Rob Lowe, NFL Week 10 Preview & OBJ To The Rams

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Speaker 1 On today's part of my take, we have our good friend Rob Lowe back on the show.

Speaker 1 We're going to talk some football. We have NFL week 10 preview.
We're recording early. We're taking one Thursday off, so we'll predict what happens in the Ravens and Dolphins game.

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Speaker 1 Today is Friday, November 12th,

Speaker 1 and the Baltimore Ravens just demolished the Miami Dolphins.

Speaker 3 Oh, no, I disagree, big cat. Uh-oh.

Speaker 1 Dogs are barking.

Speaker 1 So we're recording early. We're taking one Thursday night off, long football season.
We thought this would be the perfect time. So if we're wrong, guess what?

Speaker 1 You get to listen to us be wrong early because usually we're wrong on all of our Sunday predictions. So the perverts have to go listen to it after.
You get the bonus.

Speaker 1 We're wrong before the weekend even starts. I just can't see in any world how the Dolphins win this game.

Speaker 3 Well, listen, Big Cat, this is next level thinking on my part because this is what they try to do to you on daytime television. I'm trying to go viral with this.
So start the clip right now.

Speaker 3 I'm telling you right now, the Miami Dolphins are ready to play some football tonight. The Baltimore Ravens are in big trouble.
Tua's coming back. He's going to make the throws.

Speaker 3 He's going to expose you for being the hater that you are.

Speaker 1 It's Tua.

Speaker 3 He might be, his finger. We're on finger watch right now.
I've got a very close eye all over his finger. He's going to come back tonight.
He's going to throw four touchdowns.

Speaker 3 The Miami Dolphins are going to win outright. Yes, you heard me.
They're going to win outright tonight.

Speaker 1 Okay, so Tua back, played a great game. I'm not a hater of Tua anymore because I've been gaslit to like him.

Speaker 1 I actually met a Dolphins fan on the street last week, and he just started spouting Tua facts into my ear. So I'm getting it from everywhere.

Speaker 3 Yeah, no, actually, what's going to happen is the Ravens are going to win by 20.

Speaker 1 But they're also going to be down for a minute because they've been down in every single game.

Speaker 3 They might be down in the first quarter, but that's what the Ravens do this year. They go behind.
They fall behind to bad teams, so they're able to actually come back against them. Right.

Speaker 3 And so that's what Harbaugh do. Harbaugh is going to go for it on every fourth down tonight.
Yep.

Speaker 1 Yes, every fourth down.

Speaker 3 Every fourth down. This is one where you can really pad your stats too if you're the Ravens.

Speaker 1 Are we saying maybe after tonight that Lamar Jackson MVP campaign is back on?

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's definitely back on. Because he is.

Speaker 1 We did bury the narrative last week of Lamar Jackson not being able to come back in a game that has been officially buried.

Speaker 1 He was the first part of his career, the first three seasons of his career, 0-6, went down double digits in the second half.

Speaker 1 What is he, 4-0 this year, 3-0 this year, coming back from down double digits. He can do it all.
He is taking the step to, dare I say it, elite quarterbacking.

Speaker 3 In Baltimore, it's kind of a tradition.

Speaker 1 Let's quickly do your top five quarterbacks as of right now. Hopefully Lamar plays well.

Speaker 3 As of today, I'm going to put Lamar number two.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 3 I'm going to save number one for the end. Lamar is number two.
Spicy. Kyler Murray is number three.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 3 I'm going to go with...

Speaker 3 So there are some hurt guys out there that I'm kind of skipping over. Yeah.
So I'm taking Sam Darnold off the list. Yep.

Speaker 1 And also, oh, Kyler's hurt, too.

Speaker 3 But he's coming back. Maybe.

Speaker 3 He's hurt, not injured. Darnold is injured, not hurt.
Correct. So I'm going to say Dak.
I'm going to put Dak in there as well. I know he's hurt too.
And then,

Speaker 1 hmm,

Speaker 1 Patrick Mahomes. I'm still keeping Patrick Mahomes here.
And who's your number one?

Speaker 3 And then, oh, yeah, my number one's Russell Wilson. Oh, he's back.

Speaker 1 Interesting. Double disrespect.
All right, I'll go Brady Rodgers,

Speaker 1 Mahomes. What? You guys are forgetting someone you're very close with.
Blake Portals. Joe Burrow.
Joe Burrow?

Speaker 1 Big Ben? Justin Fields. Who are you forgetting?

Speaker 1 Taylor Haneke. Are you trolling?

Speaker 1 You guys are trolling. Mike White?

Speaker 1 Joe Flacco.

Speaker 1 Josh Allen. Josh Allen.
No, no, no, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 You weren't trolling. Holy shit.

Speaker 3 No, I forgot about Josh.

Speaker 1 Well, Big Cat.

Speaker 3 I didn't get my big board together. I didn't know I was going to be asked for a Mount Rushmore on the spot.
Okay, this is.

Speaker 1 The whole start of this show was a bit. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I thought you were until I saw Big Cat's eyes light up. I'm going to read it for you guys.

Speaker 1 Listen, I gave it to PFT off the cuff. I gave it to myself off the cuff.
I don't have anything planned. There's nothing written down here.

Speaker 3 Josh Allen won. Josh Allen won.

Speaker 1 Black Portals two.

Speaker 3 Also number one.

Speaker 1 Joe Burrow. Joe Burrow, also number one.
Jerigoff four. Yep.
Tom. Tom Brady, that's fine.
Five. No.

Speaker 3 Huge recurring guys. Russell Wilson, five.
And Russell Wilson, five.

Speaker 3 If he throws a touchdown to DK and DK does the Lambeau league.

Speaker 1 I do think, and we're going to get to all the games, I do think Russell Wilson will,

Speaker 1 like, everyone will be like, ooh, I forgot about Russell Wilson after this weekend. No, it's like,

Speaker 3 I'm going Big Trust tonight, and then I'm going Big Russ Sunday. There we go.

Speaker 1 No, I'm saying, that's what I'm saying. Like, after Sunday, everyone's going to say, oh, we forgot about Russell Wilson.
Not us. Yeah, not us.

Speaker 3 Not remembering Russ ahead of time.

Speaker 3 Did we stop saying trust, by the way?

Speaker 1 I think so. Because Mark Ingram's not on the team anymore, right?

Speaker 3 But it's still trust.

Speaker 1 Right, but I think that it kind of broke up the trust.

Speaker 3 I think we bring back trust.

Speaker 1 We also have other quarterbacking news. The Carolina Panthers have signed Cam Newton.

Speaker 1 Now, everything's obviously hindsight is 2020, but it is very funny that the Carolina Panthers walked away from Cam Newton, signed Teddy Bridgewater,

Speaker 1 walked away from Teddy Bridgewater, traded three picks for Sam Darnold, only to bring Cam Newton back.

Speaker 3 Yeah, and it's fun to watch because Cam's going to come back and he's going to get a hero's welcome because he is the Carolina Panthers. He's the most most Carolina Panthers player in the NFL.

Speaker 3 And he's going to go out and he's going to be Cam that we've seen the last couple years. And underwhelming.

Speaker 3 I don't think anyone's expecting Cam to go out there and take the Panthers to the playoffs this year. We're just excited to see Cam in those colors again because it felt weird when he was a Patriots.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 for Cam Newton's sake, if you're not going to be...

Speaker 1 a top-tier quarterback anymore, which I think we can all agree he isn't, because whether it be injuries, age, whatever it may be, you might as well go back to where it it all started to,

Speaker 1 you know, do the whole thing and have everyone embrace you. It also,

Speaker 1 his time away, just I want to hammer it again.

Speaker 1 The only thing that I should be remembered for when I die in like five years, because football is killing me, is that there should be a rule that every school can bring back one alumni to come and play in that given season if they're not playing professional football.

Speaker 1 Because Cam Newton getting cut by the Patriots and then playing this entire season for Auburn would have been electric.

Speaker 3 Yeah, he's the best college football player of all time. Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 1 I actually agree.

Speaker 1 Reggie Bush up there. There's a lot of guys up there.
Tebow. Cam Newton, though.
Reggie Bush didn't get a. Well,

Speaker 3 yeah, he doesn't have a president. No, Reggie Bush did not play college football player.

Speaker 1 It is crazy to look back at Cam Newton's season and also realize the guys that he played with. I think

Speaker 1 this might not be a fact, but it feels like a fact. I think he had one other guy on his offense make a practice squad.
I think so. I think that was it.

Speaker 3 It might have been a running back.

Speaker 1 It wasn't like these teams that are loaded, that, you know, no, no disrespect to Alabama, who's had some incredible teams, LSU, when they won their national championship.

Speaker 1 Those teams had top-to-bottom first-round picks, second-round picks, like all over the place.

Speaker 1 We saw it Nick Sabin basically broke the record with every guy going in the first round of that recruiting class. Cam Newton's Auburn team, he was doing it himself.

Speaker 3 Cam had a pretty good defense that year, but the offense stunk.

Speaker 1 Stunk out loud. So, yeah, I wish he could go back and and play at Auburn, but I'll take the Carolina Panthers instead.

Speaker 3 Yeah, so I'm going to be happy to see Cam out there wearing the silver, blue, and black for the Panthers this week. Yes.

Speaker 3 And it feels like, I don't know, I don't know how injury-prone he is right now, but it seems

Speaker 3 probably very. But I would like to see Cam move to tight end.
I still think that Cam would be an awesome tight end right now. I like that.
He's big enough. He's strong enough still.

Speaker 3 He's fast enough to get the job done as a tight end. At the very least, put Cam in on defense at the end of games like you used to to defend the Hail Mary.
That's just one thing he can still do.

Speaker 1 All right, so before we get to all the picks and talk about the entire NFL Sunday slate, we're going to say... We should also congratulate Big Hat for his game of the year.
No, don't do that.

Speaker 1 You're such a cherry. Well, you have to talk about it.
It's the same thing.

Speaker 1 I was going to do it on my Firefox. Okay, I'm sorry.
We'll get to it. That was mean, what you just said.

Speaker 1 I assumed, I didn't know you were going to talk about a firefighter.

Speaker 1 I assume since it's like this is, we're recording after the games in theory. I know, and I, you only have

Speaker 3 to have one game of the year.

Speaker 1 Well, you don't know when my fiscal year starts. True.
So if I lose this one, I could have another game of the year on Saturday.

Speaker 3 Big Cat, this was the first game of the year that he's had in 12 months.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I have rollover years. But my calendar, my gambling calendar starts on November 13th.
What's today's date?

Speaker 3 It's November 11th, 11-11th.

Speaker 1 Okay, perfect.

Speaker 3 Happy Veterans Day, Bill.

Speaker 1 Yes, yes, Billy.

Speaker 1 No, before we get to the weekend preview. Breaking news.

Speaker 3 Breaking news.

Speaker 1 Breaking news.

Speaker 1 This is real. OBJ.

Speaker 3 Per Adam Schefter, Dalvin Cook did nothing wrong. No, sorry, that was a

Speaker 3 former Browns wide receiver Odell Beckham is finalizing a deal with the Los Angeles Rams per source.

Speaker 1 Wow, the Rams.

Speaker 3 Yes way. Yes, way, Billy.

Speaker 1 Billy, do you think?

Speaker 3 Why is that a no way?

Speaker 3 I feel like it's the Rams, the Bucs. Those are the two teams, and the Packers, the ones where you could definitely see OBS.

Speaker 1 Oh, no. Rappaport just got fucking owned.

Speaker 1 He did.

Speaker 5 Yeah, a minute ago he said dwindling down between Rams and Packers. And then Schefter, 40 seconds later, says Rams.

Speaker 3 Schefter's just taking like a 50-50 shot at it. He's like, okay, Rap's saying it's one of these two.
Fuck it. I'm just going to shoot from the hip.

Speaker 1 Two questions right off the bat.

Speaker 1 Do you think the Rams gave up picks just out of habit? Being like, we know that we can sign him as a free agent, but someone please take a pick for this.

Speaker 3 No, what Sean McVay did was he just put he put two first-round picks in free parking spot in the middle. So the next team that lands on that gets them.
Yes.

Speaker 1 And then

Speaker 1 in terms of the fit, who the fuck knows?

Speaker 1 I tend to think that Sean McVay is good enough in terms of offensive scheme that he'll figure out a way to make Odell Beckham flourish for the Rams. But now the Rams are dangerous.

Speaker 1 Well, they probably were already there, but they're dangerously close to the super team tag, and that never works out.

Speaker 3 Well, super team tag, yes, but I think this is, we're yet to approach the super team tag. It's when somebody on the team acknowledges the fact, like, yeah, this is the dream team.
Yes.

Speaker 1 Shout out Namdi.

Speaker 3 Yeah, Namdi Asimois. And Vince Young, I think.
And Vince Young.

Speaker 1 Shout out to the Sports Illustrated Steve Nash Dwight Howard cover. Are we having fun yet for the Lakers?

Speaker 3 When your backup quarterback is the one that says this is a dream team, that's when you know you're deeply fucked.

Speaker 3 But in this one, I think it's more along the lines of like, the Rams are confirmed all in.

Speaker 1 Oh, they've been all in.

Speaker 3 Now they're confirmed.

Speaker 3 Now they are more in than they've ever been in in their life.

Speaker 1 The Rams are addicted

Speaker 1 to just going going all in. They just want, I think they get, I think Les Sneed gets off on people just tweeting, oh, damn, so the Rams are all in.

Speaker 3 Yeah, no, the Rams, they've been soaking for the last two years. They've just been staying in.

Speaker 1 They got Matt Stafford all in. All in.
Vaughn Miller, all in. All in.

Speaker 1 Kyo Dell Beckham, all in.

Speaker 3 Was it Fowler a couple years ago?

Speaker 1 All in. All in.

Speaker 3 Jalen Ramsey, all in.

Speaker 1 Leonard Floyd, all in. All in.
They're just going all in. All in.
Deshaun Jackson. All in.

Speaker 1 Yes, it's all in. They're so in right now.
They just go in.

Speaker 1 This is probably going to be a disaster, right?

Speaker 3 I think he's going to look sweet when they wear the blue helmets.

Speaker 1 Do you think Odell Beckham is going to show up to breakfast with Matt Stafford and Cooper Cup? Because that's, I mean, that's...

Speaker 1 Here's, listen, I'll give Odell Beckham the benefit of the doubt, even though he doesn't really deserve it at this point of his career after what happened in Cleveland.

Speaker 1 But it doesn't feel like Matt Stafford has a very nice connection with Cooper Cup. And if Odell Beckham doesn't get targets, there could be some issues.

Speaker 3 Some issues. Well, what's funny is if you looked at it on paper, I guess the Rams are a pretty good fit for everything that a normal person would want in a football team that they would join.

Speaker 3 But the Cleveland Browns were the best fit for Odell Beckham. That he got traded.

Speaker 3 to the best possible organization with his best friend on the team, with a great coach, a good quarterback, a good young quarterback, good scheme, great running game, decent D.

Speaker 3 Like, that should have been everything that Odell needed. And so when he's a free agent now looking, it's like, well, you had it pretty good when you were in Cleveland.

Speaker 3 I guess the Rams are probably, they're as good of a fit, as close of a fit as he could think that he wants. Yeah.
But then is that what you really want?

Speaker 1 I was actually thinking about that last night that, like, what if the Browns had just been like, hey, Odell, you want to sign here as a free agent? Like,

Speaker 1 we'll just pretend that that little breakup, like, who, you know, who hasn't broken up for three hours?

Speaker 3 No, sometimes those are the best relationships where you break up. You're broken up.
You test what's out there and you're like, you know what?

Speaker 3 I really prefer it when I was with you. I've calmed down and made a mistake.
We can all admit that we make rash choices sometimes. Let's get back to the other cooler heads prevail.

Speaker 1 But yeah, I like it.

Speaker 3 I like the fit. I think it's not bad.

Speaker 1 Why not? I mean, it's going to be fun to watch the Rams.

Speaker 1 They have to

Speaker 1 poor Chargers. They just keep getting cucked by the Rams in terms of star power.

Speaker 1 I don't know how anyone in L.A.

Speaker 1 would choose the Chargers, especially because if, you know, they're San Diego's team, but there is a lot of star power on the Rams, and there's going to be, I mean, LeBron, do you think LeBron has his fingers all over this?

Speaker 1 He freed Odell to his city. Good point.
Yeah, I think from his city to his city.

Speaker 3 You know what? I'm getting pretty upset for Odell because he is the first loss that they have where Matt Stafford throws like 10 completions to Cooper Cup and Odell gets two catches.

Speaker 3 Odell will need to be freed again at this point. Yes.
I'm getting like pre-free.

Speaker 1 Free my man. Yeah.
Free my man.

Speaker 1 All right, let's get to our weekend preview. Let's talk some games.
Awesome slate, both Saturday and Sunday. What's up, guys?

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All right, week 10. Can't believe we're already at week 10.
Double digits.

Speaker 1 I am struggling with something, boys, that I

Speaker 1 have to admit. The fact, I still haven't fully grasped the fact that there are seven teams that get into the playoffs in each division because

Speaker 1 we keep talking about all these teams. Any team that's like three and five or three and six, I think they have no shot.
No, they're all still in the hunt. Everyone's still in the hunt.

Speaker 1 Every team, this actually feels like the first weekend where we will have the separation of the hunt. Like, if the Vikings lose again, they're in big trouble.

Speaker 3 And so, I wanted to have the debate with you going to this weekend because there's always one week where it's either Separation Sunday or it's moving day. Right.
This feels like Separation Sunday.

Speaker 3 It does. In advance.
And so you look at some of the teams that are technically still in the hunt or in the playoff picture.

Speaker 3 The Atlanta Falcon, if the season ended today, the Falcons would be in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 Yes, they would, which is crazy. But here are the teams I circled that if they lose this weekend, I now officially am saying they're in big trouble.
Kind of have to go.

Speaker 1 perfect or close to perfect down the stretch. I think the Seahawks are in that camp.
Three and five. If they go to to three and six,

Speaker 1 it's not that they're eliminated. It's just the margin for error.
They can't lose a flukey game.

Speaker 3 I'm going to call this a can't lose for the Seahawks.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because you know what I mean. Like, it's not, we're not saying that they're out.

Speaker 1 It's just now they can't have an off week because if you go three and six, you reasonably have to finish the season. Someone checked my math here.

Speaker 1 Three and six, ten, seven and two. That makes sense.
10 and 8? No, that's not fair.

Speaker 3 Yeah, we're thinking that you have to get to 10 and 7. 10 and 7.

Speaker 1 But that that

Speaker 3 mode of thinking might be outdated, even because we always assume that if you're 10 wins, you're going to get into the playoffs. But with 17 games, it's almost like you almost need 10 and a half.

Speaker 3 You need 10 wins and a tie.

Speaker 1 It's true. So Seahawks are on that list.
Eagles are on that list. Vikings are on that list.

Speaker 3 I'm going to scratch the Eagles off right now.

Speaker 1 I mean, if they win, though, they're back in.

Speaker 3 You know that smell? The Eagles have a smell. You can sniff each team.

Speaker 1 Give me one sniff.

Speaker 1 My game of the year won.

Speaker 1 We got a source off right now. Oh, no, okay.
Josina Anderson and Kim Jones, who

Speaker 1 Rapport quoted in his thing, just said, Odell Beckham Jr., this is Josina Anderson. Odell Beckham Jr.
just told me he's still on the fence with his decision as of this minute.

Speaker 1 And Kim Jones said, Odell Beckham Jr. tells me he's on the fence between Rams and Packers.
This was two minutes ago. Oh, shit.
So Odell Beckham.

Speaker 1 We'll keep you updated as this show goes along, but

Speaker 3 here's another scoop. This one is from Adam Schafter.
shafter

Speaker 3 he rephrased his tweet oh oh that's scumbag yeah he is he did he did what you said he just sent it he said obj expected to be an l a ram huh huh you can't go from finalizing to expecting well no did adam shafter didn't lie then because he said former browns wide receiver is finalizing so according to adam schafter that brilliant son of a bitch adam shafter was he was using words that would indicate that he has signed with the Rams, but also telling us it's not done yet.

Speaker 3 So he just planted his flag out there. He can't be wrong.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 Wow. I hope he goes to the Packers and blows that whole thing up.

Speaker 3 I hope he goes to the Saints. Wow.
Very funny that he was actually considering the Saints.

Speaker 1 Oh my God.

Speaker 1 This is source off. Official source off.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and then Sean McVay said we're focused, right now we're focused on the 49ers. Hmm.
Hmm. Interesting.
All right, back to it. So, So, yeah, Separation Sunday.

Speaker 1 There's some teams that we could probably break out the dungeon and start crossing a bunch of teams off after this weekend if they lose games. I think

Speaker 3 if the Chiefs lose.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 3 I'm taking the Dunchain out. Oh, wow.
I'm thinking about throwing it on the Chiefs.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 That seems slightly premature, but you know what? If the Chiefs lose, whatever. I'm done thinking the Chiefs are just going to flip the switch and become the Chiefs of two years ago.

Speaker 1 Let's do our picks though. Favorites? Let's start with favorites.
What's the updated standings?

Speaker 5 I went 4-0. I jumped from last to second.
Wow. Which doesn't really mean anything in this contest.

Speaker 5 Hank and Liam 2-2. The rest of you 1-3.
So right now, Hank is in first, up a game and a half. Big Cat, you and I are tied.

Speaker 5 19-17. PFT and Billy at 18-18.
Liam at 17-19.

Speaker 1 All right, here we go. Rock, paper, scissors, shoot.

Speaker 5 Rock, paper, scissors, shoot. Rock, paper, scissors, shoot.

Speaker 1 I won. So you're going on the with Liam

Speaker 1 for second place.

Speaker 1 I'm starting to get nervous.

Speaker 5 Halfway there.

Speaker 2 I'll just say it.

Speaker 1 I'm starting to get a little nervous.

Speaker 3 I'm getting very nervous about it.

Speaker 1 If I lose, just so anyone here in this room has to go with me,

Speaker 1 we're going to be leaving like Friday at midnight. Can I just say something?

Speaker 1 The United States is too big.

Speaker 3 This country is too big. It shouldn't take that long to cross anything.

Speaker 1 It's crazy. It's crazy.
It's crazy. It is crazy.
All right.

Speaker 1 Billy, are you trying to win or lose this week?

Speaker 6 I'm actually going back to my 50-50

Speaker 1 mentality. That's more you.
I didn't like the trying to win strategy.

Speaker 6 Trying to win didn't really work, so I'm just going to go back to 50-50.

Speaker 1 Perfect. Hank, start us off favorite.
My favorite this week is the Patriots. Ooh.
Okay.

Speaker 1 This is going to be a good game. It's going to be a great game.
Hopefully a blowout for the Patriots. Nick Chubb, unsure if he'll play or not.
Don't know how much of a factor that is.

Speaker 1 We talked about Derrick Henry being a huge point point spread differentiator with the Rams game. That didn't matter at all.

Speaker 1 So I don't know if this will matter, but this is kind of just, as I've said the whole season, last week was going to decide how I feel about the rest of the season. They won.

Speaker 1 I'm now in Soupy mode, so if they're going to go to the Soupie, they got to win this game convincingly. Do you think Miles Garrett, knowing his history of assault,

Speaker 1 will try to stand in solidarity with his defensive lineman brothers and put a little extra mustard on Mac Jones? Yeah, I mean, I hope the rest are up to it. What that guy said was pretty scummy.

Speaker 1 He said, good luck to all my hunting brothers.

Speaker 1 That was the scummy part of it. He says it's open season.
There wasn't a clear definitive angle that I saw

Speaker 1 of it being a tough look.

Speaker 3 It was Mac Man Jones. It was a dirty play.
He grabbed his ankle and then he twisted.

Speaker 1 He did a Gator roll to it.

Speaker 1 It was all

Speaker 1 angles. All the angles were covered.
There was nothing slow-mo or definitive. Billy wants to.

Speaker 1 It's not a Gator roll.

Speaker 1 No, the Gator roller roller roller roll.

Speaker 6 The Gator roll was like a totally dirty thing you'd see in college where guys in piles would grab a guy's leg and then literally roll. Yeah, but Mac Jones didn't gator roll.

Speaker 3 He did, though, like a baby gator.

Speaker 6 No, what he did was like

Speaker 1 Pop Warner. It was a Gator learning how to roll.

Speaker 6 It's like when a guy gets run over and Pop Warner just tries to hold on.

Speaker 3 No, it was a quarterback attempting a Gator roll.

Speaker 1 Right. He's too young to know what a roller

Speaker 3 gator roll is. Maybe too weak.
He's never done it before.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Wasn't a gator roller roller roller. He'll learn how to gator roll.
Yeah, he will.

Speaker 3 No, I think Miles Garrett is going to put some extra stink on it. Yep.

Speaker 3 He's going to hit him.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Good pick. Thank you.
Great pick, Hank. Thank you.
Two and a half. Two and a half.
We're on the record. Patriots, two and a half against the Browns.

Speaker 3 Actually, I like that pick.

Speaker 1 Is that your pick?

Speaker 3 It's not, but I was thinking about doing that.

Speaker 1 The only thing I would be nervous about, Hank, is like

Speaker 1 there's a part of me that thinks the Browns might just be the best team in the NFL now that Dell Beckham's gone.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean,

Speaker 1 that's valid. Like,

Speaker 1 if they just become incredible and it was all because of Odell Beckham, it does feel like the vibes are great right now in Cleveland after he left.

Speaker 1 I also think to what you were saying earlier, too, with the schedule and this week being so important, like if the Patriots lose this game, like everyone's going to,

Speaker 1 everything that people have been saying the last two weeks is going to go out the window. Yeah, it's going to be like the Patriots suck again.

Speaker 3 No, Belichick is.

Speaker 1 I mean, the NFL, obviously, we're a contributing factor to this, but it's kind of crazy how

Speaker 1 every single Sunday matters.

Speaker 3 And Belichick is starting to feel himself. First, you had the halter top and the one pant leg rolled up last week.

Speaker 1 That was by design, by the way. That was not a cutoff.
What do you mean? It was a two-toned cut. Oh, yeah, yeah, I know, I know, but it still looked hilarious.
It looks like a bra. Yeah, he's.

Speaker 1 You got to be careful. If you have breasts like I do, you got to be careful whenever there's a two-tone in the midsection.

Speaker 1 Looks like a sports.

Speaker 3 But he's starting to feel himself not just with that, but also he's getting into that time of year where he's willing to go off on weird tangents with reporters.

Speaker 3 He was talking about how pressures are more important than sacks this week, which is true. As a football guy, we know that.
Brandon Staley brought it up to us. But Belichick went off.

Speaker 3 You know, if you ask him the right question, get him going, he'll talk for like five minutes non-stop without taking a breath. Yes.
And that's when you know that Belichick is really feeling himself.

Speaker 3 Because if he's not happy with how things are going, he's just going to do the one-word answers and move on. Yep.
So I love the Patriots this weekend.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow. Love them.
Love them. But I'm not taking it.
Not taking it, but you do love them. All right.

Speaker 1 Bubba.

Speaker 1 I'm going to go with the Bills minus 12. Ooh.
It's a lot of people. Come back.
Yeah. I just feel like last week was kind of a

Speaker 1 aberration. Yep.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And number one quarterback in the league. Josh Allen.
Unanimous. Number one quarterback.

Speaker 1 Never forgotten.

Speaker 1 My favorite.

Speaker 3 I'm going to go with the Dallas Cowboys. Same.
Go with the Cowboys. Now, here's a trend that I saw.
Somebody sent this to me.

Speaker 3 I think some people on TikTok crack the code. I'm surprised Billy hasn't actually brought this to the table just yet.

Speaker 3 But betting this year, it's smart to bet on teams that didn't cover the previous week when they're playing against teams that did cover the previous week.

Speaker 3 So in 2021, those teams are 39, 14, and 1, which that's a pretty lopsided difference.

Speaker 3 I like the Cowboys, minus 9.5. Feel like Dak is...

Speaker 3 He's got that injury that's going to just start to... It's going to get better every week.
It's not like a long-term thing where it's going to impact his stability for the rest of the season.

Speaker 3 It's just one that he's going to work through and get better at. Yeah, and I'm taking the Cowboys as well.

Speaker 1 Falcons, nice win last week. I think

Speaker 1 what the Falcons do well versus the Cowboys, like it's a mismatch because

Speaker 1 what the Cowboys' weaknesses are, they were exposed last week against the Broncos because the Broncos were able to run all over them. Falcons can't really run the ball.

Speaker 1 And they also don't really have a pass rush. So I think Dak will have a ton of time.
I think the Falcons will have a lot of trouble getting consistent drives. So

Speaker 3 I'm trying to help you out on this one, too, because this feels like it could be a watermelon game. I'm getting watermelon vibes from it because Mike McCarthy obviously is on the hot seat.

Speaker 3 He's always on the hot seat.

Speaker 3 But last week, Jerry Jones, after the game, talked to the media and was basically saying, I went over the game plan and told Mike McCarthy exactly what the Broncos were going to do to us.

Speaker 3 And then Mike McCarthy did not take my game planning advice, probably because I'm the owner of the team.

Speaker 3 But still, Jerry Jones thinks that he's a coach, and we don't listen to the coach who also signs your paychecks. Then you're on the hot seat.
McCarthy needs a performance.

Speaker 3 Ipso facto, it might be watermelon clobber in time.

Speaker 1 And one extra one on top of your stat, we are that stat essentially is just we're very stupid human beings because what happened last week, we expect to happen again.

Speaker 1 There are two games with the two biggest upsets last week that have almost identical lines.

Speaker 1 And I think everyone's going to look at it and they're going to say, wait, the Cowboys just lost outright as a 10-point favorite. They're a nine-point favorite.
Got to take the Falcons.

Speaker 1 Wait, the Bills just lost outright to the Jaguars as a 14-point favorite. They're a 12-point favorite against the Jets.
Got to take the Jets.

Speaker 3 It never works out. Doesn't ever work.

Speaker 1 Never, ever, ever.

Speaker 3 Also, Randy Gregory has a calf. Something to keep an eye on.

Speaker 1 Jersey Jerry said he's a scumbag, but that's personal, so I don't know.

Speaker 6 I also have the Cowboys, and the line's actually eight and a half now.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay, so great.

Speaker 1 We like it even better. So now we all three have the Cowboys.
Could be a bad sign. That's a very bad sign.
Jake, do you have the Cowboys?

Speaker 5 I do not, but I also have a team that's favored by eight and a half in the form of the Pittsburgh Steelers

Speaker 1 against the Lions.

Speaker 5 I think we can get Billy's clowning in this game.

Speaker 1 I don't know, Jake.

Speaker 1 You guys have, we've all been fading the Lions, and it hasn't really worked out on this show. No, we've been betting on the Lions yet.
Oh, yeah, yeah. The Lions are now fading us.

Speaker 5 Right, and now I'm going to fade them.

Speaker 1 Here's... Okay.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 I'm a terrible gambler, so I'm not going to pretend like I know the outcome. I'll do a counterpoint, though.

Speaker 1 Mike Tomlin loves to play down to his competition. Mike Tomlin teams.

Speaker 1 The Steelers don't blow anyone out. The Lions are coming off a buy, and Dan Campbell buried the game film.

Speaker 3 The buried game film, that's a big point here.

Speaker 3 I think you're underestimating the fact that he took the actual game film and then put it into the earth.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 the Steelers have won games by seven, by eight, by three, by five, by two. So they have not covered this spread if they were favored by this.
Yeah, all right. Listen, again, very bad gambler.

Speaker 1 So everything I say, who cares, but at least for discussion, I think the Lions might be an okay bet.

Speaker 1 That's a hold your nose and bet it.

Speaker 3 I might sprinkle the money line on the Lions, and I might do it for the rest of the year until they win a game, because every time they lose,

Speaker 3 hopefully their odds the next week will go way, way up as an underdog. So eventually, if you keep betting the Lions money line, you're guaranteed to win unless they don't win a game.
Yes.

Speaker 3 Which is very likely.

Speaker 1 Hank, you're underdog. You love them all.
I do love them all always, as always.

Speaker 1 But we just talked about this game. Been saying it for two weeks.
Lions.

Speaker 1 Lions. Straight up money line.
Yep. Give them to me.
Every which way. Every which way.
Every which way.

Speaker 3 I feel like Mike Tomlin respects Dan Campbell because Mike, the way that Dan Campbell speaks is like

Speaker 3 a first-grade translation of what Mike Tomlin says when he speaks. Just makes it a little bit easier if you don't have the vocabulary necessary to interpret Mikeisms.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they're going to have a very hearty handshake at midfield before the game.

Speaker 3 For sure. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 Okay, Lions. Lions.
Bubba. Wow.
I'm taking the Eagles plus two and a half. Ooh.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I just don't think the Broncos are that good. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Last week they looked really good.

Speaker 1 I don't know what to make of the Eagles at this point because they did play the Chargers well, but who the fuck knows? Yeah, I don't mind that one, Bubba.

Speaker 3 That's another one of of those games that follows the trend of we're idiots with extremely short-term memories. Right.

Speaker 1 And yeah, the Broncos coming off a huge, huge win pick.

Speaker 1 Throw in the fact that similar to Cleveland Browns with Odell, maybe Von Miller not asking everyone for money makes the Broncos just a good team now. The human element.

Speaker 3 I'm going to go with the Saints plus three at the Titans. And this is my It Doesn't Make Any Sense game of the week.
Okay.

Speaker 3 I don't want to bet on the Saints, but the fact that I don't want to bet on them so hard makes me want to bet on them harder.

Speaker 1 And I think a a lot of people are trying to time the Titans because they are the most disrespected team in the NFL, in my opinion.

Speaker 1 I don't hate the bet.

Speaker 3 I just think that this is one where we talked about it a little bit on Sunday night where Sean Payton needs to get into his bag. Yeah.
And Sean, he needs to do some weird shit.

Speaker 3 And I think that he, I think he respects Mike Vrabel. I think they're kind of like bros as far as coaches go.
Like Vrabel is a...

Speaker 3 an honorary Parcells guy, I think. If Parcells had coached with Mike Vrabel, they would have gotten along swimmingly.
Yes.

Speaker 3 Two and a half. Two and a half.
Two and a half has changed. Okay, so Saints.

Speaker 1 That's probably Alvin Kamara playing because I know he was iffy for a little bit there.

Speaker 3 Saints plus two and a half at the Titans. Just a quick update here on the OBJ saga.
Schefter's just going on a rampage now.

Speaker 1 Oh, no. Is he trying to bury his face? No, no, no.

Speaker 3 He's tripling, quadrupling down, saying Monday Night Football, Rams at Niners, Odell Beckham Jr., Cooper Cup, Robert Woods. So he's saying that this is happening.
Okay, so he's doing it.

Speaker 3 And it's been confirmed by LeBron James. Really? As well.
Yeah. LBJ just went.

Speaker 1 I'm telling you, LeBron got freed OBJ to L.A.

Speaker 3 LeBron says, Welcome to L.A., my brother, at OBJ. It's go time.

Speaker 5 We freed him.

Speaker 5 The Rams' official website tweeted a press release and deleted it.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 3 Scott Dickens.

Speaker 1 Wow. All right.
Okay, so I'm going to assume he's a Ram.

Speaker 3 He's a Ram. Yes.

Speaker 1 All right. My underdog, I love my underdog.
It's a gross one. I like the Panthers plus 10.5 against Cardinals.
I just,

Speaker 1 Kyler Murray probably will play, but he also is maybe a little injured. I don't know.
If it's Colt McCoy, Colt McCoy is very good for that one start. Who knows what he is the second start?

Speaker 1 I just think this is Cardinals off of an emotional

Speaker 1 big win with all their backups in San Francisco. Panthers look terrible against the Patriots.
Sam Darnold is out, which is a plus for the Panthers, in my opinion. 10.5.
Give it to me. I like it.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I like it a little bit. Give it to me.

Speaker 3 I think Cam's going to look sick out in Arizona. Is he actually playing?

Speaker 1 I don't think so. This also follows your rule.
It does follow.

Speaker 1 His kill is dominated. And with Colt McCoy, you're right.

Speaker 3 Every season he gets in as a backup, and he's way better than you think he's going to be as a backup.

Speaker 3 And then there's too much film on Colt McCoy the next week, and they know how to shut him down.

Speaker 1 Yes, yes.

Speaker 1 Going home after a big win with the backup quarterback, actually reminiscent to what the Cowboys did, where the Cowboys won with Cooper Rush in Minnesota, came home and laid an egg with the Broncos.

Speaker 1 Cardinals go win big game with Colt McCoy in San Francisco, come home, maybe lay an egg against the Panthers.

Speaker 3 This is PJ Walker then that's probably going to be starting for the Panthers.

Speaker 1 I'm more

Speaker 1 on Christian McCaffrey.

Speaker 3 Right, right. You remember a couple years ago when Kyle Allen,

Speaker 3 I think he went to Arizona. It was the battle of Kyle versus Kyler.
Yes. And the Panthers went out west and beat the Cardinals in Arizona.
I'm pretty sure that's how it happened.

Speaker 1 We're due for a weird

Speaker 1 late afternoon Cardinals game, too.

Speaker 3 Yes, we are. We're like, wait, what's going on?

Speaker 1 Because, you know, the 405s, fuck the 405s. Stop doing 405.
Have everything be 425 so the gamblers have time to get their picks in. Billy.

Speaker 6 My underdogs just plus 12.

Speaker 1 Mike White. You never saw that coming.

Speaker 6 Well, this one, like, I'm going back to my 50-50, but guess what Mike White said today? What'd he say? He said, if you ask me, I should have been a first overall pick.

Speaker 1 Whoa.

Speaker 3 Yeah, so it doesn't hurt for confidence. I like that.
But

Speaker 1 should we throw in like the fantasy football guy? Like, that's just bad value. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because, like, I mean, even if he ends up being like Tom Brady should have been the first overall pick, but that's technically bad value because you can get him in the sixth round.

Speaker 3 True. Mike White should have been.

Speaker 1 He's been the well-actually guy.

Speaker 3 I should have been the first overall pick in the round I was drafted in. Yes.
That would have been good value.

Speaker 6 That was kind of a shot, Zach Wilson, though.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Honestly, that gave me bad vibes when I read it, but I

Speaker 3 was traveling paradise.

Speaker 6 Well, and this isn't actually actually like a pick I want to win okay got it this is the loss

Speaker 3 you know what's crazy is if you showed me a picture of Zach Wilson I would think that like if he were in a computer game his name would be Mike White he looks more like a Mike White than a Zach yes I think I think Mike White actually looks more like a Zach than Zach does name swap it freaky Friday maybe they maybe they freaky Friday'd their skills too

Speaker 1 all right Jake. So bad vibes for the Jets.
You're losing this game. You're trying to lose this game.
Got it.

Speaker 5 I'm going to take the Seahawks plus three and a half at the Packers. DK, as he said on the show, going to score and bring back the piss celebration.

Speaker 3 Very happy about that.

Speaker 1 Is Aaron Rodgers playing?

Speaker 1 There's been a much-debated topic around these hallways that the line does not reflect that he's playing.

Speaker 3 If he's not impressed.

Speaker 1 I think it depends still. He's still to get tested closer to the game.

Speaker 3 Got it. So we could be seeing Blake dressing.

Speaker 1 And I think, yeah,

Speaker 3 if you're the Packers,

Speaker 3 do you roll the dice on Jordan Love again?

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 3 Give the people what they want. Give them Blake.

Speaker 1 Oh, breaking moves. Chris Long just tweeted, I'm hearing Odell to the Rams.

Speaker 3 Oh, but he's probably stoned off his ass. Yeah.
So we can't.

Speaker 1 Is he hearing that because he read the tweet?

Speaker 1 I'm just reporting. Okay.

Speaker 3 Briscillo is definitely going to report it in like 40 minutes.

Speaker 1 Wait, what were we just talking about?

Speaker 5 See Aux three and a half grand Rodgers.

Speaker 6 Wait, wait. Vaughn Miller just posted an Instagram story with Odell on FaceTime saying, let's chase this ring family.

Speaker 1 Okay, so it's official. That's official.
That's as official as it gets. Thank you, Billy.
That's why,

Speaker 1 going back to Sunday, this is why Billy has an important role in this room.

Speaker 1 You're finding the deep corners of the internet to get it to us.

Speaker 6 Dumpster diver.

Speaker 1 Internet anthropologists.

Speaker 3 You think if DK had promised to do a fake shit in the end zone on Sunday, that Odell would have been like, you know what? I'm thinking Seahawks.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 going back to your question, do they roll the dice to Jordan Love again?

Speaker 1 It does

Speaker 1 the one seed is very, very important, but the Packers always lose the NFC Championship game in Lambeau. So maybe they're trying not to get the one seed.

Speaker 3 I don't know. I still remember when I was growing up, every announcer would just be like, nobody wins in Lambeau in January.

Speaker 1 But then Eli Manning happened, Michael Vick happened. Michael Vick, yeah.
The two main athletes. Almost Joe Webb.
Almost Joe Webb.

Speaker 3 Two most athletic quarterbacks, Eli and Mike.

Speaker 5 Not LaFleur is confident in Rodgers.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 COVID effects. Yeah.
Who knows?

Speaker 5 So this line is probably saying he's going to play.

Speaker 1 Yeah, maybe it ends up at four, four and a half, but three and a half, you're locking it in. Okay.
I've got

Speaker 3 my tinfoil hat. I've got my Ivermectin skin patch on about how the NFL has dealt with this whole Aaron Rodgers thing.

Speaker 3 Pretty sure that the NFL, according to their own rules, should have suspended Aaron Rodgers. Yes.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Should have fined him. Yeah.

Speaker 3 And they're covering up the fact that he just ignored all the protocols because he's Aaron Rodgers and the rules don't apply to him. Yeah.
And they're like, you know what?

Speaker 3 We could have Aaron Rodgers sit out for multiple weeks, but I really like ratings.

Speaker 1 Imagine if that happened to the Patriots.

Speaker 3 Tom Brady gets that call.

Speaker 1 Again, you said it, not me, but just

Speaker 1 seriously, imagine. You should be championing Mike Florio.
Mike Florio is going to be a bad thing. I'm always championing Mike Florio.

Speaker 1 I appreciate he's doing it because I side with him on this, that Aaron Rodgers should be in jail. I mean, the CeeDee Lamb tweet, you saw that one? What?

Speaker 1 It's like CeeDee Lamb got fined $20,000 for not tucking his shirt in. Aaron Rodgers got fined $14,000 for lying to the NFL for like seven months.
That's like a

Speaker 1 wild version of the old Ray Rice tweet.

Speaker 3 Yeah, Ray Rice, two-game suspension. O.J.
Simpson, still free. Yep.

Speaker 1 Still eligible for the Hall of Fame. All right.

Speaker 1 Your over, Hank. My over is the Bills Jets.

Speaker 1 You can just

Speaker 1 black out the Jets part of it. The Patriots scored 54 on the Jets.
When they played them, the Bills should be able to do this on their own if they're as good as people say they are.

Speaker 1 Mr. INT.
I like it. Josh Allen, number one quarterback.
The over-under for the game is 47.5.

Speaker 1 You have a lot of room to spare with the Bills scoring 54. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Easy. Right.
Easy.

Speaker 1 Okay, Bubba, you're over. I'm doing Pats Browns over 45.

Speaker 1 Just seems pretty low.

Speaker 6 Also, my over.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 5 Done.

Speaker 3 PFT?

Speaker 3 My over,

Speaker 3 I'm going to go Seahawks Packers.

Speaker 1 Ooh.

Speaker 3 Seahawks Packers, I think that there's going to be

Speaker 3 a points festival.

Speaker 1 Is it Rodgers or no Rodgers factor?

Speaker 3 In my data, I'm incorporating Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 3 I just don't see the NFL living in a world where we're like, yeah, Aaron Rodgers is out again.

Speaker 1 The meteorologists who work at Barstool, Glenny Balls and Hanna,

Speaker 1 said there might be some snow flurries. Great.
Snow Blackboard.

Speaker 3 Love snow football. That's the best time of year.

Speaker 1 Definitely doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 I fucking love cocaine memes going.

Speaker 1 Snow matters the other way.

Speaker 1 Remember that Lions Eagles game when everyone bet the under and the over was so easy because no one could like actually tackle or do anything?

Speaker 3 Well, that's that's different because that was a LaShawn McCoy snow game. Yeah.
And he will go down in history as the best snow player of all time. Yes.

Speaker 1 All right, my over is Vikings, Chargers. We alluded to this game.
The Vikings really need to win this game. I do think that

Speaker 1 given that the Chargers can't stop the run

Speaker 1 and the Vikings' secondary, well, actually, no, their secondary has been okay at times, but their defense has been gap. I think they were on the field for like 80 plays or something last week.

Speaker 1 I think this is going to be a points fiesta over 53. Vikings, Chargers.
Low-key, great helmet and uniform matchup. Yes.

Speaker 3 Yeah. No, this is a bounce back game for the Chargers for sure.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, they won. It's a bounce back game.
Bounce back for the franchise.

Speaker 3 Yes. They're on the win.

Speaker 1 Yes. Yes.

Speaker 1 Okay. Billy, your over was also the Browns Patriots.

Speaker 1 Jake, your over was.

Speaker 5 Sunday night, Kansas City, Las Vegas, 51 and a half.

Speaker 1 Ooh, let's talk about that game real quick.

Speaker 1 I have given Hank orders, and I want everyone to hear this, that no matter what is said in the room on Sunday night in Hoboken, do not, under any circumstances, bet on the Chiefs.

Speaker 1 And I have, I was thinking about this last night.

Speaker 1 when I was watching Advisors and what I did to guarantee this because we have made a pact after some tumultuous Sundays to not bet on opposite sides on Sunday night just for the vibe's sake, for the sake of the podcast vibes.

Speaker 1 I already bet on the Raiders. Okay.
So you can't. I'm going to.
You're in. I'm in too.
Because I don't. The Chiefs.

Speaker 1 The problem with the Chiefs this year is that they're now, what, two and seven against the spread, I want to say.

Speaker 1 If you think about them long enough, you can talk yourself into them being back. Which is why I just was like, if we're going to do this, I'm going to do this now so that way

Speaker 1 I can't go against myself. I can't go against you.
No, no.

Speaker 1 All right, but you could on the Barcelona Sportsbook app You could cash out and then bet less money though. Yeah, but you could do it.

Speaker 3 What about what about just taking the over and just riding or dying 51 and a half?

Speaker 1 You can also do that. That way

Speaker 3 you're kind of betting on the Raiders, but you're also thinking, you allow yourself to think in the back of your head the Chiefs could go out and score 40.

Speaker 1 The Chiefs are though officially in the they have to prove it to me category before I believe that they are going to be the team that they have been in the past.

Speaker 1 Because we just watched, I mean, that Packers game, if Jordan Love was even average, the Packers would have won that game.

Speaker 3 Yeah, really bad. The Chiefs are really, really bad right now.
Yeah. But I think I'm just going to take the 51 and a half on that.
That seems like stuff.

Speaker 1 Jake's over.

Speaker 1 Okay, you're under. Hank, do not let me bet the Chiefs on Sunday night.
People, remind me, tweet me. Don't let me do it.

Speaker 1 This is the guy talking off of his game of the year win.

Speaker 1 I just realized I wrote this down. We've had like 25 minutes of conversation about it.
But in my calculations, my statistics, my everything, I have Aaron Rodgers not playing.

Speaker 1 Russell Wilson is coming off an injury, so it isn't going to be, you know, 100%. I have my under as the Seahawks Packers.

Speaker 1 Obviously, that goes against everything we just said, but I'm sticking with it. Okay.

Speaker 1 I like it. More so, I mean, the Russell Wilson thing, got to consider.
Like, is he, you know, he's been taking all the missile reps, yeah.

Speaker 1 He has. He's game ready.
We'll see. He did the succession video.
True. Still haven't gotten an explanation for.
I really wish

Speaker 1 someone would just ask him, how does you coming back have anything to do with succession?

Speaker 1 Yeah, because it's like if you're saying the Seahawks are succession, you're saying they're a super dysfunctional family that is just constantly battling each other.

Speaker 3 Rod is still on top for right now.

Speaker 1 Not really. No.
They're still rich. The run is over.

Speaker 3 They're still rich, though.

Speaker 1 Their Super Bowl window is basically done. Is Aaron Rodgers Stewie? I actually think he might be.

Speaker 3 I haven't watched this week's episode.

Speaker 1 Okay, sorry. Oh, die.

Speaker 1 Adrian Brody is it. No, Stewie is

Speaker 1 the other guy who's friends with Kendall, who they've been trying to take over for the last three seasons.

Speaker 3 No spoilers there. I think Adrian Brody is Aaron Rodgers.
Got it.

Speaker 1 Got it. The people of Green Bay are Adrian Brody.
They own

Speaker 3 Congress.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Adrian Brody's got a pretty nice house in succession.

Speaker 3 Very nice. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Also, a really nice vest.

Speaker 1 Yes. Yes.
Very nice vest. Under Liam.
I'm taking Jags Colts under 47.5.

Speaker 3 Okay, now are you concerned about the Baby baby factor?

Speaker 1 No, I think both these teams take. So the baby factor,

Speaker 1 yeah, to explain it, PFT.

Speaker 3 So Carson Wentz, his wife is going to have their second kid scheduled to come out on Sunday. Carson Wentz, that's not how childbirth is.

Speaker 1 No, they've got an appointment.

Speaker 3 And so Carson Wentz says, if the baby comes on Sunday, I'm still going to break it.

Speaker 1 Breaking moves? There's a baby?

Speaker 1 No, no, baby. The Los Angeles Rams have officially tweeted the Rams have agreed to terms with wide receiver OBJ.
So

Speaker 1 Saga's finished. So now we also have to go back in time right now and say Rappaport was actually the salty bitch there.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because he was trying to basically say it's not done yet when Schefter had the report.

Speaker 3 Yeah, so somebody on the Packers hit up Rappaport and was like, wait, it's not done yet. Rappaport believed them.
Yep. Got the wool pulled over his eyes.

Speaker 3 Meanwhile, Adam Schefter's high-stepping in the end zone, retweeting like seven tweets confirming his report. Yes.

Speaker 1 Wait, so what were we just saying?

Speaker 3 Oh, the baby factors. The baby has an appointment to come out on Sunday.

Speaker 1 Now, there are baby appointments. I don't think they actually made an appointment.

Speaker 3 No, I'm saying the baby made an appointment to come out on Sunday.

Speaker 1 Football guy.

Speaker 3 And, yeah, he's going to hit the hole on Sunday afternoon. And Carson Wentz said, guess what? If the baby comes, I have a football game to plan.
So even if the roof is open. on Mrs.

Speaker 3 Wentz, it's going to be Carson Wentz under center.

Speaker 1 I kind of like this because this just shows that Carson Wentz is the same privately as he is publicly on the field.

Speaker 1 He just puts himself in terrible situations that he's going to be like, I'll explain this away to my wife. Like, I'll miss my child's birth and I'll be able to get myself out of this.

Speaker 3 I like to imagine that Carson didn't tell his wife and then she found out through a report in the news.

Speaker 1 He can get himself out of anything. The guy is just putting, he is writing so many checks that his ass can't cash.
And good luck to Carson Wentz.

Speaker 3 I do like the fact, though, that he's willing to go out there and say that, and I hate the Jaguars, and so I'm going to be betting on the Colts on Sunday. Just you got to go with baby magic.

Speaker 1 This feels similar to the Cowboys game, to the Bills game. You see the Jaguars win as big underdogs.
Everyone's going to be saying, ooh, let's do it again. I don't think so.

Speaker 3 Mrs. Wentz has this marked as a push.

Speaker 1 All right. PFT, your under.

Speaker 3 My under, I'm going to go with the Land Under.

Speaker 3 The Raoul Junder. I don't know.
I'm still workshopping that one. Yeah.
Tampa Bay, Washington.

Speaker 1 It should be the Landover.

Speaker 3 Burn the workshop. Landover was definitely a Clown Tonio Brown moment.
The under 51. And so it's just the Washington football team being like, hey,

Speaker 3 we're going to bring a good team down to our level and just make you play a real shit fest. Off of bye.
Off of bye. I looked up the stats.
Ron Rivera off of bye, three and seven.

Speaker 3 Career, not good.

Speaker 3 But, you know, who really gives a shit? Bruce Arians is like two and two off a bye. Doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 It's going to be like a 40-7 game. So I'm giving myself, what, four points of wiggle room there? Yeah.

Speaker 3 And Stephen Che hit me up and he was like, hey, we're going to watch the game together on Sunday in Hoboken, buddy. And I was like, yeah, and then I think he said, get ready for some pain.

Speaker 3 And I was like, Stephen, I think you don't understand the fact that you're the one that has to watch the Washington football team play this Sunday. So, yeah, not great for either one of us.
No.

Speaker 1 Okay, my under, I'm going to take the Eagles-Broncos. Eagles, Broncos, under 45 and a half.
I don't know. That just feels like

Speaker 1 some drives stalled. We're on the 40.

Speaker 3 Yep. I feel like both those guys just, you know.
Just titty bumping? Yeah,

Speaker 1 just running around, pillow fighting all afternoon.

Speaker 1 Billy.

Speaker 6 Lions, Steelers, I feel like it's going to be a kneecap-biting game. Lions are going to be scrappy.
Steelers are going to be low scoring. Lions are just going to try to crawl their way out of it.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 3 how does a team crawl their way out of something?

Speaker 1 Well, they're lions. Yeah.
It's true.

Speaker 5 Lion's pit.

Speaker 1 Lion's den?

Speaker 1 He's in the lion's den? The snake pit. 42.

Speaker 3 Daniel Campbell in the lion's den.

Speaker 1 It's 43 now?

Speaker 6 Oh, 43.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Good pick, Billy. We've got to start saying good pick to each other more often.
Because none of these picks are ever good.

Speaker 6 Nice picks.

Speaker 1 Jake, finish us off, and then we'll hit any. I think we hit every game, but if we didn't, we will do that.

Speaker 5 I am in with Liam Colts Jags, 47 and a half.

Speaker 1 Okay. Under.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Did we hit every game?

Speaker 3 I believe we did. Oh, I had one other thing I want to bring up about the Patriots Browns game.
Hank, did you see that Jared Mayo and Steve Belichick have a fart machine?

Speaker 1 Love it. I did not guy stuff.

Speaker 3 Yeah, just guys being dudes. It's hilarious.
So they were doing interviews with.

Speaker 1 So you keep the locker room light.

Speaker 3 Yeah, Troy Brown was doing a media with you. I think it was like a media interview.
I forget who it was with. Maybe TV station.

Speaker 3 And so they just left the fart machine behind and started setting it off during his interview. I love that, though.

Speaker 3 As far as I know,

Speaker 3 that's Steve Belichick's entire job is to just be a prank guy. Every team needs someone like that.
I mean, farts will always play till the end of time.

Speaker 1 Always. There's never been a non-funny fart, especially when PFT does it during the podcast.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Or when Joe Biden does it on The Queen

Speaker 3 or whoever that was. That's probably a top-five fart.

Speaker 1 The fart on Bob Costas' pillow at the Olympics.

Speaker 3 Good fart, Mike. Mike Ditka's fart.

Speaker 1 That one had a long shelf life of hilarity.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it had a domino effect. Yes.

Speaker 1 All right, let's do Fantasy Fuck Boys, and we have Rob Lowe. Before we do that, though, quickly...
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Speaker 1 My name is Barry Bagavalonia. What's up? Barry.
Barry Bags. Barry Bags.

Speaker 1 My stardom is the X-Men. Oh, shit.
Xavier McDaniel? Yeah, no, no, the fucking action-figured superheroes, dude. Wolverine.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they said they're gonna come out with a new animated series, Disney Plus. Get excited.
I fucking love Wolverine. Fucking loved

Speaker 1 Storm. Yeah, Storm.

Speaker 1 What's the other guy? What's the weird guy's name?

Speaker 1 Magneto. Deadpool, although I don't think he's he's part of it, whatever.
X-Men

Speaker 1 back. Fuck yeah.
Spider-Man, not the fucking X-Men, dude. Orange Rock Guy.
Orange Rock Guy. The B Sanos.
That's fantastic. I don't know.
I don't fucking know, Jim.

Speaker 3 I said him as Sacks.

Speaker 1 Sacks. Saxe alluded to it earlier.
Bill Belichick, our king, said it. Sacks overrated.
Pressure's more important. Fuck a sack.
Get some pressure. There we go.
Sacks. Yes.
Pressure taps.

Speaker 1 And my sleeper is Jacoby Myers.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
He's finally going to score a touchdown. Finally going to score a touchdown.
If he's on your bench, put him in. He's probably going to score.

Speaker 1 You know, it's going to be like, once you get one, you get five. So look for him to score big, get some yads.
Jacoby Myers, put him on your fucking active roster. Mr.
TD, I fucking love it.

Speaker 3 What's up, dick bags? This is Tony Tostito.

Speaker 3 First of all, I'd like to just say that I love hint of lime chips, and they're fucking fantastic. I just see hina limes with everything.

Speaker 3 My start, I'm starting Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Butler, that's right, the last guy that you want.

Speaker 1 Fuck you.

Speaker 3 Jimmy Butler, the king, top one player in the NBA.

Speaker 1 Jerome Butler.

Speaker 3 He got fined due to attempting to escalate the situation and also for not snitching. So he said, that's HIPAA, Adam Silver.

Speaker 1 Fuck off.

Speaker 3 Love Jimmy Butler. I'm sitting.
I'm sitting.

Speaker 3 I'm sitting in the University of Virginia.

Speaker 1 Talk today, PFT. The University of Virginia.

Speaker 3 They fucking lost. They're built by a fraud, Thomas Jefferson, who just stole a bunch of other people's ideas and said, hey, it's me, Thomas Jefferson.
And then they lost to Navy.

Speaker 3 At least they're in a conference.

Speaker 1 The troops.

Speaker 3 You son of a bitch, they lost to Navy. Fuck you.
Respect the troops.

Speaker 1 At least they're in a conference.

Speaker 3 My sleeper,

Speaker 3 my sleeper is that JMU Dukes won in a conference.

Speaker 1 So it's fucking sleepy. See, you did have

Speaker 3 to get it.

Speaker 1 I didn't have my sleeper just yet.

Speaker 3 Instead of that, I'm going to say that my sleeper this weekend is going to be Pat Fryermuth from the Pittsburgh Steelers. He's got a fun name to say.

Speaker 1 The Mooth. Love it.
Alright, what's up, guys? It's Angelo Giuseppe. My stardom is Frank Kaminski.
Frank the Tank. 31 points on Wednesday night.
31 points on Wednesday night in an NBA game.

Speaker 1 In an NBA game. Suck my dick to all the haters.
Frank the Tank is here to stay. He was like 12 or 18 shooting.
Fuck yes, Frank the Tank.

Speaker 3 He's the enforcer. Hell yeah.

Speaker 1 My sit him is Billy because if Billy wants a seat today on Veterans Day, I'll give mine up for him.

Speaker 3 My sleeper is

Speaker 1 shit. My sleep.

Speaker 1 Here's how I'll tell it. Full disclosure,

Speaker 1 I wrote down Mahomes because I was going to say Mahomes is going to have a breakout game on Sunday.

Speaker 1 I'm going to bet the Chiefs, but I remembered myself that I got to bet the Raiders and not to bet the Chiefs.

Speaker 3 I'm already trying to talk myself into the Chiefs.

Speaker 1 So my real sleeper is Michigan, Michigan football. If I lose my game of the year tonight, that's going to be my next game of the year.
Jim Harbaugh finally winning a big game at Penn State.

Speaker 1 Oh, also, shout out Jake because that alarm is for him to give me a reminder.

Speaker 5 Remember your laptop and your backpack.

Speaker 1 All right, thank you. Oh my god.
What up, it's Geo Ragones? Geo, my son. Wait, Jake, send another reminder for like 20 minutes later.

Speaker 1 Perfect.

Speaker 3 My stardom is Timberland Boots. It's Tim season, boys.
Get your Tim's out.

Speaker 1 You're wearing white shoes, though.

Speaker 6 Yeah, but I'm going to bring out my Tim's tomorrow.

Speaker 1 Damn, Billy, back at it again with the white laces.

Speaker 3 Laces, because we're getting new ones.

Speaker 1 Oh, my sit em.

Speaker 1 Oh, fuck. Shit.
I'm going to scuff those up.

Speaker 3 My sit him is Christmas music. People are whipping out Christmas music way too early this year.
They're already playing Christmas music. It's not Thanksgiving yet.
Don't play the Christmas music.

Speaker 3 Don't disrespect the seven fishes. Twenty minutes sleeping with it.
Yeah. Too many.
And my sleeper is Jameson Crowder.

Speaker 6 So I got a feeling.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah? Got a feeling. Hooked on a feeling.
Got a feeling. That what?

Speaker 3 That Jameson Crowder's going to go off.

Speaker 1 Okay. That sounds like a lot.
We got Jacoby Myers and Jameson Crowder and Patrick Mahomes all going off.

Speaker 3 I think, honestly, I think the Chiefs might clown him.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 I think the Chiefs might clown the race. We have to do everything we can to not bet the Chiefs Sunday night.

Speaker 1 I think they're I rolled down the homes. I thought that he was going to be really good.

Speaker 3 This is anti-Italian discrimination against Rich Besicki. Everybody start clowning.

Speaker 1 Fuck. Because they do.
They're prone to clown on the teams.

Speaker 1 Just saying. Okay.
Just bet on the Raiders now with me. Okay.
Okay. Okay.

Speaker 3 I will do it. The second I get to New Jersey, the next time, which will be Sunday.
I will.

Speaker 1 I'll bet on it. I'll do it, Sam.
I'll do it. I got you.
I got you, bro. All right.

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Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on

Speaker 1 a very good friend of ours, recurring guest, Rob Lowe.

Speaker 1 He has the second season, season two of his podcast, literally with Rob Lowe.

Speaker 1 It's coming out now, and new episodes are releasing now, which we just have to say, you made it because a lot of times people want to do a podcast and they don't know the grind.

Speaker 1 You're now on season two. You've interviewed a ton of people.
It's a successful podcast. You deserve congratulations.

Speaker 1 How difficult is it to do a podcast and tell us why we're the hardest working people in the world?

Speaker 9 You guys are. People don't, it's a grind.
You know, you, the, uh, you don't get to take a week off or a day off, particularly, you know, people who do it daily. You know, I do want a week,

Speaker 9 and it's a lot, but I love it.

Speaker 9 It's everything I thought it would be because to have people, you know, that I love and that people in the world are interested in on and then get to really get down with them and do it in a way that you're not going to be able to do.

Speaker 9 on any other show has been a blast. And I love that people are loving it and coming up to me on the street and going, I heard your interview with Matthew McConaughey, man.

Speaker 9 And it's like, it's very cool.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I don't like the fact that you haven't age doing this podcast because that was always our excuse for why we're looking so poor these days. So you tell me what you have,

Speaker 9 you have sunglasses on in the studio right now. I do.
You really are.

Speaker 9 You're worried about it, clearly.

Speaker 1 I'm very worried about it.

Speaker 3 I'm just, I'm concerned. You want me to go raw dog? I'll take the glasses off, Rob.

Speaker 1 I have gray hair. Can I see it? So many gray hairs, so I'm dying.
Here I am, Rob.

Speaker 3 Tell me my eyes are beautiful.

Speaker 9 I think your eyes are beautiful.

Speaker 9 I think you have beautiful.

Speaker 9 I'm under the sway of your eyes. But I also think that the sunglasses are very Jack Nicholson court side, Detroit Pistons era.

Speaker 1 You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 3 What do you think ages you faster, doing a podcast or living through the 80s?

Speaker 9 Oh, living through the 80s, 100%.

Speaker 9 I mean, listen,

Speaker 9 those were the days when they told you cocaine was good good for you.

Speaker 9 It was good for you, and it was what successful people did.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I was actually thinking about it. I know, I think we've talked about this when you've been on before, but

Speaker 1 I think it was the 40-year anniversary of St. Elmo's.
Was that recently?

Speaker 9 I believe it's coming up. I think it might be 30.

Speaker 9 35? I think it was 30 when we did it. Yeah.
Because I think, yeah, we're right around 35, because it was 80, 19, 85, and I'm terrible with math. That's anything to avoid math.
That's right.

Speaker 1 Either way, I was just, I saw a picture and the Brat Pack, and I was just thinking, like, god damn it, if I could, if I could go back and be anyone, it might be like Rob Lowe in the 80s or a member of the Brat Pack in the 80s because fame had to be so much more fun then than it is now, and all the things that come with fame in today's day.

Speaker 9 Dude, I mean, look, I am not one of those people that,

Speaker 9 you know, that looks back on the glory days because I actually have never been happier than I am right now or having more fun or any of that. But

Speaker 9 that said,

Speaker 9 if you and I could jump into a time machine to 1985, and I thought about it, it's 85. It's not 84, it's not 86, it's 85.

Speaker 9 It was pretty epic. Pretty epic.
In fact,

Speaker 9 I'm working on a documentary on the Brat Pack

Speaker 9 and those years. And I think it's going to be super, super fun.

Speaker 9 And all of the stories, because it was a very specific, it was pre-internet,

Speaker 9 you know, pre-AIDS,

Speaker 9 pre,

Speaker 9 we thought Coke was good for us.

Speaker 9 Boy, we had it wrong on every account, didn't we?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I was going to say, you guys really

Speaker 1 predicted things incorrectly. We're never going to have consequences.
Yeah, fuck.

Speaker 1 Yeah, 1985, year both of us were born so i i'm fascinated with that just because you know it's we're both 90s kids not 80s kids and 80s felt like i don't know it just feels yeah it feels like 100 years ago but it also feels like there's something about the 80s that uh was so cool that i can't really put my finger on and maybe i it might be totally off but i every time i think about the brat pack i think about that you're not you're not off it was cool it was because there was an innocence there was a harmlessness and an innocence.

Speaker 9 And

Speaker 9 people really truly just wanted, like Cindy Lauper said, they just wanted to have fun.

Speaker 9 And

Speaker 9 it was a great time.

Speaker 9 I'm super, super glad. Like, I was thinking, like, would there have been a better time to have been famous?

Speaker 9 And I'm like,

Speaker 9 and

Speaker 9 nobody wants to be famous in 1930.

Speaker 1 Right. I don't think.
I think the Roaring 20s.

Speaker 1 Like, right when Prohibition was saying, you got the speakeasies but the no taxes yeah and and no taxes but the problem i've thought about this a lot too because the problem with being famous maybe before i'd say like 1970 is there were so few famous people that it's like no one you know what i mean like you were the famous like marilyn monroe was the famous person kind of thing so it's like you you'd want there to be a little bit more fame around that you could mingle with maybe not what it is today where everyone can get famous instantly but i think it yeah somewhere in the 80s might be the sweet spot.

Speaker 9 Well, because the other thing is in those, in the 50s, 60s, 40s, 30s, whatever it was, there were still really intense societal norms that you had to kind of abide by, or if you didn't want to, it had to be on the down low.

Speaker 9 And, you know, post the 60s and into the 70s, it was a fucking free-for-all.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 9 So there's that part of it.

Speaker 3 I've got one more 80s question because I've always been curious about the whole neon aspect of the 80s.

Speaker 3 When you were living through that, were you just like, wow, holy shit, these colors are brighter than normal. Why was everything neon?

Speaker 9 Dude, I had a neon

Speaker 9 sculpture in my house.

Speaker 1 Oh, hell yes. Of a cactus.

Speaker 9 I had a neon cactus

Speaker 9 in my very first house that I ever had. I don't know what, why? And again, neon had been around for a long time.
Yeah. I don't know.

Speaker 9 That aesthetic can be traced back to a movie called American Gigolo, Gigolo,

Speaker 9 which was Richard Gere, and it was a, I just watched it again recently. That,

Speaker 9 Miami Vice

Speaker 9 were the two things that like

Speaker 9 made that look that we consider the 80s the thing. It was those two things.
And it was a lot of neon and a lot of pastels and a lot of popped collars. Like, what was,

Speaker 9 like, I would, if we were doing this in the 80s, this is how I would be wearing this shirt.

Speaker 3 I feel like pop collars are coming back, too.

Speaker 1 Pop collars, jean shorts, fanny packs,

Speaker 1 all that.

Speaker 9 Fanny packs are 90s.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, that's right. That's true.
You're right. You're right.
Yeah. And something about the 80s.

Speaker 1 I think it's also just the infatuation of when you were born, like what was going on in the world then when you were, you know, when you came into the world. So 1985.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 that was when Rob Lowe was at his peak.

Speaker 9 The young, the young. Well, I would say, honestly, I mean, I feel like I'm at my peak now.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 9 But that, that iteration of me, the teen idol, that was the peak of the teen idol.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah, for, for sure.

Speaker 3 But now you're a podcaster, which is way better. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Way, way more important.

Speaker 9 I mean, what could be sexier? Teen idol movies start a podcaster? I mean, come on. I think we all know it's podcast.

Speaker 1 Okay, so is it not? Yeah, back to the podcast. Have you had the moment yet where you've had to tell someone that you have a podcast and saying it out loud makes you feel like a real fucking douchebag?

Speaker 9 I know, right it's like it's like i have a i have a vlog yeah or a blog it sucks you're an influencer

Speaker 1 dude when i oh that would be the yeah that would be the one that would be the one where i would cut i would saw my own head off after i said the phrase i'm an influencer i'm i'm running into it now because i have uh two kids and what i'm doing like you know at either when they go to school or like you know parties and someone asks me what i do and i say a podcaster and the minute i say it i just want to like shrink up into a ball because anyone can podcast.

Speaker 1 It's not like so it truly it

Speaker 1 you're bringing bringing Rob Lowe down to our level when you have to tell someone that you have a podcast.

Speaker 9 See, I like to run my career in reverse. Like I started out as a movie star and then I ended up as a podcaster.

Speaker 9 And

Speaker 9 I started out as a

Speaker 9 movie star and then I went on the road with my one-man show. Yeah.
Like I'm running everything in reverse now. And I think it's working.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Do you feel that like because of your experience in show business, the people that you talk to are, they open up more easily to you?

Speaker 3 So like on this show, I feel like sometimes people open up to us just because we're so dumb and we're so unusual.

Speaker 3 And they're like, wait, this isn't a real, no one's going to listen to this. So sometimes we trick them.

Speaker 3 But with you, I feel like since you have a lot of that shared background with some of the people that you have on, I don't know, do they feel like they're telling you stuff they don't tell other people?

Speaker 9 Oh, 100%.

Speaker 9 And a lot of the guests I have a history with, and I'll tell a story that only they and I know happened. And that's been great.

Speaker 9 So like when I had, you know, I think the Gwyneth Paltrow episode and the Matthew McConaughey, those are like icons that they're in the press all the time.

Speaker 9 We all probably think we know everything we need to know about them. We all probably have our opinions made on both those people.

Speaker 9 They're lightning rods and good and bad.

Speaker 9 There's not a lot of mystery with those two.

Speaker 9 And what I'm really proud of, of what my show, I think, does, is there's a side of them that you never would have imagined

Speaker 9 because I know a side of them that

Speaker 9 people aren't going to know because of my history with them.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 When you first came, or no, sorry, we first had you on when we were in L.A., but then we had you on again before your podcast launched. We gave you an assignment.

Speaker 1 Everyone should go listen to the episode with Magic Johnson, but can you tell us what you found out about Magic Johnson and his tweets?

Speaker 9 How about this? I have new and breaking news.

Speaker 1 Oh, hell yes. Let's go.

Speaker 9 Last night,

Speaker 9 I found out that Magic Johnson does not physically

Speaker 9 do any of the tweets,

Speaker 9 which may explain some of it. So it's articulated clearly across the room or while he's doing 17 other things as a titan of industry.

Speaker 9 And then there is a woman whose job is to figure out what he's talking about and make it a tweet. So that's the latest wrinkle, which I think might warrant some further exploration.

Speaker 1 Okay, so he's just,

Speaker 1 is it, do you think he says like send tweet or is it he's just talking and she's like, oh, that seemed like something important to send tweet.

Speaker 9 Maybe that, maybe that's, you, I think, have hit it. I think he doesn't say

Speaker 9 send tweet.

Speaker 9 So she never knows when it's ended. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's what I mean.

Speaker 9 So you get what you get. Because I can promise you, here's what it's not.

Speaker 9 Hey, hello. I have an idea for a tweet.
Are you ready?

Speaker 9 Lakers look very stiff tonight, period. Perhaps they need a change in the lineup, period.
Send that. I don't think that's happening.

Speaker 1 Right. Okay.
This makes sense, though, because a lot of his tweets are just matter of fact, like the Lakers were great last night, and LeBron looked young.

Speaker 1 So he's just saying that out loud in conversation, and then it gets filtered through this woman's brain out into the world, and then he's a viral sensation.

Speaker 9 Yeah, and which just goes to show you, you never know what's going to be viral and what isn't.

Speaker 9 And by the way, knowing Magic like I do, I've literally known him since his rookie year. I'm not sure he's aware of what a viral sensation is.
I mean, I talked to him.

Speaker 9 You know, I talked to him about it, obviously, because you guys told me to, and I'm nothing if not a friend of the, pardon my take, you know, universe.

Speaker 9 I remember what you told me to do, and I asked him about it on my podcast.

Speaker 1 And it's like,

Speaker 1 I just, I'm fascinated with it. He is, his Twitter is so perfect.
I hope it never, ever changes. I hope he never gets aware of it.

Speaker 3 Have you talked to him about the Lakers? Because he's been tweeting a lot about the Lakers, or excuse me, the woman in his life, he's been speaking a lot about the Lakers.

Speaker 3 One tweet I saw was just wow, exclamation point. I don't know how you're like, Yep, okay, he just said, Wow, I'm gonna put that out there.

Speaker 1 That was just like a Maserati drove by, and he was just wow, you had to figure out what it's about.

Speaker 3 I think it might have been about the Lakers, I can't be sure, but he did say the Lakers have a team issue and a basketball issue. Does he actually ever mistake you for Rob Palinka?

Speaker 1 Oh

Speaker 9 yes that's that's all a Genie Buss thing. The Rob Palinka thing that's a Genie Buss obsession

Speaker 9 whenever she sees me she calls me Palenka and did I tell you guys that I came in and made a speech to the to the ownership group as Rob Palinka I told you that

Speaker 9 which is super funny and Polinka's great but

Speaker 9 yeah I don't know what's going on with the Lakers I just don't I just don't know and I don't think it it's one of those things when it's the good news and bad news about having somebody like LeBron is

Speaker 9 there's such gravity. They got a big planet.
All the gravity goes to them. And the minute, like if it's good, it's because of them.
And if it's bad, it's because of them.

Speaker 9 And

Speaker 9 so if you want it to change,

Speaker 9 it isn't changing as long as that planet's there. Yeah.

Speaker 1 In my humble opinion.

Speaker 3 What do you think about Russell Westbrook being like the perfect scapegoat for LeBron this year?

Speaker 3 Because if Westbrook goes out and he's got bad nights and he's ball dominant and they lose a game because he has another one of his Russell Westbrook nights, as Skip Bayless would put it, that's perfect for LeBron to skate by and to be like, well, it's not my fault.

Speaker 3 It's Russell Westbrook.

Speaker 9 Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 9 everybody thought when that was going to be a great match, you know, somebody who can, you know, take the pressure off LeBron and move the ball around and get it to various players, all that stuff.

Speaker 9 And, you know, look, maybe it'll, maybe it'll work itself out. You just don't know.

Speaker 9 I mean, it's like, you know, I'm a huge Dodger fan, and we watched Cody Bellinger struggle and struggle and struggle and struggle. And you're like, holy mother of God.

Speaker 9 And, you know, when he needed to, at the end of this season, he put it all together. And here's Cody again.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So, NFL, you're a fan of the league in general. Give us your.

Speaker 1 I'm a league fan. You're a league fan.
So give us your take on how the league is going right now.

Speaker 9 I think last Sunday was a great Sunday for the league, not a good Sunday for my Rams. Yep.
But I always, I always, and there's usually there's that, this week happens every year.

Speaker 9 You just never know when it's going to be, right? And

Speaker 9 this year it was this week. And it just goes to show you that anybody can lose on any given time.
I don't know if it's you. Do you feel like the quality of football,

Speaker 9 it's never been more glaring between

Speaker 9 a well-coached team

Speaker 9 and a team that isn't well-coached? I mean, there's always been that disparity, but for me watching the league this year,

Speaker 9 I really feel like the quality of play overall is sloppy. Yeah.
Maybe that's just me.

Speaker 3 I tend to agree with that. I also think that nothing will make a good team play worse than when they play against a sloppy team.

Speaker 3 Like, the sloppy teams are bringing the good team's level of play down to their level when they play.

Speaker 9 Yep. And as we all know, I play tennis.
It's the same thing. If you play somebody who's bad in tennis, you're going to be awful.

Speaker 9 And I never thought of it having an analogy with the NBA, but but I think you're absolutely right.

Speaker 1 What's your serve like? What's your second serve like?

Speaker 9 My thing is

Speaker 9 my first serve is good enough that I don't even do a second serve.

Speaker 1 Oh, because,

Speaker 9 yeah, so I give you two first serves because mathematically I'm going to get one of them in.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay. So you don't take anything off the second serve?

Speaker 9 No, I don't because it's good enough. And what I don't want to do is give you some, you know, elephant ball second serve that you can deal on.

Speaker 9 I'd rather go, I'd rather go, I'm going to have X amount of

Speaker 9 double faults. I know it.
It's built into the game plan. But I'm also going to have, I'm not going to have anybody dealing on my second serve either.

Speaker 3 So who's your goat? Is it Federer or Djokovic?

Speaker 9 Oh, boy. You know what?

Speaker 9 I love them both, but

Speaker 9 I've seen them both.

Speaker 9 I got to go.

Speaker 9 I think it's, I don't, man, it's really hard. But Federer,

Speaker 9 Jokovich's gumbiness is an unbelievable thing. The man is gumpy.

Speaker 9 Where you see his his ankles twisted over as he's going side to side, but Federer glides. I never saw him break a sweat.
I never saw him even look like he was trying.

Speaker 9 He was the most graceful, it's like he was on rollers. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it.
He's the he's the um who's the great Spaniard.

Speaker 9 Nadal. He's like the anti-Nadal.
Like Nadal's out there giving it all. He's got to be carted off the field.
And Federer never broke a sweat.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, the answer is Jokovich, but that's okay. You tried.

Speaker 1 We just.

Speaker 1 I don't disagree with you. No, we like to have fun with tennis because we're not big tennis guys.
So

Speaker 1 the key to any sports debate is if you don't watch the sport, just try to insert yourself into the GOAT debate and figure out what will piss the most people off and you can get in easily there.

Speaker 9 I like that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's a little life hack. I like that.

Speaker 9 That's a life hack. I'll do that when they're talking about Australian rules football.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 9 I'll like, that's what I'm going to do.

Speaker 1 Yeah, just pick one guy and be like, no, he's the goat and just, you know, go counterculture to everything else.

Speaker 1 Do you talk trash during tennis?

Speaker 9 No.

Speaker 9 I'm, oh, when I'm playing.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 9 Yes. Oh.
I talk trash all the time. I love, I talk trash.

Speaker 9 Dude, I

Speaker 9 was all over Jose Ltuve this year. Like you, well, that's not me and a million other people, but it's so satisfying.
And I like, but I like to go to try to find a way in that is a little different.

Speaker 9 Like everybody's like going, cheater, cheater. And my thing was like, where's your buzzer?

Speaker 1 Nice.

Speaker 9 Are you wearing a wire?

Speaker 9 Where's your butt? You know, and it's super fun. I think it's a great, the

Speaker 9 smart

Speaker 9 high-road heckle should be embraced across sports.

Speaker 3 Yes. Do you feel like they kind of skated by, though, though, because in the COVID year, they didn't have to deal with all the fans around them?

Speaker 3 I feel like they still haven't really, I'll still be 50 years old screaming at the Houston Astros, even though I'm sure there are a bunch of teams that probably cheat at the same time.

Speaker 3 But they're the ones that got caught. I'll probably still be mad at them at that point.
But I feel like they never really got their comeuppance for the cheating.

Speaker 9 Well, they definitely didn't. I mean, here's what I learned about them.

Speaker 9 They're the kind of player that responds to the taunting.

Speaker 9 If you're a Dodger fan and they come in and your ultimate goal is to have the Dodgers win, you should say nothing to the Astros.

Speaker 9 Like, if you could figure out a way to get all of the fans to be deadly silent, I think that would be the worst thing you could, the best slash worst thing you could do because those guys thrive on it now.

Speaker 9 They're like, yeah, we'll show you. You know, they have all of this to prove.
And they kind of did in a way this year. But yeah, I think the Altuve Don't Take My Shirt Off is one of the great,

Speaker 9 undisputed pieces of bad acting bullshit I've ever seen in my life. It's amazing.
And I remember when it happened live, I was like,

Speaker 9 what is this bullshit I'm watching? I had no idea what it was, but it was like patently obvious.

Speaker 9 I didn't know anything about cheating, didn't know anything about the scam, didn't know anything about anything other than this guy was.

Speaker 9 lying through his teeth about he wanting to take his shirt off for no reason on him on national television. I didn't get it.

Speaker 1 And then it all made sense. He was like a fat kid at a pool.
Like, no, I'm good. I don't need to take my shirt off.

Speaker 1 You understand why a fat kid at a pool doesn't want to take their shirt off. There's no reason for him to not take his shirt off coming around third base, going to home.

Speaker 9 No,

Speaker 9 and then after the weird gesticulating, it's his wife and he's shy.

Speaker 9 That might be the worst lie I've ever heard.

Speaker 3 My wife doesn't want me showing off my abs to everybody.

Speaker 1 Yes. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So I was reading an article. GQ did an article about your workout plan.
I want to ask about your workout plan, but I also,

Speaker 1 how many guys in Hollywood are on steroids?

Speaker 1 Actors. Wow.

Speaker 9 Here's the thing.

Speaker 9 I like Marvel movies as much as the next guy,

Speaker 9 which means I'm ambivalent.

Speaker 9 But I want to be in one.

Speaker 9 Just so

Speaker 9 I can meet their doctor feel-good.

Speaker 9 Like,

Speaker 9 I want an excuse to have, you know, Elvis' bagman

Speaker 9 come in and hook me up.

Speaker 3 Yes. Banana boat.
Yes.

Speaker 9 Because my man Kamale Njani,

Speaker 9 you know, he's ripped.

Speaker 9 He was in the grinder with me. He's one of my favorite people and maybe one of the funniest people on the planet.
And I see him in Eternals. I'm like, whatever's going on, I want some of that.

Speaker 1 Yes. Yes.

Speaker 1 Just some hard work.

Speaker 9 And by the way, I would do it in a heartbeat. How about that?

Speaker 3 Yeah. Yeah.
So this is you officially lobbying for a gig in a Marvel movie right now.

Speaker 1 Yes. And HGH.

Speaker 9 I think I should have one. Yeah.

Speaker 1 What role would you play?

Speaker 9 I don't know. See, I just don't know enough about the universe to know.
But

Speaker 9 if I don't end up with some sort of throwdown there,

Speaker 9 you know, I think it's a missed opportunity. I mean, you know,

Speaker 9 look, those guys are all in their 30s. Yeah.

Speaker 9 I'm pushing 60. I think you want to see that jacked 60-year-old be like, what the like, what?

Speaker 9 Like, let's go.

Speaker 3 Yeah, big cat was talking about your diet plan, which I think that that's, there's definitely an aspect of dieting that goes into, you know, getting that cut up and having the six-pack.

Speaker 3 That's like the final step. You can get in good shape, but if you really want a six-pack, it's, it's the first, unfortunately, it's the first step.

Speaker 9 It's like abs are made in the kitchen. And, you know, I eat the Atkins way all the time.
So it's, you know, it's like high protein, extremely low carbs, low sugar. And

Speaker 9 that keeps me within

Speaker 9 80%

Speaker 9 of being at my 100%.

Speaker 9 And so if I ever have to throw down, I got my three weeks and I can ramp it up. But I'm pretty disciplined about that.

Speaker 1 I like that. Always staying like right on the precipice of being in your best shape.

Speaker 9 Yeah, you can't stay in your best shape. Nobody can.

Speaker 1 True.

Speaker 1 Because then it's not your best shape anymore. True, true.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 9 exactly. And

Speaker 9 like, I would, I would, God, I would love to, I tried to get Pratt to tell me what was going on. I was like, you know, Pratt, how did you turn from Andy Dwyer in Parks and Recreation to the Star Lord?

Speaker 9 Come on, man. Hook a brother up.

Speaker 9 Yeah. He was like, I took a lot of, he's like, I took a lot of walks.

Speaker 1 I drink more water.

Speaker 3 that's the other thing people always say is like i drink more water now yeah

Speaker 9 which is true and i do do that i have a big bottle it's a big blue bottle with time on it like 11 a.m 9 a.m and then ephra is like you can do it keep on drinking and it's called the baby and on my tv show on 911 lone star you'll hear rob needs his baby bring in the baby has anybody seen the baby it's like got its own thing my big bottle of water

Speaker 3 i also read that you just sleep a lot and that's your secret i wish that's it yeah that see it's tough i would like to sleep a lot, but then you lay down and you realize how boring it is to fall asleep.

Speaker 3 So you put on a podcast or you listen to, I don't know, you watch a YouTube video or something, but it's tough to fall asleep. How many hours a night do you sleep?

Speaker 9 I

Speaker 9 sleep, and it's embarrassing. It used to be.
I'll sleep when I'm dead, and it was a badge of honor.

Speaker 9 I only need five hours of sleep, but I'm up in the morning and I'm looking at the stock prices. And that was like, oh, that person's a stud.

Speaker 9 But now what we're learning is it actually is better for you to get more sleep. And, you know, look at Tom Brady will tell you that.
And I've always been a big advocate for more sleep.

Speaker 9 So left to my own devices,

Speaker 9 I'm a nine-hour guy, sort of,

Speaker 9 that's sort of it. And that's the minimum.
Anything less than nine hours, and I feel like I haven't had enough sleep.

Speaker 1 See, but it's a cheat code living in California because the games are over. The games are over at 9 o'clock, so you can go to sleep.

Speaker 9 When I come to the East Coast and there's West Coast sports on, you're screwed. Screwed.
You're super, super screwed.

Speaker 9 And, you know, and then, but then the same,

Speaker 9 you got to get up early, though, to start seeing the, if you want pregame of the early games for football. Yeah.
And I always love being on the East Coast for that.

Speaker 9 It's like you've eaten, you're up, maybe you've worked out, you're getting ready to chill, and those first games are starting. You just can't believe it.
Yeah.

Speaker 9 In California, you just got, you got to start your whole day around it.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right. So I had one last question.
Everyone, go check out literally with Rob Lowe,

Speaker 1 wherever you want to get podcasts. He also has a new podcast, Parks and Recollect

Speaker 1 Recollection is a Parks and Recreation recap podcast.

Speaker 1 So my last question for you.

Speaker 1 We talked about football. We talked about podcasting.
Rob Lowe,

Speaker 1 will you be in another lifetime movie anytime soon? I've told you before that I think your greatest acting job was Drew Peterson Untouchable. Is there maybe a reprisal of

Speaker 1 the role or is there another lifetime movie that where you can be yourself and you can really dig into a piece?

Speaker 1 Please promise me this.

Speaker 9 Yes. I, well, thank you.

Speaker 9 I love that you love Drew Peterson because I loved doing that part. It's one of my favorites.
It's one of my favorite things I've ever done.

Speaker 9 Because when they asked me to do it, and I think I told you this, I said yes because I had no idea how I would do it. I don't look like him.
There's nothing about me that's remotely.

Speaker 9 It would be as far on my range as an actor that I could possibly imagine. But then I did Behind the Candelabra, which was even farther than that.
But I love when I get to do those big swings.

Speaker 9 And what's nice about Lifetime is sometimes they're sometimes the only people that will let me do that.

Speaker 9 So I'm out there actively searching for my next prosthetically based. Here's two things.
Marvel Human Growth Hormone Project

Speaker 9 and prosthetic based lifetime project.

Speaker 1 Yes. Love it.
I like that a lot. Yeah.
I love it.

Speaker 3 Let's make it happen. Yes.

Speaker 9 Let's do it for sure.

Speaker 1 Rob, it's always a pleasure. Next time you're in New York, you got to come in studio.

Speaker 1 You're the best.

Speaker 1 Everyone go download his podcast. He gets incredible guests every single week.
And thank you, as always.

Speaker 9 That was great. Appreciate you guys.
I'll see you in New York next time I'm there. For sure.
We'll see you on your home turf.

Speaker 1 Done. Sounds good.

Speaker 9 Thanks, guys. All right.
Thank you.

Speaker 1 Thanks, Rob. See ya.

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Speaker 1 But if I lost my game of the year, that would be my Fire Fest.

Speaker 3 It'd be very embarrassing.

Speaker 1 But go ahead. Hank.
My Fire Fest is we are

Speaker 1 finally taped. Like, we're going to film the music video for the song we did during Grit Week, Benny the Butcher.

Speaker 1 There's a lot of holdup because originally he was going to come here, do an interview, and then we're going to put the song out. But

Speaker 1 he hasn't come here yet, and we've decided to finally just go forward with the music video

Speaker 1 as such. So it'll probably be coming out in the next few weeks.
But trying to,

Speaker 1 you know, figure out logistics and stuff with you guys has been somewhat difficult. I've been getting a lot of dirty looks, bad responses.
I told Lil Sass that he had to be here at 8 a.m.

Speaker 1 I thought he was going to cry legitimately. He was like, what?

Speaker 3 8 a.m. is not, that time does not exist on my class.

Speaker 1 And then I said that to PFT, and he was like, what, really? Like, we actually have to do this at 8 a.m.

Speaker 1 And I just feel like the bad guy, and I don't like feeling like the bad guy. Who's the bad guy?

Speaker 1 Not me, but

Speaker 1 I feel like it's me.

Speaker 3 Did you schedule it?

Speaker 1 No, we booked the thing for the full day. Big Cow was like, I want to be done early, so in order to be done early, we've got to start recording early.
It's fine. Passing the buck there.

Speaker 1 No, that's a fact.

Speaker 1 I thought it would be probably a disaster because we have to go deep into New Jersey if we were trying to come back from New Jersey back into New York on a Friday afternoon at like 4 o'clock.

Speaker 1 I don't know how traffic works.

Speaker 3 Is traffic going into New York?

Speaker 1 I think no matter what. It's on a Friday afternoon, traffic sucks anywhere around New York.

Speaker 3 You know what? I promise I will not complain. Just give me until the end of the day to continue to complain to Hank.
That's all I need. I just need a vent for a little bit because 8 a.m.

Speaker 3 on a Friday is pretty early for me. So yes, I did call Hank a dirty son of a bitch and an asshole and a fucker.

Speaker 1 And I told Big Head to wear a suit. He said, I don't have one.

Speaker 1 That can't be true. Dude, I'm fat.
I've gotten, I haven't gone.

Speaker 1 We have a job where we wear sweatpants half the time. I don't wear nice clothes.
I don't own nice clothes.

Speaker 3 I also started to complain to Hank, and he was like, why are you so mad that you have to be up at 8? And I was like, well, I have band practice tonight.

Speaker 3 And then I realized, wait, I'm complaining about the fact that I get to have a band practice and then wake up and go to a cool job and do a music video shoot.

Speaker 1 It gave me some perspective for a great song that we've been holding out to. I'm very excited to go.
I haven't complained. The only thing I said was, I might not have a suit.

Speaker 1 I think I do, but you have to understand, I'm out of the range of going to weddings. I have a job that's a joke.
I don't dress up for anything. I have suit coats for a gambling show, and that's it.

Speaker 3 Does it have to be a normal suit? You don't have to wear a suit.

Speaker 1 What? You're a bank teller. Fuck.
It's his little, you know, Easter egg for the people.

Speaker 3 Who do I have to wear?

Speaker 1 I'm not going to say. I think you're our

Speaker 3 I think I'm your manager.

Speaker 1 Our costumes are there. The suits are not there.
I've been like, Big guy, we can get you a suit. Don't worry about it.
He's like, I'll do it. I'll do it.

Speaker 1 I'm very concerned that he's going to show up and be like, I forgot it. So I've been trying to.
Fine, get me a suit. Okay, thank you.
That makes it easier for me.

Speaker 3 I don't know my measurement. The song's fire, by the way.

Speaker 1 It's okay if it's a tight suit. That'd be funny.
Or

Speaker 1 I'm going to bring one of your suit coats and

Speaker 1 get you a shirt and tie. Okay.

Speaker 1 Sass doesn't have a suit either. Done.

Speaker 1 Obviously.

Speaker 3 Sass needs to wear the big-ass jacket.

Speaker 1 Sass and I are on two different ends of the suit life. Like, he's just entering suit life because he'll start having to go to weddings and stuff.
I've graduated from suit life.

Speaker 1 All right, PFT, your firefest.

Speaker 3 My firefest is.

Speaker 3 I like Duke basketball.

Speaker 1 Hell yeah. Hell yeah.
You don't. This is you're doing a troll.

Speaker 1 No, no, my team. You're doing a troll.

Speaker 3 I'm not. I'm saying my firefest is I like this team.

Speaker 1 This team is fun. I don't.

Speaker 3 This team is fun to watch and fun to root for them.

Speaker 1 You can watch one game. And they're fun.
No.

Speaker 3 And they are. No.
Paquette, you have to admit. No.

Speaker 1 This is like when you try to become a LeBron fan. No.

Speaker 1 Remember that? That lasted long.

Speaker 3 I couldn't bring myself to do that.

Speaker 1 All right, so you can't say anything mean about Duke. I will

Speaker 1 for the rest of the podcast listeners, the AWLs that expect consistency from this podcast, I will carry the torch. I will not let you down.

Speaker 3 I like their players. In fact, I think that their players are so good that Coach K would be on the hot seat if he didn't win a title with these players.

Speaker 3 He's coaching for his job. He is coaching for his job.
His hypothetical job.

Speaker 3 We need to update that as the year goes on because if Coach K does not win a title with this extremely talented team, this would go down as the worst job coaching that he ever did in his entire life.

Speaker 1 That's a fact.

Speaker 3 That's all I'm saying. That's how much I like these players.

Speaker 1 So you're saying

Speaker 1 they have to win the title for it to be a good season?

Speaker 3 I think they have to win the title this year for us to honestly look back at Coach Kay's career and say that he was a good coach. Yeah, I would agree with you.

Speaker 3 Because if you're that much better than everybody, it's like if

Speaker 3 you took the Lakers and tried to win a state of New York high school championship with a team and you didn't do that, you'd probably have to be the biggest idiot of a coach of all time, right?

Speaker 3 That's how good I think that this Duke team is between Kiel's.

Speaker 1 You've got Paolo.

Speaker 3 How do you say his last name? Bachero? Bancaro. Bancaro.
Paolo Bancaro.

Speaker 3 Wendell Moore looks good.

Speaker 1 The whole team looks awesome.

Speaker 1 Why didn't Coach K call on you for a question, Jake?

Speaker 5 Paul's my Firefest. Oh, shit.

Speaker 1 I'm sorry. Sorry, sorry.
Sorry. We'll get to it.
We'll get to it.

Speaker 3 So, yeah, my Firefest is like, I never thought that I would like Duke basketball, but they've gone and done it somehow. I just really hope Coach K doesn't screw it up.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 You hearing that, Hank? You better win it all.

Speaker 1 We will. You better win it all.
All right, my Firefest is I had

Speaker 1 another whoa. I'm fucking old moment.
I had my first ever parent-teacher conference as a parent, so that was fucked.

Speaker 3 How did it go?

Speaker 1 It was, I mean, my kids, my son's two and a half, so they were like, yeah, he likes everything.

Speaker 3 How's his coloring?

Speaker 1 He likes dancing and playing, and he poops his pants. So, yeah.

Speaker 1 Chip off the old block, baby. That's good.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 1 But yeah, it was definitely a weird moment to be like, oh, fuck. I'm on the other side of this thing.
Billy.

Speaker 6 I just got flashbacks from parent-teacher conferences.

Speaker 1 Oh, also, we should have just said, I don't know why we haven't just, like, thank you for your service.

Speaker 6 Yeah, no, that's my Fire Fest. So I was coming to work today.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's really funny.

Speaker 1 You're also going viral right now.

Speaker 6 I know. We're taking service.

Speaker 1 Yeah, stand up for his fire fest. Stop.
Stop. Jesus.

Speaker 6 Take a guy's service. Okay, so

Speaker 6 I was going to work today, and some dude on the street AWL says thank you for your service to me and then everyone on the train Thought that I was like actually

Speaker 3 so you are this joke has gone way too far. Did a woman get up and offer you hot seats?

Speaker 1 No, no, it was not for no it's gone way too far.

Speaker 3 We still have a way

Speaker 6 when everyone asked me thank you for your service. I'm just like fuck like Here I am getting all these thanks when actual veterans should be getting thanks.

Speaker 1 Well, no, you are you're a veteran of many things. Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, yes. The atomic challenge.

Speaker 6 Yes, but no, but like, not cool.

Speaker 3 You actually, you lead the fight to fight for veterans' appreciation.

Speaker 6 I will never wear camo again. I used to wear camo.
How are we going to be able to tell?

Speaker 1 Where

Speaker 6 you know how people wear like their team's favorite jersey to like show support?

Speaker 3 Yeah, no one wears a wash.

Speaker 6 That's what I was doing with camo to show support.

Speaker 1 For the troops. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Putting on their uniform. Yeah.

Speaker 3 And referring to yourselves as like like we, how some people talk about their favorite teams.

Speaker 1 What's your dozen's team name?

Speaker 3 I think they're the...

Speaker 3 What are they? The troops?

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And it's you and

Speaker 1 Chaps and Kate who are Marines and you're also a Marine? I'm not a Marine. Happy birthday, by the way.
That's funny.

Speaker 6 But yeah, so

Speaker 1 that will dog you. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Simper five, Billy. Yeah, so.
Do or die.

Speaker 1 Mm-hmm. Tip of the spear.

Speaker 6 No, but it was really awkward because there was an actual group of veterans going to like some parade

Speaker 3 to the shores of Tripoli. So

Speaker 6 when someone said, Thank you for your service, and they looked over at me.

Speaker 1 I was just like, and they all knew at that moment that they saw a war hero. No, they were like, who the fuck is this guy?

Speaker 3 The funny thing is that Billy has a thousand-yard stare, but has never been in combat. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's just your

Speaker 1 official

Speaker 1 Jose.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah, it's your war mode. Yeah,

Speaker 1 you have been in war.

Speaker 6 Seen some shit. Yeah, you have to.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it like Jose crumpling to the ground and holding his shit?

Speaker 3 I'm more scarred by training.

Speaker 6 Training was really crazy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's true. Basic training? Basically, basically, warm out.

Speaker 1 All right, Jake, you're Fire Fest.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I had a great night at the Champions Classic covering it.

Speaker 5 First time watching live basketball since COVID.

Speaker 5 Had my hand raised for the Coach K press conference.

Speaker 1 Didn't get called on. What were you going to ask him?

Speaker 5 I was going to ask him about

Speaker 5 how special it is to play at Madison Square Guard.

Speaker 1 That's a good question.

Speaker 5 You assured he would have been 34 and 11 there.

Speaker 3 We didn't get to hear his answer. Nope.

Speaker 1 What do you think his answer would have been?

Speaker 5 Probably something cliche.

Speaker 3 It would have been, can you speak up?

Speaker 1 Talk. Annunciation.

Speaker 5 Big cat wanted me to ask about?

Speaker 5 You just said it would be good for the podcast.

Speaker 1 Oh, well, I meant to offer you money.

Speaker 1 Would you have done it for more? I offered him shame. So I should have.

Speaker 1 How much money would you have done it for?

Speaker 1 Million dollars? Million. Cash.
Million, yes. Okay.
I don't have that, but I, you know, cash. But I, we could.
All right, so.

Speaker 3 You did get to talk to Coach Cali Calipari.

Speaker 5 I did get to talk to Coach Calipari.

Speaker 3 Last question: Who admonished you?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 You got admonished.

Speaker 1 Scolded you. No.
Oh, yeah. He was like, there was a little admonishment.

Speaker 5 Well, I said it's potentially your last game to leave the door open for a tournament meeting. So he's like, yeah.
Or he's like, no, no.

Speaker 1 We want to play them one more time. I'm like, that's why I said that.
And the entire team.

Speaker 3 Okay, so you said potentially.

Speaker 1 I said he didn't hear that part. Got it.
Maybe not. So you were admonished for not speaking up.

Speaker 5 I don't know. We got a good story about him and the coaches rallying together and buying him bourbon.

Speaker 1 Coach K? Yes. Nice.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 Okay. That was fun.
Check out our vlog, Barcelona Bench Mom once addicted to whiskey.

Speaker 1 I don't know. All right.
Good Firefest and also good job, Jake. It was great to see you out there.
We needed to get you to more sporting events credentialed. Yeah, I would love to.
Yes. Jake also.

Speaker 1 We're calling games. We're calling games.

Speaker 3 There's one other thing. I can't believe that we didn't talk about this on Wednesday, but friend of the program, do you see Dan Bilzerian got in some trouble? Oh, no.

Speaker 3 So he got his watch stolen from him at the Canelo fight. He claims.

Speaker 1 I'm gonna put him on my hot seat, but he claims.

Speaker 3 This is the funniest thing ever. Dan Bilzerian was like, yeah, somebody stole my million-dollar watch at this fight.
So I'm gonna put up a $50,000 reward to anyone who can come forward with it.

Speaker 3 Great job by Dan to be like, either one, you get to flex on everybody and say, I had a million dollar watch, which is, in my opinion, not real, but he gets to get his name in the press being like, wow, Dan Bilzerian can afford a million-dollar watch, or worst case scenario, somebody sells you a million-dollar watch for $50,000 if they come forward with it.

Speaker 3 Yes, Dan Bilzerian, king intellect, 100 IQ, amazing guy. Great job, Dan.
Billy,

Speaker 1 no, I'm saying Dan Bilzerian, you and him serve together, right?

Speaker 6 We probably went through the exact same amount of SEALs training.

Speaker 1 All right, Billy, wrap us up.

Speaker 1 Scooby-Doo is a great dane.

Speaker 1 Okay, 89, sure. Numbers, 97.
All numbers are in there. 37.
96.

Speaker 5 18.

Speaker 3 97.

Speaker 1 888.

Speaker 1 23, MJ.

Speaker 3 Love you guys.

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Speaker 1 I'm all designed.

Speaker 1 But we stole a little way.

Speaker 1 Slowly learning that life is okay.

Speaker 1 Say after me.

Speaker 1 It's no better to be safe than sorry.

Speaker 1 Take

Speaker 1 on

Speaker 1 me.

Speaker 1 Take

Speaker 1 me

Speaker 1 I'll be

Speaker 1 gone.