Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect - Taylor Swift Loves Our Trick Shots?! (Brodie Smith x Dude Perfect)

Episode Date: March 18, 2026

Brodie Smith is here and ready for redemption in our upcoming second annual Trick Shot World Championships. Can he do it? He joins  the pod to talk about his dramatic body transformation to prepare for this year’s event, as well as Taylor Swift liking his trick shots, career moments, and Dude Perfect’s evolution. But first, it’s almost time for March Madness and busted brackets. Kelsey joins Sparky and Garrett to break down their full March Madness brackets, debate their final four picks, and shout out a few sleepers. And later, Jared and Josh Pettitte jump in to share behind-the-scenes stories from the latest Dude Perfect Outdoor video for their new channel Dude Perfect Outdoors. You can check out the channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@dudeperfectoutdoors DON’T MISS OUT: Join in on the fun and enter our March Madness contest for a chance to win 2 Dude Perfect Tour tickets in the city of your choice. Sign up here to join: https://station.page/wave/march-madness-bracket/almostathleteswith Dude Perfect Family Fun Night Friday March 20th: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dude-perfect-family-fun-night-at-pga-frisco-tickets-1982902543887?aff=ebdssbdestsearch If you’ve got a question, hot take, or your own Almost Athlete moment, head to AlmostAthletes.com or call [phone] to be featured on the show. Presented by Intuit Turbo Tax. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 02:03 March Madness Brackets 21:10 Winner Predicitions  23:52 Almost Athletes March Madness Showdown 27:42 Voicemail: “What is the closest you’ve ever gotten to a perfect bracket?” 31:54 Women’s March Madness Predictions  33:51 Almost Sports: Life-Sized Blow Football 38:05 Brodie Smith Introduction  38:40 Old School Music: T.I. & 50 Cent Beef 40:15 Last Year’s Trick Shot World Championship 42:00 Brodie & Garrett Talk Running  43:44 Brodie’s Favorite Career Moment  45:05 Is Ultimate Frisbee A Sport? 47:09 Brodie x Dude Perfect Old Videos  52:10 2026 Trick Shot World Championship  53:38 Brodie’s Almost Athlete Moment  55:31 Dude Perfect Tour 01:02:58 Josh & Jared Pettitte Introduction 01:03:26 BTS Dude Perfect Outdoors: Spiny Lobster Diving  01:06:20 Josh Almost Athlete Moment  01:09:14 More BTS: Spiny Lobster Diving  01:16:18 Cliff Jumping in Mexico  01:22:28 Future Dude Perfect Outdoors Episodes  01:23:38 Two Minute Warning  What to do now: 1. Smash that LIKE button 2. Hit SUBSCRIBE so you never miss a DP podcast moment 3. Drop a comment with who YOU want to see on Almost Athletes next! Subscribe for more! ‪https://www.youtube.com/@almostathletes • • • • Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect is (almost) a sports podcast. Tune in weekly to hear the dudes’ hottest sports takes, great debates, interviews with your favorite athletes and entertainers, and hilarious BTS from all things Dude Perfect. New episodes drop every Wednesday. Follow along on all platforms. Listen to the pod on your morning commute or wherever it finds you: Apple: - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/almost-athletes-with-dude-perfect/id1834502483 Spotify: - https://open.spotify.com/show/55gaQm31JIbp6td7QtYsPU?si=6423db3118ac497f Follow Almost Athletes to keep up with the Dudes!: https://www.instagram.com/almostathletes https://www.tiktok.com/@almostathletes https://x.com/almostathletes_ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm calling out Taylor Swift here, which she did like and retweet this, by the way. Did she? Yes. That is huge. I would tell everybody that. If it makes you feel better, we were on tour two years ago in Seattle, and Taylor Swift happened to have a show the same exact night as we had a Dude Perfect show, and Tyler DM'd her asking her if she wanted to run through. Didn't DM them back. Yeah. I still love T. Swift, though.

Welcome to Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect, a Wave original, presented by Intuit TurboTax. Follow the show on all social media at Almost Athletes. like and subscribe to us on YouTube or listen to subscribe wherever you get your podcast. We're your host. I'm G. I'm Spark. And I'm Kelsey.

Yeah, you are. And you're back on the A Block, girl. Back again. Yeah. I appreciate it. I'll keep coming. I greatly appreciate you too. But I'm hearing things from my mom and sisters

that words this don't get used with me like precious, sweet, adorable. They don't use those words with me. I think you've used them with you. That's so kind. You're becoming a Sparkman family household favorite quickly, Kelly. Happy to have you back. What a week it is.

They don't use them for me? No, they haven't used adorable, I don't think, per se. Cute. I think my middle sister called you cute once, but I'll take it at this point, dude. I mean, after those hairstyles went public. Those were wild. Well, you don't know is he actually does rock the pony. We just can't see it because you're wearing a hat. Well, what you don't know is me and Sparky booked a trip to Turkey over the weekend.

Yeah, we did. And I might come back with a European haircut. I don't know how that works. Like, if it's that quick or? Looking like the rough at the peak. That's how thick it is. I can't wait for that day, man. One day. We got a really good app coming up today, my friends. YouTube Trick Shop Master Brody Smith is stopping by. We're going to check out an absolutely insane almost sport. And later we're going behind the scenes of this week's Wild DP Outdoors video with Jared and Josh Petit.

But right now, it's time to jump in it. Get ready, diaper dandies, because it's March madness. Let's go. Yeah, you already filled out your bracket, huh? Yep. We all did. he was the first. I was. Pretty much a couple hours after they announced it, I was filling it out. I was following Jared's orders.

Yeah, you were. You guys were a little late. So we know who's in the tournament. But there's somebody who didn't make the tournament. Cory Cotton, can you believe that? And you're like, probably Sparky. Yeah, he ran out of eligibility probably two decades ago. Southland semifinals ran across this.

We had a listener, Jordan, also DM me about it, but I saw it. I have no idea where you're going on. Yeah, I know. I know you don't. I know you don't. about to find out though. Corey Cotton, UT Rio Grande Valley. Definitely not our Corey Cotton, 6-6-2-10.

That is a completely different Cory Cotton. Jordan DM me about this, and I saw it. Not only is it Corey Cotton, though, UT Rio Grande Valley, wish they were in the tournament, eventually lost to McNeese, the Southland Champion. Because they always have, they also have who? Hit it. Always right. I mean, what a name team.

I feel like we got it stolen from us. I love this school. Are they in the U.T. Rio Grande Valley? No, I don't think they are. The Vicaros. I don't even know where U.T. Rio Grande Valley is. It's in the state somewhere. It's in the Rio Grande Valley.

I'll say that. Anyhow. Just thought it was cool. I do hate the fact that they are associated with UT, but well, you know, besides support. Sister school. Same with UTSA. Let's jump it to the brackets.

Why don't we? I feel like the best way to attack this is by region. If y'all are cool with that. Sure. So let's start in the east, the first one that was unveiled. Which they're saying this is the, hardest.

Yeah. Hardest region. I think it personally is the hardest. And what about like the coaching matchups here? Insane. You got Patino with St. John's. You got Self with Kansas. Izzo.

Shire at Duke. What an incredible. Hurley. Yeah. Those are some of the biggest names in college basketball from a coaching standpoint. East region,

what do you all see? Any kind of upsets? Is this pretty chalky? Going with the first game right off the gate. Oh, upset right off the bat? Sienna is going to do it. Oh my goodness.

Wait, no, no, no, no. Oh, sorry. First game. Ohio State and TCU. That's the first game on. That's the first game on Thursday. Yeah. So with that one, you know, coin flip, but going with TCU over Ohio State.

Yeah, purple. I'm right there with you. Eight-nines are basically a coin flip. They're really hard to predict. I love how they give us an eight-nine right off the bat. So, like, half the perfect brackets. Just get annihilated. You couldn't just ease us in with Sienna Duke at 11 a.m.

You know? No, they make things really tough on us. going in 8-9 Ohio State. Ohio State can really score. TCU went through the gauntlet. That is the Big 12. Quite literally a coin flip. I think the line is two-point favorites

towards Ohio State. Where's this game being played? Do we know? It doesn't matter because the coaching matchup is just too good. Give me Jamie Dixon. You're a huge Jamie Dixon guy. I am.

Big time Jamie Dixon fan. Where does that fandom come from? Pit. Oh, yeah. You were a Pitt fan back a day. I grew up a Pitt fan. They just like embodied the style of basketball

that I like to play which is physical, aggressive. I love it, Gary. Those battles with like Yukon back in the day. They just don't have those anymore. Like there's no like, even the Duke U and C rivalry has just kind of gotten a little soft.

Well, I think that's all the moving parts in college athletics. It's harder to stay attached to it that way. There's a bloody nose in the SEC tournament. There's more than bloody noses back in the day, Kelsey. We're talking broken bones. Got it. It's been a minute since Pitt's been in the tournament.

And you know, well, Sinti, the Bearcats. Tournament's better when they're around. Well, what was the coach's name that is, is he now at UCLA from Sincere? Cronin, yeah. Yeah. They're playing really good basketball. We're going to get to them. They're actually in this region.

Does anybody have UCLA getting out of the UCF game? I do as well. I'm playing good basketball right now. I'm going off of just family allegiance. Sure. Uncle works at UCF. Oh, go nights. We'll get back to family allegiance.

Don't worry, Kelsey. The Sunshine State. I actually went one step further and took UCLA in the round of 32. to dethrone. I do. I think Yukon's kind of limping in. They had the blowout win over St. John's, but then didn't play as well in the Big East tournament.

I don't know. This is more of me just thinking who's the hot of the east. I have Duke, the one seed coming out. Same. That's what I have. I have them versus Michigan State. Same. Though I do think they're,

I mean, all the way down to the seven lines in play here. I think St. Johns could represent that region. I think Michigan State is, though. Kansas can't. I don't think Kansas can. They have the top in. talent, you know, if they put it together. I actually have the Johnny's beat in Kansas in the round of 30s.

Okay, Kansas versus Duke. Oh, you have St. John's the Johnny's. Yes, Sam. Yeah. And then Michigan State and Duke in the elite eight. And I have Duke going to the final four. Are you? Yep, I do.

Same. Okay, cross the board. East, we all agree. Moving on. Let's go to the South region. Yeah. We're your Florida Gators. That's right.

Are the one seed. Congratulations. How many years in a row, have you all been in one seed? Do you even know what it feels like not to be a one? Yeah, we haven't been on one. We just have back-to-back. This is our first back-to-back in a while. Yeah, it must be nice.

I've ever known what a one-seat feels like. Y'all went from like a really mediocre team to like really good pretty quickly. I think you do have to credit that to the coaching of Todd Golden. And we are in our golden era. It's good set of hair too, Golden. Wow. All right.

So we don't have that 16 seed upset right off the bat, do we? Depends on wins. You know, what if Prairie View looks really good? in the first four. Don't do me like that, Sparks. That is a late game too. I'm a pretty, for the first round, pretty chalk bracket.

Are you? I think this one has the makings of chaos. Well, I have VCU over North Carolina. As do I. That was really it. Obviously, even though I put this on paper and it's going to be wrong, but I do support my team

and I picked NM over St. Mary's. I think St. Mary's probably beats A&M by about 25, 27. It's going to be bad. I just don't. Bad match it for us. You think that because of, you said, size. Size, they got size.

And last time we played size, Florida did not go good. They got, you know, makes us shoot at a different pace. And then I just still feel like fundamental basketball, which St. Mary's plays. Fundamental. It's not like athletic basketball. It's fundamental. I'm not going to shoot myself in the foot. We're going to make free throws.

We're not going to turn the ball over kind of basketball. It just goes well against Buckyball. And when I feel out my bracket, I usually fall into, like, conference affiliations, what conferences I really like. I'm a big fan of the WCC between Gonzaga, St. Mary, Santa Clara. I think there's some real firepower there. So those are my only two, but I basically, for my elite eight, I had, and that four is like Florida playing Vanderbilt and Illinois played in Houston. That's what I have with Florida getting a little bit of revenge against Vandy after that. And then I picked Florida to go to the final four.

Who did you pick, Kelsey? Yes, I do need to clear my name. First off, mom and dad. You don't know about this, and I'm so sorry. You're going to get grounded, girl. I did name my bracket. I hope my bracket is wrong. That doesn't excuse the choice.

Because I really do, in my heart, hope and believe that the gators can go back to back. But yes, on paper, I did select Houston to win. There's a couple things. That's gross. So first off, there is a chance that if it is Houston that we are playing, then it is us playing Houston in Houston in the Lone Star State. In a revenge game of them trying to come back and show us that, you know, they didn't like to lose. Let's just chalk it up.

I think you're a Texan over a Floridian and it's showing. You're a Texan showing. You're Texan showing. I've been waiting on that. Here's one other reason that it doesn't have to be the reason why they, I believe, they still can. But the three national championships, three, that's how many we have,

the three national championships that we have are followed, they followed an SEC championship tourney win. So being that we didn't win the SEC turny. That's some deep stats right there. You're reaching right now to get out of the dog house with your family. You're reaching.

But I really do sincerely hope that what I'm looking at at your bracket. I hope that your bracket is right. Other notes of this one. Anybody have any double-digit seeds other than VCU going along here? This one's a really good storyline part of the bracket. McNeese could cause some problems first Vanderbilt. Yep. But I just feel like... Nickneys who kept it going post-Will Wade, which is impressive.

Vanderbilt is a really good team. And I feel like them slipping to a five-seed. They're not a five-seed. They're a fool's gold five-seat. I agree with you. Playing really good basketball as well. The eight-nine in that region is really tough between Clemson and Iowa, two different brands of basketball. I took Iowa.

I pick Clemson just for the South Carolina ties. Shout out Stella. Well, she's going to be happy about that. Yeah, you know, we got to pick it. You know, at some of those coin flips, it's like, where are you going to go? It's like, well, I know someone from Clemson.

Right. That's like that. Yeah, so my mom does. Totally. Just goes down to mascot at the end of the day. Shout out Idaho back in the big dance. Good to see the vandals there. And a 215.

I think they lose by 35 plus. But it's going to be fun. And then the real big storyline there, does Nebraska finally check the box. That is their first. ever NCAA tournament win. It's going to be interesting because I think the Troy Trojans have got a good team.

And for those local DFW people, very familiar with Scott Cross and what he did at UT Arlington built a low major team into a power. Really good team. And he's a heck of a ball coach. So that Nebraska Troy game, watch out because I think the Trojans could be all up in that. I took it a step further even in the round of 32.

I like VCU so much. I have them beating Illinois. Wow. And to go into the Sweet 16. First Houston? First Houston. because I'm a huge fan of the A-10 this year. You didn't pick A-N-M-N-A-N-Bound out in the first round.

Very well could be wrong. But I feel like this South region, given your point, the fact that it all squares back down to Houston to H-town, Kelvin Samson's been so close. They punched their ticket to the final four Cougars. That's me. Wow. Okay, so Duke and Houston-free all, Duke, Florida for me.

Like I said, I hope that you're right. Yeah. Good, okay. I hope they come after you. your diploma. No. I could talk about this all day long. Let's go to the West region.

What do you say? This, to me, is one of the hardest regions. In terms of... Just on paper. There's a lot of talent. There is some big time. Probably the best player in the field in A-Cuff are out of Arkansas.

We've also got DeBanza in the South, or in the West region as well. DeVanza. Texas? Yeah, guys, look, if the Texas fans can't admit that, you know, think they're making up, like, I don't know. I think they felt bad that they left you out of the college football playoff when you should have been.

I guess they threw you in here. I don't know how Texas got in over Oklahoma. I really don't. Make up call? That's what you're calling from the old, like, we missed a travel on one in. They were both on the bubble. Texas gets pounced in SEC tournament early on.

I don't miss. Who ended up actually maybe saving Texas as bacon by making a run in the SEC tournament? I'm with you, Gary. But Oklahoma goes deeper and has some solid wins. I just, to me, I'm like, am I missing something? Is it the head-to-head match it?

Like, what do we? I think you might have predicted it being left out of the college football playoff. They did the old makeup call, offensive foul going the other way. But I do think Texas beats NC State. We're filming this Monday, so the games... And that's what's tough about this.

And I'm liable to change a pick before we tip off Thursday. Just because I do... Not the 16, but the 11. It hasn't happened in like the last two years, I want to say, but since the first four was integrated into the tournament, a lot of the times a team,

team will get hot, they'll go through Dayton and then make a run in the NCAA tournament. Wouldn't surprise me. I'm not in love with BYU. I love their top-in talent. But depending on who wins that game, I could maybe change my bracket. Dude, I think Texas or NC State could beat BYU. Totally. No question. Totally. Sparks, you don't usually create your bracket before watching those games. This is very early for me, yeah. But what I was saying is like you got Purdue, who at the beginning of the year was probably

like hands down, they're the most experienced. team. Yeah. And, you know, they kind of had a little slippage through the, but like, dude, if they put it together, watch out. Boilermakers are going to be tough. No one, Purdue, they could go to a final four. So you got, you got, to me, it's just solid.

I have Arizona playing Arkansas, BYU playing Purdue. I think BYU kind of goes on a run beats Gonzaga. Well, I like that. So you got BYU all the way in your lead eight. Yep. Good. Okay, that's good. That's juicy, Gare.

Yeah. My big call here, and it's just because I love this Utah State team, I have Utah State beating Arizona, round of 32. I feel like Arizona is susceptible, play a lot of close games. He loves the small schools. I do. And I just, Utah State can shoot that thing. And as a guy who is a sucker for shooting the basketball,

I'm just hoping they shoot that thing at 50%. Well, and it can shoot too, and you put them out right off the, yeah. That's true. That's true. Right off the bat. I think one of the most fun watches of the whole tournament is the 512 game, Wisconsin High Point. I think it's the most, it's the highest scoring Wisconsin team ever. High point averages around 90 points. That game could be a thriller. First to 90 may win that one.

Who's coming out of that region? Who do you got in the Elite 8? Elite eight, I kid you not, I have Utah State and Gonzaga, with Gonzaga winning. I know crazy. Finally, they put, they get there. Mark Few is going to get another chance. I told you before we went on air today, I think the guy, there's always that one tournament guy, the DJ Burns, the goal keys of the world. I think the world is about to, and most of the world kind of knows if you follow college basketball closely, but Graham E.K., the big from Gonzaga. He transferred him from Wyoming. He can step out and shoot it.

He can pass. He's a wonderful player, and I'm excited to see him on the big stage. I have Arizona getting out of it playing Purdue. Yeah, I have Arizona playing Purdue. With Arizona coming out? With Arizona coming out. Okay, so Duke, Houston, Gonzaga. Duke Houston.

Arizona. I'm Duke, Florida, Arizona. Down to the Midwest? One last bit on the West region. Do not sleep on the Rainbow Warriors of Hawaii. They're really fun. They're one of the more experienced teams in a day and age where experience is not really prevalent across college basketball. Arkansas has so much talent. I do not like the matchup for Hawaii, but that Hawaii team is talented and deep. That's why I just think Purdue gets it done, man. The experience is just too, too much. Especially nowadays. And today's college basketball. And they've been there. Experience mattered in the past, guard play and that kind of stuff. Experience really matters in the Lord's year 2026.

Down to the Midwest, Michigan, the one seed that played well all season long. It's also a fun region that I think has some upset ability to it. You know, Bama just maybe lost a star score. Yeah, so I heard. So you told me on the pregame show. But we do got the cream Abdul-Jabbar. also has a chance to be that the attorney poster boy, if you will. I think St. Louis is...

They're good. They're good, man. Again, I love the A-10, so we're right there, same page. I took the Billikins in that 9-8 matchup against Georgia. What about the 512 Texas Tech and Akron? I have Akron. I have Akron as well, the Zips.

Yeah, that's a really good basketball team, and I hate to do it to my man. Grant McCasland, former North Texas coach, who's now doing a well-of-a-job at Texas Tech, but losing J.T. Topin was... He also has their chances. has a little bit of injury to the other guy. Yeah.

That got hurt in a big 12. They're banged up. They're banged up. But you like Hofstra too, don't you? No, I like Bama over Oster. Even with the player. Even with the player, yeah. Colonial Athletic Association, I think,

is where Hofstra out of. I do get fascinated by the teams who don't have like a plural mascot. There's just the pride, Hofster Pride. Yeah. It's pretty cool. No, they get demolished. So tell me if you love those small schools or not,

I mean, you got Miami, Ohio, beating SMU? I sure hope so. I don't know what happens. But if they do, do they beat Tennessee? No, I think it's a bad matchup. I think Tennessee would really get into them defensively in the half court. I actually think SMU would definitely have a chance against Tennessee. Not that I'm so much in love with Tennessee, but I hope Miami of Ohio at least gets out of day.

Any of those? Well, yeah, I would go with SMU over Miami, Ohio. Yeah, well, you don't lie. I mean, you're probably very upset that they even got in at this point. No. Are you recovered from that? Yeah, the last team in the tournament, too. Yeah, they're good.

Aggies were the third last. The third to four or fourth, yeah. You know, we're on the bubble. We were on the bubble. Now, Sparks, what about the Kentucky Santa Clara? It's a really fun match-up. So fun. You have the perennial blue blood that is Kentucky against Santa Clara,

who I love. They beat St. Mary's in the semifinal and almost beat the Zags in the final of the WCC conference. I have Santa Clara winning. I think there could be a team of destiny, very much all-a Utah State. I went with Kentucky. Yeah, I understand.

So I think that they are not on a good end to their season of what they hoped for, but I think that there's still opportunity. They played a lot of tough schools this year. How good is Virginia, Sparky? Yeah, they're good. I like Virginia, always have like Virginia. I have them losing to Tennessee in the second round. It's hard to trust Virginia.

Virginia is like the Purdue. It's so hard to trust them because of what they've done in the past, you know. The 16. And then they had the random title that they won. But then my question is. Coach randomly just retired. I know. They did also just almost beat Duke.

So then, like, are they just a coin toss? Or is Duke really not that good? I think Duke is decently good, but I don't think it's their year. But I have Santa Clara playing my final four pick out of this bracket, which is Iowa State. I love it. Yeah. I also have Iowa State.

Been on them all year long. That's my Elite 8 matchup. There's the one in two, Michigan, Iowa State. Same. And who do you got coming out? Cyclones coming through. Cyclones? Yeah.

I mean, after watching that Big 12 game. The back and forth affair. Kelsey was texting, me and Gare, group texting. Are you, are you? Yeah, I got Iowa State in Michigan, but Iowa State winning. But, yeah, after seeing them going back and forth between just Arizona, Iowa State, the shots that they were making. Yeah.

The shot making is incredible. Incredible. That big dude is. Yeah, they're good. They're good. I've been on them all year long. Unfortunately, for Iowa State, they did kind of limp in. they think you've played their worst basketball over the last month.

But with kids in college, it literally takes one half. You know, these teams who are going in hot, if they shoot 20% in the first half of their first tournament game, all that doesn't matter at this point in the game. Who's going to be playing in the championship? I have Houston beating Duke and Iowa State beating Gonzaga. I have Houston beating Duke because, sorry, Andrew Yaffe, but if I have my Gators not winning, I don't have the...

You don't want him to win either. I don't have the money either. So I have Houston playing... Arizona. And so the Arizona Iowa State game that we watched, Coa Pete, who from game one when the Gators played them, I said, there's something special there. He had one of his worst games against them. So if he can show up, play against them, I think that they can win. Arizona and Houston. And I got Arizona winning. Nice.

Okay. I went completely opposite. I go Florida Duke. I have Florida coming out on top of that one. And then Iowa State over Arizona. With Florida winning the back-to-back champions. They do it again. I would love that more than anything. If Florida shoots the ball over 35% Yeah. No one.

Zero people are stopping them. Just because the way they defend and attack the glass. They're too big, man. Yeah, they're so big. No one has the, no one has the, front court size that they can't do. It's a hard matchup. It's truly impossible.

So if that now, that could, that could all go away with a 10 minute on, you don't make a buck in 10 minutes and you're out. Yeah, here's my thing. Going to last year's, like, Gator team, we had Walter Clayton Jr., Will Richards, and Elijah, and you pretty much could trust that one of them was going to be on with their threes. Right now, with our guards, we don't, like, have that.

So that is where I worry that if we do get behind, we don't have someone that can help us get ahead. But- You saw that in the Vanderbilt game. Yeah. But also, like I said, I hope my bracket is wrong. I hope that they can pull it out. Absolutely. Bust my bracket.

When they're in the championship, you can not be cheering them on. Yes, I can. Just like, okay, that means that you can't be cheering on Texas A&M. Even though you put them on paper, you just bash them and said that they were going to lose by 30. If they win their first round game, you can't cheer on the Aggies anymore.

Sorry, Gary. That's fair. That's fair. Totally fair. Let's talk watching plans. What's the plans this week for watching? This is the only day I'm in here this week, and I can't wait to kind of unplug get my full basketball.

I, dude, I'm going to probably miss the entire first round. You're better than that, Gary? What kind of schedule conflict did we create? My kids spring break, we're going to get, we're kind of getting out of the off the grid. I'll watch the night games, but during the day games, just not going to, not going to see them. I'm going to fill out a bracket. I'm going to have the kids fill out the bracket and enter it into the almost sport. Yeah, that's good parenting.

Are we going to open this up to like the public or just? Yeah, we should talk about that, shouldn't we? We're having our very own Almost Athletes March Madness Contest and you are all invited The Best Bracket will win two tickets to any tour show of their choice So there's a prize on the line

It's easy to play Go to the link in the description And fill out a bracket You can also find the link on our IG page Whether you have one bracket or six others Jump into ours and see if you can beat the dudes And win those tour tickets I won't win some tour tickets

So my kids will probably try to win those tour tickets Sure And it'll be fun they know, you know, they're just going to go off probably their knowledge of those schools in football. They watch a lot of college football. Basketball, they kind of only really watch like the SEC. But I think the fun thing with the bracket is, we talked a little bit about this last week, if you have kids that just want to go based off the mascot.

You could just do that. There's really. We watched that Penn Yale game together and my kids were just floored. Like they were just like, this is the craziest basketball. That was saturated in March. And it really like, you knew it was coming to it. You could just feel it. Right.

There's something about watching it like, dude, pins coming back in. All right. The ratings were higher than the GPAs, which is hard to do in an Ivy League final. That was must watch television. The three-quarter court shot, back-rimmed. It's beautiful.

What about you? Are you watching this weekend? You watching? What are we doing, Kells? We're going to turn on every TV in this place. Except for Friday. Except for Friday. Friday, we do have an event,

but the Lord is very good. The event ends at 830 people. and it's an 835 start time for the gaiters so i'll be able to that's good cal's the lord works in mysterious ways i love it i'm dying you you know peruvue a in by two and overtime you might be thinking man i wish that game would have tipped off at 530 but yeah and again i know it's i know this is a uh you know nationwide podcast but if you are listening and you do live around the metroplex and you want to have like a fun night friday night yeah you want to know right night yeah you want Friday night.

Yeah, Friday night we're having a DP family fun night at the Omni PGA district here in Frisco. So you get a chance to watch the new Airsoft with the lives video before it goes on YouTube. Get a chance to do some trick shot things. We have impossible football wall, a basketball bounce back. And of course, you get to come and meet Sparky. I'll be there. We got the DP interns coming and Panda. So it'll be a fun night.

30 to 830. And you get home to watch the Gators win too. That's right. It's beautiful. Yeah, we'll be watching like the Gators is like the time that we'll be able to watch. So like we'll be able to watch like the night game. So I'm looking forward to that. Maybe it's a good thing that I'm not going to be able to watch the eggs.

It's kind of like it would depress me. I guess destiny. I'll be ripping. I'll be ripping trails and a Jeep. One question for you. Me personally, I don't care what my bracket says. Any double-digit seed. Oh, I love the upsets.

13, 14, 15, 16, you have to cheer for them, right, if it's a game. Even with Iowa State, say the 215, Iowa State is trailing Tennessee State, who's a decent ball club. I have to cheer for Tennessee State. My heart won't allow it as a... There's only one I'm not going to cheer for. Texas. And they would say the same thing about the Aggies.

They're a double-digit seed. They're not going to cheer for them. And that's what makes it so good. Game recognizes game. I wish we could just play y'all in the 11-11. Honestly. It would be fun. It's a better matchup for us.

It is. So there's our brackets. Good luck. And if you want your bracket to compete with ours, reminder, almost athlete March badness contest, you're all invited. Link in the description. Fill it out.

Plug it in. And maybe you win yourself some tour tickets. Yeah, it'll be fun. I've never won a bracket before. All right, we're in the pursuit of the perfect bracket. What's the furthest you've ever taken one? We actually have a voicemail that hits on this. Play the voicemail.

Ooh. Hey, what's up, dudes? I just want to say this. Love your guys' show. I appreciate all you do. It's that time of year again with some March madness coming around. Just curious, what's the closest you've ever gotten to a perfect bracket? And also, love any tips and insights for this coming year's tournament.

See if I can pick a perfect bracket this year. Thanks so much. Keep up with your work. Yeah, I appreciate the call. I have taken the close. know which one it was in the round of 32, but for the whole first weekend, I only lost one game. That's the closest I've ever been. It's 99.9 percentile right there.

And then when it got to the Sweet 16, it was, I got. Annihilated? I annihilated, dude. Like, I, you know, but that was the close. I lost one game in the opening weekend. I've never even made it through day one, the entire day of one. I made it to the night cap one time, and I was feeling. healing myself. I was already like thinking how I was going to spend the billion dollars.

It stinks because like the first games are only worth like, what, 10 points or whatever. So like it like you feel invincible, but then it's like you win one sweet 16 game that somebody else does and you jump like the 50 points. You're like, oh, well, there you know. Yeah, it's about maintaining your elite eight at the end of the day. A humble brag. Last year I did win the office March Madness. I don't remember that. I did.

You did? You did? You're sure. You don't recall that. Wasn't Mark? No, Mark did get second place. He did choose Houston and I chose the Gators. That was the difference.

Because I do love the Gators. So just a reminder. You're not going to win this year when Florida wins. No, like I said, I hope that the bracket is completely busted this year. But that was my last year. And I'm not going to give you my tour tickets either when I win. What about best pick you've ever made singular game selection or a team that was on a run? Because I have one.

And it was the first time I ever selected a 15 over a two. You selected the Florida Gulf Coast. I did it. I've never selected a 15 over two. Only time, I've done it. I think it was the 13 is the craziest one I've ever picked. North Texas over Purdue in 21 I was all over that as well. That's good pick.

Yeah, I'm guessing you did. That was a crazy game. I remember that. Overtime. I don't remember who it was, but I remember picking a 13. And I think it was like a Kansas. Like, they beat Kansas.

I forget who it was. Was VCU ever 13? Yeah. I mean, it sounds right. And VCU made several runs. I was all over the FAU one too, but I didn't have him. going to the final four, but I'm like in the elite A that year.

What about you? What about you, Kels? So, I never filled out a bracket until last year. Oh, and then you won. And then I won. But. Sophomore slump, low- Yeah, this is going to be a bad bracket in coming.

That's great. I would love for this bracket to be busted. No, so this is just a reminder that you don't have to know what you're doing. I think previously I was really like nervous because, like, I've watched a lot more basketball this year than I even, did last year, but I was really intimidated to create the bracket because I'm like, I don't know, you know, what BYU does on the regular. So I just didn't create a bracket until last year, but I don't really remember there being any crazy picks. I did end up picking Florida, and I feel like,

even though they're a one seed last year, there, like, no one really expected them to get as far as they did. So, I don't know. I can't wait. That's all I know. It's going to be good to be free sparks. Yeah, don't text or call me. It's a good reminder Thursday. Friday, we need to be in touch before the event. A Thursday, don't even bother, because I'm putting the phone away. We're turning that thing off. Dude, that's incredible. It's going to be special. And it starts with Dayton. Well, shout out to my guy always right from UT Rio Grande. And Corey Cotton. Both of them, the one from UT Rio Grande Valley and our own Cory Cotton. Hey, why you? If you ever Aaron Friscoe, let's play a little pickup game. We'd love to. Sure. I call this Corey Cotton. On your team? No, yeah. You get the other Corey.

That's a good, good draft selection there. Good dress selection. Yeah. Well, I guess we can just briefly touch on it. I mean, World Baseball Classic. Yeah, the World Baseball Classic. Well, actually, first, let's hit the women's. Let's make sure we shout out the women's tournament. You all have a follow for for the women's tournament, a champion? Yeah.

So I did a little research ahead of time. I did see that Yukon is going into the tournament 34 and 0. So I was like, has there ever been an undefeated women's basketball championship? There has. There has been many of them, and a lot of them are Yukon. So with that... With that, I'm just going with Yukon. Stats tell you, Yukon's going to do it.

You're nasty, but there's also a couple other ones. You know, Texas has a really good team. Texas has a really good team. My final for that is Yukon, Texas. In the final, I think Yukon does beat them. But there's like, I mean, Iowa State has a good girls team. The Audi Crooks girl. Can they go back?

Can they win both? Wouldn't that be cool? Do you have? Does anybody ever done that? You have Iowa State as your champions, right? I do. Yeah. Do you have Iowa State as your champions?

You know now. It feels too good to be true. Wow. Adi Crooks. Yeah, Audie Crooks. She's stub. That like starts like right now, tonight maybe.

Does it? Yeah, they left out my Aggies. But we're first, uh... I saw you all in the bubble. We're a first, uh, the number one seed in, uh... In IT? The women's in IT. Okay.

Yep. Or I think they call it the WBIT. Yeah, women's basketball. Do you think that it's more exciting to get out in the first round? of the NCAA tournament or to win the NIT. Win the NIT? Yeah, win the NIT, but I would say that the very moment you say win an NCAA tournament game, it outweighs the NIT.

I would take one NCA tournament win over an NIT championship, but not zero. So as you see, UConn has won men's and women's in the same year. They have, okay. Of course, it was going to be Yukon. Yep, men's and women's both did it what? In 04 and 14? Tell you what, former employee, Antonio, Areola. He's blessed. He's a Yukon Gradle stores Connecticut. So should we move into the almost

sports segment? I think we should. It's time to talk almost sports. Boys and girls. Or just boy and girl. Today's almost sport, life size blow football. Let's take a look. Oh man. Who thinks of these things? Yeah, I want to know that too. Do they have team uniforms? I just feel like everybody wants to be James Naismith at the end of the day and get credit for like inventing basketball. You know, what's this? So many of heads. It looks like whackamole at the carnival.

Look, guys, I'm going to go ahead and just end the misery here. This is not a sport and this is... It's not to be close to a sport. It's a great way to catch a cold. Great way to catch a cold. Obviously, we're past the old courtesy five feet. Oh, I thought you were saying COVID days. Yeah.

Imagine trying to play that during COVID you would have been Yeah that's That is a severe That might be a felony during COVID Uh I uh No you're not wrong

Oh look No this is not a sport If you're gonna talk about curling Being not a sport I don't know what this This is more of a Luge is more of a sport I mean you could be an 80 year old grandma

With just solid lung power And be elite at this sport What are we doing here guys? There's got to be better things to do with your life. There's just got to be. I'm convinced. Yeah. What was wrong with just like using the board, you know?

This is... The food ball. Yeah, food ball. Why did we suddenly need to cover our arms and necks and blow the ball? You're trying to do a little too much here. I will say the paint job is really good on the table. It's really evenly done and... Yeah, the art department did a fantastic job.

Art department is really... It's a solid fabrication, but it's more physically taxing to play checkers than it is. This is an American sport. You can tell. You can just totally tell this is this is foreign in every way. Look at the netminder. You hadn't got any action back there. So what you're saying is that we won't see this in squad games on tour? 5B5 of whatever this is. Just say this one won't be featured. Unless another content group picks this, which maybe they will, but... It's honestly...

What does this take place? This feels so European. We could do this like interns versus DP. No, I'd rather not, dude. Jared, don't get ideas of like just trying to do weird stuff on the pod, like foot wrestling, man. I'd say you end up with like a gram loogie on your head or something because he's spitting all over you. It's nasty. That's nasty. Yeah, you know, I really enjoyed our college basketball conversation.

And then I just took a turn for the worst after watching that. Yeah, you got my moods called. That's what happened to me on toe wrestling day. I was in such a good, proper mood. And then all of a sudden I had to watch those little piggyes. go at each other and I was like, I don't even want to be here anymore. This was the vibe that's getting me. Life-size blow-football.

I feel like it's time to talk to an actual athlete, man. You want to? No offense, Kelsey. Tyler? Oh, that's okay. That wasn't a shot at you. That's just I was meeting like, I just can't watch this life-size blow football anymore. Yeah, I'm over it.

So yeah, we have some contestants in the house for a video for the Trick Shot World Championship. Second iteration. And so we're going to talk to Brody Smith. Coming up. What's your door dash this week, Sparky? Let's see. Pizza on Monday. tacos on Tuesday, of course, donuts on Wednesday and pizza and tacos. Wednesday was a tough day.

Well, glad to see you're eating healthy, but you know, you can dooredash way more than just food. I sure do. When we've talked about this before, Corey told us once he door dashed sand for a sandbox, which proves that you can really dooredash anything. That's right. As Corey proves, DoorDash is extra helpful when you're a parent. Instead of dragging the kids to a store because they need batteries for a toy, I just door dash it. When life happens, DoorDash is always there for me. And when Corey happens, DoorDash is there. DoorDash gives me more time to spend with my kids and more time for myself.

So what are you going to do with all this new extra free time of yours? I think I'm about having a snack. You read my mind. Let's door dash it. When life gets crazy, DoorDash helps bring a little order to it. Our guest today helped pioneer sports trick shots before YouTube was full of them. He's a former Ultimate Frisbee champion, one of the earliest collaborators with Dude Perfect. And today, he's one of the biggest personalities in disc golf. You've seen his insane throws and viral videos for years.

please welcome, Rodi Smith. Not a bad intro either. If you were to have a walkout song to intro, what would you go with right there? Oh, man. Probably bring him out by TI. Yeah, it's a great, great choice. It just brings it back to just the middle school, high school days.

I watched this, because I guess TI in 50 Cent are having a little bit of beef. I don't really know what. Oh, is that true? I don't know what the beef is. Yeah, yeah. But these guys do this podcast. where they do, where they do like a song off.

So one guy was a T.I. guy and the other guy was a 50 cent, and they would go back and forth playing their songs. You really realize music used to be really good. Yeah. Yeah, dude, I, music these days, I try to tell my kids this

because, like, I developed the love for music because from my parents who would just show me all types of good music growing up. We had this dude in the house. Like, now, dude, music's just not. It's just electrical. It's turning like AI.

It gives you that AI feeling. And you have to watch out because some of these AI is, you're like, man, that's a banger. But at the same time, you're like, it's not human made. It's not human made. But you have to go back to when we were growing up, like, there was still really good music being made. And you're like, there is a difference for sure. Oh, yeah, go ahead. The links we had to go to, too, for our music, you know.

You had the guy at school who burned the CDs, you know. Ours was Brad Cravens. Yeah. Probably still could burn a CD today if he needed to. I think he took out his whole family's like PCs and stuff, you know, with line wire and stuff. Yeah, it's credible. Some of my best songs I found were when, like, Vine came out and you had to find like a catchy six-second song to put behind a trick shot. And so you would just scour the internet and just like look for songs and be like, oh, man, I've never heard this song.

This song's six. You actually had to do some work back in the day, you know? Back in the day, yeah. The Vine days. Well, dude, let's just address it head on, man. last year, Trick Shot World Championship. You were here.

You were here. You grinded pretty good those couple days. Yeah. But you look different now. Yeah. You look different from back then. Yeah. Really?

I didn't notice a change. Yeah. What have we been doing? Like, what, what's the grind? There comes a time where, you know, you're at the top of a baseball stadium and you're trying to get into a harness and they don't have a harness large enough for you.

and the PAs are sprinting around trying to find a dick sporting goods that's open to maybe find a harness. The whole shoot is just shut down because your body can't fit into a safety apparatus. It makes you think about things. We also had a wedding to go to,

and I'm one of the, I don't know if you guys are the same. I refuse to put on nice clothes. I'm just like, oh, this is as good as it gets right here. I'm not a nice clothes guy, and so the whole idea of like putting on nice clothes before to see if they like,

fit and look good, I'm out. So the day of a, uh, a wedding, um, I didn't have any that fit. Nothing fit. It looked like, it looked like, uh, it was it biscuits. Like, biscuits on hot day and a, you know, what's the thing? You're talking about when the biscuits like, like, a little, yeah, you get like a little Pillsbury, Pillsbury biscuit thing. And then on hot day, it like explodes and it's like oozing out. Yeah. That was kind of my body and my We were in my pants. It was kind of oozing out. So, like, there comes a point in time where you're like, all right, I got to do something about this.

Oh, we've all been there. We can pull up footage of our old school dude perfect days. And you're just like, whoa, dude. What happened? I saw you got into running. Yeah. You're heavy into the running game. I am too.

Yeah. Oh, are you? I didn't know that. He's a passionate runner. I love running. So I've been following along because I'm just like, dude, I love that somebody else is. I like it because it's a personal challenge. It's me versus me.

It's like it's me versus my mind. How far can I go? How far can I push myself? You know, you set goals like where in basketball I have to rely on Tyler to make a good pass, which, you know, it's tough sometimes. Very true. So that's why I love golf. It's why I love running.

Yeah, you control your destiny. Yeah, you control your destiny. Yeah, running's a really interesting one because it is a sport that's very different than a lot of the other sports I've played as where as you get better, it doesn't get easier. Even the elite athletes, you know, the fastest people in the world,

when they are running a workout that is equivalent to like the workout I'm running, they are suffering as much as I'm suffering. Whereas in some of the other sports I've played, like basketball, for example, like when you get really good at basketball, it gets pretty easy at a certain point of where you can kind of just coast around

and whatever, right? If you're that good, running is going to suck no matter what. Like you said, it's that mental thing. No matter how good you are at running, every runner at one point in time will be like, just walk, man. No one's watching.

Just walk. Just stop. Why are you doing this? Just stop. And that's like the battle of like pushing through that. You feel so good at the end. You do, man.

It's been awesome. But dude, congrats. You look great. They do. You look great, man. Thank you. You're obviously conquering that internal turmoil of keep running.

You've kept running. Yes. Yes. We'll see how long it lasts. So we met a long time ago. Way back in the day. We filmed some epic trick shot battles with like basically basketball versus Frisbee.

You did that for a while. Then you moved into golf. You moved into the golf content creation kind of before like that was a thing. The cool thing. And then you're like, nope, not doing that. Doing pro disc golf, you know, and doing content creation and being in the professional league. What's been your favorite moment of your career that, you know,

you were like, that, you know, that was a defining moment for me. I've never felt like the ultimate frisbee side, I've never, I guess I've been constantly trying to capture that again. Yeah. That's something that I haven't found again. Now, it's running is getting closer because that is something my wife enjoys doing. And she was never really big into disc golf and golf. And golf, she would come out with me and she likes playing and stuff.

But the running is something that we can do together. I think for me, ultimate. Frisbee being on a team, having a bunch of people trying to achieve the same goal. And then there's just something about it of like chasing down a disc and diving and catching it that I just absolutely love. And so I don't know if I ever find that feeling again, which I think is okay. But that definitely was like the peak of what I felt was awesome. So we just had Marquez. I was about to ask this year.

I had to. And on the pod. What an athlete. Huge ultimate Frisbee guy. we asked him a simple question and I'll ask you the same is Ultimate Frisbee a sport.

That's a good question. Yeah, I mean, I think if you look at it and you're judging what a sport is, I can see how some people have different opinions. Like, I view golf as a sport. There's a lot of people out there view golf isn't a sport. Hobby.

Yeah. A hobby, yeah. I think it is. Is it ever going to be a popular sport? No. Is it ever going to be a sport that like people are growing up being like I want to be an ultimate Frisbee professional? No. But there is a place for it, I think, as a sport. And there's going to be people that find that and are attracted to it and love it. And I think that ultimately at the end of the day, that's what sports are for is it's for kids growing up to find something that

they're passionate about and putting a lot of effort into it. Ultimately. Yeah. I actually think it's, it's got to be a sport. It's a sport. It's just the taxing nature, the physical element of it alone, plus like the ball skills nature of being able to catch and throw. It's one thousand. Marquez actually went even like crazier and he said that it's, it's not only a sport, but it's the most basically like clippable sport, like the most highlights in any sport. It has really good highlights. Because you do have to go and you have to make a diving catch literally basically every single

play. When that Frisbee floats too, it's just made for drama-infused drama diving catch, you know, so yeah. Yeah, we always looked at like baseball. diving catches and would like scoff at him and be like that's not really a diving catch but to be fair a baseball is traveling much faster

and you're having to try to gauge it a lot of times you're running at it or it's flying away from you so it is it is like the like you guys are saying that the ability of the disc to just float in the air gives athletes the time to

really power up yeah yeah more literally there's on the screen there's our very first video The trampoline shot. This is the final shot. You know, I got to say, I don't know how we're still here talking about this. We were so thrilled.

How in the world are we successful? I mean, look at Tyler. What is happening, dude, like. I remember. This is crazy. I remember, I don't remember if it was after the, I think it might have been after the second one we filmed. This was funny moment.

Yeah, the pandemic. I love this moment. I mean, I think that video, too, you can correct me if I'm wrong. I think that video was the video that really like sparked everyone's interest on who the heck the panda was. Yeah. Yeah, we, we, uh, did it happen before that? No, no, because like, uh, dude, you, you probably know more dude perfect history than I do.

Uh, I wouldn't even in this video, as you can see. Yeah, I know. You were not. You were not there. Uh, so, uh, everyone always asked me like, dude, how do, like, how do you, I'm just a really good negotiator, uh, at the end of the day. If you need me to close the deal for you, hit me up. I got you. But we launched the Panda series, like, you know, capturing the Panda. I think, like, right before this. Okay. So, yeah, I think this was like his defining moment of, like, his breakout.

His big screen. Everyone wanted to know. And he had a huge role, too, in the second one. The second one with the skate park. He was laying down nasty tricks. Yeah. It was sick. This is, see, Ty, Ty.

It's a face. It's a face. Ty was also in his. We all went through it. Oh, dude. I did too, bro. I mean, I went through a, it was around this time. When I was in grad school, man, I had Waterberg.

Yeah, look at that. Look how big I was in this. Honestly, you could tell me that was the offensive line for the Aggies in 13. Yeah, we. There's a left guard right there. It's so good, man. And shorts at, you know, went down to the ankles. Yeah, the clothing attire back then.

Some would say it was peak, though. What is it? No, I don't know. My wife looked at some of these old videos. and just thinks to herself. Why did I fall in love with you? Who the heck is this? How did I fall in love with him?

Let me ask you this. Obviously, there's been a lot of change since then. But looking back from then to now, what do you know about the dudes now that you maybe didn't know then or how much have they changed from your first interaction way back in the day? Yeah, I mean, it was interesting.

We, I think it was after this video. I was with the twins going to church. We were driving to church. And they were just kind of talking to me about like, because I was like, what's next? What are you guys thinking? And they were kind of like, honestly, like, I don't think we can do trick shots forever.

Like at a certain point, how do you keep one-upping yourself? Pushing the needle, right? It comes to the point where it's like, we've done everything. And I think the business side from you guys is something that's been really cool to watch because you've taken something that was simply just a bunch of dudes.

And we've all done it. That's the thing I think why so many people are attracted to trick shots. We've all been in the classroom been being like, do you watch this? Yeah, yeah. And like just shocked, you know, we all done it. And you guys basically just took it to a level of where everyone can be like,

holy cow, look at these six shots you're doing. And then you were like, okay, how do we keep this momentum going? And you guys have turned something that was just a fun, everyone throwing trick shots trying to one up each other into this massive business of creating content that, I mean, there's so many of my friends now that have kids that love watching these videos. And I think in a time right now where there's just a lot of content out there that's probably shouldn't be used for kids having these guys out here being able to put a lot of content out there that's really great for kids to get inspired and want to go out and do activities

and do stuff. I think it's a great way. So I think that's the coolest thing I've seen over the years is just taking something that was, I mean, I'm calling out Taylor Swift here, which she did like and retweet this by the way. Yes. That is huge. I would tell everybody that. Michelle goes out to my girl, T. Swift. I'm thinking though, this was, I'm, I'm crossing my fingers that it was prior to like her PR people taking over. Because there's no way she handles her Twitter now. Well, if it makes you feel better when we were in. There's no way.

There's no way. But back then, she wasn't as massive as she is now. Oh, no way. Maybe 15 years ago, yeah. If it makes you feel better, we were on tour two years ago in Seattle. And Taylor Swift happened to have a show the same exact night as we had a dude perfect show. And Tyler DM'd her asking her if she wanted to run through, didn't DM him back. Yeah.

See, I still think they're on social media. Those people, I think those are just, they're not real people. I still love T Swift, though. I did, that doesn't change my love. But she did get credit that night for the many earthquake they had that night. And they didn't credit our show. I was saying, hey, they didn't credit our show. Those 10,000 dude, perfect fans absolutely assisted in that 4.5 magnitude earthquake.

We at least were on the board and the assist category. So let's talk about why you're here today, man. Yeah. We're weeks away from this being on the YouTube side of things. But Trick Shot World Championships, man. Last time you were on the doorstep, almost finished it. Now it's the second iteration. Yep.

How we feel about it? What do we like our chances? I mean, we were hours before filming here, but really like 30 minutes away from starting the competition. Yeah. How are we feeling? Yeah, I mean, I think I haven't really sized up the crew yet of, like, who we got. But yeah, I mean, I like my chances and anything that's kind of hand-eye coordinated.

You know, I'd be lying if I said, like, I prepared for this. Because I don't, one, I think it's tough to prepare for this. I don't know what. You could say that you prepared all year for this, dude. Well, yeah, physically I made sure, physically I made sure I was not going to get tired because that was a problem last year. I was getting tired throwing a basketball.

I was like, what are we doing here? But yeah, I like my chances. And I think, too, like one of the big things with this competition that we saw last year is just like keeping your cool. I think there's going to be certain shots that are going to be very challenging. Yeah.

Ones that we've never done before. And if you start freaking out, that's where, you know, you can kind of spiral. So we're just going to go out, have fun, see how far we can go and have a good time with it. Well, brother, I'm probably not supposed to be pulling for people behind the curtain, but it would be a full circle moment from trick shot all the way around to you getting your name hung in the rafters banner style.

That would be pretty cool, dude. That would be sick. Good luck to you. Thank you, thank you. Before we let you go, almost athlete podcast, do you have an almost athlete moment? I played in this proam

out at the Genesis so Riviera out there I was playing with Jim Furek and he That's awesome That alone right there is He was playing from the tips

We weren't allowed to play from the tips We were playing from one T up But I did beat him Whoa But he was playing for the tips That's not an almost athlete moment That's an athlete moment That's an athlete moment

He was playing from the tips though. So it wasn't straight up. Didn't you feel good? Didn't you shred your knee plan ultimate? Twice. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you doubled down on the knee shred? I, I tore it up real good. Rehabed, came back, and then like

first play of the season, tore the ACL and the other leg. Was it at that moment in life where you were like, you know what? I'm just, I don't have it anymore. Well, I came back and won another national championship after the second tear, but after that, after that was the moment where I was like.

Like, I want to be able to walk with my kids. Let's hang it up. There's a little too much cut in for these knees. Yeah, you're probably one tear away from your dad ability. Just not, yeah, being terribly hindered. Yeah, exactly. What did you lose? ACL, PCL on one, MCL, MCL meniscus on the other.

So I'm bone on bone on this left one. That's why it's got like a nice little crunch to it. A little crunch. Nice little crunch. I can do the spinny pops on command. It's pretty nasty. Yeah. A little maybe too much ligament tear talk.

I mean, we're pre 10 a.m. And we've talked about like five different... I'm not doing two, men. I'm not competing a day. But that's set up for the ultimate, ultimate, almost athlete moment of me walking to the next comp and busting an Achilles. Walking in front of camera and tearing your Achilles.

I'm setting myself up for failure here. All right, we're going on tour this year. We're doing squad games. Yeah, baby. I do like, you know, I go through and be like, hey, look, you know, we have a team of five. We've kind of built it out nicely. a tall guy. We got some

speed. We got a tall guy. We got a bruiser. We got the smarts and me. Who's on your team if you wanted to challenge? Dude perfect. I get a pick? You get a pick. How many do I get a pick? It's five. So it's you and four. And then who

would win? Am I just picking like from my Rolodex of people? You need to obviously have the ability to convince him to be a part of this squad game. So like I mean... So I could pick like a like a Sean Johnson, Olympic gold medalist. 100%.

Yeah, yeah. Or maybe like the baseline should be they liked an Instagram post. So like T-Swift would be good, but maybe not like Jordan. I don't know if MJ's like to give yourself. I could maybe throw an invite out to Taylor, but I don't think she's going to respond. No. Maybe like a good like intro song person for us, but outside of that. You know, that's a good question.

I ever actually have really a thought of who I would pick. But I think I could must muster up a good. Is it muster? Yeah, muster. Munster? Muster. Muster. Muster.

A little small little German. town east of Gainesville. It's not the cheese. It's not Munster. It's muster. Like muster station. I thought it was mustard. I mustered up some strength like I think you could say that as well. It depends on like I got no way you're hitting you know so so you mustered up strength. I thought it was yeah mustard up the strength and and then I thought it was Munster like run up the string. Yeah but look so you Sean Johnson that's a good pick. I like Sean it's a great pick. Um I have to think about this. I mean I got to go Kurt Gibson he was my partner for Amazing Race.

That's sick. Yeah, that's awesome. And you can do a little. So I got to pick him. Yeah, I got to think about it, honestly. Yeah, just no, dude. Like, we have the greatest athlete of all time on our team. Fair enough.

Which is me. I'm kidding. And then, yeah, it's tough, man. You got to be well versed and kind of across the board. These are not just like your typical games. It's like broomball and three-point contest and whiffle ball. You might need some variety. who's good at synchronized swimming.

I guess you don't really necessarily want someone that's just really specialized in one thing. You want someone that's overall decent. But at the biggest thing, you want a competitor. You want a competitor. You want someone that's going to battle no matter what you. And that's right. Think about it.

You know. I got some time. Yeah, so our whole tour this year is changed. We're going to do basically our squad versus another squad live in front of 10,000 people. Oh, my gosh. All competitions. It's no, like, we're not bringing in overtime like we did or we're not bringing in.

It's just competition, competition, competition. Best of seven. Love it. Give a trophy at the end. Go get a massage. Yeah, I'm about to say over or under four shows before he has a soft tissue injury. I'm done, man. I'm going to take the under a four.

I can't get out of bet. I told you that. I can't get out of bet anymore. I think is in Charleston, South Carolina. I'm predicting a hamstring strain. We're starting off. Just a strain. I can't say it because we haven't announced it yet,

but we are starting off the tour. with a with a with a with a with a with a bangin squad that we're competing against it is going to be tough yeah we're going in deep right off the bat so yeah i might not be able to walk second show so um well dude thank you for coming on yeah um good luck in the competition man look how big i was i'm telling you man like it's i'm like twice the size of everyone i'm telling you i tried to give you props you're you know this is you're doing it right man but hey dude go not that i don't marathon Not that I don't, yeah, I'm in for that. Are you? My CEO's trying to get me to run New York with them. We didn't get in.

Well, we, we, uh, 250,000 people applied. Yeah. That's crazy. I saw you did Austin. Uh, you crushed Austin. I wouldn't do it again. If you like Austin, sure, but like the hills kill you.

Yeah, yeah, the hills are brutal. But dude, this is what I was going to say, and no offense to these guys, great human beings. But can you please dethrone that'll work, okay? Get them, get them out of here. I'll try it as... Right off to bat, man. They're good at these little trick shots, man.

They are good at these little trick shots, so I'll try my best. They're a persistent bunch. Andy, they have the record, the golf record too. They got the trick shot world championship and the putt puck thing. Michael from that'll work. So, yeah, maybe a little too much that'll work. Yeah, too much that'll work. We don't want to see another in the rafters.

All right, dude. Well, good luck. Thanks for coming. And we'll see you next time. Give it up, Brutty Smith. Yeah, baby. Tax Redue due, April 15th. Did you go to Intuit TurboTax like I told you do?

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Which one's a hybrid? Well, after this video that was launched, you tell me, Jared. Dude, you held me back. That is unbelievable. Oh, man. I don't know if I held you. back from jumping off a cliff, dude. That looked like that was all you. That's fair. Now, outdoor boys just launched a video. Lobster catching, shiny lot. What is it called? Spiny lobster

diving. Spiny lobster diving. I didn't go that. You were the outdoor version. Well, I went snorkeling. I don't know what you guys were lobster diving. You and Joshman snorkeling trip for you with a little fishing involved. Yeah, it was. It was a beautiful place to snorkel, dude. I'd got to tell you what was beautiful was the meal at the end of that video. It was so good. I was salivating. All right, Jared. So tell the peeps about this lobster and what we were trying to accomplish. Yeah, so the lobster video,

I don't even think it was on our radar until we were just kind of searching on YouTube one day just for video ideas and saw a sick lobster video. And then that's when Ty was like, dude, I think we could do this at Punta Brava. He's like, let's try to do it. So went down to Puta Brava, Mexico and went lobster diving. It's really as simple as that, literally going down 15 to 30 feet catching lobsters. in the middle of Mexico off of this beautiful island.

And so that was really the purpose of it. I think the side story was going to be me being scared of sharks a little bit. I think it turned out to be Josh facing his fear of heights. Yeah. Well, I was lied to. I've only been lobster diving at Red Lobster in a fish tank. That's what I thought I was doing. But it was fun.

It was fun. That was the fourth video for the Dude Perfect Outdoor Channel. they're only getting better. First time pod guys right here. Second. Second for you. I'm honored, man. First time here.

Yeah, first timer. This is a lot more fun than like jumping off the cliffs and dealing with the surges. You all did, man. Before we dive into it, let me hit a couple of announcements. Dive in. That's good. I didn't even plan it. But before we dive into the lobster video, our spring training merch collection is live on Dude Perfect Doc store, but it's selling fast.

Make sure to get it before it's gone. And don't forget to pre-weller. order our brand new book, DudePerfect and Panda Operation Trickshot at book.com. They make things too. We should just put up a QR code. It's a tongue twister. Spring training merch. I'd rather jump off cliffs and have to make up websites, man. So look, there was a lot of questions raised in the video. We're just going to hit it right off the bat. Who's the better outdoorsman? Jared, Josh? I think I've got more experience than the outdoors. That is a good point. What's the rebuttal? I mean, it's like,

I'm trying to think I'm an athlete to compare it to. It's like, we can say I'm like Paul Skeen's, he's like, who's, who's kind of, no, no, you're more like,

I don't want to disrespect to anybody. The DeGrox's a little older, but it's like, look, look, you watch the video, I'm very comfortable in the outdoors. I'm just a little bit of a clutz.

Yeah. You know, comfortable, maybe not the word I'd use, but let's, let's talk about the lineage here. though because we are on almost athletes uh we've already kind of got i think we asked you almost athlete story yeah i don't think your dad has an almost athlete story you definitely have one but

then we got arguably the best athlete in the family and that's your brother playing for dallas baptist right now it's really not close i mean just an athletic family yeah uh now i'm not sure about the outdoorsman family i think you know somebody's letting you down here up there what's the almost athlete story for you dude it actually comes at the hands of your Aggies. Oh, interesting. Yeah. And it's probably the reason why.

Why you're now an outdoor boy. So I'll set the stage. It's my red shirt freshman year at Rice. And we are loaded, good team. And we've got a midweek matchup against Aggies. And I think at the time we were number five, and A&M was number two. And we're winning the game three to one.

And I had pitched really well up into this point. kind of thrown into a closer role. Me and this guy named Matt Dimman were kind of duo closing for the year. And we're up three to one and they bring me in in the bottom of the eighth inning. Okay, there's first and second one out. And I remember like yesterday, dude,

I'm facing Logan Nautobrook. This dude's like 65, 250, tatted up. A lot like me. Yeah, dude. Very similar stature to Sparky. And I threw just a heavy curbball. I come in and throw spikes. That's what I did.

Spike curveball. And I threw a lot of them that year and they were good. and dude first pitch I was like I'm gonna sneak a heater by him get ahead in the car famous last words dude

first pitch this dude hits one 450 feet I ducked because I thought I was gonna hit me in the forehead and it went over the batters eye in dead center and bro bubbles everywhere

this place is erupted yeah places sold out at Bluebell places going nuts and as he touches home plate the stadium is rocking and all of a sudden the entire stadium

breaks out and he's bed Oh, no. I mean, to be fair. To be fair, they were. I'm on this, I'm like, I would probably start chanting that myself if I was you too. I mean. I joined him with him.

Yeah, he joined it. It was insane, dude. So, yeah, to this day, the Aggies just, wow. It was a homeboying moment. It was a blessing. It was a blessing. It was a blessing.

Having him as a dad. Texas Tech said the same thing to me. Oh, sure. When I was pitching against them. Sure. Your dad better's chance. Like, you know. Yeah, I mean, look, I still think your dad is a Hall of Fame pitcher.

I think he gets in this coming year, and that would classify him being better. He's a whole lot better. So I think, you know, I think that's a compliment almost. Yeah, it almost is. Shout out. Yeah, that's kind of like, thanks, man. I mean, I think everyone knew that. Totally.

I believe it to Tech N&M guys to, you know, chant that. Yeah. Enough of our athletic talks. Let's get back to the movie. Yeah, so anyway, we just went to Mexico. Tell them about the video. Unbelievable video. Production was unreal.

camera guys killed it Garrett not so much Josh not so much me and Tyler did well Tyler obviously killed it Star of the show as usual for some reason He can't help himself I know but dude it was like

I was very nervous going into this trip One I hate the ocean You don't like sharks No my biggest fear of sharks Which you didn't see it in the video I didn't show it I remember you tell me Dude just lean into it But you know we had Navy SEALs with us

I was like and I told you I'm not acting soft in front of Navy Seals, there's just no chance. So I try to put the sharks at the back of my mind, and actually, we didn't even see a shark, so it ended up not being a problem. But the whole experience was just next level. I didn't realize it was going to be like this with all the training. I thought it was going to be calm, shallow water where we were going to go into and go catch

these lobsters. And that is not what it was like at all. The way that the post-production team edited the video where they kept cutting back to training and like, it kind of had that like rocky moment in the video where you're like, dude, these guys are gonna, well, but then you had me, it's like, everyone's like, three minute breath hold. I think I hit, yeah, I mean, I thought 27, I think 27 seconds was generous. I don't think I hit like 18 to be fair.

Dude, I was, I'm telling you, when my head went underwater, I don't know if it's because I knew who I was going up against or whatever, which is tie, but I'm not, like, I'm not a big breath holder guy anyways, but like, dude, it felt like, I go underwater and like, I was just having a panic attack. Even in this little small, like, pool, dude, like, I was so scared. Like, I literally was like, I can't believe I'm about to do this and get suckered in. And I'm going to die out here. Hey, if you're going to die, though, what a beautiful place to die.

I mean, look at the scenes. They were gorgeous. On the video, if you guys watched the video, you can kind of see the power of the ocean come through, but, like, dude, I think Ty talks about, like, you would be underwater and, like it would rip you, it could rip you 20, 30 yards. And then you pop up and you're like, dude, where like it's, it's crazy. I actually love the line. I watched this couple hours ago before hopping on.

What a phenomenal video first and foremost. But I, the line that the instructor, I believe it was, he said something along the lines of. I don't fear it, but respect it. Correct. Yeah. Correct. And it brought me back personally to Bull video very much in the same sense that you're dealing with something that's a little bit bigger than you.

y'all's was the ocean it was cold it was obviously surges how just how difficult were the were the surges and just the ocean in general yeah i think especially when we were doing our practice breath holds right i was getting i was getting a minute to minute 45 right when you get out in the ocean you start diving down you're like your whole body's working against those surges and so you immediately lose 30 seconds right off the bad just with your body like working against the ocean right so that was surprising to me because I felt really good going into it. I don't have 30 seconds to lose, dude. Yeah.

You also feel very comfortable in the pool. You're just like, you know you're safe. You get in the ocean. It's like you start breathing a little quicker. Like your, yeah, your heart rate goes up. It's like kind of next level. But dude, for me though, like having Lou and those Navy Steelers there, that was like a game changer, though. Lou, I don't know if you heard in the video is like, we belong out there.

I'm like, dude. Yeah, you're soul. He was like, like, my head is out there. I belong on top of the water. But under it, man, I don't know if I belong there. Me and my soul are staying on dry land. But I will say, like, you know, I didn't, going into this video, I think y'all were the same.

I didn't realize the dangers. Yeah, you were lied to. It's like, we're going to go down five feet. But even going down five feet, the crazy thing about this is, number one, it's rocky. So, like, a surge can do some serious damage pretty quick. Dude, and with the urchins too. Yeah, with the sea urchin. The eel of sea urchins.

The thing that made me the most like, what was eye-opening was the fact that when you get to a certain depth, and I only did this one time, so, I think it's around 10 feet. And your body relaxes, you kind of forget your underwater. And like, you could literally go, like, tie, and you just, it can happen so quick how you just black out.

not you're not dead but just like yeah you're just focused you're just so focused that you forget like dude i need to go up for air and it's uh it can happen so quickly that you actually have to have a buddy like watching you and being like you know rescuing you i already told him like there was a depth like they all went to that i was like me as your buddy does nothing i'm not going i can't go down that deep yeah just know if you're just going down that deep it's a solo like i mean unfortunately like you're just going to pass out and you're dead so dude there was one part

I'll say this quick it wasn't on the video but it was me Ty Lou and one other Navy SEAL and Ty was this was during the training Ty went down it was like one of the deeper parts

where we were at and it was when we were kind of doing the buddy stuff and Ty went down and I'm like looking just you know I got my snorkela but I'm just looking watching him go down just in case he needs me

dude he gets to a point where literally he disappeared he got so deep he was just gone No visibility. And I was like, I looked up at Lou. I was like, dude, you got to go down there because I can't make it that far. And then Lou went down there and couldn't see him. The other guy went down there. Dude, they were down there for like a minute.

And I was like, they're either dead or they're dead. I can't get them no chance. Speaking of Tyler, man, he has his fingerprints all over this outdoor channel. For me personally, one of my favorite joys of the video is quite literally, Ty being one of my best friends watching the joy that he is getting from this outdoor channel. How cool has it been just to tag along with tea and see a boy in his element in his bag doing what he loves to do? Because you couldn't help, but just feel like I can tell Ty's heart, soul, passion was completely in this thing. And it's fun as his friend to watch from afar.

Yeah, well, dude, he brought us on, right? Because, you know, his thing was like, I might not be able to make every trip with, you know, main channel stuff. And now it's like we're kind of having to schedule everything around main channel stuff. so Tyler can be there because he doesn't want to miss anything. But I mean, if you know Tyler, this is like his passion, you know, so he's eating it up and he's like all about it. It's cool to see kind of that how like invest it he is and do it. And it's obviously showing how well these videos are planned out and kind of what we're doing. It's not just your normal outdoor videos, you know.

It's next level. Literally anything and everything. Some would say T's having a little too much fun. Yeah. It reminds me a bull a little bit where like he's actually having fun with this. and it's just like, man, that that boy is wired differently. Different breed. Yes, we did, we did lobster diving.

We got to play a little bit of golf. We also cliff jumped. That's scary for you, huh? Dude, it was scary for me, dude. I actually hated it, but. Watching the video is terrible because it doesn't do it. It doesn't do it justice. It doesn't do it justice, sure.

No lot. Look, and here's the thing. I'm not, I'm just like, it was 28 feet. Yeah, and I can get on a roller coaster, no problem. it's like when you're just free the problem is even with the diving Lou kept saying over and he just kept talking about people passing out

left and right. Getting knocked out on like this jump alone. Yeah there's one thing in the water and just going out and so I'm like I'm not scared of the jump I'm more worried about what's about to happen once I hit the water right yeah like and even with the dives it's like yeah people will go down there and they'll just the way he

describes you don't lose oxygen it's the carbon monoxide that's actually filling your body that causes you to pass out and I'm like never thought of that before. But now I'm thinking about it. So it's like a completely different element of what's going through my mind because I'm really not that scared of jumping off a 30 foot cliff. I'm like, I don't want to pass out in the water. Right. You hit me with a carbon monoxide level warning. I'm like, okay, yeah, it makes you rethink about things. Sorry, not carbon oxide, carbon dioxide, carbon dioxide, all the same thing when you're jumping off a cliff at that point. Right.

Yeah, but I swear I'm not as soft as I come across in some of these videos. I don't know. Perfect videos will do that to you. I'll tell you. You're like, man, I was tougher that day than they're showing me. The struggle wasn't happy.

Yeah. I was like, I think Gary looked better than Josh. I think Gary was more nervous. But I love that Garrett set the tone from the get-go, you know? He was like,

hey, this is a little out of my, you know, comfort zone, and y'all do the work. The best part about a couple things that just like go unnoticed

in the video, like so fishing, we go out there. We go out there in the first five minutes we get a fish. on a bonita on and then it's like pretty silent after that we fish for I don't know a couple hours yeah a couple hours and then like I'm like you know I say I say in the video like you know I'm just

the top water guy like I love being out here in the water but like I literally was like dude let's go let's go back in the very end of it because they kept it in there you're like well I wasn't the one who said to go in it was me I would stay out there for yeah he would he would still be fishing right now so it's just it is funny how like no I'm just I'm definitely not as outdoors as these guys for sure yeah but you wanted to stay out there because you didn't catch a lobster yeah dude I didn't even get to contribute I didn't even see a lobster dude

yeah we didn't even honestly yeah so honestly what happened night two this is really unfortunate for him because so we go out night to it's pitch black dark so you can't you're not seeing anything we go to two groups like it says in the video we actually go all the way out our team goes and we're like we're looking at all the things and nothing. Yeah, yeah.

And y'all are kind of back and just like taking it slow. We were going to shallow route. And so then what happened is we had two guys who weren't one of the teams. They were just out there, the guy that caught the huge lobster. They went off and went around the cove. And our Navy SEAL guy was like, oh, dude, they're packing it in. We need to head back. So we like, we're like, because we thought it was.

y'all but so we like go all the way and we get out of the ocean and we're waiting and then we see and then we see a group of light and then screams and then you're like dude we got to go back in uh which was a process and in itself and just like getting back into the water and so y'all were you found like a honey hole which is where all this footage came from and it was about what do you think 400 yards? Easy. 500 yards away. So we had to swim

against the current all the way out and by the time we got there y'all were like all right we're done to go yeah we had caught like 15 already yeah

until like he we didn't even we didn't even see a lobster until it was literally on our on our plate bummer I didn't know the Lord what a bummer dude I had no idea of the Lord

made lobsters the size of that big boy that he mean that's the size of my Audi I literally didn't think it was real because the ones we were catching they look huge underwater when you go grab them I guess just because the water just makes them look big or whatever

and so I would like see when I'm like all that thing's huge I go grab it I pulled out of the water and I'm like oh dude this thing's tiny and it wouldn't be a keeper and I throw it back and then when I saw that one I was like I couldn't believe it I didn't look at the same yeah dude I didn't even have to go through breath hold training got it at three feet

that's how it happens you can't even calm that thing yeah dude that's crazy it was like it was next level like it was sketchy being out there at night. Yeah, but we talked about it. It almost felt a little more peaceful at night than it did in the day. Because there's like, because all you have is your flashlight. So you're on, you can

only see what you're not worried about anything around you except. Because you can't see anything. You're just walking on what's in front of that light. So we had gray white swimming all around us. We just didn't know. Better not to know it. And that's I think Lou was probably messing with you all a little bit. Seriously, I really do. Because when we first met before this video happened and we were going through everything,

Lou told me was like, look, dude, I'm letting you know, every time I dove here in Mexico I've been bumped by a shark I'm like So you think he was messing with you Or messing with me? He was because I think he may have been messing with you all too

Because he was messing with me When he said that About the passing out I don't know but I'm just like I think Lou might be a little jokester dude He might be He told me after we got done He was like hey

Like I know we didn't see a shark Like just let you know I was messing with you the whole time I'm excited to bring you guys back out there And catch me lobsters I think I'm done I think I retired I'm not a lobster guy

I got to get a second cracket. That's why you don't see in the videos. I was desperately wanting to get on the action. And I just am portrayed as this soft little man. Your rookie seasons behind you. That's a redemption story. Where, you know, Ty's running around and his skivies. I'm just saying, pure joy.

Pure joy. It looks like his middle of the air. It's fun. Before we wrap it up, what outdoor fans who are online enjoying this to look forward to? What do we have on the docket? Yeah, I mean, we got a lot of good videos. We just went and filmed a Python video. that's going to be coming out soon.

We went to the Florida Everglades and did some exploring there. And believe it or not, I come off softer. Yeah. Is that possible? Oh, it's possible. Oh, dude, it's bad.

Maybe you're an indoor boy. No, no, no, no. I'm not a snake guy, but I think a lot of the people can relate to that. Yes. I personally would do this. Like, I love the outdoors and hunting and all the four snakes.

Yeah. 100% put me in a dangerous situation over snakes. Right. I agree. Well, I got a question for you, Sparky. Talk to me. What would you want to do in the outdoors?

What would be a bucket list trip for you? Well, snake, no. Lobster, no. Yeah, we're going to have to search long and hard for what I'm going to participate in. Lock cabin feels up my alley. I should have gone out there when I had the chance. Sparky means more of like a Guy Fiery-style pizza show. Yeah.

Can we go capture a wild piece? I actually think that would be cool. I actually think you'd really enjoy like a fly fishing trip. Yeah. Personally. But yeah, not in like the deep sea? No. He's literally standing in a river.

Yeah, yeah, that's up my alley. Okay, I'm in. Whoa. That's our two-minute warning where we get to make a rant. I actually have one today. March Madness is upon us, and I've got to address the people. It's time. I am for everybody participating in bracket challenges.

They're really fun. But it's come to a point where we're overpopulating brackets. Oh, the five fillouts are. I am challenging people out there. go to the one bracket model. Please, I'm begging you. It's turned into the fantasy football guy who's in six different leagues.

At some point, you cross-contaminate to the point it can't be fun. You know, you have somebody that's like, at Akron and the elite eight, say Akron makes it. And that's great. And then they bring up their other five brackets. And you're like, it's not as great as I once thought. Your rooting interests have to be,

who do you even root for if you make six brackets? You know, there's so much variation that it can't possibly. be fun. So I'm challenging the people out there. One and done. Like a proper Kentucky point guard. One and done. Call it quits after that. I thought you were just going to say a Kentucky team. Like they get bounced in the first round. No, no. But it was time to address it. And for those, and furthermore, same with fantasy football. Let's chill on the amount of teams. Let's cap it at three. Max. I'm one and done guy. Yeah, three is a lot. And I'm challenging the people out there.

Just make one bracket. Just make one bracket and you'll enjoy it that much more. That's all. Yeah, I mean, I agree. Cody loves a good five-leager, and he just doesn't even know. He's starting to argue on one thread, and I'm like, dude, you don't even have that player? He's like, yeah, a different league. He's like, I've got since he is my national championship.

And it's like, they're not even in the tournament. How did you come home home? When you cross-contaminate NIT, yeah, it's bad. It's ugly, doesn't it? That's a good rant. Thank you. Outdoor boys or half-boys or whatever you call, call yourself.

Thanks for coming on the five. I appreciate it. I'll do you guys survive the year. It looks, it's dangerous out there in that outdoor. I think we got most of the dangerous stuff out of the way, though. Okay. Yeah. Y'all are killing the game.

It sounds like I might be doing shark diving, according to Tyler, unfortunately. Well, make sure to go to Dude Perfect Outdoors, follow him on Instagram, go to YouTube, subscribe. Some good stuff happening over there. You know, hopefully I'll be back on one of the videos if you'll happen. You're always welcome. I think I at least brought some funniness to it. Yeah. We need to get more.

I didn't mean to be funny. That was just me making fun of myself, being scared. But it's fine. Well, thanks, DPO boys. Continue to kill the game. Looks like our time is up. We'll be back next Wednesday with an all new app. Follow the show on all social media at Almost Athletes.

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Noggin. See ya. I don't know.