Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect - Dude Perfect: Nick DiGiovanni Thanksgiving Side Dish Draft | Tyler Doesn't Use Soap?! | Full Episode

Episode Date: November 19, 2025

The Dudes met up with celebrity chef Nick DiGiovanni on a cruise for an epic Thanksgiving Side Dish draft and food cutting competition. Plus, Sparky gives his NFL power-rankings, the Dudes discuss Nico Harrison's recent firing, and the Dudes confront Tyler about whether he actually uses soap, leading Tyler to reveal his unfiltered thoughts about showering, hand-washing, and "Big Soap".   They also break down the latest Rocket Battle, reliving the biggest moments and behind-the-scenes drama. Comment your favorite part of this jam packed episode and what you want to see next! 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... Spotify: - https://open.spotify.com/show/55gaQm3... Follow Almost Athletes to keep up with the Dudes!:   / almostathletes    / almostathletes  https://x.com/almostathletes_ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm mostly the guy that goes, I'm first and I scrape all the sugar off. That's a bad move. That's a bad move. That's a horrible, horrible move. Yeah, dude, look, I didn't have a good draft. I feel like Jerry Jones right now. Welcome to almost athletes with Dude Perfect, A Wave Original. We're your host.

Garrett, Smarky. And T, T, T, T, back in the hot seat. Not really a hot seat. No, no, no, no. The main seat. Hey, by the way, boys, I don't know if it's been said. But from an outsider looking in to the two main guys, Congrats on the number one sports podcast.

Thank you. Thank you. You were a big part of that, yes. That's huge. Well done, you did. Give us the nod as the two co-hosts, though. So thank you, Tyler. I appreciate it.

For the freedom, man. Glad to be here. Got a big, big show coming up. Sports recap. We got a special guest, Nick D.G. Avani. Yeah, we have we do. And maybe bringing in Chad T for a little rocket video behind the scenes. Cool.

Yeah. And Ty, going to throw it to you. We got a pretty big announcement. We do. Yes, we just announced a tour next summer, DP, back on the road. Very exciting, but what makes it more exciting is brand new format. Super excited about it. You guys have seen hopefully the squad games video that we did with Good Good, the first of the series. We've got a few more coming out, and that is the whole concept of the tour. So we, you know, we've done what, this will be number six? Six, I believe, yeah. We've tried to get feedback from everybody on favorite parts of the tour, things like that. And one of the number one answers always is the battles are the best part of tour, plus the fan favorites and staples that are there. So we decided, well, let's mix up the format this year. We're going to change the stage in the arenas completely.

So now we're doing full 360 in the venue, so we're not losing a third of the venues, center stage, battle arena style, take the squad games concept, bring in the big, larger-than-life games, competitions. And then also have some staples that everybody loves as part of the tour. So it'll be a lot of what you've seen and loved before, but even better. Super excited about it. We're going to be announcing the squads that we'll be competing in, keep competing against later as we get closer to some of the dates. But yeah, should be exciting.

Tickets, dudepredict.com slash tour. Yeah, on sale now. Yeah. Makes for a good, like I think, stocking stuffer, but could just be a main gift. Wow, that's a big stocking stuff. I know, I know. We already had this discussion. Were you one of those families?

I was. I was one of those families where stockings might be more than what Santa brings you. No way. That's weird to me. We were small stocking people. You were underwear and socks. In Farrow Roachers. I don't even know what that is. Yes, you do. Yes, you do. Probably not saying it correctly. I know I'm not saying it correctly, but that's how I always say it. The little gold foil hazelnut chocolate balls. Oh, yeah. Farrow roachers. Hey, 22 cities. It's going to be fun.

I'm going to be sore. Yeah. We need to get in shape for that. We're going to bring an ice. on the tour with us. Yeah, I think it's time for me to start the workouts again, boys. I'll be honest. Hadn't touched a treadmill, a weight since the bull ride. But you know what you have touched. What?

That's a donut every day, brother. I had some of the swine. Yeah, I know. I know. You were crushing it. So anyways, come join us on tour this summer. It's going to be a fun ride. Wow, that was good.

What a tone setter. Yeah. Yeah, we'll also tell you what a tone setter is. Oh, no. Mass fire Nico Harrison this past weekend. That was a tone setter. Yeah, you were allowed to clap. It was time.

I'm not sure. you saw Dirk's take? I did actually and I was going to talk about this perfectly said. He needs to be the spokesperson, the ambassador for the Dallas Maver's. He already is. He spent 21 seasons. He laid it out there a two minute and 40 second rant. And I appreciated them letting them just go. You know, like they could have cut him off. But man, if you haven't seen it, he goes out. Go check out with the Dallas Mavericks. On the state of the Dallas Maver's. The summary is pretty much that they should have done the deed over the summer. Yeah.

Because the trickle effect of now it's hurting the team, you know, Cooper in there, and you're hearing Fire Nico chance. It's just, it got sideways quickly. Overshadowing flag. A telltale sign of both ownership and a GM not having the pulse of the fan base whatsoever. That happened over the weekend, which was a tone setter. Then we had a double tone setter in the Aggie game. Let's talk Aggies.

Yeah. Boy, they tried to ruin my Saturday morning. I'll tell you what. Well, they kind of did ruin it. You should have seen, I get home, and Randy Bond, look, here's the deal. I'm not going to say I'm the greatest field goal kicker of all time because I'm not, but I can make a 20-yarder. You can.

And when he doinked that off the uprights, I think the words were get off my football team, were said in my household, and Kristen literally gets up and goes, well, I'm going to my room. She's just, it was, it did. It tone said to me in the wrong way. I was in shambles that first half. I wish we could show our sports thread. Oh, man. It was a wild.

It was a roller coaster affair. I literally was like, this is such an aggy thing to do. And it was. We're going to miss the playoffs because, dude, if you get blown out by South Carolina and if you lose to a Texas team, you're not making it intended to. It puts it in question. And I was just like, there it goes, dude. A perfect season gone like that. And I'm not sure what Elko said in the locker room.

I don't think it can probably be aired. But boy. Whatever he said. the troops going. You think it was Elko or you think it was the team? I don't know. It could have been our leadership. It could have been to the leadership. I have never seen a single game turnaround. I don't know what it is about halftime, but I feel like halftime in football is where things absolutely, I don't, I feel like any other sport, the game doesn't really change that much from like period to period or inning to inning, whatever it is. There's something about halftime of a football

game, Marcel went from literally, probably the worst, two quarters of football in his life in his life, to two of the best in order to make that comeback. On the same day. In a span of three hours. We've actually been there before, T. Do you remember that in the basketball game? Are you there for that game? Which one? A&M basketball game? No, no, no. In high school, in high school, we were down. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We were down, we were also down about 27 at half. Was that to the Visa Riders? I don't know who it was, but we were getting just. destroyed. And our coach walked in and basically quit on us. He walked in and then walked out. He walked in and dude. Also is one of those nonverbal. And that's why I asked. Was it Elko or was it the

team? And we, we rallied. We rallied and came back. And the coach came in after and was like, what y'all say in the locker room? We're like, hey, coach, we can't tell you because we turned against you as well, bud. Yeah. We were, you quit on us. We quit on you. Wow. We got it done though. We got it done. A&M, got like the biggest chiropractor ever at half is what I. You had a horrible possible possible possible possible snap back into place, different football team. The best part about it is you got the best of both worlds. You had that 30 minute first half where you could look back and say that's not A&M football and then and not taking an L but being able to flip that and get your win is it's a legacy comeback. I love Coach Beamer. He's a stand-up human being. But I didn't love what he said at

halftime. I just got to be honest with you. It was an unnecessary shot and I feel I feel I feel like that started it, dude. I don't know why you're bringing up a 24 point victory from the previous year. I mean, NIL, the whole team's different. And he's just like, we're not worried about it, blah, blah, blah. I mean, we beat this team 24, like, bring it on. We're going to blow these guys out. Maybe that's what they watched it have. And boy did it backfire. Also, how does, I guess we have like a guy watching Twitter these days, like on staff. Because in the post game presser for Elko, we had a, we had an A&M guy tweet out like Marcel's Heism campaign is basically you can burn it up.

And dude, he called it out in the presser to the guy that tweeted it, called him out in the presser. It's good work by the A&MSID. Maybe he got that to Elko quickly. Well done, dude. Well done. But anyways, yeah, that was a double mood setter. So ended on a really good one.

And then the nightcap, boy did Georgia, you know. Dismaneled Texas is a proper word. Disbanded Texas. And it was just a way to go to bed with a happy heart. I don't want to talk about the razorbacks. have a razor back in the room right now, but... Sensitive subject. But I appreciate it, LSU.

That was a good win. Good win. Props to the Aggies. I feel like my whole childhood into my adult life, that is a football game that typically... Fold. And then would roll over, fold, say, we'll get them next week. That was some character that I needed to see.

And I like Elko a lot, man. He's got me fired up. Timmy Holt, who is usually all things to consider unless the stars are on a heater is pretty quiet in the sports thread. Yeah, pretty neutral. The DP Texas A&M commercial comes on at half and all of us are like, oh boy, like this. This is bad. That time. We're associated with this. And he says, I'm calling it right now, DP effect second half. He did. And then I'm just saying, I'm just saying. Yeah. And also, let's not, let's not, uh, not talk about it.

66 years. Come on, baby. U and T. I thought I'd never see the day, man. U. UNT. I'm fired up. In the rankings. 66 years, yeah, which was what, 1959. I was just a young lad at the time. But my goodness, man, I know so many people involved in the North Texas Athletic Department, particularly football, friends who played managers, that kind of thing. Yeah, oh, everybody.

And quite literally, we never knew if this day was coming. 66 years in the making, North Texas back in the rankings at number 22. And how beautiful is it that in our inaugural season of almost athletes, both of our college teams have a chance to be in the playoffs. I can't wait, dude. It would be so cool, man. Texas A&M versus U and T for all of it.

I don't like that match up personally, but, oh gosh, we just got to take care of business. Two more regular season games than the conference championship. Call me weird for saying this. I'm one of those weird Aggies, but I think it'd be kind of cool to have Texas, A&M, tech, and U.NT as four of the 12 teams in the college football play.

Four and Star Staters. Would be pretty sick. That would be. Obviously, Aggies, you know, need to come out on top of that, but... I also feel like this is a good time. I think it's Friday, December 19th is when the playoffs go down. I may or may not have a calm and cold that day. You don't think I'm going to be...

You know, I'm already feeling it in advance. It could be a sick day for me. I'm starting to hurt a little bit. Because if my mean green are in Tuscaloosa, I will be there. Oh, yeah. Right now it has you in Georgia, Athens. Bring it on. Yeah.

I like that they didn't give you the token 25 spot either. It was like 22, right. They give a whole lot fewer 22. than 25. To be fair, I thought we should have been there about two weeks ago, but that's another thing. I like you. I'm happy to be there. 66 years in the making. GMG, baby. Boys, I wanted to do something, especially with Ty here today. I've been seeing this online, and I think we'd be really good at it. I want to hear y'all's hard count really bad. Would y'all partake with me? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like the white 80s today. Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's try to draw somebody all sides today. Or like the clap.

Is it in a choice? I'd love the cloud. What's the best? It's going to be third and medium. Third and four. A really good hard count. We'll get you a fresh set of down. I think the clap does it the most because people get so, they get so drawn into the clap that, like, if you fake the clap and do it, but you don't snap, you get them and you double clap, boom, you get it. College game, it works all the time, the double clap. Well, I've been working on mine at home. Do you mind if I started? Yeah, let's see it. It'll be loud, so I'm going to pull the mic back.

Okay. That's your center? That's your center. Okay. Yeah. That's a low center. Quiet on set, please. This is big.

White 80! Ringo, Ringo. Ringo! Kill, kill, Tuesday, Tuesday. White 80! Is it? Oh. Kill, kill!

I would have gone. Oscar, Oscar! I would have gone on the... What is he? That's good. That's good. Let me show you mine. Dude, I don't have that in the bag.

Are you not high? You're not snapping it? I almost threw myself off sides. All right, hey, we're in the huddle right now. Yeah. Third and four, okay, third and four. We're going to hustle up to the line, okay? we're going to get up there quick.

All right, here we go. Ready. We're getting up here. To that. Why did he? Boom. And then go. Oh, then you're going to go.

See, you got to do. I think Patrick Mahomes, I know it's a little bit. But what Patty Mahomes did a couple weeks ago was. They never works. Dude, when he's hot miced, it was like, this never works. And then go straight into it.

It's probably the best. That's all I. I can't beat that. You need to get up there. See, I'm a shotgun guy. That's fine. Take it out of the gun. Take it out of the gun.

There's nothing wrong with that. Let's hear, claps. See, I'm taking it out of the gun. And I send the guy in motion. Okay, I send the guy in motion. A little pre-snap motion. Watch pop, watch pop! And I'm going, hey, kill, kill.

Mike, hey, he's the mic, he's the mic, he's the mic, he's the mic, clap. Okay. And then I send another guy in motion. Okay. Are they in motion at the same time? Somebody need to start? It's not legal? Yeah, we got to get set.

But somebody's got to get set. Before you send them. Two guys can be in motion at the same time. You know, two guys, no. Just one guy in motion. And I'm letting them get set. And then I click. and that, but I'm also doing that.

I'm also going. Okay. Send them. Mike, Mike, Mike. Mike. Number 15. Mike. And it's in emotion and then double clap real quick.

So many claps. So many claps. You were hard counting in a tough spot. Have you hard counted too hard? It was right in my face. I don't, I'm not a verbal guy. Yeah. Y'all are Peyton Manning, you know, nacho, nacho.

Yeah, yeah, nacho. That was good. You didn't believe you could draw somebody off sides there, though. I can feel it. I went on your first one, dude. That's a very low center. Yeah, I'm saying. Low center of gravity center.

That center is 5, 6. Yeah, probably not moving a ton of guys up front with that center. But the Patty Mahomes one is the greatest ball time. Boys, we need to be enjoying football, though, because the realization that we're, like, well past the halfway point. We take it for granted. You know, the whole lead up in preseason, you're like, I cannot wait for football.

And all of a sudden, look up and you take it for granted. We're in week, what, 12 at the NFL? Yeah. It's moving quick. Who do you think looks the best? Well, it's funny you said that, Gare, because I made a little tier list here. S, A, B, C, D, F, being your Super Bowl contenders all the way down to F who are in contention for first pick in the draft. Okay. Tell me what you like. Tell me what you dislike. S tier as it stands, I have New England, Buffalo, Indie, Denver, the L.A. Rams, and Philly. A tier, Green Bay, Detroit, Tampa, San Fran, Seattle, KC.

my B tier, which is fringe playoff team, maybe can play their way into contention, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and the Chajas. C tier, outside looking in as it stands, Sincere, Houston, Jacksonville, Dallas, Minnesota, Miami, Carolina. And then D tier is you're not going to make the playoffs and you're more likely to get the number one pick. That's Cleveland, Washington, Atlanta, Arizona, and then you're F tier, which it's just bad. Tennessee, New York, New Orleans. both New Yorks

bad time to be in New York yeah Rangers and Giants Real quick on the Browns though dude Miles Garrett Seven sacks away Seven and a half sacks away From the single season

Single season sack record Which is currently held by 22 and a half by Reggie white Does that sound right? Is it Reggie? We need a fact check Who's the single season leader

in sacks NFL history Also did the Chargers Move up northeast That I wasn't aware of It's Michael Strahanes I think Did I charge him? You charge is

Yep, boom, there it is. Confirmed Michael Strayhand and T.J. Watt, 22 and a half sacks. Watt most recently did it in 2021. That feels obtainable. Yeah, yeah. The half sack is always a little confusing, questionable to me. I think I have a half sack in my career, yeah. And they hand those out. You just got to be in the general area. That's so good. I feel like they award those. That comes off a little odd, but yeah. You can be in the press box and claim a half sack. Yeah, but Miles, in position to be in position when it comes to that record.

I feel like on the S tier, the sparky tier, I think the... That's what that stands for? I think the pretender is Patriots and Broncos. I don't think they have it in them. I was going to say Eagles, and that's not coming from a Cowboys fan. That's just their offense is... Well, it is coming from a Cowboys fan. Sorry.

I know what you're saying. Yeah, I don't want to take heat for that, hot take. I don't even think it's a hot take. Sure, their record looks good on paper, but they... They could easily have four losses on the schedule. I think the Super Bowl winner comes out of the A block. Whoa, and who would that be for you? Seattle.

I think it's going to be like a Seattle or a Detroit year. I want it for Josh Allen, dude. I mean, that guy is so good, but I just feel like their defense is just not there. They're just at the point where they've got to prove it in the postseason. They're obviously a really talented football team. They always have to go through Patty Mahong. And that's the beauty.

It's actually wanted to put the KC Chiefs in the S-tier, even with them at 500 just because they've played in what, seven straight AFC title games and they got the Pat Mahomes Andy Reed Factor. But that would be big this year if they could get it to go back through Buffalo would be a huge win for them. But don't discount New England up there. They're playing both sides of the ball really well. The L.A. Rams also in my S tier are sneaky. You got a very proven quarterback there under Center Stafford. You got weapons like NACUA. Solid defense as well. Their midnight blue unis didn't do them for me. That was such a good game though. Yeah. That was a great

great game. In my A tier, San Fran as well. They have battled a ton of injury this year and all of a sudden you look up, I think they're seven and four. Well, I mean, Chicago is in your B tier. Yeah, that's just me not believing. I agree, but that's what I'm saying. I don't, I feel that way with New England and Broncos. Fair. And that's why I brought the list to you, because it's, it's open for interpretation. Anything else you don't like? Most likely candidate from the C tier to move up and have any kind of shot. Oh, that's fun. Panthers? The Panthers have shockingly found a way to get it done. Jaguars. Jaguars has got to be it. They go to get blown out one week to then blow out a team the next week.

It's such a weird team. Yeah, their hot cold kind of group has his Minnesota. When does Borough come back? Is he close or no? Is he out all year? I don't think he's out all year, but I think it's like starting to go that way based off team record. I mean, I think there's what, three and seven now. And Chase is going to be suspended.

Yeah, that was weird. Tough look to go. I didn't spin on the guy where. And then he did. I clearly spent on the guy. Yeah. You gotta know there's cameras everywhere. We talked about this earlier with the spitting epidemic. I think it was like...

Carter got a started week one. It was like one. It was. Yeah. And it's week one. It was. It was. Cowboys Eagles, week one. Yeah.

And we're still sitting. Talking about people spitting on each other. It's like kids. Guys, let's not... Keep your spit to yourself. Yeah, we're not spitting on people. And we've already said this, but I guess it needs to be said again. Yeah.

Man, it's weird. And if you are going to spit on somebody and somebody's like, hey, dude, you spit on me. probably be like, you know what, they probably saw that. Just wear it. I did. It was a bad decision. Yeah, I did spit on him. Yeah. He was acting like it was a D2 game with five cameras totally. I don't know who has Jamar Chase. He's suspended, which helps me out because I got T. Higgins. We know. We know's got him. That's great. I hope T. Higgins goes off for 48 next week.

Man, I don't even like people who like backwash. Not that I'm drinking after people, but that's like spitting in the games, like double dipping your chip into salsa. I had a bad experience of backwash this weekend. Kid. Yep. I went to go get the water bottle. that of course, you know, the boys drink three-four-s-of and then leave there. And we had pot. They had mac and cheese for dinner. And I'm like, I'm not going to waste this.

I'll go drink it before bed. And then you go start to drink it. And then there's like a little piece of mac and cheese. And then it was that gag reflex hitting you. Oh, dude. You're not sure what it is at that point? Powered through and finished the water bottle. It's just like had to do my part.

Do you know what kid it was? I don't. It's probably Colty Bud. Would he be disciplined if so? It's hard to blame a six-year-old. But it's a good coach. approaching it, you know, time. Yeah, strength all your water.

Finish your water. Don't leave a cheese puff in there. So nasty. So yeah, if you have a kid who backwash his comment below, or if you have a problem, or you really like my tier list, comment below. Yeah. Real quick, just because we do live in Texas.

Yeah. Great state, by the way. It's Texas high school football playoffs. With high school football is the real deal here. If you live outside of Texas, I know California and Florida are going to claim it's not the same. There's 20,000 people in the stands

watching some high school kids play some pretty good football. Well, we had three teams have to decide their playoff fate by a coin flip. Yeah, I saw this, man. They met out of gas station. Get a Valero, too. Yeah. They could have picked at least like a buckyth or something.

I feel like an all-sups would have been pure Texas high school football. Yep. And decided Amarillo High won the toss and got the playoff spot. But, like, we got to figure out a different system here. I mean, those kids play all gear, and then it goes down to a coin flip at a gas station. Look how cordial these guys are, though. I mean, really just, they're just sitting there like,

yeah, you know what? I mean, here we are at 9.30. Might as well go grab a coffee. And, uh... I mean, straight out of the movie Friday Night Lights. People think that's fake. This is real life. I think coaches should have to kick a field goal.

Is he filming from the Rayban glasses? What is that? That does feel like Rayman. Is he filming this? Do we have a referee on site? There needs to be somebody from UIL there. Do you see what Dan O said about high school football? No.

Somebody tweeted out like the amount of money that I'd pay to go back and play one game of high school football. And he tweeted something saying like even from an NFL player, there's just something different about high school football. And that wasn't even from a Texas kid either. My high school best friend, your college roommate, T-Lab, who had a cup of tea in the NFL will be on record to say. that his most enjoyable parts of football were definitely high school. It's the purest form in the state of Texas. Purest form of football, but there's a rant about it too, and that is the half-times of high school football.

They are 35 minutes long. And you're doing the kids dirty by icing them. Especially as the tips cool down. You know, you're liable to blow a hammy. My gosh. That is true. Let's tighten those half-times up, Texas. It's getting ridiculous.

One of my favorite parts about this high school player. off coin toss two is it was west texas just like in the movie it was permian it's amarillo high i think they got in this situation because they had a kid who wasn't cleared by u iel so they had to forgo they're a really good team amarillo high the team that got in was technically eight and two i think but they had to scratch six of their wins and so it came down to a coin flip so they're they're sleeper so now they have a bad seed but they're actually an eight win team let's go amarillo tearing for you what's amarillo's mascot got to be the dillos they got to be right It's the Sandys.

The Sandys. That's pretty cool, too. That checks out, too. The Amarillo Sandys. What is a Sandy? It looks like a cloud of sand. General... Just cloud, that's all.

General Chafing. West Texas is a cloud. It is a cloud of sand. And it is very... It's very chafable. It's so chafable. West Texas, you can chafe in a heartbeat. Just driving through West Texas, you might chafe.

I never... I never had a trip to wet and wild as a kid where I didn't chafe. Consider me an Amarillo Sandy. fan. But yeah, Texas high school football, undefeated, man, it really is. That's special. Would you go heads or tails, by the way? Tales, you got two. If your team. You're going tails. Look at that mascot. That's the

Sandy's, dude. What a great mascot. Yeah, they're just a Texas tornado. How have I never heard of them? That's sick. Oh, brother, if you want to do a top ten Texas high school mascots, there are some crazy one. The New Bronsville's unicorns? Look at the chin on that guy, too. If you're from Amarillo High

and if you guys have any swag, could you please, I mean, I'll buy it just can you give me a link or send me some i would i would rock that support the sandies yeah logo i'm cheering for you guys man go out and win a sandies baby he looks like a Pokemon kind of galley it's like a peanut meets a Pokemon look that guy man what a stud yeah next week on almost athletes we'll go through our top 10 Texas high school mascots there's some really good ones out there yeah brand view zebras hutto hippos yeah good call that's fun hired is this breaking news whoa some be news yeah this was rumored throughout the weekend.

It looks like James Franklin, the former Penn State coach, is finalizing an agreement with Virginia Tech to come to the Hokies next coach. So it's kind of funny. The story this weekend was Virginia Tech was playing Florida State. And the rumor was like Franklin wanted to see if Florida State's job's going to come available

because he's like, I'd take Florida State over. And it was like one of those things where like he was locked in to Virginia Tech. Do they beat, does Virginia Tech beat Florida State and fire Mike Norvel and get, you know, then that Franklin goes.

It's just a weird situation. James Franklin Bowl. What a twisted web would leave. Yeah. Hey, listen. Virginia Tech, that I would have gone after Shane Beamer personally. But hey, I hope it works out for you guys.

Hope it works out for you. Yeah. And the Penn State job's still open, and I am a candidate. I thought you should know that. You're getting interviewed? You'd be a great coach. Yeah, I think I'm going to go up there

to College Park and shoot my shot, man. I still think you'd be a better MLB umpire. but if you ever, if the day comes, you want to leave us, that's your two. Could you give us your strike call if you were an umpire? Yeah, for sure. I just got to see it. Early in the game, it's a,

that's just my one. Yeah. Then you paint the corner, it's a little more, and then if you strike them out, I'm a toss up and punch guy. Yeah. Yeah, I love that. The bananas could use you too.

That'd be another one. You could go to. You could go to. Catcher needed a new ball too. See how quick I was that was. Yeah. You're already going. The ball boy for a new fresh cup of pearls.

That was unbelievable. I know you could. I know you could. That means a lot. Do you think you'd be above 80% in, oh, yeah, and call accuracy? 2020 Vige. You can almost smell when it hits the black to right there on the outer half. Oh, I could.

85 if, yeah. You were born to be a podcaster, but when I was venturing out of sports radio, dying industry, love the job. Yeah, late nights. Yeah. And again, dying industry, there was a good month. band there where me and my buddy Tyler Bolden were going through the parameters of what MLB umpiring school would look like and yeah it's a $2,000 course over in Florida. It's about a month

long and we were to the point where we almost book flights and that's when Cody was like, hey, come up to the office tomorrow. Let's chat it up. Maybe I did myself a discerving me. I think I could have got to the Bigs pretty quick too. Yeah. Because you start in like low A or development league. You would have jumped up to it. When I was getting those bang bang plays at first, they'm like, oh, this kid's got something about it. Let's send them to AA. You know, two weeks in the double A. I love it.

There should be an umpire mode on the show. That would be so cool. I play a full season as just umpire. That's you. I will say, I don't think there's anybody better at like just the naked eye bang bang play at first on TV. I can tell you every time I say you got him by a quarter of a step. Mom's like, no, he was safe.

Watch the replay. That's see. That's how I feel about holding calls, the referees. Never missed one. Yeah, but you're too biased of a fan. And I love you enough to tell you that. Yeah, if I was, if I was reffing against Texas, dude, I would be calling them. It'd be ugly.

I'd be calling, they'd have 500 yards of penalties. It'd be like a loss to. You'd be like a touchback. What do you do? He looked at me funny. He looked at me weird. Yeah, he did. It's time for almost sports, a segment we do weekly now.

Yeah, I like that segment. I thought we'd not do some housekeeping Olympics. Of course you would, Gary. That is right up your alley, brother. Honestly, I was kind of shocked to see this because I'd be a gold medalist. Dude. I disagree. You don't think I'd be a gold medalist?

No, because you're too, it's got to be too perfection for you. You'd spend too much time vacuuming. That's a good point. Is this like how quick do you do it? I'm assuming it's a speed thing. Oh, dude, that was sick. The slalom with the mop in hand. If it's a speed thing, you're right.

I don't meddle. I don't meddle. But if it's a perfection thing, I meddle. maybe yeah i could see that oh i would be so bad at um the events included bed making mop relay vacuum race buffer pad toss hmm uh it's a buffer pad like the buffer of the concrete floor i'm guessing so yeah i mean look if we were all three competing full transparency i could not tell you the last time i made my bed years i'm with years i live solo so there's no really you know incentive. Never really made sense to me.

Well, yeah, when no one's going to see your bedroom, I haven't made my bed in so long. Yeah. To the point that I want to see if I can go into like the 2030s without making a bed. Yeah. When's last time you made a bed? I don't miss it. I even make it on like a cruise ship. A hotel room I make it. Because it's just part of your routine. It's part of my routine. See, part of my routine is not doing my bed.

You made your bed on the cruise? Yeah, you pull the covers up. You have somebody that is literally doesn't matter, man. It doesn't matter. That's how I say, that's how I, I wake up. I'm a routine guy. I wake up, brush my teeth, make the bed. It sets the tone for the day. It's like, hey, I'm going to get my stuff done, and I'm going to do it with perfection.

See, I like the chaos. It gets me into the day better. Just pure chaos. Like, oh, I left my wallet and didn't make my bed. This is great. I'm feeling myself today. This is going to be legit. You know it's going to be a good day if you leave the wallet.

You're like, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Because my mind's all the things that matter, not my wallet. But, hey, if you're competing, which event do you think you excel at? It's not bedmaking. I'll say that for you. I'm a vacuum guy. You are?

Do you vacuum your apartment? occasionally. How often do you clean your apartment? You want the honest answer? Yeah, yeah. It's been a minute. It's been a couple months. A couple months. Yeah, since I'll get a deep clean. I'm going to go a little bit, I'm going to go a little bit personal here. How often do you change the bath towel, the shower towel? That's something I do regularly. That and the bed sheets themselves. Another one I never understood. You're clean. If you did a good job in the shower, you're clean. So your towel just needs to dry. Well, Ty, do we need to talk about it? Is this the pod? We get in. This is not the one. This isn't diving into big soap today. Well, I mean,

Not the one. I think we do, because that's a crazy take. We don't have time. Look, at the end of the day. I think we have time. We do? Hey, look, at the end of the day, what makes you clean? That is really...

Water. Water. Water. That's all I use. So do you use, like, hand soap when you wash your hands? Never. Tyler, it's time to talk about it. I don't think we have time.

In-house, several of us know. But the people outside looking in, they deserve to know. The floor is yours. Yeah. Yeah, so basically, I mean, Ty claims that there's a, there's a conspiracy called Big Soap, the soap industry. It's not a conspiracy. It's just a money-making flawed approach because Ty believes you don't need soap to get clean. So, Ty, the question is very simple.

Do you use soap in the shower? I do not. No, I don't use soap in the shower. And I didn't know we were going here today. So I feel a little bit unprepared to be vulnerable. I do. I feel a little attacked personally like I was. tricked into being here on segment A, but that's fine. We can dive into it. I think you guys have been

had by an unnecessary organization called Big Soap that is out there to sell a product that really maybe it makes you smell fake for a little bit. Like, oh, wow, you smell like roses and lavender for, I don't know, what, three minutes until you dry off with your towel and then it's gone. but that's not what gets you clean. You know what they say when you brush your teeth, you know what the toothpaste is for? Smell. Lubricant?

It's just, no, it's a facade. It's fake. Oh, it's not real? Toothpaste doesn't do anything for you. No way. Lose in me. I'm just saying, yeah, that one's a little bit more of a stretch. But the important thing is, is the brush.

The brushing of the teeth with water. The toothpaste, you could argue, is just like, oh, anti-cavity white. agent, so you want to look a little bit better. That's the same category as big soap to me, and it's, frankly, somewhat unnecessary. Is your family on board with this decision? My family uses soap.

But, yeah, and I will say this. I'll say this. Now, you know, I've had the longer hair in the back for, I don't know, a couple years now. And I would say, I'm trying to give a real, I'm trying not to speak in hyperboleys here. I'm trying to give a realistic timeline

of how often I'll use shampoo and conditioner. Probably once every three weeks, unless I'm deer hunting and then I'm using unscented soap. That's actually really the only time that I use soap. Dude. On the body. The one thing you do very well

is that if that in fact is true, once every three weeks, you can't smell it through you. I know. You do a great job of concealing the smell. And everybody says I smell good. Well, you kind of are naturally a stinky person, but not.

In that way. Old Spice. But you believe in deodorant? Pure Sport, yeah. To me, it's like a good marriage. But I don't believe in deodorant. I believe in antiperspirant. It's two different things. Two different things. Okay. Okay. Anti-perspirant, I believe in. And I need. I do need that. Because if I forget to Old Spice, I'm like, oh, man, I did. I didn't. I didn't. Or I left a little bit. I got my shirt instead of the pit on that one. Who's sauteing onions in the kitchen? Yes. No, that's Tyler's pits. Big soap. They've got you right where they want you, though. They've, they have tricked you into believing that you need soap to be clean and you do not. I'm here to tell you. I don't know if I can get on board with this one. I'm here to tell you you do not need that. Like a good marriage needs, you know, 50-50, just like the brush needs toothpaste, the body needs

soap. I don't even have soap. You need the water and the soap. I don't even have any at home. Just get the seven and one where you can put it in your... The seven and one. I do. Air body and it even works as 5W-20. If it was me living solo, I would have the, the whatever it is, four and one. I got the seven. The poo. The poo. They actually make a 7-1. No, but if they did, I'd be the... Nine and one! That's not real.

Nine and one. Barbisol! Shout out! See, they know. What are they offering? Shampo, conditioner, body wash, soap, lotion, shaving cream, toothpaste. That's a joke. That's what I'm looking for. That is so good. Barbisol had us there. That was maybe an April Fool's prank that they posted. The motor oil. You just said it. Yeah.

I just saw, I told you I saw it somewhere. Yeah. Lotion, don't use it. Chapstick. Don't use it. You might have gone from the most popular dude perfect guy to the bottom real quick. Or people are going to realize, man, you know how much money I could save a year on soap? I don't think it's as much you think. But minimal, yeah.

Yeah, you know, okay, you know, I don't want to go here, but what about hand soap? We believe in that? No, don't use it. Really? Don't use it. Audible gasps from the crowd. I don't use hand soap. I don't wash my hands after I go to the bathroom either.

Kids. I thought this was an honest place. It is. It's honest. I don't know. Dude, I appreciate you being honest to the world right now. I don't.

That's the craziest. Yeah. I think you lost 20% of your fan base. Yeah. But ask Cody, I smell great. He does. That is,

do you shake hands with fans? No, I don't. I fist bump. I've gone to the straight fist bump. At least you're, you know, you're doing your, your, you know,

fan of solid. If something happens you in the next two weeks, we're going on such a huge big soap campaign. Yeah, if you get wives. Just like people go around the high schools and talk about, you know, we're going around the high school students. We're going after big soap.

I was going to name all the soaps that may come and get me, but I don't know. I don't really know. Irish Springs already sitting in somebody. Yeah. Yeah. So that's, okay. Can you just ask, I mean, we're here. Just ask is hand soap necessary? They're going to say it removes germs and stuff.

I feel like hand soap may be even more necessary than body. Your hands are just... What's the difference? Your hands are all over your face. It sterilized. It basically sanitizes it. Sterilizes all like the... See, this goes into my...

This goes into my sickness thing, though. Because if you're always, you're always soaping and washing, like, I get a doctor in surgery. Like, I get the need. for that kind of stuff, okay? But there's a little piece of your, what's it called, when your body can fight off? Your immune system. Your immune system. There's a little piece of your immune system where it's like you just introduce little trace amounts. You know what they give you when you get bit by a snake? Venom. They give you snake venom. Yeah, yeah, for sure. It's just,

a flu shot is a little piece of the flu. It's just, and everybody's like, oh, I get, I can handle that. Same thing with big soap and washing your hands. Yeah. Um, whoa, that's, that's me and, and big soap. I respect the honesty, Ty. Yeah. It takes Amanda to come in here and admit he doesn't wash his hands. Yeah. I don't, I'm not going to say I soap every time on the hands, but.

Takes Amanda to admit he hasn't used soap in his life. But here's what's weird. I have used it. But here's what's weird about you. Every time you use the restroom, you Q-tip. I love Q-Tip. He loves to cue. He loves to cue his tips, but not wash his body.

You've been had by the Q-Tip industry, dude. No, that's just a- You know how much you're burning on cues? No, they last forever. And dude, the cheapness of Q-Tips? You know all Q-tips do is push it further back in there, right? That's what they say. That's what they say, but I don't believe that. AI overview, no.

Q-Tips are not good for cleaning the ear canal. You don't believe it. Somebody that's anti-Q-tip is paying AI, whoever that is, to say that, and that's not true. I feel, I feel, I feel, uh, that's if you're just jamming. That's why you got to go with the twist and shout method. It's, you kind of get it and you grab it. You shout? And you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you,

you twirl it around a little bit, and then you, and then you pull it out. That's just crazy how committed you are to the Q-tip game, but not the hands-up game. Very rarely now, it happens. I'd say maybe two or three times a year when you get too deep with the Q-tip, you know, and you kind of hit the e-drum, and you're like, oh, man. Oh, I've touched my appendix before. Yeah, it happens. You go too deep every once in a while.

It happens. Yeah. It hurts. Yeah. It hurts bad, does. But you do have trouble hearing. Yeah, but that's separate issue. Let's slow down the Q-tips. Let's increase ourselves.

There's a debate going on, squeegee debate, after the shower, about squeegeing your body off, getting the water off before you towel off. I kind of think that's psychotic because that's what it towels for? Yeah, you're defeating the purpose of the towel. But, yeah, it's a big debate right now. I don't squeege. Non-squeege. Non-scoach. Non-soap or squeege.

I am a non-squeege as well. Does anybody in the room a squeege? You're a non-sov guy. Let me give you the pro-squeege perspective. You're a squeager? I'm a squeager, and the reason is because your towel, your towel gets less wet when you don't hit it with as much water so it can dry off quicker for your next shower. Did the towel get his feelings hurt because he was too wet?

Sometimes with the humidity in Texas, it takes a little while for that towel to get fully dry. How many showers are you taken? One a day. It will dry in 24 hours. Not always. Sometimes it's still a little damp, but if I squeegee it'll be dry. If you shower in the nighttime and then wake up and need a shower right again, it's not going to be dry. dry, but if you wait till the next night, it will be dry.

What's the long as you've ever gone without a shower? Oh, I'm sure there's. It was three days, and I felt miserable, dude. Oh, I've gone longer than three. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I've gone eight. A month? A month. Without a shower? No, maybe in my youth. Okay. I was so anti-shower growing up. You know me. I'm not a water guy at all. I don't like swimming lakes, none of that. Yeah. I used to fake shower. Turn it on when I was like, you know, third, fourth grade. Just let it run for a bit and maybe just like pat some of

A big soap guy would say. Yolly, you guys are... Hey, we're coming clean on this Monday, man. Literally. Or not. Or not clean. Or not. Yeah.

Well, that's crazy. Sorry, moms if Ty has influenced your kids not to use soap. I'm not going to apologize. I thought it was the rage monster. I am still an advocate for soap, kiddos, if you're listening. Take it for what it's worth.

Yeah. Well said, Gary. Until people start smelling me and saying that I'm dirty. Not you. I'm gonna start saying it every day. Still not even buying it. I'm gonna get everyone to say, hey, if you run into Tide, just make sure to tell them, hey, kind of smell a little bit.

I haven't bought soap. I don't know. Ever? I don't know. I don't have any. Yeah, you need to answer it. Hey, we're filming the pod right now. Oh, hey, boys.

We're filming the pod and you're on speaker, and we're talking about big soap. Big soap? Yeah, here's the deal, Bethany. we just need to make sure that your boys are using soap, unlike their dad. The boys use soap. She makes the boys use soap. Okay, that's good.

Yeah, I do. How do you feel about... Go ahead. Go ahead. I was going to say, you don't... I feel like you don't... You just use water. Yeah, that's what he said on the pod.

That's what we're discussing. It's not, it's gross. Like, I'm not condoning that. I'm not saying that's right. Thank you. I'm just telling you the facts. Yeah, well, he's not. He'll get in bed

He'll get into bed at night And I'll have to say, Did you use soap or not? Like, I do my five-year-old. That's crazy. But I don't, I don't smell. You wouldn't say that I'm a smelly human. I absolutely do say you smell.

That's when I haven't showered. That's when I haven't showered. I always tell you, you smell like, you have like a musk about you all the time. That's a good word. A must. No, you say like, you say that I smell like outside when I haven't showered.

I have never said those words. I tell you that you smell like you have a musk. Well, it's like a, I don't even know. It's like a cloud. Yeah. It's not me, it's something else. Bethany, there's another thing that we talked about, and that's does he wash his hands after the bathroom?

I would say no. Yeah, he also said no. 2007 was the last year. Yeah. Really? That's very specific. it's been a while okay well

that's gross so well you heard it from the let me know when you're coming home so I cannot we have you know ret's got a soccer game oh well hey well you know what we'll wrap up block A if you can get home oh yeah I do okay thanks babe appreciate it

okay love you bye love you bye so yeah we were recently on a Disney cruise and ran into Nick DGiovanni Thanksgiving is next week so we rank some size dishes, had a nice discussion. So I hope you enjoy. Almost, hey, almost bad, please.

Almost. Our guest today is a chef and content creator known for his bold food experiments and imaginative culinary hacks. He made history as the youngest finalist ever on Master Chef, and as a proud Harvard alum, he's gone on to break multiple world records, including one he shares with Gordon Ramsey for the largest beef Wellington ever made. Whoa. True story. He's also a six-time New York Times best-selling Arthur for his cookbook knife drop. But most importantly, he's our friend and creative partner.

Please welcome Nick D.Givani. How you guys. That's quite the intro, dude. I couldn't ask for a better backdrop. Behind us, we have Castaway Key. Just arrived on the Disney Destiny. It's going to be hard to beat this backdrop, Sparks. It's going to be tough to top the scenes here.

Yeah, I mean, I'm having a pretty good time. I'm having a great time. Yeah. I mean, how could you not like this? Yeah, props to the people back home with our studio. It's really cool. Yeah, this beats that though, you know. I feel bad for the art team.

It's like, yeah, you put in all that work, but... This is unfair. Actually, people will probably think this is just a green screen wallpaper. No, it's not green screen. It's real. It's real. I've officially labeled myself as a Disney adult. I mean, holding the...

I do also have a world record, Nick. I don't know if you watch our videos, but me and Sparks travel the world, visit all 12 parks. And 70... what was the time? 75 and change, I think? You got to know your own world record. Well, dude, I'm still sleep. I'm still sleep deprived from that, dude. You don't sleep for three days.

Fair enough. I'm locked in. I'm locked in on the Disney. Yeah, we lived to tell about it. That was huge. Yeah, we lived to tell about it. That was huge. Did you study culinary?

What did you study? No, well, I tried, but they don't have that as a major, but I ended up creating my own, and I kind of got to study culinary, but not really. Wow. Did you graduate? Do you drop out? I graduated. I graduated.

I graduated, college, college drop out. But I almost didn't graduate because I did Master Chef. Yeah. Oh, wow. Masterchief got in the way of the degree. So I came back and I, I bear, my mom handed my thesis in for me. And, uh, your mom wrote it? I wrote it.

Oh, okay. I promise. But I had to send it to her. She handed in for me. And, uh, and I would say I was, I would say I was another couple weeks from, from the, the professors not passing me that last year and me having to redo senior year. Which would have been brutal. Should have been tough.

Yeah. You might be the most accomplished guest we've had on the show. I think that's definitely not true. Yeah. Dude, who else would be? I mean, other than Tom Brady in the seven Super Bowls, I don't know what that stacks up. There you know. You need one more New York Times bestseller to get to that seven mark to match Brady.

And then you're missing. So tell us, man, how did you get started on YouTube? Was it like a thing that you've always wanted to do? Isn't it funny? I feel like everyone has a totally unique and different story. Sure. I mean, I was literally downstairs with one of my friends yesterday who makes food content as well. And he came from first making video games and then worked at Domino's.

and now he makes videos on YouTube for food. So there's just a random example of like, everybody has a different story. I just, mine was a little bit more natural in the sense of I did MasterChef. And then, you know, it's not a crazy jump to go from making food television

to making food videos on the internet. But I feel like, I don't know, maybe with all of us, for a lot of people, I feel like it's a little bit random and you didn't expect it or try for it. And I feel like with some people,

like, you know, a Mr. Beas is a good example. He really tried for it. and he just went until something hit and worked. So I'm on the side where I didn't really plan so much for it. Yeah, more of the dude perfect side where it's a happy accident looking back and the star is a line type thing for sure. I'm on the dude perfect side.

When it comes to the master chef, how does that come about? You just apply to be on there and they hit you back up? Yeah, they came and did a bunch of auditions at my college campus. And I walked by a flyer and I saw it and I thought, oh, why not? That'd be fun. So I showed up to the hotel with a dish. It's really weird, actually. You literally, you cook a dish and you bring it to just some random hotel lobby or whatever,

get in line with everybody else. It's disgusting, actually, if you really think about it. Because people bring these dishes from, you know, who knows what their kitchen looks like, who knows how far they drove, who knows about this food safety, stuff like that. I just think of like what could be in that food. So I would not want to be one of the people tasting the food. But yeah, I just, I saw the audition, I saw the flyer, I saw the audition, I showed up, and then the rest was history.

It was a many-month process of getting onto the show before it actually happened. That's wild. It shows you. Flyers work, kids. Yeah. Flyers work. There you go. Any big plans that you got like for your channel or?

Big plans. That's a great question. I feel like this year we've moved more into kind of doing formats and finding something that works really well. So funny enough, the video we made with you guys, which was the kind of follow leader, cook-along challenge type thing. We just did that for a second time. So I'm enjoying doing things like that.

Those are big productions, by the way. That was the biggest, we did it with the sidemen recently. Same concept that we did with you guys, where I cook and then they have to follow along with me from the other side with all the same equipment, same ingredients. That was the biggest production we've had so far. Just the highest number of cameras, we had people on a jib, we had all this,

and that was crazy. So I'm enjoying those, leaning into that kind of thing more. You came on tour with us? I did. I did. Boston stop. Did you know I practiced? How do you say it?

Worcester. Worcester. Worcester. I practiced for that. By the way, I practiced. You did. One of the guys on our team played Harvard football, and I asked him to come train me at a field the day before.

So I actually, believe it or not, I sort of threw my arm out. In the lead up? I didn't even know Harvard had a football team. Yeah, yeah, they do. And he taught me how to throw a football, and I think I threw my arm out the day before. Yeah, that wasn't smart. So the podcast is called Almost Athletes.

That's for a reason, because me and Sparky never, we never quite made it right there. Yeah, right there, right there. And so, you know, we always have stories of like an almost athlete moment in your life where you're, when you realize like, dude, maybe cooking is my play. Writing's on the wall. I'm not an athlete. Do you have an almost athlete moment where you were a kid, maybe on tour, I don't know.

Maybe it was. Maybe it was. Where you were just like, dude, sports aren't for me. Got it. I'm just, I'm not there. I need to do something else. Well, I mean, heck, you're throwing out your arm in the lead up to tour. It's pretty almost athlete.

That checks the box. I do remember, well, I have four, we have four boys. So there's four boys in my family. I'm the oldest of four. Four brothers is a lot in a house, right? Oh, yeah. That means easy two on two games with each other all the time. You can switch teams, everyone's fighting, having a lot of fun, though.

And I do remember there was one year where three of the four of us were on the same soccer team. Our whole family was there. It was a big game. We went in all at the same time for the first time in that game. The whole sideline, the whole school that was there kind of knew. They were all cheering for us, right? and I got a little bit of a breakway, and I just tripped over the soccer ball. Nobody was there.

I just tripped right over the soccer ball. So I think there's moments like that that I definitely think about. When did you stop playing sports? I mean, I still play ice hockey three, four nights a week. Do you really? Yeah, I do. In the winters especially, I played a lot of ice hockey through the summer, through the winter. So I still play ice hockey all the time.

I mean, it's in Boston. I get envious of the kids who grew up in the Northeast, getting to play hockey like that. It wasn't an option. Wasn't an option in old Dallas, Texas. Bruins fan? Of course. The Boston Bees, baby. The Bruins, I mean, it's a little unfair to be a Boston sports fan, isn't it? You know? I don't know. As a Dallas sports fan, it's pretty unfair. So we can relate. We can relate. You've had some success. Now, the bees have been down for a little bit now. It's time for the Boston Bruins. A hockey's better when the Bruins are in the thick of things. And was their last one with Sagan? Yeah, I think so. He's rookie year. It's a while ago. Yeah, it's been a minute. But I mean, they've been, you know, it's still fun. They're on a good six, seven game winning streak right now. And you never know. So just like with the past this year, we all came. We all came into the year thinking that nothing's going to happen and now we're eight and two. And all of a sudden you found Drake May is a stud and you got that thing rolling. It's been amazing.

All right, Nick, well, look, Thanksgiving's coming up. It is. You're a chef. That's a big holiday for you. I'm not going to ask you to cook. Don't worry. Sure. We thought it'd be fun to do a little Thanksgiving food draft.

I got a hot take. Not a big tea giving fan. Like, in general, just the food wise. Food wise. It's a once, yeah. I don't know if you like just didn't like in-laws or, Well, that, but no, you know, it's just, it's a one time of year meal for me. It is.

Generally, I'm a white gravy over brown gravy guy. I don't want to spill the beans here. But, yeah, tea giving for me is, ah, it leaves a little to be desired, if you will. But with that said, I'm taking stuffing is the number one pick. Oh, you're going to go first. That's your number one pick. I love stuffing. It's really good.

My mom's stuffing dishes are special. Do you put, like, I know stuffing you're going to, you might rail me for this. I've seen sausage and stuffing. I've seen it with celery. Like, is there like a specific stuffing that, like, what is, when you say stuffing, what does that mean? I just think stuffing, because people do, you're right, people do so many crazy variations on different core Thanksgiving items now.

I think of stuffing just as a, some kind of stale bread type base. Yeah. With some herbs mix into it. And that's it. That's really it. Like, it gets a little bit soggy. And that's kind of it. I just think as long as it's got a bread base.

and you get the crispy edges, crispy, whatever, mixing a couple of spices, seasonings, herbs, whatever. That's stuffing. He ain't going stuffing number one. Safe to say, Nick, D, wasn't a fan of my first time. Yeah, not going stuff there. All right, Nick, what are you got? My number one would be without a question gravy.

Sure. What kind of gravy? Gravy without a question. Like, like brown gravy? Like, you take all the, you know, inside it, if you buy, you guys, have you ever bought a whole chicken? Oh, yeah, for sure. Okay, and you get all the giblets out and you get the neck on the turkey.

Oh, no, dude. I don't do that. I mean, Right, okay. Yeah, I don't do any of that stuff. I just eat the chicken. Yeah, I'm really good at eating the chicken. I'm not going to use the chicken to make certain other things.

Got it. Okay, that's what I sort of figured, but I just figured I'd ask just in case. So you take the turkey and you know how the neck is inside there, right? And then all the little giblets, those little parts and pieces that come in the bag. Giblets.

Right? Yeah. You put those in a roasting pan with the neck, with any scraps, any trimmings that you have, maybe the wing tips, whatever, as well as some leaks and some onion

and some carrots and some garlic and whatever else you might want. And then you roast the turkey over that stuff, okay? And all the drippings from the turkey are going to come down on top of that thing, maybe some butter, maybe a little bit of oil, salt pepper that was in there. And at the end, you're going to take the turkey off. And whatever's left in there, you can essentially use that. You can eat some of the vegetables that cook. Those are good.

But you can use all that's there to then make an amazing, amazing gravy. That's how you have to make a gravy. You can't buy the powder gravy. you can't buy the. So the one thing that I care most about every year at Thanksgiving is the gravy, because it's honestly the, it's the thing that ties the whole meal together. Think about how many people just pour gravy all over the entire plate.

I do. I think we have vastly different Thanksgiving, man. Like you were. Oh my gosh. I've never even had, I mean, you were saying things I've never even heard at wingtips. What do you do for your Thanksgiving? Dude, you're going to, you're going to love this. I actually smoke a brisket.

That's fine. That's Texas. That's very Texas, baby. Yeah, yeah, I get it. And then we like buy a turkey because I'm not good at it. And it's always dry. And that's okay. I will be honest with you guys.

The last couple of years I've also bought, you know, some of the Thanksgiving stuff, but I do not buy the gravy. Okay, gravy. It's my, off for me. It's my sort of day off, honestly. It's kind of one of my days off for the year. I feel like that took a lot for you to admit that you store buy some things on Thanksgiving. That makes me feel way less self-conscious about what I'm doing at home.

Not store-by, but sure, I buy it from restaurants. Okay, yeah, because no one knows where. You can just buy your meal from restaurants and take it home. So I buy a lot of it from restaurants. And then anything that I like to do, because, you know, I'll tell my number two later whenever the time comes for that. But those important things, I will make those myself. And it's easy and I have it down. But the rest, you can't buy gravy.

That's one thing. Okay. Well, yeah, mine is brisket. No, no, my number one side that I never eat. I will never even think about eating unless it's Thanksgiving Day. green bean casserole. That's your number one? That's my number one.

That's crazy. Look, here's the deal. At the end of the day, cream of mushroom soup and some green beans, pretty good. Put a little those crispy onions on top. I love it. I like that you at least have the crispy onions down on that.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. I don't know why, again, if you would put a green bean casserole in front of me any other day, I'm not eating that, dude. It's a very weird number one. I'm not eating that. But Thanksgiving day? It feels very Thanksgiving for my family. As does the catsrow.

Cowboys losing by 10. Yeah, as to the Cowboys losing by 10. Just of all things on that list, though. I'm shocked that you're picking that for number one. Well, let me go. I also get the next pick because it's a snake draft. Sure. And then I'm going to go buttered rolls for number two.

Yeah, it's a good call. That's good call, gee. That's fine. Rolls, you got a, you got to, I'm a very bread connoisseur guy. I'm just confused why you'd pick butter rolls over the stuffing, which is the same thing, essentially, but just spiced up a little bit. I'm not a stuffing guy, dude. It's weird taste, man.

It's like, I don't even know, like, celery? I mean, why celery exist? It's gross. We don't need to put celery in food. So you took what, Garrett? What kind of rolls, Garrett? Just buttered roll, like a dinner roll. Little Hawaiians is what I like.

Yeah, like a Hawaiian roll. It just compliments the Thanksgiving dish so well. You've got a point there, Gare. So well. No doubt about it. Much more than roasted carrots. I'm just imagining your table with just... Oh, dude, my plate, my plate is very blunt.

The only really color you're going to get is the green bean casserole. Maybe a sweet potato. That's about it. If you're feeling really good. If you're feeling a little bit healthy. In-laws are treating me well. Okay. Yeah.

Action back on you, Nick D. Don't hit me with the garlic cauliflower play here. No, I'm all the way mashed potatoes number two. Okay. You have to. Yeah. That's good call. That's great. And this isn't crazy stuff.

I'm not going, I'm not doing anything or saying anything. I think that's going to shock anybody here. But mashed potatoes, it's my number two. It's just you have to have good mashed potatoes. You have to have good gravy. I make a big volcano. So I'll make a nice kind of mound of mashed potatoes. I rub my spoon through the middle of it to make a big pool.

to make a big pool. And then I basically make a big, big hot tub with just all this stuff in there. Fun. That's the, that's actually usually the edge of my plate. The lazy river. If I sent you guys a picture of my Thanksgiving plate, you'd be like, wow, this is very interesting. Yeah.

You know, mashed potatoes in the middle, spread it around the plate. So you have that big hole in the middle of the well. Fill it with gravy. And then all the rest of the stuff kind of can go in there. It's very nice. That's complimentary. You're talking about, you're talking about plating Thanksgiving. I've never thought one time about how I'm going to plate my Thanksgiving dish.

I'm just, I'm going through the line just, just a bunch of green beans and bread. Just green bean, bread, turkey, brisket, boom, you're done. Okay. Yeah, Mass. But I like the moot. I like the volcanic moot. I might do that this year.

I like how Nick D's going in with the game plan. Yeah. That's how he's doing things, man. This is the crazy thing is I've already taught these guys some recipes, and I know, you know, Ty sent me the pasta that he made homemade. The pasta is unbelievable. You guys all make the pasta now that I taught you guys how to make, which is fantastic. I get pictures of this stuff.

So I could give you guys these photos. It's great. So we have this. And now maybe I'll, teach you a gravy recipe. That would be amazing. And you can make gravy. Sure. Maybe if you could just tell me which one to buy. No, because I said, no, I just said, he doesn't like that. You're cutting corners, Gare. I'm going to be honest with you, Nick D. I've never been more thankful to not be part of an overtime, the one you were on. Okay. My dishes are limited to bagel bites and ramen.

Now, granted, I can cook them really well, but that's about where it ends. And my mom is a food connoisseur. She's a food network for 18 hours a day kind of lady. Got it. And she would be vastly disappointed me in that episode. She probably going to be disappointed me in here. But with that being said, mac and cheese for me right here. Nice. It's a layup drill. Thank you. We even got some compliments from the crowd.

For a late round two draft pick, I feel like mac and cheese was a great value pick right there. Okay. Who doesn't love mac and cheese as long as it's done somewhat well? And the next pick I'm going to make is a pick that I personally don't support, but my family does. Okay. I don't like the smell of them, but to each their own, deviled eggs. Oh. My sisters and mom absolutely slayed the deviled eggs.

I watch from afar. Okay. But that's just me running out of items here that I actually enjoy. Interesting. So give me deviled eggs. You didn't like that pick, huh? I agree with you. The smell is just a little bit of,

there's something about it. Tough to get past. Yeah. We're watching these drafts. Do you say Brussels sprouts here and the third? I'm gone. I'm leaving. I'm going to Hercules.

Or collared greens, dude. I'm going to the hero zone. Okay. Well, I'm going to go cranberry sauce next. Oh, I was literally going to go cranberry sauce. I know you probably, yeah. Dude, I love cranberry. Are you going to go out of the can?

make your own. We go one of each. So we go one can that's jellied. Yeah. And we, I have a fun little picture, by the way, of a time I went to a cranberry bog in Boston. It was awesome. You put on the big, what are those? Yeah, waiting pants and you go in there, and it just, it's the weirdest feeling, all these, like, tiny little cranberries floating. And you get to walk through it, and it was really cool. So I have a higher appreciation for cranberry sauce after this. But cranberry sauce, I go one jellied, and you just, take it out of the can and you cut it up into the rings or whatever and then i go one my mom always makes a homemade one with like some orange zest and a tiny little bit of sweetener and it's more tart and

whatever but the reason i picked these three so far is i've got i've got mashed potatoes i've got gravy and i've got cranberry sauce so i've got um if you think about the balance of of of what i've got there i've got the acidity and the sweetness from the cranberry sauce i've got the the creaminess and the silkiness from the mashed potatoes and then the gravy kind of just gives the savory, everything else rounds it all together with the spice, all the stuff. So I've got already a delicious little plate right there. Sure. Your Harvard's showing, dude.

Yeah, your Harvard is showing right there. To put it in football terms, you have a pretty good defense with an elite offense and a kicking game that can win you ball games too. To finish off the draft for me, I was going to go cranberry sauce. I do love a good cranberry sauce. I'll go sweet potato casserole, get a little sweet, get a little health. Do you put marshmallows on top? Well, I don't cook them.

You know, my mom does. Sometimes she does, but most time it's just like brown sugar and butter. But marshmallows on top is... It's good. And I'm mostly the guy that goes, I'm first and I scrape all the sugar off. That's a bad move. Put it on my plate. That's a bad move.

That's a horrible, horrible move. It really is. It's bad. Yeah, dude, look, I didn't have a good draft. I feel like Jerry Jones right now. Yeah, it happens. You make me want to go eat to Thanksgiving dinner. You had a tough draft.

You really did. With some, yeah, I'm going to volcano my mashed potatoes. That's for sure happening this year. I hope. everybody, yeah, so you, if you want to keep things a little bit separate, go ahead, keep them separate, but if you, and you can use the volcano method for that, so you make a smaller sort of mound in the middle and then everything else around it. A small hole, right? Or you can do the one that I've been doing more often, which is just that bigger, you know, surround the edge of your plate

with mashed potatoes. It's unbelievable. I will be honest with you, the only thing that happens is the mashed potato will, it will cool down faster that way, which you sit there for a while, you know, towards the end of the Thanksgiving meal, the stuff doesn't taste as good because it gets cooler. So heat your plate up first. Just throw them in the oven before, heat the plates up. Don't heat him so much that they crack or break. You've inspired me, Nick D. I think I'm going to go like a Mount Everest pile of mashed potatoes this year, dude.

Make a statement. Or if you love gravy, get some good gravy and really fill that thing up. You make your own gravy, sparky. Make your own gravy. Yep. And well, I just figure you guys aren't going to make your own gravy even if you tell me here that you are. I know you're not. Good assumption.

That's a solid assumption. Quick recap of the draft boys. I had stuffing, mac and cheese and deviled eggs. That's pretty darn good. Nick D, you had gravy. Mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce. Three good ones. And I went green bean casserole, buttered rolls, and sweet potato casserole.

You're in a rebuild. A lot of casseroles in my future. You're in a rebuild. Comment below who you think won the draft and what we missed on, because we definitely left some Thanksgiving side pieces out. Next up, let's do a little cutting challenge here. I don't know if you've seen these online, the perfect cut. Love it.

Where you try to cut an item perfectly in half just by eye. Love it. Me and Garrett don't have a chance in something like this. So we're going to let you take over here, Nick. It's us first him? I hope not That's gonna be a blowout Of epic proportions

I have only done this once though If it makes you feel better Good bad ugly How did it go It was solid But I know a trick now From doing it If we get to pick

Which things we have That helps you a lot Okay Yeah bring those items in Jared All right chef Nick Oh Look Gordon Ramsey hasn't grilled you As much as we're about to

Yeah I'll tell you something funny Really fast The only people that call me Chef Nick Which I kind of like this are you guys, dude perfect, and the Jonas brothers. That's good company to be in.

Because they have another Nick. So they all call me chef Nick. Well, I mean, you are a chef. How funny is that? Dude, you hold the world record for the largest beef Wellington. You're a chef, dude. Sure, sure. You're a chef.

But we're going to put these chefs skills to test. Here's the deal. We got Mickey Waffles, some rice crispy treats that shape like Mickey, and then bananas. The goal is simple here. You want to cut as close to like the same. weight. So if like I take this waffle and I cut down the center, the two sides need to be evenly weighted. So the banana's going to be tough. This isn't about symmetry. This is about weight. It's about weight. I say we start with the easy one, uh, little Mickey Waffles. You want me to go first

go for it, G? Okay. See it. Oh, this one. This one looks beautiful. I'm not totally sure how that would help you to weigh it first. I, dude, look, chef, I don't, I don't either. You can weigh it first if it helps if it feels like it helps you. No hesitation cut, right there right through the nose you're just going right through the center you're just going without looking carefully you're going for it and it could work feels feels feels like I'm standing on a green right now all right here we go I'm worried this up all right tear yeah what I'm worried for you they oh wait 17 grams okay 18 grams 18 grams I'm worried for your sake that this one's going to be heavier come on so we're

looking for around 18 grams here big number oh uh-oh uh-oh I did call 21. It's 21. 20 grams off? 21. Oh, we over bit, though. That's down to 15. How do you get heavier?

Dude, this scale is messed up. I just took a bite and it got heavier. Whatever. All right, I'm two grams off. Let me go. I'm 2 grams off. 18 and 20. I'll show you how it's done, Chief. Okay.

Come on, sparks. You've got to hear the weight. More ear density on that side. Yeah, so you're going to go. Again, right through the eyes. If that's not a quality cut, I don't know what it is. Hold on. 20 20 that sounds pretty good all right watch this that sounds pretty good on hold on hold on

hold my mashed potatoes boys look at that oh hey man 21 21 21 that's pretty close it's pretty close it's pretty close to get much closer than that chef sparky from now on so I had a difference of two grams sparky had a difference of one gram yeah yeah barky was close to cut in mickey perfectly you had uh three uh let's I hate to say but you had three Nick to Nick It's going to be a really bad look, Nick, if you don't beat me in this. I mean... Oh, I guess it's a nice. Oh, yeah, yeah, you know what?

I didn't think about this. Now switches his waffle. Maybe overthinking it a tad. You think so? Yeah. Typical of a horrible guy. There's a little more on this side. There's a little more on this side.

I'm going to go. I'm going to cut towards this. This is calculated. He has to feel it. This is like making gravy on Thanksgiving with Nick. Okay. A little more there, so that means I'm going to cut into it a little. He's lost.

He's lost. He's gonna be four or five grams off. You think so? Yeah, I can just tell about his cutting technique. Well, these aren't sharp knives. Yeah, I know, butter knives here only. One of the ton of conviction in that cut. I'm not feeling great about this because of the knife.

Yeah, okay. It's the knife's fault. It's hard to get a clean cut with that kind of knife, guys. It's okay, chef. You give me a butter knife. Chef, let's just weigh. Here we go. It's crazy.

22. He's one gram off. Oh. 22? 21. All right, there it is. One gram off. Sparky, way to tie the chef there, dude.

Just doing my part. So Nick was one gram separate as well. Yeah. Round two, you and Sparky tied up. Do I go first again? Why don't you go first again? Man, so here's the deal on these. We got a circular rice crispy, but...

This might be better. This feels like a tough cut coming right here. This is hard. This is like the last guy on the roster before training camp and you got to cut them. It's tough. Feels like it's leaning this way. A beautiful rice crispy.

Look at the density on that thing. These knives you guys gave us are just brutal. Is that what? So that's what I should start doing when I make a bad meal, just blame the appliances. It's just the knife, you know? With a sharp knife.

I left a little bit of extra there. I like that. Smart, dude. Very smart. 26. I wouldn't even tear it again. I'd just go for it. Oh, this is, this is in the 30s.

This is bad. He's going to tear it. Here we go. 50. Oh, no. I did call it, though. 30. This scale's broken, dude.

The scale's broken. 32. 26, 32. This is, I'm not a good cutter. I'm not a good symmetrical cutter. Ooh. 26 and 32. I was six grams off.

Your father-in-law, Rodge is. Look at the bottom. It's chocolate on the bottom. It's the chocolate on the bottom that got me. Nick, let me show you how it's done. You're going to show me? Yeah. Okay.

I'm at least going to eat it. As the expert chef around here, I know what I'm doing. Let's see. I'm going to go with the one with the more Krispies. I plan to eat this afterwards. Smell test, too, you know. Barkie making his cut. I'm going to go like a diagonal cut.

cut here just to show off it is a circle so I don't think really any let me believe yeah matters there got it conviction conviction conviction here we go conviction in that cut oh no he also left a significant amount of crisp on the side oh no that's gonna hurt me that last a little bit weighing his side one I am worried about that first piece and what is it 32 32 for his first piece 32 he is now weighing his second piece. Uh-oh. It could be good.

Not bad. 34? It just changed the 35. Okay, so we're going to give you 34. So two grams off for sparky, man. Sparks. Putting on them. Is this like an aggregate score at the end? It's only three grams over.

Yeah, three grand total. The banana is what's going to be. Round three, banana is going to tell a lot. I agree. You don't dive into the sweets too much, do you? This is uncharted territory for you. I do not eat a lot of sweets. This is where I'm excelling.

Hey, look, I'm going to give the listeners a recap. I was two grams off on my first item and six grams off on my second item. Total eight grams off. Sparky was one gram off on his first and two grams off. Total is three grams off. College football playoff loves my resume right now. Yeah, you are dialed in right now. The committee sees no flaws.

I feel like we should make noise like he's at the free throw line. Really distract him. See, I'm re-evaluating. Oh, re-evaluating. on the Krispy treat. He's about to brick this free throw. You can tell it. You think so? This has got back rim written all over. This is gonna be your almost athlete. Rebound, rebound. Golly, this guy takes forever to cut food. This is a Kobe cotton when it comes to cutting food here. I don't like it. Yeah. A swagger knife drop.

I don't like it all. Tide on a far so as no way. Sparky's gonna go in a lead round three. I feel it. This is the epitome of a 16 seed beating a wine if this happens. Here we go. This feels like five grand. Just for me, I Falling as an expert, this feels like a five gram difference. First one? 31. 31. 32.

Let's go 31. It's settling on... Nope. It went 31, Nick. Okay, okay. Here comes a Dirk Novitsky 41 right here. Oh, the wind's picking up, too. He feels it.

He feels the wind. First number. 32. No way! Okay. 31. Did you just nail 32, 30? Or was it 31?

It settled on 31. So, was that even? Whoa. Our first even. The number one seat comes back in the second half and absolutely destroys. Generally how it happens. Garrett, you need a banana to remember right here, brother. I mean, I got to be perfect.

It's got to be the cut of your life. Through two food items, the difference is Garrett with eight grams, Nick D with one, me with three gram difference. Not bad, I'm in it. I'm in the hunt, Garrett, not so much. Here's the deal. I've never cut a banana. The stems don't weigh as much as the banana.

See, you think there's going to be a lot of weight here. Right. But it's not as much as you think. I have a strategy. No. I don't have a strategy. Can I give you a hint because you're having a tough time? I need something.

That's a bad banana pick. Bad banana pick. That's a bad banana pick. Even worse. Even worse banana pick. There you go. Is it the curvature? No.

That makes it? Bigger banana. Take the biggest banana. It's easier to cut the bigger item. I see. Yeah, that makes sense. Do you know? I feels right.

Whoa! Garrett, what was that cut? I don't know, chef. I don't know. He's panicking. This is a panic cut if I've ever seen it. 103. Whoa.

That feels high. Hold on. Yeah, dude, this is going to be in the 200. Garrett, that's like 140. 110. Wow. Oh, dang it. Seven, seven off.

Dude, that actually feels pretty good. So the stem weighs more than you thought, I think. Honestly, chef, I just cut it dead in the center is what I thought. 15 total gram difference, Gare? I wouldn't know. My aggregate is 15 grams. Because this looks like it should be way off. But dude, there's still a shot here, dude.

There is. Nick could absolutely flub this. Did you not agree that looks like it should be, Just way off. That I was only seven off. This is not even close. Look at that. Don't let that get in your head, Nick.

That cut's coming up. How did you? It's up here, it's creative looking at it. It's crazy. Burke, you hear the ocean? You hear Moana talking to you? Yeah. All right.

Why do you cut on the plate? Good call. I don't understand. I'm panicking, guys. Let the kid be a kid. And you picked this. Oh, okay. Wow, did you just, did you just howls that banana?

Hey. Is that you just squeeze it out? That's how you eat banana? Like a push pop, yeah. No way. No, it's not. It's not how he's been in. That's crazy.

It's kind of genius. Diagonal cut. Very interesting. Dude, look at that. You really can't push pop a banana. That was a clean cut. I'm happy with it. I'm unbelievable.

I'm gonna go ahead and tell you right now, I'm extremely pleased with that cut. I'm 96. 96. I was hoping that'd be a little higher number. No, that's okay. No, that's okay. You're only playing with three grams right now.

First one, second one. 85? Oh, oh. Dude, I blew it with a banana. He beat me by one gram. Okay, at least I got Gary. At least I got Gary. I think the stems are growing us off.

I think the stems are... I thought the stem would be a little more heavy than it is. All right. 13. If you blow this, brother. Chef, Nick, I don't want to put pressure on you. But you have to get 12 grams or under to win the cutting challenge. Yeah.

I don't know. If I somehow win this, I'm applying for Master Chef now, right now. because I've got a chance. I've got a very interesting idea. No way you're going to cut it like that. No. Oh, you're going to surprise on side? You're going to cut it like that.

This feels like a surprise onside kick. This is risky. He just lost it. Oh, my gosh. He's done. He's done. You're doing the mid cut? He can't cut through his stem, though.

Ooh. You have a butter. Dude, I like how he like finishes the cut with swag. I wish I possessed that. I'm telling you, dude, I didn't know I was going to meet another Kobe Cotton in my life. But here we are. Oh, Stim giving them problems. Stimmy, stimmy.

Wow. Ooh. Actually, I've never seen a banana cut like that. Wow. That was cool, wasn't it? That's unbelievable. Okay, here we go. This is big.

Harvard grad, dude. They teach you weird stuff there. I want a 15 gram difference so bad. 105. 105. Nick's first one, 105. He needs it to be within 12 of that. Feels like a bad fever.

pretty high. 104. No way. He's just showing up at this point. He does it. It's Chef Nick with an aggregate of two grams for three foods. He showed us up. That was like Cody, you know, signing up to play Luca in one-on-one.

It was doomed from the get-go, Garrett. We shouldn't have signed up for that game. Wow. That's impressive, dude. The mid-cut? Last time I did a banana like this, though. I did cut it down the middle, like you guys said. And it's hard.

You push-pop to banana and then cut it down the middle. I mean, how could this not work? Think about it. How could that not? Now that you did it, I think that's the way we should have done everything. I should have cut the waffle down the middle like that. See, but he's had a cutting challenge before. We were just one cutting challenge away from knowing the way.

No, but I thought about this one like that. And if you were to try to cut this one like that, there's this part in the middle. It's just not going to work. You're going to have it on one side or another. You could be an orthopedic surgeon, dude. You proved your Harvard grad. I doubted it. I was going to ask for the diploma.

I don't need it. You're cutting. You're cutting. You're cutting prove that you. You went to Harvard. For the upset. There we go. Before we let you go, it's only fitting.

We're on the Disney Destiny Cruise. Favorite Disney movie of all time? Come on. Animated. Animated. Beast. French food. You have to know my favorite Disney movie of all time.

Ratatoui? Ratatoo. Yeah, it has to be. Ratituie and the Beast for me. Ooh, okay, I'm a Moulon guy. Mooshu, name of my next dog whenever I get one. Best animated film all the all time. I love it, dude.

Chef Nick, it was a pleasure. Great competition. Yeah. Was it? Well, hey, I do want you back in the office judging some of my food. I've been working. I've been working on to my eggs. I think you're going to be impressed.

Thanksgiving, my place, if you want to join. I appreciate the offer. Thank you. All right. Thanks, dude. Everybody, give it up for Nick D. Giovanni. Chef Nick, baby. All right. Well, I want to welcome in my twin.

We dressed the same. We all three did. Really? I got, you forgot the tan pants. I didn't get the memo. I didn't check the email. But welcome, Chad T, Block C. Yeah, baby.

Block C. Man, I'm really getting, I want Block A, you know. Yeah, you're going to have to wait on that, Chad T. That comes with time. That's right in the comments. Yeah. Yeah, comment below if you think Chad T should be an A blocker. Hey, you're here for a reason. And you can probably guess by all the props we have.

Rocket. Yes, Rocket. We just launched our Rocket video this last weekend. Yeah, you definitely had to sell. the boys and I on it. But you are, you said a rocket officiantado. Yeah, yeah. So I guess when I first started,

I was trying to figure out the creative. Tyler controlled all the creative. So he was the one, you know, pushed everything. I was like, man, I was like, it'd be cool. Don't want to push a button. Yeah. Yeah, right.

It'd be cool to do a rocket video. I used to launch rockets and I was a little kid. And I was like, man, that'd be a fun thing to do. I bet kids are still into rockets. So I initially pitched it to y'all. And you're like, yeah, no, like, we're not going to do that. And then Tower was like, yeah, if you make the rockets, we'll do it. So I remember it was just me, like 2 a.m.

I remember I'm at the office and I'm gluing all these rockets together. That's one of the rockets right there. Why is that here? Yeah, I was about to say that's your winning rocket from Rocket 1. How do you not recognize that one? Put a little respect on that thing. I won that video? Yeah, you did.

Oh my gosh. Don't act like you win so much that they get lost in the shuffle. I honestly, all I remember from that, that was the Kill the Cowb Moment, right? Yeah, yeah. But that wasn't your rocket, though. No, I know, but that's all I remember from that video is to kill the Cowboy. You're right here. How high do mine go? Like 600 feet?

Oh, shoot, I don't remember. I think it's still traveling. 1813? Yeah, it was a double-stage rocket. It had one rocket engine, and then it ignited another one, and it shot off. Yeah. I do remember that kind of unfair. I am a loophole guy.

At the end of the day, you can solidify me as the loophole guy. Did you catch that one? If there's a hole in a loop, you'll find it. No way. No, he would remember a catch. Bro, I didn't catch that. Great swag that day, too, though. Oh, I did catch it.

You did catch it. Wow. athlete, almost athlete, but athlete. Yeah, you had to jump a fence for that one. I remember that. Dude, I honestly, I thought I had a good memory. I don't remember anything about this day, like at all. Really? Nothing.

It must have been the cow moment. Gosh, that scarred me. Poor cow. We almost ended the life. Take us back there to that cow. Yeah, Kobe just, his launch got sideways, and there's cows in the field. Oh, baby.

Yeah. I don't know if that was my problem. You almost had pita in your emails. Good news! It did not kill a cow! If we killed the cow and, you know, it provided us food for an entire year, what a way, though. Every bite of hamburger you take, you're like, collie. You remember it. Yeah, it's tough for the boys when they have to say, you know what, Chad T or a Sparky or a Jared?

You were right. They have a hard time saying that, but the inspo behind the Rockets, you were right, Chad T. Because without one, we don't have a Model Rocket, too. But really interesting. I was actually talking to Jared. I didn't know this. But Rocket, this was the second time that was actually pitched. So Rocket was actually pitched on the TV show.

Yep, myself and Caitlin O'Connor pitched this Rocket concept originally, and we also got shot down. Yeah, I didn't know that. But anyway, it happened before Rocket won't. It wasn't me that shut you guys down, dude. You know me. You never shut it down. I am a team player when it comes to creative,

partly because I don't want to be involved in creative. So I have to be. That's the rule. That's the way you see yourself out. You have to accept it. I only have two rules, really. And that is, I'm not going to do something that kills me. Okay. I don't really know my other rule, but that's really the first one. You were really just rolling there trying to find it. That's really the only rule.

Okay. Yeah. So did 100-milly plus on the first two rocket videos. Then Rocket 3 came about and Kobe went to space. And I got to admit, I'm proud of caught in one that he didn't. I thought this was going to, he was going to just talk about it until he ran out of breath. He did a pretty good job of not, you know, boosted himself up as an astronaut the whole video in Rocket 4. But tell us a little bit about Rocket 3. Here's the deal. I just said literally 10 seconds ago, I have one rule. What was the rule? I don't do stuff that could kill me. Well, I think going to space is one of those things that I am just, I was out on. You said like the winner goes, and I just knew right when you said that, I was like, I'm going to win this battle, dude. I already won the first one.

So are you claiming? I think I probably got top three in the second one. I have no idea. So you're claiming that you won? Rocket three? Yeah, I think my Rocket won, and I think the grace of God broke the altimeter

and we'll just never know. And you wouldn't have gone? No, I would not have gone to space. I would have passed that thing off so quickly. No way. No, I wouldn't have gone to space. By your own accord or wife? Or both?

I think she might have put me on the rocket. Right. The question, though, for Chad and Sparky, would you two go to space if you were given the opportunity? I feel like I've nothing to lose at this point. Yeah, 100% going. You don't even have to be seatbelt.

Don't even put it on. Yeah. I'm so in. I actually tried to get on that rocket. I was like, someone's got to film it. Someone's got to film it. And you're like, nuts.

Yeah, why not? Does he went to space? That feels very much. Like, you have to do it. It's like, I got emotional when I saw the round earther, you know,

because I was just like, it confirms it's round and the flat earthers can finally get put to bed. But other than that, no other part would I want to be a part of. You were completely fine living through Kobe's experience. 100%. All of that brought us to Rocket 4.

Yeah. The first thing I'll say is, man, I'll give Beast kudos. Yeah, he does those 100 people videos all the time. Seamelessly. They're tough, man. Yeah. I mean, I'm sure there's stuff behind the hood that's like, oh, that was a lot. There has to be.

Man, those are a little bit of a beat down to put on. Sure. Pull the hood back and tell the people about some of the obstacles, hurdles that we had to overcome during the shoot. Well, number one was the weather. The weather. 85 mile on our Wednesday day. Yeah. I mean, that was wild.

I think this has been like the calmest, nicest weather I've ever seen in Texas my entire life. Totally. Like, I don't think we've seen a day above five miles an hour for the last like six months. And that day we decided to launch 100 rockets. It's probably what? It was gusting up to 50. It was gusting 50. Yeah.

And we were at Texas Motor Speedway, which doesn't block the wind. No. Well at all. And I remember Tyler, he made fun of me. He goes, man, he's like, all these rockets are going to fly out of the stadium. And I'm like, dude, no, they won't. So we had a little side bet there. And then I'm seeing the wind.

And I'm like, man, I lost this bet. So we had probably about half of those rockets go out of the stadium. Yeah, I love the ones hanging on the billboards and stuff. You're like, ah, well, yeah, there's probably rockets. I mean, if you go to Texas Motor Speedway, get some tickets, you're probably going to get a rocket. Yeah, Highway 114 was in place. Some of those rockets was like, oh, that's going into traffic. I mean, dude, did you watch the footage back?

Oh, yeah. Every rocket is going a completely different direction. It gave me some Vegas vibes from, you know, you know, because you didn't know where those basketballs were going to go during high shot, some of them on the, you know, strat side of the hotel building, some of them in the street. I didn't watch the launch. I turned around because I was like, someone's going to get hit by a rocket.

There was one during the second launch of the first round, the ones that didn't go up, and there was one that went up and went to completely 90 degrees, and I thought it was going to clip Cody Jones. Got super close. Oh, yeah, he didn't even know it, of course. No way. Dude, taking a rocket to the dome would hurt.

I mean, those... Oh, yeah. It, like, knocks you back into kind of... Knocks him sense into him. It corrects him. We lost a drone during that. Oh, that was sick. What a direct hit.

Did y'all put... I'm okay with that. that's a cool clip. So nobody on the production team's like at fault for that. No. You knew what you were getting into there? Yeah, when we do production stuff, I'm like, dude, cameras or tools like, risk it for the Biscuit. Look at the Biscuit. Oh. I mean, it was

a cool shot. Why not? Yeah. Big production. The video turned out great. Let's just, the peeps are asking, is there going to be a fifth one, dude? Oh, man. This one took a couple years off my life. Not going to lie. I don't know what we would do if we did a fifth one. I think we'd scale it back.

I wouldn't do a thousand people. I'm over A thousand people? Well, I'm saying, like, I'm not going to do more people. Like, 100, I think I'm like capped at. I'm like, I'm good. I think we would do maybe a contestant base again, do like 20. Or do we just do really big rockets. Maybe we work with Elon.

Or just strap the dudes that rockets, whoever goes the highest with their own rocket. We didn't talk about that. This is a great, you know, like, if you were to put, you know, a Cody Jones, which, you know, you don't know the weight of that. Could be 250. Could be, you know, 230. Like, does that rocket that we just launched getting the air? This one right here. Does it go?

The big one? Oh, yeah. That one felt like it had the horsepower. With 230 pounds of weight on it? I mean, that is a great idea. We should totally do that. We can get like dummies, like strap on them and just see how hard they go. I mean, dude, put your helmet on and, you know, put some shoulder pads on.

I think you're fine to get launched up. Oh, you're saying the actual person. Yeah, you got a parachute. Oh, well, I'm saying like a replica. You know, we get the size and weight right and we just like going to hug it on. See how far. It's still a funny idea. It's a great way to, you know, get kicked into a diet.

It's like, hey, look, you got till this end. Lock in your weight here. Yeah. That's, uh, did you know, that's my wife's favorite segment? She listens to the pod every, every Wednesday.

Really? Yeah. She likes it. Yeah, her favorite little, uh, train right now. She likes Cody's way in. Yeah, the way ins.

She said that's her favorite. She said she dies laughing every time. Yeah. So do we. So shout out, uh, Taylor Terrell. Love you.

Shout out Taylor, Taylor. I love you as well. Well, okay, not as much as me, but that's fine. Yeah.

Fair. Fair. That's fair. That's fair. Yeah. Yeah. Some other hurdles being the fact that we had some contestants. That was probably the hardest part was trying to memorize contestants' names because there's so many people there.

Oh, I didn't even try. But near the winner was hilarious. And when I watched the sign off again, I forgot that organic moment happened. Oh my gosh, I started laughing so hard at home. You want to sign us off? Sign us off. All right. You know how to do it?

No. You don't? Dude perfect. That guy was... He's an interesting cat. He was funny, man. In the best of ways, yeah. Good soul.

when Kristen watched it or maybe it was my kids I can't remember but somebody was like wait why are they like jogging to the finish line like why aren't they running and I was like oh no yeah Chris you don't understand like that was their run

which team was that pink team was that pink team row hit that was it look see look that's not Allison's like she Allison is running Allison is putting her effort in this no you can't tell me that that is full sprint You can't tell me that. No way. It was incredible.

I thought somebody was pranking us in that. I still think they're both pranking us. I thought, who was this kid's name? It's the other one. Look at that dude. Look. Look. He was excited because he was like, oh, I used to run high school track.

And I'm like, oh, this guy's going to smoke. That was to get to the final. And you know what? I personally, if I would have seen this, if I would have seen all the clips, I would have given it to Allison because she put effort in. Yeah, she was sprinting. And she's not even close, which is wild. Because her rocket went.

5,000 yards away. Yeah. To be fair, the guy who was in second there at the very end in the gut check went to EMS. I think his name was Derek. He had to sit down with EMS for a couple of minutes. He said he held his breath during that, which I'm like, why are we? You should have breathed. I was going to say my favorite part of the whole video watching the edit, which I don't really watch finished products, but watch this one. And when Corey's team was being interviewed and the clip of like, yeah, we got like four engineers, like pretty smart people except like one guy.

and then they pan the quarry. Great part, dude. I died laughing. Also, that was a great moment in the video. So, Chad T, being such an integral part of our creative team, pull the curtain back a little bit and explain to the people at home just how tough it is to line up something like this, a project of this magnitude. Yeah, so a lot of the ideas that are generated from on my end, I always think back to as a kid

of like, oh man, what would be really cool for like eight-year-old, 10-year-old Chad? And I kind of hatched those ideas. And, you know, there's usually like 30 ideas. And then I bring him to Tyler and he's like, oh, these all stink. Because he's our, like our final creative piece. He is. CEO of Creative. Mm-hmm.

He is. He is. He is his official title? I, yeah, sure. Okay, cool. All right. I thought he was our HR. No, he got kicked out of that.

He still. He did. He didn't. He let some things happen and he had to go. Yeah. But yeah, that's mainly how it's generated is like, hey, what's getting me excited as like the eight-year-old, 10-year-old, and how can I build upon that idea and kind of move it past? But I think what's hard is this next generation coming up, man, I don't know.

They like to emote. Yeah, Jackson came through and I'm like, I don't, this kid's saying words that don't make any sense to me. Yeah. Fair. It's getting tougher and tougher to think. Jackson, Jackson did tell me that he was getting text, what word, what, what's saying did we come up with?

That wasn't one, and it actually. In Mike Lupark has got some traction. Yeah, that gained some traction. with the young peeps, man. We might be, you know, just sneak our way into being the inspo for that generation. I don't know if I want that. I don't. Ah, but we could shape the culture.

It needs it. They need a leader. I'm putting that on my resume. They need a leader, man. They need a leader. You got to reach out to Kai Sonat. Yeah, they're lost right now in some of their terminology. But it's okay.

We don't hold it against them. I will when they turn 27, though. Fair. Yeah, you still like and like that at 27. You're glup in me. You're chopping my gloop. Yeah. And we got issues.

I don't like that. I don't like that one at all. Chad T, you're meant for C. Thank you, brother, for joining us. No, no. Yep, you're the best in the base. I'll be on B soon and then A will be nice. Yeah, there's levels to this, just like our fantasy football league.

Or you could just shoot me right to A. Let's tap the brakes here. Hey! I hate that. I know, it gets me every time. That's our two-minute warning, Chad, T, if you want to hang around, I've got a passionate one coming. Do you? Yeah, yeah, because I got.

Where are you going? Oh, I got to grab something. Hang on. This is crazy. You've never seen you have to go grab. And dude, by the way, man, that took you far too long to get off a couch, man. You're getting old. You were here yesterday.

You're getting old, brother. I actually try to avoid Garrett over the weekends. Yeah, we did run into each other yesterday. But we were both working out together yesterday morning. 9 a.m. too. Early. Yeah. You probably saw the Paul Feinbaum rant on why the G5 shouldn't be the plow. Yes.

I'm going to go through why the heart and soul is in the G5 and why we need it. You have your Power 4 conferences, people. Used to be Power 5, but the Pac-12 no longer exists. So you got the ACC, the Big. the Big Ten, the Big Ten, the Big Twelve, and the SEC. The champion from each of these conferences goes to the 12th team playoff. Okay. I should not be a part of this.

So our 12 goes to eight. Beautiful illustration. Okay. Now you're thinking, well, who else? Who were the other eight schools that get the playoff bid? Well, they're all coming from the P5 here, except for one. There are 136 FBS schools, I believe, if I'm correct. You have your group of five of the American Conference USA

the Mac, Sun Belt, and Mountain West. One of these eight spots, one of these eight spots is the conglomerate of this. And while yes, much of your better football comes from up here in the power conferences, this is your heart and soul of college football. That's right. 60-ish, 65 programs of the 136 come from the group of five. Your Boise States, your South Florida, your Memphis, North Texas.

There's a lot of heart and passion down here. You're telling me the best team out of these five conferences doesn't deserve one singular spot. College sports are infinitely better when the little dog has a chance to showcase its bark and bite. And that's all I'm asking for. Which is why people love March Madness. Correct. It's the beauty. It's the beauty.

It's infinitely better. The college sports. I agree. I think me. I think me and you should be the playoff committee, bro. We're not asking for two spots at the table. We're asking for one of the 12. Get greedy.

And if they ruin this down here, you're going to lose a, yes. None of these programs are Alabama or have the fandom or blue blood that comes with that. But as a conglomerate, a lot of a heart and soul is made up in the G5. Some really well-respected fans, well-respected programs, don't you dare lose our one playoff spot. That's all I have to say. It should be too. Well, hey, what a rant, by the way. And if Paul Feinbaum wants me on the show, we can get more in depth about that.

And no one has, you know, that was a really well said. And people don't even understand what a P4 and a G5, like, they're. don't even understand. They need to. Educate yourself, though, kids. Educate yourself before you talk. Hey, that was good education for you. Dude, I didn't learn anything. You were talking another language for a second. Now you can go home and tell Taylor that you understand. She already knows this, which is crazy. Well, now you can have a dinner conversation. I mean, you know it. Oh my gosh. But it looks like our time is up. Man, that fired me up. Yeah. Thank you. God, I should be too snots by the way.

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