Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect - A Dude Perfect fight! Plus, Good Good Squad Games BTS, Dallas Cowboys & Texas A&M Football Drama.

Episode Date: September 17, 2025

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My argument was just like, listen, I'm not a greater athlete than LeBron. Don't get me wrong here. But I will say athleticism-wise, I think I am more athletic than he is. Congratulations on the hottest take in this room. Welcome to almost athletes with Dude Perfect, a Wave Original, presented by Rebounce, bouncing to the action. That was good. Yeah, thank you.

Yeah. You know what? It's my second time. Imagine when I'm like on 50. I'll have no excuses when I'm on episode 50. Dude, you're batting a thousand. Right now. I still have a little bit of mess-ups,

Mulligans, as you would say. But we're back. Me and Sparky, with T. You might become a regular, man. I'm also back. You're also two for two. This is incredible. I was worried after the person

I wasn't going to get the callback. The people in the comments loved it. They're like, bring tie back. So we're like, all right, we listen to the peeps. Back-to-back A-Blocks is a power move, especially when Cody and Corey have not even been on yet. But, hey, we are going to bring on Cody and Corey because something happened at the office last week

that I think we need to discuss. We're going to talk about that? Yeah. Wow. We're airing that out? And you're going to have to listen to the whole pod because it won't come on to the very end. I can't wait to hear this.

What are we got cooking today? Yeah, we got a lot. We had another weekend of great football action. I hope you all enjoyed both college and NFL-wise. We got good, good coming on today fresh off our squad games video, which was a hit, Dude Perfect in 7. Yeah, so we got a lot going on this week. So without further ado, let's ride.

Yeah, some quick Dude Perfect updates. We talked about squad games, excited to see the good, good boys, have them come on and talk about that. I Show Speed came by the office Monday. I had no idea he was 20 years old. Yeah. He's 20? We've got the Dude Perfect tour coming to movie theaters, which is exciting. In L.A. this week, we're going to be doing a little promo, walking the red carpet, teal carpet.

Have you all checked in on your flights? No. I'm a late checking guy. Oh, yeah. No, I haven't checked in. And we also just got back from our first Dude Perfect Outdoor video. We did. Dude, what a loaded weekend. A lot going on.

I had some FOMO. You did? Yeah, when I saw the vids creeping out of the A&M, Selly. That was fun. I was like, man, that would have been a fun night to be with them. Yeah, should we talk about the A&M game? Sure.

It's a great place to start. Actually, let me start with something. Do you think sport, I was kicking this around in my head this morning? Do you think sport has cost you years off your life or has added? Well, it does both. It does both. But the game like that, definitely, for Gets. At least takes off at least seven and a half years.

What's crazy is non-spawn here, by the way. Non-spawn here. I wear a little thing on my wrist called whoop, and it actually tells you, you know, if you're like just your kind of all your activity, if you're above your age or below your age, and Tor aged me. Tor was not good, and I was stressed out about it,

and I was like, dude, I'm like 42 right now, my chronological body, like, this is bad, bad. Last week's stat came out. 36. 36. I'm doing good. Wow. That was a significant age reduction. Yeah, you know, took the body seriously, started walking. That's all I can do right now from the surgeries walk. Okay. But I think now the next week's stats, after listening to that A&M game probably aged me a little bit.

The stress leveled, just like all time. Always thinking your beats per minute in the fourth quarter had to be off the charge. It was funny to watch the game. Obviously, we've watched a lot of games with Gare over the years. The Pettit Bros have not. And so to see Josh and Jared comment, his watching just being in that room with him. It's a roller coaster, right? And I'm not talking like mini mind train. I'm talking big.

And I will say that the titan. They said that, you know, you got to watch it one time in your life. You got to watch a game with me. I might start doing that for people. Like just sign up for random people to watch a game with me. That's your pay-per-view. It's like, come watch a game with me. You're either going to love or hate it.

There ain't any in between. You can have no dog in the fight, and it still stresses me out. Watching with Gary. Yeah, dude. I think it's a net negative. To answer the question, though. Okay. Negative.

Taking years off your life. Watching those games. Yeah, as the stress alone, it's tough. You know, he did appear on a commercial in the game. Oh, yeah. That actually turned out pretty good. Yeah, it was really cool.

See, at the time of the commercial, though, A&M was losing 177 or something like that, and I was like, this is just horrible, dude. Like, anything's possible. Atch's A&M. Yeah, like getting beat every road game first to ranked opponent. And there's a little bit of that gear coming out.

And there is right there. But, dude, they turned it, around. They turned it around. Some would say the commercials what sparked the boys. One in O since the commercial. Wow. And shout out to Pat McAfee, by the way, the only college game day picker to pick A&M. Everyone

else just dogged him and this dude I mean, we've never done, you know, we've never, you know, he's picked us before and we've let him down, but he stuck with it. He picked A&M and he was rewarded. The rest rewarded him, really. I didn't know if you were going to go there with an absolute hold. It was a whole thing. That's okay. I'm Willie. I am the A&M fan that

admit that we were gifted. Yeah, you benefit from some and you're... No, we don't benefit from some. We benefit from one. I've never been benefiting from a call until then. Yeah, just remember here. That was the first one. You just got to put it, you know, bookmark it in your head that Auburn, you're going to catch a bad one because they, you know, it's a give and take thing. You're due now. It's got to even an egregious PI call in Auburn. Well, it shows you how bad it is because I'm still holding on to that bad call like from 12 years ago versus Auburn. Johnny football game, horse caller tackle, never called it.

Should have won the game. 12 years ago. It was bad. Sticking with them. Net negative. Dude, net negative for sure. If you're holding on to something for 12 years, it's probably taking a couple months off. The net positive.

This is not fair to Archmanning. It's not fair to him because he's probably a great kid. But that is a net positive for me. Is it Texas Longhorns don't look that good this year? They don't. They're struggling, man. Yeah. Maybe it was the preseason hype was a little too much.

Bro, that was a lot. They still have time to figure it out. I hope they don't figure it out because we play them at the end of the year. and I would love a win at Austin. Would you sign up for L's the rest of the way but beat Texas? Yes. No, not the rest of the way. I would.

I just, you know, I got a lot of Texas fans in my life that are just brutal. Obnoxious. And they deserve to be brutal because they win at everything, dude. They can be obnoxious, but we can also be a little obnoxious. Oh, 100%. 100%. Aggies are just right there. See, again, we're the non-delusional Aggie fans.

We can look at it from a very normal. point of view. We can call it a cold. We can see both sides. Yeah, absolutely. It's a cult. Yeah. Okay?

And absolutely, there's some delusion there. And we're hanging on to that 1939 national championship. That was made up. Yeah. AI generated before there was ever AI generation. But the Texas fans are also obnoxious and I'm willing to admit it. Fair. But I do like, hey, I do love all of them.

By the way, I love them, you know, no, no, no hate to them. They're just, they get under my skin sometimes. How much red zone do we get in, boys? What comes before red zone, Ty? Soccer. No. Yeah, it does. It does.

No, but I mean like, what comes, if they're at the same time. Yeah. What comes before Red Zone? Hunting. Church. What is happening here? Sorry. Cowboy Allegiance.

Oh. Cowboy Allegiance comes before the Red Zone game. And so we were watching. We had the boys in the Giants Zone. Do you see that was the most lead changes like ever in a fourth quarter? Really? Six lead changes. Cowboys history or like NFL history?

I don't know. I saw that. stat and that felt like it didn't feel like a record-breaking game but there it was well i did see that and the cowboys and giants have been playing a long time yeah dude that was the most points combined points ever how about the stat that that was 14 in a row no or 13 now yeah 14 in a row yeah versus the giant yeah i think jack prescott owns 51 percent of the new york football giants you should that's own airship dude that's bad we had to battle for that one we did oh my goodness how do you go fresh off the aggie aim to that i mean um i didn't have you showed up to

I thought you would definitely be out sick. Well, here's the deal. We, it was one of those things where, like, I had faith in the cowboy. I don't know why I have faith in the Cowboys. Give it up to Jerry Jones, by the way. We did actually probably kind of stop the run. Passing, no. We don't need not stop the pass.

Yeah, secondary question marks. Especially when the down in distance is like third and 25. How do you get beat? I know. And Corey had Malik neighbor. So. You were playing him? I was getting the double down.

Oh, my you got. I'm watching the Cowboys get burnt like a, you know, breakfast toast and while Corey's just adding on points. But I'm glad the boys got out of there with the dub, so that's all that matters. Boys, I'm seeing it. I'll tell you what, you would think it's week eight right now at my place. Like, I'm identifying Mike Blitzers before the snap. I'm reading coverages.

It's week eight sparky in week two. You're locked in. Who am I ever? I think I'm seeing it better than half the quarterbacks in the league. The Arizona Cardinals threw out a cotton candy burrito. Feels like two really good things that don't need to. be meshed together. Yeah, so for the people listening, there's a picture.

The tortilla is cotton candy, correct? The tortilla is cotton candy. It's an ice cream core featuring fruity pebbles, fruit loops, marshmallow, skittles, M&Ms, gummy bears, sprinkles. I mean, dude. That's right up my alley. Yeah. Talk about a way of taking some years off your life.

I don't love it. I'm not exactly sure how we get a cotton candy burrito sent to the pod, but we need one of those. Fruity pebbles, fruit loops. Oh, man. Dude. Skittles, mini M&Ms as well. You can miss me with the mini M&Ms. I don't know if I want to chocolate up my...

No, I agree. The many M&Ms need to go. Well, the Skittles and the M&Ms together is an interesting combo because you're kind of expecting one thing and you bite into it and then you get something different. That would throw me off.

And I like a guy who likes... I'm the guy who pushes the limit when it comes to food like this. This might even be a little too much for me. It may be a little much for me. I need to know the price too. Yeah. Oh, that's $15.

That's at least $25. Yeah. Hand rolled with that cotton candy because that's going to start melting in your fingers too. You don't think about that. You go to hold that cotton candy. And then it's going to be all over your fingers. Your burrito's going to be falling apart.

That can't be a pleasurable eating enjoyment experience. That's a good point, Tyler. That plays into it. It really does play into it. Between $13 and $15. It's actually reasonable. It's pretty reasonably priced for a little concession stand burrito. If that's in California, a Rams game, that didn't know 13.

No, that's 49. That's 49.99. What's the most indulgent thing you've ever eaten? Snow beef. Snow beef. Yeah. I guess you're right. That stuff is the most.

Wagyu from Nick and Sam's. What is it a pound? I'm in an ounce. It's not even an ounce. It's not even an ounce. It's an ounce. And I want to say it's like 45 bucks or 50 bucks. I think it's more than that.

Like an ounce. No, no, but I'm saying four ounces is like 200 bucks. Yeah. I've got a question. Yeah. What's the definition of indulgent? Because I was thinking indulgent was like, what's the most hideous thing you've ever eaten? You know, here's the deal.

Indulgent. I thought like you meant like, going all out, like for a food item. Having or indicating a tendency to be overly generous. Can you definition of definition? Because I don't even know what that means. It's just words. Those words don't make sense in my head.

I think what he's trying to say is like, what's the most egregious thing you've ever eaten? I think it's saying what's the most luxurious thing. Oh, I'd call it snow beef. Snow beef is the most luxurious. Well, in my head, I was thinking Kobe's burger from the opposite overtime that was charcoal. But that's obviously not.

Dude, you want to know? That's brutal, dude. The burger that The burger was it you versus Kobe On TV when Kobe pooed his pants? No, that was That was Cody That was the most indulgent thing

Those guys ever ate Yeah To a public poo job Have y'all had one this year? No, no No, I've never had one I'm 25 you did though right But that was the most

I did I did as well No, it is 20, it is 25 24th story in 25 I don't remember it No, we can't talk about this I can't do I haven't eaten yet Dude and I'm not Don't ruin my appetite

I don't know if I have like Yes, beef was the most luxurious thing. I just didn't like, I just eat too much. Like I, self-control issues. Yeah, self-control issues. We can work on that. Like, we just got back from a, from a dove hunt. And, uh, there was snacks around. I don't think, I think there was more time of me eating than me not eating. Yeah. If it's in front of me, I'm gonna eat it. That's what I'm saying. I, I just don't have the self-control for that. And that's a problem. And I'm willing to admit I have a problem. There's a bowl of quaso, a bowl of guac and a bowl of pico. And to me, it's like,

oh, well, all three are there. That'd be rude of me not to have all three in a significant amount. So I do eat all three. Yeah, and I think that was the right thing to do. Yeah, it was really good. But dude, do you think you could have thrown for 150 yards on the cowboy defense? With the right protection? Yes, I do.

Well, with the New York Giants protection. No, honestly, no, but I bet Tyler could. Not 150. I think there's a football quest video in there. There is. First team over, first team. D and you're running 10 past plays. I don't know the perfect scenario to set it up,

but you've got to think with as open as some of those guys were, you could complete some of those balls. As long as you can see over the line. As long as you can see him, as well, Russell's not. That would be a tough. We're the same. Yeah, Russ is maybe an inch taller.

Yeah. That's scary to think of. Yeah, he's 5-11, man. Yeah. I think I can. I mean, I hate to, you know, it's, it's, easy what do they got you listed as

there you go one inch I'll take it I'll take it I'll take it what are you really I like Bethany doesn't think I'm 5'9 because she says she's 59 what is your state issue

driver's license say because mine lies mine says 57 and that's just not 57 it says 5 7 it's just not real I don't have mine on me but um 5 8 I think you got a shot 510 I think it's generous for me If you're a coach in NFL, call it the Giants coach.

What do you do, Sparks, if you're the coach of 55, four penalties, two personal fouls, two false starts, one drive. That was the wildest series I've ever seen. Yeah, that was wild. Dayball finally took him out, which you have to in that situation. Yeah, but he kept trying to take him out, and somebody kept leaving him in. He was like getting him out. The O-Line coach did. And he kept staying in the game.

To be fair, two of them felt kind of softies. What? But the penalties. The two personal fouls? No, the personal foul where he swung and hit the dude in the helmet. That was crazy. I don't even know if that's legal in UFC, because I think he got to take him out,

but he's also your starting left tackle. Well, the other personal foul was he pushed him back down into the ground. Yeah. That was a little bit more back and forth. Yeah, that Sam Williams probably deserved 15 himself. Yeah. A lot of mustard on the lettuce this week in general.

Did y'all notice how many penalties there were? I mean, I think the New York Giants made up a week's worth by themselves. Well, they heard, they heard my... There were so much mustard on the lettuce. I think they heard my rant. Yeah. And they fired back with even more flags. They were trying to prove a point.

It was flags galore, though. And I get it, but it also hurts the flow of a football game, you know? Yeah, yeah. It's like saying quiet on set, and Jones keeps talking. I'm like, yeah. All right. Let's do another, let's do another ranking. Which, by the way.

Oh, it went well for your boy. Oh, you got love. Oh, the game day snacks, I was catching love, and rightfully so because I had a power draft. It was the dream team. It was the 90s dream team I put together. Did I take some heat? Not as much as you probably should have. Okay.

Yeah. Yeah, you actually. I performed okay? I think they gave you a little great. Really? Yeah, there's got to for the greatest athlete of all time, dude.

Sure. What are we getting into today, Gare? Dude, there's a debate going around on TikTok right now about what sport has the largest talent gap between the best

in the world and the average person. The biggest talent gap between the best at their craft. So like take LeBron James. Yeah. Best in the world basketball player. I know the answer. First, the average person.

I mean, golf is the answer without question. Okay, okay. Not even close. I completely agree. Golf. Okay. So if that's your

debate right now, what are the top five hardest sports to get good at? The golf is number one. I think golf won with baseball being a distant second. Dude, unless you consider F1 NASCAR now, that ain't easy. That ain't easy. No, reaction time is. The reaction time's insane. You're going 190 miles per hour. Yeah, but F1 is, is, well, here, how about this? It benefits from the fact that there's not, compared to the other sports, there's not as much competition. for that professional sport. I was that you're saying. Y'all, y'all.

I'm saying baseball. Every kid, in America, every kid grows up playing t-ball to some degree. I think we each say our five and then we can debate. I mean, I have a hot take about golf and Tiger that if every kid started playing golf at the same age, Tiger wouldn't be the best golfer in the world. He wouldn't be the goat. Wow.

Well, he's not the good anyways. Well, wow. I'm just kidding. Okay. I was going to say Jack, but no, it's Tiger Jack, number one. That's my hot take. You're saying I was an, Earl Woods at the age of three away from being...

I'm just saying that if you got every kid into golf at that age, then there's the talent pool that you're pulling from. Good point on baseball, because there's not an American boy or girl. I feel like that doesn't play some sort of tee ball coach pitch. Yeah. It's a good point. See, here's how I do the draft of the heart of sports. Okay, this is how my brain works.

if you limited the entire world to the top five major sports. So, you know, you got football, baseball, baseball, soccer, hockey, basketball, those. And there was no other sport. Didn't exist. Golf doesn't make it. Golf doesn't make it none of it. So now take the golfers, the tennis players, the water polar guys, all those guys.

Do they make a roster on any of those five? No. Not in those sports. No, they don't. that means they're the hardest sport. I don't know if I followed the logic. If you're a big brain for me, if you're like a professional athlete

in another sport, take a golf. Yeah. I'm just going off what you just said. If everybody in the world only played golf, is Tiger the best there ever was? That's your argument. Yeah. Right?

Like if Steph is not dedicating his life to basketball and at an early age focuses on golf, hard to be like he would not. be significantly better than he is right now, and he's a very good golfer. That's what I'm saying. Like, I think, like, so the talent gap debate is what I'm, you know. So you're saying the best athletes in the world are in the top five, the big five. Yes.

And then if you take those out, then it's, they would, they would be also able to compete in those others out. And now if those, all those athletes in the top five were competing in golf, tennis, uh, cricket, you name the biggest, like, they would be probably, they would probably be the top in those sports too. Yeah. That's where I am.

I'm almost like, man, if you're a premier top tier level athlete, it probably translate across sport if you dedicated the time. To your point, like Steph, with golf, probably could have been a PJ at golf. What about LeBronomy? He just started golf.

A Tony Romo. That was rough. Probably could have been a professional golfer if he wasn't so good at football. But then you had the physical limitations in sports, like basketball and football, where generally speaking, If you don't meet a physical size requirement,

you're not even considered. It doesn't matter how good you are. You're not even in the conversation. Baseball, you can be, there is no physical limitations. Essentially. Profar's tiny. Golf, no limitations. Soccer, to some degree, it's more just if you're in shape,

you're going to be smaller in general. But football and basketball, those are the two most like, If you don't look like this, you're not even in the conversation. My family lineage. You don't know, no one in your family. You don't have an option. You can't do it. I wish somebody was stern enough to tell me that.

Well, they weren't. They told us when we were in elementary school, you could be whatever you wanted to be. And that was a lie. Wow. You can't. I know. Shathing out of like Aristotle right there. Well, you can't be whatever you want to be, unfortunately.

That is where you need the full context. If that gets clipped. You know, that is where you want the full... I'm happy to dive into it. context of just if they just clip you can't be whoever you want to be you can't you can it is just gonna be a clip that's a clipable saying i was lied to a lot growing up we all were we all we all we all yeah we won't we're not a lot my parents my parents i think we're probably a little bit more realistic with me i actually think i should probably lie more to my kids really i'm a little too

harsh on them sometimes you just let them know like a ivy leagues out of play yeah type thing i'm too competitive even on my kids games i'm too competitive man we've had my kids just uh had their first soccer game this weekend. They moved up to the gold division. Top level. Top level. Got smoked? I don't even know if smoke's the right word. Oh, no. Like they went home and like don't even want to play soccer anymore type. Well, it's almost like, I'm about to rip you out at halftime and not let you play soccer anymore.

Oh, I see. It's tough, man. It's tough. Like, there's some talented kids after that. Yeah. Yeah. You kind of think that your kid might be, which it could be. But to your point, are you lied to or not? I have a one kid town. too. What is it? What is it? What is it? That here's my thing in your kids. I love hearing about how great people's kids are. Yeah. But if your kid is truly that great at some sport, you don't need to tell people. Other people will be telling you and telling the other people about how great your kid is.

And I don't have to do it. I agree with this. There is a kid that just started on the own's team. Yep. I'm like, dude, this kid is legit. And you're telling the other people. I did. I even went up to the kid and was like, bro. Okay. Maybe don't tell the kid. We want to keep the kid humble. Oh, I did. I didn't. I was like, dude, without you, this team, this game would have been bad. The kid was just like, another level.

Another, another gear. That's my point. Other people will be talking. You don't have to tell people. And all the parents were talking about it, too, on the side of the, I was listening. But it is funny that every parent kind of thinks their kid's MJ. Well, sure. That's just, that's... How long do you hold on to it? Which is great. I love it. Support your two. You have to support. It's kind of like a lot of kids when you meet them.

I ask them what they want to be when they grow up. so many say content grader and I hope you got a backup plan buddy yeah you know we were fortunate to get into that game early it's kind of like going to a small high school you know right it's like hey you know what you got in early enough content game is six a now youtube is a two a school welcome you want to make content come on out you want to play qb here you go shortstop pole vault why not that is a that that's a perfect we got into youtube when they were a two a school now they're six a and we just happened to be in there easy It's, yeah, there's, that's your, that's your metaphor of the week.

Whoa. What do you want to be when you grow up? Me? I don't know. You don't know, you haven't figured it out. I'm still, I still want to do something in the sports announcing world. Really? Yeah.

You kind of are. No, I know, but I still want to just, dude, when we did Amazon games. Yeah. That was fun. Alternate broadcasting. I didn't bring that back. Yeah, that was a good time. I want to be an alternate broadcaster when I grow up.

Yeah. That's what I want to be. It was fun. I enjoyed that. Well, we didn't really go through the rankings, but I, I think we all agree that the talent gap is the top five sports. Golf baseball hockey for me in that order. Golf baseball hockey.

Yeah. Hockey is like a regional kind of thing. Yeah, geographically, it's just tough. Like, we didn't have an off. We didn't have a chance, man. No. I think I would have had to go two hours south to find the closest rink. I played a lot of street hockey, though.

Yeah, I did some cul-de-sac hockey. Yeah. How many balls did you lose in the, did you have the little gutters and the roll-the-balls were going all the time? In the little pricklies. Yeah, we had a kid that tried to go down into one of those. and get one of those orange balls, the hockey ball. Never came out.

Oh, no. Yeah. You're kidding. No. Oh, the drug. Okay. Yeah. He came out. Dude.

Don't do. Don't, don't it me. But that always scared me. I'm like, dude, yeah. As a kid, you just think that thing, I will, like, you can't see the bottom. That drops off and goes, who knows how far down. Continue to say that it's the scariest movie of all time because of that. Yeah.

The drainage ditch. Hockey balls in the drain. Yeah. Yeah, I would agree with your ranking there. I would agree. Thank you. I do. think soccer should be in the mix?

I think football's above soccer. And there's a lot of, you also got to think professional soccer. Yeah. There's a lot of leagues that you can play professional soccer. You could probably land a job in Tunisia or something right now. Okay, you're right. As a left central mid. NBA NFL.

Yeah, to Ty's point. The physical limitations of the NBA NFL. Yeah. And then you've got to be just. You're right. You're right. You're right. Soccer should be sixth.

I think we're in agreeance golf's number one. Yeah. I think Ty wanted to. go NBA. You actually sold me on that. Because you're right. Baseball, you could be a catcher that's 250, like a Benji Molina and still produce.

I like NBA too. NBA. I see, I think talent gap in NFL is greater than hockey. I agree. I'd go NFL. Another physical limitation sport to some degree. Then baseball, then hockey to me. Dude, you don't understand to hit,

you know, 95 mile an hour cutter is, takes talent. Also that sport where they kicked a little ball through the hoop that's like way up high on the little thing. You ever seen that sport? Quidditch? I was going to say something. Quidditch maybe.

What are you talking about, dude? It's like they have to kick the ball and it looks like they're playing in a half pipe almost and there's like the little like stone looking hoop up at the top. Dude. Ancient ball game. There you go. That one.

I've never seen this before. The Meso American ball game. Ty wanted to throw Quidditch in there, but I think we stick with the top five. Quidditch is six. It's off the list. So golf one. NBA 2, NFL 3, baseball, 4, hockey, 5. I'm okay with that.

So that's on the list. I can agree. Yeah. Hey, comment below if you agree, disagree. What sport we missed. And I apologize to the, you know, the kids playing different sports and that. The thing, I, it's just. Someone's got to get left out.

It's time to be honest. Yeah. Look, we're about to talk to the good, good squad. We just released a video called squad games. Ty, you want to tell them about what the concept is there? Brand new series. We try and obviously come out with new. content every year at DP.

Super excited about this series we've been working on for a long time. I've always wanted to do this multi-sport league and just like literally have it as an intramural league. And so we talked about, okay, what does that look like in video form? And so it's a seven-game series. The loser of each game gets to pick the next sport that you compete in. And the first group that we did it with is good good. So if you haven't seen the video, you can go check it out on YouTube.

Spoiler alert. We came out on top. Summer is over. Football season has started, and my wife has been complaining about me spending all day indoors watching the games. I got a game that's all the fun of outdoor games, but you can play it indoors called rebounds. Here's how it works. You bounce the ball off the game at your opponents. If they don't catch it, you earn a point. First to 10 wins. I honestly feel like I might be the best in the world, but could you play with kids? You can play with kids. It's got a soft foam ball, so you can play indoors just like I said, and you can play up to six players. so the whole family gets involved.

You're telling me, not only can I watch football, but I can dominate the family at this game. Mm-hmm. And the best part, it's got three electronic game modes, lights, voice commands, and arcade-like sounds. Kids love it. How many players? You can play up to six, so your family of five plus me this weekend.

See it at your place. Okay. I can already tell I'm going to love this because I might be able to pull some trick shots off with it. Well, it's easy to learn, fast to play. It takes about 10 minutes, so let's do it. Rebounce. Bouncing to the action.

All right, Sparks. Our next guest are not only golfers. They're YouTube masters in the space. You know, they have more subs than the PGA tour. PewDie. No, it's not PewDie Pied. Give it up for the good, good squad. Appreciate you guys.

Thank you, guys. And they almost did beat us. Almost. The first dude perfect squad games. This is the title of the podcast is Almost Athlete, so I felt that was necessary. Cody likes to talk about it. Cody likes to talk about it. us.

Loves to talk about it. But hey, welcome, guys. You guys, are you guys doing okay? I mean, I know that, I know it was, that was tough. I didn't participate, so. How are you feeling, by the way? Did you get the surgery? Yeah, I had surgery, I think the day after we filmed.

Oh, my gosh. Dude, I'm not going to lie. I thought I was going to die on the recovery. The pain was unbearable. Are you fully? My first surgery. No, I'm not back yet. First time under the knife.

Yeah, first time under the knife. I will say this. I don't think. it go seven if I participate. You think they went in six? No, I think we went in five, actually. So explain to me the, you know, comparisons to LeBron. There we go.

There we go. Explain where did this start? How long did that take? I got, you know, I mean, that's just what happens. So explain it. How did it come to be? Come on, Chuck. I don't even know how it came to be.

What do you mean you don't know how it came to be? It's the 40-inch critical. It was, well, it was a dinner, and it was just a nice fun family meal. and just out of the blue, I don't even know who said it or whatever. You did. No, I did not just straight up say I'm more athletic than LeBron James.

I did not. It was brought up somehow. Well, I got to say, I think you actually might be. Athletic, athletic-wise. And then my argument was just like, listen, I'm not a greater athlete than LeBron. Don't get me wrong here.

But I will say, athleticism-wise, I think I am more athletic than he is. Congratulations. I can play more sports. Take in this room. It's how you define an athlete. Define it chart.

Like, count for pound? You're not giving yourself a great argument. You've got to define athletic. How do you define it? What did I say? I laid you up with Steph Curry. Because we told Steph Curry. We were talking about pound for pound.

You were talking about pound for pound athleticism. I was saying if you went and played 100 different sports, do you think you could beat LeBron? Oh, yes. 51 of them. Yeah. And I would actually agree with that statement. And that's kind of like how I define athleticism is the ability to do an abundance of different things.

I agree. You know what I'm saying? Alty sport get on the tennis court but then also on the basketball court to be able to archery, to be able

to kick a soccer ball to be able to punt a football and throw like that sort of stuff. I think he only beat you in two things and that's football and basketball. I would agree with that. Very hot take. That might be the most hot take of the word.

I mean put him on skates. Put him on skates. No. Golf. No. Which I will say, let's give it up for LeBron for finally finding the love.

Yeah. That's a great. You're going to love it. What about Bronnie got? Have you seen his swing? His swing is unbelievable. He's only been playing four months. That's such crap.

That thing started when he was two and he knows it. Yeah. Get out of here with that. He goes golf on his dad every freaking Friday. His swings is unbelievable. We kind of have a similar take to you. It's how you define an athlete. Yeah, and everyone's got a different definition,

which I 100% respect. Which it's, how do you, what's the greatest athlete of all time? And there's only really two people in that mix. And that's Dionne Sanders and Bo Jackson. They play professional sports, two of them. Yeah. I would see the argument for both. That's a fair point.

You can put MJ in there, but I think both those other guys are more or better athletes. I do have a question, though, because I read a lot of the comments on your guys' stuff and even our stuff. When we posted this stuff about Sharf and LeBron, do you guys think Tyler from Dude Perfect is the greatest athlete at all time? Look, I got to put a stop to this because his head's already too big. It's getting larger, too. He's about to wear an eight and a half. He's half. Oh, no.

Abraham Lincoln style. He loves it, man. He loves it. He does that. Oh, you know. Y'all are crazy. Y'all are crazy. All right.

So, speaking of good, good, did y'all start wanting to be a golf channel? No. No. Actually not. Yeah, surprisingly, no. We, like, we initially, because, like, me and Sharf and Steve all did our own personal channels.

And, like, we had just attempted another channel, like, pretty recently with somebody that you guys. definitely know. Really cool guy. Didn't really work out for us in that moment, but we thought we're like, going into it, we're like, all right, we already do golf on our personal channels.

Why would we go do golf on a group channel? So our first video was literally a water park video. Like we took over a water park. That was the first good video. It was a lot of fun, but we instantly realized we're like, this is not us. This is not, so we switch it to a golf right away. What about the name origin of Good Good?

How did that come about? Well, we were in a meeting with everybody, and Sharf, you can touch on this a little bit too, but like we had come up with some crazy names. Do you remember the names that we had come up with? But it was like, we came up with the sandbaggers. Oh yeah, the sandbaggers was going to be our name. Think about that. You would talk about that one.

The bogey boys. The bogey boys, the birdie bros. Like we came up with some trash. I'm going to be honest. We got really lucky though because we had this conversation for about an hour and we're sitting there going back and forth. And we were like pretty close to considering San Francisco. I remember. It's pretty good name.

It's not bad. Welcome back to the sandbaggers. And we're all really good. I mean, I don't know. I guess it could have worked. It could have worked, but then, so our current CEO and CEO at the time, Matt Kendrick, he was sitting there.

He was like, well, I've had this name since college. I've been sitting on it for a brand. And he's like, why don't we just call it Good Good? And we're like, dude, why didn't you say this an hour? Yeah, we've been talking for an hour and a half. He's like, oh, good, good. So once you heard it, it was like, what do you mean? That's it.

It was instantly. Yeah. The current crew is you two, Stephen, Sean and Brad. And Bobby. And Bobby. So six. Rank the guys. Just give us your least favorite.

Oh, yeah. Sometimes that's easy. Probably Sean. Yeah. It's a no hesitation, Cody, for me on our side. I think so. We always rank the least favorite on our side as well. It varies by day.

I was saying, does it fluctuate every now and then? It does, which I think, you know, it's kind of like being a dad. Don't let. don't let the parents tell you that they don't have a favorite. I mean, literally, that is the most, everybody out there has the most BS thing your parents have a favorite. I'm sorry, but they do. They do.

Oh, did you spill and write on the wall with crayons? Sorry, you're not the favorite. Yeah, yeah. Now, it could fluctuate, but any given moment, there is a favorite. So are we going off golf skill or like human beings. Let's just go off, let's just go off God. Let's leave the human being category out of it. Let's just go off golf skill.

Brad John. Brad John. I'd say Brad, it's honestly pretty, easy. He goes, Brad, Sean, Garrett, me, Bubby, Steve. Bubby and Steve can kind of maybe fluctuate. Dude, Steve's sneaky, though. Like, he's kind of been playing some good golf. So he just never out. I mean, yeah.

Whenever we, whenever y'all first started, it was like, we had the conversation of, like, could our collective group beat your collective group with handicaps? Short conversation. No. You're only as good as your worst golfer. It kind of all depended on Steve because we were like, dude, like if, you know, one day you heard he was like a 16, way back the day. And then it's like, oh,

man, I think he's like a six. And you're like, yeah, if he's a six, no way, we get waxed. Yeah. But if he played like that on that part three, when he made a 16, well, it's like, there's a chance. Yeah. You just, you know, it depends on what Steve you get. We'll flip the question, what about you guys for athleticism. That's what I would say. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So me

at top for sure. Yeah, Gary at no, look, Ties our guy. He's our leader. Then it gets dicey. So if you leave Tye out of it, How do you rank the four guys? I put myself second, no doubt. I'll put Cody third, Kobe fourth, Corey fifth. That was going to be my ranking, actually.

Yeah, I think the peeps would agree, hey, this is a good time. Comment. Yeah, comment below. I kind of want to see that from you guys. We've gotten to work with a lot of celebrities in our day. What's a couple of y'all's favorite that you've got to film with? Steph. Yeah, Steph, he's up.

He's up, man. What a genuine, dude. What a thorough and genuine guy. I just genuinely. it was so fun being able to meet him and get to like learn about him and we got to sit in the cart cam and obviously have more like I love the cart cams for that reason because you get asked more personal questions yeah he's always down to answer him and he was just a swell guy with step it was like what's the catch you know like this guy's checking out way too well you're insane you're at the highest level in your sport and it's like how are you so down to earth it can sometimes throw me and the guys for a loop super humble super humble individual really really cool dude that's probably one of my favorite that's a good press got Another good one. Oh my gosh. That was that video,

Holy freaking entertainment. He's a great human being. Did that little skit with me like on the T-box? Like you just don't really see that. Yeah. And it can maybe seen as like, all right,

this guy's kind of a little weird. I'm just kind of back off. I'm going to be kind of quiet. But he was jumping right in there, having fun, laughing the entire time. They just, when you get professional athletes

and high level celebrities out of their element, it almost seems like, wow, I can kind of be free. You know what I'm saying? You put DAC obviously on the football field. Bam,

dude's locked in. I got to play. I got to lock in. Right. You get him on the golf course. He's like, dude, let's have fun.

There's one thing that impressed me so much. We have a buddy of ours who runs a ministry for high school coaches around the area, not players,

and DAC was here for a charity event at the office, and this man is proceeding to take notes of the lecture that was given. And I'm thinking, here's a Dallas Cowboys quarterback

who is sitting here taking notes of something he doesn't have to be at and stuck with me. Yeah. I was like, stuff like that's special. I would actually agree with the,

I would agree with the DAC because, and I always remember of this because not many people do this anymore, but I walked up to him on the range. He took his hat off to shake my hand and everybody else's his hand. And I was just like, I just love that. And I didn't do it because it's just like sometimes you're not even thinking about that, but I was just like, totally.

I have so much respect for this guy, like instantly a DAC fan for the rest of my life. Yeah. But yeah. We ask every guest on this, on this pod, do you guys have an almost athlete moment where you guys realized maybe I'm not going to be in the league? Maybe this isn't for me. Yeah. I mean, I don't know.

The athlete greater than LeBron James probably doesn't. Unfortunately, I'm the greatest athlete ever, so I'm kind of chilling. Yeah. I have a very vivid one. I feel like everybody does when you're in this situation. Oh, yeah. But yeah, I got in my first AJGA tournament. The goal growing up was always to play professional golf.

Like if you're in golf and you're playing competitive junior tournaments, that makes sense, right? Barely get through the qualifier. So pumped, really excited for it. a fairly easy golf course. And so for the next three days, went out there, played AJGA, got dead last by like a mile. And after that tournament, I knew, like, okay,

I don't think I meant for this. Would you say that golf's more mental? Like, your game probably stacked up to the other people's game at that time. Yeah, 100%. Like, I'd beat all those guys in that field, you know. It's just tournament, like, turned on. Yeah, when the pressure was there, it was the biggest tournament I had ever played in.

It was a mental thing. Sure. Yeah, for sure. Tell the peeps, anything new coming up for you guys? Cool. Yeah, we're going to the Ryder Cup. That'll be fun. We're doing like a college game day style thing, which will be interesting.

Don't know all the details, but it's going to be new and different. I mean, other than that, we're just doing some fun, good, good weeks and trying to switch up the content as much as we can. Before we let you guys go. USA or Europe? USA. Let me think on this one a little bit. You're too political on this. You're too political.

It's okay to go against USA if you know they're going to get beat. We actually have a good team this year. USA? Yeah, I think we actually went to it like this year. You think Ben Griffin's going to lock in? You think when he goes up against Hatton and stuff, you think he's going to lock in? I hope I'm wrong.

What about JJ Spawn? I think Keegan Bradley would have been a better pick than Ben Griffin. Now, I don't know, like, he might show up, but I just wish Keegan Bradley would have picked himself. He's such a dog. That's so. plays to be that mentality. You're a ride or die.

Red, white and blue, okay. What about you? Yeah. I bleed red, white and blue. You do? Like, when I go over to Canada, and they're like, oh, you got to have it kind of a dry ginger ale.

Shweps all day, right? Caird in Pittsburgh. That's what I'm drinking. I'm drinking that freaking Canada. Get that Canada crap at my face. I was obviously going to say USA. Give me still water and AC. Yeah.

Right? Yeah. So Garrett's a big Europe guy. Yeah. You definitely think you're going to, we're going to win, dude. USA. We're going to win. All right, boys.

we thought it'd be good to play a little game with you guys. Okay. It's kind of a newlywed game. It might be a little weird, but basically the way it works is we're going to ask a question to the team. One guy will write down, like if it's Sparky, what is your weirdest habit? I'll have to say it. He writes it down.

See if we're on the same wavelength. A little know your bro. Yeah, we'll see who wins this one. Let's get revenge on us. I think we got this one. I think we got this one. All say the question for people not watching this and just listening. and then we will reveal our answer to see if they get it right.

You better get every single one of these right, you little flip. What is the Garrett's biggest pet peeve? So what's this Garrett's biggest pet peeve? That is a question? I'm locked. I'm already ready. Write it down what I'm thinking. Wait, so he writes my, what do you think?

You write your pet peeve. Oh. I got nothing for this, Garrett. I don't think we've ever talked about it. I know you hate a lot of things. Oh, and they are already in turmoil. Yeah, I know his. He doesn't know.

Okay. I don't think we talk about it. Should we start off? Sparky, what is my? My biggest pet peeve. I feel like we're locked in here there. This has to be officiating. You touched it in episode one.

Refereing for officiating. Is it? Dang, really? I wrote down refs. We'll not get this one. Bang. Garrett's, um, brother,

I don't know, chewing out loud. That counts. That counts. No way. That counts. Smacking. Let's go. Hey,

I knew it was something with chewing because you freaking hate it. Every time Colin chooses gum, Garrett's like spit that out. You're so loud. His answer was smacking gum. Oh, that's so good. Absolutely. I dug deep, man.

I dug deep, great. That's a good. The question we are going to ask, Matt and Sparky, is which member of your squad is most likely to end up in jail? I don't think Sharp needs to write this under right.

Hold on. Most likely to end up in jail. Want to go ahead, Garrett, real quick, three, two, one? I got it. Can I answer y'all? Bubby, for sure. No.

I would have guessed Bob as well. Wow, I would have guessed Bub. Okay, go ahead. What is it? Steve. Wow. I got to know the answer to that because Bubby seems like he would be the guy. I think Bobby has probably been in jail. Bobby has been in January. Ours has got to be Cody. Right? Why are you writing so many letters? It's four letters.

Well, I guessed exactly what do you get arrested for, too. Bingo, Cody, indeed. Money laundering. You can see it. Money laundering. That's a legit one, too. Okay, wow. We're locked in right now. Yeah, we're kind of cooking, guys. Okay, oh, this one's so easy too. I don't think sharp. Hold on, I don't know this one. Give me a second. Okay, the question Which squad mate complains the most?

You can go ahead and go Sparks. Goodness gracious. This is pretty easy. I feel like this one's pretty easy too for me. If you have it, go ahead. Steve. Man, dude. You all are lost. Steve is catching strays today. You are like Steve, man. We love you, Steve. Sorry, brother. I love you, brother. You know this one. Yeah, I'm stuck between a tall man and a twin here.

I'm going to say Kobe, because he stands on the hill. That's crazy. No? We lost, I actually said myself. Self, yep. Ooh, Gare, Gare. Yep. I will take the, I will say I, wow, dude, good, good.

We know each other, man. I actually agree with that. But since you were here, I didn't think you would write yourself. I would write myself. I would. That's like a trick question. We got a clutch up here, Gare. There's no way I get this.

The question is, what is Matt and Sparky's weirdest habit? I got some weird habits, Garrett. Unfortunately, there's a multitude you could pick from. Yeah, I think the weirdest habit you do is like you just, you pull all-nighters. I went fan to face, my travel fan every single night. He's got to know that. Gee, you've got to know that every single night.

I got a travel fan for the road. You're right. You're right. That is me not having the proper sleep. I got in at 1230 last night. Didn't get the proper sleep. You knew that. I knew that.

It was almost so easy that you missed it. All right. I'm going, I'm going to say dressing up as Harry Potter characters and binge watching it with his wife. No way. That's way too particular. Dude, you can't.

I was about to say, that is this. That would have been too. What is weird than that? That is definitely it. Weird, weird habit. I put like, I put like beatboxing, I put yelling, and I put dancing. Unfortunately, all those are more normal

than dressing up as Harry Potter and watching it with your wife. Which I think is so fun. I think it's awesome. Who doesn't do movies? marathons and dress up? I think it's legendary. A lot of people. Okay, thanks, Karen. The dress-up.

The dress-up aspect is a little wild. All right, score update. Y'all are still up three, two. Let's do one more question, see if we have tied up. If your squad mate had to eat one food for the rest of their life. That should be easy. Oh, we're good. What would it be? This is light. This is the easiest question I've ever had to answer.

Okay, go ahead. Chipole. You guys just wrapped it up. He did right now, Chipole. individual food sparky. I would say a beautiful, medium rare steak. Not even close. Dang.

This is a tough look here. It's chips and queso and the boy. I know the other guys would have got that. You know what's crazy? I think I would have got that because I literally, I remember I was talking about it for like 12 seconds about chips and Kayso. But you know what? I'd rather take the squad games dub and lose on the new.

I will say. I think this was a little bit more important. Thanks, guys. Appreciate you. Congrats to Good Good. They finally got revenge for that. It's one to one now. On the squad games. Well, boys, I appreciate you coming on the pod.

Hey, viewers, if you don't know who Good Good is, go check out their YouTube channel or buy their merch. Sparky loves it. I love it. I mean, I appreciate that, guys. I think the one last thing I want to say is that that question that you guys brought up about who are some of the coolest people that you've gotten to film and do stuff with. I also want to mention you guys. Oh, I appreciate that. I know for myself and pretty much everybody else in Good Good. we've all watched you guys ever since you started doing YouTube 95 years ago. Yeah,

dinosaurs. But like, you lost them, but it's okay. We watch you guys and we've loved, we've loved what you've done, especially me, kind of getting back into my faith journey as well,

like kind of watching some of your guys's events and, you know, praying before the events and kind of teaching these young kids, like, that it's bigger than just you guys. I think that, to me, has spoke volumes and it's,

and it's helped me continue to do what I do in my spiritual faith journey as well with the people on the golf side of things. So you guys are an awesome. group to kind of hang around. Very kind, man. We appreciate it. We actually felt the same. I mean,

I never wanted to film with you guys. No, you guys are actually horrible, rotten people. No, but dude, honestly, like, it's to your point.

When you see these athletes and things on camera that you may, you know, they might plan a different team or whatever, but man, when you just get to know

people on a human level, it's just, it's just different. And that was a fun video. We'll definitely run it back. With you healthy, I want you healthy. Maybe not.

Maybe it's good that I, you know, because if we lose, I can always bow I'd be like, dude, it's because I wasn't playing, you know what I mean? That's a nice. You got the best example ever. But appreciate it, boys.

And y'all have fun at the Riter Cup. Appreciate it, guys. Take care, gentlemen. Thanks for having us on. That was a good, good conversation, Garrett. Well done, man. Join for the first time, Cody and Corey. Welcome, boys.

Thank you. This is just glorious. I love being here. Yeah. Don't take the lack of a first episode invite, harshly. Your second app, guys, but... Yeah, it's fine. Don't let that make you think that y'all are second favorite dudes.

Well, I watched episode one. There were shots fired. Was there? Yeah. Oh yeah. I was on. I was a lot. This is a great chance to air it out right now, man.

Yeah, what do you want to air out? I can't remember. I got nothing. I'm an episode two guy. You are an episode two guy, but that doesn't mean you're our second favorite dude. Y'all are really like four and five. Thanks, Marks. I will say, I will say back to, you know, what we have, Steve, Cody's dad.

I hope he's listening right now because he said he would listen when his son is on the podcast. And I don't know if Steve wants to hear what we're about to talk about. Oh. But are we going there? We're going to go there. Steve, I hope you're listening. And shout out, I know you're still celebrating that Notre Dame went. Yeah, he is.

Congratulations. Gigum, Steve. Tough time, baby. Special. But yeah, Sparks, tell them why they're here. Yeah, dude. So, Ming, y'all have known each other for many, many years. That's true.

Started this company a little over 16 years ago, almost to the day. Wow. And there's been a couple of brush up. in the past. We haven't had one in a while. I can vividly remember one on the tour bus, but there was a little face-to-face altercation last week on the B-ball floor.

And, yeah, it got juicy. Hey, I didn't know. That's why you've split us up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's why you get it's between me. Garrett is. Yeah, we have. Everything's good. Let me tee it up for the people at home. We like to break out with a little basketball every once in a while.

This instance last week was a little 3V3, loved my team, me, Ty Cody, versus the twins and Clay. Oh, he was that much of a non-factor. I couldn't even remember who was playing. Wow. So we did a little three on three. Game one went by smoothly. I think all won game one.

We had won game two, and right at the beginning of game three, there was an altercation. Who wants to tell their side of the story first? Interesting. Do we want the true side or the... Well, who is going to... I can feel...

We have time for both sides. We have time for both sides here. And as a neutral, Garrett was not there. I was playing. So Garrett, by the end of all this, I kind of want you to sit back and tell me which side you think is, I guess, less responsible. You want Gare to play referee? Is that what you're saying? Yeah, Gare.

He does always say he would be the world's greatest referee. He can't stand him, but he'd make a good one. First of all, I say it, but I mean it. I know he do. Oh, I know you do. I can't watch games with you anymore. Let's get to it. I know we're deflecting.

I feel like you should know the backstory. So Allison doesn't come up. My wife, been married 15 years. and she didn't come up to the office a whole lot. She just never really seen me play basketball. So I'm like, she's going to come and witness the greatness that is the tall guy. If you want to see me at my best coming forward. Baby hooks, fadeaways, hit a three now and then.

And so I know she's arriving. Well, all of a sudden, Corey goes to set the most nonchalant, cocky man screen of all time. Just stands in front of me like I see that he's setting the screen. I know it's there. I'm a bigger person in real basketball with a ref. I'm taking my shoulder and I'm going through him. And making the ref make the call.

With him there, this was a jab. I'm 6-6, 4, 8, and a half. 5-9. 5-9. All of it. I grab his shoulders, and I push him back into his brother. Just a quick, like, get out of the way. I'm not going to bulldoze you, but I'm going to say, just move. The screen happens, so if the guy comes through and goes around it, his brother,

and Corey is like, dude, if you do that again, that's a point for our team. I didn't say that yet, but go ahead. What did you say? Don't do that again. It's not a basketball move. So when he says that publicly, I'm like, well, now, if I don't do it again, I'm the coward.

So of course, I've got to do it again. Of course. And so second round, same screen. Very deja vuy. And I do it again. And I, this hit like a hot button with core. And I don't know if there's something that you might need therapy. This was not on me.

This was something going on with you. It's a basketball. And he lost it. And while you're forgetting round three. Hey, your time will come. Sorry, sorry. So round three, he goes, if you do it again, it's like, all right, I will not push you again. So on this one, I don't extend

the arm, I keep the arm close, but I go through him like a basketball play. And Corey, we'll come back to that. Push his back. I feel his hand hit my face, and I feel like, okay, this is on, like Donkey Kong. And I turn into a monster. And I'm like, dude, hit me, I will break your skull, which in hindsight, we definitely could. We haven't done this in at least. We haven't done this in at least, 10 years where I'm like this angry and we push Kobe throws a basketball at me holding me back we're yelling I'm yelling

she I think leaves definitely love it she two kids definitely did she certainly left like she's gone so I'm like finish the point finish the point my team wins obviously they did win that I run back down door she's loading the kids back up into the car and I go honey

we settled it we're good we're all square which wasn't true I just had to buy some time here I calm down I realized what a silly reason to be upset. Text Corey, a paragraph apologizing. Text the full team of six that were playing in the game, apologizing for my behavior. Let my emotions get the best to me.

I'll be better. Corey then calls me. We squared away. We ended up laughing. Allison comes home. She's still like... It's the best part. I don't know.

We put the kids down. It's 8 o'clock at night. She's still like, I can just feel it. She's just like, you're dirty. I didn't know the side of you. Well, at the end of our conversation, I said, do I need to call Allison and own my part of it to her.

And you were like, no. Dude, no. I'm not going to need that. She's going to be like, you never do this. I'm like, I don't do this. And so at about 8 o'clock at night, I'm telling Alice, she's like,

I think I'm worried that like the one day that I go up there, you're like berating your best friends with words and you're like a total gorilla monster. And I'm like, well, listen, let me call Corey. And so my phone rings. Bring, bring, brung.

Hello? It's Cody. Hey dude, that's me. Allison's here. And I was just curious, can you tell her that I don't do that every day? And that that's not really typical of me. Could not pick a worst day to do it. Brutal, brutal.

You have your four-year-old watching. Your wife going to walk to do at home. I didn't even mention that. Hayes was there. I'm just like, he's probably too young to remember. He's not going to remember that. He's going to remember that one. Dad being a liability.

And you left our team out to dry. I appreciated the apology. Both of y'all, but nobody said sorry for the Roon in my legacy game. I was hotter in the lava lamp. You were. I was shooting that thing like crazy. You were splashy. And next thing you know, I'm like, well, our run's over.

It's kind of selfish. No, we all kept playing. I look at the cameras. We did, but we replaced Keith with you. No chemistry. Wasn't the same. Wasn't the same. We lost the series in three, by the way.

You didn't ask about that. Wow. You're not allowed over. It was tough, but I will say Cody, to his credit, was the first one to apologize. He was. Wow. And that is always. But you were the first one to call.

which I thought it was the bigger step. Okay. Well, I appreciate that. Do you want to rebut any of his story or that? I would like to, just from a clarity standpoint. Sure. Oh, go ahead. I will push you out that.

I will push you out. Whoa. That's why we put Jared in between you. I know you will push me because you did it three times. This is purely because I know there are some sports people that listen to this podcast. Yeah. Right? I mean, this is the almost athletes podcast. Yeah.

We have people that understand basketball at least to a basic level. So I think we should just just. just simply discuss why it got under my skin. And I have to admit, it's purely a basketball reason. Okay, okay. Hand the ball off to Kobe. I mean, this is triple deja, but hand the ball off to Kobe,

stand there with a very boring, not intense screen, and Cody walks up to me. And I think in Cody's head, he thought that he just did this, but it was very clearly a extension, shove, push through, multiple step, shove-dove. And it's interesting.

interesting that you led with that a minute ago when you said that you didn't do that. Because I wasn't actually going to offer up that information. But since we're going there, I think it would probably only be fitting just to pull up some pictures from the camera. Whoa, we got picks. We do have, we see, here's a deal for the peeps at home. We do have almost obnoxiously every corner of this office on camera. Yes, we do. Except the bathrooms, which is a good thing.

We do. It's good. So, yeah, you got, you pulled it up. As far as receipts go, I've been on the bad end of it with Kobe and Judge Judy when I lost an unbelievable amount of money. You better have the receipts. You got to have the receipts. Yeah, you never paid it, Corey. You didn't lose it.

That's on you. Judge Judy was fair and just. I lost the battle and he was just and I had to cut a pretty sizable check. That one hurt deeply. So you got... This situation is far less serious, so I don't think it'll hurt Cody that much. But if you referee, are you wearing... Where's your referee jersey?

You know, I left it in the... I left it at home. Gotcha. Honestly, I'm disgusted by the stripes. you know that. It's hard to wear. Here, let's just, let me walk you through this real simply. And of course, we'll show these photos. But just for you, Gera, as our official referee here,

this is, the camera's skipped. We've got to get a new camera system on everything up until the third play. But it is the third one. Okay, it's time for third play. Okay, I pass the ball back to Kobe. This is what happened every time. Okay. Then Kobe has the ball.

Yeah. I stand there with, you'll notice, an incredible amount of space between Kobe and Sparky, to your credit, trying to diffuse the situation. Sparky, arms back, backing up. Let me give Cody as much space as possible, Cody. Let me give you as much space as possible to get by.

I was reading the room. I knew we were about to go. We're about to go and we're saying. In the room. As far as, you know, what's been said, the receipt. Okay. Arm comes out.

Yep. Push continues. Huge step push. Yeah. Extended arm. Extended. Extended. We have a different.

Here. So this is extended. This is. Agreed. He said, he told me the whole time that all he would do is this. Sure, sure. He said, I would never do this. Keep going. And clearly, he goes for the full elbow show. Elbows out. I mean, if you'll look at how much distance he cleared from where I started all the way back deep into the logo.

I think I've heard and seen enough to give my ruling on this situation. See, look, that's Ty showing me that I didn't do that. Here's the deal. Here's the deal. Here's the deal. Ty was on my side. This isn't the first time that you two got into it, by the way. No, it's not. It's not. There was one time in the Apple Garden that we won't get into. That was crazier than this.

Okay? So. Rocks were flying. Yeah. And I even think if you do that again came up and that's what happened. Yeah, you got to stop. We got to stop saying if you do that again. As soon as you said that to Cody, I was like he's doing it again.

And I'm just going to judge this fairly. I'm going to judge this fairly. And then I'm going to judge it unfairly how it should be judged. The fair judging it would be, it's a fact. you shouldn't have gone three times. That's three of your five fouls already. And you're getting pulled by the coach chair. Ben should be fair.

It's bad basketball. You put your own team in danger. Thank you. Now here's where the, here is where just the actual judge pick up basketball comes in. Corey, let me show the photo again. We are setting a screen

three feet in front of the NBA line. You were asking, you were asking. To get bulldozed. To get bulldozed. Because I would have ended it on the first time. See, this is where. where me and Cody are different. And there's a clip of Kobe Bryant running through Paul Gasol. It's famous. And I would have run through you first time. You don't even set the second

time because you were on the injured reserve. And you know what? I give you props, Cody, for politely moving him. Politely moving him. He took the toll road. He took the toll road. See, I don't know. Number three. I'm saying on number one. Gary thinks this is polite. Politely moving him. It was. It was preventable. I even take some ownership for not having him checking the ball or just getting him out of that. And hey, at the end of the day, emotions are going to get the best of all of us. They do. It's how you handle the aftermath.

And I think you both handled the aftermath really well. Tremendously. For how bad you handled it in the moment. That's good. Like I said, though, horrible day to do it with the wife and kids. Tough. I felt bad about that. Kids, I didn't know you had your youngest here too.

He's scarred. Kids and Tye's kids were in the building. And they've seen, they've seen worse. A 5149 fault is on Jones because he is running through the screen, which isn't a legal play. No, it's not. Yeah, it is. It is. Even if the screen's move is.

That's Clay, and he's sitting the screen and he weighs as much as me, you're not like, oh, wow, that was so forceful. Because he's lighter, he moves further. That's not my fault. Well, it's not your fault. It's still a foul. It's still foul. Thank you. At the end of the day, a foul is a foul.

Thank you. And he's not Clay. I'm not Clay. Look, I just want to say, let's leave it at this. We're about to start another one if you don't watch out here. I think there was a little both the blame here. Oh, of course. And again, it's not about how you started.

It's how you finish. I think you summarize it really nicely, Gary. You know what? You guys finished well, okay? And that's all that really needs to be, Matt. I mean, now I will say Easton's scarred for life. And I don't know how you ever get that back. Putting him to bed that night, I said, did you see Daddy playing basketball?

And he was like, yeah. And I was like, did you see Daddy get upset? And he didn't really remember that. I go, just so you know, Daddy said it and did things that he did not want to do. And that's going to happen in life. And I apologize. And Corey apologized. And we were friends.

I respect that. It's a bunch of, it's impressive. He did that. I did the exact same thing at the dinner time. I did the exact same thing. I will say this. And this is why I shouldn't have been a part of this because if that was me,

I would have gone to my kid and been like, and you see what Cody did wasn't basketball because he's horrible at it. And so honestly, Daddy was right. My kids didn't see it. So I said the exact same thing at the dinner table, and I will say for the record, I did talk to Allison on the phone with Cody, and I apologize to Allison for that happening in front of her kids. Because it was very much also my fault. I think you summarized it nicely.

We both handled it horribly in the moment. We both handled it well in the end, which people always ask, why is due perfect together after 16 years? And our not funny, but true answer is that we have learned, despite all the things, how to clear the slate. Yeah. And you have a perfect referee in me who handled the, that very well.

Whoa. The two minute warning, it's time for a little bit of, you know, venting. Oh, yeah. Or praising. It doesn't have to be venting. It's really whatever you want to get off your chest. We each have a minute. Sparks, you want to lead us off?

Sure. I have a phone one today. An MLB rule change that I want to see. And I was anti-Ghost runner 10th inning on second base. Didn't feel like it was baseball. But you know what? It grew on me. I've come to appreciate it.

I've got a fun little rule change that I think would make baseball in the 162 games a little more fun. And that's, if a team's leading by 10 runs and finish the inning up 10 runs, it's game. Okay. You could reduce the amount of innings that are unwatchable because you've got position players pitching. Okay. It actually creates kind of a strategy. Do you use the back end of your bullpen when it's a 10 run game just to close a team out? I don't know.

Go with me there, though. 10 runs, call it a game. Run rule in baseball. I don't watch baseball until play. So I actually have no idea what you're really talking about. Fair. I'm going to say something that's really, you know, it's really just a public confession because I'm part of the problem here.

Oh. I'm part of the problem. But it's got to be better. We got to be better as fan bases. And that is, you know, after the, you know, thriller that A&M had and they won. They came out on top. I logged on to Texags and I was up reading. I think you were to.

And, you know, it's just you can't celebrate the win. it's still finding the negatives and just going off on them. And really just have a moment to celebrate. The team just pulled out a miracle. And it was great. It was great. And I'm part of the problem. I harp on the negativity more than the positivity.

And I should do better. Do you? Fan bases should do better. And that's just put that out into the universe. You know, I think we should celebrate the wins more. Sure. A lot of self-reflection. Yeah.

I like this. That is major growth. Do you actually act upon that? We'll see. not. I need to do better, but I don't act upon it right now. No, I was definitely, I was like, Marcel, dude, didn't even play a great game. I think that was my first words after we won.

Yeah, to your point, you need to enjoy a little more. No one just walks into South Bend and wins. Congratulations. I should have led with that today. We have a good team. Yeah, it's a good team. I said I'm part of the problem with my hand here. You called it a miracle. Yeah, it was a miracle win. Well, gentlemen, probably not the circumstance that we would have loved to welcome you in on, but...

Good to be here. You know, a lot of people talk about behind the scenes dude perfect. And of course, man, when you're really close friends with people and you're, you know, try to be athletes, you're almost athletes, there's going to be a spatter to, but we were questioning,

like, do we bring this up to the people? But I think it's good to bring up. We're trying to be real. Yeah, we're trying to be real. There's raw versions of us. And sometimes, you know, there's a bad side that pops up,

but I was proud of y'all because I was worried that Jones would never initiate a text or there would no, you know, because that could linger into the next day. Could linger. But to y'all's credit, you all manned up.

You apologize for it. And it happens. Stuff happens. That's all. It does. but I want to run that series back. Let's not set that screen again. Let's leave the screen. No, I will not be checking the law anytime soon.

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