Pete Crow Armstrong, Joe Buck, Pardon My Book Is Out + Mt Rushmore Of Things Guys Keep For Too Long

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Welcome to part of my tech presented by draft kings. The crown is yours. Today is Wednesday, August 19th. And boys, we did it. Our book is out. We've done it. We've said it. We've said that we've

“said this book and some got awful writing out into the universe. I've given this, I think I've said”

this before in the show, but if you please buy a book, if you buy a book, also maybe when you're on Amazon buying the book, buy a highlighter and maybe some sticky notes because what we did was an interactive book that you can also edit along with us. We care more about telling than we do about spelling. Yeah. And I think the point gets across. If you read Zack's chapter, we know. The answer to your complainers, we know there's some misspellings in there. Who cares?

Guess what? That's the English language if you talk to any historian. It evolves. We didn't always

spell words away. They're spelled right now. It's efficiency. It's efficient and Zack is nothing but efficient. It was a labor love. I'm glad that the book's out. I'm glad that we're done writing it. But I did get a chance to read through parts of it just to check up on some things that I hadn't had the opportunity to look at before. First of all, big shout out to Hank for the pictures selection. Oh, yeah. Great job. We put pictures in there. Great job on the pictures. We also broke it up just

so everyone knows into quarters because we thought people would understand that so there's four quarters in the entire book. For all you soccer fans out there, you need stuff broken up into quarters. We did that for you. So it was like a labor love. It was cool reading every chapter written by the

Blake Portals, Blake Griffin, Ryan Racer, Chris Long, Kyle Long, Ryan Whitney, SVP Florio, Josh Allen, Adam Shepter, Jerry O'Connell, Jim Harbock, Chris Burman, Stu Finer, Mark Titus Timwoods, Mr. Portnoi, Coacho, Rico Bosco, Jake Marsh, Billy Football, and then all of us. Just looking, but we should have had death when a chapter. Yeah. We should have gone back to death and get that. I forgot we had a halftime speech from Coacho. Yeah. I think it's a fun book. I think you

guys will like it a lot. So it is truly, it's truly humbling to see people that are like taking pictures of the book for their dogs like that. It's a book. We made a book for people who don't like to read. That's really truly it. It's split into quarters. There's chapters that are two pages in length. So yeah, please buy it if you can. We love doing it going down memory lane. 10 years. We promise we won't write another book till at least 20 years. And probably I'm actually a say 25 years.

I might retire from writing books. I think I'm going to retire from writing books. You can always

“come back if you want to. Yeah. Yeah. I think I got to retire from this. But it was very fun. We”

get into it with Joe Buck who wrote the forward for the book. But everyone has bought it. It was already bought it. Thank you so much. Everyone who hasn't bought it. What the hell you're doing by the book, please. And once everyone buys the book, literally every single person buys the book in America, we will stop talking about the book. So that's okay. Yeah. Tell a friend. Yeah. I had a moment where I went to Target this morning and I was looking to see, I want to see

the book in person. You know, there's that's got to be cool moment. I still haven't had it yet, where I walk into a store and I see, see my book. I went to Target and it was sold out. Ooh. And there were lots of Kelsey Brothers books that were so terrible for purchase. Interesting. I thought that was an interesting moment. And special shout out by the way to Matt are Ghost Rider who helped very, very much with this book. He was able to talk to the guests and

help them write the chapters and organize the book. He was a very integral part. We want to be able to write the book and also Dom who basically Dom let us around for the last three months being

“like you have to do this now. We're like, no, we don't want to do it now. And when I don't know”

you have to do this now. When that didn't work, he like broke it up into colors. Yeah. It's like, oh, if you see red, that means you have to do that now. Oh, at one point he was like, you have to give me five pages tomorrow. And I was like, I can. He's like, okay, well, if we're talking real here, like I need three. And then like you just keep bringing it down. Look at that, sold out. Okay, well, let's talk some sports because we got a great show. And we're going to do some FAQs on the

book at the end of the show. We need to turn injuries off in training camp. It's getting to be a problem. The charges had how many injuries do the charges? They had three injuries within an hour. One, it was a joint practice against the 49ers. And it was unfortunately Tyler Beatish their center. That's not good. He went down. And now I don't know if this is true. I read, I did read this online that the charges have now had gone three years where a very important offensive Lyman has

been injured because they're left guard through somebody into that person's legs during a practice. That tracks. Like, is it the same guard every time? I don't know. It just keeps, he just keeps, he needs to learn to throw people the other way. Yeah, that tracks. But yeah, we had that commonung guys out for a few weeks. He got tackled in, uh, no pads, which was not great.

Breeze Hall, how's he doing memes? I saw, it's always bad when you ever have memes just

tweeting the like person jumping out of a building. And all those memes, you're like, oh, I don't know what happened, but something happened. Well, Rich, I mean, he's a piece of shit. Okay. He tweeted it and it made it seem like he was going to be out for the season. What do you say? Max, if you scroll down. What do you say? What do you say? He's scrolled too far. He scrolled too far. He was just basically like he went down without being touched. Okay. And it made it seem like it was

either an Achilles or an E. All right. So did he actually like did he say it's bad or did he just report like he went down without, is that true? Breeze Hall goes down untouched while running after her catch. That was it. He's a piece of shit. He's a piece of shit. Mm-hmm. Okay. That was like first thing in the morning. It just made it. That's he bad. That's the shit that that should be illegal. When she after treated the Kobe Bryant was out for eight to 10 weeks.

“He was like, you should have to go to jail for eight to 10 weeks. You can't get that wrong. You cannot”

get that wrong. But yeah, let's turn them off. I, this is a point of the season. We're so, so close to football. Just get all the guys to football season. You don't want to hear anything about your team right now. No. No. No. Absolutely. It doesn't matter what it is. Yeah. Any news right now. Bad news. It scares

you. There's never any good news that come. I guess the only good news is when a beat reporter is like,

hey, you know that White receiver is probably going to be cut. He was absolutely on fire today. Yeah, he caught everything. And then you're like, oh, shit. We might have like a new number two receiver. Yeah. Jordan Tyson also for the Saints got hurt. It sucks. It all sucks. So let's just turn injuries off. McAfrey's still not there. Tighten, but probably tightening up. What does he tighten? No,

Yeah. Every day of my life. Yeah. I can't touch my toes. I don't know if it is possible to

“be too tight. I think I think we're walking examples of too tight guys. I'm probably the tightest”

person here. You might be. And I'm not too far behind. But shout out Jersey Jerry for his doctor. Yeah. If you need a doctor, talk to Jerry. He's definitely who you want. He's my number one medical guy. Yeah. Absolutely. Okay. So that that happened. We also had the Lakers. I can someone explain to me what's going on with the bus family. I think I understand. Okay. Give it to me. It's like if there were a show on like one of the perceived channels. HVF had a super like rich

fan. Do you know what I'm getting out of here? Yeah. Yeah. When the show about the Lakers. No, it's actually a combination of winning time and succession. So yeah. The team or the

the family thought that they could sell the team. Genie buses. I know you can't sell the team because

only my signature matters. Okay. So is that true? Don't know. If that's true. Has there ever been a clearer? I'm the favorite child moment than that. Yeah. Being like, oh, all five of my siblings want to sell the team. But daddy loved me the most. And I have the golden signature. What a flex that should that feels like to be like, hey, I know we joked about it at Thanksgiving and Christmas. But no, no. I'm daddy's girl. Yeah. So art. I guess they legally they might not allow

it to be sold. That'd be crazy. They have the minority stake though. Though the the Mark Walter's guy who I feel like that's that we're just getting started with that. Yeah.

“Because did you guys see that show? Hey, has an opt-out in his contract if he ever sells a team?”

I did see that. In fact, I didn't know about until I saw some reporting that he's not expected to

exercise the opt-out. Yeah. But it did it made me think for a second like when that be sweet if he did.

Yeah. It feels like conspiracy theory. Here we go. Ready. Fingers up. It feels like this thing is a very interesting timing when we're about to hit a maybe labor stoppage in MLB and everyone's like the Dodgers or ruining baseball and oh, whoops. The guy owns the Dodgers spending all the money. Now, that's the sell the Dodgers and he can't spend all the money anymore. Do we just fix baseball? Hmm. Huh. So the attorney for Lakers

Governor G bus says the trust vote to sell is void. Arguing Leo standing that requires her to be controlling owner on a lifetime basis. Her lawyers demanding get the representatives of the trust make it clear publicly that Genie is the controlling owner of the Lakers and that they take no action on this vote to sell the 17.8% stake. That's per Sam Amick. So yeah, 70.8. I don't know how much that makes a difference. Yeah. But I guess she gets to stick around and be the be Genie bus. She gets

a continue to be Genie. Yeah, because otherwise, if she doesn't own the Lakers, she's no longer Genie bus. What are you? Yeah, not Genie bus. You're not Genie, but a former bus. Yeah. You're your retired bus. You're like hosting podcasts now instead of driving on the road. Could you imagine that? That's actually sick idea to do. She's very well. She does. We should do that. You think Genie bus can get a podcast? Yeah. Why not? Right. Why not? For sure. Yeah.

“And then the Clippers investigation, I don't understand as well. Are they cleared or not cleared?”

I don't know. I think cleared. I think cleared. I think cleared. Okay, cleared. Turns out that the NBA has investigated itself and found no wrongdoing. So they don't want to roughly feathers with the world's what? Six richest man. Yeah. And also, if they're a competent organization, when it came to driving players, they would do it in a way that Steve Balmer actually did not know. Yeah, about it. Like that's kind of an unwritten rule. It's like don't bring the big

man into it. I love Steve Balmer. He does the rich guy thing correctly in terms of like he hasn't changed. He's still a nerd that's probably sweating through his blue collar shirts, right? Like he's not, he's not Bayzos trying to get jacked and get on some gear. He's not Zuckerberg trying to choke some dudes out. He's not Bill Gates flying to some unnamed islands for parties. He's just Balmer who's like, hey, I want to win so bad. I might create a fake tree or a company and and do it that way.

Now, if you're saying he hasn't changed, I would also argue that maybe Bill Gates. Like his whole thing was I get to go spend a weekend with my ex-girlfriend. Yeah, I don't think that was what got him in trouble though. Probably the Epstein stuff. Yeah, I'd say so at some point he was dating high school chicks and he was like, I, you know what? All you people have changed. Yeah, not me. Yeah, that's the same old Bill. Yeah. I'm cool Bill hanging out. What's up, kids? So yeah, I don't know.

I think that the Laker or the Clippers will not be punished. I think the Lakers sounds like Ginny Bus has has a legal case and if she doesn't move onto the podcast bus bus bus and

name like that. I like that a lot. I think that now this means that the Raptors are going to

“get quite Leonard. I think which makes him very good. It would be funny if the NBA just blamed it all”

on quite like why he didn't even react. He did everything and turns out the Clippers did nothing. Yeah, they're completely innocent. He would just do his weird robot lab. Why I started to fake tree. Do you have anything about LeBron? I don't think I don't think he's been in the news. I did look. I looked earlier today. You got to look. You got to look every day. You got to look every day. Let me, let me, let me double check. What? What big LeBron story is going to break when

Matt went to the honeymoon. He did almost in a hole in one. I know him is a golf creator now, not a basketball player. So talented. So many different talents. So many different talents. This is a story about the cell phone usage thing. Yeah. We have Peacro Armstrong in studio, but I was at the club's game on Monday night. That was awesome. He's the fucking best. He had a

home run to start the game first pitch and then he had a home run to end the game last pitch.

It was a playoff atmosphere. There was fighting in the bleachers. That one dude ate like 75

“punches. I don't know. I think he kind of started. He made the first kick. Then he just sat down”

in the bleachers and just ate punches. That was a bad fight. Bad fight. I think I ran out of gas because he went up and down steps a couple times before the fight started. And that's like when what's his name? Wilder when he made that huge walk into the ring. Yeah. It was gas because he was wearing those big ass robes. This big dude, he went up and down those steps like three times. Yeah. By the time hands started flying, he was like, I just did a stairmaster workout. I just

got, I'm going to have a seat for a while. Yeah. But PCA is, I mean, he's reached that level where it's like, when you get to that next level of, I fully expect him to do something magical. Yeah. I mean, where it's like not even a question of, oh, well, he come through with something big here. No, he's going to do it. And it's going to be sick when he does it. And he was, I mean, he had a two home runs a single and a double. I know show hey, hit two home runs, but he was doing

it in Colorado. Mm-hmm. You could fucking do that. That's a pop ball. Anybody can do that. That's a fucking pop. I could hit a home run in Colorado. I could probably dunk in Colorado. Did you guys see Kyle Tucker? That guy is in the depths of hell right now. He dropped another easy fly ball. He is. I don't know what you do if you're Kyle Tucker. Like do you, Max, what do you, I mean, like do you sit him forever? You got to sit him for like a week or something. He's just got the

yips right now. He's so far, far in his own head. I don't hate the idea of sending him down to the miners for like a week. Right. Like remind yourself that you're good. But not even triple a single way. Let him just mash. Yeah. Send a little league. Send a Williams port. That's not about idea. That actually would be really funny if like that was the next. He would kill it. The next wave of analytics is like when a guy gets yips, they have, they have a standing travel baseball team,

12 year old travel baseball team at their spring training facility. They're like, I do just go down, just fucking hit some mammoth home runs off these kids. Maybe strike a couple of them out,

“make a couple of them cry, then come back and be yourself. That's why the Nat's offense is so good.”

This year because they're pitching staff is pretty much like a little league team. Yeah. So like in spring training, they just all got really confident. Yeah. They're like, yeah, we can all hit but Kyle Tucker's in hell. They also are up 10 one on this game and absolutely nothing. Is, yeah, no, of course, but baseball yips are the worst yips, right? I mean, guess golf yips, golf is pretty bad. baseball golf are like kind of one in the same though of like it's just you.

And there's nothing around you. Yeah. But tennis, tennis serving. Beans baseball yips may be worse just because you have the teammates to be like, yeah, you were letting other people down. I mean, all of them are probably not saying a word, but you know they want to say something and you know that they're like, hey, dude, are you okay? Free, free throw yips. I would say, kicker yips. Kicker yips are very safe. You got the whole team and

everybody could kick your ass. But, but kicker, the only saving grace for kicker yips is you can just get cut. They usually fire you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A kicker usually doesn't get to recover from like it's fatal. Yeah. Like Kyle Tucker yips, you're done. Kyle Tucker signed a 240 million dollar contract. You can't just be like, oh, dude, you're cut. What about this for a dumb idea? What about moving him to catcher? Just so that he thinks God when he gets moved back out to right field.

Just one inning. Yeah. He's like, I'm so glad I don't have to do that anymore. I don't hate it. Right. It's really just his hitting is so bad that every his mental is done with everything in the game. Yeah. He can't hate where shit. No, he sucks. I mean, if the Dodgers win the world series with it's like on expert mode, that is the one thing. It's it's actually very similar to kicker as well. Like he if he hits a big home run in a playoff game, everything is forgiven. If the kicker

has the yips and then hits a big kick in a playoff game, it's like, oh, shit, we always love them.

But Joshua Bias has still not gotten hit off of anyone. Not named Matthew Boyd. He should have retired. That's interesting. Oh, and over 16 six kids. He should have retired. Yeah. He like go out on top, dude. Just be the bet be the guy that everyone's like imagine if he had

played his whole career. He would have had a million home runs. Did you hear CJ Abrams moving to

second base? No, I did not. My theory on that is they couldn't find anybody that wanted trade for him. Oh, because he's clearly a bad defensive shortstop. And so, but he would be like maybe not

“as bad second base. Still one of the best hitters in baseball, right? I think they're going to”

ship them all. Don't you have a very good defensive shortstop as a prospect we've got trying to make we before we've got two. So I think that we won't have two minutes. Oh, probably that would probably make more sense. But I think I think both could be very true at the same time. Oh, shit. I think the market on him was not what they expected it to be. AJ's store commits to UNOV. I'm just reading the screen. That's his fifth, fifth team in five years. Bill, no, it's quarterback. Oh, no. Yeah. All right.

Let's do about rock. Well, we're doing it. We're doing it. The actual second base. We're going to and build over quarterback and AJ's store. I was looking at it. I was looking at Dylan Reel of the other day. Yeah. How much he's bounced around. So he's at Oregon now. Yeah. Obviously in college, he committed to Georgia. He might have committed to Ohio State, too. I don't count that as much as bounce around if you didn't go right here. Right. So so he,

obviously, he has been to Nebraska. He went now to Oregon. When he was in high school, he was, um, I think, like four schools and four years going to go. That's AJ's store. I'm pretty sure he was on like eight schools in nine years. This is like the most meathead take that I might have. And it's a little bit draft day birthday party thing. But at some point, if you're a quarterback,

“you should not want to transfer schools again just based on the fact that you've got boys. Yeah.”

Like, that you have friends that you don't want to leave. 100%. And you don't want to make new friends somewhere else. The fact that he, he's moved school so many times, there is something that's like,

why is it? Why doesn't he have friends? I think the third school is a red flag. Yeah. So he's got

one more. They don't know. He doesn't have one more. Yeah. The third school is a red flag. Like, imagine your boys from college. Yeah. Imagine if you just one year, you were like, hey, you know what? I'm going to, I mean, new change of pace. Yeah. I'm going to go somewhere else. Now imagine doing that three times. Yeah. It's because you don't have boys. And also, it's like the what is the move you're making? Is it a lateral move? Like a lateral move is also kind of a red flag.

But if it's like a, if you're moving up, you're going from Mac to Big 10 or if you're going from, you know, mountain west, it's not mountain west anymore up to, to SEC. That's, that's a different move. So yeah, I, I grew that take. That's a good meatball take. That it actually has, you know, some merit. If it, it can happen once, anybody. Yeah. Maybe twice. But at some point, if you're very done at twice, you really like, I don't want to, I don't want to have to make new friends again.

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“clinched. We cannot statistically get last place. So we we're talking about it. And I think it”

gets into a funky territory where if you have a team that has no urgency, no reason to submit good picks can skew how the rest of the Mount Rushmore season goes. What do we have like 10 left? I think? No, we have 8 left? 8 left? 8 left? Yeah. Yeah. 8 left. So with 8 left, we don't want to be the team that fucks everything up. And it's like, hey, if we submit a bad picks and then everyone else gets screwed up. So we're going to and by the way, Max memes and I are at 53, I think you guys are tied,

right? 40, 40 points each. I think I'm, are you ahead? I might be 1.0. Yeah. Oh, no, the loop's tied. Is it tied? Let's see. Is it tied? Chainfuckers? I'm seeing I have 40, you guys. I also see that. Hank and Zach have 39. Okay. That does kind of put a wrinkle in. All right, no, no. I think this is fine. So our idea is that we now go shift to a 1v1v1, Zach, Hank, PFT. I think we should start. PFT is up 1 point. That's fair. Okay. He has 1 point and you guys have 0 points. Yeah. That's totally

“fix. You should get that point. I was prepared to compete to go down solo against the two of you,”

but that's fine. Yeah. Well, I think he's broken that one. Yeah. Yeah. And so how we're going to do the rest of the Mount Rushmore season. The last eight is that you guys are going to all go 1v1v1. Well, obviously Max means and I will still discuss picks and talk about it when you guys make picks. And then at the end of the picks, Max means and I will submit the honorable mentioned list. So that's how we're going to go. I like it. It's a new juice, new new new new new new something going on here.

Zach, are you a little scared to go on your own? Well, he won't be one. PFT. I like to stand on it. I can't see you guys. I like I love you guys. Chance as well. I take every competition seriously. I take things day by day. Really pick by pick. I'm a process guy. So, you know, we're just here to be a testing that we can be. All right. So today is the Mount Rushmore of things guys hold on to for too long. Correct? Yep. Okay. Who wants to go for you? What we'll do? I'll, I'll, uh, I have a

number behind my back. Zach, do you want to guess it? I'll pass on the guess. Okay. So it's one, one through three. Five. It's one through three. This is not saying what's going on right now. Zach, you got it right. It was three. Okay. What pick would you like to start with this draft?

This draft, I would like to take the first pick. Okay. So then let's go Zach first, Hank second,

PFT third and fourth and then we'll shift it from there. Okay. Okay. We feel good about that. I'm sure. All right. I don't think there's a clear one one in this. No. But I would like to, open. Yeah. Let's go. I think this is it guys hold on to for too long. These guys hold on to too long. I would like to take boxers one. Had it on our wrist. Great. Excellent pick. Great pick. I recently shot a fruit of the loom. I just got rid of all my

boxers and just and just restock. That's a great one. And it's, it is, it is a great feeling. So I have the next pick. So it's similar, especially, especially when you lose one. I think that if I was going to write a biography, it would just the title of book would just be where where to all the socks go. Oh, I'm taking the socks. Oh, with the biography be about.

Just whatever. We're all the socks go about socks. But like what would be the first page?

Like, what would you write it? Well, that would just be like the general. Is it children's book? No. It's like, I think children's just like an autobiography. We're all the socks. We're all the socks. We're all the socks. Oh, that's actually, yeah. We're all the socks high, too. Under the lamp? Yeah. No. In the oven? No. The dog has them. In the drawer? No. That's mommy still, though. But every time I lose a sock, that doesn't mean I get rid of the one that I have left. I put it in

“a drawer and then when I go to put on socks, I just have a mountain of single socks. Yeah. That's why you”

and then I spend an entire like 10, 20 minutes trying to find the matching socks. And which is a lot.

like your favorite design, they'll just make a new one that's like slightly different. This is, hey, you got to do the total sock overall. I've talked about this before. Yeah, I do. I got to, I did it with the, for the loom. I got to do it. I had to do it with socks every couple of years. I just, I throw out every single one of my socks and then I get like 30 pair and they're all the same brand and they're all the same thing. That way you can't lose them. I still

well, but no, you can't, where do they go? What are you talking about? You have all the same? Do you have a, when you do laundry, you end up with singles. And then you're, then you're just

“all the single. Right. That's why I don't do. I keep them too long. Okay. All right. That's good pick.”

Pick 50. Because I think why don't you think one day they'll come back. Yeah. Yeah. You got to why don't you drop it. Those were my, I had those kind of like one, two. So I think we're going to chalk so far. I'm going to go hairstyle. Oh, guys, keep the hairstyle. They don't change it up enough.

Just kind of through inertia. It's like I've always looked like this. So I guess I'll look like that tomorrow.

It means why you, uh, smiling. I did, I, I didn't, I didn't think that's where it was going to go. Okay. Okay. Say, say more memes. No, that's it. That's all, that's all I'm saying. Okay. I'm going to go, uh, I'm going to go shoes. Hmm. I like that. She's good. Okay. Yeah, that's all they get ready. We had that on there. And then then your worst pair of shoes, guess what? You don't throw those out either. They just turn into lawnmown shoes. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, I will take wallet. Oh, man. I, the only time I've ever

“replaced the wall to when I've lost it. I want you guys to hear some. This actually gives the podcast.”

This is, this is the sound of my wallet. That's Velcro. Yeah, Velcro baby. PFT has a, uh, middle schoolers wall. Oh, yeah. It's, it's also a good, middle school skaters wall. It's got a place for a chain on it, too. My favorite thing is to go out to a fancy dinner and then when the bill comes, it's like a black tie place. I take out my wallet and I go, and the way to trust not to laugh. PFT, check out my wallet. I just got a new wallet. That's a lot of cash. Yeah. There's a lot of cash. You, but he, check out my new wallet. Yeah. Do you like it? I'd say,

like, did you see that? I can see, do you see the wall? There's tape on there. Yeah. I just got a new wallet. I, uh, my, the side of my wallet was broken for about three months. So once a week, I would just have a complete explosion of my wallet. I would go to grab something and every single thing would fall out. I got a new wallet and by got a new wallet, I got some electrical tape, and I just taped the side of it. So this, but this bad boy is not going anywhere. Anywhere.

Good pick. Thank you. Great pick. You just can't get a new wallet. Like it's just, it's, doesn't fit the same. It's like, it just, the whole thing is just feels weird. This wall has been pretty good to me. Yeah. Decent amount of money is passed to this. Let me see your wallet again.

Just one second, sir. Oh, yeah. That's the same one that might be lost to wallet, and then you

got, that is it, that's the same one my son has. Yeah, it's cool. It's actually, it's an upscale version of that because this one's got like RFID blocking. It's actually like an expensive middle school wall. Oh, nice. What, Max? Didn't you lose a wallet? I think you got that on a whim. I lost, I lost a wallet at the queue at quick and loans arena. Yep, before the catheter's play, very famous. Yeah, famous wallet. That's all. It brought them a championship. It was like that number one,

dead in Lebra. Actually, what did you talk about that on talking to my book? I might have, you lost that one? You should 20. Max, that part of my book. You should, you should hope to guide that I lose my wallet inside, whatever the clippers are in this go. Are the sixes are in this call? Mm-hmm. They didn't win a championship after you lost. No, they did. Yeah. You sure? Yeah, it's pretty, it's pretty 2017. Okay, I thought it was 2016. It wasn't.

That was the game that we went to. The Kyrie was like, I think the best player of all time. Yeah.

“Remember that? Machine gun. I'm going to call it halftime. Yeah, MGK. Yeah. I say Thomas Celtics. Was that not”

great week one? Nope. All right. Let me see. I know it's, I know. Well, yeah, I mean, it was against the Celtics. So I would hope you'd know. Yeah, I do know. But yeah, I just remember, Kyrie was, I think it was the JR Smith. Yeah. Time out here. Oh, yeah. Cleveland, Cleveland, Boston, 2017, conference finals.

Bloodbath. You were lucky to get that Rajan Rondo broke his hand in the first round and

spoles. He's up to nothing. Feel for God. All right, Zach, you have two picks. I would like to take the second pick pillows. That's okay. And then third, I would like to take was the official name things or items items things. It's items. It's items. It's items. Oh, well, now it can be things. You can do whatever you want. Okay. Okay. Third, I would like to take leftovers. Okay. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Good pick. Good pick. Very good pick.

Cherokee from like a month ago. Oh, yeah. I'm going to eat that. I was going to take something similar.

“I think it's still different enough. Just healthy food items like you buy healthy food”

and then you never consume the healthy food and then it just stays in your fridge forever.

And there's a, yeah. Okay. That kind of counts as working out when you buy like a piece of lettuce, like a bag of spinach. Yeah, leftovers. But that's, I think that's, but Hank says like give us an example. They can't be leftovers because they were never strawberries. Okay. Yeah. I like how many times I liked it. That's our healthy food. Yeah. I know strawberries are healthy. I mean, sort of like there's so much strawberries blueberry. Like that's the, that's a pinnacle. The older dude is just like

for milk. For healthy milk. Yeah. Like pepper onions like you go this for avocados like you, you're a guy. I'm going to eat. I'm going to eat healthy this week and then two weeks later, you open the fridge and you're like, oh, shit these strawberries. It's just a giant thing of mold. When we're doing our lists, I mean eggs. I keep eggs. I'll pull out eggs and it will be like

“these were two months ago. I ate eggs. I actually run through eggs. I promise I”

buy too many eggs. Do you get the 16 pack? I get two 12 packs. Oh, that's amazing. And then I'm just like I'm going to eat eggs. Yeah, the eat eggs. But not like we go in spurts. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You missed time of spurting that you just got eggs. All right, 50 of 2 packs. Okay. I'm going to go with towels. Okay. We had it on our list. We wanted to get, they get janky, they get it. That was in them. Yup. The like gross, the funky. The towels that are ripped and have like a weird stain. It's like

how do you get a weird stain on a towel? That's supposed to be the cleanest thing and you're just like,

I don't know. It always blows my mind. There's no bigger difference in the world than going to like a

a sophomore in college, dude's apartment and a sophomore in college, chick's apartment. Yep. It's like there are two different species in Thailand. Correct. They have fresh towels. They change and they wash them like once a week. Change their sheets. I've got like a beach towel that's been hanging, like that's been doubling as a shower curtain for the last week, hanging over my bathtub. Like, it is just completely different species. We should do a YouTube series of just going into different

college, dude's apartments with a black light. Yeah. No, we don't have a good idea. Just a documentary

“on dude's apartments. Yeah. It's a good, it's a good idea. Yeah. You know, I think that's not”

just the same thing. I think there's something we said to the older towels absorbing water better. Go on. Feels like there's like a, there's a break in period with towels. The older ones do a better job, drop dry enough. Wait, are you saying that because like, the longer you have a towel, the more likely it is that's already a little bit wet. No, you're using it. Yeah. Wow, this, this towel absorbed a lot of wetness. Not because it's got like four showers worth on it.

Not so much repetition in between washes more so in like years of having the towel. Yeah. The, you know, it's an all-time dude's moment that I'm sure everyone has had happen. I happen to be probably once or twice a month. Just getting in the shower and not looking to see if there's a towel. And I'm getting out and being like, well, what now? That's every single time I take shower. And then I just like, and then I just like, all right, I guess I'm just going to use my shirt.

I got to find my towel. And it's like in a weird spot that I've literally never put a towel.

All right, it's like the little like wash cloth that is this big and just tried to get as much as I can. I'll just walk. I'll walk and just soak the entire hallway to the wall. I do that. I do that. The other day, I was looking for the towel and I went into my closet and it was hanging up on a coat hanger in my closet. Because I went there after the shower, put on a t-shirt, had to get hanger in my hand and then replace where the t-shirt was with the towel

and hung that up for some reason. I can't begin to explain. Yeah. It sounds like something I had in order to just throw on the ground. Yeah, the ground is like, yeah, nine times at a time. Oh, then, do you have another pick? I do. Yeah. I'm going to go girlfriend's. Okay. Dude, it's keep the same girlfriends for too long. It's past. All your friends tell you, hey, man, we've all been talking and she sucks. Yeah, but like, that's already no her and like her family.

No, no one proactive we does. It's usually like they break up. You're like, oh my god, thank God, she sucks. And then they get back together. Right. But you keep them for too long. Yeah. Yeah. But I feel like the people just talk ship behind your back and never actually say, right. Like it would, it has to be real bad. Real bad. But it'd be, yeah, you just think, I have too much work to go back out there right now.

I guess we hate each other, but maybe we won't. I don't think this has been taken. Maybe it has. It's definitely the one that makes me feel the most like a hoarder

Hats. Yeah, I don't know. I just realized there's, yeah, there's a one one that there's a massive,

“permission to go back and change. No, absolutely. Permission to deny it. This is like you like to appeal.”

Can I feel it? Yes, you can appeal. They're appealed to me. But wait, no, I wasn't appealing to you. Oh, okay. You granted my appeal for the appeal. Yes. So Max. No, no, no, no, no. Max. Max. I'd like to formally fall through with the appeal. Hold on. Let me talk to my counsel real quick. Yeah. He's appealing. It looks like it might be. The draft isn't over either. It looks like it might be. Yes. Appealed denied. Okay. All right. It's like a one one after. I can't believe you guys are taking it.

Yep. We're going to do our picks. We'll do our picks. We'll do our picks. Our teams picks that we can, we can maybe we just have a columnist as honorable mentions on the on the graphic.

I'm going to take a t-shirts that don't fit right now, but cook it later. That's it. That was the pick.

Oh, that wasn't mine. Well, not t-shirts that can't fit right now. But do you want that on the graphic or do you want t-shirts on the graphic? I just take t-shirts on the graphic. Thank you t-shirts or such. I have so many t-shirts that I just cannot get rid of that are just so stupid to have. It's brutal or come a day where you need it. All right. Here's our, uh, I'm sorry. I just got a text from, I'm just going to read this, believe this whole thing out by the way. Okay.

But I'm going to say to you, I just got a text from Mincie. Hearing, Pretty wild. That is pretty wild. You're going to have to bleep that out. Yeah. Good bleep. It's good bleep. All right. Keep the mincie part. All right. Let's do our four picks for the honorable mention. Can I say the one that? Well, it might be one of your picks. But it just dawned on me. Like,

this is a big time fuck up toothbrush. Well, we had toothpaste on the toothpaste. Just say it's one, but toothbrush is like, yeah. That's the one to smeekers. All right. I said two, six sneakers.

“Do you want to do our four picks? Honorable mentions. I think, uh,”

but you can't vote on these. No, no. We won't keep it on the, we won't put it on the vote. So say, say something that you want. I like 21. Uh, yeah, your dreams. We hold on to our dreams for way too long. Oh, we can go pro. We could do this. We could do that. I could fucking run a, uh, under six minute mile. I could bench this. No, you can't do, you know, your dreams. Similar to to dreams, or no, what items? Yeah, items. Dreams.

Cups and mugs. You get a free cup from bar. I have actually disagree. Those are the best. Oh, but there's some that are just like so dead. I have a cup from a bar that hasn't existed for 10 years. That's an awesome cup. You can't, you don't even know what's on it. It doesn't have a logo. Yeah, but that's an awesome cup. But you look at it. And you're like, real ones. No. Yeah. Like I had, I had the dream team cups from McDonald's. Probably for 12 years. All right. Fuck that one.

I was like 15. That used to be Chris Malm. All right. All right. So, so, uh, dreams cell phone number cell phones and electronics cell phone slash computers. We, you just can't throw them out. I don't know why it's so stupid. Getting a new phone. There's something about having like an old phone with the battery sucks and the, and it's like a little bit cracked that you still don't want to get a new one. You just hold on to that. Don't get any one for

you're probably doing it right now. Go through it right now. It won't charge. But if you don't,

“I think get a new one. I've reached the point where it's such a problem where now I have to put”

a magnetic battery pack on the back of it and then plug that battery pack into a charger overnight. So, the charger is then filtered from the battery pack into my phone because I, there was one time and, and put tuck it with a pump. I had a plugged in over and I didn't charge at all. And there's one person battery when I woke up for a flight. So, I've got like a daisy chain of charge and you're right. I'm not going to get rid of it until it absolutely must go. Right.

All right. We won't even put on a grite. Let's just say all those things. All right. These are just do that. Uh, baseball cards that they're like truly worthless. You know, like the, not like good ones,

but like you just have cards that are birthday cards. I never throw out birthday cards. And I just

hold on to them forever. Uh, we had sheets on there. I said iPhone boxes. iPhone boxes. Uh, it's good box. I thought it was like, oh, I, I keep those forever. In your junk drawer, you just have cords. I have cords. I have charger. No idea what they go to various charger cables. They're just not none of them work for anything that you need. Um, charges are always banged up. Trophies we had on there, but sometimes you want to keep a trophy, but there's some that are

ridiculous. Meam said grudges. Yeah. No, I said grudges. Oh, you said. I said friends, friends, guys hold on to friends to them. Yeah. Dreams, uh, something that's just broken, like any item. That's just broken. You just have it. Uh, we had toothpaste, your fear feelings, your feelings. And then my last pick was things that you hold on to for too long, uh, Ole Miss employees.

So I think everyone else. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes they send you a baguette.

“Um, those good amount of rush work. I also had cars. Yeah. Am I a list? I had mattresses.”

I had, um, then shampoo bottles. Yeah. They've been done all the way to the end. You put some water in it. And you try and shake it up to see if you, you can get the last, and I do that like five times.

And then yeah, like the third time you're like, maybe I didn't fill it up and shake it hard.

Yeah. For example, sometimes I'm sure there'll be some suds that come up. Oh, but when the suds do come out, you feel like you're a scientist. Oh, yeah. Like I figured it out. I just go back to unlimited energy. What else? Any other honorable mentions you guys had? Mail. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of mail. Internal real shirts. Yeah. Game ticket stubs. Yeah. I like, I think every guy, like, everyone knows a friend

receipts, who actually has kept every single game ticket restubbed. And you're like, that's awesome. And then every guy, everyone else, is like, I want to be that guy. And I think I have if I open up like my nightstand. I think I have like three ticket stubs. It's like, I was going to be that guy

“once. I remember when I was a kid. I had a shoe box that said stubs on and I think I had like two”

stubs. Yeah. Right. You just kid. Because I, yeah. You just either are that you, you're like, I have a friend

who has like hundreds of ticket stubs. And you're like, that's fucking cool. And then one point you're like, I'm going to do that. And you aren't, you aren't that guy. Take good stubs. I'll just just like don't exist. Yeah. That's true. I think you were just making that box so you can keep your barbecue sauce in there. I want to remember it by. Oh, yep. Yeah. Yeah. I think I think we have the big ones. I do think that toothbrush is big, miss though. Yeah. I keep toothpaste more. I buy

toothbrushes in like bulk. And I'll just swap them out. Like I'll buy the 10 pack of them. I try it. Yeah. But toothpaste, I will squeeze till there is nothing left. Yeah. Nothing left. And then I'll cut it open. Why? You can cut it open. There's a whole new tube when you cut it open. You can cut it open. Absolutely. You can cut it open. You can do it. All right. Could mount Rushmore. Let's do hot sea cool throne. Then we'll get to Pete Crow Armstrong and Joe Buck. Hot sea cool

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today's day and age is soft and that Zach and memes and Max don't get hazed enough. Yeah, no, the league's changed. What's the society's change? He specifically said Zach. I mean, but also Billy was podcasting against plumbers. plumbers and horse. That's who dominated the podcast and charts. I'm Billy was around. But, Zach, do you think that we've been soft on it? Memes and I were both here with Billy. Now, some people worked on the building. Yeah, I will say this. Billy,

Billy probably has a fair gripe that we were maybe a little hard on. Billy also didn't maybe

didn't always say like, hey, I fucked up. Zach says I fucked up a lot. So that might be a

little difference. Billy has a, it was probably harder on Billy. It's start. Jake using his one example is they made me do dip. It's like, wasn't that a bet? It was very funny. And he didn't do dip. Yeah, it did have nicotine I think, right? I think Billy has a fair argument. I don't know if Jake has a fair argument. The other one, Jake gave was doing the fake boobs. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah, Billy, Billy having to fight, who's they can say, go, yeah, eat a cheese steak. Well,

Billy, I also, I bet you. I would bet you that if Billy, Billy, if Billy would say himself,

“he's a, he's a tough, he's like a hard coaching guy. You need to coach him hard. He's not a soft coaching”

guy. But yeah, I, I see it. We're going to have to be a little harder on. Yeah. Well, I also, Billy said in the example, it's like, I got to do that bike thing. And I was like, what was he talking about? He's like, oh, Travis Pistrona, when you had to like take a bike off a ramp and almost show. Yeah, yeah, by far the most dangerous thing that. And I mean, to give Zach credit, I did buy an ice cream machine that he had no idea about and I said, you have to keep this existing. That

wasn't super easy. Billy did that with the goldfish. Go on. Yeah. By the way, our Larry chapter was,

the greatest. It's magic. All the time. Magic. It's actually insane. How good of a goldfish he was. Billy also said, like, he's completely disconnected from the internet now. That's good. Which is great.

“Yeah. Happy for Billy. Yeah. Do you think it's true? No. I think disconnected a lot more than he was.”

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good for him. I hope he's happy. Yeah. We love those guys. They both wrote chapters. So, you know, those guys are family for life. Like, I truly do mean that they are part of this show. You can't, like, you can't write this book without having them write in. So they did. Jake wrote a very good chapter, very interesting chapter. Billy, the way that he like signs off on

his chapters. It's just, it's, if you are a Billy football fan, you will love that. It's incredible.

Okay. So we got to be tougher on Zach and memes. Correct, Billy. Yeah. memes. We're going to give you some tough luck. Fair. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I mean, memes to show people in the last of the day in the night in the, in the Billy. Oh, yeah. I would, yeah. No, you would get your shit pushed in, buddy. Meem just, meem just, all day. He's just been looking at me. He's like, dude. We got soft. We got soft. Yeah. It, this, this, this, this room, my entire day. Should we, should we, but fuck memes? I mean,

“memes. You do, you do, you do, you do, you do, you do, you do, you do, you do, you do, you do. You”

got to just take it a little bit. You're like, dude, it's fine. Yeah, no, we got, we got to get hard. We get hard. Who can you fight? We need to make you fight somebody. What if we do anything

but fight? Yeah, but fuck. Yeah, but fight. Yeah, we can call whatever you want. You'll

butt fight somebody. I'm open to anything. Oh, yeah, I know. Literally. Now, just, if we just butt fucked memes and send it to Billy, being like, this is for you, Billy. Oh, this guy's fighting me so hard. This guy's so, this guy's so soft. Oh, this guy's so, this guy's so, this guy's so, this guy's so, this guy's so, this guy's so, this guy's so, this guy's so, this guy's so, this guy's by fucking the other guy. Okay. Oh, then my cool tone is music. Yeah. Pat McFee put out an album,

it's been, been the talk of the town the last few days. Tom, uh, talk of the town. And then former former co-worker Dan Rappaport put out a Scotty chef for song. Have you guys heard this? No, no, play it all play it. I know this has to explain it. This is kind of where I, you this kind of where I'm like,

hey, Billy's got it right. Where's this, here's the center there. Listener that. Are we allowed to play it?

Yeah. Is it whose Twitter? Yeah, Kniezo. He quote through it. Is it good? I don't know about the banger. I think you, I think we can. Oh, there's it. Oh, there's a gotta be it. Oh, it's only like 20 seconds. I don't think that mostly. Yeah, it's back again. Scotty's back. Song J in. I created a monster. Because nobody wants to see Ben and no more, they want young Remi. He's chopped liver. Well, if you want Remi, this is what I'll give you. A 68 on Thursday, about a six more on a sicker. So the LV won't

let me be paying John Ramway more than me. 50 Junk knee down at RBC, but if you're so empty without me. Now, this looks like a TPC. So everybody just looks like he's come back and I want the trophy

“because it feels so empty without me. That's that's why they didn't answer. Yeah. I'm also going to say”

something in defense at Dan Rapport. He knows he's a dork. I don't know. No, he does. He knows. He knows he's a dork. Even dorks cannot grow. I like I like that about him. Like he, I think he, if you're like you're a dork about golf, he's like, yeah, I am. Remember when the tiger thing happened, we, we had him on the jack after and he's like, yeah, that was a little ridiculous. That was crying about tiger. Like he knows and I'm okay with self wear dorks. So I think that was parity.

I think he was, no, I think he knows like, this is ridiculous, but I'm putting it out because I just love this Scotty singer. No, I don't think he thinks this is a banger. I think he's like, I'm a dork and I love Scotty. Watch me, watch me drop some bars. Yeah. Honestly, it was better than I thought it was going to be. Add a little flow. You know what, we don't haze enough on this show. No, I would like to see memes make a song. Yeah, memes make a fucking song. Do memes. You have to

make a song because you guys ask, I will do it. All right. Tough enough. Make a song about Gino. Tough enough shit head. Make a song about Gino. Any Gino? No. Gino Smith. Up in the jazz. Gino Smith. And make sure you know when the jazz seven Sunday heroes. That's charity. Yeah. All right. Good hot sea cool to our own Hank. Thank you. Wait a go. All right, P50. Um, my hot seat is our fantasy league. Oh, yeah. I alluded to this in text message to the

boys last night. I have some deep concerns about the future of our fantasy league. And how Jerry O'Connell is approaching this season. Because I'm sure the draft has to be like any week now, right? Mm-hmm. It's kind of how the pattern goes. Yeah, we're right about it. Yeah. So Jerry, as I mentioned, the past has been extremely active in this fantasy chat. It just got brought up last week. Maybe we increased the buy-in this year. Okay. And I'm like,

I'm fine with that. Whatever Jerry's wife will allow him to do. Let's do that. Yep. And then

but I was like, no Jerry, like it's up to him. If you guys want to double the stakes,

triple the suit like whatever Jerry wants. So good. Then everybody starts texting each other last night. Everyone's I'm sure everyone's got a fancy league out there. And once that group chat gets going, it gets out of control. It's crazy. And you'll come back to like 60 mischeck messages

“from that group. Correct. That's what it was like last night. So I popped in and somebody said,”

Jordan Schultz posted, let's set a draft date and confirm buy-in. What does everyone feel good with? We can proceed. And I said Jerry, question mark. And then I believe Julius Rand will respond to Jerry left the chat. Oh, no. Exclamation point. I went back and I looked at it. Jerry left this chat. I'm trying to find the exact date that he bounced out. Jerry left this chat a couple weeks ago.

I believe. Okay. It looks like it had to, I tried to add Jerry last night back to the chat.

But since Jerry is a green dot guy. Yep. It would completely ruin the chat. Yeah. We'd have to rename the chat. It'd be a brand new chat for everybody. Correct. And now I feel like Jerry's gone dark on us. Like he left. Wait. So who said to raise the stakes? I forget who originally saved him. So Jerry leave because of the stakes for raised? I think he's a calm. Yeah. I think we should calm. I think it might have been Jordan Schultz. I recommend it. We raise it. We're just

very funny considering who his father is. Do you think? Yeah. We could probably move, we could probably do an extra like $2,000. There's like nobody here is really fighting for it. Right? Question hypothetical question. And this is not against anyone. Do we think that Adam

Schepter has ever blocked at someone saying, let's raise the stakes? Probably. Yeah. He thinks so.

Okay. All right. The fair answer. I don't know. I don't think he's got money like I don't think he's he would ever be. He's got his bag. I don't think he'd ever be in a group that would suggest raising the stakes. He has a bag up though. We can't even get a hold of our fancy manager. What are you thinking he's doing right now? I'm probably re-tweeting compliments about himself writing the book. What are you thinking he's doing? Probably like showering in the bathroom

of a gym somewhere. Okay. Like in this sink. What else? What else? Give us other what is Jerry doing right now? It's probably waiting to pick up his daughter from school. Okay. Auditioning for a roll. Maybe getting some dinner for the family. Well, actually Hank. No, because it's you know where Jerry is. Bring him in. I know his fuck with you. He's not here. Um. Did you believe that he was here? No.

All right. Well, we got to finish. I'm a little, all right. Well, next week we're at camp. You got Jerry's with us. I feel like I am, I'm right to be concerned about this. Definitely. 100% who leaves the fancy football group chat unless they have no desire or intention of returning. Yeah. That is I quit. Is that not an I quit move? I'm going to give him the better for the doubt. It's just the green. It's somebody someone like an iPhone update or his phone. We might

“have to buy him a fan. He should have a phone. That's what I'm going to say. Yep. You need just a”

separate phone just for fantasy. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Should be want to see. Should have on to see phone. It should be fun. It should be one of the ones with the the text buttons on it. The ones had Jeff D. Lowes reviewing. Nope. Because I would still be green. Yeah. True. 100%. True. Right. We got it. We should I will buy Jerry. I'll get out by Jerry a new phone before I get myself a new phone. Yeah. That's how seriously I'm because it sounds like he just walked away

from the sport that he loves. Yeah. And it's quite frankly not something that you would expect of fantasy. Fantastic. And then my cool throne. It was going to be the Chargers, Chargers being Chargers, but it's also the weird relationship between players that used to play for Harba, then going directly to another Harba. Mm-hmm. Because Nasi Harris is now a giant. Yes. And I need somebody to make a list of like all the players that they've shared. Because it

does feel like a fallback career. If you leave a job with one Harba, you can immediately guess what. You've got you've got a home with the other on the opposite coast. Yeah. All right. My hot seats is Penn State students that like cocaine. Because apparently there was two fraternities running like a Narcos episode that got busted up. What Max? That was crazy. That's

“story. You don't think so? The only thing I saw is that the guys were doing drugs and college. Can I”

yeah. No, but I was going to do a Max impression. News flash, France are going to come. Yeah. But no, the part that was crazy was the alleged is all alleged that they were making pledges like like cut up bricks as part of their initiation. You get a free labor. That's crazy. Yeah. Come on.

having like being like, you want to be in this frat? Make some fucking bags for. Who told them? Was somebody that think it end problem? No. There was an undercover buyer who bought from one of the

“kids and then I think that kid ratted. Can't do that, bro. Yeah, you can't do it. Front the code.”

It's quiet. It's, uh, it's a most significant. The kids look. Oh yeah, that's the thing. They basically

bunch of codies and arrested for being public. I think one of their dads was helping to run it. Yeah, I was trying to hide it. I think it was trying to hide the shit after they're about to get passed. Oh, so it wasn't the dad that was getting it and then sending it to the kids. I read it very quickly. I think it was like a dad was basically trying to obstruct justice and like in hiding the evidence. It's just a good dad. Yeah. But yeah, the kids look so young and they were

just on their problem. Ask a bar. So yeah, it's going to be, uh, I guess there's a, there's a power vacuum in Penn State now. So yeah, if you're interested, the white out. Yeah. Also,

hot seat is, I'm scared to give any updates about live because Hank and Max will be mad about it.

But John Rom feels like he's leaving. My cool throne and also it's going to be the last tournament coming up. And it's going to be awesome. And are you going to go? I think so. I was telling him. Fuck yes. If Hank wears his four ACEs gear, there's a good chance that they actually left

“him play. Yeah. By the last, he might, you might be the fourth ACEs. You should show what we're going to”

need guys. Yeah. Yeah. It's like a, like a softball team. And yeah. And your record is like one and seven and you need guys just to finish up this good. Yeah. That's what they're like, Clay, hey, do you have any buddies that like, maybe play in college that could show up? Hank, you can do this. Mm-hmm.

And then my cool throne is Hauses because we have Matt Tugboat Wilkinson getting called up

by the giants. 270 pound lefty. Hauses. So excited. We need more Hauses. Dying breed. This guy is an absolute Hauses. This guy is a giant. I fucking love it. So let's get more Tugboat is just. Tugboat is so good. Awesome. Nickname. Awesome. We don't get nicknames like that anymore for a big dude. That's a 19. Oh, yeah. A 20's ass nickname. Yeah. That's so good. All right. Gentlemen, Tugur. Zack. My how to this week. We talked about a, we talked in say we talked Shane. We talked. Uh,

but guys, you fight. Yep. My how to see this week is going to be the rest of the NFL because did you guys see the room bane is absolutely putting in at least an extra hour every practice this week. So what get his arms longer? Uh, no. They're saying shore arms actually with the aerodynamics in the wind probably a plus side. I don't know if you guys saw that science on dudes. I did not wait. Yeah. Wait. Go back. Science on dudes get to the wind quicker if you wait less. Longer arms have

your aerodynamics. But they also like they weigh them, too. So you get some weight. That is correct. Definitely have some weight, but if you see the explosion off the line here, how many sexually think of T-rex will get? Probably a lot. T-rex on a male NFL field? Yeah. All the same. Well, what about a female? A female dinosaur. I don't think a T-rex would get all the sacks. We're also just like against other dinosaurs. We've just been a really long day. We're going to get into

“dinosaurs playing sports with P. Crohn. Yeah. So we should say that. But yeah, I think you could just run”

around it. I don't think T-rex has like lateral agility. So you're saying, oh, so the T-rex is the same size as the other dude. It's a shrunken down one. No, no, no, no, no. I'm saying a huge T-rex, but later laterally, I don't know how they can move side-to-side. I think they'll rush them. Yeah, they go forward. Then you go around. I was going to take an ankle flick, you know? Yeah. There's better ones for the bull rush. You could probably run underneath the T-rex.

I think bull. I would say like a, like, was it outsourced? I think the outsourced. I think the outsourced is actually the slightly smaller T-rex. And actual bull? I said a bull. Yeah. I mean, a bear would be a great nose tackle. Brown bear, black bear. Grizzly. But you could just, yeah, you could just play like that. We did this. Not grizzly. Oh, yeah. What is it? It's brown. If it's brown, if it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's white, if it's white, if it's white, if it's white, if it's

white, if it's white, if it's white, if it's white, if it's white, if it's white, if it's white, if it's white, if it's white, if it's white, if it's white, if it's white, if it's white, if it's white, if it's white, if it's white, if it's white, if it's white, if it's white, if it's white, if it's white, if it's white, if it's white, if it's white, if it's in the wind's grizzly, you can't block it. No, it's polar bear. No, I know, but grizzly is also your

fucked. Polar bear's brown bear. Is it? I sorry, grizzly bear's not. Yeah, grizzly bear's a brown bear. Polar bear. That's the one that, like, if it sees you, your dead. Okay. I spent, listen, yes, no, a weekly topic. Oh, I'm sorry. Brown bears, but not all brown bears are grizzly bears got it. Let's talk in bears. What about if they're back? Joey, come as to. Oh, yeah.

strong. My quilter is recently Netflix because Netflix announced that we're going to get an extended look, presentation of GTA six. They're going to give us a cinematic view. Yeah, which we'll be saying. So we get, we get a Netflix, special on GTA six before we get GTA six. That's also true. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So my theory is that zero, at least,

actually, you could pre order. There's been like three release dates in the last like four years. So that's always going to be up in the air.

But I mean, if we're going to get like a cinematic look into the game, pretty exciting. I feel like they're going to just make like every video game inside this one video game. Yeah, you can like go play three, three basketball just as like a, oh, there's a park when we just go play two. Okay. They're like, oh, there's like, oh, there's a recruiting station. Now I'm playing Call of Duty. Yes. And you like get shipped off the war. Yeah. They test your eyes. I got to know you can't fly gives you a rifle. Yeah. Yeah. There's, it's going to be every video game wrapped up into one.

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“I don't want to put that on you, but I think you're going to be MVP. If you're not, we write it.”

Yeah, we write it. It's PCA Armstrong from the Chicago Cubs fresh off one of the best games regular season games I've ever attended on Monday night, where let's start with this game because you hit a home run to start the game and a home run to end the game. And I think I saw this that the last time that happened was like 1964 or something, which is insane. Uh, were you in the zone? Because it feels like you were in the zone. You just were seeing the ball perfectly on Monday night. I mean, I, dude, I made up my mind that I was going to, that I was going to swing at the first pitch two hours before the game.

Um, because I, I was, I was scuffling for what felt like three months, but there's the last seven games or whatever.

And sometimes I just, that's all you need is like, I ended up swinging at the fucking first pitch three, three of my first four at bats, I think.

Yeah, um, that doesn't always work, but that's, that's exactly what I need to do.

“So I think it got me, it got me back and like that, that, that attack mode.”

Wait, so you just said, so this is where I love about you, because you, like, reading everything and knowing you little like your heart on yourself to, to a point where it's like, dude, you're, you're about, you're like the odds on paper from the MVP, you just said you were scuffling for three months. It's what it felt like again, like perspective is important. You just went 30 to 30. Back to back season's first time in Cub's history. Yeah. Um, but stuffling.

The Kansas City DC road trip that felt like, that felt like the longest time ever, because I, last year, when I was, when I was hot, like, I took for granted how easy it felt. And I kind of forgot what baseball was really like. Yeah. Yeah, like that, that was the first week that I had that kind of struggle with the punch outs and I wasn't walking. I was putting weak ass contact and so like it felt like a long time and then getting smoked by the Cardinals didn't help. Yeah. So like, I think, you know, last year, I could have let that, that compile and snowball and really,

really trend downward, but I'm not making decisions like that. I'm like, there's an active choice to, to like, a sense of urgency. Yeah. Be aggressive when you turn around. Yeah. Because that, that's a big thing about your season, which has been awesome to watch is your ability to, to take pitches. Like what, when did that start to click for you? Like I, I even look back. I think it was the Kansas City series,

“it might have been before that where you did an ABS and I think it was like 0.02 of an inch that it was a ball.”

Yeah. Right. It's like, how the hell did you see that? But that's feels like how you've been seeing it all year. Yeah. That's, that's a, that's a decent way to put it like that's a good representation of like, of how confident I feel about, you know, or at least where my understanding of this rising has gotten this year. That was a lucky guess. That one, like, that was a, that was a cutter that kind of backed up. And, you know, it's supposed to come back my way and it, it presented itself like it went the other way.

So I thought it was a change up and I was like, well, if it, that was a change up and it's going the other way. That was definitely a ball. And then I saw it inch and inch and inch and closer to the zone. I was like, no. But, yeah, like, I think the Kansas City series was one of my favorites that I'll probably like, look back on now, because I think I got one hit, maybe two hits in those three games,

but I walked five times. Right. You know, that's what I'm most proud of this year is my ability to, to get on base that way. But it started this year. Yeah. I think there's different ways to play the game and have it bats where like, I'll just, like, last night, my walk last night, 1-0, like, I'd made my mind that I was going to take 1-0,

because a lot of guys like to go strike the ball with me. They like to give me a chase 1-0.

“And so I was like, fuck, I'll just, I'll show a bunch of trying to remember that.”

Yeah.

Try and see if we can get the third baseman crash and open up the field a little bit.

And then it ends up being too old and then I'm not swinging 3-0 against a lefty. Like, it's just, it's, I've learned how to play the game a little bit differently. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can, I mean, obviously, you can notice in your numbers and your patience to the plate.

Yeah. Yeah. Once you get on bases, have you ever been too aggressive? Hell yeah. How do you dial yourself back? Because that's like a strength of yours.

It's like you need, you are super aggressive. Well, people try to take back your cycle because you got picked off right after. Right. That was funny. I don't blame him for that. I would be the first one to be like, yeah, that's, I don't, I wonder if that's ever been done.

Yeah. Yeah. If we want to talk about first. Yeah. Who, who, who, who does that?

Who actually lets themselves get picked off after fucking. It was, well, it was my cap. It was a perfect PCA moment because, I mean, I, I would assume you're not really online much during the season. But like, there's, I think, everyone in Chicago defend you to like the, the end degree. I know I'm at the front lines being like, he's the best.

And then there's some haters. So you getting a cycle, which is objectively like an incredibly hard thing to do. And then getting picked off. It's like, you just gave that red meat to the haters to be like, buddy got picked off. Yeah.

I was giving the people what they wanted. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Do you have always have the green light?

Yeah. For the most part. I mean, there's, there's times like, after after I hit that single in my second bat and say,

I'm like, two outs. I don't, I don't need to run here. But then we get to two strikes. I'm like, I trust in say as ability to, to, like, have a real at bat and extend the bat. So I'm, I'm a little more aggressive.

I think later on in that at bat. But, um, picking and choosing.

“Like, I think, uh, there's just certain guys that are too fast to the plate where I'm like,”

again, I trust in hitters two, three and four to, to at least advance me or whatever it is. And, um, but yeah, I think for the most part, the green light is, is always there, unless it's, you know, we're going to ask kick their vice versa. And there's just no need for it.

Like, I think there's always benefit again on second base.

Yeah. Would you say, is it better to hit a walk off home run or walk off steal home? Hmm. Uh, like, the, the baseball nerd in me probably says the stolen base and, you know, force in an error, but I've never hit a walk off home or before.

Probably the home or the home or felt long. Well, that's the right answer. It's right answer. Guys like me that would never be able to hit home run would say, like, actually stealing home is better. Like, Tim Corxon would tell you stealing home is better.

But then people that can hit home runs are like, yeah, nothing like a long ball. Wait, yeah. Had you never hit a walk off in any level of baseball? I hit a, I hit a, uh, not, well, I hit a walk off in AAA. I hit a, I hit a walk off in double.

I did, but there's no way to compare. Yeah. Last night to any of those. It felt like the bat flip was, was planned. You launched that thing.

“I, I, I honestly, I was, I was walking and I, I think that was my time to think of what I was going to do to celebrate.”

And then I was just like fucking literally throwing. Throw it. Throw it. Throw it. Don't hit say, uh, yeah.

Oh, man.

Yeah, it was, it was an incredible incredible night.

And, uh, yeah, I mean, it's just been awesome to watch this season. It feels like things have, do you feel like things have clicked because last year you had an incredible start. And then it, it, it tailed off. But even your, your pitch and coach said it in an interview. I think in the off season is like, if Pete has that full season every year, like, he's going to have a really good career.

But you're your hardest critic and you're like, I need to do it for the whole entire year. Yeah, um, you know, last year, if I hit, I hit what like six homers in the second half last year. If I hit six homers in the first half and 25 in the second half, it'd be a completely different conversation just because of the way that the season went. Yeah. Um, like I turned it on a little bit in the playoffs, but still it wasn't like, I was not a complete player.

And I, I didn't feel like my season was a, it was a complete season. But Nico phrased it in such a such a great way for me. He was like, um, I mean, I guess I already gave it away, but he was like, if you would have hit six and 25 in the different. Yeah.

How would you feel looking back at 31 homers and these are, I'd have been like, well, you're right.

So he's like, seasons are going to shape up how they shape up.

“If you want to feel any type of way about the numbers at the end of it, like,”

feel the type of way about the numbers and the numbers only, like you hit 31 homers last year. Right. That's really good no matter how you did it. This year though, I don't feel like, again, I'm making a conscious choice that I'm not going to give it away. I know I can walk now.

I can, um, I know I can get on base in a much different way than last year. And, um, I feel like if the season were to end today or yesterday, like, I would feel very, I'd feel very proud of like what I improved on. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, I'd say maybe the biggest improvement is, is the number change. Yeah. You are faster. Yeah. But right.

Like how did that all go down because you are so much faster. Yeah. There's, uh, yeah, there's, there's less going on back there. I mean, Jed, though, it was Jed. Dude, he, uh, we would, like, we would just put up shots before stretch in the morning during spring.

And, uh, Naperville, legend, Nikki Lopez, um, him and I were out there every morning just about. And, and Jed, I guess gets a lot of shots up on his own, like at whatever gym he goes to. Yeah. And, uh, so I guess, Jed's got a pretty good jumper and he was like, hey man, like, you ever feel like you're wearing, like, a Lyman's number and I was like, well, yeah.

But this is one of the three choices I had when I debuted. So it's not entirely like what I want to wear. And, um, he's all right. Well, I think you need a fast guy number and, uh, for it, just become available. So he's like, if I make their shot like you're changing your number.

I'm like, okay. He was right. Yeah. He's right. Like, yeah.

It's actually great for idiots like us because we say that all the time.

And, uh, yeah, anything in the 50s is not a fast guy number.

“Oh, I think 55 is a not a fast guy number maybe.”

But like, I would, if you had to pick the fastest of the 50s, I would agree. Yeah. I'd say it's, yeah. Although you can't put that number. It's Jane Daniels.

Hmm.

You know, I'll never expect that.

I appreciate you changing your number out of respect for Jane. Yeah. You know, yeah. I can't have the file on that. We've had some conversations.

Yeah. I don't even want. I don't know what I'm going to get into that one. Yeah. Yeah.

That is the four, the number change has been huge. Made all the difference. Yeah. I have a question about your defense. Like, is there ever a ball that you're like, I can't get to it?

Because you're just, I think you're so fast and so good without off the jump. That you make plays that are not normal, look normal. And that almost skews people to be like, well, you have, of course, you got to. It's like, no, you don't realize he got to that because he's jumping faster than everyone else. So are there ever like, are there ever balls like, no, I can't get this because I feel like you can get to everything.

Uh, a lot of the times there's balls that I'm like, I have no chain like that bias kid. I gave him a little courtesy jog on that first home or but in my, in my right mind, I'm like that. That's going to go on to wavelength through center field. Yeah. That's true.

He's going to do something that's never been done before ever.

Uh, yeah, there's, there's balls that, especially if the ones blown out like any ball over my head and left center. I'm usually like, that's, that's a home or unless it's hit super low. Yeah. But no, like, I'm, I'm always like, Adam Jones, I guess had some saying, he told me this. He was like, if, if it hits grass at your ass.

“So that's, I've literally remember that every day.”

Yeah. And, uh, so maybe that helps me get to more more baseballs. But, no, there's, I mean, there's always balls that. O'Neal crews hit in a hundred and twenty one mile an hour. Line drive through the three four hole, they guess the wall.

You're like, come on, bro. Yeah. Those are, yeah. Boy, let me ask the difference. This is very powerful with big cats doing right now.

Because like, since we want you to win MVP, yeah. He will be your propaganda. Oh, I already have done it. So like, saying, if somebody, he's already thinking about the counter. I don't see him making too many diving catches because like, well, that's because he's so fast.

He gets a jump. Doesn't have to. It's like when we head on a Travis hunter to win. Yeah. Yeah.

He's been, it's like, well, actually doesn't have that many interceptions because they just don't throw. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, show, hey, had two home runs last night. And I was very quick to say that it was in Colorado and a blow.

And I was like, that does not, like, peats, home runs are mean more. All right. So let me ask you a different way. Are you ever surprised by your own speed? Were you overrun one and you're like, oh, shit.

I got to slow up here to make the catch. I've noticed that sometimes, where at the very end, you're like, you're almost past it. You're like, fuck, I was too fast for that. There's been a few times. Yeah.

Like, no one gourmet hit me a ball in St. Louis that I over ran and kind of like, slid backwards for, that was last year. There's little, there's little ones like that. They come to mind for sure. But I feel so comfortable.

Like, and this is such a baseball player thing. Like, you watch, like, Dan's be catch flyballs. Like, he let, he catches it like here. And everyone's taught to catch it above your face. And keep it in front of your eyes.

And I'm like, I just feel comfortable with my right shoulders. Yeah. If I am going to my left, and it looks like overrun a ball. Like, sometimes that's on purpose because I'll just, I like catching it here.

Yeah. But yeah.

I mean, some, like, when I first started doing this new little prep step that

that we worked on last spring, I found myself getting the balls that I was like, Oh, wait, what's the prep step? All the youngsters out there. It's not. If you were to watch an in-fielder.

If you were to watch, like, Dan's be here in Niko, they just do, like, a little hot hot. Yeah. You guys all do it at the same time. Yeah.

Yeah. Like, the whole defense. Well, the Quentin Berry got our, all our outfielders to start doing that. I mean, I can't speak for a hacker. But I know, say it has been doing a little hot.

And it's just the whole, like, object in motion stays in motion and until whatever, like, your faster, if you're already moving. Yeah. Even if you get a later reaction or whatever it is, like, if you're already moving,

“you're the first however many important feet covered are going to be better”

than if you're just standing still. So, like, I bought into that and that it works. That's awesome. It's only there was, like, a nickname that we could give it with your name. Oh, what kind of hop would it be?

It would be a crowhop? Yeah. Could be the crowhop. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Like that. All right. I've asked too many, like, questions that are basically loaded to be, like, you're so awesome.

So now here's a, here's a, a not, you're so awesome question for me. When, everyone chance PCI feel like you strike out a lot of the time. We got to stop it. Dude. Well, I mean, if you'd like to last year,

Do some, do some research on, on when I was having my name, chant it. Yes. I would literally sit in my seat to be like, stop everyone's stop. Like, he's going to get too hyped up.

I was right there with you. I, you know, no, I, my asshole got tight. Dude, I wasn't like, I wasn't hyped at all. Um, this year has been so much better with that though.

“Like, uh, my hidden coaches like, hey, you know that they're cheering for you, right?”

Like, it's not like, these are the opposing fans and all the energies with the picture. Like, it's all for you, dude. And I was like, okay. Like, we'll see. Yeah.

Let's, let me just succeed a couple of times when they are chanting. And then, um, it's been better this year, but I, I feel the same way. Okay. So it wasn't, yeah, because it was just like, I remember just being, it games late in the season being like, can we not do the chant?

Like, let them just let them just bat. Dude, it was like a, it felt like more of a responsibility that I had to get a hit. Right. Those people were up, up on their feet and, and give me that kind of love. I was like, I have to do this now.

And when you're pressing, it's never going to work.

Like, yeah, you're right, man. That'd be a fun stat. Yeah. Because it's like, it's just human nature. You hear your name being chanted.

And you're not going to take a pitch. Yeah. If it's close, it's like, I want to swing. Yeah. These people want to see me hit a home run.

Yeah. But that's not always a smart thing. Absolutely. So maybe just don't channel on, if you have two strikes against you. No PCA chance.

You know what? But again, like, this year, it's been better. Yeah. I can, I, I play the game differently. I feel comfortable taking one out.

Like, just because it's a, a hitters count. I don't, I don't have to swing. So like, you know, maybe if it's like a two-o. Maybe let's not. Okay.

I like that. Because then I'm like, all right. Like, I want to let it eat. Right. And let's let them see one.

Yeah. But a lot of guys don't throw fastballs into accounts anymore. So, I don't know. I think that's a good point though. Yeah.

It's the coolest thing ever at the same time. Right.

“That's what you, that's the kind of shit that gives you chills.”

And like, they were chaining my name before that any even started. Yes, sure. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

I've never, I've never had that happen before.

And that was really, that was really cool. Yeah. They're probably going to do it before you're first to bat tonight. That'd be awesome. Like, it definitely is going to happen.

I've got some really dumb questions for you. You have to figure out which one was asked by Stephen Chay. You was the one who was sitting again. Stephen Chay was the one who was sitting with the cubs jersey and a seat that he never sits in.

All right. And I was like, why are you sitting there? And he's like, what? I always know you don't. It's because Pete's coming in.

So, okay. So, I'm going to ask you three dumb questions and you have to find the Chay. Question number one, your five tool player. What's your favorite tool? My glove.

My defense is my favorite tool. That's a good tool for sure. Second, will you sprint to first base if you get a walk? No. Never, never.

Never. There's like one guy that can do that is brain and nimo because he's done that his whole career if I had to do that. I've looked like an idiot in so many ways this year that I don't need to. I don't need to add to that.

Which we tried to get Aussie. I'll be used to do it for us. Yeah. And Matt Olson was like, you guys are idiots.

He literally never walks.

He's like, he's never going to happen. Yeah. His face rate is like off the charts. Yeah. Like that guy's hitting balls off his shoelaces.

He swings a 40 inch bat. Yeah. That guy's impressive. Man, I love that.

“I think Patrick Wisdom said he would do that for us.”

He did. If you got to walk in that one specific series. If you got a question. Do players get annoyed having to sing take me out to the ball game. Every game during the regular season.

It seems like that would be an annoying song. Like imagine you're your office. If you had to sing a song every day work. All right. So that would be the chase one.

Yeah. I was going to go with the second question. So you read that one. Yep. I mean, does he think that we sing along?

I think you might. Yeah. So I think you might think that. Yeah. No.

Man. Yeah. There's nothing worse than when somebody does a poor job. Yeah. Do you guys notice that?

Hell yeah. Who was it? They came to Rick's Cooper. Yeah. Former coworker.

You know, I, and again, like if you, not everybody's got a good voice. But it was just, it was the way that, that, that it felt like she wanted it. She was like kind of mocking that. Yeah. It was a slight, it was a slight mock job.

Yeah. Yeah. So, like, that kind of stuff hurts me sometimes. But again, like, if you get the opportunity to sing a scratch, like, you're going to do it how you want.

Like, you know, I don't get annoyed by this song just because I'm, I mean, they're really pissed about getting out before and I'm like, oh, like, and do is rerun the, the, the, the, the a bad or whatever. Or I'm pretty pumped or say as making some funny faces at me in the right field. All right.

Wait. So follow-up chase question. I'm going to follow-up the chase question with the chase question. Will you sing it at some point this year? Just to test it out.

Yeah.

Or if you're coming to eat, you know, if it's, if it's at home, you don't, yeah.

Yeah. But like, would you, would you consider maybe just one time and you let us know how it goes? Yeah. Sing along for sure.

Okay. For sure. And to one. Yeah. All right.

And to two. And I got to finish with. Yeah. Let's, let's get some runs. Yeah.

Say that to the boys and duck house. Yeah. Get some runs. Get a dog out. You know what?

You know, my favorite, we all do this in the dugout is when they do the hefty hefty. Yes. The whole dugout. Yeah. I'm unisoned.

It's great.

“I, like, I dream about, like, I think my, my two dream jobs and I have a dream job.”

So I shouldn't, like, say this, but my two dream jobs would be the host surprises right. And then being a baseball bench coach. So, like, not the manager. Yeah.

Because it feels like the, the, the dugout. I guess it's game to game. It feels like the best hang ever. Is it? It's pretty great.

Yeah. I mean, yeah. Like, I, I wasn't like the, the best guy to be around the last three days. But for the most part, the dugout is. It's, it's like such a place where you can just kind of tune out in the way.

Yeah. But the bench coach. I don't know if you ever really just hanging as the bench coach. Like, oh, and if I was the bench coach, that's right. I could just be a vibes, but guy.

Yeah. Which is being like trying to pump up the boys. Maybe doing the like the shoe on fire thing. Sure. Yeah.

You've got to stop. You'd be the, the crank guy. Yeah. I don't think a bench coach has ever been the prank guy. You never know.

“I think you can't just inventing a job for himself.”

Yeah. But eventually, which is what he would envision his job to be. Yeah. Yeah. Just like hang.

Just hang out. I think every dugout could use some of that. Yeah. Hang guy. I think every dugout could use a hang guy.

Okay. First base coach. What is the first base coach do when they're not taking your gloves. Giving you a sliding bit. The, there, ours is on the iPad looking at like set times and times the home plate.

Pick off moves. He does a lot of work like, you know, I don't really know what he's doing during the inning. But that guy is like on the computer all day all night. Like, what can we, what edge can we get on this guy when it comes to,

like I was saying about guys who have really fast times the plate, like all of the Kansas City Royals. It's like he's looking for one thing, like a lean or something.

Like Kersha, you remember how Kersha always had like that funky slide step.

Yeah. He always leaned into it and you could, you know, there's just like that that, that the first base coach looks for. But my first base coach gives me the exam times because he wraps, like all of my gear really tight and he makes my batting gloves all.

Crawl, pull up and pull up. So I got an issue with that. You got to tell him.

“I think you just got to be honest with him.”

But he's done it all year. Oh, yeah. Now just two conditions. I don't need him. I just have the bad boy.

I mean, the bad boy or he knows so to unforall. You're afraid that you're going to hurt his feelings. If you're like, hey, can you, can you fold my gloves differently? Yeah, because it's like, dude, why don't you tell me? Or like, I thought you liked him.

Like, yeah, when dad does laundry and you're like, that's not how mom used to do this. I should, I should just have an honest. Yeah. Maybe now you are.

Maybe this is how that might be worse though. He's like, I had to find out about this in a pod. Yeah. Well, I know the first thing I'm doing when I get to the field. Yeah.

I got a big idea. I got a big idea. I got a big idea. I got two, two questions. We're doing the dumb question portion.

So I got a guy who's, helps me with prep VP of big cat court. Shout out to him. He's been helping me for like a decade now. He's got, he's a cubs fan and he's got two sons nine and twelve. Who are the biggest PCA fans.

So he, he wrote me two questions. So it's like, hey, this is your chance. So this is from the, is verbatim. This is from Hank the nine year old.

How did you know that you could have power to hit home runs and have you always hit home runs?

Like when you were younger. I didn't hit very many homers when I was younger at all. Like I, I was that little sloppy. Uh, I'm gonna shoot the five six hole. Uh, I can hit a nice little good looking line drive and the left center gap.

Uh, but then, like my senior high school, I kind of like tapped into some more power. Um, I just didn't know how to swing, like, I didn't know how to pull the ball. Yeah. Um, and that's not really even something I figured out until last year. So, uh, I always knew that I was like baseball strong.

Like I'm not really that strong otherwise. But I always knew that I could hit balls very flush and far. Uh, but I would say it was like 20, 22 or three. So like my first or second year of pro ball where I was like, I got some juice.

I don't know, uh, Hank the nine year old, but I, I'm guessing he probably doesn't hit a lot of home runs. He's wondering when he can start hitting home runs. Well, I can come later. Your nine years old. Yeah.

Yeah.

I hit my first home run around nine.

Okay, so you're behind Hank. Not really. Same age. Why is he turning 10 man? Oh, all right.

And then read asked. He's 12.

“He said, what is better stealing a base or hitting a triple?”

I'd say stealing a base. Triples. Like, triples are pretty rewarding, but I felt usually like, you don't hit triples like very hard. Like, yeah, it's a weird bounce or something. Absolutely.

Especially, it really like snuck so many balls like off the end of my bat down the line. Um, I'd say stealing bags because, um, I think it's more of like a, I think it's more of a, I think it's more of a demoralizing thing for pitcher catcher combo. Like, that they just gave that up like you're going to give up pitches of pitcher.

So, you know, if you give up a two out triple, it's still two outs and same thing as a guy being on second base.

Yeah. I'd say stealing bags, stealing third base specifically is probably the most rewarding way to steal a bag. Yeah. I've got one dumb one and then one that I think isn't dumb, but maybe it is dumb. So you can tell me.

And then we'll go ask the regular questions. Actually, the entire interview is just, yeah, I mean, you could get the vibe. You know what? That's dumb guys.

“Do you change the way that you play defense at regularly field given when the Ivy grows in?”

That's a, that's not your dumb question. No, that's what you're about to say. You're about to say to what question. No, that was actually a pretty cool question. Cool question.

I don't think that was dumb at all. Um, no. I don't. I don't. I'm still thinking about this though.

That's, that maybe the best answer. Yeah, that's a great answer for a cool question. I'm something about this. No, because, because like the, the ball. I guess like specifically, I would play balls off the wall differently.

Yeah, like early in the year when the Ivy is non-existent. But you still get some pretty like hard bounces off the, off the brick even when the Ivy's in full, full form. I definitely feel a little more comfortable going into the Ivy when there's more of it than there's none of it. That could also get you in trouble because it looks welcoming. And then you kind of forget, oh shit, there's brick behind there.

Yeah, it's, it's not like so cushy as it looks. It's, you, you find the brick pretty fast. Um, and then, but when there's no Ivy and it's just the roots and the branches or whatever, that shit hurts. Like, yeah, I've been cut up and some comfortable for you. Yeah, cool answer.

That was a good question. Yeah. Cool, cool question. Um, the other question I had was after the Dodger series. I saw, like some of the interviews that you did right afterwards, where your answer was like,

that was pretty cool, but, you know, ultimately, it doesn't mean much until we play them in the playoffs. But was there a part of you that after that, like it did something to the belief that the team has where it's like, we can beat, you know, the best teams in baseball and we don't need to be scared of them when it is time in the playoffs. Yeah, I mean, I don't know if that series really did that for, because excluding, excluding Tokyo last year, like we had the season series against them. Um, I think forward to two.

So, we've always loved like going and playing those guys the same way we love going and playing the burgers.

Um, because they got the best, they got the best staff in baseball in Milwaukee does. They're honestly, as much as it pains me to say, like they're really fun team to play against and just to kind of appreciate. Um, and as are the Dodgers, like they have the best player of all time on their team. And then, you got, I mean, you got at least three Hall of Famers on the field at one time with Showa, Freddy Mookie. Um, so I don't, I don't think we never needed to like prove to ourselves that like we can hang with them or that we would want to see, like we, we, we want to see whoever it is in October.

Yeah. And, you know, yeah, we, we love playing those teams. Um, those are some of the easiest games to get up for and and really lock in for us. Yeah, it's like a precursor to October baseball. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the game on Monday night felt like a playoff atmosphere. Absolutely. It really did. Like I, I was feeling it and like I had the same nerves as a playoff game. Absolutely.

“Yeah. That's what you guys create though, like that's what, and it's not the same in every stadium, but that's what fans help us with and do for us.”

Yeah, you know, if there was nobody in the bleachers, like that's still be a crazy game to be a part of because we're all competitors. Like, you know, it's, it's what you want to, that's what you want to be playing in front of us.

But there was competitive, like, they were being competitive out there.

Yeah. I was, dude, the whole, were you in the field for that? Yeah. The whole stadium stopped and like looked out there. Tell me, I was right there with them. It was crazy. I could, I could hear skin on the skin. Yeah. That was the upsetting part to me. I was like, man, like, you know, I, again, I'm all for like the trash talking between fan bases and all that stuff. But I'm like, no, you're loser if you fight in a, in a, in a, in a pro-spel.

Especially, there's nothing to, like, what are you doing, man? Especially in the bleachers. Yeah. Like, I'm fighting in the bleachers. I saw a fight last year. I, I feel like Philly was here, but it was just this, it was this one dude. He looked like a former line man. He was mass of you's taking on everyone. But, uh, there was like a solid eight rows of people that all fell. Yeah, right. During kids out there. Yeah. He's, we're getting picked up and carried out. Yeah. It was like, that's, that's where I'm slightly upset by that. Yeah. I think it's not so exciting.

“I, I'm, I like watching a good scrap sometimes, but you have to see absolutely, absolutely great.”

That's the same thing. Let's not get the same. Yeah. We, we need, like, the, the, like, a message on the jumbo trot. I'm like, I'm peeking. I'm sure I'm sure I'm no fighting in the bleachers. Yeah. That actually be funny. That'd be good. I, I loved left field after that, too, because they, they'd started the, the right field. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's, that's how you handle that for it. It was going back and forth. All right.

I got, so last time I think you did a podcast was a couple weeks ago with Chris and Cavalry. I have a, I think you got your, your stories mixed up. Probably did. Okay. So, the, the dinosaurs don't exist. Yeah. Babe Ruth was maybe Dominican. What, that's the, that's it. And heard that one. Yes. You said, you said, baby Ruth doesn't exist. All right. All right. So, I'm sure you all will find the, the whole clip. But, and again, if I'm just completely blown smoke here, forgive me.

I did, I, I don't buy into the conspiracy. So I, I feel like I did my due diligence and I, I, I at least started it off with. I don't really believe in conspiracies, but if I had to find one funny, it would be this. Yeah. So if I'm going to save my own ass here. Yeah. Is that like, that's fair. That would be funny. I, I wouldn't worry. If everything exists, that would be hilarious. I think that would be like the craziest folklore of all time. 100% of great. So, for the dude that did say it on a podcast to come out and say that, I was like, that's pretty fucking funny.

Yeah. That's policy. Yes. And funny. So I was like, well, shit. I'm not in front of a baseball crowd. Yeah. I'm not going to, and then of course, everybody. Yeah. Everyone's, it's okay. But yeah, it's dinosaurs don't exist. It's the old, the Carl Everett. Yeah. Carl Everett had a belief that if you didn't see it with his own eyes, it didn't exist.

“Like Helen Keller might not have been totally blind. Yeah.”

Is that one? Or Stevie Wonder's not blind. We, yeah.

Babe Ruth being Dominican is like a real theory online. No way. Yeah. - Yes, I mean, yeah, well, yeah, some literature for you. - Yeah, to Bruce, to literature. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, the P.M.T. book, God, if this gets me. - So wait for the record, I'll listen, we say the best part

about this show is we say the dumb stuff. - Gun just have to sit there, I'm curious. - Did Babe Ruth exist, did he walk this earth? - Yeah, I would assume that he did, like, okay, we're not all the way there yet, but like Carl Everett,

if you wanna see it, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - All right, go under your head if you had it, let's say a T-Rex, 400 at bats in a season, how many home runs is he at Xero? - Oh, yeah, it's correct, Xero, Xero.

- Xero, yeah, you don't find a bat that works for that. - Yeah, the strikes on that, okay, okay. - Okay, the strikes, yeah, the strikes on would be massive. - Yeah, the arms would not be conducive to a good baseball swing. - Yeah, he would get by a lot of pitches though.

- What's he actually trying to play? - What dinosaur would be the best at baseball?

“- I think, the one, the ankle is sourced,”

the one that's got the tail that's the club. - Just use that as a bat. - Oh, that's that. - Oh, yeah? - That's the ankle is sourced.

- Yeah, that got rocked. - That really comes off? - Yeah, yeah, it did. With its low heavy body for solid batting stance in a massive club tail, they can swing.

So they would use, they would use a bat. - Yep. - Use his tail, tie strikes on to him. - Yeah, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. - I've been going to a lot of museum pieces.

- That might not have existed, that's the only problem. - Turtle is number two. - What do they say about a velociraptor, pinch runner like that? - I got the, it's, it's the terredactyl two.

- I think Raptors got a lot of good PR from Jurassic Park movies. I read some more that they might not have, they weren't even that big. Like they were the size of like a dog.

- Yeah. - Oh, they were talking. - Yeah, but in the movies, they're kind of, they should make things worse. - We got to get this updated

'cause it says terredactyl would be defensively gifted because it can fly. It would have Kevin Kiermar, Esk Range, and Centerfield, that should be Pete Crosth. - Armstrong range, Centerfield.

- We can, we can still give that to KK. - Okay, he was, he was the, he was the shit.

it was tipping skills as, at as many as 33 tons, the appetite to Sorris was one of the largest dinosaurs of all time uses huge tails, a whip to deter predators, making it the rough equivalent of Prince Fielder, but with better bats speed.

- Wow, yeah, no shit. - That's kind of taking a shot on that. - Yeah. - Damn, I watched that thing wait, 33 tons. - That's, yeah, that's kind of mean to Prince Fielder.

- Yeah. - What was it like on the measurement day? - What did I say? - Okay, we gotta measure you for the strike zone. - You, I mean, we literally did it like,

during camp, just went to the weight room. They had the MLB people come in. He had to like lock your legs out. You'd actually, you'd rather than mark your shorter than think you are.

So like, a lot of egos were hurt, but at the same time, like, it's better. It helps you out, yeah. - I don't want to point any fingers. I think, I think Breggman might have just hurt the most.

- Did you see that? I think he was listed as like 61 or six feet. And he's five, nine, listen, I'm five, nine. We can't be, we can't be out there telling people that we're six feet tall.

- I don't know how you do it. I mean, he didn't, he didn't need the extra two inches, the guy got 30 playoff homers, like. - Right. - But yeah, he's not, he's not six feet.

(laughing)

- And he'd be the first to tell you that too, yeah.

“- You should just say, yeah, you know, I tricked a system.”

I stood in a way that made me look shorter. - Yeah. - So he's playing like 3D chess. - Absolutely. - Yeah.

- What I mean? - Yeah. - I know you got to run in a minute. This has been so much fun. I got a couple last questions.

So your dad group of Cubs fan, how is he just like, text you every now and then, just being like, I love you even more now? 'Cause like, what a crazy story to have. Your dad is a Cubs fan and now you're the best player

on the Cubs. Like, that's crazy. - Yeah. He's, I appreciate him because he keeps his emotions to himself like, he was geek in when I got traded.

I was rehabbing in Florida and he was in town. Him and my mom just to visit. And I, so like, I found out in the car on the way to lunch and they had already been there. So I think my dad like, he excused himself

from the table right before I got there and like had a little moment for himself.

“And I think that's, that's how I'll put the last few years.”

- Right. - It's just that. Like he, I don't think, I think he knows I don't, I don't want it to be anything bigger than like, I'm just, if I was a national,

I'd hope you'd feel the same way. - Right. - But you know, deep down. - But I think, I think deep down he's, he's having a really good time.

- Yeah, like you have siblings, right? - No. - Oh, you don't. I was just gonna say you're the favorite child. You're the favorite.

I would have been the only one, yeah. - Only and favorite. And it also is crazy like, I don't want to say serendipity, but hobby bias, you get traded for hobby bias. hobby bias was maybe the most electric cup

and the like, you know, that stretch. - Absolutely. - And then you're the most electric cup and it's like, it's just so cool. And it's like, if you had those moments

for like, I watched the world series of my dad, I watched hobby bias and then I got traded for 'em to the cups. - Yeah. - Yeah. Yeah, that I, I, yeah.

I don't know how to talk about it really. - 'Cause it's crazy. 'Cause it is crazy. That was my favorite player. - Yeah.

- That was my favorite player by far. I remember trying to hit like him in the cage. I remember, I remember just saying that. - And I'd like him to be at that guy.

I remember his first homer and coars like,

he just, he was the most exciting thing that ever happened to my childhood probably, 'cause I was just, I was all about sports and I did not believe it when I found out really. But yeah, I got to meet him last year.

I got to say thank you for just existing 'cause that's why I'm here now. - Yeah. - That guy was the shit, like he was, he was the coolest.

I don't love like baseball tattoos, but if anybody's gonna have the MLB logo on there now. - Yeah. - He's love for the game right there. - Yeah, yeah.

“- Did I get it before he got to the Major League Baseball?”

- Yeah, he did. - That's awesome. - Yeah. - He did. - All right, last couple of questions.

First one, put on the headphones real quick.

So, I have a question for Pete that is related to Max, our producer, Max are a really good baseball player. Who's the Matt Stair's real? - Real, CAA, played at Hofstra, no big deal. We went and did, we went and did batting practice at Ridley.

He was like, maybe like eight feet from going out. He's the left one. - When was blowing in?

- Do you have any tips for him?

“- I think it was 20 miles an hour in from, from right for you.”

- Yeah, it was the day that I ate the sunflower seed. You said, what did you think, by the way, when you saw that clip? But you're like, that's kind of weird. - No, I kind of thought that that was some shit

that I would do to you. - Yes, respect. - And by the way, you said, at least it wasn't my dip, I would take your dip, so. - I wouldn't let you in.

I just went on the work. - I've been eating grass at every cool stadium that we go to, like just one piece of grass. So like I ate the tiger's stadium, like in Death Valley and L.S.U ate that grass.

- Oh, really? - Rigly grass is, I think it's the tastiest.

- This is the first I'm hearing of this.

You've been doing this? - Yeah. - Yeah, I've noticed it. - You just, I've noticed it. - I've noticed it.

- That's pretty, that's pretty good. It's really fucked up when we go to synthetic fields. Yeah, I tried. - It's the rubber belt. - Yeah, but I ate it and then I go to the bathroom. - So have you done any soccer fields yet?

- I don't know that I've done a soccer field grass. - That is good grass. - That's good grass. - But it's done golf courses. He does every golf course.

- Yeah, is that?

“- Yeah, I think Rigly Field has the tastiest grass.”

- But you're stating that a bit. - Shoutout Dan Kier, my actually Kevin Mars. - Yes, Kevin Mars. - Yeah, brother is shoutout ground screw. - All right, max, what's up?

- Max, yeah, help max out. - All right. - When the wind's blowing in, you've got two choices and it's to go at either scoreboard. 'Cause it just blocks the wind.

When to be blown in 40 and if you hit it low enough at the left field scoreboard, it's gonna go out. If you hit it low enough at the right field scoreboard, it's gonna go out. - That's good too.

- I was just trying to go down the line. That's good too. - Yeah. - You just got a yank, bro. It's when the wind's blowing in, you just went in doubt.

- You got a yank, yank, yank, yank, yank. - You weren't liking it. - I liked that. - All right, and then last question, RobacquestionRHOBECK.com.

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Qsips, Polos, hoodies, jogger shorts, Robac.com, Zach, you ready? - How you doing today? I did have a quick question. That's cool to you.

(laughs) So when we're sitting in the stands as fans, we see you go y'all absolutely yard it regularly. We know that's gotta be an insane feeling for you. But population percentage wise,

none of us are gonna experience that. Very minimal. Some guys get close, like 8-10 feet. But, is there a common man's feeling you can closely compare it to?

- Yeah. I would say, I would say like making an eagle in three-perfect shots. - Okay.

“- I think I related to that 'cause like I'm grinding my ass off.”

Trying to play golf, you know, like that's, some rewarding, it's just like, that's some rewarding shit. So like that or, or like when a dog really likes you and the owner said that they weren't,

they don't like anybody. - Yeah, like that, that's a good one. - Confilling. - I was gonna say like the hitting like the last shot in beer pong twice, we're in the game.

That feels good. - Sure. - Yeah, no rebuttal. - Yeah, no rebuttal. - Feels good.

- Just feel like the man in that moment. - Yeah. - Maybe like a real life 2K green bean, like you hit that perfect three on 2K? - Yeah, yeah.

- Okay. - I like my dog one though, I think. - The dog one is relatable. Yeah, it was like, oh, this dog's not friendly. It's like just looking, just like helping you

and just nuzzling up. - Yeah, my buddy's uncle had like a rot-weiler puppy and he was freaking huge and he kind of had him as like a guard dog.

So he'd always be leached up out in the backyard

and he was like, you can go look at him if you want. And I was like, no, I got this and next thing you know, I can't, if you can't, if you can't get rid of me, I can't get rid of him and I would say it's like that. - It's a great feeling.

- That's a great feeling. - You can eat bad flip after that. - I can't walk it off, yeah. - Maybe a bone for the dog? - Yeah, flip a bone.

- Yeah, a treat sent to the moon. - Yeah, or are you just walk off? And play your, me and my boys always talked about if we had like one song to have like a walking montage in a movie or something like what would it be?

I would just start playing that song. - Yeah. - And just walk off all cool. - Yeah. - I don't know what mine would be,

but if you could have like one song in like a movie montage of like the shit's blowing up behind you and you're walking off in slow mo like what would that song be? - That's a conversation, me and my friends have a lot. - That's a good amount of rush more.

- Yeah, I should do it, we'll do it. - Free bird, that's good. - Free bird, free bird is probably a pretty popular choice. I like that one, it's a good one. - Well, Pete, thank you so much for coming in, man.

- Mass out there. - Mass out there. - I'm on the front lines, I hope you know. - I hope you see me on the front lines. - I do.

- It sucks 'cause I do have to get like, we do it every now and then, but I have to get a little dirty and I have to slander, but that's fine.

You gotta just, you just gotta go out and just start patting. We gotta do some negative, you know. - Possibly. - I'll tell you that I appreciate that behind the scenes. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

- You cannot condone it. - No, I actually feel like, so a lot, I love getting in like a season long debate and just like, I'll just, when I'm bored, I'll just fire it up and be like,

here's some PCA stats, here's some show, hey, stats like debate me. Like, come on, let's go in there. - That gets you off, man. - Yeah, yeah, and hopefully we win the debate.

But yeah, you're the man, thanks so much, man. Appreciate it. - Thank you guys. (upbeat music) - PCA was brought to you by TickPick,

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[MUSIC PLAYING] OK, we now welcome on a very, very special guest. It is Joe Buck, our good longtime friend Joe Buck. He wrote the forward for our book that is out now. And I got to start with that, Joe.

First of all, thank you. I cannot believe you did that. It's actually-- I got a little theory I'd reading through the table of contents and being like,

“why the fuck did any of these people like agree to do this?”

It's pretty damn cool. So thank you. Would you say this is the dumbest book you will be part of? Oh, no. No.

I don't think that. I-- well, there's a few things I have to say and what you just said right there. First of all, I was publicly ashamed into writing the forward to your book,

because it was about a year ago. Yeah. I think we had the bears week one against the Vikings, and I came to your studio.

And you basically, on the air, or whatever the internet,

asked me if I would write the forward. Now, what am I going to say? No. It takes an hour, maybe not that long. And so I did it.

I'm glad I did it. No, it's not the dumbest book that I could be associated with. I'm excited to do it. And the answer to your question is,

“why would any of these people agree to do any of this?”

Because we don't want you to prex to turn off. True. Yeah, we're right. We're telling you we're good. Yeah, it's like, you know, I'm keeping you close.

So I can do a little bit of work to keep you guys on my side if you're there, and you know, we just go forward in life. That's actually-- It's a totally fair, like one hour of your time to get us to not turn on you and attack you.

Like, that's a good trait. I think it is. I mean, I think you make trades in life. You're constantly bartering. And the one thing that I have to barter with with you guys

is my time. And I gave you an hour or so. And tell me the name of your ghostwriter, or we allowed to say that. Oh, Matthew, yeah.

Yeah. Matthew is really talented, and so I actually dictated all of this into my notes. I wrote a page, and then I said, you know what? This is too slow.

I don't want to give this much time. And I dictated it into my voice notes, sent it to him. He crafted it. I recrafted it.

That's what came out in the wash. He's fantastic. I'm actually because it's him. I'm very excited to read this book and get kind of a peek behind the curtain even more with the two of you.

Yeah, well, we appreciate it, Joe. Thank you very much for your time and for doing that. It means a lot also because we can put your name on the cover. And that's our trick. Like, to everybody out there that's thinking about writing a book,

“you should just network until you have people that are in your circle”

that you can ask to write your own book for you under threat of turning on them and turning their lives into an online hell afterwards. That's the best way to write a book. If you roll the tape backward, the last person I wrote a forward

for in their book is already lying. Oh, god, I'm hoping. All right. So I went from the debacle on HBO with the Jill box slash

It was canceled after nine minutes to then getting to have a friendship and relationship with already who's fantastic. I knew he would be. We are he's got his demons and they're well documented.

“But he asked me that that's how far we got in our relationship”

to where he said, well, I'm coming out with my second book.

Would you write the forward and answer was obviously yes. So it goes already lying, then you guys. And then I don't know who could possibly be next. Well, I mean, when we do a sequel to our book, you'll have to do that as well.

It's part of my book again. And we're going to forward to your book if you want to. Yeah, that's an open invite to you. You write like one every one. Yeah, every two years you write one.

I actually have a question about the, and we did an episode way back where we talked about the famous Joe Buck episode. We had already laying on. We had Paul Rudd on. So in this book, in our book, we talked about our pursuit

for TV and we were on ESPN for one day, one episode.

When you were getting pitched the Joe Buck show, was it, was it?

In your head, you're like, yeah, you know what? I do need a TV show because we going through the process of writing this book, we kind of revisited it and been like, man, we're re-stupid to think, yeah, you know what?

“We do need a TV show, like that's what we do.”

Like, that's what, yeah, we need a part in my take show. Like, that's how it works. Did you have something similar? We're like, yeah, I need a Joe Buck show. Of course.

But I saw Ross Greenberg forever had been talking to me about wanting to do a show and Bob Costa said step-to-way. And so it was an obvious, you know, I was filling in for his show. I wanted to take it in a very different direction. And so when I was, you know, in talks with Ross,

I said, it's got to be edgy, it's got to be fun. It's got to be funny. I mean, I know how you guys do stuff at HBO and it's very high-prout and it's very well done. And, you know, you kind of set the standard for a lot of these

magazines, show, certainly with sports. Would you be open to doing that? And the answer is yes. And in fact, I was the one that was adamant about getting Arty on the show because it was a big stern fan.

And I knew he was a big sports fan. Rudd was a long-time friend and then he kind of wrangled Sudakeus onto that David Keppner was a part of this kind of last comedy piece. It was a great lineup.

Sudakeus wasn't really Sudakeus yet and, you know, Rudd was Rudd. And then I said, we got to have Arty on to have some edge and the stories old by now. But I went into him before I met him before we walked out on stage. And I said, hey, man, I want you to let me have it.

I want you to come at me. I want you to have fun. I want this to be just kind of nuts here at the end. Little did I know, as he admitted in that book that I wrote the forward to, that he snorted, vicaridin and drank jack Daniels before it came out there.

I wasn't aware of that minor detail. Yes. And then it kind of went off the rails. But I'm glad I did it. And when that whole thing came down, I remember being on that we

probably have done this. Probably this is the exact interview we've done before. But I remember walking off the stage. And it was just kind of like it was just like a pregnant pause kind of. It was hanging in the air.

Now what? Because that was like the end of us, like, all right, good night. See you at a month or whatever we're doing the next one. And then I went right out and talked to the writers who were going to review it. And the guy from the New York Times said to me, Joe, do you feel like you just

got cornholeed on national TV at the time? The times. The times. Yeah. Cornholeed.

New York Times. Use the word cornholeed. I swear to God, and I can roll that back in my mind. And then the New York, the New York Post guy, the stringer for the New York Post said something like, is TMZ, really your favorite website.

I was like, we're done. Okay, this is not going anywhere good. But at the time, I thought, if this were on Fox and it was David Hill and George, he would have kind of charged out there like PT Barnum, like, this is what you're going to get on the show.

You never like embrace it.

And to me, it was like everybody ran and hid, which I hated.

“And that's why I basically Tom Cruise jumped on the couch saying, "Arty Lang is coming”

on the second show, or I'm not. I'm not doing it. If Arty doesn't come on, and he did our cold open. I had to talk to the head of HBO, which was a long-born story that I had to basically say, "Look, I've already got a day job.

I'm already, I'm being hit by Arty Lang jokes every time I walk into stadium.

Yeah, let's have fun with it."

Yeah.

“And if you don't let me do it, then I'm just going to quit.”

And they let me do it. I'm glad they did. And I struck up a friendship with Arty, who apologized, and I said, "No need. I told you to do that, and we all go forward in life." But I'm glad I did all that.

I feel like you learned. There's no way you guys don't look back at that time on that show and go, "There's something you learned." Yeah. And beyond just the, we shouldn't have done the show on ESPN or whatever it was, there's

something that you took from that that made you better today. And there's no doubt that applies to HBO and me. For sure. Yeah. 100%.

And at that New York Times reporter had done their job, they would know that TMZ is not

your favorite website. Marty said what your favorite website was. I'll show you something. It's a dot com. Yeah.

Yeah. I don't know if it was C or the D word, but I was, it was one of the two. And that was like, OK, this is what we're doing. Got it. Yeah.

I think I'm good. I gotta go to the bathroom up and out here for an hour or a time. Yeah. It was great. But you said in, we talked about it in the book, like the D, I have a, I have a great

job outside of this. I don't need, you know, like, this doesn't make or break me. That was the big lesson we learned when we did the TV show. It's like, oh, shit, like, what, people are going to listen to us whether we have a TV show or not.

Why do we, why do we care about this anymore? Yeah. And I, yeah.

“And I think, you know, for me, had, had all that transfer, if you go, I think that was”

like 2009 somewhere in there. If it's 20, 26, and that trend, I might be in a different place with already lying. But I sat there in my mind every time the director, great director, Mark Peyton shot me. I can just, I, what, why not watch it? I can watch my mind turning like, do I jump down in here with him?

Cause I'm gonna lose. Yeah. But I'm gonna try to stand up for myself or am I just gonna sit here and grin and, and fake smile and just hope it ends soon and, you know, and, and you just, I think I would maybe do it differently today, maybe I would, I don't know, but I, I, I think you, you learned

from all that stuff. And I, I'm not saying this is true for every TV show, but I have noticed over the years that a lot of even the most successful TV shows, they end up hating doing television towards the end of the run. If not like as they're actively putting out great TV, so like sign-thold walked away when

it was the biggest show on earth, Shappelle walked away, biggest show on earth. The Game of Thrones people hated doing that show by the end of it, by that last season. And it kind of showed at the end, I, I just think that what we learned from is that we have a great thing going right here due to podcast. And so why we don't have to do a TV show just because that might be on, you know, in airports

are in gyms across the country. We've got a great thing here. Let's not strive for what we have. The grass is not, it's usually not greener than it is in front of you. So it's a good learning experience.

And it's a different world now too. I mean, when you do that, when you do that, when I did the HBO thing, that's a long time ago now, and the media has evolved, and you're doing a TV show, you're already doing it.

“So, you know, it's, if you want to go mainstream, I was excited to be on HBO, I would still”

be excited to be on HBO, a lot of those guys are still really good friends of mine. And the frustrating thing for me was after all that thing came out, or that kind of, that debacle happened. I asked them about the ratings, and like, oh, no, the ratings are really good, and actually the rating went up during the hour, and I said, "Well, can you put that out?"

Yeah, I see. They said, "No, we don't really talk ratings at HBO. I was like, "Well, can you make an exception?" Then we can, we have one thing in our column that's good, and the answer was no. So I, I would do it again, it would be different, but I would kind of want to do the same

show weirdly enough, and, and I kind of like that stuff, even though it probably didn't work out in my favor." Speaking of ratings, wait, who has the soup bowl this year? We did it. Oh, yes, oh, I haven't heard.

You guys hadn't told us. Ah, yeah, I assume that's why you were saying that. Do, are you, are you an NFL merchant when it comes to ratings?

Do, you know, you basically just get to ride the NFL.

That's for all your ratings. You, do you open up the ratings? You see the ratings the next day, and you're like, "Did it again?" Joe Buck, Monday football, another hit. Yeah, because I know they're all tuning in to go, "What's he gonna say?" Honey, gather, get the kids, it's Joe and Troy.

No, I mean, do I look, yeah, I want my bosses to be happy. I want the people who pay a lot of money to the NFL to be thrilled that we got a great rating, but I'm also not of the mind of like, you know, I affects that. I think the only time, maybe if the game is a blowout and we're having fun, a few people may

So I don't, I am not delusioned.

“Are you, are you, you've called NFL for a very long time?”

Actually, saw, I think it's the longest, my 33rd year. Yeah, I saw the longest punt return I think it was, was a Saints game from like, late 90s, and it was you on the call, and I was like, "Oh my God, that's Joe Buck, because

you've always a little higher," and it's just like, "Holy shit, he's going to call you

for a long time." It's 30, the 25th. But, yeah, I was just out of the world. Yeah, is it, are you shocked at all like that the NFL, do you ever think it was gonna get to this level where it's like, it's just, when they do the top 100 shows of the year,

it's like, maybe there's a Olympic event, and the Oscars, and the 90s. 90s. It's, yeah, it's between like 88, the only gap is like, there's 12 shows, right, literally that aren't football related. Yeah, crazy.

Yeah. Well, no, I'm, I'm glad it's gotten to this point. I think if it was at this point back then, the growth has been exponential, been incredible. I think if it was at this point back then, I probably wouldn't have gotten a chance at 25 to do major network football.

When that call went out and David Hill and and Goran, you know, they paid all that money for Summer All in Madden, they had a great number two team, Stockton and Mad Millen. And then it was like, hey, we're going to give a bunch of people who we haven't seen on network TV forever or shot. Are there any famous announcers who have kids, and who's like, me and Kenny Albert, and

bread of it, and Kevin Harlin, and I mean, it was kind of crazy that all of us had a dad who was involved somehow already in either broadcasting or football media in the case of Kevin Harlin. But we all showed up there like, what in the hell are we doing here? Let's figure this out together.

I was with Tim Green, who was just off the field and it never done any TV.

I'd never done football, but we fumbled our way through it, so to speak, the first couple

years.

“And then you learn and grow, just like we were taught, that's what this business is all about.”

It was just kind of trial and error and fake it till you make it. I don't know if you've seen any of the like uploaded footage from the 1999, 2000 NFL seasons online, but there's a conspiracy out there. They make the broadcast look way worse than it was at the time. Like if you look up a 1999 NFL game, it looks like it's straight out of the 70s, the

way that you see it on YouTube. I watched those games are massive, it looks grainy. Yeah. But I watched those games. They look good at the time.

It did not look like that. They're trying to make us feel old by having like, I think you may be misremembering. No, a famous person once said, yeah, I think, you know, with high definition TV, I remember being in telecom classes, if you go back to my college days, like back in 89 and 90, and they're like, man, when this high definition TV comes, and they had the, they had

the technology, they were just worried about rolling it out because it would force everybody at the time, it would force everybody to buy new hardware, new TVs. And it was like, it's going to, with this is going to be the way of the future, but it is.

“I assume that in the late 90s, we were not in high definitionville, that's what it”

looked like. That's how different our brains and eyes are now watching games with this crystal clear picture, like you're there, I do think that's kind of how it looks, I'm sorry to say. So I was looking at the ratings from the world cup this summer, were you rooting against the world cup ratings so you can say, like, one of the football still can't even boy, I've

never thought of it in those terms.

I would be. I would be right. You're a lawyer. Yeah, you're a lawyer. No, no, no, no, no.

You put the marks on for Neil said soccer, my supposed to say soccer and football against football. I know, I don't, that is one where I do not, you don't think about soccer. I don't like that. Yeah. I did think I got swept up in the, in the US, Mania, until it came crashing down with a

foot in that final, in that final effort. But yeah, I was sitting in front of my TV night after night with my eight year old boys watching soccer, which is something that I had never done prior. So I was, I was a new fan, definitely. And now we're back to real football, thankfully, Monday, preseason football.

That's, that's what we're back for. Can't wait to see it. You just showed the death truck that you had there. It made me wonder, is it harder to call preseason games than it is to call regular season game because you have to go to the third fourth stringers?

Yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna act like, you know, as I go through this list, if you get

down to the third string offensive lineman, that's somebody that I know every twist

in turn of their career to this point.

“I think the fun of it is being able to kind of pull back and look at the league at times,”

look at the division that they're in, we've got an AFC South team playing an AFC West team. I'm sure at some point, we're gonna look at Kansas City and Denver who we have week one and the regular season schedule. I think it, it, it affords you, someone's like doing a baseball all start game. There, there's, there's not a ton of strategy involved in this game.

We're gonna be doing on Thursday night. So you start looking for individual performances and every, somebody will stand out and then you kind of ride that for a little bit, but then you go back to, okay, we're gonna see my homes in next week one, how good's Kansas City gonna be, how good's Denver gonna be and you can kind of take your focus off the game a little bit and if somebody jumps

up, you cover them and then you go back to what you're doing. So it's, there's a lot of names, a lot of numbers, you hope to get most of them right and then you just try to have fun for three hours and point your way toward week one. Can I ask you a sports jeopardy question? Yeah, yeah, I'll get it wrong.

No, no, no, I meant about sports jeopardy that you hosted.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, go, yeah, sure. Why did some of those people sign up? You have to ask them, I have no idea. That was, I watched a couple episodes and there were, there were some people didn't know anything about sports.

Well, I think I do think this in their defense and I would probably have been in the same category. I think the hard thing about jeopardy, it's like doing a crossword puzzle.

“You have to get into what they're really asking.”

Yeah, you have to have to know kind of, you know, the rhythm of the clue and that a question that I give, if you sat down in a library with a number two lead pencil, you could probably come up with the answer. But when you're on the stage and you have to hit the buzzer, if they hit the buzzer before I stop reading the clue, it freezes them out and they have to reset.

So they're doing all that. They're listening to me as I hack my way through the clue. They're reading it on the board. And I think it's easy to get lost in what the clue's actually asking for.

Sometimes if you could do it without the pressure, you could probably come up with the

right answer. Yeah. I'm not a trivia. I'm not a trivia master by any extra terrible title, but there was a couple like, it made me feel smart.

Like I think there was one moment where it was just a picture of Mark Davis and it was like, who is this? And I was like, yeah, I know Mark Davis, you can spot that haircut from a mile away. It's like a genius, I was like, this is awesome. I'm so smart.

Yes. I agree. And by the way, when I was reading the clue, I didn't realize what was on the screen because the board is kind of around. So there were some pictures to kind of help you along.

Yeah. That I wasn't even aware of when I was doing it.

“But I think the fun of it, I hope, is that the people who didn't do really well,”

had fun and laughed at themselves and laughed at each other. And I thought there was fun to be had. But definitely. Definitely. So I mean, if you can't get the right answer, have fun given the wrong answer.

And I felt like most people did that. Yeah, it's just like when we do a trivia league here, like, I hated doing it because I was like, would get things wrong and just be like, how did I get that wrong? Like, how did I not know that? And then you think of it later and you're like, god damn it.

I'm so stupid. Can you do it? Can you put a request in for me since I did this? And I wrote the forward to your book. Sure. All right.

It wasn't that hard of you to write that. Let's just say that. That's what you did. Yeah, you did. You called up up and go straight.

You said, how did that dictate? Yeah. Yeah. I, I would took 15 minutes for you to jump on the word dictate. Yeah.

But on your Instagram. Yeah. Whatever that is is going around asking like, hey, what, what, let go. Seriously. As one, can you put the frigging answer over and over up in the things?

So I don't have to watch the whole goddamn thing. Welcome to the internet. Yeah. Yeah. That's a trick.

And then you got to go in the comments to find the answer. Oh, my god. That's one of those things. Which one of those are going to tell you off? Joe, I'll send you one of them.

Yeah. Every one of them. There's not one that doesn't send me. There's only a couple that I've ever gotten right. I'll send you one that's going to trigger you, Joe.

I think it was last week. He went around. Chaps went around. He's like, what state is it? It was Missouri and like half the office didn't get it.

Yeah.

Like, we're, we're just getting so bad in the outline of this state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the city. I don't know. I mean, we're not the smartest group. Aren't you in Illinois?

Yeah. No, no. Listen, it doesn't make sense.

“But there is a, it's very funny because I think there's a”

divide, it's about the 25 year old and lower mark on this office. I don't think they ever took a geography class. Like, straight up did not take a geography class. Well, straight up, I didn't either. And I went to a little prep school in St. Louis.

And I remember when my daughter and my 27 year old was going through it. She did geography at geography class. Like, I, I didn't know any of this. And it's not just the, the map of the United States. It's around the world.

I was blown away by what's taught in geography class.

We never had it in the roaring 80s.

I never had a geography class. And if, if you gave me all the states in the northeast and the states in the northwest, I would struggle. Middle of the country, I think I could do. Yeah, I was thinking about that the other day because I don't think I

took a geography class either. I think if, if you know geography, it's mostly people that just like are interested in maps and spend their own time making it a map. Yeah. Now, Michaels, that's that.

So when the earthquake world series happened, part of the thing was he, he's brilliant at knowing he's a map guy. And, and maybe that's good for the brain. I, I hope that I'm half as good as El Michael's, when I'm at that stage of my career, which I will not be, my career will be over by

then, but I, he, he's a map guy. I, I've never heard of a map guy other than maybe Magellan. And I'm Michael, but Al, Michael's in Magellan, the map guy. People. Yeah.

“I was like, sit around study and maps, I just know that's, I know.”

So when Netflix was created, I mean, the amount of people in the office that I guess Africa as a country in those things, that's always concerned with me. It's early time. Yeah. Yeah.

That, I don't know, that kind of bleeds over from geography to like an understanding

of the world. Yes, correct. Yes. That line of like, I'm bad at geography. It's like, no, no, you even know like the seven continents.

Yeah. Yeah. I think that's fair. Yeah. Trivia's hard.

Trivia's hard. It's hard. It's hard. It's hard. Yeah.

Trivia's hard. Trivia's hard. I got some of panartica. Yeah. Yeah.

So I can't wait to see what awful announcing, uh, coals out of this. It's going to be, I can't wait to click on that website and see a recap of my HBO show. I thought it did. It's like PFT said it's when you told our ghost writer how's my dictate.

That's it. That's my big takeaway. Yes. And he was like, he was really good. John.

You're like, you're damn right. You're a cat. Damn right. It was. What?

You want to talk in a fellow just like a little bit in a fellow this season? Talk. Because you do have the sugar. A touch. Yeah.

We do have it. Yeah. Is it Joe? Is this like, have you thought? Because you mentioned like you're not going to be doing this when you're

as old as Al? Have you thought about retirement? Like when, what's the goal age for you to walk away? No. Talk to somebody.

I have, I have so many financial obligations to family and friends. I'm not stopping anytime. Yeah. That's a good answer. We're stuck with you.

I love it. That's a really good cause like I have kind of somebody.

“That's the only motivating thing in my life is to satisfy the needs of family and”

friends. Yeah. Therefore, they will shove me out of the door and onto an airplane to go somewhere. Listen, I'm not in the book. I did my 10 gambling rules, but like when people are like, hey, when you're going to

slow down, it's like when I have enough money that I can lose it all and then die. So like I don't want to lose it all, like, you know, I don't want to lose it all. I don't want to lose it all. I don't want to lose it. Well, because I'm a losing gambler like what do you mean?

I'm a losing gambler. So gambling. Yeah. I want to have enough money so that I can, I can basically like my last bet will be like on my deathbed.

It's like there we go. Did it perfectly.

That would be an amazing.

Who is it? sample. Yeah. I've preparation. Is it life timing?

Yeah. It's it's a life. Well, lived correctly where it's like, all right. There it is. We just go out the counters on zero zero so all around the Texans didn't cover in that

preseason game. Yeah. That would be perfect. No. Be perfect.

How much a gambling debt do you have right now? How long is that going to take for you, Rob? Thank God. All right. Good to know.

That's not my problem. Hair plugs. Yeah. Yeah. Those are expense.

I know. We know. We read your book. That's not a cheap endeavor. Yeah.

So I met in my next life. I'm going to come back because I heard transplant surgery. Yeah. You should go to Turkey with our guys. We send it.

We send a bunch of guys from our office to Turkey every single year.

Yeah.

I got to hack for it because I got them too.

“You should get the people that do them to pay you to do them.”

If you say where you got them from. Uh, yeah. I've kind of got dabbled on that. My guy's parts are more heavy. In California.

He's fantastic. Joe. Isn't that so funny that we've known each other long enough now that PFT has we started this whole relationship of making fun of your hair plugs and now he has hair plugs. Well, we started this whole relationship with the making fun of the size of my forehead.

So that I then took measures to try and shrink my forehead. Wait, don't blame your addiction on big cat that's not fair. And also sometimes I think you're winking at me could firm that. I can't.

You know, like you know that brief that brief second when you welcome everyone in and you kind

of give a little smirk. I think you know, we've all. We've come at the same time before. We, we, we, we, you smile while I've been taking a picture of you. Okay.

Uh. Uh. We're sick. Yeah. We're sick.

“I think that we were sympathetic with your roll up picture taking and my, what was it, snark, my, my wink, but yeah, you wink, you wink it me you wink it me every time.”

>> So, you have a nice little, you have a nice little, you have a nice little, like hey, I know, I know, yeah, yeah, welcome man. >> Joe, can we make one quick wager with you on this year's football season because you will be calling it Super Bowl on the SPN. >> What? >> Yep. >> It's a fact, if the bears or the commanders make the Super Bowl, can we, can we give you a line to sneak in? >> Yes. >> Oh, okay, okay, I love that. >> It's got to be, but okay, but it can't be, because I was good, it's not necessarily, yeah, you, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're like, yeah, sure, and then you're like, hold on a second.

>> Wait a second. >> Wait a second, you're like, you're like, yeah, sure, and then you're like, hold on a second. >> Well, he's got his money to say something blue. >> No, he's at blue. There's a word, there's a, there's a word, there's a, I, no, let me, I'm gonna, it's all within the same interview. It's got to be something that's normal, that, that I, yeah, like, let's say the bears are playing the chargers and the bears are winning. You got to be like, the bears are effing the chargers and the bee cheeks. >> Oh, cool. >> Yeah, that's a word that's there and there.

>> What about, okay, so the commander's on the Super Bowl and you, Joe, I love these. >> And yet, right away, that you're like, oh, on the second, wait a second. >> And the court cross, and then there's goes a touch on, when you say, you say, you're talking to me. >> Oh, my God, they're gonna make me calm, but it's command, it calm, COMM. >> No, okay. >> All right, we'll workshop, hey, listen, if we, if that, if that date comes,

>> And it goes, right, or come up with some, so it's an possibility. >> All right, Joe, last question, [email protected], promo code, take 20% off your first purchase. Cuesips, Polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, rowback.com, promo code, take. Go by part of my book, I honestly like, Joe Buck might be the, >> Yes, to do that so that people don't jump through ads.

>> Yeah, yeah.

>> Well, no, it's always a real fact.

>> Joe, I've got a great question, final question, really most of our questions. >> Rob@QuestionRHOBACK is there. >> No, I would date, don't act like the NFL doesn't do that. >> Yeah, like, if they sponsor, you guys are gonna have like a label, like, at no on the side of the blue interest in this year, probably.

>> Hey, go see this movie, real quick. All right, and back to first down. >> Yeah, come on, man. >> But no, just a medium game. >> I really should, medium game rock.

>> I love the medium game. >> It was a good. >> I really should, with Joe though, I think it's like the pit of me. If I was like, hey, how would you describe how this stupid show has kind of come together?

It's like Joe Buck is like up there with the stories of guy who had no, he, you had no reason to come on this show. Came on the show. Let us be idiots with you. You got, you know, a little bump from it.

We got a huge bump from it, and then we became friends.

“And it's like, that's why the show works.”

>> Yeah, I agree. >> I agree. And it was eye opening to me. And as I've told you, every time I come on, everywhere I go in this country,

people come up to me and mention you guys. And hey, I love you coming on the show, and it's awesome. So it was, it was actually my honor. I am going to Barnes and Noble when we just connect from this.

>> To sign up? >> I'm going to, I'm just going to sit outside all day. And I'm going to welcome everybody to Barnes and Noble. I'm going to buy a whole case of these things and hand them out. >> You should sign a couple.

That would be funny. >> I go to Barnes and Noble's and I actually be like, hey, anyone who wants a part of my book in Colorado signed by me. >> Yeah. >> That would be sick.

>> Yeah, that would be not my style,

>> Yeah, I think you're appreciate it. >> In fact, I, I give you or anybody else that's on the cover of this book. You can any time you see the book, if it's an airport, sign your name. >> Yep, that's fine. >> Yep.

>> I've done that. When my book was out, I'd go in and sign up. >> That's a ball and move. >> Got arrested, wrestled to the ground one time. >> Yeah.

>> I love it. >> All right, Zach, real quick. Last question, give it to Joe. >> How you doing, Joe? Did have a quick question.

If you were to get back in your own personal book game,

“what are your thoughts on Big Cat and PFT right in the forward?”

>> Oh, God, yeah. >> You don't want that. >> No, I know I do. That, that would be more of my audience. I think that's a great question.

So if I do, which I want, would you commit right now

to writing the forward to my second book,

called Lucky Bastard Part II, still lucky and still a bastard? >> Yeah, all right, forward. >> I'm going to say yes, but in Spanish. I don't know Spanish.

>> Oh. >> To say Ola. >> Yeah. - The four is in the... - The four is in the spin and back I get.

- Hold on. - I put into it. - Don't do a stop. - That's Elbanio. - Elbanio.

- Don't do a stop. - It's Elbanio. - Elbanio. - Elbanio. - Elbanio.

- Elbanio. - Elbanio. - Elbanio. - Elbanio. - Elbanio.

- Elbanio. - Elbanio. - Elbanio. - Elbanio. - Elbanio.

- Elbanio. - Elbanio. - Elbanio. - Elbanio. - Elbanio.

- Elbanio.

“- My addiction to hairplugs and then relapsed.”

The Joe Box story. - Okay. - Yeah. - I haven't had any since I... - Wink kicked my ass.

- He's winking out of the right now if you're listening. He's winking. He's doing the wink. - I know the wink.

- The hair does look good, Joe. - Look at that. - That's supple. - It's fucking great hands through it. - Yeah, you could lose some.

You could actually afford to lose some. - No, that's how it starts. That's how it starts. - Then your back is just a big hamster wheel of hair. (laughing)

- Joe, you're the best. - Thank you for everything, seriously, truly. We love you. We love you and I will keep you going. - We'll keep you going back.

- Yeah, congrats on the book. That's a big deal. - Thank you. - Here's the thing. I was in New York Times bestseller

because of the weird algorithm that they do. - Yeah. - And I don't really know that that translates to actual financial success. - But it's cool to say.

- Yeah. - Yeah, like you guys were hitting me with you watch for the ratings. Are you guys gonna be... - Oh yeah, we'll guarantee it.

- Yeah, I hope the Dr. Jill Biden's book doesn't sell a single copy of this. - No, no, we'll guarantee it. We're gonna be near time. - I'm boycotting it, as a matter of fact.

- And if we're not, we'll just, we'll just do, we'll do like update to the book and we'll call it pardon my book in New York Times bestseller. - And then it will just misspelled time.

- Yeah, yeah, exactly. - Yeah, me, yes. - We're in apostrophe. - Yeah, we're good. - We're good, we got it.

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Okay, let's wrap up. We got FAQs on pardon my book. What a name for it, huh boys? We really crushed that. We spent years really planning at the end.

All right, sub guys, book was incredible.

Huge thank you for that. When you guys read it, actually I did see some people get it like two days ago and it

When you guys use huge words like, oh, unbutzmen, do you look at Google search results trends or to see how dumb the AWS are? Also why don't you guys have an office dog, didn't match up that down. Thank you, podcast. I have a dog.

Yeah, there's a lot of people in this show that don't have a dog. I do. I'm asking about the office. Mike, they had lots of dogs, Max. I, my dog does not play.

Check my, check my dog is very safe. Office dog would be a terrible idea. Yeah. That would be, it would be good to pet day one. The office dog would be great.

And then you'd have to figure out who's actually taking care of. Yeah. Maybe we could barely, we had to give a were office turtle. Yeah. That's not true.

Yeah, that was well taken care of. Should we get a cold? What was going on this year? Cold trash.

“I mean, I think you just read, you wrote the chapter on Larry and you were like, what”

if we have another one? Yeah.

And there's never going to be another Larry.

Yeah. Could you keep a goldfish alive? A goldfish? How about a dog instead? Dog?

Dog, I'm not sure. I'll say it. I don't know about it. I would love to go. I'd love to just see how a goldfish does for a couple of weeks.

Let's talk about it later. Okay. Fair. Nice. Hey Danielle, Erica Henrietta, Maxine, Z and Mimi.

Mimi. That's my grandmother's name. Okay. Who's your favorite recurring guest who is not featured in the book? Oh.

Like, they didn't write a chapter? Julia, that'll. Yeah, Julia. Julia. Julia.

Greg Olson, maybe. Stanford Steve. Yeah. God, Schwarber, P. Crawl, I'm Sean. Thomas O'ola.

Yeah, I'm a Zula chapter. What have been good?

Yeah, I mean, we couldn't do a million because it would have just made the book like 7,000 pages long.

But yeah, there's definitely some people I was like shit. We should have had them write a chapter. Rick Petino. Just a sentence. Bouger.

We should have booked a write a chapter. Yeah. Next book. Stavy. Yeah.

What have been good? What have been good? I parenthesis. We need the full 24 hour rundown of the LSU championship title game, how the coach Owen Burrow interviews somehow still happened all-time rally from everyone involved.

Ten time in the AWL Andre from Nashville. Okay. 2000. What? 2019.

20. Technically. Yeah. Great. Before COVID.

Yeah. We.

“Um, I think we all bet a lot on LSU to win.”

We went out. We started. We went and saw our friend Derek who was coachos right hand man and he at that point was like, I think he said to me, he's like, hey, I'll text you if this can actually happen. And I was like, there's just no way.

And then we went out all night. At one point, we were at a barred. It was like us, Jay Cutler and Anthony Rizzo. Oh, hang out and uh, stand for Steve. And never see.

Yeah, long. Yeah. And just long. Yes. I tried to wrestle.

Stanford Steve. Yeah. I think go well. And then I want to say we got home around like two or three in the morning. And I think I, I sent an alarm for like super early.

And I woke up and then Derek texted was like, it's a go. You got to be here at this time and we can do it. And it was just like mad dash. We carried this stuff there, right? And it was just a, it was a, we were so drunk.

We were still so drunk. I think eight in the morning. I think I at some point hung out with maybe Steve Levy that night. Yeah, he was there. He was there.

Then I remember I was at that bar with Chris Long and Stanford Steve and Rizzo and Tommy Alter was there. Yeah.

“And I think being Tommy were like, it's time to go.”

I recall that being about four a.m. Yeah. And I looked at my phone. I think that's when you texted interview. Oh, so it's happened.

Yeah, it might have happened at the end of the night where I would before I went to sleep. But it was, I, I want to say it was like maybe three hours of sleep. Yeah, fully drunk. And then carrying our stuff for the hotel and Derek, who's the man, absolute legend was

basically like, here's the room, set up our bus leaves at nine.

You guys get, you know, Joe will come in at eight. Coach, oh, we'll come in at eight, 20. That's what I got for you. We're like, we can make it work. And yeah, it was, I mean, to get, that was a big pinch of a moment too, where it's like,

these guys just want a national title and we're getting to interview them and we're fucked up. Yeah. Very cool. And then I remember when when Coach O got done with the interview, he walked out

of the hole in certain screaming and everybody like, you go miss the bus. Get on the bus. He was angry at his team and like, hey, like, Coach, I don't think they care right now. They just won. And then later on, we're doing the podcast and one of the hotel rooms.

afterwards. Yep, it was good time. It was a great time. I don't think that we'd be able to pull that off right now, not in terms of, like, getting the interviews the day after, but being able to rally from 4 a.m. to functioning at

7 a.m. Yeah, that's a young man's game. All right, last one, what's up, boys?

“Have you ever seriously considered lowering the number of shows every week?”

I know it's something AWS like me always look forward to knowing.

I'll always have Monday, Wednesday, Friday, but you can't deny that when most people get your amount of success, they would want to ease off the gas a little bit. Thanks, boys. Love you, guys. I mean, we kind, it's not the same, but during football season, we do no guest on Mondays.

So it's like that's less guests that we have to do and is a little bit of a lighter load for us. We've toyed with maybe doing, and maybe AWS can, can tell us what they think, but like we had no guests on Friday. I think people really like that episode. We've toyed with maybe doing no guests Mondays in the off season as well.

Obviously, there's certain what like masters, SVP, you know, selection Sunday, John Rott. Like there's certain Mondays that's like we're still going to have a guest, but maybe being like, hey, let's have some more looser episodes on Monday, but I don't, I've never felt like it's like, oh my god, this is too much. Yeah.

I've never felt like, oh, fuck, we ran out of shit to talk about.

If we did two episodes a week, each episode would be like four hours. Yeah, they'd be long and all, if we did two episodes a week, that does add up. Yeah. One fewer episode a week, four fewer a month was four times 12, 48 fewer a year. That would be a difference in terms of like total downloads and we love doing it.

It's like, it doesn't, it's not to the point where it feels like it's an effort to do three episodes a week. It feels like the natural, the right amount. I also, I'll, I'll say it. It's probably a sick mindset, but I take incredible pride in the fact that like, there's

a lot of other shows that take like a week or two weeks or like a full month off in the

“summer and we don't, I take pride in that because I think that we're a show that people,”

we become part of their lives Monday, Wednesday, Friday and if we broke it for two weeks, they'd go find something else and then it'd be harder to get it back.

So yeah, I take pride in that.

And like we obviously do a good job of like, you know, the Tim Woods episodes which we love doing. Dinger's only stuff like that around holidays and stuff, but yeah, I, I fucking love it. I love doing it. I think you guys do too, right?

Yeah. Yeah. All right. Good show boys. Go by a book.

Let's do numbers. Five. No. Fifty five. No.

No. Double no. Seven. I think it's not football.

“See, I might do my top five quarterbacks.”

Sixty three. And James always. Sixty nine. Oh, 10. I'm going to go with 70, 70.

Just 70. 70. Just 70. That's not it. There are 70.

No, 99. That'd be a huge lot. For a plug? For JJ. What?

Shut up, plug. 15/5, 15 for Jacob, 14/6 and 9, 16/8, and 9/8. 9/8. 9/8. 15/5.

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