Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect - Dude Perfect RANKS Vanilla Ice Cream

Episode Date: April 8, 2026

Cody Jones is back with Garrett and Sparky to blind rank Vanilla Ice Creams, but first, things kick off with a March Madness breakdown and NBA playoff predictions. The Dudes are heading to the Masters, but not before leaving us their champion predictions and an all-time Ty story involving “vintage” Masters cheese from 2021. Next up, they take a trip to outer space (not literally), to chat Artemis II and check in on the real estate Garrett bought on the moon. Then, the Dudes go straight to dessert for a blind ranking of name brand vanilla ice creams. And finally, Trick Shot Queen joins the show to chat about the Trick Shot World Championships, learning the do’s and don’t’s of trick shots, and her life off camera as a middle school teacher. Presented by Intuit Turbo Tax. Learn more at https://turbotax.intuit.com/?cid=bn_wk_12 Head to http://policygenius.com/ALMOST to compare life insurance quotes from top companies and see how much you could save! If you’ve got a question, hot take, or your own Almost Athlete moment, head to AlmostAthletes.com or call [phone]. Upload your own fan fails here: https://new.myharbourshare.com/agree/gSttAsmDbo6vYCfm3HBdjh?fbclid=PARlRTSARDo7VleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAafRqYdnXc6xTmfPMNERbnp5yfF-BqLSY3NCu2GQZSehgOTgD69fSBeTqTcAQg_aem_RWLUmW87bcZIif3zTrWKBg Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 02:04 March Madness Breakdown 05:11 NBA Talk: Playoff Picture 14:50 Masters Champion Predictions 19:09 Outer Space Discussion: Artemis II & Garrett’s Moon Real Estate 24:42 Best Easter Candy 30:18 Blind Rankings: Vanilla Ice Cream 43:08 Trick Shot Queen Intro 47:48 Trick Shot Dos And Don’ts 52:57 Amanda’s Almost Athlete Moments 01:00:50 Adam Frankle Joins The Show 01:01:12 Adam’s Almost Athlete Moment 01:05:23 2-Minute Warning 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

This has got organic all over it. This one's kind of lacking a punch. It's like the start's really good and then you're waiting for that flavor kick and it just never comes. It has no left jab. Blue is a six for me. I mean, you're aligned. I'd rather eat a bottle of listerine than what I just had. That was horrible.

Welcome to Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect. A Wave original presented by Intuit TurboTax. Now this is taxes. Follow the show on all social media at Almost Athletes. Like and subscribe to us on YouTube or live. listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcast. We're your host. I'm Garrett. Spark. Am I technically a host? Yep, you are today. Coach, welcome in, bud. Cody's here. Ready for Masters week. What do we got coming up, Sparks? Cody's playing in the

Masters on Thursday. Shoot a 1.30. The morning on Thursday and an afternoon on Friday. They really should just let an average Joe from like each region. The South region. You know, just grab a random Texan. Miliger, grab your clubs. You're playing. Some of those old guys that That'd be fun, though, man. They're still playing in the matches because they're allowed to. It's still one of the greatest photos of all time. That guy that got tickets to the practice round and thought he was getting to play, so he brought his clubs.

That was good. I remember an insane play. But that'd be cool. I mean, if you're like Louis Oosteis and then you're golfing behind them, that would get old quickly as he's shooting a 157, you know? You're looking at a nine-hour round. Everyone paired with him. No, see, that's the thing.

If you shoot a 157, you can still play in four hours. You know that, right? Yeah, picking up balls, I guess. That's fine, though. Just keep the pace, brother. And that people don't care what you shoot. Just keep the pace. Anyways, what do we got coming up?

Coming up on today's app, Her Majesty, the Trick Shot Queen, is stopping by to give us a preview of the Trick Shot World Championships. We're going to do a taste test to crown the best vanilla ice cream in the game. We're going to check in on the NBA ahead of the playoffs, give our master's preview.

But first, we have a college basketball national champion. Michigan, Wolverine. Unbelievable. Congratulations. Go do you. Well, it pays to stay. And dusty. Didn't take the North Carolina bait.

Stayed there at Michigan. Which you should, man. He's building the guntlet. And look at that. You end up with the natty title. You know, who didn't get a natty title? Dan. Well, Dan Hurley.

He's got two of them. But is that karma showing through? For what? From what? The headbutt. Headbut karma leaking over into the final. My favorite part was when he was like, dude, I thought he was coming in for a chest bump. I'm like, no, no, no, you didn't.

That's my move. That's my move. That's what I would have said. A chest bump and you put your head down. Like, I don't know. Even if he was chest bumping the ref. You shouldn't be chest bumping the rat. Go ahead, Bucking it's good.

I don't know if that makes it that much better. Yeah, the final four was kind of lame. Whoa, lame. Using the L. Illinois got smacked by Yukon. It wasn't a game, dude. Yeah, they were just colder than a Canadian winter. They couldn't buy a bucket.

Michigan, Arizona. Michigan just dominated. Yeah, that offense is just been real. Be good. Dude, Michigan destroyed them. They went by 30 at one point. Yeah, old Charles Barkley called it the Arizona Invitational,

thinking that they would just sweep everybody. What didn't show the shooters, the defense, well like that. They couldn't shoot first Michigan. They could not make a bucket. They fell behind. I don't know if you think they trailed during the NCAA tournament

and all of a sudden you look up, it was like 24 to 9 right off the bat. Just cold shooting. And then they got down by like 30 and it was over. Yeah, then all of a sudden, Dusty May's kids in, hitting three balls,

which is just the worst feeling if you're an Arizona fan. You travel all that way to Indy and watch a walk on, just splashing threes. I do think it was the worst my brackets ever finished. In the bottom 25%.

I think I've got you beat. You didn't have any ones in the final four? Well, I did. I had Florida winning it. Okay. That didn't happen. That they lost in the, I think they lost first round.

Round of 32. Yeah. To Iowa. No, I didn't pick any of the final four teams. That hurts. Not one team. And then my women's, My women's bracket was in the bottom 10%.

That's hard to do. That is hard to do. That's almost impressive. I don't even... Well, I did the auto pick. It was like kind of random. And boy, that random did me dirty. If you just take the favorites in the women's bracket and make them meet in the middle.

Good chance you're 85% of the hour. UCLA, dude. UCLA, yeah, man. First time. First time in school history. Yeah. Their guys are everyone at a time. So, UCLA.

You kind of forget about UCLA. They used to be a dominant powerhouse and they kind of gone away. Girls are bringing them back. Good. I think the landscape of college basketball is better when there's a West Coast team involved. Who is that quarterback from UCLA that beat us? They came back.

Golf? No, that was Josh Rosen. Josh Rosen, man. He rose that team from the dead. I was thinking of a cow. No, yeah, remember that game, dude? We were winning. I was dove hunting at my family's ranch in West Texas

and all of a sudden we were up 24, then we were down three. It took years off my life. The kid from A&M had the stick. and y'all were dancing it up pretty good and then all the sudden you you got it dude huge news out of the NBA Luca not just Luca and AR they're cooked my Lakers are done

yeah like and now the members are they coming are they gonna come back like are they coming back Luca can't heat grade two yeah Lucas sound like it already rolled him out the rest of the regular season he's going home Austin Reeves is out the regular season but the regular season only what like 10 more days yeah so that's not that Reeves injury is four to six weeks So he's out for at least the first

In two rounds And then is Dude a hamstring's nasty Yeah, that's hard You gotta make sure that thing is Because that could be long-term damage If he doesn't rest it He knew too

All playoffs I would imagine so And if he's not Then you're thinking he's probably operating Well this is my pitch then LeBron Hold on if he wins a title Better than MJ

Lebron? Yeah with that team 100% With Brony Yeah if he wins it with Brony MJ is second Well, MJ goes to third Because I have Kobe second

Did you catch the Bob does sports with LeBron? That was fantastic So that's what I'm saying This is my pitch of LeBron If you get out first round And you listen to Almost Athletes Let's go play some golf You know

We don't have to film it Don't worry about it dude Let's go play some golf But I do need you to do an almost athlete Podcast interview It's good. Bush him When you say let's go play golf

Are we in that too? Yeah sure all of us So if I have some Bronny How we gonna Does Bronny play? He does like we should offer the invite to Bronny's better than his dad Why can't we play a fight some? That's a Merido question

I'm not a member there Sure yeah He can play at five I've never been invited It's an open invitation to the James family Have you played with him there? LeBron I've never played with LeBron What about Gary? I've played with Garrett at Merido but not LeBron

Yeah What starter is going to stop LeBron and his kid From playing a five foot? We don't have a starter so we're good there Yeah Yeah look that's unfortunate for Luca That really It's unfortunate for me

I was all in. When he went down, it did not look good. Instant turnover, he just threw it away. He did. I did that sometime. I did that in our last airsoft battle, threw my gun down when I knew I was injured. She got me the throw.

It felt like I tore my hamstring. I feel you, Luca. Sadly, it's just part of sport, man. And it's my least favorite part of sport. The injuries? Yeah, I pray every time before I even shoot around nowadays. You never know when, you know, soft is going to go. So I really do sympathize.

If you're just by yourself and you just rip an MCL shooting around, that's not a good look. What are you doing that situation? You start yelling, help. But can we talk about how good that Oklahoma City, San Antonio Spuror series going to be for the Western Conference finals? Yes, Elfis. You're already there. Basketball fan, I need it. They're going to walk to the finals.

That series is going to be so good. It's going to feed families. I think they get it done. I think Western Conference gets it done this year. You would think so. Let's take a look at the standings, though. So Lakers are going to be cooked by the Timberwolves. Probably, but the good news is they will have home court advantage at least.

That doesn't matter. Yeah. Edwards is going to do them dirty. Nuggets Rockies would be a pillow fight. Who's going to get out of that one? No way the sun's even, I mean, Spurs sweep the suns and thunder sweep the clears. Well, they've got the playing. You don't know who's playing who.

Yeah, it's going to be. We need our boys. What's crazy is like how bad the Mavs are and we're still just, you know, too off a playing. No, no, we're... Well, 10, 10's a playing spot. We're 11 games out of it. No, no, I'm saying we're just two playoff spots back. Like, how bad we are.

They let so many teams into the playoffs now. We need some lot of luck. Huge year for the Mavis. Last first round pick we own to like 2031. Yeah, we just need Fleming or Eikuff. Yes, need a guard to pair with Coop, who has been spectacular. And then in two years after that, you're going to get Luca back? That's going to be great, dude.

I understand Cinnipples going crazy in Charlotte and they're a good basketball team. How he has become the odds on. favorite to win rookie the year is a travis steve it's i i think they're trying to make it dramatic i think they're trying to make it dramatic dude cooper has set so many records and the last two games cooper's outscored connuppel's last six games i think what's hurting cooper's 90 plus is the wins no it's how bad the mavericks are no i hit a fade away on him for my all-star practice oh you yeah i think the NBA saw the club let's just tell the voters that that was fit that was staged Cooper let him do that.

It was the 13th take. We had to do it. That's insane that I missed one through 12. How do you guys feel about this? This is crazy. So 65 game ruled be eligible for the post-season awards. So Luca's not eligible. Yeah, I'm coming on the fence on that one.

The Edwards, not eligible. I understand why the rules in place. It's trying to incentivize obviously playing the game itself. Dude, if you can win a MVP on 64 games, that just shows how dominant you were. Well, it costs himself. one by technical accumulation too. Well, that one was kind of...

How many games has Luca played? Yeah, I think that rule is in place for a good reason. It's just, unfortunately, the dark side of that rule is showing when you're not just resting to rest for the sake of it. This is a legitimate injury. No, it is. One game out. He was his shoe...

I think he was a shoe-in for the MVP. No, they're saying Wimby and... SGA. SGA. Because the odds-on favorite by a lot right now. I feel like it's SGA's, though. C's dominant again. Man, this is OKC's to lose.

I don't see how anybody dethrones them in seven games. And that is why San Antonio is going to get it done. I can't, though. I can't cheer for them is what's tough. Oh, I can't cheer from either, but they're going to be, they have Oklahoma City's number, dude. Yeah, they do. Which means something.

Matchups mean something. Just like the Mavericks do. But San Antonio doesn't have that playoff experience that OKC does. Dayton back to last year. Freak. In a good way. Something real about that. Yeah, 29 and 12.

9 and 1. over the last 10, the Spurs, even though they're coming off an L. Yeah, that's the de facto championship you would think, right? Western Conference Finals, Thunder, San Antonio. That's horrible. They're going to travel right through Dallas during the West Finals, just passing up to Oklahoma City, and then right back through Dallas. No, they won't go through Dallas, I don't think.

I think they're going to stay on. Yeah, I guess they will go through Dallas, yeah. This is a funny way he put it. They got to go right through Dallas, don't they? Yeah, they do. I think they'll probably fly during the game. They'll probably fly, I would hope so. If you're yellow-bellying and the NBA playoffs.

Gosh, can you imagine if, yeah, they take a school bus? That's actually how you solve the tanking issue. It's not relegation. You make them travel by school bus. If you're under 500, you have to do yellow bellies. Portland to New York. A seven-footer in a school bus. That reminds me to tour.

You just never know where that bus is going. All right, my champion, though, is going to be, I think Spurs get it done. I think they're the NBA champion. Sure, I'm not. Whoa, really? Yeah. Wow, that would be something.

I'm going to say Thunder and hope I'm wrong. I'm going to go LeBron Led Lakers. Again, dude, I will fall on my story. If LeBron gets it done, dude, he's ready. Put his name forever in the history books is the greatest NBA player. At 41 and obviously his true passion is golf now at this point.

He hasn't even been playing basketball this year. He's got more golf rounds than we have in the last three years combined. That's true. And he's winning a championship. it maybe. That's crazy. That's what Jordan did. Jordan took the same round. He's like, I'm going to go fall in love with another sport and still win a title. This is a, this is a Jordan move by LeBron, or at least an attempt. I just want to see that.

What about the East, though? Who's representing the East? I don't even care. I think it'd be a really good, feel-good story. I think the Celtics, too, but goodness gracious, would the Detroit Pistons not be a great story? You know what's so funny as you look at it? Like, all like the old school basketball teams are in the East, but like I just don't view the east as like I just don't even care about the east I think it was our childhood but like I was just in Celtics

Nix Bulls 76ers the Bulls like Powerhouses Any surprises maybe they're coming out of the east somebody who can make a run In the shadows No because everyone from three down Can't win it

You don't think so? No Cleveland men their jump shooting team What if the Cavaliers got hot? No They can shoot that thing at least. It's Celtics Pistons, but Pistons are, is Cade back?

From his, uh... I don't think so. Not quite. They're playing it. You know, safe with him. Understandably so. The Pride of Arlington. They'll probably take it the first series off too then.

Well, you kind of can. I think me and you could play against the Hornets and get it down in six. Alex out to at least the offs. So. All right. Anthony Edwards also going to be a victim of falling just underneath that 65-bend threshold.

That takes you not only out of like MVP, six-man, that takes you out of NBA first team, second team. That's what I'm saying. One more game.

It's a joke, dude. It's a joke. Oh, it's just bad luck. I get that you need a minimum. I just think, but to sparky's point, how do you fix it?

I just think, yeah, but to Sparky's point, like, you're one game and you got seriously injured. Put the guy in eligible. He's like the scoring leader by a lot.

That's the average. Like 34. This march was insane. Probably best March ever. You can look a point per game average. That's the worst. part about injury. They always seem to come at the worst time.

Luca was just bawling. 33 and a half, yeah. Poor Ben and Skin, too, had the poor setup with him and Dak at Rollertown. Didn't even get to do it. Nope. But I don't know how to fix the tanking issue. We got a tanking issue and Dude Perfect as well. Yeah.

So let me know how the NBA figures it out. How do we fix it in Dude Perfect? I don't know. But it is Master's Week. Yeah, it is. Cody dressed apart. I did. Never seen Cody in pants and a vest and a polo ever.

At work. At work, yeah, I mean, I didn't know if somebody died. Nope, not a funeral. You even got the H cut. Yeah, got a little haircut, took away the hard part. Time to grow up a little. Is this the best week and golf? Was simply the best week in golf?

Oh, yeah. Not even close. What would rival it? Rider Cups don't do it for me. I don't do it for me. I knew that. I would actually say the open. Yeah, I like that.

Right. Would be the only thing, but it doesn't. I can't wait for. Masters week is just something special. Byron Nelson? Well, yeah, the Byron's tough. You've got to pay me to go to the Biron. DG.

You mean next year, PGA? PGA here in Frisco, that would be sick. That would be cool. What about predictions-wise? This one's going to be tough, man. It's open. I like how open it is this year, though. Who's the odds-on favorite?

We have, I got a text from Chad Coleman, who used to work a dude perfect. We fired him, though. See you, boy. I'm kidding. We didn't. He left us. Sparky was on this text.

He just is, he's guaranteeing a Bob McEnachey. McIntyre, which I like the call, left-handed. And I'm just like, dude, Bob couldn't wrap up the Valero open up by five shots in San Antonio. You think on a Master's Sunday he's going to win it? Yeah, he would need some separation. No, it's either going to be a call me crazy, rookie, like a gotter up or somebody like just coming in out of nowhere,

or it's going to be a repeat winner. A repeat winner. My hope would be Bryce. I hope Bryson gets it done. That'd be sick. That'd be cool. I think Rory has a difficult year. I think the high of winning last year.

He's completed. He's worried about the dinner. What is he serving, by the way? I don't know. I didn't know. I didn't look at the, I don't actually, see, I disagree with you. I think now that the weights off,

Rory could win multiple green jackets. That's a good point. That's fine. Are you going to the dinner? I got invited. Dude, I wish. You got invited to the dinner? Yeah, dude.

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know who. I think DeShambot would be a really cool story. Patrick Reed would set the world on fire if he won. Dude, I could hate watch Sunday if he was in the lead. You know who I want to win? Justin Rose. That would be great for him.

He's like, he's always there in contention. He like epitomizes what a master champion should be, like, just outside of golf. Outside of winning. Yeah, outside. He's everything but win. He's buttoned up. He wins everything but the masters. And he'd be an old, I think he's like 45. old boy.

Yeah, it's kind of an hour and never time. Well, Masters, you You can mess around and win one in your 50s. But yeah, first time since 94. Did we have,

Tiger? No, Phil or Tiger. Wow. Why are we even going? Easy. I feel like we're going because this is this is the first year.

We're ushering in a new year. Does Speeth have a shot? He always has a shot in my heart. I have as much of chance as Tyler Tony. At least he's in the field. Yeah. I do too.

But I, Jordan's... But what is wrong with him? He just kind of lost his game over the last couple of years, man. Haven't we all? I've lost my game. If you find it, let me know.

Well, I'm excited about it. Make sure to fill out your fantasy teams for the Masters. And my, I got the Masters food kit coming to my house on Friday. What's Master's Food? You're going to be there on Thursday.

Yeah, that doesn't feel smart. I'll be at the Masters all week. And then when I get home, I get a little bit of tasted Georgia in my, in my fridge. Pimento cheese. sandwiches, some mazelia cocktail. Take them home from the course.

Oh, did you ever hear that story? Stuff them in your pockets. Oh, that was the moldy. Yeah, that was in Tyler's bag. Tye. We couldn't figure out what was smelling so bad. It smelled like a dead rodent. Because you borrowed his travel bag. You opened up the side pocket and inside was a 2021 master's

pimento cheese wrapped up, had totally molded over like a science fair over. I think it was like two years old. From 21, yeah. You could, I mean, you know how much you could have gotten for that on eBay? You think? Yeah, you resell an old moldy Pimino cheese from the back nine at Augusta?

He would have won 21. That would have been Hadeki. DJ. That's good. No, he was a, that was, uh, that was, uh, 21 COVID year. Yeah, that's not.

Yeah, there was two. There was two really close, so I didn't know. Two one and 21. Well, guys, um, shall we move away from sports? Yeah, let's go, let's go out of, let's go out of space next. The moon trip, you'll see this?

Yeah. All the photos shot on an iPhone 17 pro. You know that? From Artemis? Apple. Yeah. They pay for that? I think so.

Yeah. Great picks. And it's so funny to me. It's kind of like me not believing. And look, at the end of the day, I do believe that we landed on the moon. I don't want to believe because I just, it doesn't make any sense. It defies logic to me. Are you a flat earther or no?

No, but all the flat earthers got to be. Non-moon guys. Well, they got to be like, I mean, the picture is clearly a circle. I thought we've debunked flat earth for a long time now. Artemis just did for you guys. But man, dude, I thought A couple things. Number one, the speech from the guy was just great, dude.

Oh, I didn't hear it. Who's the guy? What's the lead astronaut's name? He gave a speech, huh? He did. From outer space? Yeah. It was really, no, not that guy.

Maybe he's not the lead. You heard this guy's speech? Yep. And then you saw a baseball thing that happened? Yeah. You guys, you two need to unplug for one weekend and just be present with nature and your fam. You're probably not.

I was I. Dude, I was present with that. Victor Glover is who I was talking about. How did you see this? Whoa, whoa, whoa, we took a Canadian up there? I thought there was a U.S. mission. He mootched on our ship. Canadian Space Agency astronaut, Jeremy Henson, how did he get invited? Basically, Victor Glover said, hey, look, like, you guys also live on planet Earth, which is pretty remarkable. So take every day, don't take days for granted. It's a good speech.

That's why Victor Glover's my favorite astronaut above Kobe. He also said, like, there's no atheist in space. Oh, because they've seen creation. It's a pretty awesome quote. That's tough for my mind to wrap her a new atheist in space. Okay, I get it. Meaning every astronaut's a believer? I just don't think you cannot be when you go up there

and see the magnificence of the marble. Of like a boom can't create that. Yeah, I get it. It's unbelievable. I thought that was a cool quote. and but Victor did call me. He texted me and said my moon land's looking good. I bought Moonland a long time ago.

Yeah, you did. Is it on the side of the moon that we never get to see? Well, it was, but see, Artemis got to see it. Got it. They went around. I just learned that yesterday. Yeah, you only see one side of the moon. Yeah, didn't know that. Oh, is that real?

You only see one side of it. That's what the dark side of the moon. That's why they say that. I just meant that it meant like... Can you give us a little backstory? Yeah, and cool, not cool. We do the show in overtime and, uh, If they're watching almost athletes and you're having to explain overtime to them, that would blow my mind.

Yep. You know, welcome new fans. Oh, yeah, LeBron, I don't think he's seen it. They might have missed that episode. I don't think LeBron seen this one. Remember when I bought that land on the moon? Yeah. Technically, our land.

We're all owners. I wanted to check in on our investment. He's got photos. Yeah. That did this. These photos are from the moon. I was tracking with that part. Yeah.

Yeah, anyways, I bought some moonland and some sunland. That's not worth it. enough. Yeah, I don't think we're ever gonna, I don't ever think we're gonna get to the sun. But the moon, we're close with Elon. Elon has made this stuff so, so expensive now. Yeah, it's like basically going to a quick trip down the street. Six acres, right? Yeah, so when we sold, did we lose some of our moonland? No, no, we kept that. Are you sure? Yeah, 2018, I bought Moonland. That's like buying Bitcoin when it was 25 cents. I imagine if you bought Bitcoin instead of this, no, that would have paid us back.

Yeah, that would have been nice. Yeah, you knew it, dude. Even Tesla stock. Golly, I should have given you guys a Bitcoin in 2018. Someone told me if I spent what I spent on my cyber truck on Tesla stock back in 2019. Oh, yeah, you'd be Elon. You'd be Elon.

I'm about that. Elon would be sitting here. Do you know what's a crazy revelation I just had that you own more land on the moon than I own on Earth, which is just... It's a scary thought. It's a great. You have six more acres than I do.

That's insane. Well, technically, that's more than me. Was I misinformed that, is this one? are they not walking on the moon? No. This is just that goes around the moon. I thought we were giving this too much love. They were giving it too much love.

I thought we were putting boots on the ground again. No, no, no, we will. Why? Why? Why? Why not? So here's my theory because, look, I've said I didn't, I think we did go to the moon and put feet on the ground. I think it was such a miracle that we actually don't know how to go back.

We just don't know how. I believe that. Wow. And they want to go back. They just don't know how. Like the Rangers. He took a, he took like. He just, I don't know.

He threw a way to... I think they weren't even supposed to land on the moon, maybe, and they just kind of were like, dude, we literally just landed on the moon. This is crazy. It's kind of crazy. It's like the same setup. Like, the lunar module detaches and it comes back.

It's like 1950s. We're still doing the same stuff. I know. Kind of sad. It's above my pay grade. I don't really know what's going on up there, but I did think we were getting boots on the ground. Nope.

No, no. No boots on the ground, brother. So why are they up there for so long? To practice. It's like a test all their stuff. The backside of the moon. taking in data. They're looking at my land, dude.

Check it out. They sent it without people. Then they sent it with people. And then next year we're going to take a pit stop. How am I going to get cattle on the moon is the question? That's what I want. My moonland needs to be, it needs to be crops. So what I know.

That feels like a waste of tax payment. I'm ready for some ice cream. Yeah, should we move into the ice cream test? I did start my cut this morning. So I don't think I can partake. What? I'm kidding. You look great.

What are you cutting from? Nothing. That was a. Got it. Cutting from just, I indulge this weekend on. On Easter, I ate some candy. Went to Cookie Society again, got a four pack, ate three of them. Yeah.

Of the big ones? Oh, the big ones, brother. Dude, I had babes. I'm still full. Bro, they had the Easter icing. Oh, dude, the sugar cookie with the icing. Can't be it. It is good.

Chelly, egg hunt? I didn't, but my kids did. You don't participate more? I'm 37, 38. No, I like to do the helicopter. I think you're scared, but they just drop it on you. It's like, how many can you catch? Ooh, that sounds fun.

It is fun. Scary, though. The helicopter? The helicopter egg drop. Are you scared that you're going to get shown up by your kids? That's a country club thing. Is that why you don't participate? No, I'm helping my two-year-old gather.

I think Lucy without egg you. Best Easter candy? Best Easter candy? Chili beans. Oh, Easter candy. I love jelly beans. We didn't scramble eggs, me and mom. You don't think of candy on Easter?

You think of scrambled eggs? Like the chocolate bunny? Yeah, like the chocolate. The chocolate bonny sure. But like, it's not my first thought on Easter. What do you mean? Like Halloween, it's, it's boom. It's instant like candy.

Me, it's like Easter, that's a little further down the chain. Like, give me three things ahead of candy on Easter. Resurrection. Okay, I'll give you that. Let's not talk about, okay. No, no, no, stop. The meaning of the holiday is not. I know, we get it.

I want to hear it. Keep going. Resurrection. Um, I'm going to debunk this series right up. And then family. And then candy. Okay. What's your mean?

What's your first favorite things on Christmas? Wait, you never got present? Uh, Jesus's birthday. That's a big deal. I'm so proud of you. I'm so proud of you. That's so good. You are trolling this man.

You are rage baiting me to the max right now. Easter could use a little sport on it on its day. It's bad. Well, sometimes it's the Masters. You never know. Yeah, that's true. Sometimes it's the Masters. You got women's college final.

You got the drive chip and putt. And then you got the Rangers getting swept by the Reds. Yeah, don't remind me. Anyways, you got peeps, a little marshmallows. See, I'm not a marshmallow guy. Yeah, I'm not either. You got the Reese's egg, which arguably is the greatest candy ever invented. You got jelly beans, which is a wild take. I love jelly beans. I love candy corn on Halloween. Wow. Yeah, I'm different. This is all making sense now. I'm built different. A jelly bean and candy corn guy. And I love rock candy

with the stick, baby blue, pink. All right, I say it's time for the ice cream test. Last week, we quizzed our CEO, Andrew Yoffey, on how Texas he was. He wasn't very Texas. And one claim came up. Texas-owned Bluebell Vanilla ice cream is the best vanilla ice cream. I disagreed with that. Really? Yeah, I did.

So we're going to find out and do a blind taste test. And if Bluebell is all of our favorite, then it deserves the number one spot. But I don't think it will be. We're going to test Bluebell, Tillamook, Whole Foods, 365. Hog and Daws, Ben and Jerry's, and Breyers. My favorite two out of those are Tillamook and Breyers. But let's see if I can put those one and two. My body is going to reject the Whole Foods 365.

I'm organic. Oh, it's going to say that's not real. Don't worry about it. I'm extra lactose and tolerance. I know you are. Tyler's even worse. You got a PJ ride with him in like four hours. Watch out.

I've seen him a little bit of a PJ. Sparky and Cody, like if you had to guess which one you're going to like the best, which would you think you would be? I would guess Bluebell, because it's the one that my taste buds naturally gravitate towards. I just can't help it.

There's a love affair there with me in Bluebell that's just undeniable. I'm going to go into it with an open mind. I've really only had Bluebell and Ben & Jerry's out of this list. You've never had Tillamook?

I don't even know what you're saying. The cheese? Tillamook? You don't buy Tillamook? You don't buy any cheese? Oh, well, let me tell you, hey guys, guys. Next week we'll do a cheese taste test.

Because Tillamook is by far the superior cheese. My gut. Needs a break from this podcast. Yeah, we'll cut after this, dude. Don't worry about it. We got plenty of time to get them shade. No.

I've seen it. Hey, let's just our taste buds to the test. Let's let our taste buds do the talking. Spring is here and it's a great time of year for sports. We've got the NFL draft, the NBA playoffs, not to mention baseball, the masters, and training our interns for their first ostrich race. It's a big time for my kid sports too. And this year, I had to buy them all new uniforms and cleats because they just keep growing.

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When you, I already know what this is. This is Hagen-Doss. No. When you put your, and you can just, it's like kind of soft serve, that is unreal. You like that? You like that? I'm going to have Kurt Cousins to it. You like that?

I've never met an ice cream I didn't like. It's really hard to mess up an ice cream, isn't it? I know it is my favorite ice cream. We don't know. I don't know how to spell. 9 out of 10. This is layered beautifully. So are we judging it on the best flavor?

Or are we trying to figure out which brand it is? It's the best flavor. Because if it's best flavor, we should just know what it is and all taste tests and then we rank them. No. But this is like a guessing game. Because you don't want, we don't want like bluebell to come in and throw, no, this is just a blind taste test.

Right. Because when you see Bluebell and you put it as a two, because it's not good, you're going to be like, oh, that was Bluebell? I've been lied to. I didn't try. I wasn't testing them. I was just telling you which one it was. I know, but if you knew it was a McDonald's.

It's just, it comes with connotations. Yeah. Okay. No, that's well put. But that one was, Tillamook, if you guys want to know. See, I don't think it was, but it was delicious. I know that is. I gave it a 10.

Ooh, did you? Yeah, I gave it a 9 out of 10. That was a great lead-off hitter. Hit me right in the taste buds. I went 9-9 out of 10. Did you as well? Cool. This is what? El green? Light green. Light green. Do we have a dark green? And we have a dark green. Okay.

I think I know it. This one's either the color. It's not what it is. This looks a little yellow. Oh, is this hog and d? See my spoon has residual from the last one. Yeah, see you do have some residual leftover almost wish we had a new spoon for each one. That's ridiculous. See this one I can tell just by the color alone probably what it is, but I know that's not the goal here. Color bluebell? Is that what you're saying?

I don't want to give any clues away, but... I think the aftertaste it's just not good. It's like a fake sweetener in there. It's unbelievable. I'm going to give it a seven. Oh, ma'am. Okay, light green, I gave it a seven. Ooh, I 9.8ed my light green.

Maybe because that was a runner was already on base and it came up in an RBI spot, but ooh, that hit the spot. See? Next, blue. Give me some blue boys. Which you never would go. Bluebell is the blue. Of course.

You never know. Well, it looks like very bluebelly. It's so funny. Oh, and it's hard. You've got to really put effort in to get a bite. You know what? I'm going to make a call here as well. I actually like using plastic spoons with my ice cream.

No way. Yeah. There's a reasoning. Look how hard you got to go in there. This is Bluebell. This has got organic all over it. This one's kind of. lack in a punch.

It's like the start's really good and then you're waiting for that flavor kick and it just never comes. It has no left jab. Blue is a six for me. I mean, you're aligned. I'd rather eat a bottle of listerine than what I just had.

That was horrible. I can't wait for that to be Bluebell. It will. I can't wait for that to be Bluebell and you just are bodybagging it. Still deciding on it. Now, to be fair, I will say if it was Bluebell,

Bluebell is known for its flavors. It's a flat five for me. Don't you agree though? Bluebell's more for like the extravagant flavor, sure. Like the s'mores and the... Yeah. Yeah. You're confetti cake.

Even a confetti. Even vanilla being... So if it's just a straight vanilla, you probably wouldn't never said that Bluebell's the number one vanilla. Well, I do find their homemade vanilla to be quite relaxing and savory. But I always throw like Oreos or chips of Hoy on top.

I see, I don't think you need to, though. Well, on a flat five you do. Blue? You need to throw some G-worms on it, some... It's a blue well, dude, it is. No, no way, it is. No way. All right. All right.

Red. Red. You're either red or dead. Oh, that makes a lot of palettes here. The color alone. Oh, I know what this is. This is hog and dais. You're just talking, dude.

You're just talking. This is a homemade. Oh, that is delicious and creamy. Yeah, this has bee bean to it. You can see. Give me the notes than that. Give me the secret recipe to this bad boy. They all taste the same, dude.

This is a cake compliment to me. This is a vanilla ice cream that is supposed to be paired with like a dry cinnamon bread or something. I don't know what Whole Foods is. Yeah. That's a BB. It's good on the lips. You think that one's the Bluebell? It's a Villa Bee.

I think it's Hoggandahs. I'm gonna go eight. I went 10. Six out of 10 for me, J.B. That's because I like a vanilla bean. That's a six. Nice. Green.

Last one? No two more two more I got to go run after this. I can't believe it. It's crazy Her portions are next level. What do we got last? I know trying to get you guys Fought. This one looks creamy too which one's this just regular green he wants me to Oh this one's tillamook actually it's too creamy. This one's too creamy this is like this one's actually tillamook This is like whipped cream. No, it could be priors. Brires is creamy too is it? Yeah, all right I'm gonna throw down a B and trust your word for it That's unbelievable. I'll get that one a 10 as well.

Oh, I've been done a Tillamook. There's a chance you lose your state issue driver's license, boys. You mess this up. I went eight. That's good. I'm gonna go 10 out of that one as well. That one's delicious. I was like it's a, I don't know.

It's a mortal combat character that doesn't have a final move, that ice cream. It's like, yeah, it's good, it's good, not great. That's a seven out of me right there in the middle of seven out of ten, 70. This one for me is either going to be an 11 or it's going to be a five. Oh, this is a B and J for me. Really? Yep. I'm redoing my ranking.

Wow. No, not ranking. I'm just naming it. I'm ready. All right. Last but not least. And for the last. Ben and Jerry's, come on, come on in.

B and J. Give me an 11. Oh, this looks like Bluebell. Oh, so, gosh, you've got to really... It's bluebell, dude. See, yeah, there's some substance. There's some density to this. Yeah, that's bluebell. Yeah, that could be bluebell. It is

Tetra's not right not so fast my friend. It's a lot of milk. That's not a be-bell. It's not. Yeah. Why? Because I know. I'm gonna go eight. It has the creaminess I like, but I don't like how you got it. It's kind of hard too. Eight for me. Extremely cold ice cream kind of kind of tough on the teeth a little bit. I went five. Okay, it was so much it was milky. It tastes like dairy. I don't like that. That's a good way to put that milky. All right. So, five and a half. Aggregate scores on the number one ice cream. It looks like pink. I think it was just our first bite of ice cream for a week for all of us. I think pink wins and I think it's Briars. I had light green is my favorite. The second. The second one. I'm just saying aggregate score across the board. Yeah, ag score. Woo, they're close. But boy, blue. If blue's not whole foods, I'm going to be disappointed.

Dude, what if pink's whole foods? That'd be, then we're going whole foods. Let's shoot or all flavor. It's, um, then we're all wrong, we're going whole food. All that matters is which one's Bluebell. Which, name them off. What do we got? All right.

Let's start with the lowest. So blue was. Oh, that's the most exciting one. Blue Whole Food six. I had that. I had it right there. It's on the board. Oh, nice.

You did too, though. Yeah. Nice. Okay. So we all got our Whole Foods right. So Whole Foods is dead last on our record. Yeah, it's like picking out a stepchild in front of the regular. The ginger one.

All right. The next one is light green. Nope. No, yellow. Yellow is our next lowest point score with 18 and a half. I went in blue belt. Hagen-D. Hogan.

My palate was already compromised, but I, H&D, on yellow. Hogan, and Dodge. Dang, I want to put blue belt number one now. Is that a German ice cream? Mm-hmm. It just sounds very German. Hagen-Dash. Light green.

Light green. green. That one is bluebell. Yeah, baby. Yeah, it is, and it's a seven, and it stinks. Give me my state-issued license back and change it from 5-7 while you're at it. I didn't get that. Was that one here, switches?

Yeah, but I miss those. Red is Ben and Jerry's. I got two right. I missed that one. Red is Ben and Jerry. Yeah, I switch Ben and Jerry's in Hog and Doss. He had Breyers. But I had the B&J, rated it as a six of ten. I said last pod

that Breyers and Tillamook were my favorite, I think. And I think they're going to be, pink is tillamook. It was good. Really good ice cream. And that leaves a pink Tlemouth. And what did I say last week? What did I say, boys? Buy stock in the company. It's also the best cheese. You've got to be

shocked next week when due to a cheese test. I got off to an incredible start there, three of three. But at least I can go home and sleep well knowing that I did have Bluebell rated. You did. And you said that you would nail Blue Bluebell. The thing I don't like about Bluebell that's different from one is like the soft, the softness of the scoombe. That's just about how we froze it. No, no, no. You literally freeze, however, put them in the deep freezer. I don't care when you pull out till the month. No. Yes. You can put whipped cream in a deep freezer. It's going to come out hard. How do you guys feel about Bluebell at 23.8?

How it's not good. Yeah, you're welcome. Sporky's the only reason it's even that high. If it's not, it's literally all the way down in Hogandas territory. It's overrated. No. And you need to say it. You're crazy.

It's still quality, but it is about the second ingredient, which is either cookies and cream, cookie dough, cookie two step. And that's where it shines. I think that's where Bluebell really pulls away. Yeah. It's not the first leg of the relay race. it's when you get a cookie two-step the baton. Because Ben and Jerry goes a little crazy.

Then you know what's next? Cookie dough ice cream ranking. Yeah. That's my favorite. And if Blue Belt does it, get number one, we just debunked your argument. I'm going to have to stop being on the pod, guys. You're just going to keep feeding fast food and desserts.

Yeah, it looks like number one coming in at Tillamook ice cream, cheese, whatever you want to call that company, they're great. Number two is Briars. Briars and then with a third. which this does pain me. Ben and Jerry squeaks out Bluebell. Bluebell doesn't even podium. Well, it's just their...

I did my part. If it does vanilla bean, I'm in. That was homemade vanilla. Yeah, that wasn't really fair. Ben and Jerry's was the vanilla bean flavor. And we're getting homemade. Yeah, that's Susie's full. And so it was...

Maybe we need to re-rank that one. And Bluebell is resting starters. It's just incredible. But, uh, all right, that's enough ice cream. Codes, go hit the treadmill. we're going to have Trickshot Queen. Yes. On set next. Tax deadline is here, Sparky, April 15th.

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I better go to Intuit TurboTax, so I have more time to practice. Don't wait, visit turbotax.com and hand off your taxes to a turbotax expert today. Your whistleblowing stinks. Our guest today is known online as the Trickshot Queen. She's a viral content creator whose incredible videos have racked up millions of views across social media. But today, she's not just here to talk Trickshots. She's here at DPHQ3 to compete in the second annual Trickshot World Championships. Let's go.

We're some of the best trick-shot artists in the world are about to battle it out. We're literally minutes away from the competition today, but please welcome Amanda Rose. Let's go. Better known as Trickshot Queen. Queen. Are we icing her technically? Is this like... Yeah.

She should be like warming up right now. Yeah, they don't have like... Hey, look, here's the deal. Because you're doing this podcast, I don't even know if I'm allowed to do this. Uh-oh. But you want me to tell you the first call? No, I don't. And that's well, look at that true competitive.

She wants to win it. All right. Hey, look, I would take the easy way out. And that's why I'm not competing. But okay. Not just talent. I'll tell you what. Integrity, too.

There's an integrity. I'm a teacher. Tell you what, Brody Smith would have taken it. Yeah, Bertie Smith would ask for what was composition too as well by your head. I want to even play and feel, you know. How's it going? Good. Life been treating you well.

Oh my gosh, it's been amazing. Been very busy, but busy is good, you know, can't complain. Healthy busy. Yeah, I'm seeing you everywhere. It's been insane. Yeah, yeah. You hit the game winner. I saw that.

I'll tell you what. Yeah, word gets around quick. Yeah, yeah. Viral good. Yeah, it just kind of floats around. What's your favorite sport? To play or to watch? Both.

Both. I am obsessed with watching football. Like, it is out of control. I love it. You're almost an issue. You have a problem almost. Yeah, a little bit. A little bit.

You know, and it's one of those things where I love it. it so much that I'm not just watching the Falcons because obviously that's my team unfortunately we're struggling a little bit making some bad decisions but I love watching all teams you know I'll sit there and watch them all day oh of course I just picked up a you know

a good backup I'm not sure what he is at this point in his career too I'm guessing you're saying yeah I mean he's got to stay healthy you know that's the problem that's not we all were you shocked when we all need to say healthy I was yeah I'm not sure what route we're trying to go with that.

I'm not either. I mean, the quarterback thing is already weird because, you know, we drafted, you know, penics, and then we had just signed

Kirk Cousins. It's like, all right, what are we going? We're going old. We're going young. You know, so I'm not sure what they're thinking.

I'm not sure the Atlanta Falcons know what they're doing. Yeah, I would agree with that, yeah. So take us back. Where did you grow up? I grew up in Dallas, Georgia,

a small little town, about 30, 45 minutes outside Atlanta. So it's nice because it's close enough where you can go to, you know, those Falcons games, Hawks, Braves, but then you're out in the country, so you get your privacy, so I like it.

Dallas, Georgia. Yeah. I know, it's weird to hear that, isn't it? Do you take offense when people are like, oh, you're from, you're from Dallas, but you're like, no, not that Dallas. Not that, yeah, I never can just say Dallas because, oh, Cowboys fan. I might, no, Dallas, Georgia. And they're like, really.

Never heard of Dallas, Georgia. No, yeah, it's small. Yeah. How big we're talking, population-wise? You know, I don't even want to throw out a number because I have, it's growing, though. It's growing very rapidly. I want to say, like, 15 years ago. we were like the fastest growing city, like top five in the nation.

So, yeah, we're definitely growing, but it's still, you know, kind of small town. Our Dallas, very much growing is going. Oh, yeah. So we can relate. Oh, yeah. We can relate to that. It's beautiful. Oh, my gosh.

Dallas, Texas is beautiful. Well, I mean, you did come in on an airplane that had to battle like some tornadoes coming in, but other than that, beautiful. It's that time of the year. I'll tell you what. Yeah, it is. It gets a little dangerous around here. You'll see the storm chasers with their little, like, you know, antennas and,

medicine balls. I don't even know what they're doing with these things on top of the antennas. Fun quest video. I'd rather not, dude. Go get involved in a little F5 actually. Let those guys take it. That's a Tyler Tony waiting to happen.

He'd be like, I'd lasso in F5. I could see y'all doing that and trying to, you know, throw the basketball against the wind and get it to curve into the goal. You know, Sparky's a very good weatherman. You know this. Really? Yeah. I do that in my bag, yeah.

We'll show you a clip after this, but I think he has, I think he has a future in this. Oh. It's that time of the year, weather with Sparky. As the cold winter temps move out, and those golf warm temps move into Texas, we're going to see some isolated thunderstorms. When Pete Delkis, our guy, wants to hang it up,

I think he's got a job. You can step into those shoes. I love it. I mean, I bet Pete wears like a size 11, but metaphorically, it's like a size 20. For Pete Delkus. That's the man, the myth, the legend. I love it.

So it's been awesome to watch your organic growth online. It really is. It just brings a smile to my friend. face, but there's a dark side to trick shots that people don't know about. Tell the people at home just how tough it can be at times when you're stuck on a shot for eight hours or there might be a tech malfunction. But there's a dark side to trick shots that people don't see. Yeah, it's a love-hate relationship, you know, and I feel like us as trick-shotters were just so competitive, and that's why we're so good at it because we're like, we're not going to let this trick-shot

defeat me. And that's why we keep going for sometimes like 25 hours, you know, because it's like, I'm too competitive to let that trick shot beat me. But for the most part, I love it, and I love the challenge. And, you know, I like going outside of my comfort zone and trying things that I'm not really good at. I'm not a soccer person. Like, this guy is amazing. So any type of kicking trick shots, you know, I usually struggle.

But again, it's like I want to challenge myself. I don't want to just do the things I'm good at, you know. And it's funny how trick shots, like, in one sense, sometimes you get a close call and it's like heartbreaking. Because you're like, there was our opportunity. We missed our window. And on the other hand, it's like, well, we're really close. Like, the next one's in.

So it's always weighing that. It's an emotional roller coaster. It really is. And physical roller coaster. But to your point, once you dip your toes in, it's hard not to, you know, you're addicted. You're addicted at that point. You're in. Yeah.

Is there one that you've had, you've given up on? Just recently. So I bought a new house. Congrats. Thank you. I appreciate it. And I was like, you know what? Let's do something crazy because I started doing over-the-house trick shots.

and a lot of people don't know that my other over-the-house trick shots were actually at my parents' house. They weren't at my old house because they have a better yard and stuff, you know, so throwing stuff over, hitting, doing the boom stick over the house, just doing crazy stuff, you know. And so I get my house and I'm like, let's just do something crazy. And I'm like, we're going to throw a bowling ball over the house. That seems. That's a little, that's, yeah. Crazy is not how I described that, but.

Yeah. That's good. Now, I will say this, it's not a real bowling ball. It's like a trainer bowling ball where, you know, but it's still pretty heavy. And then the motion that you have to throw, it's just difficult. You know, it's the underhand and you got, you know, you're not getting to grip it. You have to put your, you know, fingers on the bowling ball, obviously. And so I did have to stop that one because I almost took my gutter off of my brand new house.

So I'm like, it's time to call it quits. I hate to be a quitter, but, I mean, I can't destroy my house. That's financially responsible. I would agree with that, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I felt pretty good about stopping that one. I wouldn't call you a quitter.

I would just say, yeah, you're just using your. You know, your brain that God gave you. I like, yep. And, you know, I thought the comments online were really going to give me a hard time. Like, oh, she's a quitter, but most people are like, you're being smart. Like, this is something that you worked hard for, your brand new house. Like, we still believe in you. And so I was happy about that.

Well, you're also a middle school teacher. I am. So it's not just a trick shot artist. Right. You know, shaping the future generation, which I got to say, we have a couple of these future generations that work for us. Oh, yeah. And I don't know how you do it. I don't,

I would just go mental. Yeah. I don't know what money. The middle school teachers are making them. Not enough. It should be double. Yeah. Triple made.

Based off what we see first and, I didn't know it was this bad. The craziest words. Oh, yeah. It's. And I don't even get why they do it. And it's got to be, yeah,

that's a tough job. So, congrats to you for enduring both trick shots and that. That takes a special human. But we're almost athlete. is the Almost Athlete podcast. So I had a question. You've had to have witnessed some funny almost athlete moments with these kids.

Yeah. Is there like something that sticks out to you? Like that you can be like, yeah, that. Yeah, a little Roger. That's not. Little Roger. I'm punted Jeffrey 50 yards of hang time. Yeah.

I got a couple. The one that I always think back to, and this is my 14th year teaching, so I've seen a lot of stuff. Oh, I bet. But we were in our soccer unit. And, again, soccer is not a strong suit. so, you know, just teaching the basic skills and we're doing dribbling. And this girl, she was so sweet.

She worked hard. Actually, I think I could be wrong. I think she might have been a soccer player. I hope not. I hope she wasn't. I could be wrong about that. But she's dribbling and she's just looking, you know, at the ball because when you're not very good, like basketball,

you're just looking at the ball. And she's dribbling, dribbling, and doesn't look up and runs square into the wall with her head down, hits the top of her head. And she was concussed. So that was a first for me. I'm like, hmm, you didn't see the big wall. But hey, you know what?

She took it like a chance. It's like commendable that she was so focused on, you know. Yes, I mean, she locked in. Also a coaching moment there. Yeah, you got to dribble with your head up, you know? We got to get to the point of our career where we dribble with her head up. I wonder if she's still playing soccer. I could be wrong.

She might not have been a soccer player. She might have made that part of. What if she's like collegiate, like a collegiate. like a collegiate player now. What a defining moment. What if her name's Alex Morgan. Oh my goodness. That's crazy. That's crazy. Yeah, I need to look her up and see what she's doing now. What about you personally?

Oh, yeah. You know, mine came a little later in life. It wasn't when I was still playing sports. I played softball and basketball in high school. And then in college, I played softball. And, you know, just stopped playing because it was like, all right, it's time to focus on my grades. Like, we need to graduate, you know.

So mine came when I was already a teacher. It was like my second year. teaching and, you know, I was, I was young because I was a second year teacher, so I played, like, all the time. And we do this thing called Running Club, and it's like where they come in, they run for a little bit before school, and then we play whatever we're playing in PE. So we were in our badminton unit. Love me. I love net games. Oh, my gosh, badminton, all that stuff. Spike ball. That's like my favorites. So, you know, playing, feel good, playing against a couple of kids. And then also one of the other PE teachers, he was across from me.

So he was serving to me and he was, you know, we want to beat each other, obviously. Yeah. So he serves it short and I like jump up and try to hit it. And instantly I'm like, oh my gosh, something like something's wrong. And I pinched my sciatic nerve. Like like as you're in the air, as I'm like going forward to hit his serve, peach the sciatic nerve playing badminton. I'm like, okay, that's bad.

And I have one even better though. I have a second story. playing two square. Again, it's never during like flag football or basketball. Sure. These really like intense. Getting out of the shower. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

And so we're playing two square. And again, super competitive. I playing against another PE teacher. And he hits one to the side. And I actually dove. I was being kind of a court hog because I'm like, I don't want to lose. So I dove in front of the kid and hit my knee. And I'm like, that didn't feel right.

Like I hit the front of my knee, but the back of my knee hurts. Went to the doctor. I partially tore my PCL and my meniscus. I'm like playing two square? So that's when I'm like, you need to pump the brakes a little bit girl. When was that?

2014. Yeah. So now I don't play as much. Yeah. That's two square. They tell you it's a contact sport. Yeah, you got to be careful playing those games. I have almost athlete moments every day of my life now.

Yeah. And now I do. I was telling the group of guys earlier, man. Like I can't even. even get out of bed and walk anymore. Like my tendinitis is like, I mean, yes, I'm young in a sense, but dude, I am, I'm old. I feel that actually, yeah. And that's why I'm not in the competition this year of Trickshot World Championships,

because I would probably lose first round. No, no, that's a lot. But I will say, okay, middle school teacher, trick shot, you know, fanatic. the thing I commend you for the most, and I would never, ever put myself in this situation because I hate the awkward moments. And I can't even, I commend you for going on America's Got Talent. Oh my gosh.

Putting yourself out there to fail. Oh, absolutely. Like, it's trick shots. It's, you're not, you're literally going to fail in front of millions of people. Yes. And that takes a lot of courage. And that, I, I think that's your best moment that you could show people because, like, you basically told kids that, hey, I have a passion for this and I'm going to fail, but I don't care because I love it this much, which I thought was really cool. Did you have a good time on the show?

Oh, it was so much fun. I actually, when they reached out to me, I told them no, because I was like, trick shots are unpredictable. I also would have said no. Oh, yeah. It was a very quick no. And I actually called my parents, and I was like, you're not going to believe this. Like, America's got talent wants to me. And then I was like, I told him no.

And they're like, what? And they're like, if she emails you back, you say, we will make it happen. And I'm like, trick shots are unpredictable. And I told her that. And then she's like, no, we will do something that you're super comfortable with. And I was like, all right, well, I'm really comfortable throwing footballs. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. We saw last year in the Trick Shot World Championships, sometimes that's your Achilles heel, you know? Like we all, a bunch of us lost. and things that we were really good at. It's kind of weird, you know. Yeah, well, I thought it was great. I watched the clip that it was just, it was awesome. It was awesome.

It was a good word for it. Let's just say America's Got Talent hadn't hit me or gar up. You're doing something right. I wanted to segue into that because you are here for a reason, like Sparky said, and that is, again, another big competition, the second annual.

You almost made it. Oh, my gosh. Last year, all the way through. You had a, you had a, you know, great showing. Pretty average partner, if I had to say. Oh, yeah. You're only as good as your partner.

I would argue that he's the greatest partner for all time. Yeah. So the first question, are we bringing the partner back? Adam, mate Adam. Yes. He's back. He's back. Got to be.

They asked me. They were like, who do you want your partner to be this year? And I said the goat, Adam. Did your goat tell you about his medical issues lately? Yes, he did. Is that going to hinder you? Absolutely not. You're going to make him push through it?

That's going to make me want to win for him even more. It inspired you even a little more. For those that don't know, our good friend, mate, British buddy, he's going through some medical issues. But he wasn't going to pass up on the opportunity for the second annual. This guy would rather push his heart to failure than give up on trick shot queen. Redowning plastic cups. That, you know, just shows you his commitment to winning this competition.

There's a lot of commitment going on. Add him back. I'm going to tell you right now. She flew into tornado. A lot of commitment. You know, people that watch it, they didn't realize that I literally met Adam five minutes before we started video. You all had an instinct chemistry. Oh, my gosh.

And he's like, and he told me, he said, you have to do good because if you don't, the dudes are going to blame me. He was like, you got to do good. Oh, we blamed him for when you got out, too. It was his fault. It was his fault. He's amazing. And, you know, I don't know if you could really tell this from the video, but I'm telling you right now, I would not have made it through the ping pong shot. I had no idea what I was doing.

He took the lead. And when I said, I trust you, I truly meant it. I'm like, whatever you think, you do it, I have full trust in you. I'm going to make one changing just a minute, okay? Whatever you do, I trust you. Does it get more Cinderella story than this? That's pretty admirable for just meeting each other too. Yeah, she's amazing.

Have you, like, trained all year? I mean, be honest. Yeah, how does one train for a conversation like this? You don't, and people ask like what? Pray, start the prayers early? I pray every day, but especially for this. You know, I pray a little extra for this. but you can't train because, you know,

I don't know if people know this. We have no idea what the trick shot is. Like we know right before we start filming. So we can't practice. And how do you feel about that? It makes me so nervous. Yeah, see, so here's the deal that people need to know. Tyler knows every trick shot in every battle before we go into it.

You know who doesn't know? You. The other four. Really? Yeah. And so everyone's like, Ty, the goat. I'm like, yeah, well, if I was the game master, I would win just as much.

much. Hey, but you know what? Yeah. That's what makes Belichick so great. He's willing to tow that line, maybe film another team's practice. That's just Tygo on the extra mile. It's like, yeah.

Yeah. Sheating or trying, you know. And that's why I try. I mean, I tried to give you the upper hand, but you didn't take it. Yeah, I can't. I teach integrity all the time to my middle schoolers. I'm like, you got to, you got to, you know, walk to walk, not just thought the talk. Yeah, for sure.

So a couple more questions because you got the competition started in like five minutes. I know, it's insane. And I would, I don't know if this is possible. I don't know if we're going to segue into this, but I would love to bring the goat out here if we could. Sure, yeah. I mean, he is here. No, D.J.

Oh, they go. We have a different definition of goat. Adam. Yeah, well, what's up, mate? You can leave the mic off. I'm just kidding. You can pull it in. Yeah, we lost Cody on that.

Not for the best. Can I give you my almost athlete moment? Yeah, oh, yeah, for sure. A British almost athlete moment's great. I think it's probably the best. one you've had on the show. When you died? Yeah.

I was playing tennis and I was playing a friend. I'd never beaten him. I got... Still having, I don't think. Yeah, I won the set. And afterwards, he's like, well, let's just play a little bit again. And then I dropped down dead. So does it get more almost athlete than that?

Like, literally. Literally. You told me that last year. Three days in a coma and... I remember like that was yesterday, man. I do too, man. I remember where I was when I got the call. And what's crazy is I just got done with a soccer match that night.

I was coming home from a soccer match. And Ross called me and one of our mutual buddies. And I was like, legit, I was like, who's at him? Like, I'm looking. What are you talking about, dude? Like, I don't. It just, like, didn't even register me because I was like, can't be that at him. Right.

But yeah, but yeah, that's, I think that's probably the, the greatest. almost-athlet story. You're about to bring the doorbell there at Heaven's Gates. That's pretty almost a-down. It's also showing the commitment to the craft, which I, again, appreciate. 100%. So one last question before we let you guys go,

what would it mean to have the banner hung in Dude Perfect headquarters? Tricshaw Queen, immortalized forever as the winner, Trichard World Championships. You have no idea what it would mean to me. Like, being so close, It's, you know, like Josh Allen.

I always think of him. He's so close every year for the big game, and it's just heartbreaking. And you can see on my face when I got eliminated in the dunk tank. Like, I had tears in my eyes, but I was really holding back. Like, I had the lump in my throat. Like, I was just, it was devastating. But it was also such a blessing to make it that far one right before the finale. And, you know, I take it very seriously that I was the only female last year.

Yeah. Because I feel like, you know, I'm that representation because, you are. You know, Trick Shots is very dominated by males, which is amazing that so many people are doing it. But like for me to show these little girls and not just little girls, just underdogs in general, that, man, if you believe in yourself, sky's the limit. You know, so I take it very seriously. And if I win, I really don't even know what I would do. That would just be probably the greatest feeling in the world. And I've had some pretty cool things happen.

But, yeah, it would mean so much to me. We have a banner waiting on you. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Let me change your mindset a little bit. And I love Josh Allen. People on the podcast know it's my boy. That's my second favorite team.

But let's not go into this competition thinking to Josh Allen. Okay, that's true. Because Josh Allen hasn't gotten it done. Yeah, this year was bad. So let's go into competition thinking of Tom Brady. Yeah. And he's the ultimate winner. And you expect to win.

I can't do it. Yeah, you can. The 283. The 283 is still hard. Yeah, but what a comeback. Oh, God. Goat. What a comeback.

Oh, she's, that hurts me. Your job, obviously, Adam, is to get her thinking winning. Positive thoughts. We can win. We will win. We will win. I've already said, we're visualizing it. She's the knight. Yeah.

I'm barely that. I'm the serving. The trick shot serving. I mean, I'm here to serve my queen to pull the way to victory. Well, hey, you guys got to go get prepared because it's a big day. Big competition. The other one is not for the fan of heart. Yeah, we're jumping right in this morning.

So, I would go out and start stretching. Start stretching. The greatest queen ever. Definitely above Elizabeth and Latifah. It is the trick-shack queen. Everybody give it up. And for the tournament himself. Yeah, always a pleasure.

I appreciate you guys for coming on. Yeah, thank y'all so much. Always good to talk to the queen. You're not going to meet many better guests than her. What a wholesome individual. I'm looking forward to see how she does. Well, I'll tell you what, I've seen versions. two, really good.

And if you're trying to watch Tritch Shot World Championships, it releases this Saturday on the two, this Friday on the app, don't miss it. Let's go. One of our best videos of 2026. Whoa! That's our two-minute warning where he gets a rant about anything, Gary. You got anything? Oh, tag team? Because I got something small.

Well, you know, I'm sick and tired of Cody getting Block A segments, man. Wow, we had the same rant. No way. No, yeah, kind of. Kind of. Yeah, go ahead and unload the clip, buddy. Man, dude. I just, I just, I just, At the end of the day, like, did I make Tyler mad? Where's T. Ben?

Yeah, he's been kind of avoiding us. We've been inviting him to come on Block A, but he just won't, he won't show up. And we have to go, Cody, at that point. I mean, look, I can only handle so much hair from the twins. I get hair envy from them, dude. Yeah, true. If I can't, I don't like it. Not as much from Cody, though.

I do feel really short when Cody's around, which is unfortunate. But you're right. Why does he get sharpied into the A spot? Because if I'm building the lineup, he's like, Bottom of the order nine hole right field kind of guy. You kind of hide them, you know, but, you know, I was going to piggyback that. Just tired of Cody in general. Other than that, no masters this week.

That's a tough one to swallow. Yeah. Hey, there's a dark side to be in the sixth dude, and the pros heavily outweigh the cons. But one of the cons is watching your boys go to a gust of this week. Hey, but it's good. I got to take some PTO. Are you to watch it? Yeah, of course.

Well, PTO, are we doing? What are we doing? chilling, man. Taking some time. Yeah, just getting some time at the crib. I got some things I want to do, some mass cleaning that I've put off for a while. Well, take you home some Bluebell, that 9.8, and enjoy your day off, dude. You're going to like it.

And I love a good spring clean, dude. It's time. If I gave you like a little two by four inch picture of me, would you put it in your wallet just so I, you know, feel like I'm there? Take it to Augusta? Yeah. Yeah, I like that. So I'm always with you, boys. I like it.

I appreciate you, dude. Hey, don't forget the video, new main channel video out this weekend, Trickshot World Championships. You will not be disappointed. It's a longer runtime on this one. So sit back, relax, grab the family. It's a popcorn. It's a bluebell. It is fun.

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