Arkansas HC Eric Musselman, Cranky Jim Boeheim, And Burner Accounts

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On today's Pardon My Take, we're getting on the must-bus. Head coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks, Eric Musselman.
Awesome interview with him. It's March, we're feeling it.
Boeheim gets a little cranky. We have to, in fairness, rip Bayheim as much as we ripped Coach K.
We have Baker Mayfield seeing an alien. Big Ben is officially, officially back taking a pay cut.
Billy is going to find PFT's burner. It's going to be a little bit of a Friday.
Free form, free fun. Have some fun.
Good vibes. Try to be nice to Billy type of show.
Good times. Let's keep it loose.
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This is the greatest thing that Big Ben has ever done. Yeah, what he should have done is he just should have negotiated like a different health plan from everybody else.
So his co-pays would be higher and the company would have to pay less. That would be a good way to save some money if you're the Steelers.
Big Ben is his pay cut isn't really that drastic, but it's mostly so Big Ben can be like I'm doing this for the benefit of the team. I care about you guys.
I want to win. Winning is more important than getting paid at the end of the day.
It's the trade version, sorry, it's's the contract, or pay cut version of throwing a bunch of interceptions in the first half,

then leading your team to a miraculous comeback in the fourth quarter,

and everyone's like, clutch.

Well, they wouldn't have been in this spot

if he wasn't getting paid $40 million as like a 38-year-old.

I've got to be honest.

If I were the Steelers,

I don't know why people are excited about this in Pittsburgh.

Is anybody excited? I've seen people say, like, it's good. We're glad that he's coming back.
And don't get me wrong. I'm very glad that Big Ben is coming back.
That guy is like half of our brains at this point. I don't know what I would do if he wasn't in the NFL.
But if I was a Steelers fan, I would not be super thrilled about another year Big Ben. I would be like ambivalent just by the fact that you you have to find the future the future is probably not going to show up tomorrow so i'd be okay with it as long as they're russell wilson goes there maybe yeah i don't i don't see that happening he wasn't on his short list yeah um i do love russell wilson i think he's on a yacht in like the carib everything.
And every time they post a video, I just get tagged in a bunch.

Is this Lake Michigan?

A picture of him floating with sharks?

It's like, yeah, that actually is.

It could be.

That's exactly what Lake Michigan looks like in early March.

Just look out your window.

That's Russell Wilson.

Something just occurred to me earlier today.

How pissed would you be if you were Dak Prescott and Russell Wilson is out there talking about your job? Well, Dak is going to get paid, right? He's going to get paid. It's going to happen.
It is weird because there's just so many moving parts right now with the NFL and the salary cap. And still, for the life of me, the salary cap in the NFL is one of those situations where you could explain it to me a million times, and then a team can do seven different moves and all of a sudden magically be out of salary cap hell.
Oh, I'm a capologist. I've taken that assignment on this offseason to learn as much as I can about the salary cap.
Basically, it doesn't matter. The best line I ever saw about the salary cap in the NFL, I can't remember who said it, so apologies to whoever came up with it.
It's like nailing smoke to a wall. Okay, that's heavy.
You can't, like there's just, when you're trying to figure out the cap and trying to figure out, you know, oh wow, we're so. It's like shooting pool with a rope.
Yeah, it's like teams will go from under, you know, $20 million over the cap to magically, oh, they have a bunch of cap space. Yeah, the Saints, haven't the Saints been in salary cap hell for the last three years? They just did something with their kicker today.
It's like, oh, whoops. We just found some more coins underneath the couch.
I also feel like the Rams have been in cap hell. Yep.
But that's mostly because Sean McVay is like, it's weird because he treats the salary cap like it doesn't exist. He also treats the future draft picks like they don't exist.
Living for now. Living in the moment.
We can all take some time to appreciate that. It's the Adrian Grenier picture.
Sorry I haven't been posting much recently. I've been too distracted by the present.
You're talking about Vinny Chase? Living in the moment. Vinny Chase, bro.
Vinny Chase. All right, so we have that.
Big Ben is back, officially. Baker Mayfield saw an alien.
and I hate to do this.

You know what?

I'm not even going to say it. I thought Coward was actually kind of funny.

Well, he was kind of funny.

I got tagged.

I didn't see what he said.

Colin Coward basically was like, I don't like my quarterbacks pointing out aliens.

That was funny.

That's a funny joke on himself.

That's self-deprecation.

I'm going to call it like I see it. I got tagged in it.
People were you believe Coward if you can't laugh at that come on well it was a situation where Coward knew that he had to bring some thunder today like everybody was expecting Colin Coward to have a take on the aliens seeing Baker Mayfield and he delivered in spades he was like I would prefer if my quarterback when he saw aliens kept it to himself and didn't talk about it. You think Tom Brady would talk about an alien? And, I mean, hats forward to Colin Coward.
It was funny. You knocked it out of the park.
It was a fastball. You knew it was coming.
Everybody expected you to go yard, and you hit a dinger. So congratulations.
You got to call it. It would be unfair of us to just hate on that.
It was funny. I liked what he did there.
He did also. He forgot or maybe he didn't forget.
But halfway through, he's like, yeah, Aaron Rodgers did also have an alien, you know, thing. And we also had the Terry Bradshaw story.
Aliens exist. We all agree, right? Aliens exist.
Aliens exist. Baker Mayfield, you probably saw an alien.

I totally believe you.

The Terry Bradshaw story where, if you missed it, Terry Bradshaw in 1983, I want to say it was,

went in for knee surgery and used a pseudonym so that no one would bother him,

and the pseudonym was Thomas Brady.

That is way crazier than aliens.

That's like Simpsons-level stuff.

That's Illuminati shit. It's really weird.
yeah so terry bradshaw did he see aliens no i don't know but the best because i terry bradshaw is so dumb i if he saw an alien i'd be like okay there was like an exceptionally large raccoon that made its way onto his porch and terry bradshaw freaked out that's my favorite part about this story is that terry bradshaw is so out of it and like drunken and he's you know he's living a life i love i love terry bradshaw he's a funny guy he's just he's just having a good time this happened to his own life and we found out about it because someone pulled up an old newspaper not because terry bradshaw was like hey i once went and got knee surgery and i used used Tom Brady. He forgot about it.
He forgot about it completely.

That would be like if Virginia Tech won a national championship in 20 years.

Shout out to Hokies.

And the quarterback's name was Ron Mexico.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Right.

That's wild shit, man.

Right.

But we also didn't even know about the Michael Vick thing,

because that's the craziest part, that we didn't even know it.

No one knew it.

And then all of a sudden it's a tweet, and it's a newspaper article,

and Terry Bradshaw.

I'm sure if you asked him, he's like, I don't remember that.

No, he's like I don't remember that no he doesn't remember like if you ask anything to Terry Bradshaw about his past he's like the 70s man yeah 70s were a wild time but it would be the most Cleveland thing ever if they're coming off an 11-5 season they've got a playoff win they have the coach of the year uh they're favored to finish ahead of the Steelers in the division, and their quarterback gets abducted by aliens. Yes.
Could happen. Could happen.
Could absolutely happen. But I do believe Baker.
I absolutely believe Baker. People who don't believe in aliens are losers.
Yeah. Straight up.
Why would you willingly convince yourself that aliens don't exist? It's like betting the under. Sometimes I will think about space and it will actually hurt my brain like it actually does cause cramps inside of my brain where i'm like the expansion of the universe what the fuck i had a i had a sweet thought when when baker tweeted that out last night just i like thinking about dogs i'm like what is because he said it was like a uh beam of light that was dropped down from above.
I was like, what if that's Swagger 1, just trying to play fetch one last time? Just coming down for a quick game. Just dropping the ball for a quick game.
We also have Jim Boeheim. We have to mention this, Jake.
Jim Boeheim is very cranky. So if you missed it, Jim Boeheim, they beat Clemson.
Syracuse is a bubble team. They should get in.
And, oh. No, they were off the bubble, and now they beat UNC and Clemson in a 48-hour span, and they're still on the outside looking in.
They need to do some work in the ACC tournament. Okay, so a reporter asked about lineups, and Jim Boeheim responded with, I've been doing this for 45 years.
I should have just had these guys in the lineup. It would have been 22-2, and I need a reporter to figure it out who's never played basketball and is 5'2".
Cranky-ass Jim Boeheim. The question wasn't about that.
He completed the reporter, Matthew Gutierrez. I went to school with him.
Is he 5'2"? Not that I remember. No.
Here's the problem, though. He didn't debunk it.
I went on his Twitter. He didn't debunk it.
That's a real J. He's not making himself the story.
At least retweet someone who's like, no, I like what he did. This is what they do in Syracuse.
He's a good ball player, too. He beat us in the Media Cup.
Whoa. And everyone knows how important that is.
Wait, the Media Cup. WAER, which is the student radio station.
Isn't that just intramurals in Syracuse? I mean, they have intramurals, but we play in the Dome. Got it.
Media, Big J's only. Yeah.
But again, I assume Syracuse is just a bunch of big J's. The Daily Orange, which is their newspaper, versus WAER, the historic student radio station.
Huge rivalry. We play in the Dome one night every year, and he's a good player.
He beat us. Who's better? Wait, let me guess.
Historically, I don't know. What position did he play? I don't remember.
He's a scorer. From where? I don't know.
Outside? Yeah, he could shoot. Wait, it's the radio guys against everybody else? The writers.
Okay, definitely the radio guys. I mean, we lost that game.
Yeah, I would take the radio guys ten times out of ten. Jim Boeheim, though, he's – you had an off night? Yeah.
Over two at the line. Yikes.
Make your break throws, Jake. Well, you're playing in the dome.
Tough shot. Yeah, exactly.
Jim Boeheim, though, he's definitely in the group with the Coach K and just the older – something about college basketball coach specifically when they get older. And he's – I looked it up.
Jim Boeheim is 76? Yeah, he was supposed to retire the same year I graduated, and then he extended. And now his son Buddy is still on the team for a couple more years, so I assume he's going to ride that out at least.
I don't know. I think he needs to wear like a sign being like, hey, I'm 76.
So when I pick my nose or I get really cranky, like, listen, if this was the real world, I'd be retired sitting in my condo in Boca Raton. Did I say it right? Yeah.
Playing golf and like not driving after night, which that's not a joke. Stop.
He shouldn't He should not drive after night. He should not.
They should stop. He did get a standing O, which was very weird.
Stop. It was bizarre, honestly.
He battled back from tremendous adversity. So Boeheim, he's gotten more cranky.
I think he hasn't been invited on part of the interruption as much recently. I used to get most of my Jim Boeheim takes on PTI, and that's really the only time that I've ever seen him happy in his life is when he's talking to Tony and Mike.
And LeVon definitely threw in, oh, Medill's better than Newhouse. Yeah, because Tony is like 6'3".
He's a big, tall guy. He went to Binghamton.
He just respects Mass. He's like Billy.
And Boeheim. I'm pretty sure Boeheim's only friends in life are just Coach K and Rick Pitino.
They all just become friends with each other. Coach Boeheim loves college basketball.
He does. He loves Coach.
He's a big fan. Yeah, but he's also very cranky.
So this is the difference between Boeheim and Brady. Or not, Boeheim and Belichick.
Belichick could get all that across but he would do it in a subtle way. He wouldn't come out and be like, yeah, I'm not going to listen to you.

You're a reporter.

You're 5'2". Belichick would figure out a way to say that subliminally almost.

Beham's not as creative, I don't think.

He's just cranky.

Yeah, right.

All he had to do was throw a dadgummit and it would come off as funny.

That's true.

No one got mad at Roy Williams.

It is true.

So how much longer does Beham coach for? He is a legend. As long as he wants.
I'm not saying he's not a legend. As long as he wants.
As long as he wants. Yeah.
I agree with Big Cat, though. Like, if you're getting that old, you should make it apparent how old you are.
Yes. He should be, like, using a walker on the sidelines with a tennis ball on the bottom of him.
It's just crazy to think because you think, Coach, he's out there. Okay, you just – I think what happens is when a guy coaches for as long as Boeheim is coached, they almost get trapped at a certain age.
Like he's been old for so long that you just assume he's the same, you know, somewhere in the mid-50s, late 50s, early 60s. He's 76.
So he should get a pass just by being 76. The fact that he's, you know, coaching is a miracle.
I actually think that when you win a national championship, you just kind of stay that age in my own mind. Yeah, 74.
74. So, yeah, Coach K, yeah, he seems like he's younger, but that's just the hair dye.
He's got anyone else who's far past retirement in any other profession, and this is a very stressful profession that they're still in, so yeah, they need to just wear like, hey, just so you know, maybe, you know what, he just needs to have a life alert around his neck. A life alert around his neck at all times, so that when you think about going at Boeheim and telling him, hey, the lineup should be different, he can just point to it and be like, you want me to fall on my way back to the locker room?

Because you don't want to see that.

Do you think that he purposely keeps air conditioning out of the carrier dome because he's so old and old people love to look?

You think he's sitting on the sideline?

I don't know if people know that about the dome.

He's sponsored by carrier and there's no AC.

He's always chilly.

He doesn't want to pay that bill. Were you raised in a barn? I know.
It gets hot in the fall. It does? It's a suit.
Yeah. Oh, my God.
Good night. You know what? There's also a different type of hot.
It's almost like an indoor humid that you get in a – especially like a gym. If there's a basketball court in the room that I'm in, that raises the temperature of the room at least 15 degrees yeah just feels sweltery in there so you defending him or no i mean i would like to support someone who i went to school with so who yeah this is a rockin hard place a legend and a 5-2 point guard oh jake okay respect the biz boe.
Boeheim should not have gone after him. Okay.
You got to write that column, Jake. Yeah, you have to.
Yeah. Even though he's a legend, he needs to know the line.
You guys put me on the spot there. I don't like having a polarizing opinion.
Yeah, we know. We know.
But, yeah, there we go. Billy, where do you land on it? Let's see where Billy lands.
Dude, if the kid was being a twererp, like shut the fuck up. But he was not.
That's the thing. He was being a pro and being a good journalist.
He probably was looking like a twerp. And Boeheim was just like, fuck you.
He was a nerd. He could sense a nerd.
This is the John Clayton, Sean Sonsbury. He is the Syracuse beat reporter for The Athletic, a very big company, two years after graduating.
That's pretty good. Boeheim should have been like, hey, wipe that fucking nerd off your face before you ask me a question.

He was looking at Boeheim trying to be a twerp and try to ask questions and get answers.

Probably, and he was just like, dude, fuck you.

Perfect.

He should have reminded Coach Boeheim that he won the Media Cup when he was there.

So actually, I'm going to defend him a little bit. I went looking for his tweets, Matthew Gutierrez.
Someone did respond to one of his tweets with him shooting a three that was very smooth, nothing but net. That was the Media Cup.
So there it is. That was the game? In the game? That was the game.
Jake's like the Hunter Dickinson of Big J's. Great compliment.
You lost the Media Cup, and then you lost to Hank in ping pong. What? Just a matter of years separated from each other, yeah.
I mean, yeah, I lost one game but won a million others. Wait, are you meaning? One match.
Yeah, one match. Sorry, we actually have to bleep that out because we're not allowed to say that.
I'm in Duncan Robinson. Duncan Robinson.
Yeah, you're the Duncan Robinson. Let me say that again.
You're the only person to lose it in the championship at three different levels. How does it feel to lose it? Everything.
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Okay. Billy, so if you missed Wednesday's show.
First of all, shame on you. Wednesday's show.
First of all, shame on you. Go back and listen to it.
PFT ate the cheese again. He replied to Darren Revell.
So we thought the best way for him to overcome this issue was to create a burner account that he can anonymously tweet things, get them off his chest. But the key is it's got to be anonymous because as soon as people figure it out, it ruins the whole idea that you're doing it anonymously and getting it off your chest.
So PFT has created the account. I have confirmed that he has created the account.
I know what the account looks like. I don't know the handle.
Jake knows the handle or Jake saw it. Okay.
And let me just say that the burner lifestyle is incredible. I highly recommend it to everybody.
And I issued an apology, but I want to say it again here. If I've ever gotten mad at you online when you're tweeting at me from your burner, I'm sorry.
I didn't understand. I didn't know about the burner lifestyle.
Now I get it. I get it.
Sometimes you just want to tweet things. You don't even have to believe them necessarily.
You just want to get it off your chest. You just want to put it out there and it feels great.
So I am completely on board with the burner lifestyle right now. I might eventually just stop tweeting from my main account and just become strictly burner for life um so i i get it i understand that and uh i did issue a challenge to billy so yeah what explain the challenge thousand dollars a meet so the challenge is if billy can figure out what my burner account is and i've been replying to major accounts i've been tweeting i've been you know i've been active on my account for the last couple days.
If Billy can figure out what my account is, I'm going to buy him $1,000 worth of meat. Okay.
So Billy can break it down. I'm sure he'll find some ridiculous cut of meat that no one's ever heard of that probably doesn't actually exist.
Wouldn't buying $1,000 of meat at one time be a little excessive since he can't eat it all before it goes bad. Well, I'm going to buy and invest in a big freezer.
Billy, text me that. Text me your screenshot right now so I can look up tweets and follow along so I can read out to people.
Same. Put it in the group.
Put it in the group. Okay.
And also, Billy, it's legal meat. So I'm not getting it.
I know you probably have done research and you're like, oh, actually elephants have the highest amount of absorbable protein of any mammal. No, it has to be meat that you can purchase in a store here in the United States.
Text it to just me and Hank. Don't text it to PFT so he doesn't see it.
All right, so here's the rule. And if Billy doesn't get it right, I'm buying Jake $1,000 worth of suits.
$1,000 worth of suits. And so if Billy gets it right, you're going to delete the account.
If he gets it right, you delete the account. No, I said we'd bleep it and then he can keep it.
Because I love having to burn it. Yeah, I just want to prove I know it.
Okay. No, actually, I'll tell you what.
If Billy gets it right, I will delete the account, but I'm going to start a new burner account. But just do that in the shadows.
You don't even have to say that. Yeah, right.
So we don't have to bleep it out. So did you text it to me? Yeah, I'm going to read.
So I had nine selections. I have one that I absolutely think is his.
Which you have ten. Yes, you have ten.
Yeah, I blew one yesterday. Wait, let me pull it up.
So why don't we read the one I gave yesterday? That is not right. Is this, are you going to go one to nine? I'm going to go nine to one.
You're going to go nine to one, which makes no sense. Well, because if I go one and it's not it, then it's like, eh.
So's like and so we'll start you can go back to the drawing board no because he's out of time okay you have to be by five actually 15 minutes you do have 15 minutes but you're out of time okay okay um the first one i did was the first one is the worst guest ever i can already tell it's not well it's It's not the one that Jake guessed. Are we correct? Yeah, no, no, no.
Leroy Soderberger is not it. Not one of my guesses.
Not it. That would have been the worst burner camera ever.
I know, but everyone was like, this is it. I'm like, no, dude.
I could tell that Billy was hunting based off of what people were saying, I guess on the Reddit? Because I was getting DMs from people saying,

hey, the Reddit is talking about this being your account,

and that's why Billy's asking. No, everyone was DMing it to me.

I was like, no, it's not.

All right, so here we go.

Okay, not Leroy Soderbergh.

Now you have eight left.

Pick it up, Billy.

No, that was one of my guests.

My first guess was Dan Snyder's Banner.

No.

Which it is. So now my nine start.
Yep. Why did you even say Leroy Soderberger? Because we always just proved it.
You can't just say names of accounts. In Billy's defense, he did say that was Jake's guess.
I know it's not. You have eight left.
Number nine. Wait.
No, I have nine guesses left.

Okay.

This is your...

John Hancockers.

No.

And it's way wrong.

I mean, the first tweet is,

ha-ha, yeah, George Washington, I used to be best friends,

then I met P. Kane 88.

Go to the tweets and replies.

It was February 28.

Go to the replies.

He wasn't amazing.

Number eight.

Not PFT commenter. That is not me.
Okay. Number seven.
Of course it's not you. That would be the dumbest.
Dude, I honestly, I think I... That count also started January 2020.
All right, keep it going, keep it going, keep it going. Yeah, no, keep it going.
No, but the thing is, I don't trust that he started in the month of March. Okay, keep it going.
All right, so you just wasted a pick even though he told you this is exactly. B.
Pipe Man. An account that was started this March.
No. Okay.
Number six, Steph Ruined. No.
These don't, that one doesn't exist. Number five.
Now we're getting to the ones that... Some of these don't exist.
No, they do. I saw some of that person's tweets because it's like Steph Curry ruined the NBA.
Yeah. And I like that take in general.
Wait, wait. I might have spelled something wrong.
You were so confident last night. No, because I haven't gotten to the one.
Yeah, this is so bad. Keep it going, Bill.
Keep it going. Number five, Caruso Stan.
No. If you get it right.
I'm already saying he's not going to get it. Number three, the inside source.
No. Number two, no bias sports guy.
No. You're not even close.
No, but this is the number one. And I'll explain.
And it was invented. I'm looking at the number one right now.
It was invented in February. Okay, so Billy, here's what we're going to do.
Billy, give me what you think the account is and your entire explanation why. I'll give you the explanation.
I'll wait until you're done before I say yes or I shoot it down. So this is the one.
Once I found this one, I was like, I can't even look for them. Why would you put some of these even on the list? No.

Like real knowledgeable sports guy?

No, I put them all on the list because I literally needed to find nine guesses,

and I looked through hundreds of accounts.

All of them were too obvious.

They were like, oh, fuck you, Darren Ravelle.

Like real knowledgeable sports guy?

Yeah, like some of them.

I discounted all the ones that gave a lot of evidence of being PFT. Okay.
And I was like, these aren't it. These aren't it.
Maybe I'm fucking with you. No.
Maybe I made it extremely obvious. You're like, it's no way.
Okay. All right.
So, Billy, this is your final choice. We watched the video.
He said there's clues in the videos. We have a man wearing a cowboy hat, wearing a NASA t-shirt, Reciting an apology speech in word for word almost like J.J.
Watt. We had mentions of KD in the speech.
And we had, you used the word, blast in the speech. This pointed me

to mentions of

Houston, Houston Rockets,

NASA.

I'm following you.

I found

Dem Boys

fan forever.

Which was a Cowboys

Houston Rockets fan. Or JJ Watt.
Created in February. Are you done? Is it J.J.
underscore Watt? Congratulations. Oh! Jake.
You're getting a thousand dollars. Yeah! Dude, Billy.
I don't think that it exists. I don't think that it exists.
I knew you were going to do this once you go. I don't think it exists.
It's right here. It doesn't exist.
The one you made, Billy, that is the worst guess ever. Billy, I've been getting into arguments with people all day on my burner.
It fucking owns. It's awesome.
I'm fighting with people. Blur that out.
It's sick. Wait, can I actually see the name of it? Can I show Billy and pull it up or no? No.
It stays hidden. It stays hidden.
I saw the AVI. Okay, and you still won't find it.
I don't think you gave me the correct information to find this thing. I absolutely did.
You didn't. What does that mean? What information were you expecting him to give you? Okay, the things that he said do not line up to any of the accounts.
You said J.J. Watt and Kevin Durant, and then you picked a Cowboys fan account.
Because he's wearing a Cowboys hat. Right, but what is J.J.
Watt and Kevin Durant? Houston, Houston Rockets. He was a Cowboys in Houston.
He was a Cowboy, Houston Texan fan, and Rocket fan. But you picked an account that's Dem Cowboys? Did, no, no.
Did you read the fucking bio of the account? It was created in February. But who knows when I asked him if it was created in March, it was too sketchy.
He wouldn't lie about that. Well, I can't.
He wasn't giving me anything. Listen, I even followed Billy from my account all day yesterday.
And I didn't follow anybody else in this room, just Billy. So I would show up in his timeline.
So I would give him a sporting chance at it. And I was in Ravel's mentions.
I actually discounted all everybody who's following me. I was in Ravel's mentions.
I was in Shackler's mentions. I was in Rap Sheet's mentions.
I was all over the internet yesterday. I was getting into fights with people even all day today.
I even scheduled some tweets to go out while I was on school streams today. You can't act like I'm a total fucking idiot because I couldn't find it.
I did what I was giving. We're saying you're a total fucking idiot because half of your guesses were accounts created in February or 2014.
No, no, no. I doubt that the burner actually was created on when he said he was created.
Was it? Was the burner created on the day? Show me the topic. No, no, no.
Was it created on March 2nd or March 3rd? Big Cat's wrong because it was an account that I had never used before that was created earlier. That was created a year ago.
So yeah, it wasn't fucking March. That's bullshit on his part.
Yeah, that is kind of bullshit. That's fucking bullshit.
No, it's not fucking bullshit. No, it's bullshit.
You guessed like six accounts that were created. No, that's fucking bullshit.
Fucking bullshit. If you watch the video.
I agree with Billy here. No, Big Cat, if you watch the video.
I don't even watch your fucking money. I don't even watch your fucking money.
You're not going to get it because you didn't guess it. I never once tweeted from this

account until

yesterday. Yeah, and you had it since

what, like 2011? I'm going to side with Billy a little

bit here. You did make

it seem like you created it right after we talked

about it on Tuesday night.

And I think

Billy actually even asked, was it created

this time? And I went out of my way to say that

it wasn't, which is what Billy said.

You were about to say a second

ago, I don't think it was created in March because when I asked PFT, he did not give me that answer. So you knew that's why you get six different accounts.
And I never tweeted from the account until yesterday. In fact, I changed the handle.
I changed the name. The only thing that was there to throw you off was the fact that it was created a year ago.
But the first tweet came yesterday right after I tweeted, I've created a burner account. Was it Walter Cronkite's ghost? Nope.
Okay. Nope.
Are you going to keep guessing? I'm going to side a little bit with Billy, though, because you implied that it was made right after we talked about it on Tuesday night. That's the only thing.
I was expecting him to find ones that were in March. But he was telling you that that was wrong the entire time he was guessing, Big Cat.
Yeah, I mean, I thought it was... Billy, your logic was right, and now you're saying it's bullshit.
Yeah, exactly. See, I haven't followed it closely enough.
But I had to stick at least, I thought it was somewhere in the 2021 range.

But then you picked an account from 2014.

Yeah.

Which account?

You can watch that with 2014.

In the video, I never say that I started this account from scratch.

No, but PFT, unfortunately,

you've now outed yourself as a liar.

You said you've never had a burner before.

Now you've just said you have a burner.

No, I created for a specific purpose,

but that purpose never came to fruition.

I was going to tweet a video from it, but I ended up not tweeting a video from that account. But that is a burner, as they say.
I never tweeted on it, though. If it was under oath, you'd have to say that it was related to a burner account.
Anyway, I'm sorry. I would like to apologize to the AWLs that this has been tarnished as a very healthy competition.
Actually, we're sending you the answers. They weren't sending me.
In the end, we always. Except for me, because I'm fucking loving this burner account life.
Jake, congratulations. We'll have you select some suits.
Thank you. I'm excited to rock some new suits on the broadcast.
Maybe some European cuts. Italian.
You should get a pinstripe suit. I was thinking maybe one to honor Craig Sager.
A little funky one. Okay.
What does that mean for you? What? I don't know if you're a funky suit guy. The big guy just gave the meanest look.
You're a... I didn't even look.
You're a... You're talking about funky suits and he's known for wearing funky suits.
You're like a... Craig Sager has like...
Hasn't he been cancelled post? No. Oh, I did not see that.
Post mostly. Alright.
All right. Jake, you're a fucking socks guy.

You could pull off like...

Yeah, some fun socks.

Like a bright-colored sock.

All right.

I'm actually very happy for Jake.

Yeah.

No, you aren't.

That was the maddest I've ever seen.

Yeah.

Dude, you're normal.

Your neck was popping with me.

You were about to fight Jose Cancic.

I was mad you cheated me.

But I'm happy for Jake now.

Billy, you...

Jesus Christ.

Hank, Hank, Hank, why are you so worked up about this?

I'm not.

No, he's not.

But Billy, so if anything, Hank and I thought that PFD created it in March,

but it's clear that you were following along that it wasn't created in March.

Well, I looked through.

I started looking in March.

I looked through over 100 accounts and looked for everything.

Wow, that's a lot of work.

I was following you from the account. I know.
Didn't follow anybody else at this company. Do you still follow him? No, I unfollowed him today.
His tweet sucked. I got sick of seeing Billy pop up in my timeline.
Yeah, should we talk about your stupid day drinking tweet real quick? Actually, I thought that was a pretty funny tweet. It was funny, but it was real.
No, it was a joke. Lamar Odom, Clippers?

He's on crack.

It's hilarious.

What part of it's funny?

Big Cat just doesn't

understand comedy.

What's the funny part?

Addiction?

No, it's just like

if you wrote

crack epidemic.

If you said

he got addicted to candy,

that's funny.

He almost died.

He was addicted to crack.

His heart stopped.

Explain that how that's funny.

He was on boner pills

from the gas station.

He also smoked crack,

I believe.

So explain how that's funny to me.

If Stephen A. Smith

is allowed to yell it,

are we not allowed to say

anything about crack?

Stay off the weed?

No, he was on cracker pills from the gas station. He also smoked crack, I believe.
So explain how that's funny to me. If Stephen A.
Smith is allowed to yell it, are we not allowed to say anything about crack? Stay off the weed? No, he was on crack. You're getting a murky territory here, but I like this.
I don't think Stephen A. Smith was making fun of him.
That Stephen A. clip was hilarious.
It's hilarious. That clip's hilarious.
Yeah. So that's why you would wear it because you'd be like, he was on crack.
That's the funny part. No, but he's a hard part of you.
That actually plays for Dardy. You're wearing, to Darties, you do not wear your nice jersey,

your formal jersey.

You don't wear your naughty jersey.

You wear your, like, I'm here to have a good time jersey.

I'm here to do crack.

That's where you whip out your Browns Johnny Manziel,

not your Texas A&M Johnny Manziel.

No, but the only reason I was upset about the Lamar Odom is,

every other jersey that Lamar Odom has worn is significantly better than the Clippers one. Lakers, Heat, URI, those are all fire.
That's why you don't wear them to the Darty. The Darty, you're going to end up getting it muddy.
You change it into something nice. So when would you wear your Lamar item Odom URI?

When you're going to a nice

Like a formal. A steakhouse.
Like a formal

meeting your girlfriend's parents. Yeah.

Okay, got it.

What do they call the frat and sorority?

The mixers? When you're at a mixer.

Right, right. And what about the Lakers?

The Lakers one is also, you don't wear

or going to a game.

That's a Marty. You wear the Lakers one to brunch.
No. Switch over to the Clippers one for the darty.
And then you change into your Plaxico Burris for the nighttime part. But you go to the game, like you wear your good jersey to the game.
Yeah. Yeah.
So, okay. David Bakhtiari, the beer-chugging champion of the NFL.
Green or white? Green because you're probably getting grass stands grass stands. Do you think it's inappropriate to make fun of someone like Lamar Odom who actually died and came back? You're making fun of him post-mostly.
No, he's alive. Yeah, but he came back.
He's got second life. I don't know.
I agree with most of your list, actually. I thought there were some sick jerseys.
I mean, I'm very glad Lamar is.

It's a funny list.

It got a lot of engagement.

They're not the best jerseys.

They're the jerseys you go darty in.

So the Paul Rabel jersey you're wearing right now,

that's an old one because he's no longer on the Atlas.

I don't know if he kept up with the news.

Is that a darty jersey because it's old?

It's a throwback.

Yeah, it's a darty jersey.

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All right. We now welcome on a very special guest.
We've been circling him for a while. It's been, you know, usually right around now we get all the way into college basketball on this show.
So we thought it was time to get on the must bus. It is coach Eric Musselman, head coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks former coach of nevada which i have to shout them out because i fell in love with you there but coach thank you for joining us uh we appreciate it do you feel can you feel the energy that this is march uh yes i can big cat thanks for having me on number one but yes we can we can feel that the uh calendar has turned to March and I think that you know our guys right now when they come to practice it's kind of a different feel you know it's almost like you know towards the end of your senior year in high school when you kind of get spring fever and everybody's starting to get a little bit you know more energized uh you know for the end of school that's kind of what in March is, especially if you're playing well, there's an added excitement for sure.
So your team right now, let's just say hypothetically, they faced off against your team from back in November, like over a typical season, what, what do you expect to see in terms of improvement? And like on this team in particular, how badly would these Razorbacks beat those Razorbacks? This current Razorback team playing in March would probably beat our November Razorback team by about 15 to 18 is what I would roughly guess. We're more confident.
Our roster was built really unique with with four incoming freshmen three grad transfers um two guys that sat out last year um in their transfer year when they were here and and the two returners so it's it's kind of this you know mismatch of guys and so it took us a little bit of time to feel comfortable on both sides of the ball. But right now we're really sharing the basketball.
We had 305 passes in our last game against South Carolina. So the ball was moving.
The ball had eyes. It was like popcorn from one hand to the other.
It didn't get sticky. And we didn't have anybody dribbling and killing grass.
So there was a lot of good things with our ball movement and sharing the basketball basketball so i want to get back to the transfer thing in a minute but let's talk about the passes in your philosophy because i love this i love talking to coaches and figuring out how they see the game you demand your team basically passes over 200 times a game and it's playing fast and then also can you explain like what your what a perfect uh you know game looks like offensively and defensively and what you really push like this is what we need to do well and if we do these things well we'll win well I think the number one thing for us offensively is like don't turn the ball over you know I I love studying football coaches and obviously in football the turnover battle is such an important factor in wins and losses. And in basketball, we want to try to have under nine turnovers in a 40-minute college game.
That's number one. And then it's so important on the defensive end to try to control the defensive backboards.
And then offensively, as I flip back to that side of the ball, free throws attempted has been something that's really important. Because if you have a high volume of FTAs, that allows your half-court defense to get set up.
The other team can't run on you. But live ball turnovers are a killer in college basketball because those usually end up in layups or dunks at the other end.
Yeah. And when it comes to the passes, have you found that having over 200, is that kind of the magic number that statistically correlates like to a higher percentage of victory or a more efficient offense? Yeah, we actually got the philosophy of myself and Coach Anthony Ruda and Hayes Myers and my son Michael have gone to the Warriors training camp, and Steve Kerr was really emphasizing passes.
And so we took the number that the Warriors were using at that time in a 48-minute game and tried to formulate it into a 40-minute game with a little bit longer shot clock. And so that's how we actually came up with the 200 passes.
But we found if we move the ball 200-plus passes, we're not going to lose many games. And then the games that we play really poorly offensively are usually our lowest passing games.
So I'm always curious. You guys play fast, and I love watching.
I've watched a lot of Arkansas this year because I'm a fan of you and I'm a fan of Anthony who shout out Anthony who is is your right hand man on staff but how how do you get the guys in like shape where they can play fast all the time I'm always curious about that when the teams are able to push tempo on everyone what how much of your practice is like hey this is all just conditioning and training and not actually shooting a basketball and dribbling a basketball? Well, it's interesting because we really believe that it starts in the summer in our offseason. We always do a mile run where our guards have to do it under 530, our wings have to do it under 540, and our bigs have to do it under 550.
Oh, my God. Wait, Connor Vanover ran under 550? Hold on, Big Cat.
He's the only one that I gave a pass to. So for people who don't know, he's like 7'1".
I don't think Connor could do it under 12 minutes, let alone under 6. Sometimes you got to give a guy a pass just because it's, I mean, that's, it's, it's stupid to even have him go out there and try to run the mile.
So, and then getting back to this fast style of play, really interesting. When I, when I was my father's assistant with the Minnesota Timberwolves in those first couple of years of the T-Wolves existence, we played really methodical and slow.
And I just said, you know what? When I become a head coach, I want to be cosmetically pleasing. Maybe that lets you keep your job a little bit longer than if you walked the ball up the floor and played a slower pace.
Yeah. Do you realize how insane that sounds to just a regular person, though? Like five minutes, 30 seconds for a mile? If you're like 6'2", 6'3"? I'm always fascinated by that.
I felt pain. I got shivers just thinking about having to run that quickly.
But yeah, because every team has a conditioning program, right? Every team has to be in shape. So does it come down to like, hey, our standards are just going to be a little bit higher than everybody else's standards? Or is there, you know, more of a measured scientific approach that goes into where you're like, here's the type of conditioning we need to work on, whether it's a mile run as opposed to working on, I don't know, like a three mile run? Yeah, no, I mean, I think like the mile run is really as much as anything, it's just kind of a mental test for us, as well as physically.

But then if anyone comes to our practices, there's no standing. We usually go under two hours every practice.
Most practices only an hour and maybe 30 minutes on the floor. But nobody's standing.
There's drill work. There's station work.
And we believe, you know, even this week, last week of college basketball season, there's going to be conditioning built into our practice. It might be shooting conditioning.
It might be defensive slide conditioning where you try to work defensively to try to, you know, play the whole shot clock out. So I think you've got to continue to not only work on your skill development throughout an entire college season, but you've also got to work on your conditioning daily as well.
So I know that you're a gym rat yourself. What can you run the mile in? With my now healed torn Achilles, I'm going to say I could run it under nine, I think.
That's humble. A little birdie told me that you spend every single day, no matter what, two hours in the gym, an hour cardio, an hour weightlifting.
Is that true? That is true. I know nobody's got more endurance than me.
I don't know how fast I can run it anymore, but certainly from an endurance standpoint, I can hang with anybody. Right.
He runs nine-minute miles, but he runs six of them at a time. Right.
I'm sure. Right.
Keep going. I also heard that you listened to part of my take when you're putting together game plans or you're breaking down film.
That's a great strategy, first of all. Second of all, what insights have we given you into setting up your game plans just by osmosis, listening to our voices while you're mapping this stuff out? I think I get a lot.
I've, uh, you know, cause coach Root is always listening as well. Sometimes even I'll listen to you guys laying on this couch right here in my office, two hours before game time for relaxation could be, can you guys spur a motivational idea that we can somehow twist around and use? And amusement as well.
You know, you got to go into a game like, you know, with the fresh mentality. So part of my take without a question is part of our daily routine here at Arkansas.
I could imagine you just listening and getting frustrated at Billy and then having a bad game because you're just you're just holding that negative energy.

So you do do a bunch of different things. I love when you use wrestling, you know, whether it be Ric Flair, The Undertaker or Daniel Bryan.
You're also the recruiting with the pictures. So you started that, what, two years ago? Was that when you started doing so? So for people who don't know, Coach Moss, when a recruit comes through the building,

he'll take an iconic like basketball picture with them uh whether it be like Dwayne Wade uh you know doing the the stance where LeBron's dunking behind him or whatever it may be have you done the Jeff Van Gundy I know I gave you that as a tip have you done the Jeff Van Gundy holding on to like uh I think it was Alonzo Morning's leg I think when you gave me that idea, Big Cat, it was right around the time when we stopped the visits. But as soon as we get through this pandemic, I'm definitely going to grab a recruit's leg as Coach Jeff Van Gundy did because you know we're about the same size.
We're both about 5'6", 146, 147 right in that weight class range. So I'm definitely going to do that picture with some recruit.
And it's interesting because the first time we did it, I kind of flipped the ball to a recruit, just got in a defensive stance. And the recruit said, hey, this reminds me of such and such a scene.
And then I said, hey, let me go throw a uniform on and let's recreate it.

Yes.

And so that's how it started.

And then every time a guy came on a visit, he would say, hey,

can we recreate this particular scene,

whether it was Iverson stepping over Ty Lue or whatever it may be.

The new pole you had was great.

I have two for you.

So I have two new ones for you. All right, I'm listening.
Lance Stevenson blowing into LeBron's ear. Great one.
That one will be very funny if you can recreate that. And then also I think you should recreate the 2003 draft photo with like Kirk Heinrich's pants and everyone's baggy suits.
Maybe get a couple suits and have everyone play dress-up. That would be very funny.
Well, I can get a baggy suit. I can just ask Coach Ruta.
He wears a little bit bigger suit than me, so I can just grab one out of his closet. I'm sure it's not up-to-date as far as style goes either.
So now I just got to have the recruit find one that works for him. Yes.
I've got three for you got three for you. The first one is actually, yeah, I got three Draymond and Kevin Durant.
When Draymond is talking Kevin Durant up, like giving him that motivational speech, make it a gift. Yeah.
Make it a gift. Yo, even better.
Yes. That would, now we're innovating.
Now we're innovating. Yes.
The second one is Allen Iverson crossing up Jordan. I think that'd be great.
Plus, that would give people an excuse to

compare you to Michael Jordan. Or maybe you could be

AI. I don't know.
And then the

third is the Jeannie bus cover

where she's just covering up her

private parts with basketballs.

That would be good.

I think that would get a lot of recruits in the door.

You guys are helping with the idea.

The ideas are flowing right now.

We got our whole staff in the background over here taking notes of this conversation. So I did want to – you touched on it, the transfers.
You're very fascinated with your recruiting because you – you know, at Nevada it was a lot of transfers, a lot of junior college guys. People said, hey, the big bugaboo is can recruit.
You come to Arkansas, you get some great freshmen. How does it work when you're looking for transfers

or junior college guys? What does that process look like? Because I think we all know Cal or

Coach K, they're going to get the five-star recruits. How do you find these diamonds like, diamonds in a rough? I mean, if you remember the Nevada teams, the Martin twins, like, that was great to watch.
So how do you find those guys? Well, the first thing when a guy goes in the portal is, you know, you've got to evaluate the player both statistically as well as on video. But then we've kind of come up with a formula here where if a player's a low major player and he's transferring up, what those stats will kind of correlate to.
And it's kind of like we spent some time with the Texas Rangers and their minor league guys, as well as people on the parent team, just to try to figure out, like, how do they project like a single A, double A, triple A player to the major leagues and that's really what you're doing when a guy's transferring up is you're trying to figure out you know like how much can his game grow or basically translate to a power five level and I think for us you know we had it really down to a science at Nevada through the four years. And then

when you go from a Mountain West program to an SEC program, now your formula has got to change. And so we're still working to try to come up with, we look at a guy's rebounds per minute, you know, what is that going to correlate if a guy's coming from the Sun Belt to the SEC from a rebounds per minute?

And then the easiest thing, you guys, from an evaluation standpoint, is a player's three-ball percentage as well as their free throw percentage, because there's very little wiggle room in those when a guy has a body of work, which is really why we got so heavily involved in transfers, is they had a body of work at the collegiate level.

And then in our recruiting meetings, we translated that to, hey, that's no different with an NBA team. You could either have a draft pick, and there's high risk, high reward, or you can go the free agent route, where you know what the guy is going to give you.
And that's how we equated transfers to like an NBA free agency. Yeah, I like that.
That's interesting, yeah, because that's like almost one of those money ball type market inefficiencies where if you can figure out how to be better at that than everybody else. Especially when you're not going to get, you know, I mean, you have guys on your team that are going to play in the NBA, but not everyone can beat Coach Cal and Coach K and get, you know i mean you you have i mean you have a draft you have guys on your team that are gonna play in the nba but not everyone can be coach cow and coach k and get you know a bunch of nba players every single year yeah i also heard from jake marsh he's not in here right now because he's actually i don't know if i should say this to you but uh he's interviewing alabama's head coach right now oh man do you have anything that you'd like me to pass along to Coach Oates? Not really.
Yeah. Okay.
But you know, just full disclosure, we are Tom Crean guys. That's okay, right? Hey, that's in the SEC.
Okay. He and I text almost every day.
Perfect. We love Coach Crean.
Perfect. Yeah.
Perfect. And Jake told me before he abandoned you on this show that your mom actually helps you write scouting reports about other teams.
Is that true? Well, my mom actually, she really critiques me. So she'll send me letters, handwritten letters, actually put them in the mail and kind of do a post-game report or a post-game eval on our team as well as me.
She will tell me, why did you call this timeout? Why did you not call a timeout? I don't

think that your guys executed baseline out of bounds at the 1142 mark of the first half,

but she's been around the game for a long, long time. Probably knows as much as a lot of assistant

coaches at the collegiate level, to be honest with you. She might know more than half the guys.

That's a good question. but she's been around the game for a long long time probably knows as much as a lot of assistant coaches at the collegiate level to be honest with you she might know more than half the guys that's awesome is she able to get you know like very serious with is she able to like put some like really speak her mind to you or does she have to still sugarcoat it because you're her son does she have to be nice no my mom's she's tough like she's not sugarcocoating anything she's coming straight at me with really what she believes that's i mean yeah she she can give you the honest truth what are you gonna do you're gonna stop being her son you can't do that so it's the it's the perfect person to give you that criticism i gotta be really nice too i mean she lives right above la jolla beach and tennis Club in San Diego, and she's got extra bedrooms.
So I got to make sure that I stay in good graces so that I can go there, hang out with her, head down to La Jolla Shores, jump in the water, maybe ride some waves, then go back for a nice dinner at her house. So we're going to keep everything really running smooth with any evals that she gives me.
Well, next time she's mean, just send her a picture of her grandkids and be like, you sure you want to do this? Because that's the weakness, right? Always. That is the weakness.
All right. Well, so my last question is your pregame speeches.
Getting guys fired up. Where do you draw inspiration when you're do you, how do you keep it different? How do you keep it new? And what's maybe your favorite pregame speech you've given? Well, it's funny.
Cause we were just at lunch and we were talking about like, what are we going to do for, for Texas A&M this weekend? Which we haven't come up with an idea. Cause you really got a plan for instance.
You know, we did a UPS delivery one the other day, a few games ago, where I dressed up as well as staff members in UPS uniforms. We handed the players boxes.
They had to open up the box and then it had a message for each player that was a different message. It might have been one guy had to rebound the ball, another guy had to take care of the, the, the ball.
And so that was fun because the players now, so at the 40 minute mark, I go in, I, I, I review our last game prep. It takes about seven minutes.
And then at the end of that's when I do, you know, some type of fun message, but it's got kind of what the theme has been leading up to the game but we got to play on you guys like we have we bring in props we bring in uniforms um and it's fun uh you know I did it with the Warriors my first year in Golden State and we were on a back-to-back in Denver Denver's a long long-travel airport's far from the NBA hotels downtown by the arena. And one of the players, after I got done doing the pregame, said, Coach, we're not leaving until we get one of your motivation things.
And I didn't have anything prepared. And the funny thing, it was Danny Fortson, who I didn't really play many minutes, and he was the last guy that I thought would have wanted any pregame message.
So we have fun with it. To me, it's a way to kind of loosen up the guys before they go out for their last warm-up.
So I have a tip for you for Texas A&M. We also are friends with Buzz Williams.
You should play the clip. We made a video with him a couple years ago, the williams uh basketball academy of hard work and toughness and he coached us up and we looked terrible so you should basically be like this is what you when you guys play poorly and play the video and be like you don't want to look like this out there because it's really bad that's a good idea if we don't use it pre-game we will definitely use it leading up to the games meaning the day before yeah that's that's a good one i i could we can weave that in for sure i'll i'll text it to anthony it's it's a uh yeah we were we looked really really bad pretty bad i think really bad yeah the pft was in a full suit i was in a suit with rec specs i think the best person that we were with was a pregnant lady so uh yeah yeah, it was not a great look for us.
But if you ever run out of ideas and you need something at the last minute, just pull a Coachella. Just go out and get a worm from the ground.
And just eat a worm and be like, we're ready, boys. And then no one questions the guy that just ate a worm.
It's like, that guy's crazy. Let's go to war.
That's a good point. I love it, PFT.
I'm going to keep that wormwood in the back of my mind

in case we ever forget one. Yes, yes.

Well, Coach, best of luck.

We're riding the must bus.

Best of luck in the SEC

tournament coming up in March Madness. We'll be

rooting for you, and we appreciate your time.

No, I appreciate it.

Big Cat, PFT, thanks for having

me on. Love, pardon

my take. Thanks for including me.
Hell yeah. Thanks, Coach.
Thanks, Coach. Good luck.
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All right, FireFest of the Week wrapping up.

Hank.

Henry.

Just, you know, getting torched by some of our own.

Uh-oh. There's an app.

Ken Jack, former intern, used to run our Instagram.

Yeah. There's a Snapchat app where if you have a beard It removes your beard He was going around people in the office Taking pictures of guys with beards He tweeted it out And then Cam, who runs our Instagram now Decided to post that on our Instagram It was last night, I go to open Instagram Just a disgusting As bad as I look without a beard in general This picture made me look 10 times worse because it was like Photoshop version of it.
You had a baby face. And it's just a close-up of it.
Giant face. Yeah.
I mean, it was like I look like a flat face, flat Henry. Yeah.
So I just opened Instagram. It was just getting absolutely torched.
It was, you know, it's never what you want to see. So that was my fire face.
And people thought it was really a picture of me without a beard that it was like photoshopped and like my eyes were crazy my mom texted me and she was like what is this i was like it's a it's a snapchat felt the shit no what's up with your eyes i was like i don't i have no idea your face looked like your ass in that picture yeah it was very very funny and hank doesn't it doesn't it suck when somebody manipulates uh whether it be like visual footage or audio footage about you and then they put it out on social media and everybody thinks that it's real. That's tough, isn't it? Yeah, but it wasn't like someone put up this picture and was like, does this sound like a fart or not? It was just like, here's a disgusting picture.
Tony Scheffler actually texted me. He was like, oh, my God, why did Hank do this? It's a Snapchat filter.
Yeah. He was very concerned.
I mean, my mom texted me and was like, what's going on? I was like, oh, my God. You look bad without a beard, but you don't look that bad without a beard.
Right, right. That's, yeah.
But you do look bad. No, yeah.
Pretty bad. Like, really bad.
You look almost as bad, but in a different way. At least with this picture, I can be like, it's a Snapchat filter.
However, if it was an actual picture without a beard, it would probably be just as bad. You know, when you don't have a beard regularly, you're disgusting and horrible to look at.
When I saw that picture, I was like, kill it right now. Right.
So that's the difference. Yeah.
So yeah, that was my fire fest. Sorry that you went through that, Hank.
Thank you. I appreciate it.
Alright, BFC, what's your fire fest? My fire fest of the week is that Space Jam leaked some of their still shots and some of the animations for the upcoming LeBron James movie. And Lola Bunny is no longer thick.
It sucks. They changed her from, I think the tweet from TMZ was like, they changed her from sensual to strong.
And listen, you can get your hottest cartoon characters list going of all time out there. I'm sure that's a good thing to embrace debate about.
We do that during mount rushmore season actually but lola bunny she was 1a she was top of the charts as far as like uh she was thicker than a bowl of oatmeal she had a snick she had some thighs on her now they just made her they made a string bean and i don't think i'm gonna go see the new space jam i can't i can't wait for the new space Jam. Yeah, I know.
If I can't get aroused to a cartoon character in a movie about basketball, then I don't think it's worth my money buying a ticket. But it also adds to the LeBron versus MJ debate.
Yeah, they totally took away. Yeah, everything that made her great.
If they nerfed Jessica Rabbit them out. Yeah, no, Jessica Rabbit's the go.
Unnerfable. Unnerfable.
Absolutely. All right, my Fire Fest is pretty simple.
Be nice to Billy Week. I've tried really hard, and I think I've done a really good job.
I've been very nice to Billy. Unfortunately, now that be nice to Billy Week is ending, I just want to say I'm very disappointed because Chris Sims came out with his quarterback rankings.
Oh, you actually did it. So you did it afterwards.
Chris Sims came out with his quarterback rankings, lit the lit the internet on fire and i was like you know what'd be great is if we had quarterback rankings that we could be like hey these are our quarterback rankings billy just didn't do the thing we asked him to do so now you did it after the fact yeah it was just one grade point off right so here we go first up we have justin field wait is this a what what let me see this let me Is this going to be a blog, right? So here we go. First up, we have Justin Fields.
Wait, is this a... Let me see this.
Is this going to be a blog, Billy? I don't know. Yeah, I thought...
Yeah, you should blog this. Yeah, I did.
Because, Big Cat, we want those clicks. Yeah, we do want these clicks.
People probably don't want to click on quarterback lists anymore because Chris Sims gave him all the good stuff. Yeah.
So you have Justin Fields, Mac Jones, Trevor Lawrence, three. See, this is what we needed.
And you also are not done. No, I got Zach Wilson.
This is the best. Billy was so proud of himself that he was like, look, I did this.
And I'm looking at it. It stops at four times.
But what needs to be said about the South Dakota State kid? Trey Lance, everything. Dude, he had zero interceptions.
He won the national championship. I know.
Does he project to be more of a Carson Wentz, or does he project to be more of an Italian backup Danucci? Yes. Forgot his name for a second.
Good job. Good job, Billy.
You did it. So be nice to Billy.
We continue. That's what I wanted.
I wanted when Chris Sims puts out his quarterback rankings. And they were great.
They were great. You know what? Chris Sims has been mostly right.
He does his homework. So I'm not going to, whatever.
I'm not going to hate on it. I don't think he's doing it for clickbait.
He's not doing it for effect. He's actually watching it.
So when he puts out his quarterback rankings and Trevor Lawrence is two, I want to be like, whoa, way too high, dude. We got him at three.
Yeah. But we couldn't do that.
We have at three. That should have been our click.
You robbed us of that moment. No, my take about Trevor Lawrence is that he is basically Tate Martell.
But since he's taller. No, but since he's taller because Tate Martell, like undefeated in high school, like greatest quarterback recruit ever.
The only difference is Trevor Lawrence is 6'6", not 5'11". and he's been able to keep the mirage up.
That's a pretty big difference. Right, but he's been able to keep the mirage.
That's like actually a giant difference. But the thing is, like quarterbacks who get like groomed like Trevor Lawrence in practice, they get as many reps as they want to get it right.
You got guys like Mac Jones, third string guy. Yeah, you know, guys who've been third string.
You know, Joe Burrow, who've spinned the backup role where they're like, I need to get it right on the first rep. Zero room for error.
Those are the guys who end up like Tom Brady because Tom Brady was one of those guys. Just really one guy.
Trevor Lawrence, he's going to... What about Peyton Manning? He was pretty good.
Right, but Peyton Manning was one of those guys. The guys who got all the reps.
He was in middle school, probably. Exactly.
All in favor. Exactly, but then you put him on the Colts.
Yeah. How'd he do? He was pretty good.
Really good. He went into a great scenario there.
Trevor Lawrence is going to get thrown on the Jets. Wait, no, no.
He was terrible his rookie year. No, he had a million interceptions.
He threw a lot of interceptions, but he was pretty good. The team was bad.
But he went into a better scenario. I think he went 4-12.
I actually don't remember Peyton Manning's rookie season. I wasn't born.
It's very clear you don't. It was either 2-14 or 4-12.
He went into a great spot. I have no idea.
I wasn't born. 3-13.
3-13. Through 28 interceptions, 26 touchdowns.
Okay. So.
That's a lot. Also, Kate.
This is tough. Synapses connected.
That was very quick that we just threw something out there that was like, uh-oh. Now, what do I say? Anyway, the NFL was different back then.
Yes. The NFL was different back then.
Good point. They didn't lean on quarterbacks as hard as they do now.
So what I'm really upset about is the fact that Chris Sims put Trevor Lawrence number two, right? And him putting Trevor Lawrence number two, that is a take that is going to get people to watch your stuff, click on your stuff. And Billy, if you had had him three, it's like the world would have been on fire.
You would have owned it. Sims when he came out with his list putting him at number two then people would have been like oh well you remember this other guy that had him at number three and then boom that's more clicks for us and we got robbed of that and so I'd like to see you blog it I'd like to see you do a baldy breakdown get your spoon out like Jeff Schwartz yeah we, we want some tapes, some gifts.
So do it all. But you know what? Good job, Billy.
We'll pepper it up. Be nice to Billy Week was a great success.
Give me the passing cone, the vision cone, like for Matt and Tim. I think Mac Jones actually has the biggest promise out of all of them because he's not going to go to one of the top draft pick teams, like shitty teams.
He's going to go to a team that has a pretty good established team but needs a quarterback. Patriots? Will you have him ranked? Number two.
Okay. No, he wouldn't probably go to the Patriots then.
But I don't actually know what the ranking means. I'm sort of doing in projection.
No, in five years we can look back and be like, oh, well, Billy had. Yeah.
What was I actually ranking them for? You got to clear that up, Billy. That's one thing that you have to figure out.
I was just like, I was ranking them like who I think would do the best. Yes.
Correct. Correct.
Correct. Correct.
Like I wasn't doing their draft order. What would the other options be? You're not doing a mock draft, no.
No, if you're a GM of every team, how does these guys go off the board? No, I'm predicting, no, I'm, what I was doing was predicting, like, the triple B. Ten years from now, how we track them.
Correct. Okay, yes, yes.
Just like you had Swag Kelly as your number one quarterback four years ago. No, no, I had him.
Not talent. Talent-wise.
Dude, you guys, you tweeted that thing out today. He was a beast.
Dudeag Kelly, that game against Arkansas. The last of the true gunslingers.
The last. Literally.
Yeah. He had 200 yards.
If you keep it in the trunk of your car. What was the game he had 200 yards rushing and 200 yards passing? That was almost against Arkansas.
In a loss. If you put up numbers in a close loss, that's a guy who wants to win.
That was almost against Arkansas. Great game.
probably the best college football game of the last five years trevor lawrence has only started two games which he's lost and that's once one against lsu and um the last one against alabama so it just occurred to me um i don't want to make the same mistake twice we lost out on some clicks you're going to try to get those back for us hopefully you'll i'm sure you'll execute on that tremendously um but i don't want to miss out on the other thing that gets you a lot of clicks this time of year, which is brackets. And there haven't been that many brackets come out.
So what we should do... Billy should do a 64-team bracket of all the quarterbacks in the draft.
Billy looked over to me like, Jake, you'd do it. Yeah, he did.
Well, come on. No, you could do it bracket-wise, or we could steal Billy's clicks from him, and we could put out our own bracket of, like, Billy's worst 32 fuck-ups since he's been on part of my take.
Like, leaving Rabbit defrosting in the main lobby of the entire company, tweeting out my dick and my cell phone. No, no, what are you doing right now? Getting big cats.
It's Be Nice to Billy Week. Getting big cats.
Why are we doing this? It's Be Nice to Billy Week. No, no, no.
This is Be Nice to Billy Week. I will not partake in this.
It's coming out next week, though. No, but I'm extending Be Nice to Billy Week.
I'm extending Be Nice to Billy Week. I disagree.
I'm going to keep trying to be nice to him. I think, Billy, we should do a bracket of Billy's Biggest Fights.
No, I'm going to be nice to Billy. I'm going to keep being nice to Billy.
Billy, do you have a Fyre Fest?

Yes.

Last episode, I kind of clumsily was talking about unpaid internships.

What I was trying to say is that there's many. Oh, you got canceled?

There's many.

Did you get canceled?

There's many.

I just realized.

I was thinking about it a lot because I realized.

What I was trying to say is that we can't get rid of unpaid internships,

but there are resources. Yes, we can.
But I can't. but there are resources.
We shouldn't, is what you're saying. I posted on Twitter, there's plenty of search engines to find funding and scholarships for unpaid internships that you can qualify for, especially underrepresented.
So then you get paid. Right, but from government entities and private funds.paid? Or is it paid? Funds.
Do you get paid? You don't get paid from the employer but you can get grants so you can take those unpaid intern flips. That sounds like a lot of work.
It's a search engine if you qualify for them. So you're just assuming everyone has a computer? Wow.
Yeah. Problematic.
Yikes. One person tweeted I was like I'm'm disappointing your guys take on unpaid internships because uh it's never going to be where they're all going to be unpaid and there's always people that are willing to do the job for free not say like it does suck that you can't uh that some people get excluded but this is the way that it is and we're like yeah that's what we're saying it does exactly it does suck that some people get excluded correct so our take is so try to fix it pay them right anyway pay the boys and girls i've hosted several links on twitter at billy hot so all the people who don't have a computer will never see it all right jake you're creating um i'm taking a page out of Hank's playbook here.
I booked a vacation. Oh, okay.
It's good stuff.

Ends of May, Memorial Day. Assuming everything goes well with vaccinations, it'll be safe.
Of course, do the right thing. Can I guess where you're going? Sure.
Cooperstown. No.
Hold on, hold on, hold on. Evanston.
South Carolina. Charleston, South Carolina.
Good guess. Miami.
That's the hometown. Where did someone from Florida go on vacation? Aspen.
Can't you worry about home? Yeah. Okay.
All right. Continue.
Aruba. Whoa.
With my home friends. Whoa.
The Fyre Fest is the majority of us booked a flight. Two people didn't.
And then we looked the next day. The flights go from $250 a round trip to $800.
So now they might not go, which could screw us because we would have to pay more. So hopefully everything works out.
But I'm excited. What are you going to do in Aruba? Hang out.
Blow. Oh, yeah.
All night. Yep.
I bet you fucking hit swaggy suits, bro. Big time.

Totally know what that means.

So we'll see.

22.

99.

32.

Cephalopods can pass cognitive tests for young children.

38.

Those are squids and octopuses.

Bring back 69, Billy.

Otherwise, I'm not going to be nice to you.

Love you guys.

Can I keep it?

Nope.

I'm not going to be nice to you.

We got to you.

Love you guys.

Can I keep it?

No, I'm not going to be nice to you.

August 30th, October 20th.

Whoa.

Love you guys. Thank you.
Take me on.

I'll become who I want to.

I'm talking away.

I don't know what I'm to say.

I'm saying anyway.

Today's another day to find you. Shine away I'll be coming for your love okay Shining away I'll be coming for your love okay Take on me Take me on I'll be gone

I'll be gone. Take to you gone.
I'll be gone.

All the things that we say

isn't allowed.

Just to play my worries away.

You are the things I've got to forget.

You're shining away.

I'll be coming for you anyway.

You're shining away.

I'll be coming for you anyway. Shining away.
I'll be coming for you anyway.

Take on me.

Take me up.

I'll be gone.

I'll become empty Thank you. We'll see you next time.