Pardon My Take - Baker Mayfield, Mt Rushmore Of Video Games, Jalen Brunson's New Deal + Monday Reading

Episode Date: July 15, 2024

We start the show coming out as the first sports podcast 100 percent against assasination attempts (00:00:00-00:07:32). Jalen Brunson's new deal is a head scratcher but awesome for the Knicks (00:07:32-00:12:30). Euro Finals and Copa plus Wimbledon (00:12:30-00:20:01). We call Christian Yelich to make sure he's not competing in the home run derby (00:20:01-00:26:47). Who's back of the week including apparently the Espy's already happened (00:26:47-00:39:34). Mt Rushmore of video games in honor of EA Sports College Football coming back and we decide a punishment (00:39:34-01:13:56). Baker Mayfield joins the show to talk about his crazy past few years, finding a home in Tampa, random drug piss tests, seeing a UFO, and tons more (01:13:56-01:56:10). We finish with a Monday reading (01:56:10-02:04:09).You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

Hey, pardon my take listeners. You can find every episode on Apple podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad free on Amazon Music on today's pardon my take. We have good friend recurring guests been a long time. Baker Mayfield on the show. We taped it during chill week. Awesome interview. We haven't talked to Baker in like four or five years. We get into that. There was a concern that maybe we were outside of the inner circle. We are not. We're back in. And it was an awesome interview.

It was great catching up with Baker. We're so, so happy for everything that's transpired in the past year. Talked UFOs with him. Yeah. That short week that he had going out to LA. It was an awesome interview and great to have him back on the show. We're going to do the Mount Rushmore of video games in honor of EA Sports College football being back today,

which we will talk about some more. We have a lot to recap. There were some Euros, there were some Wimbledon, there was some Copa, there were some other sports. It all happened. Jalen Brunson signed a deal. It was a big weekend in sports and we'll get to all of it in a minute before we do that. Draft Kings. It's finally here. Best ball week at Draft Kings. Here's why it's a big deal. Draft Kings best ball millionaire contest is their biggest fantasy contest ever. We're talking

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For all customers who enter the NFL Best Ball, 15 million millionaire contests to get a bonus ticket and get a shot at being crowned one of the two millionaires. It's best ball week only on DraftKings. Today is Monday, July 15th. And let me be the first to say we are, you are listening right now to the only, as far as I know it, the only sports podcast that is 100% against assassination. Anti-assassination. That's us. That's the type of take you get on this program that you don't get on your first takes. You don't get that on your get ups.

I would get that on your Ryan Rossellos shows. I'd like to see Greenie come out and be 100% anti-assassination. Oh no, Greenie will never do that. No. Greenie will never in a million years. It's too controversial to way too controversial Yeah, that was crazy. We don't really talk about the political world But when there's an assassination attempt on a former president who's currently running for president We have to come out and say that we are very much against assassination pretty wild

One turn of the head and that's all it took Missed by inches. Also a hell of a picture by Trump to stand up like that. To have the thought in the moment being like, this is going to rock. Did you see some of the pictures that have the bullet actually going by the back of his head? It is crazy. It's nuts. And yeah, crazy times we live in. We are an escape from those crazy times, but we had to say anti-assassination. I noticed one person in this room has not we had to say anti-assassination.

I noticed one person in this room has not come out and said anti-assassination. We as a podcast are anti-assassination. Okay, all right. Wait, wait. I am anti-assassination. So you are Hank, personally? I am personally and as a podcast I am. I didn't know that the podcast was going to be anti.

I knew that I was going to be already. It sounds like Hank just kind of followed suit when he heard that we were anti assassination. I'm anti assassination. Here we go. Max, anti assassinating. Yes. Chalk it up. That is a consensus boys. How about the only consensus we ever had on this podcast. Also just goes to show you Nick Castellanos tremendous timing. I mean memes are you like your, your meme just lives forever. He hit a home run and he also hit his 45th and 47th RBI is yesterday. Incredible. Maybe the funniest guy in baseball memes. I thought it died down there for a little bit and thought it was over but he just keeps coming back. Now he did hit it before the assassination attempt but I still think Nick

Castellanos anytime he homers You just gotta look over your shoulder on high alert. Yeah, I regret drafting him onto my dingers only team He was like it's just every time every time something good happens for me something bad about happening somebody else Yeah, poor Richard Simmons as well passed away and it no one I mean we all thought he might have been dead for years and then when he did die He's like I'll just know, a random Saturday in July. No, it stinks to have your own death overshadowed by somebody else almost dying. Yeah. Instantly. Instantly. And I found out that Richard Simmons died because Trump almost got assassinated. Yeah. Cause you're looking at like the four

you. Yeah. Yeah. I also found out that Ben Simmons is still alive. Because he was probably also turning. Live look at the shooter. Yes, the 4U page on Twitter was popping off there. I think there was one headline that was like, from NBA star to Trump rally prankster, here's what Klay Thompson's up to now. It's just like, OK. And we're going to settle this at the BattleBot. That's what Biden said tonight.

The BattleBot? We're going to settle this at the BattleBots. Okay, so. Which, by the way, that show rocked. We also should probably do, I think we've done like manliest moves Mount Rushmore, but in terms of most badass things, surviving an assassination attempt is one-one. It's definitely up there for sure. And I always wonder at what point do you reach assassination status like plenty of people get killed plenty of people get murdered or

attempted murdered but at some point then you can be assassinated. I think it's political right? Like if Hank were to die would that be a murder or an assassination? Murder. Well I maybe an assassination and we're anti it so there you go Hank. Yeah, we have your back But yeah, we had we had to say we're anti-assassin. You guys would be suspects one and two Uh, yeah, they call the boyfriend kind of thing. Yeah, that probably you're probably right Does anybody here have a middle name that they they include in their main name because if so, that's target number will actually will just become Alibis Christopher Max de lente. Mm-hmm. Christopher Maxwell. Yeah. Yeah, That's an assassin name. We'll just have really strong alibis. Yeah.

You guys see how we're doing the pod? That's actually pretty good. We don't know what happened. That's rock solid. Yeah, we don't know what happened. OK. Let's talk some sports. Jalen Brunson, win horse meme.

What's going on in New York? Because Jalen Brunson signed a deal for four years, $156.5 million. He saved the team $113 million. Now, not to take away from LeBron's three million that he saved, but this was an insane deal that makes him, I don't know, one one of like current New York athletes. Memes, would that be fair to say?, one-one of like current New York athletes, memes, would that be fair to say? He's got to be one-one New York athlete right now. Kermis. Yeah, one-one right now.

I mean, that is the most, like, he obviously still has to win a championship to like take it all the way, but just in terms of the path and what he's last year looked like and then doing this, I don't know what's going on. Maybe it's his father who Rick, who is an assistant coach is going to be the highest paid assistant coach in the NBA or maybe because he works in the financial capital of the world. There's something that might make that sweeter. That'd be very funny if there was a New York based name image likeness collective that got together for the Knicks. And so it's like, yeah, don't pay them as much because you know

what we're going to do, we're going to have just be a spokesperson for MetLife. Yeah. Is he married to a supermodel? I don't, I not think he's married to a supermodel. It's, I have no choice but to take it at face value. I know there's conspiracy theorists and everyone's going to run around saying he's getting that money somewhere else. Pretty much the coolest move you can do if you're a fan of the Knicks. I don't think players, I think players should get what they're worth, but I wouldn't complain

if our Knicks fan right now that he just left 113 million on the table to make his team better and hope and deliver a championship to the Knicks. Yeah, so he got paid about 58% what he could have gotten paid. How is that? He just waited until next offseason. How are they going to allow this? I think someone is definitely petitioning CJ McCollum right now and being like, this is not allowed.

It's probably his agent. Yeah, sir, please. Let's piss off about this. Please, someone do this. Maybe they're going to take that money that they saved and give it to Jay Wright, which would be a repayment on the loan that J. Wright paid Jalen Brunson to go to Villanova. Also not a bad idea. Yeah.

This is shocking, though. Like, when you guys saw this, were you not, like... Because guys take hometown discounts. He took half. Yeah. He took half of what he's eligible to take, and he would have been paid every single dollar of that max. And now, I mean, the Knicks have to use that money wisely, he's eligible to take and he would have been paid every single dollar of that max and now I mean the Knicks have to use that money wisely but holy shit.

Well there's another element maybe he thought to himself I don't know if I can play for another season under Tibbs watch so by signing early he removes the chance of getting injured not getting that next contract. It's crazy does it make you nervous Hank, Max? No. No? Oh, that was, uh, that was, you just threw that off. It's the Knicks and it's Nova. Okay. What is it? Two things I'll never be worried about. Um, Nova won two national championships. That's true. So that's true. But that didn't worry Hank. He wasn't worried when he was listed. Yeah. I don't know why he included, he included Nova in that to try and piss me off even though

they won two national championships. Are you like, what the hell's going on, Max? Yeah, I don't know why he included he included novin that to try and piss me off even though they want to know the championship Are you like what the hell is going on max? Yeah, I don't understand it at all I don't understand it at all I mean I would love for a player that I root for to do this this would be the coolest move ever And Nick's fan should be over the moon happy, but it's still I'm just sitting here like what what is going on It is crazy that a superstar NBA player is turning down that much money. That doesn't happen.

Hall-famed guy. It only happens with guys at the end of their career if they wanna go somewhere to make it happen. Ring-chasing. Ring-chasing. I guess he's ring-chasing at home. Also, LeBron did. Also the $3 million. Yeah, $3 million. Under the apron, second apron.

But yeah, he could've set a $270 million contract next summer. I feel like this all comes back to the fact that maybe James Dolan is just not around a lot anymore, because if Jalen Brunson knew James Dolan better, he'd probably be like, fuck that, I want all his money. Right? Yeah. Because like this, like you can't be like, oh, I'm going to, I'm going to do you a solid James.

I just think he did it because he might be afraid of getting hurt next year. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's, it's an all time team guy move and there is obviously people like, well, you could have enough money. There's definitely that limit, but still you're an NBA basketball player in the prime of your career and you don't know if you'll ever make that type of money ever again You know one passes that up. It's also new. You know one does. It's also in New York You're gonna need that extra like 30 million dollars. Yeah, Tom Brady did because he had Giselle. Mm-hmm. Who's Jalen Brunson dating? That's what I'm trying to think. It's like a high school sweetheart She must be rich. Oh his former high school. So it. Okay. For a second. When you let off with high school, you made it sound like, yeah, it made it sound weird. I also don't

know if that's a hundred percent sure. Okay. Well, we'll go with it. We're not a fact show. So yeah, that was, that was the biggest story to me this weekend. I know that we also had some Euro finals. Yeah. It's not coming home. Not coming home. It's never going to come home. It left. It walked out the door. You got empty nest syndrome. It's not coming back. England soccer is just, it's got to be brutal to root for. Yeah, I would think so. Garry Salki can't win the big one. It just, it felt like they were the team of destiny this year. Well, the way they were winning and just like they weren't the best team, but they were just finding ways to win games. And then Spain, just late, that was like the 86th minute, finishes it off.

Some great soccer today. They ran out of luck where it was like their game plan, this whole tournament was just kind of sleepwalk after the opening whistle, get scored on, and then play really hard and equalize the game. Then hope that you can win in extra time or at the end or maybe in PKs. And then Spain was the best team and Yamal is now 17 years old. Oh, he turned 17 today?

He turned 17 like two days ago. Oh shit. Which sounds a lot less impressive that a 17 year old won the gyros. Yeah, they should've hurried that up. Yeah, they should've. A 16 year old got to the final. 16 year old got to the final

and then the 17 year old took over and said, I'll take it from here, little boy. Yeah, he's got it. And then the Copa, which is going on right now, another sign of we'll never win a soccer tournament because the fans climbing through the air ducts, basically trampling and ruining the escalator in Miami, those fans, those are real soccer fans.

And we don't know what's gonna happen after the game's over, because there are thousands more fans in the stands than there are actual seats. Yeah. So who knows? Apparently what was happening is people were just going to the seats,

and then the tickets were like $1,500, $2,000 to get in. So people that had tickets were going to their seats, the seats are occupied, and then security can't do shit about it to kick the people out. So people are just losing seats, losing money. Real, you know what? This is a real black eye on the Miami Dolphins. Yeah. The fact that this has never happened at a Dolphins game before. They're not, they're not used to having such passionate fans show up early. That's true. They need to start, they need to start charging the gates. Yeah. It was, the game was delayed like an hour and a half.

That's real. That's real soccer fandom. And now we have, we have an opening in coaching and no one wants the job. I want that. Now I want the German buttfingers guy that, that low guy, the guy that would stick his hands in his armpits and smell them. That real freak. I'm in. Why not? Because it seems like everybody else are talking to is just the same iteration of Greg. Yeah. Is Greg under a different name, where it's a guy that just kisses US Soccer Federation's ass. Jesse Marsh doesn't want the job. No, because he's smart.

This is why we need to kidnap somebody and force them to be their head coach. We're hiring Burr Halterback. That would rock. At this point, I'm in. Like, fuck it. Bring him back. Third time's a charm.

Yeah. He's learned his lesson. Add another G. Hank, you look like you want to say something about soccer. Well, no Yeah, not really at all Extremely regional complaint or concern because this is only happening to people in Chicago, but they've had this weather tornado Oh, yeah, full screen for the entire game. Yeah, we got a soccer is like a lower box We got a tornado warning means it's got to be bad. You got to worry about the tornado

Tornadoes don't hit cities though. That's good. Like big cities. I think it's something about like the wind or something in the big buildings. And the buildings stopping it? I don't know. Yeah. All right. Yeah. Cause you would think that a tornado would hit like Dallas, Oklahoma city at some point. Hit big cities. Okay. I think they're tornadoes do not hit big cities. Okay. I think they're tornadoes do not hit big cities. False. Tornadoes can hit anywhere at any time. Okay. I, yeah, I just made that up. I guess we just haven't had a massive one. Yeah, I completely made it up. Uh, okay. Yeah. I made a little, yeah. F3 tornado hit the bank one tower in Fort Worth in 2000 80% of the 35 stories windows were destroyed. Okay. So I did make that up 100%. That was something I just told myself to make myself feel better. Okay. tornadoes

don't hit big cities. I did. I did put together a list of my top five preferred US soccer coaches. Okay, let me hear it. And this is for project 2026. That's what we're calling the world cup starting now. Okay. Number one, I still think we can get that clap guy. Yep. He rebuffed us, but now we need to rebuff his rebuffal. Yep. And go back and add a zero to the order and be like, yep, too bad. You're joining our team. Number two is Buckfingers, the guy that eats his own boogers. I think his name is low and it's got the umlauts on there. Pretty cool. Number three, burr halter again. Fuck it. Number four, I think Dan Campbell could do it actually. I think, because what we need is we need passion

out of our players. I think Dan Campbell will figure soccer out and then number five is anybody except Alexi Lales. I think that's fair as well. I think we can make that happen. I like that as well. Here's why I thought this. Maybe even Dan Hurley.

Dan Hurley would be great. He said that he'd be a better football coach than basketball coach. You think so? No, he said that. Let him do both. He said that he'd be a better football coach than basketball coach. You think so? No, he said that. Let him do both. He said that he thinks he was born to be a football coach, which he could do. Yeah. Absolutely. Okay. What else do we got? Oh, Wimbledon happened. Djokovic might be old. Well, Spain happened today. Spain did happen. Spanish Sunday. We had Alcatraz. Yep one Wimbledon. Oh crushed Djokovic He's 16 years younger. Yeah still crushed him though. Oh, I think he's a straight sets

I just pretended that match didn't happen and then Spain won and also Sergio Garcia. Yeah won the live event Just threw himself in there. Yeah, Sergio What was his tweet today? He's like we have the opportunity to make this the biggest sports day ever for Spain. Now that I've won after he said if, if the soccer team wins tonight it will be one of the biggest days in Spanish sports. He's the, he's the dragon meme like the Spain winning the euros Alcara's winning Wimbledon and then Sergio looking all goofy being like live event wherever it was. Yeah. The big three. Yeah. Triple crown. They did it. I could net who would have thought Spain would do that

I do feel bad for British sports fans, though I like I love I love the fact that you can set your watch to certain things in sports You know, you can count on certain heartbreak and misery But it does it looks sad when the shirtless hooligans are like walking out of the stadium Holding their heads in shame after they gave so many great chance to the Germans. They're the Buffalo Bills there Yeah, they are it's sad, but it's the truth right is there a pit in England. I Don't know. I am watching this one video of this guy. He's doing guys. He's he's traveling the River Thames

from source to see Okay, every day. He updates it is he like on a boat he started walking now. He's on a kayak He really cool guy. Yeah, he did get cut He got a fraud alert though because he was like I'm not leaving the river and then like day three He's like thank you so much to the people. Let me stay at their house today, and then he had to correct himself He's like look. I'm I am sleeping other places, but yeah, it's cool He's doing it. Source to see.

If you do that, you gotta either be in a canoe the entire time or you have to walk the entire time. Yeah, well he's got that, he's like one of those chipper English guys that's just very happy, who probably doesn't even watch soccer. That's why he's got a completely different personality in all the other English guys. But yeah, he's, I don't know, I somehow got that

in my algorithm, I'm following him. He know, I somehow got that in my algorithm. I'm following him. He's going source to see. Check him out. Lizzy's in a box, in a box, in a box. Lizzy's in a box, in a box. Remember when we delayed our kickoff for NFL week one because Queen Elizabeth died?

That was disgusting. That was. What was the point of the Revolutionary War? That was nuts. And we should never have to do that. We should never ever have to do that. Okay, what else we got in the sports world? It's All-Star Break. All-Star Break. Christian Yelich not competing in the Home Run Derby. I'm nervous about this because I texted him asking him and he was like, he said, let's just call

him real quick because I'm nervous that he's going to somehow compete in the home run derby. He's got to say that he's not going to do it ever. Is he, do we have a Dingers only update for all star break? I am in second to last place. I'm beating Jerry by two. Oh nice. I don't know. I don't know who's ahead of us. If he doesn't pick up, we'll just cut this hey Christian hey big cat part of my take here your life take um please could you confirm that you are not competing in Monday's home on Derby I can confirm I'm not competing in this year's home under okay I allow the future though yes so So why are you not competing this year? I just felt like you've had a tough year so far. We give you a break. Okay. All right. So,

but, but then you, you are, you are making a pledge right now to compete at some point in the future in the home run Derby. That's the plan. I think that'd be a good goal to have. Don't you think? Uh, no, I think that's a terrible goal. You're not getting younger, dude. I'm not. So it's going to have to happen ASAP, I think. Okay. Hey, Christian, PFT commenter here from part of my Take Your Life to tape on the podcast. Can you confirm the sources that are saying that you were scared to compete in this year's home run derby? Well, there's some big J journalism out here from you guys.

Yeah. Are you scared? Are you afraid of home runs? No, I think I, like I said, you guys had a tough year and I felt it was only right to give y'all a break and we are, you are right about the age thing. I think we're going to have to get it done in the near future. Uh, when we do it, not if we do it, but when we do it. Okay. I don't like that. Um, happy birthday by the way the way. You're 37 years old tomorrow. I think so. Okay. All right. We're going to start the rumor that he's really old. That way he can't compete. Okay. Christian have fun. Are you, are you, you're an all star,

right? Yeah. Yeah. I'll just be watching the Derby tomorrow, but I don't just be, I'll be thinking of you guys the whole time. You're 100% not competing, correct? 100% not this year. All right. I'm still nervous that he's going to be like, ha ha, just kidding. I'm competing. Yeah. Hey, Christian, were you upset when nobody took you in the Dingers only draft? Yeah. Were you upset about the Dingers only draft? You know, I didn't see the Dingers only draft, but I heard about the Dingers only draft. Yeah. Yeah. So that's, that's going to be another reason why we're going to compete in the derby at this point.

Okay. All right. Okay. All right. Well, Christian, have fun at the All-Star break. You're having a great year. And hopefully this isn't your last good year. Let's hope not, right?

Yeah, that'd be a shame. I'll probably see y'all in Chicago here in a few weeks. Okay. We can hash it out then. Perfect. Perfect. Don't ruin your swing. All right. See ya. All right. out then. Perfect. Don't ruin your swing. All right. See ya.

All right. Thank God. Okay. That's good. Confirmed not. Because I was still nervous that there was like one slot open and he was going to just slide in but he really thinks he's going to do it at some point. I don't think so.

I think that one year, the year after we made that bet, that was the danger year for us where he got hurt right before the home run derby. That would have been really bad. Yeah. But now I'm not even going to wax. I was thinking about waxing, just to be a good teammate. You were thinking about waxing? I was thinking about wiping. No, waxing and wiping. Showering. I won't wipe. Okay, any other sports stories before we do Who's Back?

Marty Fish won the American Championship. Our guy. Marty Fish. Our guy. AWL. Marty, he might be listening to this. this dude Marty Fish. We got to get him on my beauty. He already listened He already listened to it Marty Fish. We have to get him on legend. We met him in Tahoe He's an AWL. We he came up to us It was what Wednesday morning. Yep, and I was like, oh good to finally meet you David Wells actually mentioned you on the show today. He's like, yeah, no, I listened. It was like nine in the morning. Yeah. You'd already listened. Marty for maybe four hours. Yeah. He is a true AWL. Marty already been ride or die with us

for a long time. So very cool to see him win. He's a great golfer. Great. Actually a really, really good golfer. Good tennis player. Even better golfer. Yeah. and we had, who came, Thielen, who we had on, came close. Joe Pavelsky, Badger was second. A-Rod was second to last. Yeah, I think he was last. I think Alex Rodriguez finished in dead last. I think Blake Griffin did pretty well. Josh Allen's a good golfer.

He got good. Much better than he was at the match. Yeah, all those guys too. It's funny, who's that? Oh no, Messi's crying. Oh no. Oh, he's out. Did he get hurt? Is tornado warning he's worried about? Yeah. It looked like a hamstring. That's not good for messy. Who hurt messy? I think he just ran. Bad day for my, this is bad day for my, uh, all your goats are dying. Hamas took him out. Hamas took him out? Okay. That's how Hank pronounces...

Homas. ...Hames. James. Oh, you're actually talking about a real person. Yeah. Got it. Lebron Hamas. There's a player on Columbia.

Jaime? No, you're thinking of that guy in England that's going from the river to the sea. They said his name on the broadcast. Yeah, Jaime. Jaime Rodriguez. Hamas. It's Hamas Rodriguez, hummus, it's hummus, red hummus, Rodriguez. It's just a cool way to say James. Hank

pronounces it Hamas, Lebron hummus. Yeah. James. Yeah. Spelled James. I heard the announcer. No, it's spelled James. Oh, it is. Yeah. Hamas Lebron. I'm lost. Okay, let's do who's back. And then we have a great Mount Rushmore

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Okay, Hank. My Who's Back of the Week is Petty Wars. Okay. Hank. My who's back of the week is petty wars. Oh, the so angel Reese had a double double streak going. She was at 15 and then today she was playing the Liberty last and in the game before I think she had like four rebounds in the last two minutes kind of kind of stat patting a little stat padding. So today she had eight points 16 rebounds. They were giving her the ball at the end of the game and the Liberty were quadruple teaming her Yeah, videos and pictures are very funny. They they said we're not we're not letting the record happen on our watch

No easy buckets petty wars. Yeah And she's kind of out of herself as a broke girl because she was talking about all the guys that keep asking her to fly them Out for games and she's like I'm not flying any guys out for games. I guess she doesn't have it like that Oh, yeah, the the stat padding is crazy. Angel Reese is a good basketball player. I'm a Chicago sky fan. Uh, it is insane that anyone thinks that Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese are on the same level in playing basketball. Angel Reese is so much better. Yeah. She wouldn't have done so much better than Angel. She got another, she got another 20 and 10 game. It's crazy.

Now, the rumor out there is that Diana Taurasi is going to have to back out of the Olympics. And then, Caitlin Clark would be the next person brought in. OK. Fly her out there. That would be cool. They're going to fly Caitlin Clark out. That would be cool.

Have they decided who's going to be? Is it Derek White officially? Yeah. He's there. Yeah. All right. When do they start? Was it two weeks? Olympics? I

think it's in, yeah. End of July. I want to say July 26 is opening ceremony. I saw, I saw Yocage versus Wemby was, was yesterday or the day before and just, it's so funny watching like Yocage looks like a, like he's six feet tall. Yeah. I'm going to say right now I will not, I'm not okay with just a gold medal. I want domination. I want utter domination. I'm gonna put it out there. I will not be celebrating a gold medal if we win the semi-finals, if the semi-finals or the finals games are within 10 points,

either of them, I will not be celebrating this gold medal. I want to see domination like the original Dream Team. That's the status. Yes. Where you don't use a timeout at all. Yeah, I want to see that type of original dream team. That's the status where you don't use a timeout at all Yeah, I want I want to see that type of move them down by the way So the dingers only which we briefly touched on actually max is in last place. Oh with 12 Wow Brandon's got 24. I have 20 Hank has 16 Jerry has 15 PFT 14 max 12. Okay, that's tough Okay, max

Long season what if you drafted Trey Turner though? I would have been doing much better I was planning on drafting Trey Turner until Connor Henderson fell to me. What about if you drafted? Christian Yellich Or Schwab er, yeah, I don't know Yeah, okay, you hate. I don't know the math here. Okay. You hate your boys. Bad math. Okay. PFT, you're who's back. My who's back of the week is also Olympic related. Breakdancing is back. Yeah.

Did you guys know that breakdancing is a sport? Oh, yeah. In the 2024 Olympics? I think it was in the last Olympics, too. I don't think so. I think this is the first time around. Oh, really? Yeah, I think this is the inaugural season for breakdancing at the Olympics. That one, if we don't win gold in breakdancing, then I'm out is the first time. Oh, really? Yeah, I think this is the inaugural season for breakdancing at the Olympics.

That one, if we don't win gold in breakdancing, then I'm out on the USA. I could see some other country being nasty at breakdancing. No, we can't lose breakdancing. We need a clean sweep in breakdancing. I can't wait to see how it's judged, how it's scored, what kind of music they're allowed to use. I'm very excited for breakdancing.

Yeah. Are they B-boys? Is that what they call them?'m I'm very excited for breakdancing. Yeah, I'm on are they b-boys Is that what they call these guys just flop all like every two seconds? They're just breaks in the action these guys are dead and then they hop right up Come on Hank have some passion for soccer. No, it's the best Yeah, no, they do. Oh, that was a real. No, that was a... No, because the Argentina guy flopped. It's always funny when the one guy, the guy who looks like he should be injured doesn't flop and the other guy does. It was great earlier too because Messi got fouled when he was in the box and he rolled

out of bounds and then he realized he was out of bounds and then rolled three times to get back in bounds because that way they had to stop the play. They had to bring the trainers out onto the pitch. You gotta do what you gotta do. That's gamesmanship. Yeah. Anyone else I would have called a foul. Yeah.

Hank, do you have any comment about breakdancing? I don't know that the US is a favorite. You know what I'm saying? No, dude. I feel like Japan might sneaky be nice. Um, I don't know. There's some other countries that probably are really good at breakdancing. Italy?

Yeah. Isn't there? No, that's, there's like a subculture in Japan that has like, they all look like, like 1950s, like the greasers, like Fonzie. Oh yeah? That's not breakdancing, but still. No, that's swing dance. There's gotta be something else. It's like a gap commercial. That's in the breakdancing.

I could see, I could see South American countries being American countries because really Asia all of Asia I think could could put up a fight in breakdancing. Yeah. But we have to are those those Russian dancers the ones that like bend their knees and get real low. Those could probably break dance. You know breakdancing call is called b-boying. Yeah. So I thought that's what it was. They're like B boys. B boys are doing it. Are they B girls? B women? Yeah. B women. For sure. There's gotta be female break dancing as well. Korea, Netherlands, Japan,

Britain, France, Russia, Ukraine, USA. We can't lose to England. I feel like Japan's gonna be... Ukraine. I might bet on Japan if there's odds. You think Ukraine's got it like that? They might. Okay, my who's odds. You think Ukraine's got it like that? They might. They might. Okay, my who's back, I have two. One is Jerry Rice.

Did you guys see him at the American Century Classic? Yeah, he almost beat the shit out of a reporter. So the chiefs reporter, a Kansas City reporter, basically asked if the chiefs have a good enough wide receiver core to win a Super Bowl, which innocuous question but could be trolling. Jerry Rice was basically like, you want to start something? Like I'll fucking, I'm about this and challenge them to a fight. And then afterwards said, told the question was like, but he was clearly trolling. I love this from Jerry Rice because a guy going that ride or die with your franchise so far after you

played is so awesome. That's the best. Goal Argentina. Yep. Offsides Argentina. Offsides should be taken out of soccer. Psych. There should be no offside. No, I do like that. Why does Jerry Rice have a rivalry with the Chiefs?

They've beaten him twice in the Super Bowl. Was it about that or was it about going back to his playing days? No, I think they beat him twice in the Super Bowl. Like that's he's so ride or die Niner game. Like I fucking love that. I respect that then. Yeah, I do. And I gained a lot of respect for Jerry Rice this week because I found that he was he was

staying at Margaritaville. Yeah, he was with the boys. Which dude likes to get after it. Yeah, that Margaritaville rocks. My other who's back is the Espy's. I had no idea they happened. Yeah, it was fun. The highlights I saw were Serena Williams making fun of Harrison Bucker. And Drake. And Drake. And then Lamar Jackson winning

play of the year for his pass to himself in the second quarter of a game he lost. Yeah. That was a home favorite. That was funny. What were the other nominees for play of the year? Was it just a bad year of plays? Drew Tranquil's tackle on Lamar Jackson was a better play. Yeah. In that, in that play or how about Snead's forced fumble? Yeah. That those were better plays in that game. Yeah. It was a, it was a very underwhelming play to win play of the year, but stay woke. That's probably how ESPN gets people talking about the ESPYs. True. Yeah.

Also, we had Steve Gleason, who's a hero, love Steve Gleason, who's been battling ALS for a long time. He said, I should have been dead years ago, and then the camera cut right to Damar Hamlin. Oh, no. Yeah. Oh, no. It's crazy. The one thing that the ESPYs are great for every year is when I know they're on, I don't

watch them, but what I do is I go to YouTube and I watch Norm MacDonald's introductory roast that he did at the ESPYs. They definitely- And that's awesome. That was not the normal time of the ESPYs. They slipped it in on a Thursday when no one was expecting it. I think that's what they do every year. I think you never expect it.

But yeah, the play of the year, that was quite something. Speaking of which the take ease, because the ESPN has decided we used to run the take ease opposite of the ESPs. We're going to run the take ease the last week of July. So get ready. AWL is being your best behavior. That will be when we run the take ease and you guys are up for eight time. Yeah, eight time yeah eight time nine sixteen

seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty twenty one twenty two twenty three nine nine nine Pete guys suck at math I hate you why is it so hard to count years you have to count the first one because we did it year one that's true nine times yeah there was near no year zero we've been doing that. What are you gonna do for a decade? live show No, that's the blake's no fucking no. Yeah. Yeah, you're crazy. I've sure crazy Hank fuck that you're crazy, but yeah Yeah, we should a decade What about when when this show is old enough to drive?

That's gonna to be crazy. Think about that. Yeah. Okay. Any other who's backs? There's some good who's backs, boys. Let's do our Mount Rushmore. Jordan Addison's back.

Oh yeah. Did he? DUI. Apparently he was parked in the left lane of a highway next to LAX. And so this is the same Jordan Addison that I think was driving 140 miles an hour last year. And so this time make up your mind. California Highway Patrol. Do you want your guy driving 140 miles an hour or zero miles per hour? Yeah. Because it seems like he can't do anything. Jordan Addison

can't exist. Thank you. You should get a Jordan Addison Jersey. Uh, we're about to find out how many DUIs or how many times drunk driving Kevin O'Connell has under his belt was to see what the suspension is like for him. Yeah, that's true. If he's thousands of times the, uh, by the way, we have, I believe the bears are the first two bears playing in the hall fame game. I should know this. The bears are reporting to camp today. That's crazy. So we're football is so, so close to being back. They are playing the Texans Texans. That's right. Texans. Why? Who's getting who's going to the Hall of Fame for the Texans? The Texasans are not Aryan. Yeah.

OK. That was mean. That was mean. I'm sorry. I was mean. Let's Andre Johnson. Andre Johnson, is he? He's going in. Yeah. Oh, there you go. By the way, we should actually mention a couple sad losses. We lost Jacoby Jones. Yeah, that was very sad. And what what are you looking at me?

Er, Max, for Jacoby Jones. Yeah. That was very sad. And what are you looking at me, Max, for? Jacoby Jones passed away. Raven legend. Obviously, the incredible catch on there in Denver and the kick return in the Super Bowl. And then Monte Kiffin, all-time football guy. So we've had a string of deaths. Yeah. Really sad. Tampa 2 defense Monty Kiffin.

Kobe Jones also had that iconic play where Mike Tomlin tried to trip him on the sidelines. Remember that? We accidentally stepped on the field on purpose. Yeah, really sad. I think he was 40. I just gave that look because I didn't I didn't know that. Yeah, that was breaking news to me. Yeah, yeah, very sad. And then Shannon Doherty to really 210. Yeah, that was breaking news to me. Yeah. Yeah, very sad and then Shannon Doherty too. Oh really 210 Yeah, damn happened like a flurry. It was a tough weekend. I know Okay, where you know what?

Now I was about to say something crazy Should we just be an anti-death podcast? We have the still alive person of the year award, which we just gave Jimmy Carter another three weeks Yeah, Jimmy Carter's never gonna die. He's never gonna die. Well, what? He just doesn't wake up some days. That's totally different than dying.

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One. Max, you got two memes. How many do you have? Memes got one. All right. How do we want to start this? Can't watch a single NBA game or highlight until January 1st. Can't watch highlights. How do you please us? Hi, like our sports podcast. I don't like that either It was because bulls in the way. It's gonna be taking It is a bad basketball. Yeah, but you literally cannot see a second of NBA until January 1st. I Don't like that. Okay. All right. We'll keep working Was that one of your good ones or your bad? I was hoping that was a bad. I have your bad? That was one of my bad ones. Okay, okay, good. I was hoping that was a bad one.

I have a bad one and a good one. My bad one, you have to be locked in a dog crate for 12 hours. Oh my God, that's bad. On Mitt Romney's car? Yeah, and then driven around town. Okay. I had coach seat middle for the rest of the, for an entire year. Every time we take a trip.

That'd be bad. That'd be really bad. Bad but for the viewers. Yeah. That's really no. That was my other bad one. I have two, two, two ones that are good for the viewers. One is almost impossible. Yeah. I have two viewer ones. Okay. Here's my first viewer one loser has to build a full size Chevy Silverado out of Legos. I looked it up. It's, it takes like days and days and days. Okay. That's not bad. I mean, it would be pretty bad. Yeah. It's not, but it's not a bad punishment. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Mine was, uh, you have to make

a tech talk every day until you get a hundred million likes. Whoa Okay, tick tock a day a hundred million light like total or Likes no total. Oh, it's like you can go viral a couple times. Okay, okay I don't hate you can't I was just have anything to do with the fact that you're in last place and you've kept on saying Muttering under your breath this past week. I got to get my tick tock popping off No, I'm just thinking Mean on your personal talk. I can be on the PMT one. So for reference memes What how many likes does our biggest tick tock have?

Our biggest post let me pull it up. Okay, a hundred millions also like we could change the nose. That seems like a lot. Yeah Yeah, no way the whole account has 97.4 million likes. So a hundred million seems like a lot. Yeah. Okay. All right. So is that one going in the, in the hat? I think that would be, cause it would be miserable. It would be good for the viewers. But what are the, so what, if you don't get that many likes? What's have to keep making? Yeah. What's the punishment if you get you can't stop. So patch you have you miss a day. I guess. Yeah. Well PFT like would choose to do a soul patch. Okay. Would I? So patch if you miss a day. Why would I choose to do a soul patch? I don't know. You do weird shit with your facial hair all the time. It's true. Okay, we can modify

Yeah, Ft our most liked one is 1.4 million Okay, soul patch if you miss a day though Hank cuz I think you would miss a day I I think we need to work the number is a lot memes doing this He's been posting like it should be a day for like years and we're just gotta be a punishment. So it's called 50 but even 50 is so many. Hey it's a punishment. No one wants to do a punishment. All right. PFT what's your real one that you have to make a swimsuit calendar and be a ring girl at rough and rowdy. Oh, I like that Yeah, like that a lot compete you have to compete in the ring girl competition, too

Okay, and then the swimsuit calendar is obviously like the ring girl. I like that a lot. Yeah, I like that too. Okay, Max I have to the first one you have to lock in a room and get a nine nine darter. Oh Man like that. What's the nine daughter again. 100 you have to get five oh one but it's three triple 20s. There's there's come there's different combination. But one that seems hard. Nine daughter. OK. Mine was similar but that would be impossible but, break LeBron's all time scoring record. 40,000 points. Okay. So you'd have to do it. 20,000 shots. You'd have to do it. You couldn't just stand underneath and shoot layups. Like we would break it down. We'd have Kirk Goldsberry get us the exact breakdown. You have to hit every range, three

pointers, free throws and you know, would obviously be, maybe we'd get a trampoline and you'd have to do dunks. Yeah, I like that. I like that. The dunks would be funny. Maybe we'd lower the rim for the dunks. Yeah. Yeah. I think you'd have to dunk too. Yeah. Because that would take a long ass time and it would be a funny stream.

We'd take like an eight-foot rim? Yeah, we'd wheel in an eight-foot rim so you'd have a dunking rim. Yeah. And you'd just have to go like, we could actually get Goldsbury to probably break it down year by year. Well, Hank will be able to use a normal rim. So it would take a long ass time. I mean, how many threes has he made? Well, bronze threes. All right. And then, uh, so wait, that's in the memes. You have one he's hit 2400 threes, okay, that would take forever

Really long time. What about okay? So one of the other bad ones I had that I just kind of forgot about till just now Do you think we could get a cast like a doctor would put oh, yeah Actually, so like get your right hand in a cast for I don't know two weeks my friend. Dr. Dan Sounds legit. Yeah, well he actually did this. This was a Yak challenge once he put a cast on Rone. Rone had to have a cast for an entire week. That's right, yeah, yeah, I forgot about Rone.

But Dr. Dan hit me up and he said, what'd he say? You could do a full cast, full body cast for an entire Sunday. Would be pretty funny. Yeah. Or for a week, yeah, you cast your legs and your hands. Full body cast for an entire Sunday Would be pretty funny. Yeah Or for a week. Yeah, you cast your legs and your hands. Yeah, both legs in a cast we fold hands both arms That would be pretty good for an entire week. I think we should throw that in there. I also like the idea maybe like a Having to read a script like a screenplay of a really long movie and act out all the characters. Oh Having to read a script like a screenplay of a really long movie and act out all the characters. Oh

I like that. Yeah. I also had another one of a disc golf hole-in-one. Oh, I Love that Okay, so we got some good ones that we put in the hat. So we're gonna put wait memes. What was yours? Loser has to complete the dune hike in Michigan. What's that? I saw this on TikTok yesterday That looks miserable. You have to go up the dune. Yes. Do you know what that is? Yeah, I know the dunes but how Max pulled up. It looks I watched I went through like a TikTok rabbit all of this Okay. So alright, so we have fully going into the hat PFT's ring girl My LeBron points with dunks. Uh, the cash. We do the cast. Yeah. Well the cast in there, we go both, both arms and both legs

or should we go both arms, both legs for a week. I think it would be better if it was either only arms or only legs. Cause if it's arms and legs, you can't get around. Alright. So person gets to decide. Yeah. Hank's TikTok one, which Hank, just grow your own TikTok, dude. You know what, Hank? You can do that. Yeah, you can do that right now.

You wouldn't want to do it. That's why you don't want to do it. Yeah, no. That's why I put it in there. Yeah. It counts. And then the nine darter. And then the dune hike.

OK. The nine darter might be the hardest thing ever. Yeah. Those will all be in a hat. And the loser nine daughter might be the hardest thing ever. Yeah. Those will all be in a hat and the loser of Mount Rushmore will have to pull it out. Maybe we can do maybe we could do. I think like the details might change but what we pull out of the hat will be the thing. Yeah. Like we may have to do some stipulations for some of them. Yeah that's fine. But those will all be the things in the hat. Right. Okay. I like it.

Okay. I like it. We all brought one. There's ones that you clearly wouldn't want to do. And then... I'll say this too, when we do the hat, so there'll be like five or six things. I think you're allowed a veto, but you have to say it before you pull it. Which one you don't want? Yeah. No, no, no. you have to say it before you pull it. Which one you don't want? Yeah. No, no, no. You have to say veto before you pull it. Oh, veto like I'm pre-vetoing the first one? Yes, yes.

Okay. Yes. Okay. So let's do the Mount Rushmore today. Mount Rushmore Video Games in honor of EA College Football. Best video games ever. In honor of EA college football being back. We streamed it tonight. It was incredible. Yeah, it was the best. The game is back in our lives. It feels good. Yeah. Dugs, we decided a new team for Dugs, so I'm going to stream 730 Central on all of our channels tonight, Monday night, and I'm going to be the OC of Washington

State. So the Pac-2. It's going to be the OC of Washington State. So the pack two. It's going to be electric. But let's do this. What is the order? So I'm going first, right? Because Max went first in sandwiches. What's the standings to memes? I think I'm last.

Yeah. Say the standings. No, wait. Yeah, no. It'll be BFD, Big Cat, Hank, me. Yeah. I'm pretty sure that's what it was that Hank Under your breath another person's on the ground. Oh and so it was on the ground

So also for all the heat last week you beat me by 1% And sandwiches Oh, yeah Say too because there was the guy PMT stats and info does a great job of Calculating and following along shadowed him. He's an awesome AWL meme screwed up the of calculating and following along shadowed him. He's an awesome AWL. Um, memes screwed up the, uh, poll and he set it for 24 hours. So we watched it and three hours is what we've been setting it for. So we called it final after three hours. Yeah. So I don't think anything changed. No, I want to know it did. I was sandwiched, but then he won that he

won the three hours, but I won. I won the 24.. 24. We agreed on it. We agreed on it. But my list was good. Hey Hank, I don't know why you felt the need to come at me, Hank. We're just in a positive mood today. It's a bigger sample size, so you could argue that. Now you're just being a jerk about it, Hank. No, it was just a fun fact. It's a little note.

What was the fun fact? I got a lot of heat and PFC only beat me by 1%. Yeah, I'll tell you what, I'm happy with my sandwich draft. If I do it again, I looked at it and I was like, that is to me a perfect draft. Same. Stay true to myself. Same. Okay, so memes, what are the standings?

Big Cat 18, Max 18, PFT 13, Hank 11. Interesting. Someone did note Max, unfortunately for us. They're like, no shit, Max and Big Cat are in the lead. They've done two food drafts and a worse place to shit. Yep. Yep. We've done other ones to say you guys just as fast. Fastballs groove down the middle. All right. So this one video games I'm gonna say right now PFT and I might be at a disadvantage because I have not played video games for a long time.

We'll see how the voting goes. I mean, this is Hank. This is Hank. My, my, I, I did a brain dump of all my favorite video games and there are very few that are recent, but we're going to do it. All right. So who's what's the order? I go first, then big cat, then Hank. I'm second. Yep. Shit. And we agreed if you take a franchise you get the whole franchise. Yeah. Not years. You can pick a specific year, but yeah. Okay.

Okay. But if you pick a specific game no one else can pick something from that franchise. Correct. Yes. Okay. First off the board I'm going Grand Theft Auto. Okay. GTA.

Classic game. Reinvented game. Badass game. I'm playing Grand Theft Auto. Okay. GTA. Classic game. Reinvented game. Bad ass game. Every every release that they have. It's all you play for the next like 2, 3 months. You can do anything in that game. Fantastic. Great. Great pick. Good pick. Definitely on my list. Uh okay. I will go um with something more recent but I've played it for 20 years now because I remember playing it in like oh five oh six. I'll go with Call of Duty Yeah, it's just a timeless whenever they come out with a new one and it has everything you could play the the Story mode obviously playing online is awesome. I was playing online Call of Duty in oh six

I want to say fucking rocked So much fun Okay, Hank. I will go with the timeless classic Mario Kart. Mmm Good pick great pick great pick probably the game. I don't know. I was trying to think of the games I've spent the most time playing and that one's definitely up there because you play when you're a kid you play when you're older And that one's definitely up there because you play when you're a kid you play when you're older Birria cart, you know, it's just it's a timeless classic. Yeah, what's birria cart? It's when you drink while you're playing you start the race and you have to finish a beer before you finish So you have and you can't? Drive while you're drinking. So it's only when you like spin out. No, you have to like pace yourself

It's like like you have to stop drink. So you have to drink as fast as you can and then also race got it, okay we used to play up in my friends loft just Hours and hours and hours. That's awesome play that in still water too great great pick Hank. Thank you favorite Mario Kart is n64 Yeah, yeah, although the during during kovat. I played the new Mario Kart on the switch and a switch. Yes, also very fun, dude I played I played over hours fourth of july. I played my son and his friend so it was just me versus some five-year-olds and uh, like the best feeling ever because Uh, not my son, but his friend was like have you ever played this before and I was like Yeah, buddy

And he was like i'll probably beat you and I fucking killed him killed him still I was drifting I was doing everything still came back to me felt yeah They're five but still felt awesome and every iteration of Mario Kart has been good too. Yeah, it's the best Okay, max you have two picks Well, I'll just I'll. I'll take college football. All right, nice pick. Panda pick. I mean, you don't like that game?

I love that game. Yeah. It's one of the greatest sports games of all time. And Halo. I never was a Halo guy. Oh, Halo 3. Halo's awesome. Halo.

I know. I just never was. Multiplayer. That's it. I popped my online multiplayer cherry Yeah with with halo. I was never a halo guy Back to you Henry

I'm gonna go with FIFA. Oh Your big FIFA guy, huh? Big FIFA guy. I don't like soccer's but FIFA and NHL like I didn't you know I didn't play hockey or like hockey. I love playing NHL. I love playing FIFA. College, the dorms, I feel like that was, I wasn't doing any learning in my freshman year of college. I just was playing FIFA all day. Yeah.

Okay. I'll go with Madden. I'll take the specific one though, what was the Mike Vick cover one? That one was probably the best. Yeah, they had that string it was Was Eddie Eddie George Maybe on one was like 2000 Eddie George and Ray Lewis might have been on there was like that string like the early 2000s yeah, I just was the Madden minigames. Yeah Ray Lewis the game Oh, I was a little hit stick on it change Changed the game. Yeah, that was the best.

But yeah, Madden, I mean, it's timeless. I remember playing that when it first came out, when you could change all the, when the ambulance used to go on the field. That was so good. Madden, actual Madden was on the cover. But yeah, timeless game. OK.

OK, next up. You have two. I'm going to go with Zelda. Also never a Zelda guy. Love Zelda. People love it. Love Zelda. I'm gonna go with Zelda. Also never a Zelda guy. Love Zelda. People love it. Love Zelda. I understand that.

And then Goldeneye. Yep. Goldeneye. Great pick. James Bond. Great pick. Great pick. Great pick.

Playing his odd job. Messing with people. Great pick. Okay. This is where it gets tough. This is where it gets tough. This is where it gets tough. There's a lot of really good games. But I'm going to stick with what I know.

And I'll go Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. Fuck! Good pick. I had that on my list too. Loved that game so much. That was probably like right at the end of what happened Hank. That was my pick. It's a good pick.

Are you going to now tell me it wasn't a video game? No. Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 Elite. It is. It's such a fucking fun game. And incredible soundtrack. Incredible. A lot of ska. Yeah. This is a loaded draft. Everyone's got a loaded team. You're up Hank. It's a fun game. You're up Hank. It's a fun game. I'm going to go probably the only game that I've really, I guess, you know, single player

story game, Assassin's Creed. Okay. Very fun. Spent a lot of time playing it. But we're an anti assassination podcast. Oh, it's a video game. That's a role player game. That's fine. Okay. Neat. Yeah. My last two picks. Yeah, I'm gonna go super smash bros. Okay Great game. I never played that game. It's good game that was I mean that was that was like my childhood was playing my brothers In that it was shocking seeing like Donkey Kong in the same game as like Mario. Yeah great game. Oh Mario Kart Yeah, kind as like Mario. Yeah, great game. Like Mario Kart? Yeah, kind of like Mario Kart, yeah. And... You definitely...

Yeah, kind of Mario. Yeah, I get you though. Is that, what's the difference between that and Mario Party, which I played? Way different. Okay. One of them is a fighting game. Got it, got it.

There's so many good games that are being left off the list here. Yep. And my last one is early fortnight. Hmm. Early guys. Like when fortnight for prime fortnight because then people got angry with it once people started to get too good. But there was never a game that like took over an entire generation like like early fortnight. Where we dropping. Yeah we it was I mean, where would you drop? People who people who didn't have to drop. Oh Where we're asking you a question? I mean you drop tilted if we're with the boys

But I junk Junction was my if I'm trying to win that was that was my spot or your bushes guy tomato town Tomato town was great. Yeah, you would go camp. You would go to Tomato Town, you Italian? No. Yeah, Tomato Town was good. Yeah? My one buddy used to play with the Tomato Man. Matt, shout out. He's definitely listening. Shout out, Matt.

Shout out, Matt. Would he kiss you? Probably for sure. Okay. Yep. So yeah, early Fortnite. Okay. Good pick.

Hank. I'm going to go with, I was going to take Fortnite even though it was a pander pick. I didn't play that much Fortnite. Personal pander pick. Well I'm just I'm fighting at the bottom of the leaderboard I'm looking for points but I will go with with my heart like I said game I played the most Star Wars Battlefront 2. Okay. Great game. Not familiar with that game. Great game. It was like original original Call of Duty. Okay. Okay. I'm gonna have to go with one classic I have a lot of

Games that are honorable mentions as I'm sure you guys do and people are gonna be very mad at this list because there's some Like heavy hitters that have not been mentioned NBA jam, okay. All right. A jam was the best growing up the Sega game gear. Ah, yes. Oh, you don't know what that is. Yeah. It's when they had, it was a game boy, but with color, but not game boy color Sega game gear was, wait, was yet those was called right. Game gear was the handheld. Yeah. The handheld Sega. Yeah. But also playing on Sega was the best. Um, I think it's NBA jam too, but whatever the tournament tournament edition was. Yeah. That was so awesome. But yeah, that game was the best. It was, that was, they don't, he's heating

up. I don't know. You guys can maybe speak to it like basketball games, but like I kind of never got into basketball games except for NBA jam. Oh I love 2k 2k I use NBA live game and then like 2k I think 7 switch over to 2k and and 2k 7 to like 2k I mean it's so good now but yeah I had I mean because I would just play me my brother would play a one-on-one games like Madden NHL 2k and 2k we would play like best of seven Series where you have to win a seven game series to win it again. Yeah, NBA Jam was just it was super simple That's what made it so fun. Yeah, it was the accident stopped the Charlotte Hornets. No Alonzo or or Chris Mullen on the Warriors Chris Mullen on the Warriors put him in the corner Yeah, all day Mark Price on the Cavs was awesome all day Michael Jordan was not in that game

No, he was not you could rest you could play with Bill Clinton Could you yeah you there was a code to play with Bill Clinton. I didn't know that yeah, okay? Oh, okay, so for my last last pick last pick this big one a big one And I was thinking about going with 2k on this one NBA There's no way you play that made 2k so I'm gonna go with it will be the show oh it will be the show okay great baseball game you know the one that I'm talking about too yeah but listen there's been a positive Mount Rushmore I had a different baseball game on my what was it called was it Manny Ramirez?

MVP baseball 2005 was the greatest baseball play. Was that the one with Manny? Yeah, the greatest baseball game. I think 04 as well was very good. 04 was the one with Pujos I think. Yep. That was the greatest baseball game ever created. I fucked up. I fucked up. That was the greatest baseball game ever created.

Ever. It was so fucking good. I don't think you fucked up PST. I think I fucked up. I do. That's the game I meant to pick. The graphic, like MLB the show will be more popular on the graphic the game I meant to pick. The graphic like MLB. The show will be more popular on the graphic but I don't know. That's not even the second best because

Ken Griffey baseball was better too. Ken Griffey baseball was the second best behind MVP base. I mean if you baseball was awesome. I meant to pick the one with Manny. Nope. You didn't remember like they had the mode where you could play in like a living room? Yeah, I didn't get funky with it. I I'm also now remembering I used to play Ken Griffey baseball for n64 was awesome as well with Randy Johnson was so fucking fast But yeah that the MVP baseball oh four and oh five Pujols Manny those two versions were so so elite. I can't believe I just did it sounds like you didn't play it No, I did that was my father never I can't believe I just did that. Sounds like you didn't play it. No, I did. That was my favorite game. I never make that mistake. Not the show. Yeah. That's okay. That's tough. I might look into it though. I might look into it. There might

be enough to show fans out there. Yeah. All right. We have so many honorable. I know I miss one that I wish I forgot until I, after my fourth pick NFL blitz. Oh yeah. Yeah. And MLB MLB hits. Yeah. Yeah. Also had a short run. Fast was anotheritz. Oh, yeah, and MLB MLB hits. Yeah, also had a short run fast was another one. That's what I was like an MLB slugfest. The NHL hits the old one, the old guy games that I had that dumped NHL 94. Yep. Elite elite. When I was what I would have been nine years old, my parents didn't want to get me a video game console because they're like, you'll just be addicted to it, which credit to them they were right. So for my birthday one year I got to rent.

I think it was what was it must have been Sega Genesis. I rented Sega Genesis for the weekend from Blockbuster and I just took it with me everywhere. Like I remember like I had to go to like a family party or something and I literally brought it in a suitcase and was like, where's your TV? And just went to their basement and just kept on playing NHL 94. I was like, I have three days to play this game.

I'm gonna play it and not sleep. And it's such a good game too with blood on the ice. Yeah, the best. The wraparound was unstoppable. Yeah. So NHL 94, Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. Yeah. Classics. Yep. Classics. Mario 64 was an incredible Mario 64. I was, I was kind of upset that I didn't pick that. Yeah. That is an incredible, incredible game. I feel like that was the first ever game that like

you could walk everywhere. And that's, that's a game that came, it was like when you bought the Nintendo 64, it came with the Mario one. It came with, it came with, uh, uh, cool, uh, Wave Runners. What was that game? Wake, Wake Surfer? No, Wave, fuck. It was like Wave Runners or something. That was the game that it came with. I know what you're talking about. Wave Race, Wave Race was the game

that I think it came with. But Mario 64 was a hugely popular game for that. I had some old ones too. I had Doom on my list. Doom changed video gaming for sure. Mortal Kombat was on my list. Sim City. Wii Sports.

Wii Sports was a great game. Sim City. Yep. Wii Sports. Yep. Wii Sports was a great game. Yep. Just Windows Pinball. Yep. This is one where you're the astronaut. Nokia Snake. Tetris.

Nokia Snake was a lot. Tetris is a good one. Digital Combat Simulator DCS, a classic. Everybody knows that one. Mario. Mario Party 2. But I didn't want to do Mario Kart and Mario Party 2, but. Yeah. Mario for Game Boy was great. I always thought Mario Party was, but I didn't want to do Mario Kart and Mario Party 2, but... Yeah. Mario for Game Boy was great.

I always thought Mario Party was a little boring. I played it a lot because it's a good group game to play, but I always thought it was a little bit boring. You could never play it by yourself. Yeah, my parents would let me have a video game system either until I was way older, so my neighbor would just play the full player game. Yeah. Crash Bandicoot. Actually, Genius by our parents to be like like if we don't buy a video game system

They'll just not be here. Yeah, I would I would the second I could go to my neighbor's house I would be there the other one was my banjo to eat banjo to eat elite for players banjo to eat It's the sequel of banjo Kazooie. Yeah, I didn't even know ash bandicoot. The other one was my best friend growing up We would starfox before we weren't allowed to play his n64 during the week and his dad would take the the power cord He so he would hide it and we would spend the entire week looking for it And then after like I don't know six months We realized he was just literally putting in his car and taking it to work every day It was fucking brutal. So he'd spend like every day just looking for a power course. Smart guy. Yeah. Pokemon red. I was just about to say that Pokemon Gameboy guitar hero guitar hero rock band Sonic. Yeah. Sonic 2 was the best. Battle Toads

I hated because it was so hard but I played it so much. Let's see, what else did I have? Oh, did you guys ever play? This is actually one of my, if I did like personal, personal favorites that I don't even know if anyone else played, Twisted Metal 2 for PlayStation. I never got into that, but I've heard it's really good. Thumper, Axl, Sweet Tooth. SSX Tricky. PS2 was a snowboarding game. It was sick. I never played that Red Dead Redemption Yeah, that whole series minecraft. I love that starfox starfox 64. Oh you said starfox. Yeah, the best oh We have a tornado Is that tornado tornado in this area take shelter now people are gonna be so mad about this

Yeah, this is gonna fuck people up. Yeah, I Almost like don't want to cut it either. No don't let them live it. Yeah, I mean all that talk about told them Yeah, I looked it up more it's because there's three percent of the country is city update They know their player very much. Oh, that's player oh that's good that's good update uh alright this was a good Mount Rushmore I think this graphic like people are gonna be pissed that we missed a couple of them but we did same an honorable mention yeah so just wait till you get to this point oh memes memes God of War would have looked good on a graphic Destiny is also one of the

greatest video games of all time this is is where this is going to piss people off so bad. Yeah, people are going to be so pissed. And also, nerds are going to be mad about our list. Yeah, I mean, well, that's where, like what Memes just said, I never played any of those games. I picked games that I played. Like, I know that I'm not. I stopped playing video games probably in, like, 06, 07,

like, you know, religiously. And so I missed some. I miss some means was the game you could play at Disney characters Oh final final final Kingdom Hearts Kingdom Hearts Final Fantasy that was my favorite game. It's like super nerdy And I was always embarrassed to say that I loved it my cousin played that a lot I played it with I played it for all the time I got like everyone like everyone like the day it came out final fantasy You just had to yet to start the game and then just sit on your couch for like an hour Well, it told you what the story was. That's that's the part. I never got past with that game I know work around late. They absolutely love it the Batman video games are also like the greatest video games of all time

Oh, yeah, and spider-man. Yeah spider-man. Those are good. This is Arkham. Spider-man games are so are so yeah I'm out of it. Did you guys play cool borders never heard of it damn? Was it was that like California games 1080? No, it was like actually just snowboarding Oh last of us also very good game, which was turned into a movie or a TV show paperboy I stopped watching it after the second season no wait. That's not No, I stopped watching shoot my rush more shows you stop watching what was the one game of

Thrones 1 1 where the apocalypse killed like half of the world and then they all had to like convene somewhere so I guess of us no yeah that sounds a lot like the last of us how many seasons was last of one? One. No, it was something else. It was with that guy Justin Theroux. Fuck, this is going to drive me nuts. Ten eighty. The President of Canada? No, different guy.

What was the wave runner game on N64? Wave, wave race. No, there's another one though. Mike Tyson's Punch Out. He was PST. Oh yeah. He's been on the. He was PST. Oh yeah. He's been on the list. Yeah.

Great. Great. Great game. Justin Theroux. What is his name? NBA Street. What was it? NFL Place.

There was NFL Street too. Jet Moto, was that what it was called? The Leftovers. Did you guys watch the left over watch it now jet moto jet moto on PS2 yeah cruising USA oh yeah that's a arcade game a great game yeah I think was also for like wait we might just get hit by a tornado now I think we might've we might have mushed a tornado. This is crazy reverse jinxed it. Let's see To well now we can't cuz we have direct TV There's the last part of my take you ever listen to

That's nuts. I Can't die before NFL season. God damn it. That would suck. I can't we made it this far If we die some well if we there's are the commander is about to be so good Hopefully this goes out make sure you release all the interviews we did you did some awesome ones how much do you think this episode? Would be worth if we all died, but like you could someone could go to the computer and get the screlly would buy it for sure Yeah, only only one person can listen to it Yeah, and then they would listen to it and be like, these motherfucking idiots, they were saying that tornadoes can't hit cities.

All time mush job. Wow, people would never know we're anti-assassination. All right, good Mount Rushmore. People are gonna be pissed, but I think we nailed it. I feel strong about everyone's four. I feel great about my three, the show. It's up in the air now. But Max is right. MOB's show might play better on the graphic even though... Yeah, some people love it, but real ones know their baseball.

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The 100 million dollar man, congratulations. It's Baker Mayfield. It's been a while. It's awesome to have you back on. We were just saying it. You've been through everything since we've last had you on. But congrats on the contract. Let's start there.

Yeah. Now settled into Tampa now. Yeah, like we were talking about, went through a couple of dirty laundry cycles there for a little bit. Toss and turned. Didn't come out clean a couple times. But no, we love Tampa now. So much that we're going to try and sell our Texas house and be full time Floridians. Oh, as a proud Texan. It's wild to say it's weird. There's that natural rivalry like the certain states that think of themselves as their own country you got Texas California Florida Texas is its own country it was

it is true yeah yeah and now you're now you're like a Floridian you're Florida man yeah Florida man Baker Mayfield like I have to start wrestling Gators now yeah rasslin gate yeah or become like a retired WWE star that's all Tampa they all go retire their IDs like I'll have to wait on that. Yeah. Yeah. We just do a cycle. And then after you retire and then, yeah, you're probably going to get a test after this. Okay. I can't wait. I can't wait to retire. So yeah, yeah. Like that, that one comment here, definitely going to get a random test. All right. So, I mean, it's been incredible. I feel like the story of like

everything has transpired in the last four years or three years. It's so much fun to watch because everyone, you know, is like, oh, Baker, he's get cast off by the Browns on the Rams, goes to the Bucks, maybe a temporary solution. Now you get re-signed, you're the quarterback, the franchise quarterback there. Was there ever a point in this whole long list of things that have gone down where you're like, is this it for me? Is like, you know, is the league gonna move on for me? Because it happens. Yeah.

No, it does. You see it quite a bit, but I'd be lying if I said no. There was definitely a point in Carolina where going through a couple of injuries there, team wasn't playing well, traded Christian McCaffrey, I'm like, where the hell am I right now? And just needing a fresh start and going to LA just for that like last five games of the year was so unbelievable for me. Like getting a fresh start, like they weren't making the playoffs regardless. McVeigh was kind of in a bad spot at that point. They had so many injuries that year coming out

the Super Bowl. And for like, for us to like both come into it at that, the timing was perfect. Like I needed that to go out and like say, screw it. Let me go find the fun in football again. Cause the two years prior weren't so fun. Like the last year in Cleveland is banged up as I was like looking back, like everything, I truly believe everything happens for a reason. because the two years prior weren't so fun. Like the last year in Cleveland, as banged up as I was, looking back, I truly believe everything happens for a reason, played through injuries and whatnot. And I wouldn't change it now, obviously. But in the midst of it, should I have probably gotten surgery

and set out? Yeah. Yeah, probably. But you know what? I wouldn't change it. And so it got me to this point, and I learned a lot of lessons about quite honestly how damn stubborn I am Yeah

But then getting to LA was that that started I needed and then going to Tampa last year and just trying to meet everybody Get that chemistry going and it's it's a great spot. Yeah. Yeah, I understand like how why people want to be there I remember when it was happening with the Browns. We were saying it at the time We're like Baker's toughness is actually hurting him because he's so hurt, but he's still out there. And then everyone's like, Oh, Baker sucks. Like, dude, he's so hurt. Yeah. No, I like watching the, watching the film from those games like now, because after I got surgery, I had to re like, reteach myself by throwing motion. Like got with a coach

and redid everything. Cause I, like I manufactured having an arm stuck to my body leg was all beat up to it's just so many things and factors that Like I said hindsight's 2020 but yeah, I was a stubborn asshole Yeah, yeah, but it's it's damned if you do damned if you don't sometimes Yeah, because if you take yourself out and you say okay, I need surgery and then people are like well Which shoulder is it it was your non throwing one? Yeah, yeah, like well, I'm getting surgery on my non throwing shoulder There'll be people that are like Baker's not one. Yeah, yeah. Like, well, I'm getting surgery on my non-throwing shoulder. There'll be people that are like, Baker's not tough. Yeah. He should have played through this. Yeah. But then you play through it and you're obviously impacted by it. Yeah. And I think part of

it was was partially like feeling like I was a part of the Cleveland community and like the blue collar attitude of like, we're gonna fight through this. It's not like I'm blaming the Cleveland people by any means. But like, I feel like that's just that attitude that we had going into it and everybody kind of embraced it. But yeah, I wasn't able to play It's the best my ability by any means. Yeah, so you get out to LA I remember that week because I think we were all rooting for you It was such was it you had four days to to learn five days to learn something like that. Oh, it was less I got there on Tuesday night. We played Thursday. That's right. It's a Thursday night. Yeah

What was it who's you who'd you guys play on that Thursday Raiders? Yeah. Yeah So what was the process like you you land you get off an airplane and then you just go straight to the facility or what? Yeah landed LAX. They had a driver pick me up got to the facility at like 10 p.m. And I've been on East Coast time it was in Carolina, so it was I mean for me it was late and we Met with OC who's now, Liam Cohen, he's now in Tampa, Zach Robinson, OC in Atlanta now, and then McVeigh. We sat down for a little bit,

crushed some stuff for about two hours, and they're like, hey, you probably should go to bed. Like, wake up the next morning for practice, and they do a walkthrough, and they throw me in there. I'm like, what the hell is going on? Like, they're actually trying to get me to play. Yeah. And I'm like, at this point, like I'm communicating,

Emily can't travel out at that time. So I'm like, you don't need to come to the game. Like there's no way I'm going to play. Right. It's like, as hours go closer, I'm like, okay, there's a chance I'm going to play this game. This might actually happen. And then on, on Wednesday, like we did a walkthrough

in the morning lunch and then went back out to practice. And John Wolford, like we did a walk through in the morning lunch and then went back out to practice and John Wolford who's with us in Tampa now, his neck was all banged up and he couldn't throw. So the only live sessions they had, like the short weeks are so different practice schedule wise, but the only live sessions we had, I was throwing to those guys and I was like, okay, this feels pretty good. Yeah. I think I might be able to do this Thursday morning. They make me cram a little bit more, study. Day of the game. Day of the game, yeah. And like they let me, normally they make the guys stay in the hotel the night before.

They're like, hey, just stay in the hotel, study as long as you want. So in the morning after, ride down with Carter, who's Sean's assistant, and McVeigh. We ride down the sofa together from Thousand Oaks. And the whole way I'm like shit let's just do it But like one of those things that I look back on Like how wild is that like 48 hours yeah, they simplify the playbook at all like it guys I know he's got long names for plays No, I tell Sean he's an asshole time because he gave me they gave me a wristband. He didn't call one single playoff

No, I tell Sean he's an asshole all the time because he gave me they gave me a wristband He didn't call one single playoff And but like looking back on I wouldn't change a thing Were there points in the game where you call the play and you're like, I think I know where everyone's going and then it You snapped it. You're like, nope, that's that's wrong But I'm still got to get rid of the there was definitely a few times where I'd say the play in the huddle say it Right, and then it'd be like, okay. What does that mean? Yeah, then I got we break the huddle You can fake it till you make it type thing like okay I know what I'm doing. Yeah. There's a few times like that. That's crazy man. Yeah. And yeah. It did it did

totally rejuvenate your career. Oh a hundred percent. To the point where it's like you saw a good Baker again. People know that it's somewhere inside them. Yeah. And then now you've got teams that want you to be their starting quarterback next year. So yeah. Brought the fun back and like that's when I'm having fun talking trash and join it, like that's when I'm at my best. And yeah, I needed that. It's also, I mean, again, this is nothing against Cleveland because we, I love, you know, like rooting for the Browns from afar.

I'm not a Browns fan, but it's like that city wants football so bad, but there is a lot of pressure in Cleveland, like, cause they are so starved for success that it just is probably a totally different vibe than a LA or a Tampa. It is, it really is. Like in Tampa, like in Cleveland, you get the stories of like, these tickets have been passed down

from my great grandfather. We've had it, we've done this. We've been partying in the Muni lot for years and all that. And in Tampa, they talk about like old Sombrero Stadium, like the creamsicle jerseys. Like it was cool that we brought that back. But you get some fans like that. But it's just different when you get like those Northeastern teams that are like truly generational fans. Right. And the pressure of this whole city being like you got to do this for us. Yeah.

Yeah. That's a lot. So all right.. So this past year, I, it was great too, watching you play this past year because it felt like old Baker where like you were doing shit where you're like, I'm just going to run the ball and try to like, you know, run over a linebacker, sometimes to success, sometimes not. But in like, you were just jacked up in the huddle and like pumped up all the time. So did you feel like that, like you're playing some of your best ball this past year in the second half, second half of the year for sure.

We definitely caught a groove there. Like we started out hot three and one by week was early. And then after that, we, I mean, I think we went one and six and like in a seven game stretch right there that it was, it was bad. But we, we finally turned it around. But yeah, it was like, bad but we we finally turned it around but yeah it was like all right simple is better especially with the guys that we have in Tampa like Mike Evans and Chris Godwin Mike Evans we were a big Mike Evans podcast we did a whole thing on it last year we're like Mike

Evans does not get talked about in the way he should be then the fact that if he plays three four more years the way he's been playing he's a top five receiver of all time. Oh yes. It's nuts the numbers he puts up. Like if he if he has an average year stats-wise for his like his records he'll still be top ten and touchdowns he's up there in yards I mean he's had ten seasons in a row of a thousand yards yeah I mean I know he's had some good quarterbacks but also he's had a bunch of different ones. Yeah right. He is the consistent one. Yeah. And I mean, I know he's had some good quarterbacks, but also he's had a bunch of different ones. Yeah, right. He is the consistent one. Right. And like he doesn't get that recognition. And like, I'd be remiss to say like, Levante

David as well. Another one of those guys in Tampa that gets no recognition. The dude is a Hall of Famer. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Unbelievable. He is. He's so, so good. It does feel like the Bucks have had awesome linebackers for like 30 years. Yeah. Just nonstop. You've got one guy in there that should awesome linebackers for like 30 years. Yeah, just non-stop You've got one guy in there that should be in the Hall of Fame Baker Mayfield is being brought to you by proper 12 AWLs Don't listen when you hear these spritzes and shandies claimed to be the drink of the summer the real ones know about the only

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you ran through someone's face and then you got up and you did the, like you kind of flexed and your teammates on the sideline were just jumping up in the air. They're like, yes, fuck yes. I felt like, at least from the outside when I saw that I was like, I think, I think the bucks are in love with Baker Mayfield. I think they're like fully behind him. Did you know going into the season that like you had a locker room behind you ready to run through a wall or was it, was there a point?

It's tricky cause like the whole off season and throughout most of camp, I was still in a battle with Kyle Trask to get the starting job. Um, and I think a lot of the guys knew what I was capable of, but they also didn't know what version they were going to get of me. And the version they got was the one that truly didn't give us shit. Yeah, I had nothing to lose at that point. I'm either going to be a backup for the rest of my career. I'm going to revive this thing. So it was like, this is the spark plug I needed was like that game one when I'm the starter, let's set the tone, like a third down run or something that we needed on the line. Like let's set the tone for the

rest of the year of like what type of locker room we're going to have. Yeah. Swagger back. Yeah. Baker grabbing his nuts again. Yeah. Do you look back at any of those? You're like, I probably should have done that. Yeah. My grandma still thinks I had an itch. I mean you, you made like, that's what is the best about college football. I remember when people were freaking out about it because there's such a weird thing when it comes to college sports it because there's such a weird thing when

it comes to college sports where there were amateurs, you were amateurs then not getting paid. People think like, Oh, you got to be real sportsman likes. No, dude. They're playing division one college football. They don't like each other. Well, yeah, college sports are different now, but like I still look back like when the clips of that and you hear like Greg McElroy, frat boy Alabama quarterback on the broadcast yeah oh NFL GM's aren't gonna

like that don't think NFL GM's give a shit about that I think they probably would like that because it shows that you're like passionate you got a little edge and like fuck you to you it yeah it depends on which like how they evaluate but yeah like I'd rather have my guy be like that than just like, like no emotion. Yeah. No, I like to try and please everybody, like do the political stance and the interviews and all that. Like, yeah, it's kind of fake. Maybe bring back the nut grab one strategy against the saints tomorrow. I might rip my head off. Yeah, that is a bold strategy. Yeah, it's not Kansas. The Saints are Kansas. That

is true. You did do it against Kansas of all the teams. You're like, we know we're going to put up 50. That's fine. Yeah, I did pick my battle there. Yeah. Is it weird that you're SEC now? It's a little weird. It's got like, it's going to take some getting used to watching like Oklahoma verse Florida or Oklahoma verse LSU. Yeah. like seeing, like I get the SEC questions all the time about like, oh, you guys had to play everybody all the time now. It's like, okay. But like SEC ball is good,

but really the consistent ones, Georgia and Alabama, LSU has its great years and then it has its not so great years. And then you have the other teams in the SEC. And so it's like, it's still competitive ball at that time. Yeah. And like for Oklahoma and Texas, it's about the physicality aspect.

Like that's always been the discussion about SECs. Get bigger on the lines. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's the difference. Yeah. And I think it'll help recruiting wise too.

Yeah. You're going to have to do way more like interlocker room bets against your teammates though. Because I feel like there's more SEC players. We don't gamble. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Well, bets as in like, oh yeah.

Gentlemen, it's like all my... Just wait. You have to wear like a... A t-shirt. Yeah, a t-shirt. Yeah, you gotta wear a t-shirt. To a press conference. Fun bets.

For the first like five seconds of the press conference, you're like, okay, laugh at me, all right, good. And then you just carry on about your day. Yeah, exactly. That's probably another drug test you're going to get. They're just going to be like, how can we get them? Another one. How many times have you been piss tested? Like randomly?

When we were in 2020, oddly enough, when we were really, really playing well with the Browns, I got tested probably 11 times that year. Look at me. Yeah, right. I'm not a physical specimen. Right. What are we doing here?

It's random. We're going like a first name basis with the guy that comes in yeah that's awkward that is awkward they gotta look they gotta they watch they stand behind you they're very familiar no they stay looking well some of them do some of them don't some of them look at your cock some of them directly stare they have to watch the others will make sure that you don't have like a Blue Mountain State attachment yeah yeah, right, right Who's the guy on terror Ontario Smith?

Yeah, yeah fake dick that he put in and then they caught him with it He was going through airport security and they're like TSA flagged it down. They're like, what is this fake penis? He's having fun. Yeah, do you ever do you ever fuck with him? Like like if there was a guy who gave me a drug test and was staring at my car No chance. I would just be like hey buddy. You're just gonna stand there that now You do something about this you say that now, but like the quicker you can be in and out of our place true the better true It's also very funny that a guy probably went to college for probably six to seven years No to get a degree to get like you know into the biomedical sphere Yeah, and now your day-to-day job is just looking at dudes pissing yeah stare at Baker's cock yeah

is that it well I listen but the guys here all have my cock on film multiple times so they have blackmail on me congratulations yeah well then whenever we do golf videos and they they try to get me pissing and I'll just turn around and be like now you can't use This so now they have it all. Yeah, we always say that with big cat. It's definitely not like that going like they're safe code Yeah, I mean, it's it's usually like a box 30 feet away. So you probably can't see anything but technology nowadays though It's what I use if I ever want to like sue Barstool be like, this is my employer As I'm trying to do my jobstool, be like, this is my employer

as I'm trying to do my job. What happens if you don't have to take a piss? Oh, like there's a, there's like a window that you have to get it done in. And it can't be too diluted, right? Yeah. Yeah. So you can't just say like, I don't have any pee. I just peed a second ago. No, they'll wait. Damn. What the whole time is during your cock? No, wait. Damn. What? The whole time is turning your cock? No, like you only everybody if they stand for three hours. This is when they just feel awkward and they like turn the faucet on. Yeah. Ooh, soothing sound. You try to piss so hard they just shit yourself. Do they leave at that point? Do they watch?

They cleaned up. You have a old teammate that we had a drug tester that really thought like his job was the most important thing in the world. And this one teammate on purpose would only go do his drug tests when he had to shit. That is so great. Oh, man. It was so initial. Okay, I can't do it. It was a good move though. Yeah, that's what he's turned his life around. Hey, you saw UFO? Yeah, like for real, for real. What?

Tell us. Okay, so driving home from dinner where in Austin. Okay. And it's like when we're driving home, dinner where in Austin, okay, and It's like when we're driving home we're about to cross the dam between Lake Travis and Lake Austin and we're looking like basically looking out it's and like it's really dark out there and literally like we got this the screen on the Car is real bright. Yeah, and so Emily's in the passenger seat. She's looking at her

phone. This like like circle shape object, like bright as hell, literally just goes from right here and goes straight down. She was looking at her phone. You know how it was like at night if you're looking at that and your eyes don't adjust to light. It was so bright that she looked up and saw it too. And it just like disappeared, like completely disappeared. Holy shit. And so I put that out on Twitter. People thought I was hammered. No, I believe no, I was just driving home. Right. And not an influence either. Yeah. And your Oklahoma guy, not an Oklahoma State guy. That's

good. That's a big difference. That's a good 1000 times my country. That was nice. But there was other people that reached out afterwards and said they saw the same thing. Whoa, it wasn't like we were facing towards a Tesla factory. They weren't doing any right. We were facing out like out to the country. Damn. So when you got home, were you like, I would have just been buzzing. I would have just been talking about the UFO nonstop for the next week. You saw aliens. I thought I was crazy at that point.

Yeah. It's like COVID and they thought it, I don't know what was going on. Yeah. I mean, if you say you saw a UFO, people are just going to be like, that's crazy. That vaccine hit him different. Yeah, right. He's never been the same. Yeah. That's, I mean, that's pretty cool. I want to see a UFO. I really want to see one. Yeah. I've been, I've been telling myself every night I look up at the sky and I try to find one. I've never seen one, but maybe it's because I'm looking for one. Just as I've been I've been telling myself every night. I look up at the sky and I try to find one I've never seen them, but maybe it's cuz I'm looking for one just as I find you Why I got a weird question for you about your time in Tampa. Okay, your offense coordinator

Dave Canales. Mm-hmm. Did you ever read his book? I Did not did you know that he wrote a book? I did. Yeah. Mm-hmm Did that never came up at any point? Came up initially. He owns it. He owns it and I respect him for it. I didn't know anything prior to meeting him. They didn't know anything about him. But the fact that he owns it, he's upfront about it.

No, I never read it though. Do you think he could have just done it in therapy and not written the book? Yeah. No, joking like, if I were him, I would never just I would never want to be a head coach because then everyone be like, wait, what's that book? Yeah. But I think they like the approach that him and his wife have about it. Like, if they're all open about it, then yeah, teaching lessons on it. Like, yeah, it's like it's a part of their story. Yeah, you know? Yeah. I don't know. How do you, it's like it's a part of their story. Yeah, you know, yeah

I don't know. I think he's gonna be as a head coach good like He's very relatable smart guy He's got he took our receivers coach from Tampa with them to be the OC Brad Idzik Really really good football mind and I just think like those two guys together like around Bryce is gonna be good for him but Dave's got like The definition of an optimist bully like it could be the worst day ever Everything could be going wrong and he's sitting there. He's like guys Got the next play and like he's got a big ol smile on his face me like this guy's full of shit

Yeah, but no, that's literally who he is day in and day out. And it's honestly refreshing, especially in that industry. It's like, coaches are always negative, picking apart everything. But he's complete opposite. Yeah, he seems like a good dude. I mean, it's cool. Anytime you start getting the wave of younger generation hires, it's cool, because it does feel

like that's happening right now. But it's also, the old school generation's so entertaining to watch. I know. Yeah, we need to figure out who the next grumpy, we need some more fat coaches. That's something we're losing. Yeah, we haven't had a fat coach in a long time.

And Gino back. Yeah, right, right. We got Andy Reid, Mike McCarthy, but like, we need some fat guys. We can do way better than that. It's more powerful. Get some guys to put on some weight. Yeah. We can get on a strict that. Yeah, it's more powerful. It's some guys to put on some weight Yeah, I'm on a strict diet. Yeah, let's get some fat coaches going

Yeah, if the coaches are like, you know too young too cool too much of players coaches Do you ever wish like I just wish like Bruce Arias walked through that door and just chew me out Just like call me a dumb motherfucker a good ass chewing good for everybody every once in a while I always say that I I've always said that. Everybody needs one. Yeah. You might not like it, but you need it. You need it.

You need it. Just a reset. When was the last time you had your ass chewed? Like really, really chewed? Really chewed. Like really in depth. Really chewed. Like went in.

Yeah. Oh yeah. You thought about it for days. Todd Haley. Oh yeah. That's a classic Todd Haley. Oh yeah, that's a classic. Yeah. Todd Haley had some really good ones my rookie year. Yeah, he tore me apart. Yeah. Todd Haley's a he's a motherfucker. But like in a football guy way. Yeah, but he did it to everybody. Yeah.

It wasn't like he would pick it personal unless you just like didn't give a shit. That was the only like he would pick it personal unless you just like didn't give a shit Yeah, the only time he would like single you out But yeah, he would let you know you're pretty damn stupid. Yeah, he's a he's a football guy through and through that's for sure Todd Haley, that's a good answer. That's probably the last. Yeah, that was the last really good one. Yeah, do you Greg Williams? Greg let the offense like when they got rid of Hugh Jackson and Todd, Greg kind of let the offense do whatever. And Greg, Greg's sick in the head.

Yeah. Oh yeah. He loved the fact that I was psychotic. He was like, just, yeah, I love that shit. Just keep doing it. I've heard that in practices he sometimes to the detriment of the team, if he's coaching defense, he'll just send crazy ass blitzes when the office is trying to like work on something.

Yeah, those are the worst kind of coaches. The ones that like script read and take all that stuff and try and win in practice. First of all, it's not getting your defense better because you don't know what the offense is gonna call in a game. But yeah, he likes to bring a lot of pressure. I would definitely do that.

Yeah, just dial it up. As someone who, the minute I realized, like in sixth grade, that they had half of the answers in the back of the book in math, it's like, that's when I stopped learning math. But then in the test, when you don't have the answers, what do you do? I just be really bad at math.

But it's kind of different in football because you want that confidence. So in practice, if you give your guys the answers, they feel like they're superhuman. Yeah, I can see how that can translate. Yeah, yeah. A little confidence that worked for the Browns in Cleveland. Yeah, why not? It kind of did. Yeah, he turned it around wound up seven, eight and one. Yeah, yeah. They won one game in two years prior. You know, sure, it

works. That works. Do you ever your current coach Todd Bowles? He's not a yeller. No. Do you ever want to like shake him and be like, dude, just yell at me? No, cuz he's like, he's got some sly shit talking. Oh, I like that under his breath behind the scenes. Yeah, cuz like they'll show Todd Bowles on the sideline and he just won't be talking. Yeah. And I know that it's so even keel. Yeah. He's like, I mean, he is one of the

smartest defensive minds we've ever been around. It's amazing. Like going up against them in practice, but like then his nature though is just yeah, the whole time. Yeah. And it never changes besides when like he's given the defensive guys a hard time or somebody else like in team meetings. It's, it's funny. Do you think it would fuck the team up if he like just did like a Bob Knight type of tirade at one point? Like what's wrong good Bobby night? Yeah, he throws a chair and he's like listen guys. I've been holding this in for 50 years Yeah The ones that finally made me snap that one I've never yelled in my life that might make you feel guilty

Yeah, I know I think it would fuck you up mentally. Yeah. Yeah. Shit. We pushed him to this point. I forgot to say congratulations on being a dad. Thank you. Do you feel like you were stronger? I did have some dad strength. Yeah. Yeah. You like have, you can do that if you're like, cause I have three kids and like, I can like put myself in a place where I think about my kids in danger and I like get that adrenaline boost Yeah, I mean I'm always one of those guys they're like and I know my friends are gonna listen to this like I always have The conversation about like a pack of coyotes coming at us We always have the argument about what kind of animal we could take yeah coyotes had fuck up like right now

Yeah, come on. No problem. They're easy. We saw a coyote like two days ago. Give me 12 of them Yeah, it was a it was a bitch. Well what if you'd fuck one and they'd all run Yeah, they'd be scared shitless. Yeah, I mean you scare the rest of the pack. Yeah single the big one out Yeah, we saw a coyote. I was right. I was ready to take him. We're playing frisbee golf I called it back. You can do yeah, it started walk away a how I held it Yeah, wait, I'll treat it stopped it looked at me and I was like, come on bring it. Yeah walked away What's your move if you're doing that a coyote? Yeah, I kick everything in the nuts I'll tell you what I do. Here's what you do. You wrap your you wrap Like your shirt around your arm, then you hold your arm and for make they make them bite your arm

I think you took that from a direct like canine police training. I've watched a lot of videos of that Detroit's urban survival guy Yeah, so I'm pretty good at that. Yeah, hold it up and then whack it in the nuts Oh, you just you grab it by the throat and just snap its windpipe Right in the trachea done. Yeah done Pete is also after us No, okay, Odie's aren't protected by PETA. No chance there there. There's definitely some animal like pigeons aren't protected by PETA Raccoons, I don't think like what's the point of mosquitoes either. Yeah mosquitoes definitely not protected by Striders really piss me off ticks ticks are the worst thing in the world. They are literally exists just to like kill people They've ruined the term lime for me. Yeah disease. Yeah. Yeah, just like Corona did with coronavirus

It's true a corona and a lime used to be the most refreshing thing in the world now It's a virus and a parasite. Yeah. Kill you and make you tired. It stinks. What a shame. Yeah. Real shame. All right. So has your life changed, like having a kid, you feel like maybe this is going to be, maybe this would be best season yet because you're playing for something bigger. I do. And like, like last year, I feel like there was definitely extra motivation. Um, but just, I don't know, it puts everything in perspective too. So it's like, how do you balance knowing that there's other things outside of football, but also how am I going to support this family for the rest of their lives? Also-

It's a mind fuck because everyone tells you what to expect and then when it happens you're like, well, that changed everything. Like timing wise, she was born early April, like it couldn't have been a better time. Yeah, I don't know how people do it in season is like, you want to be there, you want to spend your time, but also got to pay the bills. Yeah, all my babies were born in the off season. Yeah, I wouldn't I wouldn't know what's the season for you. The season for us is

late August till end of the NBA finals. That's like the very busy season. So it's like, so this is the office. That's like till mid June. Yeah, it's 101010 months. Yeah, we're in the offseason right now in the office. We're in the office. We're in show. We're in OTA. This is OTA is right. Yeah, it's a long season. You guys showed up for this. Yeah, we did this. Yeah, phase me. Yeah, we're good to go. We're doing it. There really is no option. Did you plan that out? Like we're gonna have her baby in the

off season? No, we didn't plan it. We tried for like a year and a half and she's actually, we think a Tahoe baby. Oh, chill week. We came back to the scene of the crime. Wow. You're more fertile out here. Oh. Elevation elevation. Yeah. The sperm swim faster. The cold water. Michael Phelps on that might have something to do with it. Yeah. Yeah. But now you got to think about like your daughter someday listening to this. She'll know she was it. Yeah, she's gonna be the chillest baby ever. Yeah, I'm definitely Tahoe. Yeah. Yeah. Because I have that happen creeping my head every now and then well pretty much every day

But I just block it out like they'll watch everything and it's gonna suck. It is scary. Yeah, it's scary I'm not gonna be able to tell him to like I'm not gonna be able to say like hey, don't do this It's like what about this why you did this? Yeah, you did this on camera You think about that in a game when you're like playing you're getting crushed by the Ravens in Cleveland one day My future unborn kids Are gonna watch this game film. Yeah, dad. Dad stunk it. I've got his ass beat. Yeah Tough motherfucker. I have uh, do you are you aware of Stephen Che? I'm not okay bucks super fan

He actually They there was like some graphic that was like the most famous fans for every team Dick Vitell won for the Bucks and then Stephen Che photoshopped himself over Dick Vitell Which was pretty rude of him, especially because Dick Vitell I think is battling cancer again, but Stephen Che he's a crazy Bucks fan. Okay watch his film. He's very well known in the Bucks community I asked him for some questions. He watches film. He does. He doesn't know what he's watching. So he watches film. That's what I love about the super fans. He works for Barstool and when he started working for us,

he was doing like ad operations. So he was very much on the business side, but he would still break down Bucks film for himself. Yeah. For nobody. For no one. He had the software, he would like highlight guys. And then somebody saw like one time he posted a clip

and we're like, why are you doing this Steven? Steven and he just always has and he only posts good film Like if you guys get killed he'll just be like watch this watch this guard get off Steven the bucks lost like 30 33 to 2 it's like what the fuck yeah He's about he actually did say, uh, feel free to show him this pick of us from the camp with the jets last year. So there's the pick. Remember he's got a lot of energy. Yes. He's got a lot of energy. Yeah. He's, he's done make a wish with the box. He's not sick or anything. Um, he had a, who threw him the was a Ryan Griffin threw him a pass. I'll, I'll find the video for you and show it to you. So anyway, Stephen Shade, die hard bucks fan. I asked him for some questions. He said the first one was the Bucks actively sought out your opinion on their open offensive coordinator position this off season. Even though you were free agent. What did that mean to you? And how much did that influence your decision to stay in Tampa? Pretty good question. That's great question. Yeah. Um, kind of a loaded one too. Yeah, Steven coming with the hard ones. Um, yeah, like it was fun during the process, but also like, I'm giving them input on like what I think we need similar, like a similar system to what Dave had.

Ended like to benefit my attributes and we go through this process and I feel like it was always a circle like we'd go Through that I give them my input then also I'd take a step back and be like Wait, I don't even have a deal yet. What am I doing? Yeah, right? Like let's let's do this, but I think part of it was them trying to get input get the right guy in there That making it more enticing no matter what the deal was that was offered that making it more enticing no matter what the deal was that was offered but it like it did mean a lot during that process because that was the first time I had been asked about yeah anything yeah and it was like they're still gonna make the decision however they want to they're probably just letting me feel good about it but that counts it does yeah like in knowing that I had worked

with Liam before I think that was a big part of it. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's cool when a team does that. He's like, why wouldn't you? Your quarterback is your most important position. Why wouldn't you want to at least hear, even if you don't use it, just hear what they have to say? Yeah, but just the questions about what type of system,

what type of guy I thought we needed, leadership-wise, system-wise for our skill players, for our O-line, because I think we were so bad, system wise for our skill players, for our O line because we were so bad around the ball last year. And so how is he going to improve all that? And that input, I think, they obviously did their own homework but found out that he was the right fit. Yeah, so during that process, were you talking to other teams yourself? No, wound up signing right before Free Agency started.

But like, all the rumors that go around, like agents talk, everybody talks, like you see some things. Like, I thought Atlanta was going to eventually offer a free agency game, but then they signed Kirk before that. And I thought Minnesota could be a chance. Like, you just never know Yeah, you know that would been funny if you gave the the Bucs the shittiest offense coordinator that you could find you're like

Yeah, I really like this guy and then went to Atlanta that would be awesome. That would have been smart. I've been a good one Yeah. All right. Here's the other question. This one is weird Steve all he cares about is football. So he only gets his news from Adam Schefter. Like when Ukraine and Russia were going to war, Steven didn't- Three's or six's? These are eight's.

Lucy Breakers. These are four's. You want one? Shout out Lucy Breakers. Yeah, so Ukraine and Russia happened, like he didn't find out for three weeks because Adam Schefter didn't tweet it. Like that's the type of guy he is. Like he doesn't know world news unless Schefter says it. Okay. Because he just that's how locked in he is on just football. Okay. So he said I heard a

rumor, so Schefter is his favorite guy in the world. He said I heard a rumor that you and Adam Schefter are very tight. It's rare in this day and age for a news breaker and a player he reports on to be good friends. How did this beautiful friendship? Blossom and what are your favorite qualities about chef? Did he just do an ad lib like throw in the adjectives and this is a real question She said what friendship and also what are your favorite qualities about Adam Schefter? He's a weirdo I'll say Stevens a gym. Yeah, he is quite something. He's quite something.

No, Adam and I actually are close. OK. That's accurate. So he got the rumor right. Yeah, he got the rumor right. Favorite qualities? Favorite qualities? I think Adam's just like, as much as they

do the breaking news stuff, like if you have a conversation with Adam, he's one of the media members you can actually trust that if it's off the record Yeah, it's not going anywhere. Yeah, like he actually Will keep it close to the vest. Yeah, I think like I think a lot of those guys that are like high up there You got like rap for Palisero like those guys. I think those are the qualities that like because Adam was doing it before anybody Yeah, and he just he's done it for a long time. Yeah. Yeah, I mean we love chef Do we have him on once a year at the combine.

He's a good dude. He is. He gives great Christmas gifts, too. Yeah. Are you on the list? He sent us baby gifts, too. Christmas gifts, everything. Nice guy.

You get the blanket this year? Yeah, you get the blanket? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I was a little confused by the blanket. I was, too. I was like, what's going on? It had a giant S on there.

And then I thought, did Adam Schefter send me a blanket with his initial on it? Yeah. He sent that to everybody. But no, yours probably had an M, right? It did. Yeah. Nice guy. Well, his initial on it. Yeah, like he's not to everybody but no yours probably had an M Right. It did. Yeah, nice. Well baby name. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but it was yeah the whole thing He's he's the best he's the year before and he's got his daughter doing interviews like on the field after games Mm-hmm when we with the Rams were playing the Broncos on Christmas Day. She was down there doing a interview for Nickelodeon

Yeah, yes, I mean that's also nepotism. Like, come on. What are we doing, dude? I think it was like Noah Eagle on the call. Yeah. Right. And then yeah, I'm sure Ronnie was playing quarterback. Yeah, it was great. What about physically? What's your favorite physical attribute about after your best friend? How like just proportionally sized to fit in my pocket? He is just, you can just keep them right in there. If you stand next to him, you're a six, three quarterback. All of a sudden I feel enormous. Yeah. Like Josh Allen.

So we actually, we're on your side about the whole, like, you're not, you're actually not as short as people say, but what they should do is they should measure up to the eyes for quarterbacks. Because anything above your eyes has wasted space going into the draft. Like I don't give a shit if my quarterback's got a big forehead. Okay, so Peyton Manning. Yeah, big forehead. That's true. How tall is he? No, no, he's like he's like 511. Well, by the eyes. Yeah, right. Yeah. If we're going by the eyes Peyton

Manning probably 511. Yeah. Yeah. Tom Brady, five, probably five, six feet. Yeah, six feet flat. I don't know what his forehead looks like Yeah, it changes every other week. Yeah Should have said that did you get Tom Brady's locker? I Think so, oh No, yeah, it is. It is do you leave anything like also it's a locker room. Like you got to replace guys Yeah, they can't like put glass over it. Like don't touch this. No, did you leave anything behind or was it just clean? No, there's no avocados left. Yeah Was it was there any weird pressure like stepping into Tom Brady's like this used to be his team a little bit

but also like the team That they brought in around him like he had a huge say on the free agents and like a ton of veterans that Super Bowl Run like that those end years a Little bit but also like I'm not Tom. I don't play like Tom and she can't be him Yeah, that's what I always said just be the best version of myself and let that ride Yeah, that is cool though that you got a locker room that had guys that he hand selected to bring in there Yeah, like yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good situation.

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It's been awesome having you back on, Baker. Like I said, I think it's been five years. We've had you on, I think this is the third years. You had you on I think this is a third time You are I love that you I feel like you're a type of guy that You have a circle and then there's people who talk shit about Baker. You're like fuck you. I'm you're out Was there ever a moment that we were out? No, okay good. No, I thought just a moment where I was like I'm not doing anything extra Cuz yeah, there was a moment where we were like are we out? I don't think we were because I don't think we ever said anything

Remotely negative about you. We've always been like Baker Mayfield fans But the problem we run into sometimes is the Barstool Sports main account. Yes, they will they'll fire off not our fault The dankest memes left and right after a game. And then sometimes we've got players that we're friends with that are like, hey, what the fuck? And we're like, sorry, we don't control that guy. Deon actually texted me the other day, was like, what's this story you guys are writing?

I was like, dude, I haven't blogged in 10 years. Yeah. Yeah, I think you got a bunch of computer nerds sitting behind there writing articles for clickbait stuff. Yeah, we got a lot of that. But my approach on it was just not to do any huge interviews. Just like let this whole thing pass over.

Let people know that I'm stronger in the end for it and still the same person. Smart approach. Yeah. All right, good. I feel good. Remember when you beat Philly in the playoffs this year? It's pretty sick.

That was awesome. Pretty sick. Oh, hey, what happened with your Oklahoma statue? I kind of fucked that up, huh? No, I mean there really no good statue. Okay. Good story on that. Okay It's better than if you can I don't know if they'll have a picture of it online But they have all the all-americans plaques outside if you look up Mark Andrews plaque. It's the most fucked up thing you've ever seen your life. Really? It's so good This is see the problem is I think what they had to do is they had to break the mold of statues and have it Be a red headband because if you look at it from afar, it looks like you just have the shiniest biggest forehead ever

That's the problem because they have their your headband on there Yeah, that's I think what I was thinking. It kind of looks like you look like a player from the 1940s. Yeah It's you have you like it yourself where you're live like it's enormous to kind of look like t-1000 from Terminator. That's cool That's pretty sick. Yeah. All right. All right. I'm coming around on the little piss. They didn't make Kyler's miniature but Yeah, this this is I don't know Was Kyler's nature? Yeah real strong chin in that one. Yeah, ears are flaring out a little bit. He's t1000. Yeah That's kind of cool now. All right. I'm back on the I'm back on the statue All right. Well Baker it's been fucking awesome, dude. We love having back on the show. It's good to be back

Yeah, let's not do let's not wait another five years. Okay. Yeah, I'm sure you know what next time We'll bring Stephen with us and he can just is he gonna talk the whole time though Yes, unless we tell him to shut up if he's coachable though. If you tell me shut up, he'll shut up receptive Yeah, I do have one more question for you since we're talking about babies earlier We have a theory on this show that when a player like a wide receiver a tight end has a kid especially if it's their first baby they're way more likely to score touchdown that week because everyone in the locker rooms like happy for them you know everyone's saying like send best wishes to them they show up for game day

different mood congrats on the baby does that does that calculus ever enter your brain for like receivers and yeah yeah you gotta get him the ball because of the baby No, okay. It should bad teammate. Maybe it's good that he said that because then it's not gonna change odds But now it yeah, we know the truth, but now it's actually in his brain. That's another test for you All right, thanks Baker Mayfield was brought to you by our great friends over at Morgan and Morgan. You know what really stinks? Getting alerts on your phone that there's a tornado in your area and interrupting the

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For more information go to ForThePeople.com, that's FORthepeople.com slash PMT or dial pound law, pound five two nine from your cell phone. Okay. Let's wrap up the show. I have two Monday readings for you. One's a tweet, one's a Reddit post that I came across. Someone tagged me in it saying Monday reading, which I agreed with. The first is a tweet that I want you guys to just give your reaction for. This is from, so Nate was in the World Series of poker cashed Congrats to Nate our guy Nate 717 I funded him he cashed and

We're proud of him was a hell of a run But anyway, my algorithm has just been all poker because I was so into his run and just like looking at looking for everything Mm-hmm. This guy Sean Sean Perry I guess he's a poker pro or something. Sean Perry wins. He said did you guys know that Dylan gang runs a very high stakes illegal poker game where he's raking over 50 K a day and there's an illegal prostitution ring happening at the game. The players are paying girls to fuck in the other rooms and this is Jason Mercer's partner. How alarming? Oh my god It sounds that sounds terrible. It sounds alarming that sounds we should invest the worst time ever. I can't I simply can't believe that's true

Crazy, we should go check it out Yeah to make sure that it's not true. It's I mean guys are paying to fuck in the in the side room in Las Vegas. I don't know where it is. He runs a legal stakes poker game where he's raking over 50k a day and there's an illegal prostitution ring happening at the game. The players are paying girls to fuck in the other rooms. Whoa. Yeah. I can't believe that's true. We should go check it out. Scary. Scary. Where is it? Can you tell me the address that it is so I can make sure that I never got to find it it. We gotta find it. I wanna make sure I never accidentally go there. Grit Week. We'll stop it. Okay. So I think we have a spot for Grit Week. Yep.

I think so. Do some investigative journalism. Alright. Here's the Monday reading. This one is my boyfriend, 26, female, my boyfriend, 28, 26 female, my boyfriend 28, is obsessed with a lantern he found at a flea market and it's getting weird. How do I approach this? Hello. So my boyfriend and I recently went to a flea market and he found this old-style lantern

that he absolutely fell in love with. He bought it on the spot and I thought it was a cute little vintage decoration for our apartment, but now things have taken a strange turn. Ever since he got the lantern, he's become super attached to it. He keeps it by his bedside and even gets up in the middle of the night to walk around the apartment with it, pretending to be an old timey watchman.

He'll say things like, all is well, or the night is dark and full of terrors. And he really gets into character. At first I thought it was kind of funny and endearing as he always had an eccentric style of humor but now it's starting to annoy me. He does this almost every night and it's disrupting our sleep. I've tried talking to him about it but he just tells me that he takes his watchman duties very seriously and that it's important for our safety. The issue is I genuinely cannot tell if he's joking. Has anyone else experienced something like this? How do I get him to tone it down without hurting his feelings or making

him feel like he can't enjoy his quirky interests? That's a great question to ask. Have any of you guys experienced this with a boyfriend before? Guys can't have hobbies? Sounds like he's gaslighting her. Yeah. That's all I got. That's I love this guy though. Yeah. He's a cool guy. Listen,

if you find something cool at a flea market or you're out maybe on a Saturday afternoon, you ask him to stop into some little quaint antique shop that he doesn't really want to go into. And then he finds something awesome that consumes his life from there. You should encourage those types of behavior. Yes. Hobbies. He's using his imagination. Also, like, playing in the dark is, like,

as old school as it gets. Yeah. Probably get some excellent shadows with the lantern. The dark... What does he say? The darkest night and full of terrors? Mm-hmm. All is well. Yeah, all is well. The night is dark and full of terrors.

Yeah. Sounds like he's doing a good job. It sounds like he's keeping ghosts away from you, which you should be happy about. I saw it. I was just like, dudes rock. This This is just we've gotten to a point where it's like listen, what would you rather him do like Cheat on you or like, you know go like have a hobby that like completely destroys your relationship with him Or he could just do his duty as the watchman and check out what's going on at night

At least you know where he is all night long, right? He's walking around with lanterns and if there's hey, I bet you if you heard a clank in the middle of the night You're like you go check it. You're not the one who's gonna go check it. He's gonna go check it Yeah, he's the guy that's got the lantern now. He's fully equipped. Yeah, I don't mind this at all Yeah, so I thought it was a fun little story. Okay anything Hank Are we worried about the tornado? Kind of.

Or I'm trying to remember your like flow chart that you had as to what weather is real. Oh, yeah. Do you said do you say tornadoes is real? It was just football. Anything that's gonna you know, a tornado could affect an over. Yeah, could yeah rain and snow never not so much never Weather's not real No Okay, let's do numbers

This tornadoes like a natural disaster though. Yeah, no turn. I really whether tornadoes You don't fuck with tornadoes. You think tornadoes weather like yeah like an earthquake isn't weather Yeah, correct correct tornadoes not weather volcano tsunami tornado I think would be tornadoes that hurricane would be weather tornado would be weather you're not getting it because it's a natural disaster Oh, it's not weather. It's not weather But it's definitely weather is volcanoes weather no Tsunami nope okay Really cold front yes okay okay thunderstorm yes what about what was the thing flash last summer heat the heat

dome polar vortex yes seish wave don't know what that is. It's like a tsunami in a lake. Whoa. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's not what it is. Aurora Borealis. Awesome. The Northern Lights. Nope.

Not weather. Solar Flare. Nope. Okay. Whirlpool. Oh, good one. Bermuda Triangle. No.

That's bigger than us. Microburst. I don't know what that is. That's like, is that like a mini tornado? I think a microburst is like just a big thunderstorm that pops up. What's a mini tornado? What's that called?

A dirt devil. Dirt devil. Tasmanian devil. Yes. Taz is real. Taz is weather. I agree with that. All right, let's do numbers. Oh,

by the way, Shane went on a date with his Charger shirt. That's pretty cool. That was his first date he's ever been on? Yeah. That's awesome. Congratulations. And it went well. So is there going to be a second date? What? Is there going to be a second date? We'll see. Okay, nice. That's better than a no. We gotta get you your Chargers gear. Let's do it. Yeah. Numbers, 20.

73. Three. Eight. 99. Max, number? 20. Ah, I already said it. 56.

21. That's brutal, cause that means that you really wanted 20. I gave Shane my headphones. I can't hear. 31. Oh. 31. Love you guys. Stalking away, I'm the one I'm to say I've saved anyway

Days are not days to find, shy away I'm coming for your love again I'm coming for your love again Don't want me, hate me, oh I'll be gone, after all too I need less to say, I'm all just sadness But I need so little way, learn to learn that life is okay Say after me, it's for better to be safe than sorry

It's for better to be safe than sorry Take on me, take me on It's better to be safe and sorry I'll be coming for you anyway. I'll be coming for you anyway. Take on me. Take me on. I'll be gone. In a day. You're deep