Pardon My Take - Adam Schefter, BitCoin 2 Gen, Combine Talk And Is Tom Brady Leaving?

Episode Date: February 28, 2020

Live from the Indy we talk about the big news of the day, reports saying Tom Brady may be leaving New England as a Free Agent (2:27 - 12:13). Trey Wingo Bear gate is finally resolved, PFT gets in a wa...r with DK Metcalf and Bitcoiin 2 Gen may be in a little trouble (12:13 - 23:50). Adam Schefter joins the show to talk about offseason moves, Assault. whether or not he has the Dez tape, and Assault (23:50 - 60:08). Segments include Fyre Fest of the week, sabermetrics the Astros getting plunked, respect the biz and FAQ'sYou 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

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Starting point is 00:00:00 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 Pardon My Take, we have Adam Schefter, NFL Insider, our annual interview with Schefti. We sit down with him in Indianapolis from the Combine. We broke the record for the amount of times the word assault was said. We're going to talk a little Tom Brady. We're going to talk a little Combine, Firefest, FAQs, a big Friday show for everyone.
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Starting point is 00:02:39 to hit free agencies. So I'm reading that as Tom Brady hates everyone in the Patriots organization is looking to get out of town as fast as possible. Okay. So a couple of things. One, Jeff Darlington, we've met him. We've hung out with him. Nice guy.
Starting point is 00:02:53 I still get very, very angry when he has a report and I'm like, why is this NASCAR driver releasing a report about Tom Brady? He's got a NASCAR name. Pick a new profession. I don't want to hear Tom Brady news from the guy who drives like the 12 Bush car at Daytona. Okay. So that's number one bothers me. Big Cat's just very jealous because he didn't get the Jeff Darlington VIP black all access
Starting point is 00:03:19 card to his party this year at the Super Bowl. It was it was thick and metallic. You could drop it. It was it's basically like the firefest card is pretty sweet, but I can tell that you're you're still fuming about that. I wasn't even at the party so that I didn't even know that that existed. So oh wow. I didn't even get the invite.
Starting point is 00:03:35 No, I remember I was like, I do not want to drive 45 minutes to hang out with Jeff Darlington and Mike Silver. But you did. Okay. So number two, number two, I think this is all just a story because there's no real story out of the combine yet. All we've had so far from the combine is that one guy, that one guy is offensive Lyman who ate a lot.
Starting point is 00:03:58 I think it was division three, St. John's, Ben Bark. He had seven eggs, cottage cheese, grits, peanut butter, banana and a 20 ounce Gatorade all in a blender. That's our biggest news outside of that and Jerry Judy, maybe when rugs runs a 4-2-40. But other than that, it's been a pretty quiet combine. So that's why we get this news today. Well, let's go back to the smoothie real quick. The Gatorade at the end is really just insane.
Starting point is 00:04:24 I'm looking at the other ingredients that go into that. That calls for milk. That calls for maybe like 2% milk, maybe some chocolate milk, something creamy to really smooth it out. The Gatorade, like a red Gatorade to combine all that. That's just unnecessary. But it did help him gain 50 pounds and he went from being a tight end to now he's I guess an offensive tackle.
Starting point is 00:04:43 But yeah, there's not a lot going on. But I mean, the Tom Brady news I would say is significant news. I mean, it's like one of the best players in the last couple years of the NFL. He's had a pretty good career and he's thinking about switching teams. I'd say like probably a top five quarterback of the modern era. So we're going to talk about it and I put together a quick list of my power raking, my top four teams that Tom Brady could go to that would just piss off Patriots and Patriots fans.
Starting point is 00:05:12 You ready? Okay. We'll save my number two thing. Oh, yeah. Wait, New York Giants. Go ahead. New York Giants. Going to New York Giants.
Starting point is 00:05:20 I think that would really piss off Hank and other New England fans. Am I right on that one? Hank? Yes. Number two, Indianapolis. The rivalry is back on again. Will that piss you off? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:32 Okay. Number three, Pittsburgh. And then number four, just the Buccaneers because I actually think that they're the weirdest uniform that I could ever imagine Tom Brady and it's no longer the Dallas Cowboys. It's no longer the Jaguars. It's now officially in my head, the Buccaneers. Well, not to throw a challenge flag on that one, but we actually don't know what the Bucs uniforms look like because they're changing.
Starting point is 00:05:54 Are they retooling them? Yeah. So they could maybe, maybe their new uniforms are just the Patriots uniforms and that's their pitch to Tom Brady. There's no law that says that you can't just steal somebody's uniform. Right. So I still think it's Vikings would be the weirdest uniform just because the purple would be jarring, but that's a good list.
Starting point is 00:06:12 What if he went to the Bengals just to kind of beat the NFL in expert mode? I mean, that would be, a lot of people have been saying in the reverse that Bill Belichick would be interested in Andy Dalton because if you can win a Super Bowl with Andy Dalton, then everyone will say, wow, this guy can do anything. He can walk on water. I'm, is there a part of you that thinks that Tom Brady wants to go to another team just so that he can beat the Patriots and then he can say he beat every single team in the NFL?
Starting point is 00:06:39 I think he'd be the first person to do that. Every single team. Brett Favre probably did it. He probably did. Drew Brees, maybe. No, because he, oh, do you think he ever beat the Saints? He might have been, he might have thrown a touchdown against every team. Hmm.
Starting point is 00:06:53 Either way, let's just say that's a stat because it sounds cool. Yeah. He could beat every single team or what, how about this? If he went to the Chargers and then Brett Favre and Drew Brees, once and for all, he was better than Eli Manning. Okay. If he's able to win with the Chargers, I, so in, in like real talk here for a second, paint man and beat every team, that makes sense.
Starting point is 00:07:17 That makes perfect sense. So there's actually probably been done like 17 times and I'm just an idiot, but in real talk, I, I still don't think that he's going to leave. And I know this is playing right into what Jeff Darlington was saying. His point, which was everyone needs to get over the fact that like in your heart of hearts, you're like, wait, he's not going to leave. There's no way. I still don't think he's going to leave, but I also am always like kind of a little cautious
Starting point is 00:07:45 when it comes to these, the Kauai thing was a perfect example. LeBron, when he, you know, went to Miami, this is prime. If you've ever had a conversation with Tom Brady, you are now a source for a big story and all those people talk. And I feel like Tom Brady doesn't even know what he's going to do, but, you know, his friend from five years ago is like, I'm pretty close to Tom and I could tell you definitively he's leaving. So it's big time source season where anyone who's ever had a cup of coffee with him can
Starting point is 00:08:13 be part of a story. It's very true. Hank, how are you feeling about all this? What's your poop meter at? My poop meter is probably mid level, mid level poop. Did it go up today? Yeah. It went up and I talked to some of my fellow Patriots compadres in the office and their
Starting point is 00:08:27 poop meters were up, which I wasn't expecting and that kind of raised my awareness. So gun to your head right now, all three of us Patriots. Okay. Gun to your head. PFT. What do you say? Gun to my head. Uh, yeah, I'm going to be the guy in the media that says he's going to be a Patriot.
Starting point is 00:08:44 I guarantee I've heard from sources close to Tom Brady, Hank, that he's going to be a New England Patriot. Wait, no, but Hank's sources actually said the opposite. But Hank is my source, right? Hank just said Tom Brady is going to be a Patriot. So Hank is my source and Hank is close to the Patriots. If so, facto, I am reporting sources are telling me he's going back to the Patriots. Okay.
Starting point is 00:09:04 So I'll say Patriots too, because Leroy is my source. So do your own owner told me, which makes me believe that Leroy probably said something to him. So I'm going to say, so this podcast as a whole, we're now staking our reputation that we don't really care about. And if, if we're wrong, who the fuck cares, but we are staking our reputation definitively that he will still be a Patriot. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:26 And I'm honestly just believing that because it's the scenario that would make me, it's the least exciting of all the scenarios. Right. Brady has always been a very unexciting, great quarterback. And so I just, I see this fitting the pattern where he's going to go back to New England, probably win one more Super Bowl, make me roll my eyes a bunch. And then Hank is going to hold it over us for the rest of our lives. The buildup, the buildup to these big free agency things, it always doesn't really like
Starting point is 00:09:50 deliver. So I, I agree with you there. We're all going to be like, Oh my God, he could go here. He could go there. And then he's going to end up being, he's probably going to rebuy his house that he sold or he probably even sell it. No, it's on the market still. That's exactly what it's going to be.
Starting point is 00:10:05 It's going to be a fucking ad for like the real estate market. He's basically going to announce that he's staying in Boston by going to his front lawn and taking the for sale sign down. Yeah. I mean, maybe he's just mad at his neighbor. So he's putting up a for sale sign, having a bunch of people stop by all the time, clog up the streets of traffic. People are parking in front of his nosy neighbors, driveways.
Starting point is 00:10:25 He's just, he's just probably in a good old fashioned neighborhood feud. Yes. Right. So to wrap up the Tom Brady talk real quick, Hank, I have one last thing for you. Are you prepared? Cause I know you think that people are going to pick on you and Patriots fans, but are you prepared for this is just going to be a story, whether you like it or not for the next month?
Starting point is 00:10:46 Like this is, it's not, it's no avoiding this is going to be talked about pretty much on every show. It's you can't, you, it's going to be the number one sports story until maybe March Madness gets here. Yeah. I'm fully expected that since the season ended. Okay. Uh, any other, any other news from the combat?
Starting point is 00:11:05 We heard that maybe Philip Rivers to the Colts, which I think you actually said on Monday's show, PFT. Yeah. Yeah. Philip Rivers has interest in the Colts and Leroy in per his sources, he's had four independent people tell him, uh, that are close to the situation, not making this up. These are actually people that are tied into the situation that Philip Rivers is highly considering becoming an Indianapolis Colt and that talks are kind of bubbling up under
Starting point is 00:11:29 the surface. I don't know what the tampering rules are. So I'm not trying to get anybody in trouble, but I've heard that maybe one of, uh, yeah, probably like three or four of Philip Rivers children have been in touch with the Colts about the daycare situation there. So it looks like he's going to be going to Indy. Interesting. So, uh, we also went out to dinner last night.
Starting point is 00:11:47 We got to see Doug Peterson's hair up close and personal. He was sitting in the bar. It was awesome. He's got like, it's pillow soft. His hair looks so soft. I don't, I don't know what conditioner he uses, but you can just feel the softness even though I didn't feel his hair, but I wanted to. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:04 You could feel the softness through your eyes. It looked like a raccoon got shot directly on top of his head and just, just immediately went totally limp. I just, I wanted to walk up to him and just pet him. Yes. Yes. Yes. So that was pretty much the only notable story unless you had other things.
Starting point is 00:12:19 PFT. Well, there's, I mean, there's bear gate ongoing Trey Wingo bear gate. Oh, I forgot we had to talk about that. So I do have, we do need to talk about this. So I've been posting every day a different bear that continues to follow me around all this damn country, uh, won't leave me alone. And so you've got, you've got an update on the origins of the Trey Wingo bear story. You'll recall on Sunday night or Friday night, he lied about a bear visiting his back porch.
Starting point is 00:12:46 Okay. Let me just preface it by saying, uh, Trey hit me up and I think he just, I think he's scared of you PFT. So I think that's why he hits me up because he's also hit me up before being like America's stepdad question mark. And I was like, I didn't even know what he was saying. And then I realized it was your line. I like Trey.
Starting point is 00:13:03 I think he's funny. I think he actually goes with it for the most part, except like, dude, maybe do a bong rip once in a while. But anyway, he wrote me and he said they get bears all the time. But you remember that this was a bear situation that was like a block down from him. The actual photo he posted, it was just four years old. So he said that Friday night, a huge one was on his porch, but ran away before he could get a pick.
Starting point is 00:13:32 So okay, he then posted the old picture of the bear on the porch and thought that the internet would be smarter to realize that it was nighttime and it was a daytime picture. He thought wrong. Now I'm just, I'm just telling you what he's telling me. He said once again, my decision to give people credit for basic understanding of the time space continuum was too much. And then he said, I don't like that. He's okay.
Starting point is 00:14:00 Hold on. Hold on. PFT. All I'm going to say in defensive Trey here, because I've now become the defensive Trey Wingo, he then sent me a picture of another bear at night, which I don't know why he didn't just post this a year ago that was on his porch. Okay. He should have just posted that picture.
Starting point is 00:14:17 I'm looking at it right now. It makes no sense that he didn't just post that one. Hank, you confirm that it's a bear on Trey Wingo's porch. Yep. And then how do you know it's Trey's porch? It's a huge sign that says Trey's smoke shack right behind it. No, I actually don't. And then he sent me another greenhouse back there of a bear running in his backyard.
Starting point is 00:14:39 So Trey Wingo's point in his defense, holy shit, it's faster than that, uh, that pig to mone and poob or whatever than the hog. Trey's point is he has bears all the time in his backyard. He did see a bear. There was a bear at, at one point, at one point, there was a bear. According to Trey. According to Trey. Wingo, there was an actual bear.
Starting point is 00:15:05 Yeah. Instead of taking a picture of it, he went back and found an old picture of a bear and was just saying, this is what it, uh, artist's representation of what it might have looked like if I saw the bear during the day. So first of all, it's bearest of Trey for him to be saying that all bears look alike. And oh, the one bear is just the same as the next one. Also let's flash back in time to the year 2017 when Trey Wingo put that same picture of that bear that was not on his porch on his Instagram.
Starting point is 00:15:36 So are we to believe that, that Trey Wingo, every time he sees a bear, just in general, he goes, he goes into his phone into the folder labeled my one bear pic. And then he puts that, he puts that on all social media to let everyone know that he has indeed seen another bear. Okay. Again, I don't know how I became the defense for Trey Wingo, but I will play that role. I wear that hat. All I'm going to say is at one point there was a bear.
Starting point is 00:16:01 There were many bears, actually, why he didn't post another bear picture. I can't tell you, but I have confirmed visually that there was a bear in a picture that he sent you. Did you do a Google reverse image search on that picture? Yes. No, you didn't. No, I would not. I would like to see the results of that coming back because I suspect that it may be lifted
Starting point is 00:16:21 from animal planet. I further more Trey, when you post a picture of a cute little bear with his cute little bear earrings climbing on your cute little porch and standing on his cute little bear paws, how many kids in Connecticut went out that night and tried to pet a bear and would see a bear walking across their backyard and be like, oh, this is a sweet little, oh, it's it's poo. It's Winnie Poo. I'm going to go scratch you under your chin, Mr.
Starting point is 00:16:45 Bear, because Trey Wingo in his role, in his role as America's stepdad gets on TV and tells America that it's safe to go up and pet a wild bear because they're cute and they go on his back porch. I'm just saying, think of the children, Trey. Okay. All right. It's fair. Either way, I rest my case.
Starting point is 00:17:03 There was a bear, so I'm going to let him off the hook here. By the way, if you want to watch the interview today, barcelgold.com slash PMT, the only other topic I wanted to throw out there was Steven Seagal might have, we might be in trouble for Bitcoin to Jen, but we don't really have to get into it because I think we were you probably implicated ourselves and we're probably going to be in the filing because we did a good job boosting it. We were never paid to promote Bitcoin to Jen. True.
Starting point is 00:17:32 True. Our show, what we do on our show is we dabble in retroactive equity, in the retroactive equity space where we talk about a product and then if it actually becomes successful later on, then we go back and we're like, hey, remember when we talked about your product? Give us a cut of it. So we didn't get paid at the time. We were not promoting it. And plus I don't think that I think Steven Seagal is off the hook on this one because
Starting point is 00:17:56 you can't get arrested for fraud if the product is called. This is literally fraud. Right. So he is very open about how fraudulent Bitcoin to Jen was. So it's not like it's false advertising. They're the PDF that they had on their website that basically showed you through all their marketing material. If you wanted to invest, literally had a pyramid.
Starting point is 00:18:16 So I don't think you can arrest someone for a pyramid scheme when they showed you the pyramid. That's actually a stupidity test. If you bought Bitcoin to Jen, you should be arrested. Agreed. And also I think that it's a good thing that people have been defrauded by Bitcoin to Jen through Steven Seagal, because if there's one group of people in America that needs to have their power severely, severely curtailed, it's probably someone who's a diehard Steven Seagal fan who's also extremely wealthy.
Starting point is 00:18:47 That's bad. Fuck. You just did it. Are you extremely? Not extremely. Well, I think extremely is probably too much. But like I am a huge Steven Seagal fan. Right.
Starting point is 00:18:57 But if a Steven Seagal fan with a shitload of money is a very, very dangerous situation. Why are you looking at me, Hank? I don't have a shitload of money, but I. I'm teetering on being in a lot of trouble. Let's just say with Bitcoin to Jen. Are you one percenter? I don't know. No, I'm not a one percenter.
Starting point is 00:19:16 I mean, Bernie, you're going to come after you. You're going to get me. The Bernie Rose are going to come get me. Hey, listen, I want healthcare for everyone. Maybe you'd stop the coronavirus. Me too. I'm going to put a rose in my, in my Twitter account right now and I'll start harassing you. Perfect.
Starting point is 00:19:30 All right. Should we get to our Adam Schefter interview? Oh, no, we have one more other story we have to talk about. PFT and DK Metcalf are in a incredible battle on Instagram that you have to have like a magnifying glass to have followed the last few rounds. But it's been a sight to see and a sight to watch the last couple of days. Listen, I love DK Metcalf. He is a really good shit talker.
Starting point is 00:19:55 So he's a worthy opponent. We just, um, I think I was, I was showing Stephen Chey how to get off to a good start running a 40 yard dash. And it's all about having the same hand go back. How do you know as your foot up because I've run several 40 yard dashes extremely fast course of my life. I didn't know that I'm a bit of a speed demon. You might not know that, but I was showing him how to get off
Starting point is 00:20:17 to a good start and the barcel sports Instagram account. For some reason tagged DK Metcalf and was just like PFT will beat you in a race. I had nothing to do with that. But then DK responded. And then, uh, that began about six hours of nonstop, uh, just quoting each other's Instagram stories. I think there were probably like 25 different replies. Um, at one point he called me Fabio's homeless cousin.
Starting point is 00:20:42 Um, probably his best friend. That's pretty good. That was good. He said, uh, what's more embarrassing not making the XFL or being named so he brought my dead brother into it, which is kind of messed up. But that's still funny. But then I replied to that if I was only able to kick as straight as you can run. Uh, so bringing up his, his inability to turn like an aircraft carrier.
Starting point is 00:21:03 Yep. And so we just went back and forth. I, it was, it was an entire afternoon. And then, uh, you also said your body shape like a mini fridge, which I thought was pretty good. That is good. That was good. I liked it.
Starting point is 00:21:14 He said my body was shaped like a mini fridge, but then I said, so you're saying that it looks like I can have a six pack. And so then at that point he was like, you know what, uh, this has been fun, which I took as him putting the white flag up. But I think, I think we might race. I think that, um, we discussed this offline me and DK, I think that there might be a race involved and, and, or how much of a headstart are you going to get? Well, I'm going to have to have a significant headstart or maybe I can
Starting point is 00:21:41 just like drive a car. Maybe I, I never specified that it was a foot race. So maybe it'll just be me driving a car. Like who can get two blocks faster in the city of New York, me and a car, DK run it. You should, we should get it. We should get like a Puma or a lion or something and put sunglasses on them. Like, there you go, DK.
Starting point is 00:22:00 That probably seems dangerous, but it would be fun. Yeah. It would make, I mean, that was a great show, man versus beast. You remember that? Yes. Yes. They had like Michael, Michael Johnson racing a giraffe or some shit. Let's do that.
Starting point is 00:22:11 Let's absolutely do that. Um, okay. So a lot of stuff, a lot of, a lot of crazy things that happened in the last couple of hours or a couple of days. Sorry, but let's get to our interview with Adam Schefter and then we'll do some segments on the other side. Fun time talking with him. We catch up with him every year.
Starting point is 00:22:26 He still doesn't have the desk tape, but we get into all that. Before we do that, uh, we have a special new sponsor. Outback is now available through DoorDash. That means juicy steaks, a big fried blooming onion and other favorites can now be delivered anywhere, like literally anywhere. Outback is now available through DoorDash. That's right. Great steakhouse flavor without having to put on pants.
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Starting point is 00:24:15 at NBA and NFL, assault. Assault, we're off. Assault. I figured we'd start there. I mean, it's been on my mind. I was actually thinking about this before you got here. Yeah. If I could sit down and talk to anyone regarding that situation, I wouldn't
Starting point is 00:24:30 talk to Miles Garrett. I wouldn't talk to Mason Rudolph and say, Hey, how'd that feel? Not the pounces, not Baker. I just want to know Adam Schefter, assault. What was it that night? Battery. It was battery. It was battery, battery.
Starting point is 00:24:44 The reason why, because it's actual harm, but were you as a, were you as upset as you watch that as the assault tweet made me think? No, basically you're watching it. And the only thing I could think of is he just assaulted that guy. Assault. He assaulted him. So assault. It's assault.
Starting point is 00:25:01 Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, can you say that again? It's perfect. He assaulted him. No, no, no, no, no. You just said it. With a little animation. Yeah. Assault.
Starting point is 00:25:07 Assault. Assault. It was assault. That's going to be an assault. Oh, yeah. We're going to beep that into it. Yeah. Okay.
Starting point is 00:25:12 Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely vehicle. You got it. We got it. We got that. Did you think after, I think the period is what really set it over the top two. Assault period.
Starting point is 00:25:21 It just something about it. That tweet might be my favorite tweet from 2019. You know, the funny thing is I haven't seen it show up anywhere since then. Like nobody's tweeted it at me. What did you guys ever realize that? This is the first time that anybody's brought that up since then. It is great. Like you can, you can apply the tweet assault to just about anything that happens online.
Starting point is 00:25:40 Anytime someone dunks on Ravel, assault is just a great reply to it. It's, it's like something you always need to have in your back pocket. Right. And correct to you, I think that five years ago, Adam Schefter probably wouldn't have had fun with it, but you did right away. You kind of took the piss out of it, which was great because then it makes it funnier where it's like, yeah, it's assault. Well, period.
Starting point is 00:26:00 Again, I've been through this enough to know that it's not going to go away, that it's going to follow me around. And so now we'll just have to come up with something again in the future, whatever that may be, right to supplant assault. Yeah. It'll happen naturally at some point. So organically in the aftermath of the assault. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:20 I personally like the male game. And it's really times we can say it, but after the assault, I was I was very well connected in certain league circles. And I heard that there were rumors that there may have been some tapes out there. You're a big, the tapes exist guy. Oh, we'll get to that. We'll get to that again in a second. But did you also hear the same rumors that there were tapes of what was said
Starting point is 00:26:44 on the field just prior to the assault? I've never heard anything like that. I've never heard the tapes. Um, I don't know that those tapes exist. Um, and there are a wide array of opinions about what did and didn't happen. And I don't, I don't think we'll ever know what didn't, didn't happen. I mean, it's amazing to me that Miles Garrett says this, says he heard it. And Mason Rudolph is vehement in his denials and he's defended by his coach.
Starting point is 00:27:15 And you've got people sticking up for him. So who's right? Right. Now, so in terms of Miles Garrett going forward, I can't believe we're still doing Miles Garrett Mason Ruff in this whole assault thing. Yeah, I mean, it was quite a night. I'm so glad I didn't go to bed. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:29 Well, that really, that's the funny thing is I actually did. Oh, so you woke up and that was the first thing you thought that even makes it better. And I go, that's a song. That's a song. You're like, you're like one of those pre-cogs in Minority Report. You were asleep in your pool and you're like, there's a crime that's about to happen. Like, like, you're dozing off. I was dozing off.
Starting point is 00:27:50 I was watching it. There's a TV in my closet. And my wife, this is true. Yeah, this is true. More information than you thought you'd get. A lot of time getting dressed. Is there one in your bathroom? No, my wife, while she watches her housewife shows and all of her bravo, I go into my
Starting point is 00:28:03 little closet with a little TV and I watch, there's no football. And oftentimes, to be perfectly frank, I'll be sitting in my chair and I'm watching the screen and I just kind of doze off. And I happen to doze off and I woke up and I'm like, what the heck just happened? So you're watching this in your closet in a tiny TV, woke up assault? Assault. That's all. So much better.
Starting point is 00:28:25 That adds so much color to the story. And it's also like, you, I that this is obviously going to be very something that's not relatable to like the wider audience. But in terms of content creators, there's nothing worse than when you wake up and something big has happened and you're like, wait, what? I slept through Kevin Ware's leg injury. I literally took a nap during it. And we'll go, are you okay?
Starting point is 00:28:46 And yeah, I'm not okay, but time froze. I woke up and I was like, why is there no time on like, why has there only been 30, 30 seconds that have gone by and I've been asleep for 30 minutes. And then I realized Kevin, where the whole injury, but that is the worst feeling. Waking up and be like, what just happened? You're like jolted away. Yeah. Right.
Starting point is 00:29:01 That's, that's, that's a sensory assault. Right. Exactly. That's a big time sensory. So people live life on the West coast as they wake up and it's noon on the East coast and they've already missed. Who knows how many examples of assault on that's not, that's one of the challenging parts of being on the West coast.
Starting point is 00:29:15 Like either you're getting up late. Like you can't even imagine like the world is going on stock markets crashed. You would freak if you live on the West coast. Well, it'd be a different deal. Like, you'd freak. You'd be a freak. Yeah, I don't know that I could live there. No, you would, you would be freaking.
Starting point is 00:29:28 Yeah. We were lucky enough that I had bet the second half of that game. So that's why we were still watching. And I was like, oh my God, this, they could still score like a back door cover or something and then assault happened. Um, you just mentioned something that I want to do a follow up question. What's your favorite real housewives? Well, I, I watched the New York one.
Starting point is 00:29:48 I watched New Jersey. Do you like Bethany? I do like Bethany. I don't like you then, you know, she got divorced from the count as the count. And she still calls herself a countess. No, that's not Bethany. Oh, Bethany, Margarita girl. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:30:04 Do you like Lou Ann? Sorry. That's what I meant. Lou Ann, I think Lou Ann likes herself. Yes. Okay. All right. All right.
Starting point is 00:30:12 So you're New York and New Jersey. That's kind of me sometimes throwing a little OC, but they're firing all the all the women out there. So it's going to be weird. New Jersey, New York. Yeah, Bethany. Yeah. She, she, the guy, she got divorced from on TV.
Starting point is 00:30:22 He seemed like, like the nicest guy in the world. Yeah, they don't, I mean, that's crazy that a reality television show didn't really show like the person's true personality one way or the other. I can't believe it's not all legit. It's not like the real thing that happens in the real world is it's real. That's why they call it the real world. I don't know about that guy, but I, the five minutes I saw him in a heavily edited program, I think he was a good guy.
Starting point is 00:30:45 I have some questions that I'd like to make some news on some headlines. Yep. How are teams taking extra precautions to combat against the coronavirus? Oh, good question. That is not filtered into the NFL just yet. So that's the headline. It's coming, right? We need to have one team be like, yeah, we're making all our players wear masks
Starting point is 00:31:08 mastering like rookie orientation or something like that. Yeah. Next question to make some headlines. Give me, give me a sleeper team for Tom Brady. Oh, a sleeper. You see, the thing is, give us the list, give us the list first. Then you start with the Patriots, you mixing the Titans, the Raiders, the Chargers, okay, which means you'll probably sign with some other team that
Starting point is 00:31:29 we don't even have listed. Right. So give us that sleeper. Yeah. What team would you be like would happen and you wouldn't, you would be shocked, but not, oh my God, Tom Brady signed with the Browns or something like that. I don't have a sleeper for you because I have one for you. Go ahead, give it to me.
Starting point is 00:31:46 All right. How about he goes to Detroit played, played, played ball at Michigan. Don't say it. He's going to go home to Michigan. Yeah, Matt Patricia. Interesting. Does Leroy have a sleeper team? Leroy's got a couple of sleeper teams.
Starting point is 00:31:57 Yeah. He was thinking maybe the Panthers. Don't see it. That's credit to you, by the way. You also handle Leroy and anytime we break news a lot better than you did a few years ago. No, I'm serious. You were mad about Mike McCarthy. I remember that.
Starting point is 00:32:12 You were really mad. No, I wasn't. Oh, you were mad about Mike McCarthy. Yeah, big mad. Yeah, you're mad. You're like, who are these guys? Who are they talking to? Because we got all the details right for it.
Starting point is 00:32:22 And actually that night is really what spawned Leroy in the long term because I got temporarily addicted to breaking news after the high of breaking that McCarthy story. Wow. And you know the feeling. Do you still get a rush when you get a story before everybody? I mean, there's adrenaline kicks in. It's a fun feeling. Yeah, that's nice.
Starting point is 00:32:45 You like it, Leroy likes it. Leroy's chasing it. Yeah, like he's a car. He's just and then once you get it, you just kind of put your phone down for a second. You're like, smoke a cigarette, make yourself a sandwich. Who are you beefing with these days? In Rappaport, you had more tweet out the rat gif. It might have just meant that he's a Pete Buttigieg guy, but I didn't have more tweet
Starting point is 00:33:10 out anything. OK, right. And right, right, right, right, right to Rappaport. What about Floreo? Are you good with Floreo right now? Fine with Floreo. Do you if you see Floreo, how long is that conversation last? Not long.
Starting point is 00:33:22 OK, so OK, you're fine with Floreo. Well, there was there was a little bit of a back and forth. And this is probably the least interesting media feud of all time. But like a week ago, you guys got into it based on like the verbiage of a Dan Graziana report of what happened is giving a deadline or what happened was my boss called me in the afternoon and it was like five o'clock or he goes, what did you report that you're being questioned and criticized on for about? What was it about?
Starting point is 00:33:52 It was like the NFL has set like a deadline for the NFL. Oh, right. That's what it was. Yeah, yeah, I don't remember ratified by. And I sat on your I haven't even reported anything today. What are you talking about? And so that morning I woke up and ESPN puts out a news wire with like links to the stories and I saw something that they put out the latest on the CBA talks or
Starting point is 00:34:13 whatever it was, which I guess Dan had written. I didn't even know I looked at it. I said, OK, well, let me put it out there in the morning. It was six thirty seven in the morning, never thought anything of it. And five o'clock my boss like, well, they're saying that you reported this all day. I'm like, I haven't reported a single thing. I posted a link to an ESPN story that was written. Right.
Starting point is 00:34:32 And so again, it was repeatedly referred to me reporting something. And all I said was simply put, I never reported this. Yeah. But isn't everything by the nature of your job, everything you say is you're reporting it like you just reported that to us. Right. So if I put out a tweet from another person, a link to their story, then I'm reporting that. So if I you're reporting that Dan Graziano has reported,
Starting point is 00:34:59 you're reporting that there's a new story. I'm validating. Right. Graziano's report. You say you have, you have, yeah, like the retweets don't count as endorsements that people put in their Twitter bio. I think everything you say counts as a story, a journal. Like when you tweet something that is reporting it. You are a reporter. That's fair.
Starting point is 00:35:17 Like I shouldn't be reporting it if I'm not. Right. It's actually like a backing or believing that. Right. It's a compliment to the job that you've done for yourself, that you've built yourself up into this like breaking news juggernaut. But now it's like a double edged sword because we hold you to that standard of breaking news with everything that you say. And that's fair. I understand that. But I just didn't report that that day.
Starting point is 00:35:38 Do you ever have fear that you will report something and have it be wildly wrong and that'll be it. That'll be curtains on Chefty. Oh, I mean, you live with that fear like. Talk about that fear. Let's get into that fear. Well, it's it's it's it's it's deep. Mm hmm. Like you know your dreams about it.
Starting point is 00:35:59 Like, you know, but you I mean, listen, I mean, I could think of a couple of things right away. Like I remember filing a story on a Friday afternoon. Coaches remember place and reporters remember stories. Shit, we should have done the Sean McVeigh thing. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, and I could tell you the details around. I remember it was a Friday afternoon.
Starting point is 00:36:15 It was about three thirty. And I filed to the desk that the 49ers were hiring. Jim Harbaugh is their head coach. And I filed to the desk. And I don't remember who it was. But someone. That covers college football, freespin, email me back. Hey, congratulations.
Starting point is 00:36:31 You know, good story. And I said, hold on. Let's just wait till it's right now. It's like he was what you thought. I know, but you just want to see it true. Like you always hold your breath of like, hey, last summer, Andrew Luck. Mm hmm.
Starting point is 00:36:46 I'm at my mother-in-law's surprise seventy fifth birthday party in upstate New York. We sit down at the table. Somebody texts me, you're free. And I thought to myself, I just sat down literally at the surprise party for my mother-in-law's seventy fifth birthday. I said, everything OK?
Starting point is 00:37:06 And they said, well, it just had some information to pass along. So I called the person. Andrew Luck's going to retire on Sunday. Though it turned out to be Saturday. And so I put out the story. And literally the very first call that I got, 60 seconds after reporting it, was from Matthew Hasselbeck. And Matthew Hasselbeck says to me, all worked up.
Starting point is 00:37:34 You sure? Am I sure about what? You sure Andrew's retiring? I said, well, yeah, I sent in the story. And he goes, well, I don't know that. And I know they're friendly. He goes, I was just with him the last two days in Indianapolis.
Starting point is 00:37:51 And he didn't mention a single word about it to me. I thought to myself, oh, my god. Like for a moment, your heart, well, not for a moment. For longer than a moment, your heart drops. Right. And you're like, oh, my god. Like, did I just get something wrong? OK, so that's interesting because that must, like,
Starting point is 00:38:08 do you ever feel bad? Because I remember that whole timeline. Andrew Luck wasn't going to do it. And then he was kind of forced to and got booed against the Bears and the Pre-season. Do you ever feel bad? Or is that just, hey, listen, when I have a story, I run it? Thinking of how it's going to work out for them.
Starting point is 00:38:20 Listen, in that particular case, it was supposed to be Sunday. I'm at the party. I get the story. Am I supposed to wait? I called a few people. Let them know, hey, this is going to come. This is going to come. This is going to come.
Starting point is 00:38:35 I'm not going to say, well, let me finish the game. Right. Again, I had no idea where the game was. I'm in Pyrrmont, New York, at an Italian restaurant at a birthday party. I gave a heads up to various people. I reported it and let the chips flow. That's my job.
Starting point is 00:38:56 Right, right. So do you have any rules for yourself? If you're at a party, you've had a few glasses of wine. It's like, hey, Adam, don't drink and scoop. I never thought of that. Have you ever stopped yourself and you're about to break a story and you're like, wait a second, I've had like a half a bottle of Chianti.
Starting point is 00:39:14 Maybe I should ask for like a second opinion on the story. You know, another fact, my wife has never seen me drunk in 14 years of marriage. Whoa, wow. OK. So that's I've never, I've never, I've never. OK, what if you're just really high? Like super fucked up, like we're not even talking weed.
Starting point is 00:39:33 We're talking like dust cleaner. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. What if you like in the basement, like a big tube of airplane glue, right? If that were the case, if that were the case. I'd have to see counsel.
Starting point is 00:39:46 Yeah. But you would also stop. You can't do something recklessly. But would you tweet? Well, you have the story. OK, so the truth, no matter what. Yeah. That's the truth.
Starting point is 00:39:57 Above all else. How have you ever had a story that you filed to assignment desk and then it took too long to be verified and you're like, these guys screwed me. On the desk, no, the desk, the desk is great. That's on me. I mean, it comes back to me like I got to get the story in. Or there's a chance you'll lose the story.
Starting point is 00:40:16 Right. And they turn it around just like that. Yeah. But once you file it to the desk, you then could tweet it out. Oh, you can tweet file too. That's a nice loophole. I forgot about that. But it's funny when I first got to ESPN, I got to ESPN in
Starting point is 00:40:28 August of 2009 and I joined Twitter in June of 2009, two months before I got to ESPN. Right. I remember getting that summer like this guideline of tweet policies and when ESPN initially came out with like its first policy, it was like, everything must be filed to the desk. You then must wait five minutes before you, like it was a
Starting point is 00:40:48 whole big list of things that I don't know where it came from and I don't know what happened to those rules. Right. And if they probably weren't put in place for like any real reason, they were just like, we should have a Twitter policy. So let's just make one up. Well, Twitter policy went into effect and I don't remember very much about it.
Starting point is 00:41:04 OK. So this is a perfect loophole for Leroy. You need to start doing that. This, instead of saying sources say. File to desk. Say file to desk and then if you get it wrong, you just apply desk denial. The desk cleared it.
Starting point is 00:41:13 Yeah, no, the desk, no, the desk denied it because you filed it, which is fact. And then I don't want Leroy to pass the buck. I want the desk to be the ones that are ultimately culpable if it's false. Right. That's what I'm saying, but hold on. Yeah, what you put in your stamp on, what you're sending it
Starting point is 00:41:29 to Leroy, the desk, whatever. I'm one of the desk says, no, that story's bogus. Leroy, all he did was file a story. And the desk put it out. The desk verifies it. So if it ends up being wrong. Leroy has to verify it. Well, the desk could be like, sorry, this isn't right.
Starting point is 00:41:45 If Leroy is as much of a hound dog as we think he is. Right, what does the desk do then? How many people at the desk? Do they take piss breaks? Is there actually a desk? Is it one giant desk with like a little old lady clicking? They make sure when certain things are happening that you're not jumping the gun, that this is vetted out,
Starting point is 00:42:10 that the proper steps are being taken, that did you check this? And once they sign off on it, there's a lot of examples. Do you give a Christmas tip to the desk? I send cookies this year, bringing cookies. You got to leave a little scratch. Yeah, a little card, yeah, with a little money in there. How many people are on the desk?
Starting point is 00:42:31 This desk is fast. 7, 8 people, 7, 8, 9, 10 people. He's like the final boss of journalism. You guys should do an interview with the desk. Absolutely, but there's a lot of people there. I mean, there's a lot of people. I'm more concerned about the desk really itself than the people that work there.
Starting point is 00:42:47 Like for Christmas, you get one of those things that has a ball area. It's a whole area. And then we just call it, yeah, well, everybody's got their own desk. Oh, OK. I thought it was everyone's shared one. Yeah, everyone's got their own desk.
Starting point is 00:42:58 What's the difference between a bureau and a desk? Like when you hear somebody say like there's North American news bureau. The bureau sounds fancy. Like the bureau sounds like, you know, that sounds like a place where you go live some secret life and you have expense counting. You go do whatever you want in the North American bureau,
Starting point is 00:43:17 in the London bureau. Yeah. Here's an idea. For Christmas, like the quarterbacks that buy their offensive linemen nice gifts, you should buy them a sick new desk. But then it's not the desk. That's then it's his desk.
Starting point is 00:43:30 No, but it's a desk. You got a new desk. Then we got to supplant the ESPN, like the company equipment. Like I'm not a decorator. There's no bureaucratic red tape at ESPN. You could get that done in two seconds. Speaking of that. There's no.
Starting point is 00:43:42 Come on. We can't bring in food from the outside. No, this is easy. Speaking of red tape, did you spell check it when you tweeted out that your bosses made you say, yes, or Disney Plus is going to change lives? Did I misspell something? No, did you spell check it?
Starting point is 00:43:57 Like when they sent you the text that everyone at ESPN had to tweet out at the exact same time, and you copied and pasted it? I had that tweet first, I believe. Yeah, you did probably. You broke that new. I broke that new. Speaking of which, did it change your life?
Starting point is 00:44:11 100%. Disney Plus? Yeah. Speaking of which, why didn't you have the Bob Iger scoop? Well, I had that. I actually broke that to our bureau. You did? Well, funny thing, yesterday we wrapped up NFL Live.
Starting point is 00:44:26 We're sitting around our little self-created desk. There's that term again. Lucas Oil Stadium, and we're sitting around. It's about 10 of us, all the people here, the producers. And I said, Bob, Iger just resigned. Wow. So yes. So you broke the news to the group?
Starting point is 00:44:42 Yes, I did. That's a thrill. I don't care whether you're breaking news to the desk, a group, to Leroy, to you guys. It's just fun. Right. It's just fun, man. What about morbid news, though?
Starting point is 00:44:53 That always is like. That's not fun. Yeah, my dad does that to me all the time. He's like, hey, you remember this person? When it comes to sad news, my wife, if I tell her something, like that, why are you telling me? Yeah, why are you bumping me out? I think he's just addicted to breaking news the same way.
Starting point is 00:45:09 And sometimes, whatever your beat is, your beat is, right? Absolutely. Sometimes people have the jeep of just saying who's getting a terminal illness. Well, it's the rush of dispensing information. Just letting someone know that. Are you like a weather news breaker to your kids? Or are you like, hey, be safe.
Starting point is 00:45:28 There's a thunderstorm. My dad was like that a lot when I was a kid. My daughter's pretty obsessed with the weather. She's always checking that kind of thing. So she's the weather news breaker in the family more than me. She breaks it to you. She's got that.
Starting point is 00:45:39 Do you feel slighted when somebody breaks news to you, like to your face? Well, you never like to have any news broke at you. Like, you're telling me there's two inches of snow in Indianapolis. Say, like the guy that told me that this morning you ruined my morning a little bit. But if I were to break news right now and be like,
Starting point is 00:45:54 breaking news, Tom Brady is going to the Dallas Cowboys, you would look at me and you'd be like, I don't like that. I don't like what you just did to me. Well, you just broke that news on me. One of my bosses would text me. He's like, do you see that with Brady? I'm like, I texted him like, don't do that to me. Like, did you see, like, tell me what it is.
Starting point is 00:46:15 Like, don't make my heart drop. Don't rattle me like that. Like, just let me know what it is. Hey, do you hear about the trade? I don't want to hear do you hear about the trade. I want to hear this guy got traded. That's not fair yet because you have missing scoop phobia. It'd be like someone who's scared of spiders
Starting point is 00:46:33 and just handing them a spider and being like, look at this. That sucks. Scoop phobia. Yeah. Speaking of your scoop phobia, it affects many people. How's your daughter's journalism career? I did love that. It's fun.
Starting point is 00:46:47 Yeah. Right? As a dad, you understand. Yes. And there's nothing better than bringing your daughter to events like, you know, took it down to the Pro Bowl. We're flying down. And that's not the Super Bowl.
Starting point is 00:47:01 No, the original idea was for her to do media at night for ESPN. They wouldn't credential her. Yeah. What do you guys know about that? They would have thrown her out on the street. We should actually, we should get a kid. Yeah, we should get a kid to ask all of our questions next year.
Starting point is 00:47:20 Just adopt a kid. Uh-huh. You want Dylan? Yeah. Yeah. Well, did she answer the hard-hitting questions? Oh, she's just. OK.
Starting point is 00:47:27 OK. Yeah, we're it. We'll adopt your daughter. Absolutely. She's on the ball. What's the percent chance that you get the Brady scoop? Are you in the running? Well, if you're a reporter, you're in the running.
Starting point is 00:47:38 Every reporter's in the running. I would assume Brady seems like the type of guy in the very private. The world we live in, though, the world we live in, like somebody's going to say, oh, I'm hearing Tom Brady is possibly going to Tennessee. And then he signs with Tennessee. And then, oh, that person will say, I got it first.
Starting point is 00:47:55 Right. But who do you think, like, if you had to guess right now, who's going to get it? Who's the closest to Brady's camp under the Patriots? Leroy? Leroy is going to get it. See, Leroy might actually get it, because I might just tweet out right now.
Starting point is 00:48:06 Tom Brady is expected to stay with the New England Patriots next year, per sources. Filed to the desk. Filed to the desk, knowing that that's like 60% likely, and then just squatting on that. Lock your account. That's what you do. Then I lock the account.
Starting point is 00:48:19 And then delete all the ones that aren't right. So having to go to all the teams. Right. Then there could be a material change after the fact, which I'm sure you're aware of. But that's kind of my secret to breaking news, is you just kind of take a guess. Put it out there.
Starting point is 00:48:30 Right. And then that's the thing. Sometimes you're right. Right. And if you're wrong, nobody will remember, right? Yeah. Do you actually get into the plane tracking stuff? Because that's what I feel like ESPN needs
Starting point is 00:48:39 a dedicated message board diehard that knows exactly how to track flights. I'm not technologically sophisticated enough to do that kind of thing. That's why we have Field Yates. Yeah. He's easy. You can do the tracking of the.
Starting point is 00:48:51 Field in the field, tracking the planes. Like that, it just seems like it's right. I can imagine Field just in a room, a dark room by himself, with a red light just sweating like he's in a submarine, just tracking planes all over the United States. He's my designated plane tracker. Yeah, the crazy thing about Fields is he's got a name that I thought he was like 70 years old.
Starting point is 00:49:10 Whenever I heard it, I was like Field Yates, that guy's ancient. He's like a colonel in the Civil War. And his wife has got the greatest name. What is it again? Am I like, or am I impeding a privacy? OK. You guys are texting to say like a little talk about his wife?
Starting point is 00:49:26 He posts it all the time on Instagram, so I think it's fair. Chapin. That's a good name. Chapin Yates. Right, exactly. Is that Chapin Yates? That's great. You know what she was before she became Chapin Yates?
Starting point is 00:49:36 She was Chapin Duke. You don't change my name from Duke. What is that? Dude, Field should have been Duke. Field Duke. Now he's like an Austrian World War I general. Or like, he should have been Duke Field. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:52 Oh, yeah, that's a porn star name. Duke versus the Field versus the Middle. Duke versus the Field. Every day he's, you know, every year he's getting Duke. But there's so many combinations of Field, Duke, Duke Field, Yates, Chapin, Chapin, Yates. Yeah. We could do a lot of things with both their names.
Starting point is 00:50:06 I'm just telling you. Yeah, they're missing out. Like any combination of those sounds like the guitar player for Johnny Cash. That's what I hear. I'm like Field, Chapin. Yeah, you could play in a country Western band for sure. Let's do some more quarterbacks.
Starting point is 00:50:20 Yeah. James Winston. Where is he going to be? Just a guess. Now, these are all guesses. These are not set in stone. But give us a guess. I don't like to give guesses.
Starting point is 00:50:32 OK. You know why? But if you were to give a guess. No, no, no. You know why? If I give a guess, then it becomes a headline. Right. And it's just a guess.
Starting point is 00:50:40 And so I'm guessing a headline. Give me a sleeper, James Winston team. Yeah. I think you're starting to realize that the trick of us is asking for sleepers is just to make headlines. It's bullshit. James Winston, returning to the box. We can make headlines in other areas.
Starting point is 00:50:53 OK. Here's one. Do one. What NFL team do you think is next in line on the Condoleezza rice shortlist? Well, you want the full story there? Yeah, I really do. Because when you made it up that the Cleveland Browns are
Starting point is 00:51:06 really interested in hiring Condoleezza rice, because you know what? As our head coach. I was wondering whether you remember that. I hope you remember your lie. Yeah, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That was maybe the most preposterous
Starting point is 00:51:17 breaking news story of my lifetime. Of my life. Then you want the assaults. And I hope it happens. But yes, please tell me. Do you want the backstory? Please. The 100% truthful, honest backstory.
Starting point is 00:51:28 Yep. So that week, the Browns fire Hugh Jackson. They have a press conference in which their general manager at the time, John Dorsey, is quoted as saying, we're going to look under every rock, internal, or every stone to get the best candidate, even if it's a woman. That was on Tuesday or Wednesday. So that Friday, as we're getting ready for the Sunday shows,
Starting point is 00:51:50 I said, let me call a couple of the Browns decision makers. I'm not going to name any names. Right. But there's been enough change in the organization that I feel like it's OK to now tell this story. Because swagger died. People shuffled in. People shuffled out.
Starting point is 00:52:02 We're called the homeless guy that told him to draft a mental. So anyway, so I called somebody that would have been involved with the search. And I said, you guys brought up the fact that you're going to look at every candidate, including a woman. Is there a woman that you want to interview?
Starting point is 00:52:19 And they said, yes. Condoleezza Rice. And I said, am I allowed to report that? And they said, let me think about that. And that afternoon, the Browns called me back and said, yes. You can report that. And on Saturday, the person who told me, called me, said, you're using that tomorrow, right?
Starting point is 00:52:35 And I said, yeah. He said, that's going to be great. Can't wait to see the reaction. I said, great. On Sunday, I report, the Browns would like to talk to Condoleezza Rice. It's one of the candidates they'd like to talk to. And an hour later, the Browns released a statement,
Starting point is 00:52:48 we've never talked about Condoleezza Rice. Oh, they got you. So they're messing with you. Do you think they were doing that on purpose? I think what happened was, is that you'll remember when it happened, the internet kind of broke. Yep. You broke the internet.
Starting point is 00:53:01 People were like, what are they doing? And no, they just wanted to get ideas. Like, that's all it was. It wasn't like, they're hiring Condoleezza Rice. It was a person that they had interest in talking to, getting her perspective. And you know what? In the world we live in, that's probably wise.
Starting point is 00:53:17 Could she have been any worse than what they've done? No? True. It's probably accurate. Good point. But she's never coached football. So wasn't that a red flag to you where you're like, OK. She's not a football coach.
Starting point is 00:53:28 One of the Browns, we're going to release a statement that just says this. I said, what? Right. So a couple of theories on that. One, either you had made an enemy. Wait, wait, wait, let me just go. Do you think I would have made it?
Starting point is 00:53:39 Like, where would that have come from? It was so preposterous. That was the most logical explanation. Was that you just, you had a fever dream. You were down in your basement with an airplane glue. And you were like, Condoleezza Rice. Exactly. So either somebody was messing with you.
Starting point is 00:53:52 No. No, you don't think that they were messing with you? 100% not. OK. Are they were trying to find a leak in the front office? And so Dorsey gave somebody that bread crumb. Interesting. And was like, hey, if this gets out in the news,
Starting point is 00:54:02 I know exactly who's leaking. No. Interesting. Is the person that had told you still there? We don't know. All I said, I'm not interested in you. There's been enough turn it out. I will just say this to you.
Starting point is 00:54:13 There's been enough turnover there. I'm going to put a pin in that one. Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. Make sure you're just wearing your turnover. How come you didn't get? Well, let's put it this way. The person who told me was directly involved
Starting point is 00:54:24 in the search process. We'll just say that, OK? OK. But was there a second that you stopped and you were like, hey, I know that this person just told me this, but maybe I should take a step back and think about, like, are they really going to hire? I did, right.
Starting point is 00:54:37 And then the person called me back Saturday and we talked about what was going to come out on Sunday. So to me, that sounds like that person was very thirsty to get that scoop out. Do you ever have like a? No, it wasn't thirsty. Again, initially, they contemplated whether they were willing to have that information go public.
Starting point is 00:54:55 Because again, we discussed it. And I said, if you're uncomfortable, let me know. And they could. No, we're good. Interesting. Do you ever have like a spidey sense that goes off though when somebody's being like a little too thirsty to try to get you this certain scoop
Starting point is 00:55:09 and you have to think like, wait, what's their angle on this? I mean, you know how a certain thing. You've been through this. I've done this for 30 years. You have a sense, just a certain instinct for what's legitimate, what's not, what's an agenda-driven item, what's not, what's real, what's not.
Starting point is 00:55:23 Doesn't mean you're always right. I mean, you're human, you can make mistakes. But in that particular case, it was as honest as it could be. OK. All right, I got one last question. Seek the question. Did that clear up the condolence? Yeah, yeah, you made it up.
Starting point is 00:55:37 I said it was like we thought it was good. Exactly. Yeah. You were slamming H in your driveway. And then you walked inside and saw like Fahrenheit 9-11 on TV and you're like, oh, this is happening. I haven't gone viral in a while. Let me figure out what I can concoct.
Starting point is 00:55:52 I think next year I'm going to have, if the Jaguars do get rid of Doug Morone, they're going to. No, we don't root for that. They're going to interview Elizabeth Warren. There it is. OK. Perfect, as first reported. All right, my last question.
Starting point is 00:56:04 Headline. She's a sleeper, big time sleeper. Seek the question, promo code take. You get $10 off your Seekie purchase. I have to check in. I think we're five, six years now. What the fuck is the desktape, dude? We'll go back to that.
Starting point is 00:56:19 I mean, why? You said you had the desktape. I never said I had the desktape. You said you would release the desktape. Here, I'll do a new one. If you don't even want to do the desktape, give me the bigger name in the Robert Kraft handjob gate. You said there was a bigger name.
Starting point is 00:56:31 I remember these things. I'm waiting. It would be funny. You actually told us last year at the Com Bond. You said at the outset of this that I'm a recurring guest. So if and when we do this again next year, you will ask me about the desktape Oh, we're just going to keep adding to it.
Starting point is 00:56:44 Yeah, you told us last year that you would give us the bigger name in the handjob tape. He didn't. We have not had a bigger name. Kid Rock. What if it was Adam Schefter? Oh, will you deny that it was you? Damn.
Starting point is 00:56:56 Will you, will you, yeah. Will you say that 100% was not you that got a handjob in South Florida? Correct. OK. I'm not going to say the same thing about Dave Portnoy, but I'm just going to say that. Great one, great one.
Starting point is 00:57:09 All right, so Adam, we're going to be on your podcast on Monday, we're going to air this Friday. Oh, one last question. Give me like an assault meter on a couple of things. You're walking. I intentionally trip you. Assault. I say to you dead in the eye, hey, Adam,
Starting point is 00:57:26 I'm going to kill you, motherfucker. Not assault. That is assault. That's assault. I can't trust you anymore. Verbal assault, OK. Yeah. Wet Willy.
Starting point is 00:57:35 I get it. I walk up behind you. You're on TV. I give you wet Willy. Oh. And you pee yourself. Annoying is crazy. Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 00:57:42 Not assault, though. Not assault. Well, yeah, debatable. OK, what about if I if I see in the hallway and I give you just maybe maybe a little hip check, like not nothing big assault. Unnecessary roughness. Unnecessary roughness.
Starting point is 00:57:57 OK. And one, I steal both your phones and I throw them in the trash can like the trash can on fire. That might be a felony felony. Yeah, you think so. Lonious. Are you still on two phones or have you upgraded to three? Two.
Starting point is 00:58:11 You should get them insured. Like, you know how Jean-Claude Van Damme had to get his hands insured. You should get those insured. Yeah. Just in case. I got a new phone last week and it freaked me out because some of my texts were going to my old phone.
Starting point is 00:58:22 Some were coming to my new one. Do you have phobia about upgrading your phones? When you change it, it is awkward. It takes a long time to get used to it. I had an incident the first time one of my phones fell in the toilet. Oh, no. Assault.
Starting point is 00:58:36 Well, how'd that happen? Self assault. Self assault. You can self assault yourself. How'd that happen? You just dropped it? Just dropped it. Damn, man.
Starting point is 00:58:45 Was there P in there? Well, obviously, there was because you. They don't call me P-boy anymore. Right, right. It was a fucking toilet full of P. Did you fish it out? Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:58:54 You go bare hand or? P-boy does, yeah. Did you put it in rice? Yeah. All right. Well, Adam, thank you. Did you still have it? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:03 Which phone is your P-phone? That's this one. OK. Careful. The P-phone is the bad phone. Careful. It's the everything. That'd be funny, actually, if your P-phone,
Starting point is 00:59:12 after that incident, became the one that you got all the good stories on, like it acquired magic powers. Freaky Friday. Yeah. Do I assault the, or do I assault? Do I call the bad phone or the other one? Or do I text the bad phone or the other one?
Starting point is 00:59:27 It comes into, sometimes it comes into both. I got them linked up. I don't know. What's the point? What's the point of having two phones? Well, one phone, and Ford's message, you've created wolf for cell phones. I'm trying to see, do you come into both?
Starting point is 00:59:39 Let's see. Well, yeah, you come into both. Oh, wow. All right, so I can get to you at any time. All right, so Adam, thank you as always. We are going to be on your show on Monday. We're going to tape it right after this. Yes.
Starting point is 00:59:49 So go subscribe, know them from Adam. Yeah, you know them. Assault. Assault, yeah, that's it, yeah. I'm happy that you listened to us. Assault should be the name of your podcast. Assault, period. Assault, with Adam Schefter.
Starting point is 01:00:01 Yes. I mean, that's what we'll call this episode that we're on. Assaulting Adam. Assaulting Adam, yes. This is actually, we just helped you out big time. Yeah, you really did. Subscribe. I'm indebted to you guys.
Starting point is 01:00:14 All right, so we'll see you on, if anyone wants to listen, we'll be on Adam's show on Monday. Thanks, Adam. Thanks, guys. That interview with Adam Schefter was brought to you by the movement. Now is the time to move on to our all-time favorite underdog success story.
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Starting point is 01:04:33 Dress shopping? No, be careful in Vegas. Okay. You're running with some youngins, so. I am. It's always a scary site. And you're gonna be in heels. It's true, running in heels.
Starting point is 01:04:47 I'm gonna, yeah, I think maybe one night of going hard is probably the plan for me. That'll be my Friday night, I think. If I try to do two in a row, I'm gonna, I can't do that anymore, so. I mean, you're gonna, it's gonna be two days because yesterday you were like, I'm gonna go hard on Saturday,
Starting point is 01:05:02 so I feel like you mentally were already, you were already preparing to mentally go hard on Saturday and now that you're getting there a day early and just said that you're gonna go hard on Friday. Yeah, you moved your flight up, so now you're going on Thursday. Which just screams to me that you're going, you're gonna have a hard 24 hours.
Starting point is 01:05:17 Everything, will you contradict yourself so badly? It's hilarious. I'm just gonna do one night. Yeah, guys, don't worry. I'm gonna hang out by the pool on Saturday. It's fine, it's fine. I just moved up my flight. I'll be there a little bit longer now.
Starting point is 01:05:31 It's fine. All right, PFT, you wanna start with your firefest? Yeah, I would love to. So my firefest has to be relatable for a lot of you guys out there. My watch is stuck on my wrist. So, you heard me talk about it a little bit in the MVMT ad read.
Starting point is 01:05:47 I'm not wearing a movement watch right now. I'm wearing a full watch. And I wore it out last night, so a decent watch, but that's only because I couldn't find my movement. And it is stuck on my wrist. I can't get it off. Somehow the locking mechanism is broken on here. And my wrist is starting to feel very claustrophobic.
Starting point is 01:06:07 I'm actually panicking a little bit, even though it's just me wearing a watch. If you can't get something off, it's like I've got a tracking bracelet on. That's what's going through my head right now. And it's starting to really, really, really give me the willies. It is an uncomfortable feeling
Starting point is 01:06:22 when you have something on your wrist that you cannot get off. You're absolutely right. So what are you gonna do? I don't know. It's like a sturdy metal watch. So I can't cut through it. I can't use a knife and cut it off.
Starting point is 01:06:35 Why? You know what? I'll bet you the very first woman that I asked if they could help me take my watch off, I guarantee you they're able to do it like pronto. For some reason, girls are always really good at that type of stuff. I was looking on Valentine's Day. I went to go Valentine's Day shopping
Starting point is 01:06:50 and I went to Macy's in the jewelry section and there was legitimately like 10,000 square foot of just watch, different watch stations. And in my head, I was like, there's no way that people are still buying watches. Well, except for movement. Right, but in stores, that's what I'm saying. Movement's great, but the stores,
Starting point is 01:07:12 the storefront and the amount of watches that are out there, it just seems, it's crazy. Oh, he's trying to take it off right now, folks. It's impossible. I can't get it off. All right, I got a tip for you. Why don't you just dunk your hand really quickly into battery acid?
Starting point is 01:07:29 Okay. Where do you think they keep the battery acid in this hotel? I don't know. Maybe check next to the ice machine. You need a saw. I'll just dip it in my own piss. That's acidic, right?
Starting point is 01:07:39 Yes. Yeah, if you piss on it, like if you piss on that watch, 10,000 times, it will come off. Yeah. Should I go pee on it right now? Your pee watch? All right, Pianx could do his fire fest, though. He's gonna pee on his watch.
Starting point is 01:07:53 My fire fest was that we were in Indy yesterday and we changed our flight, so we had a super early flight this morning and last night, you and PFT, you know, you'd go to the dinner, go to Schmooge with the coaches. That's not really my thing. I don't really know these guys personally like you do. And I realized-
Starting point is 01:08:09 I didn't do much schmoozing. I realized- I lost the LSU. At like seven o'clock, even though I could have like thought about it earlier in the day and just booked an earlier flight, I realized at like eight o'clock that I could have just gone home last night instead of waking up super early
Starting point is 01:08:21 and just kind of being miserable in the morning. Oh, it's peeing. So that was my fire fest. But weren't you happy that we got to spend time together and we had a nice dinner? It was a nice dinner, but we do spend a lot of time together. By the way, the waitress is, I have two fire fest,
Starting point is 01:08:40 but this is just an additional one. If you order a Guinness- That was my other fire fest. I was trying to get the boys to get some sheesh, a bottle of sheesh and big cows. Like I'm going to get a Guinness. I was like, all right, fuck it, I'll get a Guinness. I'm not going to order a glass of sheesh on my own.
Starting point is 01:08:53 So keep going. If you order a Guinness at a restaurant, they legally should be, you have to tell you whether it's a bottle or draft because no one orders a bottle of Guinness. No. But I love a draft Guinness. So that was very illegal.
Starting point is 01:09:07 Like I felt like- Like he just shat. Yeah, I don't know what he did. He might have gone with battery acid. Okay. Hopefully that's, make sure it's still recording. Yes, we're still going here. Okay, cool.
Starting point is 01:09:19 Yeah, we're still taping. So Hank's fire fest was just hanging out with us. Yeah. The episode at the steakhouse last night, that was probably the funniest was when Hank was considering ordering the Kobe beef, the Wagyu. And he looked at the menu price and it said $25 per ounce. Per ounce.
Starting point is 01:09:39 And Hank was trying to order like one ounce of the Wagyu beef. Hank was trying to get a shot of Wagyu. That's all. Just like a jigger of Kobe beef. And then big hat, poor Shane means. Whoa. No, I didn't.
Starting point is 01:09:52 I said go for it. $75 for Wagyu. It was 125 for five ounces. All right, I'll stick with the dinner. I have two fire fest. The first one is that PFT just won't believe me that medium rare plus exists. Even though every time we go somewhere,
Starting point is 01:10:05 I order it and the waitress, it's happened probably about a dozen times where he turns the waitress or waiter and is like, is that real? And they always are like, oh, we got it off. The piss, the piss worked. The piss worked. Hell yeah.
Starting point is 01:10:18 But my risk feels so great right now. So every time we go, I order medium rare plus and then he turns to him and says, is that real? And they always say yes. And he still doesn't believe me. They kind of roll their eyes. You can see him roll their eyes when you say medium rare plus. Not only that, but I ordered medium rare plus.
Starting point is 01:10:34 He ordered medium rare. We looked at the stakes. There was a difference. And he just switched the argument. He goes, I'd rather have my steak than yours. Mine looked way better. That's just objective. My steak looks amazing.
Starting point is 01:10:45 I am convinced that at nice steak houses, if you order a medium rare, they will always undercook it instead of cooking it to medium rare. They will always air on the side of caution. And I don't like medium rare. Air on the side of rare? Yeah, I don't like the medium rare minus. So that's why I get plus.
Starting point is 01:10:59 My other fire fest. Is that a thing? The air on the side of taste. Ooh, PFT, that's what you should do. He tried. He tried last night. I did. I said medium rare minus.
Starting point is 01:11:07 Yeah, yeah, like not. No, you could get rare plus. You can do rare plus? I'm sure. That's like the same thing as medium rare minus. That's minus assist. Exactly. That's minus assist.
Starting point is 01:11:19 Right. All right, my other fire fest is we were, Bubba, Hank, and I were in an Uber and we were driving by Lucas Oil. And I was like, oh, we might be back here for Wisconsin if they get to the suite 16. And the guy, the Uber driver just completely out of the left field was like, oh, you're a Badger fan.
Starting point is 01:11:36 That place has had some really bad games for you guys. And like, then just kept on talking about it. He's like, there was the 2015 against Duke when you guys lost against, you know, Ohio State and Hank and Liam were just sitting in the back. Just like, you thought they were listening to like Dave Chappelle open mic. Like it was the funniest thing in the world.
Starting point is 01:11:57 So I was just getting roasted by an Uber driver and there's nothing, no worse feeling. Zero stars. Did you rate him? No, I gave him five stars. Yeah, I did. I gave him five stars. Also, we, friend of the people,
Starting point is 01:12:10 we also had an Uber driver who was the Troll Ballans avatar. He was a Bruins, Giants, San Francisco Giants, Celtics, Packers fan. So like from 09 to like 11, he won all the, all the titles. That's unbelievable. How does that, how does that happen? You said Packers, San Francisco Giants. He was super old.
Starting point is 01:12:32 So it was like the, the dominate teams of like the early 80s. Yeah. He basically was like, he, he was like, yeah, I loved Willie Mays, Larry Bird. And then I don't know how he became Packers and then Bruins. I don't even know probably Bobby Orr. And he just, he had that, he had that stretch.
Starting point is 01:12:48 Wow. It must be so awesome just rooting for good teams all the time in every sport. Well, they're not always good, but it was that stretch was incredible. That was an incredible stretch for him. And I mean, recently being a San Francisco Giants fan has been pretty good overall.
Starting point is 01:13:02 Yeah. Being a Packers fan is good. Being a Celtics fan is good. Bruins, not bad. So they have a Hall of Fame quarterback. The only one, one Super Bowl. That seems a little, you can say that for both. Oh, the Packers.
Starting point is 01:13:13 Yeah. I don't know. I think, I think the Packers have had a very nice stretch here the last 20 years. I don't wonder how much you left on the table. All right. Let's do some segments. Saber metrics, the Houston Astros are getting plunked a shitload already nine times. And we've only had like four spring training games.
Starting point is 01:13:31 I'm so excited for this. This is the story. This is what we've been talking about. This needs to happen for the entire year. I want to find out what the, what the line is on the amount of times that the Astros are going to get beaned this year. And I'm going to take the over on it no matter what,
Starting point is 01:13:42 because that's going to be such a fun bet to track as the season goes on. But on the Saber metric side of things, are the Houston Astros actually going to have like a record high for on base percentage this year? Because you're going to just get doinked all the time. That's true. That's a good point. Like I feel like I might take the season win total over
Starting point is 01:14:01 for the Astros just on that alone. There's some value there. That's what you say when you have like a really dumb ass argument that people who are actually smart won't really believe. You just say there's value in that pick. There's value there. So that's why I'm going to take it.
Starting point is 01:14:13 Yeah. I'm just, there's an account that I followed today that I'm going to shout out real quick because it's you, everyone has to follow it if you're an Astros hater, because it seems like they're going to compile it for the rest of the, oh yeah. It's the, the account is called asterix tour, the 2020 Astros shame tour. And they're just basically going to retweet every
Starting point is 01:14:35 Astros player that gets plunked and every sign that calls them out and everything. So that, that seems like a good place that you can just aggregate all your Astros hate. Yep. I love it. All right. Next up, we have a respect the biz.
Starting point is 01:14:49 We had a pretty big problem at the combine today. Do you have that tweet in front of you, PFT? I do. Yeah. So this is from our friend JP Finley. He works at a DC great follow. If you like DC sports, he says they're out of diet pepsi in the media room and people are loud mad. The catering staff said more would come at 1145
Starting point is 01:15:12 and this dude stormed off said that doesn't help me now. He had his own big gulp cup to peak NFL media scene. So yeah, thoughts and prayers. This is apocalypse movie stuff right here when it comes to sports journalists is running out of diet pepsi. So if you want to see a riot, journalists are all about the polite discourse until they run out
Starting point is 01:15:32 of their beloved low calorie sodas. Well, it also came out today that because of the coronavirus it might affect like Coca-Cola's the way they do their artificial sweetener. Oh no. So that we might be in like a Diet Coke recession. Where are we as a podcast on coronavirus? Like where's it ranked?
Starting point is 01:15:51 Are they title shot? Are they 15? Is it properly ranked? Is it overrated or is it underrated right now? Are they in the top 25? I feel like the coronavirus is overrated right now. It's having a moment, but I don't know if it's got the clutch gene
Starting point is 01:16:04 cause it hasn't mutated yet. So I would say that the coronavirus is overrated because it only has a 2% mortality rate which frankly is trash, like 2%. Get out of here. And I would honestly get coronavirus just for the content. I think it would be a good addition to the show. We should do, I'm thinking about it now, like top 25.
Starting point is 01:16:26 I would say coronavirus is that others receiving votes and they've got like six votes. No, they're like UCF. Like everyone's talking about them but they're not actually a contender. I think they could be in a couple of weeks but I don't have them ranked right now. Like number one's nuclear war.
Starting point is 01:16:40 Number two, you know, climate change. Like there's a lot of things that are threatening us. Coronavirus is receiving votes now. They've had a couple of good roadways. Who have they played? Nobody, they've had an easy schedule so far. They've got the secret of Chinese government that would rather just totally ignore the entire outbreak
Starting point is 01:16:57 than have to like discuss it openly in the media. There's some issues in Iran right now. They've got a bad public health situation right there. So you know, talk to me when you do some damage in Scandinavia where they have good hospitals. Talk to me, not when you're on my block. Talk to me when you're at my door coronavirus. It's week four and coronavirus beats.
Starting point is 01:17:18 They pasted Vanderbilt at home. They beat Arkansas and Fayetteville and maybe they played like UTEP in the non-conference schedule. So they're making noise but they're not ranked yet. There's no question about they've covered the spread against some clearly inferior opponents right now but we don't know who they are.
Starting point is 01:17:38 I'll say it to you this way. In my who's now bracket, the coronavirus is a solid eight seed. Ooh, okay, okay, let's finish up. We got some FAQs and then we'll let everyone go for the weekend. Hank, you wanna go? It's not a class.
Starting point is 01:17:56 People can go whenever they want. Sure, you can leave whenever you want. Although we do have some really good interviews that we taped into Minneapolis coming up with some coaches, coach friends. You'll tell people at the end of the FAQs so they stay. I will tell everyone the three names at the end of the FAQs so you stay.
Starting point is 01:18:12 I'm in a new relationship with a girl who is very confident in her ability to beat me in a hundred yard foot race. I take it as a direct challenge to my explosiveness. I told her I'd smoke her and we are planning to do it next week. What is the proper punishment if I were to lose this race?
Starting point is 01:18:27 Did DK Metcalf write this? That's why I brought it up. It's a very similar situation. But so let's figure out a punishment. What's an appropriate punishment for a guy losing to a girl in a foot race? I think if you lose, you have to just keep running until you go for two miles.
Starting point is 01:18:44 Yeah. It also is like one of those weird things that when you win, you're just gonna feel like an asshole. True. This is like- I don't care how much gloating she was doing before the fact. If you beat your girlfriend in a foot race
Starting point is 01:18:58 and then you're like, yes, suck it, bitch. I'm faster than you. That's probably gonna end your relationship. So you almost have to throw it and not win and then you're gonna have to keep running for two miles afterwards. Right. So you're kind of just a weirdo once you win it
Starting point is 01:19:13 and then you're like, wait, I was making that big of a deal and now I'm just a jerk. So play it cool, man. Don't be an idiot. Hate Sean Cat and PFT. Pretty furry tiger. There's a lot of talk about the 40 yard dash in the combine.
Starting point is 01:19:27 Who would have the faster time if you switched weight? Cat or PFT? Oh, that's funny. I think big cat, definitely. Yeah, I'm definitely the slowest of the group here. That's for sure. If we switch weights, I would probably be able to beat you. Who do you think would win between me or PFT?
Starting point is 01:19:48 We might have to do this as a warmup before DK. I don't even know. I'm not fast, so. No. But I think I might be faster than you. How much do you weigh? 175. Oh, I would smoke you.
Starting point is 01:19:59 I would absolutely smoke you. I'm not gonna definitively say you wouldn't because I'm not very fast. I think PFT is the fastest of the group. But I think I might beat you. I got longer struts. I think PFT is the fastest of the group. Find out.
Starting point is 01:20:10 We'll do it before DK. Okay. I think Bubba is sneaky, really, really slow. No, Matt, he got hit. Oh, it's slow, you said? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. My left ankle is completely made out of metal.
Starting point is 01:20:21 I thought you were gonna say fast. I'm very slow. I thought you were about to say fast. No, he looks like, if you just saw a picture of Bubba, you'd probably say he's the fastest of everybody in this podcast. But then I feel like when he moves, he vapes too much. That's his thing.
Starting point is 01:20:36 He has to stop for air after 15 yards. Yeah, Bubba's deceptively, it has deceptive speed. He's slower than he looks. Yes. Sup guys, my girlfriend tells me that listening to PMT makes me dumber. But she'd finally agree to listen to one episode with me on our road trip.
Starting point is 01:20:53 Which episode should I have her listen to for this crucial moment? Fuck. Did we ever do the Howard Stern thing where we made a woman orgasm? No, I've never made a woman orgasm. Fuck. Maybe this one.
Starting point is 01:21:11 When you get to this, it's like, hey, what's up? Thanks for listening. We love you. Yeah, do this. Or orgasm. But also, how is he gonna know this? When he listens to it. So he's gonna make a listen to this one back.
Starting point is 01:21:24 Here's what you do. Listen to the life advice one. Because that is unlike any other episode or part of my take. So listen to that one. And then she'll be like, wow, these guys have really candid conversations about their anxieties, their work lives in their 20s,
Starting point is 01:21:39 how to balance out professional goals with private lives. And then right after that, just play one of the ones where we just throw up on ourselves. Yeah. Or play the Kobe one. Right after Kobe passed. We were really serious and cool.
Starting point is 01:21:56 Yes. When you do Monday recaps, do you play the music in studio? If so, how do you get time to run, how do you time it to run the correct amount of time? If not, are there guys just making noises and doing Berman's voice in silence? I actually don't know.
Starting point is 01:22:11 They can't plays it, but I don't know how the rest of it works. We do play the music. We don't play the music though for fantasy fuck boys. Oh. That one is just like. Which is a lot weirder. Yeah, we're just screaming in the studio
Starting point is 01:22:24 with no music underneath. So that one's definitely a lot weirder. If you look at it. So for fastest. Right away. One of the hardest parts about writing fastest two minutes every week is that we have to write it.
Starting point is 01:22:36 So it exactly times out when the music's over. So we write. We pay very close. And just keeping everything under two minutes. Every single syllable. Yeah, every single syllable. We write knowing that we have to squeeze in all 16 matchups in exactly two minutes time.
Starting point is 01:22:51 So yeah, it's tricky. I did about halfway through. We implemented playing the actual Eagles instrumental, which I thought helped a lot with the melody. You guys are much more on pitch. Yeah, it's true. Big, very, very true. Sup bang on sunkas.
Starting point is 01:23:07 Whoa. I think that's gotta be British, right? Sure, bang on sunkas. Sunkas. Why is it that your nipples get bigger when it's cold, but your dick and balls shrink? I actually know the reason for the second part of that. So when your balls shrivel up when it's cold,
Starting point is 01:23:26 it's because they are seeking warmth because you're a sperm factory, right? And you're nut sack. So it has to stay closer to your body to be the right temperature to produce sperm because the optimal sperm producing temperature is a little bit chillier than the rest of your body. That's why they're not internal.
Starting point is 01:23:44 That's why they hang out outside your body. Okay, makes sense. All right. I'm gonna buy it. What's up, Mr. 35 and Dadcat? What's the update on 2020 squats and push-ups? I do it every day. Yeah?
Starting point is 01:23:57 Minus a few days. Did you do it today? I tell people are doing it. No, I'm gonna do it today. I've been doing it every day. So yeah, I missed one day, a week, a day. All right, last one.
Starting point is 01:24:13 I haven't done it since January 3rd. What's good guys? I have a twofer for the people. PFT, how did your parents react when you told them you're going to be a bridesmaid in the upcoming wedding? Have you told them too, for Dadcat, have you decided that you're going to be
Starting point is 01:24:31 the cool dad out of Smallcat's future friend group? Like let's say you walk in on Future Smallcat ripping a huge dude with the boys. What do you do? You're gonna hop in the rotation or are you laying down the law? I'll answer mine first. I think that cool dad thing, that doesn't really work.
Starting point is 01:24:48 That's not cool. You gotta wait til they're 18 plus. Yeah, it's not really cool. Yeah, no, it is cool. Your hashtag boy dad. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. Just token fat L's with the fellas. Yeah, that's one of those ones
Starting point is 01:25:02 where I think it would just make your son hate you way more. All your friends would be like, your dad's so cool. Some would be like, no, he's not, it sucks. Yeah, I definitely had some friends whose parents would smoke with us all the time when we were younger. And at the time it was kind of cool, but five, six years go past and you're just like,
Starting point is 01:25:24 that was fucking weird. They should not have been doing that. Right, I think once you're back from college though, then it's cool. In high school it's like, all right, that's you're like the person from Mean Girls. And as for me, I have not told my parents that I'm going to be a bridesmaid in a wedding,
Starting point is 01:25:41 so if we could keep that between us. Will, so the pictures of you in a dress, is that something that you plan on them seeing or is that one you're just hoping that kind of goes past the radar? Depends how hot I look. I mean, if I'm a fucking smoke, then yeah, I'm gonna post that shit everywhere.
Starting point is 01:25:59 Yes, absolutely. Check it out, mom. One thing that I am a little bit concerned about is the level of accessorizing that I'm gonna need to do with this dress, because it dawned on me that dresses don't usually have pockets. And I've always been a guy that wears different types of pants with pockets.
Starting point is 01:26:16 So I don't know, do I have to get a purse too? Yes, yes. Feel like I gotta get a bag and then does my bag have to match my dress or does it match my shoes? All, all the above. So all the same color. And then somebody told me I need to get a garter. I don't know what a garter is,
Starting point is 01:26:34 but I don't feel like wearing one. Gotta get that too. In a veil. And then, no, that's for the bride. No, but you gotta be cool, yeah, it'd be sick. Yeah, yeah. You got this. I should upstage the bride and wear a wedding dress.
Starting point is 01:26:46 The problem that I'm foreseeing running into with this dress situation is that if I get a dress that fits me, I feel like it's gonna be tight around the groin area. And that could be just a bad visual for everyone. No one wants to see that. So do I have to buy a dress that's like too big? No, you got this.
Starting point is 01:27:07 I don't think you should worry about the visuals. Just fucking dude, it's Vegas. It's Vegas. All right, I just, I wish that there was a girl that could go dress shopping with me right now because I think I'm gonna need some help. You got this. I'll send you guys pictures from the dressing room.
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