Mario Lopez, 1 More Year For Big Ben, NFL Week 14 Picks & Preview

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Today is Friday, December 10th. One more year.
One more year. One more year.
One more year. No? No, Hank doesn't want one more year.
We want one more year. Big Ben.
I say blow the whole thing up. Blow it up in Pittsburgh, build around Big Ben.
Big Ben. That was Big Ben's Nate Diaz game.
It was incredible. He won, even though the Steelers lost.
That was vintage Big Ben in the second half to bring them back. He made the perfect throw to Pat Friermuth.
I say Big Ben won this game. He won this game.
So right now, the Vikings. Dalvin Cook won it number one.
I gonna give a tie the vikings are are five seven and one and the steelers are six five and two and big ben is one oh and oh yes it was i mean it was a snoozer terrible game then big ben happened uh what are you laughing about h? You're having a little fun over there. You don't want one more year, and now you're cheesing it up.
Sorry, Liam. It was distracting me.
Okay. You don't want one more year? No, give him one more year.
One more year. One more year.
Another year. This is actually the first time that Big Ben has lost a game to the Vikings in the first year of a presidency.
Whoa. He's now three and one.
So the biggest record of all has fallen. That's just a longevity stat.
Three administration. Shout out Chase Claypool.
I'm just going to take a wild guess and say you're not getting music at practice anytime soon. I did notice, though, that the Vikings very astutely did not play music during the game to throw

Chase Claypool off of this.

If you missed it, an all-time

Madden awareness

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are driving. Big Ben is being

incredible himself

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a slant on a fourth and one

with about 35 seconds left. Chase

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stops, does

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Yeah, the Vikings tried so hard to Falcons. But they're just a little too Vikings to become full-fledged Falcons.
And you could see the look on Mike Zimmer's face in the fourth quarter. He was like, we're doing this again.
He started rubbing the bridge of his nose. He was like, he was just turning redder gradually.
I think he just stopped breathing, and he was just like swelling up so mad because he knew like, I've seen this. I know it's about to happen.
I can't believe it's going to happen again. Kirk Cousins, to his credit, made a big throw.
Yeah, he was not good tonight. Dalvin Cook was the story.
Dalvin Cook was incredible. Kirk made that nice 62-yard touchdown pass.
He did. That was a good pass to Kirk Cousins.

I'll give him his credit.

He also had two interceptions, but he did make that one nice pass.

Let Dalvin Cook.

That's what we should be saying.

Let Dalvin Cook.

I can always tell the anxiety and the level where a fan base is at

by if they start using my first name, Dan, in the replies. Because I said, this game won't end.
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you know, you know, you, in the replies because I said, this game won't end. And I had a bunch of Vikings fans be like, this is every game for us, Dan.
Daniel. You can tell like the – you can feel it through the internet that they are just tense and no game is over, 29 to nothing, and you're thinking cakewalk.
Like we almost walked in this studio five different times because it felt like it was over. But the Vikings, they just, you know what? Shout out the Vikings.
I'm going to spin it as a positive. Thank you, Vikings.
You made a game that was a complete snooze fest into one more year of Big Ben. Because I watched that game.
Big Ben's not done. No, not the second half.
I mean, we're getting a little bit older right now. And we understand that when you enter your late 20s, it takes your body a while to get warmed up.
Big Ben's coming off a short week. I know the Vikings are too, but Big Ben, his week is even shorter because he's older.
And so, yeah, maybe he needed that extra hour and a half for his body

to become fully ready and you're right about the like uh when your mom used to refer to you by your full name yeah like mama be like pro football talk commenter come in here yeah like you know that people are are in their feelings a little bit when they're resorting to proper nouns they were just there was a panic that i could feel from vikings fans because they're like this is happening again our team is good but they just can't

close games

and the Vikings like Dalvin Cook is awesome. That was, some of those holes were ridiculous, credit to their offensive line.
But yeah, that, what a crazy game. It really was.
It really came out as like the Vikings won it in the traditional sense, but Big Ben, I want to find whoever leaked those private conversations and shoot them. Yeah, because they're wrong.
Not only were they private conversations, but I don't think that they were even true. Federal crime.
I think that the private conversations that got leaked, it was a fabrication even. Because I don't think that this Big Ben that we saw in the second half is even a year away from retiring.
Yeah, it was a moment of weakness when you're like, ah, I kind of wish that I didn't have to do this tonight. I kind of wish I didn't have to play in the NFL anymore.
Right. He probably wanted to spend more time with his family on Sunday.
So he was like, man, I wish I didn't have a game tomorrow. That'd be nice.
Right. And then someone's like, oh, Adam Schefter, Adam Schefter.
Big Ben's thinking about hanging it up. Nope.
that was fake news. Big Ben's got minimum three more seasons left.
All right, so Vikings are still alive. His first time scramble was very, very funny.
Oh, so good. So good.
And their offensive line is still a mess at times. And TJ Watt getting hurt, that sucks.
I saw our good friend, former Lib of the Year, current Lib of the Year, Chris Long said that that, for a pass rus rusher is like the worst injury to have that that nagging groin injury because you just can't like the explosion is lost and there's nothing you can do about it and it just takes forever to heal yeah anytime you get in or out of the shower and your foot just slips a little bit when you're stepping on it it's like okay now i'm back to square one yep there goes the groin so if you're a vikings fan do you do you look at this as like a relief i can't believe we didn't lose that i'm really glad we didn't lose that or are you like this this kind of counts as a loss we should not have made this game this close i think what you have to do is that you have to just pretend the game didn't happen but the result did so you say it's a number yeah you you basically play the trick on yourself.

If you had told me the Vikings would have won by eight, I'd take it. You know what I mean? Don't say everything that happened.
The fact they were up 29 to nothing and almost blew that lead at home. You just say that part and you just keep moving and keep it moving downfield.
I'm looking right now. Vikings are 6-7, very much alive.
Very much alive. Behind the 49ers and the Washington

football team for those 6-7

spots in the playoffs.

So, yeah, they are

and they have two games against the Bears

and the Bears suck. And now the Steelers

are now 10th in the

standings. 10th.
So that's

going to be a tough

hill for them to climb. I have a pop quiz

for you, Big Cat. Hank, you can play too.

Pop quiz, hot shot. how much money do you think that kirk cousins has made so far i'm talking about like in the bank in his career million way more paychecks that he has he has taken to the bank are buried in his backyard way more hank that was a bad answer I $79 million.
Hank, strike it from the record. Kirk Cousins.
Some of it's not. He hasn't earned it yet.
Remember, he did three years of franchise. I'm sorry.
That was me. I just lashed out at Kirk.
He did like three years of franchise tags. Taxes? Tags.
Have you thought about taxes? No, we're not counting taxes. Oh, what the fuck? This is before.
Oh, that was after taxes? All right, so then Hank and I have huddled up, and our answer is going to be $180 million pre-tax. Pre-tax.
That's $78 million. Pre-tax.
It sounds like Hank isn't agreeing with this. No, I'm down.
Okay, all right. Billy? I'll put in 155.

Okay, 155.

Good guesses all around.

I do know the answer.

What is it?

161.

Okay.

Yeah.

So we weren't far off.

He's made $161 million.

And I say good for Kirk.

That's insane.

That's NBA money.

Actually, it's more than that because the rest is all guaranteed.

Yep.

He will make more.

He has a full guarantee, I think, on the next $40 million.

Kirk Cousins, he's the bag god.

God damn it.

And do you know what the worst part about that is?

I don't want to rag on Kirk Cousins because guess what?

The Vikings won, so I can't.

But he did play poorly.

But the Vikings won.

That was a good throw.

That was a very good throw.

He also made that terrible throw where Justin Jefferson was wide open. He had a lot of bad throws.
Yeah, but it was a good throw that won them a game. That was the difference in the game.
What does Kirk Cousins need all that money for? What does he spend it on? There's nothing good to spend that on. I think just unseasoned chicken breasts.
Yeah, it's a waste. Give us some of that, Kirk.
I bet probably got, I bet you Kirk Cousins has, like, seven freezers in his basement just filled with meat, mostly just chicken breasts. He probably has, like, a baker's dozen golden retrievers.
Yeah, a lot of milk bones. Yeah.
A lot of boxes of milk bones. I mean, the gender reveals that he does can't be cheap because he has to get seven different balls that he has to throw every time.
So he's a target. That's true.
That's at least a couple thousand. Yeah, a couple thousand right there.
Yeah, he's going to. Her cousin's family.
Ivermectin. They're going to.
They have generational wealth. They have wealth for the next 10 generations.
Because I don't know how they're going to spend this money.

So he's got $161 million in the bank right now.

And then he's guaranteed $35 million next year.

Yeah, so he's about $200 million.

Pretty good.

He's going to be a $200 million man.

Easy.

Kirk Cousins, by the time it's all said and done, he will have made probably $230 million.

Wow.

Crazy.

Crazy.

Other crazy stat from this game. I just want to share this real quick.
This one kind of blew my mind. They showed it on the screen.
100-plus rush yards allowed in the first half by a running back under Mike Tomlin. First 234 games as a head coach, zero.
Last three games, two. That's kind of crazy.
Steelers might have a rush defense problem. I mean, in the first half, they couldn't stop anything.
It was, you know, the old hypothetical, like if you were running back, could you get a few yards? In this first half, yes. Yeah, for sure.
Those holes were that big. Probably like two and a half yards.
Yeah, they were that big that you could just jump into that hole and get, you know, three yards. Yep.
All right. Anything else before? We should actually say we saw the news during the game.
Demarius Thomas, tragic, like horrible, horrible. I think we all remember watching him because he was in the league up until a couple years ago, the famous slant with Tebow, and he won a ring with the Broncos as well, correct? Yeah.
I think he did, yeah. And then he played on the Texans and the Patriots and the Jets.
Yeah, so just tragic. We don't know what happened, but we saw the news.
33 years old. Yeah, very, very sad.
Very, very good player that we all have fond memories of. And then before we get to our picks, what was the last thing? Oh out the eagles and the colts or no eagles and colts yeah eagles and colts they're taking a bye week too their twitter accounts so everyone needs a bye week well deserved vacations matter hank saw it was like i want that yeah i want that i might i might start making my own graphics just being like hey it's a long season i'm need bye weeks, too.
Or, Hank, maybe you could just tweet out what the Colts and the Eagles would have tweeted out. So you can show.
How much do you care about vacation? No, but don't you want to support them for taking time for themselves? Yes. If you were a true ally.
I'm standing with them and not doing stuff. If you were a true ally, you would represent them while they were gone.
People will hate on me for this take, but I've had it. We should have a bye week for the whole country.
This makes too much sense. Right around now.
So the argument is that the NFL season is now getting so long that there should be two bye weeks per team. That would suck to have two weeks in the season where your team's not playing.
So have it be regular bye weeks, regular schedule, and then right like either this this weekend or next weekend have no football in america everyone can go christmas shopping they can go see their family they can sleep and then you get back you get rejuvenated for bowl season and playoffs and then we have the super bowl on president's day weekend. So the Monday after the Super Bowl is a national holiday.
And then it's only two more weeks of winter till March Madness. That is the perfect schedule.
Tell me how I'm wrong. Okay.
So when you started saying that, I agreed with you. But then you went a little bit too far.
You said the whole country should get a bye. I agree.
Yeah. We should just be on vacation.
Like everyone, just a no work week. Yeah.
Well, it was more just the weekend. There just the weekend there's just no yeah no you still get the weekends but it's like you get everybody yeah has a week off well we do that though the week of christmas week most people take a week off some people do yeah but we but just give us a buy of like all everyone it's like a mandate that everyone has to just go to bed at nine o'clock for four days straight.
Just rest up. I think we should.
Ready to roll. We should have a week in the summertime.
Or party up. It's like maybe you've been taking time to watch football and you want to just party.
Yeah, that's true, too. I think we should all just have a week in the summertime where everybody just hangs out and we go to water parks.
And that's it. Yeah.
But I'm serious. I think that would actually be good.
It would be better football, too, because all the NFL players get their second bye week, come back for the home stretch. You get, like, five weeks left of the regular season.
You get bowl season. And then you can say during bowl season when you're watching, like, you know, Wake Forest is actually a bad team to pick this year.
Let's say you're watching NC State play Oregon State on a Tuesday afternoon bowl game. And everyone's's like what are you doing at the tv was like well remember that week a couple weeks ago when we like went out to dinner and we hung out and we talked yeah that's what i'm doing now i'm doing this it's good to have a weekend take care of your obligations right to make it your chicken yeah take care make sure that uh you seem like an attentive spouse and husband yeah um but i think that i don't know i just I'm more in favor of your chickens.
Yeah, take care. Make sure that you seem like an attentive spouse and husband.

Yeah.

But I think that, I don't know.

Take care of your mentals.

I'm more in favor of just a general vacation.

That's fine.

I'm fine.

It's a quick reset week.

I'm fine with that.

If you want to add to that, that's fine.

But I'm just saying, think about it.

That's a perfect schedule.

One weekend right around now where we can reset right before the holidays,

right before the stretch run playoffs. And then you get, like I said, the Super Bowl being on President's Day weekend and then turning around and having two weeks later be at March Madness, like, there's no winter.
I have eliminated winter. You're making this decision, though, Raj.
I could talk to Raj, although he's got to go to The Hague first for the war crimes. Or at least down to his basement again.
He can come talk strap him to that stupid fucking chair yeah I don't know well someone someone get this to Raj someone someone pass this off to Raj I don't even need credit I just want it to happen so I could sleep for a weekend yeah it's just what week would you pick because you say now you say that now but then when it actually came time for it you'd be like I really wish there was football this week be, if everyone did it together, then it's okay. If we're all in this together.
So what's the old Belichick? We can all pull. If we're all wrong together, we can still be right.
There it is. Is that it? Yeah, that's it.
That's a beautiful way to just describe life. Yes, so that's it.
It might be a mistake, but we're going to do it all together, so it could be right. All right.
Works for the Lions. All right.
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Wow, PFT, you're hot. You must have so much money in your gambling account.
I'm really hot at gambling. I'm so hot.
I'm the best gambler of all time on the games that I don't bet on. Because what happens is we do this show from New York, and you can't bet in New York.
Correct. So then I wait until Sunday when I go to New Jersey to put my bets in.
Then I forget what I bet on or the picks that I gave out on Thursday. And I get to New Jersey and I'm too lazy to look it up.
So I just go with whatever my gut tells me. Turns out that my gut is way dumber than my brain.
That's what I've learned. So, yeah.
Thanks, by the way, for getting me to bet on that over in Buffalo again. Ah, you loved it, too.
Anyways, what I'm saying is follow these picks. Don't follow my real picks that I actually put my money on.
It is like doing multiple picks during the week and then getting to Sunday, like trying to figure out what point do you actually have clarity. Turns out everyone just sucks at gambling all the time.
Post-pick clarity. Love it.
Do I get anything if I win? No. Okay.
Yeah, you get to travel via plane, which is a huge win. What if I want to rent a convertible? You can do that if you want.
All right, Jake, give it to us. Hank is in the hot seat in second place right now.
He's two and a half games up on you and I, Big Cat. We're 29-24, then tied for last, Liam and Billy, 26-27.
Okay, so what I was going to say is, oh, yeah, you guys got to go. Billy and Liam, go ahead.
Rock, paper, scissors, shoot. Rock, paper, scissors, shoot.
Liam won. So Billy's going.
Billy's going. Billy and Hank.
Billy is not going to survive that. Hank will murder Billy.
No. Yes.
You will absolutely murder Billy. No, I wouldn't.
Yes, you would. Time suspect number one.
Yeah, you would. I'm a great road trip partner.
Billy, say it for the record right now. Have you ever thought or given consideration to doing any self-harm? No.
Okay, so if Billy turns up dead on that road trip, we know what happened. Yeah.
If it's just me and Billy, we would have a good time. We would take our time, but it would be a good time.
So what I was going to say is this past week has been the first time where I've been like, this is real. Someone's going to have to drive across the country.
Because it was a future us problem. We are going through the playoffs, right? I couldn't remember.
No, Wild Card Weekend was going to be tiebreakers. That's right.
So there's 20 picks left. So it's really on.
Wait, just to bring the vibes up a little bit here, we're all doing really good on our picks. Yes, good point.
So great job. We all are football geniuses.
We are, but someone's going to have to drive. Like, that realization has hit me like a ton of bricks.
No offense, Big Cap, but I would much rather go with Billy than you. Well, because I'll be miserable, and I know I'll be miserable.
I can't afford to give up an extra three days of my life. I know.
I'm already maxed out just in life. Who's going to make the playlist between Hank and Billy? I would do that.
Actually, it wouldn't be three days for me, by the way. It would be two days.
We would just drive straight through. That's what I'm saying.
I do not have the time. We're already going to be away from my family for a very long time.
Find some local watering holes. Listen to Rogan.
This is going to be pretty lit. Just going to Rogan up the entire hour there.
I love it. You guys come back just different men.
It's basically your version of going to Burning Man. You ever driven across country with Joe Rogan? They're going to be so masculine.
They're going to come back with like 35 pounds of frozen elk meat in the trunk of the car. All right, let's do some picks.
Big picture, this does feel like a week that we will find out some elimination, right? There's some teams that will most likely, their playoff hopes will be gone after this weekend. Yeah, yeah.
It feels like that. I think that there are a few lose-reliefs town games this weekend.
The Browns, if they lose to the Ravens, that will be very tough for them to come back from. Feels like the Raiders might be on the hot seat if they can't pull off a miracle against the Chiefs.
Counterpoint, the boy's back. Will Compton playing linebacker now for the Raiders.
Congrats, we did it, guys. We got him a job.
Yep. I'm excited to see how Will performs after being out of the league and living the podcasting life.'s ready to go probably in the best shape of his life after after talking into a microphone for eight months yes he is gonna be he's gonna it's gonna be great to see the boy out there um the Bengals 49ers feels like a little bit of a loser lease town there's a lot of great games that have a lot of implications uh Bill's Bucks Bill's Bucks has a ton of implications this Sunday is really it's an from the nfl for putting together the shitty schedule that we've had for like the last three weeks yep this is a a make good weekend that they have for us with the exception of sunday night football yes which is a war crime but just it is it is a war crime but justin fields being back makes me gives me a little bit of glimmer of hope no that's that's even worse though because when aaron rogers beats justin fields then then you start to doubt justin fields Justin Fields more.
You would love for Andy Dalton to get smoked, even though he's a nice guy. I know that you think he's a really nice dude.
If Justin Fields gets beat like 40 to nothing, at that point you're thinking about the next two years. Okay, so let's just talk about this real quick because I did have this as one of my fuckboys, but the thought has now crossed my head my my brain this could be

aaron rogers last game playing against the packers unless the bears make the playoffs yeah um i can't even say that with a straight face wouldn't it be nice if a little passing of the torch justin fields went up to lambo his first trip to lambo beat the packers guess what things are gonna change around here, folks.

It ain't the same old

Bears-Packers last 10 years. beat the Packers.
Guess what? Things are going to change around here, folks.

It ain't the same old Bears-Packers last 10 years.

You don't even believe it.

But the thought has crossed my mind.

I know.

I can tell through the tone of your voice.

No, I know.

You don't even pretend to believe it.

No, no, no, no, no.

I definitely, deep down,

I won't let myself say it in a serious tone

because I don't want to be mocked afterwards. But deep down I'm thinking this could be magical.
It could be truly magical. Yep.
You know what it is, Big Cat? This is true for Chicago. It's us against the world if you're a Chicago fan.
Yeah. Truly us against the world.
But this could be Aaron Rodgers' last time playing the Bears. Like, you know what? What better way to send him off than Justin Fields,

even though he'll probably lose by 40.

And you couldn't say that he still owns you.

No.

He'd never be able to hurt you again.

Yeah, he'd never be able to hurt me again.

The bad guy's gone.

Unless he goes to the Vikings.

Oh, God.

That would be terrible.

Brett Favre.

Justin Jefferson.

Hank, your favorite favorite.

I'm calling this weak rat teen.

Just a lot of rat lines everywhere.

You didn't want to do that last week?

No.

Or next week?

Nope.

Or the week after?

No.

Okay.

This week is a lot of rats.

Rat teen.

Therefore, it's weak rat teen.

Rat teen tooey.

And I'm just going to take them all.

Everything that I think is a rat, I'm just going to rat it.

I'm going to jump into that trap, go for that cheese. Yeah.
neck doesn't get broken. You're Ratteen Cleaves.
Yep. I don't know what that means, but I bet it's funny.
Ratteen Cleaves. Michigan State.
My favorite is the Cowboys minus four and a half versus the Washington football team. Okay.
Let's talk about this game. Because I agree with Hank.
This is a rat. And I have been on your side, PFT.
I've been betting and rooting for the Washington football team. We had the whole talk on Monday about how they are a good football team.
Why the fuck are they getting four and a half points? Because the Cowboys are a very good football team. And the Cowboys, Mike McCarthy has also guaranteed a victory.
He has. Going into this weekend.
Well, he didn't really say I guarantee a victory, but that's how it's being spun in the press. So for all intents and purposes, I'm going to take that as disrespect.
He's disrespecting us, disrespecting the entire team, disrespecting the entire, you know, the DMV area district, Maryland and Virginia. Mike McCarthy's coming at all of us right now.
Plus four and a half. That's a disrespectful line.
We're getting disrespected left and right. I like the football team.
I think I like the football team money line. Don't you think it should be the last though? You and 74% of the public.
Fuck. Yeah, so that's the part.
I'm telling you, if gambling didn't have anything to do with this, I look at this game, I'm like, Washington football team's a good team. They should win this game because they're at home.
They're playing well. It should be a two-and-a-half line game.
Two-and-a-half. The fact that it's four-and-a-half, and this doesn't make a lot of sense, but it will make sense to people who gamble, it's two-and-a-half, so you probably should say, oh, four-and-a-half, you're getting extra two points.
No, no, no. Go the other way.
Take the Cowboys. So it actually does scare me thinking about all the different weapons that they have on offense with our linebackers.
Yeah, but don't you think this line should have been like two and a half, three? Honestly, no. Honestly, no, because I think that the football team has been an above average team.
Don't say lucky. No, not lucky.
You know what it is? We've been doing all the small things, and the small things add up, Big Cat. They add up big time.
Cowboys don't do the small things. They don't do the small things, but they did when Dan Quinn was there.
Yeah. Going back to Mike McCarthy, bit of a letdown spot.
I don't know. I agree with Hank.
That's not my pick, but I agree with Hank on the read on this game because I also do the dumb thought. Like, on Monday morning, I look at the games, and I go quickly through being like, ooh, what do I love? And I love the Washington football team on Monday morning, which is a very dumb, just instantly being like, that's an easy bet.
There's no easy bets. 30 seconds after the game was over against the Raiders last week, I said, we want Dallas.
And it felt good in the moment. But then later, it's like, what have I just said? This is like when UCF was holding up a sign that said, we want Bama.
And it's like, yeah, you can say that when there's never actually a danger of you playing against Bama. Yeah.
But guess what? I asked for the big bad wolf. Now he's at my door.
This is also, doesn't it feel like we're due for a big first take Cowboys day where they have like a huge Sunday and everyone's like, look at the Cowboys. Everything's clicking.'s clicking.
They're Super Bowl champion worthy. Counterpoint we also might be due for Stephen A.
Smith wearing the Cowboy hat. Yeah.
Smoking the cigar being like what the hell is going on with the Dallas Cowboys and just trolling them to their faces. We haven't really gotten any of that this year.
I know we're talking like this is how we gamble. It's the narratives.
I'm waiting for the big Bucs win, which will probably happen against the Bills,

where everyone says everyone slept on Tom Brady,

and a big Cowboys win where everyone's like,

the Cowboys have the most.

You know who's going to win the Super Bowl?

You know who everyone's not talking about?

The Dallas Cowboys.

I mean, we've been talking about the Dallas Cowboys.

I know.

I want to say for the record, if any Dallas Cowboys players listen to this show,

I think you guys are going to win the Super Bowl easily. We've been saying it for a long time that you're the best team in the league.
I'm trying to give them that foul rat poison, not the yummy rat poison. Yeah, give them that rat poison.
All right, Bubba, your favorite favorite. Same as Hank.
Whoa. Okay, I like it.
I like it. Anyone else? Let's just keep the floor open.
Anyone else? All right, because I was going to say then it's the reverse rat then everything we said throw it out and take to Washington football team I need you know what I need more than anything this is some high level gambling talk on Fox on Fox NFL Sunday I need Terry Howie and the guys I need them to all have that graphic that pops up where they're all picking the Cowboys yes if that happens then it's then it's the reverse rat, and we can get around to it. Now, not that I don't trust Billy, because I obviously trust Billy with my life, but Jake, could you just look at Billy's picks right now and make sure that he's not adjusting anything after our picks? Because we realized last week that he could have been playing this game the entire time.
You got them all locked in. Don't say them, but you should memorize them.
You got a strong brain, Jake.

I see them.

Except for the part where you think the Badgers aren't good at basketball.

I haven't said that since the season started.

Which picks do you think I was adjusting?

I didn't say that you did.

I just said that you may have been adjusting your picks.

He could be doing it in his mind. There's reply guys out there that are suggesting that our reply guy guy

has been changing his picks. So I just want to make sure that you're not doing that.
I went 0-4 last week. Why would I? Well, isn't that convenient? The week that I think we brought it up for the first time that you could have been changing your picks.
Quick side note. Billy, a very funny moment happened in the office earlier today.
There were some people talking probably about 20 feet away from where Billy and I sit. And they brought up high school football.
He's like, wait, I'll tell you the real story. And it was just Billy and his natural habitat.
Yeah. It was great.
It was great. It's good banter.
Yeah, it was great banter. Do you think if you went back to high school right now and you got to play a year at quarterback, you would be a five-star recruit? Ooh, good question.
There's a lot that I know now that i wish i knew then in terms of like uh

huddle videos and shit yeah yeah different soundtracks less let the bodies hit the floor more the pod version of all not by nappy roots more technique yeah yeah okay motion lebron james old billy sending an instagram post to young billy from the future what would you tell him to follow through with my

opposite hand. Nice.

Okay. Nice.
Tuck my elbow. Just tell everyone you went to the Manning Passing Academy.
I didn't go there. Yeah, I know.
Oh, it's when we're going to get thin there, yeah. That would have been huge.
All right. All right, my favorite favorite is the Tennessee Titans.
Okay. Minus nine and a half at home.
Off a buy. Off a buy.
Nine. Nine? Even better.
Against the Jacksonville Jaguars. I love this line.
I know nine points is a lot. They pay the Jaguars to play football, too.
But I would take this. I might take an alternate line at minus 20.
I think this is going to be a clown fucking. They're going to put them in red shoes and a big red nose and just fuck the shit out of them.
Vrabel and Urban I don't think are the best of friends. I like it.
No. I think Vrabel's going to put it on them.
They've got a statement to make. I think the Jaguars peaked too early with that 9-6 victory over the Bills.
Do the Titans have anyone back? Because, man, are they injured. Is A.J.
Brown back? I don't know. Is Julio Jones coming back? I don't think either one of them are, but I also don't think Adrian Peterson is going to show up.
So that's addition by subtraction. Also, I know that when Derrick Henry got hurt, there was talk that maybe he'd come back for the playoffs.
Is that true or no? With a Jones fracture? Yeah. As a foot injury survivor, I'll say it's highly unlikely.
Okay. All right.
But he does weigh a little bit more than I do. So probably less likely for him.
Yeah, less likely. Yeah.
All right. Find answers to those for us, Jake, because I would like to know just off the top of our head if any of those guys are going to be playing.
Julio practiced today. Okay.
That's good. That's a start.
That's good. Okay.
Yeah. It really doesn't factor into my betting whether or not AJ Brown or Julio.
I'm more just curious personally. I haven't checked in on those guys because the Texans – or sorry, the Titans did the get killed, go into a bye week, so you kind of just forgot about them altogether, and now they're back.
All right, my favorite favorite this week is the Panthers minus 2.5. This is another one that I love the Falcons, so i'm taking the panthers and um the panthers defense isn't bad matt ryan like they have kyle pitts and cordero patterson they don't have much else i also think without joe brady maybe maybe the game plan is to just run cam newton a hundred times which would be better than pass cam newton so who's going to take over for joe brady't matter.
Just run him. Just Matt Rule? Just run him.
Just run him. I'm with you, but I actually like the Falcons.
So you're not with me. No, but you like the Falcons.
I do. Panthers.
You like the Falcons so much, you switch to the Panthers. I like the Falcons so much, I'm sticking with the Falcons.
Panthers. All right, Billy, your favorite favorite.
This is a game that, by the way, is weirdly a loser leaves town game, but both teams are already losers. Like, you could make an argument that both teams have an outside chance even though they don't.
Oh, the Falcons do. No, they're both 5-7.
Yeah, the Falcons could still make the playoffs. Well, the Panthers are 5-7.
I know, but I would say, like, looking at the Falcons' schedule coming up, I think that they have a better chance than the Panthers. It's more realistic that the Falcons can make the playoffs, and then they would become the worst team that would ever make the playoffs.
That's what I'm rooting for. They still got to go at 49ers at Bills.
Yeah. Either way, loser leaves town, but both these teams are losers.
That's what I'm deeming this game. Going Chargers by 10.
So Chargers versus Giants. Giants either got Mike Glennon or Jake Fromm.
Who I thought was the best quarterback in the world after that national championship. He did the ball spin.
But he hasn't started a game in the NFL yet. He's got a noodle arm.
He might have a noodle arm. Or we get Mike Glennon who's half concussed because that's what might keep him out.
So I think there's not going to be many points there for the Giants. So we'll see how it goes.
I think the Giants should find another reason to retire Eli Manning's jersey at halftime. Keep bringing him back to the state.
They should retire Eli Manning's Chargers jersey that he held up in front when he got drafted at halftime of this game. Yes, yes.
Just keep rolling them out. All right, good pick.
I don't know why I said good pick, but good pick. I do think, sticking on this game for one more second, the Chargers, this is a game that the Chargers, if they win convincingly, I'll start being like, okay, maybe they are good.
But if they struggle with the Giants, then everything I think about the Chargers is true, that they just can't put it like multiple performances together. There's no film out there on Jake Fromm in NFL.
That's true. I don't know how to game plan.
That's a fact. So I think it's just bring your safeties and cornerbacks all the way up because you can't throw anywhere or just start 11 players on defense.
Yeah, I think that's it. A bunch of different spread out reports, but it looks like Derek Henry could be back in early January.
This is all optimism side. And by the way, early January is still the regular season.
Right. I'm seeing maybe A.J.
Brown by week 16. Okay.
Which again is three games, not two. Yep.
And Julio is practicing. Okay.
So the Titans could get a little healthier. Yeah.
Yeah. I'm going to stick in the AFC, and I'm going to take the Chiefs minus 9.5 against the Raiders.
Everyone's talking about the Patriots. Everyone's talking about the Bills downgrading.
Chiefs are just sneaking by. Did they flip the switch? Offensively, no.
Offensively, they have not. Switch flipper.
The flitch swipper. I like that pick.
It doesn't mean anything. That's probably We'll see.
But I'm telling you right now, I like that pick. I do think the Chiefs are playing good.
They're due for a blowout to score 40 points. Same old Chiefs.
We've been saying that for a while. I know.
But I like what you're doing, so I agree. I do think that Rich Basicchia will never get his name right, by the way.
He's just become such a steady interim coach that I feel like the Raiders might just not say anything and he'll just stick around and just never leave the building and become head coach next year. There was essentially a story confirming that, that Mark Davis was like, I don't really feel like going and searching for a new head coach.
Yeah. I mean, he feels like a steady guy, right? He's a head coach out of convenience.
He's like a great stepdad. He's just there.
He's a stepdad that you're like a little bit worried about because you're like,

dad and mom got divorced for a weird reason,

and somebody was probably setting dad up for a million-dollar extortion plan.

And then stepdad comes, and you're like, fuck you, new stepdad.

And then he starts taking you to the skate park,

buys your friends R-rated movie tickets.

Before you know it, you're like, hey, Todd's actually a pretty chill dude. Let's get in his foxhole.
Yeah. Yeah.
Okay. Hank.
Underdog. Rat City.
Oh. But Ravens plus two.
Ooh. Okay.
Yeah. Okay.
Yeah. Okay.
Just by your reaction. You're going back into the Ravens after you just got burned by them.
Yeah. I mean, it is definitely an emotional two and a half.
There you go. Even better.
Even better. Even rattier.
This line doesn't make sense to me. It makes no sense.
I think the football team line makes a lot more sense than this one does. Oh, I disagree.
I think this makes perfect sense. The Browns are off a bye, and the last team they played was the Ravens.
So they basically essentially had three weeks of just Ravens prep. And Marlon Humphries is out.
I mean, the Browns can't really throw, but I think this line makes sense. The Browns are also very, very desperate for a win because this is a game if the Browns lose, their season's over.
I think this makes a lot of sense. And the Ravens have not been playing well.
They haven't. I would have expected that we would have gotten at least one more week of the built-in juice for the Ravens being a team that everyone expects to play well and to be a contender for the Super Bowl.
I thought that if they lose this game, I think that's when the lines like them being a two-and-a-half-point underdog would start to come in. I think they're one week early on downgrading the Ravens.
And the crazy thing to me is the same goes for the Bills, honestly. Because they were a play or two here and there away from beating the Patriots.
But now everyone's down on them. The Ravens were very, very, very close to winning that game.
And if they won that game, no one would say the Ravens aren't playing well. Okay, so the difference, I would argue, is the Patriots have been playing well going into the game against the Bills.
The Ravens were up in that game, and they let the Steelers come back. And the Ravens have been playing poorly.
They played – I mean, the Dolphins' loss was a bad loss. They – obviously, Lamar Jackson was out against the Bears.
They only beat the Bears by three. They stunk against the Browns.
They stunk against the Browns. But they won that game.
So they've been winning games, but winning them in an ugly, gross way. I feel like we haven't seen a good Ravens performance since they beat the Chargers, whatever it was, like two months ago.
So they're due, is what you're saying. Oh, I think the Browns are also due.
I don't know if we've ever had this situation, a bye week in between playing the same team. I don't think that we have either.
It's crazy. They can just sit there and keep their Ravens book open.
So we haven't talked about this guy yet on the Browns. They call him JOK because it's tough to pronounce his name, Jake.
We might need some education on this. Jeremiah Owusu-Koromoa.
I think that's somewhere close to how you pronounce his name. You nailed it.
That dude is fucking awesome. He's so much fun to watch, and I think that he gets slept on sometimes.
One, because a lot of people are idiots like us and can't figure out how to say his name correctly. And then two, because he wears number 28, a linebacker.
So he looks small, but he's actually awesome. He's a great linebacker.
He's like one of the fastest. He reminds me a lot of Micah Parsons, actually.
Another good rookie. But yeah, Jeremiah Owusu-Koromoa.

You nailed it. Did I? Yeah.

I love the pronunciation. I love it.

I could see him making

a case for Rookie of the Year. Oh, okay.

Wait, Micah Parsons

though. Yeah, but I'm telling you,

if joke, Jeremiah

Owusu-Koromoa,

fuck, I screwed up that time. If he

played in Dallas, we would be talking a lot more about him,

but the fact that he's in Cleveland doesn't get the exact shine.

By the way, TJ Watt is now the favorite to win defensive player of the year,

so that happened quickly.

Bubba, your favorite underdog.

That's going to be a good game, though, Hank.

I bet on every game, but that would be a game if I didn't bet on every game,

I'd be like, I don't know what's going to happen. Don't bet on that game.
Gamble responsibly. I'm taking Bengals plus one and a half.
I don't know why. I just kind of feel like Joe is due.
Mallet Finger, worried about that at all? No. Did I just break that news to you? No, I did see it.
A mallet finger. A mallet finger.
What does that mean? I don't know, but every time they say that, I think of Ryan Mallet, and that's not good when you think of Ryan Mallet as your quarterback. That is true.
I think of, when I hear Mallet, I think of Krabs, and then I think of James Winston, which is very good. Yeah, that's good.
Okay. Yeah, Ryan Mallet missing his alarm and getting cut by the Ravens, right? Was that it? It's kind of like me.
Yeah, that's true. You should be.
Yeah, you should stand in solidarity. Maybe the Texans or the Patriots.
I thought he got cut by the Texans. I know he was on the Patriots.
I want to say he got cut by the Texans because of it. I will find out the story there.
But yeah, that's actually good. Solidarity with people who oversleep.
Bubba's Ryan Malletfinger pick of the week. And then there's that gray guy.
What was his name? Jonah Gray for the Patriots? Dak Prescott. Jonas Gray.
Jonas Gray. Yeah, he was the Texans.
He had the four touchdown game, then he missed the... He missed his flight.
Yeah. Yeah.
Ryan Mallet mispracticed because he overslept and then got cut by the Texans. What a guy.
Unbelievable. Did that the texans are gonna bring back easterby oh nice that's what it sounds like i love that guy and they won't answer if they're bringing back dave cully probably not yeah i heard that they were just wishy-washy i why you can probably make an educated guess on that one yeah i mean but it's kind of unfair if you're gonna you if they fire they should at least fire him in the middle of next season because if you fire him him after this season, you're basically admitting you hired just to fire him.
That's not right. I think what they probably did was they hired David Culley because, one, they couldn't find anybody with actual head coaching experience.
Two, he seemed like a nice guy. He's a warm body.
He's a warm body, and he's not going to win you too many games and ruin your draft position. So they were like, yeah, this is the perfect fall guy for a season.
I had one other thing quickly going back to the Ravens-Browns game. A question.
Do you think – now, it's been talked about a million times over, but Bill Pullian actually, I think, helped Lamar Jackson's career because I don't think people criticize Lamar Jackson the same way that they would have if he had never had the stupid Bill Pullian comment. I mean, I think a lot of people, two years ago, I would have agreed with you.
But right now, I think that enough people have watched Lamar Jackson throw that they're like, he's limited as a passer. Especially like in the shorter pass, the touch pass department.
People talk about that a lot now. But there's always like a couching of it.
Like people criticize Lamar, but there's a, well, I'm not saying that he's a bad quarterback, but like he's not playing well right now. Lamar Jackson should, if he wants to get paid like an elite quarterback and he won an MVP, should be criticized.
Like Patrick Mahomes had three bad weeks and everyone was like, he's washed. So I don't know.
I think people are criticizing Lamar Jackson's passing. At least people that I hear.
It just gets a little bit, it's a little more subdued than criticism of maybe other guys. I will say it with my chest.
Okay. When I criticize Lamar Jackson.
He stinks at throwing short passes. He does stink at throwing short passes.
All right, PFT, your favorite underdog. My favorite underdog, I'm going to take the Falcons.
Plus and a half yeah it's going to be sunny weather makes a difference Matt Ryan loves playing outside he does not known fact known fact alright my underdog Billy you will be at the game Jets plus five and a. Also my underdog.
Let's do it, baby. Only other Mormon quarterback to throw four interceptions this season.
There we go. It's the Mormon quarterback ball.
Exactly. Yeah.
So Billy will be soaking in this game. Yeah, Billy will be at the game.
He will report live afterwards. He's obviously going to come to do his job Sunday night.
I'm excited, though, that you're going to get to go to the game. He's going with Mincy.
He asked for permission. I said, absolutely, that's definitely worth it because I'm sure we'll get some good stories from him.
But yeah, that will be I don't know. The Jets, hold your nose, bet the Jets, pray.
It's going to be fun. We'll see what happens.
Is it, though? Zach Wilson just won his second rookie of the week this past week. Oh, wow.
And he's been trending upward since he came back. Wait, he won rookie of the week this week? Yep.
It was a bad week for rookies. Very bad week.
He is more rookie. How? No one else played well? He is more rookie of the week wins than any other rookie quarterback.
Wow. He's not wrong.
Okay. Well, I mean, who is he competing against there? Mac Jones.
Mac Jones threw it three times. He should have won.
Mac Jones should have won Offensive Rookie of the Week. I think he threw about 70 times more yards than Mac Jones.
Okay. I think that's right.
Wow. Yeah.
Incredible. Good for him.
We're just filling up the trophy case with Rookie of the Weeks.

All right, Jake, underdog.

Bills plus three and a half against the Buccaneers.

Everyone's off the Bills, which is why I'm taking the Bills.

That's it.

I think, yeah, I'm excited for this game.

If this were closer, I was going to pick it as an emotional hedge

where either the Bills lose, Patriots have a string hole in the AFC East,

and Tom Brady wins, but there's too many points for it.

It's too risky.

I'll see. where either the Bills lose, Patriots have a string hole in the AFC East, and Tom Brady wins, but there's too many points for...
It's too risky. The Bills can still lose but cover.
Yeah, so this game, to me... I just love the fact the Bills have a chance to circle the wagons here right away.
Because the Bucs, weirdly... They do actually match up...
The Bills match up well with the Bucs. The Bucs don't have anybody in the second game.
Right, exactly. The Bills can't run the ball.
So it's weirdly not a terrible matchup for them. I think it's pretty.
It is an Antonio Brown revenge game. Yes, that's true.
You remember that 12 hours that he was going to go to the Bills? I like it. Yeah.
I like it. But, yeah, I kind of like the Bills.
I like that pick, Jake. I do have him in the Hungry Dog for sure.
Oh, okay. Your favorite over? My favorite over is the over 48 Chiefs Raiders.
I like that too. These teams feel like over teams.
Not buying it on the Chiefs defensive resurgence. Not fully.
I think this is going to be a revert to the mean game. Derek Carr, they can run it up.
Pat Mahomes, he can run it up. They might score 40 on their own.
Like Jake was saying, their offenses kind of do. Everyone's been talking about their defense.
If they are going to make a run for the number one seed, they've got to come out and really show out. And the Raiders have a decent offense on their own.
Do you know how they do the dots? We were talking about the dots, the quarterback dots that they do after the game. I'd like to see a 3d version for derrick cars because he has to have the most height on his ball he threw a couple balls last week that i'm pretty sure like they hit the they hit the top wall of the raven's he just loves to just chuck it as high as he can him and aaron rogers i think russell wilson maybe yeah they got some high balls high high tom brady sometimes when he when he lets one go down yeah he's got some high balls.
The king used to be Brett Favre. High balls.
He used to just throw. He used to call them Favres.
Fades. You did? Yeah, back in the day.
Favres? Favres. Oh, Brett Favres.
Just chuck it up. When you cock back and you throw a ball way up there.
It just throw a freaking moonshot. Okay.
Bubba, your favorite over. I'm doing Bill's Bucks over 53 and a half.
Just a fun over. It's a fun over.
That is a very fun over. I like it.
Afternoon over. Although Bucks unders.
Just take a look. If you want to be a real masochist, they've had two of the most brutal games that first half uh goes way over second half goes way under the last week against the falcons and then when they played the bears and they missed it by like there was like 38 points in the first half and six in the second so just be alert second half bucks games die i hate teams that do that by the way it's always like aaron rogers and tom br, because they just care about winning more than they care about us the gamblers.
They just start running the ball in the second half. They're like, oh, I just want to win this game.
I don't want to put up stats and get everyone the over. Unless there's one person on the other team that has wronged me in the past of my career.
In which case, I'll put 50 points on you. Selfish shit.
Alright, your favorite over. My favorite favorite over, I'm going to do the Ravens and the Browns, 43.
Ooh. Yep.
It's not a nighttime game, so the Ravens aren't going to be wearing the black uniforms. Nope.
I gave that out as a hot pick. That one hit.
It's going to be daytime. Ravens give up more points than daytime, I think.
So Browns, Ravens. Oh, good weather, too.
It's going to be mid-40s and sunny. Let's go.
So as a podcast, believes strongly in the weather and how it relates to points scored in a football game, this is a good weather game for the over. It looks like every game is going to be a good weather game.
Yeah, it's a beautiful Sunday. Beautiful Sunday.
All right, I'm going to take the 49ers-Bengals over 49. A little worried about the mallet finger, but I think the 49ers will be able to score at will on the Bengals, and the Bengals always feel like even when the Bengals are down, it's like they'll put up points because that's just what they do.
Billy. I might switch some picks.
Oh, no. Wait.
You can't. But not because of anything we discussed, just my own mental thing.
Okay. Talk about it.
You mean your brain? The past two weeks, my over-unders have have not been going well and i just decided because i like for example my over is also bangles 49ers but you're fading me i'm not fading you but my under is bill's buccaneers and like they both seem like bangles 49ers was an under game in my mind so i made the over in over in the Bills Buccaneers games and under over game in my mind.

So I made it the under, but I think I might just go with my first gut on this one.

Wait, wait, wait.

But those are two games that we just talked about and back to back already bet on them.

So we talked to you into changing your mind.

This is exactly, I appreciate you being honest. No, but I've just, I have it written down, but that's my thought process on picking them.

But I'm just, I might just go with my gut. But you wrote them down after we talked to you out of them.
This is exactly what I was afraid of. Exactly.
But I'm just changing them because of my own. Because other people picked them.
Yeah, exactly. This is literally going against the spirit of the game, Billy.
You're picking, if it was random games, it'd be one thing. Yeah, you have to stay with your original.
have to stay with the original how about this? How about I'll stick with no what if we let Billy changes pick? But they both have to hit and then he gets credit for two if either one of them loses then you get credit for two No, I think we started letting Billy go first. Yeah, you're right.
That's good. You think I'm really gonna start you just did Literally just give it to us same boat same boats right now.
They're both locked in okay I'm gonna going to start? You just did. You literally just did.
All right, just give it to us. Say them both.
Say them both right now. They're both locked in.
Okay. I'm going to go with my original ones, actually.
I'm going to go Bengals 49ers over 49. Okay.
Bills Buccaneers under 53 and a half. Okay, great.
You're locked in. Good job, Billy.
Jake, go ahead. Give us your favorite over.
I'm with PFT on Ravens Browns over 43. Yeah.
All right. Now let's do our unders.
Wrap it up. No one's touching the Bears.
I'm touching them. I'm touching them.
You're touching the Bears? Touching the shit out of them. You're touching the Bears? Getting all up in their shit.
Because they're not going to score at all, and the Packers are going to beat them 35-0. Okay, so you're taking the under.
I'm taking the under. Okay.
You know, that's not a terrible idea. Because Aaron Rodgers will...
43-and-a-half. Yeah.
Yeah, the over-under is 43-and-a-half. I've seen this...
35-0 is your computer model. I've seen this song and dance many times.
Yeah. The Bears...
I can't argue. ...aren't great on offense.
Justin Fields is playing. Yes.
Doesn't matter. Matters a little? No.
I don't think it matters that much. Maybe less.
Maybe in the opposite end. It really is a case of...
Especially when there's like... The thing about the wide receivers and shit, like you go from practicing with Andy Dalton and all of a sudden Justin Fields, it's not like your typical backup, starter, switch, swap him out.
It's completely different play styles. Yeah, but their defense is getting Andy Dalton being scout team Aaron Rodgers, though.

Doesn't that help?

Mm-hmm.

Sure.

Justin Fields is going to make a crazy touchdown run right in your face.

I honestly think that as long as Aaron Rodgers is on the Packers, it doesn't matter who else is playing in those uniforms.

You can put anybody out there.

No, we've beaten him three times in the last decade.

Three times.

Shout out to Shea McClellan.

Broke his fucking body in half.

Aaron Rodgers, you bitch.

All right, Bubba.

I'm going Titans, Jags, under 43 and a half.

I just feel like neither of these teams have anybody on offense.

Yeah, which is simulated score?

It's one of those ugly, like 16-14. I could see that.
16-13 or something. Totally.
Totally. Totally.
All right. PFT.
All right. My under is Saints.
Wait. I have that too.
Sorry. I don't know why.
That's why I was probably agreeing so much. I actually have that as well.
Saints-Jets 43 taking the under. The Mormon Bowl.
Billy's going to be there. That's definitely going to be an ugly game.

I'm thinking Saints.

The deep numbers are telling me Saints 15, Jets 3.

Ooh.

That's what my model is.

I did the simulation 30.

Ugly score.

I did it 30,000 times.

27,000 of those times, the total was under 35 points.

This is an A-plus game of the week for me. Wow.
Jake, wrap us up. I'm taking Detroit-Denver under 42.5.
This also has the vibes of one of those 16-13 games. Good pick because that's the only game we didn't talk about.
Look at that. I love this game.
Moneyline. Detroit? Yeah.
After winning? Yeah.

No way, dude.

Yes, way, dude.

I liked them winning last week.

I was right.

You won a winning streak?

I like them winning again this week.

Yeah.

A winning streak for us?

No way.

Broke the seal.

Monkeys off their back.

They broke the seal.

Other way around.

They've been playing well all year.

Because they've been desperate for a win.

And now that they got it, they want to keep that taste in their mouth.

Just chill out.

Relax.

They have something to build on. They just want to chill out and relax.
You're going to max chill out. I'm going to max that Moneyline special.
Old horny Hank over there just wants to see Jared Goff's girlfriend post the video on the timeline. Yeah, you do.
I'll show you my tits if you're not horny. Bonk Lockwood.
No, see, I would argue that that would be bonk you because you're the one that brought the whole thing up. It's fair, actually.
No, I'm just so far inside your head that I know how horny you are. No, you're inside your own head.
No, you're inside my head. I'm going to say something horny, so everyone else must be thinking horny things.
No, I'm thinking what's the biggest lying story thinking what's the biggest Lions story from this week. Oh, yeah.
It was Dan Orlovsky jacking off to Ian Rappaport's post on Twitter. I thought the win was probably number one.
The win was pretty big, too. Close second.
Dan Orlovsky being alone in a hotel room for six minutes and seeing Trey Wingo's timeline. Also, the Lions aren't statistically eliminated from the playoffs.
I have a Jared Goff MVP future. Let's go.
This could be the start of the run. Hell yes.
You believed. You believed.
Where is that future at? If he wins MVP, she's got to go full bush. I put it in before the season.
I'll look it up right now. All right.
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Okay, let's get into it. Fantasy Fuckboys.
I put two futures in before the season. The pass to win the championship, plus $3,300.
Jared Goff to win the MVP, plus $12,525 to win $3,000. Still alive.
Still alive. Not dead.
No. We ain't leaving.
What's dead may never die. I've got Jameis Winston to win the MVP and comeback player of the year.
Sadly, that won't be happening. Damn.
That actually could have happened. It definitely would have happened.
By the way, I'm very, very disappointed in the Steelers for not nominating Big Ben for Walter Payton Man of the Year. Yeah.
He'll have to come back, I guess, next year. He will absolutely have to do it again.
Yeah. One more year, Ben.
All right. Fantasy Fuck Boys.
Yo, what's up, boys? What's up, boys? What's up? It's John O's. John Alipe.
Hey, John O's. My stardom is UFOs.
Oh, yeah. I know fucking Billy.
Fuck, boy, saw this video. Some pilot up in the sky saw a formation of like five unidentified flying objects.
They say it's the best proof of UFOs we have yet. It was probably camera glint.
No, shut the fuck up, Billy. Shut the fuck up.
Shut the fuck up,'s not a camera glint there was six glints What do you know about a glint There's glints everywhere You stupid fucking idiot My sit-em is Babe Ruth Oh yeah that guy sucks Someone found a video of like 19 Whenever the fuck he was-fuck-he-was-born. Baby, no.
He had a shitty swing. He looked slow and fat.
If he was in today's day and age, he wouldn't even fucking be in double A. I would have booed the fuck out of him from the outfield stands.
I'm taking away his pinstripes. I'd probably strike him out.
Also, apparently he killed his first wife. What? He's an orphan.
Allegedly. Is that for real? He's not an orphan either.
His parents dropped him off at the orphanage. Oh, wow.
They suck so much hitting fastballs. Yeah.
I went down a crazy rabbit hole. There's some crazy shit.
Maybe it's fake, but yeah, he killed his first wife, allegedly, but not really. Does that make you an orphan when your parents literally take you to an orphanage and you're like, hey, this kid sucks ass.
You raise him. Get out of here.
I don't think so. I think it just means you suck as a child.
Yeah, definitely you're not an orphan because you got parents. You just had bad vibes.
Yeah. Your dad was like, I can't hang with this kid.
Right. Shout out orphans.
I love you. And then my sleeper.
Shout out. Shout out orphans.
It was the number one podcast for orphans. My sleeper.
Shout out all the twists. My sleeper is commissioners with playoffs this week in fantasy when people are still on their buys.
Yeah, you dickhead. That's a dickhead move.
It's chaos. Yeah.
That's a move that you didn't think through. Yeah.
It's coming around to bite you. It's fucked up.
I'm talking to you, Brian. This shit's fucked up.
Holy shit. A shit show.
Brian, what the fuck, dude? What the fuck, Beacon? Why didn't you fucking realize there was 18 fucking weeks this year? Absolute chaos. So put those commissioners to sleep.
Nothing specific. Brian, you fucking piece of shit.
I'm authorizing a contract on Brian right now. It's open season.
Who do you got on by? Hypothetically. I actually am doing okay.
But Brian, you fuck. You dickhead, Brian.
You know what you do. Hey, what's up, you dickheads? It's me, Benvenido DiNucci.
And I'm actually starting James Madison University Sports because we just took out those fuckheads. We're the University of Virginia now.
Suck my dick, Cavaliers. That's probably the worst loss in college basketball you've ever had Oh you're talking UMBC No I'm talking Yeah guess what There's a new Virginia in town You motherfucker And also we're about to smash Montana So fuck the Grizzlies It's time for Jimmy to be on the rise up right now I'm sitting Mike Mike Glennon.
Even though his neck's feeling better,

his head's feeling better, right?

His head's feeling better.

Daniel Jones and Danny Dye. Danny Jones' neck, Michael Glennon's head.

It's half the cusp for Billy Football 20 minutes ago.

Mike Glennon, let the fan play neck.

Please, I would love to see Mike Glennon out there.

I don't want to see him.

Give me one more week.

We got the rest of our careers to see Jake Fromm. I would love to see Mike Glennon out there.
I don't want to see. No, you wouldn't.
That's a cat. Give me one more week.
We got the rest of our careers to see Jake Fromm. Capricola.
I would love to see Mike Glennon for just one more week. My sleep is Jelaine Maxwell.
Oh, hey. Gilly the kid.
You would? The truth is going to come out. I mean, let's be honest, fellas.
We got red-blooded Americans. Not if Twitter has anything to do about it.
Red-blooded Americans right now. Shutting down.
They're trying to silence Billy. She's about to be a sleeper.
They don't want the truth. Billy and Jilly sitting in a tree.
K-I-S-S-I-N-G. Billy, would you do her? No.
Okay, good answer, Billy. He's got morals.
Alright, what's up, fuckheads? It's Tony the Tiger. My stardom is Danny Boy Kane.
He's back. And the U is building a monster.
A monster. If you're in Tallahassee, if you're in Gainesville, shut this program off right now and go get your ass recruiting because Chris the Ball's here and the bad guy's back.
I love it. Danny Boy Kane did die at no time.
Had swine flu. At no point.
But he did get attacked by a bear. No, he would have run.
He would have hightailed it out of here like Carl Lewis.

All right, my cinema's dick pics to your dad.

That was crazy.

Succession.

No spoilers, but dick pics to your dad.

Don't do that.

Don't do it.

That was actually going to be Billy's cinema as well, but it had nothing to do with success.

Yeah, he hasn't seen an episode yet.

All right, my sleeper's Justin Fields.

I think something magical is going to happen. I do I feel it in my brush holes This kid, I don't know The moment might be too big for him I think something magical is going to happen Deep, deep What's good, my name's Rocco Spolini Rocco Spolini What's up guys, it's Roc My stardom is No, you don't give yourself a nickname Your name's Rocco Spolini You can't say my name's Rocco Spolini Everyone calls's up guys? It's Rock.
My stardom is... No, you don't give yourself a nickname.
Your name's Rock. It's Rock.
You can't say my name's Rock. Everyone calls me Rock.
And then give yourself a cooler nickname. No, everyone just calls me Rock.
Okay, Dwayne. Yeah, but it's Rocko.
Rocko. Yo, yo.
My stardom is Nick Bosa. He's had 50 pressures all year.
Guy's about to face his former adversary, Joey Burrow. Good Italian boy.
It's gonna be a good game. My sit-em is extra points.
They've been the lowest percentage made since 1979. 92.5% made.
Stats are for fucking losers, Billy. The Rock like stats.
Oh, The Rock, sorry. The Rock like stats.
Rocco, Rocco, you know that the kickers are getting too jacked, and that's why it's happening, right? Hey, hey, I'm not saying, but something to be said. Bring back the fat kickers.
They jump in the balls. My sleeper are Santa's.
It's SantaCon this weekend. There's going to be a bunch of Santas asleep on the boardwalk from getting knocked out or just being passed out.
Just jacking each other off. Stay safe at SantaCon.
That's always my favorite. When the video comes out, just Santa's puking on each other.
Santa on Santa. Socks driving through the city on Saturday.
I'm trying to go to the Army, Navy, and I'm going to be Santa's everywhere. I also heard that Billy, Billy, where were you two nights ago? Did you happen to be around the Fox News building? Did the Christmas tree burn down? Rocks out.
No, that Libby football football has some You are a soldier in the war on Christmas No comment from The Rock That's interesting I just heard a rumor that Billy football had something to do with burning down Fox News' Christmas tree I got out on bail It would be a shame if people reported him to the police for that It did look like you, I saw the arson It looked exactly like you The guy you just got released without bail. No, that's the guy who you have taking a fall for you.
Your patsy. Uh-huh.
Jesus. What? You burned a tree.
That's a serious crime. I know.
Billy got triggered. Billy got triggered.
You got triggered. Oh, now you're minimalizing.
It's not a real tree. He knows the details.
It's not a real tree. How do you know that? It wasn't a real tree.
It was a decorative ornament. What do you mean? You must have been really up close to know that.
It looks like a tree to me on TV when I've seen a pig cat. Wait, what? Wasn't a real tree.
How do you know that though? It's a fake tree, artificial tree. How do you know? Everyone else thought it was real.
It must have been really up close. Sort of a pyramid cone type shape.
No, no. I read about it.
Oh, interesting. Most arsonists do actually read about their stories afterwards and get really close to it.
You can usually find the person across the street. Yeah, they're at the scene watching...
So it sounds like you've been keeping up the date on it. No comment.
Okay. Billy, burn the tree down.
Billy, burn the tree. Everyone report him on Twitter.
Just not to the actual police, please. Don't do it to the police.
Don't report him on Twitter. But he did burn the tree.
He did. All right.
Let's get to our interview. We've got Mario Lopez in studio.
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It keeps going. Right.
I like the poly walnuts and leave the wings in on the side. That would actually be a sick look for you.
That might be a sick look. But once you go there, you can't go back.
I know. I'm stuck because I've done it and then I get lazy.
So then everyone's like, wow, you have so many gray hairs. And then I'll do it randomly.
So I'm stuck. They quickly remind you.
Yeah. No.
Every single time. It's like, yeah, well, I'm 36 and I have two kids and I'm fucking, I'm tired, okay? What do you want me to do? Hey, man, at least you have your hair.
Yes, that's true. That's amazing.
Good point. You want to hear something embarrassing? I just, just for men, my facial hair.
Oh, okay. That is embarrassing.
It looks good. It's very embarrassing.
Yeah, thank you for saying that. I can tell that you mean it.
Yeah, I can't tell. I didn't know you could do that.
Good to know. Note to self.
Turns out you can't. Not really what they're going for, but I'm trying to look as white trash as possible.
All right, so my first question was actually about Saved by the Bell and the fact that, like, did you ever think that we would be sitting here in 2021? Not only were you doing our new Saved by the Bell, but it's still just as relevant and talked about as it was, you know, 30 it's crazy it is crazy because yeah that's a long time 30 some odd years and you know you gotta you gotta remember it was a saturday morning show so it was for little kids right right our competition was like bugs bunny and we were talking about real vanilla stuff yeah and and our ep was um strong born again christian and there was like no cussing signs on set i mean it was again like little kids so it tripped me out that it even caught on with teenagers right and much less young adults um and that it would still be around uh all these years later and the fact that we are revisiting it with like this whole new reimagining now the new take the pardon me the new uh the new 2.0 version a lot bigger budget yeah it's like next level as far as production is concerned and we were we're blessed to have like tracy wigfield who's emmy uh award-winning showrunner she did like 30 rock mindy kateley show a bunch of shows and she was a fan so i i think she's done a really good job of like blending the nostalgia with like this new modern take so it's much hipper edgier okay cooler and my character is cool to play because he's like one of those dudes, and we all know him, that are stuck in his era, wears the same clothes, listens to the same music, has the same game. You know what I mean? Yeah, peaked in high school.
There you go, exactly. He's sort of like the Al Bundy-like.
Yes, yes. Which is a fun guy to play.
Yes, absolutely. If you did peak in high school, you're kind of a nerd.
Right. Yeah, so I love Slater slater slater was one of my favorite characters it's interesting that you mentioned like the saturday morning aspect of because a lot of people in my generation i think i know it at least as being an after school show like i get home from school and i've got a syndication in syndication right that's when it really kind of started taking off which tripped me out because you're right it didn't like in saturday morning like we did you know we did fine for saturday morning and we did well but not until i went into syndication and kids after school started watching it and then um it really uh you know i guess took off or whatever are you allowed to cuss on set now am i yeah did they change that we don't have we don't have the same yeah not that uh i want to you know what would you say though like is is the reason that it resonated? It's very odd sometimes to think about what are the shows and what are the things that stand the test of time and say by the bell is absolutely that.
Is it the writing? Is it the characters? I don't know. I can't really put my finger on it.
Yeah, I can't either, but I think there's a few factors. I think there was, because it was so vanilla and kind of cheesy, there's an innocence to it.
Yep. And we were actual teenagers playing teenagers, where at the time there wasn't.
Like if you look at Grease or even 90210, which is literally these, you know, they were like in their 30s. Right.
We were actually 15 playing 15-year-olds and 16-year-olds playing, you know. So we were actual teenagers playing teenagers.
There was a certain innocence to it um pretty diverse cast yeah you had like a latino kid you had a jewish kid you had a black and you had a pretty diverse cast somebody you know what i mean which was kind of nice so yeah representation all around there um and there were hot girls yeah so so i think all those factors probably contributed uh to uh to its appeal i also think it's probably a little bit of like the idea idea of California high school. I mean, I have a running bit here that I'm always afraid of California teenagers because they seem cooler and more like they just feel like they experience life a lot faster.
So I think New York, really? Yeah. Well, yeah.
None of us are from here. We all live here now.
But like there's something about California. I think it's just they're always outside.
And that vibe of California high school, it's like, ooh, this is foreign. It is pretty idyllic, too.
Because it's kind of hard to be in a bad mood when it's 75 and sunny every day. Right.
Literally. I left.
It was 80 degrees. Right.
And so it is a pretty idyllic setting. Yeah.
And the fact that that gets highlighted with young kids and then the good-looking girls and stuff, I'm sure that probably- Yeah, it's a cool scene. The most important question I have for you as the character of Slater, this is something that actually impacted the world in a way that I'm not- I don't even know if you're aware of how many dominoes fell after you started to do this, but you came up with the idea to sit backwards in your chair, and that just cool as shit was that was that you or was that the director that's like hey slater should sit backwards in his chair because he's cooler than everybody no that was me i tried it so the character was written um to sort of be like uh travolta and welcome back cotter like that vinnie bob marino character yeah kind of like a streetwise kind of kid and so i just i try to do little little little things that i thought were cool at 15 at the time spent on the chair and and rocket tank top with z capricis but um the crazy thing was is when when we got the parts they asked us to write down all the list of like activities and hobbies that we were into so he was just supposed to be like the street kid whose dad was traveling around like an army brat.
But I wrote down, so my mom put me in a bunch of different stuff to keep me busy and out of trouble growing up in the neighborhood I did. And it worked for the most part.
And so I wrestled, played the drums, I danced, did karate, all this stuff, and they incorporated it into the character. He wasn't supposed to be all that.
So they just did that. That was more me.
I like that.

Did you actually wrestle?

Yeah, I did.

Because I had a question about that,

the famous fight between you and Zach.

Yeah.

I choreographed that.

I'm always proud to say.

Okay. I choreographed that.

Pretty good at 15.

I have a problem with it.

If you watch it, and we'll make a clip of this,

a wrestler never lets the other guy get up like that.

He got up pretty easily.

Well, I had to stick to the script. Okay.
Because I was going to that you had a prime like rear naked choke territory he never like if that was if you were a true like no one wants to ever get in a fight with a wrestler because right they'll just take you down and submit you know grounded down right and you kind of you you were maybe that was like the beginning of ufc because you were cool with with fighting you know, throwing some hands and not actually wrestling. Yeah.
Yeah. I like to throw hands because I box too.
Okay. All right.
So there it is. Those are my sports.
Yeah. So you are an MMA.
Yeah. That was the first MMA fight.
So I liked it. And so, no, that was fun, man.
So it was written the script. And I said, hey, I can choreograph this.
And we can, you know, it was supposed to be kind of even and we go back and forth. And so we just kind of did it really quick and then uh i like that people kind of dug that yeah i mean you have a hell of a job because you took a nice shot and you didn't even right flinch yeah yeah good beard yeah yeah i have another thing to dig into here um about like an inconsistency on saved by the bell in your character okay so you played football we know that right yeah sometimes you wore the number six sometimes you wore the number 73 did they switch positions that was pointed out to me I don't even remember to be honest maybe the other one was dirty at the time I don't even know I don't think there were any consistency because that's like an offensive lineman and a wide receiver very different for the record though what position did AC Slater play I don't think it was ever established to be honest i feel like uh you can say it right now though back that would actually get some traction on some of the worst blogs on the internet i really don't i mean i don't know i guess he'd probably be like a safety okay ac slater's an awesome safety downhill just popping people yeah people wrestled so he'd be a good contact and stuff i like that the other thing that i wanted to bring up was you played basketball in one episode.
Did we? Yeah. No.
You were on the basketball team for one episode. No.
Was I? Yeah. And you were also a wrestler.
That's the same season. That's the same season.
Exactly. I really don't remember that.
I swear. It really broke the fourth wall of believability for me.
Yeah, yeah. You were just that good of an athlete.
Did we play? Yeah, it was like in the morning, I think we played. No, I don't know.
I don't remember. I swear to God, I don't remember that.
I don't know if you played, because I always think like basketball of 90s sitcoms, I think of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and then playing basketball. So here, I'm just going to show you a still.
Oh, wow. Oh, I believe you.
I just don't remember. Hang on.
This is important. In that picture right there, you were 23, rocking the basketball jersey.
So either that or you're stealing valor. You mean I was 23 the number? I wasn't 23 years old.
I was 23 the number. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Got it, got it. Yeah, you were number 23.
Who was the best cameo that came by the set, and why was it Jim Harbaugh? That's right, Jim Harbaugh. I love me some Jim Harbaugh.
You better remember that. Yeah, of course.
I do remember that. I do remember that.
And then he later went on to be a Charger, too. Yes.
I'm a Charger fan. So, yeah, and a great guy.
Yes. Great guy.
I remember I actually partied with Jim Harbaugh, too. Really? Yeah.
Later on, there was like some golf tournament or whatever. It was in Michigan.
Yeah. How'd you golf? Oh, my golf was trash.
I never had time to play. But I like to party and have fun out there.
Yeah, we played the most he's ever been disappointed in anyone ever was we went and did his charity scramble a few years ago in Michigan. Yeah.
It was probably the same tournament that I did in Michigan. Yeah, it was four of us.
And obviously when you have four people playing best ball, you should have a really good score. He asked our score at the end and we're like plus three.
And he was like, what do you mean was like well we're all really bad yeah and he just like he just drove away i'd fit right in with you guys and that's my kind of thing and the irony is i actually have a golf tournament really yeah it benefits the um saint joseph's hospital where my kids are born okay it's for a good cause and i told him i say i don't play golf i don't say it goes like it takes up a lot of time so i I don't really have enough time to do all that. And I figured I'll play when I'm older.

My body's broken down to decrepit.

I'm too active.

I like to do boxing and jujitsu and all that.

But I have a tournament, but I don't really play.

I go out there and kind of hack a little bit.

Yeah.

And I put make sure everybody has a bottle of tequila in their cart.

And we have a good time.

I like that.

I like that.

Wait.

So you are a busy guy.

What is like a day to day schedule?

Because I feel like you are America's host. Thank you.
I appreciate that. Like every hosting job, it's like, well, Mario can do it.
Yeah. Like he's awesome.
We've been keeping busy. So I feel, you know, this last like year or so in the pandemic, it's been like the busiest time of my life.
But to answer your question, so I'll get up. Yeah, I got three kids.
I'll have breakfast with all of them. I head out and I usually, I either box or do jujitsu every day.
Oh my God. Or at least Monday through Friday.
Saturday, the weekends, I try to take a break. Oh, wow.
I'll do something else. I'll take a break from working out.
I'll do a break from that. I'll go do something with the wife or a spin class or just give the body a break.
So I'll get up, I'll go. Wait, wait.
You just said you'll do a spin class to give your body a break. Yeah, right.
Yeah, well. I just want to make sure everyone heard that.
that. As opposed to sparring, because that gets taught.
You know, at my age, especially, you got to, you know what I mean? The physical contact, I'll give that a break. So I'll get up.
We have breakfast with the kids. They go to school.
I'll go to Mondays. I'll go box.
And then I go do my radio show. I have a nationally syndicated radio show I do with my wife called On With Mario.
Okay. For iHeart.
So we do that. Then from there, this is all universal.

Then from there I go do

Access Hollywood, which is at night,

the world of entertainment. I'll shoot that.

And then after that, I'll do

a show called Access Daily, which is

sort of like a Regis and Kelly.

I'm cooking, I'm dancing,

I'm eating and drinking, I'm talking

to celebrities. It's sort of that vein.

So that takes up probably the most part. Then after that, for like this last six did say by the bell i'd go shoot say by the bell um and then i had it to where they worked out my schedule to where i just shoot my scenes and most of the time i'd get out of there to still go help coach my son's wrestling team oh nice and then i'm used so i'm there for breakfast and i'm pretty much there time for dinner nice you know once in a while i got a meeting or something i gotta miss but for the most part you know so uh and then i'll squeeze like a christmas movie in yeah right all that

right so you hosting access hollywood has it ever dawned on you i'm sure it has but like there are a bunch of uh women in america who are like probably in loveless marriages watching you every day being like i love Mario Lopez. Oh, thank you.
I appreciate that. I'm not that, but yeah, I would imagine like you, there are certainly like we have Rob Lowe on the show.
Rob Lowe has said many times that like he found out very quickly that he can do tours across America and it's like 40 to 60 year old women show up and they love him. I imagine like there's a lot of people watching that show.
Like I love Mario Lopez. Well, Rob's an icon.
Nice guy too. Yeah.
I mean, that's my audience. That's my demo right there with both the radio show and with Access Hollywood and in the lifetime Christmas movies that I do that that's all the same sort of audience.
So I appreciate them. I'm grateful.
Yep. You know, and you're going to keep working out for them.
God bless. Yeah.
You always have like a good positive energy about you, which is why I think people invite you into their homes and you're a good choice for hosting anything really. Oh, thanks.
It's like people like to see you. They get a good vibe from you all the time.
But as an individual, you're a human being. And I have to imagine that there are bad days that you have.
There are days where you might not be in a great mood, but you always like, it's always cognizant that you have to be, you know, a friendly, warm, engaging personality. Is there something that you do if you're having a bad day? Like, how do you burn that off? I've always wondered that about people that work day in and day out doing these hosting type of shows.
How do you get past that and move into a place where you can be the person that people want to watch on tv yeah that's a good question you know for the for the most part um like i'm a pretty happy guy not a day because being a uh a former child actor like i recognize and have seen firsthand that a lot of people aren't able to make that transition or to be taken serious into work so i don't i mean i thank god every day and i don't take it for granted i've always had sort of that hustler mentality that um we don't grow up with money you and you start making a little bit you have two attitudes you can either kind of be very flossy and kind of flaunt it around or you can kind of keep it be like oh shit this can all go away like that and I'm gonna save it for a rainy day and and I continue to have guarded optimism even though being as busy as I am so I think maintaining that hustler I feel very grateful for everything that I do. And I also love what I do.
I love the world of entertainment. I love movies.
I love TV. I love music.
I like talking to people and I like hosting, whether it's a national TV show, a radio show, or it's like a game night at my house or a bocce tournament or just having people over. I like making sure everybody's having a good time.
I like to have a drink, and I like to make sure everyone's kind of having fun. So I essentially just kind of carry that over into my job.
You know, there's some times you're fighting with the old lady or something like that, and you just got to be professional. Just kind of got to remember and take a time out and then get your act together.
It is an incredible skill. I think that hosting is one of those jobs that people take it for granted when they're watching it because the job of a host is to make it look effortless you know what i mean you by by nature when you do your job well everyone's like i could do that job but it really is like i always watch hosts and i'm always like man that's got to be tough like pft said just be positive all the time be happy like because people invite you into their homes they don't want to invite negative energy into their home no you're absolutely right and i think it's got to be you've got to be that person naturally i don't think you can if someone doesn't have that personality then it's never going to work yeah because because because people are smart and they can sense if you're being authentic or being organic in that way and and and they'll catch on so i think it's it's either in you or you're there it's not yeah um curveball you owe your entire life to a witch doctor oh damn that's a mean deep cut right there is that true yeah that's old school um yeah when i was little my uh like my stomach wasn't fully formed or something and i was born like eight and a half and then i whittled down to like four because i couldn't hold anything in and the priest came and blessed me and I was gonna be I was like a goner but my dad sounds crazy when I tell the story but my dad sort of kidnapped me from the hospital and took me to this like bruja which is like a Mexican witch doctor down in um in Senala and in Mexico I grew up right by the border uh first generation kid but my parents are old school so they took me down there and the lady had fixed my dad's leg that he thought was gonna have to be amputated earlier because of some accident but she ended up squaring him away so he gave it he took me down there and um she had him mix this crazy concoction into this uh carnation milk and slow and started giving it to me and slowly i started getting better and that's insane i say it out loud it sounds i don't really I mean, that's kind of a cool thing.
Yeah. A witch doctor started this whole thing.
Yeah.

So I'm all, I guess I'm a believer of alternative medicine. Yeah.
You think so? Or a product of it. I am too.
Yeah. You can't turn your back on that.
You should get a carnation sponsorship. Right? Yeah.
Hey, Mario Lopez is witch milk. Yeah.
Has she ever hit you up and been like, Hey, maybe some residuals here? No, I think she was like, she was quite uh up up in years when when I was a baby got it but I mean she I would assume she can create a potion to keep herself alive one would assume right so she probably is probably probably listen to the show probably like Yoda right now just chilling out there yeah long time stoolie that's a pretty cool story though like that's a true story i mean my dad always shows me because he showed me when i was younger the bills that he's bad trying to keep my ass alive that's incredible and all it took was one trip down to ensenata one trip down to this lady with her little she put me on and rubbed my belly and did a whole thing my dad says i didn't believe him until my mom told me my mom never left wow they said incredible and then yeah so measure, you've had, the fact that you're alive is a success. It is, yeah.
And you've had a great career since then. Has there ever been a time when you thought, like, you know, acting's fun, but maybe I just want to walk away from it.
Maybe I want to not be on TV for a while. No, you know, well, coming out of high school, I was like at a crossroads because, maybe about a year or two out high school because, you know, Saved by the Bell was ending.
People were kind of looking at me just as that role. And it was hard to kind of get taken serious as an actor in other positions.
So I thought the opportunity presented itself for my first hosting gig. I did it and I liked it.
And then I thought, well, maybe I can kind of lean into this a little bit more. And I figured there are no rules, so why not try anything? So I started hosting and got into theater and started getting into a little producing.
So I figured I've always, again, tried to keep hustling these other areas. And I figured something might sort of work.
And then I got the opportunity to work with Dick Clark. And we became friends.
sort of took me under his wing and I was constantly picking his brain and um and and he was awesome and he always said you know Mario look at yourself as like more of a brand and I think you should kind of focus on the hosting because I think people are going to like you and and um you can be doing that for the next 50 years um and so I thought to myself you know what what? That's what I want to do. I want to be the Latino Dick Clark.
I love it. Yeah.
It's worked out pretty well. Did you ever, were you ever on SVU or Law and Order? No, I wasn't.
So that, I mean, if I ever meet Clark, Dick Clark, that's the first question I'm asking. You're thinking of Dick Wolf.
Oh, Dick Wolf. My bad.
My bad. Dick Wolf.
Different Dick. Dick Wolf.
I get my dicks confused. A legend too, but in another area.
Yeah. Yeah.
But being the Latino Dick Clark, I think that's a lucrative career plan for sure. Yeah.
Because you can do that until you get to basically decide when you want to walk away at that point. Hopefully.
Or you're like a Regis. There's very few, but sort of along those lines.
But at the same time too, I still like acting. so I'm glad to do the show and I'll do that Mike Mahalini movies and this and that and producing and doing the radio show and I like wearing all these kind of different hats and stuff so yeah when I check into a hotel are you actually glad that I'm there yeah that you know it's funny you mentioned that because more people talk to me about that yeah yeah I was there so it's in over a million rooms right so and I started doing it couple years ago.
And I'm surprised. I mean, I've had everybody from Oprah to Clint Eastwood to Charlie.
Charlie Sheen told me he was so high one time that he saw me three days. He didn't change the channel.
He said, dude, I was owned out for like three days. It was Mario.
Yeah, exactly. He goes, I couldn't get out of the bed.
I said, for three days, I didn't change the channel. I mean, that's a testament to your ability as a host.
I was like, wow, that's an awesome story. It awesome story it is i will say though when i see you on my tv in a hotel it's usually in a moment of frustration because i'm trying to figure out how to work the guide or whatever's going on because you know when you show up in a hotel and you're like i just want to find espn and it's like the first thing that comes out yeah right exactly yeah but that's okay that's actually a great like a great thing to get your your face out there all the time yeah it's it's out there and then all the athletes who are always on the road baseball players and basketball players are like gosh damn I see you all the time yeah I can Mario again yeah dumb question was it tough to freeze when Zach would do the time out no you know sometimes you try to crack a little smile and stuff but it wasn't because it wasn't for a very't for a very long time.
I feel like that would be tough. I think that would be tough.
You naturally just move a little bit when you breathe and then you start laughing. That's why I can't be an actor.
The, uh, the speed episode where Jesse got hooked on, on caffeine pills. That's right.
That was, that's an all time. I'm sure you've been asked about it a lot.
I've always wondered if that had an impact on you guys as actors to stay away from drugs

because she was so persuasive.

And it was scary.

It scared me as a kid.

I was like, I'm never taking no-dose.

I'm going to stick to the good stuff like Adderall, you know?

Makes you skeptical even to have coffee, right?

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, no, man.

That shit was so silly.

But it was a funny moment.

I'm trying to remember the episode, too. Oh, yeah.
That's when she started singing so excited huh yeah i'm so excited so scared scared yeah i'm so scared that's right it's used in memes and people ask me i forget like because it's i barely remember what happened last week much less 30 years ago so do you have a favorite episode because i introduced you outside and you took a picture with uh that crazy guy and i told you i said i i would ask question for him, but he has a blog series. What is it called? It's ranking the Saved by the Bell episodes to their corresponding steakhouses.
Now, he's only released one part of this blog series. That's why it might not make sense, because at the end he says the list is not final to be continued.
Stay tuned. That was ago two years ago ranking every say by the bell episode in tiers of corresponding steakhouse is part one so he's only done part one i think it's got to be about five parts two years ago but do you have an episode that you think like that one is one of my favorites and also what type of steakhouse would it correlate to? You didn't think you'd get this question.
I can honestly say I've never been asked that. I gave you a little warning, though, when he looked at you and I was like, take it easy, Rico.
And I had that moment, like, I'll ask him the question. Don't worry, because he's been kind of hounding me.
Like, you got to ask. I like the yeah you know i mean i gotta you met him for three seconds that's why you made a good impression yes um you know like because i've been asked a lot like what's your favorite episode i don't know they're all like a blur the only things i remember is uh i i like when we at we got to leave set like when we were at the beach okay when we did like we did a couple.
Those would be like a Gibson's or like, yeah, I don't know where else. Like in Chicago? Yeah, yeah, where else? Yeah, everything's real big there.
Yeah, I guess they'll be like, okay, we'll go with the Gibson's. And then we were like in Vegas and Hawaii.
Anytime we're on location, those are always my favorites. Okay.
What about your least favorite? Did you have one looking back where you're like, I don't really, I kind of lost the plot on that one when they got Screech kidnapped by aliens and then had to fight the government to get him back did he get kidnapped yeah no dude you really don't remember much about those episodes really don't well i'll tell you the time capsule episode is the 86th rank episode and it's outback steakhouse so oh wow yeah that's disrespectful to outback delicious. They do.
It's a great... No, yeah, there was the one...
You found like a video camera, and then some tabloid was paying money if you could get footage of aliens. And so you and Zach dressed Screech up, and then you took the camera and you filmed him, and then Screech got kidnapped by the government.
I don't... That was like a one-off episode, yeah.
Really? Yeah, that wasn't part of the canon. It wasn't part of the canon.
There was no continuing storyline. Jumped a shark on that one right there.
So you mentioned the Chargers. Are you still a Chargers fan, obviously? I am.
I stay pretty loyal to the soil. I'm Dodgers, Chargers, Lakers.
Okay. And how do you feel about the Chargers? What's your favorite sport to watch? What's the sport you watch the most? Box and mma okay those are my favorite i'm a big i'm a big combat sports guy and you've hosted some of these yeah i've hosted a lot of fights i guess i host a lot for hbo both in english and in spanish back when hbo had boxing um and then for top rank in the international broadcast did it for triller when tyson fought when kicking those off i was supposed to do the one this last one but i couldn I couldn't because I was working.
What do you think about those? I have the opinion that anything is good for boxing because boxing has had a lull. Yeah, they're kind of sideshows, but Jake Paul, he's starting to get to be kind of a real boxer.
I think it's good for boxing because it gets more people tuning into combat sports. I love anything that raises the awareness level of the sport.
I think it's, hey, listen, you got to be a certain kind of individual. It takes balls to get in there because as opposed to team sports, you're in there by yourself.
You're completely vulnerable. It's one-on-one.
It's the purest form of sport. There's no one to back you up.
There are no timeouts. It's as real as it gets.
Yeah. And you find out what you're really about.
And I love it. So I respect anyone that gets in there.
So yeah, both boxing, MMA. I train jujitsu and wrestle and box every day.
So those are the ones that are my favorite. And there's nothing like it.
And I've been to all the other games and all these sports. But there's nothing like that kind of energy when the guys come out of the tunnel and they're going to enter that ring.
Agreed. It is like Caesars going back.
And when it's at its best, it's awesome. Yep.
It's awesome. Do you have rules when you train in boxing? Like, hey, stay away from the cheekbones.
No nose shots. Yeah, I wouldn't be too popular at the gym if that was.
No, no, but with headgear and stuff and then got like certain winning headgear and stuff. No, I like the kind, you know, it's ironic because it makes me feel alive, but I probably should be slowing down at my age and, and trying to play golf and stuff, but I still feel too, I still feel like a lot, you know, too much energy, but now like your body starts to portray you.
So three years in a row, first year I tore my rotator cuff. This was all sparring.
Tore my rotator cuff, healed up. Next year, around the same time, tore my Achilles, healed up.
Very next year, tore my biceps. This is is why you don't work out this is why working out is overrated so you know so it's a very explosive intense part but when you start getting a little older you got to start to monitor a little bit so i'm trying to wean off a little bit do a little more jujitsu our mutual friend jim harbaugh likes to say the human body craves contact and i think he's right i think that there's something about about getting hit that feels good in a weird way.
It can make you stop focusing on all the stuff that doesn't matter because if you're sparring or if you're playing a combat sport. You're exactly right.
You've got to be completely focused on that. Locked in.
No matter what kind of day you're having. That's exactly it.
No matter how busy or stressed out the kind of day I'm having, I get to check out, lock in, and just kind of escape for like a little bit. You have, or else you're going to get a truss kicked.
Yeah. Well, this has been

great, man. We appreciate you coming by.

Yeah, this is fun, man. Stay by the bell on Peacock.
I had one last

question. I like to do this whenever we have a guest

on. I just like to look what I've tweeted

about that person.

I have one tweet where you're

sitting next to Tommy Lasorda, RIP. We've

had him on the show. Legend.

I asked, hey, AC Slater,

do you even have a penis, bro? How are you sitting like that do you see how you're sitting i do see how i'm sitting it's all i'm sitting right now look at this his knee i've never seen legs crossed that much it's like a uh almost a straight line of of leg like how are you sitting like that that's how i'm sitting right now bro i don't think that was my certain camera. All right, okay.
Well, that was the only tweet I could find. I think that's funny.
He was awesome, though. Hey, one thing I just want to throw out there in case there's any, well, guys too, but any ladies listening.
I'm real proud of my daughter because she is starring in a Christmas movie with me this next Friday. Oh, hell yeah.
It's called Holiday in Santa Fe. It's Friday, December 10th on Lifetime.
So, you know, we're in the season season right now. So I just want to make sure we get that out there.
So is she going to be- She's 10 years old and she rocked it. Is she really trying to be like a child? How do you feel about that? She's not.
Well, at first I was like, I don't want to necessarily encourage my kids, but I'm not going to discourage them if they're into it either. So these opportunities sort of presented itself and I just kind of ran it by her.
she's like yeah okay and she's been killing it I mean that's an awesome moment

to be able to work with your daughter

yeah it's very very cool

so that's why I want to make sure

hopefully people check it out

yeah it's really cool

absolutely

go look at it

I do have one last thing

I can't believe we didn't bring this up yet

how difficult was it for you

to get into character as Colonel Sanders

oh yeah

oh that's funny

we did that

I can't believe that like

that became like a thing after

that was for Lifetime

we did it as a joke

like a lot of people

Rob Lowe

a bunch of people have played in

yeah

but I did it

and we did like a novella take on it and it was kind of and it was uh it's pretty funny and i guess it kind of it kind of caught on yeah i mean you were sexy colonel sanders i think it really caught everybody off guard but they're like you know what in a weird way i kind of want to watch this that's funny that's funny that was funny man we shot that just in a weekend and then they sort of uh you know they out there and it became a thing. So they're trying to revisit it and stuff.
So see if it can be. It's obviously campy and, you know, all in good.
Yeah. I love it.
Right on. What do you bench? Do you want to bench? Dude, I haven't lifted weights.
I can't even tell you. Because everything hurts.
That's what they all say. That's why I got to do this stuff.
I don't want to call you a pussy. Who's hitting that right there? Who's hitting that right there? Oh, we do.
Every day., yeah. We knock out some sets of 25 for roast pyramids.
Just try to keep us active all the time. Those are on our off days.
We usually hit this. Yeah, so this is recovery for us.
Yeah. Yesterday, I think we had 405.
Okay. Yeah, we're muscle freaks like that.
So you call me meathead. I kind of agree with them sometimes, but you got to laugh at yourself.
It is funny having you in here and being like, oh, that's what maybe like I'd have that energy if I was just a little bit more positive and worked out all the time. Maybe, but no.
I'm going to work on that. Yeah, we're like 12 years younger than you and we all look like shit.
I've got 13 kidney stones. That's okay.
That's okay. This is how you can live if you want to live like Mario Lopez.
All right. Well, man.
This has been awesome. Hey, thanks for having me guys.
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We got Fire Fest of the Week. Hank.
Oh, by the way, Jumpsuit January. Hank's wearing a...
Are we putting those on sale soon? We're putting them on sale very soon.

I think next week PFT is wearing – this is a windbreaker.

I didn't realize you were wearing that.

Fire windbreaker.

PFT has a jumpsuit.

We got basketball jerseys.

A whole bunch of merch coming out.

Love this.

Just after the holidays.

My Fire Fest.

No, it's after the holidays.

No, but it's perfect for the holidays.

No, like Easter.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Easter, me and PFT's birthday.

MLK Day. President's Day.
Valentine's Day. Selection Sunday.
The first day of the tournament. Flag Day in June.
Spring break. Hey, wait.
Are they doing the same? This is a total sidetrack. Jake, are they doing the same weird schedule this year for the tournament? It hasn't been announced, so I think it's back to Thursday, Sunday.
Thank you. Okay.
Eight sites all around the country. You know what's know what's gonna happen Prediction For the future part of my take We're gonna get to that First weekend And Big Cat's gonna be like Can I say something Yeah no I kinda miss the scheduling From last year I definitely do Because it Did we not agree That it was kinda sick It was I don't recall I just remember Us all being mad Because, but then change.
But then it was Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, which was sick because it was like, oh, we still have a Monday. Yeah.
It sucked for regular people. For us, our job is pretty awesome that we can just watch it on Monday.
And then it was Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. So we missed it that Thursday and Friday.
We missed it Thursday. Thursday and Friday.
Friday existed. Friday existed Friday existed yeah but we missed it Thursday opening weekend for the NCAA tournament we enjoyed but there were parts to it that were actually kind of awesome yeah because we had like Monday and Tuesday was it's nice to be able to watch sports when you're in the middle of the wasteland alright my fire fest relates to our song At the Bank with Benny the Butcher.

Oh.

Trying to get it on streaming services, iTunes and Spotify.

It started.

Might be meaning like, all right, I got this on iTunes and Spotify a couple days before the video came out.

I realized that our previous songs were uploaded by Office Manager Brett, who no longer works here.

So I had to track him down.

For like three years. I know.
I know. So I had to track him down, get the login information, like submit the song and do all this stuff.
And there's been complications going back and forth, but it's signed up through Brett and Robbie Fox. So every time there's been a hiccup, it's not been coming to me.
I've had to go through like three different people, and I think I've submitted everything. It's supposed to be submitted.
They haven't said anything that's been wrong, but it's still not up, and I think it should be up soon, but I don't know. It's been a while now.
It should have been up last week, and so that's my fire fest. I've just been waiting.
So you sound like a guy who's doing, let's blame everyone, not myself. You sound like a coach.

Listen, Hank's not concerned about the why.

I'm not the fucking...

Let's find out the why's.

The why? You don't want to know

the why's, Hank. What do you mean?

Why? It's definitely not

my fault, but it's really not

my fault. No, I don't think it's your fault.
It's everyone's fault.

It's everyone's fault. Yeah.
Everyone, including

Matt Nagy. Yeah.

It's everyone's fault. Check.
It yeah everyone including matt nagy uh yeah it's everyone's checked it should be out there eventually okay hopefully you know what it will be i can guarantee that it will be up there before so someday or summer office manager brett has uploaded also all the the punk songs like my real girlfriend which has like a shitload of listens somehow and every like quarter we get an email being like hey office manager brett owes you this many thousands of dollars i have i got the login information i can there's like ten thousand dollars in the account yeah yeah exactly crazy so um sorry about the delay but you know what once it's up it'll be up it'll be up soon it will be up i'm not gonna say the s word but it will be up by by flag day yes okay got it after my birthday by my parents we'll call it shout to my it'll be a bank holiday national bank shout your parents if they had never met then maybe this song would have already been out yeah true all right uh actually it's funny that you guys brought up the jumpsuits because my Fyre Fest was going to be like, I don't want to, let's leave the past in the past when it comes to Jumpsuit January. I love Jumpsuit January.
I know that the last couple years, there's been less commitment to Jumpsuit January running through the end of the month. I would like to renew our commitment to Jumpsuit January.
I went out, I bought like $500 worth of jumpsuits the other night. Yeah, I mean...
And then I realized, wait a second, I did this and will probably not be wearing jumpsuits through the second week of January. So...
But you wear them anyway. I do wear them anyway.
Yeah, so that's... Your commitment is easy.
It's your regular... We're coming to you.
We're meeting to you we're meeting your wardrobe i would love i will try very much for you guys to join me in jumpsuit january i will try i'm very pumped about it it's again it's my regular month of the year yeah yeah you wear jumpsuits no i just usually yeah instead of wearing jeans sometimes i actually come into the office in november and i'm wearing a jumpsuit and then i have to go with everybody be like not January. It's like, yeah, I know.
This is just what I wear. Yeah, if we did jeans January, that would be a difference for you.
Yeah. Right.
Would you guys – I would like to extend the invitation for you guys. I'll try.
I'm going to try. Mine is relative on companies listening to this that are going to send us jumpsuits because when I moved, I got rid of a lot of mine.
Because last year, I bought you guys jumpsuits as a Christmas present, and you Spid in my face And never touched them I wore them Billy Oh no you bought me Like a 4XL And you're like Sorry I couldn't figure out the size That's not true Yeah it is Billy They stayed in our studio For like a year And then I was like Billy take them So someone at least wears them I actually have a huge collection Of jumpsuits I'm very rated, because they're all the ones I bought for Big Cat that he never wanted.

4XL.

I would like to wear... You know what?

How about this?

Let's wear different...

If different colleges are out there listening to their show,

why don't we just wear different college jumpsuits every day?

Sure.

The pile's boned up right now.

I mean, it's going to...

Yeah, this is a future...

This is...

You just signed up my pile to get way, way bigger, but that's fine.

We can do it.

I can't sit at my desk my pile is going to do it. I know.
It all just travels underneath. You also, if we're not, I'm not going to get contentious here, but you say it's your pile.
I sit there, so your pile comes into my pile. I have said many times I want to clean my pile, and you charity shame me We gotta charity it So whether we do it before or after I don't know It is actually due The pile is ready to go I have been down to clean for a while And I'm like hey Bic I'm gonna clean my shit And you're like no you can't charity It is true Do you want to spit in the face of charity i just want to like somewhat clean oh all the like you know like timmy and tommy at at the children's hospital who are fighting cancer sorry we couldn't save you because uh hank wanted to clean his desk a little whatever happened to shout out orphans hank shout out orphans why don't we donate to be made sometimes yes i'll try jumps in january just so you know there's times where it's like it's it sucks to have to wear sweatpants When you got a meeting or something That just sucks I'll do it, I'm in I would not want to be in a meeting with anybody That would look down on me for wearing sweatpants in that meeting That's easy to say when you wear sweatpants all the time I established the run, Big Cat I know I know I will I know I will try my best.
Okay. I got to fucking...
It's fine. I'll show up every day.
I already get judged because I don't wear a mask outside to drop off my son, and my son is an anti-masker. I already got problems.
Whatever. He does.
He doesn't want to put on a mask. Everyone looks at me like, God damn it, you're a terrible person.
So I'll just add a jumpsuit to the mix. We'll just have Billy explain to him the importance of always wearing a mask, even when you're in a car by yourself.
It's outside, by the way. It's outside.
All right. My Firefest is a little...
It's a weird one, but I'll explain it real quick. So...
Clogged another toilet? No. No.
You know it is. Someone died.
Oh, yeah. That's.
I didn't know you were doing this for Firefest. Yeah, I said I was going to do it for Firefest.
Yeah. Got it.
But he would actually have enjoyed this moment. He would have enjoyed this moment.
Anyway, it's kind of a weird story because obviously everyone knows Wingnuts. The reason we got put on to Wingnuts, we never would have been put on to wing nuts if it weren't for this guy in Buffalo named Joe, who a 68 year old veteran who found our podcast because his nephew put him onto it a few years ago was a loyal AWL.
I actually went back and I looked. So he tweeted at me and I could tell right away, this a few years ago this is a guy who doesn't really understand Twitter but he wants to be a fan of ours he wants to interact with us his initial tweet was hey big cat Joe here from Buffalo maybe your oldest AWL haha I had been listening to you since you guys came to Buffalo for the game and I must say you are fantastic hilarious show you'veious show.
You've got real talent there, buddy. Send PMT my regards.
He's cool, too. The number two.
And then he followed up with, tell PFT, I'm sorry I got his acronym wrong. And another tweet.
That's nice of him. Yeah, right.
So it was just very – it's kind of a sweet thing. The world is a cynical place.
It's terrible. It was cool to interact with someone like this.
So Joe and i became friends online i know that sounds weird we d i went actually back on his dms and looked through all of it we've been discussing the bills and wing nuts and uh football and everything for three years now so when we went to buffalo this summer he said i actually used to live next to ed and alicia used to be their neighbor and uh he was like you got to go to wing nuts and that's how we ended up going to wing nuts unfortunately Joe was sick um and I got news on Tuesday that he passed away which is very sad but he did the last message I sent to him was a picture of us with Joe or Ed and Alicia and the wing nuts check and he was like this makes me so happy. Thank you so much.
They really appreciate it. And then he passed away.
I think he was fighting cancer, but he is a guy that has had an impact on this podcast because we wouldn't have had wing nuts. We wouldn't have had what's happened from there.
So Joe. Actually, in a funny little twist, you wouldn't have clogged that toilet on Monday.
Correct. If it weren't for Joe putting you on to wing nuts.
Yes. So Joe has had, his nephew reached out to me and told me about this, that he passed away, and he said that he loved the show and that he always dreamed of one day being on the show.
I mean, this is him on the show. So Joe, legendary AWL, had a big impact on this show and uh big impact on me because i talk to him all the time via dm it's very funny very innocent like hey it's it's nice to have a relationship like this where uh people just converse and it shows that our listeners are truly part of our show and uh shout out joe i'm giving him honorary football guy of the week.
I love it. And thank you, Hank, for ruining the start of this.
I thought it was beautiful. No, Joe would have loved it.
He loved the show. If he loved the show, he would have loved that moment.
I think the last three minutes have been, that's something that Joe would have liked to listen to. His second to last message to me.
So the last was about the check.

And the second to last one was he said, go wash your nipple.

That's how I ended up in the hospital.

Talking about the video of the Bills fan licking my nipple.

So, you know, that's the kind of sense of humor he had.

Veteran.

I think he was in the Vietnam War.

Joe, legend of Buffalo. Shout out Joe and his whole family.

And, yeah, he's honorary football guy of the week from heaven where I'm sure he's –

I'm sure they serve wing nuts in heaven.

That's probably all they have.

That was a Tucker Max book, yeah.

Yeah, wing nuts in heaven.

But, yeah, shout out Joe and shout out all the AWLs.

You guys are part of this family and we appreciate it.

All right, Billy, try to follow that.

Did you have anyone that you were friends with die? Fox's Christmas tree. Did you have anyone that you talked to? I went back.
It was actually a little weird because I went back and I looked at it and I like Joe and I talked every week a lot. So shout out Joe.
I'm going to miss him. The new iOS update sucks.
Yeah. Oh, that's tough.
It's too fucking, the, the, the notifications are too small for my fat thumbs. So I can't get good press on them.
Wow. Billy, you had a really hard week and I'm out of shape.
I haven't worked out since Thanksgiving. I sort of now in that limbo where it's like, do I let it ride till January 1st to really get it going? If If you don't get back on that horse the day after Thanksgiving, you're just saying you're punting to the new year.
I'm eating more right now. I paid a trainer for three months hurt my back and just lost all the progress.
Geez. Is she disappointing you? Yeah, I've kind of been ghosting her to be honest.
Yeah, no, you gotta this is total no man's land. You can't.
If you're not working out right this second, you've got to wait until January 1st. Because here's what happens.
If you don't work out right now, well, let's say best case scenario, you start working out again, right after Christmas, you're back to where you are right now. There's really no net gain that you can have.
You might as well just fill up the tank. Put on mass.
Put on mass. And then you start working out after new year's.
And then you've gone so long since working out that you actually do start to see progress that you won't be disappointed in. I almost want to pretend I have a fight like February Superbowl.
Oh, just like train. Hmm.
Well, it's a little late now. Hey, you're trying to get back in shape.
I think I want this fight really bad. I know.
It's kind of awkward.

I want Billy and Eric to fight at Ruff and Rowdy.

How incredible would that be?

Here's what we do.

If Billy was like three inches shorter, I would consider it.

But it's just not.

We schedule a secret Ruff and Rowdy.

We don't tell them about it.

And when they both finish in second and then last place in the picks contest,

then they will naturally want to fight by the time they get to Los Angeles.

They just both have independently said they'd like a motivation to get back in shape. It's like, well, hmm.
If Billy was shorter, I would do it, but he's not. PMT Civil War? Mm-hmm.
Joe would have loved to see that. But it would be fun to spar.
Are you not going to honor a veteran of you as a veteran? Sparring is fun. A veteran who just passed away? That was his last.
Actually, wait. So he said, licking your nipple, you should go to the hospital for that.
And then he said, you know what I'd really love is for Billy and Hank to fight. That's his last wish.
Yeah. Maybe that means he wants us to team up against you two.
No, we could do a team. You two.
Like me and Billy versus you and PFT. No, no.
He said, Hank and Billy fight each other in Rough and Round. Me, Billy, and Bubba versus you, PFT, and Jake.
Cage match. That'd be sick.
Yeah, I bet it would. I bet Billy would actually try to kill us.
Yeah, he would. Absolutely.
I'd kill him. You know what? I would.
I would kill you. I'd bring a gun.
No one would know. Just take a gun out and be like, ha ha, fucker.
What if we did jumpsuit January and you guys did jacked up January? So actually this is what my plan got derailed because I wanted to do since it's going to be jumpsuit January like we're going to be in workout clothes we might as well just be trying to work out But then you got to change into a new jumpsuit. No, but it's just like man's agreement now like it becomes like more like a locker room.
So you work out in your jumpsuit, you walk around with your sweaty jumpsuit all week? We do it right before we leave. Jumpsuit January isn't that bad.
You go to the gym in your jumpsuit, and you've got a t-shirt and shorts on underneath the jumpsuit, and then after you're done working out, you put a new t-shirt and shorts on, and then you put the jumpsuit back on. I will get back in on Jumpsuary i need i'm like hank i need i need jumpsuits i have no jumpsuits i've gotten rid of all my jumpsuits i don't own jumpsuits i need jumpsuits but i will get back in also i just always fucking lose my wallet and my phone but i'll figure that out i'll be a fanny pack all there we go now we figure it out because really it comes down to there's like one or two times during January that I feel like an absolute fool when I'm wearing sweatpants around a bunch of people who are actually wearing jeans and like real clothes.
And then also my phone and my wallet fall out of my pocket. So if I do the fanny pack, then I'll look even more ridiculous in those few meetings.
But I can deal with that. Zippers.
No, I'm going to do the fanny pack. Yeah, I like it.
I like it. I'm going to look even more ridiculous.
That's my solution. And we also work out, and I put you guys all on a New Year's supplement routine.
Joe said also, Big Cat, never work out again because you look great as you do. Also take the bills plus three and a half.
Actually, another fire fest for me and Big Cat, speaking of looking great shirtless, got this text from recurring guest Booger McFarland last night. It was just a picture.
He just sent me a picture of Big Cat shirtless in the parking lot with no, there was no caption to it whatsoever. He just sent a picture of Big Cat.
And then I told him, because I got Big Cat's back. Thank you.
I said, that's 215 pounds of twisted steel. And then Booger said, if he's 215, you're 6'5".
And just, there's no coming back from him. And what was my response? Booger, you're a fucking pervert, dude.
Just ask me out on a date, because you have a picture of me, shirtless, saved in your phone. If, you know, the first one is free, the next one's going to cost you.
You want to come lick these nipples? Come on over, Booger. You know where to find me, baby.
I think he said you're Popeye's biscuit away from becoming a left guard. Beautiful.
And he would like that. He would like that.
Take me out on a date, Booger. Can't just fucking walk around with pictures of me topless in your phone.
Jake. Saw on Tuesday.
Oh, Joe also said, did Jake ever apologize for being so wrong about the Wisconsin Badgers? On six straight episodes of the Barstool Benchmall, go ahead and subscribe. And Joe said, I can't believe they beat Indiana last night.
Yeah. I apologize.
Well, he's already dead, so that was a joke. Yeah, I understand, but you wanted to know that.
From heaven, he said that. Yeah, from heaven, he said that.
On Tuesdayuesday i went to the jimmy v classic to see syracuse it was pretty wild um i posted my picture of where i was sitting and i just got nosebleed shamed the whole night oh you can't do that yeah you can't do that dude dude wait wait what'd you say meanies meanies yeah no no you the nosebleed shaming it's not even no you were in the nosebleeds yeah i know I know, but... You were higher than the nosebleeds.
Yeah. Okay.
You were on the moon. I was forced to be there with my Syracuse friends.
You were sitting next to Joe. You were holding the rafter past your head so you could see.
That's how fucking high up you were. Yeah, the nosebleed looked up at you, and they're like, look at the freebase section up there.
So you deserve to be nosebleed shamed? But... Just because that's what the internet does? does.
But the thing that bothers me is the internet will do that when you're sitting in the lower level. They'll be like, oh, you're far away.
Why are you on the floor? Yeah. Like, what? Not all of us can sit on the floor all the time.
There's no perfect zone. When you sit on the floor, it's like, wow, look at you.
Oh, rich guy. No longer a man of the people.
I think the fifth row. Fifth row is still a little too close.
Maybe 15th row is perfect. You had the Blackhawks video, right? That was the top row.
Yeah, that was all in top, but that's also the Stanley Cup. Yeah, that was.
This is a Jimmy V classic, just as big. Those games sucked.
It was fun, though. The old Big East is back.
Tough to watch. In terms excitement.
You got to watch on like a 80-foot screen. No, I got to see Buddy Boeheim, Jimmy Boeheim III, and Jim Boeheim all on the same floor.
Also, you're at the Mecca, so tickets are probably more expensive there. Exactly.
Plus, when you sit high up, you get to see all the action. Also, our group of friends, it was like we were in a suite because there was no one behind us.
We just all got like rowdy and stuff. And your group was like being in a suite.
You got rowdy? What did you do? I didn't. What did you do? What did you get rowdy about? I didn't do anything.
I was speaking as a group. Tarps off? No.
Nothing crazy. Booger would have liked that.
Yeah. Yeah, I saw your group of friends.
You guys. Bunch of killers.
I just love you, Jake Marsh. I love you.
I love you as a human being. I really do.
I really do. You're the sweet essence of sports in the purest form.
I want to see your picture. Where can I see Jake and the boys getting rowdy? I don't know.
It's on Twitter. I retweeted it.
You might have tweeted it. You could tell they got rowdy.
They're a rowdy bunch. It was a good time.
Great to see you. They look like a bunch that like um you can say whatever you want all right so i'll just say like kim kardashian could walk by none of them would notice mike lupa could walk by they fucking stop in their tracks that kind of bunch big chase you guys you know journalists through and through oh yeah you guys look this is the sweetest group of guys I've ever seen in my life.
Great guys. It's a good friend group.
I saw Jake's friend group. What did I say to Hank? Hank and I were laughing about it.
We're like, Jake's friend group, they are definitely supportive of each other. And they pump each other up.
You know what this is? This is. Did you see that episode of Seinfeld where they met the bizarro group? This is the Bizarro group of part of my take,

except they're all super nice to each other.

And like, oh man, George, that's too bad

that you're going through that right now.

They don't make fun of each other.

Like, dude, I don't think your fantasy team

has been that bad this year.

That kind of stuff.

And I like, it's nice.

Yeah, I watch their broadcast.

They watch mine.

Yeah.

I was tuned into Virginia Tech Cornell

on the ACC network last night.

I'm being totally honest right now. Like, that's why i love you jake i love this dude in the front wearing the big east conference shirt yeah it's back yeah it's back yeah love it all right good group of friends maybe we'll get them in sometime just get rowdy boys yeah all right here we go numbers 81 18 six bull sharks have the highest testosterone levels.
8.

69. Of all the sharks or all the animals? All the animals.
Is that true? 39. I was hanging on for dear life.
Danny Woodhead. Fourth time.
Love you guys. So the other day, one of my buddies comes up to me and he says,

Hey man, I never see you at the club.

I look this fool dead in the eyes and I say,

Hey man, I never see you at the bank.

And that's real. Big cat, pig, stacks, feet balls.
Addicted to the bank, I got withdrawals. I wanted all tip jars and the gift cards.
It makes my dick hard as a fucking brickyard. Blockchain password on my SIM card.
So much money, shit's as nutty as a cliff ball. Rolling to the Guggenheim, smoking on dang.
I'm suited for this shit. Call me Joseph A.
Bang. Welcome to the Andes, it's a personal myth.
PFT denominator, fucking dollars and cents. With an army of tellers, reading all of the deal.
They see real big chicks, calling General Mills. No time to feed the baby, that kid ain't gonna pay me.
Jesus talking about saving, got that prince like I'm Haiti. You're eating the rich.
I eat away at my loans.

Sip to 1% milk.

Increasing my bones.

I'm at the bank.

Proving money.

Making record amounts.

I'm at the bank.

Chilling checking on my checking accounts.

I'm at the bank.

I'm at the city while you're chasing the clouds.

Storing lines of credit while your debit just bounced.

I'm at the bank.

Deep pockets.

Deposits.

Four checkbooks.

Two money clips.

And three wallets.

I need profits. Green call on my phone.
This cash is bugging you, wishing I would leave you alone. Yeah, 1180 on my credit rating.
If I get to stand on this liquid cash, it's like I'm levitating. Get in line or you could get declined.
They said that life's about balance, so I'm always checking mine. Bank of New York, I just made the call.
They said I got to get my own safe installed. Are you getting jealous? Cause it's not your fault.
Goodwill hunting, son. It's not your fault.
Running with the squad like we flash my banks. Might pull up with celebs like, is that Tom Hanks? Checking all my funds is fun for me.
Here's so many branches. Think I fell out the other.
I'm at the bank. Moving money, making record amount.
I'm at the bank. Chilling, checking all my checking accounts.
I'm like a bird on a chase while you're chasing the bank.

You know, one of my favorite places to go is the cloud. I'm not snorting lines of crack while your debit just bounced.
I'm at the bank. You know, one of my favorite places to go is the bank.
And I'll never see y'all there. Yeah.
10 a.m. Pulling up at the bank.
In the bulletproof truck, I call a no-limit tank. Ham in the glove compartment.
Dollar size on the plates. And the chick who gon' swallow depending on what you make, yeah.

In my city, they respect me like they held Pablo.

The IRS gotta chase me out of Wells Fargo, get it?

Cause all we know is trap.

So much dough gets stacked, we like Goldman Sachs to butcher me. Thank you.