Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect - Dude Perfect: Ranking MLB Stadium Food, DP Goes to Disney, A Massive CHEATING SCANDAL | Full Episode

Episode Date: October 8, 2025

 Cody steps on the scale for his official weigh-in — and the numbers surprise everyone. From wild food confessions to intramural meltdowns and hilarious “cheating” scandals, the Dudes dive into everything from the MLB Playoff team’s best stadium foods to the biggest NFL and NCAA Football games of the week. Plus, a look at the world’s weirdest sports and a behind the scenes look at Garrett’s world-record breaking trip to all the Disney theme parks around the world. What to do now: 1. Smash that LIKE button  2. Hit SUBSCRIBE so you never miss a DP podcast moment  3. Drop a comment with who YOU want to see on Almost Athletes next! Subscribe for more!    https://www.youtube.com/@almostathletes     • • • • Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect is (almost) a sports podcast. Tune in weekly to hear the dudes’ hottest sports takes, great debates, interviews with your favorite athletes and entertainers, and hilarious BTS from all things Dude Perfect.  New episodes drop every Wednesday.  Follow along on all platforms.   Listen to the pod on your morning commute or wherever it finds you: Apple: - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/almost-athletes-with-dude-perfect/id1834502483 Spotify: - https://open.spotify.com/show/55gaQm31JIbp6td7QtYsPU?si=6423db3118ac497f Follow Almost Athletes to keep up with the Dudes!: https://www.instagram.com/almostathletes https://www.tiktok.com/@almostathletes https://x.com/almostathletes_ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Baseball game, ninth inning, last out, have to bring on a celebrity pitcher. Ooh, I love it. You're down 12. Nine runs, and I can be going to walk. You can be down to perfect game, out the window. Maybe not. Maybe you take the perfect game into the ninth, and Ann Hathaway gets it over across the finish line. That's insane thought.

I'm in. Welcome to Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect, a Wave Original, brought to you by Rebounds. Bouncing to the action. I'm your host, Sparky. You are. Garrett. And you are. Cody.

Cody Jones. Look at that. Welcome back to A Block. On time with the delivery. Yeah, you look good, dude. Thank you. I've been getting in my comments lately. Here's the thing is, what?

We get on to Cody at time. It feels like a punching bag every once in a while. But in all reality, that's because we absolutely adore you, dude. Oh, thank you. Yeah. I appreciate it. You're an easy target, too. You're an easy target.

Yeah, we thought we would start to show right off with a little official way in. Oh, no way. We brought a scale. Did you really? Yeah. That's going to happen. Oh, wow, we actually did. You're not joking.

So, like I said, in the last time I was, on. I was hovering around 225, 230. I always wanted to be a 245 guy. I think I'm there. Oh yeah. I'm on my way. I had three cookie cake slices today. Three? It's my birthday on Thursday. Hey, happy early

birthday, brother. So the team celebrated. Happy early birthday. How are we turning? 60. 38. 38. But I'll say this. It's not just fat. I am adding fat, but I'm doing like air squats in the shower. Three sets of ten. So there's some leg mass. Shower squats. You air squat in the shower? Yeah.

Bro, a shower supposed to be a relaxing time. Not my showers. All right, I'm going to scale it. Hey, hey, before you go. Can I put it? Are you putting it over under on something? Yeah, yeah. I think I'm 240 on the dot.

240 on the dot. I'm taking it over. You're taking over? Oh, easily. 260, if it was prices right. And that's me being cautious that I may be a little under. You know what? I didn't think about the shoes.

Can take my shoes off? Nope. I want everything. I want. Then it's 242. All right. Wow. The birthday boy 260 is going to be.

be insane. Yeah, the watch is definitely that's not going to do anything. Like the hat makes a difference. What do we got? You okay? You seem shocked. He can't even say the number.

Oh, you got Eid? You didn't commit to a number and then it just turned off. Oh, you broke the scale? 255. Is that what I'm saying? 245 on the dot. 245. You know what?

I got to weigh myself. I got to see. I haven't weighed myself in a little bit. I could have been a tight end in high school. Hey, I'll tell you if this college. I'll tell you if this scale. Dude, I could have been a college tight end. While Gare stepping on the scale, we had somebody comment last week, why were we so infatuated with your weight? And it's because I want to see you live till you're 60, you know? It's a health thing. Gary, Gare had a wake up call. 282, baby. 282? It's about to say. See, I think your 182 is more embarrassing than my 245. All right, code, so the scale spoke some truth there. Last time you were here, you checked in

at 238. You said you were going to get to work? I didn't know you were adding. No, I am. Are you? Bulk season, baby. It's bulk season. It's the fall. We've got the Texas state fair is coming up. A lot of corn dogs on fried Oreos. We're not even there yet. We didn't even cross that bridge. We haven't gone to the state fair yet. I thought that number included the state fair. I had zero Fletcher corny dogs inside me. Dude. Whoa, dude. What does that number include. That is my little spinach pouch that I had on tour. Yeah. Okay, I drink one of those in the morning. A cup of coffee. I got here and today they had Bojangles Breakfast Biscuits. I had two or three of those. Now, to be fair, I am working out five days a week, but I am not slowing down on the

eating. Well, you need to do. It's a bulk season, dude. It's bulk season, but you need to, that's not nothing. No, it's not nothing, but we do need to add some squats in the shower. Feel that one. That's the left side. Dude, I mean, honestly, it's... Yeah, I'm stronger than I've ever been. How many pull-ups can you do? Not many. I've got long arms. Five. Do we need to reach out to somebody? Not yet. At two, if I'm on the show and I'm ever north of 270, we need to call for help.

Well, Coach, two weeks ago, you're on the show and you were 238. Yeah, seven pounds is, it's manageable. That's three a week. Yeah, three a week. Just to touch you on an extra point. That's all it is, dude. I got an A&M game this week, and we're going to take care of Florida. Sorry, Gators.

What a banger start to the episode. What a heavy start to the episode. That would a better word. Happy birthday, Jones. Let's not get lost in the shuffle that it is your birthday week. Coming up. Congratulations, dude. Thank you.

To see another year. That number was before the birthday. I know. He keeps doing what he's doing. He's not going to see his 42nd. How old are you turning this year? 38. Yeah.

That's 38. On tap today, boys, sports, sports, and more sports. Got the 85-incher up at the crib. We're going to talk new Dude Perfect main channel video release, Disney World Records. We'll sprinkle in some voicemails. That was a hit last week. Then we got Chad Terrell joining us too later in the show. So heavy episode.

Love that guy. No pun intended coats. And we're going to talk about a big sports can. Oh. Oh, yeah, that's right. We are. I don't even know what you're talking about. Yeah, it's big.

Okay. Mark Sanchez? Close. All right off the bat. Proud of the boys. Proud of the Cowboys. I'm not. Dak looks good.

So you're already saying it's more about the Jets being incompetent than it was the Cowboys? No, it's more about your, every win is a less draft pick. A lesser draft pick. Fair. You don't want to pick ninth.

You want to pick first. I want to pick third. That's good. But it was good to see things. things yesterday. Like, they got to the quarterback really well. They were in Justin Fields' face all day. Congrats, guys. You did it against the Jets. So what will it take to instill belief in you? At what point in the season? How many wins? If Jerry was able to just kill it and go two wins the rest of the year,

I believe that Jerry actually can build a team. So you're saying almost that Dax playing too good of football currently? Yeah, I'd bench him. He's playing really really good football, man. You are right, though. Jerry does do just enough to give you hope, But they did not get a good pick. But it's just, it's just, he does it to himself. He does it to himself. He does it to himself. Of 10 wins.

I thought he was going to do it with the mica trade. You're like, all right, cool. He's in. He's doing this thing. Nope. Nope, sure not. But the defense was much improved yesterday. It was good to see.

I think they entered the day with like five sacks and had four alone yesterday. But the Jets are bad. The Jets are bad. O-N-5. I feel for Aaron Glenn, man. That's my guy. They haven't gotten a takeaway in the first five games. That's the first time since 1933.

Are we done talking about the Jets? Yeah, can we move on from the Jets? They're horrible. They're horrible. But Cowboys Carolina next week, too. Oh, Johnson is he another win. Should be. We don't want it. Think if they didn't have that tie. That one may come back to bite them. We concerned about anybody across the NFL? Yeah, I was concerned that my guy Josh Allen didn't win versus New England. That was a little surprising. It was shocking. Other than that, and the Ravens, those are the only two disappointing things in my life right now. No more undefeated. Philly? It's fun. What a comeback win by the Denver Broncos down two scores there at half. Rally in Philadelphia.

I love the Phillies. Hey, look, if you live in Philly and listen to the pod, I love you as a human being. Can't stand your sports teams. Literally that in Houston Astros. Yeah, it was good to see them lose. All right. Hey, that's enough about NFL.

Let's talk about the Aggies. Go to the college game. We don't get to talk about us. Be the top five program very often. When's the last time y'all were in the top five? 2021. Oh, I was to say 2016. No, 2021.

COVID year. Apologizes, Steve. Your dad is going to be disappointed. We won that you just 2016. Hey, look, here's the deal. I'm just going to get it out and say it. Yes, we will not be ranked at the end of the year. Whoa.

That's him protecting as hard as all that is. It's just me protecting all the hate that's about the flood end of the pod. Because I get it. We haven't done it yet. So why do it this year? Boy, it feels good. Can you believe that they unranked Texas? I mean, that just feels like an abomination to sports.

You actually want to shout out both Texas and Penn State for making my week one rant. Oh, you're right. of just how useless the preseason readiness are. Preseason one and two. Five weeks, see ya. And neither deserve to be there. Well, I got to be complimentary of the Longhorns. I mean, they listen.

They listen to people. They listen to your rant. They were like, hey, you're right. We'll take care of this for you. That's what happened. We'll throw a couple. Here's my question. The guys that have greenlit

the ad campaigns that feature Arch Manning, do you pull those from airing or do you keep rolling them out there? I mean, there's three commercials right now that he's on. I saw some Texas fans post I'm some sports writers

that they don't think it's Archie's fault I think it's the O-Line's fault With O-Line's not doing great He is getting beat up He took some shots on Saturday Like the pocket wasn't clean at all But when he does have a clean pocket I don't know if he's seeing Ghost because of the lack of time

But he's not delivering a good football out there either So it's definitely a multi-layer Cause for worry Yeah for sure I don't think many had Texas Two losses here Five weeks in. Honestly, I didn't really watch a lot of sports.

I watched the Aggies this week, but my boys, they played the defending champions for four straight years. Heck of a game, dude. I'm still... They're like eight. So they've been winning it since they were four? Yeah. I'm still buzzing, dude. I mean, this game,

they dug deep. They dug deep. Wow. You saw something. I was a maniac on the sideline, dude. I mean, parents 100% judge me. I don't care. I don't care. I was running. I was running. I was running. Dude, I was like, I was yelling. Gosh man, what a win. What a win by the boys. The funny story

about that was that me and Garrett run the same intermural soccer team. And he was getting so mad at the refs with our fans watching. Oh, I've seen it first. I retired mid-game. I go, dear, I can't be around you when you're yelling at refs like that. I'm gone. I went home. He goes, hey, I respect you, and then he went night to yell to the

rep. Remember the email? The emails came flooding into dude, perfect. This guy at the pit. He's a liability. Monday night at 10 p.m. He's lost his mind. He's a walking yellow. I was like, oh, yeah, that's my brother. but I was there to fend them. You're a dime a dozen. One more thing on the Penn State thing before I forget.

Did you see he was coaching up UCLA? UCLA historically bad this year. They wiped the coaching staff. If you remember, Rick Newheisel used to be the coach at UCLA. His son was calling plays. Can you pull up a picture of Jerry New Heisle, please? Jerry New Heisle. I don't know who you're talking about.

Yeah. It's one thing. No. That was him in his playing days. This is him coaching. When you get beat by a winless UCLA being coached by a Lannister off Game of Thrones, that's humbling, dude. Does he not look like a

Lannister? Does he not look like a Lannister? That's Jamie's brother, man. That's humbling, dude. Did you have an almost athlete moment of the week? No, but if he keeps doing shower squats, he's going to have an almost athlete. Dude, that's a disaster rather than still blowing my mind. I'm in my defense, there's sauna squats.

Well, you said shower. I know, I misspoke. I misspoke. Dude, can you imagine Cody comes to work and he's in just a boot and he's like, yeah, pop the pop. The Achilles. My nose is busted.

Shower squat. Yeah, if you end up on the IL because of a shower squad. It's a spot built by shower squad. It wouldn't shock me. We got to talk about the winning touchdown of the Titans game. That was an almost athlete moment. It was. Oh, the ball loose?

That was straight out of a Kiwi game. I was crazy. Everyone was like, dude, and I was so happy. When they said the Titans won, again, didn't watch it. They were like, I was like so happy for Cam Ward. I was like, no way. This guy went out and won a game. No, he didn't.

He threw a pick. He did. He did. He was fumbled and it looked like a bar of soap. About 35 individuals had a chance to hop on that thing. Golly, that was crazy. Well, generally, we give a shout out to our almost athlete of the week. We gave it to Adonai Mitchell last week.

But this week, we wanted to spin it more of a positive. I don't know if y'all saw this, but the sideline photographer named Hezeka Kappauala. Hezekiah Capualla? I probably butchered that name. Oh, we wanted to get in there for a pick. Look at the commitment to the job. Dude, that's... Why is our editing crew not doing that in all sports golf battle?

I'm very confused on. Was that slide necessary? No, he did it for the gram, dude. Oh, you think he's doing it for show? He had a 360 of his chest. To me, that simulation, that's a yellow card. Yeah, he was. It was super unnecessary.

He did it on purpose. Yeah, that's a yellow card. He waited until the snap was about to go. You're thinking this is a look at me. Five percent he's on our pod right now. He's getting clout. It's all planned. It worked?

It did. They still call it clout, the Gen Ziers? What do they call it? Or a... I don't know. cool factor. Yeah, I don't know. We need Jackson in here, dude.

What's the most extreme thing y'all've ever done for a photo? You did some crazy stuff to get a picture with LeBron back in the day, didn't you? I did. I went and said, hey, going to get a picture? Said, dude, not now. Didn't you ask him to go hot tub after? Yes, I did. And I asked Kobe Bryant if he had any trick shots, and he said I got 81 of them. Oh, what an answer.

What a... Un defeated, man, Kobe. Don't too soon. It's true. He should be number one athlete of what we talked about. It should have been number one. Gosh, I'm still fuming about that list. A list was Terrible. Let it go. It's been three weeks now. God, that L.S. was horrible. I do agree, though. That ESPN top 10 left a little to be desired.

We're going to get into the scandal? Yeah, let's get into the scandal. Here at Almost Athletes, boys, we like to talk sport. But I want to start a new segment called Almost Sport. We'll pull the curtain back on some lesser-known sports. We have a team gathering clips. And today's Almost Sports involves some cheating in a rock-skipping contest. I thought this was going to be the guys that were in a fishing competition,

winter got 30 grand and they put their weights in their fish. I saw that. And then the guys cut them open and then they banned them for life and said, just get out of here. Nobody punched him in the face. Let them leave. This one from a similar realm. Over 2,000 people attended this event.

It's on a tiny island off the coast of Scotland. Okay. And you have to naturally come about your stone. Oh, he made his own. See if this is going? Yeah. They went and retrieved the stone. Yeah, they said, in quotes, suspiciously circular.

But how did they know that? that he threw the stone into the water, did they go get home out? I bet he had a pile and after his third one, they're like, those are two round. And he did cheat because the offenders ultimately apologized for it. But did he win? Did he win? Like, that's not going to hold up. That's a bad look.

You cheat and you don't win. Yeah, if you're cheating and you don't win. It's like cheating on a test and then still failing. It's like, man, you're not very good at this game. What's a sport comp for this? I guess this would be like a guy who's using sticky in baseball and gets caught. They got the old. They kind of let it happen.

Yeah, not anymore. Not as much. You all ever been caught cheating in a DP battle video? Oh, yeah. Win? 100%. You, Kobe's first win ever. You, no, but you did cheat to get there, but then you gave up to let Kobe win.

I didn't like that. Well, remember I climbed the monkey thing because everyone was like, you got to go through the monkey thing. And I'm like, no one said I couldn't go around it. Correct. I've been the rules, which is cheating. Ultimately, I'm a cheater. My name's Garrett, and I have a problem. That's a problem.

Wow. I can remember one vividly. It wasn't attached to a video. Oh, it wasn't attached to a video. Tour golf. Tour golf, that's true. To be fair, in my defense,

I didn't want to play golf all summer, and they committed us to a Callaway deal, and we had to post our scores. And I just, I didn't care to win. I didn't want to win. I just wanted to look competent because I hadn't put any time into golf. And so, yes, I was pencil whipping.

The fellows that had to come clean. No one wants to post a 120 on the public website. No, absolutely not. It's embarrassing. is putting it softly. I happened to be paired up with you that day. It was a 92 that became an 87. That's what hurts.

I probably deserved an apology from you because I was put in between a rock and a hard place that day because it was like a Tyler pulling me to the side and he's like what happened out there? You know, he carded a, I think what did you card in 84? Which was an egregious pencil whip. If you would have like just laid it at 97 on there, you get away with it. 70 maybe. I'm good now.

And so Ty has that talk with me. We're in Kansas City. I can even remember the city we were in. I had an intervention. Yeah, how you get your honor back is you just own up to the fact that. And you did. And you said, hey,

the one of the greatest lines of Cody Jones to ever surface was, well, my dad always wanted me to be an 80s golfer. It's true. I didn't want Steve down. The best line. My dad always wanted me to be an 80s golfers,

so I wanted to be an 80s golfer. And I'm going to make myself that and write it down. Man. What's wrong with that? No, nothing's wrong. It worked until you caught me. It did, dude. It did.

man I was just I can never beat you it was insane and now you never lose so is there any cheating with dude perfect videos anybody's ever been caught with yeah I'll sish is there like a most notorious cheater on the group I'm gonna let the chat

say if this is cheating or not how is it fair for the guy to come up with the battles oh yeah okay he comes up with the battles he has weeks weeks of knowledge and he doesn't tell us till we're about to film what we're about to do.

And crazy enough, there's never been a frisbee, a disc golf, a soccer, an actual basketball competition. As everyone always asks, man, why is Ty? Who are we talking about? I think we all know. Why is Tyler winning everything? And it's like, well, I'll tell you why, dude. He comes up with these battles and he knows them from the moment they come into his head.

To be fair, he is the brains behind the creative part. So I feel like he, you know, throws himself a bone. that's okay. He is the one sitting in there. I just want to chat to know. I just want the chat to say, is that a little bit cheating or not? Clean.

It's clean. I think it's clean. I think it's murky, but clean. Yeah, it's like a hole and one on a par three. It's like,

yeah, you got a whole and one. Because he's still giving more than the state. That's a good comp. That's what he's doing. It's like you don't want to tell people that, but you're forced to tell people. It might even be a whole one,

a whole one on a mad ball on a par three. Like he hit the first one, bladed it a little over the top. laid another once. We can't claim the whole 87 when you were shut of 91. Okay. So other than that, no,

I don't think there's cheating in a... I don't think there's cheating in DP. I'm gonna come clean. I'm gonna come clean on something. I don't think you all know, yeah. You cheated. No, not me. And airsoft battle.

But I assisted a little bit of cheating. Strongest dude too. That battle we did like two months ago. Yeah. The sled push out there. Corey was dealing with a bad shoulder. Uh-huh. All those a heavy item.

that he picked, that was on purpose. Oh. Because he couldn't participate in the next round because of the shoulder. Oh, so I might not even be the strongest man. You're not. You're stronger and Corey.

You're not. You're not. But I wanted to get that off my chest. That's just genetic. That's just genetics. He couldn't do the... He was really worried about the bolt hold there at the end

and what it would do to his shoulder. I think he was thinking you'd be a amputee or a double amputeeatutee and I was telling him he probably... Strongman 2 might be the worst performance I've ever put up in a dude purging video. Oh, you went out early. I think I held that thing for 0.5 seconds.

Oh, yeah, right. You just let go. It might have been the worst performance I've ever thrown out there. Oh, yeah, right. I'm like, tin sex, they're already slipping. Purple Hoser versus the pickup. No, they're slipping.

I barely got the intro out. Probably should have worked on more muscles. No, I'm thinking about it. That was bad, dude. That was tough to watch. He was always right. I don't care about winning. I'm a podium guy, but even that was low standards

for the Purple Hoser. Got a question for you. You'll ever heard of the world chess boxing championships? Is it just the chess? No, no way, no way. No way. I feel like this is a very select few people. What you box?

Representing the country. After you chess? I can't play chess. It would be my problem. I don't think I understand. Wait, what do you do? It combines chess and boxing. So do you play chess?

Players alternate rounds of rapid chess and boxing. So do you like, if I take your pawn, I get a free punch? I don't know really how it works. but you're gonna present a sport you're not gonna tell us the rules well imagine catching a right James canty looks like James canny looks like he's probably better at boxing than he is chess

but imagine eating a right hand that makes you forget what a bishop is so look shake hands he's got gloves on okay hold this is outrageous there's the pawn okay so they're going but then okay I don't know who's won I don't know who just won that map oh so then they go to boxing they're throwing absolute yeah but look at their gloves dude those are pillows that's fine

They're still throwing bugs. That doesn't hurt. What if you knock them out? Oh, they're saying if you box, it's affecting your IQ, and so you might win in chess. The chat loves it, dude. A lot of fire emoji.

Would you agree with that? I don't know, but the guy is dodging. See, look, no, he can't think because his brain is smashed in. That's what I'm saying. Imagine eating a right hand that makes you forget even what a bishop is. Come on, USA.

Come on, USA. Raise his hand. That a baby. Who represents in the country. U.S. and 245, I would play that game right now with either of you. Which sport would benefit by adding boxing to it?

Oh, baseball. You don't even sweat in that game. How would you implement the box? If you get hit by a pitch. You get a box. You get the box of the pitcher. It's fun. I like that.

If it's a tie, instead of tie go to the runner, you box it out. Whoever wins gets to either be out or safe. I like that too. You have something here, Jones. What about managers? What about managers and umpires? Oh, instead of boxing the ump, you box the other manager.

Well, you're arguing with the oomp for the bad call. That's true. Hey, I'm not going to challenge the call. We're just going to box, and if I win, you overturn the call. That's good. Yeah, if you win the challenge, you get a freebie, but if you lose the challenge, the ump gets a freebie on you. It gets to take a 32, 34 Louisville sluggled to your back.

I'd watch. And as fans, if you see the hot dog guy, you get to box him. If he wins, you pay double. If you win, you get a free hot dog. Oh, you're welcome baseball. I think we solved your problems. Love how you squeezed another food reference. Yeah.

Gosh, you were obsessed, dude. You got to. I got to eat this week. It was a lot. It was over four. Where'd you go to dinner on Saturday night? Saturday night was a new place in downtown called Avua. It's like a fish market.

I had... I've never heard of it. Dude, I had two butter cakes. I had a 16-layered chocolate cake. This is on top of a 16-ounce tea bone. No, tomahawk. It was a tomahawk. It was a lot.

What were you celebrating? My neighborhood family. Oh, okay, but it was a celebration. It wasn't just Saturday night, baby. Yeah, just Saturday night. Took the sprinter down and unloaded. Dude.

Look at this. Look at this fish. They put fish in a big old pile of salt and then they just unpack it for you right in front of your face. I think you should... Look at this. The triple entree is maybe where you're losing me.

Let's just do our top. They took a big old fish, smashed salt on them, and they just peel it off some shishimi. I didn't think you had to problem, but I did see your order for tonight for the plane ride. To be fair, I thought Allison was putting in in the order, and then I thought I was putting in the order, so we both put in the order. So I think it's just a double of what I normally eat. But you're going to eat it.

I have to. I'm not going to waste food. What was the total on his bill? See, I don't care about the price. It's more about the mount. That's what a rich guy would say. We're supposed to pack light, too. Oh, his food did not pack light. Don't be worried about me, be worried about Tyler and the dairy involved with Italian food. that guy is going to rip during the flight. You're right. Yeah, he does have a history of ripping 30,000 feet up.

And there's no escape, man. The 45-minute flight, give me a break. Yeah, he can pack it in. Those are the worst because he feels obligated to really get it going. Do you remember the All-Star game? It's such a hard word. What's a word, not a salt, but what's a word a little bit less? A pepper?

Do you remember what Ty did on that plane ride with Cody's wife? It wasn't just Thai. That was mostly tied my brother. And Sporky, you know. involved. No, he was the MVP. I was an all-American. He was no huddle. I still think your wife has nightmares of that night. Tush push. Yeah, the Tust push, the hard cow. The home run derby. We were pulling out all the stops that night. And poor Alice in her eyes for burning red. I offered her some eye drops. I was gagging. She went shirt above nose the whole entire plane ride home and that was like from the

Northeast. And she was trying not to laugh because she knew if she laughed, you all would double down. Oh, it didn't matter at that point. It was an all-star game. Dude, it was acid in the air. It was bad. But what was incredible, and I still don't believe this was when we were getting off the plane, the pilot said, well, the Texas Tech volleyball team won up, John. I was thinking, no way. No chance. No chance.

I want that number one spot? Not let those people tell them. Poor Texas Tech volleyballers, man. The girls team, by the way. Yeah. Wow. All right. Well, how about it?

I felt like it'd be fun to, as we're on the topic of, you know. Food. Food. In honor of the MLB postseason, I thought it'd be fun to do a little ranking of new rookie dishes that the playoff teams have in their sports stadiums. So the food is Detroit Tigers Velvet Double Play, which is red velvet chicken and waffles. I'm in. Seattle Mariners have the What Up Corn Dog, a honey battered corn dog with a spicy mariner blue crunch. That's you.

Nacho cheese sounds horrible. I could have really those. New York Yankees, Wagu Beef, dumplings with a spicy aoli. Okay. Toronto Blue Jays, French fries top with blue mayonnaise and blue and white cotton candy.

Manays and cotton candy. That's... Oh. The Dodgers smoked L.A. Barbecue platter, you lost me at L.A. I was about to say you lost me at L.A.

Barbecue, for sure. I agree. Philly, s'mores, cassidia, Nutella, mini marshmallows, gram crackers. That sounds delicious.

And Cubs. A Gibberto sandwich. Ooh. Roast beef with garlic butter. Man, that'd be tough, Burrs the chicken cordon brew. A fried chicken breast was shaved ham.

That does sound pretty good. I hope you're not on the kiss cam after the Cubs one. Roast beef with garlic butter? Watch out. I'm going to say no to the cotton candy fries and a big yes to the chicken cordon blue. That looks phenomenal. Okay, so Blue Jays, cotton candy fries are out.

But the cordon blue... The brewers. You didn't mention in the Blue J one a mayo-based drizzle. With cotton candy? Like I like mayo. I like cotton candy, but I don't want my cotton candy. I know exactly where I'm starting off,

and that's Yankees Wagu beef dumplings. It's pretty good. Yeah, but. And I'm going to finish it off with a s'm s'mores cassidia. Price matters here, though. Yankees, if I'm having to give up my stock in Dow Jones to just to order that thing, consider me out. Yeah.

Have you ever been kiss cammed? No. Yeah, neither of I. Dude, I'm nervous. It's probably a good thing, because I don't know if I've ever really taken a girl to the ball. park so if I got on the kiss cam it's one of me and my boys that's probably a good thing looking back you'll never kiss cam have you ever been on like a dancing cam or anything yeah I'm the dance camp which what's your go-to dance once you show us I got so many you just feel it it's in the

moment you have many I don't have a dance that's why I don't like to Avon a lot of arms a lot of hips okay a lot of arms and you can always go to the Tim Holt special you know the floss Tim Holt loves the floss there's a gif that we can put up with Tim Holt yeah the eye contact If you search Stars fan on GIF, Timmy's the first one to pop up. Okay, we're all in agreement with these post-show foods. I mean, it's cordon blue, Wagyu, smorgas, yeah, I agree.

Consensus. Everyone else, they can drop their item. Yeah, anything change, baseball-wise, that make you feel any different as the postseason rolls on? I'm over it. You're really over it. Oh, bro. Well, first of all, congrats to Seattle.

That was a... They're doing it. They're going to do it. You think I're going to do it? You know who's not? Scoobble in game two is huge. Who's not doing it? The Astros.

And the Rangers, though. Doesn't matter, dude. I see me and Cody, we're Aggies. I'm a hater. We have more success when other teams lose because the Aggies don't, they don't give it to us. You know, they don't just hate on the long east. You want to see the world burn. You got to hate it.

If we're not going to be a part of it, then all my rivals are. Correct. That's exactly. That's exactly how we live. And I agree. The Astros not being in there is just unbelievable. I'm honestly. missing it, though, because I always cheer for the team that's playing them, and I don't

have that this year, so I don't, I don't really care. But with us out of it, it's probably a good thing. They're not around. And you have that Houston hate, you say, I'm a Dallas boy, dude. You speak with your chest on that, on tour there. When you bang that trash can, one of the most proud things I've ever seen from you. Well, I mean, it was fitting to bring up the Astros and cheating. We talked about cheating today.

Astros, host the master class in that. Yeah. They literally are leaders of it. Dean's list. But just like me and golf, they got. Got caught. First team all cheat. Hey, boys, you know what was a hit last week?

The voicemails. I really enjoyed hearing from the people from home. And keep sending those in because it's been really fun to talk, discuss, debate. Do we have more today? Yeah, we do. We have more today. Do we have a new guy or is Cody sticking with us? Sticking around.

Oh, he's a two segmenter this week? Well, it's his birthday week. So I need to be eating right now. This is his second supper time. Can we bring Cody some food? He needs it. Please. I got some food, codes.

Oh, wow. Seriously. Red of 250. Meat steak and cookie cake. I didn't know it's on year. Oh, nice. I'm going to meet a. I'm an exotic combo.

I'm fine, brother. What second is this, by the way? This is, uh, A, isn't it? Yeah, it's A. It's A. Yeah. He's in A? Well, I think A and B.

He was requested. He's in B, too. He's in C? Oh, no. Chad Terrell. He had to still awkward. Chad Terrell. Wasn't my call, Tyler.

What? No, I'm gonna eat that. Take it back. I'm, dude, I was 245. Right before we sat. He is hot. It's actually a pretty good meat stick. I'm going to keep crushing this.

It's protein. All I'll ask is you keep your meat stick on your side of the table. Garrett, last week you defeated Jackson in an action-packed game of rebounds. What's next for you? I feel like I could go pro in it. Is there a rebound to pro circuit? I don't think there's a pro circuit, but we should start one. And you, my friend, would be the number one overall pick.

That's a great idea. I think I'm going to start one because it's an insanely fun game and the rules are simple so anyone can play. You bounce the ball. Off the game at your opponent, if they don't catch it, you earn a point. First to 10 points wins. And as somebody who's known to break things indoors, that soft foam ball really pays off. Safe to play indoors. And it's got three electronic game modes, lights, voice commands, and arcade-like sounds.

And you can play up to six players, so family, friends, they get in on fun. And don't forget, you can even do some trick shots on it. I've been playing with my family and crushing them. Who's best beside you in-house? I'm going to go Lincoln, middle kid. I knew the answer before you even said it. Rebounce, bounces to the action. Well, we've been having a lot of guests on the show,

but we have so many good voice messages this week. We decided to make you, our listeners, our featured guests on the pod. As always, if you have a hot take, a question, a ranking, a suggestion for Sparky, or how to lose weight for Cody, draft or game, we'd love to hear from you. Hit us up, 972-805-8866 and leave us a message. You can also find the number on our website, almostathletes.com.

You guys ready? I'm ready. Again, I love this. We have no idea where this is going. I love it. This could take us anywhere, but without further ado, first voicemail. I'm excited.

I've never been a part of this. Hey guys, this is Timothy Peterson from Maryland, Florida. I was curious, what is the best state in regards to sports teams? That's professional sport teams, NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, and college. I think it comes down to the big four.

You got California is probably going to have the most. Then a Texas, a Florida, and a New York. I'm going to ride off New York, too cold. I don't want to be outside the snow. That's a personal preference thing? This is just me. Sure. Florida, too humid, big fat mosquitoes.

No thanks. California? Say it. Too soft. The weather's too good. The heat in Texas makes you durable. You've got two football programs, the Dallas Cowboys, the Houston Texans. You got all your NBA teams.

all your hockey teams, you're set, dude, you're lined up, you got it all. Texas. Texas. No lies detected. Yeah, I'm partial to the state of Texas myself. SEC is now Texas? Where is the deal? I'm going to say the worst to get it over with.

That's the state of Pennsylvania. Oh, yeah. All of them, dude. Because it's Philadelphia Eagles, Philadelphia 76ers, the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Steelers. I have an underrated state. And this is based off just pure. passion and love for their squads and their sports, specifically basketball, Indiana. You're not going to find somebody from, my point being, best fan base in the WNBA,

you're not going to find somebody from the state of Indiana who's not partial to their Pacers or their Hoosiers. Very organic. Butler, they do it right. Purdue. We went to that old iconic venue that Butler Walk. What was it called again? It's a bad look. It is a bad look. What's that arena called? What's Butler's Arena called? Hinkle. Hinkle Field House. There you go. Hinklefield House is what it's called. But yeah, I think they deserve the state of Indiana an honorable mention just based off the fact that they're very passionate.

It's a basketball state. They're loyal. I'll say it here in the state of Texas, flip-floppy. I have a friend who's a Boston Red Sock fan. She's never stepped foot in the state of Massachusetts. You know what I mean? It's kind of fair weathery in other states. A state like Indiana, purebreds.

Yeah, I was going to say, I do, I mean, I'm not going to sit here in everyone to say Texas, even though I am biased to it. I was going to say in New York, actually. Really? Yeah, just because they win championships. In the atmosphere, like, you go to the garden and hear the, from the old organ and stuff,

in that venue, he's got a point. I like the downtowns where the sports arenas are right by the commercial buildings. We're like, guys get off work and they go grab a buddy and go to a game. We don't do that in Dallas because it's so far away. LinkedIn. We don't have that option. We go to a football game. You've got to plan ahead.

It's a good time for me to call out Laura Miller, the old Dallas mayor for not having the Cowboys. It's her fault. Dallas County. I know it was. Strike. I had to say it. What other states?

Well, you know, uh... Are we missing one? Michigan, Ohio. People like Ohio. Ohio does do it right. They got a lot of... Ohio's a good pool. They got some good pool.

They got some good teams. College and pro alike. I always found it weird that they're Ohio state though. And like usually the... The big program is just Ohio. It's just Ohio. But in that state, it's a little different. There's something we're missing, though.

Something sneaky. Like a Wisconsin. with Green Bay, all their fans own the team with the sharehold? Could have been Seattle, man, but they gave away their basketball team. Well, gave away strong. I just protecting you because you're going to have somebody

from the Pacific Northwest fill you in on that. You guys gave them away, man. You guys gave them away. How could you? They didn't fight hard enough. We do need the Supersonics back. We do, man. Sean Kemp was one of my all-time favorite.

A lot of people forget that KD was a Super Sonic. Yeah. Well, overall, I think we all ranked Texas in one. Yeah, it's number one. Even just Dallas has the main four sports taken care of. As a prideful, Texan.

Yeah, I'm prideful, dude. Let's do the long. I said. Good college. Good college town. All right. Hey, good question. Love that for the voice notes.

Yeah, good tone setter. Florida man. We should find a Florida man to ask the first question each time because they don't miss. Next one. Next. Hey, this is Zach Moser. I'm a current student at Texas A&M. My question is if you were to add one rule to any sport, what do you think you'd add?

Thanks, dudes. One rule to any sport. He kind of sounded older for an Aggie student, first of all. I don't hate where people are shooting three-pointers now in the NBA. I don't hate a four-point shot. Oh, really? You're up into the other. It's a logo.

So it's in front of half court. It's five feet behind the current NBA three. I like that. Like the logo. Because, again, if it happens all the time, if you're down three, if you're down two and you foul, and it goes to four. you still have a shot. Dude, a four and one,

that'd be sick. So do you... Five-point possession. I'd be sick. So you wouldn't back the three-point line up? No, no, no, no. I think out of four. But it makes the ending of the games

with the free throw so much more. I agree. I agree, but with that said, does that kind of blur? Does there a gray area in like all-time great stats and stuff? Oh, that's all out the window at that point. But I guess the same thing happened

and could be said when they originally put the three-point line out there. The other... The other thing I would do is take away all field goals from the NFL and you just have to go forward on fourth or it's a turnover and there's no field goals anymore. It's more.

They're not. It doesn't matter. That's true. Kicker lives matter, man. They don't. It's not fair that these juggernaut of human beings collide at the line of scrimmage and then all of a sudden there's 150 pound, no offense to you two,

comes out and kicks a 30-yarder for the win. It's like, that's not right. To be fair, in the NFL this week, there was both a punter and a kicker who got hurt and had to leave the game. See? They're not made for the sport. I have one that would never ever be passed because there's collective bargaining agreements

and all that kind of jazz. What if the losing team had to give up their game check to the winning team? You solve tanking right there. I don't care how many games you won. You're trying to eat dinner that night. You're going all out.

It's not a bad idea. I'm just saying how that's equal, you know, LeBron versus a Rayfer Alston. You've got a huge money disparity there. This guy. Losers have to give up their game check. Let's see how much tanking goes on. Can you imagine implementing that into a dude perfect battle?

Oh, my word. Because I've got a lot to win and little to lose. That's up my alley, baby. Third place gets something. Yeah, top three get paid. All right, then I'm fine. I'm good with it. We need to start implementing that.

Dude, that's a crazy thought. That's kind of a crazy thing to think. But that's how it would be on a minor level. I have another one, and this is just selfish from playing 2K the other night. I had like five different occasions where I made a beautiful, you know, little no-look, Magic Johnson. And the guy gets fouled. If the player makes both free throws, I still deserve my assist. Yeah.

I think it's time. to implement that. I like that. He's actually going with good ones. You're such a stat guy, dude. I'm going with fun ones. I'm going on a good stat. This isn't my idea, but it's always resonated with me.

Baseball game, ninth inning, last out, have to bring on a celebrity pitcher. Ooh. I love it. You're down 12. Nine runs. You could be down to a perfect game out the window. Maybe not. Maybe you take the perfect game into the ninth, and Ann Hathaway gets it over across the finish line.

That's insane thought. I'm in. Yeah. Huge. Jackman, throwing up. Yeah, but you don't know the celebrity. You guys just roll Judge Judy out there. Yeah, it could be, dude.

You got Dr. Phil coming in and close to ninth. North Texas alum, Dr. Phil. Did it. Was he really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Hey, dude, can you imagine your Corey Seeger sitting up and you got Dr. Phil? I mean, you have no idea what he's throwing.

It'd be electric. It'd be absolutely electric. You're definitely getting entertainment value out of it. What if you grabbed rules from another sport and implemented it in that one? So like soccer, what if there was a penalty box like in hockey? We're like if you do the slide tackle thing. It's not a yellow card. Yeah, you're out.

So it's a 10 man. That'd make the scoring higher. See, 10 men doesn't really do, does it do enough for me on soccer? It's not enough of advantage. I feel like teams just parked the boss. I do think we should take some stuff from hockey, the physicality. Football players can fight. I don't know about football players.

There's equipment. You know, we've had, we've had to Mentes, you know, recently. They'll still punch a guy in a full helmet, which never made sense to me. That one's just like. But soccer, can you imagine? Is it just bleeding? Can you imagine if you just dropped them in soccer? Fowl.

You don't like the foul, you just get up and just start going. I don't think baseball should learn a little bit from banana ball. Just take a couple aspects. A couple. A fan catch. The fan catch idea? I love that, dude. Because like for my Rangers, I'm going, I might jump off the second deck to record an out.

Yeah, to help your team. That means getting out of an eighth inning jam. Did you get a catch that year? I'm jumping off the second deck to make a play. sacrificing yourself. Okay, how crazy is it? How crazy is this idea? If a fan catches your home run ball,

it's an out. It's not a home run. I don't like that one. They're already rare enough. Or no foul balls. You hit one in the crowd and you just got to relay it. Dude, you're launching to Lindsay on row two.

She's driving. Waiting for, waiting for little Timmy over there. Timmy, give me the ball. Gosh, I could see you already, though. Lincoln drops a foul ball in section 232 and you get on to them.

Oh, yeah. The Rangers end up giving up four and it's Lincoln's fault. and then all of a sudden he's answering post-game questions. NASCAR, I do think viewership is down overall. You've had a turtle shell like Mario Kart? I'm watch. No, no, I know.

I'm saying you add a couple of Mario shell and a couple bananas? You don't even go the wrong way. You cheer for the rat. Dude, absolutely. They got enough equipment now. It's not. Pons device. Dude, bananas on a NASCAR, though.

I mean, yeah, everybody would watch that. That was good. Everybody would watch that. That might be, it might be like, all right, boys, We're going to watch the cowboy game at noon, and boy, we got a NASCAR race at 4. We got a Bristler Motor Speedway, baby. Yeah, it's a good idea. Pocono.

William Byron. You'd make a good commissioner for NASCAR. Taking down Chase Elliott. All right. Next up, what do we got? Hey, I'm most athletes. This is Noah, and listen, I love the podcast. It's amazing.

Honestly, first podcast, I've watched the entirety of every episode consistently. So fantastic. My question is I just was blessed with the birth of my first son and my wife and I are so happy. But I'm wondering, what is the best sport that I should be planning on getting him started on to begin with in his almost athletic career? Thanks, guys. This is easy. This is so easy. This is so easy because it's innate to the human species.

It's just you start learning to walk and you start learning to run and soccer. is the most, I think, just... Wait, whoa! I was not going soccer. But keep going. Here's why. You're up early, like 6 a.m. With a baby, guess what?

Premier League, first game, kicking off. Saturday morning. You're doing it for a selfish reason. Oh, to watch the game and kick a little soccer. I'm smart. Mine also is a selfish reason, too. What are you thinking, golf? Golf.

Oh, yeah, that's fine. It's just like, even if he's the next Ricky Fowler, like, cool, he's... Well, no, no. See, the dad already has the right mindset. The dad said, for his... almost athlete career. He knows this kid is already cooked.

That's good, that's good perspective. It is. Dude, that guy has the right mindset. My dad, he does not thinking he's going to be Ricky Fowler, Jordan's Beath. He's thinking, this is a mid-athlete. I want to play golf with my son, Lom 80. Yeah, it's setting you up for the future. Setting you up for the future. Soccer is fun, though. That's one of my regrets.

You're right. I'm saying watch soccer, get into that sport because it's early in the morning and you're already holding a baby. And then go play golf. I think you're going to say NASCAR, and you just throw them in an SUV at the age of three. and let them go, baby. It's too expensive. Go to the quick trip and get daddy on a race car. But congrats.

Nothing like being a dad, dude. No, that's really cool. Congratulations. As a father of none, mine doesn't really resonate here. PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5. Yeah, yeah. They are my babies, but they don't play sport. I play them.

I'm with Garrett because they don't call it like foot eye coordination. I think you get more hand-eye balance, that kind of thing from golf. Good question, though. Next. guys. My name is Anna and I'm huge fans with this show. I got a good question for you. What is something

that your parents told you that was illegal growing up but ended up not being illegal at all? Love to hear what your thoughts are. There's so many like little things. The one that sticks out to me and it wasn't illegal, it was just a lie and I believed

it. I was in kindergarten and I was scratching my throat because it was fall and I sounded a little like a pig and my dad with my mom sitting there goes if you do that too much you'll turn into a pig and I believed him yeah fair so I stopped did you guys ever have the whole like if you drive at night with your lights on it's illegal your mom never told you that if you bright light no like inside the cab oh yeah yeah that's is that not illegal I'm still under the impression that is it's not oh I was in the impression it was I still don't turn on my light in there yeah because

it's like bright light in somebody why definitely illegal. Because it's illegal. That's why. Yeah, to your point codes, the whole like cross-eyed thing, I was like doing this all the time. And they hit me with the, you might get stuck. And I would like risk it. Yeah, I'd be in my bedroom late at night and be, just to see if it would stick or not. And I got away with it.

I know, I still whip it out every once in a while. You lost some brain self from that. Other than that, I was, my parents raised me to use manners quite a bit and I almost have like a problem. was saying yes sir, no ma'am type thing to people around my age and like, hey, please don't say that. You're making me feel old. I'm like, oh, sorry, ma'am.

We need to get more of that. Yeah, they instilled that in me. I'm trying to think more illegal stuff. I don't know anything illegal. Mine kept it pretty real with me. My dad said it's illegal to go to anywhere but Texas A&M. Yeah?

Yeah. That sounds like Steve too. Yeah, I bet he did you with that. What if you wouldn't have the grades to get in? Blin team. Go to the community college in college station and then transfer your way in. I think Steve would have pulled the old USC, the actress that was just ripping money for the admissions.

Yeah, you definitely. He was whipping out the pocketbook. People were always surprised I went to A&M and I'm like, how? I'm like, well, theoretically, your kids are smart enough to go to the next level. So I'm not sure on y'alls. Do they have to go to A&M? Oh, no. Oh, absolutely not.

You're leaving that door open? I'm leaving it open, but I'd love them to go, but I'm looking at, you know, Baylor, DBU, pay to play. You've been very anti-Waco. Shoot, I have told my kid, I absolutely. Absolutely they did not have to go to A&M. I will not pay for anything but A&M. That's what my dad said. That's Garrett.

I'm not making them. I'm not making them go there. Fork it up, baby. My money goes to, I'll pay for a random kid to go to A&M. I'm hoping my kid pays for my college. I'm still, I still owe a lot.

I need him to get a Scali somewhere. Yeah. Y'all owe any still? No. I did the old deferred payment for 10 years. Oh, that you're getting a lot of interest rates. I will say my parents, I got blessed. My parents paid for my college.

So very blessed for that. Dude, perfect, wouldn't happen without it. I know. The government paid for mine now. I'm paying back the government. It's like more than the national debt. That's how bad I'm in the hole. Oh, so you're pulling for the forgiveness.

The forgiven debt. Oh, that was, man. My parents were probably pulled for it, too. That was part of the deferred play. You know, it was like, hey, let's put it 10 years down the line and see what happens around the country, you know? I did. It was just stockpile on me.

It's okay, though. Learning experience. Yeah. I'm going to make my kids pay for theirs. Did your parents ever tell you it was like illegal to eat and drive or anything? I encouraged it. Smash a quarter pounder and drive. Yeah, if we're running late, my family habitual late runners badly.

Like we, it's just in my blood. So when I roll up here at 907 sometimes don't hold it against me. That was raised. It was raised. When the PJs 15 minutes from takeoff, I got to say, I hold it against you quite often. I'm like, dude, where is sparky, dude? It's a good. question. That was a great question. Throwing the blame on his parents. Next question.

So good. What I'll do, perfect, big fan of the podcast. I have a question for you today. If squad games became an Olympic event where each country from around the world is sending their best five all-around athletes to compete in a playoff style five to seven game series to declare what country produces the best all-around athletes in the world. one, I'd love to hear your thoughts on that, and two, who are we as America sending to these games? And is Tyler Tony making that list? Ooh. Oh, good question. Good question. I think the idea is brilliant.

Well, let's be honest, the Olympic sports that are currently available, it lacks some life. You know? Well, you care about gymnasts, swimming, and track. That's kind of what you, if you're a basketball fan, you'll watch that, but only like the semis and finals. But most people are turning into the track events, the swimming events. Yeah, but I think you got to throw in soccer and you got to throw in... Well, it's a squad games. You don't know what you're going to get, you know?

So you're saying it's a good idea. I think it's a good idea. Like the top... How about the Olympic Games goes on? The top six in medals compete for the ultimate winner of the Olympics, country-wise. Oh, it's like a squad game. A finale type thing. Yeah.

Yeah, that's cool. I think America wins it easily. I do too. You'd like to think so. Be putting on the team. That's a great question It's tough now Tyler Tony's not making the list

With all due respect I hate to say it Yeah I mean no way You're taking your five Just like best athletes Across the board right Whoa Multi-sport guys

Are you taking any speed guys McEyle? Yeah that's a good point You might have to have A little water involvement too That's a good question Oh I do think water polo at Olympic Games is fascinating to watch

I think I'd go Simone Biles Noah Liles Lidecki You have no hand eye coordination Right now No I know it's okay I'm going to throw in a Tyreek Hill and a... Barry Switzer?

No, no, no. And the Edwards? Yeah, that guy. Yeah, that's my five. That guy. Wow. He had one on championship. But he makes your five for the squad games.

Yeah, well, you can't say LeBron is too old. LeBron is too old. Yeah. I'm going to the NFL predominantly. Okay, he went NFL. He went Tyree. I might go all five NFL, like DB's receivers. You're going to lose and...

But they have the ball skills. but I like our chances. It's a deep question. It's when we need to sit down for multiple hours. But no tie Tony, no chance, with all due respect. Dude, he's not even on the top 100 people. 100,000. He's a 2A sports athlete.

What do you mean? He's almost 40. I think I put him in the top 100,000. He's in America. He has a gift of being competent quite literally every single sport. Top 100,000 I'm giving it to him. But there's what, 200,000 college athletes?

Yeah, but most of those are sports. sports specific. Yeah, you're right. Tyler, quite literally, could do anything from... I'm not throwing shade, I'm just saying. Feel shady. Feel shady, coach. Co-Kade.

Feel shit, just because you're block A and B doesn't mean you can throw shade to him. Okay, so what if you get hit with equestrian? You know, and LeBron didn't sound as advantageous to bring. We need to do equestrian battle vid. That'd be sick. Phenomenal question. All right, those were great questions.

Codes. Yeah. It's always a pleasure, man. We'll check back in a couple weeks. I expect that weight scale to go down a little bit. Do you help up? I'm chasing 250. Do you need help up?

Yeah, Sparks, help them up. Get them off the couch there. I like the bit. Weekly checking with codes. Good luck on the shower squats. Don't slip, dude. There you go. Is this before or after you wash your body?

I'm just curious. No, it's in the sauna. Well, you said shower, dude. I know, I said it wrong. Almost, hey. Almost bad. Almost. All right, Sparks, this is the first pod in October.

I thought we should do an employee of the month for September. Okay, my vote's in. Who do you got? Tim Holt. Oh, this is awkward. Yeah, well, see, here's the deal. I voted for Chad Terrell. He did travel the world with us.

He did. I'm still recovering. My watch says I aged like 10 years from that trip. And so you're my vote. Employ the month. Give it up. All right. Yeah, Chad T. Welcome to Block C,

Chad Tee. Longest tenured. Dude Perfect. Employee. That's not a dude. Tenured. Ten plus years? How much has it changed? How much of these guys changed? Dude, man. It's... I know.

No, it's been crazy. I've changed a lot. 10 years. I mean, that's a long time. You were just a little boy back then. I was. And now you're married and fresh off a weekend at Bamp Springs. You're all grown up, man.

Yeah. It's been fun to watch your character arc. It really has. So did Joel run out of a guest or something? Well, it's funny you say that... No. No, we didn't. LeBron did cancel on us.

Got it. But we... But not that you weren't ahead of LeBron on the chopping block. We still wanted to talk to you today about the video. But it's good to know I'm on the same level as Lorbonne. Yeah, totally. That's good. Totally.

So, yeah, 10 years. You were basically our first tire. We did have one before that, but who's counting? Yeah. Tie was 250. I was like 230. We've all lost a lot of weight, lost hair. It was a rough bunch when I started.

Yeah. Some would say you've buttoned them up. You're the reason they've kind of gotten in your shape. Really? Yeah. I've not heard that around the office. Yeah. You know, you're getting through.

influence is pretty peaked, dude. Yeah. That makes you feel a little better. You got power around this office. Tell the peeps what you were hired for and now what do you do for Dude Perfect. Yeah, no, good question. So Texas A&M started out. I'm pretty sure that helped me out a lot, but end of my senior year, I freaked out and I was like, man, where am I going to work? And anybody in the video industry thinks like, oh, I guess I'm going to get a job at, you know, Channel 7 news. Yeah, I sent out of a random email to Dude Perfect. All it said, I think we could probably find it somewhere, but it was littered with Mr. Spellings and basically the gist of it was I love what y'all are doing but I can do it better And I think that night I got an email back within like two hours. It was like hey can you come in from an interview tomorrow And I'm still in school so I think I had like three months left So the next day I drove up to Friscoe Texas Went to the gas station dressed up in my suit were you there? No, you weren't there no, you weren't there

No, I was there. Were you there? Yeah, okay I dressed up in a suit actually when I interviewed so came up there I chatted with you all a little bit. I think it was like a 30-minute conversation. And I walked out the building, and it was kind of one of those weird things. Like, you know you have the job. Like, I literally, I felt myself,

like I was supposed to be there. But I remember I walked out, and I was like, man, I got that job. Like, I have it. So, complete opposite of me. I walked out and was like, oh, man. Yeah, I better go to Lowe's. I know five at Lowe's is better for me.

I think I got made fun of a lot, too. Well, you definitely got made fun of for the suit and tie. The legend, the lore of that story continues on today. Because from home, You didn't know. Here at Dude Perfect, we get it pretty lax. I'm in slides pretty much every single day of the week. Sleeves are optional.

Yeah. So, yeah, that is a certainly was. Well, yeah, I mean, look, the Generation Z or whatever Jackson is, yeah, they're cooked, dude. I appreciate the suit and tie. Yeah, it's old school. Tank tops and weird haircuts and show a little professionalism, Gen Z. Okay? Like, you like Chad.

Yeah. How has your job evolved? How have we as leaders helped you evolve? Great question. Great question. So initially started as video guy, editor, graphics, drone pilot. Like, I was basically just doing it all. I was working like maybe what 70, 80 hours a week. I just thought that was normal. And I remember you texted me. I think it was like two months in. And you were like, dude, you got to go to home. Like I just thought that was normal. I thought it was what you're supposed to do. That's like how you survive in the world. Man, you had them brainwashed. You should have just kept up the bit. No, 70 to 80.

That's what we do around here. Yeah. I was what you did back in, you know, when I got out of school, like, that was kind of the culture. It shifted a little bit. Well, we were undermanned. We were like the JV team with 15 football players and you're expected to go both ways. You got to go both ways. Yeah.

You're kidding. He was editing, filming, occasionally talent, Uber driver. Basically. He was doing a little bit of everything. Yeah. So now I'm still helping a little bit with the actual filming side, but doing a little bit less of that. but helping with a lot of the directing, a lot of the producing, just a lot of like the oversight of the next couple of months

and a couple of years on the production side. So still a lot of fun, still enjoying it. I love this job more than anything. It's the best job that anyone could ever have. If you relate the evolution to Pokemon cards, like, are we in like the first evolution? That's great question. I got you as like a second edition blast voice.

Yeah. I think I'm in between like, was it Charmillion and Charzard? Was it it's... I have no idea. I just... No, no, because it's a... It's a... Charmander, Charmillion, Charzard.

Yeah, the word Charmillion. Yeah, in between. Like, I'm like about to evolve. It's like, you give me one more rare candy and I'm like... It's good. We still got room to grow. That's good news.

It's better than a Claferi. I think you've got... Stock Claferi. One emolution? I don't know. After the first-gen Pokemon, I was kind of out. I don't know what's going on after that.

We did just drop a video. So we partnered with Disney to break the record for visiting all 12 Disney parks and riding and ride at each one. Us three were tasked. We got to tag along with Jason from Disney, who was a hoot. And then we were off. We left Dallas heading west and came back to Dallas from the east, or at least I did,

after my missed flight. But yeah, it was a whirlwind of a trip. Started off horribly for me. If you remember, we went to L.A. and right off the bat in the food area. I've got my big old Yeti body armor and just flying elbow that thing. Everybody stops. talking, stares at me. There's, there's just flash IV everywhere. It looked like I killed somebody.

That was a humbling start. Yeah. We weren't even out of the States yet. It's not like one of those small Yetty cups either. It was like they gave us those gallon ones. It's the canteen. So it's like ding-dee-d-d-dain-and-a-dain. And we had limited clothes. It's not like you could change in the clothes, dude. We like, we brought like two pair of clothes for this whole trip. We had to have carry on. You know, we couldn't put anything under the plane due to time restrictions. And yeah, I was out of undies by what? Tokyo? 12 hours in?

12 hours in, I was out of undies. Also humbling. I just kept buying shirts in the Disney parks. We were tasked with breaking the visit every Disney Park, which there's 12 of them. And I think this lady did it in like 75 hours and six minutes or something like that. Sounds right.

I tell people now one of the best memories I'll have in my life, never do it again. I agree. It's one of those ones you appreciate, once you get across the finish line, but to redo it, I'm going to need at least 15K minimum to start that back way.

15, that's it. It was really just like the stress level you're under too because one logistic nightmare, and we're done, we're toast. Plus we're flying like five different airliners, so I can't tell you how many times I like check the pocket and I was like, you know, wallet, passport.

So just with that ongoing stress of do I have everything? And then no sleep. Your only sleep was on the plane. Yeah. Did you all sleep any? Yeah, twice. Dude. I fell asleep every time.

Same here. My body hit the airplane seat. There is one part we captured. I think it was, it might be in between Tokyo and Shanghai. Garrett, I think you were like inside your shirt. No, that was going from Paris to Ireland.

Yeah, you were in a rough spot. That's when I was like, this guy's out of us. Dude, like, it was in our flight, and I mean, the moment we hit, I was just like, I'm done. And you're like straight up, too. You're straight up and you have your hands in your shirt. And I was like, this guy.

That was when you missed a flight. Yeah, I wasn't going to bring that up. Glad you did, though, Gere. I was bound to, dude. Way too many moving parts for a sparky to handle that. Do we have the number of flights we took? Nine. This is how bad of the place we were.

We only took nine flights? Nine flights. Well, dude, we're actually, I mean, we didn't have any hiccups in the flights. We had like one 15-minute delay, which is shocking. Given all that could go wrong? Yeah. Uh-huh. but desperate time's called for desperate measures

and the Tokyo airport shower is a top five shower for me of all time which is a crazy thing to say but when you're working on 54 hours humidity is the levels you speak of we were in a horrid place to the point that like a shower in the airport

was luxurious oh dude but they were luxurious though I thought they were I don't know if you go off America it was really nice once you're following Shelley into the show you know that's tough.

Like, my brain goes to how many people have showered in here today? I didn't care. I didn't even, I didn't even, I didn't think one time

about that, dude. I was just like, just, I need to shower. I left my slides just because they were contaminated because my feet were so nasty.

When you can smell yourself, you know, it's really bad. Oh, yeah, I threw away some socks. Yeah, on the way to Shanghai, I was putting in eyedrops.

They stopped me and like, you know, are you sick? Because they didn't want me going to mainland China if I was sick. And I was like, no, no, no, my eyes are just really tired. Is that the one you got stopped at?

Yeah, that made that Shanghai is where you got stopped. Yeah, I almost got apprehended in Shanghai. Yeah, I thought you were, you were done. I was, like, I couldn't film it either because I was afraid that I was going to get arrested. Sure, I was texting mom saying it's been real, it's been fine, but it's not real fun. Yeah, they were not happy with you. I don't know, because I don't speak their language. But yeah, they held up my visa for what, like a good 15?

Well, they took it away. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And they were talking to each other, and y'all were on the other side already through the glass panel there and we were just kind of making eye contact and we were saying something to each other without they had pitch of view from like 12 years old that was weird that was crazy i didn't get it yeah i didn't see the monitor but i knew you and jason weren't were in fibbing about that yeah they they had a monitor up and it was like six photos but it was like throughout your life

and it was just like random photos of you and i'm thinking like at what point did you give them access to those photos when he signed up for that when he signed up for the iPhone dude that's probably it boom they got it did you all did you on the planes Dude, no. Really? That's how you get food poisoning. Man, I ate every meal. See?

You're brave soul. Every single one. They put it in front of me. I would wake up. You ate the fish ball? Yeah, every time. So I'm dead asleep, and I smelled food, and immediately I woke up. You didn't smell food.

You smelled the fish eyeballs that they gave. I don't know what it is, but when I'm traveling, I'm in survival mode, and I'm like, I just got to, I have to eat every meal in front of me. That was crazy. Yeah, with the menu options there in Shanghai when we first got in. What was the worst food you ate on the trip? Oh, I didn't go there. They had, like, fried duck tongue was one of the options there in China.

I said, just give me two bags of chips, and I'll fight. I'll fight. And that's what I did. Yeah, I got two bags of chips. You're talking about airplane food or outside the airport? That was the one at the, when we landed in China. We had to pick a meal, and I just did two bags of chips because literally it was like fried duck, octopus leg. I mean, just crazy stuff.

Yeah. It was like, can a brother just get? a beef pack of ramen noodles. That's all I needed to get me through it. Yeah, I was out on the fish eyeballs. Do you remember what happened to me at the TSA there in China as well when he hit me with the passport? And I thought he said password.

And I was like, dude, I don't know what to tell you. I don't know what the password is. And then Jason to my left just starts dying laughing. He's like, Sparky, they're asking for your passport. I did not know that. That's funny. This was the end. He hit me with like three times.

You know, passport? Passport? But really quickly said, I was like, sir, I'm going to be honest with you. I don't know what the password is. He's asking for your passport. I said, oh, got you. Maybe that was the whole. They were like, this kid is a little too low IQ to be entering our nation's borders.

No one told me the password to enter your country. Abra-cadabra? You know, I just like, I don't know. You were pretty asleep to hide at that point. Yeah, that was me operating on about 36 hours straight. You didn't sleep like at all. No, didn't really sleep at all. Like Big Grizzly Mountain was a super fun ride,

but you get to do it for like two and a half minutes. And then it's back on a 12-hour plane. You know, I demoralize it. Yeah. It just sucks your confidence. What would you say? It was the best moment of the trip. Paris for me, man.

That was eye-opening. I don't get out to a major market like that often, man. And navigating the street solo. I learned a lot about myself. I fought. That backpack was like 50 pounds, walked at least a dozen miles there in Paris. The locals were extremely nice to me. The Eiffel Tower was extremely sweet to me.

Yeah, we had a good time together. We were moving so quickly through this trip, though, that it left a little to be desired. I remember me and you were talking about it through an airport. Couldn't tell you which one. But like Tokyo. technically I've been there and so when people ask me you've been to Japan I can say yes

but it feels like a fake yes feels like a fabricated yes because we didn't get like any real Tokyo time this trip was up there for me as far as dude perfect trips I mean I don't think it really beats any of the bucket list

because those are just like glorified vacations yeah but outside of that it was pretty epic here's a couple things I want to say number one I definitely am a Disney dad you are through and through

you thrived and I will always say this and I I went to Disney a couple years ago when my daughter waved to the princesses on the parade and she lit up I was like I am in

this is magical I will spend whatever you want to see that moment with my daughter that's cool tugged you to her heartstrings I'm a Disney dad and I thought they just do it right man

they do it right the parks were great the language barriers that's where I struggled. Really? You had that many problems with language barriers? Yeah, ma'am. I mean, only in like TSA. What do you mean, dude? All those people are bilingual.

Paris, the motorcycle ride? Oh, the motorcycle ride was a little... That was sketchy. We took that out. That was a lot of trust. On the editing, which was kind of a bummer. Wait, wait, they didn't show the motorcycle ride? Like a very small... All this explained a motorcycle ride to the people.

So, whenever we get to... Paris. Whenever we got to these countries, we would have to get transported to the park. And some of these parks are 45 minutes away from the airport, longer. Paris is our first. I think it was your idea, right? Well, it's Jason's idea, actually.

Oh, okay. Yeah. We landed in rush hour traffic in the morning in Paris. And so... Furthest park away. He was like, dude, to make our connections, we only had about two hours at every park. He's like, to make this, we should probably get on motorcycles.

show so we can like weave in and out of traffic and I was like man yeah that's sketchy but I'm in and honestly man I needed it dude it was like a chilly morning but that plane ride from china eastern or whatever was like you know 120 degrees so it felt amazing getting on those motorcycles and then we get to Paris park is we have the park to ourselves yeah which is a bummer because I think we had the least amount of time in Paris we did best park to me so yeah best park but the least amount of time. And then, you know, Mickey greeting us. It was a great morning in Paris.

There's a lot of star power. Before we let Chad go, rank the parks. I got to know. I got to know what you would say. I think Tokyo won for me. Really? After that, it doesn't matter. Tokyo's your number one?

What's number two? I mean, I hate to do this, but probably the park there in Orlando. Yeah. That was my first time there, dude. That's my first time there. And it was good to see the guys again. Yeah. Because there was a part of that trip where I was like,

I'm not making it home. I was making my thoughts back home. I was starting to wheel off. What about you? Paris number one. Yeah, I think Paris is number one for me as well. Unanimous. I just, I feel like Disney World obviously is unbelievable.

Have a bunch of memories there. Also, Walt Disney would be just sick to see, to see what they did to the castle. I mean, Disneyland's castle in L.A. is just a small, quaint, very, you know, it's not in your face. and they have just made these castles larger than life. I think he's turning over his grave, dude. I don't think he would like it. How special was that, though, to get it to go up in the castle? That was crazy.

Dude. Yeah, who knew that there was a place to stay up there? Trahan's been trying to do that for a long time. Yeah. Failed. Yeah, Cinderella invited us, dude. That was crazy. Probably the most mystique place I've ever been outside Augusta.

Because even at Augusta, I remember, like, walking and being like, man, I hope I'm not injuring a blade of grass here at Augusta. very similar. They're in the castle, the hallow grounds of Cinderella's Castle. Speaking of the castle, Sparks, we are doing a giveaway

right now with Disney and make a wish. If you go and donate $10, every $10 you donate to make a wish, enters you in to win a night at the Cinderella's Castle

and an whole expense paid trip to Disney World. Not too shabby, but also you're just helping out make a wish and support in a great cause. So go do that. That's pretty.

fun and hey you might win yeah submit the link I want to donate now yeah dude I want to go back for sure you could win I know it's a raffle dude so I'm saying hey easy there brothers too early in the morning that's our two minute warning that's a two minute warning I'm gonna open it up to you Chad T you got a little rant you want to go on really first time guess yeah absolutely it could be anything okay yeah I've got one okay yeah floor's yours me my wife we just recently got a puppy yeah yeah it's adorable too yeah about I think uh not your wife well your wife is too but Okay, yeah, easy. Just got a puppy about three months ago, four months ago.

So this morning, wake up, and we've crate trained, done everything. But now I feel bad, you know, because I come home and she's in a crate. So, you know, I've let her out in this little area and I've, like, pinned up this little thing. Wake up this morning and, man, my baseboards are gone. Baseboard? Yeah. It choose your baseboard? So not just baseboards, like the door baseboards, too.

What is the framing? Like, I'm not talking like just like little nibble. like I'll set up put a photo up but it's like there is a hole through the wall like I don't know what I'm gonna do like I repair things in the house like I'm fine with that

but like this is one where I'm like I gotta replace the whole door like I don't know what to do like if anybody there's only one or two things you got two options you can either repair it or the dogs gotta go

safe to say though that parenting a puppy is a good way to kind of test drive what kids could be like true yeah well Kobe is on record saying that having a puppy is harder than a newborn.

One of the worst takes in Dude Perfect History. I'm afraid she's going to chew through the house. Yeah, see? At that point, like I don't want a Tyler's. Kobe might be on to something here. Me might be. Newborn's just going to sit there. Well, one of Tyler's kids probably nod through a

through a I think C-Bud probably chewed his way out of his own room before. For sure. For sure, Coltie. That is a good rant. All right, looks like our time is up here. We'll be back next Wednesday with a brand new

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