Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect - Eli Manning on Super Bowl Wins, Favorite Sports Movies, Peyton Manning's Dancing & Texting

Episode Date: February 11, 2026

 Two-time Super Bowl champ Eli Manning joins the pod to reveal what really happens behind-the-scenes for the players during Super Bowl week, talks about the stress of buying gifts for his linemen, how the quarterback position has evolved, his favorite young QBs, and whether he still has any snaps left. Eli also discusses Arch Manning’s expectations after his first season at UT, the success of the Manningcast, and drafts his ideal lineup of NFL quarterbacks for a theoretical Squad Games team. The conversation builds toward a brotherly Peyton vs. Eli game, where Eli reveals which Manning brother is superior. The episode closes with a Valentine’s Day takeover as Cody’s wife Allison and Tyler’s wife Bethany stop by for the Dudelywed game, where the couples guess how their partners will answer questions about their marriage and the answers will surprise you. 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 00:45 Super Bowl Recap  03:30 Super Bowl Halftime 05:55 Eli Manning Introduction  08:05 Eli’s Signature On Jerry’s World  11:40 Eli’s Favorite Super Bowl Memories  13:30 Growing Up In The Manning House  17:00 Eli’s Health Throughout The Years 19:00 QBs Christmas Gifts  22:45 Differences In QB Play: Now vs Then  24:35 Eli’s Favorite Young QBs 25:40 Does Eli Have Any Snaps Left In Him?  27:00 Dream QB Squad Games Roster  33:40 Most Embarrassing Song On Eli’s Phone  38:30 Peyton or Eli?  47:35 Eli At The Movies  48:40 Blind Sports Movie Ranking  52:15 Eli’s Almost Athlete Moment  57:07 Cody & Allison Jones, Tyler & Bethany Toney  01:06:20 The Dudelywed Game  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

Better dancer. Oh, I'm much better. My hips are so loose. Yeah. I can actually see that. I mean, Peyton seems a little stiff, man. With all due respect. Who had more rushing yards between y'all, too?

That's a great question. No one cares. Yeah. Whoever was in the negative. No one cares. Yeah, no one cares. Welcome to Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect O Wave original. This episode is presented by Toyota.

Let's go places. Follow the show on all social media at Almost Athletes. and like and subscribe. We're your host. I'm G. Spark. Let's get right into it. Yeah, fresh off of Super Bowl Sunday, brother.

What'd you like? What'd you like about the game? I found myself, you know, kind of doing a little what I call my version of dancing during halftime. Yeah. That was good, man. So you thought halftime better than the game itself?

I feel bad saying that, but yes, I think Bad Bunny was the MVP of the Super Bowl. So you think it was more or less bad Bunny elevating his play or was it the football being that bad? A little bit of both. I think he came prepared. He did. And the two football teams played a little timid.

Maybe weren't as prepared as bad bunny. But let's talk about it. What a score prediction. You almost nailed it. Dude, I did. I was all over it. Now, JSN didn't have the game that I thought he would.

And the more I thought about it, Collinsworth said something on the broadcast that really stuck out to me. The Patriots are known for scheming out the best player on the other team. They've made a history of doing that. So it kind of makes sense. They paid so much attention to JSN.

But yeah, Seattle had enough. I was all over at 27-17. Final score was, what, 29, 13? Kind of a funky game there, funky score. I'm still disappointed that the NFL, it's just like the Heisman voting. The NFL had a chance to do something historic. You wanted Myers too?

Dude, I thought it was all his. If it wasn't Myers, who else was it? How about the Seattle punter who put it inside the five? Michael Dixon. Every single punt. Dude, I was at Tyler's house and Ian was there and he said the same thing. He's like, that dude is so good at what he does.

that people just take it for granted. He was coughing corner in those puns. Like, no problem, man. Dude, that is, I don't. It's impressive. I challenge anybody who is arguing with me that that is hard to do, walk out to the 50 yard line because you guys think kicking is so easy. Sure.

No one's even rushing you. Put it with inside the five for five straight punts. That's what he did. Hey, you're not going to do it. I think the casual football fan doesn't realize just how important it is when you flip field position like that. The specialty units were awesome. I feel like we had a deserving Super Bowl champion this year.

Fourteen wins in the regular season in the toughest conference in football, and then they put a bow on it by beating them by 16 points. They were awesome. The defense aligned was awesome. Happy for Tank Lawrence, former Dallas Cowboy, really happy for him. I text some guys last night that was like, at least Lawrence got a super, you know, like leaves the Cowboys, which I don't know if he was happy or sad about that. I think he was a little upset.

I think his, I don't quote me, but his words were like, fine, I'll go win a Super Bowl elsewhere. And to his credit, he did it. He did that. If you're Josh Allen, though, that one hurts. Missed up. Seattle's a tough team to beat. Sure. I think.

In terms of Super Bowl winners. He could have put up some offensive numbers in the Super Bowl that, I mean, shoot, I think Houston could have put up some offensive numbers with their offensive weapons. Yeah. Well, back to halftime real quick. So what do you grade it? A letter grade. Bad Bunny.

Oh, I thought it was great, man. Honestly, obviously I don't understand. non-intieando Espanio What does that mean? That means I don't understand Spanish. I don't understand Spanish

Right? Just the fact I couldn't decipher that sentence Let you know that I also Ablo Españo From a vibe standpoint, spectacular From a production quality,

spectacular The guest he brought on Sure, Gaga appearing I think Jessica Albo is in there Some other people It was great, man. Here's my problem Is it gave me

flashbacks of Spanish 4 when the professor was speaking in nothing but Spanish, and I'm sitting there trying to decipher. And I don't know if she's saying homeworks do Wednesday or if, like, your excuse from class. So it brought back some Spanish foreign nightmares. Other than that, I thought it was great. I'm going to speak for all of America in the public school system. They failed us.

You just said you take, you Spanish for, yeah, and you can't even say high in Spanish. That's insane. Whatever you said. Let's relearn that because you've wasted four years of your life speaking or trying to speak a foreign language. And you should be fluent. we should all be fluent. About to be 35 years old, it's time that I perfect my Spanish. Yeah, it is.

But yeah, I thought I'd give it an A for the halftime performance. I thought it was good. Yeah, B plus for me. Okay, I mean, we're right there. Which is better than most. Yeah. Better most. Hard gig, by the way. People just are always, I don't know if expectations are super high or, I don't know.

But there's a bar there that almost can't be obtained for Super Bowl halftime shows. I feel like if you hop on social media at any point during a halftime show, regardless of a year, it's pretty critical. of the artist. You kind of can't sit still during it. With the... With Bad Bunny's music. Your hips were talking?

Yeah, again, like... I was shaking my tail feather. Again, like, it's like not even like, I don't even know how to dance, but, you know... But Bad Bunny's music, to your point, makes you want to dance. Yeah, correct. It kind of forces your... You listen to Gaga sometimes.

It's your hips. Yeah. It's okay. Big week for us, though. Busy week. Off to L.A. Of course, Cody's playing in the NBA, Celebrity All-Star Day.

And you're playing. Yeah, I'm playing in the Creator Cup the night before. Three-on-three. tournament. And then later on today's episode, Cody and Tyler are going to sit down with their wives. We're going to do a little Valentine's game called Dooley Wed game. Look forward to that. But first, we were in San Fran for Super Bowl week, and we sat down with Super Bowl legend. Eli Manning, check that out. Our guest needs no introduction, but we're going to give him one anyways. He was the number one pick out of Ole Miss. He's a two-time Super Bowl champ and MVP. He started 210

10 consecutive games and led two of the most iconic Super Bowl upsets in NFL history and is currently the host of the Emmy winning Manning cast. Give it up for Eli Manning. Thank you. Wow. What an introduction. Thank you, boys. Did that offend you when it said upsets in NFL history?

I mean, I feel like that was kind of a, you know. It's like, jab? I mean, he's trying to do it. He went out there and won. Technically, we're going to the underdog. I'm fine playing the underdog role. That's okay. Well, we hung with Brady here recently.

and uh who's that yeah tom you heard of them yeah tom and jerry yeah he uh he wasn't too fond of those super balls so yeah it happens uh eli actually we've met before and you're going to have no recollection of us take it back to 2004 okay january second do you know where you were january second 2004 are you a cotton bowl yes sir okay you know you're playing uh we're playing uh we're playing Oklahoma state at the hotel. Y'all were there. I happened to be in Dallas for a cheerleading convention. Unfortunately, not nearly as cool. I threw up cheddar peppers from Sonic on the way to this cheerleading convention, but it gets worse. Me and you were in an elevator together. Were you

cheerleading? No, sister was. Okay. I was supporting. Every routine is the same, by the way. That's what I can't stand. I don't know how they judge that stuff. Oh, yeah, glitter, all that. Oh, nightmare stuff. But me and you were on an elevator together. Some of your own linemen were there. Yeah, I, you know, get little up. Yeah, I don't remember that. I can't believe to sit and sit and sit with you. I'm sorry. But anyhow, as the night went on, I went to the weight room with one of my buddies, and I'm like seventh grade spark.

He hopped on the treadmill and in front of about 12 Ole Miss players, just boom, face plant off the treadmill. Slipped off. Glad you didn't remember it. It wasn't the best way to meet. So I'm glad we got years later to come back around and see each other. But you've totally redeemed yourself. Thank you.

Thank you. And this is a chance for you to redeem yourself because in 2009, also in Dallas, you christened the new AT&T stadium with a little signature. So if you want to take the time just to apologize, I wouldn't mind it. I wouldn't mind it. I think that's been blown out of proportion, you know, a little bit in the sense that, you know,

obviously it was the first game in the new stadium and Jerry World there. And the equipment manager for the away team. So you go into the locker room and there's kind of the locker room guy for the visiting team. And he's there for every visiting team that comes in and he takes care of things. And so I'd gotten to know he was at the original stadium before,

gotten to know him a little bit. And after the game, you kind of go and you tip that guy, you know, a few bucks, you signed some autographs for him. I kind of knew stadium, went into his little office, not like in the locker room, it's off the locker room, in his office, you know, kind of, you know, did our deal. And he said he wanted to start a new tradition of having the athletes that come in sign the wall.

And I'm like, I'd be honored to start that tradition. and it was the first game, so it was the first one to do it. The next year came back. There's about 20 guys that signed it. The next year it came back, that guy had been fired, and the wall was wiped clean. So I don't know what happened in there. I think he retired, honestly. I don't think he got fired.

But Jerry didn't like that. But I just happened to be the first one. It got a lot of attention. I have fair. So it wasn't that. It wasn't like I just went in and signed the middle of the locker room. Like, hey, I own this locker room now. And, you know, just don't worry about it.

I'm just a sign right here. It wasn't like that. Yeah. Well, the building's been cursed ever since. Yeah. And they still haven't put blinds up, which is remarkable.

Yeah, it is remarkable. That's a remarkable. So the big game, this Sunday, as a person who's played in a couple of them, how much more intense and does the Super Bowl, even compared to a regular season, but even a playoff game, just how much more elevated is it?

Obviously, you have the media stuff going around, a lot of distractions. I'm sure you tried to block those things out, but the scale of the season. Super Bowl kind of needless to say pretty darn big. Yeah, obviously you're going into the biggest game of your life and what it means to win a Super Bowl, what it means to, you know, your teammates, your coaches, your fan base, your family, you know, the buddies that you played high school football with or college football with

that didn't go on to the next level. I mean, they are living this through you and you want it. And it's a little bit different. You come to the Super Bowl because all of a sudden, for the last 20 weeks, you've had the same routine of like what you do on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, getting ready for the game. And now all of a sudden the biggest game of your life, they take you out of your routine, out of your home base, out of where you live, your family, your friends, your own practice facility, where you've gotten just used to everything. And now you're in a hotel, you're in a random city,

you're taking buses to practice. And everything's off a little bit. So I think you try to keep things as similar as possible. Hey, if you've got a massage on things, you're not, you've got a massage on Thursdays, set that massage up. If you went to dinner with your teammates on Wednesday nights, go to dinner with your teammates. If you had a date night with your wife on Friday, like create all those same things. So you kind of feel like everything's normal. And now, you know, just try to get to the game.

And at that point, you know, it's just about, hey, it's trusting your training, trusting the things that have gotten to this point and go play football and, you know, not to get caught up with the flashes and the lights and everything going on. There's a lot of flashes, a lot of lights. Wednesdays was that? Thursdays. Yeah, whatever might be. You know, this for example.

I need to implement that in my routine. Wednesday. A Wednesday massage. And we got to stick to the routine. You got to stick to it. Every week. Makes a lot of sense. Anything like favorite memories from your Super Bowls.

I mean, other than the catch, obviously. Right. Well, I mean, I think, you know, kind of what I talked about a little bit is that, you know, for the, during the season, you know, I wake up in the morning. I get in my car and I drive to the facility. I drive home afterwards now. You're in your Super Bowl site. You're taking buses.

It's like back to high. school football. You're taking a bus to practice every day. And that was that was fun. Like this being with the teammates and and you know, we had a couple, you know, fans are outside. Remember we once? We had Richie Sorburt was one of our offensive alignment. We were walking outside. There was a lady out there. She had a Mary Me Manning shirt. And it was like a small shirt on her. Richie saw it and he's like, I need that shirt. Somehow he got got it and he's wearing it on the bus. You get on the bus I get on and there's Richie's like come on Elon big hug and he's wearing the shirt it's a midriff on him the you know the guts hanging out and just like those fun things and I think that's kind of

important you know during those big moments that you're about to play and like if you if you're if you're like all business for a week straight you know that's not to be good there's got to be some fun there's got to be enjoying the moment of having the laughs and kind of knowing the flip the switch and you know hey we got we got a we got a 40 minute bus ride we're not going to sit there and be like no talking on the bus, you know, that means you're not focused. Like, hey, we're all professionals here. We all have worked very hard to get here. Let's enjoy these moments. Have some fun. Have some blast. You know, rip on each other and enjoy this time together. Yeah, that's awesome. I got a couple questions just because I come from a family of two brothers as well. We were extremely competitive.

Obviously not, you know, we're almost athletes. We weren't actual athletes. But like for you growing up with like just, you know, a talented family, I mean, how competitive was it? Like, do you think having those brothers kind of got you to where you were today? No, a thousand percent. And, you know, Peyton is five years older than me. Cooper is seven years older than me. So there's a whole lot of me being able to compete against them in basketball or, you know, football in the front yard. You know, we played a lot of football in the front yards.

They're buddies. I was just wanted to be invited in. If there was an odd number, like, all right, Eli, we need you. You can play permanent center for both sides. I'm like, all in. Like, I just wanted to be, those were my heroes. There's the ones, you know, they're playing high school football and I'm in fifth grade or, you know, fourth grade. And I just wanted to, you know, watch those guys.

And those are my role models. But, you know, I definitely the fact that I know you all mentioned in an introduction, 210 straight games in a row for me, both my brothers take 100% credit for that because of the physical and mental torture they put me through as a kid. They're like, no, we've been training you since you were six years old to not get hurt. Like you were not allowed to tell mom or dad that you were injured. Like we punch you, we pin you down, we knock on your chest and make you name the 28 teams in the NFL at the time. This is all a training process for you to be durable and not get injured and not to tell anybody. you're ever hurt. So they're like, we expect a thank you or like a gift. I'm like, you'll get

nothing and like it. Y'all, y'all just gave me wedgies because you went and gave me wedgies. There was no training involved in this. Y'all were just mean older brothers. So before the, before the Super Bowls, did we call the brothers any advice? Or were you just like, I'm doing this myself? I don't want them in my head. No, definitely. I mean, both, both my brothers, you know, wanted this, you know, for me. Payton was awesome. He had played. He had played. in the first Super Bowl. He'd played and won a Super Bowl the year before. So like talking to him about, hey, you know, how did you handle like tickets? And how did you handle like who gets invited? Who doesn't get invited? Do you invite? It's a big thing. Like all my buddies want to come. Do I get

their like their girlfriends a ticket also? Like where do people stay? Like just like there's a lot of logistics going on. I had to handle this. So having him there for that and I mean, you know, there's a video of him in the suite and we're, you know, going to. on the drive and hidden plaques go. I mean, he is fired up. He's ready to go. I mean, there's, you know, kind of hear stories about Cooper.

I mean, he's on his, on his knees praying, you know, during the game. That's awesome. Please let this, you know, be a catch or make them have this two-minute drive. So, you know, great, great support from my brothers. And, you know, of course, you know, as sometimes the people that you're closest with,

you have some of the biggest fights with them and you have the wrestling. And there's definitely, you know, the competitive nature of growing up, but when it comes to knowing, you know, when it's, when it's time, when serious going on, your livelihood, your profession, you know, we support each other 100% and want, you know, everyone to have great success. Little did I know, a wedgie was the key to starting 210 consecutive games. Yeah, wedgies. I got plenty of wedgis never got the 210. A swirling, a chocolate swirling. Sure. Yeah. Those were, weren't as fun. Yeah.

The days of 210, though, we were actually marveling at this on the plane over here today. It's like, dude, that's an astronomical number. You take great pride in the fact that, because I'm sure you were not 100% healthy in many of those times. Is that something you took great pride in is availability, being available for your teammates? 100%. Being available for your teammates, being available to the coaches. And I always took it as, you know, I always thought about the offense alignment. And when I went into playing the first game of the season, I have not got to,

been hit in seven months. You know, like, no one has touched me and I am hit. I'm like so fresh. I've gone through training camp. No one's hit me. Preseason, don't get hit much. And I'm thinking about my offensive lineman. And these guys are already sore.

They've gone through two days and they're hitting at practice. And they're, you know, I mean, they're going through a totally different process of getting ready for the first game. And, and, you know, then after a game, I mean, they are exhausted. They are sore. They've been, you know, this hitting. hit someone for 65 plays in a row. And I'm like, hey, for me to say, oh, my arm's a little sore,

I can't practice today or I can't plan a game. That wasn't an option. I was going to do anything possible to be out there, to be at practice, to be in the game, and to show that, you know, hey, I'm not going to let little injuries, you know, keep me off the field. And, you know, I'm here and I'm going to be reliable and dependable to show up and give my best effort.

day. Love that. Needless to say the alignment, they didn't, they didn't have the luxury of wearing the old red jersey. They don't have the red jerseys. I love training camp. I mean, you know, training camp, even though we had two days back then. I was like, yeah, I went to summer camp when I was 11 years old and I loved it. And it was like, I still get to do it when I'm 30 years old and, you know, go off for two weeks. They view training camp as something completely different. It's like they're not playing football. They are just hitting someone and getting tackled and falling down and people falling. on them. It's like, it's, I get to play football and I'm throwing a pass and there's competitiveness and it's all like, oh, a coverage and you're like a mental game. There's is a

physical game every single practice and it's brutal and I don't even know why they like the game of football, you know, knowing what they had to go through. But, you know, I understand that that's what they're going through and I appreciate it so much because they keep the mean, you know, big, scary guys away from me from hitting me. So I'm thankful. I'm thankful. thankful for them all the time. But it's a different world. It's really almost a, we play two different sports within the same sport. So why you're differently, I think it would be a great way to put those online.

I've always wanted to ask a quarterback this. Is it a stressful season after, you know, Christmas time rolls around. We got to get O-line the gifts. And it's like being creative. You know, you don't want it. You're like, I don't know what this. Do the quarterbacks talk about this within the league or is it like? Yeah, you talk.

You kind of like call your buddy, but yeah. What are you going with this year? No doubt. You definitely, you know, that's a good older brother situation also. Kind of have, hey, what did you give them? And like I was one that I based it a little bit on how we're doing that year. It's not just like. Totally.

I like that. You know, it's not like, yeah, I'm always thankful and take them out to dinner and do those things. That's going to be a given. But, hey, the better season we have, the better you're blocking, the better than give. Yeah. There's some incentive there. Yeah, there's an incentive. Sure.

I remember like, you know, some of the linemen, you know, they're still some of my best friends for my rookie year, Chris Ney and Sean O'Hare, Dave D on these guys. And they gave me a hard time. My rookie year, I didn't start the first nine games. I started the last seven games. And, you know, we went one and six. So not that great. So I got them some sunglasses. Like that was the gift. I don't say we won one game. I didn't start. And like, it's a good starting point for the year. And they're like, sunglasses? I'm like, what did Kurt Warner get you? He started the first half. Did he get you anything? He did it. So, like, we're there. The next year, full-time starter, we go 11 and 5.

We make the playoffs. Then, hey, hey, let's get a new suit or a tailor-made suit. Sure. We had, you know, cowboy boots. We had, you know, TVs and computers and tech and video cameras. I mean, we went through the works. But, yeah, you definitely, it is a little stressful. I bet, dude.

Because everybody's a little different. You know, you have some people that, you know, will never want a suit in their lives. Some people want one of, you know, a shotgun or something. I started getting my wife a gift. I can't imagine getting, I was about to go there. Five or six guys. Oh, then you get the backups. Like the guy who's like, hey, this guy's played three games. This guy's played 16 games. Do they get the same gift? I don't think that's fair. Where do we draw the line? This guy hasn't been on the active 53 all year. Do I give him a Toyota? Exactly. And then all it takes is a quarterback like Philip Rivers, you know, if he gets everybody a

four-wheeler or something makes you look bad, then all the sudden. They're going all out. That's all Jack was delivering all the good. So they make a little more money nowadays. You spend more money on the... He's giving cars out. He's giving Toyotas out to the United linemen. I mean, he's getting big time now. It's 60 mil a year, I mean.

Exactly. He holds a little more weight. You spend more money on your wife or your lineman. It's a phenomenal question, yeah. No, the wife. I get a lie. My wife wins. I was thinking about like going out to dinner, though.

You take the wife out to dinner, you know, have a special night or something. Hey, maybe get a good bottle of wine. it's like you kind of do the same thing but the linemen eat so much more they don't order one steak they order two sticks and they may get one to go for their like post dinner dinner dinner they're late night dinner they like they like they like the good wine and they just like you know it just keeps flowing now I actually thought some of the quarterbacks now is like they take the linemen out to dinner like no one drinks anymore they're like no we got to hydrate and I was like my lineman never said the word hydrate in their entire life I never saw him drink

That's incredible. That's great. So you've been out of the game a little bit now, and the game keeps evolving, changing. Quarterback position specifically, what are some of the differences from when you played? I'm sure, you know, not a lot of under center as much anymore. Some of those things. How much different is the quarterback play today compared to when you were letting it fly? Yeah, I mean, I think, kind of like you said, a lot more shotgun, right? And, you know, there's still a few teams that are doing it or getting back to it. And you see, like, San Francisco Francisco here, Brock Purdy's under center a lot. And there's still some teams that are doing the play action and under center, you know,

I think that's great. And there's some that are just, hey, we're all shotgun and we're just not doing it. And I think there's, yeah, there's kind of, you know, both are good. I think it's still, I mean, the quarterback play, some of the best quarterbacks are the guys that can scramble, but you still got to be able to throw it. Like, you got to be able to stay in the pocket, mate throws, move in the pocket, keep your eyes downfield and the ones that are playing at the highest level on the quarterback spot are those are those people the young guys that can scramble and run around it's great to have

that access when things break down or that ability but eventually you got to learn to stay in there and make the throws and hey you can still have the great thing about the NFL you can you can have the young bucks and the Drake mays come in there and playing well but you could have the staffords and the guy who's 38 and but still slinging in and and you have a guy in their second year and a guy in is, I don't know what Stafford in, it's 15th year, that are kind of both up for the MVP spot. So I think that's, that's, you know, it kind of goes in waves. It got away from running backs. We're an important not running it now. It's definitely a little bit more running, running, throwing to the running backs. So it's still healthy. There's a great crop of young talent out there that are doing great

things and making the game exciting. And that's what it's all about. mentioned a great crop of young talent. Any favorite quarterback slinging it right now, young guns that you really like? Yeah, I mean, you love, you know, Bo Nix. And when he did this year, you know, you hate the fact that he got injured and the way that worked out.

But what an unbelievable year. Fourth quarter comebacks is having that grit and that way of, hey, it's not always pretty all the times, but in the critical moments, like you saw that level of play step up. Drake May, you kind of see the same thing and critical moments, you know, making great plays.

you know, Trevor Lawrence having a great year and back, Caleb Williams. So, you know, there's just a great talent out there. They're being coached up well. And they have that ability to make the plays the way they're designed to be

played and they're designed to work and they can throw it on time and do those things. But when things get off and the defense has got a better play than you got called, they can create those plays. And that's what makes it exciting. Kind of the off-script plays that they have the ability to makes it hard for defenses to stop it was fun to kind of poke the bear

with tom and kind of ask him similar questions and see that competitive side come out in him and he was swearing up and down that he still thinks he could you know thrive at the NFL level and I truly think internally he believes that what about you you think you got any snaps left in you no no no no you know you don't have a Philip Rivers left in you i don't have a philip rivers and every time I see a quarterback get hit I'm like oh that that looks like it looks painful and like no way he's getting up from that. I'm like, yep, he popped right down. And like I was when you play it, I never saw hits. I never thought like I was going to get injured or like, there's no way he's getting up. And now I see it. And like every hit is like, oh, that looks painful.

That's the back. I'm not getting up from that one. No, but Tom could definitely, he's a psycho. He is. No, he truly is. He was wired differently. We do a concept on our main channel called squad games where the five dudes and myself take on whether it's a content creation, group, whatever it may be in a best of seven sports series. Okay. If you're grabbing four other quarterbacks from the past, who are you taking or present to take with you to a squad games. So all sports, they need to be competent across the board.

Okay. Yeah, baseball, soccer. And I'm taking quarterbacks, not teammates, quarterbacks. I'm taking four quarterbacks from the past or present? Or present? Or present. Is that I want on my team to go? All right.

All right. So let's start with just like pure athlete. Let's go Michael Vick. Yeah, that's great. All right. I want speed. Yeah, that's pretty good. All right.

So he's going to be faster than everybody out there. So, so that's good. I'll bring big bro out there, you know, Peyton and I. Thorval bone. Yeah,

you know, we just kind of have that chemistry. You know, we kind of have our hand signals that just kind of that brotherly love, brotherly, nonverbal. You know, nonverbal communication going on.

So we got to, you know, make something happen. Also, someone I can yell at. If I need to yell at someone, I could just like take all my anger out on him. So we have Vic. We got paid. Let's go. I'm going to go an old teammate here. We've lost them, but Jared Lorenzen.

Okay. All right. You know, we need a big guy in there. Like, we got to do some blocking maybe. Yeah. Wrestling. Yeah. Wrestling.

You know, I don't know what sport we're playing. But great. athlete and bring some, you know, bring some muscle into the mix. And then let's go, hmm, you know, let's just keep it a family. I'm bringing my dad. I'm bringing old school Archie Manning just running around. He was, he was an athlete. He mean, he was the guy who could scramble. He would have been great in like this new world of RPO and running quarterback. Like, this would have fit his abilities. So there we go. That's the team. That's a solid list. You like that? Yeah, I do. Yeah, with their.

reserve your nephew. Yeah. Little Arch is on the bench. He's waiting. He's waiting his turn. Yeah. So I do have a question about that. So like,

obviously I'm an Aggie. Do you feel like, I mean, you were the youngest, you had a lot of shoes to fill. You had your dad, Payton. I mean,

even your brother was, you know, a heck of an athlete. Do you feel like the, the expectations that was set on Arch this year were pretty egregious. Like,

I mean, just insane for an 18 year old or just I think for him to succeed the expectations that were on him he would have had to like throw 79 touchdowns when you know the national championship and win two Heisman trophies in the same year and still barely get to those yeah but you know so I mean I get it that's a and and you can't hide from it and he's done a great job of not hiding from it he's not he's never you know he got off to a slow start a little bit and you know you're going against Ohio State and in the first game of your first years as a starter.

I mean, tough situations, and he, you know, did not play great at some games early on, but, you know, he was, he was determined enough and, and humble enough to ask for, you know, help from the coaches and prepare and work through it. And he got better and ended up, you know, playing unbelievable the back half of the season. And so, you know, proud of him on that, on that note. And you saw the way the teammates talked to him about it. and the way, hey, he showed up, he kept working, he worked through it. And that's what you want.

Because in college, it's about being, you know, it's about being a great teammate. You're with your guys that are all in the same boat. You're all coming here to play college football. You're living together. You're hanging out together. And so it's creating that bond. And then, you know, it's about learning how to handle this, how to get better, about how to, you know, have a tough game and overcome it.

How to make, you know, strides and find a way to improve. after every single game. And that's what he did. I think he got better every single game and so excited for his future, but excited about how he handled everything and being mentally strong to go through that. Yeah, the adverse times as an athlete, I think, are really beneficial in the moment. Nobody likes them, you know, but it's how you respond to the adverse times. No doubt. You're a dad. I am. You got four of them. You got them, huh? You almost got a position, a whole position you're going there. Now I'm sure they're involved in sport.

Yeah. Do you find yourself as a dad trying to fill more of that dad role when it comes to youth sport? Do you catch yourself kind of pulling the reins back if you're trying to coach them up a little bit? How do you find that fine line? I think try to be more the dad. I'm not like the super, you know, super dad that's like yelling at their kids, you know, radio turned down. Hey, you got to be out shooting hoops right now or you better be out there.

they're practicing more. So I think, hey, I lived my athletic dreams, and I love playing sports in high school, and I played basketball all through high school. I played baseball in high school, obviously football and through college and loved all those things. And I think sports are very important for kids,

and they should be playing it, but they don't have to be, you know, have the dream of being a professional athlete or a collegiate or a high school athlete in that sense. but I think just having them active in things and learning, you know, about teamwork and learning about, you know, if you do want something and you are competitive and you want to reach a certain goal. And I have, I have, you know, kids that are playing a bunch of sports I actually know nothing about. I coach them in basketball. I coach them in softball, my girls.

And they've said, actually, I don't want to play those sports anymore. I want to go into swimming, ice hockey, and lacrosse. Three sports I've never done anything about. So maybe I don't know if that was on purpose because of I couldn't coach them and couldn't I say anything to them? Like I can't tell my daughter to like, hey, your butterfly stroke's not looking that great right now.

I can't do a butterfly. I would drown if you told me to swim a 50 butterfly right now. And so, but I just, I try to like be there for them. You know, hug them after the game. I always kind of talked about after a game or a tournament, I want like my kids to say, hey, dad, can me and my teammates drive back in your car home on this two-hour drive because they know we'll be listening to good music

and will have some funny stories and laughs and I won't ask one question about, hey, you know, what was this play or why didn't you pass that? I'm like, I don't care that much about it. I'm going to support you. I want to bring you there. If you want to extra help and finding a, you know, a specific coach or a trainer, happy to provide all those things for you to chase your dreams on whatever that is, but you got to tell me what your dreams are and, and, and, and, And I'm happy to be helpful, but I'm not going to demand it or make you do something you don't want to do. That's great. Good word.

Yeah, helping facilitate that, you know, without putting the pressure on it. So this is a tough thing to thread. If you were to look at your phone, music-wise, what's the most embarrassing song you've rolled out? Maybe it's a kid song. You got a little baby shark on the road going and we past that age. We're past that age. Now it's a, now it would probably be, you know, the K-pop demon hunters. Okay, we're K-popping.

Yeah, we're K-popping. You know, it's not that bad. It's an acquired taste. It gets the energy going. There's some enthusiasm around it. I agree. You know, so there. Yeah, I see it on the screen here.

You're popping up there. I'm not saying I'm not going to know the greatest hits of it, but, you know, I got, you know, some. You jammed to it. Some girls, you know, some, you know, my 10 and 11-year-old daughters, they're definitely popping some some K-pop demon hunters for sure. I love that. That's incredible. We actually have more in common than you think, Eli. I'm doubtful.

No, no, no. Let me explain. Manningcast, huge fan myself as a nerd of the game. I'd love to hear you and your brother break down the tape and talk yourself through a football game. But you're not the only one with an Emmy around here. Yeah, me and Gare, Thursday night football. Congratulations. Thank you.

That's all. I was fishing for the compliment. I appreciate that. Yeah. We hadn't done the Thursday night football in a long time. A couple years, but we used to do it. How much are you enjoying the broadcast side of things? Obviously, it's less strenuous on the body.

You don't have to go to... No hits. You don't have to go to the trainer on Monday morning, which must be nice. If you do, then we've got issues. Hopefully you're not getting hurt in the Manning cast. But how much fun has that been? It's been a lot of fun. I think it has kept me involved in the game of football.

Still get the breakdown films. Still get to talk to coaches about strategy. and concepts, you know, talk to the current players about, you know, what's going on. And so I enjoy that part of it, just kind of seeing what the new trends are around, around defenses and, you know, offensive, you know, philosophies and concepts going on. So I enjoy breaking down that and enjoy doing something with my brother. Like, you know, Peyton and I are very, are very close, but he lives in Denver. I live in New Jersey. We've got our kids and our sports. So we're not, we don't see each other that much. And this keeps me.

us very, very close. So we talk a bunch during the week just about, you know, funny stories that have happened while we were playing these teams. We get great, you know, kind of text communication. Like, he sends me a lot of voice memos. It's this deal, like he'll break down a film or things he wants to talk about. He'll send me like this like, like 20-minute voice memo. And I'm like, who has time to listen to someone talk for 20 minutes? Like, it's not a podcast, You know, like, I want to, I don't want to listen to this. I didn't choose like, yes, I want to listen to Peyton talk for 20 minutes. It just like shows up as a text.

And I'm like, I wonder if there's something important. And so my first thing is like, hey, before I listen to this 20 minute voice memo, like, is there a cliff notes? Is there like something important in here that I really need to answer? Or am I just like listen? He's like, just listen to the voice memo. And I'm like, I listen to it. He says the word ball holder like 28 times. I'm like, you know, my next text is like, hey, great memo.

Like, you said ball holder a lot. He's like, that's all you got from that. Like, that's all the response. Like, I've asked you a bunch of questions. We had game plans about the guest, different things. I'm like, yeah, but you said ball holder 28 times. I counted them after a while. So, like, you know, so like funny, like brotherly, just like us ripping on each other.

That's awesome. You know, so that's fun. Yeah, sounds a little toxic, which is great for brothers. Very toxic. What did y'all fight about the most growing up? up you know again the five years older so it's probably me like just being the annoying little brother and like sneaking into his room while he's trying to talk to his girlfriend and like me under the bed and like you know tying his shoes laces together on all his shoes when he gets in the

morning and like all his shoelaces are tied together and you know it's like little little pranks like that is probably more annoying than you know that and so like there's no you know fighting it probably wasn't really until, you know, so when he went off to college at 18, I was 13, we had nothing in common. And I didn't see him much in college because he was at Tennessee the whole time. It's not like he came home for summer. He was always there. It probably went until I was at Old Miss. I'm playing, you know, football. I could go out and like, you know, have a beer with them and that we like became like real brothers. They're like, hey, we're like best friends now. We can hang out. We can talk football. We can work out together. We can go to dinner. We can like,

actually do common things is like when we came like not just brothers but like really good friends love it well on the same topic let's play a game eli all right you and your brother are competitive like we are so we thought it'd be fun to play this little game we're going to ask you some questions rapid fire tell us if tell us if the answer is you or Peyton all right better dancer oh I'm much better my hips are so loose yeah I can actually see that I mean Peyton seems a little yeah A little stiff, man. A little stiff hit. With all due respect, who had more rushing yards between y'all too?

That's a great question. No one cares. Yeah. Whoever was in the negative. Yeah, no one cares. It's like so minute. Like, I had seven rushing yards at his like 34 maybe. I don't know what it was.

But yeah, not good either way. But I'm a much better dancer. Yeah, that's amazing. His is very scripted and like he learned someone else's dance move and he's trying to do it. No creativity. Yeah. Yeah. No flow.

Who sweats more? Yeah, he wins that one, so I'll give that to him, especially like the armpit. Every once in a while he kind of lifts the arm up and there's, yeah, it's a lot going on down there. What about chews louder? I probably chew louder. I think there's a couple clips of me chewing some chips. It's kind of loud. Maybe on purpose to annoy him.

Maybe not, but yeah, I think I'm a loud chewer. Dresses better? This is a tough one. I think I'm a better dresser than Peyton. Peyton likes a lot of loud colors. He likes his salmons, his oranges, I guess, from the Tennessee. So it's a very, like, he's got a lot of sport coats and jackets that look like, you know, Secretariat's blanket.

Like, you know, there's a lot of things going on there. More likely to argue with a youth sports ref. Peyton. Payton, but, yeah, he's intense about his youth sports. Yeah. This guy, same. I'm on with Peyton on. that one. He will yell at a

ref, he'll yell at a coach. He embraces controversy and like awkwardness where I avoided it at all. He almost thrives off. He searches for it. He seeks it out. Yes, 100%. Who got sent to the principal's office more as a kid? Probably me. Probably me.

Peyton was a goody, goody two shoes. He followed the rules. Shoes were tied. New the rules, everything. I was very quiet and shy. Yeah, kind of sneaky and like, I like a good prank. And I kind of, you know, like, you know, they were like, couldn't be. Eli couldn't have done that. He's like the quiet kid.

But yeah, I was, but I got caught eventually a few times. Operating behind the scenes. Yeah, people with tattletails. I hate a tattletail, you know. Oh, amen. Who's number one rule in the household, no tattletail? No tattel tail. Yeah. It's a good rule, man.

I love it. That's a good rule. Who's more liable to lose their keys? Hmm. Probably, I'd say probably me. He's probably very strict about, where he puts his keys every single time. There's like a key spot in his house.

Like, I have to put my keys here. He's very, you know, just he's got his rules. He's got his routines. I'm probably a little more freelance and where my keys might go every time. Yeah, I'm like a let's check between the cushions. Let's check. Yeah. Don't have a key spot.

I don't have a key spot. I got my usual spots where they kind of end up, I think. Not with air tags, man. I mean, you don't lose anything. Yeah. Yeah. What about snakes? Who's more scared of them?

I hate a snake. So I assume it's me. I don't know what his snake philosophy is, but I, yeah, I won't, I won't touch a snake. And people are like, oh, that's not dangerous. I'm like, or that's not poisonous. I'm like, they're all poisonous in my mind. I don't, I don't like, oh, yeah, look at the colors. And if they got like yellow, they're the good.

I'm like, I don't care. I see snake. I run. I don't want to touch it. I don't want to get near it. I don't want to feed it. We have a dude perfect outdoor channel. It's doing like python hunting in a couple weeks.

And I was asked to go on that one. I was like, yeah, right. No chance on that. No chance on that. Besides being here for the Super Bowl, you're also here because you were the ref of the Toyota Glow Up Classic, which took place on Wednesday of Super Bowl Week. How did the game go? Game went great. We had a bunch of great athletes, these female athletes, all from the Bay Area, kind of an all-star game. And we had some great coaches. Brock Purdy was coaching a team and Jordan Love. And you had, you know, Puka was in there, Michael Pittman. So I was a ref. I thought I did a great job as a ref. I didn't know I had this hidden talent as a referee, but it was unbelievable. These girls are phenomenal athletes

are running around, making great catches. They're scrambling around. And so just love the fact that everything Toyota is doing supporting flag football. And that the fact that it's such a growing sport and Toyota's pumping a lot of money into it, investing in it, they put up to $3 million into flag football.

flag football, which is impacting, you know, it's touching, you know, 300,000 kids are playing flag football because of them. And you see the game growing. You see it's going to be an Olympic sport in a few years. And so I got my, you know, my youngest son Charlie's playing NFL flag football, which is amazing. So I love the fact that, you know, it's just like this is, I played flag football growing up and I loved it, but it wasn't that common now. It's like every kid has the opportunity. Girl, boy, you're playing the game. You're growing the game. And they're out there. running around. So just think it's amazing that this this sport is growing so much and and that Toyota's behind behind the action and and helping you know so many kids have access to playing.

Yeah, it is inclusive. Like the fact that my niece now is getting to play flag football is really cool. I know it's happening in the state of Florida. It's an emerging sport now in colleges. High schools are, you know, you know, getting it into their curriculum. And so it's just it's exciting. And it's a great sport. And, you know, everybody. especially on the girl's side, the fact that there wasn't an opportunity for them to play football in any way. And they're unbelievable athletes. And I was talking, as to my ref last night, I guess you're not supposed to maybe talk to the players and asking their opinion on what plays they're running. But I just couldn't help it.

And I was like talking to the quarterback. And I was like, hey, I hear you're telling people you can throw the ball further than me. She's like, yeah, I can. I haven't been telling people that, but I definitely can. I believe you. You don't know. I saw that quarter, you just threw it.

That was pretty good. That's amazing. Putting your ref ability to the test here, you're the ref of the Buffalo Bill's Denver Broncos game. Yeah. Was it a catch? It was not a catch. I was watching the game and I was like,

I was going through it. And I said, I'm like, it would have been like a Manning cast. I'm like with my pals and like watching the game. I'm like, oh my god like this is this is like a really weird scenario because you have to complete the catch that is the rule of the NFL you have to complete the catch and so as you went down like boom he hits

the ground like he's not down he is not completed catch yet and kind of the quick roll and the ball's taken out and now it's in the other guy's hands and I'm like that's going to be an interception like you can't call that a catch and down if the ball popped out at that point it would have been complete and so the fact that it rolled over and never hit the ground like they're gonna they got to call this an interception and that's just the the rule it's just like you know sometimes there's just like those weird plays and it's like that was just a very bizarre unbelievable play on both sides and the way it it worked out that's just it was an interception and what you call it unfortunate or fortunate just it is what it is and that's just kind of sports sometimes you know weird things happen that you know there's

not a specific rule that just for that scenario. And it just, you know, so yeah, I think they made the right call. Yeah. What's the old saying in baseball? You see something new at the park every day type thing. I don't envy a ref's job. I know that. I'm easy to criticize them, but I don't envy their gig.

So you're not, you're not going to be ad hockey Lee or anything like that anytime soon. You're staying out of that world. I'm on the ref sides. I think they have a tough job. I was always very, very polite, kind to a referee. As you should be. And I read, I actually read this the other day. you know, just kind of talk about referees and new sports and being around it.

A town in New Jersey is around baseball. If as a parent, if you are hard on the umpire and kind of go above the line, then you are kicked out of the park and not allowed back into that park until you get your qualifications to be an hump and you have to hump two games. Then you're allowed back in. I'm like, that is the greatest rule. That's a great rule, dude. New Jersey?

Yeah, in New Jersey. Yeah. Perhaps the state of New Jersey. Yeah. If you're like hard on a ref for like a basketball coat of ref at like a youth basketball game, like no, no, you're out and you go, you have to go ref a few games and you've, then you figure it out and have some appreciation for what's going on here. I might be kicked out of every, uh, yeah, every arena in Dallas for work.

You got to go up some games. You got to go rep some games and like understand what it's like to be there. You may not be allowed 200 feet within the FC Dallas. Yeah, dude. Yeah. Well, man. Let's play another game. All right.

You have a new show called Eli at the Movies, where you break down iconic sports movies. First, tell us about the show. Yeah, it's on my YouTube channel and the idea, like, I'm a movie buff. And growing up, my brothers, we love watching movies. And obviously, some great sports movies. And just the idea of kind of rewatching them and finding a few of the clips that, you know, maybe like a little bizarre, a little eye, a little funny. And kind of doing a deep dive into that.

just kind of growing up around these, but, you know, I did a couple. Got some other ones, you know, coming out soon, do some with my brother, Coop, which was a lot of fun because we, you know, grew up watching these movies together, and now we get to break down some of the funny ones. So, yeah, it's a fun little, fun little project that you get to do with some of my pals. So here's how the game works. Okay. We're going to give you five sports movies, but it's going to be a blind ranking.

Oh. Each movie that's unveiled, you're going to put them one through five, five being the worst, one the best. Got it. And then the next one will appear. No the drill. Good to go. I'm good.

All right. Let's unveil that first movie. Oh, this is a tough one. Mighty Ducks. I got some hockey players, you know. My Ducks is really good, but I think there's going to be better. I'm going to go four. Okay.

Wow. Concoll collected four. Next movie. Oh. Remember the Titans. Remember Titans was, you know, sunshine. I like sunshine. Yeah.

The lefty quarterback. Sure. I was a Gary Bernier. This is the greatest sports movie of all time. I discus. I disagree. Really? I'll tell you what my favorite is.

I don't know if it's going to be on this list. I don't think it's going to be on this list. But so remember the Titans. We'll go two. Okay. Just in case you're putting, you got to save my mind. Yeah, you got to get.

Yeah. Rocky. Rocky. Rocky is good. I mean, Rocky is just, you know, the true underdog, the Italian stallion. And it was just, it was, I mean, I can always, I can watch Rocky every time and so on.

Like, you're definitely, definitely watching it. I'm going one. Okay, I like it. Like it. Wow. Was that the movie? Was that your favorite movie? Whoa.

No. No. So I'm assuming it's not on here. Miracle. Miracle. Miracle is good, you know. Again, I have some hockey girls. So we've watched, you know, been watching Miracle a lot.

You know, obviously, Al Michael's on the call. Yeah. Lake Placadale. Do you believe in Miracle? Yes, I do. Olympics, such a great story. So already got one and two. So we'll go three.

Three, all right. Okay. In natural fashion. Here comes your favorite movie of the whole time. That's going to have to be pins on the last spot. Little Giants. Didn't make it. I think Little Giants is a fair ranking at five.

I think it's a fair ranking at five. It is a fair ranking. I mean, I love the annexation of Puerto Rico. One of the great plays of all time. But, you know, Ed O'Neill in there as a coach of the opposing. so, you know, I think Little Giants at 5, it is a fan favorite around the household, especially my little son. But I think I did a pretty good, I think that's a pretty fair ranking.

Yeah, it is a fair ranking. What's your favorite movie, sports movie? Hoosiers. A great one, Jimmy Chitwood, man. Jimmy Chitwood, you know, Hoosiers is so good. Even when you watch it now, like some, some, like, even like legit sports movies, like actually Miracle did a good job of like not having like these awkward, like, that play would like never happen where a guy throws a duck and then all of a sudden it changes to a spiral.

It looked like real basketball going on. Like I like I thought Jimmy was you know could not miss a shot. Like the shot looked good and everything looked pretty legit. It's great movie. Um, in there. You know, Major League also is another. I do love Major League. Major League. Major League. Major League. You know, you don't see many R-rated sports movies. That's like the difference. Like, you know, it's not for everybody. You had to like earn the right to get old enough to. You had to earn the right to. You had to earn the right. to watch Ricky Vaughn take the mound, right? As a Texas boy, Friday night lights for me. The realism it plays, the Texas high school football scene that we grew up in. That one's my favorite for sure. Great books. Read the book growing up.

Yeah. Where would you have ranked Airbud? Airbud. Not your kind of guy. No, I'm not big. Airbud's not one of my top five. I agree. Yeah, we're talking about realism.

It's hard to believe that, you know, old golden retrievers hitting the floater from the Frithel line. That one didn't really resonate with me. Yeah. All right. So Rocky came in at one. Remember the Titans 2. Miracle three, solid top three. Yeah. Mighty Ducks 4. Little Giants rounded it out. It's a good list. That's a good list. Fair ranking. Fair ranking. Yeah. Well, we are called almost athlete. Yeah. Did you ever have a moment in your youth sporting career where you had an embarrassing fail or just a moment where you wanted to get away that sticks out to you? You're like, maybe you know what? Then I'm not cut out to be an athlete.

Yeah, I did. Baseball. Baseball. I played a lot of youth baseball growing up. I played basketball, you know, finished my basketball career through high school and loved it. It was a pretty good basketball player. Baseball, I could kind of like take or not take baseball. Like kind of, you know, could come and go. And so I was, it was probably my sophomore year,

going into my junior year the summer, baseball, you know, playing in like American Legion and Metro and playing for your school. And I wasn't starting that, that game and all of a sudden kind of got put in and and like hey you're going to play first base uh you know today and i kind of just played the infields when someone's pitching i kind of took their spot um and my brother peyton was actually at this game which made it even worse so i'm playing first base i didn't have a first place mitt so i like barred somebody's it was like brand new

so they hit like a pop fly he's going to be foul ball first baseline kind of go out there but just hits the globe drops it so like that's embarrassing next time they hit you know hit a little you know you got one out yeah got on first they hit a you know ground ball to short stop short the second base then a current double two or out of the inning drop the ball just like just dropped it I don't know why it just popped out of the glove so bad finally get out of the you know half inning go to bat two outs I get up I'm lefty you know take two strikes right down the middle just like fastball just like no not that I hit that one that was that was right down the middle another fastball down the middle so third one comes

it's kind of low. I do like a little check swing, but the ball gets past the catcher. So I don't know if they're like a swing, not swing. Is it drop third strike? Sure. So I start booking down the first.

I'm running down the first. And then I go, catcher throws it in the right feel. I pass the first basement. So now I'm going to second. I'm going to turn this little walk, drop third into a double. I'm running the second.

I'm about to get there. I see, you know, they're going to throw me out, getting a rundown, slide back in the first base. I'm safe. I'm safe. Oh, get it up.

I'm fired up on the base and then the home ump and like the third base off they're like no no no he didn't swing he didn't swing I got to go back the home plate strike right down the middle looking I'm out and I'm just like

not my thing I'm never playing baseball game and that was my last game I quit I quit the next week and I couldn't be happier yeah so that was my final my final baseball moment well despite your baseball blunders we here at almost athlete

consider you a full own athletes. So no worries. Thank you. Appreciate you taking the time. Everybody give it up for Eli Manning. We were lucky enough to be in San Francisco for Super Bowl week. Just being there was pretty awesome for us. It was, but imagine how huge a moment would be at the Super Bowl if you were a player. It's got to be the highlight of their lives, but it's really just part of the journey that began for them long ago. That's right. Sometimes I like to imagine what greatness looked like on day one. What was it like the first time Puka Nakua caught a ball or NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace step behind the wheel. Before the trophies in the glory, every champion was just a kid with a

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When life gets crazy, DoorDash helps bring a little order to it. Saturday is Valentine's Day, so it's only fitting that we are joined by two of the dudes' wives. Please welcome Allison and Bethany. How we do we're in the red? Look at that. Very Valentine's theme, ladies. Yeah. First time on the pot, Al, how's it feel?

It feels good. It's happy to be here. It feels good for now. It feels brighter than I thought. It's pretty bright. It's hot. It is hot. It does get a little more an AC in here.

Y'all didn't dress for the occasion. Yeah, where is your Valentine's? To be honest, I didn't know we were filming a Valentine's app today. I wore what I usually wear every day. Shorts, a hat and a T-shirt. Because you have favorites. No, don't. Because you have patterns.

No. Ladies, how much does it? V-Day mean at this point in your career? Nothing. Nothing. It doesn't do anything for you. I mean, I would like to get flowers, but that's like it. So that's something. Yeah, but I don't need.

There's an expectation. You can't say nothing and then be like, it would be nice to get flowers. That's true. Okay, that's true. If I got nothing, I would be sad. I will, yeah. You're right. You're right. You're right. Okay. I'm sorry. Allison? I would be upset to get nothing.

Would you be upset to get just like a little something? I mean, like, I want something. Like, I want flowers or, like, jewelry. I mean, like, I'll take a handbag. But, like, it's fine. It doesn't get to. If it didn't work out, like, it's fine. What she won't take is me going at midnight the night before to Market Street and buying

all the Valentine's stuff they have left and then putting it on the table for the morning because she's like, that was last minute. I'm like. No, that was most Valentine's days, though, which I actually like. That was a decade. Market Street has a great last minute selection. Shout out Market Street. You guys have really come in clutch a lot of times.

It's right there by the door in and out, dude. Oh, it's perfect. Express checkout. We would take an animal. Totally take an animal. We would take an animal. Any animal, any spectrum of the... Too big animal. I think you might take the animals to Market Street.

You're saying to take an animal as a gift. Yeah, Tyler got me like another chicken or like... A rabbit. A rabbit. A rabbit. How many chickens are we at? Another. She has the key word.

Another. How many chickens? How many are we at, babe? I think we have 12. We have four teenagers. I thought we had three teenagers. I have four. And then we've got two of our boogie chickens, beans and birdie.

And then the big girls are at the ranch with ranch Luke. There's three chickens, four chickens in our garage. Oh, the HOA doesn't know. You can run them in your garage. They're house pets. We're raising them until they're ready to go to the coop at the ranch. So they're not. Don't yell at us.

They're in our garage. No, it doesn't count. We're going to get a letter. It's fine. All right, Skarky, sorry. We're sorry. What an interesting contrast here. Like one wants a chicken, the other one's chocolate.

You'll take another hairless animal. Any hairless. I don't know. I kind of cap it too, though. If you have more than two hairless, it's just like a lot. Yeah. You're two for two right now. When Spike dies, we'll get another hairless cat.

I feel like we have to wait. We're big on the hairless cats right now. Yeah, we're big cat people. So that's new. Yeah, it checks out. Y'all have almost as many animals as we do. Well, I don't know. You just, how many chickens did you have?

Well, I know, but they're like lumped them together. But, like, you have a bird. We have four children and four pets. Yeah. 10 living things under my roof. Yeah. That's a lot of responsibility, Cody. We could always use more.

Oh, my only thing that I told the dude is if I were to pass away early was to make sure that you don't own 11 cats. I could. I like them in my bed. Like when I come in after a long day, I'm like, oh, honey. I'm like, what are you doing here? And I have that, like, big furry blanket. I'm with you.

If anything happens to them together, we'll just move in and we can just raise and cats and cats and. dogs and we'll just have like a sanctuary. It's really comforting. I love it. It's a TLC show waiting to happen. It is. Yeah.

We're going to dress the jeans today? You got a new vibe on them. No, I just thought to gene it up. It's a lack of laundry done. We don't have a hot day for Valentine's day. Dressing up? No, not really. Not really, but maybe?

No, not even a maybe. You and your Xbox are going to have a late night. Just in the off chance. I run into somebody outside the office today. Got it. You know? Got it. So safe to say it's catered to the kids at this point.

Valentine's we have three boys they don't care their birthdays birthday's on the 11th so that's That's our February date got it y'all yeah we go all out for the kids yeah I try to just focus on the girls Allison and the two daughters and then Easton's the only one not getting something and now we have hayes So it's like I kind of throwing a couple things for them like hot wheel yeah any great stories from Valentine's past epic fails I mean I feel like we've gone like the work day and you Oh yeah don't think But I always show up with something. Yes.

Even if it's a last minute market street stop. I've sent you a link. This year I'm prepared. Yeah, we just get out in front of it. Hey, what do you want? Send me the link. Got it. Boom, done. Yeah, I feel like that's to do it.

Expectations are met. Yeah. Let's not beat around the bush. Yes, after 15 years of marriage, you just like tell the man what you want. And then there's no, yeah, loss of expectations. This year, the five of us will actually be celebrating together at the NBA. All-Star game for the weekend. We'll be together.

It'll be a family Valentine's. I like that. Yeah. I'm going to crash one of y'all's dinner. Come on my third wheel. A little Saturday nighter. Yeah. Is that cool?

That's totally fine. I was thinking like last year things were just weird because you ordered online. And so they all came in like really weird times. Like one came in like February 1st. And I was like, and he didn't tell me they were coming. So I open it. I'm like, what is this strange flower in this weird box with this little chocolate? And I was like, oh, that was for Langerie.

I was like, okay. they all just came in. So true. Is that too much preparation? Was that too far? It was just confusing because there was no names or like. Trying to help you out. Just figure out where your window to buy is.

I filled my cart with like five different flower bouquets for all the kids. But I think you put in the wrong dates. Well, I don't know what happened. I think some flowers peaked at certain days and it just, it wasn't good. It was a whole month of Valentine's. I was like, so that was a valentine. Nice. You made a see.

You went over above. You went over above. Yeah. That's good. That's weird for you to be. two weeks early. Well, you know, it was an accident.

Let's be honest. Let me ask you this. What dude couple not present right here goes the most all out? For Valentine's. Gotta be Corey. I would say Corey and Amy.

Garrett's anti. He's a big like, they're not going to happen. He celebrates every day probably. Yeah, that's what he says. Corey and Amy easy. Yeah. I would say easy.

I actually don't know what they do, but I would say they probably are going to a good restaurant. Yeah. Like going easy. When Bora Bora Bora is your honeymoon, it's just you got to keep that going. The Bora Bora bar is a hard one.

We went sandals and Tiga. Give me some. We win there. We got one. Windham, Daytona Beach, Florida. Because it was my grandma's time share and she had no points

because my cousin used them all in Mexico. There you go. Our only restaurant we ate was at Quiznos. We were so poor. That's a good restaurant from the bottom. And now, look at us. Look at you.

Sweatsuit. Well, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to have a fun Valentine's game. But before we do that, I got a couple announcements to get to. Tour tickets, they're going fast. Make sure to grab those. Be on the lookout for some teaser guest announcements coming soon.

Squad games, 22 new cities, new show, and supposedly Tim's drop in a fire sizzle on the social. So be on the lookout for that. Mini games launched on Saturday. Thought that was a really fun vid. It's performing well. Colty Bud was very excited. The video was performing well.

With him in the intro. That was such a good clip. He probably thinks it's all because of him. It might be. You'll let him know that. At least give him the confidence. The future of Dude Perfect is secure. Yeah.

Very much so. What else we got on the docket? Ooh, wives, Airsoft Battle? Oh, yeah, ladies. We cannot believe y'all signed up for this. We didn't sign up for it. You were forced? We were voluntled.

Signing up. Voluntold. Yeah, so our Airsoft series, wildly popular, but y'all have never participated in one. It's going to be dudes and their wives versus each other, which is drama-infused drama. I can't wait to watch it, but I'm just shocked y'all signed up to play. Well, I think it's still on them a little bit. They may have been voluntold for this one, but it's technically their fault. because they performed so well in all sports golf with the wives

that the people were like, we want more. They did. Give them more. So we said, okay. Airsoft battle. I'm in Survivor Battle. So we got a great docket lined up for you guys. Our group text is mainly about our outfits, but right now, not really about strategy.

Oh, you'll have a group text, huh? I hope the outfits cover all exposed skin. What? Yeah. Huh? Wait, say that again? I missed. For Airsoft Battle, I hope the outfits cover pretty much every.

Oh. Oh, you didn't. I thought. wanted exposed skin. You don't want exposed skin in Airsoft battle. Yeah, wow. Okay. It's the going on.

It's like two-brainer over here. My guess. I don't know your princess. Until you eat an airsoft. That's common. No, we're going to be. You hit. Cover it up.

It hurts a little bit. You get like a bruise? It doesn't feel good. Turtle neck. Not as bad as like up. Yeah. Really? Paintball, but it's, it does hurt.

How is a scarf? What is called? A turban? Depends who's shooting at you too. You all not hit us? Because it's our balloons. Well, I'm in a new view. But they're going to shoot at us.

That's going to be a fun one, though. We'll see. We'll see, indeed. In the spirit of the holiday, we're going to play the duly wed game. This segment is brought to you by DoorDash. When Life Gets Crazy, DoorDash helps bring a little order to it. Pass these whiteboards around. You didn't mention it, but I do have a big mark on my nose.

Oh. Yeah, I noticed that. You said basketball training. Acne scar. Yeah, I was dunking and my nose hit the rim. It happens a lot. It bled for like a training maybe a little too hard there. Yeah.

Why don't you tell them what really happened? I had a lot of accessories on my cyber truck. It makes it difficult to put trash. So I had to lift, lift my bed cover, and it came up, and I forgot it was there. And I just doinked it right on the nose. I would go with the donkey story. That sounded a lot better. I haven't seen it recently for Bear Tire in case of flat.

This is a side note. For Barrett's birthday, he would actually love it if he got to ride in your cyber truck. Let's do it. Let's coordinate. That's his big present. That's his big present. That's his big present. That's his big present.

That's his big question. That's his big question. It's really funny. All right. I don't want to ride around in my little A3? He hasn't asked. You're making that thing sounds way colder than it is in A3. It does sound cooler.

It's a 95-0-3. Freshly backed into A3 back bumpering. Oh, man. Anyhow, Dooley-wed game. I'm going to ask a question. You'll take turns guessing how your partner is going to answer using the dry erase boards. If you match, you get a point. And the loser has to dooredash a box of chocolates to the winner.

So everybody will write an answer, both couples, and then we'll compare. You get a matching answer, you get a point. If not, that's fair? That's fair. That's fair. All right, let's play. So I'm answering like, the dolewet game. Sorry.

The first question is for the ladies. Ladies answering only. What does your husband think he's better at than he is? You know. This is so easy and so relevant. Bethany's also a slow start here. Really thinking. Don't out think it.

Don't overthink. Okay. You good? I think she's good. Ladies are going to reveal in three, two, one. Bethany goes with laundry. Allison goes volleyball. Why would I write volleyball?

Because you think you're super good at you. I am. I have a trophy. So random. From high school. Literally yesterday, the girls are learning to play volleyball and Cody was like upstairs. He's like, give me the ball. I'll show him.

I'll show him. I was like, you don't know form. Like you don't know. We saw that in squad games. He did. Oh, that is so funny. He probably didn't put them in the right spots. He's like, oh, volleyball, dude, we'll wreck him.

Won't even be close. What? Well, he was right about that. It wasn't close. Because you're tall? Yes, I'm good. That's why you think you're good. I know I'm good.

He's not. I feel like me and Cody should have been partners here. Agreed. Set it up. Here we go. What's yours? Oh, hunting. Oh, he put hunting.

You always say, you're like, yeah, wow, you've been like 20 times and you got one deer. That's true. It's hard. I put basketball because I've been training like crazy. And you think, I think that I'm good enough for the NBA and you're like, you're not that good. That's a good Yeah

Because we're trying to win the game Definitely you think you're better at volleyball Than you are though You are decent I have a I can't believe you didn't go here I can't believe you didn't go here Those are too generic guys

Because It's a game You have You say this all the time to me Yeah you're right I just I felt like I would have hurt your feelings If I would have said that

This is an open and honest Okay I'll be more brutal Okay good now we know We set the table We're gonna go raw Raw Hit me with the next one More obvious

You thought I would write volleyball I mean, we literally were talking about yesterday. That's funny. You were talking about it. I was trying to give actual instruction. I think you're good. She's YouTube a video of how to serve. Well, yeah, I don't, I didn't play volleyball, so I was...

Moving on. She's on to something. That's a tough point awarded. Okay, this one's for Cody and Tyler. Y'all will reveal us first. What habit of yours annoys your wife the most? What habit of yours annoys your wife the most? I've got it.

I've got it. No hesitation. I've got it. Easy one. Again, the simple game. I don't know. I think of getting stuck on the word habit. You can write.

I'm already locked in. Okay. What thing do I do that annoys you the most? Easy answer. Hey, careful over there. I just said the question. Okay. I had to spell check.

What? Now. Go. I don't have to spell check mine. No, go. You're fine. It's not. I just don't know if this is a habit, so it's getting me stuck.

Oh, that's good, Allison. It's definitely annoying. Wait, we're on the same page. We're on the same page. We're on the same page. So who are the first? Boys will flip in three, two, one? Snoring.

Toots and rips. Toots and rips. I could put that because I, I, it's involuntary at night when I'm sleeping. And she wakes up and is like, quit tooting. I'm like, I don't, I'm asleep. Didn't you like leave the bed one time because it was so bad? Yeah. Landry told us, Landry's our nine-year-old.

She said if, if Daddy ever toots too much, I can always sleep in her bed. And I was like, thank you, Landry. And she meant it, like, genuinely. I got you, mom. Toots and rips. Suits and rips and rips and twos. Ladies, go ahead and reveal. A ding, ding, ding for Bethany.

Dude, it's clogged up. Yes. You got to get out. I didn't know if I could write. I mean, that's better than being a Cody, and then it's just like leaking out all night. At least you know when it's coming. No, it's like, I know you're awake because it's the first thing I hear coming out of your body.

It's your alarm clock. And literally. And I just am like, or right before bed. Like I don't understand. And then it's like in our sheets and it just gets trapped. That's why I try and do like a lift and then like make it go out my size. It's so bad. Sometimes she'll pull the covers up, which sucks it all in and then the airflow goes right to her.

But at home, you'll have the king size beds. They just go into the air. My problem is on tour, my bunk is above his. So they go into my curtain all night long. Yeah. I'm so sorry. It's horrible. And sometimes I'll reach out and lift his curtain.

open so it's so mean. He does. He does do that. Do I snore a lot? Yes. That's what I wrote. Snoring. I got better.

I got the tape thing. No, it's terrible. I mean, it's better than it was. It's bad. Do you need like the mask? Yes. You need the mask. I had the surgery.

I breathed better. I mean, the toots are annoying too. I could have written that. I could have written that. Point and a point. We're off and running. Let's go. Question number three.

This is for Allison and Bethany. if you could set one item of your husband's clothes on fire, what would it be? Done. She said done, Beth, with a quick done call. Well, hold on. Do you still own them? Oh, I know exactly. Oh, I know.

Well, I sometimes throw Cody's stuff away when he's not looking. I never know. And he's like, where's more? And I'm like, I don't know. You must have lost it. I'm not as confident about this one. Oh, you should be. The girls are locked and loaded.

Cody finishing his answer. I think you're going to. I like to draw a picture underneath it, just to really hammer at home. Good? Yeah. Okay, ladies will reveal in 3-2-1. What is that? Duck sweatshirt?

And Fannie Pack for Cody. Oh, that's good. Boys, go ahead and reveal it. She's thrown away. I said my clock. I knew you're going to say that. That's my thought. Chains?

Oh, my chain. Oh, that, yeah, I don't like the chains. Sometimes you, like, triple layers them. I'm like, too many chains. It's a lot. My duck sweatshirt. I should have gone there. I should have gone Fannie-T-A- But you know that too much.

I love it. I don't, when we were- You did throw that away. So you couldn't set it on fire because you threw it away. No, you got it out of the trash. You tried to wear it again. You're right. And it was ripped.

Remember? And then I was like, well, that's God's sign of saying. Get rid of it, though. No, your camera crocks when we were first, Mary, drove me crazy. And I used to throw them in the yard to see if Sadie would just chew them. Oh, that's amazing. Go bitch, girl.

Yeah. See, at least she gives the crocs a chance. You throw mine in the trash. I just hide them, and now they're popular. Yeah. All your stuff came around. Chains, crocks.

I mean, Fast Pro Hat, Toots and Rips. Those are in right now. They were tied. On to question four, one to one is our score. This is for Cody and Tyler.

What is your wife's favorite emoji? Favorite emoji? Mm. Mm. This is a tough one because I don't even think she has a favorite emoji. I mean, I don't really send you emojis. I know what my favorite emoji is to my friends.

I know. I also doesn't really emoji much. I don't even know if I could like, do I draw it? Can I look up the emoji that I'm attempting to draw? Yes. How do you find your emojis again? Oh, I found them. How do you find your emojis?

40's going to hit hard, brother. I have mine. I'm not going to get this right, but it at least opens up a hot topic. Okay. A hot steamy topic. Oh. Oh, steamy. Hot and steamy.

I'm guessing it's not a sauna. No, it is not. All right, boys, you got your answer? And this is probably the one I use the most, too. Oh, that's an H-1. Face palm. Yeah. I went poop emoji because she doesn't use emojis.

Hold on. That looks like a Harry Potter hat. Sorting hat. I'm not a Harry Potter guy. That looks like poop to me. I'm not a Harry Potter guy. It's too pointy in uniform. Look it up. It's more like soft-served swirls.

Yeah, but not. the emoji. It looks like a witch hat. That's about... Type in poop emoji. That should be... Oh, you forgot the smiley face. I can see what you were doing. Okay. The point is... More soft serve. I think I nailed that. That should be maybe a minus a quarter point for him just for a bad emoji drawing, but...

If I'm home, but not near her, she'll send me this because that means Hayes, our two-year-old has a poopie diaper and she doesn't do poopy diapers when I'm available. If he's available, yeah. I'm not going to let him walk around and poop all day. Just to clarify. Unless dad's home in like 20 minutes. And then I'm like, yeah, I think we can wait. Sure. God, that's good.

Okay, ladies, go ahead and flip your boards. Do we have any matches? Bethany went with like the yikes emoji. I said, don't use them, but maybe the rolled eyes. I feel like, yeah, I do. Those are pretty close. Once in a while. Yikes.

So like, ooh. He got his binder sign. He said, yo mama to the teacher. Which is a true story. We did have a yo mama on the teacher last week. Yeah, I heard that one. Yeah. He got his finder sign.

He got in the car and he was like, mom, got my binder sign. I said, yo mama to the art teacher and she didn't like it. Under what context? I don't really know. We don't know the context. It just said, you know, you're doing with your work and he's like, yo mama. It could have been worse. Well, I'm going to do like you now.

It could have been, yeah. But kids at home, I would not go mama. Don't we don't encourage that. Don't ever say that to a teacher. We don't encourage that. Still knotted up, one, one. It feels like the Super Bowl right now. Low scoring, but close.

This one's for Allison and Beth. Bethany, what song will most likely get your husband on the dance floor? What's the song? We know Ryan Walsh's song. I'm tempted to look, but I'm not. That's good. That's really good. I should have done that.

You can change it. I feel like Cody knows my answer to this. This is the only song that came to my head. Girls, we ready? Yeah. Go ahead and reveal those answers. We're ready. Every song.

Yeah, by Usher for Bethany and Allison goes with every song. I have never seen Cody not on a dance floor. He does not not participate. It's like the song's draw. me to the floor. I don't even want to dance. It's just like I have to. Yeah.

And I was going to go, yeah, Bethany. Wow. Yeah, yeah. It would be my song. Pour some sugar on me. Yeah. Yeah. We use the sugar packets and we pour them on each other when we're weddings.

Guys, if you have what you feel like maybe a lackluster wedding coming up, invite me and we will turn that thing. We will slide out of these through each other's legs. Choreograph dance. I mean, it's beautiful. It's a work. Pour some shit. We just were at a wedding.

I wish they played pour some sugar on me. Congratulations. And you didn't. So I had to go dance with people I didn't know. Because I didn't want to make it about me. It was not my wedding. I didn't want to steal away attention. Fresh off a Saturday wedding,

you'd think y'all would match us. That's crazy. That's crazy. Well, he didn't dance. So. Can I get the eraser? Sorry. Still tied up at one.

It's crazy. This is not a good look for us. We and Bethany needed a half. Tyler should be dating Cody. I actually was literally, they both knew each other. He's like Tyler knows. Tyler knows. We have a similar personality.

They have a similar opportunity. Yes, opposite the track. This one's for the boys. What's your wife's TV guilty pleasure? TV guilty pleasure. It's not the Cowboys, I don't think. Yes, this is pretty easy, I think. They're pretty synced up over there.

Yeah, but... No, he's not going to get it. See, we're good because we watched the show last night. Oh. I already locked in. Already locked in. Already locked in. Yes, I think we're going to take the lead, babe. Yeah, I think you are.

I kind of did three in levels of specificity. Is that a word? Interesting. Hey. Oh my god, a boy then. Okay. Go ahead and flip the boards, boys.

Boys. I wrote the new show we started watching. It's called Trader. Okay. Ten friends or 20 go into a room. Two get picked to be traitors and you don't know who it is. And they have to deceive one another. It's a reality?

You would love it. Is it a reality or a game show? And it uses like past reality stars. They basically like play mafia. It's really good. Okay, I said Netflix is the broad one. Okay.

Anything crime, crime show. And then Handmaid's the only show that I could think of that I've seen her watch. If she has any of those, I'll allow it. Yeah, I agree. Ladies flip.

All right. We have a ding ding ding. Oh, crime! Crime! That was my second level of specificity. That's good. Two to two. Yeah.

We need to start running down three answers. That was a little, I agree, that was a little questionable. I'll try and be more specific on my choices. We're knotted up. We're at sudden death now. Whoever gets. Sudden death. Next correct answer wins.

Do or die time. Cody and Tyler, what's the subject or topic of the silliest fight you've ever had? I vaguely remember one, but I don't even remember specifics about it. That's good. That's probably a good thing, that you're so non-comfitational, that you're having a hard time dipping into the memory bank for argument, but I know one for me all. Really?

Mm-hmm. You wouldn't know the one that I'm thinking of. I don't remember what it was about, but I remember what I did afterwards. That was silly. Can I write that? Or I mean, we're not going to get it right. Think. Use your head.

Oh, my God. Now, this, right then? Oh, my goodness. That's great, though, if that really was the genesis of an argument. It was a big one. Oh, yeah. The silliest ones always turned the biggest. This one was a big one that stayed into a big one.

Oh, gosh, now I'm nervous what it is. We're still not over it. No. Oh, I've got one. Mm-hmm. But you don't, you wouldn't know this, but. This is from marriage counseling. Um, it's like, what? This is opening up worse.

No. Who reveals first here? Hold on. I'm not done. She's writing the story out. And so it all started on a Tuesday night. Tuesday night, you didn't text back. You ordered pizza. That's a long story.

She's getting emotional. She's crying. No she's laughing. Okay. Guys reveal first. Guys reveal first. I can go first because I got to explain it a little bit. Okay.

Okay. Okay. This was six months ago, Allison and Hayes and Easton came to the office, and me and Corey got into a basketball fight. And we had to deal with it on the podcast for episode 9. I literally, do you know I was there? Oh, you were there.

I was sitting on the couch. Yeah, it was bad. And I thought it was, I thought they were filming for like stereotypes. Oh, like a rage monster. It was real. Should have used that, Cody. Not a bad.

Hey, we're just from the rage scene. And I got up and I walked into the offices and I think Luke was at his desk and I was like, I'm uncomfortable. So I'm just going to come stand by you. And he was like, okay. Okay. Did you put that? I did not because I don't, that's, but that wasn't to do with Allison, though. Well, silly because we talked about on the podcast.

Oh, okay. Okay. I was really angry. You were. I left that office. She visually had to see that. And she visually was mad. I was here.

I saw it. She left the office with the boys. I didn't know. And she goes, don't come home. One of the employees says, like, you've probably seen worse. And I'm like, I have never seen worse. You're like, and then I like left. Wow.

I didn't know you were here too. I was here. No, I heard tires. She was like, Justin from Arcule. No, that's Allison. She was doing. She didn't squirrel the tires. I might have.

Wow. Barkie's on to something. Corey's on. Okay. I went with a pretty basic one. I just hate her parents. I'm kidding. No kidding.

Dude, you got me. You got you too. I'm like. I love Rick and Barbie. Best in-laws you could ask for. This was early on in marriage. We got, I don't remember what it was about it,

but it was something about condiments, ketchup or mustard or something. It was a big fight about something small. Don't even remember what it was. I have no recollection of that. It was just like one of our first ones. Sudden death. Like if which one's better?

No, it was like some, like maybe like where do you keep it or in the fridge? Like if it's, I don't know. Yeah, because we keep, do y'all keep ketchup?

mustard in the refrigerator? You have once opened? Oh. Yeah, once you open it. I think you didn't keep catch up. No, we don't need that. Which one of y'all is nasty? That wasn't it.

I don't know what it was, but it was something. That's not silly, by the way. That's serious. I don't think we have a match here. What is yours? Okay. Where the fruit goes in the fridge, I actually cried over this. I put things anywhere in the fridge.

Don't care. I just put them in the fridge. Cody likes a fridge-like fruit. Top pros my stuff. Kids can't reach it. It's all my protein. healthy snacks. Next row, community, milk, vegetables, yogurt. Next is children's food because they can reach it. Got it. Yeah, it was a big fight. And I was like, how about I'm like cutting strawberries? I'm just putting them wherever I want. And then he disagreed. Oh, not silly.

It's still, I guess it's still kind of burns. Yeah. Yeah. I can tell them. I'm so. That one stuck with you. Yeah. I don't miss play strawberries anymore. Yeah. I wouldn't either. Bethany, go ahead. Okay. Was yours? When Tyler gave me the flat pillow and took the nice one for himself. Sounds like a Tyler move. So we had to, this was recent, we had to leave our bedroom because one of our sons had an accident in our bed. And so we were having to strip the sheets and all that stuff.

That means that he's sleeping in the bed? Is it safe to assume that he sleeps in the bed? Oh yeah. They always kind of nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so. So more than one? Okay.

We do have an A-size bed. It's a huge bed. You'll have a huge bed. One of them will come in almost every night. Last night was Colty Bud. They take shifts. And this was also Colty Bud. So he came in, had an accident.

So he wakes me up. So I'm already frustrated. So we strip the sheets. It's probably like 3 a.m. So I'm like, all right, we're going to go sleep in Rett's room because he doesn't sleep in there. And in the guest room. Got it. That's where they all sleep.

They don't like their own bedroom. They don't sleep in their own bedroom. This is weird. It's weird. Sorry. And so I'm. like putting the sheets in the laundry and he's already in bed. Okay.

So I'm like mad that I'm awake because I can't fall back asleep easily. So I'm like, I'm going to be up till it's time for school. So I come in and I lay my head. Oh, it wasn't the flat one. It was the hard one. You gave me like the rock. How do you know? How do you know what pillow she likes?

You know, really? So I lay my head down and it was this like rock hard pillow. Which I think you ordered. Yeah, I don't know why we have this pillow. It is literally a rock. So I thought, well, she probably likes this one because I certainly don't. So I gave it to her. And I took the...

But I knew that you had... But I knew he had moved it because I had slept in Rett's bed the night before because we were getting our bedroom painted and he was out of town. So I had to sleep somewhere else because of the fumes. So I knew that my pillow was in his spot. So when I get into the bed, I was like, you took my pillow. And he was like, and he starts laughing, which didn't help. He did take the pillow.

He took the pillow. This is so bad, Tyler. And I unleashed fury out of my mouth. You should have. She was pretty upset. I called him, I think I told you you were the most selfish human being I've ever encountered.

Yeah. I had guilt after I said that because I just laid my head down and then he left early the next day and I had the thought of, I hope that's not going to be the last thing that I ever said to him. Because I was so mad.

I was like, you were the most selfish human being? You took the good pillow for yourself and gave me the rock hard pillow. And he giggled. And he giggled. And he giggled. No points. No points.

We need a tiebreaker. We need a tiebreaker. Yeah, we do. So Rhett was in the room, but he was in the guest. I know. It's confusing in our house. Okay. No one sleeps in their own bed.

Okay, for the ladies, how often does your husband floss every week? Closest answer wins. Weekly floss. Actually, still your floss, though. So that means you do floss. I'm locked in. Do you consider the dance move floss, part of the number? I'm locked in.

I'm locked in. We're locked? Do we reveal all the same time for this one? I think we do. As a tiebreaker, everybody reveals simultaneously. We good? Three, two, one, bang. Zero.

Once a month? Once a month? She put daily question mark. You have so much flaws. I won't. Because I never use it? She sits there. It's the same floss from 2002.

I take my floss from you. If you thought he flosses daily? I mean, he has a lot of floss over there. In our bathroom sides. Like the pics or like the pits in a little. But I've never used them. They just sit there. That's why you have so much floss.

I use 12 a year. You've never floss. No. No need. Congrats. Thank you. Cody family. I'll send you the chocolates that I want a link.

And then I'll send it to you. Yeah. I don't know if to congratulate y'all or get on with him. That wasn't like a great performance by then. Same are folks. There he is. I feel like the weird should do. Thank you.

I feel like the loser really should get like a little bit of counseling, some free counseling. Hey. Oh, man. That's our two-minute warning, which means we get a rant. Ladies, good time for you. Anything other than pillows and it can be on V-Day. You know what? You know what?

You know what? This is a good thing. Easy. Simmer down, sister. I'm just going to sit down. This is my rant. It's about Valentine's Day. And I've just ranted about this to some friends of mine, so it's fresh.

Okay. Um, I think Valentine's Day card exchange at schools is dumb. Oh. Mm. Because it's true. And I feel like moms will agree because your kids come home Friday and they've done their Valentine's Day exchange parties, whatever. And most of the time, it's candy or it's like little trinkets that are fun for a day or two.

and then they kind of get lost in the car or they get lost. Like, I love a pencil because I feel like pencils are useful for them, you know? Pro pencil. Yeah, pro pencil. But like, you know what I'm talking about?

Like, the trinkets that are like, that you, they don't last long. And so I feel bad finding them all over my house and then having to like throw them away because Boone is going to choke on it. You know, our dog boom. Or he's going to chew it up.

And I, so anyways, I just feel like we don't need to do it. that at school. We don't need to like exchange. A little overplayed too early in their career. Did you enjoy it as a kid yourself? Making the little box? No, not real. I mean, maybe. And that's what I did. So I thought that and I thought, well, maybe this is just like a right of passage for kids to like exchange valentines and whatever. But there's a lot of pressure on moms to make the valentines for the kids legit and something that their friends are going to like. And so you end up spending all this money on it and then. Yeah, hobby. Hobby. And I mean.

It's kind of like the mom on homecoming, you know, and it got so ridiculous there for a while. What's the budget on a Valentine's Box? I go low. I go low. I go low. I go low. I make the expectation.

I don't want my boys to think, oh, mom goes hard for Valentine's Day. Like, I want it to be a low bar. So I went to Hobby Lobby, 40% off. And I got some nerds, and I'm going to tape them on there, have them sign their name, and that is it. I have friends that go hard, and it's beautiful. They make, like, a whole kit.

tower for the kids but I just don't have the capacity for that. I like that. That's fair. That's fair. That's fair. Yeah. Thank you for your rant. Thank you for your rant.

It means a lot. Whatever happened is like a good. Thank you for your rant. I too. I'm a ranter. Yeah, to your point, Beth, just like a hug and a handshake goes a long way. You know, when I was overdo it. Or like, right?

Like, what do you like about that person? Like, what's like, I mean, that you like about it? There's a lot of fake liking going around. You know, you're giving a girl in class, a little card and you don't really have intentions to it. You're just participating to participate. who participate and that loses the meaning of Valentine's Day. Do you think you should only give Valentine's to people that you like in your class?

100%. Oh. That's great. I would rant about that. That's mean. That's mean behavior. No, I'm saying do away with the exchange completely. I think socialism when it comes to Valentine's is the good approach.

Because it's a fake holiday. It's not even real. It's not even like, why do we do it? Say, Valentine. That's all I know. It was made up by Hallmark, right? Hallmark made it up to sell cards. Homemark makes some money.

I know that much. Anyhow, looks like our time's up. Thank you ladies for joining the show. We'll be back next Wednesday with an all new app. Follow the show on all socials at Almost Athletes. Like and subscribe on YouTube or listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcast. Greatest five stars. Share with a friend.

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