Josh Allen + Bills OC Brian Daboll, Grit Week Finale, WingNutz Creator Ed + Mt Rushmore Of Hotel Moves

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Welcome to a part of my take presented by Coors Light. Today is Friday, August 20th, and we are recording in a very special location.
We are at the Knights of Columbus on Kenmore Ave in Buffalo, New York at Wingnuts, our official favorite wing place of all time. It is Grit Week finale.
We still have a couple interviews coming up next week that we filmed but grit week finale we are here we're sitting at a table where we just ordered 100 wings boys how are we feeling i'm feeling great i woke up this morning thinking about chicken wings still and i had the thought uh as i was getting ready packing my bags i wonder if i wonder if it's a crazy move to come back to today. So we were out in Orchard Park talking to Josh Allen, Brian Dable, Mitch Trubisky.
And afterwards, we were like, where are we going to go? There's a great wing place right nearby. But we figured, you know what? Like, it's calling us.
Yes. When are we going to come back to Wing Nuts next time? I didn't want to leave the city of Buffalo without having it a second time.
The city of Buffalo is the greatest place on earth.

We went to the meet and greet yesterday.

It was like two and a half hours straight of meeting people, taking pictures, and it was awesome.

And I don't know what it is about Buffalo, something special.

It must be in the wing sauce, but there's just something special about the people here,

and it's so much fun to be here.

A great finale for a great week.

I think we all still a little bit like you know we're on the road everyone feeling okay road life i'm feeling great yeah we're at the studio till like 1 a.m i slept on the bus i'm feeling i'm feeling gritty as hell yeah studio so yeah we went uh to we did the whole buffalo because we did it's like that's how native americans used to do it yeah we did everything every part we we took every part of buffalo we did the wings we did josh allen we did bill's camp and then we recorded a new track with benny the butcher in the studio which will be out in a couple weeks that yeah there was a moment where i was like i should have been in bed three hours ago but i'm here recording a song with benny the butcher this fucking rules benny the butcher is Buffalo.'s the nicest guy in the world we sat down we recorded we got to see him do his entire creative process which was him coming to the studio listen to the track which i was a little bit nervous about that because like we just came in with a track that me and arian put together and did not have any idea if it was going to be something that he would vibe with he walked into the engineer's's room. Five seconds, he's like, yeah, I can fuck with this.
And that's all that he needs. So he takes like five seconds to hear the track, sits down, writes it in his head, steps into the booth, like 30 seconds, and he's done.
Absolutely nails it. Everybody's like, holy shit, we just, this is better than watching Picasso paint.
And then we're like, who's next? And then Big Cat has to follow up and he's a butcher.

It sucked listening to his flow.

And then I have negative flow.

But it was an incredible experience.

Sass and Roan on the track as well.

Two people not on the track because we care about Jake and Billy.

So there was a dog in the studio.

That's why we didn't bring Jake.

And Billy, if we walked into a studio to record a rap song, everyone would be like, who brought the cop? So we didn't bring Billy. What did you – so Jake and Billy were the only two who were left behind and they went on a date last night? You guys went on a date in Buffalo.
Yeah, we went to a bar, had some nice Coors Lights, Mountains Were Blue. Okay.
Grabbed some sandwiches and it was a good time. Anything Anything remarkable? Any wing challenges that Billy failed at? No, we did some Rubens, some really good Rubens.
It was a great time. Okay.
So when we told the people at the Bills Stadium where you guys went, they just immediately laughed. They were like, yeah, that's where we used to go when we were 17 years old.
Uh-oh. Where'd you guys go? It was just like a high school bar? It's a place called J.P.
Fitzgerald's. Oh, nice.
Yeah. Nice.
We've got us Tyler at the bar. Do they have flair on the wall? No.
Like waiting? What is that? Yeah, the movie Waiting? Yeah. Shenanigans? Shenanigans, yeah.
You have to have a minimum like 12 pieces of flair. It was just Austin some Major League Baseball on a Wednesday night.
Oh, that's great. We were watching the Yankees game.
You were watching the Yankees game? Wow. So, wait.
This morning, so I think the reason Big Cat brought it up was because this morning you guys were like, boy, do we have a story to tell you. You were giggling.
That was Billy hyping it up. Billy was, yeah, so tell me, like, what? Well, you guys had a lot of fun last night.
We wanted to show you guys we had a little fun, too. What did you guys talk about? We just talked about, like, goals.
How we got here. Guess what? Let's talk about goals.
What goal did you share, Jake? I mean, we all have goals. Yeah.
Give it to us. We sure do.
I would imagine Jake's like, my goal is Sunday night football, broadcasting Sunday night football, and Billy's like, I just want to squat 350. Pretty much along those lines.
Jake's like, I want my mom to be proud of me. Billy's like, I want the biggest frog.
Yeah. Jake's like, I want to be able to broadcast my alma mater in a basketball game, go to the Dome, Syracuse, a coming home moment.
And Billy's like, I just want to figure out the right mix of creatine and whey powder so that I don't get the bloat. Did we nail it? Did we just have the problem? You did miss a great dog last night, though.
Yeah. Benny the Butcher's dog.
It's like a nine-week-old golden doodle, and his name's Sawyer. And he made sure to tell us it's not like Tom Sawyer.
It's named after the gun. Sig Sawyer.
Sig Sawyer. So, yeah.
He's got a dog named after a gun. Yep.
It is actually funny finding ourselves in those situations once every couple years where we're in a studio with professional professional engineers professional producers and maybe the best rapper alive little sass and benny yes uh and then roan who's really good and then me and big cat just parachute in once every two years and we're like yeah we're rappers for the day so bad my flow is so bad i think it's going to end up being a really good song crisis of confidence every time i have to get in front of a mic in a rap studio. I'm not a drug guy, but it would have been disrespectful for me to not partake in the party favors.
And you're still high. I'm still high.
A little bit. A little bit.
I can tell your brain hasn't turned on fully. So I was talking to one of his guys, and they were talking about going out to California and hanging out with Snoop and how they smoked with Snoop.
And I was like, I've heard that his stuff is really good. He gives it to people, basically to alpha them, to knock them out and be like, look, I'm Snoop.
I'm still your dad. And he was like, nah, it was just as good as ours.
So whatever I had last night, yeah. Hell yes.
Good percentage that I am not fit to operate heavy machinery. Buffalo.
All right. So anything in the sports world? The only thing I had two stories that we could touch on.
One is Max Kellerman is out. So officially, like Stephen A.
Smith, I think Skip officially has won this breakup because Stephen A. Smith is now moving on from the rebound.
It was a five-year rebound or whatever. Yeah, they were both rebound situations.
But I think that Shannon has actually grown into being like, you know, like Skip's keeping him around for a little bit. Like, I don't mind this yeah i listened to the undisputed podcast the other day love him on fs1 uh he's the man it was actually a really entertaining show yeah i actually downloaded the podcast and i was like this is good i'm into it so i think that cma smith is basically like now he's moved on to getting into a battle with mike greenberg over like whose man's is espn who's Batman, who's Robin over there.
So they're getting rid of Kellerman, and it's going to be, I guess, just a rotating- They're not getting rid of him though, right? Well, no, they're moving him on to the greenie slot in the morning on the radio show. Yeah.
But it's just going to be like a rotating cast of characters for Stephen D. Smith to just like step up and mow down verbally.
He's just going to dominate everyone. Come in, come everyone.
It's like almost an ESPN hazing, which they do also. It's cannon fodder.
Whoever the new guy is, it's like get abused and dominated by Stephen A. Smith, put down the dog whisperer with his hand on your neck on live television.
So, yeah, I don't know who they're going to fill it up with. I really don't.
They need not he's not skipped a beat no pun intended but he I saw this morning he was up at 2am and he was tweeting and Instagramming at LeBron saying I'm up at 2am about to get my first workout and where you at LeBron well Skip's also on tilt from the whole Urban Meyer doing the Wesley Snipes to New Jack City it's week. Yeah, yeah.
And then the other one was Andy Dalton saying that it's his time now. So that's a nice guy.
Nice guy, Andy Dalton. It's his time.
I still can't believe he said that, but whatever. You have to say it, though.
What do you expect him to say? Well, what the Bears did is the exact same thing. Justin feels better than me? They did the exact same thing with Mitch.

Mike Glennon, yeah.

Yeah, where they're like, hey, we're going to get you in

because we want you to be the starter.

So he has to at least pretend like he's still the starter for a while

and then hope it all works out after the fact.

But yeah, you're right.

He's a nice guy.

He's a nice guy.

Great guy.

Nothing bad to say about Andy Dalton.

Nice guy.

Great week veteran.

I wish him the best possible outcome as a backup quarterback.

Nice guy.

It's also trying to figure out, it's the second to last week of the preseason.

Is this dress rehearsal week?

I think, well, so we were just interviewing Josh Allen and Brian Dable.

Josh is not playing in the game on Saturday, so I don't know if it is.

Yeah, but I also think that's the Mitch move where it's like,

this is revenge game for Mitch. We want him to play play against the bear but i think that i think dress rehearsal might be gone we i'm so confused by it yeah because maybe three they're not going to play probably maybe the first half we need someone who's really good at fractions to figure out like what does three quarters of three games translate into like 75 percent of three games i think it's like the first half of week three yes might be dress rehearsal yeah so it's it is very uh these are the dumbest things that we think about spend our time thinking about but they happen yeah it's very important um all right anything some people walking in you didn't even explain I did coming here yesterday oh yeah why we came here yeah so yesterday wenuts.
Well, we're going to get Ed in here in a second. So we'll do that.
Is there anything else story-wise before we get Ed on? The football teams narrowed it down to, I guess, three finalists, but they released a list of eight finalists. So it's amongst the Armada, the Brigade, the Commanders, the Defenders, the Presidents, the Red Hogs, the Red Wolves, and then the Washington football team.
That was a lot of names. Just keep it football.
So if they make the playoffs, it has to stay football team. Hank's shaking his head no because you don't understand that we're a football team and we play football.
Keep the football team. Teams need mascots.
I'm okay with the kids. I like Red Hogs.
I like Red Wolves. I also think that they might just say this is a fake, and bring back Sentinels.
I think they like Sentinels for some reason. I think they should go Bullets.
Bullets? I'm down. And the only other thing was Billy's wing video that was the most disappointing video of all time.
How's your butt? And I was also chipping myself to death during it. I'll save it for my Fyre Fest.
Okay Okay, alright, perfect. Any other sports stories? Yankees are

back, all the way back.

I wasn't able to watch. We're at the studio, so I didn't

get to watch, so I haven't given him my full attention yet, so

that probably had something to do with it. Yeah, also an

early who's back, Rasheed Wallace.

Yes, yes. He joined Penny Hardaway

staff, and he's reuniting with Larry Brown.

They're both assistants. Yes.
Of course, there's Pistons.

Larry Brown's on that team, too.

He just got hired this offseason, too.

That's crazy. So that bench is crazy, and they just got a number two recruit,

Jalen Duren, so

So, with assistance. Yes.
Of course, those Pistons teams. Larry Brown's on that team, too.
He just got hired this offseason, too. That's crazy.
So that bench is crazy. And they just got a number two recruit, Jalen Duren.
So they're relevant again. Larry Brown's definitely a Jim Calhoun guy who retires to go coach more basketball.
Yes. He's never going to not coach basketball.
He's an advisor that slowly just sneaks his way into the bench, and then next thing you know, he's coaching the team. But if you're a kid, why would you say no to going to play for penny hardaway and rasheed wallace it'd be awesome she'd wallace the man it would be incredible um all right i think that's i think that's all the stories i mean i'm trying to think if there's anything else there's i mean there's we've been on the road we're going to get to our fire fest we're going to get to our mount rushmore Anything else that we can think of that, Billy? Only Fans is taking off explicit content.
Oh, no. Which is sort of like McDonald's.
Stop selling burgers. Damn.
That's a good analogy, Billy. Damn.
I like that. Thank you for speaking in my terms.
Mm-hmm. That sucks.
How much money is your Only Fans a month, Billy? I shut it down. Oh.
Billy Feetball. No, I was saying how much are your subscriptions? Yeah.
Oh, no are you just like well so it said like sexually explicit content right so i don't think that nudes are always sexually explicit they can be beautiful listen what so where does the line get drawn between like a a painting of a french girl done by jack from titanic and then just like hardcore pornography where's that line because you could have tasteful nudes on OnlyFans. Yeah.
It's also just, I mean, anytime they try to take porn off of the internet, it's like that's what the internet was, the driving engine behind the internet is porn. Yeah.
It is. It's like trying to shovel a driveway in Antarctica.
Yeah. You can't, like this is what it is.
If you took all the porn off the internet, people would just not be on the internet anymore. Do you think it would be like verbal meme if the world didn't have porn and it's the city of the future? Yes, absolutely.
Now we're sounding like Josh McCown. That's true.
You could take off in Omaha and land in where? I think it was he took off to Detroit and they said, we're in Omaha. Like, what? We're not supposed to be here.
That's what happens when you go down a rabbit hole of porn. I'll tell you this.
Somebody that spends time out of their day going to film an anti-porn PSA watches a shitload of porn. Yes, yes.
They're overcompensating for something. If you don't watch porn, you don't go around telling people, hi, hey, my name's PFT.
I don't watch porn. Yeah.
Yeah. Okay.
Sure. You don't watch porn.
Not okay sure you don't watch porn not a porn guy not horny not a porn guy um all right let's get uh let's try to get ed on and then we're gonna have uh josh allen and brian dable on the show um again we we tape we have a couple extra grit week interviews coming next week so we have mitch coming on monday and then ryan fitzpatrick on wednesday so it's a little like grit week but it's it's the – Overflow. Yeah, after the credits roll, and then you sit in the theater, and it's like the funniest moments came after.
Sometimes that's the best stuff. I don't think that there was any real rhyme or reason to what order – whether we decided to go with Rivera first or Fitzy first, because I think they're both great interviews.
Yeah, no, they're all great. So, yeah, it's going to be amazing.
Should we get Alicia too? I think it's only two of them, so they got to work the way.

Yeah, gotcha.

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Okay, actual breaking moves. It's breaking moves.
There has yep. Okay.
We're going. That's great.
There's been a cow born named Baby Ben with a seven on his head. That's Hank is giving me the CAP look That's Baby Ben That's Baby Ben But don't call Ben a cow But that is Baby Ben I'm not throwing out the hat flag You know what, yeah I feel like it's something I've seen before That's like that's like a repurposed or repurposed.
Oh, that might be a repurposed thing. Something that's been out there that just gets thrown back.
It's new to me. That's what I'm saying.
It's new to me. It's new to me.
It's new to me. I don't think that Reddit would repurpose something.
It's new to me. No hat detected.
I love it. Yeah.
Jake, you want to give us one? No cap. Oh, yeah.
You guys asked me to. Yeah, I know, but it still hurts.
I'm beginning to see the other side of the table. Thank you.
When I would say things and you guys would hear it, I'm going through that same experience right now with Jake. It's like a deep in your belly you feel it when someone throws out.
It's like the people that don't have empathy for a situation until they go through it themselves. That's what I'm experiencing right now.
So now you understand Hank, Liam, and Billy hasn't even been listening. But Hank, Liam, and I have been going through this for a very long time.
The rest of the world. Yes, and the rest of the world.
Okay, we got our guy Ed here. So a little back story.
So yesterday we were in Buffalo. A listener, Joe, tipped me off to this place called Wingnuts.
We walked in. It's in a Knights of Columbus, so it's not even a restaurant.
It's a kitchen in the Knights of Columbus. We walked in.
At first, we're like, we're in the wrong place. This isn't a restaurant.
This isn't a place that we should be. Then we walked in the door, and we're like, no, this is the greatest place on earth.
We're here. And we got a bunch of wings.
We started talking to our guy, Ed. Ed and his wife, Alicia, run wing nuts, and we woke up this morning and said we got to come back, so we're taping the podcast at the Knights of Columbus at wing nuts, and we figured we have to get Ed on for five minutes to explain to us how he created the greatest wing that we've ever had.
okay well uh back in 05 my wife and i went out for wings and they were terrible and we were driving home and we're like how can we live in buffalo the capital of the world for chicken wings and have them be this bad so we decided to identify the the problems and start working on them. And we identified three problems, size, sauciness, and crunch.
And we thought if we could get that into a wing, we'd have a product. So we started with a little tabletop deep fryer in our basement and we threw in two wings and we tried them.
Oh were terrible we threw them away and we tried two more and oh they were horrible we threw them away and we did this over and over for a year finally we hit the texture that we serve now and in doing so we were creating the sauces and then when we were, we decided to try them out on some of our friends. So we had two or three people over to our house on a Friday night.
That turned into 23 people over to our house on a Friday night. And we ended up busting out of our basement and ended up in the backyard.
so we had people come to us and ask, if I do a party, would you guys make wings for it? And we're like, yeah. So we ended up getting a restaurant-sized deep fryer.
And instead of doing drop-off catering, we actually took the fryer with us to every single party and cooked the wings on the spot sometimes it was upwards of 800 in a day and it was very successful people kept asking us all over if we would do this and we did bunch parties but we couldn't do anything in the winter so we ended up doing this for nine summers and then some guy came up to us and said i had your food at one of the winter. So we ended up doing this for nine summers.
And then some guy came up to us and said, I had your food at one of the parties. I'm buying a bar and I'd like you and your wife to work for me, make the wingnuts wings in the wingnuts name in exchange for bringing people in.
And we said, yes. And we worked there for 10 months and it was over.
The job ended and he moved or something. But a few months later, we are driving by the Knights of Columbus one day and the sign outside said kitchen for rent.
So we turned around and we got an interview and we asked them, aside from renting the kitchen, can we rent this room too? And now we have a dining room and we've been here for three years now. Incredible.
And so you were thinking about maybe expanding a little bit over the last couple years. I guess COVID was tough on the business.
I know you guys can't even do the gravy now or the beef because of the prices and things like that. Right.
But you guys were about to expand, and you know what? You can't do it just yet. But you're still looking maybe in the future.
Oh, yes. That's the goal.
We do want to get out of here. Even though this is like, it's incredible to walk in here because it felt like it's just a unique experience.
Well, Alicia and I are very quality based. All of our food has to be top notch or it doesn't go on the menu.
Now, you guys know what the wings are like. But her and I have a whole bunch of recipes that are just that good oh man the problem is we don't have the equipment in the kitchen or the storage or the refrigeration or any of that stuff to be able to do them all so all of our recipes sit in a folder in our dresser drawer at home waiting for the day when we have an actual real kitchen and a real restaurant i love it i love the the story behind it because i told you this yesterday that's a quote from gandhi is be the change you want to see in the world and you took that and applied it to wings yep and you did a hell of a job they're amazing they are honestly the best chicken wings i've ever had in my life and i've eaten probably thousands tens of thousands.
They're the best. They're as advertised.
And we just got back from talking to Josh Allen. We went out there.
We told him, you got to try wing nuts. So he's going to come.
I don't know. Like he didn't give us a timeframe.
He's going to come by. He's going to try your wings.
Yes. And yeah.
And if he loves them, he's going to keep coming back. He's going to tell the bills too.
My prayer is that we're not sold out when he walks in. Yes, that's true.
So we came here. We posted about it.
I hope that didn't get a bunch of people, like too many people coming here. But we loved it.
We loved it. After you folks, we're already sold out today.
Really? And it's like 2 o'clock. That's incredible.
So let's end with this.

The Bills this year.

How are we feeling?

So you told us yesterday your whole story.

Lifelong Buffalo guy.

Bills through and through.

Yep.

Is this the year?

Yep.

Okay.

Done.

Yeah.

I mean, Josh, if you can hear this, I've loved the Bills my whole life,

and you are the man.

I mean, like I said, I was at the very first game I ever played in Rich Stadium Yeah And it was wonderful And I have been a fan I played high school football So, I mean, football's king There's no doubt about it Football is king Yes Yes And so that's the deal I just won Super Bowl, you know I mean, watching four in a row go down, I was just so heartbroken. And the fourth one, were you like, it's over? Yeah, you knew right away.
Yeah. But it was the first one that killed me the most because it was on my birthday.
Yeah. Yeah, your birthday week.
And, you know, everybody in this city thought they were going to win it. Yeah.
Did you watch the 30 for 30 that they produced, ESPN?

Yeah, the one with the Super Bowl?

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Was that hard to relive it?

Although, I mean, it's one of those things.

Maybe, obviously, you didn't win a Super Bowl, but enough years have passed where it's like,

that was an incredible run.

Oh, you know, there are more Buffalo Bills from that four Super Bowl run in the Hall of Fame than any other team that never won a Super Bowl. Yeah, yeah.
Okay, and I couldn't be more proud of that team. I love Jim Kelly and all those people, saw them play live hundreds of times.
Just, you know, I went to games all the time back then. Yeah.
And I was at the very first game, Cornelius Bennett came out wearing 55, and you couldn't believe how fast that guy was yeah do you have a uh do you have a favorite bills moment of all time i have a favorite bills game okay the uh oakland raider afc championship game that was the their shining moment that game in that 30 for 30 they had a bunch of clips from it. It was like a perfect cold Buffalo day and looked like the biggest party of all time in the stands.
And there was no team in the league that was going to beat Buffalo that day. Yeah.
The way Jim Kelly geared the no-huddle offense, I would love to see Josh do that. Because he's got everything he needs to just walk right through defenses like they're not even there.
So that's what we need to do. We need to get home field advantage for the Bills this year, get them in the playoffs all the way out.
Have some snow games, some snow football in Buffalo, and then we'll have you cater the AFC Championship game after party. My goal for Wignuts would be 30-foot semis to the Super Bowlis to the Superbowl.
Oh, there we go. That's been the dream for a long time.
Well, Ed, you're the best. We really, I mean, we're back a second day in a row and hopefully we'll get something going with Josh.
And we'll, we'll, I want to see Ed and Alicia wing nuts to the moon because it's that good. I appreciate it, guys.
You guys are the best and go Bills. Yes, go Bills.
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It is Grit Week 2021. We're brought to you by Coors Light.
We have five-time Super Bowl champ and national champion offensive coordinator for the Buffalo Bills, Brian Dable. And then we have MVP of the famous Potato Bowl, Josh Allen.
You might have heard of him. So thank you guys for joining us.
We start every interview on Grit Week with the same question. By the way, you'll hear practice in the background.
They're like hitting sleds. It's very gritty.
But let's start with you, Coach. Sure.
What does grit mean to you? I'd say that guys that never give in, have a lot of toughness, probably have faced some adversity in their life or failure on a practice field and really didn't let failure define them, but more refine them, if you will, which I think we've got a lot of guys here that kind of define that word. Okay, and Josh? I'm going to one up you.
Buffalo. Yeah.
There we go. There we go.
Yes. Yes.
A few words. Yeah, that's simple, but I like it.
You were talking about not letting failure define you. What if you failed so much on the football field that you decide to start a podcast instead talking about football? Well, if I was making what you guys make, that might be okay.
Yeah, it's true. 82K an episode, no big deal.
No doubt about it. I could see if you were a kicker maybe and you tried it out and made a couple field goals but maybe didn didn't make the team.
Podcast would be probably where you see it. With the one eye, right? The one face mask deal.
Yeah, those who can't kick podcasts. Yeah, yeah.
I've heard that before. That needs to be a t-shirt.
Actually, when I say it out loud, that's really depressing. So we have coached Abel for about 15 minutes.
Then people are probably like, why haven't we brought up Josh Allen owing us $15 million? We're going to get to that. But, Coach, so you have coached under some incredible guys, Saban and Belichick, a bunch of different coaching trees.
Sure. Who's funnier, Belichick or Saban? They're both a little different.
I'd say Bill's kind of dry humor. Nick will get you some zingers in there.
I'd say Nick definitely dresses better than Bill. That's probably the big difference between the two.
But both awesome coaches. Grateful I had the opportunity to work for him.
Bill's dry humor though. He does great impressions of both.
Can we get a Saban? Honestly, if you did a Nick Saban impression right now and it went viral, would he kill you? No, I don't don't think he would but I'll uh I mean this guy's more the impression guy so I'll leave that to him uh but serious question about Belichick so you went you were at the Patriots then you went with Mangini yep so you were basically Fredo you like went against the family and then you went back to Belichick yeah how did that conversation happen when you were welcomed back into the family? Yeah, I mean, Bill's great. He had an opportunity to talk to him kind of when it went down in terms of Kansas City and had a good conversation with him.
He's the best, man. He's a mentor of mine.
He's been awesome. He called me and said, what do you think? And I said, yeah, that'd be a good deal okay so last Belichick question so when you're coaching against him yeah you're coaching offense he's he's has his hands in defense do you ever psych yourself out you're like he thinks I'm gonna do this so I'm gonna do this but then he knows I know that he knows that yeah big I think that's pretty that's pretty good yeah okay that happens sometimes you know I think that whether it's or either other guys you work with, you're always sitting there and game planning and thinking, shit, they're going to do this.
No, let's do this. Yeah, he knows what I think I'm going to react, so now I've got to do the other thing.
But he also knows that's how I'm going to react. Exactly right.
All right, I'm already in. It's like Coach Klein from Waterboy.
Yeah. You give to the running.
No, you fake. Yeah.
You fake, fake to the running back. Yes.
That's how I, yeah, I'd just be paralyzed and never get the play call in. So one thing I love about your offense is, well, I mean, especially like the Hail Marys to the fullbacks.
I love those plays whenever you incorporate those. Appreciate that.
I'd like to encourage you to run more of them. But you do use a fullback.
That was a long night. He called and said, hey, can we get this in? I said, sure, that's what you want.
So, yeah. But I do love that you use a fullback because I feel like it's gone to a point in football where uh so many teams have said we're never going to have a fullback on our team and defensive defenses have kind of like adjusted to that a little bit so if you do have more of a smash mouth element you do get a competitive advantage at times um as a fan of the fullback position can you share with me what makes you love that so much? Well, it gives you another lead blocker, and then sometimes it puts defenses into base defense, if you will.
So if you're evaluating, let's just say you're evaluating Team B, you're getting ready to play them, and they have a fewer amount of calls in base defense, maybe that helps the quarterback out. Look, everything we do is to try to help this guy out.
So if that's the case that's that's a good deal for us but fullbacks you're right you know you look at these college you're in college and you're recruiting and you're doing all these things they're a dying breed there's not many of them out there not many little kids in peewee football say i want to be a fullback anymore yeah you know it's gritty are you gonna run uh more cd formation this year yeah yeah you you're not getting me on that one. That might be good.
Josh texted me last night. He's like, we've got to get coached with some bofas and some CD nuts.
No, no. All right, we'll have to figure out something else.
Your boy Johnny Ligma tried to get me on that. Big Cat brought up Belichick and Saban.
There's also Tony Sperano. So we were a big fan of the wildcat formation when it came out i've always thought that uh just the name wildcat made it catch on way more than it would have if it was called something stupid but like hearing wildcat it was like oh i want to try to run that um when when you were working with him i think that was passed when when that was i got there after yeah i got there after with it when they had ronnie brown and those guys but uh.
Sorry. I was just going to say, did he ever, like, look at you, like, maybe just put one wildcat play in this weekend? Yeah.
No, Tony was the best. God rest his soul.
He was an awesome man. I'll tell you, there's a little carnival up here.
It's kind of big. It's a little church carnival.
There's a lot of people that go to it, you know, beer tent and little things like that, you know, high you know high school reunion from probably 1970 to 2010 right so he comes up and visits me in the summer he's like let me go to he's got this dry voice let me go to this carnival with you

so I bring him to the carnival and you know it's a bunch of people from from Buffalo my hometown

some towns around there and no one really knows who he is and he had a great time right so we're

in a pre-season game and I'd call a play and he'd be like time, right? So we're in a preseason game.

And I'd call a play, and he'd be like, eh.

Like, you don't want that, Tony?

Like, I'll do something different.

No, go ahead.

It hit.

Maybe we'd catch it and run 10 yards.

He wouldn't say anything.

I'd call it again.

Eh.

Minus two.

I knew that was going to happen.

So we hit another one. And he gives me an eh, and we score.

I think it was to Reggie. And I'm on the field, you know, the field you know screaming yeah yeah yeah and he knows I was kind of giving it back and he goes hey Dave's I'm not one of your Q of H buddies you know like like he was at this deal so he was a great guy man so I miss him a lot um all right so Josh we we always talk to you about uh you know your play it's so electric, but you usually have once a game the smash every button play where it's like you avoid a sack, you're like falling down, you're throwing the ball.
So I want from your perspective what's going through your head, and then I want from coach's perspective what's going through your head when that play comes out. Well, really my perspective is just try to make a play.
Like, again, when I get in those situations where I'm 10 yards behind the line of scrimmage I'm like I can't take a sack here like I gotta do whatever I can to get out of this so that's really the whole main thing behind it like I'm just trying not to put ourself in a negative situation and you know what they say negative times a negative is positive so that's that's kind of my mindset wait. I'm trying to do the math real quick.

Negative times a negative.

It's positive.

So if you're having a really shitty play, if you do something even shittier,

it'll usually turn out to be good.

Exactly.

That makes sense.

It works out most of the time.

Yeah.

I got full confidence in him.

So, look, there's going to be some of those plays, and that's what really makes him a good player too. He'll have a bad one, and he knows it probably early in his career.
I got a little bit more frustrated with him when we were first starting out. He's in field goal range.
He gets a sack. I'm screaming at him before the plays even over.
He's looking up at me underneath the pile. But part of what makes him a really good football is he's instinctive.
I would never want to take that away from him. Sometimes there's going to be some bad plays in there.
How do we respond and rebound? He knows I've got a lot of faith and confidence in him. He makes the right decision most of the time.
How has Phillip been? No. You guys are good.
Right back to back, that's good. You've got to come stronger than that, fellas.
What the hell? You sound like all the guys on a team because when he walks around outside on the practice field, I mean, no one's even talking to him. So I'm not even going to try with Imagine Dragons.
Keep them rolling. We'll give you some good ones when we get out of here.
Up your game a little bit. I did read that you were Brett Favre's quarterback coach for a while.

What's that like?

Awesome.

Being Brett Favre's quarterback coach, are you just like,

can you just throw one fewer interception in a game and we'll be good?

So, what are you hitting me for?

What do you want to do?

Oh, no, I don't want to tell that one.

No, he was awesome.

It was a brand- new system for him right

so he had played in the west coast with with mike and all those guys and you know mike t trades for

him we get him at at the jets and i'm sitting there with him every going through he's like hey

you got to translate some of these for me the west coast i didn't have no idea about the west

coast so he getting means finally he picked it up and he was good with it he only wanted about he's

like dad he called me dabs dabs we don't need like 50 plays just give me these six i'll make it work

Thank you. getting in meetings finally he picked it up and he was good with it he only wanted about he's like dad he called me dabs dabs we don't need like 50 plays just give me these six i'll make it work so finally he got it he'd be in he'd be in our meetings he'd go all right and i was a quarterback coach he's like let's do the sitcom game all right tootie where's she from facts of life so we'd spend like 10 minutes start rattling off like sitcom characters.
And the two young quarterbacks, I think it was Ainge and Brett Ratliff and Kellen Clemens were like, can we get going? He'd be like, yeah. Hey, put that highlight on back on 1994 when I did this.
And then the other thing, he can sling it. He'd get an unbelievable arm.
So we'd have certain plays that say, hey, look, cover two, you really want to focus on this side. Not a great play on this side.
He'd be like, hey, Dabs, I got 372 completions in cover two on that side. Yeah.
But he was awesome, one of my favorites. He's fun, great personality.
There's that story of him. I think he was the one that told it where he was sitting down in the film room and his coach was explaining what nickel coverage was when he was in the NFL.
And he was like, oh, you just mean the extra cornerback. That's what you call it.
Is that kind of how he was? He knew the game, but didn't have all the nomenclature? No, no, no. He knew it.
I mean, some of that is blown out of proportion. He knew it.
He'd call me at night. He'd be like, hey, talk to Shadi.
Go back and see if you can get this 1998 plate. Third quarter, I think I was going away from him.
He just had a really unbelievable memory. Awesome.
The first play he had at the Jets were running a little flat slant. Now all these quarterbacks do these look-offs and throw it one way.
It's the first time I've seen him do it. He looks over at the flat, and Jericho Cotterie's running a slant, and what's that one movie? The guy didn't have great hands.
What's that movie? Featherstone? I think you're trying to set me up now. No, no, no.
Featherstone. I think that's the name.
Boom's right off Cotterie's helmet, goes flying up the air, and Cotterie's like, God damn. And it was like a rocket ball.
But he was a lot of fun. So who's got a better arm, Josh or Brett Favre? Yeah, they both got great arms.
Oh. I know that answer now.
I'm taking my man here. He's been with me for four years.
Josh, what do you think right now? Have you gotten farther in terms of your ability to throw it? I don't think so. I think, again, coming out in college, like that's what I did.
I threw it hard. Rocket arm.
Rocket arm, you know. And I've kind of toned it down.
I've learned how to, you know, use different clubs in the bag, if you will, and just haven't spent a whole lot of time on long toss, which that's kind of what helps you throw the ball a little further. He had one today to Beasley.
It about took Beasley's off. Oh, yeah.
Beasley came over me. He, that was like, it was on him before he even turned and he caught it, but it was humming.
Yes. It was humming.
There's not many throws that he can't make. Yeah.
Oh, it sounds like there's a throw he can't make. He said not many.
Not many. So there's got to be one that he.
That's good. That's probably I said it the wrong way.
So what's. Can he make every throw? He can make every throw.
Every throw. Every every throw every throw i read that your offensive philosophy is uh everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler is that is that fair because that was that's a genius quote i read it like five times this morning i was like wait wow that should be a that's like a life lesson yeah like let's not make this game too hard for these guys we all played it or played different sports growing up up.
The more you've got to think about, the worse you usually are. Now, we have a lot of stuff, but you need some smart guys to do it.
And once you do it, he's great with the receivers. Get open, catch the ball.
You know, Diggs will ask something. He's doing today a walkthrough.
He's like, just get open and catch the ball. We try to make it simple and let these guys play as fast as they can.

But it helps when you've got a quarterback that can help orchestrate it all.

I love hearing stories after games of old timers when they say, you know what,

we ran the same play nine times in a row because they couldn't stop it. And we said,

we're going to run it until they prove that they can do something about it. Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you're like, you know what, we're going to go power right until they can tackle.
Let's just keep doing it. Yeah, I think I've been involved in a few games like that.
Probably not as much a play caller as just being part of the staff, but I don't think there's anything wrong with that. You know, we do it out here sometimes in a team pass drill.
I'll say, hey, look, just take this play and call it 10 times in a row, you know, with the different options and just look, they to play something different, odds are. So you're getting different looks at it.
We're kind of, I don't want to say football geniuses, but we're pretty close to it. No, I'd say that.
We think outside the box. That's okay.
And along those same lines, what I used to do in Madden all the time, I would just go Hail Mary all the time. Like first down, second down, second and three.
Verts, four verts, baby. Four verts.
Maybe we'll try that on Saturday night. That might be a good little package there.
Because people only run Hail Mary at the end of a half or at the end of a game. Yeah.
Like, why not just break it out on second and three? Yeah. You know the last play of the game where you just keep laddering it? And that's what we want to do first play of the game.
Yes. Thank you.
Thank you. I've been trying to get that through people's heads for a while.
Come to a couple of our staff meetings here. Design downfield laterals.
That's the future of football. Yeah, we'll set up a Zoom.
But honestly, the Hail Mary on like second down, they'll never see it coming. Never.
No, and that's a good thing about a play car. Keep them guessing, right? Yeah.
I like it. Do you have – so you've got to go in a second.
Do you have train off Jill Seattle in your playbook still? We do. Do you have that, Josh?

Do you like that play?

Is that one of your favorite plays?

He's not getting you.

No, it's...

Seattle.

Yeah.

Yeah, okay.

So it's the play that Tua won the national championship.

Gotcha.

Yeah.

Which I read the story that you basically had a list of his favorite plays in the top

right corner of your play card, and that was like second and 26, like let's just do it.

Yeah, you know, we called the first down play there that we thought had a chance, and shit, we're sitting there at second and 26, they kicked a field goal, and that was one of his favorites and did a great job with it and looked off to safety and threw it up to Smitty. It was, you know, all those championship games that I've been fortunate to be part of, they've all come down to the last play.
Yeah. As crazy as that sounds.
That is crazy. That play, the overtime against Atlanta, the Seattle Super Bowl, you know, we intercept the pass.
There's the field goal against the Rams, field goal against the Eagles, interception against the Eagles, field goal against Carolina. Could easily go the other way.
Yeah. You could tell that, like, when Tua got in, Tua was going to be ready to go.
I was so mad at you guys, I bet Georgia. Did you? And I was like, this shouldn't be legal.
Yeah. Because, like, I bet against Jalen Hurts, all good, you know, all due respect, nice guy and all that.
But, like, that's what my bet was about. And then you brought in Tua, and I was like, this isn't fair.
Yeah. What quarterback are you talking about? Dude, he's nuts.
He's all over it. All right, this has been a stalemate.
This is like two bull elephants on the open savannah staring at each other. This is good little competition.
We love competition. So we go back and forth at it.
Well, Coach, you've got to go. We now have to basically hold Josh hostage for the $15 million that he owes us.
See the security guy back there?

I'm a little scared.

Yeah.

He's rocked up today.

Billy's back there, yeah.

But, Coach, thank you.

Best of luck this year.

Yeah, thank you guys, man.

We appreciate it.

Appreciate you guys coming in, and I hope you enjoy Buffalo.

It's a great town.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

Love this place.

Awesome.

Careful about Ligma.

This guy.

This guy.

What?

It's a tick.

The Ligma tick.

You like Chef Wordy?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I like Chef Wordy. I likeity? Yeah.
Oh, whoa. That's athletic.
Yeah, that was athletic. That was a good recovery.
All right, thanks, Coach. All right, Josh, you owe us $15 million.
Did I specify which contract we were talking about? The next one, yeah. The next one.
10%. Did I say the next football contract? Well, I noticed that when you signed the contract, I wasn't aggressive about it.
I said a very nice, like, hey, congrats, you deserve it text. Never got a reply.
So I figured, huh, that's weird. He must think that we forgot about this $15 million he owes us.
So you said 10% of contract and we're being nice right now actually because we're doing just guaranteed money yeah so 15 million cash or check what do you want to do uh maybe just like a trip to downtown buffalo to get shopping or something oh yeah so that i i did not consult with big cat when i tweeted that at first i want to say the first thing I did not do was ask you for money.

The first thing I did was just be like, wow, Josh is rich as fuck now.

Congratulations.

So I wanted to get that out of the way.

But then the second thing I did was we're not greedy. So I figured like $50,000 in a downtown Buffalo shopping spree for the boys would be a nice little settlement.

Yeah, there's a bunch of boys.

There's a bunch of boys here.

But it's really, I mean. But we've got, you know.
Take care you know take care of me pft and hank yeah like what we're saying and jake and store credit and then maybe a little extra on the top to wet the beak would be okay yeah i mean we could work something out we actually want to work out a real deal because we went to this wing place called wing nuts that is incredible we told the owner he like almost cried when we said we're going to tell josh allen about this place they have a kitchen out of the knights of columbus so they don't even have a restaurant i don't know it would be cool if we get them a restaurant space maybe go in and you'd be okay with that that's your yes all three of us maybe investors and wing nuts i don't know so it's it's ed and his wife alicia yeah and they are like you guys are these wings are great they're incredible i've ever had in my life and we eat a shitload of chicken wings yeah and this guy ed his story is he's the most buffalo person in the world yes he went to the very first buffalo bills game he was uh he was watching the super bowl on his birthday when scott nor missed the kick wide right. He's been in this town, I think his entire life.
Him and his wife went out for dinner one time. We might have him on the podcast.
We might have him on the podcast. Should I not tell the story? Yeah, don't tell that part.
We've got to have him tell that part. He's as buffalo as it gets.
What PFD is saying is exactly right. He's as buffalo as buffalo gets.
I'll tell you what I'm going i'm gonna go to wing nuts i'm gonna eat it and then we'll talk yeah try it first okay that's fair actually that's better because you'll probably want to give them more money yes yeah no you actually you'll be like i'm you actually that probably will fuck us because you'll get you'll kick us out of the investment group no because you'll want it all on your own 33 well yeah we're sweat 25, yeah, we're sweat equity. $25,000, $25,000.
Yeah, and then you're the money. You're the cash guy.
Yeah, you're the executive producer. Okay.
And we're boots on the ground. So let's do it.
What did you buy, though, for real? Nothing yet. Really? Yeah.
You didn't get, like, a new truck? I thought you bought – didn't you buy some trees? Well, that was prior, but, yeah, we put in 155 acres of pistachios. That was fun.
What are you going to call it? It's Allen Family Orchards. Okay, what are you going to call the things that come out of the trees? Josh's nuts.
Okay, nice. Is that what you want? That's exactly what I wanted.
How many trees is 150 acres? It's about 21,000 trees. Wow.
Yeah. Damn.
Give or take. Did you help plant them? Personally, we didn't, but there's a crew that comes out and they plant them in a couple days.
It's pretty spectacular to watch. So when you decide that you're going to buy that many trees, do you do it because it's an investment for the future or do you do it because you just love trees? Yeah, it's an investment for the future.
But again, my dad's had this farm for, shoot, as long as I've been alive, he's been alive. It's kind of a generational deal.
And we've been doing row crops. And the problem with row crops is you can't really tell what the weather's going to be like.
And there's a lot of things that you can't control. But putting in trees, it's a solid investment.
It takes about four and a half, five years to produce an actual plant, though. And so that's what's the it's a long term play.
But once it starts rolling, it's pretty good. Yeah.
Money in trees. I like it.
Although arborists are a crock of shit. They are.
They don't know what they're doing. I think that's that's actually a pretty cool thing to spend money on.
You don't think about buying plants and then having them pay dividends in the future. Yeah.
Well, certain types. I saw a quote you had about the media.
I just want to make sure you you're not talking about us but you said no offense the media but the bar i set for myself is higher than anything anything anyone else can set for me um you're not talking about us right no of course okay all right good you guys are like i'd call you journalists yes yes but are you are you in like i mean it's kind of a bad question i guess i'll ask it but like have you had the thought of like i everyone was so impressed with what i did last year and they expect me to keep going keep progressing keep getting better that's a lot of pressure i mean i expect that too though yeah it's something i set for myself as well so i see the thing that would really fuck me up if i were in your shoes, not to make you nervous or whatever, you're not going to be nervous, but if you won a Super Bowl for the city of Buffalo, I actually think that, like, I don't know, like, they would, you would be the king of Buffalo forever. God, God.
Like, the people, we were out yesterday meeting and greeting the people of Buffalo. We love Buffalo.
But their excitement for the Bills and their excitement for Josh Allen is so out of this world. It's like insane.
So not to make you nervous, again, literally their entire happiness, life, everything is resting on your shoulders. I mean, I've known that since we got here.
It's no different now, but it is, again, when I first got here, stories about the early 90s, the early 90s, be the next Jim Kelly. Like, you're going to be, like, it's just like, I get it.
I get it. And the excitement that the fans have here, and it's unbelievable.
Everywhere you go, like, it is live, breathe, die Buffalo football. And people's lives actually are affected by how we perform.
Yeah. And I swear there was a statistic a few years ago um work attendance after we won like on average was like decreased by 50 the next day i got people just they love they love the bills are you ruining the local economy is josh allen actually bad for it's a byproduct i love it that's great but i would actually think it would be worse if you lost because people like i don't know maybe it.
Maybe it's kind of the same for me. Like, I don't know whether or not to get drunk in joy or get drunk in misery.
Yeah. But you probably want to go to work to take your mind off it.
That's the balance, you know. Yeah.
I'm excited, though. I'm excited for the people of Buffalo and excited for you.
So, how are you feeling this camp has gone? That's a real traditional media question. Yeah.
No, it's been a really good camp. The addition of Emmanuel Sanders, you know, he's been fantastic for us.
It's good that you said that because I didn't know he was on the team. Yeah, he's doing really well.
But the plays that we've been putting in, guys are working their tails off right now. And I'll tell you what, we drafted a few rookies on the D-line, the offensive line that are going to be really damn good.
And I'm excited to see them progress and how they're going to play here in the next couple of preseason games.

And I'll tell you what,

Brandon Bean's going to have some tough decisions to make because it's,

we have a really good roster.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Have you,

have you gone horseback riding with that Oliver yet?

I've not,

but I have been driving down the road to go eat and he's just galloping along

and he's just literally in the middle of the street,

just on his horse.

That's amazing. I love it.
Is that how he usually usually gets around has he ever ridden a horse to practice he has not yet but i don't know if we should tell him that because he will do it he should absolutely do that yeah definitely will you big cat was just talking about like the media and um and how you know they kind of changed their tune on you last year a little bit i like to think that we were bullied them into starting to change their tune because I think week two we were like, earmuffs Josh, suck my dick if you didn't believe in Josh Allen. Suck the whole goddamn dick.
It's not big, but you can taste it all. We were kind of bullying people into starting to apologize because you probably have the most cold takes surrounding your career of any quarterback in the NFL.
Everyone was sure that you were not going to work out when you were a rookie as a first-round pick. Has anybody reached out to you personally to apologize? Good question.
Not that I know of. Not like, hey, I thought I was wrong.
None of that. No one in the media? They're still waiting.
They're still hoping. No, because here's why this is a crock of shit.
Because when they realized they were wrong, they just, like, apologized to everybody that followed them on Twitter. Right.
And made the apology. Like, look how great I am at apologizing.
Yeah, right. And owning up for my bad take.
I'm going to own this, yeah. But you are the aggrieved party.
They should be personally reaching out to you. But based on what he did in college and the numbers, this is what it was supposed to be.
Right. Yeah.
You know right but then retrospectively i was wrong so i was wrong i was right about being wrong correct yes correct yes um all right so i have one last question it's a mattress firm oh wait actually before i ask that question do you have a have you said like officially what your favorite wings place is barbell okay barbell tavern soon to be wing nuts okay uh all right the mattress firm question unjunk your sleep meet a sleep expert today start at mattressfirm.com uh billy and hank were sleeping on the mattress firm mattress all week they had great sleep all right so my last question is uh looking over your shoulder a little bit at all i don't know He's coming out here in a minute, but pretty big backup quarterback signing with Mitch Trubisky. And just saying, are you higher draft pick than you? Yeah.
Fact. Your fat is a fact.
So he's technically better just based on that. Does he have more wins? Probably.
I think he's got more wins than you, yeah. I've got more wings eaten, though.
Yes, that's right. So Mitch, though, Mitch is a great guy.
We're going to have him on in a second. But how does he fit in with the whole? He's been unbelievable.
Like, just his personality, his ideas, his knowledge of the game. Like you said, he started 50-plus games.
What he's brought to the table for us has been fantastic. We actually were at dinner last night.
He's got a birthday here on Saturday on game day playing against Chicago. So I'm super excited to see him obviously play against them.
And there's a couple guys that, you know, Chicago, like these preseason games mean a lot to people. Yeah.
Whether people believe that or not. But, no, he's been fantastic, and I'm super glad that we have him yeah i really am yes i got one last last question uh i i kind of need a player to speak out on this very important topic about you know people getting bullied for saying we when they're talking about their team like if a bills fans watching the bills play on sunday let's say you guys win 30 to 17 on monday fans should should be allowed to say, like, we kicked their ass yesterday, right?

Yeah.

Right?

That's totally fine to say.

Do you take offense?

No, we're all one big family here. Yeah.

Okay.

Absolutely.

So, if a fan claims a victory as their own, that's fair.

Buffalo also is, like, absolutely weak.

Yeah.

100% weak.

Absolutely weak.

There's some not-wee towns.

Yeah, right.

I would say like miami probably

right maybe anaheim miami yeah yeah um anaheim not a wee town not a wee town arlington texas yeah not a wee town we're gonna piss some people off that's okay i think buffalo is like at the top of the list i would say in wee towns yeah they're mount rushmore for sure yes yeah absolutely Yeah. all right josh thank you we always love having you on uh so you you just didn't bring any cash it's uh see i have iou's i thought maybe you would be like hey here's like 500 bucks just you know let's get the payment plan started well who's no not even that who's the mets player that gets paid Bobby Bonilla.
We'll get you on a Bonilla payment. If you want to do like $100,000 for the next, what, 70 years?

You can. No, not even that.
Who's the Mets player that gets paid? By Bonilla. We'll get you on a Bonilla payment.
I'm fine. If you want to do like $100,000 for the next, what, 70 years? That would actually be smart because we're not going to live that long.
Yeah, yeah. So you could just be like, hey, I'll give you $10,000 for the next 500 years.
A little arbitrage. Yeah, I can do that.
The more money you give us up front, the more likely we are to die sooner. Yeah, that's true.
So front load it and then, yeah, just taper it off. We'll take, tell you what.
Side note though, I am loving the Rob Lowe hat. Yeah, so you like the, well it's actually, it's a Washington football team hat.
I turned it backwards out of respect. People gave you a lot of shit about the bucket hat.
I think it's a good look. Yeah, it is.
I don't know. I just wore it.
It's also, the bucket hat is like, it is a training camp look. You don't bring it to the regular season.
No. But bucket hats belong in training camp.
When we're out, walkthroughs out here and you just got to cover everything. Yeah.
It gets hot. I'm sorry.
I have a third last question. You're not going to wear that visor in the regular season, right? Oh, yeah.
What the fuck, dude? Please talk me down from that ledge. Don't do that.
You don't want me to wear it? No. A visor has never won a Super Bowl.
Ever. Yeah, I'm not wearing a visor.
Okay. All right.
I told you this. Remember when you- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay. All right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. When you didn't record me while you called me or didn't tell me you were recording.
We actually saw the other time we called you and recorded the kid. Shout out the kid.
We saw him at the bar last night when we had that kid in the studio and we called you and you gave him a shout out. That's right.
So you're a man of the people. Hashtag the kid.
Yeah, hashtag the kid. No, he actually...
So he's going to be really upset about that because I guess he's like a 40-year-old dude, and he's like everyone keeps calling me the kid now. And I was like, well, why did you tell me that? Because now I'm definitely going to bring it up, and we're going to do the kid again.
So hashtag the kid. Well, I got a question for you.
Yeah. NCAA should be coming out, right? Yes.
That thing you won? Yes. Is Doug's making a comeback? Yes, absolutely.
Doug's has not had his last season. Okay.
I don't know when, Duggs has not had his last season. Okay.
So, all right, well, Josh, you're the best man. Okay, well, then I got another second to last question.
Will you coach my pokes? Oh. I'll consider it.
You consider it? I'll consider it. I think that, you know, maybe.
Just for a season. If I could win a famous Idaho Bowl, it would be a dream come true.
Get their prestige up a little bit and help us out, man. I think his salary right now is, what, $10 million a year for Dougs? So if you know anyone that's got that kind of cash.
Yeah, you could wet the beak. I could be bought for Idaho.
Wyoming, it's the only four-year institution in the entire state. Wait, where did you go to college? Wyoming.
Yeah, Wyoming. Why did I say Idaho? Oh, because that's where the bowl is.
Idaho Potato Bowl, yeah. It's like the same state.
I was like, what the hell? Why did I say Idaho? All right, yeah. Those piss yellow uniforms? Hell yeah.
Let's take it easy, all right? I mean, they are. They're legit piss yellow uniforms.
I love the Wyoming uniforms. I love it, too.
That potato bowl when it was maroon and yellow versus brown and gold on the blue turf. It was beautiful.
It was a funky combination. I'll give you that.
You get the big pot of potatoes. It was tough.
I love it. Oh, man.
All right, well, Josh, thank you, man. Appreciate it.
Thanks, Josh. We're going to get right back to the show.
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Okay, thanks to Josh Allen and Brian Dable. We're going to finish up the show with our Mount Rushmore and our Firefest finishing up Grit Week.
A great Grit Week. Great to be back on the road.
Great to see the people. Again, we have some big stuff coming, right? Like recap video.

Obviously, the song with Benny the Butcher.

Liam saw color for the first time.

Liam saw color for the first time.

Maybe the best video we've ever made.

We've got Mitch Trubisky Monday.

I mean, let's just say we're not going to quit our podcasting job for acting.

Okay?

It's pretty simple. We don't deliver lines well.
I thought it was great. You know what? It wasn't about the lines.
It was just about helping our friend Liam be able to see a beautiful role. Well, Liam was the worst actor in it.
Yeah. So we were all terrible.
I thought that was real. Yeah, it was real.
I thought he was crying. First time you ever saw a color.
He was crying. All right.
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We're going to do the Mount Rushmore of things you do at a hotel. Hotel moves.
Because we've been in hotels. Although, Hank, you made good on your disc golf bet.
You slept in the RV last night. How was it? It was great.
Shout out to Mattress Firm. My sleep was great.
I slept on a bus for four months straight. So one night at an RV park.
It's basically like a hotel. It's not better.
Yeah. You're good.
And there were some people like, oh, this isn't gritty. You guys sleep in hotels.
First of all, I think we slept in hotels from the beginning. And second of all, I'm a little bit older.
I was making the joke the other day that when we're 50, Grit Week is just going to be eating two spicy meals back to back. Also, it really shows the level of your AWL-ness if you say it's not Vanny Woodhead when the real first Grit Week was on an RV that was the exact same as the one we had.
Correct. True.
So you're telling on yourself, people. I think we slept in that one one night.
One night. And the rest, that was in hotel rooms.
Yeah. So we're gritty.
We're out here. I mean, we're doing a podcast at the Knights of Columbus right now.
Absolutely. With our guy, Ed, who's our future partner in all business.

We should just make him executive producer of everything we do.

Ed. We need an Ed.
Every group needs an Ed around.

Take some trailers to the Super Bowl.

Alright, so

Mount Rushmore Hotel moves.

Do I decide the order? Yeah.

Handily.

Besides Liam's win on

pizza toppings, this was the biggest lopsided ever.

I was justified by that. It was a huge cell phone.
Context clues matter. Context clues.
The conversation cell phone never made sense. Cell phone made sense.
It didn't make sense. Yeah, cell phone made sense, not cell phone.
Cell phone didn't make any sense. Cell phone.
So wait, Hank, is this yours or is Bubba doing it with you? Team Hubba. We're bonding by life.
He didn't send me any, but it doesn't matter. Are you happy? I'll start, and we'll go this way, Hank, and then back around.
Okay. All right, easy 1-1, cranking the AC as low as it can possibly go.
That is the number one rule of every hotel room. You get in there.
It's not your AC. Pray it goes below 65.
Dude, the one we were in last night was at 60. Yeah, I checked in and it was at 60.
I absolutely loved it. Incredible.
This is like if the person that won the Super Bowl also got the first round draft. This is like Andrew Luck.
This is the Andrew Luck draft. I'm just taking Andrew Luck.
That's an obvious 1-1 pick. Yes.
Because I actually like drafting on the wraparound 4-5, but I had to do one here. All right.
All right. We're going to go with, shout out Like Mike, ordering room service.
It's a great feeling. Just calling the phone, picking it up.
Yep, on my list. Good pick.
Okay, I'm going to go with running the hot shower for as long as you want. Even turning it on before you get into the shower, like letting it go cook for like 15, 20 you'll get the bathroom real steamy and foggy again you're not paying the hot water bill it's a luxury yes yes i thought you were taking this when you said cranking but jerk off yeah i had it on my list i had jack in it yeah specifically in a robe yeah that was my that was my number two using the lotion because there's always lotion there was there wasn't in uh Pittsburgh.
Ah, you noticed. Okay.
Conditioner. Sorry you got backed up.
Yeah. Speaking of lotion, this is my patented thing.
I might trademark this move, but the shampoo soup. Yeah.
You get in the shower, you just take all of the free complimentary bottles, and you just pour them into your hand and just rub it all over your body. What? Call it the shampoo, the soup.
I love it. Listen, that stuff's not really shampoo.
It's not body wash. It's all basically the same thing.
You just combine them. It makes no sense, but I love it.
You make a little Long Island iced tea of cleaning products. This is the man who brought you Barber Cuffalo.
Barber, yeah. And what was the NyQuil thing? Listerquil.
Listerquil. So Hank just basically, all his ideas are just combining everything.
Hank just sees every liquid in his house, and he's like, there's got to be a better way. We've got to put this all together.
I hope never. Always keep them separate.
That's a great pick. You've only got three bottles.
Let's just fucking, let's get nuts. I can say it was not on my list.
It wasn't on my list. Yeah.
All right. Okay.
I can't believe. Then he took the shampoo soup? No.

Jack in it.

I thought Hank would be too bashful to go cranking it.

No, dude.

Hank fucks.

It's also in a hotel.

It's like how much of a list is there?

There's only so many things you do in a hotel.

Okay.

I'm going to go with, for my next one, using one of the two beds in your room as the bag

and clothes bed.

Yeah. As a shelf.
You just put all your stuff out on there, dirty clothes. That goes on the bed too.
It's actually – most bedrooms that are being designed right now in America should have a second bed. Yes.
Because it's so much easier to just use a bed as that than it is to use a closet or a dresser. Yes, absolutely.
One thing I always think about in hotels – actually, I guess we'll get there. Maybe someone will use it.
Okay. Actually, they're not going to.
Okay. Why, at what point, what hotel convention in the world did they decide we're going to get clocks with iPhone 4 charges on it? Yes, yes.
Every time, it's like they went all in on the iPhone 4 and it's just useless. Yes, I agree.
It's like, oh, look at this cool little dock port where you can plug your phone in and play music. It's like, nope.
The worst is when you go to a hotel and, like, you don't even realize that there's an alarm set and it will go off. That happens, like, once every, you know, 10 times, but it's brutal.
Like a 6 a.m. alarm, you just have to fucking smash that clock against the wall.
Somebody got paid off that iPhone 4. Yeah, big time.
When the hotels all decide at once to be like, you know what? It's the year 2014. Now it's time.
Let's make the move to the

iPhone 4 market. Yes.
Yes. Big time.
Okay. So we're going to go with something that really makes you establish your presence.
It's your room. Putting the do not disturb sign out on the front.
Good one. Not letting anyone come in.
Good one. Respectfully.
Good one. Okay.
You ever walk down the hallway and just take people's do not disturbs off? That would be mean. That would be mean, but awesome.

All right.

I've done it drunk.

Okay.

My next pick is going to be uh very specific but it's uh checking out the gym not actually working out but checking it out and being like oh okay all right you know you know how you always pack the shoes yeah you pack the shoes that you don't you're like oh well what if i work out you never use them i pack the shoes this time but every time you go you're like hey let me just all right before we go back down to the lobby let me just check out the gym real quick yeah i got a pool maybe i walked down to the gym yeah the other day and then turn around walk back up yeah i always just like to look at the gym be like oh okay well maybe they got like you know something cool that i don't know mental note of where the fitness center is right never going back but i checked it out um and then uh minibar hitting the minibar. It feels like you're, obviously it's very expensive, but it always feels like you're kind of stealing because you're like, ooh, these peanut M&Ms are $18, but they're great in the moment.
Well, if you don't have to pay for it at the time, it feels free. Right.
That's a future me problem. I'll make that money up.
And it's also like, there's something, it's like a dare where you're like i'll look at the prices and be like oh these gummy bears are 28 well i'm gonna fucking eat them like fuck you oh i i've always said if you put like a super expensive drink on the menu i have to order yes there was one time i got a margarita was a hundred dollars all the other margaritas were like 13 bucks on the menu there was one that was a hundred bucks i was like well i can't be a broke boy not get the hundred dollar margarita yes i asked the owner i was like how much does this really cost to make he's like uh probably about like 35 bucks but i sell more of them if they're 100 than i would if they were 37 love it i love it i love it all right jake and uh billy this is one for like when you're at an aau tournament or something. Yeah.
Playing ding-dong ditch. Just ding-dong ditch.
That's good. Bad boy life.
That is good. Knocking on random doors.
Getting yelled at by security. Yeah.
That's good. Hey, you kids.
Well, this is kind of awkward because my next one, the business owner, Alicia, just sat down, so I don't want to say it in front of her, but I'll just spell it F-U-C-K-I-N-G.

Oh, okay.

It's always better.

You're in a different environment.

Things are like, you know,

it's not the same place that you normally get in.

Yeah.

That sort of thing.

It's always more fun on the road.

Damn.

More road trip action.

Didn't know my boy got down like that.

Pryo, Nux. Yeah.
Nux me, bro. Oh, fuck yes.
Just F.E.C. Kanji? You sucking fucking? I'm out of picks.
Oh, no. I'll just go with...
This is what I did this week. So I'll just go with what I did this week.
I turned on the TV... Sleeping in an RV.
I turned on the TV and I watched the guide channel. That's a good pick, actually.
I just sit there and watch it. You're just like, all right, because obviously there's no guide.
You have to watch the guide channel. You see what's happening.
See what's going on. And then you're like, wait, maybe I missed something.
I don't hate that pick. I think I let it go through like four times.
I'm like, I'm actually tired. I'm just going to go to sleep.
I don't hate that pick. I was so high when I got back to the hotel last night that I put it on the guide channel.
And I tried to go up and down, but I kept changing it to a different input. So I was going to the HDMI 1, and then I'd have to put it back to the actual TV channel.
I couldn't figure out why my TV didn't have it. I honestly sat on my bed for about 15 minutes just hitting the up and down button until I figured it out.
All right, and your last one? Come on, you got one. Unpacking my clothes and the dresser.
No, I'm just kidding. I've never done that in my fucking life.
That actually is a boss move, though. It's the best move.
You go on a vacation, Hank. Maybe on a vacation, but not at a hotel.
It does. On a one-night trip.
If you're there, vacation for three, four days, but like one, two days, it's not happening. I do it every, like, if I'm down at the Super Bowl or something like that,'m there for five days I'm now a big time unpack my stuff Put them in the drawers guy I'm going to take it as my pick I've never done it It actually makes you feel like a boss It does, like an adult Now I'm not willing to go far enough to say Making your bed would be a good move That's a Field Yates move He his bed in hotels.
First thing I do is put my suit out and on. Even when you're on vacation, you bring your suit.
Just in case. All right, PFT, your last pick.
All right, my last one is going to be the hot tub. The hot tub in the pool.
Just getting a – if not using it, like Big Cat said with a fitness room, like walking by and being like, got a hot tub here, and let everybody in your group know that there's a hot tub in the hotel room. Yes.
But if you're on like a vacation and you're staying there for a couple nights, if it's not really like a work trip where you're working late at night, the hot tub is a great thing to come back to at the end of the day. Yes.
All right. Losing your key, just your key card, just losing it.
Everyone does it going to the receptionist being like, I lost my key. Yeah.
And then them being like, yeah. Yeah, it happens every time.
Every time. All right.
My last one is I like to first, one of the first things I do when I get in a hotel room is I rip the sheets because they always make the bed so fucking tight that if you try to get into it, you like, you basically get, it's a straight jacket. So I like to rip up the bottom of the sheets and kind of loosen up the bed.
Sometimes your feet can't even get to full extension when you get into the hotel bed. It's crazy how they do that.
But I actually like it. I like the fact that I'm snug.
No, I like that it's there but then I just get in and I immediately dismantle it. It's like a dog with a toy.
It's like, I i love this toy but i'm gonna rip all the stuffing out yeah so when i if you get in and you try to kick it like off you'll always kind of end up in like a tangled web yeah so i like to rip it first um all right things that are missed i i don't know if this counts as a hotel move but uh when you like go on vacation calling your hotel room home after like three hours like are we gonna go back home? Yeah. And it's like you're talking about your hotel room.
I like that. I had leaving towels on the floor after you're done with them.
Big time. This one would have been controversial.
I don't like doing it, but I always do do it when I go to a hotel room, ironing, because it's right there. I don't iron at home, but I iron it in a hotel room.
I had missing the continental breakfast. Yeah.
It happened to me today. I came down there at 945.
Five minutes. I missed it by five minutes.
I missed it by 15. And it still smelled like breakfast down there, which was the worst part.
Charging something to the room is always a good feeling. Going down at the restaurant, requesting late checkout.
Yeah, that's good. Some hours.
Did you check out a hotel room, Jake? Never in my life. I didn't realize people actually did that.

They just walk out.

They know when you're leaving.

I mean, now we're dating ourselves, but staying at hotels back in the day where it was an actual key, that actually would happen.

So if you stay in a hotel that has a key right now, it's one of two things.

I've always wondered who's checking out of hotels.

It's either if you have a key to unlock your door, it's either a very quaint place or it's just a crack house. And there's no in-between whatsoever.
Dramatic opening of your curtains and staring out at your view, even if it's a terrible view. I also like to do a little life hack.
If your curtains don't fully close and it gets dark in there, take the clothes hanger and fasten it shut. That's what I do.
That's bold. That's like MacGyver shit.
Yeah. Because you need to get like, there's nothing worse than going to...
I accept my fate when I see that. Yeah, when you go to a hotel room and there's that little crack of sunlight and you're like, oh, this is gonna fuck me.
I have the small boxes of cereal that you get at hotels. Really the only place that you ever eat them.
Yep. Stealing the shampoo and conditioner from the maid's cart, all the little things they have.
For soup? For more soup? More soup for travel. How much soup can you have? Like sometimes they put them in.
I love shampoo soup. It's like my favorite pick of the summer.
Shampoo soup. How much stuff? You see Hank just standing in the shower, just squirting into his hand.
How much stuff do you think that you can combine into one thing? Like realistically, what items? So you have shampoo, conditioner, body wash. That's it.
Bubble bath. No, I'm saying, like, forget about what they have in a hotel.
No, that's it. Only in a hotel.
Yeah. It's a novelty drink.
I love it. I love it.
Treat yourself. Well, at home, you have, like, a two-for-one or whatever.
One thing I never understood. It's a literal, like, instead of two-for-one.
That's what people are going to mock at. It's like, you probably use two for one fucking shampoo conditioner.
This is me just doing it all. You're saving time and the environment.
Right. I wish hotels had liquid soap to wash your hands.
Like, who uses a bar at home to wash your hands? Because you use it for like two times, and then they throw out the bar. The other thing that pissed me me off no toothpaste why yeah hotels have all these complimentary socks no new socks but we're talking about things that we forgot to pack toothpaste should be part of in socks no in underwear no you know what the worst is when you stay at a hotel that has the video game console hooked up to it and it's like pay me 30 to unlock video, yes, because it just taunts you.
Also, one of the worst things that happened to me yesterday, happens probably every other time I go to a hotel, is clogging the toilet and then having to call down. And yesterday, I just walked out, and I was just like, hey, someone clogged the toilet in 313.
And the guy was like, okay. This sucks.
You basically just have to tell them, hey hey i take big dumps hey uh someone used all the lotion in my room this morning it's just last night never gets not embarrassing brutal brutal um all right that was a good mount rushmore shampoo soup lives on forever i'm gonna do i can't wait to go to a hotel now and just shampoo soup the fuck out All right. Firefest the week.
Should we start? Let's get it. All right.
Grit week.

Fire. I can't wait to go to a hotel now and just shampoo soup the fuck out of it.

Alright, FireFest of the week.

Should we start?

Let's get it.

Grit week, FireFest.

I don't think you can have a FireFest on a week as beautiful as Grit week,

but if I were to have one,

it would be that I didn't pack a charger

and I've been chasing a charge this whole week.

PFT was nice enough to give me a charger.

I gave you one.

I lost PFTs.

I will get you another one. It was one of the nicer ones too It was really nice It was a luxurious 6 foot cord Oh you can't lose that Those don't grow on trees I do I pass the Apple store on my commute to work So I will be able to get you another one I think you gotta go 12 feet Yeah It's one of those ones If I lost a shitty small charger I'd be like yeah whatever I got you know did you lose big cats too no no because i stayed on his ass because he was like walking around all free and like it was it had been a couple hours like you still got my charger show me your charger because i knew he had he had lost yours yeah so i was like this guy hank he's just fucking eating chargers i got back i bought a charger gave it to someone at the stew at the stew uh and then i forgot to get it back when i went back to the bus.
I had 10% when I got back to the bus. No chargers there.
Going to sleep with like 10% on your battery and not knowing whether or not it's still going to be alive when you wake up. Yep.
What a rush. Yep.
That's a great week. Yeah, that is a great week.
All right, PFT, your Firefest of the Week. Okay, I got two.
One, my debit card got stolen while I was away. Somebody bought like an $1,100 iPhone in New York while I was on the road, so I had to cancel that, which means that now I'm without a debit card for the next probably week or so, which it sucks, but it also has a silver lining because it resets everything when it comes to all the monthly charges that I have.
It's like the circle of life. Cleans it out.
Yeah, like wintertime. Everything freezes over and only the strong seeds grow back.
I have to go ahead and reauthorize every single monthly payment to continue. So I'm probably going to say, actually, between that and OnlyFans, this is just a great month for saving money.
Yes. And then, also, Fyre Fest is at 5 o'clock this morning.
The people directly upstairs from my hotel room started pounding it. Like, fucking, like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoak-i-n-j i'm telling you like i've never heard a bed hit the ground i swear to god i opened my eyes it's 5 a.m right and i think like there's no way that this is what i'm hearing my brain tells me i think i must be downstairs from the fitness center because that's the sound of somebody running on a treadmill and because they went for like 30 minutes and I was like this, there's no chance.
And the guy, so after like 10 minutes, I started hearing some of the noises, some of the groans. And then I heard a guy just saying, get some, get some, get some.
I'm going to ask the question that I think is on everyone's mind. Did you jerk off listening to it? No, because I'm still, I would would have.
It's fucking free porn. Because I was still high.
That's the thing. Dude, you have to.
No. You have to jerk off to that.
I probably. If they sound hot, you have to.
They didn't sound hot. Okay.
All I heard was the guy. So, like, who knows? I didn't know if it was sus or not because I would have just been.
Oh, my God. I would have been cranking it to just a guy going, get some.
Get some. You were just jerking off.
I think I'm going to have to start saying during sex now because it sounds like an alpha move. Get some.
Get some. Get some.
Yeah. But, yeah, it was – I think if it's between the hours of like midnight and 3 and I woke up and I heard that, you're right, free porn.
Yeah. But like 4 and 5 a.m., that's when I'm in that middle, I don't know if I'm alive or dead zone.
My brain doesn't work correctly. Yeah, when I'm in a hotel room by myself, I'm like prey that the people next to me fuck just so I can get a quick show.
I normally don't mind that, but this was – it was aggressive. And I wanted to tell you guys all morning because of what a crazy sound it was that was coming from like like, directly upstairs.
Not like an adjacent. It was directly over my head.
Just the sound of the bed going like. Oh, hell yeah.
For 30 minutes. Hell yeah.
Get some. Get some.
Get some. Get it.
All right. My fire fest.
I got two. Well, no.
No, I have one. I have one.
And I actually don't think you guys even know this happened, but it happened like five feet away from you. I puked on the bus.
I puked on the bus on the ride from... Are you pregnant? Too much jaw? We hit a bump and I swallowed a pouch.
I was in the back. This was part of the spillage.
It was like a whole... It all happened at the same time.
It was like spitting, bump, spill, swallow. I went into the bathroom.
I puked. You guys were listening to music, so you didn't hear.
And I was like, thank God they didn't hear. It sucked.
I puked a lot. When was the last time you threw it from dip? It had been a long time, but it was like the perfect.
And shout out Ben. Ben's been a great bus driver, but he hit a bump, and I just fucking swallowed a full pouch.
It was so bad. So, yeah, that was my fire fest.
It was actually more that I don't want them to hear me puke, so thank God you guys didn't hear me. Yeah.
Great job hiding. Yeah.
Well, there's music. It's loud on the bus.
But you know that there's that moment where you puke, and you're just like, oh, fuck. The embarrassment of everyone being like, did you puke? So I was able to- From a body image standpoint, I know that you've got a lot of compliments on how skinny you are.
Yeah. Is there something you want to talk about? No.
I wish I could do that. Sneaking away.
No, that's not healthy. Don't do that.
Sneaking away, throwing up. I wish I could do that.
How are your teeth? How's the enamel on your teeth, big cat? I force myself to puke.

Oh, nice.

Put them on there.

Huge mistake.

Also, I miss my kids.

That was my other fire fest.

I should have worn these all.

I'm glad that you said kids.

I miss my kids a lot.

Last time you said that you missed your son, it sounded like a Drew Brees situation.

Well, someone pointed that out.

But my daughter is three months, so she can't talk.

My son is at the point now where it's like I'd rather hang out with him than anyone else

in the world because we just fucking bro out. So my daughter will get there she'll learn words and all that shit um also i totally forgot to say it shout out peggy who was integral to grit week absolute same she uh works with us uh helps us book guests she's a great guest booker This has been like a four-month process dealing with teams, COVID, vaccines.

Yeah, the vaccines and all that stuff. The amount of paperwork and shit that went into this for a week compared to other ones.
She stays on top of everything, and she's super communicative. She works with us going back and forth with the teams.
And she's super professional all the time. Yeah, so maybe just everyone, if you feel inclined, just just tweet out shout out peggy because she was uh awesome this week and she's great to work with all right jake fire fest yeah so yesterday i was taking a bunch of pictures of you guys the awls and next thing i know a bunch of beer falls on my back yeah and now i have an outfit full of beer that hopefully isn't smelling up the rest so billy hit a drink hit a drink cart.
I had nothing to do with this. I had nothing to do with it.
Hundreds of people smashing like 15 plates and glasses. It was the loudest crash I've ever heard at a restaurant in my entire life.
And Billy just like trying to walk away from it like he didn't do anything. No, I did not do it.
And then Jake having his entire back covered. It was a perfect encapsulation of Jake and Billy and who they are.
Billy's the guy who, let's just say it wasn't your fault. Even if it wasn't your fault, you're still at the scene of the crime and everyone's like, God damn it, Billy.
Well, I was going to say people started an asshole chant. I started an asshole chant.
The whole bar did it for you. And then Jake, for the next hour, was like, my back is so wet.
This is gross. Actually, who do you think knocked it over? The person who was totally dry or the person who was wet? Oh.
Who was closer to it? That was unscathed. Yeah, that doesn't.
Dude, there's nothing like starting a good asshole chant. I know.
It's the best. The thing is, everyone started chanting.
I felt bad for the actual person who knocked it over. No, you didn't.
You owe yourself. Is this like OJ? That's why I started cleaning up.
You can never go near a drink cart again? No, that's why I started cleaning up the stuff because I was like, oh, my God, because the person who actually did it was cleaning up. Yeah, Billy started just picking up glass with his bare hands.
Pretty cool move. Yeah, well, they're big pieces, but I felt, yeah.
Are you saying, though, that it might have been Jake? No, it wasn't Jake. I know who did it.
Who was? I I'm not going to say it. Say the name.
I'm not going to embarrass you. And so was you.
If you did do it, how would you have done it? Yeah. No, it was unfortunately one of the servers put something on there.
Did you just say servants? Servers. Oh.
Oh. All right, Billy, you're Mount Rush or Firefest.
The whole wing fiasco. What happened? The worst part about it was so I failed the wing challenge.
You were close, though. No, not at all.
Yeah, fail is like I think they wouldn't – I don't even know if they'd give you an F because that would show that you showed up. It was incomplete.
Yeah, so basically took one down, realized having no beverage, no blue cheese, no nothing was ridiculous. like when you're chewing a whole drumstick in your mouth because you're trying to get down fast because speed's the only way it works like where you can get away from the heat you get caught up and then you realize like once you take the second bite like yeah you're not doing this like you gotta get out but the worst part is that the video didn't show like the several like hours afterwards was just sweating.
My lips blew up. Billy tried to say the humidity reactivated the heat three hours later.
It did. I put a mask on and was sweating, and then my lips started burning again.
There was a little bit of sauce on my wrist that was not on the glove, and it was burning until the next morning. So what is the excuse that you're gonna make i'm not making an excuse it's a very hard wing challenge okay all right because there was an excuse that you're making yesterday which was that they amped up the spiciness of the wings because they had it in for you personally no i think that they made it spicer i think the chef sees a bunch of cameras and some guys doing the wing challenge and he's like like, oh, I'm going to fuck this guy up.
100%. By the way, last breaking news, breaking moos.
Breaking moos, breaking moos. There was a poll done by scouts and executives, and LeBron James got zero votes as best player in the NBA.
He then tweeted, Thank you, all caps, as if I didn't need more gas, or didn't need more to fuel me, hashtag washed. No, hashtag washed king.
King. Oh, yeah, I missed that part.
That's his nickname that everyone's calling him. All right, so, Billy, you got anything else? Yeah, we have, there was a new NIL sponsorship signing with Kool-Aid McKinstry, who obviously signed with Kool-Aid, and they did a really cool picture on their Twitter, which was like the Arnold Schwarzenegger picture where it's the two guys, like, holding hands, but it was him and the Kool-Aid man.
Oh, yes, funny Bob was here. Yeah.
That's a great name. Other signings, we have a bunch of quarterbacks who are assigned to Chicken's restaurants.

Sam Howell's, Bojangles, JT Daniels, Zaxby's, and Spencer Rattler's was to Raising Cane's.

So a little chicken rivalry there.

Nervous little bird.

Billy, are you ever going to get a chicken advertisement after your performance?

Probably not.

Probably no, never.

Probably going to go vegan.

Yeah.

Ooh, you should go vegan.

You should do a vegan food challenge.

You did look really skinny, by the way, in that one picture.

Yeah, no, never. Probably going to go vegan.
Yeah. Ooh, you should go vegan.
You should do a vegan food challenge. You did look really skinny, by the way, in that one picture.
Yeah, no, I definitely get in bulking season. Yeah, what's going on with that? People are saying you're a beta? No.
Oh, okay. I was just like, I was reading the internet.
I was trying to get a six pack, like Hank said, because I thought Hank actually might do it. I was close.
And now it's like a... Billy's like disgust when I say the word beta.
No, that's not true. Jake, you want to do numbers? Get the random number generator.
76. 8.
99. 69.
99. 61.
8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8. All right, I'll go 18.
All right. Survey says.
43. Wait, Nick.
Ben, number. 1 to 100.
Yeah. 27.
27. All right, here we go.
59. 59.
Damn. Great Grit Week.
Thank you, everyone, who listened and saw us out. We fucking love Grit Week.
We love you guys. And, yeah, we have more Grit Week Thank you everyone who listened and saw us out We fucking love Grit Week We love you guys We have more Grit Week coming up Hank looks like a fucking douchebag In an ode to Buffalo There was at 1.30 to 60 million Buffalos across America And Lewis and Clark said that it was so crowded with Buffaloes they had to push them Aside to get get across the great plains wow buffalo love you guys i'll be coming for your love okay Shying away I'll be coming for your love again.
Shying away, I'll be coming for your love again. Take on me, take me on.
I'll be gone And after your day Needless to say I've already said it But I'll be stolen away Learning that life Say up to me. It's no better to be safe than sorry.
Say up to me. It's no better to be safe than sorry.
Take on me. Take me on.
I'll be gone

In a day of truth

All the things that you say

You're a little light for me

Just to play my worries away

You are the things I've got to remember

Thank you. Yeah, is it a light bulb Just to play my memories away You are the things I've got to remember You're shying away I'll be coming for you anyway You're shying away I'll be coming for you anyway Take on me.
Take me on.

I'll be gone.

Take me on. Take us away Take us away