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Yeah, talked about the Netflix show, growing relationship there.

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Today is Wednesday, June 29th, and I'd like to begin with a quote.

Normal people keep the world going, but those who dare to be different lead us into tomorrow.

You son of a bitch.

That's what I was going to say.

I've made my decision to opt in.

See you in the fall.

A11-Evan.

All even.

All even.

All even.

That was from Kyrie Irving, who is

A11.

We've got to get a clarification.

Sounds like an episode title from Stranger Things.

Yeah, A11 Evan.

From Kyrie Irving, who has opted in to his $37 million player option, ending the dumbest two days on NBA Twitter

in getting ready for free agency.

He is staying in Brooklyn.

As of right now, he could still be traded, but as of right now, he's staying in Brooklyn.

He also had quite a day on Twitter where the Barstool main account tweeted Kyrie Irving destroying every NBA team he's ever been a part of.

And it was a video of the Joker walking away from the hospital as he blows it up.

And Kyrie Irving corrected him and said, NBA champion and gold medalist Kyrie Irving just thought the statement needed a correction as y'all continue to make money off my name and countless others.

Notice he did not correct the fact that he has destroyed every NBA team he has ever been a part of.

So he wanted a clarification on what he's accomplished, but not a clarification.

You'd think if someone said that about you, you'd be like, clarification, I haven't blown up every team I've been a part of, but he, I think, knows that he has and is just clarifying that it's NBA champion and gold medalist Kyrie Irving back on the Brooklyn Nets.

Championship,

the big three back together again, Kyrie Irving, Ben Simmons, and Kevin Durant.

You can read all of Kyrie's tweets in the voice of Morpheus from The Matrix, though.

They actually make more sense if you think that it's Morpheus saying them.

Yeah, I do.

He's got like a very specific type of philosophy that could be equally at home in like a fan fiction rewrite of a fantasy film or like a gap commercial that co-ops a famous poet.

It's essentially Kyrie Irving, and we don't know him personally, but just judging from afar, he's like your friend that decided to read On the Road one summer or listens to too much Joe Rogan podcast and is like, I have some thoughts about a lot of things.

And it's like, really?

Okay.

Go ahead, drop it on us.

But I love Kyrie.

Yes, I know.

I actually am on Team Kyrie for most things because he's an agent of chaos.

Right.

I love that in the NBA.

He's also just like, he's exceptionally good when he's playing well and when he's healthy.

He's one of the best players in the league and he's fun to watch.

But it's just like, I like some guy that could walk into a room and you just know that by the time he's done talking, everyone's going to be like, what the fuck did that guy say?

And he just creates,

he creates conversation, which I love.

And like, I remember when he went back to Boston Garden and he was like waving the smoke around the sage.

He was like burning sage.

Yeah.

I love, he's such a weirdo, and I love that.

Well, I think that, I think we like it from afar because we don't have to be his teammates.

I would guarantee his teammates don't love this.

I don't know, but he gets so much like

another player.

I think his teammates do love it.

I want to say he's like the best one-on-one player.

I want to play with Kyrie.

Playing skill.

Yeah, no, no.

I think that's his playing skill.

I don't think his teammates enjoyed the last season with all the sitting out and everything.

That could not have been fun.

I mean, they probably didn't enjoy the fact that he wasn't on the court, but

I feel like all of his teammates that have ever talked about him publicly have said how much they love him.

They go out of their way to come.

They love playing with him, yeah.

But the problem is he hasn't been playing that much.

And now, I don't know where the Nets, because there was, it felt like we were right around the Nets being one of the funniest.

Like, it was essentially going to be the Steve Nash Dwight Howard Lakers Sports Illustrated cover, where the Nets were going to be like super team Nets.

You know, for a minute, there's James Harden, Kyrie Irving, and Kevin Durant.

And then we could have been, you know, two years of them playing together into just blowing the whole thing up.

Because if Kyrie had opted out or demanded a trade and then Kevin Durant demanded a trade, the Nets would have been left with nothing.

I mean, it would have been him turning down, what, $36 million to sign for, you know, probably, what, six or seven million?

If he wanted to go to a contest,

that's

I would have to and if there's any NBA player any superstar that's like crazy enough to do it It's probably Kyrie I would believe other stuff he says if he did that but with the crypto market turning down recently I feel like Kyrie Kyrie probably took a bath on his board apes are worthless all his apes gone.

Yeah, my new salary is actually I get three apes an episode.

Yes, yes, I converted completely to crypto.

It's just I don't know.

He's just constantly doing stuff.

Like the Nets definitely don't like Kyrie anymore.

The front office

and the owner.

They're just like, what the fuck?

That's the part where I would agree with you.

Like, the front office, the sitting out stuff, that's something that if you're the coach or if you're the GM, you're like, I fucking hate this guy, but he's so good.

But I feel like the players that play with him,

they really enjoy play with him.

I think they like him as a person, too.

Play with him, yes.

When they have to answer questions about why he's not playing, probably not.

Right.

It's like when we get asked questions about how come there's someone missing from the show today.

Right.

It's like enough already.

Yeah, I like

him as a person, but at the end of the day,

as his boss, I want to light him on fire.

Yeah, what if it was just he just didn't get vaccinated?

That's actually the real reason he's been sussied.

That's actually the truth.

We did have to make him.

He unvaccinated himself.

He unvaccinated himself.

He sucked it out like a snake.

He found a way.

Yeah, he found a snake to suck it out.

But yeah, Kyrie Irving, like, at the end of the day, the Nets, for all the circus surrounding them, this team still could contend for a title if everyone's healthy and playing.

And that's including Ben Simmons, who who the fuck knows.

Like, the fact that Ben Simmons and Kyrie are on the same team is just so great.

It's great for Ben Simmons, yeah, because he's like, he's not the center of attention all the time.

And this is the only team in the league that I think he could be on, maybe the Lakers, where there would be somebody else that would deflect that away nicely.

And then we had John Wall,

John Wall moving to the Clippers.

Clippers are going to be a problem.

So Clippers are an official problem right now.

They are a problem.

Playoff P is back this season.

Is John Wall him?

He's him.

Kawhi is him.

Kawhi is him.

They got three hymns.

They got three hymns.

They have three hymns.

Kawhi just he plays every other year.

He's like the Giants when they used to win the World Series on even years.

That's what Kawhi does.

He just like, if he gets, if he gets dinged up, he'll just not play for 12 months.

But if he's come back and be dominant.

If everyone does their top five and they forget Kawhi, and then he comes back and plays one insane year and they're like, Kawhi, best player in the league.

And then he's just gone.

But I'm just

Clippers.

I'm really John Wall.

Celtics Clippers.

This is the part of the NBA season, though, that

it's too much because they stack the draft and then free agency on Thursday right after the finals, and it's like, I need a break.

I'm also, this goes back to me being confused all the time about NBA contracts.

So the Houston Rockets are paying John Wall $40 million to not play for them this year.

Correct.

Did I get that straight?

Correct.

And then last year, they paid him $47 million to also not pay.

Correct.

Correct.

So he's then going to go two years in a row not playing for the Houston Rockets.

Correct.

And they will have paid him $87 million.

But think about the cap space they're going to have coming up.

You can't put a price on it.

It's all about the new cap space.

The Knicks are trying to get Knicks are continuously trying to get cap space.

Can we just then get some awesome superstar be like, no, I don't want to play for you.

I mean, if this was any other industry, like, I feel like the feds would be investigating them for money laundering.

Yeah.

It doesn't.

Well, I also get why, like.

Sunk cost.

Sunk cost.

Sunk cost.

Sunk cost.

It's It's hard to stay motivated.

Is that a personal?

No, when you're getting, no, if I was getting paid $40 million and I could be like, yeah, I don't, you know, if you guys are like, I don't want you to podcast.

Oh, yeah, no, no, I'm still going to pay you $40 million.

But you want to win.

But, like,

when you get the game,

yeah, but it takes a little bit out of your sales.

You want to win when you're in college and you're in high school and you're broke and then you get paid

$100 million for playing 20 games in three years.

Yeah, what you're saying right now, Hank, is John Wall and Kyrie might not have that dog in them.

No, they might not have that dog.

I feel like John Wall is still dogged up, though.

I don't know.

I do too.

I do too, but

that wouldn't surprise me.

Yeah, but Kyrie, I think you can say, like, he might have a dog, but it's like, you know, maybe like a lab that is just like maybe an older lab.

Well, I mean, the fact that he's hanging on Olympics pretty much tells you all you need to know.

Especially when Mello has three gold medals.

Yeah.

Get out of here, dude.

And a bronze.

No big deal.

Okay, what's happened to the United States since Kyrie won a gold medal?

Gone downhill.

He won 2016 gold medal, I think.

Yes.

Yeah, I know.

It is

so much cooler than that.

Like, if that's what you're flexing about, then you're pretty much saying you don't have to do it.

That was the best summer of your life.

Yeah.

2016.

After Kyrie happened,

he destroyed that team, too.

2011, not bad.

Yeah, but it was.

We should do a Mountain Rush more of summers.

Of summers.

16.

Lifetime summers.

Just any summer.

Any summer.

Just pick it.

Yeah, I don't hate that.

Summer 98.

2003 was home run race.

2004 was better, actually.

Yeah.

There's some good summer race.

Yeah.

This summer is going to be

brazy.

Oh, my God.

It's going to be what?

It's going to be brazy.

What is brazy?

I need to learn that.

Someone said it the other day, and I was like, what is that?

What did you just say?

It's crazy and what?

If you're a blood.

Oh.

Because you can't say C.

Oh, okay.

That's okay.

So that really doesn't work for me.

No.

I don't even know if that.

I might have just made that up.

I don't know if that's true.

Well, let's have a brazy summer.

Why not?

Fuck it.

Let's get it.

Let's just see.

Are you not a crazy?

I guess I'm not.

I guess I just showed my allegiance.

All right.

That's true.

So, yeah, Kyrie, John Wall, probably not.

Many dogs in the world.

I think John Wall has got a dog.

He's got a dog.

He's just been hurt.

He's got a dog.

It's a well-trained family pit bull that lives inside John Wall.

And he's had kennel cough for a while.

I think he's like relatively relatively healthy.

He's getting over it.

He's getting over it.

He's had all his shots against Parvo, and he's ready to go.

But he's a snuggly dog.

He's a snuggly pit bull.

I feel like Kyrie Irving, yeah, he's an older.

He's like, the dog's not in him anymore.

The dog's like on his lap.

There's a dog, but there's a dog somewhere in there.

But like every now and then you can throw a tennis ball around and then the dog will sleep for 18 hours.

Yeah.

That type of dog.

The dog's slowly going blind.

Yes, yes, exactly.

But it can still, you know, like if you open the fridge, the dog will show up.

Oh, it still knows what the can opener sounds like.

Yes.

All right, other news.

So we have the NBA free agency coming.

I feel like this is not a big free agency because there's not like one huge, huge name.

But I'm sure we'll have some news coming on Thursday and over the weekend.

Do we know what's going to happen with James Harden?

Is that completely decided?

He's got to opt in too, I think.

So he's going to opt back in in Philly.

But he's also found, like, Daryl Murray is the one guy who will just pay James Harden whatever because he loves him so much.

He is the Christian Horner to Max Verstappen analogy because this is an F1 podcast.

The other news is looks like the Browns have just made the worst decision of all time.

Yeah.

So we're first reporting on part of my take that Deshaun Watson will be suspended for an indefinite year

on Friday.

Yeah.

So we just know Roger Goodell that much that that's what's going to happen.

There's been some leaks that have like, it basically,

I love how the NFL operates.

They've told enough people that this is what it's going to be as a trial balloon.

Like, hey, what would you guys think if we suspended him for a year?

And now all the stories are like, wow, the Browns are really fucking stupid because Jacoby Brissette might have to be their starting quarterback for a year.

And so they've sent out those trial balloons and people seem to be okay with it.

So it will probably be an indefinite suspension for at least a year and then maybe some more of next year.

So my guess is it will be a suspension for a year and then the appeal is going to come through because it gets, you know, they have the right to appeal that suspension.

And And then Goodell is going to be like, okay, I'll reduce it to 14 games or 12 games or something like that.

That's what I think is going to happen.

Although sometimes what they'll do is they'll do the conversation before where they will decide the length knowing that he's not going to appeal.

Like they'll come to an agreement.

But it's not just...

Deshaun Watson being like, all right, you suspend me for a year.

We won't appeal.

Just take away the indefinite.

But Goodell is, he is not deciding the initial suspension.

Right.

It's an independent person that's doing that.

And then Goodell.

Totally independent.

But then Goodell just hears the appeal.

Yeah, they're totally independent.

Yeah.

Goodell would never do with it.

He would never interfere with no back channels going on.

So

I feel like, yeah, the Browns really fucked up by paying them.

And if you look at the most recent thing that came out, I think it was in the Times yesterday, about

the Q?

No, the Times.

Oh.

New York Times.

The Gray Lady.

Got it.

Got it.

The paper of record.

Got it.

They're suing the Houston Texans because the Texans allegedly provided Deshaun Watson with hotel rooms

after the team, Masseuse, was like, hey, this is kind of weird that Deshaun keeps using all these independent massage therapists that he finds on Instagram.

So they sounded the alarm to the Texans, and Texans were like, yeah, we'll just keep getting him his hotel rooms.

And oh, one of them is like complaining about him.

Tell you what, you can also use RNDA that we have ready for you, Deshaun.

Yeah, just sitting over here.

So it looks like the Texans are probably liable in all this, too, to a certain degree.

The Browns and Texans should just have to play like a seven-game series

in July to decide what happens.

Just to entertain us.

Yes, yes.

Purely entertaining.

Davis Mills doesn't deserve this.

Davis Mills is the future.

But yeah, this is so Browns.

Like, you know, that one day of happiness where it's like, hey, we got Deshaun Watson.

It's actually kind of cheap.

You know, what are we paying him?

$1 next year or something?

You know what I did?

$1 million, I think.

So

I put a future on the Browns the day before they got Deshaun.

Not because of Deshaun, but for our friend Jeff D.

Lowe's birthday.

I put a significant future.

I got him at, I want to say it was like plus 3,000.

And

then the news happened and the odds shot down to plus 1,500.

I made a tough decision last week.

I cashed out of that future because I wouldn't feel right.

That's good.

That's big.

I'm not going to draft Deshaun Watson on any of my fantasy teams.

There, you heard it here first.

Deshaun Watson is suspended from part of my take.

Yep.

Heard it here first.

Pending appeal.

And I won't draft him for this year.

Yep.

Next year, totally different.

If he's on waivers, though, like if he doesn't get drafted, he's suspended.

Yeah, pick him up and stash him just in case he comes back for like week 16.

Yep.

Super Bowl.

But he's off my big board.

Yeah.

Yeah, no, I won't even look at him.

Someone's going to do that.

That will be the great, the guy in your fantasy league that does the auto draft who misses the draft and he gets Deshaun Watson in the second round.

I want to see if there's anybody out there.

Here's where the rubber meets the road.

If you've got a keeper league and you've got Deshaun Watson as like your franchise guy, got to cut him.

You got to cut him.

You got to cut him.

If you stand for anything, you got to cut him.

Yeah.

Also, we're getting into that time zone right now where it's about to be July and we're going to have

people

tweeting us being like, man, I already did my draft and this guy got hurt.

Just a reminder, don't do your fantasy draft until the last week of August.

Even maybe the Tuesday before the Thursday kickoff.

That's usually when you do it.

That Monday or that Tuesday?

The freaks out there that draft their fantasy team in July, and then they're shocked when like half their roster's gone before the season starts, stop doing that.

Yep.

Stop doing it.

I bet you there's someone right now who has already done their fantasy draft and they have Deshaun Watson and they're going to be like, oh, and now he's suspended for a year?

Fuck.

This sucks.

No, you shouldn't do it that early.

And I heard that Hank's going to be naming fantasy teams if you tweet at him.

Yeah.

The fuck dude.

No, that is.

Absolutely not.

Yeah.

Is that just a rumor I heard?

Yeah.

That was a nasty rumor someone's spreading.

Tweet at you, and then, yeah, you'll do draft order and,

yeah, you got this.

Quick, do our fantasy teams.

No.

No.

I like you in sunglasses.

You're a lot less surly.

Yeah, you look way chiller.

Is this what I look like every show?

Like stoned?

Silver foxes.

Oh, nice.

Okay, that's for Jake.

Short Kings.

Ooh.

Was that for Big Cat?

Yeah, it's kind of a funny thing, like Biggie Small.

Smalls.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Okay.

And what about Jake?

Best in the office?

Hank can't beat him even on his best day.

I think it's got to be Lamar.

Double sportsmanships.

Yeah.

Did you play some golf this morning, Hank?

No.

Damn, you're getting rusty.

I've been busy.

Yeah, so many meetings.

So many meetings.

Actually.

Yeah, I know.

Right.

It's crazy.

All right,

let's do hot seat cool throw, and then we got the Max Verstapen, Sergio Perez interview, and then the Mount Rushmore of America with Kate.

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Hank, hot seat cool thrown.

My hot seat is Cruises.

Uh-oh.

Oh, what?

Oh,

this is crazy.

Yeah, you think of cruises, you know,

on the sea.

Yeah.

In a boat, a bunch of people.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I saw it.

And I don't know if this is just like an internet thing.

Like, there's no way that they're...

Although there has to be.

I think there's real people that sit in an office and actually have come up with these plans, designs.

They put out the pictures of a plane cruise.

Yeah.

It's like a massive, massive, massive, bigger than, you know, whatever,

like four aircraft.

i guess what's what do you call the big aircraft carriers in the sky uh big

triple seven cargo planes yeah yeah i was gonna say a c3 carrier but that's that's on the

gunship or yeah it's like 10 of those triple sevens okay it's like so whatever

siete sevens siete sevens quadruple sevens yeah so it's a quadruple seven nuclear-powered uh air crews that i don't it makes i don't really understand how this works it also like why would i want to just be on a plane for yeah hours and hours and hours?

Oh, because they have, you know, they have the indoor water park and they have all the stuff.

Yeah,

where it's like, why would you want to be on a boat for so long?

Because

you're chilling at all these cool little places on the plane, and then you land in a cool place.

No, it's cap.

It's certified cap.

If you look at all the engines, I'm going to leave.

I think.

If you look at all the engines on that plane, you know how much that fucking thing weighs?

I don't think it's possible.

Speaking from an aviation standpoint, I don't think that it's possible.

Even though, like,

with a thrust to weight ratio, you'd have to have like 40 engines to get that thing off the ground.

Isn't this just a video?

Doesn't Business Insider just make these videos to keep the lights on in between hit pieces about us?

That's pretty much all they do.

Well, somebody's like, check out this new car that is never going to be driven, but wouldn't it be cool?

They'll also do like 40 satisfying things, and it'll just be like somebody playing with Play-Doh.

Yeah, or like, you'd never guess where this cheese is made.

20

Guatemalan city makes all the cheese in the world.

20 electric engines.

20 electric engines.

Powered by nuclear fusion.

I'm just going to say this.

If this is real, I will absolutely laugh when it crashes and everyone dies.

I'm just going to say it.

Like, this is not, there's some things that you're just not supposed to do.

This is one of them.

So if anyone goes on this cruise and they crash and die, I will not be sad for one second.

I mean, it's a million percent going to crash.

Yes.

Like, everyone's gonna die because there's no way to test fly this until you actually make the real thing.

Right.

You're not gonna there's a real movie theater in it.

No, it's listen.

You're getting taken for a ride.

Yeah, you are.

I would love to get taken for a ride.

I want you.

All right, I'll sign you up for the first trip.

I will pay whatever amount of money it takes to get you on that first flight.

Yeah.

All I'm saying is

if I'm in a hotel in the sky, they better give me a parachute.

Yeah.

Just in case I have to jump out.

Uh-huh.

But it flies really high, I think.

And who's going to pilot it?

There's no man on earth that can fly that plane.

You.

Yeah.

Good point, Jake.

Yeah.

Sully.

You.

Sully can fly that plane.

All right.

Your cool throne.

My cool throne is nuts.

Specifically, nut or butter.

Okay.

I don't know if you guys saw this yesterday, but the latest, you know,

sometimes corporate accounts can get cute.

Sometimes they're really cringy.

Sometimes they're a little over the top.

This is one of the most over-the-top ones I've seen lately.

Nut or Butter, just a Nutter Butter account at Nutter Butter.

Shout out for the free ad.

Tweeted, N is for the way you nut at me.

Ooh.

Okay.

I don't get it.

Me neither.

It's just like, it's just a brand getting horny.

It's just extremely horny tweet from a brand.

It's like, did you see BP Gas had a pride like post?

Gas is gay.

Just so you know.

I just hope someone's like, what the fuck?

I'm not buying gas anymore.

Wait, is that what it said?

No, it was just like, it was, hold on, I'll fly.

I thought that BP literally tweeted just gas.

That'd be the the best one.

That'd be incredible if it was just gas is gay.

You know, who else is a really horny brand?

Radio Shack.

Radio Shack.

They tweeted yesterday: hey, at Miley Cyrus, you up?

Oh, Jesus.

So you're running that account?

It's clout chasing in the competition.

Yeah.

Whatever.

I'm so over, Miley.

Yeah.

So over, you just brought her up.

No, I haven't even thought about her in like

years.

Yeah.

Okay.

Oh, that's your hot seat cool throne.

Good job, Hank.

PFT.

Look at this.

Look at this.

It's VP Mexico.

They did a pride post.

Was it just like

oil, but like in rainbow?

I don't know.

I'm going to translate.

I'm going to translate it.

Let's see.

Translate tweet.

It says,

gas is gay.

No,

it's taking forever because our internet sucks.

Radio Shack also tweeted out a bunch of Radio Shack logos.

staring at the Wendy's logo on the couch.

So it's the meme where it's like the five of them standing around the little girl on the couch.

Kind of creepy.

Yeah, that is kind of creepy, Radio Shack.

They're getting ready to bang out Wendy's.

Hey, do you think you get the Wi-Fi fixed in this fucking place?

No.

I mean, this is crazy.

I can't even be on the internet.

Couldn't do it, Milton.

Couldn't do it here.

Fucking Chicago.

What a fuck.

All right, go ahead, PFT.

My hot seat is integrity.

And maybe we can do this as a group because I just did see the text that came through.

I think Jake was planning on discussing this, and Hank sent it out as well.

There was a Colorado Avalanche beat writer that picked up the Stanley Cup

and celebrated with the team and called it one of the best nights of his life.

And frankly,

he should be executed.

Yeah.

Send him to the live tour.

They should chop his head off.

You know what journalism is supposed to be in America?

It's supposed to be fearless truth tellers.

Impartial scribes that pay attention to the warts and all and can be counted on to tell the truth and speak truth to power.

In this case, this man celebrated the Stanley Cup.

That's bullshit.

I think death.

It's all taken away.

I think death.

Jake, what do you think?

What's the right punishment?

So some people are saying he should be fired.

Some people are saying...

Actually, I mean, that's what the tweets are.

I did a blog on it.

Any blue check marks saying he should be fired?

A blue check mark said.

What's his name?

The guy.

Jay Mariotti.

No.

The guy who got in trouble is...

I'm blanking on it.

Mike Chambers of the Denver Post.

Denver Post.

Don't say that name around me anymore.

And a blue check mark, Jeff Perlman, quote tweeted.

Oh, we've had him on the show.

Yep.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Probably

before my time, probably.

Yeah, maybe.

He gets angry a lot online.

Yeah, he's a big time, and I like his books.

I've read his books.

He's a very talented author, but he has a lot of like, gonna have to log off for the rest of the afternoon.

Dear journalists, he's like, dude, you know, you're just sitting in your backyard right now checking Twitter.

Dear journalists, what not to do ever.

Oh, he hit him with a dear journalist?

Yeah.

Damn.

That's tough coming up.

That's not for a big kid.

Respect the cards.

I i partnered with the team once but i think it's different when you're a member of the traveling party oh don't cut down the name uh uh

no it's different why you're part of the traveling party he's not part of the team

exactly that's difference

so if you're part of the traveling party you still should not celebrate that's not true you shouldn't show any joy at all no he wasn't you were broadcasting not journalizing yeah journalizing is totally different yeah

so uh i don't really care but i think it's funny how mad people get i mean it there's there's somewhere in the in the middle here where it is a little weird because it's like it also depends on the case.

But I also just don't care.

Did the owner be like, come party with us, or did he just walk in the party?

Right.

Like, that's a big factor.

I think if you, I mean, I guess I have no journalistic integrity, but if I was covering one specific team, like.

You want them to do well.

Yeah.

The better they do, the more clicks you get.

And you develop relationships with the players.

But then again, if they go 21 and 58 or whatever,

is he going to stay neutral?

What do you say, best season of my life, best day of my life?

The most memorable experience of my career.

But yeah, like when you're a beat reporter, you want the team you're covering to win a Stanley Cup.

Correct.

It makes sense.

So he could have been talking about the overall experience.

I'm sure he got a lot more buzz, a lot more clicks and stuff during this playoff run.

He's going to be persona non-grada when it comes back to the, when he gets back to the press box.

Oh, yeah.

He's

oh man all of next season and it's let's just be let's just completely strip away all of like the you know people getting on their high horses here 99 of the anger is going to be jealousy of course like you know that that he was able to do that and party with the team and they weren't because of some fucking class they took at Syracuse not to name names can you imagine being in sports media and your favorite team wins a Stanley Cup and then you get to hang out with the Stanley Cup.

Could you even put yourself in that position?

I would say no.

Yeah.

I'd be like, well, you wouldn't be allowed because you don't have pants.

I would say no.

Yeah, I'd excuse myself from the entire time.

There are more important things.

You can't be an objective

coverage of the team anymore.

Yeah, like, for example, if I had partied with the Capitals after they won, then once Ovie was doing his old Putin thing, then I would probably speak up about that.

But if I was good friends with him, then I probably wouldn't say anything.

If If I was like too close to him, then I'd probably just sweep it all under the rug and pretend

that he's not best friends of Putin.

So thankfully I didn't do that.

All right, your cool throne?

Oh, yeah,

my cool throne is Neon.

I saw a picture come out.

The Barbie movie is coming out soon.

Oh, yeah.

It's got what Ryan Gosling and Margo Roby in it.

I feel like this summer, Neon is back.

The 80s are coming back, like, for real.

It's going to be brazy.

It's going to be brazy.

It's going to be brazy.

It's going to be, you know what?

I feel like brazy summers, the official colors are just neon.

I do think that this is the summer where everyone's like, man,

finally, COVID is over.

Like, we're going to keep doing this.

I think every summer is going to be like, this is going to be the craziest summer ever for the next 10 years.

Yeah.

Man, we can finally do it this summer.

And fans are back in sports.

Fans are back.

We're going to do neon.

No, the neon.

Get brazy.

The neon, look, it's been enough time where you can look at it.

Just because your truck is neon?

Well, no, my truck is rainbow.

Because you got a a house in the Jersey Shore?

What's that?

And because you got a house in the Jersey Shore.

Listen, Rainbow.

Wait, is Jersey Shore?

Is that like a big neon place?

Because it wasn't last Jay's.

Yeah.

I guess it is.

Rainbow or Neon looks good if you have a tan.

It just does.

It doesn't matter what type of neon, it looks good when you have a tan.

I think that's my goal.

Last summer was like novelty drink summer for me.

I think this year it's Seafood Towers, which, by the way, are fantastic.

Seafood Towers and Neon.

There we go.

And Brazy.

And Brazy.

Well, Neon is brazy.

It is by definition brazy.

It's a brazy aesthetic, yeah.

All right, my hot seat is

Hank and Liam are just ready to get the fuck out of here.

My hot seat is the ACC Coastal Division.

So the ACC has decided that starting next year, they are combining both divisions, and it will just be the top two teams going forward.

Very, very sad day for all next year, 2023.

So

you have three teams that you play every year, and then it's a rotating schedule off that.

But we lose the ACC Coastal Division, and it's a very sad day because they, I think they were doing this just because the ACC Coastal finally got hot.

They had not won an ACC championship in the last decade.

They finally do with Pitt, and then they shut the whole thing down.

Yep.

It's bullshit.

Yeah.

It's absolute bullshit.

It was always funny looking at those two divisions.

Oh,

well, Clemson.

Yeah, well, yeah.

And you had that little Virginia Tech run in like the late, like 2007 to like 10.

And then I went back and I looked and since they've been doing divisions I think it was something like the ACC Coastal went like five and 16 in the championship game and one of those wins was Georgia Tech who had it vacated.

So they just got the shit kicked out of them every year.

Now combine them.

It's going to be sad though because it's always nice to have that one thing you can point to and be like, hey, we're not the ACC coastal.

The U is back too.

Yeah.

Big Ten.

So that's, I mean, I never really saw the purpose of having those two divisions.

Just like I never really understood when the Big Ten did like the legends and leaders.

Yeah.

It's just they try to like create rivalries sometimes that don't really exist.

Yeah.

And it's like if you put these two teams next to each other every year, then maybe their fan bases will start to hate each other.

It doesn't, you can't like force that.

Right.

And let's be very honest.

I am.

Definitely afraid of the Big Ten doing the same thing because the Big Ten West is the ACC coastal of the Big Ten.

And I don't want that to change.

So too bad for ACC coastal teams.

You have one last year.

and I'll try to get there.

I think Virginia Tech's thing ended before that because JMU beat them in Blacksburg in 2010.

Well, no, they won.

I think they won 08.

Let's see.

It was 21.

07.

Yeah, no, they won in 10.

They won in 07, 08, and 10.

Oh, they did?

Yeah.

Even though the same year they got beaten by one double A school.

Yeah.

They won the ACC Coastal or ACC Championship.

Okay, my cool throne is tennis.

Wimbledon is back.

I'm going to watch at least one game of Wimbledon.

I also laughed really hard because someone tweeted at me.

They're like, hey, Wimbledon's here.

Can you guys get a tennis player on?

I was like,

okay, dude.

We'll have Genie Bouchard back on.

Yeah, Jake's here.

He can talk about it.

Yeah, that was actually my hot seat.

Is Novak Jokovich.

What?

He lost a set, and people are freaking out.

Oh, one set?

I'm out on Wimbledon.

I'm out on Wimbledon.

Jake, give me your

power rank.

Top three tennis players in the world.

Right now?

Or ever?

Right now.

Right now, it's

Rafa,

Joker,

and

that guy from Germany?

Medvedev.

Serena.

Tommy Paul.

Is there a Medvedeve?

Yep, Medvedev.

Yeah.

Jack Sox.

I got Medvedev's three.

Serena.

I mean, it's got to be Serena.

She should have been.

Sam Curry is American.

She's in AWO.

You have no guys.

You have no girls in your top three overall?

I like Osaka.

Is she going to play?

Wait, didn't she quit?

I don't know if she's playing in this tournament.

Possibly.

She's talking tennis.

Jeannie Bouchard.

Yeah.

We'll see her at the U.S.

Open.

Serena's got to be a bad one.

No, we won't.

No, we won't.

You guys want to go inside baseball for a second?

Yeah.

I forgot to bring this up in the previous.

Are we still talking tennis?

What if theoretically

you guys could get all access press to a U.S.

Open day?

Still out.

For a day.

For a day.

Is it out?

What day is it?

Is it the day?

Any day.

The last day.

Last day?

We do a lot of sports and stuff.

With We have the game coming up.

We have a new interview, and you guys could bounce around as reporters.

But who do we interview?

Anyone that's there.

Here's what I'll say to you, Hank.

If the U.S.

Open is willing to make me a ball boy, I will attend.

Well, I will be a ball boy.

Be careful with the U.S.

Open.

Be careful with that big cat because they have just made bloggers ball boys before.

Yeah.

Just for asking.

That's true.

But I will.

I will be a ball boy.

I did it.

I think you guys doing a video there would be great.

My first summer

that's corporate Hank talking

I hate that

I honestly don't think that you do want to be a ball boy that's not I would just because it would be funny that's content on the screen and like fuck up that's that's caring about the listeners Hank

I did a day there my first summer yeah I did king of the court in a suit I ate some food

oh wow that's incredible one of the most memorable videos yeah um

big cat is hot

here's what they'll do they'll say oh big cat said they want to be a ball boy so they'll get him out there it's gonna going to be a real game.

No, they'll get you out there for like a training day, and they'll be like,

here's how you do it.

And then it'll just be like, Big Cat trains to be a ball boy.

No, I won't do that.

No, I'm saying

I have to go from zero to 60.

I have to go from not a ball boy, no idea how tennis even works, to ball boy.

If they do that, I'm in.

That's talking tennis.

All right, Jake, your Hotzi cool.

My Hazi was Novak.

There's an article.

Novak Jovkovic overcomes second set stumble to win Wimbledon opener.

Another one said bad day at the office despite winning three sets to one.

So there's moving goalposts on my boy.

They're expecting six love, six love, six love every moment.

Bullshit.

Yeah.

My cool throne is fantasy running backs.

We have a boxing match between Adrian Peterson and L'A'Veon Bell next month.

Whoa.

Yeah.

Does he get to use a tree branch?

Wait, so

does this mean that L'A'Veon Bell's contract didn't?

Because you'd assume he needs the money?

Right.

He is.

I know Adrian Peterson

needs the money.

Isn't Le'Veon Bell still in the NFL?

I think so.

Yeah, what contract is like, hey, yeah, you can go ahead and

the Bucs waived them January 22nd.

Oh, that's right.

He's on the Bucs.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

So that'll be fun.

Yeah, so it's like 2012 all over again.

I'm going to feel like a little dirty watching that.

Well, I'm not going to watch it.

Like Hank said, you're going to see a highlight and then be like, oh, okay, cool.

Next.

Let me see the next journalist who's broken the code.

I think it's got to be Adrian Peterson though if you're betting on this right like a way

more physical player It would be funny if Levon Bell boxed like he runs and like was just didn't throw a punch for the first like 15 seconds of every round.

Yeah, what his thing like left his left his face like super open and voluble

his strategy is gonna be get into the ring and then wait until somebody bigger than you goes and takes the guy out.

Yes, yes.

Okay, let's do our interview.

Everyone's been wanting it.

Apologies for it late.

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Here is Max Verstapen and Checo.

Okay, we now welcome on a pair of very special guests.

It is Max Verstapen and

it was it's Sergio Perez, who you just heard.

We got to start Sergio, uh, Checo or Sergio?

Which one are we going by?

Checko.

Okay, so I read a story when someone asked you how you got the nickname, and you were like, it's pretty much the most unremarkable story ever.

What, like, you just, can you tell us how you got the nickname, Checo?

Yeah, basically in Mexico, you know, all the Sergios are called Checo's.

So it's not like a nickname I choose or they, or people choose on me, you know?

It's just automatic.

Yeah.

It's like in the U.S.

with Richard and Dick.

Yeah, right.

Exactly.

Dick Richard.

Yes, exactly.

Sweet.

So why,

this might be confusing, but did your parents maybe think about just naming you Checo?

Because it's like, you know that if they name you Sergio, you're Checo.

Yeah, I need to get you my dad's name, you know, to

make sure you ask him because I don't know what was he thinking.

Everyone calls me Checo, no one calls me Sergio.

If we ran into Sergio Garcia and just right off the bat, we called him Checo, would he be cool with that, do you think?

Yeah, he would love it.

Okay, I'm gonna file that one away in case we interview him.

Okay, so we're very excited to have you guys on.

We just to be totally upfront, we are Drive to Survive fans, and then you know, we'll watch F1.

He's also a big fan of it.

Yeah,

Max, you're such a big fan of it.

You just weren't on the last season, huh?

Exactly.

Yeah,

I'm saving all my energy for the next one.

You just wanted to, you wanted to just consume it as a fan.

You didn't want to be a participant.

Yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

Exactly.

I'm just, you know, paying my monthly subscription to Netflix.

And yeah, no, it's great.

Is there anything about that series?

Because it's obviously done wonders here in the United States to increase just the fandom of F1 racing and awareness of F1 racing.

Is there anything about the series, though, that you watch and you see how it's edited and you're like, man, they really don't show it as we experience it?

Well, you know,

I'm not going to be too negative about it now because, I mean, in the meantime, of course, I talked to the people who are in charge and who are running the show.

So I think we actually came to a good understanding for the future.

But up until now, that's why, of course, last year I was not really involved.

I think there were a few things where I was not really happy with, and especially, you know, faking rivalries between drivers that for me

is a tough one because, of course, it did wonders in America, but also I think

sometimes they portray a few drivers differently to how they actually are.

And then, of course, the people who are new to have won think, oh, this guy is a bit of a dick or whatever, right?

in real life he's not but uh having said that like i just said before i think for the future we came to a good understanding of

how we can work together.

So, yeah, I'm sure in the next one, you will see a little bit more of me.

Okay, so the fake rivalries, I get that.

I'll just cross off the question, why do you hate Daniel Ricardo?

We just won't get into that.

No, we're big fans of Danny Rick.

We've had him on the show a bunch.

We've also had on your guys, would you say he's your boss or coach, Christian Horner?

What is that officially?

Is he your boss?

He's my best friend and my mate.

Well, and we, yeah, that's what I was gonna ask because, um,

does he ever look at you, Max, and you're like, dude, chill out, like, you love me a little too much?

Not yet, sometimes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Checko knows, you know, Cheko is just like, he's from South America, you know, so of course, I think that's quite a natural behavior for Cheko.

So, yeah, we do have to calm him down a few times.

Yeah, Checo's like, wait, are you are you about to try to kiss Max?

What's going on here, Christian?

I always love to calm him down, you know, because when there are a lot of cameras around and they're like get too close,

especially

my first date with Redford, it was a bit shocking.

So, when we had him on, he was telling us about his pre-race routine as a principal, and he said that he always has to find the perfect toilet to piss in before the races.

And he can always tell if he picks the correct port-a-potty, and it's going to be a good day.

I guess he's been doing pretty good selecting which toilets he's going to choose this week.

Is that something The team now carries a personal toilet, so for him, especially.

Yeah, it's like Kim Jong-un when he travels with his own toilet on the train.

Exactly.

Is there a moment where like before the race, he ever tells you guys, he's like, yeah, I hit the right hole this morning.

You guys are in good shape.

I thought it was only one hole anyway in the toilet.

Yeah, that's true.

Yeah, but does he let you know, like, hey, look, it doesn't matter if the car's fast.

I went to the right port-a-potty.

We're good.

You know, this is actually the first time I heard that from Christian.

So I'm going to buy him for his birthday a toilet, a Japanese toilet.

Having the spray, like, you know, having it hit the right trajectory.

You have to make sure he hits right.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, I love that.

We did a bad job starting out here.

We didn't ask it.

Easy question, which one of you guys is faster?

Ooh.

Well, we leave that up to you to decide.

Okay, Checko.

You can decide that one.

I'll say Checo.

I'll say watch Max get mad.

I never get mad.

Never.

I'm literally the calmest person on this earth.

I actually read a story about that, and it's crazy because obviously, you know, you guys are both very, very competitive.

You're in a sport that is like crazy and adrenaline.

I read a story, Max, that like before races, you're sometimes playing like FIFA and just hanging out.

Like, is that true that you have that calmness to you before you're about to go 200 plus miles an hour around corners?

I mean, not one hour before the race, but let's say we're going to be able to do that.

Maybe 20 minutes before.

if like the the race like a night race or whatever and i wouldn't need to leave the hotel in the afternoon i would wake up of course a bit earlier and sometimes i squeeze in a few games yeah okay now in terms of the video game like do you guys use the video game to prep for courses at all or is that is there a simulator that you're able to use that's like better than that yeah well i mean we have a whole setup of course back at the factory in in milton keynotes uh which uh is pretty incredible you know where we set up the car ready before we actually get to the racetrack itself.

So, we do spend a lot of time on that, yeah.

So, I wouldn't, I wouldn't call that a video game for me.

Like, the video game, especially like on my laptop, um, I just enjoy like talking to my friends and just having a bit of fun, you know, because it's just it's also a nice way of just relaxing, you know, outside of racing.

Basically, I was asking if I'm good at the video game, do you think I could do your job?

Yeah, you will be a world champion.

What about you, Cheko?

Before each race, do you find that you have to get yourself amped up?

Do you like being excited going into it?

Are you in a mode where you're trying to calm yourself down?

No, I'm pretty chilled before the race.

You know, sometimes I try to sleep as much as possible, you know, because I got three kids at home.

So I take a good opportunity to make sure I put the hours.

You know, I like to sleep nine hours on a Saturday, you know, if we especially if we have to get late to the circuit.

If if it's like a night race or so, then it works out pretty well because you have plenty of time in the morning.

What about pregame meals?

Do you have anything in particular you like to eat before a race?

No, it depends.

It really depends if we got any time, you know, because normally the races are very early in the day, so you just have breakfast and it's very hard to get any lunch.

But I'm always changing maybe some pasta, plain pasta, to make sure I don't have any bad stomach throughout the race.

Yeah,

I would imagine, has it ever happened where you got in your suit and you're like, uh-oh, I gotta go to the bathroom.

This stinks.

Yeah, it has happened.

It's horrible.

It's a horrible feeling.

Imagine driving at 300 kilometers and having those feelings, they're not very nice.

No, I would imagine.

This might be a stupid question, but both you guys obviously, you know, live on the edge.

You're going fast all the time.

Do you guys ever get frustrated when you're in an Uber and they're going really slow?

Like, do you get do you get mad at slow people in general in life?

Well, I don't, I don't really get upset or whatever when they are slow because at the end of the day, they just drive to the speed limit most of the time, right?

It's just when they lose the way or like they're just taking an alternative route for for no reason uh then sometimes well i'm actually pretty calm then i i wouldn't immediately say that i would be upset and talk to the driver like hey what are you doing but inside i would be like like what the hell is going on right right yeah and just like when you're on the highway like if you're going 70 miles an hour that's slow to you right like that's just that's not fast yeah well yeah of course it is slow but i mean we of course also race a lot during the weekend So, actually, sometimes to just be driven around and just get from, let's say, A to B, it's not a bad thing.

Yeah, that's true.

When did you guys first realize that you really loved going fast?

I think when my mom gave birth.

You were early?

Second trimester?

Yeah.

Ready to go.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I always like seeing.

Yeah,

seeing your guys'

old clips and kart racing and all that stuff when you were kids, that seems like the most fun in the entire world.

Because I remember as a kid, whenever I got a chance to drive in like a go-kart, it was like the best day ever.

So, and you got to do that all the time, right?

Well, yeah, I mean, to be honest with you, I haven't driven a proper go-kart in like five years now.

But I mean, I also started driving when I was four years old.

So I did that for like 12, 13 years.

So I think sometimes it's not bad to have a little break from it, but it is, let's say, easy, easy going.

It's where you learn all the basics of what you're doing right now.

And of course, a lot less politics involved.

So

that is for sure very nice.

Okay, similar question for you, Checo.

You love to golf.

I know that, like, you know, we'll drive cars, but then when you get in a golf cart, for some reason, it's so much fun.

You're like, this is sick.

This is a golf cart.

Do you still have that feeling when you get in a golf cart?

Yeah, I do, I do.

Okay, especially if

the golf course is a bit bumpy or, you know, it has blind corners, it can get a good fun, yeah, because that would suck,

yeah,

you know.

The last time I went with some mates, we went into a place in Puerto Pallarta in Vidanta, which is really tough.

You know, you have some blind corners and so on, and they had few drinks, and I was chasing them.

But he missed a corner, you know, so he just went really late into the corner and he rolled over the car.

He did a bit of a checkout.

Wow, he literally rolled the car into my mates.

Wow, geez,

it can can get very, very difficult.

By the way, I heard you have really good ball control when you play golf.

Did you?

Yeah.

Yeah?

How good are you?

I'm good.

When you shoot,

what's good?

Because to me, if you break 100, you're good.

How good are we talking?

He's going to turn pro after his own career.

Yeah,

what do you golf usually?

18.

18.

So 18 handles.

Yeah, yeah, that's pretty good.

I like that.

That's like you ask how good are you?

Like, yeah, I'm good.

I'm good.

You don't see that.

18 for me, you know, with the amount of time I spend playing golf, it's good, you know, because I don't play that much.

I'm not practicing enough.

So

once I retire, I want to get down to the below

into the fives, I think.

So are you good?

No,

I broke 130 last week.

So that was pretty big for me.

Yeah.

I skipped three holes, but I shot 127.

I really don't understand what you guys are talking about.

You know, like I never played

because hitting 100 on a golf course, it's like good.

It's bad.

You know, it's bad.

So, Max, to put it in racing terms, if you had a race in like, let's say it was an hour and a half, we would do the race in like four hours.

Yeah, very much.

Right, okay.

That's that's amazing.

Yeah, that's pretty impressive.

Yeah, it'd be like you guys drive backwards.

If you're finishing the race, you're not crashing or hitting the wall, so that's good.

Correct.

Yeah, and we're also getting drunk during the race and then just forgetting how to add up the sports.

Because you're not going that much flat out, so actually you're very good for the environment as well.

Also,

when you say we finish the race, that's not exactly right because we skip a bunch of holes.

I usually stop around holes.

You just cut the track.

It's fine.

Nobody will notice.

So

something that we always can't grasp our minds around is like, F1, you guys are teammates, but you're also competing against each other.

Like American Sport, when you're on your team, that's your team.

Is it difficult at times to be like, hey,

we're a team, but we also are trying to win this race?

like you guys you're you seem like you have a great relationship but how does that work day to day it's just for the cameras

okay yeah you guys are gonna fist fight after this i like that

but is it difficult like is it is it hard day to day to just be like we know that we're we're going for the same goal but at the end of the day we also want to win yeah but i think it all has to do with respect isn't it like if you respect each other you can say to your teammate like you did a better job than me this weekend or whatever you know in a race and as long you can do that to each other and besides that don't take things too personal and still have a good understanding also not just purely about racing but just in life or as like kind of teammates working together to make the team faster as well i think that's what we have at the moment and i think that works really well but it's not always that easy of course because you can see with other teams it's not always the same um but it's very important to find that kind of uh relationship together you know to to always think about how can we make the car faster faster together because you have to work together

and then of course at the end of the day you both benefit from it yeah what's the most important part do you think like being on a team that fosters that kind of teamwork like having people around you that encourage you to get along or is it mostly on the drivers i think it's a bit of both i mean you need to have the right people around you as well who you know don't um stimulate the kind of like

the internal fighting, if you know what I mean.

And I think the team we are in at the moment, like there are a lot of good people and yeah, we all get on really well together and i think that is very important yeah who's one unsung hero of red bull racing a guy that doesn't get their name out that much um you know maybe somebody that kind of flies under the radar a little bit but is very very important to you guys doing your job definitely not marketing

we can definitely live without them yeah they set you up with these two assholes everywhere yeah they're saying they're sitting they're sitting behind us you know so we we do have to say this yeah

there are so many people involved that you always have to speak of

a great team effort, you know, because there are only a limited amount of people who come to actually to the track.

But there's so many people back at the factory who are working and contributing to this great results we get, you know, that it's always impossible, you know, to thank them enough.

Yeah.

So

this year, I should have said, by the way, from the start, I'm actually a Ferrari fan.

So apologies.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, you got to.

yeah, why are you wearing the cap?

I have some caps.

I just basically picked them because I wanted a team that I could essentially be like, yeah, look at the history, even though they're not that good now.

It's like, yeah, but we have all these rings.

Yeah, that kind of guy.

Yeah, yeah.

All my other teams.

Yeah, the other teams I root for in American sports don't have that.

I can't be like, it's basically, I've said it's like Yankee fans.

Yankee fans can be like 27 rings.

But how is it different this year against Ferrari versus like last year with Mercedes?

Mercedes, where it felt obviously the Mercedes rivalry was very heated at the end.

How is it different now, like shifting it where Ferrari is your main competition for this season?

It's just completely different mentalities as well, because of course one side is, let's say, English, German, the other one is

basically Italian for most of it.

But I think in general for the sport, first of all, it's great to see Ferrari back up there.

And I think it's good that you see different kind of teams like coming around around and actually start fighting again for wins and potentially a championship.

But also I think between the two teams, like, yeah, we get on really well.

Of course, naturally, you want to beat each other and you will always do everything you can to make sure that happens.

But like I said, it's the same actually with as what we have as drivers.

As long as you respect each other, I think that that's the most important.

Yeah.

As far as the F1 race in Miami went, that seemed like it was an incredible spectacle down there.

Like all the celebrities and everybody that showed up, especially before the race.

Who is the most famous person you guys met in Miami?

I definitely gotta be.

I actually took him to the truck, you know.

I drove with him with Bad Bunny.

You know him?

Yeah, Bad Bunny.

Yeah, that's cool.

Yes.

I mean,

he's pretty famous in America.

Yeah.

Was it?

Is he a big F1 guy?

He's a very bad bunny.

Yeah, he's a bad bunny.

Is he a big fan of the sport?

He likes the sport.

I think he recently started with it.

So we actually had his picture on on our car from his album no not from him nice i saw i thought you had a space in the cockpit

i saw it on my street i think tom brady was down there right tom brady was down at the race what what other sport

yeah what other sport he is yeah what other sport uh has athletes that you think would translate the best to becoming f1 drivers like do you think soccer players as a whole would be good f1 drivers american football golfers i think the soccer players are good

in anything.

You know, they're very good because they can be like, if they play golf, they're really good at it.

Or the golfers, they can be also very good.

Fighters, you know, the boxers.

Yeah.

To be honest, like, I mean, if, let's say we do it the other way around, if you would put me on a pitch, like.

I would get to a certain level, but I would never be, let's say, F1 worthy level in terms of

in their sport, right?

So football.

Yeah, whatever soccer, football, name it, basketball.

I'm not probably not even tall enough for that anyway.

So

in general, like you get, I guess, to a okay-ish level if you work hard for a few years, but you need to grow up with it.

It needs to be your passion as well, right?

To become really good.

But what if we took you guys and we put you in NASCAR?

In the U.S., like NASCAR has always been a very popular, that's been our motorsport that we've had.

If you guys became NASCAR drivers, how long until you became dominant p1 p2 i think we certainly will enjoy it more because we can eat yeah we can eat

yeah daniel won last yeah you know our mexican won nascar for the first time so that was pretty big yeah well

i do race a bit of of let's say nascar on my simulator at home and it's a completely different discipline so for us to get good at it

It will also take quite a bit of time.

You know,

it's not easy.

And it's the other way around as well.

For them, you know, to get good in an F-1 car, whatever, it also takes time.

You need to really grow up with it.

Yeah.

All right, so I had what this has been awesome, and we appreciate you guys coming.

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My last question is, in American football, which we are, that's, that's our favorite sport, there's a feeling you have when a pass will be incomplete and you're hoping for a flag right after.

We've noticed, or at least I've noticed watching F1, there's always like complaints that every team has after a race.

Do you guys finish a race and you're like, maybe we can complain our way to a victory?

Because it feels like that's happened a few times, has it?

Not you personally, but the team principal.

Well, it depends.

You know, sometimes it can be quite obvious.

So then there is a chance of potentially getting a win or whatever.

But yeah,

it can happen.

It has happened.

But I think that's part of every sport.

Like, you know,

now also, let's say in soccer, you got this like VAR, right?

So sometimes you can get a penalty or not.

You know, yeah, these things happen.

Yeah, quite a lot of sports now.

My dumb brain would be like, I would, if I were you guys, I would like already be home eating dinner, being like, maybe it, maybe, maybe it's changed.

Maybe I won.

Yeah, keep refreshing Twitter.

Oh, well, I mean, I've, you know, I've been on a podium and then, you know, I was off it again, or yeah, you know, so I know that feeling.

Yeah.

We had one other question coming from one of our guys here that's actually a big F1 fan.

He told us that they just made a rule change about porpoising.

And I have no idea what porpoising is.

What is that?

But can you tell us,

do you like to porpoise?

Are you upset that they made this rule change about porpoising?

We love it.

We love it.

It's so nice.

So, I mean, you have been watching this here, yeah?

Yes.

And you see the cars always, oh, not every car, but quite a few cars on the straight.

They're going, especially that beautiful gray car.

Super car.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Basically, with these new regulations, because we are generating the downfalls also from more from the floor,

it's basically what happens is that the car, of course, because of downfall sucks to the floor, but then because of a certain stall or whatever, what happens under the floor, it goes up and down, like it keeps sucking, but then of course it stalls, it goes up, and then it tries to suck down again.

And some cars or some teams have that more under control than others.

And when that happens at 300, it's really not.

like it's really well it can be painful for some if it's really aggressive and of course especially one team has been moaning moaning about it a lot.

So that's why I think now they will try to investigate or try to understand how we can limit these kind of things.

So yeah, this weekend will be the first try to see how we can limit it for the drivers in terms of comfort.

It will be quite interesting to see if it actually

changes up a bit the performance between cars.

You don't know yet.

Sounds like, all right, so yeah, we're not going to name the team, but it sounds like they've been complaining a lot.

Well, it's a silver car.

Yeah, like a German guy with a British driver kind of hypothetical.

Yeah, yeah, I think so.

Well, we appreciate you guys so much, and good luck this weekend.

And hopefully, we get to talk to you again.

This has been a lot of fun.

Yeah, thank you guys.

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Wow, that was a great clap, Kate.

Yeah, I'm on.

I'm ready.

Okay, wait, you've been on part of my take before.

You have.

You did the roast of Chris Long.

Yes.

Yes.

That was a great one.

Chris Long.

Yeah.

That's the voice of Kate,

the very, very funny Kate, our favorite Marine Kate, which that's just a fact.

It's true.

You're our favorite Marine.

Yeah, there's no other Marine at Barstool, so

nobody else matters anyway.

So Kate is here to do the Mount Rushmore of America.

USA.

I'm excited.

USA.

Yes.

Oh, wait, real quick, before we start.

Oh, you brought gifts.

No, it gets so hot in here.

Let me take out my baseball and my concealed carry permit.

It's a little toasty.

Dog tags are on.

Oh, my dog tags are all right.

Wait a minute.

These say pardon my take, Billy football.

I must have put his on my mistake.

Hold on.

We're not saying his name on the show, though.

Oh, here we go.

Big golf.

Oh, fuck yeah.

Is that Mountain Dew?

He's doing it.

Oh, you know it.

Oh, got you guys a little something.

Okay.

Oh, hold on.

The lights in here are so bright.

Okay.

U.S.

Marine veteran hat, which is pretty sick.

Here you go.

I just got you each a little.

What did you get?

Oh, apple pie.

It's apple pie.

It's apple pie.

I'm actually going to blend it to be a little bit of a trendy.

I hope this doesn't skew the results of what people pick.

I just, a couple little things I brought in before we start.

Where's this from?

I don't know.

Some people would say I had to cut the lid off because it was from a French place and it's actually a pear tart.

Oh!

Well, isn't a pear just a French apple it truly is yes yeah okay all right so ready that was a good intro we're gonna do Mount Rushmore of America okay because July 4th is coming up

what does America mean to you Kate

boy what does what doesn't it mean to me

Immediately my first thoughts were of tobacco.

Yeah.

Crushing tobacco,

being drunk, holding fireworks in your hand.

Yes.

Really getting to the edge of it all.

Yeah, drinking excitement.

Yeah, danger.

Being drunk with a firework in your hand while the sun is beating down on you in a tank top.

That's America.

Two in the morning, firing a gun into a lake.

I also, yeah, that's big.

I also feel like 4th of July is a big time, like,

let's cook like...

40 hot dogs and 30 hamburgers for like four people.

Did you know, fun little fact for you, over the 4th of July, just on the 4th of July alone, Americans eat enough hot dogs to stretch from Washington, D.C.

to L.A.

five times times.

They're back.

Is that true?

Yeah, well, I've read it online.

I was definitely on it.

I've read it online.

So that's true.

Billy told it, whispered it to you.

Yeah, yeah.

As you walked by.

That's, I mean, I'm impressed by us.

But yeah, I always end up on 4th of July where it's like, whoops, maybe I shouldn't have cooked 700 hot dogs.

Yeah, I went to a 4th of July Marine wedding, and one of my Marine buddies, it was in their backyard in the Poconos, and everybody's cars got stuck in the mud on the driveway there, and then everybody's playing cornhole with their pistols just like in their back cargo pockets and stuff.

And then, you know, there's the fireworks with the hands, and they're like letting little kids do it.

And I was like, this is what it's about.

Yeah.

This is what it's all about.

I am kind of glad, though, that I think that this is the year that tobacco does make a comeback.

I hope so.

Because we were saying yesterday, like, Jewel is done.

Yeah.

Jewel is over party.

Yeah.

It's time to bring back actual cigarettes in America.

I couldn't agree more.

Okay, so it's going to be great.

Fourth of July, it is like one of the best holidays just because the holidays that are, there's no religion attached, it's just like get drunk and eat a shitload.

thanksgiving and 4th of july are that right no and plus the weather this is the weather i feel like for a lot of people this is really when the beach season starts especially in the northeast it's still a little too chilly in june but it like really kicks off the true heart of summer yes yeah agreed are you are you one of those people that reminds everyone like hey Right as everyone's reaching like their peak drunkenness, just so you guys know, everyone that signed the Declaration of Independence got killed.

So show some respect for them today.

That's true.

And I like to remind everyone that it is about veterans at the end of the day.

It is.

As is every holiday.

You guys labor like every holiday.

We do.

It's all circles back to you.

Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day.

Still not.

Halloween.

Harbor Day.

Harbor Day.

Martin Luther King Day.

Christmas.

Easter.

Everything.

Everything.

Everything's about the veterans.

Just remember that shit.

Every football game that's played, every baseball game.

Yeah, the NFL draft, actually.

That's a whole day that celebrates veterans, too.

I would agree.

I think we should have more.

Yeah.

You think it's not enough?

No, it's never enough.

Thanks you enough.

I haven't heard you guys dedicate your show to us lately.

Today's episode, our 500th episode, actually, is dedicated to the troop.

So thank you to the troop.

Oh, you're welcome, guys.

Huge.

All right.

Do you want to go first?

You can decide the order.

Actually, Kate, I got a question real quick.

If somebody like says thank you for your service, have you ever been like, you're welcome?

I

sometimes, oh, sure.

No, I think it kills me inside.

It's very nice when people say it, but just like right now, I'm getting awkward.

That's what I do.

I'm like, oh, yeah, don't.

Because it's tough to be like, you're welcome.

Yeah,

I was thinking about you in particular.

I would just go up and be like, I would just say, like, oh, no, thanks necessary.

You know what's a crazy response?

Kyle Carpenter, the Medal of Honor recipient, who's been here, he did the pizza MRE pizza review with Dave.

He jumped on a grenade that was thrown on the roof to save his buddies, and he survived.

But he was, I don't know if you remember him.

He came through here.

His mom and little brothers were waiting outside and they got all the call her daddy merge.

They were like cracking up.

But this is back in the Gluck Gluck days.

Anyways, his response, when people say, thank you for your service, he looks them right in the eyes and he's got like a glass.

He's like, you're worth it.

Again, I'm like, if I said that to people, if I said that to people, people be like, Kate's drinking dumb bitch juice.

It doesn't come the same coming from me.

But when he says it, you like get a tear in your eye.

You're like, oh my God.

I would have given my seat up to a veteran on my trip back from Austin.

I was sitting in the last row, the very last row of the plane, and said no one wanted that, so I wasn't able to.

But for the record, I was going to give it up in case they had asked me for it.

Oh, yeah, yeah, that's the thought that counts.

Yeah, you're welcome.

You're welcome.

I wouldn't either.

Let's be honest with you.

No, do you go?

Do you go do you board planes first?

No.

And I, the veteran parking spaces, like, I couldn't, I would rather park in the back of the lot

use those.

You don't board planes first?

That's the only reason to go in the Army.

It's true.

It is.

And I thought, so it's when you're active duty, but afterwards, they don't care about you.

Oh, really?

I thought it was anyone.

I've heard him say veterans, too.

No, I'm, you know what you're doing?

You're mixing it up because at like baseball games, they'll say, if there are any active duty or veterans in the crowd, please stand up so we can clap for you.

But I think on planes it's active duty.

I think they do do retired as well.

You should just do it.

I'm going to start doing it.

Yeah.

Who's going to stop me?

What are they going to say?

I got dog tags.

Yeah, what are they like?

Like, oh, no.

Oh, you think because I'm a woman I didn't serve?

Yeah, that would actually be good.

I'm not serving right now.

Yeah, if somebody were to like question your service as you're getting on, then you could play the sex card on them real quick.

Blow the phone out immediately.

Yeah, I could show him.

Yeah, okay.

What did you just say?

Oh, yeah.

All right, do you want to go first?

Sure.

Oh, you got cards.

All right, so which direction do you want to go after you?

You.

Okay, it's me and PFT combined, and then it's these guys combined.

So three.

So there's three teams.

Okay.

Okay.

Platoons.

Platoons.

And it's all incumbent.

It's American things, right?

Just America.

America.

It's as open and unended as possible.

Okay.

Sucking on chili dog outside the tasty freeze.

Okay.

There we go.

What a weird opening line that is.

Sucking on a chili dog outside of the tasty freeze.

We used to suck on chili dog.

Remember that?

Yeah.

Not plural.

Yes.

All sharing one.

Sucking on the chili dogs.

All right.

So our first pick was a little different.

It was just football.

Oh, yes.

It was football.

Football is the quintessential America.

And it is an American.

It's a wholly American sport.

It is American.

We call it American football.

Whoa.

Not us.

It's just some people say.

But if you can think of like one, what's the most American thing out there?

It's Sunday football.

I would say smoking a cigarette in the stadium while you're watching football.

We can't do that anymore thanks to Obama.

I like these very hyper-specific Mount Russell.

And your dad is hammered sitting next to you, and he's talking about it.

I'm thinking about Donald McNabb.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

All right, football.

Good answer.

Football, yeah.

All right.

Go ahead, Team Hank.

I just want to quit Mount Rushmore.

Hank has made it miserable.

Every time we look at him, he just gives us those biggest scowls.

It's his glances.

Yeah.

It's not even the words that he's saying.

You don't think you did a glance there?

Oh, there was a big-time glance.

You like tilted your head and.

It was like it was a chore to be here, right?

That was a huge glance.

Are you serious?

You don't think you glanced?

No.

You got lost where we were going.

If your glance.

Yeah.

No, I saw that look.

You You were like, it's not my pick, you idiot.

If your glance could talk, you would say, boo-ba-bo-ba-ba.

Yeah.

No, Big Cat hit the nail on the head.

Yeah, he thought it wasn't his pick.

All right.

And I wasn't ready.

Two picks.

We're going to go with

the Second Amendment.

Okay.

How many guns do you own?

It doesn't matter.

You just respect the right to do it.

It's America, yeah.

You like the idea that you could go out and buy a gun.

Right.

You don't have to own one, but you just know that you don't.

I don't even necessarily like the idea, but it just is what it is.

Yeah, it is what it is.

Those arms, I'd say zero.

Oh, shit.

He needs to get some.

Would you believe this guy says he's going to get a six-pack?

Sure, I do.

No, no, no.

I don't.

I don't.

He's your boy.

I do not believe that.

Okay, you want to say something cool?

Yes.

So, speaking of guns, look what we got.

This is a very American thing right here.

Please let it be a gun.

Please let it be a gun.

I want a gun.

It's a gun.

Oh, yeah.

But watch.

It's actually a knife.

It's a knife gun.

Yeah.

How fucking cool is that?

If I get robbed in New York City, I hope it's with that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The reverse would be cooler, though.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

For sure.

Actually, a gun that looks like a knife is really worthless.

It's just.

It actually gets you in the worst amount of pain.

Yeah, it's an illegal thing that looks like a more illegal thing.

Right.

And if someone sees the thing that you think it's supposed to be, they'll shoot you.

Yes.

This is exactly what you should never bring to any sort of a fight.

Correct.

A knife gun.

It's awesome, though.

And also, check this out.

This is cool, too.

This is the actual gun.

Yeah, this is the

there's a bullet that comes with it.

And you want to guess what the bullet is?

A lighter.

A lighter, yeah.

I hope it's a lighter.

No, it's also a knife.

Oh, no.

It's a cute little baby knife.

I want that.

Oh my gosh.

Isn't it a Dorbs?

Who said that?

I want to give that to my son.

It's perfect size.

That's awesome.

Fourth of July, here's your bullet knife.

Wow.

Yeah.

We got to start selling those in the the store.

Yeah.

Okay, Hank.

Team Hank.

We're going to go with John Cena announcing Osama bin Lan's death.

That's a great pick.

Yep.

God damn it.

That's a great fucking pick.

Yep.

Bubba.

He's been captured and compromised to the fullest extent.

Actually, we shouldn't joke around about that.

The man's dead.

Yeah.

Right.

Was you?

Osama.

Wet jumper.

Sounds like you might be kind of into the team thing now.

That's a great pick from Bubba.

Would you have thought of that?

That was a great pick.

Exactly.

You don't know what I'm capable of, though.

I think we do.

Yeah, we know exactly what you're capable of.

I think we know more than anyone.

Every year we actually keep honest stats.

You guys don't try and muddy the waters.

All right.

My next one, our next one,

Hank.

Oh, I had that last one too, so I'll do that one after that one.

The last one you sent to me?

Yeah.

I had that as well.

Okay.

So yeah, that will be our third third pick i'm gonna go with the the second one on my list you agree with that yes yes okay light beer yes light beer america was like you know what beer's good i wish there was slightly less taste that you could drink 10 times as many of them except for cores light because it's the greatest light beer of all time yeah so but it is true core's light yeah um mountain storm blue but light beer is the only like i don't know any other country that specializes in making light beer There's really none.

Every other country is like, we like more flavor.

Us, we're like, no, we just want to get drunker.

Right.

Right.

We want, we like to get fucked up.

Right, I want to drink, I want to drink 20 of them.

Yeah, yeah.

I remember my younger days of when we would do like kegs and eggs and wake up or whatever, like Miller Light and stuff like that.

It was like, it's basically

hydration.

Yeah.

You're doing something good for yourself.

It's also funny to just think about like, like from afar, like a case of beer, like a 30 rack of beer is just a lot of beer.

But it's not enough, too.

It's just a lot of anything to drink.

Right.

But it's like,

like the fact that we buy beer in 30 packs and don't even flinch is very funny.

Oh, yeah.

Like we need 30 of these.

I had an ex that like what drew me to him is that on like a casual Saturday, he could crush a 30 pack.

And I was like, that's a man.

Yeah, that is a man.

That's America.

That's, I guess.

If you're good at drinking beer, that's that's an asset right there.

Yeah.

That's how you want to die from liver disease.

See, I think so.

He was sitting out in the smoke bit was in the military, and he'd be smoking cigarettes, and he'd just be sitting there with the whole case just right next to him, not even in a cooler.

And I was like, Yes, please.

Yes,

I want more with this guy, sir.

Hot beer breath.

Yes, delicious.

You know, you could never do that with any other liquid besides beer.

Can you imagine just sitting down, like, what are you going to do on Sunday?

Oh, I'm going to drink 30 sprites.

Yeah.

Well, Frank.

True.

Yeah.

I think Frank could put down a 12-pack of sprites.

He probably could.

Yeah.

I actually knew a guy that used to, he used to carry around a 12-pack of Diet Coke, and he would drink a full 12-pack every single day.

Boss.

That guy, Mike Francesa.

He was like 5'6 ⁇ , and 310 pounds.

Yeah.

But it was diet.

Yeah, it was diet.

Yeah.

He was healthy.

Okay.

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You have two picks, Kate.

Oof, okay.

I'm very excited for this.

This is more of a pristine thing.

Cold beer on a Friday night in your jeans that fit just right and the radio's on.

Yeah.

Chicken fry.

Chicken fry.

Yeah, it's just something about it.

I'm more of a,

fuck, I don't even know the lyrics to the Applebee's song that everyone did their TikToks with.

Applebees on a late night.

But that's a good pick.

That's a very good pick.

Something about it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That song actually respects the troops.

Halfway through that song, they break down into like a little snare march, and they ask everyone in the crowd to sing along.

Thank God for mala.

Back in the day when I was drunk at the bars, that would give me the chills.

Yeah.

I'd be like, everybody better shut the fuck up right now.

Yes.

Let this part play.

Yes.

And then, yeah, absolutely.

Give a salute to me.

Yeah.

All right.

Great one.

Great pick.

You got another one.

Oof.

You know.

I don't think anyone's going to take your picks.

There's something about

the lakes of Minnesota, the hills of Tennessee,

across the plains of Texas from Sea to Shining Sea.

Oh, from Detroit down to Houston, from New York to L.A.

The flag still stands for freedom, and you can't take that away.

And I'm proud to be an American

where at least I know I'm free.

And I won't forget the men that I'm

doing.

To me, Bennett please stand up

next to you and defend her still today.

Because there ain't no doubt I love this land.

Love this land.

God bless the USA.

Can you fit all that on

the thing?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Meme's going to have a real hard time with this one, but it's going to be very funny to see.

So I once had to fold, you know, a giant flag at a pro tennis match as Lee Greenwood sang

while, and he sang it was a saxophonist

and Lee Greenwood, and we all had to keep straight faces, and that was very hard.

I mean, is there a guy that's made more, like squeezed out of one single more out of one song than Lee Greenwood?

By the way, a callback to a former Mount Rushmore

with Joey and Pat, straight things that are sneaky gay.

I think saxophone playing saxophone is straight thing that's sneaky more straight.

Oh, yeah.

Bill Clinton.

Bill Clinton.

Yeah, Bill Clinton.

Saxophone is just like, we're about to have sex.

No, it's like that dude can eat box.

Yeah, right.

Oh, if you can tickle a reed, that dude

will put a cigar anywhere.

Yes, absolutely.

Yeah, literally.

Lit or not.

We're game.

Okay, our next pick is

one that I think everyone will appreciate.

Also, a sponsor of ours,

Hooters.

Hooters is as American as it gets.

Go eat and look at some big old tits.

Delightfully tacky yet unrefined.

Yes.

Yes.

That is American.

A good business plan, no matter what the

event is or what type of business that you're looking at starts, just like add boobs to it.

If you just do anything that already exists plus boobs, there will be an element of guys that will be like, yep, let's go.

I'm done.

Like hot sauce.

We've got Billy Mitchell's hot sauce right here.

If there was just boobs on the hot sauce, I would buy that.

Yes.

And it's also like you walk in, what other restaurant can you walk into with the pre-written joke of being like,

I'll have some breasts, I'll have some chicken breasts, hold the chicken.

And it works every time.

Every time

I'm sure they love that.

I'm a thigh man myself.

I keep like circling back to military stuff.

Suck my dick over here.

But there was this,

I don't know, I'm being weird.

There was this haircutting place off Camp Pendleton where that's what they did because you have to get a haircut every week if you're a guy.

So there was a ton of little haircut places.

And this place was their thing was all the hairdressers had huge tits.

And so the guys would go and they'd be like, oh, it's just the best thing when they're sitting there and their tits are rubbing against you while you're getting your haircut.

And like the place absolutely gross.

That's how you could get guys to go to the doctor more often.

Or just like, okay, yeah, this is a dentist's office, but everyone's got a giant rack in there.

Hooters combined with the dentist's office.

Your arm would be brushed.

Your arm would get brushed at least once.

Yeah.

Shit, really.

It's okay that my gums are bleeding.

Yeah.

You have big tits.

Take away.

Yeah.

Okay.

It's fine.

All right.

Last two picks for Team Hank.

We're going to go with the Nathan's hot dog eating contest.

Yeah.

Great one.

Yeah.

I also love Tet King getting upset about it.

That actually makes it more American that Peter King protests.

It's like, all right, we're doing something right.

Peter King.

And then for our final pick, we will go with refusing to use the metric system.

Yeah, good choice.

That's a great fucking metric.

That's a rush metal rush more from Team Wow.

Yeah, that's good.

That is a great one.

Just the rest of the world uses it.

It makes such perfect sense.

It's based on tens.

Everything is 10s or 100s, and we're like, uh-uh, we're doing 12 inches.

Yeah, and like, then you go somewhere and it's like it's 30, 30 degrees out.

You're like, oh, it's cold.

Right.

No, it's actually 100.

Celsius.

Yeah.

The other one where Celsius, zero is freezing, right?

Why did we do that?

I couldn't tell you.

Yeah,

Celsius.

Zero is freezing and 100 is boiling.

Yeah.

It makes perfect sense.

Perfect sense.

And we're just like, nope, let's go.

32 is freezing.

Yeah.

Well, for us, it's like zero just means it's really fucking cold out here.

Yeah, right.

And 100 means it's really fucking hot out here.

Yeah, right.

I like that.

I do like that.

Yeah, I do like that.

Yeah.

Kilometers, get out of here.

No chance.

Give me miles.

Yep.

That's so true.

How stupid we are.

That's great.

I love that.

Are we the only ones who don't?

No, there's another country that does it too.

I forget what it is.

It's like us and maybe Australia.

No.

Liberia.

Yeah, somewhere.

Yeah.

All right, I'm going to Google it.

PFT, let's do our last look.

No, I was like, yeah, maybe Liberia.

Hank might be right.

That don't use metric.

All right, so for our last one,

you know what?

We're going to go with Mount Rushmore.

Liberia.

Liberia's currently.

Hank, wow.

Myanmar, Liberia, and the U.S.

Where did Hank pull that one out of?

Yeah, what the fuck, Hank?

You're on fire.

I was just, the look that I gave you, the glance that I gave you, was because I couldn't believe that Hank, my brain was scrambled.

I was like, is Hank correct about geography?

Liberia, Burma, which is AKA, Myanmar, and United States.

And those places aren't doing well.

They're doing well.

No, they're doing great.

They're like, we'll follow these guys.

Have you ever been to Liberia?

Off the face of the earth.

It's beautiful.

That's why they had that dude, General Butt Naked, that would, he was like a general in the army that used to just not wear clothes.

And he'd go around eating people.

Kind of like that.

Great place.

Yeah.

Power move.

He probably just went crazy because he was like, this system makes no sense.

Mount Rushmore is our last one.

Yep.

just mount rushmore mount rushmore so we'll take all the presidents george washington thomas jefferson ben franklin alexander hamilton the greatest presidents that we've had no job carved their face into rock jfk's on there part of his head's on there jimmy carter

jimmy carter jimmy carter is he actually brings everyone together in this country he's a delight i think everyone agrees like jimmy carter great guy probably shouldn't have been president He should run again.

I would be alive.

Is he still alive?

He's alive.

Yeah.

That's going to be sad when he dies.

Yeah, it will be sad.

Yeah, he's getting smaller and smaller.

He's just going to shrink until he's bites.

Until that's it.

Yeah.

Imagine if he ran for president, the VP candidate, just put him in his pocket, brought him around.

Baby booby.

Oh, Jimmy, yeah.

Can I read off just my last one?

Yeah, no, then we'll do honorable mentions.

So pick it.

Okay.

And then we'll do honorable mentions.

Okay.

Do you want me to say it now?

Yeah, do your pick.

I was going to read them off like a medicine ad.

Wait, are you using it?

Zero Block 30 podcast.

Oh, that's your last pick?

That's, yes okay oh wait wait no no do your last pick

30 and you're great but not that great yeah um

a pontoon boat pulling a tube on a string yeah

because i think we're in the only country that tubes really down rivers behind boats pontoon boats too are very american where it's like can how can we be in a living room while on a lake yes there's a carpet on it yeah right so yes perfect absolutely yeah that we had pontoon boats as well i feel like lakes are very uniquely american as far as I know anywhere else, we're the only country that really does lakes.

But you're right, though, that we, like, I feel like we're the only ones that leisure correctly on them.

Yeah.

Like, you go to Italy, people are being fancy on the lake, but people aren't.

No, they're in like wooden boats that look beautiful, and we're in pontoon boats.

Right.

Or they're like in a hill next to the lake drinking wine while looking at the water.

Right.

They're not doing it right.

Hands deep in the water.

We're making sure all of our gasoline goes into the water.

Yes, 100%.

I love that smell.

Yes.

I do.

Diesel in the water.

That's the best, too,

when someone puts like a shitload of engines on a pontoon boat.

It's like, we want to be in a living room that also goes super fast on a lake.

Oh, I love those videos where the pontoon, but there's like a family of like 20 on it, and it hits a little bit of a wave, and the whole thing just goes down immediately.

Yes.

Okay, honorable mentions.

Let's do it.

Honorable mentions.

We also had Traffic.

I like that.

Hulk Hogan.

Yes.

He's American as American gets.

Yes.

What was that, Hank?

What was that?

Look.

He's been canceled?

Yeah, but guess what he's back from being canceled yeah that's the most american recovery yeah he was like he was pretty racist but then he came back from it and now he's no longer canceled yeah that's so but still racist still

right yeah right but he came back right but he apologized publicly for his racism but still holds it deep in his heart for sure that's that's

fine yeah yeah he fucked his best friend's wife yeah that's american american uh arrogance

just arrogance is american oh for sure

we're the best.

Is it arrogance if you just know that you're the best?

That's true.

Or is it a statement of fact?

Yeah, it's actually being humble because we don't say how good we are all the time when we could.

Winning, winning is American.

Definitely.

Americans are winners.

I feel like we'd have that happy attitude right to the end if we availed it, which is great.

Yeah.

How many Super Bowls has the rest of the world won?

Zero.

Zero.

Yeah, we've won a great cup.

Don't forget that, Canada.

We've got the Stanley Cup, too.

Yep.

Rocky IV.

Yes.

Rocky IV is so American.

Just going and fucking ending the Cold War, ending Russia.

That's as American as it gets.

I like the idea of each nation's best fighter competing in a boxing match, and whoever wins that fight wins the war.

Yeah.

It's a good idea.

The Olympics should be decided by wars.

The Olympics should decide wars.

Yep.

That would be so much more exciting and less deadly.

Someone's saying.

Yes.

I had.

We had.

Keeps going to a dark place.

Sorry.

trucks.

Yeah, truck nuts.

We're really the only country that does trucks correctly, too.

KC lights, the big KC lights.

Every other country has little, tiny little cars.

The coolest thing you can do with a truck in America is make it so it pollutes more and puts out heavier black smoke and roll coal on people.

Hummers.

Gravedigger.

Yeah, we're the only place that has a show where we just run them over dirt hills.

Yeah, monster trucks.

Monster trucks fucking kick ass.

So is fuck.

I can't wait to take my son.

Like, I can't wait to,

absolutely.

We had Ludacris.

Ludacris is very American.

Yes.

Hose in every area code.

Fireworks.

Yep.

Guitars.

Guitars.

Oh, guitars.

Guitars are pretty amazing.

Guitars are very American.

Pizza as well.

Yeah.

Pizza.

Pizza.

Burritos.

Obesity on our list.

We'll go on there.

Okay, that's a good one.

That's very American.

Yep.

Yep.

All right, what do you have as your honorable mentions, Kate?

I had like three XL shirts, big and tall stores.

Tornadoes, cargo shorts, and jorts.

I never thought about tornadoes.

Do they have tornadoes anywhere else?

You don't hear about them.

Mostly, I think, in Tornado Alley.

Yeah, I know.

They don't.

We're so fucking cool.

We're the only ones who have tornadoes.

Right.

Our wind is the only wind strong enough to do such a thing.

Do you think the movie Twister did well overseas?

Or were they like, what the fuck is this?

What?

We're not going to America.

Their hurricanes are so tiny over there.

It's a tornado.

The Super Soakers are the backpack jugs where you can really fuck people up.

Assembly lines.

People forget that was also us.

Yep.

American Gladiators, specifically Gemini, Nitro, and Malibu.

Top Blaze?

Mostly Gemini number one.

Okay.

Hands down.

That's a show that I think they might have brought it back, but that show would work at any time.

Anytime.

They brought it back, but they did it all wrong.

They brought it back and used all these...

like cameras that were handheld and like really super close.

The beauty of American Gladiators was it was filmed like an actual sport with like long distance stationary cameras.

and meanwhile you just had some jacked up dude on steroids firing a machine gun that shot tennis balls going like 110 miles per hour at Pass Yep I wish American Ninja Warrior I wish they would do that like have to go through weapons to get to the end and finally I think that's it for me

podcast a new episode's out like a subscriber on YouTube every Tuesday and Friday episodes come out love it it's a delight yeah yeah anything else from anyone else I mean this is America baby this is great, Mount Rushmore.

I feel jacked up for the fourth.

Yeah.

I'm trying to look.

What else do we have?

Putting a boot up your ass?

It's the American way.

And Uncle Sam.

Toby Keith.

Toby Keith.

That would have been a good job.

That's so American.

Oklahoma

is very American.

Oh, the sky.

The Oklahoma sunset.

That makes people forget.

It's the darkest sky in the world.

They call it big sky country in Oklahoma.

They certainly do.

They certainly do.

We had apple pie on there, obviously.

The bald eagle.

Yep, bald eagle.

That's America.

I like people talking about you go to Alaska and you go to a Dunkin' Donuts and then you're driving around the back to the drive-thru and there's a dumpster and there's just like 50 eagles eating the trash out of it and you're like, oh.

Yeah.

They're like wrecking.

I think that's very American.

They're like super pesty up there.

Yeah.

It's almost to a point.

I was always told growing up that there were like five bald eagles in America and we have to protect them.

Yeah.

And now there's like too many bald eagles.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

They're back, though.

They're so bad.

They're so back.

Yeah.

Okay, that was a great Mount Rushmore.

Thank you, Kate.

Thanks for having me.

Happy Fourth of July, everybody.

Fourth of July.

Everyone, get ready.

Great long weekend.

And, Kate, we might have to call on you again for another Mount Rushmore contribution.

Please do.

This is a delight.

Yes.

Enjoy your French pear tarts.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I spit mine out.

Because I'm American.

Yeah, not saying the word France.

Yeah, that's true.

Freedom fries.

Freedom Freedom kissing me.

That's right.

All right.

Thanks, Kate.

Okay, thanks to Kate.

Great Mount Rushmore.

By the way, Friday we have a Mount Rushmore with the boy, Will Compton.

And just a reminder, next week, we are off on Monday.

That is July 4th.

But we will.

We could have taken the whole week off, but we're not going to do that because we love you guys.

And we're going to do a Wednesday show and a Friday show.

Friday being Tim Woods' new

campaign in Dungeons and Dragons.

So it's going to be, you want to say it?

It's going to be brazy.

It's going to be brazy.

It's going to be hella brazy.

Brazy.

Okay, let's do numbers and get out of here.

Also, oh, someone tweeted me something very interesting that I thought might be a fun thing to do.

Hank, have you ever gotten the number correct?

Nope.

Jake, how many numbers do we have left that haven't been picked?

How many

the original?

What if Hank

doesn't get it before?

No, no, no.

If all the numbers are picked before Hank gets one right, Hank should have to get a cat.

And what about you guys?

No, see, I'm down to the bottom of the city.

I mean, it's going to take a long time for them all to be picked.

We've all gotten the numbers, so what do you mean?

And what if I get it right beforehand?

You have to do it.

You're good.

No, you're good.

No, see, I'm down.

Like I've always said, I'm down to do a cow bet.

There has to be.

Jake,

you're a nerd.

You're a stats guy.

It's going to be a big deal.

What fucking reason is there for me to risk getting a cat if there's no reward?

The reward is for the listeners.

I feel like there's a higher chance of you losing that Duke Zion bet.

for the cat than this one because there's only there's six left six left you just have to give one right before all six get picked you have to be be so they have the exact same odds of being picked

yeah why what do you mean that's i like i will say this every single time you guys bring up cat bets give me something on the other side and i'll throw it out there you want to get a cat no no no if hank if hank doesn't do it just take your name off his lease oh

i could fine well it might not

The bet still might be going.

It still probably will be going.

No,

because now I'm in a fucking.

I just realized I wed myself to my enemy because Hank could just stop paying rent and then they'll come after me.

That's true.

He has that over me now.

Hank, if you don't...

You're no longer welcome at my brazy beach house.

Damn.

Fine.

Damn.

If you don't do this bet.

Do the cat bet.

We have 89 out right now.

All right.

Last one here.

26.

Has 26 been picked?

No, so we just all take those not picked numbers?

Yeah, why not?

26.

27.

27.

Fine, I'll do it.

I'm just going to pick one of the numbers every time.

What?

Yeah.

So you could do that?

Yeah, sure.

You are.

So you're the deal.

Until you get to the last one.

No, but like, that's the thing.

I'm not doing this for no reason.

I need to win something.

I will think about it.

I am down to risk a cat.

Like, it's just like

it's a very dumb thing to do.

Like, I realized when I almost had to get a cat and I didn't get anything for not getting a cat, that it was a really dumb thing to do.

We need to get a dog

as a celebration.

I don't have time for an animal.

I mean, come on.

So it's 6, 26, 27, 29, 51, 78.

All right, 26.

62.

55.

All right, I'll go 27.

What was your number, Hank?

62.

Oh!

96.

94.

94.

I saw this

sixth time.

That would have been incredible.

So, like, Loki,

so

the oldest evidence of domesticated cats dates back 9,500 years.

So, that's like pretty trippy.

You could basically have like a fossil in your home.

Love you guys.

Today's not my day to find shy.

I'll be coming for your love of clean

on me.

Drink on me.

Once again, I seem to be so relatively.

Say on me,

except it took me safe and so.

Drink on me.

Hold me

me the light on.

Just play my word.

You all lift up to without me.

Shine away.

I'm coming for you, baby.

Come on,

take on me.

Take on me.

Take on me.

to get monkey

and monkey.

We're a fun Mexican monkey.

We're a fun Mexican monkey.

We're a Mexican monkey.

We're a Mexican lucky.

We're up on Mexican lucky.

We're up for next to get lucky.

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