Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect - Dude Perfect Debates Best Feelings in Sports, Bad Bunny, NFL Ties & Johnny Manziel on NIL $

Episode Date: October 1, 2025

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If your Heisman year just started, NIL, what are you going back to the coaches? What's your yearly payment? I mean, if Arch is making eight, it's got to be at least 10 plus. 10 plus. Especially with how much money A&M was throwing around at that time. I mean, the crazy thing was I asked, my dad asked Sumblin for three, and he laughed. So that's, it would have been cheap. Welcome to almost athletes with Dude Perfect, a Wave Original.

We're the hosts, Garen Sparky. Back again. Haven't gotten fired yet. No, I got a fourth episode even, so we must be doing something right. What do we got coming up? Today, we're going to talk a little tie in football. We're going to talk a little college as well. We're going to have Kobe on with a little gamification and Johnny Football. Johnny Mansell himself will join us.

All those things coming up next on almost athletes. So how's the weekend, man? Good. I'm going to be real honest with you right off the back, Gary. Miss the whole late window. You did miss an exhilarating. finished to the Rider Cup though. Yeah, dude, I saw we mounted a comeback.

I'll be honest, I gave up on them mid-saturday. I thought it was cook-sliced. You know me, dude. If we're down, I've, I'm the typical be right, be-happy guy. Friday happens, you're like, yeah,

we're going to get beat 20 to 8 and, you know, had a negative kind of just outlook the whole time. And then Cam Young, one of the greatest American heroes that's ever lived teed off

and boy oh boy did he bring back absolute fireworks and set the stage and uh I mean dude the drama was just crazy he was up three then it went back to even then he wins on the last hole with a put that just set

New York City on fire then JT follows that up Bryson five down five down with like on the back nine and Bryson brings it back to draw that match. I do just like insane stuff. I was proud.

I was proud to be an American yesterday. Friday, Saturday, I don't know. I was trying to deport myself. Actually so shocks me that you were still hanging around on Sunday given the fact that once you see it go south, generally you jump out of the pool and never get back in. Cowboys had a late slate. I didn't even watch.

I didn't even watch. football. Whoa. Didn't even give Scott one minute of my time. I don't know if you saw in the NFL, there was an almost athlete moment of the week. Adonai Mitchell, you're familiar with the name? Yeah, the former Georgia's hexes wide out

was playing for the Colts against the Rams, was going in for a 75-yard touchdown. His first career NFL touchdown went to switch hands, fumbled through the back of the end zone for a touchback. Why are you switching hands on the one-yard line? Yeah, I don't know if it's like style points. He wasn't going for like the Deshawn Jans.

Jackson's swag toss so I don't hold it against him as much but you got to get that puppy in the kennel and he didn't man his puppy fumbled out of the bat do you think the the first TD like it just got in his head he kind of forgot what he was doing I can promise you the next time he goes across the end line he's going to have that thing pointed north and south tucked away he ain't he ain't spiking the ball he's going to have it tucked away like a wallet with a couple hundredos in it for like ten seconds oh yeah yeah yeah I did see that that was um it's tough that was a wild game dude, great ending, uh,

interception to end it from the Rams. Gotta be happy for Stafford. That dude's still balling, but Nakuas, uh, is he the best wide receiver, Pooka Nakuwa? He's the most used.

They, may they find ways to get him the ball on jet sweep, screen game. Where did he play college? Was it Washington? Washington. Washington. And BYU.

Yeah, a little double dipping. Wow, he's, I mean, he's, he's good. He's a stud, man. Um, I saw, the Ravens, which most people Super Bowl pick, fall to one and three. And

supposedly Lamar's hamstrings hanging on by like a thread. I feel like my hamstrings are hanging on by a thread. I do too. I went running this morning and, you know, felt good, but the hammies just tightened up. Welcome back, dude. You were like four weeks on the mend with the hernia, so now you're jogging again. Yeah, I mean, I got, we got a big,

we got a big all-sports golf battle coming out. Yeah, we do. And I got to put on the show. Sure. Purple Hoser fans. They expect a top three finish. Well, hey, you know, I think this year I'm going to go top two finish. You know, they expect a top two. Let's not, let's leave third out of it. I need one or two.

Well, you know what you can't do in an all sports golf battle? Tie. Can you believe we're still, we're in the Lord's year of 2025, Garrett Hilbert, and we're still tying football games. We've been past that. Packers, Dallas, goes into overtime, 10 minutes. back and forth. The clock runs out, which, I will say,

who runs the clock in the Cowboy Stadium? I know. You think at home you're taking off a couple ticks. Because they can always go back, they can always go back and review it. And review it and put a second back on. But what they didn't do is they didn't go review what should have there been a second.

Like, Jordan Love kind of lost his mind there. Oh, he did. That ball with six seconds left. They got so lucky, man. I'm with you though. Who's that home? clock operator. So that's me, I'm running that thing.

It ends in zeros. Right now there's no time. How do you end it? What do you want to do? I would love to play those 10 minutes of overtime, if still tied. You go to the two and a half yard line where the two point conversion spot is and go mono e mono until somebody doesn't match. There's your winner.

That's simple. That's simple. What if you do to make it fun? Okay. What if you do center or tackle v tackle 40 yard dash? Straight up who wins. Now we're talking. I mean, you're going to get guys that.

tear hamstrings trying to win a game. What if the punter punted to the opposing punter and whoever got the most yardage out of the punters? I mean, there's so many things you can do other than tie. Also, what happened this weekend, you know, living through my kids now because I'm an almost athlete. Hey, I'm vicarious.

I haven't told them that they're almost athletes yet. Yeah. You know, they're still. Yeah, I haven't broken that news yet. So, you know, we go to soccer games and, you know, we give it our all. And I'm a little bit aggressive, I'll say that, you know. You're turning into coach dad with a little extreme.

Yeah, well, I mean, I'm the lawn chair coach dad, and I'm not going to coach them on the sideline, you know. I'm going to coach them from the lawn chair with the shade over my head. And, you know, and maybe, maybe yell at the refs, maybe if they're bad. And boy, oh, boy, were they bad. The funniest story. So, like, I was giving them ear fools the whole game. Not like, you know, it was just more like,

Ref, come on, where's your whistle? You're swallowing the whistle. Offside, offside, ref, raise a flag, you know, be assertive, you know? Stuff like that. After the game, they had a call in the game that led to, we lost 1-0. They had a call in the game that led to their goal, which was just the wrong call for how they called the game. And I was, I was mad. I was mad after the game.

Safe to say they haven't implemented VAR. I was mad. And I'm aggressively putting my lawn chair, you know, back in its holder, you know, very... Dangerous dad. And here come the three referees. Out of the corner of my, I'm like, head down, three referees are walking to me. And Kristen's like... Don't say anything.

Don't say anything. They're coming to talk to you about they're going to come, they're going to come kick you out of here. I mean, the game was over, but they're going to come kick me out. And I waited to the last moment. I mean, they were a foot away. They were just standing there. and I look up and they're like, dude, Garrett, we are huge fans. Wow.

Can we get a picture? And man, I'm telling you what, I had an inner voice in my head saying, absolutely not. Tell them absolutely not. A little devil on your shoulder saying, do you not take a picture? Yes, I will take a picture if you will allow me to explain why I probably shouldn't have said some of the things I said to you. It was a good teaching moment for both of us. Sure. feel like, you know, I was kind of teaching, I was kind of talking to myself a little bit,

definitely telling them like, hey, you signed up for refs, you could have been a fry guy at McDonald's. Those guys don't get criticized like refs do. Right. You know what I mean? Yeah. It was a good moment. That is like a job field that I say that and I almost went to MLB umpiring school, but that's tough, man.

We forget sometimes how tough it is on the stripes, man. They go home and have to eat hamburger helper just like we do, you know? They do. I feel for them sometimes. But anyways, that was another almost definitely. moment for me. You know, they're happening quite often now for me. You made me think of something here. While you were attending to the kids, I was adulting last night and I'm going to give you some adult. Dude, you don't adult often. I know. I know. Well, this isn't really like major adulting,

but I thought it was fun and very underrated adult thing to do. Last night, cookie two step. I wanted to treat myself to a little sweet tooth. Love cookie two step. Best Blue Bowl ice cream flavor by a mile. so I go to two-step. I'm looking to my right. I see the car wash there. I've been putting it off, putting it off. It's the drive-through car wash, man.

Like dino wash? What are we doing? Right outside of H-E-B. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I went with like the third, the premium one. I said 1499. Let's have some fun with this.

Dude, like, I turned up the music. You got the ASMR effect is the jets are just, you're getting a light show. And I'm thinking, this is adulting, man. This is beautiful.

I was at peace, the most at peace, right after that Cowboys tie. And little did I, I know. I just needed a little 10-minute car wash. Well, I hate to break it to you, Sparks, but you have, haven't adulted enough because if you've adulted enough, you would know that you always go with the cheapest $8 drive-thru car wash because it's all the same.

See, I was paying extra for the entertainment value. No, I need the entertainment value there. I still think it's on the $8 one, dude. You just don't get the wax soap or whatever that is. Well, you don't need it. It was the best. Now you can do it. Now you can do two for one, basically.

I see what you're doing. If you had to pick now, who do you want to win the World Series? Yeah. And who do you think will win the World Series? So who I want to be in the World Series? Mariner's. Same. Brewers.

Yep. Both teams don't have a World Series. Sure. Small market. Yeah, small market. Smaller payrolls. You know, do it for Ken Griffey Jr., baby. Yeah, ma'am.

It's been a long time they've been playing baseball up there in Seattle. That's what I want to think who my heart's telling me is going to be in it. I think it's the gang. he's here, man. Really? I do. They always seem to find the magic there in October. I think it's a New York state of mind, too.

Watch out for the Red Sox. I think whoever gets out of that playoff series could be headed to the World Series. Yeah. But if you don't watch baseball, which a lot of you guys don't, the time to watch baseball is postseason baseball.

It's right up there with hockey in terms of best postseason quality. And hockey's coming back this week, this coming week, dude. I mean, we are in sports heaven. October is. is the best, it's the best month. The most elite.

Is that what you would say if we had to rank sports months? March for me, but that's also personal bias to the fact my birthday's in late March. Okay. You know, and you get the madness there when the Masters follows up the birthday really tight. Other than that, though, yeah, October reigns supreme. But I'm excited, man, baseball playoffs. And of course our boy, boy, Kershaw. And NBA starts in October.

Yeah, we're a couple weeks away from watching Wimby and Koop. Coop go toe to toe. Oh, one more thing I wanted to hit, dude. Sure. How genius is Apple is Apple music right now? Yeah, man. How genius are these guys? I know where you're headed with that.

You're talking bad bunny? Yeah. And dude, they're going to make everybody buy a pair of the new AirPod Pros with live translation just to hear what the dude's singing. You already ordered yours? Oh, I already got mine, dude. It's actually, honestly, it's unbelievable. I had Kristen speak to me in some Spanish to turn it on.

And, dude, it's insane. and then it tells you what to say back to her. It's crazy. This is going to do numbers, international audience, but for me it brings up bad memories. Well, I might be a bad bunny fan after I put the pods on listening to it. I've always been jealous, envious of those

who are bilingual. I'm going to be real with you. And I took four semesters. Which is pretty much everybody outside the United States. I know. It makes me feel very self-conscious, but I took four semesters in college of Spanish Brother and I can't even rip off a sentence.

Do you know how to say hello? Ola. I got a little in my bag. Dude, if you didn't know how to say, hello. I was going to go to your school and cancel that program. The whole like C's equal degrees, I took that to heart when it came to Spanish. Because I did my first two semesters right off the bat, freshman sophomore year, and then I pressed the snooze button for two years and try to jump back into it. Almost, yeah,

almost the reason I didn't get a college degree, Spanish. So when Bad Bunny's performing, that's what I'm thinking of. What a failure, failure I am. Eltenido, Sober la Mesa. Can you ask someone where the library is? where the library is in Spanish Dove? Oh, no chance. Donde is where, I think, right? Donde Librario is what I'm saying.

I'm hoping they understand. Donda Librario. But those who are like Trilingual and stuff blows my mind, man, because I was under the impression. I spoke English at two years old. This is going to be easy. Half a semester, I'm going to be ripping it, fluent.

And now it brings me to my next point. I'm still upset that ESPN left the Joker. off that list. Dude, he speaks like seven languages, bro. Well, I don't think that goes into your athleticism, but if it did, yeah. Seven, six more than me. I'm still just furious over that list by ESPN. Yeah, as you should be. Welcome to the set. The one and only, twin one. Kobe Cotton, how we doing? It's a true pleasure. You're back again.

I'm excited to be back. Went with the hat today. Yeah, I went with the hat today. I would describe the hat play as lazy overall. Well, yeah, you just don't have to get up as early, you know, you don't have to shower if you don't want to. Ty would love to hear that. He loves that kind of talk. But he thinks it's style play. I think it's a style sometimes. Mine's to cover up the shiny bald hair.

Did you get berated with hair text or something? Be real with us? Oh, gosh, that's poor timing. No, I should have come with it on full display. I've had people on both sides of the aisle come to me ever since the conversation. Some really praising it strongly. Some doubling down. I will say that I've been checking the comments more frequently ever since.

y'all mentioned it. It's been on your radar? I am all about it. Y'all, please continue to give your feedback. My wife really appreciates that there are people on her side of the, of the conversation that dislike it. And like I said, I'm here for it and it's here to stay. I mean, you do have a better haircut than Cody Jones. See, I actually kind of like Cody's. Is that put me in a really bad, uh, I would not really make everybody question my judgment even more. I thought it looked pretty good. This is a lot about you. Yeah, it does. It's the side profile of Cody's that really. It's a lot. It's a lot. It's a lot. I just feel like he's always been kind of like, you know, edgy, aggressive. He's just kind of, he's our, he's our strangest guy.

Well, I do want to, we can post this photo for the peeps too. We talked about last time Cody was here last week. We talked about his weight story. Yeah. He was 238. And he decided, uh, last night after the A&M weekend of taking his son and eating 17 funnel cakes. Sure.

To post a picture of him on a scale. Mm-hmm. 243.6, I believe. He's done it. in the 40s. He is on his way to three bills. If you, yeah, if he had stocks in his own weight, he's making money, because it's just climbing, man. Cashing out. At this point is he, like, I don't know what he's trying to do it. I should have got in early on his weight gain. I don't profited off of it. It's getting alarming, though. He's like making a joke out of it to the point,

like he's joking so frequently that he's actually acknowledging he needs help. I'll be honest. Oh, you think this is a cop. Me and Baca were side texting, by the way. Stephen Bacca, who appears in stereotypes where, and he was like, hey, are you. Are you, like, giving them the business verbally? Oh, dude, I... I said, I'll do more. I'll do more, Baca, I promise. I owe my life to Baca.

I mean, I remember, I think I was sitting in... We were in, like, a Panera bread or something, and I was eating my 16th cookie. And the twins were... We had just started. We were going to start working out. I was like, where are you guys going? This is right when we left.

Steven's going to, like, help us. This is right when we quit Dude Perfect full time. He's like, oh, we're going to go work out. out. I'm like, why? Why would you work out? Dude, I'm sitting there at like 2.30. Uh, I do weigh 172 right now. And this dude in six weeks, six weeks lost 50 pounds. You did. Yeah, I did. He didn't. He helped me, though. He got up. He got up every morning. This dude goes and trains kids around, uh, the Metroplex. And he got up before all that, met me at the gym at like 530. We got after it. And we got after it. I owe my life to that guy. And

Cody should take note. He needs to hit a Baca. It was a full group transformation. It's time. It's time. Jones was mid pretzel this morning. I was like 243, man. You keep going.

You're all due. He was eating pretzels? I have an opinion about this. I was actually kind of processing it when he sent that text out. As somebody who's 5'9, I have no scale in my head of what a 6-6 individual should weigh.

That's fair. It's actually kind of hard for me. Like when he sent out the text, I'm 238. I thought to myself, okay, I don't know. like how should I feel about you being 238 you're 66 right that's hard to relate

like should you be like in LeBron 280 I see I don't know like like what should maybe he's underweight like should somebody with a 6 6 6 frame who's put a little muscle on should he be 280 so you make a good point guys don't give him ideas guys don't give him ideas you make a good point scales are tough to read I mean you go to the doctor and you

know I'm called obese you know if you're just going straight off the scale it's all about muscle mass to me you know, I think Cody does have some muscle mass there. So I don't actually, I'm not alarmed with the 243. I think he could probably, you know. My point is I don't know whether to be alarmed. I'm not. I'm not alarmed.

I'm not alarmed. If he gets up to 275, I'm going to be alarmed. Again, I'm like, should I be? Maybe not. It's all about kind of. Could be healthier. It depends what it is. It depends on what it is.

That's what I'm trying to say. I think we've given him enough air. And it's not his hair because half of it's gone. He shaved off, you know. That's a great point. You can't blame the hair. So anyways. Enough about coach.

He's not here to defend himself, but he is posting it to the world to see. That he is. So we'll throw that on the... I do like the transparency out of it. We'll throw the scale pick on the video on. We'll have Baca in touch with them. All right, boys, you know I love a good game.

This one's going to be fun today. Talk to me. Sports are full of great memories, great feelings, but I want to talk about the best of the best. Let's debate a little top feeling in sport. It doesn't have to necessarily you've had to achieve this.

but just concocting some in your head. Peak sports feeling. Peak sports feels. What comes to mind? Hitting a three right in front of your bench in game seven with no time left on the clock where your team is once the ball hits the nets. You're down two in that moment.

You're getting absolutely just dog piled? Yeah. I think matters. I think matters. Like I think it's the instant payoff of it. It's really like winning the championship for your team. Yeah. All-L Jenkins, Villanova.

And he hit the winner with Brunton and then the walk off winter trail three. Did y'all ever hit any game winners in basketball? Yes, I did. Electric feeling. Let me tell it. Can I tell a story real quick? JV. What a story.

And I. What a way to welcome people that almost athletes. I found a plaque the other day. I'll bring it in. My wife and I were cleaning things out in our garage. And I found a plaque. And lo and behold, I was the MVP. of the JV basketball team.

I think everybody got one of those MVP trophies. That's so good. You know, that meant something. It meant something to me. Oh. And that's not the story. The story is that we are, we're making a run. We're making a run in the JV tournament at state.

And we're a few rounds in. And we're down two with two seconds left. And we have to inbound the ball full court. Okay. coach looks at me and he's like, you got this and I'm like, I got it, coach. I'm going to drop a dime. I'm going to throw this thing full court,

put it right where you need it. You tell me who you want me to throw it to. I got you. Ref hands me to ball. Can you move on the baseline? I did. I was able to move on the baseline. That matters.

That's an important detail. I don't remember if I took a step or not, but regardless, I mean, I was locked in. I knew I was going to throw it to, and he was going to hit the game winner. We had it all planned out. I visualized it in my mind. This is what it was going to be.

Ref hands me the ball, blows the whistle. I have my five seconds. One second, two second. Release. The ball's in the air. Flies, flies, flies, flies, flies. Hits the rafters, turn over. Oh, man.

Three too high. Hit the rafters. The other team has the ball. They inbound games over. We lose. Wow. I was hoping that would be a lot of editing that story. That was the lowest moment in my sports career.

You can chant it. You can hear the chance now in the crowd. MVP. And when the game, The game winner could have been that I robbed somebody of that moment. And you smoke the rafters. Hit the rafters. I blame the traveling gym we were at.

Who has a gym low enough? Yeah. That a poor JV kid could hit the rafter. You're playing JV ball. I mean, I'm not Joe Montana. You're playing JV ball. What do you expect? You know, you're not going to be playing at the American Airlines.

Is that not devastating? That is pretty devastating. What's the best moment in football? My brain, it's cool if you throw a touchdown that wins it, whatever. What about the Auburn Alabama game? he runs back the missed field goal. Kick six. Undefeated.

Like, is there a better moment in football? I don't think so. Ever than that. I mean, if you want to argue maybe the pads coming back from 208. In that way, it would be better. Boise State Fiesta Bowl. Oklahoma. Yeah, that's a big one.

That's a big one. That's a big ladder followed by the Statue of Liberty. That's up there. That's good. Good pool, Gare. Great pool, actually. So, like, that's not the Super Bowl, but like, that's a moment. Scoring a goal in overtime in hockey to win the cup.

Sure. That's happening. a couple times. Happened with the Dallas stars. Red hole. Penalty. Penalties or in or golden goal? Well, the playoffs and hockey,

they don't do shootouts. They don't. They don't. Okay, I got one. Olympics, 100 meter dash, world's fastest. Sure.

The moment happens. Not only do you win the race, but you're now the new world's fastest ever. It's tough. That one is a huge feeling, but it's like 10 seconds of your life. Yeah, but to be one of one. To be the world's fastest.

And it happened in that moment. I'm a little biased. I think I've already mentioned this. I was there. You love it. I was there this last one in Paris. My wife and I were in the building when Noah Liles did it. It was the most electric sports moment of my life, partly because it was so fast, Garrett.

So I'm just wondering, and again, this isn't about me in the crowd. This is about whoever feels that feeling. Is that moment better than the kick six? Is that moment better than the World Series walk off? Yeah, I'm going to throw in a couple more winning the Masters. Dude, that would be incredible. A 20-foot pot. That'd be crazy.

Me personally in my life right now, I get excited waking up without any pain in my knees. That's a win for me. That's one of the best sports feelings of all time is waking up with no knee pain. It's just like, dude, I'm still, I still got it. One more day. That's pretty good. No one's going to bring up bowl.

Bowling, bowling of 300 is like got to be one of the most. It's got to be cool. Yeah. But I kind of feel like people that are capable of bowling of 300 are going to do it again. So it kind of, it minimizes it to me. I mean, Belmonte has like how many 300? A lot. A lot.

I guess that one's so unachievable in my head that bowling of 300 is so far. Totally. It feels like the most achievable. I guess that's personal opinion. Out of the big moment? Probably. I agree. I think it's, I think it's the most achievable.

I mean, what about winning a World Cup with a PK? PKs just don't do it for me. Really? That moment, spotlight on you. I don't care. Those guys are so good. Put it in the upper net. There should never be a missed PK ever in the history of ever.

Let's just go from fifth to one. What are we putting in a five? Waking up with no knee pain. That was very well said. That doesn't get it. What's your number one sports feeling moment? What is it? I think an ace.

Hitting a hole in one in golf. There's, there's just people. people who play five decades worth of golf who have never hit an ace. I've talked. You all have an ace? No, I don't. Yeah, I do. Oh, you don't? Yeah, no. I do. I do. I did too. I did too. Did y'all ever hit any game winners in basketball? Yes, I did. Best feeling you could get. Hitting a game winning basketball shot.

No better feeling. I think it has to be some level of bias as somebody who didn't play football but did play basketball, but I think it's NBA finals, game seven. Same. Because you're going out there winning a shot. Crowd rushes. I think you've really got me on that one. When there's a rush the floor, the electricity is just heightened. Yeah. So honestly, I've never seen an NBA crowd rush the floor.

So it's probably, as I'm saying, I think it's college. I think it's national championship. Play the one shining moment song. Yeah. So Lightner. Littner has the best moment. That's the moment, do. Nova. Winning the national championship.

Or Chalmers. Dude, that one was incredible. Did Chalmers get one too? Chalmers sent it to overtime where they, get a number of overtime. Yeah. Nova for me was that moment watching. Like that's the one during my lifetime.

He made the bucket as the horn goes off. Confetti falling as the dog piles ensuing. Yeah. Does it get me better than that? You cannot eat that moment. I'll tell you an underrated one though is silencing the crowd from the free throw strike. You're the guy who's getting the ball to get fouled. You're up to and you knock down two and the crowd just, you just silence them.

Well, safe to say, boys, I don't think we came to a consensus here. I felt like we did basketball. I want to encourage the people to comment below. You know, this is actually completely against where you went, Spark. We cannot shut down rushing the field or the court. Yeah. Really? That's the moment.

It's the reason it's so great. No amount of money is going to stop. Either from an underdog perspective or a championship. It's here to stay. It's the crowd rush. It's the crowd rush. Let's just boost up security to protect the kids. Let's do it.

Well, comment below if you have a special feeling sports moment, or hit us up with the voicemail with your favorite feelings in sports and when you've personally experienced them. Sparks, before we say goodbye to Kobe. Yeah. The guys from Best Buy heard that you're watching sports on a 42-inch TV. They're worried about your eyesight, man. As am I?

They wanted to give you a little gift. Jackson. Yeah, we got a gift. No way. Bring it in. Yeah. No. Dude.

Don't be pulling my strings. Don't be taking my remote. This is wild. Whoa. Oh, eight and five inches courtesy of Best Buy? You could run octo boxes all night long. I'm going to be able to see the nose hair on Scott from this bad boy. You shouldn't fall asleep this Sunday, I'll say that.

Wow. This feels like it encourages complaining on this set. I mean, we just got to start bringing up all kinds of it. Well, I thought there was going to be two because I set this up. I'm a little disappointed right now that I don't have one either because I'm jealous. You catch an invite, Gary. I'll take an invite. She's pretty.

You'll watch all 85 inches at my crib, man. And while we're at it, Audi, I just reached 100,000 miles. No, I'm kidding. Shout out Best Buy. Thank you so much. The only problem is we're going to see if this even fits in my house, which is a good problem to have. Does it fit on the wall that you watch TV on? There's only one way to find out, Kobe.

I'm going to call my Mount Guy today, and we're going to figure it out. That ain't me. I'm not a get crafty guy. I'm about to do. Good luck with that. Red Zone the right way. Shout out Best Buy. Congratulations, Spark.

Wow. Almost athletes in Best Buy making dreams come true. Man. Wow. All right, Sparks, enjoy it. Thank you. Wow. You're emotional there.

Almost, hey. Almost bad week. Almost. Almost. Last week, Ty and Intern Jackson beat us at Connect 4 frenzy. But this week, I'm going to get my revenge by beating intern Jackson at another action-pack game, rebounds. I've been training all week long.

It's a great game to play with the family. And I've even learned how to do a trick shot or two with it. Yeah, I'm upset, Gary, because you still haven't invited me over. to play, but that's cool. I've been playing with lots of my friends and people around the office. It's been super fun. And my favorite part about rebounds is the rules are simple. You bounce the ball off the game at your opponents. If they don't catch it, you earn a point. First to 10 wins. It's even got a soft phone ball so you can play indoors and not worry about anything breaking, which is important if you're playing here in the podcast studio, Sparky. That's true. It's also got

three electronic game modes, lights, voice commands, and arcade-like sounds. And you can play with up to six players so your whole friend group or family can get involved. I can't wait to show off skills later when I take on intern Jackson. Redeem us, Garrett. You're in trouble, though, because he has been working on his game. Rebounce. Bounces to the action. Our guest is the first freshman ever to win the Heisman Trophy, an AP football player of the year, the only NCAA player to exceed 5,000 total yards and 1,000 yards rushing in a single season, and he did it all at Dude Perfect's alma mater, Texas A&M. Give it up for the one and only Johnny

football. Johnny Manzell. What's up, guys? How we doing, Deuce? I like that you said, dude perfect's alma mater. Like, he didn't, he doesn't get credit for that. Yeah. He doesn't get credit for graduating there. Do you perfects alma mater or Johnny's the only guy wearing an Aggie ring today is, you know?

Yeah. I don't just hand those things out, do they? No. Where are we supposed to have it to do you donkey ring? You're supposed to have it. You don't want to ask me. You're supposed to have it facing in. Okay, good. You know, I don't see y'all ring up much anymore.

Yeah. Tevy, dude. Is it just a game day thing now? Well, it's sometimes if I throw a basketball or football, it flies off and don't want to lose it. Well, you keep your wedding room. Sometimes you shake people's hand too and you don't get like a phone grant. Oh, my God, it's the worst. If they short hand you and they get the fingers, you don't get back in the ball. It's the worst.

It's the worst. It's nice. I don't worry at all that much, but it's football season. We could use all the luck we could possibly get. No doubt. Yeah, man, sitting undefeated the eggs. How are you feeling about the A&M squad this year? I feel good.

Obviously, second year of Elko, I think things currently where they sit are better than what we've expected. And they're in the right direction. I did the nightcap show with Shannon and Ocho on Saturday, and they were asking me the same question. And, you know, you have to look at it in a way of like, if our defense plays like that, you look and you look around the offense, the way we're running the ball, the way Marcel's playing,

you have the pieces there to do what you need to do. Yeah. With the playoff being what it is and being able to have a couple losses and still probably get in, you would have to think our chances of getting into the playoff are pretty high. what you do with that. And, you know, it was obviously a game at a time when you get to that point. But, you know, I think for once we have the pieces, is it, are we cursed?

Like, you know, like, you know, like, to be determined. Since 1939, man. What were we last year? Seven and one. Sure. Go eight and four. And it's just like, you know, I, I'm very positive about it. And, you know, I've talked to Marcel after every game.

and it's one of those things where you want to go to Northgate and you want to celebrate and go out with the guys and have a good time and of course. But like when the next day comes around, go harder. Like really get in the film room and get on the practice field and go harder. Because if you can get these guys together and rally together and really like hold them accountable,

just create a real bond in a brotherhood that I think you see with this team, but just stronger, better. Because at the end of the day, when you look around and you think about the LSU team that won the Natty with Burrow, those guys were brothers. Those offensive were so just tapped in to one another. You have to have that. If you look at the good teams throughout college football history, that's what you see.

The BAMAs, the Florida teams from the past, guys who really rock for each other. So, you know, it's hard in the NIL era when, I'm not. Guys are making so much money and it can get very, like, individual and guys worried about themselves or they're wanting to transfer. If you have a bad week and just how it goes. So, you know, look, A&M's in a good spot right now, you just have to go in and take care of business. So we met you, it was after, and it was during freshman year. Yeah. And we met your aunt.

I don't know. Aunt Kathy. And we were at, what gas station were we at? It was at the Taco Casa On the way down to HANNM. Dude, and we We ran into, it's a dangerous game to play.

We ran into Ant Cat. And then like that night after the game, we like went on your grandpa's RV and kind of got brought into the Mansell family, which was pretty, pretty unreal. But, you know, then we go to like all the parties

with George Whitfield and stuff. Like, man, those are good times. George was great. George was a key part of helping me develop as a football player, as a passer. I think the spring ball ended in 2012, like whatever that was, like May, June, and we were getting ready to go to summer school. I could not have been playing worse.

You know, I was probably third or fourth on the depth chart behind Jokal and Jamil, and Matt Davis was probably even playing better than me at that time. And I remember my mom being like, you're going to this guy in California, and you don't have a say in it at all. And you're doing dropbacks in the sand on the beach. Three step, five, step, seven, step. Naked bootlegs in the sand. I always wondered how much that actually helps. Dropbacks in the beach.

Or is it just great weather and a great place to practice? I think it's just more about having a really sturdy base. Yeah. Because it's very easy if you just get knocked off your base. And that's what you want to have as you're moving up in the pocket and sliding up on these throws and avoiding guys. Just trying to create a strong base and have a little resistance as you're dropping back a little bit. but he definitely did some interesting things

that you didn't see with a lot of people, but we did something after the Heisman year when we went back in 2013 where we would put a receiver on the left, like 10, 15 yards, one on the right, and then like a checkdown in the middle, and we'd put a blindfold on. And then you would do like a seven-step drop

and then he'd have one of the receivers clap, and we just got to the point where we could just hit these guys with a blindfold on. And it was really, really interesting. interesting just be able to not see anything but still be able to go through your fundamentals and like you know step right position what you need to do and it took us a little while to do it and then we got really good at it so would you say that like uh before the nio like a person went to a school based on like kind of you know what you just mentioned like how good a team was like if a team

you're committed goes you know three and nine and you like would you decommit to another school but now like NIL's here so it's like all based on money so it's not about the record really I guess it depends though like if you want to be a piece and your catalyst to change it yeah three and nine program and turn it 10 and 2 like we were 6 and 6 in 2011 and then we go 11 and 2 or whatever that's different you know that's program changing for us and you know it was really hard man 2011 was really really hard um I would do that seven step drop and throw eight year comeback and

Tannahill liked these balls that were brand new out of the wrapper and so slick and they would

put me in sometimes and I would do a seven step drop and I remember there was one time I launched one of 45 yards

over the comeback's head and like hit the top of the indoor and all the coaches looked at me what the what was that

and I'm like dude I can't throw these balls and they're like well Tanahill likes him I'm like this sucks

so much It's so bad. And at the end of that year, I mean, we went to Lubbock that year. We went to Ames, Iowa. We went to Manhattan, Kansas. We went to some really rough spots that were like, stadiums were cool or whatever, but, like, it was just not like, I'm like, this isn't college football. This is, I don't need something better than this.

And to be honest, Jamil Showers is one of the best throwers of the first throwers of the football that you'll like ever see this guy through the tightest spiral and had a cannon but he was like definitely if sherman was playing he was the next guy that was going to play so i'm like i got to get to the spread i got to get to shotgun some zone read and like do some stuff like that and then we play in the miniki car car car bowl sick they have great gifts for you guys at that one it was just in houston i remember uh free rental cars on a i remember getting the per diem and me and spencer neely and hudson prelude all went out one night and um i'm pretty sure i threw up in the uber on the way back and i had to give them all my prudium money to clean that up

that's where your bad uber rating came from i was pretty upset about that but we did have a good time um and then we like i think we barely win that game or something but they fired sherman like maybe before during our bowl practice or right before our bowl practice at the end of the season. That was a tough Texas game for us that year. Justin Tucker. Walk off. And then to have someone come in in Kingsbury. And you guys remember the Case Keenham Houston days and what they were doing every Saturday,

like three years in a row of almost 6,000 passing yards? It was best to watch on a Saturday. And then they come in. and the offense was just like so easy and so fast. And Kingsbury was such a good coach that it was like, okay, this is, you know, this is what I was waiting for because I was already looking to transfer in December. I was really wanting to go to TCU

because I think they would have let me play both sports. You say both sports, baseball? Mm-hmm. And TCU was just, they were good. Andy Dalton had just left. They were in the Rose Bowl every year. They kind of were looking for a quarterback. And that's kind of where I originally wanted to go out of high school, too,

but I never got the offer. Let's rewind it. About 15 or so years ago, you meet these guys to the Johnny Football Edition. What do you remember about that video and what do you specifically remember about these guys? You know, when you guys came to College Station and we did that, you know, we did the video. I was like, okay, I know some familiar faces. And we had a good time. I think it was just a fun day and a fun.

fun video. Like, as you look back at it now, I look like I was 12 years old. We all look a little bit better. I was going to say that, Ty. You had a great day throwing the ball around, so we had a good challenge. I mean, I'd seen your videos, but it wasn't like, you know, like, I can't throw. What are we talking about here? I think Ty was like 400 pounds back then. Golly, it looks like it was filmed in the 60s. There is.

God, I look like I'm 400 pounds. Ghaly, I was, I was, I had to be 230. Dude, I was too, bro. That looks like Zach Martin. Gares got hair. I was 230. Dude. Oh, man. What year was it? Was this right after the

Heisman? This was right after the Heisman, I think. Yeah, this was right after. God, those were good. It was chilly. Wendy. Do you remember the shot from the top up there? Of course. How many, how many? I always tell people it was the second. It was it. No, it was, we went through a bag.

We went through one bag. No, no, tie. We had to bring a bag back up. Yeah, we had to wait for one. Like, one, it was maybe like, we took whatever balls we had left up there, like six, eight balls. Yeah, but we threw a couple to see if we could even, before we put the goal there. Before we could even get it to the track.

But I would say it probably, it was under 10, maybe, I would think. Yeah. No, no, no. You guys are, you guys are all misremembering this. We started the shot at the third deck, but on the front row. That's where the bag came into play. we had like three left in the bag and one of you were like

let's go all the way back up let's go all the way up top yeah and so we had like three and you literally made it on the last ball which was insane I remember throwing it off the top there and it's kind of old Kyle field that field had those empties

and it would get so windy but crazy when it's worst it's such a genuine it's such a genuine reaction when you see it and when it happens you're just kind of like Because none of us expected it. No.

The first couple that you throw, you can barely get it to the track. I think Trave was down there too, wasn't he? Yeah, I think Trave is down there. Like, that's one you can throw on a laser. Yeah. The other one was just like you had to launch it. I think you called your mom right after too. That's how excited you were.

Yeah, here it is right here. Yeah, very top. You do look like an absolute child. Yeah. That's base camp in San Diego paying off right there. That's genuine selling for sure. We were like, there's no way. This goes in.

There's no way. Yeah, that was funny. Jones, man. What a unique-looking group of individuals. What a better stadium it is now. It is. If your Heisman year just started, NIL, what are you going back to the coaches? What's your yearly payment?

I mean, if Arch is making eight, it's got to be at least 10 plus. 10 plus. Especially with how much money A&M was throwing around at that time. I mean, the crazy thing was I asked, my dad asked Sumblin for three, and he laughed. So it would have been cheap. Even with inflation, that's pretty cheap. You still close to Mike? Yeah, we did the Hall of Fame stuff a couple years ago.

He came on the podcast this year. And then, like, I don't make it to Houston that much, but, you know, we'll talk every month or so and keep in touch and FaceTime here and there and the offseason and stuff. But I really just let him do his thing, man. I think he, you know, he's a family man. He's got his kids now and Ashley, who's great. I don't know how much longer we're going to see him playing.

Yeah. Yeah, I think it's one or two years. Me and Trave went up to Lambo a few years ago when they played the Packers up there and got to see him play in there. That was really cool. I'd never been up there to Lambeau before, but that was a experience. I mean, what he's done is legendary. I mean, it really is.

You look and say. First Battle of Hall of Famer? Yeah, I think so. Is he the best football players? to ever play at Texanem? No. Who is? I would say there's a guy sitting on this couch that's pretty good, man.

Mike's a better player than me. He lasted long. I mean, he was around longer. He's a better player. That's crazy to hear. Mike is a better player. I think you can maybe put Vaughn up there in the mix. Yeah, Miles Garrett's up there. Four miles.

Cleveland? I've spoken up. Yeah. That's good. That's good. All right. Speaking of best players, like, who's your top five Heisman winners of all time? As far as their seasons?

No, just like, like, if you had a rank, like, just, yeah. I mean, I guess it would go off seasons because that's how you win the Heisman. Joe Burroughs probably got the best Heisman season of all time. Just from a stats perspective, it was insane. I mean, he blew a lot of the records out in the SEC. It'll probably never be touched because of how many games they played and stuff. I mean, I guess you could do it now. with what the playoff is

but that's got to be up there Cam for sure those two I think Marriota had a really good year the year he won it Bakers is obviously pretty good and then people are going to want to go back to the past and say you can't forget about like

I didn't I mean I was born in 92 I didn't get to see these like Heisman years and stuff so I can only go you know based off what I know but those are four for sure. I'm sure there's somebody

that I'm missing. I think Jamis's was really impressive as well, to be honest. You know, back to back. John David Crowe. Is this your road to glory over here? Yeah, well, Johnny, I was about to tell you, you might not be the only freshman to win the Heisman pretty soon.

You look at our current DPU 2025, Heisman, me and Tyler got to pick out a suit and head to New York here in a couple weeks. The world takes some fashion advice from it. If you want to dress us, you can. How many weeks are you into the season? We actually have A&M as our last Is it home game?

Is it home? Yeah. We're getting a little head person. Yeah, well, that's funny you bring that up because the people let it be known that, hey, they saw right through we weren't playing on Heisman. We were all American and so we had to change it and things have gotten a little more difficult. The last two weeks, we've moved up to Heisman, and we're going to be playing A&M for our last regular season game.

You really got to manage it on Heisman, you know? I don't just hand you W. Crowd noise really gets to you on Heisman. I've not played this game yet since it came out. It's a great game. You can argue I play it too much. Yeah. think about recruiting you for the pandas if you're looking at coming back.

We'll think about adding you to the squad. Is this year better than last year? Yeah. Gameplay-wise and stuff? I think so. Yeah, yeah. It's the best game. We have a voicemail line now, and I think a question came in for you.

What's up, guys? Something I've kind of thought about. You know, Johnny Football was one of the people that felt like revolutionized college football is play style, and I know y'all are huge Aggie fans. So here's my big question. If Johnny Mansell played in today's arrow at... the whole NIL, do you think Texas A&N sells out for him or do you think they let him go? What do you mean? Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, I wouldn't have left no matter what. You would have come back. I could have got a $20 million offer from somewhere else and I wouldn't have left. The only place that I would have even considered if the money was that way would be to go reunite with Kingsbury. Just because I loved him that much and it was like really, it was tough for him. I went over to his apartment when he decided the night he was going to take the tech job and it was like he was really emotional about it

I was too because we had built such a bond like man that Heisman year was special to go to New York together and like do that was sick and I love that dude so much and for him to have to sit there and tell me like man I got to go man I don't want to and I want to run this back but I have to

It's my alma mater. It's my first head coaching job. Like, I want to go and try and turn a program around that I once, like, lead. And he goes, see anything in this apartment? I, like, look around. Yeah, he goes, it's all yours if you want it. Like furniture, every piece of coaches gear, everything. So I came with the truck the next day and took all of it.

Took it every bit of it. You don't got to tell me twice. I took it every bit. He was just so real. So that would have been the only guy that I would have ever even considered leaving A&M for. I think they would have also had a hard time paying. No. Aggie's run deep, man. He's run deep.

What they're doing at Texas Tech right now, they have as much money as anybody. Cody Campbell and what he's doing there is the real deal. They're going to buy their way into that terrible conference that they're in. It's so bad. Oh, that's so good. What's your final prediction on the A&M team? Like if you had to make it, you think we go 10 and 2? Yeah.

Do we lose to Texas? It's at one of our two losses. Let's see here. I mean, it's just going to, we've got to get competitive in that game. Last year we never had a chance to win that game. Yeah, their defense is solid. We never had a chance to win that game. For all the people at Texas that talk bad about Quinn yours,

you owe him an apology to the max. He's a good player. was a good player. Should have come back, though. He should have transferred somewhere else. I mean, I heard that offer from Notre Dame was pretty high. He should have transferred somewhere else for sure. Oh, is that the schedule?

You look at it, there are potentially three losses on there, I would think, if you don't handle your business. Yeah, you hope it's not more than that. Yeah. You hope it's not more than that. If it's more than that, you really just blew up and some guys got hurt. Yeah. And some things happen. Because I think, like I said earlier, from a receiver standpoint, running back.

full team standpoint. Our O-line's playing good. Our defensive line is aggressive. Our special teams have been really good. So I see two. I love it. I see two, but you, I mean, if you beat Texas, you can get out of there with one.

For us to win double digits this year would be, that's huge for our program. I agree. We didn't get to get to that number. Kellins last year when we went to the Orange Bowl because of the COVID year and they missed some games and stuff, or they would have. You're involved in Special Forces TV show?

Tell us a little bit about that. Amazing experience. The first episode just came out this week. It was the first time my niece, Blythe, has ever seen me on TV like that. How funny was it, Mary? I was in tears laughing. It gave me a lot of joy. She was crying and so happy to see me doing that,

and I got beat up pretty good in the first episode. And I knew it was coming and I've been waiting for it. And it gets better for me as the show goes on because I really felt like I started to catch a stride. But immediately, 4.30 in the morning, hop on the vans, take you to the location, get you miced up. And then you're kind of starting to see who's on the show. We're all sitting there together and just like getting to know each other a little bit. And then boom, it's on. They put you on a bus.

Cameras are in your face. Take you about an hour away to a location. And you pull up. and there's bombs going off, and there's a bunch of guys up on the hill with rifles and stuff, and they're screaming. It looks like the Taliban, and the staff comes on the bus and just one at a time,

grabs you, puts a bag over your head, ties your hands together, and just takes you off the bus and throws you. Put you on the concrete. They line us all up. They're, like, walking you through, and you're just stepping on somebody's head and stuff, and then when you're laying down, somebody steps on you,

and it's like, whoa, right out of the gate. At first, when the bombs were going off and, I'm looking at the people up on the hill I'm kind of just like, okay, what are you going to shoot me? And so I wasn't really taking it very serious and then once they throw you on the ground you're kind of like, whoa.

Still not fun to get stepped on. They put us all in the line and then took us out to the location and made us do some drills and stuff, fully clothed in whatever you wore. So I'm in sweatpants and a hoodie thinking that we're going to change before and my Travis Scott's

I just paid for. I'm like, And they're like getting this mud pit. I'm like, oh, man, don't have to. Don't do it to travel. I'm going to have to send Travis. I'm going to have to send Travis. And be like, can I get a new pair, please?

But yeah, we go through that and they're like doing push-ups in the water and they're taking your head and dunking it under the water. And then they're like, okay, get dressed. And then go to another location and the helicopter comes in. They're like, some guy just jumps out of the helicopter and repels out. And they're like, all right, six of you guys up first, go. And then you just jump out of a helicopter right away. and then it just gets more wicked as it goes on.

Safe to say there's no personal fouls in the special force. There's no in sportsmen like conducts. All right, real quick, Billy Lucie has a couple questions. One, he said, bring up the story about you getting drafted while you were at a swimming pool or bring up the Scooby-Doo costume when Cliff reacted to it. Let's bring up Billy's goatee for me. The weekend I got drafted by the Padres. I was in Austin, and that was the swan swimming pool on the rooftop, which I guess that's a decent story.

I think Billy just likes that one because he was actually there that night, and I let him go out with me. And then Scooby-Doo was great, man. Last-minute decision on Halloween. Somebody, one of my boys, had that costume that they wore the year before. I'm like, go get it. Let's just go out and wear this thing. And, you know, full Scooby-Doo outfit with the head on top and everything. And we just went to Northgate and rocked it.

And, like, we were in just such a good mood and, like, taking pictures with everybody and didn't really care. And this was the start of the Snapchat, you know, Twitter, Instagram days. And just to wake up the next morning, it was like a Thursday or something. You know, we're traveling somewhere on Friday. We're playing a game on Saturday in the SEC. And it's like, you know, this kid's out of his mind. And I think it was Mississippi State. And they got manhandled.

They did, dude. You absolutely slayed that game. Scooby snacked on them? I'm pretty sure it was Mississippi State. No. No. No, this was Tyler. You only played once.

Tyler Russell. We played twice. We played them at home the next year against Jack, and they were a lot better. Yeah. Kingsbury was like, you better play well. Or you're, I'm coming after you, dude. Or what? He's going to run me. He'll sit me on the field every day.

and just murder me with sprints after practice and stuff. Johnny, we love to gamify everything around here. So we're going to play a little game before we set you off. Real or fake athlete nicknames? I'm going to give two nicknames. You tell me which one's real bonus points. If you can tell me which athlete it is. T-sizzle or Q Nasty?

Which one's the real nickname for somebody? T-sizzle. T-sizzle. Do you know who that is? No. Terrell Sugs. Okay. I didn't know that one. I didn't know that one.

Which is the real nickname? The Doctor of Dunk or the Minister of Defense? administered defense. Who is it? It's correct. Packers great. Reggie White. Easy too soon.

Reggie White. That's a boy, Johnny. The Tower of Power or the Whammy from Miami? Tower of Power. Tower of Power is correct. Former NBAer. It's got to be a big guy then. Oh, what's it?

He's an older school player. Old school player went by a different name in his college days. Changed his name. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I was going to say that. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The Mighty Chihuahua. Or crime dog.

Gotta be Chihuahua. I'm gonna go crime dog. Crime dog is correct. Wow. Baseballer. Crime dog? I don't think I would have gotten this. A Tampa Bay.

Chihuahua would have been. Chihuahua would have been out too, they. If you wouldn't have got it, I definitely wouldn't have got it. I could name a single Del Rey. Devil Ray from back in the day. Fred McGriff or you know? Oh, wow. I used to have a Fred McGriff card.

The Iron Horse or Mountain Goat. Shirley Iron Horse. Iron Horse is correct. A baseball legend. Hitcher? No. Shortstop. No.

Yankee grape. That's what I was going with. Daryl Strawberry. Not quite. Lou Gehrig. The glide or slimer? The glide. The glide?

Clyde. Drexler. That a baby. Clyde Drexler. Correct. The flying squirrel or the killer koala? Flying squirrel. Flying squirrel is correct.

Gymnist? Ooh. Carly Patterson. Gabby Douglas. Gabby Douglas. Didn't have gotten that one either. The freezer or the microwave? Microwave.

Microwave. Correct. NBA or old school, though. He cooked. He cooked. These aren't layups. I barely made the 80s, dude. I would spend seven months in the 80s. The microwave's Vinnie Johnson. Yeah, never already got that.

Goatman or moose. Moose. Yeah, we all know who that is. Oh, yeah. Darrell Johnson. The Splendid Splinter or the Neckbreaker? Neckbreaker. No, it's the Splendid Splinter.

Never heard that. Which I don't know if I've ever referred to this baseball player. It's a splendid splinter. And I don't think I will. Tim Wakefield. His body's frozen Just in case they bring it back Ted Williams

Okay He's like frozen in a lab I still think he gets a real fast Yeah that's true Okay This one of my favorites Humpty Dumpty or Skip to my Lou You know

Rayfer Alston from the N1 mixtape tour Oh Not from street ball To the league Not many people did that White lightning I was a big professor guy

Yeah Oh we're now okay I loved him White Lightning or chocolate Thunder Chocolate Thunder Chocolate Thunder Darrell Dawkins.

The last one, the Norwegian nightmare or the Korean zombie? Korean zombie. He knows his MMA. That's UFC. Yeah. Forget his name. He's current fighter stoke. Changsong, Jung.

Sound correct? Yeah, sounds correct. We'll call him a Korean zombie. We'll call the Korean zombie. We'll call you Johnny football. Appreciate you, Johnny. Always a pleasure to have you to tell. We certainly love and respect you brother.

Keep going, man. I'm going to see a lot more of you guys for sure. Sounds good. I'm going to Dallas. we'll play some golf. I definitely got to bring the nieces by to the warehouse or something one day and let them run around. So keep going, man. Keep crushing it. It's been amazing to see. And I don't see it slowing down anytime soon unless you guys want it to.

So keep it up. Thanks, brother. Thanks. Thanks for having me, boys. Thanks and gig them. Gaggum, as always. We're back with a familiar face. Corey Cotton, Twin 2. Does that bother you, by the way? Twin 2. I mean, you technically are because you were born a minute late. A tiny bit.

What part irks you? Just two is worse than one. According to who, though? Numbers. Johnny Mattel would disagree. There's a lot of twos out there, dude. Of all days to be proud of being number two, it's today. Yeah.

That's a good point. Hey, you guys are bringing you back right now. Yeah. I think you embrace it, dude. Thank you. Thank you. I have embraced it for sure. I was born second.

It is what it is. Let's make the most of it. Twin number two. For what it's worth, I don't feel like you have twin two tendencies. I think I do. I feel you come off as a one a lot, though. Thank you. I feel like you overpower your brother sometimes.

Sure, sure, sure. We have our moments. Corey, as you're familiar in episode three, we unveiled a new hotline where people call in, give us wild sports, take, maybe some parenting questions. If you want to call in, it's 972-805-8866. That's 972-805-8866. Leave us a message.

And we might feature you in the next week. You can also find that number at almostathletes.com. Don't know what we're really getting into here. We kind of set ourselves up here for some. possible tough questions. But what do y'all say? We take some phone calls from the fans. Before we do, before we do, I've been asked by so many people.

This wasn't a voicemail, but it might as well. It might be the first voice mile we listened to. Corey, is overtime coming back? You know, this question, I will admit that we've let it linger for longer than we should have. Guys, I just want to look into your souls right now. Overtime is coming back. We have not bailed on overtime forever yet. we have let it take a little too long to create our next set,

but we are holding out for an unbelievably special OT50 reveal. We need you guys to be patient with us for just a little bit longer, but whoever continues to comment is overtime dead. Why do you guys not make overtime anymore? Rest easy. Well, you gave the easy answer. Here's the truth. Here's the truth.

Me and Corey went on strike. We were done with Wheel Unfortunate, and we said until our name's out of that hat. I forgot about that petition. We are not doing it. And they finally, Ned finally was like, you know what, I'm going to take your name out of the hat. Man, I didn't know y'all were on strike.

And we were, dude. And I couldn't do it anymore. I couldn't take Ned. Simple negotiating tactics that we used and it took that. Yeah. I'm glad you cleared the air with the fans, though, because there's a lot of people. Strikes over.

And lastly, before we get into the voicemails, dude perfect. The hero tour is out in theaters. Launched last Friday. Yep. And so I encourage you guys to take the fan. go see it. Yeah, the clock's ticking.

It's fun. Not much time left to view that thing in theater, so jump on it. All right. Without further ado, fan voicemails. So, we created a hotline. We're just... And we got a lot of feedback. Props to the people out there.

I just kind of play a voicemail. How many total did we get? Like, north of 200? North of 200. Yeah. I think 75 of those are my mom, but I appreciate your mom. Did you leave a voice? She makes it.

Yeah, I left one in it. Yeah, I did too. That's great. All right. I can't wait. Let's get to it. I think we're just going to play the voicemail, correct? All right.

Let's go. How's it going, guys? My name's Landon, currently driving on my way to work. I want to say, big fan of the podcast. Absolutely love it. Question I have is, are esports professionals considered athletes? You got to think about it, right? Hand-eye coordination, a lot of mental, a lot of things in relation to it.

Let me know your thoughts. Curious, do you think that e-sports professional? professionals are athletes. Again, love the show. Love you guys. And hope to hear this. Hope you hear your guys' thoughts. So, Sparks, you lead Dude Perfect Gaming. Yes.

So your opinion is really the only one that matters here. Yes or no, two Landin's question. Are e-sports athletes athletes? Quick answer. No, they're not. Long answer. I can still marvel at the hand-eye coordination, the ability to overcome the blue light,

which is tough. You game for like four straight hours. The high fatigue is a real thing. I could not agree with you more. But the answer is no. The answer is no. Also, I will admit, when you're in your bag and you're in the flow state, I used to feel it in Halo back in the day. It's a happy place. You feel like an athlete. Yes, you do. You feel invincible. You feel athletic when your controller takes over the body of your Halo character and you throw the perfect grenade or throw a touchdown to tie in our recent. DPU vids. I mean, you do feel like an athlete, so I get where it's coming from. But from the almost athlete cast, we're here to say, no. And that is why I have an upper hand on both of you guys. Never played video games. Skipped it.

I was outside doing real sports. Fair. And it shows on the court. I could be a full-blown athlete. It wouldn't even be almost athletes if I didn't game, is what you're telling me? It's crazy. Okay, hey, thanks for the question, Landon. Thank you, Landon.

We love you, too, brother. Let's go to the next one. If millennials and Jin Z had to fight for dominance in a Chucky Cheese ball pit, who's calling out alive? That is a phenomenal question. I think I have my answer. I have a very strong answer. I want to hear yours.

Go for you. Let's say it all on the count of three. One, two, three, millennials. Yeah. Yeah, no offense to our interns. But guys, you know what a Chucky Cheese is, dude. Number one, they couldn't find the Chucky Cheese. Yep.

They were at home gaming like you were just talking about. They never even left their house. Number two, I think it's factual. Gosh, I'm going to get in trouble. So I'm not that strong of a person, but I think it's factual that millennials are physically stronger than Gen Z. I think they're the soft generation. I don't know where you pulled that out.

Have you heard that? I read an article and it could be one of the best stats. I think it's factual that the strength levels have gone down significantly in Gen Z. And it may just be untrue. And I'm sorry, Jackson and Graham. Hit the gym, Gen Z. Well, first of all, they're going to get in a ball pit and try to like find Pokemon or something. I don't know what they're going to do, but they're going to be doom scrolling.

They're not going to be even fighting. They'll be doom scrolling. Yeah, that was an easy one. Millennials. Now, if you said millennials versus whatever came before us, is that boomers? Dad strength? That would be tough one. That would be all out.

What was it? Gen X. Gen X navigates that ball pit. Been there done that. Gen X versus Millennials is an absolute dog fight. That game's going to be one in the trenches, for sure. Oh, yeah. Who wants it more?

That one's got better ratings, for sure. We got more of a chip on our shoulder. I want to say this about the ball pit, though, as I've gotten older, become more of a germ freak. Wasn't really a thing in the past. COVID had to have started a ballpark. The amount of germs in that ball pit. Yeah.

I may hop out before a Gen Z or just out of lack of cleanness. People used to urinate in the ball pit. My point. Exactly. I think I did back in the day. Those B pits pits, you never know what you're going to find in there, ma'am. Yeah.

That or the foam pits, like at the gymnast place or like a... Dude, the phone pits are scary, especially if you go all the way to the bottom. Yeah. That's like a Hershey kiss down there. That's not a Tutsie roll down there. Dude, you should go, we, we cleaned out. We cleaned. We cleaned.

That's a visual. That's crazy. It's hitting hard right now. We cleaned out our phone pit when we moved to offices. We did. Dude, we found a treasure test of things. Like, it's crazy. Money?

Money, shoes, belts. I don't know how belts got in there. All right, that's a great question. That was a good one. I need a hard hitter because that one, again, was too easy, dude, millennials. Oh, they're coming. Buckle up. My hot take is that field goals and football are too easy nowadays.

and it's way too easy to win the point and win the game off of them. They should be removed. We did just talk about it. Do we have a name for this person? No, we don't. Nameless caller. Thank you for your question. It really was more of a statement than a question.

Yeah, it was. We were just having this conversation the other day. Field goals are getting too easy. And it's not because they've actually gotten easier. It's because people are just getting better at it. Pickers stronger faster across sport. Guys are hitting home runs further. Yeah.

Kickers are kicking them from distance. I think we're headed down a road where the field goal is becoming you know, it's losing it's Yeah, it's just so easy for kickers nowadays There's something you can do to spice it up There's going to be a 90 yard kick in our lifetime I think 90s in play I think 90s in play. I think 90s in play

A given which is crazy What's a good comp for this in another sport? Free throw? Yeah, maybe backing up the free throw line Is there a strong movement happening? I wonder what? The free throw has gotten significantly easier Well, it's about to probably the same

I bet the field goal kicking average and free throw average, I bet are actually pretty similar in terms of makes. What about PK? That's crazy thought. PK and soccer. Yeah, that would be the player comp to soccer for the field goal. I still think we're in a world where field goals matter, but we are approaching a rule change.

Narrow it by a couple yards each side. Or kick a teammate through the uprights would be cool. What if you kicked a teammate through the uprights? Oh, that's, you know, you get a smaller, smaller teammate. Yeah, on our team, I think. You can use them in a goal line package. I've always thought this goal line package. I saw this on TikTok the other day.

What's preventing somebody from handing the ball to a smaller... Throwing them over the goal line. That is a phenomenal O-C play. We're going to see someone do that in the league because you just said that. Jerry Jones credit us, almost athletes. When you do that, he's always on the first foot. All you're asking for is literally like two seconds. You have two guys and you have three.

Can you have three in the backfield? Yeah, yeah. Okay. You have two guys and the guy behind you hiked the ball. The two guys skits on their. knee, he jumps, you throw him up. This is blowing my mind right now. That should be legal, right?

Under the current rules? I think so. Because there's leverage on defense. You can't do that on defense to block a punt or anything. You can't use leverage off your own team. Correct. But on offense, tush push. Yeah.

They're saying you practice that Monday through Friday and then all of a sudden execute on a Sunday, a double dismount toss to the end zone. Just saying. Cirque d'olet or whatever is coming to the NFL, baby. Look, we got time for one more voicemail. Oh, try that again, Jared. That was some weak...

Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead and blow that whistle again, Jared. That was a puberty whistle. You mean, this is what I just talked to the refs on this game about being a little more just... Assertive. You've got to be assertive on the whistle blow. Say it with your chest. Go ahead.

There we go. That's a personal foul whistle right there. That's our two-minute warning, which usually means Garrett and I each get 60 seconds to say whatever is on our mind. But today we're doing things a little differently. An intern Jackson is going to help us out. Corey, thanks for joining us. You're the man. Appreciate you. 21 in my book, dude. 21 in my book. Thanks. You always will be. Last week, intern Jackson and Ty beat me and Garrett at Connect 4 frenzy. So today, Garrett, we're going to exact some revenge playing a little game that I like to call Rebounce. And this segment is brought to you by Rebounce. Bounce into the action. And reminder, boys, here's how Rebounce works. You'll bounce the ball off the game board. If the person fails to catch it, that's a point. First to 10 points is your winner. Are you ready?

It just got real. Goes for the softy, then a quickie. Oh, it did make contact. Point Jackson, one zero. Oh, well done. Ooh, a faking. Oh. Oh, might have a Bruce Sternin by the time he leaves.

What a shot there, a backhand clinical finish. Garrett on the board. High Flyer, three two. Oh! No contact, ball hit ground. Point Jackson. Jackson halfway home. Oh, no.

You don't want to see that. No. We missed board. Missed board. Whoa. Oh, Gary. This is so annoying. Dos Moss.

No. Well done. Really good touch. What a finish. Five, eight. Oh. Six. Oh, the left hand snag.

Count it, Gary. That comeback is here. No. Ain't all. Yeah. Helpy. Dude. Game point.

Allie Upped it. Play on. Wow. A tiger fist pump to boot. Sorry, Jackson. Let it sing. Garrett, with that incredible rebounds effort, you, my man, get the two-minute rant. I'm going to start off the rant saying, this is a great time for America in general to get in shape.

This is just brutal. I am winded from playing rebounds. But after watching this weekend, what I want to rant about is a couple things. Number one, sports rules. We talked about it earlier in the pod. There's just a bunch of dumb rules that have to get changed. The half point for withdrawing from a match, the overtimes. I mean, the list goes on and on.

But really, America talking to you, we got to be better. We got to be better on how we treat athletes. We're there to watch a game. We're there to see them. You're on the bench. You're, are they almost athletes? Let's encourage them. Let's not berate their families.

I mean, that's kind of crazy. There's a line. We crossed it. Apologies to Europe. And we're going to beat you in Ireland. All sad. I need to go get some water. Are we done here?

You're good. You're good. Go get some water. Looks like our time's up. Thank you for tuning in. Follow almost athletes on all socials. Like on YouTube. Almost athletes is a wave original.

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