Falcons QB Matt Ryan, We Get Mad At A List, And Guys On Chicks

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On today's Pardon My Take, we have NFL MVP Matt Ryan, starting quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons. Awesome interview.
Awesome, awesome interview. He also said some great headline grabs towards the end about the nfc south and the falcons this next upcoming season we have guys on chicks we have hot seat cool throne and guess what we're gonna get mad about a list nothing better than getting really fucking mad about a list and before we do all that ever had one of those days when it's just too cold to keep working? Nah, neither has Ariat.
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Today is Wednesday, June 24th, and baseball is back. But before we get to baseball being back, our darling Jake is back.
Congrats, Jake. You made it back.
Jake Marsh is back. PMT sports biz on the couch.
We're not doing the PMT sports biz minute today, are we? No, but we have finally our whole family back. Bubba, Hank, Jake Marsh, Billy, and then PFT and I, the two dads, the old heads in the room.
It's good to have the whole gang. We got the family back here.
Six-man squad, the A-team, varying in all types of intellect. Height.
Weight. Facial hair.
It's fat now. No, don't talk.
It's Jake's time. Jake, welcome back.
It's great to have you back. I have one question for you, Jake.
Yes. Where the fuck are you finding these terrible, terrible This Day in sports facts that you've been putting on the part of my take account which are hilarious by the way so taking through the typical day you sign off from your stream at about 10 30 11 i'll write a blog take me to midnight then i'll go in bed put on my laptop and just sometimes take 30 minutes to an hour just youtubing random games.
I'll find like a three hour MLB game and that's where I found that car turning right onto the street. It takes a while.
That was the two fans enjoy Skyline Chili at a game. Yeah, and they stood up for the people.
They did. That's what made it pop.
What was your personal favorite? The car one did the best in terms of numbers. What was the car one again? Tell us that one.
It was Mariners Red Sox in Seattle. And before the bottom of the first inning, the broadcast had some B-roll of a street and a car turned right.
But another couple of highlights were last week, we had some Little League baseball in San Diego. And the local news channel picked it up and credited part of my take as Big J's.
And PFT's favorite, the Spelling Bee Kid, getting eliminated in 13. That was great.
That was so unfortunate to see that he followed the account, and he was like, oh, no. I did not expect to get roasted online today for this.
I liked the one with the rain delay, too. After three-hour wait, this game was rain delayed.
I don't know if you caught this, Jake, but at the end of that San Diego news story when they signed off, the female anchor ended by saying, very cool. Yes, very cool, Jake.
I think that was unintentional. It's very cool to have you back, Jake.
Thank you. It's very cool to have you back.
So we have Matt Ryan coming up. We're not doing Dungeons & Dragons.
Just a reminder, today, I know it's every other week, next Wednesday we have an extra-long hour, hour-and-ageons and Dragons. We're going to do some big time Dungeons and Dragons next week.
Is this dragon going to get fucked by Billy? That's the cliffhanger that everybody's waiting on. We don't know.
So, the lead story besides Jake Marsh being back, baseball's back. Baseball's officially going to be back.
I think there's pending one last thing, like the player's safety protocol. I'm not comfortable saying that it's officially back until it's officially back, because there's always a stumbling block, and this piece of the negotiating process is one that they've been going back and forth with a little bit.
It's the health and safety aspect. But the players and the owners are finally on the same page.
Everyone is on the same page. 60 games, camp starting July 1st, DH in both leagues.
Kyle Schwarber. Theo Epstein is a fucking genius.
He knew that we were going to have a pandemic and then a 60-game season, and that's why I didn't trade Kyle Schwarber in 2016. So it's exciting.
I'm excited. Now we just have to get there because it feels like every other sport, like we're limping towards the NBA.
We're limping towards hockey. Again, it's the boy that cried sport, the boy that cried Passan, the boy that cried Rosenthal at this point.
I'm not going to believe it until I see players walk out onto a diamond. And at that point, I'm going to get excited.
In fact, so New York just invented or we entered phase two today. Fuck yes.
It's phase two. I love just referring to things in phases.
Barbershops. I think that, I think baseball is now in phase 1.5 of the reopen process.
We're waiting till we get to phase four. Actually, just break it down for me easier than that.
Just put it in quarters. I'm a sports guy.
Yep. We're in, I think right now America is in the second quarter of fighting COVID.
It was like when Lovie Smith used to always be like the first four games is the first first quarter of the season. I'm like, oh, shit, I get it.
Yeah, that's how you break it down. So just tell me when I can put my fours up later on this summer.
That's all I need to know. I'm excited.
I feel like maybe the new sport in America is just getting the announcement that sports are back because then we're never going to get it, but these sports are never actually going to come back. But just the thrill of being like, ooh, NBA's back.
Ooh, hockey's back. Ooh, baseball's back.
That kind of gets us a little bit closer to death. It's what we're all doing.
We're just running out the clock. It's awesome to just think about the fact that maybe in a month there will be sports on.
It makes me feel warm inside. Or not.
Like heroin. Keep fucking going.
The Joker. Oh, yeah.
Sports are back. Yeah, I'm going to disavow from Joker.
I'm going to have to disavow from his ass. Novak's.
He went too far. Kovidovich.
Oh, that party looked lit. It did look lit.
I don't know how they had that much energy. I don't know either.
The whole video was just them just fucking going ham. Yeah, so not only did Djokovic have it, but also...
Joke itch. Joke itch had it.
And there was a picture from them a week ago, like, dapping up. So there's a chance...
I got a little too woke when I first saw it. I was like, Rudy Gobert, everyone blamed him for taking down the NBA.
If another NBA outbreak comes, so I saw two Phoenix Suns players tested positive, and it all gets... What if it all leads back to Djokovic? I mean, Djokovic.
Djokovic. Well, then he'd be the goat again.
Right? Like the super spreader goat. Yeah.
If you're going to be an asshole and spread a virus to a bunch of people, might as well be the best. You don't see Federer doing that.
Right. Federer is probably sitting in his fucking comfy ass chair with his stupid logo being like, ooh, I'm not going to spread it to anyone.
Federer is like in the Alps somewhere. He's in an underground bunker.
He's got a puffy white vest. He looks so cool.
And if you're going to spread the disease to somebody, like having the two most famous athletes from your country spread it to each other, that's a little feather in Serbia's cap. Yeah, I would say I regret saying that Djokovic is my goat when ultimately it's a sport I do not care about.
I've only watched a handful of times in my life. I happened to get caught up in last year's Wimbledon.
Got caught up in the moment. Turns out I sided with an anti-vaxxer dickhead.
So, whoops. It happens sometimes, you know? Whoops.
My bad. Hand up.
Yeah. Disavow.
Until he beats Federer again at Wimbledon next year, and then I'm back on the train. Yeah, because Federer is going to have a weak ass immune system, right? Yeah.
Wait, Jake, you're a tennis guy. Who's your goat? Goat Federer.
Yeah. Welcome to the club.
Even though Djokovic is going to pass him in majors. We'll see.
Yeah. We'll see.
Okay. But if you want to root for Americans, too, there's John Isner who's got the great serve.
No. Andy Roddick.
Pete Sampras. Tommy Paul.
Pete Sampras. Boris Facker.
And Jim Currier, the ginger crew. Pete Sampras in his chest hair that went on forever.
No, Billy. Actually, you know what? I loved Michael Chang.
Michael Chang was the absolute best watching him play. Just returning it.
He wasn't that great, but he would hunt down every... He's the most frustrating player to play against.
It's like playing against a golden retriever. Playing against Hank.
Yeah, exactly. Playing defense.
Yes. Speaking of which, Thursday.
Thursday, 6.30. We're going to have Duggs and then straight into StoolStream.
StoolStream straight into Duggs. StoolStream straight into Duggs, which will be fantastic.
Yeah, we need to someone, Jake, after this, get my credit card. We're going to buy.
Can you buy a humane, like, collar for a human? A shock collar? Yeah. Yeah, sure.

Just get a taser.

Oh, actually, no.

There's the shock watch.

Shock watch?

That Liam should get.

Well, I don't need another thing on your wrist that you can lose.

Okay.

So we're going to have to figure out

something that we can shock you

so you can't talk

until you're ready to talk.

How about this?

How about we just give Jake

a squirt gun

and he just squirts Billy

when he starts to talk?

Oh, that would be good.

Yeah.

Like a cat.

Citronella, yeah.

A cat trying to get on

the kitchen table.

Just spray air in your face.

All I was going to say is

Let's go. Jake a squirt gun and he just squirts Billy when he starts.
Oh, that would be good. Yeah, like a cat trying to get on the kitchen table.
Just spray air in your face. All I was going to say is that worked.
It worked. It did work.
Yeah. All right.
So that's your Milan. That's what we got.
I mean, I guess we could add whisper. We could touch on the there was big news.
The Bubba Wallace news kind of a crazy story how it like all unfolded i still think the bubble wallace probably saw something i don't even know from what i've read bubble wallace didn't report it so somebody has garaged it so i just it sucks the thing that frustrates me more than anything is basically is like everything is we're in such a knee-jerk reaction society now that like nothing can be hey let's just figure out what the actual truth is first and then jump to conclusions everyone picks their side and everyone fucking hand you know runs their fucking face into each other and nothing ever gets solved and everyone just decides i'm still thinking exactly this the problem is this is one of those side arguments that we talked about like it's just it's another thing for people to focus on instead of any of the actual issues and so now people are mad at one side for reporting online that a noose was found now people are mad at the other side for being like oh you're not being sensitive enough it's just it's uh it's adjacent to the real problem and it sucks for bubba wallace now yeah because he's because people are gonna accuse him of like faking which he didn't. But it also wasn't exactly what someone else reported.
Has anybody used the headline fake news yet? Ooh. Very fake news? Trending.
Is it really? Oh, yeah. Actually, it is trending.
Okay. Yeah.
On your legal pad? No, I wrote it down. Okay.
Yeah, no, I swear to God. It says right there.
Fake news. Right under Rihanna.
No one should use that knot anymore. No, I swear to God.
Yeah, Rihanna's trending. I don't know why.
Rihanna's trending. Billy, are you saying that we...
Oh, you know why? Just don't use that knot. Cancel the knot, yeah.
Cancel the whole knot. Like, why would you...
How hot are the pictures? Check them out. Okay.
Cancel the knot? There's so many better knots that can make loops. I think...
Cancel that knot. I think Billy...
Yeah, so what Billy's saying is... Okay, that's fair.
Yeah, yeah, that's fair. Billy's not getting into the meat of the argument.
He's actually going at it very directly and saying it's a subpar knot. It's a bad visual.
Just don't do the knot. Go back to like, it's a bad knot.
It's a bad knot. Better knots.
Yeah, everyone can agree there are better knots than that. Right.
Okay, that's fair. Let's do our hot seat, cool throne.
And then we got our interview with Matt Ryan coming up, which is an awesome interview. I was actually shocked that he answered some of our questions.
So he was a lot of fun to have on. Before we get to Hot Seat Cool Throne.
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Hank, hot seat, cool throne. My hot seat, it pains me to do this, but PFT's narc-ass internet father pointed this out to me.
Tom Brady is on the hot seat. Oh, Marley Spann told you that? It's Tom Brady on the hot seat.
Tom Brady's on the hot seat. Got it.
And this was brought to my attention by Florio. Pro Football Talk wrote an article, Despite the NFLPA advising that players should not work out together, Tom Brady led another Bucs workout this morning in a state where coronaviruses are spiking.
He had nine players working out together, and people are mad. And by people, I actually don't think anyone's mad.
No. Except for exclusively Mike Florio.
Well, he's not mad. He's just pointing it out.
He's a rules guy. He's just reporting the news as it happens.
Right. Now, I don't know.
Were they wearing face masks? And two Bucs players and an assistant coach have tested positive for Corona. And Tom Brady's, you know, he's getting a little old.
I'm worried about him. So, Tom Brady...
I also am curious to see how he's going to react to Matt Ryan's comments, which you will listen to in like 20 minutes. That's a good cliffhanger, Hank.
Nice, Hank. All right, what's your cool throne? My cool throne is Ninja and other big Mixer streamers.
I'm sure you guys saw this news. This was like a This League of e-gaming.
Getting that bag, yeah. Well, so Mixer was like the...
They came on the scene a few years ago and tried to like compete with Twitch. So they threw a shit.

It's like the XFL coming at the NFL.

But if they threw like $40 million at Joe or whatever, an obscene amount of money at Joe Burrow to come play there.

And then I guess like some of their internal people, there was some problematic stuff going on.

So they basically shut down Mixer.

It got acquired by Facebook Gaming.

So Ninja, who got paid like $50 million to go to Mixer, basically got out of his contract scot-free and can go back to Twitch and make as much money as he wants. That's awesome.
He's going to double dip? Double dip. And Facebook, I guess, offered him like $100 million to stick with Facebook Gaming, and he was like, no.
Holy shit. It's basically like if Joe Burrow got paid like $100 million for a 10-year XFL contract, played one year, got some reps in.
Didn't get hurt. And then could just go back to the NFL.
So how much money do we think that he got, that Ninja got from Mixer? Ninja made $30 million from Mixer. Yeah, but after taxes, that's only like $16 million.
Hell yes. Good for him.
As a gamer, I love to see it. Yeah.
I mean, it's crazy. There was a lot of this league stuff.
I realize with gaming, it's very similar. You watch to watch quality gameplay, but then when the drama comes out in the offseason, it's that much more interesting.
Are you worried at all that we're not going to be able to get you to come back to reality? I think when sports comes back, I'll be back. But I've had that thought in my head.
Like, we've lost Hank. No, when sports comes back, I'll be back.
You think you can do that? Yeah. You're going to stop streaming? Stop playing COD? No, we're just going to get that in the office.
Right. So we're not going to get you back.
I'm committed to the Twitch. We have subscribers.
I like our Twitch community. I'm going to continue putting content out there for Twitch.
But when sports come back, I will not be playing Call of Duty six hours a day. That's a straight up fact.
I play video games every night, but I'm still here. There's nothing for me to do.
My brain was devoted to being here and stool streams, but we can't be here, so I've had no choice. How many streamers do you follow on Twitter right now? Probably like 15.
Yeah, see, so here's where the timeline starts to work on his brain. I do like watching random Twitches, and I'm not saying I'm not going to keep playing video games.
I'm just wondering, like, there's a... I think there are...
I've picked up a new hobby, Darren Corby. There's a community that's just gamers.
Yes. They don't come back into real society.
Right, but my job being in real society, and tied directly to sports, when sports come back, I will come back to sports. Which, true, they may never.
Right. So it's like, it wasn't a choice for me to start playing video games.
You didn't choose this. I literally had nothing else to do.
And it's been impressive what you've done. So I appreciate it.
You as well. But you pushed us.
My other cool throne is Woj Bombs about NBA players

testing positive Corona.

That's going to be the news

I feel like for the next week.

Yes.

And it's probably going to be like

they won't even tell the names.

Has he updated it yet?

Has anybody else

come down with it?

I saw two Phoenix Suns players.

I haven't seen anything else.

And Jokic.

Not Frank.

I don't know.

Oh, he didn't say because it'd be a HIPAA violation like Shefty had. Interesting.
Right. So, yeah, that's my cool term.
All right. PFT, your hot seat.
My hot seat is Josh McCown because there's a bigger anti-porn quarterback right now in the NFL than Josh McCown. I will give you 32 guesses and you won't get it.
James Swinson. It's Ben Roethlisberger.
Ben Roethlisberger was given a speech this weekend and he said that when it comes to his personal shortcomings, I've fallen as short as anybody. I've been addicted to alcohol.
I've been addicted to pornography, which makes me then not the best husband, not the best father. So Ben Roethlisberger, he definitely was not addicted to porn when he's recovering from his dominant elbow surgery.
Wait, so wait. This was genius by him.
Of course. Everything that he does is genius.
Right. Be like, I'm not talking about my real past.
I'm talking about my porn addiction. Yes, this is the Andrew bottle in the locker for Mark McGuire that Roethlisberger's bringing.

I actually didn't think that Roethlisberger...

I have shortcomings, guys.

Sometimes I love too much.

I was surprised to learn that Ben Roethlisberger

knew how to access porn online.

I thought he'd be like a big 58008 in a calculator,

turn it upside down, and jack off.

Yes.

Yes.

So, all right, that's funny that he's out there against porn. Yep, Big Ben.
Ben He was addicted to pornography That's how you know It's actually not a real addiction If somebody says I was addicted to something Right Because if you're addicted to something You're still addicted Correct So breaking news Ben Roethlisberger He's cleared himself No his home screen Is Pornhub.com still Yes My other hot seat, I saw this. Ha Ha Clinton Dix was taking a scooter down the street and he came across, it looked like a black bear and her cub and immediately ditched the scooter and sprinted the other direction.
Incredible change of pace by him. It was a very funny video though because it's like how, that's exactly how I think I would react if I saw a bear, but I know I'd be way too dumb to actually immediately sprint away and i'd get closer to it and try to take a picture dog yeah that's a big fucking raccoon i'd absolutely try to get a picture for the gram yes yes um and then everyone made jokes about the bears ah bear safety demonstrates no longer bear safety but yeah uh Second time escaping the Bears in as many years.

So you made those jokes too?

No, just right now.

Okay.

I just made them.

You had them in your head and you're like, I don't want to tweet this because everyone else is.

No, no, I didn't.

But I could do, let's see, it's Ha Ha Clinton Dix.

It's good to see a Clinton Dix avoiding predatory behavior for a change.

Billy, you want to explain that one?

He wasn't even listening.

Black Bears fight back.

Yep.

Brown Bears lay down. He was not listening.
He was on his phone. White bears say goodnight.
But the original saying is black fight back, brown lay down. Thanks for explaining PFT's joke.
Good job explaining my joke, Billy. Okay.
All right. My hot seat is Twitter trending.
My cool throne. Oh, your cool throne.
So you thought it was bears. No, bears are on the hot seat.
What was your first hot seat? You two hot seats? Josh McCown. You two hot seats.
Two hot seats. PFT's hogging all the hot seats.
Yeah, my cool throne. So you thought it was bears.
No, bears are on the hot seat. What was your first hot seat? Because Clint Diggs got away from Josh McCown.
You have two hot seats. Two hot seats.
He's hogging all the hot seats. Yeah, my cool throne is, I'm going to go with statues because America has set its sights on bigger things besides statues.
We're looking at Mount *** now. People are talking about blowing.
Yeah, we'll bleep out Mount ***. We're trying to blow it up.
There's some people saying we should blow it up, which would be pretty fucking metal if we did.

Sounds like a Nick Cage movie.

Kind of.

Yeah.

I read a tweet.

I guarantee there's treasure in there.

I have no idea if this is true or not,

but I read a tweet that the original sculpture of Mount R***

was supposed to do their whole body

and just kind of was like, fuck that.

They ran out of rock.

Can you imagine them naked?

That's funny.

They should.

Behind the rock.

Yeah, what if their asses are hanging out back there?

There is like a big vault behind it. Yes.
National treasure. Yes, yeah.
That's what I'm saying. A cage move.
So, let's do it. Yeah, I'm trying to think who would go on my Mount R*** of new Mount R***.
Bleep it. It should be a running back if it's B***.
Bleep that. Barry Sanders.
Bleep that. All right, my hot seat is just keep bleeping it.
Just be liberal with the bleep. My hot seat is Twitter trending.
I'm done with Twitter trending. I'm so fucking sick of Twitter trending.
Rihanna's trending right now, Hank. Fake News is trending right now.
Rihanna's trending for good reasons. It's okay to be racist is trending.
Drew Carey was trending. That's a K-pop thing.
They got that as well. simmons jimmy kimmel like and i can never figure out for what reason you just see someone trending and you're like okay are they dead are they canceled is it one of those random ones where everyone's just pretending that they're dead or canceled and then the denzel gift i'm so sick of it what about when coach dougs trends imagine how confused most of the internet feels at that point.
Yeah. But at least that's straightforward.

I'm probably whooping someone's ass.

So drew carry was trending because there was a picture of a guy that looked

like Carrie.

Yup.

Uh,

Rihanna is trending because I know I think it's because there are still no

nudes of Rihanna out there.

Rihanna should just always be trending because everybody should just

furiously be searching her.

Like,

where are these nudes?

I need to see Rihanna.

She's a,

I think she's got an album that's close to coming out too. So are on the ready for that which i'm excited for but yeah it's a it's a mess i don't even you know what i like though i like seem to beat is trending why is he trending i like when people why is he legend did he die i like when people add canceled party at the end of it that way at least i know I thought he was going to be such a...
Why is he trending? What about the Doja Cat? Is she still... Is she canceled still? I need to know.
Mia Khalifa was trending because people were pretending she was dead. She gets into these little weird...
This is like a... Oh, there's like a wise machine.
machine every couple years. I hate the fucking Twitter.

Fuck you, Twitter.

All right, my cool throne is the Mets because I might be part of the ownership group that's going to buy it. I don't know.
My boss, A-Rod, and Mike Rapoli, who created body armor and Pirates Booty, doesn't get enough credit for that, have been rumored to be buying the Mets. and I think this would be the only way that I'd able to successfully fulfill my life's goal of just being a clubhouse guy.
Yeah, working. Just being a guy around.
If you're the right-hand man of the owner. Right.
Assistant to the owner of the Mets. Just hanging out.
Hey, guys, you can tell me anything. I won't go tell A-Rod.
I don't want to crush your dreams or anything here, Big Cat, but uh how does that work with then gambling if you're an owner of the mets oh i think you can i okay i officially will say i will not i have no problem not being elected into cooperstown okay okay if you disavow it right i'm fine with that i'm fine i like how took care of that what might be happening here is like there's a big kind of human centipede of getting other people attached to your bid for the Mets. So the person who's really trying to get the Mets, he will have A-Rod as his clubhouse guy.
And then A-Rod will have you as your clubhouse guy. I don't care how I get in there.
All I want to do is I've always thought that I would be a great guy to just be hanging out. Just hanging out.
You need seeds?

You need dip?

You need some bubble gum?

No, I can't dip anymore.

No, we can dip.

Please.

In our clubhouse, we can dip.

Whatever you need.

I got you.

Want a joke?

Want a towel with?

Want me to take my pants off?

You can towel with my ass? In today's day and age,

you're going to have to be the one,

the clubhouse guys are going to have to be

the ones enforcing the social distancing.

That's fine.

I can do that too.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Back up.

Back up.

I got that.

Easy.

Bill, you got a hot seat cool to run?

I was going to put Serbia on the hot seat

98 years later.

But never mind.

Okay.

Good job, Billy.

All right.

Matt Ryan coming up.

Before we get to that,

we're going to get right back to the of my take.

Okay, here he is, Matt Ryan.

Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest.

It is NFL MVP starting quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, Matt Ryan, who is joining us. He has a GoFundMe going on right now, advancing the lives of the Atlanta black community.
He's got $1.2 million right now. That's incredible.
Everyone can go online right now, donate to the GoFundMe. Matt Ryan has has set it up it's great do it it's going to go to a great cause uh matt thank you for joining us we're going to talk about that i wanted though to start the interview being a gracious host and ask you do you want to do 28.3 now or later let's just rip the band-aid and go all right let's do it all right we'll get out to a big start and then you can come back first question how much did that suck uh i mean as much as anything can suck right like that's about as as bad as it gets still stings a little bit but uh you know hopefully i get back there at some point and can uh change the narrative i remember ed warder after the game uh asked you how crushing was this loss right after the game and that was maybe the most savage question in the moment uh so credit to you for for dealing with that in the moment and not like i would have i would have freaked out and grabbed my xbox controller and thrown it at everyone in the press and been like i'm out of here good job on that.
Yeah. I gave my helmet a pretty good launch when I got into, into the locker room, saw the kind of speakers and stuff fly out.
So I basically did the same thing you would do with the Xbox controller with my helmet. I heard a nasty rumor that you got a contact high from Chris long when he hits you in the fourth quarter.
And that's what kind of sent you downhill you confirm that yeah I don't think that's true but um you know it was that fourth quarter it was kind of a weird deal right because the end I mean we made some great plays to get back um into field goal range late in the game then we kind of you know got bumped back out but there was no contact fromris i actually just talked to him earlier today all good uh he's still talking shit about that year and then the following year when he beat us with the eagles which both those were uh were tough losses yeah that that was the 2017 falcons who i i was saying they hadn't played their best game yet up and you guys lost and i still was like don't worry they're gonna be in the playoffs next week and they still haven't played their best game because I was a big believer in that team um have you had a chance I assume to talk to Kyle Shanahan I know that you guys have publicly like there's back and forth you know not blame but Kyle Shanahan gets some of the blame for it but have you guys buried the hatchet in that respect? Yeah, we're cool. I mean, we talked a lot about it, you know, the week and a half after that game.
And then, you know, obviously I was happy for him with the San Francisco hire and, you know, kept in touch with him. And then obviously reached back out to him after, you know, another tough one for them after the Super Bowl this year.
So I've been, you know, I've kept in touch with him. And he's a I mean, he's a great coach, man.
He's a good dude, really good football coach. And he's going to get one.
I hope not during, you know, the rest of my career. But, you know, at some point after that, he's going to get one.
Do you call into question his judgment knowing that he has chris sims's initials tattooed on his

calf we used to bust his balls all the time about that matt sims so chris's brother matt was uh the

third string quarterback with us for i guess two seasons while kyle was there and matt he was

relentless man he would he would just he would break his balls all the time about that and it

is you know he tells a story about why they did it and it still doesn't make sense i mean it

Thank you. Matt, he was relentless, man.
He would break his balls all the time about that.

And it is, you know, he tells a story about why they did it,

and it still doesn't make sense.

I mean, it just, it was a bad decision.

The Wood, they called themselves The Wood, right?

It was like four bros at University of Texas.

They're like, hey, let's all get each other's names put on our legs.

Yeah, just a bad decision at that time.

And he couldn't have thought it was going to play out well.

Right.

Speaking of Matt Sims, what is it about the name matt that makes really good quarterbacks good question thanks i don't know that's uh another weird part of of that year so in in that quarterback room our our quarterback coach was matt lafleur current head coach of the green bay packers our backup quarterback was matt schaub and our third string quarterback was matt sims so all four of us in that room at the time were matt too many running joke was that you know if anybody came in and asked for matt they knew who we were talking to it was me so everybody else just kept their mouth shut yeah i'd like to talk to matt schaub have you ever asked matt schaub um the streak the pick six streak that he had going that's an all-time i mean what happened there did you have you ever been like hey dude what was going on that yeah he doesn't really want to go there when i bring it up he doesn't really want to go there uh all that often about it but i think we're both like top 15 all time of uh pick sixes thrown so uh that's pretty good for one quarterback room yeah did you did he ever suggest hey maybe we should work on our tackling never came up either either of us never really brought it up so i uh i actually do have a love hate relationship with the falcons because i do think you guys uh are always ready to peak and this year you have, I think it's 10 out of 11 starters on offense

or first roundround picks. Have you – I assume you guys have done Zoom calls.
You're looking around like, man, we got a lot of talent. Yeah, it's crazy.
I mean, like when they said that, I never really thought about it. You never really think about like, oh, yeah, all these guys are first- round draft picks or whatever but then I saw that and looking around you're like holy shit we got a lot of guys that that were drafted early a lot of guys that are from other spots that for whatever reason have ended up in our space which I think I'm always I'm always kind of bullish on that you know I feel like uh they were talented guys and you for whatever reason, it didn't work out in the first spot that they ended up.
But, you know, now that we've got them, there's talent there and we can develop them. You take a guy like Hayden Hurst for us.
You know, I think he ends up in Baltimore where, you know, for no other reason than they just ran the football down people's throat. He just he didn't really get that many opportunities.
And I think, you know, him, the guy that's coming in for us, I think has, you know, every opportunity to take off. I think we'll use him differently than they used him in Baltimore, but we definitely got some talent and you know, I'm excited about what we got going this season.
Has that been weird trying to get to know guys that you might not have had a previous relationship with and you're not able to meet face to face with them? Yeah, for sure. So like one of the first times I worked out, I was flying out to California to meet up with Hayden.
And I had met him a couple of times, like did two or three workouts. But we got to the airport and he was in this hat and had the mask on and I was like not really sure if that's him or if like if that's actually I knew we were on the same flight but he was kind of sitting in there and I wasn't really positive it was him so it's kind of it's just a weird time right now you know with uh with all this COVID stuff and meeting like this but uh you know we're trying our best making sure we're doing the best with what we got do you think you're underrated when it comes to qbs because we love as fans and media to do the the tier rankings that's basically our entire off season is uh what tier guys in and it does feel like sometimes you don't get the respect that your numbers have shown throughout your career when we do the tier system.
So do you feel that way or do you not even care? I mean, it doesn't bother me that much. I do understand, like, since I've been in the league, it's a, you know, what have you done in the playoffs? And then when you win a playoff game, all right, what have you done until you win a Superbowl? And so that's kind of, you know, that's where, that's where the status comes from.
And, you know, I, I kind of, I understand that that's the nature of, of, of how people see it right now, but I don't worry about it too much. You know, I feel like I go about my business and, you know, produce weekend and week out year in and year out and give our, you know know give our team an opportunity to win pretty much every week because i i pulled up the stats and since 2008 when you came in the league uh you've only finished outside of qbr which obviously is in the end all be all but only once and that was 11 that's your lowest qbr you were you know you've been three a bunch of times one five six like always up there and when we break down quarterbacks it's, you know, you've been three a bunch of times, one, five, six, like always up there.
And when we break down quarterbacks, it's, you know, kind of the usual suspect names. And then and then Matt Ryan.
So I don't know. It's an interesting thing that I guess maybe it is just a Super Bowl.
Maybe we're that dumb that if you win a Super Bowl, then immediately you are definitely like an incredible player that you get all the credit for these seasons you had in the past so i think one of the reasons though is i i i don't like one of my quarterback coaches he was like good good quarterback plays is you know making the boring sexy right it's doing like the little things over and over correct making the right decisions putting the ball uh you know where's supposed to be. And I don't think I do anything kind of like crazy.
I don't run the ball all that well. I don't have the strongest arm.
I don't throw it the hardest. We lost you there.
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All right, back to part of my take. And I guess Matt Ryan's coming back.
Matty Ice, here we go. Matt Ryan.
That's maybe part of the reason. Yeah.
What was that like taking over from a guy who was the exact opposite, Mike Vick? Because he was like an Atlanta legend. The franchise loved him.
All the fans loved him. You come in, you play like a completely different game from Michael Vick.
Was there any additional pressure you being like hey I need to carry this torch along or did that thought even even enter your head as you were going to that first season yeah no I mean early on it was like uh you know it was tough because he was such such a legend um you know in in our city and uh was just so dynamic and so exciting uh way that he played, right? I mean, he could just make plays that nobody else could make. And that's not really at all how I play, right? I can't do some of those things that he could do, but I always felt like, you know, if you just win games, right, and you do things the right way that, you know, people would warm up to you or whatever.
And I think that's been the case. I mean, we've been pretty consistent here for the last 12 years that I've been a part of it.
I had a number of chances in the playoffs, haven't, you know, finished it off the way we want to, but it's taken a little bit of time, but I think people have warmed up to it. Yeah.
One of the big off-season additions, our good friend, Todd Gurley, he's coming over from Los Angeles. My only question about Todd Gurley is, have you talked to him about getting a cat yet? Because he's been promising that he was going to get a cat for two and a half years now.
It didn't come up for me. Maybe I'll just shoot him a text after this, see where it stands.
You should. He promised a cat to America, and he did not deliver.
He got a fake uh that he used to advertise on hulu but he still hasn't fulfilled that promise i'd appreciate a follow-up on that that'd be great i'll send that follow-up text tonight um i want to do a quick uh throwback wondering what you was going through your head during this decision making and it wasn't your decision but uh 2015 you're out playing the san francisco 49ers you guys are down four fourth and goal on the one under three minutes to go you kick a field goal what were you thinking uh i don't know do you remember that play because i do we were out there 2015 out we just opened the new stadium yeah i do we kicked it and then we didn't get the ball back i don't think correct correct you lost by one yeah yeah yeah probably not the right choice no i actually met we saw dan quinn at the combine a couple years ago and and i asked him about that because i kind of just – I don't know, it's something I'm just hung up on. I think I had money on the game, and I just was really mad at the time.
You definitely had money on the game. And, yeah, he was like, yeah, that was a mistake by me.
It's so out of character for Dan, though, too. I think he's – it's probably one of the learning experiences for him as a head coach, too, because he honestly is one of the know aggressive guys in the league when it comes to going forward on fourth down and being aggressive and you know having the balls to to make those decisions and and being able to live with it uh which is one of the things you love about him but it was his first year as a head coach so i mean he's he's come along he's gotten better yeah yeah that was a bad one so so speaking of dan qu um, it was interesting this year because you guys obviously didn't have the season you wanted to have.
I appreciate you not having the season you wanted to have because I bet my pinky, I would cut off the tip of my pinky if the Falcons won the Superbowl. Um, so thank you for that.
Uh, but it was interesting because we all kind of assumed Dan Quinn was a dead man walking. Like he was going to be fired what was the locker room like uh the second half of the season when you guys put together some big wins and sort of saved his job yeah I think there was there was definitely like a sense of of playing for him uh the second half of the season and being like you know what this guy's too good of a guy uh too good of a coach um you know we we just don't want it to go out like this, you know, and so whatever was going to happen, let's finish it off the right way.
And then we finished up six and two, beat some really good teams, two of them on the road, San Francisco and New Orleans, you know, down the second half of the season. So it was, it was just, it was, it was fun to be a part of.
I mean, obviously it sucked the way that we started. But it was fun to be a part of that, you know, that ride the second half of the season.
And to see, you know, to see, you know, him kind of get emotional at the end of the year, realizing guys were playing for him and wanted him to be there so badly. Yes.
Six and two to finish it out. I'm officially making the Falcons my team that no one's talking about that you should be on the lookout for next year.
You always have to have one of those. Would you rather be the team that no one's talking about or a team that goes into the new year with like huge expectations, Super Bowl expectations? I mean, I guess it's kind of nice to fly under the radar to a certain extent, right? Like you kind of can go into it early in the year and there's not much, you know, buzz around you.
But to be honest with you, I'd rather be the team going into it with huge expectations because that means you're firing on all cylinders the year before. And, you know, you had a chance late in the season the year before.
And that's ultimately, you know, you want to be there every year. So we were talking before we started the show about how I had a big win today.
Got another game tonight. But I oftentimes in the red zone try to force the ball to my best players to get their stats up.
There has been a lot of talk, obviously, Julio Jones not getting all the red zone targets or not converting all the red zone targets uh that you guys get for him do you ever feel pressure like we got to get julio the ball in the red zone i want to get him his touchdowns because he's such a good player and he puts up such great stats like almost a reward to try to get him the ball and get him those touchdowns what year i mean i think it was maybe 2018 it's 2017 like a crazy so it was 17 into 18 where you had like x amount of games where he didn't score a touchdown right and it was crazy yeah and I remember at the end of it uh like in our quarterback meetings during the week Steve Sarkeesian was our offensive coordinator at the time being like dude we gotta find a way to like we gotta find a way to get this guy in the end zone right and it was just weird how like different things ended up happening that he would either get tackled inside the five uh he i mean he gets double team like crazy all the time too which is you know part of the problem but when he finally broke through he took one to the house on a little screenplay against was up there. It was like from that point on, the floodgates kind of opened up.

And he's scored quite a bit since then.

But you definitely feel that pressure, you know, because he's a good dude.

He doesn't bitch.

He doesn't complain.

Right.

He's like the best teammate you could ask for.

And you want to toss him a bone.

You want him to, you know, to get in the end zone.

And it was just it was a weird time when he wasn't scoring.

OK, so playing video games is exactly like playing in the NFL. that's what it sounds like yeah that's what i got yeah feed your guys feed your guys pump pump the stats yeah would you like to issue a formal apology to julio jones fantasy football owners from the year 2017 i'm sorry boys i wish i could have done better for you okay i think that that'll go a long way to making amends.
I'll accept that. I also wanted to know, you were part of the craziest college football season probably that we'll ever see in our lifetime, the 2007 college football season, the curse of No.
2. I think seven times the No.
2 team lost. Two loss, LSU won the Natty.

When that season's going on and BC gets to number two in the country,

what was going through your head?

Were you like, I can't believe we're here or we can control our destiny?

Because you lost to unranked Florida State, but that's just how the season went.

Yeah, it was crazy.

We had a really good team, though.

I mean, we had a bunch of NFL guys on that team. And so I knew going into that year, we were going to be pretty tough.
Really good defensive players, really good offensive line, and just felt good about our chances. But definitely, we caught fire like midway through the year, we were scoring points like crazy.
And when we got to number two I think we went down to Virginia Tech at as number two and almost lost down there and then came back and won this game like right at the end and then we lost to Florida State maybe the following week but there was definitely a feeling uh you know within our locker room being at Boston College you know you're not going out at the beginning of the year being like we're gonna you know play for a national championship. But we were pretty late into the year into October, getting close to November saying, holy shit, we got a chance.
Yeah. And it was fun to be a part of it.
Sucked losing to two unranked teams and then losing in the ACC championship, but it was a fun ride. And there were three number two teams lost after you guys too.
Kansas, West Virginia, and Oregon all lost after you guys had lost your number two. I mean, it's a crazy year.
There was a point in time where there was, I think it was week 12, that late in the season, the only two undefeated teams were Kansas and Hawaii. That's so insane to even just look back at it.

Yeah, that's crazy.

Yeah, it was a fun, fun year.

Crazy year.

And Kansas went on a stretch and didn't win a game for like 10 years.

Yeah, that's right.

The curse of Mangino.

That's right.

After they got rid of it, I think they beat Texas like 10 years later.

Uh-huh.

Are we still going with a Matty Ice story that your high school baseball coach

gave you that name because you had one good game?

Or are we able to admit that it was a nickname because you like to drink a shitload of Matty Ice story that your high school baseball coach gave you that name because you had one good game? Or are we able to admit that it was a nickname because you like to drink a shitload of Natty Ice? It's definitely from Natty Ice. It had nothing to do with playing one good baseball game or anything like that.
It really started from in high school, just a bunch of idiots being like, you got a bunch of Natty Ice beers and being like, Matty Ice sounds like Natty Ice and let's go with that. It lasted though.
I mean, it's lasted 35 now. It's been around since I was like 15.
So pretty good run it's at. We're still doing Matty.
It's not progressed to like natural light or anything like that. Yeah.
Natty Light's so much better. Natty Ice is really bad that's the like the issue too is it's just it's been so long since i've had it but natty light was natty light was pretty decent we had a lot of that in college did you feel any because you're a philadelphia guy did you feel uh any happiness that the eagles then beat the patriots after you lost in the super bowl? Zero.
Zero. Zero? Your family, though, I'm sure, was very happy.
Yeah, you know, like my extended family, for sure. Some of the ones that still wear, like, Eagles jerseys to the games when we go and play, you know, they might have been fired up.
Is that how it works? It's a brutal place to go play. It's almost like worse being from there and then going up to play there.

You know, people get on your ass pretty good about it. Is that how it works? Do you have like a tally, a running tally in your head? Like, OK, I know that like this cousin is still rooting for the Eagles over the Falcons and this cousin.
Like, I would assume your immediate family is all ride or die Falcons. But do you have a mental list of the people who have stayed with the Eagles and not been like hey I kind of like the Falcons because my fucking cousin plays for them you definitely keep score there's no getting around it in the back of your head you're at like a barbecue or something yes and they're you know they're telling you a joke and you're like yeah that was messed up you wore a you know Chris Long jersey to the game I love it someday they're telling you a joke, and you're like, yeah, that was messed up.
You wore a Chris Long jersey to the game. I love it.
Someday that cousin will be like, hey, Matt, I need a little help repairing the roof of my house. And you're just like, what jersey were you wearing when the Falcons were the Eagles? We made a mistake in 2015 or 2018 when we were playing them in the playoffs.
I love it. So who would be on your revenge list in terms of teams? If you could schedule out the perfect postseason for the Falcons, who would you want to beat from the NFC to get to the Super Bowl? And then who would you want to beat in the Super Bowl? Yeah, so week one bye for sure.
We'll take the week one bye. We'll beat New Orleans first round or divisional round, take out Philly in the championship game, and then roll right in and play the Patriots and take out the Patriots in the Super Bowl.
Okay. No 49ers for Kyle Shanahan and Dan Quinn kicking that field goal down four under three minutes in 2015? I have just less know less beef with them okay we did lose to the niners in the nfc championship in 2012 so so there's a little bit there there's still you know a little bit there but i definitely new orleans new orleans and philly be the two for me oh actually let me get my uh packers hate question in how sick was that nfC Championship game when you guys fucking torched them? Yeah, it was pretty good.
That was a fun day for us, for sure. Good way to close out.
That was the last game in the Georgia Dome, so good way to close that stadium out. Be honest with us.
Do you get your family Chick-fil-A on Sundays at the stadium? Are you able to get a special door? There's no special door, man. You wouldn't tell us the truth on that anyway, because you don't want to ruin it.
You'd have to be sworn to secrecy, right? Yeah. I wouldn't ruin that if I had that special door that you definitely have.
Well, you're a Popeyes guy too, right? I mean, I mess with a little Popeyes from time to time as well you think? What's your comparison? Have you had both chicken sandwiches? I think the Popeye's is better. Yeah, I think the Popeye's is better.
Yeah, it's a little bit bigger. It's a little crunchier.
Popeye's is better, but Popeye's also will set you back a little. Like, that's a meal.
Chick-fil-A, you can eat a chicken sandwich and, like, keep going. Yeah, for sure.
Popeye's is the ultimate hangover cure like you go have that then a nap afterwards and then maybe you're back to neutral a little bit later on yeah i kind of agree with you though i think if it's just the chicken sandwich i think i like the popeyes chicken sandwich i don't i don't think anyone's ever like casually ordered two popeyes chicken sandwiches i'll eat two chick-fil-a sandwiches all the time that's like that's a there. If you get two Popeye's, you got to schedule the rest of your day out.
You're like, yeah, I'm just going to eat these in bed because I'm going to fall asleep until 10 o'clock the next morning. Yeah, you got to get a good intermittent fast afterwards.
Yeah, for sure. I had a question about the Sunday night football intros that you guys do where you say, you know, Matt Ryan, Boston College.
Have you ever thought about switching it up and going back to your high school and saying that instead? No, I never went with, I went to Penn charter in Philadelphia. So for whatever reason, it's just never come up.
I feel like there was a stretch where I didn't do it for a little while. So it was like five or six years old of like the same, the same one that they had been using.
So maybe it's time for an update. So I want to go back real quick to this GoFundMe, Advancing the Lives of the Atlanta Black Community.
It's got $1.2 million. My only issue that I have with you here, you set it up.
You donated $500,000 of your own money. Why the hell didn't you pin that $500,000 in the comments so everyone sees that you donated $500,000? I guess I probably should have done it.
But to me, it was like, you know, it's not about what I'm doing. I'm here to help for sure from that standpoint.
But I also understand, like, it's not the easiest time for people to be donating money. Yeah, true.
There's a lot going on in the world. People, you know, have been struggling with jobs and on unemployment and all kinds of different stuff with COVID.
So, you know, I respect and appreciate that it's a tough time financially. But there's some, like, there's just some things that are going on that are unacceptable particularly in our community and you know I'm appreciative of how many different people have you know donated whether it be you know 10 bucks 20 bucks some people have donated you know thousands of dollars so I appreciate all of that and everybody's willingness to be a part of it and And, you know, hopefully we can get to that $2 million mark.

I've had some really good conversations with some people, you know, here in Atlanta about what we can do, you know, with some of that funding to try and improve some conditions, you know, whether it be for youth education, whether it be for dealing with police officers and police brutality, or whether it be with, you know, educating people on voter suppression. So I think there's some unique stuff we can do.
And I'm appreciative of you guys, you know, having me on to talk about it, but also, you know, everybody who has donated to the cause so far. That's awesome.
Everyone should, if they can, go. You can find it on GoFundMe.
I'm reading the comments right now. I just fucking love sports fans.
Some guy, I'm not going to say his name, he donated five bucks, said Saints fan here. Let's keep this momentum going and rebuild America.
I just love that. I love when they qualify like, hey, I hate your guts, Matt Ryan, but I'm going to donate.
You suck, but this is kind of cool what you're doing. Yes, I love it.
Yes. I love it.
Did they charge you the 10% or 5% GoFundMe tax when you donate your $500,000? GoFundMe, man. They've got a good business model going right now.
They're doing good for people and they're doing well for themselves also. Yeah.
Yeah. It's a great cause though.
Everyone should go and please donate if you can. I had one last question.
Falcons, New Jersey. Did you get any preview? Did you get any input in it? Or was it just like, here are your jerseys? I got previews.
There was definitely discussions. I had kind of been partial towards the throwbacks.
I kind of like backs oh i thought our throwbacks are amazing i'm glad they have you know stayed the same uh i was maybe pushing for for that to to be the all the time but uh you know i was i was a part of the conversation but uh certainly wasn't my decision but they look pretty good you know i like the all black i like the all white all-white, and I like the throwbacks. Yeah, the throwbacks are some of the nicest jerseys.
They're one of my favorite jerseys, the Falcons throwbacks. Who's the first person you think of when you see that all-black Falcons jersey? The all-black, the current one, or the old school? The old school one, the throwback.
Dion, for sure. Any of the black, I think of Dion Sanders when I see, especially that bird too bird too that bird on the side that makes me think of Dion.
Jamal Anderson dirty bird you should start rocking the Dion Sanders do rag underneath the helmet when you guys are wearing the throwback that would look sick I'm not sure I got enough swag to pull it off maybe for training camp or something I'll test it out. Oh actually did have one one last question um have you ever i know he's obviously your owner so you got to be you know he signed your paychecks but have you ever just like been like hey man did you really have to come down to the sideline no man i'm cool with him me and arthur are cool whatever he wants to do is cool by me good answer i feel if he doesn't go to the sideline, the game goes differently.
I'm a believer in superstition. He just floats behind, yeah, on the sideline.
And that look, that picture is like, oh, no. There have been a few times where I've been like, oh, shit.
He's down here. That's going to go the way I wanted it to.
I think everybody in America has the same fear that whenever their boss kind of gets behind them,

even the back of their head, if you have

the most secure job in America, you're like, oh, shit.

Am I going to get fired? If you see him down

there, you're like, I better straighten up my

posture because he could just ask me

next play. No doubt.
I'm like,

get it together, boys. Let's go.

We got to get it done.

Arthur Blank, good mustache

or great mustache?

Great mustache. Very, very well

maintained. Like, very well

Thank you. We got to get it done.
Arthur Blank, good mustache or great mustache? Great mustache. Very, very well maintained.
Like, very well maintained. Is better up close, too.
Like, the closer you see it, the more you can tell he is, you know, he takes great care of that thing. Okay.
All right. Good answer.
You're smart. You're a smart man.
Matt, this has been awesome, man. We really appreciate it.
You are now a recurring guest, so you actually have to come on whenever we ask. I'm in, man.
Okay. All right, fine.
You're in. Yeah, you're in.
Let's get some extra ratings out of this interview real quick. Can you just guarantee us how many wins you're going to have next year? Oh, you need an over-under.
Yeah. Shit, you know I can't do that.
I'll get roasted for it. But I'm going to say win 12 games oh okay how about this also let's go one step further would you say you're the best quarterback in the nfc south uh i think currently yeah i'll go i'll go with myself now that james is gone i love it well he's still there oh yeah good pointC South.
Yeah, that is a fair point. When you were playing against the Bucs last year, were you standing extra close on the sideline when Jameis was out there? Because you were like, I know no matter what happens, something cool is about to go down.
Listen, it was a crazy year because we see all of their games too. Like, you know, you're preparing for the opponents you're going against.
You're watchinga's tape of them going against them so we played him in the last game of the year and i guess he had a couple interceptions early in the game we all knew that if he had like three or four whatever it was he was going to throw 30 picks and so we go into overtime and i go out for the coin toss and we lose the coin toss i'm going to sit on the bench and i didn't even see it it but before i knew it the game was over for the pick six back the other way i was like it's it's the only way that season could have ended for him and i hope he does great like moving forward but that season was destined to end with a pick six or something like that it really was the ups and downs it was amazing yeah it's actually a good thing you guys lost that coin toss then yeah i suppose so i so. I was pissed off.
Like, we lost the coin toss. I'm like, you got to be kidding me.
Like, this is always how it goes. It went that way in the Super Bowl.
You're like, I'm tired of this. Are you? We should, you know, each get a chance or whatever.
But maybe we should go to college football overtime. I'm a big fan of that.
Yes. I love that.
Absolutely. I also think they should do – NFL should do stop clocking after first downs to let teams be able to come back in college.
Yeah, that would be a tough transition for you as a coach, man. Two-minute situations get much different.
Yes. And that clock doesn't stop when first downs.
I'm terrible with the clock. Terrible with the clock.
I still am going to criticize Dan Quinn and Andy Reid when they screw up, but at least in the back of my head I I'm like, I probably couldn't do better. But I'll still say I could do better.
You need to hire an assistant, bro, just to do the game management stuff for you. I have a bunch of assistants.
Some of them are not smart. Yeah, you should get pretty much Billy.
Billy's not smart. Just get Flava Flav to stand next to you.
Just a big-ass clock around his neck. That clock would be nice.
Yes, yes. Well, Matt, this has been awesome, man.
We appreciate you coming on and best of luck next year. I won't bet my pinky on you guys.
Actually, no. 12 wins.
If you start 0-2, then I might bet my pinky on you guys. So we'll see.
All right. Give it two weeks and then see what happens.
Yes. Perfect.
All right. Thanks, man.
You got it. Thanks, guys.
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Was it in the cold tub or the hot tub you said? That's a good question. I'm going to assume cold tub.
Well, if it's in the cold tub, I actually think that's appropriate conversation because you actually want something to, like, a serious, crazy conversation and get your mind off it. If it's a hot tub, you're chilling.
Also, when you hit the cold tub for the first time, you're not liable of what you say. But getting in the cold tub, if someone brings up that type of conversation, you're like, whoa, dude, guess what you're not doing? Thinking about the cold tub.
That's true. Yeah, just say the most outrageous stuff that you can to get your mind off the fact that you're freezing.
Right. Cold tubs suck.
Just chill out, man. All right, let's get mad at a list.
We saw this list on Twitter the other day, and it caught our eyes because it has our favorite sport, handball, ranked there. But it's sports ranked by difficulty.
Other cold thrown handball 2021. Speaking of gaming, no, I'm not going to be giving up gaming because handball 21 is a real game that's coming out next year.
Well, that's just practice, Hank. That's taking mental reps for when we eventually dominate the world in the world's games.
Handball 17, five years later, they came out with a new one. That's huge.
sports ranked by difficulty is the name of the world. Okay.
In the world's game. So handball 17, five years later, they came out with a new one.

That's huge.

Sports ranked by difficulty is the name of the list.

And let's get mad about it.

Well, where do you guys want to start?

We should start by crediting the source of this list.

It's from unbiased America sports.

Yes.

So your number one go to destination for trustworthy sports rankings.

Just behind the piss Institute. Okay.
So I actually, why don't we just start at the top i actually totally agree with number one boxing so my only problem with boxing on this list it actually goes along for a lot of the sports that are in here boxing is actually very easy to suck at yeah but i'm saying like the hardest but the difficulty is like to play it at the highest level if you suck is that what we're talking about? So we're talking about at the professional level to get there? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the difficulty.
It's the highest difficult. The hardest fights to win.
Boxing will be tough. Yeah.
Agreed. Agreed.
Because you could suck at all these sports pretty easily. True, but some sports are more difficult to suck at.
I think if you truly suck, you could suck at anything very quickly. But boxing at the highest level, I think, is the hardest difficulty in terms of everything that's involved.
Hand-eye coordination, fast-twitch muscles, stamina, pain tolerance. Just try to throw punches for three minutes against air, and then stop for a minute, and then do it again for three minutes.
Not one-minute rounds like you, Hank. You didn i did box uh you're actually the commentator rough and right undefeated that's actually great great point they're coming through but you did get knocked down yeah that's boxing that's the name of the game then you got back up exactly stronger than ever um all right so then it goes ice hockey football basketball wrestling i assume that's pro wrestling uh wwe i would assume definitely pro wrestling.
No, it's wrestling. No, it's wrestling.
It's wrestling. You get lit on fire.
You get thrown off a steel cage. Yeah, martial arts, I don't know.
I just wish they had— Steve Seagal's sick of it. Be water.
I wish that they had put basketball ahead of ice hockey just so that we could see the please like my sport crowd. Yes.
Now, here's where I have a problem. Tennis at seven? Tennis? Disag a problem tennis at seven tennis disagree unless you're playing in a tournament against novak jokovic and he's giving you all kinds of communicable diseases especially with baseball at nine like hitting a round ball going 100 miles an hour feels like it's harder than hitting a tennis ball with a racket so tennis balls can go 100 miles an hour true bigger surface area yeah i mean you always This year you always hear at least i've always been told from really just tony kornheiser and mike wilbon the hardest thing to do in sports is to hit a baseball i have no idea if that's true or not but i've heard it enough guys that i believe it yeah all right now we have skiing or baseball softball soccer ski skiing water polo water polo should be higher yeah yeah agree with that.
Rugby's actually in a good spot. I'm not even going to make any rugby jokes.
It's in a perfect spot. Exactly one spot ahead of lacrosse.
Yes. Billy, chime in whenever you want.
No, I mean, lacrosse is really hard. Into the mic, though.
Most good lacrosse players have been playing since they've been in first grade. That's for every sport here.
Yeah, but you can pick up some of these sports. Which one? Which one could you pick up and get to the pros? Handball.
Well, yeah, we're not here yet. Yeah, we're not here yet.
Yeah. Martial arts.
No. A lot of guys pick up martial arts after.
Dude, think about Steven Seagal. Think about wrestlers and boxers.
That's the peak. Do you know how many years Steven Seagal trained? You think you could beat up Butterbean? I think I could beat up Butterbean.
No, my Butterbean would have fucking put you in the other dimension. He couldn't reach me.
He probably did. I don't even know if he's still alive.
He would still fuck you up. I would do that double kick jump in his stomach.
No, dude. He would fuck you up.
Okay. Rodeo? That's where the list loses me a little bit because it's rodeo steer wrestling i feel like steer wrestling should be a little bit higher steer wrestling should be top five yes speed skating figure skating cycling for distance cycling for distance has to be i feel like those are the ones that like cycling for distance and running for this actually Actually, cycling for distance should be way lower.

Easier than running for distance.

Yes, way lower.

That's the reason why people cycle is because they don't like to run.

Run, right.

Like that should be, where's swimming?

Swimming for distance is harder than cycling for distance.

Volleyball, racquetball.

And a controlled pool.

At least cycling for distance, you're in the elements.

Swimming for distance, you're in a controlled environment.

No, no, no. Iron Man, like they swim through the elements.
Swimming is really, really hard. Yeah.
Cycling is hard but not... There's no...
It's one, it's the same, it's an even... All you need is stamina to swim for distance.
That's all you need. No, you need strength.
No, dude. You need a lot of things.
You need a swimsuit. Will? Cycling for distance is harder than swimming for distance.
You need a swim cap, goggles. Incorrect.
Facts. Hey, sharks, you need to avoid sharks.
If it's in the ocean, I'll give it to you. If it's in the ocean, I'll give it to you.
Think about it this way, Hank. When they do the triathlon, the swimming portion is by far the shortest.
It's like a mile swim, and then you do a marathon in the Ironman, and then you bike, I don't know, like 15 miles or something. Well, yeah, because you don two wheels in the ocean, but someone who's listening, who's a big cyclist and a big swimmer, have it out.
Oh, triathlete debate in the mentions. All right.
Then why did, if Lance Armstrong, why didn't he continue to do something? He did. He did continue to be a triathlete.
It was too hard to swim. Yeah, exactly.
Oh, wait. That's not true though.
That's not true though. No, no, no.
Check me. That was so easy.
Oh, wait. That's not true, though.
That's not true, though.

Check me.

Check me.

That was so easy.

Got it.

Dude, Billy just got you.

That's bad.

Billy got you.

Hank, that's worse than getting swept by PFT and ping pong,

which also happened.

Yeah, that did happen.

All right.

Surfing?

Surfing?

Yeah. I've never gotten up on a surf.
Watch the surfers though the best surfers sharks true magnetic the documentary oh yes good plug we're watching magnetic for friday it's on netflix magnetic magnetic magnetic um but that goes into it goes into that they do like 100 foot surfing in this the real like best surfers in the world that's a a fucking really, that's a really hard thing. That's one of those.
It's harder than racquetball and squash. That's one of those videos where you see the best in the world surfing the biggest waves and you actually, like your hands start to sweat.
And it's actually painful to watch that. Fencing, what? Fencing, no thank you.
If it's actual sword fighting, then yeah. I don't know,, man.
Everyone used to sword fight. Yeah, true.
Everyone used to be sick at fencing. Also, the thing is, on the bottom of this tweet, it says there's a watermark with a flag.
I feel like that has to do with something with these lists. I thought this was from Sports Illustrated.
No, it's not Bias America Sports, dude. It's their Yeah.
Oh, that's not like a French or Spanish flag or something.

All right, here we go.

We got team handball at 26.

So it's in the top half, which I definitely disagree with.

I'm –

No.

All right, let's finish off the list by finding sports that are harder than team handball

and that are ranked below team handball.

Badminton.

Bobsledding.

Yes. Ski jumping.
Track and fieldballing. Okay.
Badminton. Bobsledding.
Yes.

Ski jumping.

Track and field high jump.

Track and field long jump.

Rowing.

Calf roping.

Rowing is very hard.

Uh-huh.

Fishing.

Weightlifting.

Way harder.

Yep.

Swimming all strokes is 45.

That's crazy.

Sprints.

Swimming.

Table tennis.

Way harder than team handball.

Roller skating.

Just the barrier of entry to find a pair of roller skates.

Same with a carrian. You've got to find a horse.
You've got to get a horse that won't kick you off it. You have to be born to a rich dad.
I'm going to say this, steer wrestling, the only people who know how hard steer wrestling is are people who are around steers. Maybe if there's a steer right here, I could wrestle it real quick.
You think it's easy? It could be easy. That's not a bad point.
How do you know? Bobsledding could be easy as hell. You don't know if you're the best.
I've never shot archery. Could I be the best? I don't know.
Like, if I'm really good at podcasting in this room, better than Hank. You can't even talk into the mic.
By the way, this... See? I'm the best.
Let's finish it off. Curling, bowling, shooting, billiards, and fishing end the list.
I'll say it. Billiards is hard.
Team handball is harder than fishing. I disagree.
Actually, you know what? I don't even believe that. I disagree.
What if you're using your bare hands? That's almost impossible to do. If you're saying, even bowling, if you're saying what's harder to do? Roll a 300 or make the U.S.
Olympic team handball team,

absolutely make the U.S. Olympic handball team is easier than rolling a 300.

Absolutely.

I would also say that rolling a 200, if you've had two light beers and you're around a bunch of people smoking cigarettes in a bowling alley,

is harder than rolling a 300 sober.

What do you guys think about my longstanding theory that I could beat everyone in the world at least at one sport. I think that goes for everyone.
Yeah, I know. I've always people.
Yeah, but looking at this list makes me even more confident. I think if I went up against LeBron in all of these sports right now, one of these I would beat him.
They only they only list 60 sports and there are at least 50 other sports in the world. I beat him in auto racing.
He doesn't drive. He's drunk all the time.
He has a driver that takes him around. Exactly.
Who knows if I could – maybe I beat him in calf rope. Maybe I get lucky one time.
I could beat LeBron James in – Fishing? I'm going to say fishing, horse racing. Cheerleading? Table tennis.
Cheerleading's on here. He's a great cheerleader.
Yeah. No, he's not.
He never supports his teammates. He does when he's at an all-star game.
No, it doesn't say cheerleading when up a lot. Okay, all right, gotcha.
It just says cheerleading. I'm going to take back water skiing because he's fucking awesome on the banana boat.
Mm-hmm. All right, well, good list.
I got mad about it. And team handball, come on.
What are you going to say? Well, I think handball is hard if you never picked up a ball before But if you have Other ball skills Exactly So it's like Right that's our point It's easiest But I think fishing Is really hard Yeah it is I haven't I've like never caught a fish Ever? Yeah and I've like Fished multiple times Alright You have to use bait Jake go get a string We'll go to fucking Larry's tank Okay And we'll catch you Gosh that's awesome And then we'll put it back Okay But you have to take bait. Jake, go get a string.
We'll go to fucking Larry's tank. Okay.
And we'll catch you a fish. That's awesome.
And then we'll put it back. Okay.
But you have to take your Twitter profile as a picture of you holding your fish. Yeah, put it really close to the camera because that looks huge.
Yeah. Okay.
Yeah. All right, let's finish up our show.
Eric Andre coming on Friday, by the way. Get excited about it.
Eric Andre coming on Friday and Magnetic Documentary Review. Hank, guys on chicks, let's finish this up.
If a girl makes poops jokes, is she cool or is she being weird because girls don't poop? Yeah, she's a liar. Poopy stinks.
Poop jokes always play. General rule of thumb.
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Then both. Hey, Mr.
35, Cat, Dog, and and honk my boyfriend has started going back to the gym quote-unquote every day but comes home smelling like alcohol and weed do you think this is just a beers after trend or is he just going out with his friends every night now the quarantine is basically over how should i confront him the gym would be a great name for a bar maybe maybe they meet at the gym parking lot. I used to do that.

Sometimes me and my friends would go,

let's go to the gym, and then we get to the gym.

We're here, but let's just go somewhere else.

I got an easy solution.

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They're going to the gym to meet their friends

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Hey, honey, how's your strain today?

But speaking of bars reopening, I just had a great idea because I've always wanted to buy a round. Like, this one's on me for the house.
You haven't done that? No, I haven't done it. Now would be a great time to do it.
For the whole bar? Yeah, for the entire bar. For a small bar, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
I'm going to do it. I'm going to go to, like, an outdoor bar with limited seating and be like, this one's on me, guys.
If you go back to a college

town, it's very easy to do.

Because you realize

if you go to a college town

and you're like, wait, beers are

$2? It's a dollar.

Okay, yeah, this round on me.

Who is the best yodeler of the three?

Yodeler, yodeler, yodeler.

Big Cat.

Big Cat. I was just giving it a shot.
Give a shot Just like you learned from, what's his name, Mason Ramsey Give it a shot Yodley, yodley, yodley, hee-hoo I got you, B, go ahead, Hank Give it a shot No, give it a shot Yodley, yodley, yodley, hee-hoo Billy? I wasn't mentioned Go ahead, try Yodley, yodley, yoddle-ay, yoddle-ay. That was Billy.
Billy might have me beat. Okay.
We'll have a further competition at a later date. Sup, boys, especially Chonk Cat and Poppy Liam.
My boyfriend of five years. What? Poppy Liam.
P-A-P-I. My boyfriend of five years has decided to take up cooking.
He has been cooking a bunch of meals for us, which is really nice. But the meals absolutely suck.
It seems like they get worse and worse as time goes on. I was nice at first saying they're good, but I'm at the point where I have to choke it down.
How do I tell my boyfriend that his cooking is terrible without hurting his feelings? Can I ask a question before we get to this one? How is someone bad at cooking? You're not the right stuff but like cooking like you overcook the meat like undercook the meat how do you not follow you don't season it i mean have you seen billy cook steaks just raw meat on i'm not saying i'm a bad cook but i'm saying if i like whenever i do cook i follow directions and it comes out at least average i think billy is a perfect He goes to the store, he buys a pound of steak, and then he takes that steak and puts it on the grill. And then it's like, I cooked.
Yeah. I think what you got to do is that you got to set them up for success here.
You have to say, can we do taco night? And then if you do taco night, it's just all he has to do is just cook ground beef. And then you really put it yourself yeah yeah so being yeah his uh prep cook um but i feel like that's what i mean i i struggle with that too my girlfriend roast me she's like you don't season anything like you don't really like it's like yeah i do the simple as simple as possible so it's probably the he's probably not doing any prepping he jumped you know what happened to him he watched too much food network and he went from zero zero to 60 instead of starting by making blue box mac and cheese.
Learn the basics, and then down the line, you can start graduating to things like actual food. Hey, boys, especially Big Cat.
Last night, I hooked up with a guy, and when he pulled out the condom, it was gone. Did he not put on a condom, or is it still inside me? It's inside you.
Yeah. You got to fish that thing out.
Get Billy. Just piss it out.
Billy will go fish me. Just piss as hard as you possibly can.
Yeah, Billy will come. For anyone who is looking for a condom to be fished out, Billy is at your service.
Officially, you're signed up for that. All right, last one.
Can you learn to be handy or is that something you're born with?

Or is it like some people who are more musically inclined or are better athletes?

I think the most you can hope for, if we're talking about repairing stuff, appliances and shit,

is find someone, if they're not handy, that can at least watch a YouTube video,

learn that skill for 30 minutes, and then forget it again.

Yeah.

That's where I'm at in life.

I can't cook when I'm handy.

Define handy.

Well, the question is, can you learn to be handy or is it something you're born with?

I think it's like grittiness.

I think it's something you're kind of...

Can you learn to be handy, Billy,

or is it something you're born with?

I mean, like, I'm building a chicken coop right now.

Can you learn to be handy

or is it something you're born with?

I think it's more of a desire.

I think it's directly correlated

to how many uncles you grow up around.

If you've got a shitload of uncles, then you're going to at least know how to change a tire.

Breaking news. Breaking moves.

Breaking moves.

From our

good friend Stephen Che. He just

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Big Ben just

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Breaking moves from Stephen Che. Good job, Stephen.
For a second there, I was really nervous that we missed something huge story. Nope, just a story from like seven hours ago.
What does it mean to be addicted to porn? I think it's the... There was a true life...
There The only way to find out. Dude, there was a true life about it.

About...

I can't stop watching?

Yeah, no, he literally just sat at home for 20 hours just fucking jerking off.

Furiously.

I think the problem, if you watch porn and don't masturbate, then that's an issue.

If you watch porn because it's just fun for you.

No, dude, this guy was like, he wouldn't leave his house for days on end because he was just watching porn.

His life just became a porn.

Probably 90% of America has been technically addicted to porn for the last three months.

Yeah, we should have our good friend Glennie Balls on. Love you guys.
Do you think Philip Rivers is addicted to porn? No, he doesn't waste any real stuff. Yeah, I don't think Glennie's addicted to porn.
He just happens to have like six virtual reality goggles. And he's also best

friends with porn stars.

Right.

That just happens.

Right.

He just becomes best.

They just find him.

Something in the office.

YP might be addicted.

All right.

Love you guys.

We'll see you on Friday.

Love you guys. Thank you.