Pardon My Take - Arkansas HC Eric Musselman, Cranky Jim Boeheim, And Burner Accounts

Episode Date: March 5, 2021

Loose Friday Show. Big Ben is a hero, more QB drama (2:26 - 11:01), Jim Boeheim is cranky and Billy tries to find PFT’s burner account (11:01 - 42:23). Arkansas HC Eric Musselman joins the show to talk March Madness, coaching philosophies, pumping his players up and more (42:23 - 63:43). We finish with Fyre Fest of the weekYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

Hey, pardon my take listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen, ad-free, on Amazon Music. On today's pardon my take, we're getting on the must-bus. Head Coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks, Eric Musselman, awesome interview with him. It's March. We're feeling it. Bayheim gets a little cranky.

We have to, we have to, in fairness, rip Bayheim as much as we ripped Coach K. We have Baker Mayfield seeing an alien. Big Ben is officially, officially back taking a pay cut. Billy is going to find PFT's burner. It's going to be a little bit of a Friday free form, free fun, have some fun, good vibes. Try to be nice to Billy. Type of show. Good times.

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Okay, let's go. Welcome to PARDIN, my take presented by 3G. Go to 3G.com. Right now, use code PARDIN at checkout to get 5% off your order. Today is Friday, March 5th, and Big Ben is officially, officially back. We love it, don't we? We love it. We have a lot of things to get to.

You took a pay cut. Well, okay. This is my favorite. This might be my favorite Big Ben move ever because he took a pay cut. So the Adam Scheffer Tweet reads, Ben Rothsberger willingly reduced his pay to $14 million from $19 million in his final year of his contract and spread the cash payment through 2022 per source. It lowered the cap hit by over $15 million.

Absolutely the team can make the right move to be as competitive as possible this season. In ultimate Big Ben, now he signed a long-term deal a few years ago, signed a big money contract, but he signed a big money contract knowing he was going to get paid like $40 million when he was very old and at the end of his career. And now he's hero ball going to take a pay cut on the contract that he signed to get paid a ton of money when he was really old. This is the greatest thing that Big Ben has ever done. Yeah.

What he should have done is he just should have negotiated like a different health plan from everybody else. So his co-pays would be higher and the company would have to pay less. That would be a good way to save some money if you're the Steelers. Big Ben is his pay cut isn't really that drastic, but it's mostly so Big Ben can be like, I'm doing this for the benefit of the team. I care about you guys. I want to win.

Winning is more important than getting paid at the end of the day. It's the trade version or sorry, it's the contract or pay cut version of throwing a bunch of interceptions in the first half, then leading your team to a miraculous comeback in the fourth quarter. And everyone's like clutch. Well, they wouldn't have been in this spot if he wasn't getting paid $40 million as like a 38 year old. I got to be honest.

If I were the Steelers, I don't know why people are excited about this in Pittsburgh. Is anybody excited? I've seen people say like, it's good. We're glad that he's coming back. And don't get me wrong. I'm very glad that Big Ben is coming back. That guy is like half of our brains at this point. I don't know what I would do if he wasn't in the NFL.

But if I was a Steelers fan, I would not be super thrilled about another year, Big Ben. I would be, I would be pretty like ambivalent just by the fact that you, you have to find the future. The future is probably not going to show up tomorrow. So I'd be okay with it. As long as there's Wilson goes there, maybe I don't, I don't see that happening. It wasn't on a short list. Yeah.

I love Russell Wilson. I think he's on a yacht in like the Caribbean and everything. And every time they post a video, I just get tagged in a bunch. Is this Lake Michigan? Like a picture of him floating with sharks? Uh-huh. It's like, yeah, that actually is. It could be.

That's exactly what Lake Michigan looks like in early March. They're, they just look out your window. That's Russell Wilson. I, something just occurred to me earlier today. How pissed would you be if you were Dak Prescott and Russell Wilson is out there like talking about your job? Well, Dak is going to get paid, right? He's going to get paid.

It's going to happen. It is weird because there's just so many moving parts right now with the NFL and the salary cap. And I, I still, for the life of me, the salary cap in the NFL is one of those situations where you could explain it to me a million times and then a team can do seven different moves and all of a sudden magically be out of salary cap hell. Oh, I'm a capologist. I've, I've taken that assignment on this off season to learn as much as I can about the

salary cap. Basically, it doesn't matter. It, the, the best, uh, line I ever saw about the salary cap in the NFL, I can't remember who said it. So apologies to whoever came up with it. It's like nailing smoke to a wall. Okay. That's heavy.

You can't, like there's, there's just, when you're trying to figure out the cap and trying to figure out, you know, oh wow, we're so, it's like shooting pool with a rope. Yeah. It's like teams will go from under, you know, $20 million over the cap to magically, oh, they have a bunch of cap space. Yeah. The Saints, haven't the Saints been in salary cap hell for the last three years? They just did something with their kicker today.

It's like, oh, whoops, we just found some more, you know, coins underneath the couch. I also feel like the Rams have been in cap hell. Yep. But that's mostly because Sean McPhays, like it's weird because he treats, uh, the salary cap like it doesn't exist. He also treats the future, like future draft picks, like they don't exist. Correct. Living for now.

Living for, living in the moment. We can all take some time to appreciate that. Yes. Like it's the Adrian Grenier picture. Sorry, I haven't been posting much recently. I've been too distracted by the, by the present. You talking about Vinny Chase? Living in the moment.

Vinny Chase, bro. All right. So we have that. Big Ben is back. Officially. Uh, Baker Mayfield saw an alien and I hate to do this. You know what? I'm not even going to say it.

I was just, I thought, I thought Coward was actually kind of funny. Well, he was kind of funny. Like if you, but if you, if I got tagged calling Coward basically was like, I don't like my quarterbacks pointing out aliens. That was funny. That's a funny joke on himself. That self-deprecation. I'm going to call it like I see it.

I got tagged and people were like, can you believe Coward, if you can't laugh at that, come on. Well, it was a situation where Coward knew that he had to bring some thunder today. Like everybody was expecting Colin Coward to have a take on the aliens, seeing Baker Mayfield and he delivered in spades. He was like, I would prefer my quarterback when he saw aliens kept it to himself and didn't talk about it. You think Tom Brady would talk about an alien?

And I mean hats off to hats forward to Colin Coward because that you knocked it out of the park. Yes. You knew it was coming. Everybody expected you to go yard and you hit a dinger. So congratulations. You got to call it. Like it would be unfair of us to just hate on that.

It was funny. I liked what he did there. He did also, he forgot or maybe he didn't forget, but halfway through he was like, yeah, Aaron Rodgers did also have an alien, you know, thing. And we also had the Terry Bradshaw story. Aliens exist. We all agree. Right?

Aliens exist. Time to long. Baker Mayfield, you probably saw an alien. I totally believe you. The Terry Bradshaw story where if you missed it, Terry Bradshaw in 1983, I want to say it was, went in for knee surgery and used a pseudonym so that no one would bother him. And the pseudonym was Thomas Brady. That is way crazier than Aliens.

That's like Simpson's level stuff. That's a little Illuminati shit. It's really weird. Yeah. So Terry Bradshaw, did he see aliens? No, I don't know. But the best part is Terry Bradshaw is so dumb. I, if he saw an alien, I'd be like, OK, there was like an exceptionally large raccoon that

made its way onto his porch and Terry Bradshaw freaked out. That's my favorite part about this story is that Terry Bradshaw is so out of it and like drunken. And he's, you know, he's living a life. I love Terry Bradshaw. He's funny guy. He's just, he's just having a good time. This happened to his own life and we found out about it because someone pulled up an

old newspaper, not because Terry Bradshaw was like, hey, I once went and got knee surgery and I used Tom Brady. He forgot about it. He forgot about it completely. Yeah. That would be like if Virginia Tech won a national championship in 20 years and the quarterback's name was Ron Mexico. Yeah.

Yeah. Right. That's wild shit, man. Right. Yeah. But we also didn't even know about the Michael Vick thing because that's the craziest part that we didn't even know it. No one knew it.

And then all of a sudden it's a tweet and it's a newspaper article and Terry Bradshaw. I'm sure if you asked him, he's like, I don't remember that. No, he doesn't remember. If you ask anything to Terry Bradshaw about his past, he's like the 70s, man. Yeah. 70s were a wild time, but it would be the most Cleveland thing ever if they're coming off in 11-5 season, they've got to play off when they have the coach of the year. They're favored to finish ahead of the Steelers in the division and their quarterback gets

abducted by aliens. Yes. Could happen. Could happen. Could absolutely happen. But I do believe Baker. I absolutely believe Baker. People who don't believe in aliens are losers.

Yeah. Why would you grade up? Why would you willingly convince yourself that aliens don't exist? It's like betting the under. Sometimes I will think about space and it will actually hurt my brain. Like it actually does cause cramps inside of my brain where I'm like the expansion of the universe. What the fuck?

I had a sweet thought when Baker tweeted that out last night. I like thinking about dogs. I'm like, because he said it was like a beam of light that was dropped down from above. I was like, what if that's, what if that's swagger one, just trying to play fetch one last time. Just coming down. Yeah. For a quick game.

Just dropping the ball. For a quick game. We also have Jim Bayhine. We have to mention this, Jake. Jim Bayhine is very cranky. So if you missed it, Jim Bayhine, they beat Clemson. Syracuse is a bubble team. They should get in.

And oh. No, they were not. They were off the bubble and now they beat UNC and Clemson in a 48 hour span and they're still on the outside looking and they need to do some work in the ACC tournament. Okay. So a reporter asked about lineups and Jim Bayhine responded with, I've been doing this for 45 years. I should have just had these guys in the lineup.

It would have been 22 and two. And I need a reporter to figure it out who's never played basketball in his five foot two. So cranky. Ask Jim Bayhine. The question wasn't about that. He completed the reporter, Matthew Gutierrez. I went to school with him.

Is he five two? Not that I remember. No. Here's the problem though. He didn't debunk it. I went on his Twitter. He didn't debunk it. That's a real J.

He's not going to pick fights here. He's not making himself the story. At least retweet someone who's like, no, come on, this is what they do at Syracuse. He's a good ball player too. He beat us in the media cup. Whoa. And everyone knows how important that is. Wait, the media cup.

WAER, which is the student radio station. Isn't that just intramurals at Syracuse? I mean, they have intramurals, but we play in the dome. Got it. Big Js only. Yeah. But again, I assume Syracuse is just a bunch of big Js. The Daily Orange, which is the newspaper versus W-A-E-R, the historic student radio

station. Huge rivalry. In the dome one night every year. And he's a good player. He beat us. Who's better? Wait, let me guess. Historically, I don't know.

What position did he play? I don't remember. He's a scorer. From where? I don't know. Outside? Yeah, he could shoot. It's nice.

Wait, it's the radio guys against everybody else? The writers. Okay. Definitely the radio guys. I mean, we lost that game. Yeah. Radio. I would take the radio guys ten times at a time.

Jim Bayheim though, he's, are you at an off-site? Yeah. Damn. Over two at the line. Shit. Make your breakthroughs, Jake. Well, yeah. You're playing in the dome.

Tops at the top. Yeah, exactly. Jim Bayheim though, he's definitely in the group with the Coach K and just the older, something about college basketball coach specifically when they get older. And he's, I looked it up, Jim Bayhams, 76. Yeah, he was supposed to retire the same year I graduated and then he extended and now it's on Buddy still on the team for a couple more years, so I assume he's going to ride that out at least.

I don't know. I think he needs to wear like a sign being like, hey, I'm 76. So when I pick my nose or I get really cranky, like, listen, if this was the real world, I'd be retired sitting, you know, in my condo in Boca Raton, did I say it right? Yeah. Yeah. And like not driving after, after night, which that's not a joke about Jim Bayhams. You shouldn't.

No, no, no. You should not drive after night. Stop. You should. They should stop. He did get a standing O, which was very weird. Yeah. So it was bizarre, honestly, like the battle back from tremendous adversity.

So Bayhams is, he's gotten more cranky. I think he hasn't been invited on part of the interruption as much recently that I used to get most of my Jim Bayhams takes on PTI and that's really the only time that I've ever seen him happy. And his life is when he's talking to Tony and Mike and well, I'm definitely through and oh, Medeal's better than Newhouse because Tony is like six foot three. He's a big, tall guy. He went to Binghamton.

He just respects mass. He's like Billy and Bayhams. I'm pretty sure Bayhams only friends in life are just coach K and like Rick Petino. They all just become friends with each other. Yeah. Coach Bayhams loves college basketball. And he does. He loves coach.

Yeah. But he's also very cranky. So this is the difference between Bayhams and Brady or not Bayhams and Belichick. Belichick could get all that across, but he would do it in a subtle way. He wouldn't come out and be like, yeah, I'm not going to listen to your reporter. You're five two. Like Belichick would figure out a way to say that like subliminally almost. But Bayhams not, he's not as creative.

I don't think he's just, he's just cranky. Yes. All he has to do is throw a, uh, that gummet and it'll come off as funny. That's right. Williams. No one got Matt Roy Williams. It is true. How much longer does Bayhams coach for?

He is a legend. I'm not saying he's not a legend. As long as he wants. As long as he wants. Yeah. I agree with big cat though. Like if you're getting that old, you should make it apparent how old he was. He should be like using a walker on the sidelines with the tennis balls on the bottom of him.

It's just crazy to think because you think coach, he's out there. Okay. You just, I think what happens is when a guy coaches for as long as Bayhams coach, they almost get trapped at a certain age. Like he's been old for so long that you just assume he's the same, you know, by somewhere in the mid fifties, late fifties, early sixties, he's 76. So he should get a pass just by being 76. The fact that he's, you know, coaching is, is, is a miracle.

I actually think that when you win a national championship, you just kind of stay that age in my own mind. Yeah. 74. 74. So yeah, that's coach K. Yeah. He seems like he's younger, but that's just the hair dye.

He's got. Anyone else is retired, far past retirement in any other profession. And this is a very like stressful profession that they're still in. So yeah, they need to just wear like, Hey, just so you know, maybe, you know what? He just needs to have a life alert around his neck, a life alert around his neck at all times so that when you think about going at Bayhams and telling them, Hey, the lineup should be different. He can just point to it and be like, you, you want me to fall on my way back to the locker

room because you don't want to see that. Do you think that, that he purposely keeps air conditioning out of the carrier dome because he's so old and old people love the thing. He's sitting on the sideline. I don't know if people know that. You're trapped in here. Yeah. I don't know if people know that about the dome.

Yeah. He's sponsored by carrier and there's no AC. He's always chilly. He doesn't want to pay that bill. Yeah. Were you raising a barn? I don't know. It's hot in the fall.

It does. Yeah. Oh my God. You know what? There's, there's also a different type of hot. It's almost like an indoor humid. Yeah. It's in a, especially like a gym.

If there's a basketball court in the room that I'm in, that raises the temperature of the room at least 15 degrees. Yeah. It feels sweltery in there. So you defending him or no? I mean, I would like to support someone who I went to school with. So who, yeah, this is a rock and a hard place. A legend and a five, two point card.

Oh. Oh. Oh. Jay. Okay. Respect the biz, Bayheim. Bayheim should not have gone after him. Okay.

You got to write that column, Jake. Yeah, you have to. Yeah. Like even though he's a legend, he needs to know the line. You guys put me on the spot there. I don't like having a polarizing opinion. Yeah. We know.

We know. But yeah, there we go. That's Billy. Where do you land on it? Let's see where Billy lands. Dude, if the kid was being a twerp, like, shut the fuck up. But he was not. That's the thing.

He was being a pro and being a good journal. He probably was looking like a twerp and Bayheim was just like, fuck you. He's a nerd. He could sense a nerd. This is the John Clayton John Salisbury. He is the Syracuse B reporter for the athletic, a very big company two years after graduating. That's pretty good. But Bayheim should have been like, hey, wipe that fucking nerd off your face before you

ask me a question. He was looking at Bayheim, like, trying to like be a twerp and try to like ask questions and get like answers, like probably and he was just like, dude, fuck you. Like. Perfect. You should have reminded Coach Bayheim that he won the media cup when he was there. So actually. I actually I'm going to defend him a little bit.

I saw I went looking for his tweets. Matthew Gutierrez. Yeah. Yeah. Someone did respond to one of his tweets with him shooting a three that was very smooth, nothing but net. That was the media cup. So there it is.

That was the game in the game. That was the game. Jake's like the Hunter Dickinson of Big J. That's a compliment. You lost the media cup and then you lost a hank in ping pong like just a matter of years separated from each other. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I lost one game at one a million others.

Wait, are you meaning? One. Yeah. 100. We got we actually have to bleep that out because we're not allowed to sit here. You mean I'm in Duncan Robinson. Duncan Robinson. Yeah.

You're the Duncan Robin. Let me say that again. The only person to lose it. Every three different levels. How's it feel to lose it? Everything. All right. Let's before we we're going to find PFT's burner account maybe before we get to must

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So we thought the best way for him to overcome this issue was to create a burner account that he can anonymously tweet things, get them off his chest. But the key is it's got to be anonymous because as soon as people figure it out, it ruins the whole idea that you're doing it anonymously and getting off your chest. So PFD has created the account. I have confirmed that he's created the account. I know what the account looks like. I don't know the handle.

Jake knows the handle or Jake saw it and let me just say that the burner lifestyle is incredible. I highly recommend it to everybody and I issued an apology but I want to say it again here. If I've ever gotten mad at you online when you're tweeting at me from your burner, I'm sorry. I didn't understand. I didn't know about the burner lifestyle. Now I get it.

I get it. Sometimes you just want to tweet things. You don't even have to believe them necessarily. You just want to get it off your chest. You just want to put it out there and it feels great. So I am completely on board with the burner lifestyle right now. I might eventually just stop tweeting from my man account and just become strictly burner for life.

So I get it. I understand that. And I did issue a challenge to Billy. So yeah, explain the challenge. $1,000 a week? So the challenge is if Billy can figure out what my burner account is and I've been replying to major accounts, I've been tweeting. I've been active on my account for the last couple of days.

If Billy can figure out what my account is, I'm going to buy him $1,000 worth of meat. So Billy can break it down. I'm sure he'll find some ridiculous cut of meat that no one's ever heard of that probably doesn't actually exist. One buy $1,000 of meat at one time, a little excessive since he can't eat it all before it goes bad. Well, I'm going to buy and invest in a big freezer. Billy, text me your screenshot right now so I can look up tweets and follow along.

So I can read out to people. Same. Put it in the group. Put it in the group. Really. It's legal meat. So I'm not getting it. I know you probably have done research and you're like, oh, actually elephants have the

highest amount of absorbable protein of any mammal. No, it has to be meat that you can purchase like in a store here in the United States. Text it to just me and Hank. Don't text the PFT so he doesn't see it. And if Billy doesn't get it right, I'm buying Jake $1,000 worth of suits. $1,000 worth of suits. And so if Billy gets it right, you're going to delete the account. If he gets it right, you delete the account.

No, I said we'd bleep it and then he can. Because I love having the burner. Okay. Yeah, I just want to prove I know it. Okay. No, actually tell you what, if Billy gets it right, I will delete the account, but I'm going to start a new burner. But just do that in the shadows.

Yeah. You don't even have to say that. Yeah, right. So we don't have to bleep it out. Okay. So did you text it to me? Yeah. I'm going to read.

So I had nine selections. I have one that I absolutely think it says. Which you have 10. Yes, you have 10. Yeah. I blew one yesterday. Okay. I blew the one I gave yesterday.

That is not right. Is this, are you going to go one to nine or nine to one? I'm going to go nine to one. You're going to go nine to one. Which makes no sense. Well, because if I go one and it's not it, then it's like, so we'll start. Well, then you can go back to the drawing board. No, because he's out of time.

Okay. You have to be by five o'clock. Actually, I have 15 minutes. You do have 15 minutes, but you're out of time. Okay. Okay. The first one I did was. The first one is the worst guest ever.

I can already tell it's not. Well, it's not, it's, it's not the one that Jake guessed. Are we correct? Yeah. No, no, no, no. Leroy Soderberger is not it. Nope. Not it.

Not one of my guesses. Not it. That would have been the worst burner. I know, but everyone was like, this is it. I'm like, no, dude. I could tell that Billy was hunting based off of what people were saying. I guess on the Reddit, because I was getting DM from people saying, hey, the Reddit is talking about this being your account.

No. And that's why Billy's asking. No. Everyone was DMing it to me. All right. So here we go. Okay. Not Leroy Soderberger.

Now you have eight left. No. Pick it up, Billy. No. That was one of my guess. My, my first guess was Dan Snyder's burner. No. Which is, so now, now my nine start.

Yep. Why did you even say Leroy Soderberger? Because you can't just say names of accounts. Because that was in Billy's, in Billy's defense. He did say that was Jake's guess. Okay. I know it's not. All right.

You have eight left. John, wait. No. I have nine guesses left. Okay. This is your. John. Something that should be fun.

John Hancockers. No. And it's way wrong. I mean, the first tweet is, haha, yeah, George Washington. I used to be best friends. Then I met P.K. in 88. And it's February 28. Go to the tweets and replies.

It was February 28. Go to the replies. You, he would. He wouldn't have made it. Number, number eight, not PFT commenter. That is not me. Okay. Number seven.

Of course it's not you. That would be the dumbest. Dude. I honestly, I think. John also started January, 2020. Keep it going. Keep it going. Keep it going.

No, but the thing is, I don't trust that he started in the month of March. Okay. All right. So you just wasted a pic even though he told you this is exactly. Be pipe man. An account that was started this March. No. Okay.

Number six. Steph ruined. No. Do you still, that one doesn't exist. Number five. Now we're getting to the ones that. Some of these don't exist. No, they do.

I saw some of that person's tweets because it's like Steph Curry ruined the NBA. Yeah. And I just, I like that taking journey. Wait, wait. I might have spelt something from. You were so confident last night. No. Because I haven't gone to the one.

Yeah. This is so bad. Keep it going, Bill. Keep it going. Number five. Caruso Stan. No. If you get it right.

I'm already saying he's not going to get it right. Number three. The inside source. No. Number two. No bias sports guy. No. You're not even close.

No. But this is the number one. And it was. And it was invented. I'm looking at the number one right now is invented in February. But we. So Billy. All right.

Here's what we're going to do. Billy. Give me what you think the account is and your entire explanation why I'll wait until you're done before I say yes or I shoot. So in the. So this is the one. I once I found this one I was like I can't I can't even look. Like why would you put some of these even on the list.

Yeah. No. Real knowledgeable sports guy. No. I put them all on the list because I literally need to find nine guesses and I looked through a hundreds of accounts. All of them were too obvious. They were like oh fuck you Darren Vell like real knowledgeable sports guy.

Yeah. Like some of them like I discounted all the ones that like gave a lot of evidence of being PFT. Okay. And I was like these aren't it. These aren't it. Maybe I'm fucking with you. No.

Maybe I made it extremely. You're like it's no way. Okay. All right. So Billy. So this is your final. You watched. Watching the video said there's clues in the videos.

We have a man wearing a cowboy hat wearing a NASA t-shirt reciting an apology speech in word for word almost like JJ Watt. We had mentions of KD in the speech and we had you use the word blast in the speech. Yep. This pointed me to mentions of Houston Houston Rockets NASA. Mm-hmm. I'm following you. I'm following you.

I found. This was created in February. Dem boys fan forever. Not Houston. Which was a Cowboys Houston Rockets fan or JJ Watt created in February. Are you done? Is it JJ underscore Watt? Congratulations.

Oh Jake. You're getting a thousand dollars. Yeah. I don't think that it exists. I don't think that it exists. It doesn't exist. The one you made, Billy, that is the worst guess ever. Billy, I've been getting into arguments with people all day and my burner fucking owns.

It's awesome. I'm fighting with people. Blur that out. It's sick. Wait, can I actually see the name of it? Can I show Billy and pull it up or no? No. It stays hidden.

It stays hidden. It stays hidden. I saw the AVI. Okay. And you still won't find it. I don't think you gave me the correct information to find this thing. I absolutely did. What does that mean?

What information will you expect him to give you? The things that he said do not line up to any of the accounts. You said JJ Watt and Kevin Durant and then you picked a Cowboys fan account. Because he's wearing a Cowboys hat. Right, but what does JJ Watt and Kevin Durant and Houston? Houston Rockets. Houston Texan. Houston Texan.

Houston Texan. Houston Texan fan and Rocket fan. Did you read the fucking bio of the account? It was created in February. But you know when I asked him if it was created in March, it was too sketchy. He wouldn't lie about that. He wasn't giving me anything. I even followed Billy from my account all day yesterday.

And I didn't follow anybody else in this room, just Billy. So it would show up in his timeline. So I would give him a sporting chance at it. And I was in Revells Mentions. I actually discounted all everybody who's following me. I was in Revells Mentions. I was in Chesters Mentions. I was in Rapsheets Mentions.

I was all over the internet yesterday. I was getting to fights with people even all day today. I even scheduled some tweets to go out while I was on Stool Streams today. You can't act like I'm a total fucking idiot because I couldn't find it. No, we're saying you're a total fucking idiot. Half of your guesses were accounts created in February or 2014. No, no, no. I doubt that the burners actually was created on when he said it was created.

Was it? Was the burner created on the date? No, no, no. Was it created on March 2nd or March 3rd? Big Cat's wrong because it was an account that I had never used before. That was created earlier. That was created a year ago. So yeah, it wasn't fucking March.

That's bullshit on his part. That's fucking bullshit. Fucking bullshit. That was bullshit. You guessed it. No, no, it's fucking bullshit. You guessed six accounts that were created. No, that's fucking bullshit.

Fucking bullshit. If you watch the video... I agree with Billy here. No. Big Cat, if you watch the video... I don't even watch your fucking money. I don't even watch your fucking money. You're not going to get it because you didn't guess it.

I don't watch your fucking money. Don't worry. I never once tweeted from this account until yesterday. Yeah, and you had it since, well, 2011. I'm going to side with Billy a little bit here. You did make it seem like you created it right after we talked about it on Tuesday night. So I was thinking... Yeah, which is...

And I think Billy actually even asked, was it created? No, and I went out of my way to say that it wasn't, which is where Billy... No, you said I've given you enough information. You were about to say a second ago, I don't think it was created in March because when I asked PFT, he did not give me that answer. So you knew. No, but it's like... That's why you guessed six different accounts.

And I never tweeted from the account until yesterday. In fact, I changed the handle. I changed the name. The only thing that was there to throw you off was the fact that it was created a year ago, but the first tweet came yesterday right after I tweeted... Wait, was it... Right after I tweeted, I have created a burn account. Was it Walter Cronkite's ghost?

Nope. Okay. Nope. Are you going to keep guessing? No. I'm going to side a little bit with Billy, though, because you did make it... You implied that it was made right after we talked about it on Tuesday night. That's the only thing.

I was expecting him to find ones that were in March, so... But he was telling you that that was wrong the entire time he was guessing Big Cat. Yeah, I mean, I thought it was... Billy, your logic was right, and now you're saying it's bullshit. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. See, I haven't followed it long enough. But I had to stick at least...

I thought it was somewhere in the 2021 range. But then you picked the account from 2014. Why? Yeah. And Big Cat... You can watch the video. You can watch the video. In the video, I never say that I started this account from scratch.

No, but PFT, unfortunately, you've now outed yourself as a liar. You said you've never had a burner before. Now you've just said you have a burner. No, I created for a specific purpose, but that purpose never came to fruition. I was going to tweet a video from it, but I ended up not tweeting a video from that account. But that is a burner, as they say. I never tweeted on it. If it was under oath, you'd have to say...

Anyway, I'm sorry. I would like to apologize to the AWLs that this has been tarnished as a very healthy competition. We're sending you the answers. And you still couldn't get it. In the end, we always... Yeah, in the end... Except for me, because I'm fucking loving this burner account life. Jake, congratulations.

We'll have you select some suits. Thank you. You can probably get... I decided to rock some new suits on the broadcast. Maybe some European cuts. A little Italian right around the neck. Maybe one to... You should get a pinstripe suit.

I was thinking maybe one to honor Craig Sager. Little funky one. Okay. What does that mean for you? What? I don't know if you're a funky suit guy. Big Cat just gave the meanest... You're a...

I didn't even look. You're... You're talking about funky suits? No, no, no. You're a funky suit. No, no, no. You're like a... Craig Sager has like...

Hasn't even canceled post. No, I did not. No, I did not. No, I did not. No, I did not. All right. Jake, you're a funky socks guy. You could pull off like...

Yeah, some fun socks. Like a bright colored sock. All right. I'm actually very happy for Jake. Yeah. And Jake... No, you aren't. You were...

That was the maddest I've ever seen. Yeah. Dude, you're... You're normal. Your neck was popping. You were about to fight Jose Canseco. I was mad you cheated me. Jesus Christ.

Hank, Hank, Hank. Why are you so worked up about? I'm not. No, he's not. But Billy, so if anything... Hank and I thought that the P.F.D. created in March, but it's clear that you were following along that it wasn't created in March. Yes, yes.

Well, I looked through... I started looking in March. I looked through over a hundred accounts and looked for everything. Wow. That's a lot of work. I was following you from the account. I know. Didn't follow anybody else at this company.

You still follow him? No, I haven't followed him today. His tweet sucked. I got sick of seeing Billy pop up in my timeline. Yeah, should we talk about your stupid day drinking tweet real quick? Actually, I thought that was a pretty funny tweet. It was funny, but it was real. Oh, no, it was a joke.

Lamar Odom? Clippers? He's on crack. It's hilarious. What part of his poem is it? The catch is it doesn't understand comedy. What's the funny part? Addiction?

No. It's just like... You said like you got addicted to candy. Yeah. He almost died. He was addicted to crack. No, he's on boner pills from the gas station. He also smoked crack, I believe.

So explain how that's funny to me. Okay, if Stephen A. Smith is allowed to yell it, are we not allowed to say anything about crack? Stay off the weed? No, he was on crack. You're getting a murky tear. I like this. I don't think Stephen A. Smith was making fun of him. That's Stephen A. Cliff was hilarious.

It's hilarious. That clip's hilarious. Yeah. So that's why... So you would wear it because you'd be like, he was on crack. That's the funny part. No, but like, he's a hard party. That actually plays for you.

You're not wearing... I think. To darties, you do not wear your nice jersey, your formal jersey. You don't wear your naughty jersey. You wear your like, I'm here to have a good time jersey. I'm here to do crack. That's where you whip out your Browns Johnny Manziel, not your Texas A&M Johnny Manziel. No, but the only reason I was upset about the Lamar Odom is, every other jersey that

Lamar Odom has worn is significantly better than the Clippers one. Lakers, Heat, URI. URI. Like, those are all fire. That's why you don't wear them to the darty. The darty, you're going to end up getting it muddy. It's something nice. So when would you wear the Odom URI?

Like, when you're going to like, a nice... Like a formal. A steakhouse. Like a formal party. Meeting your girlfriend's parents. Yeah. Okay, got it. What do they call the flat and sorority, the mixers?

When you're at a mixer. Right. Right. And what about the Lakers? The Lakers one is also, you don't wear, or going to a game. That's a marty. You wear the Lakers one to brunch. Switch over to the Clippers one to the darty.

And then you change into your Plaxcord Burris for the nighttime. But you go to the game, like you wear your good jersey to the game. Yeah. Yeah. David Bakhtiari, the beer chugging champion of the NFL. Green or white. Green, because you're probably in grass dance. Do you think it's inappropriate to make fun of someone like Lamar Odom who actually died

and came back? You're making fun of him post mostly. No, he's alive. Yeah. He did die. But he came back. His second life. I don't know.

I agree to most of your list. I thought there were some sick jerseys. I mean, I'm very glad Lamar is. It's a funny list. It was good. It got a lot of... They're not the best. They're not the best jerseys.

They're the jerseys you go darty in. Is that... So the Paul Rabel jersey you're wearing right now. That's an old one because he's no longer on the Atlas. I don't know if he kept up with the news. Is that a darty jersey because it's old? It's a throwback. Yeah.

It's a darty jersey. And then you switch to... The cannons jersey. The cannons. When you're going to a formal event. Got you. Okay. All right.

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We've been circling him for a while. It's been, you know, usually right around now, we get all the way into college basketball on this show. So we thought it was time to get on the muss bus. It is Coach Eric Musselman, head coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks. Former coach of Nevada, which I have to shout them out because I fell in love with you there.

But Coach, thank you for joining us. We appreciate it. Do you feel, can you feel the energy that this is March? Yes, I can, big cat. Thanks for having me on number one. But yes, we can, we can feel that the calendar is turned to March. And I think that, you know, our guys right now, when they come to practice, it's kind of a different feel.

You know, it's almost like, you know, towards the end of your senior year in high school, when you kind of get spring fever and everybody's starting to get a little bit, you know, more energized, you know, for the end of school, that's kind of what we have in March is, especially if you're playing well, there's an added excitement for sure.

So your team right now, let's just say hypothetically, they faced off against your team from back in November. Like over a typical season, what do you expect to see in terms of improvement? And like on this team in particular, how badly would these Razorbacks beat those Razorbacks? This current Razorback team playing in March would probably beat our November Razorback team

by about 15 to 18 is what I would roughly guess. We're more confident. You know, our roster was built really unique with four incoming freshmen, three grad transfers, two guys that sat out last year in their transfer year when they were here, and the two returners. So it's kind of this, you know, mismatch of guys. And so it took us a little bit of time

to feel comfortable on both sides of the ball. But right now we're really sharing the basketball. We had 305 passes in our last game against South Carolina. So the ball was moving. The ball had eyes. It was like popcorn from one hand to the other. It didn't get sticky. I mean, we didn't have anybody dribbling and killing grass.

So there was a lot of good things with our ball movement and sharing the basketball. So I want to get back to the transfer thing in a minute. But let's talk about the passes in your philosophy because I love this. I love talking to coaches and figuring out how they see the game. You demand your team basically passes over 200 times a game

and it's playing fast. And then also can you explain like what your, what a perfect, you know, game looks like offensively and defensively and what you really push. Like this is what we need to do well. And if we do these things well, we'll win. Well, I think the number one thing for us offensively is like, don't turn the ball over.

You know, I love studying football coaches and obviously in football, the turnover battle is such an important factor in wins and losses. And in basketball, we want to try to have under nine turnovers in a 40 minute college game. That's number one. And then it's so important on the defensive end to try to control the defensive backboards.

And then offensively as I flip back to that side of the ball, free throws attempted has been something that's really important. Because if you have a high volume of FTAs, that allows your half court defense to get set up. The other team can't run on you. But live ball turnovers are a killer in college basketball because those usually end up in layups or dunks at the other end.

Yeah. And when it comes to the passes, have you found that having over 200, is that kind of the magic number that statistically correlates like to a higher percentage of victory or a more efficient offense? Yeah, we actually got the philosophy myself and coach Anthony Ruda and Hayes Meyers

and my son Michael have gone to the Warriors training camp and Steve Kerr was really emphasizing passes. And so we took the number that the Warriors were using at that time in a 48 minute game and tried to formulate it into a 40 minute game with a little bit longer shot clock. And so that's how we actually came up with the 200 passes. But we found if we moved the ball 200 plus passes,

we're not going to lose many games. And then the games that we play really poorly offensively are usually our lowest passing games. So I'm always curious, you guys play fast. And I love watching. I've watched a lot of Arkansas this year because I'm a fan of you and I'm a fan of Anthony who shout out to Anthony who is your right hand man on staff.

But how do you get the guys in like shape where they can play fast all the time? I'm always curious about that when the teams are able to push tempo on everyone. How much of your practice is like, hey, this is all just conditioning and training and not actually shooting a basketball and dribbling a basketball?

Well, it's interesting because we really believe that it starts in the summer in our off season. We always do a mile run where our guards have to do it under 530. Our wing have to do it under 540. And our bigs have to do it under 550. What? Wait, Connor Van Over ran under 550? Hold on, big cat.

He's the only one that I gave a pass to. So for people who don't know, he's like 7-1. I don't think Connor could do it under 12 minutes, let alone under 6. Sometimes you got to give a guy a pass just because it's stupid to even have him go out there and try to run the mile. And then getting back to this fast style of play, really interesting when I was my father's assistant

with the Minnesota Timberwolves in those first couple years of the T-Wolves existence, we played really methodical and slow. And I just said, you know what? When I become a head coach, I want to be cosmetically pleasing. You know, maybe that lets you keep your job a little bit longer than if you walk the ball up the floor and play at a slower pace. Yeah.

Do you realize how insane that sounds to just a regular person, though, like 5 minutes, 30 seconds for a mile? But that, if you're like 6'2", 6'3". I'm always fascinated by that. I feel pain. I got shivers just thinking about having to run that quickly. But yeah, because every team has a conditioning program, right? Every team has to be in shape.

So does it come down to like, hey, our standards are just going to be a little bit higher than everybody else's standards? Or is there, you know, more of a measured scientific approach that goes into it where you're like, here's the type of conditioning we need to work on, whether it's a mile run as opposed to working on, I don't know, like a three mile run?

Yeah, no, I mean, I think like the mile run is really, as much as anything, it's just kind of a mental test for us, as well as physically. But then if anyone comes to our practices, there's no standing. You know, we usually go under two hours every practice. Most practice is only an hour and maybe 30 minutes on the floor, but nobody's standing. There's drill work, there's station work.

And we believe, you know, even this week, last week at college basketball season, there's going to be conditioning built into our practice. It might be shooting conditioning. It might be defensive slide conditioning, where you try to work defensively to try to, you know, play the whole shot clock out. So I think you've got to continue to not only work on your skill development

throughout an entire college season, but you've also got to work on your conditioning daily as well. So I know that you're a gym rat yourself. What can you run the mile in? With my, with my now healed kill, torn Achilles, I'm going to say I could pry. I could run it under nine, I think. Oh, you're, that's, that's humble.

I've, a little birdie told me that you spend every single day, no matter what, two hours in the gym, an hour cardio and hour weightlifting. Is that true? That is true. I know nobody's got more endurance than me. I don't know how fast I can run it anymore, but certainly from a, from a, you know,

endurance standpoint, I can hang with anybody. Right. He runs, he runs nine minute miles, but he runs six of them. Yeah, right. Right. I'm sure. Right. Keep going. I also heard that you listened to part of my take when you're putting together game plans or you're breaking down film.

Um, that's a great strategy. First of all, uh, second of all, what insights have we given you into setting up your game plans by just by Osmosis listening to our voices while you're mapping this stuff out? I think I get a lot. I've, uh, you know, cause coach Root is always listening as well. Sometimes even I'll listen to you guys laying on this couch right here in my office two hours before game time for relaxation.

Could be, can you guys spur a motivational idea that we can somehow twist around and use, um, and amusement as well. You know, you got it. You got to go into a game like, you know, with the fresh mentality. So, um, part of my take without a question is part of our daily routine here at Arkansas. I could imagine you just listening and getting frustrated at Billy and then

having a bad game because you're just, you're just holding that negative energy. So you do do a bunch of different things. Uh, I love when you use wrestling, uh, you know, whether it be Ric Flair, the undertaker or Daniel Bryan, uh, you're also the recruiting with the pictures. So you started that, what, two years ago? Was that when you started doing so for people who don't know coach must when a, when a recruit comes through the building, he'll take an iconic like basketball picture with them, uh, whether it be like Dwayne Wade, uh, you know,

doing the, the stance where LeBron's dunking behind him or whatever it may be. Have you done the Jeff Van Gundy? I know I gave you that as a tip. Have you done the Jeff Van Gundy holding on to like, uh, I think it was Alonzo morning's leg. I think when you gave me that idea, big cat, it was right around the time when we stopped the visits, but as soon as we get through this pandemic, I'm definitely going to grab a recruits leg.

Um, as, as coach Jeff Van Gundy did, cause you know, we're about the same size. We're both about five, six, 146, 147, right in that, uh, weight class range. So I'm going to, I'm definitely going to, you know, do that picture with some recruit and it's interesting cause the first time we did it, I kind of flipped the ball to a recruit just got into defensive stance and the recruit said, Hey, this reminds me of such and such a scene. And then I said, Hey, let me go throw a uniform on and let's recreate it. Yes.

And so that's how it started. And then every time a guy came on a visit, he would say, Hey, can we recreate this particular scene? Whether it was, uh, Iverson stepping over Tyloo or whatever it may be. The new bowl you had was great. I have two for you. So I have two new ones for you. All right.

I'm listening. Lance Stevenson blowing into LeBron's ear. Great one. That one will be very funny if you can recreate that. And then also, I think you should recreate the 2003, uh, draft photo with like Kirk Heinrich's pants. So, and everyone's baggy suits, maybe get a couple of suits and have everyone play dress up.

That would be very funny. Well, I can get a baggy suit. I can just ask coach Ruta. He's, he wears a little bit bigger suit than me. So I could just grab one out of his closet and I'm sure it's not up to date as far as style goes either. So now I just got to have the recruit find one that works for him. Yes.

I've got, I've got three for you. Uh, the first one is actually I, yeah, I got three. Dreymond and Kevin Durant. When Dreymond is talking Kevin Durant up, like giving him that motivational speech, make it a gift. Yeah. Make it a gift. Yo, even better.

Yes. That would, now we're innovating. Yes. Now we're innovating. Yes. Uh, the second one is Allen Iverson crossing up Jordan. I think that'd be great. Plus that would give people an excuse to compare you to Michael Jordan.

Or maybe you could be AI. I don't know. And then the third is the genie bus cover where she's just covering up her private parts with basketballs. That won't be good. I think that would get a lot of recruits in the door. Yeah. You guys, you guys are helping with the idea.

The ideas are flowing right now. We got, we got, we got our whole staff in the background over here, taking notes of this conversation. Um, so I did want to, uh, we, we, you touched on it, the transfers. Uh, you're, you're very fascinating with your recruiting because you, uh, you know, at Nevada, it was a lot of transfers, a lot of junior college guys. People said, Hey, the big bugaboo is Kenny recruit. You come to Arkansas, you get some great freshmen.

What, what do you, like, how does it work when you're looking for, uh, transfers or junior college guys? Like what does that process look like? Cause I think we all know, you know, Cal or, or, uh, coach K, they're going to get the five star recruits. How do you find these like diamonds in a rough? I mean, if you remember the Nevada teams, the Martin twins, like that, that was great to watch.

So how do you find those guys? Well, the first thing when a guy goes in the portal is, is, you know, you've got to evaluate the player, both statistically, uh, as well as on video, but then we've kind of come up with a formula here where if a player is a low major player and he's transferring up what those stats will kind of correlate to. Um, and, and it's kind of like, like we, we, we spent some time with the Texas Rangers and their minor league guys, as well as people on the

parent team, just to try to figure out like, how do they project like a single a double a triple a player to the major leagues? And that's really what you're doing when a guy's transferring up as you're trying to figure out, you know, like how much can his game grow or, or basically translate to a power five level. And I think for us, you know, we had it really down to a science at Nevada through the four years. And then when you go from a mountain West program to an SCC program,

now your formula has got to change. And so we're still working to try to come up with, we look at a guy's rebounds per minute. You know, what is that going to correlate if a guy's coming from the Sunbelt to the SCC from a rebounds per minute? And then the easiest thing you guys from evaluation standpoint is a, is a player's three ball percentage as well as their free throw percentage because there's very little wiggle room in those when a guy has a body of

work, which is really why we got so heavily involved in transfers is they had a body of work at the collegiate level. And then in our recruiting meetings, we translated that to, hey, that's no different with an NBA team. You can either have a draft pick and there's high risk, high reward. Or you can go the free agent route where you know what the guy's going to give you. And that's how we, we equated transfers to like an NBA free agency.

Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah. Because that's like almost one of those money ball type market inefficiencies where if you can figure out how to be better at that than everybody else, especially when you, when you, you're not going to get, you know, I mean, you, you have, I mean, you have a draft, you have guys on your team that are going to play in the NBA,

but not everyone can be coach Cal and coach K and get, you know, a bunch of NBA players every single year. Yeah. I also heard from Jake Marsh. He's not in here right now because he's actually, I don't know if I should say this to you, but he's interviewing Alabama's head coach right now. Do you have anything that you'd like me to pass along to coach Oates? Not really.

Yeah. Okay. But you're, you, you know, we just full disclosure. We are Tom Kreen guys. That's okay. No. Hey, that's. Okay.

In the SEC. Okay. He and I text almost every day. Perfect. We love coach Kreen. Yeah. And Jake told me before he abandoned you on this show that your mom actually helps you write scouting reports about other teams.

Is that true? Well, my mom actually, I should, she really critiques me. So she'll send me letters, handwritten letters, actually put them in the mail and kind of do a post game report or a post game eval on our team as well as me. She will tell me why did you call this time out? Why did you not call a timeout? I don't think that your guys executed baseline out of bounds at the 1142 mark of the first half, but she's been around the game for a long, long time, probably knows as much as

a lot of assistant coaches at the collegiate level to be honest with you. She might know more than half the guys. That's awesome. Is she able to get, you know, like very serious with her? Is she able to like put some, like really speak her mind to you? Or does she have to still sugarcoat it? Cause you're her son. Does she have to be nice?

No, my mom's, she's tough. Like she's not sugarcoating anything. She's coming straight at me with really what she believes. That's, I mean, yeah, she, she can give you the honest truth. What are you going to do? You're going to stop being her son. You can't do that. So it's the, it's the perfect person to give you that criticism.

I got to be really nice too. I mean, she lives right above La Jolla beach and tennis club in San Diego and she's got extra bedroom. So I got to make sure that I stay in good graces so that I can go there, hang out with her, head down to La Jolla shores, jump in the water, maybe ride some waves and then go back for a nice dinner at her house. So we're going to keep everything really running smooth with, with any evals that she gives me.

Well, next time she's mean, just send her a picture of her grandkids and be like, you sure you want to do this? Cause that will be, that's the weakness, right? Always. That is the weakness. All right. Well, so my last question is your pregame speeches, getting guys fired up. Where do you draw like inspiration when you're trying to, how do you,

how do you keep it different? How do you keep it new? And what's maybe your favorite pregame speech you've given? Well, it's funny cause we were just at lunch and we were talking about like, what are we going to do for Texas A&M this weekend? Which we haven't come up with an idea because you really got a plan. For instance, you know, we did a UPS delivery one the other day, a few games ago where I dressed up as well as staff members in UPS uniforms.

We handed the players boxes. They had to open up the box and then it had a message for each player. There was a different message. It might have been one guy had to rebound the ball. Another guy had to take care of the ball. And so that was fun because the players now. So at the 40 minute mark, I go in, I review our last game prep. It takes about seven minutes.

And then at the end of that's when I do, you know, some type of fun message, but it's got kind of what the theme has been leading up to the game. But we got to play on you guys. Like we have, we bring in props. We bring in uniforms. And it's fun. You know, I did it with the Warriors. My first year in Golden State.

And we were on a back to back in Denver. Denver's a long travel airports far from, from, from the NBA hotels downtown by the arena. And one of the players after I got done doing the pregame said, coach, we're not leaving until we get one of your motivation things. And I didn't have anything prepared. And the funny thing it was, it was Danny Fortsen who I didn't really play many minutes.

And he was the last guy that I thought would have wanted any pregame message. So we have fun with it. It's to me, it's a way to kind of loosen up the guys before they go out for their last warm up. So I have a tip for you for Texas A&M. We also are friends with Buzz Williams. You should play the clip. We made a video with him a couple of years ago.

The Buzz Williams basketball Academy of hard work and toughness. And he coached us up and we looked terrible. So you should basically be like, this is what you, when you guys play poorly and play the video and be like, you don't want to look like this out there. Cause it's really bad. That's a good idea. If we don't use it pregame, we will definitely use it leading up to the games, meaning the day before that's a good one.

I could, we can weave that in for sure. I'll, I'll, I'll text it to Anthony. It's, it's a, uh, yeah, we were, we looked really, really bad. Pretty bad. I think really bad. Yeah. The PFC was in a full suit. I was in a suit with Rex specs. I think the best person that we were with was a pregnant lady.

So, uh, yeah, it was, it was not a great look for us. But if you ever run out of ideas and you need something at the last minute, just pull a coach. Oh, just go out, get a worm from the ground and just eat a worm and be like, we're ready boys. And then no one questions the guy that just ate a worm. It's like, that guy's crazy. Let's go to war.

It's a good point. I love PFT. I'm going to keep that worm one in the back of my mind in case we ever forget one. Yes. Yes. Well, coach, uh, best of luck. We're riding the must bus. Uh, best of luck in the SCC tournament coming up in March madness. We'll be rooting for you and we appreciate your time.

No, I appreciate it. Good cat. PFT. Thanks for having me on. Love. Pardon. My take. Thanks for including me.

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There's like a, there's a Snapchat app where you, if you have a beard, it removes your beard. He was going around people in the office taking pictures of the guys with beards. He tweeted it out and then cam who runs our Instagram now decided to post that on our Instagram. It was last night I go to open Instagram just a disgusting as bad as I look without a beard in general. This picture made me look 10 times worse because it was like Photoshop version of it.

He had a baby face. And it's just a close up of it. Giant face. Giant neck. I mean it's just, it was like a, I look like a flat face. Flat Henry. Yeah. So I just opened Instagram and was just getting absolutely torched.

It was, you know, it's never what you want to see. That was, that was my fire face. And it's not, people thought it was really a picture of me without a beard. But it was like Photoshopped and like my eyes were crazy. My mom texted me and she was like, what is this? I was like, it's a, it's a Snapchat. I felt this shit. No, what's up with your eyes?

I was like, I don't, I have no idea. Your face looked like your ass in that picture. It was very, very funny. And Hank, doesn't it, doesn't it suck when somebody manipulates whether it be like visual footage or audio footage about you and then they put it out in social media and everybody thinks that it's real? That's tough, isn't it? Yeah.

But it wasn't like that someone put up this picture and was like, does this sound like a fart or not? It was just like, here's a disgusting picture. Tony Shaffler actually texted me and was like, oh my God, why did Hank do this? I was like, it was, it's a Snapchat filter. Yeah. He was very concerned. I mean, my mom, my mom texted me and was like, what's going on?

I was like, oh my God. You look bad without a beard, but you don't look that bad without a beard. Right, right. That's, that's, yeah. But you do look bad. No, yeah. Pretty bad. Like really bad.

You look, you look almost as bad, but in a different way. At least with this picture, I can be like, it's a, it's a Snapchat filter. However, if it was an actual picture without a beard, it would probably be just as bad. You know, when you don't have a beard regularly, you're disgusting and horrible look at. When I saw that picture, I was like, kill it right now. Right. So that's the difference. Yeah.

So yeah. Sorry that you went through that. Thank you. I appreciate it. All right. BFC, what's your favorite? My firefest of the week is that Space Jam leaks some of their still shots and some of the animations for the upcoming LeBron James movie.

And Lola Bunny is no longer thick. It sucks. It sucks. They, they change her from, I think the tweet from teams, he was like, they change her from like sensual to strong. Man. And listen, you can get your hottest cartoon characters list going of all time out there. I'm sure that that's a good thing to embrace debate about.

We should do that during Mount Rushmore season actually, but Lola Bunny, she was one A. She was top of the charts as far as like, she was thicker than a bowl of oatmeal. She had some, she had some thighs on her. Now they just made her, they made her string bean. And I don't think I'm going to go see the new Space Jam. I can't, I can't wait for the new Space Jam. Yeah. I know you can.

If I can't get aroused to a cartoon character in a movie about basketball, then I don't think it's worth my money buying a ticket, but this, it also adds to the LeBron versus MJ debate. Yeah. They totally took away. Yeah. Everything that made her great. If they nerf, just carab it them out. Yeah.

Just grab it. Unnerf. Unnerfable. Absolutely. All right. My firefest is pretty simple. I think I've tried really hard and I think I've done a really good job. I've been very nice to Billy.

Unfortunately, now that be nice to Billy weak is ending, I just want to say I'm very disappointed because Chris Sims came out with his quarterback rankings. Oh, you actually did it. So you did it afterwards. Chris Sims came out with his quarterback rankings, lit the internet on fire. And I was like, you know, it'd be great as if we had quarterback rankings that we could be like, Hey, these are our quarterback rankings. Billy just didn't do the thing we asked him to do.

He did it after the fact. Yeah, it was just one great point off, right? So here we go. First up, we have Justin Fields. Wait, is this a what? Let me see this. Let me see. Is this going to be a blog, Billy?

I don't know. Yeah, I thought. Yeah, you should. You should blog this. Yeah, I did. Because Big Cat, we want those clicks. Yeah, we do want these clicks. People probably don't want to click on quarterback listing more because Chris Sims gave him all

the good stuff. Yeah. So you have Justin Fields, Mack Jones, Trevor Lawrence, three. This is what we needed. And you also are not done. No, I got Zach Wilson. Billy was so proud of himself that he was like, look, I did this. And I'm looking at it.

It stops at four. But what needs to be said about the South Dakota state kid? Everything. He had zero interceptions. He won the national championship. Does he project to be more of a Carson Wentz? Or does he project to be more of a Italian backup Danucci? Yes.

Forgot his name. Good job. Good job, Billy. You did it. So be nice to Billy. We continues. That's what I wanted. I wanted when Chris Sims puts out his quarterback rankings.

And they were great. They were great. You know what? Chris Sims has been mostly right. Like he does his homework. So I'm not going to, whatever. I'm not going to hate on it. I don't think he's doing it for clickbait.

He's not doing it for effect. He's actually watching it. So when he puts out his quarterback rankings and Trevor Lawrence is two, I want to be like, whoa, way too high, dude. We got him at three. Yeah. We could do that. We could do that.

We could do that. We could do that. That should have been our click. You robbed us of that moment. No. My take about Trevor Lawrence is that he is basically Tate Martell, but since he's taller, no, but since he's taller because Tate Martell, like undefeated in high school, like greatest quarterback crew ever.

The only difference is Trevor Lawrence is 6'6", not 5'11", and he's been able to keep the mirage up. That's a pretty big difference. Right. But he's been able to keep them. I think it's like quarterbacks who get groomed like Trevor Lawrence. In practice, they get as many reps as they want to get it right. You got guys like Mack Jones, third string guy.

Circle. Yeah. You know, guys who've been third string, you know, Joe Burrow, who've spin the backup role where they're like, I need to get it right on the first rep, zero room for error. Those are the guys who end up like Tom Brady because Tom Brady was one of those guys. Okay. Just really one guy. I like Tom Brady.

I like Paid Manning. He was pretty good. Right. But Paid Manning was one of those guys who got all the reps. Right. He got all the reps. Exactly. All the favor.

Exactly. But then you put him on the colts. Yeah. How'd he do? Pretty good. Amazing. He went into a great scenario there. Uh-huh.

Trevor Lawrence is going to get thrown on the jet. Wait, no, no. He was terrible his rookie year. Yeah. No, then he'd go and see him. No, he had a nine or something. He threw a lot of interceptions, but he was pretty good. Yeah, he was pretty good.

The team was bad. The team was bad. He was very bad. No. He went into a better scenario. I think he went 4-12. Dude, I actually don't remember Paid Manning's rookie season. I wasn't born.

It's very clear. I think I was born. It's very clear you don't. It was either 2-14 or 4-12. You went into a great, great spot. I have no idea. I wasn't born. 3-13.

3-13. Oh, okay. Through 28 interceptions, 26 touchdowns. Okay. So, that's a lot. Also, Paid, watch this. This is tough. We just threw.

That was very quick. We just threw something out. There's like, uh-oh. Now, what do I say? The NFL is different back then. Yes. The NFL is different back then. Good point.

They didn't lean on quarterbacks as hard as they do now. Yeah. So, what I'm really upset about is the fact that Chris Sims put Trevor Lawrence number 2, right? And him putting Trevor Lawrence number 2, that is a take that is going to get people to watch your stuff, click on your stuff. And Billy, if you had had him 3, it's like the world would have been on fire. You would have owned it.

So, Chris Sims, when he came out with his list, putting him at number 2, then people would have been like, oh, well, you remember this other guy that had him at number 3? And then, boom, that's more clicks for us. And we got robbed of that. And so, I'd like to see you blog it. I'd like to see it. A highlight tape? I'd like to see some tape.

Yeah, do a baldy breakdown. Show me the tape. Get your screw down, like Jeff Schwartz. Yeah, we want some tapes. Some gifts. So, do it all. But you know what? Good job, Billy.

We'll pepper it up. B-dice to Billy Week was a great success. Give me the passing cone, the vision cone, like for Matt and Tim or something. I think Matt Jones actually has the biggest problems out of all of them because he's not going to go to like one of the top, like top draft pick teams, like shitty teams. He's going to like go to a team that has a pretty good established team but needs a quarterback. Patriots?

Yeah. Well, you have them ranked. Number 2. Okay. So. Well, then no, he wouldn't probably go to the Patriots then. Well, but I don't actually know what the ranking means. I'm sort of like doing in like projection, like.

No, you're in five years, we can look back and be like, oh, well, Billy had. Yeah. What was I actually ranking them for? You had to clear that up Billy. Yeah, that's one thing that you have to figure out. I was just like, I was ranking them like who I think like would do the best. Yeah, correct. Correct.

Correct. Correct. Like I wasn't drafting. What would the other options be? You're like. You're not doing a mock draft. No. No, if you're, if you are, if you're a GM of every team, how does, how does these guys

go up the board? You know, I'm, what I was doing was predicting like the triple B 10 years from now, how do we track them? Correct. Okay. Yes. Yes. I see.

Just like you had swag Kelly is your number one quarterback four years ago. No, no, no. I had talent. Talent wise. Dude, you got, you tweeted that thing out today. He was a beast. It's swag Kelly. That game against Arkansas.

The last of the true gunslingers. The last. Literally. Yeah. You had 200 yards. No, if you keep it in your, in the trunk of your car. What was the game you had 200 yards rushing in 200 yards pass? That was almost.

In a loss. In a loss. That's, if you put up numbers in a loss and a close loss, that's a guy who wants to win. That was almost against Arkansas. Great game. Probably the best college football game of the last five years. Trevor Lawrence has only started two games, which he's lost.

And that's once one again, sell us you and the last one is Alabama. So it just occurred to me. I don't want to make the same mistake twice. We lost out on some clicks. You're going to try to get those back for us and hopefully you'll, I'm sure you'll execute on that tremendously. But I don't want to miss out on the other thing that gets you a lot of clicks this time of year, which is brackets.

And there haven't been that many brackets come out. So what we should do, Billy should do a 64 team bracket of all the quarterbacks in the draft. You could do it. Billy looked over to me like, Jake, you do it. Yeah, he did. Well, come on. No, no, you could do it bracket wise, or we could, we could steal Billy's clicks from

him. And we could put out our own bracket of like Billy's worst 32 fuck ups since he's been on part of my take. Leaving rabbit defrosting in the main lobby of the entire company, tweeting out my dick and my cell phone. No, no, what are you doing? What are you doing? Getting big cats.

Be nice to Billy weak. Getting big cats. Why are we doing this? The title? No, no, no. This would be nice to Billy weak. I'm not, I will not partake in this. It's coming out next week though.

No, but I'm, I'm going to, I'm extending be nice to Billy weak. I'm extending be nice to Billy weak. I'm going to keep trying to be nice to him. I think, I think Billy, you should, we should do a bracket of Billy's biggest fuck ups. No, I'm going to be nice to Billy. I'm going to keep being nice to Billy. Billy, do you have a firefest? Yes.

Last episode, I kind of clumsily was talking about unpaid internships. What I was trying to say is that there's many, there's many, there's many, there's many, I just realized, like I was thinking about it a lot because I was like, I realized what I was trying to say is that there's, you can't get, we can't get rid of unpaid internships, but there are resources, but I can't, but there are resources. We shouldn't. That's what you're saying. On Twitter, there's plenty of search engines to find funding and scholarships and supports

for unpaid internships that you can qualify for, especially underrepresented internships. So then you get paid. Right. But from government entities and private funds. But is it unpaid? Or is it paid? Do you get paid? You don't get paid from the employer, but you can get grants, so you can take those

unpaid internships. You get paid to do these. That sounds like a lot of work. It's a search engine. If you qualify for them, you get paid. So you're just assuming everyone has a computer? Wow. Yeah.

Problematic. Big catch. Yikes. One person tweeted, I was like, I'm disappointed in your guys take on unpaid internships because it's never going to be where they're all going to be unpaid and there's always people that are willing to do the job for free. Not say, like it does suck that you can't, that some people get excluded, but this is the way that it is.

And we're like, yeah. That's what we're saying. Yeah, that's exactly what we're saying. It does suck that some people get excluded. Correct. So our take is. So try to fix it. Anyway, I posted several links on Twitter, so all the people who don't have a computer

will never see it. All right, Jake, you're the best. I'm taking a page out of Hank's playbook here. I booked a vacation. Oh, okay. It's good stuff. And to the main Memorial Day, assuming everything goes well, vaccinations will be safe. Can I guess where you're going?

Sure. Cooperstown. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Evanston. South Carolina. Okay.

Charleston, South Carolina. No. Good guess. Miami. That's the hometown. Yeah. Where did someone from Florida go on vacation? Aspen.

Can't you worry about home? Yeah. Okay. All right. Continue. Where? Aruba. Whoa.

With my home friends. Whoa. The Firefest is the majority of us booked a flight. Two people didn't. And then we looked the next day. We had 50 around trip to 800. So now they might not go, which could screw us because we would have to pay more. And yeah.

So hopefully everything works out. But I'm excited. What are you going to do in Aruba? Hang out. Aruba. Blow. Oh yeah. All night.

All night. Yep. I bet you're fucking his swaggy suits, bro. Yeah. Big time. Of course. Totally know what that means. No.

So we'll say. 22. 19. 8. 32. Pods can pass cognitive tests for young children. 38. There's your squids and octopuses.

Bring back 69 Billy. Otherwise it's not going to be nice to you. Love you guys. Can I keep it? No. It's not going to be nice to you. Can we get another one? August 30th, October 20th.

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