Julian Edelman, Lakers Catfish, The Super League Is Dead And A Billy Announcement

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We're going to talk a little death of the Super League. There was a Lakers Twitter catfishing that was ridiculous.
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Today is Wednesday, April 21st, and the Super League is dead. We fucking killed that stupid son of a bitch.
Play the Coldplay song. Okay, hold on.
Yeah, bring that up. RIP to the Super League.
I thought we liked the Super League. We hardly knew.
We liked the name. Yeah, we were in on that.
I mean, if the Premier League is smart, they'll just rebrand as the English Super League, and then nobody can ever cuck them out of that again. But yeah, basically what it all boiled down to was there was a group of very rich people, a bunch of billionaires who didn't think they should pay for their own fucking stadiums.
And they tried to organize the mass exodus. And they were like, well, what's going to happen? There's going to be a bunch of poor people that are upset.
What are they going to do? Not buy our shit anymore? Turns out that over in Europe, yeah, poor people actually do that. They actually fight back.
So it was 18 hours. Excuse me, 18.
18 hours. 18-hour league.
And I just hope Texas A&M puts it up on the side of the stadium as their victory. Yes.
So, Hank, you say Americans that created the Super League. Let me ask you this.
Brain buster real quick. That's just the knowledge I learned from troops on Monday.
In order to kill something so evil as the Super League, you have to create it. So shouldn't Americans get credit for creating something that the world can get behind and kill? Good point.
Like the nuclear bomb? We did this. We created and killed it, so we deserve all the credit.
Specifically this show and generally America, I would say. It's actually, it was a great test.
All along it was a test. It was an experiment.
And guess what? There are 12 teams that failed. We put together this idea of a giant league that would suck the soul out of sports.
No, we didn't. Marshall Henderson did.
Marshall Henderson put it together. And we saw, oh, surely Manchester United and Juventus and Leeds won't join this.
Leeds actually didn't. They passed the test by not joining.
But then all these big teams were like, yeah, we're greedy. We're money hungry.
Guess what? You guys really showed your ass because you're the bad guys. You rich motherfuckers.
We beat your ass. Isn't this bad for our World Cup chances? No, it's great for World Cup chances because Pucilic and Dest and all the other great players that we have right now, they all just happen to be on teams that would have been in the Super League and not been allowed to play.
So now guess what? USA World Cup 2022. Qatar.
2022. Another great idea.
Have a World Cup in the middle of the desert. That's what's so funny because we were trying to figure out what troops, why FIFA was coming down on the side of the fans.
And we figured it out afterwards. It's because FIFA controls UEFA, the champions league and the super league would have sucked all the money out of UEFA.
So that's why FIFA was doing this. Not because they're like some, no FIFA's like, listen, we're okay with letting North Korea into our tournaments, but a European player that doesn't compete in the Champions League? See ya.
Now, excuse me, we have a bunch of slaves to go bury in Qatar. Yes.
Whoa. Damn.
Drop the hammer on them. Sorry.
FIFA isn't a good actor in any of this. But we did kill it.
It's over. Thank God it's mostly from us and leading the charge i would say i mean that that clip from troops on the show on sunday had a lot of people interacting with it a lot of people watching it so we got the message out there i saw james corden just basically watched it and then did his own like troops he basically he just basically did a cover band of troops didn't drop the N-bomb like troops did, though.
No, he did not. No, he did not.
Do you guys do the World Cups during football season? Yeah. No, because they're doing it in a fucking desert.
That's crazy. They had to create these huge stadiums with air conditioning.
It's one of the dumbest things ever. You know what? I bet you that there's going to be 24 hours of football that take place then.
Yes. Soccer.
3 a.m., football. Football and football time.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
We'll have to do a marathon for that. This is me just writing checks.
I don't want to cash later. I did learn that there are more players on the U.S.
men's team than just Pulisic. So that was a win for soccer awareness in America.
So credit to the Super League for doing that. I think it was all good.
All good came from this. We all got together.
There's nothing like a common enemy that everyone can just get pissed off at. So, yeah, job well done.
Again, mostly by us, but job well done. I'll take credit for it.
I'd say that the two biggest successes of this podcast have been, one, bullying Nyquist the horse off Twitter, and then, two,an super league yes there it is one and two so um that one just like easy as could be moving on now but there is something that popped up in the back of my head yeah when this was all put to bed like so quickly they're gonna try this again in like two years yeah they're gonna fuck out of it again they're gonna learn from what happened this time and they're gonna do it like in the dead of night. Yeah, but we'll beat the fuck out of it again.
They're going to learn from what happened this time,

and they're going to do it like in the dead of night.

Yeah, but we found out-

They'll probably do it during the Olympics,

like when Putin invaded the Crimea.

But we found out they're bitches.

They are bitches.

So we'll just fuck them up again.

They are bitches.

We will fuck them up again.

When they come at us, we will fuck them up again.

All right, so the other news we had was Lakers Twitter

had a catfish problem which

is we were i think we were long overdue for a good catfishing uh and it was to to catch you up which is really it's inconsequential but it's also very funny uh basically there was a a female or we don't know the real identity of the person there was someone who was pretending to be attractive woman who was very much into the Lakers,

did podcast appearances, possibly faked cancer, then possibly faked her own abduction, which is the no-no. You can do one or the other.
You can't do both. And was exposed.
And, again, I just love any catfishing story online because it's actually incredible that it doesn't happen more often when you think about where can you find horny dudes that if you just talk a little bit of sports, they will simp for you forever. Oh, yeah, the internet.
I think it probably does happen a lot. We just find out about it when it gets caught.
People are just really good at pretending to be women online, I think. My idea was...
L is later daniella should be out there my idea was why isn't anyone so like all these stories are pretty much the same arc where it's like someone fought you know someone creates an account puts an avatar up there that's not them gets in in the community and then gets like one or two close friends gets gets exposed, deletes their account. I don't know why.
Why aren't people buying penny stocks of this account right now? Because what if, like there's got to be a one in a million shot that the catfisher actually is the chick. And if you start white knighting now when everyone's going at her, you're truly the like, yo, are these guys bothering you online guy? Yeah.
and what's the worst thing that happens nothing you end up with a no you end up with a fucking dude who loves the lakers yeah a buddy a buddy to watch the games with yeah who you could sext with and jerk off and very worst case scenario you look like a good guy for being like i'm the last person that will defend the honor of this probably dude you know what dudes need white knighting too i don't know why that gets reserved exclusively for females. Like every now and again, it would be nice if somebody white knighted for us.
Dude supporting dudes. I say that I, when was, oh, when I texted Titus, our good friend Mark Titus, because he had a nice tan.
I was like, dude, you got a sick tan. Like we should do that more often to each other.
Dudes rock. Yeah.
Go tanning? No. Just be like, hey, you look good.
Like, hey, you look good, bro. Why don't I just say it? I'm looking at you right now.
I don't. I can't say it.
But if you were looking good, I would tell you you look good. Watch this.
Jake looks nice today. Jake? You can't look at him while you say it.
Jake? He's all wearing glasses. Jake? Jake looks nice today.
Ew. Ew.
Hot. Mean.

Not as much gel today.

Oh.

It's au natural.

Okay, yeah.

I like it natural.

I got a button down for tonight. More fuss for the love, yeah.

I like my PMT sports biz guys with less makeup on.

What is tonight?

Lugers for Stool Benchmob.

The cat's coming.

They ended the podcast, so they're doing a big farewell. Season one.
We're still doing once a week Thursday releases. You know what we should do? We should hire Vivian.
Yeah. And the chance that she's real.
Yes, that's what I'm saying. And she got abducted.
She's got cancer. Hopefully she survives this ordeal.
And the chance that she's real, we should hire her to be on the show, to be our Lakers stats girl. If it turns out that Vivian is actually really Vivian, she is our official Lakers correspondent.
That's exactly what I'm saying. It's in the finance world, it's a distressed asset.
We're buying distressed assets in the hope that we can turn them around. So we buy the distressed asset.
It's one in a million shot that she's actually who she says she is but if she is she'll remember that we were the ones who had her back uh she's a kevin euchalus she's like if we're doing money ball right she gets on base right doesn't matter how she gets there um so the the other part of this story there was a couple other funny elements kevin durant is now the king of twitter uh so he was on twitter spaces like getting the breakdown. Kevin Durant, we have given him a lot of shit.
We've called him the Triple B many times. And I just think that he has persisted so much online as being just an online dude that he's won everyone over.
Who's like, oh, you're so lame for being online all the time. And he just stayed online.
And now it's like, cool because he's like us i'm removing the mayor of twitter handle title to from chrissy tegan giving it to kevin durant because chrissy shows up and she just like tweets and then hopes that she gets all her friends to retweet her and tell her how great and funny she is yeah kevin durant actually engages right with everybody online and he engages with like every single twitter development like the people you know how sometimes you a notification on Twitter. It's like, hey, we're rolling out this new feature.
Give it a shot. All those go to Kevin Durant and he tries them out immediately.
Fills out the forms, sends them back. He's on Spaces.
He's probably the biggest power user of Twitter Spaces. He is.
Yes, he is. Was he catfished by it? No, he was

he jumped into a Twitter spaces

and just asked for like a rundown

by a guy who, there was a guy, unfortunately

who did like kind of fall in love with this chick

who's not a chick.

And then also Taylor Rooks jumped in

and everyone

like, what they've made

Vivian out to be is what Taylor Rooks is

in real life and they all like, she was trending just because she went into a Twitter space, which was hilarious. IceCube's son, O'Shea Jackson Jr., he retweeted being like, find Vivian.
Markeith Morris did that. The whole internet was like, whole Lakers internet.
And it was just a very, again, catfishing stories. I feel like we haven't had a good one in a while so uh and then she deleted her account never to be seen so the person in the pictures of Vivian I know that a few of them were photoshopped kind of like the college admissions thing she was like playing water polo at some yes the background's always changed for but it is a real person right the the individual yes exists yes whoever that person is should say should take on Vivian's personality right now.
It should be like Doug's. Right.
It should be like Doug's. Vivian should see that there's a brand built around her already.
She should just learn everything she can about the Lakers right now. Hop online and boom.
She's immediately accepted. She's there.
She's ready to roll. I like that.
So she's kind of made like a, she's almost, what is it? What do you call it, Billy? What do you call it? Like butterfly and the moth and the larva. What is it called? Metamorphosis? Yeah, there it is.
Someone can hop into the larva sack and come out a beautiful butterfly, which is not a pun because her name is Butterfly, her Twitter handle. I didn't do that on purpose.
Okay. But it is.
I just realized that. But what is it? Butterfly? It's butterfly424 or something.
Okay. It's actually remarkable that you're able to build such a strong brand with such a lame handle.
Yeah. Well, she did gain 16,000 followers solely off of the fact that she got fake abducted and had fake cancer.
That's true. So, I mean, she also was attractive, which helps.
Yes. You know what? All right.
here's how i feel about the whole catfishing thing because everybody online to a certain extent pretends to be somebody that they're not right well we're all losers is that too deep for 420 we're all losers it's the fact like everyone puts forth what they want to put forth online and so we're all just catfishing celebrity yeah worship is so stupid it's the old like so stupid. It's the old, like, I can't believe this celebrity couple got divorced.
Like, oh, I can because they had a marriage. And that happens.
Me, Big Cat, and Hank, we don't actually write any of this show. We're just the beautiful faces just to suck you guys in.
Jake writes everything. Jake writes.
Bubba. When Jake's wearing his glasses, he writes everything.
Yeah, he's our head writer. I know what we can do with these guys.
Oh, Jake, I remember what I was going to ask you. Chet Holmgren.
Yeah. Gonzaga got another lanky white guy.
Surely this will take him over the top. We'll see.
That's all I wanted to say. I thought Jake broke that news yesterday because he tweeted out Chet Holmgren to Gonzaga.
And I was like, Jake, are you breaking news? He's like, no, I'm just watching his live stream and reporting. Also, Chet Holmgren is not like if we're just going name alone no that's a fucking country music like a failed country music act in nashville yeah that's not a number one pick number one recruit to gonzaga i would say yeah like b-list country musician slash uh probably the the best used car salesman in columbus yeah from minnesota come on doing? What's Mark Few doing in Minnesota? Jalen Suggs.
He's just stealing the whole state. Yeah.
Damn. So, should be interesting.
It did bother me a little. I say that jokingly about Chet Holmgren simply because I saw it.
And, like, if Wisconsin was at his peak as a program, we should get a guy like that,

a fucking tall-length dude from Minnesota.

Especially with reciprocity.

Right, exactly.

It should be us.

So what else do we have?

Oh, I saw a crazy stat I wanted to throw out there because we respect.

Credit to us, by the way, for getting ahead of respecting Steph more

the night before he went for 49.

That felt good. But he is insane.
He's off the charge right now. So, yeah, it's kind of progressed over the course of the last week.
It's been like Steph is unreal. That's what it started with.
Then it's Steph is insane. Now Steph is unconscious.
Steph is unconscious and maybe MVP but not. I'm going to start the train on that.
Do it. Steph for MVP.
Do it. Windhorse would get...
Well, no. Let's see how many games he played.
I think Steph Curry should be the most valuable player of the league. If he didn't play enough games, Windhorse would get really mad at you.
Yeah. Okay.
Let's do it. No one's ever done what Steph's done.
No one has ever done what Steph's done. It's true.
What is it? 73s in the last 10 games? You cannot tell the story of the NBA in the year 2021 without mentioning Steph Curry. That's a fact.
It also just shows how stupid we are as sports fans and how in the moment. Because I did, of course, it's just one person on Twitter.
But I do think there's a sect of people who are like, Steph can't do it alone. And you're like, dude, in 2015, he was the best player on a championship team that won 67 games.
And the next year, he was the best player on a team that won 73 games. Right.
They're just saying like... I think he obviously has help, but he can be the best player on a great team.
Right. They're saying also like if you took away all of Steph's good players, then his team wouldn't be as good.
Right. That's probably just a fact.
One of the best. One of the best arguments out there.
Maybe we don't respect Clay enough. Maybe we don't respect Joel Embiid enough either.

Dude, Joel Embiid's insane.

The one thing about Joel Embiid, though, he's so good,

and he makes the ball look so small in his hands,

and it looks like he's playing on a mini hoop because he's so large

and so incredibly skilled.

The one thing with Joel Embiid, though, is every time he hits the ground,

I'm like, that's it.

Yeah.

It's over. Which is actually I think that's contributing to the Joel Embiid, though, is every time he hits the ground, I'm like, that's it.
It's over. Actually, I think that's contributing to the Joel Embiid for MVP conversation, the fact that he hasn't gotten severely injured this year.
He's figured it out. He is at a level, though, where he just dominates.
When he has the ball, it's just, okay, he's either going to score or he's going to make something happen every single time. And he is just an enormous, enormous human being.
When he caught that home run and then he took a picture

of his hand holding it

and it just looked,

it looked like one of those

Cadbury cream eggs.

Yeah, Andre the Giant.

Yes.

Andre the Giant holding his

Cadbury cream eggs

just right in your hand.

Yep.

The perfect spot

in the paw of your hand.

Perfect analogy, cousin.

By the way, hand up.

Yeah.

I fucked up with cousin.

Why?

Because I should have said

Thank you. in the in the in the perfect analogy perfect analogy cousin by the way hand up yeah I fucked up with cousin why cause I I should have said nephew Snoop always says nephew not cousin and cuz instead of like no cuz still doesn't sound great but cuz sounds better than cousin he also says cuz cuz and he has said cousin but it was also the delivery I just don't know if anyone can deliver Snoop Dogg except Snoop Dogg.
No cap. Right.
He throws around onk, too. Yeah, onk.
He actually says every relative. Pretty much good with any other family member.
Yeah. Here you go, cousin.
Yeah, damn it. I love my brethren.
Listen, there are some shots that you wish you could take back in life, but you know what? Shoot or shoot. Yes.
Steph Curry. You got to keep going.
Sometimes I have weeks where I'm off. Sometimes I'm unconscious.
yes the uh all right so the other thing oh oh the the stat i wanted to say that that we that i wanted to throw out there because it fucking blew my mind uh ben fox tweeted this f-a-w-k-e-s i said that like fox the network like the guy that overthrew parliament fox yeah guy fox um Dodgers have been favored in 96 straight games dating back to 2019 season finale versus the Nationals.

They've been favored in 134 of the last 136 games.

That's stupid.

It is stupid.

That actually is not respect the Dodgers.

It means that people respect the Dodgers too much.

Way too much.

Way too much.

That tells me that they're overvalued.

That's insane.

134 out of the last 136 games. Is it profitable you know i don't know that's crazy isn't that insane they still haven't won a real ring though that's true they are really really good and it's not whatever it's you know what i feel like whenever a team's really really good out west you can just be like we'll deal with that later yeah no you're absolutely right who? Because for whatever reason, you always think we won't have to face them until at least the second leg of the playoffs.
Well, it's just like the games are on late at night. I don't really see them dominating.
Who cares? We'll figure it out later. Yeah.
Yeah. All right.
Anything else before we get to hot seat, cool throne? Anything? My fancy team lost. Fuck.
I'm sorry. One and one, Seamhead Express.
What happened this week?

It's only one game a week?

Had some COVID issues this week.

Actually, take that question back.

You don't care.

Strike that from the record.

Strike that from the record.

You just got to ask a...

I shouldn't have said anything.

I mean, I'm waiting for Mondesi to get off the IL.

Look what you did, Hank.

I know. It's just unreal.
This guy, he hasn't even swung a bat yet. Where'd you pick him? I think I took him like fifth round.
Oh, that's good value. It was great value, actually.
Yeah, but you need that to come through. I need it to come through, but it's a long season.
A best ability's availability. That's absolutely right.
And he's not out there for you. Got to keep the stone hands.
Yeah, I'm not papering out on this. I'm not man-ewing.
So wait, what happened this week? So I actually got really, really badly beat. I think I lost like 1-8-1.
But it still counts as only one loss. Yeah, it counts as one loss.
So who cares? We're 1-1 of the season. We're keeping things level for right now.
We're lurking. Who cares? I always say if you're five games back at the All-Star break, you can make a run.
Yeah, absolutely. There it is.
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Okay, Hank, Hatsi Kultron.

You want me to go?

Yeah, please.

Yeah, do it. Okay.
I feel like the expression nature is healing may be overused sometimes, but last night I thought it was extremely appropriate. Foul ball guy is my hot seat.
Crowds, fans are back in baseball. Nature is healing.
There was a home run hit, and I think it was the Phillies game, and foul ball guy went sprinting. It landed in the seats.

Foul ball guy, you just see him come in the frame, absolutely hauling ass,

and as he gets to the ball, he fell.

And then the clip that I saw, it fell before you even saw if he got the ball.

It seemed like he fell, and then he was reaching, and the clip ended.

But hot seat foul ball guy, he's clearly not.

He's been off for a year.

He's not in form.

He's slipping. He's falling.
You don't even know if he got the ball. No, the hustle's still there.
Yeah, the hustle's there, but he's rusty. He's not, like, mid-season prime foul ball guy.
First of all, prime time foul ball guy is catching that ball. He doesn't even need to run for it.
Let me stop you right there. Was it a foul ball he was going for? No, but he's not.
Oh, that's home run ball guy. That's home run ball guy to you.
He doesn't catch foul ball. His name is foul ball guy.
He catches home run ball. No, he catfished you into thinking he was a foul ball guy.
Yeah, he's a home run ball guy. He texted me this morning.
He said, yo, I need to redeem myself after last night's debacle in Philly. Did you see my spectacular fail? Let's hit up a game.
Yankees, Phillies, we'll do it for YouTube and get hundreds of thousands of views. Hope you're doing well.
Sounds lucrative. There's one person here that should go to a game with him.
Frank the Tank. Yeah.
Yes. Well, yeah.
Yeah. I mean, let's...
Do you think you can get him in position? Yes. Imagine.
Yeah. Imagine.
Yes. Frank would maybe turn around all his luck.
It would have to be like... It would be like in the Sandlot where Benny the Jet put the guy in the outfield and was like, stand here, I'm going to hit it into your glove.
He could do that during batting practice. Yes, absolutely.
He could put Frank in a position to make a catch. And then maybe even bring the alternate jerseys, flip Frank in and out of jerseys to get the players throwing him balls.
I just love foul ball guy. I just hope that in 20 years I'm turning on a game and he's just flailing around in the outfield.
I'm grabbing balls. It's great.
It's perfect. It was so nice to see you.
It was great. Just see him hauling fucking ass.
Him and Marlins, man. Back to back.
I love seeing the hustle out of him. Because you can control your effort.
You can control your preparation. He did both.
It's just a matter of getting the reps back before he starts catching those home runs again. I'm sure about that.
I think about that episode probably more than any other episode we've ever done. I mean, it's an all-timer.
Just because Marlins man called me and was, like, threatening to sue me. This was before we were friends.
This was our first interaction with him. And I think the reaction people were like, fuck Marlins man after that episode.
And he called me the next day, like, threatening all this legal hour. It was one of the wildest.
We should have him back on. Of all the people we've had on, it was one of the wildest post-interviews of all time.
Yeah. But yeah, foul ball guy, got to get back on his game.
My cool throne, we mentioned it earlier, but guys named Chet, white boy summer, and then the number one recruit going to Gonzaga. And guys, Dave.
Dave has a new season of videos coming out. Dave has a new season of videos coming out.
Federal crime. Yes.
That is a federal crime. No, June.
June season two. Oh, a little Dickie show.
Yes. Well, that's also a federal crime.
That's a show I've been meaning to get around to watching because everybody that I know watches the show and absolutely loves it. It's really, really good.
I'm going to watch Dave. That's my resolution.
There you go. By the time I speak to you on next Wednesday's show, within the next week, I will have started Dave.
Wow. That's powerful.
You know what? I'm going to say it. Are you going to do it? It's freaky.
You're a hero. It's freaky.
Like, dude, you're sure you're going to sign yourself up for that? I'm big into setting goals. Because I heard the fine language there.
You didn't say you were going to finish it. You said you were going to start it you said you started no it's important to set goals big cat there's an art to this here's two things you have to do one set goals boom check that off checked off one goal already two set attainable goals yes three start watching a show on netflix within a week yeah i'm going to be able to fulfill on two out of those three already and three out of three by next week.
No, I was going to say I would join you, but I don't want to fail. You can do it.
No, I don't want to fail. I already set my goal yesterday of saying I'm going to do a respect list once a week, but maybe monthly, but also probably yearly., you didn't say when you were going to do it.

Right.

You're going to start doing it, so it could start at any point.

And it could be, yeah, it could be yearly.

You know what the best goal is of all time?

If you just don't have any objectives.

When you're down 2-0?

In hockey?

No, in soccer is the most dangerous.

Got it.

Yeah, yeah.

If you say, I'm going to start drinking more water.

Yeah.

And then if you just have like a glass of water, boom.

Done.

Checkmate.

Other cool throwing. Jake just showed me that.
His phone wallpaper is a picture him and Marlins man. I mean, he's a foul ball guy.
It's not my wallpaper. I have a picture with him.
Let me see. Let me pull it back up.
You like went and found him? No, I saw him on the subway. And you were like, hey, I'm big fan.
Those videos were cool. That's even, that's cool.
Was this pre-U Barstool? Yes. That's perfect.
God damn it. I love you, Jake.
That's so perfect yeah you're like dude i've watched your i watched the videos i like them i like the tips that you had on getting the foul balls well not the text just like the behind the scenes right but there were a lot of tips in it yeah there are a lot of he does the when he when he when he drops his glove that's like and he pulls it up and he puts a water bottle in between the glove so it like traps it. Something like that.
Yeah. No one in the world, this is the thing.
Like I used to be like, oh, foul ball guy, he's annoying. He's, you know, elbowing people.
And then I realized something. You respect greatness.
He's number one on the respect list. You will never see a foul ball guy again like foul ball guy.
No. Ever.
Do you think he'll probably have a kid just to get more foul more foul balls yeah just to bring to the games and teach his son or daughter how to get more foul which one do you think i should loan him my kid a son or a daughter to just as a prop to collect more balls i feel like a daughter wearing like a full kit yeah maybe a seeing eye dog a puppy foul ball puppy yeah compassionate like whatever they call it he'll probably get into that. Is that it, Hank? Good job, Hank.
Hold on. Great job.
Thanks. My hot seat is golf and the way that people are paid out for winning golf tournaments.
Uh-oh. Because there's a – I'm probably going to absolutely butcher the explanation of this, but there's a bonus structure that's going to reward the biggest stars in golf.
It doesn't matter how you finish in the tournament for that weekend. It matters how much fan engagement and sponsor engagement you drive.
So it's basically – Great for Max. It's great.
It's the Max Homer rule. Wait, so we can make them money? We can make them money by driving and they could potentially pay us back.
So my cool throne was going to be us because we can play both sides of this coin very easily. So they're saying in the explanation it said it's going to be given to players that drive engagement like Tiger Woods.
So Tiger's probably going to be collecting checks even if he's not playing. And then they said – I mean, there was a lot of engagement a month ago.
Yes, tons of it. Yeah.
His driving ability was just – it made Bryson DeChambeau look awful. And then Ricky Fowler, he's on the list too.
They're really disrespecting Max by not mentioning it. So we need to get, this sounds like a scheme that will probably get us in trouble, but will be lucrative for a short period of time.
I don't think you can get in trouble for defrauding the PGA Tour. I'm going to agree.
I think that public sentiment would be an artist. The way you said it, I'm going to totally agree.
The way you put that is correct. I mean, the entire sport is based on the honor system.
Right. So if we just sign a card at the end of every show or, like, underneath, if we put a picture up on our Twitter accounts saying, like, we certify that we are not gaming this system, they have to trust us unless there's video evidence.
And I think we've actually had this conversation with our lawyer mr portnoy who's that's another guy we got to get on again because it's been a while but it's is it a scheme or a fraud if you just admit it out loud because we're telling everyone what we're going to do yeah we've we've asked him that question i think he said no i think he said go ahead yeah he's he's like go ahead but i I want nothing to do with it. Right, which means really go ahead and slide in, you know, pass us some money in the back.
We are absolutely going to do everything that we can to get Max Homa this extra money. Because Brooks will do it on his own.
Yes. I'm sure.
Max might need some help from us. Yes.
Wait, we're going to be nicer to Max. Yeah, yeah.
Meh. I think Max likes where he's at.
He likes the little fucking ball busting, you know? You remember, like, this was probably 10, 15 years ago when they talked about doing the original Super League, which was the Tiger Tour. They were saying Tiger could just break away from the PGA Tour, host his own tournaments.
This is kind of like that, but for John Daly. Yeah.
John Daly could show up and collect all this money every single week single week i think he's still doesn't he still have an exemption at like wherever he won the didn't he win a u.s open no he wanted maybe did he win yeah he won a u.s open right it was britain scott he's got he has some exemptions somewhere i want to say that he i think it was the british open uh kirdach a also be another one. Affie Barnrat.
That's the guy you guys want on the show.

Yes.

He's going to be making a lot of money off.

Each vape, you know how they have... It's Britain or Scotland.

We wish that they would show how much each putt's worth at the end of a tournament.

Every time...

What's his name again, Jake?

I think it's pronounced Affie Barnrat.

1995 Open Championship at St. Andrews.

Affie Barnrat.

Every time he blows a sick cloud, they should show us how much money in PGA Tour buzz cash or whatever they're going to call it he's making. Yes.
Two majors. Two majors.
What was the other one? 91 PGA Championship at Kirk and Stick and 95 Open Championship at St. Andrews.
That's what I was thinking of. So maybe he gets a...
I don't know how the exemptions work I kind of like that idea that like like Freddie couples gonna be playing the masters forever um all right my hot seat is uh my favorite kids show bluey which I have talked about a couple times before uh if you're not watching if you have kids and you're not watching it well you're stupid but you actually might be on you might be good because there was an article that kids cartoon bluey criticized for not having disabled queer poor gender diverse or dogs of color prompting important debate aren't they blue healers yeah it's dogs it's a show about cartoon dogs are the dogs it's a show about cartoon dogs okay and they don't have any dogs of color it's a show about cartoon dogs dogs. Okay.
No poor dogs? It's a show about cartoon dogs. It's crazy.
Can dogs be rich? Actually, yeah, there was that one Chinese lady that left all of her money to her dog. I just love that idea that it's like, well, I wasn't represented at Bluey.
Well, none of us were because we're not dogs. It's a show about dogs.
Cartoon fake dogs. It's eight minutes an episode.
This is actually probably the world's richest dog right here, the Doge. Yeah, Dogecoin.
Although I was sold a bill of goods about Doge Day today. What? Everybody was just saying Doge is going to go to the moon today.
I packed my bags. I could never see that happening.
Damn. Fuck.
And then my cool throw is the Bengals jerseys because they didn't really change them. Yeah.
That was the lamest. Like, hey, look at this.
Like, what? I can't really. Look at Joe Burrow's fucking scars is really the takeaway.
Did you see that quote, though, he had? Holy shit. I got to find it.
It was awesome. This is a...
Oh, damn. That is a huge scar.

Whoa.

He is...

It's the anti-Trevor Lawrence quote.

Not to bash Trevor Lawrence, who we're rooting for, but he said,

If I died without scars, that just means I did nothing worth fighting for.

I think that was in Braveheart, too.

That's pretty fucking cool.

Battle scars. Damn, that's fucking insane.
That thing, you got to get a tattoo on that. Yeah.
Or the jerseys, like on the socks, they should have a tiger stripe where his scar is. Yeah.
Add an extra stripe to it. Yeah, but the jerseys were not different.
They weren't really. I actually think that since it's well known that the Bengals' ownership is the thriftiest, shall we say.
Yeah. They're the most careful with their money of any of the major franchises.
And they probably just took the old uniforms and had somebody remove some of the stitching. And they're like, look, it's a minimalist.
We deconstructed the old jerseys to give it a cleaner feel. The only thing that I got out of this, the Bengals jerseys, is I think the NFL in the next two years, I'm going to call my shot, is going to change the one-shell-only rule so that there can be multiple different helmets all year long and it's going to be sick.
That will be a big time fans win with all the cool helmets. I agree.
Because the Bengals all-whites, those need white helmets. Yes.
They have to have them. It would be amazing.
Billy, what kind of tiger is that? Bengal. What? What? The white tiger? Siberian Bengals? Siberian tiger? They're white Bengal tigers.
Really? Albino. I don't think they're, they might not be able to have white Siberian tigers.
There should be more tigers of color, I think, in the NFL. That's true.
If you're a Tiger and you watch, Ed O is probably watching it and being like, what the fuck? I might be crazy, but I think it's the NFLPA that doesn't want the multiple helmets for breaking in new helmets. Either way, I'm just calling my shot.
They'll probably figure out a way. And I think that if it was going to make enough money for the NFL, Roger Goodell could have figured out a way to spin zone.
The whole, like, it's not a safe thing. There would be so many cool ways.
Never really stopped him in the past. Yeah.
All right, Billy, your hot seat, cool to run. My hot seat is Joey Bosa for being extremely horny on TikTok.
Ooh. He was seen using a massager on himself on TikTok and with a TikTok model, Jenna Berman.
I think it's his girlfriend. Yeah.
What do you mean a massager? He was literally just like using one of those... Magic wand? Theraguns? Yeah.
Oh, so what's so horny about that? He was using it on... It was just a really awkward video.
Billy, can you describe his girlfriend for us? Was it hot? Were you turned on? No, it was just Joey Bosa. Looks like a very respectful person.
Yeah? Yes. Okay.
Cool throne. I don't understand why this is a hot seat for Joey Bosa.
Me neither. Because he was being a weirdo and using the massager on himself.
Okay, so you'd rather him be like a certain quarterback and go out there and pay somebody else to do it? No. Anyway.
I'm all in favor of robots taking masseuses jobs if you're an NFL player. No, he was...
It was a funny video. Look it up.
My cool throw is cool records getting broken. The underwater bench press record was broken.
Okay. It's basically this Russian dude just took a bench press, put it underwater, and repped it out 77 times, beating the previous record of 62 times.
How much weight? Only 110 pounds. But does that weigh more underwater? No, less.
So I'm like, that's more of just a holding your breath thing. Right, like a Navy SEAL.
So I'm kind of, you know, in the back of my head, I'm like, I could do that. I could break that record.
In worst case scenario, you drown. Exactly.
Fill up the studio with water and test it. Exactly.
Yeah. I think we could probably find you some sort of a tank to practice weightlifting.
That would be sick. Break the record.
I'm going to find more of these dumb records. let's break them exactly summer plans okay and uh you of all people yeah you need more plans uh well i have no plans this summer yeah that's true uh jake your hot seat cool throne hot seat is frozen yogurt uh what demi lovato oh yeah she uh is not happy with the positioning of the toppings at a

certain shop and she called it triggering and harmful of the positioning of low fat and low

sugar options near the checkout counters and she took it to instagram i don't understand

she like i think i have no idea what's happening in the world no what what is what what is this

show what's going on yeah this is a real story yeah I don't understand this. I think it was that she wanted to be like diabetes ice cream.
Yeah, but she apologized. Oh, okay.
So we're all good. Yeah, we're all gone.
Fine. Good.
I'll move on. I'm not going to carry that weight around.
I did get Halo Top last night. That's good.
So guilt-free, right? I was wondering if that's problematic. Okay.
I don't

know. I think it's disgusting.

It's like the most

like you're almost eating ice cream, but you're

totally not. Correct.
You know what it was?

I saw the video that Big Cat tweeted

out of the waffle being turned

into the ice cream sundae and I watched

it and I was like, I really want an ice cream sundae

right now. And then I went to the

ice cream store's website

on Seamless and I was like, you know what?

I have an opportunity with

Thank you. I watched it and I was like, I really want an ice cream sundae right now.
And then I went to the ice cream store's website on Seamless and I was like, you know what? I have an opportunity with a click of a button to not do as much damage to my six pack that I'm sculpting for myself. And so I went with Halo Top and I regretted it, but it was still something sweet.
It's like just shaved ice. Whatever.
Whatever. I would rather just have real ice cream.
Fair. Cool thrown is AFC Richmond because Ted Lasso is coming back July 23rd.
That quickly? Yeah. Great show.
Great show. And within an hour of that announcement, the Super League disbanded.
Yep. Right.
Richmond not part of that group. Are they an actual team? I don't think so.
I love the colors. I love the kid.
Yeah.

They are fictional, but yeah, that's great news.

Yeah, it's exciting.

Billy?

Spins on the Super League was promo for Ted Lasso coming back out.

Ooh.

Get everyone more into soccer in America.

I like that, Billy.

I like that.

Americanized soccer.

I wouldn't put it past him because it was during the Apple Awards or whatever it is.

Yeah.

The showcase for the new Apples.

He's got to come on before season two.

Jason Sudeikis?

Yeah, I would agree.

Yeah, sure.

Is he a big-time AWL?

Huge.

Yeah.

I mean, it just makes sense.

I just want the kit.

Really, that's all I need.

I'm sick of seeing other people get mailed kits,

and I've yet to receive an AFC Richmond kit. Do you know that he's dating a woman in England? Harry Styles? No.
Jason Sudeikis is dating a woman in England who's like was a magazine model named Keeley. Isn't that crazy? That's the name of the woman in the show.
Is that art imitating life or life imitating art real ones know who Keeley Hazel is

she's OG

top bunch city

been around forever

okay I'm missing something here

but that's alright

no you're not missing anything

I really just wanted you to put an ice cube on my erection

bonk

we don't talk about that enough

yeah we did

we did

I felt like I was taking crazy pills when it did kind of just get slid under the rug. He's a ride or die guy.
And it was like, what was the process of elimination? You guys are PFT. You were a father.
You guys understand how it is. Wow, that's fucked up.
The only real weird stuff with animals going on this show. Wait, what did you say, Billy? The only real weird stuff with animals going on in this show.
Wait, what did you say, Billy?

The only real weird stuff with animals going on in this show.

Whoa.

Yeah.

Billy.

Hank, I do want you to walk me through your decision making.

Make a video.

You saw your dog with a giant boner.

What ideas did pop in your head where you're like,

no, I'm not going to do that.

Instead, I'll put an ice cube on his penis.

All right.

You want my fucking thought process? Here we go. Yeah.
Boner pops out. Big ass dick just fucking hanging on the couch.
I'm watching a movie. I looked at him.
He was standing still, and I said, I'm just going to keep watching this movie and not even pay attention to you, and hopefully next time I look over, your boner's gone. This is how girls feel in the morning when they can feel a poke in their back.
Ten minutes later, I look over, and he is he is in the same exact spot has not moved and is looking at me with the saddest like help me eyes you've ever seen so my fatherly instincts kicked in yep and i googled it i had googled it in the past that this is what people do either put him in a bath you you didn't even have to finish the the sentence because it's auto-completed because you've already it? No, I didn't even have to Google this time because I already had the knowledge stored from last time. And it was like...
So Yahoo Answers? It was like, put him in a bath. And I was like, that's way too much effort.
I don't have to dry him off. It's too sexual.
I'll just get an ice cube out. And, you know...
So it came from your own brain. Yeah.
I audibled. And did it go up up instantly and the ice cream probably melted halfway through

oh my god that was a hot boner i don't you guys i got you guys do any of anyone listening that's fucking questioning this would do the same thing i said i had your back on twitter i said you were a ride or die guy like if your son had a boner Hank Hank, I think you need to invent a scarf for his penis. Or like dog shorts.
Because it's out of sight, out of mind. You don't care if he has a boner.
You just don't want to see it. You just don't want to drag him all over the place.
Trojan Tantrix things. Get him a dog fleshlight.
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Go to simplisafe.com slash PMTt now here he is julian edelman okay we now welcome on our very good friend uh future hall of famer which we can talk about it is julian edelman fresh off retirement i think we're the first show he's doing i'm just gonna say we're the first show show he's doing It's great to see you We also, Jules We got a little news about What he's got going on next Which is going to be great for him That will actually be released On our Twitter, YouTube, Instagram Everywhere because it can't be released Until a little bit later on Wednesday But we're excited for that So we So we'll have that for everyone. But Jules, great to see you.
Congrats on a retirement. How mad are you at us for asking you about retiring when you were totally thinking about retiring last time you were on in January? Not at all.
I mean, when you come on the show, when you come on here, you know nothing's off the table. And I was just laughing in my head like these motherfuckers.
So you lied to us. Yeah.
I did not lie to you. There were two roads that I was looking at.
One was, you know, plain and one was not. And I tried to go down the plain road and it just, I couldn't do it.
I can't do it right now. Looking, looking back, I do feel a little bad because I think if we had like thought about your reaction a little more, it was clear that you're like, what the fuck? Like who have they talked to that this is even maybe on the table? So I apologize for that, but a great, a great career nonetheless.
Thank you. Thank you.
So, uh, I joked about the Hall of Fame, but it's obviously not a joke. Do you see any of that shit? Do you see the debate? Because I got mad for you that people were diminishing your career just because they were framing it in a Hall of Fame and not just he was really fucking good.
I mean, you see it out there, yeah. You definitely see it.
But it is what it is you know are you guys gonna make the podcasting hall of fame oh i don't know it's tough to say while we're still competing right now one day at a time relations you know are you guys systematic podcasters i don't know you know do you guys are is it because uh you know dave's gonna come over here and he's the guy that's, you know, started this whole thing? I don't know. Right.
These are all the types of questions that I ask when I think about, you know, I think you guys are Hall of Fame podcasters. Yeah.
Well, I mean, we might send Billy down to Tampa for a year and then can we do it without him? Yeah. You know, you guys, when the moments are the toughest, I've always heard the best takes come from you.
Thank you. When someone needed, when someone, when you needed a take in an absolute moment.
But does it take, but Julian, does it matter that as podcasters, your stats aren't there? Your stats aren't there. Yeah.
So like, if you look at the Howard Stern, I mean, we're not there, but you know what? The takes are there. Right.
like if you look at the you're not howard stern i mean we're not there but you know what the takes are there right so if you look at the longevity right stat like howard stern's a great example he compiled a lot of stats because he had a super super long career but there are moments that it was big like right around the super bowl uh later on in the season that's when big cat me and hank could be counted on to really step up and sure you know we we'd only you know we had some injury issues we both had kidney stones we've missed some shows here there but do you think that that should be counted in judging us in the hall of fame i'm a guy that you know when i go to do something i just go to win and i just want to win i i didn't grow up thinking about a hall of fame I didn't grow about I grew up thinking about hosting a Lombardi trophy so like to me I really don't know but you know me to you guys I you know I think that of all the the things that you guys have done I mean there's a lot of great things there can you tell the story of podcast without you guys. I can't.
Can you tell the story of podcast without you guys? I can't. Ooh.
I cannot tell the story of podcast without you guys. Here, I mean, I don't want to toot our own horn, but we're not going to quit podcasting because we, like, bump our knee a little bit and get a little owie.
Yeah, but, I mean, say you guys take a little too much Adderall, you're spinning, you know, you're walking down, you slip and you hit your head and, you know, you can't think as well. I don't know.
Would you want to go out on top? Would you guys want to go out? I don't know these questions. I'm just, this is theoretically speaking.
Yeah. So what about if, like, if Hank and it's or if liam got hit by another

car god forbid and he wanted to get back into podcasting and he thought that the best way to

get his brain back maybe he would take a little performance enhancing drug to be able to rejoin

the show to come back and win another title do you think that should be held against him in his

hall of fame resume you know what that's a tough. That's a tough one.
I would say no. I would say you want to be out there with your guys.
Yeah. Hey.
No days off. I want to be out there with your guys.
Yes. Yes.
What? So you're retired. You are retired.
But how long do you think, how many years do you think you'll be rumored to be going to the Bucs? Because Tom Brady's going to play for 10 more years. So I'd assume your name will be floated out there every single year that they might need an extra weapon.
How many years? I don't know. Probably, honestly, probably as long as he's playing.
It's just going to be jules. Also, the thirst level, if I'm throwing out a couple thirst traps out there i'm looking like i'm in shape i mean it could go crazy if got if like something happens and scotty miller sprains an ankle your name will be trending within five seconds completely different player but yes right but you know you get it did you see the uh the video that was out there of uh of Belichick when you returned your first punt for a touchdown and Wes was on the sidelines right next to him and Bill asked him hey you know who Wally Pipp is he's the guy that got replaced by Lou Gehrig and then Wes Welker was like yeah well he can have the punt return job if he wants it that's fine did Bill ever say anything to you like that when gunner first got on the field no never did he look at you differently no he's like this is an old hat would you we don't need this would you have said i don't know man i was always in gunner's corner you know i've always been gunner's you give Gunner all my tips.
And, you know, it was kind of like, you know, I would compete again. I'm still competing against him.
But, like, you know, we're different parts of our career then. You know, I was 12 years in when Gunner got in or 11 years in.
And that was when, like, Wes was, like, seven years deep. And he had it still going.
So, you know, it was different. We also had a different relationship, me and Wes.
It wasn't the same as – and Bill probably saw that. He probably was, you know, digging at him a little just to get out under his skin to try to get him to play his best.
That's what Bill does. He gets the best out of guys.
Yeah. You should root for Gunnar because I'm pretty sure Gunnar's, like, next two years count for your Hall of Fame career.
Just like everyone just combined Wes Welker's last few years with your career. So you should be rooting for Gunnar because enough years go by and everyone will be like, yeah, he was sick that 2021 year with Cam Newton.
Yeah, we'll see. We will see.
All right, so so you brought up thirst trapping i know a lot of times like guys will say oh i'm gonna miss the locker room will it be thirst trapping that you miss the most because i would imagine your body's not going to be in great shape i'm a good old thirst trap definitely holds a spot in my heart yeah it's like it's between number two and number three lombardi it's like one your first one your last one thirst trapping then your middle one maybe yeah i would say that this might actually help your thirst trapping career because you get to focus on all the glamour muscles that you might not have had as much time for when you were just getting in a football shape. Yeah.
You know, it's the running. When you run a lot, that's what keeps you cut.
And when you can't run, I don't know. This is whole new territory for me, guys.
If I come out here in like six months and have full dad bod you know that's gonna be that's what i'm rooting for i am absolutely i want to see you get fat and then we can make fun of you and then you can get thin again yeah that would be yeah that'd be the best that's like like that's america's story right there you know get someone down and then cut them down and get them back up let's do it podcasting 101 what what is your knee like at just in general of like walking pain are you going to the gym like you have to i mean we can't have julian edelman get fat i as much as i want to you know you gotta be out there doing like hey happy father's day here's a picture of me shirtless hey happy mother's day oh here's a picture of me shirtless you know like that that shit has to hey merry christmas guys oh whoops is me in a pool happy yom kippur yeah right right um but uh yeah we're gonna keep we'll keep some stuff going hey you know we gotta we gotta workout routine going and uh my knee i mean it's just it's different you know like it's it it just doesn't function the way it wants to you know when when you're bone on bone and you're missing things in there like you don't want to run right it's one of those things where you not only don't want to run you really really can't. So finding a way to fill that void is going to be, you know, my next life work.
You need a hobby. We need to figure out what your hobby is because, I mean, you've told us so many times like what your workout routines would be like, how like you would be – it's like cliche to say the last person out, but you would be working out all the time during football season you need to fit find a hobby that can fill that void might i suggest frisbee golf disc golf excuse me do you have to walk it yeah bang chains baby i mean let's see let's see how the shoulders are with the rotator cups maybe maybe maybe we'll get into that.
Ooh, those are bad too. Right.
We're 13 surgeries deep right now. Ooh, yikes.
Again, I mean, I'm not saying like PFT had surgery on his foot. I got bit by a dog.
We didn't quit. But whatever.
That's fine. That's your prerogative.
That's fine. No, I have a serious question though uh so obviously it sucks having to retire having the end of the road but is it a silver lining like you just know you can't do it instead of uh i'm i physically can do it but i'm not the same ability that i was because i feel like that would be hurt more if you were physically feeling okay to do it but just weren't as quick or shifty

this is really like hey it it can't happen like I can't my knee cannot do it no it it's almost satisfying because I left everything on the field honestly like you know I'm not a greedy guy what else do I have to play for I I set set out to go out and make a team try to win win some championships. And honestly, I've accomplished everything plus more than I ever thought I would have going into my rookie year.
Like if I were in my rookie year and look on to my career and say, this is what it's going to be, I would you would I would have said, no, no shot. Right.
That's how much work I had to put into this whole thing. And, you's something where I'm proud of my career I'm proud of everything I'm proud of the the relationships you know the teams I've been a part of and you know it it father time is undefeated and you know that that's just how it goes and I'm not going to go out there and try to play on something where you look like a bobblehead out there, like a 36-year-old old guy lacing up the knee brace, the back brace.
You know, I don't want to have that. I don't want to look like that.
I respect the game too much. It's been too good to me.
So, you know, it's one of those things where if I can't go out there and be the player that i know i am in this league and that i've been for you know a consistent period of time you know i have no problem walking away because you know i enjoyed the time that i did have in this league yeah the way that you're talking right now you're actually making a great case for yourself for the hall like peter king's gonna listen to that answer and be like this guy gets it. Julian gets it.
He gave to the sport more than the sport gave to him. Yes.
You should say that you're going to have Peter King do your induction speech if you do get into the hall. If I ever do, one of you guys will do my induction speech.
It'll be a duet from you two and my father. We would be like, so Julian, not really a Hall of famer when you put him up against reggie wayne where's heinz ward why hasn't he been inducted in i would just point to people in the audience be like that's john madden down there that's amazing what's up groods it would be sick yeah oh yeah you're never going to get in if that's your answer yeah yeah they'll bet they will keep you up for that.
If you're looking back, though, at your career, because you had a lot of amazing moments, obviously, like winning the Super Bowls, getting the trophies, is there one moment or one play that you think of and you're like, I'm the most proud of that play? Not necessarily your best play or the one that we all have seen in highlights a lot, but is there one play where you're like, that's who I was as a football player? I loved the third and 14 against the Seattle Seahawks getting, you know, when Tom hit me late across the middle and Cam Chancellor, you know, put a little heat on me and hit me hard. And, you know, that whole week going into that game,

all we kept on hearing was the Legion of Boom, the no-fly zone, the this, the that. And, you know, that was a cool moment when, you know, I knew I got his best.
And I was able to get up and go and then, you know, make a play in the next couple plays. Like, you know, like that, hey, we're here to play.
This is – we may not be the flashy, you know, skill position group. We're not the Legion of Boom.
We're not this, which I have nothing but respect for those guys. Those guys were studs.
Earl Thomas, Sherm, freaking Chancellor. But, you know, that was like one of the things.
That was my play that I love I love that I you know that's that's that's hard nosed football right there that's what I always and when I transferred to receiver it was always can you make the catch over the middle yeah you know and and that was the catch over the middle in the biggest moment you know so those were that was a fun play and then I'd say my favorite memory would probably have to be when we went to Kansas City and won that game in 18. You know, just the sheer fact that my generation of Patriots, we never won on the road in the playoffs.
And that was our first task, going to the road. And we got beaten Denver twice by Denver, close games, last plays of the game.
And, you know, to go into Kansas City, which that place gets rocking, and that team's a really good team. And, you know, to go in and get that W against the odds of that game, it was special.
That's a special one. The flight home, you know, those are the, those are the, what you're going to miss, you know, the flights and, you know, that was a fun game.
The, so you just said your favorite play, Hank texted us. He said a concussion was his favorite play.
Were you concussed in that play? The third and 14? Everyone thinks I was, wasn't concussed you got smoked i got smoked i definitely got smoked um the thing is on the punt return right before that i don't know if it was that one i took a hit pointer and i've said this on on air before i took a hip pointer and I could barely walk.

But, like, when a play goes, especially in a Super Bowl, like, everything,

there's no pain.

But in between plays, you're like, oh, shit, that hurts.

Oh, no, that hurts.

All right.

And then we go.

And so, like, after that, I mean, I was tired.

We were going no huddle.

Like, it was a pretty big play. And I was, like, trying to and dull is right there.
And, you know, I couldn't, my hip pulled on me, you know, I don't think I had a concussion. Do you remember getting hit? Yeah.
Like you remember the actual hit and how I remember actually, you know, I remember cause it was 10, it was a X stock 10. And I had the outside, I was the F I had the 20 yard in cut and they were playing a P coverage, meaning they were dropping a guy.
So Tom was going to have time. They're, they're given, you know, they were given eight defenders in the secondary basically.
And so I was running late across the middle and I was 20 yards downfield. And I knew that someone, anytime you're going late across that middle, especially that deep, you got to start thinking about the post safety.
And they're, they, you know, that's their whole thing is they run that's that cover six, which you guys will learn, whatever. So I'm going late across the middle and I look at Tom, I kind of saw a chancellor.
So that's if you see the play i brace for the hit yeah yeah i'm watching it right now and for context for people who don't like remember it off the top of their head it's 11 minutes left in the super bowl and the patriots are down 10 on their own side of the field uh in third and 14 so like if you don't catch that ball, it, you know, I mean, maybe he punts. I mean, you probably punt because you got three timeouts, but that might change everything.
It might change history there if you don't catch that ball and you're forcing a fourth and 14 on your own 30. Yeah, no, it was, you know, it was a big part of the game.
And, you know, that's what you try to do. That's why you lace them up, man.
You dream for those moments. Yeah.
So along that line, like I think not to keep going with the Hall of Fame thing, but you obviously were huge in the big moments and the clutch moments. Do you – we always have had this discussion about the clutch gene.
Did you feel like in a big moment like things got slower for you or it's like I just know I'm going to come through, I know that I'm going to make a big play here? Did you feel that with Brady? There were a few moments in my career where you feel that zone where things are going slow. In some some parts of that game in Seattle I felt that in a very small amount of parts of the game in Atlanta I felt that and then like all the game against LA I felt that but like those key moments and those those zone moments you get I always felt like I got those through like the weeks of preparation or like, especially with like the Superbowl week, you get two weeks and like, like, I feel like the first one we got there, I was so nervous and I didn't, I wanted to go out and be able to make plays.
So I made my routine, I sharpened my routine. I did everything that I did during the regular season, plus more.
And Bill does a great job of, you know, he does a really good job of making practice hard. I know everyone says, oh, well, it's just practice.
But when you're doing things in practice in certain situation, he'll just say in the middle of practice, all right, it's 3rd and 14. There's one minute you go, you have no timeouts and you have to get to here.
Like, like in between a period.

So like, he's putting that on you right there and it's competitive period. And if you can go do it in practice and you've done it in practice a few times, you're subconsciously already, you've already done it.
So that's, that's how I thought. That's how I've always dealt with those situations and those times in my, my career that like you're really zoned in.
it was always after those weeks of practice that you like.

Yeah. those situations and those times in my career that like you're really zoned in.
It was always

after those weeks of practice that you like, you had those plays. Like I remember when Tom hit me

on that one play where it was the tip ball and we caught it. I knew that guy was coming to me

because we hit that play like three times in practice that week. So regardless if I was covered

or not, he was coming to that play because we're confident in what we saw that week in practice, you know? So like, that's how it always happens. So along those lines, I mean, everyone always says one of the great things about Tom Brady is that he'll throw to, he'll throw to the open guy.
Like he won't play favorites. If you're open, if you can get open, he'll throw to you.
But were there moments moments where you were would say to him like yo I'm I'm in the zone like I will I will catch whatever you throw to me like get it to me I'm that guy we definitely had some times and some moments where he would just look at me and we would do something completely that like we weren't supposed to do and the coaches used to get on us all the time like all right like I know you guys got it you guys are doing what you guys do and we can't say anything because you guys execute because like that coaches get mad with that kind of stuff right go and do your own thing and there'd be a couple times where like he would give me you know a signal or it'd be a quick out and I knew he saw that I couldn't run a quick out here because this is nothing there. And I knew that he saw that we were backside and a slant would be wide open.
I would just run a slant and this guy would hit me on the slant. We'd go 15, 20 yards at the gate on it.
Like that happened over in a Miami game in one of those heat games. We ended up losing the, I know we won that game.
It was a late game, but that was in like 14 or yeah 2013 or something like that we're like there'd be times where we would just kind of do our own thing and because of the years that we had off the field were we would go to Montana or we'd go to UCLA we'd go to all these places and we would run the same play which you could do like five different things on that same play according to each coverage that you get and we would have our like some of our you know friends that are out there helping us like just try to cover like two or three guys try to cover me and like even though they don't know how to cover they could cover area and he could read body language and I could read his body language i could see what he would want you know those things helped us when we were to get into games yeah that's that shit's fascinating i've always wondered if you watch if you watch the film of a super bowl after it's over like do you sit down as a team and ever break that down or is it just one of those games where it's like what happened is the end of this this season. We're going to wait till next season, start over again.
You don't, because once you're done with the season, you know, like there's no more like film corrections or anything, especially after that game, you have the parade, you have this, you have that and everyone breaks. But then like when spring comes and all of a sudden they'll have a cutup of plays installation.
Cause's what spring is you're installing the offense basically for all the new guys and you know whatever like you'll get like a play from here play from there and then you'll get a Super Bowl play and everyone's ears kind of get up and shoulders go back and like look and the new guys that didn't involve weren't involved in the Super Bowl are sitting there like man they, they're in the Super Bowl. That's when you see it.
But you never really watch it as a team. Yeah.
What did Coach Belichick say to you when you were like, all right, this is the end of the road? Did he text? Did he call? I hope he called. No, we had a wonderful conversation on the phone.
And, you know, he just – it was – you know, he thanked me and I thanked him. And, you know, I'll leave the words between us.
But, like, it was something that was – you know, it really touched me. And because, you know, he's a man of few compliments because that's his shtick.
You know, his thing is, I don't care who the hell you are, you're on the table to get MF'd if you don't do your job, which I always needed that. I loved that.
My dad did that with me growing up. Like, it was a tough love thing what I grew up with.
And so, like, to, you know, hear Coach say that some of the things he said i mean that was you know that that really

made my uh my my farewell i mean did he uh he like read off your home address he's like julian you still live at this location and you have uh this many people living with you and uh just want to make sure that as you advance your career you keep everything that happened in new england between us.

He didn't say that.

Did Ernie call you?

No.

I haven't talked to Ernie. Oh, no.
I love Ernie, too. No, Ernie did not.
No, go ahead. Tell the Ernie story.
Tell an Ernie story. Tell an Ernie story.
You wanted to tell an Ernie story. Well, Ernie's the kind of guy, bro, like Ernie is...
Ernie comes into the facility and like we have like our cafeteria and every day you'll see Ernie. He's an early bird or he'll just be sitting at a lunch table with a huge ass like hairline tomato.
That's all he has in his hand. And he's got like a fork and knife and he'll just be eating the tomato and i always like bust his balls like hey the tomatoes in season right now like you'd be like yep yep they are you know like he's not a real big talker unless you talk football and you know over the years we've had an awesome relationship and i always bust his balls on what he used to wear and stuff because he wears like he was wearing these plaid suits from like 1970 like in like 2009 10 and they came back and like what like 2014 15 and then i'd be like ernie man you've been wearing that thing through the trend because they never went out of style you know like he just has these little witty comments uh that are that are.
And I'm going to miss him for sure. Yeah, yeah.
Are you going to miss doing the hype videos before the games? Because you were addicted to those as much as you were for doing the thirst traps. You know what I loved? So that all started back in high school.
Like I was the kid who after the year was done, I worked at this place called the Rikus Center which it was a training facility it helped you like your speed and stuff but it also had like like a film studio like a editing studio this that so I would always make all like the team highlight tapes after the season and like throw it on with some like ACDC and and so that that's where that all developed but um i mean i you got to throw hype video always be there man you can do hype videos for your thirst traps yeah like show you getting ready to make the thirst trap and then have it all culminate in like one click of a camera with your shirt off yeah let me think about that how how many times do you watch one of

your hype you were really good at them i know you have a staff but some of them were incredible by the end would you watch them yourself like over and over and over i would be part of it like sometimes i would be like yo i want this here i want this uh and like i had the last the last button.

Which one was your favorite?

I liked the cartoon ones when we're doing the cartoon ones back in uh 18 what was the what was our um cartoonist guy's name frazier frazier yeah this frazier he we found him and we got in contact with this guy and he made like this rocky one where like I was climbing the mountain or the one with like the arrow and he, you know, and I caught the arrow and like looked at it in the eye. And like, I've always been a fan of a huge, like awesome montage, like a 90s, late 80s movie montage, Rocky, Cobra, you know, all those.
That's's just i loved those i loved like music and guys training that could it could be a a good little transition for you said you need a hobby you could direct other guys hype videos you could put them together you could be a writer of hype videos that you guys started as writers and it became podcasts right yeah maybe yeah so who's one guy in the nfl right now that you would like to produce a hype video for and why is it jamis winston i like he could use one too like i feel like i saw that video that was going uh viral where he's like you know i was number one pick and then everyone shit on me i think he might he might win a super bowl with enough of your hype videos yeah i'm i'm probably gonna i'm i'm not gonna go with with with with james on that one i'll let him do his own hype videos um who would i give a hype video too.k dk would make for an awesome hype video yeah but he's already hyped i want i want a guy that's not hyped scotty miller scotty miller could be a good hype hype guy get your foot in the door with scotty miller yes so that you can cut him in the back yeah you could just swap out like this next year's super bowl scotty miller looks a little bit like julian edelman like or you or or kidnapped him you go with the burrow oh yeah we could get you doing bros i was just gonna add on to come back you need the comeback hype yes all right you know you know it's kind of like eye of the tiger you know you're back in the streets you gotta streets. You know what I mean? You've been trading what you really want for, you know, the glory, and then something happens, and then now you've got to get back on your horse and fucking get back on top.
So, like, that's the story I always liked. I like that.
You're passionate about that one too. I don't want the guy on top.
I want the guy that's on the bottom. Andy Dalton.
Andy Dalton. Come on.
I think we get started with the Joe Burrow hype video because I can tell you're passionate about it. You already got the soundtrack for it with Eye of the Tiger, it sounds like.
He's a knee guy. You're a knee guy.
Knee guy to knee guy. It seems like a perfect fit.
Although if you did do the Scottie Miller one, you could like add in like very sneakily a couple clips of him dropping the

ball into his height.

And don't tell him about that.

And that way,

when it comes out,

it's like,

Hey,

Scotty Miller really drops the ball a lot.

I wonder if there's anybody else out there that could play,

but I like the Joe Burrow one.

I like that idea.

Me too.

I like them both.

Yes.

Um,

who's your favorite teammate?

That's, that's, that's so tough, man. Give us one.
And then your least favorite, obviously. We need both.
You could actually – I mean, you could say Aaron Hernandez, right? Easy way out. That's an easy answer.
It's tough. You know, like it's tough for your favorite.
you have like a group of guys that you came in with a group of guys that you're around you know Matthew Slater you know he he was we lived together for a long time um and you know him and his family have been an unbelievable influence on just me you know know, I'm a wild man. Everyone, everyone knows that.
And Matt is like, literally like the reverend. And we had like two polar opposite sides of everything.
And like, we lived together. And, you know, when times were like, you know, at its lows, my guy would always help me mentally and he would always be the guy.
And, you know, when times were high, he was the one to remind me like, yo, this is where you can, you know what I mean? So, like, I loved him. Matthew Slater is, you know, he'll be a brother for life.
You know, the Rob Ninkovich's, we used to get after it. Danny, when he came in the picture, he was always an unbelievable teammate.
James Devlin, like when James Devlin – he was an ultimate teammate. This guy would just his – he didn't say much, but he would be in the weight room and he'd have his smelling salts, his chalk.
He'd be all braced up to squat and hype you up when you were getting in there. Like, you know, and he was just always a class, class teammate.
Tom, of course. I mean, I love Tom.
Who? Brady. Oh.
He's been, he's been, you know, he's been, he's been like an older brother for me. And, but he was always kind of like, you know, he was brother that you know you you didn't you hung out with them but you had like your little slap dick friends too that like before you were cool enough to hang out with your older brother like you hung out with so i always you know had those guys and there's so many more um i noticed you didn't mention gronk interesting gronk why do you know there why did you and gronk have a falling out we never had a falling out it's just you know gronk gronk was like he legit was like having just a big old teddy bear at work every day so like you know i i would be an intense guy always a lot of the time I'd be a jokester too but like I was very intense and to have that like you know to have a guy like Gronk who the game just came so easy this guy was like just having fun like you'd see him in the corner of his locker like playing with like a tape like, a tape and, like, laughing.
And, like, you know, you needed that. You definitely needed that.
So, don't step me up there. I think we should put that.
Your description of James Devlin there, that should be part of your Hall of Fame resume. Because the excitement that you had there to explain someone getting ready to, like, go to war at the squat rack that's a football guy like you I could see in your eyes thinking about him just lifting got you excited in the moment well you know James James came from a very similar story man like he was he was defensive lineman at Brown he was like a dn or something and he worked his way to becoming, you know, one of the best fullbacks in the game.
Like we, we live and died by, by James. Like he did so much for this team, you know, in the, in the special team game, like, and he, you never heard anything from him, you know? And there was times where we were like, I'd be sitting there and I want to say something.
Then you look at a guy like James who he, he doesn't ever touch the rock or anything. And this guy is like just gun ho excited to be there.
Coffee. Let's go weight room smelling salt.
Like that, that's, that's James Devlin. And those are the guys that you're going to remember yeah that one play they had in the Super Bowl I think it was against the Rams because he had to block Indomitian Sioux and he laid a wham on him and you could tell like he knew that he was about to get knocked out in that play he was going to get run over but he was like you know what I have to do this have to do this, and I'm just going to run headfirst into this guy.

And it worked. It worked.
You had a couple big blocks of the Super Bowls, too. How come people don't talk about your blocking ability? I don't know, man.
I just do what the team asked me to do. I love it.
Yeah. Put that on the resume.
You know, it's – I mean, that's a huge part. Like I remember, and that's a huge reason of that,

of our blocking as New England receivers was because of Chad O'Shea. You know, when I first got there, Chad O'Shea just – he just got there.
I believe he's in Cleveland now. He went with Flores to Miami as the OC, and then now he's the receiver coach at Cleveland.
But, like, Bill would always just say two things to the receiver. Just get open and catch the fucking ball.
That's what you do as receiver. All right.
And then we go in the room and Chad would be like, and compete in the run game. And we're competing in the run game.
You catch the ball and you compete in the run game. And, you know, like it was just, you know, I had guys before me that were awesome blockers.
And so that's what you learn when you're a younger guy. And, you know, you can't be afraid to go in and block.
It's an effort thing. And, you know, and James Devlin, he's the type of guy that motivated you too.
Because, like, he craved head injuries. This guy, like, like wanted to go knock himself out that's when he knew he had a good block like so when you see a guy like that then you're like man i gotta go do the same thing yeah the um so we're gonna like i said at the start of the interview we know what uh jules got going on next we're gonna put it out on all of our social instagram youtube twitter everywhere uh when the announcement, when the announcement can be made.
So make sure you check that out. But I know what you're going to be doing next.
He's going to be Jack Easterby's hype man. Jack Easterby's hype man.
The way you're talking right now, is there any chance maybe coaching? You know what? No, probably not. You know, I have too have too much like i want to have a life like i've i've lived this now for for 12 years of like literally 14 hour days like get up 4 30 get to the facility 5 15 body work workout ball drill meetings more meeting, like, and the coaches are there for like 18 hours.
And the sheer fact that I've seen this group do that, if I were to go somewhere else and not do that, then I'm thinking like, all right, I'm already in the hole because I don't feel like doing that anymore. You know what I mean? Which I'll probably end up transferring and doing that in the next life but like right now like nah i have no interest into it maybe like you know i always tell the scouts if you need a guy in la to look a guy or receiver work them out and like because i always say like what are we doing like let me look a guy in the eyes and i'll tell you if he can play or not like that's what it is it's in the huddle when you're in a huddle you like there's false eyes and there's there's not like you need to be able to look a dude in his eyes and like really see if that guy if he's ready for when it's gonna come yeah i like that answer who had the best huddle eyes whose eyes were the readiest brady's got br got insane huddle eyes.
Brady, because, you know, he's already got like the, you know, Zoolander, like blue steel, like look, and like he'd give you that eye and like, Joel, let's go. I'm like, yeah.
We got to clip that. I think that was like every – that was Julian Elvin's entire career right there summed up in a second and a half.

Yeah.

You know, the funniest size would be Gronk.

Gronk would be like looking at you like that's the one guy who's got a great

poker face.

You just don't know where it's going.

You think like, is Gronk tired or what's going on?

And then he'd have like a 50-yard catch and like these six guys need to come in. Like, I'm a little tired after that one.
Like stiff arm, like three guys. It was a heck of a time.
Billy, you have any questions for Joel? Well, yeah, let me do the last question, the Roback. Okay.
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This is big because Billy is going to do the Roback question. So my question, it's going to be pretty hard hitting.
Let's hear it. I always, hey, I'll tell you right now, my guy knows some football.
I hear your takes, Billy. Listen, I hear your takes, buddy.
I appreciate it. Football and frogs.
So many Belichick disciples have been hired as head coaches outside of the patriots and why haven't they been able to recreate the patriot way outside of foxborough good job billy proback question it's hard to go in and and and try to be bill belichick without being bill belichick. You know, you can't just go in and demand, you know, the respect and put, like, this crazy, you know, work schedule and this schedule and, you know, attention to detail and the practice, like, intensity.
Like, you have to kind of massage that in for a group that has never really had that you can't just go and demand it you know Bill can literally you know Bill's coached in the league for 40 years you know he started with the Baltimore Colts bro like he's been around this he's seen every position every type of player like in the thousands so So, like, it's hard for a guy to like, not it, you can't just go and try to copy what he does. It's not going to be you.
I think that's that a lot of it has to do with that. A lot of these guys, you know, they go in, they try to be a hard dick, or they try to be this and they try to, you know, they try to do everything that Bill does.
You can learn that and i don't know i don't i never played for another coach and i'm not saying it could have been different there's different circumstances of everything but you know just i don't think you can just go and demand you know a team like you're bill belichick unless you're bill belichick yeah good answer good answer was question, Billy. Was there anything that he ever tried to do, like a new wrinkle that he tried to add or a different way of doing things around the building where he recognized that this way wasn't working and had to like walk it back and be like, I tried something new, didn't work.
Let's go back to the old way. Yeah.
There was a time where like we were talking about or something. And, like, guys started putting cornhole in the locker room.
And then, like, we ended up, like, losing a game or something. And we'd go right in.
There was no more cornhole. So it was gone.
You know, like, you know, but Bill does a great job. He's evolved, man.
He's an evolver. That's why he's been able to stick around and do the things that he's done.
I mean, you know, having Tom Brady has obviously helped a lot as well. But, you know, he's very in tuned with evolution.
Like, I remember when it was 2000, you know, like 14. And like he bring in, you know, a bunch of the group, like a group of leaders and like he he broke down to us like all right guys this we got a new generation of guys this is what you know like this is how they're learning in college this is what we're gonna have to end up evolving to this is how they you know they're not just like this they're they're guys that are gonna be like this and they've been on this and you know so he's always thinking about that

yeah i mean i that i do think that like a belichick and a saban we joke about how set they are in their ways and how old they are but they do clearly do something when it comes to the evolution of you know how they think and what they're changing year to year i mean you saw in your time you went from there was a time when you guys were throwing the ball everywhere and then you became a power running team.

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And then the next year, we got the two.

We got Hernandez and Gronk, and we completely evolved the game to matchups and chess matches where, all right, if they're going to have sub-personnel

on defense, we're going to keep our 12 personnel in.

And if they go big boys, we're going to spread them out.

And then that became a trend now.

Look at the team position. I mean, he kind of started that.
If you think about it, he had Gronk and Hernandez. Like, that was like the beginning of that whole athletic, this tight end is like the baddest dude, let's do these things, you know, for these guys.
So, I mean, he always builds his teams to what he has. So, you know, that's what he does.
Yeah, yeah. So this has been awesome, man.
Again, tune in, 930. We're going to drop it everywhere.
What's this thing? I was hearing you guys talk this, what Billy Football was talking about, he's getting on a keto diet or something, and you guys are getting on a meat diet? Yeah. Well, Billy, he cycles us on and off of diets pretty frequently, but he didn't do his research because apparently keto is like the last thing that you should do if you have kidney stones, which most of this show does have kidney stones.
So you guys aren't doing a meat diet? I think I'm going to do OMAD. What is that? One meal a day.
I was going to send you guys some meat.

This meat.

Oh, yeah. Okay.

We're doing the meat diet.

We're doing the meat diet.

It's insane.

Yes.

I need it right over there by that.

What is that? A Colorado Kool-Aid right there?

Coors?

Yeah, Coors.

Colorado Kool-Aid. We're going to steal that one.

Shit. We're definitely.

We're cutting that and stealing it.

That was crazy. Being a West Coast kid, and then I went to Ohio for college, we always drank Coors Light and that brand of beer.
And then I went out there, it was like Miller and Bud. I was like, what's going on? Bleep those.
Bleep those. We'll bleep those.
Sorry you had to deal with that. Bleep those.
Bleep those. I was more of a colorado kool-aid guy yeah hell yeah um all

right well jules thank you uh and again everyone check out 9 30 we're gonna put it everywhere uh awesome things coming for for julian and you're always welcome on this show you're a recurring guest hall of famer and a thirst trap hall of famer so there's two hall of fames right there hey man i appreciate guys. Most guys have tried different ways to last longer in bed, but thinking about baseball doesn't always work.
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Billy Football, our son, I had a talk with him last night because I was getting frustrated. And it was a situation where I didn't want to keep getting frustrated.
So Billy's going to go away for a month and a half at the end of next week he's retiring

he's retiring he's going to basically i'll actually explain the whole thing this is much better explained as being like the rum springer like with the amish yeah they go out into the real world they sow some oats billy just wrapped up college he's gonna have fun for a couple months come back refreshed and at that point billy you can decide whether you want to rejoin the family or be shunned for the rest of your life.

Right.

The way I put it is Billy, on Sunday, he maybe came in a little drunk. And then on Monday, he came up to me and was like, hey, I accidentally booked tickets to **** on Wednesday.
And I said to myself. Classic.
I said to myself, I'm tired of being the bad cop with Billy all the time and being the guy who's got to yell at him. Because then I mad at him and then it comes through in the show and people are like, don't be mean to Billy.
It's like, well, he's half in, half out right now, which I understand because it's your senior year. So I told Billy, I was like, listen, why don't you go enjoy your senior year? No regrets.
You can have fun. You don't have to worry about this show.
You can fucking ball out. And then when you come back in Juneune and i told you pick a date that you're ready to go 100 want all out of your system and then when you're back you're ready to roll and you actually will you know not frustrate me hopefully it's it's very fair to be honest i've been you know half and half out and do it doing as much as i can but also you know.
Half in, half out. As much as you can is not true.
But I also, in the next coming weeks, I have stuff like finals, senior presentations. Enjoying your time with your boys.
Right. Family stuff.
All kinds of stuff that need exploring. Yeah, so here's the deal.
Billy's not going to come to the office. Next Thursday will be his last time in the office for a month and a half.
He's not going to come to the office. If he wants to Zoom in, he's more than welcome to, but we're not going to expect anything from him.
That way there's no disappointment. There's no anger.
There's no frustration. It's just Billy's gone for a little bit.
If he wants to check in, he's more than welcome to because we love him and he's part of this show. And if he doesn't and he wants to just get drunk for a month and a half, months three months whatever when he comes back we'll be ready to roll i cannot wait to come back don't make a no don't make a promise you will get a hundred percent okay as soon as school's over and your month after school's over no no i'm gonna come back no i told him i was like june he was like i'll be back june 2nd i was like billy really maybe couple weeks after that.
So how about this, bro? No, I'll be back. Can you give us a report of how you spent your summer vacation? You will.
You'll come back with one. That'll be your only assignment.
I'm coming back in the beginning of summer. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, but this is your summer vacation. Your spring, your early summer vacation.
Yes. Spring break.
So next Friday, we'll have our last show with Billy for at least a month and a half in person and we'll do something special for it and then we'll send our little boy off to graduate and then that will diffuse me having to be the strict parent with you true I mean not many college kids also podcast so there's a little bit of right you're doing an incredible job no college kids part-time job. No, Billy's right.
The schedule that Billy's been forced to keep up between doing three podcasts a week. Yes, yes.
All right, but we're going to kick the hell out of draft week, right? Exactly. Right? We're going to maybe get some shit going for draft week.
Oh, yeah. We got Chipotle bowls to analyze.
We got all sorts of stuff. Yeah, all right.
We'll have a special draft week here i'm excited for that all right let's do some faqs uh as for some for some high faq related given given the day today what what is your guys weirdest experience high weirdest experience high uh i went to go see i saw 311 perform on 311 day one time in new orleans and it was my first time ever seeing them play. And when they do that show, they play for like five hours.
And so being high and then getting sober and then being high again, I'm like, I thought that they played like all mixed up six times during the course of their set. Just any time that you're high for longer than five hours at a time, can things start to kind of mold together a little bit, and it makes it an awkward experience.
I would say, I don't know if eating mushrooms also counts as being high, even though it's 420, but in Madison, I walked all the way across a frozen Lake Mendota and then back, and on the way back, collected a bunch of wood and timber and branches and thought it was the coolest thing ever. And was like, I'm going to fucking decorate my apartment with all these branches.

And it's going to be like a fucking tree house.

And then I woke up the next day and there was just like my whole apartment was full of trees.

You turned into a squirrel.

It was fucking so stupid.

You're like a beaver.

So stupid.

Yeah.

But it was sick.

I would say.

I would also add when I took MDMA in Hong Kong and and then I started laughing because Carla Niles was so fast,

and I started laughing so much that I started to cry.

That's beautiful.

Because a man was so fast on the field.

Hi, boys.

I'm looking for advice from Billy.

Oh, he's a great one to give it out.

I'm a model, and I have a casting for a national brand athletic wear company.

In the video, they want me to show how hard I train when I work out but being a model i literally only do cardio and light body weight exercises how do i convince them i'm an athlete what you gotta do is you gotta do burpees yeah but do one really good one where you jump like almost do a worm and then bounce up off your arms you can do that because you're light and you don't have that much body mass and that looks super athletic and then also do stuff like like any sort of like pull-up repetitions but just splice it so it looks like you're doing a bunch of them but it's really just you doing it once is this a male model or a female model does it matter? No, because Billy was answering like it was a female model. No.
Pull-ups. He says he can't do any weight training.
She slash her. Okay.
So that you can take a hit, get tackled, and then people will be like, that's an athlete. Pull-ups is a good one, though, Billy.
Pull-ups is like one of those ones where you're like, oh, that person knows what they're doing. Not CrossFit pull- the kipping no kipping or fucking bullshit big cat cleaning question do you still pee down the sink to sanitize it uh i do still pee in sinks not often um it's more out of just like i don't know a little bit of boredom a little bit of like i'll be like doing the dishes one thing they don tell you is when you have a kid, there's like 17 loads of dishes every single day.
So I'll just be standing there doing the dishes, finish the dishes, be like, job well done, pee in the sink. You know, just kind of a treat for myself.
If you have a dog that drinks out of the bowl. What about it? Just pee in the sink.
What? What? You know how dogs drink out of toilet bowls? Yeah. Yeah.
My house has locks on everything. Oh, so you're making sure that your dog's not drinking your pee.
Got it. Okay.
That's the one that gets forgotten about for the flush sometimes. Understood.
Yeah. I will never know the pleasure of being in a sink.
I think you have to be at least like 6'2 to pull that off. Oh, there's a small sink.
We'll get you one. A private sink just for peeing?, we'll build you one.
Speaking of... I've been thinking about how cool would that be to just cut a hole in your wall of your apartment, and you can just piss out the wall.
Yeah. Nobody would ever know.
Or a trash hole. Yeah, exactly.
It would just feel like mystery water, the air conditioning water that hits you every summer in New York. Which, by the way, that's another Who's Back of the Week is mystery water when you're walking down the sidewalk.
Big time. Just getting jizzed on.
Speaking of high, how come some podcasts randomly go higher than you guys in the podcast ranking sometimes? Does that mean they get more listeners? Good question. That's a great question.
No, it does not. I love podcast ranking.
I think, so if you start a new podcast, your podcast is always going to be, it just goes to number one. That's just how it works.
We've been around for so long that we forgot. That also happened to us.
We also did tell everyone we're number one. I was like, I'm bigger than cereal, bitch.
Right, but then you realize, okay, that's not exactly how it works. The way to realize the success of shows is episodes.
So if you go to the episode page, you can see where shows are ranked. And that's why, you know, we'll see the chirps every now and then.
Like, oh, someone else is number one. Just look at the episodes, bitch.
They're always... We're there.
I mean, I think we're number three overall in the world after Monday's show. What? Well, yeah.
We're usually around there. Number three in the world? Behind...
Monday's number one. Behind both most recent episodes of Call Her Daddy? Um...
No. Yeah, yeah.
No, no, no. Three.
I'm talking about three overall. Yeah.
Episodes right now. I'm looking at it.
Murdered, Sierra Jogan. Rip.
See, that's what I'm saying. The Daily, a difficult diplomatic triangle.
Part of my take, NFL draft with Daniel Jeremiah, Super League with Troops. so and then dax dax dax what's the

what's blake's fucking stupid friends in dax shepherd is that like six of the three of the top six are either our podcast or two people that were immediately on our podcast you said troops and daniel jeremiah no no that's the name of our show oh okay description yeah are you high but either way,

uh,

we see it.

Obviously people tweet us,

tag us,

whatever.

Uh,

it's,

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it's, That's the name of our show. Oh, okay.
Are you high? Are you high? But either way, we see it. Obviously, people tweet us, tag us, whatever.
If you have a new podcast, you should take the victory lap. But also know that if we tweeted every time we were number one, we'd probably have to tweet like 300 times a year.
And also, Billy, if you wanted to get murdered on your little vacation that you're going to take, and that way we could have Jake try to track down who your murderer was, that would probably do a wonderful thing. So you guys do a murder podcast? It's about you.
Let's go. Go listen to the case, by the way.
Kirk's podcast. Very good.
I listened to the first episode. It was good.
Yeah. I'm going to binge it because my brain can't...
My brain cannot handle not binging things. It's the worst thing that has happened with, like, today's entertainment.
I watched the documentary last night, and when it was over, I was like i was like is this over yeah right i was like there's where's episode two right what it was the what was the we know just we know what do you mean you know shave your beard we can tell oh binging fuck that was a fat joke yeah the problem is i'm wearing a i'm wearing a black shirt today. So when I wear a black shirt, everyone, like a little life hack for anyone who's, which isn't really everyone knows this.
But like if you're a little bit fatter and it's springtime, buy a bunch of black t-shirts and you're guaranteed to have people be like, oh, have you lost weight? It's like, nah, dude, I'm just wearing a black t-shirt. So then I forget that I am technically obese.
So when Hank makes a joke like that, it goes over my head. Because I'm like, dude, I look hot right now.
I'm in a black T-shirt. When I saw you today, I was like, Big Cat's definitely wearing the shirt that he wears when he feels fat.
But that's probably because I've known you for a while. No, no, no.
I know your tricks. No, no, no.
No, no, no. This was, if I'm really feeling fat as a sweatshirt, this was the first really warm day having to wear something not a sweatshirt shirt.
Short sleeves, yeah. That's what this is.
You look like a guy at an anime convention that's in charge of the stage lighting. I'm like a late version of Jerry Garcia when he just wore black t-shirts.
Sup, Honk, PFT, and Big Cat. What item of food would you eat knowing you only get to eat it while you're high And it's the only food you get to eat while high Cool Ranch Doritos and salsa That's two foods Water No you don't want water That's the only thing you can eat when you're high Ice cream Ice cream is the best Ice cream is the best no matter what But like Ice cream is a very a very good answer.
Ice cream is so good. Ice cream...
You know what? Is ice cream having a moment? Is ice cream getting re-apexed? I don't think... If we're doing like the pantheons of creams, is ice cream in the top tier? Because you got Cream, the band.
Yep. You've got...
The song. Cream.
The song, Cream. Cash flows everything around me.
You've got Cream Pies, the donut. Yep.
Cream Pies, the sex. And Cream Pies, the videos.
Category. Yep.
The category. And then after that, Cream Abdul-Jabbar.
Cream Abdul-Jabbar. Yeah, I think it's probably in my top five creams.
Creams, yeah. Yeah.
Cream Sickle Orange is pretty good. Oh, what about Balco? The cream.
The cream, but you need the clear to make the cream. That's true.
It's probably in my top five creams. Creams, yeah.
Creamsicle orange is pretty good. What about Balco? The cream.
The cream, but you need the clear to make the cream. That's true.
It's like a Brady Belichick thing. Yeah, yin and yang.
But what was the question again? What would you eat? Ice cream. Pussy.
Yeah. Ooh.
Bonk. Yo, I just re-watched the old Barstool video of Big Cat in fights in the Demo Derby blindfolded race.
My question is, if you did it again, would you rather have Hank or Billy Football giving you directions? Uh, Billy. Not my best moment.
Not your best moment. You confused right and left a lot.
I was blindfolded and Hank had to tell me where to go and it was a disaster. Well,, it's like, whose line is like, do I go left? I was like, right.
Wait, what? It was like, whose line is it? You were doing a bit? No, well, that's how it played out. It was just kind of a shit show.
Again, not my best moment. We were facing the same direction, by the way.
Right. Right.
So we had the same left and right. Has any other media member ever got mad about a joke you said about them oh good question great question um rapid poor did not like leroy scooping him on the gronk news that's right he texted big cat was like why is why is everybody being mean to me online yeah it's because a dog fucking beat you to the biggest scoop of the summer bitch everyone was going was going after her.
I'm trying to think. Who else have we...
Have we... Well, I mean, I guess Rick Pitino would be...
If it is him that's stalking me and PFT now, that would be it. I mean, this is not your content was all...
Oh, yeah. I mean, he's a fucking weenie.
He's such a fucking... Did you see the Kyle Pitts thing? No.
Nope, nope, nope, nope. All right, last one.
Okay. Thank you, Hank.
That's our producer, baby. I mean, it's all time.
I can't believe this. No, no, no.
I saw it. There we go.
Are we going to get to see Coach Dougs lead Lewisco to a national title this summer when we're stuck with just baseball for three months? Ooh, I don't know. What do you mean stuck with just baseball? Show some appreciation for the beautiful sport.
I think here's what I'll say about Doug's. At some point, at some time, somewhere, he'll come back, but it won't be when you expect it.
That's it. It'll just happen.
And it'll just be like, hey, I'm doing. Actually, you know what? I'll say this, Hank, because we

discussed this. The one-day stream.

That's what we'll do. The one-day

full-season stream. Where it's

just like, fire it up, play a full season,

and that's it. So we'll do that

at some point, somewhere,

sometime, who knows.

Numbers. 37.

32. 8.
18.

73. 73 from Bobo.
8. 18.
73.

73 from Bubba.

8, 8, 8.

Billy?

I said 32.

Animal Fact?

32.

Oh, 99.

Oh, nice cooler.

We got a new cooler.

Holy shit, this thing is awesome.

That's the Coors cooler.

Yeah.

It's a Colorado Kool-Aid cooler.

99.

Yeah. T-Rexes could actually do push-ups with their arms.

Because they could, like, push up?

No, no.

They actually would get up using this.

What is it?

71.

Oh, Bubba's so close.

Damn, this looks so nice now that we're not, like, on a...

Also, shout out Billy.

He cleaned the studio.

I came in, and after, because we had that talk yesterday I

was like oh Billy showed initiative and then Hank was like no I asked him to do it three times today

love you guys

talking away so I don't know what

I'm to say I'm saving

his way

today's another day

to find him shining away

I'll be coming

for your love of free

shining away Today's another day to find you. Shine it away.
I'll be coming for your love of peace. Shine it away.
I'll be coming for your love of peace. Take on me.
Take me on. I'll be gone.
We love you, love you See you next time. Take me on I'll be gone In a day of time All the things that you say Is it like, oh Just to play my worries away You're all the things I've got to remember.
Are you shying away? I'll be coming for you anyway. Are you shying away? I'll be coming for you anyway.
Take on me. Take me home

I'll be gone

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