OAR The Band, Playoffs, + Game Of Thrones Predictions

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On today's Pardon My Take, we have the band OAR. You probably know them.
You probably have played beer pong to their tunes. An interesting interview that was a little different than what we normally do.
We asked them all the dumb questions you'd love to ask a touring band. Really cool guys.
It's any guys who are like, yeah, we've been in a band for 20 years. There's nothing cooler than that.
So we have that interview. We have the NFL schedule release.
We have our personal fire fest of the week. We have FAQs and maybe some Game of Thrones theories thrown in there.
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Today is Friday, April 19th and the NFL schedule has been released. Woo! Football is back.
It is very back. I was saying earlier today they need to make that show even longer i need it to be like four five six a pay-per-view it is the dumbest thing in the world to go through the schedule and pick wins and losses knowing that the nfl first of all we haven't done the draft second of all there's going to be injuries and third the most important the nfl is a week-to-week league no one fucking knows who's going to be good who's going to be injuries.
And third, the most important, the NFL is a week-to-week league. No one fucking knows who's going to be good, who's going to be bad.
So to do that experiment, that exercise is so stupid. And with that said, I fucking love it.
And I love doing the schedule, picking wins and losses over and over and over for every fucking team. Yeah, I have five big part in my takeaways from the schedule release

you want to hear okay okay yeah i got a few too so first of all the bucks got fucked the tampa bay fucking years they are away from home for like two months in a row uh they're taking like a semester off they're going uh two away games bye week london two more away games that's a lot probation officers that Jameis Winston has to notify. So let me add to that, 18,000 miles that they have to travel between weeks four and week nine.
I also did a little studying of the schedule, and the Tampa Bay Bucs have to play four big cats this season. That's the most in the NFL.
They have to play the Panthers twice. I think they play the Jaguars and the Lions how many birds do they have to play that's I don't know about the I don't know about the birds I got some bird stats for you but you go on with your second one I'll throw in I'll sprinkle in some bird stats okay my my second stat that I'm going to take away from this is uh the NFL was like oh you like the Browns well how about you smoke an entire carton of Browns because we're going to give you all the fucking Browns you can handle this year.
And it's going to suck if they have back-to-back primetime games where it's the Patriots and the Rams. And if they lose both those two games, that can actually be like a killer of your season right there.
And those are two hard games to win, to get started with. But the fact that they're in primetime means that losses in those situations will mean a lot more and will be more deflating to the Browns.
So be careful what you wished for Cleveland fans, because they gave you your primetime games, but it turns out that they're all against really good teams. Yep.
That is very true. The NFL always goes like a little overzealous for one of these teams.
I feel like last year we had the Vikings on a bunch of primetime games after they went to the NFC Championship game, signed Kirk Cousins. The Browns also shout out Louis Riddick for picking 16-0.
It's a bold pick, but for him to pick 16-0 on ESPN in front of the nation, my hat's off to you, man. You are a bold man.
Yeah. No, you can't steal second with your foot on first.

I think that was in like rookie of the year, one of those movies, but it remains true

to this day.

My third is this is the year that the Patriots dynasty is officially over.

This is the end.

This is the end.

It's got to be the end.

This is the end.

I can smell it.

Okay.

So did you see their schedule?

It's pretty easy, I believe. They have to play 13-3-er? They have to play Josh Allen twice.
The NFL fucked them. That's true.
Maybe four times if the Jets take Kentucky Josh Allen. That's true.
Speaking of the AFC East, the Dolphins have to play their first four games against playoff teams. I'm going to do a pre-related RIP to Fitzmagic.
I don't even know if Fitzmagic is going to get off the ground this year. Fitzmagic is good.
That's the magic of Fitzmagic. You're already counting them out.
You're doing the thing that everybody else does every year. I expected more out of you, Big Cat.
I expected you to know that the second you count Fitzmagic out is the second he surprises you it's called a neg it's called a neg i'm just getting the most fitz magic out of him there's no way that they win a game they're gonna go on for damn fitz magic's dead your beard's not even that good ryan yeah you got your beer gut because you've been drinking too much you've been eating too much birthday cake which was by the way just as a side r Ryan Fitzpatrick is in a total fuck it. I don't care mode.
He's on his like billionth team. He knows that he'll go out there, throw one game 450 yards in the next game, five interceptions.
And nothing tells you that more than him coming to OTAs and being like, yeah, I'm pretty fat. I've been eating birthday cake.
Uh-huh.

And his beard, let me just say, the beard is going to look very luscious in that Miami humidity.

I haven't even really sat down and thought about that, but I'm going to start doing that periodically until games start.

It's just like thinking about how bushy that thing's going to be.

Yes.

All right, number four.

Well, real quick, I want to add to your point about birthday cake.

It's a miracle that him and Phillip Rivers aren't fat as shit with all the birthday celebrations they have to have, all the Chuck E. Cheese pizza dinners they have to go to for their kids.
It's true. That's a good point.
Number four is Titans Jags Color Rush, third Thursday. Right as the leaves are starting to change in nature, we're going to get to see those mustard uniforms, hopefully.
The titans like uh i don't even know how to describe the it's like um spleen blue on the titans jersey so spleen blue against like baby shit mustard uh that's always a real treat to watch yes that's i'm very excited for that game if they don't give us color rush we riot absolutely number five is teams got too cute with their schedule

releases online

embrace rush we riot absolutely um number five is teams got too cute with their schedule releases online oh embrace debate I actually thought a few of them were unbelievable the Panthers by far won it they just dipped right into that like 25 to 40 year old nostalgia with all the video games I liked the Game of Thrones one someone had to do it and I also really really liked the Cardinals one where they just pretended Josh Rosen wasn't on the team even though they drafted him 10th overall last year the only one I kind of liked was I think it was the Chargers that just use like stock video images of all their but overall the teams got too cute with it like whatever happened to just writing your schedule in a brick and throwing it through Peter King's window yes yeah. Yeah.
Listen, I think this was the year where it's going to be good next year when they see the reaction that people had to the Panthers and the Falcons and the Chargers. Next year is going to suck.
They're going to go way overboard. It's going to be terrible.
But this was the last year where we can enjoy it because it kind of snuck up on people. Like the Panthers did something that was unique, cool and if there's ever a lesson to be had it's when you do something unique cool and fun on the internet it will get ruined within a matter of hours yeah no that that's totally fair I think that there were a couple decent ones but yeah you're absolutely right it's going to be driven into the ground next year for sure uh my sixth and final one I'll add on is the Bears have six primetime games and that scares the fuck out of me yeah that's all i'm gonna say that's true that's a lot of time a lot of time in front of the nation for people to make jokes and it's like they'll always be in the back of my head even though the bears are good six primetime games one of them is thanksgiving game is way too many yeah and one of them is what is it the second monday night football game is against the redskins third week three third week three okay so we're gonna have to do a mayor's bet for that one but take some consolation the fact that the r words are something like one and 119 in prime time games since 2000 so we have a worse record than the french army you guys are good yes yes all right so uh moving on from the nfl schedule release we got a couple things we got to do before the fire fest the first is the washington capitals losing two to one against the hurricanes the series is now two two has the panic button been taken out and are you hovering your hand over it no no i'm not worried because the series doesn't start until a visiting team wins a game, and so far it's just been two at home, two at home.
So we got a three-game series. And people laughed at me when I made my first prediction.
I said, Caps in two. They said, yo, PFT, you're a maniac.
That's not possible. It's a seven-game series.
Guess what? It's a three-game series now. So it is possible for the Caps to win in two games.
I'm very – I'm not going to say the W word, but I am concerned about TJ Oshie because he's going to be out for the rest of the series, if not the rest of the Stanley Cup playoffs because of that 30 play. He got driven into the boards, broke his collarbone, separated his shoulders, something like that.
Something stupid like that.

And so hopefully that guy, I'm not going to say his name. I'm not going to dignify the transgressor, mostly because I don't know it, but I'm still not going to say it.
But it was a dirty play. It was a bad hit.
He should be out. I have a Mike Greenberg's dumb rule about that because they only gave the dude a two-minute penalty.
It should have been five. But in the case of an egregious penalty like that, the team that got the penalty committed against them should be allowed to put their enforcer in the penalty box, almost like a reverse seven minutes in heaven type thing.
So you put Tom Wilson in the penalty box with the dude and just let him go to town on it for two minutes. So if you can survive two minutes of getting jumped in by Tom Wilson then yeah you served your time for the penalty okay so I'm happy you brought that up because my question and Hank and I are in Welch West Virginia we barely have wi-fi we have no cell phone reception so I didn't see the game but my question is where was Tom Wilson the dreaded enforcer for the Washington Capitals your rule sounds like a great rule but it also sounds like a little too late because Tom Wilson wasn't doing his job as the enforcer if people are taking cheap shots at TJ Oshie.
Does Tom Wilson have to go take a cheap shot at the whole entire NHL like he's been doing for the last five years? He doesn't take cheap shots. And everyone knows, I think everyone knows the Capitals can be had now.
That's not true. So what do you want, Tom Wilson, to just float inside the blood of everybody else he's beaten up in the past like a precog and know when someone's going to take a shot at one of their star players and beat them up ahead of time? Is that what you're saying? That's actually fair.
You described it perfectly. Listen, I can admit when I've been bested in a debate, and I think that you made a really good point there that I can't refute um so credit the aura yeah the aura of Tom Wilson should be hovering over everyone and when they go and try to take a cheap shot at TJ Oshie they're like Tom Wilson little like cartoon bubble should pop up in their head and he should just be sitting there Dikembe Mutombo fingering and like don't do that but guess what Tom Wilson has been neutered he's been eunuched he's like like varies, little Game of Thrones shout out there, of the NHL.
He doesn't take cheap shots anymore. The Capitals are, dare I say it, soft.
Do we have to wonder? No. Do we have to wonder whether or not he's just been out and forced on his own team by Alexander Ovechkin? Oh, okay.
Is Ovi now the enforcer? Well, he's the enforcer of teenage kids. Yeah, exactly.
That's, I mean, you need, you're afraid of Cali teens. You would love to hang out with Alexander Ovechkin just to beat the shit out of anybody wearing Stussy.
Anyone with a one in front of their number, their age. Yes, exactly.
So I'm not worried. I really am not worried.
This is sincere because it's a three-game series, like I said. We got two at the Old Barn, the Capital One Center, you know, the nice

nostalgic place there next to Chinatown.

And we also

have a Gipper to win one for. So now we've

got a cause to rally around, which

is TJ Oshie. So we're going to be

playing with a little... We're going to be skating with a little emotion.

That's what's going to happen.

And... Listen,

it's the Carolina Hurricanes. The moment

is too big for them.

This is an experience... The Washington Capitals are

Thank you. That's what's going to happen.
Okay. Listen, it's the Carolina Hurricanes.
The moment is too big for them. This is an experience.
The Washington Capitals are a storied winning hockey franchise. Okay? All we do is win Stanley Cups.
I think that we're going to be able to handle a three-game series against the Carolina Hurricanes. Okay.
All right. You're not worried.
The other thing we have to talk about, we have to talk about the NBA playoffs. Round one.

It feels like everything is just coming to form.

We obviously had the roaches of L.A. Clippers, and that's Doc Rivers' term, not my term.

L.A.'s team. The L.A.'s team had that thrilling win on whatever night it was, Monday night.

But other than that, it feels like everything has kind of fallen into place.

Our magic fell to the Raptors. The Sixers kind of found their footing.
They're up 2-1. The Celtics are up 2-0.
So it feels like everything's just going as planned. The only thing I want to throw out there, Mike Greenberg's dumb rules.
I think there should be a rule in all of sports, so not even basketball, but in a playoff series, if a team wins by a certain amount, and we can figure whatever that amount is, maybe in hockey it's six goals in a game, maybe in baseball they 10-run rule them, in basketball if they beat them by 35-plus, the series is automatically over right there. We just fast-forward and we save everybody the time.
Yeah. Yeah.
If you get beat by 35 points, it's just the kill switch. And it would make blowouts exciting because teams would be having to try really hard in game one because they're like, we don't want this series to end.
And I feel like that would be great for the NBA playoffs because you have games like the Bucs are killing the Pistons. I feel like the Rockets, even though they didn't win by 30, that game, James Harden was on fire.
They dominated the Jazz. And it's like a lot of these games, we just need to just move on.
We need to get to the good stuff, maybe go nine-game series in the next round of the good teams. I like that.
Conversely, I would say that if, let's say, five out of the first six games all end within three points, then it becomes a nine game series.

Yup. Yup.
I like that too.

Adam Silver is supposed to be like this progressive forward thinking commissioner. And if he wants to really,

if he wants this league to take over,

like he wants it to,

like I think he wants it to,

he should actually look into giving fans more of the games that they want and

less of the games they don't like.

Customer is always right, Adam.

I like that.

The having it in baseball would be exciting because you basically would get like in you know one game you'd have to bring in your game two starter to try to stop a rally because you're like we don't want this series to end another just little add-on rule if the takeaway from a game was uh someone farting on the on the bench and everyone covering up their nose like it was for the Sixers tonight, you also get eliminated because basically that means you're losing so bad that the camera is just going to show that, and that will be the story of the series, that they're too concerned. They're more concerned with farts and who smelt it, dealt it, than the actual game at hand.
You know that Joey Crawford saw that and he was like, fuck, why didn't i ever think about farting on the spurs yes that would have that would have been an ultimate crawford move right there i could have given tim duncan pink eye yeah that would be something um adam silver i think he i wouldn't put it past him to have an option uh of just like putting it out on a twitter poll like hey hey hey tweeples which series would you like to see me extend because he is he is so fucking in love with Twitter Adam Silver would fuck the Twitter bird yes yeah it's not that's not the logo anymore oh it isn't Jack changed it well yeah because Adam Silver I'm silver kidnapped it and he's fucking in his basement right now well I was gonna say Jack probably changed he was, like, losing his mind because he only eats dinner and doesn't eat on the weekends. What is it now? Speaking of Fyre Fest, I think it just changes to, like, a blue box.
Okay, so let's go to our Fyre Fest of the week. So, wait, it just changes to a blue box? Yeah, let me confirm that.
Not on my phone. How is that possible? All right.
They might have tested it and they didn't. Oh, that's another thing they would definitely do.
Just test it out and then be like, everyone riots. They're like, ha ha, just kidding, guys.
It was just a joke. We tested it out with only 7 million people and we found out that no one liked it.
Literally no one liked it. So we won't roll it out.
I love how committed Jack is to ruining Twitter. Yeah.
Like every decision that he's ever made has actually made it worse. It's been pretty fun to watch.
I'm looking at it right now. It's literally a blue box.
It's just a blue box. Instead of Twitter, it says TWTTR.
Maybe he just wants people to get really horny and have them think of Viagra. Let's get rid of all the vowels.
That's his big idea. He spent seven days tripping on ayahuasca and uh subsisting on just like nectar and water and his big takeaway from that in myanmar wherever the fuck he was was let's get rid of all the vowels and the bird yes uh all right let's do our personal fire fest of the week pft why don't you start okay i actually have a couple personal personal fire fests here um my first one season what's that what's that like you're coachella you're just doing three weekends no festival season for you you're bouncing around yeah my fire fest has actually turned into your fire fest because i have too many of them correct that didn't take long okay my first one is uh that weed is too good my my first personal fire fest is weed just pot so as i mentioned on wednesday's show i'm going to be doing a live stream on sacramento on saturday with the hard factor boys from the cannabis cup um i think it's like three to four pacific seven no wait it's 7 30 to 8 30 p.m eastern do the math if you're not in that time zone.
I'm still coming down from Hong Kong.

But my my fire fest that weed is too good. I I don't like smoking really good weed.
I think really good weed has gotten so good that it sucks. You're a swag guy.
You like the ground up shit. No.
I don't like to see you like ore got you no I like I like nice kind bud like a decent KB is what I'm about and I don't like to smoke too much of it but if you give me something that you that you've like cultivated you're like check out the red hairs running through the red fibers give birth to the orange crystals that you can see and it's actually like very it's a segment of an Afghanistan strand I'm like no I don't want to smoke that because i'm going to feel like i'm on the moon and i don't want to be on the moon i want to be like in the clouds is that too much to ask just for just normal decent average weed you want to smoke a joint of mids and then get a headache and then have to fall asleep so the headache goes away yeah you next time i get some yes next time i get some kush some white, some Dankz shit, I'm going to make sure that you don't get any of it. Yeah, I'm going to pass on that.
I'm going to preemptively pass. You're narc.
No, listen, I don't like getting the headache, Hank. You're inferring all these weird things.
I just like average weed. And I think that there's a lot of us out there in the silent majority that have kind of like gone along with the flow of like the cultivation process of weed and like the modernization of marijuana and cannabis throughout the like last 20 years.

And I think that we're sick of it.

I think we're just like, hey, I just want to get like a little bit baked and watch a movie and not forget what happened three minutes ago in the movie that I'm watching.

Maybe you're just smoking wrong. I mean, maybe it's just all the CBD you're smoking.
You're supposed to swallow, right? Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
What's your next one? My next Fyre Fest of the week is Cardi B not responding to my tweets. Because it wasn't me that was tweeting her.
What do you mean? I mean that she's my girl. So if I had tweeted her, she probably would have responded.
I doubt that highly. I gave her a really nice compliment yesterday.
I said that I wanted her to kill me in a really funny way. She didn't respond to it.
And I've been torn up about it all day, basically. So it's a fire fest.
This is kind of a – I can relate to you on this fire fest because we made this choice kind of at the same time to stay unverified.

And while it's cool to be the bad boys of Twitter, sometimes when you want to tweet at someone and you know that they checked their verified mentions, it kind of hurts.

That's what I'm saying.

Cardi B would definitely respond to me if I wanted to.

If I wanted to.

I don't want to.

But if I wanted to.

I mean, I literally gave away my blue checkmark.

I said, take it back, Twitter.

And they did.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, you know what? I'll hit her up for you. Okay? I think no.
No. You don't need to do that.
Yeah, I got you. I said, take it back, Twitter, and they did.
You know what?

I'll hit her up for you.

You don't need to do that.

I'll be a wingman for you.

Is that it, or you got another one?

I had a couple more, but you guys can just go ahead.

All right, Hank, you go.

My personal

Fyre Festival, I got a few as well. The first one last week that I couldn't say was the Game of Thrones thing.
We went over that. Yeah.
I forgot what I was going to say. Okay, so this is being – this is now the worst segment we've ever done.
Hank, maybe switch to meds, bro. Yeah, I'll pick up here, and I'll go with Jason La Conforfiaia or whatever the fuck his name is saying that that jeff fisher was going to be the houston xfl coach and then jeff fisher going on twitter using an emoji very cool by jeff uh and saying there's absolutely no truth to it so i had about three hours today where i thought jeff fisher got a job as everyone knows i have been diligently going after Jeff Fisher's next coaching job,

trying to get him a job anywhere so I thought it was mission accomplished I was big George George W Bush with the big mission to accomplish I had my thumb up and I was like we did it guys we got him and then of course that turns out to be not true so that was my fire fest yeah I think this was a big stab in the back to the city of Houston for making a move to Nashville a long time ago. I think Jeff Fisher, he knows how to play the game.
He's a very politically savvy dude. He's basically like, what's his name, the dude in, not Game of Thrones, House of Cards.
The guy that got canceled, Kevin Spacey. Jeff Fisher is the Francis Underwood of football.
And he's been waiting silently. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Just the guy that got canceled. We don't even know.
Was he ever in a movie? He's been waiting for the last three years to fucking stick it to somebody. And Houston was the unlucky unlucky recipient of jeff fisher's wrath yes all right my last fire fest is quick uh i've been on the road a lot do you know what's the worst is having to take a shit in a toilet and you don't know the flush levels having to take that chance where you're like this is it a low flush is a high flush is it a you know two toilet? What you never know, you know, like the rhythm of your own personal toilet.
You know exactly what you can do, what you can't do. It's like a very deep relationship that you have with your toilet to go somewhere else and try to figure it out.
It's fucking terrible. It's like it's like basically if you were married for 50 years and then you got to go on a first date, a blind date.
You're how do what do i do here yeah i always play the game where like i'll flush way too early on a new toilet just to make sure i can get the first part out the second part out like i'll flush three times on a toilet if i'm not playing a home game and it's just for that reason that you mentioned like in a hotel room water conservation doesn't matter i'm hitting the the if it's if i have the option to do the number one or number two flush after i pee i'm doing the number two flush i'm flushing everything down i'm leaving the shower on for like hours at a time i'm forgetting that i turned the water on hot and forget and and stepped out of the bathroom for a while i'm playing all sorts of games with their water bill there it's actually just a backwards way and i think hank was about to say but uh when we were in minneapolis i had to ask the front desk for a plunger three separate times did they just say keep it this time they should have i tipped the the one time it was uh the the room service was coming to make up the room and i just handed her twenty dollars and i was like i didn't even explain it i was just like oh my room's ready to be made up. And I was like, here, can I tip you? And I was like halfway through my stay.
I wasn't even leaving. And then she went and found it and was like, all right, now you know what the $20 were for.
Not worth it. Yeah.
Asking the front desk for a plunger, that's got to be a pretty power move. Do you feel good about yourself when you did it? No.
It's like a dog with his tail between his legs. You're just like, hey you kind of look around make sure no one's seeing you plunger to room 220 please and then you just walk away and did you have to walk back downstairs with that plunger and hand it back to people? No, they send it up.
They have someone go do it He brings it up on like a room service cart with a platter over it The saran wraps over it and he takes it off. He's like, here's your plunger, plunger sir uh what'd you have hank i was gonna say i remember my personal fire fest was having to go to the bathroom after you before we recorded this well that's your own fault i told you that i was going in there poop show me yeah we're on the road life on the road all right yeah let's should we do our interview yeah let's do it all right so we have uh oar band that's been around forever you probably heard of them we asked them all the dumb questions that you've always wanted to ask a band who's had the highest of highs i don't even think they've had a low uh they've sold out madison square garden everywhere played everywhere it was uh pretty cool to talk to someone two guys like that a very different interview than our normal interviews but a good one that i think you enjoy.
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That's so smart. I'm Mark Roberge.
Roberge. So I was thinking I didn't know how to say that, G.
Are you just Jerry DePizzo? You nailed it. Fuck yes.
Nice job. Italian Youngstown guy who's like, yeah, I box.
No shit, dude. Do you also coach football? No, no football coach.
Yeah. So two guys from OAR, thank you very much for coming in thank you like i said a little different than our usual interviews but we wanted to talk to you guys you guys have been you know part of a band doing uh music for what 20 20 plus years now it's insane 20 plus man we started at the eighth grade talent show that's crazy and that was it did you guys it was early, no winners.
It was fucking. No, you need, okay.
So you won. Awful.
A little tip. You got to say you lost.
A little Michael Jordan didn't make his varsity team. All right.
So yeah, we lost to this other band that never made it. Yep.
Exactly. So you've had that two-part show ever since.
That's actually true. You didn't win, right? Yeah, that's true.
I'm not lying, but I like that we lost to another band another band and didn't make it. Do you remember what song you played? Yeah, we played Porch by Pearl Jam.
Oh, hell yeah. Yeah, and a rock version of Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton.
There you go. Like sped up a little bit? Exactly.
That's very sexual for eighth graders. Yeah, and I forgot the words in the middle of it and started talking about how she's so drunk and I got drive and all that.
I'd never been drunk or driven. I lost my eighth grade talent show too.
We played Smells Like Teen Spirit. My singer forgot the words.
Never forgotten it. Yeah, I was wearing plaid shorts, combat boots.
I was like, I was all in, man. I wanted to be Ed Vedder.
That's what I wanted to be. So 20 plus years and you guys are still doing it and you're still together, which is insane

because I feel like that never happens in music and rock and roll and bands.

How the hell do you guys do it?

How do you stay together?

How have you guys not killed each other at this point?

Not killing each other.

That's tough.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No.

Honestly, we just try to talk stuff out. We don't keep it inside.
We just talk to each other about things and work it out. And, you know, it's a fairly simple thing to do, but, you know, it works.
Who do you hate the most? Like, it's clear. Like, I'm kind of joking, but, like, there's a pecking order.
Yeah. Right? Let's break it down.
Let's get weird with it. He hates me the most.
At times. Yeah.
And that keeps it moving forward. And vice versa.
Right. So you use that heat and move it forward.
Oh, so you guys are the tension guys. No, no.
I think, look, what it is is sometimes we all remind each other, like, hey, hey, you remember all we do is make songs, right? Right. And then no matter what you're bitching about, crying about, whatever, you're like, oh, yeah, fuck.
Yeah, that's right. So when we do this shit together, we just make songs, and that's what we do, and drive around in buses and planes and shit.
Right. That takes away any bullshit really quickly.
So if someone's giving you the business, you can eventually get to the point where you're like, aren't you happy to be here? Yeah, we're in a band. Yeah.
We could jobs that we hate. At the end of the day, you guys have had a pretty successful career for a long time.
Yeah, so that kills it. In an awesome, awesome profession.
Also, you guys don't live in the same city as each other. That's like a marriage having separate beds.
I guess it could be good, right? It's like a marriage having separate apartments. There you go.
And it works out famously. We each have our own thing.
Each got studios.

Each got all that stuff going on.

So when you want to work, you can work.

When you're in town, you want to stop by and have dinner, you stop by and have dinner.

I mean, everyone's gotten to the point now where it's just like a mutual respect thing at all times.

And then the second, if that ever slips, that's when you give them the old, hey, aren't you happy that we're doing this thing?

So it's kind of a simple formula at this point. I i mean we made complications out of it maybe a decade ago and and realized that it's just not worth it man was there ever a moment along these years from 1996 till today 2019 where it was like this might like be the end of it i think you come across that you know there's a lot of times like that yeah to be Because it's hard.
Right. This stuff is tough, you know, and we grind through it.
And I think we just keep moving forward and keep grinding and we work it out. Yeah.
Get it done. Yeah.
What's the songwriting process like for you guys being in a different city? Are you guys the two primary songwriters in the band? We've had moments where every single person in the band has offered something. Like Benj on bass could could play one little lick, like this song we have, Lay Down, and then a song is born with just one little thing.
So everyone has that potential to bring it to the table. Right now, it's working out where one of us or one of the boys will start an idea, and then everyone takes it on their own.
And eventually, you're coming back with, like, your best shit. It's that self-filter that before, years ago ago you're in the studio like what about this idea what about this and every stupid idea you have you put out into the group now we all know when you got something good bring it yeah and it doesn't get rejected because it's good yeah you know do you guys ever struggle with um i guess after 20 years you guys write some really really catchy songs do you struggle with like coming up with an idea and saying hey this like this chord progression might be too simple or like we've used this one before and you like try to change it around a little bit maybe it might not work and you're like do we go back to the simple way or do we change it up with something like a little more exotic yeah you know exotic great all i'm saying is like 20 years worth of songwriting point you got to be like, you know, I can go back to the world real easy.
I know what chord progression sounds good and what melody sounds good. Right, right, right.
We never do that. I never kind of go backwards.
I barely listen to stuff. The second it comes out, I'm kind of like, all right, what's next? And that's not because I don't love it.
It's just because I'm driven by walking out in the streets and something hits me. I know you can relate to that where you're just walking down the street and a song comes and I just hear it in my head and I can immediately put it down.
I don't sit there and go, I got to write a hit song today. I've never sat and said, I want to write a hit and had a hit.
It's always been seeing some dude drive away from his house real fast, going home and writing down, how many times can I break till I shatter? Because it just comes. it's always been seeing some dude drive away from his house real fast going home and writing down how many times can i break till i shatter because it just comes it's the weirdest thing i honestly don't know where it comes from and i just i've learned how to harness those ideas throw them to him and he'll come back with like a horn section that he just fucking came up with out of nowhere so it's that mutual respect thing it's like knowing if something is good or not as you guys definitely know when something's good or it's fucking, this is not going well.
Yeah, yeah. So to dumb it down, who's John and who's Paul? Oh, wow.
That's good, Chris. I don't know if there is a John and a Paul.
I mean, you're- Actually, just tell us who Ringo is. Yeah, right.
That's funny. Yeah, the one, the weird song.
Are you Ringo? Shit. I probably am R am Ringo.
If you don't know, then you're the Ringo, right? Fuck. I'm like looking around.
Oh, damn it. That's me.
Has there ever been a song where you're like, this is a fucking hit, and then it just hasn't turned into a hit? Yes. Yes.
We had this song called Peace that came out a couple years ago. And I'm watching it climb the charts on radio.
It's on TV. It's doing all these things, theme song and everything.
And then you get a phone call from the label and they're like, yeah, it's done. And it's like number 15 on the chart.
And they're like, well, it went backwards two weeks in a row. And you'll see in a couple weeks, it'll be gone.
And you're thinking like, fuck, this is going pretty well. Sure as shit, man.
It's just how it goes. There's no apology.
No one gives a shit about you or your feelings when your songs are on the charts. They're dead, they're dead.
And you just got to swallow your pride and move on. If you're going to dwell on it, you're in the wrong business.
One thing I love to talk about successful people and people who've been doing in their profession for a long time is their made it moment. And I think a lot of times – like people ask us that a lot of times and we're like, actually, there's a bunch of them.
There's a bunch of small ones. So do you guys have a few made it moments where you're like, oh, shit, this is it? Only to then have it be five years later like, oh, wait, no, this is it.
That's a great question. Thank you.
Awesome. Still waiting for that moment.
That's a good answer. Honestly.
It might be right now. Yeah, true.
Right here, right now. But like you guys, it's a lot of little moments and things along the way.
OAR has just steadily built, climbed, grind, got it done. And there's been some great highlights, like the first time we played the Garden.
The thing that made that great, one, sold it out. It was fantastic.
We didn't really think we were on that trajectory quite yet. But all of our friends, all of our family, everybody who helped us along the way get to that point came to the show.
How many times you played the Garden? Three. That was very smart by you to say the first time we played the Garden.
Yeah, that they start like putting your jersey up in the rafters like billy joel so i got a funny ass story about that i go to the garden all the time i'm a big rangers fan i love to hang out in that in that building i love the mecca i've abandoned the capitals but i i was a season ticket holder for the Capitals, so I'm a real fan.

And, yeah, I think I abandoned them a little bit, probably, yeah.

But I love the revenue, so this is how it goes.

It's tough.

It's tough.

And so, oh, my story was, the first one was when I saw the sold-out sign on Madison Square Garden, I thought, I've made it.

And then your brain starts to creep in and go, like, oh, that means we sold out. Oh, shit, that means this.
And then you start, you don't appreciate stuff. So then we went into the bowels of it and next to our dressing room, the second time we played had a picture of us on the wall, like next to Jay-Z, next to this guy, next to this person.
I'm like, we fucking made it. Holy shit, I'm on the wall.
Third time I go back in, the picture's gone.

I was like, oh, yeah.

It's like, dude, no matter what you do, three steps forward, two steps back.

You just got to keep rolling.

That's great.

Yeah, I mean, that's a perfect way to put it, too, because it's like every time you feel like you made it, there's something that will humble you.

Yeah, someone's going to knock your knee out.

Yeah, yeah.

Do you guys support Urban Meyer?

Both Ohio State guys.

Loaded question. I think, yeah.
Careful, careful. Good point.
But I really enjoyed the Urban years. You don't have to actually answer that.
He's like the mayor of Columbus. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
That was mean of me. No, are you guys, the real question is, are you guys still like big Buckeye fans?.
I live in Columbus, so we live, sleep, breathe Buckeyes.

It's great for the community.

Everyone loves it.

Do you think he'll coach again?

I mean, he does the fake health thing.

I think he'll coach again, yes.

Notre Dame or USC.

I'm sure he's got a – they'll pay him a ton of dough to go somewhere,

and I'm sure he's got a couple circles.

Yeah, he's going to spend like six months pretending he likes doing the TV thing

and then be like, actually, I hate being a person.

I want to see get back to being a coach. He's going to have to talk.
I don't have to have emotions besides anger. I mean, you guys own Michigan now.
We were at the game this year. That was a fucking ass game.
That's awesome. Yeah.
I love that. I love that rivalry because we play these events, you and and you'd play around the stadium during that weekend and at ohio state we're driving through our own crowd and they're launching full beer cans at our bus launching full beer cans at our entire stage i'm getting hit with you i'm like i go to school you know i went to school here like we're on your side they don't give a shit shit.
It's like, couches are on fire every 500 feet. I love it.
Ohio State goes hard. They go hard, man.
Goes real hard. I want to go back real quick.
So when I first heard of you guys, and probably like a lot of kids out there, first heard of you guys when I got to college. So you guys were able to achieve a level of success without really much radio support, right? How did that happen? Because I feel like most bands, if they're mega bands, they go the traditional way.
They come up on the radio. Yeah, I think we got pretty lucky with the file sharing.
Napster. Oh, did you label your songs like, hey, this is Crazy Game of Poker by Sublime and get a lot of people to download it? We didn't label anything.
Other people did. We had one out there called Gin and Juice that wasn't even us.
Right. And we were labeled on it and it spread like crazy.
Our shit spread so fast, we just knew as a business-minded folks, like, we got to follow this up. And we created a system where we would go to the largest amount of downloads and we would fucking go there and put on shows.
Yeah. And they were getting bigger and bigger.
And it was every major college in America. So I think what it was was just like, look, we're going to get in the bus and go.
And that's the difference. I think that's what really made it.
It's like you could sit back and watch the success and all these things and be like, wow, this is really – but we just got in a bus and went.

What's the one venue you want to play that you haven't played yet?

That's a good question. Good question, man.

Thanks.

Appreciate it.

Roman Coliseum.

We played that twice.

The first time we played there.

I assume we played Red Rocks.

We've done Red Rocks 13 times.

That's been our number one. Alpine was great.
A tornado came through Alpine when we were playing there with Dave Matthews' band and went right over the bus. Wow, what happened? That's the Stevie Ray Vaughan crash.
Thanks, bro. Learn your rock history.
Yikes. It's either that or the Buddy Holly one.
Yeah. Don't bring that shit up, man.
This is like... Do you guys take a lot of helicopters? That was my next question.
I don't take any helicopters. Oh, okay.
Smart. Private small planes? Sometimes.
Interesting. Once in a blue moon.
Once in a blue moon. You got to get somewhere.
Is there a difference playing in the altitude? Yeah. Hell yeah.
That's a great question. Yeah.
Red Rocks, dude. We got oxygen tanks behind the stage.
You play your songs like a little bit faster because of the thin air? No, because you get... I mean, look, you get a little fucked up at Red Rocks, but if you listen to the tapes at the end of every single show,

I'm like saying like, I mean,

because you have one or two drinks and it goes a long way.

Yeah.

And we like to have a couple cocktails during the shows.

So when you're at altitude, you don't realize that that's where it goes.

Yeah.

And it's pretty fun.

Okay.

So I had some like dumb questions that I've always wanted to ask a band.

Okay.

So you can just stop me if they're really dumb. Shitting on the tour bus.
Never. Never.
Okay, good. Because we do buses every now and then.
We have the same rule. Never, never, never.
Okay, so it's good that you... I thought maybe you had a nicer bus where you could...
You can do it, but you still don't do it. Yeah, right.
Yeah, right. Real quick follow-up to that.
Now, have you never done it, or did you learn that rule by necessity? One of our crew guys did it once in the middle of the fucking Golden Gate Bridge, right? You remember that? Oh, yeah. Nicky.
Yeah. So Nicky had to go.
Couldn't wait. Bagged it.
Okay. We pull into the war field in San Francisco, which, if you haven't been there, it's really like where the alleyway is really rough.
Yeah. I mean, just really rough in there.
He gets off the bus. He puts the bag down on the street as he's getting his stuff.
Guy comes up running, grabs the bag, takes off running down the street. Stole his shit.
Stole his shit. Literally stole his shit.
Crackheads. Oh, my God.
I was like, all right. When you opened that bag, it was not happy.
Rude awakening. Not happy.
Hotels. Do you guys get like suites and stuff?

How does that work?

So normally,

say you get 20 rooms

for you and the crew

and everybody,

they'll give you a couple,

one or two suites

and earlier in our career,

we didn't know that as a band

because we were so young

but our tour manager knew that

and tours would go by

and I'm always like,

why is my room

the shittiest room

in this building

and he was getting the suites.

What about,

it's an old roadie.

Yeah, yeah.

Would you get like

full floors of hotels?

Sounds like a good idea. I like that.
Have you guys seen the Motley Crue movie? The Dirt? No, but it was recommended to me and I've heard it talked about a lot. I'm going to check it out.
Machine Gun Kelly's in that room. Yeah, you probably should watch it because you probably feel like less of a man.
Or inspired. Well, yeah.
Have you guys ever trashed a hotel room? Heroin till you die? Yeah. Have you guys ever trashed a hotel room just like in your first tour? You're like, I guess this was what we did.
No, because we grew up, like, we grew up, respect is all that. Respect, respect, respect.
Okay, I respect that. We don't trash anything, yeah.
But maybe for future interviews.

We trashed ourselves. One or two stories.

There you go.

We trashed ourselves,

and that disrespected ourselves,

but never a hotel room.

What about pre-show?

Prayer?

Any pump up?

What's it look like in the green room

before you go on?

We huddle up.

Yeah?

Yeah, we take a moment.

Okay.

We huddle up.

Usually Mark leads it.

Okay.

Usually it's, remember, we're in a band. You know what I mean? We play songs, man.
Right. Let's go.
Roadies involved in that huddle up or just a band? Sometimes. And roadies is a...
Oh, that's a derogatory. Guitar tech.
This is a tech engineer. Damn.
Yeah. Hey, this is education.
No, it's 2019, man. You can correct my language anymore it's okay do it do it do it do you guys uh you guys sound like the most chill band of all time yeah it's pretty chill i mean we we like to keep things pretty level uh you know yeah what do you do on the bus like video games chill no video games anymore a lot of a lot of hanging a lot of uh fucking around just talking shit i mean just it's like this yeah we've done big bus trips it gets kind of monotonous after a while yeah yeah most of the time we're driving at night so you finish the gig you gotta you hang a little bit fall asleep you wake up you're there you get off the bus you go do stuff okay have you ever forgotten what city you're in while you're on the mic yeah sioux city and sioux falls i was like hey sioux city and fucking everybody was like you're in sioux falls dickhead oh wow and it yeah how could you stung it stung i was like i don't know either it's pretty damn close yeah so y'all take it easy but yeah they were they were a little pissy about but honestly after thousands of shows you've only done that one One time.
Do you have it on your set list written down where you are? No. Just all upstairs? It's just got to be the upstairs.
I can't read shit. I'm up there.
If you write something down, I'm going to look at it, and I'm not going to read it right, and everyone's going to tell. I just can't have any sort of notes.
How do you remember all the words? I don't. And we have a teleprompter, Once in a Blue Moon, for a cover song.
and if I don't have any sort of notes. Yeah, how do you remember all the words? I don't.

And we have a teleprompter once in a blue moon for like a cover song.

And if I'm reading it, I'll just fuck up even more.

So I make up words.

A lot of our songs are made up words.

I mean, Crazy Game of Poker, our biggest song, I made up in the studio that day.

So it's like... I say, oh, what do you say?

That whole part.

I say, oh, you say, blah, blah.

So yes.

So that started with, I say of, you say ah whole part. I say, oh, you say, blah, blah.
So, yes. So, that started with, I say of, you say, ah, hey.
I say revolution, which our name is of a revolution. Right, yep.
You say, ja. I lived in Israel.
I was in high school. I'm in the Mediterranean.
I'm, like, hanging out. I'm, like, ja.
And then I get home, and I'm, like, that's not really kind of the life I live, right? So, like, I had to keep saying it forever. And everyone else says, die, and I'm like, that's cool, too.
So I honestly let them say whatever they want to say. I kind of am a little bit ambiguous about how I say it.
So no one really knows what I'm saying. Well, now they do.
Yeah. Yeah.
And that's cool. I like that, though.
That's also another very chill thing. Just, like, the audience is chilling with you while they sing along.
Yeah, and again, you can't, you know, I sing the lyrics to the songs, but they're interpreted differently night by night. If I'm feeling a certain way, I'll sing a different person's song, and I'll sing a Marley song where it's supposed to be our song.
It's just whatever. Look, you're like a master of ceremonies.
You're like a pitcher in a game. You've got to keep that shit going.
You've got a long game. It's not about each moment.
You know, it's a long game. Your songs are like Wikipedia pages.
They just always are being edited. Always being edited and not always by me.
Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
The people can edit it as well. You hear somebody else sing the song like a little bit different than you.
You're like, I'm going to steal that guy's idea for my song. We've had guys come out.
Like Talib Kweli came out one time and was rapping and I picked up some things that he was doing. I'm like, yeah, I think I'll take that.
That's good shit. So you learn.
All right, last dumb question about being in a band. Do you still get the butterflies' nervousness as you walk out? And maybe kind of explain what it feels like to be in front of a ton of people, because that's something that 99.9% of the world, PFT is in a band, so he knows what it feels like.
Yeah. I've performed in his band.
I can just explain if you don't want to. But what does that feel like? Do you still get it, or has it become a little jaded? That's a great question, Jerry.
I get jittery for TV, or at least used to, just having a camera in my face. I'm just not very comfortable with that.
Being on stage doesn't bother me one bit. Never has.
Interesting has interesting yeah i'm the same exact way stage is my i'm feel like i'm in control of my whole life for those couple hours that's i know what i'm doing tv can get a little weird i mean the first time we were on conan or whatever letterman i was thinking about that yesterday holy shit i remember right up until the point that they're like and here's oar and i i closed my eyes and i sang the whole song with my eyes closed and opened them up after that's like a huge no-no like a huge no-no but i couldn't help it i could not open and i've never had stage fright but he's different man when you see conan kind of staring at you like and he's a player. He's looking at you.
You're like, oh. He's judging.
Totally judging. Like the camera getting in your face, you have to think at some point, like there are a lot of people watching me perform this right now.
And those are two very different things, I think, is to perform for a camera and to perform for an audience. Cameras fuck it all up for me, man.
And PFT, you know, like when you're out there playing in front of thousands of people. I've done some songs.
You can only, oh, sorry. It was actually, it was 1700, so not quite thousands.
You only see the first three rows anyway. Yeah, that's true.
True. That's a very good point.
That's a great point. What's on your rider? Good question.
So we've pared it down over the years. I mean, right now it's got a little bit of whiskey and a little bit of water.
A shit ton of Angry Orchard fucking beer. Oh, we got one.
Yeah, one of our dudes loves the fucking Angry Orchard. Ciders.
What about candy? Yeah, we used to go. We went through the candy phase, but now I think we're phasing that out.
We're really trying to not have too many options. That's probably smart long-term for health.
because once you're up late and you got a good buzz on i mean it's going down whatever's there so ice cream is a problem yeah there's a lot of ice cream do you put the random thing on the rider to make sure they're paying attention like that whole no but i like that that's a true story who is that yeah a lot of people do right in the middle it says brown m&m's brown m&m'sM's Van Halen. Brown M&M's.
Yeah, there's a lot of that going on. For us, our riders are so pared down at this point.
We just realized at one point you pay for that shit. We used to order cigarettes.
Oh, you do? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
That's something I would have known. So our rider, we used to be like, six packs of Marlboro Lights.
This years ago when everyone smoked and was like this, this. And at the end of the day, we realized we're spending on a tour hundreds of thousands of dollars on this shit.
So now we're just like literally water, whiskey, chips. Thankfully, we missed that whole fucking thing.
I'm like, I look at this shit like, what are you doing? But hey, whatever. What about when you guys perform? Do you elevate your music based on how the crowd is feeling that night? Because I always like to, if you go to a concert, be like, yo, we brought it, and we brought it out of them.
A thousand percent. A thousand percent.
Hell yes. A thousand percent.
Fans control you. One of my favorite parts of an OAR show is that we will take all this time, painstaking time to write out a set list, and the third song in, it goes to hell.
Really? Yeah, we never, I don't even think we've ever played a set list start to finish from what's been written down ahead of time. And so we call, you know, he calls audibles, he feels the vibe of what's going on in the crowd, and he'll either call it or, you know, look to his left or right, and I'll speak into the microphone and tell the boys what's going on next, what tune and stuff.
But, yeah, we're in the moment, reading the audience, seeing what's going on, and trying to deliver the best show we can. Because we've got this internal mic system too, which is fun.
Because if you're in a big vent, so on stage, these random microphones everywhere. And if you go up to one of them and you step on a button and you're talking to it, you're communicating with all the band guys, maybe some crew, maybe security, a few people here and there.

So you could be like, check out the shit that's going on in row six, seat eight, and someone's doing something over there. So there's a lot of that going on during the show.
It keeps it fun. We're always talking shit the whole time.
It's great. What about if somebody in the audience yells a suggestion for what song to play next? Do you guys ever take that? So I got a thing with that my my thing is like if you say it once and i hear you and i say something like yeah maybe we'll do that or i just acknowledge it like don't fucking yell at every single song because like i get you pay money for the ticket and that's cool but like when you yell it 12 times then it's it's just frustrating and that happens all the time we have everywhere.
I hear everything that's going on out there. We have microphones lined up.
We hear everything. You don't have to yell at a bunch.
But the people who are doing it the right kind of way, I'm like, yeah, we'll do that. Because they'll say it in a certain fun way.
Like, my friend just turned 25. Can you do? Something like that, I'm definitely down.
I'm definitely down. But it's like the drunkest dude in the room has gotta yell for

Freebird 50 times

that's his job

he's Freebird yeller dude

he might go on tour in a bus

and do that every fucking venue

he probably follows you guys around

you can probably pick that guy off too

the second you step on stage that guy's gonna request Freebird

I've had people removed

alright so listen Mark heard you

anyone who's listening to this don't ask twice

I don't ask twice. Do you guys have rugs on the...
Another good question. God, I love this interview.
The rugs? Yeah, the rugs. Is it sound? Vibe.
Vibe? Vibe. Okay, I love that.
I always assumed it was sound that I didn't understand. It is sound.
It soaks up sound and stuff like that. But vibe is a better answer.
But you can have, we've played on like a wooden stage. Sounds great too.
It's a total different type of sound from the stage, but we take a carpet with us that you roll out right across the deck and we put all our stuff on top of that. Okay.
My favorite thing is every day when you see the crew vacuuming the rug. They roll it out and they vacuum it.
And I don't know why that makes me – I love it. I'm like, yeah, we're about to go.
Well, it's like washing your hands. I heard that Tom Morello, before he plays guitar, he has a ritual that he does to be like, okay, now it's time to sit down and work on my craft.
He washes his hands like very thoroughly. It's like the same thing.
If you go out there on a dirty carpet every night, you're going to start taking shortcuts yourself. Yeah, I bust Listerine right before the show.
I don't know why, but I have to have a whole thing. Hands, take a leak, call home.
It's like you're getting ready for bed. You call home before every show? Yeah.
That's too much. Absolutely, 100%.
Yeah, I think that's too much. That is.
I'm telling you. That's probably too much.
The text works. All right, I'll let her know.
I've got a good question here. How many games of beer pong do you think have been won to your music? Oh, great question.
That's a great question and a great video idea. Yeah.
Oh, for like old classic footage of people. I don't even know.
That's a really good question. We may be the goats of that.
Yeah, no, I think so.

Yes.

I can't think of a band,

I mean, maybe Dave Matthews.

Maybe Dave Matthews,

maybe Sublime,

maybe,

but that's about it. Good company.

Yeah, you guys are like

the Mount Rushmore beer pong.

I would say probably like,

I would say five to seven million.

Yeah.

Back of the napkin map.

I love that.

I'd love to find out

some sort of stat on where we land in the history of like beer related. Bong.
Yeah. We just stuff like people getting fucked up and having fun.
Because that's what we came into this thing. I we grew up in Maryland in Virginia.
Dave Matthews was popping off and we knew it. We could we knew what was going on over there.
And, like, they're doing that in Virginia. We can do that in Maryland.
We used to go to their concerts as a group and get fucked up and have a great time with our friends and all that shit that ensues from there. And I said, I just want to be, I want to provide that.
I want people to come to our shows and party and have fun. And if they want to take something serious from the lyric and stuff that comes from here, that's great.
And that's really what we're shooting for. But in the end, let's have fun.
So we always really wanted that. So the fact that we actually achieved that and bars closed down across America to the song Crazy Game of Poker in our time, that meant a lot to us.
We felt like, okay, you know, it's not shallow. It's just like, look.
It's cultural. We want people to fucking let loose and have a great time.
Right, right, right. All right, I had one last question.
Speaking of songs, have you guys ever thought of just doing The General by Dispatch and just, like, stealing it from him? I love that song. Because, I mean, it is.
I mean, yeah, it's a great song that might proceed. Oh, Hey, Hey, if we get that, uh, that, uh, fight going, yeah, maybe that's what we'll kick it off.
So before we started taping, we were discussing rough and rowdy. The guys are big fans of rough and rowdy.
And we were thinking of a way to incorporate OAR into the next event and having them fight against dispatch for the song. So for the the song.
For the song. For the song.
For the song. Yeah, those are the stakes.
Yes. I love that.
It relates to that song. So it started because Jerry's a boxer and when the Mighty album comes out tomorrow we were talking about why the title and what promotions we could do.
We said, Rough and Rowdy's almost perfect to have band dudes beat the shit out of each other because who doesn't want to see skinny band dudes pummel each other and they all think they can fight, you know? Well, Youngstown, you can fight. Yeah, he can fight.
You can fight. He can fight.
Football coaches, factories, fighters. Youngstown.
That's it. That's right.
Beef. Beef.
A lot of beef. Yeah.
I had one last question here. Who's the goat band of all time? Goat band? Yeah.
Yeah, Beatleselin yeah i would say now great day writers i would say beatles because you can't touch it uh band band like get up there and kick ass on the stage it's led zeppelin it's not even close yeah do you ever think it's like unfair because they got to it first no no because they're the great yeah but like they also had a lot more to work with. Or a lot less.
They really didn't have much. I mean, they had instruments.
They had John's fucking bottom. Bottom.
Yeah. I guess.
They invented a different genre of music. Right, because it hadn't been invented yet.
Right, which is pretty difficult to do. I mean, I've seen Sparks.
Like, one night in Atlanta, you know, Foo Fighters is playing in a torrential fucking rainstorm. Lightning, they don't give a shit.
And they play and they go hard. I'm like, that's the greatest band in America tonight.
I see this happening over the course of the years. And I've seen amazing bands.
But Zeppelin, I mean. So have you ever been the greatest band in America in a single night? We say this all the time.
Yeah, we do. We played Boston last year.
And we thought it was a perfect game. We pitched a perfect game.
That's awesome. We walk off, and we're like, we're the best band in America.
And that's not because we think we're the best band in America. It's because you just feel like, I just pitched a really good game.
Yeah. So you do feel that sometimes.
But in reality, we're just fans of other bands. We could never even, it's like, you don't say you're better than your favorite band.
Right. You love your favorite band.
Right. You know what I'm saying? It's totally a different dynamic than sports.
In sports, it's like you always have a winner, always have a loser. In music, it's like, hey, anybody can be great on any given night.
If you feel like you did a great job, you probably did. And there's a reason why we all love sports and professional athletes.
I'm always drawn to hanging out and talking shit with them because I think the grind to get there is very similar. So like for a hockey player, for instance, hockey to me is like the greatest sport of all time.
Okay, it's the greatest arena sport easily of all time. So the grind to get there is so similar to what you got to do to get into a career mode band.
You't just show up and have 10 000 tickets sold you got to go and play bumfuck johnsonville 50 000 times you know what i'm saying so it's like i love sports because of the grind i love rock and roll because of the grind you know i just like anything where someone earns it i love that this casting i was just gonna say say, and I was killing Kevin last night. I saw those guys last night.
I'm 20 questions on them about, do you realize what's happening here? What's bubbling here? Like, y'all know, but you don't know because you're putting in, this is your 10,000 hours, right? But it's been a decade. It's not, you know? Yeah, it's true.
You're just getting started. But, man, I'll tell you, I appreciate the grind.
So, well, that's why we relate to – I love sports for that. Okay, so let's finish with this.
Browns record. I assume you're a Browns fan.
Yeah. Browns record, 2019.
We had David Njoku in here yesterday or two days ago. He said 13 or more.
I was going to say 12 wins. 12 wins.
12 wins is going to be my number. I feel like getting a little cocky.
I feel like we haven't gotten 12 wins in like 10 years combined. It's funny.
We were like Browns. We.
No, you can say we. No, no, no, no.
You can say we. Thank you.
Browns celebrating in the streets this year. Yes.
The real winner of the Super Bowl was the Browns this year. Right.
We had the free beer fridges too. Yes.
That would go, goose you guys a little bit, too. It's amazing.
And then to get Odell is just, like, I looked at my phone. I'm like, that's not even real.
What's going on? Did you see the video of the kid who got the cops called on him because he was screaming so loud in the street? That's hilarious. I got it for Odell.
Yeah, no way. Like, the neighbor was like, there's something going on in the street.
It's like, no, they just traded for Odell. It's crazy, man.
And now all of a sudden they got a lineup. I don't know.
We'll see what happens. 12 is a lot.
12 is a lot. 12 wins.
Are you a Redskins fan? Yeah, I mean, I grew up going to Redskins games. My earliest memory, I know, is Redskins-Cowboys-RFK Stadium.
You know what I'm saying? The stands bouncing out there. I was just going to say you could feel it moving.
And that was the heyday. I loved it.
But I've recently been to some games where I'm just not, I mean, I'm not, there's no feel. There's just no feel.
There's no soul. Is that what you say? Yeah, no soul.
And I hate to say, I went to a Ravens game where we played on the field. It was awesome.
Yeah. Great ownership.
Great. Everyone was cool as hell to us.
I'm not dogging the skins. I'm just saying the ownership there is fucked.
So no one feels like a part of anything. You're going somewhere spending all your money, and you're a million miles away from the field.
I just don't know. So right now I'm a fan of football, and I'm desperately seeking.
I've also been to Minnesota, and the Vikings organization is great. Yeah, nice stadium out there, too.
Diggs went to Maryland to Maryland And also his brother went to my high school So there's a lot of love from like For him Yeah And wanting him to do great things And they were talking about Bringing him to Washington for five seconds But that's never going to happen Well good news I'm going to own the Redskins one day So Great we need you When I buy the team Come back We need you I mean there's a reason that guy Has a wall around his house You know what I mean Because people just people just aren't... Well, and he's rich.
I'd build a wall around my house if I could be rich. I'd probably have a moat if I could have a cannon and shit like that.
Yeah, cameras everywhere. A lazy river that doubles out.
On top of the mountain in a fucking sec. Drawbridge.
All right, so album out when? March 29th. Oh, March 29th.
10th album? 9th album. He knows the stats.
9th studio album, yeah. 9th studio album.
Damn. And how many live albums have you guys done? I think four on top of that in a compilation kind of thing.
Great hits type thing, too. So 15 albums.
The live album, that's such a smart way to do things. It's like, hey, we're going to play a kick-ass show tonight, and then boom, that's also an album.
And we got so fucking lucky with that. We did Live from Madison Square Garden, Live from Red Rocks.
34th and 8th. DC.
DC. New York, 34th and 8th.
So we got lucky with the locations, the night, everything, and it turned into our first one. We were an independent label when we started.
We became one of the biggest independent labels in the country. And it was because of a live album that we recorded in dc right it went gold and a live album going gold is not easy to do that's at all so that put us on the map so live albums we basically owe so much to period you know it's like people actually give a shit to buy a live album i can't believe it it's awesome yeah that's awesome yeah all right thank you guys thank you a lot of fun answered a lot of questions i've always asked the rug great that question blew my

mind vibe that's a vibe but yeah just a vibe yeah great questions man i actually never knew why

yeah i would have a rug yeah we'd bring a rug into the studio you were doing it for the vibe i

wouldn't fucking know why i was rolling the rug i just seen like still shots of incubus doing

and i'd be like hey i'm gonna record an album too. All right, thanks, guys.
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So that's great news for the podcast. It smells like shit, but I'm not allergic to it.
Yeah, it smells like shit. I don't know who's shit.
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We have a heavyweight title of the world the wbc will have to come and try to unify that belt if they want to claim undisputed undisputed heavyweight champion of the world hank what are you gonna say but big cat there's no like main heavy there's no main main card oh yeah there is a main card there is there's we got shiz at the riz at my favorite fighter of all time. We got Vito the Torpedo, the 400-pound man.
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PFT, did you just say for free? I did, but you're going to have to go to buyrnr.com to find out how. Okay, let's get to some segments.
First up, we have a PR 101 for Gronk. Yelich just hit another home run, by the way.
Fuck. Fuck you, Christian Yelich.
Fuck you. You are such a fuck.
You're a fuck. This is what sucks so bad.
He's a fuck. Yesterday, he didn't hit a home run.
I'm like, oh, Christian Yelich sucks now because he didn't hit a home run in one game. Fuck you, Christian Yelich.
I'm putting my microphone down for one second to tweet, oh, fuck you, Christian Yellich. Okay, I'll cover for you because I used to like Christian Yellich.
Like, I thought he did a good job when he was on part of my take. He was a nice guy.
He was, you know, very fun to talk to, gave us good answers, had a very enlightening conversation. And I thought we were friends.
And this is not how friends treat each other. He's basically saying that he wants you to get, like, pink eye, hepatitis, whatever else you can get from another man's butt he's trying to kill you that's how we should we should interpret this as christian yelich trying to kill big cat via my asshole and you because you also have to do it and also the crow's butt so i added enough already uh to the tweet but it was just so oh, fuck you, Christian Yelich, enough already.

We are going to have Christian Yelich, I think, in studio next week, so we'll have to hash it out then.

That's also when PFT, we're going to put some steroids into his drink.

Okay, good.

Yeah, hopefully he doesn't listen to this.

Did you say that I have to eat your butt, too?

Yeah, we said we have to eat each other's asses, and you never put up a – you never said, like, hey, no, not me.

It sounds like I'm getting tossed in the jackpot. Well, yeah.
My ass is getting tossed into the jackpot by you. Hank, the producer, Hank.
It's true. It's true.
I said, we'll eat each other's asses. And you didn't say, hey, wait a second.
I'm not going to eat big cat's ass. It's not up to me.
I'm just going based off your guys' words. I said I would eat a crow's butthole.
No. Not a cat's.
We will eat each other's asses. And you never said anything.
You never said like, oh, no, I don't want to do that. It just kept on going.
The conversation kept on going, so it was a verbal agreement. We will be eating each other's asses.
All right, let's do some segments. I said I would rim the shit out of a crow.
All right. Not lick your butt.
PR 101 for Gronk. Gronk has a hilarious video, maybe the most Gronk video I've ever watched.
He's holding the Lombardi trophy before they go out onto the field at fenway park opening day and julian edelman throws him a pitch and everyone the video is like basically everyone's like we never thought gronk would actually take a swing he bunts tries to bunt the baseball with the lombardi trophy and puts a huge huge tent into it and just laughs only like Gronk can laugh. And honestly, now that I'm just saying this out loud, the PR 101 is do nothing because that's the most Gronk story of all time.
It is. That's actually how Gronk autographs things is he just slightly damages them.
That's it. Don't give a baby to Gronk to sign because it ain't coming back right.
I think that what the Patriots should have done is they just should have given him a fake Lombardi and been like, hey, Gronk, here's the real Lombardi. It's actually just chocolate covered in tinfoil that looks like the Lombardi trophy.
You can't give Gronk an actual expensive piece of jewelry or anything that's sparkly because he's either going to spike it or he's going to hit it against something. Right.
But Spin Zone, that piece of jewelry now is even more valuable because Gronk has a huge dent in it and it's a hilarious story. Yeah.
All right. Tell you what.
Just drill a hole in the middle of it and give it to Gronk and say, hey, this is a straw. And then Gronk just gets to go around for the rest of his life drinking giant beers through the Lombardi trophy yeah all right uh we're gonna give this one another try the first time we tried it not so great this time I think it's gonna be great it's real meta genius for Blake Griffin here we go all right you take the little parts yeah no no I I do the you do the the talking in the middle I I start the singing okay and then I and then then I copy whatever you say.
Okay. All right.
You can tell we really planned this. All right.
Real man of genius. Today, we salute you, Blake Griffin, Mr.
Two Technical Foul Getters in playoff games that you're not even in. Mr.
Two Technical Fouls at two playoff games that you're not even in. Real man a genius.
No, you're not supposed to say that. What? I had lived.
It's a fucking remix, dude. Old Sound Road remix.
You're supposed to go like, those fouls were badass. Oh, yeah, yeah, okay.
All right, real man a genius. Today we salute you, Blake Griffin.
Mr. Two Technical Foul-Getter in games you weren't even playing in in the playoffs.
This foul's badass! Blake, your knee feels good in the morning sometimes, but then it starts acting up at night, and you gotta sit out, but that doesn't shut your mouth. Mr.
You-Gotta-Sit-Out-But-It-Doesn't-Shut-Your-Mouth, Real Man of Genius. Credit to to you Mr.
Real man of genius Blake Griffin For finding a way To ensure you won't get dunked on by Giannis Oh fuck We need Blake Griffin in these playoffs I wish he was playing He would not let the Pistons lose The way they've been losing Correct, correct No chance This would not be a skunk rule series if Blake was playing. No.
He basically carried the Pistons to the playoffs. It sucks that he can't play in the playoffs.
Hopefully his knee gets better. He can get it out there.
Third time's a charm for that segment. Yeah, we'll get it next time.
Also, Hank, make sure to add in the music because if you don't, it's going to sound even worse than it actually was. I don't think any music can save that, but we'll give it a try.
All right, wrapping up before we get to FAQs, we have Sabermetrics, ESPN. So PFT, what happened with ESPN's schedule prognosticators? So they looked at the schedule for the 2019 NFL season, and they made their picks for every single team, and it turns out the league is going to finish 64 games over 500 next year.
Because every single team was projected to, like, if you're a bad team, basically the basement for you was going to be 7-9. So every team finishes between 7-9 and, like, 14-2.
With the exception, the Miami Dolphins, their beat writer, they were the only team where their beat writer picked them to finish with fewer wins than Las Vegas had at the over-under. So I think Vegas, it's like five or five and a half, something like that.
And I think the Dolphins beat reporters said that they're going to win four games next year, which as we addressed, he's not taking into account Fitzmagic. Yeah.
It's also just a classic move to just say every team's going to be a little bit better so that all all the fans are like oh look at them they the browns were picked by 16 and 0 by lewis riddick yeah it's also a major way for all the beat writers to get their fans or to get the fans of the team to like them a little bit more because by the end of every single nfl season the fans hate the beat writer unless your team finishes like first in the division uh with a buy in the playoffs. If you finish any worse than that, they're going to hate the beat writer and say, oh, you hate the team, you're biased, that sort of thing.
So it's a really good way to start getting in those good graces a little bit. Also, I'm going to flag this.
I'm going to flag this. The fact that there was only one person that picked their team to finish with a worse record than Vegas,

that means that we have to take the over for the Dolphins.

Yes.

That's standing out to me right now.

I don't know what it means.

All I know is that the tallest nail gets the hammer, right?

Yep.

You're absolutely right.

We got to fucking hammer that over on the Dolphins.

Circle gets the square.

Yep.

Yeah. All right.
Last up before we get to FAQs. We got to fucking hammer that over on Dolphins.
Circle gets the square. Yep.
Yeah.

All right.

Last up before we get to FAQs.

We had a death in the NHL this past week.

Here, I'll just read.

I'll read the statement about the death.

We don't have any words and we know you don't want to hear them.

We understand your anger, your frustration, your sadness, everything you're feeling. feeling we get it this isn't the ending we imagined and certainly not the one we wanted thank you for being there the entire way oh wait sorry that's not a death that was a tampa bay lightnings tweet after they got swept in the first round and maybe the most melodramatic weirdest tweet of all time sounds like a girl like a guy that got caught cheating on his girlfriend it's insane i don't know who wrote this i don't know how many people looked at it but it's laugh out loud funny that they thought hey here's what will make people happy or at least make people less mad about a team that had a historic regular season then got swept and demolished in the first round of the playoffs, the one verse eight seed.
Let's send out this tweet that makes it sound like someone died slash you got in a high school breakup. You know what it sounds like? It sounds like something that a dude would write in an email to a girl that has already broken up with him.
Yeah. Like, hey, hear me out.
Yeah, hear me out. I just wanted to be really emotional in my response to your breakup and make it seem like maybe it was like just time for both of us i know you don't i know you don't want this email from me and and i understand you probably won't read any of it and it really makes no sense for me to send it and you don't want to read it and you're gonna think i'm psycho but please hear me out can i just say that although we are broken up you are still the love of my life and always will be and I like to think that you feel the same about me even though you dumped me yesterday I'm rooting for you wherever we land I just hope you're happy yeah but really I'm just pissed uh and Tampa Bay Lightning a little cease and desist because that's actually LeBron's move to say we don't have any words and then type a bunch of words yeah that's very good point uh all right let's finish up with faqs hank why don't you start bubba bubba bubba calling in the righty are you guys able to switch from calling each other your real names to your barstool names or do you just use big cat and pft all the

time our barstool names do we have barstool names we just say big cat and pft all the time and then sometimes i say henry for hank and then pft tries to say henry and hank says yo that's creepy don't say that well no big cat recent only recently and like in a very condescending way like i'll come into work and I'm like, oh, hello, Henry.

And then the other day I came in

and PFT was like,

hey, Henry. And then the other day I came in and PFT was like, hey, Henry.
I was like, no, no, we can't do this. Yeah, because once you let me get away, Dan has probably been around you long enough.
Yeah, you hear that? Dan's been around you long enough where he probably called you Henry once or twice at the start of your relationship.

But you can't let me cross that bridge because I will abuse it.

I call Dan Dan when I'm really disappointed in him.

Yeah, like right now.

Daniel.

Damn, Daniel.

Back at it again with the white shoes.

What happened to that kid?

He died.

Oh, he died.

That's right, yeah.

Yeah, he was a Tampa Bay Lightning fan.

Fuck. Who's the most famous person in your cell phone? Obama.
You have Obama's phone number? I was told it was Obama's by this kid I met in a bar. I used to say Jay Cutler for this, but he hasn't responded to any of my texts in like six months.
So does that still count? Yeah. Yeah yeah yeah it absolutely does you the thing is with these quite that's a good question except you probably know like it's gonna be jared goff or blake bortles or like blake griffin whoever we have on the show that's probably the answer right uh sean mcfay here i got big cats got one that it's a little gritit Week teaser.
Find out during Grit Week. Oh.
Potential. Bruce Arias.
True. I'm just cycling through.
Sean Payton. True.
Why do I have all these coaches in here? Oh, nice flex. Oh, weird.
I just have all these NFL coaches. I just wanted to say that.
Just got to purge them real quick. I got too many.
They're clogging up my memory. That's why my phone is slow.
My computer is slow. Because all these texts I'm getting from main dudes.
All right. Bubba, next one.
All right. This will be the last one.
If you could be best friends with one professional athlete at any time, who would it be? That is a great question. I'm going to say John Daly.
John Daly is a good call. I'm going to say Keith Hernandez in the 80s.
That's pretty good, right? Yeah. I feel like he's – You would look like his cousin too.
You could be like his little – Yeah, but you can't pick like – You wouldn't be able to pick a true alpha, right? You can't pick LeBron James or Michael Jordan or any of these guys who, being their friend, you're probably just their yes man. I'm thinking of a guy who will be like, oh, we're best friends.
Let's go do coke and go to Studio 54. Right.
Bubba, what was the exact phrasing? If you could be best friends with one professional athlete at any time, who would it be? Aaron Hernandez. Ooh, that's weird.
Easy. I mean, he'd have your back.
I mean, Gronk's got to be up there, too. Yeah, Gronk definitely has to be up there.
But although he's got his brothers, you never would be really in. All right, let's wrap up.
Do we want to do Game of Thrones theories? PFT, I got a couple theories I want to throw your way. Hank and I have been talking these out.
All right, you ready? PFT, do you want to start? Yeah, I have a theory. That dude that is friends with the younger girl that they apparently go way back.
They both seem like good characters. Who are they? The guy with the coat.
The hound in Arya coat yeah the hound the hound and aria i think that uh oh no are you talking about the coat the coat the the main good dude that wears a coat is that john snow yeah john snow and aria their brother's sister so they'll probably fuck yeah okay john snow and aria um one of those two is going to kill the other one is going to have to kill the other one at the end. Okay.
That's a good theory. But after they fuck.
They're definitely fucking. Yeah.
I actually think this is one I just got on. And it's all.
I don't read this. I don't read Thrones theories and stuff because I want to have an uncorrupted brain.
I think the Hound is actually the many-faced god he's gonna kill aria and then rip his face off and be like haha got you bitch which one's the hound uh it's the big big one with the fucking burnt face why do you think that uh why do i think that what did i say earlier because aria left him for dead oh yeah aria left him for dead and then the and the yeah he didn't die but he did actually die and then they then they took his face. The other one I had was that the end, everyone says, like, ooh, who's going to be on the throne? What if it's just George R.
Martin's wet dream, and he wakes up with cum in his pants? That'd be amazing. Yeah.
He'd be like, that was an incredible dream. And then, yeah, my last theory is it's actually— And his mom comes up, and she's like, George, we have to change the sheets again.
And he lives at home the whole time. Yeah, exactly.
Like, come on, George. We've been over this.
We got you penthouse for a reason. Please.
The last one I had was that it's actually just going to be a super neoliberal fantasy role play. And at the end, they're all going to decide that they should cross the bipartisan line and rule the realm together.
Oh, I like that. Like we have more in common than we do different.
Yeah. And like, hey, if we just talk this out instead of fight, we could probably do this together.
Radical centrism will rule the realm. I like that.
Yes. Yes.
And they're just going to be like, let's just forget about all the problems that we have. Be polite.
Yeah, let me forget that you killed my dad.

Let's just forget that and you killed my brother and all this shit.

Yeah, let's just all kind of get along and we could do this all together.

The rule of law supersedes the Game of Thrones.

Hank, do you have one to finish?

I mean, mine are kind of modest.

I was thinking more like next episode what's going to happen.

Oh, whoops, my bad.

I kind of went off script there. That's all right.
It's fine. So tell us next episode.
I'm thinking more like next episode what's going to happen. Oh, whoops, my bad.
I got an off script there.

That's all right.

It's fine.

So tell us next episode.

I'm just ready for a lot of flashbacks.

And episode one was like a big mirror of season one, episode one.

And in season six, episode two, it's like when Bran first goes into it,

does the flashbacks, and the guy is like,

if you go too deep, you stay too long, you'll get lost forever.

So I think that's some foreshadowing for this episode. He's going to go back, do some flashbacks, maybe get lost in the sauce.
So what Hank's saying is we're going to have to see Bran's fucking stupid white eyeballs a lot this episode. What if Bran can actually walk and he's been faking it the whole time? He's been slow playing it and he's actually secretly been doing like a shitload of squats in his room and everybody's gone.
So he's actually jacked up from the waist down, and he comes and kicks everybody's ass. Oh, no, I was going to say he comes and he jumps out of a pool.
Boom, Kyler Murray no longer first pick in the draft. Yeah, I like that idea too.
Just stay woke on that. I wouldn't put it past Game of Thrones as a person who's watched an episode and a 60-minute recap twice, I think that Bran could consult with some sort of the magic people that they have and get magical use of his legs like Forrest Gump.
Yeah, I like that. All right, that's our show.
Monday, we taped it this morning. Ike Taylor from the Pittsburgh Steelers, two-time Super Bowl champion.
I think I'm going to throw this this out there he is going to be up there for interview of the year because it was fucking hilarious that's going to come Monday he came in the office it was so much fun and we'll see everyone have a good weekend good luck at Cannabis Cup we'll see everyone rough and rowdy buy it Friday night and Sunday we'll see ya just came up with a great halloween costume by

the way lieutenant bran and it's nice it's bran with like long hair and the chat you yeah yeah

i like that love you guys He ain't got that dope. Take on me, take me on.
I'll become a literal dream. Needless to say, I've all said it.
But I'm feeling so late away. away Slowly learning, but life is okay Say up to me, it's no better to be safe than sorry Take on me, take me on I'll be gone In a dark time All the things that you say Is it a lot of old Just to play my worries away You're all the things I've got to remember When you're shying away I'll be coming for you anyway

Take on me

Take me on

I'll be gone