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“sucking your own dick. And that's what we're going to be doing today. What is this a tenth?”

It is the tenth. Yeah. It has to be right. Yeah. We did your memes. It's the tenth of the 11. Think it's 11. Think it's 11. Think it's the 11th. It's the 11th take. How's it? It could be the tenth. Yeah. We had this discussion today and it was tough to figure out. But it might be 11th. 2016, 27, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26. I think it's 11.

Did we do one the first year? I think we did. Yeah. But everyone says nine time made WL because

I don't know if we was the category that year. We had an award ceremony, but that category did not exist in year one of the take. I think it was zero of the take. And it also wasn't a full year. Right. PMT, so. Right. I think that's year zero. I think it's zero. So I think this is the this should be. That's your 10. That's the 11th take use. But that should be like the

“the taxes confused. This is exactly how I expected it to be. I'm sure. Yeah. How many?”

Okay. All right. Let's start this over. Let's embrace the debate. How many years are in 10 years? 10, 10. I agree. Okay. We agree. But the 11th take. But it's the 11th take. It's the 11th take. He's the 10th the 10th year. And then I swear last year we were like for the 10th for the 10th take. He's we got to do something big. We're doing something. What are you talking about? This is the 11th. Oh. So we fucked up last year. Yeah. Yes. That was that was then. Yeah. That was old us.

Right. One year we're going to put it on a big. We're going to do a big. We're going to do a five show and big and big and all our friends. Yeah. It's going to be so big. Yeah. We're going to sell out MSG big to take these. Take these at the theater. Take these at the sphere. Yeah. No, the MSG theater. Because then we can say we sold out MSG. Got it. And we'll just put in very tiny, very, very tiny font the theater. We should just do it

to the awards, we have 28 awards. We have a ton of guest presenters as LeBron made a decision.

Zach, you said today was the day. Today could be day. We got a lot of hours left in this day, but I hear that around the league they're saying like pretty strong. Today's a day LeBron James makes a decision. This would actually be the most annoying day for LeBron to do this because we're taping the takeies. Yeah. I still think he's going to wait until at least the weekend. There was that thing on YouTube where the Miami heat said they had a placeholder for a new

conference, a press conference announcing LeBron James for next Monday. The Miami heat are now looking for a new director of YouTube content after that snap through. I put it at like 75% that

parcel sports ends up hiring the old director of content. I'd like to talk to them like that.

They just press the button. They press the button. So what happened with that? How does that were? Max memes. What diagnosed what happened? They just didn't set it to private. So there's private and there's unlisted. And what's public? Yeah, well end public. There's public. They said they just put it on public. No, they put it on unlisted. It was on unlisted. But once you put something in YouTube, you can have like generic like settings that will every time you go

back and it'll like put into a certain playlist and things like that. So he put it into a playlist that was unlisted. Got it. So there's like ways to go into like their YouTube and

find it through the playlist if it's unlisted. Okay. Got it. I didn't know I saw someone on Twitter talking

talking about it of like exactly how it's you don't know? No, I saw some that that they went into playlist and found it. Got it. But I do know that if you put something as unlisted, not private, if it's unlisted, there is there is a way to do that because I have done that before

“in the past. Can we make one that says LeBron James to barcel sports and just have it be not private?”

Yeah, and just see if people find it. Hmm. I have no idea how anybody would ever find it because of secret. LeBron James to PMT. Yeah. Yeah. Let's post that. And let's see if anyone finds it. They probably won't because they won't know. They will have no idea. You sit next to Hank on the couch. Yeah. There he is right there. By the way, Hank, what are you wearing? So I get dressed up for the take-as. And so I got I got one of my finest outfit. Which is?

It's the way I keep going. My shorts actually know where my shorts or shorts are. I'm wearing gym shorts and then I have my white forases polo. Yeah. I have a nice blue tie and forases hat. Who are the forases again? Forases. Oh, we should have done a take-as for the forases of the year. Dustin Johnson, Anthony Kim, Twin Thomses. Who, all right, let's do it right now. Let's get ourselves prepped. Give us the take-as for the forases of the year. Forases of the year has to be Anthony Kim. Okay.

Come back. Probably come back story of the year. Overall and all of sports. Coming back. Quit golf. Went to rehab. Conqueror's demons came back. Wanted to live tour. So you failed. The forases of the year is Dustin Johnson, Anthony Kim, and the twin Thomases. You can't do one

“ace. They're the forases. What are the twin Thomases' last names? Peters and Dietrich. Have they?”

No. Is it? Yeah. They sent me, they sent me head covers. I have seen them every day. Wait, who's doing it? I actually had to stop because I had like I had one and a three would one and seven wouldn't they look exactly the same. So like this is too confusing. So it's like each ace is a different head cover. Yeah, the each Thomas. I just have a twin I've a Thomas Dietrich and a Thomas Peters. Got it. Are you a company person in the world? That they probably do. They one of them probably has their own.

If and then me. Yeah. So it's all forases. We've got to give all the forases of the forases of the year is all forases. Take you awards. So we've given out to we're going to get out of 29 awards. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. They should make a head cover that's just for your driver and it's Tiger. That's good. And it's SUV. Yeah. Tiger might win an award today. We'll see it. We've got a lot of money before we start. So two things

that happened one I won the 50 50 again. Congrats. Which is great. Unreal. I woke up to that news. I was so I went to bed last night knowing that I had to wake up for wake up or still early this morning. I woke up. I usually try to catch up on my text from the last night. I thought that I was still a sleep. I thought that it was a dream because there's no chance in hell that big cat won the 50 50 again.

“Look at these fucking guys. What are you guys doing with your fingers up when we fingers? What are you thinking?”

God, speak. You think it's rigged? 50 50 rigged. Why? Well, you you you won the 50 50. Correct. And then Monday you want to big check. Yeah. And then Monday they sold the most amount of 50 50 tickets of all time.

But I'm probably not going to do the same selling thing. I'm just getting the big check this time. You're not going to do the 50. No, they unless they do like 75 25. Those are my demands.

“75 25 for the people. I didn't call it otherwise I'm not going to help. But I think I do think that”

there's that one of the cubs were like if they were smart they were like if whenever this guy wins a 50 50 charity gets a lot more money. This is not the less. Yeah. And I also just give it all to charity. It's right. It's 100%. So it's good it's good for it's good for the league for you to win. I'm just happy I want to get I'm

I feel like I may never lose again at this point because it's just I've won two times.

Meem still hasn't gotten the lottery ball. I did win it. I got a question. Yeah. Now that you know you have there's there's a pattern here. There's repeated success. It's not a fluke. Yeah. Should I do should I sell a course on how to win the 50 50? Yes. I've been thinking about that. Statistically speaking although when you win the 50 50 the cubs lose. If it's late season. Yeah. Cubs are making a playoff push. Do you buy tickets for the 50 50? Yeah. We got to test it.

We got to see if it's been tested. It twice. That's not the first time. First time is a fluke. Second time is a test. No, that's not a same. We've done a study. That's not a same. It is.

“A sample size has to be more than 10. No, no, no. I don't win it 10 times. No. How many times?”

Two times is a same. How many times would you say that you've played the 50 50? Every single time for 15 years. Have you figured out how many games like if you did ballpark that? They want to, they want to World Series year that I played it a lot, but you didn't win. But it's got to be more than two times for sample size. I don't like what you got to do. Well, I'm going to focus on the fact that I'm getting another big check and I'm going to wave. I might pay. I might not give the money, the winnings of

charity. I might give the money to the person operating the camera at rigly field and be like, buddy, you got to stay on me for 10 minutes. I'm going to wave for 10 minutes straight. Yeah. Do it. Do what your heart feels. Oh, I'm going to wave. Because whatever you did, it wound it up making. Yeah, it made it work. And somebody asked me this morning if you were going to quit. No. I laughed in their face. I said, if there was a time to quit, it probably was after the

first one. Correct. But now that you have two, yeah, you have a chance to achieve something like incredible isn't even the right word for it. I'm on the muscle greatness magic. Yeah, I was going to use like this could be, you would go down in the history books as the luckiest human being to ever live. If you can hit the 50 53 times multiple times. No one's ever done that. Now I'm going to keep going. Well, you have the opportunity. Martinol has like five times.

But I would be, it would be incredible if I did it. And I only spent, I didn't spend that much money on it last night. Just nice little little donation of the pot. One it. I was in shock. It's, it's awesome. What are you laughing at? I feel like you were about to say how much money how much money you spent last night. And then you were like, that's actually a lot of money. So I'm not going to say it. Well, I got home. And my wife is a hater of my 50 50. She's she's she's she's she's she's she's

she thought I could never win it. Now she's like shit. He's actually won a twice. But she's like,

how much did you spend tonight? I was like $1,000. And I was like, that's not that much. She's like, are you comparing it to what you spend on Monday? Because I know what you spend on Monday. And I was like, I, that's exactly what I'm doing. Because Monday got out of hand. And I did not win it then. But that's okay. I won. I won. Two time winner. Well, when is a win? Oh, when is a win? When is it? When? When is it? When? It means when no. He's never won the lottery ball. I won.

No, you have it. You have it. You have it. So first show of the year. You've not won the lottery. We had to get a new machine. I'm going to just try to keep winning. You guys cool with that? Yeah. I might win it at the bananas this weekend. Take my kids and win that. What's 50 50 going to be like the banana? Oh, I already checked. I asked them. I was like, they're going to be a 50 50. They're like, yeah. All right. Cool. I'll be there. I'm going to win that. Yeah. But it's 50. What have I just got like a big banana?

“Did I have a win? I mean, you have to be presented. I would assume by the bananas. You think next time they're”

in town. You think are they going to do a big check? The bananas? Yeah. That would be. Are like, is this check? I don't mean any disrespect to the check that you got. No, first I buy all all disrespect to the check. It wasn't big enough. Maybe I'm just sensitized as to what a big check is. No. PFT. Well, I think big check. I think I think the JJ watch check that we had. PFT. You're maybe Martin and Abertrolova. Yes. Yes. The big check. Yeah. The your it's no it's all disrespect to that

check. I will be bringing my own big check to my next big check. It could be bigger. I don't want my own big check. And I'm like, you got to deal with the cups. Because it's kind of like, you know, it's a UIO piece for charity. The bigger the check, you think yourself like every inch that this check is. That could have been another meal, but for somebody that needs it. I want to bring a big check that's like the like the American flag that they take out on the outfield. That's how I want how big of a check.

If you if you get, if you win it a third time, here's what I'll do for you. I will have a skywriting

check. We're talking like hundreds of feet hundreds of feet. Yeah. I love that. Yeah. Speaking of, is it this is just totally hypothetical question. Lame or not lame to make a couple of banners through

yourself after winning the 50, 50 for the second time. You said a couple? Well, I've won twice.

I have a banner for each one. Oh, I thought you were going to do like the, I couldn't, you could do it like 50, 50's won. No, no, no. 25. No, there's only two banners. You got to you got to hang a banner every time. I didn't want to hang one banner. I wanted to wait until I won second. I thought maybe you're like Billy Joel at the garden. You have one giant banner and now it just says big cat too. Yeah. When you couldn't, you could date on it. You could make

it like, you know, like when they have like the scoring record of the school, where it's like 50, 50, raffle one big cat date because other people might win. Oh, actually, no, you're right. If I do the course. If I teach you guys. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to sell that course. All right,

“that's a good call. Maybe it's, yeah, maybe it's that. Okay. I think it's just one banner. Yeah,”

one banner. All right. I'm going to sell it. It's going to the second time. I've got to have in the second case. All right. So I'm, yeah. But then you, you can do it differently. You can do a different banner drop every time you win it. Obviously. It's a new banner, but it just, it takes the place of the school. All right. So I now have two banners that I'm going to have to figure out what to do with, and then we'll make it one banner. I think I already ordered them. Okay.

Labor not lame. That's a fun game. We should auction those off. Yeah. 50, 50. Also, Patrick came back to the Blackhawks, which was awesome. Do you think LeBron sees that? He's like, yeah, and I should do that. I'm coming home to the Blackhawks. LeBron decides to play hockey. That might, that might spur my money. He just thinks it's, it's whatever 2017 again, or 2015. Yeah. 2014. Where he won the most of his rings. It's so sick, though. I fucking love Kane and the fact that

he's back is so awesome. It's going to be, he's, he's the, the man. Show time. Show time. What's it still telling me about about LeBron though? The fact that he hasn't announced yet. Every day that goes by without an announcement makes me less inclined to think that it's Cleveland. Because he's waiting for something to make his decision. If his decision was go to Cleveland, then there's absolutely nothing holding him back for being like, I'm coming home. No one's going to hate on it. Everyone's

going to be happy for him. Everyone's going to be happy for Cleveland. There's absolutely nothing. There's zero to wait on with maybe the exception of he might want James Harding gone before he gets

“to town. Yeah. Maybe that could be it. But I think for the most part, it's like, if it's Cleveland,”

he should have said it already. Yeah. And I think you nailed the deal today when he's just trying to get Anthony Davis. Yeah. So maybe just, maybe they just figured out a way to go to the wizards. Price went up. You really want to play with AD. I got, I know just the spot. But yeah. Patrick Kain, I was just like, washed over. I was just watching highlights all morning. Just washed over with nostalgia. It's just like, and he's still good. He's not obviously prime Patrick Kain, but he's

still good. And it's good like a veteran presence. It's going to be awesome. It's going to be awesome. Watch him in beddard when beddard gets back. So I'm very, very excited. I was just listening to old thing back all the way. Like five times in a row on the way in from from from the 2015 team. So um, okay. Should we do the takies? Let's do it. All right. Enough preamble. Before we do that, draft Kings this summer. Whatever you're watching baseball golf soccer racing,

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just a treasure trove of takes. So the nominees. There's a lot. This is our most nominated award. I'm going to go through them. We're going to start with just there's just a Nick section of this award. There's plenty. There's a lot of this. So we have to start Brandon Tierney. Brandon Tierney is a, uh, he was a old radio driver. That'd be a family. No, no longer. Brandon Tierney tweeted a January 15th, 2026. I've never wavered on this and I never will. Nick's aren't winning a

damn thing with cat being a primary piece of the puzzle. Never was that guy. Never will be that guy. Hmm. That's a tough one. We also have a former colleague. Jeff, they do saying going to be so funny watching the Nick's get dummyed in the finals. What have been funny is right current colleague Chris Clemer in replying to a meek Phil tweet who said that the Nick's are now the odds on favor to win the eastern conference. He replied, you have zero chance of winning a title bookmark this.

You will never experience joy. Oh, the bookmark this really adds it. Clemer really went for it there.

Yeah, then you will never experience joy to the felt felt personal. Yeah, almost like you told them to go to an apple store. Yeah. Yeah, never ever. Don't tell me. Um, a menu. Ocho is one of some taking in the past said one quarter into the NBA finals. Jalen Brunson is affirming the concerns people have about small guards being able to win it all. The closer you get, the more physical gets so so far Brunson's body is portraying him. Um, Becky Hammond Burr. Jalen Brunson went on to win

NBA MVP. Yeah. Yeah. But also he's small, so can you really trust a small guard. That's true. And then our friend Nick Wright, this is just a graphic of his, uh, of his final four in the NBA playoffs and then champion he had the thunder. So you got that right. Yeah, credit to him. Thunder playing the nuggets. Nuggets beating the thunder to go to the finals. Nuggets lost in the first round they did. Okay. And then the Celtics beating the pistons and then the Celtics beating the Nuggets.

So as finals was the two first round losers, Celtics Nuggets Celtics winning. That's tough. That's tough. That's a bad look. That's sorry. Okay. That's our Nick's, uh, takeies, uh, section. We also have from Dave Biddle. This, this came out in, uh, it was a couple of years ago, but a lot of these are they come to fruition to take ages like wine. He said, oh, it's you dodged a bullet with Dusty Mae. Not sure Jake Dibler will be great, but Mae's claimed a fame is a lucky postseason run last year.

You had never heard of him before that and don't forget FAU got to play 16 seeded fairly

Dickinson in the second round. Yeah. That's right. And then that's all they did, right? Was they beat fairly Dickinson the second round, then they immediately lost or did they? No, they actually won a bunch of games in here. Dusty Mae, good coach onto the big leagues. Yeah, one of tight all now he's with the maps, uh, a Michigan edition of of the takeie of the year award. Uh, we had from December 7th, 2025, Michigan head coach Sean Moore says he does not expect any more changes to the

football staff this offseason. Whoops. When you've got the culture built that you need, the one that you've been aiming for, you almost reach point where you're like nobody moved. Yeah. I love his

“one. I think he was fired what like two days later. Yeah, it's pretty quick out. Yeah. We also have”

Michigan AD award manual who is, uh, I think he's nominated for a takeie later as well. So double nomination, he said about Dusty Mae in his contract extension, he will be the leader of this basketball team for many years to come. Manual said it Saturday's National Championship celebration. It was like maybe like two more months. Yeah, there's a couple more months. Two months. I mean, credit to award manual though because we talk about accountability and Dusty Mae leaves.

Now award manual is going to follow soon after because he's embarrassed that he was wrong about the Dusty Mae thing. Yep. So he's like hand up. I probably shouldn't work here anymore. Michigan, man. I'll take the blame for that. Yep. So you can expect to see him on the move. Yes. Absolutely. We have now some more college football, uh, category here, not not just, uh, Michigan, but this one is from Bill Simmons, from 2024 that came to fruition. He said, uh, after watching Signetti in a playoff

game for three hours, our people still unsure of Bellachek will succeed in college football. That's a

“double double. That's a double take. That's pretty good for both sides. That's why Bill is”

alleged because he's able to combine two bad takes into one. Yeah. That one else does it. That was,

you know, a sex guy, a cock and mouth cock and ass. I just didn't extreme move. That's all.

“Yeah. It's an extreme take. That is an air wild take. I mean, let's, we all have bad takes here.”

We have some of the worst takes of all time. Yeah. But that's a gang bank. I said, I said, patch of my homes was the biggest reach in the draft. Another gang bank take. That's a gang. I got, I might have been ass mouth, peel with cock attachment. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Wait, you're watching somebody else get ass mouth, peel. No, Zach's watching me. Okay. So Zach is also involved in the, in the take. Mm-hmm. Okay. Got it. How they get in my Peel, Zach? Really,

small did. Yeah. This is from our good friend, Brandon Walker, who is our college football expert two years ago. He was going back and forth with the Virginia Tech fan that was saying the Virginia Tech has got a great future. And Brandon Walker said, yeah, because you think they're getting Franklin and they're not. Mm-hmm. They did. And they got Franklin. They did. Hot seat. James Franklin,

“hot seat. Hot seat for sure. Yeah. We also have our ourselves. This is probably from memes,”

August 30th, 2025. He tweeted Florida State football is back. Mm-hmm. They finished 13th in the ACC. I didn't hand up. I didn't realize that there were 13 teams in the ACC. So bad. What was that in context? Uh, the beat Alabama. Yeah. It did. They were showback. That was a great game. They looked like they were back. And also, you probably include as a double win in this, we pretty much pronounced Alabama football dead. Yeah. Oh, multiple times. That's definitely one of our

worst takes is that we were like, yeah, Bama will not come back from this. Never ever in a million years.

Kail and DeBore is out. Uh, this is a personal favorite of mine. Brian Drake tweeted during the Elite A games. Nightmare scenario for CBS is both Elite A games or blowouts, tough to see a large national audience hang out for the second half of a Duke beat down. Mm. So that turned out to be the most watched March Madness game this year,

“because it was Braille and Mullin's buzzer beater overdue. And that's how powerful of a drug”

hope is. The fact that it was, it was a blowout. Yeah. It was, but we all watched because what if? Yeah. Because what, what if? And what if happened? And it did. And it was the, I looked it up the most watched game. I think it peaked at like 18 million viewers. That's so good. Yeah. Yeah. Um, we have, uh, this one's from our boss, Dave Portnoi. I forgot that this playoff series happened last year, but he said the, you know what's crazy. There's a whole generation

of kids who just expect the Red Sox to always beat the Yankees when accounts no matter the situation

and the Red Sox always do. We own this team and franchise. I think that was after the Red Sox won game one of a three game series. I forgot about that series too. Yeah. I'll be, I'll be totally honest. Uh, Sam Darnell takes were good. Meant of times when Gino Smith was traded from Seattle said flat out. This is a terrible move by Seattle chances of upgrading her extremely low. Hmm, kind of racist on your part though, right, memes. No, it's for me to kind of, but I'm saying, like,

no, for you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of racist. True. Yes. Exactly. Yes. Yes. Sam Darnell did pretty well. You want to, want to, want to. Also, Gino Smith did beat the Patriots last year. He did. That's right. We want to try another one. I've just memory home. Yep. That's that was week one. Gino Smith as a raiders, just something that we, we actually just broke our, broke our rule.

Never happened. And it's crazy that he played a whole year without a coach too. Yeah.

David Clube said tearing down a roster that was a winaway from the playoffs to build around Sam Darnell is a choice. Fact. That is a choice. Yeah. This is Hank, your favorite league, the live golf league. This is from Young Yassir, all room oven. He said, my boss told me, live is not going to go anywhere. It will be well and truly in operation running well past his death. He's a young guy. I'm confused. What do you mean? Live golf is playing a tournament as we, as we podcast. Are they going

to be playing a Michigan? And they hasn't been officially canceled. I saw there was a 5% chance. It's going to happen. Are they in good health? A chance is the league healthy. I mean, they're playing right now. And people are walked in. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. It's actually the audience is maybe as big as ever. Yeah. Okay. A couple more. We have Jason Schmitz from 2023 that came before, she said, unfortunately Taylor Swift isn't known for relationships that last longer than a few months.

I would expect to break up by Super Bowl and the Kelsey album before next season. The new fans will follow Taylor to her next day. Yeah. They got married to the MP and V. Yeah. We, we love love. Yeah. Congratulations. Happy couple. I think this is from our good friend Big T. He said in

Giants managerial job, despite the fact it doesn't make a liquor sense. Okay. I'm going to take

Big T side on this because it didn't make a liquor sense. I don't understand why you would make a splash higher still as like a major league baseball manager trying to get a college. Yeah. College baseball coach whose job description is completely different from an MLB manager. But they did higher. But they did higher. It didn't make a liquor sense. It didn't make a liquor sense. All right. Last one. Stephen A Smith in April said, "Philly fans will regret saying

we want Boston. You're not beating this Boston Celtics." Hmm. That's a good take. They beat him. All right. Winner. Ready? Drumroll. And the winner for take of the year for twenty twenty six is young yassier all room often for his take. My boss told me lib is not going to go anywhere. It will be well and truly in operation running well past his death. He's a young guy. Now freezing cold takes is going

to have to make note of that recording. Okay. So in two years. This could be the take of the year and two years. Yes. Love that. So I like that. The snake feeds itself almost. We just did our own show. That guy's that guy's boss. Yeah. Ted Turner, by the way. Oh, I just made that part. He's dead. I made that part. That guy's boss. Ray Charles. Ben dead for twenty years. Okay. All right. What do we got next? All right. Next up in the twenty twenty six taking words. We have

“an award. I believe we debuted two years ago. Yeah. Can't win the big one award. You can't win”

the big one. One of my favorites. Twenty twenty six. It's a good category. The nominees are for can't win the big one in Bapay. This is, you know, he had the the shootout loss. Yep. Last time

the world cup. Mm-hm. And this time great, great play in the third place game. Lossel lost

in the semi finals in Bapay. He's got all the talent in the world. He won the golden boot but people are saying that he does not have what it takes to have France win the world cup. Out of great. Is he a leader capable of winning the world cup? We don't think. Can't win the Premier League either. Yep. Yeah. Farmers League. Mm-hm. Well, the MLS. Can't win the big one. Uh, nominee two is Wimbee.

Mm-hm. Love this one. Victor Wimbin Yamma. This is the dawn of an narrative that we're seeing with Wimbee. It felt like if he was that guy, he would have done it already. Well, double silver medalists. Let's see. Yeah. Silver medal against Shetholm Grin. Silver medal against Team USA. Mm-hm. Silver medal against The Nix. Interesting. Triple silver medalist. Interesting. Dynasty of silver. Yes. He might, I'll say this. When we might be the greatest loser we've

ever seen. He's on pace. He, he absolutely could be the greatest loser we have ever seen in

professional sports. He's definitely on pace. Uh, the third nominee is Caitlyn Clark.

Ah, I win the big one of the year. She didn't win in college. Yeah. She hasn't won in the NBA.

“The only thing that she's won is like, people have lost their minds. Mm-hm. When it comes”

to talk, she's just collecting brands. She's won rent in everyone's head. Yes. She lives completely free. She's got a lot of real estate in every basketball writers' brain. The most recent one from what's your name? Is it Nancy Armour? Yeah. Absolutely insane stuff. But again, this is good. Like, it's good to have somebody who, in your league, that makes writers lose their minds. What was the, what was the title of Nancy Armour? It was saying that she needs to stop flopping,

but it was mostly the one paragraph that compared what she does to the death of the admit till. She, yes, which is just an absolutely absurd thing to make. Yeah. USA today, Redder says Caitlyn Clark puts black and queer WMBA players in danger by flopping. Okay. Yeah. I might be taking the eat that. It's, what opinion that one? It's definitely that. That might be next year's take of the eat. It's going to be, oh, yeah. So Caitlyn didn't win in college.

She didn't win. I don't think she won a state title in high school either. Is that true? So I don't know that she's ever won a big one. Wow. Yeah. Okay. Somebody keep an eye on. The next nominee is Jane Franklin. Last year was pretty impressive working, but it was also he couldn't win the small one. The medium or the small. He couldn't win the regular size one after. Yeah. And then next nominee is Cristiano Ronaldo who can't win the big one. He's one zero big ones of the year. And of course,

“the big one would be the world cup. Yeah. Zach, uh, we discussed because I think you have a”

presenter for us for this award. We still have a nominee, but we discussed. I said to you, uh, can you find a presenter for this? And you said, uh, just so we're clear, Ronaldo has won the Champions League and the EPL. That's correct. And what did big ones? And what did I reply? Would you consider that the big one? And then I text back and I said no. Okay. Not the big one. I rest my case. It's a big one. Yeah. But several big ones. It's one of the

ones. It's not, it's not the big one. The big one. There's some fat boys in there which is not the big one.

Connor McDavid. Um, Connor McDavid might be his last year up in Edmonton. We'll see. I almost feel like this past year. He, um, he took a step back in the Kent win the big one one discussion because he wasn't even in contention to win the big one. Yeah. I actually, that's where we came up with this award because I remember we were trying to get Whitney to present it and he just

“replied to me. Fuck you. Yeah. So that's how that will work him. So Zach, you have us a presenter. This is”

our, we have a ton of guest presenters today. You have our first guest presenter for the taking.

I do have our first guest presenter. Yes, sir. Okay. Give it to us. We got it right here. Oh, okay. Wow. Is it as the winner of the Kent win the big one of the year is Ronald behind the gold. That was, that was, that was, that was messy. You got us. I got him. I got us guy who has won the big one. Messy. Yeah. That's pretty cool. Thank you, Zach. Why, why is it messy in like half speed? Messy is, uh, he just want to take us.

Let's take a business first. Yeah. Yeah. And how much did it cost on came you to get Messy? Well, Messy's prices. But how much did it cost? Top of my head, roughly 75 to $100. Okay. That's a good deal for Messy. Yeah. For the goat to do that. I mean, look, he loves the game. You know, he's got a little bit of love for Ronaldo. They've been compared their entire careers. So he's someone who's won the big one. We're now still chasing that big one right there. So he let's

have no battery in his back. The, the, oh, $39. Wow. The thing I love about Messy is he's so committed

“to the gaming never takes his uniform off. That's how we knew it's Messy in that cameo. That's”

a good. That's, that blue and white stripe kid is just phenomenal. I wouldn't take it off either to be honest with you. I was like the, the, the, the, the touch to the cheek that he gave. Yeah. I think that's a signature move. It's solved. Yeah. Jeff Hornstack. Yeah. It's beautiful. Yeah. Okay. Next up. So congrats to Ronaldo. We'll, we'll have that graphic, Zach. I would like you to tweet that graphic from your personal account tomorrow. I can do that. Okay. I love that.

And LeBron today. We got a lot of day left today because the guys are saying they're saying this is it. All right. Uh, the next award is just log off of the year. This is for people who are too online. And the nominees are Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant. I think it's been a nominee every single year. Kevin Durant had, of course, his alleged burner, which was get off my Dickerson. Exposed where he was talking shit about his teammates, talking about how he misses Ben Simmons,

because at least Ben Simmons would pass him the ball. Trashing everyone. So just log off, Kevin.

Kevin said he will never log off. He would never log off. We also have Freddie L. A seven,

the viral German fan who did log off and then came back on Twitter. So he logged off. He deactivated and then he came back. He was like, you guys were all being mean to me, but I'm going to just keep doing my trip and I might be a silo. Yeah. I mean, he didn't say that part. When you do log off, and then you get drawn back within, you know, a couple calendar weeks. That is the number one sign

“that you should in fact log off. Yes, permanent. I agree. We have a pseudo scientist. I don't know.”

I don't know what I would. Guy is trying to live forever. Brian Johnson. Yeah. From the guy who brought you the tweet, nighttime erection data from my 19 year old son and me, his duration is two minutes longer than mine. Talking about tracking his son's boners this year, he gave us this. Just gave Kate his girlfriend oral sex. Good night, everyone. And then followed up with this is our vaginal microbiome report 100 out of 100 score top 1% of all the giants. Yeah, our sample is

dominated by the single most protective bacterial species of a giant. It can host only about 25 to 30 percent of reproductive age women globally are L. Chris Pottis dominant. That's the number. That's the top vagina. Yeah. That's what you shoot for. Top 1% of all vaginas. We didn't need to know that. We also have Jalen Brown for going on Twitch after every single game. And then saying things like, honestly, this is my favorite year of my career and talking about the refs. And just being maybe

two online agreed. Yeah. Two online. And then finally, we have our good friend Sean McVay for his thirst trap picture with like 16 abs. Yeah. Think you got fake abs. We get it. We get it Sean. Yeah, it's a little, that's too many for a football coach. Your genius. You've got a beautiful wife.

You've got it 100 million dollars. Yeah. And you also got the abs. Yeah. Football coach has been

more time in the film room. That's more of a just out of the way. His more of a just log off for us. Like,

We got to get you a trumpset. That's your egg. Is Brian Johnson? Yeah. Or his girlfriend having a top 1% vagina, which we only know about because Brian Johnson told us. He told us all. And then unfortunately, he got sick. Yeah. The one thing that he was really, really hoping to not ever do. So hope you're okay, Brian. Yeah. Okay. Just log off of the year. Just log off. The next category is the 14th best quarterback of the year award. Ooh. One of my favorites. This is a good award. This is a good award. Who knows who

it could be? Because there's a lot of really good nominees for it that you hear their names. Do you think,

yeah, that sounds like the 14th best quarterback in the NFL. The first nominee for 14th best

“quarterback in the NFL is Dak Prescott. Oh. And last year I believe he won 16th best quarterback.”

Yes. Maybe 17. He could have been 17th. Yeah. The next nominee is Jordan Love. Ah. For 14th best quarterback in the NFL. That kind of feels like the right spot for the next nominee is Aaron Rogers. Okay. 14th best quarterback. He could be the 14th best quarterback. He might be. I think if all goes well. Yeah. The next nominee for 14th best quarterback in the NFL is CJ Stroud. Oh. Stroud boys. 14th best. Have a mighty fallen. It's our little bro.

You got a long future this week. Next nominee is Bryce Young. How about that? This is actually I would imagine that if you're a Bryce Young fan. The honor of having him nominated for 14th best quarterback in the NFL. Shoot. You might as well be putting them number one on the graphic. Bryce Young is now officially from here on forward in the conversation for 14th best quarterback in the

“week. And the final nominee for 14th best quarterback in the NFL is Jacobi Percent.”

Is he still going to play this year? We'll see the holdout continues. I don't think there's been any motion on it. The cardinals. You got a page of Kobe. Yeah. You got to step up. Yeah. You got to pay him. I don't know. There's probably a bunch of other teams that probably want him to be a starting quarterback probably. Out of great. Out of great. The winner of the 14th best quarterback of the year award. Max. You have a cameo for us. Max. Hey. Hello everybody. Hey. It's co-chair. Wow.

I'm excited to announce the winner for the 14th best quarterback of the year. And the winner is

Dick Prescott. Alright. God. That's incredible. This guy. I mean, you talk about money making

scheme for all seasons. This guy just, he transfers straight into Malsana. He's doing and his Andy Reed impression is literally Malsana. I'm starting to realize, too, that the takies probably account for like 75% of the impersonators on cameo's yearly budget. They're like, all right. Well, the takies are coming. So we'll be able to forward rent this month. Andy Reed impersonators probably making Brad on. You think so? Oh, yeah. And that's it. For sure. Yeah,

but I think both of them are doing well. Like, how well it sounds like you think that they're rich. There might be their cameo rich. Every dad and grandpa who's a cheese fan, grandson's like, we got to get a Mandy Reed. Zach, can you do any impersonations? I don't impersonations like really a low light of anything. I can't do impersonations. None, fortunately, no. I would like you to work on an impersonation and then become a cameo

impersonator. Open-ended. Yeah. We got to look like the person. Oh, yeah. Who does he look like? Oh, the guy who's food. Yeah. Do you think you're doing it to any or Nick or Nick or Nick? Okay. I can look into it. What about the guy who eats everything in two bites? Zach took us on impersonate, unimpersonatable. He is a special guy. He has a gift. You can't recreate that.

“You should do Nick, barstools, Nick, from KB and Nick impersonator. That could be strong.”

That would be sick. Yeah. Maybe the guy who eats the food. That would be cool. You should eat the food. Someone DM DMs me that guy once a week being like, "Did you know that Zach had secret account?"

Yeah. I get that guy 15 times a day. Yeah. I love it. It's always like he's the first guy who found him.

I love it. All right. So, congratulations. Congrats to Zach. Huge award. Massive. Massive 14. That's going to wreck. All right. Next up, this is a new award. It's the Brad Stevens, no of the year. Brad Stevens, no of the year. First up is Brad Stevens saying no to UNC. Good note. Got to make him say no. Strong. Then we have Michigan. Brad Stevens got to make him say no there. Turned down. He said no. Then we have the Paul George

Shield and Brown which they thought to themselves like we should make Brad Stevens say no. Right. But he didn't say no. He said yes. Yeah. And finally the Mavericks opening job opening the Dusty Man up getting. But Brad Stevens had to say no. He said no to it first. Yeah. Okay. We have

Here we go. 2026. Takeies. First and foremost to Dan, to PMT, to the entire crew. You guys are

the best. What a year. For part my take. All right. The winner of the 2026 Takeie for Brad Stevens. No of the year is. Paul George. He G. Congratulations. You're the winner of the Takeie for Brad Stevens. No of the year. Wow. I respect the committee. So I still had them do that one. But I I wanted to change it to it. It should have been Janus. Why? Because he said no to Janus. You know,

“because he didn't say no to Paul George. No, but that's what you should have. But that's why”

you may say no. You didn't make him say no. They just asked them. Are you down for this? Which means it was a farm. Yeah. So really this award goes to the Sixers. Yeah. They realized to not

don't even make him say no. Just say we're going to do it. Yeah. So yeah. We might have

confused this award around a little bit. But I think maybe the Sixers won this award. I think the Sixers won this award. Sixers won this award. Because you had to make Brad Stevens say no to the trade. Yeah. And he didn't. He didn't say no. He didn't say that's why you got to make him say no, because sometimes he won't. Yeah. Okay. Before we get to our next one, can we get our guests for the next one? Should we have them come in now? Yeah. Let's have them come in now. Come in now for

not. I know this is confusing because they might have the same name, but yeah, the in-person

“guest for the next award. I think they dressed up and they probably want to hear who the nominees are,”

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“and Jersey Jerry is one. I believe three times in a row. Yes, he's three-peated. So this is a confirmed”

dynasty of liberalism for Jersey Jerry. And earlier today, I asked Jerry if he would come in for the taking awards, because I told him we were doing an award for Bush of the year. Bush of the year. Because his, his, his e-sports team is telling you right Bush. Shout out to Bush, shout to Bush, support the Bush, but wanted Jerry. Or even to not know that it was the lib of the year award. So I told him, he's nominated for Bush of the year. So Jerry's coming in and we will announce the nominees

in just a month. For Bush of the year, I'm going to tell him that it's not Bush when you come in. Oh, breaking moves, breaking moves, well, we've got to break your moves, break your moves, Diego Pavia waved by the Ravens. End of an era. What was your favorite Pavia moment on the Ravens? Mine was that video that they showed, where it looked like he was shorter than the center's butt. I would agree with you. Yeah, that's a tough one to top. I don't like that coat.

Okay, we got Jerry's Jerry in here. Jerry, welcome to the 2026 take-y awards.

Hey, doing incredible hatch, Jerry. Thank you so much. Does it now are you a little nervous?

Because people are going to say, hey, this doesn't feel like it's on the up and up. We're giving out Bush of the year and you're wearing a Bush gaming hat. No, I'm not worried. Okay. I'm not worried. All right. Bush of the year, it could be anybody. Me and this game just paned down to get the full Jerry outfit in the shot. I just want people to see the whole outfit. What is it? What was that say? Bush records. I like that. And you got this? Tell the ride Bush. I'll tell you right,

you don't take the stickers off the hat. No. In New Jersey, like they kind of keep it on. I like that jacket. It's a blue no matter who. That's Jerry. Nice, right, turquoise. Yeah, New Jersey, they keep it on. Yeah. Oh, I guess East Coast, maybe. I mean New York, too. This has been a big, big, big fun to me for that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we keep the stickers on. It's been a big year for Bush. Yeah, Bush might be back. But I think Bush is back, yeah.

But Jerry, I got a confession. You're not nominated for Bush of the year. It's the Lib of the Year award again. I just wanted to trick you to get you in here. But you did tell me earlier that you kind of missed the Lib of the Year. Like, yeah, you take a little bit of pride in it. I figured that was going to happen. You did lie to me. I did lie to you. So yeah. We might have

Well, because he told me I was going to get a bunch of the years. I was like, oh, okay,

cool. Let me get that hat out. The undershirt. Mm-hmm. And we're here again. So you're not

“ready for for Libya the year. This would be a four times in a row for you. Who could have seen it coming?”

No, this would be three. Oh, I'm sorry. Three times. Yeah, this is the back to back to back to back. Okay, so this this would be four times. Well, nominated. I didn't win. Yeah, if you won. It would be four times. Okay. Okay. The nominee is, because you're up against a tough crowd. The nominee is tough. I'm really tough for him. Why, Leonard? It's been nominated for Libya the year for his service planting trees. He's true. Yeah, you know, he's like trying to be the green new deal.

One man, green new deal. Okay. Then yourself, you were nominated.

Can I kind of, why was I nominated again? Oh, so I mean, you've become more accepting

of various lifestyles this year, I think. You know, learning more about, you got a cousin that maybe he's gay, maybe he's five, maybe he's straight. And whatever that you learned about, like, how you can go back and forth and you've expanded my mind, you're like, oh, maybe that could be you one day. Jerry, can I just, I'll answer your question with your own words. Okay. This is a direct quote from

“Jersey, Jerry. June 15th, 8 11 PM. There's no way I can just turn gay. So how did that happen?”

Congratulations. You're accepting it. Yeah, it's in the context. He was doing it right here. There was confidence in it. You were born that way. I was not born that way. No. You just said there's no way that you can just turn. Sure. So you were born very except you and Lady Gaga. Yeah. No,

he was beautiful. Jerry. Not beautiful. You were running with Harry Sysson. Was that last year? No, that was

last year. Yeah, that was last year. Yeah. But still, pretty impressive. Well, have you seen this certain, I mean, people are making this big thing about the search history. That doesn't seem very lived, does it? I know what you said. Yeah, Jerry did have a screen. Do you know what we're talking about? I do know. Yeah. Yeah. Screen grab of his search history. Do you have it? I don't know. Do you pull it up and just read us what Jerry was searching for? But fae Las Vegas. This is Jerry's Google search

city accidentally had covert China, antivirus. None of these things are non-live Las Vegas food. Yeah. Charlie Kirk microphone gun. That's kind of like you might have been looking for it like

“to. Yeah. That's some key. That's what you find on that one. Not much. Are you keeping in the”

Candice Owens lore? No, not Las Vegas. Who killed Steve Job and K. Ultra? Who killed Steve Job? I don't know. I don't want to say the wrong thing. Let legendally, there's stories out there. Okay. Well, there is stories out there. But could the answer be cancer? Yes, but that that is that actually is the answer. Medicine. But there's a reason for all that. Apparently, allegedly from what I've read, they forced him to not take the medicine.

Oh, okay. Yeah. MK Ultra. Yeah. Peter D. Israel. Yeah. Who was part of the elite group? I mean, the number is very not. Yeah. Yeah. So again, I mean kind of strike thing in the case a little bit. The other nominee, Jerry O'Connell. We got two Jerry's nominated this year. Right. Well, he was last year too. No. Yeah. I mean, is your Jerry appeared on the Bill Maripa cast? Yes. You see, to live out for about 90 minutes of solid libness. I think he was on the.

It wasn't he had a comma. He was at the rally. He's white dude for common luck. Yep. White dude for common luck. He's got daughters, right? He's got daughter. He's got daughters. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That doesn't make someone a little bit. Well, don't you get a daughter? Yeah. Sorry. Oh. Yeah. You do have a daughter. I do. And you might have another daughter on the way. I might be outnumbered. Yeah. Yeah. I might be outnumbered. Yeah. I might be outnumbered. Yeah. I might be outnumbered. Yeah.

I was a mistake. What'd you do? I released on ovulation. Oh, you didn't pull it out. You didn't pull that. I kept it in. Okay. And it felt like a check. Yeah. Because it was bad. Yeah. All right. And then the last nominee for lib of the year is Max. Wow. This is something. Yeah. The year. Wow. What was that for? Yeah. Oh, what was what was Max? I don't know. I don't know. Well, you're nominated. Congrats. Yes, Max. All right. I'm just happy to be in the conversation. There you go. Look, Chair. Love that. Thanks. You too. May the best lib win. So, Jerry.

Last year, we had a merit-peat present you with an award. Yeah. This year, we have a very, very special guest presenter for you. Could pull it up. Fantar? It is. Wow. It's 100 by. 100 by Gary. From one brother and we cover it to another. Congratulations on the live of the year award. I know you didn't have much competition, but I'm still proud of you. We're both proud of you. Hey, Jerry. Congratulations. Keep the faith. What the fuck? I was not expecting that. Joe Biden wanted to wish you a happy

living year. That's the present Joe Biden, Jerry. President Joe Biden just just gave an award on the take he's to you serious. What do we tell him? You won. You won, congrats. You're a president.

I mean, it's kind of respect there. Yeah. That's big time. Yeah. I just let me show. Thank you, brother. You want to hear it again? Yeah. One more time. You want a background of back? Does he say Jerry? Jerry from one brother and recovery to another. Congratulations on the live of the year award. I know you didn't have much competition, but I'm still proud of you. We're both proud of you. Hey, Jerry. Congratulations. Keep the faith. Keep the faith. Yeah. Congratulations. Oh. How about that? 45 men have served in 47

Presidencies. Wow. You have you have one of 45 men who served as president United States of America giving you a take-e for live of the year. Just let that set in for a second. That's history.

I hadn't had his history right there. It's incredible. Can we get me if you get in trouble with the

invitation, I'll now you get. Yeah. Yeah, it's talking to the president. No, it's a one. Yeah. Yeah, I was just on the phone the president. The tiger was. Yeah. It's on the phone. Press it.

“Oh, memes. Can you do a photo shop of Biden putting the presidential medal on to Jerry's knack?”

Can we do that? Can we stand up for that means? They're not. No, he's down for that. Yeah. Yeah. Can you stand up for that real quick? Just for the meme. Sure. We're at memes. Okay. Tell them where to stand memes. So the memes just right. Do you go to the center of the rug? This is great. I'm going to pay two is right. I'm going to have a move to his right. Move to your right to your right, Jerry. Keep going. Keep going. Mm-hmm. Now, turn. My turn. It was the first time

Jerry's moves is right. All year. There you go. Turn a little to the left. Turn a little to the left. You could do this. Look that way. You didn't have to turn. Is he good now, Mips? Yeah. Okay. Do you have him to have him to do a spin? Do a spin. Do a twist. One, one, one. The full tour. A little tour. Okay. Okay. Got it. Got it. All right. Jerry. We logged it.

“A president of the United States knows who you are. And he knows that you're the liberal of the year.”

Listen, man. I mean, Trump's never done that. So I'm going to say that out one. It's true. Trump's never

done that yet. Yeah. Yeah. But I never see myself win one more. I don't see that. Yeah, but there's one way we could go for live to your presenter next year. Trump calling you a liberal would kill you. Yeah. Yeah, bury me. You can't beat that, though. So let's got to be it. Let's go back back back. I did a jump. I didn't know that I didn't know that the big guy was going to be there at the end. Play it one more time. Play it one more time.

One more time. Hey, Jerry. From one brother and recovery to another, congratulations on the live of the year award. I know you didn't have much competition, but I'm still proud of you. We're both proud of you. Hey Jerry, congratulations. Keep the faith. Keep the faith, keep the faith. Love that. Love that. By the way, he looks, he looks proud of day old, older than fifth. He hasn't lost the step. He's lucky. Sharpest to be. Well, congrats Jerry. Thank you guys again. Yeah, but you

“me. Yes. I mean, I think a first never backed it back to back or no. Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah. I mean,”

I mean, that's pretty crazy. So congratulations. Thank you guys. I want to say that that's the FDR. Yeah. So they'll call that exactly. Yeah. I appreciate that, boys. Okay. Where would honor?

Yep. Cash prize never got it last year. Well, it'll be in the mail. All right. Yep. So double this year.

Uh, yeah. Yeah. We'll double. Yeah. So it's a well-inflated taxes. Yeah, it's tax and then inflation. It's a 40 spot this year. It's 90% tax. Mm-hm. And we got you. You understand? We're proud, okay? Maybe we'll get you a bumper sticker for it. Yeah. We'll get that made up for it. All right. Great award. Next up, uh, we're going to kind of stay in the same same zone here. We have the first ever, uh, cuck of the year. Oh, cuck of the year.

And the nominees for cuck of the year are I don't know who this first person is Josh Haman. Who's that? Josh Haman. Oh, well, they're put that on. That was, uh, the John Haman. John Haman is the guy because he said I don't know why everyone online keeps calling me a Yankee cuck. Oh, yeah. The reporter said that two days ago. That's a good way to be called a cuck. All right. We have also, uh, the Wisconsin chancellor because, uh, I, on this program,

called her an anti-football pussy, she then, uh, decided to quit her job at Wisconsin and join an Ivy League school. Mm-hm. So, turned out to be right. Nailed it. Turned out to be right. We also have our good friend, uh, Jerio Connell is nominated for cuck of the year for the time he went on Bill Mars podcast and said that his daughters and his wife beat him up for being like, hey,

Yeah, right. They would hit him. Yeah. I was like, are you thinking about Trump right now?

That crime is going to fucking slap them across and everyone online called him a fucking cuck. Yeah. It's an absolute fucking cuck. Uh, we have Niki Glazer. Why's Niki Glazer on there? Niki Glazer, I believe she told a story about, uh, she wanted her boyfriend to go out. Mm-hm. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's cuck, but hey. That's also respect. Yeah.

“And then the Coldplay, uh, concert, uh, CEO. So that, remember that happened? That was like,”

yeah. That was a long time ago. Yeah, but it wasn't. It was like a year ago. Exactly. All right. The winner for cuck of the year. It's 26. Takey Awards.

Is Mr. Gerry O'Connell. Wow. And would you know it? We have Gerry here live to accept as a

war, Gerry. You have just won. I don't know if you heard us, but you won't take of the take of the year for cuck of the year, uh, for the time that you told the story about how you're, uh, twin daughters and your wife, uh, slap you around a little bit. Um, yeah. Kind of exciting to have two years in a row, uh, being a takey winner. That's, that's pretty exciting. Um, I, I don't accept this take you guys. I, uh, what? I can't accept it. I can't accept it. I'm not gonna let another man come up and take your

award. You want to watch another man take your award? Uh, that, you know what? Give him two awards. Now it gives you just one again. Oh, that's interesting, Gerry. Two awards. We got trophies, Gerry. We got trophies for you. We got two of them. It's a man sitting in a cuck chair just for you. So we're

“going to send that to you. I think it's you, actually. We made you sitting in a cuck chair as a trophy.”

Gerry, what is it? What is it like being such a fucking cuck?

It guys do you remember when I first came on your podcast to address, uh, the variable

recini issue and I implored people to stop calling me an F word cuck. Yeah. But uh, you're now the, the, the, the exclusive exhibitor of your podcast Netflix actually wrote the actual F word just in the closing. Yes. So uh, on behalf of uh, the closed captioning person at Netflix, I want to apologize to anyone who may have been offended by pardon my takes, closed captioning choices. That's a cuck thing. Yeah. So you come on. You've come on just so we can recap. You've come on.

You've not accepted the award and you've apologized. No. Just proving the award. It's an honor to be. It's an honor to be. It's an honor to be going to taking uh, I do want to apologize to my wife

“and children for saying anything about them in the past. Uh, I love them very much. They should”

speak for themselves. Uh, when it comes to matters about them, I would only like to talk about what projects I'm working on and so on and so forth. Uh, my main focus right now is fantasy football. Yeah. I'm not even kidding. I'm in so many mock drafts all the time. I'm really just concentrating on managing your team and it's a really tough season. So much has happened. So many players are in so many different places. David Montgomery is a Texan, um, you know, uh, we got to running back situation

in the AFC East, um, we do. I'm just everywhere. You know, like how good is George Pickin's going to be like, yeah, lock down already. I love this. Yeah. I just don't know. It's really right now. I'm really just trying to lock in. I'm really just trying to lock in. I'm actually, uh, it's uh, it's exhausting running our fantasy team because expectations could not be higher this season. I also want to apologize. I, I, I re, I re-watched the episode where I told Hankie,

Tobi was a growth engine and stuff because Hankie asked what screens my Tobi movie was going to be on, what, what movie theater and unlike Odyssey, it was us. Tobi is a streaming service. Um, you know, I don't really like look at, I try to save battery on my Android. So I don't really have like, I don't really look at my reflection when I'm on your show. I don't really see what I'm looking like right now. Yeah. It was, it was a bad physical look for me, um,

streaming that, um, Hankie, uh, saying very, very rude things about Hankie and all that sort of stuff. But the angle was like terrible. It was down here and I was very muscular and I had like bags under my eyes and stuff. It was, uh, you just wasn't a good professional. Hey, Hank, I do want to apologize to you for, uh, saying a lot of those things and physically what I would do to you. It's, it's not appropriate. It's not appropriate. Yeah. That was actually,

those Tobi not a growth engine. Sorry. It's Tobi not a growth engine. No, Tobi is a growth

on I'm part of my take when I was saying it was a growth engine. I had to apologize vehemently

because unlike a bar stool, I deal with human resources a lot and just sort of what I was saying about what I was going to do to Hankie and I was pretty graphic and vast. I was pretty graphic. Yeah. Yeah. But in a spin zone here, you actually were going to butt fuck Hank, which is very

“against your cuck-like tendencies to watch someone else butt fuck. Hank, right?”

That you're an alpha in that moment. You're an alpha. I'd say if you, if you were going to power bottom Hank, then I'd be like, yeah, that makes sense. But yeah, if you're, if you're doing the drilling, yeah, then yeah, that's kind of, you know, the bad ass. Well, maybe we'll take that and get situation next year. That's bad ass. I'm not, I'm not doing any of that. I want to apologize to anyone who heard that. And I also don't want to affiliate the people of Tobi with what I was

saying I was going to do to Hank and everything. Tobi is a, uh, is a girth engine. Just to switch everything up for a second. Hank, uh, little olive branch. I'm really excited about your patriots this season. Wow, love that. They really, they really look good. All of them. I got to tell you the biggest question I have and we'll deal with this when I do. Well, actually,

“let me guys, is it okay if I start with with the AFC East? Hey, do you accept this apology?”

Come on, heck. Yeah, we'll see what he says at the end of this call as of right now. Yes. What do you mean? Hank, I'm not going to say anything. No, I'm, I'm not going to say anything. I'm,

I'm, I'm, Hank, I'm actually done fighting with you. There's no, there's no beating you. You always say

the one thing you're like an act, keep puncturist with like rude things to say. You're just like, oh, let's just get this nerve right there. I'm, I'm just get it right in there. I get, I feel like I'm getting attacked. I'm attacking back every time. So, that, that. 100%. Yeah. You are worthy, adversary. I, I laid down my sword, Hank. I laid down my sword. Wow. I need to concentrate on true offense. Uh, uh, uh, uh, on, uh, on, on people I can, you know,

need victory, but, you know, yeah. Yep. Yeah. What happened with three? All right, Jerry, we'll see ya. Hey, Jerry. Thanks, Jerry. Congrats again. You can take that cuck, trophy, and you can shove up your ass, both of you. You can shove it up your ass, and you know what? I am going to cuck and watch you guys, that shoved up your ass. I'm going to watch Zach and Hanky shove it up both your butt, just like this. Yeah. Yeah. And then I'm going to be

a growth engine right down there. Yeah. Let's flow, shove it up there, and I will watch. You're right. Maybe I am a cuck. Maybe I will take this one. Yeah. I want to watch that. I want to watch you shove that cuck thing up your ass. I want to watch it. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, uh, okay. Good. I'm right. All right. You're right. I am a cuck. I am a cuck. Call me a cuck. I'm a cuck. I want to watch big cat and PFT get that trophy shoved up their, their, their butt holes. Probably for sure it's not

the first time something has been up there. So it's going to slip right in. Yeah. Both your heads

are up there all the time. Thank you, Jerry. Jerry information about, uh, Jerry, Jerry. You take on folks on the next generation. Uh, but wait, let me, uh, I thought for sure when you said I was winning a taking, I thought it was going to be something along a lines of best impersonation of, uh, Gino Smith. Yeah. Somehow still have not been canceled for that, but let me tell you something if I ever run for city council here in Calabassus, for sure that video is coming up. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Oh, Jaden Daniels came up in one of my mock traps yesterday. Wow. No. Huge. What

“did you do? Yeah. Uh, I, uh, I passed on. Sorry. I'm fine with that because you put them, I think”

number one over all last year. So I'm, I'm, I'm fine with you staying away from Jaden. Please. Yeah. Looking, looking at, looking at Caleb Bell. Caleb, here we go. Yeah. I want that. You don't want this. Yeah. I'm a little nervous now. Yeah. You don't want that. You don't want that. I don't want that. That's the thing. Also, we're going to have to learn how to do an impression of you, Jerry. Yeah. He's going to get on cameo. Oh, yeah, impersonator of you. Yeah. Oh, cool.

Oh, maybe he can now make fun of my impediment. Just like Hank does every time I come on there. Yeah. He is an acupuncture. It's pretty cool. Yeah. Evalous. Yeah. Yeah. No shame in the impediment, Gary. Mm-hmm. No, what? No shame in the impediment game is what Zach said. He's got. Yeah. I'm in, uh, no, but Hank. Thank you. All right, Jerry. Hey, I'm going to die. Our phone's about to die. Okay. Are you still, uh, you still recording backs? You're running out. Yeah. We're about. I don't know what you're going to say.

I don't know what to stop. All right. The next award is Hank loss of the year. Hank loss of the year.

That's okay. That's why we love him. Hank lost the year. I'm excited to see these nominees. First nominee for Hank loss of the year is live golf. Okay. Because, uh,

“currently playing technically still a league. That's the best thing you can say about live.”

The Super Bowl nominated for Hank loss of the year never really felt like the Patriots were in that one.

I was just as heartbroken as Hank probably. If not more, um, tough loss of the Seahawks. Mm-hmm. That's true. The next nominee is the Celtics losing to the Sixers in seven games at Max's bachelor party in Vegas with a sweet full of Dillente's. Bad. Got, would you say that was one of the worst losses? Yeah. Dylan Brock. Great player though. Great player. Great player. Great player player. Really good player. Yeah. I got to say. Yeah.

Definitely. I'm mad enough to say it. Uh, the next nominee for Hank loss of the year is Hank switching to lefty. So he's losing his ability to golf right hand. Mm. Giving up on being right

hand. That's not a loss. That's a win. I've gained another hand. That's good. Good way to look at it.

“That's sure you now have two hands. Most people only have one. But didn't you give up on the old hand?”

No, we're just lures adding a new skill. Okay. Most most golfers only use 50% of their God-given ability. Yeah. And not you. Right. Now the next nominee for Hank loss of the year is, uh, the Boston Bruins. Boston Bruins. Yeah. Data stating. Yeah. That was definitely for you. Hard broken about that. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, next nominee for Hank loss of the year is, uh, Mike Frable. He's still a coach. Still a coach. Still a coach. Just took us to Subaru. Except for the Sunday

of the NFL draft. Yeah. It went to real. Guys can't get better. Guys can't fix themselves. The next

nominee for Hank loss of the year is the Jalen Brown trade losing Jalen Brown added Paul George

though and and future picks. And kept he go. Yep. You love Paul George. And Charming, kept Charming and he only, but only good things to say about Paul George at a Henry Lockwood. Yeah. I mean, I'd trust him, Brad Stevens. So that's a win. You got a contract. You got Paul George's contract. Pretty good. Uh, the next nominee for Hank loss of the year is when you farted during the interview with Killing Moore, farted really loudly. Uh, although that was a win.

That was very fun. I would also like to say it was, it was just era escaping his butt. It wasn't a fart. So we ever wrote this category, not fair. And then they didn't factor in physics physics and the chair and the fact that the, the pelkins facility was right next door. Yeah.

“That's why I was wearing the hat right next door. Uh, the next nominee for Hank loss of the year. There's a lot of”

these. Yeah. Um, the Duke lost to UConn in front of a record setting TV audience. Yes, mind you. Yes, Brilliant Mullins. So what? And that one hurt because we watched it like 75 times. Yeah. Yeah. And we reenacted it. We have a cameo, a guest presenter for Hank loss of the year. Oh, who is this? I liked it. Oh, winner for Hank loss of the year. By your name is decision is all of that.

Oh, my god. Great Bruce Buffer. That's a real Bruce Buffer. Yep. That's not an in person. No, that's him. His wife is probably in the next room just like all day. He's doing that. I cameo. You had to smile a little bit at that Hank. That was that was funny. Yeah. It was bad year that uh, hearing them all stacked up against it. Yeah. Yeah. So because you get you do the Super Bowl and they're like, all right, that was bad then living and then switching the hands.

I don't you switching hands not a loss. Well, it was not a loss. Well, that's some of those were reaches, uh, but it was it was a bad year. It can't win every year. No, but you also can win the rebuilding. You lost a lot this year. Lost a lot in big ways, but like, you know, you got to you got to feel the loss. So you know how to overcome them and then win again. Yeah. True. But you used to just win. Now there's a lot, you know, when you win so much, there's still there's the losses.

But usually the win is the way the losses is registered in the year of L. Actually, when it losing the most after all. So congratulate. Yeah, you this is the start of your winning. Yeah. Yeah, because you went, you win this award. Yeah. You want the take. I'd like to thank the committee for this award for loss of the year. And I would like to officially start my championship to be for next year. Awesome. Good job, Hank. All right. Next up, we have the

taking for ratio of the year. Some really good nominees, including some people in this room, and we'll start with PFT, you're nominated for ratio of the year because you said on June 12th,

Got seven and a seven thousand six hundred, uh, retweets and the quote in 135,000 likes. And the

“retreat was just a picture of a Paraguayan football player doing a bicycle kick with the ball”

exploding the world trade centers. Yeah. So it was quite. I'll take that out. Yeah, quite one. I'll take that out. How many likes? Uh, 135,000 likes. It's a great one. That's absurd. That's a good one. Yeah. Hey, football. Jeff, they used to actually dominate our former co-worker for some some guy named Brandon Carson, you corny and fat go get in the weight room. He quoted it and said you're, and you're a woman beating piece of shit and then posted the guy's

arrest record. He got a hundred and seven thousand likes on that ratio. Wow, four four point four retweets. That's a man of honor. Yeah. A man who auto is nominated. Not once, but twice.

The first one is if I'm Shidorah Sanders, why am I listening to Todd Munkin? What have you won on an NFL

“level? He got four thousand eight hundred replies. Three thousand one hundred tweets, which were”

mostly all quote tweets. Retweets and then only a thousand likes. That's tough to do. That's a really good ratio. Really, really tough to do. Yeah. And many allotures just continue to submit himself as being the weirdest guy in sports. Yes, easily. We also have our own account, pardon my take account because after we lost, what was this after March 17th World Baseball Classic? World Baseball Classic. We tweeted the USA has 62 rules Venezuelan has zero and then Leonard Ray's quote

tweeted us to the tune of 27,000 likes and it says United States zero domino championships Venezuelan

61 domino championships. That's some good shit, right? That's a really good shit. And then finally

Emmanuel Ocho again because he said the WMBA would be better without Caitlyn Clark because she is a bigger distraction than he's than she is additive. That one got four thousand replies and only a thousand likes. Also a late edition nominee, Pat McAfee for tweeting out an album coming out the day after. Yeah, which I will be purchasing. Yes, I will. Yes. 100% yes. I was saying we should do McAfee karaoke at some point. Yes. I did great. Fall out boy. We're going down, down, down,

down, we're around. The winner of the ratio of the year. Listen, I went into it being like we actually didn't put a winner here. Yeah. It's got to be a manual watch. He did such great work. Yeah, it's pretty good. I mean, those two, the the the Schwarzenegger should not listen to his head coach. Yeah, because what has he done in the league and then Caitlyn Clark is actually bad for the WMBA. Unbelievable. Yeah. His takes are sometimes indistinguishable from a man recovering in a hospital

from getting attacked by hammers. That is kind of like where his brain is at most days. He got ratio the other day too for for claiming that he that that Ryan Clark built NFL live. Oh, from the ground up. Oh. And then and then Tray Wingo flew in and he was like wait,

“wait one dad burned second. Because if you want to talk about building NFL live,”

let me put some stats on you. So a manual watch show truly one of the dumbest ever do it. Can't wait to see what he has cooked up for this year. Yeah. He really is he I feel like every year. He's he's he's just he's he's basically competing against himself with this. Yeah. There's no one else out there. He's just going to a point. He's Joey Chestnut. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's like one year that had burned a LED one. Yeah. Everything else. No. All right, Pete, you want to do an ad before we get to our next

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And the next award in the 2026 takeies is, it's a brand new category. The week one Super Bowl win of the year. There were a lot of victories that in the moment felt huge, and in retrospect, we're not, we're really not worth anything. So the nominees for the week one Super Bowl win of the year are the Philadelphia 76ers beating the Boston Celtics in game seven in the first round of the player. Well, that was huge. Technically, that wouldn't be week one. We're talking about it. It's the week one.

sentiment is like, oh, congrats on your week one Super Bowl. You're not going to win anything else. That would be round. It's not an actual literal week one. Maximum just got spoiled for you. None of these are actually week one NFL games. Okay. But you understand figure of, like, round one wouldn't would have made more sense. Well, not all of them around. One, three out of four round one.

“One is round three. Okay. The expression week one Super Bowl. It's the celebration after a”

big win that then immediately follows a big loss. Got it. Yeah. So the sixers, you're very happy,

and then reality came. Yeah. I'm I'm I'm curious to continue listening to these. Okay. The second

nominee. You did the nominees. Yeah. There's got to go Bears. There we go. Just wanted to make sure that one was in there. It's in there. It's in there. It's in there. Actually, us getting under your skin for that first nominee. That was, that was a week one Super Bowl. We just had for this category. And we do that all about to have a big loss. Yeah. Because we both have two nominees come up. The Bears over the Packers. Yep. In the playoffs. It was a great time. So much fun. And then

you ran into the big bad man. He's not that big or bad. He's like medium size. Yeah. It's a playoff. Yeah. No, he's a good playoff. Hey, good playoff. Hey, good playoff. Hey, good playoff. Hey, good playoff. Hey, good playoff. Hey, good playoff. It's a playoff. Good playoff. Good playoff. And McFey's six back. Yeah. Yeah. It's 14 back. The third nominee is J. M. You covering in the first round of the college football playoff against Oregon. That would be a victory that was not a victory

at all. But we'll take them where we can get them. And then the last nominee is the San Antonio Spurs beating the Oklahoma City Thunder. And everybody thinking that this is Winby's time to shine congrats to the Spurs for winning an NBA championship. Crying his eyes out. Crying his eyes out. Cry his eyes out. No problem with, but you got to win the, you got to win the title after that. Yep. So we have, we have an award presenter for this. This was a Hank Hank got a presenter here.

Toop stars. Oh. What's up, boys? The lengthhead brothers here. Brought Casin for written house square in Philadelphia. We're here to present the week one Super Bowl winner of the year and accept the award on behalf of the sixers beating the Celtics in game seven of round one. Yeah. Very honored and privileged to be accepting this award on behalf of

Philadelphia. As everyone knows, we were out in Vegas for this incredible fee. This is a good

thing, boys. You just really took it to the Celtics. You know, just put them in their place. And now we've supported them as the top dog in the division. We really had a hell of a time on not true. Nick really won the NBA championship. Las Vegas with dinners and celebrations and and just good vibes all around. So it was a hell of a Super Bowl and we're happy that we're with our buddy Hank. I can't believe anything. Doing the little surprise that we're not getting the

award for the greatest leasing of the year. Yeah. There we go. Like Jansson just did to Brad students get in jail and Brown. Yep. And we'll say it one more time. Jalan Brown. Very good work. I love it. Hank, by the way, in like planning out the take he's kind of a mischmosh. I'm trying to get everything organized and sending, hey, you get this came here. You get that came here. This morning, I saw this award and I was like, oh, shit, we don't have a cameo for it. I texted double

D and I was like, hey, can you send a video for this award? And he's like, Hank texted me yesterday. Me and Nick already got it. So we're we're same wavelength. We're like, and he said he he noted great category thought though I I stand by that we should have won for biggest fleece.

“I wanted to do a delentity award. I think it goes double D. Yeah. Just for talking to himself”

the T box saying, come on, double D. I would agree. He just like the nickname double. I love the double D. That's really what it is. I'm a tits guy. Yeah. We want to say. Oh man, we got we might have to do another batch of art. Just this room partying, but bringing your brothers. I miss them.

Nick was proud of the win this award. You didn't see this as they don't understand. No,

“they push back at all. Hank, we hate we're so happy during the entire presentation. Oh man,”

they were, yeah. They're they're raising a banner. Yep. Oh man. All right, great award. Great award. All right. We next up. We have Michigan man of the year. Michigan was big in sports this year. We had coaches getting fired for weird things. We had best selling authors and team port. We had national championships and basketball. So Michigan man of the year, the nominees are shown more. Michigan man of the year keeping Michigan on task this year. Maybe not the best year possible. But hey, listen,

he, you know, they won a few games here and there. They also got Bryce Underwood going. So Michigan man of the year, Sean Moore is nominated. Yeah. Was it a good tenure? Who's to say? Yeah. Day point, Roy, our boss. Congratulations on the New York Times best seller. You are nominated for Michigan man of the year. We also have board manual for being an ADU's one in national championship

“in both basketball and football and few in far between. Yep. Dusty May. Dusty May for winning”

national title, then going to the Mavericks, some say the greatest Michigan man to get out of there. But is there anything more Michigan man than leaving before the consequences arrived? No. That is the most Michigan man. And then we have Adam Shepter for just being a Michigan man. Yeah. Throwing through. Okay. I have a special guest for Michigan man of the year. Hi, it's Dave Portanoin. Michigan classic 99 here to present the award from Michigan man of the year. And the winner is

Sharon Moore in Brad's coach. Hope you're doing well. I don't know what quigs put in the AI prompts for Dave to like go to the envelope. Yeah. You saw the AI got a little confused there and he just he put his hand in front of him and then pulled out absolutely nothing. I want to see like which which videos of Dave the AI drew on to to to go that beard. Yeah. It's good beard. Yeah. It's actually a really good haircut. He's not right there. So congrats to Sharon Moore. Michigan man of the

year. Huge congrats off for him. He really embodies everything that Michigan is and believes. Yep. The next category is the wedding of the year. We love love on part of my take. The nominees for a wedding of the year. Twenty twenty six are Max. Max. Max getting married. Max. You got married a

lot. Yeah. This is going to be this is going to be four nominees. Max wedding number one is the first

nominee. Next nominee is Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift got married at Madison Square Garden. Something that we all put for sure would be way way too tacky for her. But sounds like it was great wedding

“Dean Blending. It was there and I think everybody had a great time. It comes to down the dinner.”

Yeah. Oh. Wow. I didn't know about that. I didn't know about that either. Standing dinner. Yeah. People were just like standing around. Wow. We're enough suits. The next nominee for wedding of the year is Max wedding number two. Second time Max got married. Second time. Yep. The next nominee for wedding of the year is Pug. 99 Pug. Pug got married this year. Pug we love you Pug. Next nominee for wedding of the year is

Sam Donald. Congratulations Sam. Mm-hmm. To be honest, I forgot that Sam Donald got married. You did get married. The next nominee for wedding of the year is Tyreys Haliburt. Also forgot he got married. Oh no, he got married like yesterday. Yeah. Congrats Tyreys Haliburt. Late late entry. Late entry. The winner for wedding of the year, we have a guest presenter. Ooh. And the winner for the 2026. Takeie for a wedding of the year. And the envelope, please.

Thank you. Max Delente. Congratulations. Fellow Paisano. From superheroes and he made an actual card that said Takeie's pretty impressive stuff.

Did he do that? That's good. That's good. It looked like it said 2026 Takeie's amazing. That's incredible.

Thank you Furrier. That guy does his cameo's right. Yeah. That's a guy you want to go back to. Give that guy a rating. Yep. Absolutely. Yeah. Screen shot that. We'll use that for some promo. That's incredible. Yep. Okay. I still wish you had pushed Tony into that that propeller that one time. Yeah. No. Because like after that happened, then Tony goes on. He has he kills Chris. Him and Carmelo were perfect together. Max. Congratulations. You accept.

I, yes. I accept. One more. Do you have one more in you? You have one more in you?

All right. Next up. We have animal of the year. Animal of the year.

This has been a big year for animals, fun animals. First up, we have Neil the seal.

“The sea lion actually in, where was he? Was he in South Africa?”

It's a bit of a case of it. It was just wrecking shit. He was like a 10,000 pounds. Just dumbing everything in sight and everyone was just like, hey, we got to let Neil the seal do his thing. We have the bison who flipped the old man upside down. Probably video of the year for being honest. We have the snakes in China. The snakes in China who were in that river over the flood. That was fucked up. Yep. Punch the monkey, which we've spoken about. Punch the monkey.

I still maintain that I would like to do a vibe check on punch the monkey. He was the monkey.

They got bullied and everyone felt bad for him. No one asked a simple question.

Is punch the monkey just a bad hang? I was watching that and I was just seeing nature take it. It's course. Exactly. They knew that punch was going to get them in trouble. Yeah. And then the last is Jimmy. The mutant raccoon that has gone viral recently. Jimmy. Yeah. See the mascot of the Titans? He's not the mascot of the time. He might be all right. Do we have animal of the year? Oh. Oh wow. We do. Wow. Oh my god.

Our favorite animal. Our favorite animal. What's up guys? This is former President Pog here. Just announcing the taking winner for animal the year. Without further ado, the winner is the bison who flipped that guy over. Wow. What balls? Well fellows, miss you. Pog. Here. Oh, so good. Thanks. You surprised us with that. Pog.

It's also going to be someone else. Well, yeah. That person said no. So. Oh, so you got Pog last minute. Yeah. Pog sent that in like 20 minutes.

It's always there for us. Yeah. Always there for us. Always there for us. Okay.

The next category is ball of the year. New category. Ball of the year. Okay. And the nominees are Lamello. Lamello ball. Not the world's best driver, but he's got a change of scenery. An entire new municipality to terrorize with this car. Oldie is nominated for ball of the year. Yeah. Oldie's balls. He was shown to anybody that would look at the bonfire last year. Yeah. Power stool. Yeah. The pouches, what legends are made out of. I actually don't know what

that's made out of. But shout out to Oldie and his balls. Next nominee for ball of the year is solo. Solo ball. Just having solo ball on TV. Yep. Great. Great for balls. Yep. New nominee. I just put this in right now. Yeah. I was wondering what that was going on. Joshua Karota Grower has been nominated for ball of the year. He plays for the athletics. Felt tipped a ball into his own ball. Last night, ruptured his testicle at the plate.

State in the game. Got a base hit and then went to the hospital. We had to have emergency surgery. Block. So that's one tough ball. Yep. And then the final nominee for ball of the year is Tyler shock. Yeah. Because it's just so fucking catchable. Oh. It's such a good ball.

“I can't wait for shock season. It's such a good ball. Do you guys have to play shock this year?”

Yeah. I believe there's our redemption game. Well, you have two twice. Yeah. Does anyone else have to play shock? That'll break my heart. Let's see. Let's see what the Saints schedule is. I should know this. I do not think the bearers play the Saints this year. And the Saints played the Lions. We do not play the Saints. Oh, shit. We do play the Saints. Fuck. Yep. Oh, yeah. That's right. We think we play the only one in the room. I think we play the

NFC South. Yeah. Fuck. Let's see. You get to play the NFC South. November 22nd. Okay. All right. Well, sorry. Sorry. We're happy. We're happy. We're happy. We're going to have to intercept that. Catchable ball. The winner of ball the year. I believe we have a guest presenter for this one too. That's right. I'm Leva ball the big CEO of the big ball of brand. And you know I got a hell of an announcement to make. That's right. The winner of the 2026 techie for ball the year is

“Tyler show. That's how it's going down. The quarterback for the New Orleans Saints.”

Triple B's down. Big ball of brand is in the building. And you know how we do this. Again, the winner of the 2026 techie for ball the year is Tyler show. That is big ball about in a great job. Haven't heard from Leva art a while. Great to see Leva. Get to see he's still out there doing his great to see Leva. Okay. Tyler shock congratulations Paul the year. Well deserved.

The nominee is the Pittsburgh Zoo trading with the Boston Zoo. The getting little Joe for Frankie.

“And that's the only nominee. So let's get to the winner. The taking award for the gorilla”

traded the year go with the Pittsburgh for trading Frankie to Boston for little Joe. And it's not true that Boston is going to get a gorilla that'd be named later. That is the king Mike Francisa. Thank you so much to Mike for. He does not have cameo. By the way, his son it works for us and he's great. And it was very funny because I asked him. And Mike for it says this is the best. But he he was like, I was talking to his son. I was like, hey, we really like it if if he could do the

taking award for gorilla trade of the year. Yeah. And he was like, all right. He's going to think about it. And I said, all right. Well, let me know if you need me to like calm or text him or it's or anything to explain it more. He said, no, no, he understands he's going to sleep on it. And then he got back to us. The king. And he's like, I'm the sports pope. I've decided we're going to do this. Yeah,

“we're going to do the gorilla. And bonus. We have a very special bonus. We actually talked to the CEO”

of the Pittsburgh Zoo to see if you would accept the taking for gorilla trade of the year and break down the actual trades. So let's do that. Okay. Now on to officially accept the take, for gorilla trade of the year is the Pittsburgh Zoo president and CEO Jeremy Goodman. Jeremy, thank you so much for joining us. First of all, congratulations. You have won gorilla trade of the year. Now, thank you so much. This is an honor. I mean, you know, it's something that as a little boy,

you always think about and growing up, you know, in the zoo world about what in that gorilla

trade. And the fact that we were able to pull that off this year, you know, it was a total team effort. That's awesome. So, so, can you walk us through the trade? When is the trade like, are you making calls all the time? Are you calling zoos everywhere around America? Being like, who's on the market? Is there a trade deadline with zoos? How does that work? Yeah. There's no official trade deadline. We're always talking with our the other zoos. You know, we're more like colleagues

than competitors. But, you know, everybody's trying to have the best zoo possible. Just like the best team possible. And, you know, we're always looking for new animals, different animals, trying to make sure that get the right matches, you know, chemistry is really important. You can't just put two animals together. And, and when a super ball, it's just boy balls and sort of thing. It's, you know, trying to do your homework and, you know, scouting and very similar in a lot of ways.

“And, that's how you get success and get it winning team. Can you walk us through this particular trade?”

When, when you decide to pull the trigger on it, what other offers there might have been out there and what the overall strategy was for you behind why you thought this was a good fit?

Yeah. I mean, you know, we were silver back is, is the most important position in a,

in a girl a troop or a girl a team, if you will. And, we were down a silver back, you know, we, we just didn't have one anymore and it was a big hole to fill and we were looking all over. And, you know, we, the rest of the team, you know, our females, we had some youngsters that really needed that kind of big role model to look up to. And, somebody who would be good with the youngsters. So, you know, we did our homework and, you know, little Joe was on the top of a list,

you know, and, you know, as James Warren represented, but, you know, he, we really thought he would be a great fit. And, you know, our, our younger guy, Frankie, you know, he, he was an amazing animal. I mean, like, you know, he was born here, homegrown talent, really just, you know, everybody loved him. But, you know, it was his time to shine and his time to move on and, you know, become part of another team, another troop and, you know, he's, he's wreaking havoc over there and, uh, and Boston and, uh,

little Joe is, uh, just trying to fit in with his teammate, his new teammates here. So, the plan with Little Joe and, and we, we obviously aren't experts, we're not Adam Shefter, Ian Rappport when it comes to these type of trades. But, what we understood, and maybe you can correct me, is that Little Joe now, you could potentially have more grill, as you can make more grillers with Little Joe, whereas Frankie's not ready for that yet. So, this is a play for the

future where you can, you can basically rebuild in the farm system with Little Joe, potentially producing

more grillers. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, that's the job of a silver back and, uh, you know, to, uh, it's the primary job, uh, then defending the team and the troop, uh, it's to produce little Little Gorillas. And, uh, that's what we're really hoping for, uh, that he hits it up with, uh,

bachelor years, and that's where Frankie is right now, and he's with a bachelor troop, uh, over and Boston, and, and they're doing their thing, uh, not ready to, you know, they're just in a different

“stage of life is, is Little Joe is, and, you know, this is something that, you know, we're, we're”

ready now, uh, we've got, uh, some great females here, and just really hoping Little Joe, uh, meshes with everybody, and, uh, we have those little, little Gorillas to help the species. That's central. It's, it's a silver back driven league is what I'm hearing, and so that was a, that was a, that was a big glaring hole that you had on your roster. It sounds like you've filled, I, I hope that he's able to make some more Gorillas for you. How common are these types of

trades? How, how often do you engage in, uh, not just Gorillas, but maybe anything that you have to do? How often are you on the phone with somebody else talking about a potential trade?

Um, you know, pretty frequently actually, uh, it's not, it's not always a one for one trade, um,

a lot of times, uh, you know, it's the player to be named later type of, uh, type of deal, um, but yeah, we're, we're talking with, uh, um, you know, some others who's right now about, uh, them taking some of our, you know, one or two of our animals and us getting a few in return and, uh, the good thing about zoos is, you know, we're all very cooperative, and we all want to see each other succeed to solve about the animals and, uh, and that's really what all these, these trades,

and, uh, you know, are about as is just making sure that everybody has, has that right winning team in Combo. As your, uh, in your career as president, CEO, have you had a trade that you've looked back on and been like, I kind of messed that one up. Um, not that I've messed up, but I, you know, there was one trade that I just had the steel of a century. Uh, you know, it's interesting. Yeah. Yeah, just, uh, work with another zoo. Um, we were looking, we had, uh, it was a giant tortoise trade.

And, uh, they were looking for some new genetics and we had some baby giant tortoises, uh, which weren't so giant yet. And in return, we got some, uh, you know, 600 pounders and, uh, uh, I couldn't believe I pulled that one off, but, um, you know, once again, we got what we needed and, uh, they got what they needed and, uh, that's, that's a definition of a good trade. And the end is everybody wins. You do sound like how he roseman. Then that's, like, almost word for word,

what he described to us when we're like, sometime, you know, you've had your way with a couple

other teams got some really good trades. He's like, you know, ultimately we want everybody to be better.

We, uh, the best trades that win wins. Like bar for bar, you are the how he roseman of zoo,

“as soon as I think it's smart. Yeah. Yeah, you want to, you want to keep everyone else wanting to”

trade with you because if they have a bet, a lot of parity in this league, you know, we really, uh, you want to keep everybody on an even playing field and, you know, uh, we want our zoo to be the number one zoo to finish, you know, number one each year. Um, you know, we have no animosity to anybody else. We're, we're, we're, do you guys rank? You know, rank and zoos is pretty arbitrary, you know, some people rank off of, uh, acreage, number of animals, uh, um, you know, different amenities. Uh,

yeah, I think we, we're pretty high up there. Uh, in fact, we have both a zoo and aquarium, I mean, have over 10,000 animals here in Pittsburgh is, uh, you know, puts us pretty high on the list. And, uh, you know, certainly if a little Joe does his job, uh, we'll be moving up in those rankings. I would, I would measure it by smiles per customer. Um, the happier you make. Yeah, probably it was. All I got to do is look at my window and see all the smile and kids and adults

and, uh, just shows you why we're in this business. Are there ways that you can tell when maybe an

animal is not happy at the zoo? I know you, you never want to have an animal that doesn't

feel like they're a fit there, but can you tell when maybe an animal is doing their version of requesting a trade? Uh, maybe it's like James Harden, they get heavy, uh, they appear sluggish and

“with the argic and at that time, you know, it's time to move on or has that ever happened to you?”

Um, you know, not every trade works out. I'm not every, you know, uh, acquisition works out. Uh, you know, we try to make them all work, uh, but sometimes they don't then, um, you know, depending on the situation, you know, sometimes they just have to move that animal onto another location, where they can succeed. Um, it really depends. You know, there's a lot of things that are staff or keepers do to try to make sure that each and every one of the animals that comes into

our facility is happy and successful, but uh, sometimes it's like you said, it's just not the right fit and uh, if that's the case, then we work to try to make sure that we get that, that that individual into a better place where it is a good fit. Is there a win now mode for zoos? Because I feel like when you guys have, when a, when a zoo has a big, baby birth, that's like a win now mode. Like we're in Chicago, the link of parks who just had a baby rhino, and I took my kids there instantly,

I was like, we got to go see the baby rhino. It was so fucking cute. So is there, do you guys, when you guys have a big baby, uh, born or you like, oh, we got to, let's go. Let's hammer it. Let's get out in the press. Let's let everyone know. Hey, we got a baby seal. We got a baby giraffe. We got all these babies. We got it. You got to come see them. Yeah, I mean, I think all season with

we have to be in win mode with now mode. You know, otherwise we're going to lose more species. So yeah, it's something that it's great, you know, for visitors to come out and see, but, you know,

bottom line is is that we're really trying to, you know, save all these different incredible animals,

and, um, you know, when we had, I mean, we just debuted a baby line cub and, you know, she is amazing. And, you know, people are coming out like crazy, but it's, it's more than that. It's really about, you know, continuing to make sure that that species is around forever. And, um, so that are our grandkids, and their kids can, you know, experience the same really cool animals that we do today. That's awesome. All right. So Jeremy, thank you so much, Jonas. I have one last question.

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Sorry, Jeremy, how are we doing today, sir? Good. How are you? Having a great day. I did have a quick question for you. I was curious, throughout your, you know, as you career moving up the rain skin to the office, so you do hold now. Is there anyone you can point to, that maybe you shaped your game after, like took inspiration from when climbing these ranks, into where you're at today? Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of folks that I've really looked

up to over the years. And, um, surprisingly enough, uh, you might not expect this one, but, uh, Walt Disney, um, was a big fan just, uh, how visionary he was. And, you know, just to look at

some Florida swamp and, and, you know, envision this whole big, uh, incredible, uh, park and enterprise,

very, uh, try to learn a lot from, uh, from Walt and everything he's done. And within the zoo world, there's so many mentors that I've had that, um, you know, probably two numerous to name, but, um, yeah, there's a lot of people that I've looked up to that have helped shape my career and that I, I owe a lot to, so very much, uh, and that it to all those folks. Great question, Zach. Great question. Yeah. Well, Jeremy, thank you so much for joining us. Congratulations again.

“Will, uh, we actually could make you, uh, we'll make you a plaque and we'll send it to the zoo if you want to,”

if you want to, if you want to, I would spot my wall already for it. I love it. I love it. And Jeremy, if you make any more trades, let us know, we would love to be like the, the newsbreakers for the ounces for any zoo trades that happen. We would love to be ground zero for those. So if, if you've got anything or if there's an animal that you have on the trading block right now, we can even, maybe try to gas that up a little bit. Other zookeepers that listen to this podcast,

know that you've got something that you're looking to maybe wheel and deal on. Yeah. Or even like other other zoos, you're like, I'm here in the Kansas City Zoo is like looking for a giraffe. We'll post that. We will hope that out. Yeah. Sounds good. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Pittsburgh Zoo CEO Jeremy Goodman was brought to you by simply safe in the United States. There's a break in every 26 seconds. That means somewhere right now,

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Ray Charles, whose voice was used during the all-star game, and is not still alive. But he's still

“life to be in Hank. And the video, too. Yeah, they do, they do us. What video are you saying?”

They made it look like he was on the field. Yeah, they made it look like he was right there. That was bullshit. The next nominee for still alive person of the year, Joe Biden. President Joe Biden, that's very much. We've just seen the Joe Biden is 100% still alive. Also nominated for still live person of the year, Mitch McConnell. We know that he's still alive because he's still alive. He somebody put a newspaper in his hand, which is what you do to somebody when you take their picture.

Yep. Next nominee for still live person of the year is Mr. Pear. Mr. Pear is still alive. There's a total memes. Still live has Bachelor Pad. Oh, sorry. All right. Hell yeah. PMT Bachelor Pad at you go this time. We should go this time. Yeah. PMT Bachelor party at GMO. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Max. The next nominee for still live person of the year is Ted Turner. Still live. No.

Jeffrey Epstein. Very much still alive. Very much still alive. Yeah. Two year research. Next nominee. Still live person of the year. Lindsey Vaughn. Congrats to Lindsey Vaughn.

“You're still being alive. Remember remember that? Yes, she crashed. She tore ACL. And then she said,”

I'm not going to, I'm not done skiing. Yeah. And then she crashed and everybody was like, yeah, well, you were skiing with the 20 ACL. Yeah. Probably bad idea. Next nominee for still live person of the year is Pug. Yeah. How do we know he's still alive? Well, because he just won. We just saw we were just like, oh, he won, Pug still alive person of the year. We love you, Pug. We love Pug. Great. You guys trying to kill Pug? No. No. Who decides that Pug was the win?

I don't know where that came. Yeah. How did Pug become the win? Let's do that again. Let's give it just someone out. Yeah. I thought it was really like it was a dog. Shame on rock. Shame when wrote. I thought it was a rope. I thought we were going to give it to Shane here. Pug? I take so. Oh, because of the onion, because of the onion. Oh. I, the real winner is Shane. For still employed person of the year. No, the real winner of still live person of the year

is also nominee was Jerry Jones. I forgot to nominate Jerry Jones nominee. The winner of the still live person of the year. This isn't a perfect word show people. You know that. It's not. Somebody, somebody did go rogue and put Pug in there. Yeah. The winner is Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones wins. Jerry Jones. Congratulations. Congratulations. All right. Next up, we got fight of the year. Fight of the year. Oh, yep. Shane is trying to know.

As always, just trying to cop out of it and just be like, oh, it wasn't my fault. Pug was on the

dark when I was making graphics as the winner. Oh, maybe it was Dom trying to kill Pug. Yeah. Okay. Fight of the year. We got some good fights this year. We have the next working fan fight. When the member, if you remember the, at the parade, the lady pulled her pants down and then she just tossed her off a light post. We have the Dennis Robbins spurs fan who is from Philly. Yeah. Who just put on a spurs jersey instead. I'm going to go fuck up some, you know, people.

I'll do respect to that guy. Yeah. I'll do respect. We have Hank versus Big Dom at the NFL Combine. Great fight. Max, you remember seeing that fight? Yeah. No, you, you, you ran away. It's pussy. Yeah. We have Connor McGregor for those 15 seconds. 15 seconds. Then we have a couple of barster ones. Kelly Keeks versus Sam Goldfinger fight of the year.

At barstool spring break house. And then finally, Ben Mintz versus Crutches.

It's an ongoing fight. No. Crutches wins by submission. Yeah. All right. The winner for fight of the year is Hank and Big Dom. Oh, a lot of them fight Hank. Would you like to accept? Yeah. I'd like to accept. I'd like to thank you guys my partners for giving me this award. I don't like the way you said that.

“Okay. And and Big Dom's a worthy adversary. I think I think we squash the beef at the end of it.”

But sometimes you've got to, you know, Chuck Knox and then come out strong around the other side. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Good point. Good point. Max, would you like to accept them half a big Dom? No, that's big Dom's award. I can't accept on his behalf. Okay. Next next category in the 2026 taking the just chill out of the year. A lot of people need to chill out

this year. First nominee is Max. For screaming at McPhill in the gambling cave.

What are my favorite moments? That was a great moment of the small season. Got really in his face. Next. Oh, Max. What's up? I didn't need to do that with it. Just chill out. Just chill out. We're not saying big. It's just like, hey, maybe chill out. Yeah, that, yeah. Maybe yeah, chill out. Just chill out. Yeah, it's chill out. Yeah, it's chill out. Next nominee for just a lot of the year is Max. For slapping Hank.

Well, that's all. I was just struck to do that. Yeah. But just chill out. Still, yeah. Just falling in love with the murder someone that's still murder. Good point. What do they say to that when they do crimes against humanity and and the Nuremberg trials? Just falling in order. Just falling in order. Just falling in order. I was just falling in order. There's many good Max's. Yeah. Yeah. The next nominee for just chill out of the year is Mark Sanchez.

“Oh, just chill out, man. Yeah. Just chill out. He had to chill out. I think he chilled out.”

You might have gotten the message. Yeah. I think he chilled. Next nominee is Ryan Clark for going up Pete Schreger. Yeah. On the air. Just chill out. Just chill out. That was not that serious. Big time chill out. Not that serious, Ryan. And next nominee for just chill out of the year. Pat McAfee for releasing an album. Okay. I guess it's not super chill timing on the album. I'm so good. Listen, chill out.

Next nominee for chill out of the year is Max. For when he ran to the kitchen, grabbed a knife

Tiffany Rabbit. Trying to make him feel better after he goes lost and that you weren't trying to make

“me feel better. We were trying to make you feel better. That's that's a lie. It's a positive”

you're out of you. That's a fucking lie, Max. I don't think you understand what a positivity rabbit is. You still don't. Okay. Is that it? Uh, yeah. What? I got into addition. Oh, okay. Police school. Max. Oh, for losing a game to the Broncos hitting me again and taking my phone and throwing it across the room screaming in my face. Yeah, dotting also. Yeah. Yeah, you weren't here. I did you hear on. That was hey, acupuncturist right there. Just being like that. Yeah. The dotting

can. I found AJ Brown signed his like locker room like placard after that game. And I almost won the auction. I don't want to happen. I would have, uh, it would have been great. It was the dotting to Bones game. Hmm. That had been all time. A combo of AJ Brown. A dotting to Bones. I was thinking out for you. I like that. We're trying to find it. Next year I'm going to be chill.

“Nap. The winner of the just chillout man award. It's Max.”

You had a just. Yeah. Have time to achieve an award and needing to chill out. Yeah. Yeah, I do need to chill. This one, this one I will accept and I will, it's correct. You're not trying to go back to back. Although the Mark Sanchez ones probably worse. Yeah, probably. Who's to say? Probably. Uh, okay. Our next award is Dildo toss to the year. Uh, we had a great year for Dildo tossing. We had, uh, big, yeah, just a lot of Dildo tosses. So our nominees are, uh, the WMBA

Dildo tosser on July 29, 2025. The Atlanta Dream in Golden State Valcrease game. WMBA thrower number two, August 1st. Also Golden State Valcrease versus Chicago Sky. And then WMBA thrower number three, August 3rd, 2025, uh, the fever versus sparks. Zach, you got us a cameo for this. You sure? All right. What up? It's Bam Margera and the winner of

the 2020 six taking for the Dildo toss of the year goes to the second Dildo toss at the WMBA game.

Congratulations. All right. Bam. Thanks, Bam. Looking good. Oh, he looks great. Yeah. Can't wait for Jackass. Uh, is he in Jackass? Yeah. Uh, no. Uh, Zach. Great cat. I figured there's no one else to get for that one. Yeah. Yeah. You felt like the one one. No, that was a great, great, great cat. Okay. We got, uh, five left or a few left. Uh, the next category is the apology of the year. Um, apology of the year nominees. Luke Quant for his. Oh, yeah. 9 minute long YouTube video that

he posted apologizing for sleeping in where I don't think he said that he was sorry or apologize. No, but it was 9 minutes and there was a lot of things that he said on it. Yep. Um, the next nominee for apology of the year, Ryan Clark for apologizing for the things that he said to Peter Schreger regarding you do not play football. You don't have an opinion. Yeah. Uh, the next nominee for apology of the year, the John Robinson, the John Robinson for saying, uh, an opposed game interview.

It's like when we played smear the queer as a kid. Uh, the next nominee for apology of the year, it would be, uh, the YGT and Michael Black drama. Yes. Where it was the Brian Brothers and Grant Horvath that put in a clip from Michael Black that they probably should have put in. Did I get that writing? No. No. It was actually a totally northern nothing clip and then they released a long statement saying apologizing for including this clip. Yeah. God. It was just basically Michael Black having

a bad, uh, round of golf missing a pot and then being upset about it, which is a totally normal thing. Yeah. And then they apologize and said we like to just only be positivity. Uh, we don't like to spread that type of negativity. Okay, drum roll please. Okay. I'm going to give it to a

YGT and Michael Black. Okay. Yeah. The nothing burger apology is is always very funny. It's so funny.

Yeah. It also was like, I, everyone did the same thing where I was like, what, what,

“what are they apologizing for? And then I watched it. I was like, wait, what are they apologizing?”

What I've learned is that a lot of people that are in the YouTube golf community are, are very sensitive individuals. I don't understand, uh, how people play golf and don't bust each other's balls. I mean, don't bust balls. Also don't you fucking take a picture in their backs one? No. We do not want to garnish attention through drama controversy, but they're high quality golf. Yeah. I know a place where you can see a high quality golf. We are thankful

for everyone's living in participation on the YGT and they deserve to be portrayed in a more positive light. So they're just all rainbows and gum drops. It's cumbersome. Yeah. They're like, hey, Michael box competed and he's mic'd up and then we put in a clip of him being upset

Correct. And also what people want to see the human interactions, the real human interactions, not the like, oh, good shot, good shot. Now, Hank, do you see why maybe people don't want us to be cumbersome? Do you guys ever think about that? You guys want to come back? What? What? You're a cumbersome. You started cumbersome. What do you mean were the cumbersome? No, I made a statement then you guys were, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, that we're going to be cumbersome. Oh, uh, you guys wanted to be cumbersome.

You wanted to be cumbersome. No, no, we said we wanted to be cumbersome. You wanted to be cumbersome. I had to be getting of the Mount Rush, because you have a long Mount Rush more. Right. You were no longer at the beginning. Okay. But further I could, you guys wanted cumbersome. No, I said we could,

no, I never wanted to. I actually think you said it first. Yeah, Hank did say it first. Yes.

“Hank's gaslighting us, right? I take you hard. Yes, like you guys. Could someone help?”

And they get help. Help? I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't. I have no opinion on this matter. Son, opinion, it's, it's just a memory. You might know something. I've never been listening. I've never been listening. He wasn't listening. I was listening. It's who's, who was the cumbersome? No one's cumbersome. I don't know. Chill out, Max. Because you imagine if this bypass was cumbersome, like if we did it,

like these guys suck. We should, you guys, yeah, do a cumbersome. No, it's hot. You sunk gaslighting us, you fucking, I swear to God, you say, yeah, Hank came up with

cumbersome. Yeah. Shane, find us this clip. I do might be gaslighting us. No, never. I also might have

misremembered. No, I think that's a P of T just remembers how he wants and then says this is what I said. I wasn't fully I'm pretty sure that Hank said first. Oh, man. All right. Next up, we have

“part of the year. Oh, great. Who could potentially win this one? The nominees are Chuck Schumer.”

Oh, yeah, it's good fart. Good fart. Good fart. Scotty Sheffler at the open in 2025 when he farted when he was swinging. Yeah. He admitted to it to us on our show. I call it big clip. The no the no a con fan, who that wasn't really farted. I was just pooping. Some of they shot themselves and they kind of like stepped on it. That was a full blown fart. Yeah. Yeah. And then finally Henry Lockwood for his fart at the New Orleans Saints facility, which is

right next to the Polka's facility. True. It's part asked for us. Sure. You know, killing more interview and also farting. The chair was very solid. It was a solid chair. Yes. I'm circular. Yeah. I'm sitting on an amp. Yeah, I might have another sleep nominee. Okay. Oh, got it. Oh, this is a cool. This is a cool. That was way. That was way. Oh, shit. You've got to wipe your butt. You got to wipe your butt. This is a little wet. Yeah. And give a show. Pink guy.

Okay. The winner for fart of the year is Henry Lockwood. I'm breaking it in this year. Yeah. All those losses. I'm I feel like I'm sitting here. We're trying to guess our guy. I have like you asked just you Kumbaya. We're five takies. I did not. But I would like to thank the committee. I think the Scotty Sheffler probably deserved it. Bigger clip, bigger, bigger profile. But I'll take it. I'll take any award. I can get a lot of losses here. And I'm just going to keep

“stacking little win after a little. That's how you end up getting big one after big one. Yeah.”

Yeah. I like that. Good job. Hey. Good job. And I'll just keep farting. Yeah.

Not going to suck. Never stop farting. Never stop. Not retiring. No. You go more in your Vince Carter.

I got a lot more in there. Okay. Next category is the retirement of the year. The nominees for retirement of the year are the mealmics podcast for walking away from covering the Carolina Panthers in the afterwards. The Panthers going to win streak. And then they came back later on the season. But it was all good vibes from them. Next nominee is Lee Corso. Walked away from college football. It was actually a cool way that he went out because it was the first game that he did in college.

Yeah. In college, game day. I agreed. The next nominee for retirement of the year, Mike Frable for retiring for a day during the NFL draft. Mm-hmm. And then coming back. Mm-hmm. Didn't retire. The next nominee for retirement of the year is Ralphie the Buffalo. A Colorado just had no interest in running anymore. Yep. So they had to send Ralphie to greener pastures. Shout out Ralphie. We all understand what you're going through. Very relatable.

The final nominee for retirement of the year is Philip Rivers for retiring from football again. After he came back. That was awesome to fill up. Oh, it came back. I can't believe I still can't believe that it happened. No, so shout out for the cold state even like ask the question. Yep. And shout out Phil. Yep. The winner of retirement of the year is the mealmics podcast. Yeah. Congratulations to mealmics and we have a video from you. Yes.

Hello, everyone. It's Steven and Jerry. Formerly of the mealmics Carolina Panthers podcast.

We surprisingly earned it. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Lots of nominees out there. Lots of people who

“retired, but they recognized us. And who do we have to thank for this? I mean, I want to thank David”

Sapper for putting an incredible product out on the field week after week. Yeah. I mean, I should say the

turf, right? Not the field. Frank Reich. Let's thank Scott Fitterer. Your favorite coach, Matt Rul. Oh, Matt Rul. Yeah. So many luminaries helped us get to this point, Jerry. Yeah. Baker may feel you know horrible. Hey, horrible here and now it gets us, you know. But when we started this, we wanted to become one of the best podcasts or most popular Carolina Panthers podcast. There was and unfortunately it just happened the day after we retired. Yes. What major news that was picked

up nationally, a small Carolina Panthers podcast, retires and you know, maybe, yeah, the message might have been a little melodramatic, but yeah, I don't know. The whole thing was a whirlwind,

but seriously, two-part might say, you guys were amazing. You guys seemed to get it like you

understood your real fans, you know, of your teams and you know, how it feels to be in pain. And we were in massive pain for a long time as Panthers fans. Then we stopped doing it and the Panthers going to run. I don't want to say jinx, Jerry. But we're not going to be recording any more for just to be on the safe side. Yeah, I tried, but it's not fun without you, man. So overall, we want to thank every listener again. That listened to us as a thank you part of my take in our

“net key pounding. Shout out to me, Alex, guys. They got a win in retirement the year because”

they, you know, they were podcasting through some really bleak times. Yeah. Retired. And the Panthers got good. And they got good. Yeah, so good for them. Yeah. Great job season to remember. Okay. Next up, we have new category. Tits of the year. Tits of the year. So the nominees are myself. I've actually been feeling pretty flabby. I have to do some pushups happen. Don't pushups in a while. But I still big wrecked. They are, they're, they're their voluptuous right

now. I just caught myself in the mirror the other day. I was like damn dude, you're stacked. Meems is a nominated for Tits of the year is iconic picture. Great picture, Meems at the

Shore Acres Golf Course. Max, you are nominated for Tits of the year. Good job, Max. And then finally

Sydney, sweetie. Great tits. Great tits. Great tits. Oh, wow. Great nominees. Yeah. All right. Here we go. We have. Oh, here we go. Let's see who's presenting these awards. This award. Hello friends. It's me Nancy Pelosi here to present the Tits of the year award. Congrats to Meems. My friend, you have absolute cannons. And much like my stock portfolio, they're pointing in the right direction. Meems are you good at keeping secrets? Because I wouldn't mind being kept close to your chest,

big man. Wow. Meem. Congratulations. Congrats, Meems. And you're one of taking. This is my first take. This is a huge honor. Uh, just another win. Yep. Uh, what are you on if you got them? Are you still mad at me? No, I got that. You were mad at me? No, no, it was a fine photo. Then you came the next time we played golf, you had like six layers on. Yeah, 80 degrees. Yeah, probably we were a sweatshirt

“Monday when we filmed this video. Maybe some of you, uh, you like hit the gym, made making changes?”

Dude, you just said he layered. Yeah, you don't have to go to the gym. You just got to wear sweatshirt, spanks, man. It's pretty easy. Yeah. The suit is summers over. That's fine. I don't care about my Tits. So it's what I have to wear a T-shirt. It's like, it's just torture. Okay. Um, we got a couple left. What do we got next PFT? Uh, this is the book of the year. Oh, hey, the book of the year award. Uh, the first nominee for a book of the year is part in my book. Uh, by Becat and PFT Comter and Hank and

memes and Max and Zack and Shane and a lot of other people that were guests on part of my take over the years. Yes. Uh, the next nominee for book of the year is cancel me if you can. Dave's book. Yes. New York Times number one best seller. No big deal. Next nominee for book of the year. Daddy issues by Sophia Franklin. That's so feel with an F. Check for out online. That's good. One. Um, and the winner of the book of the year award is, uh, part of my book.

Oh, my book. Oh, you got saw and the book's not even out yet, but it's just that damn good.

The first official copies of the book arrived to the office. I, um, I got to be honest with you.

“I, I did not expect to be a little emotional when I got the book. Yeah. Because I was looking”

to the pictures that Hank put in the middle of, uh, uh, of, you know, some of the rare photos from the last 10 years, a lot of him going back to like 2016, 2017. And, um, it was pretty cool to look back on. So, uh, hope you guys like it. It was a labor of love doing it. It was a lot of work, uh, but we liked we enjoyed it. And, uh, we hope that you guys like reading it, too. And, uh, we promised listen, when we get to the week of the book launch, we're going to have to talk about a lot because we want to be

also New York Times bestseller. Yep. Uh, maybe one as well. We need the AWS to help us out in that. We do think it's a very, very good book. The history part of my take. Uh, we're going to be signing a bunch of copies. The first signed copies are now available, though, on, uh, Anderson bookshop.com. So, go get it. Uh, customers need to pre-order there before August 17th and the book with signed sticker inside it is shipped directly to the customer to ride the week. The book goes

on sale. So, Anderson bookshop.com, search for part of my book. And again, it comes out August 18th.

“So, let's gear up. It's, it is, I, I really think people are going to very much enjoy it because”

we have a bunch of our friends talk about it in ways that we, you know, we never really like

sat back and been like, hey, that was crazy 10 years. Yep. And we're going to keep going. Yep. Keep going. All right. Next up, we have, uh, the call to the president of the year. This is a new award. Yeah. Because it was a stacked, stacked year for calls to the president. We have, first up, we have, uh, Bryson, D. Shambo, threatening to call the president. Mm-hmm. To threaten to call the president, uh, because of a penalty at the open championship.

We then have Tiger Woods, just, just on the phone with the president. It's got a phone press. Sorry, sorry, I was just talking to the president. Yep. Uh, we have the call the president made. The U.S. men's hockey team that started a complete shit storm. Yep. For no reason.

And then we have, uh, the call that the president made to FIFA to get ballagins red card rescinded.

Yeah. So big, big year. Huge year. D. T. was on the fault. He was at you. Yeah. Get those minutes. Yeah. Okay. The winner for call to the president of the year is Tiger Woods. Yep. Just, without a doubt. Just, just go off the boat with the president. So he's talking to the president. All time, all time, lie. And it was shocking, not just because like you don't expect him to say that, but also I know that when he's driving, that's where he usually goes to be alone. Yeah.

And that's where he goes to feel normal and you wouldn't expect him to be talking to the president. And that's exactly what he was doing. He's talking to the president. He's talking to the president. Yeah. It's got a full president. He's talking to the president. We think Hank. I mean, Jerry's got that in his bag now. It's exciting. That's a good point. Yeah. That's where he could be now. Yeah. Next year. True. Call the president.

He's talking to the president. He's talking to the president. Okay. This is a crazy category. The preemptive take of the year. We do this every year. Yeah.

“Last year, I'm trying to remember what the takes were. I don't remember. I think mine might have”

been that page beckers is going to be better than Caitlin Clark. Okay. So you're just by this time next year. It's taking credit for being right. I think I'm taking the better to be correct. Yeah. I'm a preemptive take. Yeah. I don't remember. But let's hit it. Let's rip him. Hank, preemptive take of the year. My preemptive take of the year is that the there's going to be a new women's basketball league. The WM is going to split up. Oh. Okay.

And a new league is going to form. Okay. All right. How are they going to split up? Players are going to leave. Is the WMB a go stick around? I don't know. Yeah. That's my take. Okay. Meaps. I've been right two years in a row. What? Yeah. I just pick one of your teams to do bad. What did you pick last year? Last year was the commander said they were going to implode what you did year before that you'll the Paul George

trade was going to work out and they were actually going to be bad because it's a super team of losers. Okay. Okay. This year I'm going. You're going to do it. Max gave me the hand. Oh. No. Hank gave me a look. I was like, that's that's your loser now. I thought you were going to argue that it did work out. Yeah. I don't know. He said Paul George. So he really looked and I pointed it. I pointed it in.

This Cincinnati Bengals are going to win the Super Bowl. Whoa. Okay. That's okay. All right. I like that. That's my take. Okay. My turn. Cincinnati Bengals to win the Super Bowl. All right. My take is going to be that the wizards are going to make the playoffs. I love it. And they're going to play the Celtics. Smart man. Oh. The pod is going to have a hell of a couple of weeks there. And wizards are going to probably have home court advantage. No. Okay. What seed were the wizards

I love it. Okay. Feed it to me. Sort of me back to the two seed.

Have that work out for you. Yeah. Sure. I'll take it. I'll sign up for that. Yeah. Okay. Max is right. I just think. I ball no. There's been so much wizard Celtic stock that I feel like it's it's so much. It's going to happen. It's going to end in wizards. Yeah. It's just bubbling over everywhere. Two teams are circling each other. Yeah. Destiny. Collision course. Zach, what do you got? I'm going to go with. We are going to get Tiger Woods at the masters in the

at the upcode masters. Okay. Play. Love that. By the way, Zach, this is done. I mean, the fact that I didn't nominate you for take of the year when you said, uh, I show speeds bigger than Donald Trump.

That's my fault. That probably should have won. Yeah. Yeah. It's good take. All right.

“Tiger Woods, the masters. Yeah. But at least I think he's going to play. Not to say he's going to win, but he's”

going to play. Okay. I would love to see that. I think arch manning is going to pull an Eli. Whatever team finishes with the worst record this year. Arch and his dad and his grandfather are going to say my boy is not playing there. He wants to go to a different organization. Uh-huh. I'm not going to say what team is going to finish last. Okay. Because I don't want to incur any wrath from anybody in this room or in the booth. Okay. Who are you talking about? Whatever team finishes with the number one

or not to comeanders. It could be me, quarterback's hurdle. It could be me. Not all the time. All the time. All the time. You actually have a documentary. It's a couple of games. Every game. But rather I live the documentary last year. Now you should watch it. I'm going to respectfully opt out of Jane Dane's elbow content. No more than elbow. Um, but whatever team, it means I didn't say what team was going to be, whichever team finishes with the worst record. I just talk it. I

that I same. Me too. Couple guys. I was a podcast. Couple guys talk. Couple guys doing a podcast. I do not put the boys and he's going to say no. I don't want to go to that dysfunctional organization

“and they're going to pull a power play. That's what I think. I'm not naming and we're just not”

name and teams. We're not exactly accurate description of what just happened. Yeah, when it was too guys talking. Yeah, that's talking. You guys talking to guys talking to guys talking. Could be the Cardinals. Yeah. Could be actually no. They've already got the quarterback. Jacobi. Yeah. Well, we'll see. Yeah. I have one. But can I just add on to yours, Zach? I think Phil is going to make the cut at the master's this year. You like that? Yeah. You like that? Like that a lot.

My preemptive take of the year is that there's going to be a controversy surrounding LeBron James wherever he goes in place. He's going to have an injury and then he's going to be caught golfing with that injury and everyone's going to be like does he actually love the game anymore? Yeah. It's going to be forced to retire. I like that a lot. Yeah. Helping that would be forced to retire. I like that. I like it up into that point though. Okay. So we'll take out the forced to retire.

Come by out. Yeah. Okay. You can see it happening. No. Yeah. Someone gets him and like, I thought, dude, I thought you had a broken wrist, right? I thought, you know, your hamstring is like, just can't quit golfing. It loves golf. Okay. We have two awards left. Next up, one of our favorites. You have Blake of the year. Blake Griffin versus Blake boarders versus Brooks Capca. We taped it yesterday. So let's get to it. Okay. It is time for one of our

favorite awards every single take. It is the Blake of the year award. We have Blake Griffin. The nominees are Blake Griffin. Blake boardals in Brooks Capca and we've done it many different

“ways in the years past. I think we've perfected the the the best way to do it and what we're going”

to do. I have alerted all three blakes that there is a window. They had a two hour window

that they could potentially be texted a zoom link link and the first Blake to join the zoom

is the Blake of the year. So the two we are right now an hour and 28 minutes into the window and we're about to send them the link. So is everyone ready? Zayne won't have a prediction. I'm ready. I'm feeling an upset today. I don't know. I woke up this morning and I was thinking to myself this is the year Brooks Capca becomes the first ever non- Blake to win Blake of the year which would be an important representation for everybody every young star out there that grows up

not being named Blake that you two one day could possibly be Blake of the year. I feel I feel like it might happen this year. Okay. Here we go. You boys ready? Ready. Come on, Brooksy. The text has been set. Okay. Oh my god. Text has been set. I'm going to say boardle. You got this bro. Text has been set. I'd be happy with any Blake. Blake Griffin. Oh. Oh. Oh. That was quick.

anyone. It was first. No. Hold on. Well, he doesn't have his video on. Yeah, that was video on.

“Okay. That's fine though. Hold on. Video done. You can't hear either of them. What's going on?”

I can hear you guys. Okay. There's Blake Griffin. Yeah. There's Blake portal. So here here. Wow. This was crazy. We got a little bit of an issue. By the way, we would have Brooks will join whenever. This is not going to join. It's not going to join. So we first saw Blake Griffin on the screen. Okay. Thank you. No. But wait. But we have it screen recorded for which which person joined tried to join first. And Blake portals, you were the 2026 Blake the year. Oh. It was a split

second difference. We have the recording. Yep. Blake portals. I mean, the floor is yours. One in offset. Finally, breaking up the dynasty. Good for the league. Blake Griffin is now muted. I don't know if he's yelling at himself. You muted yourself. Why accident? Good for the league. Parity is good for the league. We learn that. Blake portals, you, you, you, you have just one Blake of the year. What would you like to say? I mean, massive. I hate that it came down to a

bit of controversy there. But, you know, it just sits in what three, four, five years in a row. And it was bleak for a long time. But I'm happy we stuck to it. And here we are. Yeah. I mean, it was, it was a photo footage quite literally a photo finish sitting you in over the top. Are you walking? Are you pacing around your house right now? Are you, were you position close to the router? No. I'm in the hallway of our hotel. And I was five minutes away from just

forefitting because my family's waiting on me to catch a train to go to this red spot again. Wow. And so you did this as an away game on the road like with, with hotel Wi-Fi on the road, hotel Wi-Fi. It is arguably better Wi-Fi than at my house, but it's nowhere near Blake's personal

“starling orbit he's got. Did you, did you pay for the extra fast service at the hotel?”

Not originally, but I did upgrade to it today. There you go. That's, now that's thinking. That's it. That's there. What, what a performance. So, so Blake Griffin, what's going through your head right now? Post game, what, what happened out there? I did everything I could. I, I don't know, prepared. Sometimes it just doesn't go your way. I, um, I'd like to see the tape. I, I will be putting a call into President Trump. See if we could see if we could have something we could possibly do. Yeah,

yeah, you're calling ABS on us. I'm just quit. Yeah, just threatened to not play next year. Now, now, PFT doesn't know what I'm about to say because he was he was recording macro dosing, but uh, let's walk through something to happen about, I don't know, 45 minutes ago. I told you guys, uh, on a text. So I had Blake Griffin Blake boardals, Brooks kept on a text. I told him, hey, look, the window opens right now. About, so, so then all of a sudden, I looked out my phone,

and there's a FaceTime from Brooks Capca. Brooks started, because he's never really fully

competed in Blake the year. He started his own FaceTime with the four of us and just kind of declared himself the winner. Wow. Yeah. He was like, we all, we're like, we all joined the face. I'm like, who started this? And Brooks was just drinking at the bar and he's like, I did. He's like, did I win? Which is arguably one of the most Blake things to do. It is now, how soon after the text did he send that? That's the best part of full five minutes. Okay. So in his mind, he thought that

that was the text being like, all right, whoever calls first, it's, it's, it's just yours. And so he all's facing this. I did all and it's just me and him and he goes, did I win? And I'm looking at him like, wow, why are you the only one? I was so confused. I love that. He, he started his own tour for Blake's. Yeah. The left or a Blake's. Yeah. Which he immediately won. Yeah.

Oh, man. It was, uh, that's an incredible, that's probably the closest it's ever been in

“terms of Blake of the year. And yeah, you have to agree, Blake driven that it is good for the league. Like,”

we need it's, it's good for the league. It's good for the league. Blake, I'm happy for you. I feel like when one Blake wins, we all win. Uh, rising tide raises all ships and, um, cheers to, cheers to you, man. You're, you're, you're formidable opponent. Yeah. It's, uh, I appreciate it. I was starting to feel like the, uh, who was it? Like the Jim Kelly E's Bay, or bills? Yeah. Just keep it. I'm beat, year after year. Yeah. Yeah. And now you can enjoy a baseball game and with a new championship under your

belt. Right. The record breaker too. Yeah. That's right. Going for 16 to night. Go stop. Yeah.

Yeah. That's it. Yeah. That's it. Oh, man. All right. Well, thank you, boys. This is one of our

“favorite awards. Um, well, you guys can leave. We'll stay on for a couple of minutes. See if Brooks”

ever joins. Um, I'm guessing no. Uh, but yeah, heat this. And this is, uh, it Brooks is now setting it up

for like, in 10 years from now when he wins his first ever Blake of the year. It will be one of the

most shot. It would be like the 1980, you know, US men's team. Like it will be one of the most shot results ever. First time he plays in the state. I feel like he's going to win. But he, he's just taking vacation right now. And he's not everyone else is back. Yeah. So I hope I hope he's not playing because he was not sober. I knew the longer the call went on, but the less chance. Like, kind of getting in. Yeah. He might go to bed tonight thinking that. Brooks. I mean, yeah. And that's

probably as good as an actual championship for himself. But he might right now think he is current Blake of the year. Well, it was great sportsmanship because Blake Griffin immediately texted him

“and said, congrats. You won Brooks of the year, which he did. He won Brooks of the year. He was the first”

one to call. Oh, man. All right. Well, thank you boys. You guys are the best. All right. Congrats, Blake. Congrats, Blake. Oh, now is wife. Oh, now is wife. Oh, that was wife. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, see you guys. All right. See you guys later. All right. So now we see if Brooks is ever going to join. I saw it on the screen, too. I will verify that Blake boardal is joined the call slightly. I'm talking like a second before. That might have been the closest margin that we've ever had on this. That was crazy.

Yeah. I'll try to call Brooks. Let's see. Yeah. PFT. Look at this. We'll put this in the show. This is me just lap. There's just a face time that Brooks. Again, five minutes late. I sent. I sent basically a text just saying the window is Hello. I just a reminder. I can see that if, you know, you get a couple cocktails in you, that text might be implying in time to call in. He was just like, oh, shit. Did I win? But then he thought, but then his response was to then face time everybody.

Yeah. And he thought that he had then won. That was the, that was the, and I had made it very clear. Now, where is he? What country is he? He's in Portugal right now. So nine 30 in Portugal. Yeah. And oh, I, I even went as far. It actually kind of broke my brain. Uh, because this morning when I, I, I reminded everyone this morning, I gave him, I set up like a week in advance. Like, does this day work? Does this day work? Does this day work? Then like two days. I'm like, hey, reminder tomorrow's

day this morning. I woke up. I reminded them and then I actually wrote out the, the time zones. Each of them would be in. Sounds like Brooks. This is going to be from eight 30 to 10 30 year time because I didn't want any, any issues and any, anyone saying, oh, it wasn't fair. Yeah. Um, it's fitting that he's in Portugal. Some might say that he, he might be the Cristiano Ronaldo of Blake. Oh, like a lot of accolades. Yeah. A lot, like, there's no denying one of the all-time

grades. Yeah. But can he win the big one? No. Probably not. The answer is no. But also great body.

It is, it is an awesome story that if he does ever find a way to win one of these, it's going to be, it's going to be monumental. I thought it was today. I don't know why. I did the Portugal aspect if I'd woke up knowing that he was in Portugal probably would have changed my yeah, a premonition a little bit. But then I thought it maybe, but also he kind of did win. I see his point. Well, yeah, five in his mind. Five minutes late. All right. Hold on. I'm going to call him. Let's see if

he'll pick up. I don't know if it goes overseas. Nope. I'm going through it. I'll think. Oh, man. He tried. He just tough. It was the most active he's ever been. Yeah. In a, like I'm saying, this is, I see why he would think that he might have won. Yeah. He did not win, but I can see. And

“really, that's what's most important. And again, he did win my rookies. Yeah. Yeah. That was, oh, here we go.”

It looked incredible where he was. He was just at the point. I'm willing to say he will never win.

Never, never. That's never, don't use the inward backs. He's never even come close. This is the closest. He started his own competition, just randomly. So that that was, that was something. But the other blakes are so good. They are. They take it very seriously. If two tightens. Yeah. We got, yeah. And I, I think the most Blake aspect of him is that he's totally fine with finishing third every year. Yeah. And he's probably pretty chill with that. Now, if he ever does win, I don't know if

he's prepared for how much his life will change overnight after he wins Blake the year for the first time,

very good point. It'll just be a course of Blake's. Okay. Incredible. Incredible. Blake the year

competition this year. We should say, too, that we had a couple updates from Brooks afterwards. The first being that he joined the zoom. How many hours after we finish? About an hour and a half.

“hour and a half. Yeah. Yeah. I think it was about an hour and a half after he tried to”

join the zoom. I was extremely wrong in my prediction. He texted and said, where are you guys? Did I win? That was an hour and a half out of the competition ended. Then today, I texted him and I said, hey, do you want to come on and explain what happened? And he said, yeah, send me the link, go into the pool, so might not have phone. Then I texted him the link and he did it reply.

And I followed up. Oh, no, actually, no, my last text to him was, you have your phone now. We can

try to do this at 11 24 AM today. I sent him that five hours later. He just wrote back nope, definitely can't speak. Yeah. So he's having a great time in Portugal. Absolutely, having a blast. He might have, there are probably like, you know how when you go back in the history college football and you'd be like, oh, yeah, well, we won the national title this year. You know, we were undefeated. Oh, there's like 17 teams that can claim a 19 12 national title.

“I think there's some Brooks fans that could potentially in 20 years from now claim this year in his”

performance as a national title as a Blake of the year from how much, how much of a Blakey was.

He's put up numbers right now. There's no doubt about it that if you look at Blake criteria,

the way that he has not given a fuck about the Blake of the year, is just outstanding. He's actually forcing us to reframe our entire point of view on the award. Correct. Um, it still goes to Blake Borders. Yes, don't get your 100%. But I'm saying, history, people will, they might raise a banner in 30 years in the capca household being like, actually, we claim this title. It's like ahead of his time. Yeah, and how he approaches being a Blake. Yes. Thank you, though, to the Blake's to the best. Okay.

Last up, PFT. Last up. It's the award we've been waiting for. Yeah. The 2026 take you word for the top podcast listeners of the, there's a lot of good nominees this year. Daddy gang nominated again, of course. The YGT Bros. Yeah. Doing all the posts around catch ups, the Brian Bros. and Grant Horvath and all the positive. You can buy a, we've really appreciated hearing about that. Also nominated would be the stop again. Shout out to stop again.

Appreciate you guys. One of the, it's obvious as a Greek man should have been in the Odyssey. I'll just say it on this podcast. Yep. We've been a much better movie. And also nominated are the award-winning listeners of part of my take. Oh. Okay. Be a, a 10-peat. A 10-peat. A 10-peat. That sounds a lot like we're getting into Bill Russell territory. Holy shit. Yeah. You're saying rings for every single friend, every finger. And then if maybe for Jason Pierre,

Paul, you got one for Dick and Balls, too. Mm-hmm. A couple toes. The winner of the 2026 take you word for podcast listeners of the year. The award-winning listeners part of my take congratulations. Wow. Who saw that coming? Not me. Not me. It was the two most shocking awards given out. I think in this entire time were award-winning listeners. I didn't think they were going to win again.

And Hank's fart didn't think he had that. And Shane trying to kill Pug. Yep. Yeah. Shane trying to, that was kind of a crazy plot twist in this whole thing. But thank you very much to everybody that's listening to the show right now that continues to listen that has listened the past. Mm-hmm. I sincerely appreciate each and every one of you. I really do. We have the best job in the entire world. It's not lost on me. I feel like we say it.

We try to say as much as possible because I mean it. And it's very, very special to me that you guys take the time and you opt into hearing the sound of our voice every day. That is a crazy thing.

“And I really love all you guys. That's why every show is saying it. I truly appreciate you all.”

Love you very much. Thank you for being there over the last 10, 11 years. I would not trade any of this for the world. It's been magical. And I hope to do 10 more with you guys if you'll have it. Thank you so much. We love you so much. Yeah. It's the 10 year writing the book, the 10 year anniversary. I've been getting a little bit sentimental. Yeah. Not in like a bad way of like all its ending. But in just a holy shit. Ten years is a long time. And it's like

everything kind of floods back when you have a anniversary. So 10 years. It really is just unreal.

the thing that makes me happiest is when I'm like walking on the street. Like I'll be walking

Stella. And someone will walk by with their phone or their headphones. And they'll be like, "Dude, I'm listening to you right now." They're like, "That's fucking wild." Like they'd still kind of blows my mind. Like holy shit. We're idiots. But it's been number one for for a long,

“long time. It's all because of you guys. So I think that's it. That's also like the day we're not”

number one. Then we won't give them AWL. Yeah, we punish you. Yeah. But you guys showed up for us year and year out, day in and day out, month in and month out. So thank you so much. And I know Hank wants to say something as well. Yeah. Yeah. No, I love you guys. I mean, I said it in in the book as well. Like I don't I don't I think if you ran a simulation of my life on this podcast before this podcast started like 99.9 of them would not have worked out as

as good as doing this podcast has been for the last 10 years of my life. I can't believe any of it's real time flies. Yeah. It feels like just yesterday we started and I appreciate you guys and I appreciate the listeners the most. Yeah, it does. Yeah. There was a moment too for me, big cat when I got the book today, I was flipping through it and it just hit me all the sudden, which is like if if you were to tell the story of my life, probably the biggest part. No,

“with that, I doubt the biggest part of my life is doing this podcast. Yeah. It's what I'm going”

to be remembered for one day, hopefully far distance into the future. But it's a testimony to the listeners and none of this would ever be possible without you guys. And I do love you all. Thank you so much for allowing us to be part of your life. And it's cool to also, I know we're getting very sad. Yeah. But it is cool. I think it's very important as you get older and I've been trying to do this more is like enjoying the moment and and in the start of the show was such

go, go, go, go, go. Mania of like we got to keep going. We got to keep going. And it's not like we don't, we haven't lost that. We're still trying to get better and trying to get interviews and doing funny stuff. But being able to just say, holy fuck man, like this is, this is pretty substantial what has happened here. You got to enjoy it. And it's because of our listeners. Like that, if they're not listening, we're nothing. And all this that we have and the fact that we get to do this

with our friends and we all remain friends and just fuck where we talk about all the time. But we our biggest problem, our biggest flaw is a podcast is we chill too hard before the show just shooting the shit. Like we have a problem with it where we, we say we're going to start at like 7 p.m. And we just sit in our chairs and just shoot the shit for like an hour. We do an extra

podcast. Yeah. But yes, it is the listeners who make this thing go. We never ever lose sight of

that. So thank you all. And let's, let's finish with numbers. Meems. Wait, I've, I do have breaking moves. Oh, break moves. Do you go, we present, is that practice today? Oh, our long national

“nightmare might be over. Hold out of the year. I think hold out of the year might be done. Now he's holding in.”

Wow. All right. Meems. We were gotten this. I have no you have. I have one this. Did we ever find out who is Kumbaya? It's Hank. Hank's the Kumbaya. Oh, so she's the, you say one thing and he's loose. She's down. She's trying to cook. You did try to cook. What have you said? What have you said? What have you said? What do you point? I don't think you initiate. I think the word Kumbaya came up first and then Hank agreed. When did this happen? Who's the first episode? Big cat took an absolute ricochet at me. I think it was a

start-in-out rush. I don't know. I'm not responding. Thank you, Meems. And then you guys were like, let's just do Kumbaya. No, we're all, we're in a greens of Kumbaya. What's crazy is that I don't think and then Kumbaya. Hank and Zach have won this year. Not a rush more. Never have a single win. A Kumbaya, bro. No, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just didn't even find out. Shane, do you ever find out? Shane, do you ever find out? It's heads down. He's down. It was Dom.

No, Kumbaya. Kumbaya. Oh, I thought I was talking about the Pug. No, no, we don't care about Pug. You try to kill Pug. It's fine.

Try to kill Pug. You always hated Pug. It's fine. Who said, who said Kumbaya first? I think it was Hank.

All right, so then we're fine. That's good enough. That was a great look. Hey, still serving looks. Oh, there's no way. Shane just, whatever. I think it was Hank. I think it was we're going to find it out. All right, numbers. I'm going to do 99. It's through 11. Five, 11. For the 11. Take

Yeah. Okay, Cat was addicted to going to Olympic. Yeah. I was just thinking about that. I forgot about that.

“I thought every year, I think there's a chance that you'll do it again. We should do it again. I should do it again.”

Yeah, you already did it. I want to do that next year. Exactly. I mean, we got a coin flip. I just caused coin flip. Yeah. Got you. The coin flip. I'm out on that. I put this on my back. It's a coin.

It's going to always land the right way. Do we not agree that the goddess in AWS with the

one and a billion shot of all of this coming together? Yeah. So it'll call tails. God, you want to be a triple. Does anyone have a coin right now? Let's just see what it would have been. Let's see what it would have been. Is there another coin? Oh, wait. You're holding a coin. Oh. I'm holding this. The bar is a ball marker. This doesn't count. Obviously, because we already gave it to them. And they deserve it this year. Because this year was a great year. And we know they're going to

show up for the book. And they're the best. What if it? What if it hits, we release cool 10-year anniversary teachers? Oh. Okay. That we are releasing. Regardless. Regardless, but good. Let's just say that it's just purely hypothetical. I'm just proved to you guys that goddess in AWS. I'm going to prove to you guys. So if it is tails, then the AWS would have won. If we had done this as a coin flip, the AWS would have won a tenth and row. And if it is heads,

what? What is tail? One has your fucking face on it, dude. I'll be head. Turn your brain on. Head if it's heads, then we would have given it to stop again. All right.

“Max also doesn't like behind him. Tails. All right. Just like I said it again. Did you see that?”

That was one fucking flip. He's an AWS. Don't worry about it. It's in God's hands. He's got this. Do you see this? You see it? I mean, Max, you see this? The mic's just behind you. Yes. You were worried.

Never be worried. No, but I would have made the argument that even if it wasn't tails,

we already gave the awards or didn't even matter. I'm not that what? They said that. I said that. I've been saying hypothetically, if it had been a coin flip today, what would have been, and it would have been still they got it. Sure, it's on sale. Barcel sports store. Love it, memes. Good call. Flash on screen. Now what are you doing? Tails, if Max is done getting married, heads if he's got another one. Tails, bang! Told you! I got you, dude. Good. I trust the coin. All right.

That was actually way more nervous than the first one. We probably would have cut that one. Yeah, that was a bachelor party, right. Or it'd be a third bachelor party. 11. Oh, I didn't even say 11. 11. I think we should do one number. No, I don't think we do another one. All right. You got to do two. What's the number? If I was the one, I don't need to bake for it.

“Yeah, memes if you want to. One is the number. Seems cool. You guys are number one.”

There you go. Love you guys. Also happy birthday to Barry Barnes, happy birthday to I'm not going to say this name. Nope. I'm not going to say karma alone. Happy birthday. Happy birthday to Cody at Barstool. He tells jokes. Love you guys. Oh, wait, hold on. Brooks! Brooks! He's he's butt dialing me. I think you can see this. Hey, Brooks! Brooks, what's up? How are we doing, buddy?

Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, what's up? What happened yesterday? What's up? Who's that guy? You almost won. You almost won yesterday. Do you have a message for everyone who was rooting for you?

I'll never be any good. Yeah, just a form, loser.

Okay, yeah, you got my majors. I love them. All right, next year, play for the year, you're going to win.

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