NBA Draft, MLB Trades, Mt Rushmore Of Things We Yell At Our TV Plus Runner Craig Engels

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Speaker 11 On today's part of my take, we have a ton of sports to talk about. A lot of topics, a lot of things.
The draft, the MLB trade deadline, the Olympics. We're not going to talk about quarterbacks.

Speaker 11 We have a lot of things to talk about, though. We also have a great interview with

Speaker 11 world-class runner, Craig Engels, who missed the Olympics by a few seconds, but he is the king in our hearts. We talked to him about Olympic running before track and field gets going next week.

Speaker 11 We also have the Mount Rushmore of Things We Yell at Our Television while watching sports, a great Friday show for everyone.

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Speaker 11 Today is Friday, July 30th,

Speaker 11 and I don't really know where to start because there's so many fucking sports things going on all at once. It is absolute madness.
I picked a terrible week to go on vacation.

Speaker 11 We picked a terrible week to go on vacation. But I mean, where do you want to start, PFT?

Speaker 19 Well, just a motion to not even acknowledge this as Friday.

Speaker 19 This is not a Friday for us us based on what's just happened in the world of sports like this is all all our best baseball players are no longer playing baseball for our favorite baseball teams that's that's the easiest way to say it um obviously like chris bryan it looks like he's going to the mets right who knows he's he's he's soaked in his last minutes at wrigley today it's a foregone conclusion i know it's going to happen it is It's okay.

Speaker 11 So I've been thinking about it because I had a few hours to process this.

Speaker 11 There's the business side of baseball, which I fully understand. And then there's the sentimental, your heart, the guys you root for, the guys you love, that

Speaker 11 we've talked about it a million times. We are irrational sports fans.
A love for a player makes no sense really when you actually break it down because it's like, what do you care?

Speaker 11 But I care and you care. And watching Anthony Rizzo get traded to the Yankees and watching him take his last lap with his cute fucking dog, Kevin, around Wrigley and the Ivy,

Speaker 11 it broke me up. And it sucks.

Speaker 11 And I understand the baseball side of it because they need to trade guys when they don't know if they're going to be here at the end of the year and you've got to rebuild. But goddamn, does it suck?

Speaker 19 Well, I don't think it's irrational at all to like, to be sentimental and emotional about baseball players, especially like if you've... As guys, we don't show our emotions.
It's pretty much a rule.

Speaker 19 Like

Speaker 19 unless you're watching somebody sing the national anthem, then you're allowed to cry.

Speaker 19 Or if you're you're like so mad that you throw something at your TV because of sports, those are really the only time that is, guys, we show our emotions.

Speaker 19 But when you see a player that like wins a championship for your city, like Chris Bryant did, like Max Scherzer did, and you can see them also starting to get emotional when they...

Speaker 19 when they achieve like this great goal to bring home a world series and they seem to like the city that they're in and they show you like a little bit of that same emotion that you give to them back you feel like you're not wasting your life by caring about sports so much.

Speaker 19 And so, you like share a moment with those guys.

Speaker 19 And it's, it also like reminds you of a moment in time of like, okay, I remember this postseason, how happy was the ups and the downs, the highs and the lows.

Speaker 19 And then you, you get jealous when they go and they put on another man's uniform and they're playing for another team.

Speaker 19 And like, you see other fans starting to root for them and you're like, no, no, that's my guy. You can't.
Like, I feel like I'm getting cucked by another fan base.

Speaker 19 Like the entire city of LA getting Trey Turner and Max Scherzer. It's a bad feeling, but I don't, I feel like they don't deserve them yet.
They didn't go through the bad times of those guys.

Speaker 11 Well, so that's that's what it's more. I mean, obviously, the good times are the best, and you remember those, but like Anthony Rizzo,

Speaker 11 for me, he turned everything around. And I, you know, I had season tickets, I was sitting there.
I went to 60 games in 2013, 14 when they're losing 100 games a year.

Speaker 11 And it's like he was the guy who started the turnaround. He was the

Speaker 11 catalyst. He was the captain, even though they refused to put a C on his chest because the Ricketts are fucking losers.
But those, it's the bad times to get to the good times.

Speaker 11 Those type of guys are there. I remember going to Chris Bryant Day.
I was so happy. I was so drunk.

Speaker 11 Barstow Carl and I were in Wrigleyville in 2015, blacked out at like, I don't know, 11 a.m. on a Friday because Chris Bryant, I think he struck out four times.

Speaker 11 I can't even remember, but like those moments to start bigger moments are what it's all about. And And then, yeah, it sucks.
It just sucks. But I get the business side.
I'm not going to sit here.

Speaker 11 I think it's foolish if you sit, if you, if you're like, oh, how could you trade those guys?

Speaker 11 Well, you know, what would suck more is not trading them and having them walk in free agency and then having a really shitty product for a long time. It's more just, you know,

Speaker 11 it just sucks. It just sucks.
That's

Speaker 11 to quote like someone like Billy Football, I think he would have a quote like that, like, it just sucks. Straight up, bro, not having a good time.

Speaker 11 But if you look at it a different way you can be like okay yeah we're trading them we're getting some pieces back maybe 2022 is going to be sweet no pieces suck man in the moment like i don't care i just think you're you're ignoring you're you're ignoring the sweetness of 2022 yeah no i i care like oh okay cool we got some pieces but prospects in baseball are prospects until like like obviously in the coming months i'll i'll start you know getting to know these guys start ingratiating them into my life but like right now it's like who cares cares?

Speaker 11 That's a name that is not Anthony Rizzo. Like you can't replace two 19-year-olds with Anthony Rizzo.
You just can't. So in the moment, I don't care.

Speaker 11 Like, I actually kind of hate the instant, like, oh man, we crushed this. Like, who fuck knows? Who knows? They're prospects.
The guy who was drafted before Chris Bryant, Mark Capella.

Speaker 11 Number one, 1-1 overall, never pitched in the big leagues. You never know with these guys.
You do know with an Anthony Rizzo or Chris Bryant or a Mac Scherzer and Trey Turner.

Speaker 11 You know, because you've seen it and they've done it. So that's the part that kind of hurts.

Speaker 11 Can I throw it real quick to Jake? Jake, are you,

Speaker 11 does Anthony Rizzo have his pinstripes already? Because I've demanded that. Yeah, he has them also because he's a fellow Broward County guy.
Shout out to him. Okay.
So we'll get it to him.

Speaker 11 There you go. Okay.

Speaker 19 I don't know. I don't know.
What's his dog's name? Is his dog named anything related to the Yankees?

Speaker 11 It's Kevin.

Speaker 19 His dog's Kevin, which is fucking an awesome dog for a dog name for a wiener dog to name your wiener dog kevin i think all dogs they have better names if they're either named a human name or if they're named like a plural of a noun like i met a dog named biscuits one time and that dog became my best it was like a pit bull with scars on his face but he was awesome i didn't care because he had the cutest name ever kevin is a solid name for a dog i actually i'm gonna throw this out there um

Speaker 11 you billy named his what who'd you name your dog after whitey it was some kind of

Speaker 11 a race

Speaker 11 people white nationalist no no no dude richard spencer so i have like so there's like you name your dog after old people names that don't get used anymore so like i had a great uncle named whitey and that's just like not so like whitey ford whitey bolger it's like a funny name for dog no whitey no we got it his your dog's name is is whitey Billy, I'm just going to throw this out there.

Speaker 11 If you love me, and I think that we've come a long way in the last couple months, you will change your dog's name to Rizzo. Well, it's too late now.
No, it's not.

Speaker 11 No, because because you're moving on to Rizzo.

Speaker 19 You wouldn't, you wouldn't like that because it would just be a reminder of what you've lost. Billy should just name his dog after the job that he eventually wants to have.

Speaker 19 So, like, kind of like how we were all

Speaker 19 PMT host or seal.

Speaker 19 Just name it Seal.

Speaker 11 Yeah. Yeah.
Wait, can I throw my dog thing out there now with Billy? Yes, yes, please. It's actually perfect time, Liam.

Speaker 11 Okay, so Billy, about, I don't know, two weeks ago, just moved a block away from me and he went away for a couple of days and he paid an intern here to go watch his dog and never asked me.

Speaker 11 So I don't really know what to think about that. No, he thinks that you can't take care of him.
I just want to know why. I took one.
I left for one night

Speaker 11 and it was a Tuesday night, which is a show night. And I knew Liam would be editing and I didn't want to like.

Speaker 11 make him come over to my house because I knew that would just be annoying to ask, especially just moving in. Like, you don't want to just start asking for favors just immediately.

Speaker 11 I have a question, Billy, real quick, and we'll get back to sports in one second.

Speaker 11 This intern that you paid to take care of your dog, in the price that you paid, does that include the three lizards and the hedgehog?

Speaker 11 No.

Speaker 11 Okay, so they just had to like go fuck yourself, take care of yourself, boys?

Speaker 11 They can chill for a night.

Speaker 11 Okay, all right.

Speaker 19 Wait, so you're just not feeding your frogs?

Speaker 11 No, you they you just leave them with a bunch of food. Oh, got it.
And your hedgehog? A bunch of food. You leave them with a bunch of gold coins? Yeah.

Speaker 9 Okay.

Speaker 11 All right. So back to whatever we're talking about, baseball traits.
They suck. And yeah, it sucks, but whatever.
We move on. It just was a shitty day.
Shitty day.

Speaker 11 I told everyone to please not ruin my vacation. It's been ruined a million different ways, but that's okay.

Speaker 11 And if you're sitting here thinking that we're going to talk about QB situations in the NFL, I've made it very clear we're not going to talk about that until Sunday.

Speaker 11 I'll talk about everything else, but I'm not talking about QB.

Speaker 11 I'm still hoping some people will retire between now and Sunday. That's what I want to say.
Yeah, yes.

Speaker 19 Did you see that he was they have him playing safety now in practice? Perfect. He's like running scout team wearing the red jersey.

Speaker 19 I don't know what they're going to do. The Texans, again, should just not play football this season, especially like putting Deshaun Watson, Rick Riley joked, Deshaun Watson at safety.

Speaker 19 Wow, he always struck me as more of a cover zero guy.

Speaker 11 Ooh, okay. All right.
I'll give it a, I'll give 2.2 balls.

Speaker 19 It was boobs.

Speaker 9 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 11 Or boobs, boobs. I'm sorry.

Speaker 11 The balls scale is taking over the world with balls.

Speaker 19 Balls on the brain.

Speaker 11 Balls on the brain, always. Okay.

Speaker 11 Let's talk a little NBA. The NBA draft happened tonight.
Shout out Kendrick Perkins to getting called up to the big desk.

Speaker 11 And he, I'm just saying right now, he stole the show by, I think it was like the second pick, maybe. Um, they, they threw it to him and he was like, Jalen Green is going to be a great NBA player.

Speaker 11 Just look at his suit. And I was like, yep, perk.

Speaker 11 Thank you. This is the analysis.
Like, I don't give a fuck about you showing me a few highlight tapes and being like, he comps out to this guy.

Speaker 11 Because similar to the prospects in baseball, none of us know. Like, we have an idea.
Cade Cunningham's going to be good. I'd bet bet my life on it.
But like everyone else, I don't know.

Speaker 11 So yeah, if it's going to be like, hey, is this guy wearing a cool suit or not? That's actually the analysis I want.

Speaker 19 I also like Jalen. I like the analysis of Jalen Green, but I like Kendrick Perkins a lot because he seems to have aged like 35 years in the last three years.

Speaker 19 And he's just like, he's like an old dude, but he's, I think like, what, 40 years old, something like that?

Speaker 19 But the coolest thing that he does, this is like a little life hack.

Speaker 19 If you can just use the word damn or hell in every sentence that you put out there on television, it still has that like old impact on my brain where I'm like, oh my God, they're cussing on ESPN.

Speaker 19 This guy's cool as shit. Where he's like, I and I don't know a damn thing about this guy, whatever the hell he's talking about.

Speaker 19 He'll just like, he goes back and forth from damn and hell, like Ray Allen going back from a clit to uh, what else does he look?

Speaker 11 Uh, it's from his penis to his penis to switching back and forth, from his penis to his tongue, yeah, to yeah, tongue to the clit with the penis, yes, but that's what that's how he uses the words damn and hell.

Speaker 19 And it's just, I always think it's pretty cool. I like,

Speaker 19 you can just say that like Jalen Green seems like the best prospect. And people will think that you're smart about basketball because nobody watched any of the G League Atnight games.

Speaker 19 So if you just say like, I watched a lot of film on Jalen Green, people will be like, yeah, this guy, this guy knows what he's talking about.

Speaker 19 I am concerned with Cade Cunningham, though. And it's not just because in the game that I really sat down and watched, he blew it in that one game that he had, but it's also because he's vegan.

Speaker 19 And that's that to me, like if you're a vegan going into the NBA, like Jalen Green, he's 180 pounds. He'll probably be able to put on another like 20 in a good weightlifting program.

Speaker 19 Um, Cake Cunningham is probably going to lose weight over the course of his career. So, yeah, I'm concerned about that.

Speaker 19 And I'm also, I'm interested to hear what our resident nutritionist, Billy Football, has to say about that.

Speaker 11 You can't trust a man made of plant proteins.

Speaker 11 That's his durability

Speaker 11 and his mentale.

Speaker 11 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 11 You tweeted that at me when I mentioned that he's a vegan, and you're absolutely right. I don't think, I think that's indisputable.

Speaker 11 I was a little kind of, I mean, it's he moved like one pick down from where everyone thought he was going to go, but I do think Jalen Suggs is really fucking good. So that was a steal for the magic.

Speaker 11 Also, Woge just owns the world because it feels like every, like the NFL, everyone's so scared to tip picks. Woge

Speaker 11 told everyone what the first three picks were in the draft, which I, it wasn't exactly breaking news, but he did it at like two o'clock. He just was like, yeah, this is exactly how it's going to go.

Speaker 11 And it went exactly like that. And he's doing his little thing, you know, like this team is strong, you know, is strongly interested in them.
And then they get picked. So

Speaker 11 it's weird. This is, I think, I'm going to actually say it right now.
I think this is officially the last event.

Speaker 11 that is going to be off schedule, which I'm very happy for this to be over with because it does feel weird that the NBA draft is happening this late during the Olympics, all that stuff.

Speaker 11 Like, I think this is it. I think we are finally back on schedule, boys.
I think we did it. I think this is it.
Am I missing anything?

Speaker 11 I don't think so.

Speaker 11 Yeah, I think this is officially, officially it, where we finally, like the NBA season obviously went a lot deeper. The draft got pushed back.

Speaker 11 but now we're here and now it's over we're back on a regular schedule where things happen at the regular time, and we all can get our clocks synced up, and it feels good because I was sick of it.

Speaker 11 I like having today have the NBA draft and it came out of nowhere for me is like, fuck, what's going on? Everything's going on at the same time. So

Speaker 11 we've made it. We've made it, boys.

Speaker 19 Piquet, I just had one fun trivia question. So

Speaker 19 I've been keeping this one in my back pocket for the last hour or so.

Speaker 19 See if you can solve this riddle of the draft. How many Duke players have been drafted in the first round of the draft this year?

Speaker 11 Okay, so I'm really happy you asked that because

Speaker 11 now, are we saying Duke players that played at Duke or guys that said they might play at Duke, but then decided they'd rather get paid above the board by the G League and not have to deal with Coach K belittling them and taking away their jerseys and all that stuff?

Speaker 19 That's a good question. I'm going to go with the

Speaker 19 first definition. So just all things considered, if you didn't ever play at Duke, how many players do you think got drafted out of Duke this year?

Speaker 11 Zero right now. Zero as of right now.
We're 17 picks in. It's zero is the answer.

Speaker 19 Yeah, we're waiting. Let me just double-check.

Speaker 19 Yeah, we're still at 17. Trey Murphy, he went to Duke.
Oh, no, wait.

Speaker 19 He was ACC, played at Virginia.

Speaker 11 And he's actually from Durham, North Carolina. Oh, wow.
Really? Wow. His mom went to UNC.
Check out the interview on the bench mob this week.

Speaker 19 Oh, nice plug.

Speaker 19 Yeah. Alpha male.

Speaker 11 So you have more guys from the city where that Duke's in that didn't go to Duke than actually played at Duke. Wow.
How many guys

Speaker 19 players are dodging the draft?

Speaker 11 So zero Duke players in the lottery. How many guys in the lottery were on the bench mob?

Speaker 11 Murphy was three picks off, so three.

Speaker 11 Three. Wow.
Okay.

Speaker 19 So are you guys the new.

Speaker 11 You're the new recruiting powerhouse in college basketball. I guess you have a point there, big cat.
Great to you. There's more.

Speaker 19 Yeah, there are more twice as many players named Jalen that got drafted than even took a visit at Duke probably in this first round of the draft.

Speaker 11 The only other thing I had was off the draft was Josh Primo. I just, you can't lose with a guy named Primo.
That's such a great last name. So shout out to the Spurs.
Way to go.

Speaker 11 And also the Spurs, how long, actually, let me throw this out there. How long?

Speaker 11 Because we're probably going to not win a gold because pop, whatever. Fuck the Olympics.
We'll talk about it in a second. The Spurs have not been good in a few years.

Speaker 11 How long does it take until we start questioning Spurs picks instead of doing the thing where we say, oh, well, it's a Spurs pick. It'll be great.

Speaker 11 Hmm.

Speaker 19 I feel like I'm already at that spot unless the player comes from a different country.

Speaker 19 If it's a player from like South America, or Eastern Europe, I'm like, pop does it again, strikes again, great job. It's kind of what we do with the Patriots in the NFL draft.

Speaker 19 It's like they get a running back in the third round that's like the fastest player ever to exist. I'm like, wow, how did this guy fall to them?

Speaker 19 So, Pop knows something if he's taking a player that I haven't really been able to watch any tape of.

Speaker 11 Yeah. And

Speaker 11 the first international guy that was taken in this draft was Josh Giddy from Australia.

Speaker 11 Really good guard, really good at passing, can't really shoot. Stop me if you heard that one before.

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 19 Does he dunk?

Speaker 19 Will he dunk?

Speaker 11 Shout out Ben Simmons. Dude, someone needs to fucking talk to Ben Simmons because he missed, he's not doing the Olympics because he says he's going to work on his game.

Speaker 11 We always joke about the guys who post the Instagrams being like, working on my game, like, look at me doing box jumps. Ben Simmons is the one case where he should do that.

Speaker 11 Like, just throw up one random Instagram of you shooting threes. It would do a lot for your image.

Speaker 11 Instead, he's doing like Instagram stories of him laying in a pool during the Olympics of when he was supposed to be working on his game.

Speaker 19 He hasn't done shit. You don't even need to post a picture of you working out.
Like post a picture of you walking into your psychiatrist's office.

Speaker 19 Post like at least do a Photoshop of you sitting down across the room from Dr. Melfie and be like, really figured out some ways to get some stuff off my chest.

Speaker 19 Like get people talking about you in a positive light.

Speaker 11 You could, you could post a picture of you tying your shoes in what looks like a basketball setting and people like, man, he's putting in the work. It's really anything besides just laying in a pool.

Speaker 19 Or, I mean, you could also take the option of just getting so blackout drunk every day that it starts to affect your short-term memory.

Speaker 19 And people even spin that into being like, This, okay, he's hitting the reset button on his life right now. This is good because he had something has to change with Ben Simms.

Speaker 19 I actually was hoping that he was going to go out to the Lakers just to see how that dynamic would have worked.

Speaker 19 Who knows who's going to get him right now? But instead, they got Russell Westbrook.

Speaker 11 Yeah, so Skip Bales, Kings Stay Kings, tweeted, now the Lakers have a backcourt of Westbrook and Laybrick, a nightly airball display.

Speaker 11 I am just so excited for this.

Speaker 11 It's going to be awesome to watch. It really is.
And I don't, I'm not a Westbrook hater. There are a lot of Westbrook haters.
He's probably like the most volatile.

Speaker 11 you know either you love him love him or you despise him even though he puts up great stats i'm somewhere like, I think he's good.

Speaker 11 Like, I don't think you should diminish the fact that he's very good at basketball.

Speaker 11 Yes, he does kind of suck at shooting, and yes, he will do things at times where you're like, What the hell's going on?

Speaker 11 I guess if you're a Laker fan, you're just like, Well, it's LeBron's team, so he'll at least fall in line there.

Speaker 11 But there will definitely be some moments where Westbrook will try to take over the game and LeBron will just stand there exacerbated. And it will be great to watch.
Great theater, as they say.

Speaker 19 Oh, I can't wait till the first night night where he goes like five for 27 from the field and just keep shooting and see how LeBron handles that.

Speaker 19 For a sneak peek of what we're in store for next year, I'd like to bring on a special guest.

Speaker 19 This is Skip Bayless's initial reaction. He made a video where he's just staring into his camera.
A message to LeBron James from Skip Bayless.

Speaker 19 No.

Speaker 19 No, no, no, no, no, no, LeBron. You just blew it.

Speaker 11 This husband no more fits with you than I would fit with you. This will turn into a desperate disaster.
I know you want to show the NBA world you can win with Rust when KD failed to.

Speaker 11 Not happening.

Speaker 11 You will come to regret signing off on this deal.

Speaker 19 He sounds like an evil supervillain.

Speaker 11 No, no, no, no.

Speaker 11 I actually think that that would make you feel good if you're a Laker fan, that Skip Bayless is so adamant that it's not going to work.

Speaker 19 Well, my only question is, and they might play basketball differently in Los Angeles, so maybe you can help me out. How many balls do the Lichens play with? So, okay,

Speaker 19 they play with one basketball. That was going to be the only thing I thought.
Maybe if they had two, it might work.

Speaker 11 But yeah, no, like Russell Westbrook.

Speaker 11 I actually think that's a dog on him. Yeah.

Speaker 11 I hate when people go out. Like, here's the one thing I'm going to say about Russell Westbrook that it drives me nuts when people like rip him apart.
And I get it. I understand.

Speaker 11 Like, there are times, like I said, there are times you're like, what is this guy doing? Russell Westbrook fucking cares and he gives like a lot of effort.

Speaker 11 And I think that I really do think that if you, if you look at it as like, it's LeBron's team, it's LeBron's city, it's LeBron's everything.

Speaker 11 He will make Russell Westbrook fall in line. And that in itself should work.
Like it should work.

Speaker 19 I think it's kind of like, it's the opposite. I agree with you.
I love Russell Westbrook. I'm a Russell Westbrook fan.

Speaker 19 He has bad nights shooting, but he's an exciting player to watch, especially when he just decides to go nuclear halfway through a game and just explodes on everybody. I love Russell Westbrook.

Speaker 19 I think he cares so much that he's going to be the one that gets pissed off at LeBron.

Speaker 19 I think that he's going to see like a couple of games in the middle of the season, like LeBron doing load management or whatever.

Speaker 19 And Russell Westbrook is going to get pissed off about that because he might not think that LeBron wants to win as much as he does. In which case, we're going to be in for a little like.

Speaker 19 who's Batman, who's Robin.

Speaker 19 Obviously, it's going to be LeBron, but Russell Westbrook, I don't know if he's going to be able to work in a system where he's very clearly supposed to be the Robin because he's a dog.

Speaker 11 Wait, big cat, you want your son to be like Russell Westbrook?

Speaker 11 Oh, yeah, yeah. I do.
I want my son to be

Speaker 11 as much as Russell Westbrook. Okay.
Yes. Yes.

Speaker 11 I think actually the moment that you'll have first strife is when Russell Westbrook steals a rebound from Anthony Davis and LeBron.

Speaker 11 Like when they're both going for a rebound and Russell Westbrook comes flying in so he can keep getting his triple-double. That will be fun to watch.

Speaker 19 As long as you still have Caruso, I've got faith in the team, but it's going to be, it's going to be fun to watch how those guys get along.

Speaker 11 Okay, so moving on down the line, U.S. soccer, dominant, cutter, go fuck yourself.

Speaker 11 That's it. That's all I got.

Speaker 19 Yeah, so I mean, another gold cup domination. The USA is at our best

Speaker 19 when we get to play in tournaments that we make up.

Speaker 19 uh just so that we can put trophies in our empty trophy case like we dominated the league of confederations extraordinary cup or whatever that was a couple years ago or months ago when was that i feel like that was years ago so we already beat yeah we beat mexico for some hardware now we have to beat mexico for more hardware

Speaker 19 uh i'm actually counting this as the finals pft so well yeah i mean like two north american rivals of guitar

Speaker 11 and the united states yeah i mean this was it was rivalry week I love that they can like do this where it's like you have a continent playing for a tournament and then just random teams can basically pay their way in.

Speaker 11 That was, so I was talking about it the other night in Qatar, which Iron Sharpens Iron, they're hosting the World Cup.

Speaker 11 So they essentially are like, we need to play in a bunch of tournaments so that we're better. And that's, they just like bought their way into the Conquer Cap.

Speaker 19 That doesn't sound like the FIFA way.

Speaker 11 Yeah, it's fucking awesome. It's fucking,

Speaker 19 maybe this is us doing Qatar or Qatar.

Speaker 19 We need to figure out, we need to all get on the same page as Americans going into the World Cup to figure out the correct way to pronounce it and then all go the opposite way with it.

Speaker 19 Because I'm sick of having both pronunciations be out there all the time. Is it Qatar or Qatar?

Speaker 11 I go with Qatar just because it's easier.

Speaker 19 Yeah, but then they were saying Qatar on here, but hopefully, if we invited them into our very elite prestigious Gold Cup tournament, maybe they'll scratch our back a little bit with the World Cup.

Speaker 19 Maybe we'll get some of that, some of that good referee magic, you know?

Speaker 11 Yes, yes. Um, all right.
And then we have the Olympics. Uh, I actually,

Speaker 11 I saw a tweet that was so perfect. It was like, whoever decided that six, six hours of swimming every four years is the perfect amount, like credit to you, because it's so true.

Speaker 11 Like, that is the perfect amount of swimming. That's exactly how much swimming I want to watch.
Six hours every four years.

Speaker 19 Bring back the bodysuits. That's all I want.

Speaker 19 Like, remember, they don't have the bodysuits anymore because in China in 2008 every single record got broken because people were wearing suits that like propelled them through the water at an unfair rate and so now there aren't any more world records being broken because no one can beat the 2008 aquaman like costume records that they put on the thorpedo remember the thorpedo ian thorpe yeah from australia he was a badass

Speaker 19 What I miss about this Olympics is usually in swimming, you get something extraordinarily weird that happens only every four years.

Speaker 19 So sometimes you'll have everybody just decide to show up wearing a full-body, like latex gimp suit, and then they all break world records.

Speaker 19 Other years, you'll have people lining up ready to dive in, and it looks like Marv Albert has just gone to town on their backs with all the red circles that are like on their shoulders, the cupping phenomenon of a couple years ago.

Speaker 19 But this year, we don't really have any weird costume stuff going on. And I miss that a little bit about the Olympics.

Speaker 11 It's just the dude Caleb Dressel, who spells his name weirdly and has sick tattoos. And is, I'll just say it, he's hot.
He's very hot. He's a very attractive dude.

Speaker 11 And I'm proud that he's American. I also had an idea.
I think synchronized swimming, I was watching it the other night.

Speaker 11 I think you should be able to, like, you should get more points if you can add people. So, like, if you can do a 10-person synchronized or diving, it was sorry, synchronized diving.

Speaker 11 If you can do 10 people, you should win. Like, if you can get 10 people to do it, because why, why two? Why are we stopping at two? Make it fucking three, four, five.

Speaker 11 So then it's like, all right, you can be perfect with two, or you can be 95% with seven. That guy, that team should win.

Speaker 19 Well, and I mean, they should also get identical twins to be doing the synchronized diving. I feel like that's an absolute no-brainer.

Speaker 19 If your country has an identical twin, put them in the synchronized diving program as early as you possibly can because they're going to have such a leg up. Even if they're off a little bit.

Speaker 19 their physical similarities are going to like cover that up a lot.

Speaker 19 I also think that there should be a swimming event where it's like a 50-meter freestyle, freestyle, but it's eight people that can't swim. And you just see who can figure it out on the fly the best.

Speaker 11 If you drown, your family gets the gold medal.

Speaker 19 Yeah, yeah, that's yeah, you said you've sacrificed yourself to the Olympic spirit. I also want to point out:

Speaker 19 so the New Zealand rugby team, they're the all-blacks.

Speaker 19 The basketball team, they call themselves the tall blacks. The badbitten team calls themselves the black cocks.

Speaker 11 Ooh, nice, Nice.

Speaker 19 Just a little interesting, fun little nugget.

Speaker 11 Yeah.

Speaker 11 Okay. And then Simone Biles, should we?

Speaker 11 So I've had some time to process this.

Speaker 11 I'm opting out of all discussion about Simone Biles simply because

Speaker 11 there's like, it's one of those discussions where it is either all the way on this side or all the way on that side, and there's literally no like nuance or actual discussion being had.

Speaker 11 And as soon as you see it happen and people start screaming at each other and, you know, it just becomes there. No one's actually having a conversation.

Speaker 11 So I've opted out of all Simone Biles discussion because no one is actually trying to change each other's minds. No one is having a discussion.

Speaker 11 It is just how, how much you can yell your side as loudly as possible.

Speaker 19 Yeah. So this is one of those circumstances where like you don't.
We don't have to have an opinion on everything, especially something that we have no idea about.

Speaker 19 Like we don't know what happened to her even. All we know is like the after effects of her decision and what her decision was, but nobody has any idea what was happening to her at the time.

Speaker 19 Like when Kevin Love talked to us on the show about his mental issues,

Speaker 19 he was explaining to us how if you have a mental health, like an anxiety attack,

Speaker 19 it actually does manifest itself in physical.

Speaker 19 you can see physical results and like physical symptoms of what you're going through which would make you unable to compete people applauded him when he took that break people applauded cece sabathia when he was in the middle of a world series chase i think there were it was before the playoffs started and he took time off to address his mental health we don't know what what was happening to her i just i heard somebody say that she got the twisties the twisties yeah so that is like zoomies it's a horrible horrible thing like essentially you just lose where you are in space and time.

Speaker 11 And like, I was reading this article that some former gymnast says yeah oh yeah i had the twisties and i broke like my back because i just you get up in the air and a trick you've done a thousand times you all of a sudden don't know how to land it and then you like do an extra spin or something but my bigger point is like simone biles

Speaker 11 you know goes out of the competition if your first like very first reaction is either to say she's a quitter or to say that she's the most courageous like bestest goat of all time you just i i don't know what to to say to you because, like, nothing in life is like that.

Speaker 11 You know what I mean? There's some truth in all of these things. Like, you just, no one wants to, like, it just became so, so polarizing so quickly.

Speaker 11 It was actually one of the most polarizing things as fast as it happened.

Speaker 11 It was so crazy how quickly it became either she is the greatest of all time and that was the most courageous thing she could have ever done or she's the biggest quitter and she's a disgrace to usa which those people like dude if you care that much about the olympics give me a fucking break.

Speaker 11 Like, I joke about it, but, like, dude,

Speaker 11 could you tell me like what happened, how, how we did in the medal count in like the last 20 Olympic? Like, who the fuck cares? Honestly, we won.

Speaker 19 We won. Who cares?

Speaker 11 Yeah, but you don't win the Winter Olympics.

Speaker 19 I still watch it.

Speaker 11 I just don't care.

Speaker 19 It's take culture, big cat. This is hot take culture that we found ourselves in the middle of.
Credit to us.

Speaker 19 I would like to say actually that this segment on Simone Biles is probably the most courageous podcasting segment regarding the it's the most nuanced

Speaker 19 I would say we quit on it did we yeah we just quit on it but big cat no I think that we were not in a proper headspace to be able to assess the situation correctly so we're actually giving more opportunities for others to make their takes and have their takes get more shine resulting in a better hot take ecosystem for all so I think you could consider ourselves heroes to a certain extent especially especially uh what you just did by explaining the twisties I did not know what the twisties were.

Speaker 19 It sounds like I lived my life in the twisties. You just forget where you are in the air, like Malaysian Air Flight 370.

Speaker 11 Yeah, you know, it was fucking that's kind of that's kind of fucked. Um, but yeah, the uh, it is kind of fucked.
Is it too soon? I have you found it.

Speaker 19 Did it not get lost in space?

Speaker 11 Yeah, you're still looking at

Speaker 19 the Malaysian Air 370 had the twisties and got lost in the air.

Speaker 11 Yes, yes. Oh, so you went double down on that joke.

Speaker 19 Yes.

Speaker 11 Yeah.

Speaker 11 Yeah.

Speaker 11 I read it when I was reading about it. I was like, well, this is something.
That's the other thing is let's just be honest. Like, just

Speaker 11 as honest as we possibly can be about this whole situation. Anyone who commented right away knows nothing about gymnastics except for like a very, very small percentage.

Speaker 11 Everyone else is just saying whatever the fuck they want to say, just so they can be heard. And it's like, I don't know this sport.
I have no fucking idea what is going on.

Speaker 11 I don't know if they were going to win the gold, I don't know if they were already eliminated, I don't know if she helped the team, she hurt the team.

Speaker 11 Who the like you don't know, so it's just crazy to have that severe of a reaction when you know nothing about this sport that you watch like for four hours every four years.

Speaker 11 So, the whole thing was insane. I, I also, I do think that, like,

Speaker 11 I think part of the reaction that obviously lessened was the idea that she had withdrawn from the team competition, was going to to be in the individual competition. Obviously, she's not in either.

Speaker 11 So it's like kind of an egg in everyone's face who that was what they were standing on. Like the immediate reaction of, oh, but she's going to compete in the individuals.

Speaker 11 No, she's, she's got some things that are going on right now. And to call her a quitter is crazy.
So I don't know. I just, I was exhausted by the entire discourse and I wasn't even involved.

Speaker 11 Like I didn't even have, I didn't even put my toe into it.

Speaker 19 I felt like I was dizzy. I was getting dizzy from all the takes that were flying around to the point where like Lenny Dykstra had a take today.

Speaker 19 He took some time out of showing up at the Federal Reserve and demanding to get his money out of their account in New York City. For that's a whole nother story we need to dive into.

Speaker 19 But he said, like, I respect Simone Biles' decision.

Speaker 11 athletes know that sometimes you deal with mental issues and if you're trying to play a sport while i was like what the lenny dykstra is bringing nuance to this conversation like what the hell is going i i i got i got the twisties in the conversation and the general debate around it i do think it's very funny that and this is this is the meatball in me i i find i find humor in it i'm not saying that i think like this but the in instant reaction of a lot of people to be like well i remember when i was in when i was 10 years old and i struck out four times and then i got up there and hit a home run the fifth time and my parents didn't let me quit just a little bit different than what we're talking about here just a little bit different Yeah, it's sports.

Speaker 11 And yeah, competition is good. I love competition.
I think I do think there should be more competition like in the world. I think competition makes people better.

Speaker 11 But yeah, it might be a little bit different than like little Johnny striking out in T-ball versus the fucking Olympic golds and this and this gymnast who's doing shit that like you couldn't even do in a video game.

Speaker 11 Like you couldn't mash the buttons fast enough to do it in a video game, let alone doing it in real life.

Speaker 19 To a certain extent,

Speaker 19 I don't want to say I like it, but it is, it's entertaining to me watching people break out those arguments of like, oh, yeah, what they did when they were in high school.

Speaker 19 Like on my high school hockey team, I was the backup goalie and I came down with a flu. And you know what?

Speaker 19 I was puking my brains out, but I still sat on the bench with my teammates as we won the state championship. And I learned a lot about myself that day.
I love that.

Speaker 19 I love that everybody has deputized themselves as being ESPN pundits in this stage of the internet.

Speaker 11 Still, one of the greatest callers of all time

Speaker 11 was 670 the score in Chicago when Derek Rose tore his ACL and he didn't, in the whole year after when he was like, oh, will he come back? Will he won't?

Speaker 11 And a guy called in and was like, I tore my ACL and I was golfing 18 holes nine months later.

Speaker 11 There it is. Point

Speaker 11 taken, dude.

Speaker 11 Point taken. Like, I don't know what to say to that.
You're right. Derek Rose should be out there.
playing basketball in the NBA right now.

Speaker 19 It is crazy that Big Cat right now, we are on vacation and

Speaker 19 this whole show is on vacation. So thanks again for Bubba being here to help us produce a show.

Speaker 19 But it is crazy that you're on vacation right now

Speaker 19 with your kids and you're not practicing load management. And one day you do want to be able to walk across the stage at their graduation.

Speaker 19 It's just something you should probably keep it in perspective though. Like don't don't push yourself too hard.
Okay.

Speaker 11 Yeah. And listen, if you want to talk about a real quitter in sports, we're going to talk about Aaron Rodgers on Sunday.

Speaker 11 Got a lot to to say about that motherfucker taking blake bordle's job blake i'll do a little i'll do a little i'll do a little teaser i my take on aaron rodgers let's just say i think i'm on his side

Speaker 11 uh i think he's quitting on his marriage i think i'm on his side so we'll we'll save that for sunday but just a little teaser I think justice for in like actually on his side, not jokingly on his side.

Speaker 11 I think I'm on his side.

Speaker 19 There's one other Olympic thing I wanted to point out. The Chinese powerlifter, the guy that weighed like 160 pounds, and I think he cleaned and jerked 435 pounds, total psycho.

Speaker 19 His Instagram is a must-follow. You should check it out because all of his pictures are just him doing deadlifts.
And the caption on all of his pictures are, my balls are okay.

Speaker 19 Or

Speaker 19 my balls are fine with a sunglasses emoji as he's putting up like world record deadlifts. Just electric follow online.

Speaker 11 i mean that we will shout out his what's his instagram handle let me follow

Speaker 11 i'll bring it up all right while you find it um i'm gonna

Speaker 11 i'm just gonna set us up real quick we have a mount rushmore coming up you're gonna hear a voice in the mount rushmore that you probably can't don't recognize in this episode until this point it's because we taped it last sunday So

Speaker 11 Hank is there. So it was taped last Sunday.
So there will be that voice that you'll hear during Mount Rushmore.

Speaker 11 Just want to give everyone a heads up so you're not like, whoa, what the fuck's going on?

Speaker 11 It was taped last Sunday. So we have the Mount Rushmore things you yell at TV.
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Speaker 11 What's his handle?

Speaker 19 His handle is L-I-F-A-B-I-N 61 KG. That's him right there.
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Speaker 19 My balls are fine.

Speaker 11 Perfect. Perfect.
All right. Let's get to our Mount Rushmore.

Speaker 24 Okay, Mount Rushmore time.

Speaker 26 We are going to do the Mount Rushmore of things that you yell at your TV while watching sports.

Speaker 27 It's a good one.

Speaker 12 This is a really good one.

Speaker 18 I actually can't believe we haven't done this.

Speaker 1 I actually think that we probably have at least five or six of the same options.

Speaker 22 So I came up with a big list. Yeah, me too.

Speaker 1 There are some very obvious ones on here, but it's very contentious. It's going to be.

Speaker 18 Okay, so

Speaker 12 same way, everyone gets a number, and then the closest number gets to decide the order.

Speaker 28 Okay.

Speaker 8 Oh, wait. Oh, shit.

Speaker 29 We didn't guess. All right, let this run.

Speaker 29 Let this run, and then we'll guess.

Speaker 1 This is a practice round? This is a practice round. See what the machine's feeling like.

Speaker 12 I would have guessed 24.

Speaker 1 I was going to guess 30.

Speaker 30 Two.

Speaker 27 Alright, Hank, your guess.

Speaker 1 Just a number.

Speaker 22 50.

Speaker 13 PFT.

Speaker 1 60.

Speaker 29 Jake and Billy?

Speaker 1 Don't you fucking do it. 69.

Speaker 25 I'll guess five.

Speaker 31 That was a stupid guess.

Speaker 27 I just realized that was stupid.

Speaker 28 Stop.

Speaker 10 That was really stupid.

Speaker 32 I should have guessed 25.

Speaker 33 82.

Speaker 31 Alright, so what do you want the order to be, boys?

Speaker 30 Jake and Billy.

Speaker 1 I think this is, like you said, going to be a popular one. Same pick, so we'll go first.

Speaker 18 Okay, and then where do you want to to go?

Speaker 29 You want to go, Hank, and I'll come around?

Speaker 28 Sure, all right.

Speaker 9 So, we'll go wrap around the room.

Speaker 7 All right, here we go.

Speaker 1 You suck.

Speaker 33 Oh, oh, going negative first.

Speaker 1 Interesting. Was that your pick or was that Billy's?

Speaker 35 That was actually on my list.

Speaker 9 Wow, foul mouth.

Speaker 7 We're going for the win here.

Speaker 18 That was one of the worst 1-1 picks. It's pretty bad.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 36 Like, actually, the worst. You might say, I want to just say it right now.

Speaker 34 People say it all the time.

Speaker 35 Why are you such a hater, dude?

Speaker 8 Yeah. Me?

Speaker 33 Drake.

Speaker 24 oh yeah that's true but i i'm confident in saying and i no hate to you guys

Speaker 1 worst 1-1 pick ever there are people yelling at their radios right now you suck yeah

Speaker 12 you guys suck i don't think you understood the prompt

Speaker 1 no he no he gets it it was just that was a blown pick okay ball time you know what i'm calling right now you suck is a bust you guys just all right we'll see

Speaker 2 whoo i mean you could still make up for it but you don't think i don't have you suck on on my list.

Speaker 20 No, neither do I.

Speaker 12 I've never yelled you suck at a TV.

Speaker 33 Yeah, I think players.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, I would yell, you motherfucker, yeah, before I'd yell, you suck. I lost my brain.

Speaker 33 Okay, okay.

Speaker 35 You're just too polite.

Speaker 18 Yeah, that's also, yeah, that's like

Speaker 15 the peak of your swearing. So that's as far as you'll go.
Okay.

Speaker 15 I'm not a panderer, so I'm just going to go with my heart.

Speaker 15 And the one thing I say most consistently when I watch games, basketball, obviously, this is for basketball, but I say it sometimes for other sports is and one.

Speaker 22 Okay. I'd love to just yell and one.

Speaker 33 I won't do. You yell it.

Speaker 30 You yell it, not even when we're near a basketball court.

Speaker 15 Yeah. No, it's, it's just, I love to say and one.
Uh-huh.

Speaker 26 All right. That is true.
That is, I can, I can absolutely attest to that.

Speaker 12 If you ever even, like, I'm saying, you do it when we're not near a basketball court, but then when we are near a basketball court, that's all you say.

Speaker 10 Yes. Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right. I'm shocked that this lasted to pick three.
Easy one for me. Let's go.

Speaker 9 Okay.

Speaker 1 Anytime anything good happens, let's go.

Speaker 22 Okay. Clap it up.

Speaker 15 How many O's did you have on your list? Three.

Speaker 28 Okay.

Speaker 38 Yeah, maybe I didn't understand the prompt.

Speaker 33 But,

Speaker 26 okay, so I'll go. I have two.

Speaker 4 I mean, easy first one for me is ball whenever there's a fumble, screaming that at the TV.

Speaker 26 And then

Speaker 5 my second pick

Speaker 39 will be.

Speaker 12 I always can.

Speaker 1 Now, when we do the graphic, can we actually say I say I yell watch out on the blind side whenever there's a quarterback about to get hit I yell watch out okay because you have to let them know that they're about to get hit all right that's pretty good too yeah I just want that in parentheses that it's for a quarterback because watch out makes no sense without context watch out to a quarterback about to get hit on the blind side I have a similar answer but it's

Speaker 1 oh okay I like that yeah you can it can be the same yeah yeah all right my second one is timeout okay I'm like five seconds ahead of a coach and And I feel super smart.

Speaker 1 I'm like, why isn't he calling a timeout here?

Speaker 8 Call a timeout. Yep.
Timeout. Yep.

Speaker 28 Okay.

Speaker 9 Hank,

Speaker 28 I just want to get back to these guys to see what they're going to do

Speaker 12 because we're doing a great job.

Speaker 15 I will go with picket. That's when

Speaker 15 your team's on defense.

Speaker 15 Similar to A and one, I probably overuse it every time the opposing quarterback throws it before

Speaker 15 anything happens.

Speaker 9 You're just like, pick it, pick it, pick it.

Speaker 1 The Malcolm Malcolm Butler thing probably put that in your brain for life. Like, you can will players to have a big interception.
Yep.

Speaker 15 Well, I was in the concourse for that, but sure. Yeah.

Speaker 28 Okay.

Speaker 1 People forget.

Speaker 31 Billy. Billy's now taking control of the team.

Speaker 12 Shoot.

Speaker 42 Yeah, good. Shoot.

Speaker 9 Shoot it.

Speaker 39 Welcome to the draft.

Speaker 35 All right, you guys might be back on track here.

Speaker 9 That's a good pick.

Speaker 26 Now,

Speaker 31 you want to say specifically a sport, or is that just shoot?

Speaker 1 It's multiple sports.

Speaker 36 Yeah, yeah, but well, there's different

Speaker 1 anything except football.

Speaker 12 But I think that someone could now say a specific shoot.

Speaker 35 Yeah.

Speaker 10 I don't want to make it specific. I don't think so.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I think you could. You could.

Speaker 35 I think there's a very specific shoot.

Speaker 1 There is one specific shoot. I'm thinking of it.

Speaker 15 Oh, but it's the same for hockey and for basketball.

Speaker 30 No, but no. No.

Speaker 10 Wait, should we double?

Speaker 15 No, but it's the same word. So, yes.

Speaker 18 Yeah, but no.

Speaker 15 No, but yes.

Speaker 8 But there's one specific thing.

Speaker 33 We did a graphic to take two.

Speaker 15 It's the same word. No, but

Speaker 33 everyone has more words.

Speaker 2 Oh, oh, okay, yeah.

Speaker 27 Wait, we get the second pick.

Speaker 33 Yeah, no, don't do it again. Pucks on net.

Speaker 8 Okay, all right. That's

Speaker 8 picked up.

Speaker 33 Do you want that back? No, no. No.
Do you want to? Stept them to the podium.

Speaker 34 Shoot the puck. Yeah.

Speaker 39 Probably the more correct. Yeah.

Speaker 33 Shoot the puck is what we were talking about.

Speaker 1 So is that our official? No, you said pucks on net. That's actually the next one.

Speaker 33 Shoot it over one of the next.

Speaker 16 Then what's our second one? Shut up, pucks on the side.

Speaker 33 Pucks on net. Shut up.

Speaker 28 No, no, no. Our second overall.

Speaker 34 Shoot it. Shoot.

Speaker 34 Shoot it.

Speaker 7 But you were making us pick something, I thought.

Speaker 12 No, I said that shoot the puck is still on the board, board, I think.

Speaker 43 Shoot and shoot the puck are two different things.

Speaker 24 And you hear what?

Speaker 1 Shoot the puck is still on the board because they took pucks on net.

Speaker 28 Yes, yes.

Speaker 33 What are you talking about?

Speaker 9 Just shoot.

Speaker 37 Just shoot, period. Shoot.
Yeah, that's yours.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 8 Okay. Right.

Speaker 24 Shoot the puck.

Speaker 33 You're talking about basketball.

Speaker 1 Shoot the puck is unoriginal.

Speaker 18 No, shoot the puck is what you yell when you're watching a hockey game and there's a power play.

Speaker 9 Okay. I'll shoot it, but whatever.

Speaker 15 Teach their own.

Speaker 9 Get in the hole.

Speaker 28 Okay. Okay.
You do that?

Speaker 9 TV?

Speaker 33 Yeah.

Speaker 28 Okay.

Speaker 18 Yeah, actually, no, I do. Like an iron.

Speaker 4 It is a big in-person as well.

Speaker 15 I'm realizing with my list is I like to just like, even though it never really happens, I like to just always root for something to happen before, like after the act occurs, whether it's shooting, hitting a golf shot.

Speaker 15 Yep. I like to say, get in the hole, even if it might not.
I like to say and one, even if it's not an and one. Uh-huh.
I like it. Pick it, even if they're not going to pick it.
Yep.

Speaker 15 I'm just trying to speak my ideal

Speaker 15 instance into existence.

Speaker 1 Got it. I'm just going to go with a nice, simple, clean, goddamn it.

Speaker 28 Ooh, okay.

Speaker 42 Anytime anything bad happens.

Speaker 1 God damn it. I don't think there's a better way of expressing disappointment while you're watching sports.

Speaker 26 Yeah, that's good. I guess

Speaker 43 I'm trying to be more of a coach on the couch because my next two picks, well, I have two pics here, right?

Speaker 5 Slow it down, big time slow it down guy.

Speaker 29 When

Speaker 31 you're watching a basketball game and it's just fucking haywire everywhere, it's slow it down, slow it down, slow it down.

Speaker 18 Or if you need, you know, last shot or whatever.

Speaker 10 And then, ooh, this is tough.

Speaker 29 I have a pander pick that I will save for honorable mentions.

Speaker 31 Or do you want me to just say it right now because no one's going to use it?

Speaker 40 Take it.

Speaker 29 No, I'm not going to take it because it is a straight-up pander.

Speaker 1 I have one that's kind of a pander, too.

Speaker 27 I bet you we don't have the same pander.

Speaker 37 It's probably, I would be shocked if it was a straight-point pan. I'm just going to say the pander.

Speaker 8 This doesn't count.

Speaker 20 Okay, all right, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine.

Speaker 28 Absolutely not. Fine.

Speaker 33 Just say it as you say it as one of your pandas. No, no, this This is my last pandemic.

Speaker 1 No, I want you to pander.

Speaker 8 No, no.

Speaker 33 You want to pander so bad right now. No, I don't.
No, I actually am.

Speaker 24 I'm totally moved on to it. I'm not even looking at that part of my list.

Speaker 28 You won't.

Speaker 10 Shut up, Billy. You won't.

Speaker 25 Shut up, Billy.

Speaker 8 I'm going to pander.

Speaker 26 Okay, this is not my pander pick, but I do love to yell, and I think everyone loves to yell.

Speaker 28 Ball don't lie.

Speaker 10 Yeah, that's a good one.

Speaker 1 Ball don't lie. That's good value in the fourth round.

Speaker 22 Yes, Ball Don't Lie.

Speaker 39 Ball Don't Lie feels good.

Speaker 1 Especially because you've been wronged.

Speaker 9 You've been wrong.

Speaker 43 And now it's Ball Don't Don't Lie.

Speaker 1 And you are showing that you know a little bit about the history of the game. It's something that a basketball player would say.

Speaker 28 Right.

Speaker 33 All right.

Speaker 1 My last one is. Not my pander pick.
My last one is going to be, shut the fuck up, Mark Jackson.

Speaker 9 That is a pander pick.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's true.

Speaker 34 Yeah. You say it, and you mean it.

Speaker 28 I don't know, Jim.

Speaker 30 I should have done that.

Speaker 39 Okay. Is that the pandemic?

Speaker 30 No.

Speaker 30 Can I say the pander pick?

Speaker 16 Push, push.

Speaker 26 I mean, I've never said it to the TV, but people would definitely vote for it.

Speaker 1 I don't know how much of, like, how big of an audience do you think?

Speaker 2 I think people would do it because that's all, like, people don't know F1, but they know we say push-push.

Speaker 15 Billy and Jake are at odds right now.

Speaker 9 Okay.

Speaker 29 This is a good Mount Rushmore boys.

Speaker 15 Yeah, I feel like I'm definitely missing a couple, but the one that I had on my list that was similar to yours, Big Hat, is just Blitz.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 15 That's just scream out Blitz.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Are you saying Blitz like you're calling it out for the quarterbacks?

Speaker 33 Are you saying Blitz away?

Speaker 9 Watch out.

Speaker 35 Yeah. Like, dial something up.

Speaker 33 Similar to the watch out.

Speaker 25 You're getting your protection right for the offensive line.

Speaker 15 Yeah, like you see it before.

Speaker 33 Yeah, 56 is a mic. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 35 Okay.

Speaker 1 So I can't believe this one has been taken, but just what I'm going to preface it with.

Speaker 35 Oh,

Speaker 28 no, no, no. I'm going to preface it with.
No, no, no.

Speaker 34 I'm backing you up here.

Speaker 1 We made a pack to do two and two.

Speaker 39 Right.

Speaker 1 So this is my turn to take my second, but I think because you suck was yours.

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 7 I think this is redemption.

Speaker 33 Okay.

Speaker 33 So I'm taking one for you. Redemption for what?

Speaker 1 For that first pick that you guys hated. You're really building this up to be

Speaker 9 care about what we think.

Speaker 1 So, I'm surprised this one dropped so late in the game, but the classic,

Speaker 1 everyone turn your volume down.

Speaker 28 Oh, if you're going to yell. Oh!

Speaker 28 Just like,

Speaker 28 hold on, do it again.

Speaker 37 So, what is it?

Speaker 28 Just up.

Speaker 1 Any big shot, any pick,

Speaker 33 any home run,

Speaker 7 any ball making contact.

Speaker 9 Everyone screams, oh.

Speaker 33 Okay.

Speaker 1 I think three of us had a really good Mountain Rush one.

Speaker 33 What the fans put.

Speaker 34 The AWL.

Speaker 33 Yeah, they were picked.

Speaker 9 They're definitely picked up.

Speaker 24 I could go seven rounds on this.

Speaker 37 I have so many.

Speaker 26 I can't believe this one to get picked.

Speaker 31 One of my favorite ones, maybe not everyone does, but I love yelling pass when you know it's a play action.

Speaker 9 That's fun.

Speaker 18 When you're like, you're helping out the team.

Speaker 1 Well, along that same line, flea flicker. Flea flicker? Calling out the flea flicker.
Hurry up. Really good at that.
Hurry up is the opposite, obviously.

Speaker 2 Slow it down.

Speaker 12 Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up, right at the end of a game.

Speaker 1 What about

Speaker 1 come on?

Speaker 18 Come on.

Speaker 9 Go for it.

Speaker 18 Gotta yell, go for it.

Speaker 1 I have that guy on my fantasy team. Yeah,

Speaker 1 it's always a winner.

Speaker 18 Poison, if you're a real football head on a punt.

Speaker 20 Uh-huh.

Speaker 33 Yeah, I definitely yell that.

Speaker 12 You don't yell that?

Speaker 33 I'm a coach on the couch.

Speaker 43 Yeah, I'm a coach on the couch.

Speaker 9 Or fire. It helps.

Speaker 1 You call fire. Yeah.

Speaker 15 I had cash and wet on my list as well.

Speaker 8 Oh, I like wet.

Speaker 22 For basketball.

Speaker 30 Wet Wet was a good one.

Speaker 35 Bullshit, get out.

Speaker 1 Yeah, what about

Speaker 15 for baseball? That's gone. Yeah.
That's a miss. Yeah.

Speaker 1 What about see ya?

Speaker 39 Yep.

Speaker 1 There's no place for that in whatever sport you're watching.

Speaker 1 After a dirty foul.

Speaker 8 Yep.

Speaker 37 The no-no-no-no-yes shot in basketball.

Speaker 28 That was a fun one. Yeah.

Speaker 13 Foul.

Speaker 20 Foul. It's foul.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 15 Could you, one of you guys, just for the graphics purposes, like, how are we going to spell your last pick?

Speaker 9 O.

Speaker 7 O.

Speaker 1 No, that's easy. Let's turning into oo.

Speaker 33 O.

Speaker 33 No, no, no.

Speaker 28 This is like one O.

Speaker 9 Then

Speaker 37 four O's, two H's.

Speaker 1 No, that's Oo. That's definitely.

Speaker 7 One O and like five H's.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think if you're going O, it's got to be singular O.

Speaker 1 I'll let you guys figure it out. This seems like a real meeting of the minds.

Speaker 12 What are you doing? Just a frustrated screaming, what are you doing?

Speaker 1 How about

Speaker 1 I fucking hate Andrew Ceciliano? Yep.

Speaker 26 I hope he gets hit by a bus.

Speaker 26 I say

Speaker 15 not just for

Speaker 15 everything, but I just say kick him off the tour dog all the time.

Speaker 28 Yeah, you do.

Speaker 15 Just for like any sport. If anyone does anything wrong on the opposing team.

Speaker 1 Go.

Speaker 1 Go. Go.

Speaker 42 Okay.

Speaker 1 That guy's still around.

Speaker 26 That's good. He got it.

Speaker 13 He got it.

Speaker 30 I don't think I have anything else.

Speaker 8 Get him?

Speaker 30 Let's see. Get him?

Speaker 1 Yeah. You yell get him a lot?

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Oh, I yell at screens sometimes in basketball.

Speaker 28 I'll yell at like pick left, pick right.

Speaker 27 You know, you got to communicate with the guys.

Speaker 1 Oh, after an interception that gets deflected at the line of scrimmage, you have to yell tip drill. Yep.
Let everybody know that you used to practice football.

Speaker 25 After an interception, house it.

Speaker 8 Yep.

Speaker 1 To the house. Yep, to the house.

Speaker 33 House call.

Speaker 27 Yeah. Some variation of that.

Speaker 35 Doctor Paging Dr.

Speaker 33 House.

Speaker 18 Oh, I used to, this is very specific, but I used to love whenever Devin Hester would return a kick, and I'd just yell, he's loose.

Speaker 12 Sometimes he wasn't. It feels good.
It feels like he's loose if he's, you know.

Speaker 26 Yep.

Speaker 1 If he's got something. Don't kick it to that guy.

Speaker 8 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That one's good. Kick it out of bounds.
Yeah.

Speaker 29 Also, now would be a good time to fake it.

Speaker 26 That's a little extended, but I do like to just, you know, have my input there.

Speaker 42 Yeah. Or

Speaker 1 kickers have one job or goddamn kickers. Actually, college kickers.
Yeah. That's a good one too.

Speaker 28 College kickers. Yeah.

Speaker 8 All right.

Speaker 30 Do you guys.

Speaker 15 I'm surprised you didn't say the over is dead.

Speaker 22 Yeah. You say that a lot.
Yeah, I do.

Speaker 26 It's dead.

Speaker 29 And I say it like two minutes in the game.

Speaker 8 Yeah, no.

Speaker 22 Two seconds in the game.

Speaker 15 Like, pretty much, though, your

Speaker 15 under counters on the second the game starts, and it's

Speaker 22 always pacing down.

Speaker 29 I could do a whole other Mount Rush more of just gambling reverse jinxes that I throw out there because I have that's pretty much the entire game of like, well, yeah, thanks for coming out.

Speaker 31 See ya. These guys are dead.

Speaker 37 No chance. Zero chance.

Speaker 1 We're going to blow it. Yep.

Speaker 33 Billy.

Speaker 37 We should do.

Speaker 30 Another noise?

Speaker 1 Well, we literally, that's the one noise everyone yells on all of our gambling lines.

Speaker 26 I've never yelled, ah.

Speaker 29 No.

Speaker 13 Oh.

Speaker 33 Oh.

Speaker 33 What is it?

Speaker 9 All right, give us an example, Billy.

Speaker 33 What happens that makes you say, oh,

Speaker 1 we're watching the Nickelodeon game,

Speaker 1 and there was a super long touchdown.

Speaker 37 Everyone just jumps up and is like, oh.

Speaker 9 It's crazy.

Speaker 43 Yes, what?

Speaker 1 When Malcolm Butler intercepted Russell Wilson on the go-like, he was in the concourse. He didn't see it.

Speaker 15 I literally ran inside.

Speaker 42 Oh, you didn't see it?

Speaker 33 No.

Speaker 18 No, that's why he did it. That's why Malcolm Butler got that interception.

Speaker 9 Well, everybody's going to be able to do that.

Speaker 33 People still think, oh,

Speaker 33 people think it was Ernie Adams.

Speaker 1 Okay, Joe Rogan, when that dude got knocked out in that viral clip, he's just like, oh,

Speaker 1 yeah, just a dude being stoked.

Speaker 28 Okay. Yeah.

Speaker 5 You're selling me on it.

Speaker 37 Everybody does that.

Speaker 27 Yeah, you're selling me on it slowly.

Speaker 34 I still can't believe it. Am I crazy?

Speaker 34 Jake, what else did you have?

Speaker 1 You suck.

Speaker 29 1-1.

Speaker 29 I'm going to start saying that now to vindicate Jake.

Speaker 8 I had...

Speaker 7 No, no, no, no, yes. Shoot the puck.

Speaker 1 You suck.

Speaker 15 So were you mad when Billy said shoot it?

Speaker 1 Or shoot? I think he should have.

Speaker 25 Shoot the puck is.

Speaker 9 Yeah, Yeah, yeah, but go ahead.

Speaker 10 What else?

Speaker 33 Foul.

Speaker 30 Foul's good.

Speaker 44 These refs are terrible.

Speaker 28 Okay.

Speaker 18 And I could do better. But I respect them.

Speaker 24 Yeah, of course.

Speaker 1 And I could do better than him/slash her.

Speaker 9 Like when someone. Talking about a broadcaster.

Speaker 33 No.

Speaker 1 When have you said I could do better than her, Jake? When was the last time you said that one? That seems a little misogynist.

Speaker 1 I've not said either. I'm saying the general

Speaker 33 god.

Speaker 9 Oh, so that's what this thing is. So your entire list.

Speaker 8 I say everything that's on the list.

Speaker 35 Yeah, me too.

Speaker 22 Your entire list was a pander.

Speaker 28 Yeah.

Speaker 7 I literally sit there and just like listen to the broadcasters.

Speaker 10 All right.

Speaker 1 No, Dick, yours should have been like, this guy's really good.

Speaker 37 Yeah.

Speaker 33 This guy went to Syracuse.

Speaker 9 I was back.

Speaker 8 Fun fact.

Speaker 12 Actually, you pronounced his name this way.

Speaker 9 Those are yours.

Speaker 1 Or you guys are so mean. Yeah.
You say that a lot, too. Stop it.

Speaker 12 Don't make me choose.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Next time I'll do my personal ones.

Speaker 28 Yeah, yeah. All right.

Speaker 1 That was a good one. Good Mount Rush for the most part.

Speaker 8 You suck. It's an all-time back.

Speaker 28 One more pick.

Speaker 3 What's up, guys?

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Speaker 12 Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest.

Speaker 8 It is runner Craig Engels, who electrified the nation.

Speaker 12 I want to start, Craig, by saying sorry.

Speaker 26 I don't know if you caught wind that people blame me. They said, I jinxed you.

Speaker 12 I apologize.

Speaker 5 I'm still on the Craig Engels train.

Speaker 26 But yeah,

Speaker 36 you were in the Olympic trials.

Speaker 12 You're an 800-meter, 1,500-meter runner. Unfortunately, finished fourth, but we're really happy to have you on.

Speaker 25 Talk a little running, talk a little Olympics, talk about your mustache and everything.

Speaker 45 Yeah, bro. Well, first off, I don't believe you cursed me, but some people were messaging me.

Speaker 45 Yeah, thanks for having me on. Hopefully you can learn some stuff about running.
I don't know how much you know, but.

Speaker 12 Well, yeah, we don't know anything.

Speaker 32 I mean, we know that how to run.

Speaker 1 I know that running sucks.

Speaker 37 Yeah, running does suck. So yeah, that's, I guess that would be my first question.

Speaker 12 How much does running suck if you're really good at running like you?

Speaker 45 Marginally less than it sucks for you guys, I'm sure. I think at any level, running still sucks.

Speaker 45 And the worst part is it's the only sport I'm good at.

Speaker 45 I wish I was good at darts or literally anything else besides running, but unfortunately, this is what I'm stuck with and try and make the best of it.

Speaker 45 But yeah, dude, the only fun part about running is actually like racing.

Speaker 32 Right.

Speaker 12 I would imagine, yeah, the practices because you guys, even though you're 1500 meter, like how much, can you actually just break down what a regular week would look for you like for you when you're training?

Speaker 45 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 45 I try and run like 70 miles a week. There's some runners that run like 100 to 120 miles and that they're training for the marathon.
They're kind of crazy though. So

Speaker 45 yeah, in a typical week, I'll do like one long run, two workouts, and then run every other day.

Speaker 45 We do two lifts a week. I don't know if you can tell, but

Speaker 9 we can jack. Yes.

Speaker 22 Yeah, you can totally.

Speaker 45 But yeah, that's about it, man. It's just, it's like, I honestly work like an hour to an hour and a half a day.

Speaker 45 And then I have to figure out what to do with with the other 23 hours of my life.

Speaker 8 Now, I've heard about runner's high.

Speaker 1 Is that real? Because that's really the only way that you could convince me to try running is if you're like, okay, if you get to a certain point, then you feel like you're on drugs.

Speaker 45 Well, I live in Oregon, so a runner's high is a little different for me.

Speaker 45 Yeah,

Speaker 45 it doesn't happen. I honestly don't know what the hell people are talking about when they say that.
I've never experienced it.

Speaker 12 I think it's just runners trying to convince other people that running doesn't suck.

Speaker 39 So they're like, yeah, if you just run enough, you'll eventually get high.

Speaker 30 It's like, no, I don't think so.

Speaker 1 I think it's just being tired. It's just like I'm exhausted and I don't have any oxygen in my brain anymore and my body wants to shut down.
You're like, oh, I'm totally wasted. Runners are high.

Speaker 1 It's pretty sick.

Speaker 18 Yeah.

Speaker 12 I don't want to bring up bad memories, but I mean, we should at least talk about it. So that race, you finished fourth.

Speaker 37 I thought, and I don't know anything about running.

Speaker 18 I was watching it.

Speaker 12 It was 1 a.m. on a Sunday night.
I thought that it was almost a conspiracy to box you out and elbow you. It felt like they were trying to keep my man Craig Engels down.

Speaker 8 I really did believe that.

Speaker 26 And again, I don't know anything about running.

Speaker 45 Dude, let's go with that conspiracy theory. But first off, thank you for staying up till 1 a.m.

Speaker 33 Yeah.

Speaker 45 I'm not quite sure what your typical bedtime is, but

Speaker 1 I do appreciate it.

Speaker 26 It was, we were recording the show and someone happened to tweet me while I was like climbing into bed and they're like, hey, your guy's running in 10 minutes.

Speaker 30 And I was like, well, fuck yeah, I'm going to watch.

Speaker 12 And then I I just got mad.

Speaker 2 I was mad for like, I didn't fall asleep for another hour because I was like, he got screwed.

Speaker 38 He got elbowed out.

Speaker 45 No, dude, I don't, I honestly don't even know what happened. I did get boxed in, but that's my fault.
I think I just like, I'm so dumb.

Speaker 45 I just don't, I somehow, I've been running for 10 years and somehow still don't know how to not get boxed in.

Speaker 12 So explain that to us. Like, explain the thought process in a 1500-meter race, like positioning.

Speaker 38 And you guys do throw fucking elbows, right?

Speaker 45 Yeah, bro.

Speaker 45 Not many. Not many elbows.

Speaker 45 I think people will complain. And, you know, it's not a very physical sport, but

Speaker 45 I don't know, man. Your brain like shuts off until one lap to go.
And then you're like, all right, this is go time. Like, it's survival instinct.

Speaker 45 And I just got caught off guard from the defending Olympic champion took off and I missed it. because I was boxed in.

Speaker 1 They didn't want to see you win.

Speaker 33 They did it.

Speaker 1 It's a conspiracy theory dude would you have shakari richardson to yourself if you had qualified that would have been it dude game over for her

Speaker 1 so you've got um you have probably the best hair out of any runner that i've ever seen you got the mullet working you have the mustache going on i i read on your wikipedia page that you were elected uh you won best hair in high school so is this something like you've had the mullet for a long time uh dude did i win that who made up my wikipedia page i don't know that's how we do research on this show.

Speaker 28 It's 90% posted.

Speaker 9 No, I didn't do anything. 1 a.m.

Speaker 45 Big Cat's on my Wikipedia.

Speaker 45 I don't know, man. I went to Ole Miss, actually.
So,

Speaker 45 like, we were down there. There's not much to do in Mississippi, believe it or not.
We're like, let's make stupid haircuts, bro. So, my teammate cut my hair and I was like, I can grow a mustache now.

Speaker 45 Why not?

Speaker 1 Yeah, the mustache ties it together. I feel like

Speaker 1 if you had one or the other, it wouldn't work so well. But right now,

Speaker 1 it's like buffalo wings and blue cheese. You've got a whole ensemble going on.
It's beautiful.

Speaker 45 I think you need a mustache, if anything, man.

Speaker 1 I wish. I'm facebald.
I can't do that. So I'll just live vicariously through your

Speaker 39 effort.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 10 Effort counts.

Speaker 1 I just look like a child molester if I throw my mustache out too much. So I get a lot of weird looks.

Speaker 12 What is what?

Speaker 10 So how old are you?

Speaker 5 Are you going to have another chance? Like, is your running career, have you thought that far in advance?

Speaker 45 Yeah, bro. I'm 27.
Um, and most people get real good at running when they're like 30.

Speaker 32 Really?

Speaker 9 Why is that?

Speaker 45 Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, the Kenyan guy could be 45,

Speaker 45 but there's a guy from Norway. It's 19.

Speaker 37 That's crazy.

Speaker 12 So, that's, so, so, you do have like another chance. You're going to have another chance.

Speaker 26 Now, this might be a heavy question, but the thing that always is remarkable for Olympians to me is that you have to build up for four years being like, here's the moment, and then the moment has to go right.

Speaker 36 So are you already thinking like four years from now, I'm going to do this?

Speaker 27 Like this is, I'm going to get my redemption because that will be, that will be an all-time story if you can, if you can punch your ticket to the Olympics in four years.

Speaker 45 I guess, man. So in 2016, I was in college and I actually got fourth there.

Speaker 45 So I don't know if it's a curse, but

Speaker 45 Yeah, so it's only in three years now. So I waited five years actually for this one to redeem myself and then I just blew it.

Speaker 45 It all comes down to four minutes, you know, it's crazy.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So that is nuts.

Speaker 36 But yeah, three years from now. Are you an alternate in some respects?

Speaker 1 Like, can we still hold on to a little bit of hope that if everything shakes out exactly perfectly, that you still might compete?

Speaker 45 There's a little bit of hope, but I kind of, what I kind of, I've been partying for the last four weeks.

Speaker 33 I like that. The honesty there.

Speaker 28 You know what you should do instead?

Speaker 1 Okay, let's just write this one off. I feel like you could be, you could actually do what Forrest Gump did in that movie.

Speaker 1 You seem like the kind of guy that would just walk out of his front door and be like, I'm just going to start running and just go cross country, back and forth, back and forth. Yeah.

Speaker 45 I mean, I don't know if I should take that as a compliment that I'm being compared to.

Speaker 34 You should.

Speaker 27 It's the greatest movie of all time.

Speaker 9 He's a great guy. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 38 He is a great guy.

Speaker 33 You just seem like he's running through a lot of history.

Speaker 1 You seem like a dude that's just up for an adventure at any given time.

Speaker 45 Hell yeah, dude. I mean, I'm down for anything, but running across the country sounds kind of boring.

Speaker 39 Yeah, that would suck.

Speaker 12 So, wait, let's talk about.

Speaker 45 I want to come race you guys.

Speaker 34 I'll be in New York.

Speaker 37 Yeah, no, we're going to try to set that up because we owe the people a tandem bike ride.

Speaker 12 So, we're not going to do that, but we're going to maybe race around a track.

Speaker 32 If we're on a tandem bike and you're running, do you think that you can beat us?

Speaker 45 100%.

Speaker 11 Really?

Speaker 2 100%.

Speaker 12 You didn't let let me finish.

Speaker 37 It's a marathon.

Speaker 45 Okay, you're going to fall like 56 times.

Speaker 33 Yeah, that's probably true.

Speaker 1 All of my bike riding experience is on a stationary bike, so that doesn't necessarily translate well to track life.

Speaker 37 Wait, what if we had solo bikes? Could you still beat us?

Speaker 15 No way, dude. Okay.

Speaker 45 I'm not sure of your fitness, but...

Speaker 15 Not good.

Speaker 45 Okay.

Speaker 45 That leaves the odds a little bit more in my favor, but probably not.

Speaker 1 I think that we can beat him on a tandem bike.

Speaker 1 I think if we get cooking on a straightaway, he he can't catch up with us yeah i yeah i agree we could hit a mile dude okay what's your fastest mile time i've run 351 so far that's fucking insane how fast do you think is going to be the fastest anybody's ever going to be able to run a mile because at some point it's going to you're not going to be able to get any faster right no one's going to be able to run a mile in five seconds so what do you what do you think that that speed is for the human race it's what it is now dude the mile world record is um three minutes and 44 seconds.

Speaker 45 I think something like that. Yeah, yeah.
The dude with the mile world record right now was so juiced up in like the 1990s that like drug drug testing.

Speaker 45 I mean, no one dopes anymore, but this dude was just literally coursing with steroids.

Speaker 38 I kind of like that.

Speaker 2 I think we should have world records for steroid users.

Speaker 34 Like, we really should see how far we should have regular world records and then world records, how far can the human body be pushed with help of steroids?

Speaker 45 Yeah, humans would just become like a horse.

Speaker 41 Yeah, huh?

Speaker 9 That's kind of cool. Awesome.

Speaker 11 You start running on all fours and shit.

Speaker 1 The Minotaur Olympics. I would watch that.

Speaker 12 Actually, I wanted to talk to you about that.

Speaker 12 Gambling should be in like track, and they should do it exactly like horse racing. And I bet you we'd have maybe a little bit more like exposure for the racing world.

Speaker 45 I mean, dude, you guys set it up. I'll be your, I'll be your, like, I don't know, the guy who sets the odds.

Speaker 9 is that a thing yeah yes that is a thing you're bookie yeah

Speaker 1 they're bookie but i work for barstool yes and you set the odds i like that do you ever um do you wake up in the morning and know like i feel fast today oh no

Speaker 45 really not not recently dude you know like but i've been on a bender man

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Speaker 19 And now, more Craig Angles.

Speaker 3 All right, so let's talk some RVs because you also, the other part of your story that I love, you are an RV collector.

Speaker 5 And how many do you have? Do you only have one or do you have multiple?

Speaker 45 That makes me sound a little bit like

Speaker 45 a pedophile.

Speaker 12 Yeah, yeah, but that's okay because I've seen the pictures.

Speaker 32 You look like a cool dude, not like a pedophile.

Speaker 9 A cool pedophile. Yeah, right, right, exactly.

Speaker 8 Yeah, dude. Yeah.
That's perfect.

Speaker 33 Yes.

Speaker 45 No, dude, I don't know. Like, I've been obsessed with RVs since I was a kid.

Speaker 45 And now I like finally have enough money to buy shitty ones. So I'll buy them and fix them up and then resell them.

Speaker 45 And like, that's what I do with the 23 hours of my day that I'm not running.

Speaker 9 Oh, that's sick.

Speaker 12 So how many have you fixed up?

Speaker 45 I think probably like 10 now.

Speaker 45 Like eight to ten, but the first one was when I was 18 years old in college.

Speaker 1 That's awesome. Do you have one that you're working on right now?

Speaker 45 Yeah, it was the one they posted on the NBC feed.

Speaker 45 It's an old F-250 with like a camper in the back. It's kind of sick.

Speaker 8 That's awesome. It's amazing.

Speaker 1 Because I was actually looking at buying a VW Westphalia van.

Speaker 8 It was so good. You got money then, bro.
You got money.

Speaker 1 No, it was pretty cheap. It had like the stove and the bed and everything, the camping top in it.

Speaker 1 But then i found out that it was a manual transmission not an automatic i don't really know how to drive stick how much would that cost for you to turn that into an automatic oh i can't do that bro you need a mechanic

Speaker 45 i'll make it look cool inside but uh

Speaker 1 dude you just got to learn how to drive manual it takes you a day i'll come up there and teach you i know i've done it before but also i just don't i don't trust myself getting on the highway with a manual you know Especially in the city, man.

Speaker 45 I don't know where you live, but.

Speaker 1 Yeah, New York City is not a great place to be driving a stick for the first time.

Speaker 45 No, no.

Speaker 45 I actually learned on an RV, though. My first RV was manual, and I learned on that.
It was terrifying, dude. Yeah.

Speaker 30 Shit.

Speaker 37 So, can you explain real quick the point system in running? Because that was the thing I struggled with after your race.

Speaker 2 Everyone kept on saying, no, no, no, no Craig Angles might still make it.

Speaker 10 I was like, all right, I'm just going to hold out hope.

Speaker 38 Like, what?

Speaker 12 It made no sense. I actually started reading about it, and we need to fix the running point

Speaker 37 because it's a joke.

Speaker 45 You asked me if I could tell you about the point system?

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 45 Absolutely not.

Speaker 37 Because it makes no sense, right?

Speaker 45 I truly have no idea how I even earn a point, dude.

Speaker 34 I just get out of there.

Speaker 45 Like, I'm not a smart guy at all. That's why I convert RVs and run left turns, bro.

Speaker 45 So I'm not out there doing math. Like, I don't know.
I was just like, all right, I got to get top three, but I got fourth.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So just, you just literally go out there and you're like, all right, I'm just going to start running fast. And that's

Speaker 1 let the rest take care of itself.

Speaker 45 That's, that seems like my thought process most of the time.

Speaker 38 Yeah.

Speaker 12 Are we going to, is America going to win the 1500 or are we going to lose?

Speaker 9 We're not. No.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 45 If someone put out betting odds and there's a Kenyan guy that's going to win it.

Speaker 20 Got it.

Speaker 12 So you, so if you had gone,

Speaker 12 obviously it's a huge honor, but like what would be your chances if you had, if you you had gone?

Speaker 45 I'd love to be cocky here and say, like, good chance of me winning, but absolutely none.

Speaker 28 Okay.

Speaker 45 Yeah, so I'm there for a good time, but I'm not.

Speaker 5 But here's the, all right, so here's our spin zone, Craig.

Speaker 12 These Olympics suck.

Speaker 5 No one gets to do anything.

Speaker 12 There's no fans.

Speaker 25 So you actually didn't even want to go to Tokyo.

Speaker 12 If you're here for a good time, it's the next Olympics, wherever the fuck that is.

Speaker 5 Those are the ones we're going to.

Speaker 9 Paris, baby.

Speaker 4 Paris is perfect.

Speaker 38 Oh, hell yes.

Speaker 12 You're going to make that team.

Speaker 45 Yeah, bro. I'll sign you up as my coach if I make Paris, man.

Speaker 34 All right, perfect.

Speaker 37 I will literally trip someone for you.

Speaker 5 I will trip someone during the race for you. If that counts, like if you could trip someone and they would let the

Speaker 5 actual race stand, I will do that for you.

Speaker 45 Hopefully, I won't need it next time.

Speaker 45 So in 2019, I was like real fit and I won the USA championships. And we got to go to Doha.

Speaker 25 Where's that?

Speaker 45 It's in Qatar or Qatar.

Speaker 33 Yeah, Qatar, yeah.

Speaker 9 Near Dubai and stuff.

Speaker 45 Yeah.

Speaker 9 But

Speaker 45 like, sadly, I just wasn't as fit this year because during COVID, I like gave up. I wasn't really like training much and I didn't really care.

Speaker 28 Okay.

Speaker 24 That's

Speaker 8 a strategy that maybe didn't work in an Olympic year, but

Speaker 38 I like you being honest about it.

Speaker 12 Like, hey, the Olympic trials are coming up in six months.

Speaker 5 Maybe now's not a a great time to give up.

Speaker 10 COVID kind of sucks.

Speaker 1 I'm just going to

Speaker 42 hang out.

Speaker 39 It's also like, well, one thing you can do during COVID is like run.

Speaker 45 Yeah, dude, most people got into running.

Speaker 9 I got out of it.

Speaker 10 It got too crowded outside.

Speaker 28 Yeah.

Speaker 10 I love it.

Speaker 1 So what we got to do is we got to just say we're all in for Paris. Yes.
All in for Paris. Get a Paris Olympics tattoo.
So that you know that you can be focused on that.

Speaker 1 That's the one that you care about.

Speaker 45 No, dude, this is what I was going to propose to you. How about I get like, how about I get a, I get two logos on my jersey, and this one's not on my jersey.

Speaker 45 How about I get like a part of my take or barstool?

Speaker 20 Yeah,

Speaker 41 yes, we will sponsor you like a nasty.

Speaker 45 Like, I don't want to be, I don't want to be like the college kids. I want to be like legit sponsored by you guys.

Speaker 9 Yes. Yes.
No.

Speaker 10 You want cash? I'll give you some cash.

Speaker 45 I want like 50 bucks, bro.

Speaker 33 Oh, easy.

Speaker 42 Done. Easy.

Speaker 25 Dude, if you want an Olympic gold, I would absolutely get the rings tattooed somewhere on my body.

Speaker 26 So that's your goal.

Speaker 9 I would.

Speaker 45 Well, I actually give tattoos, so I'll give you those Olympic rings.

Speaker 33 You'll tattoo them?

Speaker 27 Yes, if you win a gold, you'll.

Speaker 1 I'll say just a medal.

Speaker 9 Just if you win. You win any medal.

Speaker 33 If you win any medal in the Olympics.

Speaker 12 Wait,

Speaker 36 how's the, like, how'd the 800 race go?

Speaker 5 Did you do the 800 meters as well?

Speaker 45 No, I really wanted to, but my coach was like, let's go all in on the 15.

Speaker 12 Is it that much of a, like, you can't go all in on the 15 if you do both?

Speaker 45 You can, and I did in college but like in college I didn't know what was going on like I don't know there's a lot more pressure when it's your job right and so like I'm sponsored by Nike now yeah right they'll drop me

Speaker 1 yeah right so so when you finish a 1500 meter all-out race when would you when is it how long does it take until you could do that again oh maybe like an hour that's it jesus christ yeah it's pretty incredible so that's insane so when you're running an 800 meter you just have to do you have to consciously tell yourself, okay, this is the pace that I'm supposed to be at?

Speaker 1 Like, I guess that's my question. How do you pace yourself for different races, or you just kind of know how far away from the leader of the pack that you have to be?

Speaker 45 Like I said, I'm not very smart, man. I just sit, like, if someone's in front of me going fast, I'm sitting right on them.

Speaker 17 Like an asscan.

Speaker 9 Drafting?

Speaker 5 Is drafting real and running?

Speaker 25 Totally.

Speaker 28 Whoa. That's kind of cool.

Speaker 9 Yeah, that's shake and bait.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Does it matter more if you're drafting in a 1500 or an 800?

Speaker 45 Way more in a 1500.

Speaker 38 Huh.

Speaker 1 I would think it would be the opposite because they'd be going faster in the 800, which would mean that they'd be displacing more air in front of you. I don't know.
I'm not very smart either.

Speaker 45 You're a science guy, bro.

Speaker 36 Wait, but the 800, the 800 is like probably the longest race that you're going all out the entire time, correct?

Speaker 45 Yeah, yeah, actually.

Speaker 45 Look at you, bro. You know more about running than me.

Speaker 12 But it is. Like, that's the craziest part about the 800 is you're essentially sprinting as hard as you can for 800 meters.

Speaker 45 Yeah, so my teammate, he's the fastest American of all time.

Speaker 28 Wow.

Speaker 45 I don't know if you watched the 800. It was the first three days of the trials.

Speaker 2 I didn't. What was his time?

Speaker 45 He, so, he actually had a broken leg.

Speaker 9 Wait, what?

Speaker 45 He ran through it because he like he wanted to make the Olympics that bad, but like he didn't do too well. But he's run one minute and 42 seconds.

Speaker 13 Jesus Christ.

Speaker 38 But I don't think I could do 400 meters in that time.

Speaker 45 Can you just it's 51 per lap, 51 seconds for 400 meters.

Speaker 1 You can just run through a broken leg?

Speaker 9 No.

Speaker 9 Yeah, he didn't qualify, so no.

Speaker 28 The answer is no.

Speaker 45 Yeah, he'll break the world record. He's like the most talented human I've ever met in my life.
He could have played in the NFL.

Speaker 1 The fastest American of all time. What's his name?

Speaker 45 Donovan Brazier.

Speaker 5 Donovan Brazier.

Speaker 27 And what's your fastest 800-meter time?

Speaker 45 I rode 144, so it's two seconds off, but

Speaker 45 it's a lot more than you think.

Speaker 37 So you might, when you come here and we go to a track, I think you'd lap me.

Speaker 2 I think you would finish two laps before I finished one.

Speaker 1 For the 800? Yeah.

Speaker 9 Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 12 I think if you did 800 and I did 400, I think I might be able to beat you by like a second or two.

Speaker 45 I don't know if you guys have heard of the beer mile. Have you heard of it?

Speaker 8 Yes, yes.

Speaker 45 Maybe that would level the playing field, although I'm not bad at drinking.

Speaker 18 Yeah, I don't think it would level the playing field at all, Crank.

Speaker 12 I just told you that a mile time, it would take me like 10 minutes to run a mile.

Speaker 1 And I mean, just looking at you, I would say that the two best things that you are is like you're the best runner and the best beer drinker. You just look like a guy that can chug.

Speaker 1 And we actually did a milk mile a few years ago. Dactin, you want to do the milk mile against us?

Speaker 45 I don't think so, man.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's messy.

Speaker 12 We should do the beer mile.

Speaker 43 Do you have a beer sponsorship?

Speaker 25 Because we're Coors Light.

Speaker 45 i see that i see that right in front of me dude yeah so you you're coarse light too right

Speaker 45 uh dude i someone i fit so in 2019 when i won usa someone threw me a beer and there's a photo of me holding the beer like debating whether to smash it on my head or drink it yeah and what it was

Speaker 45 a bud light so i reached out to bud light like 50 times trying to get a sponsor and they never came back all right so we're gonna get you sponsored by cores light and then when you come to we're gonna do a beer mile we'll do a beer mile what do you we I don't want to run a mile.

Speaker 33 We'll still do it on the tandem bike.

Speaker 18 Oh, we'll do the beer mile on the tandem bike.

Speaker 33 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Yeah, okay.

Speaker 28 That's fine.

Speaker 1 Cool's like the official beer of exercise. Yeah.

Speaker 9 It's fair, dude.

Speaker 5 What's your fastest beer mile?

Speaker 20 I've never run one.

Speaker 45 This would be a big thing.

Speaker 1 Okay. What is your worst event? Like, could I beat you in a 50-yard dash?

Speaker 42 I bet you could, dude. No way.
I beat DK Metcalf.

Speaker 22 No way.

Speaker 45 Did you play sport? sport? I raced Antonio Brown in a 40 one time, dude.

Speaker 8 What'd you get?

Speaker 45 Oh, he dusted me. Like,

Speaker 45 I looked like a high school girl, dude.

Speaker 12 That's cool. But you got to be...
What was your 40 time?

Speaker 27 What you're going to see.

Speaker 12 Now he's going to say like 4-8.

Speaker 45 Probably like six seconds, dude.

Speaker 41 Really?

Speaker 45 Yeah, it's just like

Speaker 45 I can run my top speed for a long time, but my top speed's not very fast.

Speaker 10 Interesting.

Speaker 1 So do you actually get tired at the end of like an 800 or a 1500? Or, like, how long does it take for you to get tired?

Speaker 45 Uh, yeah, and so it's like, I don't know the science behind it, but they say it's called going lactic.

Speaker 28 Right.

Speaker 45 So, you just start tensing up and you start like running straight up in the air.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 45 And your whole body's locked up. And, and I don't know if that's being tired or like

Speaker 45 my body's like, dude, you're done.

Speaker 10 And how long, when does that happen?

Speaker 26 Like, does that happen after?

Speaker 25 I would assume it happens after 1500 meters.

Speaker 18 Like, what's the longest you've raced uh

Speaker 45 one uh 5 000 meters dude

Speaker 26 three miles you know and and what was your time in that

Speaker 1 uh 13 minutes and 36 seconds what the fuck oh my god you're a freak man you are a freak like you are you don't even like running your body is just you are quite literally built different you know that like you you don't get tired your body just gives up before you even feel tired that's a you've got some weird genes

Speaker 45 i don't know man. Like,

Speaker 45 what it's what's funny is like you, it's impressive to you guys, but to any other runner listening to this, they're like, that's so average at the world, like, at the world stage, it really does.

Speaker 12 I don't think there's like that you're now talking about like very few people who would say that's average, right?

Speaker 26 Like, you gotta be a real dick to say that's average.

Speaker 45 Yeah, I guess so. I don't know, man.

Speaker 9 But you got to give yourself more credit, Craig.

Speaker 37 We got to boost you up more.

Speaker 24 I'm Team Angles, dude.

Speaker 16 You are. You're full.

Speaker 45 I really appreciate it.

Speaker 12 Yeah, you're like, you're putting yourself down. You're running fucking three miles and was it 13?

Speaker 33 That's

Speaker 18 unfathomable to me.

Speaker 1 Paris 2024. That's the mindset we all have to have.
Yeah.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 31 Yeah. Maybe we just get the tattoos and just worry about it later.

Speaker 1 What's up with...

Speaker 1 I do feel like there are a lot of runners out there that are kind of dickheads on message boards.

Speaker 1 Like they always look at other runners and put them down or like try to find ways that they might be cheating.

Speaker 1 Has anybody ever accused you of like, do you participate in that culture where you like upload your times to the internet?

Speaker 45 No, I don't. And this is actually hilarious, dude.
Like

Speaker 45 someone accused me of like doping one time and on my Instagram. People were like, bro, he's not even good enough.

Speaker 28 Like

Speaker 9 they're like, if he's doping, he sucks.

Speaker 1 He's making the worst steroids ever.

Speaker 15 So I'm like, all right, well, there we go.

Speaker 30 Oh, man.

Speaker 12 Well, Craig, this has been awesome. And we got to, I know you're going to be in Brooklyn.

Speaker 3 And I think, well, we're going to air this next week.

Speaker 12 So it might be even a few days.

Speaker 25 We'll do, we have to get together.

Speaker 3 We've got to find a track, and we've got to bring some Coors Light, and we've got to do some tests on ourselves.

Speaker 45 We could just drink Coors at a track and not even run, dude.

Speaker 33 Also down for that.

Speaker 24 Also down for that.

Speaker 30 Make Billy run. I mean,

Speaker 8 perfect.

Speaker 1 I don't want to get over my skis here. I feel like

Speaker 1 he could be a potential blake.

Speaker 10 Yeah, I know.

Speaker 8 Yeah. Yes.

Speaker 8 You're a blake of running.

Speaker 9 Yes, yes, absolutely. Of track of play.

Speaker 33 Of running. Yes.

Speaker 37 But yeah, let's get together.

Speaker 12 So we'll do that and we'll i think we should do the tandem bike versus you beer mile

Speaker 45 all right brother you you say so i'm in

Speaker 45 all right well craig this has been awesome man thank you so much good luck and hopefully we see you soon yeah thank you so much for having me on man i'm excited hopefully we can get running like exciting or something i don't know yes yeah yes all right good to meet you man

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Speaker 11 Okay, let's wrap it up. We got Firefest, by the way.

Speaker 11 Jalen Johnson, who did go to Duke. Wait, Jalen Johnson, that's the guy who quit on it.

Speaker 19 He dropped out of Duke. Yeah, so he's not.

Speaker 11 Let me say, actually, I'm not going to say he quit on it.

Speaker 11 It was courageous what he did

Speaker 11 against Coach K

Speaker 11 because Coach K probably made his life miserable playing at Duke. But he got drafted at number 20 to the Atlanta Hawks.
So shout out Jalen Johnson. Coach K is officially off the board.

Speaker 19 Well, no, I think Jalen Johnson, he's not a Duke player. He's just not.
I don't think that we can count him as a Duke player. Did he play in the last game of the season for Duke?

Speaker 11 No, and yeah, if you're a Duke alum, like the Duke alums who remember they like belittled Elton Brand and uh Carlos Boozer, pretty much anyone who left early to try to better their life. Um,

Speaker 11 yeah, you're right. So taking him from a Duke alum,

Speaker 11 um, I would write a strongly worded letter to uh the Durham Gazette, let's call it, saying that Jalen Johnson never actually was a blue devil and we don't take him as one of our own.

Speaker 11 Unless he had ended up somehow being a lottery pick, then we would have said,

Speaker 11 score another one for Coach K.

Speaker 19 I actually think it's courageous what he did. Like he's getting the conversation going.
How hard is too hard for Coach K to be pushing these players?

Speaker 19 Um, he's the one that stood up and said, Enough is enough. I'm no longer, I'm no longer a Duke University basketball player.

Speaker 11 Yeah, standing up to the man. All right, Fire Fest of the week.
Uh, PFC, why don't you lead us off? Wait, hey,

Speaker 11 no,

Speaker 11 don't do that. No, I'm not.
I didn't do that. I didn't do that.
I'm literally not doing that. I, you're doing that.

Speaker 13 No, I'm not.

Speaker 11 No, I made a funny joke.

Speaker 9 I would never.

Speaker 19 My fire fest of the week is that I'm in a tornado right now. So there's there's been like tornado warnings all evening.

Speaker 19 My phone is blowing up every 30 seconds, telling me that there's a tornado that's like coming to get me personally. I think it's on my block.
It's making its way down the street door by door.

Speaker 19 And I am honestly just, I don't know what it says about me. I'm just not afraid of tornadoes.
I feel like I could take a tornado to the face, especially like a bitch ass New Jersey tornado.

Speaker 11 This isn't, I'm not in Oklahoma right now.

Speaker 19 I'm not in Kansas. I feel like I could just like, we just fart at a tornado and it would just blow kind of across the street.

Speaker 11 Tornadoes are fucking scary, dude. Be careful.
Get in a doorway. Go stand in a doorway.
Don't shoot at it. No, that's an earthquake, by the way.
That's an earthquake. Don't stand in a doorway.

Speaker 11 Go in your basement. Don't shoot at an earthquake.
No, earthquakes stand in your doorway. Don't shoot at the tornado.
Why not? Because people did that and the bullets come right back at you.

Speaker 19 I don't know if that doesn't sound true at all.

Speaker 11 And also,

Speaker 11 there's no way. Also, you just totally shoot at a tornado.
All right. Liberty

Speaker 11 notes.

Speaker 11 Do you also think that Kelvin Benjamin got cut because he was stealing food from the Giants facility, Billy? No, but I do have more info on that. Okay, share.
The thing that for the recap. Okay.

Speaker 11 Oh, for the recap. Yes, Billy.
Let's go.

Speaker 11 Also,

Speaker 19 U.S. Rugby lost the quarterfinals.
They're not back officially, but the lads played well. We got fucked by the ref.

Speaker 11 They didn't even finish second?

Speaker 19 We finished second in our group, and then that meant that we got to play an easier matchup in the quarterfinals than if we had finished first, obviously.

Speaker 19 But then, yeah, we went up three tries to nothing in the first half. And then the ref just, you know, it's hard to play.
We got a yellow card.

Speaker 19 So really at that point, it was six versus eight when you include the ref on the five.

Speaker 11 I should have asked. I shouldn't have asked.
It was tough.

Speaker 19 Great, great showing by the lads, though.

Speaker 11 Shout out to Lou Barry. Say something nice about rugby.
They got the little car. That's all you need.

Speaker 19 Not only do they have the little car, big cat, but their little car has a rugby field on top of the little car. And then on that rugby field, there's another little car.

Speaker 11 Fucking love it. Love it.
Love the little car.

Speaker 11 All right, my firefest is I went on vacation this week and I said I was going on vacation. And most people played along with the joke, but then I

Speaker 11 really don't, I fucking shouldn't get triggered by it, but every now and then I do when someone's like,

Speaker 11 why are you tweeting on vacation? Like you're a scumbag father. And I'm just like, I really fucking hate this person.
So I'm never going to say I'm going on vacation again.

Speaker 11 I'm just going to go on vacation, not say anything. I was trying to make a joke out of it with Aaron Rodgers.
It was funny.

Speaker 11 And then people took it too far, like, and actually were like, oh, you're a scumbag dad. Like, you're probably not even paying attention to your son.

Speaker 11 It's like dude i'm i firing off a tweet takes no time well big cat's actually tweeting a lot less than normal usually when even when we're on the road and big cat's driving i'll be laying down i don't do that back of the art i haven't done that and i'll rent i'll see you do you do tweet during shows i yeah so does pft i know i don't do that anymore i don't think i've ever tweeted i don't think i've ever tweeted during a show that's a lie

Speaker 11 tweeted during the matthew mcconaughey interview that we did on zoom i remember seeing pitcat tweet Yeah, I mean, sometimes news breaks, what the fuck you want me to do?

Speaker 11 There's a lot of fucking news going on right now.

Speaker 11 I can't be the guy who fucking shows up 10 hours later after Anthony Rizzo gets traded to the Yankees. That would be heartbreaking.

Speaker 11 Yeah, so fuck those people. I do like some of the people when people are like, dude, you tweet too much.
It's like, it's literally my job. It is my job.
I do, it's my job.

Speaker 11 If I was doing another job, if I was a doctor, I probably wouldn't be tweeting.

Speaker 11 Liam, you got a Fire Fest?

Speaker 11 Yeah, I do. It was a classic future me situation.
So I have a cousin who I'm very cool with and she graduated from like somewhere, hit me up like a month ago.

Speaker 11 She was having a party and I was like, I was like, oh yeah, of course, like I'll be there. About a week or two ago, I booked an appointment to get a new tattoo and put a deposit down.

Speaker 11 So I got the tattoo yesterday and this party is on Saturday. And she hit me up like, I don't know, Monday or Tuesday.
And I was like, oh, fuck, I'm still going to get the tattoo.

Speaker 11 But so now I'm just going to have to see some of my family and like explain getting a new tattoo, which I would rather not do. But

Speaker 11 sweet, but you're a tattoo guy. Does it matter at this point?

Speaker 11 No, but it still is like annoying when people are like, oh, like, what does it mean? Why'd you get it? Whatever. We're like,

Speaker 11 they're not. Like, they're just not.

Speaker 11 So you have to go full sleep. Yeah, no, I'm working on it.
I'm working on it.

Speaker 19 Asking a stranger, like, oh, what does your tattoo mean? That's like asking a soldier, like, did you kill anybody? Like, it's annoying for you guys to have to deal with those people, right?

Speaker 11 I am not going to make that comparison.

Speaker 11 I respect the truth.

Speaker 11 Yeah.

Speaker 11 Does people still do that? Do people go up to you like, did you kill anyone? That's such a dick thing to say. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 19 People, people actually do that, which that's, I could understand maybe like a four-year-old saying it.

Speaker 11 Or Billy.

Speaker 19 Or Billy. Yeah, Billy's, Billy's definitely done that.

Speaker 11 But Billy's kind of a Navy SEAL, so he can say that. Jake, you're firefast.
By the way, Jake is calling the game. Are you flying out today? This morning.
Yes. Okay.
I'm heading south.

Speaker 11 South to Colorado Springs. Yep.

Speaker 11 One time. Shout it out again just so people, because we got to honestly, everyone's got to step up.
Even if you're not going to watch it, listen, lacrosse, it's not watchable, but

Speaker 11 still just turn it on so the numbers get used for Jake. Yes.
So it's going to be a a double header 7:15 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Eastern. 7:15 is Archers versus Redwoods, Water Dogs versus Whipsnakes, 10 p.m.

Speaker 11 Eastern. So you may be thinking, it's late night on a Saturday.
I'm not watching when you're pregaming, getting ready to go out. Just put on peacock,

Speaker 11 yeah, get on the cock. Yeah, yes.

Speaker 19 Also, make sure to take pictures of Jake's giant head from above the screen.

Speaker 11 Oh, yeah,

Speaker 11 yes, definitely, yeah, definitely. Um, so my Fire Fest has something to do with that.
I went a few blocks down to print my charts, my spotting boards. Oh, I guess you can.
Okay. I got a little bit.

Speaker 13 Yep.

Speaker 11 In front of you. I'll tweet out a picture.
Okay. These.

Speaker 11 It's like very special paper at Staples, like legal size, color, blah, blah, blah. I go in, I come out, it starts pouring, and I have to put it under my shirt.
I printed a few copies, so I'm okay.

Speaker 11 But like, of course, that's

Speaker 11 you can't call a game without that. So, oh my my God.
What? You don't have a binder? No, you don't use a binder. You use a manila folder over there.
But how are you carrying it on the plane?

Speaker 11 The Manila folder? Yeah, in my backpack, which I didn't. What if something spills? I have a few copies, but like.
What if something spills in the whole fucking Manila folder?

Speaker 11 I have it on my Excel.

Speaker 11 I can always print something in Colorado, God forbid. Okay, all right.
I'm just saying, maybe fucking seal that bad boy up, you know, put it in a big Ziploc bag.

Speaker 11 But yeah, please tune in if you can, and it should be fun. No, no, no, no, no, no, that's not how we're doing it, Jake.

Speaker 11 If you don't tune in, you're a fucking scumbag and never listen to this show again.

Speaker 11 It's mandatory.

Speaker 19 It's mandatory.

Speaker 11 So let's do it that way.

Speaker 19 You know what, Big Cat?

Speaker 19 The ink isn't dry on the 2021 Thank You Awards. Yes, so it'd be a real shame if we had to revoke the listeners of the year.

Speaker 11 Yeah, we actually file it and send in the paperwork, and we usually don't get it for at least a month back.

Speaker 11 So, yeah, we can definitely change that yeah i also uh i talked to coach copeland yesterday he was asking

Speaker 11 who is

Speaker 11 let's go say that like we know who that is that coach of your water dogs oh okay

Speaker 11 and he asked how ownership is doing and i see you know depends on who she wins did you see the chart that someone put out there Yeah, most shots in the league. That was just most shots in the league.

Speaker 11 They listened to us. I asked him about that too.
And he's like, well, we've played one extra game than a lot of these teams. So it might be a little,

Speaker 11 but I think it was per capita

Speaker 19 per game, yeah. So, uh, Saturday night, Jake, I have a question for you.
Are you do you have do you get nerves before a big broadcast?

Speaker 19 Because every time I've seen you do a show, whether it's Toolstream Stadiums, uh, check out the uh, the bar stool, the play barstool app.

Speaker 19 I want to make sure to plug that in there since no one else is going to on this show today. But, um, do you get do you get nervous before a broadcast?

Speaker 11 Uh, yeah, there's always some nerves. Um, but once the game game starts,

Speaker 45 it's good.

Speaker 11 I think it's the anticipation that's more nerve-wracking.

Speaker 11 But once the game's rolling, once you get through the open, once you're calling the action, the adrenaline really is there and you have fun with it.

Speaker 19 Do you have a little symbol that you have ready for the people at home that are watching?

Speaker 19 Like a little, maybe a hand gesture or a little wink that you can do, tell all the listeners, like, hey, I love you. Thanks for watching.

Speaker 11 We can brainstorm something. I don't know if I'm going to be on camera that much, aside from the beginning, but.
Face for radio. Yeah, exactly.
You're going to do a slide? We all have that.

Speaker 11 I don't think we're doing a slide, but I'm not sure.

Speaker 11 Okay.

Speaker 11 I'm Jake Marsh.

Speaker 19 Pick your nose.

Speaker 11 Yeah. Do that.

Speaker 11 I'm Jake Marsh. Sleep well or something like that.
Something really nice.

Speaker 11 Good night.

Speaker 19 At the end, maybe good night, sleep tight.

Speaker 11 Yeah. Good night, sleep tight to sign off the broadcast.
Yeah. it'll be like midnight here in New York.
So, right,

Speaker 11 all right, good night, sleep tight.

Speaker 11 Okay, uh, we'll see, we'll see, recap, um, firefest, quick firefest. Uh, that pie coin I was telling everyone to do is a scam.

Speaker 11 No,

Speaker 11 no,

Speaker 11 yo, all right, don't do it.

Speaker 11 Let me just interject here real quick. For people who don't know, there was a moment in time that Billy, they were calling themselves pioneers.
I I walked in the office.

Speaker 11 It was Billy, Marty Mush, and I think Big Ed. And I was like, this,

Speaker 11 how could you actually, this is almost like when Steven Seagal invented Bitcoin 2Gen, like those three guys. That's the brain trust.
Yeah, the brain trust. I was like, oh, my God.

Speaker 11 But there was a moment where it was like someone said, oh, these guys are at Stanford and created it. And Billy's gotten all these pieces.
There was a moment where Pi became legit.

Speaker 11 Billy was going to be like a billionaire. Unfortunately, it sounds like that never happened.
Yeah, um, basically, it's sort of a big kind of pyramid scheme-esque type of thing.

Speaker 11 Wait, what made you think it was? Wait, hold on, what made you think it was a pyramid scheme? Was it the fact that you had to get other pioneers to make yourself more pie?

Speaker 11 Yeah, that, um,

Speaker 11 and you know, the sort of pyramid part of it, but uh, everyone in the office kept on asking me to tweet out their specific link.

Speaker 11 They're like, dude, could you please tweet out my link for the pie and i was like this

Speaker 19 that's a pyramid scheme but three of them the three of those guys got into a fight with each other because they were all texting me their link and then marty was like you idiot i already texted my link you can't text him your link now and they were actually like getting into a verbal uh altercation just based on who in the office was going to get sent different links yes So delete the app

Speaker 11 and stop asking people to mine Pi because the notifications are annoying. But if anyone from Pi wants to prove me wrong and maybe like get it legit, like Pi people, like do your thing.
Anyway,

Speaker 19 Billy, Billy, what are you doing right now?

Speaker 11 What?

Speaker 19 It sounds like it might not be a scam, but Billy's trying to get them to pay him money.

Speaker 11 No.

Speaker 11 Are you

Speaker 11 ultimately this? There ain't no fun where the rabbit got the gun. Billy's scamming the scammers.
Yeah. I mean, hey, someone's got to do it.
Yeah.

Speaker 11 No, but I'm not going to actually accept money from them. Just like make it legit so I can be a billionaire regularly.
Oh, yeah, if they offered it, you wouldn't take it, right?

Speaker 11 Yeah, if they like, yeah, like actually made it legit and all the pie I have becomes legit, like, I'd totally take it. But, um, now their cycles are regular with sports.

Speaker 11 We're coming up on NFL training camp, so we've had two days of training camp and a lot of news. Would you guys like to hear some of it?

Speaker 11 Nothing about quarterbacks, nothing about quarterbacks, yes, except Josh Allen because he's throwing really awesome seam and post-passes.

Speaker 11 And okay, but that's nothing new. Yeah.
Right. But it's impressing NFL veteran.

Speaker 19 Here we go. Emmanuel Sanders.

Speaker 11 Emmanuel Sanders, who's been in the league and played with some of the best quarterbacks ever. So that's high praise.

Speaker 11 But we have some great highlights like Dan Campbell doing 40 up downs with his defense, who have just started doing 40 up downs every morning before practice.

Speaker 11 And the best part about the video is Dan Campbell has very obviously got a bad knee, but he's still doing it with the team, which is

Speaker 11 total out me.

Speaker 19 I want to point out in the tweet that came out that had the video of Dan Campbell doing the up-downs, the reporter called them down-ups, which is how you know he's not a football guy.

Speaker 19 But then I started to think about it. And down-up actually makes way more sense when describing the exercise because you go down and then up.

Speaker 11 Right. Well, it depends if you start on the ground or not.

Speaker 19 Well, yeah, you usually get to the ground, ground, you go down.

Speaker 11 Like, are you saying, like, if you, I guess

Speaker 11 if you really think about it,

Speaker 11 you're laying down when you wake up.

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 11 So your first move of the day is up.

Speaker 11 So any move down would be off of that up. So it isn't up down.

Speaker 19 I could see Dan Campbell sleeping on his feet like a horse.

Speaker 11 I think, by the way, dumb thought. I used to think that if a horse fell down, it just died.

Speaker 11 That's true. Up until I was about like 24.

Speaker 11 Travis Kelsey exit practice with back and hip tightness. The Saints read about this.
What are you doing right now?

Speaker 11 Are you just doing the

Speaker 11 recounting all the NFL news? This is

Speaker 11 so much news we can talk about.

Speaker 19 Is Billy reading Adam Schefter's timeline?

Speaker 11 No, I'm not. No, it's not even Schafter's timeline.
Schefter put a little like pizzazz in it. He's literally reading the USA Today, like news and notes, NFL news and notes and transactions.
Oh,

Speaker 19 La Crosse Plair joined the Saints.

Speaker 11 Yes. Yes.

Speaker 11 Also, the thing with Kelvin Benjamin, basically, Joe Judge wanted him at a certain weight coming in. I think it was like

Speaker 11 251. He came in at 268.
And that's why he got into a big argument.

Speaker 11 But he passed the conditioning. So it was kind of like, I'm fat, but I can still move.
I'm like not out of shape. I'm just, you know, got a little extra junk in the truck.

Speaker 19 Just more of me to love, baby. 268.
That's,

Speaker 19 that's got to be muscle, right?

Speaker 11 Muscle weighs more than fat.

Speaker 11 Yeah.

Speaker 11 It's basically Gettelman wanted him. Joe Judge didn't.
And Benjamin was just caught in between.

Speaker 45 Anyway, we got

Speaker 11 basically that everyone thinks that Zach Ertz is sending subliminal messages in training camp by wearing his shorts inside out and dying his hair blonde.

Speaker 11 Not probably not. Dak Press got with an MRI.

Speaker 11 He got showed a muscle screen in his right shoulder. There's the notes.

Speaker 11 He wrote a lot of notes. Anyway, Billy, Billy.

Speaker 19 First of all, Billy's just reading his blog out loud that he wrote earlier today. Second of all,

Speaker 19 what subliminal messages are you talking about with Dak Prick?

Speaker 11 I don't know exactly why. He gets upset with his

Speaker 11 contract negotiations.

Speaker 11 All right, right, Billy. I'm giving you an A plus.
This has been an A plus. Also, let's end the show.

Speaker 11 Also, uh, that dude on the weightlifting team, China, who kept saying his balls are okay, that's because he's trying to like make people think he's not doing steroids. Oh,

Speaker 11 okay, got it.

Speaker 11 He's like, he's not being like, yeah, no, he's like trying not to get tested by the IOC because they busted a bunch of weightlifting

Speaker 11 arrays. Is that all you have to say? Pak standard not to compete.

Speaker 11 Is that all you have to say? My balls are okay on Instagram, they won't test you. That's that's his angle, yeah.

Speaker 19 It's like saying, Am I being detained to a police officer? They have to let you go.

Speaker 11 Yes,

Speaker 11 all right, numbers, yeah, 99.

Speaker 11 It's tough, it's tough. This is like

Speaker 11 doing the numbers right now is like showing up to a sick party the next day, like back to that house, being like, Are we going to try to do this again?

Speaker 11 But we're doing it again. I don't know.

Speaker 19 Yeah, we're chasing the dragon.

Speaker 19 oh here we go that was it was an all-time moment when i was like do you guys want to change your number and big cat goes do you guys want to change your name to the blake

Speaker 11 oh man those guys

Speaker 11 just credit to them someone put it perfectly they're like trying to explain how we got millionaire athlete three millionaire athletes sitting in a like listening to 50 rounds of a lottery competition

Speaker 11 to decide who has who's the best blake and one of them's not even named blake

Speaker 11 like yeah you're right i don't know how we got here where's liam going

Speaker 19 oh also they announced the the day of the match three oh 53.

Speaker 19 uh the day of the match of day timers brooks brooks explain the left handed it's going to be on september 7th right the tuesday after labor day weekend me and big cat will be on the bag uh it should be an amazing athletic event yes it's going to be incredible incredible uh okay

Speaker 11 first timer okay yeah kangaroos don't have australian accents

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