Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect - Dude Perfect Sounds Off on College Football Playoffs & New Channel Announcement!
Episode Date: December 10, 2025Dude Perfect breaks down a huge week in sports — including an epic rant about the broken College Football Playoff system and their unique solutions to fix it. The Dudes also react to the World Cup d...raw, recap the week in NFL action, and reveal their shocking Spotify Wrapped top songs of the year. Later, they announce the launch of Dude Perfect’s new Outdoor channel with Tyler and his cohost, Jared Pettitt. The episode wraps with a hilarious voicemail segment you have to see — and hear — to believe. Call in and ask any questions you have for the Dudes at 972-805-8866. Happy Holidays to all, from all of us at Almost Athletes! Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 06:20 Sparky's Sad Sports Weekend 09:50 College Football Recap 24:55 Almost Sports Of The Week 31:35 Spotify Wrapped 37:29 Hess Toy Truck 38:35 Jared Pettitt Introduction 39:40 Brand New Channel Announcement 42:55 Jared's Baseball Pastime 01:01:00 Voicemail Introduction 01:01:25 Leftovers or Your Least Favorite Restaurant 01:04:55 Big Soap Agreement!? 01:09:10 OT Rules In Football 01:10:20 Should There Be A Foul Out In Football 01:12:45 What Do You Do When You're Sick 01:14:42 Picking The Perfect Fruit 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
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I'm going to channel my inner Gary.
I generally don't point at the stripes.
The worst officiated football game that I have ever been a part of.
Other than the loss, the weekend was better, though.
I'm going to be 100% on this.
It's the least amount of Sunday football I ever watched because it hurt.
Well, your fantasy team felt it.
Yeah, that is.
Welcome to Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect, a Wave Original.
Where your host is always, Garrett.
Spark.
T.T.
And T.T. Boy, it feels like a long time.
I mean, Cody, having Cody on just makes it feel like you have been gone forever.
Like a long podcast.
Yeah, I'm happy to be here.
Good to be back.
We got a fun show coming up.
Sparks, why don't you talk about it?
Yeah, we got the college football bracket.
Just got released a good weekend of NFL stuff.
We've got a lot to say about the World Cup draw.
I'll be honest, boys football was tough on me.
I know.
We're going to get to it.
I know.
We're going to respond to voicemails, which I look forward to.
Plus, we're going to talk to Jared Pettit.
Whoa.
And Tyler.
Yeah.
Perfect Outdoor Channel is a real thing, and it's coming very quickly.
So we'll talk about it.
All right, before we hit on your weekend, which we'll get to, a couple of just quick
church reminders.
I feel like I'm at a church service, you know, it's right before you get into it.
It's like, we got announcements.
Remember to tithe.
It's year and giving time.
Okay.
Pass the plate around.
We're going on tour this summer to great Christmas gift for you and the family.
Come join us.
We're going to 24?
22.
22 cities.
It's going to be fun.
I think our first tour date somewhere late June, and it will go kind of all July.
We just launched overtime.
49 and a half.
We've actually been doing overtimes for a while, but yeah, the newest one.
Yeah, I mean, like we brought it back from the dead.
And I, well, speaking of that, I don't want to spoil it.
No.
You're just going to have to go watch overtime because there might have to be,
there might be a little bit of.
I got it.
There's some breaking news.
There's some breaking news in overtime and you should go, I don't want to, I don't want to spoil it,
but it's a good one.
And then we'll get into it later.
new outdoor channel releasing soon.
Yeah.
I mean, that is really the only reason Tye's here.
He refused to come back on until we released it.
And we're doing it.
Thanks for giving me an opportunity to talk about what I got going on.
It's good.
It is time.
It is time, dude.
In the year with a bang.
Also, if you are getting DP tour tickets and your socking,
you're in for a career Christmas.
Yeah.
That is one of heck.
That has been good to you?
Gear up.
Yeah, because you have a loaded 25th coming your way.
Do you guys have a good weekend?
No.
I did. I agree. We'll get to you later, Sparks. Todd, I'm going to be honest with you. No, it was good. We just did a little Christmas
party at the house. It was fun. Had a bunch of people over. I appreciate the little Christmas party, man. You guys went
all out. Bethany went all out.
Shoozy. Shout out to Bethany for putting on one heck of a Christmas party. You did it, Beth.
I was just the financial provider behind it. Let's talk about. That's needed, though.
I got to start saving for next year if we're running that back. Do we have a number that you're willing to share on?
No, we don't. No, we don't. We don't. Not one that we're willing to share.
You know what my favorite part about the Christmas party was?
The Smoors Bar.
Yeah, that was a nice touch.
I don't, you didn't even go to the Smoors Bar?
You missed the Smoors Bar?
Did you go to the hot chocolate bar?
Yeah, I did some more.
Okay, well, you at least hit one of the two.
I left my jacket, though, which thank you, by the way, for the Burnley coat.
Bethany went and got it for me.
Oh, good.
I was struggling there outside.
Okay.
It was chilly today.
It was.
It was.
But yeah, so you had to get, I had a good week of myself.
My actually, my daughter's first basketball game was this weekend.
Any points from her?
Any shots from her
Yeah, it was
Any passes from her
Passes, yes
Passes, yeah
Yeah, you know what?
She went from having one practice
Not knowing what the game of basketball really is
She hustled hard
It's fun
The Lord is working in mysterious ways in my heart
You know, so
Teaching you some things
I need to be taught some things
You know and not that I'm realizing
But I'm excited to watch her grow in the game
It's crazy because
like, I would say five years ago, I was like, look, I don't think that's the sport I'm going to push
my daughter to you. Yep. And now she's woke up one day and was like, I want to play basketball. And
it's hard to tell your baby girl no. Yeah. She pretty much gets anything she wants. Sure. So she's
playing basketball. So she's playing basketball. And I'm there. And I'm there supporting it.
That was my weekend. Went to Tie's party. Ag's got number seven. Yeah. Bear fell out of his
basketball game, by the way. I was proud of him. Yeah. Yeah. And early in the fourth,
I don't think they call, yeah, they do call thousands.
Yeah.
How many do you get at that level?
Five.
Five.
You get five.
Yeah, they need to upgrade that to six.
Yeah.
Again, same thing.
Like last year when he started off, very timid playing.
And he played flag football and now like the aggressiveness from football.
That'll mature a kid.
It was a little bit too much of a transfer over.
And now he's just like, he's a little too physical.
I mean, he gets a breakway and he's like, I'm going to take the right angle, cut him off.
And, you know, let's like, okay, easy.
So these were borderline technical fouls?
One of them was.
One of them was, and I was sitting next to the other.
parent too and I was like oh and you're just like hey good hosser come on yeah let's go for the ball
next time yeah uh so we're there we're working through that maybe he maybe he's developing a new
sport rugby i mean but on a basketball court yeah yeah yeah we'll see full contact basketball
please tell me the stripes are pretty lenient though like they're not calling every double dribble
barrett's age at eight yes they're if you you pick it up and you dribble again it's a double
it's done it's too you got to teach him the right here sure yeah there's but there's fine line there
because you could get a three-hour affair with trying to whistles.
There is a fine line.
It happened in Iris's basketball,
which I'm just like,
if you call it one way,
I feel like you got to call it on the other team.
And there was a bunch of them that,
you know,
just wasn't called.
And again,
I'm trying to tell myself,
it's seven-year-old basketball.
This guy is reffing seven-year-old basketball
on the Saturday.
Does he want to be there?
Yeah,
that's probably,
you guys probably have similar thoughts on the game.
I got to just keep my thoughts to myself.
Like I said,
man, the Lord's really working on me.
That's good.
That's good.
All right, Sparky.
We have to talk about the North Texas
Tulane game.
Do we?
Yeah, we do.
Time to pull the bad day off.
Yeah, man.
Well, it started really a horrible,
horrendous sports weekend for your boy.
And those are always hard.
Do we need to cue sad music or is this okay?
Cue sad music.
Okay.
Because I was a sad little Sparky
this weekend.
First started with a 44 bomb
that the Lions put on the Cowboys Thursday,
but I'm thinking,
oh, that's okay.
That's the sacrificial lamb.
It is.
It is.
It is.
It is.
It is.
day. Go to New Orleans. Everything's fine. The skies kind of open up, start raining, thinking this
isn't good. Do you make your flight on time? Did make the flight on time, yeah. Everything was going
well. Then the game started. And I'm going to channel my inner Gary. I generally don't point
at the stripes. The worst officiated football game that I have ever been a part of. Probably a
blessing. I didn't see it on TV because after getting some feedback and watching some of the
replays, egregious, absolutely egregious.
So other than the loss, the weekend look was better, though.
I'm going to be 100% honest.
It's the least amount of Sunday football I ever watched because it hurt.
It was too soon.
Well, your fantasy team felt it too.
Yeah, they did not look good either.
They could tell you are watching.
They could tell you were not bought in at all.
Yeah, fantasy team struggling.
Like I said, it was a dark weekend on the sports front.
But with that being said, you need some dark weekends to really make the great ones.
Yeah.
Great, you know.
I mean, that's the way I'm looking at it.
I, you're, we just have to talk about it because you're, you're in deep on the G5s, okay?
Yes, sir.
A lot of the other people listening are not in on the G5s.
They probably don't even watch a G5 unless their team is playing one.
Like the committee?
They don't watch a lot of G5.
Yeah.
So like, I text you, I literally use the words, I think Oregon boat races James Madison.
Okay.
And you said, Jay Mew's got a very competent defense that could keep them in that game.
Yeah.
Do you honestly believe that Oregon might struggle versus JMU?
Yes, I truly do believe that.
I think James Madison wins outright.
Maybe not.
But I do think they give them some fits up in Eugene.
Okay.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Now we're going to talk about the next one, Tulane, which could have been North Texas.
Yeah.
If it wasn't for...
And that was the dream scenario, to be honest.
A couple of unfortunate picks.
I do think Mestemaker probably had one of his worst games of his...
Yep.
is time at U&T that game, which is tough to have it.
Like, for instance, the one of the refs calls the goal line fumble.
Yeah, balls out, clearly.
I got two things to counter-argue you here.
Number one, it was a pick.
He threw a pick.
Yep.
Fourth down.
You don't throw a pick.
We don't, we're not even in this situation.
Number two, you guys play at such a low-level football.
They don't have the camera angle down the line.
Yeah, you would think a game nationally televised on ABC.
see we could get a shot right down the line.
Add a few more production guys. It's weird. The guy
with 2020 vision in section 120, so
I'll clear as well. I had a good look at it.
I feel like I'm listening to Gare right now. No, no, no, no.
I'm confused. You're on what side of me?
It's like a mini Gaird Hilbert over here. I do
want to say this, that I was
receiving a ton of text that I did not get back to.
I appreciate y'all not hitting my lineup.
I even told... I told Ian, I was like,
they're sympathizing for me right now.
Dude, I didn't say. I actually text a couple
people and said, hey, just be on standby.
I'm not sure Sparky's here Monday.
We're going to give him some time.
We're going to give him some time.
Because that was a, look, at the end of the day,
that's the biggest game U&T's ever played in.
Sure.
And it just, it was very Aggie of you guys.
Yes, very much so.
Look, Aggies have been there a lot.
Yeah.
We did it in Austin a couple weeks ago.
We did it last year in Kyle Field versus Texas.
These things happen, man.
Just big time lights.
Sure.
And.
the play in. That's what I kept telling the boys is at the end of the day, if you would have told me we were an 11 and two football team heading into bowl season, we all would have signed up for that. It was a remarkable season. So for that, I'm thankful. But isn't it funny that God gives his biggest challenges to his tough soldiers?
It's like, you know what I think of? When I think of being a diehard small school sports fan is your setup, it's like buying a puppy. It's like buying a puppy. You know, there's a day that's coming where you, no matter how close you get to them. With the puppy. The dog's going to die. You know, you're going to lose a big game.
as a small school guy.
And that's what I think those go hand in hand.
You're feeling a lot of the same feelings.
I definitely felt like my puppy died.
From all the kids that are getting puppies for Christmas.
Yeah, just realize, you know, there will be a day.
Truthfully woke up, though, Sunday, because I stayed up all night.
Pulled an all-nighter because I had a 7 a.m. coming home, which was tough.
Not even getting to the part where I dropped both of my New York slices of pepperoni pizza
right after the game, too.
On handoff, the lady hands me, the two slices just drops.
I look at the boys and they're just like, that's that 10 seconds summarizes our whole trip.
So my next question is they've played already.
Ole Miss, Tulane.
I think it was like 41 to 10 as well early in the year.
But it was at Ole Miss.
Ole Miss, so they're going right back.
So they're going there again, but their coach is playing for something.
You know, the coach is about to go to this conference.
Yep.
Do you think they have a shot?
I actually think James Madison has a better shot.
A better shot than Tulane.
You know, it hurts to say, but I think we beat that two lane team eight out of ten times.
I agree.
Not nine.
Which also brings me to the point.
that every metric had North Texas better ranked than the one that mattered.
That game should have never been in New Orleans in the first place.
It should have been in Denton, which changes everything.
But I got it all out.
I got it all out.
Thank you all for that.
You're welcome.
Yeah, I'm going to go through the end of the hook yet.
Because I do want to ask you, so we're Aggies, very well-known.
We're playing Miami.
That was a big controversy.
They've dropped Notre Dame.
Sure.
Do you truly think that Tulane and James Madison are in the, are in the top of,
12 teams in the entire nation.
No.
No, I don't.
But given the way it's set up, I think they are deserving of their spot.
I'm just saying I'm arguing, I'm counter arguing the thing, because I still do feel like
if they move this to 16 teams.
Yep.
And you kill the automatic qualifiers, which does hurt G5 programs.
But if you go undefeated in those games, you will be probably in the top 16 teams.
Yeah.
So like, I don't know if.
like a 12 team playoff.
It's just, we relied to.
It's not a 12 team.
It's not big enough to go to this system.
It's a 10 team playoff with...
Well, it's really 11 team.
And I feel bad for the G5s
because we're going to feel the brunt end
of the ACC's incompetence
with Duke losing or Duke winning.
That's on the ACC.
It is.
So your point, though, I do think Miami deserved it
because they had the head-to-head win
against Notre Dame.
But as a whole...
But they couldn't win their conference.
Which is just, to me...
But there's several non-champs.
I mean, Aggies didn't win the SEC.
Of course, that's the best league in college football.
No, no, no.
I'm saying we left out an automatic qualifier for ACC.
Left them out.
Yep.
Okay, like the champion of the ACC is not in this list.
Correct, because they went eight and five.
I understand.
But Miami couldn't win that conference in conference play.
Right.
So to me, I just, I like, I am, how does Notre Dame get kicked out?
Miami gets put back in.
Look, I do not like Texas.
You could even use a more extreme word, but we're on a podcast.
Yeah.
They deserve to be.
be in the 12th team playoff.
Do they?
Do me beat four win Florida and you're in.
But argue Alabama.
Argue Alabama with me because I'm just like,
I don't know.
Yeah, because they did get their
Florida state loss just magically
kind of gets overload.
That was also the committee
standing their ground that if you're in a championship
game, they're not going to punish you.
Though they got their doors blasted.
How are you not going to punish?
How is BYU not on the listen?
They got punished.
I don't know exact. True.
Good point.
You got punished.
Alabama didn't. Alabama feels a little bit like Sparky's NFL power rankings with the chiefs still getting a little bit of a nod just off past history. Yeah. Yeah. I think there's like donor money comes into play here. Brand name most definitely comes into play when Bama makes it. But to your point, Garrett, it is time to alter it. Do I know exactly what to do to this playoff to make it better? No, not necessarily. But in a day and age where tech advancements and analytics are being used by everybody, even at dude perfect, we have an analytical team.
there has to be a way we're not relying on a 12-person committee that has ties to institutions.
The conflict of interest, there has to be a way where we get the computers back involved.
Because we had the BCS system in the mid-2000s, and it was just a little ahead of its time.
But nowadays, I think the computers would be better off than a 12-person panel.
And I'm not saying the committee is not trying to do their best job to put in the right teams.
It's just way too much power for those a dozen individuals.
Well, they had too many teams this year, but that's happened forever.
I mean, again, in 2020, Aggies got left out for a Notre Dame team that should not be, should have been in there.
Well, heck, Florida State was undefeated that year and got left out.
So it's just like, there has to be some kind of change.
The bowl games, though, are getting a little like them.
They've lost their luster.
Heck, the championship weekend lost its luster one, verse two, and it virtually meant nothing at the end of the day, which is a sad reality.
My option would be drop a non-con game.
Let's cut it down to two.
Drop the championship game.
Drop the championship game.
expand this bad boy and have some first round activity.
100% have the first eight.
It's a disservice to the fans.
And then you're going to be arguing about teams 14 through 16.
But that's fine.
I would much rather argue that,
which I do feels like this year is tough.
There's a lot of teams that are right there in the bubble.
There will always be that.
But like if we are arguing the 20th place team,
like it's a little different than like who gets that 11th spot.
It's a little more assured that the best teams are in there.
And then you argue your fringe who should be here.
I mean, BYU only lost to number four.
Two different times.
One of them in Lubbock, the other one on a neutral field.
That's tough.
And they got left out.
The Coogs.
Yeah.
So that's where I am.
And even with expansion, I'd be willing to take the one G5 spot.
Not asking for more.
Go to 18.
Still just want the one spot reserved for G5s.
I just don't think it should be automatic.
I think the G5 has to be undefeated.
Like they have to.
Yeah.
What if they lose to a top five team?
Then that's taken into account.
Like if their loss is to...
To one of the teams in the thing, that's...
A computer system is going to be like, oh, I mean, they went to their place.
That was a close game.
And you do got to win out if your G5.
Like the amount of competition is not anywhere near what they're playing week to week.
I agree.
It's just not.
As long as you reserve my one spot, I'm okay with it.
Because I think it's good for the, I think it's good for college football to have that spot reserved.
I do.
Yeah, I just don't think you should be reserved.
I think they need to play into it.
I agree with you, but there's a lot of bias in college athletics too that we have to get rid of.
Like the preseason rankings are blurring.
They're graying the line.
lines there early in the season. It needs a full overhaul, to be honest with you, because
we're using an outdated system with now NIL in play. It's a completely different game.
I like your final four comparison. People wanted an underdog to root for. If nothing else,
you put that one team in there every year and it gives people a, oh yeah, okay, this is why the
SEC is the best team in, or the best conference in college football. What about a playing game?
I'm totally down with that, too. What if North Texas is playing BYU this off week coming up to
get into the last spot. Yeah, it would be epic. It'd be epic. I am glad the boys finished number
25 in the college football rankings. They did throw us back in there, which was nice. So,
historic year, you know, but you'd be okay with Tulane and James Madison, each played two lanes
playing BYU, James Madison's playing Notre Dame. Winners of those games get the last spot. Yeah,
I would be completely fine with that. To me, I think that solves it. If they beat those teams,
great, you're in. There's some kind of expansion that can be done. It's like a playing game. You
technically are part of the playoff, but you had me.
I've got to prove it.
Got to prove it.
You got me on your rooting side now.
I'm an Aggie now.
It's going to be tough game.
I'm not overlooking Miami.
Like, I know they got an experienced QB
and they got a good defensive line.
That's a tough path.
You all drew a tough path.
I mean, you get the home game.
Dallas if we win.
And that's another thing is I would love
to see these top four teams that get a buy.
It's kind of unfortunate
in the sense that they don't get
an on-campus playoff game.
With expansion,
I'd love to see those top four teams.
Their fan base deserves that, you know?
I think tech taking a...
such a long break in Oregon getting a kind of
a warm-up game. I know you don't think so, but I think so.
They're going to struggle with the ducks. Yeah, they might.
You had December 19th, that's quite a bit of time in between your conference title game.
And what about those who didn't like it? You know? Well, just Georgia did.
But my official pick, Georgia Bulldogs, National Champions.
Gosh, they look good in the SEC title game. Tyler, you got a pick to win it all?
No.
That Bama.
Okay.
Go, thank you.
Wow.
Just a straight-
No pick.
I'm going to give you,
I think you're going to be rooting
for tech.
I'm going to give you tech.
Really?
Yeah.
That's my pick?
Yeah, that's your pick.
That's fine.
I'll pick.
I can't do that.
Ohio State.
I mean, Indiana did just beat Ohio State.
You could go Indiana.
I know.
Caught the end of it.
I like the Hoosers.
I like the Hoosers a lot.
Do you think it's going to be
anybody outside the top four?
No.
No, I don't.
I do not.
Okay.
No.
I do think.
think Aggies have the best chance outside the top four.
But then again, their path is just brutal.
You'd have to go probably through Ohio State and Georgia.
That's asking a lot.
And then in Indiana.
Ooh, yeah.
If you win a national championship, you earn that one.
Yeah.
Totally.
Nobody's going to be putting an asterisk to that bad boy.
No one's going to be 1939 or whatever made up one we got.
Well, good.
You got to pick?
Give me Indiana.
They've been a great story, a non-traditional football power.
I like Signetti a lot.
Mendoza, I'm ready for another.
post-game press conference.
That was crazy.
That was wild.
That was high contact with the camera was a little much for me.
But he's an interesting cat, but he's an easy one to cheer for.
So give me the Hoosiers.
Who's your daddy?
All right.
Who's your daddy?
Well, another big thing.
World Cup draw happened.
Yeah.
We all watched it up in the owner's suite.
Yeah, the World Cup draw is confusing.
Tell you what.
It can get wild.
It was tough to follow.
As a fringe soccer fan, that was confusing.
It was wild.
Everyone's cheered and then Rio's just like, whoa, wait, wait, wait.
because of rule.
But it's always been like that.
Subset.
Yeah.
You can't play somebody
from like the same
Federation.
Federation.
Yeah.
Federation.
So like we're Concafath.
Yeah, the U.S.
plays in Concaf
but there's so many European teams
that two of the groups have
multiple European nations.
It does get tough.
But I will say this.
I am a wizard
when it comes to nationalities
in terms of flags
in identifying those flags
because of international soccer.
Yeah.
Do you like our draw?
I love the United States.
stage straw. As a USMNT fan, I think they got it pretty well. What's Australia, Paraguay
in the playoff spot? Compared to, say, Group C, what did you think ended up being the worst
group in terms of group of death, hardest to get out of? The France one. Senegal, that's a tough one.
Yeah. That's a really tough... Yeah, with Norway sitting there, too. Yeah, that's a tough group.
That's a very tough group. Yeah, so Americans got pretty lucky, all things considered, but you still
got to go and get out a group. Who's like the last team you want to play, Brazil?
Still? Are they like...
They're definitely up there. Who is the number one team
according to FIFA rankings? Spain?
Yeah, Spain. Spain is a tough.
Spain and then you just don't really want to play any European teams
because they're generally... For the most part, yeah.
You would actually love to kind of match up with like Brazil and the finals.
It's probably one of the weaker Brazil teams.
I love the World Cup. It's the world's greatest event.
I think the fact that it's every four years makes it that much more desirable.
So I look forward to it and I hope dude perfect is funding our trip to a USMN.
game. That's the hope. Let's talk NFL
boys. What did you like this weekend? What did you
dislike anything stick out to you? Man, the
amount of parity truthfully, I know I've said it
it just feels like about every week but
like nobody wants this bad boy.
There's like no clear frontrunner. I thought
the Rams did a good job picking themselves back up
after the Carolina loss. That division
stacked. Very much so. Yeah, NFC.
Whoever gets through the NFC West is going to be
battle tested. But it's weird seeing
kind of the powers of years past
kind of fade to your point when you said it
this morning. The chiefs are just a shell of them.
I don't think they get in.
I would not want to play the Houston Texans.
I don't either.
Right.
They're peaking, man.
They had some offensive problems early in the year, but that defense is legit.
You think this is where we see the downfall, the Chiefs?
It's certainly looking like it.
And I don't think they're alone in that.
It feels very much like an open door there in the NFL.
Even Buffalo, it's not, man, they are scraping winds away.
They're not going to be a super hero, which can only last for so long.
I'm just saying, like, if the Chiefs are down, that's been their biggest nemesis.
Yeah.
But, dude, if they have to go.
Houston will have to go to Buffalo.
I don't think they catch.
They still could.
I think they're only a game back from Buffalo,
but you would probably be going to Buffalo.
But Texans D is nasty.
Yeah.
And then just an elite defense.
We've said it time and time before come postseason.
That can straight up win you a couple games.
Yeah, a couple turnovers,
and then able to punch one or two of those in,
and that's all it takes in one of those games.
I feel very much like the Chicago Bears
are Fools Gold a little bit.
They lost.
in Green Bay, tough place to play.
But I don't know if I can trust the Chicago Bears.
No.
What Baltimore looks like they may be done.
Yeah, they don't look good.
Yeah, Ravens look terrible.
Yeah, he battled a lot of injury,
which they get a little bit of a pass for.
You can kind of see how I think the AFC got a little lucky that Burrow was out,
because, man, he came back with a vengeance.
He looked good.
Yeah.
He's tossing that thing around in a snow game.
Like, I love a good snow game.
Golly, what a.
It's crazy how much I dislike.
a rain game. A snow game? You're like,
go in. Very sad
what happened to Daniel Jones. I don't know if y'all saw that.
It was hard to miss. You could identify that right off the bat.
I mean, he's pretty much out all next year.
Does that pretty much eliminate the Colts in your eyes?
Yes. Indy done? Because don't they only have Riley Leonard?
I mean, how quick did A-Rod come back from his Achilles? It wasn't a full...
I mean, that wasn't a year, was it? Yeah, I don't know. I just know like Achilles takes
nine months and then you got to build it back.
As a full-blown almost athlete, that's the one that scares me the most.
Me too.
You got out of the shower.
In the minute you blow your Achilles, you're done.
You're done, dude.
Your athletic career is completely over at that moment.
It almost feels unavoidable too.
Like, you just, it's not easy.
And again, don't only do so many stretches of these.
And then it's just like, it's hard to, I don't think you tear it a lot in golf.
That's why I like I'm kind of sticking in that lane.
Yeah, you take off to celebrate after a hole in one, though.
You're right.
You've got to be careful.
Is it time to talk about the almost sports?
Oh, we got an almost sports segment today, huh?
We do.
It's called competitive boat docking, also known as Water Rodeo.
If you're listening to this, we're watching a video right now of boats whipping in
and where you would not typically drive a boat very fast.
And just docking to perfection.
A little, oh!
He came in a lot of pot.
Perfection may be strong.
Perfection's tough, but man, they, they maneuver these boats.
good. Probably don't want to use your nicest boat. I would imagine these guys have close to that
dog. More than one boat if they're doing this. This would be like me teeing off in front of a gallery.
I am smoking a dock in three children. There's no chance I'm made for that. There's zero chance
I'm made for that. The pressure of that, it would be crazy. Where's this held? I think they have them
all around the country. I, that is, too, those people standing that close are, or actually
crazy. It's like the rodeo of boat docking. I mean, they'll make anything. I mean,
to be fair, that's more athletic than some of these almost sports I've seen. Sure. I mean,
that takes boat driving's a skill. Parking a boat's tough. That's actually pretty impressive.
Would you say if you could do that, you could ride a bull or? Different skill set. Different skill set.
So it's not an actual rodeo then. Although I feel like they could benefit if they could have a different
guy on the rope. I get some of those
team roping guys there and you have
your boat driver and that would really benefit them
is throwing some loops on the
on the cleats. They're held in
Virginia. Yeah, that's very
Virginia. Which is like they don't really have a lot to do in
Virginia so
yeah. Might as well. Virginia's for lovers
and boat docking. And losing to Duke
a 7 and 5 team. Yeah.
Other than that. Hmm.
Who, which dude would be best equipped
to perform well on this? Cody. I think Cody
he does a boat experience. He's got the most.
driver.
Yeah, not a good, yeah.
I still think this move right there is so impressive.
I mean, he is inches from that, that pier.
Wow.
A little bit tough right there.
He hit it too hard, almost fell in the water.
Lost his balance.
Good recovery, though.
That's like, that's like roping a cattle.
Yeah, last second lasso.
Yeah, I wouldn't recommend this, viewers.
I don't think you guys should partake in this.
There's got to be some remarkable fail videos.
Oh, there's got to be just.
Everybody loves a good fail as long as you're not involved.
You started training for your Taco Bo Ultra yet?
A little bit.
You have?
I hit the treadmill earlier this year.
I usually wait until January.
And I just figured, man, if I could somewhat find the motivation using the Taco Bell
Marathon as some inspiration, now instead of having to shed 30 LBs come January,
maybe I only have to do 20 if I start now.
You know what I'm saying?
You're telling me you would have gained 10 between now and January?
Easy.
easy.
If he wanted to.
Yeah.
Easy.
Yeah, we're sitting at 190 right now, 192.
It's impressive.
Usually come January, I'd be sitting at like between 205, 210.
If we have a really good break, we could be up at 215.
So, yeah, I just, you know, just starting early and trying to, you know, get better.
I didn't know.
I thought it was just Cody that goes crazy.
It's you too.
No, that's what I've been waiting for, it's like, hey, T, it's time for you.
to do a way in here on the pod.
But I'm glad Cody's kind of taking that.
Taking one for the squad.
Yeah.
Taking that off my plate.
So, yeah.
I'm excited about it.
I think there's talk of maybe trying to bring one here
and do our own version of the TV.
The Taco Bell.
The Taco Bell.
We'll see.
I thought it would have come.
I was asking because there is a Guinness World Record
that was broken.
Hmm.
And that record was,
can you wear 137 T-shirts
while completing a half marathon,
which is 13.1 miles.
The previous record was 127.
So this guy beat it by 10 shirts.
Almost lost circulation in the neck, he said.
Yeah, but imagine.
That dude looks like a bowling ball running through the streets.
I wonder what his actual weight is.
So it's not really about the time.
It's more about the how many shirts did you do it?
And can you finish?
Look at that.
Oh, man.
The hunchback of Notre Dame.
guy's killing it. He's wearing the 137 pretty well, though. It only looks like about 50. I agree.
He looks like Reckett Ralph in that. He's getting some, get some water. It's obviously just kind of a can you finish it?
Can you finish? It looks incredibly hot. How many pounds of t-shirts? Forty-eight pounds of t-shirts?
So that's like wearing a 50-pound vest. That's, that's hard. Hey, I don't know if I can run 13 miles with one t-shirt, much less 137.
That feels outrageous. And who is the person like, who was the record holder before this?
Did he like up him by a t-shirt?
Well, he said it in 2019 with 111.
It was broken a few years later by another runner-wearing 127.
And this guy was like, you know what?
Not so fast, my friend.
I'm going to break it again.
I just worry about the chafing.
That's not usually, you don't have to worry about the upper body chafing,
but you put on 137 T-shirts, and I think that's my biggest fear.
Yeah, here's the deal, Ty.
I'm thinking about calling him to help you train for your ultra.
Because this guy knows what going through a gauntlet is.
obviously. Yeah, I mean, there's some mental toughness there. I mean, I would just like to know
the amount of time that it took to get those t-shirts on. Oh, and there's your chafing. Yeah.
Yeah, you're right. You're going to chafing places you never knew. Oh, look at the bicep
chafing. I've never even experienced that. Oh, he can't even get his wedding ring off. He's swollen.
Wow, it's actually a not terrible time. No, I mean, just 13 minutes a mile with 50 pounds on your back.
Ain't bad. Yeah, but it's not just like well-centered 50 pounds. That is, that's, you don't even get to
run with your arms. That's a good time. Well, David Rush.
Congratulations, David.
Favorite Idaho Potato Marathon.
All right, well, keep Trent and Ty. We'll check back in.
I can't wait to watch you compete in it. I'll probably partake in the Taco Bell part.
That's great. Yeah, love that. I love that. The nine, the nine tacos were pounding.
The running, you're just going to watch. I'll watch and, you know, you run a mile here and
there.
eating a gordita crunch a week right now, too. Let's not just act like this is a physical thing.
You've got to be Taco Bell ready. I want you to take a fire package straight to the
I live too.
After you run like a marathon,
after you run like a,
you know,
5K on the tread,
they'll hit you a Gordita crunch.
I usually do that.
Oh,
okay, great.
And if you do that,
that won't be an issue for me.
All right.
Well,
it is,
almost the end of the year.
Yeah,
it's been a great year.
And, uh,
everyone is talking about their Spotify
wrapped,
which tracks the top songs
and artists a listen to that year.
I think we,
uh,
show the peeps.
I learned some stuff about myself
in this year's Spotify rap.
I did too.
And I have a
confession.
Ooh.
Last Thursday night,
where were you,
Ty?
I was watching
the Cowboys game on my phone.
Where were you, Ty?
I was at an event.
What event?
Yeah, you were in an event.
I know where he said.
You know what?
I'm not mad about it.
I'm proud of it.
I was at the Joe Bros concert,
and guess what?
It was phenomenal.
So, Ty,
I missed the Cowboy game.
I love the Joe Bros.
A must win.
I must win for the Cowboys.
I think our defense was at the Joe Bros.
Yeah.
And, uh, look,
We're on a fantasy thread, and we let Ty have it.
It's like, how are you not supporting the boys?
I was.
You had a Jonas Brothers concert.
I mean, we let them have it.
How much concert to football ratio was there?
Equal.
Equal parts.
It was 50-50.
And maybe they needed more from me, but I was enjoying myself.
And guess what?
The Joe Bros have got more bangers than you realize.
Oh, they do have.
So because of that, I just wanted to get ahead because I'm going to show you my top
songs for the year.
And there's really no getting her.
around it. There's no getting around it because Jonas Brothers.
No, my!
This is a full circle moment. Let me guess.
Tough. Look. It's on the newer album. It's on the new album.
So is it, is it the slow piano one?
No, it's Love Me to Heaven. Oh, it's a great one. Yeah, I know.
Love me to Heaven. Yeah. And so, yeah, came in at number four.
Wow. Dude, that was a lot of listening late in the year for you to get that in your top
eye.
Yeah, it was on repeat.
APT by Bruno Mars and Rose.
Okay.
You know the,
uh,
but,
oh yeah.
Yeah.
That was,
that was tour pregame.
It was.
We were getting jazzed up.
Uh,
and then Forrest Frank took the top two spots.
Colney House took the third spot.
What's your listening age?
Oh.
Okay.
I kind of like my listening age.
What is it?
21.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Wow.
I'm a young guy now.
Okay.
Uh,
is that good or bad,
by the way?
That's good.
Well,
mine is older.
Okay.
One of my friends was like 1960s.
They were, the listening age was 60.
No way.
Ruby Morris, yeah.
Well, let's just, I like to say young through music, guys.
That's just, uh...
That's how you channel your youth.
Anyways, I felt like I had to come clean.
I mean, I put Ty on blast for that Joe Bros.
Are we going to top songs right now?
Mine's not going to be shocking from a genre perspective.
It's all country.
For sure.
My number one top artist, Morgan Wall and number two, Cody Johnson,
Luke Combs, three, Thomas Rett for Riley Green.
Five, number one song, don't mind if I do.
Riley Green, Ella Langley.
And I don't mind to five.
Yep. Listening age, a little bit older than Gares.
Like a good 40, but a good looking 40.
Pop genres. Oh, acoustic country. Number two, yacht rock, which I didn't even know was a
genre. Volk pop, classic rock, and punk. Age is just a number. So don't take this personally.
42. Jackie Robinson.
65, dude.
You were so close to get that.
Because I was listening to music from the late 70s.
And that's going to be old, and that's going to be country.
No, it was Seven Bridges Road.
65, yeah. Wow.
You don't act 65. I'll give you that.
The music tastes may be 65, but you don't act 65.
Yeah, that's...
Did Forrest make you a personalized video at the end of yours?
I didn't get to my
I didn't get like a free cameo
Cojo
Cojo made me a
That's sick
From the golf course
See I thought Cojo may be mad
He was in the two spot
Maybe he made me
Mine was calling it
My top artist was calling the house
And they made me a personalized video
Oh wow
Look at you
Yeah so you get a free cameo out of it
Huh
Which is Stephen Curtis Chapman's kids
Okay
So I just listen to almost athletes
You do
Yeah that was number one for you
Wave original
There we go dude
It's a brand guy
I'm
I forgot to make you a personalized video.
I'll do that later.
Yeah.
That wraps up that.
I think it's time, dude.
I think it's time.
That's why I'm here.
We get to why Ty is here.
And that is to talk the outdoor channel.
Let's bring in Jared Pettit to join us.
Talk all about it.
All right.
Look at our set, Sparky.
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I'm glad I did all my Christmas shopping earliest here.
What about you?
I'm more of a last minute guy, Gary.
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My kids have been loving these Hess toy trucks I won for them last week in our stocking surprise game.
I thought you're going to wait till Christmas to give that to them.
I was having so much fun playing with them in the studio last week.
I couldn't wait.
I get it.
The Hess toy truck has been an iconic Christmas gift for over 60 years, and every year it's a different vehicle.
But this year, it's two vehicles, which makes it that much better.
That's right, Sparky.
This year's Hess toy truck is actually this cool,
pair of Hess stock car racers. I love flipping the hood and taking the little guy out for a
spin. The white race car has animated lights and racing sounds, so that one is pretty awesome too.
Plus, these things are basically due to perfect proof. You can crash them, launch them,
race them, and they do not break. Which makes it a perfect toy for my kids or for tying Cody.
I would love to see these bad boys under my tree on Christmas morning. Hopefully Santa will get it
for you. But if you want to make sure you get one, go to Hesstoytruck.com. Shippings free and
batteries are included and it's not available in stores. And don't forget, it's safe for kids,
ages three and up. I'm going to order mine today just in case I'm on the Nadi list.
All right. Well, welcome Jared Pettit. First timer. First timer. Jared Petite? Petite.
Just Petit. That's crazy. There's another Petit. You related?
Who is it? Well, his name's Josh. Josh. Josh. Yeah, there's also a really famous one.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Andy.
Never heard of him.
Oh, yeah.
Andrew Eugene.
Yeah.
That is my dad.
That is a power move to have the middle name Eugene.
Well, uh, dude, good to have you, man.
It's good to be here.
And you're now probably, how many months have you been working for DP?
Going on five now.
Five months.
Five months.
You've made it five months.
Yeah, right.
Five months.
I mean, I thought I was going to give you some kind of milestone.
It's really not.
Five months.
Five months longer than a lot of people.
Yeah, that's true.
We're still in our month of dating phase.
You know, it's like, when you're dating a girl, you're like, well, how long have you been dating months?
We're celebrating our three and a half month.
Yeah, it's like, whoa.
All right, well, the people are probably wondering what you do at Dude Perfect.
These are new co-hosted the outdoor channel that we just got a brand new logo for.
Looks good, by the way.
Yeah, thank you.
And the very first video of the outdoor channel, Dude Perfect Outdoor Channel, Launches Saturday, December 13th.
So that's going to be fun.
That's where I'm breaking.
It's a long time coming.
Finally.
That is groundbreaking.
So why don't you tell the peeps a little bit about yourself?
I mean, there's not much to me other than the outdoors.
That's why we thought you'd be perfect.
There was baseball for a little bit, and then that didn't go the way it planned,
and then, you know, you meet Dude Perfect on a vacation,
and somehow it turns into helping out on the outdoors page.
What year was this 2017 or 2016?
It was eight years ago, so.
I'm not a math.
Yeah, 2017.
I think it was January 2017.
December.
Oh, yeah, yeah, early January.
Yeah, you're right.
Yeah, end of the year.
Yeah, yeah.
We were in Hawaii.
We were at the century golf tournament.
And I remember we were staying at the same hotel.
We walked down and go to breakfast.
And Garrett's like,
too, too, that's Jared Pettit.
Not quite.
I literally was like, dude,
that's Jared Pett.
That's Andrew Eugene Pett.
Right over there.
Andy Pettett is sitting just a table across from us.
Little did we know at the same time,
Luke, Jared, and Josh are like,
that's the dude perfect guy sitting right over there.
So we finished breakfast, somehow we meet up, we take a photo,
we should probably show the photo.
We got to show the photo.
You know, it's just a good reminder that there's always room for improvement.
There's always room for improvement.
And you see that and you think, oh man, look, the guys have come a long ways.
Okay, Jared looks like he's seven, which he probably wasn't too far from that.
I was probably around 14.
Okay, 7, 14.
Kind of close.
but ended up meeting the Pettits then.
And I remember your dad called me a couple months after that,
because you guys had an Elkhunt set up.
See, there was an open spot.
Asked me if I wanted to go on the Elkhunt.
I wasn't able to make it work that year.
But later that December,
I went out to Y'all's Family Ranch in South Texas,
which is actually where we filmed the very first DP Outdoors video.
You and Ger came.
Yeah, me and gear went out there, hunted with you guys.
And every year since we've hunted,
multiple times together every year since then.
And so become great family friends,
love the Pettit family.
And so it's been really, really cool
to be able to bring them on
and run this outdoor stuff together.
It's something that I've wanted to do personally
for a long time.
Obviously super passionate about the outdoors.
Are you?
Yeah, yeah.
I didn't know if you knew that.
We're going to be doing all kinds of stuff
on the DP Outdoor Channel,
hunting, fishing, camping,
anything and everything outdoors.
And so Jared has come on with Josh,
with his older brother,
to help us run that.
And we've got some good stuff.
We've already got, what, four videos filmed?
Like Gare said, first one launches Saturday.
So super excited about that.
We got the whole team involved on that one
and got a bunch of exciting stuff coming out.
All right, man.
So did you like just grow up playing baseball?
I mean, you probably felt the pressure a little bit
to play baseball, I'm guessing.
Did your dad ever play catch with you type thing?
He wasn't around much.
It wasn't around much.
It was a lot.
It's a really good thing.
Playing catch with your dad at your age.
That would have been tough.
Yeah.
No, I mean, yeah.
Growing up, obviously, I mean, I lived in it, like, from the time I was born to whenever I stopped.
You don't have to hold the mic, Jared.
It's got to stand for a reason.
So, I know, it's a first time on five.
It just feels like it's going to fall.
No, it's not, dude.
It's good.
Bolted it in.
It's not going to go anywhere.
Yeah, so my dad, he played 18 or 19 years in the big leagues, 16 for the Yankees,
three for the Astros.
Don't really talk about the Astro.
Not too much.
Because you're cheaters.
Exactly.
Exactly.
I agree with that.
So yeah, just grew up in it.
And obviously, that's what I wanted to do when I was older.
I wanted to play professional baseball.
Your dad ever won a World Series?
He did five times.
Oh, wow.
But humble, humble, humble.
I don't want to bring it up.
Pretty successful career.
It'll be the show.
Got six.
Yep.
Yeah.
I'll let him kind of talk for himself if he gets a chance to come on here.
But we're thinking about inviting him.
We don't know yet.
You know, we just want to make sure, like, you know, he's a good fit.
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
My dad hadn't got the call either yet.
Don't feel bad about it.
Love you, Dad.
Was there ever.
time when you found yourself maybe in some kind of a semi-professional sports setting that you
thought to yourself man you know this is kind of a almost athlete moment for me like I really had an
opportunity to do something special here this feels like a setup you know no I'm just I'm just asking a
blanket question have you ever had an almost athlete moment no you ever give up a grand slam in the bottom
of the ninth I don't know if I've ever no never a grand slam in the bottom of the night he had a first
inning that didn't go his way I was a starter for most of my life which I was a starter for most of my life which
slowly led to me being a bullpen guy.
Which, why is that?
I don't know if I,
I kind of put a little bit of the blame on Tyler.
Okay.
Wow.
Because you had never came and watched me pitch, obviously.
Me being in Houston, you being in Dallas.
Yep.
We were playing in Frisco at the Rough Riders, right?
Is that Rough Riders?
Yeah, Rough Riders.
And I'm starting against Arizona.
Big tournament.
Starting against Arizona, felt really good.
Like, best bullpen I've ever thrown before the game in my life.
And usually that's not good.
No, it's not.
But also when you're warming up and doing that,
you're like, yeah, you're like, it feels good.
But as a player and someone who's, like,
done this stuff, like, it's a known thing.
Like, if you have a good woolpen or whatever.
Same with driving range.
Yeah, exactly.
Basketball.
You know, the actual game's going to be bad.
And so, but I'm not thinking that.
I'm like, film my game stuff tonight.
I'm like, fill myself, you know.
I go out there.
And this is, again, this is Tyler's first time watching me.
The whole, it's not just me either.
Your entire family.
Entire family.
Like 20, 30 people.
I brought my dad out there.
Dad came, yeah.
I mean, everybody.
Yeah, which honestly, to be honest, that wasn't on my mind.
So that's not why, like, this happened.
At first, it wasn't on your mind.
Yeah, yeah, at first.
But first pitch, like 94 right down the middle, I'm like, it's going to be a good day.
And so it's like, oh, one count.
I think I pegged the first guy, like, on the next pitch or something like that.
So immediately got on first.
And then I go walk, walk, walk, walk.
I think I threw two strikes in that five batter period.
I think there may have been 17 straight balls.
I genuinely think it was.
I don't full on got the yips this outing.
I got infinite whip knowing right now.
Can't get a guy out.
Yeah, so my whip went from like a, yeah,
it went all the way up to like a three or something like that.
But yeah, I didn't, I literally didn't get an out.
I think I threw three strikes and five batters got pulled.
And then I didn't start another game.
I got moved to the bullpen after that.
Didn't start another game until the conference championship game.
We were running out of starters.
I was still in the bullpen at this time.
Was pitching well out of the bullpen.
Didn't have the yipset of the bullpen for some reason.
But on my mind, I'm like, dude, I got, my last outing was I didn't even get an out.
And so first batter, two pitches, I get an out.
Okay, I'm like, okay, I'm clear.
No.
Literally next four batters, I go walk, walk, walk, walk, and get yanked again.
And I didn't pitch the rest of the year.
We went and played at the Super, the regionals,
and then the Super Regionals,
and I didn't pitch again.
And now you are the just...
This is where I belong.
Leading the charge.
But what were that led us to do?
Just saying, think you were just scraping through
in the big show right now.
I did.
I did.
I made to Pro Bowl, though.
Yeah.
I played two years with the Marlins
in their minor league system.
Yep.
And then my labrum started tearing again,
and I just...
Enough was enough.
Yeah.
Now you was done.
Two total.
Well, it's supposed to have a third,
but I didn't do the third.
It's almost as many strikes
you threw in that first start.
That's tough. That's crazy.
Dallas Baptist.
You set me up on that one.
Dallas Baptist, if you're watching, I can throw three strikes for a full scumby.
You absolutely could.
Oh, man.
Oh, that's brutal.
So, yeah, that was a tough time.
Yeah.
Pretty almost athlete.
So you talked about, obviously, your dad was gone a lot playing in the bigs when you
were growing up.
But he did have the ranch in South Texas.
I would imagine that was where y'all got to spend the majority of your family
time. And like, I know for me growing up as a kid, I love sport. I, you know, my dad coached me all
throughout sports. And so I had a little bit of that, obviously not to the same level that you
guys did. But like my favorite memories as a kid growing up were in the outdoors with my dad,
with my grandpas, now with my three boys growing up. And so I would imagine that was similar for
you. Yeah. Yeah, it was. So we've had that, that property down South Texas for 27 years now,
I think. And so yeah, growing up, Thanksgiving, Christmas, really the whole hunting season. Like, we'd get
pulled out of school for it, you know, just my dad was like,
let's go, let's just go on.
I think you learn more in the outdoors than the public education system.
For sure, dude, for sure.
Might be a hot take, but that's just me.
I would agree with that.
I think some people would probably disagree, but I agree.
That's where your love for the outdoors came.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Just spending time on just every holiday, every week,
you would go spend time out there.
Yeah, there's just nothing better.
I mean, like, so I can remember the exact moment when I got my first deer,
you know, my, whatever it might be, first fish and stuff like that.
And so, and like, me and Josh,
and our cousins, we'd go, you know, cut through the brush, like lanes where we'd have these
little ramps where we'd go fly our four-wheelers through and stuff, you know?
So before baseball, for anything, that was like my passion before anything else.
And did time outside.
It's awesome.
Yeah.
We've got four or five videos filmed already.
We've got the dove hunt, which will be the first one.
Obviously, we're in the middle of hunting season right now, so we're doing some duck
and deer hunts and stuff like that.
Give them a little preview of some upcoming videos that we're filming beginning of the year
next year. Okay, so we got
the deer hunt next and then we got
early January. We got a little
duck hunt. Yep. That'll be fun.
Made our own duck calls and we're going to put them to use
and then we got
Python. We're going to the Everglades.
When we say Python hunting, we're not hunting. They're
invasive. We're going to grab them, relocate them.
We're going to catch some pythons in the Everglades. It's even worse than hunting
them as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got to get hands on.
They're very much alive when you catch them.
Yeah.
I'm most excited for that.
And this is it, it's just the way the hunting world works is like the season's kind of.
Yeah.
Yeah.
In one time block.
And then after that, it's really no hunting.
It's going to be more outdoor stuff.
So explain some of that.
Like it's a balance of both.
Yeah.
You got some hunts and some camping, but then you got other stuff on the outside.
Yeah.
So like the hunting season, whether it's elk, deer or whatever, it kind of just ranges from that September on through in some places.
is January, yeah. And then
after that, it's like, you can't really do
any hunting. Turkey season comes up.
But other than that, it's like,
you know, fishing.
Going to go do some lobster diving.
Lobster diving. Some cliff diving.
Some cliff diving.
Yeah. Can we sign you up for that one?
You can take my spot on that if you want.
Do you have to do flips and stuff? Are you could?
I mean, you can if you want. I hate the ocean. I hate the ocean.
You're an outdoor channel.
I like a land guy.
He's going to face it.
I'm a big land guy.
You scared of sharks?
Let's just be honest.
It's my biggest fear.
Sharks are.
My biggest fear is that I'm going to get eaten by a shark one day.
And snakes are your second biggest fear?
No, no, I love snakes.
Josh is terrified.
That's his biggest fear.
What is it with the sharks?
I'm in their terror.
I can't escape, dude.
You're on the road.
I see Ty.
I see Ty stare at a bull shark face to face.
He was fine.
He kissed one.
Yeah.
Yeah, but the shark probably knew who he was.
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
He subscribed.
No, I agree. Sharks are a little, the ocean thing.
Like, I'm scuba certified.
But that doesn't mean the shark fear goes away, for sure.
You don't want to get...
The sharks not coming on into my home.
There's no need for me to go into his.
You know what I mean?
You're going to make a good co-hofe for the outdoor channel.
Editor Tim put in his request for his appearance in the outdoor channel.
He wants to take us climbing at some...
I don't know where it is.
Yeah.
But he showed us a picture of a thousand foot sheer drop-off where he wants to go teach us to climb,
which seems like a terrible spot to learn.
I was just about to say that.
But he,
that's where,
apparently that one's happening next year too.
We're going to go do a climbing video.
So why are we launching an outdoor channel?
Like,
what is it?
I mean,
obviously it's y'all's passion,
but what else?
What are you all trying to?
I think for me,
oh,
you got an answer?
No.
I was just going to say,
if there was ever a deep,
dude,
perfect indoor channel,
I'm more married for that.
That might be.
That could be a thing.
D.P. Indoor, Sparky and the twins heading that one up.
Yeah.
No, but I mean, like the simplest answer is it's just a personal passion project that I've always wanted to do.
And then to be able to bring these guys on and do it as well.
And now, you know, having three boys like those are the times that I enjoy most is getting to spend time with them outdoors.
And I really do.
Like, I feel like you learn so much outside about responsibility and taking care of land.
And there's just so many different things that I think kids miss out.
on not growing up in the outdoors. And so we talk about it all the time. But like, you know,
we love when we hear family saying that they sit down and watch our videos together in front of
a TV. And we do love that. But we also love when they don't watch and when they get outside and
they go do things on their own. And so I think this is hopefully an avenue for people to do that,
is to be able to see our passion and our love for the outdoors and doing it with people that we love
and care about and find some type of interest, whether it's fishing, camping, hunting, whatever
it is, that they find some passion in the outdoors and can go experience that for themselves.
So that's the ultimate goal for the outdoor channel and super excited to have that launch
Saturday the 13th and excited about all the different videos that we're going to be doing.
I already know what's going to happen, dude.
We're going out.
We're lobster diving.
I mean, don't do this to me.
I'm doing it to you, man.
Don't do this to me.
You got to face your biggest fear, brother.
He's shark diving.
He's going in a cage and then he's getting out of the cage.
We're going shark diving.
Africa with great whites.
Please don't.
Dude, you get, hey, look, they guys have met, you know, they've, we've all faced our fears
on, on dude perfect.
What was your fear?
What was your fear?
You don't have to worry about it.
Yeah, what was yours?
We'll find him.
We'll find it.
A bungee jump backwards out of a chair.
Yeah, that was.
Yeah, dude.
I wouldn't do that.
That could, that could classify as an outdoor, dude.
Look, I'll go with you, man.
We'll get in the cage together.
Then we'll get out of the cage.
I'll stay in the cage.
You can get out of the cage.
Me and Cody got Scuba certified for Shark Week on Discovery.
During COVID.
It was like, hey, go get in the water and get certified with the sharks.
Yeah, but what did y'all do?
Like, why?
They started chumming the one.
We were on Sharks Week for Discovery.
We filmed it.
And we got in there and they start feeding them.
And I will say, when they're all around, there was legitimately 30 bull sharks around us at this time.
You see them below you.
You see them above you.
And you're like, oh my gosh, this is crazy.
When you turn around and there's a shark on the same level, staring into yourself, coming right at you.
Yeah.
Then you're just like, whoa, whoa.
You got nowhere.
You can't swim up.
You can't swim down.
And then they just come right up to you.
And it's like,
eh.
And he goes by.
That is terrifying.
I absolutely terrifying.
There was one.
We were in the water.
And I thought it was the end of Cody,
which, you know,
it would have been a cool story.
I mean,
but this professional diver came
and just took the shark's head
and just moved it away from Cody.
I mean,
stiff arm.
He never even saw it.
He saw this shark was going to eat Cody.
Yeah.
I'm telling you right now,
like Cody was done.
It would have been a good episode,
though.
They would have put in memory of Cody Jones at the bottom.
I mean,
it would have been like,
but this guy just came so calm.
It would have been tough.
If you have your almost athlete moment right there in the water
with shark-infested waters,
that's a tough one.
Not where you want that to happen.
Yeah.
This isn't helping my case at all.
You'll be fine.
You'll be fine.
I also don't like sharks.
So we're going to go out there in the Pacific,
which is a little chilly.
Maybe your mind will be more focused on just like staying warm.
Yeah.
And we're going to go lobster dive and it's going to be good.
Also, yeah, like the,
so on the lobster diving,
like the other piece that we want to focus
on too is the culinary side of it. So we go get our lobsters. We have a professional chef come in,
cook us up a nice lobster meal. Last week, I ended up making deer jerky. It's been passed
around the office and now it's all gone, so I've got to make some more. But I think focusing on
like the recipes and the culinary side of the outdoors too is a fun piece of it that we're going
to tap into. Yeah, people forget about that aspect, I think, when they think of hunting and any sort
of fish in that anybody does. So we really want to make that a priority as well. My priority of 26,
catch a bluefin tuna.
We can make that happen.
That's the video that you want to sign up for?
That's the one out.
Well, I just want it so I can have a sushi set.
Yeah.
That's some good eat.
Mark it down.
You'll see Gare on a bluefin tuna.
As I'm doing that.
Jared's in the water.
Sitting off the sharks from eating the bluefin tuna.
It's going to be one heck of a video.
Oh, that's fun.
Oh, that's great.
We're calling sick that way.
So are other dudes going to be joining you in these videos?
adventures on these videos? The other dudes will be involved maybe to a slightly lesser degree.
It's like the podcast. You got your main guys and then you've got your...
Secondary guys. Secondary guys. Yeah, yeah. We're the secondary guys on the pod. The other dudes
are the secondary talent of the outdoor channel. Sure. My inbox must have been full. I must
have missed the... You must have missed that one. We've got, we've got some episodes for you.
Cliff diver. Yeah. I'm a cliff diver. Deep Sea. You can miss me on that. You do have to
dive in a speedo though. I feel like Sparky's one where we just, we pick a video and he just,
we just tell him which way is coming on. Yeah. You don't get to choose.
If I just want to start, you don't get to choose.
It'll be good.
There's been talk of moving bucket list over to the outdoor channel.
The Survivor Games, that's always a fun video series.
Moving some of those over.
Lots of archery competitions, things like that.
So it's going to be good.
We've got a good plan in place, super excited about it.
Survivor games.
Can Jared survive?
A great white.
Yeah.
This should not become a thing.
There's only one way to find out.
Mention sharks where's his biggest fear.
What about you, Gare?
outdoor wise.
Ooh, outdoor wise?
I'm, uh,
gotta be careful with my words here.
He's got to decide
he wants to come down here.
No,
be truthful.
Be truthful.
Um,
look,
at the end of the day,
um,
I just can't make this video.
I would be there,
but one of my biggest fears is snakes.
Really?
Yeah.
Okay.
Python is perfect for you,
dude.
Yeah,
yeah.
One of my biggest fears,
not because of any,
like,
I mean,
I just don't like that.
They're just,
they're just slimy.
Python's are another level too
I know dude
I was pretty
They bite you
They bite you all these balls
I was very excited about it
Then Jared showed me a video
Of their teeth
Yeah
You don't realize
Yeah
It's like shark teeth
Yeah
There's a lot of them
Oh I believe it
I don't even need to
This python's not gonna bite your arm off
No but it's gonna hurt
It's gonna hurt
It's gonna hurt
It's gonna hurt
It's uh dude
I really wish I could go dude
Is Cody going on that one with us
I think
I don't know if he
knows, but I think we should try to get them on it. Okay.
I think it would be funny. Yeah, the dudes
will be making appearances for sure. But for real,
I do, I do share your sentiment
for sharks. Like, I don't love the open
water, no, but I love the open water.
I'm also a slow swimmer, dude.
Bro, you're not out-swimming a shark.
Cody probably thinks he can because
he swim a mile, but you don't need
to out-swim the shark. I don't know, dude.
You got to out-slim the same. He's got to
out-swing. Do you have a fear, Tyler,
outdoor?
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
Honestly, like, I guess, climbing, I think.
Like, the animal thing,
that doesn't really bother.
Snakes don't bother me.
Spiders, sharks I'm okay with.
You ever worry about getting like Dick Cheneyed?
Yeah, I guess.
Taking a twin out hunting,
and you don't want to take some friendly fire from anybody for sure.
I have one.
What's your biggest outdoor fear?
I've got a biggest fear outdoor-wise.
It may be positive in mosquitoes.
Malaria love on me.
They love on me.
When West and I was at its peak,
I had to stay indoors.
because they love my blood type thing. It's a sugar thing.
I thought your answer was going to be your biggest fear is just staying inside.
I guess.
Like if you lock Ty in a house for a week, dude, he might lose it.
Yeah.
No, I do need to be outside for sure.
You are the type of guy who has like a week off and by day two, you're feigning for something outdoors.
Yeah.
That's you, baby.
Again, launches this coming Saturday, December 13th, the Dove video.
Yep.
It's a fun one.
We, uh, yeah, I'll just leave it at that.
You got to watch it.
And yeah, it's going to be a fun ride.
I can't wait to see you with sharks, dude.
Yeah, we'll make it happen, I guess.
I'll say, I've had a lot of fans.
I've either seen them on messages YouTube or in person
that are ecstatic about this outdoor channel.
Yeah, I mean, what we've launched,
we've got the main channel, we've got Dude Perfect Gaming.
I guess we technically have the Almost Athletes channel now.
So this is in 16 years.
There's like the fourth real channel that we've launched.
Yeah.
So it's a big deal.
Yeah, a lot of time has been committed to this.
Yeah.
So I think I speak for everyone and says we're excited for it.
Nice.
But appreciate you, dude.
We'll be looking at the outdoor channel and can't wait to get my invite.
Absolutely.
Thanks for having me.
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I feel like we're going to get some goodies today.
It's going to be a guy from Florida.
I know it, dude.
Yeah, it always is.
This is Jackson from H-Town.
I'm just going to let you all straight up.
I think, Tyler, you are stuck up if you will not eat leftovers.
So my question to you is, would you ever have leftovers from your favorite restaurant?
That was a good.
Or a first meal from your least favorite restaurant slash fresh food place.
Thanks, dude.
Before you respond, Ty, I know you're itching to respond here.
I am.
Because you got just put in a category that I don't think you ever said.
It was me who said the thing about the leftovers.
And let me clarify the leftover remark, because I've been taking a lot of heat for this.
Yeah.
Okay?
You have.
They're absolutely disgusting.
The leftovers are I'm kidding.
Look, what I was saying is, is leftovers aren't as good as fresh off the thing.
So, like, for people to say I prefer leftovers, to me is like, you're, you're, you're, you're,
That's just not true.
Like, it's kind of like Ty in his shower.
It's like, I know he wants to use soap,
but at this point he's so far down the road
that he can't use soap.
And so that's how I kind of feel with the leftovers.
And yeah, I got a lot of tax bracket comment.
You're a snob and whatever.
And I was forced with, do you want to eat some leftover chili?
And I chose a DoorDash.
Yeah, that's tough, Ty.
You totally just put, they put their target on your back.
First of all, was our man from H-Town, like in history class?
Because it sounded like he was just, like, sneaking in it.
I think he was in the middle of class.
When he did that.
Go ahead. Floor is yours.
Yeah.
What do you think about leftovers, Ty?
I'd love to respond here because here's one issue that I have with the podcast is people come up to me and they're like, oh, Ty, you heard you said this and you did this.
I would just like it to be known.
I was not even on that episode.
And I've got a bone to pick with the twins because they're calling me out like I'm some.
in Jackson's words, stuck up person who's too good for leftovers.
I had leftovers yesterday.
Fried rice and chicken from the Christmas party.
ate it yesterday.
You know another leftover I'll eat?
Chili.
It's actually just as good.
It is.
The next day.
So I don't want to hear that Ty doesn't eat leftovers from whoever said it.
I can't believe you would say that.
You've got to be careful putting the twins on the podcast.
Excuse me to say anything.
It was gorgeous.
Garrett said, I got to agree with.
High on this one, I eat leftovers.
I got no problem with leftovers.
If I have a choice and I can get something fresh,
majority of the time I'll do that.
But I got, I'm not too good for leftovers.
You know what I'll just go back to?
Just let's go back to the times when people had to provide themselves food.
You know, way back in the day, they ain't saving leftovers, dude.
They're going out there and they're finding more food each and every day.
They're not eating leftover meat sitting outside.
They are.
They are, actually.
You can eat a hog for like eight months.
that salt cured. Yes, you can.
But they weren't, maybe they were salt curing back then.
I just, and that was not a shot at you, Jackson.
Thank you for the calling. I appreciate it.
Feel free to call in again.
Don't be afraid to speak up.
You just don't want to be called a snob.
Yeah.
I just let me state my own opinions.
Yes, I don't use soap.
I'll say that personally.
I don't want somebody else out there saying,
I don't use soap.
You know what I mean?
I want to speak for myself.
When was the last time you showered?
I started this morning.
But just, again, wash off the water, obviously, with no soap.
obviously with no soap.
I smell great today, by the way.
I thought you smelled good today.
Yeah.
Thank you.
I would also say that.
Yeah.
All right.
That's good start.
Let's hear another one.
Who's going to get attacked on this one?
It turns out I'm also as the big soap in Jersey.
I want to see her insights on it.
So I'll hear it.
I was just saying that, yeah, I think that soap like strips your body of the oils that it needs
to protect you from the things in the world for your radicals and other things.
and other things. It also has a lot of fragrances and chemicals that we don't need in our body.
And, yeah, we can do a better job with what God gave us.
The oils that he gave us on our body.
Hope that explains Tyler's theory better. Thanks.
Wow. Wow. I appreciate that. I feel validated.
Was that your mom? No. No. I don't know who that was, but I appreciate it. I hope you guys keep calling in.
Any other questions, boys? I'm legit. I'm legit shock.
right now. I'm shook. I'm shook, dude. Yeah. It strips your body of necessary oils and
and here's the radicals. And this is why. I don't know what that is. I don't know. That was deep.
This is why I'm, I'm shook because I think I might agree with her. Whoa. Look at that.
One person at a time. Changing the world. I, here's the deal. I think the stuff you put in your
body, you know, I talk about food and process things all the time. Yeah. I'm a hypocrite if I don't
agree with it outside of your body. Outside the body. Why do you use certain sunscreen and not others?
guys I'm going no soap
he's a big he's a big soap guy
all right you know how I let you know how I feel
I'm probably let you know we'll let you know we'll let you know I'm probably not
going to sleep good at all because I feel dirty but it's okay
you still feel the exact same you feel clean and your towel's fine
towel's fine used the same one that I did two days ago
wow yeah I did hear some and I didn't squeegee off either I just went
straight I'm definitely not squeegee I'm gonna start eating leftovers and using no
soap this is an educational podcast yep I actually saw something that maybe you're
think really deep on TikTok, which that'll do it to you. But it was, if your body's clean after a
shower, why do we have to wash our towels? You don't. And I was like, mind blown by that. I've
really sat on that for like 30 minutes. I was like, hmm. Dan Rolofsky's done a whole bit on this.
Depends how quickly they dry off because you do, they will mildew. I mean, if something stays wet too
long, it will start to mildew. Which is why he's squeegee. Man. Or you just wash your
towels every once in a while and then you don't have to worry about it. So if you,
shower, clean, and then get in your bed, you have to have to wash your sheets.
My wife does that.
She changes the sheets.
Yeah, because you're still like shedding skin cells in your bed every time you want to
wash those, yeah.
But I do wonder, it brings up an interesting point.
How long could you go with one towel without washing it?
And I'd be willing to try it.
I'd be willing to test that out.
In my youth, I've gone a long time.
Could you go a year without washing a towel if you cleaned off good enough?
Back in the day, I could, that thing would be standing in my locker.
I think you could.
I think you could, easy.
Okay, I'm going to throw one more hypothetical out there
because we're talking about it.
We just talked about soap for the body.
Yeah.
Okay.
Soap for clothes.
Do you need it?
No.
You do not.
Soap for clothes.
What do we mean?
Like detergent?
Like washing it in a washer, do you have to put soap in?
It depends what you're talking about.
If you've got oil or grease stains or something like that,
you need the soap to braid down that stuff.
I'm just talking about just wearing it from a...
No.
These clothes today,
I go home, you could throw them in a washer, no soap, they would be just fine. Wow.
And I say that with probably more authority than I should, but that is my strong opinion.
I mean, you were going after all the big brands. I'm telling you, if something happens to me,
you know. That's where I fear is we're approaching a line of no return, because then all of a sudden
there's going to be people saying, well, I don't need to cut my fingernails. And, you know,
deodorant is bad for my armpit growth. I never said that. There is a type of, there is a type that
It's, is it antiperspirant that's bad or is it deodorant?
I don't know, but I need it.
Whatever one is bad.
That's one thing that I need.
You want to stop the sweat.
I need to stop the sweat.
Otherwise, I get very sweaty and smelly.
So I need the anti-perspirant.
I need the aluminum.
Give me all the aluminum under the pits.
Give you all the aluminium.
Yeah, and if you do too much, it does, you're like, oh, Lee, that itches a little bit.
But it keeps you from sweating.
That's crazy.
All right.
Hit me with the next one.
Hey, dudes.
My name is.
is Jerry from Alabama.
I was wondering,
how do you feel about
the overtime rules
and football with the coins
with not being fair?
Do you think they should change that?
Here's from no.
And Cody, you're a little
chunky, boy.
Lose them weight.
I don't want Gary on the pod.
Oh, my God.
Gary from Alabama, you said it so well.
Go to your list.
Chunky boy.
We need his contact info.
I do.
I forgot what the question was.
Coimflin.
Unfair.
Being unfair.
No, well, I think they fixed that, right?
Yeah, both teams have the chance to...
Yeah, we addressed to that this year.
Last year.
Now, do you wish they would go from 10 minutes?
Or is he having a conspiracy that it's always tails?
Like, I don't know.
Is he asking like...
I don't know, but I want Gary on the pod.
I don't care what we talk about.
We can talk Alabama football.
Yeah.
We're going to have a way in with Cody right off the bed.
That's what I know.
He can address that question again when he's on the show.
I needed that after a soap
that my mind was spinning
to be completely honest
and I finally feel like I'm back.
I'm back.
Gary from Bamal brought you back.
What's up guys?
My name's Russell from Alabama.
Me and my son James have been huge fans
and forever.
But not to take up too much time.
Going back to the episode
where you guys talked about
a role that you would bring
into another sport
and after thinking about it,
I think we should bring
the foul out rule from basketball into football.
Like if a player commits more than two or three penalties in a game,
he's kicked out for the rest of that game.
We talked about this, actually, for targeting.
Like, I think it should be two targets, like two targeting penalties.
Like, I don't think you should.
So it's like kind of the same.
If you, if you false start, like that guy from the Giants did,
I think it was versus the Cowboys.
I was going to say, there's probably some offensive and defensive coordinators
that would love this rule.
Yeah.
I feel like it's kind of the nature of the sport, though.
Like hockey and football, that doesn't really work as well
as maybe a sport that is meant to not like soccer basketball, I could see.
I think hockey has figured out how to penalize properly.
Go just sit down and think about what you did for two minutes.
Hey, welcome back.
Get back in the game.
That strategy's worked a long time in parenting.
And water.
And water polo does that.
So, I mean, it's a penalty box, like 11 on 10 for a play?
type thing if there's a holding?
Yep.
It'd be interesting.
Correct.
That'd be interesting.
Now they do have the unsportsmanlike conducts.
If you pick up two of those, you're gone.
Yeah.
And it's like technical fouls.
Yeah, correct.
Correct.
Man, that would really make it interesting, though, is a penalty box.
And now that you have a down and distance with 10 men on the field.
Changes play calls quickly, huh?
Yeah, for sure.
Like, instead of giving a 60-yard penalty for a pass interference, it's like, no, I mean.
Yeah, there are two, now they're down to 9, 11 v.9.
What if it was, what if it was to, like, you can't replay?
that guy and pull a, like let's say it's a cornerback that gets the penalty, you're down a
cornerback.
Also, another rule that hockey, hockey's done so many things so well.
They should implement that there's a captain on every playing surface and those are the only
ones that are allowed to talk to the refs.
Same thing.
I thought you were going to say.
If your team has an issue, then you can go talk to the ref directly if it's from the
captain.
I thought you were going to say that the captain could go fight.
No, I do think more sports would benefit from fighting, but that's a separate podcast.
We don't have time for that one.
Good question.
Alabama really bringing it today.
Yeah, shout out to Bama.
As guys, do you, when you get sick, do you go to the doctor to get better?
Or do you like stick it out until the last possible moment and when you're deathly ill, then you finally go to the doctor?
I think you all know where I stand.
You know, I think I hear my thoughts on that.
This is a whole other podcast as well.
I feel like a lot of these are directed at Utah.
I do.
Yeah.
You go to the doctor.
No, no, no.
No, I said I do feel like that they are directed at me.
I don't have a doctor.
That's concerning.
Like, you fill out one of those things.
You're like, who's your primary care physician?
I'm like, I don't have one.
Me?
Well, who would you write down if you need to go pick something up?
And I'm like, I don't.
I don't ever need to go pick up anything.
Yeah.
I'm with you in the sense that for some reason,
when it comes to modern,
I'm a very, like, last second guy.
I have to be past the point of no return before I met up.
I don't know if it's like a self thing where I'm like,
I'm tougher than this. I can overcome. But I'm in the same vein there.
The only time, I mean, truthfully, the only, I'm trying to think, I mean, I have my shoulder
surgery. I obviously had to go to the doctor to do that. But like, unless we're on tour and I have
to physically go perform and I can't speak or something, throat coat, then I'll, then I will go get
something so where I can, like, actually function or talk. But other than that, I'll just, you just
tough it out. But you're not crazy to the point where you're like, oh, I don't need any anesthesia for your
surgery. No, no. There are some people like that. And stuff like that. I'm not like a huge.
you just want to feel pain kind of guy.
Just for the sake of it?
No.
That's like a brother nature thing.
Yeah.
Bath tub baby type level of...
Gare?
You have a doctor.
You've got a few.
Yeah.
Garrett's got a doctor for every body part.
He's got a hand doctor.
It takes a street to visit them.
It takes a village.
To keep that body intact.
For that listening age, it takes a village.
What was your listening age?
She was 21, man.
Oh, yeah.
It was going backwards.
Takes a village to keep me healthy, man.
Okay.
Yeah, I got a couple doctors here there.
Yeah.
You know, I kind of, you know, I kind of,
health, I disagree with one or go to the other.
Just still somebody tells you what you all to hear.
Yeah, correct.
What's up, guys?
It's Justin from Portnatured, Texas.
I just wanted to get your thoughts about a potential almost sport.
I would say that I am 99 to 98% perfect on picking out fruit from the grocery store.
Melons, oranges.
Melons.
Kiwis,
alonados,
whatever the fruit is
that you can't tell
from the outside shell,
I think I've mastered the art
of picking out the perfect one each time.
It's kind of a funny of that.
So I wanted to get your thoughts on
if this is a potential,
almost sport.
Yeah,
I'm an under-recognized skill set.
It really is.
I mean, dude,
I cannot stand the produce aisle.
Yeah?
I, dude, I'm like,
whenever we go to the store,
I'm like,
you go do that.
I'm going to the first.
frozen section to look at fun ice creams and just got released.
Produce gives you fits,
dominate you.
It's just, it's overwhelming, dude.
It's a tough thing to do.
It's overwhelming.
And I don't go often, but I would say for the amount of time that I've spent in a
grocery store and then the ability to pick out, avocados, pretty easy.
But I hate when you try and get avocados in, it's like a rock and you're trying to cut it.
Yeah, yeah, a little, I don't even know what that, the button.
The button.
You flick the button.
Pineapple, go for one of those inner leaves.
Do you know that?
I have no idea.
So you got all the leaves that come out of the top of the pineapple.
Go for one of the innermost leaves.
If it pulls out really easily, ripe and fresh.
If you've got a tug on that thing, put that one back.
Handle something else.
I had no idea.
Yeah.
I just...
Melons are tough.
I've heard you can knock on them and there's something about the sweetness.
I don't think you need to eat melons.
I don't think you need to eat melons.
I do love a good watermelon.
I'll tell you what I do.
Oh, watermelon, sure.
But not like a mango.
Honeydew.
Like a honeydew melon.
No, no. If you like honeydew, you're lying.
What a weird subset of people.
You probably eat a bunch of leftovers.
Yeah.
Probably eat leftovers and you probably use soap, too.
Here's the fix to that.
I like to go get a little fruit snacks.
Yeah.
And that's how I like.
Yep.
Yeah.
Good consistency on the fruit snacks.
Good packaging.
Yeah.
I feel like I'm getting, you know, I'm going to have fruit in.
Amen.
From the snacks.
Whoa.
Always gets me.
That means it's time for our two-minute rant.
Gary, I've got something. Do you have anything today? Do you want to share it?
No, just go ahead. If I need to interrupt you, I will.
Yeah. Okay. So something that bothered me in my youth and still bothers me today.
Golf. I love the sport of golf, but it needs to be more feasible financially.
As a youth, I struggled to get clubs under the tree. And now, looking back, you're like, yeah, because they cost about 15 hondo for a nice pair of clubs.
You want to go play 18 with your boys? Not only is it a four to five-hour venture, it's about a
or $500.
And that's just rub me the wrong way for a long time.
If I could go back to my youth and play golf, I would, but you kind of got to be like a
Fortune 500 kid, and I wasn't that.
So youth sports in general, from select soccer to AAU basketball and golf, we've got to
find a way for inclusion.
And the best way to include everybody is make it to where the price doesn't run people
away.
So that's my rant today.
That's an uphill battle.
You got ahead of you there, Spark.
I know it is, but I feel like I just had to speak out for the people.
That's coming from a guy who gets a lot of free clubs, too.
Golf is too expensive.
Your sports in general.
I do agree.
You sports have gotten a little out of hand.
Yeah, the pay-to-play method, which I understand why people do it.
But at the same time, the more the merrier, the kids need to be involved in things.
If they want to play sport but don't have the financial means, we've got to find a way to let those kids still play sport.
I hear like, there's a sparky scholarship fund.
Yeah.
Is that what it is?
I do think every kid, and I say this, I'll, I have to find a way.
have two things. I think Ty
also agrees with this.
I think your kid should stick with music
to stick with golf.
If you don't play any other sport, like,
I would love you to play all the sports
in the world, but if you had to choose just
two things, music, golf,
because you can play those things.
Full life. Your entire life,
your body will hold up to it.
So if you're a kid listening to this and
haven't ever touched a golf club or
a musical instrument, I
challenge you to do that in 20,
And stick with it because you're going to get some voicemails saying,
why did Garrett tell me to start up golf?
I cannot stand it.
It's a tough sport.
It's a tough sport.
It will challenge you mentally.
We'll deal with those voicemails when they come in.
Yeah, we'll deal with them.
Those when they come in.
It was a good rant.
That's a good rant.
It was a good rant.
It was a good episode.
Thank you, Tyler, for joining us.
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