Pardon My Take - Scottie Scheffler, NIU HC Thomas Hammock, Jets Lose MNF, College Football, And Listener FAQ’s

Episode Date: September 11, 2024

Aaron Rodgers survived MNF but the Jets did not. The Niners are still really good and memes is down bad after the Jets loss (00:00:00-00:18:06). We talk College Football, what’s going on in Colorado and does USC have a defense (00:18:06-00:29:05)? Hot Seat/Cool Throne including saving the Orlando’s Chili and Joey Mazzula has his motivation (00:29:05-00:55:56). Scottie Scheffler joins the show to talk about his incredible season, getting arrested, his love for Stu Feiner and sports advisors and more (00:55:56-01:36:44). NIU Head Coach Thomas Hammock joins the show to talk about his huge upset over Notre Dame, program defining wins, motivation and more (01:36:44-01:56:29). We finish with listener submitted FAQ’s with some questions listeners want answers to (01:56:29-02:06:40).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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NFL plus subscribers additional NFL plus premium terms at NFL comm slash terms. Okay, let's go Welcome to Part of My Take presented by DraftKings. Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app and use code TAKE. That's code TAKE for new customers to get 250 and bonus bets when you bet just five bucks and get one month of NFL plus premium only on DraftKings. The crown is yours. Today is Wednesday, September 11th and the New York Jets still have a quarterback. Yes, he survived. He survived. He survived. Memes was offline yesterday.

And. And off the thread. And this morning. And just not existing. I think Memes just came back to life about an hour ago. I don't even think he's back to life. I don't even know. He seems, what's going on, Memes, in the back there? You had some choice words for us.

You resigned. I'm physically here. Physically here. So Memes, you lost. A lot of greats have resigned by using a napkin from the New York Jets Yes, yes, and he did memes you lost one game What's up? The defense looks so bad. So so you're oh no, it didn't I'm did right he chimed in memes this is if this if you take this one loss like this the way you reacted was a

Playoff loss you you went you you loss, like this, the way you reacted was a playoff loss. You, you went, you, you took yourself off the, the, the group chat. You didn't show up to work till one o'clock. It's one loss. I deleted everything off my phone too. What? It's one loss memes. Wait, what do you mean you deleted everything off your phone? All I have is my bank app and the, and the Roku app for my TV.

And this is wild memes. Everything's gone. Because this, this reaction is what I could understand it if it was last year's game. Yeah. This is a delayed react. You should have done this last year and then flip-flopped and done last year's reaction this year.

Or a Super Bowl loss is how you're acting right now. You lost one game. If you look at the Jets schedule, going off of last night, the two biggest takeaways I had was the 49ers are still fucking awesome and Aaron Rodgers, while limited running, he doesn't have the same mobility, his arm is still there. Yeah, Aaron Rodgers is the best. Well, he's not because he definitely is not the best.

Did you notice that he didn't throw to the right at all? Yeah, his mobility is like he's he's looking He's disease pass chart though. His pass chart is just all the left side of the field. He's played in two years I don't think he can he can't move. He doesn't see right. Yeah, but he can throw still dig so rip it. So What why is this loss? So hurtful to you when again like PFT said last year should have been way worse. I mean we waited all this time our defense was supposed to be really really really really good. It's week one you're gonna get Hassan Reddick back right? I don't know. I don't think

so. On a day like today especially there could be a lot worse news involving the Jets. Yes that's a fact. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Okay, perspective. What will you do if they lose, like, a playoff game? Yeah. I don't know. Memes. I don't think Memes is capable of handling even an 8-9 season at this point.

Which is shocking because- Aren't you used to this though? No, but Memes, how old are you? 29. Oh, okay. Never mind. Yeah, he should be memes. It's shocking.

You haven't learned in seasons past that you're going to have some bumps in the road? What is going on? I don't understand being sad, which I get sad. I mean, well, not to... I don't understand what it's like being 0 and 1. Max, Hank, you guys agree? That is actually unfathomably sad. But I get sad after a bear's game. I don't delete everything on my phone.

Yeah, that was probably a mistake, but... Memes. You guys are playing the Titans next week. You have the Patriots, Broncos, Vikings in the next four weeks. Those are all winnable games. Also kind of loseable. Also loseable, good point Hank. It's true.

The kids, I mean, they can't stop anything. They can't, they couldn't. The defense looks so bad. Every play was like. The defense looks bad. You guys need a pass rusher. Yeah. If there's one out there that's available.

But I asked Max during the game, he said, his son Reddick's not good against the rush. Oh, and also why did Soss Gardner come off the field for a while? I believe it was his head. Oh, his head. Sleeves look great though. Maybe he's addicted to golf. Can you tell me that's going around? Yeah, it does make you miss a lot of work. I know that what's the deal with the sleeves? What sleeves well Aaron Rodgers had like the you know the standard floppy quarterback sleeves sauce had some floppy sleeves

Garrett Wilson Garrett Wilson had some floppy sleeves. What's going on with that? I Don't know. I think it looks clean. Beams, can I give you something that will make you cheer, will cheer you up? Sure. Because this is, this is sad is weak. It's dramatic is what it is. It's very dramatic. It's not even sad. It's dramatic. It's weak one. He's being dramatic. He's a messy bitch. It's weak one. And the biggest thing about this game was get Aaron Rogers through this game healthy and hope his arm is still His arm and it is so that's good

But and you're playing the 49ers 49ers been in like six Super Bowls in the last ten years Well, I don't know what status yeah, but now with now with Jordan Mason around the back. Yeah, Jordan Mason was carved Yeah, we'll get to Jordan Mason. We got to talk about that meme memes got nasty on the group chat I said you started it what you started? to Jordan Mason we got to talk about that. Memes got nasty on the group chat. You started it. What? You started it. Yeah I said Jet Stinks but then you said it's game one guy which I agree it's game one. And then you said Cale Williams looks like Zach Wilson. That was very nasty. That was nasty work.

You want to apologize for that memes? I apologize. I don't need your apology. You were right to say anything you wanted to say in that moment. But you are being very dramatic right now. I can't, we can't have this happen after every week. I just can't. I would, I am a hundred percent with you if this was your reaction in a like season last year or end of season playoff game. Like this is, I would be like memes, take a couple of days off. That sucks. It's week one. No, what are we? What the fuck are we talking about? Take a couple of days off after a loss. True. I, the amount of times I've had to sit in that fucking chair 30 seconds after a heartbreak loss moments are always after I act like a bitch and I get killed for it. It's the, yeah,

you're right. No, but does he doesn't talk. No, I mean, I'm not killing you for it I I just think that it's unusual that it happened after a pretty standard loss. Yeah, like the Niners are really good, dude They were okay we look so good the first quarter I think he thinks that I I think the problem is I think he thought the Jets were like like day one best team in The NFL. Yeah, I think that's defense looks so bad. Yeah, you you might also have early onset Fleming. Yeah, I Watched this game with memes. Oh, yeah, please tell us I Watch it with him and our other jets jets fan in the Chicago office Tom lay After the drive that Aaron Rodgers took the team down the field

They legitimately looked at each other and said, this is the best moment of my entire life. Like, they were legitimately talking about other good moments in their life, like different milestones in their personal life, and they were like, I think this feeling right now feels better than anything else. That's, it wasn't like a hyperbole,

they were comparing it to other moments. What was the score at that point? 7-6 We were going to the Super Bowl. I love it memes. That's how you got to ride the roller coaster But now the roller coaster you gotta you gotta come back to earth Get it come back to the show You quit. Yeah, I So I watched the game with Hank I took took him to Direct TV Refugee. That's nice.

He came over. Good for you. We had a great time. Also, Hank explained to me, uh, that I accidentally just paid for, like, six different cable packages. Oh, yeah. I didn't realize... I have full YouTube TV.

Yeah. And cable. Yeah. Same. Whoops. Yeah, I got that, too. I thought it was just through my cable that I got YouTube TV and Hanks like no dude. You're just double paying for yeah Yeah, I do that too. I if you gave me like a technology audit. I'm probably pissing away $600 a month. Yeah. No, it was bad Lovely house though. I got the full tour. Yeah, it was like a

Like one of those children's books in a doctor's office where you're trying to spot something. And it was just like spot the TV in this room. Yeah. In every room. Yeah, there's a lot of TVs. Every room has a lot of TVs. Were the snacks good enough for Hank?

Was he OK? I said before he came over, I was like, do you want any snacks? Do you want any food? He's like, I'm healthy. All right. So he didn't even eat. I offered him mini Starburst.

What did you have for dinner? Chicken sandwich. Wow. He's been a health guy. All right, so he didn't even eat. Let's go out for a mini Starburst. What'd you have for dinner? Chicken sandwich Wow, he's been a health guy, but it was great. I've took in my DirecTV refugee I did promise that DirecTV would fix it They did not so then I had to do the right thing and bring in Hank I almost bought the YouTube TV and did the double cable packages, but I'm holding on for one more week Okay, if we go another week then I might have to Do it or just cancel my DirecTV but I'm holding on for one more week. If we go another week, then I might have to do it or just cancel my DirecTV, but I was close to doing it. And then you texted me and you're like,

you want to come over? I was like, I'm just going to forget about dealing with this now. And forget about this. All right, well, you're welcome to come over next week too. Thank you. I was in a hotel room and then I put it on ESPN and it said, you can't get the game.

They're doing the dispute right now with DirecTV and ESPN. And then I was like, shit, I'm They're doing the dispute right now with direct TV and ESPN and then I was like shit I'm on like two pain pills right now I can't go out to a sports bar and watch the game there, but it was on ABC So is the solution just change the channel to ABC? No, cuz that that that's how it started for me on Saturday with the Tennessee game I was trying to watch the Tennessee game on ABC and it was on ABC or ESPN So I don't I don't I don't know they're picking and choosing. I also didn't check last night about that, but yeah,

it wasn't. Yeah, you probably should have checked. But maybe- We had fun. I want, I, it was fun having you over. It also might not be on ABC in every market. This whole thing is above my pay grade. Yeah. I'm just mad at everyone. I don't understand any of it. At this point, I don't care who's right and who's wrong. Yeah. I'm just making sure. I basically have a, uh, apocalypse bunker for cable services. No matter what, I don't care who's right and who's wrong. Yeah. I'm just making sure. I basically have a apocalypse bunker for cable services. No matter what, I'll have it.

Yeah. When hard knocks went off, guess what? I had it. I had it live. I had it. Double pay. That's why you waste all that money every month. Yeah.

It's just to feel superior over people. Yeah, for that one moment. As for the other part of the game, the Niners did look really good. Jordan Mason was awesome. He's been like, I think he had like 5.8 yards per carry in his career. Obviously, he's the backup. But like Niners fans know he was the real deal. He did slip up and said afterwards that he knew he was starting since Friday. Fantasy owners are very upset about that. Very upset about that, but I'm sure Florio is going to have a long piece. Yeah, this is going to be a federal investigation. Actually, this might be what gets Congress to do something because they were talking

last year about the whole Joe Burrow thing when his hand injury wasn't reported correctly. You remember that? Yep. But I guarantee you one of these dorks in Congress had Christian McCaffrey on their fantasy team Yep, and obviously didn't bench him going into the weekend. It personally affected them now It's probably like Nancy Pelosi is gonna do a full investigation Yeah, we're gonna get to the bottom of it finally figure out what's going on cannons cannons. So he said after the game Jordan said that he was told on Friday that he was going to get the start.

And then Kyle Shanahan said afterwards that he misspoke and he told him on Friday, be ready to get some action on Friday. But not that you're starting on Friday. We're going to need you on Friday. Which the Niners did have Christian McCaffrey as questionable. Yeah, and it's not the worst explanation ever. If you didn't know if Christian was gonna play You're gonna be getting a lot of touches. I'm gonna let you know you better be ready on on Monday night

I felt bad for him because afterwards he was like I this is why I don't talk to media I mean he made a mistake slipping up and now that's the story when the story should be an incredible night Yeah, looked awesome. Is this if we're grasping that straws for Panthers fans to be excited about is This as close as you've gotten in a long time to having a dub that Christian McCaffrey didn't look as irreplaceable as some people thought that he was. I was actually thinking the Niners should trade Christian McCaffrey. It's a system. He's a system running back. More picks. Yeah. Keep it going. System running back. They did look awesome. Like they the Jets defense every guy was open every single play Yeah, pretty even have like his numbers weren't crazy, but I thought he played pretty well

He did there always seemed to be a guy that was streaking open Cal You check even caught a real route deep bomb all back wheel route. I had him to score 17 to 1 that was that was tough for me Did you take him? I had him with Aaron Rodgers also. I tough for me. Did you take them? I had them with Aaron Rogers. Also, I don't want to jinx it, just spreading awareness. The field goal bet's hot right now. Yeah. 4-0 right now. Field goal kickers are too good. We're 60%. No, this is the last like two and a half years. I know, but they're like, they're getting to the point where they're just automatic everywhere. We're 60% and it's always plus money. Yeah. And it's really the only bet that enables me to bet other things in football season It's the only thing that keeps me afloat prime time field goals and it all started because we had a dumb idea

That it looks like the ball travels farther at night and it does and it does also My other note from the game was shout out Ricky Pearsall for wearing the Rolex. That was awesome Yeah He was on the sidelines and they were showing him and talking about the fact that he got shot through his heart or through his chest. And the story is obviously that he was mugged. The guy was trying to rob him of his Rolex, had the Rolex on, that's a flex. He's going to be back. Dog.

Also, Zach Wilson got the worst stray of all time when Troy Eichmann just said point blank, the Jets have had the worst quarterback play in the history of the league in the last three years. Yeah, that's gotta suck sitting there and watching that. Yeah. In the history of the league. That's a silver lining memes. Yeah. Memes. Can you say that again? He said it wasn't a stat. It was he's so checked out. Troy Hickman said the Jets have had the worst quarterback play in the history of the league in the last three years That's true. Okay, so it's not you don't now you don't Congratulations, it's better congratulations and Aaron Rodgers. He did not look bad last night. No, there was an insult graphic though

What was the insult last year week one? Zach Wilson's stat line was similar. Oh and they won. Oh. But passing yards are down this year. And the huge sample size that we have of one week. Memes, pick yourself up and dust yourself off. You're going to be fine. Yeah, you're probably right.

Yeah, I know. I've been in your shoes a million times. Yeah, it gets bad. And then you've got to get up and be like hey next week's gonna be awesome I Again I don't know I am one and oh, so it is hard to talk memes is like music. We're seen he's laughing She's loving this Did you fall asleep thinking about Mike Floreo dancing in your head? He didn't sleep Mike Floreo had a good article this morning. Oh, oh, okay about the Jets are better

Oh and one with Aaron Rodgers than one and oh with Zach Wilson. Yes Mike Florio had a good article this morning. Oh, oh, okay about the Jets are better Oh-and-one with Aaron Rodgers than 1 & 0 with Zach Wilson. Yes. There you go. It's not even close duh You needed Florio to tell you that I Needed some reassurance. Oh my god. Yeah, you are a mental mess man. I'm concerned about you seriously We were legitimately like he might not show up today week one Okay, yeah, there was possibility all right memes. Here's another positive. What can mean what made you decide to come in my dad? Called me a pussy Good shout out mr.. Memes way to get your boy in into work. Here's another positive means Did you cry last night or today? Yeah

Oh, it was like a steady stream of tears throughout the entire game. I wasn't on play I mean no one can question your fandom now Yeah, and this is all because you have expectations like imagine if Aaron Rodgers had run for vice president, actually, you would have no expectations and you wouldn't care. Yeah, I also didn't blow up, so that's good. Yeah. Yeah. It's just, you should have seen it come, Memes.

This is the second time that Aaron Rodgers has lost to Shanahan. That's the actual vice president for RFK. Yeah. There you go. That's a good one. Thank you. I didn't know.

I didn't know that person existed. Max knew. Max is a big, big big big politics guy big big politics guy over here Which is which is left which is right right is red. Yeah publican. Yep. Oh, I'll never get that one wrong me memes Here's another positive because it's Wednesday. We're gonna talk college football. I I'm gonna I'm gonna give you my my top 12 You could stop me whenever you want PFT when you, when you disagree, but Georgia's my number one team. There we go. Disagreeing number one team.

Okay. I got Texas. I have Texas too. Georgia's one. Uh, Georgia's my number one team. Texas too. Ohio States, three Tennessee, Penn State, USC, Miami, Alabama, Ole Miss, Missouri, Iowa state. Cause they beat Iowa

in Northern Illinois. I might flip flop Penn State and USC. Yeah. Penn State has, I mean the West Virginia at West Virginia, true road. When, uh, was pretty impressive. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, and they did, the Penn State didn't look great, uh, this weekend against bowling green, but, uh, the big story from the weekend, so we talked about it a little bit, but obviously we're going to talk about with Thomas Hammack coming on, NIU not ending Notre Dame season, but they cannot lose another game. It also is the first time since the AP poll came out, in the, since the AP top 25, that the conference has six of the top seven spots.

So the SEC has six of the top seven spots, Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Ole Miss, Missouri, and Tennessee. And we get what everyone thought was gonna be the only ranked matchup this weekend, Missouri and BC. Yeah. Everyone expected that. Yeah, BC, juggernauts. Yeah.

I have, so my big winners for the first two weeks are USC and Tennessee in my mind. Cause I like, I'm not counting Georgia and Texas because we figured they were going to be top teams. They, they were the, you know, either the first, second, or third odds to win the championship. Well, no, I'm going to go horns up and say that not everybody thought that Texas was going to be here. Well, A lot of people thought that Texas was going to lose to Michigan. I mean, they were seven half point favorite. Yeah, but I mean, if we, if we go back and talk about Texas' road. But they were, they were preseason, they were the third favorite to be a national title.

I'm just maybe, maybe it's a recency bias thing, but the way that they looked against Michigan, the final score, I don't think does that game justice. I think it could have been a lot worse. I think Texas is very good. I think Michigan is very bad. Not very bad, but like they're going to win seven or eight games. I think they're going to get, they're in trouble offensive. They're a flawed team. Yeah. But USC and Tennessee were my two teams that I looked at. And I was like, before the season people had questions. USC's defense looks awesome. Tennessee, Nico is the real deal. And they both have had statement

wins in the first two weeks. Those are the two teams that like the big climbers in my mind when you talk about preseason to two weeks in. Yeah, Nico looks amazing. Look, they looked amazing against NC State and who knows NC State might even compete for the ACC still like they I don't necessarily write them out. The ACC is kind of garbage. So Dave looks pretty bad. They've looked bad, but you never know the ACC hasn't looked great yet. I'm right. I'm okay writing them off USC the last game of the season for USC Notre Dame, right? Yeah That's if you're out there saying that Notre Dame is disqualified from the playoff for this loss That might be a playoff game for Notre Dame. Yeah. Oh, yeah

They are in the playoffs if they win the rest of their games until that USC game. Yes. In fact, their playoffs start right now. Their playoffs do start right now. Yeah, yeah, Purdue. And then I think they play Louisville, which they're good. But yeah, that that will be and USC to me is like, it's just been the question forever of if Lincoln Riley ever got a defense. Obviously, Utah State, you can't judge it all, but they did hold LSU to 20 points, and they shut out Utah State. Looks like they learned how to tackle. Yeah, they're tackling it. Which changes everything. Yeah, it's a pretty big part of football. Yeah, and they didn't do it for a really long time.

And it helps your offense too. Big time. The other one was Oregon has looked bad. Oregon looks real bad. Yeah. Where are they right now in the AP? I feel like they're maybe 17? No.

What? I would have them at 17. Oh, you're saying where they are or where you have them? I would personally. Because they're not 17 in the AP. I would drop them big time. Yeah, I mean, they are 2 and 0. But they needed two special teams touchdowns

to beat Boise as 20 point favorites. They struggled with Idaho. I also really like Boise. I would imagine they're like eighth, if I had to guess. What are they? Ninth. Ninth.

I really like Boise State. Yeah. They're running back as a beast. Yeah, Ash and Gentie, he's got nine touchdowns and 450 yards through two games. I just love the balls on the guy who goes to a group of five school that does the Heisman pose. Yeah, he was great's they got more shots. They I think they play some more power five teams

I think play Washington State and maybe Oregon State so they have a couple more shots at it. I also had the I Love Iowa State versus Iowa the the What is it? El Asico is what they call it. El Asico yeah. Online yeah but you just always know it's going to be a weird game and it's usually especially a weird game like it either goes one of two ways. Iowa beats the shit out of them or Iowa State wins and it's a weird game and it was a weird game because it looked like Iowa was going to beat the shit out of them and then you get weird scores going on and they won 2019.

I just, it was a great game. I was, I was like, damn, Iowa state down 13, uh, not giving up. I was impressed. Yeah. And the weird thing is whenever you see Iowa do anything on offense, you're like, they're, they're one of the best teams in the country. Yes. It's cool like this. And so at the start, they started scoring points and you were like, shit, I was for real this year. And then they just went back to old Iowa. Yeah. Like pretty quickly, that flip, it's very easy for them to flip that switch

and just go back to what we've always seen out of Iowa. They also had Kirk Ferenc came out to Many Men, which was awesome from his one game suspension. Yeah, I'm sure that's his favorite song. Yeah. He loves Fitty. And then the only other one I had that we had to talk about was Colorado.

Well, Nebraska's back. That should be said. Nebraska is back. That was an electric, electric place in Lincoln on Saturday night. It was so much fun watching that game. But Colorado, it's bad vibes everywhere. Like, Shador saying, blaming his offensive line. They tried to basically do a patchwork offensive line I think they have an 18 year old starting at guard It was bad. It was bad. And then should or went to the locker room before the game was over Yeah, like two minutes left in the game, right took himself out. Yeah, it was not good and their defense played like Going to that game. I was like they're not gonna be able to stop Nebraska their defense actually played well their offense st. I was like, they're not going to be able to stop Nebraska. Their defense actually played well. Their offense stunk. They played. Yeah. They played pretty good on defense. I'm just glad that this game was never really in jeopardy because it had maybe, maybe the worst 15 minutes stretch of officiating

that I've ever seen in any sport. Yes. It was so bad. Well, who's the, uh, ref analyst that they were using for this one? Uh, Terry McAuliffe. It might've been, might've been Terry, but they were just laughing. They ran out don't know. Terry McAuliffe? It might have been. It might have been Terry, but they were just laughing. They ran out of... Because when you're a former ref and your job is to analyze ref calls on TV, you don't always say like, wow, they really blew this one. You find ways to be like, maybe this is what they saw. After the fourth bad flag in a row, he just started laughing and he was like, I don't

know what they're looking at on the field. This is very strange. So I'm just glad that there was no... nothing consequential came out of all those bad calls. Yes, because it was it was terrible. And Colorado, there are the wheels could fall off. Oh, yeah. The wheels could fall off. I mean, I think the wheels are going to fall off.

And yeah, it's going to be I mean, sure is going to go to the NFL. Yeah. And then what happens? Hunter's going to go to the NFL. What happens when Chador leaves is Deion going to is he just like committed Yeah. And then what happens? Thunder's going to go to the NFL. What happens when Shador leaves? Is Deion going to, is he just like committed to Colorado? He just loves that program. He's going to stick around for a while. I wouldn't say so. I would say probably not. Yeah. It does feel, and I don't know how many wins they have left on their schedule. They do play Colorado State

this weekend, which that game was so awesome last year. Um, you see the story about what they what they asked The home stadium to do after chador scores a touchdown what I don't think this is true But you don't think so. Okay, then I don't want to spur per deon sanders jr I don't want to spread mad at parcel for posting. I don't want to spread misinformation misinformation online What were they gonna do? Well, the story was that? When everyone anyone scores a touchdown for colorado at home, they play the fight song afterwards. Yeah. Except when Shador scores a touchdown, then they play Shador's own song.

Yeah, that seems fake. It seems fake, but obviously people will buy it. I just, Barstool posted, someone on Barstool wrote that article with basically that headline, and then I saw Dion Sanders Jr. like quoted it was like, come on man. Yeah. Well, who on Barstool wrote the article? I don't know. We have sources that are more. I still like Dion, but yeah, it does. It's not good in Colorado right now. He'd be the first to say it's not good. Yeah. That was a bad game. And Nebraska is back. It's fun that they, that crowd was awesome. And it's's they have a very winnable schedule going up to week eight against Ohio State, which it will be awesome if they're like highly ranked going into that game. Yeah, that'd be very cool.

Also, I think I flipped on on Reola and how he dresses like Patrick Mahomes. It's dress for the job you want, not the job you have. Yeah. And it's weird, but it's funny. Yeah. Again, it just really comes down to the facial hair and the haircut if you win you can do whatever you want Yeah, if he had one of the others taking like if he didn't have the facial hair I'd be like alright. You just got Patrick Holmes haircut. Thanks working about something. We're not smirking. Just big propaganda. What big T Oh big big T wrote Ed. Oh big T got in that he wrote the article Oh, he wrote the article about it.

Damn. Are you saying Big T's fake news? Might be. Yeah, I am. Because it's exactly what he's saying. OK, I'll get a comment from Big T. It's exactly what he's saying. But yeah, college football is awesome.

It's rolling. Not a great slate this weekend. Do you think that Michigan is bad? Because I think that their offense is- Oh no, I think it's horrifically bad offensively. Because they have, they've got like a, I don't know if it's two headed monster is what they're calling it at quarterback, but it's so confusing why they put Orji out there and they expect anything to work.

Yeah. It's like he's just going to run the ball. Well, I think they're going to probably probably start Tuttle so it's three headed monster but yeah he they just don't have any burst whatsoever. I mean they lost ten guys on the offense I'm pretty sure so it's it's not crazy that this is happening. It does feel like Michigan was they were so all-in for last year they kind of forgot that this year was going to happen. Yeah.

Which is, listen, flags fly forever. Any Michigan fan would take that deal a hundred times out of a hundred, but it's just now this year is going to be, I think, tougher than they expected. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, should we do hot seat, cool throne? Sure. Oh, also, I love the idea of a bunch of libs from Berkeley going to Auburn.

Yeah. And being like, look, we care about college football. That was a tough loss for Auburn. That was a really bad loss. Really bad loss. Hugh Free's hot seat. Really bad loss. Okay, let's do Hot Seat Cool Throne.

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a title is very passive aggressive term. If you look at the animal kingdom, some of the strongest animals don't defend. They're the most aggressive and they attack the most. Yeah. So we're attacking the title. You're attacking the next title. Yeah. I love that. You knew he was going to come out with something. Is it already training camp for NBA? I think media day is like September 22nd or something. Holy shit. They have the worst.

That happened too fast. I feel like they have the worst off season. What? Mm, summer. They get the whole summer. Summer. Yeah, but. You get to go to like Europe and shit.

The Olympics. Yeah, if you're, yeah. You're not Jason. 12 players every four years. If you're Jason Tatum. Yeah. Jalen Brown had a good summer. No, I mean the best offseason

is the NBA. Definitely. No, I disagree. With hockey? No, golf. We're going to talk about it with Scottie Schaeffler, but golf is the best offseason because you get basically the entire fall. That's the best offseason. I

Only probably we talk about this all the time But like I feel like you would want your offseason to be in the summer hockey might have it better But a football yeah football imagine having to play in an NBA game while football games on yeah Oh me me if you're in B me if you're golfer You got a you got to pay the price for it though because in the spring in college basketball season You have to play Thursday Friday Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, which is tough, but then you get all football season. And all summer.

And also your job is to travel to nice courses. But you can skip, Masters after March Madness, you can skip the tournament during March Madness. Yes. That's what I would do. That's what I would do, skip that what I would do. Let's skip that tournament. I mean it's basketball and hockey. Okay. It's it's it's. Well, disagree because we like football here. The problem with the the

basketball and hockey situation is that your season is so long. Yeah. But the but but the seasons don't even really matter until after football season's over. But you can't travel anywhere. You can't like if you're in training camp or whatever they call it in hockey. Hank, think about having to play in an NBA game on an NFL Sunday. That's torture. Who cares?

No, that's torture. I quit. Those guys are fans of one team. That's why I'm not playing in the NBA. And they're probably, and they're only, you know, they're either playing it, if they're playing in the NBA and they're probably and they're only you know They're either playing it if they're playing during the day they can watch at night That's why I'm not in the NFL because if I was in the NFL then I'd miss all the other NFL action also true Golf all right good hot seat. Thank you

And then my cool. I do like that though. We're not defending the title. Yeah, look at me hacking it They were attacking the title. Yeah, you knew he was gonna drop something like this. We're attacking 19. Yeah My cool throne is social experiments. Oh, okay Did you guys see the muck banger? I did not understand it, but I want you to explain it to me because I saw it and I was like don't understand it Pass. Yeah, I did some research today I had some conversations because I also was was a little bit confused, but it's fascinating I think it's it's one of the more fascinating stories

I've read in the last week Nicado avocado I'm sure avocado avocado. I'm sure you guys are familiar with legend. Oh him. Yep. He is a YouTube mukbanger Okay Now for those who don't know what mukbang is like I didn't for the most part up until a few hours ago, I was generally aware, but I was like is there any sexual element to it or is it just because it sounds like super sexual? Yeah, but it really is just YouTube videos of people eating large amounts of food. Love it. Yeah, that's a mukbang. So you just be like, oh, you know If we could do them every Sunday if we wanted to. Our game links are basically just a giant

Raising Canes mukbang. I think we've been unknowingly mukbanging each other for like seven years. Yeah. So this guy- Mukbanger by birth. Nikado Avocado, if you look up his old videos- Is that his real name? That's, yeah. Oh, sure. I think it's Nikata no Nikata avocado I'll try to think of what a full name for Nikata would be but I couldn't even I think that's the full name Yeah, you need a name that rhymes with avocado. He is a mukbanger. Okay, and he was huge He would post these videos of him just eating disgusting amounts of food huge Numbers is like four million subscribers and he's also fat as fat was fat as fuck He's been posting videos for the last two years where he's large in doing these mukbangs then this week

He posted a basically reveal stating that he Pre-recorded two years worth of mukbangs and has been putting them out periodically and Just losing all the weight so if you're a fan of your fan of this guy You've been watching his videos regularly every few weeks He looks exactly the same and then this week he just came out of the clouds like down 200 pounds That's that's awesome. That's a very very smart strategy And then did he did he lose fans or people happy people are mad

That's why I initially saw what people being like, you know, fuck this guy. I can't believe he did this I was like looked into what he did. I was like, this is actually incredible. Yeah, why are you mad? He did he did 50 videos then didn't work for two years. Why are people mad about that? I it took some balls on him though Cuz I'm assuming that when he dropped his first video when he like pre-recorded all this stuff, he probably didn't have a massive following yet and he just knew like, I'm going to put these out, I'm going to record two years worth of videos and I'll be a big star and then by the end of them, boom, skinny. That's incredible.

Yeah, it's like a huge payoff and he's also skinny now. Yeah. So, but does he lose the people because that was his whole thing, being fat? He probably does. And also, I don't know how he's going to be able to muckbang as much food now that he's super, super skinny. That's what people are upset about. Memes has also said that there's another conspiracy that says that these new pictures are actually

old pictures. Oh, so he's back to being fat again. That like, this right here is actually the social experiment. Just eat the food, guy. Just eat the food. And so the social experiment is to see whether or not people support him getting skinny or not. And the real one is going to be him getting even fatter?

So you're saying he pre-recorded the social experiment video. So this social experiment video is like four years old. It goes back. Then he got super fat to record all these other mukbangs I saw one theory that there's no loose skin, and there's a video with his cat. That's no longer alive. Oh It's always the cat. It's always the cat But that would be saying that he recorded a video when he was super skinny Yeah, then got super fat. So there's still like

a two year gap. I did that unknowingly. And no, this difference in years. Wait, like, let me show you the picture. I see a picture. Oh, I didn't see a fat picture. I saw the skinny picture. Everyone's free. Also, he dropped this on an NFL Sunday. I'm pretty sure which didn't care. I don't think the mukbang community is worried about that. Well, that's their fault. They should have watched Joey Chestnut at halftime. They would have loved that. They would have loved that.

Now wait, is it a possibility? Because taking a picture of yourself and being like, look how skinny I am. I'm going to put this up online after I'm done being fat. That's a thought that would occur to a fat person. To be like, I'm going to lose all this weight, then I'll gain it back by mukbanging. And then I'll reveal that I'm actually skinny. Right? So maybe he was fat, then skinny, then he got fat. And now he's skinny again. Yeah, we don't know how deep this goes. This goes very deep. Oh, wow. Those are crazy pictures. Okay. Yeah, he looks fat and then skinny. Again, he could have just, he could have just had time do this.

Like I don't understand the reverse. I did the Nicado avocado thing reveal over the last 10 years at Barstool by own unknowingly muck banging all the time and then getting really fat. muck banging all the time and then getting really fat. So that second one, I don't know how people can say that there's no loose skin on him. He's wearing a shirt and boxers, so it's probably covering up any loose skin that would be there, right? I would agree. Hmm. He does look AI. But the cat, remember the cat. Yeah, the cat. Cat. It's always, yeah. Cat came back to life. Cat came back. Oh, wow.

Could it be a different cat? So he was just eating, just to eat. I mean, muckbang videos are disgusting wow could be a different cat. So he was just eating just to eat I mean mukbang videos are disgusting. I watched a few there. They're yeah, they sound revolting That looks like he's got the skinny guy the the loose tits The second picture. Yeah loose tits. It's a little loose tits and he's got like the the kind of big face skin on his neck Big face. Yeah. Okay. I believe him. Nicado avocado, way to go. I always thought that mukbang was something that, like, horny guys watched, but apparently not. I feel like it's like Ben Stiller's character in Dodgeball

would watch mukbangs. Yeah. While he ate healthy. To just, like, make himself not get fat. Yeah. Okay. Good cool throne. Thanks. We should mukbang Yeah, we do we should call it mukbang Sure. All right, PFT your hot seat cool throne. Well, I couldn't look I thought about it I was like if I didn't look you can't have three three bites. Yeah Yeah, you can be the worst mukbanger out there. You could only mukbang on vine You'd be really good at that. The accidental mukbangers would be a good, you know, channel. Yeah. Where someone just follows around. Or banning. It's just people eating.

Is there one of these for people sleeping? Probably. That's the next thing. Just like all the things in your hierarchy of... This is, I'm going to do a mukbang, but it's just me having shelter. Yeah. Me sleeping so hard. Yeah. Okay. PFT. My hot seat is my bald spot. Yeah. So- Congrats.

Thank you. I put a video up online yesterday. The whole premise of it was to make people think that I did something really, really bad. And then at the end of it, I was like, psych, all that stuff is not true. And I'm just getting my hair redone. So I hope that will be studied by lawyers in the future. That if you're, if your, your client is on trial for like armed robbery, you just confess that he murdered a bunch of people. And then at the end you say, psych, he didn't murder anyone, but he did rob a bank. So,

yeah. And then people won't get mad for it. But yeah, we're not rebuilding. We're recalibrating. I love it. I attacking it. I'm attacking it. I'm not going to defend getting, getting a hair procedure. I'm just going to defend getting getting a hair procedure I'm just gonna attack the people that that come at me for Trying to shame me because guess what? Women do makeup every day. That's true. People do ozempic speaking I'm reclaiming it speaking of which on that video Marlins man hit me up left a comment underneath saying PFT Here's the deal you and your mom are invited to go to the commander's game with me first row still love you man

Mom too, and he said it's nice. Please forward to PFT since bloggers run his account Yeah, I've been going on since like 20 So Marlins man, but he believed the video Because in the video I said I'm not actually a commander's fan Dan Snyder has been paying me for the last seven years to pretend that correct That I bought my account. I'm not the original PFT commenter and that I don't even do my own tweets Yes, I have somebody else that does that for yes, so that was part So he believed all that and he wants to invite you to a crash and my mom. Yeah and your mom

You got one guy. I got one guy. I got one guy at least but yeah, it's uh It was a like three and a half hour thing yesterday in six months. I'm going to have my hair back to 2016 levels. I'm going to feel pretty good about it. Let's go. Uh, so yeah, I'm, I'm, it's 2016. You keep saying 20 is that your peak hair? I think so. Yeah. I was thinking about that earlier. I think, you're going that out a few times and I feel like that. Well, 2016, my hair is winning championships.

My hair was a dynasty. And then got a little older, lost a few pieces. We had to recal... It's like when the Ravens drafted Lamar Jackson. That's what I just did. Yeah. Like my hair right now is Joe Flacco. He was sick a few years ago.

Then he started some pieces not working so good. Bringing a new guy. Then we're going to be competing again. How much did you losing like 30% of your hair on the case race influence? The doctor said almost 100%. So I had a perfect head of hair until the case race and my hair got stuck in that leaf blower and then Big Cat cut it off and that's what made me bald. It would have been funny if you had brought the leaf blower with you because we have that

hair. Implant that in you. You could have used it. used it yeah also I just realized that in my analogy about my new hair being lamar my old hair being joe flacco max's hair is just patrick mahomes yeah no matter what i do max's max's hair is going to kick my hair's ass kicking your ass yeah uh but yeah i'm happy for you i feel good about it i'm just gonna be wearing a hat for the next like three months as it grows in and then which is a good thing is I got the willies when I saw the points in your head well no it's yeah it's a bunch of scabs because they they like grinded that shit yeah but it was cool we're taking it

back taking back the hair we're taking a fucking love it not being ashamed I love it because my options I think I told you this before but my options to me were either Cut it off and just go bald naturally. Yep, or to Become a guy with long hair Who's bald and that is the worst thing rock. That's all it would have rocked works on Terry Bradshaw Skull it would have rocked but I decided that that was not the future for me Okay, my cool throne is Deshaun Watson being a better football player than he is a person. Yes.

So in a recent update to the debate on how bad he's gotten at playing football versus his personal life, he has been accused of sexual assault. Yes. And it seems like the details are pretty bad. If true, he should not be in the NFL. But you could say that about any number of accusations against Deshaun.

Yeah. And also about his football play too. Yeah. Not a good guy. Not a good guy. So the NFL is like looking at it and monitoring it. And the upshot of it is if he is like credibly accused and he can be punished under the NFL code of conduct, then the Browns might be able to cut him. It'd still be like a giant cap hit.

But I think it would be better for the Browns to get rid of him via any means necessary. Any way you can. And the bottom line, it goes back to what we've said about Deshaun for the last, what, three years, which is either he is the victim of the biggest, most coordinated, most ruthless smear campaign against an individual maybe in the history of sports, or he's a disgusting human being who should be in jail. Either way, he stinks a quarterback. But those are really your only two options

that you have right now. But yeah, it's pretty ugly. And also I've noticed that this has taken a lot of the sting off Russell Wilson's Denver Broncos contract being the worst contract. $85 million cap hit I think when they got rid of them. Yeah. So it can be done. And it could be worse if you're the Broncos.

Yeah. Like every time you write that check, just be like, listen, at least he wasn't Deshaun. Yeah. And now LeBron's needs to start Jamis. Start Jamis. Deshaun might also have a burner account. Oh. Maybe.

Do you have it? No, I think Tate blogged it. Oh. Leroy Bickerstaff. Oh. Which is a great name if you're going to create a burner account. That is.

It's a great name. He only responds to things about Deshaun Watson, refers to Deshaun as four. Oh yeah. Guys in the locker room got fours back all day long. Okay. You never played the sport. You don't know for like that. If oh no I'm gonna say it's not if burn culture there's there's especially with NFL like people are so five head that they know. Yeah. So many examples of burners getting busted that they know like fake burners. And the first one is if four had a tackle like Trent Williams, he he'd be able to show his greatness. Four can't succeed when he's got no chance back

there that this is someone cosplaying is a Deshaun burner. Okay. So he also get his, he has guaranteed money. Why does he care? Yeah. Well, because he cared, he would just play better. Well, no, because here's the thing about people, no matter how rich you get, you still want to get Online and get your takes off. Yeah, but this is Elon Musk bought Twitter to get his takes off You know, he's yeah, but that is that's fair. But this is yeah He this is too obvious There's no way he would burner accounts wouldn't tweet on there like they'd they respond to things they don't tweet

Oh, I if four had Trent Williams that's a that's not a burner account I don't know that was the real one oh that was that might have been a fake I think that was a fake oh okay all right so then maybe it's back I the internet sucks so read one of them four got the respect of his teammates and that's all that matters nobody care what the fools on the app got to say about a man they don't know hmm okay guys in the locker room got fours back all day long It's y'all that never played the sport and don't know for like that. This fourth thing is bothering me and they're all This is bothering me

Okay, maybe it is so the one about Trent Williams. That's definitely a fake one Yeah, because it was that would have been set up too perfectly to have like, oh, is this Deshawn's burner account requesting, saying that another player by name is better than his own teammates. That's a red flag, but the ones that I'm looking at right now. Well, did he do a half time? Did you really give it a doom? Yeah, I'm going to give it a doom. He's responding to one that says Deshawn Watson's career is over.

And he says, coach is ruining the career of one of the best athletes of the generation. That to me seems like a little heavy handed. Yeah, that's too much. Yeah, that's too much. Because Stavanski is a great coach. Who is Leroy Bickerstaff? Regardless of whether or not this is legit, but Leroy Bickerstaff is a great name. Yeah. Okay. Well, we'll keep looking. All right. My hot seat is the Miami police because the cam footage came out for the Tyra Cale arrest and that guy was what the fuck? Yeah. He was crazy. Yeah. He, they were like three or four guys that were just ready to go right off the bat. They were trying to, I didn't even realize they were trying to arrest John who Smith too. Yeah. It's crazy. And Klaas Campbell came up to deescalate and Klaas Campbell,

great friend, great teammate, also very smart because he realized he knows that he's a big man. Yeah. And so he's just like walking backwards the entire time, just like showing, I'm not approaching you, but you're going to hear my voice. Yeah. And Klaas Campbell, if you're trying to deescalate any situation, the best way to do it is to have Kalei Campbell stand there and start talking. That will deescalate any situation. And we did find out also how Drew Rosenhouse got there so quickly. Tariq was just on the phone saying, get Drew here, get Drew here, get Drew here.

Yeah. There was another thing that came out earlier today, a quote from Miami police, and they said that they were booking him on speeding because they visually identified that his car was traveling approximately 60 miles an hour. Told you, it's the car. They just see a sick car, and they're like, that's going too fast.

There was a video that you could see of the car going by, and you see the cop turn the motorcycle around and follow them. Tyreex car was going faster than the other cars, but the initial reports that it was going a hundred miles per hour was not even close. Not true. And when the cop says visually, we think the car was going 60 miles an hour, then that's when you know that there's about to be some cop again. They just, they were like, yeah, his car looked fast. Yeah, that was,

that was crazy. And listen to Tyreex, from what we know of his past has probably done stuff that warrants him getting thrown onto the ground by police officers. Yeah, this was not one of them. No. And if you just take Tyree out and in his place, you put like one of those sovereign citizen guys, and they make it their entire life's mission just to like record themselves talking to police to outsmart them. I love those guys. Yeah, they're the best. They're so ridiculous. They're so funny. What Tyreke did was he rolled his window down, gave his information over, then rolled his window back up. That's stuff that I see all day every day from the sovereign. You can do that to a police officer. Yeah. You don't have to talk to a police officer. It was nuts. All right, my cool throne is the

people of Orlando because I am taking up a new fight. I don't. All right, my cool throne is the people of Orlando because I am taking up a new fight. I don't know if you guys saw the news, but they're changing the Orlando airport and the Chili's is going to be gone in 2025. We're not gonna let this happen. We're not gonna let this happen. Why are they taking it out?

I don't know, but we're gonna fight. I'm gonna fight for the people. I am going to announce a travel boycott to the Orlando airport. After 2025 if they actually take it away. If they actually take it away. They're taking, they're replacing Chili's or they're taking the whole stairway to heaven? They're taking, I think the whole stairway to heaven. The Chili's, by the way, if they ever do an auction, I would like to buy some of that

stuff. By the escalator. Yep, Chili's. But they, I did contact the Orlando airport. By what stuff exactly? Whatever they got, like a fajita plate or something. Just by the escalator. Literally anything.

Stuff on the walls. The Orlando airport responded to me when I asked for comment. They said, we love chilies just as much as you all do. Our partners will still be around in their current location through September 2025. There's still time to score delicious fajitas and chicken crispers and ride that sweet, sweet stairway to heaven. That was just like, they were patting me on the, on the top of the head. I will not accept this. We will figure out a way to get that chilies. And if we don't make sure someone tells me when they auction stuff off, cause I want to buy it.

Now they remodeling because they just, they don't like the look of it and they want to do no clue. PFT, just a visual overhaul? It's crazy, it's crazy. It's nuts. I predict that people are gonna stop visiting Orlando, Florida entirely because of this. I'd agree with you. What else is there to do in Orlando?

Nothing. Nothing, there's no amusement found in Orlando. There's chilis. Yep. And the stairway to heaven. In fact, I won't even take a connecting flight through Orlando. I agree, I won't either. Fact, flight through Orlando. I agree. I won't either fact

I mean, I'm never taking my kids to Disney cuz I never went as a kid gotta pass. I gotta pass that for Yeah, I'm gonna pass I hold that with me. That's what you gotta do share share your trauma with your children Disneyland, maybe Not going to Disney World. I always wanted to go as a kid never have it universe. I can't I can't One of your kids is gonna start liking my wife can take them. I'm not going. Whatever one of those movies is and you're going. They like all of them. They don't know that Disney world exists yet. I'm going to wait till one. Wait till what? That was, that was, it's, it's the kids in their class. Did you go? No, but okay. So stand with me. I'm with you, but I just feel like you're, you're, you're going to get rolled over. I went to Disneyland. Yeah. So we'll

go to Disneyland. I'm fine with Disneyland or whatever the Universal Studios the Universal Studios is fun we do that you're at Florida Disneyland is in California I'm going to Disneyland I will not go to Disney World I never went as a kid I wanted to go so bad I went almost died what I roller coaster no I went to that I like I know I ran away jumped and jumped in the pool without any floaties. I was three years old Some random like ten-year-old dad happens. Yeah, my daughter did that. She just dropped to the youngest of four Yeah, and I picked her up and I was like don't do that again. She was mad at me You know what the only the only acceptable substitution I would take in that airport

for the Chiles, medieval times. Yeah. If they put a medieval times in an airport, I'm fucking in. Or wing nuts. Or wing nuts. Yeah, you can do that too. Or part of my cheesesteak free. We don't pay rent.

Yeah. Listen, we're normal dudes. We can negotiate. No rent. Yeah. Medieval times. Let the people watch a battle before takeoff I'd agree with that kind of tough getting the swords and stuff through. Oh, no, it's not. I think it's pre

No, I think it's post. Well, they should be allowed to go through the line with the pilots and the flight attendants Yeah in your night suit in their night suit. All right, let's get to our interviews We got Scottie Scheffler and then we have Coach Thomas Hammack from NIU brought to you by our friends at Game Time. Football season is here and we can't wait to get out to the score to some games this fall with the help of Game Time the official ticketing partner Barstool Sports. You know how much we love Game Time now with their brand new Game Time picks feature they're making it even easier to get to a game. Game

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Steak near you and order yours now at PardonMyCheeseSteak.com. Use code AWL for free delivery. Okay, here he is Scotty Scheffler. Okay we now welcome on a very very special guest it is the best golfer in the world you can say that because he had an incredible season Scotty Scheffler joining the show. Scotty first of of all, congrats. 62 mil. I did read that. Yep. I think so. I don't. What do you mean? You read that one? I don't really have much to say on that. Is it in your bank account yet? You have been that 62 mil. That's incredible. Congrats. Thank you. Yeah. It's been a, it's been a fun year. I really, I don't really think about the money very much. I think that kind of becomes a big deal just with the FedEx and everything.

But at the end of the day, just playing golf and the money's just a gift on top of that. I mean, it's really all it is. That rocks that you have to find out how much money you made by reading about it in an article. I think it's something that we should all aspire to one day. The news tells me how much money I make. Yeah. Yeah. I mean I know you're a humble guy and you do feel like you whenever we you talk to the media like the one thing I like is you're very honest and it's like these are the things that are important to me but there has to have been at least one

moment where you're like holy shit that's a ton of money that's pretty damn cool. Yeah I mean I remember playing my first PGA Tour event as a pro and I didn't like play great I finished maybe 40th place it was like two weeks after graduating college and made like 30 or 40 grand or something like that and I remember looking at Meredith when I got home and I got the text you get like a text from the tour after each tournament telling me how much money you made. And I kind of looked at her. I was like, Oh my gosh, like I just got paid for that. That's insane. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's, it's pretty fun. You know, I still feel, I mean, I really do.

I still feel like a kid, um, just cause I, like, I'm sure you guys can relate to that a little bit. Like you just sit around at your job and have fun all day. And like, that's what I get to do. I get to go play golf and have fun. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, I mean we, we definitely can relate to that because we, today is the start of football and we're like, Oh, this is going to be awesome. We're going to sit on the couch and hang with the dudes for the next six months. So yeah, we're, we're, we're equally as blessed. That's for sure. Your caddy probably feels pretty happy about it too. Your caddy is probably like looking

at his phone. How does that work? He gets, he gets a text from the it too. Your caddy is probably like looking at his phone. How does that work? He gets a text from the tour too? No, no. He just gets like, we have a girl that helps us like pay bills basically because I'm a child and I can't keep track of all that stuff. So she quickly took over that job and she just, she texts me at the end of her week. She's like, Hey, this is how much we're paying today. I'm like, that's great. Perfect. Ended over. Thumbs up. So we know where you went to high school, obviously. It's a long history of sports grades that went there. Do you know Jake Felt personally? No, but I've heard of Jake Felt. Was he Stafford's guy?

Well, no. Yeah. Stafford was his guy. Yeah. Jake Felt is one. What did he do? He scored a bunch of points in the, uh, the state finals up five, like ran five touchdowns, five touchdowns. He's, he was better than Clayton Kershaw and Matthew Stafford. Jake felt is the true, true Highland park, uh, champion. He's our guy. Yeah. Yeah. So I do, I listened to the podcast a little bit during the season. It gets kind of tough to keep up. But like this time of year, I'll listen to a bunch of footballs back. And I did. I listened to part of that Stafford interview. It was pretty funny. You guys mess with him about the, the Howe Park stuff. So, you know, click Kershaw went to your high school. Wait, wait. So, all right. Thank you that you listened to the show at all. How dumb are we when we talk about golf? Like we're really dumb, right? I mean, I've heard a little bit of the golf stuff. Like I know that Hank's a big fan of

the live golf and all that. Yeah. I mean, you're not great about golf. Yeah. So maybe this is a good opportunity for you to educate us. What do we get wrong about golf? What's the hardest part about being a great golfer and sustaining that? I don't know either. I'm not a podcaster. Yeah. We also root for the course. Yeah. We do. We root for the course a lot. Is that like you want us to shoot over par? Yeah. Yeah. We like that. Especially in the U S open when they grow the fescue out and it just becomes just a jungle of weeds and it's Impossible golf to play and I'm sure it's very frustrating

But for us at home we root for the course to just swallow up golf balls have guys cussed I I did hear you Scotty Would you like to apologize to America for for saying the f-word on the golf course last week? Yeah, I'd like to formally apologize to all of America. Okay. Thank you Yeah, I'd like to formally apologize to all of America. Okay. Thank you my Formal apology my dad my four-year-old son Chris saw that and that's that's the only word that he says now He's gonna get kicked out of school. Yeah, when he eventually goes to school. Yeah The so yeah, we're we're we root for the course. We don't really follow the rules. Oh, here's one

You are you follow the rules. You're a consummate pro do you think it's Uncouth to just fill out whatever score you want at the end of a round like for instance. I shot a 72 at Shinnecock It's really up to you. I think that's a great part about golf, you know, you sign your own scorecard Yes, if you're gonna rest easy at night then hey man more power to you. Oh, I sleep like a baby. Yeah If you can live with yourself being a liar then go ahead. Yeah, I can I have no problem living with myself Just filling out fake scorecards. Okay, that's great. So Scottie Scheffler basically you you basically just signed my scorecard at Shinnecock Not really, but yeah. Yeah, okay, all right, perfect. I'll take it.

Yeah, that's great, I love that. This might be a tough question for you, but have you personally thanked Jeff Darlington for being there during your arrest? I actually did, I spoke to him at the end of that week because he actually came up to me and apologized. He's like, Hey man, like I'm really sorry. And he was, I mean, awesome about the whole thing because he was worried that because he obviously was on TV a bunch

after that. So he was worried that I thought that he was doing it to like help himself. Like he came up and apologize. Like, listen, man, I'm just so sorry. Like they got it. I know it's my job. I got to the TV stuff like listen man I was glad that somebody saw that yeah what happened that was just there because he helped like he he was getting yelled at by the police and like coming up being like no no like this this is not he's like no no no no like get the heck out of here eventually he came up to the car and was like who should I call and I was like no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, He was there to chronicle it because if there was nobody there at the time, then the report is just Scottie Scheffler arrested. Then an hour later we see what the charge would be.

And then everybody's like, what the hell is going on? But since Darlington was there and he had eyes on it, it almost seemed like from the very start, the narrative was free Scottie, which was great for you. Yeah. Well, I mean, the part that still just really blows my mind is like I yeah, I got arrested which is one thing But the reason I got arrested was the police officer charged me with second-degree assault. Yeah Well his pants pants were damaged beyond repair. Yeah. Yeah, but I mean It's I mean it's like at this point it's

For the most part I'm over it Like talking about it a lot throughout the year, like it really was very traumatic, but like at this point I feel like I'm getting over it in a sense to where like when people, like when my friends would ask me about it, like I would literally like start shaking again just because it was such like a wild thing that happened. Yeah. Just, but now I feel like I'm kind of on the other end of it, like things are starting to calm down and it's like, yeah, I went to jail. Yeah. It's a good bit. Yeah. It basically is like,

as much as it sucked in the moment, I had to really suck, especially you're playing a major now, hopefully you have enough time where it's like, it kind of worked out perfect that not only did you get a little street cred with your mug shot, but every, every, basically every moment after it happened, you got more and more vindicated that you did nothing wrong. So it was just like, Oh, it was even more like Scotty did nothing wrong.

And now you can look back and be like, look, that's a pretty cool t-shirt, free Scotty. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My friends, my friends have had quite the field day with that experience, but yeah, glad it's kind of the rear view mirror now. Yeah, so this season was incredible for you. At what point in the season were you like, this is different? Did you know that you were like, I'm playing the best golf of my life, like I can feel this and everything's just working?

I don't really know. I don't like, I'm not very intuitive with that kind of stuff. I kind of just like really do live day by day. Like I can barely remember what I did yesterday and I don't like make a ton of plans for Mark. I kind of just try to live in the present as much as possible. And so in terms of golf, like you just go from one thing to the next and like sometimes like Meredith and I like we got home this week the

last couple years when we get home from the season, you know, I haven't been able to win East like the, the two years before where I had the lead and then I lost it. And so you come home and like, just pretty sad and, um, you know, coming home this time, like we just kind of sat there and we're like, how amazing is this? Like just one last term of the year. Like we can just, just chill. And it's been great. Cause I'm really, really tired.

Yeah. A long year, but yeah, just sometimes I feel like I'm living in the simulation. Cause like, I really do feel like a kid still, like I still feel sometimes like I'm in high school because I just play golf and play golf for a living. That's pretty much what I do. I go practice, play golf, come home, hang out with my family and then go back out on the road. like it's not Nothing crazy. Yeah, how awesome is it that your offseason starts football season? Like that's the best That's the best offseason ever. Yeah, it's the best Yeah, that's the best it's sitting like Like Sundays Sundays are such great days

Like I love the NFL and like we got to a good routine last year of like waking up and watch sports advisors. And then yes, we go to church, come home, play some bad. So they just sit around and watch football. It's awesome. Wait, hold on. Hold on. Time out. You would watch Stu finer and then go to church. Yeah. That's the correct order to do it. Yeah. That is incredible. You know, what's really funny is I told Meredith, we're driving over like us yesterday and Meredith is my wife, just so everybody knows. And we were driving home yesterday. I was like, yeah, I got the podcast with the with the parcel guys tomorrow morning, but that's pretty much all I got tomorrow. And she's like, okay, you did it with like, with like the guy. I was like, who are you talking about? She's like the guy, the favorite number guy. And I was like, that's incredible. Oh, that makes me so happy that

like, just see, I mean, you're, you're, you're the best because you're just watching. Yeah, I love that. But yeah, if you hear Stu say 1515 30 enough, then yeah, you have to run to church Yeah Find a preacher to talk to immediately after watching She was wondering she's like well, can I come say hello? I was like well still not gonna be on on this show and she's like, okay never mind that You have a free invite to come to our office and watch a taping of advisors That would be the funniest thing ever you you could see you could also see that we cut out a lot of the stuff

That's do says that he is he doesn't know we cut it out He'll he'll he'll be like great show and we're like Stu. We can't use half the things you said We might have to start sending you a director's cut Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So, all right. So how are you feeling about the Cowboys this year? Typically, I go into every year with a ton of hope and then just get crushed.

This year, for some reason, my hope's not as high. I've kind of like moved the hope over to the Longhorns. But the first game is going to start. I'm like, they're going to win every game this year. It's going to be awesome. Like, we're on that Cowboys game. It's like, they're going to win every game. This year is going to be awesome. Like we're on that Cowboys. Remember it's like we're going to win the Superbowl. We're going to go to the playoffs, do all the stuff and then just never even comes

close to happening. Yeah. Last year was tough in the playoffs. Were you, were you at that game? No, we were, um, we were playing a tournament in California that week. And I remember we, it was a Sunday. We were out. It was before the tournament started. We were out a tournament in California that week. And I remember we, it was a Sunday, we were out. It was before the tournament started.

We were out playing golf. Just some of my buddies, like Sam Burns, a couple other guys and Sam and I are like, all right, we need to get home and get to the game. We were having a chipping contest and like the game had started, but we're, you know, gambling. And so we had to finish the, finish the match. And then like, by the time we finished the match, like we're just watching the score. I'm like, I'm not going to have to watch this.

He's already getting blown out. And my phone has now been tossed to the other side of the green and it's over. And we went on to watch the second half, but it was tough. Yeah. Do you think Dak's the guy? Yeah.

I think the team's good enough. They just don't seem to perform when it matters the most. And sometimes that's bad luck. It could be a mental thing. I mean, the team last year was so good. And then just the first game, I don't know how fluky of a sport football is, but if it's anything like golf, stuff can just happen really fast and just gets away from you at the wrong time.

And it's tough, man, it's tough. Yeah, well, we did our preseason awards On wednesday's show and dac won an award so you should be You should be excited about that. What what was the award? It was least improved player of the year We don't I mean we just think he's gonna be the same. Yeah, he's not gonna improve. He's not bad He's gonna be good. He's gonna be back pressed out, but he's not gonna get any better. Yeah, right So I mean to be fair like he had a great regular season last year like he played awesome for the rest of the year Yeah, right. He's gonna have the same regular she's gonna be very good this year. He's just not gonna improve We might have to submit you for least improved golfer for next year cuz you're so good

That would be that would be an honor if you if you didn't improve. You just stayed the same. You're number one. I guess you probably do. You too. You do want to improve. You want to improve. Yeah.

So actually that's a serious question though. If you're at the top of your game right now and you're playing really good golf, what's that line like between going out and trying to practice something and and find an area to improve and also not screwing up what you have right now? Yeah. and find an area to improve and also not screwing up what you have right now. Yeah, I think that's, that's where guys can sometimes run into trouble when they, um, in golf, you always feel like you can get better because it's so hard. And that's one of the things that I find funny about people always like,

if you root for the golf course, I don't understand why golf is the sport. We're like, we want to watch those guys suffer, but every other sport is like, we want to see the best. We want to see football players at their best. Like we want to watch guys, dunk the basketball, make long threes and golf. We're like, no, no, we want to watch these guys suffer. Yeah. It's because we, it's because we stink. And so we watch you on TV and we're like, we want you to experience just like a taste of what I experienced every single shot when I play.

No. Yeah. Well I shanked one last week, so there you go, PFC. I saw that. That was nice. Yeah. I was like, one of us, one of us, but yeah, do you have, do you have stuff that you go out there and you're like, I need to improve on this, but I also have to make sure that I'm not screwing up my normal swing. Yeah. I would say most of the stuff I do on my full swing is mostly maintenance. So in terms of just like making sure my setups good, making sure I'm taking the club back

properly and when I practice at home and I'm hitting balls, I'm with my coach most of the time. And so full swing is mostly just maintenance. As far as a short game goes, like you can always get better. Like trying to improve my bunker game this year, my putting I think can still improve. Every off season, I kind of have one point of emphasis because you always got to be working on everything. And some years it's been my diet, last year was my putting, one year was doing a lot of stuff in the gym. And I think as I'm thinking more and more

about this off season, I think I'm going to focus more on like kind of my endurance and eating better. I'm going to go back to kind of the diet and workout stuff this off season to be my like point of emphasis just so as the year goes on, you know, I can really kind of maintain the same level of performance. Probably just feeling better at the end of every round. Yeah, at the end of a weekend. You don't have more energy at the end of it. Yeah.

And a part of your, your putting improvement was just switching putters, which is genius. I do that like six times a year and never see the workout for me. But was so the, the story goes that Rory said that you should look at a different putter and then next thing you know you're using a different putter and now Rory just shot himself in the foot because now Scottie can putt. I don't know if that's something that you actually heard from Rory or if that's something that you had planned for a while. No, it's something that I thought about but I mean don't let the truth get in the way

of a good story, right? Okay. We never do. Yeah. Yeah. Never do. Yeah. Um, yeah, no, it was something that my putting coach and I had thought about. And then that week at the beginning of the year, I had improved a little bit, but I still wasn't where I felt like I could be. I felt like we could keep getting better. And, um, that was something that it was nice for me to kind of get out of my own head, look at something different. Like I used to line up the ball where I wanted to hit it when I was putting and it would

kind of get in my head a little bit. And so now I'm just trying to get more athletic where I'm just getting over it, trying to see the break and just hit the plat and kind of let the results be the results. And with the spider putter specifically, I don't use the line on the ball. I just put the ball down and just try and be as athletic as possible. Yeah. Do you have a, uh, do you have a favorite round from this year? I mean you have so many of the masters you were incredible the gold medal

I mean that one I feel like we just pass over that you what you did in that final round to win the gold and Come back was you just on fire. But do you have one that if you look back you're like, yeah That was that was my favorite round. I played in competitive golf this year that was that was my favorite round I played in competitive golf this year. I think I think the Olympics is probably a pretty tough one to be just just the way it happened there late in the round and with it being the Olympics and that was pretty pretty special day. Yeah. Yeah. Well, just you just you just started ripping birdies like nonstop down the stretch. Yeah, like we we made the turn and, uh, I had birdie the first three holes did, made par on the net,

made pars in the next six holes and kind of missed some birdie putts. Like I missed some pretty makeable opportunities, um, early in that round on the front nine. And, uh, when we made the turn, I just, you know, Teddy kind of kept me in a good head space. And then, you know, I just started making birdies, but there was a time that we almost felt out of the tournament. I had switched my attitude to be like, all right, let's just try to see if we can get a medal. And all of a sudden I started making birdies and I saw those guys made some mistakes.

And then I remember looking at the scoreboard when I was on 17 and I saw that Tommy hadn't birdied 14, which was the reachable par 5, probably the easiest fall in the back nine. I think Rahman made double. And so all of a sudden I thought I was going to be one back and have that putt to tie for the lead. And then all of a sudden I was like, Oh my gosh, just putt is to take the lead and Brahma has now fallen even further back. And so now there's only one guy really that has a great chance of catching me. And it was kind of just one of those things where everything fell into place and I had a great back nine and was able to win.

Yeah. Thank you. I mean, you want it for us for America. Yeah. Yeah. We needed that. We actually, I think we, I think we beat China by one gold medal. Yeah. That's true. I think we tied China. I think we tied them. But we won because we had more other goals. Yes. So yes, we would have lost outright if you had not done that. So you are American Captain America. And we say that to every single person we've interviewed that won a gold medal, but it's a big deal. You're the gold medal that did it Well to be fair. I mean, it's true. Yeah, why you are? It's all you know, everybody that got a gold medal about each one of us getting the gold, you know, be a different story Yeah, yeah

So what's your what's your favorite trophy or or I guess you can include the green jacket in this some people would put that On the Mount Rushmore of green things if you win a green jacket. But if you were to compare a gold medal and a green jacket, what's better? I don't know. That's tough. The, you know, they're just different. The green jacket is something that I always grew up dreaming about and thinking about. But when you get the green jacket, you know, there's a lot of rules.

You can't really do a ton of stuff with it because you're out. Like I'm the only person that has the green jacket outside the gates of Augusta national. And so when you're out with the green jacket, you're representing the club and it's a tremendous honor. Whereas the gold medal, it's a great honor, but there's no real rules. You, it's just a gold medal. You can kind of do whatever you want with it. And so like the amount of people that have seen the gold medal, take a picture with the gold medal, that part's been really fun. Whereas the green jacket, it's more of an honor in representing the club. And so there's not a whole lot that I do with it other than it just kind of chills in the closet and I'll put it on every now and then. Yeah. Well, you had the story that you told

to the media that you just like you put on, was it the green jacket and then held a couple trophies and you're like, look at me now to your wife. I mean, you got to add the gold medal to that. What was going through your head? You're like, you know what? I'm going to flex once in a while, because you are too humble. That would be my only tip to you. Every now and then, you should just flex on people

and just show up randomly with a green jacket or gold medal and be like, I'm Scottie Scheffler and you're not. I remember that day. I don't know what kind of mood I was in, but I put on, cause like some of the tournaments I was winning early in the year, they all give you like a jacket. Like there was a, I had a cardigan from Bay Hill. I had like a plaid jacket that I had a green jacket and I just like decided to put them all on one morning because Meredith would think it was funny and

just grab a couple of trophies, walk through the kitchen. I was like, what's up? Yeah. You deserve that. Down to the coffee shop. Yeah. Just wearing the green jacket. Oh, I forgot this whole thing. Yeah. And you know, I had it on. Yeah. Oh yeah. Totally forgot I was wearing it. One of the best things that you did, I thought, was your champions dinner that you set up for people at the Masters. Your menu was impeccable. I think it's the best that I've seen and and some people said that it was like oh this is perfectly Scotty Scheffler but they said that in a way like oh this there's nothing really crazy on here but your menu was cheeseburger sliders, firecracker shrimp, tortilla soup, Texas ribeye steak or black and redfish, and then the warm chocolate

chip skillet cookie. That is a perfect, perfect champion's dinner. So congratulations on that. Did anybody get the redfish or was everybody eating the steak? No, some people definitely got the fish. Like that's part of one of the things you have to do on the menu is you have to have a meat and a fish. And so at the time I didn't even really eat redfish. It was just like, hey, this is from Texas. Like, let's just put that on the menu. If I did the same menu this year, I'd probably eat the fish. Like I've gotten, as I've improved my diet, I've kind of added some of that stuff in.

The only really funny thing that happened to the champions there was there was tortilla soup was on the menu too. And like at the champions dinner, I sit at the head of the table. When you're the defending champion, you sit at the head of the table when you're, when you're the defending champion, you sit at the head of the table with, uh, Ben Crenshaw and then chairman Ridley and, uh, everybody kind of sits in their own little areas. Like you have groups of guys where they sit year in year out. So most of the older guys are on my left side and they bring out the suit.

Everybody sits down and they start eating it. And it was unbelievably spicy. And all the old guys on the left side of the table just started coughing. And looking over, you see them sweating, they're all looking at me like, dude, what are you doing? I'm like, I didn't know it was going to be this spicy. I'm sorry, guys. Oh, man.

I like that. I almost took out all the old guys. Yeah. Yeah, but maybe this time. Have you given any thought to what it's going to be this year? Because maybe you could put something really spicy in there. Maybe we do wing nuts. We get you, we get, we get Ed and Alicia from Buffalo to come down and make you guys wings.

Some Buffalo wings, some chicken wings. Them in Ed and Alicia and Augusta would be all time. We should maybe think about it. It'd be perfect. Yeah. But I mean, if you give something that makes everybody else uncomfortable, that's a leg up for you in the actual tournament, right? Yeah. Unfortunately, it only really took out the guys that have been retired for. Everyone else was fine with it. Yeah? Yeah. Um, unfortunately it only really took out the guys that have been retired for everyone else was fine with it. Um, yeah, yeah. So maybe the, this is a dumb question or you don't

have a good answer to it, but I'm always curious. You, you, you know, this season has been incredible. You've had an insane stretch the last few years. Was there ever a moment in your journey with golf where you were like, I might not make it like I'm cause I knew we know how hard it is. We know what the struggles everyone goes through. Was there ever one of those real moments where you had to sit down and be like, is this actually going to be my future? Am I going to make the tour? Am I going to be able to like be a player that stays on it for a long period of time? Did that ever happen?

Yeah. All the time. I feel like, yeah, I went through a couple of years in college where I battled some injuries. I battled a bad back and it affected my swing for years. Whereas I was a really good junior player and I had a great freshman year in college and my sophomore junior year, I could not keep the ball on the planet. I was hitting all over the map. It was really hard. You know, I spent two years there, not playing anywhere near the best of my abilities and, um, yeah, like that stuff runs through your head all the time. Like, can I do this?

Like, is this really going to happen? Um, and then I remember when I turned pro, I, uh, I turned pro in 2018 and I started by playing Monday qualifiers. Like, do y'all know what the Monday qualifiers are? Yeah. Yeah. So I was playing on the corn fryer tour. There's more spots.

I was like, I'm just going to go try and play corn fryer tour Mondays. And I would show up to the Monday qualifier, shoot six, seven, eight under, not make it go to the next week. Fly to like, I remember I flew to St. Louis, I flew to Buffalo. I'm flying all over the country to these random places playing Monday qualifiers, playing really well and not getting in. I'm kind of sitting there to myself, just failing time and time again and playing good enough to where I feel like I should be succeeding.

And then you kind of get home, I look at Marath, I'm like, this is hard. This is not what I signed up for. I think you know it's going to be a grind, but at the same time, I think in the back of your head, you just expect things to go the way that you think they should go. You just think that you're just going to show up and play great and everything's going to be awesome, but there's a lot of times in golf where it's really hard. I remember missing my rookie year on tour. I had a pretty solid fall and then the spring started and I was like missing cuts left and right and I remember

We played a tournament Torrey Pines and I shot like the seven right under the first round on the easier course Then we go over to play the south course, which is much harder and I shot Maybe shot 80 and I bogeyed like last five holes or something like that to miss the cut by one I remember coming off the course and call Meredith to come pick me up and she's like hey, how'd today go? I'm like, not great. I missed a cut. And she had no idea because I was so far inside the cut line. Also, I miss another cut.

And I'm thinking there to myself, I'm like, am I ever going to make another cut again? I mean, there's bogey the last five holes to miss the cup. I won. Like what, what am I doing out here? And so golf can be challenging like that. I mean, as, as things are going great, they can flip and go bad just as quickly. And so, you know, I'm trying to get better at soaking in the good times. But yeah, yeah. Yeah. I mean, the golf, I don't know how you guys do it week in and week out because it is the most frustrating

game. And to have your livelihood be like, I have to mentally be there every shot. And like you said, like moments where you're shooting well, and then all of a sudden you don't make the cut. every shot and like you said, like moments where you're shooting well and then all of a sudden you don't make the cut. The only thing I would say is you guys need to just do a better job of when someone like clicks a picture or something and then you're like, oh man, I can't take my shot.

That's a little soft, but everything else about golfers is tough as hell. You'd agree. Yeah, a little soft. Yeah, I do agree. We actually, yeah, we experienced that this year. So most of the tournaments in the States, that almost never happens. When we went to the Olympics, I remember getting to the second hole and it's par three down the hill over water. It's like, I think it was a five iron the first day. And like a lot of the people at that

tournament hadn't been to a golf tournament before. And I think there may be a law in France where they like have to have the sound on when they're taking a picture. And so like you take the club back and all of a sudden like a hundred cameras go off and we're like trying to silence them and then like there's a language barrier. We can't get them to stop. And so basically we just played four days of the tournament with people just like making camera noises basically the whole tournament. Yeah, that's that's something that the Ryder Cup is usually really good about. Yeah and I'm thinking to myself I'm like man this is really bugging me like I better better figure this out. Yeah it is. Yeah all right so yeah we should we should we get more clicks we need to be like France. I actually like that law that you have to have

the sound on so people can't take pictures. I don't know if it's a law there but it is a law in certain countries where you can't just be out, like, taking pictures of people. So like, it may be the way the phone is programmed to where like, even when you silence it, it doesn't silence the camera sound. Yeah, I like that. It's not a bad... Yeah, you should stand on business when you take a picture of somebody in public. You should let everyone know. Yeah, I did it. What are you going to do about it? Yeah. But the Ryder Cup's really good about that, you've got like 10,000 people from England

just chanting and singing songs. And then the second you step up to the ball, it's just pure silence. They know what to do there. That's got to be a fun environment to play in. The Ryder Cup is, I would say, probably the most fun tournament to be a part of. I remember the one we played over here at Whistlin stretch was just nuts. Um, you know, we don't have as fond of memories of Rome, but still hang out with the guys and, you know, making some, some pots and stuff like that is fun.

But the memories aren't as great in Rome as they were here in the States. Right. Yeah. Next time up, it's going to be fun though. Yeah. It's going to be nuts. It's going to be a key. You get, he got his captain too.

It's going to be, it's going to be pretty fun. Uh, pretty fun vibe. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Have you considered, I know some football coaches actually put this rule in place where they tell their players not to be intimate with their wives between the months of January and like April so they don't have a baby during the season. Have you considered planning out your future children based on when the Masters is going to be?

Not quite. Okay. Yeah, not quite. We it's pretty difficult to have babies. So whenever you know, the next one decides to show up, I think we'll be pretty grateful. Yeah, the the do you feel like you're a better golfer now that you're a father because I when I started having kids I was like I'm I'm a better podcaster. I'm podcasting for them. I gotta I gotta make sure I elevate my game for them. That's just me though Hey, do you feel that? you know, I think part of it has helped me mentally because like

Like you said golf can be tough and I think you know Sometimes I'm you know, we can all be our own harshest critic And so when it comes to like how I'm performing on the golf course, sometimes when I get off the course and after a tough day, I'll kind of look at myself and be like, well, what, you know, what would I, if this was Bennett, what would I tell them after the day? And so part of that has been really helpful.

And then, you know, when you get home, I mean, it's one thing for your parents and Meredith and everybody to say that they don't care what you shoot. But at the end of the day, it means a lot to me. But when you get home and you see Bennett and he just like sees you walk through the door, he's like, Hey man, what's up? Yeah. You truly do just kind of forget about everything else. Like it's, it's pretty amazing. Yeah. I'm, uh, when my kids come running to me and to give me a hug, I, I, I still remember like all the all the money I just lost gambling, but yeah, kind of say

I definitely don't let it. I bring that home. Perspective is, I feel like a really good thing for golfers because you have, you know, you can be your own worst enemy. You can get in your own head, but if you have like a well-rounded perspective in your personal life, then you are less likely to just psych yourself out and you're able to go out there and play well. Yeah. I mean, golf's tough in a sense too. I had a great year this year and I still lost a lot more than I want. Like golf is, you kind of live a little bit of a life of disappointment.

You don't really win that often. It's not like football where you're winning most of your games or a lot of the team sports where golf, like if you're struggling, you're just going to play bad. Nobody can pick you up out there. You're just going to have to live through it. And then even when you're playing great, you still don't win that often. So there's still a lot of disappointment that goes with it. Yeah.

And I will say the way you were saying about your son and what I have with my kids is like the bad days when you come home and like it kind of gives you that escape where you're like oh this is I just throw myself into this and it's I don't even think about the bad day I don't think about the the golf I don't think about you know whatever's going on it's like this kid is just fun to be in his world. Yeah yeah like you just you just want your kids to be happy and like I mean Ben is I mean he's so young right now like he learned how to smile in the last like month and a half, but like get home and you know, when he like finally finds where you are in the room and he's like,

Oh, there you are. And he just lets this big smile. It's like, just awesome. Like that was one thing I did not understand going into fatherhood, like how, how great something little feels like that. I mean, it's, it's, it's awesome. But by the way, we had your back when it was the whole, like, Scotty will leave the master's thing. You got done dirty by the media. They just took a quote that you would, you would hypothetically leave if your wife went into labor and they were like, Oh, she's going to go in labor like any minute now. You never said that. Yeah. No, and she wasn't going to, she was due at the end of that month. We were probably

more worried about her going too late and getting into the, like Bennett was going to come during the PGA and I was either going to have to like leave or not go to the PGA, something like that. Whereas he was due, I think two weeks after the master. So there's always a chance, but like Meredith hadn't been feeling any signs or anything like that. And yeah, it's like, you always got to create a story, right? I mean, yeah, there's, yeah, but there wasn't, there wasn't like a great chance that she, uh, she was going to go into labor. I'm not even really sure how airtight of a plane we had if she did go into labor. Yeah, we, we felt, we fell for the initial headline

cause we're big time, like read a headline. We don't really like to read like a lot of words guys. Uh, but then when we dug into it we're like no Scott he did nothing wrong this is the media just trying to make a story out of this like they they're pretending that he's about he basically is like oh I'm leaving the second it happens but you never said it was about to happen yeah I I mean I think I'm sure I alluded to that he was due at the end of the month and I think somebody asked me like would you leave if you're watching a labor like yes obviously obviously, right?

course I'm gonna leave like where we We talking about yeah, of course. I'm gonna leave like that's that's a once-in-a-lifetime experience And yeah, but at no point was anybody like well, when she really did. I'm just kind of like sitting there like Nobody ever asked I try to keep my life off the course as private as possible Like I I don't love being you know I feel like we live two separate lives like we have our life on the road or private as possible. Like I, I don't love being, you know, I feel like we live two separate lives. Like we have our life on the road where we travel and play golf and then we come home and like we have our friends from high school and college and they've been our friends for forever. And they, that's the same way they, they really don't care whether or not I won this week or not. Like we're going to be doing

the exact same thing this weekend. It's not going to change what we do. Yeah. That's a very smart way to live life. Did you get, did you get dad's strength immediately? Sadly not. No additional, no additional yardage on your drive. No additional yardage. I would say the first, you know, a couple months of Ben being alive, like when they're born, like you're so nervous holding him that you're going to like somehow break your child so that you like tense up and hold them. And it was actually really bad for my back. first, you know, couple of months. Now that I've relaxed a little bit, it's a little bit easier to hold it. But I, it was like clockwork or get home from a tournament and you know, two days in, I, you know, red would

pop out or something like that. Like, yeah, old them bouncing on it. Like just soft little golf injuries. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Dad's strength also is just your kids thinking you're strong. That's really like my, my middle child is three and she said that I could lift a school bus. And then my oldest was like, no, he couldn't. His arms would rip off. So I was like, all right, this is a fun discussion, but at least I have one kid who thinks I'm strong. So that's, that's the majority of dad's strength. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, all right. Well, Scotty, this has been awesome I I'm still just laughing about the fact that you like Stu Finers in your life like Stu Finers part of your life it's it's one of the funniest things ever yeah

that yeah when when Meredith said it yesterday I was kind of like there's definitely a weird feeling because I you know Stu's a bit of a loose cannon and I was kind of like my sweet wife even I have corrupted her now a little bit. Oh good. It's so good. But I do have one last question. It's a row back question. R H O B C K dot com promo code take 20% off your first purchase. Q zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, row back.com promo code take. Uh, it's actually not a question. I've been tasked. I have to say thank you on behalf of our boss, Dave, uh, who I don't know if you saw, but he basically like was neck and neck with you in, in, uh, you know, yearly earnings off of Scotty Scheffler.

It was like Scotty Shepard's making money for Scotty Shepard. Scotty Shepard's making money for Dave Portnoy all year. So he wanted to thank you and said he appreciates all your hard work for him. Well, of course. Glad I could help. I'm sure if I start losing money, it'll go in the opposite direction just as fast. But that's part of the life. I'm glad I could help him this year. Gambling is tough, so glad I could help him out a little bit. Yeah, you were probably the top earner at Barstool Sports this year for Dave. When he looks at the big board,

he's like, who brought in the most revenue? It's like Scottie Sheffler's on that list. He probably made more than your caddy. Yeah, he did. Yeah, he did. Yeah, I think he did, which is crazy. He just wrote it. He's a Scottie guy through and through.

Love it, love it. Appreciate the support. Yeah. Well, Scottie, thank you so much. Uh, anytime you're in town, yeah, we'd love to listen to open invite. If you ever want to watch the live, uh, parcel sports advisors, we have a simulator here. We get on that. You could teach us some things. So we appreciate it, man. This was so much fun and, uh, congrats again. Incredible year. Thanks. Appreciate it. Thank you all for having me on. It was

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Video, restrictions apply, see Amazon.com slash Amazon Prime for details. And now, here's Thomas Hammack. Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest. He is head coach of the Northern Illinois Huskies off their big win in South Bend on Saturday. Coach Thomas Hammack. Coach, first of all, congratulations. Incredible game. Incredible story. How are you feeling right now? I want to say great job with your schedule having a bye week after this. But how are the vibes? Are you guys still kind of processing everything that happened on Saturday? No, still a lot of positive vibes. I'm certainly excited. We got a bye week. We get a chance to lock them back in on the practice field.

But the kids are excited. There's a lot of positive momentum for our program. And I'm anxious to see how we can use this to catapult us into a higher level. Yeah. It was awesome seeing you guys on Saturday. It was one of those stories where I feel like most of the country, if not all the country, besides Notre Dame fans, we're rooting for you guys super, super hard. And it was cool to see after the game, you got kind of emotional in the interview on the

sidelines, which is completely understandable. I got emotional watching you get emotional. Was that something that just hit you like a wave after the whistle was over? Or did it take until you go about your business, shake hands, and then you start talking on the sidelines to a reporter and then it just comes over you all at once? When did that strong, strong emotional pull take over? Well, it was such a competitive game back and forth

that you never really had a moment to relax and understand what was happening. And then when we blocked that kick, the emotion was shock, elation. I couldn't believe it. Our kids believed. They stayed in the fight or they continued to work. I told them all week, we didn't need luck. And that wasn't a lucky win. I thought that was a win where we showed, you know, a level of physicality that we were able to match that team. Yeah, so I would make a terrible coach

because I'd freak out at the first second of something bad going on. I know you've said afterwards that you gave the message to them that they can win this game and you believed it, but trust tree, the game starts, Notre Dame goes right down the field, score seven points. You get the kickoff, kind of a messed up kickoff. You start at your own two. Tell me, was there a little part of you being like, ah, maybe we can't do this? You know, I think that's natural, right?

We played Michigan in 2021 and got the brakes beat off of us and came back and won a championship. So when that ball hit the ground, you know, I started thinking about what type of message will I give to these guys if it doesn't go our way. But we stayed in the fight. We ate that touchdown by interior Brown, 83 yard pitch and catch that that settled us down. And then we was able to continue to, to move

forward from that point. Yeah. Because it is when you have these games where it's like a Mac team or G five team going up against a power five team. Uh, it is like, you know, the beginning of the game is really important because you want to have your guys believe that they can do it. And it couldn't have started worse for you in that sense. And, and still the guys stayed in it and fought. Yeah, no, we talked about handling the environment early and we didn't do a good job early in that game. And so in a game like that, uh, momentum, the crowd, you know, if they would have went up 14, nothing, it would have been hard to come back. But we recovered the crowd, you know, if they would have went up 14 nothing, it would have been hard to come back. But we recovered the ball, got into the two yard line, was able to have a 98 yard drive.

And then from that point, it became who's going to want it the most. And obviously we did at the end. Yeah. Yeah, go ahead. I was just going to say when you were playing against a team like Michigan or against Notre Dame, was your message kind of the same going into both of those games? Did you see something from Michigan that you saw at Notre Dame or was it completely opposite? Do you always say we can beat these teams when you go up against a powerhouse like that? No, the message was definitely not the same. And I actually got myself in trouble with our football team when we played Michigan. When we played Michigan,

I thought it was the best team I've seen in college football at that point. And after they beat us pretty good, after the game, I said they built a team that beat Ohio State. And they haven't lost to Ohio State since. That team was different from a physicality standpoint, from an offensive line, the tight end, a D line. And I really felt, you know, it was not a good matchup for us. Uh, whereas that was three years ago, we've had three years to mature and grow into a more complete football team. And so when we walked into Notre Dame, even though they were a really good football team, I thought we matched up well, in the trenches, which normally makes the

biggest difference in those type of games. Yeah. And the message after, like PFT said, the wave of emotion, but I thought what you said too was so cool because college football has changed and it's, you know, you have to admit that it's changed the NIL, the transfer portal and your message about, you know, family and keeping these guys here. I know you guys lost a few guys to the transfer portal, but what kind of like going forward, having a win like this, it has to be huge for your program, knowing that like you have that message and you could see it on the field and people are

watching that game. Like we're different here, right? No, you wouldn't believe how many, uh, you know, young people have been in my, my DMs talking about, I want to come play for you. It's almost like that Jerry Maguire moment when he hugs them, you know, when Rod had, he was his only client and he hugged them when he made good plays at the end and then all the other players started thinking, why can't I have a relationship with my agent like that? And so that's been the moment since that game. There's a lot of people who want to come play for us. Unfortunately, we don't have many spots left.

But I think we can build upon genuine relationships, because there's still a lot of people that want that. Yeah, and it's just such a cool story. And it really is like what we love about college football shown through on a Saturday. Has it set in that it's weird to say, but that was the biggest win in Northern Illinois history. I mean, I know you guys beat Alabama in 2003, Jordan Lynch finishing third Heisman, you know, Mac championships, but is that weird to have that happen and be like, wait, that was the number one win in NIU history and you're an NIU lifer? Well, you know, I went to a Catholic school in Fort Wayne, Indiana. So I am well aware

of everything about Notre Dame, you know, from all of my buddies being big, huge Notre Dame fans to watching them growing up. So I was aware of what a win against them would mean. And just to find a way to get it done. How many times have you been in games or seen games like that where the guy jumped over our safety and the game changes, right? But we were able to stand the fight and find a way to make a couple of plays at the end to give ourselves a chance to win. Yeah. Did you have any friends and family members that were upset with you for beating Notre Dame?

You know what? All of my, all of my buddies and family, although they are Notre Dame fans, they said for one day they were rooting hard for the Huskies. So that was, you know, meant a lot to me. I love it. They probably said that afterwards just because they were like, yeah, I was totally rooting for you the whole time, coach. You know damn well during the game there were come on Irish. Yeah. Make this 61. I agree. I'm sure they were rooting for them when it turned the other way. They forget they couldn't lose either way. Yeah. So your pregame speech, I have a question about that. Uh, you said rocket Ishmael's not walking through that door. There's no chance a room full of 18 to 22 year olds knew who you were talking about

Did you was there a moment like I needed I probably should have done a different name here Yeah, you know when you when you work on those speeches you get yourself all prepared all week And you like I'm gonna really get them this week, you know, and so I walk in there and I'm like, hey man rocket Ishmael is not running through that tunnel. And to me, Rocket Ismail was one of the best college football players in college football history. And they kind of looked at me like, I'm not understanding what you're saying.

And so then I had to give a couple more names so they can, you know, people that played in Notre Dame that's had tremendous careers. So I gave Joe Montana, you know, everybody knows Joe Montana, Jerome, betters, Ricky Waters. Uh, but, uh, you know, in my mind, I thought it was going to go a different direction because I have tremendous amount of respect for rocket is no, that's perfect.

Did you think at any point in your pregame speech to be like, Hey guys, I know this is Notre Dame, but we've been, you know, we've gone to Kalamazoo on a Tuesday night with 30 degrees and sideways snow. Like there's Maxians tough. You guys, you guys like South bend is something, but you, you have to go to, you know, play ball state when it's, when the wind is whipping in there's like 20 people in this crowd that's tough too. No those are tough moments because you know what it takes a lot more to get them excited to play but Notre Dame had a tremendous atmosphere a lot of fans you know those guys get up for those type of moments especially on national TV so but I understand your point. Yeah. Yeah. Now you got the tough job of making sure you don't eat the rat poison because everyone's saying really nice things about you, right? Like you guys,

you guys are America's sweethearts right now. And I'm sure that all your players, they, they enjoyed themselves after the win as well. They should. It's a massive, massive thing, but now you almost have to like bring them back down to earth. Be like, we got the rest of the season ahead of us. Yeah. I think our players know me well enough now they have recruited all of them. They understand what I demand that practice what I expect the standards and expectations. So

when we get on the practice field tomorrow morning, they understand full pads, it's gonna be physical like a training camp practice. And we're going to get better on the practice field. And those are the things that's going to help us continue to stay grounded. Yeah. So I saw that you offered to help out Marcus Freeman after the game. Like, was that right after the game where you said, coach, if there's anything we can do to help you guys for the rest of the season, if you want any of the stuff that we saw on tape that we took advantage of, you're happy to help him. I feel like that's an unusual thing for a coach to offer to an opponent that they just beat.

Do you think he's going to take you up on that? Yeah, I mean, he has taken me up on it. And we've talked on the phone a couple of times and exchanged text messages. It was my first time meeting him. Obviously, I have a lot of respect for him as a head coach. I want him to do well, you know, for obvious reasons. And you know, just because we competed don't mean we can't help each other or try to assist each other to make each other better. You know, sometimes when you become a head coach,

you don't have many people you can really rely upon because nobody's going through what you're going through. And I understand, I don't understand what he's going through, but I have an idea of some of the things he's going through. And if I can help him and help him achieve the type of things he want to achieve, that's what it's about. You know, paying it forward. They're never going to play us again. So we will never be a common opponent. And, you know, I want him to, I want to see him win a national championship. He's got a program that can win a national championship. That's very cool.

Plus, the more games they win, if they do make it to the playoff eventually and they do win a national championship, then you can just say, we're actually the national champions because we beat the national champion. Yeah. Also- No, I want them to win. I want them to win a lot of games. Trust me.

Yeah. Also, don't sell yourself short. I mean, G5 gets a spot in the in the playoff. You could see Notre Dame again They you don't know. Yeah What if you give him all this advice? Yeah uses it to beat you. Come on Hey, listen, we'll we'll we'll go over that bridge when it happens All right, but but but certainly I just wanted to you know, be a resource for him. That's fair I have another question about a different coach. You were roommates with PJ Fleck at NIU. Yes Was there ever a moment where you're like, hey PJ just chill out man. Like I don't need any more motivational sayings like I'm good You know, I've known him a long time and he understands who I am and what I'm about

and so He has a persona, um, you know, that, you know, has worked really well for him, but when he comes around me, he understands, you know, listen, I'm Thomas and you PJ and we gon, you know, we're going to address each other as such, you know, like, you know, like we know each other, sometimes, sometimes he called me coach hammock. I said, don't do that. Yeah. You know, we're not going, we're not going to play like we know it. Yeah, some friends some sometime. He called me coach hammock I said don't do that. Yeah, you know, we're not gonna we're not gonna play that type of game yeah, and we are we are great friends and You know, it was exciting that he was able to you know share that type of message and the pride that he has for NIU

Yeah, PJ is a friend of our show to say it's I mean he he's got the motivational sayings gets everyone pumped up I have one last question for you. It's, it's not about NIU, but I'm just curious because I'm a Wisconsin Badger and you were a coach there to two different stints. Uh, you were the running backs coach though, with a room of Melvin Gordon, Monte ball and James white. What was that like? Just being like, look at the, like the town, Melvin Gordon, I think his first year didn't even get many carries because and he ended up being you know whatever second all-time or third all-time in a single season

rushing what was it like being in that room with those guys well first of all I'm glad the transfer Porter wasn't around when I was coaching those guys because there was not a chance in hell that you can keep all three of those guys in your program. But they were highly, highly competitive. You know, it was fun to coach. If one guy did something, the other guy tried to do more. I actually have James White on my staff now. He's working for us and doing a great job. But all three of those guys were unique in their own way. We also had two fullbacks that got drafted, uh, Brady Ewing and, um, uh, what, uh, you know, Derek, why? So we had five guys in our room that all got drafted, uh, you know, off the same.

Uh, approach and they were very professional in college and, uh, what a, what a great, it was a great time to be coaching those guys. Yeah. And you must have, I mean, as a running back yourself and a running back coach, that big 10 championship game against Nebraska must've been like, that's the peak of running back. That's you can't do better than that. That was the most fun time I've had. Well, hold on second most from Saturday. Yeah. But you know, the roll up 500 and something yards on the basket.

And the thing about it, we played them early in the year at their place and lost by three, and so they thought they had a real good tendency on how we would block in a jet sweep. Uh, and so we changed some things up during the week and, you know, all, I think Melvin had over 200 yards Monty had over 200 yards and James had 150 yards. So Those three guys won us the championship. Who's used those lines? Who's that linebacker on? Was it will Compton? Yeah, that was a linebacker on Nebraska when you were when you're watching film getting ready for that game

You were like I'm gonna run that guy over. We're just gonna run right at him No, he was a he was a heck of a player in college he would he would hit you hard in your face but we ran around him we got the ball to the perimeter yeah so he wasn't as involved. Hard hitting but maybe not the fastest guy in the world. Yeah yeah good game plan. Yeah yeah great game plan. So coach I had one question actually about your fullback. Is it Brock? Is it lamp? Lampy Brock Lampy Brock Lampy that dude was knocking people over left and right So we do an annual award here on the show that gets handed out to the nation's top Collegiate fullback and I think we're putting them on the watch list as a running back with your running back background

How how nice is it to have a dude like that that can take two guys out of a play at once? And I think we're putting them on the watch list as a running back with your running back background. How, how nice is it to have a dude like that that can take two guys out of a play at once? Listen, he's so valuable for our offense and getting our run game going. He does a lot of the dirty work that people don't see that don't show up in the stats. But are, are very noticeable to the coaching staff and we wouldn't be able to run the ball the way we like to run the ball without a guy like him.

So to have him on your watch list, I can't think of very many guys in the country that's gonna be better. I love it. Yeah, he's very high up there. That was almost, I almost give him credit for a fullback win, but we don't do that. It was a great team win.

Yeah. Well, coach, thank you so much for your time. Best of luck rest of the season. Might have to get out to a game. I mean, I love matching more than anything. So, uh, we appreciate it. And, uh, yeah, go, go get in the playoffs. I need a Mac team in the playoffs. That'd be great. Better. Thank you. And go Huskies. Yes. Go Huskies. Go Huskies. Thanks coach. Coach Hammock was brought to you by our very, very good friends over at Cresco labs. That's right.

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Chidora's song plays after his touchdowns and someone else had reported it. And then he sent me a link of the North Dakota State game. It says, go to 1350 and turn your sound up. It plays after the touchdown. Does it play the fight song first? Stand by. Can we get a pinky bet before the start of week two for Panthers, Giants, and maybe throwing Washington? That's a little premature. Pinky. Huh? What pinky bet? I think he's asking for you. Once your pinky team, maybe. Oh no, my pinky team comes after week two, but those are three bad teams. Yeah, those are...

Those would not be... They have to be teams that are reasonably, you could see winning the Super Bowl. Not Washington... No, I told you we're not thinking super right now. Yeah. We're one week at a time. Giant, Stone, Command, Eric, Panthers, definitely not.

Bengals? Bengals are making me nervous because they're playing the Chiefs, and I don't want to do that because they could definitely win the Super Bowl I have to feel it too. It's not I'm not gonna just pick a team It's a team that I'm confidently saying will not win the Super Bowl I think the Bengals could go oh and two and still win the Super Bowl at the Falcons Falcons could be on that list people had some buzz about the Falcons. Yeah, that's Jets could be on that list

The one scary one that has come in my head. Packers. You couldn't do that. I couldn't do that. Imagine if the Packers won the Super Bowl and I also had to cut my the tip of my pinky off. It would make you feel better, maybe. So at least this is my pain. Yeah. For the Jets, Aaron Rogers, the boogeyman would also be. He doesn't hurt me anymore. It was not when he

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can't do the Jets because you're you're inviting the boogeyman back in that's true You're like I miss you boogeyman. Yeah, that's true What are good old interviews or shows that newer listeners should give a listen to or a personal favorite? Oh, that's a good question Someone asked me this the other day. I I think The it was the funniest when it happened and it still holds up is the the Martin Shkreli interview yeah was so funny Shreli was good Because it was so ridiculous like what did you got actually he did I think I told him I would fuck his mom So ridiculous yeah, Gary Busey is another one that was a phrase on as a wild one very slept on

Stone cold dog bounty hunter. I he hit me up we got He hit me up was like I don't think I've DM'd him in six years He hit me up yesterday out of the blue to find the poop eating guy No, he was like we got a it was like a poster I think it was maybe a missing kid or something that he's looking for and he He was like hey your last message went to spam. Hope you're well and I was like, what do you need for me dog? And then he sent me a number. He's like hit this person up. We'll coordinate a three-way call So I might be back on the dog

I might I might be back part of the tone that you'll help him find the kid. If he helps you find the guy that said he'd eat poop out of solo cup. Yeah, I mean, this is if my number gets called them, I'm their dog. But uh, who else other ones? Not not Kareem. I actually the first time was the only time, but it was the first grit week. And we swung through Youngstown to interview Jim Tressel. Jim Tressel was very interesting. Jim Tressel I thought was a good interview. Yeah. I think any of the ones that we've had on multiple times, if you go back to the first one, they're always great. The Harbaugh first one, Joe Buck first one.

Jerry O'Connell first one was probably pretty good. Yeah. Any of those are really fun because it's like you can see the beginning of the relationship and it- John Cena first one, great. John Cena first one, great. Yeah. Yeah. John Cena first one great John Cena first was great yeah yeah John Cena first one great one sounds so good hey guys not an FAQ but more looking for advice for my boyfriend who works for a famous politician who has recently

covered her under heat for using songs to walk out to it without getting them cleared first do you think that he should tell the person he works for to keep doing it and keep playing the song, using the song, or hold off until the legal team's figured out? Everyone really loves a song he comes out to. That's a good question. So I guess I'm not a legal expert, but from what I know about copyrights and songs, if you're using somebody else's song, even if it might not even be the person who wrote it, but sometimes publishing companies own the

rights to the song that somebody else wrote. If the publishing company finds out that you're using a song that is their property, then they will sometimes engage with you and you don't know what your liability is. And then you have to wait for all the dust to settle after the fact. And if you've been using it for a while, then you want to make sure that you're not giving them anything else to talk to you about when they're talking about all the other times that you've done it. Also, I'm just assuming this is Trump. And Trump's a guy who he talks about everything. So if he's not talking about this there's probably a reason so

You like people probably ask him. Yeah, why aren't you addressing this? It's like he would address it if he could that's a good point You probably can't or he would find some way to like subtly address right without talking about right which the subtlety Maybe not but yeah, maybe not that yeah Some people might think it's subtle Some people that would listen to it would be very confused and not understand what he's talking about. But some people would understand the subtle. And those people that would get it. Right. He would appreciate it. And if I know Trump like I know Trump, I know he would work hard to figure out a way to make it work. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. So my no work right now. But he's probably not gonna be able to answer it. And he'd probably just say like, bear with me. Yeah. I'm on your side. Yeah.

They're only coming after me because I'm standing in front of you. Yeah. That's what he would say. I didn't get shot. Yeah. He didn't or did? He said didn't. Did? Oh, did he?

You think he didn't? No. What? His ear is fully recovered. Yeah. His ear just spontaneously bleeding? Yeah, no, he did not get shot. Okay. Alright, that's a take.

He did not. Okay, I said that's a take. I don't agree with it, but it's a take. Hank, can we unpack this for a little bit? Yes. Somebody died. True. They got shot in the head.

Somebody... Are you just finding this? Unfortunately, no. No, I know, I know, I know. Okay. And then his ear was bleeding and Then there's a picture of the bullet going past the back of his head and then the FBI said that he got shot Have you seen pictures of his ears a close-up of his ear currently Hanks, right? They did regenerate pretty quickly, but your ears have a lot of blood flow. They regenerate

Does not have it? No, that's that. That actually is, that actually is maybe like I didn't dig too deep into it. I saw it's like a Vander Holyfields here has not regenerate. Trump is totally, I think there's a difference between regenerate and healing. It's not like a lizard's tail where if you pulled my ear off right now, I'd come in in a week and have an ear that wouldn't even be talking about it more. You don't think I talked about it. He's been talking about I also think he's like I mean if you get if you come that close to dying, it's got to fuck you up bad bad Yeah, I don't care who you are. It's got to fuck you up. All right, maybe you got shot

I don't know why I even said that last epic. I like it. Yeah took a shot at a take. It's important It's important to have a take this part of my take take your shot Last one I feel like this is it Oh Last one I guess out of the last ones Long time listener first time texter with the Patriots big upset on Sunday's meets summer of Hank is still going Oh summer technically isn't over No, I do not think the summer Hank is still going because based on Hank's body language on Sunday after the Patriots won

He wish he was golfing Yeah, haha, you can't deny that you did not care yeah You can't deny Sundays were tough Sundays and Fridays have hit hard. That is a sign Our Friday's hitting hard because I'm here later on Fridays I was like I was like every Friday or golfing every that was the yeah, it was yeah my yak Fridays Those are over because I have to be here later on Friday And then Sunday also was like Friday like 1 o'clock Sunday at 1 o'clock Those are pretty much every day every weekend of the summer you have the Friday scaries. Yeah, what do you do on Fridays now?

to wait for advisors Damnit damnit damnit. You do your job. I know it's fun but yeah, I know I think the summer hanks over because he Summer Hank means that Hank is doing whatever he wants to do and living his best life He was not living his best I think the official conclusion of summer of Hank was when he lost Mount Rushmore when he lost the duel. That was the end of it because now you've got this big, big dark rain cloud that's hanging over the back of

your head. And you're gonna be thinking about the nine daughters and the nine daughters. You have to get it. Although yeah, yeah. I'm not getting a nine daughter. Yeah, you are Not with that attitude. You aren't just do it Come on Hank. Just do it Hank you know watch Kent State, Tennessee on Saturday fuck no, I Think you're not gonna get your TV situation probably out. Yes being yeah, you're gonna do that on purpose All right. good show boys. Numbers, 23. 56. 8. Come on memes. 9. Someone did say, and it was a very mean thing to say, that

PFT and memes have the same number of lottery ball wins as their teams have wins. That is a very mean thing to say. That was a very mean thing to say. I said no, no, no, don't say that. Yeah, thank you. I appreciate that. I told that person you're a bad person. I don't even care.

Wozup? Pug, say it again. 97. 8. It's going to be 8. Why would I care? I'm going to get it right now. 12.

12. Did you guess 12 recently? No. I don't think so. 12 gonna get it right now. 12! 12, did you guys 12 recently? No, I don't think so. 12, I think it's the second timer in the past couple weeks. Memes are rooting for you.

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