Pardon My Take - Rick Reilly, Open Championship With Riggs & Kirk Minihane, Mt Rushmore Of Running Backs + Jimbos

Episode Date: July 19, 2023

Running backs are being persecuted and we have some ideas to fix it. Shohei Ohtani trade destinations (00:00:00-00:25:50). Hot Seat/Cool Throne including Joel Embiid wanting out of Philly and Bill Belichick being on the hot seat (00:25:50-00:55:23). Rick Reilly joins the show to talk about his new book, semi retiring at the perfect time, LIV golf, British Open memories and Kate Upton Boobs (00:55:23-01:35:11). Mt Rushmore of running backs (01:35:11-01:53:42). Riggs and Kirk Minihane join the show to talk Open Championship picks, who is deserving from the Golf Gods and more (01:53:42-02:20:44). We finish with Jimbos (02:20:44-02:33:21).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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Oh, we're gonna rock it down too. He let, shake it. It's pardon my take. There's an unblocked horse to a sport. He let, shake it. Welcome to part of my take today is Wednesday, July 19th, and PFT. Running backs are being scrutinized. Running backs are being judged. Running backs are on the hot seat in the entire NFL.

Sequan Barkley doesn't reach a deal with the Giants. Neither does Tony Pollard. Sequan Barkley tweets it is what it is. And then every running back in the world comes to their effect. Their his defense. What are we going to do about running backs? PFT. Well, you said scrutinize. I think you can drop the in eyes. They're getting screwed.

Yeah. He's going back again. Screw left and right. They are in a dangered species when it comes again paid. They need to go on strike. It sounds like this is the beginning of running back unionization. They need to band together. Like the Ravens have been doing it for years

when it comes to their wide receivers. Just don't have, like, what are you gonna do? Play a game without running backs? I'd like to see you try. Or you can just teach all your running backs. Here's what I would do. If you're a young running back, a youngster out there playing the position of running back,

learning how to play, coming up to the ranks, also learn how to pass because then you can just be a dual threat quarterback. How about that? Yeah, we're into pass. But it does seem like what happened to fullbacks about 10, 12 years ago with that start, like the whole trend of not using a fullback anymore, not paying a fullback when they were a big part of the running game. That's now, firstly came for the fullbacks and I said nothing because I was not a fullback.

Next they came for the running backs and there was nobody left to block for me. It's tough. It's tough. I, it's one of those situations where I get what the running backs are saying, but it also we have learned through time that like a guy like Seikwon Barkley who's very good, you can probably pay someone 20% of the salary for 80% of the production and running backs. My big idea is that running backs should not be eligible to be drafted. Make them let them be free ages because

it's like I have no problem with how GMs are operating in terms of drafting running back, like using them and then franchise tagging them then moving on because it's just a matter of fact that running backs they they wear down faster. That's just that's just the nature of the position. It sucks for them but it's true. So the big problem is the running backs don't get to free agency until they're kind of on the other side of the hill. Why don't we let running backs just be free agents right away? Or that that would, I mean, I know what you're saying. It might not work to just be like, okay, one position gets it. Of course. Right. But it would, it would probably be a little bit easier if there was just no franchise tag

for running back. Yeah, yeah. Or you can use it on that position. You can use it on anybody else if you've got a great holder. Sure, use your tag on that. But if there's a running back, you can't tag them so they play their first contract, then there will be an actual bidding war for their services out there for their second deal. Then they can make some money, probably not get a third contract out of any of it.

But that second contract is what they're all working towards and they're not getting there in the current model. And yeah, if you're a GM, why would you ever commit big amount of money to a running back? It doesn't make any sense at all. Except I actually think with with Sequon, there's a better angle that you can take on him that he is better for Daniel Jones than Daniel Jones is for sake one Barclay.

Yeah. No, I mean, sake one's a very good running back like Christopher McCaffrey chiming in. I, Christopher McCaffrey is a special running back. He catches the ball like a wide receiver. It's just if you're talking about the average running back, it's, I don't really blame GMs for making smart financial decisions when it comes to paying running backs. Like, I, it sucks. It'd be funny if they did go on strike.

If all the running backs got together because Derek Henry did say, I'm with every running back that's fighting to get what they deserve. If just they all stop playing, we might sneaky like football more. Like if there was no running game. It wouldn't be football anymore. But I think, I mean, that's what the league is going towards anyways. It's just like an all passing game, right? Like that's what's bringing the money. That's what all the rule changes are in favor.

What if there, if there was a week without running backs? Would we be happy watching those games? I think me and you would not, because we appreciate the beauty of the running attack. Establish the run. Yes, yes, yes. How would you play action wouldn't work. Right. But if you were just like taking a pole nationwide of every football fan,

do you think that more people would be like, yo, this game's all passing now? That's kind of sweet. Yeah, it's basically Warren Sharp's wet dream is what would happen. Yeah. It's just pass on first down every time. You know what running backs need to do

is they need to be cut, they like tight ends on first down every time. You know what running backs need to do is they need to be cut, they like tight ends, they need a camp where they all get together. And I think what running backs need to do more than anything is highlight their blocking, because they can be like, look, we understand running the football, it's a passing league now.

But what about blocking? Because they pay offensive lineman a lot of money, right? So just basically every single week, instead of being like, look at this 20 yard run by Saequan Barkley, how about look at this blitz that he picked up and saved this quarterback's life. We just need to shift the argument. Yeah.

Yeah, I love watching running backs throw down a big block. It's one of my favorite. It's the past. It's like Maurice Jones drew, Layne out Sean Mariamon. What? This would actually lead, it would lead towards teams drafting just really fat, big running backs to just be full-time blockers in the backfield.

Brandon Jacobs makes a comeback, but it really is, it's the part of the game that's not sexy that people don't really have their eye on, but a running back who's able to be good in the past protection game is an invaluable asset to your team and to your quarterback not getting killed. So that's what we need to be talking about with running backs.

Yeah. It's also a position that is it is expendable. You can find another running back in the draft. There's not that much difference as we've seen throughout the last 10 years of the NFL taking a running back in the seventh round usually works out for you just as well as taking running back in the second round. And that's the just as well as taking running back in the second round And that's the part that sucks for him too because running backs do when they're 25 26 The league kind of use them is oh, they got a lot of miles

So why would we pay a 26 27 year old running back a ton of money and they never really got a chance to make that big Second contract you always hear about it's the second contract that guys are after because the first one's locked into a certain amount of money. And if you're not like a top first round pick, it's not gonna be money for the rest of your life. And you gotta earn that second contract. I did like, there's a lot of confusing arguments online. One of my favorite ones was the meme that said,

running backs average salary is $1.81 million and kickers average salary is $2.26 million and how everything is wrong because of that. Just leaving out the fact that most rosters have like three or four running backs and they all have one kicker. But still, you know, it feels a little personal towards kickers. Yeah, they're really just. They're really just. Also, Babe Ruth made like $30,000

in the course of his career, isn't that fucked up? Yeah, true. It gets me salaries nowadays, the running backs. I also loved Marie-Stroen's Drew came to the defense. He said, let me say this, if you don't have Patrick Holmes on your team, you're gonna need a top notch running back to win a ship and that's a promise then

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Yeah, or just getting to a Super Bowl. It's good to have a bunch of guys that can run the football. Yeah, reading Russia doesn't matter. This is actually the patriotization of the NFL. Bill Bellicic check was way ahead of the curve on this because he was doing like running back by committee going back to 2012, 2013, where it didn't matter if Gray got him four touchdowns one week. He was going to play LaGarrett Blunt in a cold weather game. He would just like go back and forth back and forth, depending on who he felt was the best match up in that game. Yeah.

There's not having a bunch of good running backs is almost better than having one awesome running back because then you have to force feed that guy. And if he's having a bad game, your whole offense goes to shit. Yeah. Yeah. It is funny when you put it like when you think of running backs and you talk about, if I were to say like,

running back is 28 years old, you'd be like, ew, gross. It's like, we look at running backs like Leonardo DiCaprio looks at girlfriends. It's pretty much 26. There's a lot of tread on, not so much tread left on those tires. Time for a new one.

I'm afraid, let's get it on you. Yeah, so I do feel bad for running backs, but I also don't really know the solution other than taking away the franchise tag or figuring out a way that they're rookie contracts. Maybe if you draft a running back, they're rookie contract is three years. Now five, I don't know.

I still think they should unionize. I think that'd be fun. That would be fun. There's whiffs of unionization going around yeah someone else also had the idea uh... that running back should be uh... like car leases that if you go over the miles over the caries you have to pay a penalty to the running back

i don't think that would really work because then teams would just g it be even more running back by committee and they they would say be like, oh, we can't, we can't run sake on here on the goal line because we don't want to pay the penalty. Yeah. My old colleague from KSK, Johnny Sugar tweeted this out a couple months ago and it made me laugh. He said that the NFL analytics community, which is a bunch, for the most part, a bunch of nerdy liberal leaning white guys got together and somehow figured out that running backs should not be paid as much as they are getting paid and it ended up taking away millions and millions and millions of dollars of earning potential from young black men.

Because it is the truth. It's the analytics of football have, uh, fuck, I love the running back position. I love running back to when this happened. I felt bad for running backs everywhere. I tweeted out like running backs. If you're reading this, just know that I value you. Yeah. I was still I still think running backs are cool. If I were a GM, I already proposed this.

I would make sure that all the running backs on my roster get paid enough that they're happy and as little that I'm happy. Easy job. Yeah, develop a rescue franchise for unwanted running backs. Yes. We need, I mean, we, yeah, we need maybe a team to just only run the football kind of zig when everyone's eggs. Ravens.

Yeah. Ravens, I mean, the 49ers almost, they tried to win an FC championship game. Just running the football. That's true. Turns out it doesn it doesn't you might need it you might need a quarterback too along with your running backs to win a championship. Reese Jones who was just like a little bit off. It it also is like when you actually say the numbers it is ridiculous someone was like how is Daniel Jones getting 35 million and Sequan can't get 12. You're like, you know what, you're right. Sequan is better at football than Daniel Jones. It's unfortunate.

The Daniel Jones plays quarterback. The most, the most important position in all sports. Just if I were the giants, I would have probably tagged Daniel Jones and then paid Sequan. Yeah. That is what fucks Sequan is as soon as

Daniel Jones did his deal. Yeah. He had the franchise tag for Sequan. But he's like a rare case. I think Se snake one is good enough that you could make the case that you could pay him a little bit of money on that second deal and still be fine in the long term because he does make your quarterback so much better. He makes your offense aligned so much better. But yeah, for the most part, it's just basic churn and burn. Get a guy that it's like the Denver Broncos used to always do. They'd have one guy. You'd be like, damn, that guy's going to be the future of the NFL.

He's going to be the Russian king for the next five seasons. And then usually the next season or the season after they'd move on from them. Yeah, yeah. The Shanahan system just plug and play a running back. Okay, what else we got going on? It was, it was, we are in the depths of July, where I feel like the whole day was, was just running back conversations. I saw people ranking seasons. So like, the actual seasons of the year. And I realized, oh, fuck, we need some sports back. Like, thank God,

team start reporting this week. Because when we start ranking the four seasons that usually is a sign that we all need to watch some football really badly. When you said ranked the four seasons I was just gonna say football season. Yeah, I mean, well that's the one thing. Fall is at number one, you're crazy. Yeah, I love the summer. I still love the summer, man. You can't get the summer out of this blood. Hank, don't look like you don't love the summer either.

I love the summer. No, I mean, we've had this debate, I think probably like 10 times, but yeah, this is what we do in July. You guys both pick fall first. I'm the only real summer head on this pod. I only scoff because you say that, but you don't mean it. I do mean it. What are you talking about? Summer fall. One's got to go. Summer's gone. Yeah, so don't say that. Won't even, won't even miss you. It's close. It, so don't say that won't even won't even miss you It's you know what I'm leading more towards becoming a fall guys I get older also as you got a kid summers one No, no

Your time with your kid. Yeah, you're you're waiting when you are a kid no Most people don't get summers off unless you're sure or Hank. No, when you're a kid, summer's by far the best. Yes, yes, you are correct. When you're a kid, yes, but when you have kids summer goes down again, or if you don't have an office, or if you don't have an office, but you know, I mean, you have a top realization after you graduate from college, you get into the real world and you realize, wait, I don't, I don't get to stay home and go on vacation every July and August.

That's fucked up. Yeah. Summer really gets knocked down a peg. It basically becomes like four like four weekends in the summers. What is what you were remembered by? Yeah. Yeah. There are also the open championship, which we'll get into in a little bit, but that's been

it's been discussed. They fuck Brooks over with his pairing. Yeah, he's in a good time. Just trying to get under skin. The Brits don't want to see our boy Brooks win, but Brooks has already figured out he's gonna walk slow. He's gonna, so he's gonna slow walk the fuck out of the course. Yeah, but that he was doing that, so he didn't have to about people like it's got to be a different piece when you have to watch Can't lay the whole time like you can say it's all gonna bother him, but It's it has to well. Yes two options. He could either which would be very funny if he starts just walking in circles behind Can't lay as he does this whole thing or

Brooks gonna have to start stroking guys Which he will he will stroke a guy if he has to. He would also be funny if Brooks intentionally didn't play driver just so that he would always be away from the pin on the second shot. If those extra yards were so meaningless to him, he's like, yeah, you know what, I'll hit a four-iron off the tee.

That way I can go up and hit my shot immediately. Yeah, can't leave. Fuck you, can't leave. I'm gonna be watching with a clock on, can't leave. I've got, can't leave. Can't leave. I mean, the, uh, can't we fuck you can't I'm gonna be I'm gonna be watching with a clock on can't I've got I'm gonna be watching with a clock on can't I've got I'm gonna be the The Barstall Sports Book the Fleetwood Mac bet Tommy Fleetwood Rory McElroy top 10. I like both those guys Yeah, I like guys this week a lot. I like that name a lot. I wish I wasn't I you know outwardly saying

Roy's gonna miss the cut, but that name is great. It's a good name. A good name for anything will overcome any mental obstacle. Yes, yes, yes. The other thing I had was Shohe O'Tani straight season is coming. He had an unreal bat flip against Yankees

at midnight on the East Coast. And Yankees stink. Ever since they took away, they put the logo on their pinstripes. He's got a realization. Show is turning into Barry Bonds where people are like, why didn't they intentionally walk them?

It's like, yeah. Yeah, he's, so I read an article, Top Destinations for Shohei Otoni, basically judging who has the farm system to trade for him for the next two months, two and a half months. And I love it because I want to ask what you think the top three teams are and it makes it so much fun because if he goes to any three, it would be fucking incredible. Okay, so I would say the nationals because the nationals just upgraded their farm system

by trading away one so to last year. That's never going to happen. It's not going to happen. I'm not convinced of that. Seattle. Nope Chicago. Nope, the cops are gonna be sellers for sure. The top three are the Tampa Bay race number three and this is obviously just a list on CBS. Gross. The Baltimore Orioles, which would be fun. Awesome. They have a loaded farm system. I don't think they'll ever pull the trigger on that and then the Texas Rangers So if he goes to any three of those cuz you know

Yeah, well the razor no, but like that is a fun. Who it's not fun? Well the race could be fun if they were their throwbacks. Yeah Yeah, the like The double right on yeah the neon logo that they've been wearing. Those are fun. Yeah. I just don't think that the Tampa Bay Rez are a fun organization.

If I want, if you have a superstar like Shohei O'Tani, you want to see him in a premium market, like an exciting team. Baltimore would also be fun though. But remember, this is a rental. So I'm saying it would be fun because it's a rental. Like he's going to sign somewhere else after the season for a ton of ton of money and probably in New York or LA for the Dodgers. So I'm saying fun, you get to watch Show Hayotani for two and a half months on a team that you wouldn't expect to be on, maybe compete for a World Series. Those would be, I mean,

the Orioles would be awesome. And the Reds were number five. Reds would be awesome. So the Orioles, I don't know if Peter Angelo's would do that though. No, he's not a big trade for another superstar. He's like the entire world view that Peter Angelo's has as the owner of the Orioles is you want to develop a superstar and then trade him away at the deadline. His business model is exactly what the Angels are doing

right now. Yeah, he, you build the tree and then you sell it away for a bunch of seeds. Yeah, you'll get another tree. I'm gonna get a tree soon, then I'm gonna get more seeds. You're not getting fruit. Yes. Yes. So, I don't know.

I hope he gets traded to not the Yankees or the Dodgers. That's my only hope because it feels like he will sign with the Yankees or the Dodgers once he becomes a free agent. So, I'm hoping that we get to see Shohei in a different, in a different uniform for two and a half months, maybe going deep into October. I'd like to see him on, on the Giants or the Mariners. I think those will be fun teams. The Giants would be cool. Yeah. That would be cool. Reds would be, we're about to travel. We get, is Trout going anywhere? Well, he's injured, right?

Yeah, Trout's after the next six weeks. Otani has also said that he likes playing on the West Coast and he wants to stay on the West Coast. So he's going to get traded to the Dodgers. So I think the Dodgers are the betting favorites for him. Or the Padres who, I don't know how they have any talent. I don't think they have any. Or money.

Yeah. But, everybody on their current, the roster is awesome. If you look at it on paper You look at the podras. You're like, yeah, that's a contender also that was a bad bad flip It was he looked awkward. What are you talking? It looked like an awkward bad flip everyone was freaking out about I thought he looked awkward It was smooth as hell. No, no Looks like he was cranking a motorcycle look look at it and then he was like oh shit I should bat flip a bad flip should be like like a Jose but I don't know that was the exact same thing what I just Yeah, I'm actually no there's a

It didn't look natural it looked like he forced that bad flip. Okay. I'm watching it again And you are so wrong. No, I'll stand by this day Oh, that's so wrong. I didn't think it was a good bath flip. I didn't think it was a good bath flip. Not to mention that it wasn't a no-doubt or home run. Yeah, which makes it a little, which makes it worse. No, it makes it cool that he was like, actually, this is gonna be a home run

when everyone watching was like, oh, maybe it's not. Okay, so Matt, we're not gonna take any advice from Max on how to celebrate after you win something. I do. Maybe if he has decided to celebrate after you win something. I do. Maybe he has decided to bat flip before he swung the bat. That's a good score. Max is speed.

Before the pitch even came. It was an awkward battle. It was, there was nothing about it. I'm watching it on loop right now. It was smooth as hell. No, it was for it. It just stared at the ball and just went boom. Max, are you a bad boy?

You're a little guy. No, I love a bat flip. I just didn't think that was a good one. OK, I don't think this take is a good one. No, that's fine. It's actually a terrible one. That's fine. It's an awful, awful, awful take. Also, considering this too, Aaron Boomer is

on one of my hot seats, but we're talking about it now. Could have walked them. Could have walked them. Yeah, could have walked them. Yeah, that was too walking. Yeah, that's tough. Probably should have walked them. I got a nice little taste of

central time zone last night watching this game. Because on the on the East Coast, it was over so late. Yeah. I was in even bed yet. I was just chilling on my couch. I was on my downstairs couch. I hadn't even gone upstairs yet. Oh, how didn't even done the move? Hadn't even done the move yet. Nope, sometimes I'll catch the end of a game on a TV in my bedroom. No, I was not only was I downstairs big cat. I haven't even done the move yet. Nope. Sometimes I'll catch the end of a game on a TV in my bedroom. No, I was not only was I downstairs big cat. I haven't even made the move from the basement to the main room to the upstairs yet. That's always on living. That can get tricky though,

sometimes because I'll get stuck just like so lazy that I won't make the move even though I should have made the move. Yeah, you know, especially if you have a good couch. Yeah, you're like, why have I not made the move? I'm not even watching anything if you have a good couch. Yeah, you're like, why have I not made the move? I'm not even watching anything. You're like, nah, I'm just staying on this couch. I did get a new couch delivered last week. And I think I may have made a mistake. Uh-oh.

I got, it's like so comfortable that I was laying on the other night. And I thought, why don't I just live here? Oh my couch, why don't I be with you again? Yeah. Dude, they've made couches so awesome. Yeah, it is one of the best, like, I don't know, top five engineering changes that they made in the last 10, 15 years where couches are just basically beds. It rules. I could,

I could sleep on my couch all day, all night. I could live on my couch. Entirely eat there. I could do the podcast from there every day. You should hurt your back again and just lay on the couch. I'm thinking about it. Yeah. Hank, you don't like this? No, I was gonna save it for fire fest,

but as you can see behind me, I've had room for a couch that I ordered in May and I've just been out war with customer service and I've pretty much just given up on it showing up So just hearing you guys talk about how great couches are is making me a little Little sad. Thank you. Gotta check out my couch. If you ever want to see couch come over to my place Yeah, cuz I don't think I don't think I'm ever gonna have one Well, thanks thanks living in the real life meme of the guys apartment. That's just a folding chair a TV

More do you need? real life meme of the guys apartment that's just a folding chair, a TV, a red donut. Yeah. What more do you need? Hey, you don't need a couch. Your house is the golf course. True. Yeah. So you're good. All right.

Should we do hot sea cool throne? Yep. Let's do hot sea cool throne. And then we'll get to Rick Riley, Mount Rushmore of running backs and Kirk and Riggs. Hank, your hot sea cool throw. My hot sea is Christopher Nolan. Ooh. Okay, go on.

My favorite, you know, my favorite director, my favorite, my favorite filmmaker. You guys know I'm an absolute, you know, cinephile. I love movies the other day. I watched like a five minute TikTok that was explaining the decision that he made to shoot Oppenheimer in this crazy iMac 70 millimeter film and that you know to really appreciate it you got to go see it in iMac 70 millimeter and I watched all the thing I was like damn he really went to great lengths to do this. It must be worth the experience.

There's 19 movie theaters in the country that can do it. What? And that's it. So like other iMacs, there's only 19 that are the 70 millimeter iMacs. The other iMacs are basically like slightly distorted or like reformatted versions. I'm sure you probably wouldn't be able to see the difference. But after I watched this video, I was like, oh, I got to, I, you know, I love Chris for no one. I respect his craft. I'm going to do what he wants the people to do the way he watched the movie, the way

he intended it to be watched. You're a sip. And there's literally the closest one to me is in like Detroit. Okay. I'm not a cop. I'm not. I'm not. and there's literally the closest one to me is in Detroit. Okay, I'm not a centiphyl, you're not a centiphyl. Thank you, man. It's tough. You're even making me think.

I'm upset. I assumed honestly, I assumed it was like, every major city probably has one, but maybe some of the flyover states and stuff, they're kind of screwed, so I wasn't worried about it. But then I was like, when I saw this list, I was furious. Okay, so I did some different math when it came to this movie because I saw what you're talking about, Hank,

how he's very specific in particular. I shot it in this format to be viewed in this format. All I need to see was it Why would you do that if there's 19? Right, all I need to see was, it's a three hour long movie. I don't care what the size of the screen and the film canister in the back looks like. I'm gonna watch this fucking thing

on the most comfortable chair I can find. If I'm gonna be there for three hours, you better believe I'm not sitting like a standard normal movie theater seat. I'm going full lazy boy. I need some of that reclines That's okay every movie theater in the world now. I have a question No, it's not you got it you got to find the ones that aren't just the plush ones the ones that kick back a little bit I have a question

What exactly does it like define an iMacs theater because I just googled it and it says there's over 300 iMac's theaters in the US and I just googled it and there's Top 10 best iMac's theaters in Chicago, but those it's not it's a different. It's slightly different format. It's like There's digital iMacs and then 70 mm iMacs. I don't know what Necessarily what the difference is but that is the difference so you can see it in I max But not the way he wanted it to be seen well the next Christopher Nolan fall which is why he's on the hot Yes, okay, all right now But also Hank can't claim to be a Christopher Nolan fan if he's not right all of his particular

Instructions and going to Detroit to watch this movie. Yes, your cinephile has been revoked. Got your card. Also, IMAX would be a great name for like a biopic about Max. Yeah, so we made it a lot of Max. They just slips on bananas and shit. Yeah, IMAX. Speaking of that, honestly, great siteway, PFT. My cool throne is the city of Philadelphia

never winning anything ever. Okay, filling out something. Oh, okay. The city of Philadelphia never winning anything ever. Okay. Filly. Something. Oh, okay. The city of Philadelphia. Joel and bead, our prince, our MVP. He made comments the other day that he wants to win a championship in Philadelphia or

anywhere else, which again, you got, you know, your MVP, you got James Harden, James Harden's out of town could care less about playing in Philadelphia. And then you have your current MVP best player cornerstone of the franchise saying he just wants to win. And it seems like he doesn't win this year in Philly. He's probably out. Have you done any follow up research to this? I have. Okay. You better believe he has. Hey, tell me about all the follow up research you've done to this quote. Well, the follow-up, I think he got a lot of heat and then Joel and Bede, like he was being genuine and then he realized that he was being too honest

in the city of Philadelphia who was turning on him. I think, what was your exact, let me pull up, I only pull up Max's quote about this. No, yeah, I am. I am. It takes about this, but it doesn't have to do with Mbead. Well, Max, well, no, you're literally tweeter than that on the competition.

Oh, hold on, all right, I got it. This is from ad Philly Maze. Can't believe this fan base is going to run and beat out of town. Oh! That was before, that was before MBEED. I don't see any follow-up from you, so... That was before MBEED followed up himself and said that he was just trolling, and that he is the troll god.

But... That didn't seem like a troll. No, but he said it was a troll. Oh, okay. So it's just a prank. He said it was a prank. He said it was a troll and that he wants to stay in Philadelphia and finish his career. He just said just like a little name that doesn't and his middle name actually isn't troll. So if you do check his middle name max, which I know middle name middle name in his twa your this semantics your plan is a man his man is Hans oh you're playing a semantics Hans great middle name

PR middle name check my middle name and I did and it's Hans haha his middle name on Twitter is troll it's not true it's not true. So that's not his middle name everyone Ever I'm sick of everyone here Wait, he also said that he lost his place as the best troll here and that is now Darryl Mori So he was just talking about trolling. He's okay. He was not Drill name is Hans and there's middle name on Twitter is tro L I think you hang when they when they asked in that question, yeah, I want to win a championship,

whether that's here or somewhere else, that's my goal. I think it's an arm- Yeah, there's no loyalty to our city, Max. Factor Fisher. Yes, he does. He has plenty of loyalty until everything I'm seeing on Twitter right now is just bashing M.B. I, that's so fucked up.

I understand. And I understand. They can't, they just can't. He is the M.B. He is the MVP. He's the MVP of the league. And no matter what has happened in the playoffs, the past couple of years, yes, he hasn't played as well as he can. He's still an undeniable top 10 player in the league.

And 90% of teams across the NBA would do anything to have him. Factor fiction, would you like Joe LNB to be on the Chicago Bulls? No, I want the the bolts to win a title that's a lie that's why i just give you a big picture of what you just said is fiction you just said it's just some day win a title again and and draw on be this dot get you closer factor fiction to win a title you need to make a deep playoff run correct

you get to the third round he's going to the third round. He's going to the third round. He's young. How young? Young adjacent. Is he an old running back? He's probably an old running back, but that's fine. Okay. So big men in running back. Give us Zach Levine.

Give us Zach Levine. For John B. No. No. No. Not for John B. He's 29 years old. And his middle name is Hans.

He'll be 30 by the time they play the playoffs next year. Uh oh. Young adjacent. That's I'll be fine. He's got a long career ahead of him in Philadelphia. We're going to maybe not this year, maybe not this year. But next year we're going to put pieces in front of. Oh, around them.

We're already giving up on so 31. No, we have 31 now. Wait a minute. Although Pat Bev is here and Pat Bev is going to change everything about the six years, that's true. So you've already wasted and beads prime. Yeah. We're already going next year, not even this year.

Yeah, you wait this prime. No, this year's back on. This year's back on. I rewind, rewind. You want him and Fat James Harden who actually is. No, Pat Bev. Yeah, no, but Fat James Harden only wants to go to the clip. You love Pappev to be your starting point guard.

Yeah. Okay. Yes. Give me Pappev starting point guard. We figure out Harden for Levine. Sure. Wait, what? I don't want to get Harden.

No, no, well, we're gonna do like a little three team trade. Okay, one of the points here. Assets? Yeah, you get some assets. I'll take some assets. Yeah, how many assets? How many assets? I don't know, We're going to work. We're going to work assets. They just trade. They tried to offload their unwanted players and they just they put them on other teams. Yeah. Yeah. No, I don't want

hard. Hardin's not going to go to the bulls. Hardin's going to go to the clippers and then maybe a fourth team assets to the bulls. We get Zachovie. Why don't you just want to keep James Hardin? to the bulls, we get Zach O'Vee. Why don't you just want to keep James Hardin? Uh, because he's not, he could, he could, he could, he could, he could, he definitely wants to leave and he could. Max, how, how much blamed do you have? Why don't you just have a good team that people want to play for? I'm on the fans, Max, because you did say they're going to run him out of town.

Well, I mean, the Twitter timeline was insane yesterday. Say, just talking about how Joe LNB is worthless. Get him off. If Joe LNB wasn't on the Sixers, we wouldn't even like make the playoffs for the next 10 years. Damn. Fuck. Like Joe LNB, like all of a sudden, like Philly does, especially Sixers fans, they have the worst recency bias of all time and they immediately think that like

after one bad series, you just said next year's out. Max, we got on. I can't, we can't let this guy skate with us. As far as like winning a title, but I'm just going back to the times where it was like barely making the playoffs or like the process. Yeah, yeah, so like, but like going back to the times of like the Inceed you don't deserve to have them.

Yeah, yeah, but remember the stuff. No, no, no, no happy with you. No, I'm trying. I still love them. I still love them. You're running him out of town by saying next year is a complete wash. He still loves them. No, no, we're going to figure out we're going to get hardened out.

We're going to bring Levine in assets to the bull not get exactly the beach I think you guys are tanking for some draft picks. No no more no more tanking trust the process trust the process All right, you're hot seat cool thrown pft. He was not trolling by the way I'm sorry. I think going off the rails My hot seat is our relationship with Kurt Cousins because the Netflix show quarterback came out and I'm coming out of the closet as a Kurt Cousins fan. I've been, it's been buried deep inside me for a long time and it's like I'm a self-hating Kirk Cousins fan.

So I've buried it so deep that I over compensated for loving Kirk Cousins by hating him so much these last few years. I love him, I love Kirk Cousins. I'm not ashamed to admit it for the first time and maybe my entire life, I'm coming out to you guys. I love Kirk Cousins. As a person, one of the greatest dudes,

hard not to root for, the only thing that you can knock him for is that he gets paid too much because he actually played the game the right way when it came to the contracts and the franchise tag situations. Got himself into a situation where he's probably gonna make $300 million over the course of his career or close to it.

Would you hear that figure and you think to yourself, that's a lot of money for Kurt Cousins because he's not like a top three, top five quarterback, but he's impossible to not like. He really is. He, I will never love him because he does play for the Vikings and it is NFC North and I'm hoping the bears will be competing at the top of the NFC North. But I like him, I like him now. Watching him, what solidified it for me was actually his wife talking about his wardrobe and she was like, yeah, people say online like, oh, what does he shop at Target or Coles

and she was like, yeah, actually we do. And I was like, yeah, you know what? Like he's just a regular guy like he's just a regular guy He was in Barnes and Noble buying books and they're like, oh, we got actually a half price on this table He's like, oh, that's my lucky day. Yeah, it goes over and buys some more book He's just a good I He's a good guy. They Kirk cousins would probably be the best neighbor in the world to have yeah He's a good guy. He's a very good guy.

It's going to be hard to root against him, but I will have to, but yeah, he's a very good guy. It was, he was the big winner of that, of that show. Yes. And my homes won a Super Bowl. Yes. And my other hot seat is Vietnam because US women's national team opens up the World Cup against Vietnam on Thursday night.

So we're going back to finish the job. We're going to have a full clip ready to go. Vietnam more. Let's go. Let's get after it. But yeah, I like watching the Women's World Cup. It's fun. Do you see that commercial that they had in France? Yes. Yes. It was a pretty good commercial for the Women's World Cup.

The billies and the Andru Tates of the world have no idea what to do with that commercial Absolutely no idea. They took You're and you're saying aspiring yeah, no, you're top G. I'm not I'm not you're not a top. I actually I love I like women soccer more than men's soccer I really play harder name five of your favorite players Megan Rapino Alex Morgan Mm-hmm. I was good. You came out hot out of the game. We had some on the show That was fucking good you you are two for two Oh, oh, but yeah, the clip for who didn't see me am they used the cheese former vibe wouldn't hear Billy say at least one more current player

Not current name the one that's been on the podcast Billy He doesn't listen to the show now is No, you were you were I was away. No, you're part of the show Billy's probably like in Bob He was not I was an intern that actually is when part of the show. Billy's probably like in Bobbick. He was not. I was an intern. That actually is when he should be listening more though, because he said that he listens more of that. Yeah.

No, I listened more before my first internship. Oh, okay. But Billy, did you see the commercial that we're talking about? Nope. The French Women's Soccer Commercial? It's a compilation of all these great plays from the French men's national team and it's

talking about how amped up they get watching it. And then halfway through, they stop it. And they're like, actually, the doctor was a woman the whole time and they show behind the scenes CGI. They just turned all the women into men for the video to make you think you were watching men's soccer. Because when I was watching, I was like, I think that the French men's national team flops a little bit more than this.

Yeah. Because the girls don't like that. That's why women soccer are better. They go hard. They're not bitches. Yeah. No. They are.

They're alphas. No, they're not. They're badass. They're gonna go bitch. They're boss bitch. Yeah. I love that. They're boss bitch. Yeah. I love that. I mean, everybody's talking about how much you like a woman in power.

You have to use the word badass about her. Yeah. Girl boss. They should have, there should be a World Cup or, I mean, I'm happy the world, the women's world cup is here, but summer really needs to do like Olympics every two years. Both World Cups every two years. So it's just every other year, we get one of the other. I agree.

It's going to be fun to watch. I've got a nice little future in investment on the US women. Nice. OK, you have another cool throne? Yeah, my cool throne is. Oh, that was your, yeah. My cool throne is my cold heart because I have decided to adopt a new dog.

Yes. So I've begun that process and I'm just falling in love with every dog that I see. Just every dog, I'm going through all these different websites, emailing people. I almost want to do a bachelor style competition to see who my next dog's going to be. But I can't wait.

You can't do that. You can't do that because then the loser's you're like, what would it, what? People would be like, I was thinking about it. And what would happen would be I would have the first introduction on night one, I'd be like, okay, this is my dog. Yeah, because the day that I decide to leave my house

and I've already bought a leash and a collar, the first dog that I see, I'm gonna take home. Yes. So I'm very excited. I'm ready to get back in the dog game. It's been way, way, way too long. So very, very pumped about that new addition to my life that will be coming probably in the next couple weeks.

Love it. Love it. All right, my hot seat is Bill Bailcheck, literally. So there's a report out. Hey, this is not, is a report from who? Tom Kern. OK. Is that fair?

There. You went on Rich Eisen today and he said, you talk about avoiding the hot seat, Rich. Tom Kern. Okay. Is that fair? Fair. You went on Rich Eisen today and he said you talk about avoiding the hot seat rich. He's on the hot seat and he's been there at different levels of warmth since 2019. Look at it this way in 2019. Tom Brady wanted a two year 50 million guaranteed contract just like Drew Brees. He presumed he was going to get that in training camp. It was still not forthcoming

and he was like, you know what, if I don't get this thing, I'm walking out, it was explained to Belichek that that was the case, they got something done, it was not a two-year guarantee contract, it was two years with a team option, and then according to Tom Curran, the Patriots never had a plan for Brady leaving, and he is now,

Bell check is now on the hot seat. Now, I'll say, if they fire Bell check, that's a dumbest move ever. He is the greatest coach of all time, right? So why would they do that? But Hank is not me reporting. This is someone else reporting the bill, Bell check is on the hot seat. It's very interesting. And it wasn't Mike Florio.

Yeah, I mean, that's surprising. Floro definitely run with that for the next six months I don't know I like Tom Kern. He's probably just you know little it's it's summer for him too He needs clicks he needs views. He's got to get some stories out there that get some buzz It's easy to say that you know the seats warm, but there's no way that it is Do you think there's any lingering resentment between craft and bellicite over what happened with the Jimmy G situation? No. I don't think there's any reason you resound the bellicite if you're robber crafts after everything is done for you.

No, no, no, no, I'm saying like craft essentially got rid of Jimmy Garoppolo because he was the replacement plan for Brady. Yeah, but we won two Super Bowls. I think, I don't think this is a second from Matt. And Jimmy G is like not gonna play again. I think it's any successful sports franchise that wins multiple championships. There's just like a credit pie that everyone wants a piece of. So I don't think there's any resentment, but would you, if you hit robbercraft with true serum,

you think he would be like, yeah, I kind of want a little more credit for putting this thing whole thing together. No. Probably. No. You don't think any? I think he gets a lot of credit. He's like one of the best owners in the history of sports. That's a normal thing to expect that a owner would want, you know?

I mean, I just, I think about the, like the last dance and how bad was the Jerry Rinesdorf. Yeah. Like that's not Robert Krauss. Yeah. That's not Robert Krauss. Okay. Okay.

It says he's a- Oh, if he put it on the hot seat. Yeah. I don't know. Say the quote again. Uh, that he's on the hot seat. Yeah, I don't know. Say the quote again. He's on the hot seat. No. You talk about avoiding the hot seat. He's on the hot seat, Rich. He said he has been. Yeah, you talk about avoiding the hot seat, Rich. He's on the hot seat and he's been there at different levels of warms in 2019. But what he you, like, he is on the hot seat.

What would build like, what could Bill Bell check due to get fired? Nothing. Not make the playoffs? I don't know. I, Hank, I agree with you. I, it would be the dumbest move to fire a guy like that. But you know how owners who are maybe getting up there

at age think, are still wanting you back there. If you're Tom Kern, you're going on the, you know how owners who are maybe getting up there at age think. If you're Tom Kern, you're going on that show, you got to come with something. And he did. We're talking about it right now. Good job, Tom. Let's look at the post. Let's look at the post Brady era in New England. playoffs. Okay, bills in Buffalo in the cold.

Wait, that wasn't the playoffs. No, I know, but like like that I said that playoffs was first comma. Didn't they get smoked? Like, wasn't that one of the all-time blowouts in the history of the enough that he's talking about a different game though. But before that, there was a season series was basically the add-on with a town and just confident into the turf. The season series was pretty much even and and and we a match was basically a rookie if I remember correctly Yes, yes, I know wait wait wait wait wait, so I think I just want you to do the thought experiment Okay, just taking the post Brady era and you look at what Bella checks done

You got mac Jones in there you hired your son to be the defense of coordinator Then you hired two guys that were cast off coaches one of which hired two guys that were cast off coaches, one of which did not coach offense to come in and split the offensive coordinator duty, royally fuck that up, going into this year, would you not say that that coach would be on the hot seat? The only mistake of what you just said is the Patricia and, like, that was a mistake and he knows that. Okay. like that was a mistake and he knows that. Okay, hey, here's how in defense of Bill Bellachek, if you play to hypothetical, Bill Bellachek gets fired,

how many teams currently would fire their coach to hire Bill Bellachek? I would love to cheat. It would be everyone, but maybe the chiefs in the 49ers, who else wouldn't make that swap right away? Right. it would it be everyone but maybe the chiefs in the 49ers? Who else would who else wouldn't make that swap right away? Right. Maybe Baltimore. Maybe Baltimore. Maybe Broncos just because they hired Sean Payton, but it's it can't be more than like five teams total. They wouldn't fire their current coach. Maybe the

Steelers, Tomlin, but like that's why you don't fire Bill Bellachack. He would get a job instantly and Teams would fire their coach to get that would destroy me What would bellic check going to the Browns and winning a Super Bowl for the Browns? That would be all time. He would love that that he would never go to the Ravens because of the way things ended and Cleveland, but he would go back to the Browns to be like hey Prodigal son we're back. Let he would go back to the Browns to be like, Hey, prodigal son, we're back. Let's run it back again.

Yeah. Yeah. What would be the, what would be the crazier story? Go to the Browns or the jets or the bills? He was like, I'll bring him, I'll bring a super old a buffer. I know the environment for Bill. I think they would.

I think and I like Sean McDermott a lot. But I mean, you're talking about Bill Bellachack. Let's just different. Okay. My cool throne. I have two. One is Charles Barkley who, I don't know what he was doing the other day, but he was giving a speech.

And he said, I ain't worried about getting canceled because let me tell you something. If you all fire me and give me all that money, I'm going to be playing golf every fucking day. So listen, as I said last night, if you all fire me and give me all that money, I'm gonna be playing golf every fucking day. So listen, as I said last night, if you're gay, God bless you, if you're trans, God bless you, if you have a problem with them, fuck you. Just great, like he's like, I cannot be canceled. And if you do,

we've also lost all sense of the term canceled, because he's complaining now about, or not complaining, but he's saying, it's a possibility that people would cancel me from the other side of cancel culture. Yeah. What I've learned about cancel culture is that everybody loves cancel culture.

Oh yeah. There's a bunch of people out there that say like, I have horror cancel culture, cancel culture, but you have to play by the same rules as you guys make us play by. Everyone loves to cancel somebody that they personally don't agree with.

Yeah. It's, I don't like cancel culture when it's coming after someone that I like and then the minute I have a chance to cancel someone I don't like I'm all in. Yes, that's cancel culture is basically summarized and then my other cool turn is Aaron Donald seven straight times and 99 overall and Madden. This is also we talked about the the signs of footballs back the rankings coming out love it yeah i don't have to play madden yeah but i'm in uh okay billy my hot seat is two-pock shakur's killer oh so today a press release was given by the lost vegas police department that confirmed a search warrant was served in h Nevada as part of the ongoing two-pock sugar homicide investigation.

Whoa. So, 30 years later, they busted down someone's door in relation to the investigation. Not much outside of that press release, but if you're out there, they're onto you. You're fucked. Who you got, Billy? Shug Knight. I think it was... Second day of Elvis? I think it was second day Elvis.

I'll take a P. Detty. Elvis or JFK Jr. He's not actually dead. Well, no, he was dead. He died after. Wasn't was Shug Knight not in the car when he got shot up? I have no idea.

Okay, good. You might be the one person in the world with with a rock solid alibi Using Cuba, okay, and then my cool throne is Using the horns down Because according to John McDade the SEC's coordinator of officials on penalizing for horns down signal in 24 Unsportman unsported and like conduct needs to fit one of three categories. Is it taunting an opponent? Opponent is it making a travesty of the game? Is it otherwise compromising our ability to manage the game?

And he said that you can use horns down against Texas. Oh, so you can it's back. It's back. Nice. Cool. Throw it. It's back. You can horns down. You should they should never. It should never have been banned. Like if you could do something, you can get it done to you.

That's what works. That was also like the big 12s dying attempt to get Texas to stick around for a long time. Yeah, we'll make 20 for you. Yeah, we won't pull you anymore. You can stay. And the same applies to the Gator Chomp and Land Shark signals. So it's all up for grabs. All right, nice.

Like it. Like it. All right, Jake. My hot seats, the New York Jets Adam chef the reported today that they will not be giving NFL films in HBO As much access to hard knocks this year. Yeah, they're not gonna show guys getting cut I'm not gonna show guys getting cut so it might be more like PG version So it's gonna be different. Yeah, it's always awkward watching those scenes. I'm not yeah

I understand why they put it in there because if you're making a TV show So it's gonna be different. Yeah. It's always awkward watching those scenes. I'm not. It is. Yeah. I understand why they put it in there, because if you're making a TV show, you have to have highs and lows. You have to show drama. You have to show people sad at different bad parts of their life. But at the same time, it felt like a very personal moment

that everybody was involved with. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Kind of pussy by the Jets. No, very smart. Okay. They don't want their team getting turned into a circus Which is what they're gonna try to do nice just

I just if I was Aaron Rogers or Zach Wilson. I would just Try not to involve yourself. It also fits perfectly with how we've been watching hard knocks the last three years Like episode one and two we we get very excited for, and then we kind of forget that it keeps going. So that's perfect. I wasn't even gonna watch that episode anyway. Remember, there's always one episode that comes out after college football starts,

you're like, real football's on, I'm good. Yeah. If there is a suspension for like PEDs, though, I wanna see that moment. Yeah, yeah, or a season we'll get popped. Okay. It's your cool throne? My cool throne is Publix a few days ago, Messi was shopping at Publix with his family.

Yeah, it was a big deal. Yes, pretty crazy. From a high new, too. Yeah, in front of high new, so shout out Publix. Publix Pub subs. Pub subs? Yeah, Messi. I thought that he was going to be a little more anonymous,

but like, because first I was like, oh, this is perfect for him. He kind of could live his life. He was getting founded in public, which makes sense, because he is messy. Yeah, I mean, it's as close as you can get to having a normal shopping trip if you're messy. It also really worse if it was overseas somewhere.

I had a messy, a leonal, messy moment. The other day, it took my son to his friends' birthday party and there was like older kids there and, I was like, don't you say that. And then I realized I was reprimanding a seven year old that was not mine. So, the kid also was like, LeBron James that go maybe Kobe too. I was like, what the fuck? This kid had terrible takes. Yeah, I knew. But you got to respect the take.

Yeah, right. Better than Max. But you also got to respect the take. Like, there's a lot of things that I can't do. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that.

I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm like, what the fuck? Just kidding, terrible takes. Yeah, I knew. But you got to respect the take. Yeah, right, better than Max. But you also got to respect the take. Like the take game, just that he's out there spitting them, I respected it. I would actually love to see that kid debate skip bailess.

Yeah, skip debating a seven year old. Yeah, why not? Why, he might end up being that for his show. Okay, let's get to our interviews. We got Rick Riley and then we're going to do Mount Rushmore in between, Mount Rushmore of running backs and then we will, uh, have Kirk and Riggs with some pets and finish up with Jim Bose. Before we get into Rick Riley, he's brought to you by Body Armor.

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that is called so help me golf all true stories uh... he's never told about people in the game and uh... we're here it's right in front of the the open championship rick And we're here. It's right in front of the open championship. Rick, first of all, we haven't seen you in a few years. It's great to have you back on. My first question was, what are you doing other than writing a book?

Because you, I think, have figured out a life hack to have the greatest semi-retirement of all time in sports media. Yeah. Well, we live in Italy a couple months a year and we bought a house in Sedona, Arizona. We live down there and you know, it's kind of a great place

when you have an occasional magic mushroom. Yeah. Yeah. And then we live at the beach in LA. And so I work occasionally once a month for the Washington Post and we got a writer strike So I got a streamer about to go and suddenly now it's not going anywhere But I write movies and I'm writing a novel and I'm writing my next book

Yeah, I mean Rick I think we talked about this last time you're on the show But especially your your columns at the end of sports illustrated that was like, that was our childhood growing up. I read that column every day. I think I told you last time that probably more people have used the bathroom while reading your columns than any other piece of writing in the history of the world. It was like the perfect, the link was a perfect amount of time to go in, take a quick dump, read Rick Riley, and then leave.

So I basically bought sports illustrated just for you for years. You're not blind. I can't tell you how many people would come to me and go, I take my Friday morning dump reading you. And I'm gonna hand out on like, great, but I'm not shaking that hand. I'm sorry.

I'm not so. Yeah. It's, it's, it really was like a big part of our childhood were in that perfect age range when the sports, like kind of the end of sports columnist being celebrities in a way where it's like, oh, you remember reading them. So back to your retirement, you are semi-retirement.

That sounds phenomenal. You have figured it all out. I think we might have discussed this when we saw you in person last time you're on, but do you look back and realize like, man, I really, I crushed this landing because there was a moment where I think you would probably even say like you were in a weird role at ESPN on air,

didn't really work out that well, like, hey, is Rick Riley gonna become like someone we laugh at or is he gonna be able to figure this out? And you, sounds like you completely figured it out and have the best life I've ever heard. Well, I was like the last guy, you know, before a Disneyland burn down. I think I got a great deal. And then when that deal was over, they were starting to fire everybody. And I think it's same with SI. I mean, I got out of SI at the perfect time. And people now, you see see SI and it's like a pamphlet comes

out. I don't even know when it comes out now. Magazines are dead. I mean, when I was at the LA Times, I think we had 60 writers and editors. They're down to seven. So the whole world of print media is not what it used to be and you're right. It's a whole different world. When anybody can have a column and anybody can have an opinion that's got a couch and an internet and a computer, then you're not that special anymore. So that's why I think I got out at a pretty good time. Have you ever thought though about bringing back

the one column a week? Because I feel like there would still be a market for Rick Riley's takes on a Friday morning if you just redid that column, but on the internet, you could just tweet it the long tweet. But how, but you understand, I don't want to work. Yeah. That's a good point.

That's a good point. That's a good point. And offer to a million podcasts and could I do a radio show as a, and I'm like, look, it kind of sounds like work. Well, yeah, it would be work. Well, I don't want to work. So I like, I like to write two hours a day. That's all I do. And then the rest of the time, we're either in Vietnam or Italy. We just got back from golf in

Ireland. That we go to Turkey a lot. I mean, it's too good. I mean, it's why work if you don't have to worry. That's a great point. Yeah, I was I was thinking selfishly like I would like to read Rick Riley's column still But then I do I do occasional funny one and watch the post but I don't know if you subscribe to that Okay, okay, so you have a new book out so help me golf Let's talk about it Your love affair with golf you hated golf when you were a kid correct and then you what was the moment you fell in love with golf golf when you were a kid, correct? And then what was the moment you fell in love with golf?

Right. Well, my dad was a drunk golfer and he'd come home abusive. And you know, you hid. When my dad came home from golf, you hid. Except, you were worried about your mom. And I was the youngest by far by five years. So it was scary. It was terrifying.

And when you'd hear those, those, forget to take off his cleats, you know, and you'd hear that click, click, click on the sidewalk and God, that sound still gives me the chills. And you would, you would be scared. And, and, you know, he broke my mom's nose once and it was just, I just blamed golf. I thought golf was where guys, dads went to get drunk and, and ruin home life, you know. And so when my dad gave my brother, my older brother, his old clubs, he goes, come on, we're going, I was 11, I think we're going to the range. I'm not going to the golf course ever. Hey, dad might be there. B, I hate golf. He goes, no, you're going to

love it. And I went there with him, just watched him hit these soaring drives. And I'm like, wow, other dads aren't really drunk. And this is really cool. And you're outside and it was really fun. And you got the doctor peppers. And so I kind of developed this sick obsessiveness with golf. And it became this thing that I couldn't get enough of.

And so that's what I wrote about in this book. These 45 years worth of stories about real things that have happened in golf that are either funny or amazing or emotional. And during COVID, I finally had time to write them. Yeah, so it sounds interesting. I actually have a golf story for you. I don't know if you know this,

but it coincides with your two biggest, I guess, interests in writing about recently, present Trump and golf. Yes, so I got a DM that was sent to me a couple years ago about going for a round of golf with, there was a guy that was playing with Papa John and with Trump at the same time. And throughout the round, Papa John started

busting Trump's balls for cheating and started calling him out on some of this stuff, right? It's a real battle of the Titans going at it. Yes. And by the end of the round, they get to the clubhouse and Trump has had told his guys to order pizza hut pizzas for everybody that was in the clubhouse. So like dozens and dozens of pizza hut pizzas were waiting the clubhouse and he handed one to Papa John when they when they got in at the end of it Just to be like fuck you. You don't get to call me out for cheating. I'm going to repeat so hot for everybody Okay, so I wrote this book I think you can see it in the background. It's called commander in cheat because I'm in Italy and he's running for president and he goes he goes

I'm the best I'm a champion. I beat I beat I have one 18 club championships and that's against the best guys the young guys most strokes I'm like you liar because he'd already told me when I play with him for who's your caddy That he the way he wins club championships is when he buys a new course He plays the first round by himself And he calls that the club championship 112 that way and I'm like, wait a minute. So I started looking into the other six. And then the guy says, well, yeah, one time he won here,

but he was in New Jersey, he had Bedminster, but he was in Philly. And he called him and said, hey, man, I shot. Well, what won Bedminster today in the club championship? And the guy goes 73. He goes, I shot 71 here, made me the champion. And then he just kept doing it like one year. He won in North Korea.

He wasn't even in Florida. And he said, he came back and played the guy nine holes, a steady beat. And so then he was a club championship of that. And how about the other day? He wins a club championship two days. I think it was a bad minister, but he only played one of them because because his tweets and his social media showed that he was in North Carolina. It's

some funeral on the first day. He's like, well, I would have beat those guys. Yeah. I kind of like the fact that he just takes claim of all these wins. Like if I were, if I had a ton of fuck you money, I think I would pay people to like stand in the woods and just drop my ball in the driveway. So like, I didn't know that I, you know, was out of bounds, but I could just basically shoot a great score all the time and have people do that for me. So I Mr. Burns and Smithers. Yeah, right. The caddies at Wingfoot call him Pele because he kicks the ball so much. When I play with him, he took seven gimmies.

He took a gimme chip in. I never heard a gimme chip and he said, why would we make that? I'm like, you just like Edward Siserhands. And he just used that video like a week ago. There's completely shanked at LA. And so since the book came out and it was eye-popping stuff, the more I researched it, the more ridiculous it got. But since the book come out, I've gotten all these calls and I get a call from the caddy master and the bedminister.

And he goes, you don't get it. We have to buy him 500 bags, 500 count bags of long green teas, 4 inches high. And I'm like, so perfectly legal. He goes, no, it's for the caddies to team up in the rough. Wow, that would make you a three-handy cap pretty quick. I mean, you saw the press release though when he shot that hole in one, he was playing with Ernie L's and it was it was the most grandiose press release that I've ever seen in my life. There's no way that he he made that entire story up. He was playing with with a force of talented golfers that co-signed it into a stiff wind. Stiff wind. Very exciting. Everyone's talking about it.

Ernie's not going to lie, but you know, there is a hole in one he made of Bronx Ferry, a plaque. He made it on the first day. And I've now had three people tell me after the book, of course, he didn't make a hole whole one there. He just wanted a plaque No, he's a nice call for he's a nine. He's a ten tiger says he's like an 11 I think most people think he's now like a 12 or 13, but he says he's a three He says he's a 2.8 Which I said in the book if he's a 2.8 then Queen Elizabeth is a pole vaulter Rick where are you out with Tiger these days because I feel like you had a interesting history with him

Is he your goat or is it you guys what was the last time you guys spoke well a Tiger shut down me in 1997 He said I'm not giving you any more one-on- And I said, why? It's just because you're always asking questions. Like, yeah, that's the job. But the thing is, I was a fill guy. I loved fill. Fill with. I thought was the best guy for me out there. He was always telling stories. He tipped people 500 bucks. Oh, he he comes to my club in LA and he'll play and I'll tip the guy 700 bucks, the caddy and the caddy doesn't have to carry the clubs. Phil carries the clubs just for workout. So I always loved Phil until he sold his soul to the devil, went to the live, which I hope everybody in live dies in a fiery boat accident. I hate live. I hate the whole idea of it. Imagine you guys if they took half the NFL

and said, hey, half the teams are going to move to Saudi Arabia. We're going to pay them five times what they're worth. They're only going to play three quarters and you're going to not ever see these. You'll never get to see these week after week, playing each other. That's what happened to my sport. And so, yeah, now we've got this baloney deal with the PGA tour, who I understand.

They were gonna lose, because money always wins. But it's still, you understand, the Saudis killed protesters. They behead protesters. They put gays and jail. They killed Jamal Qashoggi of the Washington Post, they might have funded a lot of the 9-11. So everyone says, never forget 9-11.

Well, don't forget it. Don't forget it, Jimmy Dunn. You were in the, your company was in the World Trade Center. Now you're in bed with the Saudis. I mean, it's, you know how many, sorry to rant, but how many golf courses Saudi Arabia has, full 18 whole night with grass, they got nine. They don't care about golf. They're trying to sports watch their image

and a bunch of these guys took the money so they could get new jets and Phil was one of them, but Tiger didn't. And so I'm not for that. Right, so, kind of my position on the live tour. And it's evolved over the course of last year is that I don't blame the players at all. The players were offered life changing money. And the ones that stuck around were sold to build a goods by the PGA,

saying, Hey, you can't go to these guys like all the stuff you just said, right? They basically said all that to their players. And said, you don't want to be in bed with these same guys that killed journalists They might have funded 9-11 all this stuff and then the PGA just goes and doesn't about face and welcomes the live merger I don't blame the players if you're offered life-changing money if you're offered a hundred billion dollars to do anything do it do it Do it because you're not gonna get that money over here to the States. And it looks like the guys that ended up taking the money, they came out looking better than we all thought at the start because it was their own people at the PGA tour that were kind of suppressing the earning ability of their own players at the end until it became an opportunity

for them to make money off of it. Well, no one thought they were suppressing the earning ability until the Saudis came along and just gave away stupid monopoly money. But I want to comment on what you're saying is Phil couldn't have made that in the US. He could. He was always in the top 10 athletes. He made about 40 million a year in endorsements, lost all those. He had found those job gift wrap for him at CBS. He was gonna make about 14 to 15 a year and that. It was just a dumb selfish move and what he said was I'm not doing it. He admitted that the

The Saudis are motherfuckers. He admitted it. But he said I'm trying to teach the PGA a lesson. So like I'd be like a guy going hey, yeah, I slept with my secretary because I want to teach you my wife a better, you know, a lesson on how to treat me. It doesn't work that way. You don't get to do that. So, I mean, I see what you mean from Pat Perez or a, you know, player like that Taylor Gooch. They're gonna like bubble watching his son was always asking about the aces, the aces doing this weekend. And also counterpoint with Phil, I mean, he had to pay his gambling debts. So if he was a better gambler,

maybe history looks different. Well, Billy Walters book comes out next month and that is gonna be wild. Yeah. Because I know Billy and I kind of know about the book, it doesn't come out till I think August 25th, but apparently there's a chapter in there about Phil that's gonna blow people out of the water.

Okay, I'm excited, I'm excited. So let's go back to your book. So what, I mean, you told the story, I didn't know the story about your dad and how you didn't like golf growing up. So you've fallen love with the game. What's your favorite, favorite like story from the book or maybe favorite course you've played?

Because this podcast has actually gotten into golf a little too much our producer Hank is obsessed. That's all he does But I'm trying to be supportive and be like go ahead. You know, don't work anymore. Go play golf Okay, did you guys know there was a guy on tour in 1977 guy named Ricky Meisner Who was our tour rabbit. I mean, you had to qualify on Monday. If you were one of the 10 guys that got through on Monday out of 100, then you got to play Thursday. Well, he was doing badly.

He was down to where he was sleeping in his car. He was eating the campsites on his hapachi, and he was going to have to go home. And he didn't want to go home, so he started robbing banks. This guy Ricky Meisner robbed 19 banks on tour in 1977 and he would change the plates on his car, put on a fake mustache and a wig. He had a vinyl briefcase and a gun,

but he didn't have any bullets and he would go and give me all your money, but he was very polite. And this bandit became known as the gentleman bandit that year, who, you know, tellers would cry and he would comfort them and then still take the money. And then he got to Memphis, he got to Tallahassee. Summer of 1977, and he gets through. He finally breaks through, and he's starting on Thursday. This is the guy at that point at Rob, 18 banks. He breaks through, he leads the Tallahassee open in 1977.

He's ahead of Trevino, QB Green, Wicecoff, he's on top, and the press are like, where are you been? And he's like, oh, you know, I've really been working on my game. What they don't get is that every Tuesday when he missed the cut, he was robbing banks. And so anyway, he shoots the 66 leads the Tallahassee open. Next day, 76.

Next day, 78, next day, 80 finishes dead last. And he's so pissed that the next morning, as he's leaving Tallahassee, he goes to Robert Bank, but he forgets to change the license plates. Rob's, it gets, I think, five grand or something, he's leaving town. Cars right there, he gets busted,

he goes, he gets 25 years in jail. But if you Google him, he did leave the tour and money that year. Wow. Wow, that's incredible. They're like chiefs of hall, kind of. Yeah. Hey, you're wrong about the chiefs of hall, like,

for the worst. Yeah, host. Did you follow these guys' tweets? Yeah, yeah, we did. So we actually, we sent our best man, Billy Football, to go try to track him down, down in Kansas City, went and looking for him. We were thinking that this year, the perfect crime would have been if he, because he was

out on, I guess he, he skipped bail and then he was MIA. He should have gone to different games, different chiefs, games every year, but, or every week, but dressed up as super fans from the opposing team. And nobody would have ever found him. It's so good. It's like that movie with Bill Murray. I was just praying that this guy wore the Wolf costume to rob the bank.

Yeah. He wore a paintball mask and all he had was a paintball gun. I don't know if people realize that, like why would you give this guy money if you're just gonna get shot up with blue and purple? But then the fact that he was on the lamp for two months was wonderful. Yeah, it was a incredible story.

Crazy story. So Rick, it is the week of the open. You actually had a front row seat to history at the open championship. You were there on 18 when Van Develled melted down, right? Yes. What was that like in person? Just watch, because I still remember watching on TV, if you haven't seen it, go back and

watch this guy, just completely blow it on the 18th hole of the final round. He is up taking his shoes off to try to hit a shot out of the water. But what was it like for you being front center? He's got a three shot lead, 18th hole car news seat,, which they call a carnastic, because it's so hard, especially those last three holes. And there's all these water and canals, and it's kind of an ugly course, and it's nothing but trouble.

But he's got a three-shot lead. He's this French guy, he's got this French little caddy, which is a good, goatee, and we'd always talk to this caddy afterwards. And so he's pulling out driver, and we're standing there like, what is he doing? Driver, No, no

You can hit a five-iron wedge wedge on when the thing by two shots pulls out driver Blocks it way right now. He's in deep gunch He's got a grandstands in the way and we're like well clearly now he's gonna wedge on nine iron wedge on the fairway nine iron on and Now he's gonna wedge on, a wedge on the fairway, nine iron on and wind by two shots. No, he takes two iron out of the gun. And he hits it bad, hits the stands, it goes back, gets worse, hits it again,

knocks that into the water. And then he finally gets into the water with his socks and shoes off like he's gonna hit it. It's gotta be six inches deep in the water. And he stood there, I'll never forget, he stood there with his socks and shoes off like he's going to eat it. It's got to be six inches deep in the water and he stood there. I'll never forget he stood there with his arms on his hips like I am the king of the world. I'm going to pull this off and we're like, oh no. And he finally takes the drop, knocks it up, makes like a 12 footer even to make the playoff

and loses in the playoff to Justin Leonard. So we go find the caddy. We find the French caddy and we're like, Christopoph, why did you? Why did you have him hit driver? He's so good with this driver. But why didn't you just wedge out of that lie behind the stands? Oh, Zilli, it was parfait. You blew it. You should have broken every club but the wedge and you'd be the champion. It's very very sad Was that was that hard to watch up close? I mean it was unbelievable. It was like surreal. Yeah, and it ruined his life his wife divorced him Not because he lost, but he just became depressed and he's a really nice guy

But I mean he really didn't crack an egg after that depressed and he's a really nice guy but I mean he really didn't crack an egg after that. Yeah, it was I mean it's an all-time all-time video for people who haven't seen it that image of him in the water is just what are you doing what are you doing? Uh, you know, in terms of history I mean I had a long long career. I mean I'll never forget Tiger come into this course. what's starting Thursday, and hit one driver. Hit one driver in 72 holes. I saw Nick Faldow when the open at St. Andrews never three putt. I mean, I was there when Nicholas came from five shots down with nine to play at Augusta in 86,

and women were climbing trees and dresses. It was nuts that people, the guys who were supposed to be running the hot dog stand and the ice cream stand just ran. Everything was chaos because Jack Nichols at 46, who hadn't done anything in four years, was going to win the open. He could barely see the ball land. He had his caddy, his son is his caddy, and he'd be like, where is it? As he didn't know. Remember he put it with that long hoover attachment putter? And it's funny in the book.

I said, you know, where is that putter? I was at his house. And he goes, I don't know where that putter is. And I'm like, you don't know where the putter is? The one, the 86 masters. No, because he's got this grass tennis court outside as his office wind up. He said, tennis players come all the time

to get ready for Wimbledon on my court. And I remember the tennis player took it. I never got it back. And so I finally found it. This guy named, he died. His name is Stockton. And his wife had it. His wife had it in the garage. So she sent it to Nicholas' museum. Incredible. Incredible. I mean, the history of golf and all the stories, especially because it feels like golf, I know the live stuff has been weird this past year or two years,

but it does feel like golf is getting bigger and bigger with new audiences. Who's your favorite golfer right now, or who's the guy maybe you're rooting for this weekend that you're like, this is a guy I could see writing a book about in 20 years. Oh, ma. Okay. He's our guy about in 20 years. Homa. Okay. Homa, he's our guy.

Yeah. Yeah. I love it when people send him swings and they want and they want feedback and he'll be like take the club back farther and then throw it in the garage and never play again. Yeah. Yes. Or he'll go, uh, he'll go, uh, really, there's no hope for you. He's so, he's such, he's so good on Twitter.

He's so smart. I'd love to see him win this. I don't care, though. I just don't want anybody from live. And I'm afraid can't Smith's gonna win it because he's hot as can be. Rory, you know, I'd stop betting on Rory years ago. I think John Rom can win it.

He's just unstoppable. I try to, I'm trying to make my backswing as short as him. So I think it's going to be a terrific open, but I just, I just don't want any live players. I would accept Brooks. Except Brooks. I love to see Brooks win. Yeah. Brooks are guys. Yeah. Brooks are guys. We're big fans of Brooks. He's a come a friend. And all he does is you have to lease respect the fact that he just shows up for the biggest events. And he's got to be, you tell me if I'm wrong, but Brooks has to be, he's not, he's not in the same conversation as Tiger, but in terms of showing up for majors and when the

pressure's on, like playing his best golf, he's that he is the closest to that right now. Yeah, that's the only time he seems to care. He doesn't even rats ass about every Buick open that comes along. He doesn't care. He just wants to lift and screw around. And then the thing is that why I don't play Brooks or Dustin Johnson about the Saudi thing. I don't think they know where Saudi Arabia is. I don't think they have any idea.

It's like when Rodman went to Korea and didn't know there were two Koreas. I guarantee you Dustin Johnson didn't know where Saudi Arabia was or what they meant. I mean, one time I wrote this line about Dustin, I said, Dustin Johnson is so dense like bends around him. And I asked his agent the next day, was he mad about that line? And his agent goes, he had no idea what you meant. Yeah. I'll stick the money. But Phil knew.

Phil understood. Yeah. Yeah, with with Brooks, it's like it's hard to ask and demand of all of her athletes to be like the most geopolitically aware people in the world. You know, these are conversations that should be happening at higher levels. And there is some truth to the fact that if you hate the public investment fund, if you hate Saudi Arabia, well, guess what, you probably give them money

nine times every day and you don't even know about it. If you ride in an Uber or you go to Chipotle, guess what? Some of that money going back to NBS. Hey, I've covered athletes my whole life and you're totally right. I asked too much of them. They make their money with their bodies, not their brains. I mean, have you ever heard the story about Marvin Barnes? Played for Providence.

No, no, no. Tell us. Marvin Barnes was the guy played for Providence and he was the head of terrific college career and then he went pro and he was in all kind of trouble and he flunked out of the league in two years. He's living above a liquor store in Providence and he's down on his luck. He's got a gun, puts on a ski mask, by the way, he's seven foot tall. Put on a ski mask goes down and robs the liquor store underneath his apartment and he says, give me all your money and the cashier is like Marvin. What are you doing?

Marvin and Marvin goes, it ain't me. And so you're right. I should just be happy with what they can do with their bodies and not what they can do with their brains and I should back off, but I just can't help it. It's also, it's also, you know, there are serious discussions about everything that goes on with the live and everything behind it. But one of the, one of the things that I think has been worked our, in our favor for this show, as we've always realized that sports are an escape for a lot of people and they're supposed to be fun.

And I just want to see the best players play against each other. That was one of the bigger parts of Liv is not having Brooks for that brief period of time where he's always not going to get to play in the majors or going to ban them from stuff. I want to see the best compete against the best. I want to see great golf. I want to see moments that make me want to see like moments that make me, you know, have memories for years and years and years. And that's really what I want from sports.

You don't give a damn what they do in their off time. Guy beats his wife, killed again. No, that's obviously, there's obviously, you know, you're not gonna, I'm not gonna root for people who are committing crimes, but I do think that it gets a little murky because people do want to just sit down and watch sports. Yeah, you're right. That's one reason I didn't like to root for Tiger because he was terrible with fans. He didn't tip people. He gets up from dinner tables and doesn't leave any money.

He's not a nice guy. I don't think he's ever been a people person. He's very insular. He still just hangs out with his high school in college buddies, which is fine. But I mean I think you you're just the world deserves more from you than that. And that's why I didn't like him. But then he stood up against live. And now I just I just love him for that. So I mean I guess you're right. I expect too much. I think too much is my problem. Yeah you got to be dumb like us. That's actually the real that is no No, no, no, no, no, I'm taking that as a compliment I've always thought I have the the perfect amount of intelligence where I'm not smart enough to understand

Complex issues, but I'm also a little bit smarter than the dumbest. So that's exactly where you wanna be in life. You're somewhere right in the middle where you can understand like, oh, that might be a bad thing. And you can also say, hey, that's a dumb thing, but you never can really explain either side. Right, you're not plagued by the geopolitical, social and climate troubles of the world. No, that shit, I don't lose any sleep on that shit.

No sleep, yeah. I don't lose any sleep on that shit. No sleep. Yeah. I started working at six o'clock and I stopped worrying about it too. Yeah. Rick, where are we at with the Broncos? I know that you hated Nathaniel Hackett. We got to meet Nathaniel Hackett

a training camp last year. And he's the nicest guy in the world. You would actually love Nathaniel Hackett as a person. I didn't hate Nathaniel Hackett, you know, just to set it. I've been a Bronco fan since they became a team. But he said, hey, after he fucked up the time out, he goes, I'm gonna let someone else handle the time out.

Then he completely screwed the play calling when he wanted a 63 yard field goal, instead of going for it on fourth and five, the guy had never kicked any, well I think he kicked this. It was a tie. It was the dumbest thing I've ever seen. And so he goes, you know what,

I'm not very good at play calling. I'm like, I'm gonna let someone else call the play. Well, what are you good at? What do you do, fold the towels? Yeah, we can't have you around. So I love this, I love the Sean Payton fit. And I think that maybe he'll make Russell Wilson be a normal person and also Sean Payton is a baller Because he belongs to my club in LA and somebody found his wallet on the course and had 15 grand of hundreds in it I love it. And they give it back to him and

He's like, oh thanks like he didn't really care All right love this guy So you think he can fix Russell No, I kind of kind of think Russell spent I do too I do too unfortunately But yeah, what mean and also could you not take yourself so seriously did you see where he was Pretending on warm-up practice days to do the run out and do the low fives with people? Yeah, it's a reps.

You had an office and you don't have a, I mean, I'm buddies with L-Way. And when you're a quarterback, you're going to be in with alignment, a regular guy, Peyton was like that too, doing stuff with those guys, being a regular guy. And Russell's not, I don't know what he thinks he's going to be ambassador to Sweden or something. He's going to be the governor of Colorado. I don't know what he thinks, but he's not being a regular guy. And I hope Sean makes him just one of the 53 instead of, you know, here comes Prince Russell. Sounds like you've got a limited mindset.

You're not unlimited like Russ. Like you would never do high knees on a on a plane ride over to your house in Italy, right? You probably just sit back have a glass of wine fall asleep. Yeah, you don't have an in you to watch every single college quarterback in next year's draft and then tell the tell the GM, hey, hear my thoughts. Well, that's the thing. Payton did do that, but he never talked about it. Yeah, no, It is true And the stories the rust stories always find a way to get out that make rust look like the hardest worker ever And you're like what who said that how did this get out? Peyton's so funny. I see him the other day and he goes I got a good one off on the other way the other day

I'm like Tell me tell me And he goes well, I was talking to him. I said, you know, John, when you won in 98 with the helicopter, beat the charger, you beat the packers, 13 point underdogs, Pat bowling stands up in front of all those 70,000 people. He goes, this one's for John. So I said to LWI, I go, how do you know

he's talking about you? I mean, there's a lot of jobs. I like it. I know he's like, you paint. All right, so Rick, everyone should go buy Rick's new book. So help me golf. I have one last question, the rowback question, rhobac.com. Promoco take for 20% off your first purchase. rowback.com. Promoco take for 20% off your first purchase. Robac.com promo code take for 20% off your first purchase. Q's, this Polo's hoodies joggers shorts everything.

Robac.com promo code take 20% off. I know that we talked about this the first time you're on, but we have to bring it up again. Have you thought at all in the last couple of years about Kate up and having three boobs? Hey, I haven't, but okay, did my win worst tweet last year? It was something like that. It might have been the year before, but yeah, you had a takey for worst tweet. We just love the three out. I mean, the three boots. Who won the takey for worst tweet? This year, I don't know who actually. We had, we changed the categories because we forget. Again, back to the dumb part, we do, we changed the categories so nothing is consistent, which is very stupid and hard to follow. I think Revelle had a couple bad tweets that we threw

in there. Jay Williams had a couple. Oh, yeah, Jay Williams, what he said, he was not going to take the Georgetown job. Or he'd be interested in the Georgetown job. Yeah, Rick, Rick, do you think that Kevin Durant joining the songs was like, Kate Upton getting a third boob? Yeah. I've really gotten off the third boob thing, although I do like sci-fi movies. It doesn't happen there. Okay.

You were right to call me out. It wasn't a good tweet. As Bill Simmons always tells me, hey, every time you get in trouble on Twitter just hang on it's all over in eight minutes Yes, yes true and and you guys killed me for eight minutes and I live and I lived with it. Oh no We killed you for like four years It's been a long we still talk about whenever I make a a Rick Riley-esque joke Big Cat will award at points based on the Richter scale of how many Kate upton boobs It gets yeah, yeah

He's oh we've surpassed three boobs before yeah, yeah, hey, but you know you're right about the there should be chips in a ball Did I did you see that tweet? I said there's Gipson the golf ball and there's going to be because I talked to the guy that's in charge of compliance. And he said, we're going to allow that someday, because you can have 10,000 people look, if Phil, if Tiger hits a shot, he literally gets 10,000 people looking for his ball. Is that more fair than when you lose a ball? No. It's no different.

So why can't a chip look for it? He even said said we will allow Little little tiny drones that are coming That will then be able to follow the ball after you hit it. I love it. I love it. It's fine As long as nobody touches the ball until you get to it And I said so Patrick Reed is screwed and he goes yes I absolutely love that it finally levels the playing field between me and Tiger Woods Know what that's what I've been waiting for. Yep. I'm like a block. If only I could find my ball, I'd be as good as these guys on tour, but he's good as Roy.

And Roy's distance in finding the ball. I would be a world-class golfer. You know what they call Patrick Reed on tour? Table for one. Yeah, like that. Yeah. I mean he doesn't have a lot of friends. He doesn't have a lot of friends. Guy doesn't have a lot of friends. Does he cheat?

Yeah. Well, and maybe he stole a couple wallets, but who cares? That was the legend. He does actually, though, for everything about Patrick Reed, his wife does have a burner account that tweets on his behalf. So like you, it is good. There's probably guys out there that are beloved that don't have such a rider Relationship with their spouse and they're probably jealous in a weird way in Patrick's Creed

Well, people speaking to people who tweet for other people Trump hired his caddy to be his director of social media at the White House this guy Dan and Sometimes you could see Dan was putting it on his account, some stupid tweet and then forgetting that he was also putting it on Trump's account. Yeah. And like, that's how Kevin Derrick got. Yeah.

Yeah. That's how Kevin Derrick got. Well Rick, thank you as always. Hopefully we'll see in person sometime soon. Maybe play some golf. Maybe get you in a golf video with us. I'm coming to Chicago I want to see that I want to see the simulator. Yes. I'm going to send it to you. It's it's going to be incredible. Thank you guys. All right Thanks Rick. Real quick. I did find I did find the Rick Riley tweets that

That might have won you a takey ward for worst week. This is a toast by Jake actually. What's your? that might have won you a take-e award for worst week. This is a twist by Jake actually. What's your... Kicking a field goal when you're down eight helps you the way a ham sandwich helps you when you're drowning. Dumbest move ever. Oh, that was... that was the floor. Yeah, that was the floor. That was the floor. And then... We agree with that take.

Oh, you won the 2018 take-e for Rick Riley Joker the year. So you won your own award. Nice. It's Cam Newton after the game and he's wearing a FES. And you say when it comes to game info, Cam Newton is a FES dispenser. That was fantastic. That was a pretty good one. I think that column was the time I timed how long it took Cam Newton to get ready after a game to talk to the press and it was 57 minutes and he would do, I think he did his hair for 10 minutes, he only has hair this long.

I mean while his whole team is waiting on the bus and he wouldn't turn around, I wouldn't sorry, timed it because I'd seen it before and then finally he turns around and all his magnificence and gives you nothing. So I think that's where that came from. before and then finally he turns around and all his magnificence and gives you nothing. So I think that's where that came from. It's so good. Yeah, keep taking your shots, Rick. I don't open your shots.

No, you're taking your shots. Come on, I've had notifications turn on for your tweets for the last eight years. Yeah, every time you tweet, I know about it. It's also like,'re basically like America's father Like every day, you know like dad jokes that you know, you like kind of roll your eyes at you know like But maybe deep down that was kind of funny. Yeah, the thing about people you feel hate cool. They think oh That's so that's so clever and and so punny. I mean I break two teeth and I pull a hamstring trying to think of some of those things and so punny. I mean, I break two teeth and I pull a hamstring

trying to think of some of those things. You try it. Not easy. Yeah, you don't roll out of bed going three upton boobs. Come on. Take some hard work. I actually met Kate upton once and I'm thinking, I think she looked better with three.

I do. Yeah. Yeah. Well, love it. Thank you, Rick. And hopefully we see you soon. Thank you guys. Before we get to Mount Rushmore, it's brought to you by the Barstle Sportsbook. I've got the all-new redesigns Barstle Sportsbook right here on my phone.

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love. We also realized we did the math and we had taped a bunch of Mount Rushmores and we were one short before grit week. So next on Friday, you'll see us all back together. Mount Rushmore season is getting intense poise. We are in for a big time, August. What are the official standings? Big time, PFT 11 points. And then we have a two-way tie for second and third. Ian Billy, Max and Hank, 10-10. PFTR penalty might end up killing us. Yeah, I'll wear that one if that's the case. You'll have to let me use you as a pillow. That's fine.

I'll sleep on top of you. Yeah, I gotta take my hat off though, it's a Billy and Jake. They've been on the tear of all tears recently. Congratulations, guys. Shot. I'm shocked. Incredible. Incredible run.

It's gonna be fun. I'm happy. Listen, it, I'm shocked. Incredible. Incredible run. It's gonna be fun. I'm happy. Listen, it's good that we have some competition. Some contention. Some contention before the, you know, the first month of Mount Rushmore season, it looked like it was gonna be a blowout. There was not gonna be any drama. We're gonna get drama.

It's going to be intense. Yeah, I for one would like to say that I think the time has come to remove the rule for Billy and Jake where we give them one extra fourth pick. Yes, they've leveled the bread. You can't make no sense. PFT. That's going to get confusing now. Yeah.

Remember we can't say that. Also, starting on grit week, they don't get a last pick twice. Okay. Yeah. What I'm pretty sure the first one we recorded and partners Hey, if he was like Dave zero points. Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm here. Yeah, so listen You know, we wanted to do Mount Rush for season where we're all together So that's why we taped a bunch. I think it's better product for the AWLs

And if you complain, I'll just take away your a to AWL. Like, that's just, that's simple. We can do that. We can take it away. But either way, yes. So we have one. Today, we'll go back to the pre-taped ones until grit week. Then once we're at grit week,

it will be live throughout the rest of August. So that's the schedule. Mount Rushmore of running backs. Who's going first? So the doc, the last one we recorded was Triangles. And that was Big Cots team, our team, Hanks team, so that would mean us, Hanks team, Big Cots team.

Fine with me, let's go by the dock. OK. We're going to need some sort of double check in that dock, Jake. You have public access to it. Oh, yes. You know I don't check. Always gives public access. Okay, Billy and Jake are on the clock.

They're doing Mount Rushmore of running backs. We're going to one one, Bo Jackson. What the heck? We literally talked and agreed on a one one. What are you doing? Jake, that's on a one one. What are you doing? It's no way. Jake, that's not a bad pick. Bojack.

No, I know, but like, we had a close out of Bojack one one. Down Jay. Fuck. Oh, no. Oh my. Oh, my. Down Joe. Okay, Bojack.

I mean, electric running back is good. His career got cut short. What that was? We don't know how good he really could have been. That's true. We also include the college career. That's part of him running. Yeah.

Yeah. Absolutely. It's a fine pick. Yeah. It's a good pick. Yeah. It's just how it went. Okay.

Oh, it's Jake. That was a hard age. Yeah. Yeah. I just was not expecting that. I'm like that was truly blindsided Okay, all right that's our pick All right, we I'm also gonna audible from our one one and we're gonna go with Barry Sanders That was our one one That was I was thinking I was like I don't want to say our one one because I feel like I can't you can't you can't mess that up Yeah, no, I like that. I like mess that up. Sorry Max.

No, I like that. I like that for sure. We do it forever. It's good pick. It's good pick. I would say that for a first pick we should go number five on the list. Oh God, I can't miss this.

Should we go, should we, because the only thing is we should also do nine. So the question is do we do two old or do two and nine? So it's a little mix and match. I think we go, I think we go nine, five. Okay. And then we dance our way to the end zone. Okay. All right. Let's do that. All right. So our first pick is going to be sweetness, Walter Peyton. Easy, easy first pick. love that pick for you guys. What what what what is that? What is that? Chill a fuck out. What was that pick? What was that? It's a good pick

Are you are you are you patronizing? I'm just saying on it. I'm just saying I like that pick for you I'm very confused. What's happening right now usually don't give compliments like yeah, I'm just good pick Something suspect there. You're getting excited because they didn't pick what you wanted. Maybe. Okay. Yeah, we got it. Okay. All right. Go ahead, Pifty. Jim Brown. The greatest athlete of all time played against plumbers. Greatest athlete of all time. Yeah. Greatest running back of all time. You you actually see a lot of lists that people put out and Jim Brown is number one. You better lacquer. people put out and Jim Brown is number one. He was a better lacquer.

I think we actually got both the number one. It's good to know that morals and ethics mean nothing to you guys. I'm gonna take OJ next, too. Well, actually, that was, we're taking OJ next. Oh, shit. That's right. That's right. That's right.

You guys have had to be picked. He had to be picked. Had to be picked. He had to be picked. Had to be picked. Right running back. Yeah. He changed the sport. You know, it was the first celebrity running back. All superstar was the biggest celebrity in the world.

Legend what? What reason was he the biggest celebrity in the world? He won the husband trophy. He was in movies. He was in movies. I think he was famous in his marriage. Jim Brown was the man who used to be a cop. He was the cop who He was in movies. I think he was famous. Jim Brown was married. Jim Brown was all the time. Everything you said was the truth for Jim Brown. Yeah. Well, yeah, I know PFT. PFT ruined my joke there, but that's all right. Yeah. That's okay.

Separate the art from the artist. Exactly. Okay. Peter King rolls. We're not judging the human. We're judging the running back. Okay, good pick. Thank you. We got for a murderer to now double murder. That true. Zero killer action. Wait, still looking for proof in her. Yes, civil court. Yeah, it was a son. Oh, I believe. Well, it sounds like you think it was a son. No, it's a very good day with your chest Today with your argument. Yeah, I've read I also have read that random web engine brown like throw lady

That right. Hey, let's we're celebrating runny pass I mean if we're yeah, you're the one that are saying like you know Because we're trying to promote the position. Yeah, we're doing it's about the position. We're giving Running backs deserve the spotlight. Yeah, actually Aaron Hernandez would qualify. He had that one season where they had they fed in the ball. Yeah, okay. Here we go Jake Billy Okay, first pick Emmett Smith okay Okay, system. Yeah.

Yeah. It's great, Camio and little giants. Remember when he pulled up in the RV with John Madden? Oh, not really. Really? I mean, we're talking about on the field. We made on the field picks. Yeah.

Running backs. Okay. Yeah. I imagine how he has a mega song about it in Emmett Smith's system for that office Okay. Yeah. I'm not sure you're megas. So I'm about it in in in it's miss system for that office line. Yeah. Shout out to all Johnson. He was the real running back there. Yep. Megas. Okay. Next pick.

Lydany and Tom Wilson. Okay. Good pick. Good picks. Good pick. Then he was electric. Good pick. Good pick. See, we can all be positive. All right. Our next Then he was electric good pick good pick See we can all be positive All right, our next pick Most exciting running back I think in my lifetime to watch Marsh on Lynch

Okay, one time Super Bowl champ. Thankfully not to Just the highlights. I mean that we have that Barry Sanders Marsh Marshawn Lynch highlights, like our two of the top five running back hats of all time. Okay. Facts for fiction. Good pick. Yeah, yeah, good pick. PFT, we have so many that we have to pick from.

Okay, so 12 would be a good one. Yes, I agree. I agree. I, I, you guys hate this. I, I, I think we could go 12 or 12 15 or 24 or 24. Why did you make it? I'm not long because they're trying to make it seem like they had so many. We have 25 26 actually. 26. My mom had a big critique of this part. Oh, she did. Oh, let me hear it.

Didn't like. For another loser. Didn't like the numbers. Didn't like the numbers. Sorry, mother of a loser. She's not a loser. Big difference. You know what?

I say we just go at 12 right now. Yeah, well, we have two picks. So we have to play that out. We have to play that out. Second, but yes, go it's wrong. Adrian Peterson. Yes. Adrian Peterson. Yes. Adrian Peterson played for forever.

Forever. It wouldn't surprise me if Adrian Peterson came back and played again next year. Yeah. He's always like kind of sniffing around. Had one of the most electric seasons I've ever seen after he tours ACL. Also a great college career, however brief it was.

Just awesome running back. Yeah. Yeah, officially retired. I think he's officially retired. The last one playing like I think he was on the cult for a minute. Yeah, you've got someone random. All right. I'll, I'll, PFT, I'll go with the, the last pick here. I, I think we were, what we're doing is we're basically bridging every single

uh, age gap. We're, we're getting like the best running back from all different Decades we'll go with the King Derek Henry for our last pick just the best to watch tractor Cito Just fucking I saw highlight the other day. Remember that 99 yard run he had against Jaguars that fucking ruled He is he is an ode to the running back He's like kind kind of the torch bearer for all the running backs before him and the respect of the position. Derek Henry. Yeah, and it's just so much fun

to watch him stiff on people. Yes, facts. I like this. We have all different, you know, I was gonna go maybe old school again, but let's get one current guy. That's good. Yeah, we're also gonna bridge the gap here,

you know, from reality into, you know, the big screen. Oh, and we're gonna take Tim Regans. Fuck. Oh, okay. Cool. Great. So you had only, we had we could only think of three real running backs. No, I just think of the greatest running backs of all time. The people that I love to watch play the game and Tim Riggins, despite his quarterback getting paralyzed. He still was out there. It is carried his team to victory. He was banging all the hottest girls. Leader. Just a little leader.

A legendary, legendary running back. Texas forever. Who says that? Tim Riggins. Okay. He's not even the best Riggins. Yeah. Who is? John. He's running back. He's running behind the best riggins. Yeah. Who is?

John. He's running back. He's running behind the hogs, yeah. He's running back. One, one super bowl. Sounds like he should have picked him. What was he on the list? He was, yeah, he was there.

What number? The numbers don't correlate to. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm loving it. He was a loving, you never even debated picking him. So, no, we said it. We. You never even you never even did. Picking him. So no, we said it. We said 11. No, you then. Okay. Last one. So we were 50, 50

was taking Tim Riggins or a real running back. Again, it's sad that you guys can only think of three real run. Oh, no. I heard. I heard it. I think the head. Christian McCaffer really. What the heck?

You got me to my front. He said Christian McCaffer. Billy, what the heck are you doing? Stop grabbing the mic before he said Christian McAfry. You're the worst. You're just hunting out. You're, you're, we have such a good thing going. We want five in a row and you just punt it on this because you want a free trip to Chicago. Christian McAfry's a good pick.

Like he's, Marshall Falk. Marshall Falky is a better pick. The fact that he went undrafted, I can already see it. What have what got left off list? You've everyone's going to say that. Yeah. Yeah. I'm surprised. So let's take commercial Walker PFT. Yeah, I heard so. Although, artist guy.

All right. So what what got left on the ton? Marshall Falk. I'm banning Billy from announcing picks. Oh, you're getting already to do that? Yeah, what do you think? I'll let crack all over again. I would never ban PFT. And PFT would never ban me. No, same.

OK, well, we have some issues right now. He's taking over. He's taking over. It's a good thing, Billy. There wasn't Marshall. We went to review the tape. You get all the McCaffrey all the way out. Like, is there a appeal process?

I heard it. We all heard it. Chris McCaffrey was said. It was said. Good pick, Billy. How are you going to compete against Derek Henry? Like, my shop. Marshall Falk is a really good running back.

So I was very tender. I do couldn't say his name properly. Wait, what do you mean? A 1-1. Wait, but he actually couldn't say his name or like just forgot it just forgot to say that we agreed to say Barry Sand. Got it. Got it. We always get those two names confused. We are on a unreal hot streak and you just punted on this one. I don't think so. Let's see. I mean, I hope I'm wrong. All right.

Niners, Niners fans will get us. Okay. shout out nineers fans at eight in the morning. Uh, uh, seven, seven, nine, seven, nine, eight, one, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Uh, ones we missed a ton, obviously, Marshall Falk, Marshall Falk, Frank Gore, Gail Sayers, the bus. Oh, yeah. I was going to be, I don't know that, that one, I'll, I'll wear it. wear it. Me and Max were talking about it. I think if we lose, because of Tim Riggins, that was the mistake. It was gonna bust.

I mean, if you were to take the best stat lines from any one game of all time and NFL history, the game where Jerome Betis had like three touchdowns, for I think it was four yards rushing on three attempts. That is my favorite stat line ever. Yes. The two that I wonder, I mean, I'm assuming they're on your list. You guys have a massive list that Max talked me out of that I wanted to pick where Jamal Lewis and Priest Holmes. Priest Holmes, I did not say Priest. I love Priest. I love Priest. Jamal Lewis. I didn't, I didn't love that. I didn't,

I like Jamal Lewis, but I think he was kind of a Do you have a lot of graces in all time before Adrian Peter? But three thousand yards. Yeah, priest homes just also just has a great name. All pre-somes is a Shaking pre-somes awesome Chris Johnson gets lost in the shuffle with electric Mike all-stop Mike all-stop Curtis Mark you almost took that just to follow the Pft. But we're not we're playing our game not worrying about you guys. You guys usually I mean you guys last you pick.

You're not able to say we got like 8% on that. It's pissing your pants. What are my favorite running back just to watch? You probably doesn't even fall into this category. Lickair blunt. Yeah. Yeah. Can win a Super with him. Reggie Bush should be honorable mention just because his college career was so much fun to watch. I said that too. Yeah, Ricky Williams, yeah, kind of the same thing his college career combined with everything

that he did in the NFL. Just crazy shit from day one. He hired Master P to be his agent, signed the worst contract ever, left to go smoke weed in Australia for like three years, then came back and dominated. Yeah. Uh, Aryan Foster. Aryan Foster, we had him, yeah.

David Montgomery for the run. Who can forget? Who can forget? We'll always have the run. I mean, if you think of legendary runs, he's, he's not, if we did a Mount Rush World legendary runs, that's, he's, if we did a Mount Rush World legendary runs, that's number one. We need to put the run in the, in the YouTube,

the Quicks run. Yeah, we have the highlights. That's my, that's my favorite, that's my favorite run. Oh, Sean Alexander was on a list, but I don't really like Sean Alexander that much. No, another system guy. Yeah, I wasn't a huge challenge. Alexander Finn as well. Though he did put up massive, massive numbers.

Good, good, good list though, guys. Eric Dickerson. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It was a mess. Yeah. Any motion of the running back. Yeah, we need the running. One they need it. Yeah, the running backs need, need a little more shine. And we gave it to him. We should have that we should do well. And that would be mean to do about rush more like your least favorite running backs. I think I would put I would

put Sean Alexander on that list. Yes, such a person, I think, passed away. So we can't do that. I'd have OGM, a list of of least favorite just for the record. Yeah, me too. I guess I'm a post wasn't an amount rush more about favorite running backs. Yeah, it was just about the best. But I'm saying we this wasn't an amount rush more about favorite running backs. Yeah, it was just about the best But I'm saying we could do if we do favorite Matt forte He was he gets lost the shuffle shape current. Go shake the shame My favorite one of my favorite football play leave young bell another one It's not what about our guy play off Lenny. Mm-hmm. Yeah, you want to talk about

Pass blocking Clinton Portus. Yeah, Darren want to talk about past blocking Clinton, Portis? Yeah. DARREN's roll is a favorite too. Well, it's with a DARREN's roll is a good pick. There's a little water bug out there. Yeah, he's a bad guy. More is Jones Drew. No, nobody dislikes DARREN's rolls. Yeah, Marie's Jones Drew, that's a good one. Oh wait, do we say Frank Gore? Yeah, Frank Gore. Yeah, Frank balls. Yeah, yeah. Frank or okay, good, Matt Rushmore. Let's get to a huge balls, enormous balls, flapping everywhere. Great balls, great, great set of balls on that guy. Okay, let's get to Kirk and Riggs talk a little more open

championship. Some very funny moments with those guys. Okay, we now welcome on to very special guests. There are colleagues. They have the greatest golf gambling show that is yet to be titled. It is Kirkman hand and our guy rigs from four play. Listen to Kirkman hand podcast. So the open championship. Let's get into it. Let's talk some golf. Let's get some bets. I'll start with you, Riggs. Give us big picture. Hoy Lake Royal Liverpool. I don't know which

one to call it. How is this course rank overall in terms of open championship courses? This one's a little bit of a weird one in that it's they didn't they didn't host the open here for 39 years I think from late 60s till 2006 then Tiger came in it was all burned out didn't use the driver in Rory 1 in 2014 but they changed it in order to do that they changed a lot which the old course all these old British open Rota courses are known for pretty much they just moved the T-backs and the courses have been the same for like 500 years where there's a new hole, the 17th hole, like a brand new hole that kind of goes against everything with the open championship.

So it's a little weird. It's going to be very different than O6 where it was burned out. It's green. Me and Kirk were talking is very green, which they don't like over there. It's going to be soft. So it's going to play a little different than a normal British open. Okay. And you said it's it's royal Liverpool.

Do we have any scousers? Is this Rory's home track when it comes to England? Is RSC? Does he have other courses that he prefers over there? Well, I think the closest guy is probably Fleetwood in terms of having a home home game, maybe a Fleetwood or a Maddie Fitz situation. Rory, I think the Jack Nicholas quote, was that the further south you go in the British open, the shittier the golf courses get. So when you start high up in Scotland and then you go lower and lower to lower England, I get shittier and shittier. So this one

would be kind of like what is a little bit more north in England, I think, but still relatively shittier compared to the rest. So, but yeah, the Hoi in England, I think, but still relatively shitty compared to the rest. So, um, but yeah, the hoi lake thing, I think it's the town is hoi lake. It's 20 minutes or so from liverpool. So that's why we get the mix up. I don't know what the call. Okay. So, Kirk, you are a golf historian.

I love just sitting and talking golf and hearing you rattle off different moments and things that happen. So, tell me where the open championship ranks on your list of majors and golf events and then also favorite Open Championship memory or moment. I go master's still first. I go American century second. I have Steph Curry this week to finish top 10. That's plus one. I'm going to go with my guy, Gronk. He's probably one of the three best players in the world right now. I mean, obviously, the best parts of the open championship are, I don't think this is going

to happen this week, Riggs. Yeah, I don't know if you've been looking either, but I don't think we're going to get the shit kicked out of us like a disaster weather situation. You know, we're like 76 is a good score. Obviously Van Develle is like the great moment in the history of the open championship, good or bad, like that, you know, three shot lead, pisses it away. But you know, it's a, it's a solid second for me when it's good. I don't know about this week.

I feel like this could be one of these weeks where it's Saturday afternoon, like the sun's out in 15 under his leading and you're thinking, well, this doesn't really feel like an open championship at all. It feels like a shootout. Feels kind of like last week before the weather got bad. The Scottish open. So a good British open is like tied second with the Ryder Cup, Ryder Cup, not Ryder Cup, Ryder Cup

from the Ryder Cup. Ryder Cup. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. But I would say, masters first no matter what, good British open, those are really solid.

But it's been a while, while rig since we've had one where Like hats are blowing off and like caddies are falling down and Peter Arles who's now dead is like saying something It makes no sense and like the cameras have no idea what's going. I miss those days of complete We haven't had one of those. I don't think in a long time Now we have an end to you know to kind of speak to that point going in I think everybody on this show likes to root for the golf course. And I got my eye on a bet that is the, the low score of the tournament being way lower than we would ever like.

So I think that that's sort of the MO going into this, which sucks. Hopefully we're wrong. There's been plenty of stories where guys have had to borrow back in the day. That had to borrow rainjack because they're people in the gallery because of forecast is it's going to be fine. and then it's complete dog shit and they get dominated, which we're rooting for. So that could always happen, but it looks like it's going to be soft, a little bit of wind, nothing too crazy. And like Kirk said, the last thing we want is somebody goes out in an early round and the wind's not up that yet. And it's

green when it's supposed to be brown and they're like putting for a 59 in the British open, which could happen this week. It feels like. Yeah, I hate it when that happens. Like I want my British open courses to look like they were World War II battlefields. I want there to be bunkers that look like they made them out of hand grenades that they just went into the middle of fairway, right? Like that deep shit.

And last year at San Anders, we had the burns, right? You had to watch out for the burns. What's going on with this course? What's one feature of this course that makes it unique and maybe a little bit challenging? Something that we can root for even on a day where maybe somebody does go out there and shoot like a 62. Well, I think we we like to play a lot of like British open bingo card type stuff with the engulf announcers and any of the tournaments. They kind of just Play the hits to have like five terms. This one's gonna be the internal OB in the wall. There's a couple holes where there's like a wall

and then out of bounds is right there. And boy, oh boy, when they get hung up and they don't know what to talk about, they're just gonna hammer this wall and then turn a lot of bounds with people that are not big golf fans big, what the fuck does that mean? So I think you're gonna get a lot of wall chatter this week.

Okay, yeah, what is internal out of balance? It's essentially OPE typically is designated by a part of the property that like the the the course or the club doesn't own. It's like out of it's like literally off property. What happens is the way that you could with new age technology, a lot of two guys hit the ball out farther. They might just take a line for example like the ninth hole in the and the 10th hole run parallel and there's a dog like right they might just hit it down the ninth hole if they're playing the 10th hole because it's a way better angle so they designate that the internal part of the

property is actually out of bounds which most people think is really dumb. It's pft. It looks like it looks like the first base line is going up the 18th fairway, where there's like, I don't know, probably what, 40 feet in between the out of bounds line and actually where the patrons are sitting. So it's going to be weird. You could hit a shot that looks like it's in bounds and it's just out of bounds. So they're basically playing basically. I just love the term internal out of bounds.

That's yeah, Adam 22 should learn that term. That's true. Kirk, I was watching. This is very sad of me, but I do love the golf majors, and especially in the middle of July when there's not a lot to talk about. Have you watched any videos about the 17th hole? Because I am calling this the whole of the tournament. I watch them how they remade it and everything. It looks like.

It looks like pretty, right? Yep. Yeah, the green looks like. It's pretty, right? Yep. Yeah, the green looks like it's going to be shooting on top of a spoon. So what's your favorite hole on this entire course? I'm actually with you because I was actually, I watched something on YouTube about this as well. So you redesigned it's playing rigs like 140, like 130. Yeah.

I think, and like, I need for that hole to be great. We need a little bit of wind, I think. And now it's a super short landing spot. So I think it's one of those ones where, if a guy's up by one or up by two, heading in the 17, then this can be really interesting. So yeah, I would say, it's weird about this course, it's one of these courses where the holes are different

in the major championship than they actually are if you go and play it. So I think like one is actually three and three is actually 10. They made 10 a par four now as well. It used to be a par five. So it's a complete mess back. I actually, with you Dan, I think 17 is probably the most interesting television hole on the course. It's not, it's not a course that has like four or five holes to jump out at you either.

No, no, I was just thinking that too. It's like right in the middle for the night. I do, I've ranked the open courses like, you know, I was doing it the other day. It's like, oh, I was just thinking that too. It's it's like right in the middle for the night. You I've ranked the open courses like you know I was doing it the other day. It's like oh, give me a shot. Well, I would say it's not a push way. So I'm my top not my top five no way You know, you have to say for me saying Andrew still is number one by far. I'm a car news to guy car news He's when you get the shit kicked out of you. That's like a solid two for me. I don't like this cracks the top five I don't think. But, you know, you've had great winners though.

I mean, look at the last two winners, roaring Tiger. So there's something for that. Yeah. You know, Bobby Jones won here. So there's a lot of big names that have won here, but it is weird. It's like until I took a fly over yesterday,

I didn't really remember any of the only hole I remembered was the 18th hole where it's a hard dog like right. If you're gonna go for the par five, you have to pretty much hit it over the out of bounds the entire time. I think the third hole that's going to be the first one where you get hit with the wall chatter. So I think that's going to be a really cool hole where the guys kind of have to fly it over the edge of the wall, which is OB. They push it right. It could obviously not cover the wall and B OB. So I think that one will get a lot of talk, but I think another key phrase the

whole week is going to be for the members. They're going to say that a lot like though this plays as a part five for the members. This actually ranks as the 17th hole for the members are going to say that all time. Okay. I love the rigs. Actually, he's like, he's mocking that, but if you saw him in North Carolina, I'm going the guys more than anybody used to be. We were all there. Like, this is for the members. Everybody went up to him. Everybody looked exactly like Mike Pence.

And he went up and shook his hand and looked terrible inside golf jokes. And he fucking lapted up like he wouldn't believe. Now he's talking the very thing that he is 90% of the time. Yeah. I did see Riggs hugging like four different six-year that he is 90% of the time. Yeah, I did see Riggs hugging like four different six-year-old men over the past the weekend. Yeah, it's every single guy in Pinehurst is essentially the actor from like a fidelity commercial when he's sitting at the

and his kitchen, sundrench kitchen, drinking OJ, looking at a paper, being like, how are you gonna retire, honey? That's just rigs, that's all his best friends and pioneers. And rigs, everybody, rigs like, rigs has like a terrible nickname, it's like, hey, Sergeant, you still, I still have trouble on the Lerman, I have to be like, what is this?

Why would this, it's going on. So yeah, rigs, you will do that for the US Open next year. You will be like for the members because you won. You leave all the first. I would take that information. I just gave to you guys. It made one of those guys like tonight at the bar. I'll be like when they show that whole on TV.

I'm gonna be a by the way, it's this whole for the members. But I mean, you do have the best life of anyone ever rigs. I decided that after we went to Pinehurst. I was like the four play. I have the greatest job went to Piner. So I was like, the four play, I have the greatest job in the world. The four play guys have figured out how to have the greatest job in the world. So yeah. Thank you. Yeah. So you guys have done well gambling. It is a gambling show that you do. You put it on YouTube on the barstool sportsbook YouTube every single Wednesday before every they're gambling on every single one, which is

there's nothing better than golf gambling when you have a top 10, a top five, even a winner and you crazy odds. So should we get into it? You guys, however you want to start, what picks you like, you know, it could be top 20, could be top 10. Let's start, let's start with that. Let's start, you know, top 20, make the cut, and then we'll get to our winners. Riggs, you always go first. So go ahead. I got two top 10s for you since we're gonna start here and Barsville Sportsbook app, lovely app, highly recommend, go download it, go check out

a bunch of the specials, they got a whole tab for the open, which is fun to scroll through, they got round props, specials, the whole deal, you can't really get everywhere. So, by the way, the odds too, Riggs, man, just a quick and rough, we updated the app. Odds are very good, let's just say that. They are very way, the odds to rigs, man, just a quick and rough. We updated the app odds are very good. Let's just say that. They are very competitive market competitive, very, very good odds. So you're going to see some really nice juicy odds out there. So I got two top 10s I'm taking. I got, uh, Tearle Hatton, uh,

English fellow. He has finished four of his last seven starts. He's finished inside the top six. He had a great week last week, which was their first link scoff real experience at the Renaissance of the year. He finished tie for six. He's plus two 25. So I got Tyrell Hatton, top 10. And I also got Tommy Fleetwood, another English fellow.

He's plus 200. He finished tie for six last week as well. And his last four starts. He's second, T5, T6. He did have a miscut in there, but I think he was under par. It was just one of those where you had to shoot a million under. So those are my two top 10s.

I got Fleetwood and Hatten. Okay. All right. These are, it's aren't great. I usually don't take a minus. I'm gonna take one here. It's minus 650. Dan Rappport's gonna delete one of his tweets

or in the open championship. So I have that. I'm on the sports book. I'm on the sports book. So I have that. On the wrong sports. I just can I parlay that with a fake quote? Yeah, you can also parlay that with one of the golf you also parlay that with one of the golf writers being up to the Nick Fowler's back in the boot because they go. Did you see this rigs top 20 finish after finish after round one, inside the top-twenty after round one.

He's in the morning. Scottie Schuffler is plus money, plus one-twenty for that. Whoa. Whoa. Wait, what? Yeah, the top-twenty finish. One-twenty. Plus one-twenty.

Schuffler has been killing it. He's been totally separated from Ram. I know it was Scottie and Ram, but Ram has kind of not been heard from since the masters right and you never Chauvin's a one much lately, but his numbers if you look at it is tea degree numbers are like The best since Tiger in 2000 he can't play but you know That's right like he's been changed he changes putter up Right, but in the open championship. It's kind of a neutralizer It's actually good. I think it's gonna to be a really good week from picking him the win, but I think he's going to have a great week.

I love him. Top 20 finish round one, uh, uh, Scotty Sheffler. So that's that's my first one. Go ahead, Rick. Okay. And I love. I'm with you with Fleetwood on top 10. If I had to pick somebody the win, which I generally don't do, I'll do it since I'm here. Uh, I would pick Fleetwood the win this week.

I think things are setting up really fleetwood. Uh, yeah, you're going to notice we do this a lot of the Unnamed Golf Show. I'm going to, I'm taking that Scotty Bet with you as well. I look Scotty has seven consecutive top five finishes. So the fact that he would be outside the top 20 after I want to be shocking. So I like that you got him plus money.

I teased this earlier. I'm going to go the low round of the tournament. So there's a nice little tab on the Barsville Sportsbook that's got a couple different options for this. You could either bet it's gonna be like 65 or higher. You could bet it's gonna be exactly 64 or it's gonna be 63 or lower. Power 71, I think we're gonna get one of those mornings or something where like Kirk mentioned the sun's out. Yet it's still soft and green.'s no wind someone's going to go incredibly low so I've got it at I believe plus one thirty five the low-round

of the tournament is sixty three or better. Oh okay okay I like that a lot now are they you guys are certified Brooks kept the haters correct are they fucking with Brooks by putting them with can't lay. They're trying to get under a skin. A little bit. I think that's definitely gonna that's definitely gonna hurt him. I will say that we're I'm gonna wait when we get to our winners, you know, you know, I bet with my not with my heart with my brain here. I think he's got. I like Brooks this week.

I just saw it. I'm sure I'm sure you guys liked I sure you watched this presser this week. I like Brooks a lot this week, and if you look at the odds in terms of winning I feel like whenever we go into these majors He's right there with the top three or four guys that are always favorite except he's whatever 18 to one and you've got Rory as a one of major at nine years who I think plus 650 So I kind of like him a lot this week The good news about Brooks not winning Blake of the year is he would have been hung over and gone on a bender for another week.

And then he would be messed up going in this tournament like he was going to the US open. So I think it's good. I think it's good that he did not win Blake of the year. But I'm in on Blake. I like Blake. I like Fleetwood too this week. And I'm going to bet Rory. You almost have to bet Rory because it's like he's due.

He's got to win at some point. In fact, we said on the show that if he doesn't win in a 10 year span, he goes back to never having won a major. I would say, in my argument, you take one away for every year at the time. But that's fine. I don't hate that.

And he's after last week. At some point, he's going to win one of these. He's going to stumble. Let me give you one of the pick rigs. I have Ryan Fox, 300 top 20. I made money up. Ryan pick rigs. I have Ryan Fox 300 top 20. I made money up. I got bold. I got bold, but he played well last week.

He's going to be, you know, he's any bombs it. And this course is almost 7400 yards going to be wet. Great course for a bomb, right? I love Ryan Fox's. Love, love, love. I told you, I like him. So I like him top 40, but it's only plus 120. We just start to get really tough when you get inside the top 20, but

I got one Kirk. I think you're gonna love I got the best finish for a lefty. Oh I got Harman plus 170 the top left-handed players. There's three fellows on here. Robbie Mack, who just had a great finish. He's got a Sky last week. He's plus 125. Brian Harman's plus 170. Phil Mickelson's plus 275. I don't think any of us think that Phil's going to have a great he had the second place at the Masters and on the United's played horrific. But if you look at Brian Harman, the little lefty fella, he's gone. US Open T43 and then he was T2 T9 T12.

Those are his last four finishes. I know Bobby Mack was the big, you know, everybody's going nuts on him last week, but Brian Hartman is kind of a proven steady Eddie out there. So I got him low lefty plus 170. I like it. I like it. So let's do winners because I don't want to, I don't want to completely take all your guys picks away

from your YouTube show. Everyone should go watch on the bar still sports. Would you have more picks tomorrow on Wednesday when it airs, but let's go winners and tell me first, you both can chime in. Like what is the profile of a winner winning golf, uh, golfer for this course. Like what are the things that you're looking for that they should have that you know, sometimes you have golf courses where it's like, hey, you need great

iron play or you need to drive it long. What exactly are we looking for for this particular golf course? I think it's a bombers course, like I said. I think it's a place super long and it's really good iron play. I think it's for guys like Dustin Johnson, he'd be good. And one of the two guys, so I think if I had to pick two guys to win, I'm a pick Fleetwood. But if I was to pick somebody else to be Victor Hovland, I'm going to pick Fleetwood this week. He's playing great. His course matches up perfectly for him. You know, and he's been knocking on the door. I like it. It doesn't make any sense. But I don't like the Rory one last week.

That gives me bad vibes back to back. I don't think he's in with two weeks in a row. I kind of wish he had lost. I might have picked him. So I'm going to take Fleetwood because I think he matches up in so this hovelin. But Fleetwood for me matches up really well. And Shafler just makes, he makes no pots. So at some point he has to make a pot. But I'm picking Fleetwood this week. I think it's going to see a bunch of stars in the top 10, which is going to be good. See, I kind of, I think in terms of seeing a bunch of stars in the top 10, I completely agree with that.

And like I kind of mentioned touched on earlier when I go through and look at all the stars. It's Rural Re plus 750, Scotty plus 750, John Ron plus 1200, Brooks Capka plus 1800. I don't know that any of those names I feel like are more likely to win than Brooks Capka. He's got a second and a first and two of the three majors thus far.

So if you're going to give me those odds versus those other guys, I like Brooks's chances as much as anybody else. So I'm taking Brooks Cupga, like I said, I watched his pressur. He seemed incredibly confident. They're asking about, oh, you're like your Ryder Cup chances. You were playing a practice round yesterday. It was Act Johnson. How that come to be. And he just gave a great, like, well, I walked on to the tee. I didn't have a T time in Zach Johnson was there. So we played golf together. And that was so I just liked that he's got that kind of Brooks major. I'm just here to win. Add it to so. I like it. Also, we made us a bunch of money.

He made us a bunch of money this year. I made us a bunch of money. Yeah, Rick. You're a fantastic guest. Rick, we got to have you back on. So I'm just, those are just. I'm all over telling off air and on air. It's like one more majors than Jack. Yeah, he's great. Oh, I love that. Love the whole thing.

Is it's writing a picture on Instagram? This is great. I love this. I don't want to get you in. That's the meaning to the open. I don't want him in the open. He can win the meeting to the open. I like't want him to open. He can win the meeting to the open. I'm like, oh, I like You can tell me flee with a card again. He can hold it up first. Cap goes and be like, oh, it's just like how long does term to go on like 10 years? Any of the guy who's the guy kept getting the thing about Cap goes most much to see does about the live term in Oklahoma Which is okay. No, no, no, Brooks does care about the majors. You could tell after you're on the last one. He started, he started listing off all the golfers at a one five and what it would mean to him to get to 10. Like he cares more than he lets on sometimes. But yeah, I do,

I understand what you're saying, Kurt. To the open. I like it. It's a great day. I had a great storyline. If the guy wins that in its demeaning to the open. I like it. It's a great day. I'm not. I see that's a great storyline. If the guy wins that in its demeaning to the open, that's fantastic. I'll put this way. If you're so called golf gods that live in a cloud above Scotland somewhere, if they're real, they will not let Brooks Kepp go win an open championship. I said along. I don't, I don't like Bobby Jones would allow Brooks Kepp go win the Masters.

I got, I actually believe that. I think he's like, Nope, this isn't this. Each day who cares, but you're right. I think you're right about that. It's it's it's driven me insane beyond belief that Brooks kept could just isn't an absolute golf nerd like the rest of us. And like like Kirk just said that all the golf nerd, each we be things that we obsess over. He just doesn't seem to give a flying fuck about,

but he has proven that that makes him in majors somehow impervious to the other bullshit that people seem to fall by the wayside too. So I can't not pick him. He's 18. I got another question for you guys because we haven't talked to Madam at all. Can we just say something nice about Max Homo?

Yeah, I mean, the thing I like about Max is, he appreciates his time as family. He takes weekends off at major championships. Like he's able to hang out with his kids. With wife on Saturdays and Sundays, which I appreciate. I like Max, but like, at some point he's got to do something

on one of these, maybe. I'm rooting for him like everybody else. I like Max. I want him to do well. I don't know. I think he's almost like the anti-brux. I think he thinks about this stuff so much that it's now great in this brain one one day one of these days like he'll make the cut you know shoot like 64 65 on Saturday bam be right in and sneak away. I actually think he will win the major championship and by the way let me say on

the record the gentleman of the open championship presented by her majesty the queen now now actually his majesty the king is completely five acts home a winning the open championship. We are fine with that. We sign off. Okay, not to mean it, not to mean to the open. I wouldn't be to me. I wish you the max is not it should be Maxwell if he's in the open championship. Yes, sir Maxwell. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's mine. Well silver hammer. He should be his full name. I'm fine with that. hammer. He should be his full name. I'll sign off on that. So I'll find one of that. I'll say when Max Homo, when we played our scramble against him last year,

Max Homo was genuinely rooting for Trent, which I like to see the entire time. The fact that we're having a heated match, stuff who's not rooting for me. He played well last week. He had a great week last week and shit conditions. He had good finish. He's been dog shit and majors forever, which I think like Kurt said, just adds up in his own brain. So unfortunately, I would love the Ruffermax, I would do. I don't know that he's got it in the majors yet.

Okay. Okay, so this has been great. Do you have any final thoughts? Any, maybe not a bet, but a person you're like, I'm rooting for this person I wanna see them win. Is it Rory for both of you guys? Or actually, no, Kurt, you're a big Rory guy. No, I'm rooting for this person I want to see them win. Is it is it Rory for both of you guys or actually no curcury? I'm a big Rory guy.

No, I'm rooting. I root for people to lose. So I get I am rooting. I hate that Rory played this like, you know, Jim Kavisel, martyr, passionate Christ character and the whole lift thing. It was like, he had the Charlie Brown walk. It's like it's like it's not that difficult. Like he, you know, you know, the world.

So I kind of now don't like him anymore. So now I'm rooting against him. Because if he loses this, that's 10 years since Sky Wanted Major Championship, which is wild. I'm rooting for Tommy Fleetwood or Victor Hovland. I am rooting against Roy McElroy. I'm actually kind of rooting against Ricky Fowler because everyone likes him again.

So now it's like, now that everyone's in new him, I'm kind of rooting against him. That's the only reason that you're rooting against Ricky is because everybody during the year so it was like Oh my god, it'd be so cool with a great story. You're like fuck this. He's too like well now. Yeah Kirk gets credit He was the first to turn on Michael block. He turned on Michael block before Michael block even like me that hole in one like that whole in one. Even like this guy sucks.

Blockies going to be everywhere. That's the other thing. Get ready for blockies. Graham, he's going to be at every bar. He's going to be those little bars. He's going to be hanging out. He's going to be doing autograph signings for John daily at like a strip club, like a mile away from the course. It's going to be a big, big block.

Big block. All right, Kirk, er, er, rigs, finishes off. Who are you rooting for? Not not a bet, but who are you rooting for? I'm obviously the guy that just gets all in on the Rory. I'm a Rory head. I think it's the best storyline. I think it probably won't occur like always.

And then to put you know, I would hate to see SungJ pull through this week because now that LEO is finally distance himself from rooting for SungJ, if he had a good week this week, I'd feel horrific for Mr. I. So, so yeah I I can't help but could cut off in the in the Rory hoopla I think I think I want to be the anti-curk on that situation so for you in the video if you saw the video there's a Rory's kid hates him did you see that yes yes yes no one who are you get away from me want to go ahead with Tommy Fleetwood probably so

yeah Thomas Fleetwood the second no that's what they said he wants to go ahead with Tommy Fleetwood. Probably so. Yeah, Thomas Fleetwood, the second. No, that's what they said. He wants to go give Tommy a hug. By the way, Riggs, don't worry about Elio because listen, I'm no Elio for a while now. He is a gambler through and through. He is publicly said he's done with SungJay. He is 100% betting SungJay.

Okay. And not talking about it. Because you can't, you can't like have that happen to you. He knows what's at stake if SungJay wins, and and not talking about it. Cause you can't, you can't like have that happen to you. He knows what's at stake if SungJ wins, he doesn't bet it. So he's just publicly distancing himself. Then I'm back on SungJ, then I'm back on SungJ, and that's all I needed to know.

Yes, okay. Well, guys, thank you. Appreciate it, great talking golf. Also, make sure that you, I don't know when the writer cup is coming out, but Kirk and Riggs were both part of it, great time down at Pinehurst. 25, I think is it for the Beth Black. 20s, 25, I think, Beth Page Black.

They're gonna release the writer cup videos. That's right. Okay, nice. Ask Max where the writer cup video is. Yeah, ask Max. He's editing. I have nothing to do with the writer cup editing. Zero to do.

Just tweet him every day. Maybe like when is it going to be ready? And he'll he'll get on it. So, uh, all right. So everyone check out there on the Barstool Sportsbook. They do have their golf podcast or sorry, YouTube show that is not to be yet to be named but, uh, always gives out winners.

So thank you boys. We'll talk soon. Thank you. Thanks. Okay. Let's wrap up the show. Great show. Everyone Jim Bose. We got like three Jim Bose. We're going to do and then we'll do numbers. There's some long ones. Hey, fellas, my wife and I got a great pirate, Piranese, Poppy last week. Your name, your name. Piranese, Poppy last week. I was home alone watchingyrrneys. Pyrrneys. Pyrr alone, I always just go with the door open.

I figured it wouldn't take long, so I didn't put puppy in her crate. I got to watch and horror before I could pinch it off. Her stare directly into my eyes and shit in the hallway 15 feet away. Well since the deed was done and there was nothing to do, I figured it may as well take my time to finish up. That was a mistake because I had forgotten. I had turned the Roomba on and got to watch it smear fresh it smear for a few feet before I could pick it up off the ground. Oh.

Trying to react quickly to pick it up. I just picked it up on the bottom where I picked up was also covered in dog shit. So now I'm covered in dog shit. Oh. That's tough. That is tough. I mean, that's kind of a cool moment

that you got to share with your dog. You guys both shit at the same time. Yeah. I, the potty training a dog sucks. You just go, you gotta go, like high value treat. I remember when I was doing this, though, I was just, I'd get like a shit load of roast beef and I would only take it out on walks.

And so every time she went to the bathroom outside, it's like boom, roast beef. Oh, yeah. I'm dealing with a dog training thing right now. Your dog's, you've had your dog for a long time. I know he's really well trained but he does not Fuck with spiral staircases So I have to carry a hundred pound dog down the stairs. Oh

Yeah, so your treat your treat was funny. Yeah, he just won't go down the stairs. We're working on it He'll go up the stairs, but I got a post a video I had to really lug this dude down this like spiral staircase that I came and fit down and it's a problem. That's classic dogs though, like walking over city grates. Never, never, no thing. Just smart that way. Yeah. Because that's one of my biggest fears.

If I'm in New York and you're walking on the sidewalk, either you have the grate or sometimes you get the seller for a restaurant and you get those metal doors. I'm always terrified. I'm going to fall right through dogs or smart. Yeah. Okay. Next one. Good one. I'm a painter. Last week at the house, we were painting. I decided I need to take a large dump. So I decided to do my business in a toilet that I did not know at the time was broken. Everything went down fine, but the same cannot be said about the toilet paper. Long story short, the toilet paper would not stop flushing the toilet paper clogged the toilet, flooded the main floor of the house and soaked through the flooring and leaked through the

basement ceiling. Now I sadly need to pay for ceiling repairs because the toilet cannot hold me. Yeah, you just got to leave the job. You got to walk off and never come back. Basically working for free to pay for a mistake that happened at work. Yeah. And also, everyone in the company knows that you just, you ruined the job because you took a shit so big that it ruined a ceiling. That, that moment when a toilet gets clogged and it's like, you know, sometimes it'll be clogs where it's like, okay, just need a plunger.

Not like, we're not overflowing here. But the second you realize it's an overflowing situation and it won't stop is maybe the most terrifying moment of anyone's life. Yeah, yeah, especially if you have to like go to the store and buy a plunger, if there's no plunger, that's such a shameful purchase. You gotta throw in some buffer purchases

at the grocery store. You can't just go to the grocery store and buy one plundering leave because everyone's like, oh, that guy just took a huge shit. You got to make sure you're moving in. Yeah, I have brought like two cleaning supplies, toilet brush, pack of bags, cereal. Yeah. All that's make it look like a real real prestigious grocery trip. Yes. All right, then last one. This is from Nebraska. I went to a strip club with my buddies at 3am. Had a few too many drinks tripped on the way to the bathroom. Hit my head.

Had to get taken in in ambulance to get eight stitches. And also got a severe concussion. Not my best night crying emoji. Oh, having that habit of a strip club is what hurts. Because you have to say that in the story. And everyone's like, damn, you got so horny you passed out and hit your head. You probably get glitter stapled into your head.

So now it's just a part of you forever. Yeah, I would hope you get like a sympathy and job. Right? Or at least like some lap dance free tickets. Yeah, exactly like a free ticket to the buffet They strip clubs in Nebraska. They strip clubs everywhere. I think they have more strip clubs probably in Nebraska than what else are you gonna do? Yeah, even a West Virginia strip clubs everywhere Shroom clubs make the world go around all right good show everyone numbers 18 I also feel bad for yelling at Billy. No Let's make the world go around. All right, good show everyone numbers. She's out. Foul.

18. I also feel bad for yelling at Billy. No, don't. I thought some time think about it. No. You band as a team. We lose as a team. You band him.

No, no, you band a change. Unban. No, no, no. I have the authority to unban in my team. I have the authority to unban in my team. I have the authority to unban in my team. I have the authority to unban in my team. I have the authority to unban in my team.

I have the authority to unban in my team. I have the authority to unban in my team. I have the authority to unban in my team. I have the authority to unban in my team. I have the authority to unban in my team. I have the authority to unban in my team. I'll just have fun. Okay, we're on good terms. Well, no, Billy's just having fun. Did you guys agree to Bay Sanders? Go ahead. Okay, I get Bo Jackson and Barry Sanders mixed up a little bit sometimes in my own brain.

So I never saw either of them play. Barry Sanders retired, like right before I was born. So I get the mixed up. Okay, that's on me. Both bees. Okay, what are the numbers? I'm gonna tell you something. 20x.

What do you got? PFT? Eight. I'm gonna go 85 for our guy Harvey, very sad news. Harvey Kentucky Sports Radio Caller passed away. 85 years old great life Love to having him call in match. Don't just text me very sad. We are by the way for anyone listening We are gonna still host Kentucky sports radio this summer We just had a very weird summer, but we're gonna planning on doing it late August

But RIP Harvey he was he was a legend. He was the guy who had the oils and would call in about Kentucky basketball talking vibes Like one of those guys at the minute we got him on the phone every year. It's like this is gonna be awesome. One of a kind Yeah, R.I.P. Harvey so 85 for Harvey great great 85 great long life Sad that he didn't get to win another championship. I did have a future on the Kentucky issue. They were my secret team that I was gonna split with Harvey, but that didn't work out. Okay, memes? One, have you ever gotten this?

Nope. 20. Hey, what'd you guess? 26. Motherfucker. Hey! I'm gonna fuck her. Hey! 26th, the final number to ever be drawn in the original lottery ball misnade a fitting way. I chinked.

Tone it down just a little. It's exciting. Okay. Tone it down. The final number. Tone it down a little. Congratulations Hank. Congratulations Hank. You're awesome, Hank. Congratulations, Hank.

You're very happy. I would have picked 26, but Harvey died. So, you know, you should maybe nominate this to Harvey, give this to him. I'm just happy. No, I'm just gonna add that. Congratulations. Showed Harvey, great guy.

This one's in your honor. You're sick of congratulations, Harvey. I was saying congratulations to me. This is an honor of Harvey. Let's go around the room. How many of you have now? I got so many. I lost track.

I have according to the stats guy. I have like five. Well, some of them, I think we're Mickey Mouse, but he asked how many I have. I have five. I have claim five. Four. I claim four.

Yes. The documentation I have is two for big guy. Well, I don't trust that. I don't trust that. I'm just going to say. I claim four yes. The documentation I have is two for big gap. Well, I trust that you need a website. I've got a website. I've got a website. I've got a website says I have four. Interest. That's something that we do.

I'm joking, I fucking know, but the guy made a website. Okay. Four. Jake, that was a great call. Don't let big cap or smurge. You don't let big smurge. You're just keeping in you. No, you you know, it takes me a little bitch right now He's been crazy a Billy for for your track every who's a great you cracked up Christopher

Cafer is a great pit. Oh man, because you flipped and grabbed the mic from I'm like no All right, I'm happy I want today and not Sunday. I'm very proud of you. I mean, could people still come up to you and tell you numbers? Yeah, sometimes not as much and now it's like how many do you have zero? Because they don't count if you don't fucking we're gonna say I'm on the podcast now. I have to just so many Congratulations Hank. No, I four. Hey listen, new new machines coming so I say it. I say it zero for everybody. Zero for yeah

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hey kids is second lottery ball he thinks he runs the show now i it's due to say it and you said yes love you guys so do i leap out when Hank says it it's not good he doesn't mean it. I thought I was Billy when you said motherfucker. What?

When I can't see the ball. I could just see Big Cat when Big Cat was like motherfucker. I thought it was Billy. Did you get it? Oh, animal type. Yeah. Or fish come to the surface when there's about to be some major terrible event like an earthquake or a volcanic eruption. They live really deep down and just Google what they look like because it's pretty crazy. I think we'll all just remember this show is the show

that we Harvey, our good friend Harvey passed away. And also the time that Jake freaked out and banned Billy from talking about rush work. Yeah. Just not including all the facts, but okay. What you did, I said from submitting picks, that's not from talking. From saying picks.

Oh, that's way worse. from being able to sit to have any Opinion is way worse Submitting picks from out Russian more Speaking into the mind you said generically speaking. Oh, okay. He can speak in Mount Rushbury can't say picks Yeah, but I unbanned him look I know we're over it, but usually Jake has a solid list up What we're about to say you don't mean that and you didn't have the list so I forgot Why are why no the list was not set up so I was going from from the dome

On every your dome Before you say it you nod your head. Billy, that was the best you've done, bro. And you just went rogue. Who's fault you think it is, Jake Billy, you're not allowed to answer. From the rest of you guys, I personally think that it was Jake's fault for not having the list up.

I think it was Jake's fault for being a tyrant. Is this all in the show? Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Hank, who's fault you think it was I Think if Jake can have the list up. It's a hundred percent on Jake. I had the list of Guys take Billy for his word is the truth turning of the tables who actually did it have the list up

And I panic that I went po Jackson Yeah, I'm just gonna okay, I, why didn't you have the list up? Where's our different apologize for not having the list up? I had the list up. I'm actually pretty prepared. I'm actually pretty prepared. I'm usually a pretty prepared guy. That's surprising.

Yeah, exactly. Not having the list up for your last pick. Woo! And we get shamed PFT for having a two good of a list. Yeah, we're just, we're on the same page all the time. Sounds like you guys are not. Definitely didn't come prepared. Yep. You're right. So you didn't have the list.

I had the list up. Oh, okay. So what are people saying that Jake has spent most of his time just worrying about calling the lacrosse games, not focusing on part of my take, not having the list of in mistakes, like not having to list pull about the one thing that's going for Jake is that he, no matter what, as much as you guys are trying to him He is definitely the most happy that all the numbers have been picked now. Oh, yeah, that was my That's why I told the tone I told up I told it so well

I was saying shut up because Hank has got another one and he's gonna I knew it was coming after that But I have four and Jake didn't have the list though Fighting my tongue Love you guys. I have to go to take a bath, okay? That's your animal, Frash. Hey, we'll take care of you. Ha-ha-ha. Ha-ha-ha.

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