments?

Speaker 101 I turned to Hank.

Speaker 97 I'm like, if that was me, I would just walk out.

Speaker 22 This is why Jake is so, he completes this show so perfectly because I didn't even think twice about that.

Speaker 12 And Jake jotted it down, being like, could you imagine being that reporter?

Speaker 6 It's always funny, too, when somebody's alarm goes off and it's like 1045. Yeah.
It's like, wait, that's your wake-up alarm? Yeah.

Speaker 50 Right now?

Speaker 68 Yeah.

Speaker 2 So, I mean, it was a great episode.

Speaker 89 It was a great episode.

Speaker 13 Great wild moment.

Speaker 60 Great episode.

Speaker 6 Yeah, he's going to be running training camp like it's Moss Pit, which is awesome. Yeah.
Like, it's going to be, they're going to be hitting because studies have shown he is really Billy's father.

Speaker 6 Studies have shown that having, what, velocity and violence in a certain amount. What was the quote, Billy? I know that you paid attention to it.

Speaker 107 Cool Thrones studies, volume, and intensity is essential for a winning season. There we go.

Speaker 6 Studies. Studies are back.

Speaker 89 Hank's right, though. There was, I don't know what HBO is doing to us, but what's up with the 45-minute episode?

Speaker 24 We all were just like, wait, it's over now?

Speaker 97 They needed 60 seconds of DeAndre Hoppy and slow motion.

Speaker 47 It's fucking bullshit.

Speaker 85 Yeah.

Speaker 97 To promo the end season one.

Speaker 62 Give me those 15 seconds.

Speaker 82 Give me that back.

Speaker 2 And then that was actually great.

Speaker 11 After the credits were rolling, the offensive line room when the guy was just like, I don't know what player it was, when he was just like, I have so many cool clothes.

Speaker 67 I can't wait to fit in. He's like, oh man, it's going to be great.

Speaker 6 Yep. And no busting ass in the running backs room either.

Speaker 93 Yes.

Speaker 6 You fart, you're out. Yeah.
And Deuce is going to count to 10 when you go outside.

Speaker 107 You get fined for farting. Yeah.
You said section five or something. Yeah.
So you get fined for farting.

Speaker 95 Yeah.

Speaker 48 I mean, it was a great episode. I'm excited.

Speaker 12 The hard knock season.

Speaker 1 Like, it's one of those things, too, where they can't give us enough Dan Campbell.

Speaker 12 Like, there is no, my thirst for Dan Campbell is unquenched, even after watching 45 minutes of him.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I would like somebody to actually like hold my head under Dan Campbell and just drown in Dan Campbell.

Speaker 34 Yeah, just a pool of Dan Campbell.

Speaker 82 Take me to the deep end of Dan Campbell.

Speaker 60 Just Dan Campbell's tears.

Speaker 6 Like, drown me in Dan Campbell's tears.

Speaker 44 Yes, I'm for it.

Speaker 92 It's definitely coming too, but they kind of foreshadowed it, but we'll get it. We'll get like a full Jared episode.

Speaker 110 Yeah.

Speaker 87 And he's our guy.

Speaker 21 We got to have him back on. Yeah.

Speaker 10 There's a, there's a shout out to one AWL who tweets me every day, being like, it's been this many days since you've had Jared Goff on.

Speaker 28 That guy's doing, he's, he's, he's working hard.

Speaker 6 Open invite.

Speaker 4 Yeah, he's doing, he's doing a good job.

Speaker 12 Speaking of the AWLs, we are in denver we did a meetup it was awesome we had i mean the the line was like we actually at one point we did like a double take because we thought the line was for the game for the rockies game but it was literally a line down the block and you know we got to meet everyone take pictures with everyone but it it was such a like those moments are so cool to remember just how like we have so many fans everywhere and how big the world is and it's like not all these people are the, you know, I know Monday I was like complaining about the very, very vocal minority on Twitter.

Speaker 11 Like, these are all people that just love our show and support us.

Speaker 13 So shout out to all of them.

Speaker 6 I also think that Denver people are amongst the chillest. Yeah.
I would say maybe the chillest city in North America.

Speaker 46 Yeah.

Speaker 6 And the variety of drugs that we were given today by listeners.

Speaker 112 All of them.

Speaker 6 Yeah. It was like every type.
I felt like I was in Hamsterdam. Yeah.

Speaker 85 It was name a drunk.

Speaker 15 Actually, one guy handed PFT a piece of paper and I was like, and PFT was like, what is this?

Speaker 11 And the guy was like, it's a parlay. And I turned to PFT, I was like, I 100% thought that was acid.

Speaker 104 Like, there's no way.

Speaker 48 And it might still be.

Speaker 6 He definitely phrased it like it was acid. He was like, here, here's a folded up piece of paper.
And he was like, hang on to this for later. And I was like, okay, what is it?

Speaker 6 He's like, oh, it's a parlay.

Speaker 85 It's going to hit.

Speaker 6 So I'm going to put the parlay in week one, obviously.

Speaker 112 You have to.

Speaker 6 The napkin parlay.

Speaker 113 Yeah.

Speaker 6 And we'll publicize that. We'll publicize the napkin parlay so other people can.
That could be acid. And if you, yeah.

Speaker 6 And we'll put like, do the math and be like, okay, I'm going to try to win like 800 tabs of acid with this parlay.

Speaker 15 Maybe eat that paper later and let us know how it goes.

Speaker 6 I mean, we're in Denver. It probably has some runoffs.

Speaker 105 Yes.

Speaker 81 Yes.

Speaker 23 And the one, the AWO who saw us on Monday after we did the Torah Course, which was awesome, and he came up to me just dead serious.

Speaker 32 He's just like, big cat, I want you to have my biggest nug.

Speaker 27 And he just took out the biggest fucking nug I've ever seen.

Speaker 12 I was like, okay, cool.

Speaker 6 That guy also had a pair of my sunglasses.

Speaker 20 Somehow.

Speaker 6 he was like I wanted to give you your sunglasses back you left them at the pup punk concert in Denver like eight months ago what a great series of gifts that guy what is yeah dude rocks that dude rocks like who who like just willingly gives away their biggest nugh that's not something you do you keep your biggest snug I've also noticed that everybody in Denver not everyone but a sizable majority of them look a lot like Jake Plummer.

Speaker 103 Yeah, they have mustaches.

Speaker 6 They have bottom hair, mustaches, and they all appear to be in like really good shape, but wearing a dirty t-shirt.

Speaker 85 Yes.

Speaker 60 Yeah, pretty much.

Speaker 81 I mean,

Speaker 60 it's a great city. We've had a great time.

Speaker 33 We went to Coors.

Speaker 36 We went to Colorado, Boulder.

Speaker 60 We got to see the facility there.

Speaker 65 We've been everywhere.

Speaker 14 We went to Jake Palmer's Mushroom Farm. That's coming up in a second.

Speaker 6 My leg really hurts.

Speaker 92 I was given, this is one of the best gifts I've ever been given by an AWL. It's a Baja Blast polo.
I just came to me. He's like, I know you love Baja Blast.
It's too small. I tried it on.

Speaker 92 It's too small for me. It is right up your alley, though, PFC.

Speaker 50 So I'm going to gift

Speaker 93 my favorite gift to you.

Speaker 6 Thank you, Hank.

Speaker 93 Wear it well.

Speaker 114 I know you will.

Speaker 114 I know. You know, I love Baja Blast.

Speaker 92 And I know that's your color. That's a good color for you.

Speaker 6 Low-key diet Baja Blast fucking hits. Yeah.

Speaker 95 It slaps.

Speaker 6 I had one for breakfast the other day. Ooh, nice.
I'm living. I'm living clean.
Yeah, it's crit week.

Speaker 61 Living moss.

Speaker 115 Live clean. Yeah.

Speaker 46 I am living moss.

Speaker 101 Yeah.

Speaker 48 Live moss the whole time. What do you say, Billy?

Speaker 107 I got a Space Force coin. Oh, Space Force officer.

Speaker 112 That was pretty cool. Yeah.

Speaker 6 I think my favorite person that I met today is a listener, and he saves up all of his episodes. Yes.
And he saved up like six months worth of episodes because he goes to work on a fucking submarine.

Speaker 6 Yeah. And so he listens to all part of my tale.
He catches up.

Speaker 47 Like, he's probably listening to the Super Bowl episodes.

Speaker 89 Yeah, he's in the past.

Speaker 27 I was like, so, dude, you're just time traveling.

Speaker 17 He's like, yeah, it's pretty sweet.

Speaker 6 Yeah, he was like, yo, I just heard. like yesterday morning that was fucked up what you said to john cena yeah right right that's yeah his friend just died billy's list list member, the submarine guy.

Speaker 72 Oh, oh, nice. There you go.

Speaker 85 Beautiful.

Speaker 44 Now I kind of like it.

Speaker 97 So let's do premature Super Bowl predictions. He's probably listening to this six months from now, Super Bowl week.

Speaker 103 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 6 So sorry about that war you started with Russia.

Speaker 12 Yeah, that's yeah, that's kind of a bummer.

Speaker 50 You're going to be on high alert.

Speaker 6 That submarine was actually defecting to the United States. You send you all the signals.

Speaker 21 But yeah,

Speaker 15 it was a great time.

Speaker 89 It really is like, I know that we should be used to it, but every time we do a meet and greet like that.

Speaker 21 We didn't think people were going to show up.

Speaker 35 Yeah, well, we knew people were going to show up, but we're like, oh, yeah, Buffalo would have been way more powerful.

Speaker 48 Denver was, that was, I mean, conservative, what do you think?

Speaker 80 A thousand people?

Speaker 27 It was two hours straight of pictures and talking to people.

Speaker 89 And it was like, every time it happens, I should expect it.

Speaker 10 And then it happens.

Speaker 58 I'm like, that was awesome.

Speaker 4 Like, that was really fucking cool that we got to see everyone and like be out with the people.

Speaker 12 So shout out everyone, especially the Cardinals fans who got to see the Merakis just shit down their throat. That was extra fun.

Speaker 93 Well, I think it was a lot of fun.

Speaker 114 There was a lot of Cardinals fans.

Speaker 58 Well, yeah, they're playing. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 111 So, all right.

Speaker 21 What other, we got to talk about a couple other stories.

Speaker 13 Kevin Durant wants Sean Marks and Steve Nash fired.

Speaker 15 So that's the latest in the Nets world.

Speaker 6 I kind of agree with Kevin Durant.

Speaker 60 Well, so here's the thing.

Speaker 6 I think that Sean Marks is a bad GM because he brought Kevin Durant in. Yeah.

Speaker 55 So Kevin Durant's fire.

Speaker 104 Or Kyrie at least.

Speaker 6 They should fire him for bringing him in there. But with Steve Nash, I do agree.
Like Steve Nash, I like him. I think he's a good guy.
I think his players like him as a person.

Speaker 6 But watching him in the playoffs, what was that looking?

Speaker 6 I'm not talking about his coaching, I think, is not good. I think he's...

Speaker 24 He's got to play Blake more.

Speaker 6 Yeah, he needs to play Blake Griffin way more. When we saw him in the playoffs, it was abundantly clear, like he doesn't.
He doesn't fight for his guys at all.

Speaker 92 Yeah, I think the players like, yeah, I don't think the players respect him as a coach. They're just like, he's a cool guy.

Speaker 6 Yeah, just have him as minister of vibes to hang out.

Speaker 89 It is Kevin Durant's pick.

Speaker 12 Like he, you know, maybe he didn't say, I want Steve Nash, but he had to have signed off on it.

Speaker 18 That's the, that's the best part about this whole story is that it comes out that Kevin Durant's demanding both the coach and the GM refire, which is, it feels unprecedented, but I'm sure LeBron's done it many times.

Speaker 89 But you can't, like Joe Sai, you can't, you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube here.

Speaker 70 You, you gave Kevin Durant, like, basically ownership of this team.

Speaker 12 You can't be like, oh my God, how could this happen?

Speaker 48 He wants everyone fired.

Speaker 35 They did the press conference after they got swept by the Celtics being like Kyrie Irving being like, yeah, Kevin and I are got to get together and figure out what's best for this team.

Speaker 1 They run the team.

Speaker 62 You gave them the team.

Speaker 27 You can't be upset that now the guys who you gave the team to are trying to run the team.

Speaker 6 Kevin Durant has left the group chat with Mark. What's his name? Marsh and Steve Nash?

Speaker 72 Yeah, Ben Simmons.

Speaker 96 That was the other part.

Speaker 21 Ben Simmons came out that he,

Speaker 12 before game four, they had a group chat with all the players, and they asked him, like, are you ready to go?

Speaker 23 And he just left the group chat, which is

Speaker 80 a hilarious move.

Speaker 63 Like, whatever you want to say about Ben Simmons,

Speaker 2 leaving the group chat is always a power move.

Speaker 28 I don't know how to leave a group chat.

Speaker 53 Oh, it's so funny.

Speaker 100 I do it all the time.

Speaker 6 I'm still in group chats from neighborhoods that I lived in

Speaker 6 11 years ago. Yeah.
11 years ago. And I get texts all day, and I still haven't figured out how to leave it yet.

Speaker 21 Yeah, I'll leave the group chat.

Speaker 17 I leave the group chat all the time, just as a joke.

Speaker 11 Like, someone says something you don't like, just like leave.

Speaker 119 Because

Speaker 22 it's just a very funny thing to do.

Speaker 102 Then you get added back.

Speaker 6 They should add a feature where if somebody leaves the group chat, you can then like that. Yeah.
Like that they left the group chat.

Speaker 28 Well, I also like to add people back who leave.

Speaker 30 Like Brandon Walker likes to leave group chats, like when we start talking about how Ben Mintz is the king of the south.

Speaker 10 So he'll leave and then I'll immediately add him back being like, you aren't going anywhere.

Speaker 6 Yeah, Ben Simmons did dispute that in a way. he tweeted out must be a slow news day and then some crying face emojis so that's not at all denying

Speaker 20 true

Speaker 6 yes and yeah it is a slow news day yeah yeah it is it's it's fucking August Ben yeah and hard knocks hasn't come out yet yeah yeah and then Roquan Smith

Speaker 59 notes app the bears which is never good so he wants he said that he's being disrespected Ryan Poles, the GM to his credit, did a press conference almost immediately, which I do think is like a little bit of a change because he's like, I'm going to meet this head on.

Speaker 13 And who wants an off-ball linebacker?

Speaker 30 Because it looks like it's up for grabs now.

Speaker 48 Yeah. I mean, he's a good player.

Speaker 1 He's a very good player, but

Speaker 78 the problem is it's one of those situations where he's a very good player, but he's not a position that is like a top, you know, four position on a field that you have to pay.

Speaker 60 Like, it's not a QB.

Speaker 24 It's not an edge rusher. It's not a wide receiver.

Speaker 25 It's not an offensive, like a premier offensive lineman.

Speaker 10 Like, that's, I don't know what you, you got to pay him, but you also don't want to pay him so much.

Speaker 13 Although the cap doesn't matter, fuck it. Pay him.

Speaker 6 I think that linebackers have kind of become the running backs of the defense where you don't need to pay a star.

Speaker 112 You don't need a startup.

Speaker 6 Right. And in a way, like, I miss the old days when it was, you know, like a linebacker-centric league when you had Erlacher and Ray Lewis.
Yeah. It's like the faces of the league.

Speaker 6 That was a good time to be a football fan. Yes.
That was the age of jacked up.

Speaker 68 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 12 And they, I mean, they go hand in hand too, right? The running back position and like running the ball, and yep, those linebackers.

Speaker 31 It's, it's no, it's, it's clear what's happened to the league with the past, you know, heavy league.

Speaker 11 I, I, I hope the Bears figure it out, but I just know that waking up to getting note-sapped by the best player on your team is never a good sign.

Speaker 6 It's not good, no, you can't.

Speaker 48 It was, it was a long note sapp, too.

Speaker 6 He really notes. Was it more than one page? Did you have like two?

Speaker 61 It was two pages, I believe.

Speaker 6 Yeah, yeah, that's tough.

Speaker 30 Yeah, and then Ian Rapport was like,

Speaker 30 you know, instantly had just every detail because Roquan Smith, like, you know, it was told to him and it was, yeah, it's bad, bad scene.

Speaker 6 Let me ask you this.

Speaker 6 In D.C., do you think, would you say it's a good or a bad thing to have your defensive line coach get fired like three weeks into training camp? Good. Do you think that's a good thing? Yeah.

Speaker 52 Because you don't want to go into the season with him.

Speaker 6 If he's bad, get him out. I saw a picture of the new defensive line coach in D.C.

Speaker 6 I think it's an upgrade. Yeah.
This guy just, he was wearing athletic shorts and he had a belt on. That is a fucking coach.
Yeah.

Speaker 76 But you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Like, you don't want to, if there's a problem, deal with it now.

Speaker 84 Yeah. Don't deal with it in October.

Speaker 6 Well, it would be nice to deal with it in January.

Speaker 22 Yeah, of course.

Speaker 17 But, you know, you had to wait till he showed up to realize that he sucked.

Speaker 6 So basically, Rivera spent the last like seven months being like, you know what? This guy really stinks. Maybe I've known him for the last 15 years.
Maybe he'll really turn a corner this spring.

Speaker 108 Yeah, something will be different.

Speaker 46 He'll be different this time. Yeah.

Speaker 15 Yeah. I mean, everyone has that friend.

Speaker 67 It's like, yeah, something will be different now.

Speaker 6 Yeah, but I like the new guy just based on vibes alone.

Speaker 52 That is good vibes.

Speaker 59 Anything else in the world of sports that we got to hit before we hit hot sequel to Chris Sale?

Speaker 6 Chris Sale. Chris Sale, he Joe Biden himself.

Speaker 12 Or Jim Calhoun, the OG of falling off his bike.

Speaker 92 Fell off his bike, broke his hand after the season.

Speaker 99 I don't believe it.

Speaker 6 Yeah, well, so I just don't believe it. I was going to say, like, gut just going off my gut right now until I see video evidence.
I think he was like playing basketball. I think it was something else.

Speaker 28 Yeah, no, I do not believe.

Speaker 44 Because Chris Sale, I want to say,

Speaker 99 who was it?

Speaker 96 Yeah, Chris Sale.

Speaker 12 Chris Sale broke his foot when he was on the White Sox, and he said it was because he was stepping off his truck.

Speaker 70 So he just is the king of weird injuries.

Speaker 29 So

Speaker 6 I don't really buy it. So like Mr.
Bean, how does he have all these freaks? And then he had Tommy John surgery, right? So how many seasons has he played for the Red Sox?

Speaker 92 I got some stats for you. All right, stat me up.
From John Tomasse on Twitter. Signed a five-year, $145 million

Speaker 92 contract extension in 2020. Who did? Chris Sale.
Since then, he's made 11 starts.

Speaker 92 Posted a playoff ERA of eight. Oof.
Missed nearly two years to Tommy John. Contracted COVID, which that just seems like a rickety.

Speaker 50 That's that's awesome.

Speaker 103 Come on, don't throw that on there.

Speaker 43 Come on, everyone in the world has had COVID multiple times.

Speaker 109 Jake had COVID.

Speaker 87 Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 50 Jake Barsh had COVID.

Speaker 103 Yeah.

Speaker 50 Like, I should tell you he can get anywhere.

Speaker 92 Yeah, that's just unnecessary, but it's in the tweet. Broken a rib throwing a pitch.

Speaker 87 Wait, what was that?

Speaker 93 Broken what? Broken a rib. Okay, you can say that slowly.

Speaker 6 Broke a rib throwing a pitch. Yeah.

Speaker 117 He has. This is all the things he has.

Speaker 6 Okay.

Speaker 95 We're still having he has cores.

Speaker 92 Broken a rib throwing a pitch.

Speaker 110 Okay.

Speaker 92 He has broken a pinky on a liner, which that was another one that was a freak injury.

Speaker 6 But that's not like that shit happens.

Speaker 43 Yeah, right.

Speaker 92 If it happens on the field, that's a much different story than like

Speaker 92 getting off a truck or like falling off a bike and broken a rib falling off a bike.

Speaker 52 I want to see his bike, too.

Speaker 79 Because like

Speaker 22 if he can produce the bike within 24 hours, a picture of it, I'll tell you if he fell off it or not.

Speaker 10 Like if he's if he's riding one of those like Tour de France bikes, then I believe it.

Speaker 12 But if he shows a picture of a bike and it's like a mountain bike, there's no way that he fell off his bike.

Speaker 68 Or

Speaker 13 if you ask him to produce a picture of the bike and he just doesn't have a bike, like, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 There are certain people that you can tell, like, they're putting on their fucking cycling, yeah.

Speaker 63 They're putting on their Spandex Lance Armstrong suit, and they're, yeah, they're locking in because that's how you fall.

Speaker 12 Is you lock in, and they're just you know, cycling around everywhere.

Speaker 13 That guy falls off his bike.

Speaker 12 If he's going around on a fucking, I don't even know what they're called.

Speaker 6 Like, probably a Schwinn, a Huffy, a Schwinn, French bike.

Speaker 104 No, no, no, no, I'm saying like the opposite of a French.

Speaker 113 Oh, yeah, yeah, Huffy, a Huffy, a Schwinn, a

Speaker 3 mountain track.

Speaker 6 Just walk outside right here in Denver and see what's on the first t-shirt you see.

Speaker 85 A track?

Speaker 27 That's probably one of the a trucker bike?

Speaker 20 We're a big bicycle.

Speaker 101 You can tell on that.

Speaker 50 A mongoose.

Speaker 81 A mongoose. Yes.

Speaker 82 Thank you, Billy. A mongoose.
That's the Walmart.

Speaker 48 If he's got a mongoose, he didn't fall off that bike.

Speaker 6 I think it's really impressive, though. He's made, what? You said $120 million?

Speaker 79 He's made $20,200.

Speaker 6 Okay, so he's gotten paid $10 million to start.

Speaker 103 Yeah.

Speaker 93 That rocks.

Speaker 17 You know what would be cool is if he fell off pegs.

Speaker 6 Remember pegs? If he was getting driven around by somebody?

Speaker 48 Yeah, if he was on the front pegs. That'd be awesome.

Speaker 56 That would be so fucking cool.

Speaker 64 Pegs were the best um okay anything else in the sports world serena williams retiring oh she did basically

Speaker 101 goat my house

Speaker 101 was the sport of tennis oh uh losing great oh serena williams oh is she retiring or is she doing like uh she's slowly like she's doing a golf she's gonna play again yeah

Speaker 78 and she's not even the good one no she is she is

Speaker 70 oh yeah yeah yeah venus yeah yeah venus is the older sister yeah yeah yeah serena's the goat

Speaker 85 yeah she is the goat yeah

Speaker 97 tennis tennis is popular sports podcast, so I figure we've got to talk about it.

Speaker 21 Didn't she marry that dude who created Reddit or something?

Speaker 97 I think it's Alexis Ohanian. Yeah.

Speaker 11 Yeah, I think so.

Speaker 56 Ah!

Speaker 81 All right, and that was talking tennis.

Speaker 67 Thanks, Jake.

Speaker 19 Oh, and the Oreos are back.

Speaker 103 They keep winning.

Speaker 83 Fuck you, Hank. What are you looking like that for?

Speaker 100 You gave up.

Speaker 109 I didn't give up.

Speaker 87 I couldn't cash out the bet.

Speaker 42 The bet's still there.

Speaker 102 I didn't give up.

Speaker 82 I said I didn't like the fact that they gave up.

Speaker 20 But I didn't give up.

Speaker 48 I said, fuck them.

Speaker 56 Oh, I giving up a little.

Speaker 57 But I'm back.

Speaker 81 I get a mulligan.

Speaker 12 All right, let's do Hot Seat, Cool Throw, and then we'll get to Jake Plummer, which is a great, great interview.

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Speaker 109 PFT, hot seat. Or Hank, PFT,

Speaker 20 Hank.

Speaker 61 Hot seat thrown.

Speaker 6 Hank, I want you to go first because you were so nice and you gave me this Baja blast.

Speaker 15 It's fucking me up that we're like, I feel like I'm being interviewed.

Speaker 114 Maybe you are.

Speaker 37 Oh, shit.

Speaker 92 My hot seat is Kelly O'Linick. Yeah.
The clinic. Yeah.
Former Celtic great. Former, I think, was he on the Bullets?

Speaker 100 Was he on the

Speaker 92 Washington Great?

Speaker 6 Who cares?

Speaker 92 He got married. He has long hair, too.
He's got, you know, allegedly seems like he has

Speaker 92 appearance and flow.

Speaker 17 You guys are like Jeep guys?

Speaker 92 He got married, put his wedding photos out, and he wore a snapback and all his wedding photos, and it's getting destroyed on the internet.

Speaker 6 You can't do a snapback. No,

Speaker 92 he was wearing, he was doing Jordan's too, which I think that's a little bit, you know, you can maybe make that work.

Speaker 102 Yeah, people do that now.

Speaker 20 Yeah.

Speaker 92 But snapback is crazy.

Speaker 110 What about top hat?

Speaker 6 I feel like top hats.

Speaker 20 With a tuxedo?

Speaker 6 I mean, I mean, like a scalloped. Or scally.

Speaker 6 I'm thinking like Abraham Lincoln top hat. Yeah.

Speaker 61 Yeah, with a tuxedo. Yeah.

Speaker 92 Do you have a nice enough tuxedo?

Speaker 92 Like, you can, you can, you can make it look fly, but you can't, like, you can make the old school hats look good because, like, tuxedo is an old school look, but a snapback just doesn't go.

Speaker 85 It was a tough look.

Speaker 28 But I guess he doesn't give a fuck.

Speaker 32 He's made how much money?

Speaker 68 How much money has he made?

Speaker 50 Oh, man.

Speaker 31 Is this going to bum you out?

Speaker 6 Remember when he played Kevin Love's shoulder?

Speaker 92 That was just all in the game. That was the same thing as Jimmy Butler.
People look too far into that stuff.

Speaker 104 Kelly Olinik, career earnings.

Speaker 35 Everyone take a guess.

Speaker 92 $89 million. Yeah, fuck.

Speaker 46 Hank took my number.

Speaker 67 You said 89?

Speaker 19 90 million.

Speaker 92 He's going to be one of these guys. It's like $120 or something.

Speaker 85 No.

Speaker 93 50.

Speaker 2 So far in his career, he's made 70.

Speaker 68 But

Speaker 59 he's set to make his next two years because I think they're all guaranteed 95.

Speaker 87 That's nuts.

Speaker 41 Yeah. That's nuts.

Speaker 34 It just

Speaker 92 his biggest contribution to any team was to Kevin Love.

Speaker 6 Yeah, well, he's a big contribution. If you're 6'8, you should make $50 million playing basketball.

Speaker 116 Otherwise, you're a failure.

Speaker 6 There's really no excuse.

Speaker 53 Yes, correct.

Speaker 6 If I was 6'8, you'd all be 50.

Speaker 108 It would have been over.

Speaker 101 You'd be dunking on ball.

Speaker 6 I'd I'd be in three Hall of Fames. Yeah.

Speaker 6 And my cool throne is Mississippi State.

Speaker 92 I've honestly talked a lot of shit about Mississippi State. It was my least favorite school to visit.
I put it on the Mount Flushmore of colleges, I think, when we did that or something.

Speaker 92 But in their new stadium,

Speaker 92 in their balcony seats at Davis Wade, it's going to allow fans to bring in their own refrigerator games to store cool beverages. So, like, they're elevated bleacher seats with like room underneath.

Speaker 6 I like that. They're doing this.

Speaker 114 That's great.

Speaker 92 It's innovation at its finest.

Speaker 6 They're doing the thing where, you know, you have to make your stadiums feel more like somebody's home because you're competing against people staying home and watching games from their couch.

Speaker 6 They're really taking that to the next stage.

Speaker 68 Or it's like NASCAR.

Speaker 68 Yeah.

Speaker 92 Which is great. That's one of the pretty much the best part about

Speaker 85 NASCAR.

Speaker 60 More stadiums need to be like Maxion, too, where you can leave.

Speaker 81 Northern Illinois does it.

Speaker 4 I think a couple other ones do it too, where you can leave at halftime and go tailgate and come back.

Speaker 86 That's a great

Speaker 92 step in the right direction.

Speaker 97 Also, shot at Mississippi State playing in the inaugural Barstool Sports Invitational for basketball.

Speaker 61 Yes, yes. Couple of people.
And our guy Jelly.

Speaker 80 Yes. Our guy Jelly, Andy Kennedy.

Speaker 97 Motor Philly, November 11th in Philly.

Speaker 4 The big UAB guys this year.

Speaker 6 Is that it, Hank?

Speaker 68 Yeah. Okay.
Okay. Very good.

Speaker 6 Good job, Hank. Thanks.
My hot seat is Domino's.

Speaker 6 Putting Domino's Pizza on the hot seat. They just got kicked out of Italy.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 6 You can't lose Italy. You know how bad?

Speaker 50 You can't. You can't.
You can't. You can't lose Italy.

Speaker 60 If you're a pizza place and you lose Italy,

Speaker 6 that's like if you're selling heroin and you lose Baltimore.

Speaker 85 You can't do it. It's bad.

Speaker 53 You can't do it.

Speaker 6 You're running a bad business at that point. And so they were so unpopular in Italy, they were just like,

Speaker 6 we're just going to go home.

Speaker 6 We're going to pack up our shit and leave because I guess Italians don't like pizza.

Speaker 104 Yeah.

Speaker 6 I guess it's a Papa John's country. I don't know.

Speaker 50 Oh my God.

Speaker 6 That sucks. It's really bad.
That's really bad.

Speaker 89 It's so fucked.

Speaker 17 Yeah,

Speaker 21 you cannot lose Italy if you're a pizza company.

Speaker 6 Probably the first pizza company to ever have to fold up shop in Italy.

Speaker 100 Yeah.

Speaker 118 What the fuck? It's bad.

Speaker 6 Damn. So RIP Dominoes, and then my cool throne.
Give me one second here.

Speaker 6 My cool throne is going to be Cam Smith.

Speaker 6 Because Cam Smith...

Speaker 6 Recurring guest on part of my take, he came on right after he won the Open Championship.

Speaker 6 He's leaving the PGA tour and going to the Live Tour.

Speaker 50 Oh, allegedly.

Speaker 6 As first reported by Pardon My Tape.

Speaker 50 All right.

Speaker 93 Yeah. I like that.

Speaker 68 Please credit.

Speaker 6 Well, no, he said that he would do it today, but I reported that like two days after the open. Yeah, please credit.
I'm a golf insider.

Speaker 61 And he won't admit it, right?

Speaker 26 He refuses to acknowledge it.

Speaker 87 Yeah, he's just an Irish guy dying.

Speaker 68 Yeah.

Speaker 6 And Saudi helloing. So he's going to be joining the Live Tour.

Speaker 46 $100 million.

Speaker 6 Pretty good. But then the report came out today that there was a Live lawyer that said, I mean, just saying it out loud, like being a lawyer for the LiveTour, that's got to be a very scary profession.

Speaker 6 Your whole life is like better call Saul.

Speaker 6 He's saying that the money that's won by the players in tournaments is actually recouped against the Live contracts.

Speaker 6 So I guess if they pay you $100 million and you win a tournament, it's just like, we're going to take that off your tab so you don't get an extra check.

Speaker 6 Even though LiveTour has been saying all along that the money that you win in a tournament is on top of that. One of their lawyers publicly said today that's recouped against the live contracts.

Speaker 6 So big controversy now.

Speaker 6 Who would have thought that Mohammed bin Salman might have some underhanded business dealings?

Speaker 28 Is the live running out of money?

Speaker 55 They might be.

Speaker 6 They might be in bad trouble. Yeah.
So I hope that's a good idea.

Speaker 93 I think that's a significant clause.

Speaker 6 If you paid me $100 million and you're like, if you win, we're just going to take that out. I would be the worst golfer ever.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like if we've said $100 million is our number, if the Live got us for $100 million

Speaker 11 and then we we have the Aaron Rodgers episode that does numbies, and they're like, Yeah, actually, that's coming off your tab.

Speaker 123 I'm out. Fuck that.
Yeah, I'm out. You know what?

Speaker 111 That's where my morals, morals step up. Yep.

Speaker 6 I'm like, I don't think this is cool anymore when the check doesn't clear.

Speaker 6 That's as far as I go.

Speaker 111 I start having real strong thoughts on a global scale.

Speaker 124 Yep.

Speaker 6 Yeah. All right.
That does it for me. Okay.

Speaker 21 Thanks for watching. My hot seat.
Yeah, good job.

Speaker 6 My hot seat

Speaker 13 is Beth Mullens and the Beth Mullens game.

Speaker 21 It's dead.

Speaker 20 It's gone.

Speaker 31 So Big Ten

Speaker 27 has their new contract, new deal.

Speaker 123 It's Fox primarily, and then they also have NBC and CBS.

Speaker 18 So the Big Ten is going to be on, I think they're going to do all the windows on Saturday where it's 12 o'clock, 3.30, and like a night game on all three networks.

Speaker 15 So that means, unfortunately, ESPN will not have the Big Ten, and we will not have Beth Moens

Speaker 32 putting us, you know, in a perfect spot on a Saturday morning watching Purdue and Northwestern have a punt off.

Speaker 15 And I'm going to miss that because that game means a lot to me.

Speaker 6 Yeah, it's kind of like soccer adjacent, where there's not going to be a lot of scoring. It's going to be on early in the morning.
It's going to introduce your day like calmly.

Speaker 6 It's going to ease you into a long day of football.

Speaker 80 There was nothing better than watching game day and then having it just immediately, like the hype of game day, then just flip over to like a dreary Big Ten campus with a half-fill filled stadium late in like November and just being put to sleep.

Speaker 52 And it was just great.

Speaker 6 And those games are always 0-3 in the second quarter.

Speaker 101 Yeah. And they raise zero time.

Speaker 97 Corso puts on the headgear and then boom, boom off.

Speaker 50 Welcome.

Speaker 83 Yeah, right.

Speaker 89 And it's just, I'm going to miss that.

Speaker 22 That was part of my Saturday.

Speaker 10 It was a great way to ease you into Saturday because like I'm, I don't like, and I know that like the big noon kickoff and everything, I don't like having a huge game right away.

Speaker 84 I like to ease my way in because you know there'll be, there's so many games going on.

Speaker 48 I want to just watch all the other games and then be like, all right, 3.30 is a huge game.

Speaker 70 8 o'clock is a huge game.

Speaker 62 I need to ease my way in.

Speaker 6 Well, it would honestly be fucked up to have a game that started at 11 o'clock be a 50 to 40 game. Right.
I wouldn't like that. Right.
It's like, this is too much.

Speaker 13 Right, exactly.

Speaker 12 So I'm very sad that that's gone.

Speaker 69 And then my cool throne is me because Colin Coward, of all people,

Speaker 22 did a better job and more gracious job of explaining my size problems, as Hank has said,

Speaker 103 than anyone else.

Speaker 47 That's a direct quote.

Speaker 104 Talking about length of your feet and legs.

Speaker 114 Oh, really? Yeah, that's it. Yeah.

Speaker 6 Coward. He has notoriously long feet.

Speaker 22 Coward

Speaker 12 talked about our Aaron Rodgers interview, and he is now going on seven years of the running gag of pretending he doesn't know who we are.

Speaker 27 He dropped the PFT commentator.

Speaker 92 He always plays.

Speaker 6 That's basically my name. Yeah.

Speaker 6 I get that a good seven times a year from prominent people.

Speaker 92 Or PMT commenter.

Speaker 112 Yeah, PFT commentator. That happens occasionally.

Speaker 76 And then he described me as a stand-up comedian, big guy, big physical presence.

Speaker 74 And I

Speaker 27 like at this point, I respect Coward for doing this because he is so committed to it. The guy is obsessed with sports coverage, podcasting, all these things.

Speaker 12 So for him to pretend he doesn't know what the number one sports podcast is, I actually tip my cap.

Speaker 13 But it's funny.

Speaker 6 And he also went out of his way to unfollow us both at the same time, like three years ago. Right.
When we we were roasting him. So he knows exactly who we are.

Speaker 62 Of course he does.

Speaker 89 Dude, he's like, someone like that is.

Speaker 92 He has a podcast network.

Speaker 1 He has a podcast network.

Speaker 63 He's obsessed with numbers and all these things.

Speaker 54 But again,

Speaker 47 at first,

Speaker 30 when we were like in year three or four, I was like, oh, that's fucked up.

Speaker 12 Like, he should know who we are. Now he definitely knows who we are, and he's doing it as a bit, and I respect it.

Speaker 20 Cowardly herd.

Speaker 99 I respect it.

Speaker 107 His daughter follows all of us.

Speaker 20 Oh,

Speaker 50 bonk.

Speaker 6 Sup?

Speaker 114 Bonk.

Speaker 6 I got a funny Colin Coward story. This is back in like 2014, I want to say.
I went to South by Southwest. Were you pissing next to him? No, I wasn't peeing next to him.
One day.

Speaker 6 I was cheering him so hard. So I go to this South by Southwest event, and it's me, I'm meeting up with Cliff Kingsbury.
Or not Cliff Kingsbury.

Speaker 20 What, huh?

Speaker 47 Kirk Goldsbury. Okay.

Speaker 116 I always fucked that one.

Speaker 61 A little bit of a mess.

Speaker 119 Yeah.

Speaker 79 So it's me. Kirk's more.

Speaker 20 He's hotter.

Speaker 96 And he also has accomplished more.

Speaker 50 He's got a gold medal.

Speaker 47 Yeah, so it's me and Kirk.

Speaker 6 And Kirk, we go to South by Southwest and Colin Coward's there. And so he's like, okay, I want to go up and introduce myself to Colin.
I think he might know who I am. So I just stand there.

Speaker 6 I'm watching the two of them shake hands. And Colin's talking real close to him.
And he spits on him while he talks.

Speaker 6 And it's like it's one giant bubble of spit that comes out of Cow Turd's mouth and it lands right on Kirk's face.

Speaker 6 And he doesn't know what to do about it, but he starts like looking at me out of the corner out of his eye, being like, I can't wipe this off because

Speaker 6 Colin knows that he spit on me, but I don't want Colin to feel bad that he spit on me.

Speaker 6 And it becomes like a Mexican standoff of like, is Colin going to stop talking or is Kirk going to be able to extricate himself from the conversation and wipe the spit off his face?

Speaker 6 And to his credit, he stuck through the entire conversation, turned to me, goes, oh my God, Colin Coward just spit on my face.

Speaker 6 Wipes himself down.

Speaker 87 It is that I think that Kirk played it well because you have to, as the spitter, you have to acknowledge that you spit.

Speaker 79 Yeah, that's on you to be like, you have to be like, oh, I'm so sorry.

Speaker 28 But if you don't do that, then yeah, you can't be like, dude, you just spit on me.

Speaker 72 Yep.

Speaker 92 Cowards, yeah, can't admit anything.

Speaker 41 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 46 Yeah, he's got a problem.

Speaker 48 He does. He does.

Speaker 6 See, Colin, let me explain this to you in a way you might understand. You're like Blockbuster, okay?

Speaker 63 And we're like Netflix.

Speaker 6 You had your shot, Colin, and you missed it.

Speaker 20 Colin, you are

Speaker 19 the first wife.

Speaker 22 We're the second wife, the hot wife, the wife that's 20 years younger.

Speaker 50 That everyone's like, ooh, look at his new wife.

Speaker 34 That's us.

Speaker 6 You want to have fun with us, but I don't think you can rock this body, Colin.

Speaker 60 Oh, then my other cool throne is sportsmanship because Little League World Series is back and everyone loves sportsmanship.

Speaker 5 I hate it.

Speaker 6 I only deserve double sportsmanship.

Speaker 99 Dave, what?

Speaker 106 Specific scenarios.

Speaker 27 Yes, yes.

Speaker 60 Our boss, Dave, got roasted on Twitter. He was trending.

Speaker 17 I just loved it because, like, if you didn't expect Dave to tweet exactly that, like, welcome to the show.

Speaker 19 The show's been going for a long time.

Speaker 91 That's the show.

Speaker 54 He has that take every year, and people get mad about it every year.

Speaker 6 What was his take?

Speaker 95 It's Hank's role right now. Yeah, it was

Speaker 20 actually.

Speaker 105 I'm not fucking explaining it back to that.

Speaker 93 That's a great.

Speaker 85 That's good work.

Speaker 41 A kid.

Speaker 50 Dave hasn't come out yet.

Speaker 92 When it does, people are going to, I'm going to be vindicated.

Speaker 102 A kid got beaned

Speaker 96 in the head, and then the pitcher, these are 12-year-old boys, 11, 12.

Speaker 13 The pitcher was shaking up because he rocked him with a fastball to the dome, was crying on the mound, and then the kid went and consoled him and was like, it's okay, I'm going to be okay.

Speaker 17 And then Dave was like, this is bullshit.

Speaker 85 You're trying to play for Spotted Williams sport.

Speaker 12 That's the pitcher's plate. And like, why would you ever let him off the hook when you have that kid was leaning on?

Speaker 114 What would Dan Campbell say to that?

Speaker 79 Dude, no, like I said, he's been running the same play for a very long time.

Speaker 12 The internet gets mad about it every time.

Speaker 6 They can't stop it.

Speaker 46 Yeah, they can't stop it.

Speaker 118 He's going to keep doing it.

Speaker 65 Everyone just piles on, and they're like, this is what, like, if you didn't know this was the play, he's going to run power right

Speaker 6 until you can until your defensive line can step together.

Speaker 17 No, it's no, he's going to run power right until you stop quote retweeting it and saying Dave Portnoy is a piece of shit.

Speaker 22 Like, and then getting your retweets.

Speaker 17 Yep. So just keep happening.

Speaker 102 All right.

Speaker 50 Uh, Billy.

Speaker 107 My hot seat is the Jets offensive line. Uh, Makai Bechten shattered his right kneecap and is out for the season.

Speaker 68 What?

Speaker 50 That sounds painful.

Speaker 53 Billy.

Speaker 20 That's bad.

Speaker 118 It's bad. Oh, no.

Speaker 55 It's bad.

Speaker 107 Zach Wilson getting sacked on four out of five dropbacks in practice right after it happened.

Speaker 41 Oh, no. Bad.

Speaker 114 But

Speaker 107 Makai Bechton had been playing in practice before that, and last season didn't get much playing time due to injuries. So

Speaker 107 still positive. And still positive.

Speaker 6 We know he He doesn't need protection.

Speaker 79 Because the guy, because the first-round pick has always been injured, it's not a big deal that he got injured again.

Speaker 68 Actually, no.

Speaker 104 Yep. Yeah.
No, I actually buy that.

Speaker 41 You know,

Speaker 5 you're right. I am right.

Speaker 75 You're right.

Speaker 48 You can't rely on him, so to lose him is not a big deal.

Speaker 6 Yeah, so he hasn't,

Speaker 6 he was really overweight, right?

Speaker 107 There were eyewitness accounts.

Speaker 20 Maybe in this room

Speaker 107 in practice who saw him puking puking after

Speaker 107 like 11 on 11 drills?

Speaker 107 Maybe that I was count.

Speaker 6 It's his stomach crying, though. That's good.
Yeah.

Speaker 107 So, I mean, who knows? I think maybe this time we'll do him well, mature, and we'll see him next year.

Speaker 6 The shattered kneecap could be really good for his NFL career, is what you're saying.

Speaker 20 Trying to be optimistic.

Speaker 6 Because I was talking to memes about it earlier, and memes, I think, is probably the biggest Jets fan that we have on this podcast, right? I'd say so, probably. And

Speaker 6 he was really not that concerned about Makai. He was like, you know what? Kind of what you said, like he's been injured.
He's overweight. Reports were that he might even get cut.

Speaker 89 Yeah, if he's always injured.

Speaker 96 Yeah.

Speaker 84 And he's just injured again, no big deal.

Speaker 103 Exactly.

Speaker 107 Okay. And my cool throne is studies because of Dan Campbell.
And my other cool throne is Jake Paul's boxing career because he might be fighting Andrew Tate.

Speaker 104 by the end of the year. Whoa, okay.

Speaker 6 I think that'd actually be a very fun fight to watch.

Speaker 11 You're two heroes going up against

Speaker 61 Saturday.

Speaker 107 No, regular boxing.

Speaker 76 Billy, are you going to be like Brady Quinn's

Speaker 85 or A.J.

Speaker 60 Hawk's sister and wear a splint jersey of them?

Speaker 107 I don't even know.

Speaker 6 Billy's not going to be able to watch you because it's like Brady Quinn's sister.

Speaker 50 I can't watch either one of them.

Speaker 61 I'm Andrew Tate fan.

Speaker 107 You guys just put that on me because it's funny.

Speaker 6 No, you are. Don't lie.

Speaker 6 Billy, you showed me Andrew Tate for the first time. Yeah, because

Speaker 6 he's been trending. Oh, the top G.

Speaker 41 Billy likes.

Speaker 47 Take his bigger top G fan.

Speaker 6 You like observing Andrew Tate like one would a zoo animal. Just like study their habits and then maybe also pick up one or two of them.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 Ironically, but then it evolves into reality.

Speaker 65 He likes to study them and be like, wow.

Speaker 40 Okay, Jake.

Speaker 77 This crocodile isn't letting the female crocodiles drive a car.

Speaker 111 I kind of dig them.

Speaker 6 The funniest thing ever, though, is Andrew Tate was talking about how bad women drivers are.

Speaker 6 And his examples that he was giving are, he's like, I've been in like a dozen car accidents, and they're all with women. It's like, wait, dude, you've been in 12 car accidents?

Speaker 75 You have been in 12 car accidents.

Speaker 50 Yeah.

Speaker 97 My hot seat's watching the Philadelphia Phillies.

Speaker 97 So Keith Hernandez, the broadcaster for the Mets, he said on the Mets broadcast tonight that he asked SNY to not make him call games against the Phillies because he doesn't like watching them play.

Speaker 120 Whoa.

Speaker 106 Talk about an alpha movie.

Speaker 15 I love Keith Hernandez.

Speaker 124 Yeah, he's an OT. He's crazy.

Speaker 97 Could you imagine? One day, if I'm fortunate enough to call the NFL, they assign me Commanders, Bears, just two teams. And I'm like, no.

Speaker 43 Yeah. You just just watched it.

Speaker 61 I just watched those players as examples.

Speaker 104 Like, two teams you don't like watching play?

Speaker 101 Two random games.

Speaker 120 Yeah, two random teams.

Speaker 32 Actually, if you ever are calling NFL games, you get the commanders and bears, can you just, before the game, pull the cord on the truck so we don't have to watch it?

Speaker 118 Yeah, actually, that would be the nice thing.

Speaker 6 I'm going to give you U-Haul filled with fertilizer that you can drive into the stadium beforehand.

Speaker 17 Please, like, that would be the nice thing to do.

Speaker 61 Yeah, no, I would be fortunate to call it National.

Speaker 93 Spare the NFL.

Speaker 97 Spare the Nation. Yeah.
So I would never say no to any. Yeah.

Speaker 10 Yeah. But say no to that.
Give me

Speaker 97 16 Browns versus Owen 16 Lions. The two teams on a field together.

Speaker 28 Jake, you don't want to do that first.

Speaker 12 That would be like a one-star doing anal in their first scene.

Speaker 27 Like, you don't, where are you going to go?

Speaker 102 Where are you going to go?

Speaker 6 And he is a butt guy. Yeah.

Speaker 108 Come on.

Speaker 102 You got to. Come on.

Speaker 103 Where are you going to?

Speaker 97 I would still enjoy it.

Speaker 61 Jake said he would still enjoy it.

Speaker 75 An opportunity to get better.

Speaker 6 You know what?

Speaker 6 Like, there is probably like a 0.000001% chance that everybody involved with Thursday Night Football gets COVID during the week that the Bears are playing against the Commanders this year.

Speaker 6 And they're like, what can we do? Next man up.

Speaker 56 And

Speaker 62 I hope they play this clip.

Speaker 83 And they're like, look how wild this is.

Speaker 15 They talked about it before.

Speaker 97 I'm ready to go.

Speaker 85 What a story now.

Speaker 27 And then whoever you're broadcasting with is like, so.

Speaker 11 The anal thing is still on the table.

Speaker 74 Jesus.

Speaker 97 And my cool throne, a popular guy on the podcast these days, Sean McVay. So after we put him on our Mount Rushmore, he got a contract extension.
Coincidence?

Speaker 50 Yeah. Well, no, no.

Speaker 61 No, not that. No, definitely not.

Speaker 50 Obviously not.

Speaker 97 ESPN also did a profile on him.

Speaker 40 The photo shoot.

Speaker 10 I know.

Speaker 83 Doesn't help.

Speaker 42 Yeah. He also, I was reading it.

Speaker 6 That was his idea to pose like this.

Speaker 97 His hands are behind his back. Yeah.

Speaker 27 I was reading the profile, and it was just like, Sean McVay is a psycho.

Speaker 2 I was like, yep, we knew that.

Speaker 6 I don't like how he got drunk and decided to trade away Jared Goff. Yeah, that was my big takeaway from it.
That was not cool.

Speaker 6 He was like, I had a bunch of tequila and then came home, and I said, I got on FaceTime with the GM and said, we need to let our nuts hang. Let's trade for Matthew Stafford.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 It was a bad idea.

Speaker 6 They would have won the Super Bowl by more if Jared Goff was their quarterback.

Speaker 4 There also was an anecdote in it where he was moving houses, like he was upgrading, and it was basically, you know, his life is changing.

Speaker 70 He got married.

Speaker 28 And I guess he didn't want to move.

Speaker 48 His wife didn't want him to move move the uh basketball hoop the pool hoop uh to the new house it's like what's what's the point of being rich if you can't have a fucking hoop in your pool like that's fun yeah so sean mcvey i don't know it's like gordon bombay put the fucking beach ball out on the ice or get a second get a second pool yeah just for like full court yeah pool basketball yeah get a slam ball court too hell yeah why not that's the whole point of it Okay, good job, Jake.

Speaker 28 Are you guys ready for Jake Plumber?

Speaker 47 This was an awesome interview.

Speaker 12 Oh, I wanted to say one thing before we get to Jake Plummer.

Speaker 27 Jake texts me after.

Speaker 25 So the Umbo company that he owns, The Bars, he forgot to mention he co-owns it with Rashad Evans, former UFC, I think,

Speaker 5 he had a belt.

Speaker 65 Yeah, he was a huge UFC guy.

Speaker 59 So they're doing that together.

Speaker 27 Check it out.

Speaker 32 We should have Rashad on sometime. But Jake Plummer.

Speaker 6 Great interview. Maybe the coolest guy ever.

Speaker 34 Coolest guy ever.

Speaker 12 Great interview.

Speaker 15 Before we do that, PFT, PFT, you got a quick word.

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Speaker 58 We are,

Speaker 12 we're welcoming on The Man, the Myth, the Legend.

Speaker 45 It is Jake the Snake, Plumber.

Speaker 123 We are in, I don't even know what is, is this a mushroom refrigerator?

Speaker 122 I don't know what the technical term is for where we are sitting right now.

Speaker 123 I want to set the stage for the people while they might hear some drilling or something in the background.

Speaker 19 What's this room called?

Speaker 40 This is,

Speaker 40 thanks for being here, by the way, in my favorite room, surrounded by a lovely rashi mushroom, which is my favorite.

Speaker 40 This is a fruiting room, basically where we bring them out of the dark room that, you know, is low light,

Speaker 40 constant temperature, kind of cooler, trying to recreate what they would be under the ground in their mycelial network before they come out.

Speaker 40 And then we introduce oxygen and humidity, and then they come out of the bags. Once we cut them open, they want oxygen, so they just come right out.

Speaker 50 It's beautiful.

Speaker 6 Yeah, it is. You said they're reishi mushrooms.
What are reishi mushrooms?

Speaker 40 Reishi are mushrooms considered the mushroom of immortality.

Speaker 94 That sounds.

Speaker 120 Yeah.

Speaker 40 A lot of vitality. There's a link from heaven to earth.

Speaker 40 Back in China, they call it Ling Zi, and the emperor would actually behead you if he found you going anywhere but to the palace with a reishi on your body. So they've been used in

Speaker 40 a lot of spiritual work. The shamans, a lot of shamans they've found buried have Reishi necklaces or reishi

Speaker 40 in their tomb and where they've been buried. So very grounding mushroom.

Speaker 40 You know, very good for you, really. I should say, like a blanket over your central nervous system.

Speaker 43 Yeah.

Speaker 40 Yeah. Yeah, just a nice calming effect.
And really one of my favorite mushrooms, the one I take every single day. It's helped me with,

Speaker 40 I don't have really bad allergies anymore. So yeah, we could go on and on.
But this is a beautiful fruiting room, one of three that we have here at Michael Love Farms.

Speaker 12 So we want to talk about everything Jake your football career the mushrooms everything

Speaker 93 but we start every interview grit week with a simple question what does the word grit mean to you and you can take it any direction you want

Speaker 40 It's the worst when you're camping and you get some food, you take a bite and you start chewing and there's like somehow some campfire dirt or

Speaker 43 something. That's great.

Speaker 43 That is great.

Speaker 40 That's what I think of immediately is just something like that. Yeah.

Speaker 20 What about in football terms?

Speaker 40 Grit is just like being kind of tough, nasty, showing up when you need to every time and like

Speaker 40 kind of being coarse and tough and getting after it. You know, when you have to change, you got to be able to dig deep.
Grit is where you got to go to. You got to go down and get that dirt.
Yeah.

Speaker 43 Yeah.

Speaker 6 That's a good answer. Is there somebody that you played with in the course of your career that you would say like that's the grittiest dude?

Speaker 5 Ooh, man.

Speaker 40 There were so many. I mean, just guys that you could count on, tough dudes that got it done.
Mike Anderson was a guy I played with,

Speaker 40 a running back, fullback. I mean, just tough.
Big really, yeah, just solid ex-Marine. So he was like, he could go where he needed to go to get it.
Yeah. And you needed it.

Speaker 40 You know, like, hey, it's fourth and one. We need this.
I'm going to give it to Mike Anderson. Yeah.
And Ruben Drones. Those are two running backs played with.
And Larry Sinters.

Speaker 40 I mean, I could go on and on. Grit goes in a lot of different depths with certain players.
But when I think Grit too, I think kind of like kind of like a...

Speaker 40 Not dirty in a bad way, but in dirty and just like a guy that doesn't mind bloody dirt getting after it.

Speaker 71 Get that extra yard.

Speaker 122 Get this dog in him. Yeah.
Nasty.

Speaker 47 Yes. Yes.

Speaker 94 So, I mean, your career is fascinating.

Speaker 71 I want to start at the end, actually, because I was reading a story, the Sports Illustrated story that you had out, I don't know, like seven or eight years ago, talking about your retirement and you left on the table.

Speaker 10 John Gruden flew to you trying to get you.

Speaker 71 You got traded to the Buccaneers.

Speaker 27 You were going to make, you know, $5 million, $6 million a year.

Speaker 94 And John Gruden flies to Idaho to have a meeting with you and your wife to try to convince you to play football.

Speaker 66 And you're like, no, I'm done.

Speaker 45 I don't really want to play anymore.

Speaker 10 And guys look at that and they're like, what is this guy doing?

Speaker 71 Like, he's 32.

Speaker 59 There's, you know, it's a dream job for a lot of people, but you always seem to march to a different, you know, your own, the beat of your own drum.

Speaker 45 What went through your mind when you were like processing, like, do I want to move to Tampa Bay?

Speaker 4 Do I want to keep this career going?

Speaker 45 Or I'm just, I'm ready to walk away.

Speaker 40 Yeah, I mean, interesting lead up to that. And in 2005, we had our best season, my best season ever in the NFL, and we lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC championship game.

Speaker 40 I had plans to go to the Super Bowl that year, to be the MVP, to hold the trophy, and on the stage, turn to everybody and say, hey, it's been a great ride.

Speaker 48 Peace out.

Speaker 128 Oh, shit.

Speaker 40 I wanted a ring. I mean, that's what I was going for.
I wanted to win a Super Bowl. I didn't want a ring.
I mean, I wanted to win the Super Bowl. Right.
Five-year-old, six-year-old, that was my dream.

Speaker 40 So if I was going to do that, then I would be ready to be that dream done. Check that off.
Let's go. It didn't happen.
So I came back that 10th season. Kubiak left.

Speaker 40 It wasn't the most smooth coming into the season. There was, you know, some miscommunication between me and Mike Shanahan.
Yeah.

Speaker 40 And then I was made an example of being not committed to the team. And if you recall, that's when we had drafted Jay Cutler in the offseason.

Speaker 40 So the crack and the crack had been formed right there of like, okay, my team knew I was committed. My coach tell me, you should go there more often.
You look great in practice.

Speaker 40 So I took some time off, get ready for my 10th season, you know, and it didn't go so well. I ended up getting benched 4J.
Jay came in and played as a rookie.

Speaker 40 It was hard at first, but then I kind of realized, like,

Speaker 40 this is my time to enjoy this, enjoy these last five, six games, ride this out, and then be ready to retire. And no one knew.
I'd already made my mind up during the season.

Speaker 40 And then New Year's Eve, when we, you know, we had the awful thing happen to Darren Williams. Yeah.
That was kind of a real solid, like, yeah,

Speaker 40 get out of here.

Speaker 80 I'm done.

Speaker 23 And that's crazy.

Speaker 123 So they traded you to the Bucs.

Speaker 31 And so John Gruden could have come and said anything, and you would have.

Speaker 40 Yeah, I was done. It was at the time with my fiancé.
We were getting married that summer. I was ready to start traveling.
I was just done.

Speaker 40 And you can't really take a break.

Speaker 39 You can.

Speaker 40 You could take a break and then retire and then come back. But I always thought that was kind of foolish.
Like, why couldn't I have just said, hey, let me go?

Speaker 40 I'm going to take a year, maybe two years off and come back and play for Kubiak down in Houston.

Speaker 39 Right.

Speaker 40 But that doesn't happen.

Speaker 40 You can't break that

Speaker 40 continuation of the game.

Speaker 40 And I was ready to go. And retirement, they had no chance.

Speaker 40 They were barking up the wrong tree at that moment.

Speaker 6 So they traded for you, and you're like, no, I already told you I wasn't going to play. Did he try to convince you?

Speaker 39 Yeah, they pulled out all the stops.

Speaker 40 It was like a recruiting trip again. They came up, they were talking about donating millions of dollars to my foundation and like everything I could imagine, anything I wanted.
And I was told them,

Speaker 40 I'm not going to play. I'm done.
I just, in my heart, I was done. It was time to move on.
My body was beat up.

Speaker 40 I was not in good shape physically and mentally also was pretty much

Speaker 40 that whole limelight. And I had social anxiety.
I couldn't go out very many places without like, oh, great. Someone's looked at me.
Here goes the rest of my night. Right.

Speaker 40 I can't hang out with

Speaker 40 Tony or any of these guys on the team, with any of my buddies, because now there's 15 guys coming over and infiltrating, coming to talk to me, and my buddies all take off.

Speaker 40 And it's like, damn, you know, so it wore on me a little bit, like just the being in social settings.

Speaker 6 I respect the clarity, though, to know for a fact, because a lot of guys, I think, they don't know when they want to retire. Yeah.

Speaker 6 It's always up in the air, but it seems like you had, you know, you were crystal clear. You knew what you wanted, and you just did it.
That's, I think that's very cool.

Speaker 53 Yeah.

Speaker 40 Yeah, well, I mean, it was just something in my heart I felt was right. And I've always kind of gone on what I feel.

Speaker 40 You know, it was an 18-year-old going to ASU.

Speaker 40 How did I know? I just felt like it was a good place to go. Like, I never heard of of ASU much.
The coach said, if you come here, I've got the pieces in place to win a national championship.

Speaker 40 The only coach that told me that was Bruce Snyder. I mean, in my gut, if he's telling me that, I want to see if he's right, but my gut also told me, go down here and make a name for yourself.

Speaker 40 Do something special somewhere where it hadn't been done in a long time.

Speaker 59 Yeah, so the drilling, by the way, like we said, we are in, this is the coolest backdrop we've ever had. So if you hear the drilling, it's worth it because you should watch on the YouTube.

Speaker 23 But PFT is right.

Speaker 94 Like a lot of guys, the saying goes, like, the game retires you, you don't retire from the game.

Speaker 123 I love the story, though, that your retirement press conference, you did it at the Denver Athletic Club.

Speaker 6 You gave your speech.

Speaker 32 You didn't let anyone ask any questions.

Speaker 29 Then you walked down the hallway and played handball with your brother.

Speaker 34 Is that exactly how it went?

Speaker 43 Basically, I mean, that's one of the coolest ways to retire.

Speaker 40 Yeah, you know, I didn't want to make a big scene. I just wanted to go about my rest of my life and get moving on it.

Speaker 40 The only thing I didn't do was wear my handball gloves and my goggles when I think back. But I was like going straight in to get warmed up and go play.

Speaker 40 You know, it was just time to move into a new phase. For 10 years, I'd played at the highest level.
For four years prior to that, I'd played at the second, you know, in the Pac-10.

Speaker 40 And then, you know, since I was 12 years old, I was playing football. So it took up a lot of my life.
And I was missing out on things.

Speaker 40 My cousins would get married, or someone would get married in August. And I had, I'm the only guy not there.
So it was pulling me to be with my family.

Speaker 40 It was pulling me to go explore the world, to go travel, because I really couldn't cut loose when I was playing. I felt like singular focus.

Speaker 40 But once that was over, and I wanted to get married, have some kids, and I had life to go live. Football, it's always going to be with me forever.

Speaker 40 But for me, there's so much more in life to go experience and do.

Speaker 94 You mentioned the Pac-10 and playing for national championship.

Speaker 122 It was a funny moment on the bus because we're PFT and I are both 37.

Speaker 94 So I remember watching that Rose Bull.

Speaker 29 Some guys on the bus are a little younger.

Speaker 123 And I said out loud, I was like, he was 100 seconds away from a national title.

Speaker 40 everyone's like wait what and it's like something that you were that close the Rose Bull if you don't remember Jake Palmer had a 11 yard touchdown run with like a minute and a half left to put Arizona State up four over Ohio State only they would have been the only undefeated team that year because Florida had lost and you were that close is that I mean like after that moment after that run where you're like this is it we got it No got it I was never really I was never I knew what the game was like I've been in too many games where you oh yeah we got it but the whole sideline people were celebrating screaming national champs and I you don't see it but you can see me on the bench standing up I stood up on the bench because I was telling my teammates like get the fuck away from me get out of here right we're this game ain't over look at the clock are you kidding me stop saying we're national champs it started pissing me off because it happened a couple other times against u of a at home Some alumni came behind the bench.

Speaker 40 We're beating them. There's seven minutes left.

Speaker 6 What happens?

Speaker 40 They're like, a couple of the alumni, there's not no better feeling than beating the U of A at home. I turned, I said, Hey, you, I told them to get off the field.
He said, Get out of here.

Speaker 40 Yeah, bring that bullshit down here. Yeah, my teammates, I was like, Come on, but sure enough, the crack had happened.
You let that down. So I never, I didn't stop.

Speaker 40 If you remember the tail end of that game, Lindsey Jackson caught a dig route, and I was screaming timeout.

Speaker 40 And by the time he hit the ground, it was zero, zero, the clock hit zero, but we were at about the 33-yard line. We could have tried a field goal to tie it.

Speaker 40 Yeah, which would have been incredible because I think you got got the ball back neither team seconds yeah neither team wanted to stop playing that yeah that was a phenomenal game beautiful day missed real real mystical there's nothing better than the rose ball and just to be that close i mean you know obviously it was a different era where the national championship that's the other part of it the national championship was decided by voters where it's like you don't even you know there's a world where you could win that game and they wouldn't even vote you for there would have probably been writers that voted for you lost i know florida state a couple of the guys i met them down at the some events and they kind of pissed me off because they're like, hey, man, thanks for losing that game.

Speaker 43 Yeah. What?

Speaker 40 Because right before they were going to play Florida State, or Florida State. If they were going to play Florida State, Florida saw that if they win, they're national champs.
Yeah, right then.

Speaker 40 If we beat Florida State, we're national champs. Had we won, there would have been a big dispute.

Speaker 40 We were outright. If you're 12-0, you're a national champion.

Speaker 27 Yeah, you should be if you're the only undefeated team.

Speaker 40 You know, I trusted my instinct. I got from being a young kid at Capitol High School in Boise, Idaho, to follow a coach that gave me the confidence that I needed.
And we almost won a national title.

Speaker 40 I believe that with the people around me if I set my mind to something and they believe too we all like push for the same thing that anything is possible yeah I'm now taking that into my real life where okay what do we want to do here do we want to make millions of dollars selling mushrooms no not one bit do I want to bring this to people's attention and let them know there is a bet there might be a better way to approach your health and wellness yes and I'm lining up with hundreds of other people that feel the same exact way, which means something, you know, something big, something good is going to be around the corner just yeah yeah goodness all goodness it's great yeah um i do want to talk a lot about the mushrooms in a little bit but as far as the the football stuff goes so you you're the big man on campus at asu you are like the guy there and then you get drafted to arizona was there a part of you that was like i would like to maybe get outside of this area maybe not play in the same stadium there's a lot of pressure that goes along that you know like people that used to come watch you in college they're asking for tickets that sort of thing like were you were you excited to play for Arizona or did you want to go somewhere else?

Speaker 40 To be honest, I wanted to go somewhere else. Yeah, I was ready to just experience a new city.
And maybe something bigger than Boise and then Tempe.

Speaker 40 I mean, something a little bit more, you know, a little more

Speaker 40 like a Chicago or New York or a big city, you know? A big, big city. I'd never lived in anything like that.
And I thought it would have been fun to get drafted.

Speaker 40 But I also was looking for teams that I think, you know, I wanted to win at the Super Bowl. That's really what I wanted to do.

Speaker 40 And it didn't become a part of like an actuality or an actual possibility until after my senior year. Then I let that come in.

Speaker 40 But prior to my senior year, I wasn't going to ball that year to try to get in the league. Yeah.
I had no concerns about the league. That didn't even matter to me.

Speaker 40 What mattered was winning the national title?

Speaker 58 So I looked up, before we do interviews, I try to look up like what I've written about someone.

Speaker 114 And I had, I said, Jake Plummer is the greatest naked bootleg quarterback of all time.

Speaker 12 When you ran that play, when you ran play action, you're out there.

Speaker 2 were you like, because I feel like your game, you loved throwing on the run.

Speaker 27 Were you, did it feel like, hey, let me get out in space?

Speaker 71 I just have memories of like Broncos, Cardinals, even Arizona State, where it's like

Speaker 71 you would get out there and it's like, uh-oh, this is over.

Speaker 58 Like Jake Palmer's got his space.

Speaker 40 Well, thank you for that.

Speaker 40 I love doing that. I really can't be called the best because I never actually did it fully naked.

Speaker 50 Yeah.

Speaker 40 So had I been able to actually really fully

Speaker 101 football if you want to try.

Speaker 40 I'm going to have to get that done here in the next little bit and get it on film somehow and say now i am definitely the best naked bootleg quarterback uh

Speaker 40 it before it became um something we really did very well here in denver which obviously we had a great running game we had linemen that were sacrificing their bodies moving that stretch zone run west coast style you know that that boot was just dangerous.

Speaker 40 And what Kubiak did was he rolled me to my left because not a lot of quarterbacks could throw rolling to their left. I actually felt like I could throw better rolling to my left.

Speaker 40 I felt like I I could create more torque, more velocity. But see, this all started on the playground where it wasn't, okay, we're running stretch boot left.
It was, I'm not going to let you catch me.

Speaker 40 You're catching me. You're fast.
I better learn how to throw on the run, running really fast. So that's how I learned how to do it.
And then it just became an art form after that.

Speaker 44 It was an art form.

Speaker 12 I loved watching you do that.

Speaker 118 That was the play.

Speaker 40 I mean, anything can happen, and it was a lot of fun to get out in space because then you could throw it or you could run. And you could use your eyes really good, too.

Speaker 40 I could be looking back here, knowing that Rod's running a 20-yard comeback, and if I keep my eyes in here, all I got to do is go like that on the run, and it's nothing, it's a simple completion.

Speaker 40 And then, if there's nothing there, you can tuck it and run. Yeah,

Speaker 40 yeah, I missed that part probably more than anything, rolling to my left, trying to thread one between a couple linebackers. That's beautiful.

Speaker 20 I love to hear that.

Speaker 40 They're running full speed, and they're thinking the ball is going to rip right past their helmet to a guy right behind them.

Speaker 40 And the beauty of Mahomes, I think that's really a beauty of his is he throws the ball from all different angles. Yeah, yeah,

Speaker 12 that makes me very happy that, like, if you had one thing you miss about football, it's like running the bootlegger.

Speaker 40 Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 124 That's so great.

Speaker 6 Does time slow down for you when you're on the run you're about to throw?

Speaker 40 Not really. It's just everything's moving.
So

Speaker 40 it's neat, though, because I'm moving this way and they're all coming with me. So people think, how do you do that? Well, you're just throwing at a stationary target.
Yeah.

Speaker 40 We're both running at the same speed. I'm throwing it.
He's stationary to me.

Speaker 40 Same as if we stopped. Right.
You know, it's different when you're stopping, they're running this way. You got to lead them.
You got to anticipate.

Speaker 40 When you're running on the boot, you're on the same parallel. You're just

Speaker 40 so that was fun. It was when I scramble, that was when there would be some panic, yeah, and fear.
Yeah, bullshit, where's anybody coming from?

Speaker 40 Because you might think you're good, and all of a sudden, Palomalu comes flying out from behind somebody and drills you.

Speaker 6 I always think that

Speaker 6 you looked even a lot cooler when you started to do the bootleg once you grew your hair up a little bit.

Speaker 114 Like that, that added an extra element to it.

Speaker 6 Flying out, yeah, it was like there's a wild man out in space, yeah.

Speaker 40 That's true. Good point there.
I did that, you know, that was his that was a year after when Pat got killed. And

Speaker 40 everybody just was so

Speaker 40 struck by him and his genuineness as far as his patriotism and going to the fight for our country.

Speaker 40 But really before that, he was such a unique individual that imprinted, left a huge imprint on all of us, teammates, friends.

Speaker 40 So I just started growing my hair out and I had my beard going and I saw his widow Marie and she's like, wow. And she was touching my face.

Speaker 40 She's like, you kind of resemble Pat just because of the beard. So I was like, God, God, I can bring her some comfort, give her a hug.
And then I just, I started doing it.

Speaker 40 And then people wanted to talk shit about it. I just said, well, I'm doing it for Pat.
And then they started.

Speaker 61 Yeah, that cuts him right down.

Speaker 6 That's why I grow mine out, too.

Speaker 86 It's for Pat's Till McCasey.

Speaker 6 So a lot of people talk about Pat, and when they talk about him, a lot of focus, I think deservedly so, is paid to, you know, his final acts and his military service. But you knew him.

Speaker 6 You were great friends with him for years before that. What was he like as a person, as a friend?

Speaker 40 You said it right there, a friend. I mean, he really was.

Speaker 40 You say you have friends, and you guys know probably who your friends are, really, when times matter and something happens, you get phone calls, or you get someone to stop by.

Speaker 40 Those are your friends, and Pat was like that to so many people. He really had

Speaker 40 a real special way of connecting with people, anybody. I mean, you go on ASU's campus, you could find...

Speaker 40 10, 15 people that would be obscure on the back walls, janitors, whatever you say, just in the shadows that probably knew Pat at a deep level because he just was intrigued with humans.

Speaker 40 And when he would sit down with you, he was genuine and authentic and extremely knowledgeable, very well could think for himself, never was thought for. And yeah, it was a great friend.

Speaker 40 He called me before he left for his last deployment to check on me after I'd gone through a pretty monumental change. Almost got married.
It didn't work out.

Speaker 40 He was calling to check on me to see how I was doing when I mean a real friend would have been calling him or going to see him. Right.
Dan, I might not see you again, right?

Speaker 40 You're going to war, war really you're not just going to play the Buccaneers right you're actually going to war did you did he talk to you at all before he made the decision to leave the NFL and so so but were you shocked at all were you like no that's Pat no I had some insight from my a teammate of mine that his brother and Pat had talked his brother had been in the special special forces and

Speaker 40 special ops and so he talked with him and so before the decision was made this coach at the time came and said you need to talk to Pat he's about to do something, you know, kind of crazy.

Speaker 40 I was like, Well, yeah, that's Pat. Tell me what's up.
He's like, Well, he's thinking about going and the basic training and becoming a ranger.

Speaker 128 I was like, Okay, I mean, what do you want me to do?

Speaker 50 Right.

Speaker 40 I'm not going to stop him. He's going to do it.
He's going to do it. I mean, if his fiancé, Marie, his wife, before you know, hadn't gotten married, she can't, I think they just gotten married.

Speaker 40 She can't tell him to stop him. And what am I going to do? So, just what said,

Speaker 40 I prayed for him and wished him

Speaker 40 the best I could, you know, to go over there and come back safe. Sad that he didn't come back.

Speaker 40 He's left a huge impression on so many people and definitely inspired a lot of humans.

Speaker 40 I try to not talk too much about Pat because I feel like he lived his life at such a high level.

Speaker 40 For me to talk for him, I'm trying to raise my game so I can actually be at that similar level.

Speaker 40 You could never be at a level of someone like him, but in my own way, to try to be authentic and genuine and real, carry on his tradition that way, not by like trying to hike every 14er in the world.

Speaker 96 Yeah, but that's, that's cool.

Speaker 94 I respect that because there's, you know, when you have a hero and everyone's talking about it, there's times when it feels like certain people are trying to almost take advantage of their legacy and like step in for their legacy.

Speaker 4 And like that's a true friend to be like, yeah, he was one of my great friends.

Speaker 40 When our past president's trying to use him in some way or shape or form, it's like, oh, then I think, well,

Speaker 40 Pat might have really loved Trump.

Speaker 127 I don't know.

Speaker 120 Yeah.

Speaker 43 You can't speak so much.

Speaker 40 It's so wild, but you never know. He might have had some respect in some way for him, maybe not his ideals and

Speaker 40 his way about things, but just his, I think Pat would have, weirdly enough, respected Trump for the fact that he didn't really, he did what he wanted to do.

Speaker 127 Right, right.

Speaker 40 Like in life, what do you do? Oh, I'm not going to go do that because you don't want me to. That's a life of misery.
Yeah.

Speaker 40 Even though I'm not a fan of our past president, but you know, who knows what Pat would have thought. But yeah, I just think for yourself, you know,

Speaker 40 move and do the things you want to do.

Speaker 40 I also know Pat on the other side of like not this hero, but down in dirty life, you know,

Speaker 40 your teammates.

Speaker 40 It gave me much more of an appreciation for these soldiers that sacrificed their lives, that sacrificed their livelihoods to go fight for the freedom for our country.

Speaker 40 And then when you see their pictures of these dead soldiers in the paper, it just resonated more of like, that's somebody else's best friend. That's someone's son.

Speaker 40 That's some other badass dude that wasn't a football player, but is still making the world a better place.

Speaker 40 So Pat used his his stage and now he's he's a let he's a legend and to have been tight friends with a legend like you know that's amazing yeah i'm i'm blessed i miss him but i'm gonna try to you know one of these days i might see him if i eat enough mushrooms

Speaker 6 not these ones these are non-psychedelics yeah but let's talk about some of the mushroom stuff though because that's a good segue i mean it's i was actually thinking i was like how are we gonna segue out of this because

Speaker 43 no you did it for us

Speaker 125 i was gonna actually my other segue was gonna be remember that time you flipped off the broncos fans What happened there?

Speaker 40 I had a funny letter. I just got a letter from a lady who was like, sent that little clip and then told me a whole story of how I did all these bad things to her in 1991 in Tempe.

Speaker 40 And I'm like, that's weird. I didn't get to Tempe till 93.

Speaker 40 So I got this letter from some lady who has assumed that this person that did all these wrong things to her was me.

Speaker 95 But that's crazy.

Speaker 2 Yeah, the finger. I mean,

Speaker 93 I feel like I like those moments because I always think like we put athletes in a spot that they like, they're humans.

Speaker 2 They have a bad day at work.

Speaker 36 Human emotions happen.

Speaker 28 Like,

Speaker 71 you probably don't follow like baseball very closely, but there was a Phillies player this year who the fans were booing him.

Speaker 94 He's like, you could see him whispering, I fucking hate this place.

Speaker 71 And then afterwards, they interviewed him. He's like, yeah, I said it.

Speaker 2 Like, I was having a really bad day and it sucked.

Speaker 94 And, like, I was pissed off that I was had a bad day.

Speaker 125 And so, like, those moments flicking people off.

Speaker 108 I don't know. I respect it.

Speaker 40 They just put some weird pressure on athletes like we were supposed to be happy and perfect all the time.

Speaker 40 If anything, it just shows that we're going through it too. You know, I'm feeling it.
But if you step up for what you do and you say, you know, I got caught in the moment and didn't do it that right.

Speaker 40 That was the wrong reaction. Hopefully I don't do it again.

Speaker 40 They train us, though, to react. They don't really train us how to deal with that kind of stuff.

Speaker 40 So when you are in the moment and you're in it, you might not think, oh, wait, this might hurt my sponsorship deal with Xfinity. Like, nah, you're like, yo, you're saying some raunchy stuff.

Speaker 40 How come you're saying this raunchy stuff and wearing Broncos attire? I got something for you. I'm going to fix my hat.

Speaker 20 It was very subtle.

Speaker 40 Just happened that the camera was right on me. So, yeah, you know, I slipped up, but they don't train us for that.

Speaker 40 And then when you get done with the game, they're not helping you decompress from that

Speaker 40 kind of masculine, like, react. I'm going to kick your ass.
You mess with me. You mess with us.

Speaker 40 You know, that's like we're programmed to react and not necessarily think and take a few minutes to think something through.

Speaker 124 Yeah, so what was that like?

Speaker 6 Because I think you're 100% right that if you play professional sports, especially in the NFL, like there's so much aggression every day.

Speaker 6 You live in a sink or swim world. If it's against your opponent or if it's somebody that is coming up behind you that might take your job, you have to be aggressive.

Speaker 6 You have to be violent all the time and violence gets rewarded. But then after you leave, what was that process like for you?

Speaker 6 Like, you said decompressing, but leaving that environment where it's competitive all the time.

Speaker 40 And now it's just like, okay blank slate go do what you want to do yeah you know handball was a big part of that it was something active that i could go do and i could hang out with the guys we could sit around you know at the club and the place where i played in sandpoint we could have a few cold ones afterwards which was really nice so i didn't miss that camaraderie and i think a lot of guys they just don't fill that void with anything except football again you know and sometimes that just keeps

Speaker 40 igniting the beast you know especially if you didn't walk away from the game like i walked i took off i i ran away actually I was healthy enough to run away from the game.

Speaker 40 To choose to not play is very rare in the NFL when there's people that would do anything to play.

Speaker 40 So a lot of times they're dealing with that. Like

Speaker 40 being told, I don't like you anymore. You're no good.

Speaker 40 There's someone better, even though he's not. We're going to tell you who he is and make you feel like you're no good anymore.
So guys, some guys go and they take care of that.

Speaker 40 post-career and they work through that and they you know get counseling and they go through a lot of them are bankrupt get divorced uh and fall into you know hopefully not fall into anything bad or some addictions because what do you what do you fill that void with and so for me I filled it with handball I moved up to Sandpoint I did coach high school football and that was a beautiful thing to see you know little Billy with his chin strap tighten and I'm like you're you're a ninth grader.

Speaker 40 You're not even going to see the field, but he was right there ready.

Speaker 40 It brought back that love of the game.

Speaker 40 These kids played it because they weren't going to college. They played it because they wanted to go hit somebody and get out some aggression and playing under the lights on Friday night.

Speaker 40 You know, that's a good feeling. So it brought that love back to me, that feeling of why I played football.

Speaker 40 You know, I traveled a lot, and I, you know, but I didn't do any spiritual work. I didn't do any real deep dives.

Speaker 40 I didn't do anything that if I had a recipe for that, I would go back and do all of that so that I would have found my path a lot sooner instead of you know, down the road, I'm on a great path now.

Speaker 40 But it took some tough times.

Speaker 6 Yes, so handball, how did you get into handball? Because I remember even when you were playing football, I knew like Jake,

Speaker 6 I knew Jake Plummer, also outstanding handball player.

Speaker 40 Yeah, it was a game my dad played. He was an Idaho state champ and a Washington state champ back in the day in the Opens.
And so he played it where he worked.

Speaker 40 They had a handball court and he picked it up by some friends. And then he taught all of us.
I mean, I was a baby crawling around onto the court chasing the ball when he was playing in tournaments.

Speaker 40 And so my brothers both played. And naturally, I played.
And it was an off-season, kind of like we'd see my dad. We'd try to play some handball together.

Speaker 40 And I played in tournaments when I was 12 13 14 was a mental mess because it's a hard hard game but then as I progressed through high school I didn't play a lot college very little at all and then when I got into the pros I got reintroduced to the game a little bit as an off-season conditioning and just really the lateral movement the spatial awareness the mental toughness hand-eye coordination and you have to use your left side so it brings back balance to your body.

Speaker 40 You know, it became a really good way for me to go out and kind of do something in the offseason instead of golf every day.

Speaker 40 And go work out in the weight room and then go run on a field when it's 110 out. Like, I got sick of that stuff.
So, handball was a chance for me to cross-train.

Speaker 103 Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 12 when I first read the story, like, oh, Jake Plummer's like a really good handball player, and you were, I think you were trying to go like pro, right?

Speaker 124 There was a moment that you were

Speaker 40 using me for the game, you know, the game was using my but it helps the game, yeah.

Speaker 40 I got to play with some pros, but no, when I play a pro and they would go three quarters, they'd beat me 21 to 1 if I happened to maybe get a serve and get a point on them. They're good.

Speaker 40 It's like a pro golfer.

Speaker 50 Yeah.

Speaker 40 Yeah, you can golf and shoot in the 80s and you go with a golf center like

Speaker 40 these guys are good.

Speaker 40 Different levels. So, no, I never was trying to be a pro.

Speaker 40 I just was out trying to get some light shed on a great game for these kids that are singularly focused on one sport, and maybe they're already specializing at age 14.

Speaker 40 I'm like, God, come play handball. So I taught a lot of kids how to play handball, and they might not play again until they're in college.

Speaker 11 So I got caught when I read the story, because it was the story, like, he's trying to become a professional handball.

Speaker 48 But I mean, it was good for handball.

Speaker 84 Because I didn't even know.

Speaker 71 I always think handball, like there's the Olympic sport where they're running around and throwing it.

Speaker 12 Then there's also just

Speaker 36 like the guys who play just, it's almost like squash, just one wall.

Speaker 48 Your handball is all four walls.

Speaker 40 Well, there's four wall, there's three wall, there's one wall.

Speaker 128 So you would play four wall, right?

Speaker 40 Yeah, I just played in a three-wall tourney this weekend.

Speaker 27 So four wall, you can just hit it off any, like, I.

Speaker 50 Yeah, I mean, it's the same rules as well. 10 out of 5, yeah.

Speaker 40 Same rules as racquetball.

Speaker 40 you gotta let it bounce once and when you hit it it has whatever it does it has to hit the front wall okay so you gotta hit the back wall and then go to the front wall yeah and there's other little intricacies involved in that like sometimes it can't hit four walls at once on a serve or you gotta but it's basically just like back in grade school when you'd have a ball on a wall and a buddy and you got to be that sounds awesome yeah that sounds good i really want to be throwing some beer and guys are like i mean the crew i was with this weekend it was like 95 degrees out.

Speaker 40 All they did was play handball and drink beer all day long.

Speaker 39 It's awesome.

Speaker 6 So it's racquetball, but no racquet, just your hand.

Speaker 40 Yeah, you use both hands.

Speaker 124 Yeah. It sounds so cool.

Speaker 40 It's a lot of fun. It's a tough sport.
It's definitely like racquetball is appealing to everybody, but handball definitely is only appealing to those that kind of like to get after it.

Speaker 20 Yeah. That's grit.

Speaker 43 I'm in.

Speaker 124 I'm in 100%.

Speaker 6 So now you've transitioned into,

Speaker 6 are you a mushroom farmer? How should we describe what you did to that?

Speaker 40 I'm just a micro-lover. Okay.
And I just love mushrooms.

Speaker 40 Before the pandemic, a good buddy of mine, Del Jolly, who I I had worked with at Charlotte's Webb, if you recall, Charlotte's Webb was the hemp oil company that Charlotte Fiji was a little girl who had Dervé syndrome and she was not doing well with seizures.

Speaker 40 Her mother and her father fought hard to find the medicine and get it to her. Even though they were breaking the law federally, they still administered it to her.

Speaker 40 And the Stanley brothers went and found a bunch of hemp out in Kansas along the ditch banks and started extracting it and giving it to them and made a really highly potent, very, very,

Speaker 40 you know, worthwhile beneficial oil. And so we did the work there already on a plant that was highly misunderstood.

Speaker 40 And not many people knew the difference between THC and CBD or, you know, hemp, I should say.

Speaker 40 Real similar, minus the high and psychotropic high you get from smoking marijuana or THC, but hemp has tons of benefits together at the right levels,

Speaker 40 a very potent medicine.

Speaker 45 Yeah, so the mushroom farming.

Speaker 73 So let's first say the website so everyone can go check it out.

Speaker 40 Yeah, we're sitting here at Mycolove Farm, which is mycolove.farm.

Speaker 58 Yeah, M-Y-C-O-Love.farm.

Speaker 20 Yes.

Speaker 40 So Myco means mushroom, and then my Colorado, since it's local, and you got C-O consamp for a lot of stuff.

Speaker 40 So Mycolove.farm is where we're at now, where we are growing medicinal functional mushrooms, turkey tail, lion's mane, rayshi, and cordyceps.

Speaker 40 These are new to a lot of the population here in the states and western medicine, but they're

Speaker 40 long-standing remedies and cures for a lot of stuff back East and in China and Asia. They've been using these beautiful fungi forever.
It's an entire kingdom.

Speaker 40 So

Speaker 40 we say queendom, but they have their own kingdom. Are they female? Fungi.
Yeah, they're just the mamas of everything.

Speaker 47 Yeah, cool. So what does it do?

Speaker 45 Like, what is the mushroom?

Speaker 27 It's extract, right?

Speaker 50 It's oil that you're selling.

Speaker 40 Yeah, it's a dual extract alcohol water.

Speaker 96 Yeah, so what does it do?

Speaker 29 Like, what are the benefits?

Speaker 94 Like, what if, you know, I'm very interested in this just because

Speaker 40 the fungal kingdom is, you know, they say anywhere from 2.2 million to 3.8 million of any sort of fungus around the world.

Speaker 40 We've only discovered and identified of fruiting bodies about 100 plus thousand. So we're just scratching the surface on what could be out there in the world.

Speaker 40 And if you believe that Mother Earth provides everything for us as humans to balance everything out, I believe that the fungal kingdom has everything we need in it to balance out any of the ailments or disease, disease that we have here in our country and in the world.

Speaker 40 So when you're working with these mushrooms, you know, they all do different things, but they all basically

Speaker 40 do the same thing. You know, they're here to help us.

Speaker 40 So Reishi is one that helps with anxiety, the nervous system. It's the mushroom of longevity.

Speaker 40 You know, there's, you know, the mushroom of immortality helps with longevity, vitality, all sorts of stuff. And so, in the world, we're under stress constantly.

Speaker 40 These lights right now are sending stress to us.

Speaker 40 So, if you can protect yourself and put just something in your body that's a preventative form of maintenance, just like you put oil in your car and you put

Speaker 40 high-leaded gas in your car because you want that thing to run well, we should do the same to our body. And that's why I take Reishi every day.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I was watching this documentary a couple months ago about mushrooms, and I didn't realize how complex the network of mushrooms on Earth are.

Speaker 6 So, they were making the statement that mushrooms act as the Earth's central nervous system almost, where they pick up in changes in the climate, in the temperature, and a lot, you know, the soil, all sorts of things.

Speaker 6 And then they actually communicate with other mushrooms through this complex nerve network underground.

Speaker 6 Am I describing it correctly? Because it blew my mind when I first heard about it.

Speaker 40 The mycelial network underneath the ground and then the mycorrhizal network that goes into the roots of all plants.

Speaker 40 All living plants have a a little thread, single-cell hyphae of mycelium going up inside of them that communicates with the mother.

Speaker 40 It's one whole thing.

Speaker 40 And that's why it's beautiful because these grow in nature, but we're able to do the same thing, replicate with an oak and soy holes combined together with some water to make a substrate that's basically like making a tree that would have fallen in the forest.

Speaker 40 And then they come and decompose.

Speaker 40 They're the big decomposers of everything that dies.

Speaker 40 They breathe in oxygen and breathe out CO2. They don't photosynthesize the sun and they eat dead things.
So there's a few similarities to humans

Speaker 127 also.

Speaker 40 But they're very bioavailable. Lion's mane is great for your brain, for neuronal growth, basically for all neurons in your body.

Speaker 40 Lion's mane is one that we're going to have a lot of research done here soon that's going to show that it's something that everybody should have in their daily regimen.

Speaker 40 It enhances your dream state, too. So

Speaker 40 you're dreaming pretty amazing dreams. Not like crazy, wacky, psychedelic type, but just like a dream like this.

Speaker 40 Like I'm in a room with mushrooms and a bunch of guys filming me and like I'm here and I'm in it and I'm feeling like I'm there being interviewed.

Speaker 6 No, I'm literally feeling like I'm in a dream right now.

Speaker 43 Like I'm sitting in the dreams.

Speaker 118 In a mushroom room.

Speaker 124 Sometimes I feel Jay Bloomer.

Speaker 118 We're on Grit Wake.

Speaker 124 We're about to wake up.

Speaker 6 There's going to be millions of people maybe that listen to this.

Speaker 125 We've already done this interview.

Speaker 28 I'm about to wake up. because we took some Lions Main with us.

Speaker 36 And so this is actually Wednesday already. We've got to talk about the show.
This is a dream.

Speaker 124 This is a dream. It's a great dream, though.
Yeah, no, this is a good time.

Speaker 40 I was turned on the right road to get here. Yeah.
It's controlling you. Yeah.
Got you here. So we're all now.

Speaker 43 I'm kind of fucked up about the lives.

Speaker 124 Along the same lines.

Speaker 6 Like, let's get into it a little bit.

Speaker 6 Do you feel at all like you were destined to have this life that you've had? Because growing up, I read a little bit about you growing up, and you were given the nickname Jake.

Speaker 6 Your name's not actually Jake,

Speaker 6 which is weird, but you were given the name and you love Jake.

Speaker 6 Who was it? Jake the Snake. It was Ken Stabler.

Speaker 39 Ken Stabler.

Speaker 125 Gave it to Jake the Snake. Jake the Snake.

Speaker 6 So like modeling, you know, ever since you were a kid, you looked up to Ken Stabler. You were an outstanding quarterback all the way through high school.
Go to Arizona State. It feels like you've had

Speaker 6 a perfect line from when you were a kid to what your career has been and where you're at right now. Do you feel like you were ever destined to do that?

Speaker 40 I've taken my hand off the wheel, really, just to see where it goes.

Speaker 40 As I was saying, with the work with CBD it it showed me the power that not power not in a bad way but the influence and power we have as athletes if we stand in our truth and our and really stand with our heart open and communicate to people we can help change the way they approach their health and wellness and how their lives are so through the Charlotte's web we affected a lot of people we affected a lot of people in a positive way so I felt like wow what a gift you know how do I do that now and actually do that in my own life like I'm doing this this, but I'm still struggling with things.

Speaker 40 I'm still trying to find my path. So, hands off the wheel, the pandemic hits, and then mushrooms come into the picture by my buddy Dale Jolly, who kind of showed me, like, hey, this is nature.

Speaker 40 And I've always been about nature. I mean, I grew up in Sawtooth Mountains as a young kid.
We've always been backpacking.

Speaker 40 And I find my peace of mind when I'm sitting by a stream or in trees or out in the mountains, in the woods, or around living, growing things.

Speaker 40 And so, this just came around as another opportunity to take a misunderstood kingdom and educate people on the difference between psilocybin and lion's mane.

Speaker 40 Lion's mane does almost the same thing psilocybin does. There's some research that shows this, that it does most of the same stuff, clarity-wise, focus your senses, but without the psychotropic eyes.

Speaker 40 So it's like these things are so diverse. I can't tell you anything

Speaker 40 other than what I know and have experienced. And I know a lot more than you guys, but I know about that much compared to Paul Stamitz or Robert Rogers, who've been doing this for 30 plus years

Speaker 40 they are mush they are mushrooms themselves you know they're walking around they're mushrooms they're spreading the spores yeah so i've been you know the path that i've gotten to no way did i ever expect to be farming mushrooms in fort lupton and extracting them and then also working with umbo another uh get umbo.com you can go there to check out our bars that have two and a half grams of mushrooms in them to try to introduce them to people because most people like ooh i don't like mushrooms they're gross all right well try this bar It's got two and a half grams of mushrooms, of functional mushrooms in it.

Speaker 40 Wow, this bar is amazing. In fact, it's better than any bar I've ever tasted on the market.
Perfect. Well, buy this bar.
Check it out. Now we're introducing another something that

Speaker 40 we've eliminated from our complete diets for hundreds of years. When we evolved, we ate mushrooms.
It's a no-brainer that that's one of the food sources we had wherever you went.

Speaker 40 Come with me to the mountains and we'll go find some chanterelles. There's food being grown by Pachamama, by Mother Earth for us.
This is just remembering old knowledge.

Speaker 40 And so it's fun to be, again, taking something misunderstood and bringing it out to the people to make them kind of scratch their head and go, what the hell?

Speaker 40 And then they're, oh, Jake, Jake, Jake, he's not a wacko. He knows his stuff.
I respect him from his days. You know, how he left the game.
I'm going to check this out.

Speaker 40 So it's an intense, an intensely like, I'm very humbled by the ability to bring this to people because I've already felt and had many people's lives change already just by being able to get a better night's sleep.

Speaker 127 Yeah.

Speaker 40 Damn, I'm sleeping again. Yeah.
Really sleeping. I'm like, yeah, what else is happening? Like, I'm up early now.
I'm jogging. Now, man, me and my wife are smiling at each other.

Speaker 40 I'm like, things can change, but you just have to be ready to, you have to be open to it. And I don't want to hear to force it on anybody.
I'm just here to go, hey, this is me. This is what I'm doing.

Speaker 124 Check it out.

Speaker 6 We should say now, specifically, maybe just for Billy, but for anybody out there that might be like Billy, that doesn't mean that you go into the woods and just find a mushroom and eat it.

Speaker 43 No, you want to make that point.

Speaker 40 That is a good point. Yeah, there's

Speaker 40 so diverse. I mean, there's some that look exactly the same, but you have to do a spore print to know if you can eat one or the other.

Speaker 124 What's that like?

Speaker 40 Yeah, you take the cap of the mushroom off and set it on a piece of paper and then put a cup over it.

Speaker 40 You can do white paper or black paper, depending, because some spores, as you look around, there's a few spots where they're dark or they're light.

Speaker 40 So, yeah, and then it just leaves every mushroom has its own print.

Speaker 20 Okay. Oh, wow.

Speaker 40 Every human has our own fingerprints. It's like a snowflake.
It's kind of funny.

Speaker 40 There's another similarity. I think you are humans.

Speaker 6 I I think you've successfully convinced me that we're related to mushrooms.

Speaker 40 I hope I can turn into one.

Speaker 43 Listen,

Speaker 50 all I'm going to say is you're going to eat one like Mario and grow up to be seven feet.

Speaker 40 I'm going to go back every year in the forest. Yeah.
Kids can come find me and eat me.

Speaker 128 Like, there's dad.

Speaker 20 I mean, just based off vibe checks, I would say you got to check this stuff out because you as a like your aura or vibe is just a very relaxed, sure, assured person who's just like, you know, this is my life.

Speaker 84 And like I said, the fact that you walked away from the game when you could have played and made millions more,

Speaker 115 it's also, you're kind of a trailblazer because it's happening now. Like, guys are doing it now.

Speaker 122 But when it happened with you, it was like, what the hell's wrong with this guy?

Speaker 40 Yeah, thanks for noticing that and saying that. That's very nice.
And, you know, I'd never had a plan in place.

Speaker 40 I didn't plan to go to ASU and stand up after the season and call out the entire team as a 170-pound freshman saying we could play better. And these seniors, they they need us right now.

Speaker 40 Like, I didn't have that plan. It just happened, you know.
And so this is just another thing that's just come my way. I'm not a mycologist.

Speaker 40 I can't tell you everything about these things, but I got people surrounding me just like a great team, like I did when I played ball. I could do what I could do, but I needed a good right tackle.

Speaker 40 I needed a good punter.

Speaker 40 I needed somebody that would come and clean the locker room after we made a mess, you know, so we could come back and have a fresh, clear minds.

Speaker 40 So I'm building the team, and I'm not necessarily the quarterback, but I'm just a part of it that's that's helping drive this thing.

Speaker 40 If I can be authentic and genuine in how I approach this, then I believe that we're just going to help people become a little aware of a different way to look at life.

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Speaker 6 Yeah, it's interesting because I think Big Cat's,

Speaker 22 he's right.

Speaker 6 If you talk to any of your former teammates, they all love you.

Speaker 6 You've got a good relationship with them.

Speaker 6 I'm curious to know, like, when you got, when you got to the league and it looks like you're probably going to be starting and you get into that first game, it's your first time in the huddle, did you, I know that you didn't have anything planned out because you're not a planned out guy.

Speaker 6 Like you said, it's just like hands off the wheel, right? But do you remember what you said to the guys for that first time?

Speaker 6 Because making that first impression, I would have to imagine at that level in the huddle.

Speaker 6 with another group of professionals is like that can be you know not a make or break moment but that can have a pretty big impact on which direction things are going to go so do you remember what you said yeah that's why I'm smiling.

Speaker 40 I know exactly. We were in Philly playing at the old Veterans Stadium.
And so Kent Graham had been hurt that week prior. So Stoney Case started, and I was his backup.

Speaker 40 It's week seven or eight, I think.

Speaker 40 So, yeah, I was like, man, I'm a play away from getting in this game. Holy smokes.
So

Speaker 40 going into halftime, we were struggling. Coach says, hey, we're giving you the reins.
And so, sure enough, the ball gets punted down, down on the two-yard line

Speaker 40 in the bowl part of Veterans Stadium.

Speaker 39 That was a whole circle.

Speaker 40 So we're right down. I mean,

Speaker 40 they're getting after us.

Speaker 43 I love Philly Fest.

Speaker 40 I love them. They say the nastiest, craziest stuff.
Then after the game, they want to be your best friend and have you sign some stuff and whatever. But they're in it.

Speaker 40 And the cheesesteak sandwiches, too.

Speaker 124 Yeah. And packs.

Speaker 40 So I go into the huddle and I know exactly what I said. You know, I mean, I was ready for this.
This was my chance to come out on the field. And we're on the two-yard line.
What else do you say?

Speaker 40 I walked in and got into the huddle and I said, we're going to take this motherfucker 98 yards who's with me and they just like yeah that's all i said so let's go and meanwhile i'm looking over at larry sinners because it's tv time out and he kept looking at me like this he's pulling his eyelid down like you got something in your eye he's like no

Speaker 43 I the tiger, baby. I the tiger.

Speaker 115 And then did you, what was the, what was

Speaker 43 you went 98 and scored.

Speaker 124 I was going to say that you threw an interception.

Speaker 40 I came in and like, you know, yeah, these guys were needing some juice. So I just clueless came in and said, let's go.
We threw like eight slant routes.

Speaker 43 That's all we threw.

Speaker 40 Slant, slant, and if it wasn't there, but we went down and we scored.

Speaker 6 I mean, this is the Arizona Cardinals, too, which up until you started playing, like, they hadn't had a lot of success, right?

Speaker 6 And you come in and you're like, we're going to take this motherfucker 98 yards. And then they probably are like, this guy's a God.

Speaker 124 That's God. God's playing this, right?

Speaker 40 Not necessarily that. They just felt like, no, okay.
Like he knew.

Speaker 40 Yeah, you feel like he's like, there's a chance now, you know, like he's going to bring the, he makes me want to do this.

Speaker 40 They feel that energy, you know, and no offense to Stoney or Kent, but

Speaker 40 when you get drafted in the second round, there's a pretty good chance you're going to play, especially for an organization that really hadn't had a franchise quarterback or someone to hang their hat on.

Speaker 40 And yeah, that year was big. 98 was huge.
We saved that team from being the L.A. Cardinals.
I mean, they were the L.A. Cardinals, if not for 98.

Speaker 96 Yeah, and go to the playoffs. So

Speaker 59 that was your first time being a backup.

Speaker 58 The next time you were a backup was your last game, right?

Speaker 94 And I read the story.

Speaker 96 It's very funny.

Speaker 90 So it's a great story.

Speaker 36 Everyone should read it on Sports Illustrated, but Jake essentially tells a story that he's the backup.

Speaker 48 At first, he was upset that he was a backup, but then he realized, like, hey, why don't I enjoy this?

Speaker 12 Like, I'm going to go out and enjoy the fans eating hot dogs at halftime.

Speaker 123 So you get in the last game, and you were just like, fuck it, I'm just going to throw it deep and see what happens.

Speaker 40 No, not at all.

Speaker 40 I was rolling to my left and saw Javon Walker taking a break, going deep, and so I let it go. I mean, I think the ball traveled 50-plus yards in the air.

Speaker 40 Right when it was coming down, he got tripped, and the guy came flying in and picked him off. So that was my last throw in the NFL,

Speaker 40 which I'm fine with. Yeah, right.
I came to the league to try to make a play, and that's what I told him. I walked by Shanahan.
He's looking at me like, what?

Speaker 40 And I'm like, trying to make a play, coach.

Speaker 40 Really sat down on the bench, and my coach, GB coach Pat McPherson comes over and he starts to pull something out. I was like, yeah, you could get it.
You can go ahead and get out of here.

Speaker 37 Get out of here.

Speaker 43 I'm not talking to you anymore.

Speaker 40 I don't need to tell you what I was doing. I mean, I was trying to make a play.

Speaker 20 I went to win the game.

Speaker 43 Jesus Christ.

Speaker 40 Put me in the game. We win that game.
We go to the playoffs.

Speaker 40 No offense to Jay either. It's just that was my team.
And when I came back out, that energy was still there.

Speaker 40 And I felt it, and it felt good to kind of like my last curtain call was, hey, Maker rolling to my left, trying to make a play.

Speaker 40 I threw 161 TDs in the NFL. And I also threw 161 interceptions.

Speaker 109 That's the definition of trying to make a play.

Speaker 85 I mean, I came out out even, man.

Speaker 88 A lot of good ones and some bad ones.

Speaker 6 You are the ultimate hands-off-the-wheel guy. Like, that's so perfect that the universe ended your NFL career on that play with the same amount of touchdowns as interceptions.

Speaker 112 Yeah.

Speaker 40 Yeah, I mean, you know, it's kind of funny. There were about a good 10 of those, maybe, maybe a little more were Hail Marys at the end of the first half with the Cardinals, too.

Speaker 40 So keep in mind, I didn't throw it out of the end zone like a lot of QBs would for their rating. I was like, come on, let's get this TV.

Speaker 43 I'm trying to make a play to Hail Mary.

Speaker 73 I'm trying to make a play.

Speaker 40 I'd put it into the end zone, and there'd be a defensive guy would pick it off. So at least 10 of those.
Even Dave Brown, my backup, was like, dude, throw those out of bounds.

Speaker 40 I'm like, are you kidding me, man? If we get a touchdown going in, we come out, we get another touchdown, we're only down by 14 now.

Speaker 88 Instead of 28, we got down by 14 like that.

Speaker 43 I mean, I never gave up until the clock was over.

Speaker 39 So

Speaker 40 that's what my teammates loved is I think that I just never let them be complacent. Right.

Speaker 6 How weird. Where was it playing in the NFC East? in Arizona?

Speaker 40 That's crazy, man. We played some tough teams in some tough places.
We traveled a lot.

Speaker 127 We flew a lot.

Speaker 40 Those late, like the late game in Philly or New York, you get back, you know, early morning to Arizona and five and a half hour plane ride. No wonder these guys are wanting drugs after the game.

Speaker 40 I mean, you can't hardly just sit anywhere, and then you got to sit on a plane for five and a half hours. I mean, it was, that was really tough.

Speaker 110 Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 94 This has been awesome.

Speaker 69 I wanted to, I read a story and I want to confirm confirm it because the guy doesn't get a lot of good publicity right now, Hugh Jackson.

Speaker 125 So clearly, you know, things didn't go well for him at the Browns.

Speaker 71 But I read the story that Hugh Jackson was the reason you went to Arizona State.

Speaker 6 Is that a fact?

Speaker 40 No.

Speaker 39 He was a running backs coach when I got there.

Speaker 40 I loved him. I mean, we were tight right off.

Speaker 40 Any coach that, as I'm handing the ball off to the running back, he's running behind them through the holes, like helping them hone their vision. I loved him, his energy and everything.

Speaker 40 But then he coached me,

Speaker 40 let me see, my junior year. He was my quarterback coach.
And that's a year I went from kind of, I don't know, kind of a sloppy mess into like, I looked, I was legit.

Speaker 40 He legitimized my drop, my footwork, my delivery, efficient, everything. I just got, he was amazing.
So fun to play for and to be coached by. And yeah, he did it.
He didn't.

Speaker 40 do as well as people think in Cleveland, but who the hell has?

Speaker 127 Yeah.

Speaker 40 They didn't win games, but they were in games. Come on, man.

Speaker 40 you know you can't coach like he wanted to coach without full reins so there's lots of you know backstory that goes into that but i've always been a huge huge huge actson supporter coach yeah all right well thank you so much this has been awesome right on is there anything else you'd like the audience to know about about the mushroom business about what you're do you actually tell you what can you do your top three mushrooms because you said oh man you said that this one was number one right yeah you got to go with rashi it's definitely it's not a gourmet you can't eat it so you could but it's real fibrous, very tough.

Speaker 40 You wouldn't want to eat reishi mushroom, but taking the tinctures is definitely good for your whole body. Lion's mane is amazing, and gourmet-wise, cooking that is

Speaker 40 so good. I've never had anything quite like this.
It's like seafood in a way, kind of like fish, fish without being fishy.

Speaker 40 And then after that, I don't know how to... pick one after that.
I mean, I would probably say turkey tail, which again is not one that's edible.

Speaker 40 It grows on hardwoods, and it's extremely useful in antioxidant and prevention for cancer.

Speaker 40 They use it to treat cancer in Japan, use it as an additive to cancer treatment, which helps a lot of the people going through cancer and radiation come out a little healthier.

Speaker 40 So that's another one that's just packed full of a lot of immunomodulating things that helps the immune system. fight things off.
But those are probably my top three to take.

Speaker 40 Out and about, I mean, yeah, it's hard to say. I mean, I love witch's butter.
It's a little orange gelatinous thing that comes out of trees that is really good for your respiratory system. Tramela,

Speaker 40 they call it tromella.

Speaker 6 Mushrooms have such cool names.

Speaker 124 They do.

Speaker 112 They're crazy.

Speaker 128 Those are all the.

Speaker 6 Aaron Rodgers loves witch's butter, too.

Speaker 40 It's all good. You know, there's so many mushrooms out there, but I would say if I had to pick one, because you can eat it, is lion's mane.
Lion's mane is amazing. Yeah.

Speaker 40 Herosia marinaceus is one strain we grow here.

Speaker 40 It's a beautiful mushroom. We have yet to find out how good it can be for our brains.

Speaker 40 Possibly, you know, it might have some positive effects on the prevention of Alzheimer's and dementia with its neuronal growth powers. So, yeah, I'm a full, firm believer in the fungal kingdom.

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Speaker 32 One last, last thing.

Speaker 29 Do you have one play that you like that you're like, that was my favorite play?

Speaker 94 I always love to ask guys that, like, if there's one play that they, the one play that maybe pops in your head at every random.

Speaker 40 I'll give you a play and then a throw. Okay.
My favorite play, we'd ran it a lot in Denver. I would boot out to the left naked and Rod Smith X would run.

Speaker 40 Usually on the normal call, he'd run like a 20-yard comeback. He was basically going to clear it and then be there late if I needed a throw away or sometimes he'd be wide open.
We would run that.

Speaker 40 He'd run an 18-yard and he'd sit and then go. And so I could still throw on the run.
I could throw it as far as you needed, 45, 50 yards. We killed people with that play.

Speaker 40 We killed them with that play. And I can't remember the full call.
It was just X takeoff, you know, 34 naked left X takeoff. And he'd just run to 18, take off, killed them with that one.

Speaker 40 My favorite throw was a skinny post, just a glance or a bang eight, whatever you want to call it.

Speaker 40 And it was just fun to throw because you were five quick steps, hit that back foot, and the trigger's set.

Speaker 40 And there was no, you had to read it. Sometimes you had to pull it back.
But man, letting that thing go in a game wasn't by guys who are looking at you, but it's like, it's already by them.

Speaker 40 And It's like, that was one of my favorite throws. I love it.

Speaker 6 I also heard that you used to change, you used to call out plays at the line of scrimmage sometimes.

Speaker 6 Like, if you wanted to audible real quick, you would just say the name of the play, and you wouldn't even like disguise it.

Speaker 40 In 98, that's all we did. I called my whole offense from right at the, right on the line of scrimmage.
Damn. We went no huddle, and I, in eight games, I threw for 2,500 yards.

Speaker 40 That was when we made the playoff run. Mark Tressman was the OC.

Speaker 88 Like, coach, I can't just call the plays.

Speaker 40 He's like, those guys don't know any of those terms. By the time they figured it out, we're snapping the ball.

Speaker 6 Right, that's the thing. It's like you can disguise the terminology, but the defense doesn't know your offensive play calls.

Speaker 43 Yeah, so now they do, you know, now they

Speaker 40 know most of the terms. Those guys study so much, but yeah, it's uh, the game hasn't changed that much, yeah.

Speaker 40 It's still violent, it's still fun to watch, yeah, it's still going to be there, you know, years to come. College game might not, I don't know, depending on how they treat these athletes

Speaker 6 with all this.

Speaker 40 You would have been an NIL king, oh, yeah, oh man, well, maybe my last year, yeah, yeah, that we didn't do a whole lot, you know, yeah, Yeah, but I mean, still, like, in Arizona, Jake's so good.

Speaker 124 What would have been great?

Speaker 40 What would have been great is to have the funds to then take my team and take them out to dinner or bring them over to the house and have the cool gathering. You're so cool.
Take care of my cats.

Speaker 43 We pay for this whole thing.

Speaker 40 There were guys who had kids, couldn't get shoes for their kids. You know, like it would have been nice to have that to help my team.
You know, that would have been a blessing for sure.

Speaker 45 All right. Well, Jake Pullman, one of the coolest guys we've ever interviewed.

Speaker 20 Thank you.

Speaker 25 Very check out the website.

Speaker 6 A very fun guy.

Speaker 50 Yeah. Yeah, man.

Speaker 118 There we go. Great to interview you guys.

Speaker 40 Thanks for being here at Michael Love LeFarnes.

Speaker 125 All right. Thanks, Jake.

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Speaker 10 Okay, we're going to wrap up with a Mount Rushmore.

Speaker 33 We're doing the Mount Rushmore of Universally Loved Things.

Speaker 29 Yes, sorry.

Speaker 90 Mount Rushmore is on the hot seat now.

Speaker 58 Big time.

Speaker 70 Thank you to Jalen Rose for putting it on there.

Speaker 12 We've gotten tagged in a lot of tweets being like, what are you going to say to this?

Speaker 58 Probably just going to keep doing Mount Rushmore until football comes back.

Speaker 58 I'm going to continue to grow as a person by that. I mean, once enough people start telling me to stop using it,

Speaker 56 coward and stuff like that,

Speaker 25 and then we'll just do top fours of all time.

Speaker 57 Fucking I love Mount Rushmore.

Speaker 72 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 60 I mean, Jake, who sent this to you?

Speaker 14 This was AWL sent this one in.

Speaker 124 Thank you. Appreciate that.

Speaker 97 Proper credit coming your way.

Speaker 80 Coming your way right up.

Speaker 97 Congratulations to Cam.

Speaker 106 Congratulations.

Speaker 112 Okay.

Speaker 87 Congratulations.

Speaker 24 You got proper credit. Billy is getting a universally love thing right now.
We don't know where he is or when he'll be back.

Speaker 17 Yeah, he's getting the cores light.

Speaker 6 Yeah. Billy's basically been like our pack mule on this trip where it's just like if we don't want some, just strap it to Billy's back.

Speaker 30 Yes, he also is probably going to come back with like two missing and be like, it was hot.

Speaker 118 He needed a sip.

Speaker 6 Low-key, like most of these six packs, we're missing some.

Speaker 20 All right.

Speaker 50 Whoa, Hank.

Speaker 85 Be careful there.

Speaker 6 Oh, see, Hank's peeking.

Speaker 17 He's peaking.

Speaker 6 Dirty dog. All right, so we won't have dirty tricks after a bad showing.

Speaker 81 Yeah, we won again.

Speaker 90 Plenty, great.

Speaker 33 Why don't we go first?

Speaker 84 And then, Hank, why don't you go second?

Speaker 36 And we'll give Jake and Billy just a couple more seconds of time to hopefully get Billy here.

Speaker 6 So, Jake, your list that you're about to unveil, is that just you or is it a collaboration list?

Speaker 97 I mean, I have my picks, I have his picks, so together we have a collab collab pick.

Speaker 6 But are you going to go with your picks or are you going to make it?

Speaker 50 Let's see how the draft goes. Okay, all right.

Speaker 68 Okay.

Speaker 48 All right. PFT, I sent you back.

Speaker 104 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 I like this order. Yes.

Speaker 81 Okay. All right.

Speaker 124 Number one, one overall.

Speaker 102 Very good pick.

Speaker 16 Great pick indeed.

Speaker 108 Puppies.

Speaker 59 Very good pick. Puppies are universally loved.
Jake?

Speaker 27 Jake loves puppies, too.

Speaker 6 I had that as my 1-1.

Speaker 50 Wow.

Speaker 99 Oh my God, that's allergic.

Speaker 61 I had dogs as 1-1.

Speaker 54 Hank tried to get us. Unreal.

Speaker 63 Tried to get us and backfired.

Speaker 6 Yeah. Puppies are so universally loved that even people that will die from being in the same room as them still adore them.

Speaker 109 Yes.

Speaker 12 I also love whenever someone on Twitter, like there'll be like a mass shooting or something.

Speaker 118 It'll be like, bad day.

Speaker 27 Like a lot of people got shot at work or school.

Speaker 17 Please send puppies. Yeah.

Speaker 20 Like, okay, cool. That will fix that.

Speaker 6 If like an entire warehouse full of puppies got shot, maybe some stuff would actually change.

Speaker 110 Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 96 That is true. I think actually.

Speaker 88 Like, sadly.

Speaker 2 Yes, no, it's very sadly, but also true.

Speaker 108 Yeah.

Speaker 12 But puppies 1-1.

Speaker 44 Billy's here.

Speaker 54 All right, Billy. Yes, Billy.

Speaker 118 Got the Coors Light.

Speaker 78 Billy, you didn't miss any picks.

Speaker 15 We did Puppies 1-1, but you guys haven't picked yet.

Speaker 6 Thank you for grabbing this Coors Light, Billy. Yes, Billy.

Speaker 58 Thank you.

Speaker 25 Puppies 1-1.

Speaker 72 Hank, Team Hank. Hank got sick.
He had a meeting with his team at lunch. Yep.

Speaker 92 Yeah, we expanded. Yeah, we got Arya and Jonah here for the week.
Great week. So they were involved in the planning process as well.

Speaker 12 His 1-1 is going to be like clapping back at people on Twitter.

Speaker 92 I think Dogs was the 1-1. I think this is the obvious 1-2.

Speaker 6 Why did Billy just bring you clear eyes?

Speaker 112 Just brought that.

Speaker 6 Take a wild guess.

Speaker 92 We're about to be at a meet and greet, meet a lot of people. I mean, Big Cat's getting big nugs dropped off left and right.

Speaker 124 That guy was the best.

Speaker 29 I mean, he's just like, Big Cat, I want you to have my biggest nug.

Speaker 92 I'm just, I'm just, I'm just foreshadowing, you know? Just trying to

Speaker 92 stay ahead of the curve.

Speaker 92 But our one, our first pick is head.

Speaker 127 Head.

Speaker 56 Head.

Speaker 6 Head. Like, Nancy Reagan?

Speaker 78 Like, getting your dick sucked.

Speaker 92 Or getting eaten out if you're a lady.

Speaker 44 Okay, nice.

Speaker 6 Okay, everyone likes head.

Speaker 85 Yeah, hell yeah. Who doesn't?

Speaker 68 Who doesn't?

Speaker 92 If there's someone that tweets me like, I hate head, like.

Speaker 101 You'll suck them off.

Speaker 61 No,

Speaker 50 you prove to them.

Speaker 99 You just haven't had it from me.

Speaker 63 Hank will, if you don't like a blowjob, Hank will suck your dick dry.

Speaker 41 Okay.

Speaker 102 Good pick, Hank.

Speaker 50 Thank you.

Speaker 6 You mean, I think you should specify, can I help you out? Getting head.

Speaker 101 Yeah. Everybody likes head.

Speaker 50 Not giving in.

Speaker 43 This is a situation like

Speaker 10 Dana got when he proclaimed

Speaker 15 the king of blowjobs and he didn't realize that when you call yourself the king of blowjobs, people could interpret it different ways.

Speaker 4 That is a good clarification.

Speaker 114 Getting head of that. Getting heads.

Speaker 93 Okay.

Speaker 109 Here we go.

Speaker 107 Sleep.

Speaker 112 Sleep.

Speaker 107 Everybody loves sleep.

Speaker 103 Well, not everyone.

Speaker 19 Not alphas, not alpha pluses.

Speaker 20 People

Speaker 107 likes to close their eyes at some point. It doesn't matter how long everyone likes to sleep at some point.

Speaker 6 Counterpoint, I don't don't necessarily like sleep. I like being well restless.

Speaker 17 Yeah, restless.

Speaker 6 I like the feeling after I sleep, but I don't know if I like actually like, well, I'm asleep because there's no signals.

Speaker 107 No one likes staying up all night and never being able to sleep.

Speaker 119 Okay. Right.
Yeah.

Speaker 107 Everyone likes to sleep.

Speaker 59 What about people who have like nightmares that torture them?

Speaker 6 Yeah, what if Freddy Krueger's around.

Speaker 27 Yeah, what if you just every time you close your eyes, it's the scariest thing in the world.

Speaker 107 Well, guess what? Sleep is everyone needs it. Everyone likes it.
Okay. Everyone at some point closes their eyes and goes to sleep.

Speaker 73 We poked some holes through it, but I don't think there are any holes.

Speaker 67 That's a good pick.

Speaker 97 Our next pick is going to be ice cream.

Speaker 100 Ooh, everyone loves ice cream.

Speaker 29 That's a good pick.

Speaker 85 That's a great pick.

Speaker 6 That's a natural thing. I think, you know, from the time you're born till the time you die, you never get sick of ice cream.
Uh-huh.

Speaker 11 Ice cream is the best.

Speaker 12 Shout out to lactose-intolerant people, but that's actually a proof to ice cream.

Speaker 5 I feel like lactose-intolerant people still eat ice cream.

Speaker 44 And they're like, I'll just be sick.

Speaker 6 They've made the ice cream for lactose-intolerant people, and they don't even care that it doesn't taste anything like the real thing. They're just like, yeah, feed me that garbage.

Speaker 6 It's still close to ice cream.

Speaker 48 Yeah, but I guarantee you, like, there are people that reply to me tomorrow.

Speaker 29 They're like, yeah, I'm lactose-intolerant, but

Speaker 36 it's like a dog in chocolate.

Speaker 29 Like, I'll just, I know it'll kill me, but I'll still eat it.

Speaker 122 That's how good it is.

Speaker 92 This would have been my 1-1. I know there are some, you know, some haters in this panel, but...
Our second pick is vacations.

Speaker 20 Good pick.

Speaker 72 We had it on the list. Yeah.

Speaker 92 Everyone likes them. Everyone loves them.

Speaker 101 Everyone likes going on vacations.

Speaker 6 Not Not when other people that you work with go on vacations, but going on one yourself, that's great. Yeah.

Speaker 101 That's good. Good pick.
Good pick.

Speaker 56 Thank you.

Speaker 20 Okay.

Speaker 28 PFT, why don't you?

Speaker 53 I'm going to go with two.

Speaker 104 I love it when you go through.

Speaker 93 I'm going to go with number three.

Speaker 92 I actually disagree.

Speaker 110 Yeah.

Speaker 6 And then you go with number two. Yep.

Speaker 20 Perfect. Perfect.

Speaker 17 All right. Great draft.
Yep.

Speaker 6 I'm feeling really good about this.

Speaker 113 Really good.

Speaker 6 Our second pick: we're going to go with music.

Speaker 6 Everyone loves music. Now, it's not necessarily the same type of music, but music.

Speaker 115 Music. Music is universal.

Speaker 33 Imagine the world without music.

Speaker 24 Scary place. Yep.

Speaker 4 Music makes a movie great. Any type of music, live music.

Speaker 6 It makes getting head better. Yep.

Speaker 48 Factory. It makes vacation way better.

Speaker 6 Good point. Insane.
You know what? It's a good thing enhancer.

Speaker 55 Yes. All around.

Speaker 12 I actually don't think you can go on vacation if you don't have music.

Speaker 46 That's fair. Yeah.

Speaker 6 I like to put on 3-6 mafia. Yep.

Speaker 113 Just lean back.

Speaker 95 Yep.

Speaker 90 All right.

Speaker 92 Get your knobs lobbed.

Speaker 68 Yeah.

Speaker 63 We're going to wade into some food similar to ice cream.

Speaker 62 Pizza.

Speaker 59 Pizza, universally loved.

Speaker 11 Pizza makes the world go round.

Speaker 12 I don't, show me a person who doesn't like pizza.

Speaker 73 They are a certified weirdo.

Speaker 80 Psychopath.

Speaker 48 Psychopath.

Speaker 12 And pizza is also one of those things that you liked it when you were two years old and you like it when you're 90 years old.

Speaker 50 Yeah.

Speaker 52 Pizza.

Speaker 110 Pizza.

Speaker 6 Pizza fever. Pizza.

Speaker 31 Catch it.

Speaker 32 Got any thoughts?

Speaker 82 Hank, would you like to say anything about that?

Speaker 92 No, I love pizza. Okay, yeah.

Speaker 85 Okay. That's good.
Yeah.

Speaker 17 If we combined all these things, it'd be incredible. If you just

Speaker 12 getting head from a puppy while eating pizza on vacation, listening to your favorite jams.

Speaker 92 I'll do your one. Oh, actually, no,

Speaker 92 we're going to go into the human, the human side.

Speaker 50 Oh, where were we before?

Speaker 93 Well, things, food.

Speaker 5 Got it.

Speaker 50 Music. Okay.

Speaker 48 Oh, you're going with an individual.

Speaker 110 An individual. Yes.

Speaker 110 Okay.

Speaker 92 All right. Adam Sandler.

Speaker 48 Oh, that's a good pick.

Speaker 109 Oh, good pick.

Speaker 68 Good choice. Good pick.

Speaker 25 That's a very good one.

Speaker 6 I like that. Everyone does like Adam Sandler.
Great guy.

Speaker 92 Great movies. Yeah, Adam, there was even that phrase where people tried to come back on Adam.

Speaker 12 People tried to clown on Adam Sandler and it didn't take.

Speaker 27 You know, like, oh, look at the shorts he's wearing.

Speaker 48 Everyone's like, dude, the fuck, it's Adam Sandler.

Speaker 6 He's just rich and doesn't care.

Speaker 16 Yeah, and he's like a universally loved guy and also seemingly nice to everyone.

Speaker 113 Everyone. Yeah.

Speaker 31 Maybe too nice.

Speaker 100 That's my

Speaker 100 name.

Speaker 46 That would devastate me.

Speaker 6 I'm going to add him to the list of celebrities that I would be actually crumbled by if it came out that they were dickheads. Like Tom Hanks would be one of them.

Speaker 6 And then I always put Weird weird owl on there too because everyone likes weird owl ellen but but yeah ellen oh my god if somebody said anything bad about ellen just like slit my throat yeah she's my queen uh we had a little back and forth here uh-oh

Speaker 50 there's nothing better than than looking over and billy looks as confident as ever and jake's shaking his head it's my favorite look in team mount rushmore i got a good look yeah okay

Speaker 107 So I don't think we all realized how much we all love this.

Speaker 101 That's why it's not going to play well on the graph.

Speaker 61 No, my God.

Speaker 41 Why would you say that, Jake?

Speaker 37 We literally, no,

Speaker 41 the intro would have been perfect, but you guys had to do shit on it. Okay, all right, all right.

Speaker 43 Start over.

Speaker 109 Start over. We'll pretend that didn't happen.

Speaker 61 Billy was getting a great intro.

Speaker 43 Yeah.

Speaker 87 So, yeah, he was giving a great intro of, so a lot of people probably are going to disagree about this universally love thing.

Speaker 6 I want to like this.

Speaker 109 I just want to say the record.

Speaker 6 Open mind to like what people want to say.

Speaker 124 Open mind.

Speaker 83 You'll get our gut reaction.

Speaker 107 So, something we all take for granted, but on this trip, we've lacked a little of, and it's a little harder to find than usual.

Speaker 6 Oxygen.

Speaker 107 Everyone loves oxygen, and especially, hey, we've all been carrying stuff around.

Speaker 115 The altitude, the territory.

Speaker 85 I thought you were going to say friendship.

Speaker 68 I was like, that's sick, dude.

Speaker 54 Yeah, like this has

Speaker 107 oxygen. Everyone loves oxygen.
If you didn't have oxygen, you would die.

Speaker 40 What about a lot of us are slowly dying, carrying stuff, going upstairs with a lack of oxygen?

Speaker 107 And you guys may not get it, but guys behind the camera, they get it.

Speaker 25 Aria, Aria did have a problem with oxygen yesterday.

Speaker 71 He was puking.

Speaker 109 And you know what? For the lack of it.

Speaker 107 Tomorrow, you guys are going to be like, wow, he was right.

Speaker 6 You're not wrong about that, but it's not something that's loved.

Speaker 92 It's something that's taken for granted.

Speaker 124 Right. It's like breathing is

Speaker 50 you don't think about breathing. I think oxygen is breathing.

Speaker 112 Do you love breathing?

Speaker 6 I think it's underrated.

Speaker 5 Did you want to

Speaker 83 scream as much as you want to breathe?

Speaker 107 If I took you out to the water, if I took you out to the water and put you under the water and then drowned you, and you scot up and said, You got to succeed as much as you want to breathe and love ice cream, it'd be the same thing.

Speaker 6 Succeed Succeed as much as you want to breathe. Okay.

Speaker 93 Philly counterpoint.

Speaker 61 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 92 Classic.

Speaker 93 What about people that all-timer?

Speaker 6 What about getting choked out while you're boning, though? Like, that's depriving you of oxygen, but heightening the rest of your senses.

Speaker 109 Bonk.

Speaker 6 Listen, this is a bonk-free zone. It's Mount Rushmore.

Speaker 92 Things universally loved, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 87 Okay. All right.
Last pick.

Speaker 63 It's not a bad pick.

Speaker 11 It's just, again, it's not something.

Speaker 25 I don't think anyone thinks, like, man, I love oxygen.

Speaker 120 Milo.

Speaker 74 What?

Speaker 95 Milo, yeah.

Speaker 6 Man, I love oxygen. Man, I love oxygen.

Speaker 20 Okay.

Speaker 120 Yeah, there we go.

Speaker 97 Our last pick is NFL Red Zone.

Speaker 61 Okay, yeah. Well,

Speaker 6 what about the people who I do love NFL Red Zone, but there have been times on this podcast when somebody else has said that it takes away from the flow of Sunday.

Speaker 6 I personally disagree with that take. I love NFL Red Zone.

Speaker 34 I love NFL Red Zone.

Speaker 109 Don't kill football red zone.

Speaker 10 There is something about sinking your teeth in a game, in a solo game, that's

Speaker 101 special.

Speaker 87 Sunday, one o'clock, you're playing red zone what about the people who don't like football

Speaker 6 they don't listen to shit

Speaker 6 yeah yeah fuck them yeah you're right fuck them fuck them all right I would honestly I would probably kill wait I have a point of contention

Speaker 96 which red zone are you talking about

Speaker 129 this is very important I could I could have no this is very important which type of pizza are you talking about just pizza cheese pizza which type of music are you talking about all music we say what type of puppies you're talking about no no no no all puppies but are you saying two different hosts

Speaker 97 That's ridiculous. NFL Red Zone.

Speaker 48 I do not love Andrew Ciciliano's Red Zone.

Speaker 56 Okay.

Speaker 97 But you love NFL Red Zone.

Speaker 48 I do love NFL Red Zone.

Speaker 6 I like Andrew Ciciliano.

Speaker 43 I don't love

Speaker 50 myself anymore. I like it.

Speaker 105 All right. All right.

Speaker 48 Red zone. It's a good pick.

Speaker 118 It's a good pick. Yeah.
It's a good pick.

Speaker 60 I was just trying to make you say something bad about Ciciliano.

Speaker 112 Never. Yeah, I know.

Speaker 50 No hands is a Syracuse guy, too.

Speaker 67 They're all Syracuse guys. Yeah.

Speaker 20 They're all.

Speaker 102 Okay, good pick. That's a good pick.

Speaker 69 Red Zone is.

Speaker 58 I'll tell you what, Red Zone is universally loved on this podcast in terms of listeners.

Speaker 36 There's not a person.

Speaker 12 It'd be very funny if we could find one person who heard that pick and was like,

Speaker 124 what is he talking about? What's that? That's Red Zone.

Speaker 56 Yeah.

Speaker 120 All right, Hank.

Speaker 92 I'm shocked that Team Billy and Jake can take this, considering the merch, considering what you're wearing.

Speaker 92 But our last pick is freedom.

Speaker 56 Okay.

Speaker 92 Freedom. Everyone loves freedom.
Yeah.

Speaker 107 That's actually, I don't think a lot of people like freedom anymore.

Speaker 104 Well, Billy.

Speaker 50 I think there's a lot of people around here.

Speaker 52 Billy's a fascist adjacent, so he probably,

Speaker 41 where does that come from?

Speaker 61 Where does that come from?

Speaker 6 It means that, like, you're not a fascist, but you admire a lot of people.

Speaker 50 Yeah, right.

Speaker 104 You're like, they got some good ideas.

Speaker 47 You think that they're sweet.

Speaker 27 Yeah, the trains ran on time.

Speaker 61 That kind of stuff.

Speaker 92 Not me.

Speaker 114 I love freedom.

Speaker 92 I love this country.

Speaker 93 And, you know,

Speaker 92 I think anyone that doesn't have freedom probably wishes they did.

Speaker 6 What does freedom mean to you, Hank?

Speaker 121 It just means vacation, going to the the beach,

Speaker 42 getting ahead and not having to reciprocate.

Speaker 109 Yeah, America, baby.

Speaker 99 Fucking love this guy.

Speaker 99 Okay, our last pick.

Speaker 104 You want to do it?

Speaker 6 Yeah, yo, so we're going to go with a person on this one. You want to say at the same time? Yes.
Three, two, one, Scott Van Pelt.

Speaker 6 Everybody loves Scott Van Pelt. Everyone loves Scott Van Pelt.
Say something bad about Scott Van Pelt. Trot.
I dare you.

Speaker 92 It's the same as the red zone thing, but it kind of, what about the people that don't like it?

Speaker 104 Yeah, no, you're right.

Speaker 54 You're right.

Speaker 2 I knew that's that's that's yeah.

Speaker 92 Those people aren't listening to this podcast.

Speaker 86 I knew the minute I said that to Jake, I kind of put myself in a box, so that's why I backed off.

Speaker 48 But yeah, because there are people who don't watch sports, I'll hand up.

Speaker 6 I still think they'd like Scott Van Peltel. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 48 I think that there are just, there's no Scott, anyone who's not a Scott Van Pelt fan just doesn't know who he is.

Speaker 25 There's just Scott Van Pelt fans in the waiting.

Speaker 20 You know, he's universally loved. We'll see.

Speaker 92 I guess Pizza and Dog is going to be tough to overcome.

Speaker 6 Who does not like Scott Van Pelt?

Speaker 6 Show yourself, bro. Scott Russillo.

Speaker 20 I'm just kidding.

Speaker 91 I'm just kidding.

Speaker 37 I'm just kidding.

Speaker 119 I don't know.

Speaker 112 There probably is.

Speaker 61 That was based off what he told you.

Speaker 92 There probably are people at ESBN that are jealous or like coworkers of his that aren't as successful as him that

Speaker 50 they're staying towards him.

Speaker 30 I think he's gotten to a level where it's like, we need Scott Van Pelt to pay our jobs.

Speaker 86 He's that type of loved.

Speaker 44 Scott Van Pelt puts food on our table.

Speaker 6 I think there's probably some jealousy at that company because he is so massive.

Speaker 6 But I think the respect that he has, like, people are like, I'm jealous of him, but I realize that I'm just being jealous of Scott Van Pelt.

Speaker 93 Yes.

Speaker 25 Okay, what did we miss? There's a lot that we've got.

Speaker 92 Part of my cheese steaks.

Speaker 50 Yeah,

Speaker 92 universally loved. Shout out to everyone that's been getting them.
Keep going to get them. They're delicious.
Great, great reports so far. So thank you to all the AWLs who have.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 6 So we actually dug into the deep dumbies on the cheesesteaks, and the uh the complaints about them are down significantly compared to like any other brand new launch so it's going really well now there have been a couple issues if there are issues tweet at the support and the support will take care of all of you i venmo'd some guy 150 bucks oh now because he complained so much and then he he sent it back to me because we refunded him So I was like, and he apologized.

Speaker 67 He's like, I'm sorry I was going through some shit.

Speaker 36 I'm sorry I replied to every single one of your tweets for three days stream.

Speaker 50 And I was like, cool.

Speaker 68 That's fine.

Speaker 48 I just wanted you to be happy.

Speaker 116 You won't get that customer service anywhere else.

Speaker 6 I'm doing spot checks on the quality too. I'm ordering them personally to myself.
Uh-huh. Just to make, not because I like am a fat ass who loves cheese sticks.

Speaker 6 That's totally not why, but just to do quality checks.

Speaker 17 I like that.

Speaker 25 Other things we missed. Home runs.

Speaker 85 Everyone loves home runs.

Speaker 44 I mean, chicks dig the long ball.

Speaker 86 That's the universal love thing.

Speaker 104 Snow days.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Good. Yep.

Speaker 6 Boobs. Boobs.
Even women love boobs. Yep.
Like, women look at a naked woman. They're like, wow, she's gorgeous.

Speaker 121 Yeah.

Speaker 104 They don't look at each other's boobs.

Speaker 110 Those that don't have boobs hate boobs.

Speaker 103 No.

Speaker 109 No, I think they love boobs.

Speaker 6 They're just like, I wish I had boobs. Yeah.

Speaker 92 But then they inherently hate them.

Speaker 12 But like, you know, like, when chicks hang out, they just look at each other's boobs.

Speaker 29 That's all they do.

Speaker 24 You know how we just hang out and name random players.

Speaker 86 They just look at each other's boobs.

Speaker 6 Mark Limke.

Speaker 50 Mark Lemke. That's a good one.

Speaker 109 Yeah, you remember him?

Speaker 6 Durst, of course.

Speaker 27 You do a lot of the Braves from the Technology.

Speaker 85 Oh, I love Terry Pendleton.

Speaker 112 Terry Pendleton, Jeff Blouser, Jeff Treadway, all the Jeffs.

Speaker 6 We had Mac and Cheese.

Speaker 112 Yep, Mac and Cheese.

Speaker 6 Everyone loves Mac and Cheese. Free money.

Speaker 81 I don't know even if that exists, but free money, you know, I mean, that is universally loved.

Speaker 96 Someone's like, here.

Speaker 12 I mean, those always go crazy on Twitter when someone's like, I'm giving away free money.

Speaker 81 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 6 The Live Tour. That's a prime example of it.
Yes, exactly. Free money.

Speaker 92 Exactly. Sunsets and sunrises.

Speaker 50 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Nice. Beautiful.

Speaker 73 The cool side of the pillow.

Speaker 86 Who doesn't love that?

Speaker 6 Taking a nice, big, clean shit.

Speaker 92 I think that's just because you have to do that.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I do have to have a shit.

Speaker 6 Well, my hotel room is not ready yet.

Speaker 78 You can tell he's got to take a shit because he said it.

Speaker 12 We went back and forth, then he sent back.

Speaker 6 I was like, I really think that taking

Speaker 41 shit is good.

Speaker 108 I was like, what about the women?

Speaker 109 I was like, yeah, whatever. Girls poop.

Speaker 13 Yeah,

Speaker 13 sometimes.

Speaker 96 But those aren't big.

Speaker 29 Those are little tiny rabbit pellets.

Speaker 6 Tom Hanks, like I said earlier,

Speaker 92 pedophile. Kind of problematic.

Speaker 6 Yeah, really problematic. He's

Speaker 47 alleged.

Speaker 20 Locked up on a sweater.

Speaker 6 Laughing, just laughing. Everybody loves to laugh.

Speaker 47 Laugh, friendship.

Speaker 43 Yeah.

Speaker 15 You know.

Speaker 107 Pottable drinking water.

Speaker 101 Potable? Yeah.

Speaker 122 Yeah, that's good.

Speaker 6 That's along the same lines of oxygen. Although water kills probably millions of people.

Speaker 112 That's why I said pottable drinking water.

Speaker 101 Potable. Yeah.
Potable. Yeah.

Speaker 90 Let's see.

Speaker 19 What else do we have?

Speaker 92 Corzolite.

Speaker 99 Oh, Charles Barkley. Charles Barkley.

Speaker 3 Everyone loves Charles.

Speaker 27 Charles is another one where people have dipped their toe into trying to be like, don't listen to Charles Barkley.

Speaker 5 And everyone's like, how about you shut up?

Speaker 11 And that's always a universally loved person.

Speaker 6 New sheets on a bed.

Speaker 6 So nice. New sheets on a bed.

Speaker 55 Climb into bed.

Speaker 92 I've recently become a second sheet guy. I'm growing up.

Speaker 50 What do you mean? Really?

Speaker 92 Like the whatever, the cover.

Speaker 6 So wait, talk me through your layers. You have the fitted sheet on bottom?

Speaker 92 Yeah, the fitted sheet and then the secondary sheet and then the comforter.

Speaker 104 I don't do secondary sheet.

Speaker 23 I hate it.

Speaker 21 I get all tangled up in it.

Speaker 6 Sometimes I just go only secondary sheet.

Speaker 50 Yeah, I only go blanket because I just, I'm a violent sleeper.

Speaker 92 I feel like that was a big step up and machine.

Speaker 93 Yeah, that is.

Speaker 47 Next step is to wash them.

Speaker 50 Yeah, no, I wash my sheets.

Speaker 6 I like how you call it the second sheet, but it's really just the first sheet.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 92 No, the first sheet is the sheet.

Speaker 6 The fitted sheet on the bottom.

Speaker 114 That is the sheet. That's the sheet.

Speaker 93 That's sheet one.

Speaker 6 That sheet one and sheet two is the sheet.

Speaker 120 Yeah.

Speaker 50 Okay.

Speaker 48 I would say like

Speaker 52 77 degrees and no clouds.

Speaker 27 Yeah. That's pretty universally loved.

Speaker 97 Not if you're from a big time country.

Speaker 4 No, but I mean, that's still a day that you love.

Speaker 58 I mean, you want.

Speaker 97 You guys want 20 degrees and clouds.

Speaker 48 Oh, yeah, and football weather, but I'm saying, like, if you just popped up, if you popped up a 77-degree

Speaker 10 cloudless day in the middle of this degree.

Speaker 19 Like in Columbus, Ohio in January, I don't think anyone would complain.

Speaker 107 Real Feel?

Speaker 107 What? Real Feel 77?

Speaker 28 Yeah, Real Feel.

Speaker 103 Yeah, thanks for checking.

Speaker 107 Because that's 77.

Speaker 21 Yeah, no, I got you.

Speaker 69 Humidity. Yeah, there could be humidity.
No, I'm saying Real Feel 77.

Speaker 76 Low humidity.

Speaker 46 Raymond.

Speaker 56 Yeah.

Speaker 61 Maybe a soft breeze.

Speaker 91 Yeah.

Speaker 128 Showers?

Speaker 112 I like taking showers. Showers, yeah.

Speaker 6 I, in theory, like baths better, but who has the time? Right.

Speaker 19 No one has the time.

Speaker 50 Hot tubs?

Speaker 43 Hot tubs are hot tubs.

Speaker 124 Great pot.

Speaker 50 Hot tubs, great.

Speaker 6 We missed that. We whiffed on hot tubs.
Yeah, hot tubs.

Speaker 110 Ice baths.

Speaker 74 okay never mind yeah okay billy gary v

Speaker 50 uh all right andrew tate

Speaker 128 top g top g gotta do more push-ups numbers numbers send everyone on their way 30 12 30 tune in friday maybe an airport review coming your way the third ever 26

Speaker 15 Third ever.

Speaker 45 Madison, Indianapolis, and then the one that we're going to do for Friday.

Speaker 47 Yeah, third ever we speak a seven we're averaging one every two years that's pretty good had to be more but we're on a kind of a hot it's not more it's definitely not we're on a hot streak with airport reviews two in a year yeah uh this is the year of airport reviews say your numbers three what's yours bat girl two four 44 for jonah

Speaker 60 21 i'm gonna do 27.

Speaker 85 everyone got them 30

Speaker 60 76

Speaker 103 so close shout out to win on one of these yeah yeah no, you can't win on one of these, Hank.

Speaker 83 It would be bad if you won on one of these.

Speaker 31 People would call Mickey Mouse Trophy.

Speaker 6 Wow. Love you guys.

Speaker 40 There's alligator-eating pythons in the Uber

Speaker 9 that rocks.

Speaker 9 That's fucking good, really.

Speaker 9 Don't give me away.

Speaker 43 I don't know what

Speaker 43 to say. I'm saying anyway.

Speaker 43 Today's on my day to find you.

Speaker 9 Shine away.

Speaker 43 I'll be coming for your love, okay.

Speaker 9 Shine away.

Speaker 43 I'll be coming for your love up here.

Speaker 43 I'm shining away.

Speaker 43 Long come for you anyway. I'm shining away.

Speaker 43 Long you many ways.

Speaker 43 Take on me.

Speaker 43 Take on me.

Speaker 43 Take on the

Speaker 43 We believe in love.

Speaker 43 Take on me.

Speaker 43 Take on me.

Speaker 43 Take on me.