Bengals Evan McPherson & CJ Uzomah + Jimmy Tatro And Super Bowl 56 Picks & Preview

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Speaker 2 On today's part of my take, Super Bowl 56. We are finally here, ready to go.
Preview. We're going to do our picks.
We're going to do everyone's favorite prop.

Speaker 2 We have CJ Uzama and Evan McPherson from the Bengals in studio, in our LA studio. And then we also, because we didn't get any Rams players, we got Rams Super fan and very good friend of the program.

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Speaker 2 Welcome to part of my take presented by Black Rifle Coffee Black Rifle Coffee's taking over this episode go to blackriflecoffee.com slash take use code take today and get the freshest coffee in America shipped to you Today is Friday, February 11th, and it is officially time for Super Bowl 56.

Speaker 2 We're here. Let's clap it up.
Yeah, football. Let's clap it up.
Last football Friday of the year of the season.

Speaker 2 Bengals Rams.

Speaker 2 How are we feeling, everyone? How are you feeling, PFT? How are we feeling about?

Speaker 2 I think we both were in the same headspace where it's like, we like the Bengals.

Speaker 2 The Rams are really fucking good, but it's destiny the vibe check is just that now i've reached the point of the week where i'm nervous about saying what what if the bengals just win all the time yeah i've said it too much i think i like i like it when even i didn't believe that the bengals can win but now i do i

Speaker 2 think that's a problem so the pendulum is swinging back and forth in my head all day every day i just

Speaker 2 I just would love to see the Bengals.

Speaker 7 That's all.

Speaker 2 That's where I'm at right now. I don't think that's going to change.
I still think it's going to be like 2420 Cincinnati.

Speaker 2 But again, then you do the guy off and the Rams win the guy off in straight sets. And I also, I've had a couple moments where I'm like, oh, yeah, Von Miller.
Oh, yeah, Aaron Donald.

Speaker 2 I watched that Aaron Donald pumping himself up before the Super Bowl a few years ago. It's like, that's just a scary, scary man.

Speaker 2 And Aaron Donald, like, I know it's a lot about Matthew Stafford, Joe Burrow.

Speaker 2 Like, Aaron Donald, if he wins a Super Bowl, if he wins a Super Bowl MVP, I mean, he's already a Hall of Famer, which is crazy to say. He's

Speaker 2 eight seasons in, nine seasons in.

Speaker 2 Like, if he wins a Super Bowl and a Super Bowl bowl mvp he now is absolutely in the discussion for best defensive player of all time like he i think i saw a stat where there's oh i go by win rates so he already is yeah but there's a it was like there's only been like two or three guys who've gone who've been all pro eight out of their first nine years it was like reggie white and lawrence taylor and like aaron donalds i think there's one other but it's it's a crazy list that he's already on an exclusive exclusive list and so Yeah, we're talking legacies here.

Speaker 2 Yeah, legacy team. It's a legacy game.
And I think one thing I've been forgetting forgetting about this whole time is that, you know, we always talk about Sean McVay in that first Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 Scored three points on offense. Not exactly what an offensive genius would do.
But also Zach Taylor was very involved in scoring those three points on offense, right?

Speaker 2 Well, so how do we judge this? Because I saw there was also, I've been reading, I've been consuming all the Super Bowl material.

Speaker 2 It's heavily influenced to a coach who's in his second Super Bowl versus a first-time coach.

Speaker 2 The second time for the coach, usually they do a lot better. Do we count Zach Taylor already knowing what a Super Bowl feels like because he was there for that? I think he is.

Speaker 2 Or is it completely different because being a head coach is completely different. You have to be in charge of everything.
I think you do because he's older than McVay, right? So

Speaker 2 at that Super Bowl,

Speaker 2 he was young, but he was still older than McVay. He was at his first.
Now McVay is at his second. Taylor's older, I think, by a year and a half.

Speaker 2 Yeah, so I feel like if you're going to count it for McVay, you have to count it for Taylor. He's been through it before a little bit, but again, like what he did in that Super Bowl was just trash.

Speaker 2 Yeah. It was just bad, just bad job all around.
So

Speaker 2 I don't know. I'm at the point in this week where I just know now at this point that I don't know anything about what's going to happen.

Speaker 2 I've read too many stats. I've read too many articles.
I've seen too many interviews with guys. There's too much information, and I've been confused by it.
I feel like I'm dizzy with info.

Speaker 2 So I'm just going to go and revert back to what I had at the start of the week, which is the Bengals by four. Yes, it is.
There is too much information. You break it all down.

Speaker 2 There's a lot of things to look at. I think it was the last time, a first time in the Super Bowl,

Speaker 2 head coach won it was Mike McCarthy with the Packers. Okay.
It was like their first time, his first time coaching a team to the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 I do like the fact that if Sean McVay loses this game, then he gets slapped with the can't win the big one label. That's what we're looking at here.
Those are the stakes for McVay.

Speaker 2 It's like you can lose one, and people can overlook it because it it was against Tom Brady and that Patriots dynasty who, you know, as Hank will tell you, just like ended the Rams.

Speaker 6 Destroyed it. Destroyed their dreams.

Speaker 2 So badly they're back here. Yeah, but if McVay loses another one, then Hank can even say like, yep, that's, he really lost this game because he lost the first one.

Speaker 2 Bingo card for PFT to work in a dig at the Patriots. No, I love it.
Or Hank.

Speaker 8 PFT. This is what Hank thinks.

Speaker 2 Hank.

Speaker 2 Hank's like a dog seeing a garage door open when PFT says something about the patriot. He's like, wait, was that positive or negative? No, but

Speaker 2 the thing is, Hank was nodding while I was saying it. He agrees.
I know Hank's brain pretty well.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you were. You were like, yeah, nailed it.
Patriots went. This is a Patriots Super Bowl.

Speaker 8 It was a dynasty. That was, you know, cemented dynasty.
I don't think they didn't end the Rams.

Speaker 2 They ended the Chiefs.

Speaker 8 They ended the Ravens. They ended the Texans.

Speaker 2 But if McVay becomes a guy that can't win a Super Bowl because he's so scarred from the Patriots beating him, I feel like that. That counts towards your legacy.
Yes. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Sure. Okay, so should we do the losing? No, that's actually disagree.

Speaker 8 Because losing to like losing to Bill Belichick in your first Super Bowl, like no one expects you to win. I don't think anyone's going to hold that against you.

Speaker 8 Losing to your assistant in your second Super Bowl when it's his first Super Bowl, that is way worse. And that will be the reason why the narrative is there.

Speaker 8 It won't have anything to do with Belichick or the Patriots or Tom Brady.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Like that, if he loses his game and loses to his former assistant, like that's

Speaker 8 a much, you know, harder pill to swallow and much more storylines and narrative than losing to the greatest coach coach and greatest team of all time.

Speaker 2 There it is. I want to correct myself, by the way.
I was very wrong. Bruce Arians, I think that was his first Super Bowl last year.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Cardinals. Did he go in the Cardinals? No.
No.

Speaker 2 That was Wisenhunt? Yeah. He was on that staff, right? Arians? Yeah.
No, Arians was on the Steelers. That's right.
Yeah, so I was very wrong. So there you go.

Speaker 2 So first-time head coaches, they're on a 1-0 streak.

Speaker 9 Plenty of people who tweet at you saying that.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, no, the pause there. Yeah, no, that's fine.
Actually, you know what? I'm at the point now where like, time zone changes. The Super Bowl week, we've been working a lot.

Speaker 2 My brain is complete mush. I've like

Speaker 2 hoarse. I sound hoarse.

Speaker 2 I said, I do sound hoarse.

Speaker 2 What? I do. Yeah.
I sound hoarse. What you been smoking? What you been sucking on? I've been smoking AB's fucking sick ass dent.
Loud. Did you ask him why he blocked me? No, I should have.

Speaker 2 I forgot to say that. But he said, I said, shout out to Tyler, why he blocked you.

Speaker 2 I mean, I forgot. So I did say, he did say shout out barstools, though.
Barstools. Barstools.

Speaker 2 Did he pay his bill? I left before him. Okay.
I wasn't sitting with him, just for the record. I was just smoking his weed because he has a blunt roller who just passes out weed wherever he goes.

Speaker 2 There's just an overload of information where I've consumed all this stuff and now it's just been blended in my brain.

Speaker 2 So everything I spit back out is like half truths. Yeah, no, that's what Super Bowl Week is because there's so many interviews.
The guys have to talk to the media like every day.

Speaker 2 There are articles written by people that usually don't write about football.

Speaker 2 And then you just get too much shit, half of it's not true in the first place, mushed into your brain. And then the ball that you end up puking up at the end of the week, like a hairball

Speaker 2 is just like filled with dog shit. So, I think I'm just reverting back fully to I'm resetting my brain.
I'm doing a hard reset to what I felt on Monday mornings.

Speaker 2 Yes, and I'm gonna stick with that, and I'm gonna stick with the Bengals, but yeah, no, it's um also Doug Peterson like four years ago, and Gary Kubiak in Super Bowl 50.

Speaker 2 So, like, it's literally every single time, and Pete Carroll

Speaker 2 and John Harbaugh and Mike McCarthy. So, there's been one, two, three, four,

Speaker 2 five first-time coaches going to the Super Bowl that have won since what I said was the last one in Mike McCarthy. You know what? You know what?

Speaker 2 It's basically Bill Belichick has won Super Bowls, and then all first-time head coaches have won Super Bowls. But that's where I'm at right now, too.

Speaker 2 It's just like you can say any stat or piece of information, and I'm not going to fact-check it right now.

Speaker 2 I take everything as gospel. You don't tell me anything.
It sounded good coming out of my mouth. It really did.

Speaker 2 You're like, Yeah, this is the first time actually, PCAT, that a team has played a Super Bowl in their home stadium.

Speaker 2 Dude,

Speaker 2 I'm looking at it right now. It's so, it literally is just the last 20 years.
If a coach gets to the Super Bowl their first time, they win unless they're playing Bill Belichick. It's

Speaker 2 Bruce Arians, Doug Peterson, Gary Kubiak, Pete Carroll, John Harbaugh, Mike McCarthy, Sean Payton, Mike Tomlin, Tom Coughlin, Tony

Speaker 2 John Gruden, and then Bill Belichick the first time he won. All of them.
All of them. Literally all of them.

Speaker 2 Every first time head coach playing a Super Bowl wins. God damn it.
So

Speaker 2 now the Bengals, I feel even better about the Bengals. Now the Bangles win.
The Bengals picked up. That's great.
I also didn't know that Zach Taylor is married to Mike Sherman's daughter. Oh.

Speaker 2 There's nothing coaches love more than marrying another coach's daughter. That's like their favorite thing.
That's a weird one. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Also, his brother's name is Press. Press Taylor? Yeah, he's a coach.
He was a coach on the Eagles. I don't know where he is now.
Sounds like a celebrity gossip blog. Press Taylor.
Press Taylor, yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Good guy.

Speaker 2 All right, so should we do our picks? Yeah, he is a good guy. And we met him in Indy.
You met him in Indy. I forget Press.
I feel like I remember Press.

Speaker 2 We met Press at a Combine a few years ago. Very good guy.
I think that's his name.

Speaker 2 He just made that up.

Speaker 2 Yes, it is. He's a coach at the Jacksonville Jaguars.
He's the offensive coordinator now. Because he was with Doug Peterson at Philly, so that makes sense, and he would follow him to Jacksonville.

Speaker 2 He would, yeah. Yes, Press Taylor.
Love it. What a name.

Speaker 2 Okay. Do you want to do our picks? Oh, should we quickly just say, do we care about home field advantage? The Bengals are the home team, right?

Speaker 2 Right, but there's the, so the, the storyline I have, I have consumed is obviously there's not going to be a home field advantage in terms of fans because the Rams, you know, even in the NFC championship game, there's a lot of 49er fans.

Speaker 2 But in terms of they get to sleep in their own bed,

Speaker 2 I even read someone made the argument that the Rams, since they've played I think 13 games in SoFi Stadium this year, counting preseason, they are going to be well equipped with where the clocks are located.

Speaker 2 Aren't they located in the exact same place in every stadium?

Speaker 2 You would think that, PFT.

Speaker 2 I guess they're in a different spot at SoFi. So it's like, it's kind of a thing.

Speaker 2 But I mean clocks. The Rams home stadium isn't even really their home stadium.
I know. They basically, well, they're landlords.
They have a tenant. I think the Bang.

Speaker 2 It's actually good for the Bengals because they're practicing at what, UCLA? Yep. And so they're playing, practicing at a college facility is a major upgrade to what they normally do during the week.

Speaker 2 And they probably have better equipment that they're using. Yeah, better weather, better equipment.
And their locker room is the Chargers' locker room, so it's not like a downgrade whatsoever. Right.

Speaker 2 And it has, yeah, it's pristine. It hasn't been used in at least a month.
It's been a long time. So,

Speaker 2 all right, so I guess we don't care about the homefield advantage thing. No.
Okay. I just wanted to throw that out there just because it's going to be discussed at some point.

Speaker 2 Watch out for that clock. Oh, Oh, also, we should talk about the guy that Billy and Jake ran into today when they were out on their little Muscle Beach excursion.

Speaker 2 What an all-time celebrity encounter in L.A.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it was a legend.

Speaker 9 We did our little workout. Videos are on Twitter.
People are Olympians on Twitter in the replies.

Speaker 2 Well, I think that's a good idea. Listen, you gotta...

Speaker 2 When you preface it by saying we did our little workout, I think that tells you all you need to know about the quality.

Speaker 2 As someone who's done more athletic things this week than I have done in like four years on camera, you quickly remember that every single person that follows you is a former division one athlete who's in insane shape well hank and i did the the uh treading water challenge today for 15 minutes and then stephen che replied to it and he goes sorry i'm not trying to be the best at exercising i play real sports yeah it's like what what real sport is that he doesn't he doesn't play no he doesn't play real sports and in fact it's not i would say the realest sport is is basic survival yes which is what treading water is it's literally like can you survive in the water?

Speaker 2 Absolutely. So that's the realest sport you can get.

Speaker 9 That's fair. So we did our workout and then we rented a scooter, went over to the Santa Monica Pier, grabbed some lunch, grabbed the picture by the water.

Speaker 2 That's beautiful. Wait, did someone else take it of you guys?

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 10 And then took a picture of Jake and I having lunch, like the food and Jake across the table from me.

Speaker 9 We went live on Instagram and Twitter. Then our ride back, we were live on Twitter.

Speaker 2 We just see Coach O. And did you yell at him? Yeah, we said, Coach O.
And what did he say? He's like, hey. Did you say, part of my take?

Speaker 10 Well, at that point.

Speaker 2 Did you say like, hey, we know Big Cat and PFT too? Well, he kind of started walking away live, so we didn't want to like

Speaker 2 show the camera on him. So that's, we're going to have to do a little lesson maybe in the office.

Speaker 2 We were on the news, though. Like, we separately.
When you see Coach O walking by, that's like a more impressive public sighting than Bigfoot. You should have got out.
He interviewed him.

Speaker 2 Well, again, we'll review the tape. I'll review the tape.
We'll get in the film room.

Speaker 10 He looked like he wanted to be left alone.

Speaker 2 Yeah, but that's, you know.

Speaker 2 was with you also know if you had said like hey we're on part of my take he was probably a giant hug and he probably was with derek who's our friend who would know who you guys are right he was not with derek who was he with

Speaker 2 a lady nice nice bomb there we go coacho

Speaker 2 hopefully she posts the picture that they were taking because we're in the background on the scooter waving that's all they're doing the photo then what we'll see i'm gonna look it up i'm gonna you know what i'm gonna follow her instagram page just to see just to see that just for also

Speaker 2 I would like a few pictures just so that she knows.

Speaker 2 Well, you've been around for a while. Well, so it gets like in my algorithm.

Speaker 2 So that it shows up on the story. We're also interviewing stories too.
Yeah, by the local news.

Speaker 9 A reporter was asking us our thoughts on local crime in Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 What'd you guys say? I said.

Speaker 2 Billy. I said subscribe to part of my date.

Speaker 2 Everyone's moving to Austin.

Speaker 10 It actually isn't as bad as it's been described. LA has actually been way

Speaker 2 better than than I was told it would be. Yeah, LA's, listen, I love the weather in LA, but it also makes people soft out here.
I think we can agree on that. Who would anyone get worked on here?

Speaker 2 No one knows it.

Speaker 2 I like being a little bit upset.

Speaker 2 I like

Speaker 2 good cities that have a little bit of edge and anger to them. Cities like Pittsburgh, Cleveland.
Philadelphia. I like the fact that everyone's a little bit pissed off all the time.

Speaker 2 Out here, it's too easy.

Speaker 2 I'm not even saying it's a bad sports town.

Speaker 2 I'm saying I would be a bad sports town if I i lived out here too it's not your fault i wouldn't care you're just being coddled by god and handed 75 degree days every single day although i would freak out like these we're we're staying in west hollywood and uh these like the hills right above us with these houses every time it rains i would just be like all right well i'm about to slide off this hill like there goes my house do you know what what coacho's girlfriend's name is on instagram nope i don't we're not gonna say it I do.

Speaker 2 I know her first name. But yeah.
It could have been a learning lesson, but no, we'll go give it a chase. We'll have a taste of content opportunities that we can maybe start to capture a little bit.

Speaker 2 But

Speaker 2 it's not a winner or a loss. It's more like, let's go watch the All 22.
I'm just going to follow every brandy. Yeah.
There we go.

Speaker 2 Just for research. We were whipping, though.

Speaker 10 10 out of 10 definitely rent one of those two-person scooters for the boardwalk.

Speaker 2 Nice. Did you feel like it was GTA? Yes.

Speaker 2 Like 12 more times.

Speaker 2 Of course he did. Loki.
0.1 slow. Loki.
Kind of GTA out here. All right, let's do our picks.

Speaker 2 I asked everyone to have a prop pick as well. So give your game pick, prop pick, and then Vincent, who has been our sound guy all week, we will have him come give a pick too.

Speaker 2 If he gets hot, he's just going to have to start giving us picks for every game. That's just how it works.
I'll start with you, Jake.

Speaker 9 Just final score and a prop?

Speaker 2 No, just or whatever, like if you total or like what are you betting? Just so people know.

Speaker 9 I mean, the prop is obvious. It's scoregami on the Barcelon Sportsbook at plus 1400.

Speaker 9 So got to be aligned and take 3226 Bengals. That would be a scoregami.

Speaker 2 So double whammy there. And the over.

Speaker 9 And the over. Love it.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Okay.
So

Speaker 2 MVP,

Speaker 9 Sam Hubbard, game-winning strip sack.

Speaker 2 Runs it back. Love it.

Speaker 9 Plus $17,500 on the Barcelona Sportsbook.

Speaker 2 That exact sequence? Oh, no, him winning the MVP. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Because of a game-winning strip sack. Okay, Billy.
Bengals money line. Okay.
Ballsy.

Speaker 10 Joe Burrow, MVP.

Speaker 2 Love it.

Speaker 2 Just laying it out there.

Speaker 10 I want to see the Bengals win and Joe go off.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 PFT. I'm taking Bengals with points.
Same. I don't think I'm going to take Bengals Moneyline.
And

Speaker 2 my prop, I'm thinking first accepted penalty type of the game. Maybe you guys can help me narrow it down because I've got it down to within two.
I'm thinking either offsides

Speaker 2 or pass interference. I think offsides.
Offsides to me because you're going to have some guys on the edge that are feeling like they got to get home and it's a big moment.

Speaker 2 Especially if the Bengals start with the ball and they're like, all right, we already know that like this pass rush is going to be a problem. We're trying to get a little extra jump here.

Speaker 2 Oh, so you're saying false start? Oh, false start. Yes.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's false start on there. False start's a different one.
I was thinking about false start too. Fall start because you could see like a jumpy tackle

Speaker 2 scooting back up. Let's fall start.
Let's put up to a vote. What do we think? False start or offsides? What about holding, though? No, holding is a pussy.
No, but holding is like

Speaker 2 plus 270. Aaron Donald, the first penalty.
There's no value in holding. Oh, tackles.

Speaker 8 False starts are more common. What's false start at?

Speaker 2 False starts plus 450. Offsides is plus 550.
I like that.

Speaker 8 I feel like you get better odds with false start.

Speaker 2 You want to go false start? Yeah. What's winning? Because both defensively.
There's way more false starts than offsides in the game.

Speaker 8 I'm not a mad guy, but that's what I'm doing.

Speaker 2 Here's how it's going to happen. Because

Speaker 2 I had an apparition where I was thinking to myself about, I was trying to imagine, what does this look like? What's the first penalty going to be?

Speaker 2 And it was one of those plays where the guy comes off the edge hard and the tackle jumps before the ball is snapped. It's all going to depend on whether or not they call.

Speaker 2 Was he points first? Was he induced? Who points first? So as far as the pointing goes, I feel like, yeah, there are some savvy veterans. All defensive ends in this game are vets.

Speaker 2 They'll know to point. Just point

Speaker 2 at them. So, okay.
Go fall start. Fall start plus 450.
I like it. It's a lock.
I like it. All right.
So my prop, I'm taking the Bengals as well. My prop is first penalty off sides.

Speaker 2 All right. So, yeah, I'm taking the Bengals with the points.
My prop is

Speaker 2 Joe Burrow over 36 and a half pass attempts. So it doesn't have to be completions.
I look back, four out of the last five games, he's hit over that number.

Speaker 2 I also, all the story, everyone knows, like, when it becomes.

Speaker 2 I love the Super Bowl because obviously everyone has an opinion. You talk to anyone.
What do you like? When just a casual conversation is how are the Bengals going going to block the Rams?

Speaker 2 Like everyone is talking about that because it is the biggest, probably the biggest mismatch in the game in terms of the Bengals offensive line versus the Rams.

Speaker 2 I was looking it up at the Bengals offensive linemen individually each rank like very, very badly. And then as a unit, very badly.
And then you have Aaron Donald and Von Miller and all these guys.

Speaker 2 I think that's actually in a weird way. a benefit to the Bengals knowing that going in because they got sacked nine times against the Titans.
Obviously, the Chiefs defense isn't as good as the Titans.

Speaker 2 They got sacked once against the Chiefs. It's going to be Joe Burrow getting the ball out as fast as possible, like quick passes, making sure that like, because that's the big thing.

Speaker 2 Like, what do we say when Tom Brady, when he knows he's going to be, you know, there's going to be pressure, he gets the ball out in like one second. You can't even get to him.

Speaker 2 So I think it's going to be a lot of quick passes, a lot of Joe, like the Rams will be able to stop the run because they can have stopped the run all year.

Speaker 2 So I think Joe Burrow will have, for them, the Bengals to win, Joe Burrow has to pass the ball 40 times and then if you want to even go the reverse and say the Bengals are losing Joe Burrow will have

Speaker 2 to pass the line

Speaker 2 and it could be a benefit almost like if your line sucks so bad everyone is talking about how bad they are your screen game is probably going to be pretty effective because you'll be able to let the guys pass you and they won't do the thing where they're like wait this was too easy it's a screen and in the middle of the play they'll be like no this is what we saw on tape they literally can't block us and it's not even completions it's just a test so and and it's very similar like i was thinking about it's like similar to the SEC championship game when the whole conversation, I bought into that and I was an idiot.

Speaker 2 How is Bama going to block Georgia? And it's like, well, they won't. They'll just pass it so fast that they don't have to.

Speaker 2 And like move guys around and give them different looks and a lot of screens and a lot of quick shit that like that's if you know it going in that you can't block them.

Speaker 2 You would hope that Zach Taylor, and I do hope, I think he will do this. The game plan will be, let's not try to block them.
Let's try to just beat them quickly. There are two types of coaches.

Speaker 2 One that will, a smart coach who will do what you're talking about, adjust the game plan. And then there's the other type of coach.

Speaker 2 I would put like John Gruden into this camp who would just show the offensive line film of them getting their ass

Speaker 2 over the last three weeks and be like,

Speaker 2 you guys got to take some pride in your blocking ability because we're going to depend on you this week.

Speaker 2 And try to use that as a motivational tactic and then have them absolutely get their asses kicked yet again. And Joe Burrow is the type of quarterback.
He's going to,

Speaker 2 he will like stand in there, obviously, but he also will, you know, use his mind and make quick reads and all that stuff. So, I like that bet a lot.

Speaker 2 Yeah, the thing is, like, I don't think I've ever won a bet on the completion, on the over-incompletions. And it's not completions.
No, attempts. Yeah, that's what I meant because

Speaker 2 I never bet on that. Yeah.
Because the number is always so high. I know.
I look at it and I'm like, 36, that's a lot of throws. Four out of the last five times.

Speaker 2 The only time he hasn't done it in the last five games is against the Raiders, who they had kind of a comfortable lead throughout the game.

Speaker 2 Hank.

Speaker 8 Okay.

Speaker 8 The game I don't feel great about. I'm going to take the Bengals as well, but probably not for

Speaker 8 nuclear missile.

Speaker 2 Yeah, no game of the year for this one. I don't feel.

Speaker 2 Are you going plus sign hunting? Are you taking Moneyline?

Speaker 8 Moneyline. I mean, Moneyline Dogs.
It's the last Moneyline Dog of the Year. They've done me well this year, and I just, you know, out of loyalty to the dogs, I'm taking.

Speaker 2 I'm going to go to Washington State tonight against Arizona. Sure.

Speaker 2 Well, yeah, maybe not.

Speaker 8 But probably wait till we're in Louisiana. Yeah, true.

Speaker 2 I like the. I'd like to get my reps.
We have a lot.

Speaker 8 So my point being, the reason I said that is because I'm going to, you know, sprinkle a little bit on the money line and then just go crazy with props, have a crazy prop, prop night, just, you know, prop hunting.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Just be careful. This is a PSA, not to you, Pank, but to everyone out there.

Speaker 2 When you put in all your props, also bet early because all the gambling sites have crashed the last few Super Bowls, so make sure you get your bets in early.

Speaker 2 When you put in all your props, take one last look right before, because I've done this many Super Bowls where all my props, I have like 15 props and they're all correlated on one game outcome.

Speaker 2 And then that game outcome doesn't happen, and I lose everything.

Speaker 2 So, like, if you think the Bengals are going to win and you do all your props around that, make sure you sprinkle in a couple of Rams might win props.

Speaker 8 No, these are fun props. The bar sportsman has good ones.
I'm going to rattle through all the ones I have. And then my last one is my lock prop of the year.

Speaker 2 What?

Speaker 8 I can't believe the odds in it.

Speaker 2 I'm probably going to put

Speaker 8 all the money I bet and then just put it all

Speaker 2 to the prop. Hank proposed.

Speaker 2 Right now.

Speaker 8 All right, so these are the other ones I'm betting.

Speaker 6 This is the

Speaker 8 doink prop. Any field goal or extra point attempt to hit uprights or crossbar plus 405.
Give me that.

Speaker 8 Mash the end with a scoregami, obviously. Any offensive lineman to score a touchdown?

Speaker 2 We're doing one prop. No, but Hank's got a lot of

Speaker 2 locks at the end. He's giving out all the ones for fun that he's also going to bet on, but the one at the end is the one that's Gary Goddess.

Speaker 8 All right, so those are the ones. This is the lock prop of the century.
I don't know how this is mine.

Speaker 2 Surgery? I'm tipping to year. All right, give me a year.
No, no, he said seven.

Speaker 2 He said several decades. That's crazy.

Speaker 2 It's an insane odds.

Speaker 8 Literally, I can't comprehend it. You guys are probably going to tell me something that's going to maybe burst my bubble, but

Speaker 8 opening kickoff to result in a touchback. Yeah.
Minus 112.

Speaker 2 I love it. I love it.
Yeah.

Speaker 8 The Bengals win the flip. Kick Pharson's going to kick it out of the center.

Speaker 2 Both teams defer.

Speaker 2 Okay, the Rams are. both teams defer.

Speaker 8 Right, you're right, you're right, you're insane amount.

Speaker 2 There's no that's true, but wait, so hopefully the Rams aren't no, you want the Rams

Speaker 2 to win the coin flip and defer

Speaker 2 launches the ball. Because that means that the Rams are gonna

Speaker 2 call the toss

Speaker 2 and the Rams are going to lose the coin floss. You want the Bengals to win the coin toss and defer,

Speaker 2 and then they have to kick to the Rams. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
Which, by the way, I,

Speaker 2 has anyone ever fucked that up? I think someone has. Yeah.
I remember someone fucked up flag football in like intramurals in college where they didn't understand defer.

Speaker 2 We got the ball twice and they were so mad. It's like, learn your fucking rules, dude.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah, no,

Speaker 2 it was in the NFL a couple years ago. Some team said, like, we want to receive.
Yeah. I think it was in the castle back for some reason.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 No, that was, we'll take the ball and we're going to score.

Speaker 2 They threw a pick six. That was

Speaker 2 major cap. But yeah, lock of the century, that's going to be a fun one.

Speaker 6 It's going to, you know, it's going to be an exciting way to start the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 Oh, man. Just rooting for all the adrenaline.
Hang on. All the adrenaline.
It's the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 It's the most electric hand signal in sports.

Speaker 6 One of these?

Speaker 2 Yes. Okay.
Look at that.

Speaker 8 Like, I think it doesn't even matter if it's the Rams kicker. It's still going through the end zone.

Speaker 2 Okay. I'm going to look up some stats.
I'm only going to tell you positive stats. Okay.
Let's do Liam's picks and then we'll do Vincent's picks while I look up positive stats.

Speaker 2 What if the Bengals have to kick off and they just say fuck it and they do on-side kick to start the game? That would be disappointing.

Speaker 2 Matt Gay has a touchback rate of 63.7 this season. That's good.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And then the.

Speaker 9 Cincinnati has 59.7.

Speaker 2 Oh, no. 60.4.
That's still good. That's still good, but I mean.

Speaker 11 It's better, more likely than that.

Speaker 2 And also, you have to take into account there are probably a couple times this season where they've tried intentionally to do a squib kick.

Speaker 8 Also, you're not factoring in adrenaline. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah, adrenaline, but okay, but.

Speaker 2 No, I don't want to die. I don't want to die.
No, I'm just going to

Speaker 2 be fine.

Speaker 2 I might have to play Devil's Advocate. Yeah, Billy, you you know what? You're saying the same thing.
Adrenaline from the kick returner. Yeah.
Like, I'm a fucking hero, Devin Esther.

Speaker 2 The guys want to bang. They've been amped up week off.

Speaker 2 But let's not.

Speaker 2 That was just us saying,

Speaker 2 look, there's a different world where we could, like an alternate upside-down world where this prop could lose. No.
But it's not going to. No, we're just telling you that

Speaker 2 we're not going to the upside-down world.

Speaker 8 My Super Bowl will be made or broken off the

Speaker 2 first kickoff. I love it.
And that's exciting. Oh, Tails too.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. That goes without saying.
Tails and then the overnight 50-50, though. This is a 60-40.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's true. I like it.
It's great. It's a great value.
Paul tells us a better value.

Speaker 2 One thing Billy's forgetting is that the kick returners are going to be amped up, so they'll be nervous and more likely to have it bounce off them. They'll drop it in the end zone.

Speaker 2 They'll just take a name. No, these are professionals.
No, no, I'm saying then they take like a name. These guys are amped.

Speaker 10 These are big games. These guys like are big.

Speaker 2 Wait, they're pros? Yeah. Like, they're not going to muff the kick.
No, but you were pros when you made that pick? I did. Okay.
These are pros.

Speaker 8 The way I have it mapped out in my head, I've done

Speaker 8 some studying and some analysis and somebody.

Speaker 2 Projections receiving the kicks?

Speaker 8 It doesn't matter.

Speaker 8 In my projections, both kicks are going through the uprights into the end zone. They're not going to have a chance to kick it.

Speaker 2 Think about it. If you're a kicker, this is your Super Bowl.
You get to kick off for the Super Bowl. You've never been more excited.
No. They're not going to touch the ball.
Exactly.

Speaker 2 It's going to go out of the back of the end zone. I agree with Hank.
This is, I would say it's more of a lock of a century, but we'll stick with decades. What's the wind? What's the wind?

Speaker 2 It's indoors. Well, it's actually technically not.
We learned that this year, remember? It's like not. It's

Speaker 2 open air. Wind-wise, there might be a wind-winded.

Speaker 2 There's like open... That just for lightning.
Yeah, but there's like open... Whatever.
There's no wind. Oh, no.
No, no,

Speaker 2 no, Jake. Yeah, no, I was thinking.
Jake, no.

Speaker 2 I want to be up front with Hank. Okay.
Just with the stats.

Speaker 2 Don't tell me just to ignore the stats. Big guy already tweeted it.

Speaker 2 No, we're betting it, Hank. Don't worry.
I'm riding with you. You've ridden with it.

Speaker 8 If it's weather, we already know it doesn't fall.

Speaker 2 No, it's something else.

Speaker 2 The wind doesn't exist.

Speaker 10 I have a take on why this might be a thing.

Speaker 2 Okay, shit.

Speaker 9 Eight of the last 10 Super Bowls have not been a touchback.

Speaker 2 That's good. It's due.
Yeah. That's good.
Right, yeah.

Speaker 2 I'm just being up front. That's history.
Haven't the rules changed since then? Not a reason.

Speaker 10 I kind of want to say that for a lot of people, this is their first football game they've watched all year.

Speaker 10 So honestly, for the NFL product, they don't want it to start in a thing that the play stops.

Speaker 2 And then you have everyone asking, NFL ring,

Speaker 2 billy. NFL ring.
No touchbacks on the first play.

Speaker 2 Yeah, they want the game to start with action. Cadell, bro, he's the puppet master.
Let's do Liam, your pick, and then we get Vincent's, and we'll do a quick, quick NBA. Quick.

Speaker 11 I just can't have us all take the Bengals.

Speaker 2 I'm going to go Rams. Oh, I like it.
You know what? You need someone. Yeah.
Because we can't all lose. Yeah, this way they can't do the graphic where it has all the logos on our news.

Speaker 2 And I'll do OBJ for MVP. Ooh, spicy baby.

Speaker 2 Has he had the baby yet? Let's see. Vincent, give us your background in football knowledge.
Big football fan?

Speaker 12 No, it's, I mean, I love playing it, but as far as following it, it's pretty limited.

Speaker 2 That's awesome.

Speaker 2 That's as cool as it can get. Yeah, I've

Speaker 12 learned a lot from listening to you guys and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 No, you didn't. No, you did not.
That's so bad. Did you hear the whole part where I screwed up the stat in the worst way possible with the coaches?

Speaker 12 I did, but I guess maybe it went over my head or something.

Speaker 2 No,

Speaker 2 it was not a bid. I'm an idiot.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 It's kind of good to be. Okay.
Okay, so I'll say

Speaker 12 for the Rams with the flip,

Speaker 12 second half lead for the Bengals.

Speaker 2 Wait, what is this?

Speaker 12 As far as my predictions?

Speaker 2 Okay, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
The Rams win the flip.

Speaker 12 Rams with the flip.

Speaker 12 And then in the second half, the Bengals are still leading.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 12 And then I'll say like a 28 to 17 for the Bengals.

Speaker 2 All right, all right. So here's the Bengals.
Money line. Vincent, who's been with us? Wait, one last thing, Vincent.
How would you rank our operation in total vibe? Oh, it's great.

Speaker 2 100%.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 Do you have any energy vampires in the room?

Speaker 12 Energy vampires?

Speaker 2 What's the energy vampires? Like someone who just sucks the energy out of the room. Oh, no, no, not at all.
No one's looking at Billy that I've looked at Billy. Oh, Billy? I'm the hype squad.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you want to tease it? What was your favorite interview that we did? O'Connell.

Speaker 11 He was great.

Speaker 2 Oh, okay. Well, everyone heard that.
What about one that we haven't aired? Oh, we haven't aired any of them except O'Connell. Burt was great too.
Okay, Bert Chrysler. Yep, coming up.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's a good one. That's super funny.
All right, that's a great tease. That was actually an incredible interview.
That's going to probably be a couple of meetings.

Speaker 2 All right, Vincent, thank you very much. Appreciate it.
Shout out to you, Vincent. Been with us all week.
We got a real football guy.

Speaker 2 Okay. I'm going to start saying that.
I don't watch football. I'm too busy playing it.
Yeah, I just enjoy playing it more.

Speaker 2 All right, let's do quick NBA trade.

Speaker 2 The big three in Brooklyn is no longer.

Speaker 2 I saw the stat. It's very, very funny.
Kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant, and James Harden ended up playing 16 total games together. It was like 350 minutes.

Speaker 2 13 and 3, though. 13 and 3.

Speaker 2 Traded James Harden, which shout out James Harden because it was like maybe 10 months ago where he's like, I really regret how I handled myself at the end of the Houston days.

Speaker 2 And then he just did basically the same thing at the end of the Brooklyn days where he, the only thing he did different was he told Woge he didn't want to complain so if but if he were to complain he'd say he'd want a trade well and also he didn't get fat this time yeah he didn't put on wet

Speaker 2 he should have he should have he should have gotten fat that was the best part of his last trade and you're right he did not request a trade because I think Woge's report was James Harden would like to clarify that he's not asking for a trade because he doesn't want to be perceived poorly right for requesting a trade it's basically when I tweet at the airlines for myself and I'm like I would never complain to an airline but if I were to yeah it's the

Speaker 2 do it, you know, it was a good trade request,

Speaker 2 but in the NBA format. And now he's going to Philadelphia.
Simmons is going to Brooklyn. And this could be the rare occasion where both teams lose a trade.
Oh, it could completely blow up.

Speaker 2 Now, I think that

Speaker 2 Nets got the better end of the deal.

Speaker 6 I disagree.

Speaker 2 You disagree? I think both teams won in a weird way because Ben Simmons was never going to play for the Sixers. Yep.
So they had to get something for him.

Speaker 2 They got a player in James Harden who, if he is healthy, is the perfect fit with Embiid. And now, like, we know how the NBA works.
You have to have top N guys to win a title.

Speaker 2 It's not like a rocket science. You have to have anywhere between, you have to have probably a top five guy and a couple, like two top 10 guys total.
Embiid's a top five guy.

Speaker 2 He might even be the best player in the NBA right now. And James Harden's a top 10 guy if he's healthy.
So they have, like, this is now title or bust. And they absolutely,

Speaker 2 I could absolutely see them winning the title this year. So I think I was telling Hank about this earlier when the trade went through, but

Speaker 2 between Hardin and Embiid, you basically get like a three-month period with James Harden where he can truly be happy in any environment before he starts to hate something about his life.

Speaker 2 And so this might be a good example of, okay, he's got like three, four months where he can be in Philadelphia. His game does complement Embiid's game perfectly.

Speaker 2 And then like right after he would get to the finals and maybe potentially win a championship, then he requests another trade. Well, I think he's a free agent at at the end of this year, correct?

Speaker 2 Okay, so they're not, are they going to extend him? They'll probably give him a max, which will be hilarious because he'll be making like $65 million when he's like 37 years old. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And then Ben Simmons, I feel like the Nets could be the right place for Ben to be because he doesn't have to shoot.

Speaker 2 Well, if you go back last year, the All-Star game, when they were picking their teams, Kevin Durant did say, I'm mad because LeBron just picked the guy I wanted, Ben Simmons. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Little precursor.

Speaker 2 Ben Simmons was never going to play for the Sixers again. I still think he's talented.
There's clearly something mentally that's not there. It doesn't all click.

Speaker 2 But yeah, I mean, if you put Ben Simmons with Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant, those guys are so fucking good that they will find it, like, and Kevin Durant's so basketball smart.

Speaker 2 I feel like they'll find a way to at least make him useful. I do think the Nets, like...

Speaker 2 It did feel, it actually all from the Kirk Goldberry interview we had last year where the Nets had won, what they swept. No, they won in five against the Celtics or did they sweep the Celtics?

Speaker 2 They swept the Celtics and then they won in five, and then we had had them on after they were up 2-0 against the Bucs. And from that moment forward, essentially everything fell apart.

Speaker 2 Like Kyrie got hurt. James Harden got hurt.
Joe Harris lost all his juice.

Speaker 2 Then this season started. Kyrie didn't get vaccinated.
James Harden got hurt. Kevin Durant got hurt.

Speaker 2 Like from that point where Kirk Goldsbury, I'm not, I love Kirk, but he did say they're the greatest team of all time. And from that point on, yeah,

Speaker 2 they have not done anything. And actually, by winning percentage, they might have been the best team of all time when they were all playing together.
13 and 13.

Speaker 2 Like right behind that Bulls team, right? You got to have them back on and be like, dude, we'll have them back on after Terrace.

Speaker 2 After football's over, we'll have them back on.

Speaker 2 I don't think that you can find two more opposite players being traded for each other at the same time. And it's crazy.
I don't know. Ben Simmons, where has he been practicing? Has he been practicing?

Speaker 2 Has he been staying away from his phone in his pocket? All baskets all the time? I don't know.

Speaker 2 But I feel like going to a team where you have guys that love to shoot and love to score, he's the perfect guy for the counterexample to it's just one ball. Right.
It's just one ball.

Speaker 2 He's a guy who's like, yes, you can have the ball all you want. I will play defense.
I will get the ball back for you. Then I will pass the ball to you.
Yes. So, yeah, I mean, it makes it interesting.

Speaker 2 I think the...

Speaker 2 I saw it and I was like, ooh, that's pretty good for both teams.

Speaker 2 I think the Sixers become a real, real threat now. I'll clarify.
I don't think

Speaker 8 Philly fans turn on James Harden will be fun.

Speaker 2 Will be funny.

Speaker 2 Yes, no, absolutely. And also when Ben Simmons has to go back there, I think March 10th, mark your calendar.
Will be great. I don't think necessarily it's going to be bad for both teams.

Speaker 2 I think it's going to be either really good for both teams or really, really, really bad for both teams. But it's also one of those trades.

Speaker 2 Yes, we need. Yeah, it's also one of those trades that they had to do it.

Speaker 2 Ben Simmons was not going to play for the Sixers. James Harden was clearly not happy and wanted to be traded.
So it's like, get what you get. And also the Nets,

Speaker 2 I think they got two first-round picks back, which they had had to trade a bunch to the Rockets for James Harden. And they got Seth Curry.
And they got Seth Curry.

Speaker 2 And Ben Simmons still has four years. Like, you know, I don't know.
I still believe in Ben Simmons. Roan, real quick, real quick.
We're literally talking to Ben Simmons real quick.

Speaker 2 Our guy, Angelo Palantonio. Roan, we literally breaking it down.
Just give us the quick breakdown from a Philly perspective. How are you feeling? We just needed to do it.

Speaker 13 Ben Simmons was not playing.

Speaker 7 We needed to do something. We weren't going to just do nothing and just sit around.

Speaker 13 It would be a waste of a year and James Hardin might not be it. We might wind up paying him $60 million when he's 38 years old.

Speaker 2 They just said that.

Speaker 7 But at the same time, if you win a championship, isn't that kind of what you're paying for?

Speaker 2 You know what? You're all in. We're all in.
76ers are all forever. Dude, we're about to

Speaker 13 complete the process, dude.

Speaker 2 We're about to complete the process. I don't know.
I think it's funny how Joel M.B. like immediately posted that.
He's so good at Twitter.

Speaker 2 I don't know how he got this good, but like the meme that he put up of the like, I just, I stopped by my biggest hater's funeral to stun on him one last time right after Simmons left.

Speaker 2 He's going to be so happy. And the thing is, like, I was thinking about NBA and just the players in general today.
It feels like nobody, no players are happy in the NBA. No one's happy.

Speaker 2 Like, Joelle and Beat is probably the happiest he's ever been because he's no longer the most unhappy guy in the world having to play with Ben Simmons. Pat Beverly's happy.

Speaker 6 He might not, is he?

Speaker 2 Yeah, because he got that fucking dig on Russell Westbrook. I think Pat Beverly's happy when he's the most pissed off.

Speaker 2 That dig was a piss-off. He basically

Speaker 2 he reused Russell Westbrook's quote against him and was like, he's just a magician. He's doing nothing.
He's just running around.

Speaker 13 But everybody gets what they want. You can be unhappy and you'll wind up getting moved.

Speaker 13 And the Sixers picked up James Harden's option for next year, so they're paying him $47 million.

Speaker 2 Oh, okay. But not a free agent.

Speaker 13 My bold prediction is they'll trade him before next season is over to another team.

Speaker 7 Win a ship.

Speaker 13 and then move off him and save the money. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 You get like a three to four month window where James Harden is pumped to be in your city.

Speaker 2 He will embrace everything about your city for three months, and then he's going to find something to get pissed off about. But that could work.

Speaker 2 Like, it's good that you made this move now and not three months ago because then he would be pissed off by the time the playoffs rolled around. Do you not want to know my bold prediction?

Speaker 2 That's not good.

Speaker 7 Give it to me.

Speaker 2 I think James Harden and Joel and Biet are going to be fucking insane together and they're going to go on a tear. And then Joel Embiid's going to get injured at the end of March.

Speaker 2 Why would you say that? I told you I didn't want to say it's my, I had a thought. I was like,

Speaker 2 why would you put that

Speaker 2 into that atmosphere? It's going to be beautiful basketball.

Speaker 13 Why would you even introduce those thoughts into the world?

Speaker 2 Because it's also perfect for Daryl Maury, like his entire reputation of being like,

Speaker 2 he's a genius. It just breaks haven't gone his way.

Speaker 13 Doc Rivers, James Harden, and Joel and Bede have not had a lot of success getting out of the second round of the playoffs.

Speaker 2 I was about to say, if you're in a game seven and you're two, like the two guys that are leading your team out onto the court are James Harden and Doc Rivers, you can't feel that confidence.

Speaker 2 I I love Joel Empied, though. Yes, well, he's the best player in the NBA right now.
I just declared that. MVP'd.
There we go. MVP'd.
All right, that's the perfect way to send Ronoff.

Speaker 2 Yes, yes.

Speaker 2 Isn't it weird, though? They're like, everybody in the league is pissed off.

Speaker 2 Everyone is deeply unhappy, and then you've got NBA media watching players get really unhappy. And then, this is awesome.
This is fucking awesome. How depressed these guys are.

Speaker 2 There's like four or five guys. John Morant's happy.
I think Steph Curry's happy. I think the Suns are happy.
I think Kawhi is happy. Yeah, Kawhi's kind of a neutral sense.
The Bucks are happy.

Speaker 2 Heat culture. Are the Bucs happy? Yeah, I think so.
I mean,

Speaker 2 they've had like four or five games in the last couple weeks where they have crushed teams. Yeah.
I think they scored over 130 like three times in a row. It was nuts.
I think the Heat are happy too.

Speaker 2 The Heat culture.

Speaker 2 Yeah, the Bucks are first place. Yeah, they've been on a Heater.

Speaker 2 And the Bucks are second. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 10 Now the Nets got two guys who are questionable with shots.

Speaker 2 That's good.

Speaker 2 I'm glad Billy said it before I had it.

Speaker 2 That was one that you would have tweeted, but you were like, no, I can't do that. Yeah, exactly.
I think I actually typed in

Speaker 2 the Nets lead the league in Australian guys who are afraid to take shots. And then I deleted it.
I was like, no, I'll save that one for a review. That's rained really hard.

Speaker 2 Last thing on the NBA trade deadline, LeBron, all-time quote. He said, obviously, this is something that's weighing on this group that we're all trying to get through.

Speaker 2 Almost feels like like it's a fog, just a fog in the air. LeBron James made this group.
He's the GM of the Lakers. That quote makes, he's like, basically, yeah, it's tough for all of us.

Speaker 2 We don't know who's going to get traded.

Speaker 2 Yeah, well, you're not. And also, you're going to get to decide.
And no one's getting traded. Could LeBron James technically demand a trade from himself?

Speaker 2 Like, ask himself, hey, LeBron, hey, future LeBron, this is young LeBron. Will you please trade me in a week?

Speaker 2 Who would have thought that adding Russell Westbrook to this team and Carmel Anthony and like a bunch of older guys would have turned out poorly? But it's actually literally everyone.

Speaker 2 In a way, it's perfect for LeBron because this season isn't his fault. This is Russell Westbrook's fault.
It's like the perfect scapegoat for him.

Speaker 2 I just want to remind you, one with this and go to our interviews. LeBron James in August,

Speaker 2 he deleted this, but he said, keep talking about my squad. Our personnel ages.
I think he said person. I think it was personnel ages.
The way he plays. He stays injured.

Speaker 2 We're past our time in this league, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Do me one favor, please, and I mean, please keep that same narrative energy when it begins.
That's all I ask.

Speaker 2 Hashtag thank you, King's Crown. I am keeping that same energy.
We all saw this coming.

Speaker 9 Also, their team total wins under hit last night with the loss.

Speaker 2 It's four.

Speaker 8 I got a nice future of them not to make the playoffs.

Speaker 9 And they're 26 and 30.

Speaker 2 Propwood.

Speaker 2 Love it. I mean, I'm not even, yeah, the Cavs.

Speaker 8 I'm a Cavs fan.

Speaker 2 Yeah, if the Cavs win the division, Hank wins like a million dollars and he's quitting. I'm really nervous they're going to bring that opening kickoff out.

Speaker 2 They're not. They're not.

Speaker 2 There's literally no one. I'm going to bet it because you've bet with me on big moments that I'm going to repay my

Speaker 2 this relationship. Kick Pharson.
Yeah, I like it too. Shirts are in store.
Just imagine Harambe looking down at the opening kickoff, just blowing with his mighty gorilla breath

Speaker 2 to the end zone.

Speaker 2 Shout out Cincinnati zoo nice try guys they did a did you see the slideshow they did where they they basically made an entire slideshow of all their animals and made their names like i don't even i can't even remember it was like manatee higgins yeah yes and so they've tweeted each one underneath it to basically cover up all the replies being like what about the gorilla

Speaker 2 and

Speaker 14 it's too bad it's too bad like you can't you have to have a little bit more self-awareness of that if you're the cincinnati literally the cincinnati zoo to be like okay we're gonna we're gonna gonna just try to make ourselves go viral and not get not have people discuss the biggest star ever that we had that was murdered in cold blood hey it's PFT here reminding you that Boar's Head makes game day entertaining elevated and effortless whether you order catering platters ahead from your local Boarshead retailer or you create your own spread at home with Boarshead premium deli meats and cheeses you are sure to impress your guests My favorites like oven gold turkey or blazing buffalo style chicken paired with their classic Vermont cheddar or creamy Munster cheese cheese are sure to score big and help me elevate my entertainment every time, whether it's for a tailgate or a home gating celebration.

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Speaker 2 Special guests, Super Bowl week from your Cincinnati Bengals. Our Cincinnati Bengal.
Our Cincinnati Bengals this week. It is tight end CJ Uzama and kicker Evan McPherson, Money Mac.

Speaker 2 We want to obviously talk about Money Mac and making these kicks, but we got to start with you, CJ.

Speaker 2 You're playing. Is he not Money Mac? You know him shooter.
You have a million nicknames. You do.

Speaker 11 So I just say it's whatever you want to call me. Because it's just a personal preference, really.

Speaker 2 Kind of like Kick Pharson. Okay.
Kick Pharson.

Speaker 11 I've heard that too. It goes.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.
Maybe

Speaker 2 if you win a Super Bowl, then it's then it's Money Mac. Okay.
You've also done a very good job of

Speaker 2 we're in our side of the, you know, the media and how we do our job is we have one initial, like, we see someone, we make an opinion, and then that's it forever. Okay.

Speaker 2 I thought you obviously sucked after the Packers game. Yeah.
And then you've been able to switch that like almost instantly with your run in the playoffs and all these big kicks you made.

Speaker 2 So actually, let's start with that. That celebration when you didn't hit the kick.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 That sucked. I mean,

Speaker 11 I think it sucked just more that it was focused on me and Kevin. I think if you show probably CJ,

Speaker 2 if you showed me... Are you celebrating CJ? I was going crazy with him.
With Clark, with the long set. I was going crazy with him.

Speaker 11 They do a little chest bump after their maid kick, and so I'm sure they were chest bumping, doing whatever, celebrating.

Speaker 11 And then we all look up and the reps are down there like this, and we're all like,

Speaker 2 how did that happen? What's going on?

Speaker 2 What happened?

Speaker 2 Because, I mean, probably halfway.

Speaker 11 The ball halfway to the uprights was just dead center

Speaker 11 in our eyes. And then I look away, start celebrating, and that thing just takes a hard left.

Speaker 11 But that was a good learning experience.

Speaker 11 I'll never celebrate a kick that I'm really not sure of.

Speaker 2 See it all the way through. Let other people start the celebration, and then you react to their celebration.

Speaker 2 What happened that game? That was a weird game because it was like you and Mason. Yeah.
And there was just something going on where there was like a force field between the uprights.

Speaker 11 No, it was super weird.

Speaker 11 And I feel like there's definitely kind of games or even weekends like that because I feel like in the NFL that week there might have been a couple missed kicks or extra points or something like that.

Speaker 11 And so, but yeah, I mean, it was just super weird. You know, me and Mason had a word after the game, and you know, he had a 51-yard field going

Speaker 11 the same way, and his kind of did the same exact thing as mine did. So it's like on the field, it kind of felt left to right, but it's like when it got to the upright, it was kind of right to left.

Speaker 2 See, we thought it was the moon, we thought that there was something going on. It was a full moon.

Speaker 2 Yeah, like someone with astrology, like when Mercury is behind Jupiter or whatever, kickers start to fuck up everywhere. Yeah, yeah,

Speaker 2 CJ, I wanted to ask you about your leg because it looked like a nasty hit when you got taken out there, but you say that you're going to play. You're going to try.
Is this Smoke and Mirrors?

Speaker 2 Are you smoke and mirroring me? No, no. I mean, this is the Super Bowl, man.
I'm not missing. I can't.
I don't know. I mean, I don't know how much I'm going to play.

Speaker 2 I don't know how much they're going to limit me. But I told the coaches.
I told my PT guys. I told Nick.
And Nick knows I'm going to play.

Speaker 2 I mean, coach knows I'm going to play.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I'm playing.

Speaker 2 What's it at right now? Like, where are you?

Speaker 2 I mean, you're not 100%.

Speaker 2 Right. It's just, I don't know.
I got, we'll see this week, for sure.

Speaker 2 You can't tell me.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I got you. I got you.
Like, 85? Yeah, I mean, we'll see this week. 80.
Okay. It just depends.
Like, I feel like I'm like 80% right now.

Speaker 2 What do you feel, Evan? Like, let's all do percentages right now, just around the room.

Speaker 11 I'm probably 105 just because hell yeah.

Speaker 2 Just because of this weather. 105? Yep.
The weather? PFT, how you feeling? I'm a 91. Okay, and then CG.

Speaker 2 Wait, why why are you an 80 out of curiosity i had a little slip at the pool today that was i saw that i actually saw that that was uh

Speaker 2 it was

Speaker 2 but here i am i much like you next play i mean i'm in ready to go personally then i have to be a little bit above that okay so you're above 80 yeah i mean all right so put on a quote board blast that out

Speaker 2 feels better than 80 there's something about tight ends it's like you and kittle where we always joke around about kittle like he just goes to the sideline if he gets taken out and he'll just like will himself to be healthy He's like, No, I'm not injured.

Speaker 2 It's like he plays a lot of Halo, and he plays a lot of like Warzone. He hits himself with like a stem kit real quick.
Oh, yeah, he's like, I'm fine to go back in.

Speaker 2 I feel like that's a very tight end mentality. Just be like, Nope, I'm gonna play, I don't care.
Yeah, you mean you got the self-res going. That's that's what I have right now.

Speaker 2 I got a little self-res going. A little help from Nick, the PT, is he's he's my teammate trying to trying to get me right, dropping some shields for me, and uh, and I'm good to go.
Yes, yes.

Speaker 2 So, all right, so like, has it set in yet? You guys just landed, right? You were talking to you. You landed a couple hours ago.
It's Super Bowl week.

Speaker 2 When is the jitters start to, like, oh, shit, this is Super Bowl week?

Speaker 11 Man, I don't know. I mean, I think that this team's probably just so confident that I don't know if we're really going to have jitters at all.

Speaker 11 I think we're going to prepare so well for this game, and, you know, we're so ready for it. And we've got so many players from winning programs that this is normal for them.

Speaker 11 And so I feel like, you know, we've had some guys that have been there, done that. And for those guys, I feel like there won't really be many jitters.

Speaker 11 There's going to be a lot of excitement, I feel like, more than jitters.

Speaker 2 It's true. Like, a lot of the guys, I mean, you got Florida, Auburn, like, played in big, big games.
And, you know, Joe, obviously.

Speaker 2 So, CJ, you've been on the Bengals for a while now. You went through the roster purge, which is kind of crazy.
You've seen both sides of it.

Speaker 2 What do you think the similarities are between Andy Dalton and Joe Burrow?

Speaker 2 Hmm.

Speaker 2 Good question. The similarities?

Speaker 2 That is a good question. Both QB1s.
Nice guys. Yeah, they're both QB1s.
No, but seriously, Joe Burrow, like everyone, everyone talks about, like, we know Joe a little bit.

Speaker 2 Is it really what everyone says in terms of like the way he commands the locker room and just the, like, you look at him, you're like, all right, we got this. We're okay.
Dude, yeah.

Speaker 2 Okay, so, like, it's, Joe's,

Speaker 2 like, we're on the same, we're on the same, the way our locker room is set up, we're in the country club. That's what we call it.

Speaker 2 Everyone else is in different, like, sections, but we're in the country club. You have to pay a membership fee.

Speaker 2 But he sits, he sits closest to the wall, and there'll be times where he's just staring like into space and we're all on our phones.

Speaker 2 We're all doing stuff and he's just like not moving and he won't move for like two minutes and then he'll just snap out of it real quick and then look at his phone and then move.

Speaker 2 And we're like, but then a couple minutes later, it's just same like robot, robot.

Speaker 2 And it's weird, but like that's how he is like all, all the time.

Speaker 2 So in the huddle, he'll just be. Same thing.
And we're like, all right, well, he's thinking of something.

Speaker 2 I don't know what he's thinking, but he's thinking about killing this team or scoring the game-winning touchdown. I don't know what it is, but we're all like having a good time.

Speaker 2 Then all of a sudden he starts talking. We're like, all right, shut up, listen.

Speaker 2 All right, nice. Here we go.
Go score, go win the game. So it's never rah-rah.
It's never like, we got like, let's go, boys, let's get it together.

Speaker 2 There'll be times where it, where it is, but it's not like, it's not like, it's not like how I am where I'm just like yelling at the top of my lungs. It's kind of just like,

Speaker 2 you know, there's a sound bite of him saying, all right, when we score, we're going to go for two. And Jamar's like, shit, I like that.
Yeah, cool. But Joe's just like, yeah, all right, that's it.

Speaker 2 Like monotone. Just hold on.
Let me listen to the play real quick. So, yeah,

Speaker 2 it's something like that. And that's stone cold killer.
It's crazy.

Speaker 2 What about what he said on Monday about, like, hey, advice to youngsters out there?

Speaker 2 When you work out, you don't have to post a video of you working out and then go home, you know, sit at home for four days and then just like put it all over social media.

Speaker 2 Who on the team was he talking about specifically?

Speaker 2 Was that

Speaker 2 bottle cap? Evan McPherson bottle cap? I don't think it was that.

Speaker 2 It might be.

Speaker 2 You sat for a while after you hit that bottle cap. No.

Speaker 2 You didn't get out and make another TikTok right afterwards? No, I didn't.

Speaker 11 I think that was probably one of the few kicking videos I've posted on social media. I used to post a lot in high school, you know, try to get

Speaker 11 some recruiting done on Twitter and whatnot. But ever since college, I don't really post many kicking videos.
Just like Joe said, you know, you do your work in private and not really share it.

Speaker 2 Yeah, what's the longest field goal that you've hit in practice?

Speaker 11 75 yards.

Speaker 2 Oh, shoot.

Speaker 2 When was that?

Speaker 11 Since college.

Speaker 2 Wow. I've been saying this for years, which is like kickers at the professional level, they can make, most of them should be able to make around 70-yard field goals.

Speaker 2 But coaches, it takes them a while to like catch up to that and to be able to trust a kicker. Then, obviously, like the field goal or the field position that goes along with it.

Speaker 2 Have you told your coach, like, hey, let me try a 70-yarder?

Speaker 11 I don't know if he'd let me try a 70, but it'd have to be the right conditions for sure. I don't know if 70 is the right number, maybe 67 to break the record, but we'll see.

Speaker 2 But I read that in the Titans game, your range was 57.

Speaker 2 I think Coach Taylor said after, like, we needed to get to the 40. Yes.
Because a 57-yarder.

Speaker 11 Yeah, so going that way, we were kind of going into the win. And so we knew at most the 40-yard line, so it'd be a 58-yard field goal.

Speaker 11 We knew going into the win, that was probably the max distance, really. I mean, 60 with adrenaline and whatnot, but probably nothing really past that.

Speaker 2 So did you actually say, guess we're going to the AFC championship game?

Speaker 11 I mean, I said something along, like, I told Brandon, I was like, well, I said, let's go to the AFC championship game.

Speaker 11 So it wasn't like, we're going, you know, but it was like, you know, it was a confident, I guess, statement, but it is something I said, yeah.

Speaker 2 I think we need to just like, we need to solidify that rumor because it's such a cool story, even if it's not totally true. Right.
Because I heard, you can just confirm this if it's true.

Speaker 2 I heard that after you made it, you pulled out a piece of paper from your right shoe that said, we're going to the AFC championship game. Well, Noton.
Is that true?

Speaker 2 I actually heard some of that. He said fact.
He's fact, but I also heard he pulled out a piece of paper.

Speaker 2 He said, we're going to the AFC championship game and we're going to make Patrick Mahomes forget how to play football in the second half and then go to the Super Bowl. That's what I heard you said.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Fact. Sounds good as well.

Speaker 2 What happened at halftime in that game?

Speaker 11 What happened at halftime in the Kansas City game?

Speaker 2 In the Kansas City, something changed. Like, it was

Speaker 2 like the end of the first time. You seem that Patrick Mahomes?

Speaker 2 What was the speech? Did somebody give you a speech, or was it just like you could feel the energy change? Because it was a completely different football game.

Speaker 11 I mean, I wasn't in the locker room at halftime. We kind of go in.

Speaker 2 They lock you out. You know,

Speaker 11 take a piss, and then just walk straight back out. Like, that's just what we do.
Just to go in.

Speaker 2 The secret stuff, guys. Yeah.
Just have the secret stuff. So he could probably tell you what the speech was.
That's what it is.

Speaker 11 But the turning point was the play right before the half. You know, we stop him on the one.

Speaker 11 That's I, like, we were walking into the locker room, and I was like, you know, that probably just won us the game there. Like,

Speaker 11 that just shifted everything kind of in our favor.

Speaker 2 Is he authorized to say that? Like,

Speaker 2 yeah, we could feel the entire team change. Like, as a kicker, and I know, because I am a kicker, I know that, like, my job is to not open my mouth.
I kick for one day.

Speaker 2 But, like, what was it like for the real players that were invited into the locker room?

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's funny you say that, though. Evan talks a lot of shit.

Speaker 2 So,

Speaker 2 for a kicker who's not really supposed to say a whole lot, he does talk a lot of smack, which, I mean, I guess I talk a lot. Yeah, I mean.
You can't really say anything, right?

Speaker 2 He makes everything anyway. So it's like, all right, whatever.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 I don't know what happens at halftime. Like, we're a second half team, and I don't, like, we don't love that.
You know, we want to come out hot and just absolutely bury a team.

Speaker 2 And we've been talking about it this week, but there is something about our second half adjustments that are just, I mean, it's, it's wild. It's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 I mean, it's not, it's not even a second half adjustments. The fact that you guys, like, obviously you have confidence, but you were a 10 and 7 team.

Speaker 2 It's not like you guys were dominating teams all year, year, and then this run has just been incredible.

Speaker 2 Did you have that confidence going into, I know you, CJ, being on the Bengals for a long time now, like the city wanted just a playoff win and then to get all the way to the Super Bowl, it's crazy.

Speaker 2 Did you feel like, hey, we could actually do this? Yeah, for sure. I think I made some bold statements at the beginning of the year, and some people definitely laughed at me for them.

Speaker 2 But I knew what we had. I knew,

Speaker 2 really, I knew who we had at quarterback and the playmakers that he had around him that he was just going to get him the ball. And the guy that we have running the ball will make people pay too.

Speaker 2 And I knew what our defense was capable of,

Speaker 2 kind of. I didn't know that they were going to ball out and people were going to make mistakes and they were going to capitalize on them the way that they did.
But

Speaker 2 yeah, I mean, this run is,

Speaker 2 I didn't expect it.

Speaker 2 I remember Sam saying, you know, I just wanted to get that first win, that first playoff win. And I thought the same thing.
I was like, oh, nice.

Speaker 2 Now we got it like what next though like right afterwards I'm like all right cool we got another game like we're going to we're probably going to Tennessee right now like what's good so

Speaker 2 and then it's just another game like we got a bunch of young guys who just don't know any better like they don't understand anything they're just like yeah it's a football game oh cool like talk to me about media cool yeah I'm still gonna go out Jamar I'm still gonna go out there and gritty cool like that's all I care about like all right cool good yeah we're 11 at the half okay we got this exactly I like that though it's like the moment it can't be too big because you don't know enough about the moment to begin with.

Speaker 2 Exactly. You're just going through it, yeah.

Speaker 2 All right, so CJ, you went to Auburn.

Speaker 2 We like to do a thing in media where we do the talk about questions. Talk about.
So talk about the current state of Auburn and the coach. Yeah, it's crazy.
It's nuts.

Speaker 2 What are you specifically talking about? Yeah, you know, just you're talking about Coach Pearl, obviously, in basketball, the number one. Oh, yeah.
Come on now. Come on.

Speaker 2 Yeah, we're number one in basketball. it's crazy you're in everything school the we are if you look we have like the number one bass fishing team too i saw

Speaker 2 who knew we had a bash fishing team not me but i'm definitely getting a jersey so um

Speaker 2 yeah so it is crazy though look like looking you know you've had it twice now in the pros and in college where you were on a team at Auburn that was very bad, the 0-8, you know, SEC team, and then you went to the national title the next year.

Speaker 2 Kind of a similar thing with the Bengals turnaround. Like, how,

Speaker 2 when it's bad, does it ever feel like it's going to get good again? Or have you did Auburn teach you that, like, hey, we can turn this around with a couple players? Yeah, I think

Speaker 2 Auburn was different because

Speaker 2 at the time I was like, this isn't going to get better. Yeah,

Speaker 2 straight up. I was like,

Speaker 2 I don't know if this is going to get too much better. And then, you know, we had a coaching change and I was like, okay, well, this is a little different for sure.

Speaker 2 And then I think here I knew because we've had Zach for three years.

Speaker 2 and I was like, oh, this is, it's eventually going to get to where it needs to be.

Speaker 2 Like, I know, you know, it's not going to happen directly overnight, but I know the kind of guy that he is, the kind of people that we're bringing into the organization, the coaches, as long as we buy into what he's trying to implement in us, we'll be fine.

Speaker 2 If Coach Taylor is walking down the street, would you be able to recognize him? Yeah, I would.

Speaker 2 Would anybody else?

Speaker 2 We don't know. He got carded, right? Yeah, he did.
Tell that story.

Speaker 2 Kevin, so we have these, we have game balls we're passing around the city and kevin was with them and i didn't know kevin was with them i thought kevin was going to go to another place and so we're in a group message about like hey where are we going what are we gonna like who are we giving the game balls to this is after the raiders win they're giving out the game balls

Speaker 2 and so he goes to mlt's uh mount lookout tavern and and the the guy just was like i don't know who this is so i'm just gonna card him and right when it happens Kevin immediately texts us and he's like, you're not going to believe this.

Speaker 2 Like, the guy didn't know. Like, he just was like, hey, give me your card.
And he looked at it and handed it back to him, still didn't know. Just like our next person.

Speaker 2 I was like, that's absolutely incredible. That's amazing.
Yeah. I think if you win the Super Bowl, I think we'll probably be able to recognize Zach at that point.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 And at that point, it'll sink in. But we were joking the other day.
We're like, it looks like Patrick Reed lost a lot of weight.

Speaker 2 That's like his, he looks a very, like a very generic white guy kind of to us. But yeah, I'll definitely.

Speaker 2 That's it.

Speaker 11 It's probably a good way of describing him.

Speaker 2 Yeah, fair enough.

Speaker 2 You were on Auburn for the kick six, right? I was. Were you on the field for that? I was not.
I ended up on the field after we rushed it, but I was not on the field.

Speaker 2 Walk us through that play and your emotions on that play. Well, I'll say I'm glad Evan wasn't the kicker because he's out here smacking 75 yarders.
It would have gone through the fire.

Speaker 2 No, it was insane.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I

Speaker 2 kind of blacked out. I jumped on the pile.
I'm running down the sideline. Everyone's just running down the sideline.

Speaker 2 That's my vantage point. Jump on the field or jump on the pile and I get off.
I actually see my high school teammate, which was sick. He's running off the field.

Speaker 2 He played for Alabama and he was running off the field and I gave him a hug.

Speaker 2 Bro, that's fucked up. Sure, he pushed it.
That's fucked up. That's so mean.
I would be so mad. Sorry, Austin.
He wasn't happy. He gave me a hug back, but he wasn't happy about it.

Speaker 2 But right afterwards, I was on like the 25-yard line. I look up.
And I'm like,

Speaker 2 I'm not getting back into the locker room. There's no shot.
Like, there was just a sea sea of people. And I'm like, this is sick, but we're going to be stuck here for like 30 minutes.

Speaker 2 I didn't get back into the locker room until like 30 minutes. I don't think Chris, Chris Davis, I don't know when he got back, but I was gone before I saw him.
So

Speaker 2 it had to take him forever to get back into the locker room. Can you walk us through like the pile situation when you jump onto the pile and then people jump again onto you, forming a bigger pile?

Speaker 2 How long do you have? Like, are you sitting there until everyone is like, okay, I think the pile is over? Dude, I got super lucky because I jumped on.

Speaker 2 I saw like someone jumped on me and someone jumped on him. And the third person or the second person that jumped on, like us, knocked both of us off.
And I was like, good.

Speaker 2 That's actually probably smart because I'm looking at the pile. Like,

Speaker 2 Chris is probably screwed under there. Like, he's probably gasping for breath.
No, the pile gets scary sometimes. Oh, yeah, for sure.
When it stacks up, it's like you can't breathe in there. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And then you freak out because you can't breathe. Yeah, I would freak out big time.
So, all right, so that's obviously a memorable SEC game. Evan, I'll do a memorable SEC game for you.
All right.

Speaker 2 What, like, what what does Coach Mullins say after you lose to LSU? It's like, wait, who threw that shoe?

Speaker 11 Yeah, I think that LSU game is probably more on me than it is on Marco.

Speaker 2 Really?

Speaker 11 Because I missed the field goal to go into overtime.

Speaker 2 It was foggy, though.

Speaker 11 It was foggy, but there's no excuse. Their kicker went down and made like a 57-yard field goal after I missed.
So I'll take a lot of blame for that one.

Speaker 2 That's credit to you because I actually don't, I just remember the shoe.

Speaker 2 So you, you just

Speaker 2 pulled on yourself for no reason. so so the

Speaker 11 the shoe did take a lot of pressure off of me i will say but um

Speaker 11 that was a unique situation and it was definitely one of those learning points for marco um

Speaker 11 to just kind of you know keep his composure in those freaking moments because obviously it would have been fourth and five whatever it was yeah and they were going to punt it to us games tied we were either going to drive down kick a field goal win it or score a touchdown i mean that's how it's going to end but um Yeah, the personal foul.

Speaker 2 That Florida team was fun, though. You guys were a lot of fun.
That SEC championship game against Alabama when you guys went toe-to-toe with them. Yeah, no, that was a lot of fun.
Yeah.

Speaker 11 Like, that was probably one of the most fun games I played in that. And obviously, I got to play against, you know, Joe Burrow, Jamar, and all them.
We beat them in the swamp my first year.

Speaker 11 Then we went to Death Valley at night my second year. And that game was just insane.
That was whenever they went on their run. Yeah.

Speaker 11 They beat us by like two scores, I think. But

Speaker 11 yeah, I've played in a lot of good SEC games, played against Auburn, beat them in the swamp.

Speaker 2 Okay, but yeah, cool. You're going to talk about beating Auburn.
But can we talk about the shoe game again? You missed the field goal. How far was it?

Speaker 11 51.

Speaker 2 Oh, okay.

Speaker 2 It was foggy. No, but so you would have missed against us also because you were talking crap about it.
It would have gone through.

Speaker 2 That's true.

Speaker 11 Good point. It was foggy.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it was foggy. It was very foggy.
Also, I feel like you should be allowed to throw a shoe. If the shoe comes off, like, what, you're supposed to give it back to the guy?

Speaker 11 I mean, yeah, I don't think you, I think you throw it like 20 yards, 25 yards. It was a pretty really toss.

Speaker 2 It was a good toss.

Speaker 2 I know a lot of the players on the team love Dan Mullens when he was coaching there. Was it ever a little awkward, like getting off the bus, and it's like now you have to get a kiss from his wife?

Speaker 11 See, I mean, that part, it wasn't really what it seemed.

Speaker 2 So explain how it wasn't. Yeah, go on.
So, I mean, no,

Speaker 11 Megan, she's a really nice lady, and she just wanted to really show her support of, you know,

Speaker 2 of all the players.

Speaker 11 And so just one way that she did that, she didn't even kiss you. It was kind of just like one of those like cheek to cheek like you know those fancy little like you meet somebody

Speaker 11 yeah the french little thing that's the french green podcast

Speaker 11 okay exactly and so it was really one of those and i mean obviously there's probably pictures they're all

Speaker 11 yeah that's what i heard fair enough i know there are pictures online that make it look worse than it is but i mean it wasn't really anything yeah she was just she was trying to show support exactly and she like i said she was a really nice lady and um

Speaker 11 I appreciate her for actually trying to be involved.

Speaker 2 Making a family. Yeah, exactly.
I like it.

Speaker 2 How much do you squat?

Speaker 2 Not much. Really? So how come you don't want to kick a ball 75 yards?

Speaker 11 It's all about leg speed. It's not about strength, really.
Like, my little brother weighs probably 150, and he's hit a 75-yard field goal.

Speaker 2 He's going to Auburn, right?

Speaker 11 Yeah, he's going to Auburn. Damn.

Speaker 2 That's

Speaker 2 where you go. What happened there?

Speaker 11 It's just what he wanted to do.

Speaker 11 Now, and you're from alabama right yeah so and nick saban just doesn't like to have kickers so that's why you didn't go to alabama uh it was a weird situation they actually wanted me to come and punt there really because it was at that time kind of jk scott was on his way out and so they had a kicker come in the year before me it was uh joseph bulovis and he transferred to vandy i know a couple years ago But so they thought they had their kicker.

Speaker 11 They wanted me to come punt. But, you know, I didn't want to punt in college.
I really wanted to kick field goals.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it is just so funny, though, like Alabama through all their run.

Speaker 2 Like, that's been their one thing that you'd be like, well, they never got a kicking game.

Speaker 2 It's like, yeah, I mean, I think that's probably not a bad thing if they win, you know, seven national titles, six national titles, they can't kick a field goal. You could have fixed it.

Speaker 11 I mean, maybe, I think their biggest issue is just the quarterback holding. I think, really, I think as a kicker, you really got a bond kind of with your holder.

Speaker 11 And just with being a punter, you spend all practice with him. You know, you can practice off to the side.
If it's a start, if it's Mac Jones,

Speaker 11 he's got other stuff to deal with. Yeah.
You know, he throws a long touchdown pass. He's going to jog down there and then hold the ball for you.
I mean, he's not going to be locked in.

Speaker 2 I think that's a good point.

Speaker 2 If you're playing quarterback and if you have like a touchdown run, you're tired and then you have to go hold for a kick. It makes sense to have a specialist do a specialist thing.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 That's yeah, that's a good point. So your punter is your holder now.
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
So that's

Speaker 2 great at it. Yeah.
Coach Saban probably saw your squat numbers and he was like, I like to have my kickers as lead blockers in big games when I'm running like a fake fullback dive.

Speaker 2 And he was like, I can't work with this.

Speaker 11 I don't know.

Speaker 2 I mean, maybe. You dodged a bullet on that one.
Exactly. Do you want to ask the Harambe question? No, you can ask the Harambe question.
So,

Speaker 2 you knew the Harambe question was coming.

Speaker 2 I've probably been asked this like a hundred times this week. So,

Speaker 2 how much is Harambe going to play a part in what you guys are trying to accomplish on Sunday?

Speaker 2 Go ahead. Yeah, I mean, you all asked Sam.
Sam, Sam, he nailed it. You know, it's.

Speaker 2 He speaks for all of us. It's been tough.
Yeah. It's been tough out there.
Yeah, you were in Cincinnati at the time. I was.
So you crazy. Yeah.
It was nuts. Well, they killed the gorilla.

Speaker 2 I was like, what the heck's going on? Yeah. Do you think that's the one? And then

Speaker 2 you look at the...

Speaker 2 I think there was an election that year, the year after, and

Speaker 2 like 25,000 votes for Harampay.

Speaker 2 I'm dead serious. I was like, oh, my God.
What a weird time. So do you think that it's...
It's an easier time, honestly. Yeah, really.

Speaker 2 Like, we really cared about our nation was like, what the fuck's going on? Yeah. The gorilla died.

Speaker 2 So if you guys win on Sunday, do you think, I mean,

Speaker 2 will anyone, maybe both of you, say, like, this was for Harambe?

Speaker 2 I'm going to defer that to Sam. Yeah.
I'll let you see Sam. He's a Cincinnati.

Speaker 2 So maybe that's.

Speaker 2 But he does do a speech right before every game about Harambe, right? Yeah. Yeah.
100%. He does the whole thing.
You should have, see,

Speaker 2 on the Zoom, you should have had him act it out because he doesn't. A whole, it's a whole production.
Like a recreation of the event? Yep. Well, not of the event.
Oh, okay. I don't know.

Speaker 2 It was like, he just gets into character. It's good.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he starts beating his chest. Exactly.

Speaker 2 Exactly.

Speaker 2 Okay, what about this, Evan?

Speaker 2 What if you kick a 70-yard field goal to win the Super Bowl as time expires? Would you get a Harambe tattoo?

Speaker 2 I hope say I will.

Speaker 11 Yeah. Okay.
A 70-yard field goal to win the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 An NFL record long field goal to win the Super Bowl. Sure.
Now, I'm going to to give you guys a little motivation because,

Speaker 2 you know, we're in the t-shirt business, so we have to get t-shirts for both sides. We have Bengals winning the Super Bowl, Rams winning the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 I did just get earlier today a text message from an image that I requested of a Rams Super Bowl t-shirt, and it is a dead Harambe

Speaker 2 with the little child in a backpack. It's actually Sean McVay because he's so short, and he's standing over a dead Harambe.
I don't want to put that shirt up in the store. Yeah.

Speaker 2 So you guys have to stop that. Okay.
Like, we already had one tragedy with Rambe. Let's not have another.

Speaker 2 We're going to have to sell this shirt of Sean McVay as a child, little itsy-bitsy child standing over a dead rambe. Was that your idea? Yes.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 We actually came out.

Speaker 6 Here, I'll show you guys. It's looking awesome in this lyric shirt.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's a very funny shirt. Like, again, I don't want to put it on sale.
I might, you know what? I hope you guys win and I'll still put it on sale. And we can just like, that'll be funny.

Speaker 11 It's like, then what's our shirt?

Speaker 2 Oh, no.

Speaker 2 Oh, no.

Speaker 2 Oh, no. I mean, again, we have a lot of shirts ready for you guys.

Speaker 2 He's giving us extra motivation right now. Yeah, we have one.

Speaker 2 I think one with just Harambe holding up the Lombardi trophy.

Speaker 2 We're heavily leveraged in the Lombardi security in the Harambe secret. Yeah, we've got

Speaker 2 all of our stock is just in the Harambe market right now. So you really need you guys to win.
Smarties.

Speaker 2 Oh, man. Okay.

Speaker 2 Just a heads up. The halftime is a little bit longer than the Super Bowl.
I don't know if anyone's told you.

Speaker 11 I'm going to enjoy it. How much longer?

Speaker 2 Oh, you can't kick during the halftime because you're going to have a show.

Speaker 11 I'm going to try to be out there watching it.

Speaker 2 Really?

Speaker 11 I got to be. I mean, this is going to be insane.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 So, yeah.

Speaker 2 I like your stuff. I remember during the Orange Bowl,

Speaker 11 my sophomore year.

Speaker 11 They had like Gavin deGraw out there performing and we came out early and just

Speaker 11 were going crazy.

Speaker 11 then like and they're they run off the stage and all the specialists are right there just kind of high fiving you know like saying what's up so i mean

Speaker 2 i would love to meet you know him and them and all the performers so i love it i love it um all right i only have one last question um cj you have joe burrows saved as joey franchise in your phone because you i read the story that you went to text him and you couldn't find his number yeah yeah Yeah, I was an idiot.

Speaker 2 I was like, what is, where is, where is your number?

Speaker 2 And then I typed in franchise and I was I was like, I should probably change that. I'm not going to.
You can't. But I should.

Speaker 2 I need to put like in quotes like Burrow. Yeah.
Type in B. Oh, nice.
All right. Cool.
You're there. You know what I'm saying? But whatever.
I can't now.

Speaker 2 What if you want to FaceTime him? What if somebody finds your phone and then they're like, oh, it's Joe Burrow? Like, you have to have a little bit of security, right?

Speaker 2 I guess that's true, but then maybe I should do that for like everyone then. Yeah.
Yeah. Wait, do you want to FaceTime him real quick? Just so we can say what's up? Do you want to FaceTime him?

Speaker 2 No, you FaceTime him. So say, what's up? Joey Franchis.
I'll tell you what he said about it. If he doesn't answer.

Speaker 2 That's okay if he doesn't answer. Evan probably doesn't have his number.

Speaker 2 Do you have his number?

Speaker 2 I asked him what I was saying.

Speaker 11 You want to know a fun fact? CJ, I think you were the first person to text me after I got drafted. Yeah.
Or maybe call me. He called me.
First person to call me after I got drafted.

Speaker 2 Really? It does feel, and this is a compliment, CJ. I know you're a humble guy, but it does feel like watching the Bengals, Joe Burrow is the leader, but CJ is kind of the heartbeat.

Speaker 2 Is that fair to say? That's fair to say.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 2 I mean, everything I've seen.

Speaker 11 Maybe like the energy, you know?

Speaker 2 The energy? Yeah. Something like that.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Who's the soul of the team? Harambe.
That was a dumb question.

Speaker 2 That was a trick question.

Speaker 2 You should give him a face time.

Speaker 2 I'm going to now. It took a the internet's kind of fishy over here.

Speaker 2 I'm not used to the

Speaker 2 caliber. My phone's not used to the caliber.
We have a fishy internet. We have fishy internet.

Speaker 2 It's not even ringing. Oh, no.

Speaker 11 Maybe y'all got to do it.

Speaker 2 Maybe I got blocked. Oh, that's a possibility.
You want me to try? Yeah, you should.

Speaker 2 This is what he said about Evan early because we didn't know that CJ was coming until a couple of hours ago. I said, Evan McPherson is coming by today.
Is he cool? And Joe said, ha ha, yeah, he is.

Speaker 2 Not a normal kicker. I usually don't like kickers, but he's cool.

Speaker 2 You are the good ones. Should I face him? Give me a shot.

Speaker 2 Do you have him under franchise? No, I just have him as Joe Burrow best friend.

Speaker 2 He's probably not going to pick up.

Speaker 2 There's no shot.

Speaker 2 Actually. Why does yours work? Are you on the Wi-Fi? I'm on the Wi-Fi.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 We are on the Wi-Fi. He's probably smart to not pick up because we don't want to.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 But he's probably thinking about Harambe right now. This is his reflection time.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's probably why he's not answering. This is exactly when he's got a shot.
Yeah. Yeah.
This time again.

Speaker 2 Yep. That's all right.

Speaker 2 Wow, that sucks.

Speaker 2 All right. Well, best of luck, guys.
We're rooting for you. Appreciate it.
Big time. Appreciate it.
Just cover four. That's fine.

Speaker 2 Yeah. And your Gatorade's orange, right?

Speaker 2 Yeah, it is. I never drink the Gatorade, though, but it is always orange.

Speaker 11 Okay.

Speaker 2 Maybe that's why I don't drink the Gatorade. Wait,

Speaker 2 what else is there to drink on the sideline? Is there another?

Speaker 2 Okay, so that's actually important to know, though, because if you guys were to win, you would probably be one of the guys who may... And you would go for the water? Clear?

Speaker 2 every time no

Speaker 2 okay i don't know this is interesting

Speaker 2 you got to get joe bro's number evan come on do you really not have his number no

Speaker 2 is that bad is that thing means you want me to send it to you yeah

Speaker 2 you think we just check all the time chop it up i don't text him too much you should text him randomly you should text him on sunday morning be like good luck today

Speaker 2 i actually would be okay that would be great loosen it up uh all right, guys. Well, best of luck.
Thank you for coming by. We're rooting for you.
Yeah. Appreciate it.
And betting heavily on you. Yeah.

Speaker 11 So hopefully you won't have to sell that shirt.

Speaker 2 No.

Speaker 2 It would be very good. God forbid we did, but we don't want to.
God forbid we sell that shirt.

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Speaker 2 This is going to go on Friday with two Bengals players, and everyone's like, dude,

Speaker 2 you don't rep LA, you don't rep the Rams. So you are now, you're our token LA guy.
I'll be the token. I'm surprised you didn't ask me for any recommendations or anything.

Speaker 2 I didn't get hit up for any recs. Yeah, I actually wanted to dive into that because I've been looking for a dispensary.
Okay. But one that just exclusively sells mids.

Speaker 2 Oh, like bad shit. Yeah, like average stuff.
Because weed. Maybe some seeds.
Bad wheat. Yeah, bad weed.
Because weed. It's too good nowadays.
It's hard to find find out here, man. It sucks.

Speaker 2 The weed has gotten too good. It is.
It's gotten much too good. And I remember, like, in high school, like, 30% THC was like, this will knock you on your ass if you haven't heard of shit like this.

Speaker 2 And now, I, like, went to a dispensary a couple weeks ago, and I was like, I want something, like, pretty casual. I don't smoke as much as I used to.
I would like to not.

Speaker 2 I'd like to have a life after this. Yes.

Speaker 2 And they're like, this is solid. And I look at it.
It's like 38% THC. Yeah, that's a low grade.
I'm like, this is your decent shit? She's like, yeah, it's like okay. I'm like,

Speaker 2 how is this okay?

Speaker 2 So, yeah, I just, when I go, I just ask for like bad. Yeah.
I just say, I want something like pretty bad. Yeah.
That's smart.

Speaker 2 I need to start asking for bad because I have been asking for mids and you get mids. And you're right.

Speaker 2 It's like in high school, middle school, you had like an old friend whose older brother would get his hands on something with like the frosty crystals on it once every six months and that was like a big weekend it's like okay we're gonna rent a movie we get all the snacks yeah yeah you bring it smell it don't even smoke it just smell it look at it yeah look at the light on it put the led on it look at all the crystals yeah exactly and oh see see those purple hairs the purple threads that are running through it that would get you

Speaker 2 smoke it out of like the worst bowl possible like a what no yeah you go to the store you get like a 20 ounce sprite bottle a ballpoint pin aluminum foil and then you stick it through the side i used to do the um the paper towel roll and then you cut a cut a hole at the end and then a little little tin foil.

Speaker 2 It's basically like smoking crack but it's weed and it's like look at this shit. It's incredible.
I used to really love MacGyvering bongs. It was fun.
It used to be fun.

Speaker 2 You didn't know, you know, you didn't have the supplies so you're like, you look around the room and you're like, all right, what do we have?

Speaker 2 We got a Coke can. Yeah.
We got some foil. You know, we got a lighter.
We can do this.

Speaker 2 We can get this done.

Speaker 2 One time I went to the convenience store to try to get all the ingredients, which was the 20-ounce bottle, Bic Pen, and then aluminum foil. They didn't have aluminum foil.

Speaker 2 And I was buying, I had to resort to buying a Nestle crunch bar because

Speaker 2 if it comes wrapped in aluminum foil, and I was so paired. I was like, this guy knows how to buy stuff for weed.

Speaker 2 He's going to call my dad.

Speaker 2 It also, man, this is like a,

Speaker 2 I didn't think we were going to go down this road, but like the throwback, I mean, it is funny thinking about like, getting that weed and being like, this isn't, I don't even want to smoke it.

Speaker 2 I just want to, I want to look at it. And I want to smell it, and I want to just have it it's like buying like really nice shoes yeah yeah

Speaker 2 no no no don't wear those we don't smoke though we don't smoke that yeah like we're saving this that's for the shelf it's yeah it's collector's items it's like baseball cards now it's like i got some afghan 08 it's still in mint condition right now it's also like going into going into those uh like smoke shops where they had to pretend that it was for tobacco like i always thought i thought it'd be so funny if like someone actually went in there being like i'm gonna buy this bong and i'm gonna just rip like a shitload of tobacco tobacco out of it.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. Because they'd be like, not for weed.
They were kind of anal about that. They used to be like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
And then I think over time they kind of were like,

Speaker 2 but it would just be like bowls and bongs and be like, this is for tobacco use only. Yeah, you're like, okay.
Yeah, all right. I'm going to just rip a bowl of American spirit out of this roar

Speaker 2 out of this zong. I kind of want to do that.
I kind of want to go out buy a giant roar.

Speaker 2 Me and Bubble were talking about roars on the way,

Speaker 2 on the drive over here.

Speaker 2 and it's like everybody had a massive bong when they were in college yeah and then once you move out of college if you have a bong in your house it's pretty weird yeah there's like a giant red flag nobody will date you if you have like a three-foot bong unless you're dirty you need like a guitar case under your bed to put like a gun case to keep your bong as an adult when i got to junior year i got there after all of my roommates they were already in the house and i got there and they were like you owe us uh 200 for the bong for your share of the bomb.

Speaker 2 And I was like, Well, I didn't sign off on this. And I walked upstairs, and they had, it was the Zong,

Speaker 2 it was this huge room, and it went boom, boom, boom.

Speaker 2 Boom, boom, boom. And you have to stand over it.
No, it's so smooth, though. It hits so smooth.
Five full inhales.

Speaker 2 Yeah, Michael Phelps to get like milk the thing, and then you'd pull it, and then it would be like a rotation of three people that would

Speaker 2 and then just die. Yes.
And everyone would come over to our house and be like, we got got to hit the zone.

Speaker 2 We live here. We don't want to do this

Speaker 2 all the time. It ruins our day.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's also funny thinking about all the different pieces. Like, all right, what do we want to use today? Like, a bubbler, a one-hitter, a bowl, a bong.
Like, you have all these things.

Speaker 2 Like, it's just smoking weed. No, my buddy wrote, he rolls the tightest splits.
Yeah. Actually, oh, should we do a blunt? I roll it so tight, you can't even fucking smoke him.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 A little skeeter leg. Gravity bong was always like the like, holy shit.
Like, we're going to make a day out of this. Yeah.
Gravity bong. Get the sink.
No one use the sink for the rest of the day.

Speaker 2 Do you ever take the five-gallon thing and put it in the pool? Yes, yes. Oh, man.
In the tub or the pool or the sink, and you're just like, no one, don't use it.

Speaker 2 You can't use the sink for the rest of the day because the gravity bong set.

Speaker 2 I'm actually convinced that most of my friends learned the principles of physics through creating bongs and then smoking weed.

Speaker 2 Like you actually had to learn how air acted in a vacuum to use the gravity bong and understand the principles of where to let the air in where to let the air escape it was big gravity bongs

Speaker 2 used to do gravity bongs he he went to mit

Speaker 2 and he used to like make gravity bongs out of anything he could and like you know we get it you went to mit yeah you can you can put your mind to more useful things than me it's like those guys at mit that build robots that can like you know shoot perfect beer pong shots yeah like maybe figure something else out yeah where they yeah the the robot who shoots the threes at like halftime.

Speaker 2 It's like, well, his release, I would swap the shit out of that. Like, you couldn't get a robot who has a better release.
Like, at least, you know, can he pump fake? No handles.

Speaker 2 A Euro maybe throw in there? Yeah, I kind of like the idea, though, of getting our nations and our world's smartest minds to work on like the very simple problems that we all use.

Speaker 2 Like, maybe there is a better way to smoke that we just haven't thought of because they're too busy designing nukes.

Speaker 2 Like, I'd like to see what those minds could do in a room with a milk carton and a lighter. That's all I'm saying.
Figure it out. Navy skill trading.

Speaker 2 Smoking weed, I will say, is just so much less of a process than

Speaker 2 you know. It used to be like in high school, you couldn't just do it in your house.
You have to leave. You have to go find a spot

Speaker 2 to bring something to spray with cologne or something. So you come back smelling like it.
I did have

Speaker 2 my whole setup. I had like my lotion, my hand sanitizer, my eye drops, my gum.
Your Visine? Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 Do it all in the car, walk in, and my mom be like, you smoked.

Speaker 2 Do you think

Speaker 2 Jimmy smells like cologne?

Speaker 2 he only puts it on when he gets high do you do you think visine it's actually like like i always think about like these companies that probably get fucked over like a ripple down like a trickle-down effect where like visine's probably fucked over by the legalization of weed because people just don't care anymore about having red eyes whereas like it used to be visine was like very important to

Speaker 2 functioning as a as a person i still care because i look so stupid my eyes like people look at me and they're like are you okay are you having like an allergic reaction and like no i smoke And they're like, well, no, I smoke and I don't look like that.

Speaker 2 That's bad.

Speaker 2 Yeah. I'm very jealous of people that can handle their pot.
I can't, that's why I need mids. I'm fine on mids.
I enjoy mids. I like a background buzz.

Speaker 2 I don't want it to be my entire day, just me walking around thinking about how high I am. Yeah.
We like to go to sleep, take a nap, and you just wake up and you're like, I'm still high. Still high.

Speaker 2 See, this is the first part of an ad

Speaker 2 to our bad weed brand. Yeah.

Speaker 2 It should just be called bad weed. Yeah.
Bad weed. And they sell it to you in a plastic bag with like some seeds at the bottom, and you're like, well, this is kind of a throwback.

Speaker 2 There's like other stuff in the bag. It's nostalgia.
Yeah, you just got to pick out the weed. Nostalgia weed.

Speaker 2 It's not great.

Speaker 2 So for Christmas, my aunt, she's in Virginia. You can now grow plants in Virginia.
You can grow up to four. She grew up, she was like a hippie back in the day.
She grew her own weed plants.

Speaker 2 And for Christmas, she gave me bags of her different strands of weed, like small little bags of it.

Speaker 2 And there's just stems and seeds everywhere in it but she was like this is the best weed i've ever smoked because she used to smoke this stuff like way back and this now to her is like the top of the line to me it's like bad weed i hit it and i'm like this is this is what i want yeah that's all i want out of me just like pot from the six bad weed incorporated um all right so home economics 2 we gotta plug it were you shocked that it got renewed

Speaker 2 I actually watched it. I like it.
I know that actually sounds bad the way I just said that.

Speaker 2 I don't really watch

Speaker 2 cable sitcoms, but I watch it because I support you. And it was funny.
And obviously, we like Topher as well. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I wasn't surprised that it got renewed. No.

Speaker 2 I was surprised it got renewed for 22 episodes.

Speaker 2 I didn't know that people were still doing that. Yeah.
I didn't know that shows still went for 22 episodes in one season.

Speaker 2 So are you, like, was it like a shitload of money?

Speaker 2 Yes, that was the answer right there.

Speaker 2 He's trying to be polite, but it's a yes. How many commas was that laugh? How many Teslas do you own right now?

Speaker 2 Did you park the Tesla or did you get a restaurant? No, I actually just left it in front. Yeah.
Yeah, you just hit and then walk away. Well, but that was because the valet guy, he just took off.

Speaker 2 I told him as he came in, Jimmy came in, I was like, this hotel we're staying at has the highest valet people of all time. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Well, it was funny because I got there and he was like working on something else and he just looked at me and we did eye contact and I was like, you know when you like give someone like you lift your head like it's time to engage in the service conversation.

Speaker 2 We're about to take this to the next step.

Speaker 2 And he just turns away and then just dips.

Speaker 2 And I was like, oh no, not another car.

Speaker 2 And I just sat there for like five minutes and I was like, I guess I'm just going to bring the keys to the front. Yeah.
But yeah, so, all right, so it's sick that it got renewed.

Speaker 2 Is it like, has your life changed at all now that you were on like getting recognized anything? Like I would imagine you're, you have a lot more visibility. I don't know.

Speaker 2 I mean, I maybe I do, but not from the people that I'm around. Okay.
So it might feel like less.

Speaker 2 Okay. On YouTube, it was like very much my, my, like, I'm around that demographic.
Right.

Speaker 2 And I definitely, it was like I had

Speaker 2 not a nine to five, but that's like as close as you can get to a nine to five in like the entertainment. Which is probably kind of like awesome, right? Yeah, sure.

Speaker 2 It's like, you know, it was like a six to six. Okay.

Speaker 2 So,

Speaker 2 you know, I've been going since June, and I just wrapped on Friday. So maybe that's not awesome.
So I'm five days a week. Very relieved to

Speaker 2 five days a week? Five days a week. Okay, so that's not awesome.
I was thinking like,

Speaker 2 like sometimes I get jealous of people who have like nine to fives in the fact that like it's just like they go in and they leave and then they're done. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Whereas like we're working at nights and stuff like that. So but you that that's a lot.
That's a real job. I like was very fortunate because I like everyone there.
Like I like the cast.

Speaker 2 Do they like you? They I'm pretty sure they like me.

Speaker 2 Who would you guess doesn't like you?

Speaker 2 One of the kids? No, there's no one. No one's one of the kids.
Not Topher. No, I'm actually really cool with the kids.
The kids like me a lot. That's not what they said.
You had the kids done?

Speaker 2 Let's go back to that. When did you talk to the kids? No,

Speaker 2 we don't care what the kids said, but we don't agree with the kids. We think that you're cool.
We're like, we like Jimmy, so stop. Stop it, kids.
Stop bullying him. I get that.

Speaker 2 No, the

Speaker 2 I like everyone. Everyone is good at their jobs.
That's something you don't always have in movies. Like, if you go to an indie movie or a random movie, you might be around people that are

Speaker 2 new.

Speaker 2 But when you're on a network show, everyone's professionals. right, so it's nice to be around people that are all good at what they do

Speaker 2 It just I'm I'm the the repetition gets a little tough for me, yeah, to be honest Yeah, and you have to just keep doing scenes over and over Are you a one-shot guy?

Speaker 2 No, I mean you can't be a one-shot guy on

Speaker 2 Yeah, we did one shot done Okay, well, I mean I'll let that one episode two one episode

Speaker 2 we did one take it because we did do we did do that one episode of television and then after it comes out, there are different people that spin the ratings.

Speaker 2 I feel like it's their entire job just to look at the numbers and then tell you, actually, this is really good because you were number one by far in 18 to 21-year-old men from Massachusetts.

Speaker 2 So that's a very coveted demographic.

Speaker 2 They're able to parse it so much that they can spin it no matter what happens. It's like a positive.
This is really good.

Speaker 2 Is there a number that you pay, like, do you pay attention to the ratings at all?

Speaker 2 I look at them. Yeah, I mean, I'll see them every now and then.
I don't, like, I'm not like, I don't really care that much about them, but

Speaker 2 I'm always curious, like, how things are doing. But it sucks, though, like, when they're just public and everyone, like PFT said, like, they spin it.
Because you can also spin it the other way.

Speaker 2 Yeah, right. But you also, like, you can see those numbers.
You can see the live numbers, but you can never see the Hulu numbers. Right.
And I think that is where the show gets most of the time.

Speaker 2 That's where I watch.

Speaker 2 That's where I watch. Shout out Hulu.
So

Speaker 2 Hulu keeps all those numbers to themselves, and then they decide which TV shows they want to bring on based on their internal numbers.

Speaker 6 They don't publish any of that?

Speaker 2 Yeah, I don't really know, but I think they give you

Speaker 2 what they want.

Speaker 2 You'll notice Netflix every now and then will be like, here's some numbers.

Speaker 2 They'll give you like five numbers.

Speaker 2 You put them together.

Speaker 2 Netflix is like five billion people just signed up for a service. Yeah.
Thank you.

Speaker 2 Four billion watched True Crime.

Speaker 2 What is that? What are we talking about here? Right. They don't tell you how many signed up.
They're like, well, we'll tell you how many signed up yesterday. Yeah.
You did. Big number, huh?

Speaker 2 Yeah, pick one number. Which number do you want? Seven? All right, seven.
You got it. I remember when American Vandal came out, they told us it was the most binged show of 2017.

Speaker 2 And I was like, that's cool. But wait, what does that mean?

Speaker 2 The most binged? Yeah, right. That's not the most watched.
That's like people watched it in the shortest amount of time. It was like

Speaker 2 people watched three or more episodes in a row more of that show than any other show on Netflix. I'm like, all right, I'll take it.
Most binge.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you could do that just by making a really short show. Yeah, right.
So if you made like a three-minute show, I guarantee that would be the most binge. Yeah, 25 episodes, three minutes each.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 90% of the audience watch our entire season in one sitting. And it's actually just one episode with just cuts.
Yeah, exactly. I think we just invented credits.
We just put a credit.

Speaker 2 Yeah, no, but commercials with credits. Yes, yes.
That's good. We're ideas guys.

Speaker 2 We're execution guys. So, Rams, we got to talk about the Rams because you are a Rams representative.
I am a Ram.

Speaker 2 What is it? Ram fam? What is it? Do you have a name for the fan base? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Ramley.

Speaker 2 I don't know. I think they have used Ramley.

Speaker 2 What do they have? Ramley. It's here.
It's Ramley. It's about Ramley.
Ramlee values.

Speaker 2 My friends were saying that they want to do a shirt that says Vamos Los Ramos. Ooh.
That is good. That is good.
So wait, are you like, what's the vibe of Rams fans in general?

Speaker 2 Because is it weird that it's like, all right, well, this team got here five years ago or whatever it is, or is it

Speaker 2 just normal now? We're just football fans. We're NFL fans.
But I'm very curious what, like, because everyone talks about L.A.

Speaker 2 and we haven't been able to put our finger on it. Like,

Speaker 2 when we say stuff on our show, we know right away, like, oh, these fans are mad at us. These fans are mad at us.
I get a few Rams fans being like, Why don't you respect us?

Speaker 2 But for the most part, I can't really figure out like how many there are.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's tough. It's kind of like Netflix.
It's kind of like Netflix, you know. We'll give you whatever numbers we feel like.

Speaker 2 No, I mean, I think personally, when we got the Rams, I was like, you know, I grew up here, so I never had a team, like a football team.

Speaker 2 So the second LA had the Rams, I was like, sweet, I'm a Rams fan. I'm all in on the Rams.

Speaker 2 And then there's a lot of people that are fair weather fans, like are Rams fans now. There's a lot of people that just want to go to the games for like this scene.
Right.

Speaker 2 So it's really like all across the board. But then you also have like those Dodgers fans that have like become Rams fans.
And they're like hardcore Rams fans now. Okay.

Speaker 2 So like it really is all across the board. Sure, there's, like, a lot of fair weather fans that are, like,

Speaker 2 you know, just want to go to the games and

Speaker 2 be seen and take photos. Is it a conversation, though? That's kind of like, is it, do the Rams get talked about when you're like amongst me and my friends, right?

Speaker 2 Yes, I can't speak for whoever else, but, like, in my fantasy football league, we're all pretty much Rams fans. Like, I think that's the sign of like

Speaker 2 a football city, and we've been to a bunch of them, and it's like when the team is good you feel it just walking down the street when the team is bad you feel it walking down the street that probably's not the case it's not the case no but i feel like it's hard for that ever to be the case in la right right because

Speaker 2 i don't know no one's gonna walk down like sunset and be like

Speaker 2 you know you don't feel like a sports energy right when you're walking down the street here maybe like if you're by staples center or sorry sorry.com crypto

Speaker 2 come on sorry. The crypt is that what it's called? The crypt.
Bill Plaschke. Shout out Bill Plaschke.
He's still upset about that.

Speaker 2 He's like, this is the sign of new times that the Staples Center has sold rights to a corporation. It's sad.

Speaker 2 It's sad that everything can really afford.

Speaker 2 It's sad that everything has to be about money now.

Speaker 2 And that an institution like Staples had to give up their name. Every cent Staples made must have gone towards what they were paying for this.

Speaker 2 Staples wasn't making it.

Speaker 2 no no when was the last time you went to staples been a very long time when you're paying like 20 million for a name that's honestly not a bad business plan though like i could see i could see myself doing something like that

Speaker 2 making barely enough money to afford putting my name on a sports arena that's kind of cool in a way right what it was so would the rams be more popular if they just wore laker uniforms

Speaker 2 because laker fans are psycho like that's the one thing that we make jokes about fair weather fans and like l a not being a like a huge sports town, but I feel like Laker fans make up for it and then some with just being insane people.

Speaker 2 Well because now we're annoyed, you know, because like I said about the Clippers last time, it was like before it was just like everyone knows the Lakers are the team, and then all of a sudden you got these little fuckers coming in and being like, no, it's us.

Speaker 2 So then it got the Lakers fans, I think, got more aggressive. Yep.
Once the Clipper fans started like chirping.

Speaker 2 And you also like haven't won anything. You won the Mickey Mouse title, which didn't count.
So it's like

Speaker 2 LeBron has been here and

Speaker 2 nothing has happened. Yeah,

Speaker 2 I think it counts. Who would you trade? Who would you trade as the Lakers, LeBron or A.D.?

Speaker 2 Who would I trade? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 One's got to go. You've got to keep Westbrook.
Obviously, he's a seven-piece of your franchise.

Speaker 2 The glue.

Speaker 2 I feel like you could get a lot more for LeBron right now

Speaker 2 because obviously a team wants to get him so his son can play. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Honestly, I think I'd still trade AD. Oh, wow.
So Jimmy doesn't like AD. I like AD.
I love AD.

Speaker 2 You just sent him out of town. You literally just traded him.
Five consecutive games. No, you just sent him to Minnesota.
You said, get off. Soft? What? Is he soft? I'm not saying he's soft.

Speaker 2 I'm just saying he could use some extra padding on the corner.

Speaker 2 Do you miss Caruso?

Speaker 2 I do, man. He's the best.

Speaker 2 He rooting for him on the Bulls is like a joy. Oh, I forgot that you have him.
Yeah, and he's like, he's been injured because Grayson Allen should be in jail and assaulted him. But

Speaker 2 asshole.

Speaker 2 Did he get suspended for that? One game. He should be in jail.

Speaker 2 But Caruso, like, I went to, when the Bulls were in New York, I went to the game at MSG, and it's like, Caruso has... this confidence that is so fucking hilarious.

Speaker 2 Like he tried to dunk on like three guys. And it's like, that's not going to work.
And he's just, he doesn't care. He's just, and he's

Speaker 2 very good. We just love to see it.
Yeah. We just love to see a high-flying white guy.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Just like with no, like, he doesn't realize that he probably shouldn't be doing this, but he's going to do it. Yeah.
I, I really, I just, he was, he was just a lot of fun to have on the team.

Speaker 2 He's just really fun to root for. I used to love it before he shaved his head, before he realized that it was time.

Speaker 2 And he would, it would, like, grow out every couple weeks and just look really trashy. But that was even funnier when he was dunking on people with like the full-on monk hairstyle.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Like the bald top on him. Got a rock and a cul-de-sac.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 You rarely see that in professional basketball. Jamming out in the dead end.

Speaker 2 It would have been sick if one day he showed up and he had like the LeBron hair graft on the top of his head with a line and shit on there.

Speaker 2 I love Crusoe, man. He's so much fun to watch.

Speaker 2 He's a pothead, though. So just be careful.
Remember that? Yeah, he got arrested in Texas A ⁇ M

Speaker 2 like a year ago. I think.
At an airport, maybe? He had a grinder. He had a grinder and he went through security and there was like a little bit of weed in there.

Speaker 2 And they're like, sir, you're arrested. He's like in the last place in the U.S.
where you can't walk around with a grinder. College Station, Texas is the one place where we just still free Caruso.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah, we love that guy.

Speaker 2 Fucking legend.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he is. He's a legend.

Speaker 2 The Lakers cheapened, they were cheap, and they didn't fucking keep them, which was stupid. I know.
Can you break some news? What's give us some real bros of Simi Valley news?

Speaker 2 Because we need, I, yeah, I mean, I

Speaker 2 there's there's not really like exciting news at the moment. Oh, no.

Speaker 2 But we, now that I'm done with home economics, we are

Speaker 2 going to pitch season four

Speaker 2 to

Speaker 2 pretty much all the major networks. Oh, yes.
Can we, if you need our help,

Speaker 2 we want to finish the show. Yes.

Speaker 2 Facebook is no longer doing like scripted content. They're doing, you know, red table talks and

Speaker 2 reality stuff.

Speaker 2 So they're not doing any like scripted TV shows anymore. Yeah.

Speaker 2 So we are now taking it out to hopefully finish the show at a, you know, one of the major networks. Now, obviously, it'd be awesome if that happened.

Speaker 8 I'm rooting for you.

Speaker 2 I love the show. I think it's one of the funniest shows.
If you haven't watched it, you're an idiot. Go watch it.
You can watch it.

Speaker 2 I think each season is on a different streaming platform, which makes it a little different. But I also want to get, I want to get all the seasons in the same platform.

Speaker 2 Yes, yes, because that's like it is, you see it. I'm sure you see it all the time.
It's got to be cool. Like, the gifts and pictures that are used, it's very much like a cult classic in that respect.

Speaker 2 It like feels a little bit like an arrested development or early family guy when family guy got taken off air.

Speaker 2 And it's like, it's almost this little like inside joke where people know the context of these gifts that are being shared. But it's a big inside joke.
It's like a huge group.

Speaker 2 I wouldn't even say cult classic.

Speaker 2 It's just something that I think hasn't been, it hasn't been promoted by the mainstream, but I think a lot of people that are in the mainstream have watched it and enjoy it.

Speaker 2 But like people share the gifts, like, you know, like, I'm straight up not having a good time. I bet some people who share that don't even know what they're sharing.
Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 2 It's like, but that scene is hilarious.

Speaker 8 Like, you need to know that.

Speaker 2 The sound, like, the baby fight sound became like a TikTok thing.

Speaker 2 Got like, like, hundreds of thousands of people made videos using that sound. Like, you could watch all these people, like,

Speaker 2 lip-syncing the sound. But

Speaker 2 yeah, I mean, I think like it's, it's really cool to see how many people still watch the show, even though, like you said, it's like season one's on Facebook, season two is on, or season one's on YouTube, season two and three are on Facebook.

Speaker 2 Yeah. But just the fact that it's like on different platforms and it's still, all the episodes still have like millions of views is just, I think, a testament to the fan base.
And it's cool.

Speaker 2 That's what I think hopefully will help sell it because we can say the fans will follow it they absolutely will and they you had kittle doing the xander at the pro bowl which was fucking sick kittle threw down the xander i'll throw that in the pitch document yes why wouldn't you you should actually just toss us in there just be like these guys

Speaker 2 and then they're going to see kittle just throw down the boom and they're like oh man

Speaker 2 all right we'll buy it no if you feel if you want to be like hey this podcast it has a pretty decent fan base we'll we'll push it as hard as we...

Speaker 2 Like, we'll just make up ads for you if you get it on a. Throw that in the pitch document.

Speaker 2 I'll come on asander. Yes.
Yeah. I mean,

Speaker 2 that would be fucking incredible. Actually, I don't know you guys.
Well, actually, it wouldn't be that incredible because it's kind of, we do that every show with Billy because he's kind of...

Speaker 2 He's our real bro. Yeah, he is our real bro.
But

Speaker 2 he's a real, real bro. Yeah.
Does that make sense? Yeah, like he's real. Yeah, no, he does.
He actually said seeing you.

Speaker 2 He thinks that you're appropriating his culture on the show.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he's like, he's like,

Speaker 2 he's like, my culture is not your costume.

Speaker 2 Is what he was saying. Yeah, he's like, what the fuck, Jimmy? Like, there needs to be more roles in Hollywood for real bros to play real bros.

Speaker 2 Representation matters. And every time you film an episode, you're taking jobs away from real bros.

Speaker 2 You're in bro face.

Speaker 2 Let's start a controversy.

Speaker 2 That would be so good if we're just like, these guys are not real bros. And they're fucking taking our jobs

Speaker 2 from real bro. Yes, yeah,

Speaker 2 from real bro reality story.

Speaker 2 Our idea got stolen from we need it, though. We need it.
I mean, it's such a fucking funny show. It is good, yeah.
And I hope it.

Speaker 2 You keep saying, like, it's we got to finish it, but I don't want you, like, why? If someone bought it and they're like, hey, we want four more seasons, would you do it?

Speaker 2 We want,

Speaker 2 I was, we know how we want it to end, right

Speaker 2 We also think it would be funny to do a couple like

Speaker 2 spin-offs Where you know, maybe the squad wants to go rent an Airbnb and they don't realize that they're getting roped into like a Love Island type situation

Speaker 2 and

Speaker 2 It's just like the full season and it takes them like you know an episode or two to even realize what's happening

Speaker 2 And then all of a sudden they're like all in on this Love Island show and like by the end they're like and then like the next season and just like okay that for pretend that never happened right um

Speaker 2 but there's so many like different reality shows that would be fun to parody at the time real housewives yeah was was we were just laughing at how many there were it was like real housewives like potomac or potomac or whatever and we're like

Speaker 2 all right we we can do a parody of this yes but now it's like

Speaker 2 I think Love Island would be really funny to parody. I don't know if you guys have watched that.
Yes.

Speaker 2 It's absurd.

Speaker 2 And there's just so many like that. All the hookup in one house shows

Speaker 2 you. All these hot people in one house and just

Speaker 2 not let them fuck. Yeah.

Speaker 2 You like share that. You have an old school fear factor.
Is it parody where you're just doing challenges and shit? It's kind of weird that

Speaker 2 the whole concept around ending a series because like everyone says that they want to see their favorite show have like an ending, you know, and everyone that's making a show wants to think about what the ending is going to be.

Speaker 2 But then every time they make it, everyone hates it. Yeah.
Like there's, I don't think that there's been a good ending. Maybe Breaking Bad is the only one I can think of.

Speaker 2 But every other one, people are just like, oh, that ending sucked. Because it's like, yeah, no, shit,

Speaker 2 you invested, you know, five years of your life into watching a show, and you made it such a big part of like, you know, your day-to-day, you look forward to it.

Speaker 2 And then you see it end and it didn't fulfill your wildest dreams. Yeah.
Then it's going to just make you upset for, you know, how you, like, Game of Thrones did that.

Speaker 2 Everyone's like, fuck these guys. Although, I just feel like more more shows should just not have endings.
It would be funny if they did an ending that everyone got mad about.

Speaker 2 Like, how could you fucking kill off Xander?

Speaker 2 Like, this is, I took this, this is my life invested in this. Well, I really want

Speaker 2 Hawk to die of old age.

Speaker 2 I hope if you haven't watched, you have to watch it, but Hawk is Xander, Jimmy's character's son, and he goes from a newborn to like

Speaker 2 eight years old to like high school in like a matter of like three episodes in the end of season three he's like 19.

Speaker 2 season four he would start out being older than me for sure he'd have to be like 50 and i want to get the kid that played hawk to play hawk's son

Speaker 2 so fucking confusing that'd be so funny though and then you know eventually he'll

Speaker 2 you know his life will run its course he'll he'll die of old age

Speaker 2 i would really love that to happen.

Speaker 8 We need that.

Speaker 2 We need that.

Speaker 2 All right, so you want to give a prediction for the game?

Speaker 2 This is for Rams fans who are listening to this because, again, equal representation.

Speaker 2 I'm going to say

Speaker 2 Rams 24.

Speaker 2 Bengals 21. Oh, whoo.
Bengals cover spread. All right, nice.
That's nice. You throw Cincinnati a bone there.
I'll take that. Yeah.
I don't know if you knew the spread.

Speaker 2 I don't know the spread.

Speaker 2 I'm not a better like you guys.

Speaker 2 You should actually have a season where Real Bros of Simi Valley get sponsored by a sports book. Yeah, like you could easily parody us, and it would be very funny.

Speaker 2 You guys just, all you were doing is talking about parlays. I could help write that.
Or you could just watch whatever I do. Okay.
It would be pretty apparent how you can do it. I'm open to it.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 You guys are just gambling all the time. Does I see that you're working with the Fairleigh Brothers now? What was that? Are you working with the Fairleigh Brothers? Yeah, we did a show.
It came out.

Speaker 2 They didn't tell anyone. Yeah.
Oh, that was sick. Yeah.
I missed it, but I was going back through your social media before he sat down here today. I was like, Holy shit, he's like working with

Speaker 2 those guys in Bill Maury. Honestly,

Speaker 2 what happened with that? It was a Quibi show. Ah, there you go.

Speaker 2 Wow,

Speaker 2 you're part of that.

Speaker 2 Did you kill Quibby?

Speaker 2 Did the check clear? The check cleared.

Speaker 2 Dude, I was all in on Quibi because

Speaker 2 I had two Quibi shows. I had that, and then I had like my middle school series that was sold to Quibi.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 like, I think certain things were Quibi's fault, but overall, it wasn't really Quibby's fault, you know? Their whole concept was like,

Speaker 2 you know how you have no time?

Speaker 2 And they dropped it a month after the pandemic started. Yeah.
You know, where everyone was like, no.

Speaker 2 We have more time than we've ever had in our whole lives. I want to watch a five-hour movie.
What do you got, Quibby? And they're like,

Speaker 2 ooh, 10 minutes.

Speaker 2 They're like, their whole marketing thing was like, you know how you're on the move and you only really have 10 minutes at a time? Yeah.

Speaker 2 And everyone's like, no. Yeah.

Speaker 2 So I think they got very unlucky with the timing of all that.

Speaker 2 But yeah, we shot the whole show for Quibi. It's basically like a two-hour movie chopped up into like 14 under 10 minute episodes.

Speaker 2 Tangible. It's me, Dave Franco, and O'Shea Jackson Jr.
Okay. That's like the main three.
Dave Franco, shout out Dave Franco, played Beer Pong with him for

Speaker 2 a movie promo for in like 2014.

Speaker 2 He's the neighbors too. Yeah.
Love Dave. Yeah.
Love O'Shea.

Speaker 2 And then Daryl Hanna plays his mom, and Bill Murray's in the show. And it's written and directed by the Fairleigh brothers, who did.
And is it just gone forever now?

Speaker 2 Well, so it wasn't going to come out on Quibby because Quibi tanked

Speaker 2 like right before the show came out. So then I think they were going to try to release it as a movie or something, but then Roku bought Quibi's library.
Oh. So now it's on Roku.

Speaker 2 So have you, are you the, are you, I think you actually could break the record. Like, have you appeared on every single streaming platform? I, that was my goal.
I wanted to be,

Speaker 2 I wanted to be on every single one.

Speaker 2 I think I'm close. So you've had Netflix, you've had Hulu, you've had regular cable, you've had Facebook, YouTube, Quibi, HBO Max.

Speaker 2 I'm in a movie on HBO Max. We have HBO Max, so we need like Showtime.

Speaker 2 We need Paramount.

Speaker 2 You should parameterize it. I've had a Paramount animated movie called The Rumble that came out.
Okay, very good. What about Disney? Have you done anything on Disney? We need to get you.
That's Hulu.

Speaker 2 That's Hulu. Oh, that's Hulu? Yeah.
Maybe we, like, a traditional, like, Pixar, like, voice, you're, like, the third, you know,

Speaker 2 I haven't made it onto Disney Plus. I haven't made it on a Disney Plus.

Speaker 2 i haven't made it on to showtime okay i haven't made it onto stars all right so we got to get those those are like this is important i think showtime what what shows are are you are you a billions fan i haven't seen it no we could get you on billions okay yeah brian koppelman the guy that runs a show he'll put anybody on there yeah literally yeah literally literally all you gotta do is retweet him yeah sounds promising

Speaker 2 like we could get we can get anyone so we could we could get you yeah all right so we got it this is like you'll be the first ever that would be a very big accomplishment.

Speaker 2 I've appeared on every single streaming platform. I would just like a plaque of some kind.
Yeah. I think you need it.
It's no one's done it, right? Yeah. That just says every, I just got to get every

Speaker 2 as seen everywhere. Right.
Let me tatro.

Speaker 2 It's just literally all

Speaker 2 the defunct ones, everything. As seen everywhere.
This is a goal. Yeah.
Yep. Yeah, we can do it.
All right. Well, thank you for stopping by.
Always fun.

Speaker 2 Our LA representative, we are around, so if you want to kick it, whatever.

Speaker 2 When do you guys leave?

Speaker 2 Saturday. So if you want to give us some recommendations, you don't have to come, but.
There's a great

Speaker 2 breakfast burrito spot down the street. What's it called? Dialogue cafe.
Okay. They got a brisket burrito.
Okay. Any strip clubs around here? The body shop down the street.
I just like the name of it.

Speaker 2 The body shop is so good. I'm pretty sure it used to be a garage.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 They just turned into a strip.

Speaker 2 That's actually to go full circle.

Speaker 2 I feel like if you are someone who can come up with good names, it's like strip clubs and weed strains. That's where you should be working because there's always good shit there.

Speaker 2 Weed strains for sure. I buy just from the names.
Yeah, same. I bought my ghost dog.
I got ghost dog in Denver.

Speaker 2 It was just weed, but it was ghost dog. That's like literally what piques my interest every time.
I'm like, I'm like, ooh, banana kush. It sounds fun.

Speaker 2 White elephant.

Speaker 8 Okay.

Speaker 2 I got an abusive OG one time. Oh, she's a good one.
And

Speaker 2 I had an, I honestly had a panic attack.

Speaker 2 I had like a like a pimple or something like in the center of my chest, and I like touched it, and I felt like it reverberate out, and I was like, cancer.

Speaker 2 Because of abusive OG? Yeah, I was like, I'm dying of cancer. And I started turning green and white and purple.
And my friends were like, are you okay? And I was like, I don't think so, no.

Speaker 2 And we looked at the name of the weed and it was abusive OG. Jesus Christ.
Oh,

Speaker 2 I've seen some strains that are called like cocaine.

Speaker 2 They call their weed cocaine, which is like like if you have a dog and you name it bear, which I've seen a few times, but then your buddy comes over. He's like, hey, I've got cocaine.

Speaker 2 And he throws a bag on the table and everyone's disappointed. It's like, fuck you, dude.
Yeah. I'm smoking some cocaine.
Yeah, free basing. Free basing cocaine.

Speaker 2 All right. Well, thank you, Jimmy.
As seen everywhere. Check out Home Economics Season 2 coming out.
When? Oh, it's out, dude. Oh, it's out.
I knew that. That was coming out.

Speaker 2 There's actually an episode coming out tonight. Beautiful.
Well, this is going out on Friday. It's an episode every Wednesday Wednesday until like.

Speaker 2 And support our friend Jimmy. But I think I'd like to plug more of the Roku show.
Yes.

Speaker 2 Because no one knows. I saw the trailer for it.
It looked good. I was like, I like the Fairleigh brothers.
It's good. I like Jimmy.
How come I have not seen the show anyway before? It's good.

Speaker 8 It's fun.

Speaker 2 Bill Murray's in it, you know? Yeah. Who doesn't love Bill Murray? Did you get to hang out with him?

Speaker 8 A little bit.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.
We went to a hockey game. We went to sushi.
First thing we did at Sushi, he just grabbed my hat and just threw it across the room and said, no hats, it's sushi.

Speaker 2 And I said, okay.

Speaker 2 Sorry, I

Speaker 2 wore a hat to sushi, Bill. Yeah, that's the rule, man.
And I had hat hair all dinner. That's perfect.
All right. Thanks, Jimmy.
All right, guys.

Speaker 2 Okay, let's wrap up. We've got Fire Fest of the week.
Great Super Bowl week. I don't know if anyone's got, I mean, this is a great week.
It was a great week. Awesome week.
Solid week. Firefest.

Speaker 2 We'll wrap everything up.

Speaker 2 we'll see everyone watch our live stream super bowl sunday also overs club is back yep we have a great promo as well um i think it's three or four bets that you get uh in the barstool sportsbook app that are like awesome i i i was like i actually had a meeting i was like listen we need a bet that everyone can get behind and everyone can be like ooh this will be awesome if it wins i'm gonna kick up oh no that's the one we're all

Speaker 2 that one we're all behind scoregami we're all behind we're all behind scoregami i'm gonna tell you this real quick Yep. It's the bet.
Oh, no. I'm going to get it.
I'm going to get it.

Speaker 2 And we're all betting on Orange Gatorade, right?

Speaker 2 Yes. Because that's been confirmed, Orange Gatorade.
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Speaker 2 So you don't have to bet these bets.

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If a safety happens, you get $20.

Speaker 2 If a 57-plus-yard field goal happens, you get $20.

Speaker 2 And if a kick off return for a touchdown happens, you get 20 bucks. Okay.
Just don't return it the first time.

Speaker 8 Yeah, well, it's going to be overspelled. There's going to be a lot of points, a lot of kickoffs.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Just not the first one. Yes.
So that's just like, and it's, it's bonus. It's not, you don't have to, you bet on the game, you opt in, you get those.
We all root for it together.

Speaker 2 Watch our live stream from Louisiana. All right, Hank.

Speaker 8 All right, this is a higher fest, uh, fire fest.

Speaker 8 I like myself with AB, too.

Speaker 2 No, I did not.

Speaker 8 I think it was just not even give context to that story.

Speaker 2 Yeah, no, no, yeah, let people fill in the gaps for themselves.

Speaker 8 I had a little film camera, and

Speaker 8 it got a little fucked up, like a roll of film. So I brought it to a camera store, and I borrowed one of the cars we have out here.
Brought it to this camera store.

Speaker 8 I was hitting a little pen Stu Feiner gave me.

Speaker 8 It's just a quick 10-minute drive. Didn't think anything of it.

Speaker 2 You guys smoke so much weed on the show.

Speaker 2 I'm by far the most sober person.

Speaker 8 Well, this is not during, you know, this is a non-work thing. I was, you know, time off.
And

Speaker 2 it was yesterday? This is my my higher fest uh

Speaker 8 we're on a fucking hill this hotel is on a hill and i was so stoned and i was

Speaker 8 stuck in traffic on this hill legal yeah and i did not you were a passenger

Speaker 2 sitting there and i was kind of freaking out i was like i was free passenger and i was in a passenger seat no i had to be like

Speaker 2 stopped saying that you were driving passenger seats you were driving you were so high you forgot that you were in the passenger seat right it's legal out here i don't is can i have to say my fire fest Okay.

Speaker 2 This podcast is sponsored by NHTSA.

Speaker 2 I was just on a hill, and I had to. All right, should I not say it? Like, it's not that bad.
No, just say you were in the passenger seat. You were in the field.
It was very clear you were not driving.

Speaker 2 But then my entire Firefest is a drug.

Speaker 8 You weren't driving.

Speaker 2 No, you weren't driving. You were driving.
I was driving. Yeah, Billy was driving.
You were so high. You thought you were drunk.

Speaker 8 The person that was driving.

Speaker 2 Billy was drunk driving. Was on this hill.

Speaker 8 And instead of putting the car in park and waiting for the light, they were just like revving the engine. Like, and it was like, this is really awkward and it sucks.

Speaker 8 And, like, I need the light to go green. And the lights went green.
And I didn't make it to the... The person didn't make it to the top of the hill.
So they had to sit there.

Speaker 8 And we're just like, it was just...

Speaker 2 Oh, because you were sitting on the hill. Sitting on the hill.
Right. Like, someone else was trying to get the best.
They should have just put the car in park.

Speaker 8 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 But I don't like putting it in park. That's what I'm saying.
Yeah, because then you have to, like, do the

Speaker 2 gas.

Speaker 6 And I didn't know what to do.

Speaker 2 No, the person didn't know what to do. The person did it right.

Speaker 8 And it was was just, you know, the person a bad experience to be in the passenger side.

Speaker 2 So it wasn't actually anything bad. It was just stressful.

Speaker 8 Yeah, it was not.

Speaker 2 I can't imagine driving stick out here on these hills. No, no.
No.

Speaker 10 No, that's when you got to use a handbrake like halfway, then release it, and then go.

Speaker 2 Billy's an athlete driver over here.

Speaker 8 Yeah. Just not a fun situation.
And I was like,

Speaker 2 I'm in no state to be the person driving.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you should have told the driver, push, push. Yeah, push, push.

Speaker 2 All right, PFT, you're firefest. My felony.
Not a felony. No,

Speaker 2 I was not endangering my life or the lives of anybody else in my Fire Fest. Mine's worse, though.

Speaker 2 I think mine's worse. Mine is, I got hit.
Someone with your cart. No.
I went to bed the other night, and we're in this very nice hotel here. We're sponsored by Tackies.

Speaker 2 A lot of the stuff that we're doing, Tackies are a delicious snack. Everybody knows that.

Speaker 2 Especially if you're Hank and you've been smoking a vape pen all week,

Speaker 2 legally, you might add. You can't.
Yeah,

Speaker 2 Billy, you can as long as you're a passenger yeah um and so i went to bed and i was hungry i ate some takis in bed and oh god there's

Speaker 2 there's nothing worse than eating takis in bed because the dust on white sheets it looks like i'm dexter morgan and i've just i've slaughtered an entire family

Speaker 2 in my bed takis is a delicious snack the reason why it's so great is because you know like when i'm eating it i'm eating it i'm eating it and my hands are gonna get covered in dust and i'm never gonna be like hey mom guess what i ate the entire thing of Takis and didn't lick my fingers until the very end.

Speaker 2 But yeah, my bed looks just awful right now with like fingerprints and hand stains on it. And I didn't even realize until the morning because I was eating it.

Speaker 2 It was very sad, but I was sitting in bed in the darkness.

Speaker 2 watching TV, eating Takis. And then I woke up in the morning with the Takis bag next to me.
And then my bed looking like there had been a slaughter fest going on there.

Speaker 2 So I'm not going to change my sheets or anything because

Speaker 2 I'm literally going to sleep in the bed that I made. Love it.
For the rest of this week. And then my other Firefest is that

Speaker 2 the Washington Commanders, Jonathan Allen, I'm having to defend his back and forth online. He just wants to meet the H-Man.
He wants to meet the H-Man.

Speaker 2 So he was doing a Q ⁇ A at 3 o'clock in the morning, which is always fun and highly recommended. And somebody asked him three dinner guests.
Who would you pick to have dinner with? And he said, well,

Speaker 2 my grandfather, Hitler, and Michael Jackson. Those were his three.
And then he said, two out of the three, I understand, but please explain Hitler. And Jonathan Miller.
Michael Jackson.

Speaker 2 Okay, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
No, Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson innocent.
I guess.

Speaker 6 No, I mean, it's actually smart.

Speaker 2 Like, he, Michael Jackson looks really good when you put it in that sentence. Yeah, so Alan said he, well, Hitler's a military genius, and I love military tactics.

Speaker 2 But honestly, I would want to pick his brain as to why he did what he did. I'm also assuming that the people I've chosen have to answer all my questions.
Honestly, Hitler's very known.

Speaker 2 He's well known for being an honest guy. What you see is what you get with him.

Speaker 2 But

Speaker 2 like setting aside the fact that he invited Hitler to dinner,

Speaker 2 Hitler would be an

Speaker 2 all-time bad dinner guest because he's a vegetarian and he doesn't drink. And he's high on drugs.
And he's high on meth. So you have to plan everything around his little like weirdo diet.

Speaker 2 He's like shaking and shit and just being a weirdo. And he's sucked at military tactics.
And I'm just going to say it right now. Bad guy.
Bad guy, but also sucked at military tactics. Yes.

Speaker 2 He blew a 3-1 lead in World War II because he invaded Russia in the wintertime.

Speaker 2 He slept in on D-Day, and then he had a heroin addict leader of the Air Force that talked him into letting the British escape at Dunkirk.

Speaker 2 So overall, not a good look from Jonathan, but he did apologize. Okay, good.
About Michael Jackson. About Michael Jackson, yeah.
I mean, say what you want about DH-Man's military tactics.

Speaker 2 He was a great shot. Yeah.
He was one for one all time. Jesus Christ.
What a tweet. What a tweet.
Don't tweet it. Just never, it's a good rule of thumb if you're a professional athlete to not never

Speaker 2 say the word Hitler. Yes, I think that's fair.
All right, my fire press is simple. I ran a 5k and I'm really out of shape.

Speaker 2 And I'm I don't know Bill, you're gonna have to do something about my lactic acid. My legs are locked up.
I haven't worked out in a very long time.

Speaker 6 Did you run the entire one?

Speaker 2 I run the entire one.

Speaker 2 I like fast walked when I drank water, but then I'd pick up my pace.

Speaker 2 34 minutes? I mean, it's not good.

Speaker 10 That's Mincy, but he's like...

Speaker 2 No. Mincey's training.
No, and Mincey's also was 36 minutes. I'm a client.
He's a shit donkey. No offense.

Speaker 10 He's in very good shape for his size, and he does that every day.

Speaker 2 But it's also different for Mincy because when Mincy goes on a 5K, he has to stop every 15 seconds to take a picture with somebody that recognizes him.

Speaker 10 That's true. When I got the dog chasing him, he gets some speed going.

Speaker 2 I know it's a bad time, but I also have not run more than a half mile in probably five years. So in that respect, I think it's actually an incredible time.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's not bad for going from like absolutely nothing. No cardio whatsoever.

Speaker 2 And just doing all, like I did the 34 minutes, I didn't stop, I didn't get off or anything like that. I just fucking powered through.

Speaker 10 36 is Mincy's ceiling. This is your floor.

Speaker 2 Correct. That's, yeah.
So get your mind right, Billy.

Speaker 10 So you have way more upside down.

Speaker 2 If I trained, which I won't, I could be under 30. Easy.
No, no problem. All right, Billy, yours.
I have a couple.

Speaker 10 Okay. First one, the thank you for your service thing.
May have gone a little too far. One, we have Jake telling security guards that I'm a veteran at the Super Bowl arena.

Speaker 2 Billy, what pants are you wearing right now? Just curious.

Speaker 10 I'm wearing my camo cargo pants,

Speaker 10 which are very effective in carrying multiple tools.

Speaker 9 Security guard NFL fan experience thought we were undercover cops.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I can always veteran. Because you were walking around.
You were wearing sketches and laughs. No, you guys are like a movie cop duo.

Speaker 2 You got the one that plays by the rules, and then the guy and the field agent. The other guy that desk pops three times a year.

Speaker 10 Yeah, but that's one. And then also we were on the

Speaker 10 tv show we were on morning television and the guy at the end said thank you for your service so now love it like people are actually like you're clearly just stealing valor you're accepting it because i didn't like push back on it because i just wanted to was like ah

Speaker 10 so panicked and uh yeah so i'm sorry to the veterans and i'm sorry it seems like i'm stealing valor i'm really trying not to on behalf of all veterans i say apology not accepted okay uh hang on i'm gonna ask chaps all right go ahead keep going then i went so i tried to get some exercise uh was doing some laps in the pool.

Speaker 10 I'm not a nerd, so I didn't pack goggles.

Speaker 6 Chlorine's pretty strong.

Speaker 2 Got out of the pool.

Speaker 10 My eyes started burning like a motherfucker.

Speaker 2 And you smoked the bong. No, I didn't.

Speaker 10 I don't smoke weed.

Speaker 7 I literally would have a panic attack.

Speaker 10 Then I went out to the crowd.

Speaker 8 You smoked weed and tried to drive up a hill.

Speaker 2 No, I didn't smoke.

Speaker 2 I was driving Hank's car.

Speaker 10 And yeah, so my eyes were bright red. Everyone started yelling at me, dude, you're so high.

Speaker 10 And I looked very high, but I literally don't smoke weed.

Speaker 2 Love it.

Speaker 10 So if you see pictures of me with my eyes super red.

Speaker 2 Any good videos, Job, this week? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 10 Didn't finish the steak. Puke.
60 ounces out of 72.

Speaker 2 Dude, I don't know if I. Wait, 60 ounces were left.
60 ounces? I ate 60 ounces. No, you puke so that counts.

Speaker 2 So they weigh your puke? No, they weighed your leftovers. This is what actually happened.
So after it was done, Billy's like, I basically finished the whole steak.

Speaker 2 It was the sides that I didn't get around to.

Speaker 2 And then we asked the server to weigh the remaining steak and there were 14 ounces left in the remaining steak so you do the math on that Billy it's like a big ass steak yeah Billy ate 58 ounces but so don't when he says sick he's round I think he said 12 it was for you were drunk

Speaker 2 and it was yeah it was 14 that's fair and they didn't count the throw up I think you probably puked up about 15 to 16 ounces but it was it was a great video because you were all pumped up going into the challenge you were ready to go it was on the day that you fought Jose Conseco yeah the year to the date it was Billy's ward date that he has every february 5th and then you just sit down you start eating it and the sound that you make when you throw up is i've never heard that noise come out i thought it was fake i actually thought it was fake i thought it was like put in there that was asmr it was perfect i loved it i laughed quickly could you just run through your your you know your strategy in thinking that drinking like six beers and having that much water in your stomach was going to be good for you oh zero plan i was kind of off the road my stomach was disgusting from all the you know supplements energy drinks, you know, a lot of coffee I was drinking.

Speaker 10 So going into it, I was, you know.

Speaker 2 You also stayed up late in your, in your hotel room by yourself, drinking Coors Light the night before.

Speaker 10 No, I was writing blogs.

Speaker 2 And pounding Coors Lights. It's actually in the video.
Like you say, Tom did it. Yeah.

Speaker 10 Fear and loathing in Las Vegas.

Speaker 10 But yeah, so. That didn't go well either.
But I'm going to go back and do it one day. Okay.

Speaker 2 And it'll be a momentous case. I'm sure you will.

Speaker 2 All right. That's good.
It's nice to say that.

Speaker 2 I'm going to run faster than a 30-minute 5K. Yeah.
It's fun to say shit that's not going to happen.

Speaker 10 I'll get back to Amarillo.

Speaker 2 I'm going to run a 5K for 130 minutes. I don't think you'll ever go back to Amarillo.
That's the thing.

Speaker 2 No, dude, dude. Emerilla is a town that

Speaker 2 you don't just stop through on your way somewhere else. I'll get to Amarillo.
Jake, finish this off.

Speaker 9 Yeah, so earlier this week, I was working on my Big J

Speaker 9 feature story on Sam Hubbard. I FaceTimed him on Monday, and I was planning on releasing the video too, and the video just didn't save.

Speaker 9 So it's just a written story, which kind of sucks.

Speaker 2 All right, did it post yet? Yeah, it was posted on Monday. I got a reach reading.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's good.
It's a good article that I heard.

Speaker 2 Urban Meyer did not respond to asked a comment on that.

Speaker 9 I was talking about Urban Meyer. Coach Meyer did not return a request for comment regarding the story.
Yep.

Speaker 2 Which is true. I tweeted at him and

Speaker 2 didn't respond. Also, update:

Speaker 2 Bubble was with me after McPherson and Uzama left. Burrow hit me back.
Burrow was like,

Speaker 2 Evans never asked for my number. He's like, tell that pussy to ask me if I'll give him his number.
And I'll give it to him. I'm paraphrasing what he said.

Speaker 2 But yeah, that's so update on that. It's not that he hates him.
Again, he likes him as far as kickers go. Yeah, I mean, how could you not? The guy's a cool guy.

Speaker 2 All right, random numbers, and then we'll end the week. 6'9.

Speaker 2 56.

Speaker 2 17. 44.
I'm going to switch it up. I'm going to go 87.
Vincent. 21.
21.

Speaker 2 100. Whoa.

Speaker 2 What is that?

Speaker 8 That's not even a number in the machine, is that?

Speaker 2 That's not. Yeah, it is.
That's like when zero hits in roulette. No, it is.

Speaker 2 It's a number, right?

Speaker 9 Yeah, it is. It's happened twice before.

Speaker 2 This is the third time. Is it a zero in the machine? No.

Speaker 2 No. No, 1 through 100.
1 through 100. Has 100 hit? This is the third time.
Really?

Speaker 9 Yep. We've got

Speaker 9 December 13th, 2020, November 14th, 2021.

Speaker 2 Love you guys. Love you have that.

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