Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect - Dude Perfect Reacts to Fan Trick Shot Fails, College Football & NFL Playoff Predictions

Episode Date: December 17, 2025

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No way. No way. No way. No way. No way. No way. No way. This could get a good rating. Welcome to almost athletes with Dude Perfect. A wave original driven by the Hess toy truck. We're your host. I'm Spark. That's G. And Jackson? You know the guys are on vacation when. But I'm A-blocking. That was the best option we had off the bitch. Well, again, it's Christmas season, man. Everyone's taking their, they're trying to. to get their PTO. There is a lot of PTO going around. I mean, I get it. Uh, got a big show coming up. Uh, college football playoffs. Yes. Heisman winner. Me? Uh, uh, Sparky's, I did. I did.

I did. NFO rankings. Mm-hmm. I did hear Brother Nature is coming on the pod. The man, the myth, the legend, Ryan Britton. Oh, yeah, baby. And later, we're watching your almost athlete videos and answering voicemails with T. But first, let's catch up on a few things happening to do it perfect. Yeah, a lot going down. In, the DP world. First things first. The newest squad games video is coming next week. Well, that's coming out next Friday on the app, Saturday on the main channel vid. It's a heck of a video. I don't know if y'all have seen it. I'm still recovering from it. Uh, shout out outdoor channel. Yeah. A lot of hard work, blood, sweat, and tears went into that one. Yeah. And that video's live

and doing really well, performing well. How was that, by the way? Uh, it was a lot of fun. Intimidating a little bit. Yeah, for sure. Just anything partnering with Ty, his expectations are very high for me. Especially when it's a hunt. Right. You know? That's his go-to. You don't want to mess with Ty's hunts. No, no, absolutely not. That means you mean something to him, which is good. Absolutely. And Ty's always, Tys always had that, like,

father kind of figure to me. Really? I feel like... Like his actual figure? He's got a dad-bought, I agree. No, I'm saying, like, even, like, survival games, he was like, you know, put me on his team and put me on his back, carry me through.

I mean, I did absolutely nothing in that battle. But I felt like, I felt special because I was in tight. Because he's taking you under his wing. Exactly. That's beautiful. And so even like on tour, he, I really enjoyed playing golf. And he taught me kind of how to play golf. And so now he's trying to like teach me how to go hunting too.

So it's like, it's cool. And you just got to take the verbal chastising that comes with that sometimes. He'll let you know. You know, boys, let's talk sports. That's why we're here. Well, before we start then, Jackson, you know where I'm going. I don't. I really don't.

Shout out to the Texas A&M, Aggie volleyball team. Yeah. Yeah. Heck yeah. They deserve a shout. out. They just took down Nebraska, at Nebraska, who hasn't lost at home, since 2022. Yep, over a thousand years. They were undefeated this year. Not years, days. Sorry. Those dropping volleyball bombs right now. Talk about not seeing that coming. Here's the deal.

What's funny is, you know, I'm a part of a board called Tex-Ags. I'm not part of it. I just participate in reading the forum. And there was a lot of people posting on there from like, other schools can join, which I think is kind of weird, but there was like some Texas thing, like, people caught some Texas tweets, uh, how like, dude, Aggies just made our volleyball dynasty the easiest road ever and then Texas loses. Yeah, I saw that. Texas did lose. Beautiful. Uh, shout out to the volleyball. It actually is electric to watch. It's one of my favorite underground sports. I definitely think people should watch more volleyball just, I mean, play it. In general, I don't think I could play volleyball. That, that ball is going a thousand

miles an hour at your face. Yeah, those girls who dig it out, It was outside hitters. It was unbelievable. And they just dig it out. I don't know how they do it without breaking their arm. Shout out. Shout out. Check out.

Yeah, that was. Let's go win that 90. Let's go win that. Only team. Now granted, this comes out, you know, a couple days before we play in the college football playoff. But as of now, we are the only team in the nation still playing for a national championship in volleyball and football.

That's crazy. Same roster? Same roster. Wow. Yeah, we got Marcel Reed playing Libero. Congratulations to Fernando Mendoza The Hoosier Q Taking home the Heisman

He gives a great speech I'll tell you what He's a fun one That speech was incredible I do have to just point Point this out Because I saw some stats The stats for this year's Heisman

They were underwhelming Was was pretty Underwhelming Shout out Johnny football He had more rushing yards Than Jeremiah Love Yeah That's incredible sad

And he also threw 30 more touchdowns and Jeremiah Love. Yeah. I also saw a comparison where it was like, yeah, sure, he has more rushing touchdowns than Jeremy I love, but put, you know, Jeremiah Love, whenever it's like open, the field's open,

you're scrambling for however many yards. It's easy, but, you know, you can't have Jeremiah Love like read a defense. You know what I mean? So. I just, I felt like this year's Heisman was one for the taking, and it should have probably gone to somebody other than a QB. Yeah.

I thought Rodriguez, the linebacker from Texas Tech should have been there, man. He really should have been there. I would have much rather seen a defensive linebacker win the Heisman than just give me a random quarterback. I mean, yes, he led the team

to an undefeated season, great. But like, is it a quarterback award? No, it's not. It almost is nowadays. I mean, it basically is to me. When Devante won it at Alabama as a whiteout, I was like, man, maybe we're turning a page here,

but not really. No, but I mean, hey, let's not discount Mendoza's stats too much. threw it in a 71.5% clip, 33 touchdowns to six picks. Like, he really took care of the football. Yeah, he did. And they're the best story in college football. I will, I will say there was like a moment versus Ohio State.

And like he threw like a fade and like a five-yard fade route. And this. Oh, Johnny. Oh, my God. Like the guy. Was it Johnny? It was Johnny. He was like, oh.

He was like, now we're giving out Heisman moments for a little five-yard fade routes. Yeah. Maybe that's what it was. It was just lacked that one big moment, that one key drive. He didn't have the really, like, the fancy, nasty play. I would say Penn State was his, probably his Hysman moment, whenever he came back in one of that game. Penn State was like three and eight. I know, I know, I know.

Yeah, I was filling out an application to Penn State like eight weeks ago. Yeah. That's scary. Cam Ward also saw this statistic. Cam Ward threw for over 4,000 yards last year and wasn't even sniffing the Hizman and, you know, for... Yeah, it's kind of on the wrong year, I think. That's what I'm saying. It was further taking.

And if that happened, I just would have loved a defensive player to win that. I thought Rodriguez definitely should have been an attention. Dude, even the both tech linebackers are unbelievable. That other kid's unreal. In the big 12th champions, you'd be had, you know, the two picks and the, like. Oh, yeah. That kid's unbelievable. Yeah, Texas Tech defense is real.

It is. Well, boys, the longest week ever is over. And that's the week you're waiting for the playoffs to start. Yeah, this weekend it felt like we should get the playoffs started. We had Army Navy this weekend. We did, which was a heck of four. football game. One of the coolest things ever, man. It's a really cool football game. It's a really cool, unique football game, different than any other.

I saw Tarleton blow it to Villanova. Yeah, in the FCS rankings. They do, they do their playoff right? I didn't know Villanova was FCS. All we have to do. Yeah, in football, they are. Yeah. There's the model right there. We keep saying, how do we fix college football? Literally just take it from the FCS ranks. They do their playoff perfectly. They do it perfect. Why can we not do that? You know, it's that simple. Yeah.

But our playoff bracket is out, boys. We got a weekend full of fun. Are y'all going to go Saturday? I am. I dropped their bag. Oh my goodness. Oh, dude, you should have just asked, man. Really?

I would have, well, you already bought them. Ramp it maybe, reimburse it. Yeah, we'll be there. It'll be a fun environment and college station at, you know, 8 a.m. When we kickoff. The 11 a.m. kickoff time, Central was a disservice to y'all. Are you going Friday night? Are you going?

Yeah, I'm going Friday night. We definitely have the best game, and it's not even close on that. slate. You don't think Oregon James Madison deserves the night game? Oh my. I agree with you. I'm kidding. That was a joke. I mean, they're not even going to get in 20 points with them. What's the line there, 21 and a half? Yeah.

Yeah, Sparky's taking James Madison to cover there. The points? Yeah. I think it'll be closer than the experts think paying homage to Lee Corsoe. So we'll too late, I bet. Yeah, let's pick them real quick. So obviously Oregon is going to advance out of this weekend, I think. You would like to think so. You would like to think so.

If the rumors are true about Ty Simpson and Alabama and how he's hurt, give me owe you to win that game. That one might be a first to 20 points wins. I'm expecting a just rugged, tugged, physical affair there, Norman. Ole Miss, I made no offense to Tulane. You've already played him.

They did. You got crushed. Hard to be a good team twice. And then I do think it's going to be tough. It's going to go down to the last possession, but I think the Aggies get done, squeak out. I don't think we even cover the three and a half. Like I think we're kicking a last second field goal to maybe win by one.

Did you know Levyon Moss is back? Is it confirmed? Yeah, he's back. Yeah. Okay, never mind. We're going to win by 21. About that. Yeah.

Give me tech beating the winner of James Madison, Oregon. I really like that tech team, man. I think they have a chance to win it all. I really do. Indiana is coming out of that too. Yeah, you would like to think so. Yep. Indiana versus Texas Tech Peach Bowl would be an absolute classic.

The Dark Horse, I feel like, in this thing is that nobody's really talking about is Ohio State. Like they're fresh off the title. Yeah, they lost Indiana. Oh, you mean to make a run? Yeah. Oh, sure. I was like, Georgia's going to be Ole Miss regardless of what happens. I'd like to think so, yeah. And Georgia team feels like they're peeking at the right time.

I do think Ohio State will be heavily favored regardless. It's just as a reigning champ that has one loss. If it's Aggies or Miami, I think Ohio State's a 10-point favorite. I'm just saying I would not want to play the Buckeyes fresh off their loss. We saw what happened last year fresh off a loss and they parlayed it. Oh, I don't want to either, but if Aggies win,

it's at the Cotton Bowl, we'll be there. I actually think, and I think a lot of neutrals won like this, but I actually think you may see one versus two in the Natty Championship. I think it's an Indiana-Ohio State rematch for it. It's my pick. I think if you want my honest opinion, that the committee was pretty bummed out that Indiana won that because I really think they wanted to drop like Indiana out of the Ohio State. Like, I think they wanted a Georgia Ohio State championship. And they're not going to get it. I'm at least glad they put them on opposite sides to where Indiana and Ohio State can have that glorious rematch because like we pointed out last week, the one disappointing part

about the conference championships nowadays is kind of lost their luster. We had one verse two and it ultimately didn't matter too much. No. So I want to see all the stakes on the line. I'd love to see that. But enough college ball. We'll talk a ton of that next week. Let's go to the NFL side, boys. Sick. I enjoyed this, Phillip Rivers. That was fun to watch, man. like any any aspiring dad out there who's trying to like get back into the workout scene where he where he tripped up and then rumble bumbled and stumbled that was one of it that's got to be his almost athlete moment yeah that looked like senior citizen falling in slow motions what that looked like and i know he was freaking out in his mind and you can't really do too much about it but he did well i mean he drove

the bus with that offensive line the way they move up front you really just got to hand it off 80% of the time that is wild to think that a grandfather just started at quarterback under center for an NFL team. Played pretty good. I mean, had a chance to win. I thought they did. I thought he did. Put him in position.

That's all you can ask for. Especially on the road in Seattle. That's a good football team. I would not want to run across Seattle, dude. Even though. They didn't even play well yesterday and found a way to win that game. Did you see the conspiracy, though, regarding Rivers? No, what is it?

That is NFL health insurance was about to run out after five years. And now that he made the active 50s. He gets another five. Five years, dude. And when you have like 39 kids, it's a big deal, health insurance. So you think he was ultimately the guy that tore Daniel Jones, Achilles? No, I just think he was the benefactor of that, said, hey, okay. There's no conspiracy.

Yeah. You got it. No, I don't know. Yeah, there's no conspiracy here, boys. There's just a benefit. What people will dig up to make a conspiracy these days? I mean, Daniel Jones went down by himself. It wasn't Philip Rivers.

It wasn't Tonya Harding, you know. Tanya Hardy. What a throwback. What a throwback. It was a bad day to be an ACL. I know that much. Yes. Oh, my God.

There always feels like there's one NFL week where it's just like the sacrificial week where ligaments go. You see the stat on that? Did you see the stat on that? His ACL. What was it? Mahomes?

Brady. Three Super Bowels. Oh, I did see that. I did see that. Ninth season. Yep. ACL didn't make the playoffs. Same exact storyline.

Oh, it's like the John Wilts. They're saying Mahomes is supposed to be to go. Three Super Bowls. Ninth season for ACL didn't make the playoffs. Yep. Crazy, dude. I don't know how sports works that way. That's,

The last time the Chiefs didn't make it, I don't think Jackson was born. It was 10 years ago. Last time they were out of playoffs. It wouldn't even live. I wasn't even thought of. That's incredible thought. It was like one of those days when you're walking to the fridge. It's like, hey, let's be careful here because you're reliable for a high ankle or something. Seriously, it was in the air yesterday. Let's go through my power rankings, NFL. Somebody commented last week and they were exactly right, actually. There's a ton of parody in the NFL. The picture has been very blurry and gray, and I overloaded the S-tier.

So you, this is from a while ago or no? No, this is updated. Okay, you updated this is updated. Yep, got it. This is updated after yesterday's games, this weekend's games. All right, boys, here's my NFL power rankings, week 15 edition. Pat's bills, Broncos, and Rams are our only S-tier teams. That's sparky tier, by the way.

Yeah, it's sparky tier. Sparky Super Bowl tier. Yeah. In the A tier, right on the precipice of being Lombardi contenders, Houston, who has made quite the move. Jacksonville, the Chajas, Eagles, Bears, Pack, and then both those West Coasters, Seattle and San Fram. Okay.

In the B-tier, still alive but barely breathing. You got the Colts, Ravens, both NFC South teams there, Tampa and Carolina, along with the Detroit Motor City Kitties. And then in the C-tier, you got Finns, Steelers, Vikings, Chiefs, Cowboys, D-Tier, Falcons and Bengals and then in the F tier, tough to watch. Yeah, if you weren't mentioned, well... Yeah, if you weren't mentioned F tier,

you've got Cleveland, Tennessee, the New York Jets, New Orleans Saints, the Radas, New York, Washington, and Arizona along with Tye's Ewee team, his gun son's pee team also in F tier, the monster truck. Oh, no. I just can't believe

I just can't believe like the Cowboys have that weak in the division and we just are miserable. I like, though. I like the future for the Cowboys. I know that's so Cowboy fan of me to say, but I really do think they have something. I hope you're right. I agree.

I agree. Two first round picks just hit on them next year. Yeah, that's all. That's true. That's all. So C is eliminated. C is basically eliminated. I mean, Cowboys aren't technically eliminated,

but pretty much are eliminated. Well, Eagles just have to win one more. Correct. They'll win that one. Man, the NFC, West, that conference is, or that division, is just loaded to the gills. Well, also the AFC.F. were the one with the bills and Patriots.

Yeah, I put both of them in S-tier, man, because they split that game, that 21-point rally by Josh Allen just felt like a statement, man. He's unbelievable, dude. That whole team is. I do think Drake May probably deserves the MVP. Played well.

Extremely well. But, man, what Josh Allen means for a football team, dude, I think bills, I know for a fact, bills have three more losses without Josh Allen this year. I mean, He means so much to that football team.

I see what you're saying, whereas Drake May is your MVP because he's playing so well, but the real MVP is no doubt Josh Allen because he is so valuable to that team. Like, I mean, I'm not saying Drake May is not talented, super talented, but put like Trevor Lawrence in that spot. I think they're the same result. You put Trevor Lawrence in Buffalo. You put Trevor Lawrence in Buffalo? No.

Sunshine's been slinging it, though. Yeah, best year he's had. But I'm with you. There's no offense. the NFL that asked their quarterback to do more than... I like these rankings, though. I mean, I think, I still think the Broncos are pretenders, if you want, my honest... Really?

I feel like the Broncos are the AFC version of the Chicago Bears. Yeah. Where it's like one side of the ball, they are filthy good. They've got a quarterback who had really proven it yet, but... If we have pretenders in college, everyone says it's the Aggies, the Denver Broncos are pretenders, dude. They ain't winning a super bowl. Really?

You think so. I don't know. Not even close. They're not, no. They look good, dude. They really do. I'll say this. Defensively, they're unbelievable.

Well, one of the toughest places to play in the last 10 years running, mile high. They don't lose there, man. You can't breathe. The Super Bowl is in the AFC goes through mile high. I'm just saying, they've got more than a punch of sheds. Bracken news. Parsons, torn ACL. Yeah. Figured as much.

Yeah. Yeah, you could tell the non-con and it just, it folded in like a lawn chair. Is that a dude from, like, cold, you think? No. No, I just think your knee's not supposed to bend in like that. Yeah, unfortunately. And that guy's tougher than a two by four, but when a knee goes in like that. I think it's just don't bend your knee like that.

That's so funny. I'm telling you it's in the air right now. Shoulders. Especially for you, dude. You're bound for it one day. Dude, I'm, what is it? You're on the IR, basically. You're on the IR right now.

What am I again? Unk. Ong, that's right. Hey, I just want to let it know Saturday. I lit Kobe up. I just had to say it. And before we move on from these rankings, Other than the four, you got to pick one from A and B to maybe make it.

Well, really one from, we don't know if B is going to make the playoffs, right? All those are your fringe team playoff team? Yeah, well, Indie's in a decent spot, but of course, there have a AARP guy playing quarterback. Broncos, I mean, the Lions have a lot of work to do. They might not make it. The Lions, you could argue have been the biggest disappointment, maybe outside the Chiefs. They got to win three in a row to get in.

Granted, they've had a gauntlet of a schedule, but, man, I had really high hopes for that Dan Campbell-led team. I had them versus the Buffalo Bills as my preseason Super Bowl. It's still possible. It is. But yeah, they've been a little bit of a disappointment. Give me somebody from... I'll give you somebody from the A that's really caught my eye

because they're starting to spin it offensively, and they've been... It was weird. It was weird. No. J. J. Straub was having a little bit of... And granted, his health was very much in the air. He's healthy now. Nico Collins looks very much like a wide receiver one.

The rookie Higgins is giving him stuff, and that defense is legit. It is. So they're coming to the scene quickly. That's one of those teams that's like you're getting very hot at the right time. Yeah, you are. So that would be my little trendy pick out of A. Can I don't give me, don't give me a Houston Super Bowl, dude. Yeah, that's brutal.

I was about to say. That city doesn't deserve it. That's very complimentary of me to speak highly of an H-Town team because I am very anti-Hustin sports. Don't do it to me, bro. Hey, Tyler's brother-in-law is a, he's a scout for the Texas. I don't care, Bailey. I hope you get eliminated. I don't care about your bonuses.

His little for winning marks. I don't. And all the stuff that you help tie get to the, you know, fantasy football. That Woody Mark's call was brutal, man. It really was. What about y'all, A spot? I think out of the A, a team that would be really fun to go would be the Jags. They're good.

Did you see where they have scored? Trevor Lawrence played really good. Give me a Bill's Jacks. Bill's AFC championship. It would be fun. And then a Rams, Seattle. No, they can't meet in Seattle. That would be...

Seattle can't meet the Rams, can they? They possibly could. They could? Yeah, especially if they get three in from the same division, which it looks possible. I mean, a Rams, Seattle would be a phenomenal...

Would be a L.F.C. I still stand by, I think, the L.A. Rams are the most complete team. Do they look... Agreed. They didn't even play good yesterday, and they put it on the Lions. The whole complexion of their team changes

without a healthy DeBonte Adams who... That hamstrings hanging on by bread, it feels like. Whenever I saw him go down. They need him to compliment Puka. That was scary. I thought his career was over, the way he went down. Yeah.

So, but actually out of the A, give me Seattle. I saw one of the coldest Jackson Smith and Jigba edits on TikTok. And he's just unbelievable. There's a TikTok edit that turned you up for him. I mean, dude, he went and dunked on the bill. Oh, yeah, that was sick. That was sick. Like, that dude has some cold sellies.

He's special. Yeah, he's got, he's number one. Did you like J.J. McCarthy's like gritty into the end-jones? So I do think he calls himself nine. I think it's super corny. But I was like, dang, dude, that is vintage. Peyton Manning. Oh, Peyton Manne has the ball.

And then he hit the little gritty because JJ gritty's. What a call, by the way. The old naked boot on fourth and. It was a brilliant fan. The way he tucked it. Yeah, it was good. It was good quarterback. It was good quarterback.

I mean, bro, the camera guy, everybody watching was like, Cowboys just stuffed them and he's over there just gritting on everybody. Yeah, that was tough. It was tough to watch. Yeah, watching nine come in and eliminate us from the playoffs was very tough.

I'll even go a step further. Watch out for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. No. They got a huge favor there from New Orleans sweeping Carolina. I'm just saying if they get in as the NFC South champs, they're liable to throw up 40 points

on any given week. No. I don't trust them, but could they upset and make a, make a run, win a game or two? Sure. Okay. So, but official Super Bowl picks,

who do you want? If I had to pick today, if you had to pick today, you don't know all the spots. I saw something in Buffalo this weekend that I hadn't seen. They turned a corner where everything was going against them, down 21 on the road, division on the line, and they bowed up, they played great defense in that second half, and when you have Josh Allen under center, I believe in you, give me the Buffalo

bills. Nobody circles the wagons. Like the Buffalo Bills. Man, I hope for Josh O'Hanth, he can get one, dude. They're so due, man. And they deserve run from the 90s to be completely fair. I feel like the Cowboys just stole their hearts out.

Mm-hmm. The fact of the matter is, they don't have to go through the Chiefs, which has been their arch nemesis for many a year. Man, they don't. They have the path. There's no excuses this year. That's true.

I also think. Or the Ravens. I know. It's set up beautifully. Like, if you would have told Buffalo fans before the season, like, hey, you might have to play Jacksonville in the AFC title game. I think everybody

Yeah. Come on. Bring it. I also think if Josh Allen acquires a Super Bowl this year, he completes life. I mean, he has... Are you going to be a dad?

Haley Steinfeld, it's going to be a dad. He's already won MVP. Like, what more can you ask from, you know, a quarterback? He probably needs a club championship at his local golf club. I don't think he has one of those yet.

Actually, yeah. No, you're right. But I'm not to that age yet where that matters, but it does to you. You'll get there. All right, it's time to move into our almost sports segment.

Let's open up our voice mailbox because we got a question about an almost sport. Hey, dude, my name's Ava. My question for y'all is, what are your thoughts on hobby horsing? Is it athlete or almost athlete? I know my answer is almost athlete. It's a little weird, definitely an interesting sport. Can't wait to hear your thoughts. Ava, I'm just going to shoot you, I'm just going to shoot you straight here.

Oh, no. Oh, this? But here's the thing. Does Ava participate in this? I might change what I say. Are you got to be an athlete? That girl's rocking like 40 inches. Whoa!

Yeah, here's the deal. When you said hobby horsing, I had no idea what you meant. I had to actually had to watch the video. I'm going to offend a lot of people here. I'm going to offend a lot of people. But I have to say it. Say it.

You guys got to stop doing this. Yeah. That's what we need out of the gear. Wow. Yeah. Dude, this is like a, this is a controversial thing on TikTok right now. I know you guys haven't heard of this, but it's like, would you rather have a gloving son or like a sliding daughter? So it's like gloving is like the people who do like the like I don't know if you ever seen it, but they'll wear gloves and they'll, they have lights on the end of the gloves and they'll go like this and like move around like this.

Yeah. And then what's the daughter? And the sliding daughter is, um, they had knee pads on and they'll run and slide on their knees and like try and look as cool as possible. Uh, give me a sliding daughter. What about you, Sparks? I was just a handpuppet guy. Loved a good hand puppet. You would take a gloving son.

Yeah. Yeah. So this is gloving. Would you rather have a gloving son? Yeah. Like I said, give me a... Who would you rather have? That's kind of fire.

I mean, honestly... Just wait until you see a sliding daughter, bro. It's tough. It might... It might be worse than hobby horse. No, no. Give me a sliding daughter. Dude. Yeah.

Dude, sliding daughter, no doubt. No doubt. You got to be dressed like a horror film? Well, no, not horror. It's just like they want to be scary. Ava, I don't mean to, I, you know, let me go back to that. I don't mean any disrespect, but like, there's so many sports out there. It does take, like, look, just take this same skill, go to a track and run 300 meter hurdles.

Or just do high jump. Or high jump. like, it's like, boom, like, you're there. You already have the talent. We just lose the puppet. Yeah, because here's the thing is like, from an athlete standpoint, you got to be 100%, dude. You've got to be more than just an almost athlete to do this.

But at the same time, when you got the imaginary horse, wait, wait, I do have to ask, is there sound of this? Yeah. Do you have to make a noise doing this? Oh, that's a fantastic question. It's a really good question. I feel like they have athletic ability. I'm saying that's the nicest way.

Like, I actually feel like y'all could go and do something great. Does some people add sounds like nays or snorts for fun or immersion? I wonder if you get bonus points. That's like for the love of the game. Yeah, it's like style points. Yeah, it's almost like Serena Williams

when she grunts in the tennis. Right. It's not. Maybe it intimidates your opponent. Yeah, that's why Serena did it. I mean, you don't want to. Can we hear your best nay? How do you?

How do you do you? I don't know. Ney. Is that what it is? Well, that's like a sheep. Yeah, I didn't know. How do you do a horse night? Can you give me a little something?

Oh. That one sounds like a Minecraft horse. I kid you not. Dude, you're a pretty good. Did you, have you participated in hobby horsing? Yeah. I haven't thought about it. Jared, give me the videos, dude.

You're a closet hobby horse. Give me the videos. Long hair, Jared. I don't. I don't put a pass them. He was at least a judge for one of these. I'd know it. Absolutely.

I think my worst fear is a father. is my son Mrs. Curfew because he's gloving. Oh, baby! Which dude's most likely to get caught doing this? Oh, this is Cody. Absolutely. I see, I think it's Cody's written all over it. This might have a Corey Cody combo.

Could be doing it together. Synchronized horses out on the court. They also have the daughter factor too. You know, Cody's got two daughters now, so... Whoa, whoa, that's a good... Dude, so he's going to have two sliding daughters and two loving sons. No! Don't do my boy Hayes like that.

No. No, Hayes has that written all over them. No, surely not. Yeah. Dude, I hope to find Hayes gaming at 3 a.m. and not gloving at 3 a.m. Well, you never know with Cody as your dad. It's tough. Oh, it was good.

Thank you, Ava. Yeah, thank you. We got another voicemail that I think we need to answer today. Let's hear it. My name is Ethan, and I'm from Houston, Texas. I'm a huge fan of the show and the podcast, and I just had a question for you all. Who is more athletic?

Jackson or Graham? I'd love to see your thoughts. Thanks. There's a clear winner here. I also apologize. We just bashed Houston. My guy's not going to like that. We didn't know that was coming.

We didn't know that was coming, but I stand by it. I don't like that city. Get out why you can, brother. Yeah. Look, I got to side with my boy Jackson on this. Yeah. I don't think it's close.

I grew up playing competitive soccer. which I think is very tough. Graham was in theater. He was competitive UIL. Theater? Yeah, theater arts, man. I disagree. I feel like I'd take Jackson in majority of sports. Have you seen Graham dance? If we put it on the guy...

I'm sorry, is dancing in the athletic sport? Oh yeah, for sure it is. Are we serious right now? Sure. You don't remember the Australian break dancer in the show she put on? Now that you say that, so what do you got? You got dancing on them. Yeah, I could take him in dancing.

I think I think I can yeah I take him in pickleball I think I could take him in basketball one v1 Heck no the other night we went one v1 in our house on the goal and I was absolutely slamming it on him We're talking about mini hoops dude we're talking about practice Oh he's upset practice I take him in that I think he has me in golf I'll say that Yeah I would destroy you in softers you have not said anything to your ability right now I'm just saying volleyball I'm cooking you in football we can go run it right now just like running routes? Yes.

I think I have a chance. No. Yeah, no offense to Graham here. This isn't a shot of Graham. This is just my boys more athletic. We'll have to do a gauntlet. I also think I beat you straight up in a race. Oh, for sure.

I'll give you that. For sure. That's not even. But like athleticism is like a whole thing. Like it's more than just running or like speed. I mean, sure, you can beat me in pickleball and ping pong. But like where does that get you at the end of the day? It's like pickleball and ping ball.

Well, like volleyball, basketball. No, volleyball. I don't think you beat me in volleyball. Yes. That he does. You'll have to see us at the office runs. See us at the office runs. We'll maybe do a little live video on the almost athletes, a little gauntlet action. Let's not try to just debate this. Let's just have the actions debate themselves. Yeah, I'm ready for it. I'm taking Ava over both of y'all. You are? Yeah, I'm taking Ava, the horse hobby girl.

I can't do that. Is this going to be like squad games format where we pick seven sports for these two to square off on? I say you do Oklahoma drill till one dies. As always, send a voicemail in with questions, hot takes, or anything else. That's my favorite segment. The number 972-805-8866. You can also find that at almostathletes.com. Boys, we talked about some mascots not too long ago. Yeah, I still haven't gotten my Amarillo Sandy's t-shirt yet.

That's a sick logo. Dude, I want that shirt so bad. That's my favorite logo. I don't know I've ever seen. So unique. Is that a sandstorm or a tornado? Sandstorm, dude. Interesting. That's kind of sick.

Dude, how sick is that? That is kind of... That's intimidating, dude. You don't want to be playing the Sandys. I could see that at like a really old basketball court and it's just up there. Sure, with no AC. We didn't even figure out how far they got from that coin flip. That coin flip off.

Wouldn't that them? Yeah, it was the Amarillo Sandys. Yeah. Well, we had our team scour the country for the best mascots. No way. No way. That's not a real one. Let's go find the best one.

Start at the top, Jared. You got the winged beavers in Connecticut. Not it. winged beaver no that's that's very unique i would love to know the back story on how the winged beavers came about the imps the imps is pretty cool that's fire sick that is sick i actually like the hot dogs it's just i don't love the photo of that doesn't instill a lot of fear yeah mom we're playing the hot dogs tonight the sputters the kitties probably the mighty the omaha benson mighty bunnies the benson bison that rolls well.

See, a lot of this is like how it rolls off the tongue too. The Benson Bunches does roll really well off the tongue. That's fun. The millionaires? Okay, the millionaires is, I don't like that one.

That feels like just a straight... The millionaires is a weird one. That might be the worst one I've ever seen. It feels like a bunch of SMU and Baylor kids at a high school and that's not something you want.

That is a shot. New Berlin pretzels? No. Pretzel Pride. Okay. No one's touched to Sandy's yet. So let's keep going. The Imps is close.

I can't even imagine what kind of chance you have to put together for your press roll down there. The briar jumpers? Yo, the polka dots. That's electric. Yo, the polka dots,

that's kind of sick. That's pretty cool. I mean, the purple pounders? Yeah, that's got to hit home for you, brother, as a hoser. You mean the purple pounders. I like that. That's pretty cool.

The sugar beaders? Nah, miss me with that. Sand crabs. I've heard of them out of Calhoun, Texas. I actually like the sugar. Awesome blossoms. Makes me feel like you're ordering from, you know, the...

Oh, oh, like the Outback Stakehouse. Yeah, outback when you get the blossom. The Blooming Onion? Yeah, they should change that to the Blooming Prairie Blooming onions. That'd be even a better name. The Plah. We actually played them in the playoffs. You played the Plow Boys?

No, no, no. The Steergeese, Texas City. Stigarees? Yeah, they have... They're known for like their cowbells or something. Oh, you're Mississippi-stating it now. Big it loud. New Bronsville's unicorns have always been one of my favorites.

Winter blizzards, winter Texas. That's sick. The winter blizzards is sick. Brandview zebras. Their helmets are pretty sick. Zebras are kind of fire. I don't know why that's like a deep cut because the zebra is like a well-known animal. I'm not a mesquite guy.

I'm a North Mesquite guy. That's where my dad went to high school. Mesquite Skeeters. Skeeters is fire. I'm more of a North Mesquite guy. Yeah, I like the Purple Pounders. I love the blizzards. Still nothing takes the Sandys for me.

I mean, that is... I like the sugar beaters. What about the apple mockers? We didn't talk about them. The face looks like I drew that, dude. See, my hometown did it wrong. We're the bear cats. And it's famous for the peanut industry there.

And so we have the peanut festival every year. And what a missed opportunity to not be the fighting peanuts. I think it would be so cool and unique. The White Square fighting peanuts would have been way better than the bear cats. Yeah, I still give me the Sandy's over all these, to be completely honest with you. You're not. The kitty guy? No.

Traditionally, you're anti-cat, too. So aren't checks out. I agree. The millionaires, y'all need to go name change quickly. Yeah. Yeah. You're a rebrand. Y'all are Penn State guys.

That makes sense. Phenomenal list. Comment below if we miss some because there are probably many. The sugar beters is sick. The hobos is not bad either. I don't know if I want to be a fighting hobo, but I bet they got a cool merch. Oh, look at the blizzard, Matt. Oh, that's sick.

Oh, he got a little aura to him, too. The blizzards is sick. Especially when your town is called Winter, Texas. That's cool. Yeah, that's cool. It's like, come on now. It doesn't get much better than that. Really creative names out there.

I mean, give me the Q-Pies. What is a Q-Pie? Looks like a comic character. It looks like an alien baby. It is. It's like a baby comic, 20th century comic. I don't know about naming my school after it, but... All right, boys.

Yep, I went with imps, the Mighty Bunnies, Sandy's, Pocodotts, Unicorn. Stop that. I'm going to go sugar beaters at the three spot. That's good. And then I'm going to go blizzards at the four. Yeah, blizzards is great. Yeah, I'll put Skeeters at five and then for my two spot.

The hobos. Oh, yeah, give me the fighting hobos. It's a good squad. Give me the fighting hobos. I want a bunch of greedy guys just going out there fighting for their team name. Yeah. I like it. It's a good list right there.

Yeah, so, I mean, we don't need to talk about all five, but let's talk about the one spot. Sparky with the imps Jackson with the Pocodots Garrett with the Sandys all really good I don't I mean all of those are great I think around the

after three spot it kind of gets a little meh I'll tell you one thing it's good list you don't want to run into a two and ten Pocodots team that has nothing to lose you don't yeah it's a carefree bunch isn't it? That's a carefree that screams I'm surprised onsiding every chance I get yeah the Pocodots have nothing to lose there

absolutely wow that's good Comment below if we miss something because I'm sure there's something out there that we miss that's even more unique. Or if your school is just deserves the title for the most unique. Makes you kind of feel something though, doesn't it? Like you were just an eagle, you know? And miserable mascot. Like prosper eagles? I was a tiger, Texas-side tigers.

Yeah, exactly. Maybe I should be a little more thankful as a bear cat. It's unique. But dude, the fighting peanuts would have been. You would still be wearing that merch today. We'd be roasted people. That's so good. All right, well,

Jacks, I think our time is coming to a close. I just want to say one thing before I go. Yeah. We kind of skimmed over it. I just had something that rubbed me a little bit the wrong way in the college football world.

Diego Pobula. Javier. Javier. I don't know if he deserves to have his name, even said right? After what happened, after the Heisman candidate,

went out on a tear on social media. He led a little bit of, youth show, but every kid makes mistakes, bro. Bro, dude, mind you, he's like 28. This is like his 60 year. And he has a dad bod in college, like as a QB. Hey, hey.

Like, he is the... 23. How many... He's the clone of Johnny Mansell, and he will grow up and have his time and realize like he was a little immature. He's a future podcaster. Johnny Manzell is. Easy with the dad boddods and the podcasters.

I mean, you're describing me and Sparky right now. Well, okay, look. I mean, it's just brutal. And then every time we play, we see his mom on camera. And then he's hitting the Heisman pose. And then he's going to the club with the Rizzler and Theo Vaughn. But at least Johnny Manzell was going to the club with Drake. This isn't a rant.

It just fires me up. Congrats to all the Heisman finalist. I do feel like Rodriguez should have been there. He's aiming for a seventh year. He's not. He already turned that down. He's going to be part of the, New Orleans Saints next year.

Arlington Renegades is my call. You think he's going Arlington Renegades? He'll find a job. He's going Shanghai Sharks. Well, Jackson, that was fun. We'll wait till the guys go on vacation again to have you back. That's it. Yeah. Had a blast. We got almost athlete videos coming up with tea and special guest that I'm excited to introduce the world to because I'm tired of being around them and other people need to know what I deal with on the daily. Brother Nature.

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Oh, put me on the spot. I think 2026 is going to be the year I really build that sparky brand. And of course, I do want to grow more hair. I'm the wrong guy to help you with the second one. But Shopify can definitely help you with the first. January is about turning energy into action and Shopify makes that first step easier than However, Shopify is the platform that helps you become who you're meant to be. I'm meant to be a global brand G, so this is music to my ears. But there are so many different apps where the Sparky brand is going to need to live. It's a little overwhelming, Gary.

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Let me get back to you on that. It's time to build your brand. Head to Shopify.com slash almost to see how easy it is to start your business today. Time for a segment that's dedicated to the diehard dude perfect fan. You may know him as Brother Nature from our Survivor Series, Horatio or Maximo from Mystery Detective, in many other DP franchises such as stereotypes over time. The list goes on and on. He's Chad Terrell's counterpart, part director, part producer, part art director, fabricator, part tour manager, part game master.

Plus, he's an almost athlete. Please welcome our very own Ryan Britton. Wow. I'm almost out of breath. I need some oxygen after that one there. I would take that straight to our HR department and be like. Yeah, they gave me a paragraph for the B block. So I think I need like a salary raise.

Yeah. Water. R.B., one of my favorites in-house, no doubt about it. First and foremost, let's take it way back in the day. How did you meet the dudes? How did you get started here at Dude Perfect? Oh, man, it actually goes back to Jared back there. I had got a call that says, hey, there's this show, Dude Perfect on CMT. We need a local art director. So I came in, met Jared and the team on the TV show. And at first it was just like, hey, put time job being an art director. And then I shared some stuff. They like went off to the side, chatted. I'm like, oh, I'm not going to get the job. Came back like, you want to do it full time? I'm like, yeah, let's go. So,

wow. Yeah, generally the side chats mean bad news. Yeah, I agree with that. I thought I missed it. So how long you've been with the crew? That was 2015. Same month as Tim. It was October, yeah. So we had a television show and it was basically just us doing what we did on our videos, but to an elevated, kind of had a budget behind it. And it was super fun. I mean, I think our very first episode was our snow. Yeah, we iced the place, yeah. We basically, we had a office just, you know, a couple miles away from here.

It was 5,000 square feet. At the time, it was like, that was pretty big for us. And we had no idea what we were getting into. And we show up for TV show, and there's 100 people on set. and the entire office the entire office is filled with the fake snow and like a ping pong

ice sculpture table like just I mean you name like it was over the top like and you know me being the OCD clean freak I had like a panic attack dude I was like oh my like how are we going to clean this up?

Yeah we tarped the entire floor yeah it was slippery too was very slippery was snow but I will say I missed the TV days. Do you have a favorite episode you ever worked on? Man, I will say, like, when you get your feet wet the first time and you don't know what to expect it, it was probably the Luke Bryan archery card battle. Yes. Number one, Uno, man. Dude, that was TV show, wasn't it? Yeah. But it was also your guys' main channel, because you were taking a lot of content from TV

and putting it on your main as well. Golly, this throws you back, dude. Yeah, dude, I mean, still had some hair. I remember you guys walking into that venue. I had spent about two days there and then you walk in, Tim and Chad right behind you at Joe and starts flying. I'm like, this is going to be fun. This is going to be real fun. You guys were electric. Dude, it was so fun. I do miss a TV show. Gosh, you had a cold weather test is when we went up and did the, that's when we went to, yeah, wherever we got freezing. All of these were. That place was sick. Are these on you, how do you watch these things? Paramount. They're on Paramount. Oh, everyone on Dude Perfect needs to watch these things.

Sounds like you got to binge watching weekend coming up, Gary. Dude. Might make you miss your hair? Honestly, I wish I did TV show when I was bald. I would have had a lot more, I would have had a lot more fun. Some say you were about three more seasons. I think you get six seasons if Garrett's bald. Yeah.

So yeah, you get hired on full-time. Kind of the next iteration of do Perfect Takesover. How did your job change then from post-TV show and there at DPHQ too? Well, I think when the guys saw my sketches from the TV show, and again, there was this merger of what we were making for TV. Also went on the YouTube channel. It was at the tail of the season. They had asked like, hey, we found out you're local. You're not an L.A. guy.

Do you want to do some stuff for YouTube? I'm like, sure. So honestly, it just kept speeding up. I think the year before 2018, we built the overtime set. I was working for you guys. Like 93% of our jobs were with you guys because we couldn't pass them up. And there was a lot of times for Tide bringing me like, hey, give me some ideas for these tricks. shots, blah, blah, blah, rub Goldberg, you know, creations. And so coming in in 2019, I think

I was one of the first to sit down at the creative table with you guys and had this kind of like creative arts director title. Yeah. Made up title. I've had a few of those. What honor and pressure to be aointed by Tyler to sit there at the creative because I don't think people in the outside looking to realize just how many ideas are tossed around. Yeah. So to have that, it's quite the Privilege, man. We almost killed each other, though, the night of the Oreo, Roob Goldberg. Oh, my goodness. That was rough, dude.

Yeah, would that go down the list of nightmare builds? Because there's been a couple nightmare scenarios. Yeah, that was... You did all of our Roobbergs. Since, yeah, ping pong trick shots three. Well, you did the one on that. You did all of them. I mean, the TV show, we did that crazy one.

That's true. Yeah, we did one for TV. And then we did three? We did ping pong trick shots three. Oreo. Four was the full warehouse. Five was the like mini pong or something. Yeah. And then we did that one video that was entirely just a Rube Goldberg machine.

Oh yeah. We brought in the Dominoes and Justice machines. But the Oriole one I remember, we set it up in our old office, DPSQ2. And y'all, y'all were working on it for weeks. And then, you know, we started filming. I'm not exactly sure why, like, why we started filming so late. But basically we started filming at like 7 p.m. And, uh, yeah, Pinkpon's just remember.

you were this like, dude, if, you know, like this one's pretty dialed. Like, we're going to be. You got to walk in with confidence. We're going to be out of here by like four hours. By like 10. And dude, we went till like, bro, it's 23 hours. Four in the morning. I don't even know.

I think we stopped at like 2.30. We're like, hey, we'll pick this up in the morning. I came back in at 5 and we kicked it off again. So this is where it messed up. It messed up here always. Yeah, it never got to that point because what was happening was helium and, food that just don't ever use that because the food like the moisture in the air degrades the helium loses its power and it just uh that was bad so we never really got past that moment

so when it got past this moment right here we're like oh we did it we got it but dude i that night for some reason will forever go down and i'll always remember that night you'll had to grind well they wouldn't played video games it was actually a really fun night dude like we would go go do this for obviously the 10 seconds that it was yeah and then if we didn't get it we'd be like, all right, let's go play video games or basketball. Somebody made a candy run at the gas station, came back with just like two sacks of candy. We just all was hanging out. And they were in there grinding, resetting up, making it look like we've, this is our first time.

I was jogging the whole night nonstop because I felt the pressure and was like, dude, this cannot fail. Yeah, I'll forever remember this night. But that was a good one. Do you have like a favorite video that you've ever produced? Great question. Oh, man, that one's tough. I'd say it's a toss-up in the winter survival games. Yep.

And the mystery detective battles. Okay. Yeah, mystery detective battles primarily because, like, we've turned into a way where you guys don't know what's happening. Yeah. And typically, you know, like, Ty, he has to have his say, so has to know what's going on, approve it. But with that, I guess it's a dress thing. It's like, you know, roll with it and we'll play and see how it goes. but you guys are organically playing the night,

don't know what's coming, and it's a treat. I just want to just hit on something you just said. It's one of the only videos we don't know. Yeah. Yeah, so for all you people that think Ty's the most athletic human being ever, he knows what's happening. Yeah, he's very clear.

More times than not. Verse, the other four of us have no idea. So he has an upper leg. He has an upper leg and it needs to be said. Yeah. Needs to be said. But no, I think mystery detective battles are my favorite. Like, dude, I love...

They're fun, man. Look at you, dude. I love mystery detective battle. We're due for one of those. We need to do another mystery to detective battle. Yeah. Do you enjoy being talent on set? Oh, absolutely.

Absolutely, man. I'll say my childhood was, favorite pastime was a camera in hand, just doing all kinds of stunts and silly skits. So when you guys brought me into stereotypes for the first time and landed four parts, and you said, dude, you're like, this is great. I don't have to do it. You can do it for me. I'm like, yes, you know, here we go.

Oh, yeah. This guy right here, I mean, if you want him to do anything crazy, he'll do it. He's willing to go there. Brian, I like that, dude. I value life. You know, I like to breathe. He does not care. Can you go back just a second?

I want to see that lettuce again. Are you ever going to bring the lettuce back, dude? That's the third time I've had lettuce in my life. Yeah, it'll come back. So long as it still grows. It's just, I can't do the same thing for too long. Don't get like me, man, because it won't ever just always. come back.

You never know. Yeah. Never know. Proceding hairline is riding back, but I think he'll come back again sometime. Yeah, I think you need to go

down the shoulders with at least one more time. Okay, I just feel like we got to talk about it just because there have been too many. And I know he's not here to defend himself. No.

And that's why we, that's why we're going to talk about it. Here goes. But there's been a couple moments in Dude Perfect where you and a dude have kind of gotten into like a pretty heated argument.

argument strong because it's kind of one side I mean I can't argue much it's more like it's more just like yeah more just to heat it so here's like Ryan's like he loves to do this it's like again he has no fear so my radar's bad dude

like he creates challenges it's like that how like he would do which is no fear and I'll put myself in this category I don't like to do a bunch of of these things. I'm like, dude, that looks painful and awful. I don't want to do that. There's been a couple. The funny one to me is, I mean, it's funny. It's funny now because you've

lost your ever-loving mind. But we did this challenge. And it was, it was the, that was the luckiest dude challenge. And so basically it was, we were blindfolded and looking at the wall and Sparky being like the MC kind of host or whatever would basically just like play dodgeball. Yeah, with food items. I think I had a lettuce. I had some other items. If you got hit, you're out.

And so you're kind of like you can make one move. Oh, Sparky's blindfolded. I'm blindfolded. Okay. You guys are using your little phone to like, you know, look backwards in it to see what was coming. If you can look at the table, there's just a slew of things. Obviously, we use fake.

props, you know, fake center block, which would have hurt. So I think what happened is there was having the time of my life. What happened is there was a wrench that accidentally got left. No, no. It was purposeful. Oh, it was. I won't lie here. I'll put my hand up and say, hey, at the end of the day, I am responsible.

You wanted to kill a guy. That's crazy. That's crazy. I mean, look at Type. Ready for it, man. So basically, you know, I am begging to get hit at this point. I'm like, just hit me. I don't care.

As you go through this challenge, you've got to keep coming in closer. And so at the very end of the challenge, you can actually see it. As we're doing the ad read, which is even funnier, Sparky picks up the wrench. And we had a discussion before the shoot. Yeah, the plan, because also we do a lot of stunts here, do perfect. And we do have to think about safety and going rehearsing at the moment. And okay, you see what he just threw? Once that hot dog hit me, even if it barely nicked me,

me, I was like, it hit me, I'm out. So, yeah, pause it there. The plan here was this was was talked about beforehand. I don't know if Corey heard this. Maybe he did and just let it pass over his head, but it was, hey, we're going to intentionally split the waters. Who's ever these two left, we're going to put him on the far left and right. And Sparky's blind. He's going to throw a wrench. Yeah, but we had it to where like we could, you know, is it layered. So like, you can't see through it when it's multiple layers, but when it's one layer, he can see what he's doing. And Sparky, at that moment, was supposed to grab the wrench and throw it directly center. So it just went in the wall. It was just a play to the

be like audience thinks like oh there might be some real objects there correct but you grabbed old glizzy beforehand and and i played a part of this too because i was ultra confident in my ability to get so nowhere close to anybody here it here it is here it is look what happens he just grabbed the wrench cori's bending down i'm doing the ad read and you'll see it go through the air right there right there you see it go through the air and it is directly at cori's head it's like two inches missing his head if you go back again in the wall right there i don't think you know in the moment it felt like you threw a on our heater. Oh, it kind of did. Look at this thing blur by. And look at my face. Look, no, go back. Go back. Yeah. And then look at what, look at my face

directly after the moment. Wait, no, wait, wait. You're like, uh, wait, no, keep going. Yeah. Because it sounded like, I, but you hit a metal stud. Yeah. That had to be so scary for you. What played into this too was you mentioned it, the hot dogs. Yeah. I, I had glizzy juice on my hands. And when I went to throw this thing, I'm trying to miss 10 feet above their head. And I assure Brother Nature that there was going to be no issue. Don't worry. I'll promise you, I'll airmail it. This thing landed quite literally within a foot of Corey's head.

It was truly, that was one of the craziest. So I think this was the very first incident. No, actually. It wasn't? No, what was the first? 50, 50, 50 was the first. 50 through the wall. Front of the shoulder injury.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Corey came off. Corey's been on a five-year run with injuries. Yeah. That one was tough. I actually, I don't think you did anything wrong there. But then the third incident was... Oh, then it was Survivor.

Survivor battle won. Yes. The finale. Yeah. His shoulders hurt. So is Ties. We pair them together as a team thinking it would kind of balance the scales. But you know, Ty.

Like, he's pushing it to that. Dude, Ty will lose a leg to win a match. Sure. Like he will... And he's playing against Cody. He can't lose to Cody. He'll amputate, you know. And so, so basically,

finale. They rode to the death. Yeah, it was a, it was a, it was a canoe, like tug of war. Yep.

You just had to get to the shore. But Cody wouldn't give up. No. No. And Cody was like, and so, uh, that was the third incident of Corey.

And he's screaming. And it's, I hate you. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And when you see a twin go there, you know they mean it

because they don't go there often. But what people don't realize was this finale, right? here it's two minutes on camera that thing was all of 15 to 30 minutes 17 minutes yeah just nonstop rowing so what happened is they both would let it go all the way to the end and then they'd be like i got energy now i'm going to go all the way back and it just was a battle of like dude somebody let go and i preface before we started this whole thing i said hey if it's too much like you're your own care like you can slow it down but i don't think corey could stop with tie behind him exactly

That was the problem is that Ty was heated at Corey. And you can see Corey's not even using that left arm. He's trying not to. But yeah, let's just say we got in our car there at Tyler's Ranch and Sadler, and you were still talking to Corey when I left. I thought I would never see. Oh, I said a prayer for Ryan Britton. I said, Lord, please let him keep his job.

I know Corey's hot right now, but. That was a hard one. Because, I mean, I wasn't Thai. And we talked about it. It wasn't. He'd be like, I didn't tell you how to do that. I just set up the cool, you know, battle. Yeah, and then you almost killed Cody, too, dude.

I mean, you have really, now what I'm thinking about it. What I almost killed? Is this Ryan's end of year? All right, you're fired. Yeah, the little busted artery from the truck pool, dude. Oh, yeah. Oh, that too. I did not tell him to put the stinking rope around us.

No, you didn't. He didn't. And he's like, go in the truck. Yeah, dude, you did. That's probably the toughest part of your job, Brian Burton. It's surprising you're even sitting on this chair right now. It is. It really is.

I mean, but when Corey brought me into his office, I told him like, hey, dude, I apologize. I'm just going to call the what it is. Like, I don't have a good radar for these things because I get a thrill for any adrenaline. Yeah, you do. I jump in the hot seat any minute. So, like, hey, but you come and tell me next time, like,

when it's too much, pull me aside. I will respect that. We'll find a way to make it safer for you. and it's been working out pretty good. It has. It has worked out. It has. All right. So we ask every guest on the pod,

an almost athlete moment. It's just really a funny story about, you know, whatever you kind of realize like, man, I don't know, maybe sports isn't for me. Maybe I'm not going to WWE, which I think you would do well in. I do think you'd do well in W.

I should have pushed for that. I'd let you top rope me through a table or something. Yeah, man. I'd send it. But go ahead. Yeah. I'm sure there's many. There's a few.

I think everybody's got a few. Football, baseball, track. Freshman football year. I go into game, it's tailback and, you know, outside linebacker. So there's a lot of contact, which is good for the story.

But start, dude, I'm an excruciating pain. And I'm trying not to sell. I'm just trying to tough it out right. But we go in half time to the locker room and I tell coach, like, hey, coach, I'm hurting really bad.

Like, every time coming out three-point stance, I can barely get up. Like, what's wrong? And he's like, I'm doing my lower back, like tailbone maybe. Trainer comes over, starts pressed around. He's like, you feel anything? Oh, yeah, right there.

That's really sensitive. He's like, yeah, it might be your tailbone. So, like, let's get you in for some x-rays tomorrow. So my dad takes me in, get x-rays, sure enough, tailbones crushed, right? Like broken. Yeah, broken. It's so bad that, like, it's curled up, dude, and I have not been able to go boom-boom for the last four days.

Four days? Four days? You didn't tell anybody. I didn't tell anybody what really happened. But no, but like you're literally on day four and you're like, everything's fine. Yeah, I have severe pain. What I could not tell, I was afraid of my dad knowing in the coach finding out what really happened. And they see me as a liability of team.

I don't get a play anymore. But we were filming a little stunt over the weekend. And I decided to ride a sled on a scream costume off of this 13-foot embankment. Sled was pulled behind a four-wheel there. We just ripped it, dude, and just rode this thing out. Hit the ground. Like, what were you trying to do? Just do a cool riding this, like, thing off of this cliff.

You wanted to land on your feet? I don't know what I was wanting to do. I just wanted it to look cool. So I'm like, full send. My buddy did it before me and he like dropped and like, you know, rolled off of his feet and just didn't look impressive. So I'm like, I'm getting in there and I'm going to ride this thing all the way down. You know, like Ty's Bull.

You just got a suit up for the ride, you know. Holy dude. You were a mini Tyler. Yeah. Safe to say Corey would not have approved of the 13-year-drop in the screen mask. I mean, it looked cool. You're telling me you broke your tailbone and you played a half of football on a broken

tailbone. I did. I don't know if that's all about that leader, yes. I think the fact that he played a football game with four days without boom-boomings is just impressive. That's why I've been scared about getting in a three-point stance. Dude. Yeah. Yeah, now I totally understand why we're throwing wrenches at each other.

Yeah, it checks out more. My nickname in Husko was barbecue and guess how that came to be. I have done. Because you think you dude. Cook a mean slab of meat, I bet. Nah. You burn somebody?

Did you burn something? Did I light something on fire? I lit up, man. I was like a Christmas tree and I could not get it extinguished. Oh my God. You didn't personally were on fire? Oh yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Dude, they put me on morphine, man. Put me in the ER. Like put me out, man. Had to, you know, strip some skin off. It was crazy. You got lit on fire.

On a stunt? were filming this? You tell me we have some of this footage. I filmed everything. I can pull out the little mini VHS tapes another day.

We gotta get a VHS player and watch. I can't let my kids see half of this though, man. It was a different time then. You were the first Johnny Knoxville, man. That was Johnny Knoxville, you know,

WF wrestling, like that was the jam that got me into making films. So thank them, I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the start there. Well, thank you to me also that I didn't hit Corey with that wrench.

If you weren't. If you weren't off creative, you would be after I heard those stories. I'm already glad you're taken off of it. Well, no, it's easy to understand why those lines are blurred. Britain's like, I don't know, dude. Or maybe we can light somebody on fire. Oh, dude. Sounds fun.

You won't hold a black cat in your mouth. What's wrong with you? You won't eat a black cat sandwich and let it grow up in your mouth? It's like, no, Britain, that's not really. That's not me, dude. I don't really what we're into. Oh, that's crazy. Wow.

I'll say this, dude, in terms of being in a talent role, We get way too much credit out there. I'll go out and people will be like, you were awesome. And I mean, I've been like, hey, man, we had people dress me, put me in a hotel. I just showed up on camera. There's so many people that help around here, you being at the top of the list. How gratifying is it when a video pops off? And how tough can it be sometimes when you maybe don't feel like you get the love you

probably deserve on any given shoot? Man, I will say, I'll speak about the second part first. I think the love is more of like there's a lot that goes in behind the scenes and sometimes there's just not as much of a payoff. Like it helps to have a camaraderie of others around you, you know, to just get through the tough times. It's not all fun in games. Like, let's call it what it is. Like it's still a job. There's a lot of effort that goes into some of these big scale videos that we do with such a small team. Not to mention the sacrifice of not seeing family not seeing family. Not seeing a family. Yep. Working late at night. On those long trips, you know,

not being able to make the calls because you just got to get stuff done. But man, I would say like when typically it's families, it's like the dad and their kids or their mom of their kids, when they catch you and they're like, hey, we just want to thank you for making content that our kids can watch and we get together on a Saturday morning and it is so special. Thank you. Like that, dude, that's the best feeling.

And also, I'm a dad. Now I got three kids. Like, I don't want them doing the crazy stuff I was doing as a kid. And like, I told some of the guys around here, like, getting able to work with you guys, where it's so creative, there's like no ceiling, but it's still, it's safe and families can watch it. Like, had that been around in my days,

I'd been plugging into Dude Perfect Dude and probably would have been out of the ER a few times, but, you know, nonetheless. So just, yeah, proud to be a part of a team that makes some good content that's funny, original, and all families can watch and then go replicate and nobody's getting too hurt, you know? Yeah, yeah, I mean, you know, the sparks,

like it's, you know, the five of us get, you know, the glory most of the time. And I mean, it takes a village for sure. Yeah. We got a great team here. You know, I put our team up against literally any other, you know, content creator team. Well, Britain, brother Ney. It's been fun.

All your other characters. It's been fun, dude. An absolute honor. Ryan Bearden, one of the unsung heroes here at Dude, perfect. Everybody give it up for him. Oh, thank you. Thank you. All right.

Well, we got Tyler coming up with some fan, almost athlete moments that we're going to rank. And some voicemails. So, uh, stay tuned. Man, Ty, I got to admit, dude. It has been a rough go this episode. Glad to have you finally. Wow. Jacks gets the call up and Britain get the call up.

Yeah, it's, uh, you know, we were, it's Christmas holidays. You know, everyone's kind of share the love. Everybody gets a piece of the pie. But man, you're much better eye candy than those two. Brother Nature, odd dude, but I love them today. Love him. Yeah. Love them.

Well, thank you for joining us, dude. You bet. Happy to be here. Oh, C blocking it up. What are we talking about today? Oh, we were actually going to watch some almost athlete fan submission video. I love fan submissions. Like, I feel bad because, you know, almost athlete moments can be tough on people.

But they are the one Cindy. Can we talk about the guy that we, so the baseball when he went to the bunt went straight up in the face? Yeah, the bunt selfie. Dude, he actually commented and said he struck out that bat. Oh, man. Yeah. Talk about a bad ending to a bad episode. And I appreciate the comment.

So, yeah, if we talk about your video. comment, send us an email, maybe, you know, give us a full snapshot of what the entire game looked like after that. That'd be good to know. I have an idea. I think, like, as we approach the one year anniversary, depending we get there with almost athletes,

I think we do like a best of. We rank the best almost athlete moments. Yeah. Like, we top five of them. Oh, dude, my sister has got a great... No way. Let us speak for herself. Get her on the pod.

Former gymnast, uneven bar crash. It is unbelievable. Unbelievable. Yeah, that's why I didn't do gymnastics, not because I'm not flexible whatsoever because of the uneven bars. They scared me. Yeah.

Dude, let's get into it. I'm excited. Ty, you're new around here when it comes to Almost Athletes. One through 10, like a standard issue dunk contest. Oh, we're scoring these bad boys. Yeah, we score them. Got it. We ask you all to submit your Almost Athlete moments

to be featured on the podcast, and we got some good ones coming up. If you do have a video you want to submit, head to Almostathletes.com. Go to the Contact Us page and submit your, Best Almost Athlete video. I mean, obviously, tell Page all this. We're going to look at six of our favorites today.

So, yeah, six-pack. Just like a dunk contest. Give them a rating. Let's take a look. AJ. Never good when the first one starts in punt formation. Bad snap.

That is a monster punter. Bad snap. Oh. Oh. Oh, his ACLs on the 15 yard? Did he recover or no? No, it was fourth down. They didn't.

I don't think it matters. Watch this. He tries to take it. take a little. Oh, I think he's going to take it straight off the ground. He was going to kick it. He was trying to kick it. It could have been third down. It could have been quick kicking it. That's where your deep snapper better buy you a 16 ounce steak after that. I mean, he doesn't even realize it. He snaps it and he just takes home and he keeps on and the corner down the field. He's like looking up for the ball to come down.

Dude, this snap is so bad. Are we, are we judging the almost athlete snap or the kick? It's the snap. I think it's the snap. Snap is horrendous. He is quite literally the last player on the field to realize that the ball was over his head. Okay, AJ. What a starter? We got a rate. The Snap almost athlete.

It's a... Ten just being the greatest thing I've ever seen. I'm a six. That means don't do a seven. That's a no-cho. The kids like this thing like six-seven dude. Oh, you have to do the decimal. Okay, no.

It's just tough math at the end. Okay. Well, we're big boys here. We're going to round up. Yeah, 07. Guy did it. Oh, you rounded up. Okay, gave him a bone.

That's 21. Or AJ Bartolotta, who sounds like a punter. I'm sure AJ is probably not deep snapping anymore after that one. And also, you're just in AJ. I hope your ACL, PCL, and MCL are still intact. No, that's not AJ. That was an AJ? I think you're confused on who AJ is.

AJ was the snapper. He didn't get wrecked. AJ's running down the field. And I'm saying the punter. That's why it's such a moment. He has such a horrendous snapper. and he runs down the field. He created an almost athlete moment for someone else.

That's insane power move. That's what we're saying. That's an almost athlete moment when there's just residual athlete everywhere. Oh, it's screaming residual athlete. And they have their middle linebacker punting, which, I mean, look how. I don't care for.

Ron James was back there catching the punt. I think that thing skyed him. All right, next video. Okay. We got Caden Charles Brinshaw. Don't give me another one. Don't do it. Don't do it.

Oh, that was. Oh, it was pot. Oh, no. Face plant? That's a me al. Oh. Could have gone for three, but he comes up short on two. Look at this.

Look at this. What happened? Oh. I think he just got it. Rumbling, bumble, and stumbling. Look how he's in slow motion there at the end. Just a little over leveraged. That is funny.

It would have been better if he got thrown out. Yeah. Yeah. Because he actually roped that thing. Great hit. Opio field too, right? Yeah. That ball was stung.

Not only did he cost himself a triple, no stand-up double. He's on the ground. I believe that's Cal State Fuller. Is that Fullerton? Look at this, though. What a rope. That ball was poked. He actually rounds first base pretty good.

It's a sweet swing on the young man. He hits that little. I'm going seven for the almost athlete moment, plus one for the opo base hit. That's an eight in my book. I'm going seven because the base hit was almost too well done. 22? Okay.

A new leader in the clubhouse. New leader in the clubhouse, 22. Triple C, that's what I'm calling him. Just curious, based on Page's story, you think she beats a 22? Oh, she's a 10 all across the board. She gets a 10, guarantee it. She gets 10, 10, 10, 10. You've seen the video, I think.

Oh. I have not seen that video. No, it is. She almost like took an almost athlete moment. It was so bad she took one from you. Yeah. That's a good sister. Yeah.

My sisters have never taken an almost athlete moment for me. It's wild. It's kind of wild. All right, third up. Nico. We got acrobatic dunking. Oh, okay. Good start. Okay. So far so good. Oh, this is actually sick. Oh, the anticipation is the worst part. It's a foot in a rim. Oh! Oh! That's actually really, dude, he just goes right through it. He goes right through it.

Mm-hmm. Oh, and he, no. Oh, the ball almost made it too. That could have been so much worse. It could have been. That was by far the best one of the scene. Oh, that could have been a snappy. That was a brilliant lead-up. That's an name. eight for me. Really disappointed a large group of people there. He did. Yeah, that makes an almost athlete moment that much worse. That's what, he's the finale of the dunk.

Yeah. I actually think he avoided major injury there. It's a seven for me because that could have been much worse. Eight. 23. We're building. We're building. You're a snowman eight kind of guy.

No, I do. I do my age like this. But, I mean, I just, I'm trying to. When you're rating you. Yeah. The last trampoline backflip I ever did ended like that. That's why I've never done another one. Really?

You went straight through the springs? Yeah, sister laughed at me. I think one secret to staying like in good shape in your old age is do a backflip every year. I think once people start doing backflips on trampolies, that's when you start to get old. Dang. Man, it's been about 15 years for me. All right. We got Aaron.

I know what's going to happen here. It can't be that good. Oh, but there is a random object right by. Oh. What a elongated fall. Oh, he hit it. Oh, he redeemed himself. What courts.

replaying that. That's just a pasture drive, right? That's not an actual course. Hey, I got some old golf balls in my truck. 360 spin scope is what that is. Is that an older gentleman? I think it's an older gentleman, which saves them a little bit. Yeah, I enjoyed it. Not the greatest I've ever seen.

Not the greatest, and to be honest, old people fall in. Yeah, let's avoid the triple six. Okay. Seven. He did a seven. He did a seven. We're good. 19? Yeah. Nineteen.

All right. I have high hopes for this one. It's a bike stunt. His name is Zach. Please tell me he goes down the stairs. Please tell me he goes down the stairs. This could be... Oh, darn. No way. No way. No way. No way. No way. No way. This could get a good rating. It was just a little baby bunny, but back tire got... Oh, you got to know you got to lift that back tire. And this guy rides a bike for a living, dude. This guy rides a bike. This is a Mormon. For sure. Yeah.

You don't dress like that and ride a bike for fun. And you can't do that after you knock on somebody's door. And they're watching you from the window and you do that. But you just lose all, you just lost it. In great Mormon fashion, wearing his helmet. Yeah. Kids are reminders of wear your helmets. That's why they wear them.

They go try and pull stunts like these in their free time. That's a nine in my book. I agree. I was going to eight spot it. I agree, dude. Nine. Okay. Great job, Elders.

Dude, I'll do, Zach. Hilder Zach. 26. Dude, that's awesome, dude. I love that. Good for you, Zach. That's great. That was great.

I needed a good laugh. New leader in the clubhouse. I needed a good laugh there. All right. Let's finish it up. Another... Jackson. Oh, this is our Jackson.

Haltam. No way. Jackson Haltam made it? He already has. Do he... Oh, no. He pulls it off the wall. Oh, ew.

Oh. This is bad for the brand. This is bad for the... Oh! Poor Chad, I'd watch that. Is he trying? That's the sad part. Well, a little bit of...

For people watching, this is our intern, Jackson, who was on earlier. I, uh... Five. Five. And... Out as many misdunks as he had. He almost, almost athleteed the submission.

Yeah. Like, if you catch my drift there, like... I do. I do. It's so bad. That it almost doesn't qualify. It doesn't qualify. It shouldn't have been sent in. Sure.

It's not even almost an athlete. It's just almost. That's Jackson and Graham. They live stream. I don't know if he did that so we would promote his live stream. I'm not sure. But here I am promoting his live stream. DP interns.

On the bright side, they weren't. DP gaming. On the bright side, they weren't wearing Dude Perfect merch, which helps. They were. Jacks, Graham was.

Was he? Yeah. Well, he's wearing a Kool-Aid and then wait for it. Wait and there is the merch. Right there. Good find. Yeah. Look at that.

Look at the lack of commitment. I don't know. I don't get the, yeah, I don't get the backwards jersey. It doesn't make any sense to me, but I think that's a good thing. That doesn't make sense to us.

Elder Zach is the almost athlete. Earned. Winner with the score of 26. Man, send us more, Zach, if you have, I'm sure you got.

I'm sure you got more. Keep trying your bike tricks. Dude, you're going to get them. That wasn't his first rodeo. We got a little bit of time left. I say we hit a little bit of voice mouths. 8.05.

886. Hot takes. Whatever you want, really. Profess your love for Tyler. Whoa. Whatever. It doesn't matter. We'll listen.

Did we have one of those? I have no idea. Oh. Hey, dude, perfect. I was just wondering, do you guys think pineapple belongs on pizza? That is a good question for you, man. Yes, it does. It does.

You have a hot take here. It's not really a hot take. It's just a pineapple. Halapinos, roasted cashews, and some hot honey is probably the four greatest toppings you could put on a pizza. That's a little pendulum painting for me, a little too much. But yes, pineapple does. And given what people are eating nowadays, I feel like we're like on the light side. Pineapple on a pizza is pretty normal at this point.

Yeah, people are eating fake meat. So you can do pineapple on a pizza. What about ketchup on a pizza? No, no. I'm going to judge you hard. No, and I like ketchup. You cross the line with ketchup on a pizza. I've never seen, have you seen that?

No, I have no idea, I'm just making some... Do you catch up your eggs? Oh, gosh, no. No, you catch up your hash browns? Oh yeah, me too. I like Tabasco sauce on both of those. Tabasco sauce on eggs is phenomenal. Yeah, I don't catch up my eggs.

Yeah, I'm okay with that. Tabasco on pizza. I do like a good spice. A spicy ranch on pizza. Sure. Yeah, ranch, can we talk about it? It's one of the most like just undervalued condiments. Oh, I thought you were going the other way.

Yeah, I did too. Oh, no, no, I love, dude. I thought you almost had an almost athlete's moment right here. Well, I do have a confession. I went to, I dooredashed this from a burger place called Haystack down the road. I think they have some of the best ranch. It's 50 cents for a tub, you know, a little thing.

I actually like that. They know what their value is of their ranch. I dooredash 10 of them. Okay, Corey. By themselves? Well, no, I got a burger. Oh. Okay, that's better.

But I wanted to save them. It was so good to save in my, in my refrigerator. If you only got 10 ranches from Haystack, I'm calling the feds. $5. all over here. Spend more on your door dash. That's incredible. That's a good question with an easy answer. It absolutely belongs on. Any more? Any more voicemails?

Hit me with another one. Hi. My name is Sarah. And since y'all are always asking for everyone's opinion on y'all's hair, I thought I should give you my honest opinion. I'll start off with Garrett. Actually, I have no comment for you. Thank you. Thank you, Sarah. Kobe, your hair looks really bad. It looks like a middle schooler. Okay. Please lose the hair. You're just, you're too old to have.

that kind of hair. No offense. I love this thing. Tyler, well, it's not looking good. I'm sorry, but it's just not a good look for you. Sarah's about a three pieces of us. Your hair is also atrocious, okay? You need to do something about it. Your hair just, it just looks bad, okay? I have no other words. What about Corey? Corey, your hair still looks good, so please keep it up. Don't change anything with your hair and sparky, even though your hair is spinning, you're still really attractive. I just wanted you know that. Okay. Thank you. Whoa!

This may be the start of Spark in the Dark dating show. Something special there? And Sarah is contestant number one. Hey, Sarah. I felt I love the honesty by Sarah to be complete. I mean... She shot a straight. She said what she needed to say.

I would, you know, just if I was to critique her critique, I would say the critique was a little... It came off a little harsh, arsh. For not knowing us. It was top of it. Like, if I'm talking to Cody, no, she, she hit, she nailed Cody. She should just say, dude, it's a troche. If I'm saying, hey, Ty, like, we've had the mullet for a long time, dude.

Do you want to mix it up? Do you want to mix it up? Yeah. But, you know, maybe it's time for a mix-up. You hit them with a sandwich. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

She just went. Yeah, I love the full transparency from Sarah. She top-rooped it our number, 972-805-8866. What's yours, Sarah? Oh. Dude, spark in the dark. It's time for the dating show. I've wanted to do it for years, and that right there just inspired me.

Call in, if you want to be a contestant on Spark in the Dark, send us your voicemail and tell us why you should be a contestant. I love it. And we're going to put together a mini dating show. We're here to produce really good, clean, fun content. And maybe find true love. Yes. Yeah, your boy needs it.

I got you, dude. Thank you. Sarah's got me. Sarah's got you for sure. I just, she goes, man, she's just so harsh on the bald thing for me, and then she goes for you, like, it's thinning, but you're hot. So I'm just like, that's why we got to get to turkey ASAP. Because give her eight months and she, that takes different. Oh, man, that's incredible.

Thank you, Sarah. Hey, dude, perfect. I just want to know if you consider diehard a Christmas movie. Okay, I didn't know where we were going after Sarah. So I was a little bit. I was prepared for the worst. I was prepared. Honestly, like, I consider really anything I want to watch.

Hey, guys, Bobby here. Bobby, Bobby. We're still talking about the other one. Yeah. I consider kind of anything I watch during Christmas, a Christmas movie. Okay. If you want my honest opinion.

I've never seen Die Hard, even though I dressed up like him last year for a Christmas party. Yeah, you did. That's weird. It's right up your alley movie, dude. But yeah, I say so. Yeah, I'm with Ty. Sure.

Why not? If the people wanted to be a Christmas movie, then by golly, it's a Christmas movie. I was going to say something that I'm going to withhold, and we'll say it later. Unlike the next podcast. or when we're done. Yeah, yeah.

Maybe the next podcast. Yep. Okay. Okay. All right, Bobby, we're ready for you. Now we're ready, Bob. Hey, guys, Bobby here. Since the wives have been part of your show the last few weeks, I don't know, it made me think

of this crazy thing. You know, I'm married as well. And I'm just curious if you have to remove like eight or ten pillows from your bed at night, like decorative pillows. and then where do they go and why do we have to have so many just curious if maybe you guys deal with the same thing

as probably a lot of husbands do these decorative pillows he is going through it right now I feel so bad for Bobby you could tell from his voice he just can't comprehend why we have to have a dozen pillows he doesn't make his bed so no he has no

decorative pillows but I still got to do something with them yeah they just live on the floor yeah but that's that's another one of my pet peeves big just like big soap, big pillows out there convincing ladies that they need 20 pillows on their beds. No, you're not wrong.

You don't. I'll say this. Also, my mother is like 37 candles deep. Really? Yeah, it's the same kind of thing. I love a good candle though. But then you start mixing fragrances just kind of like the pillows. Doesn't bother me. One of the first things I do when we go on a trip in the hotel is I'm tossing like four of those pillows off.

Really? The hotel pillows are horrible. Oh, I don't tossing them. Well, I have to like stack eight just to get this much of cushion on a hotel pillow. Oh, look, um, it's art, dude. It's a visual art. Decrative.

It's unnecessary. It's unnecessary. It is. It is. But things in life unnecessary. Christmas lights. Necessary? No.

Good time? Sure. Yeah. Yeah, this is one of those ones that... I have, here's what I do my nightly routine. I go around. We have two chairs. I take the two, four,

and we have eight pillows. Mm. Nine pillows. And I stack them. four on one chair, five on the other, very nice off the floor, pull the covers down, get in bed, next morning, pull the covers back up, put the pillows back on, and it's very robotic. Feels like an unnecessary step. But then again, if it makes the wife happy, it feels like it's something so minimal that you just let it fly.

Is that where you are? I just don't, is Big Pillow really make women that happy? I don't know. Sarah, let us know, whatever you think, Sarah. Yeah, I'd like to hear Sarah's take on big pillow. Well, where they're out. Hey, boys, I love the pod. As a big Premier League fan, I'm interested to know which three teams do you think will get relegated.

Let's be honest, it's probably which other team will get relegated with Wolves and Burnley. But I'd like to hear your opinion. It's just unnecessary. This is Adam. That's our friend. He's our friend. He's a friend. We call him mate.

Because he's obviously British, over the top, in your face British at times. Yeah. It's fish and chips. And he doesn't like Burnley. Yeah. And that is a problem with me. But he set himself up for failure there because who's his club? West Ham.

West Ham. Guess who's getting relegated. Yeah, if I had a pick, obviously, Wolverhampton, they're down. They have two points. They can't win a game. Burnley, I'm not going to. They're in trouble. They're in trouble.

But I said there's one sparky speech away from flipping that season. We've got to get to Burnley. We do, got to get to Burnley. We got to go talk to Scotty. And we've got to get the boys rolling. West Ham's barely in front of us. Leads barely in front of us. Ollum.

In that. Ulam, if I want my final three, Wolves, West Ham, Leeds. Well, said. In Brazil. Well, that's not how it works. I don't feel qualified to answer that question. But that was, that was a, thanks, Adam. Yeah, thanks me.

Really great to hear your voice. I hope you have a Merry Christmas, Adam. What's up, dudes? This is Andrew. You guys are killing it with the podcast. I was just wondering, which Christmas character do you guys think would be most likely to win MVP of the NFL. Would love to hear your thoughts.

That's a really good question. Probably Arnold and Jingle all the way. Yeah, that's actually a really good pool, Tyler, Tony. I was going to go Cindy Lou Who. She's got something about her, a gamer, fearless little young lady. He said the NFL. Oh, you don't think she could make it? Let me change my answer.

Okay. I'm sure the Grinch could be like a third down back. He's pretty slow. Yeah. I don't like he had a good combine. I don't know, man. We're missing an obvious one here. Yeah, I think Santa Claus.

I think he's outdated. No, dude, he is an absolute tank at tackle, dude. Give me Santa Claus. Really? I like Arnold and jingle all the way. Yeah, that's a good one. Arnold's the QB, Santa's the center. Yeah.

They do work, dude. There we go. I got a bank here. Miss Claus, team mom. Ebenezer Scrooge. I mean, dude, if you, you can... Difference maker at corner.

If you could hand the ball off to Rudolph, elite speed on the outside. Well, he can fly, which feels like a little bit unfair. Yeah, I guess so. You know what I mean? That's a good question. Almost too good of a question. Whoa! Boys, that's rant time.

It's our two-minute warning. Anybody got anything? I do. Really? I've got a... Not so much of a rant, but I've got a two-minute. More like a performance. A performance?

I thought, you know what? We're a season podcast at this point? and we've yet to have a studio music guest. Wow. And what better time to bring in. Luke Combs? T.T. and the Tata's. I actually like it.

Yes. You know what I'm saying? What do you want to do? What do we've been doing? Well, this is a Christmas song that, you know, me and the boys were, it was the end of 2020. And we thought, what does the world need more of right now? Songs about COVID.

And we wrote this little Christmas diddy. T.T. Tata Gare and Tata Spark. So without further ado, first ever studio performance of Rudolph Scott Coebbin. This is great. All right. Anybody got popcorn?

Ooh, what a start. Rudolph Scott Coebett. Just gives you the Christmas spirit. Sounds like Santa is running late. How late? Some stayed out west demanded a new mandate. Cali.

Been such a crazy year. Made them test all his reindeer. All it's left to do is sit and wait. So Santa went to CBS to get a COVID test. Dasher, dancer, dancer, printer. They all checked out. Common and Cuban and fixing are good. Though they didn't swab as deep as they should want tests remain.

Christmas hinged on them. Santa now knew he could be in a real... I don't like pickles. But he reared back and gave Rudolph a big brain tick. Those things did hurt. Got bad news, boys. No, dude. Really? Rudolph's got cold.

No! Miss Claus found out in a mind exploded. Rudolph's got COVID. How will all those presents get unloaded? Rudolph's got COVID. You don't know. want to be misquoted, but yeah. Wow.

Rudolph's got COVID. I was about to say, I can't be the only one. Ty, you never cease to amaze me. And that was not AI generated. You wrote that yourself. Yeah, he was in a dark spot that day. Yeah, dark spot.

Weren't we all, though, in late 2020? Yeah. But we got plaques-loved. What's it called? What's the one that's on the TV commercial? Uh, I don't know what is that. I did want to work in. It was a great rhyme.

However, I found out later that this man, unfortunately, it's already passed away. But it was who gave it to him. I think Ross Perot did, but Ross Perot is not here. It worked really well with the rhyme. Anyways, that's the part about songwriting is you got to make it real and also work. Yeah. A lot that goes into it. That was real and that might be the best rant we're ever going to have.

Maybe, maybe. I can try and write another one maybe for Christmas next year. Unreal, dude. Unreal. That gets you in the Christmas spirit, man. You got Sparky and Sarah. You got Rudolph and COVID. I'm so jazzed about that.

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