WWE Champ The Miz + Guest Host Tryout with TE George Kittle

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On today's Pardon My Take, we have The Miz, wrestling phenom, former WWE champion, also former Real World cast member. Fun interview with him, he also told an awesome Vince McMahon story.
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Okay, let's go. Boys! Boys! Now in the street there is violence And then a lot of stuff Work to be done No place to hang Alone washing And then I can't blame All on the sun Oh no We're we're gonna rock down to Electric Avenue.
And then we'll take it higher. Oh, we're gonna rock down to Electric Avenue.
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Welcome to Part of My Take, presented by Cash App, our new presenting sponsor. Today is Fri-yay, April 5th, 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.
Yeah, that's true. Talk to yourself right now.
This is future you listening to this. What's up, PFT? You're 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...
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, this is me from the future talking to you in the future.
What's up? You want to go get a beer? 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 flight. That's true.
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. 16, what? It's first class.
Yeah, I mean, it was pretty cheap. Real men of the people.
It was really cheap. They got addicted to first class.
It was pretty cheap. I don't hate it.
It was pretty cheap. I don't even like first class.
I don't even like it. It just seems kind of snobby.
That's weird because you've been begging our sales team to sell everything under the sun. You're like, I will sell the rights to myself just so i don't have to sit in this seat

i didn't want to sit in coach's coach i want to sit in coach's son which is like the economy plus yeah so that's all i wanted that's all i really need out of this trip either way you're fucked either way i'm fucked the problem with sitting in first class very underrated problem is when the plane lands and docks you only have like five seconds to get off the plane it's stressful 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 no wi-fi 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 what are the worst things that could happen while you're on this flight that you would turn on your phone in Hong Kong and be like, I cannot believe I missed this? Oh, my God. Okay, so very worst possible outcomes would be, I would say, honestly, if Jesus came back while I was in the air over the Pacific, I wouldn't know until Friday night.
Well, I wrote down a few. That's close to what I have.
Joe Flacco retires. Well, he's not because he's going to win a Super Bowl with those new passenger fears.
But imagine if he does retire while you're on the plane. Not happening.
I already talked to him. RG3 dies.
Yeah, that'd be tough. Yeah, that would be tough.
I gotta admit, that'd be hard. Hitler's found in South America.
Fuck. If I miss Hitler again, found in South America.
You know what? 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 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.
Other people are going to take shits on this plane? 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's going to Hong Kong.
It is one- 16-hour flight. Did I mention it was 16 hours? And back.
And back also. 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.
It's too long of a trip. Yeah, but this is a new thing.
It's 16 hours. There's a big difference between doing something that's four hours away and 16 hours away.
16 hours is almost like, okay, this is a bad fucking decision, 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 it's like i'll be honest so on sunday i i played rugby for the first time in like three years and i got on this show and just worked myself into a lather i'm a big lather guy and i started talking about the tournament and sort of that stone started rolling downhill started gathering momentum and next thing you know it's like 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.

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.

You're going to pull that up for one second and then just fall asleep.

I'm going to blog. So I've 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. 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.
It is actually

happening even though everyone kind of

forgot it's happening because Duke's not in it.

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. 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. We have the first game on Saturday.
It's going to be Auburn versus Virginia. Bruce Pearl in his sweaty mess.
Also, Bruce Pearl, he is proving yet again that it is very bad in life to have any type of national success because then everyone starts talking about how big of a scumbag you are again. I don't think he a scumbag well people start talking about your scumbag again 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 now that you're in the final four everyone's going to talk about bruce pearl again that's that's a good point like it's like the indians yeah yeah just 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.
I think that they're going to get beat by UVA. By a lot, I think.
By a lot. I think that UVA is a very, very, very, very, very good team with fan base that I really don't want to see win the national championship.
But I think they're a much better team, so I think it's going to be UVA. Wait, hold on.
Do you pick it? The under. Okay.
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, you can't lose both.
Okay. That makes no sense.
Arbitrage. You could easily lose both.
Uh-huh. Easily lose both.
Yeah. But in my mind, I'm like, well, if Auburn keeps it close, it's probably going over.
It sounds like your balls are making a handshake deal with your brain. Yeah, but you can win both.
You can't lose both. Yeah.
It's actually a full. A gentleman's agreement.
It's actually, I just broke Vegas. I can't lose both.
There you go. There you go.
But I can win both. And so we're in agreement with Virginia.
Hank, do you have any thoughts on the game? You taking Virginia? ACC pride. The war Eagles? Do you root for the ACC now that Duke's out? No.
You're a big ACC guy? No. You love ACC? No.
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.
Those are the ones that I hate. Same.
So it's like 95% of the schools? Yeah, every school. Yeah.
Every school in America. Yeah, same with Hank.
So you hate everyone. Go Trump University.
Except for the small New Hampshire schools. Yeah, southern New Hampshire, Hank is still cool.
Well, you almost got into Duke. Yeah.
How many GPA points? Three. Three? Just three.
You covered 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. Academic improvement.
Whatever. I'm there.
Alright, the next game we have Texas Tech versus Michigan State. Michigan State is minus two and a half over-unders 132 and a half.
These games stink. Yeah.
These games stink. Thank you for saying it.
These games stink. I actually do think the Michigan State Texas Tech game is going to be very good.
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 going to be one of those crisp games. A little pro tip for everybody out there that might not be interested in Michigan State versus Texas Tech, 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. Yeah, because the coaches are wearing the Tommy Bahama shirts.
You're such a blue blood snob. It gets people excited.
No, I know. I agree.
It's definitely taking a little luster out of it, but it's still sports. It's still games you can bet on.
It seems like a good weekend to get out of the country. Michigan, so yeah, to be on a flight for 16 hours, no Wi-Fi.
Oh, by the way, so I packed this morning here at PFT's Rules for Packing. Ready? Okay, if you're going on vacation.
This isn't a vacation. It's a working trip.
But if you're leaving town. Hank, listen to Hank coming at me for vacations.
Mr. Pot Kettle Black.
You just look on your Google phone. You look on the Apple weather app.
Okay. Right? 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. I think that's fair.
That's what I do every day. And then I just never.
You're only going to be there for two days. Two and a half days.
Does that half day count? 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.
Yeah, leave Monday morning. Yeah, wow.
So are you going to be in air longer than you're in Hong Kong? No, I did the math on that. Close? Close.
It's not, you're going to have no Wi-Fi, you're going to have Wi-Fi less than you have Wi-Fi. Yeah, you're going to have half of your, 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 pill.
I'm just going to jerk off and fall asleep. Did you say you're going to jerk off on a plane? Yeah.
Okay. Probably not.
What's the flight number there? Probably not. Just get a little...
Mile high club. Get some eyes on that.
Yeah. So back to Texas Tech and Michigan State.
I love Michigan State in this game. I love – 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 am going to go with Texas Tech. Okay.
Based on? Based on Tom Ezzo being overrated. There you go.
So I'm taking Texas Tech. Also, their defense is really, really good.
Yes. I've only, admittedly, I've watched them.
I watched one of their conference tournament games, and then I've watched them every game in the NCAA tournament, and their defense is fucking awesome. Ballhawks.
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.
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.
I'm taking the under. Five minutes in, and that's going to suck, but I'm still going to do it.
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 Dollar Bill from Billions. I am not uncertain that I'm taking the under.
Yes, there you go. All right, let's do our interview with The Miz.
Actually, a very, very fun interview. Very crazy story about Vince McMahon from The Miz.
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Yeah, that's right. It's Buffalo Wild Wings.
So, listen. Buffalo Wild Wings, they sent me this copy, and it's March Madness.
But March Madness is kind of over, right? Kind of. This is April.
We sleep in May. This is April.
We sleep in May. But I'm going to just do a little improvisation here and remind you that coming up right now, we have the Masters.
We have NBA playoffs. We have Stanley Cup playoffs.
We have Kentucky Derby. We have baseball every single day.
And the best place to watch all of these sports, yeah, that's right, Buffalo Wild Wings. So make sure you get to Buffalo Wild Wings.
You get wings. You get beers.
They got great queso. I love the mini corn dogs.
There's a billion TVs. It is literally heaven for sports fans like you who are listening to it right now.
And we have a little like chef selection from PFT. What's your favorite wing? I like the spicy garlic.
You know I like the spicy garlic. That is literally, you just got it from, he's like a sommelier for wings.
Buffalo mania. Could you imagine actually if that was your job? Yeah job? Yeah, I could be.
You came out and you're like, all right, so what will you be drinking tonight? Oh, you're going to be having a Bud Light? Oh, it's a Bud Light. That pairs nicely with our Blazin'.
Yeah. Oh, so what kind of- I would compliment that with a little blue cheese and a shot of Jägermeister.
Yeah, a little mini corn dog. Very nice.
Boom. Can I get a mind eraser for the lady? Yes, exactly.
So that would be a perfect, maybe that's, Buffalo Wild Wings, I think we just invented something on the spot that you need to do. You need to have PFT come and be your sommelier and tell everyone what type of wings they should eat and what pairs well with your Buffalo Wild Wings.
Everything pairs well with your Buffalo Wild Wings. You know what really pairs well with your Buffalo Wild Wings? Sports.
Sports. Sports.
Sports. Sports.
So get to Buffalo

Wild Wings right now. That'd be great if you were just like, oh, what can we get

you for you tonight? Little wings? Well, let me pair that with

San Jose Sharks versus Las Vegas Golden Knights game.

Around 10.30 at night. Listen, it will be a full

service affair. I'll tell you what to watch, which games are going into commercial

break, the whole nine yards. Alright, so go to Buffalo buffalo wild wings right now uh all right let's do the interview okay we now welcome on very special guest former wwe champion of the world it is the miz he's here with snickers maybe my favorite uh like plug ever because i was looking looking up before you showed up i was like oh we're probably gonna get some free snickers we You did get with Snickers.
Maybe my favorite 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. You did get free Snickers.
We got free Snickers. They're exclusive presenting sponsor, WrestleMania 35.
And as part of their sponsorship, Snickers has released five limited edition Hunger Bars with WWE that included the catchphrase of five superstars in the packaging, including the Miz's bar. Awesome.
How great is that? Fuck yes. I mean, never.
Parma, Ohio. A kid from Parma, Ohio has his own Snickers bar.
Yes. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that would ever happen.
There's a lot of things that happened in my life that I think are pretty cool. This is up there.
What else? List the top three coolest things that have happened in your life. Maybe my wife.
Okay. My wife, Maurice.
That was a good way to get on.

Have her own reality show, Miss and Misses, on the USA Network. Another plug.
Yep. Do it.
You know, main eventing WrestleMania 27. Yep.
That would have to be up there. And you know what's amazing? 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 Bud Light sent me a nice refrigerator, and it was chained up.
For losing football games. Yeah, there's no way this thing is going to open.
The idea was whenever they win their first game, the chains will drop, and you'll get to drink all the beer inside it. So they sent me a refrigerator, chained up, all the beer is inside.
My wife looks at it and goes, why do you have a chained up refrigerator? I go, you don't get it. You're not a Browns fan.
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. And literally, I'm in Austin, 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 happened.
So you literally let a bot into your house that is spying on you. You know what? If that's going to happen every time, I got free beer.
I got free beer. Jeff Bezos would take his robot dogs.
Nobody would be afraid of him if he just pissed out fear. I got Snickers and free beer.
What more do you want? Okay, that's gonna happen every time yeah okay you know what that's what i got free beer take his robot dogs nobody would be afraid of them if i got sneakers and free beer what more do you want okay that's fair that's actually really yeah you you have the best sponsor sponsorship that is i do so you're you're that was even a sponsorship by the way they just sent me a refrigerator and i was like this is the greatest thing ever in my life 36th most famous browns fan that's i'm there yeah i'm up there 37 top up there. Top 37.
Top 37. Got it.
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 week.
He said that they're going to win, what, 13 games. You think over or under? I looked at that.
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 in any draft.

Right.

You have to just get them.

It's like losing Antonio Brown or Le'Veon Bell.

Sorry.

Sorry, Pittsburgh.

But, man, like having Odell with his best friend Jarvis Landry,

you got Baker Mayfield at the helm, you have Nick Chubb. You got Njoku.
That is a potent, potent offense. I said it when Odell came there.
I called every one of my friends because I'm friends with a couple insiders. Oh.
So I kind of knew. Say their names.
I kind of knew before. I kind of knew.
I can't say their names. Moose.
No, not Moose. Baker? No.
We're Baker guys. I didn't know Baker.
I don't know Baker yet.

I haven't met him yet.

Kind of excited if I do.

Yeah.

But yeah, man, I was ecstatic when they got Odell.

When they got Odell, I called every one of my friends and said, we're going to the Super Bowl.

There's no doubt.

And people looked at me and said, didn't look at me like I was too crazy.

They still go, come on, bro.

Yeah.

All right, you got a couple years under your belt.

I know several Browns fans that kind of feel the same way that you do,

and I love the Browns.

Do you think so?

Honestly, right now, what team do you look at and go,

they can win the Super Bowl?

The Chiefs.

Yeah, the Chiefs could.

The Patriots, obviously, again.

The Saints, the Rams.

But look at the NFC North.

You're just happy to be there then.

I'm happy to be a winning team.

Do you understand I had zero wins?

You don't want to win the Super Bowl.

You're happy to be there.

I want to win the Super Bowl. I'm a person that likes to win.
I did say that. You said they'll win the Super Bowl or going to the Super Bowl? They're going to the Super Bowl and they will win.
I am not dangerous. I woke up this morning and I felt dangerous, just like Baker Mayfield does every day.
This is a very dangerous thing that Cleveland's doing to their own brains. And I like Cleveland.
We like the town. We've been through there several times.
Like you guys eat poop. Yeah, you guys eat poop off.
I don't know about that. Parades.
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 money.
My dad goes to the casino every single night. Let me tell you something.
Oh my god. He wears a jacket every day.
Your sports owner, Dan Gilbert, he writes very nice letters using the best fonts, nothing but the greatest fonts.

We love Cleveland. Times Roman New Rule, right?

Yeah, Comic Sans.

I do love Cleveland, and I like

the Browns. I think that they're the New America's

team because they're so likable, but

what Cleveland sports fans are doing to themselves

is very, very dangerous.

We set ourselves up for failure.

Yes. And trust me,

I've done that since we've had, you know, Bernie, since, you know, gosh, Tim Couch, Johnny Manziel. Oh, Tim Couch is a legend.
Yeah. My God.
Every time. Kelly Holcomb.
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 be Brian Hoyer at the helm.
We're going to be a winning team. Local guy, yeah.
Brandon Whedon. We're going to win.

But now I really believe it.

I look at Baker Mayfield, his chemistry with Kitchens.

I watched Kitchens kind of be the head coach and kind of drive that offense to what it was last year.

I mean, he wasn't head, but you felt like him and Greg Williams really did something really special. And now I feel like now that he has the reins, I think he's going to be able to do it.
I really do. So Super Bowl.
Super Bowl champions from The Miz. Yes.
All right. You heard it here first, folks.
First right here. You sounded so confident.
You can't even believe it. That's all.
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.
Did you ever get your degree? Miami of Ohio? No. Love and honor.
Yeah. No.
Yeah. No, you never did? No.
Me, Wally Zerbiak, and Ben Roethlisberger. Yeah.
Were you there while you were Ben? Was there? No. I think I was a little older.
Yeah. So you went real world, and then on real world New York, you essentially just said, I'm going to be a wrestler.
Yeah, I'm going to be a WWE superstar. Yeah, and you created the Miz character.
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. 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, your goal in life is to go to college. And once you go to college, you go home, you get a job.
And back then, we didn't really have MySpace and YouTube and Facebook. We didn't have podcasts.
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 that tl i mean every every every day i'd watch the top five you know music videos i couldn't wait to see who was new and now like you don't you don't even you don't watch any of that 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 and i i remember going home to cleveland and being do you want to do? Looking at myself in the mirror like what do you want to do? Do you want to go back to college or what is your dream? And my dream as a kid was always to be a WWE superstar man. I loved Ultimate Warrior.
I put streamers on my arm, painted my face, cut promos on my mom. And now there I am sitting I go, I'm going to do this.
And everyone laughed at me. Said, no way.
Yeah, I remember. You're 6'1".
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, you know, kind of in a wrestling school, tried to learn the art of professional wrestling. 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. 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. I want to be, hoping that WWE would see it.
They didn't. I had to actually try out for Tough Enough, which is another reality show where you could win a WWE contract.
Didn't win the contract, but impressed the execs so much that they gave me a contract for developmental. Went down there, learned way more than I did in LA, and just kept going, man.
Just keep on that work ethic. What was the'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?

Or was it the extra stuff that you were talking about, like the improv?

I think it's mental, man.

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.

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

Right. When you're a top dog, everybody wants you, right? everybody wants you right most everybody wants to go after you yeah right yeah 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 you have to promote yourself and so that's kind of the the the the thing that i had to do and so when uh you know i got to wwe it was more the mental you know more uh you know 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 but you know i think it's the mental aspect the things that it's hard to even describe 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 there and put it out there because people wouldn't understand.
They wouldn't get it. Yeah, no, it's true.
So explain to us what it feels like to go through a table. It hurts.
A lot. You don't want to do it.
Yeah. 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 you can't really describe it.
I mean, imagine just getting slammed by something in your back. You know what's stupid is 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 was pre-cut.
No, they're never pre-cut. It's like a cardboard box or something.
And then I always hear like, yeah, the chairs are fake. I go, no, they're not.
Really? No, they're not. I wish they were.
I wish they were plastic and had padding on them. I really did.
That's a great idea. They're real chairs that they just buy at Home Depot.
Yeah. What's the worst injury you've had? 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.
Yep. And now WWE has a protocol with concussions.
And so we're trying to take the proper steps into making our WWE superstars as safe as they possibly can. Obviously, we are in a dangerous environment, and we take risks out there.
Yeah. So what's the worst? Concussion.
I got a concussion at WrestleMania 27. Okay.
Main event. Then you kept on going.
Yeah, I mean, back then it was a different time. Well, so sometimes you don't know.
If you're the person that has a concussion, it can take you a while to figure out that you've got it. Yeah, exactly.
You need somebody else to point it out and be like, hey, help this guy out. And a lot of times with everything that's going on in the ring.
By the time you figure it all out, it's like, oh, it's done. And it's like, yeah.
But now, like, literally our doctors are completely trained and know exactly what to do and what to happen and kind of, you know, help us all out.

Yeah.

I was watching some of your clips last night. Thanks.
And you are a lot of fun. I like you because you really enjoy pissing people off.
I do. You seem to like.
I did, by the way. Yeah.
Now I'm like the good guy. Right.
Yeah. It's weird.
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? I think our fans respect the fact when you're authentic and real. And if I say a wisecrack or something like that, I think they get it and they understand.
So no, I don't miss it. 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.
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. It's kind of with us.
Exactly. And then you're the coolest guy in the world.
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 but if they don't like you they'll let you know if they like you they'll let you know and right now i'm in this 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 and now all of a sudden they're changing me and it's it's becoming a kind of an organic type of thing where I'm changing into this good guy and it feels good yeah I never realized I would miss uh being cheered and loved because I'm so used to tell people telling me how much I suck and how terrible I am yeah but it's it's amazing are you gonna go corporate that's my favorite storyline corporate Miz yeah I can go corporate. Right now I'm going up against Shane McMahon.
Daddy's boy. Yeah.
Corporate Kane. You remember Corporate Kane? I do remember.
I remember The Rock going corporate. The ultimate betrayal.
Oh, my God. Yeah.
It's unbelievable. I love it.
You can't go corporate. You never forget when one of your favorite guys goes corporate and you're like, what? Right fucking working with Vince now? Yeah, but right now I'm in a battle with the corporation.
I am in the battle with Shane McMahon in a Falls 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. He takes the biggest bumps.
Exactly, and so I'll just move. Okay, so are you going to throw him off somewhere? Listen, if I'm up there, he's going.
This is going to be awesome. Because Shadomack owns the internet when he takes a big, big fight.
Absolutely. And it's one of those things.
I think everyone's out there to create moments that will last a lifetime. Something that you'll talk about for years on end.
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. I mean, right now, you have so many matches that are going to be absolutely incredible.
I mean, right now, Kofi Kingston is our hottest WWE superstar. He's going up against Daniel Bryan for the WWE Championship.
And if you would 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 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. 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. That's pretty badass.
That clip yesterday of them just beating the shit out of each other. Oh, my God.
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. 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. Yeah.
And it just goes to show where our women have come from. 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. 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.
You know, my wife included, you know, Maurice, as well as, you know, all the way back to Fabulous Moolah. 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.
Scarier person to go up against. Undertaker.
Undertaker. Or CT.
Undertaker. What about CT? 100%.
CT will bash your brain. Have you watched War of the Worlds? No.
Have you watched War of the Worlds? He's getting a little older. He got taken out.
Okay, but he's older. I couldn't believe it.
I'm talking about prime CT. I'm talking about fucking put Johnny Bananas as a backpack.
Backpack CT. 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.
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. You're living with people.
Yes. For like almost like two or three months, I think, nowadays that they do this thing.
And, 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.

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. Which is crazy.

And then CT number three. Are you kidding me?

Wait, so the answer is still Undertaker

though? Oh, Undertaker is the most intimidating person. How scary is person.
Before you even ask that question, I learned Undertaker. Yeah.
I mean, when he's coming out, when the music's going, are you just- There is nothing more intimidating. When he steps in that ring, it's just magical.
He's literally a dead man walking. Exactly.
It's incredible. Yeah.
What's the most difficult show that you've been on? How many reality shows have you been on? I think probably 11 or 12 now. Real World was the first one.
I didn't know what I was getting into. It was an incredible experience.
A lot of people you hear mixed reviews. I loved every second of it.
The reason I think I loved it is because I'm a person that I can't help being myself. Whenever I look at myself on camera, I go, yeah, that was me.
That might be a different, 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, and now you look to the show I'm on now with my wife, Maurice, it's called Miz and Mrs., we're executive producers, 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 and I call ours the hybrid reality because I look at it and I don't look at ours like a Kardashians or like a Housewives or even like a Total Divas or Bellas. I look at it as something different.
You know, there's so much negativity in the world. There's so much drama in the world.
I want to show that I can sit down and I can watch with my family and have fun, be entertained, and just laugh. And that's the show we're giving you.
Okay, that's awesome. It would be great, though, if there was some sort of crossover where maybe your wife chokeslammed Courtney just through a table.
We would watch that, too. You know, it could work.
You never know. Hey, by the way, you never know.
You never know. She might chokeslam me through a table.
That actually probably more likely. 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? Loud, obnoxious, egotistical, arrogant, but you're going to love him.
So you're our boss. Huh? Thanks.
You're our boss. Am I? Yeah, yeah.
Is that what your boss is? Yeah, yeah, pretty much. What was it? Do you like your boss? Yeah, I like him sometimes.
Sometimes? Yeah, yeah. Do you get in arguments with him? Yeah, sometimes.
What's like the biggest argument you've had that you can tell on air? I don't know. We will argue over like guests.
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.
And he says, no, you're not doing that. Yeah, there'll be disagreements.
This is what I want. And then it's like, and then sometimes you go and do it.
And other times you don't. Yeah, we're like different people, so we're not going to agree on everything.
I'm always curious about how other jobs are. Because I know how mine is.
And Vince is the boss. Do you ever sneeze around him? Huh? You've heard this story, huh? Oh, yeah.
I've never sneezed around Vince. Have you seen sneeze around Vince McMahon? I have not, but I imagine it's a treat.

You've heard about the sneezes.

Everyone knows about Vince.

You don't sneeze around Vince McMahon.

No black pepper for lunch around Vince.

It's incredible.

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.

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

You're like, oh, man, oh, bubba 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.
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. 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.
I remember Vince wanted me to dress like The Rock. And I went, and he goes, and people will believe you're The Rock.
And I go, I am not 6'5". I am not Samoan.
I don't have tattoos. I am not bald.
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 going to do this. This is going to be terrible.
And by the way, this is 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 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 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 And the crowd goes absolutely nuts. I'm talking the place just is insane.
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.
And I'm about to go out as the rock, have sunglasses on, a bald cap on, have his shirt on. And he goes, wait.
And I go, okay. And then he waited for that he waited he waited for the audience to come back down right so once he waited for them to come down I come I enter the the arena and all of a sudden I hear another eruption they believe it's it's it's the rock right but it's me and I I do my rock stance I walk out like only the rock can and they're still going and I'm 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.
I take off my sunglasses like the rock does. And they erupt again.
And I go, they still don't. I have blue eyes.
They still believe it's the rock. And then I started walking down.
And then they finally started getting that it was me. And then they're like, oh, boo, and I'm the bad guy, and it worked to a T.
I get back there, and he goes, I told you. And I go, how did you know? 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, they heard the music, and they just started high-fiving.
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. That's a hell of a story.
All right. I know you have to go ahead.
I was just going to say, it shows how he is so involved in the minutia of everything. He knows everything.
It's the old quote. He knows what you want more than you know what you want.
There's a reason why Fox paid like 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? 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. 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. Nobody does that.
Yeah, it's true. But we do.
And it just goes to show, like, I applaud my boss. Yeah, that's fantastic.
All right, I know we gotta wrap up. We're getting the signal.
Even though I'm gonna beat up his son. Yeah, yes.
I mean, I'm excited for that. I have two quick last questions.
One is, you trained with Al Snow. I did.
Did he have the head around? No, the head was not always around. That was very scary as a child.
He actually taught me a lot. Okay.
Him and Bill DeMott really honed in and taught me what I needed to learn to get to WWE. Yeah.
To be the caliber that I am. And now I always think we have NXT down at the Performance Center right now.
NXT is another brand. And we have a show actually at Barclays tomorrow night.
It's NXT TakeOver. But these guys, they're really honing their craft.
And I look at WWE's territories now. It's NXT.
It's Raw. It's SmackDown.
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.
And I think Bill as well as Al Snow taught me that. Yeah.
All right, last thing. Explain this look.
You know, that was cool back then. I don't know.
Bandana. Come on.
I had a bandana. Dude, I thought all these.
By the way, I can't look at the real world. I can't watch the challenges.
You had Frosted Chips like a decade. Oh, my God.
So did Justin Timberlake. Yeah, but you went way too long.
No, I did not. I think I went exactly the right amount of time.
You held on too long to Frosted Chips. People looked at my hair and went, I want Miz's hair.
You definitely look like Prison Mike on steroids in that picture right there. All right, man.
Just appreciate you coming by. Appreciate you dropping off the Snickers.

Thank you.

It's been an absolute honor to be here.

Thank you guys for having me.

I really appreciate it.

Keep up the good work.

Yes, and good luck against Shane O'Mac.

For sure.

Throw him off something for love.

When you're this good, my friend.

Yeah, I will.

Steal his sneakers.

He's always got the best sneakers.

Go get my Snickers at Dollar General.

There we go.

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Okay, let's get to some segments. First up, we have a Protect the Stripes.
This has actually been a trend recently. Umps fighting back.
Refs fighting back. So Kevin Durant got a technical.
He's actually, I trend recently. Ump's fighting back.
Refs fighting back.

So Kevin Durant got a technical.

He's actually, I think, one away from getting

a suspension, which...

Bad boy. And then

Ron Copa on the...

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.
Yeah. Which, cool that we can say it now.
No, no. Yeah.
You got to see it up. I love, okay, this is going to sound crazy or stupid because there's definitely a part where the ump can ruin a game, but there is something, call me old-fashioned, call me Country Joe West, there is something special about an ump refusing to let a game go on until he kicks everyone out.
I like umps that stand up for themselves. I think that we've done umps a disservice recently.
I don't know if you've noticed this the last 30 years. So NBA refs, we call them stripes, right? Yep.
They don't even wear stripes anymore. We've taken away that from them.
We've taken away blue from Major League Umpires. They wear black now.
They're not even blue anymore. You can't yell that at them.
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.

No.

And it's kind of fun knowing that there's a guy out there who's absolutely not what people paid to watch. Correct.
That thinks that he's what people paid to watch. Right.
That is a lot of fun to me. 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.
There's also something about the dugout-ump relationship that is always so funny when an ump looks at a dugout. And basically, this ump, Ron Copa said, you all have to stop talking and looking at me.
Otherwise, we're not going to continue this baseball game. And I love that.
Baseball's actually had a really nice first full week with Bryce Harper and the Nationals. The bat flip hurt around the world.

That was awesome.

I didn't see that.

I mean, Bryce Harper was awesome with that bat flip. I didn't see it.

So fucking awesome.

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.

It's April. I know.
I don't care. What's the big issue? my closet For the Cubs It's April

I know, I don't care

What's the big issue?

The bullpen

It is barely April

If it's Hank, I don't care

I've taken the panic button out

If I have to watch you Darvish pitch more fucking walks

And Jason Hayward hit into more double plays

I will smash the fuck out of that panic button

You don't think it takes a little time to get the rust shaken off?

I think it definitely takes time

Teams get hot

I think it's also totally fair to panic

At the very first moment Thank you. fuck out of that panic button.
You don't think it takes a little time to get the rust shaken off? I think it definitely takes time but... Teams get hot.

I think it's also totally fair

to panic at the very first moment.

It is. I think

you could have panicked even before they played

because you knew that the bullpen was going to be shit.

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, yeah. You saw what was on the roster

and so you knew that that was

going to be a glaring weakness this year. What are you talking

Thank you. between the Yankees and the A's because you saw what was on the roster.
The A's and the Mariners. A's and the Mariners, yeah.
You saw what was on the roster,

and so you knew that that was going to be a glaring weakness this year.

What are you talking about? I saw the Cubs roster?

Yeah, your bullpen.

When the A's and Mariners were playing?

Yeah, you knew what your bullpen was going to be.

Oh, God, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, so this isn't like a surprise to you that the bullpen stinks.

No, no, it stinks.

And there's also Craig Kimbrell is just sitting out there.

There's guys still out there.

Dallas Krickel 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 break, trade deadline.
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 sarcastically, oh, have Jake Arrieta 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.
Jason Hayward, he is consistent, though. He's been hitting those double plays.
No, he's doing a new thing when he hits it to the pitcher, so it's kind of even more efficient. Yeah, and 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 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. The Cubs probably won tonight, and I probably tweeted Cubs are back a million times.
How's your bullpen, Nick? I'm fine. I have no idea.
All right. I just saw the first game when they got lit up.
Before we get to FAQs, we have two last things. First is the Fyre Fest of the week.
So we touched on it on Wednesday that everyone has their personal Fyre Fest now. Every inconvenience is a Fyre Fest.
Yes. Someone tweeted at me that they got gum on their boots and they're like, this is my Fyre Fest.
I'm like, yeah, dude, that is. But there actually is a real fire fest going on right now, and it's the AAF.
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. Like Charlie Ebersole and Bill Pullian thinking that this was going to work and then running out of money two weeks in and then saying, wait, what happened 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. 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 at the tents. 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.
So I'm sure they're good for that. Reserve injured players will be left in the cold.
They will be paying for their own rehab medical expenses. High-level staff at the team level received email from the board.
No one received a termination notice from an actual person. So they're just sending out blanket emails.
That's fun. 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. Can you imagine somebody asking you to clean out someone else's office and not get paid for it? Jesus Christ.
So much free shit. Yeah, a lot of free shit.
Termination letters sent to AAF staff. No one signed the letter sent from a generic company email address, so they're not even manning up.
And then you've got players who, like this guy named Gianni Paul broke his arm in his lat in the last game and then the league ended and now he has to find an apartment a way home and medical bills 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 um it is hilarious though to just imagine Bill Polian as being Billy McFarlane yes like drinking Like, doing the drinking like rock stars fucking like porn stars speech. I guarantee you Bill has said that at some point.
Yeah. Well, no, Jim Irsay said that when he was hanging out with Bill.
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 a nice beer, just hanging out watching tape. It was baked glaze and ginger ale.
Yeah. Just put a shotgun.
Watch some tape. We're going to shotgun this can of the dry.
This is going to be sick. Yeah.
So I've done some research into Tom Dun Dun. Dun Dun Dun.
Dun Dun Dun. Tom Dum Dum.
Just what a fucking idiot name. This guy is hilarious.
He looks like he is part of Orange County Choppers. Ooh.
Okay. My good friend.
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.
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 pitcher goatee, you're going to pull some shady shit. How did he get rich? So he got rich selling, he sold subprime auto loans.
Oh, close enough. In Dallas.
He looks like a fracker, doesn't he? Yeah, he does. He looks like the Wolf of Wall Street if that movie was based in Youngstown.
Okay, so he got... He's drank more monster energies than...
Oh yeah, he bangs monsters. ...than times he's ever had to piss.
Breaking moves. Breaking moves.
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. 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? Sam Darnold Jets.
And it's just a picture of Sam Darnold at a Yankees game, like drinking like a vodka Sprite. Oh, he earned his pinstripes yesterday.
Sam Darnold went to a Yankees game? Yeah. Even though he's a football player? Yep.
And he earned his pinstripes. Sam, you lost? Wow.
That's a diamond, not a gridiron, bro. I mean, isn't minicamp coming up? In like a month? Yeah.
You son of a bitch. Isn't 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 would hit you in your giant head? Good point. Statistically, Sam Darnold's like five times more likely than anyone else in attendance to get beaned with that dome of his.
Damn, Sam Darnold got a big fucking head. Damn, Sam.
Yeah, so Sam Darnold is on the hot seat of all New York Jets fans. Sam Darnold is a fire fest.
Also, that's got to suck if you're a Mets fan and Jets fan and seeing that. Yeah.
That's really sucks. That's what they're really upset about.
Yeah, that's really definitely what they're upset about. You can't...
If he was in Citi Field, they'd be fine with that. Yeah, they'd be absolutely fine.
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Great job, Hank. Thanks.
Appreciate it. Great job.
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I, 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. Fucking crazy.
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, how much do you take drugs and how much? What would you guys answer on that? One weed.
Well, okay. So my answer was, yes, marijuana.
And then how much? I said, a little. 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 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 I would have been a little bit more specific and said a bit. 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.

Like when you usually fill out a form like that, you always just lie.

Everyone knows that.

You lie, lie, lie.

They took blood sample and a pee 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 pee.

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. 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. Yeah.
Little do they know. Just heroin for this guy.
Yeah. So you would go with nothing, Hank? 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, when you do a test and you know that it's like, how much do you drink a week? How much do you drink a week? I would say recreationally. Okay.
Listen, that's good. How how much you drink a week how much you drink i would say i would say recreationally okay listen that's good how much do you drink a week question what would you answer bf doc doctors have to know that you're lying yeah but what would you answer my real answer a couple beer only 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's many few.
Well, so what I do is, 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.
Yeah, and then I'm like, yeah, so I don't drink during the week, and then on Friday I'll drink 35. Yes, yes.
And you're like, okay, that's good. Progress.
It's always funny, though, having those little, like whenever you talk to a doctor or whenever you have to fill out a form, whenever anyone has to ask you, like, hey, give us the honest truth about your health. 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.
All the time. It's like your doctor and your lawyer.
Right. You should be able to be like, hey, listen, man, I'm guilty.
I'm being straight with you. I'm being guilty, but we're going to say that I'm not guilty.
But in your head. Nobody says that.
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 it does. You never know.
You never know. Yeah.
I don't trust these white coats. Imagine if it was like, yeah, I ripped the bong, and they'd be like, okay, sir.
Lock him up. 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.

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 milfs.

Well, hey.

Not going to be doing a lot of hiking. PFT's not going to have any time.
He's got to spend all his time on this plane with no Wi-Fi. 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.
I mean, that's absolutely true, yes. Have you ever been to Hong Kong before? 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 of sighs and groans from your side of the table and it's, I'm petrified for you.
I'm excited. This is going to be a good time.
I have secondhand anxiety. I'm fucking pumped.
You're going to have to read. I just realized.
That was the fake. 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 going to sleep while I'm over there. The thing that sucks is when you land, you're going to be like, whew, that was a relief.
16 hours, but you're going to get the check-in for your new flight within a few hours. You know what's going to suck is I'm going to land and then I'm going to get to the subway station and I'm going to realize, oh yeah, I don't read Chinese.
Just thought about the whole language thing. Do you know any Chinese whatsoever? Yeah.
Shishi. Yeah.
I mean, thank you. Flegilila.
What were you going to say? It means airplane. Bingjiling.
It means ice cream. I was going to say, you're going to- That's an important one.
You're going to be on the plane. Happy New Year.
You're going to refresh your Twitter, and that's the feed you're going to have for 16 hours. Yeah.
Like, you're instinctually going to go to Twitter, but it's going to be the same. You're just going to have to read whatever.
You're going to have to hope there's some good tweets there. Let's take odds right now.
Who is going to be the last person that I see at the top of my feed on Twitter, my last refresh for 16 hours? And who would be the worst person to have stuck there? Okay. Worst? I feel it.
A worst would be like someone famous tweeting you being like, hey, PFT, what's up? Yeah. Hey.
Or the worst would be like. I'm in Minnesota this weekend.
You want to hang out? The Rock being like- Love Cat Mahomes. Yeah, or 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? Oh, yeah.
No, that'd be awesome. I'm taking off.
I'm flying away from all the nukes. Do you know that, though? Yeah, what about Donald Trump? He's not going to nuke the ocean, I don't think.
Oh, you know what the worst?

Actually, he might.

I actually will tell you what the worst, absolute worst.

So the real answer is it's probably going to be like Mike Flory or something,

your last tweet that you're looking at.

It's Ross Tucker.

Yeah, like the Jaguars just signed a backup left tackle.

Yeah, it's going to be Jeff Schwartz commenting on his brother's film.

Yes, yes.

But 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.
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 thread. Like the best.
It's an incoming thread. The 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.
But then it's going to be like five in the morning. It's going to be six in the morning.
Fuck years. All right.
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.
Birds can like flap their wings and fly forever. Do they ever get tired? Yeah, 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... Birds can just keep going.
Do they get tired? 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.

Yeah, that's true. And then they draft.
And they draft it, yeah. They don't do

shit. I forgot about the V.

And then they find a soccer field

in suburban America and just chill.

Or a golf course.

And you're hit with a golf ball. I would just chill in the back

of that V. Oh, yeah.
I would never go up front.

Is there actually, like, 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.
It's like, 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.
You seem like you're not very tired. Here I am sweating out of my butthole.
When was the first time PFT and Big Cat realized their birthday was one day apart? Probably the first time we met. Yeah.
Oh, no. It was the second time.
No. Second time we met.
First time we met. That's like the first icebreaker that guys use on each other.
Hey, when's your birthday? When's your birthday? No, it was the second time. No way.
It was the second time. It was the second time.
It was the second time. It was the second time.
It was in Arizona when you came in for our 30th birthday. And I was like, we're going out for my birthday.
And you were like, my birthday's tomorrow. Yeah.
I was like, what? That was pretty cool. That's crazy.
Hung out with the Gronkowski brothers that night. 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.
It's not going to be. No.
PFT, this is where my brain melted. Okay.
Explain where you're going to be when we're recording on Sunday. It's not that difficult.
It is. If you think about it this way, Hong Kong is 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. When's your flight on Monday? My flight on Monday, I don't know.
I forget. Look it up.
It's in the afternoon. Okay.
So we're going to record at 9 or 10 o'clock at night Eastern time. Oh, so we can't do anything on Sunday night.
Got it. We're going to record at 9 or 10 o'clock.
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 Sunday night, 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.
That's crazy. It's going to be – Yeah, it's going to be crazy.
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. 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? Are you afraid this industry will eventually die out too? It will. Of course it will.
No, podcast. 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.
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. How hard is it not to mention that Ray Lewis killed a guy while you were interviewing John Harbaugh? Very difficult.
Actually, it wasn't that difficult because it would have felt wildly inappropriate. Wildly inappropriate.
But I wanted to. There was a part of my brain that wanted to, but it just didn't come close.
It was way harder when we did the FanDuel event, end of the year event in New Jersey and Ray Lewis was there to not say, Ray Lewis, you killed the guy. That was more, that was when it got really difficult.
Yeah, there have been a couple times when we've had interviews where I was just absolutely set up to say something and held back. I'm getting better at that.
Yeah. You think anyone has ever painted a room with a paintball gun? No, but we should try.
We do have a new studio coming. I guarantee you, what was the name of the shark guy from Jackass? Manny.
Yeah. I guarantee you Manny's painted a room with a paintball gun before.
Yeah, it's like a new age Las Vegas Jackson Pollock. He is like a dirt bike guy.
He's wearing Stussy. He's banging monsters.
And he's making art with a paintball bat. Some stirs.
By the way, there's this thing you can do in Hong Kong. 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. They just give you a 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.
Oh, it's a Hong Kong thing. Oh, it's a Hong Kong thing.

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.

Might have to get on the case, Big Cat.

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?

42,000 bobbleheads?

Yes. They're just in a closet

somewhere. How do you lose

Thank you. We need to go talk to death.
Do you think death can talk to dead bobbleheads? 42,000 bobbleheads?

Yes.

They're just in a closet somewhere.

How do you lose 42,000?

A heist.

How do you steal 42,000? What is...

I get it because if someone said to me,

hey, here's 42,000 bobbleheads of Thomas Horton,

I'd say, yes, I want them.

But what is the next step?

I feel like this is something that a Philadelphia Phillies fan would do.

They'd be like, we got Bryce Harper from you.

It's a fanatic that's coming back for revenge against Tommy.

They probably had a van parked outside with the guy that's always on the computer and the headset in the van.

And the Philly fanatic getting lowered through some sort of vent.

Problem solved.

Listen, that's okay because I thought the National Enquirer is on my shit list. Let's just say that.
Why is that? They just are. Okay.
Love you guys. Love you guys.
Okay, PFT is gone. Hopefully not dead.
Hopefully not dead. I just want to say that out loud.
But 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 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? 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. 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 to minneapolis i figured let's see if again 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 hottest take pft's plan goes down oh that's that will be bad if it does can we delete that yeah we can delete that as long that as long as- Yeah, just bleep it out.
Yeah, actually, we'll bleep. Yeah, that's perfect.
You're already doing good. Just bleep it out.
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. No, we won't actually.
We never do. Yeah, we don't actually.
You do, though. No, we'll bleep that out.
Yeah, yeah. Wink.
Wink, wink. You winked with your own eye.
Yeah, wink. You have to wink with? Which eye? Like, you're not supposed to let me see it.
Okay. There you go.
There you go. Put the shades down.
All right, 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 in the NFL right now. You fucker, you got to bring hotter takes than this.
You can't do the humble thing. No, but I'm going to keep going now.
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.
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.
How many wrestling shows are you actually going to? Well, my buddy that is an an independent wrestler, he has a match Saturday morning. What's his name? What's his stage name? His stage name? The Corn Belt Cowboy.
The Corn Belt Cowboy. What's his finisher? I honestly don't know what it's called.
I'm really bad with that. Okay, so George is a bad friend.
Mark that down. Very bad friend.
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 11 p.m okay and i got about five shows tomorrow with uh friday night what is that that's nxt saturday have a couple shows with ring of honor at the end of the night okay which that'll be really fun i got front row seats for that one that's gonna be awesome friends with the brisco brothers 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? 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.
You don't want to get hurt. No, no.
You know, because when you're on the first road, there's still a barrier between you guys. Yeah.
But you can always go for a good Ric Flair chop. Ooh, okay.
I can practice on you. 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. 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 around you. As someone who used to stun a lot of people back in the late 90s, I know how this works.
All right, so does my father and your head of PR, the 49ers, Bob Lang, the best PR guy in all of the NFL, does he ever say, hey, George, cool it with the wrestling? Oh, no. Well, I got into a ring like two years ago, and I didn't tell them about it.
Okay. 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 you have to definitely ask for permission.
Bob laid the hammer down. 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. There could be some ring activity.
What about your coach? Would he be like, Hey, that was sweet sweet 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 I think he's into that He's an absolute savage So what else do you have cooking in the offseason? Are you mid-offseason training and all that shit? Yeah, well we start in about two weeks I, so I live in Nashville in the off-season. Oh, that's so fucking cool.
It's pretty awesome. Everyone moves to Nashville, dude.
Be more basic. Hey, you know what? I like Broadway.
Okay, yeah, Broadway's a fun time. So, like, you have two weeks as a start of...
OTAs. 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 tight end in the league.
Did you say wide receiver? I almost did. Well, we should try to get that because you gave wide receiver money.
You're the best tight end in the league. You're still on your rookie deal.
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 and Just skip the whole next season? Maybe you hold out and use this show as leverage.

Like I just did a tryout as the co-host, a part of my take.

$90,000 an episode.

Yeah, well, we get $90,000 an episode.

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

Can we veto PFT's passports so he can't come back?

Well, yeah.

No, listen, we're not going to stop. PFT, I love love pft like a brother and he is the co-host of the show but this is just in case oh just in case of emergency you need to be planned you know like you guys i'm sure kyle shannon has like hey if everything gets fucked up here's what we're gonna do that's this yeah no we do that okay so uh so you it's called check fuck, check fuck it.
So this is the check fuck it portion of the show. So use us as leverage to then 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. How's he doing for you? He's pretty great.
What was the last check he got you? From the Super Bowl? Dollar figures. No chance.

Could try though.

Skittles. You did the Skittles thing.
I did do Skittles. I saw you hawking Skittles.
I love

Skittles. Yeah, I wore a Skittles

polo t-shirt around everywhere. Yeah.

Trying to get a full suit for it. So what's the next, like

does he throw a bunch of stuff at you?

How does it work?

And you're like, alright, I'll pick that, that, that.

He gives me options. I'm actually pretty lazy and I don't like doing a lot of stuff right i like sitting on my couch and playing fortnite so the check must have been awesome it was all right yeah that's 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 hank yeah hank i'm always i'm always flush he were we're flush, we spread the wealth.
Hank's lying. So if you're flush from Skittles money, you should probably wet the beak.
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 not like a slight. I'm not'm not thinking 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.

God damn it.

And ESPN said my name's Greg, so it's okay.

It's just weird.

I don't know.

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.

Did you get bullied?

Slightly.

Do you want to talk about it?

If PFT was here, maybe.

I'll see you. Oh.
Hank. say love you.
Hank.

I love you.

No, Hank.

No, George is not the new co-host.

PFT still has his job.

PFT's better.

Oh, that was now you're out.

All right, do the love you guys.

I love you guys.

There we go. Thank you.
There's another day to find you shying away.

I'll be coming for your love again.

Take on me.

Take me home.

I'll be gone in a day or two Don't get away I don't know what I'm to say I'll say it anyway Today is another day to find you. Talking away.
I don't know what I'm to say. I'll say it anyway.
Today is another day to find you. Shying away.
I'll be coming for your love, okay? Shying away. I'll be coming for your love.
Okay. Shying away.
I'll be coming for your love. Okay.
Take me. Oh.
I'll be. Oh.
In a tale. I'll be.
Oh. In a day of I want to talk about recognizing God in the middle of the battle or recognizing God in the battle.
to recognize God in the battle, understanding that you are not in it by yourself,

but that you are in it. God in the battle.
To recognize God in the battle.

Understanding that you are not in it by yourself.

But that God is there with you in the midst of the battle.

You don't have to handle this by yourself.

You don't have to go up against the enemy in your own strength.

If you just calm yourself down, God's going to get some glory out of this in spite of you. Amen.
I don't know what I'm to say. I'll say it anyway.
Today is another day to find you shying away. I'll be coming for your love again Take on me Take me home I'll be gone In a day or two.
Don't get away. I don't know what.
I'm to say I'll say it anyway. Today is another day to find you.
Don't get away. I don't know what I'm to say.
I'll say it anyway. Today is another day to find you shying away.
I'll be coming for your love, okay? Shying away. I'll be coming for your love, okay?

Take me home.

I'll be gone in a tale.

I'll be gone in a day or two.