Pardon My Take - Adam Richman From Man vs Food, NBA Play In Games, Hot Seat/Cool Throne + Guys On Chicks

Episode Date: April 12, 2023

We stayed up so you didn't have to and watched the horrendous Lakers/Twolves game (00:00:00-00:12:08). The Hawks stole Heat culture in Miami (00:12:08-00:24:36). Hot Seat/Cool Throne including a new Uga in Georgia, a correction on Monday's show and the Dali Lami being a pervert (00:24:36-01:00:16). Adam Richman from Man vs Food joins us in studio to talk about his new show The Food That Built America, his toughest food challenges, how he got the job and some crazy stories from the road (01:00:16-02:10:31). We finish with Guys on Chicks and the Lottery Ball (02:10:31-02:24:08).You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

Hey, pardon my take listeners. You can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad free on Amazon Music. On today's part in my take, NBA play in action. We're actually starting the show with a minute left in overtime of the dumbest game possible, the Lakers versus Timberwolves. We're going to talk about the heat hawks. We have hot seat, cool throne and awesome interview with Adam Richmond,

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No place to hang out or wash in and I can't blame all on the sun. Oh, no, we're going to rock down to electric avenue and then we'll take it higher. Oh, we're going to rock down to electric avenue and then we'll take it higher. Welcome to part of my take today is Wednesday, April 12th. And we've got NBA playoffs kind of NBA play in game. We're watching OT right now. There's 35 seconds left. Live it up, PFT.

We had we have NBA playoffs playing. No, so it's they were very specific about this in the early game. It's not a playoff game. It's technically a non regular season game. So these stats don't count towards the playoffs. They don't count towards the regular season. It's its own thing. It's no man's land.

The Timberwolves are right now down by three points with 35 seconds left in over time. This game sucked. This game, the fourth quarter was was so bad. I think everybody out there with a pulse that's ever seen basketball or heard of the state of Minnesota before knew that the Timberwolves were going to give this up. The Lakers were to come back. The NBA David Stern was going to figure out a way for LeBron James to advance the playoffs. Well, and it's not even the Lakers playing well.

The T Wolves just they were so hot from three for the first half. They were lights out. They were playing a great game. Everyone was like Rudy Gobert, who now we can play five out. We've got all this flexibility. Carl Anthony Towns is playing great, even though they just kept on giving him fouls. And every time he had to sit, the Lakers would would crawl back. And then we got to the fourth quarter and they scored a combined

31 points in the fourth quarter. The Timberwolves scored 12 points. The Timberwolves didn't score. They scored their last field goal with six minutes left in the game. The next time they scored was Anthony Davis. This is how dumb the game was. The Lakers go up by three with a minute or a second and a half left. Memes tweets it from the part of my take account game winner.

Anthony Davis fouls Mike Conley, shooting a three from basically behind the basket. The Timberwolves hadn't scored in fucking six minutes. Then he falls Mike Conley, shooting a three up three with one second left. They get they get three foul shots. The first barely made it. And oh, he was nervous. The second and the third were both extremely shaky from Conley, even though Conley played awesome tonight.

Yeah, this was a great game for Mike Conley. That was awesome. Former teammate of Mark Titus, he hasn't he hasn't mentioned that. Yeah, also, I took a piss next to Ed Sheeran one time. But yeah, Mike Conley played basketball with Mark Titus. Great game, legacy game under the bright lights of the play in tournament for Mike Conley. And they scored the Timberwolves scored with point one seconds left on the clock. And then they didn't score until over time with like a putback layup.

We almost just got double over time there for a second. Oh, you're a little ahead of me. Shit, I hope we don't get good double over time. Don't stream sniping. Yeah, damn, you stream sniping me, Hank. And now it's going to happen. We'll get the live reaction. Well, I don't know what's happening.

I'm watching on my computer, so I'm a cord cutter like all the new kids. But yeah, this game, this game. Oh, man, oh, shit, you're right. We almost did. They bricked a number of another three. This game was so bad, though. This game was revenge for everyone who said, why would you watch March Madness? It's just a bunch of dudes missing shots and throwing the ball out of bounds

because there was that sequence where the Timberwolves just missed every shot. And then like LeBron threw one out of bounds. There was the loose ball foul, like everyone just sucked. And here's my thing with the play in tournament. I like it in theory because more basketball, more fun. These teams suck. These teams aren't going to like I need a play in tournament team to win a title for me to start respecting the play in tournament

because the NBA playoffs, like historically are the, you know, the top seeds are usually the teams that you see at the end of the end of the whole thing. You know what I mean? Like you we're just deciding who's going to go get maybe the Lakers will. ESPN will tell us tomorrow. The Lakers watch out for them. They're going to take down the Grizzlies. Maybe the Hawks are going to go after Hank Celtics.

I don't think so. Like the heat were so bad tonight. We'll get to them in a second, but like at the end of the day, these teams are just not none of these teams are going to win a title. Well, the eight teams in the play in tournament are not going to win a title. So people forget the reason the play in tournament was basically started much like Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire got admitted to the tri-wizard tournament as a fourth wizard.

They wanted to get Zion Williamson into the playoffs his rookie year. So they were like, OK, tell you what, let's have let's have the Pelicans. We'll do we'll do like a special thing where the Pelicans can technically play some some playoff games and get ratings on it. Also, the NBA just wants another event to slap a sponsor on. So they're like, OK, it's the play in tournament presented by AT&T. That's another five million dollars. Well, it also was built in as, you know, credit the NBA for actually trying

to get tanking to stop, which they've made measures to, you know, like flattening the top three picks in the lottery and everything. So the play in is part of that where you can still be in the playoffs and you shouldn't take if you're one of these bad teams that's under 500 that could be in the 10 seed, but the Mavericks pissed all over that this year. So like the Mavericks, like after watching this game, the NBA should stop their investigation against the Mavericks because the Mavericks were like, hey, we'd rather a draft pick

than play in this play in tournament. And I agree with their decision. Yes, 100 percent. Yeah, absolutely. You think you think the Thunder are going to get lucky when two games and then get to the finals? The Thunder are the only team you could say, well, they're getting reps. Young team, Shay, like they're getting reps next year.

Chat, they're they're getting right. You can always flip it where it's like, well, that team needs some reps. That's big time playoff, playoff pressure for them. A lot of guys who haven't been there. Well, the the Pelicans are doing the exact same. The Pelicans are just like Zion is not going to play because of reasons. And we'll just trust us on that one. Did you see he released a statement today?

He said he feels good, but he's not going to play until he feels like Zion again. Yeah, so you remember when when he was coming back from, I don't know, this is like four injuries ago, where they had him practicing on like a special trampoline, like a small floor, a soft floor. Zion's just never going to be healthy. And he said that he's sick of this shit and he would like to play and he is healthy, but he's not himself right now. So that's just basically Zion being like, yeah, you know, I'd really like to.

But they pay me anyways. So why would I exercise if they're going to give me money? Right, right. I so it looks like this game is over. Hank, do you want to tell us this game's over? Is it officially over? You're faster than us. No, it's not over yet.

OK, well, let's just say the Lakers, the Lakers have advanced to play against the Grizzlies. Maybe they can beat the Grizzlies. Oh, they just showed Rob Lowe slash Rob Polinka watching his team to play in game four, four number one picks in this playing game. That's how you know it was official. I have a fun fact. Yeah, so this is now the first time that all four teams from California have made the NBA playoffs.

OK, so that that's often my other fun fact that I was throwing. Did I throw it out to you guys yesterday? I can't remember. I it's so late that I've lost my mind. I'm not in this is football shape. We're not in football shape. This is also the first time since the Mavericks became a franchise in 1981, I want to say that no teams from Texas made the playoffs.

Oh, wow. Yeah. Wow. So it's like a reverse of all those companies that moved to Texas, like Twitter, all that first Joe Rogan. We're going back. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. All right. So the Lakers have advanced the T Wolves. Let's say let's let's do some positive spin zones for the T Wolves. OK, one, I think they're better without Rudy Gobert.

Yeah, like legitimately you can make the case on defense that they need somebody like that to protect the rim, but on offense, they are like, I don't think it's even a debate right now. They work better with the exception of the last six minutes of the game. They work better on offense without him. Two, you get a home game now. Home Wolves are undefeated in home playing games. That will be electric.

Three, I don't think Anthony Anthony Edwards can play worse than he played tonight. He was so, so bad. Oh, for nine from three, three for 17 shooting. Look lost out there. Respect to him for he kept shooting. At least he's like, one's one's got to go in at some point. He's the ultimate confidence.

And then it just never went. I tweeted this out, but you remember how when you were in like when you were playing basketball, when you're in elementary, middle school and the coach showed you a hoop, a basketball hoop and then put two balls inside of it. It was like, look how big this rim is. Like you could you should be able to make these shots easily. That's what they needed to do for Anthony Edwards tonight, because he was he was so bad, so bad and kept shooting.

So there's your spin zone like and you have Lucas Garza on the bench, who's ready to go. He would he was not dressed tonight, but Dennis Schroeder did the the three point celebration right in Luca Garza's face. I feel like that was a little too much because like what can Luca do? Yeah, he's not out there. Hopefully we can get some some protesters gluing their hands to the floor in Minnesota. That would be nice.

Run that back. So Friday night, we'll find out who the Timberwolves play after tomorrow's games. Let's talk about the other game, the death of heat, heat culture. Jake, it's over and I'm not trying to just be a prisoner of the moment, but they got absolutely bullied. 63 to 39 on the rebounds, absolutely bullied. And in a reverse like how we just said, Anthony Edwards couldn't play worse. I don't think Kyle Lowry could play better.

They got the best Kyle Lowry game and they still lost. I I was like, I thought the heat were going to win. I still believe in heat culture. I think it might be dead. They got absolutely bullied. Yeah, Clint Capella had more offensive rebounds than the heat did as a click. A click. Well, it was awesome tonight.

Clint Capella had an all time stat line. He was two for three from the floor, 0 for four for free throws and 21 rebounds. Yeah, yeah, I bet on I bet on him to get a double double tonight. Would have been nice to spread some of those stats around a little bit. But yeah, he was he was a beast and it got off to a weird start because the the article came out quoting people from the Hawks front office that they were open to shopping everyone, including Trey Young before the game started. And so this was like Trey Young revenge game on his own his own franchise,

essentially being like, fuck you, I'm going to show you what I can still do. Yeah, it was it was a great game. Quinn Snyder did a great job. Quinn Snyder, I think we can say like very good coach. If you need if you need one guy to win you one NBA game with like an average roster, Quinn Snyder is probably the best guy out there to do it. He's a very good coach. The Hawks are the play in champions.

They are three and oh all time in playing games, so they deserve that crown. Couple other things I was thinking about it. So 63 to 39 on rebounds. I think that's the third largest 24 point 24 point margin you can have. So I was thinking I wrote them all out. This is this sounds very stupid. It's one in the morning.

I think 43 19 is a bigger margin. Oh, yeah, yeah. No, and I think 94 69 is also a bigger margin and then 63 39. I've talked about this before with like 14 point games and football. Yeah, there are some scores that are way more than 14 points. I would say like 10 to 24. Pretty big 14 point margin, but not as big. Yeah, not as big as 9 to 23.

9 to 31 17. 31 17 is another big one. Yeah, anytime you can jump double digits, that's that's more than 14 points. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, so that's my quick, quick power rankings of 24 point differences. So it's 43 19 94 69 63 39. Again, this is one in the morning thought. No, I literally wrote them all out.

Yeah, I can see my computer right now because I was writing them all out in 33 nine was like, well, that's early in the game. They'll they'll catch up. You know, it feels large, but you're like, that can't be the end of the game. Yeah, no, all numbers are not created. 29 25 93 69. Whatever fucking Jake. Oh, wow.

Jake, Jake with a fact. Jake's spicy tonight because his heat stuck 93 60. Yeah, Jake, what do you want to say? Your heat culture? Jimmy Butler had like a tweet that like a post game comment that sounded like a fan tweeted it with like three followers. He said, come Friday, we have to play the legit exact opposite of how we played tonight. Yeah, I mean, pretty, pretty good.

Some offensive rebounding by Atlanta was insane. We're gonna say I have a question, Jake basketball. If you let's pretend you're the basketball gym, let's pretend you're Pat Riley. Do you think having a roster with the only power for BAM is a power forward playing center. So when you put him at center, your other two power forwards are Kevin Love, who we love, and you Dominus has who's 55 years old. Do you think that might be a roster construction issue?

I've always believed in Pat Riley. He always seems to be making the right moves. So it seems like this is going to be a hardcore reset after this year. Obviously Mr. 305 is departing. So I think there's a lot of pressure on him to reshuffle some things over the summer. Yeah, I mean, in Pat Riley's defense, like you guys has him got old fast.

You know, no one thought you saw that one coming. You thought you could rely on him. They got him a rock and gave him some rebounds for retirement. He might come back next year. I'm not going to believe that he's retired until he actually retires. But it was one of those things I was looking at the box square. I was like, huh, like I love Haslam. Great, like who wouldn't want to have his career where you can just

basically hang out on a team for the twilight of years and just be a guy and like hang out played in like five years. No, I don't say it's. It's been a long twilight. So did Mac McClung, dude, is the last game of the year. But but in in reality, you probably want your power forwards to not be. You don't have Haslam and Kevin Love in a playing game or have Bambi or Power Ford and have a center that could also work.

Sounds like you're saying or any game or any game or any game or any game. I guess Cody Zellers also on the roster, which is always fun name to say. Shout out to Barclay for telling people just don't watch the first round of the Eastern Playoff games. That was awesome. I'm sure that I'm sure his bosses were very happy to say that on on the they were. It's yeah, well, they were happy. Yeah, bosses. Yeah. In what way?

Because he does the West. Oh, I thought that TNT was going to be I don't. They always do the West, which is they do both. I'm pretty sure the Western Conference finals. I don't know how the first round. I think they they kind of switch. You could those are going to be on on TNT. It's going to be Charles Barclay doing the halftime show.

And he's like, just do yourselves a favor. Don't watch the first round of the playoff. I love it. He's beat. That's why people love Charles Barkley. He's being honest. And he's the only person in sports media that can get away with that type of comment, not getting in trouble for it. I feel like. And but but it was back to what my the playing game talk like these

teams aren't going to go anywhere. I know that people are going to try to tell us the Lakers are going to go somewhere. They're not going to go anywhere. And you can quote this and Tweet it, whatever the Hawks aren't going to go anywhere. The heat, the bulls, the Raptors aren't going to go anywhere. It's just a fact. I just think there's no chance that the Hawks can do what they did tonight against the Celtics on the glass.

It's just not going to happen. No, they and they don't play defense. The good news is if the heat do make it to the playoffs and the Celtics do. Yeah. So it's duplicated. If the heat do make it to the playoffs, they're going up against a team that can't rebound at all in the Milwaukee box. Wait, shit, I forgot they have you on us. That's going to be I mean, I don't want to watch that.

I don't want to watch that. Hank, you're scared meter for the Hawks. Is it it can't be zero? Uh, I mean, if it can't be zero, then it's one. OK, that's fair. Well, it can't be zero just because like we'll get one game just because it's the NBA. You never know what's going to happen.

Maybe they went a home game, Celtics in five. If it goes six, something went seriously wrong. It can't be zero just because I've learned when Max's sixers were the eighth seed and took down the bulls when Derek Rose got hurt. You could always have an injury. So it can't be zero. Yeah, that's really the only thing I think we already have. We already have the hand injury. Oh, yeah.

Hank, you would you say like if you stay fully healthy, it's going to be a whopping. I think even if Jalen or Jason doesn't play, it's going to be a whopping. I think it's going to be one. It's going to be four, one and Trey Young has one in the same game. Yeah, I was going to talk so much shit. That feels that feels like. But it could just be it could be four. Oh, like they could they could just lock them down.

Yeah, this is I mean. We'll see what I mean. The heat maybe the bulls will play the heat, Jake. That would be fun. See who can go get mask by the box. I think we're all in agreement now. Just give me the Celtics, the bucks and give us all the popcorn. There's all the popcorn for self.

Oh, damn. That was way worse in my 94 93 Celtics in the Sixers. And we can watch whatever happens on the show. Whatever happens. Yeah. How much popcorn are you talking about here, Jake? Kettle corn. I'm going to hold you this a lot. Kettle corn.

Kettle. That's dangerous. That's dangerous for a ton of cattle corn. That's also not a city. You can't you don't eat kettle corn when you're watching sports, Jake. Uh, I don't remember the last time I watched I ate any popcorn watching sports, but yes, it's not like sold. You eat kettle corn when there's like a little dish of kettle corn just like in the kitchen, you're like, oh, just grab a little hand.

Yeah. No knock on. It's good. But you can't sit down and eat a whole bag of kettle corn. I've done it. Yeah, you can add like King, King Richard's fair. You're just going to like, you know, an old an old an old Renaissance fair. Just crush some kettle corn. But that's not a little more salt.

That's like, that's like holiday food. You have it around the holiday. What do you know? Renaissance was the original sport. You don't eat kettle corn when you're watching sports on TV. How about that? I'm going to change that as the Celtics play the Sixers. All right.

The Celtics play the Sixers. You need to eat an entire bag of kettle corn for every day. Yep. You said, give me all you said. Give me all the popcorn, Jake. Give me all the kettle one full bag of kettle corn, can't be a small bag. Has to be like a real bag of kettle corn every single day. OK, now I'm waiting for Celtics Sixers. Just watch, just watch the games.

They're just going to eat his kettle corn and get sick of kettle corn. And we do get Lakers Grizzlies, which will be fun. I'm excited for that. And you know what? I'll listen to enough people tomorrow on TV and I'll probably be like, watch out for the Lakers because they they they just trot everyone out to be like the Lakers could do something and then I'll just be like, fuck it. Maybe the Lakers could do something and they might beat the Grizzlies.

I could see them winning that series. The Lakers, I think the Lakers are sneaky good. The NBA is kind of rigged. I can take this back if the Celtics win the championship. But like that game was there's some NBA games when you're like, you just know what's going to happen. It didn't matter what happened the whole game. You just knew the Lakers were going to win.

And the Lakers, the Lakers are good. They beat a Timberwolves team that some people were saying could win the NBA title this year. No, you never said that. I said I said could. No, no, no, I wanted to defend you. Some media members that don't know ball were saying that the Minnesota Timberwolves could win potentially two series.

I yeah, I well, yeah, because you never said they could win the title. You said you bet on them to win the title because they could win two series and then you could hedge out. Yeah, no, they definitely didn't even bet on a team that you thought. No, no, no, they definitely can't win the title. But I did bet on them to win the title and I still think that was a good bet. Value play. Yeah, Grizzlies Lakers, but you're right.

Like put your put your tinfoil hat on. What is the NBA want more than anything in the second round? Sixer Celtics, so Jake can eat all his kettle corn and Lakers Warriors. So we can have Steph versus LeBron one last time before LeBron retires. Yeah, I mean, what they really would like would be another Celtics Lakers finals. Oh, talk about Rick. Oh, sick. They I mean, you lost to LeBron.

Hank, you would actually would you would. I would. Yeah, I don't want to say what no, but you'd have to. You'd have to kill yourself. Retire. Yeah, no, I'd retire. I'd retire. Like there's nothing you could do. I'd retire. I retire from life. All right, let's kick it to ourselves back in studio. We have an awesome interview with Adam Richman in studio as well.

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OK. Hot seat, cool throne. Henry. Hot seat is love. Oh, no. I don't like that. Taylor Swift and her boyfriend broke up. Yeah, it's tough. Although.

Swifties all over the world are breaking up with their boyfriends now and in solidarity. Isn't this isn't this good thing, though, because it means that we're going to get some bangers out of Taylor Swift. There's there's nothing like a good Taylor Swift breakup album. I had a little debate with our colleague, Kelly Keegs, was I think. Noted, Swiftie. Noted, Swiftie.

Very funny. Love having loving love working with her. Taylor's the problem. I mean, didn't she have that as a lyric, too? Yeah, it's me. Hi, it's me. I'm the problem. She is the problem. She is emotionally not vulnerable enough.

So every time she breaks up and everyone's like, oh, my God, it's so sad. No, no, no. Taylor's the problem. Of course. Of course she is. Yeah, she did admit it. But this is a good thing. I'm telling you, if you're a fan of music, having a Taylor Swift break, you know what?

It's about to be another sad girl autumn. That's fine. It's going to be. It's going to be great. I like the leaves are going to turn. What's that mean for the summer? I mean, single girl. You know what we should do? What we should do is we should try to get Billy with Taylor Swift

and just have Billy break her heart so we can get more bangers on the driver. The 405 we spent like two hours talking about ways we'd be terrible. Boyfriends of Taylor Swift to make her have the best album. Yeah, just like completely emotionally neglect her and just drive her insane. I think she does that to her boyfriends. No, no, but we'd we'd play it back. You know, you fall in love and then you break your heart. No, no, like leave her, spin it.

Leave her at the date and don't pay the bill. Start dating her mom. Yeah, you're just being a scumbag. Yeah, yeah. No, somebody's music. Yeah, you should be a scumbag to Taylor. I might I'm going to call right now. She's going to date Pete Davidson.

It's going to happen. That's kind of tacky for her. No, I think she's she's from a British actor. Single girl summer. That's he's the perfect rebound. Maybe hook up, not date. She'll be she'll be photographed. Yeah, she's not going to date.

She's not going to date. You know what we should do? This will be our viral clip for this show. All right, who you got? Taylor Swift or Beyonce? It's Taylor Swift. Easy. No, it's so easy.

So easily that Coachella performance. Taylor can never you can't you. No one can name a single Beyonce song. Lemonade single ladies who run the world. I'm just trying to get people mad. Girls know you guys you guys girls. No one knows a single Beyonce song, right? No idea.

No idea. Isn't she like old? Yeah, she's super old. Taylor Swift, much better vocalist. Wait, is Single Ladies Rihanna or Beyonce? It's Beyonce. Yeah. To the left, to the left.

To the left of the palace. All the single ladies. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. If I was a boy. All these single ladies. No, wait, no, is that it? Yeah, all the single ladies. All these single ladies.

All these single ladies. All one song. Tall one song. All my own. Umbrella, Ella, Ella. That's Rihanna. Don't, Rihanna, Trump's old. I'm aware, Hank.

We're trying to go fucking viral here. I will say it's a legacy tour right now for Taylor Swift. She's in the middle of her tour right now. She's in Tampa this weekend, New York. I think end of May, so like maybe the fans this weekend who are going will just get like an extra banger. Here's my point. I like Taylor Swift.

I don't want the Swifties to come after me. I know they're very passionate. I just like she, she clearly is, you know, breaking up with these guys and then having everyone be like, oh, poor Taylor, she is not letting herself become emotionally vulnerable and finding love. Love should trump all and it's fine. If she wants her career over love, that's great. But don't cry me a river when you're like, you know, 70 years old by yourself, Taylor.

Not that she will be. No, I mean, I'm very scared of the Swifties. Very. If you can tell, I'm very, I'm couching all my language. I don't, I don't know who out there would disagree with you about that because she's, she's very clearly. Yeah, it's tough, probably tough to date Taylor Swift. Yeah.

She's just too tall. Lana Del Rey is the true goat, though. That, that was unnecessary. Lana Del Rey. No, I love Lana Del Rey. She's like, she just got engaged. Oh no. Yeah.

She had a breakup. Damn. She just dropped a new album that was killer after the breakup. There's a tunnel under oceans Boulevard. You know what, in the spirit of solidarity amongst dudes, I'm sick of dudes having their hearts broken by Taylor Swift as guys, we should all band together and say we should go on strike from dating Taylor Swift and the Swifties are so strong. Like it's, it's kind of a joke, but there's definitely, she's has such a big fan base.

Even if it's 1% of 1% of the diehards that are like Taylor Swift broke up with her boyfriend, I'm breaking up with mine. Like that 100% has happened all over the world. Yes. So likewise, all dudes, if you're a real dude, you're not dating Taylor Swift this summer. I stand with, what's the name? Joe Allen. Joe Allen.

He's going to, he's going to release the best movie of all time. Yeah. There you go. Go Joe Allen, go. I just found out who you were like two days ago, but I've been a big fan for life. I didn't even know his name. I just wrote Taylor Swift and her boyfriend broke up. It's just sad that, that, that walk down Cornelia Street will never happen again.

No. No. All right. You're cool to run? My cool throne is John Rom's dad. Yeah. Hank, you're stealing all of mine. Oh my bad.

That was, that was, that was going to be my cool throne. Sorry. Did I, can I take it? You killed him. Go, I've got another one, I've got another one. So cool throne is John Rom's dad. Turns out still very much alive. So shout out John Rom's dad.

Wait a, think he hugged him right after the mass. He did. So I got confused because Jim Nance was talking about how it was Seve by a Steros's birthday. Seve obviously a major champion, Spanish golf icon. And I was, I was probably looking between screens at the time and my brain morphed that all into one story. So John Rom's dad is still very much alive.

Early front runner for still a live person of the year. You floried him. Yeah. So, yeah. I mean, yeah. Florio's with Terry, Terry Bradshaw. He killed Terry Bradshaw. At some point when Terry Bradshaw dies,

Florio will have been the first to report it. That's true. Hopefully, hopefully Mr. Rom has a long life ahead of him. Can see his son when several more green jackets. Yeah. But still we can allow us to be the first to report that John Rom's dad is not dead. No, you allow us to be the first to congratulate John Rom's dad on not being dead. Yeah, congrats.

Yes, you did. That's a huge thing. You did it. A lot of people die all the time. You didn't. Yep. So think about that. Survivor.

Yeah, absolutely. Tough as nails. Of fake deaths as reported by this podcast. He survived that shit. Yep. Okay. My other cool thing was baseball. The pitch clock has been great.

I've been a pretty known baseball hater probably since the existence of this podcast. I played it a lot growing up. Got super bored watching it as I got older. But I'm getting into it. I like the speed of the games. It makes a lot more watchable. I've watched more baseball this spring than probably the entire last two years combined. They also changed another rule that goes along with the pitch clock rule,

which is they're extending beer sales into the eighth inning now, which is huge because the game moved so much faster. People were getting cut off earlier. Now, you could also make the argument that, well, the eighth and ninth innings go by faster. So they should cut off the beer sales earlier because it's the same thing. Not us. We would not make that argument.

But I think the Brewers were the first team to extend beer sales. Makes sense. Into the eighth inning. So have you ever seen that list when they do like the 20 drunkest cities and towns in America? And I think like 14 or 15 of them are in Wisconsin. Yeah. No, they do like a heat map of like the drunkest people in America. And it's just is like bright, bright red in all of Wisconsin.

Yeah. People from Wisconsin aren't allowed to compete in like a bunch of Mexican drink, like beer chugging competitions. When you go down there, it's just like there's signs. No one from Wisconsin. I think that's a joke. But yeah. No, I saw a picture of the sign.

But right. But it's like a resort joke. Yeah. No, it's real. No, it's they have like licensing and it's a rule. It's a regulated body. I don't know if Wisconsin still has this law. But for the longest time, the law was if you're with your parent, you can you can drink in the bar.

Yeah. I think it was over 18. You could drink in the bar with your parent under 18. You could be in the bar with your parents. Yeah. So in Texas, I was a bartender down there for a little bit. You might have seen me in the in the roadhouse commercial. But the law was that you can serve a drink to a kid as long as their parent orders it.

So you can serve it to the parent and then the parent can then hand the drink to the child. And then they can drink it how it should be done. Yeah. How it should be done. What was we were you talking about? Oh, the baseball baseball is it is awesome. It goes by so much faster. The game has it's what spent what was it feel like 20 years that we've been talking

about how to fix baseball and the answer has been steroids. But now they figured it out that you don't have to just do steroids. Yeah. You can just make the basis slightly larger and just go faster. Yep. But going double raised greatest team in MLB history. The what raise? Double raise.

Who our specter who picked them. That was my cool throne. So they're two. They're 10 and all right now. Two teams have gone 13 and now that's the record. They're my they're my World Series team. Yeah. I put a future on.

Let's go. Let's go race. We probably just drinks them. They're probably going to lose tonight to play the Red Sox. Maybe Hank did it on purpose. I also put a future on the Cubs in 101 but whatever. I think. No, no.

All right. Never mind. That was a. I've talked myself into the Cubs being scrappy enough to make the point. They're going to be sneaky. Not bad. But I've now upgraded them to sneaky might make the playoffs. I like that's where we've gone up the ladder.

I also I like tuning in and catching a straight Blue Jays game every now and again just because of all the Suns they have on that team. Yeah. And they've got I don't know if if Bizio is is starting for the cabin. Yeah, but I saw him the other day. There was a highlight of him leaning into pitches. So they show you know how they do the overlay of like Bo Bichette and Dante Bichette and like all the Suns the Guerrero comparison where they show the

swings back to back. They showed Kevin Bizio leaning into a pitch just like his dad. He's awesome. He's going to be the next great player to get hit by pitches because his dad was fucking I lead at it. I love it. We're going to say I was just going to say go into the game now. Kind of it says it's shorter.

Like I used to like how a baseball game used to be a whole day activity. Oh, see, I like I like that it's like a two and a half hour game is perfect. It was just like a good excuse to like get away. You just got to drink more beforehand. Yeah, yeah, you got to get drunker. Spend more time at the bar before the game. Also, the Cubs have the beer bats this year, which is sick. If you put beer in a bat, I'm going to drink it.

Also, I was going to use this one of my cool thrones, but the Orioles, they are a team of destiny vibes because they have the dongbong. So I don't know if you guys seen this. They after they hit a home run, they come back in the dugout and they have a beer bong filled with water and you hit the dongbong. It's like that is that's incredible. I'm also I that's like the turnover chain was great. And then everyone's going to try and copy it.

It's not going to be as great, but the dongbong, the dongbong is fantastic. I don't want to pick on anyone in this room. But if I were going to, I'd say Philadelphia is a joke of a city for not being able to come up with the dongbong first. They win the World Series with the dongbong last year. Oh, I thought you were going to say because they did a ring ceremony for coming in second place last year. I didn't know that they did a ring ceremony.

Yeah, they gave everybody ranks and on the ring, because you know how like when you win the World Series, I mean, Hank, you can probably relate to this. Yeah, you can relate to this because we've all won World Series recently. On the World Series ring, they typically have the scores of the games of the World Series in this instance. They have the scores of all the games in the NLCS. Oh, so not the no hitters.

No way. This is a new thing. There's definitely teams that have done this. Like I was like, I thought it was I thought this is a funny, fake thing. Oh, that's yeah, you know, I didn't even give it any mind article. You want to pin it, not a ring. Yeah, I get it. There's to be a pin it ceremony. There's no I need to do some research because I haven't done any research. I know for certain that this is just a normal thing

that all of a sudden this year, people are trying to make a big deal. I wouldn't know because we would have talked about it if any other team got to the second place. Max. Max. All right. I have a couple of questions for you, Max. True or false, you guys win the World Series with the Donkbong. I don't. We are true or false. You probably win the World Series, the Donkbong.

They had the Red Sox rally song. True or false. The Donkbong should have been something that happened in Philadelphia first. Yeah, probably true or false. You got no hit in the World Series fall. OK, true or false. No, it's true or false. You stole the Red Sox rally song for your team. True. Even have an original one.

It was it. It wasn't a no hitter. It was a zero hitter. We've established that. But yeah, the Donkbong rules, you guys should all check it out. The Orioles are a very fun young team that has like it's always awesome. Whenever a franchise that hasn't been good for a very long time has like all their good prospects seem to come up at the same time. That's the Orioles right now. Adley Rushman is awesome.

My hot seat is bars, putting bars on the hot seat because YouTube just announced how much it was going to cost to do the Sunday ticket next year. So this is it's moving forward. If you have YouTube to TV, it's going to be three hundred forty nine dollars for a season, three hundred eighty nine dollars for a season. If you bundle it with Red Zone, so Billy, that's a steal. It's it's actually not that much different than the direct TV price system years before, but where it's going to get crazy for bars is

I don't know if you guys know many bar owners or bar managers. Yeah, no, it sucks for them. They're going to have to figure out how to get YouTube on all their TVs at once. And they are going to be completely lost week one of next year. What's that, Hank? Well, no, that's not that that's a brings up a good point. Do they have to have eight accounts? Is there going to be like because couldn't you then hypothetically do that in your own house?

With movies, he bars have to pay a different like when bars buy direct TV, they have to pay a different price than everyone else because they're broadcasting for multiple people at once. Yeah, right. So if you're if you're an industrious young person out there and you're thinking of maybe how you can make money next year, just show up like two hours early to a bar on Sundays and be like, I'll be your YouTube TV consultant and I'll figure out how to get all these games and all these TVs because bar owners week one.

It's going to be a shit show. What was the price? It's three forty nine per season, two hundred forty nine. If you purchase before June 6th and then three hundred eighty nine. Really, that's like two eighty nine early if you if you bundle it with Red Zone. My math isn't exactly right, because obviously there's some weird like, you know, the Germany game and then there'll be like the Saturday games. But it comes out to about like a dollar thirty a game,

which is the greatest deal of all time. Yeah. But I thought I dropped the 80 for the YouTube TV and I had all the games. I feel like I'm totally wrong on that. You might have just been doing streams. Yeah, bleep that out. People get mad if you give up their shady streaming service. You had the local you have whatever is like on CBS or Fox, which is one game.

There really is nothing like the the war to to X out all the pop up ads when you get one of those streams. Oh, yeah. It's got to go so fast. Yeah. Yeah. Fuck, fuck, fuck. And then you got the chat on the side. The old school Justin TV guys know about the chat on the side. We were watching a San Diego Padres game in Lake Charles

and it was using one of the streaming things and just a giant black heart across the center. You couldn't even see the batter or the pitcher or the catcher. You were just going off like where the camera was falling. Watching a walk off home run with a giant black stripe across the center of the screen was a lecture. Yeah, it was so fun. The other big problem with this is going to be that I think recurring guest Warren Sharp pointed this out.

YouTube, their streaming service is about 54 seconds behind. It's got a lag behind reality. So people are going to be watching on all different. Yeah, it's just going to get spoiled. We got to figure this out. Well, you thought that with Amazon Prime Thursday nights, it wasn't really the case. So maybe they'll fix it.

But there was no other like people couldn't. But you can still watch these games. Yeah, but sometimes streams were still ahead. But if everyone is on the same stream, it doesn't matter. What he's saying is like you can watch your local team on regular TV. Yeah. And YouTube TV is behind. Yeah. And so it's going to be a problem. It's going to be the most chaotic week one ever.

When we first moved to New York, I used to watch bears games on my Xbox. And it was like I'd be like a series, like a full set of downs behind. Yeah. So it's going to be crazy. The week one, if I'm so dumb, though, that if I see this, I'm going to watch the local game and I'm going to think I have an edge in live bedding. No. Well, it hasn't gone out on YouTube yet. Yeah. Yeah. Fuck. OK. OK. All right.

All right. My hot seat is Uggah 11. So I don't know if you guys saw Uggah 10, also known as KQQQUE, has retired. So Uggah 10 is the greatest Uggah of all time. Uggah 10 won back to back national titles. Uggah 10 went 84 and 15 as the mascot of the Georgia Bulldogs. It also evaded Bevo the Longhorn. It also evaded Bevo the Longhorn.

The only other Uggah that could be potentially in the goat debate is Uggah 3, who went 71 and 32 and also won a national title. But I think it's Uggah 10 in a route. Now, Uggah 11. Like, how do you follow Uggah 10? They have to clone Uggah 10. It's crazy. Uggah 10 was the goat Uggah mascot.

He saw the greatest years of Georgia football. I also just started going down a little rabbit hole of the Uggahs. Uggah, let's see, 8. That was a sad one. He went 4 and 2 and then got cancer. And his epitaph on the they all have like their gravestones, I think in the stadium. His was just he never had a chance, which is pretty sad.

It's pretty sad. Uggah 4, not not in the goat debate, but still a very good Uggah. He was the dog of the decade. That's pretty fucking cool. Yeah, because he went from 81 to 90. What was the other one that was great? I believe it was. Oh, Uggah 5 was the one who bit the Auburn player.

Yeah, there's some notable Uggahs out there. And there was also. Oh, Uggah 1 was just damn good dog. Yeah, hell, yeah, like that was great. And then Uggah 2 is not a bad not bad for a dog. Oh, that's that's so mean to Uggah 2. Yeah, like that you can't you can't follow up with damn good dog. You can't have he was OK.

I just got I just got really sad when I read Uggah 8. He never had a chance. That's brutal. It's true, though. What is he foreign to the foreign to that's a pretty good record. Yeah, foreign to so he died midseason. I think he came in midseason and died after the season. But yeah, the Uggah 11 has its I don't know how you follow that. I'm saying that you have to clone it.

You can't just pass the torch immediately. You have to get a hair. You have to get some DNA clone Uggah 10 and then run that back. Yeah, the the worst Uggah one went almost 50 percent, a little over 50 percent, so 53 and 48. He's you could say he was the worst Uggah overall record wise. He was. So that's tough. Numbers never lie.

Damn good dog, though, in his epitaph. All right, my cool throne is white NBA players. So I don't know if you guys saw this. Deli, a comedian by the name of Carl Tartt. Joined a random league for fantasy basketball. He's Carl Tartt is an African American. He joined a random league for fantasy basketball and drafted only white guys and won the league.

Wow. Yeah, pretty impressive. Well, they can shoot like Joel Embiid. He had he had Luca Tyler Harrow, hero, Corey Kispert, Porzingis, Vuchovic, Bogdanovich, Sabonis, Valenchunis. I mean, he just all white Austin Reeves. I didn't he didn't have Caruso. Caruso needs to be on there.

I was waiting for Caruso. TJ McConnell, Lori Markinon on his bench. Dante DiVincenzo on his bench. Is he Kispert? He had Kispert on a starting lineup. Yeah, dude, Kispert's shooting the lights out. Yeah. So shout out, Carl Tartt. I mean, what a he won the league.

Yeah, congratulations. Bunch of white dudes. That's why I never would have thought that would work in basketball. I did that one year in fancy football, where I had like Danny Woodhead and all those guys, you know, all the white guys. Tough to win fancy football with all white guys.

But still, I would imagine that it would be much, much harder to win fancy basketball. Yes. Yes. Now we need to try to do fancy hockey league where he has all black guys. Yeah. Tired. Yep. Yeah, he sure is.

Yeah. OK. All right. Yeah. He's going to try that. Also, COVID is over. So cool to run. We did it, guys. We did it. They released a statement being like the it's over. Sweet. The White House released a statement being like the national emergency is officially over.

Hell, yeah. I don't know. There has to be at least one fucking loser in like probably New York City, who just now is going to leave their house. Yeah. Thank you, Joe. Thank you, Joey. Finally. There's one Montessori School, I think it's in New York

where they still have the kids that are masked up like 24 seven or at least while they're at school. And at lunchtime, they're not allowed to talk to each other. Whoa. They're not allowed to sing happy birthday in class. Yikes. So we did it. We did it. COVID is over. Yep. COVID is over.

You're welcome, America. Finally, finally wrestled that bitch to the ground. Can't believe it's long, weirdest, longest three years in terms of like, I don't remember. Someone was talking about the bubble championship. The NBA is like, that was so that feels like 100 years. That never happened. Yeah. Right. The bubble championship. I don't know where you're talking about.

Well, this is also prime, like all the, you know, memories you get from three years ago and people doing throwback. This was like peak. Oh, this these like last month was when it was the first the first month of COVID when it was kind of fun. Yeah. It was like snow day. Yeah. Tiger King, too. All the all the celebrities singing Imagine.

Yeah. Oh, actually, that's when COVID really was over. Yeah. That was that COVID never had a chance. Once Wonder Woman started to sing John Lennon. The first year, like second week of COVID was actually kind of fun because it was like, this is cool. We don't have to go. I had a great time until summer. Then it then it was got annoying. Yeah. Bad.

The best part about COVID was I got to watch Game of Thrones all the way through for the very first time. It was worth it. COVID is worth it because that's a great series. Yeah. I won three national titles. Yeah. Worth it. All right, Billy, the dozen started in COVID. Yeah. I came back.

Oh, yeah. All right. Go fucking COVID. OK, pros and cons. Wait, does that mean national titles? PFT got to watch Game of Thrones. Does that mean that Billy's off the show now? Yeah, that's it. Your watch has ended.

You were. Yeah. Thank you, Billy. You got us through three tough years of American history. You did it. My hot seats to Dalai Lama. Yeah. He was being a creep. He was. He asked a little kid to suck his tongue. I did the research.

It wasn't a mistranslation. Nothing got lost in translation. It was just as creepy as it sounds. Just suck my tongue. It also if like he's Dalai Lama, how old is Dalai Lama? I think he's 87. OK, so like old people, when they get to that age, they they forget when they're in public

or when they have cameras on them. He's definitely asking dudes to suck his tongue in private. Oh, yeah. That's not the first time that it's ever happened. He's been asking people to suck his tongue for years. Yeah, I just. If the Dalai Lama asked me to suck his tongue, I probably would do it just because, like, what if you get?

What if you get Nirvana? What is the Dalai Lama? So the Dalai Lama is like, I know. I know he's like for anyone wondering out there. You know, a guy. He's the religious leader of Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism. So I thought Buddhists can't speak. No, those are the monks.

Those are the monks. Our monks, Buddhists are sometimes Buddhists. Yes. But those monks. Hank, this is crazy. When when the Dalai Lama dies, they believe in reincarnation. So they have to go select a new Dalai Lama. It's kind of like Uggah. Yeah, actually, they have to go select a new Dalai Lama.

And the way they do it is they get like a bunch of nominees. And then they the other llamas, the other heads of this religion. And then they put these old artifacts that used to belong to the Dalai Lama in front of the kids. And then the kid has to be like, oh, I recognize this thing. And they're like, oh, it's the reincarnation of the priest. That's probably exactly what they do with Uggah, actually, take the old chew toys.

So they put the Dalai Lama's tongue on the table. So I would be like, oh, I recognize this. I should get people in the mix. I try to do that. I think that if you're if you're this kid, you know, much like if the tree at the Masters had fallen on you, you have the best lawsuit of all time. And if I'm this kid, I just demand to become the next Dalai Lama.

Yes, like he selected me. That tongue selected me. That's what I'm saying, though. If the Dalai Lama asked me, I mean, it was it's a kid, so it's fucked up. But if you asked me, a grown adult, I probably would suck his tongue just to see if I got something out of it. Yeah. What if I just had an eternal piece, maybe one tongue? Maybe we should just look into the whole selecting old people

to be leaders of religion for life and make them never have sex because it turns them into creeps. Maybe that could cross a couple of different religious platforms. Wait, whoa, hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm just saying, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Are you saying that someone who has like complete and in total power and basically never gets second guess might be taking advantage of their power? I would never say that. OK. All right.

Never said that. He also has a notes app, his apology. Yeah, that was said because that was like, dude, I I thought that you think that the Dalai Lama's got something better than the notes app. Yeah. But yeah, total creep move, weirdo. And he definitely doesn't in private. You don't you don't all you don't wake up at 86 or however many months he is and be like, today's the day I'm going to see if someone wants to suck my tongue.

Yeah. I mean, if you're going to become the Dalai Lama, you would hope that if you have it, you don't you just get chosen. Yeah. Yeah. But if it's honest, he never had a choice. If you're chosen as a Dalai Lama and you've achieved eternal life, you've achieved Nirvana, you should have a piece of technology that's one step up from like a relief picture that gets busted for domestic violence. Like the notes app should not be your go to at that point. When was the first Lama?

That's a good question. Booda was the first Lama. Now, Billy, I have a question for you. When you saw Dalai Lama asking for his tongue to get sucked, how quickly in a matter of seconds or minutes, if you want to go minutes, I checked the flight logs. No, were you like, no, were you like, Joe Biden sniffs hair? Oh, it was very quick. It was it was about 10 seconds.

It was about 10 seconds. Yeah. Listen, I know your playbook. I got you. My cool thrones, gamers turns out a bunch of gamers hacked the Pentagon and got special files. That feels bad. Yeah. That feels like as a joke. Yeah, it was like hackers. They got into an argument saying, well, it was first they found out that either you either die a gamer or you live long enough to become a hacker.

I would imagine most hackers are true. Oh, for sure. Yeah. Basically, in a gaming discord, two gamers got into an argument about political issues. So one of them just hacked the Pentagon and got files that support his side of the argument. That's awesome. And leaked a ton of documents that now have been spread across the world. Respect. Yeah. And he won the argument.

Those are our documents. And I bet you he changed that guy's mind. He probably did. Yeah. Definitely. That's how all internet arguments end. Yeah, you always change the other person's mind when you fight with them online. Yeah, if you just if you produce enough facts, you eventually the person that you're fighting with, they come over to your side. Today's the day I'm going to go online and change everyone's mind.

Mm hmm. Says everyone who talks about politics on Twitter. I dare somebody to debate me today on whether or not John Rahm's dad is dead because I will win that fucking argument. The 600th tweet about this subject will finally sway that. Mm hmm. All right, Jake. My hot seat is parade celebrations. Senator Richard Blumenthal fractured his femur at the Yukon parade.

Oh, no. After a fellow parade goer tripped and fell on him. He got up and finished the parade, but I got surgery. How heavy was that person? You know, that's a femur. That's that's a tough bone to break. Yeah. Yeah. Unless he was is he weak? Do you got weak femurs?

I don't have a femur problem. That was the the Democratic update from Jake. Yeah, sure. My cool throne is me putting myself on the cool throne because Elon just tweeted final date for moving legacy blue checks is 420. That's so funny. So do you get it? Yeah. So are you going to redouble your check?

OK, but like you guys might have to. Do it. OK, all right. Yeah, probably not. Yeah, like if you wake up by 420 or 421, you are already sold out. Billy, you'll sell out again. Once you sell out, you wait to Billy pay for a check. Billy just got one.

They can't call you. You paid for I can explain. Gee, hey, I just mother fucker paid for it. No, I didn't experiment. I didn't experiment. I got a grow. You know, is a bit. No, no, it was an experiment.

I want to see. I wanted to see if the like the engagements did go down. So I did this experiment where I grew a Sasquatch in a bucket of water. It was like, you know, this figurine sounds very scientific. So like I did day over day and looked at the engagement for each post, similar post, just a picture of a thing growing in a bucket. And every time it grew, like people would be like, oh, look, progress.

And it it was doing consistently through a couple of days. And then one day the engagement was terrible on it. And then that's because eventually people were like, OK, we get it. Billy's got a figurine in a bucket. But I kept growing. So and then you bought Twitter blue. And then I was like, and I bought Twitter blue and the engagement went back up to the numbers it was doing before.

So I was like, I'm not saying I won't buy Twitter blue. I'm saying I'm going to wait to see if he takes it away. I think that's what I want to risk it. No, that's my point. It's like, I'm going to just keep. I'll keep playing this game of chicken if he takes it away. And it's like, I need this for my job. I will buy it, but I'm not going to.

Yeah, I'll play the chicken with them. I might. That's fair. I might just wait to see what the prevailing sentiment online is. And if enough people are making fun of people that buy Twitter blue, then I won't buy it. But it does hurt your engagement currently, like, even though you still have it, the fact that you're not paying, it hurts your engagement.

You guys don't have to worry about that. But like, Hank, did it call you a sellout? Oh, I know. But somebody forced. Hank also had a blue check mark at one point. Yeah, and I got it taken away instantly. Yeah, I did that like three times. And then the last time they wanted the verified mentions tab. The last time they did it to me.

Twitter by was on verified check mark on me. It's OK. And then we got an email asking us if people wanted to get verified. And you said, yes, I couldn't get rid of it, Hank. I tried so very hard. They mean nothing, though. Instagram now, Instagram used to be the Instagram was hard. Like it took me a long time to get verified. I tried to go through the proper channels.

Why did you want to get verified on Instagram versus Twitter, Hank? Chicks. OK, well, God damn it. He just I've been working on this story for two years. He just went and said it. But now anyone can buy it. So it's worthless. Yeah, it used to be worth something for chicks.

But it's not even about that. Like, right, I tweeted something yesterday about now. They're going to think I bought it, which is actually worse. I think something about the hockey game and I can go past the character limit. Who's like that part? Ten 10 minute videos. No, that part sucks. I can tear this little segment.

Dude, I people. I like Twitter threads. There's like an illusion to it. Like, what is he going to say now? But if you're like 20 or 30 over, it's nice. Very important thread alert. Yeah, yeah. Want to know what like, oh, I'm waiting on bated breath.

Is is he going to really say that he emotionally cheated on his girlfriend and owes her money? Like, what's going to happen next? Yeah, you remember the the siren that goes off at the start of a very important thread. And then at the end, you can just my favorite is when you skip the entire thread and just go to the end. And at the end, the guy's like, so therefore I did not come on my cat.

Yeah, never was near my cat. I also can post full length 1080p like graphic animal videos. OK, that's probably what I've done. That was the best. That actually is sick. OK, good hot seat, cool throne, everyone. 420. That's so funny. That is so funny.

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It's the best looking truck that I've ever seen in my life. Go check it out. Chevy dot com. Learn more. And now here's Adam Richmond. OK, we now welcome on a very special guest. It is Adam Richmond. You may remember him from Manverse Food. He is now on the History Channel and he has a bunch of new shows.

Yeah, watch the food that built America. You have watched it. Is it toys that built America as well? Toys that built America two seasons of that Sunday nights, nine, eight central food that built America. Mondays at 10 with Peyton Manning, it's called the greatest of all time and rebels that built America is coming up. That's awesome because I like I was reading all the things you're doing

right now. It's like these all sound like shows I want to watch. Thank you, man. Yeah, they definitely don't suck. Like I like most people I'm like I dig history. But when it's these really cheesy AV squad reenactments where everything feels like the Hall of Presidents at Disney World, whatever. Yeah, no one learns anything and everyone just kind of tunes that garbage out and to actually like have be part of a show where like that's kind of gritty and real and like you see Dr. Kellogg giving his brother orders

through the bathroom door while he's dropping a deuce. I was like, hell, yes, this is real. This is the real shit. And like that's really what happened. So so what's your from all your history channel stuff that you've been doing, working on what's your favorite story or episode that you've done thus far? That's a great question. You know, this season is actually really dope because and fitting that I'm here

with my fellow stoolies that we go into sporting goods a little bit and people are like, well, why is it in food that built America? People don't realize Wilson Rawlings, they all started because of the surplus leather that they had of slaughterhouses. In fact, the milk bone started because of surplus milk at a slaughterhouse. The same inventor that would go on to invent margarine and unleaded gasoline got a bunch of milk dehydrated. It saw that his dogs were kind of into it, made a biscuit that couldn't give a shit.

He molded it into the shape of a bone and they almost took his fingers off. And that was the milk bone. But I think that the thing with like the sporting goods episode, like I didn't realize that fans used to think that players were kind of like pussies if they just they wore gloves and they didn't catch the ball barehanded. So guys were buying work gloves, putting cotton wadding in them and painting them flesh tone with fingernails on it. So it looked like they were catching it.

And I was like, you know, Scrooge edition hockey was traditionally played without helmets doesn't make it a good idea. Yeah. But I also love them. We were talking about your incredibly delicious coffee, not paid to say it yet. No, I'm just kidding. We can get your pain. I'm breaking stones. But the thing is we were talking about the name and that's the thing

I love this season. We talk about Chick-fil-A and Popeyes. And I never really knew the story. I never knew that Chick-fil-A started as a menu item at Waffle House. Oh, I never knew that Popeye actually the big Al who created it. He actually got sued by, you know, the whole Mel blank thing. And he said, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's about Popeye Doyle, the Gene Hackman character in French connection.

What? He's like, yeah, that's it. Safety with Curtis Candies. Babe Ruth tried to sue him for the candy bar. He's like, no, no, no, baby Ruth is about Grover Cleveland's baby daughter Ruth. Oh, my God, that's genius. And I didn't even know this. One of the cats bottom where this is from this season is just the peanut butter episode is really, really, really good and not just for like single guys who have a dog.

I'm saying that the peanut butter episode is actually really kind of enlightening and that one of the dudes who built Peter Pan was screwed over by the government and by his partner and he pivoted and created Skippy. And to this day, he has never paid the J.M. Barry estate one freaking penny for the name Peter Pan. That's crazy. That's crazy. Yeah, good for that guy, right? Isn't there a crazy story behind how cornflakes were invented?

A hundred percent, and it involves the Kellogg's, the one guy dropping a dookie. Well, his brother's talking, but it's the truth. Dr. Kellogg had the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan, and it wasn't like sanitarium, meaning like people losing their sanitary. But it was no, it was meant to be like a place to go for wellness. And he also had like his fixations against red meat, masturbation, the whole thing. In fact, there's a movie called The Road to Wellville where Anthony Hopkins plays that kind of character, but anyway, he would make them do marches.

Anyway, the short version is this, his younger brother, the younger Kellogg was the real innovator, and they would make this kind of mush, this sort of grain mush like this paste. Well, some of it had been left on a roller overnight and he cranked it in the morning when it was dry and it made these flakes and people loved it more. So he said, screw it, happy accident. Let's keep making it.

And people were loving it. Well, there was one executive named C.W. Post, whose company sent him there to like chill out and not be an angst ridden fuck. And can I say that? Yeah, you want. Sorry. And I apologize to A&E Network. I don't know how we do. And no.

And so C.W. Post stole the formula and he created Postam. And there was this big race and actually between the two Kellogg's, that's what created Corn Flakes. The K was actually from his signature, Coca-Cola. That's the accountant's signature. And it's it's kind of wild when you see these like little tiny things like I never knew. Like I never knew before doing this show that Hydrox not only came out before the Oreo,

but the name comes because they wanted to try to evoke purity because they had been fired from Nabisco and these guys like screw you guys. And they wanted to evoke purity. So they took water, hydrogen and oxygen became Hydrox. And like this season is like, like I think that's awesome. Yeah, I mean, I just always don't know them as shitty Oreos. Right. They were the first one. It's like the NIT verse.

Right. But this is like all these things that happened out of accident is they were the Kwame Brown of Oreos. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. Is he? Yeah, he goes after that life. Yeah. You don't want to fuck with that. No, I apologize that I'd like to see. I would like to formally apologize.

Apology about the rapper Kwame with the poke. No, no, no, no. Listen, we got. Listen, we'll hop in with you. No, I'm on Kwame. No, no, Kwame Brown is Hydrox. Oh, I'll be in there with you. We'll go back to back. Can I go? Can I go Brady Quinn? Can I go Colt McCoy?

Yeah, with with Corn Flakes. I've always wondered about those because when they came out, people were like, God, damn, these things are delicious. But Corn Flakes objectively suck, don't they? They have about four seconds where they're it's kind of like Big League Choo. Right. Yeah. And even that's like the sickest story. It's actually fitting to talk about it.

That was in I had done a show for History Channel called Adam eats the eighties. But even Big League Choo, that was a that was a relief picture for the Portland Mavericks owned by Bing Russell, whose 16 year old son Kurt Russell played for the team. There's that that movie, battered bastards of baseball is about it. But this dude saw a bat boy chewing some like shredded black stuff. And he knew his mom.

He's like, Todd, I'm going to break your arm. What are you doing? Your mom would kick your ass if she knew you were chewing tobacco. He's like, no, no, no, no, no, it's licorice. I shredded licorice. And that's where they had the idea about they said, why did you do that? They said, I want to feel like I'm in the big leagues.

And then so this one guy, Rob Nelson, turns to Bob Nelson, whichever you call it, they call him Nelly, turns to Jim Bout. May rest in peace. And for me, Yankee pitcher says, what about shredded chewing gum? What would you call it? He goes, I don't know, Big League Choo. And they made the first batch in the kitchen of a lady named Candy Field. She's still alive.

She lives in Portland. And her son is Todd Field, who just directed Tar, the one from Cape Lancet, directed in the bedroom. It's the crazy. All these stories about the food is nuts. That's amazing. But when when Corn Flakes came out, was it a revelation or people like, oh, my God, was food so bad in America at that time that this was like a holy shit.

Like flakes 100 percent. Well, because remember, back in the day, most breakfasts were usually leftovers. The idea of a breakfast industry was really not heard of and like food safety. The crazy thing is that it wasn't until the 80s, which we really hit in this season with like Reagan said, you could advertise directly to children. And you have like this arms race between General Mills and Kellogg's. So suddenly General Mills does Cheerios. Kellogg's has this crappy cereal called O.

Kays, where the pieces are O's and Kays. So the guy says, screw that. William Lamoff says, no more Kays. Let's just do the O's and let's make him fruit flavored. He chooses the Toucan ironically enough, a Toucan has no sense of smell. But because of the colored loops and what's crazy is fruit loops. Don't take don't have an individual taste. Your mind makes you think that the orange tastes like orange.

Yellow tastes like lemon or banana. No, that's not true. The all bullshit. They all taste not actually to tell us that green green M&M's don't make you horny. I mean, they make me horny. Yeah, they do. They absolutely are scientific facts. They nerfed her.

Yeah, they took away her high heels and her butt. Yeah. Yeah. But like that's only if you're like rubbing one out to the actual anime. But if you're out there, I don't know. I've been seeing some like newscasters get salty like we want our go-go boots on my fucking hot M&M back and give me the little bunny with the ass. So how do you have all these facts in your head now? Because this this, you know, everything is very thoughtful of you to say that, man.

I guess, you know, I really love like the culinary anthropology of it. And the thing is, you know, I'm a third generation American. My grandparents came here with neither pot to piss in or window to throw it out of and you read about like wrote like like the woman who ran Totino's, right? She and her husband had like so many jobs. She busted her ass. She actually, this is a true story. She she wanted a loan for a pizzeria.

No one in America knew what a pizza was. She had to make a pizza. Bring it to the guy at the bank for him to try the pizza to get the loan. That must have blown his mind. Right. Exactly. Not like, you know, like in that movie yesterday, like imagine being the first fucking person to hear someone play, let it be like the first person to try pizza. So he naturally writes her a loan.

But people forget she was so poor during the depression she used to hide and go back in her schoolyard after everyone left to find orange peels to eat the little bit of pulp off of. That's how hungry she was. And she went on to become the very first executive in the entire history of I believe it was was either Pillsbury or General General Mills at that point and made millions of dollars on this. In fact, everything, even the Geno's Pizza Roll became like under the Totino's brand.

And it's just this, like, I guess I really love like the individual stories. Like, yeah, I didn't know that famous Amos discovered Simon and Garfunkel or that he was an agent with William Morris. I didn't either. That he got his first, the first three people that cut him a check to open the first famous Amos store at that sketchy end, the sketchy end of sunset at the eastern end of sunset, where shit gets a little real. Yeah, it's like it was Helen Reddy, Marvin Gaye

and everyone's favorite mixologist, Bill Cosby. Oh, man. Road to the 6th, what a cookie. That's crazy. That is wild. Yeah. I mean, you've already blown my mind like seven times with the facts that you've just struck us. So I'm looking forward to watching that. What would you say is would be the one food if you were to like zoom in on one

that really represents America? Oh, what a great question. Great question. Huh. Thank you. The Lomain. Microwavable dinner. Oh, OK, yeah. TV dinners. The 80s was such a shift.

Remember, we had Reaganomics, so it was a switch of supply side economics. Tons of money floods the market. First decade that has two two parents working. So you have latchkey kids able to let themselves in cocaine. You have an F. OK. Yeah, yeah, shoulder pads, big shoulder pads. I mean, I'm exactly right here. Crazy hair, crazy hair.

Right. So then the other thing is you have advertisers advertising directly to children. You now have a kind of modality that the kids can cook with. Like parents didn't want kids working with flame and knives and stuff. But a microwave, you put the damn thing in, you press a couple buttons. So a latchkey kids suddenly had agency and could say, I want to eat this. I want to eat that. So the microwave technology changed it.

And I feel that like the microwave dinner as it has changed, like a certain flavors like back in the day is like a little fat fucking Brooklyn, my mom would buy Stofer's Lean cuisine because she was working a bunch of jobs and it was just easy and she knew calorically. I wasn't really pummeling my body with garbage. But now you find like all tortellini and artichoke bottoms and, you know, curries and all kinds of things. It's incredible. And it's but it's a direct correlation to where American tastes are at the time.

Like Swanson only created the turkey dinner because there was a surplus of turkeys. He had too many turkeys and didn't know what to do with it. Yeah. Isn't it true? Like there's I listened to an interview. I think it was our guy Eddie who did it with Dog Walk. He interviewed a guy who had was a butcher and he said that like ham used to be the meat and then turkey just completely took over for ham sometime in the last like 20 years. But you know how it is. It's like the funniest thing is we did an episode early in March

called Flight of the Buffalo Wing, right? And everyone always assumes it's the anchor bar in Buffalo. We come to find there was a black man named John Young, who lived on Jefferson, which was essentially the black main street in Buffalo. He was doing a version of what people in DC know as the mumbo sauce wing. So if you're going to compare like the hot wing is hot sour butter, whereas hot sour sweet is the mumbo sauce wing. And then when racial violence grip Buffalo, he and his family went to Tulsa

and then Chicago and then the police almost got the credit. But what's even crazier is that wings were considered shit. Wings were the thing used for a soup. The thing is used for a sauce, right? No one wanted it. And then this simple thing made it this incredible bar snack. And it never was a big thing. Like you were talking about that ham turkey substitution.

As we learn more things, you know, you know, when I grew up, people were eating veal, no one cared. Then suddenly this cruelty thing and our knowledge of veal changed. And then we wanted a different protein. And I think I don't know. I think what's also crazy is to see how we've been manipulated. Yeah, there is an episode about booze and we talk about the Moscow Mule. And what's crazy is this guy is like, how in the fuck do I sell

and Russian spirit to America in the middle of the Cold War? And so he goes to a bar in Hollywood. The owner of the bar is making his own ginger beer. And he's also just started hanging out, dating, sleeping with this actress, who's just inherited a copper mine and a copper fortune. So he says, listen, let's make the drink with your ginger beer, your copper mugs, my vodka and a lime.

And then we're going to make this thing. And he was one of the first people to have one of those instamatic polaroids. So he would go to all the bars in Hollywood, go and I'll give you a picture that you could take home to your wife if you try serving my drink. It's wild. I think it's changed based on how they're being marketed. Yes, good marketing firm behind it. Like you'll buy you'll buy anything.

A hundred percent why you're doing it. It's crazy. Like I read that lobsters used to be peasant food. A hundred percent was served to prisoners. A hundred percent. Why did that change? I forget the story. Well, the funny thing was is even a law on the books in Maine that you can't feed lobster to prisoners more than three times a week.

So they're essentially cockroaches. They are they have the exact same neurological system as a cockroach. And they used to just wash up in mounds. And that's exactly why they were considered poor people food. Like I'm from Brooklyn, you drive over the Bell Parkway and you would see people fishing off the Bell Parkway and people would go, oh, how ghetto, how gross, how whatever. It's like they're not paying for dinner tonight.

How ghetto is that? Right. But the thing was because it was so plentiful and because it was understood to sort of be a bug of the ocean, no one cared about it. Once it became less available and once other chefs started going, oh, this is a really delicate, flavorful. They gentrified bugs. Yeah, they gentrified bugs.

You're not wrong. And that's that's kind of the crazy thing. And now it's a felony to rob someone's lobster pot. Yeah. And there's a rule. You have to make the door of a lobster pot biodegradable. So if a lobster goes into an abandoned pot, it's not like a death sentence. They can still get out.

But it's it's this deeply beloved thing. But it's a really cool thing that you know that and it's it's even wild when you begin to realize how like, like, for example, Pepsi folded before World War Two because Coke got the contract for sugar. And it was only after the war that someone revitalized the PepsiCo brand. Herman Lay said that potato chips were an essential thing. And he got the contract that a bunch of chip manufacturers went down. Hector Boyardi, spelled B-O-I-A-R-D-I, who then, of course, changed it to Boyardi.

Yeah. He used his canning stuff to make rations for the US Armed Forces in World War Two. So you begin to see like how like the little historical things change. That's crazy. This is I mean, it's fascinating. So in terms of your career, how man verse food, I know, you know, that's a thing of your past, but we all loved it. Thank you, man.

Well, I like love the show. Thank you, bro. I actually got upset with you when you when you lost all that weight. Get that out in the open. I did write a blog being like, fuck Adam Richmond. Why do you lose all this weight? Like you were supposed to be the guy that we all looked up to because you had the dream job.

So by guns be by guns on that. But yeah, I was I wasn't that because I was still eating. I just wasn't eating like that while I was losing weight. Yeah, you I just remember you took a cover photo. Well, no, I took a center full. But that wasn't why. So they have a thing in Manchester at Old Trafford where Manchester United plays every two years called soccer aid and its celebrities and former pros

from England versus celebrities and former pros from the rest of the world playing soccer on the pitch, like on television. And I played a whole bunch in my youth. And so I dieted for two years with the sole goal of playing for soccer aid. So that was my goal that wasn't about, you know, like fat shaming or wasn't about. No, I know it wasn't. I was a stupid blog. I was just like, you have the dream job back and eat.

Because I I used to watch your show and be like, that looks like an awesome. Well, that was the thing that was the thing. Even while filming man versus food and man versus food nation. When I had that kind of discipline, it made me aware of how many calories those things were, but like my cheat meals were like built into my schedule. Yeah. So I'd work out, I'd do a shake and then like go to a place and have like because I knew basically I would take a bite in like three different focal lengths. They would do a two shot of me and the chef, one where they would follow

the burrito up from the plate, one where it's a wide shot of me biting the burrito and one of me doing it and then like jizzing and like, oh, it's so good afterwards. So I knew that I had at least four bites. So generally speaking, if you're keeping a low diet, four or five bites of like a mega like King Kong burrito. Yeah, you're good. So so so how did you how did you get into that? It like was that your idea?

I auditioned. OK. Oh, you never had done a food challenge before my final screen test. I went to Yale for my drama degree and I got signed by agency at totally. I mean, have you not heard the dorky ass facts of it's praying out here? Totally, totally. And I lost my glasses. No, I mean, I say that lovingly because we couldn't sniff an Ivy League school. No one in this room.

I'm the first member of my family. Oh, yeah, Billy went to Williams. He counts that as an Ivy League school. Well, I'm the first. But like I say, I'm lucky to have done it. But I got signed by agents out of the school and I read this book called the Renaissance soul life design for people with too many passions to pick just one. And it was really like I liked it because it wasn't like esoteric hippie

dippy bullshit. It was much more like real exercises that like made you answer. There was no like, I'm not sure you had to have a definitive answer about things. And I'm not kidding you. I did this reverse flowchart exercise and it came to television travel food host. And so I'm not kidding because I had that job didn't even really exist. Yeah. Well, yes and no. Right. Because I think guy was doing triple D.

You had Paula Dean's sons were doing a show called Road Tested at that point. I think Bourdain maybe was doing. Yeah, I'm like, you know, Bourdain and Andrew Zimmer and obviously I mean, granted, you know, Tony, it was about his voice, not really where he went. Andrew was eating, you know, sauteed panda taint and it was its own thing. And he's just so erudite and it comes from this food background. I wouldn't shit. You know, I was this this actor and I had played God on Joan of Arcadia

and I had been on, you know, guiding light and things like this. But I've been working in kitchen since I was 13 years old. And so I got the audition and they said, bring in something to eat. Describe the flavor. There was a big board like it was a handwritten like read like one of those restaurant intros I used to do. And then it was a casting director named Barbara Barna. So I I I came in and I bought like I brought a mole burrito

because I figured mole is kind of interesting to talk about. And I have a photographic memory. So I read the the read and she said, feel free to go back. And I was like, no, give me two more seconds. No, I got it. And then I just did it straight down the barrel. And she's like, well, what? You know, naturally you have to play possum a little bit.

Oh, do you need a safety? Sure, let me get a safety. I'm here in front of Katz's deli right on the corner of Ludlow and Houston Street in New York City. Now, even though it was originally across the street, it now is in its new location where it's been for hundreds of years. Even the sign in the window comes from the advent of neon. When Herman Katz actually asked the neon person, what do you want in the sign?

And he said, Katz's, that's all. That's exactly what it says. But today, blah, blah, blah, blah, that was awesome. Right. So then I came in and the final screen test after, you know, they had to check my references, make sure I wouldn't be asking. They had to see all these things and taste my food and this that and the other. And this is God's honest truth. Last screen test, Katz's deli.

I couldn't afford a Katz's sandwich. My boys and I used to split them and I went in the day before and I interviewed everybody I could. Mario Batali was there. Dean Winters, who played Ryan O'Reilly on Oz was there. So I took that as a good omen because I really was a big fan of his. But I interviewed everyone. I bought a t-shirt and I took it home. I cut the collar out of it and I was I'm telling you, I was so broke.

And I washed it five dollars worth of washing and drying to make it look old. And I wore a black hoodie and they told me they wanted an intro. So I kind of did what I was just doing there. You know, no less than four US presidents have actually eaten here. Reagan, Roosevelt, you know, Carter, Clinton, in fact, two Russian prime ministers and John Glenn asked for the pastrami right here on the launchpad. Now, the funny thing was, the show is supposed to be called Pig Out. And I said, fuck that.

Yeah. And so it was Valentine's Day 2000, 2008, I'll never forget it. And I said, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, but I'm here now for nostalgia. I'm not here to give you a history lesson. I'm here to take on the double Rubin challenge, a massive double Rubin, a pastrami French fries and, you know, I'm going to fuck it with my face and the whole thing, whatever I do this thing. And then I go, that's right. It's a new Valentine's Day massacre here in the Lower East side of Manhattan.

And this one is man versus food. And if you think that I'm reading this off a cue card, I'm just a big fan or I'm a big fan of cats's and I unzip my hoodie and I open it up. I go, this is my actual T-shirt, big fan. And then I go, oh, and then I said, excuse me, I flipped it. And then I said, this, I go, this Valentine's Day massacre is man versus food and food, it ain't your day. I turned on my heel and I walked in and Dan Adler, who went on to become my show

runner, looks up from the monitor with this look like Miyagi at the end of karate. You did it, you nailed it. And I got it. Same shit, different toilet. I was like, you need a safety? He's like, nah, an art. God bless him. Our camera guy, you know, who reminded me of every tailor, every Jew has ever had

anywhere, you know, oh, that's good. You know, we, no one did it in one paper. It's wonderful. That's wonderful. I was like, yeah, whatever. And ironically enough, I was working in sports TV at the time. I was working at MSG television and that was supposed to be my first day. And I called my director, shout out Kyle Carney, who was doing hockey night.

And I'm like, Kyle, I just face fucked this gigantic Ruben and fries. And I feel like I'm going to, he said, I've never heard gluttony used as an excuse to get at a job. He's like, you can go home, start tomorrow. And it's crazy because they used to give me shit. When I told them, I said, I'm going to have a show. And, you know, these, oh, where's our TV star PA? Where's our logger?

Because that's what I started doing was logging games, you know, anything at the garden. So Liberty, Knicks, Rangers, Rangers. I did some Devils games and stuff like that. Because Stan Fischler, the Maven was there. And then literally they showed him the sizzle and come to find that New York episode when I finally went back to Katz's. My PA was the wife of the director who used to break my balls. Oh, that's perfect.

They should have known. I mean, anybody can spend five minutes with you and be like this guy should be a television. What a nice thing to say, man. Yeah, I mean, it means a lot. Yeah, you obviously care about it a lot. And also the fact that I'm a big fan of y'all. I you're exceptionally gifted.

You've got to be on the Mount Rushmore of Eaters. Yeah, it's like you you and Joey Chestnut are dangling up there. Wow, I believe football and Michael Douglas. Yeah, well, Joey, Joey does this thing. If you watch the San Jose episode of man versus food. So when I met him, like, fuck bowing, I walked into the room and I lay prostrate at his feet like child's pose, like arms at my side at his feet. And he's like, dude, like I've watched.

He's like, you know what it's about. It's like that focus where it's not about the food. And I mentioned and if you watch, I stole something from him that like some story producer gave the most they called the get down in my belly shakedown, shimmy. And I was like, bitch, I'll fight you in the street. But I watched Joey, I think I just unplugged myself. No, Joey, Joey throws himself.

He throws his body downward like his rib cage toward his pelvis really hard. But he's literally just shaking the food down. But the other thing is he takes one more bite than any human does. Like so I can sit there and take like four good bites of a burrito. But he's got that like fifth bite. Like I think he's got that. Yeah, the jaw strength. Yeah, crazy.

It's nuts. And the bites like come from his back of his head, like from his spine. It's just it's like full Pacman hinging. And I don't know how he does it. And did you not see was it last year? Some guy tried to like stunt on him or to protest. And Joey ox collar to shit. We wanted to be a cop.

Yeah, yeah, and took him down, took him. I mean, Kobayashi, yeah, drop. Kobayashi could never like 90 pounds. That whole thing he did with the whole like hanging on the fence and stuff. I mean, if anyone knows Joey, you know, what a war. Like a warm, humble, self-effacing guy he is. And now he's the best. And he's also I was actually lucky enough to compete in it one year.

Yeah, the Pita threw fake blood on me. I was on the end of the stage. But Joey, I like I actually do. And people think I'm joking when I put him like with like M.J. Ali, Tiger, but who's we were on the bus, all the competitors. And he was just like holding court, like the reverence that everyone has for who's better was insane. Yeah, who is I mean, to me, like everything there is like that Alpha and Omega.

Like I was lucky enough to have Bourdain as a mentor and to have Andrew Zimran as a mentor. And like I still my voice was funny. I was I walked in the building, you know, I play guitar and I was listened as a solo. I'm desperately trying to learn from a pretender song called Boots of Chinese Plastic. And Bourdain used to love Super Trent. We still love the pretenders. And I was like listening to him and it's so interesting when you see like how whether it's like YouTube people or social people where you see like little bits of him.

But yeah, like there are those people like like the Sean whites of the world, like the M.J. Yeah, and they command a room and they command. Yeah, just by their presence. Yeah, he is he is the goat. So doing man versus food. What was your favorite? What's the one you look back and you're like killing it today, bro. Yeah, you know, of all the challenges, the only one that I would legit like go back

and eat is a meal in Alaska. And I never forget my mother's like, I really don't like the name of this challenge. It was called the Kodiak arrest. But what was so dope was right. It's not exactly a galvanizing name. Like, oh, boy, am I excited to distend my asshole and my aort at the same time. But what's so cool was before the chef got really, really drunk. And if you listen to this, brother, you know, you were in the bag.

I go, where do you get the crab? He goes like this and opens the block, the front blinds of the window. He goes, that boat. I said, where do you get the salmon for the salmon cakes? He walks over. He has these people in a booth. Excuse me, can I just show Adam something? And they're like, if we get a picture, whatever.

So then he lifts the thing. He goes, that boat. I said, what about the berry cobbler? He said, two stop lights down half a mile down the road. There's a berry farm. And that was the thing. It was like it wasn't a lot of one, whatever it was. It was a bunch of crab legs.

It was housemade reindeer sausage, which I'd never had before, which is freaking delicious. They have a housemade mustard. That's top four mustards lifetime. The berry cobbler, which is again, like having something sweet at the end of all that savory was really bomb. The salmon cakes, they were good. They were just a little crunchy, oily, whatever is, but having a little bit

of something different to keep your taste buds interested, that was really cool. And the quality is ferocious. I'll put it this way, of all the places where I did a challenge, the only, I haven't been back to that many. I've been back to one in a million in Austin, where I did the breakfast taco challenge just because Juan Mesa is just the best. His family is the best. The food's amazing.

It's totally affordable, totally non-pretentious. They always have a seat. He treats every, like it's not because I'm the meat puppet on TV. Juan Mesa would meet a cab driver from Midtown and embrace him like a long lost brother. That's that kind of thing. Everybody in the line. He'll come up to you.

He'll slap your hand. Yeah. You know, he gets you with the best handshake in, in Texas. I got voted best handshake. I, he did. They actually did like a pole. There's a, there's a plaque by the door. Best restaurant.

I mean, I believe it. I've, I've shook the man's hand five times. And he gets that heel to heel shit. Like, I was like, buddy rich, bang, like it's, but yeah, there. And it humpies Alaska nailhouse. When I filmed Fandemonium at Arctic man, AKA burning man's cold as cousin, whole lot less like fatty Instagram girls and fishnet, just lots of snowmobiles. Yeah.

And they have a halibut taco there that is one of the most extraordinary. Like I've sent multiple chefs there and they can't figure it out. It's like just done on a plank, very fresh fish, no very little sauces and stuff. Amazing. Okay. The Acme oyster house in, in New Orleans. Great place. Great place to go.

That, that was tough to watch though. They're watching a person eat. How many oysters was it? 150 oysters. 100. No, it was 180. It was, it was 15 dozen. Is that 180 or 150?

When I'm not a math guy. Hanks are math guy. You're the Yale guy. Come on, Adam. Yeah. But I did drama down the street. They were discovering a cure for cancer. I was rolling around being an Amoeba.

I think that's a hundred and that sounds right. 15 dozen. Is it 180? 180. Thank you. Yeah. I only, I, my, my math score wasn't as good as my verbal. But the, uh, yeah.

No, well, first of all, Lucian, who runs that place, love him. And like, you know, to be a dirty old man with a successful business in the French quarter. I mean, and I mean, like his sense of humor was, he was a very cool guy, but like the hustler cubs across the street. So he's like, you'd 180 here. How many are you going to eat across the street? And I was like, as long as they don't taste like the ones here, but he literally,

he would do foul stuff. Like he like popped an oyster on camera and then like, he knew how to cut it. He's like, you got to open it up. I was like, man, come on, we're eight 30 on a Wednesday. Just lure out the oyster when he comes in. Yeah, exactly. He's like sliding his finger in the oyster. He's like, looking at it, man, damn, I should call her.

But you know what the thing was, this is the truth. And this is a, this, I'm so glad to get to share this PMC, man. Cause I, I, I really, I, I, I know that like people have their association with Barstow and stuff, but you guys always make me laugh and always make me smile. Appreciate it. I think in the past couple of years, smiles and laughter has been in pretty short supply. So I'm very grateful for y'all.

So I beg your pardon, but the, uh, for my little brief dick flute solo. No, one thing that I remember was, um, so I was up to 11 dozen. And they used to have like a little compound bucket in case I had a reversal of fortune, but Dan Adler, now bear in mind, this guy's like a dear friend. Clearly a genius went on to do, to create doomsday preppers, 90 day fiance. Love after lockup. That's Dan Adler, the guy I auditioned for for man versus food. And, uh, Danny had been off the road.

He came back. So this was like, I'm pulling. I said, Danny, you know, you're leaving on a W. I refuse to have you come in or, you know, so the bucket was like, I don't know, kind of like where you are right now. Like, I don't know what would you say about seven feet, eight feet, eight, 10, you know, whatever. I didn't want to say out loud, hey, Danny, move the bucket over, especially

because it was like a bachelor party next to me. If you watch this one guy screams and I pretend to fucking stab him with my fork, so they were there and then I, I saw it and I got the 11, they bring the 12th dozen thing over and I went, come so far. I can't stop now. And because of the similarity to the song lyric, I turned to these guys and we went to change this love and slowly all of acne starts going, I want to know what love is, I want you to show me.

And like, I'm so, so hyped. I'm sitting there pounding oysters. I want to feel what love is pounding it. Meanwhile, Dan's losing his mind that we can't clear the song. Everyone stops singing. I'm like, keep singing and I'm standing up. So if you watch the episode after the 11th, we switched the time lapse and we cut in because I was getting so in.

So we get close to the, I didn't even realize I'm dusting him. So now I have maybe a dozen and a half. Everyone calms down and I'm like, and like Dan stops everybody. Everyone booze him. Like he's the guy who took the beach ball away before the concert. Yeah. You know, boo. So I sit there and there was one drunk guy by the door, like right by the street

door, and he just stands up, I want to know what love is, and it would starts again and I get those last six. So then after that, I knew I had it. And like it was just that was horrible. And I will say this, I was dating her from Alabama. She broke my heart in about a million pieces. When my first time's like actually going out, my P.A. Patrick is the best wingman in history.

We went out to the casino there. I met this girl and we're talking and all of a sudden some cockpock in some business, the only is walks past me and goes careful, girl. He just had a hundred and eighty. Oh, no, that's a great one. Or it could mean you're just really, you're just really horny. Yeah. But that's what he that's, I think, what he meant.

I don't think he meant like he's going to Jackson Pollock out his asshole. And to be fair, 50, 50. Yeah, why not both? Exactly. You've got to be in defense of that guy. That's a line you can't pass on. Right. Exactly.

Like the show hadn't aired yet. The show, no one knew what it was. So these guys were like, wow, I didn't know I was getting a floor show. They had just started airing the commercial and I'm doubled over after that challenge in my hotel room. I'm sitting on the porcelain throne and I hear those cheerleaders going, man, versus food. I was like, shut the fuck up.

That's so great. So so was that Aaron Andrews sister is in that commercial. Oh, in the in the red head. That's her. That's her sister. So was that the worst one? Or was there one that you think about all the time? Every spicy one sucked.

And the one I lost one spicy one in the entire time I did MVF and it was the munchies, a fire in your hole, very subtly named munchies for 20 cafe. And they were lovely people. And I think because I said something on hot ones, but the truth of the matter is we did hear on his mic, he said, let's just add the whole bottle. Let's just go out and the thing is ghostly extract is toxic. They literally weaponize it in police grenades in India. And the thing is there's a difference between something that's hot and

something that's dangerous. Right. The best, the best spicy challenge, best, best, best. I don't mean best in terms of like it was a true challenge and it was still good. It was called the ironically enough special number two at Aurochon Ramen in Los Angeles. If you like spicy ramen, it's delicious. Like the guy's noodles are great.

He's a quiescent MMA fighter. So he was like real funny. We were like talking about like locks and arm bars and tracks in the kitchen and shit, and he's actually a pretty, he actually brought the noodles over. He snuck them in his clothing from Japan when he brought them over and he really cares, but it was so spicy. It was good. So you wanted to keep eating it, but so spicy.

My tears burned, my piss burned, my not burned, but it was still like a true challenge versus something that's just going to be doused like this one chip thing where it's just so much extract. There's no flavor. There's one here in New York City, Brick Lane, the foul curry challenge. And that one's really funny because I thought I beasted it. There's a bar called, I think it's called the Golden Blue, I think, like down in the village.

My boys and I went to go play pool afterwards. I put the quarters in like and I went, I went down to push the quarters into the thing. I went down and I couldn't get back up. So all they saw me was like sink below the pool table and like, fuck you go, man. We dealt with a spice challenge on this podcast one time. Actually, Billy did it. It was at the Buffalo Wing Factory in Northern Virginia.

And similar to your point. Well, no, not. No, he didn't win. No, no, he didn't get one. Food dominated. Food dominates him. He loses. He we've basically recreated your show, but food always wins.

Yeah. But this one, I'm kind of after a factor, you yar off. We think that they did what the guys did to you. Yeah. Once the cameras came out, we think that they said to themselves, all right, let's fuck with this guy. And then Billy ate. You ate what?

Three wings? No, I literally ate half a wing. And then as you said, it hit me. And I was like, you start hiccuping. No, it's like, this is weapons grade in my face. And I burned for 24 hours all over my face. I got a little bit on my like wrist and it just burned for hours. If you people forget, so capsicum is an oil.

And that's why the best thing we want in your mouth is to some bread and spit it out, but it's so intense. If you watch. So one of the spiciest things, and this was all about macho pride. Why I won in San Antonio. I did this burger challenge called the four horsemen and it had like actual full ghost chilies on it, not an extract, three whole peppers on it. Not to mention habanero sauce and all this other shit.

I was punching the table like so hard, like I was losing my mind. I finished it. They gave me a popsicle and I ran it over my forehead. Kind of like schmaltzy TV stuff, but also it was cool. If you watch later on in the episode, I have a streak across my forehead. That's the exact width of the popsicle and it's because the oil is so caustic. The one that almost like really like turned me into Phantom of the Opera in Santa Clara, where I got in trouble for elbowing somebody

like the cops came and stuff like this. I was like, don't fucking touch me when I'm eating like I'm eating and I'm eating hot stuff. Please don't shake me. Don't elbow me. Right. What's wrong with you? And so after you ate this challenge, this stuff, you had to leave the sauce on your face and hands for five minutes.

And I'll never forget this. So I had done this like a schmuck. Like what I'm doing, what I'm doing listener is Adam is grabbing his fingers as though he's, I don't know, doing something on only fans. And like that little teardrop fingertip together thing and then pulling the sauce off. What I did inadvertently was rub the sauce into my cuticles. And I couldn't bend my fingers.

My hand swelled so bad, I was trying to sign autographs and stuff afterwards. And thank God our makeup artist is very devout and her church group had come and there was a dermatologist. I was like, as a Jew, I want to say thank you to your church group. And he had to go up to the like there was a Publix or something or a Kroger and he got cortisone like prescription string cortisone and aloe to put on my face. No way. But if you watch, yeah.

Oh, if you watch, I look. That's torturous. What I mean, like when you do those challenges, I would imagine how quickly would you do them back to back to back? Because like I question you do something like that. And it's like, I don't want to eat forever. The first 10 episodes, everyone's like, I could do what you do. The thing is, could you do those first 10?

Like, so remember, I'm tomato ketchup. No one knows who I am, cares who I am. No one expected to show when I got picked up. They had a show with the Honey Jones, who played for the Jets and the Bengals called the Honey Tackles the Globe. They had one called Bridget's Sexy As to Beaches with Bridget Marquardt, one of Heff's three girls with Holly and Kendra. It was Bridget was the sort of the older of the three of them, a lovely person.

And and obviously they had Andrew Zimmerman and they had Tony. So it was player to be named later, you know, I like him along in the draft, like no one knew who I was. And suddenly it popped off. But in the beginning, it was travel, shoot, shoot, challenge, travel or shoot, challenge, shoot the very next day. So there was no downtime. Eventually, once the show had a little bit of accolades

and the tail could wag the dog a little bit, I could say I need a recovery day. Right. Or I need a prep day. But back in I'll never. Oh, my God. I'll never forget the first real challenge I ever had to do on camera. The pilot was in Memphis and we did a thing called the Kooky Canuck. It was called at the time, the Big Foot Lodge. But it was a burger, roughly the size of a bar stool cushion. And it wasn't a fitting.

And and it wasn't badly made, a really wonderful cook there and everything. You know, he is Canadian. It's what's called the Kooky Canuck now. But it's just so much of it. And I didn't know how to do challenges yet. And so I had to do this. I finished the challenge and the very next day, I had to show up to Gus's fried chicken and try to like, yeah, I'm so excited to fry chicken and pie.

And then it's like, excuse me a second, let me go into the bathroom for the fourth time in an hour and have a brown baby. And I'd be right back. That's crazy. And that was the thing. Well, luckily, like the walking in the coffee, like I came in ready to fight Klitschko, I came out ready to fight Pacquiao. Like I was like, I looked so much better on camera by the time I did the intro read because I had ground beef up to my nipples when I started.

When I finished, I was like, vegan. I was like, ready to go. It really is fascinating because it was one of my favorite shows when it came out. I was talking to memes about this yesterday. And we used to both plan where we would go eat in cities based off places that you had gone. So it was a fantastic show. If you haven't watched it, go watch old episodes of it. Thank you. You're also doing stuff.

You got is it your own YouTube channel that you're on? Because I saw one video where you you you claim to have come up with the best hangover cure of all time. And I'm very interested about this because I've been I've been as a scientist trying to figure that out for the better part of 15 years. I keep getting close, but I'm not there. Yeah, that video I think you're referring to on hot ones. Sean, who I love, he's a good buddy of mine.

And I so I recently joined the first we feast complex fam. I have a podcast with them called The Meals That Made Me. But on the first hot ones I did, Sean said, what's your hangover sandwich? And it was based on so basically, you know, you're going to need starts. You know, you're going to need fat and you know, you're going to need a little bit of salt, just generally speaking. It's why like back in the day, bacon, egg and cheese and French fries,

a fountain Coke, and I was usually right as rain, a couple, Tylenol. And I was usually pretty good. But no, my hangover sandwich was you do eggs and some dried tomatoes, mozzarella, and I put in a Sam Adams cream stout. I don't know why that was the one that always worked. And once the alcohol kind of cooks off, it has this kind of I don't know, malted thing that really goes down well. And then I put it on like a bagel or a roll.

But there was just something about it where it didn't go too rich or too sweet or to whatever. I'll tell you this, though, I do have. And I guess I may as well tell, because people who gatekeeper kind of, you know, Dick Blisters anyway, spicy challenge hack. OK, and this is the truth. Oh, it's it's Billy needs. If you want to my my my sound, my camera man, Tom Dodson, pissed me off to no end.

He was always funnier than me, funnier than everybody on the crew. And he used to refer to getting hickory hole or rings thing. You know, he would burn out the leather cheerio. I could do this all day. And so the way to avoid hickory hole before you do anything spicy, eat a banana and eat a small thing of white rice. And then I would do something like, you know, pink bismuth, which is Pepto Bismol, but something to coat.

But I would do the banana is the crucial thing. I learned it at Flying Pie in Boise, Idaho. They have the triple habanero explosion. And the guy's like a lovely human being, super duper, yogi, whatever. Lovely human being and the his staff really cares. I said, how do you eat this, though, and not have to retire your asshole to science? And they said the banana, apparently something about the banana and the potassium encapsulates the capsicum.

So you have a good exit strategy. And that's the thing. Your body is going to produce acid to break down whatever you eat. But if what you eat comes down and caustic, you have acid and acid. You have oil and oil and it's too much. And the thing is dairy is good here, but dairy is the absolute worst in your stomach. Huh. So that's why I found if I did a banana before I did hot ones, before I did hot ones, I did a banana.

I did a small thing and I did a shot of the Pepto. And then I came in and I just did it. Your mouth is going to hurt. And if you're nervous about that, you can bring some ambisol, but whatever. But like, yeah, that's the thing is just how is it going to feel in your stomach? Yeah. Yeah. That's a dairy. Dairy is good if you swish and rinse it out. But the best thing you can do hot dog bun, I don't know why.

Maybe it's because it's so spongy and starchy, but an old hot dog bun, like not an old one, like I'm not saying like for the grazed papaya. But I'm saying you do that. You do it and you spit it out. It's actually like a sponge and it takes all the capsicum at you. Wow. All right. Because otherwise you're going to be you'll be giving birth to red crayons. Yeah. Yeah.

Did you have to like roll with your own? Did you have like a kit that you brought with you on the road? Like I need that I can't do quilts in northern. I got I got to go like five ply. I love that. Okay. So no, I should have, but one. So I'm sure you guys know on sets, right? You say, I'm going 10, one if you have to pee and 10, two.

If you're dropping, you know, taking the Browns to the Super Bowl. And so that's the way you politely just say, you know, oh, where is where is so and so he's 10, one, you know, and that's what you say. So I had been taking these fat blockers kind of like the prescription strength of ally. We were filming in Hawaii and Giovanni shrimp truck, but we had filmed the day before at this place called Moose McGillicuddies. And this woman was doing this challenge had like 12 cheeses and 900 eggs

and every sausage and probably a stick of butter. I didn't even I had a few bites of it. And like if you've ever taken a fat blocker, you know, you know, when when something's going on. You remember the olestra chips, the olene chips back and people forget about those, the wild chips. They remark that you had to bring extra pair of underwear. It's so fat.

And there was a label on the back that was so bad. Yeah, we'll cause anal and people still bought them because I can't believe this is a real thing. Yeah. Yeah. And it's like it's zero fat, but it goes right through you. So the thing was, yes, I it was a it was a one and done. And I usually was pretty good about it. And, you know, you're sauteing shrimp and oil and butter and stuff like that. And I just remember saying to Danny, like, I got to go check on the 10, 200.

Is the 10, 22 in there? Like 10 to I was like, is the 10, 2000? I got to go check on the 10, 2000. And I went back and forth and I just remember I kept going and I said, no, we have and I remember my sound guy knew what I was doing. And he kind of covered for me. It's like, no, we have this piece of editing equipment. And Adam is kind of responsible for it because he's a producer.

By the way, Eric Beanie, I love you with all of these two time Emmy winner for HBO twenty four seven wrote to the winter classic. Oh, yeah, he's a big hockey guy, like literally said the kid took off this jersey and gave it to Eric. He's like that kind of quality human being. But straight up like Eric was like, no, Adam, I said, I remember I said to the trailer owner, I'm like, I used up your T.P. Like, no, man, it's what it's there for.

I said, just thank you for having enough. Yeah, man, it's an issue. But, you know, nothing and everybody always wanted to talk to me about my puke, my asthma, this by that, the other. And I always felt rough and like one of the things that was really nice is what you said. And I know it probably sounds like some sappy bullshit, but you have to remember prior to the pandemic, I say this as a restaurant

kid, you know, my dad had me working in place on us 12 is prior to the pandemic. That was the worst time for independent restaurants. Two thousand eight was when we came out and with the recession and everything. It was the hardest time for mom and pop restaurants in every place on man versus food did 80 to 300 percent more business. Oh, that's awesome. And it was because people like you believed in me and believed what we did. And so literally I got a text from Mike Emerson from Papi's barbecue

in St. Louis, he's like, my brother, I just wanted to tell you, I could draw a direct line from the day you walked in my front door to me being able to live in Hawaii. Yeah, that's very cool. That's awesome. And a nicer guy there is none. And if you've ever been to St. Louis, Papi's barbecue, get there early, order everything because they sell out.

They sell out. Those are the best type of places to the president of Real Madrid had to make a call to get his kids some barbecue. Oh, my God, that's incredible. So, I mean, this has been awesome, man. We really appreciate you. So is your coffee, bro. Yeah, so you roast it.

It's roasted actually in New Jersey. So are you a big coffee guy? I am a big coffee. We were talking about this and you told me to save it for the show. Yeah, yeah. But so I want to hear this because that's what I was going to ask because your coffee is genuinely good. Like, again, I already gave that one Dick Flute solo on course cost money.

You know, you have to go. I did think about like probably some chubby chasers may want to do something like if I got like a sponsorship from like Hexclad or Calphalon. If I did like an only pans, just my because I know I look a little bit like Fred Savage on a bender. Like people look at me go Fred Savage looks terrible, but Jay Leno looks great. I figured like me, like just just neck it with like a saucepan. Yeah, something like that.

Some chubby chasers going to be like score. But no, so basically one of the best things is, you know, not to be like all like John Cougar Mellon campaign that America. But I do love this country very much. My dad was a vet, my grandpa, my uncle. I used to be chairman of the board of the Armed Forces Foundation. I work with what do you call it? Clear Path or veterans out of Syracuse.

So getting to really see the country is the best. So I say, what are my passions? So I deliberately in every city, I went to a coffee roaster, a comic book shop, a bookstore, a record store and some kind of like streetwear, a local men's store. And even if I didn't buy anything, I met people like that were cool. That would like tell me about, oh, there's a dope show. So like, what connection do I have to St. Louis? And suddenly I'm at this really cool, like indie rock thing.

Next thing I'm at this house party. Next thing I'm at a magazine launch. And then I have this t-shirt and like, so coffee has been really big. And there's a chef in Hawaii, Allen Wong, and he has a coffee list. I'd never seen that. I only seen a wine list. He's like, why not? I know the aftertaste of everything you've eaten.

I could pair the perfect coffee to finish it. Oh, that's great. And like, I didn't get a boner, but I definitely like, I didn't go full six to midnight, but I felt the heartbeat in it, you know? And so I bought a bunch of airtight containers and I would cut the bag and I have them. And if you look in my kitchen, I have a bunch of them in these airtight containers. And I am going to pick up. So you have dark medium and light, which is your favorite.

I like the medium, the big cat blend, but I also like the light. What made you what made you roast coffee? So I've always loved coffee. I have two soon to be three kids. And so coffee became like not only just what I enjoyed, but also like I needed it like constantly copy. So yeah, it was and I was like, why not? And my dog Stella, she's 11, about to be 12, you know, not going to last forever.

Dogs don't live forever. So I figured there's a cool way to start something. Such a long time to be gone. Such a short time to be there. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. I don't know that. I don't know that lyric.

Yeah, I don't know. It's impossible to play guitar with a finger. I have no idea what what you're talking about right now. I don't know. Stella blue coffee, but you're so ungrateful and alive. I think that no, but I think it's really good. I'm going to give you a good mariny because I really love the taste of this. If you took your dark roast and you did equal amounts, cold.

If you took lung and broil, one of the cheapest cuts of meat, it's very it's healthy for you. It's very lean, but not very marbled. And I used to do this like on the come up and my friends couldn't believe it. Equal parts, black coffee, soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, red wine, three smashed garlic cloves, salt and pepper. Put it in a Ziploc and you could even put a straw like ghetto cryovac. Yeah, like you zip it except for a straw.

Don't suck up the liquid because it's disgusting, but you do this and you zip it, leave it there for a few hours and you can just sear it. But the acids, they denature the meat and they tenderize it so much. And the coffee, when you cook with coffee, it has that rich kind of chicory without being chicory, but that campfire kind of note. And the soy keeps a little salt without getting too intense. It's worth it. That's good.

I'm going to try that because then you could do it. So that's why I used to do that and slice it into little things and make wraps with it or like fajitas and shit. I like that. Really good. I like that. Well, I appreciate you saying that the coffee is good because that's all I want is people to like the coffee. Um, last question.

Yes, sir. Roeback question. Promo code, take 20% off first purchase. Q zips, polos, hoodies, joggers and we're in the joggers right now. Most comfortable where if you're going to eat a big meal, throw on the sweatshirt, boom, ready to go. We do have a cheese steak. Pardon my cheese steak.

You're not, we're not going to make you eat it. Oh, you can have a bite. You're allowed to take a bite. You're allowed to take a bite. We got two of them. So we have our own cheese steak. We wanted you to, how did you, how did you, that's awesome. So yeah, we have ghost kitchens around the country.

We actually have a food truck across the street. So it's a little cold, but we would like you to try it and just tell us what it is. I would be honored. And if you don't like it, we're going to cut it. And we also want you to watch Billy try to eat one as fast as you can. Yeah. You can just tell him, you can critique his own, uh, Holy moly, what do I have?

Do I have whiz, whiz, wit? Yeah, I think, I think you should have the regular. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, hell yeah. So Billy, Billy's going to also eat one as fast as you can. And you're not cutting him. You just go like, hold on.

Yeah. Okay. Do you have any advice for Billy as he trusts to eat this as fast as possible? So he needs all the advice that you can give him. Do you have a beverage? Do you have hot sauce? I don't have a beverage. And he doesn't want hot sauce.

I don't want hot sauce. What condiments do you like? Because the thing is that you sometimes the addition of a different flavor or a different consistency, like when I did a cheese steak challenge, I was like, hating life for a bit. And then just like adding in ketchup or whatever. You had to change it up. Yes.

Exactly. Quick, these don't look too bad like this. And the other thing is it's the first 22 minutes that you have before, like your stomach starts sending alerts. Oh, that's interesting. I have a couple of questions about the big Texan. Oh, yeah, please. Yeah, I did the first.

That was the first episode that aired. Wait, wait, Billy. Let me ask your first question for you that you're definitely not going to ask. What is it a good? Is it a good strategy to drink three beers right before you try to eat this big steak? No, it is a terrible strategy. How did you do it? Not drinking three beers?

No, honestly. So I would do and it's funny. You mentioned the big Texan. This is very, this is very perfect. This is a true that America moment. So I had done other challenges before and I lost in Memphis. We did Columbus, Austin, Amarillo, Chicago. I won in Columbus with the Dagwood lost terribly in Austin to the Don Juan.

And then Amarillo was and I'm telling you, my exec producer called me. Never called me. He's like, we really need a W today. Because, you know, that's the legitimizing thing. So someone I had read some stuff that leg, leg workouts and back workouts. Yeah, they really help. They really help like, like gun your metabolism. So what I first did was, and this is the truth, I would take every book.

I put my shoes, the Gideon Bible, but there were phone books back in the day in my suitcase and I would do shoulder loaded squats and bent over rows in my room. And then, and this is the truth, my little weird hotel in Amarillo. I ran the parking lot and I started doing those line touches like, like, like basketball teachers, the line drills. Yeah, so someone says suicide. Yeah, so someone thought there was like a meth addict in the parking lot. And the cops came and there's some guy running around and he's touching the ground.

And I'm like, no, I have to eat at 72 ounce steak later. The other thing that Danny, one of the two brothers, taught me again, using condiments to fight what's known as flavor fatigue. But also some alcohol is not bad. He goes, take a sip of red wine before a beef challenge. It will make your mouth almost crave the red meat and it will make more saliva. Helps you. And it's the truth that does help. Billy, can you, what's your fastest you ever had a part of my cheese steak?

I think I did in a minute 32. All right, so we're trying to break that. We're trying to break. Yes. All right, I'll pull up the timer. You ready to go? Well, I let Adam take a bite first and let us know. Got it. Can I cut it to the middle? You can do whatever you want.

Yeah, I want to try the middle. Good stuff is it looks delicious, though. Yeah, there's water. Do we get some water? Very good. Really, really good. OK, we'll take that. Put that on a quote card. Yep. Adam Richmond said best cheese steak he's ever had.

He can't talk right now. That's what he said. That's what he said. That's what he said. I say, you know, no, seriously, what I like that the onions are not like cooked beyond all recognition, they have a little bit of crunch still. Yeah. Yeah. That's why I tell you summer caramelized, summer crunchy. I like that some of the meat has that char in the crunch

and some has a little bit more of a tear. Yep. Personally, I go for them cut in half because I'm a savage, but really, really good. OK, good bread. And I like that the heat of the meat like they must put the whiz on right at the end. Yeah. So the whiz stays nice and. All right, this is really impressive.

You guys did a great job. All right, thank you. All right, Billy, you ready? I'm going to start the clock. So I'm going to napkin, I feel. Yeah. Yeah. A very bukkake kind of thing. All right. Remember, just it's a three or four bite

swallowing if you need you, if you're feeling full. This is what I'm not kidding. Joey just would throw his body down and it does legitimately force the food down. I was so when you're talking about before, you knew how to do a food challenge. What were some of those things that learned stalling like? Like, like, what do you learn? Don't don't answer. I really don't know how to do a food challenge.

I just eat it. I just eat it. We're aware. No, it's fair. I learned some shit like so. OK. Joey taught me I would drink a gallon of water in five minutes, either the morning of the challenge or the night before, because then through breathing, pissing, respiration, perspiration, the water is gone, but your stomach is stretched out. So that was that was a really big one.

But but a gallon of water in five minutes. I mean, be careful. I mean, it's no yourself. No. And the other thing that my doctor was really concerned about was how I recovered from challenges. That's why everyone's like, you must get so much ass. You going around and see girls kissing you during the challenges. Number one, you never feel less sexy than when you're doing a food challenge.

Yeah. Number two, that my crew were the ones gallivanting and kicking it. I was on a treadmill doing the baton death march because my my doctor had given me these cleanses. And he said, I need you moving right away. So I would go to the hotel gym, my head on the fricking console, walking at like one point five miles. And they're like, yo, man, the waitress is so cute. They're like, where I was at a bit ago.

I'm like, you can go. How long would you walk for? I would have to do bare minimum three to four miles after each thing. My doctor was like, because I need you to get it out of your system safely. But I also need to get your heart rate up because he didn't want any kind of atherosclerosis. And the truth is, let's let's face it, right? And people like I just wanted to do well

and do right by my mom, like whatever. And and people would say, you're the top of my office death pool. How the fuck aren't you dead? That's fucked up. I can't wait. Yeah. Like, can I have the show when you die of a heart attack? It's like, dude, I don't know you. Yeah. Go like, go eat hot death. Yeah.

Down the traffic. And so that was the thing. I never wanted to give people the satisfaction. So leg workouts, back workouts, stretching your stomach with that. And the other thing is if you know you have the challenge of a certain type, don't eat that thing. So like, I love nachos. And that's why they waited till the very last man versus food challenge

to give me a nachos challenge, because they knew I was going to lay waste to it. And they knew that I wouldn't do nachos for like a month. All right, ready, Billy? You got it, Billy. Ready? Here we go. Even you, Billy. Got this. Three, two, one. All right. How's that thing going? Oh, that was a big bite. Get that side bit. He's getting it. Get that side bit.

Yeah. Here he goes. Also, we should have mentioned that Billy has a deviated septum. So when he does this, he can't actually breathe. Same. Get that side bit. He's got liquid. Listen to him trying to breathe right now. Just swallow. He's not breathing. Oh, oh, are we going to have a reversal? No. No. Take your time.

I think I'm going to go through. Yeah, you can't. I know when you can't breathe. Billy's also real hopped up on Benadryl right now. Yeah. And also just really wants to impress you. So this is a big moment. Go easy on the water. Go easy on the water. Because that's the other thing. People forget the water hits the bread

and it expands in your stomach. Oh, it's tough, Billy. All right, Billy. He's crushing it. He's crushing it. You're doing a good job. Almost a half down. There's a half. There's a half. There's a half. How much time are we in?

Time check. 49 seconds. So I don't think we're breaking records today, but that doesn't matter. That's the hard thing to get down, though. Yeah, it is. The bread is doughy. It's good, but it's doughy. Go, Billy. Go. Go, Billy.

Billy probably didn't even work out this morning. Go, Billy. Go. Billy, you probably shouldn't have done it. Oh, Billy, you could get it. 110. What a savage. By the way, don't eat the bottle cap, Billy. It's literally in his head right next to the bread.

Wow, that is... That's the Helsinki technique. Dude, I got to tell you this. Anyone who's willing to actually do it will always have my respect. Yeah, oh, yeah. Because you get a bunch of, like, you know, the Monday morning quarter back.

It's going in the arena. Yeah, absolutely. It's in the arena, like Teddy Roosevelt said. Yeah. Yes. Yeah, Billy. Billy, shake it down. That's it. That's it. All right, Billy, beat two minutes.

You're at 140. Just house it. House it. Push, push, push. Yeah, come on, Billy. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I love how a bunch of guys could be in a room.

Go, let's see that open mouth. Let's see that open mouth, Billy. Oh, my God. Good job, Billy. I'm proud of you. I'm very proud of you. I love that there was a Twitter account called dirty man versus food quotes because they show us how many things we say

in this thing that are disgusting. You could really describe food in all the ways that you describe it. Oh, yeah. Oh, oh, he's struggling. No, he's got it. He's got it. This is the flu game right here.

Yeah. Like home stretch. Is there any adrenaline that kicks in? We're doing a challenge. Absolutely. Oh, my God. It's funny. I'm great, great question.

So I boxed for a hot minute and like I hate losing. I'm deeply competitive. Absolutely. Absolutely. By the way, good job, Billy. There we go. 20177. Still not easy.

Seated, seated low because that's the other thing. You have to be seated like at a normal chair where you sit low and your knees are above. It's kind of like the squatty potty. It's not a good thing. I did stand it at the kitchen when I got 132. I will say that. Yes, I did one.

That was awesome. I did a wing challenge in Boulder once and they put me at one of those like high top tables. And your legs are kind of holding you up on those chairs. And it didn't. Was that the 50 wing challenge? I think Billy did the challenge. Oh, yeah, yeah.

West End Tavern. Yep. What a great place. You guys are like great challenge. I enjoyed that one. Shout out to Erin Peacock, one of the loveliest managers. She was so nice to us. Really great there.

But yeah, there's some chicken to the egg. I did a big challenge at LBI in Jersey. And that one, you know what I did. And that's what I wish I had done for all my big quantity wing challenges. I stripped all the meat off the bone first. Yeah. And then I was just taking like skull band.

It pinches a meat and dunking it in blue cheese, just like a total fatass. And just like, oh, like just, you know, Joey fat one, you know. Ah, crushing it. Good job. I'm surprised you believed in condiments when doing the food challenge.

I hear a lot of people don't do condiments because it overloads. Without question. I guess for me, so this is a funny thing. And I saw a meme someone giving me shit was like, starts time to eating challenge, spends seven minutes talking about flavor. But the thing was Pat Young,

who was the president of the network actually mandated that he said, I do not want to see you dunking buns in water. I don't want to see you like a competitive eater. He said, if it's a big sandwich, I want you to eat it like it's a big sandwich. It's a big bowl of pasta. Eat it like you would eat a bowl of pasta.

It's just a really big one. He said, because if we make it look delicious, the people that love pasta would go, oh man, I would, I would run a train on a big thing of ravioli. You know what I'm saying? And that was the thing. And the funniest thing was my buddy Jason.

I love my friend Jason Bear from college. I love him dearly. He called me with like a death threat in the middle and he's like, okay, here's a deal asshole. You either have to tell me how to make pulled pork or tell me where I can get pulled pork in Brooklyn at 11 o'clock, because I have a pregnant woman that just watched your show and she demands pulled pork.

And if you don't, our friendship is over. But that's the thing. So yeah, like I would love, if you watched the Hartford Connecticut challenge, it was me and this guy, the great Moomsie. And he was a real competitive eater and he was dunking the crust in water and he was doing this. I will say this though, he is the only time

I've given myself license to actually like pull the trigger because it's so bad for your throat, for your teeth, or whatever, but like only, there's only that one time in St. Louis where it happened kind of on camera. And the one thing they didn't have, and it's funny because the owner of the restaurant, well, let me live it down, great place.

I highly recommend if anyone here is a fan of the BLT sandwich, maybe the best BLT in Christendom, at Crown Candy Kitchen in St. Louis. Andy Karanzeff's family's been running it since the turn of the century, last century. And the seats, like the booths are hollow. So it's a lot of dairy. And right before I didn't really feel good, I shifted.

And I popped off a fart and it echoed like in timpani and his wife was sitting behind me and she's like, oh, like that, I think that definitely threw me off my game because it was like, like it kind of hit like a low base note. Like I was like at an EDM festival week for the drop. And it was just like, and then she said, oh, and then like I just started like,

like everything malfunctioned from then on. And I was like, I need the bucket. And it was just pure milkshake. And I remember a cousin of mine. And again, this guy is like buff, secret service agent, never did a food challenge in his life. I'm like my man's right here. And I was just saying, you should have done all vanilla.

You should never have done eggnog. It's like, but you know, that's two gallons of milk. Yeah, that's two gallons of milk. No one needs bones that strong. Yeah, Jim Harbaugh. Yeah, Jack Wilshire. Yeah, exactly. Well, Adam, this has been awesome, man.

Ever go check them out on the history channel. We will. I'm gonna watch that show. It's been very, very fun. We really appreciate you stopping by, man. Thank you, man. Yeah, hopefully you guys dig, dig rebels. They show the old seasons too.

So you get to enjoy me at all the various weights I've been during the pandemic when I got over 300 and now. But yeah, man, it's, I'll tell you this, man. You're not, I've been pushed to do a sauce, a restaurant, a something since Man vs Food and I haven't. And it was doing this show that kind of got me off my ass to do it because you see how many chips were stacked against all these people and how they actually went out

and just did the damn thing. And it's so impressive. Yeah. It's so impressive. Like, you know, Truett Cathy got those chicken breast by accident because they didn't fit the trays on a Delta in-air flight meal and he took it and created this multi-billion dollar business.

Like what, what inspiration? Like right here, Stella Blue Coffee. Yeah. Like you went and did the damn thing. You're not some like hipster in the village bitching about the coffee. You went out and made some great stuff and I applaud anybody like you.

Lots of talkers, very few doers. Yeah. You know? Appreciate it, man. Absolutely. Well, thanks so much, man. Really appreciate it. I got you.

Love to come back. Love to cook for you guys. Yes, yes, absolutely. Seriously, y'all have a, I had a big green egg sent to me by my boy Dave Rose and it cracked in transit. You guys have a, well, it's a red egg. Yeah.

In the hallway. Just sitting there, yeah. Can I come back and cook for you guys? Yes, yes. I'd be honored if you guys were down. Yes, absolutely. No challenge is necessary. Anytime.

I mean it in earnest. I would love to. Yeah. Love it. Thanks, man. Thanks, man. Thank you guys. Adam Richmond was brought to you by the Barstool Store

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Astros? That would be the 2021 ring ceremony for the ALCS champion Houston Astros. So just that. Cut this part. Cut this part out of the podcast. I mean, you asked. I can't.

It's a paywall, so this could be a fake. I couldn't get to it either. Yeah, no, I clicked on it. It's a paywall. I'm trying. Yeah, just took that. You can't verify anything. It took me to the home page.

If you can verify. This is a lie. It took me back to the home page. I can't read it. I tried to click on it, too. For instant access, subscribe now. 25 cent spring sale. Are you going to cut of this, Max?

All it says is Astros collect more baseball diamonds during ring ceremony. Didn't they just win a championship? This was 2021 when they lost. How do you know that? Because when I first opened it, it worked. But now it's not. No, it's not working.

I'll find another. I'll find another. Find another one, I think. Find another team. It's some fuzzy math game. Because the Astros also, we don't respect the Astros organization. They cheat it.

Find a real team. This is bullshit. And also, they already won a World Series. Yes, which makes it even worse for them. No, no, no, but you. So them having a ceremony after they had already won a World Series recently makes it even more so that it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

It means that you got no hit in the World Series by a team that had a second place ceremony for themselves. It's everyone. It's just the most recent. It's just the most recent pennant winner. I don't know about that. That's facts. Find another one.

Yeah, I will. I will. I will find another. You have 20 minutes. Deal. Done. Easy. Guys on chicks.

Hey, guys. I've been dating my boyfriend for over a year. But I hate when we watch sports with his friends. Whenever someone on one of their teams does bad, someone yells, what a waste of cum. At first, I didn't think much of it. But they will say it in large crowds and it's embarrassing. Is this normal guy behavior?

Usually, a load your mom should have swallowed. Yeah, you should have been dribbling down the side of your mom's leg, that sort of thing. Now, I guarantee this is what happened. One time, one of their friends made that joke just amongst the fellas. And it got a good laugh. And then they're just trying to recreate that magic

every single time. And when they're in a bar with new people around, it's like a brand new audience for a stand-up comedian. So they're trying to, you just have to get them going back to the same bar over and over again. And eventually, they'll stop saying it. Also, if he's the one and you get married, you have a family, all that stuff,

you won't have to deal with it. Eventually, he'll go once a month to go hang out with his friends and they'll make the cum jokes. It's not gonna be every day at your house. Let's do that. This one's great. Help, all caps. I think my boyfriend is using chatGBT

to write my sweet messages and good morning texts. At first, I thought he was so thoughtful in taking time to write me short poems and messages, but then I learned about chatGBT. Worst of all, he wrote my grandma a poem and she is in awe of his writing. How do I dress this with him? Is this a red flag?

This guy's being dudes. We do have a resident plagiarist here that might be able to weigh in on this. Billy? Billy. You're talking about me? Yeah, you've used chatGBT to write all sorts of things. No, I've used it when I said I'm using chatGBT.

Okay. Do you think that this is, is this person lying? I think this guy's a goddamn genius. Okay. I wish I used it myself. Do you remember when Russell Wilson used Google? Pretty much the same thing to write a love note to Ciara. That was very, very funny.

He just, he Googled the description of a beautiful woman. It's like how to describe a beautiful woman. And then he wrote a poem to Ciara using the first Google result. Yes. They came up from that. And then I think she posted it online and then the entire internet called him out on it.

That was very, Russell Wilson is pretty much a robot. Breaking Moose. Oh. I'd like to issue an apology to Max. This raised ring is so sad. He sent us the raise in 2020 American League Championship, which was a bubble year. And Kevin Kearmeyer's quote is so sad.

He said, these are, these are American League champion rings. And he said, the rings are beautiful. There's no other way to put it. All of us were blown away by them. They're about as sexy as a ring could get without being a World Series champion. That's tough. Max?

Yeah, I was just gonna go down until you guys mentioned it because every single team has this ring ceremony. Well, I issued my apology. Do you accept it? I accept your apology. Anyone else in this room? I don't wanna apologize.

I wasn't really that critical. I didn't say no one else has done it. I just said it's the first I've seen. I don't apologize. I'm gonna go back. I'm gonna go back and check the tapes here. Because I know that you were like, oh, I know for certain that we would be roasting these teams

if this happened every year. I don't wanna apologize because it was funny. If I saw it, I would definitely roast it. But I do want to apologize for getting the facts, a skew, a tad of skew. I was, you know what? The facts were correct. The fact remains that it's soft to do a ring ceremony

for a second place finish. I was misinformed. So I was not wrong about anything. And I apologize for nothing. Have the Red Sox lost a World Series? Good question. No. Fuck.

Is there? Not since I've been alive. Not since I've been alive. Fuck. By the way, that girl can put those messages into chatGBT and ask chatGBT if chatGBT wrote it and it'll be able to tell you. All right, don't be a narc chatGBT.

I'm not even listening. It's chat GPT, right? GBT. Yeah, are you saying GBT? G, G, P, T, GBT. Are you saying P or B? I'm just saying it fast. Are you saying P or B?

P. Okay, all right. The context could tell you that. How? Because it's a P. Yes. Okay, all right, whatever. What if it was a B though?

There's, I bet you there's chat, B, chat, GBT. It just sounds the same when you're saying it fast. Chat, G, P, T. Chat, GBT? Yeah. I said B. P. I said B.

Cell phone, cell phone. Chat, chat, chat, GBT? Chat, GBT. G, G, P, G, P, G, P, G, P, G, P, G, P, G, P, G, P, G, P. Billy's inventing a new letter. Okay, I'm not like, You use formal code, take, chat, three, three, G, B. Sure.

G, P, T. There it is. Chat, GBT. You're good. You're good. All right, next one. All right, we got two good ones to end it. Hey, PFT, Dadcat and Honk.

My husband always feeds our garbage disposal. He'll sometimes make a point to throw extra food down there and say things like, eat up big guy before he turns it on. Is this normal? Yeah, that's funny. Yeah, that is funny. I don't know if it's normal, but I'm gonna start doing this.

I have the garbage disposal with the top, you know, it's not a switch. And I like it because it just feels like I'm doing like manual labor. I'm like, ah, there you go. See ya, bitch. You know that pit in Star Wars that would eat things in the desert?

Yeah. When we saw that movie, my dad was like, look, we have one at home. And it was the garbage disposal. I like that. Man, that was cool. That was a good dad joke. Scared of the sink.

Yeah, that's a solid dad joke. I was looking at houses the other week and there's this one house that had the switch for the garbage disposal, like the one that you turn on to, you flip it and the thing starts rotating. It was like right at belly level next to the sink where you would definitely accidentally turn it on as you,

and that's my worst nightmare. I think that's like the scariest thing ever is to get your hand stuck in a moving garbage disposal. Oh, it's scary to just even put your hand in a garbage disposal when it's not moving. When it's not on. Being like, what happens if it just starts moving? Yeah, you have to set up like traffic cones

around the switch to make sure nobody accidentally hits it while your hand's in there. Garbage disposal. That's a funny move. All right, last one. Okay. Hey guys, I recently got engaged

to my long-term boyfriend. He is great. But there's something he does that has always struck me as odd. And I'd like your thoughts on whether I should generally be concerned. Generally, all right, fuck that up. Generally speaking, he's a serious rule follower,

and this applies to having a child out of wedlock. Because of this, he always uses condoms during sex. He's very strict about this, and I haven't really had a big issue with it. The oddity comes after we have sex. He is so neurotic about the possibility we'll get pregnant that when we're done, he always takes the used condom

and fills it with water from the faucet to see if there are leaks. Do you think this is potential serial killer behavior or just a harmless quirk of an otherwise great guy in love with my life? Sounds like a crime scene investigator. Didn't Drake used to, wasn't there a story that he put? Hot sauce.

Hot sauce, yeah, hot sauce in the condom. Yeah, you always hear about, like, when they do the- Fiery babies. When they do the NBA rookie symposium, they teach players, like, you throw away your own condoms and make sure that they're not accessible for anybody else.

Right. No, condoms work. But filling it up after? Wait, are they married, you say? They just got engaged. Engaged. Yeah, you got a, it is psycho. Cause once you're engaged, then it's like,

if you have a baby, that's, you're good. It's good, you're happy that you're having a child. Right, right, it switches. No, I go, shit, what are we gonna do? It's like, no, you're, you're good. You're having a family. Yeah. Tell them to relax.

Also, as a woman, as a woman, you should be on the pill. Don't we all agree with that? You really can't trust guys with birth control. Yeah, that's- This guy should be doing everything that he can to stop using condoms. And instead, he's like really,

he's becoming more into condoms. That's a red flag. He's got a condom fetish. Remember, I was talking about it earlier today, when James tried to say the best condom, and he like, or combo tandem, and he said condom, like the best condom in the NFL. Get a sex problem?

Yeah, a sex issue. Sex, sex, sex. Also, very weird part about this is he's putting the used condom on your faucet that you probably use to wash your hands. That's your pissing stuff. Yeah, that's- Yeah, what are you doing?

That's where you piss. Don't put your jizz there. Yeah, you can't cross streams like that. And then how do you dispose of the condom? Just throwing away water balloons? He eats them. Yeah, that'd be great. You throw them across the room.

That'd be a fun prank. Oh, shit. This is why the pull-out method is just- It's the best. That's how much more effective. It's the best, yeah, works 100% of the time. You know where the semen's going. Yeah, never have a problem pulling out.

Yeah, you know exactly. Every last drop of cum is accounted for when you pull out. Yes, that's true. All right. Hank, lottery ball, you ever gotten it? Nope. Hank, somebody ran the numbers on how likely it would be for you to pass me for the tattoo bet.

It's like 25% chance that I'm going to- What? No, I ran the same numbers, 0% chance, because Hank's never gonna get it. Well, he's never gotten it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's never gonna get it. Yeah, the bottom line is I'm 25 times more likely to win this bet than you are.

I 100% don't give a fuck. So, take that, take those for stats. Well, you were- That's the math right there, baby. You're also 0% a world-renowned educated person. Educated mic drop, I like that. Oh, you haven't gotten this though. No.

Okay. Numbers? 69. 17. 18. Keep in mind, 77 is hit back-to-back shows. Just throwing it out there. I'm gonna go 49 for Sevi Bayesteros.

Not John Romstad. Why is that when he died? Still alive. What do you guess? What did Hank guess last time? What was 49 I have to do with? His birthday was four slash nine. Yeah, what was his guess last time?

Hank, you don't know shit about Sevi Bayesteros. Was it 96? What do you guess last show? 96, I wanna say. Checking. What did you guess, Hank? Just say it. Oh yeah, he gets 96 when he false started.

But what do you guess? 98. 98 after? Yeah. So, what do I go with? 96 or 98? Which one should I go with? I mean, take his number.

Go 96. 96. That's the one he wanted. Max, you should go 98. Sure. I'll take 98. Max, go 98. I'll go 96.

18, 18. 80. Oh, damn. Max, how mad would you have been if you had gotten 20 there? I mean, I already got it, so I don't care. Yeah, sure. We all have already gotten it.

Except for memes, Hank. 85th time. Well, memes, yeah. 80. I saw another person tweet me the other day saying they got it first time. That's wild. Yeah, some fucking PGA golfer

that's never won an event tweeted at me today. Have you focused on your game, dude? Who was it? This doesn't count. Who was it? Steve Wheatcroft. That's a made-up name, 35. Yeah, Weedy PGA.

PGA Tour player living the dream day by day. Mike Tolbert. Love you guys. Also, did you see that? All right, shows cut. When they lost to the Eagles in Super Bowl, they did. Sometimes beach whales explode. Love you guys.

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