Pardon My Take - Nick Wright + Mount Rushmore Of Movie Crushes

Episode Date: July 30, 2018

Aaron Judge is dead (actually he just broke his wrist) and Yankees fans held a candelight vigil for him (2:27 - 7:17). Training Camp story lines, Dez Bryant spent his weekend not mad on twitter, Tom Brady vs Reporters, and Big Ben isn't as fat (7:17 - 10:57). Whos back of the week including John Rocker at the baseball Hall of Fame (10:57 - 20:40). Mt Rushmore of movie crushes with the movie boys from Lights Camera Barstool (20:40 - 37:04). Nick Wright from First Things First joins the show to talk about his career, how it's been doing a morning debate show for the past year plus, and Lebron vs MJ and why he's wrong (37:04 - 78:31). Segments include Stay Classy for the Dodgers wearing T-Shirts during batting practice. Thank you for your service Blake Griffin, Thoughts and Prayers to Mark Zuckerberg losing 19 billion dollars, and well actually Lebron did something pretty cool so props to him. You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

Hey, pardon my take listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen, ad-free, on Amazon Music. On today's part of my take, we have Nick Wright from Fox First Things First. Is that right? Mm-hmm. That is right. Okay, so Nick Wright is in studio.

Really fun interview. We did not spend the entire time talking MJ LeBron. We did a little, but we also talked a lot about how the show comes together for him. His path to where he is today, the NBA in general. Really fun interview. Very interesting guy. And we also have Who's Back, and we have a special Mount Rushmore with the Lights Camera Barstool guys who are going to be in studio.

We're going to do the Mount Rushmore of Movie Crushes, so characters that you have had a crush on in your movie watching experience. Before we get to all of that, the Cash App, the number one app, rated by us. It is the best app for all things finance. You can download it. You can get your paycheck directly deposited to it. You can send money to your friends and family. You can buy Bitcoin with it.

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All right. Let's go. Bye! Bye! Now in the street there is violence, and then a lot of song and work will be done. It's part of my take presented by Barstool Sports. Welcome to part of my take presented by SeekGeek. Today is Monday, July 30th, and Aaron Judge is dead.

Thoughts and prayers. He's dead. He died. Wait, no way. Oh shoot. No, he's dead. No, I'm looking it up. I'm pretty sure he's dead.

Just a little chip off his wrist. Oh, he's got a phone. He had broken wrist. Same thing as being dead. It was close to dead. Yeah. So, he got hurt, and Yankee fans had a candlelight vigil with their cell phone camera, or the lights on their cell phones.

We had the greatest tweet of all time from Dylan Farella, who tweeted a picture of Aaron Judge praying in the outfield and said, before each game, Aaron Judge takes to the center of the stadium to kneel and pray. Each day, this photo reminds me of his ethos and dedication, and I know the soul he puts into the game will be valued and retained by the Yankees community in the coming weeks. Hashtag pray for judge. So there are two options here. One is that Aaron Judge is praying to the wrong God, so whichever religion he is is

wrong. Second, there is no God. If he spends every day praying, and he had this terrible, horrible injury befall him, that he will probably never recover from fully. Yes, the soul he puts into the game will be valued and retained by the Yankees community in the coming weeks. I don't think Jose Fernandez got this type of tribute. No.

This is outrageous for a fucking broken wrist. Not even, it's like a fucking, I think he just got hit in the wrist and a little bone came off. The Yankees should wear all black. Or you know what they should do? They should just make one pinstripe extra, extra thick in remembrance of Aaron Judge. And Ravel said that sports needs underdogs, undersized guys like Steph Curry, who is 6'3", and actually like pretty, he's pretty tall for, like he's decently sized for his

position. 6'3", yeah. 6'3", whatever. And guys like Aaron Judge who can hit mammoth home runs and make us realize anything is possible. I like how he tied that in with Steph Curry for some reason. I don't know. Probably because he's getting a cash from Under Armour.

You know what, if I'm Aaron Judge, I take these, what, three to five weeks, is that what they're saying? Yes, yeah. Yeah, perfect timing, get some Invisalign. You're out of the public eye for a while, put some fucking power chains on there. You come back, you've got that perfect smile, yeah, I think that's got to be the move for you. You'll never get this opportunity again.

I don't know, I mean like never play again just because if you, it can't get better than these tributes to Aaron Judge. Like you got a candlelight vigil, I don't think you even come back. Put them up in Monument Park. Yeah, it's over. You've done it. You've earned your pinch straights and then some. I've got an idea for the back page of the New York Daily News since they let go of like

all their sportswriters and they don't have that snappy wit anymore to come up with those nice headlines. Here's a good one. Judge dead. It's like sliced alone. Judge Dredd, yeah. Judge Dredd. Got it.

Got it. Was it the Ravel Daly Post? Yes. Yes. The main competitor to the Ravel Daly Post. Which is actually just a Twitter account for the jokes that don't make your Twitter account. Correct.

It's like a rough draft. No, it's actually just one. I have one tweet up there. It's a rough draft. I saw it. I actually logged in the other day and I was thinking about it and I was like, now, I'll wait. Yeah.

Let's see. This is going to take a little more time. Special occasions. Yeah, exactly. Need something really big to go off. We also have more NFL storylines, including Des Bryant, not mad on Twitter, just spent all weekend quote-treating every tweet and saying his side of what was actually taken out of context quote from Steven Jones.

Des is catching feelings. Yes. He's not dropping them. He's getting feelings, taking two steps, making a football move, and then surviving the ground with his feelings. Yes. Because he is, whew, he's been on a tear. Like if you talk shit to Des Bryant on Twitter right now and you have a blue check mark, he's

going to respond to you. So what happened was Steven Jones did a radio interview and he said, talking about Dak Prescott, he said he's got to trust the system, which at times last year there was pressure with Des in his ear and to some degree Jason, Jason Winton in his ear. Those great players want the ball. Kind of a nothing quote when you think about it because like, oh yeah, a wide receiver and a tight end want the ball. But Des, like I guess it was kind of, it was transcribed a little bit differently on Twitter

and then Des, he jumped in, was like, fuck everyone. And then when people like, hey man, I think you saw the quote wrong, he's like too far. He's gone too far. He already called Sean Lee, Snake Lee. He's just, he was like, I don't even want a job, I'm just focusing on me, which is a blatant lie. I think snakes are back by the way. Yes.

Calling people snakes online. This is huge for Dwight Howard, who as we know is a snake enthusiast. Yes. You know he's got like seven snakes? That doesn't surprise me. He's a big, big snake guy. That does not surprise me whatsoever. Fucking weirdo.

Can't trust him. We need to do that Mount Rushmore still. As if we needed another reason to not trust. The pre-crime animals. Yeah, the pre-crime. Ferrets and snakes and all that bullshit. But Des Bryant, I'm actually going to go the other way. I want to say, congrats Des Bryant.

You showed tremendous restraint. It took you almost two months to go after everyone in the Jones family. Like that, if you, I would have bet that would have happened right away. So credit to you, you actually were very, very gracious in getting cut and now I need you on the Cleveland Browns. Yeah, this is what happens when you get linked to a Browns job, is you just like go off the fucking deep end. You're like, things have gotten that bad because didn't Des turn down two offers earlier this

off season? He was talking with Ravens about something. He's like, you're only offering me two years and he's pissed off and now he's like, oh shit. I guess I'm only like Josh Gordon's insurance policy. Right, right. It's like the tail end of the TO days when he's like, why am I not getting a job? You're slow and you also kind of yell at everyone all the time. What other new, oh we had Tom Brady versus reporters.

So this time of year is excellent because you've got all the quarterbacks. They've been kind of off the job for three or four months and they've forgotten how much they hate the media and so they do their press and then they're like, oh yeah, fuck you guys. So you've got Tom Brady walking out after being asked a question about, do you think Julian Edelman's PED test result was a result of his relationship with your trainer? He's like, that's a clown question, bro. Walked away. You've got Ben Rathausberger giving etiquette advice saying you don't ask a woman her age.

There's anybody that knows how to talk to women. It's Ben Rathausberger. Yes, well it was because someone was asking about his weight. Now the Tom Brady thing, I made a little halfway New Year's resolution to myself because similar to the Stephen Jones, Des Bryant situation, what happens all the time is basically words just get put out on Twitter for clicks and also transcribed and it's never the case. It's never accurately like, I watched the Tom Brady thing. The question should have been asked.

It's a fair question to ask and Tom Brady was like, I'm not answering that. I was like, all right, that's enough for me to guys and walked out like it wasn't, there was no anger or anything. He didn't storm off. He didn't storm off. There was nothing that crazy about it. It was a question that you had to ask and it's a question that Tom Brady in a billion years would never answer and seen.

So that's my new, I'm trying really hard to make sure that I actually look at things more than just the sentence I see on Twitter. Wow, you're evolving as a journalist. It's a new, because I realized that I basically just jumped to every conclusion ever and then I'm like, look like an idiot. What's past a capital J? What's bigger? You're like a bigger font size J.

I think I'm the president. I think I'm the president of the United States. So you determine what's fake news and what's not. Yes. Be cool. You know what? You're the media watchdog. Be cool.

That was so awesome. When Trump told everyone to be cool, like, hey, be cool. Just be cool guys. Shit's happening. Chill out. Be cool. Did you see the Arizona Cardinals have a football guy? No.

So Steve Wilkos, formerly of the Jerry Springer show, took over for Bruce Arians as their head coach. One football guy passed it towards another one. Wilkos is handing every single Arizona Cardinal a brick to put in their locker to remind them that they have to lay a brick that day. So they're building a strong team and it's brick by brick. That's a great saying. Like, credit to Steve Wilkos for inventing that.

Yes, brick by brick. Like, just keep building a big wall over and over. Brilliant. Like, that guy's a genius. He didn't deliver all those papers to not be the Cardinals head coach. That's correct. He didn't break up all those fights between transsexuals, twin sisters. Yes.

All right. So what else do we have? Oh, I guess we have the, should we go to who's back? We want to go who's back? Let's do who's back. Let's go to who's back. Move back of the week. And then we'll get to our Mount Rushmore.

It's good to just have football back. I'm going to say this. I'm going to say a sentence here that will probably get everyone a little horny. You ready for it? Yeah. We have finally gotten to the point where we will have a football game every single week until the second week of February. I need to change my shorts.

We have the Hall of Fame game on Thursday night. There will be a football game every single week. I know it preseason doesn't really count, but I'm just saying you will have a football game for every single week from now until the second week of February. I made it, folks. Damn, yeah. I need to tell. It's amazing.

I need to tell. It's so good. Once August comes and you're like, whew, football every month, until February. Time to get those mock fantasy drafts going. Oh, yeah. Dynasty Leagues. Get it going. All right.

Let's go to our who's back. PFT, where should we start? All right. My who's back of the week, Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C.'s back big time. Wayne Rooney, recurring guest of part of my take, scored a great goal. I think he also broke his nose in that game. He won his free guitar, too. He was man of the match.

He got his free guitar that he's been waiting for for a week. So that's pretty cool. The capital is re-signed, Tom Wilson. Tommy Wilson. Scumbag. No, no. Team leader. Noted man rocket.

Noted enforcer. Noted glue guy. Tom Wilson is back for, I think, multiple years. It's like four or six years. I forget what it was. Six years. Anyway, so that's a dynasty. So six years back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to

championships. The Redskins won the off season again. They do that every year. They're a dynasty at this point. You have to count them as a dynasty. And the Washington Valor won the renable after going two and ten in the regular regular season. They won the championship.

What a story. What a story. Yeah, so Washington D.C. Sports will never lose another championship again. I noticed you didn't mention the Nationals. Do you know where the Nationals are? Do you know what's going on with the Nationals? They're poised.

They're ready. Do you know? You know what they're doing? How many games out do you think the Nationals are right now? If you had to guess. You know what? They're a team that you don't want to play in October. If you had to guess.

If you had to guess. They're about to make some noise. Just take a guess. They're six games back. They're six games back in Steven Strasberg and Max Scherzer hate each other and the whole team is kind of self-combustive. Get John Papelbaum back in the next string. So what's that now?

Does that, if they don't make the playoffs, are you still counting the winner of the championship? Yeah. Well, they didn't lose in the postseason. So that would be a nice change of pace. All right. Hank, who you got? I was back at the week's RVs.

Ooh, okay. With football season being back, the Browns Quarterbacks, Tyrod Taylor and Baker Mayfield have acquired an RV and they've parked it on the premises for training camp for a top secret clubhouse. I love it. Only QB is allowed inside for now and there's no name yet. That's actually awesome. No girls allowed.

Yeah. That's an awesome move. I love the clubhouse. To just be able to go and hang out and probably, no. Probably just play Fortnite. Yeah. Probably just like lay out and just not have to deal with Hugh Jackson's stinky breath. Probably makes all the wide receivers like hate him though.

You know, I think Cleveland wide receivers don't want to be hanging out with Cleveland Quarterbacks that much. It's kind of a bad thing. Also, like it's kind of, you know, like it's something to attain, you know, like, okay, I can strive to someday be invited into the RV. You know what I love about this though? Drew Stanton made them buy it. Really?

Yeah. So Drew, this is like the week of training camp every year that Drew Stanton gets to be like the big shot veteran. He's like, you know, hey, I've been around, I've been around the block, listen to your uncle Drew. He won't steer you wrong. So he's like really taking advantage of this. He's like buy me an RV.

Yeah. Pretty much. I love it. And then he's going to fill it all with popcorn and be like, hey, clean it up. Clean it out. Baker. A bunch of people have made the reference to Breaking Bad, like it's, they're cooking up meth and that parking lot, which I actually put, put two and two together.

If you look at Greg Williams, he looks like Walter White when he went into hiding up in like Vermont or New Hampshire. Greg Williams is back. Yeah. Dude, Hard Knocks is going to be fucking lit. But they don't allow, they don't allow cameras in the RV. They might. I don't know.

They might. I think they'll have to. That's going to be a big part of Hard Knocks. They, you know what they need is they need to get a microphone in there. So we get almost like a Robert Durst situation. Baker may feel the admitting to shit. Like actually Colin Cowards, right? I'm, I'm a terrible, I'm a terrible teammate.

Yeah. Like I killed them all right in the RV while, while the camera is on the other side of the parking lot. Or like in Joe millionaire when they went off into the woods and the subtitle was just slurping sounds. Slurping. Slurping. Yeah.

Mouth, mouthfeels. Lot of slurping sounds going on that RV. CT did that. Cause they suck. Remember when he, when he, who was that chick that he hooked up with? It started like the whole fight with Adam. I have, I have something very brave to say with the big tits. Paulina.

Yeah. That was it. I have some very brave to say. Yeah. I think the Cleveland Browns are going to win seven games this year. There aren't there are 15 and one. Yeah. We said that last week.

We said Cleveland's on the up and off. Yeah. Cleveland's back. Yeah. Yeah. No. Cleveland's back. Yeah.

Yeah. No. I mean seven is a lot. I think they're going to be. I think they're going to win the division. Pac-Man coming in at corner, at cornerback maybe they're going to, they're, they will definitely win more than I'm going to say, yeah, like they're in that, they'll be scrappy. They'll be in the upgraded to scrappy.

I'm hoping that Hugh Jackson has a stroke because if you, I think he would actually coach better if he got rid of half of his brain. Yeah. If he just didn't, yeah, he didn't know what's going, maybe just lobotomize him. Yeah. Or just have whatever fake stroke Gary Kubiak had. I think he, he's dead dude. Oh shit.

Yeah. Yeah. All right. He thought he died the day after David Bowie. Yeah. After David Bowie. All right. My who's back is the baseball hall of fame, but more importantly, John Rocker.

So John Rocker picture taken outside the baseball hall of fame on his little table looking for anyone who wanted to have a John Rocker signature. The saddest moment basically every year of the baseball hall of fame is John Rocker being like, Hey, remember me? I played. John Rocker. I've said that really offensive shit to everyone. Uh-huh.

Do you want an autograph for $75? He's just selling his like, his private Rosetta stone for learning. Yeah. It's fucking unbelievable. So, but this should be a good year for him because Chipper got in Chipper Jones is naming his new kid Cooper for Cooper's town. His other kid is Shay because he beat the Mets all the time. There also was a quote I saw Chipper Jones, his pregame warmups were fucking awesome.

He would, he'd play solitaire for four hours by himself just sitting in the locker room. And he'd go, he'd then go out, take a couple swings at BP, then he would grab a cool ranch Doritos. Yes. A big bag of those great flavor. And he would go in and in a, in a whole pack of chips and hoi cookies and watch exactly 30 minutes of the picture he was facing that night and polish both off. And then he would go out and play, not like any kind of warmup run, nothing, no stretching,

nothing, just I love it. Cool ranch Doritos and chips and hoi cookies, boom, Chipper's ready to go. That's something you can get away with if you're like a highly touted prospect. Yeah. If you're a guy that had to work his way up like through the miners, you, you can't get away with like just eating, having both fists inside bags of Doritos before the game. There's one, we need to figure out like who it wasn't each sport that ruined it for everyone. Like what was the one guy who, who decided, Hey, I'm not, I'm going to actually start

eating healthy and stretching and getting a trainer who ruined it. Cause this is what like then the late the nineties were kind of the last era where guys were basically able to just be fat pieces of shit and go to the whole thing. I think probably a lot of it had to do with the fact he played right next to Terry Pendleton for a while. Yeah. And so when you see that ass lumbering through the clubhouse, you're like, okay, Chipper, you eat three, three, three seas.

Yeah. Tell you what, as long as you stay 50 pounds beneath Terry, you're going to be good to go. But seriously, there's, there's some guy who in every single sport we can trace to like who was the guy who was like, I'm actually going to train in the off season. I'm going to lift weights. David Boston. Yeah.

Game capler. Oh, that's cool. Let's go. Yeah. It's all the fucking guys who did steroids. They kind of ruined it for everyone because they're like, Hey, lifting is fun with steroids, but lifting is fun. And then now Chipper Jones would never be able to, he's still be able to be a haul.

Larry. Larry Jones. Larry Jones. That's right. Yeah. Fun follow on Twitter, by the way. Yeah. When he saved all those guys in the, uh, in the blizzard in Atlanta, when it like snowed

like an inch. Yeah. Yeah. He like drove his truck around saving people in RV or in the whatever those four wheelers Larry. He strikes me as a guy that's got a bunch of those yellow flashing lights that he can put on his truck that he just bought at home depot is like in case of an emergency, like this just signals that I'm going to take over.

Yeah. Yeah. It's like when Kurt Schilling saved all those people with that, uh, trailer that broke down in like Tennessee and then he just stabs it there. Probably never existed. Yeah. Um, all right, let's get to our Mount Rush more of movie characters we had crushed on before we do that NFL Sunday ticket for over 20 years.

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It is the lights camera bar stool guys. You should got to follow them on Twitter at lights camera pod and you also have to subscribe to them on iTunes. They have new episodes Mondays and Wednesdays Thursdays Thursdays Mondays and Thursdays listening big cat. Well, they just changed it to two times a week. Correct. No, no.

Thanks. When did you guys change it? How long you guys been two times a week? January. Yeah. Okay. Got time. All right.

All right. So it's out whenever. I don't really, I don't know. We have, we have all the members of lights camera bar stool in the studio. We have Jeff and Ken Jack. Yes. And that's it. That's my friend, Trill.

You might remember him from one of the best interviews I've ever done on Pardon My Take. He couldn't make it tonight. Best Mount Rushmores. Best Mount Rushmores. Yeah. We did Mount Rushmore of Millennial Names with Trill. We'll have it back though. We'll have it back though.

Two years ago. Yeah. Because he actually is a friend and he was not as bad as people made him out to be. He was great. I loved Trill. He was actually worse. I'm standing on him. All right.

So let's, that was a joke. That was a joke. Guys don't know. Hashtag Trill was not that bad on PMT. Yes. Hashtag was it? Not that bad on PMT. That's too long of a hashtag.

Yeah. It's too long of a hashtag. All right. So we're doing Mount Rushmore of movie characters that you have a crush on. And let's start with Trill. So Trill did give us a pick. So how it's going to work is PFT, Hank and I are going to have our regular four. The lights camera barstool guys are going to do their own personal Mount Rushmore.

So it'll be Jeff's pick, Ken Jack's pick, Trill's pick, and then the people's pick. Correct? Yeah. Okay. Your audience voted. It better be good. Otherwise, we're never going to have him back on this show. He went with Leah Thompson and Back to the Future.

Okay. So it sounds like Trill took that route that I kind of took a little bit, which was more nostalgic. You'll notice a lot of like younger movies from when we were younger on my list. But she is a classic character. Yes. Absolutely. So I can't find any fault in that.

Also still very gorgeous. Yes. Leah Thompson is. Yes. Yes. PFT, why don't you go? All right. So for my first one, I'm going to stick with that theme.

Alicia Silverstone from Clueless. Okay. Had a huge, huge crush on her. Even though she was hooking up with her, or like her stepbrother, stepbrother, no blood relation. But it was Paul Rudd, who's hot enough where like, no, if Paul Rudd's even blood brother, you got to fuck him. That's back in though now.

Stepbrother and stepsister stuff. That's way back in. It is. Yeah. All the way back in. Ted Cruz will tell you back. Yeah. Yeah.

All right, Hank, you got yours. I'll go with Nadia from American High. Five. All right. I'll go with the one we actually were talking about on Friday's show, maybe Wednesday's show. Rachel McAdams, Wedding Crashers, she, yeah, she's got it all. And then I'm going to go with a little guilty pleasure of mine.

I'm going to go with Anna Kendrick from Pitch Perfect. Oh, yeah. I had that. I love Pitch Perfect. I haven't seen three though. I got to see three. When she's doing stuff. Three good?

No. Yeah. Because three have like bands in it, right? Yeah. Go ahead, Hank. I'll go with Danielle from the Girl Next Door, blonde girl from Girl Next Door. Scarger. Oh, okay.

Nice. No. Okay. Wasn't Scarger. That wasn't Scarger. No. That's a big mistake by executive producer. No.

Vice president of football operations. Okay. So who was the character? What was the name of the person? Her name was Danielle in Girl Next Door. Yeah. Yeah. We don't know what the actual.

Yeah. Girl Next Door. Great. Great movie podcast. Danielle. Yeah. We're killing it, guys. PFT, why don't you go?

Okay. Oh, so it's Alicia Cuthbert. Oh. Yeah, she's hot. Okay. She also was in. She was also old school, right? Yep.

Yeah. All right. I'm going to go with Jennifer Aniston. Are you questioning me? No. No. No. No.

I'm thinking about how I'm going to lose all my picks. Oh, okay. Got it. My next one is Jennifer Aniston from Horrible Bosses. Okay. Bad girl vibe. Yeah. Yeah.

Take me there. I think for my pick, I'm going to go with Megan Foxx, the scene in Transformers where she's on the car hood. Yeah. It's unbeatable. It's absolutely unbeatable. It's a white snake music video of our generation. That's a good one.

Except Toathomps. That's a good one. She's got Toathomps. Oh, man. Now I'm thinking I should have done Jessica Simpson and Dukes of Hazard because the Dukes of Hazard music video, that was a horny time in teenage years. Yep. Yep.

All right. So now we're going back to PFT. Okay. I'm going to go with. Wait, how do we screw this up? No, no, no. Stick. Stick.

Stick. Stick. Now Jeff's pick. All right. So I had a couple here. I almost went to Rosamund Pike from Gone Girl. Also crazy. Whoa.

Much crazier than just. What? Whoa. If Ben Affleck. What? If Ben Affleck's character had not cheated on her and been a loser basically, she wouldn't have faked the murder. Why wouldn't you go with Emily Rajakowski who he cheated on her with?

Ulster. But I have a better pick. Anna Kendrick was the number one pick. I'm going with awful movie, Alexander Daddario in Baywatch. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah.

I'm going with some Paul movie. Is it? Yeah. He makes one of the guys really hairy nipples. He makes movies? No, he's just in the movie. Oh, okay. He's in it for six seconds.

Like the Vine star shot. Makes one of the hairy nipples and he gets kicked out. But Alexander Daddario's. Okay. Okay. Daddario and True Detective also. That would have been my pick. Yes.

Yeah. It's a great scene. Great scene. We all know what scene we're talking about. She drops him. Yes. Titty drop. I think I'm like a whole subreddit for Titty Drops.

It's a really funny tweet by here because Obama mentioned that he specifically requested to get True Detective in the White House and she just quoted it with Obama seeing my boobs. Yeah. Well, we all have. Yeah. All right. PFT, you're up. You didn't build that.

My next one is going to be. Was that your Obama? Yeah. No. Look, let's be clear. Most titties were paid for by the United States government. All right. All right.

I'm struggling here with which way I'm going to go. I'm going to go with Elizabeth Hurley from Austin Powers. Oh, yeah. That's good. She was such a babe back then. Mm-hmm. That was also, I think the same year. Was that movie with Badazzle?

Badazzle was right there. With Brynn and Flavor came on. Yeah. She was on a real high streak there for about nine months. Yeah. That's a good one. Still is now today. I don't know if you follow on Instagram.

It is something. Yeah. Okay. I am going to pick Jessica Simpson from Duke's of Hattie. Yeah. I was obsessed with Jessica Simpson. That's a good one. That's a good one.

All right. So I got my last two. I got a tough couple that I want to phew. All right. I know one I'm going to do is Jennifer Love Hewitt from Can't Hardly Wait. Mm-hmm. Amanda Beckett. And then my second, I'm going to go with Jessica Beale from Summercatch.

Okay. That's great. Strong. Yeah. So that's my last pick. Wait. Is that the... I left someone else off that I was close.

But yeah. That's my last pick. Is that the one they find the treasure? Huh? Summercatch? No. No. It's a baseball movie.

You're thinking of Nicholas Cage. Yeah. Jessica Beale. I was thinking... Beale. Yes. Jessica Beale. You could also pick Jessica Beale from my now-pronouncing Chuck and Larry.

Wait. You like that movie, right? Yeah. I like that movie. Yeah. They got a lot of heat in the office for that. Yeah. I don't know why.

Coley said there's no way. Because Nate freaks out in the office every day. You just... You inspired my last pick. I'm going to go with Jessica Alba and Into the Blue. Yeah. Okay. There you go.

Great pick. There you go. Great pick. Great movie too. All right. My last one. I'm going to go with Sloan from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. That's a good pick.

Our audience had her number four. The audience though, so I just want to tee this up quick. Ken Jack makes fun of Trill and I for liking... I like the Muppets. He thinks I want to fuck Muppets. And he likes... He says Trill wants to fuck rats because he likes Ratatouille and like other things. So...

There's more reasons than that. Yeah. You're pulling it down, but yes. It's very fair. So our audience goes after us for this. However, they picked a cartoon rabbit. They picked Lola Bunny. Ooh, that's a good pick.

She was hot. Lola Bunny could get it. Yeah. Also rabbits, they like to fuck. Yeah. So, what's Lola Bunny from? Space Jam. Oh, Space Jam.

Oh, yeah. I was thinking of Jessica Rabbit. Jessica Rabbit. Yeah. Well, that's a good pick. Jessica Rabbit was a pick. Yeah. No, but the audience, I mean, they voted and...

I immediately... When you say rabbit hot, I'm like, oh, Jessica Rabbit. Yeah. Like, that's immediately... Their number two was great, by the way. Bugs Bunny dressed up like a girl rabbit was hot too. Yes, it was number two. Number two was Margot Robbie and Wolf Wall Street.

That's a good one. Very good. So what else do we have for honorable mentions? The one I was deciding between when I was deciding for Jessica Biel was Zoe Daschanel from 500 Days of Summer. I had Elf, number three from Elf. She is total like, like, oh, we could just, you know, like all of a sudden not be obsessed with like sports gambling and all like paint and listen to indie bands and like, we'll

just smoke clothes because we're bringing those back. Yeah. That kind of shit. Yeah. I had one of those that like, I had a huge crush on her at the time, but in retrospect, maybe not that hot was Andy McDowell from Groundhog Day. Wow. For some reason, when I was younger, I had a big thing for her.

Yeah. If I had my own personal amount of Rushmore, I could have done three or four being crazy because we already mentioned Jennifer Aniston from Horrible Bosses and I mentioned Rosamund Pike from Gonger, also Isla Fisher from Wedding Crash. Yeah. Not, but... Yes. Also Jennifer Aniston from Breakup, you know, Rebound Action, won't be as bad as Vince

Five. If you play a little less mad, like your old boyfriend was a loser. Yeah. Like Beckinsale and like any movie between 2004 to like 2010 because she was insanely attractive. We should quickly do, for the lady listeners out there, a little like off the cuff male Mount Rushmore. Well, hang on.

I got two more to add. Okay. That's cool. Let's see. Dynamic duo of Black Swan, Natalie Portman and Meal Tooners. Yeah. That is an all time movie to watch on an airplane. Yeah.

When you've got that scene going on with the two of them and like everyone's leaning over their seats to watch your screen. What about the two chicks who do ass to ass and what movie is that again? That was... Oh, that? Cake Farts. No. No.

The drug movie. Reckling for a drink. Reckling for a drink. It was a prequel to Cake Farts. What was your other one, PFD? It was those two. It was those two. Yeah.

All right. So off the cuff male crushes. William Walls. Yeah. I was going to say, Mel Gibson, but fuck. Yeah. William Walls for sure. Patrick Bateman, crazy, but...

Brad Pitt and Troy. I mean, you should go to Harvard. Brad Pitt and Troy is a solid... Brad Pitt and Troy. Yeah. Yeah. Paul Walker. Paul Walker is going to get into the blue.

Oh, yeah. Oh, that's pretty good. You're always going to get Goss God, Ryan Gosling from either La La Land or Crazy Stupid. Lord Memo Tradens. Lord Memo Tradens. Oh, yeah. What about Jason Siegel from Forgetting Sarah Marshall? Every girl loves a dad boss.

Who just smokes Triton Christ. Yeah, you get a nice old dick shot. What about Viggo Mortensen from, was it Eastern Promises? Yeah. Oh, they did Tatjus. Where you guys dick flopping all over the place in the steam room. Yeah. Yeah.

And let's go back to Brendan Fraser in anything. Yeah. Sure. Good points. Yeah. What a blood sport for sure. Oh, what a bod. What a bod.

What a big time bod. What do you got, Hank? Any off the cuff Mount Rushmore crushes for girls from the ladies? I'm thinking, my brain is shut off, but the Joker in that... The Fledger? Jared Little. He Fledger. The Fledger?

He Fledger in a... Night's Tale? 10 Things I Hate About You. 10 Things I Hate About You. Oh, yeah. That's a big one. You said a quick one. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, Christian Bale in basically anything, right? Yeah. Essentially. Batman Begins. Jesse Plemmons. Are you going to make the list? Chris O'Donnell.

And Batman Robin. What about... At least you're Silverstone Batman, right? Yeah. What about Matt Damon, Goodwill Hunting? Every girl likes a project, right? Bad boy. He's like, oh, I'm going to be the one who's going to tame them.

I'm going to be the therapist. The Robot Knight Robot. There's some articles about that. Chappy. Chappy. Chappy. Well, for the lady, the lady's Bugs Bunny. Yes.

Bugs Bunny, for sure. Yeah. Who's the hottest male cartoon? Gaston. Oh, Gastons. Yeah. Yeah. We said, if you had one movie character, you'd be okay with this.

Yeah. Yeah, but he's... Yeah, exactly. Girls love the bad boy. If your sister was to bring home a movie character, we picked Gaston. What about John Smith? Oh, yeah. He was probably mad.

He brought syphilis to your colonies. Yeah, he kind of fucked up. Yeah. Get a genocide. What about Prince Eric? Wasn't that the one from Little Mermaid? Oh, yeah. Wait, Eric?

Actually, you know what? I like the Beast. I think chicks would like to fuck the Beast from Beauty and the Beast. Yeah, why not? You know what people always say? They say, Simba is hot. That's what I've seen a lot of ladies say on Twitter, that Simba is very hot. He has nice hair.

He does, yeah. Interesting. He's really nice. I don't really know how you get to the Simba is hot. What part is like his... I can see it, I guess. Nala, no, Nala. Nala, okay, yes, Nala.

That one scene when they're romping around and the dust and the word sex pops up and she gives that look, that like, man, fellas, you see Nala in a cloud of dust in sub-Saharan Africa. What do you do? Yeah. All right. We got any others? Any others that we missed?

I had Halle Berry and Swordfish because that was the only access to boobs on a TV show. Kate Winslet too in Titanic because that was a lot of people's first boobs. RIP first boobs segment. I'm part of my team. It's a hot one. First boobs. Two episodes. All right, so download Lights Camera Barstool comes out every Monday and Thursday.

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Truth teller. You can watch him on First Things First every single morning. Truth teller. Let's save the LeBron MJ stuff for the end. It's your podcast. I would want to save the part where I'm going to be clearly wrong to power you as well. Kevin Durant's emboldened me, by the way, to go on other people's podcasts and just talk cash shit.

Let's go. I came on your fucking podcast, bro. That's the new desktop cast phrase. Snake in the grass. Let's start there. Kevin Durant. If you end up breaking up the Warriors, I'm going to give you a cashier's check for $10,000. We've talked about that.

The only downside of me breaking. I would love to be the guy to break up the Warriors, but then LeBron would maybe win another title, probably not still, and then you would be right. But Kevin Durant, when he goes off on Twitter like this, I actually kind of like him now because he is who he is. He's just going to get triggered all the time. But he doesn't know who he is. This is the problem, right?

Kevin Durant, and I don't want to play pop psychologist, but I will. He triggered is the right word. He has a trigger. If people bring up him going to the Warriors, he clearly is not at peace with that decision, even though it has worked out better than even he could have expected. I mean, back-to-back finals in VP's, back-to-back game threes of finals where he hits the same shot from the same place to win the series, essentially, and yet he's still struggling with it.

But here, go ahead. I'm sorry. I was just going to say that's kind of a fascinating point because this is a dude who, obviously, he cares what everyone else thinks about him all the time forever. He second guesses him, so he's got these little bits of insecurity kind of in the back of his head all the time, but you put him on a basketball court and it all goes out the window. Like, how does that happen?

And Dragonfly Jones is a great follow on Twitter. He pointed out something last night that was very interesting, that it basically is, Kevin Durant, you notice he doesn't get triggered when people come at him for his game because he knows that his game is, he is the best player in the NBA right now. I mean, you, of course, have to say something to undercut all everything else you're going to say. Go ahead. Two finals MVPs, back-to-back titles, but it's the, like you said, the going to Golden

State. So I guess the question then is, will Twitter and Twitter trolls force Kevin Durant to maybe go to like a Knicks to save the Knicks to recapture whatever seems to be lost with this narrative? To be over on Sidekick in LA, who knows, but could it potentially drive him away from Golden State? I, I think it's on the board. And here's the thing, he, the Durant tweet, everyone's focusing on, understandably, is

the one where CJ, and I'm so jealous of CJ, I've talked about Kevin Durant's move for Golden State for two years straight, I'm paid to talk CJ in 90 seconds, thumbs out the perfect analogy that I've been looking for forever. But Kevin Durant takes the analogy, literally, that's the one everyone's talking about. His follow-up tweet to, I think it's Nate Jones, who covers the NBA. He says in there, he's like, oh, I forget, because I'm in the NBA, I'm not allowed to be on Twitter. No, that's not what people are saying.

It's because you're Kevin Durant, you're not supposed to respond to trolls in your mentions. Like can you imagine if Tom Cruise this week, his Twitter feed was like, oh, you didn't like MI2? Well, actually, let me tell you about the directorial masterpiece that was. He's got an army of Scientology trolls that do that for him. But I think it's okay to be, like, I don't know, we're all human. I agree with you, it's a quote unquote bad look, but as someone who has been triggered online before, sometimes you just want to be like, hey, guess what, you guys have it

wrong. It's counter, but here's that you, yes, we're all human, but at some point, a self-awareness of man, this is bad for me, I'm not going, so I used today during the show to kind of almost prove a point, like the Kevin Durant is one of the most famous athletes in the world. I am, if there was such a thing below a zealous level notoriety, that's me, but I have enough notoriety, strangers talk trash to me, right? You guys, you guys.

Wait, on Twitter? Strangers? Yeah, I know, it's crazy. So like, yesterday, I had someone tweet to me, Nick, you know, the only reason you're on TV is because Chris Carter's married to your sister. Okay, so like that's not only is that. What is that true? Of course it's not true.

Like, the Chris has never met my sister, like, I only have one sister, like, so the point is, is that if like, I'm getting like, there was, evidently there is, because I replied to the guys, like, I want to hear more about this theory, and a couple of other people chimed in. There's some blog post written somewhere about the morning guy at FS1's sister that involves Chris being married to her. So you know what you just did there, you just drew like a whole lot more attention to that thing.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And you don't, I noticed you don't have a Wikipedia page, which means that there's people like it's a perfect right farming opportunity for people to populate that page that people started tweeting, what's your Twitter handle at, at Gettnick right, hey, you're only there because. Right. And so the, so the point is, and I think you follow it, is that if I deal with that

level of nonsense, Kevin Durant is swim swimming against the tide of all the oceans. Yeah. And you can't win this fight. And by the way, the people criticizing him for going to, for going to Golden State, most of what they're saying is accurate as well, which is another reason you can't win the fight. Like it was unprecedented. It did tilt the balance of the NBA in an uncomfortable way.

It wasn't like LeBron going to the heat. It would have been like LeBron going to the Celtics. If the Celtics, by the way, had just won 73 games, like it's, but he made that choice eyes wide open. I think feeling like once I win, it'll all stop. Right. Winning actually probably exacerbated it. Yeah.

Because people like he ruined the NBA. If they had the, the best thing to happen to LeBron, even though the way they lost was not great. The best thing to happen to LeBron was that Miami team losing to Dallas. Yeah. Because it validated those other two titles. It made it seem hard. The worst thing in an odd way that happens is a hell of a spin zone by you.

What? No, no, no, no. I agree with that. No, I, it's not. Listen. How about this? The best thing that LeBron's ever had is losing six finals. As a LeBron stand, me and you are on the same page here.

I think that that's totally true. If he had gone there and they just rattled off, not three, not four, not five, then it would be like, okay, this guy sucks. He stacked the deck. So you're saying he intentionally lost. No. I'm not saying he intentionally lost. What I'm saying is, and I LeBron's series against the Mavericks is the biggest black

mark on any all time great in basketball history. Like that, that happened. The problem for, for people like you that have since that moment, like it's like your DVR is stuck on that moment. He's just ripped off the greatest seven year stretch in the history of American pro sports, but it's neither here nor there. I'm actually like very upset right now that I didn't just don't have my DVR stuck on that moment.

If I had that game and just had it like every night, just walk, went home and watched it put up eight points. It'd be a mystery. No, no, no. That map team, by the way, which obviously the maps team, terrible maps team that beat the LeBron James led heat and six that had just swept the Kobe Bryant Lakers and four, but it's neither here nor there. The point that I'm saying is, is not for LeBron's legacy, it was good.

They lost there. But for the narrative surrounding that heat team, the fact that they had real adversity made the rest of the championships feel validated to the public. The fact that the first year, Kevin Durant gets to Golden State, they sweep the Cleveland Cavaliers and the next year they, I'm sorry, they beat the Cavs in five and the next year they sweep them. It makes, and now they had boogie. It's like, man, what the hell's going on here?

So what would happen, what would have to happen in your mind to turn on LeBron James? Let's say hypothetically, LeBron goes to the Warriors, you turn on them? Yeah. So I don't, I think it was one of your guys, one of your Boston Barstool folks took a, took a clip that I had said totally out of context. I don't think so, I don't think so. Of me sarcastically making the point, if you were okay with KD, if you're one of the people like, hey, it's no different than an engineer from Apple signing with Google, like athletes

can sign wherever they want because competition's not part of sports. It's all about the magistory of it. Like who cares if the spoiler alert, we know who's going to win the finals. If that was your feeling about KD, then you have to be okay with LeBron doing it. I, LeBron had he chosen Golden State, it would have wildly disappointed me, it would have changed the way I watched the rest of his career, wouldn't change the fact that he's objectively and obviously the greatest basketball player ever. Okay, we're going to get to that point, okay, sorry, go ahead.

Hold on. I thought we were already there. No, so I, when Kevin Durant initially signed with the Warriors, I kind of defended him because I am a big player's right sky. I am too. The owners will fuck over a player at any point in time, so free agency's there for a reason and guys being able to decide where they want to go, how much they want to, you know, how many years they want to sign for, basically having the freedom that they're

not afforded for the most part in their career. I mean, when you think about it, a guy gets, he goes to college, doesn't get paid, gets drafted for five years, has to get paid whatever the NBA decides. Then finally he reaches a point where like, I get to go where I want to go. Obviously since then it's been like, all right, like yeah, the Warriors are really fucking good and I like he kind of, he hasn't, I'm not a, he ruined the NBA, but you have to admit the NBA has not had with the Warriors are good every single year, it does take a little out of it.

Like here's the, and there has become, listen, once upon a time, pre, pardon my take, pre-bar stool existing, pre-PTI existing even, like let's go back to old school media. Media was a bunch of 50 and 60 year old white dudes, basically scolding young black athletes, they were always pro team, they were always anti-player and that was awful. I do wonder if we've skewed not in diversity of the media, but in outlook of the media, a little too far in the other direction to where if you at any point, if when Boogie signs with the Warriors, you're like, you got to be kidding me and you don't just embrace it and accept it and applaud it, you're, you're scalded by colleagues in the media.

People, do you know why there's such a thing as spoiler alert? Because people don't like to know the ending of something. Like I can love the acting of Daniel Day-Lewis, but still prefer when I- Have you seen the Sopranos? Have you seen the Sopranos? Yeah, of course I saw the Sopranos. We won't go there. But by the way, who runs pardon my take, Twitter, he does, hey.

No, that was my tweet, yeah. Oh, okay, the one that- Yeah, season two. Yeah, season two. Yeah, I mean I haven't watched Sopranos. It's like a running joke. Oh, okay, it's only a watershed moment in America. Yeah, but see, you're not smart enough.

I told them I started watching Sopranos last year, I was like in season three and they just decided to spoil the entire- See, you're mad at me because you're not smart enough to have access to the first things first, Twitter, because the best thing you can do, and this is a lesson for Kevin Durant as well, we've said it many times, start a foundation, Twitter. No one knows who runs it, Kevin Durant can fire off on people there. Pardon my take, no one knows who tweets what we tweet, like who actually tweeted it. So if you have a really spicy take, like when Chip Kelly, we got an inside source, Chip

Kelly was gonna go coach at Florida. We tweeted that from pardon my take, who tweeted that? I don't know. The team who knows. The team made it in error. Can I tell you guys something pardon my take should tweet out some from the Warriors real quick? Okay.

All right, so you know how Kevin Durant didn't take the max this year, took a little- Team player. Okay, so here's the thing, so Kevin Durant, not taking the max, didn't open up any cap space for him. All it did was save Joe Lakeup about $18 million in luxury taxes. Kevin Durant saved himself five, or cost himself $5 million to save Lakeup around $18 million to Lakeup. It was way more than $5 million to Durant.

Man, word on the NBA Street is like, I don't know, like does Lakeup like pay these guys in Bitcoin? Yeah. Like where you're going? It's part of- Kind of like Jeannie Busk gave LeBron ownership in the Lakers. Wink, wink. I don't know what you're talking about, but I mean, like is one of the reasons Draymond

Green is this great recruiter is it's like, hey, we get these flash drives? Interesting, interesting. Like Bitcoin. Yeah. He's going to be an angel investor in all of our VC problems. We've actually thought about that for- I'm not reporting. No, no, no.

This is just- There's a lot of chatter out there. We're just saying things out loud. Exactly. We've definitely thought about that when it comes to college recruiting. When you see a team just like load up, like there's one year that I think- Was it Ole Miss? Yeah, Ole Miss.

Yeah, it was U-Freeze. It's got like eight, five star recruits. And how Duke? Yeah, how Duke, every year in basketball. We think that there's something, there's some like Bitcoin crypto stuff going on in the college game. I had not put the pieces together for the NBA. That actually makes sense.

Listen, I get why guys would take a discount to, so you can say another player, why would you take a discount to save your billionaire owners about to open a new stadium? Nice job. Nice job. He's a job creator. Maybe Kevin Durant thinks that every dollar that he gives to a billionaire, he's going to go create like a hundred more jobs. So he's spreading.

And- It's actually the most socialistic thing that you can do. And maybe if LeBron wasn't such a malcontent and a terrible employee for Dan Gilbert, he would have some kind of deal like that as well. Very true. But shout out to Dan Gilbert. He's so dead set, we are not going to go from the finals to 19 wins like we did the last time LeBron left.

I'm going to give Kevin Love- Oh, yeah. Kevin Love, I love that he got that contract because it's the, like, there's nothing better than the owner scorned contract. Oh, yeah. Like, if you can be in the right place at the right time, your owner gets embarrassed. He's going to give the next guy down the line a shitload of money. And Kevin Love is a good, an objectively good guy.

Yes. And he's still a good player. And it's, there's one spot where playing with LeBron sucks. Being the second best player on the LeBron team has been great for Kyrie and for Wade. Being a role player on the LeBron team has been great. The guy that it sucks for is that third star. For Bosch, it was tough for Love. He was all the way on the train block.

So easily it's going to be tough for him. Yeah. Got it. Got it. Got it. So I was going to say, so in Cleveland, you, you know, you made your bones. You've been like digging, you've been climbing up this hill for the last like four years. You're the preeminent LeBron stand on the internet.

Now that he's gone from Cleveland, is there any part of you that's like still like, I like this Cleveland team. Are you going to find yourself rooting for them? There is. I find Dan Gilbert in his basketball moves and his non-basketball moves in his regular business to be a seemingly objectionable person. So no, but I do like Jettie Ossman. Did you guys see the love letter Jettie wrote LeBron?

No. It was one of, well, no chance LeBron even read it. You read all the love letters, people like LeBron because you get jealous. No. I love them more. Yeah. You guys are good. Okay.

Make sure you check this out. No. I mean, he posted it on Instagram. Jettie Ossman. Okay. I grew to like over the course of the year. And then. Oh, no way.

Because he loves LeBron. Because he's a good young player. Okay. How do you even spell his name? I don't, I don't know how to Google this. C-D-I-O-S-M-A-N. So I want to come back to the LeBron. He's the only untouchable.

I want to come back to all the NBA stuff, but I want to do a little bit of, you know, because I alluded to this at the beginning of the show. When we first had you on, it was very, very, you know, it was, it was a debate. It was back and forth. We had the LeBron-MJ debate. You were going to try to ambush me. I think it was the last earnest debate about LeBron-MJ ever, because everything else since has just been like noisy.

Right. Because at this point since the debate's over. No, no, no. In order if you're going to make the NBA argument, you have to be, okay, go ahead. All right. So, I, but I have grown to like you and consider you a friend because I actually, you kind of, you've made, would it be fair to say that like you came on the map by being the number one bronze sexual, but since then you obviously have shown, shown your abilities

in all sports? I think what cut through was the LeBron stuff. There's a lot of, there's a lot of content that, and so what certainly what made me noticeable when I was doing stuff with Con was LeBron stuff, but I think I like to think the thing, I know the thing that I did that was the single most viewed thing in the history of Fox Sports Online was actually an anthem take, which is still my pen tweet. It's tough to be the football guy on a show with, yeah, obviously. It's tough to be the football guy on a show with Chris Carter, but I think people believe

that I can talk all sports. So my point is though, like I, the reason why I didn't like you at first because I thought you were a one note guy. I thought you just went on a show, did your like hardcore LeBron thing and that was all you had. Obviously you have a lot more. So you, you went to Syracuse, you went to the journalism school. When you, because I think this is fascinating, like a bigger conversation about where journalism

is. When you graduated in 2007, did you ever think that like you would be where you are now or did you think it was going to be a more traditional route and like how everything has shifted since? So the, so my, you guys are probably going to kill me for this. I, the, did I ever think I'd be where I was now? I, sure, yes, but only because I've been very, listen, I was 12 years old, if I may tell you guys real quick when I was 12 years old, I was fortunate enough to meet Costas.

I walked up to him. I said, where'd you go? You were taller than him then? I said, I said, I was at a function, a Negro League Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Big Woke and I walked, walked up and I said, Hey, where, where'd you go to school? What'd you do? Uh, you do what I want to do. I thought I wanted to do play by play.

He told me WAR went to Syracuse, worked at WAR. It's the only school I applied to. I went there, I got cut from the play by play staff as a student, which is like hard to do because I was so bad at it. They had a talk show staff that was kind of for like the, at the time, the undesirables doing the broadcasting. I said, I guess talk shows what I'm going to do. And from that moment forward is the only thing I were focused on it.

So I always thought I was going to do sports talk radio. And that's what I, I did for nine years. And then I got the opportunity with FS1 to do television. I still have some radio on Mad Dog. But yeah, like I, I kind of had one goal in mind was to be just a sports commentator. That's the only thing I've ever wanted to do. That's interesting because do you ever think like if it wasn't Bob Costas, if it was like Mike Lupica, he probably would just be, you know, working in accounting or something.

I would have been at a different school. Yeah. Lupica would have been like, Hey kid, get out of here, go get me my coffee. Or, but I mean, if I had, if it was, I think about the fact that I had no idea anything about Syracuse. I walked up, he told me Syracuse, I said, that's where I'm going to go. And that's where I went. And so like, yeah, I mean, it was that, that was a fork in the road moment of my life.

And I didn't know it. I was just a little kid. But yeah, this is the only thing I ever wanted to do. And I actually, people talk about the media changing. And if I was a reporter, it would terrify me. Yeah. I think you guys have, as I begrudgingly give you a compliment, PFT you deserve as well as always.

You've been a friend of mine for a long time. Shout out to me. We're friends now. You can say it. I was friends with him before. We're friends with him before. We're friend of me. No, I don't think we're, it depends on what we're talking about, but I think you guys

are a good example of why I think people that do what we do sometimes worry too much about the future of media, because people always want to consume content. It is not, I don't believe, my job to figure out the delivery mechanism. Like people will, corporate folks will figure out the delivery mechanism, but people will always want to consume content. And for, because I cut my teeth doing local radio, I still love local radio. A lot of my local radio friends are terrified. And I would tell them, listen man, there will always be the thirst for people, the moment

the Cubs game ends to sound off about it. No matter how good a podcast is, it's not on the air, the moment the game ends where you can interact. And people also will always need to know the traffic in Chicago or Boston or DC, wherever. So I think local radio will be fine if the content's good enough in the right niches and everything else. What does it really matter? Do more people watch my TV show via YouTube and Facebook than actually on the air?

I don't know and it doesn't really matter to me. You know what I mean? So I'm not, I think we'll be fine, the generic we will be fine, we just have to figure out how the media's going to evolve. Talk to me a little bit about the transition, because we hung out once or twice I think when you were in Houston. Houston, you came in. I think I came on the show.

Yep. You were like a pretty big deal in Houston sports radio. You hadn't done TV at that point. I don't think. Maybe a little bit. Just very little, like on the, it was called CSN Houston, the version of yes in Houston. So you're thinking about, you're thinking about making that transition from radio, which you've been doing for a while, into television.

What were your concerns in doing that and how'd you kind of overcome this? Listen, I wasn't even, if I'm being totally candid, I wasn't trying to transition into television. I met with the folks at Fox Sports Radio and I flew myself to LA for, essentially forced a meeting with them and with the people that ran a different state sports station in LA. Because my wife wanted to be in California, my family wanted to be in California. I had, I felt like I had done what I needed to do in Texas. And the Fox Sports Radio folks, they hadn't yet announced they had hired Cowherd, but

they obviously knew they had. And I was like, listen, I, you got a couple of shows on the network that flatly I'd be better than. You guys, I'm available, I can get out of my contract in Houston. And they told me, we're going to start doing more partnership with FS1. If we're going to hire anybody for radio, we want them to at least meet with the FS1 folks. So I, I talk, I got a meeting, I was told it would be a month later, 15 minutes.

If you want to come to LA on your own dime, I promise it won't be less than 15 minutes, but it's also not going to be an hour, it'll be 15 minutes. And so I took it with the then president of FS1. And we have a short meeting like that, it's, you got to get right to it. And I just said, listen, my goal for this is at the end of this meeting for you to sign off on radio hiring me. Here's who I am. Here's what I, what I'm about, whatever it is.

And at the end of the meeting, he said, I'm just curious, why is your goal not for me to hire you? And I just said, I was like, listen, man, I, because I can look the radio guys in the eye and say, I'm better than what you have on the air in this time slot or that time slot. You know, they haven't done a ton of TV. I can't look you on the air and say, I should have a TV show. And that led to me meeting with a different executive, a guy named Charlie Dixon out in

New York. And that led to them trying me out a bunch of times, which then, you know what I mean? So it wasn't like, I was, it wasn't like I want to go from radio to TV, it just kind of happened that way. Do you do anything differently when you're on TV as opposed to being on radio in terms of like, you know, you obviously have to be cognizant that the camera's on you all the time. And that was my initial biggest adjustment because so I'm going to leave here and I'm

filling in for Mad Dog a bit this week. And so when I'm doing radio, I, I go like this. I move around. I don't even know what I sit like this. I, so my biggest adjustment initially was I'm very manic with my movements at what do I do when I'm not talking, right? Which was very difficult for me. And the other biggest adjustment is on radio, a huge compliment is, man, Nick was talking

about something no one else is on national sports television. That is the worst thing you can do. People are tuning in. PTI is the best show to ever exist on this, right? The core viewers of PTI tune in, but the core viewers of PTI tune in for about 18 minutes about once a month. So that means you're never repeating yourself. It's always someone that hasn't watched in forever.

And so if you're not talking about the biggest stories, you're losing. And so that's why, like, if you follow our Twitter feed, it's like, okay, LeBron Cowboys Patriots, but, but, but for the actual television viewers, like, so you gotta, you have to kind of train yourself into reminding, remembering it's only, it's only repetitive to me. Right. You know what I mean? It's not repetitive to the viewers. So that, that's been a huge difference from doing radio, local or national radio to tell

us. I was going to say, maybe you had to remind yourself to do the waistband talk with your bone or whenever you'd be talking about LeBron on the air, whereas on the radio, no one can see it. No, but that's an interesting point because we obviously like, we've been doing our show for two years now. So there's obviously going to be times when it's like, all right, well, this topic is the same as it was last week and just trying to find different funny angles on it and trying

to stay a little bit ahead of it. Like we had the, the, the training camp, we did training camp storylines last two years or like this year, we got to do something a little different, but it's still talking about training. But I also wonder, and I don't know the research on podcasts, like podcasts, because it's an opt-in experience, because it feels like the effort it takes as odd as it sounds to like download, subscribe, that the, there's a higher level of loyalty and maybe people are listening much more regularly.

Yeah. Because they're listening on their commute and their commute doesn't change. And so like, I can't tell you how many times I walked down the street and it's like, yo, yeah, I sometimes I'll get Nick right. Sometimes a lot of times I'll get Chris Carter's brother-in-law. Sometimes I'll get the LeBron guy. Right? Yeah.

Sometimes I'll get, Hey man, you really gave it to Stephen A. this morning, like they can I'm max like the sometimes I'll get, Hey man, first things first, the best show, I mean, I love you on ESPN. Like people are consuming it, but they're not, it's not like a subscribing to Pardon My Take. They're not dying hard. Yeah. Nobody's listening to this and being like, man, another, another hit podcast by Bill

Simmons. Right. You know what I mean? Like they know what they're doing. So it's a different type of thing. Right. In the way people consume it. So we were talking about how you get ready for TV.

And I always wondered this because you came up, I think it's fair to say you came up a little bit under the tutelage of Coward. We, we poke fun of him because of the way he does some things and the way he come, gets to his like conclusions. Trendsetter geniuses usually get pulled off. Yeah. Okay. Well, and sometimes he copies people, whatever.

All right. So, but I always wondered the one thing that Coward does, it's like, incredible. The way he delivers a point and the pauses and the way he talks and you notice the same thing with Skip and Stephen A. it's like, it's almost like a theatrical thing. Of course. Do you like basically practice that over and over? So I don't know if my television deliveries even average yet. I, you know what I mean?

I really don't know. I, I try to get better at it continually. Coward as far as how he does it on the radio is excellent at listening. It's incredible. It's incredible. Like it really is. Say whatever you want about Coward, but when you actually listen to him and the pauses he takes and the way he delivers it and he's just talking himself, it's like, how is he

doing this? And that is the style of radio I did and that I did solo radio. I tried to do kind of big picture radio. Now Coward has spawned a generation of people trying to be Coward, which is like, listen, Coward's going to do a radio show. It's also in his television show. I was saying, be like, I'm going to explain to you why terminal D at LAX is the New England Patriots.

And you're like, all right, man, I'm going to follow you on this journey and I know we're going to get somewhere. What doesn't work is when it's like a 23 year old right out of college who's like, I'm going to explain to you why Kevin Durant and Steph Curry are like a bad marriage right before a divorce. It's like, you know, like, what do you, you've never been married? Like what do you do? It's people trying to do what he does, but he's a singular talent on that.

What I, the person I think is the best television performer in the world, the two best at what we do. I think it is Stephen A and Skip. I think now Shannon, Shannon's pretty unbelievable. But the thing with Stephen A and I'll give him, I know he doesn't work for my network. Stephen A and Skip have the ability, Stephen A, maybe even more so, to be entertaining on mute. Like if those shows are on mute without closed captioning, it's still kind of entertaining

to watch because it is a performance. When they are shocked, it's like, you have an idea of what, you would have an idea of what those guys' opinions on things were if you didn't speak the language. Just by, if someone said, here's what they're discussing and just watch them do it. Like that is, that's a skill I don't have. And the other thing that I'm learning for me, at least on television I need to get better at is, especially because we're early in the morning, I'm an intense guy and I, even when I'm happy, I come across as almost angry and I don't mean to, I just, bless you, I just,

that's kind of how I, how I am. And people want early in the morning like a smile and to be, it's why Chris and I try not to have a debate show, which we really don't. We will occasionally debate things, but it's early in the morning. People are trying to ease into their day, but I look more intense on television than I mean to. Right, Chris Carter is not exactly what I think of when I think of like easing into my day either.

That guy is an intense dude. Like, I remember we were at the offices at FS1, we saw his office, like his actual office where he works, and he's got pictures of himself all outside the door hanging on the wall. Well, he didn't put those up in his defense. Did he? Yeah. We heard different, yeah.

You heard different? No, no, no. He was asked to bring, listen, he moved from a very large house in Palm Beach to a very nice condo in Tribeca. So he has a lot of extra stuff. Our op staff asked him if he would bring stuff in. So we'd have stuff to put on the office. He didn't choose to put it right outside his office, but the stuff he did choose to bring

in were all pictures of Chris Carter. Well, what else are you going to have? What other memorabilia? You wanted to have pictures of Tim Brown? I know the best wide receiver on his team, Randy Moss. Okay. Listen, I'm a Randy Moss guy. I came up on Randy Moss.

This is a somebody, somebody asked George. When is your brother in law going to put you in a weird spot here? Next family reunion is going to be really awkward for you guys. Um, all right. So, uh, I mean, it's interesting because I like you guys have obviously what you've done in the last two years, like watching it, it's been incredible to watch. And the only thing I have to ask, and you have to give me the honest, honest answer here, have there, has there ever been a time that you've had to take or an opinion that

you didn't fully believe? That you had to do for kind of effect? Cause I think that's the biggest thing that people who are maybe detractors of those types of shows say they're like, well, he's just doing that just to say. Okay. So here's the thing. I will, let me try to, I want to be very, cause this is a fair question. This is a big picture.

And it's a big question. And so I'm not pausing. It skips trolling. I'm not pausing because I'm looking for a lie. I'm pausing because I want to answer it honestly and fairly. But I, if I believe that the, just to use it, if I believe the Celtics are going to lose to the Sixers, right, I will never say this. I believe the Celtics are going to beat the Sixers.

But if I believe the Celtics are going to lose to the Sixers, will I maybe exaggerate how certain I am of it? Right. Sure. That's fair. And so like I, I, I've never, and because you can't do three hours of live television in a day and, and be, and not say what you actually believe, cause then you got too many of your plates in the air, like the lies are going to come crumbling down on your head.

And so you have to say what you really believe, but it is like we were saying before to a degree of performance. And so will I sometimes exaggerate, I'll give you a perfect example. And this one I never thought would, would, would hit me in the head the way it did. My whole thing with the Eagles. So Carson Wentz goes down. I already was the, I thought the Eagles were slightly inflated record wise. I thought they were good, but I thought, listen, the Vikings are as good.

I think the Saints might be better. The Rams are right there. So, so I already didn't think the Eagles were quite the best team in the NFL. Their quarterback goes down. So we have a thing on the air, which the, I don't even remember the question was, but I said, listen, you, you had an MVP contender, you lose the MVP contender. Of course you can't win the Super Bowl. If, if you can win the Super Bowl without the league MVP, you're one of the greatest

teams ever. So I had said that the day before, the next day I, I said on the air, six teams will make the playoffs out of the NFC. All of them can win the Super Bowl except for Philadelphia. Right. Now I really did believe that Philadelphia was going to get smacked with Nick Foles playing at quarterback. I really did believe they were screwed once Wentz went down and even with Wentz, I wouldn't

pick them win the Super Bowl. But obviously I didn't think they had, they were the home field and they had the one seed. I didn't think they were 0%. Right. I thought they were 5%, 10% turning it up a little. We do the same thing here. You can't, I mean, if you're in the business of getting eyeballs and clicks, you are yourself, but you have to obviously turn it up a little now.

I didn't think Philadelphia as the parade was starting on the team Twitter account was going to tweet that clip out. I didn't see that one. You got to eat your column sometimes. And so, right. And so the, and so like that is, I, I, and I really hope people, at least from my, I can't speak for everyone in the business. I really hope people believe me when I say that because like this week, I'm doing six

hours of live takes a day. I'm doing three hours on Mad Dog on Sirius, three hours on the, on the television show, which is my real job. If I didn't believe what I was saying, I, it would be so easy to, I think, just create a highlight reel. Yeah, you get confused. Right. Am I supposed to like Aaron Rodgers or not like Aaron Rodgers?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do I think Tom Brady's right? Right, right, right. And that is why it's frustrating for me sometimes when people, I think, because I do take my integrity on this stuff, even though it's all make believe in sports seriously, I do, I do get frustrated sometimes when people, the clip I was talking about, about where it looked like I was a total hypocrite on LeBron going to the Warriors versus Boogie.

Someone I, I believe both these, I think Tom Brady, the Mount Rushmore, I think Tom Brady is the greatest quarterback ever, but I think Aaron Rodgers is better at playing quarterback than anybody. Okay, Aaron Rodgers better playing quarterback than anybody ever. Somebody once created a mashup of me saying that about Aaron Rodgers and the other about Tom Brady, as if an out of context, it looks like they're in conflict. And that's, that's, yeah, people, people don't understand. You can hold two thoughts in your head at the same time.

Right. And so that to me is frustrating because I don't listen. If you think I'm a, don't like the way I do television or you don't agree with me or you just think I don't look like I should be on TV, guilty like the, um, the, the, you guys asked me about Syracuse. I met with the Dean before, like when, when I was touring Syracuse before I went and told him I want to do radio.

And he was like, listen, I'm going to be totally honest with you. You seem like a sharp guy. Like you're, you know, I think I'd already gotten in like you're admitted. Just so you know, though, like you have a terrible voice for radio. You'll never be able to do radio. Interesting. I was like, okay, so the old, so like the voice for newspaper face for radio situation is what I've got going on.

Tough spot. Um, I think we should probably move on to some LeBron talk here. So serious LeBron talk. So, um, are you ready to concede that, uh, Delvedova was the key piece in that capitalist championship? I'm not ready to concede that I am ready to remind America that Matthew Delvedova was the second best player on a championship caliber team where LeBron James, cause this is, this is another, this is like piece of evidence, 347 B

LeBron James in that finals averaged 36, 13 and nine. And you know who won the MVP, the guy who held him to 36, 13 and nine. Like, like, it was a shooting percentage. What? In that finals, it was 39.8. Ooh, that seems like we dug a little into the stats there. Okay. But so, but you also, it's in your, listen, you're a sharp guy.

And that was a good question to ask because it seems to undercut it. But then people remember the way the calves had to play in those finals. And then you also remember that. I was only able to put down 39% of his dunks because that's all he can do. Okay. So that is, you know, that's, that's another interesting critique. A critique is that this player is not as good because he gets the most efficient shot in the sport, easier than anyone else in the sport.

But I mean, we can go, if you're a shooting percentage guy, by the way, we could go to the finals the year before, the year, by the way, that he, that he averaged 20, I'm sorry. This is a lot of, you just carry around these numbers in your head. Yeah, that's wild. This is, it's quite Leonard won the finals and holding LeBron to 56% shooting. How about the fact that, uh, his great teammates like Matthew Delvedova were so good at shooting that it inflated his assist stats.

Yeah. I don't, I would have to really dig into those numbers. Yeah, maybe he should. I'd have to check back on that. If you're a Delvedova, I know you're a Delvedova fan. You would love Jettie Ossman. Okay. You really need to get into Jettie Ossman.

Once everyone had to spell his name, I'll, I'll get, all right. So I'm going to ask a Seeky question. Put in promo code take you at $10 off Seeky promo code take. I floated this out to you. LeBron James, the 2018, 19 Los Angeles Lakers, he has put together the greatest blame team of all time. He's basically punted on this year and he said, I'm going to get it together. I'm, yeah, yeah, he's a general manager of every team he's ever been on.

So then he's got six rings. So he's already tied with Jordan. What? He's got three as a player, three as a GM. Do I get two rings per? I mean, if he's the GM of the teams, I didn't know. I just, well, then he's got 12 finals losses. Sure.

Okay. Cool. Perfect. The 18 finals. Perfect, perfect. Awesome. Yeah. Go ahead.

All right. So he, they have Rondo, Javel McGee, Lance Stevenson, Michael Beasley. That team will get blamed and laugh that on Twitter every single night. And LeBron James will basically be like, well, what is he supposed to do? He's got these guys with him. There's nothing he can do. And then he's going to wait and he's going to Kauai and like, I don't know, Kembo or someone to trade for John Wall and then get his little super team and

still probably lose and you're going to sit there and be like, he played with these bad guys and he's still like, great numbers. Also LeBron doesn't play defense anymore. Okay. The LeBron doesn't play defense anymore. Fame is so, so true. I mean, it's, it just decided this last year, like, oh, no one's going to notice that I don't play defense.

Cool. I won't play defense. Yeah. Listen, if the is great. I mean, the guy in your 15 sets his career high in rebounds and assists and right, because he didn't play defense. And the, well, that's the whole point. He was like, I can get off crazy offensive numbers by just not trying on

defense anymore. Well, there, yes, there is an element to that. Of course there is. Of course there's an element too. You only have even a near cyborg like LeBron only has so much energy. So you have to expend it in the proper moments, right? And so I promise you, if it would, if you would like LeBron could have been Tony Allen last year and expended all his energy defensively, the Cavs would have

won roughly 12 games. So probably wouldn't have worked out for him, but to your original point, your more important point about the all blame team. Yeah, we call them the scapegoat. Yeah. LeBron is now the scapegoat. Yeah, I saw that. Please credit PFT.

No problem. I got you. All right. Got you. Pardon me. Uh, so I'm just curious. So maybe you're right. Maybe that is exactly what will happen.

Never know, blame his teammates and we'll, I don't know, in year 16, LeBron will, you know, maybe win the MVP and you'll talk about how it's invalidated. I'm not quite sure how, but I'm sure you'll get there. Yeah. I'm sure. No Cleveland Clinic this year. No Cleveland Clinic this year. I got nervous about that.

You a little nervous about it all. I think it is never been injured, never been injured. What played the most games of his life. I mean, he just broke his hand. No, he pretty much broke his hand. He pretty much broke his hand. Don't tell me he broke his hand. Because basically broken.

Yeah, but let me ask you this question as he was walking out of the arena. Given this, given what you think of this team, the Lakers shouldn't be very good this year, right? Uh, I think probably like the four or five. So yeah, they'll finish somewhere around there. Oh, well, so they'll be. So given all those, yeah, I think Ingram is a superstar. I mean, he average 16 points.

Yeah. He's gonna, he's gonna be the best player on their team. And Lonzo can't forget Lonzo. I'm so glad I came by. Yes. So, um, all right, you got to go, but I appreciate you coming in. This was fun. Are we going to upgrade from frenemies to friends?

I said we weren't frenemies. Okay. I, I wasn't quite ready to go with the full friends. Got it. So now we're there. Yeah, absolutely. Great. No problem about it.

It's good to see you. So I won this entire debate. Yeah, I won this entire debate. You lost. And PFT, well, he was the ultimate winner. And PFT and now my two friends are friends also. So big happy family. Listen, I appreciate you guys know.

It's like you're married to my, uh, my, yeah, right. Look at Chris Carter's situation. You know how that is, right? Good talking to you guys. Do not tweet at, was it at Nick, right? Get Nick, right? Get Nick, right? Do not tweet at get Nick, right?

About the fact that he only has a job because he married Chris Carter's sister. No, it was, no, just kind of married your sister. Either way in place. Yeah, whoever you married. The interview was brought to you by dollarshaveclub.com. They've got all sorts of stuff over there to help you look, feel, smell your best.

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It was pretty great. Yeah, dog surfing. You get, you tell you what, you put any dog on any sort of board like a skateboard, surfboard, you name it. I'm tuned in. I got kind of a hot take. Are you over dogs? You better be careful here.

Be very careful. The next words you choose will define your life. You cat guy now, Hank, from this day forward. I'm getting on the board line of getting sick of the over saturation of dogs on Twitter. Okay, you know what? I'm, I'm now the watchdog for dog watchdog. That's fucked up. And I'm woofing at you too much.

No, dogs are every 17 times dogs are you. Hank, which dog is your spirit animal? You probably don't even have one. Yeah. Did you see that dog the other day who was scared of lettuce is like, this is me on my diet and he was just like freaked out about lettuce. Like, yeah, that's relatable. I am that dog.

Too much relations. Did you see those 150 golden retrievers in a park together? Just, just hanging out, barking at each other. Hank, it sounds like to me, you kind of need a summer to end. Absolutely not. I was right. No, well, that was what I was going to say was that that was the dog Olympics were the only sport that was on.

Let's get Hank a dog. Yeah. I think you need a dog, Hank. Can you keep a dog alive? Yeah, I would say so too. I, I'll wait. I'll get you a dog the day that I think you can keep a dog alive. Okay.

Probably like a decade from now. Um, all right, let's get to some site. We just need football back. It was that I had that Saturday where I was just like, okay, like what? There's nothing. There's zero. They, for some reason, MLB did this weird skate scheduling thing where there was one game at one and then the cubs played at four and then there was nothing

else. It's just like, what are we doing here? We got nothing. I'm just waiting for football Thursday night. Robert Griffin going to light it up. Robert Griffin versus chase Daniel to tune in Thursday night. Um, all right, let's get some segments. Uh, so we have a state classy for baseball.

Um, you know what, put in a little of this audio. We're going on today and batting practice here with the Dodgers. What do you see? T-shirts. You see Chase Utley with no socks and pants up over his knees T-shirt. This was a spriveling with their whole team. And I think about, uh, fans that come to Sun Trust Park who are Dodgers fans and want to see their players, they had no idea who do you have, any of them were.

Nobody had any kind of uniform or batting practice shirt on with their name on your jersey. They look very unprofessional. Um, and I think I can say this because I know what the Dodger organization was all about. There's the bug. The bug is perfect. And the bottom of the back story there, you heard a little of the audio.

It is the brave's announcer, Joe Simpson. He is upset because the Dodgers took batting practice in their T-shirts and fans that come to the park early Dodger fans wouldn't know who they are, which like, if you're a fan of the Dodgers, you probably should know who's on the team. Not only that, but Chase Utley has been in Major League Baseball since, uh, like 1954. Also, I like to point out that if you go to a game early for batting practice, you probably know who the guys are.

Right. That's not a move that's like some normal guy does. And also Chase Utley was wearing a, a strikeout cancer shirt, which was, you know, that's probably a good thing. But either way, this is maybe my favorite, like old man yells a cloud mixed with baseball, which obviously the Venn diagram is one big circle. But getting upset about guys taking batting practice in, uh, T-shirts. We're like Atlanta, probably it's probably 150 degrees in Atlanta.

Wait, were they wearing shorts? No, they were wearing, uh, Chase Utley had baseball pants, but it looked like they were rolled up a little. God, no socks. Yeah, no socks. Yeah. No, that's bullshit. The best part of where your full kit, the best part about this clip was during

it, uh, the, there was a bunt and, and they were like, Oh, that was a good bunt. Like the perfect, like, then get back to the ring, get back to the disrespecting base. I want to see the Los Angeles Dodgers wear tuxedos. Yeah. Full black tie to the next batting practice. Have you played for the Dodgers before? Uh, I have not. So do you know what it means?

That's true. He did drop that to be a Dodger and represent the team. He invoked Tommy LaSorta's name. He was like, I mean, Tommy LaSorta would never stand for this shit. Tommy LaSorta, who would get into fights with the San Diego or the Philadelphia Fnatic San Diego chicken during games. Yeah. He would not put up with this bullshit.

I just like Tommy LaSorta used to shotgun Kansas slim fast at third base. Yes. I think he'd be totally fine with players being if there's not a bigger short sky in the world than Tommy LaSorta. I just appreciate it because as we get long, as we get further along in like the internet and as we evolve in the internet, like, I feel like the, the hot take old man yells the cloud gets, gets almost shamed off the internet. Yeah.

But baseball and golf, they exist because we have people like this who can basically pick something random to get upset about that. We all are like, is that guy serious? Oh, wait, fuck, he is serious. It's an endangered species. Yes. They're the hot take online. So it's impressive.

Like, yes, there needs to be some kind of an alarm that we can hit where someone says something so outrageous, like, hey, guys, don't, don't shame him at all. Let's not write any blogs about it. Let's just like, we'll have a conversation on our podcast about it. And that's it. Like, let's not, he'll never find us here. Like that. Joe Simpson would never find what we're saying.

Hey, Joe Simpson, suck our dicks, dude. You'll never hear this. This is the reason why we haven't had Jason Witton dropping hot takes on us online for the last 10 years. Did you see what he wrote on ESPN? What? He wrote like an article about why players should stay off social media. It was basically because his opinions would have pissed too many people off

and he would have been shamed and like looked at in a different light. So we just never had social media. Yes. So all of, all of you listening to me right now are responsible for, for the just dearth of content that we could have had from Jason Witton. Jason Witton pulling the Kauai excuse, like, man, you guys really would have gotten to know Jason Witton. Yeah, I had been on social media.

Get the fuck out of here. You also won't hear this. Jason Witton, no chance you can find a podcast. It's a good point. Jason Witton took that trip with Tony Romo. Remember? Like, oh yeah, with Jessica Simpson. Yeah.

Before the playoffs started, he was the original guy on a boat. Yes. But since he didn't have Twitter, we don't talk about it to this day. Man, Jason Witton, we could have had so many hot takes from him. Yeah. Like, wow. He would have been so fucking hilarious. Yeah.

Jason Witton would have definitely retweeted cute emergency, Hank. He would have spread the gross dog love that's going on from Twitter. Yeah, Jason Witton's avatar would have been a golden retriever. Yeah, I love bacon, Jason Witton, every single day. Epic sriracha. Oh my God, guys, this burger has sriracha and bacon, and then the deep fried it, all the all the gnomes. Oh my God, my kids forgot their lunch today.

So I went to their school and brought them bacon dad of the year. Wow, that's a firetweet from Jason Witton. Thoughts and prayers to us for missing out on 10 years. Yeah, we should we should create like a Jason Witton time machine and just tweet like what would Jason Witton have tweeted on this day in history? That I mean, like, hey, you guys see me run around without my helmet on. I love this game. Jason Witton, it's a privilege, it's a privilege to play under the shield

in the National Football League. Yeah, dash J.W. He signs all his tweets, by the way, just a picture of him from the hospital when he had his like spleen when he was peeing blood being like, I love this game, I love my fans, I'll be back on the field before you know it. Signed Jason Witton. Here are my nine blonde kids, probably. I love them all equally.

They all look exactly like me, Jason Witton. All right, let's do a thank you for your service for Blake Griffin. So we had the takies on Friday. Yeah, Blake Griffin lost Blake of the year in a heartbreaking fashion because apparently he was on a plane when we tried to call him. Blake Portals picked up in 11 seconds. But the good news is Blake Griffin addressed it. So he was asked at USA Basketball Camp from an award-winning

listener who I assume is in the media. And this was his response. Contests like that, it just like it depends on, you know, where the person is. I happen to be on an airplane on my way to Vegas asleep and missed the call. And what's crazy is it went through on the airplane because I woke up and I had the missed call. But I don't know, you know, I don't think I would have been able to pick up and talk even if I was on the airplane.

But because I had obligations to my country, I missed out on Blake of the year. So I mean, you're accusing them of, you know, questioning your patriotism, I'm guessing. I don't. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, maybe questioning my patriotism. I think using my patriotism against me is probably a better, better way to describe it. But that's, you know, that's their prerogative. So now I think we are on the hot seat because Blake Griffin pulled the all time Trump card and was like, Hey, you guys are actually blaming me for supporting our country.

Only if he wins gold. Yeah. You know what? I want to revisit this after the tournament's over, because if he's going to hide behind the flag before he's accomplished anything, I think he's a chicken hawk. I also like that he went, he tweeted at Benedict Arnold, this guy who has zero followers and created his handle in 2009. Shout out that guy because in 2009, he was high as fuck. And he was like, I got a firebrand about to drop Benedict Arnold.

Never tweeted from it. And then all of a sudden, nine years later, he was in everyone's mention. He hit the jackpot. Yeah. Yeah. The big time jackpot. What's going on? That was a valuable investment for online real estate. Took a while, took a while, but return on investment huge for Benedict Arnold. All you need is one tweet from a professional athlete to really blow your shit up.

Yeah. So Blake Griffin, next year, we have to decide how we're going to decide Blake of the year. I want to up it though. I want to I want them to compete in something. OK, I want I want to figure out how to do it. So we'll we'll figure something out that we probably will just forget and never be able to do and then we'll just call him again. But we're going to figure out something. Yeah. What do you think?

I'm cooking on it. I'm cooking on it right now. Whoever averages more points per game. Oh, how about this? If Blake Bortles gets in a Kia and Blake Griffin and he goes at him 40 miles an hour and if he hits him, Blake Bortles wins. If Blake Griffin jumps over the Kia, he wins. How about this?

If Blake Griffin can steal Blake Bortles car at some point over the next year and Blake, you're locked up. OK, yeah. Well, I'm locked up because Blake Bortles doesn't like it. Yeah. All right. We have a thoughts and prayers to Mark Zuckerberg. So Facebook is taking a nosedive and how many bills did he lose? Well, Facebook lost 17 billion dollars.

So thoughts and prayers to him. Billionaires, I'm telling you, this is a tough week to be a billionaire. Yeah, you see all these rich moguls losing tons of money. And so like he's probably only got what like Facebook's market cap is maybe only like a hundred billion dollars. And I'm sure there's some like loophole in taxes where Zuckerberg will just have to we'll be able to write off all these theoretical losses so he doesn't have to pay any money. You know, it'll do.

He'll say because he looks down on the American people, he'll be like, I lost 17 billion dollars because the American people are too dumb to recognize that everything I've done with Facebook is actually good. Yes. And so I'll just write that off on the on American people being stupid. So is it going to bounce back? I yeah, actually, you know what? I'm I'm calling my shot. I'm going to put the debt.

The PFT death stake is going on Facebook is going into Facebook. Wow, they're done. Have you been on Facebook recently? No, it's trash. Like 10 years. It's exactly. It's all ants. Yeah. It's called ant book trolls. Yeah, trolls, trolls and ants.

That's it. Well, they're kind of one of the same depending on how drunk your aunt gets. Yeah, she's well, my aunt likes some wine. Yeah. So she can be a troll. She can be very trollish. All right, last up runs the family. We have a well actually for LeBron. So LeBron has opened up a charter school, private charter. No, not a charter.

No, it's not a school. Two hundred forty kids. So we're going to give him a well. Actually, that's kind of cool, LeBron. Yeah, it is pretty cool. That's pretty cool. It's for what? Third and fourth graders under privilege.

That's it, just third and fourth graders. Yeah. So he is kind of limiting the. So like, well, actually, I'm not going to say. Still pretty good. Yeah, pretty good. It's like who goes out there and just opens up a public school. That's kind of I haven't heard of any athlete doing that. Yeah, so long hot seat.

Yeah. And LeBron also spent the weekend dunking in layup lines. That's true. First eighth grade kids school, which was awesome. Do you think Dwight Howard's going to see LeBron open up a public school and like open up a petting zoo? Yeah, or something. Yeah, or like stupid. Yeah, like one of those one of those places

you drink a lot of wine and you paint. Yeah, one of the paint bar. Yeah, you open the painting with a twist. Yeah, yeah, charges a shitload of money. Clown College. Oh, that would be good. Yeah. Dwight Howard would definitely open up a clown card college for real.

Being like, this is my this been my passion being a huge clown to the whole society. He's going to market it virally by just wearing like his giant shoes are going to be red next year. Yeah, the red nose. Yeah, LeBron, good job. Good job. Listen. MJ never opened up a public school.

We're on bias. Good job, dude. Like way to go, I think. Fine. Way to go. Good job. Good job. Good job. All right. We will see you guys Wednesday.

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