Guy Fieri, Blake Griffin To The Nets, CBB, And NBA All Star Weekend

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Speaker 3 It is Guy Fieri.

Speaker 1 I screwed up and I did the American pronunciation of his name.

Speaker 3 You gave me a look. We corrected it.

Speaker 1 Right away. Guy Fieri.
Awesome interview. One of those interviews we just wish we had more time, and I think he'll give give us more time eventually, but a good 30 minutes with Guy.

Speaker 1 His energy is off the charts. He also gave us food, brought a bunch of food from his, or had it delivered at 9 a.m.
Nothing like eating a cheeseburger in wings at 9 a.m. on a Friday morning.

Speaker 1 We have NBA All-Star Game, which is going on during this show. Dunk contest, college basketball, big news with Blake Griffin going to the Nets.
A couple segments. Great show for everyone.
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Speaker 1 Today is Monday, March 8th, and you are listening to the number one Brooklyn Nets podcast in the world.

Speaker 3 I love the Nets, man. The Nets are they've always been my team.

Speaker 1 We're crazy for them.

Speaker 3 We live right down the street from the hometown guys.

Speaker 3 I'm pumped. I'm very excited to have the Nets to root for now because they are, like going into it, they're the most hilarious team by far.
Yes.

Speaker 3 And then they added somebody who's even more hilarious, but in a different way.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 3 You can't root against a team that's comprised of Kyrie Irving, James Harden, Kevin Durant, and Blake Griffin.

Speaker 1 It's rare that you get like obviously. Joe Harris.
Obviously,

Speaker 1 I wanted him to go to the Bulls, but I think the Bulls are probably a year away from being title contenders.

Speaker 1 But one year. Yeah, one year.
One year away from being title contenders.

Speaker 1 And I still have actually enjoyed watching this Bulls team, and I have high hopes for them to make the playoffs.

Speaker 1 But the Nets are very, very far and away my second team now because I'm just rooting for Blake Griffin. I actually don't...
I don't care really for the rest of the team.

Speaker 1 It's really just I'm rooting for the Blake Griffin portion of the Brooklyn Nets and maybe a little bit of the Joe Harris and a sliver of the Kevin Durant if he comes on this podcast.

Speaker 3 And the Kyrie Irving, too, because, like, yes, he's ridiculous and he's a weird guy, but he's entertaining. Like, him walking around the arena before every game, burning Sage.
I love that stuff. Like,

Speaker 3 if you're going to be a team that's like a super team, at least have these big personalities on them. Like, the Warriors were great, but I think their problem was most people liked the Warriors.

Speaker 3 The only reason that people didn't like them is because they were looked at as being a little bit unfair and taking some of the fun out of the game, knowing who was going to win going into every season.

Speaker 3 But they didn't have that actual

Speaker 3 personality hate thing going on.

Speaker 3 This team, you either love them or you hate them. And now I'm going to hate to love them and love to hate them.

Speaker 1 Jake, I need you to make us a pie chart. I think we need to do like win shares.
We need to divvy up who we're actually rooting for on the Brooklyn Nets.

Speaker 1 I think right off the bat, it's 70% Blake Griffin. Yeah.
70% Blake Drasins. I go even

Speaker 1 80% Blake Griffin. I'm going to give 5% to Joe Harris.

Speaker 3 4 to DeAndre.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm going to give.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah, 4% to DeAndre Jordan.

Speaker 1 I'm going to give 4% to Kevin Durant. I'm going to give 4 to Steve

Speaker 1 Nash. 5% than Joe Harris.
3 to Kevin Durant.

Speaker 1 Are you writing this down, Jake?

Speaker 1 What is he doing? What are you doing?

Speaker 1 You just dropped his spreadsheet. I'm going to give 2 to Kevin Durant, but that can be bumped up to 10 if he comes on the show.

Speaker 1 I'm going to give two to Steve Nash, but he's got to be dribbling a soccer ball. DJ, what about you? DJ gets four.
I'll just listen back. Yeah, okay, we're going way over 100.

Speaker 1 But I'm going to give five to James Harden, fat James Harden, though.

Speaker 3 It depends on his BMI. Yes.
So he can earn, it's like equity. He can earn more of the rootability with like every five pounds.
He has incentives in his contract.

Speaker 3 Every five pounds he puts on, he gets another percentage.

Speaker 1 The fatter he is,

Speaker 1 the more we're into it. And also, I'm going to add more percentage to James Harden if he does some hilariously bad things in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 Like if he misses a shot and then Blake has to save the team, that would be anytime he gets to be blamed, I'm in on that.

Speaker 3 I would say 5% to KD and then add one percentage for each of his burners that we knocked.

Speaker 1 And then three to Kyrie

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 five to Mike D'Antonio because remember that time we sat next to him?

Speaker 3 He ate a salad.

Speaker 1 He ate a salad and he was drinking a white wine. We didn't talk to him, but we sat next to him.

Speaker 3 We knew it was him.

Speaker 1 And also, I saw him once in Brooklyn. I said, what's up, coach? And he just nodded.
And I think he was freaked out because, like, why would anyone call him coach on the street?

Speaker 3 Well, they don't have a coach in Brooklyn. Right.

Speaker 3 Depending on what day of the week it is, they cycle that around. I'm really hoping that Blake goes there and then he can just immediately play like old Blake again.
Yes.

Speaker 3 Change of scenery will be good for him. He's going to dunk for the first time since 2019.
Mark my words. Oh, yeah.
2021 is the year of Blake Griffin dunking again.

Speaker 1 He's going to dunk in the first game. Can you read that back to us, Jake?

Speaker 1 Well, I missed the first half. Billy, can you read that back to us? Do you have it, Billy?

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 1 Billy's looking at big buttons on Instagram right now.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so we are now rooting for the Brooklyn Nets

Speaker 1 for Blake. Do we care? Now, I'm going to just offer something up there.
And we were going to bring it up whenever he comes back on the show, which hopefully will be soon.

Speaker 1 Did you guys see the New York Times article where it was podcasters picking their favorite podcast? Blake Blake Griffin picked Dak Shepard. Excuse me? Yeah.

Speaker 3 Excuse. No, I didn't see that.

Speaker 1 I actually saw it.

Speaker 3 It was 79%. You know what I did?

Speaker 1 When

Speaker 1 I saw it on Friday, someone tweeted it at us, and I just closed my computer and I was like, nope, not going to look at it, not going to ruin my Friday. I don't want to think about this.

Speaker 1 It hurt my feelings so much, so profoundly

Speaker 1 that I just pretended it didn't happen.

Speaker 3 It's disgusting.

Speaker 1 And I don't have a subscription, so I couldn't go back and read it.

Speaker 3 He's been on the Dak Shepherd podcast, right? I have no idea. Maybe not.
Maybe it's one of those things that's just him trying to get on the show.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, that could be it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're right. It's probably it.
You're right. It was probably just a joke.
Yeah, it's classic Blake.

Speaker 3 You know what this is? Yeah. He's got a new show coming out where you prank the prankers.
He knows that we're pranksters. Yeah.
He's pranking us.

Speaker 1 And he was like, Yeah, okay.

Speaker 3 You almost had us.

Speaker 1 What's the number one rule for like Blake of the Year? Like, you can't try too hard. So if he had said us, that would have been a try hard, man.

Speaker 1 And everyone would have been like, oh, you're just trying to win Blake of the Year. No, he's going to neg us with Dax.

Speaker 3 This is classic Blake. You have to know him to get it.

Speaker 1 Are we going to go to games?

Speaker 1 Probably not.

Speaker 1 I'll go to a game. I've been offered Nets tickets before, and I'm like, do I have to?

Speaker 1 I don't know. Yeah, sure.

Speaker 1 You know what? I'll go to a game. Fuck it.
Why not? Hank, you want to go? I'll go. No, Billy, that wasn't an invitation.
Yeah, we'll go to a game.

Speaker 3 We'll go to a game. Oh, you know what? I just remembered?

Speaker 3 I just remembered this.

Speaker 3 So me and Blake have had this thing where after every single show that he does, every interview that he does with us, we talk about like, hey, have you listened to the new Dak Shepherd podcast?

Speaker 3 And then we joke because neither one of us has listened to it.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 3 And we both think it's probably bad. Very funny.
And so him saying that, that was like actually a wink and a nod to us.

Speaker 1 Very funny.

Speaker 3 You probably don't get the joke.

Speaker 1 That's how funny.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's so funny. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So it didn't hurt my feelings.

Speaker 3 That's funny.

Speaker 1 He's a funny guy. I really did.
It was almost like I was,

Speaker 1 what's his name in succession? When the rocket blows up and he's just like, not going to look at this. That's what I'm saying.
Call Giamatti. No, what's his fucking name? Kendall.
Culkin. Culkin.

Speaker 1 Yeah, what was Ken? No, it wasn't

Speaker 1 Brian Culkin. No, it's Kieran Culkin.
But what's his fucking name?

Speaker 3 The guy that jacks off to the lawyer's voice.

Speaker 1 Yeah, fuck. What is his name, guys? See, that's the problem.
How do we not know who's Roman? Roman.

Speaker 3 The theme song is so good that you don't really absorb any of the actual names of the characters.

Speaker 1 How many guys do you think have gotten laid by just playing the theme song on a piano at a party?

Speaker 1 Gotta be a few.

Speaker 3 At least, yeah.

Speaker 1 At least

Speaker 3 more than one.

Speaker 1 Because I feel like that is the new, hey, you know what? I know how to play. It's like playing Freebird on your guitar.

Speaker 1 Like, I know how to, oh, I fucking know how to play a session theme song, and everyone's looking at you.

Speaker 3 I'm actually shocked that there hasn't been a rap song that comes out that samples that as the backup track.

Speaker 3 It would be fire. Yeah, it should.

Speaker 1 What? There was. Oh, was it fire? It was kind of disappointing, to be honest.
Okay, well, then then some, as far as we know, there hasn't been one, so it's open for anyone else to do it, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, agreed. For our years,

Speaker 1 for our elder years, right?

Speaker 1 Okay, what else we got? College basketball.

Speaker 3 Hank, did you see the poll I put up?

Speaker 3 Shocking results.

Speaker 1 I did not. Over 30,000 people want Coach K fired.
Wow. So I put up a poll when they were getting the shit kicked out of them by UNC.

Speaker 1 I said, should Coach K retire after this game or after the ACC tournament? So that's two options.

Speaker 1 That's not firing.

Speaker 1 Or sorry, retiring. When should he retire?

Speaker 3 I actually agree with the first statement you made. Like, I would look very hard at firing Coach K.
Yeah, I would fire.

Speaker 1 But people want him to retire.

Speaker 3 They want him gone. I don't know if he's earned the right to make that decision about when he retires.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Season's not over. ACC tournament.

Speaker 1 He doesn't even care. That was,

Speaker 1 he didn't care. No fight.
Yeah, it was bad.

Speaker 1 They laid down and died. Yeah, they did.
Yes, they did. Do you think he is no longer in touch with the youth of America? I mean, he's an older guy.

Speaker 1 I think he's done a good job bringing in, you know, the Nolan Smiths, the younger coaches, to stay in touch with the younger guys instead of trying to be like, you know, how you doing, fellow kids?

Speaker 1 It's a tough year, man.

Speaker 3 So you're saying he doesn't communicate with his players anymore.

Speaker 1 So I guess what I would ask you, Hank. Dude, he's an old man.
He's an old man.

Speaker 3 What exactly does Coach K do these days? He inspires.

Speaker 1 He gives wisdom of teaching the greatest basketball players in the world.

Speaker 3 What, other teams you're right he does like to teach other teams like that he coached usa basketball all the pros any player that comes to duke he can be like hey all your favorite players i coached all of them and they all love me because i'm coach k yeah what other coach can say that pft i don't know i don't i don't see coach k walking away i see the duke board of regents i'm just going to make that up that's that probably exists they're going to have to say institution that's what the institution's going to have to say it's the illuminati yeah

Speaker 3 do you think that do you think coach k here's how he can save his job we all talk about how he takes the D away from players. You're not allowed to wear the D.

Speaker 3 He needs to paint over the K on the court.

Speaker 3 He should not have that initial.

Speaker 1 He should not only be able to dye his hair.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that's right. Go gray.
Go gray. Mix it up a little bit.
Do the opposite of Colin Coward.

Speaker 1 That would actually work. Yeah, it probably would.
Because Roy Williams definitely is that. If he went gray, you would be like, wow.

Speaker 3 Well, I mean, it's a great opportunity to do that.

Speaker 1 Don't make fun of him.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's a great opportunity to teach your kids. Like, look at all these gray hairs you've given me this year.

Speaker 3 I was great until this group of players really screwed me up.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Also, his best player, you know, isn't on the team anymore. So, what do you expect?

Speaker 3 Well, they were better without him.

Speaker 1 Are you going to say he quit?

Speaker 1 No, he just, you know, he made a business decision. Don't use that Q word.
He made a business decision. What other big, big

Speaker 1 news did we have from the weekend, Jake? Do you want to

Speaker 1 give us the rundown? There was chaos. CBS,

Speaker 1 sorry about the Vermont.

Speaker 4 So there was chaos in the mid-major conference tournament world.

Speaker 4 Saturday, five number one seeds lost in their conference tournament.

Speaker 3 Today, another one lost two.

Speaker 1 Uh-oh.

Speaker 1 It's all a blur. There's so many.

Speaker 3 James Madison.

Speaker 1 James Madison. That's who it was.
Yes.

Speaker 4 So there's chaos on that end.

Speaker 3 Bad week for Dukes all around.

Speaker 4 This time last week, we were talking about how Michigan might be the best team in the country. Then they lose.

Speaker 4 Baylor is now back to full strength.

Speaker 1 They kick the

Speaker 1 Texas Tech. Illinois is the best team.
Illinois is probably the last number one seed.

Speaker 4 And at the the end of this, Gonzaga is still the only undefeated team left.

Speaker 3 I love, by the way, how Jake, you stress enunciation, pronunciation about everything. You said earlier today, like, the worst thing you can do is mispronounce a player's name on a broadcast.

Speaker 3 And you've just been around college basketball so long that you hit the strength really well. I love that.
Length and strength. The only time that you ever hear it pronounced that way.

Speaker 1 I also saw that, did you see Travis Ford, coach of St. Louis, complain about gym playing time? No.
don't know. It was very good petty college basketball shit.
So the A-10 tournament was playing in.

Speaker 1 It was half Richmond, half ECU. Yeah, so they played in two different gyms.
So St. Louis had to play St.
Bonnie's in the gym that St. Bonnie's had played in the night before.
Okay. St.

Speaker 1 Bonnie's was the one seed. Yeah.
So they probably should, like, they also were getting to wear white jerseys. And, like, you didn't.
But he kept on complaining that that's why they lost.

Speaker 3 They got more time.

Speaker 1 They had their seats under

Speaker 3 section better. Yeah.
I like that.

Speaker 1 There's something about a college basketball. I mean, I guess it's college football, too.
We always laugh about that, but college

Speaker 1 men's basketball and college football coaches scorned. They feel like the world has screwed them over.
And they get so, so upset and they sound so petty. And it's awesome to watch every time.

Speaker 3 I am enjoying the rivalry that's starting to bubble up between the Big 12 and the Big Ten going on rivalry. Well, you hear people be like, you know,

Speaker 3 the Big Ten's got, they're deeper. They've got a lot of, they've got a lot of boys there.
The Big 12, the teams at the top are better than the teams at the top of the Big Ten.

Speaker 3 Disagree. We'll see.
We'll find out soon enough.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because Gonzaga will probably win it all. Yeah.
Which I'm...

Speaker 1 They have to get in first. Shout out to the Pac-12.
They have to get in first.

Speaker 4 Technically, right now, as of this podcast, recording, there's only five teams who've punched their ticket.

Speaker 1 Yeah, true. Good point.
Five autobins.

Speaker 3 You know what? I'm setting the law down right now. If Gonzaga does not go to the Pac-12, actually, within the next five years,

Speaker 3 they're on a fraud countdown. Yep.
You're on a fraud countdown.

Speaker 1 Four teams, sorry.

Speaker 3 Starting right now. Would you say five years is an acceptable time limit for them? Yes.
Anything longer than that, and you're doing it for your Mickey Mouse game. You know what?

Speaker 1 I'm going to give them, so I'm going to actually say they can go to the Mountain West. Okay.
Because the Pac-12 is tough for them because of the football.

Speaker 1 They don't play football, I don't think, in Gonzaga? Not well.

Speaker 1 If they go to the Mountain West, I'll start to think a little bit more. You know, Utah State, San Diego State.

Speaker 3 Seems like

Speaker 1 a latter. Boise, Colorado State.
No, but at least. You and L V.
At least

Speaker 1 there are some good teams there. They have to play some of the big balls.

Speaker 3 I think Mark Phew is scared of Mick Cronin.

Speaker 3 Probably.

Speaker 1 I'm scared of McCronin. Probably.
And yeah, I mean, he's probably actually scared of Dana Altman. He should be, by the way, he's the new

Speaker 1 January, February, it should be Altman, right? Jake?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I guess so.

Speaker 1 He's Oregon every year. They do this.
Where it's like

Speaker 4 16 as a 12. Oh, sorry.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 4 it's fine. 12-5 game.
That's fine.

Speaker 1 I don't give a fuck. Wisconsin's.
You know what? Give me the stats. I don't want to hurt your feelings.
No, no, no. My feelings aren't hurt.
Give me the stat, though.

Speaker 4 So, Bo Borofsky, who's a Big Ten official.

Speaker 1 I don't complain about officials, by the way.

Speaker 4 I just listen to stats. Wisconsin is 16 and 11 this year.
2-8 with Bo Borofsky on the floor donning the stripes. 14-3 without him.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 3 Wow. The end of that game was just - it was painful to watch.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we're talking about the Iowa, Wisconsin game. It was horrible.
I mean, this is a problem.

Speaker 1 I don't want to be accused of stealing our friend Rossillo's take, even though it's a take that I think everyone with a brain should have. But he does say it more eloquently.

Speaker 1 But review in NBA and college basketball has ruined the watchability of basketball games because it just, the last five minutes take forever, and they look at every little piece of the game.

Speaker 1 And did it go off this guy? Did this guy, like they were reviewing, oh man, his shoulder kind of went into his chin. Is that a flagrant? It was unwatchable.

Speaker 3 They need to dial it back. They need to make very specific rules of what you can and can't review.
Like, I actually don't mind

Speaker 3 which person deflected this ball out of bounds. The only problem with them using it in this game was it was after they had done three reviews already.

Speaker 3 And so it's like, oh, God, here comes another one. But the stuff where it's like, what part of the body made contact with what part of the other guy's body, that's too much for me.

Speaker 1 Here's what I want. I want there to be a shot clock.

Speaker 1 I want there to be a shot clock on reviews because not only would it speed it up and it make it like, if you can't figure it out within 30 seconds, stop it, right?

Speaker 1 But we'd also get the beautiful moment, which happens sometimes in college games when if you can think back far enough when there were fans in the stands and they would and a good student section would fake someone out on the shot clock.

Speaker 1 If we could fake out a ref being like five, four, three, two, one, he's got 10 seconds left, would be the greatest moment ever. That'd be great.

Speaker 3 Or they could go, you know how they always use those TVs that are like the size of the R. Kelly TV or the Michael Scott plasma screen on the wall?

Speaker 3 If they could go to actually using screens that were like even half that size. And if you can't tell what happened on a seven-inch TV,

Speaker 3 you can get as close to it as you want. If you can't tell what happened on the seven-inch TV, call in the court stance.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Or it was impossible to watch the end of that game. It was.

Speaker 1 It was terrible. Or just have it be,

Speaker 1 You know what? It should be like 10 random fans in the front row, and they get a buzzer.

Speaker 3 And they get to decide. Okay.

Speaker 1 Majority rules. I like that.
I like that. It makes it even harder to win on the road.

Speaker 3 I also like it. I feel like Luca Garza is

Speaker 3 maybe he's eating his way out of Iowa. He's put on some pounds this year.

Speaker 4 They announced they're retiring his number immediately after the game.

Speaker 1 Here's the problem:

Speaker 1 Luca Garza. I do not like Luca Garza.

Speaker 1 But it's a moment where it's like a Spider-Man meme because my hatred for Luca Garza is pretty much everyone else's hatred for every white guy at Wisconsin.

Speaker 1 So I realize I have to simmer it down because I can't be vocal, be like, fuck that. He's not that good.
He's just fucking tall. And he's like, oh, yeah, he plays fundamental, whatever.
Fuck that.

Speaker 1 I'm just telling on myself. So I'm going to let it pass.
He's a great player.

Speaker 3 A big guy that looks like he orders extra mail and everything.

Speaker 3 Frustrating to play defense against.

Speaker 1 Well, he doesn't play defense.

Speaker 3 Also, no, frustrating to play defense against because he's very sweaty, and every time you try to guard him, you look like that scene in Long King Polly where your face just slides down his big wet arm.

Speaker 3 He's a monster.

Speaker 1 He's a huge, huge person.

Speaker 3 Also, Wisconsin should only be allowed to have a Davison or a Bohannon on the floor at any given time. Yeah.
They can't be allowed to have all these guys out there.

Speaker 1 What do you mean?

Speaker 3 I'm just saying, like,

Speaker 3 you should only be allowed. It's kind of like the Duke theory.
There should be one guy that you hate on the floor at any given time.

Speaker 1 No, I always got to Bohanan. Yeah, no, yeah.
But I'm saying, like, like, his brother went to Wisconsin. A player like that.
Yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 1 So, wait, I had one other college thing. Fuck.
Oh, Illinois was very impressive. That was very impressive.

Speaker 4 And Oklahoma State won without Cade Cunningham. I'm at West Virginia.

Speaker 1 So it's the Cade Cunningham theory. Yep.
Your best player's out, you actually play better.

Speaker 3 Bryce Harperthesis. Interesting.

Speaker 4 But he's also different than Jalen Johnson.

Speaker 1 He's the number one pick in the draft.

Speaker 3 I'm very woke about Cade Cunningham. Yeah.
He just, every game that I've watched of his, which admittedly is probably less than 10. I know one of them that you're referring to.

Speaker 3 But every game that I've watched with him, he does something where I'm like, well, that was laughably hilarious.

Speaker 1 Well, he did like four of them in the game we watched together against Texas.

Speaker 3 Against Texas.

Speaker 3 There was that one.

Speaker 1 I think that's totally. If you can't make a take on a player based off of one game that you've watched them, I don't want to live on it.

Speaker 3 So that's fair because I think that's when I established my baseline take. And then every other time I've watched him, I've been like, prove me wrong.
Right. And he hasn't proved me wrong yet.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 Is Oklahoma State allowed in, Jake? Have they decided that yet?

Speaker 4 As long as the NCAA doesn't make a ruling, the appeal will pend through.

Speaker 1 Through, that's smart. Okay.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Because that would be crazy if they wouldn't have.

Speaker 4 The NCAA could do it over the next five days, but that's crazy.

Speaker 1 And then maybe Gonzaga would steal their bid? Maybe. If they didn't win the WCC.

Speaker 4 No, same. BYU can be that bid stealer.

Speaker 3 All I'm saying is I can't believe people are opting to watch an interview of Prince Harry and Megan Markle when Oregon is finally at full strength.

Speaker 3 That's actually strength, excuse me, that's John Rostein. John Rostein tweeted that out.
Yeah, I love him on Twitter. He's the best.

Speaker 1 He's the best. All right, so speaking of

Speaker 1 basketball, we're watching the NBA All-Star game right now. They've ruined it with the Elam ending, which, Billy, thank you for explaining that to us.

Speaker 4 Why are you not giving the right person credit?

Speaker 3 Oh, Elam. Elam should be giving Elam credit.

Speaker 1 Jason Elam? Nope. No.

Speaker 1 You? Yeah. You did that.
You didn't explain it. Billy was like

Speaker 4 entering the fourth quarter.

Speaker 3 No, Billy was like, it's like playing pickup. You go first to 21 when you play pickup, except in this, the numbers different.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and

Speaker 1 perfect times. So the actual game, I still don't understand why they're doing an all-star game,

Speaker 1 but the dunk contest happened. Who won the dunk contest? I have no idea.

Speaker 4 Simon Simmons, the guy from Portland.

Speaker 3 Okay. Okay, the guy that jumped really high.

Speaker 1 That's a made-up. That guy.

Speaker 3 The guy that looked down at the rim as he jammed. We fixed the before we did the show.

Speaker 4 Fernie Simons.

Speaker 1 Oh, I thought his name. That's why I thought it was made up when he he said Simon Simmons.
I was like, that's not a real name.

Speaker 3 Simon Simmons.

Speaker 1 I was just doubling. I was hedging.

Speaker 4 Got it. Is it the correct pronounced?

Speaker 1 Got it.

Speaker 3 Simon Simmons. Simon Simmons sounds like a cat.

Speaker 1 I was like, that guy doesn't exist. Simon Simmons.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Anthony Simmons. Penny Simmons.

Speaker 4 Right, but it only has one M. That's why it may have looked like Simon.

Speaker 1 Got it. So we came up with a fix to the dunk contest because they've done all the dunks.
They need to just make the dunk contest. It should be themed every single year.

Speaker 1 So, like, one year it should be who can dunk from the farthest away. One year, what do we say?

Speaker 1 The highest rim. Highest rim.

Speaker 3 The heaviest ball.

Speaker 1 Heaviest ball. Who can dunk with the most clothes on? The worst shoes wearing.
So like someone's dunking in Timberlands.

Speaker 3 High heels or

Speaker 1 roller skates. Yeah.
Imagine if someone dunks in roller skates. Ice skates.
Ice.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Uh-huh.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Who can be wearing the pair of pants that fits the worst?

Speaker 1 Do that. Have it be a theme year.
Oh, in a suit.

Speaker 3 If they're all wearing suits, I would watch that. Yeah.
Yes.

Speaker 1 Naked. A dress.

Speaker 1 Can you do it naked?

Speaker 3 Because that's scary. I probably would not watch it.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 What? You fall on your penis?

Speaker 1 That would hurt. Way more injured.

Speaker 3 That would hurt. Imagine falling right on your dick.

Speaker 3 It just smush shops.

Speaker 1 If you don't think a little bit of clothes stops all kinds of injuries, you're crazy.

Speaker 3 I think they should do a rebounding contest.

Speaker 3 And listen to this. Well, I know they do the bunting contest in the Korean All-Star game for baseball.
They should do a rebounding contest where it's like Jokic, but he's got a blindfold on.

Speaker 3 And so there's somebody just shooting bricks. It's like, oh, it's Ben Simmons.
Have Ben Simmons be like the all-time shooter guy.

Speaker 3 And then Jokic is just in the paint with a blindfold on, hearing and feeling where the rebound is going to go.

Speaker 3 See how many people can get rebounds. Like, you get 20 rebounds to try.
See how many you can get out of 20. That'd be sick.
I like that. I'd watch that.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 1 yeah, Mike Greenberg's dumb rules.

Speaker 3 We just fixed it.

Speaker 1 But yeah,

Speaker 1 I really don't understand. Like, the all-star games, they just don't.
Baseball's really the only all-star game that really actually works because you can't not throw hard. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 It's one-on-one.

Speaker 1 It's just like no one's even playing. I guess it's if they just had Steph Curry just shooting from half court for three hours, that would be better.

Speaker 3 I like that. When he was doing the three-point contest, which he won easily, that contest should just be renamed the Are You Steph Curry contest.
Yeah, okay, you're Steph Curry. You win.

Speaker 3 Congratulations. What if it was East versus West again and the winning team got more salary cap room for the next year?

Speaker 3 Ooh, that would be cool then people play hard that would be very cool yeah because you can't do the like finals you home court advantage right that doesn't really work out that well but if it was they get one extra con like mid-level exception yeah there you go one extra guy

Speaker 5 yeah what if they made him play handball yeah sure

Speaker 1 yeah best athletes in the world handball players uh all right let's do who's back and then we got guy fieri very excited about this interview nothing happened in football this weekend right oh russell wilson just really wants wants to be traded.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that's still kind of like bubbling out there. Yeah.
Josh Gordon caught a touchdown pass in the fan control football.

Speaker 1 Oh, he did.

Speaker 3 Hale Mary, a walk-off Hale Mary, yeah. That's pretty cool.
Good for him.

Speaker 1 That's significant. Yeah, the Russell Wilson thing,

Speaker 1 it feels like he really wants to get traded, even though he hasn't fully said he wants to get traded. But for someone who hasn't said, trade me, he's done everything else.

Speaker 3 I saw somebody put the theory out there. I don't have the name in front of me.
It was a tweet that I saw a couple days ago.

Speaker 3 But the theory was, like, what if the Bears sent a shitload of picks to the Texans? Texans send Deshaun Watson to Seattle. Russell Wilson sends

Speaker 3 or Seattle sends Russell Wilson to Chicago. Done.
Three-way trade. Done.
I think everybody's happy. Whatever.
I don't care. Jack Easterby pretends that he's reloading.

Speaker 1 This is the best, like, three weeks of my life that Russell Wilson could potentially be a bear. Yeah.
It's really the best.

Speaker 1 All right, let's do who's back of the week. Give it up for Chicago.

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Speaker 1 i got a couple first one is our guy bryson DeChambeau.

Speaker 1 What did he do? Math?

Speaker 1 I know it's on a Bryson podcast.

Speaker 1 He did have an unbelievable drive. He drove it like 360 yards over.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but he didn't win. Over the lake.
No, he did win. Fuck.
But then what happened?

Speaker 3 So he must have gotten at least an eagle on that hole, right?

Speaker 1 I don't know, but

Speaker 1 I don't know. He just

Speaker 1 chipped into the rock and then chipped on the green and got Birdie like everybody else. It's tough to not smile and be like, wow, that was a cool shot.

Speaker 1 I had a perfectly

Speaker 1 time watching it and not smiling it this is we're gonna get

Speaker 1 we're gonna do a segment with Trevor about Trevor Bauer later but someone did point out to me that

Speaker 3 liking Trevor Bauer and hating Bryson DeChambeau is very contradictory so I'm trying to deal with that in my head I also saw that there was one instance where Bryson he uh he hit his approach shot past the green into the rough i don't think

Speaker 3 because because there was a sprinkler head

Speaker 3 near his foot he was like I get relief from the sprinkler head. And then he got to take his drop essentially on the green as opposed to in the rough because technically he understood that rule.

Speaker 3 Meanwhile, Lee Westwood has to hit the ball out of a divot that Bryson probably made himself three days earlier on the fairway.

Speaker 1 So it doesn't make sense. You know what? Forget it.
That was a stupid thought by me. We're Brooks Capita guys.
We're homosexuals. We're not going to do anything else.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Whose back is Tom Wilson being a scumbag? Oh, yes.

Speaker 3 You took mine, except it was the NHL's hatred of Tom Wilson.

Speaker 1 Oh, got it. There's never been, I can't remember what year it was that I argued with our colleague Nate, and his entire argument was Tom Wilson's never been suspended from a regular season game.

Speaker 1 And then since then, it's like, how many games has he been suspended from?

Speaker 3 Well, so I went back, I looked at the stats of Tom Wilson, and this is a new Tom Wilson that we're dealing with right now.

Speaker 3 In fact, under the NHL's own laws, they're not considering his past infractions because he's been squeaky clean the last like year and a half, two years. Got it.

Speaker 3 So it's been a couple years since he's been suspended.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 He hasn't been suspended for this type of play in since it's a good thing.

Speaker 1 It carries over, obviously.

Speaker 3 No, because it was so long ago. I don't even remember the last time this happened.

Speaker 1 So how many suspensions?

Speaker 3 Hank's just upset because he's not going to be able to get a significant thing.

Speaker 1 Well, no, I think if you're a scumbag and you get suspended for being a scumbag and then two years later, you do a scumbag move. The shoe fits.
It should carry over.

Speaker 3 Two years later, Hank, think back to yourself two years ago. You didn't even have a dog.
You were a completely different person. You lost the pot here.

Speaker 3 No, I'm just saying, like, people change over the course of time. But he hasn't.

Speaker 1 He's the same guy. If I still didn't have a dog, then your argument would be correct.
He's still.

Speaker 3 No, he's clumsy. He's just, he's very clumsy.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 He's, he's, it just keeps happening to him.

Speaker 3 But it hasn't happened for two years.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Whatever. I do.
The only thing I was going to say is that I do like how.

Speaker 1 I haven't murdered anyone in two years. Where the Bruins play the Capitals like every other day.
Yeah. It's kind of fun.

Speaker 3 It is. I do like that aspect of it.
It's like, because every time that there's a game,

Speaker 1 oh, the Capitals.

Speaker 3 There's some bad blood that develops over the course of those games. If anything, the NHL should be thanking Tom Wilson for making the game relevant right now because people are talking about it.

Speaker 3 I also learned that I just have no idea what an illegal hit in hockey is because

Speaker 3 people were playing the, they were showing the replay of it, and people were like, this guy's a huge scumbag.

Speaker 3 And I was like, I'm sure that there's something that's egregious about the hit, but it looks no different to me than hits that I see like 10 times a game.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, it's hockey, Twitter, debating hits is always fun. Because you can just really argue whatever way you want.
Exactly.

Speaker 1 And speaking of scumbag hits, Peter Jan, all-time bad beat, if you had bet Peter Jan this weekend, he like need

Speaker 1 his opponent with 30 seconds left in the fight that he easily won. He didn't need to do it.
He just need him in the head.

Speaker 3 He got DQ'd.

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 1 He said his corner. He said he looked over his corner and was like, should I hit him? And they said yes.
Even though the ref was like, he's down. He's on his knee.

Speaker 1 And so he just said he was listening listening to his corner, but he just like, fucked the guy.

Speaker 3 He did the more of a combat finish him. Literally.

Speaker 1 PFT, I'm looking at his timeline right now. The only time he hasn't been suspended was literally just last year.

Speaker 3 Last year, no suspensions.

Speaker 1 In a

Speaker 1 COVID-shortened

Speaker 3 year. But the year before that, it was at like the start of the year.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay, okay. So essentially, that's an extra year.

Speaker 1 I'm scrolling down. It's like 2018, 2016.

Speaker 3 But if you look at how the NHL judges suspensions, they're not taking into account those hits because, and this is probably my favorite part about Tom Wilson, is that the Capitals video staff has been cutting up clips of Tom Wilson not hitting people dirty and sending them to the league office for the last couple years, being like, look, he's learning.

Speaker 3 He's not doing what you would think that Tom Wilson would be doing. They've made a highlight clip of him laying off people's heads.
That's smart. And don't get me wrong.

Speaker 3 If Tom Wilson played on the Penguins, I would hate him.

Speaker 3 I would be probably leading the charge to get him kicked out of the NHL. But he doesn't.
And that's just a fact.

Speaker 1 God, I miss fucking fans in the stands so bad. Brent Seabrook retired officially on Friday, and I was at game seven, 2013, when they beat the Red Wings in the second round.
Overtime game seven goal.

Speaker 1 I watched the clipback, and I got chills, and I almost got teary-eyed being like, remember life with fans in the stand? Remember going to a sports game? Yeah, you know, it's incredible.

Speaker 1 You remember bar hopping?

Speaker 3 You remember, like, sometimes we used to do this, Billy, you've probably never done this. No, he actually hasn't.
You just turned 21.

Speaker 3 But what we used to do back in the day, you would go out with your friends to a bar, and then you'd be like, oh, my friends are at this other bar that's like a five-minute walk.

Speaker 3 Then you go to that bar later, and then you go to another bar, and then someone would say, Hey, you want to do karaoke?

Speaker 3 And then you'd be like, No, I just did karaoke last week, so you'd go to a different bar.

Speaker 3 And then you go to another bar, and then at 2:30 in the morning, you'd all go home and you'd be hammered, and it would be awesome.

Speaker 3 And then you'd wake up in the morning with pictures from all these different bars you were at with other people. It was honestly amazing.

Speaker 1 He's confused. He doesn't know what this is.
That's a lot of you move around like that.

Speaker 3 And then you'd have to go back to one of the bars because you left your credit card in one of them.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 And you didn't know which one it got.

Speaker 1 Were they all crowded?

Speaker 3 I'm honestly super excited to leave my debit card behind at a bar for the first time in a year and a half.

Speaker 1 All right. Do you have a Who's Back or that was it?

Speaker 3 Well, that was one of mine. So the other one's going to be Who's Back is the United States Emasculating British Royalty because Megan and Prince, what's his name, did an interview with Oprah Charles.

Speaker 3 Charles? No, Harry. No, no, Charles is, I think he's the one that's dying.
The one that always looks like he's a corpse.

Speaker 1 That's the one that I... It was almost a Laker Dan situation.
I bashed him in front of troops last week, and then he had emergency surgery on his heart.

Speaker 1 Well, that's just because of this interview.

Speaker 3 That guy's, no chance he's actually alive.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, he's

Speaker 1 the Al Davis level. Yeah, it's bad.
It's like when Al Davis sat last year, it was like, dude, I think you're actually dead. It's bad.

Speaker 3 So so basically, Oprah was doing an interview of just being like, spill the tea.

Speaker 3 It was just a tea party. But no,

Speaker 3 that's another time we've emasculated the British, by the way.

Speaker 3 And so they had Megan talk about all the behind-the-scenes dirt. It looked really bad for the British royalty.

Speaker 3 And it's just kind of a nice throwback to the last couple hundred years where it's so bizarre to me that they even still have a royal family. But

Speaker 3 if they had, I'm almost to the point where I think that America should just have a king and a queen, too, because instantly people will care more about our king and queen than the British king and queen.

Speaker 1 Well, we do.

Speaker 1 Ed Kardashian,

Speaker 3 Kanye West, Ed O'Geran, and Lola Bunny would be a great guy.

Speaker 1 Are they officially divorced? The old Lola Bunny. They're officially divorced.

Speaker 1 God damn it. Okay.
What were you going to say, Hank?

Speaker 1 About them?

Speaker 1 Just the monarchy in general just is a very confusing concept. There's a

Speaker 1 lot of people. Wait, what is it? It's Prince Harry.
No. Yes.
Yeah, Harry and May. Prince Harry.
Harry.

Speaker 3 And then Williams.

Speaker 1 Prince Harry could have.

Speaker 1 It could have been a five-minute interview. Been like, listen, it sucked being a ginger in the royal family.
Like, people didn't respect me.

Speaker 1 End of story.

Speaker 3 And if your name's Harry and you're going bald, you've got to get plugs.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Well, no, he's not going bald.
He's very. His brother.

Speaker 1 His brother's very bald. This Harry's going bald.
In the back?

Speaker 1 Oh, they had a nice angle.

Speaker 3 Especially in the back. They had a nice angle.

Speaker 3 He did the Carlos Boozer spray to the front of it before this one.

Speaker 1 All right. My Who's Back is just Joe Lenardi in bracketology and blind resumes.
I fucking love it. I've been eating it up.
I'm looking at brackets every day, up and down. He still is in his bunker.

Speaker 1 He actually was like, nothing has changed for him.

Speaker 1 He was already doing COVID protocols for the last 20 years.

Speaker 3 Him and Adam Morrison were the two most prepared people going into 2020.

Speaker 1 It's incredible. So he's just sitting in his basement getting ready on his grainy.
Like half the time it doesn't even come in clear, but he's just in there. That's the target all down, though.

Speaker 3 Like it would look weird if he was was in HD and he had all these touchscreens behind him and he turned into Steve Cornaki all of a sudden. I like the old school throwback 8-bit Joe Lennarty.

Speaker 3 There's something comforting about that.

Speaker 1 I have a theory, though. I think Joe Lennarty is secretly miserable because

Speaker 1 in 2021, it's the Mel Kuyper theory, right? Mel Kuyper was the king forever because he was the only one who was doing it. Now there's a shitload of people who do draft stuff.

Speaker 1 Todd McShay's, I'll say it, way better than Mel at the job, right?

Speaker 1 I think Joe Lenardi is just constantly looking over his shoulder. Like, there's going to be a kid someday that comes and just nails it every single year.

Speaker 1 And if I slip up, if I get BYU on the nine seat and they end up being a ten, it's curtains for me, Joe Lennarty.

Speaker 4 Jeff D. Lowe and I were thinking about doing bracketology on the website next year.

Speaker 1 Exactly. See?

Speaker 1 And if you get it perfect, it will be a story. I mean, no, but I'm serious.
Sure, yeah.

Speaker 1 So there's all, I think it has to be secretly miserable to be Joe Lenardi because he's got one thing, he's been doing it forever, and if some kid who's got like a stronger calculator comes along and figures it out, he's going to be screwed.

Speaker 3 So is it a conflict of interest for him to be an employee of a college that he's evaluating, but also the head of this like evaluation department?

Speaker 4 That's also Jeff's. That's one of Jeff's biggest issues is when St.
Joseph's is on the bubble.

Speaker 3 Yeah, he always, but he always puts him in.

Speaker 1 Exactly.

Speaker 3 It's like A-Rod, no offense. It's like A-Rod commentating on ESPN on baseball.

Speaker 1 On what?

Speaker 3 I'm just saying, it's a conflict of interest because he's.

Speaker 1 In baseball in general?

Speaker 3 No, because A-Rod has business relationships with the Mets, right? No. What team is he?

Speaker 4 I think you're probably using it for Jessica Mendoza.

Speaker 3 Jessica, yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's what he's saying.
But A-Rod would have stayed at ESPN.

Speaker 1 I don't know. If he had bought the Mets, I don't think so.
Do you think so? No. If he had actually bought the Mets? Probably not.
Not that I care.

Speaker 1 I mean, it would have been funny if he tried to and commentated his own games. But, all right, so you're going to do it, Jake.

Speaker 4 Bracketology next season?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Sure.
Okay.

Speaker 4 Also, Jessica Mendoza left the Mets job, so scratched.

Speaker 1 Okay. But she left ESPN.

Speaker 4 Jessica Mendoza will leave Mets jobs. She'll shift her focus to a broadcasting role.

Speaker 1 Okay, so that was a conflict of interest. Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right. Billy, you got a whoosh back?

Speaker 3 I have two hooshbacks real quick. College baseball's back.
Absolute electricity.

Speaker 5 You know, BC scored nine runs in the bottom of the ninth to come back and win. It was insane.

Speaker 5 You know, like the two-lane pitcher, you know just all the posturing like virginia tech has a home run hammer it's it's pretty electric shout out jared carabas who's been covering it like it's so electric the home run hammer go off about that what is the home run hammer he you if you hit a home run you get to take a sledgehammer and slam it while your whole team's around you hyping you up that is pretty that is so hype electric that is i got to hold the sledgehammer at senior night it's pretty cool

Speaker 3 that's so hype anyway um also i also like the sound that the ball makes off the bat in college they yeah i would like like to see a baseball game, like a major league baseball game, where they just overdub the ping instead of the sound of the wood on the ball.

Speaker 3 It's so much better.

Speaker 5 And anyway, good old-fashioned ass whooping is my other who's back. Tim Elliott, during the UFC card,

Speaker 5 was beating up his opponent and he was over him. And he was like, he brought up,

Speaker 5 he was like, I heard you beat up a woman in 2008. Well,

Speaker 5 what you going to do now? Like, you're going to do the same thing. It was just pretty hype.

Speaker 1 That is just like,

Speaker 1 yeah.

Speaker 3 So old-fashioned ass whooping is back. Yes.

Speaker 1 And sledgehammers. Yep.
Yep. And ping.
Ping. Yeah.
Okay. Jake, you got anything?

Speaker 4 The chills. Every time March Madness theme song plays on CBS, I just get the chills.

Speaker 3 It is nice. Yeah.

Speaker 4 It's the best time of year.

Speaker 1 It is. I think that it officially starts, too, when we get Arch Madness.
When Arch Madness is played, it always feels like, okay.

Speaker 4 When CBS starts shifting from NFL to college basketball, that's when you know, too. Yeah.
Mid-February.

Speaker 1 And then we still have Gene Sterator telling us the rules on a Sunday afternoon. He's a big 10 official.
Yeah, no, he is.

Speaker 3 I love that part about it. And also, when you first hear the CBS music, you know that the Masters music's coming next.
Uh-huh. You know that that's about to happen.
You're about to hear

Speaker 3 Jim Nance.

Speaker 1 Hello, friends. It really is.

Speaker 1 Again, I think we've talked about this, but

Speaker 1 having March Madness back this year, I'll never get over last year. Never.
I mean, I will be on my dying bed. You already know.

Speaker 4 I was entrenched in a program that could have been a Cinderella team. It just got snatched away from us.

Speaker 1 I did, by the way, have my first winning day in probably forever today. So watch out.

Speaker 4 I'm getting caught at the right time. Positive odds.

Speaker 1 At the right time. Yep.

Speaker 3 Watch out.

Speaker 1 Let's go. The war yesterday.
I went 11 and 12.

Speaker 1 23 games. That's an insane.
I had an opinion on.

Speaker 1 It's just a battle.

Speaker 3 I mean, never out. Some of those you don't really have an opinion.

Speaker 1 Oh, I had an opinion on every single one of them. I'm looking at the matchup.
I had an opinion.

Speaker 3 I feel like this number is a big number.

Speaker 1 I do the same thing every Saturday morning.

Speaker 1 At like 11 o'clock, I just stare at the whole thing and I go down. I'm like, like that, like that, like that, like that.
And then I'll go back and I'll make sure I didn't miss any injury stuff.

Speaker 1 Sometimes I still do. And if I end up with 23 plays, I end up with 23 plays.

Speaker 3 So, how many games are on day one of the NCAA? 16 games?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Well, there's four on Thursday.

Speaker 3 It's not that ridiculous because I definitely have opinions on 16 games.

Speaker 1 No, I bet every single game. I bet every single game, of course.
Every single game. If you have a gambling problem, call Winning Hard Gambler.
All right. let's get

Speaker 1 in the Bed Bath and Beyond brawl and good old-fashioned ass kickings. What is that? That was just a fight in Bed Bath and Beyond.
Hell yeah. Yeah,

Speaker 3 when they try not to accept that 20% coupon that you have, that's like seven years old.

Speaker 1 I love it.

Speaker 3 How else are you going to settle that?

Speaker 5 Bed Bath and Beyond, not a fighting store.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 It is.

Speaker 3 Billy, you've never been there when they have like that

Speaker 3 the KitchenAid mixer

Speaker 3 and there's just one of them left, people get real pissed off about that. I also get really mad.

Speaker 1 I think it's kind of like Ikea where IKEA and like Bed Bath and Beyond are miserable couple stores. So like there's already tension.
You go in with tension.

Speaker 1 So if anyone steps to you, it's on right away.

Speaker 1 Like you're not happy to be in Bed Bath and Beyond on a Saturday.

Speaker 5 Top three fighting stores.

Speaker 1 Well, Walmart's number one.

Speaker 3 Walmart, yeah, Walmart's definitely up there. Publix? I would say a Crystal Burger post 1 a.m.

Speaker 3 So it has to be department store.

Speaker 1 Okay, Waffle House.

Speaker 1 Walmart, not a department store.

Speaker 3 Yeah, but Waffle House.

Speaker 1 Walmart?

Speaker 3 A Lowe's.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Home Depot.
No, Home Depot runs a tight ship.

Speaker 3 You can't fight in Home Depot because it's all Olympic athletes that work there.

Speaker 1 And then I think they'll kick your ass. You could just throw like Sam's Club, Costco, into one.
Home Depot, there's a lot of camaraderie. yeah.
It's like helping each other, right?

Speaker 3 You've got a guy that's next to you telling you about the tools that you're looking at, making suggestions.

Speaker 1 There's like a gold medalist that's showing you where the fucking you know, wood nails are. It's crazy

Speaker 5 everyone wants to help each other for sure.

Speaker 3 Actually, I would say like a party depot or a party city. Yeah.
Probably has a lot of fights.

Speaker 1 Maybe, maybe an old school. Now, this is dating us, Billy.
Don't make fun of us, but like a Toys R Us. Yeah.
Could get a little

Speaker 3 bit of a hobby lobby, maybe right after church.

Speaker 1 Tractor supply yeah uh-huh yeah uh UFC gloves store uh a fight shop yeah

Speaker 3 I mean the answer is easy GNC yeah yeah

Speaker 1 although that's kind of like Home Depot got brochures helping each other out yeah but then the guy tells you something he's like no I already read that thread on bodybuilding.com forum bodybuilding dude I remember I went into a GNC when I was like I don't know probably 19 years old trying to get trying to get gains and I walked in I was like I'm looking for something that like I can put on muscle and like cut fat.

Speaker 1 And the guy goes to me dead serious. He's like, all right, yeah, I'm going to get you these things.

Speaker 1 They're round and they usually are black and they're in different sizes, and you have to lift them repeatedly. And I was like, yeah, yeah.
And he's like, I'm talking about weights, dude.

Speaker 1 You got to fucking lift weights. I'm like, God damn it.

Speaker 1 This is so sad.

Speaker 1 All right, cool. You fucking own me, man.
And then I ended up buying a bunch of creatine. All right, let's do Guy Fieri.

Speaker 3 Wait, how'd you pronounce that?

Speaker 1 Creatine? No.

Speaker 3 Fieri.

Speaker 1 Fieri. Fieri.
Creatine, creatine.

Speaker 1 There's people in this office who are. It's great

Speaker 1 getting to this point of our career where we have 19-year-olds in the office and they're discovering

Speaker 1 creatine. Like, yeah, dude, you're just going to feel bloated.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you're going to shit through a keyhole. You're going to be able to poop through a screen door.

Speaker 1 And Billy's just prescribing it left and right.

Speaker 5 I'm going to get Lil Sasquatch jacked by the end of.

Speaker 1 Okay. Do it.
Do it. You are hilarious.
All right. Guy Fieri coming up in a second.

Speaker 8 Man, I'll tell you what.

Speaker 9 When you're hungry out there, you start acting like a rookie quarterback in his first game, making bad decisions, messing up the basics, being all out of sorts.

Speaker 8 That's where Snickers comes in, man. That thing is packed.
Roasted peanuts, nugget, caramel, milk chocolate. It's like the MVP of candy bars.

Speaker 8 And when you bite into it, boom, it sorts you out, gets your head back in the game of life, satisfying your hunger. Remember this: Snickers handles your hunger so you can handle everything else.

Speaker 9 Snickers satisfies, man.

Speaker 8 That's a winning play.

Speaker 1 Here he is, Guy Fieri.

Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very special guest. Long overdue.
We've wanted him on the show for a very long time. It is the one and only mayor of Flavortown, Guy Fieri.
He's here.

Speaker 1 Tournament of Champions is debuting on Sunday night, March

Speaker 1 7th.

Speaker 1 Or sorry,

Speaker 1 March 7th. I got my dates right.

Speaker 1 Check it out on Food Network. You can also watch it on Hulu.
Guy, we are so excited for this interview. And I actually, we just said it before we started.
My first question is,

Speaker 1 I got into the office at around 8.45.

Speaker 1 Walking behind me was someone with huge bags of food from your restaurant. Now, was this specially for us or do you give food to every podcast you go on?

Speaker 7 Well, considering that you're the only podcast that I'm on today, it's only for you.

Speaker 1 Perfect. Perfect.
It was something special to see at nine in the morning.

Speaker 7 Just so you know, I sent you like four kitchens worth of food. Yeah.
So I know that there's got to be a bunch of folks around there that are hungry. And

Speaker 7 having and being in this food industry my whole life, I know that there's nothing worse than talking about food and not getting to taste the food.

Speaker 7 So I wanted to make sure that you were all taken care of and more to come.

Speaker 7 Now, this is a great, this Flavor Town kitchen has been unbelievable. You know, our industry has been hit so hard.
And I know you all highlight food on a regular basis and

Speaker 7 love Dave and his work of his pizza reviews.

Speaker 7 I got to tell you,

Speaker 7 the industry got hit so hard, the industry's had to pivot and change.

Speaker 7 And I think that the guests and the consumers are out, you know, the people are out there eating are are realizing that delivery and to go are such a great new medium.

Speaker 7 You can't, you know, there's not enough seats. A lot of restaurants aren't even open for in-house dining, especially on the East Coast.

Speaker 7 And it's just not, they're just not going to make enough money on doing it on 25%

Speaker 7 occupancy. So everybody has really switched gears into delivery.
So having a bunch of restaurants around the country already.

Speaker 7 and wanting to expand that, we said, listen, let's find some restaurant partners that have big kitchens and have staff that they want to keep employed and keep working.

Speaker 7 And let's set up some guy fiety, you know, American kitchen and bar, some flavor town and make it available across country. So we're at 150 locations, 25, 30 cities now, and expanding.
So I'm glad.

Speaker 7 And I hope you guys enjoyed it.

Speaker 7 Some of my greatest hits.

Speaker 1 I loved it.

Speaker 3 And that's a genius idea.

Speaker 3 Like taking places that already have the infrastructure that need people, have people that might not have enough work at the time and then giving them an opportunity to continue working as a restaurant in shutdown.

Speaker 3 That's very cool. I had, I think this is the first time I've ever had like half a bacon cheeseburger and a Cubano sandwich for breakfast.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I had a wing at 9 a.m.

Speaker 3 before 10 a.m.

Speaker 3 And it was hot. And I was like,

Speaker 1 how did this happen?

Speaker 7 As you said, we need to hang out more often. We need to hang out more often.

Speaker 7 I need to get you in a championship diet here. This is how we do it.
I mean, we roll out early with the bacon, mac, and cheese, the Cuban sandwich, some big poppers, and a few wings, no queso dip.

Speaker 7 This is, we should, it's probably going to be dangerous if we hang out, though. I don't know.

Speaker 3 Almost too much flavor, I think, in one room. Uh, do you ever get talk of or sick of talking about food?

Speaker 7 You know, I could throw it right back to you guys and say, Do you ever get sick of talking about sports or ever get sick of talking about, you know, crazy things?

Speaker 7 Or, you know, no, I mean, it's, it's what's in my blood. It's what I've always done.
It's what I love and anything, all things, and everything that have to do with food.

Speaker 7 I mean, I, I read menus like novels.

Speaker 7 You know, I sit there, and I went to, we were just at a Cuban restaurant in Florida the other day and I'm sitting there and I, you know, made my decision about what I was going to have.

Speaker 7 And my wife says, well, what do you, what do you, what do you, what are you doing? And I said, well, it's reading the rest of the menu. She goes, what, what, what are you reading?

Speaker 7 And I'm like, well, I just want to see what, you know, what they're talking about here with these things, these descriptions. And why did they put that menu item there and not here?

Speaker 7 You know, no, this is what I.

Speaker 7 You know,

Speaker 7 it's what I do.

Speaker 7 It's what I enjoy. I read cookbooks for fun.
So it's now never get never get sick of it. And the great thing is, it's kind of just like the world of sports as well.
It's never the same thing tomorrow.

Speaker 7 You know, it's it's just evolving forever. You'll never be, you'll never know it all about it as well.
That's my other favorite thing. It's it's

Speaker 7 it's it's new every day.

Speaker 3 You really have to have a passion for it considering I'm sure that everybody that talks to you, they just want to talk about food. That's like the first thing that they bring up.

Speaker 3 So you have to actually be in love with it to be able to continue like this this has been your life for the last what like 35 40 years you really have to be like zeroed in on it and really enjoy it to continue to do what you're doing well it's kind of like when someone comes up and talks to you about something it's nice to talk to people that know something about it it's when they come in and they go oh i hate that kind of food and i'll go why

Speaker 7 well because i hate vegetables

Speaker 7 All right, I don't know that we're going to talk much. You know,

Speaker 7 you're not coming off on a foundation of reality. You know, that makes it a little difficult to engage.

Speaker 7 But, you know, the world has changed about food, or at least our world has in the United States, has changed about food dramatically, especially.

Speaker 7 And unfortunately, we've had the pandemic, but you got to find the silver lining out of things. And people really learned more about food, I think, in this last year.
They've learned to cook better.

Speaker 7 I know that for a fact.

Speaker 7 They've learned to accept different styles of food because they've had to and different cultures of food.

Speaker 7 And I think when you open up your mind, when you open up your palate to food, I think you open up your mind.

Speaker 7 I think you open up and say, oh, let me understand about this type of Eastern European food or this Indian food or this, you know, this culture of food or wow, this preparation style.

Speaker 7 You know, why is this done?

Speaker 7 I just think that it's, it's, food represents a lot more than just the consumption of calories or consumption of proteins. It's

Speaker 7 a consumption of the

Speaker 7 experience.

Speaker 7 It's like eating, like eating a bacon, mac, and cheeseburger in a studio at eight o'clock in New York.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 So the one thing that I love about you guy is that you are you. And I mean that in the way that you are authentic to yourself and you make food fun.

Speaker 1 And you were talking about, you know, correlating to us talking about sports. When we started this podcast, we kind of always said, well, let's have fun with it.
You know, it shouldn't be serious.

Speaker 1 When you started Triple D, did you have that as a conscious decision? Like, hey, I'm going to be something for the people, for the common people.

Speaker 1 Or was it, I'm just following what I love and eventually it's going to work out?

Speaker 7 I, guys, I wish I could remember that far back when I started Triple D. I, you know, as you guys get older, you'll start to realize you start to lose some of that connection.

Speaker 7 It evolved.

Speaker 7 First, what it started as is, and I honestly, like the first year or two years that we did it, I'm like, wow, this will go on a couple of years, you know, and then we'll be done.

Speaker 7 And then all of a sudden I realized, oh my God.

Speaker 7 This country is so huge. This world of food is so much bigger than I even imagined.
And this will happen forever.

Speaker 7 I mean, I'll be doing this thing thing in a walker, trying to get my son Hunter to figure it out now, you know, put on some weight kid and you start, you know, drive, you know how to drive a stick shift.

Speaker 7 You're going to have to take over in a few years.

Speaker 7 It's what it has become, what it always was for me is here's a great chance to show all these small little restaurant owners, these mom and pops. And I'm a, I was a mom and pop restaurant at the time.

Speaker 7 Hey, here's a great way to give them a ton of attention, send a bunch of people to them, and maybe this can help. Well, I didn't have any idea what the impact would be.
I mean, I zero.

Speaker 7 I mean, if I thought it was going to be this big, it was 10 miles long. And so, that's been an amazing side of it.
And now, what it is is to continue that, but also to not have any boundaries.

Speaker 7 You know, it's kind of like me being on your show today. I mean, how awesome to talk about food on, you know, on this great sports podcast where, but you guys talk about everything.

Speaker 7 I mean, you guys have become

Speaker 7 worldly in that respect. So, I think that it's in that same idea.
Have fun, be genuine, respect the, you know, respect the program,

Speaker 7 treat people great,

Speaker 7 and

Speaker 7 don't establish it, and don't take yourself too seriously, and don't get too rigid and be flexible on what can happen.

Speaker 7 I think those have been some of the, that's been the recipe for us.

Speaker 3 You've definitely brought like a relentless positive energy to food television, which is something that it was missing, I think. You know, sometimes it gets like a little stuffy.

Speaker 3 It gets a little full of itself, especially in like the food criticism realm. And so I think people naturally gravitated towards that.

Speaker 3 And my favorite part of any Triple D episode is right after you take the bite, figuring out which level Guy Fieri is going to react to. Excuse me, Guy Fieri.
Because there are three levels, right?

Speaker 3 In my opinion. The first.

Speaker 7 I love these theories. This to me is like.

Speaker 3 The first,

Speaker 3 when you think something's good, not great, you take the bite and you look at the person, you nod, and you're like, that's out of bounds, man.

Speaker 3 As you're chewing, right?

Speaker 3 Theory number, the second one is you take a bite and then you just put your hands on the table like you're uh like you're LeBron coming out of the game and needing a quick breath.

Speaker 3 Like you just start breathing as you're thinking about it and you just kind of get lost in your brain, right?

Speaker 3 And then the ultimate Guy Fieri compliment is when you take a bite and then you tell the camera, like, I'm going to need a minute to process this.

Speaker 3 And then you go in for bite two as the camera is like panning out from you. Would you say it actually? That's a fair assessment of like the three levels of how much you like something.

Speaker 7 Well, I think you've got, I think that your guy impersonations are spot on. And matter of fact, if you could cover a couple shows next Thursday for me, it would really help open my schedule up.

Speaker 7 There are differences of

Speaker 7 exclamation and exuberance exuberance and contemplation.

Speaker 7 First and foremost, if I don't like it, you don't see it.

Speaker 1 Oh, I think, okay, so here's my theory. I think if you don't,

Speaker 1 you aren't harsh on people, which I actually love because it's supposed to be fun. But I think your tell is when you say something's the real deal, you're just literally saying it's real.
And

Speaker 1 that's the baseline of niceness. So it's probably not great, but it's real.
It's actually fit. It's tangible.
You are touching it. It's the real deal.
That's, that's the,

Speaker 1 okay, I don't really like this, but I'm going to say something nice to you.

Speaker 7 I've never been psychoanalyzed on triple.

Speaker 7 I've never had it broken down like

Speaker 7 this is actually really going.

Speaker 7 Hey, guys, I'm going to, I'll tell you what, I'm going to do is I'm going to start paying better attention to this because I don't know what the hell you're talking about. It's asked all the time.

Speaker 7 First thing I just tell people is one, I won't bullshit you.

Speaker 3 If I don't like it, I don't, I don't like it.

Speaker 7 There's a difference of cuss on this podcast, guy.

Speaker 1 Okay, actually,

Speaker 1 yeah, you can just not bitch.

Speaker 7 Um, I'll tell you, I'll tell you what it is, though.

Speaker 7 Different things affect you at different times. Like, sometimes you'll really get in.
I've been watching uh,

Speaker 7 someone turn that pot down for me,

Speaker 7 uh, I've been watching um 30 on 30, the ESPN. I've just been watching all of those.
I just, I, I, I just watched the Ollie, Larry Holmes, uh, fight, the final fight in the 80s.

Speaker 7 I mean, gosh, I remember that fight. I remember the whole thing, but I just now get to a different age where like I'm really interested in all the complexities of what was going on.

Speaker 7 So I think that there's different times that different foods strike you different ways.

Speaker 7 Also, there's something on top of it about where you are, where you are recently, where you're in headspace, on and on and on.

Speaker 7 So I can't say that there is a definitive explanation to say this is the thing that I specifically do when I have that feeling.

Speaker 7 Whatever is coming out

Speaker 7 at the time that I say it is what is really going on. And sometimes when I have to do this,

Speaker 7 I'm trying to figure out what the hell I'm going to say.

Speaker 1 What word are you going to make up? So, do you have a question?

Speaker 7 No, no, no, there's no, it's not, it's, it listen, it's the weirdest thing. I don't have any of these words.
I don't say crunchification because I'm trying to be funny. Okay, I don't make this shit.

Speaker 3 I mean, I

Speaker 7 saying whatever.

Speaker 7 If they've got to have great editors, because there are more, there's more Smack talk going on than you could ever imagine.

Speaker 7 That if the blooper videos, I don't know if you've ever seen the bloopers that happen at the end of the show.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 7 That stuff's for real. And there's, and that's, that's picking.
They'll send me 30 of them and say, okay, which one do you want at the end of the show? Because it's.

Speaker 7 somebody falling over, something getting knocked over, somebody cussing, you know, a dog barking, whatever, the lights go out, whatever. So there's always crazy stuff that happens.

Speaker 7 But no, to get to your whole thing,

Speaker 7 it's not.

Speaker 7 There is one thing that does happen

Speaker 7 sometimes, and they don't show it as often because it takes a lot of time, but sometimes I'll walk off set.

Speaker 7 I'll take a bite of something and I'll take off on a walk.

Speaker 3 I just need some time to be alone, yeah.

Speaker 7 Because I have to get myself away from the food because i'll shove more in my mouth oh okay

Speaker 7 but they don't always show you and it's a different edit it's a weird animal you know because it can chop off the the tail end of the you know which might be the the final bite line but you don't have that much time yeah you know because show is only 22 minutes long with commercials so um but a great question the pro football football show is presented by the chevy silverado built for the hustle ready for the game chevy silverado is america's most dependable full-size truck whether you're grinding through the week or gearing up for kickoff, the Silverado is one ride that's always game ready.

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Speaker 3 And now, here's more Guy Fieti.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 1 while we're on the sayings, what comes first? You actually try something on a flip-flop or you get served something in a trash can lid? Because I think you have to do one of the two.

Speaker 1 Whenever you say something could be good on a flip-flop, it's so good you could eat it on a flip-flop. And then when it's so much food, serve it in a trash can.

Speaker 1 I think eventually, if you do this show for as long as you want to do this show, you have to do one or the other. The people need it.

Speaker 7 I think that it's probably, and I was just in Florida shooting Triple D and I wore flip-flops the entire time.

Speaker 7 And I'll tell you,

Speaker 7 are you guys flip-flop guys?

Speaker 1 Not really. In the summer.

Speaker 7 Have you ever tried Oofs?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 7 OOFOS? The bomb flip. I'm going to send you some.
The bomb flip.

Speaker 7 But I wear those because they got great arch support.

Speaker 7 And

Speaker 7 they,

Speaker 7 and so I'm there. And the joke is every time someone sees me in flip-flops, they'll say to me,

Speaker 7 You know, would you eat that on the flip-flop? And I don't know where that came from, guys.

Speaker 7 If I was saying that the food, I was saying that the food was so great that even on my flip-flop, which I've been wearing, it would still be great.

Speaker 7 That was the whole reason for that stupid line, you know, that crazy line, is because it was like, this would even be good on a flip-flop.

Speaker 7 And you don't know what you're going to say. Like Flavor Town.
Flavor Town never started as Flavor Town was a one time I said it.

Speaker 7 And I said, this looks like it was, I think it was a pizza. I said, it looks like the manhole cover in Flavor Town.

Speaker 7 Heartless. Yeah.
I'm walking through the airport. I got my film crew with me.
We're going to shoot Triple D somewhere. And someone goes,

Speaker 7 the manhole got Flavor Town. And I'm like, yeah, Flavor Town.

Speaker 7 Then other people said Flavor Town. And I said to Chico, who's my number one camera guy, my TP, I said, what's the flavor? And he goes, remember, you said the thing about the pizza the flavor town?

Speaker 7 So then we brought it up again. I said something and some guy had a plate and I said, it looks like a bus, the steering wheel of the bus in Flavor Town.

Speaker 1 Oh, geez.

Speaker 7 That was it, man. It blew up from that.

Speaker 1 Tubs in Flavor Town.

Speaker 7 That's where it was born. I'm not kidding you.
And it now has taken on to, well, now we have, you know, Flavor Town kitchen. So it's a whole, it's a whole nother world.

Speaker 3 I mean, it's something that's just so much fun to say. Right.
Like if you eat, if you take a bite of something that's really spicy and you're like, that is Flavor Town, baby.

Speaker 3 Like you feel, you feel better after you see it.

Speaker 1 Or yeah, when you see a big pot of something and you're like, that's a hot tub in Flavor Town. That's my favorite.
When do you do that?

Speaker 7 But see, that, and I'm glad you guys get it because you have your own vernacular and your own words and sayings and your double entendres that you guys play.

Speaker 7 And I'll tell you, it is a way to explain that a big, hot

Speaker 7 Dutch oven of, you know, castolet, and you go, like, you know,

Speaker 7 right there, that's the volcano of Flavor Town.

Speaker 7 Your mind can go,

Speaker 7 oh,

Speaker 7 crazy, big, over the top, must be delicious, you know, something Guy Fieti would eat. Oh, that's a triple deep.
You know, that has its own little place.

Speaker 7 So it's become its own little descriptive style and attitude, but it's, it's fun. And I listen, that you guys hit the nail on the head.
I love, I'm positive.

Speaker 7 i believe in the the better opportunities that we have than the worse and i think that you know like this pandemic we've been facing we found the chance to rally as a country and support one another and and and find the better of you know and there's so many people have done that have lost so much and have been through such terrible times that i'm just happy that someone can hear Flavor Town or order Flavor Town or we can have this podcast and can make somebody smile or make somebody not think about the terrible shit that's going on and you know, keep it on the upswing because that's what we got to do for sure.

Speaker 7 You got to find you got to find the silver lining.

Speaker 3 Yeah, definitely. I actually have, I've got two suggestions for you.
You can take them or you can leave them.

Speaker 3 Um, but the first would be: I know you do run into that experience time and again where you don't exactly know what to say to somebody about their food if you don't like it.

Speaker 3 I know you say you don't put it on the air, but what I say, if I'm eating food in front of somebody that made it for me, I don't want to offend them.

Speaker 3 I say, there's a lot going on in here, a lot of flavors going on in here. And it's not a lie.
It can be totally true.

Speaker 3 And you can hate the flavors, but if you say, like, man, there's a lot going on in here, it's not really an insult, but it's not also lying to their face, you know?

Speaker 7 And you've got a great vocabulary and a great style about it. And you're very, you know, that's the right way to treat people.

Speaker 7 Everybody, they made it and gave it to you because they intended it to make you happy.

Speaker 7 You know, they didn't go like, hey, let me see how bad I can screw this up and see if this guy will choke it down.

Speaker 7 So that is a great way to say it.

Speaker 7 And there's been several times, more than several, there's been hundreds of times when i've had a chef make me something and it hasn't worked and i've just looked right at them and said

Speaker 7 chef this doesn't work now i'm a chef so i have that right to say that and i do it with the utmost respect if i think they can handle it if they don't if they if i don't think they're ready to handle it then i've got nothing to prove to do this it's not i'm not going into shame people i'm not a food critic i'm not in that realm that's not my style that's not my energy i don't you know um

Speaker 7 but if i do think that i could explain to them maybe something where they took a misstep or something might have happened, then I'll do that.

Speaker 7 But there's no reason shaming people and making people feel bad, especially about food. That's like having some guy play music on stage and go, you're playing in the wrong key.
Yeah. You know,

Speaker 7 who would do? You know, nobody does that.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 The second suggestion that I had, because I've started to deal with heartburn over the last, I don't know, six, seven years of my life.

Speaker 3 And I really suck at getting it under control because I love eating all the foods that give me heartburn.

Speaker 3 Why not like combine them and do almost like if you're making chicken wings, do a tums dry rub on the outside or like sprinkle it on like seasoning.

Speaker 3 So you combine the tums with the hot food that you're about to eat. Have you ever tried something like that?

Speaker 7 You got a lot going on here.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I do.

Speaker 7 You got a lot of big flavors.

Speaker 3 A lot of big flavors, but give it a thought, guy. I feel like it's solving a problem before it starts.

Speaker 7 I shot a place one time on Triple D and they had these ice cream machines and they made all this crazy styles of ice cream.

Speaker 7 And I told the guy the the same thing is like man i get heartburn all the time especially after all the you know indulgent food i eat i said let's make some pep let's make some pepto-abismo ice cream so we made it we went and got pepto-abismal and it actually

Speaker 7 wasn't bad for anybody that has heartburn if you could think what would be more soothing than something coating your stomach making you that's super ice cold yeah didn't sell though it didn't sell at all a lot of big flavors going on and there was a lot a lot of effort a lot of good effort not exactly not winning the game with this one.

Speaker 7 I don't know how that would actually at all be possible to put any type of any antacid on a and I did some great role-age commercials and I'm a big,

Speaker 7 I love spicy food. I love

Speaker 7 all

Speaker 7 levels of food and I love wine and I love all the things that participate in heartburn. And all I will tell you is typically it has to do with diet.
And that's about as as all I can tell you. Yeah.
Is

Speaker 7 what you eat and when you eat it.

Speaker 1 So think about that one. I have to ask this question.
You are a die-hard sports fan, Raiders, Warriors. What is Mark Davis order at PF Chang's?

Speaker 7 I know Mark.

Speaker 7 Mark's a wonderful guy.

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 7 Mark's a wonderful guy.

Speaker 7 I think Mark would play it.

Speaker 7 I think Mark would play it right up the middle.

Speaker 7 I think he would go orange chicken,

Speaker 7 chicken fried rice,

Speaker 7 egg roll. They could go

Speaker 7 right up the middle. I don't really see him diversifying it.
Now, Gruden, on the other hand, Gruden, my brother,

Speaker 7 he's a food, he's into food. He's been on Triple D with me.

Speaker 7 He's a food guy.

Speaker 7 He'd go wherever I took him.

Speaker 7 If I wanted to take him out of PF Jangs and we wanted to go down the street to some funky little Thai joint where there's only two tables and you got to get it and eat it out of a plastic container out of a styrofoam container in the back of the 68 camaro you know sitting on the you know sitting on the hatchback uh he'd go for anything and and then and then round two if we wanted to go to the next place so he's you know he's a little bit more uh he's a little bit more on the wild side of the culinary spectrum and you and gruden i would imagine just sit there just complimenting the food in the most like hyperbolic way possible and it's just the most fun of all time because both you guys have that enthusiasm hey coach to me is, and we talk on a regular basis, is one of those guys that if you want,

Speaker 7 if you want to find the positive aspect of what's going on in the world and how to look at the upside of those down situation, God, that guy, he's, he wrote the book, man. He wrote the book.

Speaker 7 And it's, I'm so happy. You know, been, love the, love the Raiders, die hard.
The Vegas move was so tough for me, as it was for everybody here in Northern California.

Speaker 7 But having gone to college at UNLV, graduated the year we won the NCAA,

Speaker 7 the running revs,

Speaker 7 that was the only thing that was going to make me at all okay. You know, is we left Oakland and we went there, but we have a better stadium and more opportunity, on and on and on.
But

Speaker 7 no, he is the,

Speaker 7 he is the, he is the king of bringing the good energy and looking at things the right way. And boy, he's had some challenges.
You know, you guys know it and me, but he's, it's great.

Speaker 7 We're on an upswing. I mean, we are going in the right direction.
We are getting collected and unified. And I think the stadium, I think Vegas is great for us.

Speaker 7 I mean, you guys didn't ask all this, but I'm super passionate and

Speaker 7 super excited. I have a restaurant in the stadium, which I could listen.
I've been disappointed about not being able to open on time or have an issue or whatever.

Speaker 7 God damn, I was so bummed. We were so ready.
We tried and trained the staff. We were ready to go and we didn't get to open.

Speaker 3 And it's the sexiest stadium in North America. Allegiance Stadium.

Speaker 3 You know, look at the look in your eye. You've seen it.

Speaker 1 You've driven Pat. Yeah, bro, is right.

Speaker 7 It is Vegas.

Speaker 7 Here's what Vegas has always meant. And I thought it was so crazy.
People say, oh, I can't bring major sports to Vegas because of, you know, people. So, no, you know what?

Speaker 7 It's the best place to go for sports because you got great accommodations. Phenomenal.
I mean, I've been to so many Super Bowls, and I've stayed in some really bad hotels because the city can't handle

Speaker 7 the load, you know, of the millions or the thousands, not millions, the thousands of people that come there. And so you're displaced and all this kind of stuff that happens.

Speaker 7 Vegas is perfect for it because it can handle the hundreds of thousands. And people love to come around the stadium.
They may not go to the game, but they love to come to the energy of the stadium.

Speaker 7 So in just so many different aspects, it's great. And the stadium is beautiful and the Raiders deserve it.
Playing in Oakland, you know, playing in that stadium for a long time,

Speaker 7 they needed a refresh. And this is a tough move,

Speaker 7 but positive in a lot of ways.

Speaker 1 So, guy, I know you got to go. You're a busy guy.

Speaker 1 You have to come back on. You have to come back on for

Speaker 1 questions that we'll leave, but I had one last question. Do you ever get weirded out when you see

Speaker 1 people in public who are dressed exactly like you? Because you do have impeccable style, and there's a whole group of men that I think just like cosplay as Guy Fieri all the time.

Speaker 1 Like, their life is now your fashion, your style. Does that weird you out a little?

Speaker 7 The Halloween costumes, I think, were the one when it really, I kind of had to go, hold on a second.

Speaker 7 It's the greatest form of flattery. You know,

Speaker 7 I give it the Elvis theory. You know, Elvis did it right.
Still to this day,

Speaker 7 people are still out there, you know, doing the impressions of the king.

Speaker 7 The only time that it doesn't sit well with me, and this is the saddest thing I can ever tell you, and it bums me out like you don't even know. Because

Speaker 7 listen, if you want to have bleached blonde hair and tattoos, and you know,

Speaker 7 go for it. You know what? I, this is kind of how I ended up.
So it is what it is. But please don't tell people that you're me and then have them buy you drinks and take your picture.

Speaker 7 Because I'm not kidding, you guys.

Speaker 7 This is no bullshit. In the thousands of people sending me pictures to my, you know, to my address.
I don't know how to find the address and saying it was so great hanging out with you in Las Vegas.

Speaker 7 And would you sign the picture? And I have to write back to people and say, I'm sorry, this is not me.

Speaker 3 It's a different guy.

Speaker 7 And I'll send them an autographed picture of me, but they're not in it. And it breaks my heart because why do people like that? Why make people think that? That's such a shitty thing to do.

Speaker 7 So that just kind of that's the only thing that bums me out. Otherwise, I run into the

Speaker 7 FiatiCon in New York. All the, all the Fiat,

Speaker 7 you just wait, Fieticon, by the way. If we hadn't had COVID, it might have happened this year.
Oh, we're in.

Speaker 1 We're in. Yeah, I'm there.

Speaker 7 We're in.

Speaker 7 Show up, and I'm going to have the best guy Fieti, non-Guy Fieti outfit. And people are like, man, you really look like him.

Speaker 1 And they're not going to know it. We're in.
We're in. I love it.
Yes.

Speaker 3 That sounds like the best time ever.

Speaker 3 New York City will be renamed Flavor Town for a day.

Speaker 7 Wouldn't that be the funniest to go there and they think it's,

Speaker 7 but I'll have a bad accent or something. I'm going to make it work.
You watch.

Speaker 7 I'm going to film it.

Speaker 3 All right. Well, you guys stop by the show when you do that.
And we got to talk for like an hour and a half.

Speaker 1 We'll do a 24-hour marathon.

Speaker 1 Yes. Love it.
Thank you so much, Guy. We really appreciate it.

Speaker 7 Guys, thanks for having me. Love it.
You guys rock.

Speaker 1 All right. See ya.
Good luck, guys.

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Speaker 1 All right, let's wrap up. We got a couple segments.
First up, we got Just Chill Out, Man, for Trevor Bauer. Trevor Bauer told reporters that

Speaker 1 on Saturday in a spring training game, he pitched an inning using only one eye because he likes to challenge himself.

Speaker 3 I like it. It's no different than using a batting donut.
Take a couple practice cuts. It's spring training.

Speaker 1 I love that Trevor Bauer makes people upset. He really makes people upset.

Speaker 1 And even hardcore, like, I know people who are baseball fans that also get it, you know, and when I say get it, meaning baseball has to figure out a way to get younger and more fun and,

Speaker 1 you know, faster and you can share their highlights. And they still get pissed off about Trevor Bauer.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 He is an internet troll. Right.
He's an internet troll. Come to real life and him doing stuff like this.

Speaker 3 I don't think a single person out there was like, this is a really smart thing that Trevor Bauer did. Trevor Bower is, if Reddit was a human being, he would be Trevor Bauer.

Speaker 3 And everybody absolutely got so mad about this stunt that he did. And I personally don't really care one way or the other.

Speaker 1 I find it hilarious, and I also don't talk about it.

Speaker 3 Yeah, people are talking about it. I'm pretty sure that somebody else would have noticed, although it's spring training, the closest cameras are located like 300 yards away.
Correct.

Speaker 3 And they're in like Ken Rosenthal's Motorola Razor. So you can't really see the clarity clarity of the pictures like you would like to.
But yeah, I don't believe him that he did it.

Speaker 3 Maybe he threw one pitch.

Speaker 1 I do not care.

Speaker 3 Maybe there was a gnat in his eye for one pitch.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 It's just one of those funny things that it's funny to see and it's funny to laugh about and Trevor Bauer just makes people mad and I like that.

Speaker 3 He should try doing it on LSD like Doc Ellis did. That would be cool.

Speaker 1 Just make sure he will.

Speaker 3 If you want to talk about the most impressive athletic feats of all time, I'd say throwing a no-hitter on LSD is probably number one and number two. Yes.
But big cat,

Speaker 1 isn't he like the baseball version of Bryson DeShimbo? We've already talked about this, Hank.

Speaker 1 I don't care.

Speaker 1 The duality of man. Also, okay, I have many different,

Speaker 1 I can hold three different thoughts in my head at once. Using your Luca Garza logic

Speaker 1 earlier, I think that you would also have to support

Speaker 1 Bryson. No, because I

Speaker 1 like Brooks, and

Speaker 1 I only rep one and a half golfers. Max, sorry, until you win a major, you're a half golfer.

Speaker 3 So, wait, what if Trevor Bauer pulled a Brooks, though? Or what if you pulled a Bryson and he put on like 60 pounds worth of just like, you know,

Speaker 3 water weight, power, and muscle? That would be very funny, right? But the difference between Trevor Bauer and Bryson is Bryson uses stuff like math. Trevor Bauer uses stuff like upvotes.

Speaker 1 So, like,

Speaker 3 he does not approach the game from the the same nerd perspective that Bryson does.

Speaker 1 And also, I think Trevor Bauer doesn't, like, complain about the rules the way Bryson does. Bryson's a big, like, this is not fair.
Oh, like, I had a little bit of the sniffles during the masters.

Speaker 1 I don't know, Tank. Don't get on.
Trevor Bower, throwing. I'm a hypocrite, okay?

Speaker 3 Him throwing the ball over the center field fence was way cooler than Bryson DeCambo hitting a golf ball over water.

Speaker 1 The end of the day, I'm a hypocrite, and I do not care. I like who I like.

Speaker 1 All right, we also have PR-101 for the Washington football team. Also, I have a stay woke on it.
Go ahead, PFT. This is your story.

Speaker 3 So, I micro-dosed for the very first time in my life on Friday morning, and I'm not going to say that that directly contributed to me seeing this entire web of online lies coming together, but I'm not going to say that didn't help either.

Speaker 3 So, I started to notice that

Speaker 3 over the last two days, there were a shitload of accounts that had been created in October of 2020 that were all all tweeting things about Dan Snyder.

Speaker 3 Like, great job, Dan Snyder, showing the NFL what it means to be a diverse organization. Great job, Dan Snyder, be the change that you want to see in the world.
I see you.

Speaker 3 Great job to the Washington football team. Dan Snyder gets it.
Everybody else at the NFL league office should take notice. And I was like, wait, now it is possible that lots of women...

Speaker 3 unanimously across the board are independently tweeting good things about Dan Snyder.

Speaker 3 But I did some digging on it, and it'll shock you to find out that there are more than likely hundreds of bots that were all created around the same time to just heap praise on Dan Snyder right when the Jeff Bezos takeover of the Washington football team started to get their very first, like the first bubblings of it started to come to the surface.

Speaker 3 Right. So, so yeah, Dan Snyder essentially, somebody in the Redskins organization paid for a shitload of Twitter bots to just do nothing all day but tweet praise for Dan Snyder.

Speaker 1 Huh, interesting. So, my real state woke is you found this.
And I initially thought, like, so regular brain, Dan Snyder did this. He had a bunch of bots tweet nice things about him.

Speaker 1 Second, what's the second brain? Where it's like, you know, that meme? Universe brain. Universe brain, Jeff Bezos did this to set Dan Snyder up.
And then fucking

Speaker 1 Galaxy Brain PFT has done all of this.

Speaker 1 I am right there with him. I created all these accounts so that Dan Snyder, to uncover it, make Dan Snyder look bad, so Jeff Bezos would buy the team.

Speaker 1 Also, to add on to your Galaxy Brain, actually, I guess Galaxy Brain should come before Universe Brain. Whatever it may be.
No, it comes after.

Speaker 3 Universe is smaller than the Galaxy. Right.

Speaker 1 Is it a coincidence that this all happened after Burner Gate?

Speaker 3 No, no, I'm saying like to catch a burner, it turns out you have to think like a burner. And he's micro-dosing.
So

Speaker 3 I think that creating the burner and developing that part of my brain last week made me more in tune with the universe when it comes to burner. It made me one with the burner accounts.

Speaker 1 No, listen. But even the reason Billy

Speaker 1 set that up. Yeah.

Speaker 3 So

Speaker 3 I do think that's Dan Snyder because here's why I think it's you. Because here's why.

Speaker 3 Dan Snyder works harder on ways to seem like a good person than he would have to work to actually be a good person. That's kind of been his MO throughout his entire tenure of ownership.

Speaker 3 So like this is a this is right out of his playbook and you knew that to waste a bunch of time trying to cheat.

Speaker 3 It's like the guy that puts in so much time trying to figure out the answers on the test when you could have just spent that 30 minutes studying.

Speaker 1 Huh.

Speaker 1 And you knew that.

Speaker 3 Listen.

Speaker 1 Methinks the lady doth protest too much.

Speaker 3 I'm flattered. I'm flattered that you would think that this would be something that I would do.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 Mm-hmm. Very flattered.
Uh-huh. Interesting.
Sell the team to have. All right.
We're going to finish up the show. I did have one last segment.

Speaker 1 Drunk text from Billy at 1 and 30 in the morning saying, I love you guys.

Speaker 3 I thought it was sweet. Within two minutes, I replied, No one else is going to say it, Billy, so I will love you too.

Speaker 1 I just want to say it to me. No one's sober.
I love you guys. Like, drunk, anyone can get a little drunk with their bros and start texting all their other bros being like, I love you guys.

Speaker 1 You get a little sentimental. And then when I said that to Billy, when I saw him today, he's like, Dude, my fucking college friends get me so drunk.
Like, it was their fault.

Speaker 1 They're like, dude, you fucking drink. They made me drink.

Speaker 3 Billy, how blue were were the mountains on Friday night? So blue.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So blue.
So blue. Responsibly.

Speaker 1 You responsibly saying I love you. I love you too, Billy.
I just like to do it sober.

Speaker 1 We're at the sober sex portion of our relationship. Oh, shit.

Speaker 3 I'm different. I love Billy when I'm drunk.
No,

Speaker 1 Billy, we can fucking have just like baloney breath and still fuck. No, okay? It's fine.

Speaker 1 It'd be fucking 3 o'clock in the afternoon on a Saturday. We're both a little bloated.
We'll fuck.

Speaker 3 No, I'm still leaving Billy's house to take a dump.

Speaker 1 We're not shooting together. We don't fart in front of each other.
Yeah, Billy, I'm cool with you.

Speaker 3 Emond, every single Monday, I swear to God, I'm like, I am not going to tell Billy that I love him this weekend. And then Friday night at like 12:30, I'll kiss him with.

Speaker 3 I always do. And then all my friends are like, bro, you said you wouldn't.

Speaker 1 All right, let's watch the end of the game. Here we go.
We're going to get fucked unless we hit this shot, Hank. Oh, we're fucked by the Elim ending.
That's such bullshit. Oh, that's such bullshit.

Speaker 1 Did they add all the points up? Yep. Oh, we need this three.
Yeah, and so we need, what'd you get? 319? Yes!

Speaker 1 All right. Boom.

Speaker 1 I was about to put a curse on Jason Elam's house.

Speaker 1 Okay, wait.

Speaker 1 Oh, what an ending.

Speaker 1 So that, I know that's game, but why are the numbers? So did they score all those points in the fourth quarter?

Speaker 3 Yeah, 170 to 150 in the fourth. But that's what they were doing before.
No, that's just one quarter. So

Speaker 3 they scored, what is that? 320 points in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Well, why would you say that? That's why they call it the Elam Indians.

Speaker 3 Why would they switch it?

Speaker 1 What do you mean? It's because he was always a good kicker and he would kick at the end of the games.

Speaker 3 Yeah, because he was the king of three-pointers. So they want to make it as scoring as possible.

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Speaker 3 Give me number 8.

Speaker 1 32. 18.

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Speaker 1 59. We have 59.

Speaker 3 This is usually the time to show where we get.

Speaker 5 Individual mouse sperm sperm are bigger than elephant sperm.

Speaker 1 75.

Speaker 3 Love you guys.

Speaker 1 Damn.

Speaker 1 September 7th.

Speaker 4 Remember, Grandpa Bingo.

Speaker 4 Talking away.

Speaker 4 Oh, I don't know what I'm going to say and change anyway.

Speaker 4 Today's another

Speaker 4 day to find you shy away.

Speaker 1 Oh, I've been coming for your love of crazy.

Speaker 1 Oh, I've been coming for your love of crazy.

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Speaker 7 leave

Speaker 7 I'm on set it's but

Speaker 7 be so little way

Speaker 7 for second

Speaker 7 sail three

Speaker 7 It's the better to be safe than summer.

Speaker 7 It's the better to be safe and summer.

Speaker 7 Take

Speaker 7 on

Speaker 7 me

Speaker 7 Take

Speaker 7 me

Speaker 7 I'll be

Speaker 7 gone

Speaker 7 I'll be

Speaker 7 gone.

Speaker 7 Hide the things that you take

Speaker 7 and raise it alive.

Speaker 7 Just to blend our love breeze away.

Speaker 7 You're all the things I've got to remember. Be shy and away.

Speaker 7 Well, I'll be coming for you anyway.

Speaker 7 Well, I'll be coming for you anyway.

Speaker 7 Take on

Speaker 7 me.

Speaker 7 Take

Speaker 7 me

Speaker 7 on

Speaker 7 I'll be

Speaker 7 gone

Speaker 7 in every day

Speaker 7 I'll be coming for your love of truth.

Speaker 7 I'll be coming for your love of truth.

Speaker 7 All the coming through anyway.

Speaker 7 All the coming moonlight.

Speaker 7 I'll be

Speaker 7 strong

Speaker 7 in a

Speaker 7 time.

Speaker 7 In a

Speaker 7 day

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