Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect - Dude Perfect Reveals BIG Plans for 2026

Episode Date: January 7, 2026

 2026 is finally here! And so are the NFL Playoffs… not to mention the College Football Playoffs and some big changes here at Dude Perfect! In this action-packed start to 2026, the Dudes reveal their predictions for the first round of the NFL Playoffs all the way through the Super Bowl, as well as the semi-finals of the College Football playoffs. The Dudes also react to the shocking slew of NFL coach firings, transfer portal moves, a new sport called car jiu-jitsu and an Almost Athlete moment with a dog playing lockdown defense!  Later, Graham and Jackson give all the behind-the-scenes stories from their Intern Battle and then face off against Sparky in a college logo guessing game, where the guys try to identify schools from their logos. The episode wraps with updates on a huge year of upcoming Dude Perfect projects, the Outdoor Channel, merch upgrades, and the Dudes surprising New Year’s Resolutions. If you have a question, hot take, or your own Almost Athlete moment, go to AlmostAthletes.com or call in at [phone]. Chapters:  00:00 Introduction 07:20 NFL Black Monday  12:15 NFL Playoff Predictions  24:50 Almost Sports: Car Jiu Jitsu  30:40 Almost Athlete Of The Week 35:12 Interns Jackson & Graham Introduction  44:45 College Logo Guessing Game  57:40 Cory Cotton Introduction  01:04:00 Dude Perfect Updates 01:19:45 Dude Perfect Merchandise Update  01:23:10 Two Minute Warning What to do now: 1. Smash that LIKE button  2. Hit SUBSCRIBE so you never miss a DP podcast moment  3. Drop a comment with who YOU want to see on Almost Athletes next! Subscribe for more!    https://www.youtube.com/@almostathletes⁠⁠     • • • • Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect is (almost) a sports podcast. Tune in weekly to hear the dudes’ hottest sports takes, great debates, interviews with your favorite athletes and entertainers, and hilarious BTS from all things Dude Perfect.  New episodes drop every Wednesday.  Follow along on all platforms.   Listen to the pod on your morning commute or wherever it finds you: Apple: - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/almost-athletes-with-dude-perfect/id1834502483 Spotify: - https://open.spotify.com/show/55gaQm31JIbp6td7QtYsPU?si=6423db3118ac497f Follow Almost Athletes to keep up with the Dudes!: https://www.instagram.com/almostathletes https://www.tiktok.com/@almostathletes https://x.com/almostathletes_ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I purposely made absolutely zero plans this weekend. People have reached out to me. I said, I can't. I got a really busy weekend because it's me in football weekend. Yeah. This is pinnacle, man. I'm sending the wife on a girl's trip. Genius.

Smart. I hope she doesn't listen to this until after. Cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut. Welcome back to almost athletes with Dude Perfect, a Wave original. Happy New Year, 26. I'm Garrett. I'm Spark. I'm T.

Y'all feel any different? 2026? I had a big lunch, so I feel heavy. Go ahead and tell the people what you're. had for lunch because you had a family of four. Well, to be fair, it was Jackson's birthday. And I felt like I needed to celebrate him. So I went two enchiladas, twice baked potatoes, mac and cheese, six boneless wings. And I thought about doing Jeanette's homemade peach cobbler with a scoop of ice cream, but I held off because it's a new year, new me. So that's how you justify it. That's how you feel

good about yourself as you laid off the dessert. Really weird that you combine the enchiladas, you said? Yeah. With wings. That feels like, well, it's a chicken place. And I hadn't tried their wings and their chicken enchiladas are really good. It's a weird combo. I get it. Yeah, off to a weird start. It's 2026, dude. Anything goes.

Anything goes, dude. It's the year of AI and eating enchiladas. You want to get Christmas day? Yeah. Oh, no, my family was sick. Really? Flew-A? I think we had flu A, B, C.

That's a horrible gift to give. Yeah. Flew. Yeah, it was weird watching your daughter wake up on Christmas, not really caring about Christmas. Oh. Oh, gosh. Yeah.

Quickly changed the stuff. subject. Did you have anything, Tyler? We had a good Christmas. Boys, boys had a good time. We went to the ranch after Christmas. Santa was good. They got their classic Bow and Arrow, BB guys. You know, Santa does a lot of their shopping at Bass Pro shops. Oh yeah. Because he knows. Well, Santa has one of those Bass Pro Cabella's gift cards, or not gift cards, credit cards. So Santa earns a lot of points throughout the year. And he goes there and basically their Christmas is free from Bass Pro and Cabellas. That's it. So every year to do it. Yeah. Yeah, a lot of remote

Santa gets rewarded during the year. Yeah. The kids get free. It's great. It's a win-win. It is. No, New Year's. Actually, my mom texts me in New Year's like, I'm surprised you're not hanging out with the guys.

I was like, actually, I haven't heard from them. And I predicted that y'all are officially to the age where midnight on the 31st, y'all are just doing it with the family. I actually, I made it. It was 12.04. Did your kids make it? No. Really? They're not to that age yet.

See, I thought your children would be up for sure. We did fireworks at the ranch early. Fireworks? Yeah. 8.30, 9 p.m. And I barely made it to midnight this year. Yeah, we got kids made it to 11 for the New York. You were out at 9?

No. And then we actually, you know, emptied the furniture in the living room and did some two-stepping. Yeah, and bring in the new year, you know, so. Interesting. The first of its kind. I've never heard of like two-stepping to ring in the new year. Yeah, it was the first time I've done it. Like just you and Kristen?

Well, that's typically, I mean, there was other people doing it as well. It was a party? Yeah. No, no. We just had our friends over. Got it. And so, yeah, it was, we watched the old Nashville live thing that they do. Two stepping on New Year's.

I've never. You should try it next year. Never even thought about that. It kind of passes a time nicely. Okay. Yeah. So what did you do? So what did you do?

Until 1 a.m. I chilled at the crib. You did? Yeah, I didn't do much. I made it to midnight. You do some drop-ins on the gaming? Hopped on live. Actually, we were in like mid-2K game with my buddies at 1159.

As the ball dropped? We called time out. You did. It's in honor of New Year's. like, hey, guys, let's burn a 30 here. Yeah. And went ahead and celebrated. Did you play well?

You got back to business, yeah. I had a really good 2K weekend. You just see my numbers. They're insane, dude. Nice. I did have an almost homeowner moment at my house. Really? Yeah, it's a really bad play by me.

I'm not ready to be a homeowner quite yet. Well, are you? For you to change your air film? I didn't know if you bought a house over the break. So what happened was I came back from the office working out, go home, start the shower, AirPods in, because I'm going to pick up the dirt. close real quick. Next thing you know, I rip the vacuum out. Next thing you know, 45 legit minutes go

by, song ends, and I hear, totally forgot, my water bill is going to be massive. So if y'all want to, we'll pass a bowl around, y'all can put some cash in the bowl helping with the water bill. Is each individual room monitored with their own meter there? How does that work? Yeah, that's a good question, actually. But my water bill changes, so it's definitely... So they know that it's yours. You can't blame it on the guy above you. No, I might not have hot water for like three weeks either, ma'am. Wow. That's okay.

Cold water will give you a dopamine hit. That's also a new thing, New Year. Cold plunges on the out. They are. Yeah. It says who. Yeah, it says the health community online. Oh, they're saying it's bad for you.

No, not bad. It's just like, but does it do anything for you, other than a good dopamine hit? New Inn? Hot bass. Yeah. Yeah. I can get on board with that one.

Yeah. So, dude, it's a new year, new health trends, and it's crazy. Yeah. So that's great. Yeah. I'm glad to see the cold plunges go. Yeah. Never liked them.

Never been a fan. Time to heat it up a little bit. Ours is shattered and it's not even working anyways, but the heat works. Good. All right, we got a big show. We got some huge NFL playoff previews. Talk about that. We're going to catch up on some college football playoffs.

There are some interesting matchups. We're going to talk about a huge 2026 we have planned at Dude Perfect. And while we were gone, there was a huge battle between intern Jackson and intern Graham to see who was the better athlete. Me and Spark, you were there to judge it. We'll talk all about it. Let's get to it. Boys, I think we get the cat out of the bag and just, I know it hurts Sparks.

But Sparky played tie for all the marbles. All the Marbles and the fantasy football championship. And your boys put up a heck of a fight. Oh, I thought it was going to be a comeback for the tie. The people need to know. He preloaded a D. Henry bomb against me. Yes. Yeah, 42-pointer.

And a lot of guys, I talked to my team in the morning of the game, and I said, hey, boys, listen, you know, this is daunting. Obviously, we didn't imagine being in a 60-point hole. And they responded, man. They went out there and laid some bombs themselves. I got 20-plus from McBride, 20-plus from Malave. And the next thing you know, we looked up, and it was like 60-40. I went from 80% projected win to 55 at one point.

It was 55-45. And you had all the early window guys. So they put up big numbies. And I was like, dang, this is going to be a battle. It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a game. And you were missing Bowers. It was a back and forth affair, but ultimately, Ty ended up beating me by, what, 40, 40 points? Yeah, it was a 70 or something.

Yeah. And so don't ever say it does benefit you to have a brother-in-law that works in the NFL. He's here, by the way. I never said it didn't, but I did. I did go against his judgment in my final roster. Oh, you did? Do you know he's here today, by the way? He said that he was going to be here.

I just talked to him for like 15 minutes. He's wearing an SMU shirt. What's he doing? Sitting in my office. Watching film. Nice. Watching film. Good for him.

Good for him. Good for him. Good for him. The Lord's work. Boys, NFL playoffs. But before we get there, are you all familiar with the term Black Monday? No.

Firing coaches. Black Mondays like them. Yeah. Yeah. For firing. Yeah, we're talking about you. Man United. For today.

Oh, we're talking about NFL. I thought you meant. For NFL coaches as well. Man United. Also sack there. Back to last night, Rahim Morris got the axe there in Atlanta. And then today,

Stafansky in Cleveland by, He won two coaches of the year in the last six years, too. And then see you. How quickly you can just lose your job. The Raiders, old Pete Carroll, might be Pete's last go-around too. Well, I mean, he's going to live. Hopefully, for many more years. As a head coach.

He has a head coach. I will tell you, there is not many 70-plus-year-olds that look as good as Pete Carroll. No, he's doing it. I'm not saying he could get snaps. Or can throw a football like Pete Carroll. He's doing it right. So he's doing it right. I do.

You know who I feel bad for, though. Jonathan Gannon? No, juicy fruit. I mean, think how much less juicy fruit gum is going to get chewed when he's not coaching. Yeah, that stock will take. If you're in juicy fruit stock, you might want to get out. You might want to get out now. That's a secret to his good jaw line, huh?

Yeah, it is. Jay fruit. It's weird not seeing the shoddy up there, but. Yeah, shoddy's back, baby. But isn't that crazy? Six. Six head coaches. It's a bad day to be an NFL coach.

Is there ever a bad day to be an NFL coach? I think today's one of those. I mean, unless you're still getting paid and then you get to go get and do another job. you know, the old Jimbo contract. Oh, yeah, the old Jimbo? I think you put your name in the running. I was about to say, how many do I apply? I think I'll, I don't want this.

You should at least throw your name in the hat and just see what happens. See if you get an interview. Yeah. Because if I could ever get to the interview, that's where I'd sell them. I agree. I'd show them the hard cap then.

Which team would you go for if you had to put your name in a hat? Can I see the teams again? Yeah. Ooh. There's not a good option up there. Well, you got to go Atlanta. I mean, they've got, they've got the key pieces.

They do. They're a quarterback away for me to really. really good, arguably the best player. Well, isn't Pinnock's? Wasn't he hurt? Bijon. Wasn't Pinnock hurt? Drake London? He is, but yeah, but is he a Super Bowl winning quarterback? I don't know. Out of those teams, I would say, I can't do the Giants just because the cat. Actually, I could do the Giants and tank them on purpose. Yeah, that'd be sick. Tennessee would be up there for me. That's also a part of the country. I could see myself living. Yeah, I think you'd go Tennessee or Atlanta. Let's be real. I'll take any of those jobs. Arizona

Cardinals, my number, 469. I'll leave it there. Just call the almost-athlet's number. Call the almost-athlet's number. We'll get it to him. And we can set up a meeting. You know what? Also, jobs might be out available? Field goal kicker.

Oh, yeah, for the rook. It was a swirly wind, man. When Boswell missed his P.A.T. That guy knows Pittsburgh and knows that field better than anybody. I know it was a swirling win, but, I mean, the Miami kicker and the A&M kicker got blasted for missing theirs. It's true. You know, 44 yards, though, that's still not a, that's not a gimmie field goal.

I know in today's day and age, it's like, oh, 50 yards, yeah, kick it. You're out there booting 42s. I tried my best, but, you know, you can miss them too. It's not that hard to miss them. It's not, but... Swirling wind. Feel bad for the kid, Luke, and I have somebody you can blame. Guess who drafted them last pick?

You did. No, Cody Jones, drafted them in fantasy. Oh, that's why I lost. And that is why Luke didn't finish the season strong. What a memory by you. I'm happy for Rogers. I know a lot of people probably aren't, but I like Aaron. Making the playoffs?

Yeah. I always just sympathize so hard for the kid who missed the kick. That's all I could think about was Loop last night. And he was hard by the arm around. I did see any walking back in the locker. He did. But one kick shouldn't, you know, obviously it comes down to that. But it's not one or lost on one kick.

There's a lot of plays. Go tell that to the troll, though, online. Who's sending Loop bad messages. Yeah, that was true. Trolls online are funding to me. They're keyboard warriors. Let them do what they do. It doesn't matter.

Wow. Keyboard warriors might be a good rant one day. you need to go in on that because I could tell you were holding back right there. Oh, no, I already held back on my, it's just, uh, no, I had a rant that, you know, had some, some good traction over the break. So, yeah. Yes, you did. You know, uh, oh, you know, I ran it about this team down in Austin.

Awesome. Oh, I saw. Yeah. And some of the comments made me cry, like legit tear laughing. Uh, really funny, actually. Some guy said I had low T. Wow. Wow.

You know. Because I actually kind of, maybe. And I just, you know, I was like, dang, yeah, he might be right. Maybe. Yeah. I need to go get checked. It was a good reminder. Men out there over 35.

You should get, you should get checked. 35? That's like the new game. Well, I have no idea. I'm just saying if I'm, you know, if I have low teeth, there's probably others out there that need to get checks. Yeah. Lerty and prostate, both should get checked. I don't know if I'm ready for that.

But no, I feel for the rookie for sure, but he'll be around. here round. Chris Boswell, he's like 85 and he might not. Rice, kicker. We have the NFL playoffs pulled up here, boys. Let's talk about it because this thing more than ever to me is wide open in the NFL. Truly is wide open. I think it is. I think it is. The one seeds, Denver and Seattle get the buy, which I really like the NFL's doing nowadays where they're just only giving the one seed. Oh, it's beautiful. I love that. I love that. It really incentivizes the regular season. You have to play all year to earn them. Correct. And those both teams, Denver and Seattle. We're full sending in the last week. You called the Bills and Jaguar. I know, didn't I?

You called that. Didn't I? Let's start there. Bills Jags. Bills at home. You said at beginning of the year, would you rather go to Jacksonville or Kansas City? They're headed to Jacksonville. Well, Jacksonville, yeah, sorry, that game will be in the Sunshine State. I think the bills pull that one out. Oh, 100%. That's going to be close one. One and a half points the bills are favored by. Yeah, you would like to think the bills who have been on the precipice of heading to the Super Bowl could muster up enough to beat the Jacksonville Jaguars, but I'm calling it now. It's going to be the Bills versus the Houston Texans to go to the

Super Bowl. So you have Texans over Steelers. Where do you stand on that, Ty? I like Texans over Steelers, but I think Broncos handle the Texans. Really? Yeah. Wow. I do think the Texans are playing the best football. But they've had every game that they're in is a one-score game down to the wire. You're saying how long can you live that way? I mean, dude, it is insane how many close games they've had. Broncos are two. Yeah. Yeah. Here's the thing that benefits Denver is the fact it all goes through mile high, which that plays historically super tough to win.

I think Chargers take care of the Patriots right off the bat. Really? Yep. I don't think so. That is a dream quarterback matchup right off the bat. You get Herbert versus May. May is probably going to win the MVP. Two versus seven.

That feels like a very tough draw for New England. As you've landed in the seven-seat chargers. Dude, charges are a good team. What is that? Three and a half, New England. That's going to be enough. barn burner. But yeah, my picks are Bill's Texans out of the AFC. NFC would be Seattle versus the 49ers. Any upsets on this side? Does anybody give the Panthers a chance at home

against the L.A. Rams aren't playing their best football. Panthers also can run the football really well, but they're not playing great. I think they've lost what, six of eight, something like that, seven of eight. They're limping going in, but they do get the home game, which I do want to talk to the NFL. higher-ups about, like, I don't care if you play in a bad division. You win your division at 500 or a game under, whatever it may be. You shouldn't get home field advantage, but that's just me. I think the Rams take care of business. I think the 49ers wax the Eagles too. Packers Bears is a fun matchup. Yeah, that could go either way. You're saying wax. I think 49ers waxed the Eagles. They're like 17 points. Yeah. I hope you're right. I do too.

When the Cowboys aren't in it like this, I actually turn into who am I rooting against rather than for. It's a little bit of that. a little bit of that. I'm rooting against the Packers. I'm rooting against the Eagles. I don't really care about the AFC. I mean, I just kind of want good football. Yeah. Chicago Green Bay. That's cool. An NFC North Classic matchup in the postseason. Yeah, I'm going to be watching that on Prime Vid. I don't promise you that. Um, yeah, I got, I got Seahawks and Pats and the Supi. Whoa, a rematch. Yeah. Yeah, mine would be Bill's first Seahawks. Bill Seahawks. I think they, I think this is Josh Allen's year, man. I think he, I think he's going to do it.

I've been saying it all year, so. That's a long road. It is a long road. I think he can do it, though. I'm going to take the Rams. The Rams find a way. They beat the Panthers. They go on the road to Seattle.

Be it. And then I think they might get a home game because I have them in the 49ers there in the NFC title game. Give me Rams versus the... Pat's so tough. Give me Rams versus Bills. I'm with you here. I've been on the Buffalo train all year. They've been close.

This is the year they get it done. Bills win the Super Bowl. Well. Yep, that's my call. Could be completely wrong. And Josh, I want to, I want to celebrate the Lombardy with you when you, when you hoisted around the world. So stop by the almost athletes. The parade route, I think. The parade route just through Prisco. Yeah, just come by, stop in. It'll be fun.

We can catch them. Losers. We talked about the winners, boys, everybody who's in the postseason. Who ultimately disappointed you the most in the NFL this year? I have an easy one. I've said it a couple times on the show. I mean, how can you say the Colts are not a disappointment? Because the injury, I think. I mean, dude, they were like, I know the injuries, but they were like eight and two, and then they finished with... Fell off the map.

Eight straight losses? I don't know. I think the easy answer here is Dan Campbell in Detroit, man. Yeah. Yeah, that was such a massive setback. That was very big letdown. That was very disappointing to see. But I do think it's one of those things where they can rectify it pretty quickly.

But they lost, you know, that's losing two solid coordinators with the idea. Yeah, well, good point, Gare. What about you, Ty? Biggest NFL lose? you're on a high, you won the title. Yeah, it's hard for me to think about NFL losers right now, but I thought Dax opening press conference summed it up pretty well. Did you see that one? I thought it was very well said by Dack. His first words. Yeah, his first words, out of his mouth. When your offense is that good and the potential is there and all you got to do is be like,

you could be subpar on defense and have a winning season and make the playoffs and still get pieces together. I think it's really, really disappointing. If you can't spell your coordinator's last name, dude, I mean, how do you... Yeah, that didn't feel like a shot higher. That felt like from the top, and they need to let shot have full control, in my opinion. Cowboys disappointment, but also in the same vein that Detroit can quickly fix it. I think Dallas can too with the first round picks coming up. Do you re-sign, do you franchise tag pickings?

Do you let them walk? I think it got a lot easier now that Diggs is gone. You freed up some money there with Trevon. The Diggs situation is. It was weird. was weird one of the most elite corners to...

But I'll say, it's not that. I, I, that is what I respect about Shoddy. Like, he's a culture guy and if you're not a team player,

what, Cowboys are bigger than one player. I mean, did it with Parsons, did it with Diggs. Like, dude, you gotta be a,

like, I don't care how talented you are. Dix is talented, but like, if you're gonna pick you over the team, like, see ya, this locker room made for you.

Fair. So I respect him on that. That was a tough, that was a tough call. He's a, he's a good corner back, dude. He is. I also feel like he just got, I think he, he got lucky that year of the 15 picks. And then he started being way too aggressive and then he started getting beat deep on a

bunch of balls and trying to jump everything and 2022 made him a little bit. For sure. It sounded like any been battling injuries, but it sounded like a scheme thing like you were saying. Like he wants to play a lot of zone defense jump stuff and when he's in man-to-man, that's a dangerous game to play. Garrett knows that. His man-to-man defense lacks. Let's flip it over to college football now. Some playoff games took place, the quarterfinals. Headed to the semis, man. It all started with Miami, man. They doubled down.

They feel like the team of destiny right now. The hurricanes beat Ohio State. I don't know. You have two team of destiny's meeting up. Indiana? We called Indiana. I think we said like, they're so good. I think we said 42 to 3.

I said they're going to blow them out too. I was like even while watching it, I know it's post-Sabin, but you just do not see the crimson tie. No. Is he the swagiest coach there ever was? Dude, yeah. Sig? Bro, like him like doing the whole like Pat McAfee stuff before the game.

Like that dude is confident and really talented. Yeah, he makes up for a little swag that the quarterback's missing Mendoza. He's a great player, but man, not much swagger going on. I think Indiana is mostly coaching. Yeah. I don't know if there's a, I mean, there's a bunch of three-star, like he's got those kids playing. We've talked about it before. Really, really hard to beat a good team twice, especially in the game of football.

And they're about to get that rematch. They're going to struggle with Dan Lending for sure. And that more kid can flat out spin it. And then the old. Ole Miss Miami, two teams that really want it, should be a really fun game. I'm a little upset that that game's a semi because that feels like the two teams who are like not supposed to be there who are riding death in these coat tails. I wish they were on opposite sides.

That's going to be a fun game though. Did Trinidad Chambliss game that he just had? That was the thriller, by the way, because the other games didn't really live up. The last three plays in the game or whatever where he was like scramble like Johnny Mansell and then throwing bombs and, I mean, four blowouts essentially. 80th ranked quarterback of his class. to transfer from Ferris State. Really cool story.

But give me Ole Miss versus Indiana. You got Ole Miss. I'm going to take Miami versus Indiana in the Hoosiers. I'm sticking with the Hoosiers. I'm cheering for Ole Miss to win it straight up. Be cool.

Those kids, that'd be awesome. Lane gets a ring in that situation. I don't think so, does he? I don't know. That would be a... I don't know, man. I don't think you can claim

he was a national champion coach, though. Yeah. I don't know that works. I don't think you can. Well, the coordinators are in flux, too. Did you see that? I don't think he expected them to keep winning like this? I don't love how that whole sits.

He won't get a ring. So that's weird though because like baseball, they get a ring. If you just make the active roster and baseball, you don't have to appear in a game, you get a ring. Yeah, they give those things out like hot cakes. Yeah, I mean, we were offered. We were close. We actually were pretty close.

It was like, yeah, here, boys. Dude, I mean, we should have done it. We'll give you a deal on one. Whoa, that's crazy. Lane Kiffin will receive significant financial bonuses from LSU. LSU based on old misses. So nobody's cheering for their struggles more than LSU would imagine. They're going to have to rip out the checkbook.

But it shows you that coaching still plays a huge role in this. Cignetti's got those boys. They're going to be tough to beat. They are. Someone's going to have to put four points. It's to lose. It is. They're just complete, man.

They play good special teams. They don't really hurt themselves. Defense, offense. They've got something going there. What's their basketball team look like this year? They got a chance in basketball too? Yeah. The assembly hall, man, that place is majestic.

I need to go there. But yeah, I wrote a great time for an Indiana. No kidding. You're living. Special. 2026 has treated you well. You have some good games, though. And that's this weekend, right?

I purposely made absolutely zero plans this weekend. People have reached out to me. I said, I can't. I got a really busy weekend because it's me and football weekend. Yeah. This is pinnacle, man. You get the crossover between NFL playoffs and college football playoffs simultaneously. I'm sending the wife on a girl's trip.

Genius. Smart. It is. Me and the kids. It's so good, Garrett. And we're ordering pizza. I hope she doesn't listen to this until after. Cut, cut, cut, cut, cut.

Yeah. I like your plan, though. Yeah. It's going to be watching, watching sports. Watching ball. And we got a big, you know, I do want to, this is the year I do think everyone in the world should get into EPL soccer. Big matchup Wednesday, the day that this launches, podcast, Man United versus Burnley. Yeah, your two loves.

My two loves. Who do you cheer for there? I'm Burnley all the way. They need three. They need it way more. United. We just lost our coach. Seasons already kind of in.

How much of the season we got left? We got time, but Burnley's like not a lot. Like this is like we're burning. This is a team that we would really benefit from taking three points. Oh yeah. I mean, you benefit for any team at this point with the Burnley. And it just puts pressure on the teams right ahead of you if you get three. Okay.

Give me Burnley two to one. I hope you're right, yeah. Give me Burnley two to one. It's now we're never time. We get our Afcon players back because they got, you know, Hannibal got eliminated. United's still in it. So, uh, I like Burnley. Really underrated tournament, by the way.

But anyways, if you don't watch it, this is the year to get into some EPL soccer. It's a lot of fun. It is. We're still trying to get Ty there. I probably won't get into it. But somebody jump in for me. But somebody jump in for Ty. Yeah.

Uh, I think United is going to steal Sparky's coach in Crystal Palace. I had, speaking of stealing, Transfer Portal, boys. I entered. Can anybody just enter the portal? Like, if I was to just throw my name in that and, like, a coach doesn't really look up my stats. You're your old team entered. No, you have old dominion offered me. Yeah. I do like Messon Maker at Oklahoma State.

I don't. But I'll be cheering for the guy. Up to, like, 10 North Texas guys now going to Oklahoma State. So I'm calling it North Texas Stillwater Campus. See that he said Morris is the one of the best, best play callers has ever been around. Oh, for sure. Even like third and 14. I'm confident he's going to scheme up.

way to. Are you leaving, if that's you? No, no, no, I never leave, baby. You don't? I never leave now. Really? Loyalty. This kid will stick through a 111. You saw me on tour. It was like four years ago, and you were shocked that I was watching one in four North Texas first two and three rice. You're like, dude, you need to get a life. I said, I've been saying this for years, man. I can't help myself. Yeah. I can't. We can't take that from it. Can't take it from me, man. Well, is it time to talk about the almost sports? New Year, new almost sports. Yeah, baby. Talk to me. Car Jiuetsu. Oh. Car Jujitsu sounds like two things that don't go together.

Actually, I was just watching the, you remember when we played a little. Car Jiu Jitsu, no. Well, we played, we, we played a little battle, battle roulette on cars and in front of a live audience, man. Oh, we did a Dimmolition Derby. Demolition Derby. I just watched that video. Whoa, they're actually doing Jiu Jitsu in a car. No, I mean, that's the title of it.

I thought it was going to be like with the cars. No. It's just in a car. Oh, he's got a pin. Melt chokes. So the match begins with both competitors buckled in front seats Once the bell rings

It's who gets unbuckled first And who gets the position Seatbelt chokes Oh yeah he did He did the wrap around And now he's gone for a choke So you can use anything Can I like blast the AC

I mean to be fair I did this growing up with my brothers Constantly Yeah I mean we fought I've never used the seat belt choke Choke though Should we add this to squad games

We'll be careful You know against like some pro wrestlers know. Yeah. But if we're playing the backstreet boys, yeah. I could see that. That'd be good. Could you imagine being in the first seat? Oh, you're trying to get the guy not to get unbuckled first. Oh, that's good. That's a good

play. Oh, yeah. You've got to play defense. This guy knows he's in trouble too. Oh, yeah. This guy knows he's in trouble. He's like, oh, no, I'm done. This is really good. Ty would be the best at this from the dudes. No question. I wouldn't want to go up against Ty. But if you go up against Cody, you have a... You can just toss them.

You have a huge advantage against Cody. That could He couldn't even move. maneuver in a car. Are you allowed to just throw them out the window? Yeah, I think that's how you win. Oh, really? No, you tap them out, obviously. What real world scenario would this come in hand for?

Well, this is like... I feel like this originated in some Navy SEAL class was like, hey, originated with siblings, dude. It's like, who wants the middle seat and you fight over it? Yeah, this game, card jiu jihis has been played for years. Yeah, you know? It's only been made legal in an official sport in recent days. You tried to tap out your brother every time he did something wrong to you in a car.

I tried doing this on the tollway with your sister while the car is moving and then come talk to me. Yeah, this is good. I'm a carjujizu guy, but take yourself there, boys, theoretically, you wake up, you're in a Subaru, front seat, John Jones is sitting next to you. That's a bad day. That's a bad day. Dude, the Jones family probably had some epic. So, Jiu-Jitsu, there's no punching or- Yeah, it's just grappling.

Okay. I think it, well, is it just grappling or is it like, is it fighting? I don't think you can just forearm shiver somebody in jujitsu. Is it an etiquette thing or is it? No, I think it's a rule thing. Yeah, submissions. Chokes, joint, okay, so you can, oh yeah, like leg locks, arm bars, that kind of stuff. Wait, without striking, kicking, or biting.

Yeah, well, biting feels like probably no spitting too. I mean, I feel like today's day and age you've got to clarify that. Yeah, dude, a lot of spinning. That should be our rant. Open hands, maybe. Kids these days. He just stopped spitting. I could be, you know what?

This is the next iteration of IG and Jackson's ultimate athlete test. I love this, dude, jujitsu. That's good. Instead of the dance battle, put them in a car, let him go after it. And I will say right now, what I watched on the Tug of War, I think Gramps admits Mitch Jackson within five seconds. Really? I'll be honest.

I saw that that was happening and my audience retention was gone. To be honest with you, my retention left. the day we were filming it. It did. You were there, but you weren't. I was there, but I wasn't there. But to your point, I do feel like Graham. In fact, Graham might even have a little Brazilian in them.

You think? Advantage Graham. Okay. Yeah, advantage Graham. I would love to watch this. I would love to watch this. I would love to compete in it too. I don't know.

I say that. I know there's Brazilian jiu-jitsu. I don't know if that's the normal main one or if that's like a remix. Well, it's technically a Japanese martial art. Is it? Yeah. Refined in Brazil by the Gracie family. Wow.

Gracie family was a big MMA. judo jiu-jitsu. I wouldn't guess Gracie would have been a Brazilian last name. I would not have either. Japanese roots, but Brazilian

maybe is where it became popular? Not to take away from the Japanese. Yeah, don't take that away from the Japanese. I'm not, with all due respect. Would it make it harder or easier to have this, like, in a different size of car? Oh, wait. I think the size of the car matters.

Yeah. You know, if I'm Adelon Jones, I want to be in a smart car. I agree. Let's get close. Let's get some body shots in there. Yeah. You know, if it's a...

You don't want to be in a 250. If it's a Yukon, you know, he's got he's got room i just never want jones on that position on me ever i know that yeah um i would love to do this yeah we'll say you i think we said we set you up we said uh we set you up we said uh mark mark would be great he'd do it he probably mark would do it with me you versus mark and that would be a fight to the ages yeah that'd be fun i mean look at this dude all right we'll set it up we'll set up and we'll uh and this is in kids listening this is sanctioned by the way okay let's not get crazy and just go and try to car jiu-jitsu your brother.

Let's keep hands and feet to ourselves in the car. All right. The start is so interesting. It is. This starts everything. It's not like the 100-yard dash at the Olympics. I do like to start. They're both safety first.

Seatbelted in. Seatbelt just feels like it should not be able to be used. But, you know, I guess that's part of a car. Like headrests. What are you allowed to take those out? Oh, sure. And then just jam the headrest on somebody's neck. I'm tying somebody's shoe to the steering wheel.

I'm getting dirty. I'm cranking heaters, you know, turning the full heat on de-frosts just to like breathing stuff. Right on their legs. Might even hum the engine. Bun warmers, bun-warmer them. They get hot. We learned a lot here. We'll come back with the video of Tyvers Mark.

Season points too. It's a full year. Yeah. You lift up the center console, put their fingers in it. It's good. That's good. I'm coming up with all kinds of stuff. Well, I think it's time to hit our almost athlete moment of the week while we were gone.

There was incredible almost athlete moment trending. from writing powder on Instagram. Let's take a look. All right. We got a kid. We got a dog in the living room. Nice house. Yeah, nice house.

Good lighting from the window. Oh, running a route. And okay, wow. The dog makes a complete pass. And it looks like there was some offensive pass interference. Textbook tackle by the dog, though. Right at the beginning, pushes off the dog, goes out for the deep ball, hands up, makes contact. And then the dog gets there in perfect timing.

Yeah. Well, it was a little offensive. A P.I. There's an offensive pitch. That kind of looks like my dog, to be honest. Is this one of your children? I don't think so. He's lucky he didn't catch the edge of the door to the side of him.

Honestly, I would have called that OPI right off the bat. The little two-handed, full show. I'm cool with the no calls both ways. What do you mean? The dog did nothing. No, I mean, the ball got there and then the dog goes for it. No, he's not there. He's not there. He never gets his head around. But it doesn't matter if he touched the ball.

Yeah, that was clean. The dog knows, dog knows ball, dude. The push off was a little egregious at the beginning. I'll be honest. But the dog having four legs. Incredible that the dog knows how to make a textbook tackle kids. Textbook tackle. No helmet to helmet, nothing.

You know how I know that dog's been around the block, an older dog? Didn't get up and celebrate. No new school celebration. It's actually, it's not an older dog. Is it not? I think that's a pop, dude. Well, mature through the years. It came from a really good program, college program.

That's a well-coached dog. That's a young pup or that is the best, shape old dog I've ever seen. Did y'all believe in Air Bud? Did y'all actually think he was getting buckets and stuff? Because I did. I did. And I even tested my lab to see Dixie back in the day.

And I thought, you know what? Dude, maybe my dog is just as good. Threw up the basketball right to the nose, just smacked her right in the nose and never made another attempt. Not all dogs are meant to go pro. You guys believe in an Air Bud. It's an almost athlete moment. That's for sure.

I do think that was a real, that was like a real thing. Like not maybe a real basketball, but the dog was like hitting the ball out of the air. You can teach a dog to do. I mean, the dog riding the skateboard. Remember that dog back today? Surfing dogs? They can do.

They're talented. They, you know, they, uh, they're only as smart as their trainer. Yeah, but I do feel like we were led to believe that that was like a common talent around dogs. Is that they could make baskets and catch passes and stuff. They just can't. And we love dogs, but they're just not the best run after. My dogs are not. They're not.

Pee and pooping, man. That I, I'm too. Yeah. I mean, your dog are. liking that. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, it's good Almost Athlete moment, for sure. But yeah, send in your Almost Athlete Moment videos to Almostathletes.com. And again, don't forget to leave us a voicemail at 805. 8866. Don't forget the 972. Don't forget the 972. That's how to end it. But, uh, yeah, we'll be right back with the interns. Do we have to? I think we do. Gosh, all right. Jackson and Graham,

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Welcome back to Almost Athletes. Happy to be joined by none other than intern Graham and intern Jackson. In a special day, given the fact that it, it is the 21st birthday for young jackson wow let's go they grow up so fast don't they you're 21 yeah i yeah i started working here when i was 19 so hey you know and maybe i'm may you know maybe i'm not remembering but 21 garrett i feel like i was more mature but i don't know really like a little bit further in life

i don't know you just do some weird things man it might be a generational thing it's a generational generational thing. But fresh off the intern battle, which, if you haven't watched it, got to go to the social channels at Almost Athletes, go to our Instagram page. I said it when we're out there. It kind of felt like the mid off, you know? Mid off. Like we're both men.

The Battle of Mid. We're on an Almost Athlete podcast. So like it fits. In all honesty, they edited it to where we didn't look as bad as we actually did. Like there are a lot more air balls that were not put in the final edit. I'm grateful for. You should have seen the first cut. Sparky had to pay the editors a little extra to make you guys look better.

Oh, I appreciate it. And pay for LASIC because my eyes were damaged. It was a tough watch. It was a seven sport battle that you ultimately won four to three. Let's go back, event by event, to how we got to this point. It started with the 35-yard trash. I mean, dash. It was bad.

Whoa. Easy. When you said trash, I was like, yeah, it actually. It's a dash. We should have backed it up to 40. Maybe that changes the result. I don't think you also, which didn't appear, false started too, Graham.

Yeah. Wait, did he really? Yes, he did. Well, you got. Wait, wait, wait, wait, play it back. He did. Yeah, it was like, it was like bad. Oh, yeah, you should have been.

You would have, if we were running the 100 meter in the Olympics, you would have been disqualified right here. Well, maybe not. I don't think so. Dude, that's close. Look. Oh, maybe Jackson. Jackson, I missed identified.

It hit a little, a little false step there. It doesn't matter. Jackson beat you and it could have been. a 10-yard dash. You didn't even over. But that was your strength. Yeah, I just think, like, if we're doing, like, trying to see who's a better athlete, I don't know if breakdancing pickleball and tug of war suits that.

Fair. I would rather, like, run a route. 35-yard dash does. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Okay, what about basketball? Yeah, I would agree basketball proves athleticism. I'm not that good at basketball, so. Well, there's like a two-minute short, but what people don't realize,

about a 32-minute basketball game. But Jackson, Jackson, you literally, you won all three of yours based on your feet. Yeah, I'm better, like, lower body. That's what I thought about, like Jackson, the things that Jackson played soccer. So he was fast. He kicked field goals. And he won P. Well, he barely won PKs.

Let's be honest. It was close. Good save. I mean, it was a good save in balance. The basketball, I don't know. It was like, it was like, it was like trying to figure out which one's a better bookmark for a book. It's like, it's a bookmark. Yeah, I have to do much, you know.

You know, they do what they need to do. So they do what they need. I agree with you on dancing. And then Tug of War does require... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I agree. Tuggle War requires strength, which I kind of lack. I'll be getting in the gym here recently. You did.

You did squat Cody. Yeah, I did squat Coddy. But that's lower legs. It's just you're a lower leg guy. You're a lower body. That's a tough draw in game seven, having Tug of War. It's kind of like eerily reminiscent to drawing Blitzball against the bananas in game seven,

where it's like, you know it's going to be an uphill battle. Tuggle War, yeah. But yeah, Graham's always been a good dancer. The fact he brought out the splits, like he unlocked a new emo. I hadn't revealed all my cards until that. No, smart. Yeah.

When you're searching on aces, you hold those. Yeah. If there's an NFL player that hits that emo, that's going to be sick, dude. Like they copy you. New Sally unlocked. It looked painful, though. Oh, yeah.

Billy did it in Savannah bananas. Splits are always painful to me. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I like that move. A little duggy? That really got me going, yeah. I was, I had it. You stayed there maybe a little too long in the duggy stage,

but then you really rebound with the spin or what? Oh! Yeah, that was. It never gets more comfortable watching that. That was the nail in the coffin right there. I knew. A 360 spin scope split. I've always been flexible.

Did you grow up dancing? I didn't, no. I didn't, I mean like, you know, I'll buggy down every once in a while. Where'd you learn your, yeah, were your tricks? Like, this is an in-home shower thing? I did do like partner dancing and things and musicals and things like that. But besides that, you know, it's just natural. There was one move he left out.

That is true. I told him. I think you should show the people on the pod watching the move right now. Is he wearing the entire? It's called the Prezzy shuffle. It's called the Prezzy shuffle. Here, move the bench real quick. Yeah.

Well, yeah, you got it. Collie. Dude, we're supposed to have a double lift to make it look like it's built out of metal. It's all right, though, dude. Do it. Then hit the AI dog down. dance. Hey, Presley shuffle.

All right. Now hit the AI. You love you. Yeah. Yeah. I like that. Good, man. You definitely can dance.

Thanks. I was, there was a few dance moves. I was like sitting in a shower thinking afterwards, it's like, sure. I should have hit that. It's like an offensive play caller. My God,

we didn't get back to the toss. That was a good play for us. Yeah. You live and you learn. With that being said, would y'all ever rematch in a best to seven series. New sports across the board.

Yeah, I was thinking about it. Like, I even think golf. Golf, maybe would be a good one. Fair. Baseball or like Wiffle or Blitzball. Running routes, football. I agree. What about just a straight-up one-on-one Oklahoma drill?

I love that. I'd love that. I mean, yeah, I'd do it, but yeah. Bro, you don't know, but get low. So in Oklahoma drills, do you have to, like, hit? Oh, yeah. Can I juk? Yeah, well, you're on office.

Yeah, okay. Defense, you got to hit them. It's just one of the hands. How does it work? I thought it was just like, You line up and just hit each other. No, no, you're laying on your back. Whistle blows.

One person has the ball. The other person does it. He's trying to score. You're trying to tackle. Oh, that sounds like fun. Yeah. We can get fully padded. I've asked Lindsay are ahead of HR to implement that in the hiring process.

So, that's smart. Bring in two guys going for one job. Whoever wins that Oklahoma drill. That's good. Smart. My mom never wanted me to play football. She was too scared. I get.

I can loki see that in you, though. Like the day I met you, I was like, yeah. You can't watch SpongeBob. and you can't play football. But my mom cares for me. Love my mom. That's one of the more disrespectful things. That's not disrespectful.

When you say you look like a kid who's mom, to be honest, I don't let my kids play football. Really? No, I'm one of those guys. Are they home school too?

I'm one of those guys my kids will play football. Padded, two years old. Two years old. By the time you... No, I get where Garrett's coming from. By the time you have kids, football might be gone.

It might be. It's getting altered to a point that I think it's already like, wow. Soft. It's getting there. The new kickoff. I think they're making it so soft

that you're actually more susceptible to injury. I agree. Like you're saying, stay off the head, stay off the head. Totally agree. A.cels blowing left and right because people are chopping them down like tie with a tree.

I agree with this. But yeah, my kid will play football. Hopefully a concussion by age six really kind of gets them going. Hopefully. You need one early. Yeah.

We did just watch a new almost sport in the earlier segment of the pod. Yeah, car jujitsu. It was insane. We might implement that one in the next athlete back. Bro. What is car jiu-jitsu?

Anything goes. Anything goes, except you can't, it's just basically trying to choke the guy out inside of a vehicle. You got to start seatbelted, first person on, and get on, you know, getting submission and just using seatbelts or whatever to choke him out. That feels grimy, and I get grimy. Oh, yeah, here it is. I'm trying to unbuckle you. That's how you start.

That's how you start. And this guy in the white knows he is done. He's in trouble. Yeah, I feel like, oh, he's so cooked. The seat box? See me around the neck would be an automatic. That's the move you're trying to avoid it. I mean, look at the pin.

Oh, it really is just like how fast can you unbuckle? Yeah. Now he's just playing twister, right? Yeah, on neck, left foot on red. Yeah, I mean, he's just dominating. That's card jujitsu. That will be in the next athlete battle for y'all if there's demand for a seven-game series again. Oh, my gosh.

I'm ready. Good on you guys for battling it out in front of the people. Yeah, respect. I respect that. Not a lot of people get out there and join. show their lack of athleticism like you guys did. Yeah, it's very honorable. Yeah.

Well, I mean, it was the mid-off of the century. I'll admit that, but... Maybe, man, there might be... I respect Jackson as an athlete. Good, that's good to see there's a respect level. And we'll continue to be good friends and live together. So it hadn't hurt the friendship whatsoever. No.

There hadn't been any bad blood at the crib. No, we're still going home watching Stranger Things, chilling, cool, and cool. You guys caught up on Stranger Things. Like, you finished it? Yeah, finished it. You'll watch it together. And actually, I will say Jackson texted me...

Quaid is watching it. And asked if it was okay if you watched it by it by himself or over Christmas break. You're telling me I should watch Stranger Thing. You watch Stranger Things? They lost me in season two. Really? Yeah. Yeah. I'm not a sci-fi guy. See, I'm still a Breaking Bad is the best

show of all time. Anyways, congrats on the win. Congrats on the win. Congrats on the birthday. You're both winners here. And you celebrated good today. Cowboy Chicken. Yeah. Yeah, went in a day with the boys. Yeah. But I got a little something for you guys, okay? It's not a birthday present. We're going to play a game to see how well you know your college sports teams. You guys will have the white boards to write down the answers.

You guys will reveal what you wrote down. See if it's correct. You guys are going up against the number one seat in all the land, Sparky himself. So good luck. You guys are battling for second place, I'm just saying. Yeah. All right, first up. Let's do it.

Bye. There's be fun. There it is. We have an L.MU red and blue and white. Burgundy and blue. You guys locked in? I'm locked. Ready.

Locked one. All right. Reveal your answers. Go ahead. We got a Louisiana Monroe, a what? Louisiana Methodist. That would be Loyola Merramount. Whoa. Okay.

West Coast Conference. Hank Gathers. Winner is Loyola Maramount. I did misspell it. It's okay. I definitely would have gone with Louisiana Monroe. Really? This school was extremely hit its peak back in the 90s.

Hank Gathers played for him. Unfortunately passed away. Bastewal, I'm guessing. Yeah, passed away on the court. On the court? Yep. On the court. Yep.

And then they played the NCAA tournament game. Is that why they're popular? What a way to go out. They're in the same conference as St. Mary's Gonzaga. Oh, got you. Okay. Yeah. They got,

yeah, they're basketball school. Basketball fully. I think most of these are being made. He also knows when each university was founded, but we don't have time to go there. You always find out why I am so single. Next.

It's okay. I love you, Sparky. Oh, I know this one. Oh, I know this one. We got a animal. Yeah, I'd call it an orange beaver.

An orange beaver, which is very, easy. Probably can guess from home. You probably can guess from home. Go ahead, reveal your answers. Three, two, one. Graham. Yes, yes. What would you go with Graham? Beaver Northeastern. Oh, close. Beaver Northeastern is a great schoolman. Oregon State. Bevers. They got a new football coach, head man, coming in. They need a new conference. Well, I guess they're about to, huh? They are. They are about to. Okay, so Sparky is correct.

You got one on the board. Graham, you are still searching for that beautiful. He's looking for the Alabama where it says it on the logo. Yeah, I can't find it. He's looking for spelled out. Let's set it up for number three, logo number three. Play it. Ooh, on the screen.

Oh, this one's like a weird one. We have a orange and blue pee. Oh, it's on the tip of my tongue. If I had to guess, everyone has their answer locked in. I'm ready. no rush if you had to guess though Gere I'm interested where you'd guess with this I would go pepper dine if that I have no idea he hasn't written it yet I think it might be Princeton though

what is it that is pepperdine this is the only one I knew I thought I'd get a leg up on Jackson you really knew pepperdine yeah that is shocking I'm gonna not I'm gonna not give it to Jackson there why why why he went off my answer no no no no no I that was what I was thinking of I just needed the... Sure.

I said it was a weird one. Pepperdine is weird. I'll give you a half point for that. All right. Salt and pepper dine. Salt and pepper dine. Graham, way to pull that one out, dude. Thank you.

I heard you. That's crazy. It's like somebody eats sourcrap. I had no idea that called the waves, though. That... Terl, too. No idea. Make sure you say it plural, too.

All right. Fourth logo. We have a blue letter, no, a blue outline white letter, S.D. I mean, has to be San Diego. Something, but it's not San Diego State. No, it's not. Is it just San Diego University?

Yeah. Show them, boys. It's San Diego. I believe they're the... San Diego Torero. Wow. What is it? Torero.

Don't worry about it. All right. Oh, I know this one, because this is where my guy went. Yep. On screen, we have a guy riding a Bronco. School colors. School colors. Yellow and brown.

Yellow and brown. I actually have a hoodie from this university. Wow. Yeah. What? Tyler Junior College. uh shawm wyoming

it's Wyoming broncos that's the cowboys that's the cowboys Wyoming Cowboys I don't know I'm guessing bro Murray State's I don't know

the racers Josh Allen yeah bonus point for anybody tell me what city in Wyoming that's a layer me Wyoming Larry me yeah that's what I was thinking

tough place to play tough place to play is it I've never played there next logo oh I know this one too I should have been playing this game

on screen we got a purple in everyone done oh no Northwestern oh my it's not Northeastern oh my goodness

we played my school played them in hockey that's the only reason I know them but that's you said Northwestern I got it wrong I said Northeast that's negative ball knowledge

I'm not gonna lie that's a rough one there is a whoa and then can you tell me where their coach just left to go coach Sparky Pat Fitzgerald just left didn't he yeah

to go where I'm trying to remember Michigan State yeah mistake Yeah, wow. Northeastern. You got the north right. The thing is there is a school

Northeastern that plays Division I basketball, home with JJ Barreya up in the northeast. JJ. Next logo. I know this one too. Come on now. Jackson, I need you to get this one wrong. We have a B and a G with a bird.

Let's try to get the mascot here, boys. Let's try to get the mascot. Oh, you just ruined me. Come on. It's a bird. It's a bird of something sort. So write it down. It could be a hawk.

It could be a eagle. It could be a red bird. It could be a... Did you name in those three? Did you name it? I don't know. You don't know it. I don't know.

I actually don't know the mascot. Okay. I know them because we played them. Amen, did. We did. We did play them a couple years ago. Reveal the answers. Bowling Green Hawks.

Falcons, smart. It's... Big birds. I'm the biggest bird. The Bowling Green Bigbirds is... Could you use the mascot change? I'm not bad. Bowling Green.

state? Anybody? Yeah, this is... Ohio, Ohio. Ohio. No. I was going to go with Indiana. Kentucky, I believe.

Yeah, it's more south than I thought because I always thought it was like an Illinois school. I think it's Kentucky. Bowling Green just feels like Indiana. Doesn't know. I thought it was going to be up there.

Yeah, kind of some Indiana tendencies to it. But it's not. It's always, it's south. I remember looking this up and knowing that it's a southern... Bowling Green, Ohio. It is. Ohio.

I was right. Can I get a point for that? Please. No. I didn't deserve one. Sympathy point? Have a point? You need to leave.

All right, a couple more for you. Bro, if... Okay. I threw an easy one in for Jackson. I thought you were going to do really bad at this. I needed to get you a win here. The description is a hog, Red Hogg running.

It's about all you need there. One might call it a razor back. Good. House wins there. Arkansas. Razor back. Good job, boy. Proud of y'all there.

Was the. answer. SEC program, you missed that. You know, we'll welcome back to the show. Oh. On screen, we have a Cougar. It looks like, if I'm guessing, I'm going to BYU here,

but it's like their color scheme, but I have no clue. Jackson with an all-time answer coming out. No, it's funny. It's a funny one. University of Phoenix. Dry. Jackson. Chinos.

That's funny. Shout out Lamello. That's Montana State. Montana State Bobcat. That's a Bobcat. Oh, I forgot to put my Bobcat down there. No, this one. Oh. Oh, y'all are going to get it so wrong.

We have a shield with a armored helmet with a sword going through it. Star at the bottom. Black and Gold. Yeah. Reveal them. One of the greatest rivalry games in the whole time. Army Black Knights. See, I thought y'all were going to go Michigan State there.

Yeah, dude. Yeah, if you don't know Army. This is a bird. kind of beak pointed down, red and black and white, just trying to describe it for the people listening. I don't know this one. This one's located in Muncie, Indiana. I got two for this one.

You guys good? Ready? That's the Ball State. Ball State. Is that a boy? Oh, it does have Lamar tendencies to it too. Not bad. I'm going to give you a half point there because you put Lamar on the board.

Okay, okay, that's fair. Hey, good pool there, bro. Let's go to a couple hard ones, like real hard ones. Oh, I saw that. I know this, though. I would have gotten that. I know this. So on the screen, we have, this is definitely like a cougar, a green cougar, tiger, bobcat.

This is where Road to Glory ball knowledge comes in. I'll give you a clue. This is not, they don't have an FBS football program. Yeah. Don't you think they have one. This is basketball only. I'm just going to guess a state. Does this college start with a C?

Yes. Okay. Is it Charlotte? No. Is it Chattanooga? Mm-mm. Chimbers Bay. Chill.

Chill. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not ready. Chal. You have Chal. Ignore that. Chicago.

Chicago. Really? This is Chicago State. I know. The Coogs of Chicago State. What? One of the most underfunded basketball programs out there. They lose about 25 games a year.

Let's go. Sorry if you went to Chicago State, your basketball program's horrible. But that's all they do. Yeah. Well, I think you have like swimming and diving and things like that. Oh, okay. Oh. I think I actually, oh my gosh.

He might have stumped me for the first time. Is that a roadrunner? It's got to be. Oh, yeah. did it. You might have found one that got me. No way. I think I know what this is, but I hope I'm not wrong. So on the screen, I think we got a roadrunner, blue and gold.

God, they might have got me. Fiery little bird-looking thing. I hope I'm right here. I think I'm actually... It's not UTSA. No way. That's not where you're going. I'm way. I'm not in the state of Texas. That's for sure. Oh, shit. I think this might be. This one's tough even for me, so... Reveal the answers. I think this is West Hammers. California.

Bakerfield. and Sparky. How? I watch a lot of major basketball brother. Wow. I got a load runner right.

I even press myself with that one. That's like your boy like at 12 o'clock at night watching the plumbing like championship. Like you should know Sparky during COVID

it was notorious for stand up all night and watching Korean baseball just to get a fix. That's how addicted to sport on. And so for people watching you think like

dude these guys don't know ball I would say you're half right. Do you not get dopamine hits off like scrolling on your phone? Like, is it not there? Like, you have to have, like, some sort of bar. He's just my dopamine hit. Watching Bakerfield or Idaho. He's not a scroller. He is a watcher of sport. Yeah.

ESPNA-D-O show. A true conosaur. Okay. Yeah. Okay. You should try it sometimes. Get off the scroll, man. Sorry. Uh, let's go one more hard one. See if we can stump sparks. Oh, dude. No. I kid you not. I think I know. I'm not even lying right now. That is the same logo that our high school e-sports team has. Not even kidding. It's because it's not trademarked. And your high school. is legally allowed to use it. It's a tiger. It's not the Cincinnati Bengals.

Sparky, what is it? I believe that's the Idaho State Bengals. Idaho State Bengals. Texas High Tigers, Eastport. Wow, Sparky. Unbelievable. I will just want to throw a couple real quick. Idaho.

On the screen, Sparky, just rip them off. Southern Miss. Boom, Southern Miss. Albany, Great Danes. No way. Alaska Anchorage. What? North Florida.

Nick. Oh, he got it wrong. I got it. Give me the rest of them. Unload the clip. Vermont. That's it. Wow. I'm so disappointed.

Unreal. Only one. One for what? How many was that? What did I say Norfolk? He's in Norfolk. One for 20. You went 19 for 20.

I got to get back in the lab. Yeah, you got a lot of Road to Glory to play tonight. And the mid-major basketball to watch. Should we add up who won between Jackson and Chris? Oh, it was Jackson. I think Jackson clearly won over Graham. I was just waiting for Hamburger University to show up. I will say...

From Fortnite? I had it written down. Real quick. Both college dropouts, but what did we graduate GPA was? Oh, dude, that's brutal. I had, because I was like skipping classes the film. Whoa. So I had like a 2.0.

Okay. I had a respectable 3-3. When I left. Hey, at the end of the day, I will say your knowledge showed. But hey, before we leave, we have a special birthday little gift for a Jackson bring it in

bringing in the goody happy birthday Jackson yo I'm not thank you so much it says happy birthday Jackson show the people show the people you can read cursive

that's not cursive my guy let's go happy 21st thank you guys yeah real talk good to see you out of Pampers and growing up man happy birthday dude I'm not going to sing to you We got Corey and Ty coming up to talk some big Dude Perfect plans. Thanks, boys.

Welcome back. Happy to be joined by Twin 2, Corey Cotton. This is a really cool time for a Dude Perfect mega fan, boys, because let's talk about it. It's a new year. We've got new visions. A lot of things going down behind the scenes here at Dude Perfect. Let's talk about it. Ty? Yeah, big things on the horizon. A lot of new opportunities, some new series coming out this year. Some have even said there's going to be a new world's highest shot. No. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. That doesn't sound like our team. If it is, it's not from us.

I'll say that. Thank goodness. We did just go through. We are further ahead in Dude Perfect Planning than we have ever been in 16 years, right? 16 years in April? The people don't care about that, but we care about that. We care about it a lot. We have never had a full calendar year of videos planned out.

And not only are we planned out on the main channel, we are also planned out D.P. Outdoors. No way. Through the rest of the year. Oh. We have the videos that we are getting ready to film, all lined out, ready to rock. So you're at almost athletes.

We don't plan anything. Oh, no, we don't know what we're talking about next week. We have no idea. This is the first I've heard about. We're talking about Dude Perfect. So it sounds great. Yeah, we like to fly by the seat of pants. Some exciting videos coming out this year.

We're, of course, running back Trick Shot World Championship. Have to. Excited about that one. it last year believe it or not that video actually got thrown together pretty quick it did it was a video that we knew that we wanted to do but it was supposed to come out later in the year I think we had a video fall through so it got pushed up and we weren't able to do all the things that we really wanted to do for that very first series but it's fine because uh this year we're getting to do some of those big ideas that we kind of wanted to do in the first one so the people really want to

know is trickshot queen coming back that's just oh yeah we can we're gonna we're gonna have the invite she's in okay she's back the queen's back the queen's Queen is back, along with some new faces. For sure. Cool. We've got a couple other females joining us this year. Yes. And yeah, it's going to be... I threw my name in the hat.

You did? You're competing? Just myself, Purple Hoesers. You're going to get murdered. Maybe. It could be a quick out for me. It could be all the way to the finals. I hate to tell you, I don't think you made the final. No way.

I think you... Well, I didn't get my... You didn't make the voice audition, you know? I thought the no reply was in us. Yeah, I thought maybe I was in. No, I don't think so. I thought I was training for to. one. I'm looking forward to that. Is that work?

Of course, won it last year. Go to baner held up. It's big deal. Invite back if you win it. They're going to be defending their title this year. Squad games, we've got some exciting groups that will be continuing that series doing an entire tour this summer based off of that concept. So if you haven't got your tour tickets, get them now. It's going to be a lot of the fun stuff that you've seen from us before if you've been to a

tour show, but also the battles and competitions are going to be bigger and better than ever. We bring ice. We go and broomball on tour. We may be just based off that last performance. We may have to add that one into the mix. That was a fun watch. Some have said that there's a stereotype video. No. Yes.

We do those now? It's been looming that we have not yet done. Years in the making some of them said. I've seen a couple comments that some people have been requesting this one specifically. More than a couple. So that one may be making an appearance come August, September, around the start of hockey season. Oh, yeah. hockey or, you know, school getting started back.

Yeah, what up? Teacher Ty, I'm a big overtime fan. Yeah. New desk update, please? I can confirm. There will be a new desk. Okay. There will be a new desk and there are OTs planned with some special guests this year.

It's going to be around May. I think by the time the new desk is out, there's been talk. I've personally been a little bit against it. There's been a lot of talk. There's, well, there's a lot of talk that goes on here. Sure. There's been talk of an. OT 49 and three quarters.

I don't know how long you can stretch that. Milk that cow. I mean, if it is, it should be Harry Potter themed. Platform 9 and 3 quarters. That's good. That's kind of the direction we're headed. But if not, it'll be an OT 50 in May on the new desk.

I really like that. There's a new series that I'm not going to give away too much. But a new series coming out this year, we try and do a new one every year. Sounds like a big year for Dude Perfect. Yeah, huge year. I'm learning a lot of stuff right now. Yeah, it's going to be good. But I don't like the way you just did that.

Really? Really? Yeah, I've got a secret, but I'm not going to tell them. It's pretty much what you said. Yeah, that is kind of what I did. But I get why you can't say it either. For sure. For sure.

Outdoor, we got some great videos coming up. Me and Gere are going to go do some lobster diving. I don't even know what that made, but it sounds. We're going to go catch lobsters with our hands. And good news for us, I just found out they're spiny lobsters, which means it sounds scarier, but they don't have the big claws on the fun. But they're spines? I guess.

They're spiny? So we're going to go do that. I don't even know what that means. I can't wait to find out who we is. We're going to go down to South Texas. We're going to fish the Devil's River, a place I've always wanted to go. It looks incredible.

Yeah, sounds frightening. We have got an arrowhead video that we're doing later this year with a guy that we just met a couple weeks ago. Not Pat, but... Another guy who's found some unbelievable arrowheads. Tam is getting in on the DP outdoors,

taking us rock climbing. Oh, that'll be fun. Yep, we're going to go do this. that. You're going to start building something soon. I am going to start building something soon. It'll be very outdoor boysish. It is. Just a little ode to outdoor boys in the retirement. We're going to try our hand in building a long cabin. If that dude makes it on his live climb up that tower, the free solo guy. He's doing a live one on Netflix. We should get him in with the rock climb. I would love to learn from that guy. Yeah, he seems like, now he doesn't use equipment, but maybe we can. We can.

reach out to him. Yeah, Alex, Alex. On solo? That guy is. He's got to be as mentally tough as anyone on the planet. Yeah. Dude, if you're a free solo in Halfdome. Yeah. I wonder how you get to that point in life. I think it's just, uh, I think you start climbing trees as a kid, like all of us. But I did too. Yeah, but he never stopped. Gotcha. He never stopped. He never fell. Yeah. Yeah. He doesn't know what it's like to fall.

Yeah. So, yeah. I like that. We get him in on an outdoor app. I got to be honest with tie after hearing both segments. Yeah. And watching the dove video. Yeah. I'm more excited for the outdoor channel. Okay. I'm just, that's just me being honest. And I'm looking forward to. If you haven't watched it, we did just launch our first outdoor video and hit a million. I was about to say, shout out to the million of you guys that watch that video with a brand new channel. Super excited about it. Gears going to Alaska this year, taking his boys, I think. Oh, yeah. That's going to be sick. Can't wait. That'll be fun. That'll be fun. I'm taking two months off of work, by the way.

So I won't be here for the pod for two months. I got three days going to North Bowl. Good news. Ridiculous. Corey can fill in for you because I don't think the DP indoors boys have got as many videos lined up as the D.P. Outdoors boys. I'm a great indoor guy and you haven't utilized me yet. What are the plans for DP indoors?

D.P. indoors. Comment below what you guys want to see. We are behind the scenes right now cooking up something special. Like cooking cookies? I have heard on the streets people yell at me, dude perfect indoors make it happen yeah i'm just out of the streets you've heard talk yeah i've really want to see that it's good to hear tie yeah you feel very prepped for 2026 now i'm kind of like thinking man maybe i'm not ready geared up to go as i thought or was but good to have your ducks in

align with the outdoor channel full pun intended that's awesome yeah gair's going to alaska taking his boys out there still probably one of my all-time favorite trips we've ever done fly fishing up there seeing the bears firsthand i think you're saying the lobster diving like i've even done it yeah how can you claim the Alaska trip. I'm following now, sorry. I'm a little jealous of that one, but we'll be on another trip

while he's doing that. We're going to catch some pythons this year. That's not real. Yes. You should on that, right? Yeah, Cody Jones. We put Cody there just in case disaster happens.

That's actually right. If we're going to lose somebody to a python, well, you think Cody would have a good shot. Just being a bigger guy, surely if it goes south, he can get away from the python. And if not, you know. Well, that's the thing.

He's the slowest of the group. So if it goes south, We've been taken. Is this the slowest smart to bring him to the Python? Where they jump out of trees? I hope not. I've seen those videos and I can't unsee those videos in my head. These are very big snakes.

You know what I'm talking about? You haven't seen those? No. Guys, Google or don't Google, Python's coming out of trees. We were sharing that video the other day. I think this may be AI core and that's embarrassing for a guy who spends a lot of time on AI. I don't want to get AIed and that seems like a snake jumping. You guys, they, they know.

I think did they fall out of a tree on someone? Would falling change your opinion? Yeah, a little bit. Jumping out of a tree just feels like ambushed. Snakes don't really jump, so I would like to edit my phrase to falling. Okay, sure. That's better. That sounds crazy.

Because the original way you said, it felt like you got Alan Iverson. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't want to be there if that happened. I'm excited for Cody. It's going to be a fun one. I'm thrilled for codes. That's awesome. Are you going to?

I am going on that one. Yeah, and we've been doing our research looking at video. They have very large teeth, which I didn't totally realize. It's not even like fangs, it's like shark teeth. Like they have rows of teeth that are all like an inch long. What? Dude, yeah. I don't know if I believe that.

No, no, yeah. There's videos. Look it up. Python fangs teeth videos. Oh my. Oh, yes. Oh, okay, wow. As if you needed another reason to be scared of a python.

That's not a Python. That's an Eastern Diamondback Rattler. Oh, thank you for the clarification. Thank you for the clarification. This is a mirror. That one needs its wisdom to you take it out. Wildlife major here. I mean, it sounds like Tye's got the main channel, the outdoor channel, rock, and Sparky.

Do you got the gaming channel? Yeah. What's on the... Oh, right now is definitely kind of your off-season, if you will. During gaming, not many new releases right now. All right. Heading into next year, the big one's Grand Theft Auto, but that's for mature audiences only. We've been waiting on that one for a couple years.

I was never allowed. I'm actually pretty sure I'm still not allowed to play that one. That's good parenting. I think when you turn 50, you can kind of make that decision for yourself. I've got some time. Are we doing any like World Cup stuff? We should. You want to?

Well, I'm asking, have you planned any of this? No, I really have. That's what I'm saying. Ty is really making me nervous. He's like got spying lobster hunts for 2028 and I've got nothing here. Yeah, you might want to, maybe after this you start putting a video calendar together for gaming. What? Tours on the horizon.

We should talk about it. It's coming. He can't change the subject. really quickly off gaming. Look at that. Bishop. Look at that. Yeah, we can talk about tour.

Absolutely, we should talk about tour. You want to talk about it? Yeah. Guys, squad games was so much fun to film that we decided we would just make the whole tour squad games themed. Yeah. We are going to travel around to different cities in the U.S.

and compete against different teams. It is going to be insane. Literally live squad games competitions, bigger and better than any tour you've seen from us in the past, totally different structure, same dudes, plus some. Gonna be insane. Absolutely insane.

We might lose every single quad games. I hope not. I hope not too, but I've already started the training program. Oh, in 22. I haven't. Would be really tough look. I mean, look, Savannah Bananas, we knew that was going to be a tough matchup for us.

We pulled one out against Good Good. That was just a comeback for the ages. We fought, we clawed, we grinded, we got that dub. Savannah Bananas we knew was going to be an uphill battle. Good news is they may have the scouting report on us from all these sports, but we get to pick the guests. You know what I'm saying?

So worst case scenario, we get to pick Savannah Bananas. We go to like inventors, Albert Einstein, those types of guys. Engineers. Some of these older groups that we know we could take on. I felt like, you know,

where it went bad with the Savannah Bananas was just a field goal. We thought we had them. Yeah. And that was just mismanagement. Same with Good Good. I feel like we just mismanaged those picks.

We made the wrong call on a sport. And that's where we need a scout. We need a scout on our side that goes out to all these guys' daily lives and starts just prying, getting a little info. But if I had to put the Savannah Banana's loss on any one moment. Who's it going to be? I'm going to blame myself. Really? We should, we cannot.

We cannot lose dodge ball. And that second game where I just fell out of bounds. And he didn't even hit me. Cody stepped out. And Cody, he did? Yeah, and I remember two. 18 times, don't step out. Me and Cody got ourselves out.

Just bang, bang, bang, boom. And we were down to one. We should have won dodge ball. Had a 1-0 lead on them too. And remember, we almost kept it a one game move on, and then we were like, two out of three. You know, playing baseball players,

I think our best chances if we do a two out of three series. Yeah, and then we lose game two. Yeah, look. It's an oversight. I'm going to take responsibility. That came down to the dodge ball. We had that one.

Dodgeball and field goal. Both of y'all, could have easily made those earlier kicks. Yeah, yeah. We both missed Bonnie's life. I never could have. That kid had a... Oh, that was that kick that.

From the top rope. Well, you could have got a couple more points in Bing pong, yeah, buddy. No, you want Bing pong. You did well. Yeah. No, I'm doing... Now that we're being honest...

No, it's fine. I'm just being... I watch the video and it's just dodgeball. It's funny when you watch film back and you, you know, reassess what went wrong. Sorry for dropping that flyball in the first. I know. I couldn't find the strike zone in the first inning.

Sparky, that was... Oh, yeah. That was like your video, that was like your photo from when you played in the game. Oh yeah, you got Dallas Morning News to get D&M'd. You're not an outfielder, do you're an infielder. The worst thing, though, I'm an outfielder, that's the bad part. You should see me on the other. You don't want me on the end field.

The worst thing, though, you couldn't find the strike zone, but Billy couldn't find it either until Cody riled him up. Cody chirped. He did. He took it personally, MJ style. Yeah. And then he was just toying with us. Absolutely. But those dudes are real.

They're real. I love those guys, man. I can't wait for them to hang up their base. baseball career and just come work for DP. Well, I got about 15 years, seeing that they're in their early 20s. I'm saying that was a big part of this, too. Tail of the tape, they had the youth on their side. No doubt.

You know? For sure. They reminded us. The amount of I'm sore text that I got from y'all was alarming. Yeah. It's a wake-up call. I'm still sore. We filmed that eight weeks ago.

We're going to be glorified athletes. We're going to be almost athletes on tour going city to city like we're an NBA team. We've got to be ready. Do we already? I already told our CFO that we need, I need to carry a PT guy around with me just to help stretch out after it's like full recovery team no more no more pizza nights after tour dude

can't do that we can't do pizza we're gonna have to be eating mangoes and hot tub and magnesium hot baths I've never had a magnesium hot bath magnesium and mangoes you know what I think about that our bus is gonna look a lot different this year no more hey no more milk duds

those leg things that you have that yeah compression leg who's Tom Brady's guy early is he available now maybe early Bed times, dude. Do you think we could get Alex? I feel like, I don't know.

It's worth reaching out. How will your golf play be affected by the... No, we're still golfing. Yeah. Golf won't be affected. Priorities. We got to use a little bit of energy on the golf game. That's the mental.

That's mental up here. We got a great golf game for squad for the tour. Oh, yeah. Yes, I was practicing in the office. We can't tell. No, we can tell them. It's fine. It's going to be, we're going to have a giant green.

Like, it's going to be the whole floor. And we, the, you know, the bucket, golf game. They have those huge oversized clubs. We're going to have something like that. And I was trying out different balls and I got some of the gator skin dodge balls. You can launch those things and you can shape

them. You can hit the cut. You can hit the baby draw. I think we're really going to hit somebody in row five. That's going to be fun. But we're going to be, I want to be hitting them from up in the stands down making aces. We don't want to Garrett from Good Good anybody. No, we don't. But good news is it's a dog ball. They're made to hit people

in the face. No, he's Yeah, he laughed about that, too. We talked about it on the pod. Yeah, I'm going to go buy some tour tickets, Ty. You should. You sold me in your life. You don't have to, yeah. You're emceeing it.

I think we would appreciate your buying those, too, though. Yeah, maybe give them out to your friends. Yeah, you've been filling us in on some things, Ty, any like behind-the-scenes stuff that people should know about? We're finally, finally, after 18 months, because we alluded to it earlier with the overtime build. This is why I hate giving out updates because you just, you hope they have them? I know. Sweet 200.

We have a whole other third. 30,000 square feet that we're going to build out. We're actually moving current podcast. I don't like some of the set up here. Really? Yeah, soundproofing wise is a little, you know. It gets a little warm in here too. It does.

It does get a little warm. And we're moving the set. We're moving strong. The team's moving the set. Are they going to be able to tell? Is it going to look different? No, it will look pretty similar. We're going to make some minor changes.

Maybe some not so deep chairs where I don't have to have a B pillow behind me. Yeah. Maybe. Maybe. That's a CFO thing. Art Department relocating. We're putting them. We're kicking them out. Get the art people out of here. What else is going to be in Sweet 200? Well, we've already alluded to it, but it's the new overtime set. Can we talk about the design? Sure. I think so. You know more about it than I do. So we're going to have probably integrated buttons at work here. Like, let's be... Whoa. You're telling me the buttons are actually going to make a sound? I think so. But the mics are not going to be real. The mics, they still need to be fake.

I agree. I want some contraption. Like, you know, Ty coming from the ceiling. Maybe, you know, there's just stuff like that that we need to have. Maybe actually when you're walking down the stairs, you actually walk down the stairs. That'd be sick. You know? I don't know where it goes.

We need to see if we can put in a basement in there. Yeah. We need to get one of those bank tellers. A brand new studio to film bigger, better videos like Ty alluded to. I'm not sure about the outdoor videos, but the indoor videos. We got space, maybe. space, baby. And then the really exciting thing is for our fans, retail space,

and kind of like a walk-through museum and a dude-perfect mini-experience. That's great. But it's fun for kids and families that come up. They're going to get to experience some of those. So that's going to be really cool, is the retail walk-through museum. Admittedly really excited about that. I can't tell you how many fans. Hold on.

We've got to hit the fact that I'm using museum as far as like dude-per-per- That's how long we've been around, boys. Yeah, you're coming in a house. There's got to be a better word. It's like a presidential library. That's like, yeah. Oh, gosh. It's like, hey, let me look at these artifacts

from early 2000s, bro. Floppy disks that we used to film on. We're going to have kids that come there that were not born when we started. Oh, yeah. For sure. That's crazy. I just met two outside that we're not born.

I think one of the ones we hired. Yeah, a couple kids we hired or weren't born. So that's kind of crazy. Not museum. A timeline. Good news. from irrelevance, a relevancy standpoint. Yeah.

A lot of fans over the break that I met out front. Yeah. A lot. Well, now when it's 35 degrees outside in the middle of March, they'll actually be able to come inside. Yeah. The weather is just whack, dude. We also had a soccer tournament in town that definitely brought some people.

And then one of them was Kelsey, a coworker. Okay. It was a fan that was like, oh, that's Kelsey. Yeah. I've only had one fire at the house over winter. One. Oh, we did a lot at the ranch. It's not been, it's like, yeah, it's 65.

light the fire. You can make a fire when at 65. Oh, I know, it just doesn't. It's not that. Yeah, it doesn't. I want to wake up and be freezing going to get the wood outside. I cut down a monster tree this weekend. It was dead.

Don't forget it. It was already dead. My wife was about to call in and leave some. We cut up and we got the log splitter out there and we cut some firewood, dude. I'm ready for it to get cold. It's incredible. How many April? April, you'll be fired up by cutting wood and cutting down a tree.

I'll tell you how excited. I'll tell you how excited I was. My chainsaw blade was dull, instacarded, four new chainsaw blades and some bar oil, and that just gets you jazzed up. Putting on a new chainsaw blade. He just DP indoor and outdoor video. Oh, man. Instacarded chainsawed. That's why.

How many stacks of wood did you get? I filled up. We were empty. We literally used the last logs the night before. Went and cut down a new tree, and I filled both of them up. I mean, just piles. How big of a tree do you have to fill? one cord of wood. Not that big. Not that big. Not that big. Do you know what a cord would?

I do, but in case the viewer's going to. Yeah, I'm sure you do. Hey, what's the measurement? A measurement of a cord is about yay. Yay wide. It's a court. Yeah. Actually, I don't, is it 16 by 8? You can look it up. It's, yeah, it's like it's a good little, it's a good little stack. I feel like I nail it. It's a good little stack of firewood. Is it a cord? 16 feet by four feet high. Is that a cord? Yes. Or a court. A cord. A cord. Oh, a cord. Four feet high by, eight feet is long. 128 cubic feet. Oh, it's like a wall.

That picture makes it look a lot bigger. Oh, it's 60. Four by four. Yeah, four by four. By eight. It's crazy how smart you get watching this podcast. Yeah. I was wrong.

You know a good way to remember it? A cord is about the size of an accord. The car. I think that's why they named it. That's right. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. It's about the same size.

I probably cut two chords worth. No way. They got too much time on your hands. Oh, no, dude, it was a great way to just finish off the break. I needed it. I needed it bad. Maybe we should do that at some point now? Sleeping bags and video games?

I think while we're building our log cabin out in the woods, our bushcraft log cabin, y'all should build a blanket fort in Sweet 200. Really good at. And we see who's better. I mean, I'm a bit. It's good. Yeah, absolutely on board to that. Yeah.

A lot of that idea quite a bit. Corey, merchandise update. Do you have any? Yeah, for sure. Tough look, not wearing any dude perfect gear. Currently. Well, it's because it's being developed. Yeah, it's on its way. Guys, we would like to apologize

to Dupurit Nation for just a long time of our merch being good. It's not like it was horrible, but it was just be honest. We should be super honest. We were asleep. Subpar. Our merch was asleep for a while, and we woke up. And like Ty said, we've been hiring a lot and we've got

an insanely amazing team here now and we're making place. And we will admit we are incredibly proud of the merch that we have had recently did really well. I still would like to see some color changes personally. You think what you're looking at right now? I just am kind of over the black, white, and teal.

But that's just me. Let me guess. Comment below? How you feel on that? I would love some purple in there. I'm sure you would. And you would wear it too. You know you would wear some purple. I've worn quite a few. Yeah, dude.

So I'm saying. Kids want it. We've got a huge merch drop coming in February. Our spring collection. So make sure you keep tabs on the merch game from DP. But yeah, I'm super pumped about it. We're trying to kind of lean into what the kids want, you know. And getting seasonal with it.

We had the holiday collection, which did really well. Now we're doing a spring collection. We just learned about that. Duffle bag is pretty sick. Duffel bag is sick. I like the jerseys. The chain, dude. I need the chain ASAP.

Yeah. Chains are solid. I just need mine bling down a little bit more. Shooting sleeves or is that calf compression? I don't know. We're going to need. Yeah. Can we get some copper fit stuff for the squad game?

I reached out to a tube bracelet. I actually reached out to Copperfit one time to a. what do you think I did it I reached out in this long email funding our adult softball team they never reply did it? Oh that's funny

feels like I would have been really well written too well yeah merch is coming and then the book series which you've been working on a book series book series is going to be really really fun

yeah it's just where I head out guys thanks appreciate you know sorry okay he didn't walk out on your outdoor pitch you're right you're right you're right go ahead so fortunately for Ty this book series will also be available on audio book

okay well it's also tie's reading level And it is absolutely where Ty stopped reading his last book. Harry Potter level. At the middle school grade reading level. That's true. That's true. We pride ourselves in trying to make

some of the best truly entertaining family-friendly content in the world. And we are extending that to a fiction series. And we can't say too much about it right now. The story's amazing. Obviously, the dudes are the focal point of it, but we may or may not be slightly younger. He's tied the main guy?

Who knows? I guess we'll find out. Maybe there's a different main guy in the book series. I don't know. I just work here. The only other thing I will sprinkle in there just as a little taste is that people are always asking for more panda. And if you like Panda, you will not be disappointed in the Dupurbit Kids Fiction Series. It's going to be special. Can you, are these the titles of the books, I'm guessing?

I don't know. Are we unveiling that? So it's going to be basically about like a, kind of the premise. The premise of it would be like a special agent solving mysteries, but there's going to be some. trick shots involved. Yeah, I think that's a fair summary. Basically, Panda is a secret agent. Yeah. Dudes don't know. So definitely fiction. Definitely fiction. Okay. Definitely fiction. Well, maybe. I don't know. But you know, if you're fan old school of like Hardy Boys or anything where there's like a little bit of mystery. Captain Underpants. Working together. Goose bumps. Should be really cool. I think I truly think families are going to be obsessed with it.

I think it's going to be really fun. Hey! That's our two minute warning, Gare. You ever ran on deck? I do. I already had a rant last time and it didn't go. It didn't go. You got called VOTU. Yeah, you did. What do you got, Spart? It's kind of a short and sweet. We kind of touched on it already, but it's time to bring up New Year's resolutions because they're fake. They're Greek mythology.

They're AI generated. They last two weeks. Exactly. It's time to call out the people, including myself here, but it's time to resolution our resolutions. We need to double down. Because how many of them are forgotten by mid-March? Just about every single one of them.

Challenge yourself. Challenge your peers. Challenge your higher-ups. Looking at you, Andrew. who's reading a laughter book. Stick with it. Stick to it. At least go to June.

At least get to summer. But do you not find it odd that nobody talks about New Year's resolutions in June? So you're not anti-New Year's resolution. You're anti-giving up on them. I'm anti-giving up on them. You play four quarters.

I think really the rent is, I think we set lower goals for ourselves that we can achieve. That's also a way around it. If your resolution is to quit your resolution by the end of January, then yeah. But don't act like that. like you're going the full year with it and quit in mid-Fab. That's all. I think that's fair.

A lot of that was directed at me. I looked at myself in the mirror. When you started getting in shape, I said I wanted to read 25 minutes a day. At the beginning of a year? No, I didn't. You didn't. My New Year's resolution is to use body soap, body wash once a month. And that is why Sparky went on his rant because Ty's going to not do that. And give me a- It's going to be done by February. 25 days and it'll be, it'll be not existing. That's your way of admitting guilt? Like you're in the wrong? No, I just feel like that's kind of what the people want from me. And it's never been just a people pleaser for the sake of pleasing people. That's kind of what I feel like a resolution is.

It feels like Bethany's resolution for you. No, I smell good today. Again, smell me. I smell great. You kind of smell like cassidy and wings. That was just residual on. Gear, resolution? As I said, read.

Read 25 minutes a day. That's a long time. Maybe we go five minutes. And that is where I am going to admit failure and I'm going to start and I'm going to redo it. There's no way you've read 25 minutes every day this year. I haven't. Ty. I knew it.

See, that's his whole point. Green mythology. I got to admit. I have only hit, I've skipped a whole day every year. I'm not going to lie. You've got zero minutes one day. Five minutes is good to you.

I'm going to go five. I'm going to go five minutes. Because that you can do on the toilet. Yes. Yeah. Yes. Core. Mine's a big one.

Oh, gosh. And I think it might take the whole year. It may not even be possible. You telling what the resolution is or are you actually doing the resolution? You'll find out. Okay. I don't think the people. out there know this.

Y'all know this because y'all are in my inner circle. I can't taste. Yeah, that's true. So you're going to try to taste. I have been on a slow decline of the ability to taste and smell over like the last five or six years, not COVID apparently. Just shocking. But it was happening before that.

And so I am on a journey this year. I need to reach out to the people and get some help. I've got a really fancy specialist that I'm going to see in San Diego in a couple weeks. This guy. This guy. A fancy specialist. I am.

I've got the number two doctor in the world for taste and smell and then I'm trying to get appointment with the number one. I've got to ask where was number one? It's too expensive. It was too expensive. A year and a half wait list for number one.

Wow. Why don't you make that 27 resolution? If I have to. If I have to, I definitely will. This is crazy. I have a new one. I have a new one. Wow. Okay. Stick to reading five minutes of day. 2026. I'm getting this bunion taken care of. Whoa. You got to show that?

Yeah. I'm getting this bunion taken care of so I don't have to be embarrassed. when I go on a boat in the summer and I'm like the fat kid in a t-shirt, except I got to wear a crock so nobody sees my bunion. I didn't know you had a bunion. I want to be a seat away. Is it contagious? It's a wild one.

It's like a wild way. It's like flu. I don't know how they work. I'm going to end up with a bunion. Those are all good. Hey, we're going to, I'm going to bring you guys all back on December 28th. And on this pod. And I'm going to see if I read five minutes.

Sparky is going to, I guess yours is just not to do them. So you're probably going to be good. You should be a taste. I want to game more. I need a game more in 26 and stay up a little later. Okay. Okay. Ty is to get a bunion removed and to use soap once a month and Corey to taste an enchilada.

Yeah, baby. By, yeah, end of December. So we'll check back in. We'll be accountable. You guys keep us accountable. And we'll be back next Wednesday. Yeah. All new episode.

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