Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect - Dude Perfect: Airrack BANNED from the NFL & NBA, Blind Pizza Taste Test | Full Episode
Episode Date: November 26, 2025In our first-ever Thanksgiving episode, Airrack joins the Dudes and reveals the unbelievable story of how he ended up banned from both the NFL and the NBA. Then, the “Prince of Pizza,” Cody, takes... on Airrack in a blind pizza taste test to see who can actually tell the difference between the country's top chains. Later, Garrett and his brother Chase face off against Cory and Coby in a Thanksgiving edition of "Know Your Bro" to see who really knows each other best when turkey season rolls around. Drop your pizza rankings, Airrack hot takes, and your favorite holiday traditions in the comments! Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Almost Athletes! What to do now: 1. Smash that LIKE button 2. Hit SUBSCRIBE so you never miss a DP podcast moment 3. Drop a comment with who YOU want to see on Almost Athletes next! Subscribe for more! https://www.youtube.com/@almostathletes • • • • Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect is (almost) a sports podcast. Tune in weekly to hear the dudes’ hottest sports takes, great debates, interviews with your favorite athletes and entertainers, and hilarious BTS from all things Dude Perfect. New episodes drop every Wednesday. Follow along on all platforms. Listen to the pod on your morning commute or wherever it finds you: Apple: - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/almost-athletes-with-dude-perfect/id1834502483 Spotify: - https://open.spotify.com/show/55gaQm31JIbp6td7QtYsPU?si=6423db3118ac497f Follow Almost Athletes to keep up with the Dudes!: https://www.instagram.com/almostathletes https://www.tiktok.com/@almostathletes https://x.com/almostathletes_ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Welcome to Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect, A Wave Original.
We're your host.
I'm Sparky.
I'm Garrett.
And we've got a really fun episode today.
It's T-giving week.
I hope you're primed, ready to rip it.
Dude, I'm kind of ready for this week to...
I'm just not a big...
T-giving food fan, dude.
That's fair.
Hey, there's nothing wrong with that.
I'm glad you're man enough to admit it.
You're trying to get through this week.
And I'm trying to raise my kids to where it's like,
so we do brisket now.
Smart.
We're doing brisket for the first time this year.
And it's like, look,
why do we only eat a Thanksgiving meal
one time out of the year?
Why is that?
Because it's not that good.
That's why.
That's exactly why we do it once a year.
Why?
And so it's like, dude,
why don't you make Thanksgiving something to like look forward to?
Have a pizza party.
have a barbecue fest.
I mean, do something that is just a little bit,
who cares about Thanksgiving,
mashed potatoes and brown gravy?
No offense, Nick D. Giovanni,
even though I am going to try your volcano.
Yeah.
No, you said it best, man.
It's about the family communion,
and it doesn't have to be about the food always.
And if you want to go off the wall,
throw a little remix in there and do a pizza or a brisket,
by all means, do it.
As long as the family,
happy, you know. And leave the turkeys alone, dude. I mean, they just want a week, bro.
It's a bad week. It's a bad, like, time of year to be a turkey. You do not want to grow up
a turkey and have to fight Thanksgiving week. I mean, dude, you're catching strays left and right.
And you don't want me deep frying a turkey or I'm going to burn my sister's house down and then we're
not going to have a great Christmas. So it's in our best interest to brisk it up.
But yeah, a fun episode on tap today. A reminder to please watch and listen to the podcast on the app.
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I got a holiday hot take.
Do you?
Yeah, because here's a deal.
I'm thinking about it and I'm just, I had some friends over last night and I got, you know,
the whole, wow, you already have your Christmas tree up, you know, and it's, sure.
It's November, you know, 26th or whatever.
And it's like, dude, I mean, Christmas is like four weeks away.
Can we just call it as it is?
Are we not, if you make fun of the people who set up Christmas or, can we please make
fun of the people that set up Halloween in September? Sure. I mean, it is this, it is,
it's arguably worse. And like if Halloween can get September, October, Christmas deserves
November, December. It just does. Yeah, if you're in a, in a cedar tree goes, goes great with, you know,
whatever fall leaves from a oak tree or whatever we're decorating here. I'll say this, the bigger the
holiday, the more I'm allowing the weeks in advance. Halloween is not.
big enough of a holiday, in my opinion, to be celebrating weeks in advance. Christmas, you can
convince me on that. But Halloween? It's a one week in advance type thing. We're going to start
celebrating Valentine's Day the first week of January? To start January 1, I'm raising a flag. I'm going
July 4th, baby, for six months straight of just red, white, and blue. I love it, dude. Popping fireworks
and March. Oh, that's good. That's what I'm doing. Coming up today, Garrett, we have Eric
who stopped by.
It's a good show.
Him and Cody are going to do a blind taste test of pizza.
Plus, we're going to get ready for Thanksgiving with Garrett and his brother, Chase,
taking on the twins and a family face off.
I'm worried here because the twins spend, you know, 85 hours a week together.
I mean, me and Chase talk every day, but, I mean, we're...
You're the underdog.
Dude, we're Sanford playing A&M.
You're the underdog.
Well, just let them build their own hole, dig their own hole,
because the twins will fight if you give them long enough.
But first, we're going to catch up on a wild weekend of college football.
and NFL action.
So without further ado,
let's almost athlete.
Almost.
I had an almost athlete moment this week.
No.
Yeah.
Did you get hurt?
I did.
Oh, no.
Explain.
Yeah, so here's the deal, man.
I go over to the pumpkin.
I think it's called the Pumpkin spice.
My wife is running the half marathon.
She was battling a sickness for two weeks.
And I was kind of like, hey,
are you going to actually run this thing?
And we're planning to run the Dallas half marathon.
on on December 14th.
So I've been training and like she goes out there and I'm supposed to run 10 miles that day.
That's like in my training regimen is like, all right, I got to run 10 miles.
She has to run a half.
Okay, I'll just wait until Sunday.
It's your day on Saturday.
So I go out, support her.
She crushes it.
I'm watching these people run.
And I'm like, dude, I mean, they have the pacers.
You know, like they hold up the sign.
It's like hour 45, two hour.
And I'm like, dude, this hour 45 pace looks like they're really.
crawling, dude.
It looks like they're like, I can do, like, I can run that for 13.1 miles.
So wake up Sunday morning, I'm jazz, dude.
I'm like, let's do this thing.
I feel like I get a good stretch in.
Out of the gates, I'm churning.
And mile five hits.
My calf starts hurting.
And I follow this guy named Truitt Haynes and he has this brand.
There is a saying in a brand called, you know, it's just pain.
I'm wearing the, it's just pain hat.
I'm telling myself like, dude, it's just pain.
It's just pain, baby.
It's just pain.
Let's keep grinding.
I got five left.
Like, this pace, I can do it.
About 0.2 miles later, I'm calling my wife.
I can't walk.
I'm three miles from my house.
Like, come pick me up.
Like, I'm done.
My Achilles is shot, dude.
Like, something's going on.
Like, I go in from thinking, like, I'm watching my wife run to,
am I even going to be able to compete in a half marathon in three weeks?
I'm done, dude, I'm old, I'm cooked, I'm washed.
Whatever the kids say these days, I'm that.
Sure. And just reminded myself that, eesh.
Father time is undefeated.
It is undefeated.
That's crazy.
You're going from thinking you're going to set like the modern record.
Yeah, I was thinking like, dude, I'm a distance runner, dude.
This is me.
Yeah, next up Boston Marathon.
Then all of a sudden soft tissue injury.
I think I'm just, I think I just should just watch sports from my couch.
I think that's probably...
You're really good at that, though.
I am good.
You're an elite sports watch.
Injury, there are some injuries that could happen.
You get up too quickly.
You can still pop an Achilles there.
So you gotta watch.
You got to stretch before you watch sports.
Sure.
But, uh, you know...
You got to hydrate, too.
You got to hydrate, man, because you're yelling at the top of your lungs.
But yeah, it was, it was a humbling experience, too.
Oh, I'm sure it was.
See, me, I know myself well enough that I'm not even attempting the 10 mile.
Because I know, that's not me.
I'm flipping channels.
I'll tell you that much, but I ain't running no 10 miles.
props to Kristen though
How does that make you feel for squad games
Coming up this year?
Yeah I mean
I did learn my lesson a little bit
In the squad games that we filmed
First,
the guests that we haven't announced yet
And I woke up the next day
Thinking like,
I probably have a day left to live
Oh man
Yeah, dude
You thought you were 24 hours out
I felt like I got run over by a semi-truck, dude
That was my first thing back from surgery
Like that was like
I went from doing nothing for you know
nine weeks to like, I'm doing everything.
And that, my body was like, I hate you, dude.
That's tough.
So yeah, I'm looking forward to the break.
I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving.
But are you going anywhere for Thanksgiving?
I'm so happy this year that we are posting up here locally.
Three sisters, mom, just going out to Caddo Mills celebrating.
There we go.
Just Thanksgiving Day.
On Thanksgiving Day or Friday.
On Thanksgiving Day.
Friday's cleared.
And I make sure it's clear.
You're sitting on your couch and it is.
Well, I'll be in Denton, Texas,
watching North Texas Temple, 2.30, and y'all are...
We're at 6.30, so you'll be back for that.
I'm on edge this week, and so I know y'all are on edge.
This is a big week for y'all.
There's something different about Texas, Texas, A&M.
Yeah, look, A&M, we were there last year.
We got humbled at our place.
We had a shot to make the college playoff last year.
They beat us 17-7.
Marcel Reed didn't play good at all.
Different quarterback now a year later, though.
I think he plays better on the road.
if you look at the games,
he goes out there and balls out.
If you look at the games at home,
he struggles a little bit.
He starts slow.
I think he goes into Texas.
And I'm not saying it's a Heisman moment.
Look, it's going to be hard to beat Mendoza,
but if I'm a Texas fan,
you better be,
you better be scared to read
because he's coming for blood.
You think he's going to spin a legacy game?
We got nothing to lose here,
except for, look, great.
Y'all are going to call us your little brother.
Like, if we beat y'all,
you're still going to call us your little brother.
So it doesn't even matter to me.
It only matters.
I want to go to the SEC championship.
Sure.
And I want Bama.
Well, the playoffs taking shape
and it's about to get super fun down the stretch.
But yeah, Friday, I recommend everyone.
Cancel your family plans Friday.
You got the Egg Bowl.
Then you got the Georgia versus Georgia Tech,
U.N.T and Temple.
Then you got Texas, Texas A&M.
I mean, it's a beautiful day to just be an athlete on your couch.
You heard it here first.
Garrett's saying football over family on Friday.
I'm going to take your word for it.
Yeah, it's my boss.
It's my boss.
I'm just got to listen to you.
I got to tell my family.
Family on Thursday.
I have to football.
Family takes a backseat Friday.
What's your plans?
You got family coming over?
You go into family?
Yeah, we actually host, which is good and bad.
You like the host?
It saves you from like the whole like driving, you know, somewhere.
The R.E there yet from all the kids in the back.
You know, so you got that.
But, you know, me being a clean freak, I do have a lot of cleaning to do when everyone's gone.
I mean, we're going to have like 50 people at my house to watch.
to watch the Cowboys
defeat the Chiefs
which are they the best team in the league right now
Dude, the Dallas Cowboys?
Yeah, I mean...
I might be, man.
See, here's where I am with the Dallas Cowboys right now, man.
It's like the rom-com movie that you started
and it was really slow start
and then you start getting attached to the main character a lot
and generally it ends with our main character
either getting their heartbroken or dying or something like that
but right now this portion of the movie where we are
You're in love with this main character.
It's a great analogy.
It's setting us up for disaster,
but I'm all in on the Dallas Cowboys all of a sudden, baby.
Also, I got to say, watching the Cowboy game.
Well, number one, shout out Luca.
Shout out Luca.
Still a cowboy fan, man.
That made me smile.
The old, like, emoji where he's got a little happy tears coming down.
When he literally goes, he was like, after his presser last night,
he was like, you guys see the Cowboy game?
Yeah, like, he's a Dallas guy at heart.
I don't care that, you know, he's playing for the Lakers.
It wasn't his choice.
Right.
Good to see his heart still in Dallas.
It is.
It is.
And, dude, that first half,
Dak played very bad football.
Yeah, it wasn't great early.
I got to give it to the guy.
He came out and showed what a true leader does.
He led that team to a...
Oh, really...
We should have beat the Eagles twice.
Yeah.
The opening game was versus Eagles.
We wanted him there in Philly.
We should have beat them twice.
Either the Cowboys are better than they...
The record states, or the Eagles are the most overhyped team in the country right now.
I think both a little bit can be true.
I think the Dallas Cowboys are a little better,
especially given the fact that they've had some of these defensive reinforcements coming.
Quinn and Williams plug in the middle has made them a different team up front.
Overshown was great yesterday.
His ability to go sideline to sideline.
You have to give Jerry Jones props there then.
Yeah, I agree.
Like at the end of the day, like, you have to get, we can't sit here on this couch and be like,
you know, blast him for trading Micah,
but then be like, oh, yeah, but Williams, you know, plug,
it plugged it up front. It's like, well, that doesn't happen.
I don't think they're world beaters on that side of the ball, but they're much more competent
at this point in the season than they were before. And with that offense, that's all we
were asking for was a competent defense. And shout out Dak Prescott, too, who passed Tony Romo,
which feels incredible. Now, we're in a new era of NFL football where the quarterback's
dropping back more than ever, but for him to pass Tony Romo and become the all-time leader in
passing yardage for the Dallas Cowboys, props to four, man. It's been fun to watch his journey, man.
He's getting up in the ring for sure.
Yeah.
Is he a Hall of Famer one day?
He's trending that way.
I mean, he needs the personal accolades, hopefully a tie at some point.
I don't think right now he's a Hall of Famer.
To me, he's on a Dirk Novitsky-S trajectory, though,
where he's like gutting it out in Dallas, playing with some bad teams.
If you win one Super Bowl, just one.
You'll be a Hall of Famer.
But right now, I just, I mean, look,
just having the Cowboys' All-Time Leading Pass here is not going to get it done to be a
Hall-Famer.
There's been a bunch of really good QBs that just haven't cracked
the Hall of Fame.
Sure.
And that's the thing, though, dude.
It's like people get frustrated with that.
But at the end of the day, like,
I feel like a Hall of Fame is there for a reason,
and it's tough to get into it.
And it's not a shot at Dak for not getting into the hall.
That doesn't mean you're a bad QB at all.
But it should be very hard to get into the Hall of Fame.
Yeah.
Kind of like baseball.
Reserve for only the Greats of the Greats.
Yeah, because if you just let everybody in,
it's just, it's kind of like the Heisman,
like the Heisman kind of turned into this, like, you know,
QB, you know,
glorified award that like no it's kind of lost its power a little bit like used to mean something
the hall of fame should mean something yeah um and it should be tough to get in and that is no shot to
for people that don't get in it's like dude it's it's tough to get into the hall fame some fun stuff
across the league this week i uh shedore's hand yeah shador should or should or props to them
can we talk about this game for a second because i saw this clip did you see this clip on what the line was
it was 36 and a half oh the over under was did you see this no they were up 24 to 10
10 and the Browns were on the 29 yard line with 56 seconds left and they punt the ball.
I did see that. I did see that. I guess they were trying to prevent the old block kick
or turn back maybe is what they're trying to prevent there. Or did the coach have the under for a million
dollars? Good question. You got to think. 29 yard line? Take a knee, bro. You've got to think.
You punt it? I don't understand because like what you just said of like the block kick. You can also block a punt.
That's true.
I mean, just kneel the ball and turn it over.
They punted it.
It would have been a 46-yarder,
which guys are knocking down in their sleep at this point.
Wow.
Needless to say, fans were upset on X.
I saw this one guy that was like,
I want the FBI to investigate this game.
Like, this is something's going on.
This is brutal.
20.
I've never seen it in my life before.
Oh, my goodness.
Yeah, that does feel like a chip shot field goal that didn't take.
But how about it?
Shudder Sanders.
They get the dub.
With that defense, you don't have to do a ton.
He was 11 or 20 for 20 for 209 through that long range touchdown.
I think he was the first Cleveland rookie quarterback to win his debut since 1995,
and they've had a lot of rookie cues get their first start.
That is like so hard to fathom.
He looked good, dude.
He did.
He ran the offense, took care of the ball for the most part outside the one interception.
But that Brown's defense is so good that you really just have to be under center,
take care of the football, and try not to lose the game.
know the last thing i want to talk about from this weekend that you know everyone seems to be
taken shots of i guess it i guess it matters because it's it's more how you finish and not how
you start but all the coaches the entire country is talking about the cc slate scheduling you know
fccccc teams yeah which again they have the right to do every other team in the nation has done that
sure you just backload your last noncon game at the beginning of the season instead of the end
what's your thoughts on that? Like should they all be, hey, you have to get your Cupcake games done by week five?
No, I'm cool with it and I completely understand the thought process there because you're playing your non-con early in the season. And when you're going through the gauntlet, that is the SEC, how could you blame schools and administrators for trying to get that one last little, I mean, you still got to show up and play like y'all did against Samford. But at the same time, I totally understand it.
Well, it's a, it's a, you're, the SEC on like any other conference, I don't care if you're the last place team.
or the toll it takes on your body is it's different than other leagues.
And so, like, to have that FCS game at the end of the year
before you're gearing up for playoffs or whatever.
Yeah, to have that de facto by week, especially as a playoff team,
you need that.
You need that.
I don't blame you whatsoever.
If they want to come out with a rule that we need to stop playing FCSs as a whole FBS programs,
then I'm cool with that as well.
I'm totally fine with that.
You work in the system.
I definitely think it should only be,
FBSs that should play each other.
The FCS schools are just...
It's a bodybag game.
They're getting their pay...
They're there for one reason.
One reason only has to get the paycheck and get out of town.
Very respectable out of you,
though, just to kind of like bleed clocking it,
Samper, because if you wanted it to be,
it could be rookie mode, DPU, 150 to nothing.
I sat there watching the second half
and just literally like the game I played watching it.
Now it's a different era now.
It's like, you're kind of betting on which guys
are going to hit the portal.
And you're like, yeah, that guy's gone.
Yeah.
That guy's gone.
I'm with you, though.
slate left a little to be desired.
But with that said, there's going to be some really, really fun college football action over
the next two months.
Oh, it's going to be beautiful.
A rivalry, straight into the feast week, straight into the playoff season.
Enjoy your family time, kids, but also make sure you're watching football over the next
month and a half because it's going to get fun.
All right.
It's time for the almost sports section of the pod.
The Run It League.
A rugby-based sport where two players run into each other and try to knock the other one down.
One runner.
One tackler.
And this is a recipe for disaster.
Kids, look, here's the deal.
If you're watching this, don't try this at Thanksgiving Day.
Let's leave the run-at league to the professionals.
Oh, that hits you like your Thanksgiving turkey.
Terrible form tackle there.
20 meter by four-meter battlefield.
So it's kind of like the Oklahoma drill.
It just is.
This is the Oklahoma drill.
Except for laying down.
Like you're getting your full head of steel.
And without pads and a mouthpiece and a helmet and all that.
So I thought it'd be fun.
Me versus you right now.
Oh, wow.
No, I'm kidding.
I'm kidding, dude.
I'm not, I'm not doing that.
Dude, it's too early.
And again, it's Thanksgiving week.
I don't want to, you know, injure you.
That's a great way for you not to run your 10 mile either.
You got to have some screws loose to do this, right?
Well, to sign up, to self sign up for this.
Well, it's rugby, though, dude.
Outrageous.
It's rugby.
This is like the slap league.
You know, that slap league that people play.
It's like, what are you doing here?
It's so outlandish that it doesn't make sense.
it's a good thing that we don't see eye to eye with these guys.
It's just crazy.
Yeah, the almost athlete sports are getting a little wild.
I do think the world got it right when it developed, like, what's a main league sport and what's not?
Can you imagine if Run It League was like one of the top five?
Like, you grow up playing like, dude, yeah, I'm trying off a Run at League, Mom.
Seventh grade.
Can you imagine?
No, I can't because I've never even gone there mentally.
as we're talking about this, because it's kind of like the run at league,
but the YouTube boxing scene, Jake Paul, fighting Anthony Joshua?
Yeah, that's a big deal.
Like, is he just doing that to get knocked out?
I don't know.
I think Jake Paul's crazy enough to think he's going to win every single one of these.
Bro.
That's ambitious, though, isn't it?
He's 12 and 1 with 7 KOs.
Yeah, but dude, Joshua's a world champion.
Yeah.
And he's like, four inches taller and his reaches like 10 inches longer.
And he won a gold medalist, Joshua did.
I mean, if Jake Paul goes in there and wins this fight,
I don't care if it's rigged or not.
It's impressive you could rig a fight like that.
Tyler Tony out there.
That's a good point.
Tyler Tony's been on record to say he wants a little piece of Paul,
and I'm like, I don't think you do, brother.
Jake is a...
That's a different class.
He's a dog now, dude.
Yeah, and he's a big old boy, too.
Now, if you got Jake right out of Disney,
he's Disney days?
I think Ty wins that fight, right out of Disney.
But he's been in the ring now for a while.
Jake's turned a different sort of,
he's turned into a different human being.
Yeah, that was one.
Me as a friend, generally,
I'd tell Tyler what he wants to hear this one.
I was like, hey, let's tap the brakes.
But this shows you kids, like, if you put your mind to something,
I mean, look, Jake's athletic.
Well, it's not, you got to have a little bit of athletic gene in you.
Most definitely.
But, dude, that's a lot of want.
That's a mentality out of the kid.
And that, it goes, it goes places.
Like, if you're a kid and you want to be a basketball player,
you want, like, dude, you got to,
put the effort. You got to put the work in. You got to wake up when people are sleeping.
You got to like kids are playing and having pizza parties. You're out there training.
Like that's what it takes. If you want it, you got to go get it. Like the stuff isn't gifted
to you. Like those athletes, the people who you watch on your screen on Saturday and Sunday,
you don't, you don't see the behind the scenes. They do. Those guys, those guys sacrificed a lot of,
a lot of life to get where they are. And Jake said, like, he's a good point. He sacrificed a lot.
Well said. And if you want it, go get.
get it, man. Jake's been the butt end of some jokes and I don't think people realize to your point
just how much grind and sacrifice there is. No, it's, it's not eating the, it's not eating,
uh, we're about to have a blind pizza test. It's choosing not to eat the blind pizza. It's,
it's, it's choosing to eat keenwa and white chicken, bland, dude. It's, it's not a fun life,
but he'll get rewarded later. It's my motivation going on this week. As me, I'm going to be
an almost athlete eat my mom's, lackey, and pumpkin pie. And, and pumpkin
That's where I thrive.
I thrive on food.
And I just look at me, dude.
That's why I'm an almost athlete, though.
Yeah, that's your way of saying.
I'm a Hall of Fame almost athlete.
You are, dude.
I'm a first ballot.
First Ballot Hall of Fame.
I'm a first ballot Hall of Fame almost athlete.
Much well said, your jersey's going to go up in the rafters one day.
Are you a nap guy on T-giving?
I don't take naps, dude.
Not when you're hosting with 50.
I don't ever take that.
If I take a nap, it's five minutes.
Yeah, he is weird in the sense that he will take a three and a half minute map and be like,
I feel so much better.
Sleeping you're dead, baby.
this thing's to do in life.
You're a odd individual.
They're just as clean.
Dude, if you give me five minutes of sleep,
it will feel like I slept eight hours.
I mean, it's just,
it's a mentality thing.
I might not have the athletic side,
but as a sleeper,
put me up there with the pros, dude.
I'm a Hall of Famer.
Where's the power nap happening?
Is this a couch thing?
It's just,
sometimes your body just shuts down
and it's just like, dude,
I'll be sitting,
I'll just be sitting in a meeting sometimes,
just doze off for a couple minutes.
I've seen a meeting.
I've seen them,
Dallas North Tollway in the Tesla and I'm in mid-conversation.
I'm like, he fell asleep mid-combo.
But I wake up ready to go though, dude.
Oh, special.
But yeah, dude, I mean, look, we got a fun episode cooking up.
We had A-RAC stopped by the studio earlier this week.
We did.
It was super fun.
We had Cody, the Prince of Pizza, come in and challenge him.
It was kind of wild.
Should we take a look?
Let's take a peek.
Our guest is a YouTube creator famous for stunts, pranks,
challenges, social experiments, and breaking world records,
including eating the world's largest pizza.
He has over 17 millie subscribers.
Please welcome the one and only era.
How's it going, guys?
Is my seat rigged to, like, shoot me up to the ceiling or anything?
If it were, I wouldn't tell you.
Yeah, I got a gun on pins and needles here.
You should be.
You should be.
If I'm in town, it's not usually good news.
Yeah, speaking of, why are you in town?
Don't worry about it.
Yeah, don't worry about that.
No, I'm just here to film the podcast with the boys.
Oh, nice.
Come on, man.
Cool.
You're a fan.
Last time we saw you, you, I was at the rodeo.
I wasn't at the rodeo.
Oh, you weren't at the rodeo.
That's weird, yeah.
A lot of people thought you were at the rodeo.
I was at the rodeo.
I was at the rodeo, okay?
I was in the rodeo, yeah.
Appreciate you and your fans just taking over that comment section on our YouTube.
Yeah, no problem.
It's like every other comment, Eric, Eric, Eric.
Yeah, yeah, not a problem.
Oh, dude.
Really, you know, it's just boost engagement, you know what I mean?
help out however I can.
Yeah.
That was actually really insane, by the way.
That was like actually insane.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That still doesn't sometimes go to bed at night and I'm like, did that really happen?
I told Tyler before he did that, I told him I have a friend named Tyler and we rode bulls together.
No way.
And it ended really badly for my friend Tyler.
And I told Tyler that 10 minutes before he went to ride his bull.
He's a trooper.
He's a durable guy.
That was insane to witness with my own eyes.
Like, dude got stuff.
And it was in front of a crowd.
I know.
It was crazy.
Was he nervous about this?
Ty doesn't really showcase his feelings quite.
I would think he was nervous.
Yeah.
I think if you didn't know Ty,
you wouldn't know he was nervous.
I think us in the inner circle realized,
like he realized he was going in pretty deep with it, you know?
But that's one tough customer.
You're right about that.
Insane.
Sure,
a couple screws loose.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
But we all.
Model for toughness.
Yeah.
How many videos have you not been recognized in?
Is there, like,
is there videos out there where like they can't,
they can't find you?
There has been videos that we've posted where they did not find me in the videos until I posted my video
So it's it's done now, but there might be videos you know
Stewing out there okay, but haven't been found yet okay, yeah, we'll see what it's a it's a great idea
It is I appreciate it. It's a where's Waldo book but on YouTube
You guys you guys are so nice. I appreciate it I'm honestly
Shocked that I'm here right now because I don't I don't know if you guys realize this I'm kind of like I mean I'm like on I'm like maybe number one most wanted on like the sports
like registry.
Yeah, talk about that a little bit.
What put you number one?
NFL?
Okay.
Band. NBA?
Band.
You got the NBA ban.
Yeah. I can't go to any NBA game
and I also can't go to any stadium that an
NBA game has played in.
What did we do? Isn't that horrible?
Prank. You did a prank.
I went to, I made a short on YouTube
where I pulled up to
I pulled up to a game as Austin Reeves.
I made it all the way to the court
and was like shooting threes
and then they caught me
and then I just walked.
I played this character
I called the dumbest man alive
where I just act like I'm a lost fan
and then I just got out to the stadium
but they found out once I posted the short
and they banned me from everything forever.
Yeah, it's hard to get away with it.
You know the hardest part about it was like an official letter?
Oh yeah, yeah. They found my address.
They sent me like
multiple documents signed by the commissioner of the NBA.
Wow!
Yeah, it was pretty crazy.
I have it framed in my house.
What a way to get an autograph.
I was about to say.
It's one way to get Adam Silver's autograph.
I tested my luck actually like a year ago.
I went to a Mavericks game as Adam Silver because I had...
And I went court side at a Mavericks game as Adam Silver with a bald cap on and everything.
And the person who got me those tickets told me immediately after the game.
They realized it was me.
And they said if I posted the short, bad things was.
happened so I never posted it but yeah that was it was just for fun that's insane the worst part about
it though was I wasn't even into like the NBA or anything until after that happened and then I got
I got trickle-fed NBA reels and you're just locked in and now I love the NBA I'm a Lakers fan I'm a
Lakers fan you sure I'm yeah it's so it's really unfortunate I can't go to I can't go to any games
but I'm a big fan now and you said any venue that NBA games are or any venue so if
dude perfect tour this next summer
If it's in a venue where they host an NBA game,
double A-C, you can't go out.
I'll watch it from home, you know what I mean?
Wow, dude.
Talk to somebody to try to fix this.
Yeah, so I'm mainly here just to see if you guys have any connections
or anything that could, you know, help me out.
Yeah, I mean, uh, you guys.
Look, I feel like a lifetime band's pretty excessive.
That feels, yeah, you got Pete Rose.
That's excessive.
Yeah, like I, you know.
I mean, even wrong our tests went into the crowd and got back on the court later in life.
That's what I'm saying.
You know, Madison in the Palace.
Yeah.
feel like we can we should shoot to me but NFL yeah NFL your band as well
NFL and band as well yeah I snuck into the Super Bowl this year for the second time what
a power move dude I respect just how like you've got to go there to do some of these things
how do you how do you get across that threshold the thing about it is like I did this stuff
off camera for fun before I ever did YouTube so this is like a passion project you know like
interesting super bowl for free is like it's like a thrill seeker definitely it's the
greatest I mean if you're being in somewhere you're not supposed to
you on a security guard chasing you,
like his life depends on it,
is the greatest adrenaline rush known to man.
Do you guys ever experienced this?
Yeah, I actually have not.
First two years of the old office working for a dude perfect.
I was like, man, I can't believe they're letting me in here.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
No man, though.
So, like, growing up, always kind of like a prankster
pushing the boundaries?
Always, always, yeah, I don't know what it was.
High school prank.
Did you do anything senior prank?
Dude, they didn't let us do it our year.
The year before us went a little,
overboard.
And, you know, they ruined it for everyone.
Had a hate one in the class. If you had a high school prank, what would it be?
I actually have thought about this. I have, I have a video idea where I fund other high school
or sprang. If there's any high schools out there that would let me do this, I would love
to fund some high school pranks. Man, I don't know. There's so many creative options with it.
I mean, I think what got my school ban was an interior and exterior tpee. Like, it was like,
I get like the walls and then the outside of the entire school were tp. I was like,
that we can't do that anymore.
And we're a little overboard with it.
Yeah.
You ever had a prank that just went completely sideways, other than being banned?
Like, so what's the worst thing that's happened mid-prank?
Man, I would say probably there was this one prank.
Luckily, it was my, I've never talked about this, but I have a cousin named Sam.
He's, he's, he's, he's, he, I think he is in the top 5% of humans with like the thickest bone structure.
Thankfully for what I'm about to tell you.
Basically he was on top of a warehouse
and we were setting up for a prank.
And you know there's like in the top of it
probably like in this building there's like skylights
in a warehouse.
So we were basically doing this bit where we were
I needed to cover up those skylights.
It just be fully blacked out.
And so my cousin Sam was up there an hour before
there's a hundred people outside waiting
to come film for this specific prank.
I'll talk about what the prank was.
And he leans over to put a blackout
curtain on top of a skylight.
And then his whole body,
he's just such a thick guy.
He's built like a defensive lineman.
And this dude just falls through the skylight.
No.
Falls 30 feet onto concrete.
I'm watching it through a camera or through a monitor.
We're not even recording.
Oh, that's the worst part.
I just watch him like fall through a frame and then hit the ground.
Everyone comes around.
We call the ambulance immediately.
This kid goes to the hospital.
goes into the he I don't even see him he gets into the ambulance it goes to the hospital I
bust it to the hospital I meet him there in the hospital room just in time for the doctor to look
at both of us and say he's completely fine Sam gets up gritties out of the hospital room
we go back to the location and finish the video that's awesome that's crazy 30 foot fall onto
concrete but yeah anyway dude has like a biologically thick skeleton I'd say so
Oh, gritty's out of the doctor's off.
Yeah, Sam's going to be studied by some
scientists down the line. That's special.
Straight aura. It was unbelievable, yeah.
Well, we call ourselves almost athletes here.
I'm more athlete than almost.
You may be the same.
But you ever have a moment where,
imagine you played some sport growing up in your youth,
where it was like, yeah, writing's on the wall.
I'm not going pro in anything.
Any embarrassing moments?
So many.
What were your sport of choices growing up?
Yeah.
So I played a, I played.
I played lacrosse.
I did some diving.
Diving.
Yeah, I was a diver.
Cool.
I was also, what else?
I did some cross country, I did some running.
The one where I realized, I'm pretty athletic guy.
I did some, I did a bodybuilding competition against Mr. Beast a few years ago.
It was awesome.
I did a boxing match about a month ago against Jesse James West.
Was a draw.
It was pretty awesome.
But I don't know if I am like the guy to go pro.
I actually thought I was gonna be a professional diver.
professional diver. That was like my whole life plan. I was trying to dive for Georgia. I'm from Georgia originally
So I was trying to dive for Georgia. So I was like a pretty decent diver in college and I had some scholarship opportunities on the table and I got really cocky about it. I was like pretty cocky about like this diving scholarship and I stopped trying completely in school my GPA went from like a three eight to a two four
Because I was like yeah, yeah, the athletics are gonna give me sure you know what I mean? No need no need to try in school. Yeah, so I yeah anyway I got to see a three eight to a two four. I got to see a two four. I yeah, yeah, anyway I got to see a two four four. I got to see a two four. I got to
state finals and there's a specific dive. It has the highest multiplier of all the dives.
You can possibly... Okay. What is it? What is the dive?
It's a backflip with three and a half twists. So you twist three times in the air on one backflip.
I am specifically great at twisting for some reason. I don't know why. So I would just use this
dive to spam points and it was like my... It was my secret weapon. Your go to. So there I was.
high school state finals
on the board
crowd watching
in line for a beautiful dive scholarship
I freaking
I go up to this thing
I'm like this is like my moment
this is like the fireworks
are going off
this is where I show
North Georgia
who the best diver
in North Georgia
you know what I mean
yeah
and so I get up there
I throw this dive
and I throw it
with a little too much sauce
you know what I mean
I really
went for it. And so instead of
a backflip with three and a half
twists, I do a backflip with three and three quarters
twists. And I get out of the water
and I'm like swimming up and I'm like, oh, that
sucks. Like they're going to take some points off.
I'm not going to do as well. I come out of the water.
The judges say
fail dive, which means I get
zero, you know, like the diving
they put like a board up. Yeah. So instead
of like giving me, instead of like a seven
or an eight, they give me like a three or four and whatever.
They give me zero, zero.
zero and I go from like top five in state to like 27th in state no more scholarships
I go to community college after that wow funny how life can change why they give you a zero what
why was it a fash yeah they basically called it a dq so like usually I mean they went
they went unrealistically hard on that dive but because I didn't do the exact dive and I missed it
by 45 degrees they called a complete failed dive hmm was that normal huh is that like stance
Technically, if you're looking at it in a binary sense, you know, it's a failed dive, but I think, I think, you know, they were afraid of greatness, to be honest. That's just my opinion.
They didn't want to see North Georgia make a diving come up, you know?
Yeah.
It is what it is.
To me, it sounds like the judges might have been Russian.
There might have been some extra powers at work there.
Let's get, we got to find the footage.
Yeah, from.
So I went, yeah, I went from, you know.
The athletic performance to community college.
That's right.
of you were thinking the national anthem was going to be played and you were going to
at your gold medal at the Olympics and then all of a sudden you're getting zeros and
25th in north Georgia to dab me up and you know congratulations how you got became a
YouTube creator yeah basically I mean I was always passionate about YouTube I went to
community college after that I hated it I was already doing horrible at school and then
basically my whole thing became like how do I not go to college anymore and so I started
yeah just making videos and doing whatever I could to not
justify not going to school.
So yeah, I really started to pushing on video.
So it honestly changed the trajectory of my life in a great way.
Yeah.
That's when I really started pushing on making videos.
A happy accident, if you will.
I tell kids all the time nowadays because I hear like,
I want to be a content creator all the time.
I'm sure you do as well.
And I'm like, hey, as long as you're doing something you're passionate about
and doing something, like my niece currently,
she's not doing volleyball anymore, which is just fine.
I told her you need to be doing something,
whether it's one act, play, choir,
something extracurricular.
So I always feel like that's important.
Big time.
Yeah.
First diver we've ever had.
For sure.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Man,
was it tough getting those speedos?
That would be tough for me.
I think I looked kind of awesome.
I'm not going to lie.
But I am 6'3.
And so I was never going to be, you know,
you got to be like 4-11, like 5-3 to be a great diver.
Kind of like a jockey.
Yeah.
I could have been a great horse jockey.
Get cut off at the knees or something.
I wasn't going to say it.
But yeah, no, you could.
I've had multiple dreams at night where I won the Kentucky Derby.
I need to introduce you to my friend Beans.
Maybe.
Sounds fun.
I feel like you and my friend Beans and Sparky?
Yeah.
Sounds like a sicker.
You guys both have insane nicknames.
You guys both would be great horse jockeys.
Very high energy.
Wow.
The audience will know.
Let me know in the comments.
I feel like these guys would, you guys could just start their own little show.
They would drive, dude.
Yeah.
I love that.
I like the sound of Spark and Beans.
See, dropped out of college, community college.
Yeah.
And you started a wedding venue video company.
Video company.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah, so I...
You chase the money.
I chased the money.
I chased the money.
God, I chase the money.
I've probably been to like hundreds of weddings.
Like, I think I've probably been to like two or three hundred weddings.
But yeah, dropped out of community college.
The area that I went to college was in the North Georgia Mountains,
which happens to be a beautiful wedding destination.
And I was, I honestly never believed that I could be a YouTuber.
I was watching you guys, dude perfect.
And the, you know, the biggest YouTubers, I was like,
there's absolutely no way.
Like, I'm in the middle of it.
I don't even know anyone that has a...
thousand subscribers. So I was like, I'll just, you know, make videos that make money. And,
yeah, it was, so I was like, I found out that weddings have like really high margins. People
pay a lot of money for wedding. They do. They do. So I started cranking wedding videos. I became
the best wedding video guy. I made an app for how to make wedding videos great. And I basically
would send, I would send my friends out and they would use the app. It was like 70 shots of like
what makes the greatest wedding video. And they would just use these go film weddings and that.
You have any brides?
Zillamomots?
Honestly, dude, I didn't have any Bride Zillim moments.
I was the guy who, like, I was a liability to the wedding.
I was like a complete liability to the wedding.
I'm going to be honest.
There was a time where I was getting this one shot.
I took the bride's wedding ring.
God, it's so bad.
It makes my stomach turn even thinking about it now.
I took the bride's wedding ring to get this shot I had in my mind where it was like,
it was like the ring sitting on like a tree branch.
And I'm like getting this cool cinematic shot of the.
ring and I took the ring like an hour before the ceremony to get this shot and I'm getting the
shot and then my assistant camera guy bumps into the tree the ring falls off the branch this is a
really expensive wedding by the way and this ring is massive like a big like a video like this was
like this was the wedding where I was like hyped up for six months because I was like this is the big
day yeah my buddy runs into the tree the ring falls down so the side of
of a mountain.
Immediately the mom comes up to me.
Didn't see that happen.
And it's like, hey, everybody's headed over the ceremony.
I need the ring now.
And I have to make up some dumb excuse.
I'm like, I'm getting like two more shots of it.
She walks away.
Me and this kid spend the next 30 minutes scaling down the side of a mountain to get this ring back.
Somehow, God's grace, we find this ring.
I could not believe it.
We run back up the mountain.
ceremony has begun.
Bride is aware that her ring is missing.
Bride's mom is aware that the ring is missing.
They meet us at the top of the mountain.
They're like, what are you guys doing?
I was like, oh, we were just getting some shots.
I have no excuses.
I just hand her the ring.
She takes off to the ceremony we do it.
I honestly don't want to, I do not want to know how much that ring was.
It was a giant stone.
Giant stone.
My life almost ended that day.
You almost saw Bridezilla.
That's exactly right.
Extremely close.
So anyway, it's a good thing that I'm not.
You ever film a wedding after that, or is that it?
Was that it for you in the weddings?
I tried to stop after that.
That was kind of the peak.
That was like Eric's peak wedding days.
You know what I mean?
I used to have a ripstick too.
I would write a ripstick around to get these like really smooth shots.
It was a little secret sauce I had.
But that was also a liability.
They stopped letting me do that.
Yeah, anyway, that's probably good that I'm doing.
I don't like you were a step away from being DoorDash guy after a wedding.
And then who knows what after that.
Yeah, it would have been, yeah.
Dude, here you're a big fan of Waffle House.
Favorite go-to order?
And what's the best fight you've ever seen in a Waffle House?
I'm from Atlanta, so I have to see.
You definitely see it.
They always fight at Waffle House.
I have a Waffle House story.
3 a.m. Midtown Atlanta Waffle House, the best place.
That's the best place to see a good fight.
It's the best place.
If you want to go be entertained, 3 o'clock in the morning, Midtown Waffle House in Atlanta, horrific.
Horrific.
Horrific. Amazing.
Horrifically beautiful.
Gotta go with an All-Star special.
Blueberry Waffle.
Good call.
This is good.
Bacon or ham, I'm not opposed to either.
Then you do hash browns, smothered, covered, and mothered.
Mothered just means you put a little extra love on there.
You know what I mean?
Make sure you ask for mothered next time.
And then you do...
Look at this guy.
Well, I love their H browns.
Their H browns hit hard.
I put the...
Tabasco on my H. Browns?
Yeah.
Ooh, sets them off, man.
That is...
Smothered, mothered and what?
Smothered, covered, and mothered.
Smothered covered and mothered.
Smothered and covered, people know about that,
but mothered, people don't know about mothering.
It's just they just give a little kiss before they hand it out to you, you know what I mean?
It's like a decorinator unveiling a cover three that you haven't seen before.
This is intriguing.
Wow.
Scramble eggs with cheese.
That is the, that is.
Okay, that's the order.
That's the order.
That's God's gift to man right there.
Yeah, it really is.
I was in Hexarkana coming back like at three in the morning to college.
I had a me and my buddy, college roommate went to the Sunbelt semi-finals in Hot Springs, Arkansas,
basketball tournament, watch the game, had to come home to turn in an English assignment.
Insane.
Yeah, we stopped at a Waffle House, had fun, saw a couple fist of cuffs, was great.
Get back in the car, speeding home, because the class is like at 7 a.m. at this point,
we're like ETA in it, and it's like, we're not going to get home until like 645, class is at 7,
and start doing the math, was hauling, did like 27 over and on the border.
Texark Canada, they threatened to take my license.
But the one bright spot of that night was, had some darn good Waffle House, ma'am.
It's crazy.
around a bad night. It really can. It's special. That's incredible. Fear pizza guy,
broke the world record, make the largest pizza. How long did that take? Three days.
We've done a world record that took three days too. We'll never do that again. Y'all's world
record was insane. That was in and I cannot believe that that happened. Neither can I, dude. Yeah.
I remember watching that video with my jaw. It made no sense, man. It makes absolutely no sense of
that. It doesn't. But because of that, we're going to do a little blind pizza challenge.
you're a pizza guy.
We have the king of pizza, you know, that works for us.
His name's Cody Jones.
Prince of pizza.
Oh, sorry.
Prince of pizza.
The Prince of Pizza.
Yeah, he's serious about it.
For you all to face off.
See who's...
You're really doing this right now.
Yeah, for sure.
You're really doing this right now.
Yeah, we are.
And I'll tell you right now, before he even gets in here,
that guy's going to ace the test.
He's special.
He's not good at many things in life, but a pizza taste test,
I mean, Harvard, Ivy League type of stuff.
Yeah.
Well, it's like you can.
guys are like constantly surrounded by like a college level player and you've never been around
somebody from the NFL you know what I mean so I'm here to bring the greatest yeah I love that I like that
I love that that's good you just haven't seen what we're capable of here um real quick before he gets in here
there's some crossover between employees we used to have a guy on our team yeah Antonio ariola one of my
favorites of all time big Tony as we like to call him I think the 2021 fantasy champion by the way
yeah yeah he took a trophy and then ditched on that ditched man but now he's with you
You know, he actually has a trophy from me as well.
Whoa.
We went and played a team game of mini golf,
and he consistently wins every time.
He has a glass.
We trained him.
Golf ball.
We like to do that more.
He would always go, right?
Yeah.
And we pay some,
there's some high dollar put-putt games we can play on the road.
Also disgusting at pickleball, by the way.
Anyway.
Is he really?
Yeah, he's great.
He's really great.
A quietly a good hit for two.
Dude, what an amazing guy.
Big tone.
Really good guy.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. He's great.
All right.
Cody, rumbling, bumbling,
and stumbling his way in with the pizza.
Bring him in.
All right.
Prince of Pizza has joined us himself.
So he claimed Prince of Pizza.
No, it's public.
Look, boys, I know Eric's band from NFL stadiums,
but he's bringing NFL talent to this.
Yeah, he is.
It's over, buddy.
I'm so sorry we had to do this.
Let's put our hats on.
Let's put our blindfolds on.
All right, guys, here's the deal.
You're going to be tasting five pizzas.
They're from five major chains.
You got Papa Johns, Dejorno, Little Caesars, Pizza Hut,
and dominoes.
Is it a hot and ready
from Little Caesars?
I actually have no idea.
Our great receptionist ordered these.
Off-campus lunch, 2005.
That was my go-to.
So you will taste each pizza.
You will then name where it came from.
And look, we're going to see who gets the most right.
And that is the official king of pizza.
Not no prince.
This is the king, baby.
Who's the royalty?
Sparks, which one do we going with first?
Purple?
Yep.
Good color there, sparks.
I like that.
Am I going to hear his guess and then be able to react?
Yeah, that's a great question.
I think we should alternate.
Who goes first each time?
Does anybody want to...
We could whisper it into y'all's ears.
You could whisper.
I don't want to touch the top of the pizza.
So hold your answer.
What you're giving me?
There's the crust right there.
Arak right hand.
That's the crust.
You've got one coming.
All right.
You're crawling.
That's a crust in your palm.
Oh, yeah, okay.
Wait, where's the rest of it?
There it is right there.
Smell test.
Yeah, feel free to use all your senses outside of your eyes.
I don't really have a sense of a smell to be honest.
Was that a lick?
A double lick?
Very important. You gotta feel the grease to cheese ratio. I also feel like size of
Oh yeah this guy on the top. Yeah, he could be a pizza professor over there. He knows his stuff
Mm, that's a good. We got flower-based batter de journo, little Caesars. Okay, you can feel the pizza hut.
How long have you guys had this pizza? Oh, I think it did come from yesterday.
Today old. This is yesterday. It's reheated. I can tell. Yep. That's like taking an advanced class. Yeah. Let me feel the
makes it a little tougher. The floppiness. Yeah.
Okay, it's got a slight tilt to it.
This is cheese?
Oh, that's cheese.
Yeah.
They're all cheese.
Oh, interesting.
I don't think there's no king of pizza, folks.
I think Eric's checking it for Braille.
All right, here we go.
We're going for the bite?
Yeah, I'm going.
Simultaneous bites, this is good.
I mean, that was a big bite.
Don't say it out loud.
I don't know how big it is until I bit.
Don't say it out loud.
If you need a second.
I love pizza.
I like Jones's technique.
He goes with a front bite, then a crust bite.
Yeah, you do need the crust.
The crust has flavor.
That's specific.
Are you ready, Eric?
I mean, you don't have to eat the whole thing, dude.
What, I do?
Oh, okay.
I was going to eat all five slices.
Yeah.
Well, here's the thing is we actually.
I know I have to.
It's just like...
Two slices per chain.
So if you need a secondary, do you?
I know what this is.
Yeah, I think I know what this is.
No, I know what this is.
No, I know what this is better than me.
Okay.
So we're locked.
We're locked in?
Cody, we locked in.
I'm locked.
I'm locked.
All right.
Eric, we're locked.
I'm locked.
I'm locked.
Okay.
I'm going to give you a 3-2-1, then you guys shout the answer, okay?
In 3, 2, 1.
Little Caesars.
Whoa, we have different answers.
I feel good.
Okay.
Cody went with Little Caesars.
Here's why.
You can tell in the way that the cheese meets the crust, there is no clear and obvious border.
It is just like a clean surface, which tells me that's good, guys.
That's low grade, very minimal expenses.
is, let's just get these hot and readies out, and it's a Caesar's production.
I like where your heads at.
My thing about it is they usually put some, there's a layer of seasoning.
They put on a Little Caesar's pizza that is undeniable.
Yeah, well, that was on there yesterday.
This is a day old.
It's now evaporated.
Code, here's the plate.
Cody Jones.
He's the Phil Jackson of pizza.
Sparks, take the.
Sparks.
I'm leaving you on a pizza island over here.
We're running a triangle O here with the pizza.
This guy is.
revolutionizing the game
let's go with blue
Victor Wimb and Yama over there
I know this from the look of it
I feel like when Cody gets this piece
he's gonna know to you
What hand do you want to do?
Where in my hand? Let's go right again
Okay
You think I could just do a field test and know?
Maybe
I feel like tasting's almost cheating at this point
What?
Yeah like I could just tell you by the way
that it feels
Have a little conversation with it
Talk to it if you need to
tap it a little tap on top
of the pizza
It's like an interesting text
Okay.
Ooh.
Okay.
This is...
This is Plano High School, $2.50 a slice.
Oh, he's good.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
I would love a cup of garlic butter.
Oh, that's that...
This is classic right here.
You guys are getting into it.
Dude, I could eat every slice of this pizza.
Agreed.
All right, let's say it together.
You good?
We're going to be.
You're ready?
three, two, one.
Dejorn.
One dominoes, one dejorn.
Dejorno? Yeah. You said dominoes?
Well, that's because it is.
Maybe the flop is throwing me off. I think this is Dejorno.
Guys, that was blue.
Guys, this is wild. One of us is going to be really wrong, and I don't think it's going to be me, to be
me, to be honest.
Oh, man, that's a, this is a spongier crust than I would have thought.
Yeah, I did think the crust was a little spongy. Again, I feel like that's,
because 24 hours sitting out, you know.
I'm curious what you guys
thinks distinct about this. That makes it your
answer. The way the cheese is
melted onto this thing, it is
it's, no, no, don't. It is
the cheese's a signature. I feel like the
cheese of a oven
baked pizza. Right. I'm gonna be
honest, I didn't have a lot of de journo, and if I did, it
had a pepperoni on top. That's a privilege right
there. All right, let's go green here.
We're going to be green bean. I got to say
from the look of green, I would not be
able to tell. That's how bad.
this pizza. Hey, I'm gonna be honest. Kids these days are missing just a Totino's. That built character
back in the middle. Coates. I grew up on Totino. Go ahead and put your hand out here. Uh, Eric, good.
Okay, you're ready? Like an Olympian boy, it would have these hot and fresh. There you go.
I like that. That was a good drop. That was a great drop. Oh, dude. Dude, this is screaming
Dejorno. A little triple sniff to a baby bike. Dejorni has all the like crust and like the, they're just like trying to overkill it with
The spices.
This screams frozen pizza reheated.
You can just tell.
Feel that.
Feel that, Gary.
I felt it.
Oh, you already did?
It's like a waterbed.
It's the waterbed of pizzas.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
You're in trouble.
Because you already use this pizza.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's Dejorno.
The answers for Cody that are off the board,
he went, Little Caesars on the first pizza and Domino's on the second.
You use Domino.
Dominoes and DeJourno.
So you have Pizza Hut, Little Caesars, and Papa John's left, Eric.
Yeah, I got it.
This one has a zest.
This one has a little zest to it.
You taste that?
Yeah.
Yeah, that's because it's Dejorno.
So Cody is, he's pretty locked and loaded with...
I'm full sending.
Right or wrong, D.
Yeah, you only need one bite.
I think this is Papa Johns.
Okay.
That's what I think this is.
Okay.
I don't mean to laugh.
It's a grown man's game.
Okay, listen.
It's a grown man's game.
Let me get you a little paper towel there, brother.
Am I doing a weigh-in after this or no?
No, no, no way in.
That would be unfair of us to bring you in as the prince of pizza and back door you with a weigh-in.
So that's exactly what you are.
We're going to go pink here.
We're going to save red for last because I think that's going to really throw them for a loop.
I don't want a napkin.
I don't want to feel it.
What level of confidence do you have right now?
Oh, I'm three for three.
What are you?
Buddy.
You are not three for three.
All right.
This is the next.
Next pizza coming in hot.
Just like a burrito.
Bingo.
Amazing drop.
Thank you.
We got chemistry here.
We've got some really good chemistry.
This is the pink pizza.
This one visually gave me a C-C's vibe, which is not even an option.
Oh, yeah.
I can see that.
I got some C-C-C- vibe, which, by the way.
Again, y'all can go back and change.
What do you mean RIP?
It's still around?
Yeah, and it'll still, C-Ces will still give you do-dos.
I miss that place.
It'll blow you up.
A dessert pizza.
unmatched there. It's the best cleanse you can do.
Just go to Cece's pizza.
That dough is got a sweetness to it.
It's like a subtle...
A subtle Domino's delight.
Then he pulled the bone off. You see that? That was good.
Good technique, Jones.
I think Cody's going to retroactively switch his picks.
So his number two, which he said was Domino's.
It's not.
He is switching that Domino's pick to Papa John's.
You don't understand the difficulty in a 24-hour old.
reheated pizza when we're trying to do a taste test. This is crazy. Well, this is the big leagues kid.
Yeah, you know? This is the big leagues. It's like holding your nose and trying to guess the taste. It's just impossible
I'm honestly just having really good time eating pizza. Oh, maybe I know you too. You have Pizza Hut and little
Caesars left. I know Pizza Hut like the back of my hands. See I don't that's the one I do not. It's a wild card for me. I love pizza
I grew up on the hut. I grew up on the hut. The peach that I made the big pizza was a Pizza Hut pizza
This?
I don't think it's Pizza Hut, man.
I feel like you kind of can't miss Pizza Hut.
They helped you build the world's biggest.
I know, I know.
It's your trademark.
God, it's so good.
You're going to end up getting banned.
I always get pep on it, and it's usually, you know, fresh.
So, I want to say that this is Papa Johns, Loki.
I feel like this is Papa John's in my last one.
Okay.
I kind of want to switch what I...
Okay, so you're going to go, this is Papa Johns.
And my last pizza was Little Caesars.
Okay.
It has the zest.
Okay.
Wow.
This is good.
That's good.
This is drama-infused drama.
Okay.
I'm very excited to give you guys this last pizza.
And I'm gonna, we're gonna place it in your hand at the same time to get that.
Bang.
Is this a square?
Is this a Pizza Hut square boy?
And three, two, one.
There's some girth to that.
Whoa, whoa.
This is the frozen boy.
This is it.
That is what?
This is Dejorn.
That.
Okay.
So they're locked.
They're both locking in
Dejornos.
Oh, that is.
Sorry, DeJourneau.
Okay, so Cody...
That ain't it.
That's DeJorno,
but I ain't ever eating it again.
Okay.
So I've made a big mistake.
You've...
Yeah.
You've made a mistake.
Multiple?
I'm going to go back and tell you what you did say.
I know what it is.
I thought Pizza Hut was DeJourne.
Let's throw this back.
You don't want that.
Hold on.
You didn't like that.
I'm going to give you what you said
was Dejorno back in your hand,
and you're going to guess.
That looked like cheese covered card.
It did. When I grew up on you.
So this is what you said was Dejorno, Cody?
I don't know what this is or had this.
Okay, wait. Okay, so I also used DeJorno, did that?
Yeah, you did. So why'd we, what happened?
Eric used DeJrano for blue.
Okay. Which was which number?
He's saying it's red.
You want to retry a bluie?
Yeah, yeah, that's DeJorno right there.
So his blue pick was Dejorno.
He's going to switch that.
So what is this pick?
I'm over in the pizza.
Which number was this?
This was number three?
This was number two.
Number two.
I help him either 5 for 5 or 0 for 5.
You guys were pretty confident in Dejornot.
Dude, this tastes like Little Caesars to me.
This has the zest on it.
You've got Caesars at Green.
Okay, so you're going to change that to Caesars?
This?
Crown this, man.
Here, give them green.
Give them green and let them compare the two.
Yeah, that would be huge.
That would be huge.
This is what you said green was Little Caesars.
Pottie City, Little Caesar.
Oh my gosh.
Oh, no.
Oh, wow.
He's really going into this one.
I think I have Little Caesars and Pizza Hut in my hand right now.
At least you're not getting like a long John Silverstacer.
Do you really be in trouble?
This is, I'm going Little Caesars on this.
I'm going Pizza Hut on this.
All right.
I think y'all can take off your eye mask now.
Oh.
Man, we're just going to walk through this.
Hey, whatever happens out there.
Hey, good luck.
Well, you guys can see the board.
The first pizza that we gave.
The first pizza we gave you was terrible.
Oh, no.
That was Pizza Hut.
But y'all both missed it.
Brutal.
Arak with a late audible and did finally smell the zest.
Well done.
Snit out the Little Caesar.
And nailed it.
I went one for four.
We got a new king of pizza in the house.
One for five.
Y'all confused Domino's.
You both thought it was Pizza Hut.
That's weird.
I think you all got the pizzas.
That's not a good look for me.
No, that's a horrible look for you.
Yeah.
You nailed Papa John.
So.
And obviously when you guys felt DeJorno, you guys knew that one.
Cody got one out of five.
Eric, three out of five.
I'm a fraud.
The king of pizza has arrived.
We had to do it.
Eric, I'm impressed.
I really had to defend my title out here.
I thought, uh, unbelievable.
This man's got an amazing pizza vocabulary, though.
I can tell you know what he's all.
I was just swinging from the hip.
He's turned into a luxury pizza guy, too.
He's like a pizzeria test guy.
So he's got a pallet of pizza.
Yeah.
He's got it. No offense.
I was expecting two gladiators and a peewee fight broke out, but great job, Eric.
Yeah, gladiators.
Brother.
Hey, proud of you, buddy.
I love that.
I'm the burger man.
French fry guy.
Well, dude, thanks for coming out and join pizza with us.
Thank you, all right.
I'm going to go to Waffle House after this.
Yeah, more than welcome to join.
I will be there.
We're going to the Mavs game after.
You can't.
Oh, gosh, you're right.
Well, anyways, dude, thanks for coming, man.
And good luck on the future vids.
Thank you.
Or why you're here.
plead to Adam Silver for me, okay?
Okay.
Well, I think you guys to lobby
for me.
I got to tell you.
Lobby beans to me.
I want to meet the guy.
You guys need your own channel.
Yeah, we do.
Yeah.
Okay.
Take care, dude.
Peace.
Almost.
Hey.
Almost back.
Almost.
Almost.
Welcome to the set.
Twins and Garrett's brother, Chase.
Hey.
Hey.
Come on now.
Chase,
I want to give the people a little background,
who you are, what you do,
how you became Garrett's brother.
You don't have to go that far, but.
You know,
people ask me that far,
a lot. And I tell people, Garrett's actually my brother. I'm not Garrett's brother. That's true.
I was here first. That's true. 18 months before. So he
was blessed to take on that title of my brother. Yeah, thanks for
having me. It's good to be here. I do a lot of tech stuff with DP here and there.
And I've been with the guys since they started and kind of helped on any iterations
of websites and apps and fun stuff like that. And so I think today we're just here to win,
right? That's why I'm here. It's safe to say you're smart.
Oh yeah yeah for
It's not safe to say
Yeah he's the smart
Me and Pierce are the athletes
Gotcha
Yeah
Someone has to be the brain
Yeah
Someone's gotta be it
In the world of hybrid
In the world of hybrid
Pretty strong
Yeah I mean
To just completely take athlete
Out from underneath me
And go books
I'm crazy
I'm an almost athlete to be fair
Yeah if Pierce and him are almost
Athletes I am in
I'm right there with him
Almost almost
He is two almost almost
Almost
athlete.
Almost squared.
He also came up
with the voicemail number.
Really?
Which is a positive or negative.
You want to clear the error on that?
Yeah.
Yeah, we're going there right here.
Listen, here's the thing.
I told Ty this in a voicemail.
It's hard when you have,
there are so many numbers.
There's so many numbers, right?
And so for me, I read the number.
I'm a guy.
I'm an efficient guy.
I like to work efficiently.
First one comes up and I hear 805,
886, and I was like,
done.
Hook, link sinker, right?
Right then in there.
I didn't even need...
That was it.
It was legitimately that quick.
Kind of ironic that you left Ty a voicemail
talking about the number
for the voicemail.
That's astonishing.
That was after I got blasted.
I'm a fan of the show.
I watched the show.
I hope I wasn't too harsh.
No, no, no, you were great.
I was good.
You were great.
I'm sorry, guys.
I missed something here.
What's the criticism of the voicemail?
The jingle.
It's just the numbers.
Like, did we pick the right number
for the voicemail?
What numbers did y'all want?
thought is you could go with a word, you know, like 866,
dude, eight six, six, ask dudes, that type of thing.
Well, you don't have to look it up.
You just press it.
Oh, Kobe.
I don't know much, but I'm Team Chase right now.
When he just said, it sounds pretty good to me.
Yeah, you may not be Team Chase for a while because we're about to go brother versus brother here.
Oh.
Yeah, and twins, you better bring it because we're twins.
Like, I feel like y'all have special powers as is.
Before we get into our little game, y'all got any special Thanksgiving plans,
I imagine y'all are together on T-Giv-B.
Oh, we're together.
Always?
Yeah.
When's the last time you missed a tea giving?
So we split.
Really?
Both families handle it this way.
We go,
cottons, in-laws.
Cotton's in-laws.
So Thanksgiving and Christmas
are the alternate.
I don't think we alternate Thanksgiving.
I think we double up on both Thanksgiving.
No, he's wrong.
Corey,
this is horrible star.
I got to trust Kobe here.
I got to trust Kobe.
Corey's probably wrong on this.
Here, I got a,
I got a suggestion for you.
It works out for our family.
Uh-huh.
Now, granted,
y'all's family is like,
you know,
quadruple the size of ours.
But the in-law thing is just, it's so annoying.
It's so annoying.
Careful.
Easy.
It is.
It is.
At the end of the day, you guys will feel this way.
You guys want to be, you know, you think the cotton should be together on every holiday.
Because I'm a-
I feel that way for the Hilberts at least.
You know, fine.
I'll be the only one to admit it.
It's fine.
And we just have everyone on Thanksgiving.
You host.
In-laws and everyone.
In-laws from every family.
Just come over.
You're saying, like, you put the flagpole down.
This is the,
place where Thanksgiving takes place, feel free to come or don't.
And then you can alternate Christmas because at the end of the day, Thanksgiving is not a
holiday you should even alternate.
It's not worth it.
Ooh.
I just, I think it's a crappy holiday.
What?
He said it.
First Sparky with Christmas and now Gare with Thanksgiving.
Well, my Christmas take was I love the holiday and I love the reason for celebration.
It's just a little premature.
Sparky got blasted in the comment.
Oh, you should have seen my family text.
My sister's and moms were going from the top row.
I'm looking forward to Black Friday.
What?
I'm looking for
Thanksgiving. That's what you're looking forward to. Black Friday?
Yeah. You guys, you're crazy.
You guys have no sentimental side to you at all.
What are you looking forward to it?
Like, just give me, excite me here.
The sweet potatoes with, uh, no, no, no, no, no,
marshmallows on top.
Sweet potato casserole is one of God's best gifts to mankind.
So make it tonight.
Yeah.
Make it anytime you want.
But why would I make it when I can show up at two separate meals with it pre-made for me?
Then ask whoever makes it to just make it for your birthday.
That's not crazy.
Why? What's the difference?
You can give gifts any day of the year.
I do. I buy myself a gift almost every day.
He does. He sells. He does. He does.
He does. Do you guys run the Thanksgiving meal back
on Christmas? Are you one of those fans?
That's Looney? That's not. That's not even compute in my head.
There's a lot of people do that. A lot of people do that.
What do you do? Keep in the fridge for a month?
No, no, no, no. Remake it on Christmas.
No, no, no. You're not talking leftovers, obviously.
No, no, no, no. I mean, speaking of leftovers, I think we should.
Can you all tee up a conversation next time you have TT on the pod?
Ty refuses to eat leftovers.
He's never done it.
And honestly, I think I agree with him.
That's crazy.
Life is too short to eat leftover food.
Go to Chick-fil-A.
Eat a hot and fresh chicken nugget.
Some food arguably is better as leftovers.
Pasta, you let that flavor just...
Lozania, soak.
What is wrong with you?
Have you never seen?
You know what they're a block C guy, dude?
No way.
Have you never heard this stuff?
Some food is better leftover.
There are people that argue that some food
taste literally better the next day.
And those people are probably in mental asylums.
Maybe.
Or maybe they're show.
probably going to their in-laws on Thanksgiving.
Those are those same people.
Every other Thanksgiving.
Gosh, that's incredible.
Soup is better the next day.
Thank you, Jared.
I feel like this is a future play by you.
You're taking the heat on Thanksgiving.
Say, bring everybody, sisters, cousins,
seventh cousins removed by marriage.
And you're, so you're setting the tone for when Christmas comes,
you've already, you've already hosted.
No, I'm just going to say it.
And this is going to offend some people.
Oh, my God.
You could not say it.
If you don't look at yourself and say,
I would rather be with my.
in-laws over your brothers or your sisters, you're crazy.
Or you have great in-laws.
That's what I'm, but it's, but you, you value them over Kobe?
I mean, that's not totally fair to Kobe.
He's my twin brother.
Well, I mean, you can tell them right now.
Maybe, if you prefer to hang out with the in-laws, tell them.
Family's family.
You're putting his chest nuts up in an open fire.
My thing is, and I stick with the Hilbert clan through and through over the in-laws.
I thought you weren't even a Hilbert as a deep story.
It is.
I'm a Tucker, but still, we have a.
I stick with the Tucker Hilbert plan.
Down in Wichita Falls, dude.
We have a time.
Which is a vibe.
It's great.
Is it better than hanging out with Corey and Catherine?
It can be.
I would say that it is just as great.
I mean, dude, we play.
You want to know what our Christmas Eve tradition is?
Poker, entire family.
So fun.
I'm talking about Thanksgiving here.
I'm not, don't put Christmas Eve in mind.
You're deflecting.
It's awesome.
You would rather be on the worst holiday ever with in-laws.
That just shows you to how much you have.
Corey, you're putting that on me.
You're rage waiting.
He's strolling.
Thanksgiving is so great.
So, run, Thanksgiving back.
It's your, you pick the meal.
It's your favorite meal you've ever had.
And you eat that every year.
Do you like the holiday more?
Oh, we talked about this on earlier in the pod.
Like, man, make this like a pizza party.
Yeah.
Or a barbecue?
Yeah.
So it's not the day and the family coming to your house.
It's true.
It's the meal.
Oh, yeah.
You hate the meal.
It's the overrated meal.
It's the worst meal that you can cook up.
I'm with care on this.
I love the family time.
I love the faith.
I would rather eat tough.
I think I'd rather like tofu, dude.
But you realize you can choose whatever food you want.
Legit.
Yeah, I think I'd rather eat.
Yeah, we go brisket consistently.
I'm really happy with my...
I don't know if we ever talked about that,
but if you're worried about the food,
do we go brisket every single year.
We do too.
I do too.
Yeah.
And it still just doesn't even...
It still doesn't hit.
I think this is a personal problem.
I think this is, you need to go see a counselor about this.
Will you take back the tofu comment?
No, I'd rather have tofu than
cranberry sauce.
Have you ever had tofu?
I was about to say,
No, I haven't.
I haven't either.
It's horrible.
Too close to sounding like tow food.
To food.
That is what it takes like.
It's a name play.
We need some tofu for gear on the next pod.
Have you ever had spam?
Yes.
I've heard it's pork.
I have not sure if I have.
Is that true?
I'm not a spam guy.
I went to this pokey place.
Can we have spam outside?
In Friscoe recently and you get to the end of the, like you make your bowl, you do your thing.
You get to the end of the counter and they've got this like warm cater dish.
And they have spam on top of rice.
It's like spam nagiri.
Well, that's what made me think of it was.
In Saran wrap?
Is it good?
We were just at a hotel
and they had on the menu
it was a spam sushi.
That's what they had.
And I thought,
never seen that before.
Oh, that, look,
leave Wallster ever-loving mind as a country.
Well, did you try it, Chase?
Heck no, dude.
I'm not, no.
I want to eat things to be.
Here's what I'm wondering. Am I missing out?
It doesn't look horrible.
It doesn't.
It's popular for a reason.
Like, am I missing out?
Maybe.
On spam.
I can live with myself not knowing.
See, I'm fine with that on tofu,
but I started to quit.
When I saw that the other day, I thought, huh, I like sushi.
Yeah.
I'm going to let you guys answer this question.
When do you all eat Thanksgiving?
Is it a lunch?
Is it a, is it a...
Late lunch.
Is it a late lunch or is it a dinner?
I feel like...
I wanted to say like Linner, but that doesn't work.
Knowing how you feel about the holiday, this doesn't...
I feel like you're walking me into something here.
It's like time band.
I can't answer this question because I would rather not do any of it.
Five to seven.
Like around two o'clock.
2 o'clock. So you like one meal that day, you're done.
Oh, I didn't say that because then you eat the same thing again for dinner.
But not for Christmas. Because that's crazy.
You just wait like four more hours and reheated. Is that still, is that leftovers technically?
Same day. Yeah, I think so. Did it get cold in between? And then reheat it?
Then yeah. Leftover. There's only one proper way to answer that, especially coming from a family of DFWers.
You work it around kickoff of the Cowboys game. You go an hour pre before the game.
Which about 2.30.
Yep, about 2.30, boom. Full belly ready for the 325 kick.
Hey, can we be honest, the Cowboys game saves Thanksgiving big dime.
It does. I heard of...
Like, it saves that holiday, in my opinion.
Look, here, before we get into Know Your Bro, I just got one more question because I'm not
going to answer this because I hate turkey.
But how do y'all cook your turkey? Like, what's the best way?
Oh, I don't do that.
I already said this. We're barbecue family on Thanksgiving.
No turkey.
Do you make the barbecue?
No.
Yeah, we're doing cater this year.
No.
We buy from the best place we can find.
We don't do turkey at all.
We do ham.
Honey made ham.
You guys are you back in your own?
No one do you like the holidays so much.
Yeah.
You don't put in the work to eat them.
Yeah, I know.
It's easy.
The only thing we essentially make is
green bean casserole,
which I know for a fact you like.
Cream and mushroom, baby.
Let's go.
Okay, we do that.
We do the corn with so much butter
that you can't taste the corn,
and we do sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top.
And if you can get mad at that list,
pecan.
I just can't do corn anymore, dude.
It just doesn't make sense.
potato cassero like I said.
It doesn't make sense to my
It's not nutritious and you see it like
24 hours later looking to say
I get that souptated cassero
It goes in. That's true. I just don't like it
It's just like why are you putting in your body?
Like it's taste good. I would like to fry a turkey at some point
I think it sounds cool. I don't think you should
I was about to say a crafty history
That's a lot. I'm going to the middle of a Walmart parking lot
There you go to be clear. I don't know if you should try to go to jail
To burn down a Walmart I think you just
No, it's far away. It's in the middle of the parking
I still think Walmart's at risk
Really with you guys?
That's an explosion way to happen.
It's like 30 quarts of oil.
It's a lot.
I've watched people do it.
I've done it.
It's, well, let me just say that.
To answer the question here, the oven's off limits.
If you're baking a turkey, dude, you have got just the issue.
You're done.
Yeah, like, you need to go back and think about why you ever did that in the first place.
Yeah.
I would say frying a turkey, but it's all about the injection stuff that you put inside it.
If you don't get the right marinated and get it right.
It's what are we doing?
Yeah, I mean, you can inject it with all kinds of peptides and it's crazy.
Crazy. Yeah. No, it's flavor. Yeah. My go-to, though, is the big green egg. It's the brine. If you do not brine the turkey, your turkey is going to be terrible. It's going to be dry. So if you guys, yeah, just console with me. I've done it all the ways. I'll get credit to Aubrey's dad. He fries a mean turkey. So maybe that's part of my appeal for flipping in-laws regular is my family, the cotton's barbecue. Her family, turkey, and he fries it. Great. I mean, it's all the oil. Maybe that's why I mean. I just need it. Maybe things.
Thanksgiving, we just go no effort.
We just order in.
It might change it for you.
It might change it for me.
I think that's why you're feeling some type of way about Turkey Day is you're hosting.
It sounds like you're making the side dishes.
You've got a lot on your plate where these guys are just sit back, relax, and eat.
I'm the entertainment for the uncle man.
We're going to circle back to the fried turkey here real quick.
Take a look at this.
Is this Kobe in a Walmart parking lot?
Oh, dude.
I mean, look at their outfit.
Is this intentionally trying to make it go wrong?
That's what's happening here?
Yeah, there's, uh, look,
Day I ginned. That's real. That's a fast way to cook a turkey. They're just showing what can happen
and does happen. In the suit, it's sick. I think this is not fake, but there's more fire started
on Thanksgiving than there are Fourth of July. It says right there. The National Fire Protection
Associated said Thanksgiving is the leading day of the year for U.S. home cooking fires.
Hopefully it's not my house this year. Yeah, hey, hey, Corey, stick with ordering in.
Dude, I don't want to look down Dogwood and see your house on fire.
I will never try that.
This is where I'm lucky in the sense
that I've got three older sisters
and a mother who are embracing
the fact that they want to cook every meal.
I'm the drink guy.
I'm like, oh, sweet tea, a couple cans of coke
and some water.
You're going to a jug of sweet tea.
And everybody's for.
And everybody loves it.
Who's the drink guy?
He's got everything.
I was like, ask me, baby.
That's me.
The drink guy is an important role.
It is.
People sleep on the drink guy.
They do.
Because then you're stuck with sparkling water
and tap water.
It's not a good.
Which more kids need tap water.
builds character.
But yeah, for a Thanksgiving family get together,
you need some.
Drinking chloride and stuff.
Just a little.
All right, boys, it's time.
It's that time.
We're going to play a game called Know Your Bro.
It's like the newlywed game
where one brother from each family
has to answer a question
and their partner has to guess what they say
using dry erase boards.
So let's see which brothers know their bro the best.
Love this.
I just want to throw a little bit of fighting words out there.
And I know Jones isn't here
to defend himself.
Tyler has a sister,
athletic sister.
Not worried about them.
But I think if you put me,
Jason Pierce,
against any of these guys
in any,
other than the
No Your Bro competition,
we destroy.
You put us in an athletic competition.
A bro battle?
We're going to kill you guys.
And it's a Jones too.
Caviard here,
I'll give these guys pickleball.
That can be fun.
Anything that has to do
with a paddle or like non-athletic movements.
Dude, you're saying we should do a squad games,
but it's in terms.
It's a brother games.
I love this.
Let's do it.
That'd be sick.
There's only two of us.
Well, you're going to be.
So we're in,
we're in all the comp.
To be fair,
everything's two.
He's hurt at least 80% of the year.
Pierce has hurt 80% of the year,
which means you're going to get two of the three.
Two of the three.
At any given time.
Maybe.
Yeah.
I'm the oldest.
You know, I just turned 40 and I feel amazing.
I'm ready to complete.
Your whooops scores.
Nice, dude.
It's like 30.
What's your chronological age right now?
Yeah, 30.
Do you wear more tracking devices than Gary?
He's got a minimum of two on it all times.
Or ring.
We're a decade back on your score?
He's got air tags.
He's got so much.
They're stalling, Spark.
No, yeah.
This is actually emotional for me because I never had a brother, boys.
This is tough.
You can bring your sisters.
I know your sisters are athletic too.
If you want to bring him in, we can play some games.
Okay.
Yeah, it's just tough.
You know, I don't have a brother.
Would your mom consider adopting?
one at this stage? Well, she definitely can't have one, but, yeah, I've asked for many years to have
a brother. Do you have to say that, mom, I love you, but yeah. Let's move on to the game.
Yeah, right. Let's do it. Boys, brothers, I may say, let's see which brother knows each one better.
Let's do it. All right, first question. First question, what is your bro's biggest Thanksgiving
pet peeve? That's a weird question.
Um, least favorite thing about Thanksgiving.
I mean, gosh, they live such a good tea giving life.
They don't even have bad things that happen.
That's what I'm saying, it's a phenomenal holiday.
It's hard of things are bad about it.
If it's bad, we've eliminated it from our process.
Well, Twins, we're out of time.
Answers on the board.
Hilbert Men, you're up first.
Chase, what do you think your brother wrote down?
Biggest pet peeve it in the monitor.
Thanksgiving.
Kobe wrote like an essay over here, so I'm going to interested.
What's wrong with you?
We've got 100 TVs in here.
My biggest pet peeve is.
is eating late, cold food.
It's true.
I can't.
There's no way.
That's a plus one.
Bingo.
Here, can I show you're just one correct answer.
How can I show Corey before he is?
This is ridiculous.
Can we get a replay from the studio of gear showing it to the monitor and Chase looking at the monitor and then saying it?
Hey, you guys can stall all you want.
What's your biggest pet peeve, dude?
Corey?
This is like playing the cheese.
I'm ready.
The answer is the worst dish ever.
stuffing. Okay.
We do a different approach.
Whoa. Running out of sweet potato casserole.
Basically like eating stuffing though because
you wouldn't have to go. It forces you to eat
the stuffing. I'll give you a half point there.
Plus one. I'll give you a half point there.
Yeah. A half point. Next time I will show this
earlier. Yeah. Okay. Hilbert clan. Off to a hot start.
Second question. We have a racers. Oh, this one's easy, dude. This should be a
layup. Dude, he just told you the answer. What's your bro's
least favorite?
Thanksgiving food. Corey literally just said the answer. I wonder what I'm going to say. I like our
chances. This should be easy. Wow, a little swap. At least you have a brother to swap with.
Don't ever think it. Okay, I'm locked. I'm locked. I'm locked.
We're locked and loaded already. Okay, that was quick. The second question was,
what's your bro's least favorite Thanksgiving food? Garrett, what do you think Chase?
I talked about it earlier. It's turkey in general. Turkey. Wow. Wow. I feel confident about this one.
Stuffing.
Hit him with it.
Stuffing.
Yeah.
It's not good, dude.
It's not good.
I will say, I never liked it growing up, but then there's some people that make some really good stuffing.
They throw like some sausage in it.
Almost sounds like you enjoy it.
No, absolutely not.
Your least favorite stuffing?
Yeah.
It's just horrible.
It seemed like Nick Di Giovanni hit it too.
He did.
Yeah, it was like first round pick too.
Giblets and eyeballs and all types of things.
The other bad one is the, is it cranberry?
Cranberry
sauce?
Cranberry salad.
I just like my
cranberry juice.
It looks like
in a plastic
Sparrow.
The ocean spray is really good.
All right,
here we go.
Holiday movie.
What's your brother's
favorite holiday movie?
Sheesh,
I have no idea,
but I'll just put mine.
Maybe he's the same.
You're teed up
for a great answer here.
That is so vague.
There's a lot of holidays.
Yeah,
but I feel like there's only one
holiday that you actually
sit around and watch movies.
If it's not this, I don't know him.
We're going to get waxed in this game.
I'm ready.
The question is, because like,
Tucker's, Hilbert's, whatever we're going by today,
we have a tendency to like zoom out.
So are we playing, are we playing Holiday or are we just playing Hilbert?
Because this can mean, I don't know, this is tough.
This one's tough.
Oh, I was playing Holiday movie.
I was playing Holiday here.
It has nothing to do with your favorite movie.
Sparky already said this well
How many more hints are we allowed to give?
I guess I'm going to give him.
I'm going home alone.
He's going home alone and for good reason.
Hey, but if...
Can I get a penalty flag?
Can I throw a leaf?
Hey, hold on, hold on.
What?
No, okay, fine.
I'll see the other one too.
Just straight up the other just favorite movie.
Because the other thing I was going to do
is I was going to zoom out
and I would probably say Billy Madison.
Wow!
Bonus points for the Hilvercru.
I told you all this was going to go poor.
The heavy underdogs.
The heavy underdogs are making big statement.
We're ready.
Cotton's, you've got to step up here.
Corey.
There's only three letters in it.
It's elf.
Wow.
Praise the good Lord.
Let's go.
It's such a good movie.
I have an opinion about Christmas movies in general that we should just go ahead and talk about.
I think there's two types of people in the world.
There's elf people and there's Grinch people.
I agree.
If you like Grinch, you typically don't love Elf and vice versa.
I like Elf.
I just don't think it's the best movie of all times.
love Grinch.
I do love Grinch.
Yeah, I know.
You're a really good point.
Because there's only two guys people.
Like, for example,
Cody's wife Allison,
she loves the Grinch,
and I've told her that,
that defines you.
I bet if you wanted to dig that
a level deeper,
people that are like Grinch
were Cartoon Network people
and people like Elf or Disney people.
That felt like an attack
to Pro Grinch people, though.
I'm a pro-Grinch guy.
That felt like an attack.
Did you like it more than Elf?
Yeah, definitely.
Fars of you.
Cartooner and Disney.
I think it's a different style
of humor is what I'm getting at,
and I think
elf humor's way funnier than the Grinch humor.
But you're a Disney guy. Cartoon Network?
Yeah, I know.
Before you're dead.
It's like the best line, the whole movie.
That's a funny line though when you saw it.
That's it.
That idea's ruined it for you guys.
I haven't seen Elf.
If you didn't laugh, you're a Grinch guy.
If you laughed, you're an elf guy.
I think that that holds true.
All right.
You guys are psychos.
Nobody needs to do personality tests in the world.
They just have to decide which of those two movies.
They watch two movies.
All right, boys, swap boards and we'll move on.
Next question.
What would your brother bring to a potluck dinner?
What's a potluck dinner for those?
Because I know somebody on this set's wondering what it is, because I am.
Potluck dinner, what's that?
Potluck dinner is just like everyone brings like a side, right?
A dish.
Yeah, potluck's like they're not, the host isn't cooking the full meal.
There's like a dessert guy.
Everybody has there.
Everybody contributes something.
I'm the dream guy.
For us, you're asking which restaurant would we cater from?
Is this?
Yeah, who's, where you door dashing?
Yeah.
Yeah, I got that answer.
I actually have no idea what I'd bring.
Can I get that eraser?
I just wrote a B and so.
Can I get that monitor zoomed in on Corey's?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Is this a holiday dinner or a regular dinner?
Yeah, let's call it a holiday dinner.
For us, it doesn't matter.
Dude, yeah, it does.
I have no idea what I would bring.
I literally have zero clue what I'd bring.
I don't know.
What you would bring?
I mean, are you guys locked in?
I feel pretty good.
Can it just be general, like a, like a dessert?
How specific are you trying to?
be with your hints to your brother.
This is getting insane.
I've already written it.
He can ask all the questions you want.
Sure.
Appreciate that, Chase.
We're getting it wrong.
It's honorable of you.
I'm going to go cookies.
Cookies.
Cookies.
Chase?
I don't think he wrote cookies.
Bread.
Bread.
Here's what's true.
That's his wife.
I would bring bread.
Makes the absolute best homemade bread you have ever eaten in your life.
It's not the sourdough version.
No.
It's just actual.
It is just like French bread.
Something.
How often does she make it?
You know, she actually makes it quite a bit
because everybody that has a newborn or something
is always asking for Kristen's bread.
It's so good.
I think she may have brought that to us.
Yeah, she did.
We've got a lot of kids,
so there's been a lot of opportunities for us to bring bread,
and I think we've had it, and it is special.
I want to break.
That was a good call there.
That was a good call.
I wouldn't bring anything.
Kristen would bring something.
That should have been the answer.
For all of us.
Yeah, for all of us.
Okay, Kobe, go ahead.
I would door dash Italian.
food and bring that to the party. That is the most broad thing. Italian food? And judges say,
no. God, dude, that is impressive. Whoa, that's, hey, listen, I'll give it to you. That was
unbelievable. When I go to EITZ's, I got a sandwich. No, no, no, no, pasta. Twins took a lead there.
Twins take a lead. Twins, three and a half. Yes. Hilberts, three. We've got a good one.
A juicy one. I had the over for the twins at four and a half, so I got to get two right.
way. Next question. Who gives better Christmas gifts? You or your bro? This is tough between
this two. He says that's easy. This is no offense to me. Let's write the name of the person
instead of the me because it'll be confusing. Oh, see this is this one's we just got an advantage
honestly. Yeah, we have a huge advantage. Huge advantage. It's easy. Right? Because you can just say
it, dude. It's okay. Garrett's banks bigger than mine.
I knew that's where you were going.
the advantage is here
because I'm a recipient of great gifts.
Yeah, Garrett's going to give the better gifts for sure.
$100.
I'm sorry.
I have an answer.
Okay, Kobe's answer is on the board.
Core, what do you think your brother said?
The answer of who gives the better gifts
is definitely Corey, aka me.
Okay?
What?
There's no way that you put your name.
Here's the problem.
Turn that around.
Here's the problem.
We give the same gifts
every year.
So is Corey saying his presentation is better?
Every year. Is that what makes you?
Like you give each other the same thing?
You give each other a ninja blender every year?
Every year we give each other the exact same gift.
What's that?
There was a year.
It doesn't matter.
We figure it out.
Every year it's the same.
He's not totally wrong about this.
There was a year famously where we both gave each other an envelope and we opened it up
and there's 20 bucks in each envelope.
And we were kind of like, Merry Christmas, too.
Every year.
20 bucks.
It's like, I got a basketball.
for him, you got the same basketball for me.
Like, every year it's the same.
I'm thinking more recently when I've upped my game
and you have lowered your game.
Hey, what did we give last year?
You have a specific gift in mind.
What did we give last year?
You literally forgot to give a gift like a year or two ago.
We're in the game.
Hilbert's won four to three and a half
and we enter into therapy.
Yeah, this could turn.
I thought you were here with me on this.
I could have been if it was more of long-term thing.
I guess I was thinking reason. I feel like you dropped the ball.
That question.
last year
generic. Last year
Pearson I gave each other
the same gift.
Did you?
You want to know what it was?
It was a Tom Brady jersey.
No way.
That we were buying each other
to have signed
and well
I haven't seen those.
Yeah, either.
I don't see mine either.
It's funny.
Yeah.
It was a sweet gift.
Yeah, it was nice.
We just burned 175 bucks.
We would love to have that, huh?
Didn't get signed, I'm guessing.
All right.
It's just because we don't know Tom, I guess.
He's never here.
Hilbert Clan takes the lead.
Is this our last question?
Question two?
That's on me, dude.
It's on me, I guess.
What is the worst Christmas gift?
Your brother has ever given to you.
We haven't done gifts in forever.
Yeah, we don't really do.
We just don't give gifts.
We do gifts for our kids.
Bro, we haven't done gifts since we're in that stage of life where, yeah.
It's about the nephews, the nieces, the mom.
We actually have a, we, in our family text thread, we remind everybody and call it out, like, kids only.
No gifts this year?
Kids only.
Yes.
And I personally can't stand that because every year mom ends up gift to me something.
And I'm like, it was no gifts this year, you know.
Oh, well, Pierce sends his list.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Smart.
We do the greatest good by peers.
I love that.
We have shifted, and it's honestly, truly a phenomenal way to do Christmas.
You do Secret Santa, and so you only get one person, you can get them something thoughtful,
attempt to give them something thoughtful.
But then everyone's favorite part of Christmas has become favorite things.
So whatever your favorite thing was that you got this year, Chase, in life, it doesn't have to be fancy.
You know, those like yellow bug assault.
gun things that like shoot flies in the house. Like if you got one of those this year and you thought
was awesome, just for the guys in your family, you will get each one of those one of your favorite
things. That's tough, dude. And the girls... The new Dyson vacuum. Thanks, pricey.
This is going to be a price for you. When you're hosting 50. I actually love this.
Because if he's participating, it's fun. We typically set a budget, but, you know, it sounds like
you guys do it Garrett's way. So that sounds fun. We tried the secret Santa thing one year,
and everybody drew a name. And so you only had one person who said a $100,
limit and like everybody got like $85, $90, and whoever Garrett had got like $400.
And we were like, this isn't fair.
Like we're not, we're, I'm never doing this again unless I can guarantee that he's my Santa.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I do love giving gifts.
Not only to myself, but to others.
Well, it justifies the ability to keep giving them to yourself.
Yeah.
Correct.
Yeah.
Smart.
Maybe that's what I do.
Is that your top love language?
Gift giving gifts?
I had her physical touch.
I can tell you this.
He's not a words of affirmation guy.
This guy gets so uncomfortable trying to bother.
I don't like sitting around the table and it's like, hey, you know, at Thanksgiving.
Maybe that's why I don't like Thanksgiving, dude.
I don't know if I'm covered something.
Wow.
Does you have to say what you're thinking before that year?
It's brutal.
Other people start telling.
Dude, and then it's like they look at you and they're like, dude, just let me speak in you a little bit.
I'm good.
You know, cowboys are about to kick.
Speaking to me with a gift, you know what I mean?
Say what you need to say.
I think we've solved a lot for you today.
Hey, dude, happy to help, man.
You should have us on this block more often.
I'm going to go into Thanksgiving with a different heart this year.
An open heart, open mind.
I'm going to go in thinking the Cowboys are going to win.
Wow.
What's the worst Christmas gift your brother has ever given to you?
I guess nothing.
That's my answer.
Wow.
Nothing indeed.
That's done.
Yes.
It is also my answer.
Great job.
Nothing is my answer as well.
$20.
What?
$20.
$20.
No, no, they take a
demanding lead.
Oh, of course.
We just talked about this.
We just talked about the 20 bucks.
No, man.
You are.
We've had years where we didn't give a gift.
I blame you.
The twins are online.
We're coming on together.
We're going to be like,
what's your favorite color?
All right.
Final question is worth two points.
Hilbert Klan, you've got a point and a half lead,
so it all comes down than this.
Who is more likely to have a D1 crash out moment
at the Thanksgiving table, you or your bro?
Can we describe D1 crashout moment?
It just happened to actually
Butch Jones in the Arkansas State game.
You see this?
No. Dude, he had a D1 crash out moment.
Losses his ever-loving mind.
Yeah?
This is like you snap.
This is a snap.
This is enough is enough.
I'm flipping table.
This is very simple.
Yeah.
100%.
Yeah.
Worth two points.
Make it worth 10.
I don't care.
That was a very, I mean,
I think you could ask anybody in my family.
I mean, you could call, you could call
his mother-in-law, and she'd probably say me.
No, that's not true.
Yeah, dude.
First of all, I'd spend 30 minutes to finding D1 crash-out moment.
And then when she finally wrapped her head around that, she might say, maybe.
Anybody, I take this from everyone in the family.
Yeah.
And I don't know if I'm proud of that, but it's fine.
So join us next week on almost athletes where we'll talk about it's a D1 crash-out moment from this Thanksgiving.
That's going to be fun.
This is important because I do have a bet on your over four and a half here.
This would put you over, so let's get this right.
This is tough.
Here's what I'm going to say.
I'm going to start with a story.
Oh my goodness.
I think there's not really a story.
We were playing settlers one time with our family.
My sister beat me and I threw the whole board.
I flipped it.
I flipped it up.
So that's what the first story came to mind.
I felt kind of like a holiday moment.
But I'm going to go with more likely, I think would be Corey,
although I don't think either of us.
There is.
Our crash out would be a very different scene, I think.
But I think, is that right?
You think?
Yeah, it's me.
Yeah.
If for no other reason, then I've got four kids and you just never know.
You never know.
Yeah.
You never know.
We've been having more crashouts in our family recently.
Yeah, that leaves you more prone to the crash out.
We've got a two-year-old.
A best seller's thing.
Was this recent?
That's real.
No, it was years ago.
It's just when our family brings up often.
Sure.
We just walked in to, we were Appalachian State and walked in the Aggie Land and beat y'all.
In the Big House, Michigan.
Yeah.
Seven to five and a half.
Who would have thunk it?
I would have.
I said it at the beginning.
He did.
I thought you guys had this.
You didn't miss one.
Well done, Helbert.
You guys earned it.
Earned not given.
Yep.
And we had a, I mean, it was eight kind of.
Right.
Yeah, you're right.
It was.
Ooh, wee.
So loud.
It gets louder every time.
Yeah, that whistle means it's time for our two minute warning.
Do you all have one this week?
All right, guys, for my rant.
This is not a traditional version of a rant.
This is going to be a laundry list of pet peeves that I have on my phone.
No, buckle up, boys.
Okay.
They're good.
When someone says,
hey, what's my name?
And puts you in that weird position.
That can be really tough.
Beyond brutal.
Never been in that situation.
Yes, you have.
Like a 10-year-old kid,
like you go to youth group and the kids like,
hey, do you remember my name?
That's a tough place to me.
This doesn't happen to you.
I'm not saying all these don't happen every day,
but when they happen, you're like, dude.
What else?
That happens in my family.
Letting someone else take a picture of you or your family
and then they leave and you get the picture back
and it's unbelievably blurry.
But like, that was the moment.
And now the moment's over.
That's the risk reward of a random photo.
You have to pick out the person.
You have to be smart about it.
You don't always have a bunch of people to choose from, though.
No, you don't.
No.
And that's where you go selfie mode.
Obviously, when the waiter says,
let me remember your whole order and they take down the entire thing.
We just talked about this the other day.
We went to a restaurant and it's like,
this is where Chick-fil-A just has it figured out, man.
Simple, bro.
They sit there, they're on their electric and they just hit it in.
Like, why doesn't every waiter in every restaurant just have an electronic,
like, and you just are clicking it as they're saying?
it and you can't get it wrong.
Because you're either going
from their memory
or from their bad handwriting
and neither are reliable.
Yeah, the bad handwriting thing
and then think about it.
I'm with you.
When people say
supposedly,
instead of supposedly.
That could be me sometimes.
I do actually,
I do kind of think you say it.
That one may be it.
I don't want to ruffle
too many feathers
and I do have one kid
with not the absolute
perfectly easy name
but when people give their kids
weird names
to where you can't understand
what they say
when they say it
and you can't spell it
just feels like an unforced error.
What kid are you talking about?
I think crew is on the fringe
of not being, it's not like Ben or John,
but I think you can understand
what I say when I tell you the name.
So I think I passed my own test
but I would just admit
it's not the world's most common name for a boy.
People who honk their horn at you
the nanosecond the light changes.
I mean, ready set, green light right behind you?
That might be me too.
You have done that before?
I've done that before.
Gares on this list quite a bit.
Again, these are very specific, and I can't remember
when I wrote all these, but I have, when you
score on yourself in Fuzball.
That was a tough night. That was really. Thanks even last year.
At the in-laws.
Or air hockey, I have that written down, too.
Look, I was looking, honestly, for a ran of just
like, you know, talking about, like, high soap rent.
I mean, this is getting a little ridiculous.
This is a real score on Fuzball.
These are good.
When you bend over to pick up like a penny
or a quarter on the ground,
and it takes you multiple times to pick it up.
You know what I'm saying?
This is an outdated list.
We don't use coins.
That's never happened to you guys.
Cor,
I think you're making too much money
to be picking up loose.
These eight Blankens on the ground, man.
Shopping carts with a broken wheel?
Oh, dude, I do hate that.
That's brutal.
And that's becoming way too frequent.
Do you exchange it, or do you just power through?
I would typically power through.
I power through too, and I'm mad the whole time.
Absolutely.
You skirt around the whole thing.
And you could have just swapped it,
but I do the same thing.
people that say let there be light when they turn on a light switch.
All right, Corey, it looks like our time's up here.
Good rant, though.
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