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Speaker 1 On today's part in my take, we have The Miz

Speaker 1 Wrestling Phenom, former WWE champion, also former real world cast member. Fun interview with him.
He also told an awesome Vince McMahon story. We have PFT on his way to Hong Kong.

Speaker 1 I'm going to try out a new co-host in case his plane goes down. And we have FAQs because it's Friday.
A little Final Four preview as well.

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Speaker 1 Welcome to part of my take presented by Cash App, our new presenting sponsor. Today is Friday, April 5th.

Speaker 1 And if you're listening to this right now, which you are because you're hearing my voice, PFT is over the Pacific Ocean with no Wi-Fi like a fucking idiot.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 Talk to yourself right now. This is future.
You're listening. What's up, PFT?

Speaker 1 Chilling on the plane? You can't download it because you don't have Wi-Fi. No, I'm going to download it.
We're going to release it before I get on the plane so I'll have it to listen to when I.

Speaker 1 No, probably not. Yo, what's up, Future PFT? That flight was a breeze, no problem.
You're in Hong Kong right now, so you're in the future. So actually...

Speaker 1 This is me from the future talking to you in the future. What's up? You want to go get a beer?

Speaker 1 So PFT's going to Hong Kong for a rugby tournament, and he just found out, like, maybe 20 minutes ago, that he has no Wi-Fi on his 16-hour

Speaker 1 flight. That's a good 16-hour.
Hank and I, if you're listening to this, we're in Minneapolis right now. We've flown three hours first class, no big deal.

Speaker 1 16. What? That's first class.
Yeah, I mean, it was pretty cheap. Real men of the people.
It was really cheap.

Speaker 1 They predicted the first class.

Speaker 1 I don't hate it. It's pretty cheap.
I don't even like flying first class. $200.
I don't even like it. It just seems kind of snobby.
That's weird because you've been like

Speaker 1 a sales team to sell everything under the sun.

Speaker 1 You're like, I will sell the rights to myself

Speaker 1 just so I don't have to sit in this seat. I didn't want to sit in coach's coach.
I wanted to sit in coach's son, which is like the economy plus. So that's all I wanted.

Speaker 1 That's all I really need out of the strip. Either way, you're fucked.
Either way, I'm fucked.

Speaker 1 The problem with sitting in first class, very underrated problem, is when the plane lands and docks, you only have like five five seconds to get off the plane. It's stressful

Speaker 1 when it lands. I'm never ready.
Yeah, so 16-hour flight to Hong Kong. I actually don't know, like, I don't know what you would do for 16 hours.
Like, you're gonna know Wi-Fi.

Speaker 1 So, so, finding out no Wi-Fi, what are the worst things that could happen while you're on a flight? By the way, he has to take a 16-hour flight back with no Wi-Fi.

Speaker 1 What are the worst things that could happen while you're on this flight that

Speaker 1 you would turn on your phone in Hong Kong and be like, I cannot believe I missed this. Oh my god.

Speaker 1 Okay, so very worst possible outcomes would be, I would say, if you know, honestly, if Jesus came back while I was in the air over the Pacific, I wouldn't know until Friday night.

Speaker 1 Well, I wrote down a few. That's close to what I have.
I have Joe Flacco retires.

Speaker 1 Well, he's not because he's going to win a Super Bowl with those new passenger fears. But

Speaker 1 imagine if he does retire while you're on the... That's not happening.
I already talked to him. RG3 dies.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that'd be tough. Yeah, that would be tough.
I got to admit, that'd be hard. Hitler's found in South America.
Fuck. If I miss Hitler getting found in South America, you know what?

Speaker 1 I'm going to tell the pilot, you take off again, we're flying to South America, and I'm going to kick his ass. Yeah.
Do you think the pilot has Wi-Fi? No. Oh, man.
So

Speaker 1 it's weird. It's like going back through time.
What did we do before 1995 without the internet? You're going to have to take a shit on this plane. I'm going to take several shits on the plane.

Speaker 1 That's going to be most of the way that I'm going to pass the time, I think, is just taking shits. So, yeah, so we're recording this early because PFT is going to Hong Kong.
It is a 16-hour flight.

Speaker 1 Did I mention it was 16 hours? Why are you going to Hong Kong? And back also.

Speaker 1 He also, a quick side story, is we were in Indianapolis at the Combine, and there was a rugby tournament in Las Vegas, and PFT was debating whether to go or not. And he said, no, I don't want to go.

Speaker 1 It's too long of a trip. Yeah, but this is a new thing.
It's 16 hours.

Speaker 1 There's a big difference between doing something that's four hours away and 16 hours away. 16 hours is almost like 12 hours.
Yeah, 16 hours is almost like, okay, this is a bad fucking decision.

Speaker 1 And I kind of lean into it. If it's four hours away, it's like, okay, that's kind of a pain in the ass.
This one, it's like, I'll be honest.

Speaker 1 So on Sunday, I played rugby for the first time in like three years, and I got on the show and just worked myself into a lather.

Speaker 1 I'm a big lather guy, and I started talking about the tournament, and that stone started rolling downhill, started to gather momentum.

Speaker 1 And next thing you know, it's like Wednesday morning, and I'm buying a ticket to Hong Kong. Yeah, so 16 hours.
That's one way. 16 hours back.
No Wi-Fi. 16 hours.

Speaker 1 We will do a Skype show on Sunday night. We're 16 hours away.
I downloaded all the all 22 from this year. So I might grind some tape.
There we go. I'm going to blog.

Speaker 1 You're going to pull that up for one second and then just fall asleep. I'm going to blog.
So I've

Speaker 1 got my notes app on the computer. I can't publish anything, but when I land, I guess it'll be 6 o'clock in the morning on Friday.
I'll just put out like four blogs at once. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'll do a running diary of my trip. And just spit it all out at once.
So you'll be in Hong Kong. We'll be in Minneapolis.
The Final Four is still going on.

Speaker 1 It is actually happening, even though everyone kind of forgot it's happening because Duke's not in it.

Speaker 1 Hank, you've had a little bit of the Duke Blues, the Duke Blues all week, where you're like, man, I wish I actually caught a little of it too.

Speaker 1 I was like, man, I kind of wish Duke was in this just because I hate them so much, and I'd love to see them lose. But we do have the Final Four.
We have, let's talk about it real quick.

Speaker 1 We have the first game on Saturday. It's going to be Auburn versus Virginia.
Bruce Pearl and his sweaty mess. Also, Bruce Pearl, he is proving yet again that it is very bad in life to have any type of

Speaker 1 national success because then everyone starts talking about how big of a scumbag you are again. I don't think he's a scumbag, though.
Well, people start talking about you're a scumbag again.

Speaker 1 All the articles start getting written again. Like, just stay in that Sweet 16 Elite Eight, and no one's going to talk about it.

Speaker 1 Now that you're in the Final Four, everyone's going to talk about Bruce Pearl again. That's a good point.
It's like the Indians logo.

Speaker 1 Yeah, just in in life, if you just kind of float in the middle, you'll get by with a lot more shit than if you do anything incredible. So, yeah, Bruce Pearl, I like Bruce.

Speaker 1 I think that they're going to get beat by UVA. By a lot, I think.
By a lot.

Speaker 1 I think that UVA is a very, very, very, very, very good team with a fan base that I really don't want to see win the national championship. But I think they're a much better team.

Speaker 1 So I think it's going to be UVA. Wait, hold on.

Speaker 1 Pick it up. The under.
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 Minus five and a half. You're taking UVA.
I'm taking UVA and I'm taking the under. I'm taking the over and UVA because in my brain, I'm like, hey, if you can't lose both.

Speaker 1 Okay. That makes no sense.
Arbitrage. You could easily lose both.

Speaker 1 Easily lose both. But in my mind, I'm like, well, if Auburn keeps it close, it's probably going over.
Sounds like your balls are making a handshake deal with your brain. Yeah, but you can win both.

Speaker 1 You can't lose both. It's actually a full gentleman's agreement.

Speaker 1 It's actually, I just broke Vegas.

Speaker 1 I can't lose both. There you go.
There you go. But I can win both.

Speaker 1 And so we're in agreement with Virginia. Hank, do you have any thoughts on the game? You taking Virginia, ACC

Speaker 1 to War Eagles? Do you root for the ACC now that Duke's out? No. You're a big ACC guy? No.
You love AC? No.

Speaker 1 Also, if anybody out there questions why I don't like certain colleges, because I'm sure it seems very random which ones I don't like, it's all the ones that didn't let me in. Okay.

Speaker 1 Those are the ones that I hate. Same.
So it's like 95% of the schools? Yeah, every school. Yeah.
Every school in America.

Speaker 1 Yeah, same with Hank. So you hate everyone.
Go Trump University. Except for the small New Hampshire schools.
Yeah, Southern New Hampshire. Hankinson.

Speaker 1 Well, you almost got into Duke. Yeah.
How many

Speaker 1 GPA points? Three. Three? Just three.

Speaker 1 You cover the spread. Yeah, that's not that much.
That's, you know. A couple tests here, a couple tests there.
A couple years. Yeah.
Academic improvement. Whatever.
I'm the hair. All right.

Speaker 1 The next game we have Texas Tech versus Michigan State. Michigan State is minus two and a half.
Over-under is 132.5. These games stink.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 These games stink. Thank you for saying that.
These games stink. I actually do think the Michigan State-Texas Tech game is going to be very good.

Speaker 1 It's going to be played very well. Both these teams are very efficient on both sides, and it's going to be crisp.
It's one of those crisp games.

Speaker 1 A little pro tip for everybody out there that might not be interested in Michigan State versus Texas Tech.

Speaker 1 Just double your normal amount that you bet on games, and boom, you're interested. There's preseason tournaments in Maui that are more exciting than these two games.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because the coaches are wearing shit. The coaches are wearing the Tommy Bahamas shirts.
You're such a blue-blood snob. It gets people excited.
No, I know. I agree.
I agree.

Speaker 1 It's definitely taking a little luster out of it. But it's still sports, still games you can bet on.
Seems like you can go to the weekend to get out of the country. Michigan.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, to be on a flight for 16 hours, no Wi-Fi. Oh, by the way, two of them.
So I packed this morning. Here are PFT's rules for packing.
Ready?

Speaker 1 Okay, if you're going on vacation, this isn't a vacation, it's a working trip. But if you're leaving town,

Speaker 1 oh, listen to Hank coming at me for vacations, Mr. Pot Kettle Black.

Speaker 1 You just look on your Google phone, you look on

Speaker 1 the Apple weather app. Okay.
Right?

Speaker 1 You look on the weather app, you see what temperature it's going to be for the first day you're going to be there, and you just assume that's the temperature for the entire time that you're there, and you only pack clothes according to that day.

Speaker 1 I think that's fair. That's what I do every day.
And then I just never.

Speaker 1 You're only going to be there for two days. Two and a half days.
Does that half day count a flight?

Speaker 1 So there's a flight and then you land it Friday night and then you're there Saturday, Sunday, and you have to leave Monday. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, leaving Monday long. Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 So are you going to be in air longer than you're in Hong Kong? No, I did the math on that. Close? It's close.
It's not. You're going to have no Wi-Fi.

Speaker 1 You're going to have Wi-Fi less than you have Wi-Fi for Hippolyte.

Speaker 1 Half of your next four days are going to be Wi-Fi less. You know what? This is my Walden.
This is my Walden Pond. I'm Henry Thoreau.
Again, you're going to just probably take a sleeping pillow.

Speaker 1 I'm just going to jerk off fall asleep. Whoa.
Did you say you're going to jerk off on a plane? Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 1 Probably not.

Speaker 1 What's the flight number there? Probably not. Just get a little high close.
I'll get some eyes on that. Yeah.
Yeah, so back to Texas Tech and Michigan State.

Speaker 1 I love Michigan State in this game.

Speaker 1 Mostly because I need Michigan State to be in the final to get the juices flowing again. Because Texas Tech, Virginia will be a final that.
Yikes. Yikes.
I'm going to go with Texas Tech. Okay.

Speaker 1 Based on Tom Ezzo being overrated. There you go.

Speaker 1 So I'm taking Texas Tech. Also, their defense is really, really good.
Yes.

Speaker 1 I've only, admittedly, I've watched them, I've watched one of their tournament games, or one of their conference tournament games, and then I've watched them every game in the NCAA tournament, and their defense is fucking awesome.

Speaker 1 Ballhawks.

Speaker 1 Hank, what do you got in this game? Texas Tech. We're going to be at it, so we're going to have to gamble on it.

Speaker 1 I'll be probably going to bet both overs, and then I'm going to realize that they're playing basketball in a football stadium, and no one can see the basket.

Speaker 1 I'm taking nine minutes in, and that's going to suck, but I'm still going to do it.

Speaker 1 I'm not taking the over. I'm done saying that I'm taking the under.
Yeah, because you sound like an asshole, right? I'm like a dollar bill from billions. I am not uncertain that I'm taking the under.

Speaker 1 Yes, there you go. All right, let's do our interview with The Miz.
Actually, a very, very fun interview. Very like crazy story

Speaker 1 about Vince McMahon from The Miz. Great talker.
Before we get to our interview.

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Speaker 1 All right, let's do the interview.

Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on very special guest, former WWE champion of the world.

Speaker 1 It is The Miz. He's here with Snickers.
Maybe my favorite

Speaker 1 plug ever, because I was looking it up before you showed up. I was like, oh, we're probably going to get some free Snickers.
We did.

Speaker 5 It did get free Snickers.

Speaker 1 We got free Snickers. Their exclusive presenting sponsor, WrestleMania 35.

Speaker 1 And as part of their sponsorship, Snickers has released five limited edition hunger bars with WWE that included the catchphrase of five superstars on the packaging, including the Miz's bar awesome.

Speaker 1 How great is that? Fucking freaking out. I mean, never Parma, Ohio.

Speaker 5 A kid from Parma, Ohio, has his own Snickers bar. Yep.
Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that would ever happen.

Speaker 5 There's a lot of things that happened in my life that I think are pretty cool. This is up there.

Speaker 1 What else is it? List the top three coolest things that have happened in your life.

Speaker 5 Maybe my wife. Okay.
My wife, Maurice.

Speaker 1 Have a great way together.

Speaker 5 Have our own reality show, Miss and Missus, on the USA Network, another plug. Yep.

Speaker 5 You know, main eventing WrestleMania 27. Yep.
That was have to be up there. And you know what's amazing?

Speaker 5 I don't know if any of you got one, but I got a Bud Light victory fridge when the Cleveland Browns did not win a game for 600-plus games or days. And

Speaker 5 they sent me, Bud Light sent me

Speaker 5 a nice

Speaker 5 refrigerator. Yeah.
And it was chained up.

Speaker 1 It was like football game.

Speaker 5 Yeah, there's no way this thing is going to open. Like the idea was whenever they win their first game, the chains will drop and you'll get to drink all the beer inside it.

Speaker 5 So they sent me a refrigerator, chained up, all the beers inside. My wife looks at it and goes, why do you have a chained up refrigerator? I go, you don't get it.

Speaker 1 You're not a Browns fan.

Speaker 5 You don't understand. Just leave me alone.
Let me have this. Yes.
And I'll never forget watching that Jets game where the Browns won their first game finally.

Speaker 1 And literally, I'm in Austin, Texas, Texas not in Cleveland 37 of those refrigerators were made mine the chains dropped when we won no way I drank every single beer I shotgunned them it was amazing like remotely they were able to do that for you yeah remotely it literally let it like happen a bot into your house that is spying on you you know what if that's gonna happen every time yeah okay no where that's what I got free beer business would take his robot dogs nobody would be afraid of him if I got Snickers and free beer what more do you want okay that's fair that's actually real yeah you you have the best sponsorship sponsorship that is the world.

Speaker 1 Yes, I do. So you're a series of family.

Speaker 5 That was even a sponsorship, by the way. They just sent me

Speaker 1 a new minute.

Speaker 5 And I was like, this is the greatest thing I've ever heard in my life.

Speaker 1 I'm 36th most famous Browns fan. That's fucking sister.
I'm there. Yeah,

Speaker 1 top 37.

Speaker 5 Top 37. Got it.

Speaker 1 So you're a Cleveland Browns fan. Obviously, last year was pretty sweet for you.
It looks like the future's bright. We had David Njoku sitting in that seat last

Speaker 1 week. He said that they're going to win, what,

Speaker 1 13 games. You think over or under?

Speaker 5 I looked at that.

Speaker 5 When we got Odell Beckham, I imagine New York was just crying because he is such an elite next-level talent that you don't want to give up ever. I mean, you can't find that.

Speaker 5 You can't find that in any draft. You have to just get them.
It's like losing Antonio Brown or Le'Veon Bell. Sorry.

Speaker 1 Sorry, it's very good.

Speaker 5 But man, like having Odell with his best friend, Jarvis Landry, you got Baker Mayfield at the helm.

Speaker 5 You have Nick Chubb. You got Njoku.

Speaker 1 That is a potent, potent offense.

Speaker 5 I said it when Odell came there. I called every one of my friends because I'm friends with a couple insiders.
Oh, I kind of knew.

Speaker 5 I kind of knew before. I kind of knew.
I can't say their names. Moose.

Speaker 1 No, not Moose. No, not Moose.
Baker? No. We're Baker guys.

Speaker 5 I didn't know Baker. Okay.
I don't know Baker yet. I haven't met him yet.
Kind of excited if I do. Yeah.

Speaker 5 But yeah, man,

Speaker 5 I was ecstatic when they got Odell. And when they got Odell, I called every one of my friends and said, we're going to the Super Bowl.
There's no doubt.

Speaker 5 And people looked at me and said, didn't look at me like I was too crazy. They still go, come on, bro.
You got a couple years under your belt.

Speaker 1 I know several Browns fans that kind of feel the same way that you do, and I love the Super Bowl. Do you think so?

Speaker 1 Honestly, right now, I love the Browns.

Speaker 5 What team do you look at and go, they can win the Super Bowl?

Speaker 1 Yeah, the Chiefs.

Speaker 1 They're the Patriots, obviously, again, with the Saints. But look at the AFC North.
You're just happy to be there then.

Speaker 5 I'm happy to be a winning team.

Speaker 1 Junior and I had zero wins. You don't want to win the Super Bowl.
You're happy to be there.

Speaker 5 I want to win the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 I'm a person who likes to win.

Speaker 5 I did say that.

Speaker 1 You said they'll win the Super Bowl or going to the Super Super Bowl? Going to the Super Bowl and they they will win. Listen, I am not dangerous.

Speaker 5 I woke up this morning and I felt dangerous.

Speaker 1 It feels like Baker Mayfield does every day. This is a very dangerous thing that Cleveland's doing to their own brains.
And I like Cleveland.

Speaker 1 We like the town. We've been through there several times now.
Like, you guys eat poop? Yeah, you guys eat poop off every day. I know about that.

Speaker 1 You've got a great Buffalo Wild Wings there, by the way. LeBron Stinks.
LeBron Stinks, your casino only has a few homeless people begging for you. We love Cleveland.

Speaker 5 My dad goes to that casino every single night.

Speaker 1 Let me tell you something. Oh, my God.

Speaker 5 He wears a jack

Speaker 5 jacket every day.

Speaker 1 You're your sports owner, Dan Gilbert. He writes very nice letters using the best fonts, nothing but the greatest fonts.
We love Cleveland.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Comic Sans.

Speaker 1 I do love Cleveland, and I like the Browns. I think that they're the New Americas team because they're so likable.
But what Cleveland sports fans are doing to themselves is very, very dangerous.

Speaker 5 We set ourselves up for failure. Yes.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 And trust me,

Speaker 5 I've done that since we've had Bernie, since, you know, gosh, Tim Couch, Johnny, Johnny Manzel. Yeah.

Speaker 5 My God, every time I say that.

Speaker 5 By the way, every season, this isn't just this season. Every season I've said, we're going to be a winning team.
We're going to meet Brian Hoyer at the helm.

Speaker 1 We're going to be a winning team. Local guy,

Speaker 5 Brandon Whedon. We're going to win.

Speaker 5 But now I really believe it. Like, I look at Baker Mayfield, his chemistry with Kitchens.
I watched Kitchens, you know, kind of be the head coach and kind of like...

Speaker 5 you know, drive that offense to what it was last year. I mean, he wasn't head, but I mean, you felt like him and Greg Williams really did something really special.

Speaker 5 And now I feel like now that he has, you know, the reins, I think he's going to be able to do it. I really do.

Speaker 1 So, Super Bowl, Super Bowl champions from the Miz. Yes.

Speaker 5 All right. You heard it here for

Speaker 5 first, folks.

Speaker 1 First, right here. You sounded so confident.

Speaker 1 That's all.

Speaker 1 All right, so I want to talk about your career. So you mentioned at the beginning you are living the dream.
You basically went from a kid going to dropping out of school.

Speaker 5 Did you ever get your degree?

Speaker 1 Miami, Ohio? No. Love and honor.
Yeah, no. Yeah, no, you never did.
Okay. Me, Wally Sergei, and Ben Roethlisberger.
Yeah. Were you there? Ben was there? No.

Speaker 5 I think I was a little older.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So you went to Real World, and then on Real World, New York, you essentially just said, I'm going to be a wrestler.
And you created the WWE superstar. Yeah.
And you created the Miz character.

Speaker 1 Do you think that, like, what was, first of all, what was the Real World experience like? Because I don't even think it exists anymore.

Speaker 5 I mean, it does. I think they're bringing it back.
But the real world was the best thing that's ever happened to me. When I was in Parma, Ohio,

Speaker 5 your goal in life is to go to college. And then once you go to college, you go home, you get a job.
And back then, we didn't really have MySpace

Speaker 5 and YouTube and Facebook. We didn't have podcasts.

Speaker 5 It's a different time, a different era. And so the real world was something very special.
MTV was the biggest network out there. I mean, they had TRL.
I mean,

Speaker 5 every day I'd watch the top five music videos. I couldn't wait to see who was new.
And now, like, you don't, you don't even, you don't even watch any of that.

Speaker 5 Yeah, so, you know, with the real world, I got on that show, and it showed me that I could do anything I wanted with my life.

Speaker 5 And I remember going home to Cleveland and being like, what do you want to do? Like, looking at myself in the mirror, like, what do you want to do? Do you want to go back to college?

Speaker 5 Or what is your dream? And my dream, like, as a kid was always to be a WWE superstar, man. Like, I loved Ultimate Warrior.
I put streamers on my arm, painted my face, cut promos on my mom. Yeah.

Speaker 5 You know,

Speaker 5 And now, like,

Speaker 5 there I am sitting there, and I go, I'm going to do this. And everyone laughed at me.

Speaker 1 Said, no way.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I remember. You're 6'1.

Speaker 5 You're nothing. So I kind of made The Miz a reality.
And even though a lot of people told me not to, and to stay in Cleveland, I moved to L.A., started

Speaker 5 in a wrestling school, tried to learn the art of professional wrestling.

Speaker 5 I went to acting classes, improv classes, every tool that I could possibly get that would bring me to what I needed to be in the WWE. I had a nutritionist, a fitness expert.

Speaker 5 I had all these different things just trying to get going. Meanwhile, I was doing challenges, promoting the Miz, literally saying, I want to be a WWE superstar,

Speaker 5 hoping that WWE would see it. They didn't.
I had actually try out for Tough Enough, which is another reality show where you could win a WWE contract.

Speaker 5 Didn't win the contract, but impressed the execs so much that they gave me a contract for developmental. Went down there,

Speaker 5 learned way more,

Speaker 5 way more than I did in LA, and just kept going, man. Just keep on that work ethic.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's crazy. What was the toughest part about kind of diving into that life? Was it the physical stuff? You know, the stuff in the ring?

Speaker 1 Or was it the extra stuff that you were talking about, like the improv? I think it's mental, man.

Speaker 5 I think it's not even all that stuff. It's all the, you know, you're in a shark tank.
You know, with your guys, you guys have a podcast.

Speaker 5 I imagine you have tons of different people coming after you because you guys are number one.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 5 When you're a top dog, everybody wants you, right?

Speaker 1 Most of the just dogs. Everybody wants to go after you.
Yeah. Right.

Speaker 5 But everyone wants to get at you. So you have to keep your game on.
You have to keep going. You have to work hard.
You have to promote yourself. And so that's kind of

Speaker 5 the thing that I had to do. And so when

Speaker 5 I got to WWE, it was more the mental, you know, more

Speaker 5 than physical. I mean, obviously, what we do is very, very difficult.
We tell people not to try what we do at home because it's very dangerous. A lot of athleticism, a lot of storytelling.

Speaker 5 But I think it's the mental aspect, the things that it's hard to even describe.

Speaker 5 Like, I imagine there's things here that people don't know on air that happens behind the scenes that you guys have to go through, but you can't sit there and put it out there because people wouldn't understand.

Speaker 5 They wouldn't get it.

Speaker 1 Yeah. No, it's true.
So explain it to us what it feels like to go through a table.

Speaker 1 It hurts a lot.

Speaker 5 You don't want to do it. Yeah.

Speaker 5 I recommend not doing it to everyone out there. Anytime I have a chance not to do it, I will do it.
But going through it, it's like

Speaker 5 you can't really describe it. I mean, imagine just, you know, getting slammed by something in your back.

Speaker 1 What's the worst thing is like when I'm watching you go through a table, it looks, for some reason, it looks comfortable to me. I'm like, oh, I could do that.
Yeah, that table is pre-cut. You're fine.

Speaker 1 No, no, no, they're never pre-cut. Fall right through.
It's like, you know, a cardboard box.

Speaker 5 And then I always hear, like, yeah, the chairs are fake.

Speaker 1 I go, no, they're not. Real chairs.

Speaker 5 No, they're not.

Speaker 1 I wish they were.

Speaker 5 I wish they were plastic and had padding on them.

Speaker 1 I really did.

Speaker 5 Great idea. They're real chairs that they just buy at Home Depot.

Speaker 1 What's the worst injury you've had?

Speaker 5 Worst injury, I always look at it as the worst injury you could possibly have is like anything that happens to your brain, the concussions.

Speaker 5 And now WW has

Speaker 5 a protocol with concussions.

Speaker 5 And so we're trying to take the proper steps into making our WW superstars as safe as they possibly can. Obviously, we are in a dangerous environment and we take risks out there.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So what's the worst? Have you got a concussion?

Speaker 5 I got a concussion at WrestleMania 27. Okay.
Main event.

Speaker 1 Didn't you? FPW.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 1 back then in a different time. Well, sometimes you don't know.

Speaker 1 If you're the person that has a concussion, it can take you a while to figure out that you've got it somebody else to point it out and be like, hey, help this guy out.

Speaker 1 And a lot of times, with everything,

Speaker 5 by the time you figure it all out, it's like, oh, it's done. And it's like,

Speaker 5 but now, like, literally, our doctors are completely trained and know exactly what to do and what to happen and kind of, you know, helps us all out. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I was watching some of your clips last night, and

Speaker 1 you are a lot of fun. I like you because you really enjoy pissing people off.
You seem to like it.

Speaker 5 I did, by the way. Yeah.
Now I'm like the good guy.

Speaker 1 Right. Yeah.
It's weird. But so going back to that, do you miss the sheer adrenaline rush of saying some wise-ass comment to a room full of 25,000 people and have them all hate you?

Speaker 5 I think our fans respect the fact when you're authentic and real.

Speaker 5 And if I say a wise crack or something like that, I think they get it and they understand.

Speaker 5 So, no, I don't miss it.

Speaker 5 It's really interesting. It took me 13 years to kind of gain the respect of our audience.
I imagine here with Barstool, you had to gain respect.

Speaker 5 You had to sit there and hone your craft and literally know your stuff about all sports and all things and be entertaining and that kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 I just kind of went shit. Exactly.

Speaker 1 And then you're the coolest guy in the world.

Speaker 5 But it's the same thing with WWE. I had to earn my stripes.
I had to take 13 years to kind of earn my stripes. And our fans are the most loyal fans.

Speaker 1 But if they don't like you, they'll let you know.

Speaker 5 If they like you, they'll let you know. And right now, I'm in this kind of weird transition where, you know, I've been a bad guy, been known as probably one of the best bad guys in the history of WWE.

Speaker 5 and now all of a sudden they're changing me, and it's becoming kind of an organic type of thing where I'm changing into this good guy, and it feels good.

Speaker 5 I never realized I would miss being cheered and loved because I'm so used to people telling me how much I suck and how terrible I am.

Speaker 1 But it's amazing. Are you going to go corporate? That's my favorite storyline.
Corporate Miz? Yeah, I don't know if I can go corporate. Right now, I'm going up against Shane McMahon, Daddy's Boy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Corporate Kane. You remember Corporate Kane? I do remember Corporate Kane.
I remember The Rock going corporate. The ultimate betrayal.
Oh, my God. Yeah, it's unbelievable.
I love it.

Speaker 1 Go corporate. You never forget when one of your favorite guys goes corporate and you're like, what? Right.

Speaker 1 You're working with Vince McCarthy. Yeah, but right now I'm in a battle with the corporation.

Speaker 5 I am in the battle with Shane McMahon in a False Count Anywhere match at WrestleMania. You know, Vince McMahon's son, who is a daredevil, who is literally absolutely nuts in my opinion.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 And he takes the biggest bumps.

Speaker 5 Exactly. And so I'll just move.

Speaker 1 Okay. So are you going to throw him all?

Speaker 5 Listen, if I'm up there, he's going.

Speaker 1 This is going to be awesome because Shane O'Mack owns the internet when he takes a big, big fall.

Speaker 5 Absolutely. And, you know, it's one of those things.
I think everyone's out there to create moments that'll last a lifetime. Yep.
Something that you'll talk about for years on end.

Speaker 5 And that's what we're setting out to do at WrestleMania. We're setting out to do something where people can talk about it for ages on end.
And that's what we're going to do.

Speaker 5 I mean, right now, you know, you have so many matches that are going to be absolutely incredible. I mean, right now, Kofi Kingston is our hottest WWE superstar.

Speaker 5 He's going up against Daniel Bryan for the WWE Championship.

Speaker 5 And if you'd have told him 11 years ago that he was going to be in one of the main marquee matches going for the WWE Championship, I think this is the first time that he's had this kind of realm in his

Speaker 5 11-year career. And so to see him and see all the focus going there, it's great.
And then also, we have a history-making match.

Speaker 5 For the first time ever, it's Becky Lynch, Ronda Rousey, and Charlotte Flair in the main event of WrestleMania. First time ever all women main event at WrestleMania.

Speaker 1 That's pretty bad. I thought yesterday of them just beating the shit.
Oh my God.

Speaker 1 That was a very intense moment, though, when we saw, like, they're in the back of the cop car kicking windows out, taking knees to the head.

Speaker 5 My wife called me and goes, did you see what they did? And I go, no. Oh, my, it was incredible.
Like, I've never seen women get that opportunity to do something that big and that memorable.

Speaker 5 And it just goes to show where our women have come from.

Speaker 5 Like, you know, this year we had our first ever all-women's pay-per-view evolution, which I think stands as the best pay-per-view we've had all year. And it was at Nassau Coliseum.

Speaker 5 It blew the roof off the place. The audience absolutely loved each and every match.
And then you look at the generations of women that have fought to get to this point.

Speaker 5 You know, my wife included, you know, Maurice, as well as, you know, all the way back till Fabulous Moolah.

Speaker 5 You know, they all brought to this thing to bring it forward to, you know, history-making moments like we're going to have at WrestleMania.

Speaker 1 Scarier person to go up against, against, Undertaker.

Speaker 1 Or CT? Undertaker. What about CT? 100%.
CT will be a good one. Have you watched War of the Worlds? No.
Have you watched War of the Worlds? He's getting a little taken out.

Speaker 1 Okay, but he's like, I couldn't believe it. I'm talking about prime CT.
I'm talking about fucking people Johnny Bananas as a backpack CT. Backpack, CT.

Speaker 5 Dude, CT is an animal. He is absolutely incredible on the challenges, but the challenge is a different animal than any other sport out there.

Speaker 5 It's different than, you know, whether you call it football. And I call it a sport.
Yeah. Because I look at that as a sport event.
It's mentally and physically draining.

Speaker 5 You're living with people for like almost like two or three months, I think, nowadays that they do this thing.

Speaker 5 And, you know, you know, Johnny Bananas, CT, you know, they've all created names and created representations of themselves and have done an incredible job with that show.

Speaker 5 But man, these new kids on the War of the Worlds are taking over. They took out Ashley, who won last year.
I think she won a million dollars. They took out Bananas, number two, crazy.

Speaker 1 And then CT, number three.

Speaker 5 Are you kidding me?

Speaker 1 Wait, so the answer is still Undertaker, though?

Speaker 5 Oh, Undertaker is the most intimidating person.

Speaker 5 Before you even ask that question, I let Undertaker. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, when he's coming out, when the music's going, are you?

Speaker 5 There is nothing more intimidating. When he steps in that ring, it's just

Speaker 1 a dead man walking.

Speaker 5 Exactly. It's incredible.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 What's the most difficult show that you've been on? Because you've been on, how many reality shows have you been?

Speaker 5 I think probably 11 or 12 now. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know, Real World was the first one.

Speaker 5 I didn't know what I was getting into. And it was an incredible experience.
A lot of people, you hear like mixed reviews. I loved every second of it.

Speaker 5 And the reason I think I loved it is because I'm a person that I can't help being myself.

Speaker 5 And whenever I look at myself on camera, I go, yeah, that was me. That might be a different,

Speaker 5 there's different parts of me. And you'll pick and choose which one you'll have.
But that was me. I said all those things.
I did all those things.

Speaker 5 And now you look to the show I'm on now with my wife, Maurice.

Speaker 5 It's called Ms. and Mrs.
We're executive producers.

Speaker 5 And I wanted to be able to control what I have because I wanted to be able to take people inside of my life and really understand it and appreciate it.

Speaker 5 And I call ours the hybrid reality because I look at it and I don't look at ours like a Kardashian's or like a housewives or even like a total divas or bellets. I look at us as something different.

Speaker 5 You know, there's so much negativity in the world. There's so much drama in the world.
I want a show that I can sit down and I can watch with my family and have fun, be entertained and just laugh.

Speaker 5 And that's the show we're giving you.

Speaker 1 Okay, that's great. It would be great, though, if there was some sort of crossover where maybe your wife chokeslammed Corner

Speaker 1 just through a table. That would be good.
We would watch that too.

Speaker 1 It could work. You never know.
By the way, you never know. You never know.
She might chokeslam me through a table. That actually probably more likely.

Speaker 1 If you were to explain the Miz to somebody out there that is not familiar with what you've created yourself into, how would you describe that character?

Speaker 5 Loud, obnoxious, egotistical, arrogant, but you're going to love him.

Speaker 1 So you're a boss. Huh? Thanks.
You're our boss. Am I? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 Is that what your boss is?

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, pretty much.

Speaker 1 Do you like your boss? Yeah, I like him sometimes.

Speaker 5 Sometimes? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Do you get in arguments with him? Yeah, sometimes.

Speaker 5 What's like the biggest argument you've had that you can tell on air?

Speaker 1 I don't know. We will argue over like guests.

Speaker 5 Is it like sports stuff, like mundane stuff? Or is there like real stuff that you're literally like, I disagree with you. I want to put this on air.

Speaker 1 And he says, no, you're not doing that. Yeah, there'll be disagreements.
This is what I want.

Speaker 5 And then it's like, and then sometimes you go and do it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we're like, you know, different people, so we're not going to do it.

Speaker 5 I'm always curious about how other jobs are. Because I know how mine is, and Vince is the boss.

Speaker 1 Do you ever sneeze around him?

Speaker 1 You've heard this story.

Speaker 5 Oh, yeah. I've never sneezed around Vince.

Speaker 1 Have you seen anyone sneeze around him?

Speaker 5 I have not, but I imagine

Speaker 5 it's a treat.

Speaker 1 You've heard about the sneeze.

Speaker 1 Everyone knows about the sneeze around him.

Speaker 5 You don't sneeze around Vince.

Speaker 1 No black pepper for lunch around Vince.

Speaker 5 It's incredible. Like, you'll sit down with him and you'll tell him an idea, and he'll just sit there.
Yeah. For literally, I would say at least three minutes.

Speaker 5 And now now, just think about you pitching this idea, and you're excited.

Speaker 5 You're like, oh man, oh, Baba, this, and this, we'll do this and this, and this, and he just sits there and thinks, and you're just staring at him, and he's just thinking and you don't know what to do.

Speaker 5 You don't know, should I say something? And then you're like, no, I shouldn't say something. Okay, I'll just wait.
And then he'll give you an answer, and you're like, wow, that's incredible.

Speaker 5 And then there's things that I'll literally go, this is not going to work. That will not work.
There is no way that's going to work.

Speaker 1 I remember

Speaker 5 Vince wanted me to dress like The Rock.

Speaker 5 And I went, and he goes, and people will believe you're The Rock. And I I go, I am not 6'5.
I am not Samoan. I don't have tattoos.

Speaker 1 I am not bald.

Speaker 5 I don't know what you want me to do. How you think these people don't believe it.
And I go, Oh my god, I'm not gonna do this. This is gonna be terrible.

Speaker 5 And by the way, this is when I was WWE champion, and I'm going out there, and this is where I need to make my mark because people are like, Oh, he's getting overshadowed by The Rock.

Speaker 5 And John Cena, you know, I was an up and comer. And I'm like, Oh my god, this is gonna be terrible.
This is gonna be horrible.

Speaker 5 So I went out there and I said, All right, if he believes it, I'm gonna believe it. So all of a sudden, the rock music hits and the crowd goes absolutely nuts.
I'm talking, the place just is insane.

Speaker 5 They're jumping up. This is when the rock first came back.
So it's like people are high-fiving, going nuts. And Vince stands up and goes, wait.

Speaker 5 And I'm about to go out as the rock, have sunglasses on, a bald cap on, you know, have his shirt on.

Speaker 1 And he goes, wait.

Speaker 5 And I go, okay. And then he goes, now.
So he waited for that.

Speaker 5 He waited for the audience to come back down.

Speaker 5 So once he waited for them to come down, I enter the arena and all of a sudden I hear another eruption. They believe

Speaker 1 it's the rock.

Speaker 1 But it's me.

Speaker 5 And I do my rock stance. I walk out like only the rock can.
And they're still going. And I'm like, when are they going to know that it's not the rock? So I'm like, well, maybe I'll get another.

Speaker 5 I take off my sunglasses like The Rock does.

Speaker 5 And they're still going. And then they erupt again.
And I go, they still don't. I have blue eyes.

Speaker 5 They still believe it's the rock.

Speaker 5 And then I started walking down, and then they finally started getting that it was me.

Speaker 1 And then they're like, oh, boo, and I'm the bad guy.

Speaker 5 And it worked to a T. I get back there, and he goes, I told you.

Speaker 1 And I go, how did you know?

Speaker 5 He goes, they wanted to believe so much that it's the rock that they didn't care. They didn't even look.
They saw that, they heard the music, and they just started high-five.

Speaker 5 And they're not looking at you. They're just so mesmerized by the moment.
And I went, this guy's a genius. Genius.
Absolute genius. Genius.

Speaker 1 That's a hell of a story. All right.

Speaker 1 I know you have to go ahead. I was just going to say, it shows how he has, he is so involved in the minutiae of everything.
He knows every old quote. He knows what you want more than you do.

Speaker 5 There's a reason why Fox paid a billion dollars for the show. It's because they know what kind of content they're getting.
They know, you know, why do you think Snickers is presenting WrestleMania?

Speaker 5 It's because they know what they're getting. They know how involved Vince McMahon is and how smart he is and what a businessman he is.
You know, you got Raw, you got SmackDown.

Speaker 5 We do live shows each and every week. I mean, how many shows are out there that put that much content, live content? It's like five, six hours of live content each and every week.

Speaker 1 Nobody does that. Yeah.
But we do.

Speaker 5 And it just goes to show, like, I applaud my boss.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's fantastic. All right.
I know we got to wrap up.

Speaker 1 We're getting the sky.

Speaker 5 Even though I'm going to beat up his son. Yeah.
Yes.

Speaker 1 I mean, I'm excited for that. I have two quick last questions.
One is, you trained with Al Snow. I did.

Speaker 1 Did he have the head around?

Speaker 5 No, the head was not always around.

Speaker 5 He actually taught me a a lot.

Speaker 5 Him and Bill DeMott really honed in and taught me

Speaker 5 what I needed to learn to get to WWE, to be the caliber that I am. And now I always think, you know, we have NXT down at the Performance Center right now.

Speaker 5 You know, NXT is another brand, and we have a show actually at Barclays tomorrow night. It's NXT Takeover.
But,

Speaker 5 you know, these guys, you know, they're really honing their craft. And I look at WWE's territories now.
You know, it's NXT, it's RAW, it's SmackDown.

Speaker 5 And each time you go to a new territory, you have to build yourself up. And you have to build and create something that you have to earn the respect of the audience.

Speaker 5 And I think Bill as well as Al Snow taught me that.

Speaker 1 Yeah. All right, last thing.
Explain this, Law.

Speaker 5 You know, that was cool back then.

Speaker 1 You had a bandana. Come on.
I had a bandana. Dude, I thought all the, by the way, I can't look at the real world.
I can't watch

Speaker 1 challenges.

Speaker 1 You frosted it.

Speaker 5 Oh, my God. So did Justin Wimberlake.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but you made it cool. It was too long.

Speaker 1 No, I did not. I think I would have had exactly the right amount of time.
You held on too long. Keep up looking at my hair and went, I want Miz's hair.

Speaker 1 You definitely look like Prison Mike on steroids. Oh, in that picture right there.
All right, man. Appreciate you coming by.
Appreciate you dropping off the Snickers. Thank you.

Speaker 1 It's an absolute honor to be here.

Speaker 5 Thank you guys for having me.

Speaker 1 I really appreciate it. Keep up the good work.
Yes, and good luck against Shano Mac for sure. Throw him off the snow.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I will. Steal his sneakers.
He's always got the best sneakers.

Speaker 5 Go get my Snickers at Dollar General.

Speaker 1 There we go.

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Speaker 1 Okay, let's get to some segments. First up, we have a Protect the Stripes.
This has actually been a trend recently.

Speaker 1 Umps fighting back. Refs fighting back.
So, Kevin Durant got a technical. He's actually, I think, one away from getting a suspension, which

Speaker 1 is a bad boy.

Speaker 1 And then Ron Coppa

Speaker 1 during the Astros Rangers game basically kicked everyone out just because they looked at him. And it's umps and refs striking back.
Also, Kevin Durant called the ref a bitch, a motherfucking bitch.

Speaker 1 Yeah, which is cool that we can say it now. No, no.
Yeah, but

Speaker 1 I love

Speaker 1 okay, this is gonna sound crazy or stupid because there's definitely a part where the ump can ruin a game, but there is something look call me old-fashioned, call me, you know, Country Joe West.

Speaker 1 There is something special about an ump like refusing to let a game go on until he kicks everyone out.

Speaker 1 I like umps that stand up for themselves. I think that we've done umps a disservice recently.
I don't have noticed this the last like 30 years. So,

Speaker 1 NBA refs, we call them stripes, right? Yep. They don't even wear stripes anymore.

Speaker 1 We've taken away that from them. We've taken away blue from Major League Umpires.
They wear like black now. They're not even blue anymore.
You can't yell that at them.

Speaker 1 I like it when refs have, I like it when they stand up for themselves, when they have a thing like Country Joe West. Like you said, say what you want about Country Joe West.
He doesn't take any shit.

Speaker 1 No. And it's kind of fun knowing that there's a guy out there who's absolutely not what people paid to watch that thinks that he's what people paid to watch.
That is a lot of fun to me.

Speaker 1 Joey Crawford was the exact same way. Yeah.
When he'd be skipping across the court, doing his little dance when there was a block. I thought that was hilarious.

Speaker 1 There's also something about the dugout-ump relationship that is always so funny when an ump like looks at a dugout.

Speaker 1 And basically, this ump, Ron Coppo said, like, you all have to stop talking and looking at me. Otherwise, we're not going to continue this baseball game.
And I love that.

Speaker 1 The baseball's actually had a really nice,

Speaker 1 like, first full week with Bryce Harper and the Nationals, the bat flip heard around the world. That was awesome.

Speaker 1 I mean, Bryce Harper was awesome with that bat flip. That was.

Speaker 1 So fucking awesome.

Speaker 1 But we should also bring up, Hank, I threw this out to you before the show when we were prepping for it. Panic button.
I am. I've already taken the panic button out of my closet for the Cubs.

Speaker 1 It's April. I know.
I don't care. What's the big issue? The bullpen.

Speaker 1 It's dumping. It's barely April.
It is barely April.

Speaker 1 Tank, I don't care. I've taken the panic button out.

Speaker 1 If I have to watch you Darvers pitch more fucking walks and Jason Hayward hit into more double plays, I will smash the fuck out of that panic button.

Speaker 1 You don't think it takes a little time to get the rush shot? I think it definitely takes time, but... Teams get hot.
I think it's

Speaker 1 totally fair to panic at the very first moment. It is.

Speaker 1 I think you could have panicked even before they played because you knew that the bullpen was going to be shit.

Speaker 1 You could have hit the panic button when they were playing that opening day in Japan between the Yankees and the A's because you saw what was on the roster. The Mariners.
A's and the Mariners.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you saw what was on the roster and so you knew that that was going to be like a glaring weakness this year. What are you talking about? And you have Theo Eston.
The Cubs? No,

Speaker 1 your bullpen. When the A's and Mariners were playing? Yeah, you knew what your bullpen was going to be.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah,

Speaker 1 this isn't like a surprise to you that the bullpen stinks. No, no, it's thanks.
And there's also Craig Kimbrell is just sitting out there. There's guys still out there.
Dallas Craig.

Speaker 1 Michael is out there. It's fucking crazy.
Hank, so you're not panicking? No. Okay, no panic.
You guys have Theo Epstein, who's proven to put teams together all-star breaks. I know, but you.

Speaker 1 I bummed out. It's April 4th.
I haven't bummed myself out with a tweet more than I bummed myself out with a tweet Tuesday night when I tweeted that I would

Speaker 1 sarcastically

Speaker 1 have Jake Ariatt and Bryce Harper. I would rather have you, Darvish, and Jason Hayward and then just put a bullet in my head.
Like, that's the worst fucking thing ever.

Speaker 1 Jason Hayward, he is consistent, though. He's been hitting in those double plays.

Speaker 1 No, he's doing a new thing when he hits it to the pitcher. So it's kind of even more efficient.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 he's been. It feels like 50% of the time he's at the plate in the last three years, he's hitting a double play.
So the spray chart is literally just

Speaker 1 shaded in blue to the second baseman. That's incredible.
That's it. So no panic.
No. I took it out.
I haven't smashed it. Talk to me in July.
All right.

Speaker 1 The Cubs probably won tonight, and I probably tweeted Cubs are back a million times. How's your bowl pin, eh? I'm fine.
I have no idea.

Speaker 1 All right. I just saw the first game when they they got lit up.
Before we get to FAQs, we have two last things. First is the fire fest of the week.

Speaker 1 So we touched on it on Wednesday that everyone has their personal fire fest. Every inconvenience is a fire fest.

Speaker 1 Yeah, someone tweeted at me that they had got gum on their boots, and they're like, this is my fire fest. It's like, yeah, dude, that is.

Speaker 1 But there actually is a real fire fest going on right now, and it's the AAF.

Speaker 1 So the AAF, the collapse of the AAF has been well documented, and it's absolutely outrageous what they've done with this league, and the fact that anyone thought that this league was going to work.

Speaker 1 Like Charlie Ebersoll and Bill Pollyan thinking that this was going to work, and then running out of money two weeks in, and then saying, wait, what happened?

Speaker 1 is insane. So they actually kind of are like a little Billy McFarland going on.
But we have this tweet thread that was put out there. I'm going to read some of these things to you.

Speaker 1 So players in Memphis came back to their hotels after news came down and had their personal items waiting in the lobby, kicked out of their lodgings. That's basically the villas

Speaker 1 at the tents.

Speaker 1 Now did they have, but they had actual doors and stuff to their tents. Yes, yes.
Amount of money owed to vendors, venues in San Antonio for training camp is over $4 million.

Speaker 1 So I'm sure they're good for that.

Speaker 1 Reserve injured players would be left in the cold. They would be paying for their own rehab medical expenses.
High-level staff at the team level received email from the board.

Speaker 1 No one received a termination notice from an actual person. So they're just sending out blanket emails.
That's fun.

Speaker 1 Team-level staff members were asked to stay behind in markets to clean out office spaces without pay and handle refunds. No clarity who will be receiving those refunds.

Speaker 1 Can you imagine somebody asking you to clean out someone else's office and not get paid for it? Jesus Christ. It's so much free shit.
Yeah. It's a lot of free shit.

Speaker 1 Termination letter sent to AAF staff. No one signed the letter sent from a generic company email address.
So

Speaker 1 they're not even manning up.

Speaker 1 And then you got players who, you know, like this guy broke his, this guy named Gianni Paul broke his arm in the last game, and then the league ended, and now he has to find an apartment, a way home, and medical bills.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that sucks. It sucks for the players.
It sucks for, I guess, the vendors that are owed money for services that they've already provided.

Speaker 1 It is hilarious, though, to just imagine Bill Pollyan as being Billy McFarland. Yes.
Like, drinking, doing the drinking like porn star, or drinking like rock stars, fucking like porn stars speech.

Speaker 1 I guarantee you Bill has said that at some point. Yeah.
Well, no, Jim Ursai said that when he was hanging out with me.

Speaker 1 And he was just, you know, hanging out, you know, instead of cocaine and tequila on a private island, it was like tortilla chips and

Speaker 1 a nice beer, just hanging out, watching tape. It was baked glaze and ginger ale.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Shot watch some tape. We're going to shotgun this Canada dry.
This is going to be sick.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So I've done some research into Tom Dundun.

Speaker 1 Tom Dundon. Dundun Dun.
Tom Dum Dum. Just what a fucking idiot name.

Speaker 1 This guy is hilarious. He looks like he is part of Orange County Choppers a little bit.

Speaker 1 Okay. My good friend.

Speaker 1 The best way I can describe him is he's like the monorail salesman from The Simpsons if he showed up wearing Ed Hardy. Okay, I'm looking him up right now.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 How'd this guy get rich? Exactly. That's what I'm saying.
If you're a billionaire and you've still got the 90s relief picture goatee, you're going to pull some shady shit.

Speaker 1 So he got rich selling,

Speaker 1 he sold

Speaker 1 subprime auto loans

Speaker 1 in Dallas. He looks like a fracker.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he does. He looks like the wolf of Wall Street if that movie was based in Youngstown.
Okay, so

Speaker 1 he got he got this he's drank more monster energies than he

Speaker 1 bangs monsters than times he's ever had to piss. Breaking moves.

Speaker 1 Breaking moves.

Speaker 1 I mean, this is hilarious. I just had to bring this to attention.
This guy tweeted it. It's got one like 74 replies.
Okay.

Speaker 1 It is the offseason, but this is during the day, exclamation point. I wouldn't want him doing this on a day off during the regular NFL season.
How do you guys slash girls feel about this?

Speaker 1 Sam Darnold Jets. And it's just a picture of Sam Darnold at a Yankees game, like drinking like a

Speaker 1 vodka sprite. Oh, he earned his pinstripes yesterday.
Sam Darnold went to a Yankees game? Yeah. People are.
Even though he's a football player? Yep. Andy earned his pinstripes.
Sam, you lost? Wow.

Speaker 1 That's a diamond, not a gridiron, bro. I mean,

Speaker 1 isn't Minicamp coming up in like a month? Yeah. You son of a bitch.

Speaker 1 The thing where you don't have to show up to lift, but if you don't show up, you get cut coming up soon? Yeah. What about a foul ball? What if a foul ball had hit you in your giant head? Good point.

Speaker 1 Statistically, Sam Darnold's like five times more likely than anyone else in attendance to get beamed with that dome of his. Damn, Sam Darnold got a big fucking head.

Speaker 1 Damn, Sam. Yeah, so Sam Darnold is on the hot seat of all New York Jets fans? Sam Darnold is a firefest.
Also, that's got to suck if you're a Mets fan and Jets fan and seeing that. Yeah.
That's really

Speaker 1 upset about. Yeah, that's really, definitely what they're upset about.
You can't. If he was in Citi Field,

Speaker 1 they'd be fine without it. Yeah, they'd be absolutely fine.
That breaking moves was brought to you by Built with Chocolate Milk. For real recovery, that happens real fast.

Speaker 1 Go to builtwithchocolatemilk.com for more. Great job, Hank.
Thanks. Appreciate it.

Speaker 1 Before we get to FAQs, I had a question for you guys. SeekGeek question.
Promo code take. You get $10 off your SeatGeek purchase.
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Speaker 1 So here's my question. I,

Speaker 1 now that I'm going to be a father, I have to start doing adult things like getting life insurance. You've changed.
Yeah, life insurance. It's fucking crazy.

Speaker 1 So I had to take a test, and you have to give your piss, you have to do your blood, and then on the test, it says

Speaker 1 how much do you take drugs and how much?

Speaker 1 What would you guys answer on that? One weed. Well, okay, so my answer was,

Speaker 1 yes, marijuana, and then how much? I said, a little.

Speaker 1 What do you think about that? I think that what you did was actually very dumb because you set yourself up for round two. But a little can be very like

Speaker 1 you smoke every day, but it's just a little. But someone's going to see that and then they're going to come ask you more questions.
So you think a little was not a medical term? I think

Speaker 1 I would have been a little bit more specific and said a bit.

Speaker 1 A skosh. I indulge.
A skosh. I indulge from time to time.
Yeah. Hank, what would you put on that? I probably would just say nothing.
But you, I had to give, I would normally say nothing.

Speaker 1 Like when you usually fill out a form like that, you always just lie. Everyone knows that.
You lie, lie, lie.

Speaker 1 They took a blood sample and a P sample, so I was like, I got to get in front of this and throw it out there that, yeah, a little. So it's no longer in your blood, but it is in your P.

Speaker 1 It probably is in both. It's just everywhere.
It's definitely in both. The minute he was like, yeah, we're going to need everything, I was like, okay, this is a problem.
It's a weird question to ask.

Speaker 1 Right. But, I mean, I guess it's a life insurance thing, so they're trying to figure out, like, hey, this guy's going to overdose from weed soon.

Speaker 1 Yeah, literally, do they know just heroin for this this guy. Yeah, so you would go with nothing, Hank?

Speaker 1 Knowing what I'm telling you right now, I was wondering what everyone else in this situation, and anyone who's listening right now, tweet us what you would actually say. Like,

Speaker 1 when you do a test and you know that it's like, how much do you drink a week? How much you drink a week? I would say recreationally. Okay.
Listen, that's good. How much do you drink a week question?

Speaker 1 What would you answer, BF?

Speaker 1 Doctors have to know that you're lying. Yeah, but what would you answer? My real answer? A couple.

Speaker 1 Be your own person. Friday night, like to have a good time.
Yeah, just a few. A few.
I just like to have a good time. A few could be like 10.
That's many few. Well, so what I do is,

Speaker 1 here's what I say. I say, not as much as I used to.
Right. And then they're like, oh, good job.
Good job, PFT. I was talking about 21-year-old me.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and then I'm like, yeah, so I don't drink during the week, and then on Friday, I'll drink 35. Yes.
I'm like, okay, that's good.

Speaker 1 It's always funny, though, having those little, like whenever you talk to a doctor, whenever you have to fill out a form, whenever anyone has to ask you, like, hey, give us the honest truth about your health.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't really want to do that. Let's just pretend nothing is bad, and we'll just keep moving on.
Doctors are the one profession that we should not lie to, but we lie to them the most.

Speaker 1 All the time. It's like your doctor and your lawyer.

Speaker 1 You should be able to be like, hey, listen, man, I'm guilty. I'm not going to be able to do it.
Being straight guilty, but we're going to say that I'm not guilty. But in your head, it says that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, in your head, you're like, I don't want to lie to my doctor because he could put me in jail. Yeah.
Which makes no sense. But You never know.
You never know. I don't trust these white coats.

Speaker 1 Imagine if it was like, yeah, I ripped the bomb. And they'd be like, okay, sir.

Speaker 1 Lock him up.

Speaker 1 Here he goes. Yeah, there's a van outside.
We got him. We got him.
He admitted to it. We got the bastard.
He said he smokes once a month.

Speaker 1 Hank, want to do FAQs? Surely. This first person told PFT to visit Victoria Harbor and Victoria Peak, coolest places in Hong Kong.
Also go to the beach. Tons of British milks.
Well, Hank.

Speaker 1 Okay, not going to be doing a lot of hiking. PFT's not going to have any time.
He's got to spend spend all his time on this plane with no Wi-Fi.

Speaker 1 But there are going to be minutes that I'm in Hong Kong. Right, but very few relatively, relative waking minutes in Hong Kong relative to time without Wi-Fi on the plane, very few.

Speaker 1 I mean, that's absolutely true, yes. Have you ever been to Hong Kong before?

Speaker 1 By the way, in the taping of this, PFT's anxiety keeps rising just a little bit because you're getting like, I could just hear a couple sighs and groans from your side of the table, and it's, it's, I'm petrified for you.

Speaker 1 I'm excited this is gonna be good i have secondhand anxiety i'm fucking pumped you're gonna have to read i just realized

Speaker 1 that was a fake

Speaker 1 have you guys have you guys ever been to asia i'm really excited i'm fucking pumped man it's good hey all the awls that are in hong kong come say what's up when i'm over there make me feel less anxious make me feel you know what i'm probably not gonna sleep while i'm over there the thing that sucks is when you land you're gonna be like whew that was a relief 16 hours but like two you're gonna get the check-in for your new flight within within like a few hours you know what's gonna suck is I'm gonna land and then I'm gonna get to the like subway station and I'm gonna realize, oh yeah, I don't read Chinese.

Speaker 1 Just thought about the whole language thing.

Speaker 1 Do you know any Chinese whatsoever? Yeah, shishi.

Speaker 1 Yeah, means thank you.

Speaker 1 Fledgy Lila. What are you gonna say? Means airplane.
Bingjiling means ice cream. I was gonna say you're gonna

Speaker 1 be on the plane. You're gonna refresh your Twitter and that's the feed you're gonna have for 16 hours.
Yeah. Like you're instinctually gonna go to Twitter, but it's going to be the same.

Speaker 1 Like, you're just going to have to read whatever. You're going to have to hope there's some good tweets.

Speaker 1 Let's take odds right now.

Speaker 1 Who is going to be the last person that I see at the top of my feed on Twitter, my last refresh? Oh, for 16 hours.

Speaker 1 And who would be the worst person to have stuck there? Okay, worst.

Speaker 1 I feel it. A worst would be like someone famous tweeting you, being like, hey, PFT, what's up? Yeah, hey.
Or the worst. You're in Minnesota this weekend.
You want to hang out with you?

Speaker 1 The rock being like,

Speaker 1 yeah, the rock being like, hey, PFT, if you respond to this in the next 20 minutes, I'll come on your podcast. Donald Trump has ordered a code red.
Oh, and then it's just like, all right. For what?

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. No, that'd be awesome.
I'm taking off. I'm flying away from all the nukes.
What about that, though?

Speaker 1 Yeah, what about Donald Trump? He's not going to nuke the ocean, I don't think. Oh, you know what? He might worse.
Actually, he might.

Speaker 1 I actually will tell you what the worst, absolute worst. So the real answer is it's probably going to be like Mike Flurry or something, your last tweet that you're looking at.

Speaker 1 She's like Ross Tucker. Yeah, like, yeah, like the Jaguars just signed a backup left tackle.
Yeah, and it's going to be Jeff Schwartz commenting on his brother's film. Yes, yes.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 here's what the worst tweet that you could have refreshed. If it was from Donald Trump and it read, I didn't fuck my cat.
I didn't come on my cat. I didn't put my dick anywhere near my cat.

Speaker 1 I've never done anything weird with my cats. One dash question mark.
Yeah. The worst would be if it's something that I really want to make a joke about.
And it's a threat.

Speaker 1 Like the best incoming threat. The best best material possible to work with.
Yeah. You should just fire off like five tweets when you land, being like, this is what I would have said.

Speaker 1 But then it's going to be like five in the morning. It's going to be six in the morning.

Speaker 1 Alright, what else you got, Hank? I've got a woe. Do birds have any measurement of endurance? Like humans and dogs and other animals pant or breathe heavy when they're tired.

Speaker 1 Birds can like flap their wings and fly forever. Do they ever get tired? Yes.
That's true. That's their shit, I think.
So they poop, pee, and sweat all through the same hole. Wait, but they don't.

Speaker 1 Birds can just keep going. Like, do they get tired?

Speaker 1 What do they do when they get tired? They catch the wind. They glide.
They ride the wind. Oh, no, when they get tired, they go to the back of the V.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's true. And then they draft.
And they draft it. They don't have to do shit.

Speaker 1 And then they find a soccer field in suburban America and just chill. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Or a golf course and get hit with the golf ball. I would just chill in the back of that V.
Oh, yeah. I would never go up front.
Is there actually like,

Speaker 1 do they kick you out of the group if you don't take the front? I'd imagine someone would probably have a word with you on the next stop. Yes.

Speaker 1 They'd say, hey, we noticed that you didn't really take your turn at the front of the V. Where were you? We're going to need you to do that.

Speaker 1 You seem like you're not very tired.

Speaker 1 Here I am sweating out of my butthole.

Speaker 1 When was the first time TFT and Big Hat realized their birthday was one day apart? Probably the first time we met. Yeah, that's the first time.
Oh, no, it's the second time.

Speaker 1 No, it's not the second time we met. First time we met.

Speaker 1 That's like the first icebreaker that guys use on each other. Yeah.
Hey, when's your birthday? When's your birthday? No, no way. It's Jamesy's.

Speaker 1 It was in Arizona when you came in and we, for our 30th birthday, and I was like, we're going out for my birthday. And you're like, my birthday's tomorrow.
Yeah. Like, wow.
That was pretty cool.

Speaker 1 That's crazy. Hung out with the Gronkowski brothers that night.

Speaker 1 How are you going to record Monday's show if PFT is traveling during that time? This is where I was following along, and then this is where my brain. He's not going to be.

Speaker 5 No.

Speaker 1 PFT, this is where my brain melted. Okay.
Explain. All right.
Explain where you're going to be when we're recording on Sunday. It's not that difficult.
It is.

Speaker 1 If you think about it this way, Hong Kong is exactly exactly 12 hours in the future. So when it's 6 o'clock p.m.
here, it's 6 a.m. the next day there.
Where's your flight?

Speaker 1 So my flight on Monday, I don't know, I forget.

Speaker 1 Look it up. It's in the afternoon.

Speaker 1 So we're going to record at 9 or 10 o'clock at night.

Speaker 1 You can't do anything on Sunday night. Got it.
We're going to record at 9 or 10 o'clock.

Speaker 1 We're going to go to Mark Titus' party, but okay. That's on Saturday night.
No, it's Sunday night. Okay.
We're going to record at 9 o'clock or 10 o'clock on Saturday night. Or Sunday night, excuse me.

Speaker 1 And it's going to be 9 or 10 in the morning in Hong Kong where I am. Got it.
So we're going to Skype it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's crazy to me. It's going to be

Speaker 1 Saturday, Sunday. I'll let you know what.
He's going to open his eyes. Yeah, and we're definitely recording earlier than 9 or 10.

Speaker 1 I don't know about that. Yeah, definitely.
I will let you guys know what it's like in the future. Okay.
Perfect. Are podcasts the present-day magazines?

Speaker 1 Are you afraid this industry will eventually die out too?

Speaker 1 It will. Of course it will.
No, the world will blow. Everything's going to die.
Listen, whatever project you're working on, that thing is not going to exist in 100 years. I don't care who you are.

Speaker 1 So, yeah. Everything's going to die.
We're just trying to fucking squeeze every last penny out of it beforehand. That's right.
Brought to you by the cash app.

Speaker 1 How hard is it not to mention that Ray Lewis killed a guy while you were interviewing John Harbaugh?

Speaker 1 Very difficult. So, actually,

Speaker 1 it wasn't that difficult because it would have felt wildly inappropriate.

Speaker 1 Wildly inappropriate.

Speaker 1 But I wanted to. There was a part of my brain brain that wanted to, but it just didn't come close.
It was way harder when we did the FanDuel

Speaker 1 event, end of the year event in New Jersey and Ray Lewis was there to not say, Ray Lewis, you killed the guy. Yeah.
That was more, that was when it got really difficult.

Speaker 1 Yeah, there have been a couple of times when we've had interviews where I was just absolutely set up to say something

Speaker 1 and held back. I'm getting better at that.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Do you think anyone has ever painted a room with a paintball gun?

Speaker 1 No, but we should try. I guarantee you.
You do have a new studio coming. I guarantee you.
What was the name of the shark guy from Jackass?

Speaker 1 Manny. Yeah.
I guarantee you, Manny's painted a room with a paintball gun before. Yeah, it's like a new age, like Las Vegas Jackson Pollock.

Speaker 1 He is like a dirt bike guy. He's wearing Stusie.
He's banging monsters. And he's making art with a paintball gun.
Some stirs. By the way, there's this thing you can do in Hong Kong.

Speaker 1 I looked up Weird Stuff to do. There's a room where they just have, it's basically like a hotel room with older televisions and dressers and shit.

Speaker 1 They just give you a baseball baseball bat and say, okay, go in here for 10 minutes and do whatever the fuck you want. That's pretty sick.
I think they have it here.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 it's a Hong Kong thing. Oh, it's a Hong Kong thing.

Speaker 1 You won't have time for it. It's better in Hong Kong where it's pure.
We're going to end with this. This is also breaking.

Speaker 1 Might have to get on the case, big cat. Uh-oh.
The Dodgers are missing 42,000 Tommy Lasorda bobbleheads. Yes, I saw that.
We need to go talk to death. Do you think death can talk to dead bobbleheads?

Speaker 1 42,000 bobbleheads. Yes.
They're just in a closet somewhere.

Speaker 1 How do you lose 42,000 a heist? How do you steal 42,000?

Speaker 1 What is like, I get it because if someone said to me, hey, here's 42,000 bobbleheads of Thomas Hotel, I'd say, yes, I want them. But what is the next step?

Speaker 1 I feel like this is something that a Philadelphia Phillies fan would do. They'd be like,

Speaker 1 we got Bryce Harper from you. It's a fanatic that's coming back for revenge against Tommy.

Speaker 1 They probably had a van parked outside with the guy that's always on the computer and the headset in the van. Yep.
And the Philly fanatic getting lowered through some sort of vent. Yep.

Speaker 1 Problem solved. Listen, that's okay because I thought the National Inquire is on my shit list.
Let's just say that. Why is that? They just are.
Okay. Love you guys.
Love you guys.

Speaker 1 Okay, PFT is gone. Hopefully not dead.
Hopefully not dead. I just want to say that out loud.
But when he,

Speaker 1 before he left, he said, please do a little bonus part of my take so I can listen to it on my flight where I have no Wi-Fi and he's stuck over the

Speaker 1 Pacific Ocean forever. So with that said, hopefully he's not dead, but we actually randomly had our friend George Kittle, San Francisco 49ers tight end pro bowler in New York City.
What?

Speaker 1 I think he's the number one tight end in the league now. Number one tight end in the league.
All right, so wait, so let me finish the intro and then we'll ask that question.

Speaker 1 Pro bowler, George Kittle, 49ers, he's here for WrestleMania, and I said, stop by the office. So he came by before we go to Minneapolis.
Hank and I go to Minneapolis. I figured, let's see if, again,

Speaker 1 God forbid, PFT passes, we need a new co-host, and you are now officially in an audition for the co-host. So give us your hottest take, and also, are you the number one tight end in the NFL now?

Speaker 1 Hottest take, PFT's playing goes down. Oh,

Speaker 1 that will be bad if it does. Can we delete that? Yeah, we can delete that as long as.
We're going to sleep it out. Yeah, actually, we'll bleep.
That's part of doing good. Yeah,

Speaker 1 you're doing a great job because now people are going to be like, holy shit, George Kittle, what did he say? Because we bleeped it out.

Speaker 1 No, we won't actually, we never do. Yeah, we don't actually, though.
No, we'll bleep that out. Yeah, yeah.
Wink. Wink, wink.
You winked with your own eye. Yeah, wink.

Speaker 1 Will you have to wink with one eye? Which eye? Like, you're not supposed to let me see it. Okay.
There you go. There you go.
Put the wink down. All right.

Speaker 1 So, George Kittle, are you the number one tight end in the NFL right now? Man, I think there's a lot of number one tight ends. You fucker, you got to bring hotter takes than this.

Speaker 1 You can't do the humble thing.

Speaker 1 I'm going to keep it on that one. It's working for me so far.
What? Being humble. So, who's the best? Who's the best? Yeah.
Gronk and Tony. Gronk's not in the league anymore.
Tony's pretty good.

Speaker 1 Tony Scheffler? Oh, Tony Gonzalez. Tony Scheffler was a great tight end.
So you're in New York City for WrestleMania. You said you're going to go to a bunch of wrestling shows.

Speaker 1 Like, how many wrestling shows are you actually going to? Well, my buddy that is an independent wrestler, so he has a match Saturday morning, but he. What's his name? What's his stage name?

Speaker 1 His stage name? The Cornbelt Cowboy. The Cornbelt Cowboy.
And what's his finisher?

Speaker 1 I honestly don't know what it's called. I'm really bad with that.
Okay, so George is a bad friend. Terrible friend.
Mark that down. Mark that down.
Very bad friend.

Speaker 1 No, but so we got that on Saturday, but he just sent me a list of all the shows that are going on, and he broke it down where we're going. I think we got, I'll be at Impact tonight at 11 p.m.
Okay.

Speaker 1 And I got about five shows tomorrow with Friday night. What is that? That's NXT.
Saturday, I have a couple shows with Ring of Honor at the end of the night. Okay.
Which I'll be really funny.

Speaker 1 I got front-row seats for that one. That's going to be awesome.
Friends with the Briscoe brothers.

Speaker 1 Do you think you ever, when you get front row seats to a wrestling match, do you think like, hey, man, they might call on me?

Speaker 1 That's happened to me before. Okay, so what do you do then? Maybe Walls of Jericho? What are you going to put people in? Something you don't want to get hurt.

Speaker 1 No, no, I, you know, because you're on the first row, there's still a barrier between you guys. Yeah.
So, but you can always go for a good Ric Flair chop. Ooh, okay.
So they can practice on you.

Speaker 1 Nope, that's okay. That's another, write that down as well, Hank.
PFT has never ⁇ I don't think he knows what wrestling moves are, so he never has tried to do it.

Speaker 1 I don't like being around guys who really love wrestling because eventually it always boils down to them doing the wrestling moves on you. I will pull a stun.

Speaker 1 As someone who used to stun a lot of people back in the late 90s, I know how this works.

Speaker 1 All right, so

Speaker 1 does my father and your head of PR, the 49ers, Bob Lang, the best PR guy in all of the NFL,

Speaker 1 does he ever say, hey, George, cool it with the wrestling? Oh, no. Well, I got into a ring like two years ago.
Yeah. And I didn't tell them about it.
Okay.

Speaker 1 And they weren't too happy about it, but I didn't get hit. So they were like, you know what? Just don't do it again without not telling us.
Okay, so that's been clear now.

Speaker 1 You have to definitely ask for permission. Bob laid the hammer down.

Speaker 1 So if you told Bob that you're in New York about to go to 15 wrestling shows, you should probably send him a text and be like, hey, just a heads up. I might hop in the ring.

Speaker 1 There could be some ring activity.

Speaker 5 What about your coach? Would he be like, hey, that was sweet?

Speaker 1 Kyle Shanahan doesn't seem like a wrestling guy. No, he's 100% football through and through.
What about John Lynch? I feel like he would like a little wrestling. I feel like he was a big rock guy.

Speaker 1 I think he's, yeah, he's into that. I feel like he is.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 yeah. So what else do you have cooking in the offseason? Are you like mid-offseason training and all that shit? Yeah, well, we start in about two weeks.
So I live in Nashville in the offseason.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's so fucking cool.

Speaker 1 It's pretty awesome. Everyone moves to Nashville, dude.
Be more basic. Hey, you know what?

Speaker 1 I like Broadway. Okay, yeah, Broadway is a fun time.
So, but like, you have two weeks is the start of

Speaker 1 OTAs, which do you have to go to? Technically, no, but I will be there. Oh, here's a question.
When are you going to start holding out? You're the best wide receiver or tight end in the league.

Speaker 1 Say wide receiver? I almost did.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 we should try to get that because you get wide receiver money. You're the best tight end in the league.
You're still on your rookie deal.

Speaker 1 It's become a new thing in all of sports that we've got to hold out as soon as we're not happy. So, should we hold out? Should I hold out, right? Just skip the whole next season?

Speaker 1 Maybe you hold out and use this show as leverage. Like, I just did a tryout as the co-host of part of my take, and I.
$90,000 an episode.

Speaker 1 Yeah, well, we get $90,000 out, $90,000 an episode.

Speaker 1 They present us with a huge check after every single episode.

Speaker 1 Can we veto PFT's passport so he can't come back? Well, yeah. I mean, if he...
No, listen, we're not going to stop.

Speaker 1 PFT, I love PFT like a brother, and he is the co-host of the show, but this is just in case.

Speaker 1 Just in case of an emergency, you need to be planned. You know, like you guys, I'm sure Kyle Shannon has, like, hey, if if everything gets fucked up, here's what we're going to do.
That's this.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, we do that. Okay, so

Speaker 1 use. This is called check fuck it.
Yeah, check fuck it. So this is the check fuck it portion of the show.
So use us as leverage to

Speaker 1 then

Speaker 1 have a big holdout. I think I need to hire more marketing guys.
I think you guys would be perfect. Do you have a marketing guy? I do.

Speaker 1 How's he doing for you? He's pretty great. What was the last check he got you?

Speaker 1 From the Super Bowl? Dollar figures. No chance.
You could try them.

Speaker 1 though skittles you did the skittles i did do skills i saw you hawking skittles i love skittles yeah i had to i wore a skittles polo t-shirt around everywhere yeah try and get a full suit for it so what's the next like you does he throw a bunch of stuff at you how does it work um and you're like all right i'll pick that that that he gives me options uh i'm actually pretty lazy and i don't like doing a lot of stuff right i like sitting on my couch and playing for it and so the check must have been awesome it was all right yeah that's so how much do you have left oh you're winking okay do you want to give us some of the check because that's the other thing we do on this show is that whenever any of us is flush, we always share money with each other, right, Hank?

Speaker 1 Hank? Yeah. Hank.

Speaker 1 I'm always flush.

Speaker 1 When we're flush, we spread the wealth. Hank's lying.
So if you're flush from Skittles' money, you should probably wet the beak.

Speaker 1 I might help out, Hank. We should actually charge George to be on this show now.
I honestly would pay you. Do you ever think it's weird that your name's George? Okay.
Well, no, that's a good idea.

Speaker 1 I mean, according to

Speaker 1 a slight,

Speaker 1 slight, but it's like an old man name. It's a king's name.
It's both of my great-grandpa's names. Oh, fuck.
And

Speaker 1 ESPN said my name's Greg, so it's okay. It's just weird.
Like, I don't know.

Speaker 1 Like, I like the name. It's royalty, right? Like, King George.
I've gotten that. But, I don't know.
You don't come across a lot of Georges. No.
Right? It was a hard name to grow up with. Right.

Speaker 1 Did you get bullied? Slightly. Do you want to talk about it?

Speaker 1 If PFT was here, maybe. Okay.

Speaker 1 So the last thing we need you to do is you need to say love you guys to everyone as the send-off for the show that that hopefully PFT will listen to because he's still alive,

Speaker 1 potentially. Yeah, that was where you're supposed to say love you guys.

Speaker 1 Hank, I love you. Nope, Hank, note, George is not the new co-host.
PFT still has his job. PFT's better.
Oh,

Speaker 1 that was now you're out. All right, do the love, you guys.
I love you guys. There we go.

Speaker 1 Talking away,

Speaker 1 I don't know what I'm to say, I'll say it anyway.

Speaker 1 Today's another dare to find you shying away.

Speaker 1 I'll be coming for your love, okay.

Speaker 1 And take

Speaker 1 on

Speaker 1 me,

Speaker 1 take

Speaker 1 me

Speaker 1 off.

Speaker 1 I'll

Speaker 1 be

Speaker 1 gone

Speaker 1 in a day or two.

Speaker 1 Talk it away.

Speaker 1 I don't know what I'm to say. I'll say it anyway.

Speaker 1 Today is another day to find you.

Speaker 1 Talk away,

Speaker 1 I don't know what I'm to say. I'll say it anyway.

Speaker 1 Today is another day to find you.

Speaker 1 Shy it away.

Speaker 1 I'll be coming for your love, okay.

Speaker 1 Shy and away.

Speaker 1 I'll be coming for your love, okay.

Speaker 1 Take

Speaker 1 me

Speaker 1 home.

Speaker 1 I want to talk about recognizing God in the middle of the battle or recognizing God in the battle.

Speaker 1 Recognize God

Speaker 1 in the battle, understanding that you are not in it by yourself,

Speaker 1 but that God is there with you in the midst of the battle.

Speaker 1 You don't have to handle this by yourself.

Speaker 1 You don't have to go up against the enemy in your own strength. And if you just calm yourself down,

Speaker 1 God's going to get some glory out of this in spite of you. Amen.

Speaker 1 I don't know what I'm to say. I'll say it anyway.

Speaker 1 Today is another day to find you shying away.

Speaker 1 I'll be coming for your love, okay? And take

Speaker 1 on

Speaker 1 me.

Speaker 1 Take

Speaker 1 me

Speaker 1 off.

Speaker 1 I'll be

Speaker 1 gone

Speaker 1 in a day or two.

Speaker 1 Don't give it away

Speaker 1 I don't know what

Speaker 1 I'm to say I'll say it anyway

Speaker 1 Today is another day to find you

Speaker 1 Don't give it away

Speaker 1 I don't know what

Speaker 1 I'm to say I'll say it anyway

Speaker 1 Today is another day to find you

Speaker 1 Shy in a way

Speaker 1 I'll be coming for your love, okay.

Speaker 1 Shy and away,

Speaker 1 I'll be coming for your love, okay.

Speaker 1 Take

Speaker 1 me

Speaker 1 home

Speaker 1 in a day of two. I'll be

Speaker 1 gone

Speaker 1 in a day or two.

Speaker 1 I'll be

Speaker 1 gone

Speaker 1 in a day or two.