Hard Knocks Episode 1, Olympic Gold Medal Wrestler Gable Steveson, Daymond John + Mt Rushmore Of Athlete Nicknames

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Speaker 1 On today's part of my take, we have Hard Knocks episode one.

Speaker 1 We are back with hard knocks the first sign that football is right around the corner we have olympic gold medalist gable stevenson awesome story he won the uh olympic gold medal with a buzzer beater in wrestling he's also a barstool athlete so we talk about his shirts uh we have damon john our good friend damon john in studio to talk about his new audio book not a book audio book damon john in studio we have hot seat cool throne and then the Mount Rushmore of Athlete Nicknames.

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Speaker 1 and Hard Knox is back. Football is back.
It is the first sign that football is back. It's a rite of passage.
It's like the first leaf falling off of a tree in the fall.

Speaker 1 When Hard Knocks episode one drops, it feels like you get that warm feeling of, oh, I've been here before. Oh, we have maximum amount of football ahead of us.
It felt so good.

Speaker 6 Yeah, football wasn't even back at the start of Hard Knocks. Football was back about 20 minutes into Hard Knocks.
We had our first Mojo moment of the football season. Yes.
And the pads hit each other.

Speaker 6 And I still don't really know what a mojo moment is.

Speaker 6 And I think if you were to ask, if you were to inject Mike McCarthy with Truth Serum and ask him what a Mojo moment really is, he probably doesn't really know. It's just, it's a cool thing to say.

Speaker 6 And so, but when you heard those pads click together, I know that that was a mojo moment.

Speaker 1 Here's, I don't want to get Cowboys fans down about episode one because it actually was a good episode. Like, we've had a couple hard knocks busts the last few years.
I can't even remember.

Speaker 1 Last year was definitely a bust.

Speaker 1 The Mojo moment, though,

Speaker 1 it really was just Mike McCarthy being like, I want to play a clip of Austin Powers. And here's how I can segue this in.

Speaker 1 Here's how I can fit this in somehow to make it like a teaching moment, a coaching moment. I don't know.
And it gave me a flashback to Fred Hoiberg when the Bulls were really struggling.

Speaker 1 He started playing like old school in Animal House to try to loosen up the team. I just feel like that's when your coach is playing Austin Powers to try to teach you football.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 Maybe I'm just projecting here, but that feels a little off.

Speaker 6 It was a little bit off, but you're right. I think he he really likes the movie Austin Powers.
And I don't think that Mojo was from the spy who shagged me, by the way.

Speaker 6 I think that was from the other Austin Powers. So he, the first one.
So he's like, he's shoehorning two Austin Powers clips into his big team meeting at the start of the year.

Speaker 6 Yeah, it was like something that Michael Scott might do. Yeah.

Speaker 6 Where he's like, you know what's a really funny movie I enjoyed that I'm going to make you guys like Mike McCarthy is going to end up playing all the 80s sex romps for the boys.

Speaker 6 Like they're going to play PCU at some point. He's probably going to put on a clip from Porky's in the locker room.

Speaker 6 Be like, this is how things were back in my day when I was growing up in Pittsburgh, boys.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, Mike McCarthy. So

Speaker 1 a couple big picture thoughts I had was, number one, we do this every single summer in August when Hard Knocks comes out. We start hyping up the team that's on Hard Knocks.

Speaker 1 We all take everyone in our fantasy draft like two rounds too early because they're Hard Knox heroes.

Speaker 1 This year, with the fact that it's the Dallas Cowboys who always have too much hype and now they're on hard knocks,

Speaker 1 I can't see a world that the Dallas Cowboys don't win at least 15 games.

Speaker 1 And CeeDee Lamb should be a first rounder and Amari Cooper should be a first rounder and Dak Prescott, even though his arm is about to fall off, should be a first rounder. And same with Zeke.

Speaker 1 So this, like, my brain already can't handle having the Cowboys on hard knocks with their hype and then more hype on top of the hype.

Speaker 1 And I'm just, I mean, they're they're they're they're they are going to win the the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 And obviously, in my deep down, like thoughts, I know they're going to probably win like five games, but right now I'm sitting here like, yep, Jerry Jones, he doesn't have to kill a man, he can just wait until the second weekend of February because they're going all the way, baby.

Speaker 6 Yeah, and Dan, Dan fucking Quinn is back. That's what I'm going to start calling him this year because that guy is dropping all the F-bombs in the world.
He's got the hat backwards.

Speaker 6 This is a new improved Dan Quinn that we're looking at. He's rebuilding himself this year.

Speaker 6 I think he's really taking the opportunity to not be the head coach, where now he can get back to being aggressive, Dan Quinn, the defensive coordinator.

Speaker 6 I mean, I don't think he took the backwards hat off the entire time. Colin Coward would have a stroke trying to watch him coach defense, but Dan Quinn is back big time.

Speaker 6 Zeke, I actually do think that Zeke is going to be back this season. He looks good.
He looks, he's, it's Fizziel Elliott this year. The dude has the six-pack back, he doesn't have the belly anymore.

Speaker 1 What? Fizzy Elliott was

Speaker 1 please don't. No, no, it's it.
No, please don't. I know.

Speaker 1 I heard you. Please don't.
No, no.

Speaker 6 We're going to make this happen.

Speaker 1 He does look skinny, though.

Speaker 6 By the way, he looks skinny.

Speaker 1 He looks skinny.

Speaker 6 He looks very skinny. I don't think that the eat motion where he's eating the soup or the cereal, that doesn't work for a guy that's back to being skinny again.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no.

Speaker 6 You're like sipping on a green juice.

Speaker 1 He looks skinny. I noticed it before they talked about him looking skinny.
Like when you first saw him come on the screen.

Speaker 6 I have a question for you, pft uh suss are not buying another man a birthday gift uh they have birthday week on the cowboys it's like back-to-back dak and and zeke uh i i think it's i think it's just boys being boys yeah i'll put it this way if you're at camp with somebody then yeah buy them a gift watching zeke trying to wrap the gift by the way was very funny just buy a bag dude just buy a bag he should have gotten a bigger bag to put dak's birthday bag in yeah he it was um like the YouTube going on YouTube.

Speaker 1 Everyone has been there. It's it's wrapping a gift and tying a bow tie.

Speaker 1 Those are the two things that every person has gone on YouTube being like, Let me just fire this up real quick and I'll be able to figure it out. And then it always goes too fast.

Speaker 1 But I actually think they did that on purpose. Billy pointed it out because last year, remember, was the famous birthday party between the two of them during the COVID lockdown.

Speaker 1 So this year they were like, let's make a real note of it. They were just getting each other presents here.

Speaker 1 I think, so, alright, so the number one moment from the entire episode, we have to give it to the,

Speaker 1 I want to try the cake.

Speaker 1 The offensive lineman who is huffing and puffing.

Speaker 1 I can't remember who it was. I think he was a practice squad last year, but he, that moment was so fucking good.
Isaac

Speaker 1 Alarkon,

Speaker 1 can you get that pronunciation for me, Jake? Huffing and puffing, being like, I want to try the cake.

Speaker 1 I want to try the cake was so fucking good but here's my question the it feels like we have a little tension already Mike McCarthy and Dak Prescott Jerry Jones and Mike McCarthy we had Mike McCarthy when Jerry Jones started talking about how he wanted to kill a man and then started crying and rambling Mike McCarthy was side-eyeing him being like what the fuck is this guy talking about and then like Jerry Jones coming out to the practice field and being like, hey, when can we get Dak back?

Speaker 1 Like, can he just do some short throws and stuff? I just, I don't know. It'll be interesting to see because it does, it does feel like those guys might not totally get away.

Speaker 6 There was, uh, there was definitely a little bit of tension. I think there's always tension with Jerry Jones.
You never know.

Speaker 6 Like, Jerry doesn't tell his coaches what he's about to say in the press conference in front of him.

Speaker 6 And I don't know if he was crying or if his face was just leaking from his most recent surgery, but Mike McCarthy was definitely like squirming in his seat.

Speaker 6 Mike McCarthy is not a guy that likes to see another man express emotion next to him unless it's anger. If it's anger or like pure joy, then he's fine.
But like any actual emotions, not so much.

Speaker 6 And then when Jerry gets on the phone, I actually thought that was the best scene of the episode when he got on the phone trying to see if Dak could maybe do short passes instead long, maybe he can throw like a ping pong ball or something.

Speaker 6 And then he hangs up the phone and he takes his breakfast sandwich, the biscuit with the sausage.

Speaker 1 I think it was a McGriddle.

Speaker 1 I think it was a McGriddle.

Speaker 6 It wasn't because I recognized the wrapping around it. It was like, it was something that you might find at like a Panera, like a Panera breakfast sandwich.
No, that.

Speaker 1 He takes. That was a McDonald's.
They blurred out the M. It was a McDonald's.
Oh, they blurred it? Yeah, it was a McDonald's.

Speaker 6 And then he salts.

Speaker 1 He salted his McDonald's.

Speaker 6 He dumped a whole shitload of salt onto his breakfast sausage at the end, which I'm pretty sure if you looked up the nutrition stats, Billy, maybe you can take care of that from the nutritional aspect.

Speaker 6 See what the daily amount of sodium or the amount of sodium that's contained in one sausage McRiddle is, and then we can estimate how much extra salt Jerry Jones was putting on that.

Speaker 1 I did notice he also drinks his Coffee Black. That's a fucking man after my heart right there.
That's just hard work.

Speaker 1 Salt and coffee gets the body going in the morning. What do you got for me, Jake? We're looking at all our cone.

Speaker 1 Alar con.

Speaker 1 Isaac Alarcone.

Speaker 1 I want to push back on one thing though, PFT. Mike McCarthy did show emotion when he found out that Dak Prescott's arm is fucked up.

Speaker 1 And it made me think, is a head coach finding out that their star quarterback might be injured? I think that's the most devastating news you could ever give a head coach.

Speaker 1 Like, I'm talking, you could tell them their family just got kidnapped, and they'd be like, all right, well, we'll figure out after practice.

Speaker 1 But the trainer walking up at me and like, hey, it's a muscular thing. We don't know.

Speaker 1 He got fatter in the moment. Like,

Speaker 1 he kind of, you could see him get a little winded just from that news.

Speaker 1 And it made me realize that a head coach getting that news, I need every head coach to be mic'd up when they get that type of news because it is absolutely devastating. It's like snuff porn.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I don't know if he got fatter in the moment or if his body spontaneously put on another layer because Mike McCarthy is the king of layering up in all these clips.

Speaker 6 He's got like a long sleeve t-shirt, a t-shirt underneath that, and then maybe a vest or a polo shirt on top. He's just, he looks like he's prepared for any weather.

Speaker 6 But yeah, he was like, you know, immediately he was like, fuck, you got to be kidding me. But I think we'd probably have that that same reaction if Ben DiNucci was the guy that was.

Speaker 6 Ben DiNucci did not look great in this episode of Barton.

Speaker 6 Every time they showed him actually attempting a pass, it was either an interception or it was like over somebody's head by 20 feet.

Speaker 1 Well, his, the Denucci, which I think we should call it this, is him falling backwards

Speaker 1 in the pocket and throwing the ball. Like he, he's always kind of half, his body's half falling down, trying to avoid a sack while also attempting a throw.
So I think he thinks he's Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 6 It's an extra element. It's a sidearm throw as he's turning away from the pass rush and then he misses it like three yards to the outside.
But yeah, that every clip that they showed of Danucci, it

Speaker 6 wasn't great. The other thing I noticed was, and it's going to take a lot of getting used to, is Micah Parsons wearing number 11.
That is,

Speaker 6 I was watching it. I was like, this guy weighs 205 pounds and he's a linebacker.
And then I looked up his stats and he's like 6'2 and 250 pounds. The 11 totally screws up my brain.

Speaker 1 Micah Parsons is going to be nasty.

Speaker 1 I love watching the moment where guys realize that he is a first-round talent for a reason and he's a special player when they were like, you could, you could, they had the clip of being like, holy shit, number 11 is fast.

Speaker 1 And Michael Parsons also just likes to snack, complaining that at Penn State they had snacks at the sideline in the Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 1 Like, Jerry Jones, if you watch this episode one, which I know you will, and you're listening to this show right now, get some fucking snacks on the sideline. Come on.

Speaker 1 Like, get some snacks for at least Michael Parsons. That's your first-round pick.
That's the guy that's going to fix your entire defense, allegedly, just by drafting him.

Speaker 1 Get some snacks for him because he was hungry.

Speaker 1 He was chowing down on orange slices at halftime, knowing he didn't even have to go back into the game when he was calculating how much sitting he had to do.

Speaker 1 And he was still, like, ravishingly hungry in that moment.

Speaker 6 And that's one thing that I realized is that you know preseason football sucks when like even the guys that are playing the starters are bummed out that they have to sit down and watch two and a half hours of preseason football after they get he was just like god this is gonna suck do we have to do this every week yeah and van der Esch was like yeah especially if you're injured yeah right yeah which guess what you're on the cowboys you're a linebacker you will be yeah

Speaker 6 Another thing, this is kind of like looking ahead to the future because it's something I read earlier today about Randy Gregory. So I had a little clip of Randy Gregory.

Speaker 6 A lot of people forget that he's on the Cowboys and he's active this year.

Speaker 6 He went to rehab. He's getting his life together.
But you know what they did?

Speaker 6 Like the way that he gave up smoking weed, because I think like 0.0001% of people who start smoking weed actually get addicted to weed. And I think Randy Gregory is one of those guys.

Speaker 6 But to get him to stop using drugs, he's now smoking a pack of cigarettes every day. Whoa.
So instead of smoking weed,

Speaker 6 he's just blazing through SIGs. So they should let Randy Gregory do Sigs inside in the defensive room.

Speaker 1 All right, other things, quick hitters. Kellen Moore is way too young.
Like that, when he was trying to talk to the offense at halftime of the preseason game, I was like, holy shit, this guy's young.

Speaker 1 I don't know. He's got to grow a mustache or something.

Speaker 1 Something about his look. He needs to add some age if he wants to be considered a real guy.
And I know there's young head coaches now, but he still looked very young.

Speaker 6 His baby face.

Speaker 6 Jerry likes to keep one one guy around like that at all times, like the presumptive head coach in waiting that's a lot younger and is like his guy, just to keep the head, the actual head coach on his toes throughout the season.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Let's see. I think that was about it.
Billy, Billy took notes as well. Billy, do you have some notes for us?

Speaker 6 Well, we pretty much covered a lot of it.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 The cake.

Speaker 1 The cake was awesome. Oh, and John Bones was fossil explaining his vasectomy to like a room full of alpha male 22-year-olds.
That was a great moment.

Speaker 6 Yeah, they're like, wait, so you don't come anymore. It was like you talking to all business.

Speaker 6 I'm trying to figure out exactly how a vasectomy works. I also had, there was Charlie FuckAround and High School Harry.
Yep. Like two guys that Mike McCarthy made up.

Speaker 6 High School Harry, I thought that was a nice little nod to our guy, Lil Sasquatch.

Speaker 6 I don't know what Charlie fuckaround is,

Speaker 6 but I liked hearing. I just like hearing coaches cuss because you don't get to hear that on like the NFL films and all that stuff.

Speaker 6 So anytime you hear a head coach drop an F-bomb, I think that's always a real treat.

Speaker 6 Let's see, what else?

Speaker 1 Also, it was one of the things that I've seen. Also, Mike McCarthy in that one scene when everyone's in coaching attire and he's just decided to wear like an Ed Hardy going out shirt.

Speaker 1 That was bizarre. What was he doing there? Was he just trying to prove to everyone that he's got more money than them?

Speaker 6 That was a cold special. I think he bought that.
I've seen that shirt before.

Speaker 1 And yeah, I think he had it

Speaker 1 down to the the collar. Yeah, oversized, like ill-fitting dress shirt when everyone else is wearing sweats just to be like, yeah, I'm the coach.
Don't worry about it.

Speaker 6 Oh, you know why he got upset when Dak strained his shoulders?

Speaker 6 Because like Mike McCarthy, we know he's a huge analytics guy, going back to his introductory press conference where he just made up the fact that he's been studying analytics. Yep.

Speaker 6 I think his major analytics move that he put in this offseason was just tracking Dak Prescott like wildlife.

Speaker 1 Like he was like a great white shark that he's been tagged off the coast because you know after that first practice he's like oh man dak Dak moved around too much a practice day we're gonna have to calm him down keep him on the sidelines I think realizing that Dak was not going to be able to track be tracked to practice that really put a whole wrench in his new analytic system yeah 575 he recorded a 575 that made no sense but um and and shout out to dak for having the wherewithal to not throw the cake because he was about to throw the cake and then he realized that he's got probably needs tommy john surgery so he didn't throw the cake so that was uh i think everyone was holding their breath in that moment like is dak about to throw this cake and and hurt his arm even more i just i don't know what's wrong with him i just know that when you have to start consulting like mlb training staffs that just feels bad right

Speaker 1 yeah that doesn't feel

Speaker 6 a good sign i i think we're gonna get like daily updates on dak prescott like we got with andrew luck the other year when it was like okay now he's throwing a nerf ball yeah he's throwing a high school size football now he's he uh threw an NFL football underhanded twice today and now he's going to do long toss with a with a baseball over at the Rangers facility it's going to be an ongoing saga whether or not his shoulder is going to be okay but um yeah football's back I like

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Speaker 4 Hank. My hot seat is Dennis Schroeder.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 He was offered a four-year, $80-plus million dollar deal last year with the Lakers. Get to play with LeBron James, Anthony Davis, two good players, some people say.
He rolled the dice.

Speaker 4 He rejected the deal. He said he wanted $100 million.
He bet on himself.

Speaker 4 Today, he signed a one-year, $5.9 million contract. Minimum, that's the minimum you can sign for with the Celtics.

Speaker 6 So he's betting on himself again. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, cool thing with the Celtics, it's good for the Celtics.

Speaker 4 Like, you're going to get the hungriest, you know, Dennis Schroeder you can get.

Speaker 1 Well, you know what? I

Speaker 1 always also last year was also the hungriest Dennis Schroeder. I'm always in favor of guys betting on themselves.

Speaker 1 This is the downside, but he just keeps on doubling down and betting on himself. Eventually it will come through.

Speaker 6 Has to, right?

Speaker 4 He was posting videos of him like skateboarding while he was still a free agent, which I thought was insane.

Speaker 1 Keeping his legs warm.

Speaker 6 Don't you eventually get to a place in the NBA where if you just play long enough, like a team has to offer you a contract for a lot of money, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, that is true. That's absolutely true.
It's the veteran minimum, where if you're over 10 years, you just automatically get $10 million no matter what. There we go.

Speaker 1 Call it the Jawan Howard rule.

Speaker 6 So he's going to bet on himself for how many more years does he have? Another like...

Speaker 1 Well, this one year.

Speaker 6 Yeah, but I'm saying like to get to the 10 years.

Speaker 3 How old is he?

Speaker 1 Whatever. Let's just say he's got four more years of betting on himself.
27. 27.
Very close, Hank.

Speaker 1 Four more years of betting on himself, then he officially, the bet will will come through, and he'll just be in the NBA until he decides that he's done with the NBA.

Speaker 6 I love it because he was trying to speak it into existence because I think at the time when he said that he wanted 100 mil, everybody was like, what the hell? There's no chance that he gets it.

Speaker 6 But by putting that out there into the universe, they call that the secret, right?

Speaker 6 If you just pretend to be something, like we pretend to be the best sports podcast, we've done it long enough that it's actually come true for us.

Speaker 1 Yes. Exactly.
So good luck, Dennis Schroeder.

Speaker 4 And then staying on.

Speaker 1 Also, your name is Dennis, which is just funny. Like, Dennis, and maybe that's just because of Dennis the Menace, but Dennis is a skunk character.

Speaker 4 Those are

Speaker 1 Dennis Robin, but he was the worm.

Speaker 6 I don't know. We need to work on a rebrand for Dennis Schroeder because I think a solid nickname for him could help him get up to that next level.

Speaker 4 Like Dennis Flies in Boston, though.

Speaker 1 Dennis, yeah. Dennis Leary.
Yeah. Yeah.
Okay. Yeah.
He's just changed his name to Dennis Leary. And we're like, that guy's funny.

Speaker 1 Or Dennis

Speaker 6 and get like a gold tooth. Yeah.

Speaker 1 He also plays a good firefighter, right? Wasn't that Dennis Leary?

Speaker 4 Yeah, I think so.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he backdrafted.

Speaker 4 Truck commercials. No,

Speaker 6 bad truck commercials. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Not our truck commercials. Not our truck.
All right. You're cool thrown.

Speaker 4 Ben Simmons.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Happy learned how to putt.

Speaker 1 He's taking our advice.

Speaker 4 He posted a video of him and Rondo, two of the most lethal shooters in NBA history, just fucking wetting threes, both back to back to back. I think they hit like eight in a row.

Speaker 1 It was three and two, but that's pretty much eight in a row. Whatever.
I had some people pushing back when I was like, this just proves how good NBA shooters are because I really do think it's true.

Speaker 1 Like, even guys who can't shoot, Ben Simmons, I guess he can shoot. He just chooses not to.
But every guy on an NBA roster is incredible in an empty gym. Like, he just is.

Speaker 1 I bet you if you put Dwight Howard out there in an empty gym, he would make all his threes too, or most of them. That's just how good they are.

Speaker 6 I think Ben Simmons, though, he needs to just kind of walk before you run in this situation. Just post some clips of you dunking.

Speaker 6 Answer that question first. Are you afraid of baskets?

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's got to be very exhausting. I guess Sixers fans have moved on, but it's got to be exhausting to see the same thing every summer and then nothing changed.

Speaker 6 I do kind of hope, though, that he comes back next season and whatever team he's playing for, if it's not the 76ers, it will be the 76ers. I hope he's just sick.
I hope he's just sick.

Speaker 4 They can't trade him.

Speaker 1 Ben Simmons, I've said this before, and obviously he's not going to be on the Bulls now because the Bulls have got Lonzo Ball and they've made a bunch of moves, but I'm kind of low-key addicted to Ben Simmons because he really is like a a penny stock.

Speaker 1 If he could figure it out a little bit,

Speaker 1 he'd be incredible. Like he would be, you know, a starter on the all-star team.
Because he's got all the other stuff, defense, passing, dribbling, being like a

Speaker 1 matchup problem. If he could just figure out when to shoot and to have the balls to shoot, I'm telling you, invest now.

Speaker 6 I'm thinking the moon. Wabistics.

Speaker 1 We need the moon.

Speaker 6 We need Elon Musk to tweet about Ben Simmons, and then we'll just...

Speaker 1 I need Matthew Bevilaqua to sell me on Ben Simmons, a.k.a. Wabistics.
That's not a spoiler.

Speaker 6 Yeah, it's what.

Speaker 1 It's just a statement of fact from Soprano. It's like

Speaker 6 when you do an interview with Jordan Belfort. Here, sell me this Ben.

Speaker 1 Yeah, exactly. Boom, done.
Nice pun. Yeah.
Okay. PFT, your hot sequel to me.
My hot seat,

Speaker 6 my hot seat is going to be Joe Buck. Joe Buck's hosting Jeopardy this week, and everyone's going to hate him.
I think Jeopardy James actually roasted him saying that

Speaker 6 the people at Merv Griffin said whoever's going to be the next host of Jeopardy is going to have to quit their other job.

Speaker 1 And so

Speaker 6 he's saying for the sake of everybody who watches NFL football, I hope they give the job to Joe Buck. Kind of roasting him.
That's kind of Jeopardy James' thing.

Speaker 6 When he's not on Jeopardy beating people,

Speaker 6 he's just at home watching Jeopardy, making fun of the people that aren't as good as him. It's like a KD situation with him.

Speaker 1 I would miss Joe Buck very much.

Speaker 6 I would miss him too.

Speaker 1 I think that people have come around on Joe Buck for the most part, but I don't think that people realize the hole that Joe Buck would leave in Sunday afternoon announcing if he were to leave.

Speaker 6 And I think that Troy would just continue to call whoever got replaced Joe. Yes.

Speaker 6 I love hearing Troy Aikman say the word Joe on Sunday. But it looks like the guy that's going to be the next host of Jeopardy, they kind of said that they were negotiating the contract.

Speaker 6 His name's Mike Richards. That was confusing when I first heard that Mike.
I thought Mike Richards was at Colorado Rockies games full-time.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 all-time comeback if Michael Richards was the Jeopardy host.

Speaker 6 But this is a different Mike Richards. This guy was the dude who was in charge of leading the search to find.
It's like the Dick Cheney. Yeah, George Bush, I'll find your next vice president.

Speaker 6 Yeah, yeah. Guess what? No one's as good as me after vetting everybody very thoroughly.

Speaker 1 Hire myself.

Speaker 1 Hire me.

Speaker 6 Yes. So, yeah, Joe Buck is going to be on Jeopardy this week.

Speaker 8 It's just disgusting behavior from the Jeopardy fans, just not liking Joe Buck.

Speaker 1 Agree. Are you kidding me?

Speaker 6 A disgusting act.

Speaker 1 That is a disgusting act. Use that hate for for something that needs it, like Andrew Sisiano.
Yes.

Speaker 8 In four weeks, I'm going to start mentally bracing myself now because I know week one.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's on. It's on like Donkey Kong.

Speaker 1 Me and you. We're fucking facing each other.
I like Hansen, too. No, you don't.

Speaker 8 But yeah, I'm already mentally ready.

Speaker 1 Okay, good.

Speaker 6 Good. My cool throne is going to be Andrew Cuomo because he resigned and he used our advice, which is just saying, I'm Italian.
Yep. I'm not a pervert.
I'm Italian.

Speaker 6 That's the Mike Torico defense as well. It works well anytime it's been deployed.
So he did resign today.

Speaker 6 Many people are saying he's going to come back in like a couple years and try to run again after he seeks treatment for being a pervert. But yeah, Andrew Cuomo, the Italian.
I'm not a pervert.

Speaker 6 I'm Italian.

Speaker 1 I just touch people.

Speaker 6 There's no coming back from that.

Speaker 6 I need to see more mixtapes of him touching people, though.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, he did it himself.

Speaker 6 He just needs to make it a weekly thing.

Speaker 1 It's still incredible to be like, hey, guys,

Speaker 1 I'm not inappropriate. Here's a highlight reel of me touching a bunch of people.
That wasn't really what he was going.

Speaker 1 Someone should have thought that out a little bit better.

Speaker 6 I think it was very funny, though.

Speaker 1 Oh, it was hilarious, but it was not exactly what they were trying to prove.

Speaker 1 He more should have been like, I don't touch people and just deny, deny, deny, like most politicians. Yep.

Speaker 6 As long as you don't admit anything, you don't ever have to face consequences.

Speaker 1 Tough for Italian people, though, because they have to look in the mirror now and be like, am I a pervert or am I Italian? I think he's just saying

Speaker 6 it is a thin line.

Speaker 1 It is a very thin line between Italian or pervert. We should actually do like Rick Petino, Italian or pervert.

Speaker 1 Italian. Yeah, Italian.
Italian. Definitely Italian.
Absolutely. Yeah.
John Calapari, Italian or Italian. Italian.
Yeah, also.

Speaker 1 Bill Cosby, Italian or pervert.

Speaker 1 I'm going to do a pervert.

Speaker 1 And also Arword.

Speaker 6 I think he's a pervert. Yeah.

Speaker 1 How the fuck is he out of jail?

Speaker 6 Because of technicality.

Speaker 1 That's the worst technicality.

Speaker 6 They said,

Speaker 6 essentially, the prosecutor said

Speaker 6 now said, hey, Bill Cosby, if you agree to provide testimony or like background information in the civil trial, we won't use anything that you tell us in the criminal trial.

Speaker 6 Then they were like, hey, my fingers were crossed.

Speaker 6 Looks like we're going to take... That was Cliff Huxtable telling us that.
That wasn't Bill Cosby. So, yeah, just bad

Speaker 6 prosecutorial misconduct.

Speaker 1 Mike Torico. Yeah, no.
Italian or pervert prose. Both.
The rare combinations. of both.

Speaker 6 Yeah, the Venn diagram.

Speaker 1 Yeah. But I think you have to be one or the other.

Speaker 6 I think Italian Mike is the one that

Speaker 6 he can.

Speaker 1 Is he more Italian or more pervert?

Speaker 6 That's the question. So it's been so long since he's been publicly a pervert that I think he's just become Italian.

Speaker 1 Okay, and Cuomo is just pervert right now. He needs to refine his Italian heritage.
Right.

Speaker 6 Maybe, yeah, maybe go host football night in America for a while.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And people forget about it.

Speaker 6 Go through the Olympics. Also, it doesn't help that you have the nipple ring.
I think that that's what he has to do. He has to have a ceremony where he gets the nipple ring.

Speaker 1 It's a big pervert behavior. Nipple rings is like, hey, regular sex isn't good enough for me.
I want my nipples to be pierced so you can tickle them. Yep.

Speaker 1 Also, Cuomo went with the great defense of, I just love New York too much.

Speaker 1 That's why he has to. He has to have scans all over it for some reason.
He loves it so much, he had to step down because he loves New York to the point of if he could fondle New York, he would do it.

Speaker 1 But he won't because he's stepping down in 14 days, which gives a lot of leeway there for the fondling. Wait, 14 days of fondling.

Speaker 6 You can give a two weeks' notice to resigning in disgrace?

Speaker 1 Yeah, he gave two weeks.

Speaker 6 14 days.

Speaker 1 That's amazing. He's got to do a transition.
He's got to be hands-on for the transition. So

Speaker 1 who's going to replace him?

Speaker 1 It's a female. So, yeah, he's.
First female governor of all time in New York. There you go.

Speaker 6 So, what really has to happen is he's going to take his successor under his wing, both wings, and then show her the ropes.

Speaker 1 Ropes, yep, yep.

Speaker 1 It's almost like going to

Speaker 1 Top Golf with a date, showing her how to

Speaker 1 drive her. That's what Cuomo's doing right now.

Speaker 6 You really got to get out there.

Speaker 1 Here's how you sign legislation. Let me get behind you real quick and show you.

Speaker 6 You got to press the flesh for the people out there.

Speaker 1 All right, my hot seats is Twitter because Jay Cutler's back. Jay Cutler's back on Twitter.
It's been about eight years. I don't know if Twitter's ready for him.

Speaker 6 I don't think he's ready for Twitter.

Speaker 1 I don't know. They're oil and water.
But either way, Jay Cutler is back.

Speaker 1 I don't know if he knows what Twitter's like now because he was like, I'm going to get banned from Instagram, so I'm going to Twitter. I feel like Twitter is way worse than Instagram in that respect.

Speaker 1 How so?

Speaker 1 In terms of

Speaker 1 unfiltered, Jay Cutler might... Twitter might not go jive with that.

Speaker 4 Twitter, the actual Twitter.

Speaker 1 Like, app?

Speaker 1 Oh, actually, you're right. You're right.
You're right. The app is more forgiving.
You're right. You're right.
Than Instagram? Yeah. It is.
Except for if you try to post Olympic highlights. Right.

Speaker 1 Then it is less forgiving. But either way, it's good to have him back.
He actually was a great tweeter back in the day.

Speaker 6 I actually don't even remember Jay being on Twitter.

Speaker 1 Oh, he was actually very, very funny on Twitter.

Speaker 6 It's going to be tough for him to get that check mark, though, because everybody knows the real Jay Cutler is the bodybuilder.

Speaker 1 He got it. Did he? I think he got it.
Yeah, he did. I just saw a tweet.
Yes, he got it.

Speaker 6 Well, yeah, it can't be at Jay Cutler. That's reserved.

Speaker 1 Jay has tweets.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Yeah, no, he's back. He's back on Twitter.

Speaker 1 Yep, he's already going into,

Speaker 1 let's see, Williamson County Board of Education special called meeting. I wonder what that's about.
That's probably just the curriculum for next year. Yeah, definitely.
That's what I'm discussing.

Speaker 1 All right, my cool throne is the Lions because the Lions have no turds.

Speaker 1 That's Dan Campbell, said that they got no turds. So officially, they flushed all the turds out.
They have no turds.

Speaker 1 He gave credit to Matt Patricia and Bob Quinn for doing a great job, which was nice because that's rare to give the guys who you replaced credit. But all the turds are out.

Speaker 1 I'm ready for some Dan Campbell football. I think I'm expecting the Lions.
I'm going to bet the Lions in September.

Speaker 6 Yeah, so Jake and I were listening to Greenie on the way out to disc golf today as his custom. And he was saying that he's going to take the under on not only the Lions, but the Texans.

Speaker 6 And they might not win more than three or four games. This is a major Greenie-weeny alert.
If Greenie feels that strongly about something when it comes to gambling, you fade green big time.

Speaker 6 Yeah, who knows what's going to happen with the Lions, you know, once November rolls around or December, historically not the best time of year in Detroit for football.

Speaker 6 But I do think that the Dan Campbell effect is going to be very real in September. Yes.
They're just going to, you know what they're going to do? They're going to outman people.

Speaker 1 They're going to smash people in the face.

Speaker 8 He was also talking about the Browns and how they have an improved defense, their first round pick.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 Me and Jake were like,

Speaker 6 what did the Browns do to like really shore up that defense? He's like, I'm really excited about that.

Speaker 1 Well, they got Jadavian Clowney.

Speaker 6 No, but that's not what he was talking about.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I know, but that's a, like, there's nothing.

Speaker 1 Jadavian Clowney should stay in the NFL for the next decade and just hop from team to team so everyone can have that take of, well, they have Jadavian Clowney now.

Speaker 1 Like, the Titans were a terrible defense last year.

Speaker 6 If Jadavian Clowney can put it all together. Yeah.

Speaker 6 If Jadavian Clowney can do that play that he did against Michigan every single game this year, I think that the Browns will have a much improved defense. But Jake, what was Greeney talking?

Speaker 6 What did we discover that Greene was talking about?

Speaker 8 So, we're looking at who they got, obviously, Clowney, Greg Newsome, the second cornerback, Northwestern.

Speaker 1 Okay, he's actually a really good player. He's a good player.
He's actually a very, very good player.

Speaker 6 But Greene was talking about him like he's about to become the most valuable player of the NFL.

Speaker 1 He is a good player, but yeah,

Speaker 1 I understand where there's a little conflict of interest. Also, hot seat, I totally forgot, but we did play disc golf today.
We're going to be posting that on Monday.

Speaker 1 And I think ball golf, as our instructor told us, that's what he called it, ball golf. Do you guys play any ball golf? Is now on the hot seat because disc golf is the future.

Speaker 1 It is absolutely the future. We had a great time with the boys.
So tune in on Monday for Grit Week starting off.

Speaker 1 So cheap, too. It is.
Did we pay?

Speaker 4 It was like $10 to get into the state park.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's it. So we could have stayed forever.
Yeah. Yeah.
Okay. But ball golf, that was very funny.
He's like, you guys play any ball golf? Like, excuse me? Okay. Yeah.

Speaker 1 He's like, well, I had to call it.

Speaker 1 He's like, well,

Speaker 1 I have to call it something different than what we're playing. I also said you could just call it golf.

Speaker 4 When we first got there, he was setting us up with discs, and I was like, I said, I mentioned the word frisbee, and he legitimately stopped in his tracks and like stared me down.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you don't say the F1.

Speaker 4 He was like, you mean disc? I was like, oh my God. I'm so sorry.
And you're like, shout out, Kyle.

Speaker 1 I'm going to play a two-on-two game. He's like, oh, doubles? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Shout out, Kyle. Great instructor.
Awesome player.

Speaker 6 I feel like discs or the word disc is only now used in disc golf.

Speaker 4 Like, you were saying frolf, and I couldn't tell if that, like...

Speaker 1 No, you're not supposed to say that. Yeah, because you were saying that in my head, I was like, I feel like he's probably fuming right now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Absolutely was getting that was a microaggression by me. Absolutely.
Uh,

Speaker 1 Jake, hot seat quotes are wrong.

Speaker 8 Uh, hot seat is taunting. So, the NFL came out with new rules today,

Speaker 8 and automatic ejection for two taunting violations with fines and suspensions also in play.

Speaker 1 You love this, don't you? No, yeah, no, fun for the game. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

Speaker 1 I think you think it's fun for the game until it actually happens.

Speaker 6 So, when you win it,

Speaker 6 I really love taunting. But when you see Marshawn Lynch grab his penis as he's jumping in the end zone,

Speaker 6 you want to be like, there's no place for this in football.

Speaker 8 So with

Speaker 8 two violations,

Speaker 8 does that mean you can go all out on your first? Will they still fine you for the first?

Speaker 1 Oh, I don't know. It's got to be a loophole.

Speaker 1 Belichick will find the loophole. Just wait.
Whenever there's a new rule, just wait till Belichick implements it. And then you'll be like, okay.
So he'll have everyone come out and just taunt

Speaker 1 the whole first quarter and then be like, nope, no more taunting.

Speaker 6 Or he'll teach some of his players to learn how to cry on command so that they can go to the ref and have tears coming down their face, be like, that guy just taunted. Yes.
Yes. Boom, 15-yard penalty.

Speaker 6 Yes.

Speaker 8 Yeah. And Cool Throne is friend of the program, recurring guest, CJ McCollum.
He was elected MBPA president.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 8 nice. He's got a big voice.
We were in his fantasy league last year.

Speaker 1 All right, we've got to get him on. Talk to him about some, like,

Speaker 1 does it suck knowing that LeBron's still your boss?

Speaker 6 It's a good question.

Speaker 1 I would like to hear

Speaker 6 from PAPA leadership.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah, so we'll hear from him soon.

Speaker 4 That was probably part of the

Speaker 4 transfer of power. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, doesn't CJ have a winery? Yeah. So LeBron was like, all right, dude, listen, we'll set you up this winery, but I'm going to be the real boss.

Speaker 6 You know what? I'm actually a little bit worried about this because my favorite part of CJ's game now is his wine-drunk tweets that he puts out when he's watching other people play.

Speaker 6 He might have to curtail that if he's also representing those players.

Speaker 1 True, true, true.

Speaker 1 Billy, your hot seat cooled throughout.

Speaker 6 My hot seat is vegans. So, Impossible Burgers, a new study came out on them.
Turns out that they might be seriously damaging to your kidneys, according to a study.

Speaker 3 Good. At least.

Speaker 6 But the funniest part is... I love vegans.

Speaker 4 I feel bad for them. That's terrible.

Speaker 6 The funniest part is the part that may be unhealthy was their fake blood.

Speaker 1 So the thing. They put fake blood in it?

Speaker 6 Yeah, they make their burgers fake bloody. Why? What do they put in there? Why? It's like some soy protein.

Speaker 1 This is how far people will go to just not eating a fucking burger. Like, just eat the burger.

Speaker 6 And it might be harmful to your health.

Speaker 1 All right, vegans. We got to figure this out.
I can't. Wait, so, Billy, what was your source on that?

Speaker 6 Because I saw an article about that, but it was coming from a group called GMOScience.org, which only exists to say that all GMO products are bad.

Speaker 6 No, no, but the study was not by that.

Speaker 1 They just found this.

Speaker 6 They published a study. Got it.
Okay. They just commented on it.

Speaker 1 We really need a better, like, uh, fact check for studies. True.
Because you've got a lot of studies. My other.
Where do you find all these studies, by the way?

Speaker 6 One time, like when you can tell Billy is kind of bullshitting something when he prefaces the fact with, it just came out that.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And also tries to move to this cool throne while we're still on this.
Yeah. My other word.
Wait, wait, wait. Hold on.
I'll time it out. Time out.
I'll tell you what I'll tell you.

Speaker 1 I wrote time out. There are two key words.

Speaker 6 Two key phrases. Billy says, it just came out that, or that are now saying that.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So

Speaker 1 where do you find your studies?

Speaker 6 This was deep in my bag of hot seats going last. I had taunting, and I wrote it down.
I literally think Jake looked up.

Speaker 1 So tell me where you found your studies. I want to know where your studies are.
Because I would like to also read the studies.

Speaker 6 ncbli.com.

Speaker 1 Billy's a whole Billy's got a library of studies.

Speaker 6 Okay, my real hot seat is the Alliance Football Club. A new documentary is coming out.
Actually, Fire Fest is on the fire seat because it is now going to be not the worst disaster.

Speaker 1 All right, so we're going to watch that and do a documentary review.

Speaker 1 Promise.

Speaker 6 Promise. My Cool Throne is my quarterback bracket.
Sam Ellinger has been taking reps with the first team offense for the cult.

Speaker 1 That's God.

Speaker 6 I say Sam Ellinger was going to be better than Trevor Lawrence.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so we're just one of those. That was that 12-1 upset, right? Exactly.
Holy shit.

Speaker 2 First seat.

Speaker 6 Also, he's a great quarterback now with these new taunting rules. If anybody gives him horns down, boom, 15 yards.
Exactly.

Speaker 1 Billy, I love this. I'm now rooting for Sam Ellinger just as if you're a quarterback practice.

Speaker 6 Billy found a market inefficiency. Yes.
My other cool throne is the Jets' defense. They're just doing amazing in training.

Speaker 1 Can't get a bunch of

Speaker 6 secondary is awesome. Just like taking everything out of the air.

Speaker 6 It's going to be great to watch them play so well. Whoa,

Speaker 1 get to play against the Jets' offense every time. No, no, no, no.
But Matt, Metz does defense as he could right now. He's so good.

Speaker 6 Yeah, Robert Salah is such a great defensive coach.

Speaker 6 That he's got them.

Speaker 1 They're going to be

Speaker 6 like what many people said was the most talented quarterback in this draft, not Bill A.

Speaker 1 Not Billy.

Speaker 6 And they're just picking him off left and right. So that's incredible.
So they're amazing. Yeah.
And I'm rooting for them very hard. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's amazing. Good job.
By the way, just a reminder, I just popped in my head.

Speaker 1 We need to make sure that we bring Mario Party for Grit Week so we can play on the bus.

Speaker 1 So, Jake, can you be in charge of that? You got it. All right.

Speaker 6 Oh, also, as Peyton Manning taught us, Zach Wilson might just throw like two perfect spirals. Yeah.
And that's why the defense is too

Speaker 6 good job, Kevin. Too many.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And if he throws 28 interceptions his rookie year, it's fine.

Speaker 1 Okay, let's get to our interviews. We got, which one are we doing first?

Speaker 1 We're doing, let's do Gable. Let's do Gable Stevenson first.
And then we have Damon John coming up after him. Before we get to Gable Stevenson.

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Speaker 1 Gold medalist Gable Stevenson.

Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest. He is an American hero.
He is a gold medalist in the heavyweight division of wrestling. Coming straight, he went from Japan to Minnesota last night.

Speaker 1 He is joining us. It is Gable Stevenson.

Speaker 1 So, Gable, I got to start with

Speaker 1 my hand up. I said that you have the perfect wrestling name to be in the WWE.
I didn't realize that you were named after Dan Gable, the greatest wrestler of all time.

Speaker 1 That's a lot of pressure. Was that a lot of pressure growing up that you were named after Dan Gable? It'd be like naming

Speaker 1 a kid like Tom Brady or Peyton Manning. Being like, all right, go.
Arch Manning. Yeah, just try to

Speaker 1 see how you do at football.

Speaker 7 Man,

Speaker 7 no, not really that much pressure. You know what I'm saying? I am named after a legendary wrestler, but I just...

Speaker 7 Just stick to what I do best and that's win and just go out there and put on a good show for the people. So, I mean, when I got to the Olympic Games, it was kind of like

Speaker 7 a fast forward of Dan Gable to me. And just for me to go out there and keep the Gable namesake with Olympic gold on it is something special.

Speaker 1 It was awesome. It was awesome.
It was an awesome match.

Speaker 1 So can you explain to, we were trying to understand it. We're not huge wrestling guys, but the way that you won.

Speaker 1 Can you break it down how improbable it was and how like incredible to have a buzzer beater for the Olympic gold against the guy who I think, correct me if I'm wrong,

Speaker 7 he's the defending champ right uh he was the defending three-time world champ earlier in that day i i beat the early the the day before i beat the defending olympic gold medals from 2016.

Speaker 7 and so i um that's probably like the equivalent to throwing a a hail mary fourth quarter in a super bowl i guess yeah so

Speaker 6 i don't know i can't even describe how i did it but near impossible but impossible is never would you say is that the the biggest comeback that you've ever had in terms of how many points you needed to get in such a small amount of time?

Speaker 7 Oh, yeah, most definitely. Normally, in matches, I have not been down that much, but you know, I'm prepared for the worst.

Speaker 7 And so, I went, I went out there, I was, I had a big lead, and then I got rolled up a couple times. And I was thinking in the back of my head, like, oh, I'm about to take silver.

Speaker 7 And I was like, cannot happen. And I saw I looked at the clock 13 seconds.

Speaker 7 I took him down one time, and the ref let us up, which is surprising because you're supposed to have like tops, like time on top.

Speaker 7 And when he let us up, I was like, I got six seconds to pull off a miracle. And I just kept spinning the corner and he gave it up.
And it's just, it was crazy, indescribable time.

Speaker 7 It's hard to even like tell you the emotion I feel about it.

Speaker 6 I've heard that in situations like that, for like an elite athlete, time almost slows down a little bit. Is that how you felt in those final six seconds? Like

Speaker 6 you were seeing things in slow-mo, like thinking one step ahead of them? Or was it just like, let's go out there and let's make something happen?

Speaker 7 It was just like, it was just pure heart. Like, let's go out there and make something happen.

Speaker 7 It was just, when I was spinning behind, I kept, I was like peeking at the clock on one of the the sides on the corner of the corner of my eye.

Speaker 7 And as I got through, it was just like, damn, I got behind him and I looked at the clock and it was like point two. And I threw up the two because like for my points, and I just like knew I won.

Speaker 7 I ran over. Coach gave me a hug and it was just, it was crazy.

Speaker 1 And then afterwards, the,

Speaker 1 so it was, it was a guy from Georgia, the country. They, they basically protested it, right? They protested it.
They ended up losing another point. So you're even better than that.

Speaker 7 And then he like punched a wall while you're doing a backflip that's an all-time moment just through and through like an incredible incredible moment yeah man he was he was most definitely heartbroken he went backstage and he was throwing stuff he was punching every wall he was just screaming but i mean that that's how the game of wrestling is you you were he worked his whole life for to come to limit games and win and i worked my whole life to come to and but i had to think of it as like it's like a it's like a do-or-die situation and that day i didn't want to die yeah what what would you say is most improbable because as an american uh wrestling fan, my knowledge base is limited to what I saw you do.

Speaker 6 And then remembering watching Rulan Gardner back when he was going against the Russian dude in what is that Greco-Roman style, right?

Speaker 6 So like your win compared to his win, which one do you think is more impressive?

Speaker 7 I've got to say, I mean, Rulan's got a got a crazy win against Corellin. You know, Corellin was going for his fourth gold medal, and Rulan stopped him.
But I mean, in my sense, I think

Speaker 7 freestyle, in a sense, is a lot harder than

Speaker 7 Greco because you can take shots on the legs.

Speaker 7 You can get cheap points off easy shots and stuff. And so I think we both had phenomenal wins.
In my sense, I'm going to just say

Speaker 7 for me, I did a good job.

Speaker 6 For him, he did a good job.

Speaker 7 But I mean,

Speaker 7 0.2 seconds left on the clock. You can't beat this.

Speaker 1 It's crazy.

Speaker 1 All right. So this next question is totally my question, not from our good friend KB, who wrestled at Kent State.
But you have

Speaker 1 a crazy amount of offensive weapons, high crotches, low singles, ankle picks, super ducks, sweep singles. What would you say your best offensive move is?

Speaker 7 Probably my best offensive move is

Speaker 7 snap down, go behind.

Speaker 1 I use it. That's what I was going to say.

Speaker 7 Just hit the fake, hit the shot, spin till you can't spin no more. Yeah.
And just keep going.

Speaker 1 Do you have... Now,

Speaker 1 to make it relatable to our listeners,

Speaker 1 I would assume your friends, when you get drunk, they sometimes be like, I'm just gonna take, I'm gonna see if I can get him down or something. Do you just do you just body everyone?

Speaker 1 Like, in a, even in a playful way? Like, no one, does it? What was the last time one of your friends was like, I'm gonna try to to sneak attack Gable and get him to the ground?

Speaker 7 My homie, um, a couple weeks ago, like, uh,

Speaker 7 so a couple of couple of my football friends were, we were chilling at the crib one day, and he, um, one of his one of his homies came up and he was like, hey, I know I can beat you 15 seconds.

Speaker 7 Let me try it out. And so he came through and I just, I had to flip him up right quick, do my duty.
I mean, he wanted to wrestle me after that.

Speaker 7 But to this day, he still says he can beat me in 15 seconds for some reason. But normally, normally none of my homies ask to wrestle.
It's just like, there's no point.

Speaker 7 But like, I, when I do go out to places, people will be drunk and stuff.

Speaker 6 They're like, dude, let's wrestle one time, please.

Speaker 7 And I'm like, no, no, like, not right here. It's wrong time.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's, it's one of those things.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It's one of those things where you, you know, everyone's wrestled with their friends, you know, like rough housing.

Speaker 1 And then they're like, if you ever are with a real wrestler, it's so crazy how fast, quick, and like technically sound everyone is.

Speaker 1 So I wouldn't fuck with you in that respect. But I'm sure, like, like I said, when friends get drunk and they're like, oh man, I could take you down.
No, you can't, but go ahead and try.

Speaker 6 What about this? What if it was me and Big Cat and Hank all at the same time? So

Speaker 6 how much weight is that in total? Like, I'm about 190 now. Yeah, it'd be like 500 maybe total.
Like 500 pounds, the three of us all taking you on at once. Could you beat all of us?

Speaker 7 I don't know. I saw that video of y'all wrestling on Instagram.
I don't know who it was, but that was, you know what I'm saying? Someone's going to have to train y'all better than that.

Speaker 1 Oh, who is that wrestling? I don't know. I don't know.
Was that Billy when Jose took a dive? Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 7 If that's a wrestling over there at the bar steward headquarters, then

Speaker 7 I might need to bring a trainer to y'all.

Speaker 1 Does it get annoying?

Speaker 1 Do people like constantly say, oh my God, you're so incredible. Like, when are you going to play football? All the time, yeah.

Speaker 1 And what's the answer to that? I mean, you're, it's like, I'm doing pretty well with wrestling, or is there some, at some point you might consider playing football?

Speaker 1 Because I think when you watch, you do a backflip afterwards. You're like, this guy, you don't see anyone move like this.
Maybe Aaron Donald. Like, guys that big don't move like you move.

Speaker 7 I mean, I've considered playing football for the, I talked to actually Coach Fleck of Gopher Football, and he, he wanted me to come out to.

Speaker 7 before I went to Olympic Games to come play for a little bit. But I told him after the Olympic Games, I gave him

Speaker 7 an official decision. So I'm considering playing football.

Speaker 7 I would hope one day that I can get a trial with the NFL. And

Speaker 7 I mean, there's some teams that have came and have mentioned me to some agents and stuff that have sparked interest in me.

Speaker 7 So, I mean, it'll be cool to go out there and play football and be in the NFL for a little bit.

Speaker 1 I mean, if it comes, it'll be okay.

Speaker 7 If it doesn't, I got another route I can hopefully take and hopefully everything will play all right.

Speaker 6 So you're 6'1, 260 pounds. Do you have to cut weight to get to 260?

Speaker 7 or like how much weight could you put on do you think if you wanted to play football i could probably i'd probably get up to 285 with the right right meal plan right lifting maybe even probably 290.

Speaker 7 i mean my the highest i've been was 270 275 so i've been up there i mean i still i think i still keep the agility but with the right football training their training is different than ours so with their program i might i might shoot up quick but who knows what what about um your like lifting regimen what to put into perspective what do you you know squat i i do you bench i i don't even know if guys bench anymore.

Speaker 1 Like, what do you usually do in terms of, like, max weight on all the big lifts?

Speaker 7 I haven't maxed out in a long time. Last time I maxed out probably like a year ago, but I was pushing five plus on squat, deadlift.

Speaker 7 Bench, I was pushing about 375.

Speaker 7 This is about a year ago.

Speaker 7 What else is there you can max?

Speaker 1 Calf raises? Yeah, I mean, that's pretty impressive.

Speaker 1 That's pretty damn impressive.

Speaker 6 I get a pretty substantial calf raise regiment going on right now.

Speaker 1 What's the thousand club? What are the thousands?

Speaker 6 Deadlift, bench, and squat.

Speaker 1 So you can almost get to the thousand club without, you can eliminate one of the lifts and almost get to the thousand club.

Speaker 7 Hey, I can eliminate bench, and I'm already in a thousand.

Speaker 1 That's fucking insane.

Speaker 6 What's it like just being, for example, in an airplane and looking around and just knowing like I could kill anybody on this plane with my bare hands?

Speaker 6 Like I am the champion of every environment I'm in.

Speaker 7 I don't know. I haven't really thought like that.

Speaker 7 But it is, it is crazy. Like sometimes it'll come to my mind like, yeah, what if like a a random person just came up to me and like tried to like flex something and swing on me?

Speaker 7 And so, I mean, that is something to think about, but I've never thought about like, I'm like the like walking around, I never have felt like I'm the baddest man anywhere.

Speaker 7 Cause you know, say, I like to, I like to be a regular person. So, like, when my time on a wrestling mat comes, that's where I'm the baddest.

Speaker 7 Other than that, like, people will tell me outside of the outside of the mat, they're like, Gabriel, you're the legend, you're, you're, like, the baddest person on earth.

Speaker 7 But when I go out places, I just, it's just a regular me. Like, I don't, I don't mention nothing about wrestling unless someone comes up to me.
I hate

Speaker 7 even talking about wrestling outside of it. Like, I just like to, I like to chill.
Like, talk to me.

Speaker 7 I would rather talk about like Warzone and other stuff than wrestling outside of the wrestling match.

Speaker 6 What do you think of the hacker issue in Warzone right now? It's like, it's, you can't even play the game anymore.

Speaker 7 You can't because dudes are getting so good with the wall hacks and the aimbots, and they got controllers that are

Speaker 7 hitting every shot. And then keyboard players are too good.
Like, look at Tfu.

Speaker 7 I see Tfu on TikTok about eight times a day hitting sky shots and 360s off the motorcycles and kids are just too good so i i play for fun i play just enjoying myself but there's some there's some really good dudes out there that i watch but the hacking is garbage they need to get it's hard to get rid of but activism's got to do something about it do you play with uh controller controller yeah

Speaker 7 i i always feel like if you're using a keyboard and mouse like that's i i've done it a couple times just to see what it's like and the amount of like aim adjustment that you can make it's so much more accurate to play play with a mouse but i just i have more fun playing with a controller controller yeah it's more easy to play to to play with the controller like the mouse is like like you see like the mouse you can flick it real quick you can hit the shots easier and you can get your your field of view is better and if you got to monitor your fps is all that is way better so Those dudes, those dudes are something crazy.

Speaker 7 But Tifu, if you see this, I want to play one game with you. You got my word.

Speaker 1 Dear, make it happen. I agree, though, that video games should be played with controllers.

Speaker 1 I have a question about beef. Do you still have beef with AJ Ferrari?

Speaker 7 No, me and AJ Ferrari have no beef.

Speaker 7 I mean, I squashed all the, when I saw him in person at the national tournament, I squashed all the beef. You know, I don't like, I don't really do all the internet talking no more.

Speaker 7 Back in the day, I used to, but now I don't need to do all the internet talking. You know, it gives people,

Speaker 7 it gives, it gives people clout that's undeserved and that's not worked for. And so when I, when I come to show up for a wrestling match, I come to show up to dominate.

Speaker 7 I don't need to do all the internet talking.

Speaker 1 You feel my emotions on the mat and you'll see me for six, seven minutes on the wrestling mat, then I'm i'm out of there so that must have felt good when you went up against uh mason parris because he called you out and said he was going to embarrass you in the big 10 uh finals and then you you've beaten him every time you've wrestled him right

Speaker 7 yeah i mean that was a really like a heartfelt one because um i mean i didn't wrestle him at a tournament all of a sudden it turned into i was i was dodging him you know me do i look like something that would dodge someone like that most definitely And so his time came where he got whooped on live TV.

Speaker 7 He got made a fool of. And will I do it again? Most definitely, it's not even that hard with him now.

Speaker 6 I love the attitude.

Speaker 1 That's awesome.

Speaker 6 So let me just

Speaker 6 going based off your natural ability to just be like the baddest man in a room.

Speaker 6 Which of these two names would you rather work for? A guy named Vince or a guy named Dana?

Speaker 7 Start the bidding war.

Speaker 1 Yeah, let's go. Or a guy named Roger.
Yeah. Yeah, you got all the options.

Speaker 7 I got a lot of good options. And it's, I mean, it is really crazy that I made it to this point, you know.
Like,

Speaker 7 I remember young, trying to get to this point. You got to put a lot of work.
You got to put a lot of effort in. And there's a lot of times you want to give up.

Speaker 7 But like I said, your life can change in 13 seconds, just like mine did. And so it's just, I mean, three good dudes that I would like to work for.

Speaker 7 Start the bidding where I'm here.

Speaker 1 Well, it's crazy too, because wrestling, I would say, is probably the hardest sport in terms of commitment. Like you guys, what wrestlers go through to get to that level is insane.

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Because you're a heavyweight, right?

Speaker 4 Nope, never cut weight.

Speaker 1 So that you do get to pass by that part because I know that you have teammates that are like,

Speaker 1 that is straight insanity, what they do to cut weight.

Speaker 7 It is straight insanity. There's guys on the team that are doing 15 a week.

Speaker 7 And it's like, and sometimes we'll have a duel. We'll do a Friday, Sunday duel, like Purdue versus Indiana, because they're right next to each other.

Speaker 7 And guys got to make the first duel like 125 pounds. And the next duel, and then Saturday, they'll probably get up to like 130, 133.

Speaker 7 And then Sunday morning, you got to make it back to 125.

Speaker 1 Whoa.

Speaker 7 It's crazy. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So do your teammates kind of hate you because you just can always eat whatever you want?

Speaker 7 I room with the people that

Speaker 7 have got a little leeway. So,

Speaker 7 I stay away from them little dudes. You know, them little dudes, they be like four foot 11 and getting cranky and stuff, like little babies.

Speaker 6 They're psychos, yeah. When you were a kid, when you were growing up and you first realized how good you were at wrestling, what was that like in terms of the competition?

Speaker 6 Because I have to imagine that you were probably like, if you're a young kid that's just getting started wrestling and you're dominant at it, other kids' parents like freak out a little bit, like in football sometimes, where they're like, Why is this kid able to kick everybody else's ass?

Speaker 6 This is dangerous. Did you have any experiences like that where other parents were afraid of letting their kids wrestle you?

Speaker 7 Oh, yeah, most definitely. Um, there's, there's probably many, there's, there's most definitely many times where I was um

Speaker 7 a lot more dominant at a young age, and a lot of parents were scared to have their kids wrestle to me because I was really hard-headed back then.

Speaker 7 I just like I went out there to like physically like beat you up and push your head in the mat and make you look like a fool for a couple minutes.

Speaker 7 But as I got older, I knew like I changed my, I changed and I changed. Like, I evolved to the game and I try to make myself as more presentable person and go out there and respect my opponents.

Speaker 7 But at the same time, I'm gonna show you respect, but I have to dominate you for the time being. And so, it's just how the game goes: you have to go out there and win.
Like I said, it's do or die.

Speaker 7 I don't come, I don't go to the wrestling at the die. I come here to live my next life and to keep progressing.
So,

Speaker 7 yeah, first certainly definitely when I was younger, I was just a dickhead, but

Speaker 7 now, now I just now just like doing what I do.

Speaker 6 Now you're a dickhead with a gold medal.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So,

Speaker 1 well, last thing. So you are a Barstow athlete.
So the NIL, we have t-shirts that are on sale right now. Gable gets 80% of everything that we sell.

Speaker 1 So if everyone wants to support Gable, they're sick t-shirts, too. We have the comeback shirt, which shows like how much you were down with six seconds left.

Speaker 1 And then we have one that like you're an American hero. We'll tweet them out when

Speaker 1 we post post this show. But congrats, man.
It's it's awesome. That was such an awesome, like when you think of the Olympics,

Speaker 1 you know, in Tokyo, you definitely had one of the defining moments because it was such an unbelievable match.

Speaker 7 Most definitely. It was

Speaker 7 something special. Some I can't describe.
I still haven't took the time to think about it. But yeah, most definitely.
Everybody go grab your shirts.

Speaker 1 Yes. Yep.

Speaker 7 I enjoyed my time on the show. I thank you guys for letting me come on.
You know, I'll see you guys again. Always.

Speaker 4 Yeah. Of course.

Speaker 1 All right. Thanks, Gable.
Appreciate it, man. Good to meet you.
Thank you.

Speaker 7 See you later.

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Speaker 6 Different.

Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on one of our good friends, recurring guest. I think it's third time? Third time.
Third time. It's Damon John.

Speaker 1 He is back in studio.

Speaker 3 And still you're live.

Speaker 1 He's got... Oh, we got to fix something.
Some issues? We'll just run through it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay. Here we go.
And boom.

Speaker 1 We're going to not cut any of this. I love this.
All right. That's how we operate.
Probably not the same as the Shark Tank set.

Speaker 3 No, we cut a lot out there.

Speaker 1 Really? Yeah. Think about it.

Speaker 3 The pictures are an hour long. You only see eight minutes.

Speaker 1 Is there any time someone, and we're going to get to your audible original, but this just started my brain going, is there any time that someone comes on and you have to cut it because they just bomb so bad?

Speaker 3 No, the bombing is not a problem.

Speaker 3 But I think we see about 140 people and you end up only seeing 90. Okay.

Speaker 1 But no one's ever like puked on themselves or anything?

Speaker 1 Oh, they have people have fainted.

Speaker 6 How does this person puke?

Speaker 1 You just get so nervous.

Speaker 3 Lunch comes up.

Speaker 6 But it's not like what what they're pitching to you isn't like an alcohol-related product that makes them throw scale.

Speaker 1 They're just alcoholers. Yeah, right.
We've got to get there. Right.
Jesus. Shows that their product works.
Yeah. Yeah, there it is.

Speaker 6 So

Speaker 6 they cut out, like you said, you get to see eight minutes of the pitch, but it's an hour-long pitch.

Speaker 6 That to me seems really boring, having to sit through somebody talk about their company for a full hour.

Speaker 3 Yeah, but more importantly,

Speaker 3 the most boring part is generally Lori or Barbara giving great great advice before they say they're out, and the advice is 10 minutes and they're not writing a check.

Speaker 3 And, you know, I usually tell them, all right, so what are you going to do? Yeah. And that's the worst thing.
When somebody's going to tell you no, and they give you a bunch of advice.

Speaker 1 Here's why. Yeah.
Like,

Speaker 1 so you need to do this.

Speaker 3 You need to do this. You know, they always say, the theory is when you ask for advice, you get money.
When you ask for money, you get advice. Yeah.

Speaker 6 Or when Barbara just starts hitting on them and won't stop for like 25 minutes.

Speaker 3 Well, that's true, but Barbara also will at least dig into them. She'll tell them exactly why she doesn't like them.
If she thinks they have gingivitis, she's going to say it.

Speaker 1 All right, so what's advice you should give us?

Speaker 3 I'm not giving you any money.

Speaker 1 Damn it. Okay.
I see what you had about it.

Speaker 3 I knew once I just said that

Speaker 1 I was in trouble. Ah, fuck.

Speaker 6 So wait, is that because you don't have any money?

Speaker 1 That's true. Hard times?

Speaker 3 I don't have any money.

Speaker 6 Do we need to do a round of fundraising? Yes, we can.

Speaker 1 Seriously. Are you one of those rich guys?

Speaker 3 I was told that, you know, over here, I was told that you did some great stuff giving away money to a lot of people in need. Yeah.

Speaker 3 I know that I was called to say bring awareness to for different sectors that didn't think they can get the money. Yep.
But I could take money as well.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 What are your thoughts on Jeff Bezos? Should we put him to the guillotine? Why?

Speaker 3 I don't know. He's too rich.

Speaker 1 Something just happened. That's just what I see on Twitter.
He's too rich. How can he be too rich?

Speaker 1 I mean, he's too rich, man.

Speaker 1 He's playing just a tip with space. I think he's too rich.
I think he's gotten there.

Speaker 3 Just a tip? Yeah, he didn't go. I don't think he could be too rich.

Speaker 1 You don't think so?

Speaker 3 I was looking at Rockefeller's worth the other day, and they said if he was live today, it would be $400 billion. Woo!

Speaker 6 That's a lot.

Speaker 3 Ford was $200 billion. Carnegie was around $400 billion.

Speaker 6 What if one dude just gets all the money? What happens then?

Speaker 1 He wins the game, Monopoly.

Speaker 6 Is that too rich?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 6 If one person had all the money in the world, how would you try to talk him into giving you some of it?

Speaker 6 That's a good question. Or would you just kill him?

Speaker 1 For advice. I would ask him.
Yeah. For advice.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like, how could I get some of your money?

Speaker 3 How can I stop you from being so hated?

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 6 Well, that was actually going to be one of my Shark Tank pitches to you: just a space shuttle service that only takes billionaires pretty high up in the atmosphere, but not really to space.

Speaker 6 And then all the windows play

Speaker 6 videos where it looks like they're in outer space, and then you land them, and they have no idea they didn't go to space.

Speaker 1 I don't even think you have to go to space. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 It takes you up in the air.

Speaker 1 No, I don't think you have to go up in the air.

Speaker 6 Oh, the videos just turn on.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think you're sitting while you're in the rocket. GeForce inside of a studio.

Speaker 6 Basically a roller coaster in a studio. Yeah.
And the billionaires think that they just went to outer space. And then you let them off and everybody pretends to clap for them.
Wow, you're so brave.

Speaker 3 I actually like that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we run it on CNN and everything. We get them in on it.

Speaker 3 Well, how are we going to run it on CNN? Oh, we're just going to buy time.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, right.

Speaker 1 They want the whole effect. Like, you know, Bezos isn't doing it just to be in an astronaut suit.
He wants everyone told him.

Speaker 3 You wouldn't run on CNN. You would.

Speaker 3 You'd buy in-fomercial spots and you would act like it's real news. Yeah.
You didn't even have to compromise CNN.

Speaker 1 Yes. Oh, yeah, we We wouldn't want to do that.

Speaker 6 Chris Cuomo. All right.

Speaker 1 So let's go a little something. Something a little.

Speaker 3 Some of that stuff is in my Audible

Speaker 1 original series, Founding Fubu. Yeah,

Speaker 1 let me introduce this. So it's Founding Fubu.
It's a new Audible Original

Speaker 1 that goes back to how Fubu got started. So you're going back to the 90s.
You're throwing it back.

Speaker 1 You're talking about being a self-made guy who started from nothing to where you are today.

Speaker 1 So can you give us maybe a good good story from that climb? Because that's really what it's all about, right?

Speaker 1 Like there's got to be a little part of you in doing this project that gets reminiscent, nostalgic

Speaker 1 of the grind. Because once you get there, it's fun, but it's not as fun as that like everyday all-encompassing creative energy.

Speaker 3 Oh, no, there's so much stuff in there about that. So now, being that it's an audible original, there is no book.
There is no book that exists

Speaker 1 here.

Speaker 3 Neither am I. I'm dyslexic.
Now, the founding foo boo story is not about necessarily, it's about the good times, but it's also about the bad times.

Speaker 3 You know, it's about almost getting knocked out by Mike Tyson because I addressed Lennox Lewis, and Mike Tyson at a party basically said, I'm going to knock you out and poke me in the chest.

Speaker 3 And we ended up being on a flight one time, probably about four years later, and he fell asleep next to me. He didn't realize it was me.
And

Speaker 3 I spent about five hours trying to find a way to spit in his drink without him waking up and knocking my teeth out. Or the first thing I bought is

Speaker 3 somebody who had a little bit of money. I thought it was the greatest thing ever.
I bought the Lexus 360 or 380, whatever it is. But the most important part is I bought the 80 disc CD changer.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 I sat out front of Macy's with

Speaker 3 the trunk open to make sure everybody realized that I had 80 disc at any time I could play. But it was also coming up in the business.
You know, I came up on tour. I was a young kid on the tours with

Speaker 3 the first World Rap Tour. It was, and it was three of my friends.
It was me, Hype Williams, and Irv Gotti from Murder Inc.

Speaker 3 Hype Williams, the video director, and another friend of mine who they made the movie Belly About.

Speaker 3 But the way that I ended up creating FUBU was going on those tours with Big Daddy Kane, LL Cool J, the Fat Boys, and Eric B.

Speaker 3 and Rakim, and Houdini, and Run DMC, and seeing that I wanted to make the uniform for these rappers and the kids because nobody else is doing that, and I couldn't rap.

Speaker 3 And I could dance a little. Actually, Houdini had wanted me to dance and go on tour with them, but I was 15 years old.
My mother said she wouldn't let me go on a full-fledged tour.

Speaker 3 So some kid I didn't know at the time named Jermaine Dupree took my position out of California out of Atlanta.

Speaker 3 So I talk about all those stories and all turning my house into a factory, going bankrupt almost three times, sleeping next to sewing machines, and all the good stuff and all the bad stuff.

Speaker 1 Yeah. But that

Speaker 1 like what you just described is there

Speaker 1 are you do you find yourself kind of chasing something like that now?

Speaker 1 Because I think we've you know anyone who's had any type of success they'll tell you that that like that feeling of I'm on to something new

Speaker 1 and it it's all I can think about. Yeah, that there's nothing like it.
Yeah,

Speaker 3 I don't chase that now

Speaker 3 because I was smart enough to realize that I can't necessarily have all the ideas.

Speaker 3 And if I invest in younger, smarter talent that is obsessed and they know where they're going, that I can hedge my bets by investing in 50 or 20 people like that that are obsessed.

Speaker 3 Every day they wake up. They don't care about who else is in their life, whatever the case is.
They just work 24 hours a day and they're going to leave it all in the field. And

Speaker 3 that's how I live.

Speaker 1 So, I mean, that's fascinating. What age did you find that you were like,

Speaker 1 I no longer have the ability to have that grind? Was it an age or was it maybe a net worth where you're like, okay, now I can do, I'm going to transition to something else?

Speaker 3 No, I was about 35. Fubu was already super hot, but I realized I can grow foo boo.
I could try to grow foo boo, you know, but the industry is changing, but.

Speaker 3 Why don't I take some money simultaneously? And let me let me know what can I really do? What is my skill set? Was it designing clothes?

Speaker 3 No, putting a big 05 and splashing a foo boo and a bunch of jerseys is not a designer.

Speaker 3 I was a great marketer and I had manufacturing and I had distribution and I knew celebrities and I knew the stores.

Speaker 3 So why don't I just acquire a bunch of other brands that I can put into that pipeline and now divide foodoo up 10, 15 ways. And when you go into a store, at that time, obviously retail is big.

Speaker 3 You don't just see, I just don't take up real estate in the young men's department.

Speaker 3 I take up real estate in the bed in the bedding department, the fragrance department, the electronics department, because I find different foo-boos of their segment, whatever that is, in different departments.

Speaker 3 And that's how you scale, by being able to replicate yourself 10 times, 100 times.

Speaker 6 So, when you have somebody younger that you're investing in,

Speaker 6 how do you manage to have that same passion about their ideas that you had about your own ideas? That must be difficult to do to

Speaker 6 believe in somebody else so much that you're willing to throw all of your power and all of your energy into something that they have in their head.

Speaker 3 I generally don't throw all of it in. That's why.
Because I need to see that they are great executors. All of us have ideas.

Speaker 3 So if you ever hear me talk about Fubu, I don't say Foobu was the greatest product. I talk about what I did to make it appealing to people.

Speaker 3 And when you see young talent, like a lot of the people who are listening to us and listening to you all the time,

Speaker 3 they know their market or they're trying to find a way to convey to their market what they have that's of value.

Speaker 3 And if you see that they're obsessed with who they're talking about and they know their customer and they're like, this is who my guy or who my girl is, you got to just bet on that person.

Speaker 3 You got to bet that they're going to win.

Speaker 3 And even when they fail, they don't get discouraged. They don't go,

Speaker 3 I thought I had a good idea. They go, no, no, no, I didn't figure it out yet, but I'm telling you, I'm telling you, this is going to work.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 1 the times that you found yourself like on the ropes, bankrupt, or close to it, what, like,

Speaker 1 I guess, let me actually phrase it this way: a lot of successful people, they get to a point of success and they kind of forget the luck that they had along the way.

Speaker 1 Do you, how much luck did you have? Like, because I know, like, my, myself personally, like, there's a ton of luck, like, right place, right time kind of stuff that you can't replicate.

Speaker 3 I had a ton of luck.

Speaker 3 I believe there's a mixture of you were prepared for it because if you felt like you had a ton of luck, you also had a bunch of doors slamming in your face, and you realized that that was just not a journey that you were willing to go down, or they weren't ready for you, or you didn't present it to them the right way.

Speaker 3 Or you may have been too early, or you may have been too late.

Speaker 3 But absolutely,

Speaker 1 it is all about luck.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's about luck, but preparation at the same time.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because I always find when you talk to successful people, there are certain types of people who have success, and then they think that in retrospect they had all the answers.

Speaker 1 It's like no one has all the answers.

Speaker 1 There's a lot of times where anyone who had any type of success, they had a lucky break, they had something go their way when it could have gone another way, and that writes your history.

Speaker 3 If everybody had just all the answers, then

Speaker 3 Michael Jackson and Prince were still looking for hit songs by the time when they were dying.

Speaker 3 Or Cuban, you know, he hit a great big oil well, but you know, recently he doesn't have a large company you may know of. Right.
Or the lotto winners are bankrupt three years after winning the lotto.

Speaker 3 And 65% of athletes are bankrupt three years after leaving the league. That is nothing to do with

Speaker 3 how skilled they were. You weren't able to be prepared for the next thing coming down the pipe.

Speaker 6 So, who was the biggest rival of Fubu when it was still in that

Speaker 6 very much upward trajectory, kind of new startup type environment where things were, you were just starting to touch a nerve in the culture in America?

Speaker 6 Was there a rival that you had to look at and say, I'm going to beat this guy?

Speaker 3 No, not really, because we had everybody was a rival and nobody was, because we were the first to make like

Speaker 3 sports jerseys for fashion. So, was Nike a rival? Yeah, but Nike was Nike.

Speaker 3 We were kind of chiseling away at a little bit of their piece. I mean, we did $6 billion over several years.
Nike does $30 billion a year.

Speaker 3 But as we got up,

Speaker 3 some of my friends became some of my rivals, Sean John and

Speaker 3 Rockaware, and they became some of my rivals, chipping away at me. And that's the cycle generally to fashion.
A hot fashion brand lasts about five to seven years.

Speaker 3 There's the unicorns like Nike and Louis Vuitton, but you'll notice whether it's Benetton or Levi's. When I came in the market, Levi's is doing 18 billion.
I think they're doing 3 billion now.

Speaker 6 Yeah, Jinkos ate their lunch. Exactly.

Speaker 6 Are we bringing Jinkos back?

Speaker 1 You're the person I should ask.

Speaker 6 What can we do to bring Jinkos back in America right now?

Speaker 3 I have no idea.

Speaker 1 I haven't even thought of Jinko.

Speaker 6 Have you ever put on a pair of Jinkos?

Speaker 3 Those are the ones with the big bell-bottom legs.

Speaker 6 The giant legs, the ones that you could fit two Russian men inside. Approximately.
Why would they be Russian?

Speaker 3 Approximately.

Speaker 6 Why would they be Russian?

Speaker 6 They are well known for splitting a pair of jeans.

Speaker 1 It's cultural.

Speaker 6 But, okay, so you tell me if it's not Jinko's,

Speaker 6 what's the next fashion trend in America right now?

Speaker 1 I have no idea. Hmm.
So,

Speaker 3 something, Gap Kanye line? I have no idea. Yeah.

Speaker 6 Is there anything that in particular that you're invested in that you think might start doing well?

Speaker 3 Well, fashion-wise, clothing, or I mean, my Bomba socks guys are doing amazing

Speaker 6 okay those are good socks

Speaker 1 the so coming up in the 90s with with Fubu if you had to do it again today you're you know 20 year old Damon John do you think it still works or do you think it's like a totally different landscape and people just don't have the attention span or whatever it may be oh this would be I would

Speaker 3 it would be it would be 10 times bigger. Really?

Speaker 1 Yeah. You remember, I didn't,

Speaker 3 the internet didn't even exist. Right.

Speaker 3 Social media didn't exist So I had to physically walk up and get into people's face to buy to sell them something I also you know foo boo foo boo thank God has become a brand that or a Saying that's more pop culture is bigger than the brand.

Speaker 3 Yeah, everybody who does whatever it is that's foo boo But I think today what I would do is I would have probably have two representatives

Speaker 3 a guy and a girl in each high school and a guy and a girl in each

Speaker 3 college and they would probably get and I would credit them they would get probably a thousand or fifteen hundred dollars worth of foobu for five hundred dollars and they'd be able to not only have the brand themselves but they would be able to sell it and make money and I think that that would be another form of foo boo because you would have all these representatives so they would pick what they want to buy from the line they'd get it for five hundred dollars that would be a wholesale cost and it would be worth fifteen hundred dollars so they can sell some of it pay for what they want and then make a profit off of it.

Speaker 3 And I think I'd probably do that in every high school and every college.

Speaker 6 Do you think that that might be where advertising is going to go for a certain extent? Because if you look at

Speaker 6 how to sell the kids or how to make trends popular in a high school or middle school environment, who do they look up to?

Speaker 6 Well, they look up to athletes or musicians or they might look up to certain business people depending on who the individual is and what your market is.

Speaker 6 But they also look up to like who the two most popular kids in their class are, right?

Speaker 6 So if you can just make the most popular kid in their class wear your brand, chances are the rest of the school is going to follow suit to a certain extent. I absolutely believe that.

Speaker 3 You become the thing that

Speaker 3 you see most of the time and you or you admire most of the time. That's what you want to be.

Speaker 6 So you think that that would be a way that you could tap into those markets?

Speaker 6 It's just like identify who you think has like the right hustle in the high school or whatever and set them up with some food and they naturally become you know they become marketers for your brand.

Speaker 3 Well you got to let them apply.

Speaker 3 You can't look for them. You got to let them apply and say, why are you the hottest person in the school?

Speaker 3 Why should you have this ability to get a credit line and this ability to sell clothes and make money?

Speaker 3 And we'll also highlight all the top people on our site and highlight why you are the next fooboo coming up.

Speaker 1 Okay. I'm sure you get to this in your Audible original, but like, what was the moment that you said to yourself, like, all right, it happened.
Like, everything I set out to do has happened?

Speaker 1 Well, that happened earlier.

Speaker 3 That happened when I got the AD CD change.

Speaker 1 That was all you were looking for. That was it, right? I topped out right there.

Speaker 6 Did you retire for a couple weeks and just be like, I got to burn through all this time here?

Speaker 3 Yeah, no, you know, I did retire at one point for about eight months, and I just got so bored.

Speaker 1 Really?

Speaker 1 What age was that?

Speaker 3 I was around 36.

Speaker 1 You were just like, I'm done. And then you.
I was like,

Speaker 3 I can retire because I was in between, you know, Fubu slowing down and my other brands, Coogee and all the other brands picking up. And I was like, I'm going to take some time off.

Speaker 3 I think I want to retire. And it was the most boring time I've ever had in my life.

Speaker 6 Really? Did you like pick up any new activities or hobbies or like

Speaker 3 I was fishing a bunch? I was traveling a bunch. But

Speaker 3 you know, listen, after you work so hard,

Speaker 3 you can't stop thinking. So it's almost like when you have a long vacation, you go, I can't wait to get back to work.
Yeah. So try that vacation for eight months.

Speaker 1 Huh.

Speaker 3 You know, and you come back to work with a whole bunch of new ideas.

Speaker 3 But then I realized that you have to be able to...

Speaker 3 A friend of mine just actually, texted me this: he said, Did you ever get to the point where you just wanted to take off and enjoy, you know, all your hard work, your fruit, your labor, you know, your fruits of labor?

Speaker 3 And I said, Yeah. But then you get to a point where, why can't I do them both? Yeah.

Speaker 3 It'll just take a little bit longer, but why can't I time going out fishing or traveling the world as well as working, as well as doing charitable work at the same time?

Speaker 1 Well, that's like the final boss mode. It's like you make your own schedule.
Yeah. Right.
And you're there. Well,

Speaker 3 you know, a lot of people think that you can make your own schedule. It's pretty hard.

Speaker 1 I have a five-year-old. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that doesn't, yeah, that doesn't drive with it. Yeah, yeah.
No, I agree there. But look.
And I got a wife. But you can, you don't have to.

Speaker 1 If you're like, I don't want to go into the office today, you don't have to. True.
Yeah, that's pretty nice. 100%.

Speaker 6 How often do you just open up your mobile banking account and just look at your balance and then be like, cool, and put it away?

Speaker 1 Never. Never.

Speaker 6 I would do that all the time.

Speaker 1 You would? I probably.

Speaker 6 You start stressing.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 3 If you're an A-type personality, you're going to say, why is it so small? No matter matter how small it is.

Speaker 1 No matter how big problems. Right?

Speaker 3 You're going to say, well, should I be trying to make more?

Speaker 1 Or

Speaker 3 how do I make this work for me instead of me working for it?

Speaker 6 I mean, that's a good question.

Speaker 6 How should my money be working harder for me right now? Because I feel like my money is like Hank. It's just on vacation constantly.

Speaker 1 It is? Hank's right there.

Speaker 6 Hank's right there. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Well, you know, you should invest in.

Speaker 3 Listen,

Speaker 3 I got a bunch of really great billionaires that are working for me. I got Steve Jobs Jobs working for me.
I got Elon Musk working for me. I don't have to do anything.

Speaker 1 Stocks. Stocks, baby.

Speaker 6 Stocks. Are stocks going up or are we doing Dogecoin?

Speaker 6 Those are the only two options.

Speaker 3 Real estate.

Speaker 1 They're not making more land.

Speaker 3 They're not making more land. Well, they are.

Speaker 1 That's what everyone loves to do.

Speaker 3 You checked out Earth 2 yet?

Speaker 1 No. Where's that?

Speaker 3 Well, Earth 2 is, so if you guys like,

Speaker 3 you know, all this crypto stuff, Earth 2 is, I know everybody's going to start looking over Earth 2. You can start buying tiles on Earth 2.

Speaker 1 We got some.

Speaker 4 Some of the video guys here got some

Speaker 1 Earth 2. What do you mean? That's an NFT of a fake Earth.

Speaker 1 Well, is it an NFT of Earth? No.

Speaker 3 It's not an NFT of the Earth.

Speaker 4 It makes no sense. They're just selling Earth.

Speaker 1 But I'm very interested.

Speaker 4 Like you're buying Google Maps. You know, when you just Google Map and randomly go somewhere, you can then buy that.

Speaker 1 But I own it if you buy Beverly Hills.

Speaker 1 On Earth 2? What do you make of the whole NFT crypto? Like, I think, obviously, Bitcoin is real. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because enough people believe in it, it becomes real, right? But a lot of these things that are happening, like everyone just trying to get rich quick, it feels like it's not a coincidence.

Speaker 1 It happened after the pandemic. People are trying to find shortcuts and people are going to lose their money.

Speaker 3 A lot of people are going to lose their money. You know, Buffett says it best.
You know, the market takes away from the impatient and gives to the patient.

Speaker 3 The biggest problem with trading anything is now we have too much access, right? So we have our TD Ameritrades or whatever, Robin Hoods.

Speaker 1 Talk Robin Hoods.

Speaker 3 We have our crypto availability. If you buy something on one of those, the real way you're going to make money is to hold it for 20 years if it's of value.

Speaker 3 But if you buy it, you naturally look at your account and you go back and go, oh, I'm Gordon Gecko. I just made $200.

Speaker 1 Let me do a trade.

Speaker 3 And you keep trading and keep trading, keep trading. And so you make incremental money.
And sometimes you lose it when the market goes down. And that's the biggest part.
It takes away your discipline.

Speaker 3 You have to have discipline to see these things mature, just like in real estate. Now, of course, if you're playing the flippet game in real estate, that's a whole different strategy.

Speaker 3 But long holds and

Speaker 3 things like that, that's where you make the real money.

Speaker 6 Yeah. I've been hearing a lot recently that

Speaker 6 buying real estate or buying homes is not really the way to go in certain circumstances, especially like, obviously, if we're living in Manhattan, you have to plan on being here for 10 years if you want to make it worthwhile to purchase a home as opposed to renting.

Speaker 6 But I've been hearing that rental markets across the country are going to continue to go up for the next, you know, five, ten years. Is that what you've heard?

Speaker 3 Yeah, absolutely. I mean, but if you buy, you know,

Speaker 3 buy it sharply, yeah, because unfortunately the separation of wealth is the gap is getting bigger, right? And when people don't have,

Speaker 3 well, you know, a lot of intelligence where it comes to, you know, digitally and things of that nature, they're not going to make as much money. They're going to need to rent, you know.

Speaker 3 And that's what happened.

Speaker 3 But also, you got the Airbnb markets coming out that are really doing well because people no longer have to be stuck in the office all day, or they may want to work outside of the office.

Speaker 3 So rental is doing really well, yeah. I'm not a big real estate guy, though.
So,

Speaker 1 okay, so let's do our. Do you have ideas that you want to throw out? I got a couple.
Yeah, I got a couple. I have one.
So you go ahead. Okay,

Speaker 6 a store that sells shirts that have super complicated patterns. Like, I'm talking the craziest designs that you can find on, like, a dress shirt, you know, button-up shirts, party shirts, kind of.

Speaker 6 But, um, like, think about a very complicated shirt that you've seen recently, and then triple how complicated the design is. And it's called Dan Flashes.

Speaker 3 Why is it called Dan Flashes?

Speaker 6 It's just a cool name.

Speaker 1 Daniel Ricardo.

Speaker 1 That's right. No,

Speaker 6 Dan. No, it's called Dan Flashes.
Dan Flashes. It's called Dan Flashes.

Speaker 1 Total coincidence. Total coincidence.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Is the shirt sewn very complicated or just designed?

Speaker 6 The patterns are the most complicated thing that you've ever seen. They have one shirt that costs $3,000.

Speaker 6 So average price point on the shirt is $1,500, let's say. So it's just basically you make the most complicated designs possible and people pay more money for it.

Speaker 3 And why are they paying more money?

Speaker 6 Because the designs are so complicated.

Speaker 3 They're actually not a bad idea. Yeah.
But how are you going to market it?

Speaker 1 We need like an F1 driver or something?

Speaker 6 I'm thinking that

Speaker 6 we should get somebody that has a Netflix show

Speaker 6 to do a sketch comedy routine about it.

Speaker 3 Are you going to make them a partner? Are you going to make them a partner in the business? Or how much money are you going to use to start this thing up?

Speaker 6 I would do it without their knowledge of it,

Speaker 6 and then I would try to get publicity about doing it by recording it on a podcast with one of the sharks, hypothetically.

Speaker 3 But how is a person going to promote it without their knowledge?

Speaker 6 Are they wearing it? Because the show is already out. It's already been put out.

Speaker 3 So you're going to just CG maybe the shirt on the person?

Speaker 6 I know. I'm just stealing their idea that they came up with in a super popular Netflix show that they don't have trademarked.

Speaker 1 Oh, so that's out already.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I'm trying to make a hypothetical shirt into a reality.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay.

Speaker 6 Can I do that?

Speaker 3 Can you steal that idea?

Speaker 6 Yeah, if they don't have a trademark.

Speaker 3 You can steal anything you want.

Speaker 6 Okay, that's what I want to do.

Speaker 1 Why don't we steal ideas from China? Like, they steal all of our patents? Yeah. We do the back.
Like, you know.

Speaker 3 I'm sure we do. We should do that.

Speaker 6 We should start doing that.

Speaker 1 We should start stealing all of it.

Speaker 1 My idea was simply that I just wish there was an app to tell you where the ice cream truck was.

Speaker 1 Pretty simple.

Speaker 6 That's good. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like, you just always, like, I'd like to, you know, know where the ice cream truck is.

Speaker 3 What if you're in Oklahoma or something like that?

Speaker 1 There's got to be a couple of you saying there's an ice cream truck?

Speaker 3 No, I'm just saying they're 300 miles away.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I would like to at least know if I want to go where you want to stop by an ice cream store instead. No, the truck comes to you.
The truck is also better. Yeah.

Speaker 3 So you can Uber the truck.

Speaker 1 No, you go to the truck still. Well, yeah, but what about.
But it's kind of where it's a deconstructed ice cream truck.

Speaker 6 kind of, I understand what you're saying. It's always nice to know where the truck is, also for safety reasons, so you don't get hit by one.

Speaker 6 But if you had like an Uber for ice cream truck where you, enough people in a certain location hit the button, the driver's got it in their hands and they know where their customers are.

Speaker 1 I'm so, like, I love ice cream so much, I just would go to the truck instead of having the truck come to me. But we can do that idea too.

Speaker 3 Is that you do it all the time so you know that you won't get hit by it?

Speaker 1 Yeah, God. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Every time I cross the street, I check.

Speaker 6 And you know what? Because the one time you don't check,

Speaker 6 he doesn't have his chime going and he runs over your head.

Speaker 3 How about an app, if you think that you were someplace and you think you said the stupidest shit ever,

Speaker 3 that you go to an app where there's freelancers

Speaker 3 that can tell you

Speaker 3 shit that's even more stupid than what you thought you said.

Speaker 1 Oh, I like that. I like that.

Speaker 1 Or how much... Okay, so you passing on that idea, you're saying a freelancer would be like, hey, Damon, that was stupid for you to fucking pass on that.

Speaker 6 Well, he's at, you're actually talking about Twitter, the app where you're telling you how dumb you are.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we just mean freelancer.

Speaker 6 Okay, all right. How about this one?

Speaker 6 You build Titanic 2.

Speaker 1 The exact same dimension. Did you do that?

Speaker 6 No, the exact same dimensions as the original one.

Speaker 1 Was there someone who's going to do that?

Speaker 6 It's a great idea, and I've been pushing for this for a while. I think I pitched it maybe.
I might have pitched it to Barbara. That's right.
And she was very interested, by the way.

Speaker 6 We're in negotiations, but I want to give you exclusive rights to it.

Speaker 1 Oh, lucky me.

Speaker 6 Yeah, so it's Titanic 2, same dimensions, same route, and it says.

Speaker 1 Same route. Yep, same route.
Well, there's no icebergs anymore. Yes.
Good point.

Speaker 1 There's less icebergs.

Speaker 6 Still says on the bottom, even God could not sink this ship, and this is underlined three times. And there's not enough lifeboats.
I guarantee you people would buy tickets.

Speaker 1 I would.

Speaker 3 But that's the important part. There's not enough lifeboats.

Speaker 1 It has to be exactly the same.

Speaker 6 We have not learned shit about maritime safety in over a hundred years let's run it back but is the boat with different engines or the same exact boat

Speaker 1 same yeah coal everything you know what it is

Speaker 3 enough where people will actually yeah they would damn they would take they would they would say i want to take a trip back in history yes same exact way yep and there's not enough lifeboats that's the important part right because they yeah the danger it makes honestly i want to the only reason i want to invent this is so i can buy the ticket to get on i think it'd be the best roller coaster ever why don't you just buy a ticket to a regular little boat and just go now?

Speaker 3 It's not the same.

Speaker 1 It's not the same. It's not the same.

Speaker 6 Not the same. Titanic.
Why?

Speaker 1 The Titanic 2. Did you hear him? Yeah.
Yeah, I heard him. I don't think you did.

Speaker 1 You just sound another boat. Clearly, you're not listening to this.
This is going to be another boat anyway. This Titanic 2 is another boat.
It's not the same boat. It's not the same Titanic.

Speaker 1 No, go get the boat from the bottom of the ocean. No.
Yeah. And have you melted it?

Speaker 1 And then I didn't think of that. I didn't think you're getting the boat from the boat.

Speaker 3 The same thing that they've been trying to erect for the last 40, 50 years. That's the boat.

Speaker 1 You're going to get it now? Yep, gonna get it.

Speaker 6 Next one I have is:

Speaker 6 oh, it's we haven't had a good talking dog movie in a while. That was hot back in the 90s.

Speaker 3 So it's we had talking dog movies recently. Have we?

Speaker 6 Yeah. Oh, I guess maybe I'd just not seen them at all.
Clifford is coming back out, but is he talking?

Speaker 1 I don't think he's talking.

Speaker 1 He's just big-ass dogs.

Speaker 6 Okay, well, instead of that, how about Zig when everyone else is Zagging, and we'll do Air Bud, but it's with one human in a dog basketball league.

Speaker 6 And the human's Michael Jordan and the dogs are Looney Toons.

Speaker 1 Thoughts?

Speaker 3 I have absolutely no thoughts for that.

Speaker 1 Okay, all right. That's fine.
That's fine. I'm going to say no thoughts.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 Let's see. Ice golf.

Speaker 3 How long did it take you to come up with these?

Speaker 6 Like, less time than it does for me to say them out loud.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 Wait, ice golf is... the barber one, right?

Speaker 6 Which one? What did you say?

Speaker 1 Ice golf.

Speaker 3 Let me ask them. If I like one of them,

Speaker 3 you want to hit that bench for me, real quick, or no? Yeah. Well, you don't have any weights on it.

Speaker 6 That's fine, even better.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 6 How much? You want me to do reps?

Speaker 1 What if we made a gym of all fake weights that just for Instagram? I like that. Okay.
I actually like that one. Right.
Make everyone look like they're fucking jacked.

Speaker 3 I like that one.

Speaker 1 Okay, so put that one down. But wouldn't

Speaker 3 the people who look like they're really doing work, wouldn't they already be worked out because they were at real gyms?

Speaker 6 But you don't have to look strong. You just have to be lifting the fake weights, the hollow weights.

Speaker 3 Wouldn't you be looking when you

Speaker 3 if you look like you're weak and you're lifting them, it doesn't give you any credit. So, wouldn't you kind of know?

Speaker 1 But you look like you're strong, like you can't look weak lifting

Speaker 1 700 pounds.

Speaker 3 You'll notice the muscles are not bulging or not.

Speaker 1 I think you'd be looking at the 700 pounds.

Speaker 6 I think you could wear long-sleeve shirts and you know, sweatpants and stuff.

Speaker 1 Ponchos, everybody wears ponchos in the gym. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 6 Cover yourself.

Speaker 1 Poncho only, yeah.

Speaker 6 And then the other one that we had, it's actually a great idea.

Speaker 6 I think it's an app that tells you what the percentage of male-to-female ratio is at a bar when you're out on the town with your buddies.

Speaker 6 And you just hit the thing. It tells you what kind of scene it is there.

Speaker 1 They have pictures that they upload. Well, it depends.
Is it for heterosexuals? Is it for heterosexuals or is it for whoever?

Speaker 6 Anyone can use it. So you just want to.

Speaker 3 If you're in a bar that you can't tell the difference between the males and the females, then you're in a very specific type of bar where you don't want to tell that difference. That's true.

Speaker 6 You could also market it like that, too. You know, just like drop a pin and what was the name?

Speaker 1 We had a terrible name for it.

Speaker 6 It was an awful name. I think it was like prestige.

Speaker 1 No, it was like

Speaker 1 worldwide.

Speaker 3 You forgot worldwide.

Speaker 6 Prestige Worldwide. But we could change the name.
I think it's just ratio

Speaker 6 would be a good name for it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, ratio works. Sausage party.

Speaker 3 Ratio works, but why wouldn't you be able to tell the difference between the males and females?

Speaker 3 What do you mean? Or women and men in the bar?

Speaker 1 No, before you go. Oh, before you go.
When you're outside. Yeah.

Speaker 6 Or let's just say, like, we're right here. We're outside the part of my take studio, and we're thinking about going, I don't know, somewhere like Lower East Side.

Speaker 1 How about someone coming into the. No, someone's walking in the hallway right now, and they're thinking about coming in the part of My Take Studio, and they're like, oh, it's just fucking six dudes.

Speaker 1 No, thanks.

Speaker 6 So you can check before you even decide to get into a cab and go there.

Speaker 3 Yeah. You know,

Speaker 3 not a bad idea. But how are you going to

Speaker 3 know? Are you going to get a reading on who's there? Is that a voluntary reading?

Speaker 6 Yeah, other users are there.

Speaker 1 That's Big Brothers. Big Brothers.
Community. NSA.
We need the NSA to help us.

Speaker 6 We could either do NSA work or we could have the community of users that are there. So you opt-in.
Yeah, and then you just put like 60%, 40%.

Speaker 1 Yeah, have you thought about creating an app where you just opt in and then we can just steal everything from the people? Because no one reads the opt-in, right? That is true. Right.

Speaker 1 So you just, in the opt-in, it says we can steal everything from you.

Speaker 1 Something to think about, right?

Speaker 3 Yeah, you guys think about a lot of counterfeiting, stealing from people.

Speaker 6 Yeah, shortcuts.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 You're big on shortcuts.

Speaker 3 You're big on shortcuts. Yeah.

Speaker 3 So you wanted to steal something from Netflix people. You wanted to steal something from China.

Speaker 1 From everyone.

Speaker 3 You want to steal something now from everyone.

Speaker 6 How about a service where people who are very wealthy contact you just to do their dirty work on the side? Like henchmen for hire.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 I feel like henchmen should, like, that's us.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Essentially.
Contract killers. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Hank just gave us. All right, well, we've got a lot of things.
Hank gave us a lot of things. Yeah, you got lots to do.

Speaker 3 How about an app where immediately when you say this, some attorney advises you on how many years you will get in jail for each one of these concepts?

Speaker 1 I like that. Yeah, yeah.
And now you're three to five.

Speaker 3 This idea is seven to ten.

Speaker 3 This idea is the chair.

Speaker 6 I actually think that so far our two best ideas are the hollow weights, Titanic 2. I like the hollow weights.

Speaker 3 I think Titanic 2 is a horrible idea.

Speaker 6 I think people would buy it. It's not for everybody.

Speaker 1 You'll be wrong on that one, Mr.

Speaker 1 Rich Guy.

Speaker 6 Honestly, if I was extremely wealthy, I probably would not want to get onto a ship that was likely going to kill me either.

Speaker 1 But no, you'd probably get a lifeboat.

Speaker 6 Yep, that's true. Yep.
Yeah, that's true. Women and children first.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I like that. You'd be one of those rich guys.
Like, I'm more important.

Speaker 3 Who would put their women and children on that boat knowing that it's going to be real men?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Right. You know that they get it.

Speaker 6 Not cowards like you.

Speaker 1 All right. So your Audible book is out, right?

Speaker 3 It is Audible Original, yeah.

Speaker 1 No book exists. No book.
Don't use the B-words. There's no guys like us.
No book exists. Yep.
So go check it out. Yeah.
And always great to have you in studio.

Speaker 3 I have fun with you guys all the time. It is fascinating.
I go home and it haunts me. Think about it.

Speaker 1 Next time you optimize it. About 24 hours, you're going to think like, it's kind of like ripping the scab.

Speaker 3 You just keep looking at that.

Speaker 1 It's probably also life-affirming to be like, I'm doing okay if these fucking idiots are

Speaker 1 successful. It's good seeing you guys.
Yeah, all right. See you soon then.
You got it.

Speaker 1 Hey, what's going on there, pal?

Speaker 6 We saw you at the hockey game on. Do I know you guys?

Speaker 8 I'm Ryan Whitney.

Speaker 1 I got a drink named after me. Not a big deal.
Pink Whitney?

Speaker 1 That's what I thought.

Speaker 6 See you, fellas.

Speaker 1 I invented the thing, you pigeon. Pink Whitney for legendary moments.
Up, we've got Mount Rushmore.

Speaker 1 Uh, I guess the question question is: how are we doing as a group? I'm doing great. Yeah, well, let's do a quick poll around the room.
Billy, how are you doing? Billy?

Speaker 6 I'm actually a little heated.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 do tell.

Speaker 6 I think Jake stole my hot seat.

Speaker 1 Okay, all right. Your fire seat.
Your fire seat.

Speaker 8 Billy, I took a screenshot. 6.16 p.m., the last edit I made on this note.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow. Wow.
Jake Billy opened it.

Speaker 6 That's when you opened the note. Jake with receipts.
Yep.

Speaker 1 He just pulled the receipt on. He just opened a note.
He just pulled a receipt.

Speaker 6 Nope.

Speaker 1 Just made an edit and went to 807.

Speaker 1 Oh!

Speaker 1 All right, so Jake, how are you doing? I'm great. PFT, you're doing well? Yeah, really good.
I am as well.

Speaker 1 Bubba, how are you doing?

Speaker 1 Great. Okay.
And then, Hank?

Speaker 3 I'm good. I mean,

Speaker 1 I've been better. No,

Speaker 1 you good? Whatever.

Speaker 1 Are you good?

Speaker 4 All I'll say is I've moved on, positive vibes only. Okay.

Speaker 1 Will you be participating?

Speaker 4 It's up to you. You guys are my boss.
Whatever you say goes. I'm a man of my word, like I said.

Speaker 1 So it's up to you.

Speaker 4 Whatever you guys want me to do, I'll do.

Speaker 6 Nothing would make me happier than if you participate in this Mount Rushmore.

Speaker 1 I actually, the only thing that will make me happier is if Hank is happy. So whatever makes you happy, you should do.

Speaker 4 What makes me happy is making my boss happy.

Speaker 1 Okay, we're in a happy office. I like it.

Speaker 4 And I just want to say, lastly, whether or not Liam made my picks or not, you guys throwing a Mount Rushmore is bullshit, in my opinion. But that's my opinion, and I moved on from it.

Speaker 1 Okay, cool. So you're happy now.

Speaker 4 If you're happy, then I'm happy.

Speaker 1 But I'm only happy when you're happy.

Speaker 6 No, but big cat, we already said that.

Speaker 1 The only thing that makes me happy is making you happy. So if you're trying to do that, he's not making me happy.
I'm just happy.

Speaker 6 But I think he is happy because we said that we were happy.

Speaker 1 But he's got to make me happy to be happy.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 I'm happy independent of you.

Speaker 6 Hank said we were happy before Hank said that waiting for us to be happy makes him happy.

Speaker 1 I'd like to see a smile from Hank for him to make me happy. There it it is.
Wow. Huge.
That was a huge smile. All right.

Speaker 1 Now I am happy because of you, Hank, which means you're happy because I'm happy. Yep.
Y'all right. This sounds great.
All right.

Speaker 1 We're doing the Mount Rushmore of athlete nicknames, and we didn't plan this, but

Speaker 1 it should be in honor of Jonathan Kaminga, who got drafted by the Warriors and is now being called the Cumbucket. Okay.
By Warriors fans. All right.
So that's something.

Speaker 1 I like that.

Speaker 1 That's what the nicknames that probably won't stick.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 6 it probably would stick.

Speaker 6 But I think that maybe we should do a separate column for Chris Berman nicknames.

Speaker 1 What do you mean?

Speaker 6 Are any of your nicknames that you're going to choose Chris Berman nicknames?

Speaker 6 No.

Speaker 1 We're doing athlete nicknames. So

Speaker 1 you did a different task.

Speaker 6 No, no, I'm saying like nicknames that Chris Berman has given to you.

Speaker 1 I have not prepared that. You have.

Speaker 6 No, I'm just saying, I would say that we should not be taking like

Speaker 6 John Kitten Caboodle Scott Super California Listic XPL Abroches.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, no, no. It should be athlete nicknames that everyone knows.
Yes, okay. Yes.
All right, numbers. Numbers.

Speaker 1 Hank, why don't you start with your number?

Speaker 1 One.

Speaker 1 I'll go zero.

Speaker 6 I'll go double zero. Okay.

Speaker 1 Billy, Jake.

Speaker 1 What do you want? 69? No, no,

Speaker 1 four. Four.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Are you guys throwing the order? No. No.

Speaker 1 I always play non-obvious.

Speaker 1 Two.

Speaker 1 So perfect. Hank, your decision on the order.

Speaker 1 Now that made me happy, Hank. Did it not make you happy? Didn't it tickle you a little bit?

Speaker 4 If you're happy, then I'm happy.

Speaker 6 If you guys tried throwing it, it failed.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Right.
So, it makes it great. Yeah.

Speaker 4 What do you think?

Speaker 1 It's your call.

Speaker 4 All right, we'll go one, two, three, four.

Speaker 1 So me, Jilly, Big Poppy. Myself, and then PFT.
Okay.

Speaker 1 This is a tough one. This is going to be...

Speaker 1 There are so many good nicknames.

Speaker 6 We're going to leave a lot out for sure. Now, Hank, is this your pick or is this you and Bubba combined? Just curious.

Speaker 4 What do you guys want me to do?

Speaker 1 Why don't you surprise us?

Speaker 6 I want you to do whatever you want to do, Hank. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 4 First pick is Big Poppy. Got it.
Boston Legend. It's champion.
When you say that.

Speaker 6 Reverse the Curse.

Speaker 4 And it's just a great.

Speaker 4 I love it when you call me Big Papa. It's like the, you know, that's a song independent of Big Poppy.
Just a great name.

Speaker 1 Barcelon Employee. Barcelona Boy.

Speaker 4 Barcelon Employer, our co-worker. Go listen to me.
What is it? Call Me Poppy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Call Me Poppy.

Speaker 1 I think that's also like the reason why that's also such a great nickname is that you can even shorten it and it still works. You should say Poppy.

Speaker 1 People know who you're talking about. Right.

Speaker 4 And he, like, you know, he is. He's a legend.

Speaker 6 He fits the name.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 8 We are going to go with, may he rest in peace, the Black Bomb.

Speaker 1 Ooh, okay.

Speaker 4 What are you fucking? ESPN?

Speaker 1 He gave it to himself after.

Speaker 1 All right. I'm going to stick with the Lakers.
I'm actually surprised this lasted all the way to me. I think it's probably the greatest nickname of all time because it just

Speaker 1 has become his name. It is Magic Johnson.
There is no one better than Magic Johnson. Irvin Johnson becoming Magic.
I mean, it's just synonymous. Everything about him.

Speaker 1 It feels weird when Mike Wilbon says me and my friend Irvin. It's like, dude, that's magic.
He's magic.

Speaker 6 Yep, there are a couple nicknames that

Speaker 6 just have become what you call the person. I'd say Magic Johnson is one of them.
Another one would be Dr. J.

Speaker 1 Dr. J.
Dr. Dr.
J straight up.

Speaker 6 Dr. J.
No idea how he got the nickname, but it fits. It works.

Speaker 6 And then my my second pick is going to be the big unit.

Speaker 1 Randy Johnson.

Speaker 6 Good one. Good one.

Speaker 6 Was he 6'10, 6'11? Yep.

Speaker 1 Yep. And nothing, that's all it's talking about.

Speaker 6 His height.

Speaker 1 Killed a bird.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 This one is another synonymous name. It's an all-time nickname, and it is a nickname.
It's Tiger Woods. He's Eldrick Woods.
His nickname is Tiger. It was given to him when he was a kid.

Speaker 1 There's nothing better, like, when he's in his red shirt on a Sunday hunting down his prey, Tiger Woods.

Speaker 4 Italian or

Speaker 1 I don't think.

Speaker 1 Is he Italian or pervert? I think just pervert. Okay, just pervert.
All right, this is a fun new game. All right,

Speaker 1 Chili. You're up.

Speaker 6 We're going to go with Hideki Matsui, Godzilla.

Speaker 1 Okay. Good one.
Also, like a porn king. Yes.

Speaker 6 How much porn did he have? Like 40,000?

Speaker 1 Are you thinking about Matsui or Arabu?

Speaker 1 That guy, what was...

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 Matsui. I think Matsui had it.
Yeah, Matsui. Yeah.
Arabu was also a Yankee legend.

Speaker 6 Crazy. Who I think has unfortunately passed away.
I'm going to go with Pervert, by the way, for Matsui.

Speaker 1 Okay, Jackie Matsui.

Speaker 1 Well, we don't know if he's ever been to Italy.

Speaker 1 All right. Good pick.
Godzilla.

Speaker 4 Hank. I'm going to keep it within the family, the Barcelon family.
Primetime.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I had it on my list.
Great pick.

Speaker 6 Actually, don't you mean coach? Coach Prime.

Speaker 1 No, Coach Prime. Yeah.
Coach Prime.

Speaker 4 And then I will go with Stone Cold.

Speaker 1 Ooh, okay. I like Steve Austin.
I like that.

Speaker 6 I'm actually, I have not consulted Jake for this pick, but I'm going to go with the juice.

Speaker 1 Okay, O.J. Simpson, nice.
Jalen Brown. Nice, nice.
O.J. Simpson.
I like it. All right.

Speaker 1 This is one of my personal favorite nicknames of all time,

Speaker 6 just because it gives...

Speaker 1 A little love to anyone who's a little bit on the chunkier side. That would be the round mound of rebound, Charles Barkley.

Speaker 6 I had that on my list. Round Mound of Rebound, such a great fucking nickname.
Way better nickname than Sir Charles.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 6 Round Mound of Rebound. We should normalize that when talking about Charles Barkley.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 6 All right. Number three, I'm going to go with the refrigerator.

Speaker 1 I had it on my list.

Speaker 6 William, the refrigerator, Perry, the fridge.

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 6 There were all those great posters back in the day of him just standing next to a refrigerator to be like, look, I'm as big as this thing. Yep.

Speaker 6 A classic nickname. And then number four,

Speaker 1 There's so many good ones.

Speaker 6 Right. You can say this is

Speaker 6 a pander pick, but I honestly think Blake the Boat Bortles.

Speaker 1 Okay, that is a Pander pick. That's the definition of a pandemic.

Speaker 6 The best of all time. Yes.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that is the definition of a Pander pick. At least you preface it.
Actually, you know what? The great pick. Pausit Vibes.
Good pick. Thanks.
Yes. You to man.
All right, my last one.

Speaker 1 I'm going to go with Sweetness. Walter Payton.
That's just a great nickname. Another one where it's like there's only one sweetness.
And sweetness. Okay.
There's so many good ones that left off.

Speaker 1 We should go 6-D. You want to go another round?

Speaker 6 I'll go 6-deep.

Speaker 1 Do you want to go another round? Everyone down for another round? Wait, does that mess up the amount of picks, though? No, yeah. If we do

Speaker 1 another round, Hank will go three times in a row, then Jilly, then me, then PFT last. And I go two? No, you go one.
Because that's only one extra.

Speaker 6 So just one extra. Yeah, yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 Or you want to go a whole other round.

Speaker 4 If this were last week, I'd be like, this is crazy because, you know, Mount Rushmore's only four people, but I'm positive vibes. Let's do it.

Speaker 1 Okay, let's go a whole other round. Yeah, let's go a whole other round.
Here we go. Let's go.
All right. We're going all the way, Hank, all the way back around, all the way back around.
All right.

Speaker 8 We are going to go with another Laker, Shaq.

Speaker 1 Shaq. Okay.

Speaker 6 Which nickname are you going to take?

Speaker 1 Shaq. Shaq.
Shaquille O'Neal is his name. Shaq.
Yeah. I like to say Shaq O'Neal, though.
That makes people very upset.

Speaker 4 The thought crossed my mind to just do four variations of shaq's nickname like the big aristotle yeah the big cactus easel the big cactus

Speaker 4 the big shamroom superman yeah superman uh little weenie but i did not do that so how many do i have right now you have two okay uh white chocolate

Speaker 1 okay

Speaker 1 and the truth okay Paul Pierce. Good nickname.

Speaker 6 Yeah, very good. All right.

Speaker 1 You guys have another pick. We're doing one extra round.
So we're going to end with Hank. You have two at the end.

Speaker 4 I've made five picks already.

Speaker 1 No, you've made four.

Speaker 1 No, I've made five. Oh, yeah.
Okay. So you're going to do one at the end.
You're right.

Speaker 6 Sorry. We got lost in the snake again.
Yep. Yep.
Johnny Football.

Speaker 1 Good fucking nickname. That's on my list.
Good pick.

Speaker 1 This is a great draft.

Speaker 4 Having a football nickname is kind of lame.

Speaker 1 Okay. Especially when I'm playing.
I'll go with.

Speaker 1 Actually, my personal.

Speaker 1 My bad.

Speaker 1 I'll go with my personal favorite nickname that he refuses to take. Although I think he's taking it now, the Slim Reaper, Kevin Durant.
That's just a fucking great fucking nickname.

Speaker 1 The fact that he tried to force the servant on us when he has the Slim Reaper and the Tarantula. And the Tarantula.

Speaker 4 This is where a week ago, I'd be like, that's not a real nickname if he doesn't acknowledge it.

Speaker 1 But you know what, Big Hat? That's a good pick. No, he has acknowledged it.

Speaker 1 He said he's going to start going as a Slim Reaper.

Speaker 4 Got it. He said it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you're right. You're right.
Good pick. Good pick.
Okay, so we can. Okay, good.
I'm happy. You're happy, Hank.
Thanks. All right, so just a bit more.
You You almost made me not happy there.

Speaker 1 I get it. No, I know.
Which would make you not happy.

Speaker 4 Right. That's the last thing I want to do.

Speaker 1 Just so you know, like, if we had a scale here, you just dipped me all the way to two on the happiness. No, but I said if it was.

Speaker 1 And that would have made you very unhappy, which would have then in turn made me even more unhappy. Right.
So we

Speaker 1 avoided all of that.

Speaker 1 Are we all happy before we proceed? Yes. Check it in.
Yes.

Speaker 4 Yes. If they catch yes, then I'm yes.
Good.

Speaker 6 So I have two.

Speaker 1 Two. Okay.

Speaker 6 In that case, I'm going to go with

Speaker 1 the Big Hurt. Yeah.
Frank Thomas. I had it.
I had a big hurt. Great nickname.

Speaker 6 Plus, he's out there fucking everybody's wife at the gym in those commercials. Yep.
That's pretty cool. Good one.

Speaker 1 Can you explain these commercials?

Speaker 4 Because I feel like you've made a few references in the past few days and I've never seen them. I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 1 It's testosterone pills.

Speaker 6 Yeah, it's to keep you in great shape. And your wife's not going to be complaining about it either.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 You know?

Speaker 1 All right. GFT bonks.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I just wanted to

Speaker 4 sex stuff.

Speaker 1 Maybe get some clarity.

Speaker 6 I don't bonk to Frank Thomas's commercial, but I feel like

Speaker 6 when people see Frank Thomas.

Speaker 6 When women see Frank Thomas, they bonk themselves because he's on those pills.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 6 All right, so my last one. I'm going to go with this is another big-time pander pick.

Speaker 1 Oh, geez. Okay, fine.
I won't pander. Don't do it.
No, no, I don't want to. Pander.
Just do it. Pander.
I'm not going to. Pander.

Speaker 6 I will not. Pander.
So instead, I'm going to go with

Speaker 6 Doug Martin, the muscle hamster.

Speaker 6 And that was another nickname that he tried.

Speaker 1 What was your pander?

Speaker 6 to get away. I was going to go with Andres Galaraga, big cat.

Speaker 1 Big cat, yeah. Yeah.
Okay.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 I'm going to go Lil NASCAR.

Speaker 1 Maybe the greatest nickname of all time. The Intimidator.
Yeah. The Intimidator Dale Earnhardt Sr.
I mean,

Speaker 1 what are you going to do when the Intimidator comes for you?

Speaker 6 Yeah. Richard Petty, the King.
That's a pretty good name. That's pretty good.

Speaker 1 But King James.

Speaker 6 No, but it's King Petty first. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 It is really hard, though, in terms of nicknames.

Speaker 1 Like, I was thinking, like, you know, some guys have nicknames that just their real name, like, LeBron is an example, or Michael Jordan, like Air Jordan, King James.

Speaker 1 But really, LeBron and MJ are way bigger than that.

Speaker 6 I always like it when people refer to MJ as his airness.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 But you know what I mean? Like, their names way supersede their nicknames. Yep.

Speaker 6 I actually think that Michael Jordan's name is just Jordan. Yeah.
He's gotten as close.

Speaker 1 MJ or Jordan.

Speaker 6 He's gotten as close to like what Brazilian soccer players do. Yes.
Just shortening their name to one thing as will ever happen in America.

Speaker 1 All right. Go ahead.
We're going to wrap up with Broadway. Well, you want to do another round?

Speaker 3 Yes, do it.

Speaker 1 Do you want to?

Speaker 1 I got so many nicknames, but no, we don't have to. All right.
I have so many nicknames.

Speaker 8 To wrap up with Broadway Joe Naman.

Speaker 1 Oh, good one. Okay.

Speaker 1 Hank, this will be the end. And then we'll do honorable mentions, which have a lot of great nicknames as well.

Speaker 4 I will end with the answer.

Speaker 1 Great nickname. I had it on my list.

Speaker 4 You said that for every person.

Speaker 1 I have a very long list.

Speaker 4 You know what? Yeah, you're right. That's my bad.
I should have said that.

Speaker 1 Okay. All right.
I thought you're Pander Pick, by the way, which I thought about, but I was like, I can't do it. Playoff Damien.
Yep. But that's really just an inside joke here.

Speaker 1 All right. Things that got left off.
The great one. Wayne Gretzky.
I mean, you can't get better than the great one. Babe Ruth.

Speaker 1 So would you say Sultan of SWAT or the Great Bambino? I think the Great Britain.

Speaker 6 Great Bambino. I go with Great Bambino.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Also, the Colossus of Clout. That's a scene where they're all just naming him.
Yeah.

Speaker 8 And Smalls doesn't know who it is.

Speaker 1 Yes, it's the best.

Speaker 1 How about Fred McGriff, the Crime Dog?

Speaker 6 Crime Dog's a good one.

Speaker 1 Awesome one.

Speaker 1 Big Ben. Big Ben.
Ben. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Duque. He might be Italian actually.
John Hernandez.

Speaker 6 So. Yeah, no, he's Italian.
Yeah, he's Italian.

Speaker 6 Big Sexy, Bartolo Colony.

Speaker 1 Yes, Big Sexy.

Speaker 1 The Hawk, Andre Dawson. Yep.
Also, Big Game James, James Shields. Uh-huh.

Speaker 6 Meast, Sean Taylor, half man, half beast.

Speaker 1 Yep, playing. The sheriff.
Oh, you know which one that would that, oh, the sheriff, Peyton Manning? You know which one that we totally missed, that should have been on there? The bus, Jerome Bennett.

Speaker 1 I mean, that's a fucking awesome nickname. What about Bill Panna? And its colors are a bus color.
That was the coolest part.

Speaker 6 Bill Parcel's The Big Tuna.

Speaker 1 The Big Tuna.

Speaker 1 Or the Foreign Office. Or.
Whoa.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 1 Did you really mean you guys?

Speaker 1 Anyway. I was going to say a different nickname for Bill Parcels, but we're not going to say it.

Speaker 6 You were going to say C-word D-word.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, not going to say it.

Speaker 6 This one actually isn't well known, but I think it's sick. The Juggernaut, Peyton Hillis.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 6 No one, I would have said that first, but

Speaker 1 I thought that isn't well known. Beast Road, Marshawn Lynch.
The Iron Horse, Lou Gehrig. That's a great fucking nickname.
The Yankee Clipper, I think, is a great nickname, but it's pinstriped in.

Speaker 1 Liam, what are you laughing about? I think he's just Jake calling himself. Yeah, the best in the office.

Speaker 6 That's very funny.

Speaker 1 Oh, what about Larry Bird, the hick from French Lit? Great nickname. What about fucking Hakeem the Dream Elijah?

Speaker 1 Great nickname. A big ticket.

Speaker 4 I didn't want to do it. I was thinking about just doing all Boston.
I didn't want to do that.

Speaker 6 Big Country.

Speaker 1 Big Country, Bryant Reeves.

Speaker 6 I was going to say Kyle Rudolph, but yeah, also Bryant Reeves. Bryant Reeves as well.
You know what?

Speaker 6 I think it was Warriors fans that gave Corey Magetty the nickname, Corey Bad Porn Magetti, because they said not all scoring is good scoring to watch.

Speaker 1 Ah, I like that one.

Speaker 6 Oh, I realized today. I did not know this until I looked it up, but Jadavian Clowney has a nickname.
You know what it is? It's Doo-Doo. Doodoo?

Speaker 6 Doodoo Clowny because he crapped in the pool one time when he was a kid.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay. Everyone called him Doodoo after that.

Speaker 6 I feel like maybe we need to bring that back.

Speaker 1 That's like Poopy Davenport. Najee Davenport, remember? Yeah.
He crapped in his girlfriend's laundry. He had the hamper.
Yeah. I don't know if anyone called him Poopy Davenport except

Speaker 6 not actually people call him poop didn't deuce mcalester poop in a car one time that feels a little too on the nose yeah well i mean due to clowny taking the browns to the super bowl yeah um let's see what else any others that we can think of there's another big cat tony santa u.s soccer legend yep the red bomba oh dude the flying tomato that's a great fucking nickname it is sean white uh that's a great nickname there's a guy he's an old baseball player when his name was actually johnny dick shot but he went by, his nickname was Ugly Johnny Dick Shot.

Speaker 6 I feel like that's adding insult to injury. That's a good one.

Speaker 1 That's a really good one.

Speaker 6 I did look up some Chris Burma nicknames. I did not include, but I just looked at them and I laughed.
Obviously, Mike, You're in Good Hands with All-Stot. Yep.
is a great one.

Speaker 1 John Kitten Camboodle is my favorite.

Speaker 6 That's also a good one. There was Miguel Tehada They Come, Tejada They Fall.

Speaker 1 That's fucking good. That's really good.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 There is Jake Daylight Come and you got a Delhm.

Speaker 1 Yep, that might actually be my favorite now that I'm thinking about it.

Speaker 6 Matt Stump the Shaub.

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 4 Calvin Benjamin Netanyahu.

Speaker 1 Yep. Yep.
Yep. That one.
Very good.

Speaker 1 All right. I think that was a great Mount Rushmore, guys.
Does everyone feel good about this? Do you feel good about it? I feel great about it.

Speaker 4 I feel amazing about it. Are you sure?

Speaker 1 Are you? Oh, Butterbean as well. Butterbean.

Speaker 4 Great nickname. Iron Mike.

Speaker 1 Because that's the guy. Iron Mike Tyson.
Shit. Damn.
That's a fucking nice thing.

Speaker 6 I mean, boxing is filled with them. Yeah.
It is true.

Speaker 1 Sugar. Muhammad Ali, I think, is just the goat.
Yeah, he's the greatest of all time. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 You feel good? Do you? I feel great. I feel great then.

Speaker 6 Okay. I think we all feel great.

Speaker 1 We all feel good about this Mount Rushman.

Speaker 4 Tom, terrific.

Speaker 1 Six deep.

Speaker 1 We went six deep.

Speaker 1 Wasn't Julian Edelman once, wasn't he Minitron? Oh, no, flying. Mini Squirrel Squirrel.

Speaker 1 Megatron is a great nickname.

Speaker 6 We left off the Honey Badger.

Speaker 1 Yep. The Honey Badger.
Damn it.

Speaker 4 Danny Ricardo. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Damn it.

Speaker 6 Honey Badger was a big miss.

Speaker 1 Shit. Greg Kittle.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Great nickname. I almost won a third leg.

Speaker 1 Third leg Greg. Also, great nickname.

Speaker 1 Gronk, technically. Has Russell Wilson given himself a nickname? I think he tried.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 dangerous.

Speaker 1 He probably,

Speaker 6 he's got some things trademarked, I'm sure. And he tried to sell marketing.

Speaker 3 Google, it's the professor.

Speaker 1 The professor. Professor Kyle Hendricks.
Mad Dog Greg Kidd.

Speaker 6 Maddox was also.

Speaker 6 Wasn't Maddox also the professor for a little bit?

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 6 Also, the professor.

Speaker 1 Yes, the professor.

Speaker 6 Escalade, another good one.

Speaker 1 Who's just the kid?

Speaker 1 Griffey. Yes.
Griffy Jr. Yeah.

Speaker 6 Great, great nickname. So many good nicknames.

Speaker 1 Oh, man. And we left off a lot, so people are going to get mad at us, but what are you going to do? That's just what you got to live with.

Speaker 1 Part of the game. We could have just done all hockey nicknames and just added an ER.

Speaker 6 Kaner. Or an I sometimes.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 You have a faux chart. Yeah.

Speaker 6 If your name ends in a vowel, you put an R on it. Yes.
If your name ends in a consonant, you just put like a Y at the end.

Speaker 1 Yes, yes. So we should do that sometime with the Spit and Chicolates guys.
Alright, Billy, any recap? Anything that we missed?

Speaker 6 The study that I talked about earlier was paid for by Impossible Burger PFT.

Speaker 1 Wait, they paid for their own study that fucked themselves over? Exactly. Damn.

Speaker 6 So, oh, by the way, a little follow-up on this, the fastest man currently, the Italian guy, Lamont.

Speaker 6 Basically, of all the sprinters to break nine seconds, eight,

Speaker 6 nine out of the ten have tested positive or been accused of using steroids. Except Usain Bolt.

Speaker 6 So,

Speaker 1 Lightning Bolt. He's the greatest of all time.

Speaker 6 Lamont, Italian.

Speaker 1 Oh, Bong Rips Phelps.

Speaker 1 Mm-hmm. That's a good nickname.
People call him that.

Speaker 1 Is that it? Snake Plumber. Ross.
Ron. Wrestling nicknames are speaking of bombers.

Speaker 1 Oh, not Jake the Snake Plumber, but Jake the Snake actual. Yeah.
Damien.

Speaker 1 He scared me. He's a wrestler.
He had a snake in a bag.

Speaker 6 Scared the fuck out of me. Ron Laramie Tunsell.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Yes. I just dropped that one.
I just invented that one right now.

Speaker 1 All right, Billy, so is that it? Yep. Oh, Bubba.

Speaker 4 Jared Goff Syrup.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 1 Wait, he put you to sleep?

Speaker 4 No, that was just. That was your guys.
You guys.

Speaker 6 Okay, Sean Timothy McVay.

Speaker 1 Put this on me yeah don't try to flip this on me No, I just want you to be happy. Are you yeah, yeah, I feel like that was a good Mount Rushmore.

Speaker 6 We're back boys Casey Anthony Sherman.

Speaker 1 Yes. Yep.
Now we're just doing

Speaker 1 just four more weeks. No worries.
All right. Numbers.
Also heads up.

Speaker 6 Jake reminded me of this today.

Speaker 1 Only three preseason games this year. Yo, that's nice.

Speaker 6 Yeah, so now my head's all fucked up. Yeah.
Which one do we say, like, remember, this week is the dress for?

Speaker 1 I think they'll probably do two.

Speaker 1 Week two is going to be the dress for us. Okay.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 6 So that's just a PSA because I was totally blind. Set up.
That did fuck.

Speaker 1 That fucks me up, too. All right, numbers.

Speaker 1 99.

Speaker 6 69.

Speaker 1 71 is not eligible.

Speaker 1 8 to 2.

Speaker 6 Either is 2. 8.

Speaker 8 71, 66.

Speaker 1 60. I'm 2 near 5.
There's only like 95 in there.

Speaker 1 34.

Speaker 1 Big poppy.

Speaker 6 Elephants look at humans like humans look at puppies.

Speaker 6 Love you guys.

Speaker 6 Talking away.

Speaker 6 Though I don't know what I'm to say, I've saved anyway.

Speaker 6 Today's a matter of the day to find you shy away.

Speaker 6 Oh, I'll be coming for your love, okay.

Speaker 6 Take

Speaker 6 on

Speaker 6 me,

Speaker 6 take

Speaker 6 me

Speaker 6 on.

Speaker 6 I'll

Speaker 6 be

Speaker 6 gone

Speaker 6 in a day, I'll change.

Speaker 6 Needless to say,

Speaker 6 I've heard

Speaker 6 it,

Speaker 6 but be still a little way.

Speaker 6 Slowly, learning that life is okay.

Speaker 6 Say after me,

Speaker 6 it's no better to be safe than sorry.

Speaker 6 Take

Speaker 6 on

Speaker 6 me,

Speaker 6 take

Speaker 6 me.

Speaker 6 I'll be

Speaker 6 gone

Speaker 6 in a dirty day.

Speaker 6 I'll be

Speaker 6 gone

Speaker 6 in a

Speaker 6 day.