Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect - Trick Shots Gone WRONG with Insane Shaye & Fatt Stafford

Episode Date: July 15, 2026

Insane Shayne and Fatt Stafford join Jackson and Sparky for a hilarious episode packed with behind-the-scenes stories from the Dude Perfect Tour! They reveal how they got their big break in content creation, share the dream collabs, and give their almost athlete moments. The fun doesn't stop there as the guys draft the Top Summer Activities and put Insane Shayne's reflexes to the test with an unpredictable marshmallow challenge. And later, Garrett and Sparky break down the biggest World Cup storylines, go off on an epic rant about the referees, and give their final predictions of who will come out on top! EXCLUSIVE: Pelé called it his most beautiful goal, and now thanks to Google Gemini, the Dudes get to react to this never-before-seen footage finally brought to life. Watch the full film here: http://goo.gle/pele #GeminiPartner Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 03:35 Insane Shayne & Fatt Stafford Interview  27:04 Top 3 Summer Activities  32:02 EXCLUSIVE: Google Gemini Pelé Goal  39:50 World Cup Recap  If you’ve got a question, hot take, or your own Almost Athlete moment, head to AlmostAthletes.com or call [phone]. Upload your own fan fails here: https://new.myharbourshare.com/agree/gSttAsmDbo6vYCfm3HBdjh?fbclid=PARlRTSARDo7VleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAafRqYdnXc6xTmfPMNERbnp5yfF-BqLSY3NCu2GQZSehgOTgD69fSBeTqTcAQg_aem_RWLUmW87bcZIif3zTrWKBg Head to SoFi.com/almost to explore your options and find funding that works for you. Go to http://shadyrays.com and use code Almost for 50% off 2+ pairs of polarized sunglasses Download Cash App Today:  https://click.cash.app/ui6m/mar90qgg  #CashAppPod Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. Cash App Visa® Debit Flex Cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC, and The Bancorp Bank, N.A., pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. See terms and conditions for the Sutton prepaid card, Sutton debit flex card, and Bancorp debit flex card. Cash App Green features, Savings, Direct deposit, Round ups, Overdraft coverage and Discounts provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures. Discover why millions trust GNC — shop athlete-tested, science-backed picks today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We actually broke a window with a marshmallow. No way. Because it hardened so much from hitting it so much. Off a tennis racket. It broke off a tennis racket. Hit the window. Window shatters, cuts my leg. I'd have to go get stitches and bleeding all over.

Finish the game, though. He said that with a smile on his face. He's crazy. Welcome to Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect, A Wave Original. Follow the show on all socials at Almost Athletes. Like and subscribe to us on YouTube or listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcast. We're your host. I'm Spark. That's Gap... That's Jackson.

All right. Jackson's stepping in today. Hey, it's all hands on deck when we're on tour. I'll tell you what, boys. Garrett's actually out golfing right now, so I'm going to need a rain check for that one. We're holding down the fort, so I'm going to need some more golf from Gare. Yeah, I agree. If you feel like this is a weird podcast set, you'd be right, because we are currently on tour. In fact, we have a show in like, I don't know, three hours.

There's something like that. We're in Little Rock today. You got to remind yourself a lot of the times. Cody Jones has gone out on stage before. What's up, Birmingham? We're like on the West Coast. His geography is bad. His awareness levels are bad.

But happy to be joined by Insane Shane and his co-host. Co-host, what are you exactly? Just get to it. It's Fass-Safford. It's Fatshafford. I don't know. He means sidekick. Oh, yeah.

I feel like you were going around the bus, beating around the bus because he didn't want to call him fat. That's Fatt Safford. You embrace it? I do. With two T's all good. Yeah. What is the difference in that?

A 2T fat and a 1 T. Well, the reason is 2T fat is because in our first viral trick shot, we did a football throw. I threw him a football, he dove off a Jesse caught it, and someone in the comment said, that's not Matt Stafford, that's Fat Stafford. So it's a direct play off of that. So it's all good.

I think 2T is less offensive for some of this. Yeah, sure. It's fat use. It's more of a name than anything else. It's more endearing than critical. We spent an hour coming up with multiple names. Like there's like, Mac and Cheese Jones, Lamar snacks, and Tom Gravy, Joe Burrito.

Like, we have... That could be a podcast second. We killed an hour just coming up with athletes. That's fun. That's fun. Well, happy. Y'all are here. Happy.

I would say I've been happy. Y'all have been on tour with us. But these boys have double dipped us so far. We're one and two against them. We swept the Globetrotters, 4-0. Thought we might go all 22 shows without an L. And then all of a sudden y'all came to the party. Spoiling.

Do you feel bad at all? Just a little? The first show. like there was a little bit of it like they're booing us y'all look some booth y'all all looks sad after that you know we've kind of been like embraced it i think we saw a kid cry oh there are a lot of the fans are not happy that the creator squad was making some noise i was telling zach king look at that kid right there you see him you see him he's bawling his eyes out and that's because of you you're responsible for that yeah then it goes and does it again then he goes and he goes and down yeah

but no it's been fun and i think the best part about this tour is in years past you didn't really know what was going to happen, but this one more than ever, it's up in the air, man. You know, we're here balling out. Whoever wins, wins. Competing. Yes, the premise of our squad games tour leaves you susceptible to possibly losing, and I just wish we lost a little less to y'all. So it is what it is.

It is what it is. You can make it up. Garrett will be stopping by later in the show for a little sports talk, so we're flipping it today. We're doing a little interview first, and then we'll get with Gare later. We're going to talk some sports like USA Soccer. I don't want to, but we have to. Plus, we're going to catch you up on tour.

But first, let's talk about y'all. Got you in-house, man. I've got to know, how does one, I'm fascinated by y'all's content, hilarious stuff, but how does one get into the avenue that y'all have found yourself in? Was it like a happy accident like Dude Perfect was? Because the boys had no designs of ever taking that thing to YouTube and living there and becoming their day jobs. Was it kind of similar for y'all, or was it a happy accident?

Yeah, I mean, a little bit of both. Like, the first video that went viral was us doing a football, trick shot on a jet ski, me diving off, Fat Stafford over here launching it, and that one kind of went viral. But I think from that point on, it was kind of like my dream more than all my friends to make this grow. I wanted it to be like due perfect, like all of us all together, but I was kind of the one who was like, I think this could be a thing. But also every friend group is like, we are funny in athletics. So it was like, I don't know. But I think God had a plan for it from the beginning. Definitely just started with us having fun like normal and then kind of grinded

throughout it to see, see where it ended up. Those first videos we made were during COVID when we got sent home from college, because we were in college. And we got sent home during COVID. That's when we were just bored. His parents lived on the lake. We were like, let's just try this. And it did well.

And we were like, let's try to do it again. And just kind of tried to keep replicating that. There's a lot of kids that we meet through Dude Perfect. And so many kids nowadays are like, I want to be a content creator. I want to be a concert creator. I think the same reason the dudes had success early on is to Shane, your point when you said, You loved it. You had fun. You genuinely got to love what you're doing and have fun for it to show through on camera. So, props to y'all for making it this far. But how did y'all meet?

Me and him met in ninth grade football. Yep. Great football practice. Some of the best friends are made in ninth grade football. Those are tough years, man. When you're a freshman, you get beat up a little bit. You couldn't have been, you know, soaking, dripping away a hundred pounds, maybe. I was only two inches shorter, but that's still really short because I didn't grow much since then. I appreciate you bringing your short side in because I'm getting comments in the Cooper picture. Where Cooper was there like, Sparky, you look so tiny. Well, maybe you should just say Cooper looks really big. I'm an average.

They never go to the way with it. It's nice. Perspective. Yeah, totally. So did you go to college together? Yeah. University of. Charleston Southern University.

Charleston Southern. Good basketball. Yeah, yeah. Buccaneers. Buccaneers. Baby. Smallest D-1 arena. Is that true?

Wow. I believe that to be true. Unless a new ones came in the last couple of years. Our high school is like triple the size of it. Are you serious? Yeah. Looks like a middle school. Really?

Interesting. Big South? Big South. Yeah. You know your stuff. Yeah, I do. I do. You got to watch out work for Winthrop next year.

Just have fun. Yeah, yeah. They gave us problems with DJ Burns before we went to NC State. Oh, yeah. DJ Burns went a pool. That's my E.J. Yeah, yeah. So what was the big break that you all had?

I know America's Got Talent. Kay McCall in. Yeah. And that felt like a can't miss opportunity. Yeah. So we had like a, every once in a while, we'd have videos that would go stupid which kind of like encouraged me like, okay, we can do this. We just got to get better at it and make it more consistent. I think the biggest thing was the marshmals for some reason really caught on because it's like super

unique and weird. Yeah, it's kind of your niche. That's the biggest thing in social media is you got to find your niche and you hit it really off. Yeah, like made up my own niche, I guess, which is going to, but we wanted to be more than that. So we started adding our personality into it and like our banter's pretty good because he's like chill and I'm like energetic. But the America's Got Talent definitely like helped us be like, oh, this is legit. Like we can take this a little bit farther. How would you compare America's Got Talent to the Dude Perfect Tour? This is a lot more fun, I think, just because we're, like, hanging out. We've also been more experienced. That was, like, one of the first things we did, but you only have one shot at it,

and it's, like, five minutes of your life. Yeah. And there's so everyone's watching. That was our first time ever catching stuff in front of, like, a live audience, not in a backyard. So that was really weird. But, I mean, the adrenaline and everything's the same, but this is a lot more fun. How scared were you going into America's Got Talent? We were having fun the whole weekend because we were like, dude, this is crazy. We're here. We're like first time in California. I'm not a big fan of California, but it was fun time with the boys.

And then we got to, I mean, right as we're about to go out, like the nerves hit me in. And I actually dropped the first marshmallow and I'm like, I got to lock in. Did they show that on the television? No, I don't know if they say it's up. Yeah. Because they edited after he dropped the first one, me and him went 10 for 10 from the top of the venue. Yeah. And then in their edit, the judges threw to him at the end.

But in their edit, they put it in the beginning. So they made it look like I barely, like, could throw it to him when he was diving. That was from Sophia Vergara, not me. And I was like, come on, guys. Really? Wow. It was still good. It was a lot of fun, like you said.

That was the first big thing we ever got to do. So the adrenaline was definitely a lot of. They cut up some drops and a lot of catches. I mean, this did it for the show, but. It was awesome, though. It was super cool. TV. Just like you get a breakfast ball on golf.

You get a breakfast marshmallow one on. There you go. You know, America's Got Talent. Exactly. And you get one and you two off the T-box. They hit it's like a week before too. Like we were like throwing marshmallows in the backyard and then like, you want to come and let Terry Cruz throw your marshmallows?

Like, all right. This is super weird. That's crazy. Play silly games, win silly injuries. Yeah. You've definitely had to have some based off the content you make. What's the worst one we've ever had? We actually haven't had like super serious ones that at least diagnosed.

The head in the lower region might be later on. We'll find out. We actually broke a window with a marshmallow. No way. Because it hardened so much from hitting it so much. Off a tennis racket. It broke off a tennis racket. Hit the window, window shatters, cuts my leg,

I'd have going to get stitches and bleeding all over. Finish the game, though. He said that with a smile on his face. He's crazy. That was really fun, man. You should have been there. Like, he went to six flags or something. Wait, so how did the marshmallow harden?

So before we have a marshmallow sponsorship, they have chocolate in them. Before that, we used to smack them until they were like all the airs out of them. And it's literally a golf ball. Yeah. Yeah. If you will hear the ruckus going on behind us. We're getting show ready today.

They're quite literally hours away from the show, fourth and final show, but you are coming back on tour. What's been the coolest experience about this new perfect tour for y'all? I mean, obviously, like, we looked up to y'all when we started making videos and looked up to y'all as, like, faith and being Christian and doing this in, like, a really cool way for kids. So competing against you is amazing. The testimony part at the end, and worship is super cool. Powerful.

And I've always told people in our office who maybe have an experience, I think it's really important for the dudes, myself, Jackson, whoever's on the on-camera personality team, that you see the impact of Dude Perfect in Live and Living Color. It's one thing you can read as many YouTube comments as you want that, you know, say really nice things are crazy. But when you get in front of a kid who absolutely melts in front of Tyler Tony, it hits you differently. It kind of changed our content, honestly, because we weren't doing bad content or like vulgar content, but I was definitely not like aware of how many people were watching me when I was first starting. so I was doing like, jumping in like a bass pro tank fish and doing like reckless stuff.

Some illegal activity. Yeah, yeah. And once parents started come up to me and being like, thank you for making clean content my kids can watch. I was like, okay, this hits home way different. I get to see my fans. We need to set a good example. And I think a part of our like faith journey that also helps us to be like, we want to make content that everyone can watch. Sure, totally.

Definitely. We consider ourselves professional goofballs and we have weird talents that we try to glorify God with it, of like, use whatever the talents we have to for him and the fact that ending the show the games are so much fun like just going on and competing your buddies against competing's great but tying the it's all about honoring god with all of our abilities and the show and aligning with what we're trying to do with our business it's just been so much fun like worship last night after the show was just so powerful yeah it was really cool win or lose that's a really awesome moment that we can come together for a bigger purpose last night's worship was a little tougher though i'm gonna be honest with you had a little bad taste in my mouth still from the

else. The Zach King buzzer beater. I've got to ask you, if I ask you best part of tour, I've got to ask you what's been your least favorite part? Because there's definitely a dark side.

Anything that y'all, I mean, if you want to blast catering, you can. I'm into you. Has there been a bad part? For me, I'll tell you, it's sleeping on the bus. I have, it's hard. Yeah. It's hard.

I mean, losing you on the dodge ball is pretty tough for my morale, but it's okay. Honestly, like, so we did like a whole weight loss challenge, so I'm trying to lose weight and get back to my summer bot. So not having like healthy meals all the time and trying to figure it out is like, that's not the easiest part for me. But I find it. I figure out door dash is always the thing. Yeah, totally. Sleeping on a moving

bus has been the adjustment for me. It's everything else has been great. But trying to get sleep is the hardest part. I thought I was going to have a rough time. That thing rocked me to sleep. I didn't, when I woke up, when I was going to, if it was going to be 7 a.m. or 3 p.m. I woke up at like 12 of like 10 hours of sleep. It's awesome. It's the best. I love it. I love it. It's a completely different world. I'll tell you what.

But yeah, it's crazy. You got like nerds ropes in front of you. They lay out the candy in the dressing room. You're like, man. Yeah, do the dudes eat like 12 years? Yes, definitely on tour. We all let ourselves get a little sideways. A lot of candy in the dressing room.

Yeah, how is Thai like the tourist athlete ever with his diet? Literally worse than me. I actually think if he ate healthier, he would be way less athletic. You think, yeah. His body's tough. Get that guy a Kit cat and a white monster and he can really. scale Everest. But you give him some broccoli or something,

he couldn't walk to the dressing room. So, yeah, you never know. Dream collab. You've gotten to work with some celebo's. Yeah. Is there a dream collab out there that we haven't, you know, hook line synced?

I mean, y'all were up there, so we've checked that, which is pretty awesome. One of them was Tim Tebow. That was amazing. He threw me marshmallows with the National Championship. Can't wait to be on tour with him. That's going to be so fun.

I know he's going to be competitive. Probably for, like, Odell Beckham Jr. was my favorite player going up. Scat would be lit. Oh, scataboo? Yeah. We're just big spans of sports. So anytime we get to work with professional athletes now, it's just, it's so cool that we like, we get to grow up watching them on TV or even still watch them now. And then there's some cross over there.

Every single time, it's so much fun. Yeah. I've got to pinch myself sometimes because I, too, am a huge sports fan. And we knew you have like a Cooper flag rolling through the office or Tom Brady. It's like, man, what a cool life. It's also so weird because you're looking up to them when you're like a younger kid. And we're meeting them. We're like, we're getting to meet this like amazing athlete.

And then half the time the athlete comes up to him else and was like, dude, love your videos. I'm like, are you just like sitting in your bed watching our video? That's crazy. Did you like art and hard videos? Yeah, yeah. But I was like, it makes sense.

Like, we're just people at the end of the day. And there's just someone who's better throwing a football than us. Like it's just a dude who like sports. Right. Right. Did Team Tebow throw a good marshmallow? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I feel like he'd throw a good one.

late suit, too. It's always so. It's still done. Right on the money. That's when you know a guy is made for the moment. Yeah. For sure. For sure.

So you mentioned sports, big sports fans. We are too. A dude, perfect. What teams you're rocking with? Be careful here. Who? Commanders. Okay.

Really? To a bad start. That's not great. Yeah, you're not going to like mine either. I'm Giants, Yankees. Wow. That's better. Honestly.

A little bit. Yeah. A little bit. And no fly, eagles fly. I appreciate that. We can, we can agree and disagree with them. Philly. No Philly.

I think our whole division doesn't like filling. Yeah. Literally worse. Fan base of all time. Oh, yeah. And best, but worse. No, there's not the best. They're the worst.

I think the NFC East is like sports greatest division. For sure. Every team just absolutely cannot stand each other. If you had to pick a favorite sport, where are we going with? Football. Football. To play and watch? Yeah.

It was baseball when I was younger, but couldn't really hit in high school, so I started liking football better. I can usually catch the ball. That helps. That helps. I'm not three out of ten on catching, but. What positions in football? It may be like a little, either safety or an outside backer. I was going to appreciate that, but I was a slot receiver.

Slot receiver, sure? For a guy who can't catch, the three out of ten catching made me go to the Neon, no, no, no, I said I go three out of ten in baseball. I'm not going three and ten catcher. I'm going nine or ten. What about you, Stafford? Middle linebacker. Middle linebacker, all right.

You like to stick your nose in there? A little bit. A little bit. My dad wanted me to play quarterback because of our own. Well, doesn't everybody's dad want their kid. I was like, absolutely not. I want to play defense. I want to hit people.

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just like DP. What is it about the backyard fun that resonates with everyone? I mean, I think just everybody can relate to it. You have friends. The boys, like, it's just authentic. You're just messing around, having fun. And you're taking it really serious, but at the same time, it's just for fun. So after you can just hang out after that, usually,

if it doesn't come to blows. Yeah, kind of becoming a lost art, too, like, backyard with friends. In fact, my favorite, like movie quotes that is kind of you might even remember it, but in the Sandlot when Smalls' mom is like, go hop fences, go get dirty, go get into trouble. I think there's so much power in that because the kids nowadays are so sheltered and at home. There's good things about gaming at the house or being a couch potato at times, but there's also

so much that you learn about yourself, your friends, just going outside and having fun with it. For sure. Yeah. For sure. It's definitely weird doing social media because you're like, I love making like positive content and watch it, but also like don't watch it and go outside for a little bit too. Yes, totally. Balance. And that's tough for us because we want to incentivize play at Dude Perfect. But at the same time, of course, we want people to watch our videos.

We want there to be a good pH scale balance there where it's like, please watch our videos. We're thankful for that. But also you go, you go try some things, you know, whether it's water bottle flips or you can't really try the Stratt shot in Vegas, 856 feet. I get that. But you just do about some fun outdoors. Use your imagination. Craziest fan or public reaction that you've had. anything wild.

We got weird ones because our content's strange. Yeah. I've had a like 45-year-old man come up to me at an NHL game and ask if you can hit me in the nuts. You took that as like I was like absolutely not. I didn't know if that was normal for y'all like can I have a selfie?

It's normal that people ask like people ask to throw stuff out of us all the time. They may we like, which I might do a little, but that's the lane y'all chose. You got to do it. I think just because we mess with each other so much and it feels like they know us

because they just come into us and mess with us immediately, which is fun. We get chirp to go. That's like the best content to make to where people feel like, oh, I'm in their friend group. Yeah, that's cool. You feel like they're in on the jokes. So they come up to us, they're joking with us. They're joking with us. They'll make short jokes to them, fat jokes to me. It's all good.

Like in New York, I've had people just walked by me and either to scream mouth or gullet or marshmallow or sometimes just on the way by, just drive by, point at their mouth. I'm like, nice to meet you. That's got to be cool, though. Yeah. I imagine. It's crazy. I, you know, I grew up in a small country town, and now it's weird because I'll go to, like,

H.E.B. and Friscoe and get noticed. And I'm like, man, that's really, really cool. Yeah. It's a blessing. It's a responsibility. I hope I never complain about, like, getting recognized and talking to somebody because it's just made us here.

It's just meeting people and have a conversation. So it's, it's good. Surely, there's been an almost athlete moment that y'all have had along the way. Yeah. What's the worst? We've been watching the ball. We've been trying to cook up. We've got a good bit of them, I think.

Yeah, well, go ahead. Floor is yours. So I walked on at Charleston Southern as a little slot receiver because I do have good hands. I didn't know that. Yeah, best hands on the internet? Yeah, best hands on the internet. That was a thing for a little bit. Also a good best practice dummy on the internet apparently because I didn't really play.

I was more of like a just a practice dummy getting cracked all day. I did have a chance my second year to fight for a position and I didn't really know the plays that well because they were all from the sideline and I was not used to that. I was usually like huddled up. And they put me in during spring ball for like one play. And they're yelling at me to play. I thought I knew it, but they were yelling at me from the sideline. And he gave me the route. That's like the hot route.

Like you're going to get the ball. This is your time to like prove you can at least be on like the starting or second team. And I'm like a post route. I'm going to cook this linebacker. Hit a nice one. One play in. Hit my route. Cut.

Roll my ankle, sprain it. All on the ground. I think the ball, I don't even know, I think he had picked off or got me out of it, never touched the field again. That's loaded. You had multiple flavors in that almost athlete moment. Forget the play, rolling ankle. I mean, what else can go wrong? You do give off the walk-on practice dummy vibes, though.

I mean, look what you ended up doing, you know? It's a great job by the Charleston Southern staff right there identifying. I think this guy can take a shot. The linebackers would come off of injury and be like, we need to warm up the linebacker's shoulder. So we're like, okay. So instead of having the pads, they just let us trot down the floor. as they just laid us out. That was also like, I don't think NFL's not going to treat me like this.

It's not in my cards. NFL? Yeah. Well, that was my dream. That was my dream. You carried that dream really deep. You carry that dream really deep. Do you want to do his almost athletes too?

Yeah. If it's, you think it's juicy? Yeah. That's the moment I realized I'm not cut out for college football. Talk to me. High school football, senior year, early in the season. I played a little bit of tight end, too. Didn't really want to play tight end.

on this run We had a run play called My blocking assignment on this play Is the middle linebacker It's not go through the hole First when you see hit him You have the middle linebacker The middle linebacker for the other team

Was a five-star recruit Committed to the University of Georgia Massive man Yes he plays for the dolphins now His name is Channing Tyndall Okay So they call the play I pull through the hole

He's coming full speed downhill And in the split second I'm like I have a business decision to make here the Channing Tindle's coming off my left and to the right there's a safety about his size I was like went straight to the safety

pancake blocked the safety but Channing Tindle destroyed the running back for like a loss of 10 yards I immediately got pulled out of the game and I was like yeah I'm probably not cut off of college football took the off ramp

and then you put it on your highlights and I did put the pancake block on the highlights yeah on your huddle did you make sure to zoom in really close on the blocks or just like a good block

the scales don't know is a sound so known I had totally got pulled out They're like, you're not playing third. Yeah. Tough when you mean a five star in the hole. I get it. I absolutely get it.

Obviously, y'all are bros. You can tell that. Simply hanging out with y'all the last couple of days, shows through video. How real is the rivalry at times, though? Oh, we get heated. Yeah. There's times after we'll get going in videos. We'll take like 10 minutes, just no talking.

Really? Go in. Ever go like a week without texting each other? No, not that. We live together. So it's going to talk. Yeah. So, yeah, it's a quick turnaround.

We definitely get very competitive in the heat of battle. Then after about like five or ten minutes, we'll cool. Have you ever had like a big argument? Oh yeah. That's like not about a video maybe? Probably about me like with my scheduling organization, like to the airport, because I just like winging things and waking up and... Yeah, I also have a roommate, intern, Graham.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, we've had a few arguments at times. But like, we all resolved pretty good time and sort of... Yeah, exactly. Is it better living together, do you think? I honestly think it's better living together because most of the... I think 75% of our content gets thought of or made in the house. Just messing around.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. We brainstorm a lot in the house, so it helps. Like, we're editing together. We can bounce edit ideas off each other. It definitely helps. It's naturally, though, you spend so much time with someone, you're going to butt heads a little bit. But we've also, I mean, we've lived together.

We lived together, we lived together, knew each other in high school. We know kind of each other's flow. So, it's all good. Also, like, same sense of humor, but very different, like, personalities, which is, like, good because we, like, balance each other, but also can be bad if you're, if you're butt in heads. And we added his little brother also to the team, which, that's my bad. And so that's just made way more heated because there's two brothers fighting pretty much. We know him or my brother.

We know. We know all about two brothers fighting. Believe me, it called twin one and twin two. We know all about that. But it's funny, you mentioned like the polar opposites working out and fitting like a puzzle. That's the dude perfect because each guy is vastly different. But at the same time, it all work us out in its own unique way where it fits together. Definitely.

Well, boys, I've got to be honest, I'm a huge fan. We did film that social right before this, though, and my calf is throbbing from on Dodgeball. Hey, it happens for the love of the game. That one's going to be like a one to two-week injury. Yeah, so you can remember us by. The worst part was you weren't even aiming for me. No, I know.

Every time I said Jackson, it went straight to you. The magnet, I guess. I know. We should have made sure Spark is not on the IR before this tour. I know. Yeah. Before we play a game, though, Shane, think fast. One's coming in right now. Molo!

Yeah, this guy's an animal. I'll tell you what. Like a Pez dispenser. That's up, Garrett. Derek, watch out. You know? That's my favorite part. People type of spell it in the comments.

U-U-G-H-H-H. Oh, really? People do V-O-I-G-H-T. Voigt. Is that what it is? That's usually what they do. Okay. They argue about it.

Okay. All right, before the show starts, let's go ahead and rip a game, boys. You're all famous for making up your own fun. With school out and temperatures hotter than ever, we're going to draft our top three summertime activities. You all get to go first. Fast Stafford, starting with you, going to Shane and a roundabout.

Whatever you want. I want to go a slip and slide in the backyard. Ooh, a slip and slide. That's actually a really good sign. You still took your first round pick there. For an intern video, I want to put a slip and slide in a house, like going through a house down the hill. Oh my gosh, I'll be like, yeah.

I'm going to go tubing on a lake. Tubing on a lake. Yeah. That's a good one. Branson, Missouri, best tubing spot I've ever had. Jackson, yeah, me. Should be just going on order? Okay.

Summer school. I'm kidding. No, no, no, nobody likes summer school. Let's go with a popsicle. Like, yeah, good old mom pop on the fourth. Woo. Does it. I'm going to go a baseball game.

Go into a baseball game. Yeah, old midsummer classic. That's why they call it that. Action back on you. Jackson gets a double dip here. Snake draft. Okay. I'm gonna go

desking Yeah Okay It's up there Another water event Yeah I actually really like this one I cooked up in my head

How about camp Camps or a staple In the summertime back in the day Yeah yeah Yeah summer camp Summer camp Sports camp Church camp

Yeah Shout out the marshmallows I'm gonna go A little bonfire smores Actually smoresy Smorgishmord Yeah How you do you

How do them What do you mean? Like a smore So The stuff puffs, the marshmallow that we work with, has chocolate already inside it. So you just put in between graham crackers after it's melted and it's already there. So it's marshmallow chocolate marshmallow. So like, but when you're flaming your molo, are we talking gold, you know, slightly, or are you talking the charcoal?

I try to do gold for a little bit, but then I lose patience and I just burn it. Yeah, I see you as just straight charcoal. He'll take it off. He'll still be on fire. I feel you can tell a lot about a man, by the way, he cooks a marshmallow. Yeah. I can see you trying to. Trying to eat it with flames still on the mother.

That would be cool. Fat Stafford took slip and slide in round one. What are you taking here? I'm going to go a snow cone. Snow cone. Yeah. I like it. Mm-hmm.

Good snow cone stand. It's different. Back on fast. Back on fat. Stafford, third and final round. This is where you win it right here. Yeah, I got a good one here. Third round.

I'll say concert. Ooh. That's pretty good. That's good. Yeah. Nice little concert. Like an outdoor. Outdoor venue concert.

Yeah. I saw Tallinn children or it was this summer. There you go. It was great. There you go. Underdog right there. That's nice. I'm going to go swimming, but not really.

Just honestly sitting in the lake just chopping it up with the boys. Yeah. Full side? Yeah. Water side. Yeah. Lake day. I like it.

Lake day's really good. Yeah, that's really good. I'm going to go a very American thing here around the fourth. We do them big. Nobody does it bigger. Fireworks. Yeah. Yeah, baby.

Very American list you have here. Yeah. That's a good student. It's a good steward. Sure, sure. Okay. Yeah, but I feel like fireworks are only on the July 4th. That's fair.

But I'm gonna go beach trip. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, actually, hold on. Can I change one of my answers? Whoa.

I thought the card was already put in. Low key. Oh, yeah. Is this one? Is this one drafted for you? It depends on how good the answer is. Okay, instead of jet skiing. Wow, he's even removing his second?

instead of jet skiing, I was going to go cruising. Cruise? A cruise. I don't like that you. You don't like that. It's your list, though. It's your list. It's your list. You do it. I don't think you're getting the value there. My team sweeps you every day of the week. Jet skiing, I think, is more fun than a cruise. I think it's more feasible, too.

Yeah. You know, the cruise life. I never went on a cruise growing up. You can jet ski all summer. Can you cruise all summer? Good call. Good call. Comment below who you think won our summertime draft. Well, boys, can't thank you enough for being on tour. Can't thank you enough for the office. some content you pull out.

Yeah, you said we inspire y'all. Well, y'all do the same for us. So that's mutual, man. Give it up. That's Stafford and Insane Chain. One of my favorites. One of my favorites. When we come back, Garrett will be here to talk World Cup.

But first, we got a sneak peek of a short film where Google Gemini recreated one of Palais's most iconic goals because no other footage of it exists. And we're going to share that with you now. This segment is sponsored by Google Gemini. And we're in the midst of soccer fever right now, G. And with the world's biggest tournament happening, it's hard not to talk about the OG goat. Pele. He was incredible, scored just absolute insane goals.

I mean, when you're classified as the greatest of all time, you got to be pretty salty. Whenever you have goat next to your name, it holds some weight. And don't forget, Pele also came to America to help move that needle of American soccer. You bet you. Yeah, Pele had some amazing goals, but perhaps his most legendary goal of all wasn't caught on camera. In 1959, Pele called it his most beautiful goal. And there's a great new short film about it called the Most Beautiful Goal Never Seen. And the coolest part is that Google Gemini and the Pele brand have partnered to recreate this historic goal using Gemini's newest video technology, Gemini Omni, photographs and the testimony of those who witnessed the event in person.

They were also able to interview historians, people who were there, even his own daughter. They did some deep investigation work to make sure they got this shot right. Well, G, we are going to watch Pele's never-before-seen goal, and we're going to share it with you guys too. Let's check it out. J.B., roll the clip. Chip, chip, chip, header? Four chips.

Whoa. Four selfies? That's insane. Wow. One for every letter in his name. That's why they call him the king of soccer. Yeah, that's how you get the OG. label. Just heads the ball into the back of the net with power, it looks like. It wasn't just like a dinker.

It looks like there was some power. I mean, insanely talented and technical movement. I can see why Pele says that's the most beautiful goal he ever scored. I also feel like that was never meant to be on camera because I don't think the football fan at that time could comprehend what they just watched. Yeah, and this became soccer's ultimate legend because it was all word of mouth. Sounds like my best basketball game. Same thing happened. Yeah, you lost the footage, man, when you scored 80. Yeah. Fun fact, This goal is actually where the Pele trademark celebration, yeah, fist pump into the air. This is where it originated after this goal.

It's a good goal to do it after. Yeah, it is a legendary story then. Not only a great goal, but a celebration trademark was created. A legendary goal followed by a legendary Selly. Gotta love it. It's really cool to see the new tech bring to life one of the greatest goals of all time. Well, I would say, you know, the tech tied in with people that were at the game alive in the moment really matters because it kind of has that touch point of like, oh, this is real.

If you also want to watch the short film that we reacted to, we are dropping the link below. Thanks, Jim and I for finally showing us this legendary goal and sponsoring this segment. Really cool. From blending sports together to finding new ways to make our favorite athletes do trick shots, we like to do things differently here at Dude Perfect. Which is why I like Cash App. Gee, they do things differently as well. Instead of a boring debit card with a plain design on it, you can customize your Cash App card and with their exclusive styles, and then you can add stamps, emojis, or even draw on it.

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You know, didn't play too hot. This tour's really taking a toll on my body, you know. Totally. We're finishing up the home leg of the tour. We had Austin, Fort Worth, Dallas. We're in Little Rock today. And we're taking some else. Yeah, we have taken some else.

But back to your golf round, just like Cody Jones is in and around, almost every person's almost athlete moment. He was your car partner today. You're only as good as your cart partner sometimes. Yeah, but see, I'm actually using this as a good thing. Another golf analogy, if you have a good range session, I typically don't have a great on the course. Totally.

My range session was my golf round. So my actual game tonight, I'm dominating. True story. Pilot point on the road in high school. I had to hit 15 straight threes in the pregame shoot around from distance to 1 of 14 that day. One of 14 in the game. Yeah, it happens. But hey, we got to win tonight.

Split the series with this creator squad, these young guns. I think we got it. I'm not really worried about it. I'm ready. I'm excited. Tour's been great. If you haven't had a chance to come out, I think we have 14 shows left. You're right, 14. Go to dudeperfect.com slash tour to see if we're coming to a city near year. Near you. Yeah, it's sleep. Yeah, it's tour. It's tour season officially. Yeah. Dude, I woke up this morning. I was like, my eye fatigue is so bad. Everything. But I don't want to be one to complain. So I just complain a little bit. I was going to wait for it. I was going to wait for, I was going to wait for, a little two-minute warning rant session,

but bus bunk sleeping is horrible. It's boring. It is. I'm losing years off my life doing this. But anyways, dude, bigger and better things. World Cup. What about it? Well, number one, I'm sad.

I'm sad for multiple reasons. We can talk about the USA, but the real reason I'm sad about the World Cup is coming to an end. That too. We go home tonight after the show and we have a couple day break. And there's no soccer?

Dude, not only that. What do you expect me to do at home? Wait for this. it's also all-star break in baseball. I don't know what I'm going to do with my life. I really don't. This is a horrible timing by the people who put the schedules together. Or at least our tour people you think would line it around the sports schedule, our shows, you know.

I mean, I have a heart. I have a heart about you. Now I got to just, be with my kids. I'll come over and hang if you want to. I'll soften that blow. Dude, admittedly, I'm actually happy we had some time in between the Team USA loss because you would heard some things, seen some things for me. Yeah, you weren't down bad on the USA.

See, I wasn't, look, and the last podcast, you know, we talked about getting to the quarters. Was the goal. Like, it wasn't the, it was the goal, but that was like, dude, we won. Like, walk away with your head held high. Like, you got way above expectations. I mean, the round of 16, I feel like we, it's, yeah, we had to let down a little bit. Sure. I think the red card suspension thing really jacked with.

the United States. It gave Belgium juice. Sorry about your Belgium. You didn't have that juice for Spain now, did you? And I also thought it served as a distraction for the U.S. Men's Team. In fact, did you see when the lineup came out that had two up top? And that was my way of thinking we were practicing all week to attack Belgium with two at the top. And it was Christian and it was probably going to be peppy there. And since they prep that way, instead of going the solo bottle again at the top, I'm with you. I wish FIFA would have had the backbone to stick with it, even though it was wrong. It was the wrong call, but stick with it. Stick with it. You went there and both sides did not need to know 24 hours beforehand.

You know, again, you just don't need to have politicians getting involved in sport. Sure. It's just that's not needed. The FIFA's already kind of corrupt as age. It's not needed. I got, hey, look, I will take care of the complaining about the refs. I'm with you on, like, it wasn't the end of the world. For me, the round of 16, sure, I wanted to go to the quarterfinals. That was the goal.

At that point, it was house money. It was the way in which the Belgium game went down. If they would have beaten the States on their own accord, two to one an extra time, have it be it. Sure. It was the fact that so much felt self-inflicted. The moment was too big. And we're not. It is what it is.

The moment was too big. We gave three their goals for. USA did. Then one goal, when they got down to header over Ream, great goal. Great goal. All the other goals were just gifted. Yeah. Just couldn't connect passes.

But we weren't beat in Spain. Sure. And again, I just wanted to go out a better way. If it was 2-1 with a good game, I get it. But we did talk about things. this before we move on to the rest of the World Cup, in terms of Team USA, still a very bright future for the boys. That team, relatively young across the board.

Malik Tillman's like 24. Alex Freeman's 21. You're going to see a lot of these guys again in four years. You will have a 43-year-old Tim Ream as your captain. Well, if Tim Ream's there, then I think I have a better chance of playing in four years than Tim Ream. It caught up to him, man. That's a lot of soccer on a 40-year-old man.

A lot of pressure. And I just think as a whole, the team, you know, the whole country. was behind them, the lights got a little too bright is what happened. And they went out there and they froze up like a popsicle. Me and you still obviously care about the World Cup. Do you worry about the damage it did in American soccer that like admittedly my mom and sister who were all in got their hearts broken and now they're like retreat, retreat. American soccer to me will never be big because look, our next big tournament is the Gold Cup. We're not even going to have a B team out there. It's going to be like our C team. To wait every four years, you're never going to

going to build a fan base that way. And Conca Calf is never going to be that good to really justify sending A guys to a gold cup when you're playing Honduras with all due respect or bottom all that. And so like you're not keeping poach. Poach is gone. Which is fine. My goal for the Americans that watch the World Cup, yeah, I would love for you to support USA. But man, pick a club team preferably in England because that's the best league.

And watch some soccer every Saturday morning and Sunday morning with a coffee in hand. and welcome to live in. You have a great respect for the game, but interesting, you said, like, EPL, that's another thing working against American soccer, is I don't care how hard you try, and it's gotten leaps and bounds better. The MLS will never be a top five league in the world,

and we just have to come to that conclusion. Look, I mean, no one even knows about the Saudi Pro League, but Saudi Pro League beats how many teams are in the MLS? I think we're up to, like, 28. So they beat 30, 30. They beat 28 of them. They're that, like, that's how bad the MLAC. just not a good product right now.

Okay, let's quit talking U.S. soccer. I'm getting way too sad hours. That's great. You know what I can talk about then? Norway, England. We can talk about, no, we can talk about Spain, France, because your boy will be in attendance. Oh, yeah, your boy will be in attendance. Hey, shout out to Tyler Tony, who's not a soccer fan and gave up his ticket to spot.

It means a lot. And I was going to enjoy it more than Tyler. And I think he read the room on that. It was like if I got an all-exclusive hunting trip, I'm giving that to my boy, Ty, because I'm not going to enjoy that the way he would. So vice versa. I get a ride, by the way? Yeah, that's, I think what I'm going to do is take my oldest. I think Kristen's going to give her ticket to Owen. So yeah, dude, come, come hang out with the boys.

And that game could be the World Cup final. The facto World Cup final. You think whoever makes it out alive of that one is going to. But I really am hoping. I mean, Spain is so good, but I would love that France versus England. That's so fun if that happens. That France for England final. That would be really fun. But because I'm saying, that is probably going to be Spain versus messy. Do you agree if England is to do it? The three lions raised the trophy, we've got to have Adam back on, mate. If he lives to tell about it, you know.

Absolutely. Adam will be on set. Well, we'll have to get him back over. He finally might stay home, you know, go back to his country. Yeah, so British mate has actually gone to, what, he went to like Atlanta to watch them, and then for, he went to Mexico, the Azteca in the round of 16. So he's living his best life. I'm happy for them.

Let's go predictions, though. I think France get it done two to one extra time. Two to one extra time over Spain? Over Spain. I think it's 1-1 and it's France score and extras. Give me Spain or give me France, excuse me, in regulation. 2-0. And then give me England.

England and Argentina are both teams that have played so not up to their potential. Argentina is scraping by Cape Verde and Egypt. England, same thing. Right. It actually kind of reminds us of tour that we squeak by. How long can you live that way flirting with fire? So one of these teams is not going to live any longer. I think England has the more firepower than Argentina.

I agree with you. I think they send Messi home for his final run. And I don't want a repeat champion. I'm very much up that a lot of the time. I don't think either of those teams can beat the other side of the bracket. But, you know, it's one game. It's 90 minutes. You never know.

Anything could happen. But I'm going France, England final, the three lines. Wow, really cool. I hope you're right. in the trophy. I have France, England, final. France. The French. Yeah. Heartbreak City. It's been the big popular debate going on. The superstars have been superstars in this tournament. Messi versus Ronaldo. Oh, I thought you were saying the refs.

They have been the superstars of the tournament. Yeah. Where do you stand on Messi Ronaldo, though? Because I know how you feel about the refs. I think Ronaldo's a better looking dude. Yeah, fair. They're just different. They're different. Like, Ronaldo's way more flashy. but if we're just going overall career, I wish, I think Messi is probably the better, the better player. All around player. That takes a lot for you to say that. I know that because Ronaldo donned a man, man, you kit. But I wish Messi would have done it in different leagues. I don't respect La Liga. I don't. I don't think they have to play. I think they play six games a year that are challenging. And I think they play a lot of other team.

I think if Messi played in the EPL, and he probably would have dominated it. I'm not saying he would. wouldn't have. It's just like, that's what Ronaldo did. It was so good is he dominated every league he went to. Disservice that we never got to see it. You're going to be like, well, don't forget Messi at League one. League one's worse than La Liga. It does service. And then, oh, don't forget, he's dominating the MLS. Worse than League one. You know, so I just wish he went to EPL and dominate. I know he would have. So, but I do think, you know, just overall ballplay. And people forget Messi back in the day. Like, You could not take the guy down.

He is just his vision on the field. But I think, you know, obviously, Ronaldo is a better finisher. To me, it's the MJ LeBron. It's like, what side do you want me to attack this from? And Rinaldo is LeBron. Sure. And Messi is Jordan. You want to talk career earnings.

You want to talk position. There's so many variables that play into that, that it's even such a vague question that it's tough to answer. He can play this tournament. Who? Messy. Both of them did. I thought he Christianeano is good.

I did feel like Messi has just been. I mean, he's put the team on his back as a 38, 39-year-old he is. And props to both of them who are up there in age, I took an undodgeball, baseball, you know, wiffle ball bat to the calf and I'm not going to be able to walk for weeks. Their ability to still perform at this age. I am kind of sick and tired of the refs ruining a good sport. Do you think it's a refs ball or do you feel like it's just the state of soccer? I think the reps are almost set up to fail.

What's the time limit? How far back can you go look? the Egypt's second goal that was disallowed, that was 30 seconds before the goal. Right. You had 30 seconds to stop. Somebody in New Year saying, hey, there was a foul, build up, go back. Where do you draw the line? Where do you draw the line?

Like, you know, even England, Norway's goal versus England and Holland had the shove off. It's like it's physical. That's allowed in the EPL. That would not be called. That would be a goal in the EPL. 100%. And so, like, Collins play it. Like, it's just like the inconsistency.

It's vague. The ball looking like it hit the fly cam cable. Totally. But the balls, whatever. The chips didn't pick it up. It's just so many variables. You know what reminds me of his win? And then the red card verse, look, should it have been a yellow?

Yes, on the Embolo, Switzerland. Should it have been a yellow complete dive, yes. But he didn't call it on the field. And then he goes to video review and gives it a yellow. Right. I don't know. That doesn't sit right with me. You just, you should have a call it.

It was a dive. You called it. You should have called it right when you saw it, and you should have just given a yellow red card. And it's like no one's even questioning you. It's like in basketball when the guy already has a tech. It's like you give them a little more, you know, don't change the whole complexion of the tournament.

Yeah. You know, I feel like this is NFL. What's a Catch is what soccer's going through right now. It is. Because the NFL, I still, you know, for the longest time, couldn't get a proper answer on what a catch was. It's like a football move. Well, what's a football move?

To me, I think you got to give more power to the head ref, on field and you also have to give more accountability to that head ref. So if head ref makes a bunch of bad calls, hey, it goes down a league. I don't know. I have some consequences here, but don't let a guy 2,000 miles away on a video screen that's slow-moing things. You know, we don't go back. Like, it's like, imagine baseball looking at every little thing.

It's like, ah, do this zoom in. Yeah, seventh inning ball was a strike. It's barely touching the plate. I don't know. Like, it's just ridiculous. if I was judged by my fourth grade self. They're like, that kid's not that smart. Well, yeah, because I was in fourth grade.

I thought we'd play a fun little game. Okay. Start, bench cut. FIFA refs, NFL refs, NBA refs. You're going to start one, you're going to bench one. You're going to cut one. You have to start one? I'm going to start NFL refs.

I actually agree with you because I think the nature of football is a tough sport to officiate. There is so many guys on the field. Moving parts. And collisions and... They do a great job. They miss holding calls, you know, every play, but who cares? Given what they're set up for. It's a tough gig.

It's a tough gig. It's a tough gig. And you might get smoked by a strong safety running to a play. Yeah, I like that start. I'm right there with you. And then we have to bench and cut one. I'm cutting NBA. The thing is, it's like, NBA, there's been a history of rigging.

And on top of that, FIFA reps are just more in shape. They got to run a longer field. That's respect, actually. They're running what, like eight miles in a given game? No, NBA. You're running too, but it's only half court. Except for the on-court ref, he goes full. The problem with the NBA is go back even 10, 15 years ago

and look how vastly different they officiated it. We went too far the other way. And I hear all the time like this gather step term. Yeah. Why did I not hear that over 10 years ago? It's like a new term to excuse traveling. The Tim Donahue, Donahue, right? Yep.

Yeah, that will always be a bad look for the NBA. Rets have so much power. Right. And the NBA went there. And so now it's like, well, people get on to the SGAs of the world and stuff for drawing. But that's like that's where we are. They have enabled that to happen because of the way they have officiated games here in the last 10 plus years. But World Cup's been phenomenal.

I already had a huge love for soccer, but like it's even stepped it up. Amplified. I'm doing, you know, after my runs, I'm doing some keepy-upies. I'm just getting the footwork back. Just in case the U.S. come calling. I might join back an adult men's league again. and get some red cards under my belt. I got the itch too.

You could be the Neil Kennedy guy from Instagram. I got, I just love the game. I love the sport. And I'm excited for club to start back up in mid-August. We're close. It bridged the gap well. We got Burnley. They got relegated this year, but you know what?

Look, they're fighters. They're going to have that championship is going to be a grind. But I have faith in them. Minor setback, major comeback. Major comeback. Whoa. I'm not there. yet. I do want to say one more thing. I wanted a shout out today, actually. Luke Petit,

drafted by the Yankees. Eighth round pick. So congratulations, dude. That's a huge life accomplishment. We're cheering for you here at Almost Athletes. And, you know, in 20 years when you become an Almost Athlete, after your athletic career, you can come talk to us. Come talk to us, yeah. Come talk to us. I thought Josh and Jared both like, yeah, he is so much better than us. So that's like if your older brothers are saying that, you're probably pretty darn good. Congratulations, kiddo.

Yeah, congratulations, dude. That is awesome. All right. All right, now the two-minute warning. Yeah, I don't have a rant today, to be honest with you, Jared, but I think me and Garrett both want to rave our fan base. Dude Perfect fans have showed up. Oh, yeah.

And they have showed out, man. Even despite a couple losses, seeing the kiddos as energizes as ever, the feedback we've received on this tour, so positive. Because it was a new venture for us dipping out of the old, kind of tour version into the new one. We admittedly didn't know how people would feel about it and to watch the kids get so excited

and to watch the moment at the end all transpire. It's been really awesome and heartwarming to see how much DP fans have hop on the back. We have the best fans in the world hands down. Bar none, man. And, you know, we love like being like in front of them.

Like we do videos and stuff, podcasts, whatever. Don't really see our fans, but getting to do a live show in front of them. Special. It can't be replicated. And that's why it's my phone. favorite of it. So kudos to you, DP fans, you've done so well. And good news, so got 14 more of these bad boys. Yeah. All right, well, that will do it for today. We will be back next Wednesday. If you like this video, be sure to check out we tried the weirdest hot dog toppings,

and they were disgusting. So check that out. Anyways, see you next Wednesday. Pound it, Noggin. See ya.