Pardon My Take - Heavyweight MMA Champ Stipe Miocic + Arian Foster

Episode Date: April 30, 2018

Lebron survived and had the most Lebron game of all time (2:20 - 5:10). What the hell do the Thunder do now? We're going to miss Joe Prunty and his horrible fashion and the Wizards need to blow the whole thing up (5:10 - 18:17). The Caps have even the series and we're here to stave off the haters (18:17 - 22:14) . Who's Back of the Week including Draft Grades and Nerds. We discuss Avengers even though none of us saw it so don't worry about Spoilers (22:14 - 33:28). Heavyweight MMA Champion of the world Stipe Miocic joins the show to talk about his title, being doubted by Dana White, and what it's like being a Cleveland sports fan (33:28 - 56:01). We went on Arian Foster's podcast and included 10-15 minutes of our talk with him and a bonus first time we've talked BVT/ESPN since October (56:01 - 70:10). Segments include the debut of "Can I ask a question", Stay Classy for Sal Perez, and Embrace Debate Shaq thinks half of 80 is 20 and filling up your gas tank more means you spend less money.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

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It's Pardon My Take. We're taking higher. Welcome to Pardon My Take, presented by SeatGeek. Today is Monday, April 30th, and I have something I want to tell you boys. I've updated my rankings based on Game 7 in Cleveland on Sunday. I am now moving LeBron to 4th best all-time, right ahead of Kobe. So that's big of me. I've seen enough.

I've seen enough. I've seen enough. You've got MJ, Magic, Bill Russell, MJ, MJ, Deli, LeBron, that's fun. Yeah, MJ 1st iteration, MJ 2nd iteration, MJ Wizards. Okay, yeah. That makes sense. That makes sense. LeBron had a crazy game today, but it was the most quintessential LeBron game of all

time. Through and through. Because he dominated. On the court, he put up about 47, 98, something stupid like that. 45, 9, and 7. I feel like he does that every game. That's not impressive. When you say LeBron, James had 47 points to me, I'm like, so what?

That's like normal. Yeah. But it was the most quintessential LeBron game because he also flopped like a fish five or six times. He cried. He made sure people knew that he was gonna play the whole game. Whoa. You don't sound like a LeBron stand.

No, I am. I'm saying it was. And on top of all that, he had to go to the locker room for cramps for a little bit. So it was everything. It was the LeBron career in one game, a total domination, the best player in the world as of right now. But like you said, he gets hit a little. He gets pushed around.

He gets knocked on the head. He has cramps. The team actually did better like they went on a run when he was out. I actually have a theory that that was just an escape plan. Oh. And when he went to the locker room, it was tied. So he was like, if I go to the locker room with cramps, you know, it's an excuse in case we lose this game.

If they lose, then it shows just how great I am because I wasn't there for it. Kevin Love was great. And Tristan Kardashian was basically the, I mean, he didn't play the entire series then Tai Lu. He was just saving him. He was saving all his energy. He's probably like Tristan Thompson is out there fucking the thought to Raj every single night.

So we got to save him and he comes out and he, I mean, he looked exactly like a guy where the entire both teams had played seven games or six games up to that point. And Tristan Thompson hadn't played any because he was running around hustling on rebounds and everything like that. It's actually a genius plan by Tai Lu. Yeah. So it's either a genius move or it's the dumbest move of all time to not have him play like the previous six games.

Fresh legs. What's going on with that? Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, do we give LeBron credit for being this dominant against the Pacers in the first round? Okay. No.

Oh, no. All right. I need to speak back more. Yeah. Yeah. I need more out of LeBron. Yeah. First, first round series.

Um, he's used to sweeping those. Yeah. What he hadn't lost to game in the first round in five years. Some stupid like that. Yeah. Yeah. So this was actually, this series was a negative mark on LeBron's legacy. Did you see even though he averaged like 42 points and basically a triple double.

Did you see what Skip Bailas did? I love, I love Skip Bailas so much. He said, who needs LeBron? No, he said, uh, the calves will sweep the Raptors. Okay. So just set it up so that way when LeBron struggles with the Raptors, like everyone expects, because the calves as a team are not as good as the Raptors, he'll be like, wow, LeBron really not living up to expectations that I put out there that were completely

ridiculous. It's like how we lose this game one to Toronto. Is that kind of as a game seven loss? Yes. Yes. He has the opportunity to set the record for the most game seven losses in a single playoff series. Yeah.

Yeah. A single playoff season this year. Um, so we'll use that to go to the other, we have to basically clean up all the other series that ended this weekend. The Raptors finished off the Wizards. The Wizards need to be blown up. We said this on the show, that, that core does not work. We even had a bonus Marquise Morris quote after saying sometimes the best team doesn't

always win. It's true. I'm pretty sure the Raptors were the better team, but he's right. Sometimes, sometimes it doesn't happen, speaking in generalities, it is true. Sometimes the best team doesn't win. Giannis said the same thing. Did he? Yeah.

Oh wow. So we got some salty, salty racquet. Yeah. The Raptors also had the worst uniforms I've ever seen on Friday night. And I guess it was Drake, like Drake owns the team. I've never seen a person take over a team like Drake has. He's making the Raptors uniforms now. Is that right?

Well, so he's kind of taking the place of Spike Lee back in the day for the Knicks. Yeah. The most famous fan that just stands out on the sidelines and people just, at some point, people stop associating the Knicks with being owned by some other guy and they're just like this is Spike Lee's team. That's kind of where Drake's at with Raptors. See, I would prefer the Jack Nicholson side though, where you do so much cocaine, your brain actually stops.

You know, like cocaine's an upper, but Jack Nicholson do so much cocaine, he just sits there like a dead body on the sideline. That's what you need. Jack Nicholson's been dead for years. Yeah. He wears a sunglasses. There's no other reason to wear sunglasses. He's just hanging there.

Inside all the time. Yeah. So the Wizards get out of our face trash. Although they're great. So trade both of them. John Wall is going to get the Super Max. Yeah, and trade both of them. Every time I say Super Max, I just think of prison though, which is kind of like what

the Wizards are turning into. They just basically have their own players as inmates. Yeah. And they just all hate each other. They scuffle every now and then they'll fight the prison guard, the coach. They're wearing phone books and tucked into their waistband so they can't get stabbed. So then we have the other team that's trash when you get out of our face, the Thunder. So the Thunder, we want to talk about LeBron having a perfect game for the LeBron career.

Russ Westbrook on Friday night, 43 shots. It was incredible. And I actually, so I canceled Russ. He makes me so mad because he's so, so talented, but he does this thing where he just doesn't even look at his teammates. But in this case, I actually kind of have his back because Playoff P was such a Playoff P that, I mean, I've never seen anyone be more, it's actually Playoff Passive is what it stands for because he turtles in big moments.

And the fact that he gave his nickname, himself the nickname Playoff P after game one is one of the most embarrassing things you could ever do. Yeah. But that team is trash. I actually bet on them. I was in Vegas on Friday night and I bet on them in a parlay with the Tampa Bay lighting just so I could say lightning in the thunder. Ooh, nice.

Lightning. And they both lost. Imagine Dragons repeatedly. I just, that's the only reason why I did it. And so the Imagine Dragons, so the Imagine Dragons parlay is over one. Over one. Yeah. But it means it's due.

Yes, it is. We'll have to wait till next year. Yeah. Patrick Reed got it off to a nice, you triple down with Patrick Reed to Lightning Thunder. True. So I feel vindicated because I got some heat for saying they're trash. But that, I mean, how could anyone watch that game and be like, yeah, you could win with Russ playing like this?

Yeah, they're a team that... I mean, Playoff P got fouled at the end of the game. They could have won that game. Yeah. But Playoff P, like, fuck, Playoff P's, he's such a joke. And the only bigger joke, the nice thing for Playoff P is he should actually stay with the Thunder because Mello's going to stay. And Mello is the perfect person for people to not talk about Playoff P because Mello's

going to get $28 million opting in and they said, would you be open to a role on the bench? He said, absolutely not. So that's going to go well. Well, do you really think that Carmelo wants to live in Oklahoma City for another year? For $28 million, yes. You think so? Yes. The fun game of Brewster's Millions would be how fast can you spend $30 million in Oklahoma

City? 45 years. Yeah, I think, yeah, you're basically set for life no matter what you do. Yeah, but isn't that perfect for Playoff P to stay there because Mello's going to get all the shit? It's like being on a team with a bad kicker. You just know that at the end of the day, everyone's going to be like, yeah, but Mello, he stinks.

Also, you have to deal with Westbrook because he's probably the most likely to kill somebody in the NBA. Like, I could see him murdering a teammate. Oh, absolutely. He almost, I mean, he somehow has like a beef with Utah fans. He almost fought two fans on Friday night and was like, the Utah fans are so disrespectful and they yell vulgarities at me. I don't think Russ Westbrook knows what Utah is.

No, they were chanting, dang it, at me. I was upset. They threw, they threw 2% milk on me instead of 1%. Maybe that's what it was. He got, he was mad at the sarcasm. Yeah. Like, good game, Russ. Yeah.

Good job, good effort. Yeah. Motherfucker. Russ doesn't strike me as a guy that would like the good job, good effort kid. No. If that were, if it were in his own tunnel, he'd probably slap that kid. Definitely, definitely not. So Russ, I don't, I mean that team, and I actually do think Playoff P's going to stay.

What do you think they're going to do about their coach? I don't know. They have to blow everything up. Yeah. I mean, it's a joke. We're not at who's back yet. We don't say that about Oklahoma City. But do you know, oh yeah, that's a good point.

You know who's back? It's Mellow Hoodie season. Yes. And he goes on Instagram and wears a hoodie and runs wind sprints in the middle of the night and says he's going to be in the best shape of his life when he hasn't been in shape in like 15 years. Hoodie Mellow coming for some more, some more rings. Still, my favorite clip ever was the USA team.

I think it was, I can't remember what year, what year the Olympics are, but everyone was doing crunches and Mellow couldn't like do leg lifts because his core was so weak and everyone was like here, like Mellow, this is how we work out in the NBA. He's like, what? That was hilarious couple years. I just get my shots up. Yeah. Because you had Mellow not being able to do a sit up and then you had Kevin Durant not

being able to bench press 145 pounds. Yes. Yes. But both like two of the best basketball players. And Whitney would say, what the fuck is this league's all about? You don't have to be a good athlete to be an NBA player. Embrace the bait. Who has a better slogan?

Jeter or Mellow with the R2 Pector stay and ME 7-0. Oh, Stain Mellow. Stain Mellow is pretty fucking dope. I don't know. R2 Pect is, that's an all-timer. I like Stain Mellow. That's a point of genre. I like Stain Mellow because he's almost-

Stay, me 7-0. Yeah, me 7-0 because he's almost admitting that he's going to be lazy. It's like, just chill out, man. We're not going to do crunches. We're going to throw a hoodie on and put up an Instagram video in the middle of July. Right. Stain Mellow. Really, why do you need to be able to do a sit up in life in general?

You just don't. I've never had to, there's no practical application. People say in high school, like you're never going to use algebra for the rest of your life. You're never going to do a sit up as soon as you get out of PE class. That's absolutely true. I said, one of my New Year's resolutions was to do five sit ups a day. I think I didn't even do one day. Good.

Yeah. Fuck sit ups. They should actually, the Thunder should just tell Mellow that it's an Olympic year and just see if he'll stay in shape for that. That's what they should do. They should change their jerseys to red, white, and blue. They can use the USA basketball font, but have it say Thunder. I mean, there is a take to be had out there.

LeBron has three rings. Mellow has five gold medals. Do you have four or five? I think four. Okay. Five would mean he played for 20 years. Okay. So four and so he won four gold medals against the best competition in the world.

LeBron's limiting. Yeah. LeBron shines big on the small stage. Just asking that question. And then last, but not least, we had the Celtics and the Bucks. I'm going to miss Joe Prunty so much. So you were in Vegas. I don't know if you saw this game.

Joe Prunty went purple tie on purple shirt. He looked like he was a freshman going to the first fraternity formal of the year. The formal smoker? Yeah. And he went to Target or Kohl's and picked out the pre-made pack. Yeah. So you don't even have to pick a tie and a shirt. They're all together.

You're giving them a lot of credit here. I think it was definitely Marshall's that he went to and it was the Van Hussing selection. He looked like the guy who's everyone, anyone who's ever been to any wedding. There's always one guy who shows up with the colored shirt and you're like, that guy is an asshole. You're like, dude, that's not how. Yeah. Like, that's what are you doing?

And he's like, no, I thought this would play this mustard yellow shirt at a fucking black tie wedding. Right. No, Prunty looked like Michael Scott going to a Bar Mitzvah. Yeah. You know, he looked worse. He looked like Dwight Schrute going with Michael Scott to a Bar Mitzvah. Way worse.

Like, that's it. He couldn't have been worse. So, and then the Celtics. I'm going to miss Joe Prunty though, aren't you? Yeah. The NBA is a better league with Joe Prunty's roaming around a sideline, which we're really confused and not knowing how to coach. It's really just a selfish, like we're going to miss making fun of Joe Prunty.

Yes. I'm always going to miss if there's a person that I can pretend I'm better than. I like watching those types of people on television. Bucks, if you're, if anyone in the Bucks front office is listening to this, what they need to do to get some buzz because they're moving into a new facility, so it's probably a lot of money, whatever, you need to do the thing they do with an interim head coach where it's like, we'll still let you apply for the head coach job and then live stream it. Let us watch Joe Prunty apply for the job that he just had, then he has no chance of

getting. I want to see the binders that he brings in. You know, Coach O had that binder that he brought with him. I want to see what's in Prunty's, Prunty's binder is probably just coupons, he's clipped out of newspapers, like save money on a tire change. Oh my God, Joe Prunty, what a legend. And then the, the Celtics are, I mean, this is, we've said this before, but Brad Steve is the best coach in the league and it's going to be interesting to see what happens when

he goes up against a team that's far more talented in the Sixers. He's going to have to pull a rabbit out of his hat and it's going to have to stop their transition offense and just make Ben Simmons, just make Ben Simmons shoot a million shots. Oh, they should try to, they should try to smack Ben Simmons around. That will work. No, just make him shoot. Yeah, I guess. He's got to stop them.

I guess. What are they going to do about Joel Embiid? Like, to be honest, he didn't have any transition points today. Are they going to have Al Horford's old ass trying to de-upload Embiid? If they stop their transition offense and Ben Simmons has to shoot like. Al Horford was actually unbelievable in game seven. He was playing like really good defense. Did he touch the rim?

I love these old guys who every now and then they can just, they can reach back and be like, I'm going to have the game. I'm going to, I'm going to throw, have a little throwback game. And that was what Al Horford did. Not that he's bad regularly. That was the Manu Ginobli special. Yeah. But he was one of those.

He was looking spry and good and jumping and all that stuff that, you know, these young guys out there do jump. Well, good news for Embiid. I don't think that there are any cool pop stars that live in Boston, so nobody's going to be hitting on them. He's not going to be distracted by it. Well, he could think that, uh, what's his name? Steven Tyler's a chick.

Yeah. He could think Steven Tyler's a chick. I can see that. Very well happened. Uh, all right. And then so, oh, and the Warriors are the best team in the league, which everyone kind of forgot about. The Rockets are really good too though.

Yeah. But the Jazz, so I'll give the Jazz a pass because they went, the NBA scheduling makes no sense. The Jazz went from their biggest win since basically stocked into Malone to 48 hours later, less than 48 hours later, having to go to Houston and play the Rockets after they had been sitting for like five days. So that was good. That was Gary Betman's type schedule.

Yeah. And putting game seven of the Cavs Pacers at one o'clock. So what, the other thing is what's going to happen when Curry comes back though? Yeah. Because this Warriors team is playing with some chemistry. Only one ball. Are they better without Steph Curry? Well, you know what it was.

I'm actually halfway serious about that. They're really good right now. Do you know what it was? And this is basically the key to unlock the Warriors to that next level is Draymond looked like locked in Draymond again. And when he does that, then they become that unstoppable force. But it's a very fine line between locked in Draymond and Draymond Green being so locked in that he's insane.

Yes. When he starts kicking, when he kicks balls, when he kicks other people's testicles, that's when he's gone too far. Yeah. But you don't know that he's gone too far until it goes too far. Yeah. And he actually doesn't know. Because all the warning signs that should exist for, hey, this guy's going a little bit

too crazy. Yeah. That's just him at his best. That's resting heart rate for Draymond. Yes. Just going insane. That's kind of like Russ. It's kind of like us, too.

Yeah. A little bit. We're halfway crazy. That's just people in general, I think. Yeah. If you're towing that line. You never know. That's what makes her exciting.

Right. And then we have some PR we have to do here at PFT. As Caps fans, Hank, Bubba and I, Bubba's back, thankfully got hit by a car and he took fucking two weeks off. Wow. Who does that? Yeah. So Bubba, Hank and I have a futures on the Caps.

So do I? We are a Caps fan. We need to do some PR 101 because unfortunately on our team, we have the biggest scumbag in the entire NHL and we also had a goal that was disallowed that was totally a goal and we probably should explain it somehow. Okay. Well, I'm going to explain the goal first off. Okay.

You guys take your notebooks out. Hank, you're going to want to listen up to this one. Oh, no. He's a Caps fan, too. Yeah. There's a little something called the parallax effect. Are you familiar with that? Of course.

So the parallax effect. It's very similar to Schrodinger's cat and the Aero one that we do. Yep. Pavlov zero. So with a hockey rink, the lines are painted about two inches underneath the ice. Yeah. Okay. So there's a layer of clear water, ice, above where they're painted.

It's soupy. It's soupy. Yeah, where they're painted. It's frozen water? Yes. So it's the same element, but in a different state because it's cold. But if you're standing... How far up?

Beneath 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Yeah. I like where you're going. So if you're standing away from it and you look at the goal line, it's very possible for you to see white underneath the puck from a distance. But then when you go and look directly down from above it, that same puck can be on the line. Yep.

So there's actually never been a goal. Yes. And depending on where you're standing in the arena, the puck can never be in the net. So we're good. Honestly, on that one, science will back me up. That was not a goal. That was a great call by the official, the presence of mind to use the parallax effect in the middle of a game.

Yeah. You can't teach that. That's amazing. Great stuff. And then, so as a Caps fan, I know a lot of people out there saying Tom Wilson is maybe the biggest scumbag in the world, taking headshots, dirty play. He deserves to be suspended. He's an asshole.

But I, as a Caps fan, am not saying that. I'm saying clean hit. I think it was a pretty clean hit, too. So he was skating behind the guy, right? It was Dumos. So Dumos was a friend of the show. Yeah. So if you're listening to this...

He's probably in a cellar somewhere. I was going to say, go lock yourself in Mike Leach's equipment shed. But so Dumos was skating, and then Wilson was behind him, and then Dumos just hit the brakes and almost threw his head into Wilson's shoulder. Oh, yep. So actually, Dumos should be. Dumos should be. Yeah.

If I'm the... You can't throw your head around like that. Right. If I'm the player safety representative, I'm looking at maybe suspending Dumos for a game. I'd agree. All right. So we cleared that up. It feels good.

It was a great win. Good win. Home. Four to one. I didn't also realize... Ouch. We out-skated the boys. We out-shot them.

We out-hit them. I didn't realize till today, too, that we have home ice, so that makes Thursday even more painful. It sucks. Well, because we, you know, we lost home ice. Yeah. Yeah. Now the...

The series has shifted. Fuck. I didn't realize it. But as a huge cast fan, I was paying that much detail, that much attention to detail that I didn't realize that we were home on Thursday. Well, what we did today was we changed the narrative. So we had the two goals to nothing, most dangerous, lead and hockey. That...

You know, we had lost, I think, three games. Four games this postseason. Yeah. We choked away those leads. We rebranded it today as Dossasero. Uh-huh. So instead of two-nothing lead, whenever we get that, now it's Dossasero. Well, and we were up three-nothing.

Yeah. That's how you turned the tide. That's how you turned the tide. It ruined it, because if the Penguins had come back, I would have led the show with, hey, PFT, what's the most dangerous lead and hockey, any lead that the Capitals have. It should have been good. That would have been really funny. I'll save that for later, yeah.

Well, you don't have to. That would have hurt me, right, Hank? Mm-hmm. Would have hurt us. Where are you guys at mentally with the Caps? I feel pretty good. I think this is our year. Yeah.

I feel pretty good. Yeah. I feel like this is all going nicely for us. Yeah. Yeah. Anything can happen. Yeah. Right.

This is our year. If you actually look at it, we kind of dominated both games. We did. Yeah. So... No, we did. We outshot them in both games. Out hit them in the head?

Yeah. And what's so funny is, like, with the Capitals, this is what we say every single fucking play. We do say it. We say, oh, we outshot them three to one. Yeah. Like, 40-foot shots. Just like slappers. Hey, shots a shot.

Yeah. Shows same in a box where it's like hitting a little, you know, bunt. Shows like it's like a screaming line drive in the box. Yeah. That's the most capital stat of all time. They'll just be like, oh, we outshot them. Yeah, no shit. Yeah, no shit.

And we set the tone. They know not to fuck with us. Crosby's got to be thinking. He might get a concussion if he comes down Tumble. It's Crosby. I don't think Crosby will get a concussion. Yeah. Yeah.

Caps are... Man. They're fucking wagon. Just got to steal one. That's right. We got to just take the series back on the road. Yeah. All right.

Let's get to our who's back. Hank, why don't you start? My who's back this week is Buffalo, speaking of hockey. Yes. Not only did they draft the Prodigal Zun, Josh Allen, but they won the NHL Draft Lottery on Saturday. Oh, okay. So they got the rights to Ross Miss Dahlin.

Where is he? Like a 17-year-old from Norway? Somewhere over there. Okay. Yeah. So, and Buffalo, the bills purchased We Drafted Josh Allen.com, which was a great move by them. Mission accomplished by us, and a little cherry, or actually I should say a little pumpkin

pie on top, Mel Kuiper, A, for the bills. Mel Kuiper. I love Josh Allen so much. Loves him. Mel Kuiper's grades are so fucking funny. He won't give anyone an F, which is bullshit. Like if you do grades, you should have to give at least one F. You should have to. If you give somebody an F, that's the equivalent of saying this person should be fired.

Right. And Mel Kuiper's too class to do that. You don't talk... Mel Kuiper does not talk about a man's job. But this should be graded on a curve. If the lowest grade is a C plus, that's an F. Oh, I agree. Like that's bullshit.

You should give F pluses. Yeah. So, just a quick... The bills got an A. The Panthers got an A minus. And the Packers got an A minus, which I strongly disagree with. And so did the Eagles. So, Mel Kuiper. I mean...

Just handing out gold stars. Yeah. Yeah. Everyone... It's a fucking participation trophy. These millennials. Everyone gets an A minus. I'm concerned about Mel Kuiper.

Why? Because he said that he would retire if Jimmy Klosson wasn't an unbelievable quarterback. So he technically didn't work this draft because he's already retired. So people who don't know, eight years ago, in the Jimmy Klosson draft, Mel Kuiper and Todd McShay had a fight and Mel Kuiper said that if Jimmy Klosson doesn't become a like surefire starter in the NFL quarterback, he will retire from his job as draft guru. And they agreed that he got eight years. And this is the year eight.

And Jimmy Klosson hasn't been in the league in for like two years. Yeah. It was a bad call by Mel Kuiper. He's like one in 13 all time. This is starting quarter. But I'm really concerned about him. The hair started to go about a year ago. And when I say go, I don't mean he was going bald, but the puff, the poof that he had,

the volume, it just started to like... It's like killer whales and captivity. Their fin starts to fold over because they're depressed. He's getting sad. He doesn't have that pop. I think he realized like he saw just a bunch of other people coming up and doing his exact same job and realized maybe just memorizing a bunch of names like a computer isn't really the most like you don't have the most job security in the world if that's all that you

did. And letting the Browns dupe you every year by telling you who they're going to take and they take someone else. Yeah. But little spin zone for you. I don't know if you watch Saturday's draft round three through seven or four through seven. Mel did the entire thing in sunglasses, fucking Joe Cool.

That's lame. You know, he looked cool. That is so lame. They were outside just so we know. Just so I make that clear. They were outside under a set, so not in the sun, but he looked cool. All right. That was good.

Who's back Hank? Do you have any more? No. Just the one. Okay. I actually only have one too. Okay. But it's a good one.

Yeah. My who's back of the week is eating poop. Oh, yeah. Eating poop is back, especially in Cleveland. We have a sports radio host, Aaron Goldhammer. That's a hell of a name for it. That is a hell of a name. Goldhammer in the morning.

Ooh. So he said that if they drafted Baker Mayfield, he would eat horse shit. And so they followed up with him on Friday like, hey, Aaron, are you going to eat this poop or what? He's like, yeah, we'll do it. I'm going to do it on the air. So wait, this is a radio show? Yeah.

But he's got to do it on, he's got to do it like live stream in front of everyone. Yeah. He has to do it. I want to see him do it at the 50 yard line during a game. Like that should be, you know, they have the big drum in the panthers for the panthers. Yeah. They should have a ceremonial first bite of poop before every Brown's home game. Yeah.

Everyone has to eat shit. Yeah. I like that. Yeah. Like local celebrities. Right. Who else will it be? Lebron.

Lebron. Stepe. Stepe would do it. Stepe would definitely eat it. Machine gun Kelly. Drew Carey. Drew Carey. Yeah.

Yeah, you do. So. Okay. And also you said that if the caps beat the penguins, they've won the Stanley Cup. So then you'll have to eat shit and pay out our bet. True. Yeah. Okay.

Oh. You're going to eat shit if the capitals beat the penguins. No, I'm actually not going to do that. What? Wow. I don't want to take it. Embrace the bait. Do you think that I did say that this is our Stanley Cup?

Yep. Yeah. I'm not trying to hide from this because. No, I know. But I think you should have to eat shit if they beat the penguins. Agreed. Just one bite. I'm not saying one bite.

Everyone knows the rules. I don't want to be like pony shit. I don't want like not necessarily a full size horse. Yeah. I think you could be dog shit too if you want. Okay. I don't. It's going to be tough to track down horse shit in New York City.

No. You just go to Central Park. Get one of the handsome cabs. Okay. So you want to do it? All right. Done. Caps beat the penguins.

We're going to Central Park and PFD is going to eat some shit. Just one bite. Eating shit's back. Yeah. Oh, this is great. So great. Now. I mean, I already was a die hard caps fan, but now it's over the top.

You just got to keep out shooting them. Yeah. Exactly. All right. My who's back. I also just have one. It is nerds. So nerds are taking over the internet again with the Avengers movie, which none of us saw.

And I don't really, can you, Hank, can you give me a quick explainer? It's basically every Marvel comic book character all into one movie and they all die. I don't know if they all die or not. I have not seen it. I haven't read any spoilers. It's all the characters, but it's like in, in, in the different movies, like the subplots are all happening. So it's like a culmination of every movie at once.

Yeah. So who's Thanos? He's a bad guy. He's the bad guy. Wait. So this is one of the Thanos die. I don't know. He's got some type of crystals or some shit.

So he's a method. Wait. So this is one of those movies where they do remember that movie that was, I think it was around, it was like a New Year's Eve movie where it was like 40 different A-listers were all in this, the movie. They, they, they basically just throw. Yes. A couple years ago.

Yeah. They just throw a bunch of people into one movie and they're like, yeah, look at how good this movie is. And everyone has like one. I think it's Sharknado. Is what I'm thinking of. Okay. Yeah.

That's what I'm thinking of. Or like, yeah. Uh, Royal Tannenbombs was kind of like that. Yeah. Just like, that's a nice recent reference. Everyone gets a cam, cameo. Yeah. Yeah.

I think, I think we should look at the spoiler. The infinity wars hashtag with no spoilers. Yeah. So it's, it's spoilers with no context is what, what it's called. So again, we've never seen it. So don't worry. You're not going to get spoiled. You know, even if I saw it, I wouldn't be able to spoil it cause I wouldn't know any

of their names. Wait. So it's an infinity war. It's the movie. Yeah. But what's the, what's the hashtag? Infinity war hashtag, no context. Right now I'm looking at a rabbit, a picture of Peter Dinklage.

Oh shit. There's a, there's a picture of Simba getting thrown off off the cliff. So who does now? Have you seen Lanking? Yeah. They're just holding him up. They do the one where they, they actually throw him. Okay.

And yeah, it looks like he's getting thrown. So it's got to be Spider-Man. Oh, here's a good one. Oh. Who, what's the list of the, who else is in it? Hank. Spider-Man, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Doctor Evil or whatever the fuck his name is. Okay.

Here's a really good one. Ready? Spoilers without context and it's four pictures. Guardians of the galaxy. Okay. The four pictures. Squidward. Yeah.

Is that what the guy's, the guy with the, the Hank nose. Yeah. The Hank dick nose. Yeah. Squidward, the plane that's made out of bagels, a kid looking at an iPhone and then somebody snapping their fingers. I see the snapping fingers. I see a donut.

Yeah. Spoiler alert. Hmm. So someone dies. Who dies? I don't know. There's also one where it's just bubbles. There are a lot of Squidward pictures here.

Who do you think, who do you think got the bubbles? Is there an underwater? Is Aquaman in this one? No. Okay. Yeah. Our Avengers talks. So nerds are back.

Yeah. You nerds can be happy about that. I don't know. Maybe we should see it. You know what? Let's just say we're going to, we're going to see it as a show altogether. We're going to get high and we're going to see it. So that way we don't ever have to see it.

We're definitely going to do that. Yeah. We're going to see it. Right after we finish Playmakers and SpongeBob. Yep. We're going to watch it in an airport. So I'm excited for Avengers. On our way to joining a cult.

Yeah. Hank, are you going to see it? Yeah. I probably will. I just heard everyone cried. Are there ever any nudes in these comic book movies? No. I feel like that would be a little nice treat for the adults.

That would be a nice treat. Yeah. Because you already got the nerds. Yeah. You already got the guys who don't know what it is. Nerds hate boobs. They don't really know what tits look like. No.

They would just surprise them. They'd be like, oh, what's that? I've never seen that before. Why does that woman have bumps on her chest? Wait. Why doesn't her chest look like mine or my chest? Yeah. Just give us a pair of boobs every now and again.

All right. For the guys. All right. Let's get to our interviews. First, and then we have Arian Foster. So here's what we did with Arian Foster. Arian Foster came into the studio. We've had him on the show before.

Really fun guy. He has a new album out, actually. He interviewed us for his podcast that is dropping either Tuesday and Wednesday. So look out for that. Listen to us on his podcast. But we took like 10 or 15 minutes of that and put it into this podcast because we thought we'd give you guys a little something. I think one of them, actually, one of the pieces we're putting in here is the first time we've

talked about Barstool Van Talk and ESPN since it happened. So we talked about it right after, but we really haven't talked about it as a group on this show since. And Arian brought it up and we actually had a good conversation about it. He gave us a little therapy, but it was a good talk. So make sure you listen to Arian Foster's podcast later this week. And we'll have Steep A coming up first. But before we do that, sometimes it's hard to find a satisfying vape.

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Check it out. All right. Here he is. The champion of the world, Stepe Miocic. All right. We now welcome on UFC heavyweight champion of the world. The belt is sitting right in front of us. It is Stepe Miocic.

First of all, what kind of credit do I get for getting your name right? I mean, much credit for you betting against me. Yeah. All right. So you want to get into that? All right. So I did bet against you. I realized I got stuck on the train and I was in a cab and I was looking up some

stuff and I remembered your last fight against, what's how you pronounce the name? Nganu. Nganu. And I bought into the Dana White hype train. The Nganu was the greatest puncher of all time and he was going to come in there and knock you out. And I don't want to say, I don't want to say racial bias, but I mean, yeah, the white guy from Cleveland was going to get the shit kicked out of him by the guy who was looked

very strong. And I bought him the whole thing and then he kicked his ass. So I'm apologizing. But really, is it my fault or is it Dana White's fault? I don't care. I won. It's all matters of me and I got paid. So I'm good.

But then right after you took the belt, you didn't accept the belt from Dana. So you were obviously pissed too. Yeah. Listen, man, I already planned it before the fight. I told my coach about it. I was like, hey, man, you're going to put the belt around me. He's like, for sure. He actually forgot about it.

We talked about it. He forgot about it. I was like, I forgot about it. And then you gave me the belt and I'm like, oh, I got to do that. You know, it was kind of funny. Yeah, man. I mean, I just wasn't happy, you know, but. How does that work?

How does it work when you're promoting a fight and you don't feel like you're getting this, the fair shake of promotion? Do you say something like during the promotion or is it just whatever, whatever happens, you kind of have to roll with it? I just don't care. Honestly, I'm just, I love it. I got other things to worry about. You know, I, I go to say I cut my grass and stuff like I don't need to worry about it.

I mean, yeah, you can hear about it after, but my focus is on the fight. Right. Does it ever enter your head at any point? Okay. At some point I, it's good for me in the long term if I'm able to sell a fight. Yeah, but that's not who I am. I'm not that guy. It's, you know, I swear.

Yeah. Yeah. Fuck shit. Yeah. Right. Yeah. I mean, honestly, I don't think, sorry. Yeah.

I mean, honestly, I don't really like, I'm not going to talk shit. I'm not that guy. I do that. I mean, I just, there's no way I was raised and I understand it's all about some fights, but also I'm the guy that's, I'm humble and I'm grateful and blessed, you know, the guys I have. I'm not going to, you know, change who I am. What about on the other side of that?

If the other guy's talking shit, if he's making a big production out of it and like going out of his way to get under your skin, does that actually give you extra motivation to go out, train harder to fight harder? Are you just so focused on, you know, the nuts and bolts of what you have to do? A little bit of both. Definitely. If he was a fighter, of course, you know, I love it. I think it's funny when people talk shit.

Like I used to, when I was younger, well, not younger, a couple of years ago, people would like send me now is how bad of a person I was and I should die and it was terrible. I'm like, God, and people don't even know me. And then my wife was like, dude, stop like reading it and your wife calls you dude. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. We're homies.

We're homies. So, but she, so a couple of years went by and I just stopped caring what people thought and that was like the best thing I did and now like if I go on Instagram and someone said like, I remember one dude was like, dude, your fight was so boring, this, that and I wrote back. Hey man, sorry, I'll try out her next time. You know what I mean? I want to do.

I imagine that it's a little easier for you to not care what other people say because you can kick everyone's ass. Yeah, you know, but I'm a lover man. Yeah. But that does change the dynamic a little when like I wouldn't care what anyone said either if I could kick the whole world's ass. Yeah. Yeah.

It's nice, but I, yeah, I don't, yeah, it's pretty nice. Yeah, but I, I don't look at that way and I just look at myself and I'm a firefighter too. That's why I look at it. How, how long would it take for you to kill me? I mean, like a matter of seconds, like if me and you, if me and you got put into a mason jar, like a couple of bugs and we had to fight, how fast would it be? I don't know.

I would, I would take it down and I bring it back and just kind of like torture a little bit. Oh, it's fucked up. Yeah. And I'm, I'm weird. Do you think I could arm bar you? For sure. You're gonna do right now if you want.

No, I don't know how. I'll show you. I'll show you. I'll show you. Yeah. Arm bar to me is just sit on your arm till falls asleep and then be like, gotcha. Yeah. Yeah.

Now, now jerk off. Yeah. That's called a stranger. Yeah. That's called a stranger. Yeah. Okay. Uh, no, I, you know, why do I feel like I've tried and I'm joking.

No, no, I have not, but now I'm going to go home and tell my wife about it. What, um, what, uh, when you, when you went to fight, you black out a little and you go get a little crazy. What is that? What's going on there? So when I went to tell the first time I was in Brazil, it was 45,000 people. It was all Brazilian. You know, I had like 15 people there.

So out of 15, you know, it was 44,000, 9 or 85 Brazilians against me and then 15 for me. Yeah. And I won the fight and it was like pin drops. It was so quiet. And I was like, yeah. Yeah. When champion is amazing.

And then I jumped out of the cage and I was like, we did it. We did it. And I just blacked out. Like Frank, the tank. I was like, I'm a real champ. I'm a real champ. Yeah. And I'm like, I looked at my wife and I'm like, why would, why would I say that?

But that, I mean, it must have been just an out of body experience. Yeah. A surreal for sure. It was, uh, it was, it was interesting. It was just, you know, you work so hard to do something, you know, and it happened. Yeah. What feels better knocking a guy out like with a clean shot or making them submit? Oh, I don't, I don't really submit people.

I like punch people in the face. Have you ever made a person submit? Uh, leg kicks. Yeah. Oh, so tapping. Yeah. Like the meanest thing to do. Yeah.

To be like, you can, you actually can't walk anymore because I just battered your legs with my legs. Yeah. It's very, very, it hurts a lot. You ever knocked a guy out with kidney punches? Uh, in practice. Yeah. Those are the best.

I love it. As a fan, like watching somebody get hit. That's fucked up. I know it is. Now that's fucked up. I know it is. Your face, you were just like, oh God, I love it. I just, when I make someone go to kidney failure, organ failure, my punches, no, when you see

a dude have to like, when they get hit either in the liver or the kidneys and it takes them a couple of seconds for it to really like register in their head and then they just fall down. There's always a delay. As a fan, that is a pretty cool thing to watch. Watching the human body just completely fail. Like I happened to be one time in practice. I was my amateur.

I was probably like eight years ago and I was sitting there doing my thing and the guy kicked me. I was like, oh, not a bad kick. Yeah. And I just fell down and I was like, that was the worst never again. So like, you know, now we make sure I don't get hit on the body if you like. Yeah. Oh God.

I mean, you get hit in the body and it hurts, but like that, that was just, I was like, I couldn't move. It was terrible. What's it like, uh, being such a tough, strong guy and rooting for such a pussy in LeBron? Good question. Thanks. Thanks PFT. Wow.

You went strong there. Yeah. Wow. I'm going to go strong to the hole right now. I was stronger than LeBron does. You know what? I'm not looking for a foul. So LeBron would be.

I'm just crying about one. I'm just, I'm happy to run a title back to the, you know, Cleveland. Those guys, the Cavs guys are great guys. I hung out with them before. You're the only one from Cleveland to win multiple championships. You won one before the Cavs though, right? I did. Right.

It was like a couple months. Yep. So you started it. Yeah. That's what everyone says. I'm just happy to CDS and be proud of. Did anybody eat a piece of horseshit in the parade for your victory? I was in that victory.

I was in the parade. Yeah. Because it's shit. Oh my. If it had smelled a little bit better, you would have eaten it. Yeah. No, God, no. God.

Honestly, it was so hot that day. And then there was, you know, the horde, the Mounties, like, and there's shit everywhere. I'm like, there was a million, 1.3 people, 1.3 million people. Yeah. God dang. And then out of my black jersey on, it was, I was like, this is terrible. Like all the Cavs had their shirts off. I'm like, man, why can't I have my shirt on?

Did you, you went on the boat? On the bus? That was the first one. Fuck yes. Yeah, it was cool. It was an awesome experience. Did you hang out with LeBron after? No, they went, they had other things to do.

So I had media obligations too. That's a nice way of saying you weren't invited. No, they invited, I hung out with them before. Yeah, you had media obligations. I had media obligations. Did you get invited to Deli's beer pong party that he had? No. That's how he celebrated.

He, he like, ripped a door off its hinges and then put it on chairs and that was his favorite. That's why I had his jersey. That's why I knew I love that guy. Yeah. I had his jersey. That's awesome. I love beer pong.

I do love, I'm going to start using that all the time when I don't get invited to really nice things. She's like, I have media obligations. Yeah. I'm like, my wife said no. Yeah. Right. When was the last time you got into a fight, like a real fight, a man's fight, not this

regulated pussy shit in an octagon. I'm talking like no rules. Pads. Yeah. Little pads on your hands. When I think I was 11. Oh. Yeah.

I was last. I don't like fighting. Like outside of like. That kind of thing. I could, that's fucked up. But so when I was 11, I'll never forget it. Like I was named guy and I threw it, it's this name too, right? So I was at the neighborhood pool right behind my house and we're joking around, I threw

water his face. He's like, you motherfucker. I'm like, what did I do? And he just bagged him the cage and I was trying to throw punches and man, he just lit me up. Oh. And I was like, why would you hit me? Again.

I was being bitch about it. Yeah. He wrecked me. Dude. Like we got to find that guy. He's the heavyweight champion in the world. Oh no. Dude, I was like tiny that then.

Now I'm like, I'll probably tower over him. I would definitely walk around with the belt. That's fine guy. Yeah. Guy. If you're out there listening. Just guys being dudes. It was terrible.

But yeah, I mean, I don't, I mean, I don't ever, if I don't want to try to start a fight with me, I try to buy him a beer. Yeah. Do you ever see Guy Fieri? What's that? No. What if it was Guy Fieri? The only person to beat your ass.

Well, he's from Italy. You want to tell, you want to talk about selling a fight like everybody on planet Earth would buy a heavyweight fight between you and Guy Fieri. Guy Fieri. Make me a good meal after. Yeah. He was born on a winery in Naples. That's right.

Yeah. Very, very classy. Not Ohio. Well, no Flavortown. Yeah, exactly. When you do get, do you like walk around? Do you ever size people up? Are you sizing us up?

100%. Yeah. What did you, what's this, what does, what's your takeaway? I might not be able to. I'll take it. I'll take it. I'll take it. I'll take it.

I'll take it. I'll take it. I'll take it. I'll take it. I'll take it. I'll take it. I'll take it. They're nice guys.

If I were you, I would size everyone up. No, I don't size anyone up. Really? No, I don't need to. that you do that knowing how tough you are. That's a bullshit move. Yeah, I knew, honestly, I never thought I was gonna fight. Honestly, yeah.

I remember the first time I watched UFC, it was UFC 2 was on VHS. I told the other story and I got it and my cousin was in town for the summer, so we were watching him, like, Mom, check this out, this is crazy. She was like, take that shit. She never swears at me.

She's like, take that shit, take it back to the fucking, to the video store. I'm like, what? She's like, take it back now. I was like, all right. And here I am today in the fucking fight. Was that still when there was tournament style? Who's that big guy who had the karate outfit that he wore?

Fuck it. There was, you remember Joe Gracie? Maybe. Maybe. Royce Gracie? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, yes. That was wild. Did you ever watch that one clip

where the dude just elbows the dude in the nuts like 20 times in a row until he taps out? Yeah, I would never fight back in there, like that with no gloves on. So you wouldn't want to do that? No. If that was a rule in MMA right now, you wouldn't fight. I mean, I would win, because I'm a small dick,

so no one hit it at all. You and John Cena, yeah, all day. All of us. Would you fight in Ruffin Rowdy? For sure, we'd be as one, man. I love that shit. I watched you guys on Instagram. Nice.

Nice. The one guy, the one guy with the mullet, which is the name of him. Oh, Tex. Yeah. Yeah. This guy, Hank right here, producer beat him. Yeah, oh yeah, yes.

Yeah. You probably remember the memorable moment was when Tex. I raised my arms after winning the fight. Tex, I think. Yeah, Tex knocked Hank down with a clean right to the jaw. Hank was, see, Hank got really confident because Tex kept falling down

because he's got the balance like a from me hitting him so hard. Six month old deer. Yeah. And Hank was coming at him and he had this big smile on his face because he was like, okay, I got this. And he wound up so hard with his big fucking grin

and Tex just caught him right in his smile and knocked him right down. Does that ever happen to you? But then Hank won. When you're in the middle of a fight, do you ever feel overconfident and then get caught? No, never. Okay.

No. So that's a rookie mistake. Yeah, 100%. It's all right. You learn. Yeah. If I could get a clean shot on you, just like standing up and you knew it was coming,

but you weren't allowed to like defend yourself. If I just punched you in your face, could I knock you out? You probably could. You caught me, right? Yeah. I'm gonna say no. So I'm the potential heavyweight champion of the world. You said you'd break your hand first.

Well, I break by hand simultaneously as we go. Yeah. But then you'd probably tap out before he tapped out. I tap out before he hit the ground. Yeah, before the eight pound. I'd be like, what the fuck? I'm like, I'm done. I'm done.

I'm done. What about your next fight? I'm playing July 7th. Yeah. You know, Daniel Cormier. Yeah. So are you, he is an interesting fighter because he's bad body, but he's really fucking good.

It doesn't, you know, you can't ever tell by the looks, man. I mean, he's a tough guy. He's fat. No, I mean, he's bigger. Yeah, he's fat. And so, but he's really damn, he's really, really good. Oh, he's really good. Amazing wrestler.

You know, he's granted his feet. It's gonna be a great fight. So what are you gonna do to make sure it doesn't go down on the ground the whole time? I'm okay with it. It goes on the ground. I'll get right back up. So I have a hypothetical.

Conor McGregor versus Floyd Mayweather, they fight in the octagon. I don't, I think Floyd Mayweather would win in that too. No. I don't think he, I think his defense in quickness would not allow Conor McGregor to take him down anyway. All he's gotta do is just stock him down, get him against the cage and take him down.

Think so? Yeah. Yeah. I think he would punch him like 20 times by the time he got to him. But it's a fight so anything can happen. You know what I mean? You never know.

When you put your hands on another man. Yeah. What did you think about the whole Conor McGregor stuff in Brooklyn? That's not me. I would never do that. Like I did an interview about it yesterday. You don't fight buses.

Good to know. Yeah. Okay. The buses you really win. But yeah, it's not me, man. It's my mom said my mom would destroy my wife would kill me. Like that was just, that's not a reason. Like I understand why he did it,

but also you went a little above beyond what he needed to do, you know? Yeah. Wait, when you say you understand why I did it, is that because you got the memo that it's all work from like did Dana White send out a memo being like, this is what's gonna happen? No, no, no.

No, it's like his boy, like they got it. Kinda got bullied on him. So you believe it? Do you believe the whole thing? What's that? Like do you believe it was all real? 100%. Sure.

I'm looking in your eyes right now. Can't tell. You sure? You sure? I'm gonna present. Not even a little piece of you doubts. No. Has anybody ever asked you,

hey, we're going to this way and we need to sell a few more paper views. Like if you could be more animated. Yeah, if you could fight a bus. That would be helpful. No. So you're gonna have to invest your energy drink into your opponent's face?

No. That's just too much energy. You're only about to fight. Really? Cause we actually talked to Dana White. He was on the show. And he said that he says that all the time to fighters before.

He's gonna tell me. He said that he told you and that you said, okay. Well, he doesn't really. He doesn't really. I'll let it go. That was a classic detective trick on my part. You passed. Do you think fighters,

how are fighters gonna get paid more? Because Connor kind of broke the mold. Yeah. I mean, I think it goes in spurts, I guess. Right now, everyone loves the drama. That's where we live in. People love drama. It's soap opera.

And that's what it is. And I think, you know, it probably changes something else. And you know, it's just, and also that's how they promote it. And you know, I think, you know, you have WME. They just, you know, about the UFC. So they're learning more about it and how to do it better. They're a great promotional company.

So they'll figure it out. Do you, how much longer do you think you can hold onto your title? Because this is now, As long as I want. You're the longest, every weight champion. Yep.

As long as I want. Oh. So that's actually a good answer. Because then when you lose, No. I'm not gonna lose. Yeah. Let the young guys have a shot.

I have a shot. Media obligations. So they're gonna have to get to it. Well, here's the problem. I'm not gonna lose. Yeah. Don Troy Willis is pitching later today. Well, I'm not gonna fight until I'm 45.

No, no, no. So, have you ever seen the movie Troy? Hell yeah. You know at the start of it, where they say, okay, instead of having this big war, we're going to take your best guy against our best guy. It's Brad Pitt.

Do you think that you would be the United States best guy if we were to fight a one-on-one war against some other country? 100%. So you could probably, you could win an entire war by yourself. Well, not a whole war. I mean.

Well against it. Like just one-on-one? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, for sure. Against anyone in the world. 100%. That's pretty cool. That's gotta be a good feeling.

Knowing that you could kick anyone, literally anyone's ass. I would pick JJ Watt. Captain America. Yeah. Probably. You'd probably take it down. Hey, you heard your shit.

I mean, did I do? No, I'm not shit on you. Betting against me. Tell me about it. The betting against you hurt me more than it hurt you. Yeah. You won the fight. I know.

I'm the one who lost. I have feelings too, you know. He did the, you know, he didn't promote you. Yeah. And so you realize how dumb my brain is? If they promote one guy more than the other, I will bet on that guy. 100%.

I would bet on him too. Yeah, exactly. Because you watched the promotion. I was like, this guy's the best fighter ever. This is a man. Yeah. He's a man. I'm a little boy.

What am I gonna do? All right, the C-Geek question. If you put in promo code, take you get $10 off your C-Geek purchase if you want to go to an MMA fight. If you want to go to UFC, what number is it? 226. 226. Wow.

Yeah. Wow. Okay. So if you want to go to UFC 226, go to C-Geek, put in promo code, take. You're a firefighter. I am a firefighter. What is more scary, going into the octagon

or going into a burning building? Let me speed real quick. Okay. Okay. I'm a paramedic also. It's mostly EMS calls. Thank you for your service. Thank you.

See, he's nice. Yeah. He was mocking you. I wasn't mocking you. I was mocking Marlon's man. He was mocking you. No. No, I mean, most of my calls are medic calls,

but a lot of them, but we have some serious calls. But I mean, it's hard to say, because I'd be sleeping at three o'clock in the morning, you know, like the other night we had a call. It was a severe accident, MVA. And at three o'clock in the morning, I'm half asleep. You know, I gotta be, mine's mine, right? Make sure it's good.

Make sure that, you know, everything's safe. But then you're walking the octagon. Like when I walked the octagon, I told him the story. Like I'm having a good time laughing, joking. Really? And I walk out and back in the day was funny. So back in the day, like no one knew me, no one really liked me.

So I get booed, you know, like you fucking suck. I'm like, why do I do this? Like I could be a fireman. Like why do I have to go through this all the time? Nobody ever jeers a fireman showing up to the house. True. Yeah. Well, now they do it.

They'll see that work. And they're like, what's up champ? I'm like, how are you feeling? Like, oh, I'm a little sick. Can you take me? I'm like, yeah, no problem. But actually it's awesome if you're like dying and you get saved by the heavyweight champion

in the world. It's pretty cool experience. I was gonna say it might be the opposite. Like if I'm dying and then you show up as the EMT, I'd be like, they just sent this dude. This is the guy that they send to put people out of their misery. Yeah. We just show up and you kill him real quick.

Yeah, you're the death panel. You're the death panel. You're Obama's death panel. Yeah. Yeah. No, I mean, they're both though. Like, you know what I mean, they're both 180, but they're also like, one keeps me grounded and it's great.

And you think once you retire from fighting, you will just do that full time? That's cool. Yeah, that's awesome. That's a plan, you know. So we'll see. You're so tough you even kick fire's ass. Yeah.

I wish. She's hot. You ever try to actually fight a fire like a building that's on fire, be like, I'm going to punch the building. No, let's grab a hose and just soak it down. It's probably smarter. Because I definitely would do the punch the building if I were you.

I'm so tough. I'm going to punch my way out of any situation. That's actually, I think, a plot to a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie. The firefighter. Yeah, and he just punches fires out. Yeah. Oh, you remember that movie where the dude dips his knuckles

in glue and then he's like, yeah. You ever try to fight somebody with glass, like glass shards on your knuckles? No, that would be terrible. What's your favorite fight movie? Favorite fight movie. That's a good one. I like that Warrior movie.

That's a good one. That's a good one. It's like the whole plot about it. You're seeing best of the best, too. You should try it out. Is it a cheerleading movie? No. No.

It's a fight movie. It's fucking awesome. My favorite movie all the time, that was Deadpool. That's pretty good. You ever see the notebook? What's that? You ever watch the notebook? Just act.

I had to say, I actually just watched the last movie. You do? Nice. I was with my wife. I couldn't, I even started yelling. No, that's, you've got to do it. She's like, dude, Nicholas Sparks is on. Dude, you've got to check this out.

Yeah. I think I got late at night, though. So it worked out well. There you go. All right. It's so nice. Congrats. Hell yeah.

It makes one of us. All right. So we're going to wrap it up. Steve Miochic, heavyweight champion of the world. Good luck against Daniel Cormier. I'm going to bet on you now. Well, now, do you want me to bet on you or not? OK, because I was going to say, I'm bad luck.

Yeah, don't. All right. I'll take Cormier and that fat body. He's going to cry, too. He's a crier. He is. Well, he's just a competitor. You should actually, you could do some good promotion

in this and just calling him fat. Because I feel like I've seen a million videos of John. Bon Jovi just calling him fat and he like cries. Yeah, they were like, they don't really like each other. They really hate each other. Yeah, they don't like each other. Are you going to be doing an excess amount of cocaine and steroids before this fight like John Bon Jovi's?

No. OK. Just a normal one. Good answer. Good answer. Yeah, I can't do that. I get in trouble. Good answer.

I guess. All right. You saw it. All right. Thank you so much, Steve. Steve, I appreciate it, man. No, thanks for having me. This is awesome.

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I'm your host, Arian Foster. So if you don't know those voices, man, they're the cornerstone of Barstool Sports, Big Cat and PFT. Thank you for having us. Welcome. Yes. Thank you for coming to our studio. Yeah, I'm definitely on y'all's home turf

doing my podcast, which I appreciate. Because you saved me studio renting time, I'm money, and then you also... Feel free to wet the beak a little bit on that. Got some back. Yeah, got some loose change on it. You just slide it across the table. What is wet the beak?

You just give us a little taste. You know, a little taste of the profits. I mean, how much would you pay to rent a studio? This is probably the most... 300, 400 bucks? This is probably the most popular podcast in the world right now, one of them. Yours?

And you're asking me to wet the beak. Oh. Okay. Yours. Yours. Which you've been on. I have been on. You've actually been on it twice.

How was that? You were on it one time, you were recording it from your pool. You know what? So, low prep, I should probably address that. So, I was on their podcast, which one of the first one didn't air because it was bad reception. So, that was an asshole move. I didn't want to get out of the pool.

I mean, I get it. No. If I had a pool, I would do all my interviews in the pool. There's no problem on our part. Okay, cool. So, I was like, that dude was a dick because he didn't want to. Oh, no, we thought that. Sure.

I don't know if I hear it. We thought you were a dick, but it was no problem. Because you know what? We're dicks, too. It's my apologies, man. I'm glad we could do it because I thought it was really good. Interview, man. So, I know you guys have talked about this a lot, but for my fans that don't know, and

the ESPN debacle. Yeah. So, for those that don't know, you guys had a show with ESPN that lasted a day. Yeah, one episode. One episode. It was about two weeks. Two weeks. And it was very short-lived, and you guys did not leave on good terms.

And it's an interesting dynamic to me, so I would like you guys to explain what happened, what's the deal with it, and how is the relationship now? Do you get credentials at ESPN? No. No, the relationship is still... It's very strained. Yeah. We've got some friends at ESPN, some people that like us, we like them.

We're friendly with them as individuals, but ESPN, their corporate has a policy that ESPN employees aren't allowed to appear on our show. Wow. We're not allowed to... It's a thing like that. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. People are told to stop publicly interacting with us at times, even though that's...

That's a little Nazi-ish. Yeah. So, ESPN has a very... They're very conscious of not wanting to offend some of their talent over there that might have a problem with us in the past. But I guess if we can start from the beginning, we... Yeah, yeah. Let me have it.

We got approached by ESPN. They came to us about, what, a year and a half ago, two years ago? Yeah. About a year and a half ago. And I think what they wanted was... They wanted a little bit of kind of the outside of the underdog mentality that we brought. So, back in the day, ESPN themselves, they were an underdog. People told them, oh, they're just cable news network.

Nobody's going to want to watch sports 24 hours a day. And so, they kind of grew from this underdog mentality. In the last 10, 15 years, they've reached a point where they... Nobody would consider ESPN to be an underdog at anything that they do. Right. They're just giant. They're this huge entity. And so, they wanted a little bit of our low-rent shenanigans that we bring to the table.

And so, they reached out to us and we talked about putting together the show. And I guess they didn't do their homework based on everything about us in the past. Did they give you guys full creative control in his onset? I mean, they had edits. So, not full creative control. You know, it's been really funny because it's like one of those situations where everything leading up to it was very exciting and we thought it was a great move. And then everything, when you have hindsight, you're like, oh, man, that was really stupid of us.

Because I think I've said this before, but it's almost like the mafia trying to go legit. Like when the Corleones try to, like, you know, start having legit companies. They start washing clothes. We tried to make an olive oil company and we couldn't stop the drug trafficking. Your past is going to be brought up. Let's get a little bit of heroin for this show. So, your past is going to be brought up. And so, I always thought, you know, the growth of Barstool and the way we were going, like,

this is going to be great for Barstool because we're going to be on ESPN. We're going to get more people to kind of be like, all right, these guys are legit. But then you see how everything went down. And it's like, oh, well, these guys used to be in the mafia kind of situation. And it's almost liberating because it taught me that no matter where we go with our careers, people are going to try to take me down for my past. And that's fine because at this point, the biggest takeaway was don't get caught in a situation where like internal politics and people with an axe to grind can determine your fate.

So when you say past, like, what is this? I mean, it came up because of the San Ponder stuff. You know, we did a podcast four years ago. And it was, it was the funny part is it was a podcast that very few people listened to and we were half-assing it. And my boss, Dave, said something about her. Well, I can't remember the exact quote. Like you, he didn't call her.

I don't think he called her a slut. He said, act slutty or something. He got mad because she brought her son or daughter on the field. Which I did too. You're not paid to be a mom. Right, right. So they brought that up and then, I mean, she had been basically waiting for that moment and pulled out the stops.

And then kind of like PFT said, there's a lot of internal politics at ESPN. There's a lot of people that have the ears of powerful people and they're able to kind of sway them to make decisions. And that's fine because, you know, looking back on it, it was going to be a really cool experience and we probably would have gained a lot more fans coming to Barstool just by recognition and seeing us on ESPN being funny, hopefully. But it also would have left us open to these people being able to be like, well, look at what they said here and look at what they did here and these guys can't be here.

And it's fine. Like I'm actually, it hurt really bad for the first couple of weeks after. And then I got this incredible peace of mind and that's that I'm going to be fine no matter what. And these people can't take me down and just going to keep doing what I'm doing and not get involved in a spot where, you know, politics and inside, you know, you know, going at each other can take us down. So now it feels great.

So, you know, I just admit that I'm in the mafia. I'm not trying to do the olive oil business anymore. That's where the underdog shit comes from. Right. Because even though you might be beating them in numbers, it's still that corporate structure. Right. And it was a mistake. Right.

But I think I would be hard. You feel like it was a mistake though? I think it was a mistake for sure. It was a mistake to get back to the ESPN. I'll be honest. I'm speaking for myself at least, got a little bit seduced by the fact that, hey, we're going to be on ESPN. I mean, I grew up watching ESPN.

It's a brand. It's a brand. It's a brand. You know, like I grew up watching Dan Patrick and Keith Overman on Sports Center and, you know, I wanted to be them when I grew up. And so like there was a little bit of that like seduction where it was like, okay, we're going to be on ESPN. This is awesome.

I think that kind of clouded our judgment a little bit and made us overlook a lot of the very obvious negatives that were coming at us. And so we just kind of washed those away. And then, you know, the way that it flamed out, I'm glad that it flamed out in one week as opposed to in five or six weeks. So do you think it was negative for you or positive? I think positive in the long run. Yeah.

Long run is going to be a positive. Short term, big catch, right. Like it's stung. It sucked. Right. Just for the ego purpose. Exactly. But jumping back to what I said, like if it was five or six weeks of doing the show

and then it got canceled, it would be pretty obvious that it was because our show sucked. Right. Right. Since it was about one week or like half a scare of mooch. You never know if your show sucks. Yeah. One we'll never know. And two, it was very obviously about things that had nothing to do with the actual show

itself. Right. And I think it also, when you kind of deconstruct how it all went down, we're competitive guys, you know, and we want to keep succeeding. And we're, you know, we're, we work really, really hard and we want to think things to be successful. And the natural evolution of what we had created on the podcast was putting it on some kind of television platform.

So that was just in our mind, like, all right, we've conquered like a good base of followers that will listen to our podcast, let's get to that next level. When in reality, the lesson I learned, sometimes the next level isn't needed. Sometimes you get on the next level on your own. You guys are the next level. Right. And that was actually the, that was the moment, the aha moment for me. It was probably a week after and I was bummed out for about a week.

And then I had this moment like, wait, hold on. So we got our show canceled, but we still have the number one sports podcast. It's pretty fucking good, you know, prize there that you can fall back on. So like, we still talk to people. Yeah. That's the problem. They're having their TVs dying. Right.

Nobody watches TV anymore. It is, but it isn't. It's dying. So it is dying. Give it to me. It's the medium that you can't replicate anywhere else. So you can replicate a newspaper. Okay.

But, okay. So here, you know, but here, here's why, here's where it's different. So a podcast, anyone can start a podcast. There is no time slot for a podcast, a TV, there's 24 hours a day. There's only a certain amount of program that can go on that station. So that is an exclusive slot. So it's this exclusivity. Right.

And it's just like there are people still watch TV. I know it's, it's not a lot though. It's definitely going down. But what? You, you, when you get a TV show, you're reaching a certain amount of people that you might not be able to reach with everyone who can create a podcast. But I think it's, I think it's, it's just the allure of it more than the actual, substantive execution of it.

I mean, we got, we saw a bump in just everything when we, when we announced it. When we were, I mean, I, it definitely, I, I still think I, I completely agree that TV's dying, but I still think there is a certain amount of cachet and also eyeballs and just like media attention that comes with TV that you can't replicate anywhere else. So media attention, there's a lot of legacy TV viewers out there. You know, like anyone past the age of, I'd say 35, I'd say close to a hundred percent of them watch TV in some shape or form. 35.

I'd say 35 is about like. I'd say about 40 plus, bro. Okay. 35 is young. I mean, there are a shitload of baby boomers out there that just won't die. So they're still. Yeah. My dad religiously watches MSNBC.

Exactly. Yeah. So there's, there are a ton of people out there that still do watch TV and those same people are, are the same people that, like Big Cat said, they, they do a lot of the media out there. So like you've got all these, you know, like all these websites and all these newspapers were writing about us when they've probably never written the words barstool sports in the history of their publication.

Right. Yeah. Yeah. The flooding of the media. It was, it was definitely a different audience than we were reaching before. Right. So, okay. So how do you, how do you, how do you conquer that hurdle in the future of trying to reach

a different audience? I mean, that's, I mean, that's, do you have the answer? Yeah. Come on my pocket. Yeah. Come on. No, but that is, I mean, it's, it's a combination. I mean, it's, it's a lot of different things and it's, you know, the slow growth, you know,

we went from zero to 60 really fast. Now we're still growing, you know, our podcast has, has never had a, a down month. You know what I mean? It's always gained, gained listeners, but I'm saying like, but it's less obviously. You don't gain as many listeners now than you did in month three because so it is hard to find a way to always stay where, you know, it's, it's through guests, you call these first world problems. Yeah.

I know it sounds stupid to say it, but you, but it's a good question of how do you keep, you know, evolving and trying to find new listeners? I saw that, um, like, so like with, um, one of my favorite followers on Twitter is Tyler I am. Oh, he's here. Is he actually in? Yeah. He flew in this morning.

He's here? I gotta say, what's up somebody in there? He's here. Oh damn, definitely before I leave. Um, but so you guys take somebody like that who has the avid black Twitter following and, and you. He's white though. You know that, right?

I'll be so mad. I'm just fucking with you. It's not. It's not. Could you imagine if he was like, Hey, this is Tyler and he's actually Gary from, uh, from BuzzFeed. He's from Connecticut. Yeah.

You got to reach that, that, that market. It's like a different market. So like that's, that's the kind of things you have to, but I think that's, that's what you do. You reach, um, but, but what you, what you're doing is, which is why I feel like TV is, it's, it's dead and it's going, it's going to do nothing else but this and maybe spikes here and there. But because people don't consume information like they used to, like I'm not going home

sitting down on my couch and flipping on a TV. Like I pull up my phone, I pull up my iPad or I connected my phone to my TV and I scoured the internet for, for new information. So the way you guys are, are, are growing is just like you're doing. Like you get small pockets here, small pockets there and you talk about rappers probably. Yeah. I mean, we definitely, we've, we've always enjoyed, we had the supertrooper guys in here last week and it's like, we got to do, we probably got to do more interviews with

people outside the sports world because That's pretty good. At the end of the day, the best compliment I've ever gotten for our podcast was someone said, um, a girl came up to me and was like, I don't know half the time, I don't know what you guys are talking about. Like, I don't know when you go on these tangents about Todd Haley wanting to fight every big Ben and all this shit, but the way you talk about sports is funny. Yeah.

And that's the best comment. Cause like that's the, the umbrella we're trying to get where you don't have to be a diehard sports fan to listen to us. You just have to think what, how we approach like our worldview and sports view is funny. Is there, is there an angle like if, if, if they, um, Yeah. Fucking make bank dude, drive a range. That interview with Arian was brought to you by Robin Hood.

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You get a free stock at take.robinhood.com. All right. Let's get to some segments. I just want to say I listened to Arian Foster's album. Yeah. It's good. Nice. It's actually good.

Oh, and I didn't, but I said that I was going to take what you said and just repeat it. So it's actually good. Yep. That's the double stamp of approval. Yeah. It's actually good. It's actually good.

Really good. No. I would say that. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. That was a game of telephone. Uh huh.

Eventually it's going to be the best album of all time. Purple Monkey Dishwater. Yeah. All right. Let's get to some segments. First up is a new segment that we're going to try out. It's called Can I Ask a Question. So I'm just going to ask a question and we can figure out the answer to it.

Is that your question? No. Can I ask a question? Well, yeah. I guess the debut is Can I Ask a Question. Okay. Yes. Okay.

What in the hell did Jason Witton become the hottest piece of ass on the Analyst Circuit? You know what it is? It's his rosy cheeks. I love Jason Witton's little rosy cheeks. It's actually, I think two things happen. One, Tony Romo. Yeah. Lobbied for him.

Yeah. So I should back up and just explain it for people who don't actually like care about this shit. Jason Witton said he's retiring. He's going to be in the Monday Night Football broadcast team. And then, all of a sudden, he's contemplating not retiring, but he also has an interesting proposal from someone else to join their team as an analyst. So Jason Witton just became the hottest prospect in the Analyst Market.

Yeah. The thing is, Jason Witton is like a Toyota Camry. Okay. He's dependable. He's solid. Yeah. He's not going to get you laid. He drives in straight lines.

Drives directly in straight line. Will break down once every six years, maybe, and have to get the spleen taken out. But he's not splashy. He's just a guy that's going to fit in in the booth and call the game straight. And people will be like, oh, okay, this is still the NFL. But that's the weird part is he is splashy, at least to ESPN, because that's all that they want, I feel like. They just want the splashy guy.

And you're right. I think the Tony Romo, they called up Tony Romo, and Tony Romo was like, I don't know. I don't know. He's pretty good. I think I'm pretty good, yep. And that was it. They were like, yeah, we got to get Jason Witton. I think Tony recommended Jason Witton for the Monday Night Football gig.

And then Jason Witton is then using that leverage to just try to get in the booth with Tony. Yeah. So they could just travel together and be roommates again for the next 20 years. Have you ever heard Jason Witton speak more than an ad's worth of language? Yes. You have? Yes. When?

University of Tennessee. Yeah. That's it. Yeah. Or he's like, where are the pros? Where? Jason Witton, Dallas Cowboys. Yeah.

We got to get that guy. So I have a couple of questions that come off my question. One is, how much would you pay to watch the Brett Favre Tryout video? Because if Jason Witton is the guy, Brett Favre must have been the worst analyst of all time in his tryout at ESPN. He must have been the ugliest tape of Brett Favre to come out in at least 13 years. Yes. Without a doubt.

I mean, I can only imagine, I hope someone finally at some point leaks it because it had to be so horrible that they're going to Jason Witton, who's maybe the most boring guy I can think of to put into a booth. Yeah. I mean, the only other direction they could go that would be worse than that is just getting a kicker up there. Yeah. If they got...

Well, Pat McAvie, is that right? Well, he's a punter. Yeah. True. They got all the grammaticas into the booth together and just had them all talk at the same time. Well, Mike Mayox told us on Monday that if you don't have that gold jacket, they don't want you into the broadcast booth.

That's right. Is Jason Witton a Hall of Famer? He will be. You think so? I think so. Jason Witton is one of these guys all the time. Yeah. But that's because he played like 15 years and got like 670 yards a season.

No, I know. He also did the sneaky thing where at the end of his career, probably the last three years, no one fully realized how bad Jason Witton had become. And when I say he runs in a straight, he really could just run in straight lines and then just... It was 90 degree angles. Yeah. All of his rounds.

And it also put me in physical pain watching him run. Yes. I was like, is this guy out here murdering his own legs every single play? Watching him run was like watching a dude that had crutches, like taped to his legs. He couldn't bend his knees. Yeah. He was just like goose stepping down the field. He got arthritis in his hips.

He looked like what we would look like if we carried the ball 30 times in an NFL game and then tried to play tight end the next day. Yeah. That's what he looked like running down the field. I hope if he's up in the booth, they let him wear those compression sleeves. Yeah. Because that's the only thing I think of when I think of Jason Witton. So I guess we're doing Jason Witton?

I mean, this is... This is the most... This is the perfect example of the NFL just being like... It's not even the NFL. It's the ESPN. ESPN being like, fuck you, we're going to put whoever we want in the booth and you're going to watch it. Oh, he's on the Cowboys.

Yeah. Basically, he fills out a suit. Greg Olson. Come on. Jeff Fisher. Lewis Riddick, I think, is the choice. Lewis Riddick. Mike Mayock.

Yeah. Jeff Fisher. Jeff Fisher again. Lewis Riddick. Jeff Fisher. You know what? Have Jeff Fisher do a mic for Jeff Fisher headset form and then a fart mic. Ooh.

I like that. Yeah. Now we're talking. Why don't they just get Frank Caliendo to do impressions of all these people? That would also work. I'd be down with all that. I think I'd be okay with this. Joe Thomas.

Yeah. Joe Thomas can for sure, and we like Joe Thomas, but if you're looking for a guy who can make wedding crashers and anchorman quotes, that's Joe Thomas. Joe Thomas. He for sure can. It's your guy. You got him. You got him right there.

Yeah. It's just baffles me. I mean, we're just going to have to fucking watch Jason Witton now. If you played for the Dallas Cowboys in the last 15 years, you have a media gig that's waiting for you. Tio? Yeah. Ooh.

Tio. Tio in the booth. Tio in the booth. Tio in the big nab. Yes. In the booth together. Yes. All right.

We have a stay classy. This goes to Salvador Perez, who got very upset over the weekend, because Tim Anderson on the White Sox hit a home run and had the balls to say, let's fucking go after the home run. Sal was not happy. So Sal said, you don't do that on my mound. He said, I don't have a problem with guys hitting a homer, taking a couple of steps. Yeah.

He's allowing homers now. So we're getting somewhere. That's got to be an unwritten rule though. Yeah. Walk two steps and keep running. But when you start to get loud to say some bad words like fuck and all that fuck, I don't like that. I don't like that.

He has to respect my team and my pitcher. We're professionals in here. Respect my mound. Unbelievable. Respect my mound, buddy. I like it. I like that baseball. Every couple of years, this can fall into this way to stay relevant category.

They unveil a new unwritten rule that has not previously been written or acknowledged. And so now it's no swearing baseball, act like a man, just scratch your crotch and spit tobacco juice over yourself. Unless you've hit a home run in the playoffs, then you can swear. That seemed to be a weird part of his rule that he's never played in a big game. So he doesn't know what real excitement is like. No, he was just trying to roast him there. That was just an additional roast to be like tossing the fact that he hasn't won anything.

I think Sal Perez just booked himself a trip to Cooperstown because if you want to get the baseball writers of America on your side, just ban swearing after home runs. Just make up any sort of rule. Yeah. Okay. No. No swearing and no cutting in the befail on either. Yeah.

Just make sure at all times, don't leave the five year qualification if you did that. I don't care if it's the summer, I don't care if it's the winter, it's the off season. You better respect that mound and you wake up, you respect the mound. Respect my bump. Yeah. You say a couple of fucking prayers for the mound. You keep your lips off my mound, buddy. Yeah.

You got your own mound. I got my mound. You got your mound. You got a job to do. I got a mound. Oh, man. Fucking baseball. The baseball hard-o's are the weirdest people in the world.

It's like, I mean, Tim Anderson had the perfect response. He's like, yeah, I was excited. I'm the leadoff hitter. I'm trying to get my team excited. Yeah. Baseball's fun. Playing a sport is fun. It should be.

Yeah, it's exactly. But you know what else is fun. But you didn't respect the mound. Swearing is fun. Swearing is a lot of fun. Remember when you first learned how to cuss? Yeah. I was exhilarating.

Yeah. All right. Last up, we have embraced the bait. And on Saturday night with the boys from TNT, let's just play the audio and then we'll get to the embraced debate. Great education. Yeah, right. Because I told him I didn't want to get a certain vehicle because of the amount of gas

I would have to spend. It cost like $80. To fill it up. To fill it up. Right. And he said, then you said. When it gets to half, then you put $20. You bring it back to full.

Yeah. But if I keep doing, I would have to stop ball off and instead spend $80. No, you wouldn't. No, you wouldn't. Why? You're complaining about when it gets to zero, you'll spend $80, right? When it gets to half, you put $20. Then when you get back to half, you put $20.

Yeah, but I keep stopping putting $20 and it'll be equal $80 the same amount of gas. I'm driving the same amount of gas. The average human stops once a week for gas, right? With you, you only work here twice. You would probably have to stop maybe once every two weeks. Don't even try. This is all. This is bordering, Tom.

Nobody's traveling more than me. This is bordering on what's closer, the west coast or the moon. So if we wait. This is bordering on that. You're complaining. You're telling me that. I wouldn't have to, if I didn't let my gas get down, I wouldn't have to fill it up as much.

No, I'm saying you're complaining about the $80. That's what the conversation about. But four times $20 is $80 because I'm going to stop four times. No, you're not going to stop four times. No, you're not going to stop four times. Not in one week, you're not. Anyway, the west coast is closer than the moon. If you let it get to zero, right, Monday through Friday, right, then you got to pay $80 to

fill it back up. Right. If you let it get to half by Wednesday, then you pay $20 back up the floor. No, it won't get to half by Wednesday. It's going to be $40. And then on Friday, it'll be $40. About $40, $20. It's going to be $20.

Okay. So that was Shaq trying to explain how if you fill up your car with $20 worth of gas every week, you save money as opposed to filling it up with $80 worth of gas every four weeks. Yes. So two slash four weeks. We have a couple of embrace debates because the first we have to embrace debate is half of $80, $20. Okay.

I'm going to say no. Hank. It depends. I'm going to go with no too. No one feels right. Okay. So good. Hey, that debate over.

Yeah. Half of $20, not $80. Half of $80, not $20. Half of $80 is not $20. Yes. Yeah. Second part, if you fill up your gas less, or you fill up your gas more often, do you save money?

If you fill your gas up more often. So here's where it gets tricky, is you're paying $20, but you're paying $20 more often. Right. So if what it does that. But if 20 is half of $80. But okay. All right. Let me let me.

All right. It's like charging your phone. If you wait until it goes down to zero and you let it go all the way back to 100, it charges longer. Yeah. That's a good point, Hank. So you're actually doing your gas tank at disservice. If you fill it up more often, you're conditioning it to be like, oh, there'll always be gas here.

Right. So I can burn it faster. So yeah, I think that I don't think that shacks right. Well, but all right. So let me just let me try to try to get in the mind of Shaq here. If you fill up your tank, let's say you fill up your tank every three days. Okay. For $20.

Now, when you say every three days, you mean I fill it up on Monday and then you're going to fill it up again on Wednesday, Thursday, but Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, that's three days. Okay. After three days. So, okay. So Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. So then Thursday.

The fourth day. So every four days I fill up my tank. Yeah. But then I fill it up once a week. Yeah. I fill it up almost twice a week. Yeah. But it's better because it's cheaper because you're not filling it up that 80 bucks, man.

Right. You're saving yourself 60 bucks because you're only paying 20. So I think Shaq's right. Yeah. Okay. All right. You guys remember that thread on bodybuilding.com about how many days in a week? Yeah.

Shaq would, Shaq, we should show that to Shaq. That would blow his mind. That was one of the best days I've ever had on the internet is just reading that thread. All right. That's our show. We'll see everyone on Wednesday. Love you guys. Love you guys.

Love you guys. Stop saying that. I say that. I burped as I was saying. We'll see you on Wednesday. I'm going to cut it after I said it anyway. Yeah. Love you guys.

Hey, dude, do you understand what I'm saying though? Take on me. Cuff your stick. Evil Empire. Not the hottest thing smoking. You must be having a goddamn mind. Take me on. This shit is hard.

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