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

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Speaker 3 On today's part of my take, Mario Lopez, the legend, Saved by the Bell, America's host in studio. Great to catch up with Mario.
We have NFL Week 14 picks and preview fantasy fuck boys.

Speaker 3 We do Fire Fest and Big Ben. One more year, we need it.
A crazy Thursday Night Football. What went from a snoozer?

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Today is Friday, December 10th.

Speaker 3 One more year.

Speaker 3 One more year.

Speaker 3 One more year.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Blow it up in Pittsburgh. Build around Big Ben.
Big Ben.

Speaker 3 That was Big Ben's Nate Diaz game. It was a great game.
He won, even though the Steelers lost. That was vintage Big Ben in the second half to bring them back.

Speaker 3 He made the the perfect throw to Pat Fryer Muth. I say Big Ben won this game.
He won this game. So right now, the Vikings.
Calvin Cook won it number one. I'm going to give a tie.

Speaker 3 The Vikings are 5,

Speaker 3 7, and 1,

Speaker 3 and the Steelers are 6, 5, 5, and 2. And Big Ben is 1-0-0.
Yes. It was, I mean, it was a snoozer.
Terrible game. Then Big Ben happened.
What are you laughing about, Hank?

Speaker 3 You're having 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?

Speaker 3 Not give him one more year. Yeah, one more year.
One more year.

Speaker 3 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 3-1. So the biggest record of all has fallen.

Speaker 3 That's just a longevity status.

Speaker 3 Three administrations. Shout out, Chase Claypool.
I'm just going to take a wild guess and say you're not getting music at practice anytime soon.

Speaker 3 I did notice, though, that the Vikings very astutely did not play music during the game to throw Chase Claypool off of the seat.

Speaker 3 If you missed it, an all-time Madden awareness zero moment where the Steelers are driving. Big Ben is being incredible himself.

Speaker 3 And he throws a slant on a fourth and one with about 35 seconds left. Chase Claypool catches it, stops, or catches it, goes down, stops, does a little first down celebration, and also

Speaker 3 doesn't give the ball back to his center when they need a spike. It probably cost him about five to eight seconds, conservatively speaking.

Speaker 3 Could have used that when you lose the game on the 10-yard line, the pass, perfect pass to the end zone that Pat Fryermuth drops as time expires. Yeah, the Vikings tried so hard to Falcons.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 He started rubbing the bridge of his nose. He was like, he was just turning redder gradually.

Speaker 3 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 what's about to happen. I can't believe it's going to happen again.

Speaker 3 Kirk Cousins, to his credit, made a big throw. Yeah, he was not good tonight.
Dalvin Cook was story. Dalvin Cook was incredible.
Kirk made that nice 62-yard touchdown pass. He did.

Speaker 3 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. Dalvin, let Dalvin Cook.
That's what we should be saying.

Speaker 3 Let Dalvin Cook. I can always tell

Speaker 3 the anxiety and the level, like 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.

Speaker 3 And I had a bunch of Vikings fans be like, this is every game for us, Dan. Daniel.

Speaker 3 You can tell, like,

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Thank you, Vikings. You made a game that was a complete snooze fest into one more year, Big Ben.
Because I watched that game. Big Ben's not done.
No, not in the second half. And it's, I mean, we're

Speaker 3 getting a little bit older right now. Yeah.
And we understand that when you enter your late 20s, everything starts. It takes your body a while to get warmed up.
Big Ben's coming off a short week.

Speaker 3 You 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.

Speaker 3 And you're right about the, like, when your mom used to refer to you by your full name. Yeah.
Like, mama would be like, pro football talk commenter, come in here. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Like, you know, that people are in their feelings a little bit when they're resorting to proper nouns there 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

Speaker 3 and the vikings like dalvin cook is awesome that was some of those holes were ridiculous credit to their offensive line um but yeah that what a what a crazy game it really was it really came out as like the vikings won it in the in the traditional sense but big ben

Speaker 3 i i want to find whoever leaked those private conversations and shoot them. Yeah, because they're wrong.

Speaker 3 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 was it was a fabrication even.

Speaker 3 Because I don't think that this Big Ben that we saw in the second half is even a year away from retiring.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 All right. So Vikings are still.
The first time Scramble was very, very funny. Oh, so good.
So good. And their offensive line is still a mess at times.
And TJ Walk getting hurt. That sucks.

Speaker 3 I saw our good friend, former Lib of the Year, current Lib of the Year, Chris Long, said that that, for a pass rusher, is like the the worst injury to have 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 So if you're a Vikings fan,

Speaker 3 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,

Speaker 3 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 said.

Speaker 3 Yeah, 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?

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 keep it moving downfield. I'm looking right now.
Vikings are six and seven, very much alive. Very much alive behind the 49ers in the Washington football team for those 6-7 spots in the playoffs.

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 that's going to be a tough hill for them to climb. I have a pop quiz for you, Big Cat.

Speaker 3 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, 1 million

Speaker 3 Way more. Paychecks that he has taken to the bank are buried in his backyard.
Way more. Hank.
That was a bad answer. I'm gonna

Speaker 3 strike Hanks. Hank

Speaker 3 from the record.

Speaker 3 Kirk Cousins. Some of it's not, he hasn't earned it yet.
But remember, he did

Speaker 3 three years of franchise tags. I'm sorry, that was me.
I just lashed out of Kirk. He did like three years of franchise tags.
I'm going to say... Taxes? Tags.
Have you thought about taxes?

Speaker 3 No, we're not counting taxes. Oh, what the fuck? This is before.
Oh, that was.

Speaker 3 It was after taxes? All right, so then Hank,

Speaker 3 Hank and I have,

Speaker 3 we've huddled up, and our answer is going to be $180 million

Speaker 3 pre-tax. Pre-tax.
That's $78 million. Pre-tax.
$180 million. It sounds like Hank isn't agreeing with us.
No, I'm down. Okay, all right.
Billy? I'll put in $155. Okay, $155.
Good guess.

Speaker 3 You know, around, I do know the answer. What is it? $161.
Okay. Yeah, we weren't far off.
He's made $161 million.

Speaker 3 And I say good for Kerr.

Speaker 3 That's insane. The rest is

Speaker 3 actually, it's more than that because the rest is all guaranteed.

Speaker 3 He has a full guarantee, I think, on the next $40 million.

Speaker 3 Kirk Cousins is the bad god. God damn it.
And you know what the worst part about that is? And I don't want to rag on Kirk Cousins because, guess what? The Vikings won, so I can't.

Speaker 3 But he did play poorly. But the Vikings won.

Speaker 3 That was a good throw. That was a very good throw.
He also made that terrible throw where Justin Jefferson was wide open and he had a lot of bad things, yeah.

Speaker 3 But there was a good throw that won them again, that was a difference in the game. Um,

Speaker 3 like, what does Kirk Cousins need all that money for? What does he spend it on? Uh, there's nothing good to spend that on, I think, just like unseasoned chicken breasts, yeah. Like, it's a waste.

Speaker 3 Give us some of that, Kirk. He's probably got, I bet you Kirk Cousins has like seven freezers in his basement just filled with meat, mostly just chicken breasts.

Speaker 3 He probably has like a baker's dozen golden retrievers, yeah, a lot of milk bones, Yeah.

Speaker 3 A lot of boxes of milk bones. I mean,

Speaker 3 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 has a target.
That's true. That's true.

Speaker 3 That's at least a couple thousand. Yeah, a couple thousand right there.

Speaker 3 Yeah, he's going to... He probably has.
Kirk Cousins is like

Speaker 3 the cousins family. Ivermectin.

Speaker 3 They're going to...

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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, yeah, it's about $200 million.
Pretty good. He's going to be a $200 million man.

Speaker 3 Easy. Kirk Cousin, by the time it's all said and done, he will have made probably $230 million.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 100-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.

Speaker 3 That's kind of crazy. The Steelers might have a rush defense problem.
I mean, in the first half, they couldn't stop anything. It was the,

Speaker 3 you know, the old hypothetical, like, if you were running, if you were a running back, could you get a few yards? In this first half, yes. Yeah, for sure.
Those holes were that big.

Speaker 3 Probably like two and a half yards a year, I think. Yeah.
They were that big that you could just jump into that hole and get three yards. Yep.

Speaker 3 All right. Anything else before? i we should actually say um

Speaker 3 we saw the news during the game damarius thomas tragic like horrible horrible i think we all remember watching him because he was in the league up until a couple years ago um the famous slant with tbow and he he won a ring with the broncos as well correct yeah i think he did yeah and then he managed to play on the texans and the patriots and the jets yeah so just tragic i don't we don't know what happened but we saw the news 33 years old Yeah, very, very sad.

Speaker 3 Very, very good player that we all have fond memories of.

Speaker 3 And then before we get to our picks, what was the last thing? Oh,

Speaker 3 shout out the Eagles and the Colts. Or no, Eagles and Colts? Yeah.
Eagles and Colts. They're taking a bye week to their Twitter accounts.

Speaker 3 So everyone needs a bye week. Well-deserved.
Vacations matter. Hank saw it and was like, I want that.
Yeah. I want that.

Speaker 3 I might start making my own graphics. Just being like, hey, it's a long season.

Speaker 3 And we 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 should.

Speaker 3 How much do you care about?

Speaker 3 No, but don't you want to support them for taking time for themselves? Yes. If you were a true ally, staying with them, if you were ally doing stuff, you would represent them while they were gone.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 So have it be regular bye weeks, regular schedule, and then right like either this weekend or next weekend, have no football in America. Everyone can go Christmas shopping.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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 buy.
I agree. Yeah, we should just be on vacation.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that's fine. Everyone, just a no-work week.
Yeah, well, it was more just the weekend. There's just no

Speaker 3 you still get the weekends, but it's like you get everybody has a week off work. Well, we do that, though, the week of Christmas week.
Most people take a week off, some people do, yeah.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 We should have a week in the summertime. Maybe you could party.
We're going to take a time to watch football. You want to just party.
Yeah, that's true, too. I think we should all just

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 It would be better football too because all the NFL players would get their second bye week, come come back for the home stretch. You get like five weeks left of the regular season.

Speaker 3 You get bowl season. And then you can say during bowl season when you're watching like, you know,

Speaker 3 Wake Forest is actually a bad team to pick this year. Let's say you're watching NC State play

Speaker 3 Oregon State on a Tuesday afternoon bowl game and everyone's like, what are you doing at the TV?

Speaker 3 It 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.

Speaker 3 It's good to have a weekend to take care of your obligations. Right.

Speaker 3 Take care of your chickens. Yeah, take care, make sure that you seem like an attentive spouse and husband.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 But I think that, I don't know, I just take care of your mentals. I'm more in favor of just a general vacation.

Speaker 3 That's fine. I'm fine with that.
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.

Speaker 3 right around now where we can reset right before the holidays, right before the stretch run, playoffs.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 I have eliminated winter. You've been making this decision, though, Raj.

Speaker 3 I could talk to Raj, although he's got to go to The Hague first for the war crimes. Or when he's on his back,

Speaker 3 come talk to me. Just strap him to that stupid fucking chair.
Yeah, I don't know. Will someone, someone get this to Raj?

Speaker 3 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 right now.

Speaker 3 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. But I would be, if everyone did it together, then it's okay.

Speaker 3 If we're all in this together, it's 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.

Speaker 3 That's a beautiful way to just describe life. Yes.
So that's it. Like, it might be a mistake, but we're going to do it all together.
So it could be right.

Speaker 3 All right. Works for the lines.

Speaker 3 All right. Let's get to our weekend preview.

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Speaker 3 Dean, boys.

Speaker 3 I will,

Speaker 3 I'm going to throw my hand up.

Speaker 3 Give me the standings.

Speaker 8 So for the first time since week five, we have a lead change up top. PFT has gone 9-0 the last two weeks.

Speaker 3 Wow, PFT, you're hot, Mr. Perfect.
You must have so much money in your game. I'm really hot in gambling.

Speaker 3 I'm so hot. I'm the best gambler of all time on the games that I don't bet on.
Yep. Because what happens is we do this show from New York, and you can't bet in New York.
Correct.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 So I just go with whatever my gut tells me. Turns out that my gut is way dumber than my brain.

Speaker 3 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, so what I'm saying is follow follow these picks.

Speaker 3 Don't follow my real picks that I actually put my money on. It is

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Post-pick clarity. They love it.

Speaker 3 Do I get anything if I win? No.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 3 I mean, yeah,

Speaker 3 you get to travel via plane.

Speaker 3 What if I want to rent a convertible? You can do that if you want. All right, Jake, give it to us.

Speaker 8 Hank is in the hot seat

Speaker 8 in second place right now. He's two and a half games up on you and I, Big Cat.
We're 29 and 24, then tied for last, Liam and Billy, 26 and 27.

Speaker 3 Okay, so what I was going to say is, what, oh, yeah, you guys got to go. Billy and Liam, go ahead.
Rock, paper, scissors, shoot. Rock, paper, scissors, shoot.

Speaker 3 Liam won't be able to say that Billy's going. Billy's going.
Billy and Hank. Billy is not going to survive that.
Hank will murder Billy. No.
Yes. No.
You will absolutely murder Billy. No, I wouldn't.

Speaker 3 Crime suspect number one.

Speaker 3 I'm a great road trip partner. Billy, say for the record right now.
Have you ever thought or given consideration to doing any self-harm? No.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 So what I was going to say is this is the first, this past week has been the first time where I've been like, this is real.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 8 No, it was wild card weekend was going to be tiebreakers.

Speaker 3 That's right. Okay, so it is.
There's 20 picks left.

Speaker 3 It's really on. Wait, just to bring the vibes up a little bit here,

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 That realization has hit me like a ton of bricks. No offense, Bitcap, but I would much rather go with Billy than you.
Well, because I'll be miserable, and I know I will be miserable.

Speaker 3 I can't afford to give up an extra three days of my life. I know.

Speaker 3 I'm already maxed out

Speaker 3 just in life who's gonna make the playlist between between Hank and Billy I would do actually it wouldn't be three days for me by the way. It would be two days.
We would just drive straight through.

Speaker 3 I do not have the time

Speaker 3 to be away from my family for a very long time. Find some local watering holes.
Listen to Rogan. Yeah, this would be pretty lit.
Yeah. Just going to Rogan up the entire hour though.
I love it.

Speaker 3 You guys come back just different men. It's like 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.

Speaker 3 They're going to come back with like 35 pounds of frozen elk meat in the trunk of the car.

Speaker 3 All right, let's do some picks.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 It feels like. I think that there are a few loser leaves sound games this weekend.
The Browns, if they lose to the Ravens,

Speaker 3 that will be very tough for them to come back from. It feels like the Raiders might be on the hot seat if they can't pull off a miracle against the Chiefs.
Counterpoint, the boys back. Will Confidence

Speaker 3 playing linebacker now for the Raiders. Congrats, we did it, guys.
We got him a job.

Speaker 3 I'm excited to see how Will performs after being out of the league and living the podcasting life. He's ready to go.

Speaker 3 Probably in the best shape of his life after talking into a microphone for eight months. Yes, he is going to be.

Speaker 3 It's going to be great to see the boy out there. 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.

Speaker 3 Bills Bucks. Bill's Bucks has a ton of implications.
This Sunday is really, it's an apology from the NFL for putting together the shitty schedule that we've had for like the last three weeks.

Speaker 3 This is a make-good weekend that they have for us for the exception of Sunday night football,

Speaker 3 which is a war crime. But Justin, it is.
It is a war crime. But Justin Fields being back makes me, it gives me a little bit of glimmer of hope.

Speaker 3 No, that's even worse, though, because when Aaron Rodgers beats Justin Fields,

Speaker 3 then you start to doubt Justin Fields more.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 If Justin Fields gets beat like 40 to nothing, at that point you're thinking about the next two years.

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 my brain. This could be Aaron Rodgers' last game playing against the Packers, unless the Bears make the playoffs.

Speaker 3 I can't even say that with a straight face.

Speaker 3 Wouldn't it be nice if a little passing of the torch, Justin Fields went up to Lambeau, his first trip to Lambeau, beat the Packers.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 But the thought has crossed my mind. No, I know.
It's all crossed my mind. I can tell through the tone of your voice.
No, I know.

Speaker 3 You don't even pretend to believe it. No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 3 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, like, this could be magical. It could be truly magical.

Speaker 3 Yep. All right.
You know what? You know what it is, big cat? This is true for Chicago. It's us against the world if you're a Chicago fan.
It's truly us against the world.

Speaker 3 But this could be Aaron Rodgers' last time playing the Bears. Like, you know what?

Speaker 3 What better way to send him off than Justin Fields, even though we'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.

Speaker 3 Yeah, he'd never be able to hurt me again. The bad guy's gone.
Unless he goes to the Vikings.

Speaker 3 Oh, God. That would be terrible.

Speaker 3 Justin Jefferson.

Speaker 3 Hank, your favorite, favorite. I'm calling this week rat teen.
Just a lot of rat lines everywhere.

Speaker 3 You didn't want to do that last week? No. Or next week? Nope.
Or the week after?

Speaker 3 No. Okay.

Speaker 3 This week is a lot of rats. Rat teen.
Therefore, it's weak ratine, ratine touch.

Speaker 3 And I'm just going to take them all. Everything that I think is a rat, I'm just going to rat it.

Speaker 3 I'm going to jump into that trap, go for that cheese. Yeah.
Hope my neck doesn't get broken. Your ratine Cleves.
Yep. I don't know what that means, but I bet it's routine Cleves.

Speaker 3 Washington State. My favorite is the Cowboys minus four and a half versus a Washington football team.
Okay, good. Let's talk about this game because I agree with Hank.
This is a rat.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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 going in this weekend.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 He's disrespecting us, disrespecting the entire team, disrespecting the entire, you know,

Speaker 3 the

Speaker 3 DMV area, District, Maryland, and Virginia. Mike McCarthy's coming at all of us right now.
It's plus four and a half. That's a disrespectful line.
We're getting disrespected left and right.

Speaker 3 I like the football team.

Speaker 3 I think I like the football team money line. Don't you think it should be? Well, you and 74% of the public.
Fuck. Yeah.
So that's the part. Like,

Speaker 3 I'm telling you, like, 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.

Speaker 3 They should win this game because they're at home. They're playing well.

Speaker 3 It should be a two and a half line game. Maybe two and a half.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.
I don't say lucky.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Like on Monday morning, I look at the games and I go quickly through being like, ooh, what do I love?

Speaker 3 And I love the Washington football team on Monday morning, which is a very dumb, like, just instantly being like, that's an easy bet. I think no easy bets.

Speaker 3 30 seconds after the game was over against the Raiders last week, I said, we want Dallas. Yeah.
And it felt good in the moment, but then later it's like, what have I just added?

Speaker 3 This is like when UCF was like holding up a sign that said, we want Bama.

Speaker 3 And it's like, yeah, you can say that when there's never actually a danger of you playing against Bama.

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 first take Cowboys Day where they have like a huge Sunday and everyone's like, look at the Cowboys. Everything's clicking.
Counterpoint. Super Bowl champion worthy.

Speaker 3 Counterpoint, we also might be due for Stephen A. Smith wearing the Cowboy hat, smoking the cigar, being like, what the hell is going on with the Dallas Cowboys and just trolling them to their faces?

Speaker 3 We haven't really gotten any of that this year.

Speaker 3 I know we're talking like this is

Speaker 3 how we gamble. It's the narratives.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 You know who's 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.
I know.

Speaker 3 If any Dallas Cowboys players listen to this show,

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 foul rat poison, not the yummy rat poison. Give them that rat poison.
All right, Bubba, your favorite favorite. Same as Hank.
Whoa. Okay.
I like it.

Speaker 3 Like anyone else, let's just keep the floor open. Anyone else? All right, because I was going to say, if there were three, then it's the reverse rat.

Speaker 3 Then everything we said, throw it out and take the Washington football team. I need, you know what I need more than anything? High-level gambling time.

Speaker 3 On Fox NFL Sunday, I need Terry, Howie, and the guys.

Speaker 3 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 the reverse rat and we can get around to it. Now,

Speaker 3 not that I don't trust Billy, because I obviously trust Billy with my life. But Jay, could you just look at Billy's picks right now and make sure that he's not adjusting anything after our picks?

Speaker 3 Because we realized last week that he could have been playing this game the entire time.

Speaker 3 You got them all locked in. Don't say them, but you should remember them.
You got a strong brain, Jake. I see him.
Okay. For the part where you think the Badgers aren't good at basketball.

Speaker 3 Which picks? I've been talking about that since the season started. Yep, you're co-hosting.
Which picks do you think I was adjusting? I didn't say that you did.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 So I just want to make sure that you're not doing that. I went 0-4 last week.
Why would I? Oh, well, isn't that convenient?

Speaker 3 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,

Speaker 3 a very funny moment happened in the office earlier today. There was some people talking probably about 20 feet away from where Billy and I sit, and they brought up high school football.

Speaker 3 He's like, wait, I'll tell you the real story. And it was just, it was Billy and his natural habits.
Yeah. It's great.
It was great. It's good banter.
Yeah, it was great banter.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 There's a lot that I know now that I wish I knew then. In terms of like huddle videos and shit.
Yeah. Yeah.
Different soundtracks. Less let the bodies hit the floor.

Speaker 3 More the POD version of all nah by nappy roots. More technique.
Yeah. Yeah.
Okay.

Speaker 3 LeBron James, old Billy, sending an Instagram post to young Billy from the future. What would you tell him?

Speaker 3 To follow through with my opposite hand.

Speaker 3 Nice. Okay.
Nice.

Speaker 3 tuck my elbow.

Speaker 3 And say just tell everyone you went to the Manning Passing Academy.

Speaker 3 I didn't go there. Yeah, no, but I wasn't going to be able to see it.
Oh, it's when we're going to get thin there, yeah. That would have been huge.
All right.

Speaker 3 All right, my favorite favorite is the Tennessee Titans. Okay.
Minus nine and a half at home.

Speaker 3 Off a buy. Off a buy against

Speaker 3 nine again. 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.

Speaker 3 But I would take this. I might take an alternate line at minus 20.

Speaker 3 I think this is going to be

Speaker 3 a clown fucking.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 No, I think Vrabel is 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?

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 So that's addition by subtraction. Also, I know that when Derrick Henry got hurt, there was like talk that maybe he'd come back for the playoffs.
Is that true or no? With a Jones fracture? Yeah.

Speaker 3 As a foot injury survivor, I'll say it's highly unlikely. Okay.

Speaker 3 But he does weigh a little bit more than I do, so

Speaker 3 probably less likely for him. Yeah, less likely.
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.

Speaker 8 Julio practiced today.

Speaker 3 Okay, that's good.

Speaker 8 That's a a start.

Speaker 3 That's good. Okay.
Yeah, it really doesn't factor into my betting whether or not AJ. I'm more just curious personally, like, what I haven't checked in on those guys because the Texans, or sorry, the

Speaker 3 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 two and a half.

Speaker 3 This is another one that

Speaker 3 I love the Falcons, so I'm taking the Panthers. And

Speaker 3 the Panthers defense isn't bad. Matt Ryan, like, they have Kyle Pitts and Corderelle Patterson.
They don't have much else. I also think without Joe Brady,

Speaker 3 maybe the game plan is to just run Cam Newton 100 times, which would be better than pass Cam Newton. So who's going to take over for Joe Brady? Doesn't matter.
Just run him. Just Matt Rule.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Panthers. You like the Falcons so much, you switched the Panthers.
The Pans.

Speaker 3 I like the Falcons so much, I'm sticking with the Falcons. Panthers.
All right, Billy, your favorite, favorite.

Speaker 3 This is a game that, by the way, is weirdly a loser-leaves town game, but both teams are already losers. Like,

Speaker 3 you could make an argument that both teams have an outside chance, even though they don't. Oh, the Falcons do.
No, they're fi they're both five and seven.

Speaker 3 Yeah, the Falcons could still make the playoffs, though. Well, the Panthers.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 either way loser leaves town but both these teams are losers that's what i'm deeming this game going chargers by 10.

Speaker 3 so chargers versus giants giants either got mike glennon or jake from jake from who i thought was the best quarterback in the world after that national championship he did the ball spin yep but he hasn't started a game in the nfl yet He's got a noodle arm.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 8 Okay.

Speaker 3 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 stage.

Speaker 3 They should retire Eli Manning's Chargers jersey that he held up in front of when he got drafted at halftime of this game. Yes.
Yes. Just keep rolling them out.
All right. Good pick.

Speaker 3 I don't know why I said good pick, but good pick. I do think,

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 There's no film out there on Jake Fromm in the NFL. That's true.
Don't know how to game plan. That's a fact.

Speaker 3 I think it's just bring your safeties and cornerbacks all the way up because you can't throw it anywhere. Or just start 11 players on defense.
Yeah, I think that's it.

Speaker 8 A bunch of different spread out reports, but it looks like Derrick Henry could be back in early January.

Speaker 3 This is all optimism side. And by the way, early January is still the regular season.
Right.

Speaker 8 I'm seeing maybe A.J. Brown by week 16.

Speaker 3 Which again is three games,

Speaker 3 not two. Yep.

Speaker 8 And Julio's practicing.

Speaker 3 Okay. So the Titans could get a little healthier.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 8 I'm going to stick in the AFC, and I'm going to take the Chiefs minus nine and a half against the Raiders. Everyone's talking about the Patriots.
Everyone's talking about the Bills downgrading.

Speaker 3 Chiefs are just sneaking by.

Speaker 3 Did they flip the switch? I think they did. Offensively, though.

Speaker 3 Offensively. Flitch Swipper.
But

Speaker 3 Flitch Slipper. Switch Swipper.

Speaker 3 It's a Flitch Swipper. Yeah.
I like that pick. Thank you.
It doesn't mean anything. That's probably a bad thing.
All right. We'll see.
But I'm telling you right now, I like that pick.

Speaker 3 I do think the Chiefs are playing good.

Speaker 8 They're due for a blowout to score 40 points.

Speaker 3 Same old. They've been saying that for a while.
I know.

Speaker 3 I like what you're doing. I agree.
I do think that Rich Besicchia will never get his name right, by the way.

Speaker 3 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 week.

Speaker 3 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?

Speaker 3 He's a head coach out of convenience. He's like a great stepdad.
He's just there.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Yep. And then stepdad comes and you're like, fuck you, new stepdad.
And then, you know, he starts taking you to Skate Park, buys your friends R-rated movie tickets. Yep.

Speaker 3 Before you know it, you're like, hey, Todd's actually a pretty chill dude. Let's get in his foxhole.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 3 Hank.

Speaker 3 Underdog. Rat City.
Oh. But

Speaker 3 Ravens plus two. Ooh.

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 two and a half. There you go.
Even better. Even better.
Even rattier. This line doesn't make sense to me.
I actually

Speaker 3 think the football team line makes a lot more sense than this one does. I disagree.
I think this makes perfect sense. The Browns are off of bye, and the last team they played was the Ravens.

Speaker 3 So they basically essentially had three weeks of just Ravens prep. And Marlon Humphreys is out.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 I think this makes a lot of sense. And the Ravens have not been playing well.
They haven't.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 And the crazy thing to me is that the same goes for the Bills, honestly, because they were a play or two

Speaker 3 here and there away from beating the Patriots, but now everyone's down on them.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Okay, so the difference I would argue is the Patriots have been playing well going into the game against the Bills.

Speaker 3 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 lost was a bad loss.
They

Speaker 3 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.
They won that game.

Speaker 3 So they've been winning games, but winning them in an ugly, gross way.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 I don't know if we've ever had this situation, a bi-week in between playing the same team. I don't think that we have either.
It's crazy.

Speaker 3 One thing they can just sit there and keep their Ravens book open. So we haven't talked about this guy yet on the Browns.

Speaker 3 They call him Joke, J-O-K, because no one, like, it's tough to pronounce his name, Jake. We might need some education on this.
Jeremiah Uusu Koromoa.

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 a lot of people are idiots like us and can't can't figure out how to say his name correctly.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 He reminds me a lot of Micah Parsons, actually. Another good rookie.
But yeah, Jeremiah Owusu Koromoa. You nailed it.
Did I? Yeah. All right.
The pronunciation.

Speaker 3 I love it.

Speaker 3 I could see him making a case for rookie of the year. Ooh, okay.

Speaker 3 Wait, Micah Parsons, though. Yeah, but I'm telling you, if

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 By the way, TJ Watt is now the favorite to win defensive player of the year. So that happened quickly.

Speaker 3 Bubba, your favorite underdog. That's going to be a good game, though, Hank.
That's...

Speaker 3 I mean, I bet on every game, but that would be a game if I didn't bet on every game. It would be like, I don't know what's going to happen.
Don't bet on that game. Gamble responsibly.

Speaker 3 I'm taking Bengals plus one and a half.

Speaker 3 I don't know why. I just kind of feel like Joe is due.
Mallet finger worried about that at all? No.

Speaker 3 Did I just break that news to you? No,

Speaker 3 I did see it. It was like a mallet finger.
A mallet finger. What does that mean?

Speaker 3 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 Mallett as your cornerback. I think

Speaker 3 of, when I hear Mallet, I think of Krabs, and then I think of Jameis Winston, which is very good. Yeah, that's good.
Okay. Yeah, Ryan Mallet missing his alarm and getting cut by the Ravens, right?

Speaker 3 Was that it?

Speaker 3 It's kind of like me. Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you should stand in solidarity. Maybe the Texans are 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.

Speaker 3 I will find out the story there. But yeah, that's actually good.
Solidarity with people who oversleep. Bubba's Ryan Mallet finger pick of the week.
And then there's that gray guy.

Speaker 3 What was his name, Jonah Gray for the Patriots? Dak Prayer. Jonas Gray.
Jonas Gray.

Speaker 3 Yeah, he was.

Speaker 3 He had a four-touchdown game, then he missed the... He missed his flight.
Yeah, Ryan Mallet missed practice because he overslept and then got cut by the Texans. What a guy.
Unbelievable.

Speaker 3 Did you hear that the Texans are going to bring back Easterby? Oh, nice. That's where it sounds like.
I love that guy. And they won't answer if they're bringing back Dave Culley.
Probably not. Yeah.

Speaker 3 I heard that they were just wishy-washy.

Speaker 3 You can probably make an educated guess on that one. Yeah, Yeah, I mean, but it's kind of unfair.
If you're going to...

Speaker 3 If they fire, they should at least fire him in the middle of next season, because if you fire him after this season, you're basically admitting you hired just to fire him. Yeah, well, I think...

Speaker 3 That's not right. I think what they probably did was they hired David Cully because, one, they couldn't find anybody with actual head coaching experience.
Two, he seemed like a nice guy.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 So they were like, yeah, this is the perfect fall guy for a season. I had one other other thing quickly going back to the Ravens-Browns game.

Speaker 3 A question. Do you think, now, it's been talked about a million times over, but Bill Pollyan actually, I think, helped Lamar Jackson's career.

Speaker 3 Because I don't think people criticize Lamar Jackson the same way that they would have if he had never had the stupid Bill Pollyan comment. I mean, I think a lot of people

Speaker 3 two years ago

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Especially like in the shorter pass, in the touch pass department. Right.

Speaker 3 People talk about that a lot now. But there's always like a couching of it.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Lamar Jackson

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 So I don't know.

Speaker 3 I think people are criticizing Lamar Jackson's passing. At least

Speaker 3 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 criticise.
He stinks at throwing short passes.

Speaker 3 He does stink at throwing short passes. All right, PFT, your favorite underdog.
My favorite underdog.

Speaker 3 I'm going to take the Falcons plus two and a half. Okay, head to head.
Yeah, it's going to be sunny. Weather makes a difference.
There we go. Matt Ryan outside loves playing outside.
He

Speaker 3 does not. Known fact.
Yeah. New turf.
Known fact.

Speaker 3 All right. My underdog, Billy, you will be at the game.
Jets plus five and a half. Also, my underdog.
Let's do it, baby.

Speaker 3 Only other Mormon quarterback to throw forward interceptions this season. There we go.
It's the Mormon quarterback poll. Exactly, yeah.
So Billy will be

Speaker 3 soaking in this game. Yeah, Billy will be at the game.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 He asked for permission. I said, absolutely.
that's definitely worth it. Because

Speaker 3 I'm sure we'll get some good stories from it.

Speaker 3 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?

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 It was a bad week for rookies. Very bad week.
He has more rookie win. Wow.

Speaker 3 No one else played well? He has more rookie of the week wins than any other rookie quarterback.

Speaker 3 Wow. Not wrong.
Okay. Well, I mean,

Speaker 3 who is he competing against there? Mac Jones. Mac Jones threw it three times.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 We're just filling up the trophy case with rookie of the weeks. All right, Jake, underdog.

Speaker 8 Bills plus three and a half against the Buccaneers. Everyone's off the Bills, which is why I'm taking the Bills.

Speaker 3 That's it.

Speaker 3 I think, yeah, I'm excited for this game. If this were closer, I was going to pick it as like an emotional hedge where either, you know, the Bills lose, Patriots have a stranglehold in the AFC East,

Speaker 3 and Tom Brady wins, but there's too many points for, you know, it's too risky.

Speaker 3 I think the Bills can still lose but cover. Yeah, so this game, to me, like this, I fucking, I just love the fact the Bills have a chance to circle the wagons here right away.

Speaker 3 Because the Bucs, weirdly, like, they do actually match up. The Bills match up well with the Bucs.
Like, the Bucks. The Bucs don't have anybody in the second game.
Right, exactly.

Speaker 3 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.
You remember that? That's true. 12 hours after that.

Speaker 3 You know, he's not even playing the Bills. I like it.
Yeah. I like it.

Speaker 3 But, yeah, I kind of like the Bills. I like that pick, G.
I do have him in the Hungry Dog for sure. Oh, okay.
Okay.

Speaker 3 Your favorite over? My favorite over is the over 48 Chiefs Raiders.

Speaker 3 I like that, too. These teams feel like over teams.
Not buying in on the Chiefs' defensive resurgence.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 And the Raiders have a decent offense offense on their own. Do you know how they do the dot? We were talking about the dots, the quarterback dots that they do after the game.

Speaker 3 I'd like to see a 3D version for Derek Carr's because he has to have the most height on his balls. He threw a couple balls last week that I'm pretty sure

Speaker 3 they hit the top wall of the Ravens. He just loves

Speaker 3 to chuck it as high as he can. Him and Aaron Rodgers, I think, have Russell Wilson, maybe too.
Yeah, they got some high balls.

Speaker 3 Tom Brady, sometimes,

Speaker 3 when he lets one go down, he's got some high balls. The king used to be Brett Favre.
High balls. He used to just throw.
We used to call him Favre's.

Speaker 3 Fades.

Speaker 3 You did? Yeah, back in the day. Favre's? Favre's.

Speaker 3 Oh, Brett Favre.

Speaker 3 When you cock it up. When you cock back and you drill a ball way over there.
Freaking moonshot. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 3 Bubba, your favorite over?

Speaker 3 I'm doing Bills Bucks over 53.5. Just a fun over.

Speaker 3 It is a fun over.

Speaker 3 That is a very fun over. I like it.
Afternoon over. Although, Bucks Unders.

Speaker 3 Just take a look. If you want to be a real masochist, they've had two of the most brutal games that first half

Speaker 3 goes way over, second half goes way under.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 So just be alert. Second half Bucs games die.

Speaker 3 I hate teams that do that, by the way. It's always like Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady, because they just care about winning more than they care about us, the gamblers.

Speaker 3 They just just start running the ball in the sky. Yeah, they don't care.
They're like, oh, I just want to win this game. I don't want to put up stats and get everyone the over.

Speaker 3 Unless we're playing against, like, unless there's one person on the other team that has wronged me in the past in my career. Yes.
In which case, I'll put 50 points on you. Selfish shit.
All right.

Speaker 3 Your favorite over? My favorite over, I'm going to do the Ravens and Browns, 43. Ooh.
Yep. It's not a nighttime game, so the Ravens aren't going to be wearing the black uniforms.
Nope.

Speaker 3 I gave that out as a hot pick. That one hit.
It's going to be daytime. Ravens give up more points than the daytime, I think.
So Browns, Ravens.

Speaker 3 Oh, good weather, too. It's going to be mid-40s and sunny.
Let's go.

Speaker 3 So as a podcast that 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.

Speaker 3 It looks like every day, every game is going to be a good weather game. Yeah, it's beautiful Sunday.
It's a beautiful Sunday. All right, I'm going to take the 49ers, Bengals over 49.

Speaker 3 A little worried about the mallet finger, but I just, I think the 49ers

Speaker 3 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.
Uh, Billy,

Speaker 3 I might switch some picks. Oh, no, wait, you can't,

Speaker 3 but not because of anything we discussed, just my own mental thing. Okay, talk about

Speaker 3 the past, the past two weeks, my over-unders have not been going well,

Speaker 3 and I just decided because I've like, for example, my over is also Bengals 49ers, but you're fading me, I'm not fading you, but my under

Speaker 3 is Bill's Buccaneers, and like they both seem like bangles 49ers was an under game in my mind so i made it the over and the bills buccaneers game's an under uh an 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

Speaker 3 already bet on them yeah so we talked you into changing your mind this is exactly i appreciate you being honest no but i'm 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 because you wrote them down after we talked to you out of them.

Speaker 3 This is exactly what I was afraid of. Exactly.
But I'm just changing them because of my own. Other people pick the options.
Yeah, talk about it. Exactly.

Speaker 3 This is literally going against the spirit of the game, Billy. You're picking.
If it was random games, that'd be one thing. Yeah, you have to stay with your original.

Speaker 3 You have to stay with your original. How about this? How about this?

Speaker 3 No, what if we let Billy change his 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, no, that's too confusing.

Speaker 3 I think we tend to start letting Billy go first. Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 3 But you think I'm really going to start. You just did.
You literally just did it. Just give it to him.
Say them both. Say them both right now.
They're both locked in. Okay.
I'm going to go.

Speaker 3 Okay, yeah, I'm going to go with my original ones, actually. I'm going to go Bengals, 49ers, over 49.
Okay. Bills, Buccaneers, under 53.5.
Okay, great. You're locked in.
Good job, Billy.

Speaker 3 Jake, go ahead. Give us your favorite over.

Speaker 8 I'm with PFT on Ravens, Browns over 43. All right.

Speaker 3 Now let's do our unders. Wrap it up.
No one's touching the Bears. Packers.
I'm touching them. I'm touching them.
You're touching the Bears? I'm touching the shit out of them.

Speaker 3 You're touching the Bears. Getting all up in there shit.
Why? 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.

Speaker 3 I'm taking the under. Okay.

Speaker 3 You know, that's not a terrible idea. Because Aaron Rodgers will.

Speaker 8 43.5.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Yeah, the over-under is 43.5.
I've seen this sound. 35-0 in computer sounds.

Speaker 3 I've seen this song and dance many times. Yeah.
The Bears

Speaker 3 aren't great on offense.

Speaker 3 Justin Fields is playing. Yes.

Speaker 3 Doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 Matters a little? No. I don't think it matters a lot.

Speaker 3 Maybe less. Maybe in the opposite.
It really is a case of practice.

Speaker 3 Especially when there's like the thing about the wide receivers and shit, like you go from practicing with Andy Dalton, all of a sudden Justin Fields, like it's not like your typical backup starter, switch, swap them out.

Speaker 3 It's completely different play styles. Yeah, but

Speaker 3 their defense is getting Andy Dalton being scout team Aaron Rodgers, though. Doesn't that help?

Speaker 3 Sure. Justin Fields is going to make a crazy touchdown run right in your face.
I honestly think they're going to be able to play with the game.

Speaker 3 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 the last decade.

Speaker 3 Three times. Shout out to Shane McClellan.

Speaker 3 Broke his fucking body in half. Aaron Rodgers, you bitch.
All right, Bubba. I'm going Titans, Jags, under 43.5.

Speaker 3 I just feel like neither of these teams have anybody on offense. Yeah.
Which was simulated score?

Speaker 3 It's one of those ugly, one of those ugly, like 16-14-13 or something. Totally close game.
Totally. Totally.
All right, BFT. All right, my under is Saints.
Wait, I have that too. Sorry.

Speaker 3 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 Bull.
Billy's going to be there.

Speaker 3 That's definitely going to be an ugly game. Yep.
I'm thinking

Speaker 3 Saints. the deep numbers are telling me Saints 15,

Speaker 3 Jets 3. Ooh.

Speaker 3 That's what my model is ever. I did the simulation.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Jake, wrap us up.

Speaker 8 I am taking Detroit, Denver, under 42.5.

Speaker 3 This also has the vibes of one of those 16, 13 games. Good pick because that's the only game we didn't talk talk about.

Speaker 3 I love this game, Moneyline. Detroit? Yeah.
After winning,

Speaker 3 no way, dude. Yes, Wade did.

Speaker 3 I liked them winning last week. I was right.
You want a winning streak?

Speaker 3 A winning streak last week.

Speaker 3 No way. Broke the seal.
Monkeys off their back. They broke the seal.
The other way around. They've been playing well all year.
Because they've been desperate. For a win.

Speaker 3 And now that they got it, they want to keep that team out. Chill out of mouth.
Just chill out. Relax.
They have something to work on. Denver's going to build on.

Speaker 3 They just want to chill out and relax. You're going to get a chill out.
You're going to max chill out. I'm going to max out money line special.

Speaker 3 Oh, horny Hank over there just wants to see Jared Copp's girlfriend post the video on the timeline. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you do.

Speaker 3 I'll show you my tits if you're not horny. Bonk Lockwood.
No, see,

Speaker 3 I would argue that that would be bonk you because you're the one that brought the whole thing up. Fair, actually.
No,

Speaker 3 I'm just so far inside your head that I know how horny you are. No, you're inside your own head being like

Speaker 3 a situation. I'm going to say something horny, so everyone else must be thinking horny things.
No, I'm just saying,

Speaker 3 no, I'm thinking, what's the biggest lion 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.

Speaker 3 The win was pretty big, too. It's close second.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 That's going to be the start of the run. Hell yes.
You believed. You believed.
Where's that future at? If he wins MVP, she's got to go full plus.

Speaker 3 I put it in before the season.

Speaker 3 I'll look up.

Speaker 3 All right. When you look it up, PFT, why don't you do a quick ad before we do fantasy fucking? Yeah, before you get into the fantasy fucking.
Wait, yeah, we did it all, right? Yeah.

Speaker 3 I'm wearing me on D's right now. Anybody else in this room wearing me on these? Yep.
Yep. Yep.
All the boys are.

Speaker 3 Yeah, Billy actually literally just checked and he took his pants off and looked.

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Speaker 3 Okay, let's get into it, fantasy fuckboys. I put two futures in before the season.
The past to win the championship plus $3,300. Jared Goff to win the MVP plus $12,525 to win $3,000.
So

Speaker 3 still alive.

Speaker 3 Still alive. Not dead.
No. We ain't leaving.

Speaker 3 What's dead may never die. I've got Jameis Winston to win MVP and comeback player of the year.

Speaker 3 Sadly, that won't be happening. Damn.
That actually could have happened.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 He'll have to come back, I guess, next year. We will absolutely have to do it again.
One more year, Ben. All right, Fantasy Fuck Boys.
Yo, what's up, boys? What's up, Nazi Stickhead? It's John O'S.

Speaker 3 John Alipe. Hey, John Conse.
My statum is UFOs.

Speaker 3 I know fucking Billy Fuckboy saw this video. Some pilot up in the sky saw a formation of like five unidentified flying objects.
They say is the best proof of UFOs we have yet.

Speaker 3 It was probably camera glint. No, shut the fuck up, Billy.
Shut the fuck up. Billy's gonna hate it.
Billy's gonna hate it, Billy. Yeah, listen.
I watched the video and thought of camera glitch.

Speaker 3 There were six glints. Billy, what do you know about a glint?

Speaker 3 What do you know about a glint? There's glints everywhere. You stupid fucking idiot.

Speaker 3 You idiot. My sitim is Babe Ruth.
Oh, yeah, that guy sucks. That's a video.
Someone found a video of like 19 whenever the fuck he was born. Baby, no.
He had a shitty swing. He looked slow and fat.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 I'm taking away his pinstripes. I'd probably strike him out.
Also, apparently he killed his first wife. What? He's an orphan.
Wow. Alleged.
Is that for real? He's not an orphan either.

Speaker 3 His parents dropped him off at the orphanage. Oh,

Speaker 3 so much hidden fastball.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Doesn't 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.

Speaker 3 I think it just means you suck as ass. Yeah, technically, you're not an orphan because you got parents.
You just had bad vibes. Your dad was like, I can't hang with this kid.
Right.

Speaker 3 Shout out, orphans. I love you.
Uh-huh. And then my sleep up.

Speaker 3 Shout out. Shout out, Orphans.

Speaker 3 Was number one podcast for Orphans. My Sleepa.
Shout out to all the Twist. My Sleepa is commissioners with playoffs this week in fantasy when people are still on their buys.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you did cat. That's chaos.
Yeah. That's a move that you didn't think through.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 It's coming around a bunch of people.

Speaker 3 I'm talking to you, Brian. The shit's fucked up.

Speaker 3 A shit show. Brian, what the fuck? What the fuck, Bico? Why didn't you fucking realize there was 18 fucking weeks this year? Absolute chaos.
No, put the fucking dude to sleep. Pacific.

Speaker 3 Brian, you fucking piece of shit. I'm authorizing a contract on Brian right now.
It's open season.

Speaker 3 Who do you got on by? Bring me back. Aesthetically.

Speaker 3 I actually am doing okay.

Speaker 3 But Brian, you fuck. You dickhead, Brian.
No, she dickhead.

Speaker 3 Hey, what's up, you dickheads? It's me,

Speaker 3 Benvenito DiNucci.

Speaker 3 And I'm starting, 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.

Speaker 3 That's probably the worst loss to college basketball you've ever had. Oh, you're talking UMBC? Yo, I'm done.

Speaker 3 Yeah, guess what? Guess what? No misdirection. There's a new Virginia in town, you motherfucker.
And also, we're about to smash Montana. So fuck the Grizzlies.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 It's time for Jimmy to be on the rise up right now. I said him, I'm sitting Mike Glennon.
Because even though his neck's feeling better, his head's feeling better, right?

Speaker 3 His head's feeling better. No, that's Danny Jones, Danny Dye.
Danny Jones' neck day. Michael Glennon's head.

Speaker 3 Mike Glennon, let the band play neck. Please.
I would love to see Mike Glennon out there. I don't want to see what I want.

Speaker 3 Give me one more week. We got the rest of our careers to see Jake Fromp.

Speaker 3 I would love to see Mike Glennon for just one more week. And sleep is Jelaine Maxwell.
Oh, hey.

Speaker 3 You would? The truth is going to come out. I mean, let's be honest, fellas.
We got red-blooded Americans. Not

Speaker 3 Red-blooded Americans right now.

Speaker 3 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?

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 3 Okay, good answer, Billy. He's got morals.
All right, what's up, fuckheads? It's Tony the Tiger.

Speaker 3 My stardom is Danny Boy Kane. He's back, and the U is building a monster.
A monster.

Speaker 3 If you're in Tallahassee, if you're in Gainesville, shut this program off right now and go get your ass recruiting because Christopal's here and the bad guy's back. I love it.

Speaker 3 Dandy Boy Kane didn't die at no time. Had no blind flu.
At no point.

Speaker 3 But he did get attacked by a bear. Nope.
He would have run. He would have hightailed it out of here like Carl Lewis.
All right, my cinemas, dick pics to your dad.

Speaker 3 That was crazy succession. No spoilers, but dick picks to your dad.
Don't do that.

Speaker 3 Don't do it. That was actually going to be Billy's cinema as well, but it had nothing to do with it.
Yeah, he hasn't seen an episode yet. All right, my sleep is Justin Fields.

Speaker 3 I think something magical's gonna happen. I really do.

Speaker 3 I feel it in my brush holes.

Speaker 3 This kid, I don't know. The moment might be too big to do that.
I think something magical's gonna happen.

Speaker 3 Deep, deep.

Speaker 3 What's good, my? His name's Rocco Spollini. Rocco Spollini.
What's up, guys? It's Rock. My stardom is.
No, you'll give yourself a nickname. You name Rock Spollini.
No, I can't say my Rock.

Speaker 3 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 sardom is Nick Bosa.

Speaker 3 He's had 50 pressures all year. Guy's about to face his former adversary, Joey Burrow.
Good Italian boy. It's going to be a good game.
My sit him is extra points.

Speaker 3 They've been the lowest percentage made since 1979. 92.5% made.

Speaker 3 Stats are for fucking losers, Billy. It's just the rock like stats.
Rock, sorry. The rocked like stats.

Speaker 3 Rocco, Rocco, you know that the kickers are getting too jacked, and that's why it's happened, right? Hey, hey, I'm not saying, but something to be said. Bring back the fat kickers.
They changed

Speaker 3 my sleeper are Santa's. It's Santa Con this weekend.
There's gonna be a bunch of Santa's asleep on the

Speaker 3 boardwalk from getting knocked out or just being passed out. All right, just jacking each other off.
Stay safe. That's always my favorite when the video comes out.
Just Santa's puking on each other.

Speaker 3 Saying on Santa. Socks driving through the city on Saturday.
I'm trying to go to Army Navy and I'm gonna be Santa's everywhere. I also heard that Billy Billy, where were you two nights ago?

Speaker 3 Did you happen to be around

Speaker 3 the Fox News building?

Speaker 3 Did Christmas tree burn down? Rock's out. No, that Libby football has some...

Speaker 3 You are a soldier in the war on Christmas. No comment from the rock.

Speaker 3 That's interesting. I just heard a rumor that Billy Football had something to do with burning down Fox News' Christmas tree.
It got out on pail.

Speaker 3 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 who did just got released without bail. No,

Speaker 3 that's the guy who you have taking a fall for you. Patsy.
Uh-huh. Oh, Jesus.
What? You burned a tree. That's a serious crime.
I know. What?

Speaker 3 Billy Hurts.

Speaker 3 You got triggered? Oh, now you're minimalizing the tree. Oh, no.
It's not a real tree. He knows the details.
Yeah, wow. It's not a real tree.

Speaker 3 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 big cat wait what which

Speaker 3 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 really up close i'm sort of a you know like pyramid cone type shape but did you do no no i was just 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.

Speaker 3 Yeah, they're at the scene watching the floor. So it sounds like you can

Speaker 3 play

Speaker 3 it.

Speaker 3 No comment. Okay.
Billy, burn the tree down. Billy, burn the tree.
Everyone, report him on Twitter. Just not to the actual police, please.

Speaker 3 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 got Mario Lopez in studio.
PFT, yet a quick word before we go.

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Speaker 3 Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very special guest. It is legend Mario Lopez, AC Slater, America's host? Can I say that?

Speaker 6 Hey, I'll take it. And I appreciate the nice introduction, man.
Yeah, I appreciate you having me. This is cool.
I'm a big fan of ours. Okay, let's go.

Speaker 3 So Mario's here. Stay by the bell on Peacock.
You can stream it now.

Speaker 3 Check it out. New season, right? New season.

Speaker 6 Just premiered this past week. Can't believe 30 some odd years later.

Speaker 6 We're revisiting this.

Speaker 3 The trip makes you feel old. That was going to be my first question.
Well, no, you're not that. You look great.
I mean, I can say that, right? You look great. You look good.

Speaker 3 Take it.

Speaker 3 Don't take off your shirt, but if you take off your shirt, that's okay too. You look really good.
Yeah, you look awesome. Do you dye your hair? I appreciate it.

Speaker 6 Little Juster Man action.

Speaker 3 Okay, just remote. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But five bucks, right aid?

Speaker 6 Yes. Once a month.
Yep. The thing is, you can't...

Speaker 6 You can't like just, I'd be cool if it was just kind of like a little bit. You know what I'm saying? But then I'd be looking like Anderson Cooper if it just doesn't go a little bit.

Speaker 3 It keeps going. Right.
I like the poly walnuts and leave the the waves in on the side. That would actually be a sick look for you.

Speaker 6 That might be a sick look. But once you go there, you can't go back.

Speaker 3 I know. I'm stuck because

Speaker 3 I 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.
I'm going to strictly remind you. Yeah, no, every single time.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 You want to hear something embarrassing? I just just remember my facial hair. Oh, okay.
That is embarrassing. It's very embarrassing.
I can't tell.

Speaker 3 I I can tell that you mean it.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I can't tell. I didn't know you could do that.
Good to know.

Speaker 3 Turns out you can't. Not really what they're going for, but I'm trying to look as white trash as possible.

Speaker 3 All right, so my first question was actually about Save by the Bell and the fact that, like, did you ever think that we would be sitting here in 2021?

Speaker 3 Not only were you doing our new Save by the Bell, but it's still just as relevant and talked about as it was, you know, 30 years ago. It's crazy.

Speaker 6 It is crazy because, yeah, that's a long time, 30 some odd years. And, you know, you got to remember, it was a Saturday morning show, so it was for little kids.

Speaker 3 Right.

Speaker 6 Right. Our competition was like Bugs Bunny, and we were talking about real vanilla stuff.
Yeah. And our EP was a strong born again Christian, and there was like no cussing signs on set.

Speaker 6 I mean, it was, again, like little kids. So it tripped me out that it even caught on with teenagers

Speaker 6 and much less young adults.

Speaker 6 And that it would still be around all these years later. And the fact that we are revisiting it with like this whole new reimagining.
Now, the new take, pardon me,

Speaker 6 the new 2.0 version, a lot bigger budget. It's like next level as far as production is concerned.
And we're blessed to have Tracy Wigfield, who's Emmy award-winning showrunner.

Speaker 6 She did like 30 Rock, Mindy Kaling show, a bunch of shows. And she was a fan.
So I think she's done a really good job of blending the nostalgia with this new modern take. So it's much hipper, edgier,

Speaker 3 cooler.

Speaker 6 And my character is cool to play because he's like one of those dudes and we all know him, like that are stuck in his era, wears the same clothes, listens to the same music, has the same game.

Speaker 6 You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 He's in high school. There you go.
Exactly.

Speaker 6 He's sort of like the Al Bundy, like,

Speaker 6 which is a fun guy to play.

Speaker 3 Yes, absolutely. If you didn't peak in high school, you're kind of a nerd.
Right. Yeah.
So, like, I love Slater.

Speaker 3 Slater was one of my favorite characters.

Speaker 3 It's interesting that you mentioned like the Saturday morning aspect of it because a lot of people in my generation, I think I know it at least as being an after-school show.

Speaker 3 Like, I get home from school and I've got a little bit of. In syndication.
In syndication.

Speaker 6 of syndication. Right.
That's when it really kind of started taking off, which tripped me out because you're right.

Speaker 6 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 it went into syndication and kids after school started watching it.

Speaker 6 And then it really, you know, I guess it took off or whatever.

Speaker 3 Are you allowed to cuss on set now? Am I? Yeah. Did they change that? Yeah, we don't have, we don't have the same.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Not that I want to be, you know, wild.

Speaker 3 What would you say, though, like, is the reason that it resonated?

Speaker 3 It's very odd sometimes to think about, like, what are the shows and what are the things that stand the test of time and say by the bell is absolutely that. Is there any,

Speaker 3 is it the writing? Is it the characters? I don't know. I can't really put my finger on it.

Speaker 6 Yeah, you know, I can't either, but I think there's a few factors. I think there was

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 Like, if you look at Greece or even 902 and O, which is literally these, you know, they were like in their 30s.

Speaker 3 Right.

Speaker 6 We were actually 15 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.

Speaker 6 Pretty diverse cast. Yeah.
You had like a Latino kid, you had a Jewish kid, you had a black kid. You had a pretty diverse cast of Mac, you know what I mean? Which was kind of nice.

Speaker 6 So representation all around there.

Speaker 3 And there were hot girls. Yeah.

Speaker 6 So I think all those factors probably contributed to its appeal.

Speaker 3 I also think it's probably a little bit of like the idea of California high school.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 I think it's just, they're always outside and like that vibe of California high school. It's like, ooh, this is foreign.

Speaker 6 It is pretty idyllic.

Speaker 6 too because i mean it's kind of hard to be in a bad mood when it's 75 and sunny every day right literally right after it was 80 degrees right And so, you know, it's, it's, uh, it is a pretty idyllic setting.

Speaker 6 Yeah. And the fact that that gets highlighted with like young kids and then they're the good-looking girls and stuff, then I'm sure that probably it's a cool scene.

Speaker 3 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 like 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 was just cool as shit.

Speaker 3 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?

Speaker 6 No, that was me.

Speaker 6 So the character was written to sort of be like Travolta and Welcome Back Cotter, like that Vinnie Bobarino character.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Kind of like a street-wise kind of kid. And so I try to do

Speaker 6 little things that I thought were cool at 15 at the time, spin on the chair and rocket tank top with Z Cap Ricci's.

Speaker 6 The crazy thing was, is when we got the parts, they asked us to write down all the list of like activities and hobbies that we were into.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 Growing up in the neighborhood, I did, and it worked for the most part. And so, you know, I wrestled,

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 6 I'm always proud to say.

Speaker 3 Okay, I choreographed that.

Speaker 3 Pretty good at 15. I have a problem with it.
If you watch it, and we'll make a clip of this.

Speaker 3 A wrestler never lets the other guy get up like that. He got up pretty easily.

Speaker 6 Well, I had to stick to the script.

Speaker 3 Okay, because I was going to say, you have

Speaker 3 the same 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 they'll just take you down and submit you.

Speaker 3 Right.

Speaker 3 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 i boxed too so okay all right so

Speaker 3 those are my sports yeah so you are on mma yeah that was the first mma so i liked it and so no that was fun man so they it was written the script and i said hey i can i can 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 uh 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 flinch yeah yeah good beard yeah yeah i i have another thing to dig into here um about like so 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 right did you did they switched positions that was pointed out to me i don't even remember to be honest maybe that the other one was dirty at the time i don't even know i don't think there was i don't think there were any consistency that's like an offensive lineman and a wider snow right here yeah exactly very different.

Speaker 3 I know. Like, for the record, though, like, what position did AC Slater play?

Speaker 6 I don't think it was ever established, to be honest. I feel like

Speaker 3 that would actually get some traction on some of the worst vlogs on the internet. I really don't.
I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 6 I guess he'd probably be like a safety.

Speaker 3 Oh, AC Slater. I like that.
AC Slater's an awesome safety downhill.

Speaker 3 Popping people. He likes the people.
He likes wrestling, so he'd be a good hitter.

Speaker 3 I like that. The other thing that I wanted to bring up was you played basketball in one episode.
Did we? Yeah. Nah.
You were a basketball. You were on the basketball team for one episode.
No, was I?

Speaker 3 Yeah. And you were also a wrestler.
That's the same season.

Speaker 6 That's the same season, exactly. That doesn't, I really don't remember that, I swear.

Speaker 3 It really broke the fourth wall believability. Yeah, yeah.
You were just that good of an athlete. Did we play?

Speaker 6 Yeah, it was like one 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.

Speaker 3 I don't know if you put, because I always think like basketball of 90s sitcoms, I think of

Speaker 3 Fresh Prince of Bel Air and then playing basketball. So here, I'm just going to show you still.
Oh, wow. Oh, I believe you.
I just don't remember. Hang Hang on.
This is important.

Speaker 3 In that picture right there,

Speaker 3 you were 23 rocking the basketball jersey. Oh.
So either that or you were stealing Valor.

Speaker 6 You mean I was 23 the number? I wasn't 23 years old.

Speaker 3 I was 23 the number. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I got it. Got it.
Yeah, you were number 23. Who was the best cameo

Speaker 3 that came by the set, and why was it Jim Harbaugh?

Speaker 6 That's right, Jim Harvaugh. I love me some Jim Harva.

Speaker 3 You better remember that.

Speaker 3 Yeah, of course, I do remember that. I do remember that.

Speaker 6 And then he later went on to be a Charger, too. And I'm a Charger fan.
So, yeah, and and he's a great guy. Great guy.
I remember. I actually partied with Jim Harvaugh, too.
Really?

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Later on, there was like some golf tournament and whatever. And it was in Michigan.

Speaker 3 How'd you golf?

Speaker 6 Oh, my golf is trash. I never have time.
I didn't have time to play.

Speaker 6 But I like to party and have fun out there.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 6 And it was probably the same tournament that I did.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it was four of us. And it's obviously when you have four people playing best ball, you should have a really good score.

Speaker 3 He asked our score at the end, and we're like, plus three, and he was like, What do you mean? And I was like, Well, we're all really bad. So, and

Speaker 3 he just drove away. I fit right in with you guys, and that's my kind of thing.

Speaker 6 And the irony is, I actually have a golf tournament. Really? Yeah, it benefits the St.
Joseph's Hospital where my kids are born. And it's for a good cause.
And I told him, hey, I don't play golf.

Speaker 6 I don't, because golf's like, it takes up a lot of time, so I don't really have enough time to do all that. And I figured I'll play when I'm older and my body's broken down to decrepit.

Speaker 6 I'm too active right now. I like like to do boxing and jiu-jitsu 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.

Speaker 6 And I make sure everybody has a bottle of tequila in their cart.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 6 Thank you. I appreciate that.

Speaker 3 Like every hosting job is like, well, Mario can do it. Yeah.
Like he's awesome.

Speaker 3 We've been keeping busy.

Speaker 6 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.
You know, I got three kids.

Speaker 6 Um, I'll have breakfast with all of them. I head out, and I usually either box or do jiu-jitsu every day.

Speaker 6 Oh, my God, or at least Monday through Friday, okay, Saturday, or the weekends I try to take a break, and

Speaker 6 I'll do something else. Well, I want to 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.

Speaker 3 So, I'll get up, I'll go, usually. Wait, wait, you just said you'll do a spin class to give your body a break.

Speaker 3 Yeah, well, I just want to make sure that sparring, because that gets tough at mind, especially you got it, you know what I mean?

Speaker 6 So, 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

Speaker 6 Mondays. I usually go box, and then I'll go do my radio show.
I have a nationally syndicated radio show I do with my wife called On with Mario

Speaker 6 for iHeart. So, we do that.
Then, from there, this is all at universal. Then, from there, I go do Access Hollywood, which is at night, right? The World of Entertainment.
I'll shoot that.

Speaker 6 And then after that, I'll do a show called Access Daily. Okay, just sort of like a Regis and Kelly.
And I'm cooking, I'm I'm dancing, I'm eating and drinking, I'm talking to celebrities.

Speaker 6 It's that sort of that vein. So that takes up probably the most part.
Then after that, for like this last six months, I did say by the bell. I go shoot Say by the Bell.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 3 Oh, nice.

Speaker 6 And then I'm used to there for breakfast, and I'm pretty much there time for dinner. Nice.
And once in a while, I got a meeting or something I got to miss, but for the most part, you know.

Speaker 3 So

Speaker 3 then I'll squeeze like a Christmas movie in. Yeah, right.

Speaker 3 right sweet like hallmarks colin yeah i can knock that out yeah yeah right 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

Speaker 3 i'm not that but yeah i would imagine like you there are certain like we have rob lowe on the show rob lowe has has said many times that like he found out very quickly that he can do tours across america and it's like

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 6 Well, Rob's an icon, nice guy too.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I mean that's my audience. That's my demo right there with both a radio show and with Access Hollywood and the lifetime Christmas movies that I do.
That's all the same sort of audience.

Speaker 6 So I appreciate them. I'm grateful.
Yep. You know, and you're going to keep working out for them.
God bless them. Yeah.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Is there something that you do if you're having a bad day? Like, how do you burn that off?

Speaker 3 I've always wondered that about people that work 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

Speaker 6 like i am a pretty happy guy not a day because being a 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 and 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.

Speaker 6 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 is going to all go away like that. And I'm going to save it for a rainy day.

Speaker 6 And I continue to have guarded optimism, even though being as busy as I am. So I think maintaining that hustler mentality, I feel very grateful for everything that I do.
And I also love what I do.

Speaker 6 I love the world of entertainment. I love movies.
I love TV. I love music.
I like talking to people. And I like hosting.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 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

Speaker 6 my job. You know, there's sometimes you're fighting with the old lady or something like that, and you just got to be professional.

Speaker 6 Just kind of got to remember and take a time out and then get your act together.

Speaker 3 It is an incredible skill.

Speaker 3 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 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 or it's not yeah um curveball you owe your entire life to a witch doctor to oh damn that's a mean deep cut right there is that true yeah that's old school um

Speaker 6 yeah when i was little my uh

Speaker 6 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 Ensenala and in Mexico.

Speaker 6 Because I grew up right by the border,

Speaker 6 first-generation kid, but my parents are old school. So they took me down there.

Speaker 6 And the lady had fixed my dad's leg that he thought was going to 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.

Speaker 6 And she had him mix this crazy concoction into this carnation milk and and started giving it to me. And slowly I started getting better.
And here I am.

Speaker 3 It's insane. It's crazy.
I say it out loud. It sounds, I don't really know what it is.
I know, but it's, I mean, that's kind of a cool thing to be like, yeah, a witch doctor started this whole thing.

Speaker 3 Yeah, so I'm all, I guess, I'm a believer of alternative medicine. Yeah, I think so.
Or a product.

Speaker 3 You can't turn your back on that. You should get a carnation sponsorship.
Right? Yeah. Mario Lopez's witch milk.
Yeah. Has she ever hit you up and been like, hey, maybe some residuals here?

Speaker 3 No, I think she was like, she was quite

Speaker 6 up in years when I was a baby.

Speaker 3 Got it. But I mean,

Speaker 3 I would assume she can create a potion to keep herself alive. One would assume.
Right? So she probably is still alive. Probably a listener to this show.
She's probably like yoda.

Speaker 3 Yoda right now and just chilling out there. Yeah, long time stoolie.
That's a pretty cool story, though.

Speaker 3 It's a true story.

Speaker 6 I mean, my dad always shows me because he showed me when I was younger the bills that he spent trying to keep my ass alive.

Speaker 3 That's incredible. And all it took was one trip down to Antonata.

Speaker 6 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, says i didn't believe him until my mom told me my mom never likes me

Speaker 3 incredible and then yeah so by any measure you've had the fact that you're alive is a success it is yeah and you've had a great career since has there ever been a time when you thought like you know acting's fun but maybe i just want to walk away from maybe i want to not be on tv for a while

Speaker 3 no you know well coming out of high school um

Speaker 6 I was like at a crossroads because

Speaker 6 maybe about a year or two out of high school because, you know, Sabe the Bell was ending. People were kind of looking at me just

Speaker 6 as that role, and it was hard to kind of get taken serious as an actor

Speaker 6 in other positions. So

Speaker 6 I thought the opportunity presented itself from 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.

Speaker 6 And I figured there are no rules, so why not try anything? So I started getting into hosting.

Speaker 6 I got into theater and I started getting into little producing. So I figured I've always, again, try to keep hustling these other areas and I figured something might sort of work.

Speaker 6 And then I got the opportunity to work with Dick Clark,

Speaker 6 and we became friends. And he sort of took me under his wing, and I was constantly picking his brain.
And

Speaker 6 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

Speaker 6 you can be doing that for the next 50 years.

Speaker 6 And so I thought to myself, you know what? That's what I want to do.

Speaker 6 I want to be the Latino Dick Clark.

Speaker 3 I love it. Yeah.
It worked out pretty well. Did you ever, were you ever on SVU or Law and Order?

Speaker 6 No, I wasn't.

Speaker 3 So that, I mean, if I ever meet Clark, that's Dick Clark. That's the first question I'm asking.

Speaker 3 You're thinking of Dick Wolfe. Oh, Dick Wolfe.
My bad. My bad.
Dick Wolfe. Different type of stuff.
Dick Wolf. I get my dicks.

Speaker 3 A legend too, but in another area. Yeah, yeah, but no, being the Latino Dick Clark, I think that's a very, that's a lucrative career plan for sure.

Speaker 3 Because you can do that until you're, and you get to basically decide when you want to walk away at at that point.

Speaker 3 Hopefully, you're like a Regis, or there's, you know, there's very few, but sort of along those lines.

Speaker 6 But at the same time, too, I still like acting, so I'm glad to do the show, and I'll do Mike Maholiday movies and this and that, and producing, and doing the radio show, and I like wearing all these kind of different hats and stuff.

Speaker 3 So when I check into a hotel, are you actually glad that I'm there?

Speaker 6 Yeah, you know, it's funny you mentioned that because more people talk to me about that than anything.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I was always there.

Speaker 6 So it's in over a million rooms, right?

Speaker 6 And I started doing it like what, a couple years ago. And I'm surprised.
I mean, I've had everybody from

Speaker 6 Oprah to Clint Eastwood to Charlie Shane. Charlie Shane told me he was so high one time that he saw me three days for, it didn't change the channel.

Speaker 3 He said, dude, I was owned out of the whole weekend with Mario.

Speaker 6 Yeah, exactly. He goes, I couldn't get out of the bed.
I said, for three days, I didn't change the channel.

Speaker 3 I mean, that's a testament to your ability. I was like, wow, that's an awesome story.
It is.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Because you know, when you show up in a hotel and you're like, I just want to find ESPN.

Speaker 6 And it's like the first thing that comes up, right?

Speaker 3 Exactly. Yeah, but that's okay.
That's actually a great, like, a great thing to get your face out there all the time.

Speaker 6 Yeah, it's out there. And then all the athletes, too, because they're always on the road, baseball players and basketball players are like, gosh, damn, that's it.

Speaker 3 Merry all the time. Yeah.
Fucking Mario again.

Speaker 3 Dumb question. Was it tough to freeze when Zach would do the timeout?

Speaker 6 No. You know, sometimes you try to crack a little smile and stuff, but it wasn't, because it wasn't for a very long time.

Speaker 3 I feel like that would be tough. I feel that would be tough.
You naturally just move a little bit when you you breathe, and then

Speaker 3 you start laughing. That's why I came to an actor.

Speaker 3 The speed episode where Jesse got hooked on caffeine pills. That's right.
That was, that's an all-time. I'm sure you've been asked about it a lot.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 I was like, I'm not, I'm never taking no-dose. I'm going to stick to the good stuff.
Like, Adderall, you know?

Speaker 6 Makes you skeptical even to have coffee, right?

Speaker 3 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 6 yeah, no, man, that shit was so silly, but um, um, it was a funny moment. Uh, I'm trying to remember the episode, too.
Oh, yeah, she started. That's when she started singing.
I'm so excited, huh?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I'm so excited, so scared. So scared, yeah, I'm so scared.
That's right.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 3 So, do you have a favorite episode? Because I introduced you outside and you took a picture with that crazy guy, and I told you, I said I would ask the question for him. But he has a blog series.

Speaker 3 What is it called? It's ranking the Save by the Bell episodes to their corresponding steakhouses. Now, he's only released one part of this blog series.

Speaker 3 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 two years ago. Two years ago,

Speaker 3 ranking every Save by the Bell episode in tiers of corresponding steakhouses part one. So he's only done part one.
I think it's got to be about five parts, and that was two years ago.

Speaker 3 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?

Speaker 3 You didn't think you'd get this question. No, I never asked.
I told you.

Speaker 6 I can honestly say I've never been asked that.

Speaker 3 I gave you a little warning, though, when I was like, when he looked at you and I was like, take it easy, Rico. And he, like, I had that moment, like, I'll ask him the question.

Speaker 3 Don't worry, because he's been kind of hounding me. Yeah.
Like, you got to ask.

Speaker 6 I like the way Rico thinks.

Speaker 3 You know,

Speaker 3 I mean, I got to ask.

Speaker 3 You met him for seconds. That's why.
He made a good impression. Yes.

Speaker 6 You know what? Like, because I've been asked a lot, like, what's your favorite episode? I don't know. They're all like a blur.

Speaker 6 The only things I remember is I like when we got to leave set, like when we were at the beach. Okay.
When we did, like, we did a couple movies.

Speaker 3 Those would be like a Gibsons or like. Okay, okay.
Yeah, I don't know. So, like in Chicago? Yeah, yeah,

Speaker 3 everything's real big there. Yeah.

Speaker 6 Yeah, like I said, okay, we'll go with the Gibsons.

Speaker 3 And then

Speaker 6 we were like in Vegas and Hawaii. Anytime we're on location, those are always my favorite.

Speaker 3 Okay. What about your your least favorite?

Speaker 3 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 Screeched kidnapped by aliens and then had to fight the government to get him back.

Speaker 3 Did he get kidnapped? Yeah. No, did you? You really don't remember much about those episodes.
No, I really don't. Well, I'll tell you the time capsule.

Speaker 3 The time capsule episode is the 86th rank episode, and it's an Outback Steakhouse.

Speaker 3 Oh, wow. Yeah.
That's disrespectful to Outback. Because Outback's delicious.

Speaker 6 They got the Blue Minion there.

Speaker 3 They do. It's a great.
No, yeah, there was the one you found like a video camera camera, and then some tabloid was paying money if you could get footage of aliens.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 So you mentioned the Chargers. Are you still a Chargers fan, obviously?

Speaker 6 I am. You know, I stay pretty loyal to the soil.
I'm Dodgers, Chargers, Lakers.

Speaker 3 Okay. And how do you feel about the Chargers? What's your favorite, yeah, like, what's your favorite sport to watch? What's the sport you watch the most?

Speaker 6 Boxing and MMA.

Speaker 3 Okay. Those are my favorite.

Speaker 6 I'm a big combat sports guy.

Speaker 3 And you've hosted some of these.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I've hosted a lot of fights. I guess you host a lot for HBO, both in English and in Spanish, back when HBO had boxing.

Speaker 6 And then for Top Rank and the International Broadcast. Did it for Triller when Tyson fought, kicking those off.
I was supposed to do the one this last one, but I couldn't because I was working.

Speaker 6 And so,

Speaker 3 yeah, it's, you know. What do you think about those? Because

Speaker 3 I have the opinion that anything is good for boxing because boxing has had a lull. And yeah, they're kind of sideshows.

Speaker 3 But, you know, Jake Paul, like, he's starting to get to be a kind of a real boxer. So it's like, I think it's good for boxing because it gets more people tuning into combat sports.

Speaker 6 I love anything that raises the awareness level of the sport. And I think it's, hey, listen, you got to be a certain kind of individual.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 There's no one to back you up. There are no timeouts.

Speaker 3 It's as real as it gets.

Speaker 6 And you find out what you're really about. And I love it.
So I respect anyone that

Speaker 6 gets in there. So, yeah, both boxing, MMA,

Speaker 6 I trained jiu-jitsu and wrestling box every day. So those are the ones that are my favorite.
And there's nothing like it.

Speaker 6 And I've been to all the other games and all the other 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,

Speaker 6 it is like Caesar's going back. And when it's at its best, it's awesome.
Yep.

Speaker 3 Do you have rules when you train in boxing? Like, hey, stay away from the cheekbones, no nose shots.

Speaker 6 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,

Speaker 6 it's ironic because it makes me feel alive, but I probably should be slowing down at my age and

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 3 So, three years in a row, first year, I tore my rotator cuff.

Speaker 6 This was all sparring. Tore my rotator cuff, healed up.
Next year,

Speaker 6 around the same time, tore my Achilles. Oh, healed up.
Very next year, tore my biceps.

Speaker 3 This is why you don't want to heal up. This is why working out is overrated.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 So I'm trying to wean off a little bit, do a little more jiu-jitsu.

Speaker 3 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 getting hit that feels good in a weird way.

Speaker 3 It can make you stop focusing on all the stuff that doesn't matter because if you're sparring or if you're exactly right, you got to be completely focused on that day.

Speaker 6 No matter what kind of day you're having, that's exactly it. No matter how busy or stressed out a kind of day I'm having, I get to check out, lock in, and just kind of escape for like a little bit.

Speaker 6 You have to, or else you're going to get your ass kicked.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Well, this has been great, man.
We appreciate you coming by. Yeah, they're by the way on Peacock.
I had one last question. I like to do this whenever we have a guest on.

Speaker 3 I just like to look what I've tweeted about that person.

Speaker 3 And I have one tweet where you're sitting next to Tommy Lasorda, R.I.P. We've had him on the show, Legend.
Legend. And I asked, hey, AC Slater, do you even have a penis, bro?

Speaker 3 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.
No, that's...

Speaker 3 Look at this. His knee.
I've never seen legs cross that much. It's like almost a straight line of leg.
Like, how are you sitting like that? That's how I'm sitting right now, bro.

Speaker 3 I don't think that was my certain cat. All right, okay.
Well, that was the only tweet I could find.

Speaker 3 That's it.

Speaker 6 He was awesome, though. Hey, one thing I just want to throw out there in case there's any,

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 3 Oh, hell yeah. Called Holiday in Santa Fe.

Speaker 6 It's Friday, December 10th on Lifetime. So, you know, we're in the season right now.
So I just want to make sure we get that out there.

Speaker 3 So is she going to be 10 years old and she rocked it? Is she really trying to be like a child? Like, how do you feel about that? You know how she feels about that?

Speaker 6 She's not. And 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.

Speaker 6 So these opportunities sort of presented itself, and I just kind of ran it by her.

Speaker 3 She's like, yeah, okay.

Speaker 6 And she's been killing it.

Speaker 3 I mean, that's an awesome moment to be able to work with your daughter. Yeah, it's very, very cool.

Speaker 6 So that's why I want to make sure hopefully people check it out.

Speaker 3 Yes, really, absolutely. Go look at it.
Absolutely. 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?

Speaker 6 Oh, yeah. Oh, that's funny.
We did that. I can't believe that, like...

Speaker 6 That became like a thing after that was for a lifetime and we did it as a joke.

Speaker 3 Like a lot of people, Rob Lowe, a bunch of people have played him. Yeah.

Speaker 6 But I did it, and we did like a novella take on it, and it was kind of, and it was pretty funny, and I guess it kind of caught on.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I mean, you were sexy Colonel Sanders.

Speaker 3 I think it really caught everybody off guard, but they're like, you know what? In a weird way, I kind of wanted to watch this. That's funny.

Speaker 6 That's funny. That was funny, man.
We shot that just in a weekend. And then they sort of, you know, they put it out there and it became a thing.
So they're trying to revisit it and stuff.

Speaker 6 So let's see if it can be. It's obviously campy and, you know, all in good cheesy fun.

Speaker 3 Yes. I love it.
Right on. What do you bench?

Speaker 6 Do you want to bench? Dude, I haven't lifted weights. I can't even tell you.

Speaker 3 Because everything hurts. It's really good.
It's everything hurts. That's why why I gotta do this other stuff.
Yeah, I don't want to call you.

Speaker 6 Who's hitting that right there? Who's in that?

Speaker 3 Oh, we never do. We do.
Yeah, we knock out like some sets of 25

Speaker 3 pyramids.

Speaker 3 Just try to keep us, you know, active all the time. Those are on our off days.
We usually hit this. Yeah, this is so this is recovery for us.
Yeah. Yesterday, I think we had 405.
Okay.

Speaker 3 Yeah, we're kind of muscle freaks. So they call me meathead.

Speaker 3 I kind of agree with them sometimes, but you got to laugh at yourself. It is funny

Speaker 3 having you in here and being like, oh, that's what maybe 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 working.

Speaker 3 Yeah, we're like 12 years younger than you and we all look like shit. I've got certain kidney stones.
That's okay. That's okay.
This is how you can live if you want to live like Mario Lopez.

Speaker 3 All right. Well, thank you, man.
This has been awesome.

Speaker 6 Hey, thanks for having me, guys. Appreciate it.

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Speaker 3 Okay, let's wrap up. We got Fire Fest of the Week.

Speaker 3 Hank. Oh, by the way, Jumpsuit January.
Hank's wearing a sh are we putting those on on sale soon? Oh, we're putting them on sale very soon, I think, next week. PFT is wearing, this is a

Speaker 3 Fire Windbreaker. PFT has a jumpsuit.
We got basketball jerseys, whole bunch of merch coming out. Love it.

Speaker 3 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,

Speaker 3 Presence Day,

Speaker 3 Valentine's Day, Selection Sunday, the first day of the tournament. Flag Day in June.
Spring break. Hey, wait.
Are they doing the same?

Speaker 3 This is a total sidetrack. Jake, are they doing the same weird schedule this year for the tournament?

Speaker 8 It hasn't been announced, so I think it's back to Thursday, Sunday. I think it's a good thing.

Speaker 3 Good. Eight sites all around the country.
You know what's going to happen? Prediction.

Speaker 3 For the future part of my take, we're going to get to that first weekend, and Big Cat's going to be like, can I say something? Yeah, no. I kind of missed the scheduling from last year.

Speaker 3 I definitely do. Because

Speaker 3 did we not agree that it was kind of sick?

Speaker 3 It was.

Speaker 3 I don't recall. I just remember us all being mad because change.

Speaker 3 Right, 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.

Speaker 3 For us, our job is pretty awesome that we can just watch it on Monday. And then it was Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.
So

Speaker 3 we missed it that Thursday. We missed it Thursday.
Thursday and Friday. Finally, Friday existed.
Friday existed. Yeah, but we missed the Thursday.

Speaker 3 Opening weekend for the NCAA tournament, we but there were parts to it that were actually kind of awesome.

Speaker 3 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. All right.

Speaker 3 My Firefest relates to our song at the bank with Benny the Butcher. Oh.

Speaker 3 Trying to get it on streaming services, iTunes and Spotify. It started

Speaker 3 my beam being like, all right, I got to get 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,

Speaker 3 who no longer works here. So I had to track him down.

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 there's been like

Speaker 3 complications going back and forth, but it's signed up through Brett and like Robbie Fox. So every time there's been a hiccup, it's not been coming to me.

Speaker 3 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 sent anything that's been wrong, but it's still not up.

Speaker 3 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 firefest.
I've just been waiting.

Speaker 3 So you sound like a guy who's doing, let's blame everyone, not myself. You sound like a coach.

Speaker 3 Listen, Hank's not concerned about the why.

Speaker 3 I'm not the fucking. Let's find out the whys.

Speaker 3 The why?

Speaker 3 You don't want to know the whys, Hank. Well, what do you mean?

Speaker 3 Why? It's definitely not my... No, I'm just kidding.
It might be 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.

Speaker 3 Everyone, including Matt Nagy. Yeah.

Speaker 3 It's everyone's fault.

Speaker 3 It should be out there eventually. Okay.
Hopefully. You know what? It will be.
I can guarantee that it will be up there

Speaker 3 before

Speaker 3 summer.

Speaker 3 Office manager Brett has uploaded also all the

Speaker 3 punk songs. Like My Real Girlfriend, which has a shitload of listens somehow.
And every quarter, we get an email being like, hey, Office Manager Brett owes you this many thousands of dollars.

Speaker 3 I got the login information. There's like $10,000 in the account.
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Crazy.
So

Speaker 3 sorry about the delay, but you know what? Once it's up,

Speaker 3 it'll be up soon. It will be up.

Speaker 3 I'm not going to say the S-word, but it will be up. By

Speaker 3 flag day. Yes.
By flag day. Okay.
Got it. Day after my birthday.
Bye.

Speaker 3 We'll call it. Shout out to my parents.
It'll be a bank call. Shout out to National Bank Hall.
Shout out to your parents. If they had never met, then maybe this song would have already been out.

Speaker 3 True.

Speaker 3 All right. PFT.
Actually, it's funny that you guys brought up the jumpsuits because my Fire Fest was going to be like, I don't want to.

Speaker 3 Let's leave the past in the past when it comes to Jumpsuit January. I love Jumpsuit January.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 I went out, I bought like $500 worth of jumpsuits the other night. Yeah, I mean, and then I realized, wait a second,

Speaker 3 I did this and will probably not be wearing jumpsuits through the second week of January.

Speaker 3 But you wear them anyway. I would do wear them anyway.
Yeah, so that's, yeah, your commitment is easy. It's your regular, we're coming to you.

Speaker 3 We're meeting your wardrobe. I would love

Speaker 3 very much for you guys to join me in Jumpsuit January. I will try.
I'm very pumped about it.

Speaker 3 Again, it's your regular month of the year. Yeah.
Yeah, you wear jumpsuits. No, I just usually.

Speaker 3 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 and be like, whoa, it's not January.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Because last year, I bought you guys jumpsuits as a Christmas present, and you basically spit in my face and never. I wore it once.
I wore it. I went to you, Billy.
Oh, no, you bought it.

Speaker 3 You bought me like a 4XL. And you're like, sorry, I couldn't figure out the size.
That's not true. Yattis.
Billy, they stayed in our studio for like a year, and then I was like, Billy, take them.

Speaker 3 So someone at least wears them. I actually have a huge collection of jumpsuits.
I'm very rated. Yeah, because they're all the ones I bought for Big Cat that he never wanted.
4XL. I would like to wear.

Speaker 3 You know what? How about this? Let's wear different.

Speaker 3 If different colleges are out there listening to their show, why don't we just wear different college jumpsuits every day?

Speaker 3 Sure. The pile's boned up right now.
I mean, this is going to, yeah, this is a future.

Speaker 3 you're

Speaker 3 you just signed up my pile to get way, way bigger, but that's fine. I mean, do it.
I can't sit at my desk. My pile is.
I know.

Speaker 3 It all just travels underneath. You also,

Speaker 3 I'm not going to get like contentious here, but I want it. You say it's your pile.
I sit there. So your pile comes in my pile.
I have said many times I want to clean my pile. I wouldn't.

Speaker 3 And then we charity shame me.

Speaker 3 We got to charity it. We got to do a charity.
So whether we do it before or after, I don't know. It is actually due.
I'm down. I have been been.
And Pile is ready to go. I have been for

Speaker 3 clean for a while, and I'm like, hey, Bic, I'm going to clean my shit. And you're like, no, you can't.

Speaker 3 It's true. Charity.
It is true. Charity.
I mean, do you want to not, you want to spit in the face of charity? I just want to, like, somewhat clean up.

Speaker 3 Oh, all the, like, you know, like Timmy and Tommy at the children's hospital who are fighting cancer. Sorry, we couldn't save you because Hank wanted to clean his desk a little bit.

Speaker 3 Whatever happened to Shout Out Orphans, Hank. Shout out Orphans.

Speaker 3 Why don't we donate it? I have to be made sometimes. Well, yes, I'll try jumps in January.

Speaker 3 It's just, you know, there's times when it's like it sucks to have to wear sweatpants when you got like a meeting or something. That just sucks.
But I'll do it. I'm in.

Speaker 3 I would not want to be in a meeting with anybody that would look down on me for wearing sweatpants in that meeting. Okay, that's easy to say when you wear sweatpants all the time.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 I established the run, big cat. I know.
Listen,

Speaker 3 I know. I will try my best.
Okay.

Speaker 3 I got a fucking.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 I already got problems. Whatever.
He does.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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 Fire Festival.

Speaker 3 It's a weird one,

Speaker 3 but I'll explain it real quick.

Speaker 3 So. Closet another toilet.
No. No.
You know it is. Someone died.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 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,

Speaker 3 it's kind of a weird story because obviously everyone knows Wingnuts.

Speaker 3 The reason we got put on to Wingnuts, we never would have been put onto Wingnuts if it weren't for this guy in Buffalo named Joe, who a 68-year-old veteran veteran who found our podcast because his nephew put him onto it a few years ago, was a loyal AWL.

Speaker 3 I actually went back and I looked. So

Speaker 3 he tweeted at me, and I could tell right away, this was a few years ago. This is a guy who doesn't really understand Twitter, but he wants to be a fan of ours and he wants to interact with us.

Speaker 3 His initial tweet was, hey, big cat, Joe here from Buffalo, maybe your oldest AWL.

Speaker 3 Ha ha, I had been listening to you since you guys came to Buffalo for the game, and I must say you are a fantastic, Hilarious show. You've got real talent there, buddy.
Send PMT my regards.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 So he, like, and he, it was just very, it's kind of a sweet thing. The world is a cynical place.
It's terrible.

Speaker 3 It was cool to interact with someone like this. So Joe and I became friends online.
I know that sounds weird.

Speaker 3 I went actually back on his DMs and looked through all of it. We've been discussing the Bills and Wingnuts and football and everything for three years now.

Speaker 3 So when we went to Buffalo this summer, he said, I actually used to live next to Ed and Alicia. He used to be their neighbor.
And he was like, you got to go to Wingnuts.

Speaker 3 And that's how we ended up going to Wingnuts. Unfortunately, Joe was sick.

Speaker 3 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 Wingnuts check.

Speaker 3 And he was like, this makes me so happy. Thank you so much.
They really appreciate it.

Speaker 3 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 wingnuts. We wouldn't have had what's happened from there.

Speaker 3 So Joe. Actually, in a funny little twist, you wouldn't have clogged that toilet on Monday if it weren't for Joe putting you on to wingnuts.
Yes.

Speaker 3 So Joe has had his nephew reached out to me and told me about this,

Speaker 3 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,

Speaker 3 legendary AWL, had a big impact on this show and a big impact on me because I talked to him all the time via DM. It was very funny, very innocent.

Speaker 3 Like, hey, it's nice to have a relationship like this where

Speaker 3 people just converse and it shows that our listeners are truly part of our show. And shout out Joe.
I'm giving him honorary football guy of the week. I love it.

Speaker 3 And thank you, Hank, for ruining the start of this.

Speaker 3 I thought it was beautiful. No, Joe loved it.

Speaker 3 He loved the show. If he loved the show, Joe loved you clogging people.
He would have loved that moment. I think the last three minutes have been,

Speaker 3 that's something that Joe would have liked to listen to. His second to last

Speaker 3 message to me, so the last was

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 And yeah, he is 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Did you have anyone that you were friends with, Die?

Speaker 3 Fox News Christmas tree.

Speaker 3 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 like, Joe and I talked every week a lot. So shout out, Joe.

Speaker 3 I'm going to miss him. The new iOS update sucks.
Yeah, that's tough.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 I sort of now in that limbo where it's like, do I let it ride till January 1st? Yeah, to really get it going. You don't get back on that horse right after, like the day after Thanksgiving.

Speaker 3 You're just saying, you're punting till the new year. Yeah.

Speaker 3 You're needing more right now. I paid a trainer for three months, hurt my back, and just lost all the progress.
Yeah. Jeez.
Is she disappointing you?

Speaker 3 Yeah. I've kind of been ghosting her, to be honest.

Speaker 3 Yeah, no, you gotta, this is total no man's land.

Speaker 3 You can't, if you're not working out right this second, you gotta wait till January. Because here's what happens.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 There's really no net gain that you can have. You might as well just fill up the tank and then

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 I almost want to pretend I have a fight like February Super Bowl and just like

Speaker 3 pretend.

Speaker 3 It's a little late now. Hank, you're trying to get back in shape.
Yeah, they want this fight really bad. I know.
I want Billy and Hank to fight at Rough and Rowdy. How incredible would that be?

Speaker 3 Here's what we do.

Speaker 3 Billy was like three inches shorter, I would consider it, but he's not. We schedule a secret rough and rowdy.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 They just both have independently said they'd like a motivation to get back in shape. It's like, well, hmm.

Speaker 3 If Billy was shorter, I would do it. PMT Civil War?

Speaker 3 Joe would have loved to see that. But it would be fun to see that.

Speaker 3 Are you not going to honor a veteran of you as a veteran? This is fun. A veteran who just passed away? That was his last.
Actually, wait. So he said,

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Maybe that means he wants us to team up against like you two. Yeah, we could do it again.

Speaker 3 You two.

Speaker 3 Like me and Billy versus you and

Speaker 3 Billy. 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.

Speaker 3 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 think.
I would. I would kill you.
I'd bring a gun.

Speaker 3 No one would know. What if you take a gun out and be like, ha ha, fucker? What if we did Jumpsuit January and you guys did Jacked Up January?

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 We might as well just be work, try to work out. But then you've got to change into a new jumpsuit.
No, but it's just like man's agreement. Now like it becomes like more like a lot of people.

Speaker 3 So you work out in your jumpsuit, you walk around with your sweaty jumpsuit all week? We do it like right before we leave. So like jumpsuit January isn't that bad.

Speaker 3 You just you go to the gym in your jumpsuit and you've got a t-shirt and shorts on underneath the jumpsuit.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 I will get back in on jumpsuit January. I'm like Hank.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Now we figure it out.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.
Okay.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 And I put you guys all on a New Year's Year's supplement review. Joe said also, Big Cat, never work out again because you look great as you do.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 And then Booger said, if he's 215, you're 6'5.

Speaker 3 And just

Speaker 3 there's no coming back. And what was my response? Booger? You're a fucking pervert, dude.
Just asked me out on a date because you have a picture of me shirtless saved in your phone. If,

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 I think he said your Popeye's biscuit away from becoming a left guard.

Speaker 3 Beautiful. And he would like that.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 So on Tuesday. Oh, Joe also said, did Jake ever apologize for being so wrong about the Wisconsin Badgers?

Speaker 8 Straight episodes of the Barcelona mom. Go ahead and subscribe.

Speaker 3 And Joe said, I can't believe they beat Indiana last night. Yeah.

Speaker 3 I apologize.

Speaker 3 Well, he's already dead, so that was a joke. Yeah, I understand, but you wanted to know that.
From heaven, you said that. Yeah, from heaven, he you said that.

Speaker 8 On Tuesday, I went to the Jimmy V Classic to see Syracuse. It was pretty wild.

Speaker 8 I posted my picture of where I was sitting, and I just got nosebleed shamed the whole night.

Speaker 3 Oh, you can't do that. Yeah, you can't do that.
Meanwhile, dude. Dude, wait, wait, wait.
What did you say? Meanies. Meanies.

Speaker 3 Yeah. No, no, no.
The nosebleed shaming, it's not even no, you were in the nosebleeds. Yeah, I know, but it's not higher than the nosebleeds.
Yes, okay, but you were on the moon. You couldn't see it.

Speaker 3 You asked me there with my Syracuse friends. You were sitting next to Joe.
You were holding the rafter past your head. That's how fucking high up you were.

Speaker 3 Yeah, the nosebleed looked up at you, and they're like, look at the freebase section up there.

Speaker 3 So you deserve to be nosebleed, Shamed.

Speaker 3 Just because that's what the internet does?

Speaker 3 But the thing that bothers me is the internet will do that when you're sitting in the lower level. They'd be like, oh, you're fine on the floor.
Yeah. Like, what?

Speaker 3 Not all of us sell the floor all the time. There's no perfect zone

Speaker 3 when you sit on the floor. It's like, wow, look at you.
Oh, rich guy. Yeah, right.
No longer man of the people.

Speaker 3 I think the fifth row. Fifth Fifth row is still a little too close.
I'd say, yeah, like maybe 15th row is perfect.

Speaker 8 You had the Blackhawks video, right? That was the top.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Those games suck.

Speaker 3 It was fun, man.

Speaker 8 The old Big East is back. Tough to watch

Speaker 3 in terms of bad.

Speaker 3 You got to watch on an 80-foot screen.

Speaker 8 No, I got to see Buddy Beheim, Jimmy Behim III, and Jim Boeheim all on the same floor.

Speaker 3 Also, you're at the mecha, so tickets are probably more expensive than exactly when you sit high up, you get to see all the action.

Speaker 8 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.

Speaker 3 It was like being in a suite. You got rowdy? What'd you do? I didn't.
What'd you do? What'd you get rowdy about?

Speaker 8 I didn't do anything. I was speaking as a group.

Speaker 3 Tarps off? No. Nothing crazy.
Burger would have liked that. Yeah.
Yeah, I saw your group of friends. You guys.
Bunch of killers.

Speaker 3 I just love you, Jake Marsh. Like, I love you.
I love you as a human being.

Speaker 3 I really really do.

Speaker 3 You're

Speaker 3 the sweet essence of sports

Speaker 3 in the purest form. I want to see your picture.
Where can I see Jake and the boys getting rowdy?

Speaker 3 I know. It's

Speaker 3 a good one. He might have tweeted it.

Speaker 3 You could tell they got rowdy. They're a rowdy bunch.

Speaker 3 It was a good time.

Speaker 3 They look like a bunch that, like...

Speaker 3 You can say whatever you want. All right, so I'll just say, like,

Speaker 3 Kim Kardashian could walk by, none of them would notice. Mike Lupica walks by, they fucking stop in their tracks.
That kind of bunch.

Speaker 3 Big J's. You guys are just, 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 group.
Like, it's a guy.

Speaker 3 It's a 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 like supportive of each other.

Speaker 3 They like pump each other up. You know what this is? This is, did you see that episode of Seinfeld where they met the Bizarro group?

Speaker 3 This is the Bizarro group of Part and My Take. Yes.
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.

Speaker 3 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 watched their broadcast.

Speaker 3 They watched mine. Yeah.

Speaker 8 I was tuning into Virginia Tech Cornell on the ACC network last night.

Speaker 3 I'm being totally honest right now. Like,

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Maybe we'll get him in sometime. Just get rid of it.

Speaker 3 All right. Here we go.
Numbers.

Speaker 3 81. 18.
6. Bullsharks have the highest testosterone levels.
8.69. Of all the sharks or all the animals.
All the animals. Is that true?

Speaker 3 39.

Speaker 3 Just hanging off your dear life. Danny Woodhead.

Speaker 3 Fourth time.

Speaker 3 Love you guys.

Speaker 3 So the other day, one of my buddies comes up to me and he says, Hey man, I never see you at the club.

Speaker 3 I look this fool dead in the eyes and I say, Hey man,

Speaker 3 I never see you at the bank.

Speaker 3 And that's real.

Speaker 3 It makes my dick hard as a fucking brickyard. Blockchain password on my SIM card.
So much money, shit's as naughty as a cliff bar. Rolling through the Guggenheim, smoking on gang.

Speaker 3 I'm suited for this shit. Call me Joseph Abang.
Welcome to the 80s. It's a personal meme.
BFT denominator, fucking dollars and cents. With an army of tellers, reading art of the deal.

Speaker 3 They see real big tips, call me General Mills. No time to feed the baby, that kid ain't going, baby.
Jesus talking about saving, got that prison like I'm Haiti.

Speaker 3 You're eating the rich, I eat away in my loans. Sit the 1% milk and grease in my bones.
I'm at the bank.

Speaker 3 Chilling, checking on my checking accounts. I'm at the bank.
I'm at the city while you're chasing the clout. Stored in lines of credit while your debit is bounced.
I'm at the bank.

Speaker 3 Deep pockets, deposits. Four checkbooks, two money clips, and three wallets.
I need profits, green calling my phone. This cash is bugging you.
Wishing I would leave you alone.

Speaker 3 Yeah, 1180 on my credit rating. If I get to stand on this this liquid cash, it's like I'm levitating.
Get in line or you could get declined.

Speaker 3 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 gotta get my own safes installed. You getting jealous, cause it's not your fault.

Speaker 3 Goodwill, hunting son, it's not your fault. Running with the squad like we flash Tom Banks.
Might pull up with celebs like is that Tom Hanks? Checking on my funds is fun for me.

Speaker 3 Here's so many branches think I fell out the ugly. I'm like a bank.
Losing money, making record amounts. I'm at the bank, chillin', checking on my checking account.

Speaker 3 I'm at the bank, I'm a chase while you're chasing the clout.

Speaker 3 Stored in lines of credit while your damage is found. I'm at the bank, moving money, making record amounts.
I'm at the bank, chillin', checking on my checking account.

Speaker 3 I'm at the bank, I'm a chase while you're chasing the clout. I'm at the bank, stored in lines of credit while you're damaged.

Speaker 3 I'm at the bank, I'm at the bank. I'm at the bank.

Speaker 3 You know, one of my favorite places to go is the bank.

Speaker 3 And I'll never see y'all there.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 10 a.m.

Speaker 3 Pulling up at the bank In the bulletproof truck, I call a no-limit tank Hammer in the glove compartment, dollar signs on the plates And the chick who gonna 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?

Speaker 3 Cause all we know is trap So much dope gets stacked, we like goldman sacks to butcher me