Pardon My Take - George Kittle, The Big Show, Grit Week 2020 Livestream & Spongebob Table Read

Episode Date: July 31, 2020

Grit Week 2020 is in the books and we’re taping off a 24 hour livestream. Recapping dumbest moments and the fact the we basically had a grade school sleepover for work. (2:40-8:38) Joe Kelly, NBA is back and Patrick Mahomes somehow got picked 4th overall.(8:39-15:30) Fyre Fest of the Week.(16:13-20:18) 49ers George Kittle joins the show to talk about the upcoming season, the Super Bowl, and Grit. (22:07-47:37)The Big Show joins the show to talk about his wrestling career, heel turning, and having a cameo in The Thong Song. (49:29-113:58) We finish with a Spongebob Table Reading from 8 am (1:15:56-1:32:41)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, add free on Amazon Music. On today's pardon my take, we've got George Kittle, our good friend, best tight end in the entire NFL. Great Kittle. Where did he finish in the,

we'll have to look that up before we interview him. We're taping this right now in the morning. We've done the Great Week 24 hour stream. We're actually in the middle of the stream right now. Shout out to everyone who's watching the stream. We have those two guests, which are great. We're gonna do a SpongeBob episode reading. We haven't slept in like 28 hours right now.

PFT is probably a little drunk. I'm on dog 22, got two more to go. Beer 22 right now. Yep. So we have all that. We have a recap of Grit Week. We have Firefest, SpongeBob reading with our good friend, Nick, not KB, Nick.

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So our brains are absolute garbage. Yeah. My entire head feels like a bowl of oatmeal right now. My stomach feels like a drum and bass concert is going on. I don't feel great, but that's what Grit Week is about. It's about persevering. We're here. We're somewhat lucid and sports are back.

Sports are back. So first, a shout out to everyone that tuned in to Grit Week 2020. We raised, I think, the final numbers going to be around $20,000 for the kids. It basically was, we created a grade school sleepover where we never went to sleep. We played games. We played video games. PFT drank 24 beers. Billy ran a marathon in eight hours.

He just decided to know where. He just decided he would just take care of all of it right off the top. I ate 24 hot dogs. We had fun. We laughed. We fucked around. We got Tim Allen trending just randomly. We decided at 5 a.m., who's the weirdest randomist celebrity that we get trending so everyone will

wake up and think that person died. We did that with Tim Allen. He actually just tweeted being like, what do you think it's like to wake up and think that everyone thinks you're dead? Yeah. No, he actually thought he was dead when he woke up this morning. So shout out Tim Allen. We did get trending, bro.

But yeah, it was awesome. The whole thing was awesome. We have not slept. It was a great time. I actually wrote down a couple notes, some highlights. Okay, here's one highlight. When Big Cap blew a four star lead in Mario Party and had to run a mile, saving me from running my second mile.

Okay. Did you have that one too? No, I didn't have that one. That one sucked. Oh, I had this. I wrote this down. The new Madden sucks. Point play.

This is going to be the oldest I've ever sounded, but the movements, my eyes cannot understand the movements. They are all herky jerky. I don't understand how the players move in that game. It's too hard to play. It's because the kids grow up playing those games that have higher frame rates. We grew up playing real football games like Madden 95 when the quarterbacks didn't have names.

And they were not on the field. There were four plays that you could run and they all sucked. That's when football was football. Our eyes aren't used to this stuff. It's just, I feel like I'm having a seizure when I'm playing. No, I really do feel super old saying it, but I, when we played it, I could not understand like why is everyone moving so like this? These games have gotten too realistic.

Give me some, give me some more glitches. Give me some weird shit. Give me it so it's hard to like run through someone or or juke someone. It's just, I don't know, not for me. Hank thought the words superlatives was super relatives. Yep. Sure did. I'm a phonetic reader.

I'm a phonetic reader. Phrenetic. He totally thought that Billy Billy's highlight was both running a marathon in the first eight hours, but he also cooked two of the worst meals I've ever seen cooked back to dinner and breakfast. Just incredible. I actually, so bad that I want to create a new video series where Billy is just the Washington generals of food shows and we just put them up against everyone in the world

and watch them lose. So that it's that funny. I think that if you put Billy up against a really good cook, they would probably lose because they would be so psyched out by Billy just pouring beer into whatever recipe he has, putting eggs and beans in a blender with what else was in there, hot dogs. An entire pack of hot dog seasoning. Even hours later, watching people walk into the office, their immediate face just gave the stank face of like, what is going on in this office?

Yes. And it was something that was cooked four hours ago on the opposite side of the building. It looked like horse flavored ice cream. It was bad. It looked like a cross between that and cat vomit. Yeah. So Billy has three rules as a cook. Rule number one is they're all ingredients.

That's his saying when you say, Billy, what the fuck are you doing right now that smells and it looks terribly says they're all ingredients, dude. Number two is let the meat talk. So that means just don't put any seasoning on any meat. Just let it talk. And number three is every meal cooked needs beer so that Billy can drink it. This is these are things are true. You know, really, I was sort of in a in a danger zone in my brain when I was cooking

because I just ran a marathon and I also had no sleep. So it wasn't my best stuff. I was sort of just like, like the one thing was make substance. It was memorable though. It was. That's all that we're looking for out of this. And it was super memorable. And then to cap it off, Billy has a flare for the dramatic 30 seconds before the end

of the stream, Billy just straight up breaks the couch, broke the couch, starts. He starts doing curls with the couch because he's so pumped. And I think two legs of the couch broke off. Yeah. But I honestly think this was this is the beat. I mean, we've talked about the beginning of the comeback for Billy. Your performance on the grit live stream was a plus a plus plus marathon cook top chef a plus plus.

What else do we have memories or it's all fuzzy. It was a witch at like five and a year. Yeah. Jake was opening cards, pack of cards every single hour, a rebellion task. And one hour, I just, he was like, any, any guesses for who the first card is. And I just said Buster Posey and it was Buster Posey. That was wild. I was a witch for like 30 seconds.

I thought you were Chris Angel at that point. I thought you were a street magician. Then the six Liam, Liam whispered to Rudy what number I said, Liam, think of a number and whispered to someone. I got that right. And I was like, at this very moment in time, I am a witch on earth. I thought you were too for a while. It was cool.

And then it fell apart. But yeah, I was getting ready to throw you into a bathtub and see if you sank. I feel like I'll be honest. I am drunk. I'm hungover all at the same time. I don't know that I've ever been that mental state before. I'm feeling like this is a three day come down from me. Oh yeah.

Yeah. This is going to be like Monday morning. I'll start to kind of edge myself out of this. It's going to be like the best dream ever though, waking up and being delirious. No. Real NBA action. I agree though, because I don't, I think I'm so delirious that I'm not going to be able to fall asleep.

I think I'm too tired. I think I stayed up past it. Oh, I'm out. I don't think I can nap either. I don't know what my plan is going to be. I'm just too excited right now. I'm too excited that I'm done with it and that I can nap to actually sit down and fall asleep.

I probably drank a few. But Hank brings up a good point. There's going to be basketball. So let's predict what's going to happen. The pelicans and the pelicans. Celtics blazers. I don't know who they play. The pelicans, the jazz and the Clippers and the Lakers.

Is Zion healthy? Yes, he is. Is he quarantined? They rushed him through the quarantine so he's back. How crazy is it to think back to March that Rudy Gobert testing positive probably led to this bubble being created? We probably would never have bubble life. True.

Lou Williams would never have gotten caught eating wings at a strip club in Atlanta. True. It wasn't for Rudy Gobert. The butterfly effect from that one test, the ripples would be felt for centuries. I think the pelicans are going to win. I think the Clippers are going to win. Lock it up. Noted.

Does the season count? Yes. Addis LeBron wins. Correct. Go to answer. Great answer. So yeah, we'll have basketball this weekend. That's going to be fucking awesome.

And then hockey later this weekend too, right? Sunday? Yup. Yup. No, I think the Blackhawks were on Saturday maybe. Let's go. Joe Kelly, that guy, that's funny. That's a funny face.

Great face. It was Philip Rivers like the way that he was doing. He was just like sticking his tongue out. Maybe a little bit more profanity. Yeah. I got introduced to the Joe Kelly Fight Club and I went back and watched this tape of him fighting against Yankees from a couple years ago. I was just let the boys fight and then Rob Manford has the balls to suspend Joe Kelly

for looking awesome and making dumb faces and the Astros haven't been suspended at all. And I saw some people trying to make the argument like it's egregious that Joe Kelly, like he was too close to throwing someone's head like, listen, no one should get beaned in the head. But if there were someone to get beaned in the head, it'd be the Astros. And the dude also like during quarantine, he had a net set up in his yard and he missed the net completely and hit his house. That's true. Like he has proven, he has proven on the record that he had control issues only two months

ago. And that is, that is such a litmus test of do you take sports too seriously? If you see Joe Kelly do the pouty face the Astros and your initial reaction is, oh my god, how could he know your reaction should be, that's fucking hilarious. That is actually social distancing wise, an appropriate way to fight just by throwing baseballs at each other. Right. You don't want to get too close and start punching someone might cough on you.

Again, don't throw baseballs at people's heads. But the Astros also have to kind of expect that bad things are going to probably happen to them for a little bit of time. So was this Rob Manfred saying like, if anybody hits Astros just so you know, I'm going to spend you eight games. I think it was, I think it was more the headhunting, which I get, I get that, I get that portion of the little high. Yes, I get that portion of that.

Like if you're going to be in someone, you know, do it in the, in the, as Greeny would say the Tuckus, the Tuckus, the Tuckus region, the hip. So yeah, that happened. Oh, Patrick Mahomes is going to be pissed. He was number four on the top 100 list. And then he put it in and he tweeted out a little like noted. Oh, got it. Got it.

So who's going to be ahead of him? Aaron Donald. I don't know who is that. Let's predict who's the head of Patrick Holmes list. We have George Kittle, number seven on the show in a minute. Yep. Oh, we got Danny Vitale. Wait, wait, is this the, is this the list?

Where are we at? Man, I'm tired. I have no, I have no idea where I am. Mark Jackson, number one, Russell Wilson, number two, Aaron Donald, number three, Patrick Mahomes, number four. I'm going to agree with Patrick Mahomes here. Yeah. Come on.

I think Aaron Donald is the guy that you put ahead of Patrick Mahomes to remind everybody that you watch football, that you watch the tape. Well, Aaron Donald is really the best player. Yeah. Which he's awesome. Don't get me wrong. But I don't know. And then Russell Wilson, also a very good player, but come on.

Patrick Mahomes is coming out like, what more does the guy need to do? Nothing. He's our number one. Yeah. We're releasing the part of my take one list. Commenced debating right now. Here's the entire list. Patrick fucking Mahomes.

Patrick Mahomes, number one. Oh, number two, Chad Kelly. Chad Kelly, number two. That's it. That's it. I'll accept that. Chad Kelly, number two. I think that's probably bad.

Oh, Kevin Durant, Trouble in Paradise, he got into a Twitter beef with God today. Really? Yeah. He added God. That's how you know that you're serious. What do you say? I'm pulling up the tweet right now. He said, yo, at God.

We good? Question mark. So calling out God, this league, this universe. New last chance to you. All right, let's get to Firefest of the Week. Yeah. Okay. Let me get the ad.

Hold on. Last chance he was. No, it's fine. It just hasn't been good enough. Few seasons. Like a good person this time, right? Who knows? Season one of Last Chance to you, though, is it's still worth a rewatch.

That shit was fire. Dude, I am so fucked in the head right now. I like my eyes feel swollen. You ever get that? We're eyes. Oh, yeah. My whole body, like my organs are swollen. Can I get, I want to get popped like a sausage.

I want to like someone to poke with a fork a knife and just have some of your juices. Give me a little pop pop. I don't need that. I need to be swallowing. All right, here we go. Before we get to Firefest, a Bud Light filled Grit Week 2020 is in the books as sports come back. Bud Light wants to make sure your fridge is stocked.

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That's on us. We took them at Coca-Cola 4 and Crown Butler. They're not bad. Fucked up. Okay. We fucked up. Um, Firefest of the Week. Hank.

Uh, my Firefest of the Week is that I, my Firefest of the Week is that Billy didn't do a Firefest and I can tell already saying big cat disgusting makes me sick. Firefest is that no, Billy, you're not up here for you for getting your Firefest. No, no, it's on big cat now. My Firefest of the Week is that we got Tim Allen trending and I had never seen the tweet that he had before that said, if we evolved from apes, why are there still apes? Checkmate. I should.

That's some knowledge I should have had before. He's like, it's a very fine line between Tim Allen and Chris Berman. Chris Berman noises. But like, that's a, whoa, like we evolved from what, he's like, he's Chris Berman with a truck. Why are you still there? All right, Billy. I might have fucked up my foot running a marathon on one day nose, yeah, and I'm brain

dead. Yeah. That's not new. I'm a parent to myself. I'm brain dead. What? Oh, you've realized it yourself? No, I'm just, I feel stupid right now.

Also, you forgot to tell your mom that you weren't coming home last night. Yeah. Oh yeah, that's a big one. That's a huge one, dude. You should have done that. Yeah. Yeah. And I shoot, she was like, where, where are you this morning?

And I was like, uh, Matthew, how do you miss telling her that? I don't know. I just said you're working late, right? Yeah. And then anyway, dude, I can't, I can't do this right now. Yeah. No, I can't. No, no, no, we're, we're, we're pretty much done.

If Hank has a firefest, we're pretty much done. My firefest is that my dog just bites everything that is exists in my apartment. I don't really know how to stop them. Mm. Put peanut butter on stuff. Make it a fighting dog. Yeah. Yeah.

Turn into it. Yeah. Yeah. It nips. It's got sharp teeth. Yeah. It's a puppy. Yeah.

You know what I used to do with Leroy? Skin. Shoes. I used to just pretend like everything. Every time he put his teeth on me. Pillows. I'd just be like, ow. Like I, I pretend I hurt really bad.

You're gonna yelp like another dog. And then they, then they feel bad. Yeah. You're gonna shame your dog. Also, if they nip you, you nip them back. Yeah. Bite them. That's true.

If you bite your dog, just a little nip. And then just, just a little nip. Mm-hmm. Don't do that. But nip them. Just give them a little nip. If, and if they do those territorial small peas where there's not like a spray, it's like those little like deposits, pee on top of that.

Yeah. Yes. So they know. Pea pile. Yeah. So they know, oh shit, I can't mark my teeth. In order to fully train your dog, you're gonna need at least 10 to 12 pee piles scattered around your apartment.

That's just science, dude. You have to do tug of war with him with your teeth and beat them. Right. I respect you. Right. Right. Right. Right.

Okay. All right. Um, let's get to George Kittle. Then we got Big Show. Then we have SpongeBob SquarePants table read that we did it like seven in the morning. I don't even know. I was blacking in and out. That was so fucking funny.

So make sure you watch that or listen to that. Watch that. Listen to that. And then Monday we have CJ McCallum, CJ McCallum, a great recurring guest, awesome interview. When did we do that? That was yesterday at two? Yeah. Two.

Yeah. That was yesterday. No idea where I am right now. What was Big Show? What time is it? Big Show was 11 yesterday. Who am I? 26 hours.

Yeah. Why am I here? That sucks. Dude, I woke up at 6 a.m. yesterday. But seriously, thank you everyone for tuning in to Grit Week, uh, 2020. That was so much fun. We had us, we had a sleeping, we had a sleepover with no sleep. Love you guys.

No, this is the, we're going to the ad. Again, I have no idea where I am. I'm on autopilot right now. We still got to show left. We still love you. Yeah, we do still love you though. Before we get to our interview with our good friend, George Kittle, a quick word from our friends at Dude Wipes, Dude Wipes sponsor, Grit Week, Dude Wipes could not.

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Okay, we now welcome on, did you just clap? Yeah. He's a pro. Remember he auditioned for my job. Yeah. Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're literally walked from the 24-hour Grit Stream into this interview.

We couldn't think of a better guest to have on to finish off Grit Week than our good friend Greg Kittle. Greg, it's great to see you, man. Hey, it's great to see you guys. Your 24-hour stream was pretty incredible. Thank you. It was a wild ride. It was.

What was your favorite part? I don't know. You run out of buns. It was kind of brutal. They kept eating those hot dogs. Yeah. Well, we just were like, at one point I looked down on the ground and there were just buns everywhere.

Because we just, it was basically just a sleepover and we just started throwing shit. The room became a trash can. Right. So that, and then that just kind of defeated my buns, but yeah, it was. You blew a four-star lead. I just saw that on Twitter. Yeah. Yeah.

Mario Party, dude. You don't got to bring that up. That's fucked up. You want to talk about it? It was crazy. Honestly, I don't think if you played that game a hundred times, the way the things went down. It wasn't right.

It wasn't fair. And then I had to run another mile with 17 hot dogs in my belly. I felt bad. I felt bad watching the big cat run, but I wasn't going to stop it. No, it sucked, man. You know what also sucked? What? Losing the Super Bowl.

I was going to say, are you over it? I think it's a good segue. That was a good segue. Right? Yeah. About the same level of competition, you know, the same, you know, so yeah, I get it. Yeah. I think it's just always going to suck, but I'm good with it at this point.

Listen, as I think I can relate, I've had loss like that, four-star lead in Mario Party, no big deal. But honest question, we actually interviewed you that week because you're such a good friend. You came over with your entire entourage of like 17 cops that were on detail. With you, I think they just basically like, let's just make sure George doesn't start shotgunning beers at any point this week, but it does suck. We were rooting for you. I appreciate it.

I do. I think it is a stupid question to be like, how long does it take to get over? But I think it is also an interesting question, like how, you know, at what point were you not thinking about it all the time or it wasn't like, you know, because everyone who's played any sport, they replayed the game immediately after, and I would imagine it's magnified to that like ultra level when it's a Super Bowl. It really sucks like that first month and a half, two months after that out, that was not fun.

Well, I mean, think about like you train the whole off season and then it's five months of football and then like you lose the last game or like, well, that just sucks. It's like a year of your life gone, but I mean, like, definitely look back and you appreciate it. You know, I've been playing games, which is pretty sick. Definitely had a fun time doing it too, but, you know, then after that, you just kind of look forward to the new season and, you know, now I'm just ready to play football if they let us play and I'm excited to finally, you know, get back on the field.

Did Roger Godel ever issue you a formal apology for that pass interference call, that bogus pass interference call in the second quarter? No, unfortunately, I did not get that unless it's in my, my other email, but I didn't get that. You know, he was just making sure that the refs called that to stick it to Sean Payton because Kyle Rudolph got away with that same exact stiff arm that you had. And so he just wanted to piss Sean off a little bit more. So he was like, Hey, call, call that same thing on Greg.

You guys remember fucking everything. That's crazy. I actually, this just popped in my brain. Was it, I think it was you when they had that clip of Kyle on the sidelines. I think it was maybe the NFC championship game where he went up to the ref and he's like, yo, they're, they're gonna, they're gonna hold George here. Yeah. They can't, they can't guard him here.

Watch for it. They can't guard the flag. Do you, when you saw that clip where you like, holy shit, that's pretty cool that he's doing that. No, he said that, like when he installed the play on Thursday for a third downplay, he goes, look, when they get in this form, like when we're in this formation and this guy covers you, he always holds. So just push him inside and break out.

He's going to hold you. And I was like, all right, sounds good. And then it happened. Yeah. Yeah. Like I said, the dude's a wizard. It's pretty fun to play for him. That's insane.

What a guy. Uh, you guys drafted another blocking tight end this year. Are you guys just going to smash people? I could be like, I'm excited. Charlie's a good dude. We were actually, we were running routes together and he was like, Hey, this passing stuff's kind of boring. What are we going to start talking about?

Run game. And I was like, you're my guy, like I needed that out of you. Yeah. We're running a lot outside zone. You're going to throw the ball like nine times a game and it's going to be awesome. But for some reason, the way that you guys play off, it's the way that you guys run the ball. It almost makes it seem like it's a passing attack because it's dynamic and like it

bounces outside and it's crazy. It's like, uh, like the plays that they draw up are fun. The blocking schemes are awesome. So when you're installing those, like how long does that take to learn these like small intricate details of the blocking schemes? It's actually really difficult. Like our, um, our run game meeting on Wednesdays, like when you do first and second down runs and that's like a 45 minute to an hour meeting that we install like 40 run plays.

And then by the end of the week, we're like 60, I think 60 to 75 summer in there. And then yeah, but each one is very different and each week it brings like a whole new, you know, different set of like challenges. Like we've been playing the Carolina Panthers was when we really installed like all of our emotions and stuff in the backfield. And that was a trip because like, I know you have a play called Hornet, you got to play called Bloss and they both mean similar things, but they're completely different at the same time and change our rules.

So it's definitely a learning process. But by the end of the year, we kind of got used to it, which is, and that's why you could see like our run game is pretty baller in the playoffs. How many plays do you know? Good question. I flush everything after every single week. Really? Yeah, just delete it all because we have a brand new install basically every Wednesday,

Thursday, Friday. Wait, does Kyle ever like, if you guys are, I don't know, well, maybe maybe it did happen with the Falcons. Were you guys, you ever see a team where you're like, no, we don't need to do anything new like they stink. No, like, so that was like Kyle's playbook and like, it's just evolved so much since then. But like, we still have a lot of similarities in their offense because we watch a lot of

their tape when we play NFC South guys or they definitely, like I said, they do a lot of stuff that, you know, we do. But now that, you know, Kyle and we have, you know, McDaniels on the floor, you know, that little group that trio are, it's definitely evolved a lot and it's, it's really exciting. When you, when you throw guys off of you, like that play in New Orleans last year, are you like, I'm, I'm just such a fucking man. Great question. You're talking to like two people who are so delirious.

I love this. No, like, you're like leaning against this, you're asking a question with your eyes closed. Yeah. Yeah, but you're getting the unfiltered brain. Like that's a stupid question, but it's also a smart question because I got to think that that moment is like, holy shit, like I am a fucking beast. Yeah. Like remedial afterwards.

I, I definitely said things like that probably. I said a lot of swear words and stuff like that, but like going back and watching yours kind of like, well, I was pretty damn sick. Like, holy shit. It was. I can't believe I did that. That's, that's more of, it's more of just like a, wow, I get to go do that sometimes and it looks a lot clearer than I think it is, but it was actually pretty fucking dope.

Yeah. It was super fucking dope. What about the Seahawks? They just got your mall items basically to try to stop you. So that means that you're worth what, two first round picks and a third at least, right? If my math adds up, I guess. Yeah. Have you watched any tape on them?

Of course. Yeah. Well, we put, when he was on the jets, we're going to play him this year. So I definitely watched your mall items. He's a hell of a player. So I'm just excited. Like the NFC West is, that's some competition out there, like from the Cardinals to Rams and now the Seahawks definitely are, and us, like it's going to be a really fun conference

to play in. And yeah, Jamal Adams just is going to make a lot more fun for us. Wait. Holy shit. I didn't realize this because you were doing the 24 hour stream, but you made history. You in the NFL, top 100 that they have done for a decade now, you were ranked number seven. Overall, that's the top tight end ever since they've been doing it for the last decade. That's pretty wild.

That's, did you not, you knew that. Like you're, someone texted you and was like, Holy shit, man, this is pretty crazy. I was actually pumped in rap for a text me on Wednesday and said, Hey, low key, but this is what you got ranked. I said, dude, I just got my own personal scoop for me and rapper for, that was sick. Yeah. Yeah. How about that?

You should have replied though and been like, I already, like the PMT guys already told me. Yeah. We Roy told me three days ago. Hank already told me two days ago. Yeah. Right. Yeah.

Don't let him have that satisfaction because what he's doing is he's trying to get one over on you. He's like, I know something. Something that you don't know. So here it is. You're right. You got to just go back and be like, yeah, they told me that so long ago, man. That's like, I can't believe you're that late.

I'm learning from you guys. I like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Got to be coachable. Okay. I'll take that.

I'll be back. Yeah. Have you thought about asking Cal Sandhan, like maybe hand me the ball sometimes and just let me run with it. Well, he does hand me the ball sometimes. Yes. Okay. So that's, that's a yes.

Sounds like PFT is the head coach student of the game. Have you asked Cal Sandhan, hey, can I get the ball more and let me run with it? Just put it in my hands. No, I usually ask him just to run the ball more because that's what we're best at. You just want to finish people. I like blocking people. It's really fun. Moving a man from point A to point B against his goals, pretty satisfying.

I mean, that's, that's true grit. So wait, do you have a definition for grit? Huh. Do I have my own definition for grit? Yeah. Or is it? I'd have to imagine grit has come up once or twice when your dad writes fucking Moby Dick to you every Sunday morning that it has multiple times.

Uh, let's see, grit to me is, um, taking pleasure in doing all the things that no one else wants to fucking do. Yeah. Yeah. Being comfortable being uncomfortable. Great quote. Look at you. Yeah.

That's a good one too. Got to credit Danny Woodhead. Yeah. He told us that a few hours ago. We learned that two hours ago. No, no, Danny Woodhead didn't give that to every coach. I've learned that from every coach since like my fifth grade football coach, which was my dad.

So. Yeah. Yeah. What did he, uh, what do you write to you before the Super Bowl? The Super Bowl. Um, let's see, it was a 14 pager. So I was a lot. Whoa.

That was the most I've read in a while. Um, I'm giving you credit for a book. Thank you. I appreciate that. And it's cool too. There's pictures in it too. So it's kind of a picture book too. Nice.

Is it drawings or did he just like print out pictures? No. My dad uses like, um, photos of things that like, just from our relationships, like when I was a kid, he used to read me Lord of the Rings, like as a bedtime story. And so like he uses Lord of the Rings photos, the matrix photos, um, Star Wars. I don't know. He just kind of goes off everything for my childhood. Just kind of makes me feel like it's still a kid's game.

I got it. It's the best point of the letters. I guess. Just remember, you know, it's not, it's never too big. Yeah. On the Super Bowl letter. It was pretty fun. Wait.

What was one of the better things in that letter and that letter? Oh my goodness. Like I said, I usually flush stuff after every game. Um, but usually it's, um, he does a great job of there's usually like a paragraph right in the middle that he just drops about 12 F bombs and tells everybody to go after themselves. And that's usually inspires me. Uh, it just kind of locks me in. And I'm just like, you know, like screw that guy, screw that guy, screw that guy's fan,

screw that guy. And it's just, I really enjoy those things. Yeah. That's awesome. I like how he starts it off. He's like, Hey, these are some things that are very important to me about our relationship. But after just like five paragraphs, he's like, fuck everybody up. You're a fucking man.

Fuck up. You're, you're fucking kiddle. Yeah. Face through the turf. And then he always comes back and it like mellows out at the end too saying that, you know, I, I'm proud of you. I love you. Just go and play football.

I was like, that middle paragraph is always the one that I just get them fired up. I love it. Dude, I got, I got a tweet for you. I just searched. I searched your name on Twitter. Coach Yak, who I think is a coach is a social video content for a 49ers wait, no, is he work for the 49ers? I've seen Coach Yak on Twitter.

He's a nice guy. Okay. Yeah. He says nice. Yeah. This is a great tweet. This, you just, you just nailed everything in this one starts with, not sure who needs to hear this.

I love when tweets start like that. That's a good one. You're tweeting it. Like you're tweeting it. So you want everyone to hear it. But um, and they said, but George Kittle deserves this moment. He's talking about the top 10 player. Got it.

He's, he's not only a top 10 player in the NFL, but he's a really good person. Oh, I actually, I'm going to throw a flag on this coach. Yak dude. Why can't you say he's not only a top 10 player in the NFL, but a top 10 guy ever. Yeah. Give you top 10 status ever. I like that. Yeah.

Like, like I said, you guys are great coaches. We just got to, just get, he's got to improve. It's all right. His next week will be better. I know it will be. I'm going to start doing that. Not sure who needs to hear this. Well, you're tweeting it.

Yeah. Starting a tweet with an open letter. I don't know who needs to hear this, but we're a mask. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's a good one. Would you consider yourself to be an even better guy off the field? I try to be.

I think that's why I have success on the fields because I try to be as nice as I can off the field. And then you know, I'm a big karma guy. Like I believe in, you know, everything that you offer to feel definitely correlates on the field. So I think, yeah, I think I'm a nice guy. Yeah. That was a hard hitting journalism question.

I think you're a really nice guy. I think you're cool. You have 50. You're on, you're on a roll right now, man. I'm nailing it. I'm out though. I literally have no more questions. So here's a, here's a good question.

How soon is your training camp? Are you going to wait to bust out the Canadian impression? Probably the opening, like as soon as I walk in and they have a camera on me, it'll be you. Oh, hey there. Yeah. Yeah. I just can't help myself.

It's too much fun. It's the best. It feels so good to say it. I have another question that popped in my head. Are you going without fans in the stands? Are you going to struggle with like the adrenaline and the getting pumped up and ready to go? I think it'll be a challenge for everybody, but no, I mean, like I just love football the way it is.

Like I like, I love practicing every single day and the fact that now I did get to go actually hit people and you know, try to bury people. It doesn't matter if there's not anybody there because it's just going to be fun to do in front of my teammates. I just take satisfaction in it. Do they get pissed off at you in training camp? Are they like, Hey, Greg, maybe take it easy on a couple of these reps. No, I totally take like, I go hard in training camp, but I don't pancake people in training

camp. I don't like, that's, it's, it's not good for team, you know, team chemistry, spad vibes. Oh no, this is my drink body armor question. Drink body armor.com. Bill is actually asking you this question on a microphone on top of a pallet of body armor. He has sponsored for Great Week. So my question is, Billy, do you have any questions for?

Wait, Billy, did you just say Mr. Kittle? Yeah, it's Greg. Just figure that out. Thank you. Come on, dude. I'm sorry. Um, I was just wondering what your favorite Moby Dick quote was. No, his dad doesn't actually, it was talking about how long the, the, his dad writes him

a lot. Wait, I think, I have a Moby Dick quote that I think they don't give me headphones. I don't know what they're talking about. Um, so I'm just, uh, but anyway, I think you'd really like this one because it sort of ties into Joker tattoo. I love it. Um, there is no folly of the beast of the earth, which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

Oh, Billy, tweet that at me. I love it. I'm going to tweet that at you. It's like man is the most dangerous animal. Exactly. So when you're trying to get hyped up and there's no crowd. I think that, that might help. I'm going to head about a wall too, but I like that though.

That's going to, that's my only question. Thank you so much. No, you have more questions. Billy, give me another question, man. Okay. Okay. Can you, can you tell the story behind your Joker tattoo? My Joker tattoo?

Oh dear. Yes. Of course I can. So the Joker tattoo, um, I don't know. So for me, football, I think it's like 10% your physical abilities because everyone in the NFL is like an all-American football player. They're all the best high school football player, best player on their team. And so what can elevate you to the next level is, you know, I think 90% of the game is played

above your shoulders, just in your head. It's like the mental side of it. And so I'm big into alter egos. And so, yeah, I'm big into that. I know like Bo Jackson said he played, um, like every time he played football, it wasn't him playing. It was Jason for like the scary movies. And so like that was his alter ego.

And so I was thinking about an alter ego for me and something I always loved is the Heath Ledger Joker. So part of it's just kind of like the chaos of it. And it's something that I channel as an alter ego when I play football. And that's kind of why I got it. That's honestly like so sick because like you go like psycho mode, you do psycho shit on the field and I can totally see how you just like get into that zone. And like there's that one, uh, video of you just blocking a guy like outside the back

of the end zone. I think it was, it's like, and you're just laughing the whole time. Yeah. That's like super awesome. I try to go psycho mode sometimes, but I don't have as many outlets anymore. Yeah. But, uh, so we kind of went psycho mode, like the past 24 hours, like staying up. So, uh, you're going to hell with me.

Other psychos. Yeah. I went psycho mode. I wasn't me on that. That wasn't me on the, that treadmill. What are Greg, what are some ways that you can recommend to Billy to go psycho mode in his everyday life? Um, well, I use like any offices and I like, I lift weights and that's like, I work out

really hard. Like what I do, work out, um, maybe, you know, come back and even though big cats up by four stars, you still beat them. Something like that. Yeah. That was a big, big comeback. Dude. I call my psycho mode berserker mode.

No, that's, that's fair. You brought up the Super Bowl. I think that was fair. Yeah. Like berserker mode. Yeah. Wait, big guy, you brought up the Super Bowl. So I got, I got free shots.

Yeah. A few people watch the Super Bowl, dude. Prove it. I bet on you guys. I couldn't, I, I would have though. Yeah. I know you can't, but I, I did and I was feeling real good in the third quarter and feeling real smart and I was doing the whole, it's hard nose football and like they're just built

different and the 49ers will smash you. So you're, it's your fault. Is that what you're saying? Yeah. No, I did help the chiefs big time. Every time the chiefs were down, I said, thanks for coming out chiefs. Yeah. I saw those, I saw those like you dirty dog.

Yeah. So I guess it was my fault. God damn it. Did you, have you watched the replay of the Super Bowl on TV? On TV? No. Yeah. I've not.

So you haven't seen like Shakira and JLo at halftime? Yeah. How was that? Michael Wilbaugh had a stroke cause he got so horny. Lordy. Lordy. That was Lordy gate. Yeah.

And then actually this is probably something that you don't see on the game film, but we notice as fans at the end of the second half, when the chiefs were about to punt, John Lynch was standing up in the booth trying to call a timeout from the booth. Did you ever see that clip? Yeah. I think I haven't seen that clip. Yeah. I saw that clip.

Yeah. We were all like screaming at the TV, like call a timeout. Yeah. Call a timeout. Yeah. Football guy right there. Were you wondering like, why don't we get an extra 40 seconds? Like let's call this timeout.

Let's go down the field. Uh, well, didn't we get a timeout after that? You might have gotten one. Yeah, but I think like 50 seconds ticked off, like I said, I flush everything, especially like that one. I don't really remember much of the details. It's pretty fun. But I do go back and watch it, but I will say, yeah, John Lynch calling a timeout from

the booth is pretty spectacular. How do you flush things? I want to learn how to do that. I don't know. Like I just really don't remember much of the details about it. And it's just like intentional though. It's just like, yeah, I don't really feel like remembering that anymore. All time you go.

Joker. Joker. Bill, I fucking love it. Yeah. Yeah. Where'd you find Billy? I don't know. He showed up.

He showed us his game film. He showed up in his interview. He showed up in the interview for intern. I actually looked up his resume the other day and he said he's very experienced with Photoshop. Oh my God. He had like five pages. George, he had five pages stapled and like, I'd say 80% of his resume was made up. And we were like, when we interviewed him, we're like, dude, this is made up.

And he's like, yeah. Yeah. Like, all right. Yeah. Well, okay, fine. Yeah. Like, all right. I like that.

Fake it till you make it. Yeah. I think he included a hyperlink to his high school highlight tape, but it was on printed out paper. So like, you can't, you can't click on a piece of paper and watch the link. Right. Right. So yeah.

He was, he was something else. I was to put my 40 time in my spark rating. What was your 40 time? I ran a 489. Oh, here's a good, good question. I had 489. Hand time. Hand time.

I mean, I asked big cat this the other day, do you think that players get faster after they run the combine when they're coming out of college? Like if you took a really speedy guy that ran like a 43 or 44 after two or three years in the NFL, do you think he'd run faster or slower? I know for a fact that I'd run a faster time right now, for sure, not even close. I think most, I mean, like, and that's like, you know, like John Ross ran what, like a 405 or something, 41 something. I don't know how much faster he did.

Yeah, 47. 47. I don't know how much faster he can get, but like, I think a lot of guys, you know, like I had puberty like at age 23, I swear. And so like, I could definitely run faster now. Yeah. Well, I said, I would, I said that guys in the NFL run faster a couple of years in because they know what to do with their body and they're, it's a job now.

So it's not like, you know, you can't go to the gym at certain times or, you know, you have classes. It's a full time job in the off season, you were paying someone to help train you and all that stuff. Yeah. No, it's definitely a lot. I like, I like the NFL a lot better. The freedom and being able to do whatever I want to do is much more fun.

And actually I'm a lot more responsible now. Like I don't just go get really drunk, you know, two to three dines a week. Yes. I wish I could, but we're working on that. Yeah. All right. I have one last question for you. It actually wasn't a question.

I just wanted to say thank you, um, cause you were one of the day one ride or die coach Doug's guys. Oh dude. I didn't, I tell you, I said, dude, you got to start streaming and stuff. I was, yeah. Yes. Yes. And I, you were, you would always text me and be like, when I was panicking because

I panic like a bitch all the time, you'd be like, dude, just stick to the plan. You got this. You got this. Like half the time you'd be wrong and I would just panic and shit down my pants. But I always appreciated that. I'd like, I'd like throw a crippling late interception and I'd look at my text messages after the game and be like, you got this man. You're going to win this game.

I'm like, nope, but I know George got my back always man, rider, die. You kidding me? Doug's love it. Love it. Yeah. Going back to Toledo was definitely one of my favorite moves that you pulled had to. We're going to get the key to the city. We're going to get the key to the city and PFT is going to try to walk on.

We've got eligibility left. I think I do. Yeah. I'm going to college, but you know, a big time program like Toledo, half dogs built from the ground up. I feel like they just let me. Yes. You should take a journalism class.

Oh, that's not bad. You had a bad idea. You get a big J. Yeah. Like you could show off a little bit and they're like, yeah, like I'm a big J, but like, oh, I'm, you know, hey, you're always trying to get better, right? Yeah. I'll be honest with you.

I think I'd fail out of journalism school pretty quickly. I mean, you've, you've seen my dogs Twitter account. Yeah. I'm, I don't exactly have high standards. I think journalism is evolving, especially into what you guys do every single day. Yeah. So maybe you could teach, you should teach a class. There you go.

Can I kick on the team if I'm a professor? That'd be cool. That sounds like a Disney script right there. Disney. Yeah. Wow. We got a Disney movie right in front of you guys. I like that.

I like, we're on it. Well, George, thank you so much for joining us, man. Best way to end grit week. Appreciate it. I hope we will see you soon. Good luck this year. And we love you. I love you guys too.

I'm just waiting for my recurring guest shirt. I'm going to play. It's in the mail. It's in the mail. It's in the mail. It's on its way. I promise you. You moved though.

You moved recently, right? I don't know. Maybe. Yeah. It's a pandemic. Hank's right. It's a pandemic, dude. The mail is very slow right now.

So I'm going to send me those coffee chews either, big cat. Just waiting on those. It's a pandemic. People can't get tests. It's they're not going to be able to get a t-shirt from a second rate podcast. It's a pandemic. Second rate podcast. I like that.

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Yeah, we've had we've had Kane, we had the undertaker undertaker we've had Dwight Howard but I think you might be the biggest it is the big show Paul White. He has a new show out called the big show show on Netflix. You got to watch it. Big show. What do you do? Do we go by Paul or do we go by big show? I did.

I answered all kinds of adjectives show, big show, whatever show show show show show works. Everybody calls me show. So that works. Yes. So it's great to have you on. I've been a big fan of yours for a very long time. Let's talk about the Netflix show first.

So it's it's obviously your family and raising three daughters and I love it because I would assume raising three daughters is more difficult than wrestling for like 20 plus years in the WWE. Is that correct? I think they both have their own unique challenges. This partnership that we did with Netflix has been an incredible journey. How to do family comedy in front of a live audience has been a goal of mine for a long time.

I believe me it was a heck of a learning curve at first understanding how to hit the timing on the jokes and understand the writing and I thought our writers did a great job of melding what it's like to be a WWE superstar and then try to also reintegrate yourself back into the family and when you're off the road. So it's been really good. Another episode drop in August 10th. So a cross promotion one with some other shows and it's called game on. So it's kind of a little bit of an Olympic take this year.

We think we're going to do pretty good because we've got Lola who is our ringer athlete. So hopefully things to turn out well for us. All right. So what did you take from the wrestling world from dealing with a guy like I don't know hypothetically the Miz and now you use that in how to raise small children. Well it's it's funny I'm going to have to hear something. That's my bird. You have a bird.

What kind of bird. He's an Amazon but I have another word for it starts with an A and ends with an E but anyway. Okay. Okay. Amazing. Amazing. Amazon.

Yeah. He's an Amazon but he's also he's got. Yeah. Exactly. I think what I take from is is you can't over parent that much as a WWE superstar because you're not around. I mean the family is going to have lives are going to have their own schedules are going to do their own things and then you reintegrate yourself and it's a it's a fine line to to

do that without being overbearing. But I've never been the rough angry dad has never been my thing. I'm always to sit down and talk to me kind of guy. Okay. What were you thinking? Okay. What made you think that was okay? Do you understand what you did was not okay?

Well we need to talk about this we're going to move forward. We're moving forward. Okay. So I don't have to worry about this again. Okay. You're not going to paint the cats you know with nail polish. Okay. Good.

Okay. Move on. Painting the cats or painting the cats nails. Oh the cat itself. It was it was a nightmare she was little when it happened so I was going to say painting cats toenails. You want to give the cat a leopard a leopard look and it was just you know pink nail polish all over the cat.

It looked like you know the cat was was mugged in a in a in a bad part of town. So I want to get into your wrestling career but before I do that how pumped are you with the way Wichita State basketball has played in the last like decade that you get a little residual bump from that because Wichita State is one of those little little little rub from the from the shoppers. Yeah. Yeah. It's funny because yeah.

Yeah. Go ahead. Here's the thing when I went to Wichita State yeah we didn't have that great season but you know coach Cohen got fired halfway through the season they let him stay on in coach which made it a really awkward environment for him and for us as talent. I remember that team that we had at Wichita State was probably one of the most athletic teams around. We had seven or eight guys with 40 plus vertical leaps Claude Johnson John Smith Robert George

Winston Peterson. I mean these guys could just incredible athletes but we're also young Wichita State was a dominant force back when they had Xavier McDaniel and Cliff Livingston and Antoine Carr you know but you know they had so many violations they couldn't go to tournament right you know what I mean. To now to see a town like Wichita that really supports Wichita State the community supports the team that Henry 11 arena even when we were terrible there wasn't an available seat you know I think it's seen almost 11,000 back then and it was full and it was exciting and

people are passionate about it. So to see the team finally start firing and on cylinders it's a really great boon for the town and yeah it's a nice little feather in my cap now when people say oh you went to Wichita State and they like get excited about it yeah it's a big deal I appreciate the rope. Wait so hold on I got to go back your coach was fired halfway through the season but allowed to stay on yeah that's awkward yeah it was really awkward it was so awkward I mean you know it's funny as coach Cohen's the one that recruited me at a high school

and he's the guy I wanted to play for and it was just a real weird dynamic where they let him go basically you're done and they started recruiting for other coaches halfway through the season but they let him finish out his term rather making that announcement at the end of the season they made it like halfway through I think we were like seven or eight games in and they made that decision. That's so sad. I feel so bad for him. For us as teammates because it's really hard it's not like you're you build a relationship

with a coach this guy recruited you you understand his program you believe what he's going to do with you as a talent and then he's replaced and it kind of breaks everything up I mean some of the guys went on to different things I don't think our team I don't think Wichita did much after that they brought in Scott Thompson from Rice which I understand he's supposed to be a really great guy but he wasn't somebody that I wanted to play for he wasn't the guy that recruited but you know things work out you know I got a second opportunity and got a chance to go into professional wrestling so I think it all worked out. I was a good free throw shooter though.

Yeah. I might have a two inch vertical leap but I was a good free throw shooter. Could you still dunk? Can I still dunk now? Yeah I can dunk now it's not the going up that worries me it's the coming down. Right that's the hard part. Yeah. That's like me drinking it's like I can drink but I don't want to get hungover.

Yeah yeah that's the whole thing it's like I mean I'll shoot around every now and then play a game of horse but I've got no desire to try to dunk you know to me it just seems like the the risk-reward factor is just not worth it I'm good. Right so before you got into wrestling I read that you were a bounty hunter and I have to imagine that you were the most intimidating bounty hunter of all time it's like we talk to dogs. I don't think it's that glorious like we've seen on TV with like Lorenzo Lamas or somebody like that I'm not that kind of a I was like I was at work for a Bales Bondsman in Wichita

for a couple of things and I was a nice guy so you can be cool and ride in the car you can be a dick and ride in the trunk it's your choice. Did you ever actually put somebody like in the trunk of a car? I have yeah. That's badass. That's awesome. It's not it's not that rewarding of a job believe me you understand like when I was doing it I was working with someone and you know I was doing that for like 50 bucks so

it wasn't like it was just incredible you know it was like 50 bucks you can do it once in a while pick somebody up wait for something and most people are cool when they have stuff like that like the whole running people down and I didn't experience any of that just sort of pay you got to come in fill out the paperwork this is what you got to do you know most people were most people really didn't realize that they had screwed up I mean you know they just had other things going on and they weren't trying to be bad it's just you know things happen. Yeah also if the show is knocking on your door I don't I don't think I would run from

you I think I would be like you know what you got me. Well you can understand back then I look like Lurch from you know from the Adams family I was like seven foot tall and like 315 pounds this real long narrow head these giant hands I probably looked like a I don't think I was that intimidating back then I look like some kind of alien probably a transplanted alien from outer space or something. So that's my big mullet I think my mullet was my most intimidating fact. I mean you keep saying that you weren't intimidating but you just keep on describing more and more intimidating things.

Right. Big hands. Seven one three 15 mullet. Not that intimidating. Mullet that dragged down to the ground. Sister Christian Blassen from my Iraq Camaro. I don't think of that because I grew up with it I mean I was six two at twelve so I've never been one to realize sometimes just how freakishly big I think I was you know I can remember

being on the playground as kids and like you know parents would come get their kids and make them leave the playground because who was this 20 year old weird looking adult like of Mice's men out there on the playground you know what I mean. Yeah. It's hard to tell them. Yeah I'm twelve I'm shaving but I'm really twelve. As a twelve year old that's got to be kind of awkward too like you have you have to deal with that you know you have to deal with other parents kind of like telling their kids it's

not okay to be around and you're like I'm just trying to be a kid here did that how did that affect you growing up. It was rough for a long time I think it made me a little bit introverted it made me more of a reader more of a person that appreciated friendships I mean when I got in high school and was a good athlete and stuff but I still hung around kids who played Dungeons and Dragons you know I had friends in all different classes I wasn't just a jock I did a little bit of everything so I think it prepared me to learn to appreciate friendships and how to make friendships and be open and I developed a sense of humor with it too because that's one thing that

I've always tried to do is have a sense of humor and make people comfortable in my presence and then you know usually after a while you've been around me the size and all that stuff goes away you just realize I'm a big goofball so it wears off. So in your wrestling career you turned heel and then turned back I think more than any I've never turned to NASCAR buddy. Yeah any wrestler ever was there ever a moment which is actually a testament that you can play both and you can go back and forth was there ever a moment though where you forgot whether you were supposed to be the bad guy or the good guy and like screwed up for a second.

There were multiple nights I had to look across before I went to gorilla I looked at Vince McMahon and my smiling or frown because I don't know it's like my character it's schizophrenic and I had these nervous breakdowns of multiple personalities and sometimes I would turn three times in a show you know I mean it was unreal but you know I'm proud of the fact that whatever we needed me to do for my character I was able to pull off if I needed him to hate me like in London to get him to chant you fat wanker and then come back a year later and have him chant you still got it so I think that's a pretty good testament. Which did you like more?

I like being a heel more I think it's easier for me I can tell that visual story of we've all understand that it's in our DNA and our genetics we understand overcoming larger predators and you know David versus Goliath all the stories that we've heard so when I have that much size it can influence that pressure and then turn on and make that David like some of the matches I had with Rey Mysterio where you would look at Rey and I and you think there was just no way but then to tell that story in the ring and then when Rey starts to make a comeback it's a 619 the West Coast pop and then the reaction from the crowd is just it's overwhelming when you do your job right as a bad guy in sports entertainment

as a heel when your shoulders are getting pinned 1 2 3 and it's so loud the crowd every person in the ring is counting with 1 2 3 that's just as incredible feeling as getting a couple. I like that about you it's never bothered me either way to put guys over that's never been an issue for me. I saw an interview with you where you were saying you know what I didn't have the best record in the history of WWE I don't have the most titles but you've made a lot of memories you've made like you you take pride in the art of losing sometimes because you recognize

that it's a part of the greater show going on around you and you're playing your role that's like the grittiest thing ever for a wrestler you know that's that's the only you can look at if you start trying to keep track of win-loss records and I think that's what ego comes into play and causes a lot of a lot of bad experiences for a lot of talent yeah you're going to do well in the beginning because they're trying to establish you they're trying to build you as a talent and then if you want to have a 20 year career 25 year career there are very few John Cena Stone Cold Steve Austin's The Rocks there's very few of those guys they're going to be put at that top position where talent is going

to be made basically to be fed to them because they're the ones that are carrying the wagon you have to know your role and where you come into play and to get enjoying any career you have to understand what role you play and you know rock each other from a time know your role well yeah it's it's a it's it can be taken as a dig but it's also a good lesson to learn as a talent because you never know an opportunity is going to be given to and you have to be ready for that opportunity and you have to know that whoever's in charge booking or creative writing they know that they can count on you to deliver you know I mean I I think for one time I think I had a 0 and 7 or 0 and 8 wrestle many a record

I want to do a reverse undertaker record and somebody found out about it and I want to match and screwed my record up so but I take a lot of pride in in working with talent that goes on to have long successful careers you know I'm very proud of working with John Cena I'm very proud of working with with Roman Reigns and and Braun Strowman there's a lot of guys that I've got to work with over the years and help them along their journey you know and I'm still here so I must be doing something right so we're gonna I love that answer we're gonna run this during on Friday during our grit week so we do this every year um what what guy that you've been around is the toughest guy in terms of you've seen

him injured and you could not believe that he went out there and performed and you're like this guy has supernatural grit and toughness what's the one guy that comes to mind when I ask that there's three guys that come to mind okay one is undertaker mm-hmm she was Kane and the other one is John Cena hmm I've seen John Cena wrestle with a torn cornea I've seen him he had neck surgery in Pittsburgh at 11 a.m. at 5 p.m. he came by the ring to say hi to everyone and wishes a good night on raw you know what I mean like I've seen I did a podcast on surgery just it's another level that guys like that set the bar to you know I've seen Kane you know have a completely blowed out SI joint in a match you know to

to you know numbness in his leg and extreme pain and I've seen Kane pull it together to finish the match you know undertaker we all know I've seen undertaker just do this ridiculous how that guy goes to pain I've seen him wrestle with 103 fever and get an IV bag as soon as he got back through the curtain you know where the guy had some kind of stomach flu and running the fever but he still went out and put the match on that kind of internal gut is it's inspiring believe me those of us that get it you don't talk about your pain you don't whine about it because it doesn't matter you go out there and you get the job done if you're on the card and the fans pay to see you then you show up if you're breathing you can get

it done you can find a way I had to wrestle Edge and take her in Washington for a pay review and I had a bone fragment locked in my knee so my knee either was bent or it was straight and I was going to get surgery the next day and I was talking to take her by I said I don't know do I wrestle he says are you going to see the doctor tomorrow I said yeah he says lock it up and go we'll work around it so I had to put a straight leg brace on where I couldn't bend my leg and this giant knee brace on that locked my knee in a position where I could move it and went out there and did the triple threat with Edge and take her and got through the match you know but I'm proud of myself that I got through it because

I didn't let Edge down I didn't let take her down I didn't let the fans down do you I mean it's not like you deserve a medal for it but that's kind of your job is to you know that's why we work so hard to always put on a show for our fans we know the responsibility that we carry and if we can we will do you remember I must have been WrestleMania 2014 because I found I searched my Twitter of mentions of the big show and I wrote seriously people who say wrestling is fake aren't watching a dead big show right now and then I said although jokes on me because I'm pretty sure I just watched the big show die what was that did you die on what I don't know January 26 2014 maybe WrestleMania 2014 did you die I don't

that I'm aware of I mean you know I'm still here I don't know I don't know if you're still here I don't there's all kinds of rumors there's rumors that I got the biggest one that I was shot and killed yes I think it was the onion I remember that I was shot and killed because I went a fan got inside of a cage match and I went crazy like a wild bear that kind of stuff makes me laugh yeah that's that's extremely funny and I appreciate the nod from the onion for bringing up my name and making it relevant yes no I haven't died I mean a lot of people think my career has died a lot over the years but I still keep coming around so no you're you're not dead have you thought about coming back is the

big nasty because that was the that was a great nickname your original one oh the big nasty bastard yeah that was that was a lot of fun I was actually a pretty cool shirt but our business model has shifted from those days so is mine I'm a TV dad now I could be the big the big big nice dad there you go the big nice dad you had one of the all time entrances when you came out I think it was your first time in WWE you were hiding underneath the ring in the steel cage right and Valentine's Day massacre yeah Vince had you cut through the bottom of the ring and you just emerged out of it and like every wrestling fan from that point on was always like is there somebody hiding under the ring this time it's like how

you read one story in the in the paper about like a snake found in a toilet and now you just check your toilet every single time spiders and grapes yeah everyone thought that there was always maybe a wrestler maybe you underneath the ring the whole time but I guess what I'm getting at is it had to be an easier entrance for you because you know your first time in WWE you don't have to take your time going down the ramp you don't have to get nervous looking at the crowd you just pop up and immediately you just throw a stone cold into a chain link fence right that must have been pretty easy to do no actually it was nerve-wracking his health because I'd never I had never when I think about WWE I think about the line in

G.I. Jane where they talk about you know you're gonna learn to operate at a tempo you know when he's given that speech about their operational tempo and how hard they're gonna work and how fast things are gonna come at you that line that movie always makes me think about our company and what we do because things change on a dime with us I've seen entire shows change at at you know at 745 and we go on the air back today we go live on the air at 9 I've seen the entire show change you know 45 minutes an hour before the show starts so the idea of coming through the ring and the creativity that WWE always puts out to try to find a different way to do things was unreal I remember it was loud under the ring because I was loaded one or two matches before so

when you're under the ring the rings moving so it's loud in your ear and you've got to pay attention for your cue and know what's going on in the adrenaline but it's not like you can be in the back and do jumping jacks or toe touches or something to stretch and warm up I'm huddled under there so your muscles are cramping your legs are cramping it's not comfortable it's not like there's a lounge chair and not like horn swoggles under the ring where he had like a nice little lounge setup now it wasn't like that so but it was a cool experience looking back now to to make that kind of dramatic entrance and that's one thing that I think our company's always done well on is when they want to feature something and make it special they find a way to do it yeah it's

pretty cool um all right I had one last question uh we are in dirt week so we're we're sponsored by body armor go to body armor drink body armor dot com strawberry banana is my favorite you can find them on amazon as well uh floyd mayweather punched you in the nose he doesn't punch that hard does he um well he didn't punch me that hard because he was being nice um you know we did that angle and I told floyd before we did it that he needed to break my nose to get this thing going I said don't put it through the back of my head but if you don't bust my nose we're not going to get anywhere over this angle right you got to get it going and I had spent a year boxing and stuff like that so you know I was kind of getting used believe it not sounds weird but getting punched

in the face every day so it wasn't to me at the time it didn't seem like that big a deal and when you look back at that video and see how mayweather did it he threw these very solid punches in I didn't want him to hit me hard and break his hand either you got to figure we had a half a billion fighter right that we have doing this angle so we have to take care of him you know like a like a fabric egg and the hardest part with floyd was just trying to talk him out of doing crazy stuff because he is such a big fan and his enthusiasm and you know he wanted me to chop him and wanted me to stand on him and uh but when he threw those punches they were so fast I only counted half of them you know I only hit me like three or four times I think he hit me like seven or eight and

then the last one was a little left hook it just went right across my nose and tipped the end of it and uh didn't even really mess up my nose but he made it bleed and did a great job he's such a pro I can't explain how much fun I had working with him and that angle was one of the biggest promotions I've ever done but he understands just like you know Muhammad Ali and all those great guys that understood that fight promotion and that trash talking and that gameplay he understands that was so much fun to work with another night he was a pretty chill dude he really was he's you get him away from the cameras and all that other stuff he's he's a he's a very very chill professional I enjoyed working with I love that I love that your idea of a great time was getting

punched in the face seven times and having your nose broken that's all right so I'm not I'm not gonna write an award-winning novel anytime soon I gotta work with what I got yes yes well this has been awesome man we really appreciate everyone check out uh the big shows show on Netflix also yes sir shout out to you because I think you know wrestling your entire career your family Netflix show everything you've done I think still the pinnacle is you had a cameo in Cisco's thong song which that that should be like that's first bow at Hall of Fame because that's the first bow at Hall of Fame song like that is a that's a cultural song that you see it and you're like I know exactly where I was when I first heard that song I can't believe all of

America loved this song yeah I know I can't believe what I got paid to do that it's ridiculous there you go that was work very cool experience and and thank you to uh to Cisco for putting me in the thong song I'm a part of uh of uh music culture now yes there you go that's awesome all right well thanks so much Paul we really appreciate it man be well appreciate you guys thank you for having me take care that interview with a big show is brought to you by 3chie I love 3chie big cat loves 3chie Hank loves 3chie Billy doesn't use 3chie because he's a soy boy but we love 3chie 3chie is amazing amazing stuff it's delta 8thch you might ask what is delta 8thch good question hypothetical listener it's a federally legal version of thc so it's got the effects that are

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right now they're gonna be like holy fuck they just time traveled yeah we did so it's 9 30 right now you can say that you saw this live tell your kids it's like seeing Jimmy Hendrix at Woodstock shout out everyone who watched the Gritch stream it was awesome got some acid in my headband we're so fucked uh mentally right now and we're gonna finish the show a great show a great week with the first ever SpongeBob table reading done by pardon my take with special guest Nick not KB Nick important distinction sometimes people like hey is that that KB guy it's like no it's Nick so uh the what is the name of this episode this is the pizzeria episode the the pizza delivery episode now just point of order here uh are we doing the voices of the actual characters are we just going

free form what is spongebob's voice what the fuck is that i gotta do the laughing ah shit that was funny Billy what's Squidward hurry up with those chairs SpongeBob okay Billy's actually really good at all these okay um and then what about uh okay i i'm gonna do mine straight i don't know if i can do a voice give me a voice i could do for SpongeBob uh Tony Montana oh yeah i could who's the bad guy uh all right let's do it what about mr crabs what's that voice i hear you okay all right i'll give it a shot all right uh so it's the pizzeria episode Squidward is played by me hey mr crabs is

played by pft i'm spongebob uh lile the fish played by nick my favorite SpongeBob character too yep and other oh wait pft you play mr you play Squidward i'm crabs there's only like two lines for crabs okay i'm Squidward all right so pft Squidward good good check there Hank uh and Hank will be mr crabs all right let's do it so pft Squidward and scene who's narrator do a narrative voice in this Squidward voice nick can you narrate sure all right nick will narrate the scene starts at the crusty crab with SpongeBob cleaning a table hurry up with those chairs SpongeBob it's after closing and i'd like to go home phone rings i got it i got it coming leaps for phone but Squidward answers first SpongeBob falls to the floor and exclaims

hello sorry sir we're close mr crab snatches phone oh hey there crusty crab bye bye how can i help you customer explains order over phone pizza eyes turn into dollar signs of course we have pizza uh mr crabs that was patrick my home's as as Squidward Hank Hank's taxi i see that i was texting something to pft i deliver squid will bring it right over hangs up mr crabs we don't serve pizza mr crabs gets a plate of crabby patties and turns it into a pizza then he puts it in a box we don't deliver we don't deliver give Squidward the pizza but you do

can't you just get SpongeBob to do it great idea take him with you SpongeBob sneaks over smiling big that's not what i had in mind front then check antenna touches the boat antenna making it vibrate check bumper check bumper sticker bumper sticker says i break for sea urchins check uncaps the tire pressure and puts his mouth on it causing him to inflate like a balloon and talk in a squeaky high-pitched voice while he is down the size of a giant parade balloon tire pressure blows out the rest of the pressure in Squidward's face returning him to his normal size and voice check vehicle inspection complete we're really making history here Squidward that lucky customer is gonna get the first crabby patty pizza ever good then you drive tosses his

hat away i can't i'm still in boating school come on SpongeBob it's just around the corner well yeah but just do what you're doing school well okay wait wait don't tell me back it up huh back it up right back it up turns to move the shifts back it up okay okay shift it into reverse SpongeBob reverse oh yeah reverse SpongeBob imagines the words forward and backward turning into korean characters back it up shift gears backing up backing up back really fast what is going on give me the wheel SpongeBob give me the wheel oh this is so bad backing up backing up backing up they go over a bumpy area with rocks and then they spin around and around and around screaming the next morning the boat goes over five hills uh backing up backing up backing up boat

stops with no fuel left backing up well you're backed up and you know what i think we're out of gas and you know what else we're in the middle of nowhere and you know what else i think the pizza's getting cold and the pizza's cold oh the pizza's cold not the pizza oh how could it get any worse time out i think it might get worse kicks boat and the boat's gasoline becomes full again and it drives away in the distance without them well we can still deliver that but Squidward narrows his eyes later both walk on the sand oh oh singing the crusty crab pizza is the pizza for you and me the crusty crab pizza is the pizza by the way people are saying i have a terrible SpongeBob uh impression i don't even know what he fucking sounds like i've never seen an episode of my life

give me another Squidward line real quick hey my feet are killing me you guys have to switch you have to like go towards a big cat so i'm going high yeah you need that you need it measly got you okay all right all right i'm resetting my squidward i was a drift for a while there hey how'd you do that again do that again billy billy SpongeBob okay and my feet are killing me whoa i tripped over SpongeBob who is lying on the ground it's an old pioneer trick SpongeBob what are you doing i saw in a movie once it's working SpongeBob this is no time for it's working what is it track 60 wheels now i can show you how the pioneers hitchhiked starts dancing in the road while wearing a hat squidward sits on a rock while playing with a wooden spoon

crashing crashing break dancers honks his truck he's stopping he's stopping Squidward realizes he's not stopping and grabs SpongeBob out of the way where they are covered in sand thanks to the truck Squidward narrows his eyes at the smiling SpongeBob wait time out is there is there an actual song the song the Krusty Krab pizza is the pizza for you and me he's so fucking pissed at me that i messed it up i don't know what it is is the pizza i like your version better actually yeah yeah just freestyle big cat yeah all right uh what am i doing where are we he's he's not no he's oh the Krusty Krab pizza is the pizza for you and me the Krusty Krab pizza the wind blows on Squidward's nose making it touch his face so he puts it down only for it to touch

his face again so he puts it in his mouth is the pizza for you delivery the Krusty Krab pizza is the pizza very tasty SpongeBob gets carried around in the air by the huge winds were you let go of that stupid piece all right still being carried around in the air i can't it's with a customer who cares about the customer i do well i don't wind stops and SpongeBob gasps Squidward starts flying again let go of that pizza now runs over Squidward oh holding SpongeBob's legs SpongeBob let go of that pizza now it's for the customer SpongeBob let go of the pizza now dude i don't know what we're doing i did say that i think you i thought it was gonna get worse and it has gotten worse from that moment hang on to the pizza tornadoes spits them both out

SpongeBob uses the pizza as a parachute but Squidward falls hard onto the ground hey hey crawls up to the screen where's the road where's the road a tumbleweed rolls by we're doomed how are we gonna get home which way do we go SpongeBob lands what are we gonna do now there's no road here i think the town's this way oh don't tell me just throw the pioneers that's right points to a mossy rock moss always points to civilization that way that way there's SpongeBob nods so let me get this straight you think we should go that way yep well then i'm going this way huh squid wait i don't i don't think trust me i know where i'm going pans out to show another city in the other direction the crusty crab pizza is the pizza absolutely pizza

later SpongeBob is walking backwards SpongeBob the script said starts beat boxing so that's what Big Cat was doing right there pizza there it is later SpongeBob is walking backwards SpongeBob pants i'm gonna split in two and move up and down simultaneously as he continues to beat box still later crusty crab pizza is the pizza yeah for you and me crab pizza for you crust the crusty and the crab and the pizza inside later they're both lying face down in the sand sponge we gotta eat something i heard in times of hardship the pioneers would eat coral Squidward eats some coral no maybe it wasn't coral Squidward spits out the coral maybe it was sand no no no mud give me the pizza wait i remember now it was coral give it to me

no we promise it's for the customer fancy music plays you're right it's for the customer yeah well maybe we better check on it make sure it's okay well just a peek opens box he shuts it quickly okay it's fine no no i think i saw something opens box oh no i was wrong it looks okay sure is a fine-looking pizza yeah what's that is that the cheese yeah and the pepperoni yeah SpongeBob slurps looks good huh snaps out of it wait a second i know what you're trying to do Squidward closes box i'm not letting you eat the pizza give me the pizza now don't maybe take it away from me SpongeBob get away chase is SpongeBob get back here SpongeBob give me the pizza no SpongeBob no SpongeBob no wait no no runs into Squidward i want that pizza and you're gonna

hand it over one way or another look we're saved sir we're saved now give me some pizza no really we're saved we're saved we're saved he jumps in and out of his pants will you cook out to a conga beat save save save save save save save save save save save save save save save save save save rips himself apart then two parts go in circles and then they connect again SpongeBob starts doing a conga dance save save save save save save save save save save save save save save save save save we are saved hey that's just a stupid boulder it's not just a boulder it's a rock a rock a rock it's a big beautiful rock climbs up it and rubs it all the pioneers used to ride these babies for miles and it's in great shape SpongeBob will you forget the stupid pioneers have you ever noticed that

there none of them left that's because they were lousy hitchhikers equal and took their actions from algae and now you're telling the man that they thought they could drive SpongeBob runs over Squidward with the boulder rocks hold on there just throw they stop outside the customer's house i can't wait to see the look on our customer's face Tring Lyle is from uh Liverpool England okay perfect yeah i can't do that congratulations sir your krabby pizza is here i can't do a liver poor you got it well thanks bro wow wow thanks i've been dying for one of the i can't do accents oh my god i well thanks bro it's been dying for one of these i can't wait to see the look on our customer's face ding dong congratulations sir your krabby patty pizza's

here wow thanks i've been dying for one of these where's my drink what drink my drink my diet dr kelp don't tell me you forgot my drink but you didn't order any how am i supposed to eat this pizza without my drink but but but tears start rolling down his face didn't you ever think of the customer throws the pizza at SpongeBob's face you call yourself a delivery boy well i ain't buying slams the door SpongeBob goes over to Squidward smiling and trying not to cry sponge sponge it's okay sponge SpongeBob drops the pizza falls over starts sobbing and absorbs his tears over and over Sponge Squidward gets angry grabs the pizza stomps towards the customer's house and pounds on the door another one look i told your little friend

i ain't paying for that you got us now yes which is okay cool well this one's on the house slams the pizza box in the orange fish's face did he change his mind he sergeant ate the whole thing in one bite no no drink not now take me home jumps on the rock are you kidding we have just enough time to make it back to work backs up the rock where they are instantly at the crusty crab work screen cuts to black oh my egg and tenacles you guys wow let's run it back let's do it but let's do it backwards oh fuck what a uh experience that was i gotta watch some SpongeBob to try to figure out his uh voice you know what after reading through that i can see what jim harbaugh loves about him yes simple he's a hard worker he's enthusiastic yes um all right that is our show

we will see everyone on monday we have a great great interview with a uh long time awl fan favorite recurring guest cj mccollum from the bubble so we'll see you that love you guys billy billy to your monologue well i've been up for about 28 hours now um i got up at 6 30 on wednesday noring it is now thursday in 948 through this time i pushed myself to my physical and mental impatient i ran 26.2 miles in under eight hours with flakes um my gooch is extremely ticked uh my eyes keep twitching i don't know what is happening and i think i can start to see sounds love you guys