Ravens QB Trace McSorley, Maryland Social Media Editor and MNF Recap

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Speaker 1 On today's part of my take, we have Trace McSorley from Monday Night Football, the best football game of the year. Do a little cleanup on that.
It was awesome. Tons of storylines.
Great football game.

Speaker 1 Exciting and a terrible, terrible beat. Well, not actually that terrible.
We can explain that.

Speaker 1 We have Giannis signing for a ton of money, $228 million,

Speaker 1 staying in Milwaukee. Hot seat, cool throne.
We have a social media

Speaker 1 account manager. How do we say that?

Speaker 2 Social media account.

Speaker 1 Yeah, manager

Speaker 1 manager

Speaker 1 from Maryland, who actually gave us behind the scenes of what it's like to post horrific football scores against his team.

Speaker 2 There were like two years when everyone was calling them ninjas. You're always like a social media ninja.

Speaker 1 That's about as lame as you get. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Had a real hot run.

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Today is Wednesday, December 16th.

Speaker 1 And Lamar Jackson had diarrhea.

Speaker 2 Yes, we're just going to run with that.

Speaker 1 I'm going to run with that.

Speaker 1 Get it, run.

Speaker 2 Let's get all those out of the way first. Hey, Big Cat, did you hear that Lamar was about to drop the Browns off at the Super Bowl?

Speaker 1 Oh, that's good. Did you hear that at the end of the game? Wait, no,

Speaker 1 did the Browns or the Ravens? No, the Ravens went for that final deuce.

Speaker 2 Oh, they went for two.

Speaker 1 Well, they got that final deuce to cover the spread, too.

Speaker 2 Big hat, did you hear that Lamar was running through the bowels of the stadium?

Speaker 1 Dude, it was so bad on Twitter and also. It was so good, though.

Speaker 1 It was so good. It was so bad all at the same time.
It's also very funny that

Speaker 1 I kind of wish we had a job in TV for those moments because if you just make just

Speaker 1 the most subtle joke, everyone will be like, holy shit, dude.

Speaker 1 That was awesome. The poop joke.
And I'll laugh at it. I'm not saying I'm above that.
Please.

Speaker 2 If you saw the shots that they did at the three-man booth, it was Greasy, it was Steve Levy, and it was

Speaker 2 Lewis Reddick. And Steve Levy had no pun intended, the biggest shit-eating grin on his face because he knew what was going on.
He knew what the conversation was, and he knew that he couldn't say it.

Speaker 2 Much like the JPP hand stuff when he knows that he can't say that.

Speaker 2 He was just sitting there smiling and letting the other two guys talk. And he was looking at the camera like, Lamar right now is shitting.
I want to say it. You want to hear it.

Speaker 2 everyone everyone thinks it everyone's thinking about it I was shitting after I was upset because I had to go take a crap I left my phone out on the couch I come back Lamar's missing game time I had cramps during the game Lamar is missing game time I had just missed the fact that Lamar was taking a poop while I was taking a poop yep so I understand how it must have been for him my big question is why didn't Lamar just stay in the game and have diarrhea in his pants he should have done that because maybe he probably had cramps and he's probably telling the truth it would make him way less likely to get tackled if he had just

Speaker 2 Big Stain. Miles Garrett's hitting him over the head with his own diaper.

Speaker 1 Wait, did Miles Garrett come back in the game? He got hurt.

Speaker 2 His elbow got rolled up.

Speaker 1 I don't know what got fucked up.

Speaker 2 I mean, with all the shit that was going on.

Speaker 1 It was chaos. And

Speaker 1 the loser of the entire night, because I don't even, we'll talk about the game in a second. The loser of the entire night isn't even the Browns.

Speaker 1 It's the fact that Paul Pierce's entire legacy is just anytime someone might go to the bathroom during a game. Guy won a title,

Speaker 1 tons of all-star games, and he was trending. And then Lamar even said, I didn't pull Paul Pierce.
I actually had cramps. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So it is, I do imagine Paul Pierce just minding his own business, trying to watch football, and then all of a sudden he's trending. He's trending on the battle.
God damn it.

Speaker 1 He probably knows that when he trends.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's either somebody got stabbed or somebody had diarrhea during a game. Right.
And

Speaker 2 everyone's getting their jokes off on Paul Pierce.

Speaker 1 So the actual game was phenomenal.

Speaker 1 The Browns,

Speaker 1 I hate to do this again because we talked about it on Sunday with what game do we say both teams won? Oh, the Dolphins, the Chiefs.

Speaker 1 That kind of was a both teams' win game because the Ravens needed to win, obviously, to get into the playoffs. They have to kind of win out here.

Speaker 1 But the Browns, when they're down 14 in the second half,

Speaker 1 and again, they're down with like two minutes left. Those are Browns' times to just be the Browns.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Even the two-point conversion that tipped off of, I think, Kareem Hunt's hands and went into Donovan People Jones' hands, like, those are Browns' moments that don't go their way.

Speaker 1 And yeah, they lost, but you lost to Justin Tucker being a fucking monster and being able to kick it from anywhere. The Browns were impressive in that game.

Speaker 1 Baker looked good, composed, like he had a bad interception, bounced back from it. I don't know.
I just, I like what the Browns do. I think Stefanski's an awesome, awesome head coach.

Speaker 1 The only thing you could fault him with is they scored too quick. And I do believe in that.

Speaker 1 I mean, they scored too quick to end the game, especially with a kicker like Justin Tucker on the other side.

Speaker 2 So the only reason that it's not also a win for the Browns is that the entire city of Cleveland's mind goes to looking at the rest of their schedule right after the game's over. Right.

Speaker 2 Because now doubt has crept in, like a little bit of doubt, a little bit of doubt. But that's all it takes for a Browns.
Jeff D.

Speaker 1 Lowe and the D stands for doubt. Doubt.

Speaker 2 Yeah, brutal is what I'm sure Jeff D. Lowe just kept repeating to himself.

Speaker 1 Brutal loss. Brutal.

Speaker 2 Absolutely brutal loss.

Speaker 2 But your mind does go to a bad place if you're in this situation, right?

Speaker 2 Your record right now is 9-3. And when you see 9-3, you're like, we're an awesome team.
And the Browns are a fun team. Those Browns from last week can win the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 The Browns from parts of the second half last night could win the Super Bowl. The Browns at the very end of the game not going to be able to win the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 But your mind goes to the place like we've suffered through every other kind of heartbreak. This would be like the season-long equivalent of the fumble.

Speaker 2 And they have to win two games, right, to get in?

Speaker 1 No, they could win one and get in.

Speaker 2 Maybe, but they need some help if that were to happen.

Speaker 1 They could win one and get in, and they do have the Jets. They've got the Jets.
We'll pitch that in.

Speaker 1 That's pretty much 10 wins. They have 10 wins.

Speaker 2 And then maybe the Steelers in week 17 aren't playing Ben. Maybe.

Speaker 2 Maybe they beat the Browns next weekend. But that's why it doesn't feel like a double win.
Because if you're a Browns fan, you think like this has happened before. We might be fucked.

Speaker 1 I still think the Browns are going to make the playoffs i wouldn't be too concerned but it's it's definitely a possibility right now uh the other remember the dolphins too have a uh pretty tough schedule coming up because i think they played the patriots the raiders and the bills so there's going to be you're i don't think the other nine and six teams or sorry nine and four teams are all going to run the table here you know what i mean so like that would be you kind of if you can wait beat the jets and then win one of those other two games you'll be okay you'll be set yeah but that that's where their mind goes.

Speaker 2 And I understand it because it's happening them before. Absolutely.
I also thought it was pretty sweet when at the end of the first half, they threw that Hail Mary.

Speaker 2 And Baker was, he did the coolest thing ever. He knew he was on TV.
He knew America was watching him. He just starts pointing downfield.
He's like, go deep. He's saying, like, go deep three times.

Speaker 2 He threw it 78.

Speaker 2 Then he just threw it out of the end zone just to be like, what's up? He's got a hose. I got a hose out of it.

Speaker 1 He's got an absolute hose. And then on, so yeah, the Browns, I agree with you.
The doubt creeps in a little bit here.

Speaker 1 Their defense is not good, but their offense, like you wanted Baker to have a game where he bounces back from that bad interception, primetime game. Ravens have a good defense, all those things.

Speaker 1 The Ravens survive. Lamar Jackson makes, like,

Speaker 1 Lamar Jackson still misses throws that he should make, but he also is, when he gets hot,

Speaker 1 he's a playmaker pretty much like unlike anyone else except Mahomes. You know,

Speaker 1 that play he had where he comes back in and fourth down and throws it deep.

Speaker 1 The play at the end of was it the first half when he scrambles and throws it deep and they score at the end of the first half. Like he makes plays that very few guys can make.

Speaker 1 He also misses a lot of guys. Also Hollywood Brown drops everything.
So I think if you're the Ravens, you're like, hey, we can get hot here down the stretch.

Speaker 1 And if we can get a little mojo, we're going to be back in this picture because other than the, like, it's the Chiefs. And then everyone else is kind of in that good category.

Speaker 1 We're the Bills, remember?

Speaker 2 We move the Bills up.

Speaker 1 And then everyone else is good. Yeah.
So it's like, okay, anyone could do this.

Speaker 2 Yeah, with Lamar, you can't just evaluate him as like a passer, just like a traditional passer, because

Speaker 2 he's made into a better passer when he's running the ball. And when the ball is in his hands, he changes the way that defenses play him.
So

Speaker 2 he's able to engineer easier throws for himself by manipulating the defense thinking he's going to run.

Speaker 1 And he was awesome running the ball last week.

Speaker 2 And when he's awesome at running the ball, it makes his passing a lot better.

Speaker 1 And guess what? Like, I've been hard on the Ravens. I still think they're frauds, but what I've always said is I want to see Lamar come back late, and he did that last night.

Speaker 1 So you have to give them credit for that. You can't be a hater when that happens.

Speaker 1 Both Baker and Lamar had some bad throws, but they also made some big, big, big-time plays. And it was an awesome Monday football game.

Speaker 2 We were due for one of those. Last night's game was life-affirming.

Speaker 2 It was the reason why we watched sports. I texted Big Cat after the game.
I was was like,

Speaker 2 can I request a post-game?

Speaker 1 I feel bad for people.

Speaker 2 I feel bad for people who don't watch sports tweets.

Speaker 1 And it was like 20 minutes later, I was like, oh shit, that was for me.

Speaker 2 There was one moment in particular that it's going to be seared into my brain because it was as all the Lamar shit was going on. It was as Baker was driving down the field.

Speaker 2 The Browns fans were awesome. There were people wearing full mascot costumes of giant fuzzy dogs high-fiving each other.
The Browns go down and score. The Ravens are stuck in quarterback purgatory.

Speaker 2 One of them is in the bowels of the stadium. Then the Browns go back and score on a pass to Kareem Hunt.

Speaker 2 And then they cut to the pylon cam as Kareem Hunt's extending the ball into the camera of the pylon cam. And I was like, there's no better sport in the world.

Speaker 2 There's no better television in the world than to be sitting here watching Monday Night Football.

Speaker 1 And on top of all of that, obviously

Speaker 1 it isn't a packed house, but there was enough weird Browns fans to give us some laughs.

Speaker 1 We had the Browns and Ravens fans jawing at each other. We had the pumpkin head.
We had the sad dog face.

Speaker 2 Like Dogs as it was drinking.

Speaker 1 Somber beer. Yeah, like there was enough of the crowd shots and Cleveland charm that gave us the full experience.
It was just a beautiful night. It was a great, great night.
And

Speaker 1 the only thing I'm going to say, and this is a big-time trigger warning for all Browns fans, I make this analogy often, but it is like watching an M.

Speaker 1 Night Shyamalan movie, and the dog's in the backyard, and he's barking, and he's going crazy, and you look out in your backyard, and you're like, shut up, Fido. Why are you barking?

Speaker 1 And then you go back inside and just live your life. Little did you know, the boogeyman, the alien, the disaster was coming, and that was why the dog was barking.
I'm that dog.

Speaker 1 You got to get rid of Cody Parky right now. Cody Parky will fuck you in the face if the Browns make the playoffs.
There is no surer bet in the entire world than Cody Parkey doing this to the Browns.

Speaker 1 I said it when Cody Parky double-doinked. You can go back and listen to the show we did on that Friday, and I was like, I'm nervous about Cody Parky.

Speaker 1 I think he's going to fuck us because he did it all year. He's doing it again all year.

Speaker 1 Cody Parky will miss a big kick in a playoff game for the Browns, and the Browns will have no one to blame but themselves because everyone has alerted you.

Speaker 1 Everyone has been that dog saying, stop, stop, stop. Get rid of him.
Get anyone else. Do the Vrabel and don't kick.
Yeah. Just do anything but have Cody Parky kick in a big moment.

Speaker 2 Spin zone, though, for you. It would be better if Cody Parky got in the game.

Speaker 2 What if Triple Parky gets in, hits three uprights? Yes, I want him. And then everyone forgets the double doink.

Speaker 2 Good morning, America. Today's show.
Does the car wash? Maybe goes on Maury.

Speaker 1 There's nothing I'm rooting for more. Sorry, Brown.

Speaker 2 So just retract that entire last point.

Speaker 1 Well, no,

Speaker 1 Brown. I'm rooting for that, but I don't think I can be blamed if it happens because I warned you.
Okay. So I gave you the warning.

Speaker 1 I told you it was going to happen, and if it happens, I'll be the happiest man in the world because then everyone will talk about that and not the double doink.

Speaker 1 But I told you that this was coming and that you better be ready for it. And the Browns are just going headfirst into a disaster and they have no one to blame but themselves.

Speaker 2 And then there was the ending of the game,

Speaker 2 the safety that they took to end the game. Jarvis Landry took it.

Speaker 2 They need to figure out a way to run that play more efficiently because most teams, when they try to run the tossback play at the end of a game,

Speaker 2 they just keep going backwards and backwards. The trick is,

Speaker 2 you got to find a seam, cut, and then have some guy that's always behind you that you throw back to. And that's how you open up the game a little bit.
Oh, it's very easy.

Speaker 1 It's very easy to do.

Speaker 2 No, it's impossible to run, but they just catch the ball and then run backwards and then try to keep throwing it back.

Speaker 1 You just kind of give up.

Speaker 2 Yeah, maybe at some point you can just punt the ball.

Speaker 1 Can you punt the ball on that? You can't punt the ball on that. You should try.
It was, so I had the Ravens minus three. I was very, very happy.

Speaker 1 I don't think it's considered like the worst beat ever if you had the Browns only because you went from a push to a loss. You have to go from a win to a loss for it to be true.
It's bad.

Speaker 1 It's horrific. You thought you were getting away with a push.
Don't get me wrong. It's bad.

Speaker 1 But like, worst beat ever category has to be that you're winning the bet and then all of a sudden you're losing it, not push. Because like I was I was ecstatic.
I was very, very happy.

Speaker 1 That was lucky for me. Extremely lucky.
The gambling gods will be coming for my ass. But I also like push to a win, push to a loss.
It feels different than when it shifts all the way.

Speaker 2 And depending on how much money you had on it, if you had like a unit on it, it's not even that bad because that's a story that you can tell. Like you were on the receiving end of that play.

Speaker 2 I'd rather lose on that play than be like, oh man, I can't believe I had the under in Raiders Colts. Man, that was a shitty, like, who cares about that? It's a normal game.

Speaker 2 This is a great story you can tell.

Speaker 2 I took the Browns to cover on that Monday night football game where Lamar Jackson spent half the time getting rid of the Chipotle that was in his anus. Yep.

Speaker 1 Pooping himself. All right, we have Tracy Corley on.
What do you say?

Speaker 5 One thing about the game. What are we forgetting?

Speaker 2 What? What, one thing?

Speaker 1 Scorgami. Yeah, Scorigami.
Gotta give love to the Nerds.

Speaker 2 So happy. I love you, Scorigami.

Speaker 1 I was so happy for you. You were the real winner.

Speaker 2 What did the New York Times scoregami bot say the percentages of scoregami happening would be?

Speaker 5 I don't know, but this was the 1,061st unique score.

Speaker 1 There is something so unique and thrilling about the post, like after the zeros safety or touchdown, where that moment where you're like, are they going to count it?

Speaker 1 Because they actually had that moment where they didn't put it up on the scoreboard.

Speaker 7 And Levy said 45 to 42 first.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and we all were like,

Speaker 1 wait, they had, because party thinks, like, they could just walk off and just...

Speaker 1 Just let it just go and be 45-42. And that was, that's a heart-stopping moment.
Unbelievable moment.

Speaker 1 And if you missed the whole game, well, here's the recap. Lamar Jackson proved why he was named MVP of the league last year.

Speaker 1 He came out of the locker room after being injured, went on a game-winning drive, and put his team in a position to win. Justin Tucker hit the field goal to seal the win.
That's Magic Johnson's recap.

Speaker 1 Okay, good recap. Thank you, Magic.

Speaker 1 He's parodying himself. He's a blogger now.

Speaker 2 He logs in and he writes a blog about what happened last night in sports.

Speaker 1 Justin Tucker hit the field goal to seal the win is the most boring way to describe an awesome play.

Speaker 2 By the way, I call bullshit 1,061 different scores. How is that pos?

Speaker 2 How is that possible?

Speaker 1 Perme scores. There aren't that many numbers.

Speaker 2 There aren't that many numbers. We just stunned you there.

Speaker 1 What are you going to say, Billy? You know math? No. We're being positive vibes for Billy.

Speaker 7 It is 5 p.m.

Speaker 7 No.

Speaker 1 You'll understand that later on in the show.

Speaker 7 Possible scores that have happened.

Speaker 2 Yes, I'm aware how it works.

Speaker 1 Nice PFT.

Speaker 2 I'm just saying my brain says, okay, teams can score in between 1 and 100 points on one side and then 1 and 100 points on another. Correct.
That should only be 200 different scores.

Speaker 1 And really, it's only like 15 scores. It's like 14, 10.

Speaker 2 Yeah, 17, 20. 24.
They're not football numbers. Right.
I dispute those facts.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that actually is totally made up. What if Scorikami was a fraud this whole time? Like, who would actually check it?

Speaker 2 No one.

Speaker 2 I would be hurt, but he would live on.

Speaker 1 He would be on.

Speaker 2 We live in a house of of cards house of lies uh we've we've discussed this offline off the show but it is kind of participation trophy culture that some sports books are giving money to people that want i hate that

Speaker 1 i hate that participation trophy culture yeah no no no barcel sportsbook will not do that we've actually had that conversation with dave we because that's because then it's just every time you lose you're like where's my free money no you want the scars the scars are what make it fun Being able to say that you lost that bet makes it fun.

Speaker 1 Not like, oh, I lost that bet, but also I got free money back.

Speaker 1 Come on. Come on.
It's all just for what? A Ravel tweet? By the way, Ravel pretending that he's not going to hedge his bet of Ohio State minus 20. It's like, bro, you'd have to put down like $100,000.

Speaker 1 Whatever. I'm not even going to get mad.
Not going to get mad. Haven't thought about this.
Not going to get mad. Okay.

Speaker 1 Giannis.

Speaker 1 Giannis got paid. Back.

Speaker 2 Five years, $226 million.

Speaker 1 Yes. $228.
$228. $228.2.
Who's counting? 228.2.

Speaker 1 I think this is actually great for the league.

Speaker 2 Ooh, you're great for the league guy.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. I like it.
Absolutely.

Speaker 1 You can't win these arguments because Twitter is just so knee-jerk. But if you have ever criticized hyper teams and then you criticize Giannis for staying in Milwaukee, hyper teams.
Super teams.

Speaker 1 Hyper drive. I was thinking of hyper drive.
Super teams, and then you criticize Giannis for staying in Milwaukee, you're a hypocrite. I think it's.

Speaker 1 That's why I said hyper because I was getting a hypocrite.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I think it's great for Milwaukee. Yeah.

Speaker 2 If I'm a Bucs fan, obviously, like, I'm going to be pumped about this.

Speaker 2 And I don't think that Giannis is the type of guy that will pull a James Harden three years from now. Well, I think he might.

Speaker 2 Three years from now, if they're not winning, you think he's just going to be like, I'm leaving.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because

Speaker 1 you take the money and then you worry about the wrestling.

Speaker 4 A couple first-round exits.

Speaker 1 Yes. He's gone.

Speaker 1 Yes. That will change a man.

Speaker 2 I think Giannis is happy in Milwaukee. I think we need to applaud players like Giannis.

Speaker 1 No, I am. I'm applauding him, but let's just be realistic here.
He still has an out because it's the NBA, and any player can say I want out at any time. But you have to take the,

Speaker 1 him taking the money is good for Milwaukee right now. It's good for Giannis.
It's a win-win in that respect. It's a win for the league because you have a little bit more parity.

Speaker 1 You have the small market teams, like teams drafting a superstar and be able to hold on to him is important for the league. I really believe that.

Speaker 1 But with all that said, if they get bounced like four years in a row, he'll be like, Yeah, I'm out.

Speaker 2 What do you think Giannis is going to buy? And we know his name's Giannis, but we call him Giannis. What do you think he's going to buy with all that money?

Speaker 2 That seems like a shitload of money for a guy. Like, he just got introduced to smoothies two years ago.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the problem is he lives in Milwaukee, so he'd go to Cruising Chubbies a lot. He could buy Cruising Chubbies.

Speaker 2 He'd go to the Dales, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, he can go. The Dales.
The Dells. The Dales.
I like the Dales.

Speaker 2 Yeah, the Dale's. He could either show his art.

Speaker 2 Bubba Burgers.

Speaker 1 Yeah. He could probably.

Speaker 1 He could probably

Speaker 1 buy the entire Packer, all the shares, right? Yeah. He should buy the entire Packer Packer

Speaker 1 every basement in Wisconsin.

Speaker 2 Invent a new Bloody Mary at Sobelman's that has a Euro in it.

Speaker 2 You know what he should do? Just turn like Culver's

Speaker 2 shitload of Culver's entire coast of Milwaukee, turn it into the Mediterranean, just buy like 50 yachts.

Speaker 1 And a new sun just sits on top of it.

Speaker 2 Yeah, build a sun.

Speaker 1 Build a sun.

Speaker 2 Pay for the brightest light bulb to ever be invented. Yes.

Speaker 1 i do i do uh appreciate twitter being like i if i were in the nba i would play for like five million just and and get rings yeah like like it and and the idea that yannis i think he could have made 180-ish if he had went somewhere else instead he's making 228 being like dude what do you need that extra 50 million for it's like well that's a lot of money and that's like this is a guy who went from nothing to having wealth for his family for generations.

Speaker 2 That's pretty fucking cool. He also strikes me as a guy that appreciates the fact that the Bucs,

Speaker 2 he wasn't the first overall pick. They invested time into him, and they worked with him because they saw something in his future, tried to develop into a great player.

Speaker 2 And obviously, he was probably, George was probably going to become a great player anyways, but I feel like he's got a little bit of loyalty to the team because they went through that time together where he wasn't a superstar.

Speaker 2 Yep. And so, yeah, it's good.
I was going to say it's good for Milwaukee, but I like you being a good for the league guy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, it's good for the league. I truly do believe that because you don't want,

Speaker 1 I mean, we don't want four teams to have all the best players. You also, it is nice to have small market teams compete

Speaker 1 because otherwise it just becomes like, okay, the Heat and the Lakers and the Knicks and the Nets are going to play every single year. I don't know.
It's good for the league. I'm in for it.

Speaker 1 I'm in for it.

Speaker 1 And happy for Giannis.

Speaker 1 Happy for Milwaukee. I mean, I don't like the Bucs, but I'm happy for...

Speaker 1 I know fans, I'm friends with fans of the Bucs, and they have been stressed for a long time about this.

Speaker 1 They have been dealing with the jokes, with the conversations.

Speaker 1 We've said this before, but the idea that the NBA has become a league where you talk more about the off-season than the real season, where it's not Giannis is about to win an MVP.

Speaker 1 It's where is Giannis going to go. That sucks if you're a Bucs fan.
So to have that pressure kind of released for a little bit is probably nice.

Speaker 2 I'm just glad that we don't have to endure eight months of teams putting up these like weird transactions, like fans of teams going to the trade machine and being like, who says no to this?

Speaker 2 Like shipping the entire Phoenix Suns. Right.
And doing so, like working out the sign and trade with all these

Speaker 2 weird contracts. I'm just excited we don't have to deal with any of that.
So yeah,

Speaker 2 he's going to stay in Milwaukee

Speaker 2 and he's going to lose to the heat in the Eastern Conference Finals.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and they're going to, yeah, they'll start basically letting him shoot threes in the playoffs

Speaker 1 and blocking him from going to the rim, and the Bucks will get bounced.

Speaker 2 I like this. Their general manager, John Horst, said, this is our Super Bowl.
We work every day of every year to have great processes and decision-making filters.

Speaker 2 We go through them, and there's confidence in that. So, this is their Super Bowl.
Congratulations to the Milwaukee Bucks for winning the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 This is the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 And just one last note: just a reminder that every single team scouted Giannis except the Knicks.

Speaker 1 They're They're the only team that didn't go to Greece. It's so fucking funny.

Speaker 1 All right, let's do Hot Seat Cool Throne.

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Speaker 1 Hank, Hot Seat Cool Throne.

Speaker 4 I'm a Hot Seat is LeVar Ball.

Speaker 1 What happened?

Speaker 4 L'Angelo got cut.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 One day. Anthony Lamb.

Speaker 5 He stole all the headlines.

Speaker 4 Oh, wow.

Speaker 5 All the headlines were L'Angelo Ball and two other players.

Speaker 4 Disrespectful. That sucks.
Wait, who else?

Speaker 5 Anthony Lamb on the Pistons. He's one of the two players.

Speaker 1 He's disrespecting the countermounts.

Speaker 4 He'll find his way back. Lamar Cole.
Will he?

Speaker 1 Yeah. I don't think so.
For sure.

Speaker 4 LeVar called the Pistons a raggedy as hell franchise. Mm-hmm.
So, you know,

Speaker 4 he had his week where he had all three sons in the NBA. So I guess you can say he's a man of his word.

Speaker 1 He was proven correct. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And I mean, to be able to call that shot and actually have it work out,

Speaker 2 I gained respect for LeVar Ball this offseason. How can you not?

Speaker 1 The odds of that happening are very, very, very, very low. And he called it and it happened.

Speaker 2 Making fun of him getting cut is a little baller move.

Speaker 1 Mm-hmm. Big time little baller energy.

Speaker 4 Then my cool throne is Coach K.

Speaker 4 So he's been getting a lot of heat on these airwaves, especially and just all over the world.

Speaker 1 Deserve it.

Speaker 4 But the coach that came out and criticized him, the Alabama coach, he apologized. Jeff Capel, who's just another coach.

Speaker 2 They probably tried to have him killed.

Speaker 4 Who's just a Pittsburgh coach? So just a coach in another conference.

Speaker 4 That doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 Breaking moose.

Speaker 4 Jake's trying to break insignificant movements.

Speaker 5 Duke's star freshman Jalen Johnson out indefinitely with a foot injury, according to John Rossi, nine seconds ago.

Speaker 1 That has nothing to do with my cool throne. Nice little, let's get all our best guys injured.
So we'd be like, well, we dealt with injuries.

Speaker 2 Yeah, maybe Coach K should have changed his shoe contracts after Zion, huh?

Speaker 1 You know who hasn't complained? And their team sucks? Cal. Kentucky is terrible.

Speaker 4 Coach K has not complained.

Speaker 1 Cal has not complained.

Speaker 4 Neither has Coach K. He just cares about the safety of his players.

Speaker 4 Jeff Capel, who is another, just another coach.

Speaker 4 No, he's just another coach in the league. So just showing respect for the coach.
I don't know. He said, for me, I get really upset by it because how much I care about him.

Speaker 4 The one coach in particular that made a comment. It was interesting because I know exactly what Coach did for him.
I know it because I was the one that helped facilitate it. It's disappointing.

Speaker 1 He helped facilitate what? Yeah. Him getting a job.
No, that's classic. So he got a job.

Speaker 4 Coach K got this guy a job as an assistant for Hurley at Buffalo. Yep.
And then this guy came in, tried to talk shit about Coach K. He apologized.

Speaker 1 That is heat.

Speaker 2 That is Jeff. Coach K was proven to be evil.

Speaker 2 Very clearly giving a wink and a nod. Yep.
It'd be a real shame if all the secrets about this guy were to come out. A real shame.

Speaker 1 He threatened him. He threatened Nate Oates in public.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 He was like, I know where Nadoates came from. I know how he got his job.

Speaker 1 God forbid, someone started talking about the things that are in Nate Oates' closet.

Speaker 2 That's Donald Trump saying, be careful, Ted Cruz, or I will spill the beans about your wife.

Speaker 2 And your dad.

Speaker 4 He said, put some respect on Coach Kay's name, and that's exactly what he did. So Coach Kay is back.

Speaker 1 And also, Jeff Capel translation: I still would love to have the Duke job after I'm done at Pitt.

Speaker 2 Oh, a million percent. This is him making sure that he's in line for this.

Speaker 1 Hey, Coach, I still love you.

Speaker 1 Let me kiss that ass.

Speaker 2 Real shame. Sam if Oates were to find a horse head in his bed.
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 Is that it, Hank? Coach K is threatening people with the Coach K Standing Marathon presented by Henry Lockman.

Speaker 4 No, I'm just trying to defend, you know, one of the greatest coaches of all time on the number one sports podcast. He deserves that respect.

Speaker 2 My hot seat is all the haters of Roger Goodell. All the haters that think that Roger Goodell is a bad human being who doesn't do the right thing

Speaker 2 all the time.

Speaker 2 Because I think that we should say thank you. I think we should be appreciative of Roger Goodell for saving lives, probably thousands of lives

Speaker 2 by not having NFL employees skip the line to get the coronavirus vaccinations first.

Speaker 2 I don't know if you've noticed this, but it was mentioned like five times over the weekend. It was on ESPN a couple times.
It was on Monday Night Football.

Speaker 2 The announcers saying Goodell has made the announcement that he will not have his employees go to the front of the line as essential service workers to get the coronavirus.

Speaker 1 We've got to figure it out that we're just pretend it doesn't exist.

Speaker 2 So thank you to Roger Goodell. No, I just think that it's funny that he had to issue a release saying

Speaker 2 we're not going to take spots in the vaccination line away from people that need the disease, even though we are the NFL and we're more important than everybody else in the world.

Speaker 1 Is it crazy that I actually, if like, so people are going to get mad if the NBA or the NHL cuts the line, right? Obviously, they'll get mad. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But I actually don't think that that's that bad. Like, hospital workers 100% need it first.

Speaker 2 Bills fans?

Speaker 1 Yeah, Bills fans and hospital workers need it first.

Speaker 1 But if your goal is to get people to sit inside and not go out, like being like, let's make sure sports happen is kind of a decent way to do it, right?

Speaker 2 So like the back-end admin at Pornhub, that guy should get it too.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I do think if you want to think about it. Pornhub's actually on the hot seat.

Speaker 4 I forgot about that. Yeah,

Speaker 1 it's criminal. Well, I meant actually

Speaker 1 they're trying to save against criminals, Hank.

Speaker 2 Oh, wait, you're saying they're on the hot seat because they deleted all that porn?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Hank doesn't know why they deleted it. it.
Yeah, he doesn't at all.

Speaker 1 So you want to take that back before we tell you?

Speaker 4 No.

Speaker 1 Okay. Okay.
So it's like human trafficking. Yeah.
Revenge porn. Recording people who are like under the influence.

Speaker 2 Or under certain ages.

Speaker 7 They basically let anybody upload anything.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 7 So YouTube.

Speaker 1 Want to take that back? And they didn't have much of a traffic.

Speaker 2 So there was... federal crimes that were on there that got deleted.

Speaker 7 As opposed to OnlyFans, which like actually takes a long time to get an account. We know that.
Where they verify.

Speaker 1 Hank's still mulling it over. Yeah.
He still might be

Speaker 1 still kind of into that to know. This is why I only watch MILF stuff.

Speaker 2 If you only watch MILF stuff, then you're never going to be putting yourself in danger accidentally of doing the wrong thing.

Speaker 1 My cool throne is outside beers.

Speaker 2 Outdoor beers. It's outdoor beer season.
It's about to, what? What's that?

Speaker 1 It's cold out.

Speaker 2 That's, if you'll let me finish, Hank,

Speaker 2 when it's snowing outside, when it's cold outside, you don't have to take up space in your refrigerator. You leave the beers outside.
It's God's refrigerator.

Speaker 2 You crack open a beer directly from your porch, and it tastes colder than it does in the fridge.

Speaker 2 So it's the best season of all, especially if there's snow and you can like bury them halfway and you can see where they fell into the snow.

Speaker 2 So, like, even though it snowed a little bit more on top of the beers, you go outside and see the indentation, and you know exactly where to reach in to grab a cold one.

Speaker 2 Those are the best beers in the world.

Speaker 4 That's a great call.

Speaker 1 Yeah, thanks. Oh, there you go.
All right, my hot seats is. Holy shit.

Speaker 4 FSU, Florida State, put up a banner. Our guy

Speaker 2 just put this up.

Speaker 1 Was that real?

Speaker 4 FSU hung a 2020 canceled

Speaker 4 with the number four final ranking banner.

Speaker 1 The Colts are now off the hook. Yeah.
The Colts are off the hook. Colts are on the Colts.
Wow.

Speaker 1 I thought that was fake. Wait.

Speaker 2 I thought that was fake.

Speaker 4 No,

Speaker 4 it's in the video.

Speaker 2 Jesus Christ.

Speaker 2 Come on, FSU.

Speaker 1 Have some pride. Have some pride.
All All right, my hot seats is. Oh, he deleted it.
Did you see Ray Lewis last night? So Ray Lewis last night. LeBron was like, look at these Browns.
Here they come.

Speaker 1 Ray Lewis quote-to-said, be careful to LeBron. Oh, God.
And everyone roasted him. And I guess he deleted it.
But my hot seat is LeBron because

Speaker 1 Ray Lewis treated him. Be careful.

Speaker 2 Jesus. Can you imagine?

Speaker 1 How stupid is Ray Lewis?

Speaker 2 Him and OJ are the guys

Speaker 2 I'd least like to get quote-tweed by.

Speaker 1 Be careful. That's all he said to LeBron.

Speaker 2 You know what would be more scary than that if it was just the eyeballs.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and the knife.

Speaker 2 Knife emoji. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That would be pretty scary. But yeah, Lewis, be careful.

Speaker 1 All right, then my cool throne is us. We're on the cool throne

Speaker 1 because

Speaker 1 we have been protected by our good, great intern and friend, Billy Football.

Speaker 2 He protects us.

Speaker 1 What? You protect us.

Speaker 2 Thank you, Billy.

Speaker 1 Last night we were texting. The PMT text chain was popping off, and

Speaker 1 I asked Billy a question. He screenshotted it and sent it back to us.
And we noticed that all of our names were saved as female names. What was mine? Daniela Cannis?

Speaker 2 Daniela Canis.

Speaker 1 Well, you'll have to change him.

Speaker 2 Hank was Henrietta.

Speaker 1 You were something Lori Levi. I was Lori Lauren Levi.
Lauren Levi. I was Jake and Liam.

Speaker 7 So Hank's Henrietta Lockwood. Keystone, because Lock Key.

Speaker 1 Okay, nice. I like that.
I never would have come to the point. Everyone just paused for a second.
This is inside the mind of a genius.

Speaker 7 Lauren Levi's Marlins Woman. Okay, what about me, Daniel?

Speaker 1 And then Daniela Canis is Daniela Canis.

Speaker 7 Canis.

Speaker 1 Latin name for dog. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Got it. Why dog.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And then what about Jake and Liam?

Speaker 7 I think I just have them in as their names.

Speaker 1 You also have the Google name as. Yeah, well, that was the thing.
So I was appreciative that you were protecting us.

Speaker 1 Because essentially, you're saying if your phone gets stolen, you don't want people calling us. Right.
But Hank did point out right away, the group name that all these names are in is PMT full group.

Speaker 1 Right, but I didn't create that.

Speaker 2 Yeah, to be fair, that's what it is on your phone, too, on my phone.

Speaker 1 But if someone took his phone, they would be able to see PMT full group group.

Speaker 7 This was more for when I was in college and like, like, in the real world.

Speaker 1 Well, that's because, yeah, remember when we gave you our phone numbers and like it took you like three three weeks of college to FaceTime us all at two in the morning?

Speaker 7 That was one time

Speaker 2 And it didn't actually happen when you tweeted out

Speaker 1 I didn't FaceTime any of you you FaceTime me at two in the morning your first week of college fact

Speaker 1 Anyway

Speaker 1 But I do appreciate it

Speaker 7 very Billy cyber secure.

Speaker 1 Yes, I appreciated that. I thought it was very cool of you.
So thank you cool throwing us.

Speaker 2 I think you need to add that slide to your cybersecurity PowerPoint.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I just imagine some hacker being like PMT full group and then being like Danielle Cannis. No, that can't be.

Speaker 2 Who is Henrietta? Yeah.

Speaker 1 This is some other, this is some group of chicks.

Speaker 1 All right. Billy.

Speaker 5 Hot seat.

Speaker 7 Obviously, Connor McGregor.

Speaker 1 I mean, why?

Speaker 7 Jake Paul called him out. Said some really mean things about him and Dana Wait.
And

Speaker 7 yeah, so. Jake Paul, like, calling people out, doing drive-bys on people.
It's a

Speaker 1 drive-by

Speaker 1 paper.

Speaker 2 Threw a head of lettuce at somebody.

Speaker 4 Well, he threw like water balloons.

Speaker 1 Yeah, toilet balloons.

Speaker 7 Anyway, everyone's mad at him. Nate Diaz threatened Jake Paul.
Sort of all just out in the open, getting crazy.

Speaker 7 Jake Paul called Connor McGregor's wife a four. That's fucked up.

Speaker 1 Which is fucked up.

Speaker 2 Especially if she's actually a four.

Speaker 2 I don't know what she looks like, but

Speaker 1 she's very beautiful. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Billy, do you want to fight somebody?

Speaker 2 Or do you not want to fight somebody?

Speaker 7 I do. okay

Speaker 1 so what are you gonna do i don't know would you fight connor mcgregor he's pretty big no connor mcregreg would beat the shit out of you well you have to be ready to fight the guy that your guy's gonna fight so you can like you have to be ready

Speaker 1 i have an idea basically we need to get into contact with dana white and rob gronkowski okay all billy's ideas are like how can i leverage pft and big cat's phone book billy's like the macyvor of bros like in order to make something happen Okay,

Speaker 2 I need a Keg Milwaukee's best and Dana White and Gronk's phone numbers.

Speaker 1 If we get a Kelsey brother, that would be great too.

Speaker 7 Like, legitimately, if we get all these celebrities he's challenging just to be like, yo, dude, shut up and fight Billy.

Speaker 1 Like, why would you fuck with him? I don't know why.

Speaker 7 Like, to get him to shut up, it would kind of be like the Ken State, like,

Speaker 7 you shit yourself at a frat party. Right.
You can't say gungirl, just like, yeah.

Speaker 2 So we need to make up a rumor about Jake Paul.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 7 And he's scared to fight me.

Speaker 1 He is scared to fight you. That's what I heard.
No, I heard that. That's not a rumor.
That's a fact. Yeah.
He texted.

Speaker 1 He texted Billy and he's like, I'm scared to fight you. Anyway.
I'll tweet it right now. Is it true that Jake Paul is scared to fight Billy?

Speaker 7 Anyway, one step closer to me beating his ass because he's a fraud.

Speaker 7 My cool throne

Speaker 1 is

Speaker 7 being stubborn. Yeah.
There's a treasure hunter who's been imprisoned for going on five years because he found a bunch of treasure and will not give up its location.

Speaker 2 What's the crime?

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 7 I think it's because it belongs to technically, like, the government.

Speaker 2 That's bullshit. If it's treasure, it's yours.

Speaker 1 Finders, keepers.

Speaker 7 Yeah, well, I don't think that's practical law.

Speaker 2 It should be. If something is lost for longer than a week, whoever finds it should own it.

Speaker 7 So

Speaker 7 he is going to be spending it for a decade.

Speaker 7 He took on a case for 161 investors. So basically, he was paid to go find the treasure, found the treasure,

Speaker 7 and it was probably on the stipulation that he would give them the treasure. And he's just not telling them where the treasure is, and he's trying to keep it for himself.

Speaker 2 Oh, this sounds like a kick-ass sequel to that Nicholas Cage.

Speaker 1 I like that. Yeah.
I like that.

Speaker 1 What's that movie?

Speaker 2 What's that movie I just saw like a month ago?

Speaker 1 Sahara. No.
No.

Speaker 1 National Treasury. Yeah, National Treasury.
It's already a great sequel for that. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Which I need to watch.

Speaker 1 Steal the Declaration of Independence.

Speaker 1 Jake, do you have any? Always. Yes.

Speaker 5 Hot Seat Periscope. It's being discontinued in March.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 2 Do they have a porn issue, too?

Speaker 1 Why? No.

Speaker 5 I don't know. Twitter made the decision to.

Speaker 1 Oh, it's just Twitter Live?

Speaker 5 Yeah, it's going to be Twitter Live.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 5 So great memories of the Cat Cave Derby.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Twitter does.

Speaker 2 They choose the wrong thing to do and do it more than any company that's ever existed.

Speaker 1 This one, though, I kind of understand because what...

Speaker 2 Maybe not Dow Chemical.

Speaker 1 Periscope doesn't.

Speaker 1 Like, Twitter should just have Periscope. Yes.
It's Twitter. And they should have Vine.
Right.

Speaker 2 Like, why? Yes.

Speaker 2 Twitter looks at their product. Jack, fucking Jack goes on his billionaire retreats once every six months and just like waterboards himself with cat piss for six weeks.

Speaker 2 And then he comes back with the worst ideas ever to get rid of their best stuff and then add new stuff no one cares about.

Speaker 5 Cool throne. Nickelodeon.
We've been teasing the game. Yes.
All season long, but they gave out some details today. Shout out to my friend Noah.
He'll be calling it. The SpongeBob.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he's calling the game.

Speaker 1 Noah. Eagle.
Eagle. He's calling it? Yeah.
On Nickelodeon? Damn.

Speaker 5 Yeah, it's like partnered with CBS.

Speaker 1 Nice.

Speaker 1 Big ups.

Speaker 2 Nate Burlson.

Speaker 1 Big ups. Yeah.
Also, shout out Bob Diacchio for figuring, for like seeing the future. So we need slime.

Speaker 5 There's going to be SpongeBob in the uprights because Diello. Yeah.

Speaker 5 It's going to be a fun broad broadcast.

Speaker 2 I wish that this was the only way you could watch it. I don't like that you have an opt-out version.

Speaker 5 Jim Nance is doing the game too.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 2 they should go all in and make everybody, make every adult watch the Nickelodeon version.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so that would be fun.

Speaker 2 They should do Color Rush where it's the, was it the red iguanas and the

Speaker 2 blue barracudas as the teams?

Speaker 1 Yep. That'd be sick.
I really do hope this is the start of like everything that Bob DiAccio thought was going to happen starts to happen. He's the prophet.
So we have the civil conflict.

Speaker 1 UCF finally recognizes civil conflict. He said, I think it was four or five years ago,

Speaker 1 I got all kinds of ideas on

Speaker 1 networks. Let's target six-year-olds to 16-year-olds.
How about that? Eventually, they're going to be 18 to 35. Let's broadcast our games on Nickelodeon.
Who owns that? Viacom.

Speaker 1 Let's create some real intrigue. He said that.
Yeah. He's a fucking genius.
He needs to be treated like that.

Speaker 5 Yeah, they're having the SpongeBob Sports Pants Countdown Special, and the halftime show will serve as a preview of the upcoming SpongeBob spin-off show.

Speaker 2 Wow. I can't wait.
I'm so excited.

Speaker 1 I'll be watching that broadcast. I will too.
Yeah. Yeah.
Have to.

Speaker 2 I mean, it has to be the worst matchup, right?

Speaker 1 I would say. Yeah,

Speaker 1 they're going to find a way to get the Texans in that. It could be the NFC Beasts game.
Oh, that'd be nice. Oh, yeah.
Could be a team.

Speaker 2 I would watch that. I would watch, yeah, the Washington football team.

Speaker 1 Well, putting Jim Nance on

Speaker 2 the Cardinals or something.

Speaker 1 It could be. I don't know.

Speaker 1 Regardless, it's a playoff game. It's not going to be the Bears.

Speaker 2 Bears football.

Speaker 5 We already figured that out.

Speaker 2 No, there is a possibility. It's a very, very, very outside.

Speaker 1 There's no possibility.

Speaker 2 No, it's very, very outside. It can happen.
How? You give me 30 minutes on the playoff machine.

Speaker 1 Go ahead. I'll come back.

Speaker 1 Go ahead.

Speaker 1 Go ahead. Find it.
I'm going to find it. Find it.

Speaker 2 I can't do it live.

Speaker 1 Do it live.

Speaker 5 Do you guys watch Double Dare, Legends of the Hidden Temple? Oh, we had what's his name on? Mike O'Malley over the summer.

Speaker 1 Guts. Yes.
Yes. All right.
We'll cut us looking it up, but I'm pretty sure it's impossible.

Speaker 7 Imagine if they had SpongeBob narrating the game from last night.

Speaker 2 The poop. What would it sound like?

Speaker 1 Do it live.

Speaker 1 The market.

Speaker 1 All right. Let's go to.

Speaker 1 We'll keep working on it, but we'll figure it out. We'll tell you to start a Friday show if it's possible.

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Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest. It is Trace McSorley, quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens.
Coming off Monday night football is perfect timing.

Speaker 1 First, let's figure out, how's your knee? Are you okay?

Speaker 8 Yeah, no, I'm doing well.

Speaker 8 We'll figure out kind of the extent of everything, but...

Speaker 9 So far, everything's looking pretty positive. So I'm going to keep our fingers crossed.

Speaker 1 So that was a crazy Monday night football game yeah felt bad for you because you did make a big play to even have the ravens still alive there and then you obviously don't know how it could like plays out on tv but it was literally trace mccsorly

Speaker 1 like hurts his knee he's down oh but lamar's back see a trace yeah

Speaker 9 people kind of just moved on was how was the was the field as bad as like they were making it out to be um i mean guys were definitely slipping uh last night i mean i know there were a couple times Lamar slipped a little bit.

Speaker 9 I think he even changed his cleats at one point.

Speaker 9 And we got into halftime. There were, you know, they had different cleats for guys in there.

Speaker 9 So I think, you know, guys are slipping around, but I mean, it kind of is what it is a little bit.

Speaker 2 How much different is it as a quarterback to have to wear the studs, the long ones? Because the announcers were saying.

Speaker 2 how you know no quarterback wants to be forced to change out of their normal cleats because they'll make your feet hurt or something like that at the end of the game for you personally is it like a big deal to change out of those out of those shoes yeah you're like just having like you know the cleats that you have, they're like broken in, and then trying to break in a new pair mid-game, you can bother your feet a little bit.

Speaker 9 So, like, I left the ones on that I had.

Speaker 9 So maybe I should have changed them out just for the other cleats. But

Speaker 9 yeah, I think it's just kind of like personal preference, really. Like, if you don't mind breaking in a new pair of cleats in the game, then you probably will switch it.

Speaker 9 I think it's just each guy's got his own different preference.

Speaker 1 All right, so you're in the trust tree. Are you wearing a part of my take hoodie? Can I see that?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Partial social distancing club. Oh, there we go.
Social distancing club. Perfect.
All all right so you're in the trust tree you can speak freely

Speaker 1 tell us the truth lamar was pooping

Speaker 1 no he wasn't he was it was cramps you he wasn't pooping that well cramped part yeah of the body was the intestine

Speaker 9 it was like he said it was like his forearm was cramping and then his he that run they everyone saw where it looked like a poop run yeah yeah

Speaker 1 locker room it was like his calf or something was cramping so he was trying not to like that to lock up on him uh-huh great you're a great backup quartermate that's a great teammate move

Speaker 1 that's smart you trace just winked at us so you know the truth yep he's doing he's doing a motion like a wiping his butt motion so he's clear that yep okay we got it so stop talking i'll ask one thing hilarious though like after the game seeing all those coming out like the internet it was they're all over that was so funny i don't know what it says about us just as a society or as an online group of people that everybody just assumed like Lamar was back there just crapping his brains out and that's what was happening.

Speaker 2 But we all just kind of ran with it. Let me ask this in a different way.
When you went back to the locker room

Speaker 2 after your knee got tweaked a little bit, how many candles were lit in the locker room?

Speaker 1 Three? Maybe?

Speaker 2 What did the locker room smell like?

Speaker 9 See, they do always have candles lit by the stalls.

Speaker 9 So I can't tell if there were newly lit ones.

Speaker 9 But they do always got candles lit by the stalls in the locker room.

Speaker 1 Interesting.

Speaker 1 So last night's game was so, so much fun. It was probably game of the year in the NFL.
And it was also one of those great nights where Twitter was going crazy. Everyone's having fun.

Speaker 1 When you get back after a game like that, maybe a little different because you got hurt last night, but you've been in crazy games.

Speaker 1 Do you like sit down and take 10 minutes to try to catch up on everything and be like, holy shit, I missed a lot of commentary about this game?

Speaker 9 Yeah, there's a little bit of that.

Speaker 9 Like, you know, you get, get back, you like get back on the bus and you kind of have that time to decompress a little bit, check out your phone, see what's been going on, uh, scroll through Twitter, Instagram, and you know, catch up on messages.

Speaker 9 So, I mean, to be able to see like the internet's response to last night game, uh, you obviously, like you said, it was a crazy game, just back and forth.

Speaker 9 It's a great football game on Monday night in general, but then seeing you know the internet's responses to it, it's it's pretty cool to be able to do that and you know, just kind of see what the internet has to say.

Speaker 1 What, uh, so backup quarterback, uh, like you've been in a couple games now.

Speaker 1 How, what's it like on the sideline being like, I might be in any minute? Do you have, is it hard to stay ready during a game?

Speaker 1 Like, how do you mentally stay in the game knowing there's probably a good chance you're not going to play, but you could, like last night, be thrown into it Monday Night Football Game National Television?

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 9 I mean, part of it is just trying to stay mentally locked in. So we got the earpiece, get the call from like the, you know, know what play we're running from our OC.

Speaker 9 And then trying to do like a mental rep every time as best you can, just so you know, you're staying locked in and staying ready.

Speaker 9 But yeah, it does get a little bit difficult at times. And then really just trying to stay warm, especially on a night like last night.

Speaker 9 It's cold out there, just trying to stay heated up and loose and ready whenever. And then I always like to keep a smelling salt with me, just kind of, if I need to

Speaker 9 be ready to go, just hit that and then lock in real quick.

Speaker 2 I love that. So now you are wearing that backup headset.
So you get to hear all the plays coming in.

Speaker 2 You get to hear, I would assume, Greg Roman and Harbaugh talking about what to do in certain situations.

Speaker 2 How often do they try to call a punt and then Lamar runs over to the sideline and is like, hey, we're not punting. Please send me back out there.

Speaker 9 I mean,

Speaker 9 I don't hear the conversations between them because all I hear is like the player to coach. So whatever he's saying to Lamar, I could hear that.

Speaker 9 But I mean, I think anytime we go out there, Lamar wants to go score a touchdown.

Speaker 9 So if it's a short-yarded situation, fourth and short, and we're fringe, field goal, punt range, Lamar's going to try his best to not let me go for this and go get a touchdown, or at least get us closer for the field goals.

Speaker 9 I think that's just his personality. And maybe it's happened a few other times, and they've caught it on camera where he's been able to kind of sway a decision to let us go for it.

Speaker 9 But, you know, Harbaugh likes to be aggressive, and you got a guy like Lamar, you trust him to make the play, and more often than not, it's worked out for us.

Speaker 2 So in the offseason, they bring in, it's you, RG3, and Lamar.

Speaker 2 I think it's probably fair to say that like Lamar and RG3 have a skill set that is rare in the NFL, right? They will be able to run the same offense.

Speaker 2 And then you are a new guy. They bring you in.
Did they try, was Greg Roman like, hey, we're going to have you learn the exact same offense that these other guys are learning?

Speaker 2 Or is there is there a trace package that when you come into the game, it's like, hey, this is what we're going to do?

Speaker 9 No, it's, hey, this is our offense. This is what we do.

Speaker 9 And being able to that, you know, I might not be the same skill set as them, you know, athletically, what they can do, but I can still run around, can still do some stuff with my legs and kind of be a threat to the defense.

Speaker 9 so uh you know we got our offense and you know we that is what it is so doesn't and i think that's a good thing that we got so that we don't have to change our entire offense based on in a situation where some guy has to go in uh because the guy's got cramps and we're able to go in and not change up our entire offense we just run the same system yeah you ran a four five seven forty in at the combine did you get asked to work out with the dbs yeah they did ask me to do work out with them that's disrespectful what did you when they said that did you you were like no i'm a quarterback uh yeah they like kind of pulled me aside and they were like hey You know some coaches scouts want to see you as a DB Would you mind staying after and you know doing some DB drills and I just told them that you know I've I've been working out as a quarterback and that's what I'm here to do is just be a quarterback and kind of just told them I appreciate it, but I'm gonna be a quarterback.

Speaker 1 I like that. I like that.

Speaker 1 How much of your success do you put into your parents having the wherewithal to give you the name Trace, the nickname Trace, even though your given name is Richard, because the story is your parents were like, we don't want you to be little Ricky or Richard or Ricky, and they saw Trace Armstrong on TV and were like, we're going to name you Trace.

Speaker 1 So that, I mean, that, I do think, I'm a big name guy. I think that has a lot to do with it.
Have you had that moment where you're like, if I were Ricky McSorley, I'd probably not be in the NFL?

Speaker 9 Yeah, I mean, I think it definitely set me on a path.

Speaker 9 You know, I think being that Trace Armstrong, great football player, player, and that's kind of where my parents got the name. I think it just set me on a path towards football.

Speaker 9 And then, you know, Ricky Missorly's Trace McSorley. I think Trace Miss Stories got a little bit of a better ring to it as a player.
So

Speaker 9 I think that, yeah, you could probably give a little bit of credit to just the fact they picked my name and set me on the path towards football.

Speaker 2 Yeah, Trace McSorley is a great name. Now, what about the fact that your name keeps going viral on TikTok? Like you are a TikTok thing.

Speaker 2 Billy was explaining to us, our intern, he was like, do you guys guys know who Trace McSorley is? Everybody's talking about him on TikTok. And we're like, yes, Billy, we know who Trace McSorley is.

Speaker 1 No, actually.

Speaker 2 We've watched college football before.

Speaker 1 It was worse than that. Billy was like, you didn't know who Trace McSorley was until I brought him up.
I was like, dude,

Speaker 1 I'm a Wisconsin fan. You ripped my heart out in the 2016 Rose Bowl.
We were at that game.

Speaker 2 That's not true.

Speaker 1 And Billy thought he introduced you to

Speaker 2 us.

Speaker 7 So how much of Trace, I've known about you since 2016 when you play...

Speaker 7 I can't name the game right now because I'm freezing up, but never mind.

Speaker 2 Billy's known about you since 2016. He wants to clarify.

Speaker 4 Thank you, Billy.

Speaker 2 But when you first started blowing up on TikTok, was it weird for you initially? Were you like, what's going on? Why is this becoming such a thing?

Speaker 9 Yeah, I didn't know what was going on. So, like, I just got like a TikTok profile and like downloaded the app like not long, like a week ago.
So, like, I hadn't had it.

Speaker 9 I woke up one morning and like, all these people were sending me this video that this kid made with like the song that the dude made when I was in college. And, I mean, it just kind of blew up.

Speaker 9 And I started seeing it on like instagram twitter like it was all over the place and i didn't know what was going on um so i mean it was just it was really weird and random how it kind of all came about how does it go billy

Speaker 1 throw it on a dime throw it on a dime that's just a kid from bradwood can you say the whole thing really good song it is maddie fresh can you say it trace

Speaker 9 i've heard it a bunch of times i'm not a singer though billy tell me

Speaker 9 yeah i think billy's got it yeah i have a so i have a question he just asked you to sing it i was just wondering did you know about the song by maddie fresh or you know like this random guy makes a song and was it just out of left field or did you know about it while you were playing at penn state yeah i knew about it uh they made it like my senior year going into my senior year so i was able like they played it um i don't think they ever played at the stadium but like i saw it on like social media and like I think the Penn State football, like their social media kind of picked it up a little bit going into my senior year.

Speaker 9 So I definitely saw it. I knew about it beforehand.

Speaker 1 How electric is a whiteout in Happy Valley? Because that is one of the, like, when you think about loud crowds, you think about Saturday night football, like LSU,

Speaker 1 Penn State, maybe, maybe Columbus. Like, there are certain stadiums where you're like, it's just on a different level.
Is it, like, do you, was it truly a different level?

Speaker 1 Could you feel how different it was compared to every other stadium you've been in?

Speaker 9 Yeah, you definitely could.

Speaker 9 Like, it was, it was a completely different feel from like walking into like even like walking into the big house in michigan that like they got the biggest like the highest seating capacity but like it's not the same like electric type energy that you have like with the whiteout and like i played in a few other stadiums like columbus um iowa was another one that was pretty electric playing there but i still think you know obviously i'm biased because you know i went to penn state and everything but i i still think that and from everyone I've talked to, they said that the whiteout's the best atmosphere that they've ever been in.

Speaker 9 Like, it's one of those things that you have to go to it to actually experience it. Like, it looks awesome and sick on TV, but it's like better in-person.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I can only imagine. Yeah.
So, you were growing up in Ashburn.

Speaker 2 Were you an R-Words fan growing up? Were you a Washington football team fan?

Speaker 9 I was. I was.

Speaker 9 I mean, you ran into a lot of guys that, you know, I live 50 minutes from the facility. So, like, there'd just be a lot of guys around.
And I would see them kind of around town.

Speaker 9 So, went to their training camp practice every every year as a kid. So, I was a Washington football team fan growing up.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Um, and then so you kind of tough though, yeah.

Speaker 2 You ended up going to Penn State, you went to Vanderbilt, or you committed to Vanderbilt for a while. Who else recruited you out of high school?

Speaker 9 Uh, so out of high school, most teams recruit me as like a safety defensive back out of high school.

Speaker 9 Um, the only other quarterback offers I really had was like Boston College and like Wake Forest, and then Vanderbilt.

Speaker 2 We need to we need to set up a showdown between you and Lamar, have him go up against you at wide receiver and you cover him as a defensive back and just make Bill Pollion super happy to see things playing out the way that he thought it would.

Speaker 1 It's his dream team. Yeah, yeah.
It's absolutely his dream team. That's exactly how he thought it would have played out.
Yes, yes. What does big truzz mean?

Speaker 1 Because we had Mark Ingram on the show and we know what truss is, obviously. But you tweeted recently, Truss.
What's that?

Speaker 9 So like, it's basically just like

Speaker 9 Lamar started it, and it really, like, he uses it as, like, uh, like, I appreciate you, or like, he uses, like, it's more just a noun, like, it's a noun and a verb at the same time.

Speaker 9 Yeah, yeah, there's, yeah, exactly. There's levels to it.
So, like, Mark did the interview where he, you know, had the big trust, and that's where it really blew up introducing Lamar last year.

Speaker 9 And then it's just kind of taken off. Like, I don't know where Lamar got it from, but he, like, since he came in, apparently, like, that's been his thing, and he just uses it.

Speaker 9 So, like, I tweeted, like, I think yesterday, because like, Willie had said something about, you know, last night's game or something like that.

Speaker 9 So, like, the way I use it was like, hey, appreciate you, bro. Like, you know, this, like, this is our team, our season.
Like, it's just kind of like our team's

Speaker 9 call, I guess. I don't know.

Speaker 1 It's cool. I mean, I don't think I'm cool enough to say it.
So it's always cool when I see it, though.

Speaker 1 Is your dad one of the scariest-looking dudes in the world?

Speaker 9 When he sits out in the sun and he's got the sun beating on his bald head and the muscles on popping out, it uh it does.

Speaker 9 Like, he can look a little bit intimidating, but he looks more intimidating than he actually is.

Speaker 1 He's like an all-time jawline guy. Because I was looking at tweets I've had of you, and I was like, Trace McSurley's dad is Kelly Slater, and I was like, Why did I say that?

Speaker 1 And then I went and looked for a picture of your dad, and I was like, Oh, that's exactly why I said it. Bald head, jawline, just chiseled jawline.
I'm scared of your father.

Speaker 9 Yeah, he like he can't hide any of his emotions because his jawline and like a vein that just pumps in his temple.

Speaker 1 Yep. Like give away immediately.
Yes.

Speaker 9 Like you can say he's not pissed off, but like we can all see like the blood pumping through his skull.

Speaker 9 And no, like you're upset.

Speaker 2 Like chill out. Are you familiar with the Trace McSorley's dad Twitter account? It's at Trace Dad.

Speaker 9 I'm not familiar with the account.

Speaker 2 No. There's one tweet.
It says, I'm Trace McSorley's dad. I think that's your dad.
So I think your dad's on Twitter. It's 2017.

Speaker 1 Sounds Sounds like your dad. Something your dad would say.
It adds up.

Speaker 8 Very simple, straight to the point.

Speaker 2 Maybe you can help me out with something because we were trying to figure this out last week on part of my take.

Speaker 2 There are visor guys that play quarterback, and there are guys that don't wear visors at all. Last night, I don't think Lamar was wearing a visor.
You were wearing a visor.

Speaker 2 And I've always thought just from a practical standpoint, doesn't that get smudgy?

Speaker 2 Like, can't it make it really, really difficult to see unless you've got somebody that's coming over there cleaning it off almost every 30 seconds?

Speaker 9 At at times it can.

Speaker 9 You know, they got like pretty much after every drive, there's like equipment guys going around like spraying them and cleaning them.

Speaker 9 And I don't know what they spray on it, but I think it works as like it doesn't like let it get fogged up.

Speaker 9 Cause like especially on like a cold night where like you're breathing on the inside of it and like the hot air from your breath gets like fogged up on the inside of it.

Speaker 9 So it can make it foggy, but they do a good job of keeping them clean. And

Speaker 9 I feel like after a while, you just kind of get used to it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And then just like you almost don't even notice that it's there just a heads up though we don't think that any quarterback has ever won a super bowl wearing a visor it's true i guess we got to change that though yeah okay be the first take off your visor no i mean i think we got to win it with the visor oh okay

Speaker 1 that's what i'm saying we need someone to do that

Speaker 1 it does look cooler every time someone has a visor i'm like that's i mean when you played madden or any other video game yeah yes always always add the visor no matter how ridiculous it looked no matter what position you play when you created a play you put the visor yep to reflect the visor.

Speaker 1 Absolutely.

Speaker 2 Another bet that maybe you can settle, how big is Patrick Ricard? Is he actually over 300 pounds?

Speaker 9 Yes.

Speaker 1 That's insane.

Speaker 9 Yeah, Pat is definitely over 300 pounds.

Speaker 2 And he's like jumping over people, like leapfrogging them.

Speaker 9 Yeah, Pat is like, people don't give him like credit for how athletic he is. And like, he's a freak athlete.
But then like you see what he does as a fullback.

Speaker 9 Like, you know, just pancaking people every game. Like, you know, he catches them flat.

Speaker 1 And for some reason, dbs will try and tackle him up high and he just like runs through them like they're not there like that's a freak so you played you were big into lacrosse too in high school did bill belich ever try to get you uh as a wide receiver did he have a conversation with you at the combine no i never had a conversation with belichek about being a wide receiver but yeah i did play lacrosse at high school he was looking at you just so you know he was looking at you for sure i mean he might have been he doesn't let anyone know what he's thinking about with the draft.

Speaker 9 So, I mean, he's got his mind tricks that everyone wants to know what he's up to.

Speaker 2 So he could have have been. Yeah, how much of playing lacrosse was because your name was Trace McSorley, and your coach was like, You need to be holding a lacrosse stick.

Speaker 9 Uh, it wasn't necessarily because of my name, it was because I've played baseball, and baseball got boring for me. Oh, I wanted to do something a little more like fast-paced.

Speaker 1 Too good at it. I like that.
Yeah, Trace McSorley from Virginia. Stop playing lacrosse.
It wasn't the too good at that.

Speaker 9 It was, I didn't like standing in

Speaker 9 the outfield, and a ball gets hit to me once every couple innings.

Speaker 1 Um, what What is your favorite game in college? You can't say the 2016 Big Ten Championship game.

Speaker 9 So that one's off the table. I can't use that one.

Speaker 1 Cannot use that one.

Speaker 9 I'll go with the 2017 whiteout against Michigan.

Speaker 1 Okay. And you guys, what was the final score?

Speaker 9 I don't remember the final score. I know we blew him out, though.

Speaker 2 But if it wasn't for that one, which one would you say?

Speaker 9 2016 Big Ten Champions.

Speaker 1 Okay. Yeah.

Speaker 9 100% of the time.

Speaker 1 Nah, that game was lame.

Speaker 2 Walk us through what happened at halftime of that game.

Speaker 1 Dude, you know you were lucky, too. You just threw jump balls.

Speaker 9 I didn't do jump balls. The last one landed right in Sick One's hands.

Speaker 1 You threw jump balls and you were just like, hope this works. Close my eyes.
Just throw it up. I know.
I was very drunk, so I actually. I had the right guy to be able to do it, though, too.

Speaker 9 Throwing it to Mike Yosticki in the end zone on a corner.

Speaker 1 I'm going to take that every time. Whatever.
Whatever. Billy, did you have another question? Did you want to ask the question about the throne?

Speaker 7 Oh, I actually, so when I was a senior in high school, that's when you were really going off off in 2016 and you're watching you in the Ohio State.

Speaker 1 He's good there.

Speaker 7 But like we watched him upset Ohio State, and then the next week he just blew out Purdue. And then we were like, this guy's the real deal.

Speaker 7 Two questions. First one, so...
Being a football player in the Northeast, when you're getting recruiting stuff, you hear a lot of rumors about different colleges, recruiting visits, whatnot.

Speaker 7 So I heard a rumor about from some Penn State kids who were doing visits at Penn State, and they said that Christian Hackenberg at the time had you know at parties would have a huge throne and he was just surrounded by sorority girls who were assigned to him we heard this rudor and we thought it was like ridiculous but we've i've heard it a couple times since is there any truth to this

Speaker 9 i never saw him on a throne

Speaker 9 Sitting on a throne. Now, when he walked in, did everyone like walk into a fraternity party? Did everyone mob him? Yes.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 9 But I never saw like a legitimate throne with a shrine. And he's sitting on top and everyone's like just beneath him and all that.
I never saw that.

Speaker 2 All right. So there's two quarterbacks.
It's Lamar and Christian. He's never seen on a throne.
Yep. Got it.

Speaker 1 What was the second question?

Speaker 7 Have you ever been to McSorley's bar in New York City?

Speaker 9 I haven't.

Speaker 1 But we have a mirror. If you have a New York City walk up there, we should go to that bar.

Speaker 7 It'd be really fun.

Speaker 9 That's one I definitely got to take a trip there.

Speaker 9 I've been wanting to go there, check it out. It's like, you know, that old-time, like, old-time kind of pub.

Speaker 9 So I definitely got to go there and have a few beers.

Speaker 2 What's really nice about that place is if you order just two beers, they bring you out like eight mugs.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they bring like six, right?

Speaker 2 They bring you out like eight small mugs of beer, so you feel like you're the man once you drink like four of them because it's half a beer basically.

Speaker 2 And then you order another round and they bring out another like 16 of them. It's awesome.

Speaker 1 I assume you know this, but Adam Schefter just tweeted that you were placed on the injured reserve.

Speaker 9 That's the first I knew that.

Speaker 1 Oh, wait, you didn't know that?

Speaker 9 Uh, no.

Speaker 1 Shit. Okay, now I feel like a dick.

Speaker 9 I mean, that's

Speaker 9 what it is. I mean, I didn't know exactly how long it was going to be.

Speaker 1 Well, there's only three weeks left, so I assume.

Speaker 1 Well, this is a terrible moment in pardon my take history.

Speaker 1 I thought you were going to be like, yeah, you know,

Speaker 1 I'm banged up. But injured reserve, that's not.
Is that season over? Shit.

Speaker 9 No, I mean, I didn't think it was, you know, from what I heard, I didn't think it was going to be season ending injury from what I heard from the docs.

Speaker 1 This is, yeah, this is awful. Maybe it's time to, maybe it's a rocker thing.

Speaker 1 Jake, wait, hold on. Jake, our stat guy's got some more information.
Hold on.

Speaker 5 According to Mike Florio, you're out for at least three weeks, which means you're done for the regular season, but you can return for the postseason.

Speaker 1 Oh, you're cut off. Payoffs.

Speaker 2 Still come back with that visor and win a Super Bowl. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 9 That's what we were just talking about.

Speaker 1 Someone's got to do it. Okay, so yeah, we bounced back.

Speaker 1 That was a bad moment right there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I thought maybe someone had told you and I wasn't breaking news to you right there, but we just broke more news to you that you're back for the playoffs.

Speaker 9 Yeah, so we'll get make sure Lamar's got his visor on. I'll have mine on just in case, and then we could make sure that

Speaker 9 we win the Super Bowl. And then now someone's won it with a visor.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Slip him some pepto before every game so that you won't be needed.

Speaker 2 What was your pregame meal last night? Oh, good question.

Speaker 9 Last night it was

Speaker 9 spaghetti and fillet with broccoli.

Speaker 2 Okay, how was the fillet cooked?

Speaker 9 Medium rare.

Speaker 1 Was there chili on the spaghetti?

Speaker 9 No, just marinara sauce.

Speaker 1 Okay, you were in Ohio.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 All right, I have one last question. I do apologize for breaking that news to you.
That sucks.

Speaker 1 Straight up sucks. That's by me.
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Speaker 1 Just a lame question and kind of a stupid question, but like being Trace McSorley. at Penn State, like that was probably pretty sweet, right?

Speaker 9 Uh, yeah. No, it was, it was cool.
Had it had a bunch of good times there. Can't uh can't complain about that.

Speaker 1 Did you have a moment where you were walking around on campus maybe after like junior year where you're like, this is awesome?

Speaker 9 Um, I mean, so like when I first started playing like in 2016, we had like a couple of guys on the team got, there was like a fraternity that got kicked off of campus.

Speaker 9 So, like, some of the guys on the team had like moved into there because it was like a lot cheaper rent for them. And so that house kind of became like the football fraternity house.

Speaker 9 So like after big wins, like after the Ohio State win,

Speaker 9 that place was going nuts.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 9 Ridiculous. And then, like, so I think, yeah, walking, like, walking into there and like everyone else is there, I think that was like one of the moments where it was like, yeah, this is pretty cool.

Speaker 1 I can use.

Speaker 2 Yes. How does that work out logistically? If you have a football house, who's in charge of like splitting up the utilities and being like, hey, guys, can you pay?

Speaker 2 Is there like a spreadsheet that someone pushed together?

Speaker 9 it was like it was only like a few guys on the team that actually lived in there and then it was uh a bunch of other guys that we were like guys were friends with on campus or you know knew from class the guys that were on the team that decided that football wasn't for them they wanted to live in there um so they all just split up like the utilities of it so there's only they just you know treated like a normal house with you know 12 15 dudes however many were in there living there and then they just split it all up evenly i guess i don't know the logistics how they split all that up the ultimate man cave.

Speaker 1 Yes, yes. That would yeah, no, it was it was a good place.

Speaker 9 Yes, one of the best places I've ever been to.

Speaker 1 I think that's, I mean, it's kind of a lame question to ask, but it's also the thing that like every guy thinks about.

Speaker 1 Like, what would it be like to be the starting quarterback of a big-time college football program and like walking around campus and everyone being like, oh, that's Trace McSorley?

Speaker 2 Were you there when James Franklin put juice boxes in all the lockers to keep you guys juiced up?

Speaker 9 Yeah, they were handing those out. They handed those to us as we were like leaving the hotel to go to the game.

Speaker 1 Did that work? Yeah, it might have been the Purdue game. Yeah.
Yeah. It worked.
It did work. It worked.
Yeah. Yeah, it worked.
Yeah. Brought our own juice.

Speaker 1 You got any other questions, Billy, before we let Trace go?

Speaker 2 I think you took his last question was how sweet it was.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that definitely was a Billy question. Billy's just nodding.
Billy was a quarterback, too, so he kind of knows what it was like to be Trace McCorrow at Penn State.

Speaker 2 Oh, I have one last question.

Speaker 2 Have you ever practiced with RG3 and tried to throw a football at a tree with him?

Speaker 9 Throw a football out of a tree?

Speaker 2 At a tree. He's really good at hitting trees.
Like, I'm talking from 40, 50 yards away. If you pick out a tree, he can hit it.

Speaker 9 I mean, we throw at the goalpost. That's about as close as we ever got to a tree.

Speaker 1 Who wins at that?

Speaker 9 So we do it between all our quarterbacks. Like after practice, we'll just do a competition.
So it rotates who wins. Our quarterback coach, Coach Urban, gets in on it, too.

Speaker 9 And he's sneaky good at it sometimes, too.

Speaker 1 Shit, I think I could throw 100 times. I wouldn't hit it once.
All right. Well, Trace, good luck rest of the season.
We'll see you in the playoffs. Sorry about the knee.

Speaker 1 Sorry we had to break that news to you, but we appreciate it. You're a warrior, dude.
Like, we, last night we were texting with each other.

Speaker 1 We were like, there's no way he's going to come on after he got hurt. But nope.
Just play through. That's a football guy.

Speaker 2 Philip Rivers played in an AFC championship game on a torn ACL. You came on part of my take after straining your knee.
So you tell me.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Exactly. Exactly.
All right, Trace. Thanks so much, man.
Appreciate it. No, yeah.

Speaker 9 I appreciate you guys having me on. All right.

Speaker 2 Thanks, man. Good luck.
Thanks, man.

Speaker 1 And if you ever want to play Call of Duty with Billy, he wants to play with you.

Speaker 9 Me and Billy can get in there. Okay.

Speaker 1 Okay. All right.
We'll go hook it up. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 He's got a lot of time on his hands. Is he good? Are you good, Billy? No, he's not.

Speaker 7 I got a 0.75 KD now.

Speaker 1 0.75. I'm going off.
No, Hank.

Speaker 1 Hank, I fixed it. What is yours? What's yours? I fixed.

Speaker 1 I don't know off the top.

Speaker 1 You probably have other things going on. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I got other things.

Speaker 1 All right, man. We'll see you.
Thanks so much. See you, man.
Have a good one.

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Summa. Okay, so Marty was kind enough.

Speaker 1 He hosts a co-hosts a podcast, Exit 52, with someone most of the people here probably know, Barstool Banks, a Ravens podcast, a Maryland podcast.

Speaker 1 On Monday, we were talking about team accounts that have to tweet out terrible final scores and just get berated and dragged on the internet. Marty hit us up.

Speaker 1 He ran the Maryland football account for a few years, and we thought it would be perfect to have you on. So thank you for joining us.

Speaker 1 Of course. Thank you.
Let's just go right into it. So you actually sent us some of your greatest hits.
I'll say it out loud. So final, Ohio State 62, Maryland 14.

Speaker 1 Final,

Speaker 1 Penn State 66, Maryland 3.

Speaker 1 Final, Ohio State 73, Maryland 14.

Speaker 1 Final, Michigan 59, Maryland 3. So when you're running the account and you see it, you know, do you know it before the game?

Speaker 1 You know, like, all right, this is one of those games that this is going to absolutely suck.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 8 going into every game, you have that hope that maybe this is going to be that lightning in a bottle game. I mean, we had one against Ohio State where we went double overtime.

Speaker 8 And that was one that was really unexpected. But you usually know going into it, and then you'll really know within the first two possessions.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 8 my laptop usually closes around the first quarter.

Speaker 2 Yeah. So on the final tweets, when you have to put those out, do you have to do those like because of a contract with a sponsor of the football team?

Speaker 2 Or is it just like to update anyone who might not be watching the game? Hey, we lost by 60.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 8 us in the sports social media world like to say there's unwritten rules.

Speaker 8 and you'd like to think that shamefully or not, you got to put a final up. I mean, we go pretty much dead silent or white noise for three quarters.
You got to put something up.

Speaker 8 So when you do have to, to post something like Sunday night or Monday morning, you're not completely ignoring what just happened for four hours on Saturday.

Speaker 1 So when you go final, do you, I've noticed that teams used to be like fought hard or the guys fought hard. Now it's just straight final.

Speaker 1 When was that that transition made and did you have that like did you used to when you first started at the job try to add a little bit of like hey buck up guys it's not so bad and then you finally were like this sucks i'm just gonna throw out final yeah i think you see across the board now that um there's like a universal just final period uh and then the score uh

Speaker 8 we've we've played with sometimes like you mentioned if there's a sponsor attached to it i mean we've talked to sponsors before where do you even want to be associated with it 60 60

Speaker 4 yeah

Speaker 1 so we'll usually put in

Speaker 8 in either contract or just let them know that this is typically for for wins it's a lot easier with basketball when you have more more games but football you could be looking at two posts a year yes

Speaker 8 yes yeah I think it's it's something it's something said where

Speaker 8 I mean, you guys probably know more than anyone that the mentions can be brutal. Yeah.
So where you're used to trying trying to get cute and right,

Speaker 8 hey, we'll get, we'll, we'll get back out there and fight next Saturday. Um, you get blown up pretty hard.
So just, just keep it short and sweet.

Speaker 2 Yeah. It should be like, you should have a sponsor that is only attached in case of a blowout.
Yeah. Like a sponsor that's down to ride with you.

Speaker 1 It's actually more valuable for interaction.

Speaker 2 Right. You get more replies.
So like if it's dude wiped, like we got, we got a shit.

Speaker 1 She got wiped out. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Like this was a mess. This was a disaster.
Bring the dude wipes. Right.

Speaker 8 Yeah. I mean, an alcohol sponsor for Bentley's.
I know SVP would back that one. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. So how much of your job running the social media at Maryland was specifically designed to try to get a retweet from Scott Van Pelt?

Speaker 8 Pretty much 90%.

Speaker 1 I would believe that. Now, here's.
So the finals have kind of

Speaker 1 people have caught on. We've talked about it a bunch.
Now I think the cool ones are the

Speaker 1 really sad celebration of a play in the middle of a blowout. So like, the Michigan game 59-3,

Speaker 1 Maryland kicked a field goal to make it 45-3. Did you guys tweet out like field goal is good? No, we, um,

Speaker 8 we, I look back at Arizonas because I wanted to just see how they kind of, especially seeing the score on the bottom line, you just want to see how they're handling it and you feel for those guys.

Speaker 8 And I did see that they posted the highlight of the touchdown when they were down, like I think 34, 42-7 or something like that.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 8 Especially if it's a rivalry like that.

Speaker 1 It's

Speaker 8 God, you're almost trolling yourself at that point.

Speaker 8 I think as a field goal, I would say probably not. But if you did have like a touchdown where either was somewhat of a decent play or worth

Speaker 1 a highlight, maybe, but not a field goal.

Speaker 2 So what about that card that came up at the end of the blow? And it was 70-7.

Speaker 2 They put it up as the final, and then there was a picture of one of their players on it who was just attached to that final score forever.

Speaker 2 Have you ever had a conversation with anybody who's like, hey, maybe let's not include pictures of our players, like one individual?

Speaker 2 Or it's like, don't include a picture of the coach on there because then that looks really bad.

Speaker 8 I think if you go through Maryland's social, you'll, I mean, we, we had, as you guys know, a couple coaches

Speaker 8 in a short time span.

Speaker 8 So we typically don't get the best reactions no matter what to coaches. So we look to avoid coaches no matter what.
But I'm looking back on these, trying to think my thought process.

Speaker 8 But you can see in

Speaker 8 the Ohio State,

Speaker 8 I know this is bad radio, but in the Ohio State final, it's kind of like a defensive play where you can't really see numbers or anyone's faces. Scott, I feel bad.
On the Penn State one, I really blew

Speaker 8 CJ Moore. I kind of blew him up there.

Speaker 1 The Michigan one is your greatest one because there's no graphic and it just says final period, number two, Michigan 59, comma, Maryland 3, period. That was that.

Speaker 8 That might have been like in the elevator out of the press box, just kind of throwing that out on the cell phone.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 So I've definitely noticed the final period. Period is the piece of punctuation you have to use.
Like if it's a blowout, you can't do a comma.

Speaker 2 You certainly can't do a semicolon because then that opens you up for more.

Speaker 2 Final period conveys like the right amount of sobriety and conveys like, we're not going to discuss this anymore. Yeah.

Speaker 8 To all of you replying to this, we have no further comment.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So I guess my last question is, like, did you ever get angry and want to reply to people?

Speaker 1 Because most of these tweets you can see underneath it, people are just replying like, why would you tweet this? Why are you tweeting this? We suck.

Speaker 1 Why would you, did you ever be like, oh man, I really want to just be like, yo, it's my fucking job. What do you want me to do? We suck right now.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I mean, collegiate sports, you kind of envy the pro teams where, I mean, like the Hawks or those teams that are known for their kind of tongue-in-cheek social where they've kind of put just like white noise or able to respond to people.

Speaker 8 But the tough part about working for a college team is you represent a university. So

Speaker 8 kind of going back at people,

Speaker 8 that's what they want you to do.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 8 we have had fun with people, especially those uh, where we can give a playful response, but there, there are times when you keep seeing that mentions number pop up and you just want to just send like a group reply all.

Speaker 8 Um, but you just gotta, you gotta hold it together. I mean, our first really bad one was uh, our first year in the Big Ten.

Speaker 8 Um, I think we were five and two going into Camp Randall, and we just got I was at that game, yes.

Speaker 1 Um,

Speaker 8 And I looked back on the social for that day and I don't think we got past

Speaker 8 kickoff beat Wisconsin. I think we kind of just like shut her down right after that.

Speaker 8 And

Speaker 8 it's even worse there because you get those mentions throughout the entire game, like we suck. Why are we still playing? Let's pack it in.
Let's go home.

Speaker 8 And then you post the final and it's like dropping a tank of gas right in the bonfire because it's just like,

Speaker 8 Let's let's do this again, let's uh run it back.

Speaker 1 Um,

Speaker 8 but yeah, it's tough not to say anything.

Speaker 2 What about the uh UMBC guy that was tweeting during the uh the upset of UVA?

Speaker 2 Was that an occasion where you were rooting for him and like, go man, go, or were you secretly jealous that he was able to like spread his wings?

Speaker 8 I'm jealous. Um, I'm not even, I'm not gonna sugarcoat that.
I mean, that's one of those where

Speaker 8 when you're not expected to win ever, and uh, you get that opportunity. that dude has rode that train for a couple years.
So good for him. But yeah, definitely jealous of he pretty much got to, if he

Speaker 8 put just like a poop emoji up or anything, that guy would have gotten like 12,000 retweets. So it's one of those where, I mean, get creative, but you can't do any wrong in those situations.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's like being like everyone just laughing at your jokes and you're the funniest guy for a minute for like one of those nights where you're just on fire and everything is working he's probably if you look at the long-term ramifications of that win over uva he probably benefited the most out of anybody in the entire world yes to that one win yes all right so i mean yeah it's also crazy just because anytime uva loses to anyone else like that guy gets to like jump back in the spot i know i know he's just he's always relevant all right so last last question um give us one one of the positive moments did you do basketball too yeah i I did basketball.

Speaker 8 Basketball is pretty, I mean, for the most part, basketball is pretty. I mean, we beat Duke our last year in the ACC.

Speaker 8 That was one of those where we had our first flash mob that game. We couldn't do any wrong.
We stormed the court. Like, I think I had content for like the next two weeks.

Speaker 8 It didn't really matter what we did from that point on. Like, SCP was there.

Speaker 8 We lit it up. Like, that was one of the biggest highlights.
And then I think from a football perspective, beating West Virginia 38-0

Speaker 1 at, I think, MNT.

Speaker 8 Yeah, it was MNT.

Speaker 8 Anything that we did after that, too, was gold.

Speaker 1 So it's not all bad, but we do feel for social media guys that have to post these terrible final scores. I've won.
No, I just want everyone.

Speaker 8 I want to take a PSA real quick to just think about us when you're replying to.

Speaker 1 No, keep roasting. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Hold on, no, no, no.

Speaker 2 Keep roasting, but understand that it's a real person.

Speaker 2 But then keep roasting. Acknowledge that and move on from it and roast the shit out.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 8 Just think of us for one second while you're hitting 10.

Speaker 2 And also, don't stop calling them interns. I'm pretty sure that everybody that runs an account for any college is probably a professional, right?

Speaker 1 This is a lot benefits and stuff.

Speaker 2 Yeah, this is someone who's like, wow, what kind of benefits are we talking about?

Speaker 1 Sick rag on the bench. Are you guys hired?

Speaker 2 Yeah, yes. But my last, last, last question is, is there like a dream job? Is it like you look at University of Texas or USC as being like a college football dream job.

Speaker 2 What is like the gig to have working for a university in social media?

Speaker 8 I mean, it's, it's things you don't think about are like some of those top tier schools, like the Michigans, the Alabamas, like they, they're pretty tight with tradition and

Speaker 8 donors' eyes and what kind of backers think about the program.

Speaker 8 So you actually might might think that those are fun, but they're a little tied more than the like Mac schools that can kind of just like let it fly.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 8 I think the dream jobs are just any ones where

Speaker 8 your administration, which I'm thankful that mine did for eight years, had trust in me and kind of let me just go and kind of take credit where credit was due, but also

Speaker 8 trusted me to get some laughs, but also.

Speaker 8 act accordingly for university.

Speaker 1 You had to be terrified that you would tweet something from your personal account by accident.

Speaker 8 Oh, I did.

Speaker 1 Every day. Oh, you did?

Speaker 8 Yeah, I

Speaker 8 tweeted that I was watching Mean Girls one day from the Maryland main account,

Speaker 8 uh, and that was screenshotted. And I think there was a hashtag that started Terp's Mean Girls that just kind of went on for like two weeks.

Speaker 8 I thought I was going to get fired because that was my first year in the Pacific.

Speaker 1 I love it. All right.
Well, man, thank you so much. Everyone listening to Exit 52 podcast.
Congrats on the Ravens being back. And thank you for joining us.
Yeah. Thank you guys.

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Speaker 1 Okay, let's wrap up Wednesday's show with a little FAQs.

Speaker 2 Holiday FAQs, is that right?

Speaker 1 Holiday FAQs for everyone who's going out for their office parties.

Speaker 2 Happy Chanica as Smokey Robinson.

Speaker 1 Yes, that was a great video.

Speaker 4 All right, yeah. So some holidays, some just FAQ general show stuff.
This guy says, I've been a fan since the beginning. Didn't understand it then and don't understand it now.

Speaker 4 Why the all caps, why the fuck did you guys have Martin Skrelly on the show? Go Bills.

Speaker 2 That was awesome. So sometimes during this show, we get a little caught up.

Speaker 1 We get wound up in whatever the flavor of the day is and i think martin screwlly was like going viral that was also very early in the show yeah it was like we were if you remember the guests we were we were trying to like all right what's the next thing what's the next thing like we we didn't have bookers we booked everything ourselves and i think yeah he was trolling wu-tang right he bought the wu-tang album when he bought the wu-tang album and he was like making all these like weird videos from his damn he's a bad guy his like apartment yeah and so we just decided yeah we'll have him on the show i didn't personally like like him.

Speaker 2 I think that came out a little bit.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't think he was sassy.

Speaker 2 I did get sassy with him, Hank.

Speaker 2 And then we started a band and squashed the beef. Yeah.
So the band is, I think it's on.

Speaker 4 I mean, that was before Billy, but it was like all about steroids.

Speaker 2 I follow him on Instagram, and he just has someone posting for him because he's in jail.

Speaker 1 I think still in jail?

Speaker 2 Is he out of jail? Yeah, no, I think he just got more jail.

Speaker 1 Okay, he got more jail. He probably deserved it.

Speaker 1 But someone just keeps posting pictures of his cats from his account. Being like, it's just his account is active.
It's just all his cat pictures.

Speaker 5 Twitter account suspended.

Speaker 1 Twitter account suspended.

Speaker 1 Still, I mean, that face, I think I wrote the blog when it first happened, like the most punchable face of all time.

Speaker 1 When he came first on the scene and had his smug-ass face. And he, yeah, he was.

Speaker 2 He was something else. Paul Gunther definitely would have hit him in the face in a showdown.

Speaker 2 I think we should record one episode a part of my take and try to get him to buy it and not release it to anyone else. Yes.

Speaker 1 He definitely has zero dollars now. Negative money.

Speaker 4 So this is from a youth,

Speaker 4 a young college student from Toronto, actually. I guess there's a location on these.

Speaker 1 There are colleges in Toronto?

Speaker 3 Eunice. Unice.

Speaker 1 Unice. Got it.

Speaker 1 University of McGill.

Speaker 4 How do you make the most of giving up... I think that's.

Speaker 1 Is that

Speaker 4 an American? It's an American college in Canada.

Speaker 2 The American School?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 I just made that up.

Speaker 4 How to make the most of guys.

Speaker 4 How to make the most of giving up your freedom at college and coming home to live with your parents for the winter break, including getting your booze and nick fix without being judged.

Speaker 2 What's it? Is it nicotine?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, it's quarantine, so I don't. Well, actually, Canada, I think, has figured it out.

Speaker 2 You can buy booze in Canada when you're 18, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah. You can do anything in Canada.

Speaker 4 Even worse, though, you know, like college kids aren't really like...

Speaker 4 It's probably much worse for a college kid because they're at houses and they're going to house parties and shit, and then it's like they have to go home.

Speaker 1 They're going to kill Nana. A lot of college kids,

Speaker 1 you're. Yeah.
College kids listening to this right now, you're probably going to kill Nana. I don't even know.
Don't do it.

Speaker 4 I'm nervous about going. Like, I'm going home for Christmas, and I feel like my mom, like, even if I want to go see my friends, I'm going to get shamed.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 You will. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Of course you will.

Speaker 1 Especially if your parents are like, oh, I'm not going to think that's not fair.

Speaker 1 I'm just like, I'm like trying to. At first, I was like, that was a nice reverse shaming I just did.

Speaker 1 It's not fair that I'm being shamed. Yeah, no.
For putting my family at risk. Hank, think of it.

Speaker 2 If I go home and I go hang out at a friend's house and then I go back, I might kill Marlon's man.

Speaker 7 Guys, I think you're missing the question.

Speaker 7 He's not going to see any of his friends. He's wondering how he should consume booze and nicotine while around his family.

Speaker 1 Without being a family, what's the best way? I would say. Without being like, oh, you're 18.
And you're 18.

Speaker 1 And two, like...

Speaker 1 That doesn't matter. Well, no,

Speaker 1 in Canada.

Speaker 1 No, in Canada. Yeah, but you can drink legally in Canada.
So what are they going to do?

Speaker 1 Also, I feel like that

Speaker 1 break in college, like just embrace it. Who cares? Just don't just sleep all day.
Work out. Yeah.
You know how you don't get judged?

Speaker 1 You stay up till 4 in the morning and you sleep till 4 p.m. You show up for dinner every night and then the rest of your family goes to sleep and you rip cod with the boys.
Yep.

Speaker 1 And no one's going to judge you because they literally won't be awake.

Speaker 2 And I think what you can do is, especially with your dad, dads love their sons going off to college for the first time because they come back that first break and dad's like, there's my party kid right there.

Speaker 2 Your dad will probably drink with you on the first night, maybe be a little hungover going to night number two, and then you just leave him in the dust.

Speaker 2 So you invite him to partake with you for at least the first night, then maybe he'll get too hungover to continue, and you're free. You've already established that you drink in his house now.

Speaker 2 So then you're free to imbibe as the week progresses. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Hey, Big Cat, PFT, Honk, and Billy Squires. What is everyone's favorite Christmas cookie?

Speaker 1 I just like the sugar cookies with the

Speaker 1 straight up

Speaker 1 like the thin sugar cookies with the sprinkles on it that you can eat like a thousand of them and like just pop them.

Speaker 2 I like those, but those are always in danger of being like a little too dry. It's very fine.

Speaker 1 You need them within the like 12 hours of cooking.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I like an Oreo. I used to leave Oreos out for Santa all the time.
Never got any complaints.

Speaker 2 Probably the best milk cookie as well.

Speaker 1 And water.

Speaker 2 And water. Yeah, you need water to chase the milk after the cookie.

Speaker 1 Well, you got to wash your Oreos.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you got to wash your Oreos. You got to hose them.

Speaker 1 It's the greatest water cookie out there.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I think you can't go wrong with a cookie around the holidays. That's what I always say.

Speaker 1 This is definitely the give-up time of just like, there's just, I do love, like, this stretch where anywhere you look, there's just candy and cookies everywhere.

Speaker 1 Like, yesterday, there was just in the kitchen at the office. There was like

Speaker 1 probably 200 cookies just sitting out. And popcorn.
There's always popcorn. Yeah, Garrett's popcorn when they say.
Oh, dude, we need that big tub. Someone sent us a big tub.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Wait, which one are you?

Speaker 1 I like to mix them all.

Speaker 2 You mix them, you take the thing out?

Speaker 1 You let them mingle? No, I don't do that, but I like to go, you know, a little.

Speaker 1 I actually don't really love the butter as much. It's usually the cheese and the caramel, and then just a little bit of butter.

Speaker 2 See, I go cheese and I go butter. Stay away from the caramel.

Speaker 1 Oh, you got to go get a little sweet.

Speaker 1 That's, I mean, I think I've said this before, but my life, like,

Speaker 1 the most important job I have in my life is trying to balance that sweet and savory. Trying to figure out when you can get off one or the other.

Speaker 4 Why are you hiding the new Larry from us? Is he winning too many bets and you don't want to give the people the insights? Are you ashamed of the conditions you are keeping him under?

Speaker 4 I have asked this question frequently to myself in the past like eight seconds as I typed it. So technically, it is an FAQ.

Speaker 1 Is this written by a goldfish?

Speaker 4 Also, Merry Christmas, bam, holiday-themed. Now you have to answer it.
Pwned.

Speaker 1 Oh, God, that was pwned. The fish is fat.

Speaker 2 The fish is too fat. So fat.
So we can't. It doesn't do it.

Speaker 1 Disgustingly fat. We don't body shame it.

Speaker 2 It's unable to turn, so it can't. It's like DK Metcalf.

Speaker 4 It's the first fish to last two years. So it's like grown.
It's probably, I don't know, five or six or seven times

Speaker 4 bigger than any of the other fish. It's disgusting.
The first week we were going to have to.

Speaker 1 It actually is. I see it every now and I'm like, yo, Larry.
It's gross. You're kind of gross.

Speaker 4 We were going to have a track play varsal picks, the eight play varsal picks, but we went to do the net, and he's wider than the net.

Speaker 4 So to like put him in the net and then have him make the picks, it felt like it was like.

Speaker 1 We need to kill him every time.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.
So what do we do with it? So he's thriving.

Speaker 1 I think we all know. To answer your question, yeah, we let him live.
We let him live.

Speaker 4 We'll take a picture of it. Spider takes care of him.
Does a great job.

Speaker 1 And people can't get mad because all we heard for the first six, seven Larry's, however many, was this is cruelty. Your Larry's keep dying so quickly.
Well, guess what, fuckers?

Speaker 1 This Larry has outlived everyone.

Speaker 2 The thing is, if we started to use him for content, I guarantee he would die within like the first two weeks.

Speaker 1 Because he actually, like, when you go to use the net on him, it's like punching him. It's not a little tiny cute goldfish.
It's a fucking full-ass man.

Speaker 1 Billy, no, you know, you know, Billy wants to keep it.

Speaker 7 I'm just saying, no, no, I'm just saying the fish is so big that you could pass it off is like a big fish that you caught.

Speaker 1 To keep it fish, like if you put it close to the camera. Yeah, like you pull Larry out of the water, you can legally keep it and have to put it back.

Speaker 2 Billy, that should be your new avatar. Like, you should be a fish avatar guy where you're holding the goldfish.

Speaker 2 I should take Larry and put him close to the camera. Yeah, hold him together.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 7 But we would have to hook him, so let's not do that. Okay.

Speaker 4 Ask Billy who taught the first teacher.

Speaker 1 Whoa.

Speaker 1 Oh, I have a whoa.

Speaker 7 Life.

Speaker 2 Moses. What?

Speaker 7 The tablets. He learned through.

Speaker 1 Life taught the first teacher. Yeah.

Speaker 7 He learned through right, uh,

Speaker 7 what's the word? Environmental learning.

Speaker 1 I think, yeah.

Speaker 2 So, in other words, just a lot of people died figuring stuff out.

Speaker 1 I have a whoa. I saw

Speaker 1 Twitter today. Do you know that Zion is actually the longest-tenured Pelican?

Speaker 1 Whoa. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Whoa. He technically, when he was drafted, all the other guys have been there less time.

Speaker 2 That's amazing. Yeah.

Speaker 2 He's the leader of that team now. Isn't that insane? I also saw that he got skinny, which I don't like.

Speaker 1 Did he? Yeah, he got skinny. He'll put it back on.
He always

Speaker 1 can't keep that off. As a guy who fluctuates, you're not fooling anyone, Zion.

Speaker 4 For my family's Yankee swap, or some call it White Elephant. I call it Yankee Swap.

Speaker 1 You can't say White Elephant.

Speaker 4 Okay. I'm stumped this year.
There's a $30 limit.

Speaker 4 What are some out-of-the-ordinary ideas I can use this year?

Speaker 4 Scratchies. Cash.

Speaker 1 Always scratch offs. Cash.

Speaker 1 Cash in a different

Speaker 1 country's currency.

Speaker 4 Digit spinner.

Speaker 1 I could get. Oh, that's a good thing.
Digit spinners are back.

Speaker 2 I would be so pissed off if

Speaker 2 it was like $30

Speaker 2 worth of currency from a different country.

Speaker 1 Asshole move.

Speaker 4 Part of my flakes is actually a good job.

Speaker 1 Jimmy John's

Speaker 5 favorite place.

Speaker 4 Having a family member, like an old uncle, end up with Part of my flakes box would be a funny gag. That would be a very funny gag.

Speaker 2 This NFC Beast t-shirt on sale now, I think out the door, that's just under 30 bucks.

Speaker 1 One sleeve of this Buddha Ben sweatshirt I'm wearing.

Speaker 4 Why did you guys choose the smallest Ralphs parking lot for a group meetup in Santa Monica? Love you guys. Great question.

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 2 Yeah, because we got kicked out.

Speaker 4 I think we almost got arrested.

Speaker 1 I think that was what it was, body armor.

Speaker 4 It was body armor. It was our sales team set it up.
I don't know why they chose Ralph's. I think because Ralph sold body armor, but they didn't tell Ralphs and they didn't tell anyone else.

Speaker 4 And we have to do it.

Speaker 1 So when 600 people show up.

Speaker 4 When we were performing a wedding in the van and it was like brother and sister or something, that got weird.

Speaker 4 The cops came and were like, you guys can't do this. This is illegal.

Speaker 2 It was super close to the 405, so we needed like a getaway spot.

Speaker 1 I just love the name Ralphs. I would shop at Ralph's all the time.

Speaker 1 Head down to Ralph's. Need anything?

Speaker 1 That's a cool thing to say. Yo, I'm popping over to Ralph's.
Do you need me to pick up anything?

Speaker 2 I was disappointed that Ralph's didn't have those stations set up where you could sample stuff. Ralph seems like a sample grocery store.

Speaker 1 Do we even go into Ralph's?

Speaker 2 Yeah, we went in, I think. No, we didn't.
That was a different one. You're thinking of Publix.

Speaker 1 I was thinking of Publix. Yeah.

Speaker 2 No, we didn't even go into Ralph's.

Speaker 1 No, yeah. Ralph's.
So maybe Ralph's does.

Speaker 2 Although, I don't think. Smash and trash.

Speaker 1 We're going to say, Billy.

Speaker 7 No, I was just going to ask, which was the illegal part, like the marriage?

Speaker 1 No, the entire hair.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 in Ralph's defense, it made sense why they were pissed because we just completely consumed their entire parking lot. So no one, we caused a traffic jam in their parking lot.

Speaker 2 But at what point does it become illegal to just show up in a parking lot?

Speaker 1 Flash mobs, illegal. Yeah.
They illegalized that when everyone started dancing to Harvey Danger.

Speaker 4 Was it, I believe that it was, we were doing the wedding, and the whole time I was like, this is the weirdest thing we've ever done by far.

Speaker 4 And then at the end, they were like, we're actually brother and sister.

Speaker 1 And the girl was like, he forced me to do this. And we're like, this is creepy.

Speaker 2 The guy couldn't get a stand-in besides his sister.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 I think that's when we figured it out. So I can go kiss the bride.

Speaker 6 And then he was like,

Speaker 4 Yeah, that was a wild time.

Speaker 1 It was, I felt bad for the girl. Yes.

Speaker 4 All right, so these are two questions very similar to each other.

Speaker 4 Dear Big Cat, PFT, Hank, Liam, and Jake, I hope you all have a great holiday season. What's the best gift to get someone that you want to break up with after the holiday season?

Speaker 2 Oh, that's a great question.

Speaker 1 Yeah. An Xbox.
Yeah,

Speaker 2 I was going to say, like, something that will keep him entertained.

Speaker 1 So you can get back. Like, you're not going to want that PS5, are you? No, no.
You didn't really like P.

Speaker 2 Because if you break up with him after giving him an Xbox, no, I think that's not the guys on chicks.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 2 What? What's the question?

Speaker 1 This is FAQs.

Speaker 2 But you're getting somebody a...

Speaker 1 Yeah, but it could be a guy getting a girl a gift. Oh, okay.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 I was saying a gift.

Speaker 1 A guy getting a girl an Xbox and being like, you love COD. and then like two weeks later, be like, Nah, you don't.
You really don't. Let me have it back.

Speaker 2 If you're a girl, then I think that's even more of a brilliant move if you're going to break up with a guy, because then he's just not going to be talking to you, anyways.

Speaker 2 At that point, he'll just be obsessed with his new video game system. So, Xbox for Xbox, yeah.

Speaker 4 All right, and this one's a little similar. Best present to get for my girlfriend, who earlier this year cheated on me.
She doesn't know I know yet, but what should I get for a little revenge?

Speaker 1 Oh, you should get.

Speaker 1 Oh, if he knows the guy,

Speaker 1 you gotta get

Speaker 1 to get something related to the guy and watch her get super flush and be like, I know.

Speaker 1 That's a funny, that's a funny pro.

Speaker 4 Yeah, like find out if they went on a date somewhere and got like a gift card for that place. But yeah, you love that place, right?

Speaker 2 Yeah, something really passive-aggressive like that, or just blow up the lyrics to that Taylor Swift song.

Speaker 2 I think you did it, but I just can't prove it. And be like, I know you love Taylor Swift.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Oh, shit. Put that in a frame.

Speaker 1 This is good. I want you to.
These are the ones I wish we could videotape. I just want to make cheaters with Joey Greco cool again.

Speaker 1 Joey Greco got fucking stabbed, dude. That guy was committed to the game.

Speaker 2 Just like write a really long poem about how you love her so much, and you know that you two are meant for each other, and you'll never do anything to hurt each other, ever.

Speaker 1 Yes. Like, the reason why I love you so much is you'll never, ever, ever, ever, ever cheat on me.

Speaker 2 And just stare at her.

Speaker 4 Who runs the meme account on Twitter? The account's too good, so it's definitely not Billy. I'll hang up and listen.

Speaker 2 We don't know.

Speaker 1 We don't know. He's awesome.
I do.

Speaker 4 It's a kid named Connor.

Speaker 1 Child Connor. Sends him fucking Sunday Chinese.

Speaker 4 He does a great job.

Speaker 1 Yes. Very, very good.
We should hire him as our intern.

Speaker 4 And then have him fight Jake Paul.

Speaker 1 Oh, I bet you Connor could meme his way into that.

Speaker 1 That'd be electric.

Speaker 4 Last one. This is not an FAQ, but a woe.

Speaker 1 He's so happy.

Speaker 1 Billy, you should talk to Connor and use... Connor can help you meme your way into the Jake Paul fight.

Speaker 2 Yeah, Connor's definitely listening right now.

Speaker 1 Connor, help Billy.

Speaker 2 Billy needs a little kickstart here.

Speaker 1 Billy wants it to become a meme.

Speaker 1 Been busy.

Speaker 1 Whatever. Whatever.

Speaker 1 But Connor literally has nothing going on, clearly. I didn't mean that in a bad way.
He's really good at what he does.

Speaker 4 And what is his job?

Speaker 1 Does he have a job?

Speaker 1 He's really good at what he does.

Speaker 4 He just kills it with memes.

Speaker 1 There's many times where I'm like, shit, Connor's funnier than me. Fuck.

Speaker 4 Not a FAQ, but a whoa. The

Speaker 4 Fire Festival segment is the new Jimbos. I'll hang up and listen.

Speaker 1 Whoa. Whoa.

Speaker 1 Whoa.

Speaker 1 You got us. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Shit. But Fire Fest sounds a lot cooler.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 I don't know. I think.
It's been like three years and we're still.

Speaker 1 Well, that's a Fire Fest. Yeah, I guess.
Like that in itself. It's a self-fulfilling Fire Fest that we're still talking about Fire Fest.

Speaker 2 I think that I think they should do the Fire Fest. I would go.
If somebody announced like this summer, the Fire Fest is actually happening to celebrate the end of quarantine. I would fucking go.

Speaker 5 The initial release January 18th, 2019. So we're approaching two years.

Speaker 2 It needs to be this summer. It needs to be like an official worldwide end of COVID party Firefest 2.0.
This time it's actually happening. We promise.
I also. Yes, sorry about the last time.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm going to push back on that one. I think that

Speaker 1 if you just keep saying Fire Fest,

Speaker 1 we'll be at the beginning of when it's cool again. You know what I mean? We're waiting it out.
We're squatting on Firefest.

Speaker 1 Eventually, people people will start saying Firefest again, and they'll be like, oh, wait a rip off part of my thing.

Speaker 1 Like, yeah. Like, wait a minute,

Speaker 1 yes, exactly. Exactly.
Is that it, Hank?

Speaker 4 That looks like it's it.

Speaker 1 Okay,

Speaker 1 numbers, numbers, eight, numbers. Riding with eight, baby.

Speaker 1 I kind of want to go 100 now that I know it's in there.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I think it's going to go double hundreds. I'm going to go 100.

Speaker 1 99. You're a fucking lunatic.
99. All right.

Speaker 2 Is there a zero in there? One.

Speaker 1 No, I do not think there's a zero. I think it's one to a hundred minus 69.
Minus 60. Billy.

Speaker 1 Why did you do that? Can you please bring back 69? No.

Speaker 1 What's your number, Billy? Mine's three.

Speaker 2 Eight. You're cursed.
I don't want to get it. Billy, you're cursed.

Speaker 1 I don't want to get it. I don't want to get it at your home.
I don't want to get it. I'm trying to avoid it.
I don't even want to win this one because people would be like, that's rigged.

Speaker 1 Eight, eight, eight.

Speaker 1 What do we got? 62?

Speaker 1 That sounds like a...

Speaker 4 I feel like 62 is like every other day.

Speaker 1 That's an awful number. 62.
Yeah, what a nothing number. Awful number.

Speaker 5 Who 262 is repeat: November 8th was the last time.

Speaker 2 Yeah, nothing happened on November 8th.

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