CFB Week 1 With Booger McFarland After He Eats 6 Donuts, Is Arch Bad? Brian Kelly's Big Win + Mt Rushmore Controversy To End The Show

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We're going to recap everything from this weekend, week one, in college football.

Reminder, we got a show on Wednesday as well.

We're going to do NFL preview on Wednesday with Pete Prisco.

But today we have Booger McFarland eating six donuts and then talking college football with us.

We're going to talk every game, all the big games, Arch, if we're buying or selling.

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Today is Tuesday, September 2nd,

and football is back and Jordan looked good.

Hey, Jordan had maybe the best box of the night.

She did.

Was that her box that had like LT, Michael Jordan, Roy Williams?

Were they all in Jordan's box?

I think that was a separate box because I saw in her box was Randy Moss.

Oh, okay.

Still a good box.

Yes, great box.

As for the game,

Bill Belichick has some work to do with UNC.

I would say so.

I would say maybe Jordan needs to be allowed back on the sidelines.

Headset.

Why are you kicking Jordan out of all decision-making from the team and then acting surprised when you get the shit kicked out of you by TCU week one of the college football season?

Yeah, and it was a shit kicking.

Listen, UNC, I don't think UNC's ever

been more, I don't want to say back because have they ever, for football, I mean, they've had good players, but have they ever

when Butch Jones was just like not letting

the guys

go to school when they were like skipping classes, they were pretty good then.

Yeah, but that 7-0 start to the game where they marched down the field, that felt good.

Yeah.

And then everything after felt really bad because I think it was a 41-0 run by TCU who looked awesome.

Let me ask you this.

When do you think Jordan, not Jordan, but Michael Jordan left the game?

I would say

right after the first drive of the third quarter.

I think maybe after the opening kickoff of the second half.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That might have been it.

Yeah, it might have been it.

But not the best start for Bill Belichick and UNC.

Hank, what did you think about the game?

Jordan looked great.

Jordan looked great.

It's a long season.

It's his first year.

They're still, you know, these aren't his players.

Well, no, they literally all are because he got a shitload of transfers.

But it's hard to get transfers and build a program that quickly.

It's going to take some time.

I'm going to wait until the university-approved documentary series about what's been going on behind the scenes comes out to fully judge what's going on at UNC.

Yeah.

I should say they actually were more back than the 7-0.

It was when Bill Belichick released the depth chart that was just listing the positions and no names.

And then when Holly Rowe interviewed Bill Belichick before the game, I don't know if you can pull up that clip, Max, but very, very funny of Bill Belichick with his cut-off hoodie in just a a very grumpy Bill Belichick way, which was

that was back.

That felt like it was back.

It was good to have him back in football on the sideline.

It was just like an old time, yeah, this is fun.

This is going to be fun.

And then it was just not fun.

He looked good in the Carolina blue uniforms, like in the official team merch.

Yeah.

His eyes were popping.

That works with Bill.

Yeah.

All right, here it is.

Weird statistic, it is 34 years to the day that you debuted as an NFL head coach, and now you're making your debut debut as a college football coach.

What's going on inside you right now?

Excitement, nerves?

What does it feel like?

I hope it goes a lot better in the game against Dallas and Jimmy Johnson.

They crushed us.

So I hope it goes better now.

I know that you've got a great motto where you say, practice execution becomes game reality.

What have you seen this week in practice that you think your kids can execute tonight?

Well, hopefully we can do a good job of their fundamentals, ball security and

communication.

Tell me about the hoodie.

I mean, had to be cut off sleeves, right?

Yeah, that's kind of my thing.

Thank you, Coach.

Have fun tonight.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Still got it.

100% has it.

This can't be a true stat.

Uh-oh.

Based on UNC's quarterback play tonight,

Gio Lopez did not complete a pass for 128 minutes.

Yeah, no,

that was true.

That's pretty bad.

Yeah, it was really bad.

It was really, really bad.

I don't know if that includes the pick six.

That's completion to somebody.

Yeah, he completed to someone.

Yeah, Bill Belichick has to be in hell being like, this is not a quarterback I wanted to coach, but he's coaching them.

It doesn't look good right now.

No.

Although, hey, listen.

They haven't really done a whole lot that you can look at besides that first drive of the game.

Yeah.

And be like,

I see reason for optimism.

41-14.

UNC is getting the ball back.

You never know.

That looked like it might be roughing the punter.

You never know.

It's a quick score, stop, score, stop, score.

I think they'd still be down three, but that would be good.

Yeah.

All right.

Let's get to the rest of the games.

We had an awesome weekend of college football.

Okay, rest of the weekend.

What a weekend it was.

Where should we start and should it be?

Is Arch Manning ass?

I was going to say is...

Is Alabama ass.

Well,

we got to get to Alabama.

I thought we'd go chronologically on Saturday because it was a great Saturday.

Awesome first week of college football.

It was big.

It was noon.

Yep.

It was Saturday.

The Ohio State, Texas game kicked us off.

And

listen, I'll actually start with this.

I thought that Ohio State was going to win the game.

I bet Ohio State.

I am believing in Ohio State just because it was a home environment for them, national champions.

Arch Manning's first real start.

You saw him last year, obviously, playing in spurts, you know, Louisiana Monroe.

I think he came in for for a little bit against Georgia, a couple packages here and there.

I think he played a little bit the year before against Texas Tech, maybe.

But it was like, this was it.

This was the first real start.

And let's just say it didn't go well because it was basically an entire open mic of Arch Manning jokes on Twitter and in the world because for three and a half quarters, he looked so lost.

He looked bad.

He looked like he was stepping away from throws a lot, and he was here in the footsteps.

So like the defensive line did a great job for Ohio State.

Their defense was awesome.

Defense was incredible.

Matt Patricia, who goes to college, and then he's like, Yeah, I know a lot of shit from the pros that all these offensive coordinators in college, for the most part, haven't seen too much of.

So, he was kind of dipping in his bag a little bit.

But Arch was, he was like stepping away from a lot of throws.

It looked like he was a little timid.

And when it comes to Peyton and to, I guess, a lesser extent Eli, but mostly Peyton, the best thing about him was like how smart he was and how he could pick apart a defense.

He knew what was coming.

He knew what was happening.

Arch hasn't played enough football to be able able to even tell, like, does this guy really get it or not?

I have an Arch Manning take.

I don't think it's fair to say that.

How old is he right now?

20?

Probably, yeah, I think he's 20.

I don't think it's fair to say this about Arch being only 20 and only one real start.

So maybe we can bleep out this take, but you guys can hear it.

Yeah.

I think

he might be.

He might be.

I'm not going to go that far to say.

I'm actually going to buy Arch Manning stock because I don't.

I really don't know like

who does well in that situation and yes the name the the recruiting all these things hurt him in this case where he's so hyped up I at the end of the day it was his first real start and it was against the defending national champions in their house I just don't I didn't expect him to be awesome I obviously didn't expect him to be as bad as he was but I might buy I might buy all the arch stock because it's as low as it possibly could be right now I think he's going to be really good I'm just saying it's it's a tall hill to climb to expect him to be like

yeah, and it was one of those situations where Ohio State's defense did carry the day.

They were incredible.

Texas defense was very good too.

Texas outgained Ohio State 336-203.

I know obviously a little bit of that was at the end of the game when Texas was having to push the ball down the field.

Both teams didn't give up a sack.

The interception was really bad for Arch.

He just looked really bad, but I didn't expect him to look great.

And then he got roasted beyond belief.

And I love the,

somehow, Shador is still alive in college football discourse, being like, hey, keep that same energy for Arch that you did Shador.

Listen,

when you go online in the middle of a game and they have people saying 9-11, if Arch Manning was the pilot and it's just a plane missing the Twin Towers, I think we've reached the point where he's getting roasted properly.

Yeah, I'd say it's probably a little bit too far.

Yeah.

And even on that interception they had, yeah, it looked bad.

I heard Ocho Sinko talking about it.

He says the receiver ran the wrong route on it and where he was supposed to come back towards the ball.

But overall, Arch didn't look good.

He missed some very easy throws on that last drive of the game.

They should have gotten that first down.

He put that ball behind the receiver.

They weren't able to pick it up.

That was the end of the game.

Also, Sark just still can't coach red zone offense.

It's always been an issue for him.

It still is an issue for him.

That was the clunkiest tush-push, whatever that was.

It just,

they can always move move the ball and then they get to the red zone and it just doesn't work.

Yeah, sometimes just run the ball up the middle.

You got some great running backs in Texas.

You should use them.

Yeah.

So it was a good start though.

It wasn't like the most exciting game, but Ohio State still looks just as good as last year, maybe if not better.

And we also had a rogue, which I think was photoshopped, but it still was funny because if there's any coach in the country that you're like, he might be a nipple ring guy, it is Ryan Day.

Yeah.

I mean, I choose to believe that it's real.

Oh, me too.

I saw it.

It looked real enough to me.

That's why Jim Trestle always wore the sweater vest.

You could never see those things poking through it.

It also just fits.

Like, Ryan Day is the guy.

He's like,

he's got some freak to him.

And

I, weirdly,

if he had nipple piercings, I think I'd respect Ryan Day more.

So I was thinking about it.

And again, I don't know if it's true or not.

But

I don't care.

But I'm going off the assumption that it is true.

It appeared to be only one nipple was pierced of the two, which tells me, and I saw some other people kind of speculating the same thing, it was: if we win the national championship, I'll pierce my nipple, nipple piercing.

I see, I like that.

Because if you have two of them, then that's a freak.

But if you've got one, that's like, okay, I did it for the guys.

I like to think of it as that Ryan Day has both nipples pierced in the offseason.

He's got the chain link in the middle, and then when football comes back, he's like, all right, time to get to business.

Take the chain down, take one of them out.

We're just going solo nipple ring for the season.

Keep one over the heart.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

You don't want to know what Matt Patricia does with that pencil after the game, where he sticks that thing.

It was nice to see the pencil still there, even though the play sheet's laminated for Matt Patricia.

It's been laminated forever.

It has.

It's been laminated when he was in Detroit.

I think it was laminated at the end when he was with the Patriots.

Yeah, it's zooming real hard on that nip.

Yeah.

That's what we call dot in the eye in Ohio.

This is also just a great sign of like college football.

One of the greatest parts about it is the fan bases are so insane

that.

I would like to believe it's real, but if it's not, someone, some rival fan base was like, you know what we're going to do?

We're going to Photoshop that Ryan Day has a nipple piercing, put it out into the world, and just watch it gain steam.

So the thing about this picture is I saw this picture everywhere on Saturday morning, but it was all the same picture with the red circle.

Correct.

So I haven't seen the initial screen grab.

I don't even know.

Was that from the Texas game?

Yeah, yeah.

No,

that was exactly what he was wearing.

I'm saying it was definitely photoshopped and it was a really good Photoshop.

Yeah, here's the, yeah, so it's the real one is maybe not so did they take his nipple and then make two smaller nipples in the Photoshop next time?

No, they give him a nipple piercing.

I like it though.

Yeah, it fits him.

I would like to see this happen more often with public figures.

It fits him perfectly.

Okay, so I'm glad that it's Photoshopped.

I thought

I was like 50-50, but again, it was so good that I chose to believe that it's real.

Right.

But

I got a good idea for maybe your football picks punishment at the end of the year.

Oh, a little nipple piercing?

Maybe a little nipple piercing.

Nipple piercing.

So, wait, going around the room, is everyone who's buying stock in Arch who's like, he sucks?

I 100% am going to buy stock in Arch Manning.

I don't actually think that he's dumb.

I just think that he hasn't played enough football to get the Manning superpower, which is being able to see what a defense is going to do and adjust everything on the fly and beat you with your mind.

He hasn't, it's impossible for him to do that right now.

I think physically

he'll get there.

He'll be more accurate.

And I don't think he's going to see too many defenses that are as good as Ohio State.

I'd be shorting him for this year.

You're done?

I don't think he's going to be Heisman, you know, he's not going to

be in Heisman form or even close to it.

It's not going to be a bounce back where he looked that bad, and then all of a sudden it's like, oh, no, he's actually really good.

I think he'll figure something out.

I think a big part of that is going to be just get the ball to wingo.

Let him run with the ball.

He's so fucking fast, and they didn't really use him.

It was getting so bad for Arch that people were just pulling up his high school tapes where he was like dominating a bunch of like five, six white kids and being like, Look at this.

Again, he wasn't he, it would be one thing if he was drafted number one overall.

He still has a college career to play.

Didn't didn't uh didn't Arch, his Archie, his grandfather say he's staying for another year, yeah.

But so he's got two more years, but then Arch said Archie doesn't really know what his plans are.

So whatever, but he might.

If he's bad, he's gonna stay for another year.

He also has the Baker Mayfield effect of like he looked like shit, then it goes to commercial break, and there's just six Archman commercials.

I don't think that helped because I met on Texas and every time it came on, I was just like, oh,

complete a pass first and stop worrying about the commercials.

Good news for him is he's got some pretty easy games coming up over the next couple weeks.

So he should start to look more like the Arch that we thought.

And again, if you're mad at Arch

for being ass, really,

we need to take some accountability in the media as a whole.

Because we saw another man in coming into college football, and we spent the last two years being like, this guy's going to be the best that we've ever seen from that family.

Max, are you buying stock?

Yeah, for sure.

I bet on Texas, so I was really rooting for him to

see what the internet did if he came back and tied that game up at the end.

He had a chance.

He started off that drive with a good throw, and it looked like the entire internet was going to have to eat all their shit, but then obviously he fucked it up.

But yeah, no, I'm buying stock.

I'm buying stock.

Also, was that Caleb Downs with that last tackle of the game?

Yeah, that was an incredible play by him.

He's so fucking good.

He's awesome.

Max, or sorry, Zach and memes, are you guys buying stock or selling stock?

I think I'm going to sell stock because I think there's a chance he saw just how many memes were online and just may have, he might be in a spin zone he can't come out of.

Yeah, that's definitely, I hope he took the advice of his uncles being like, don't be online ever because it was horrific how fast people jumped on him.

It was bad.

It was so bad.

It's the down, like, when everyone says, oh, his last name gives him so so much, his last name also gives him just years of people being sick of Manning's dumping on him to a level that is just nuclear.

Yeah, every enemy that Eli or Peyton has ever made now has a new focus for all their hatred.

Yeah.

Memes.

I think he'll be okay, but I'm selling.

Oh, okay.

I don't think he's at the level that people think.

Okay.

Okay.

That's what they're holding him to.

All right.

The next game that happened on Saturday, and we'll touch some smaller games after we we get the big three.

Bama's done.

Bama's cooked.

Kalen DeBoer, they got absolutely manhandled.

I was way wrong on this because I thought you heard us on Friday.

I thought Ryan Grubb coming back with Kalen DeBoer was going to fix some of the offense.

That first drive looked like it did.

I think they had like 55 yards rushing on the first drive.

I think they ended up with like 85 yards the whole game.

They didn't just lose, they got absolutely manhandled.

Florida State and Gus Malzon, the Alabama killer.

Gus Malzon is 6-7 as a coordinator or offense or head coach against Alabama, which you're like, oh, that's a losing record.

No, no, no.

That's

guys went their entire careers without beating Nick Saban.

Gus Malzon had them in fits, was just running the ball down their throats, just mauled them.

I thought Bama's defense was going to be awesome.

It's not.

Alabama, you are now just a regular program with the rest of us.

Alabama is back to what Alabama was before Nick Saban.

They had a great run with Bear Bryant.

Then they tried to figure out everything possible under the sun to replace Bear Bryant, and they never really did.

And then Nick Saban, the best, maybe the best college coach ever.

He's the best college coach ever.

Well, Bear Bryant and Nick Saban, they got the two right there.

I think Nick Saban.

So then Nick Sabin shows up and all of a sudden just dominates college football.

This is going back to Bama.

This is what you were before Nick Saban was there.

That's what you're going to be after Nick Saban leaves unless you find the next Nick Sabin.

And they got their ass kicked.

It was a physical domination from Florida State, like from start to finish.

It was just everything they wanted to do, especially on offense.

Malzon was doing the shit that he used to do, like the tricky stuff that he hasn't done in years, like looking over to the sideline, pretending they were getting the play called in.

quick snap, run the play.

Rushing to breaking the huddle quickly and snapping it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Gus Malzon was back to everything that he used to do back in the day.

And yeah, I think Florida State might also just be really good.

Yeah, well, shout shout out Thomas Castellanos because that is the definition of backing up the shit talking you did.

And he did it all summer.

Remember in June, he said they don't have Nick Saban to save them.

I just don't see them stopping me.

He said about Bill O'Brien, Bill O'Brien and I butted heads early in the season.

I got banged up in a few games.

We had a meeting.

It kind of blew up in my face.

I did so much for that program, I just wasn't repaid the right way about transferring.

And now he is selling Nick Sabin can't save you shirts on on his website.

I love it.

There's nothing better in sports than having trash talk and backing it up.

And he did exactly that.

As for Bama fans, so I have two pieces of cope that I would like to

have you guys judge.

One is in the late game, but this was from Message Board Genius, who has a great Twitter account, who just trolls the message boards and watches people freak out in college football.

This

he got from Crimson Cade, who wrote, I know this is easy for us Bama fans since we lost, but the other games in Game Day just doesn't feel the same.

I feel like not many people care anymore, and it's so sad to me.

What do you all think?

Is college football dying for Bama fans because they no longer win every game?

They're gaining a lot of perspective about life.

We're going to see a ton of golfers coming out of Alabama in the next like five, 10 years because football, what is football right?

I just love this guy being like, man, football isn't as fun now that I'm not winning every single game, every single time we go out there and physically dominating every single opponent and never having to worry about losing to an unranked team.

So Kalen DeBoer has lost four games to unranked teams, and I believe he's been at Alabama for 14 games.

Let me pull up the stat.

It is, yeah.

So

he is 4-4 right now.

Oh, no, sorry, that was, yeah, he's lost four games to unranked teams in a season and one game.

So however many games.

I think that's 14 games.

Nick Sabin in 17 seasons lost four games total to unranked teams.

He actually had a streak where he won 100 straight games against unranked opponents.

He never lost to these teams.

He never ever lost to these teams.

And not only that, but I think there's a double-digit, I think Kalen DeBoer has now lost four games as double-digit favorites.

It's different.

It's different.

And the memes that are going around about Kalen DeBoer, how he changed Nick Sabin's office to a T-Mobile store.

It does feel.

What do you mean?

Have you not seen these?

No, I didn't see the T-Mobile store.

Pull up the pictures.

Nick Saban used to have an office that was.

It was great.

It basically looked like Bear Bryant's office.

It was a time capsule.

And now Kalen DeBoer went in and renovated everything, and it does look like a T-Mobile store.

Yeah,

it looks like a cell phone store.

It looks like a set that they build in like two days on ESPN to do like one interview in.

Yeah.

The name.

It's too sanitary.

The name Kalen, now that light is being shown on it, it's a stripper name.

It's a hot stripper name.

If it was K-A-L-Y-N.

It's still a hot stripper name.

Maybe 2-A.

K-A-L-E-N.

Kill de Buller.

Yeah, I saw this post.

Our good friend Paul Feinbaum, he opens up the phone lines on Mondays, and that's where you get the real takes.

That's where you get the real Alabama fans that call in.

And they weigh in, and they let you know what needs to happen.

This is from Legend.

He says, we don't need a marriage counselor.

This is a full-fledged divorce now.

It's only a matter of when we run your ass off.

Now, I'm not saying I hate your ass, but if you were on life support, I'd pull the plug and charge my phone.

That's pretty good.

Here's another one.

Pretty good from legend.

Diego Ricardo said, We got to up the toxicity, get him down in his feelings.

Maybe infidelity with a co-worker will be just the thing that will make him feel loved again.

Then we can hit him with the moral turpitude clause.

They're trying to set him up to paying a secretary.

It's also crazy because this is the first time that Alabama has been bad.

And they'll probably still end up winning eight, nine games, whatever.

But it's the first time they've been below 500 at any point in any season since the end of the 2006 season.

There was no social media back then.

Like,

this is uncharted territory.

Alabama has been the dominant force in college football since Twitter, since Instagram, since Facebook, like all these things.

The world is so different than the last time Alabama sucked.

And now they're just another program.

And the downfall is going to be fun to watch.

And I mean, credit to Brandon Walker.

He said that he's going to get run out.

I think he has a $60 million

buyout clause.

Oh, boy.

No, that's a good point.

Alabama, they've been good at football.

The last time that they weren't was in the Bush administration.

Yeah.

Pretty crazy to think about.

And then, Big Cat, have you thought about it?

Have you thought about it with Wisconsin?

No, because here's the problem.

So I had the brief thought because Wisconsin plays Alabama in two weeks.

So the unfortunate thing for me is that Alabama was not good last year either.

I mean, not to Alabama's standards.

And we got like 50 piece by them.

So yeah, we're going to lose that game by a lot.

That might be a get-right.

Well, they got a get-right game next week against Louisiana Monroe.

I wish I could get myself there, but then I remembered that I went to the game last year where, again, Alabama was mortal because they lost to Oklahoma, they lost to Vanderbilt, all these teams, and then we got absolutely smoked.

Maybe we'll keep it closer.

I mean, it is going to be fun if this is a season of Alabama downfall.

Oh, yeah.

Just to see how Kayla...

I think Brandon Walker might have been right that you're supposed to be SEC.

He's not SEC.

Dude, he followed Nick Saban.

It's a lot of money.

He's getting a lot of money.

Yeah, it's a great deal for him.

He also had a pretty good setup in Washington.

Yeah, but it's like, I think it was double the money.

Yeah.

Which is hard to turn down.

Yeah, no, it's already going bad.

Did you see there's a press conference today?

Can you find it?

Where

he was asked,

hey, you said that you had a great week of practice.

And he was like, I said that.

And he and the reporter went back and forth on whether he said it or not.

It was basically a francesa bit.

You can already

feel the pressure coming.

Here it is.

Just how much do you self-scout the preparation before games?

And are there times as a coach where maybe you notice during the week that things might not be going the way that you want them to?

You said, what do you mean, great week?

A great week.

You said a great week of preparation.

For for this week you're saying or you start referring to last week going up to

florida state before that game uh i said that you said that yeah before oh just somebody oh yeah okay all right um

it's bad that's bad our guys do i mean

that's not a hard question no it's not

that's a very like football 101 every coach says hey we had a great week of practice and then they get killed and then you got to answer to that and be like yeah i don't know what happened i mean saving had it right he would just he would answer questions in his own way regardless of the question that was asked.

He would just speak about the thing that he was going to talk about, no matter what.

And then, if there was a dumb question, he'd just be like, that's a dumbass question.

Next question.

Yeah.

Kalen DeBoer, he's feeling so much pressure that now he's like trying to interact with reporters.

Yeah.

And it's just, I mean, Alabama used to, they were a machine that would fear, you know, strike fear in every single opponent they played.

And going into Florida State and having fun.

Again, I agree.

Florida State, like, that was awesome that Florida State, after a year from hell last year, they have this huge win

in Tallahassee.

And I'm happy for Florida State fans because they did, I know the guy didn't eat the poop, but they basically went through eating poop for an entire season

after being snubbed from the college football playoff the year before.

So I'm very happy for Florida State, and I think Florida State might be good, but at the same time, there's just no fear.

The fear is the fear that Alabama used to, Saban's Alabama teams used to strike in opponents is not there.

When you get physically manhandled, like guys were getting blown off the line of scrimmage.

They were getting fucking tossed in downfield blocking.

That just didn't happen with Nick Sabin.

Yeah, it was a physical game from Florida State.

They were fun to watch, complete 180 from what we saw at the start of the season last year.

One more message for Genius.

This is from Jelsick Sturm.

He said that Nick, this is all on Saban.

He had a golden opportunity to fix college football, but chose to retire.

If he had stayed and built a large NIL fund, bought the best team every year, and showed winning national championships down, shoved winning national championships down America's throat, they demand change and Congress would have acted.

College football only changed when he made them change to stop him.

I love him, but he could have fixed this.

So he could, Nick Saban actually ruined all of college football.

Well, it's true.

Nick Saban did ruin Alabama football by being so good at coaching Alabama football.

He made it impossible to live up to the standard.

The amount of Alabama fans that are going to come out of the woodwork being like, college football just isn't the same anymore.

NIL ruined it.

Transfer Portal ruined it.

Have you ever thought?

As if they were still winning,

that would be the same tune?

Y'all ever thought about how weird it is that we sit down every Saturday and we watch 18-year-olds and we scream at them and carry on?

That doesn't sit right with me.

Are you doing Bush?

Let's move on.

That EPL, let's watch some soccer.

Who is that?

Not in Ham Forest.

Now, that's a football team.

Who is that?

Is that Bush?

Real football.

Is that Bush?

No, this is James from Alabama.

Oh, okay, nice.

Thank you for the call, James.

James Fish.

Wait, are you a Florida State guy, Zach?

I do like to watch Florida State play Football.

That's your team, right?

If I had to pick a team to ride for, I would have to pick Florida State.

Yeah, that's the closest to where you grew up, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So did you watch anything?

And I did go to...

I watched part of the game.

I got some reports from on the field.

My brother was at the game.

They got to storm the field.

That was cool.

New stadium.

Fresh storm.

Break it in.

Love that.

Yeah.

I mean, kids should always storm.

Fuck it.

It was awesome.

Yeah.

Did you go outside this weekend?

Three days.

I did.

I went on some walks.

I made some returns.

It was good.

Was it Target?

No, different store.

Okay.

Did you go to the street?

Yeah, I hit the street.

Yeah.

Up and down.

Oh, hell yeah.

Good street.

Good street.

All right.

Last big game, and then we'll hit everything else.

The Clemson versus LSU game on Saturday night.

First takeaway I had of this is that

This is why every single game should be played on campus because it was awesome.

And I hate

the Syracuse, Tennessee game being played in Atlanta, which just had no juice.

South Carolina, Virginia Tech, no juice.

Play every game on campus.

That's what makes the sport so much fun.

Even if we have to sit there for a 20-minute delay while Clemson gets on a bunch of buses, which

got to be one of the dumbest traditions of all time.

Yeah, you go to the hill, you get off the bus, you run down the hill, which seems really dangerous.

Well, Dabo runs down the hill.

Yeah.

Then everyone else runs down the hill and the tiny tiny little cannon.

I actually have no problem with the running down the hill and touching the rock.

The fact that they were showing us all the Clemson players pile into this bus and Clemson fans are like, you don't understand.

They all get in the bus and they go around the stadium.

It's so fucking cool.

No, it's not.

That's not cool.

The bus, I don't need the bus.

I don't care about the bus.

Yeah, especially when it delays the start of a game that I've been waiting all day for.

But yeah, LSU's defense.

Awesome.

Awesome again.

Awesome.

They were so bad the last few years.

Harold Perkins, I think he's healthy now.

Yeah.

And he was just like wrecking the entire game plan.

Their D-line was incredible.

It was such a good game.

Cade Klubnick, maybe not.

Well, I think

he'll still be fine.

Yeah, I think he's a good quarterback.

Although the ACC looks a little bit better than everyone thought.

I think Klubnik's going to be a fine quarterback.

I think that it was two really good teams playing against each other.

I think that Nussmeyer is a little bit better right now, and I think that LSU's defense made the difference.

Although LSU got fucked on that touchdown, the touchdown that they took away,

I don't know what it catches anymore.

I really don't.

I understand that the ball shifted a little bit after he caught it, took two steps, went through the end zone, hit the pylon, fell on the ground.

I understand the ball moved, but that's still a touchdown.

That looks like a touchdown to me.

If that's not a touchdown, then I don't know what I've been watching.

I'm happy that didn't

decide the game.

Yeah.

Because it would have been absolute bullshit.

But yeah, LSU's defense was incredible.

Nussmeyer,

their running back was awesome.

Brian Kelly finally gets a monkey off his back in terms of winning week one with LSU.

And now.

He also got trucked on the sideline.

Well, he trucked himself.

I thought the ref ran into him.

No, he fell.

I thought the ref backpedaled into him.

No, he fell.

It was non-contact?

Yeah.

Then he got up and he started screaming at the ref.

He tumbled.

It was kind of like a simultaneous, he was next to the ref.

Yeah, I thought that there was contact.

I thought maybe they got tripped up.

No, I'm pretty sure he just tumbled and then he was very embarrassed and started screaming at at the ref.

That's a good move on his part.

Oh, absolutely.

You got to maybe stay down a little bit longer too.

You know how Belichick used to always complain about the fact that football is a billion-dollar industry and we don't have a camera on the sidelines.

We don't have a camera on the goal line.

Why did we not have a close-up camera of Brian Kelly getting ran over?

Jason just eating shit on the sidelines.

See, their legs might have gotten tangled, but the ref didn't like hit him.

Yeah, yeah.

The ref didn't hit him at all.

It was all Brian Kelly's fault.

He was farther out on the field than the ref.

Yeah, I thought they might have gotten twisted up, but we need ⁇ there needs to be a better angle of this.

I need to see that again.

All right, I alluded to it, but I have some more cope, if you'd like.

We had the Bama Cope.

I was just going to say, I think LSU has another great running back in K Durham.

Yes, awesome.

Awesome.

He just has that look, too, of an LSU.

Kind of looks like Clyde Edwards-Zolaire.

Yeah.

He's a little small.

He's just an absolute beast.

That run he made in the first quarter where he was dead to rights and was able to keep his balance and ended up being like a 20-yard run when it was going to be a five-yard loss.

He was awesome.

All right, you ready for this, Cope?

So we have the Alabama Cope on one side of college football is just not the same anymore.

Here's my favorite Cope that I saw again from Message Board Genius for Clemson.

Clemson has the best college football team in America, period.

You say, are you stupid or just plain dumb?

I'm neither.

Clemson is the best college team in America because other than the military academies, Clemson is the only college football team.

Yes, Dabo brought in three players from the portal, three, but look at the rosters of LSU, Ohio State, FSU, Oklahoma, et cetera.

Their teams are nothing but a team of all-stars assembled from the best players for many teams by what?

For decades, would be a recruiting violation and tampering, and most would have received the death penalty for the violations.

Am I disappointed about losing?

Hell yeah.

But think about this.

How many of the kids that are switching schools at random?

The Tennessee quarterback is at his third or fourth school.

That's not true.

Oh, Aguilar is.

Yeah.

Not because they love the school.

They love the money.

You can't blame the athlete.

Most of them have never had any money.

But if the rules are fixed, we are simply watching a minor league NFL.

And these are the facts.

This is the only college football team.

Yep, I like that.

I like that.

This is some awesome.

Awesome, Cope.

The only school that still does it the old school way of recruiting.

Well, respect to the military schools.

Not the military school.

Navy might be better.

Yeah.

uh but yeah i like the hand waving where they're just like yeah we have a couple guys that came in through the portal yeah but there's a couple but besides those also shout out to dabo's son clay yeah they've got it's the third son of dabos that is on the team right now and they've all held they've been the holder for the team every time love that and he just got a scholarship which is great which is important because like you know you never know like you know things happen didn't know if he was going to be able to afford his tuition but now that his dad put him on scholarship it's all good yeah so that's that's the Clemson line of thinking now.

They're basically like, hey, listen, we're the only school still playing under the old rules, which why would you be playing under the old rules?

Yeah, it doesn't make any sense.

Why wouldn't you go to the transfer portal?

Did you stay up afterwards and watch a little bit of Utah?

I watched a little Utah.

I also watched Cal.

That lefty freshman quarterback is fucking electric.

Yes, he is.

But yes, Utah, Nico.

Nico.

I have a take on Nico.

He's well, yeah, go ahead.

I want to hear your take.

Should he be a receiver?

Oh, my take was different.

My take was I actually think Nico made the right call because he's not going to be an NFL quarterback.

So you might as well get the money now.

Well, yes.

Well, the thing is, he's getting less money now than he would have at Tennessee.

Yeah.

He actually ended up losing money by making this go.

I think he's very fast.

I think he's got great change of direction.

I think he has no idea how to throw an intermediate pass whatsoever.

Also, their defense, I mean, Utah, it was the easiest an offense has ever looked.

They made it look like it was seven seven-on-seven.

on Yeah, Nico, I'm a receiver.

That's what I'm calling him.

All right.

Notre Dame, Miami was awesome.

Carson Beck has been taken a lot of shit, has been shit on a lot by Georgia fans.

It was cool to see him have a big moment, be like, hey, I fell in love with football again.

Probably didn't hurt that he got paid a lot of money to go to Miami as well.

But that was an awesome game.

Actually, other than the fact that Notre Dame got mauled on both lines, I like CJ Carr.

Like, that was his first start on the road, hostile environment.

He looked, he made some big plays.

He made some not great plays.

But I feel like if Notre Dame,

I'm not going to throw out Notre Dame.

No, I think they're a fine team.

I think Carr needs to figure out when he's going to get hit and protect himself.

It's his first start.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's a first start.

He'll figure that out.

I think they're both good teams.

I think Miami is going to be for real.

I think Notre Dame is probably going to win a shitload of games this year, and they'll be a different-looking team by the end of it.

It was also just a perfect Crystal Ball experience because it was Crystal Ball is an incredible recruiter.

He is really good on the lines.

You saw what Miami was able to do.

That drive they had to start the third quarter was just man football.

And then at the end of the game, he turtled again, being like, hey, we'll leave this up to the, we'll leave a 47-yarder up to a kicker.

And it worked out.

But that was about to be,

if that kick is missed and the way they played that last sequence,

oh boy,

would he have been getting some heat today?

It was a kicker that they didn't even know was going to be their starting kicker until like five days ago.

And so they're like, yeah, we'll take our chances.

We'll roll the dice on this.

But then at the very end of the game, the dogs on the defensive line were like, okay,

we're just going to dominate Notre Dame's strength, which is their offensive line, and they did it.

So I feel like Miami is going to be a team that's going to be sticking around.

Listen, Carson Beck looked way better than he did in the past at Georgia.

He was dealing with injuries last year.

He had not the best O-line and receivers, but yeah, he looked good.

Didn't Notre Dame have a receiver named Greathouse last year?

Wasn't he pretty good?

I believe so.

Did he play at all?

Did Jeremiah Love get Jeremiah Love got like fucking they said before the season they're going to feature him so and then they just didn't give him the ball they didn't until then they started feeding him a little bit at the end because I think I think on the sideline they were like, hey, you know, he's only got six carries right now.

And so then they fed him a little bit more down the stretch.

But I remember Greathouse being a pretty good wide receiver, and all they seemed to have

besides love was Faceon.

Yeah.

Is that how you pronounce his name?

Yeah, yeah.

Face on?

That's the bounciest dude I've ever seen.

He just bounces off people.

He's awesome.

We were going to have to find probably a new Heisman pet because that was not.

I thought they were going to give the ball to Jeremiah Love.

He was trying.

He was trying to hurdle everyone.

Yeah.

Every time.

Literally, every time he touched the ball, he just spammed the hurdle back.

That's what you want out of your Heisman pet.

He's literally trying to get him.

He had nowhere to go, and he just kept jumping.

He's willing a Heisman moment.

Yeah, every moment's a Heisman moment.

If you look at the Heisman Trophy, that guy's got two feet on the ground.

Look at the trophy, love.

All right, other games.

Did you guys see that both of Diego Pavia's brothers got arrested on Saturday night in Nashville?

I love that.

I love that.

Vandy needs like an edge.

That is a good edge to have.

It's pretty tough to get arrested in Nashville.

I want to know what they were throwing furniture off a building.

I think they were just both publicly intoxicated.

But I just, I saw that and I was like, wow, that was was that, like, that tells me Vandy might be for real in the SEC.

Yeah.

Because you need, you need a little edge.

You can't be just same old Vandy.

You've got to stand out to get arrested on Broadway.

Yeah.

You have to be doing some wild shit.

All the way back to Friday night, Nebraska wins a nail biter against Cincinnati.

And

Dylan Rayola just lived his fantasy.

That was, it was crazy.

He was the way he came out of the tunnel in Patrick Mahomes' stadium, he was living a fantasy.

He was cosplaying a fantasy.

He'd been practicing the run out, doing the moves exactly the same.

That must have been really weird for Patrick Mahomes to watch that up front.

Yeah.

Right?

Yeah, the little, the get-the-play-in hands that he does that is just a straight copy of Patrick Mahomes.

But again,

God made him this way.

He did every move that Mahomes does when he's running out on the field.

It's just bizarre.

Yeah.

It's very strange.

All right.

Other games.

JMU won.

Wisconsin won.

Also got our quarterback injured for the third straight year.

I think Billy Edward is going to be okay, but it was just like not again.

Max, Penn State, all-time non-cover.

I was so pissed about that.

I was so pissed.

Not good.

Not good.

But I mean, they're fine.

They beat UNLV by 100.

Jackson Arnold looked awesome for Auburn running the football.

And Auburn looked like they might have a little juice to him this year.

And then also Georgia Tech.

Shout out to Georgia Tech at Colorado.

Not the best coaching by Deion at the end of the game.

Georgia Tech, I thought, was cooked.

They They had three turnovers in the first eight minutes.

So I missed the end of this game, and I had bet on Georgia Tech, and I thought I was fucked after the first quarter.

Plus, I didn't know that Deion was going to have the depends tent set up on the sideline, which is that's very impactful.

So the best way to describe it is,

you remember when

I used to play Doug's, and there were times at the end of the games where I would have more timeouts than seconds being able to use them?

That was kind of what happened.

Where it's like, hey,

what are you saving it for?

There's actually no time to even take the timeouts anymore.

Where I'd be like, oh, look at me.

I have all three of my timeouts.

There's seven seconds left.

It was kind of one of those situations.

It's got to clean that up.

Got to clean that up.

Tennessee looks like they made the right call, although Nico made the call, but they're going to be better with Aguilar.

Yeah, Aguilar looked pretty good.

Yeah.

His deep ball looks nice.

The defense didn't look that great for Tennessee, but they took care of business.

I mean, it was Syracuse.

Well, they also had, I think they were on their like four-string nose tackle by like maybe the third quarter, and it was, it showed.

So maybe they'll get a little healthier.

What are we looking at for best week two matchups?

Best week two matchups probably Oklahoma versus Michigan.

Bryce Underwood

came out, looked decent against New Mexico.

Shout out New Mexico's head coach, Jason Eck.

He's the guy who took

Oregon to the road to the limit last year with Idaho.

He's now at New Mexico.

He had an awesome trick play to score a touchdown for Michigan.

Same guy.

He's got a binder on the sideline.

He's like, he's one of my favorite college coaches.

He's a little sloppy, and I mean that with all due respect because I don't want my coach to like Matt Rule lost too much weight.

Yep.

Would you agree?

I would agree.

Matt Rule lost too much weight, but Jason Ack,

he's a very good coach.

He had Michigan a little bit nervous there for a second.

But yeah, that would probably be the best matchup.

Michigan, Oklahoma.

Oh, we also have Scihawk.

Yep.

We got the Syhawk.

I'll be there.

Big noon.

I'll be there as well.

Excited about that.

Yeah, that looks like the best ones this weekend.

Yeah, week one was

a great schedule.

I'm happy they loaded the week one up because it was awesome.

Did you guys see

the storm at Texas Tech that looked like

the world was ending?

It looked like an atom bomb exploded.

Yeah.

Maryland might have a quarterback, by the way.

Yep.

He's a freshman, right?

Oh, yes.

We should mention,

what the fuck, Northwestern?

You fucking scumbag pieces of shit.

Did you guys see this story?

Tulane wanted to wear, so it was the 20th anniversary of when the levy broke for Katrina.

I think it was like to the day almost.

And Tulane requested to wear their all-white jerseys in honoring the 20th anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina.

Northwestern said no.

I didn't see that.

And then Tulane put the beat down on him.

And then Retz Laugh.

Yeah, and then Retz Laff talked a little shit to the coach after the game.

But then I saw some of the fans of Northwestern like responding to allegations of being soft on Twitter.

And they were like, well, what do you expect?

We're a bunch of Chicago kids.

You think that we're going to go down there into Louisiana?

We're going to wear black uniforms.

Like that's that's unsafe for us.

It's like, yeah, no, that's soft.

Yes.

Yeah.

Also, could you wear, you could wear purple.

Yeah, you could do whatever you want.

You wear purple.

You do whatever you want.

I just would like to think that Ravel was the one who said no.

Probably.

Yeah.

But

that's something I wish I had known before.

You think

Tulane for everything?

Because that's...

You can't be a bigger dick than to be like, no, you can't wear these uniforms uniforms to honor Katrina.

Ravel probably has a seat from the Superdome.

Yeah.

He probably bought that.

Yeah.

Yeah, or a piece of the roof.

Yeah, he got the shingle that fell off.

Did you guys see Devin Hester Jr., who was Incredible Return?

Did you guys hear the follow-up to that?

Nope.

That is not Devin Hester's son.

His name is Devin Hester Jr.

There are two Devin Hester.

Devin Hester's legend has a son, Devin Hester Jr., who plays college football.

And then there's also a Devin Hester Jr.

who plays college football at Furman who returned a kick for a touchdown.

Now, do you think he became really good at returning kicks because his name was Devin Hester?

Or do you think every coach that he's had has been like, we got Devin Hester on our team?

It's crazy.

I don't understand how this is possible.

If you look,

he is not the son of Bears Hall of Famer Devin Hester.

He's a little smaller.

Yeah, but it's, but also, Devin Hester

has a son named Devin Hester Jr.

Where does he play?

I don't know.

We've got to find that out.

Let me find that out.

Devin Hester's

Hester's son, college football.

Oh, wait, maybe it is Devin.

Wait, I read this whole thread that it was not Devin Hester's son.

We might just have to cut this whole thing.

I'm very confused.

All right, so I might have even gotten gotten.

Wait, Devin Hester Jr.

returns kick like a boss, but he's not that Devin Hester's son.

Yeah, so wait, am I right?

I don't know.

I think you're right.

Yeah, yeah.

No, it's not that Devin Hester's son.

All right, so AI got me screwed up.

Devin Hester.

All right, I got sports illustrated here.

All right.

Devin Hester Jr.

had returned a kick for Furman University against William and Mary and nearly took it to the house.

If you saw Devin Hester Jr.'s returning kicks and jumped to assume that it was the son of the NFL return specialist Devin Hester, you would be forgiven.

You would also be mistaken.

As it turns out, this Devin Hester Jr.

is a different Devin Hester Jr.

This is not exactly an easy thing to figure out because the NFL Devin Hester that you are likely more familiar with also has a son named Devin Hester Jr., but that Devin Hester Jr.

is still in high school.

Ah, and appears to be more focused as a track athlete.

He's listed in his class of 2028.

Okay.

Meanwhile, Furman's Devin Hester Jr.

is a college sophomore and was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Do you think that Furman's coach knew that he wasn't Devin Hester's son?

I don't know.

What are the fucking odds?

Maybe the first time that he saw him, he was like, oh, wait, we got Devin Hester Jr.

coming for a visit to Furman?

What are the odds?

And it would be like, it'd be a totally different thing if it was Devin Hester Jr.

lays a pancake block.

Everyone's like, oh, okay, whatever.

It's a kickoff return.

And it's not Devin Hester, Devin Hester's son.

That's very confusing.

You know what?

I'm going to just say that they're both his kids.

That's how I'm going to look at it.

Do you think Devin Hester was aware of this kid before this kickoff return?

I don't know.

Do you think he was just scrolling Twitter and being like, well, what the fuck's going on?

Yeah, what the fuck?

Is my son?

actually playing for Furman that I don't know about?

Is my son in my high school son in my house or is he on the football field right now?

I think that that devin hester jr on furman was probably named after devin hester the return specialist and so that's you don't think so he was named after his dad he's just yeah he's

hester jr but he was probably he probably do you think he would have gotten the name devin hester jr if devin hester the nfl player wasn't so great

i know it's his dad i know but his dad is also devin but maybe they were like that's a great name that guy's really famous too i'm gonna name him that's a good name devin hester no i think he's just he's just junior because he's junior.

I want to know if he has any older brothers.

And he's also 20 years old.

Yeah, I was going to say

2006 was his rookie year.

Yeah, 20 years old.

So he's been like, unless he was like a big Devin Hester Miami.

He was awesome.

I know he was, but I think it's more because that's his dad's name.

I just want to, okay, I'll let this go if you can prove to me that Devin Hester Jr.

on Furman is the oldest of all of his brothers.

If he has an older brother that was

that wasn't Devin Jr.,

then I'm on to something.

Right, it says he has two siblings, but it doesn't say whether they're older or younger.

We've got to find out.

Yeah, I think it's probably because his dad

still crazy.

A lot of confusion about Devin Esther.

Oh,

we need to mention him.

We'll talk a little other sports before we do who's back of the week.

What a weekend for Lee Corso.

So incredible send-off for him on game day.

It was awesome to see.

He's a true icon of the sport.

I think all of us in this room, even Hank, probably our biggest college football fan,

remember watching Lee Corso put on

the mascot and being part of game day, making the sport fun.

He's like in that Dick Vitale, Bill Walton, like guys who make the sport fun for people.

And for him to have this send-off, which was great because it's like you don't want, you never want to have.

He basically got, he said it on air.

He's like, I feel like I died and like I'm being eulogized, which is a very cool thing.

And then to all his picks he got right, including the only person to pick Florida State.

Everyone else picked Alabama.

And that was outright.

And then all of the schools that he coached for or played for won their game this weekend.

That,

like, there's got it.

That's, there's something up with that.

And all the favorites that he picked covered.

Yeah.

So it was truly like a perfect

wait for him.

He won them all.

I think they should bring him back as a guest picker at some point this year.

Maybe next week.

Run it back.

Next week.

Bring it back.

Listen, I'm going to keep betting.

He should just put his picks out there.

Even if he's not on TV, I want to follow them.

The perfect season is going on.

Yeah.

You can't quit when you're perfect after one week, right?

Your favorite Lee Corso memory, Hank?

Man,

so many.

Yeah.

Probably that time.

Take your time.

I know you're emotional about that.

Probably that time, Washington State.

He took the mascot headed, put it on.

Crowd went nuts.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

At Washington State.

Fired me up, yeah.

I think,

was it Oklahoma where he shot the gun?

That was pretty cool.

What he called the kid a midget.

We called the kid a midget.

It was awesome.

When he said, fuck it, when he was at Houston, he threw the mascot head.

That was great.

That was fun.

Oh, speaking of which, did you guys see the oh, Zach, you want to go grab the dinner?

It's here.

Did you guys see the Oregon duck lost his head?

Yeah.

Great job by him to just turn around and get back in there.

You got two moves you can pull if you're the duck at that point.

One, scramble around on your hands and knees until you put the head back on.

Two, just say, fuck it, I'm out.

I don't think you can come back after that.

No.

Like, if you sprint into the tunnel, you leave your post at the stadium.

You can't let kids see you without the head on.

Yeah, but if you lose the head and then you sprint away, I think that's how you have to retire.

Let somebody else be be puddles.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Also, Oregon comes out to Freebread this year, which is awesome.

That is sick.

On a motorcycle.

That's really sick.

That's really sick.

And they made quick work of

their opponent.

I can't remember who I

played no one.

Dante Moore, though.

All right.

Other sports stuff before we get to who's back of the week.

And reminder, we have Booger Cam coming up.

He's going to eat six donuts, and then we're going to talk to him more college football.

Do we meet?

Do we need?

We're doing a reminder to everyone, we have a show tomorrow as well.

So we're doing Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday.

We're going to do a full NFL predictions.

I think last year we did worst case scenario for all of our teams.

We did

least improved player.

So we'll do all that tomorrow.

And we have Pete Prisco.

Do we make anything from Tyreek Hill

not being named a captain for the first time since he joined the Dolphins?

I mean, typically you want your captain to be a guy that didn't say, I'm done playing football for this team.

That's a very fair point.

I think you would want a guy, first and foremost, if you're going to be a captain, a guy that wants to play football for your team.

Yep.

That had something to do with it, I think.

PFT, I'm not going to disagree with that.

Who is the captain?

I don't know.

Do captains matter?

I feel like captains matter in baseball.

Yeah.

Hockey.

Soccer.

Football, there's just too many of them.

Yeah.

Yeah, there's got to be like one per position or one per offense specialty in the future.

Yeah, so not even specials.

What do the captains do on coin toss?

Well, they do the coin toss, obviously.

But I know in like soccer and rugby, they're the only ones that are allowed to talk to the ref.

Everything, but everybody talks to every ref.

There's so many refs in football.

Yeah.

I don't think that really matters.

Yeah, I'm not a big, and I think like in college football, sometimes there's like 10 captains,

which I guess it's cool to say afterwards.

Like I was a captain of my team, but I yeah, in the NFL, it just feels it feels outdated to be like, hey, here's a captain who needs to motivate you to play football.

Yeah, listen, putting a C on somebody's chest is overrated, and that's what Max has always told you.

Mm-hmm.

Got it.

Confirm, got it.

Got it.

Got it.

Confirm, got it.

The captains.

The C-men out there.

It took me.

Confirm, got it.

Confirm, got it.

All right.

Any other

sports things?

We'll do who's Back of the Week?

I like Alec Engold being captain.

That was a good call.

Yeah, actually, that makes sense.

That's actually important that he got the recognition there.

Yep.

So we just

went back on our own.

Alec Engold, better football player than Tyree Kill.

Right there.

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Okay, who's back of the week?

And the big who's back of the week is our good friend Booger McFarlane.

So he's going to talk some college ball with us in a second and recap the weekend.

Maybe he'll sprinkle in a little NFL.

But before he does that, Booger

made a mistake.

He went against the family, and the family was Tommy Fleetwood and all of us betting on Tommy Fleetwood.

He said that if Tommy Fleetwood wins, this was on Sunday before the tour championship,

that he will buy my donuts for a month.

And if he loses, I can't get donuts for a month.

I said, you know what?

I don't need you to buy me the donuts.

If he wins, you got to eat.

12 donuts on PMT.

And now, Booger, I told him he can split it up.

So we're going to do six now, and we'll do six when he comes back on.

So we get maximum Booger eating donuts.

Please, just everyone who's watching right now, all the AWLs,

do not screenshot Booger looking like a fat ass

shoving donuts in his face.

I don't want you to do that.

He's nice enough to do this for us.

I don't want you to use this against him when he tries to call me fat online.

He's paying up a bet, which is great.

I want to know what the breakdown of the donuts is.

Like, we got powdered sugar.

We got cream pie.

What are we into, Booger?

So, I kept it simple tonight, baby.

America's best.

That's what we got.

Okay,

I thought you were going to go Krispy Kreme.

That's a smart veteran move.

You know, your donuts.

Yes.

Yes.

All right.

So, Booger, you're going to eat six donuts while we do who's back of the week, and then we'll talk ball.

Do you have any, are you, are you regretting this at all?

Are you, are you worried about this?

You can eat six.

Yeah,

I...

I'm a little concerned because it's been a while since I've eaten a donut.

I don't know if my body's going to reject the fattiness.

I tried to prepare for it.

I did a nice 30-minute Peloton earlier.

I drank like eight bottles of water.

Hopefully the hydration will flush the sugar.

So I've done all I can do.

Now it's time to perform.

Yeah, the preparations there.

Did you plan your previous meals today around the donut eating?

Yes, I did have a salad

and four chicken wings.

So I've tried to prep for this.

I'm not sure what I'm going to eat after six donuts.

I'll kind of go by how I feel.

All right.

Good luck.

Four chicken wings is wild, by the way.

Who eats four chicken wings?

Yeah, you got to do six.

You eat six.

At minimum.

The chicken wing numbers are six, 10, 12.

You're a child.

I ordered six, but speaking of child, I got a 14-year-old who was trying to eat all six, and I had to steal four.

Okay, okay, all right.

That makes more sense.

All right.

So you stole his.

All right.

All right.

So

put yourself on mute.

For people who are watching on YouTube, Booger will be picturing a picture, eating his donuts while we do who's back of the week, and then we'll talk.

And he's going.

He's going with one.

All right.

Here we go.

Who's back of the week, Hank?

My who's back of the week is Nico Harrison.

Oh,

I know we're not, it's a big anti-Nico Harrison podcast, but this, this kind of made me feel bad for him.

He was just out to dinner.

A fan walked up, saw him.

He was kind of like sitting in the window, and the window was open, so it was somewhat accessible.

And a fan walked up, introduced himself, like, kind of did a Hesse Hay where he's like, oh, nice to meet you.

By the way, all the Mavericks fans still fucking hate your guts.

Yeah.

And then walked away.

And I felt bad.

That he's getting harassed in public?

Yeah.

Yeah.

You should hear the the voices, though.

Like, if you're going to trade away a guy that is so popular, your best player, the guy that's going to be there for a decade, you have to also have a healthy fear in the back of your head that this could turn into a public confrontation at some point.

I would imagine, yeah,

I would imagine Nico was like, as soon as they got Cooper flag, he's like, oh, they'll forget about this.

I'll be good.

I can go back out to Chili's.

He's probably hoping that the Micah Parsons thing would take some heat off him.

Like, we're all, everyone's doing it.

They just hated me because I was the first.

Yeah, I think the Micah Parsons thing's made it worse.

Like, if you're a Dallas fan,

it actually made it more painful.

Yeah.

Like, you kind of had gotten over it.

You did get Cooper Flag, and then it's like, what?

You see the pictures.

Everyone's posting the pictures of Micah and Luca, and it's like, how do we lose both these guys?

How do we get both of them?

Yeah, lose both of them.

But they have Paige Buckets and Cooper Flag.

Yep.

And Kenny Clark.

All right.

Good who's back?

I got two.

Okay.

My first is Charlie Woods.

Yes.

Charlie Woods is back.

He got a hole in one on the third hole at Sawgrass today.

Incredible.

Acted like it was, I don't know if it was his first hole in one ever, but he acted like it wasn't a big deal.

Like, hey, that went in.

He's like, oh, cool.

That's pretty cool.

But it was in competition.

So Charlie Woods is the future of golf.

I think he cemented that today.

And then my other who's back of the week is Luis Suarez.

You remember Luis Suarez?

Yeah.

Luis Suarez.

He tells her a go and then the cup goes wild.

Yep.

I just can't get enough.

I just can't get enough.

He's always been known as being like, he's had the weirdest mouth in soccer.

Yeah, he bites people.

He used to bite people all the time.

His mouth is back.

Okay.

Because he was playing an MLS game.

I don't really know what the League's Cup is.

I don't really care to find out what the League's Cup is, but it was Miami against Seattle, which is like rivalry week, I guess.

They were wearing special uniforms.

And then there was a fight on the field after the game, and Louis Suarez went up to one of the Seattle staff members just like an old guy wearing a polo shirt spat on his face and walked away got caught on camera I listen I kind of admire Luis Suarez's passion in that he's still so fired up for soccer that he's spitting on an old guy in a Seattle Miami MLS game yeah like that that passion's never gone away he just blacks out I think that's why he's not retired from soccer yeah because like I got to put this mouth somewhere yeah and once you retire all the stuff I do with my mouth becomes a felony felony.

He gets a pacifier, goes to a biza, and just does a bunch of X.

Yeah, that's the only other option for him.

But yeah, it was nice to see

that mouth back in action.

All right, my Who's Back League.

I have two as well.

Did you guys see LeBron's new ad?

Yep.

Commercial.

Can you find it, Max, and play it for us?

Did you see it, Hank?

Oh, get ready to get triggered.

Get ready to get triggered.

It's really, it's a, he's putting it on thick.

Very, very thick.

Here it is.

So, this is new Nike ad.

They called him the Chosen One.

He carried the weight of every expectation on his shoulders.

But he never broke.

We were all witnesses.

Every rival was defeated.

Every idol was destroyed.

He took the crown and kept it.

Behold, the greatness

he is the forever king

He's still playing it the forever king.

Yeah, also

we were all witnesses every rival defeated he kept the crown and or he took the crown and kept it

He has where's lie Steph Curry has the same amount of titles as him.

Where's Lai?

And he

fought less finals losses.

Yeah.

He defeated every rival.

I don't understand what's so confusing.

Yeah, but then the rival then defeated him two more times.

He took the crown and and he kept it.

Three times.

He didn't give the crown up.

Yeah, he has given the crown up.

Many years.

Also, we were all

playing.

Yeah.

This makes me think he might be.

Was that a shoe commercial?

I don't know.

Because I don't think it had a shoe in it.

I actually think it was just a

crown commercial.

They're selling like crowns.

I don't know.

It's a crown.

So this is his 22nd year, right?

Yeah.

He's going to play 23.

You know that he's going to play 23.

I think the only reason he's not going to play, or he's going to play another year is because Chris Paul is going to retire.

He doesn't want to retire the same year as Chris Paul.

Because Chris Paul would overshadow his retirement.

Yes, yeah, I agree.

I agree.

He's got to make sure.

Talk about a guy that took the crown and held it.

Yeah.

Chris Paul.

Took the crown and held it.

And then my other who's back is Shohei Otani because they had an interview with his bookie.

And

he said, his bookie said that he believes that Shohei was aware of eBay's gambling or borrowing money, but it wasn't Shohei betting because the bookie told the story that he was at an

Angels game watching Shohei Otani pitch and watching bets come in.

But Ipe was putting in the bets.

Right.

On like soccer games.

Ipe was also at the game, right?

I don't know.

He probably was under, he probably didn't get to sit in the dugout, or maybe he did.

It'd be very funny if Shohei was betting on soccer games during baseball games.

He also said that Ipe was so bad, he gave him, he let him bet $100,000 on a soccer game, which is like no bookie in the world would ever allow that.

Right.

Like, Vegas puts limits on bets.

Like, bookies aren't going to be like, hey, if this guy wins a soccer game, I owe him $100,000.

This bookie had the dream client with ePay.

Yeah.

Absolute dream.

Yeah.

All right, Zach, finish this off, and then we'll get to Booger.

My Who's Back of the Week is Love because our boy Max is engaged.

Yes!

He did it!

Congrats, Max!

Max!

No, yeah, it was a good weekend, big weekend.

Tough timing that I had this planned for months, and then, you know.

Kyle Sherber hit hit four home runs.

Well, that was great timing, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But the Taylor Swift, Travis Kelsey thing happening the day before was not, was not the best for me.

But listen, a lot of people were saying that you weren't even planning on getting engaged, and then you saw, yeah, you saw that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey got engaged, and you're like, man, love is so cool.

I think, I think, I gotta get it.

Yeah, yeah, engagement is having a moment.

Yep, engagement was having a moment for sure.

But yeah, no, got engaged.

It's a very scary feeling.

Shout out Diamonds Direct.

Yeah, shout out Diamonds Direct.

They hooked it up.

I've known for I've been setting this up for months.

They made that part very easy.

Shout out Diamonds Direct.

Yeah, no, it's cool.

It's cool.

Now we've got to plan a bachelor party.

Yeah, so are you doing a Friends bachelor party and then a PMT bachelor party?

Yeah.

Or are we invited to the Friends Bachelor Party?

What do you want?

I would probably assume separate.

I think you should have like five.

Okay, yeah, let's do that.

We'll do a PMT party.

Why don't we do that?

If you're going to do a content bachelor party, you might as well do

five.

Yeah, why don't all five of us plan a bachelor party?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You can't do that many bachelor parties.

We'll do one sick PMT bachelor party.

You've got to have a high school one.

You've got to have a college one.

Then you've got to have

a content one and then a production side one.

And then five PMT.

Yeah.

I think it would be fun if we did a PMT bachelor party.

Yeah, no, we should do a PMT party party.

We should blow it out.

The boys should go on a quick trip together.

Yeah.

Real quick.

I already said that if Kyle Schwerber wins MVP, you're getting a big chunk of that to your bachelor party.

Actually, if Kyle Schwerber wins MVP, your wedding's probably.

That was all.

When I looked down at my phone, like after the engagement dinner and I just saw

our

group chat popping off, it was like, there's one for Schwarber.

Two, three, four.

And then it was just like, all right,

you have to propose every day.

I haven't proposed since, and he hasn't had four home runs since.

Okay.

Do your job.

Do you know where you want to go?

For the bachelor party?

Yeah.

I don't know.

We're going to have to

discuss as a group.

Australia?

Ireland?

We just said quick.

We just said quick.

Maybe AWL puts us up at a house.

And then only you, and then it's their friends, and then you.

We can't make it last second.

Oh, my God.

Those are good guys.

Yeah.

All right.

Congrats, Max.

We're very happy for you.

All right.

And she did say yes.

She did say yes.

She did say yes.

Listen, that was my first question.

I said, congrats, but did she say yes?

Yeah, yeah.

Thank you.

She said yes.

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And now, here's Booger McFarland.

Let's get to our guest, one of our favorite people.

Very, very special guest.

It is Booger McFarland.

He just finished his six donuts.

Those went down.

I'll say this.

Those went down surprisingly quickly and clean.

I think you've eaten a couple donuts in your day.

Yeah, that's the reason I know what the donuts will do to you because I've been there before.

It's been years.

Two things happened just now when I finished my fourth donut between four and six.

I started sweating profusely for some reason.

I had to kick the AC on a little bit.

Yeah.

And my skin, I'm starting to feel like a little tingling.

Is that normal when you eat a lot of sugar?

Yeah, no, that's good.

That means it's ready for college football.

That's a Saturday morning tradition where you get a little like sugar-high diabetes.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's close, man.

Wow.

All right.

So you did your six.

You're going to do another six later on in the year.

That was not hard.

It wasn't hard.

Eating is never the hard part.

It's the aftermath and the feeling afterward.

And as far, I'm sure you know this.

Once you, if you do it too many times, it's the look.

Like the feeling, then the look, because you, instead of becoming bloated, you just become fat.

And like, that's what we can't get to.

Yeah, it's also kind of the shame.

If you eat that many donuts, then like an hour later, you're like, what did I do to myself?

Right.

Right.

I never thought.

By the way, by the way, I was listening to

the bachelor party ideas.

Two cities are the greatest cities for bachelor parties ever one's miami and the other one's las vegas anything else like you're really fooling yourself

yeah yeah vegas is fun vegas is fun i max vegas is fun

vegas is fun

i like doing bachelor parties where you just like i i think the best bachelor parties i've been on have like been a cabin in the woods or something where it's like the guys can hang out especially when you get older and you don't get to see your friends so maybe vegas works for us because we see each other all the time but I like when it's like, you can't, because you go to Vegas with like 10 dudes, you're going to get split up.

Guys got different things going on.

You see each other at dinner and then it just kind of falls apart.

So are we talking?

Are we talking like a hangover type bachelor party where we're just going to hang out?

Tiger, yes.

And to get tiger and get drunk and everybody's going to do dumb stuff?

Yeah.

Are we talking like a real legitimate bachelor party where there's, you know, honey love, white chocolate, cinnamon, diamond?

Like, are we going to have

doughnuts?

Kalin?

White sprinkles.

I mean, all the other.

It's a couple different type of bachelor parties.

I'm just wondering which type are we going for here?

That's going to be ours.

Yeah, yeah.

I want to get a house and have the strippers come to the house and just degrade Max in front of us.

Okay.

Yeah.

All right.

Yeah.

I like it.

I like it.

All right, Booger.

We want to have you on because college football was great this weekend.

Saw you all weekend on our TV.

You look good in those suits.

Let's start with your team.

Brian Kelly gets the first big win week one.

I'd say this, was this the biggest win outside of maybe the time they, what, they beat Alabama his first year?

But this feels like a statement win for Brian Kelly at LSU.

What did you see on Saturday night, and how do you feel going forward about your Tigers?

So a couple things.

I think that's very astute of you saying it's the biggest win outside of Alabama because it is, because it kind of puts the narrative to bed that BK can't win a big game.

He can't win the opener.

That's number one.

Number two, can we end the debate about who's the real Death Valley?

Like, I mean,

at some point,

if we're going to show up at your house and kick your door down, when you take the bustle around the stadium and run down the hill and touch the rock and all that stuff, and then we just.

shut you out in the second half.

At some point, you got to realize that there's only one Death Valley.

And oh, by the way, you get to come see it next year.

That's number two.

Number three, I think LSU has a defense.

And that's something that we've always had.

But for like the last three or four years, it just kind of went away.

If we'd have had a defense to Jaden Daniels year, we'd have won the national championship.

I get it.

Ifs and buts were candy and nuts.

I get the whole thing.

But I think we have a defense this year.

They put a lot of money

into this team.

DBU is back.

We got some lockdown corners.

uh harold perkins look healthy and i think that's the biggest takeaway i think we got the best quarterback in the country garrett Nussmeyer.

He's a great young man.

He's a great individual.

He's the son of a coach, Doug Nussmeyer, who I think is the Saints OC or quarterback coach.

That's his dad.

So he's been around the game for a long time.

Big win for the Tigers.

But as we always say,

we got a motto and we stole this motto.

I'm happy to tell you, we stole it.

Anybody, anywhere, anytime.

That's who we play.

It doesn't matter.

That's who we play.

And I think we continue to prove it each and every year.

Yeah, that's Pat Hill, one of our favorites.

So it was a great, great Saturday for you because obviously the night cap with LSU, but also what happened earlier in the day.

I wish I could have watched that game.

There should have been a Booger Cam during the Alabama-Florida State game.

That's what I want.

How excited were you?

How giddy were you to watch Alabama not just not just lose, but get their teeth kicked in physically?

Well, I was more happy for Florida State because I living in Tampa.

I got a lot of friends that went to Florida State.

Derek Brooks is one of my great fans.

So I was more happy for them, but it's never a bad day when your rival gets their teeth kicked in.

And, you know, a lot of people that went to Alabama, that know somebody that went to Alabama, they claim Alabama.

And you got to give Alabama the props.

Under Nick Saber, they were the preeminent program in America.

They were dominant.

And I think everybody, it's like the Kansas City Chiefs.

Like when you win so much, everybody wants to see you get beat.

And it's no different like with Alabama.

I do think they have good players.

The most surprising thing, Big Kevin, and you'll love this, like they didn't play with a lot of effort.

They almost reminded me of like a guys that weren't in shape.

Like they were loafing.

They didn't run to the ball.

I mean, it was like they just didn't care.

And now I know that's not the case, but it seemed to me that the like the thing that made Alabama really good, which was the attention to detail, the effort they didn't have.

And so beyond the fact that your rival lost, like I'm concerned if I'm Caleb DeBoer, because if you're not putting forth the effort, that means I'm not connecting with you as a coach to get you to play hard.

That's just like this show.

Like when PFT shows up, you know you're going to get his best.

He might be drunk.

He might be hungover.

He might be high, but you're going to get the very best he has in that state.

That's right.

There's no question you're going to get his very best.

100%.

That's facts.

We don't know who he gets into what, but 100% of whatever I got.

When we get off the bus, we're ready to roll.

No doubt about it.

They weren't ready to roll.

You took it right out of my mouth.

They were not ready to roll in tallahasse and i don't know if you guys saw this but we could see it in the studio during commercial breaks because like when they go to commercial obviously you can't see they had dudes that are that are carrying around these huge air conditioners with hoses and they would stick a hose in each one of the guys that came to the sideline i'm like is it not hot in tussaloosa right like like is it not and they had a dude with like a with like a blower blowing them off yeah i'm like what are we doing here like it just seemed like they weren't prepared for Tallahassee and everything that Tallahassee brought.

So how concerned should

Kalen DeBoer be about his future at Alabama right now?

I know he's got a massive buyout.

So that number might be too high, but I know that it's heating up and the fans are not happy with what he's done, not just in this game, but also going back to last year.

Like, should he be concerned right now?

Should he be concerned, no?

Because I think the buyout is 70 million, but it's more what happens is he may not get fired, but his family's got to live in Tuscaloosa.

And I think he started out, what, four and oh, and since then he's five and five.

Yeah.

Like, think about that.

Five and five, his last 10.

Don't quote me on that, but I think I saw that stat somewhere.

So, like,

he's not going to go anywhere, but when his wife walks in the local grocery store, it's going to be some,

you know, when he walks in, you know, I'm assuming he goes to church every once in a while, the pastor might say a prayer for him.

Like, all these little things start to wear on your family and to wear on your kids because these kids got to go to school.

Little buddy's going to be like, hey, man, your dad sucks.

Like, like, like these are the things that happen to coaches that are not necessarily to the level of getting fired, but it bothers the family.

So that's what winning does, man.

Like winning makes everybody feel good.

Losing makes everybody have to take the brunt.

Now, he's dealt with this for a long time.

I'm sure his family's dealt with this for a long time.

He understands how to deal with it.

But unless you know what it means in the SEC,

and I think he's finally getting a taste of it, like it's like, it's not life and death, man, but it feels like it.

Like Brian Kelly, Brian Kelly in Baton Rouge won 10 games.

He won nine, he won eight, and they told him it wasn't good enough.

Like you win 10 at certain schools, they put a statue up.

In Baton Rouge, you got to win a championship.

And so Kalen DeBoer is in

a very unenviable situation.

Because unless he wins a national championship, it's not good enough.

Yeah.

And what, because

the shocking part, you saw it, too, and you mentioned it, like, it's Alabama getting like blown off the line of scrimmage.

It's Alabama getting punked downfield blocks.

It's Alabama's not, like, not being able to physically dominate an opponent, which is what they did for 20 years.

Is there a fix in season?

I know we overreact to week one, but I think it's because of what we're used to with Alabama to see the way they lost.

If they lost in a fluke, you could say, oh, okay, well, that happens.

But the way they got physically dominated, that is so un-Alabama-like.

Like, what's the fix?

How do they put that back together this year?

Two things you control in life is your attitude and your effort.

I think you control those two things.

Their attitude has got to be better, and their efforts got to get a whole hell of a lot better.

Like, if I'm the coach, I turn the film on and I show everybody that got their ass kicked.

I show everybody that wasn't running to the football.

Like,

the only way men,

I think, handle things, and I don't know how you guys do things in the studio.

Like we close the doors and we talk direct.

Like I'm not going to beat around the bush.

Hey, PFT, you sucked today.

Big cat, that wasn't good enough.

Like I'm going to tell you directly that it wasn't good enough.

That's how you got to talk to young men.

And you got to close the door and you got to say, I wasn't good enough as a coach.

So yeah, like the only way you can fix it, you're not going to get dramatically stronger in the next six weeks.

Like I think this, I think they're strong enough.

You got to change your attitude.

You got to change your effort.

And it starts with the coaching staff.

Like whatever DeBoer is doing, he's not connecting enough with the players because you often hear this about a coach, man, I'll run through a wall for him.

Run through a wall, they won't even run to the ball for him, let alone run through a wall.

Like, so somewhere along the line, he's not getting them to buy into everything that he is trying to instill.

That can change, but it's got to be like your habits have to change.

Because if they're doing that on game day, I guarantee they did it at practice.

So the other side of this, because obviously the story is Alabama, and it's unfair to Florida State, but the story is Alabama because they've been at the top of the college football world for two decades.

Is Florida State maybe good?

Because that was a hell of a game for them.

And they, you know, Thomas Castellano talked shit, backed it up.

Mike Norvell, who went through a terrible season last year, gets a huge win to start the season.

Like, Florida State could be one of those teams that we look back, we're like, why did we say that they were going to be bad again?

Think about this.

Mike Norvell, to my understanding, was offered the Alabama job or offered the chance to interview.

He turned it down.

Then he goes two and 10.

And then in the offseason, he says, I am where I want to be.

Thomas Castellano comes out and says, hey, when they come to Tallahassee, Nick Sabin is going to be there to save him.

So this is a Florida State team that had no business having any type swag at all.

And Thomas Castellano's, 5'10, 5'11, 200 pounds, says, y'all got to come see me.

Think about the level of swag you walk into the locker room when you got a quarterback that shows up like that.

Like it's about mentality.

And Florida State has a ton of athletes.

Like it's the state of Florida.

They got a ton of athletes.

They got a mobile quarterback and they got old Gus Malzahn.

Like Gus Malzahn fits perfectly down there because

as soon as the students were storming the field, did you see the tweet that Gus Malzon sent out?

Yeah.

He said it feels like old times, referring to when he used to beat Alabama at Arbor.

Like, so now you got an offensive coordinator that talks

you got a quarterback that talks stuff you got a head coach that's kind of got a little swag to him florida state may not win a national championship but they got an attitude guys that's different and when you get 85 guys however many guys on scholarship when you get guys like with the right attitude showing up to work man you can accomplish things there's no doubt in my mind alabama's more talented than florida state but Florida State showed up with the right attitude and the right effort.

They opened up a brandly, a newly renovated stadium, and they played that way.

Can they beat Clemson?

They can beat anybody in the ACC.

And wouldn't it be something where two years after they didn't get into the playoff, going 13-0 or 12-0, they get into the playoff this season?

To me,

that would just be like the right thing for the football guys to do.

Yeah, I agree.

So if we're looking at one week, just one week of college football,

who would be your Heisman after one week?

Oh, man.

Heisman after one week impact.

John Matir from Oklahoma was outstanding.

Love him.

I mean, he was, I mean, to talk about to go from Jackson Arnold to John Matier, like, it feels like going from like

a stripper named Honey Love to Bashful.

Like,

it's like, it's a totally different mindset.

Of course, I'm biased.

My guy, Garrett Nelson.

on on a big stage yeah at the fake at the fake death valley to beat that team in that house um he he he's not the biggest guy he doesn't have the strongest arm i think he's the best anticipation thrower that we've seen in a long time i think uh he'll be the first quarterback taken when it's all said and done so he's got to be up there um

i tell you who's not up there and i think we all expected at least vegas did his arch yeah and and and and to me that made the that may have been the most shocking performance of the weekend um since you're talking about guys that are there for the Heisman, let's flip it over on the other side.

Like, have we ever seen a debut?

Can we think about a debut in any sport that went worse?

Like, think about that.

Think about Tiger Woods when he showed up.

Hello, World.

Think about LeBron, his first game.

Like, all those went great.

How many first appearances in any sport can we think that was just terrible?

Because he was bad, guys.

Well, now, it's not all his fault, but he was really bad.

He was.

You could throw out his uncle, whatever it was, 33 interceptions, which we all laugh about.

But

Peyton Manning basically gave a pass for every quarterback to have a bad first season with the 33 interceptions, even though he was still good and moved the ball down the field.

But you're right.

Like,

that was as bad as bad gets.

Are you buying stock in Arch?

Because we did a little...

Before you came on, we pulled the room.

I'm still buying stock in him simply because that was probably the hardest place you have to start your career in the horseshoe, national champions,

incredible defense.

Matt Patricia can coach defense.

Like, you can't, it wasn't a cupcake.

It was the opposite of a cupcake.

So I think I'm going to buy stock in him and think he will figure it out.

But people who say that he's just not, doesn't have it, I can't really disagree at this point.

Well, he doesn't have it yet, but I think he'll get it.

So am I buying stock in Arch?

Yeah.

You know, the most surprising thing about Arch guys is this, is that he's got an uncle that's in the Hall of Fame that's a four-time MVP.

He's got another uncle that's a two-time Super Bowl champion.

It'll probably get in the Hall of Fame.

He's got a dad who is a legend and excuse me, a granddad who's a legend and a dad who I think has raised him as good as any father could raise a superstar.

And he seemed unprepared for the moment.

Like all of that wealth of knowledge around him, he seemed unprepared.

Now, you can blame the family, you can blame Sarkeesian, but ultimately,

it's kind of like we talked about on this podcast.

Like, it's about your mindset.

Like, he looked like he wasn't ready.

He wasn't accurate.

He didn't, I mean, he couldn't hit the side of a barn on some throws.

And I think that was the most surprising thing.

Like, you would expect coming from that pedigree, he would have showed up ready for the moment because he's been in situations.

He's seen, he's been in the stand in Super Bowls.

He's been on the field probably for Super Bowls.

He's been.

at Tennessee in the midst of 100,000 when Peyton was there.

Like all those, all those things, man.

um

that that was the most surprising thing uh but to answer your original question i would double down on arch okay like i would put i would i would put more money on arch because i think just because of of the pedigree and the worker and what i've heard about him um

I think he's going to be phenomenal.

Like, he's 6'3, 6'4.

He's 220.

He runs 4'6 in the 40.

He looked like a kid that had been swimming in four feet for a long time.

And for the first time, mom and dad threw him in the 12 feet and they didn't get in with him.

Like, if that makes sense.

Like, he can swim, but he was really nervous being in that deep of water with no life jacket.

That's what it looked like to me.

And also, if Texas had scored on that goal line possession where they got stood up at the one,

we would be saying things about Arch.

We'd be being like, yeah, you know, he didn't play well.

We'll see how the season goes, but we wouldn't be totally burying him if they had just somehow managed managed to win that game or like take it to overtime because it's tied 14-14.

The story's a little bit different because they lost.

There were some things that I was, I am still also buying stock in him, but there's some stuff that I saw and I was like, well, he's just not a great quarterback yet that I don't know that you can explain as a one-on-one.

Such as what?

His accuracy was the main thing.

Like I understand that

in his family,

his uncles were incredible at processing defenses, right?

They could look at the field and know exactly where the ball was going to go, where they were going to look on each play, draw the safety, boom, hit him.

He's going to be open.

That's stuff that takes time.

So I'm not burying him for not being at that level yet, but his accuracy was bad when it had to be great.

And I'm not talking about like perfect throws.

He missed some very easy throws.

The only thing I can ascribe that to, besides just like his technique, is nerves.

He might have just been very, very nervous in this moment.

Yeah, I mean, but doesn't that surprise you?

Like being a manning and being nervous and having been around as much as he's been around his entire, like, to me, that's surprising.

Like,

this wasn't his first game.

Like, he started two games last year.

Like, he's played before.

He played against Georgia

last year.

Like, he's been in big moments.

And, and, like, that's no different.

Like, I get the horseshoe and all that.

That doesn't bother me.

But, like, when you're on that field.

And I don't want to put him in this category, but you know, those looks that Eli used to give us on the sidelines?

Yeah, the Manning face.

I saw a couple of those from him, and that bothered me.

Yeah.

What about

Sunday night, Miami, Notre Dame?

Yeah.

That was,

I said it was the full Crystal Ball experience because he's a hell of a recruiter, roster builder.

And then at the end, almost like the play calling at the end was suspect, very, very nervous.

But is Miami a real, like, are they a national title type of threat?

Because it looked like Carson Beck got a little bit of his swagger back.

He got a little swagger back.

He had a couple of lucky, like the first touchdown, Notre Dame played a ton of man coverage.

He drops back.

He throws up a, I'm not going to call it a jump pass, but he threw a ball that the receiver ran under.

The one that

C.J.

Daniels caught was the Odell Beckham catch was unreal.

Carson Beck looked like he was a stabilizing factor.

Like it was a good first game out.

Miami's got a really good defensive line.

Like Bain and those guys, they get after you.

I'm concerned concerned with miami's ability to run the football um can miami challenge clemson based on what i saw from both of those teams yes i think the acc is more wide open than we've ever seen we all thought that clemson was going to run away with it clemson doesn't have a running back they moved a wide receiver to running back clemson's offensive line is not very good florida state might be the most physical team in the country so you add all those together put in with miami do we really know who's going to win the acc right now so i think the acc is as wide open as we ever thought it could be, especially going back before the season, because we all thought Clemson was going to walk away with it.

In honor of Lee Corso, not so fast, my friend, because I do think that Miami, Florida State, Clemson,

I think they all are going to have something to say about the ACC when it's all said and done.

But I'm not going to say the U is back.

Like, I'm tired of using the U is back.

They've been trying to come back since 87.

So, I'm not going to say the U is back.

I'll just say I like what I saw from them last night.

Also, they've been kind of back.

Like, we make the jokes about Texas was, you know, has been a playoff team.

Like, Miami has been, you know, they went one 10 game.

They went 10 and two last year.

So they've been building towards this.

They've been consistent.

Last year, obviously, that loss against Syracuse.

In terms of Notre Dame, though, I actually was impressed with C.J.

Carr.

That's a tough place to start your career.

Obviously, he had some

things he wants back, but he also made some plays where I was like, this kid is going to be good.

Did you feel the same way?

No doubt.

You know, unlike Arch, I thought that CJ went from four feet to 12 feet, but when he got into 12 feet, he could doggie paddle.

And then throughout the game, not only did he start doggy padding, he started swimming from side to side.

And then he said, you know what?

Toward that last drive, he said, I'm going to go all the way down to the end of the pool.

So like you saw him get better through the game.

And, you know, I think Notadame's biggest problem is they didn't give the ball to Jeremiah Love enough.

Like we came into the season saying Jeremiah Love, Jadarian Price, 24 and 4.

For a while, I didn't know if Jeremiah Love was hurt.

Like he wasn't touching the football that's one thing the second thing that hurt not a dame is they got to get some guys on defense that can rush the passer marcus freeman loves to play a lot of man-to-man and when you play man to man and you got these guys running all over the field there's only so long you can cover deion always says hey i can cover for a little bit but i can't cover forever pass rushers got to get there and so they couldn't run the ball as well as they should have and they couldn't rush the passer uh other than that i think not a dame is going to be fine their schedule sets up very favorably um they're going to get a couple of, I think they play AM, they play Arkansas, so I think they should be able to get a couple of good SEC wins.

Notre Dame's in great shape.

Don't be surprised if you look up Notre Dame is 10, 10 and 2 or 11 and 1.

Yeah.

Booker, how mad were you on Saturday night when they called that touchdown back for LSU?

It's, you know what, it is, man.

It's like, okay, what's a catch?

Exactly.

Yeah.

Did Dez catch it?

I don't know.

I mean, did the guy from LSU catch it?

I mean,

at a certain point i don't know what a catch is i thought so if we use this rule you know how drew breeds used to take the snap and jump across the line and as soon as the ball broke the line it was a touchdown yep so if we use that premise when you catch the ball and you cross the line the play should be over it's a touchdown

yeah so using i have no idea how the lsu kid didn't get a touchdown no idea whatsoever yeah yeah it was infuriating um do we want to do some nfl talk real quick i just had i have one last college question before we do a little nfl is you You were in the bunker all weekend.

Every time, halftime, we see Booger, again, look great in your suit.

You do look a little fat right now after those six donuts.

What other teams or players impressed you week one?

Because I know we overreact, but it's always just we're excited to have football back.

Yeah.

John Montier, Oklahoma.

I think he looked apart.

He looked really good.

Bryce Underwood.

Yeah.

Wasn't sure what we were going to get out of Bryce Underwood.

And

I wanted to see him throw the football.

Like, we know he's a dual threat guy, but he threw the football really well.

I thought that

South Carolina, Lenore Sellers, is as advertised.

If he comes out and he continues to improve, he might be the number one pick in the draft.

Tennessee, how about Tennessee?

How about Nico Il Maliava?

Leaves.

I don't want to be there.

He goes to UCLA.

They get hammered by Utah.

They suck.

In comes Joey Aguilar.

Nobody's ever heard of him, and he just lights up.

And dare I say, he played better than Nico ever did last year.

Yeah, like, I love to see stories like that.

When, you know, the guy who's kind of too high and mighty leaves, and then comes the other guy and plays better.

That was good.

Um,

I'm trying to think who else, who else off the beaten path looked good, man?

Uh, Auburn looked good.

Jackson Arnold getting a second chance.

I need to see, I need to, he looked good.

I need to see a little bit more.

I'm not a believer yet in Hugh Freeze and Auburn.

Okay.

I need to see a little bit more.

Nico Dramatica.

We got another one.

How about that?

I mean, it's like 12 of them, isn't it?

I know.

It's crazy.

They're all really good.

You got Bill, Martine, and they all got kids.

And then they've been kicking forever, man.

So that was good.

It's going to be interesting to see.

USF plays Florida this week.

Yep.

I'm not saying it's an upset.

I'm not even saying the game's going to be close.

I'm just saying it's going to be interesting.

That's all I'm going to say.

I like that.

That was an interesting game of the week.

Yeah.

USF looked awesome.

I mean,

they took it to Boise.

I mean, Ash Boise.

Boise post-Gentie didn't look quite the same.

That to me is just more fuel to the fact that Ashton Genty should have been the Heisman Trophy winner.

I always said that.

We've said that from day one.

Running backs are not going to win the Heisman.

They may as well just call it the quarterback award.

Well, Travis, Travis, he's pretty good.

Well, okay.

And Sean Smith, the other, you know, four years ago, five years ago.

That's been a minute.

Yeah.

Well, talk some NFL real quick.

Talk a little NFL.

We can talk whatever you guys want to talk.

Booger, what team are you most excited to watch this year in terms of like something new is cooking up there?

You're expecting something different from them.

What's one team that you're thinking about and you're just getting amped up, waiting to see what they look like on Sundays?

Well, I think it's the Rams.

You know, everybody is saying that it's in the NFC, it's Detroit, it's Philly.

It's Green Bay.

I'm excited for the Rams.

Like, the Rams are young.

You know, years ago when Raheem Morris got the job in Tampa, he coined a phrase called younger.

We're young and hungry.

I think that applies.

Yeah, it's good.

I'm going to steal that too.

You're old Greek right now.

Exactly.

I think it applies to the Rams.

Think about them.

Like they're young.

You got Verse.

You got

the other kid that they drafted.

I forget.

uh uh is it fisk yeah the other kid that the defensive tackle they drafted uh byron young like they're really young on defense and if the old man matthew stafford is his if his back can hold up man like they're gonna be they're gonna be really good and think about this they were one throw away from beating philly in philly in the snow last year yeah yeah they were

the rams are a good team um i'm gonna shock you with this one

it's not gonna be popular it's probably not even believable oh boy

But if the Colts get competent quarterbacks,

I mean,

people don't talk about the Colts roster.

Chris Ballard has done a really nice job of building a lot of talent.

The problem has been the quarterback position.

Anthony Richardson has just underperformed and underwhelmed.

I don't know if Daniel Jones is ever going to be a superstar.

But remember, Andy Dalton.

If Daniel Jones was Andy Dalton and Indy, how would you feel about Indy?

I'd say they're the playoff team.

Listen,

that's my point.

In that division, yeah.

And I'll throw in there: I think people are not fully rating the move from Gus Bradley to Lou Enarumo because Gus Bradley's defense was as stale as stale could get, and they would get gashed every single weekend.

And I think that they have some dudes on defense.

I don't hate that call, especially in the AFC South where it's like, who knows what you're going to get.

You know, the Texans have banged up receiving core going into the season.

Trevor Lawrence has a big year coming.

The Titans are trying to rebuild.

I like that call.

Yeah, I mean, the Titans are playing a rookie quarterback, and he's going to go through his ups and downs.

He doesn't know what he doesn't know.

Jacksonville, like, we've been waiting on Trevor Lawrence to be the generational guy since, I don't know, what, Clemson?

And Houston,

Houston's defense is going to be top five.

Yep.

Defense is going to be legit.

I don't know if they can protect C.J.

Shroud.

I honestly don't know.

And

have you seen Joe Mixon lately?

Yeah, no.

No one has.

So who's running the ball?

Nick Chubb?

Maybe Damian Pierce.

I don't know.

Nothing against Nick Chubb.

Nick Chubb is one of my favorite players ever for his perseverance, but Nick Chubb, like, he's had a couple of just bad knee injuries.

And it to me, it's not if, but when.

Like, so I like, I'm not necessarily buying the Houston Texans, especially with no Joe Mixon.

You trade away Laramie Ton.

So the offensive line is going to be young.

And now your quarterback is going to be pressing because we told him that he wasn't good last year.

So he wants to come out this year and be better.

The defense is going to be good, but I just don't know what the Houston Texans are going to give us.

I like everything you just said about the Colts, except for the fact that it's still Daniel Jones.

You kind of got us there where I got.

I got pumped for the Colts for a second.

Then I was like, wait a second.

He's not being

big if.

He's like, if he can be Andy Dalton.

It's sad that you have to be like, I'm begging for you to just be Andy Dalton.

Yeah.

If he gets to be Andy, listen.

If he can just get close to being a Red Rifle, they got enough talent around them, man.

If the foreplay is so good, sometimes the sex doesn't really matter, does it?

Think about that.

I mean, let's be honest.

If the foreplay is amazing,

I mean, it's absolutely amazing.

Yeah.

Does the, I mean, are we willing to give a little bit of a you're thinking about those donuts again.

How much are you willing to compromise on this?

Would you say, like, if he can be Jimmy Garoppolo?

I need Andy Dawson.

The good Jimmy.

He's all for Andy Dawson.

Good, good Jimmy that went to the Super Bowl that missed Emmanuel Sanders?

Yes, I'll take that Jimmy.

That Jimmy.

How worried should I be about the Packers adding Micah Parsons?

It's bad.

That felt like the Packers were already a really good team, and they just were missing one of those game-changing guys on defense.

And Micah Parsons is probably the number one game-changing guy on defense.

So talk me off the ledge.

They're all in.

That's the one thing I keep telling myself.

They better win now.

I think there's only one team that I would take over Green Bay right now on a neutral field, and that's Philadelphia.

Shit.

Because I think Philadelphia still has the ability to line up and hit you in the mouth with Saquon Barkley.

But if the Packers get a home field advantage, and you got to go to Green Bay and you got to play up there,

they're going to be tough to beat because here's the factor.

Matt LaFleur is calling the plays.

If the quarterback is healthy, they got a runner, they got a bunch of young wide receivers, and if that defense led by Michael Parsons, Rashawn Gary, Devontae Wyatt,

the kid from the kid Edric Cooper from A ⁇ M, Quay Walker.

They got a bunch of young dudes, man, that they don't know what they don't know.

And they are just young and kind of crazy enough that they can go win it all this year.

They got to stay healthy.

I trust Matt LaFleur as a play caller more than I trust the guy in Detroit, more than I trust the guy in

Philadelphia, more than I trust.

I don't want to say McVay, but I'm almost willing to say more than I trust McVay.

Like Matt LaFleur to me is that good.

So Green Bay, if Green Bay stays healthy, man, as I always say, they're going to be a tough out.

Like you're going to have to really really beat them and beat them the old-fashioned way because they can play any type of game you want.

They got a good runner.

They got a good quarterback.

They got a good receiver.

Let's say the weather is shitty outside.

They got a really good defense.

So they can play any type of game you want to play.

Were you shocked that Dallas did that?

And do you think that's a good move for Dallas?

Was I shocked?

No, because I think it had gotten personal.

And emotions.

when emotions become involved, like Jared Jones was a billionaire, but at his core, he's a human being.

And he's a human that has emotions and at a certain point he made up in his mind for whatever reason that he wasn't going to pay micah

and it's no different than us man like people who are emotional are petty like could he have paid micah sure he just decided not to and then now i got i got to come out and i got to spin it and we can talk about all the other different things but

one of one of my former coaches said this you don't trade away

great players.

Good players, you can trade away, but you don't trade away great players because great players are Hall of Fame players and they're hard to come by, regardless of what they do.

All right, Jimmy Johnson said it best: I'm going to treat everybody fairly.

I'm not treating everybody equally.

Okay, so Michael may have been hard to deal with.

If he falls asleep in a meeting, wake him up.

Hey, Michael, you might want to pay attention to this.

It doesn't matter.

Like, whatever he did,

if you look at what he did on the field, there's only one other player that was that started on the trajectory that he did, and that was Reggie White.

And so, was I shocked?

Yes, but Jerry is a human and it got emotional and it got petty.

And Jerry, at the end of the day, think about this.

The one thing that I know bothers Jerry is this, is that the three championships he won, people that know football said it was Jimmy Johnson.

And if you watch that documentary, it bothers the heck out of him.

He even says during the documentary, I'd pay a lot of money for another championship.

So I think he wants to do two things.

He wants to vindicate himself for the Jimmy Johnson trade because Jimmy often says he traded Herschel Walker.

So this was his Herschel Walker trade, even though they didn't get nearly what they got.

This was his chance to say, look at what I did as the head, as the owner and GM.

This is what I did.

Let's see if it works.

And number two, he wants a championship.

I just don't know if Dallas is good enough.

No.

No.

Although Dak does have receivers again, and he has been, when he has that second option, and George Pickens

has to keep his head on,

Dak has had, you know, very good years.

to be kept.

Like, I mean, if they can't score 40, they're not gonna win.

Yeah, no, you're right, you're right.

Um, so who do you have in the Super Bowl this year, Boga?

Uh, who do I have in the Super Bowl?

If you had forced me to pick today,

I'm going Buffalo because I just believe at some point it's your time, I'm going Buffalo, Green Bay, in the Super Bowl.

Okay, and you have who winning.

I think, I think Green Bay does it, man.

Based on where we are today, I honestly do.

Now, you guys have asked me that, and so now I get to ask you a couple of questions about your team.

Okay.

Yeah.

The Bears.

Yeah.

How are we feeling about Caleb Williams, one start, Ben Johnson, everything that's come out of Chicago?

How do we feel?

Okay.

I'm excited to watch him play.

I'm nervous.

The one thing I'm excited about is that, or I'm excited about a couple of different things, but Ben Johnson, from everything that I've watched, read,

training camp, he is a true culture changer, and the Bears needed that in the worst way possible.

So

Caleb has everything right now.

He has the play caller.

He has the offensive line, maybe not left tackle.

We'll figure out how that goes.

He has what could be, and I've been very

even keeled this entire offseason.

But there's a chance, would you tell me if I'm crazy for this?

There's a chance that the Bears pass catchers could be an elite unit at the end of the season.

Like in terms of you got Rome, you got DJ Moore, you got Colson Loveland, you got Cole Komet,

you got DeAndre Swift, you got some really good Luther Burden.

Like they have all of the,

they put all the resources into this being a special group.

So if Caleb is going to be the guy, it's got to be right.

Like he's got to do it.

You got to see it this year.

There's no more excuses.

Last year was a shit show.

This year, it feels like he has everything in front of him to be successful.

I think your analysis is spot on.

Basically, what I heard is this.

We got all the ingredients in the kitchen.

It's time for him to go make the meal.

Right.

And I can't answer if he's like great or not because I don't know.

Like last year was, there was flashes where he was great.

There's flashes where he was terrible.

So it's like, and there was a lot of circumstances around that weren't working in his favor.

Now we got him working in his favor.

As for the defense, that's probably more of a concern.

I don't know.

The pass rush, guys have to step up.

There's got to be some guys that take a next step on the defensive line.

And the secondary is

a little iffy after Jalen Johnson, who's hurt, who's coming in, you know, banged up.

So we'll see.

I do trust Dennis Allen.

I don't know if the personnel totally fits what he wants to do, but I'm thinking the Bears are

hopefully like an eight or nine win team.

That would be awesome.

Yeah, I think the Bears got an outshot shot of 10 and 7, 9 and 8 somewhere in there.

that's about right yeah dft talk to me about these uh commanders you trade away

probably i'm not gonna say the heart and soul but a guy who embodied like a lot of traits that dan quinn wants you trade away brian robinson and you finally get terry mclaurin signed like

how are we feeling big guy jaden daniels is so good that's my that's my analysis he's awesome He's awesome at playing for me.

He can't throw it and catch it, though.

Yeah, but so Debo, I think, is going to be a great addition because he does work the underneath.

We didn't have a lot of yak coming out from Terry last year.

I forget who our leading guy at yards after catch was, but I don't think it was even Terry.

I think it was probably,

it might have been Diami Brown.

I'm not sure, but Debo obviously specializes in that.

Having Terry over the top is going to be great.

I think I've watched a lot of Brian Robinson.

I like Brian Robinson as a running back.

I like him as a person, but he wasn't that dynamic.

He was just like, okay, he's going to run up the middle.

He'll get you three yards every time.

He'll run into some defender's face.

And he's like a physical dude.

That's kind of what he does, but he wasn't like, he's not a playmaker.

I think from what I've heard and what I've seen, Bill, the running back that we got in the sixth round, Bill Krosky-Merritt, he's going to be great.

I hope he is.

If he stays healthy, I think he'll be awesome.

He's more dynamic.

But I think the real story of this year is going to be how good the defense plays because last year.

On offense, I think we were 87% on fourth down, which is insane, right?

That's not going to happen again.

It's not going to happen again, but we're still going to be, I think we're going to be pretty good on fourth down because we've got, like, Jaden is a dynamic playmaker when he gets the ball in his hand, especially in short yardage.

So I think we'll still be good, but really, we won't, I hope that we won't have to be that good on fourth down next year because our defense, I'm hoping, is going to come up to like maybe even above average.

If we can have a middle-of-the-pack or above-average defense next year, I think,

I don't know if it's like Super Bowl ready, but I think we're in the conversation for Super Bowl, which is crazy.

I think you're a year away from that because I think right now, like there's a certain way you have to win.

Like Jaden Daniels has got to be spectacular.

If he's not spectacular, how are you going to win?

So

that's the way I look at these teams.

How many ways can you win?

If the weather is bad, if...

if

like if whatever is going on if it's an offensive game or defensive game like how many ways can you win and right now the only way that you can win is he's got to be awesome now he has been awesome and he'll probably continue to be awesome but can he be awesome for 20 21 21 sundays because that's ultimately what it takes is going to take 20 or 21 sundays to win it all he's got to be awesome yeah and there is the thing about the schedule we had a very easy schedule last year that is that is the truth if you go through and you look at it it was last play schedule uh pretty favorable for us this year it's night and day so we got to play a lot of really good teams this year so i'm expecting i'm expecting a little bit i'm going to say 11 wins for the commanders this season so

one less than last year.

But Booger Wait, I think they're going to be a better team, but they're going to only win 11 games this year.

I agree.

They may be a better team with the lesser record.

I think you and I are sharing a brain just because the schedule is going to be tougher.

Hey, I think both of you guys are very optimistic.

I would love nothing more than to see you two guys in the playoffs.

Both of you guys meet in the playoffs and you just take the part in my take pregame show on the road in Washington or at the new soldier field to me that would be absolutely awesome yeah we're still we haven't gotten our shovels in the ground yet for the new soldier field we need we still need it we still need Arlington uh heights to get it going all right booger i got one last question for you roback question r-h-o-b-ack.com promo code take 20 off your first purchase q-zips polos hoodies joggers shorts rowback.com promo code take all right so it's been about an hour since you ate your six doughnuts uh how are we feeling uh can't wait to have you back on in in a few weeks and and have you eat another six.

Shouldn't have gone against Tommy Fleetwood, but how do you feel?

You probably feel great.

You probably want to eat six more.

Well, I was thinking about it.

Just so everyone knows, I did have six.

And so there are the other six that are still in there.

So as you can see, they're still there.

I did knock out six.

I feel good.

The sweats have subsided.

I'm not really sure if I'm going to eat anything else.

I drank a bottle of water.

I think I need to drink about three or four more to see if I can flush the sugar out.

I don't want it to absorb.

I want it to just kind of do like a pass-through.

Overall, I don't know how you do this every Sunday.

Saturday.

Like, well, every Saturday.

Like, like this feeling that I feel, you know, like the sweats and the tingling, like, I don't know if that's a good feeling or not.

Not really sure how you do it, but I also know that I won't be eating six more donuts until later on when we do it.

And then after that, I probably won't eat another donut for a couple of years.

Yeah.

A couple of years.

Come on.

You got to, you love the donuts.

Donuts are delicious.

Donuts is great.

Donuts are tremendous.

My favorite snack, though, is peanut butter.

I could eat

that.

You eat off the snow.

What are you, a dog?

No, I just like peanut butter.

Yeah, on a spoon.

That's it.

Just put it on a spoon and eat it.

Just put it in a little Kong toy so that you have something to do.

We just give you a jar and then you give it back and it's all cleaned out except for the very end of it.

That the very end, like the little swirl at the bottom.

You know exactly what I'm talking about.

All right, Booger, you're the best.

Thank you so much.

And we can't wait to see you soon for another six donuts.

No doubt, man.

Enjoyed it, fellas.

Always a good time.

Until Saturday morning when I see your next donut review.

Hey, do me a favor.

Yeah.

Like,

it's okay to indulge a little bit.

To me, like, you bother me when you put the bacon and the chocolate on top of that.

Like, that bothers me.

Like,

that really bothers me.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Those are the good ones.

Those are the good ones.

I mean, just take it easy on those.

All right, Booger.

Thanks so much.

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Okay.

Wrapping up the show.

Reminder, we have a show on Wednesday where,

as of right now,

are we doing a duel?

Are we doing a Mount Rushmore duel?

What are the standards?

Okay, I got a question.

Yeah.

What happened in Friday's Mount Rushmore?

What were the final results of that poll?

Do you have the final results, memes?

Don't read into that.

Okay, the final results were you guys finished first.

Nice.

Me and Hank.

Nice job, Hank.

Got three points.

Zach and I finished second, got two points.

And then Max and Memes finished last, got one point.

And what does that bring the total to?

That brings, do we have the total?

Do we have the exact total?

If we go through with this Rushmore as is

Rushmore is

daggoned forever.

A baseline of facts.

Daggoned forever.

We can do it.

We're just asking for the total.

A baseline of facts needs to be established.

We're just asking for

your records.

Well, wait, okay.

Can we get

facts as well?

You can't say you're right about what you're talking about.

I'm excited.

No, no, no, yeah.

Max, what was the final?

This is what happened.

Max, you guys came out.

No, we need the final score.

We haven't even figured out what the final score was.

It was 10%, but I think it's 51, 48, 48.

Oh, we got a duel.

Got a duel.

Was that a duel?

That wouldn't imply.

Yeah, because two people are tied for third.

We said that if two people are tied for third, that it would be a duel between the two teams.

Correct.

Should we talk about the facts?

You guys keep saying facts.

You want to talk about the facts?

Actually, just so we're correct here, because memes, I think he might have done that intentionally.

It's actually 54, 48, 48.

Okay.

He said 51, 48, 48.

No, that could

come into play later, my friend.

That's a little foreshadowing.

Yeah, no.

Let's talk about the facts.

Let's talk about the facts.

Present Present me with the facts.

What facts as you see them?

Last week, we put together a Mountain Rushmore that here's what happened.

Big Cat and PFT described the exact scenario of how this would go as a duel.

You must vote this, this, and this if you want this, maybe six times.

Didn't say a word.

Are we giving facts or hyperbole?

That is a fact.

Six times?

Six times.

You have facts on six times.

Okay.

You said you were dealing in facts.

All right.

Let me continue.

Maybe it was was four times.

Are we facts or not?

All right, let me continue.

Let me continue.

What are we doing?

Let me continue.

Then Big Cat had the first pick.

Hank and PFD had the second pick.

Big Cat and Zach.

Big Cat and Zach selected Dylan Harper over Cooper Flag.

What are you talking about, dude?

I hate taking people to the airport.

You said it many times.

Yes, for sure.

You definitely hate that more than helping people move.

I haven't, I honestly, I'm forcing you to get away from that.

You said there are two clear

Max, Max, I thought you were going to take this an entirely different way.

No, no, no.

No, I'm saying.

We're going day by day.

Day by day.

This is what happened.

And me, and me and Mime stood by and said, okay, I understand for the good of the show, they want a duel.

That's fine.

That's fine.

May I say something?

Yes.

I'm a 40-year-old man, okay?

All my friends are grown.

All my friends are the same age as me.

None of my friends have asked me to move their house for 15 years.

I brought this up to you earlier and you started laughing.

Other people.

Another fact.

I could have been laughing.

I was happy to see you.

You're a funny guy.

Other people, or other people in my life have asked me for airport trips.

Even in the last year, I'm just going off what's relatable to me.

Is that a lot of people?

You love driving.

I do, but not to the airport.

Not to the airport.

Okay.

Okay.

I don't.

I don't like driving to the airport.

Right.

Do you like helping people move?

I honestly can't remember last time that's been asked, so I wouldn't even know.

Okay.

I might.

I actually might.

I might.

I don't know.

Would you offer me pizza and beer?

Let's go.

Let's go.

This actually might backfire against Max because he's throwing just everything at the wall instead of targeting and zeroing in on one arm.

What I am saying is that there was obviously collusion.

This is a wild accusation to say this.

There was obvious collusion going into the polls on Friday, and Memes and I stood by and were like, you know what?

We'll allow this to happen.

Let's see how

the poll plays out.

That sounds like a bad thing.

Let's see how the poll plays out.

I'd like to talk.

Yes?

I can't control what Big Cat does.

If he doesn't pick moving, we are obviously taking moving.

That is not just colluding.

That's not collusion.

That's all I said.

I think the collusion part is when I told you guys I was going to take the airport trip and you guys take the moving.

Oh, that was probably.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Oh, there we go.

There we go.

That's not a part of that conversation.

Okay.

I don't.

You guys were both in the room when I I said that.

I don't know.

Obviously, that's what was going on.

I knew

that's what was going on.

And we said that.

I have a point.

All these protests are fine, but this isn't even the protest.

No, but traditionally.

Oh, this isn't the protest.

No.

The protest has to be made if you're saying, if you're lobbying accusations of collusion or, hey, you threw that pick.

You would typically make that argument during the Mount Rush one.

No, not after the Muslim comes up.

That is what I am saying is that

I was allowing the collusion to happen for the good of the show.

And in good faith, I was allowing this to happen.

Okay, but can I just say

we'd just like to talk about

even got to his protest yet?

Oh, yeah, he hasn't got it.

But I would like to make an opening statement.

All I care about is the AWLs, and I want to put on the best show possible.

Good point.

And I care about the AWLs getting a duel.

We will.

If my love for the AWLs is a crime, lock me the fuck up and throw away the the key, right, Zach?

Correct.

Zach and I are going to be bunk bed mates in prison, kissing every night on the lips.

So we get to Friday.

So we get.

Top or bot, which bunk you want.

So we get to kill.

I would like to go bottom because I would probably fall off the top.

Deal.

I'll take the ladder.

What about the kids?

They don't get to Friday because they know they kissing Friday.

Day by day, whatever we got to do.

I don't know how bad it is.

Whatever we got to do.

They were going to be here Friday.

Whatever we got to do to survive, right, Zach?

You get my back, I get your back.

You got your six, you got my six.

If I have to pimp you out,

so be it.

If you have to be, if I have to be like, hey, guys,

Zach's got a bunch of holes.

He won't let us get fried up.

Just don't fuck with us, but you can take any of them.

We can find other ways to make money in prison, baby.

But I'm just so many ways.

Let's start other ways.

There's so many ways we can.

I said I wouldn't do it.

I'm about to.

No, don't get mad.

Don't get mad.

No, I was 10 seconds away of just playing the video.

I'm not going to play the video out of it.

The video is illegal.

I'm not going to play the good video.

The video is illegal.

But I will talk about what happened in the video.

Okay, well,

if you're going to talk about the video, talk about what the pretenses of the video were.

We were taping a video.

We were taping a podcast that we were sending to our ghostwriter about the book.

That is confidential information that should never be seen.

Was this part of the book?

Again, you're robbing the AWLs because if you put out the video, then the AWLs will see how the book gets made and they won't buy the book.

We want the AWLs to have a great book experience, right?

PFT?

Well, it's really more about the contract that we have with the publisher.

So we could release that tape.

Unfortunately, if we did, that would be, I think, like five to ten years in prison.

Okay, so I'm going to talk about what happened in that tape.

So, the poll comes out.

PFT and Hank go out to an easy lead up to like 60%.

Nice job.

Good job, guys.

That pick movie.

An hour in.

Wait, no, wait a second.

Wait a second.

You know what's disgusting about this whole program?

You guys just never let me talk.

Jesus fucking Christ.

I said I wasn't going to get mad.

You guys are so fucking annoying.

You talk a lot, Max.

You won't let me fucking talk.

I've been trying to say, let's get the Friday for the past 20 fucking minutes.

All this is a it's a big discussion.

Big cat was talking about bunk beds or something.

What the f- I don't even know what you were saying.

We were talking about how we would survive in prison because we love the AWL so much.

And if it's a crime, lock us up.

And Zach said he would take the bottom belt, right?

He said that he would let me.

I get top bunk beds.

Oh, you want top?

He doesn't want the last bed.

And I'm allowed to pimp out every single one of his holes.

We're going to find other ways to make money in prison.

Hey, what about the kissing?

This is what happened.

We go up 5%.

Big Cat turns everyone and goes, oh, shit, we're going to lose.

Then Hank goes, oh, you should do something.

Big Cat goes, oh, oh, I have an idea.

I have an idea.

He tweets.

You should do something.

He tweets right.

No.

True.

Big Cat says, I need to do something.

Hank goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Tweet it, tweet it, do it, do it, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Then Big Cat tweets from his burner.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

We're up 5%.

He tweets from his burner, retweets himself from his main account, and it flips 10% in three minutes.

I was looking at Big Cat's account.

I didn't see it.

And somebody texted Rico Bosco and say that if you don't vote for team one, you're a rider.

You're not a rider.

Wrong.

Wrong.

Yeah, right.

No, I DM'd him.

Wrong.

I DM'd the rider hype circle.

So if we continue with this rushmore as is, this ends Mount Rushmore season forever.

Forever.

There's no point of doing it during the regular season.

Max have a question.

Can I talk now?

Yeah.

Okay.

In the past, when we've had these disputes about Mount Rushmore season.

Can I talk, Max?

Yeah, sure.

Please let him talk.

You're in the middle of the day.

I'll never get to fucking talk on this show.

It's just fucking bullshit.

Max, we have established a pattern on this show.

We've established a punishment for when you break the sanctity of the poll and you tweet something about the poll.

Hank himself did it earlier this year.

Jesus.

And we went to the past.

And

you never lost a point for it.

Oh, no.

So do you want to lose a point for it right now?

You fucking idiot, PFT.

You never lost a point.

What's the rule?

What's the rule?

The rule is.

We talk about it.

What's the rule?

I'm telling you what's going on.

The rule is that if you win, then you get a point deducted.

And

I'll go, you know what?

I not only will take away.

You get automatic third point.

I'm going to take two points away from Zach and I.

And I also, you weren't here on Friday, Max, but Zach and I agreed to an eight-month show cause penalty, no Mount Rushmores.

So if we do a Mount Rushmore in the middle of February, we are not allowed to participate.

We can do this.

We can go loophole, loophole, loophole,

or we can go as is and just be like,

no, we're going to pretend like nothing on Friday ever happened, and we're just going to do a normal duel.

Or there's three options that we can do.

We can completely forget what happened on Friday

and do a duel between me and memes, Hank BFD, which ends Mount Rushmore forever.

It ends the entire integrity of this show, I would argue.

That's already been gone since Pete's purpose.

His show has been gone.

Welcome,

welcome to my one.

Oh, no, would you?

Hank,

how are we dying?

Pardon myself.

Oh, my fucking God.

Mount Rushmore was lost five years ago.

Hank, if you were in my spot right now, you would be.

Ugh.

Ugh.

You would be fucking insufferable.

Oh, my God.

You used to cry just because they had a bigger following than you for no reason.

Well, you're getting mad about Youngestown Bob's following, which is pretty crazy.

Youngest down Bob is not.

He's a real person.

Retweets are not endorsements.

And it's Rico Bosco saying that if any all riders.

Dan, you're wrong.

DM.

What are we doing?

Retweets are not endorsements.

It says it in my bio.

Retweets aren't a thing anymore.

I think there's one way to solve it.

What?

Yes.

It's called a repo.

We go as

our original.

And the third way is the real way to do it.

We go as our original plan as if there wasn't two losing teams that the two of you would duel and the worst person would do the punishment.

I'm okay with that.

Yeah, but that's what it was supposed to be.

I'm not supposed to be able to do it.

That's what it was supposed to be.

We did not know what was going to happen at the end of that poll.

Big cat colluding should not affect us.

Yeah, we didn't know what to do.

Do it, pick the cat, pick the cat, do it, do it.

Big cat, do it, do it, do it, big cat, do it.

I wouldn't say do it.

I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

We were talking about the book.

We were talking about the the book.

He said, we're not going to write the book.

Write the book.

I said, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Let's have Young Sao Bob tweet about the book.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I also,

Big Cat didn't retweet it, which no one told him to retweet it.

I thought he was just going to.

He said, I have an idea.

Which I should probably be deducting a point.

He said, I have an idea.

Also, the DM with the idea.

Which I like his ideas.

The DM with the Ryders, I think, is above board.

Like, that's just all.

That's writer stuff.

But.

The look in your face of the, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Whoa, you watch watch that tape?

That's illegal.

Yeah, I watched a fucking tape.

You're going to be in jail.

You're going to be in jail with me and Zach.

Those are the three options.

So, Max, tell me.

Those are the three options.

The three options got very confusing.

Explain them again.

I think we should all do a duel.

But, Zach, before we do the three options, rank your holes that you want me to pimp out.

We're going to make so much more money in prison on the way to the bottom.

There's so many other options.

Actually, there's four options.

Oh.

The fourth option is the two of you do a duel.

Because Memes and I are the only one who didn't do anything wrong here.

Me and Hank?

What did we do?

No, you two do a duel against Big Cat and Zach.

No, we finished first.

We're not dueling.

I think.

Okay.

We go.

The Jesus thing.

Oh, this is insane.

But I mean, that did.

I mean, why did you make that on?

Why didn't you deduct the point then?

Now we're deducting points from something that happened four months ago.

That's good points.

Not four months ago, but two months ago?

That's a good point.

How long do you think summer is?

It's a long time.

How long have you been golfing?

It was in July.

It was actually like a month.

You guys said we're going to lose.

You saw that you were going to lose, and then you just changed the entire game.

Wait, no, we were not going to lose.

I didn't do anything.

We were in first place.

You saw that you were going to lose the season of Mount Rushmore.

I didn't see anything.

I had a good.

We've come back.

We came back last week.

Eight points.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Do it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

He said, I have a plan.

I didn't know what the plan was.

If he said what his plan was was illegal, I would have said no because I respect the segment of Mount Rushmore.

He did not say, watch the clip, play the video.

He said, I have an idea.

I'm a rogue actor.

He said, I have an idea.

He did not say what he was going to do in the video that you're saying.

And I was looking out for

also incorrect.

He said, I have an idea.

Should we play the video?

I have the video.

No.

We can't play the video.

Okay.

All right.

All right.

Good.

Why is that?

Because that just shows your guilt.

More than anything.

I just want to show you that.

That's love to play that guy.

That shows your guilt.

We can't.

All right.

So,

Hank and PFT, you guys want to duel?

I mean,

this seems like you're just tucking tail.

You kind of just fucked us.

Okay, fine.

Then I'll deduct points and you guys doodle.

We did nothing.

We did nothing wrong.

Why are we getting put in a situation to do a punishment for no reason?

For no reason.

The way the voters voted.

Yes, by completely manipulating the polls.

And you know that you're not going to be able to do that.

That's not on us.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

He said, I have a plan.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I have an idea.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You can, like, you know what you did.

I did my spot, you'd be doing the same thing.

Tenfold.

Tenfold.

If you two do a duel against us two,

there's no rushmore anymore.

It means nothing.

Okay.

Why?

Because then you guys have millions and millions of followers.

Max.

You can do whatever you want.

Max,

you can make this, you can make it whatever you want.

I will.

Which means that if this is a 50-50 duel between us and you, and we lose, it's like the biggest, the biggest controversy in the history of all of the internet.

I told Shane I wasn't going to get mad, and I actually think I'm doing a pretty good job.

Yeah, you're doing great.

Max, what if I told you I'd be willing to accept doing a duel against Hank again for the second year in a row?

But I would have a chance.

But what about your followers' arguments then hurts me?

Because then I'm going against PFT.

But you won't tweet the poll and say, vote for this and vote for this.

I didn't do that.

I never did that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

He didn't say what the plan was.

You knew what the plan was.

No, I didn't.

No one knew the plan.

This is insane if you don't know what the idea is.

He said, I have an idea.

What the heck?

Yeah, he had an idea.

The idea was to write our house.

Was to manipulate the polls.

That was the idea.

Big cat said, I have an idea.

And Hank, what's your job?

You're executive producer?

You guys started debating what the punishment would be.

Fact or fiction.

You guys started debating what the punishment would be.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

All right.

What if we did a duel, Max and memes versus PFT and Hank, and if Max and Memes lose, Zach and I will do the punishment with you.

You don't.

I'm offering it.

Obviously, I got involved.

I don't think I should be punished for loving the AWLs and wanting a duel.

But again, it seems like that's a crime in Max's eyes.

He hates the AWS.

We had a plan for a duel.

I don't know why you just forgot that we had a duel in place.

I have a question.

Like, we talked about this, that if there wasn't two final teams, we were going to do a duel between the last-placed players.

We always had that.

If it's a duel between myself and Hank and Max and memes, what assurances do we have that you're not going to rig this bowl?

I'm not going to touch it.

Also,

you guys were all in on me rigging the ball.

You guys are the only one.

I had no idea what the idea was.

Don't do that.

I had no idea what the idea was.

Like, we should just go through with what the poll was about to do.

It was going to be Hank versus BFT.

To be clear, that's not necessarily true.

I was never in favor of rigging the poll.

In fact, when I found out what happened, my first, I think my reaction was like, Big Cat and Zach should be in the duel, too.

That was your reaction.

But then Hank said,

but then Hank said, no, we'll give him a one-point deduction because Big Cat was like, I'm not doing that if I'm in the duel.

And then Hank says, no, no, no, you won't be in the duel.

You won't see my duel.

That's what happened.

That's how I remember it.

Hank goes, no, no, no, you won't be in the duel.

You won't be in the duel.

Just do it.

No, I thought we were

going to be able to do that.

You're like, yo, minus one point.

Minus one point.

It'll just be us.

Then I went along with it because I was like, well, that means that I might not have to do the punishment.

I forgot you gave me immunity, Hank.

Hank,

it was a tag team between Big Cat and Hank being like, let's rig this thing.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

That's my fucking guide for life.

I have made a career off of Big Cat, you know,

pushing him to pursue his ideas.

He has good ideas.

I didn't know what this one was.

I wish I did in hindsight.

It's true, he's an ideas guy.

I trust him whatever he says.

Fuck it.

I'll do the duel with Hank.

Yeah, I'll do a duel.

That's the integrity play to go through with what it was.

Well, it's a real shame that the poll got rigged because it definitely could have switched.

I gave a fair option.

It's also just a real shame that Max is just going to go down history as an all-time whiner.

We'll do it.

This is what it was supposed to be.

But I did give a fair option there that we would do the duel.

I'm fine with that.

I'm fine with that.

I'm okay with that.

No.

You guys are.

Max, take a lap.

No, no, no.

Think about it.

No, no.

I think I.

Your brain's going too fast right now, Max.

The four of us should have an advantage somehow in this duel because they should have lost.

Young South Bob could tweet about it.

No, there's no, no.

Hank and I'll do the duel.

I think.

Yeah, let's duel.

What do you got, Max?

Use that brain.

Use that brain.

Deep breath.

What if we

gotta take a couple deep breaths?

What if we do it a 2v2v2?

And if

I try to do that.

That's just Mount Rushmore.

What am I trying to do?

There's nothing there right now.

It's okay.

You're upset.

I think that they're.

I want to do the duel, but I want to have an advantage of winning without 100% winning.

Well, why don't you do the duel and we can come up with the secondary punishment if you guys lose?

That's less severe.

We still got a lottery ball for the punishment.

We could come up with...

Why don't we come up with punishments right now?

I'm in.

I'm also in to just do the duel with PFT.

I didn't realize this was such a yeah, I'm down too.

Aura.

I forgot you gave me immunity.

Hank and I could do a one-man, one V2 duel

against Max and memes.

I go, and then Hank goes, and then we both go together against them.

And if we sweep them all three times, we beat them.

Oh, that's...

That would be good.

Then they lose.

That would be good.

But

if you beat us even once, then me and Hank lose, and now we have to duel each other.

Okay.

So that would be.

What show would that be?

We're going to Wednesday duel and then we could Friday single duel if we needed to.

I like that idea.

Yeah, so Wednesday will be me against Max and memes, Hank against Max and Memes, me and Hank together against Max and Memes.

Only way that they have to do the punishment is if we go three for three.

Three for three.

And if you have to do the punishment, I will do the punishment with you as my as my

punishment.

That's what I was trying to get to.

That's what I was trying to get to.

And then, Max, on Friday's show, do you want to duel memes?

If we lose?

Yeah.

Yeah.

To see which one of you two has to take on the punishment.

Yeah, if you lose pretty much nothing.

No, you guys just do the punishment with us.

Yeah.

Zach, will you be okay with...

Yeah, I see.

I think you're the most innocent person out of everything here.

So if they lose, we do it, right?

But if they win, we don't do it.

Right.

Okay.

But we have more of a chance of winning.

See, they have to sweep.

Yeah.

This is fair.

This is what I was trying to come to in my head.

It was Max.

But I wasn't able to get to it.

Thank you for helping me land that part.

I was reaping great ideas.

I almost said land that boat.

All right.

So do we all feel comfortable with that?

Yeah, no, this feels good.

I think this is good.

Just to reap.

This is good.

There's going to be a duel on Wednesday's show.

It's going to be PFT versus Max.

Is that what you want to do, the setup?

Yeah, we could do that.

Me versus Max.

And then Hank versus Memes.

Yep.

And then 2v2.

Yep.

And then PFT and Hank have to sweep to win.

And if Max and Memes lose and have to do the punishment, I will join them.

And Zach will join them in the punishment as punishment for malfeasance on

even though Hank gave him a test.

I have a question.

Before I officially agree,

how do I...

PFT has the most followers out of the four of us.

No, no, no, no, no.

It's back to regular rules.

No retreats, no likes, likes, nothing.

The winding out pug is nothing.

Pug gets to decide if anything correct.

Okay.

Any type of tomfoolery immediately

I just needed to make sure that that was stated.

Yeah, because like we did, we did a whole Mount Rushmore season clean.

So Young Sound Bob fired off a tweet.

What are you going to do?

You can't control him.

He's going to loose tongue, that guy.

Yeah.

I thought for sure you were going to have him call in and say that he tweeted it.

No, of course I tweeted it.

What?

I tweeted it.

I DM'd the riders.

I colluded with the first pick.

Again, the only crime I have here is that I love the AWLs and I wanted a duel.

And we have a duel.

And we have a duel.

And justify the means.

Everything I did, even though I'm now up for punishment, I'm okay with it because I love the AWLs.

I wanted him to see a duel.

Duel up.

All right.

So the duel will happen on Wednesday's show.

Zach and I will come up with the topics.

A reminder for the duel, it is off the dome.

So it's no computer, no phone.

We say a topic and you do it.

You're going to have to beat Hank.

Yeah.

And it won't be, it's not going to be like, you know,

biggest underdog wins ever.

You know what I mean?

Like something that's like, you got to actually look up like greatest calls in sports history.

It's going to be pretty straightforward duel.

Okay?

Let's rip it.

All right.

Before we do lottery balls,

Pug is back.

Back from Greece.

Back from

his honeymoon.

Pug, what was the.

I screwed up the time zones today.

The podcast is going to be released on YouTube at 6 p.m.

Eastern, correct?

6 a.m.

6 a.m.

Eastern.

What the fuck?

I screwed that up so bad today.

It's because the clocks changed.

6 a.m.

Eastern, right?

Is the podcast to be released?

Yeah.

On YouTube.

So 5 a.m.

Yes, 5 Central.

5 Central.

That will be all football season.

All right.

Yep.

Went to Greece on the honeymoon.

It was awesome.

Got some gifts for the boys.

Opa.

Big cat got you a little Minotaur bobblehead.

Pretty sick.

Oh, hell yes.

Still wrapped up.

Oh, shit.

My bobblehead collection's

still wrapped up, but

that's sick.

Wait.

Bring it in here, Zach.

Look at that guy.

Oh, that's awesome.

Go, Bulls.

Bulls are back.

Go right next to the Pope and the Hawaiian lead.

Here, give the chain.

Go bring it in.

Forget about that.

PFT, I got you a Greek mini guitar.

Pretty cool.

Oh, hell yeah.

Like a ukulele.

Yeah.

Love that.

I like the Greek equivalent.

I like that Shane got me a Pope bobblehead.

Now I'm just the bobblehead guy.

Yeah,

I followed the trends on some past.

Thank you, Pug.

Oh, that's all.

Yeah, it's like a little ukulele.

That's the best gift I've ever gotten.

I have an actual name of it.

What are you doing?

Called the bazooki.

Holy shit, that's awesome.

Thank you, Pug.

Did you lose the cart?

What?

Lose the cart?

Oh, what's the cart?

Oh, no.

I got the cart right here.

Of course.

For Max, he is an Italian man, so every good Italian man needs olive oil.

So hook my boy up.

This is all.

Fuck yeah.

Oh, let me get a great gift.

Yeah, yeah.

Oh, look at this.

Look at this bad boy.

Look at my little...

I got the Minotaur, Hawaiian lady, Pope, and a golf cart.

For Hank, I know he has an official desk now, so I got him a little desk decor, a little Spartan head.

Pretty sick.

Oh, yeah.

Okay.

Oh, yeah.

Bronze little Spartan head.

Is that paperweight?

Could be used for various purposes, I would say.

Give us three purposes:

decoration, paperweight.

Vibes.

Okay, nice, nice.

For Zach, since he is not an intercourse guy, I got him.

It's a deck of playing cards with Greek erotic scenes from history.

Nice.

Very graphic.

Yeah.

Sexual positions here.

What kind of erotic scenes?

What kind of erotic scenes are the Greeks known for, bro?

Just various, I would say.

Yeah.

For Shane, Shane has always asked me for a bottle opener, so I got him this

penis bottle opener.

It's like a black penis.

Very nice.

And memes, I got a little.

I was trying to find tits.

There was a lot of penises, not a lot of tits, but I was able to find a little

Greek tits lady for you.

Hell yeah.

Oh

how did you eat well?

Oh I ate so good.

Love that.

The stomach was not fucked up because sheep's milk so we were good.

Nice.

You go to the beach?

Huh?

You go to the beach a lot?

Yeah, a lot of beach, good food, good vibes.

You see any

like old architecture like the Acropolis?

Yeah, I went to the Acropolis.

A lot of ancient theaters and ancient buildings.

A lot of Greek gods and mythology.

Very, very cool.

Love it.

Did you see Stavi?

Was he there?

No, but there was a lot of people named Stavros.

A lot of random Stavroses.

For Jack, I got some authentic Greek candy called Lakumi.

Very good.

It's addicting.

And yeah, that's it.

Thanks, Pogg.

Thank you, Pug.

Great to have you back.

That's the man right there.

Good to be back.

Numbers three.

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Okay, I have three.

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6.

Memes.

This is a fun toy.

Uh

hmm.

28.

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Pug.

Oh, it hits good.

You want to whap?

19.

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Whap or boost?

76.

Shane has 76.

I don't think I'm going to

have 76.

90.

90.

90.

Love you guys.