Pardon My Take - Peter Berg + NBA Deadline Drama

Episode Date: February 8, 2019

The Lakers are AWKWARD. Recapping all the NBA trade deadline moves, the Sixers are going for it, the Lakers got owned by the Pelicans, and Lavar Ball is back (2:27 - 23:03). Football is back and we dr...aft our AAF teams plus make some Mike Martz jokes (23:03 - 30:18). Filmmaker and creator of Friday Night Lights Peter Berg joins the show to talk about his new project with the NFL, what draws him to certain stories, his time with the Navy Seals and wrestling Mark Wahlberg on a private Jet (30:18 - 61:17). Segments include Take Quake, Way to stay Relevant baseball, respect the Biz Kevin Durant, not to brag but we called it that Bitcoin guy may not be dead, and FAQ's. You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, pardon my take listeners. You can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen, add free on Amazon Music. On today's part of my take, NBA trade deadline, Peter Berg, who is the director of Friday Night Lights, the director of Loan Survivor,
Starting point is 00:00:21 creator of Friday Night Lights, director of Loan Survivor, director of this awesome new series that comes out about first responders and NFL guys. He's a true football guy. We have a fun conversation with him in the back of a conversion van. We also have FAQs,
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Starting point is 00:02:52 The new YouTube channel right now. Today is Friday, January, February 8th. I'm still losing my mind with the time and the dates. Now the football's gone, but the Lakers, that's awkward. Yeah, yeah, New Orleans pulled off one of the best stroll moves of all time. It turns out the New Orleans Pelicans were sick and tired of LeBron James
Starting point is 00:03:18 and his agent just fucking with them for the last week, and so they just leaked a bunch of weird information, being like, okay, we want these players, no, we don't want these players, and then they just said, you know what? We're not gonna go through with it. Brian Windhorst called it an information war. Yes. Which is badass.
Starting point is 00:03:34 Info wars. Yes, so the Pelicans screwed over the Lakers, but the Lakers screwed over the Lakers. Like Brett screwed Brett, old school WWE. LeBron screwed the Lakers. LeBron screwed the Lakers, so this is actually good for the NBA, because look, we all love the petty wars.
Starting point is 00:03:52 This league, man, never stops, but this was like the most blatant act of tampering of all time, even when Anthony Davis' dad put out the list of teams that he would go to that just, like it wasn't real, and he just wanted to go to the Lakers and clutch sports Rich Paul, who's best friends with LeBron,
Starting point is 00:04:09 also reps Anthony Davis, tampering left and right, but turns out the Pelicans are like, you know what, fuck this, we're not gonna let you tamper, we're not gonna let you just get Anthony Davis just because you're LeBron and you own the league. It's not happening, and guess what? On top of all that, we're gonna leak every little piece of the trade negotiations and make it as awkward
Starting point is 00:04:29 as possible for the Lakers going forward, and you had LeBron sitting with all his friends, LeBron Glansberg sitting with all his friends at the end of the bench, and now everyone hates him on the Lakers, and it's hilarious. Yeah, so what ended up happening here was, you've had the players taking a lot of the power
Starting point is 00:04:45 in the NBA for like the last 10, 15 years or so, and the ownership decided this is where it stops. Well, it wasn't even- This is where it all stops. It was a battle of millionaires versus people of wealth, and the people of wealth said, you know what? We care more about football than we do about the NBA. Here's why football knocked us straight out.
Starting point is 00:05:06 You ready for this? The ownership of the Pelicans were told by their GM, they're like, hey, Anthony Davis is going to be a distraction. This whole thing is gonna continue on because he's obviously not gonna sign an extension with us, and we'd rather get rid of him now and get something for him than wait this thing out, and the ownership of the Saints,
Starting point is 00:05:22 which also controls the Pelicans, they were too focused. They care more about football, and they're like, we can't possibly be distracted by a basketball player because that doesn't even, they're doing all this shit for the Saints. I bet Sean Payton's got him like planning out the Super Bowl parade that they didn't win, just to take the focus off of Anthony Davis.
Starting point is 00:05:42 Okay, alternative facts, the Pelicans did the smart thing, and they were just waiting to see who has what pick in the draft, and also they could negotiate with the Celtics now too, so they actually are negotiating with more than just the Lakers. I prefer the narratives that football defeated the trade for LeBron James.
Starting point is 00:05:57 It was a smart move by the Pelicans to be like, you know what, we're not going to just do whatever the Lakers want us to do, and what Rich Paul wants us to do, we're going to try to wait and see where all the picks land, see if the Celtics want to offer a better offer, and not just trade Anthony Davis because he wants to be traded. So props to the Pelicans, props to Del Dems too.
Starting point is 00:06:17 He's doing the smart thing of he probably is going to get fired no matter what. Don't be the guy who traded Anthony Davis. So that way, because if you trade Anthony Davis and then you get fired, the rest of Anthony Davis's career, and the rest of everyone else's career who comes to the Pelicans is graded on you. That's a decent point, yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:36 I'm just excited that LeBron James now has to play the rest of the season with all the guys he tried to get rid of. They hate him. Plus, they hate him. Carmelo Anthony. And Carmelo Anthony. And this serves as kind of the final.
Starting point is 00:06:48 Oh, they're going to hate him too. Yeah, they're going to hate him because it's going to be him and LeBron going out getting drunk every night and then coming in hungover with like red wine stains on their jerseys. But what's really nice about this, it underscores the fact that you should just never negotiate with a guy named Rich Paul.
Starting point is 00:07:04 If his name is Rich Paul, he's going to fuck you over. Or Del Demps. Yeah, Del Demps, Rich Paul. Or Magic Johnson. Yeah, there's a lot of names that you shouldn't negotiate with. They honestly sound like a trio from a Charles Portis book. And they're all a bunch of just like scam artists. It's going to be fun watching LeBron try to navigate this.
Starting point is 00:07:20 He then went out and said that he's, everything is an icing on the cake in his career. So he's not even looking for a championship. Which is not revisionist history, guys. No, why would he? I'm with LeBron on this. LeBron has proven himself over and over and time and time and again that he can get to the Eastern Conference Finals.
Starting point is 00:07:37 This Lakers team would probably get to the Eastern Conference Finals. Probably not anymore. Because the Raptors got better. Yes, I think. The East went Bazinga to quote Rob Gorkowski. Dude, they went Bazinga. Let's not get over our skis here.
Starting point is 00:07:53 Yeah, so, but no, just to finish up with LeBron, the quote about having the icing on his cake, what are you looking for, Hank? That's from the nerd show. Yeah, but that's also Rob. Didn't he say, oh, no, Bazooka. Rob Reds is going to go Bazooka. Yeah, it is from what's the show?
Starting point is 00:08:09 Young Sheldon. What's the fucking show? Old Sheldon show. What is the show? In the canon of that show, that program that everybody watches. What is the show? PFT, you know this. Big Bang Theory, Big Bang Theory.
Starting point is 00:08:21 That's what you watch if you're not cool enough to watch the cartoon version of it, which is Rick and Morty. Which I don't understand. Which I don't understand either. That sauce they sold at McDonald's. Wow, really cool. But so LeBron, he absolutely would have had the same quote if they traded for Anthony Davis saying,
Starting point is 00:08:37 it's just icing on the cake. I don't need anything else in my career. He's going to have to deal with a bunch of guys who hate him. Lonzo Ball has already Instagramped. Petty Wars, ready? Petty Wars, we ain't going nowhere. Bad Boys For Life, Instagram. Whereas just him zoomed in on a speaker.
Starting point is 00:08:54 And we also have the best part about this whole LeBron, everything falling apart at the last second. And the Pelicans screwing them over and the Info Wars and everything. LeVar is back out of the rock that he was climbed under and he doesn't give a fuck. And he went on first take, or no, he went on undisputed, sorry, he's an undisputed guy.
Starting point is 00:09:15 He said that Lonzo's better than LeBron. True. LeBron needs Lonzo. He even said Lonzo, he went after LeBron and saying he's old and washed up and his free throw percentage stinks. PFT, let me ask you a question. What do you think Lonzo Ball's free throw percentage is
Starting point is 00:09:34 for the 2018-19 season? I'm gonna guess it's 60. Wow, you're way off. What is it? 42%. That's not great. 42%. That's not great.
Starting point is 00:09:45 He's only got one hand, right? Yes. He basically like, so. He shoots across the other hand, so it's like he's got two. Yeah, but it's, he only dribbles with one hand. He goes across his face. So instead of having the P Diddy song,
Starting point is 00:10:00 it should have been a Def Leppard song for a guy that can jam out with one arm. Rocking out with one arm. So the Lakers are gonna be a mess. LeBron, I'm predicting right now LeBron will have some kind of injury coming down the stretch. Because there's no way. Maybe a bad liver.
Starting point is 00:10:14 Yeah, he's got a pickled liver. He's got too many tannins in his body. There's no way LeBron James is going to play the rest of the season and miss the playoffs. Like willingly do that. You know who's absolutely loving this all too? Well, me and Ray John Rondo. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:30 They had like one of the reports where it was like, the only two players on this team that aren't concerned over this are LeBron and Rondo, even though he's in the middle of all the trade talks. Right. So he's probably just loved, like he's certainly probably loves the fact that LeBron just completely blew his team up.
Starting point is 00:10:45 You have to have a big three though. So the big three now on the Lakers, it would be LeBron, James, Ray John Rondo, and. Lance Stevenson. Lance, yeah, Ingram? Sure. We'll give it to Ingram. Brandon Ingram, they should have traded him last year.
Starting point is 00:11:01 Now everyone's like, wait, but he's not. He's just all upside. Like, oh yeah, what about this? Eventually the upside goes away. The lesson I learned is if you have a young player that has a good week, you trade him immediately. Right away. Get the fuck out of here and we'll get some older guy
Starting point is 00:11:15 that's a superstar. It's going to be funny though watching LeBron navigate this because I mean, isn't it all perfect? Like LeBron, no one's going to take away what he's done on the court. He's a great, he's one of the best of all time. Yada, yada, yada. But like his whole, I'm going to jump to Miami.
Starting point is 00:11:32 I'm going to come back to Cleveland when they get the draft picks. Now I'm going to go to LA. It all has finally caught up to him where it's like, well guys don't just necessarily, teams don't necessarily just want to trade everything for to LeBron's team. And guys like Paul George don't necessarily want to go play
Starting point is 00:11:48 with LeBron out of nowhere. What if the Lakers like they caught on to LeBron's game at the end, they were getting sick of it. Hey, we'll trade LeBron for AD. Yeah, I know I offered that. I actually said that yesterday. I said that, I was like, yo, just do it. I made that offer on behalf of the Lakers.
Starting point is 00:12:02 Did he get accepted? No, they leaked it and then I looked like an idiot. Yeah, well you can get fired now for leaking information. Yes, there's also the thought that maybe LeBron, that's true. He's a friend of ours. Be careful, he is. I like Adnan. Yeah, which one?
Starting point is 00:12:17 You got to clarify. Adorn, Adnan Burke. Yeah, because the other one is in jail. Who's the other? No, Adnan Syed. Yes, correct. Yeah, no, I'm not a fan. Well, Adnan was a leaker too.
Starting point is 00:12:28 He did an entire fucking podcast. It's true. Of just snitching on not himself. On not killing the LeBron. He reversed snitched on himself. So I don't even know where. Oh, my only other thought was LeBron, that picture in the Pacers when the entire bench
Starting point is 00:12:43 was on the other side. What if the Lakers, amidst all this craziness, tried to have an intervention with LeBron for his wine drinking? And that's why everything's falling apart. I think that we're going to pivot pretty quickly to this is Luke Walton's fault. Oh, Luke Walton, that's the next move.
Starting point is 00:12:58 If I've got a flowchart for LeBron James, it's like, OK, start out with a nice primitivo and then try to trade away all your friends. And then right underneath that, if that doesn't work, get your coach fired and send them to Turkey. And the best part about the whole thing is the Warriors would have beaten the Lakers, even if Anthony Davis was on the team.
Starting point is 00:13:18 So it's like, this is all hilariously fun to watch. And it probably ended up with the same guy. So Sick League, Ryan Whitney. And I do love the NBA, but it's Sick League. So the East. Yeah. Ryan Whitney big time this time. Yeah, he did.
Starting point is 00:13:32 Oh, shit. That's fine. Oh, shit. We didn't want him. So the East, the Sixers are all in. They traded Markel Foltz. They traded for Tobias Harris. They're all in.
Starting point is 00:13:43 They're trying to win a championship this year. The Raptors got a Gasol, which is cool. They got to get a Gasol. Yeah, that's that's always fun. Now I did a little bit of research on Gasol because I figured he was he's just like a lane clogger. Turns out he's shooting the three. Yeah, but he's have you like if you watch him play,
Starting point is 00:13:59 he can't move. But he's shooting the three cannot move. He stretches the three is it's like that old game when Patrick Ewing got to the very end of his career. Yeah. And you could sit and watch Patrick Ewing games and play a game where you'd start drinking the minute there the the ball was hit off the rim.
Starting point is 00:14:15 And you had to stop when Patrick Ewing got all the way back. On the offensive side. Yeah. Does Gasol have to tape his dick to his leg to? Yeah, probably. Probably to those Spaniards. So and then we had basically that move is like so they got rid of a young, a younger European guy
Starting point is 00:14:30 who's the same build as Marc Gasol. But they got old Marc Gasol in. So they just kind of like they just fast forwarded through. Yes. What's the guy that they traded? I didn't see. OK, it's a European. OK, so who was it?
Starting point is 00:14:46 They have a couple of good guys. They do. Miratich went to the Bucks. So the Bucks now. I mean, the Bucks are real. The Bucks are real. Shout out to the Bucks. I know people are like, why don't you talk about the Nuggets?
Starting point is 00:14:56 And let me just say this right now. The Nuggets. There you go. I said the Nuggets. There we get. We get the stray Denver fans. Like, why don't you ever talk about the Nuggets? The Nuggets.
Starting point is 00:15:05 I was hoping that Isaiah Thomas was going to get traded to a contender. Yeah, I just wanted to see him. I want more than anything. I want to see that tribute video. I want to see him get traded to the east and then have to play in the garden so they could finally play.
Starting point is 00:15:17 That tribute video must be awesome. It's the way that's been talked about. Ready to go. It's collecting dust. Yeah. Who was traded? Jonas Valanchuis. Oh, Jonas.
Starting point is 00:15:25 Big J. So the east is going to be fun. The west is probably going to be similar. Did you hear that someone taught Giannis how to swear? Really? Yeah. He was walking off the court and he goes, I'm the motherfucking MVP.
Starting point is 00:15:41 Oh, fuck. He is. So he went from not knowing where the smoothie is to just dropping hard F-bombs pretty quickly. Has anyone made the shirt? Water covers 2 thirds of the earth and Giannis' Euro step covers the other third. Free shirt Milwaukee.
Starting point is 00:15:56 I just want to say this. He took three and a half steps on his Euro step last night. His steps are like, and I'm not saying this like he travels, but he is just a monster. He does travel. He also travels. But traveling doesn't count. But I'm one of those guys that watches an NBA game
Starting point is 00:16:11 and I'm like, they don't call traveling anymore. Everyone wants to watch a game with me. The East is going to be fun, yes. Layup counts as two. Yeah, exactly. Hey, why don't they have Dell anymore? God damn it. Full court press, guys.
Starting point is 00:16:23 So the East is going to be a lot of fun. The NBA, like this is when it all kind of starts ramping up. Hank, do you want to finish with how you're feeling now that other East teams are going all in? I'm not worried about this year. I mean, I think we still have a good chance this year. I think we have a good chance this year. Make some noise.
Starting point is 00:16:40 Do what we got to do, build some chemistry, and then you trade basically all your team for Anthony Davis. So everyone. I mean, they're going to have to trade everyone. So it's like. For one year of Anthony Davis. You never know. Well, he's got to say that he's going to stay.
Starting point is 00:16:53 Right. One of those situations. Oh, I just wanted to really quick do a seeing red. The Bulls did a trade for Otto Porter, which it's sad that I spent like three hours debating the Otto Porter trade last night. But I actually do still care. And I do like the trade.
Starting point is 00:17:08 But Gar Forman and John Paxson did a press conference. And they were like, yeah, no free agents coming here, because we've got to fix the culture. And it's like, who creates the culture here? So fuck those guys, as always. So Otto Porter is a good player. I've been watching him for years. I actually have, because growing up a Wizards fan
Starting point is 00:17:28 during free agency, the best way I can describe it is you have a bunch of exes, and you're watching them all get married. And you're just like, I hope they do really well. The best part about being a Wizards fan is watching young stars get traded away and just being like, I hope they'll be happy with their new home. Like adopting out a bunch of puppies
Starting point is 00:17:46 that you suckled yourself. And then they go to like a millionaire's house. That's so good for that dog that I used to love. He's getting a lot of money. And the Wizards are doing the classic thing where they're just fixing all the horrific mistakes they've made and being like, good job. They're cleaning up the mess.
Starting point is 00:18:00 That's a full-time job. That's a full-time job. They've made those mistakes. He's a great guy. All right, let's do, ooh, should we talk about some football? So you thought football was dead, but it's not. You were wrong.
Starting point is 00:18:11 Yeah, you were way wrong. So the American, what is it? Alliance of American, the Freedom Alliance of Football American Corporation. Every time I see the name AAF, I'm just assuming there's going to be a guy in a sweater sitting in his counter reading newspaper, drinking a glass of orange juice. And his wife's like, honey, have you
Starting point is 00:18:32 thought about our savings in the AAF? And he's like, I told you, we took care of it. And then some guy walks on screen like, think about your future with the AAF. Yeah, no, it's the guy at the counter's wife walks in. It's in black and white. She's like, honey, how's our portfolio looking? And he's like, oh, no, I didn't realize that it was that low.
Starting point is 00:18:51 What am I going to do? And then the guy in the shoe walks in. Here comes Charlie, I've never saw it like. Well, I'll tell you what, the Memphis Express is going to save your life. I tell you what, you remember Garrett Gilbert? Well, we got some stock in him. Yes.
Starting point is 00:19:03 Let's do it. So what we're going to do, let's first go through the names. The team names are ridiculous. No, they're good names. They're good names. They're football names. You don't have to just, you're cheating on the NFL. I don't like it.
Starting point is 00:19:16 I'm not. I'm just learning a few new moves. The Arizona Hot Shots. You're going to be able to fuck the NFL better next year. The Arizona Hot Shots, which sounds like. Don't disrespect. OK. It's first responders.
Starting point is 00:19:27 I'll keep going. The Hot Shots are an elite group of firefighters that save lives in Arizona. So please put some respect on their names. Here's a tip for any new football league. Just make the team names from playmakers, which we still have to finish. And people will like it.
Starting point is 00:19:40 So the Arizona Hot Shots, Rick Newheisel and Trevor Knight. Yeah, there's going to be some beers right now. Coach, yeah, yeah. The most important part that you can learn about the Arizona Hot Shots, they have a guard named Josh Allen. Ooh, perfect. Good team. OK, so we have, next up, the Atlanta Legends.
Starting point is 00:19:56 Brad Childress and his creepy microphone are coming back, headset. How bald do you think Brad Childress is by now? Oh, he's horrific. He's not going to shave the sides. He'd wade. Good. Yeah, but it's.
Starting point is 00:20:08 He looks like the guy from Guess Who. Brad Childress was always that guy like, hey, man, you didn't really make it in the looks department. The only thing you can't do is wear a sweater vest. And then he'd just wear a sweater vest. And you're like, what are you doing, man? This is a bad look. And then he'd wear the microphone,
Starting point is 00:20:24 which I think he had some kind of he couldn't wear it. The big one. He's the headset. He seems like a guy that has an ear problem. Yeah, some kind of inner ear problem. He's always off balance. But I have some breaking news about Atlanta. What are they, the Atlanta Legends?
Starting point is 00:20:36 Atlanta Legends. Breaking moves. This just came out. They should be the Atlanta. Fuck it, let's just be legends. I like that. Yeah. Owned by Billy McFarland.
Starting point is 00:20:44 Are the Atlanta strip clubs. Yeah, that's awesome. So I found out who the helicopter guy was at the strip club. Yes. The rapper. We've all been waiting. He was a little baby. OK.
Starting point is 00:20:53 Joe I'm told is a big name. Little baby took a helicopter into a strip club parking lot. How's that a rapper name? Don't worry about it. He's awesome. I love little baby. OK, but the breaking moves about the Atlanta Legends. Michael Vick was their offensive coordinator
Starting point is 00:21:09 until about five minutes ago. Oh, shit. The background check just came through. Actually, Michael. Oh, you were arrested. Yeah, you can't stick around. I have no idea what happened. They say that he has like broadcasting obligations.
Starting point is 00:21:20 He has to fulfill. I think it came down a nut cut in time. And Michael Vick was just like, I can't coach players that aren't insanely athletic like me. Because that's the only thing I understand. So the QB for the Atlanta Legends. Actually, there are two. Aaron Murray and Matt Sims.
Starting point is 00:21:36 Brother of Chris Sims noted Blake Bordel's hater. So does he have a spleen? Matt, he's the one in the family that got the spleen. The next up, we have Birmingham Iron. OK, yeah. Good name. Good name. Tim Lewis is the coach.
Starting point is 00:21:49 Oh, fuck. Scott Tolzine. There we go. Former Wisconsin Badgers, the QB, and Trent Richardson, future Hall of Fame. Hall of Fame comeback starts this weekend for Trent Richardson. And Nick Novak. Nick Novak is a kicker.
Starting point is 00:22:01 That's the only other note I had. We're going to do the draft in a minute of our, we're all going to get two teams. And the loser, you get to decide what happens. But I got the Birmingham Iron Circle. You know what's really interesting about this breakdown? So they also have the Memphis Express and the Birmingham Iron. And the way that they do it is regional.
Starting point is 00:22:17 So Birmingham gets first right to all the old Alabama players. Memphis gets first right to all the LSU players. So that's why on the Birmingham Iron, they have Blake Sims, former Alabama QB. Legend. Yes. All right. So the Memphis Express, Mike Singletary, the ultimate football
Starting point is 00:22:33 guy, his QB, Christian Hackenberg, that's not going to work out. It's going to be fun. It's going to be fun to watch, though. Zach Mettenberger and any other notables? Zach Stacey, Brad Wing, the Aussie. OK. I like that. The Orlando Apollos, coached by Steve Springer,
Starting point is 00:22:51 who will not give a fuck. Nope. There's no chance. He's just, he's going to show up and just be like, go long. Didn't work. Cool. He's going to be on the side. You know what they should do on the sidelines for him?
Starting point is 00:23:00 Just like right behind the giant white stripe is just install a putting green the entire way. And he can just work on his golf game during games. And he should coach shirtless. Yes. Absolutely. With a big handful of Arby's. So Garrett Gilbert, the QB, and Stephen Morris.
Starting point is 00:23:15 These are, we're getting to the bottom of the barrel, boys. The Salt Lake Stallions, Dennis Erickson. Wow, he's around. BJ Daniels and Garrett Grayson. Oh, Matt, how's he out? Didn't he just play this year? I feel like Garrett Grayson is just the name that you made up right now.
Starting point is 00:23:29 That sounds right. What do you got, Hank? Oh, I thought you had another. You don't have any carrots? You have any Garrett Grayson takes? Wait, did Matt Ozzie ought to play like yesterday? Oh, he played in 2016. Damn.
Starting point is 00:23:41 Oh, no, he played in, no. He played in 2016. Never mind. Yeah, OK. We have next up the San Antonio commanders, Mike Riley. They don't even have a quarterback listed. So running back David Cobb and Daryl Richardson, that's OK. Well, they got their starting quarterback
Starting point is 00:23:59 cucked by the Washington Redskins. Josh Johnson. Oh, is he coming back, though? Oh, no, he's on the San Diego fleet. Oh, I thought this was the same one. No. Oh, the San Antonio commanders. Yeah, OK, gotcha.
Starting point is 00:24:07 San Diego fleet, Mike Martz, Josh Johnson, Bishops, Sanky. I love that name. Yeah. And that's, I think, it. Wait, I'm reading other things, too, where, oh, OK. San Diego fleet also have Mike Berkovicchi from Arizona State. Actually, remember that guy.
Starting point is 00:24:23 They're going to have a tough time playing in the winter weather. San Diego team. Yeah. I don't like that. Yes. But Mike Martz. Watch the wind.
Starting point is 00:24:30 Mike Martz will be fun, because he'll install West Coast offense into a team that has absolutely no idea or talent level to actually execute it. That's kind of his thing. Yeah, he's going to have like a 150-page playbook for a league that doesn't really even exist. Yep. Great.
Starting point is 00:24:45 OK, so let's do the draft. Hank, you start, Bubba. PFT, I'll go, and then I'll come back around. We're going to go snake. Snake draft. So here's how we're going to do it. Everyone gets two teams. And at the end of the AAF, when does this end?
Starting point is 00:24:59 It never ends. OK, it never ends. Whenever it ends, we're going to do regular season standings. And it's the cumulative. So if you have the eighth worst team, you have eight points. And it's the highest score loses. And the AWLs get to decide what the loser has to do. My brother is from there, so I will go with the San Diego
Starting point is 00:25:19 fleet. Fuck. OK. That's great pick, Hank. That's a great fucking pick. You know, just in case they make it to a championship, and I have to go out there for a game or something. Well, my whole strategy behind picking these games
Starting point is 00:25:30 is what would be the most hilarious winners. And having a team in a made up league, football league, win in a city that just lost their team would be perfect. Because then you know people will be like, whoa, we finally won. We got that championship, yeah. I'm going to do the Birmingham Iron. OK. Good pick.
Starting point is 00:25:49 It's future Hall of Famer. I'm going to go with Memphis Express. Memphis? Mike Singletary. He's just going to be, he was the one that pulled his pants down in half. He should have coached Pantless. Memphis Express.
Starting point is 00:25:59 OK, fuck. This is tough, boys. This is pretty tough. I'll do the Atlanta legends. And oh, you wanted them? Yeah. Damn. Too bad.
Starting point is 00:26:10 Just be legends. OK, so and I'll do the, let's go with the Arizona hot shots. OK. My second pick is going to be the San Antonio Commanders. Got to support Central Texas. Our boy Chaps is going to be boots on the ground. I'd like to take a vacation down and visit him. He'll cook me up some nice smoked meats.
Starting point is 00:26:31 Yep, absolutely. Mike Riley, former Nebraska Cornhusker coach. Legend. Remember when he got fired and he left in his little electric car and was like, man, this is sad. Nothing worse than having to like drive a golf cart away. Yeah, pretty much. Go ahead, Bubba.
Starting point is 00:26:52 I'll do the Orlando Apollos because I feel like. Steep square? Yeah, because the other one is Salt Lake. And I feel like there's no way they'll play football in Utah. Just enjoy. Yeah, don't sleep on the stallions, dude. All right, so Hank's got the stallions. I don't even remember who my teams were.
Starting point is 00:27:07 So someone tweet it back. I got Memphis and I got San Antonio. I know that. San Diego and Salt Lake. What do I have? Atlanta and Arizona. Arizona. I've got the double A's.
Starting point is 00:27:16 I think, overall, I have the best barbecue situation, San Antonio and Memphis. That's true. Yeah. I got the double A's, AKA LeBron's team. That's good. Hey, LeBron also takes 12 steps. True.
Starting point is 00:27:31 Travel. He travels all the time. He never called traveling in the NBA. That's a travel joke. OK, let's do our interview with Peter Burke. Hank, you want to say something real quick about how we didn't ask enough Friday Night Lights questions? No.
Starting point is 00:27:43 Here's the thing. We don't watch Friday Night Lights. PFC and I have not. I did try and set you guys up with some questions that. We asked a few. We did. We talked actually a lot about Friday Night Lights. I just want to hear about Tim Riggins.
Starting point is 00:27:54 The lack of Tim Riggins talk. OK. It's what it was interesting. It's all right. He's a big time football fan slash filmmaker, so it was cool to hear some of the stories that he's had and how all the stuff comes together, including the story about him wrestling in a private airplane
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Starting point is 00:30:21 Do it again, 1-800-Flowers.com, click that radio icon, put in code PMT. Okay, here he is, Peter Burke. Bam. All right, we now welcome on a very special guest. He is a very famous and accomplished producer. You've seen all of his stuff. You've seen Friday Night Lights, the TV show.
Starting point is 00:30:44 I actually haven't, I'll just say it right now. I was gonna use this as- I saw the movie, I saw the movie. TV shows, I think may be better, so you should watch that. I think the book's actually better than both. Okay, fair enough. And then my cousin would agree with you, he wrote the book.
Starting point is 00:30:58 Battleship, yeah, that's true. Your cousin who, have you seen him with his leather pants? Of course. Okay, Battleship, Loan Survivor, all the movies that you love, it is Peter Burke, and he's here with us, because he's doing something actually very special that I'm very excited to watch.
Starting point is 00:31:15 It is in conjunction with Verizon, and why don't you explain it? So it's 12 people that you interviewed who had a moment in their life where a first responder, a bassist, saved their life. So it's called the team that wouldn't be here, and we found 11 different players and one coach, Coach Lin of the Chargers,
Starting point is 00:31:36 and all of these guys share the experience of having been in some really, really bad accidents at different stages in their life. Coach Lin was hit by a drunk driver 12 years ago and was left for dead on the street, and a young 23-year-old cop found him and literally put his hands inside the wounds in his body and held him together,
Starting point is 00:31:59 and then this 18-year-old paramedic female was her first night on the job. She showed up and did chest compressions and kept him alive. The two of them kept him alive in the ambulance all the way to the hospital, and I can't really give away the surprise because there's a surprise in it, but...
Starting point is 00:32:17 He lives. Yeah, he lives. He lives. Spoiler. He lives. You guys are clever. He lives, lost to the Patriots, but let's just say he had never met
Starting point is 00:32:28 the two first responders that saved his life. Oh, wow. And we maybe or maybe not facilitated. Nice. I'm not... I see where it's going. I'm dumb, but I get what you're saying. So you can go to allourthanks.com.
Starting point is 00:32:40 You guys are also donating, Verizon's donating $1.5 million to first responders, and you can watch it. It's gonna be awesome. Similar, I feel like you've gotten a few of these new projects, the QB1 as well, where you follow different people and their life stories, and it's really cool to watch these all come to fruition. Yeah, basically, I'm addicted to football.
Starting point is 00:33:03 I always have... Same with us. Yeah, I was in my mom's stomach at Giants Games at Yankee Stadium back in the 60s, and always loved football, and my cousin, Buzz Bissinger, wrote Friday Night Lights and the book, and that became the beginning of a great love affair I've had,
Starting point is 00:33:23 and I've been with football, and I've been able to do the movie, the show, work on ballers. QB1 is now another evolution, and I think if anyone hasn't seen QB1, it's on Netflix now. It's just a great kind of endless show. It just...
Starting point is 00:33:40 We just keep finding these top high school quarterbacks, and they're infinitely fascinating, and so hopefully it'll go on forever. I'm curious to know when you do these documentary types of films or projects, how do you get the subject to open up to you? Are there any tricks that you use if it's somebody that you haven't met before?
Starting point is 00:33:57 Do you spend time with them before the camera starts rolling? Are you familiar with microdosing? Yes, actually, yes, we're trying to get into this. Yeah, I do. Well, I'm microdose, and what we'll do is we'll... This should stay with the two of us. Yeah, we'll record this, we'll cut that, yeah.
Starting point is 00:34:13 So yeah, we just dose... We identify the players and the family's mental conditions, and it's either ketamine, psilocyte of mushrooms, sometimes LSD, MDMA always works, but low doses, we'll generally get them in the food supplies, and within two weeks, the most resistant antipress just... I like it, if you could tell, it's a joke,
Starting point is 00:34:39 but I actually do it, but we're going to do this. Our audience is very smart, just part of the house. We ask very nicely, and we have a good rep, and they trust us, and we always tell the families if something really embarrassing or offensive happens and they don't want it in the show, well, for the most part, not put it in the show, and people like to have their stories told.
Starting point is 00:35:04 Yeah, okay, so I, along with Big Cat, have not watched Friday Night Lights, but I will say this. Really? No, don't watch, I want to give you a compliment. You are still all the time. That's a lie, your son does, but you don't. I know that. I've met you before.
Starting point is 00:35:18 You send me links all the time. Friday Night Lights is one of those TV shows that I have never heard anybody say a bad word about, so I'm sure it's very good. It's just one of those things that we both happen to not watch when it came out. We're just outfilling you, being like, I've got the DVD set.
Starting point is 00:35:32 What shows do you watch? What are some of your favorite shows? My favorite show of all time is probably Breaking Bad. Me too. Cops. Dog the Bounty Hunter. Oh, yeah. Football.
Starting point is 00:35:42 NFL football. Yeah, yeah. What happened to Dog? Where is he? Is he doing a new work now? You should get it linked up in that project. Is he still working with his wife? Yeah, yeah, Beth.
Starting point is 00:35:52 Beth, yeah, I was a great team. I met them once. You did? Yeah. What were they like? Let's just do the rest of the interview about your one-time meeting Dog. Really friendly.
Starting point is 00:36:00 She had like big boobs, remember that? Look you straight in the eye, honest, good people who really seem to believe in what they're doing. I'm a big fan of his. How big were the heels on his boots? I hear he rocks like seven inch heels. I don't remember how big they were because the biggest thing in the room is his wife's breasts
Starting point is 00:36:24 and that's hard to tell you. And his hair, obviously. His hair. But they were just, they were great people. And I really enjoyed meeting him. All right, I got a serious question for you. Everyone, filmmakers always are like, you know, we're attracted to great stories.
Starting point is 00:36:37 What is it in a story that grabs you? Like, what are you looking for? So for me, the serious question, right? Yeah, the dead serious question. We go back and forth. We give you a little change up speed, change up. For me, my thing is I like contained events almost. So Friday Night Lights was one very intense season.
Starting point is 00:36:59 Loan Survivor was about a military operation in Afghanistan where 19 sales were killed in a 30 hour period of time. And within that 30 hours, there was so many different decisions and so many different events had happened. But it was contained. Deepwater Horizon was an oil rig that exploded.
Starting point is 00:37:20 Patriots Day was about the 30, 40 hours of the manhunt after the Boston Marathon bomb-in for the Zarnaya brothers. These are the kinds of stories I tend to like. Stories with Marky Mark involved in them. Well, and Walberg has to be there again. So if it's contained, it's got emotion, it's got something visceral, some action.
Starting point is 00:37:44 And Walberg, I'm clearly much good to go. The Walberg part. I actually was part of the manhunt. Well, I was listening to the police scanner from my apartment in Chicago tweeting out stuff, but I was part of it. You know what? Every little bit how I take the village.
Starting point is 00:37:59 I was actually shocked I didn't make the movie. If I had known, we could have been a sub-story. Yeah. Have you... Don't tell you, one interesting thing about the Boston Marathon bomb-in that we found. One of those are Nye Brothers, a younger one that was captured.
Starting point is 00:38:17 One was killed and the other one was captured in a boat by the combination of Boston Police, Watertown Police, FBI. They had members of the wildlife rangers. Everybody that basically had a badge was hunting him. And while we were out there, Walberg and I kept meeting people who would say, you know, man, listen, I was the one that pulled him out of the boat and handcuffed him.
Starting point is 00:38:39 They were like, that's cool. And we literally met 20 different people who all pulled him out of the boat and handcuffed him. And we finally realized that what they must have done was found them, pulled him out of the boat, cuffed him, uncuffed him, put him back in the boat, pulled him out until like 20 people. I like that.
Starting point is 00:38:57 People really wanted to put cuffs on him. Yes, absolutely. Have you directed a graphic sex scene? Define graphic. I'm like, you porn? Like really? Yeah, I'm trying to get to you. Well, I mean, that's dealer's choice.
Starting point is 00:39:11 What's your definition? Simulated penetration. Simulated or captured penetration. Well, I wasn't gonna ask if you, have you done porn? I've never done porn, but my first film, Very Bad Things, we had a really, a wonderful, very, very cool, talented pornographic actress named Kobe Ty, and she acted in the film.
Starting point is 00:39:32 I do not remember who she is at all, nor have I watched that scene repeatedly when I was 15. So that was, I think the closest I ever got to porn was directing. I actually get really prude when I'm, and almost paternal when I'm directing sex scenes. I feel embarrassed, and I feel very protective of, because when I was an actor,
Starting point is 00:39:55 I used to hate doing sex scenes. They're the least embarrassing, the least sexual thing you could think of, and other people watching you, it's hot, the cameras, it's not a sexual environment. So generally when I do love scenes in films, my goal is to get them over as quickly as possible. I should be an actor in there then,
Starting point is 00:40:16 because with me, I'd be, boom, done. The problem with sex scenes in movies now is because of the internet, and you porn, and all the other sites, I mean, it's like, I can try and do a sex scene in a movie, and everyone's gonna be like, dude, come on. If I want sex, I'm gonna go to you porn. I'm not gonna go to a movie theater.
Starting point is 00:40:37 So for Lone Survivor, you embedded with SEAL Team 5, correct? I did, yes. For how long? For one month in Iraq. And what was that like? I mean, that must have been so intense. I was by far the greatest experience in my life. You know, I was, I had spent a lot of time
Starting point is 00:40:54 with Marcus Otrell, and I'd spent a lot of time in the States with the SEAL communities, and gotten to go on training missions, and really observed them, but I felt if I could get out there, and really live with them away from their bosses, and away from their handlers. And so it took about a month of me talking to guys
Starting point is 00:41:15 like Admiral McRaven and Admiral Eric Wilson, who were running the Special Operations Command. And finally, they were like, you know, we're just gonna make another cliched movie about the military. And I'm like, well, sir, if you let me go there, I can possibly do something that doesn't feel like a cliche.
Starting point is 00:41:35 And they were like, you really wanna go? And I said I did. And I flew out to a place called Al-Assad Air Base, which was one of Saddam Hussein. Yeah, I was in Iraq. The movie took place in Afghanistan, but they sent me to Iraq. And a group of 20 guys from SEAL Team Five picked me up,
Starting point is 00:41:53 and they didn't know what to expect. They'd never had anyone in bed with them. And we went out to this outpost, right on the Syrian border, called a place called Rawat. It was a small Marine Corps base, and the SEALs had a base within that base. And for 30 days, I got to live with the guys, and go out and watch them operate,
Starting point is 00:42:12 and form friendships that are still really strong today. And so those are some remarkable guys. How important is that when you're doing a movie to find that? Cause I mean, I love that movie, and watching it, you can tell the authenticity of just like the guys talking, you know, right before, you know, when they're sitting around.
Starting point is 00:42:30 And I'm sure those are the little intricacies you pick up. Do you try to do that for every single movie that you? I do, you know, for Friday Night Lights, I lived with a high school football team, in Austin, Texas, Austin Westlake, where Drew Brees went, Nick Falls went. And it was kind of crazy, cause I was 40 years old, living on the futon couch of a senior in high school,
Starting point is 00:42:53 and his parents let me stay in the house. Basically Jim Harbaugh, recruited. Kinda, yeah, but I would go to school with him every day, and spend- That is a little weird. Okay, yup, that is a little weird. I mean, I was, I mean, I went to the parties with them. That's crazy.
Starting point is 00:43:08 Did you have to take the test that they were taking? I couldn't, they were smarter than I was. But it was, I've always found, I studied journalism in college, amongst other things, and my style has always been research, research, research. And I feel like, you know, I went and lived on an oil rig when I was doing Deepwater Horizon, and the kinds of movies I like, you know,
Starting point is 00:43:31 I don't make films with DC heroes in them. It's just DC Iron Man or Aquaman, or what other men are there. Captain America, those aren't really my films. I appreciate them, but it would be hard to spend a month with Iron Man, I would guess. So I couldn't hold my breath long enough to go out there with Aquaman,
Starting point is 00:43:50 but I can do the research, and it's something I value very much. Yeah, absolutely. Was there a misconception that you had going into, you know, when you were deployed overseas, when you were going to Iraq, about how these Navy SEALs would act, what their camaraderie would be like, their small talk,
Starting point is 00:44:07 that was changed by you spending that time with them? I mean, there were a lot of things that I didn't know, you know, I didn't realize that, I didn't realize how funny they were, I didn't realize how intelligent they were. But I think, you know, the biggest thing I've come away with in my relation with, especially special operations guys who are usually in their, you know,
Starting point is 00:44:26 mid-20s to early 30s, and these guys are going out outside the wire every day and having to make decisions that we just never have to make. You know, they have so much control over whether somebody lives or dies, or whether that car gets blown up or that car doesn't. We're asking so much of these guys,
Starting point is 00:44:48 and they perform very, very well in that theater, coming home and having to readjust is a very complex, tricky thing for them. So I'm very empathetic for the transition from that world back into our world. Now, do we say thank you for your service to you since you were embedded? Sure, why not?
Starting point is 00:45:10 Thank you for your service. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you, thank you for your service. It's like probably the least impact. It's just something that you say. Of course it is, it's like I'm sorry for your loss, thank you for your service. Yeah, right.
Starting point is 00:45:23 What is it, my prayers and we should just go out. Yeah, thoughts and prayers. If you can think of probably anything to say, and you guys are smart, witty, clever guys, I would always suggest say something other than thank you for your service to a vet, but. Yeah, like how many people did you kill? Probably not that many.
Starting point is 00:45:38 Yeah, not that, no, that would be a bad thing. Maybe just like, how's it going? Yeah, how's it going? Hey, how's everything? You're a human being, I'd like to talk with you. You're right, it is. That would be good. Thank you for your service always feels very, very hollow.
Starting point is 00:45:49 But you just want to get out of there. Right, right, you're just saying, it's almost verbal diarrhea, you're just saying it to say it. I want to go back real quick to your bromance with Mark Wahlberg. Okay. So you guys wrestled on a plane?
Starting point is 00:45:59 Well, he, he, it wasn't so much a wrestle. First of all, we drank like between the two of us, I think four bottles of Sasakaya, Italian super Tuscan, I don't know if you've ever had it. Okay. So we, and we had had a great time, a great talk, and we were coming in for a landing. And what's it, where were you guys coming from?
Starting point is 00:46:19 We're going to. That's a good question. I think we're flying from New York to LA. Doing what movie? I think we were doing press on loan survivor. Okay. Honestly, I don't, I don't exactly remember where we were. It didn't really matter.
Starting point is 00:46:32 We're flying from somewhere into LA and everything was going good. And everyone saw Mark when I was just kind of a look at each other, like in a fairly confrontational way. And that happened and I attacked him. I just attacked for unprovoked for no reason I attacked. And we went at it pretty good and he's very strong.
Starting point is 00:46:55 Yeah. Very strong. And I'm, I'm pretty good, but he's, he's stronger. So I fought for a while and everything was good. And we broke up and people were getting a little panicked on the plan. And I thought it was over, but then I reattacked. And I thought I'd get him, but he got me in a guillotine.
Starting point is 00:47:13 Oh yeah. And I never been in guillotine. So I started kind of thrashing wildly trying to get out of it, which broke some of the seats on the plane, mature a lot more expensive than I ever knew. Now you know. They're very expensive. And then I tapped out.
Starting point is 00:47:30 Oh yeah. I had to. He was like crushing. Come on. He was tapped. Dude, it happens. I mean, Conor McGregor just tapped. If he's over.
Starting point is 00:47:39 If he had my ass off, all the apparatus in my throat, he had. So I tapped and then we spent a lot of time surveying the damage. That's funny. That's crazy. So the whole fight started just like a look in the eye that you saw from him and you saw aggression in his eyes.
Starting point is 00:47:55 And I feel like he provoked me. By looking at you? Yeah. By looking at you. He's like two dogs. Two dogs at a dog park. Yeah. And I underestimated how good he was at guillotines.
Starting point is 00:48:06 Yeah. Yeah. Sounds like he goes on to do a guillotine. He does. Yes. So you mentioned your cousins also with Buzz Bissinger and then also Albert Einstein. Well, I am related to Albert Einstein.
Starting point is 00:48:19 Yeah. But it's not a blood relation. Although I'll tell people that I'm related. When I was younger, I used to say it a lot more. OK. But if you call my mom, I'm happy to give you your number. So you have a call? Of course.
Starting point is 00:48:35 She can explain to the exact lineage. It has to do with my cousin, Winky. My, my. You have a cousin, Winky, too? You got one? I have an aunt, Winky. Wow. That's weird.
Starting point is 00:48:47 Where are you from? You say you have an aunt, Winky? Yeah. I have a cousin. I have a cousin. So you're related to that. Where does she live? Nantucket, Newark.
Starting point is 00:48:55 Nantucket, my cousin lives in Nantucket, too. So. No, she lives in North Carolina. That's wild, though. But you'd have to go. Crazy times. Cousin, Winky, to Aunt Elkin, to Aunt Birdie. And Aunt Birdie was married to Albert Einstein.
Starting point is 00:49:10 It was great Aunt Birdie was married to Albert Einstein. Do you know what Einstein married his cousin? He's got fucked up, right? No. Like, he's supposed to be the smartest guy ever. He married his cousin. I think that just, you know, ties into the theory that you shouldn't judge geniuses.
Starting point is 00:49:25 We shouldn't hold them, we shouldn't hold people, you know, to our standards of convention. Standards of not marrying your family. Not marrying your family. Like, come on. I would probably say that. Incess is back. Just look at any number of pornographers.
Starting point is 00:49:40 Incess is not back. That says Stamina, I don't support. No, definitely not. Definitely not, definitely not. I want to talk about Buzz real quick, because he's one of the best sports writers, I think, in American history. Yes, he is.
Starting point is 00:49:53 And he's also one of the greatest fashionistas in America. Have you ever gone shopping with him? I'm scared to go shopping with Buzz for many reasons, one being like I'm a generous guy. So if you and I went shopping, I'm probably buying a pair of shoes. I need that for you.
Starting point is 00:50:09 And the shoes that Buzz likes, I mean, I don't know what you're wearing. These are, these are- J.C. Penner. No, they're Wolfenschepper, very comfortable. OK, I don't know. These are some Jordans. Those are some Jordans.
Starting point is 00:50:19 OK, great. So, if you bought 30 pairs of those and 20 pairs of those and multiplied whatever the total was by 10, that's not gonna equal one pair of the shoes that Buzz is in the market for, if I'm saying. Okay. So you cannot buy shoes. I don't, it's an, he plays a dangerous game
Starting point is 00:50:38 when he goes shopping. But, you know, like he's, Buzz, Buzz messenger is and has always been one of the most authentic, honest, no bullshit human beings. And he's, he's public with his, I think, you know, his search for an identity, a sexual identity, a cultural identity, a fashion identity. He was, you know, raised at private, fancy private schools
Starting point is 00:51:07 on the East Coast, wearing Brooks Brothers. And that was never who he was. And now he's, you know, going through an exploratory phase he's written about it. He's still, I think, the best sports writer, or certainly one of them in the game. If he wants to wear knee-high Gucci boots with Versace jeans and I don't know what kind of blouse
Starting point is 00:51:33 power to him, I love him very much. I'll tell you what, he's not wearing or those. Not wearing, he would rip you apart for that. Well, it's a JCPenney. No, they're really nice shoes. He did hit Big Cat, I don't know if you noticed this, but you literally go, what are those? He hit you with the what are those.
Starting point is 00:51:48 He wanted to make sure that he got it right. Well, I don't even see a logo on them. Oh, there it is, okay. Kat, how much money has Jordan made on them? So much. Like how much? So much. How much?
Starting point is 00:51:59 Billions. He's gambled away half of it, so it's not a billionaire anymore. The brand is insane. Does he do, is he involved in the brand? Yeah, oh yeah, I think so. And you know what's crazy about it, and this is totally like sideways of the interview,
Starting point is 00:52:11 but I think Jordan, he came around at the perfect time because when he came onto the scene, basketball shoes weren't really basketball shoes. So he basically got to invent basketball shoes in a weird way, you know what I mean? Like now everyone gets a basketball shoe. And so there's a cap on how, you know, when every NBA superstar has a basketball shoe,
Starting point is 00:52:33 no one's gonna transcend it, whereas he was able to basically be the first. Have you guys ever been to Tokyo? No, haven't. So I was just there two weeks ago, and Harajuku, have you heard of this area, which is the sneaker mecca of the world? And it's this like, I don't know, 10 block,
Starting point is 00:52:52 kind of cool area of all these, like super hip fashion stores, like Custom Undefeated and Supreme, but the heart of it is the sneakers. And they've got sneakers that nobody's ever heard of, and they've got $10,000 pairs of Jordans wrapped up in cellophane. And they also have a lot of,
Starting point is 00:53:14 still the most desirable sneaker in Tokyo are the original Jordans. And if you can find unused pairs of those Jordans for $15,000, $20,000. Geez, Christ, that's crazy. So you said that you are addicted to football. We're addicted to football. You're a filmmaker.
Starting point is 00:53:32 We are ideas, guys. I wanna pitch something to you real quick. So documentary. This is a good way to pitch because there's no, I can't steal it at all. You've got me. Also these cameras aren't rolling. We just got to the van just to pitch you.
Starting point is 00:53:47 We have ideas. We're not motive. We don't execute on our ideas. No, but if I, okay, fine. Okay, so here's the idea. You follow and do a documentary about football guys. And when we say football guys, we mean coaches that live, breathe, eat football
Starting point is 00:54:02 and never do anything else with their life. So we're talking like 4 a.m., Chinese food, sleeping on the couch. Hasn't seen the wife and kids forever. Dip, spit, all that stuff. Follow them around. The Ryan brothers. Basically Mike Zimmer.
Starting point is 00:54:17 Jim Tomsula. So I've started doing one on Mike Leach. Are you a Mike Leach fan? Yes, big Mike Leach fan. We've had him on, yeah. So Mike Leach is one of my favorite coaches and a good friend of mine. And we started a while ago filming him.
Starting point is 00:54:31 And we were actually gonna do a series on Mike Leach when he moved from Texas up to Washington. And we filmed his entire, it's very funny. Him and his wife going up there and starting the house hunting process in Washington. And just Mike Leach going into a red lobster in Washington and interviewing the waitress. And want to know the details of every single item
Starting point is 00:54:57 on the menu is, it's a great idea. And I would do it, but I would definitely want to include some college coaches too. Oh, we can do that. Yeah, we'll make that happen. Harbaugh, Coach O, you're Coach O guy? Yeah, you're Coach O, LSU.
Starting point is 00:55:10 We'll get you a Coach O. Yeah, we love him. So it picked three or four coaches. But Leach has to be, Coach O is in man. Leach is absolutely in. I mean, there's not a coach in the NFL that wouldn't be a fascinating, you know. I agree.
Starting point is 00:55:22 Well, Jim Caldwell. I mean, really though, when you stripped down what's, I mean, Saban, what about Saban? Saban, I don't know if Saban's a human being. But that's, how fascinating would that be? To like, to find the first robot? Find out where they plug him in, who serviced his parts.
Starting point is 00:55:39 I mean, someone servicing those parts. Where the entry parts and the skull are to put stuff in. Yeah, all right, you sold me. I mean, what was it like after he got his ass whooped this year? What happened? If you could have a camera in that house for 24 hours? He ate some cream pies.
Starting point is 00:55:55 He watched the Weather Channel for 10 minutes. He talked to Miss Terry and then he went and recruited. Yeah, but that's good. Good fun. That's all he does. Psycho. He is programmed. So Matt Goldberg, our head of unscripted,
Starting point is 00:56:07 staring out of the window. Yeah, we probably should wrap up. Oh, no, you should pitch him the idea. Okay, he'll set it up. He can actually make it happen. All right, I will. Tell me about the ending. That's a verbal, can you look right in the camera
Starting point is 00:56:19 and say, hi, I'm Peter Bergen. I'm going to make a documentary with PFT and Big Cat. I'm Pete Bergen. I'm glad to be an Atlanta Go Giant. Can you tell me about the ending of Friday Night Lights? Cause we haven't seen it. So just tell me how it ends. The movie or the TV series?
Starting point is 00:56:34 But do it without spoiling it. Yeah. I'll tell you a funny story about the end of the movie though. You want to hear a good story at the end of the movie? Yeah, a lot of people were upset about the end of the movie cause it was sad. Well, so that's how the book ended. Like it was, I didn't write it.
Starting point is 00:56:47 I made it up. It was non-fiction that the Permian really lost to Dallas Carter at the last play. They didn't win the national championship, a state championship. And so we filmed it as it was. And if you've seen the movie, you know, it's, it's a, they've got 40 seconds on the clock.
Starting point is 00:57:04 They're driving, they're driving, they're driving. They're about to score to last play. And the audience is going crazy. We've got this beautiful music by explosions in the skies, building and surging. And Mike Winchell, Lucas Black played them. The quarterback's dodging and scrambling. He starts running.
Starting point is 00:57:22 And if you're in the audience, you see everybody's just pumped up and their guys are crying and they're like, he's going to win, he's going to win. He gets tackled three inches short. And you could just be in the theater. The vibe was just like, whoa, dude, what? Really?
Starting point is 00:57:36 And people were freaking out. And that was kind of the whole point that it was a movie about losing. And we had the test screening. And I went out where we showed the movie before it gets released and the studio heads were all there. And you can make changes if things really aren't working. And the movie worked and we got, we got, you know,
Starting point is 00:57:55 Good March and everything was great. And I was walking in my car in this parking lot. And this woman, Stacy Schneider, who was the president of Universal Studios, a very powerful woman, was my boss, was waiting in front of my car. And I was like, oh, Jesus, this is like weird, you know? She's like, I want to talk to you.
Starting point is 00:58:13 I'm like, I guess, ma'am, she's like, I really liked the movie. I go, appreciate it. She goes, I would never make you do this, but I just want you to know that if we did a little reshoot and the ball goes four inches further into the azoom, the movie will make a lot of money. We have a lot of money.
Starting point is 00:58:33 Think about it. And I was like, oh, I can't do that. And the movie still did well, but. Yeah, it did. But that was. You just faded to, or cut to black right before you got tapped. Well, that's what happened at the end of the series.
Starting point is 00:58:46 Oh, like, yeah, there's a teaser. There's a teaser. Is there going to be a new one? A new TV series. Well, I just got the text from Hank who's sitting up there, our producer, and he loves the show. And he said,
Starting point is 00:58:57 the show ended with a teaser. Ask if they're going to bring it back. I don't, I don't know. But for QB1 right now is our keeping the spirit alive. Okay, that's fair. All right, so we're going to wrap up. Peter, this has been fun. You guys are awesome.
Starting point is 00:59:09 We're going to do the documentary together. You guys, everyone's got to watch the Verizon documentary that he's put together. And the NFL spot. You guys know, can we not talk about the NFL spot? Yeah, the NFL spot too. Talk about that real quick. We just did a, there's a big two minute spot coming out
Starting point is 00:59:25 for the 100th year anniversary of the NFL. And we, we, that was one of the funnest things I've ever shot. So we had everyone from, we had 44 players in the spot, including the commissioner, everyone from Sikwan Barkley to Jim Browner in the spot. And everyone in between. So keep right up for that.
Starting point is 00:59:42 All right, so you're, you actually have our dream job because we're addicted to football. I would say more than you. And you just get to go around and talk to football guys. Well, you had to love this spot. You should have come back. I mean, well, I'm ready for it. We had, we had a Sikwan, Odell, Todd Gurley,
Starting point is 00:59:56 Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, Jim Brown, everyone you could think of in, in the NFL is in this spot. I love it. What was Roger Goodell like? Is he a robot? I don't know. Listen, I've known Roger for a long time. I know him in his job.
Starting point is 01:00:13 And I know him to go have a steak and a martini with him. And it's, the job is a job, you know, and he's caught up in a complex tsunami of drama and players and egos and obviously complicated owners, sports bloggers, you guys, players that sometimes cause problems, it's, it's a tough job. I'm a, I'm a fan of Rogers. I don't think he gets everything right all the time.
Starting point is 01:00:42 But I think if either of us, three of us had that job, we'd probably be vilified and I probably wouldn't do anything to make 40 million a year and just chill. You know, he makes a lot of money. Yeah. Chill and just tweet all my statements out. The one thing I'll say nice about Roger Goodell, he has to be doing something right to have
Starting point is 01:00:59 such a ride or die wife. His wife is awesome. And she put those burner accounts together to defend him. Like she's a cool chick. I like his wife, but Roger, maybe you can say a nice thing to Roger for us. Can you put it in the word? Roger, these guys obviously need to go have his steak
Starting point is 01:01:16 and a martini with you. Yes. Yes. All right, Peter Berg. You make the steak first, Roger. Appreciate it. This has been a ton of fun and I want to check out everything that's coming out. I'm very excited.
Starting point is 01:01:26 We'll plug it and everything like that. Thank you. Great to meet you, man. Appreciate it. You guys are awesome. That interview with Peter Berg was brought to you by Chocolate Milk. By now you know who won the Super Bowl.
Starting point is 01:01:38 It was the Rams. By the way, they replayed the game for a fourth night in a row on NFL Network last night. I wonder, I wonder how far this is going to go. It was the Rams. It was the Patriots. And you know the winner of the Super Bowl was awarded the Vince Lombardi Trophy
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Starting point is 01:04:26 We have multiple take quicks. It's a big day for the Earth's take tonic plates we're shifting. Okay, first up, this one was actually just a random meme that Roan, our good friend Roan found online. And it came, I think, from a Orlando-based rapper. And it just said, it was a picture of the Orlando Magics GM.
Starting point is 01:04:50 And it said, worst GM in any sport, worst GM in any sports history, including Hitler, straight facts. Yeah, spot the lie. Okay. Hitler got his ass beat at the Olympics by Jesse Owens. Damn, that's a takeaway. Could put together a squad.
Starting point is 01:05:05 So we're doing a little thing where we go hottest and then we're going lower so that we can. It's pretty hot. I usually do it. My only qualm with this is like calling Hitler a GM. If we're talking like carb revolutions, GM, Hitler was definitely a BMW guy. Right.
Starting point is 01:05:19 Dave, that's how people forget. Right. So that was the first take quick. That's from just a guy online. So it doesn't really count. It counts, but it doesn't really count. The next is Skip Bayless, who, why don't you read exactly what Skip Bayless wrote?
Starting point is 01:05:33 He says, Kevin Durant has the perfect last name because he do rant. He does do rant. He be, you know, do ranting. He rants, he rants and he rants. Every other day he's ranting about something. He bites the hand that feeds him. Skip Bayless really going in on,
Starting point is 01:05:53 I guess he doesn't like people who rant. Does Skip Bayless, does he watch himself ever on television? Yeah. That's kind of his thing. Also, Kevin Durant. It's a great nickname though. Kevin Durant doesn't really rant that often. I feel like he's just good for this once every few months.
Starting point is 01:06:07 Well, he doesn't rant because he doesn't talk to the media enough to rant all the time. Good strategy on his part. Okay, and Skip should say less. Yes. Don't talk to the media Skip, ever. Luca is a stud because, you know, he's done chitch.
Starting point is 01:06:21 He's done chicks. Nice. Yeah. Nice, like Diplo. Nailed it. Okay, last up we have the Jason Whitlock take that LeBron is selfish because he's an only child. That's pretty far.
Starting point is 01:06:33 Wow. That's pretty far. Nice. Nice. And then they debated it for 25 minutes. Uh-huh. Where do you fall on this side? I tend to agree with anything Jason Whitlock says,
Starting point is 01:06:42 just in general. It depends on how small the fedora was on his head. So if the smaller the fedora gets, the more I believe him. Well, yeah. And the more he references the time he played at Ball State and the strippers in Kansas City. Yes.
Starting point is 01:06:56 Then I really believe him. So Jason Whitlock's favorite thing to do is to play up how he used to obviously play college football and how now he's fat. So that bit of self-deprecation goes a long way when being like your mom didn't fuck enough. Right. And it's just like, okay.
Starting point is 01:07:12 Delante didn't lay the pipe proper or else would be a good to me. Early enough, then yeah. Right. Exactly. Delante didn't give your mom that good dick, LeBron. This is NBA really brings out some crazy, crazy takes. I would say that your banana boat bros
Starting point is 01:07:28 are closer than family. Yeah, true. La Familia. Yeah. Saltwater's thicker than blood. This is us together. All right. So speaking of Durant, let's talk about it.
Starting point is 01:07:38 Because we have a respect the biz for Kevin Durant. He ranted, he do ranted about the media basically chastising them for talking about his upcoming free agency and saying he just wants to ball and be left alone and not have people ask questions all the time. Okay. So I actually sort of agree with a part of what he's saying, but the greater thing that he's saying it's like,
Starting point is 01:08:02 dude, you signed one of your deals and you're going to be a free agent every year. And of course people are going to talk about it. And the fact that people love this like petty wars and this league has actually helped the popularity of the NBA in a weird way. Even though I think it's all kind of stupid. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:08:18 And it takes away from the on the court stuff. So where I do agree with him though, people just take everything he does and take it out of context and make a big deal of it. And no one really talks about how fucking awesome he is. And they just talk about his free agency. You know what this tells me is the media isn't scared enough of Kevin Durant's crew.
Starting point is 01:08:35 So people are scared of LeBron James' crew, clutch management, they're afraid of that. I have no idea who represents Kevin Durant by the way. But the guy who, fuck. The guy that gives bad advice, rich climate. Okay. So what this tells me is the media doesn't respect Kevin Durant's like rep guards enough,
Starting point is 01:08:55 which again, Kevin, come on the podcast, we're happy to be your muscle. Look what we did for Baker Mayfield. Absolutely. How many times is Colin Coward gone at him? I actually think, I think that Kevin Durant, he has what it takes to be like an elite sports media blogger. He could be the fiery Richard Deitch.
Starting point is 01:09:12 Right. Cause he hates, he hates the media overall. I think he's probably got some interesting things to say about it. So just use that platform, King. So do another players tribune thing and just roast Ethan Strauss and everybody else that you hate the media. Just go off on them.
Starting point is 01:09:27 By the way, poor wind horse. Poor, poor wind horse. I don't know if you saw him on the jump the other day. His name is not wind horse. Brian, no, wind horse. I know. Yeah. Like a horse.
Starting point is 01:09:36 Poor wind horse. This wind horse. Yeah. So yeah. I feel bad for him. Cause if you saw him on the jump, just like his entire worldview was shattered by LeBron not getting what he wanted.
Starting point is 01:09:47 And he was so disillusioned with it. He's like, I can't believe that the Pelicans actually engaged in information warfare and psyopsis. Manic Claus is not real. Yeah. It was sad. Kevin Durant, though, I actually, I think Kevin Durant has like somewhat of a,
Starting point is 01:10:01 I want to hear more from him. I feel like he's got a kind of a funny personality. He just listens to too many things. Like he, he cares about what everyone says. And then he gets really grumpy. It's like, bro, just chill out. Just don't get upset every single time someone brings, they're bringing up the free agency
Starting point is 01:10:17 because you don't have a long-term contract. And because the Knicks have traded Chris Stops and have a bunch of space. Like this all makes sense. This is a reasonable question to ask. Don't get so upset because then it creates a whole, Kevin Durant is like this mercurial guy who's always mad at the media.
Starting point is 01:10:33 And then you get mad at that narrative, which you created. So it's just a constant like dog chasing its tail. When you, when you look at Kevin Durant's burner accounts, do you think that they all follow the same people? Or do you think he has like different timelines? Different timelines. I think he definitely has different timelines because he has, he's taking in so much
Starting point is 01:10:50 that it can't just be from like seeing the same thing over and over again. He's reading it all. So I actually reached out to Kevin Durant and I heard back from him and he had an all-time quote. So I was like, hey man, you should come on the podcast because we've been trying to get him on the podcast. It's been a little bit of a back and forth dance.
Starting point is 01:11:06 And I said to him, you know, I kind of understand your point. Like I just said, I kind of understand that it's annoying that like if you like something on Instagram, it becomes a fucking story and everything you say and every interaction you have with everyone becomes a story. It's kind of, it must be annoying. Being like, yeah, that happens to us every now and then. And he just said, you cannot compare to me
Starting point is 01:11:29 so you can't relate to me. So that's that. It looks like we're having a good dialogue here. It looks like Kevin's working with the media. He is talking to the media. I like how you said, sometimes that happens to us. Like if I accidentally like a picture of perfect booties, next day I'm coming in and Hank's roasting me.
Starting point is 01:11:45 Dude, I fucking followed Sarah J on Instagram and everyone's like, bro, you followed Sarah J? Yeah, I did. She's an OG of the game, man. I respect the fucking people who came before us. Right. Just because I replied to every single one of Jen Seltter's tweets, which don't read too far into that, I think that she's an inspirational athlete. Just because I say I'd crawl through, you know, 10 miles a glass
Starting point is 01:12:05 just to sniff your booty, Jen Seltter, doesn't mean that I'm like doing anything weird. Right. Just because she takes a picture in a swimming pool and I say, hey, Jen Seltter, I would take a straw and drink that entire Olympic-sized pool. It doesn't mean that I'm doing anything besides just saying, hey, I really like your grain bowl recipes that you post for breakfast.
Starting point is 01:12:23 And I'm thirsty. And I'm a little thirsty. No, I'm not thirsty. No, actually thirsty. That's a thirst trap. Yeah. When she posts herself in a big body of water that, of course, every guy would be like, I want to drink that
Starting point is 01:12:34 because it touched your butt. Yeah, verbal meme. Jen Seltter in a pool with her butt sticking out. Oh, OK. And then Denzel Washington, hey, Jen, I didn't know you liked to get wet. That's good. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:12:45 Jake. Ha, Jake. Ha-ha, Jen. Yeah. I didn't know you liked to get wet. Yeah. So, Kevin Arrant, come on the podcast, man. We can actually fix all this.
Starting point is 01:12:54 We can. Literally, all you have to do is come on the podcast and let me just muster up the strength to call you and be back next to your face. I think the plan is just, you can say it to him, but every time he gets to slap you. Yeah, I'm fine with that. That is, that's a total deal.
Starting point is 01:13:09 Deal. Deal. Absolute deal. If I say it to his face, he gets to slap me. I think also, it's not like a full slap. Just do like a half slap. Can I?
Starting point is 01:13:17 Well, I don't want him to hurt his hands, Hank. Oh, right. That's how he makes his money. Yeah. Come on, man. That's his bread and butter. Way to stay relevant. Baseball.
Starting point is 01:13:25 Baseball is changing all their rules. And they have created, Disabled List is problematic. And what is it called now? It's called the Injured List. Injured List. And what else do we have? They also are considering some rule changes, putting a DH in the National League.
Starting point is 01:13:42 Okay. Three batter minimum for relief pitchers. DH National League, hate it. Three batter minimum, love it. Really? Yeah. So I actually think they should go further with that. I think they should have a, if you, if you come in on an inning,
Starting point is 01:13:56 you have to finish the inning. Just watch guys get fucking torched. As an old school guy, I like the chess match. But it slows the game down and baseball has to change. Do that? Yes. I think what they should do is they should just purposely goose the major markets. How so?
Starting point is 01:14:13 Just like, just give me LA, New York, LA, Boston, Chicago, Boston, Houston, throw in a little Houston every now and again, just like everything's fine in baseball. They play 162 games. You guys are doing fine. Yeah. I, what are you saying? What about like the left-handed submarine pitchers? I know I think they, they should, I think it's actually gamesmanship when you have
Starting point is 01:14:33 to be like, all right, we're putting this guy in, he's got to stay in for three batters. But that chain is like these guys have been training one certain way for the whole life. I know. I like that, I like that now you have to like, it will be fun to watch a guy have to come in and survive three batters if he doesn't have his shit. Like that adds an element and it doesn't do the like pinch hitter, pinch batter, pinch hitter, commercial, commercial, like back and forth that an inning takes forever. What you're neglecting though is the pitcher, the, the shame walk that the pitcher has to
Starting point is 01:15:01 do if they don't even get through one batter. Yeah. That's kind of fun. Think about the shame walk if they have to survive three batters and you know that under the old rules, they would have pulled them after one. They just have to stay out on the mound, just being lonely. That's why I'm saying the rule should be that if you come in an inning, you have to finish that inning no matter what.
Starting point is 01:15:18 Watch a guy give up like 15 runs. I also think that a ground rule double should be a home run, not the weird one where it gets stuck in the Ivy, but just if it bounces over, I think that's a home run. I don't hate that one. Yeah, I like that one. I like that one a lot. All right. Was there any of the rules they had?
Starting point is 01:15:32 No, I just wrote down one, like let's do some ghost runners. Yeah, I like that. Ghost runners, poison mound. What's funny is like in a mid-July game, let's say it's the Reds against the Braves and interleague, or no, that's not an early, but, but Reds against Braves like mid-July, they could sneak in a ghost runner inning and I don't think anyone would notice. I agree. And a poison mound.
Starting point is 01:15:54 Yeah. Just throw it right back. It's a poison. Yeah. Yeah. And like all bunts. Maybe everyone, no one can be standing on the dirt. So they have to, all the infielders have to stand on the grass, all bunts.
Starting point is 01:16:04 I like it. These are the ideas MLB. You can use our brands as much as you want. What other rules do you like in the MLB? Or changes? What other rules can we throw out there now that they're just all of a sudden like, hey, let's change all the rules? I like maybe if you can, batter gets a pick if they want to run to third base or first
Starting point is 01:16:22 base. What do you mean? So like you, you, I hit, when you hit, you can just run either way. Yeah. And either one counts as first base. And if you make it to third base and you get there safe, then they put you back on first base and you start, you know, you're on the base path now. Oh, I like that.
Starting point is 01:16:38 Yeah. So it, it's tricky because if you choose the third base one, you can't run to second. There are no doubles if you go to the left. But if you hit a dribbler down the first base line, you can be like, fuck that. I don't want that noise. Run to third base and kind of fake them out a little bit. I like that a lot. But once you take more than three steps, you're committed down the third base line.
Starting point is 01:16:55 Okay. Yeah. That's a great idea. You asked me and that was the top of my head. That is a great idea. I love that idea. Thank you. So Hank, are you in for DH?
Starting point is 01:17:04 Okay. For NL? Yeah. I don't like it. Someone, I saw it on Twitter, but someone was like, if you asked NL managers, if they would pick a DH or a pitcher, they'd pick a DH every time. Well, that's why we don't ask NL managers. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:17:16 That's why we have someone else decide that. I also think that my no catcher idea has some legs too. It's going to happen someday. Well, last up before we get to FAQ, not to brag, but we called it the Bitcoin guy. So what's going on with him? So yeah, they're investigating that. So the Bitcoin guy is the dude that died with, I think it was 150 million, 200 million dollars worth of Bitcoin that had been trusted to him by his investors or suckers, as we
Starting point is 01:17:40 call it in the crypto biz. And he was the only one that had the password. Immediately upon discussing the story, Big Cat goes, he's still alive. And they are investigating his death because they don't think that he's actually alive. He is whale fucking with John McAfee. I didn't realize, when you told me that story, I didn't realize he died, died in India. Wow. That is the best place to die if you're going to fake it.
Starting point is 01:18:04 If you just go somewhere else and die, okay, that makes no sense. Yeah. Oh, he went to India and now he's dead. Okay. Checkmark. If I'm like a coroner in the United States, if I'm a mortician or whoever's in charge of the death certificate, I'm like, I don't want to get my hands messy with going over and dealing like with all the crises of a different culture.
Starting point is 01:18:22 He's dead. Right. So this guy is alive. He has all your Bitcoin. If you have Bitcoin with him, I'm sorry, but he's fake dead and you're shit out of luck. I would just go to the Antarctic and just say, I'm going to go on an expedition and then just never return. Never come back.
Starting point is 01:18:37 And that's nobody's going to go to the fucking South Pole to try to find your frozen body. Right. That's a pretty, pretty good one. You go anywhere like, I don't know, just go deep into the Pacific. I mean, they lost that plane. Did they ever find that plane? No. So you can lose a body pretty quick.
Starting point is 01:18:51 Yeah. Good point. Yeah. Hank, want to do FAQs? Let's do it. Who won the Daily Fantasy Football and got to sleep in PFT's bed? Care to discuss? Did PFT sleep naked?
Starting point is 01:19:05 Which one do you want me to answer first? Second part? Yes. Subnaked. Subnude most nights. Hank was in the room. He didn't know. You also slept with lights on every night.
Starting point is 01:19:16 No, I was being a polite roommate and Hank hadn't come to bed yet because he's a 17-year-old night owl. So I left the lamp on for him so he could see where he was going when we walked into the room. That's actually very nice. I don't have a cell phone. It was nice. No, it was nice.
Starting point is 01:19:30 Back in my day when we were growing up and we had our pet dinosaurs, we used to leave the light on instead of a cell phone flashlight. But nobody slept in my bed because nobody claimed the price. So we think that the person that won, for some reason, didn't want to sleep nude with me in my bed, so they just never even asked for it. That's probably the right choice, right? Yeah. I think they made a great choice.
Starting point is 01:19:52 Yeah. I think they all worked out there. Do you guys typically listen to episodes? But I was nude. Do you guys typically listen to episodes of PMT yourselves after they drop? If so, how often? I used to occasionally. I don't anymore.
Starting point is 01:20:05 I will when we do an interview and I don't remember the interview. So if we do an interview and we have it released like three weeks later, I'll listen back to that. But yeah, for the most part, it's a great show. I'm not discouraging people. No, I do. You do? No, you don't.
Starting point is 01:20:23 Yeah, I do. You literally were at the Patriots' or you weren't even at the Super Bowl and then you came back and you said, oh, I listened the first 15 minutes and I fell asleep. I listened to the show every single time after we got out of the studio. Yeah, on like six weeks. Oh, that's true. Yeah, when he's editing it. That's what he means.
Starting point is 01:20:37 How did having Dr. James Andrews on PMT happen and what was his reaction to being asked to come on the show? So Dr. James Andrews, it was a great guest. He was maybe your second month there. Yeah. Yeah, it was right after old Fatty Tours ACL. Cow Swarber. Cow Swarber Tours ACL.
Starting point is 01:20:53 Please. Well, he's not Fatty Tours anymore. Yeah, he also. That's why I said old. So we wanted to find out what the timetable was like for his recovery. We wanted to get Dr. James Andrews on but he's tough to get in touch with so we found another Dr. James Andrews using LinkedIn who is a professor of library sciences at University of North Florida.
Starting point is 01:21:12 I don't know. Yeah, something like that. South Florida. Yeah, so we had him on the show and we just asked him a bunch of questions about injuries and he was like, I don't know. He predicted Cow Swarber would be back. Yeah. Which ended up happening and then the Cubs won the World Series.
Starting point is 01:21:25 And we also learned that our listeners don't like that. Yeah, they don't like being lied to. Yeah, we stopped doing it until you guys lied to him last year. Hold on. That was smart Titus. That was not our idea. We don't troll the audience anymore. We realized really, because what happened like right after that, I think we had Tom
Starting point is 01:21:43 Glavin and it was like, it's just a fucking dude named Tom Glavin. We should actually have that Dr. James Andrews back on at the next major injury. I agree. I agree. So I just got my PhD, Bragg. So is every meeting or appointment I go to from now on a doctor's appointment? Oh, fuck. Yeah, it is.
Starting point is 01:22:01 It absolutely is. That's a good quote. And every officer in his doctor's office. Fuck. Yeah, that's pretty good. You had a woe, PFT. I do have a woe. You ready for this?
Starting point is 01:22:11 Yes. Okay. The mirror is younger than you are. Wait, what? When you look in the mirror, the person that you see is younger than you are. Because it takes like a second? Light travels. Whoa.
Starting point is 01:22:27 Whoa. That is a woe. Yeah. Holy fuck. So you always look, you always look better. That's why you always look better in the mirror. That's not true. Then you think that you look.
Starting point is 01:22:35 That's not true. That's why- I don't know what mirrors you're looking into, because I do not think I look better in the mirror. I look in the mirror and I'm like, yeesh. What I'm saying is, it's better than what other people see. True. That is true.
Starting point is 01:22:46 I was math invented or discovered? It was invented. It's a big scam. Fuck. I don't know, man. Yeah. We should actually do a whole podcast about that, like who invented potato chips. How'd that happen?
Starting point is 01:23:02 Well, it was discovered because back in the day, when you had cavemen and you have two spears on the ground and then somebody tosses a third in it, they're not sitting there having to think about, oh, what is the word for having this many things? They're just like, this is a fuckload of spears. Some nerd had to feel like they were part of the game. The first saber matrician came in and tried to put stats around the hunt and they're like, you're better off if you have three spears on the hunt than if you have one. That's addition.
Starting point is 01:23:30 Yeah. Got it. That took me a second there. I was about to say multiplication. If you pee in a dream and wake up and you've pissed yourself, it's a dream come true. Whoa. That's pretty good. That's pretty good.
Starting point is 01:23:44 Yeah. Same thing if you're not. Yeah, that's true. Damn. Fucking old school wet dreams. That's pretty cool. Last one at the beginning of each episode, who says it's part of my take, presented by Barstool Sports.
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