Pardon My Take - WWE Champ The Miz + Guest Host Tryout with TE George Kittle

Episode Date: April 5, 2019

PFT is about to board a 16 hour flight to Hong Kong with no WiFi but he's totally not freaking out. Final Four preview as Hank and Big Cat get ready for their trip to Minneapolis. (2:00-12:57) Former WWE Champ The Miz joins the show to talk about his career, being on Real World, fighting the Undertaker and an all time Vince McMahon story. (16:06-40:50) Segments include respect the stripes, (42:48-45:07) Fyre Fest of the week - the AAF, (45:08-50:55) Big Cat asks a very important question, (50:56-56:06) FAQ's (56:07-1:05:06) and an emergency guest host tryout in case PFT dies on his flight, 49ers TE George Kittle(1:05:07-1:13:07).You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

Hey, pardon my take listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen, ad-free, on Amazon Music. On today's part of my take, we have The Miz, wrestling phenom, former WWE Champion, also former Real World cast member. Fun interview with him. He also told an awesome Vince McMahon story. We have PFT on his way to Hong Kong.

I'm going to try out a new co-host in case his plane goes down. And we have FAQs because it's Friday, little Final Four preview as well. Before we get to all that, it's time to talk about the cash card from the Cash App, the number one finance app in the App Store. For a reason, the Cash Card is the most powerful debit card in the world. And the only debit card with boosts a money-saving feature you can't get anywhere else because Cash App invented it. Just select a boost in your Cash App, swipe the Cash Card and save 10% or more at Whole

Food, Shake Shack, Chipotle, Taco Bell, Chick-fil-A, Domino's, and Coffee Shops. Want to go organic without paying for it? Save 10% on every bag of groceries. With the Whole Foods boost, it's not hard to spend $50 at Whole Foods, but it's easy to save $5 if you do. The Coffee Shop boost takes a dollar off at any coffee shop, including Dunkin' in Starbucks by 200 cups a year. Save $200.

It's that simple. Become a part of the greatest rewards program ever and get boosted. Download the Cash App from the App Store or Google Play and order the Cash Card today. You're not an award-winning listener unless you do, just go download it. Okay, let's go! Welcome to Part of My Take, presented by Cash App. Our new presenting sponsor today is Friday, April 5th, and if you're listening to this right now, which you are because you're hearing my voice, PFT is over the Pacific Ocean with

no Wi-Fi like a fucking idiot. Yeah, that's true. Talk to yourself right now. This is future you're listening to. Yo, what's up, PFT? You're chilling on the plane? You can't download it because you don't have Wi-Fi. No, I'm going to download it.

We're going to release it before I get on the plane, so I'll have it to listen to when I... No, probably not. Yo, what's up, future PFT? That flight was a breeze, no problem. You're in Hong Kong right now, so you're in the future. So actually, this is me from the future talking to you in the future. What's up?

You want to go get a beer? PFT is going to Hong Kong for a rugby tournament, and he just found out maybe 20 minutes ago that he has no Wi-Fi on his 16-hour flight. That's true. 16-hour. Hank and I, if you're listening to this, we're in Minneapolis right now. We've flown three hours first class. No big deal.

16... What? Was it first class? Yeah, I mean, it was pretty cheap. Real men of the people. It was really cheap. They got addicted to it first class. It was pretty cheap.

I don't hate it. It was pretty cheap. It was like $200. I don't even like it. It just seems kind of snobby. That's weird, because you've been begging our sales team to sell everything under the sun. You're like, I will sell the rights to myself just so I don't have to sit in this seat.

I didn't want to sit in coach's coach. I wanted to sit in coach's son, which is like the economy plus. So that's all I wanted. That's all I really needed out of this trip. Either way, you're fucked. Either way, I'm fucked. The problem with sitting in first class, very underrated problem, is when the plane lands in docks, you only have like five seconds to get off the plane.

It's terrible when it lands. I'm never ready. Yeah. So 16 hour flight to Hong Kong. I actually don't know, like I don't know what you would do for 16 hours. Like you're going to know Wi-Fi. So, so finding out no Wi-Fi, what are the worst things that could happen while you're on a flight?

By the way, he has to take a 16 hour flight back with no Wi-Fi. What are the worst things that could happen while you're on this flight that would you would wait, you would turn on your phone in Hong Kong and be like, I cannot believe I missed this. Oh my God. Okay. So very worst possible outcomes would be, I would say, if you know, honestly, if Jesus came back while I was in the air over the Pacific, I wouldn't know until Friday night.

Well, I wrote, I wrote down a few. That's close to what I have. I have Joe Flacco retires. Well, he's not because he's going to win a Super Bowl with those new passers- But imagine if, imagine if he does retire while you're on the plane. Not happening. I already talked to him. If he dies.

Yeah. That'd be tough. Yeah. That would be tough. I got to admit that would be hard. Hitler's found in South America. Fuck. If I miss it, we're getting found in South America.

You know what? I'm, I'm going to tell the pilot, you take off again, we're flying to South America and I'm going to kick his ass. Yeah. Do you think the pilot has Wi-Fi? No. Oh man. So that's, it's weird as like going back through time, what do we do before 1995 without

the internet? Yeah. You're going to have to take a shit on this plane. I'm going to take several shifts on this plane. That's going to be most of the way that I'm going to pass the time, I think is just taking shits. So yeah. So we're recording this early because PFT is going to Hong Kong, 16 hour flight.

I didn't mean, did I mention it was 16 hours? Yeah. Why are you going to Hong Kong? And back also. He also, a quick side story is we were in the, we were in Indianapolis at the combine and there was a rugby tournament in Las Vegas and PFT was debating whether to go or not and he said, no, I don't want to go, it's too long of a trip. Yeah.

But this is a new thing. It's a 16 hour flight. It's a, there's a big difference between doing something that's four hours away and 16 hours away. 16 hours is almost like. Yes. 16 hours is almost like, okay, this is a bad fucking decision. And I kind of lean into it.

If it's four hours away, it's like, okay, that's kind of a pain in the ass. This one, it's like, I'll be honest. So on Sunday, I played rugby for the first time in like three years and I got on this show and just worked myself into a lather. I'm a big lather guy and I started talking about the tournament and started that stone started rolling downhill, started gather momentum. And next thing you know, it's like Wednesday morning and I'm buying a ticket to Hong Kong. Yeah.

So 16 hours, that's one way, 16 hours back, no Wi-Fi, 16 hours. We will do a Skype show on Sunday night, we're 16 hours away. I downloaded all the all 22 from this year. So I might grind some tape. There we go. I'm going to blog. You're going to, you're going to pull that up for one second and then just falls asleep. I'm going to blog.

Yeah. So I've got, I've got my notes app on the computer. I can't publish anything. But when I land, I guess it'll be six o'clock in the morning on Friday, I'll just put out like four blogs at once. Yeah. I'll do a running diary. Yes.

Of my trip. And just spit it all out at once. So you'll be in Hong Kong. We'll be in Minneapolis. The final four is still going on. It is actually happening even though everyone kind of forgot it. It's happening because Duke's not in it. Hank, you've had a little bit of the Duke blues, the Duke blues all week where you're like,

I actually caught a little of it too. I was like, man, I kind of wish Duke was in this just because I hate them so much and I'd love to see them lose. But we do have the final four. We have, let's do, let's talk about it real quick. We have the first game on Saturday is going to be Auburn versus Virginia, Bruce Pearl and his sweaty mess. Also Bruce Pearl, he is, he is proving yet again that it is very bad in life to have

any type of like national success because then everyone starts talking about how big of a scumbag you are again. I don't think he's a scumbag though. Well, people start talking about your scumbag again. All the articles start getting written again, like just stay in that sweet 16 elite eight and no one's going to talk about it. Now that you're in the final four, everyone's going to talk about Bruce Pearl again. That's a good point.

It's like the Indians logo. Yeah. Yeah. Just in life, if you just kind of float in the middle, you'll get by with a lot more shit than if you do anything incredible. So yeah, Bruce Pearl, I like Bruce. I think that they're going to get beat by UVA. By a lot, I think.

By a lot. I think that UVA is a very, very, very, very, very good team with a fan base that I really don't want to see win the national championship, but I think they're a much better team. So I think it's going to be UVA. Wait, hold on. Yeah. Do you pick it? The under.

Okay. Minus five and a half. You're taking UVA. I'm taking UVA and I'm taking the under. I'm taking the over and UVA because in my brain, I'm like, hey, if you can't lose both. That makes no sense. Arbitrage. You could easily lose both.

Easily lose both. Yeah. I'm like, well, if Auburn keeps it close, it's probably going over. It sounds like your balls are making a handshake deal with your brain. Yeah, but you can win both. You can't lose both. Yeah. It's actually a full gentleman's agreement.

It's actually, I just broke Vegas. I can't lose. There you go. There you go. But I can win both. And so we're in agreement with Virginia. Hey, do you have any thoughts on the game? You taking Virginia?

ACC pride? The War Eagles? Do you root for the ACC now that Duke's out? No. You're a big ACC guy? No. You love AC. Nope.

I don't like why I don't like certain colleges because I'm sure it seems very random which ones I don't like. It's all the ones that didn't let me in. Okay. Those are the ones that I hate. Same. So it's like 95% of the schools? Yeah, every school.

Yeah. Every school in America. Yeah. Same with Hanks. You hate everyone. Go Trump University. Except for the small New Hampshire schools. Yeah.

Southern New Hampshire. Hanks is still cool. Well, you almost got into Duke. Yeah. How many GPA points? Three. Three. Just three.

You cover the spread. Yeah. A couple of tests here. A couple of tests there. A couple of years. Yeah. Academic improvement. Whatever.

I'm the hair. All right. The next game we have Texas Tech versus Michigan State. Michigan State is minus two and a half, overrunners 132 and a half. These games stink. Yeah. These games stink. Thank you for saying that.

I think these games stink. I actually do think the Michigan State Texas Tech game is going to be very good. Like high, like high, it's going to be played very well. Both these teams are very efficient on both sides and it's going to be like crisp. It's going to be one of those crisp games. There's a pro tip for everybody out there that might not be interested in Michigan State versus Texas Tech. Just double your normal amount that you bet on games and boom, you're interested.

There's preseason tournaments in Maui that are more exciting than these two games. Yeah. Because coaches are wearing the Tommy Bahamas shirts. You're such a blue blood snob. It gets people excited. No, I agree. I agree. It's definitely, it's taking a little luster out of it.

But we, it's still sports, still games you can bet on. It seems like you can go to. Good weekend to get out of the country. As you can see, I had to be on a flight for 16 hours, no Wi-Fi. Oh, by the way, so I packed this morning here, PFT's rules for packing. Ready? Okay. If you're going on a vacation or this isn't a vacation, it's a working trip.

But if you're leaving town, hey, oh, listen to Hank coming at me for vacations, Mr. Pot Kettle Black. You just look at, on your Google phone, you look on, or on the Apple weather app. Okay. Right? You look on the weather app, you see what temperature it's going to be for the first day you're going to be there, and you just assume that's the temperature for the entire time that you're there, and you only pack clothes according to that day.

I think that's fair. That's what I do. And then I just never. Well, you're really, you're only going to be there for two days. So. Two and a half days. Does that half day count, so there's a flight, and then a, you land at Friday night, and then you're, you're there Saturday, Sunday, and you have to leave Monday.

Yeah. Yeah, leave Monday morning. Wow. That's. So are you going to be in air longer than you're in Hong Kong? No, I did the math on that. Close? Close.

No. You're going to have Wi-Fi less than you have Wi-Fi. Yeah, you're going to have half of your, half of your next four days are going to be Wi-Fi less. You know what? This is my Walden. This is my Walden pond. I'm Henry Thoreau.

Again, you're going to just probably take a sleeping pill. I'm just going to jerk off. Yeah. Oh. You say you're going to jerk off on a plane? Yeah. Okay. So probably not.

What's the, what's the flight number there? Probably not. Just to get a little. Mile high club. Eyes on that. Yeah. Yeah. I love Michigan State in this game.

I love, mostly because I need Michigan State to be in the final to get the juices flowing again. Because Texas Tech, Virginia will be a final that yikes, yikes. I'm going to go with Texas Tech. Okay. Based on? Based on Tom Esso being overrated. There you go.

So I'm taking Texas Tech. Also their defense is really, really good. Yes. I've only admittedly, I've watched them, I watched one of their tournament game or one of their conference tournament games and then I've watched them every game in the NCAA tournament and their defense is fucking awesome. Ball hawks. Hank, what do you got in this game?

Texas Tech. We're going to be at it. So we're going to have to gamble on it. I'll be probably going to bet both overs and then I'm going to realize that they're, they're playing basketball in a football stadium and no one can see the basket. I'm taking the five minutes in and that's going to suck, but I'm still going to do it. I'm, I'm not taking the over.

I'm done saying that I'm taking the under. Yeah. Because it sounds like an asshole. Right. I'm taking the dollar bill from billions. I am not uncertain that I'm taking the under. Yes. There you go.

All right. Let's do our interview with the Miz, actually a very, very fun interview, very like crazy story from Vince McMahon, about Vince McMahon from the Miz. Great talker. Before we get to our interview, a quick word from our sponsor, Body Armor. It's the new official sports drink of the NCAA and March Madness. I've been drinking it all March. I've been drinking it for the last like two years, wherever the body armor came out and

it became a big thing. I was on it. Strawberry bananas, my absolute favorite. We, our brackets have been busted, but body armor is still there. It's old faithful. So make sure you go check out Body Armor. You can buy it in any store. It's everywhere now.

Kobe invested in Body Armor. They have a new commercial, I think, with a bunch of cool athletes and you know that when I'm losing all my money gambling, I'm drinking Body Armor to stay alive. So it's, it's literally the nectar of God, the sustenance of life. Body Armor is the official sports drink of NCAA and March Madness. So make sure you get stocked up on the couch with my Body Armor, getting ready for the final four. It seriously is great too.

A little, maybe a little Sunday morning when you wake up, you grab, you grab that Body Armor, you take a little sip, you feel good again. So go check it out right now, Body Armor. Get that strawberry banana or also brought to you by PFT's favorite restaurant in the entire world. Yeah. That's right. It's Buffalo Wildlings.

Listen, Buffalo Wildlings, they sent me this copy and it's March Madness. So, but March Madness is kind of over, right? Kind of. This is April. We sleep in May. This is April. We sleep in May, but I'm going to just do a little, I'm going to do a little improvisation here and remind you that coming up right now, we have the Masters.

We have NBA playoffs. We have Stanley Cup playoffs. We have Kentucky Derby. We have baseball every single day and the best place to watch all of these sports. Yeah. That's right. Buffalo Wildlings. Buffalo Wildlings.

You get wings. You get beers. They got great queso. I love the mini-corn dogs. There's a billion TVs. It is literally heaven for sports fans like you who are listening to it right now. And we have a little like chef selection from PFT. What's your favorite wing?

I like the spicy garlic. You know I like the spicy garlic. That is literally, you just got it from, he's like a, what, what, Samoyed for wings. Buffalo Monday. Could you imagine actually if that was your job? Yeah, I could be. You came out to the, to the, and you're like, all right, so what, what would you be drinking tonight?

Oh, you're going to be having a Bud Light. Oh, it's a Bud Light. That pair is nicely with our Blazin. Yeah. Oh, so I would compliment that with a little blue cheese and a shot of Jagermeister. Yeah. A little mini-corn dog. Very nice.

Boom. And can I get a mind eraser for the lady? Yes, exactly. So that would be a perfect, maybe that's Buffalo Wildlings. I think we just, I think we just invented something on the spot that you need to do. You need to have PFT be, come and be your Samoyed and tell everyone what type of wings they should, should eat and what pairs well with your Buffalo Wildlings, everything pairs well with your Buffalo Wildlings.

You don't really pair as well as your Buffalo Wildlings. Sports, sports, sports, sports. So get the Buffalo Wildlings right now. That'd be great if you were just like, oh, you, what, what can we get you for you tonight? A little, uh, wings. Well, let me, let me pair that, uh, with, uh, San Jose Sharks versus Las Vegas Golden Knights game. Around 1030 at night.

Listen, it will be, it'll be a full service affair. I'll tell you what to watch, uh, which games are going into commercial break the whole nine yards. All right. So go to Buffalo Wildlings right now. Uh, all right. Let's do the interview. Okay.

We now welcome on very special guest, former WWE champion of the world. It is the Miz. He's here with Snickers. Maybe my favorite, uh, like plug ever because I was looking at looking up before you showed up. I was like, oh, we're probably going to get some free Snickers. We did. It did get free Snickers.

They're exclusive present, uh, presenting sponsor, WrestleMania 35. And as part of their sponsorships, Snickers has released five limited edition hunger bars with WWE that included the catchphrase of five superstars on the packaging, including the Mrs. Bar. Awesome. How great is that? I mean, never, uh, Parma, Ohio, a kid from Parma, Ohio has his own Snickers bar. Yeah.

Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that would ever happen. You like, there's a lot of things that happened in my life that I think are pretty cool. This is up there. What else is it? List the top three coolest things that have happened in your life. Uh, maybe my wife. Okay. My wife, Marie.

That was a good way to get out of the doghouse. Have her own reality show, Miz and Mrs. on the USA Network, another plug. Yep. Uh, you know, main eventing WrestleMania 27, that was have to be up there and you know what's amazing. Uh, I don't know if any of you got one, but I got a Bud Light victory fridge. Uh, when the Cleveland Browns did not win a game for 600 plus games or days and, uh, I, uh, they sent me, Bud Light sent me a, a, a nice like refrigerator and it was chained

up and I was like, yeah, there's no way this thing is going to open. Like the idea was whenever they win their first game, the chains will drop and you'll get to drink all the beer inside it. So they sent me a refrigerator, chained up all the beers inside. My wife looks at it and goes, why do you have a chained up refrigerator? I go, you don't get it. You're not a Browns fan. You don't understand.

Just leave me alone. Let me have this. And I'll never forget watching that Jets game where the Browns won their first game finally and literally I'm in Austin, Texas, not in Cleveland, 37 of those refrigerators were made. Mine, the chains dropped when we won. No way. I drink every single beer.

I shotgunned them. It was amazing. Like remotely they were able to do that for you. Yeah. Yeah. They remotely literally let like a bot into your house that is spying on you. You know what? If that's gonna happen every time.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Drift business would take his robot dogs. Nobody would be afraid of them. I got sneakers and free beer. What more do you want? Okay.

That's fair. That's actually real. Yeah. You have the best sponsorships in the world. That is what I do. So you're a Cleveland. That was even a sponsorship, by the way. They just sent me a refrigerator.

They just knew the myth like beer. And I was like, this is the greatest thing I've ever had in my life. You're like the 36th most famous Browns fan. Yeah. I'm there. Yeah. I'm up there. Top 37.

Top 37. Got it. So you're a Cleveland Browns fan. Obviously last year was pretty sweet for you. Looks like the future's bright. We had David and Joku sitting in that seat last week. Did you really? He said that they're going to win.

What? 13 games. 13 games. You think over or under? I looked at that. When we got Odell Beckham, I imagine New York was just crying because he is such an elite next level talent that you don't want to give up ever. I mean, you can't find that.

You can't find that in any draft. Right. You have to just get them. It's like losing Antonio Brown or Livian Belf. Sorry. Sorry. That's fair. I mean, like having Odell with his best friend Jarvis Landry, you got Baker Mayfield at the

helm. You have Nick Chubb. You got New Joku. That is a potent, potent offense. I said it when Odell came there. I called every one of my friends because I'm friends with a couple insiders. Oh. I kind of knew.

I kind of knew before. I kind of knew. I can't say their names. Moose. No. No. Baker? No.

We're Baker guys. I didn't know Baker. I don't know Baker yet. Yeah, man. I was ecstatic when they got Odell. When they got Odell, I called everyone of my friends and said, we're going to Super Bowl. There's no doubt. And people looked at me and said, didn't look at me like I was too crazy.

They still go, come on, bro. Yeah. All right. You got a couple of years under your belt, but. I know several Browns fans that kind of feel the same way that you do. And I love the Browns. Do you think so? Honestly, right now.

I love the Browns. What team do you look at and go? They can win the Super Bowl. The Chiefs. Yeah. The Chiefs. The Patriots obviously again. The Saints.

The Rams. I'm happy to be there then. Huh? I'm happy to be a winning team. Right. But you and I had it. Zero wins. You don't want to win the Super Bowl.

You're happy to be there. I'm, I want to win the Super Bowl. I'm a person that likes to win. I like, I did say that. You said they'll win the Super Bowl. They're going to the Super Bowl. They're going to Super Bowl and they will win. Listen, I am not dangerous.

I woke up this morning and I felt dangerous. Just like Baker Mayfield does every day. This is a very dangerous thing that Cleveland's doing to their own brains. And I like Cleveland. We, we like the town. We've been through there several times. Like you guys eat poop. Yeah.

You got a great Buffalo Wild Wings there by the way. LeBron Stinks. LeBron Stinks. Your casino only has a few homeless people begging. We love Cleveland. My dad goes to the casino every single night. Let me tell you something. Oh my God.

He wears a Jack like jacket every day. Uh-huh. You're your sports owner, Dan Gilbert. He writes very nice letters using the best fonts. Nothing but the greatest fonts. We love Cleveland. But I, I do. Yeah.

Yeah. Comic Sans. Comic Sans. I do love Cleveland and I like the Browns. I think that they're the new America's team because they're so likeable. But what Cleveland sports fans are doing to themselves is very, very dangerous. Because we set ourselves, we set ourselves up for failure. Yes.

Yes. We do. And trust me, I've done that. I've done that since we've had, you know, Bernie since, you know, gosh, Tim Couch, Johnny. Oh, Tim Couch is the legend. Yeah. Uh, my God. Every time.

Kelly Holcomb. By the way, every, every season, this isn't just this season. Every season I said, we're going to be a winning team. We're going to be at Brian Hoyer at the helm. We're going to be a winning team. Local guy. We're going to win. We're going to win.

We're going to win, we're going to win. We're going to win. Now I really believe it. I look at Baker Mayfield, his chemistry with Kitchens. I watched Kitchens, you know, kind of be the head coach and, and kind of like, you know, drive that offense to what it was last year. I mean, he wasn't ahead, but I mean, you felt like him and Greg Williams really did something really special.

And now I feel like now that he has, you know, the reigns, I think he's going to be able to do it. I really do. Super Bowl. Super Bowl champions from the Ms. Yes. first folks. First right here. You sounded so confident. You can't even believe it. That's all.

All right. So I want to talk about your career. So you mentioned at the beginning, you are living the dream. You basically went from a kid going to dropping out of school. Did you ever get your degree? Miami, Ohio. No. Love and honor. Yeah. No. Yeah. No, you never did. Okay. Me, Wally, that's okay. I'm getting Ben Roffelsberger. Yeah. We there. Ben was No. I was, I think I was a little older. Yeah. So you went real world and then on real world New York, you essentially

just said, I'm going to be a wrestler and now I want to be a superstar. Yeah. And you created the Miz character. Do you think that like, what was first of all, what was the real world experience like? Because I don't even think it exists. I mean, it does. I think they're bringing it back. But the real world was the best thing that's ever happened to me. When I was in Parma, Ohio, your goal in life is to go to college and then once you go to college, you go home, you get

a job and you know, back then we didn't really have my space and and and and YouTube and Facebook. We didn't have podcasts. Right. You know, there was a it's a different time, a different era. And so the real world was something very special. MTV was the biggest network out there. I mean, at TRL, I mean, every every every day I'd watch the top five, you know, music videos. I couldn't wait to see who was new. And now like, you don't, you don't, you know, you don't

watch any of that. Yeah. So, you know, with the real world, I got on that show and it showed me that I could do anything I wanted with my life. And I I remember going home to Cleveland and being like, what do you want to do? Like like looking at myself in the mirror like what do you want to do? Do you want to go back to college or what is your dream? And my dream like as a kid was always to be a WWE superstar, man. Like I I loved Ultimate Warrior. I put streamers on my arm, painted my

face, cut promos on my mom, you know. And so and now like there I am sitting there and I go, I'm I'm gonna do this. And everyone laughed at me. No way. Yeah, I remember. You're six, you're six one, you're you're you're nothing. So, I kind of made the Miz a reality. And even though a lot of people told me not to and and to stay in Cleveland, I moved to LA, started a, you know, kind of in a wrestling school, tried to learn the art of professional wrestling. I went to acting

classes, improv classes, every tool that I could possibly get that would bring me to what I needed to be in the WWE. I had a nutritionist, you know, a fitness expert. I had all these different things just trying to get going. Meanwhile, I was doing challenges promoting the Miz. Yeah. Literally saying I want to be a WWE superstar. I want to be hoping that WWE would see it. They didn't. I had actually try out for Tough Enough, which is another reality show where you could win a

WWE contract. Didn't win the contract, but impressed the execs so much that they gave me a contract for developmental. Went down there, learned, learned way more way more than I did in LA and just kept kept going, man. Just keep on that work ethic. Yeah. That's crazy. What was the toughest part about kind of diving into that life? Was it the physical stuff? You know, the stuff in the ring or was it the extra stuff that you were talking about like the improv? I think it's

mental, man. Yeah. I think it's not even not even all that stuff. It's all the, you know, you're in a shark tank, you know, with your guys, you guys, you guys have a podcast. I mean, I imagine you have tons of different people coming after you because you guys are number one. Right. When you're top dog, everybody wants you, right? Mostly just wants to go after you. Yeah. Right. But everyone wants to get at you. So you have to keep your game on. You have to keep going. You

have to work hard. You have to you have to promote yourself. And so that's kind of the thing that I had to do. And so when you know, I got to WWE, it was more the mental, you know, more, you know, than physical. I mean, obviously what we do is very, very difficult. We tell people not to try what we do at home because it's very dangerous, a lot of athleticism, a lot of storytelling. But you know, I think it's the mental aspect, the things that it's hard to even describe. Like I

imagine there's things here that people don't know on air that happens behind the scenes that you guys have to go through, but you can't sit there and put it out there because people wouldn't understand. They wouldn't get it. Yeah. No, it's true. So, explain it to us what it feels like to go through a table. Uh, it, it hurts a lot. You don't, you don't want to do it. Yeah. Uh, I, I recommend not doing it to everyone out there. Uh, anytime I have a chance not to do it, I will

do it. But uh, going through it, it's like, uh, you can't really describe it. I mean, imagine just, you know, getting slammed by something in your back. What's the worst is like when I'm watching you go through a table, it looks for some reason, it looks comfortable to me. I'm like, oh, I could do that. It's not. It's pre-precut. You're fine. They're never pre-cut. It's like, you know, a cardboard box or something. And then I always hear like, yeah, the, the

chairs are fake. I go, no, they're not. They're chairs. No, they're not. I wish they were. I wish they were plastic and had padding on them. I really did. Great idea. They're real chairs that they just buy at Home Depot. Yeah. What's the worst injury you've had? Uh, worst injury. Uh, I always look at it as, uh, the worst injury you could possibly have is like, anything that happens to your brain, the concussions. Yeah. And now, WWE has a, uh, uh, protocol with concussions. Uh,

and so we're trying to take the proper steps into making our WWE superstars as safe as they possibly can. Obviously, we are in a dangerous environment and we, we, we take risks out there. Yeah. So what, what's the worst? Have you had a concussion? I got a concussion on WrestleMania 27. Okay. Main event. Didn't you kept on going? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, back then, it was a different, different time. Right. Well, so sometimes you don't know. If you're the person that has a concussion,

it can take you a while to figure out that you've got it. Yeah, exactly. Somebody else to point it out and be like, Hey, help this guy out. Yeah. A lot of times with everything that's going on the ring. By the time you, by the time you figure it all out, it's like, Oh, it's, it's done. And it's like, yeah. Yeah. But now like, literally our doctors are completely trained and know exactly what to do and what to happen and, and kind of, you know, help us all out. Yeah. I

was watching some of your clips last night and you, you are a lot of fun. I like you because you really enjoy pissing people off. You seem to like, I did, by the way. Yeah. Now I'm like the good guy. Right. Yeah. It's weird. But so going back to that, like, do you miss the, the sheer adrenaline rush of saying some wise ass comment to a room full of 25,000 people and have them all hate you? I think our, our fans respect the fact when you're authentic and real. And if I

say a wise crack or something like that, I think they get it and they understand. So no, I don't miss it. It's, it's really interesting. It took me 13 years to kind of gain the respect of our audience. I imagine here with Barstool, you had to gain respect. You had to sit there and hone your craft and literally know your stuff about all sports and all things and be entertaining. It's kind of with us. Exactly. And then they're like, okay. And then you're the coolest guy in

the world. But it's the same thing with WWE. I had to earn my stripes. I had to take 13 years to kind of earn my stripes and our fans are the most loyal fans. But if they don't like you, they'll let you know. If they like you, they'll let you know. And right now I'm in this, this kind of weird transition where, you know, I've been a bad guy, been known as probably one of the best bad guys in the history of WWE. And now all of a sudden they're changing me and it's, it's

becoming a kind of an organic type of thing where I'm changing into this good guy and it feels good. Yeah. I never realized I would miss being cheered and loved because I'm so used to tell people telling me how much I suck and how terrible I am. Yeah. But it's, it's amazing. It's incredible. Are you gonna go corporate? That's my favorite story line. Corporate Miz? Yeah. I don't know if I can go corporate. Oh my god. Right now I'm going up against Shane

McMahon. Daddy's boy. Yeah. Corporate Kane. You remember Corporate Kane in the WWE? I remember, I remember the rock going corporate. The ultimate betrayal. Oh my god. Yeah. It's unbelievable. I love it. It's like corporate. You never forget when, when one of your favorite guys goes corporate and you're like, what? Right? Fucking feed working with this now. But right now I'm in a battle with the corporation. Okay. I am in the battle with Shane McMahon in a

false count anywhere match at WrestleMania, you know, Vince McMahon's son who is a daredevil who is literally absolutely nuts in my opinion. Oh yeah. And he takes the biggest bump. Exactly. And so I'll just move. Okay. So are you gonna throw him somewhere? Listen, if, if, if I'm up there, he's going. This is going to be awesome. Because Shane will act like owns the internet when he takes a big, big fall. Absolutely. And you know, it's one of those

things. I think everyone's out there to create moments that will last a lifetime. Yup. Something that you'll talk about for years on end. And that's what we're setting out to do at WrestleMania. We're setting out to do something where people can talk about it for ages on end. And that's what we're going to do. I mean, right now, you know, have you have so many matches that are going to be absolutely incredible. I mean, right now, Kofi Kingston is our

hottest WWE superstar. He's going up against Daniel Bryan for the WWE Championship. And if you'd have told him 11 years ago that he was going to be in the, in one of the main marquee matches going for the WWE Championship, I think this is the first time that he's had this kind of realm in his 11 year, 11 year career. And so to see him and see all the focus going there, it's great. And then also we have a history making match for the first time ever. It's

Becky Lynch, Rhonda Rousey and Charlotte Flair in the main event of WrestleMania. First time ever all women main event at WrestleMania. That's pretty bad ass. That's pretty bad ass. That's pretty bad ass. Yesterday of them just beating the shit out of each other. Oh my god. That was a very, that was a very intense moment that when we saw like they're in the back of the cop car kicking windows out, taking knees to the head, my wife called me and goes, did you see what they did?

And I go, no, what? Oh my, it was incredible. Like I've never seen women get that opportunity to do something that big and that, that memorable. Yeah. And it just goes to show where our women have come from. Like, you know, this year we had our first ever all women's pay per view evolution, which I think stands as the best pay per view we've had all year. And it was at Nassau Coliseum. It blew the roof off the place. The audience absolutely loved each and every match. And then you

look at the generations of women that have fought to get to this point, you know, my wife included, uh, you know, Maurice as well as, you know, all the way back till fabulous Mula, you know, they all brought to this thing to bring it forward to, you know, history making moments like we're going to have at WrestleMania. And scarier person to go up against Undertaker or CT. Undertaker. What about CT? Did you watch War of the Worlds? No. Did you watch War of the

Worlds? He's getting a little older. He got taken out. Okay, but he's older. I couldn't believe it. I'm talking about crime CT. I'm talking about fucking put Johnny Bananas as a backpack. Backpack CT. Yeah. Dude, CT is an animal. He is absolutely incredible on the challenges, but the challenge is a different animal than any other sport out there. It's different than, you know, whether you call it football and I call it a sport. Yeah. Because I look at that as a sport

event. It's mentally and physically draining. You're living with people. Yes. For like, uh, almost like two or three months, I think nowadays that they do this thing. And you know, you know, Johnny Bananas, CT, you know, they've all created names and created, uh, representations of themselves and have done an incredible job with that show. But man, these, these new kids on the War of the Worlds are taking over. Yeah. They took out Ashley, who won last year. I

think she won a million dollars. They took out, uh, Bananas number two. Crazy. And then CT number three. Are you kidding me? Wait, so, so the answer is still Undertaker though? Oh, Undertaker is the most intimidating. How scary is that? When you, before you even asked that question, I Undertaker. Yeah. His, I mean, when he's coming out, when the music's going, are you just? There's nothing more intimidating when he steps in that ring. There's, it's just, it's

magical. He's literally a dead man walking. Exactly. It's incredible. Yeah. What's the most difficult show that you've been on? Because you've been on, how many reality shows have you been? Uh, I think probably 11 or 12 now. Yeah. Uh, you know, Real World was the first one. Mm hmm. I didn't know what I was getting into. And it was an incredible experience. A lot of people you hear like mixed reviews. I loved every second of it. And the reason I think I loved it

is because I'm a person that I can't help being myself. Mm hmm. And whatever I look at myself on camera, I go, yeah, that was me. That might be a different, that, that there's different parts of me and you'll pick and choose which one you'll have. But that was me. I said all those things. I did all those things. And now you look to, you know, the show I'm on now with my wife, Maurice. Um, it's called Miss and Misses. We're executive producers. And I

wanted to be able to control what I have because I wanted to be able to take people inside of my life and really understand it and appreciate it. And I call ours the hybrid reality because I look at it and I don't look at ours like a Kardashians or like a housewives or even like a total divas or bellas. I look at it as something different. You know, there's so much negativity in the world. There's so much drama in

the world. I want to show that I can sit down and I can watch with my family and have fun, be entertained and just laugh. Mm hmm. And that's the show we're giving you. Okay, that's awesome. It would be great though if there was like some sort of crossover where maybe your wife chokeslam. Yeah. Yeah. Just through a table. That would be just. We would watch that too. Right. You know, it could work. You never know. By the way, you never know.

You never know. She might choke slam me. Yeah. On the table. That actually probably more likely. Um, if uh, if you were to explain the Miz to somebody out there that is not familiar with, with what you've created yourself into, how would you describe that character? Loud, obnoxious, egotistical, arrogant, but you're gonna love them. So you're a boss. Huh? Thanks. You're a boss. Am I? Yeah. Yeah. Is that what your boss is? Yeah. Yeah. Pretty

loud. Do you like your boss? Yeah. I like him sometimes. Sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. Do you get an arguments with him? Yeah. Sometimes. What's like the biggest argument you've had that you can tell on air? I don't know. We will argue over like. Is it like sports stuff? Like mundane stuff? No. Or is there like real stuff that you're literally like, I disagree with you. I want to put this on air and he says, no, you're not doing that. Yeah, there'll be disagreements.

This is what I want and then it's like and then sometimes you go and do it. Yeah. Yeah. We're like, you know, different people so we're not. Yeah. I'm always curious about how other jobs are like because I know how mine is and Vince is the boss. Do you ever sneeze around them? Huh? You've heard this story. Oh yeah. I've never sneezed around. Oh yeah. Have you seen anyone sneeze around them? I have not but I imagine it's it's it's it's a treat. You've heard you've

heard about everyone. Everyone knows about this. You don't sneeze around Vince. No black pepper. It's incredible. Like you'll sit down with him and you'll tell him an idea and he'll just sit there. Yeah. For literally, I would say at least three minutes and and now just think about you pitching this idea and you're excited. You're you're like, oh man, oh, we'll do this and this and this and this and he just sits there and thinks and you're

just staring at him and he's just thinking and you don't know what to do. You don't know. Should I say something and then you're like, no, I shouldn't say something. Okay, I'll just wait and then he'll give you an answer and you're like, wow, that's incredible and then there's things that I'll literally go, this is not going to work. That will not work. There is no way that's going to I remember uh I uh Vince wanted me to dress like the rock and I went and and he goes

and people will believe you're the rock and I go, I am not six five. I am not Samoan. I don't have tattoos. Right. I am not bald. I don't know what you want me to how you how you think these people don't believe it and I go, oh my god, I'm not going to do this. This is going to be terrible and and by the way, this is going to be champion and I'm going out there and this is where I need to make my mark because people are like, oh, he's getting overshadowed by the rock and

John Cena, you know, I was an up and comer and I'm like, oh my god, this is going to be terrible. This is going to be horrible. So, I went out there and I said, all right, if he believes it, I'm going to believe it. So, all of a sudden, the rock music hits and the crowd goes absolutely nuts. I'm talking the place just is insane. They're jumping up. This is when the rock first came back. Right. So, it's like people are high five and going nuts and Vince stands up and goes,

wait and I'm about to go out as the rock have sunglasses on a bald cap on, you know, have his shirt on and he goes, wait and I go, okay and then he goes, no. So, he waited for that. He waited for the audience to come back down. Right. So, once you waited for them to come down, I come, I enter the arena and all of a sudden, I hear another eruption. They believe it's the rock. Right. But it's me and I do my rock stance. I walk out like only the rock can and they're still going and I'm

like, when are they going to know that it's not the rock? So, I'm like, well, maybe I'll get another. I take off my sunglasses like the rock does and they're still and they erupt again and I go, they still don't, I have blue eyes. Right. They still don't, they still believe it's the rock like and and then I started walking down and then they finally started getting that it was me and then they're like, oh, boo and I'm the bad guy and it worked to a T. I get back

there and he goes, I told you and I go, how did you know? He goes, they wanted to believe so much that it's the rock that they didn't care. They didn't even look. They saw that they heard the music and they just started high-fiving. They're not looking at you. They're just so mesmerized by the moment and I went, this guy's a genius. Genius. Absolute genius. Genius. That's a hell of a story. All right. I know you have to go ahead. I was just gonna say, it shows how he has like, he

is so involved. Right. In the minutiae of everything. He knows everything. It's the old quote. He knows what you want more than you know. There's a reason why Fox paid like a billion dollars for the show. It's because they know what kind of content they're getting. They know, you know, why do you think Snickers is presenting WrestleMania? It's because they know what they're getting. They know how involved Vince McMahon is and how smart he is and what a

businessman he is. You know, you got Raw. You got Smackdown. We do live shows each and every week. I mean, how many shows are out there that put that much content? Live content. I mean, it's like five, six hours of live content each and every week. Yep. Nobody does that. Yeah. It's true. But we do. Yeah. And uh and it just goes to show like I applaud my boss. Yeah. That's fantastic, right? I know we gotta wrap up. We're getting the we're getting this even though I'm gonna beat up

his son. Yeah. Yes. I mean, I'm excited for that. I have two uh two quick last questions. One is you trained with Al Snow. I did. Uh did he have the head around? No, the head was not always around. No, he actually taught me a lot. Okay. Him and uh Bill DeMott really uh honed in and and and taught me, you know, what what I needed to learn to get to WWE. Yeah. To be, you know, the caliber that I am. And now I always think, you know, we have NXT down at the Performance Center right

now. You know, NXT is our another brand and we have a show actually at Barclays uh tomorrow night. It's NXT takeover. But um you know, these guys, you know, they're they're really honing their craft. And I look at WWE's territories now. You know, it's NXT. It's raw. It's Smackdown. And each time you go to a new territory, you have to build yourself up. Yep. And you have to build and and create something that you have to earn the respect of the audience. And I think Bill as well as

Al Snow taught me that. Yeah. Alright, last thing, explain this look. Haha. You know, that was cool back then. I don't know. Come on. I had a bandana. I do. I thought all the by the way, I can't look at the real world. I can't watch the challenges. You have frosted chips. Oh my god. So did Justin Timberlake. Yeah, but you went way too long. You went way too long. I did not. I think I would exactly the right amount of time. You have gone too long. People look at my

hair and when I want Mrs hair, you definitely look like a prison Mike on steroids in that picture right there. All right, man. This appreciate you coming by. Appreciate you dropping off the Snickers. Thank you. It's been a lot of honor to be here. Thank you guys for having me. I really appreciate it. Keep up the good work. Yes, and good luck against Shane Omak. For sure. You're this good, my friend. Yeah, I will steal his sneakers. He's always got the best

sneakers. Go get my sneakers at Dollar General. There we go. That interview was brought to you by Movement 2019 is the year of big tick energy and our friends at Movement watches are providing just that. Movement has you covered with tons of quality, clean and all around good looking watches and accessories that we can actually afford and order right from our couch. Do your wrist and your wallet a favorite. Go check out their minimalist designs that you

can have with no risk because they offer free shipping and free returns with over 2 million watches sold worldwide movement. Excuse me. Movement has solidified themselves as one of the fastest growing watch brands out there. I love their watches. I love their sunglasses. They have all sorts of accessories that look great. They're great presence. Perfect for Father's Day coming right around the corner. Get your dad to watch for movement. It'll look like a

million bucks and won't break the bank for you. They're super clean, super minimal, but they have these unique shapes that look great. They have tons of sunglasses and interchangeable watch straps too so you never run out of options for a new look. Movement watches started just 95 bucks so you're guaranteed to find something that won't break your bank. These guys are truly a ground up entrepreneur success story. They understand living on a

tight budget because they lived it too and that's why they wanted to make quality products that are accessible to everyone. They've sold over 2 million watches across more than 160 countries and their collections are always expanding for you. I used to just be a phone guy. I wasn't a watch guy. I was like, who needs a watch? My phone tells time. Tell you what, I decided to become a watch guy in addition to the phone and it changed my life. About two

years ago, got a movement watch. Now, I always wear watches. They look great. I feel naked if I'm not wearing them and I get a ton of compliments on them and you can get 15% off today with free shipping and free returns by going to MVMT.com slash pardon. That's MVMT.com slash pardon. They've got an expanded collection so if you checked a couple months ago, they've got brand new stuff there for you. MVMT.com slash pardon. Okay, let's get to some segments. First up, we

have a protect the stripes. This has actually been a trend recently. Ump's fighting back. Ref's fighting back. So, Kevin Durant got a technical. He's actually, I think, one away from getting a suspension, which, bad boy. And then Ron Coppa on the, during the Astros Rangers game, basically kicked everyone out just because they looked at him. And it's Ump's and Ref's striking back. Also, Kevin Durant called the ref a bitch, a motherfucking bitch. Yeah. Which

cool that we can say it now. No, no. Yeah, but I, I love, okay, this is going to sound crazy or stupid because there's definitely a part where the Ump can ruin a game. But there is something, look, call me old fashioned, call me, you know, Country Joe West. There is something special about an Ump, like refusing to let a game go on until he kicks everyone out. I, I like Ump's that stand up for themselves. I think that we've done Ump's a disservice recently. I don't

even notice this last like 30 years. So, NBA refs, we call them stripes, right? Yep. They don't even wear stripes anymore. We've taken away, we've taken away that from them. We've taken away blue from Major League Umpires. They wear like black now. They're not even blue anymore. You can't yell that at them. I like it when refs have, I like it when they stand up for themselves. When they have a thing like Country Joe West, like you said, say what you want about

Country Joe West. He doesn't take any shit. No. And it's kind of fun knowing that there's a guy out there who's absolutely not what people paid to watch. Correct. That thinks that he's what people paid to watch. Right. That is a lot of fun to me. Joey Crawford was the exact same way. Yeah. We'd be skipping across the court doing this little dance when there was a block. I thought that was hilarious. There's also something about the dugout Ump relationship that

is always so funny when an Ump like looks at a dugout and basically this Ump, Ron Copa said like you all have to stop talking and looking at me. Otherwise, we're not going to continue this baseball game. And I love that. Baseball's actually had a really nice like first full week with Bryce Harper and the Nationals. The bat flip heard around the world. That was awesome. I didn't see that. I mean, Bryce Harper was awesome with that bat. So fucking awesome. But we should also

bring up Hank. I threw this out to you before the show when we were prepping for it. Panic button. I am. I've already taken the panic button out of my closet for the Cubs. It's April. I know. I don't care. What's the big issue? The bullpen. Yeah. It's barely. It is barely April. If it's Hank, I don't care. I've taken the panic button out. If I have to watch you, Darvish, pitch more fucking walks and Jason Hayward hit into more double plays, I will smash the

fuck out of that panic. You don't think it takes a little time to get the rust? I think it definitely takes time but teams get hot. I think it's also summer. Totally fair to panic at the very first moment. It is. Um I think you could panic even before they played because you knew that the bullpen was going to be shit. Yeah. You could just hit the panic button when they were playing that opening day in Japan between the Yankees and the A's because like you saw

what was on the roster. The Mariners. A's and the Mariners. Yeah. You saw what was on the roster and so you knew that that that was going to be like a glaring weakness this year. What are you talking about? I see your bullpen. No. Yeah. You're bullpen. When the A's and Mariners are playing. Yeah. You knew what your bullpen was going to be. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, this is like a surprise. No. No. No. It's thanks. Yeah. And there's also uh Craig Kimbrel is just

sitting out there. There's guys still out there. Dallas Kikel is out there. It's fucking crazy. Hank so you're not panicking. No. Okay. No panic. You guys have Theo Epstein who has proven to put teams together. All star break. I know but you I bum it's April 4th. I haven't bummed myself out with a tweet more than I bum myself out with a tweet Tuesday night when I tweeted that I would uh sarcastically you oh have Jake Ariad and Bryce Harper. I would rather have you

Darvish and Jason Hayward and then just put a bullet in my head. Like that's the worst fucking thing ever. Jason Hayward he is consistent though. He's been hitting those double plays like. No, he's doing a new thing when it's to the pitcher. So, it's kind of even more efficient. Yeah. And he's he's it feels like 50% of the time he's at the plate in the last three years he's sitting in a double play. So, the spray chart is literally just just shaded in blue to the

second baseman. That's incredible. That's it. So, no panic. No. I took it out. I haven't smashed it. Talk to me in July. Alright. The cup's probably won tonight and I probably tweeted cups are back a million times. How's your bullpen heck? I'm fine. I'm no idea. Alright. I just saw the first game when they got lit up before we get to FAQs. We have two last things. First is uh the uh Firefest of the week. So, we we touched on it on Wednesday that everyone has

their personal Firefest. Every inconvenience is a Firefest. Yes. Someone someone uh tweeted at me that they got gum on their boots and they're like, this is my Firefest. Yeah, dude, that is. But there actually is a real Firefest going on right now and it's the AAF. So, the AAF the collapse of the AAF has been well documented and it's absolutely outrageous what they've done with this league and the fact that anyone thought that this league was

going to work. Like, Charlie Ebersol and Bill Polin thinking that this was going to work and then running out of money two weeks in and then saying, wait, what happened? Uh huh. Is insane. So, they actually kind of are like a little Billy McFarland. Yeah. Going on. But we have this uh tweet thread that that was put out there. I'm going to read some of these things to you. So, players in Memphis came back to their hotels after news came down and had their

personal items waiting in the lobby kicked out of their lodgings. That's basically the villas at the tents. Now, did they have but they had actual doors and stuff to their tents? Yes. Yes. Amount of money owed to vendors, venues in San Antonio for training camp is over four million. So, that I'm sure they're good for that. Uh reserve injured players will be left in the cold. They will be paying for their own rehab medical expenses. High level staff at the

team level received email from the board. No one received determination notice from an actual person. So, they're just sending out blanket emails. That's fun. Team level staff members were asked to stay behind in markets to clean out office spaces without pay. Yeah. And handle refunds. No clarity who will be receiving those refunds. Can you imagine somebody asking you to clean out someone else's office and not get paid for it? Jesus Christ. And then so much free

shit. Yeah. That's a lot of free shit. Termination letter sent to AAF staff. No one signed the letter sent from a generic company email address. So, they don't even, they're not even manning up and then like you got players who you know like this guy broke his, this guy named Gianni Paul broke his arm in his last in the last game and then the league ended and now he has to find an apartment away home and medical bills. Yeah, that sucks. It sucks for the players.

It sucks for I guess the vendors that are owed money for services that they've already provided. Um it is hilarious though to just imagine Bill Polian as being Billy McFarland. Yes. Like drinking, doing the drinking like porn star or drinking like rock stars, fucking like porn star speech. I guarantee you Bill has said that at some point. Yeah. Well, no, Jim Erse said that when he was hanging out. And he was just you know hanging out you know instead of uh cocaine

and tequila on a private island. It was like tortilla chips and uh I was gonna say a nice a nice beer just hanging out watching tape. It was baked baked lays and ginger ale. Yeah. We're like, hey, let's watch some tape. We're gonna shotgun this Canada dry. It's gonna be sick. Uh yeah. It's so I've done some research into Tom Dunn Dunn. Dunn Dunn Dunn. Tom Dunn Dunn. Just what a fucking idiot name. Uh this guy is hilarious. He looks like he is part of um Orange County

Choppers. Ooh. Okay. My good friend. He my the best way I can describe him is he's like the monorail salesman from the Simpsons if he showed up wearing Ed Hardy. Okay, I'm looking him up right now. Oh yeah. If you're how this guy get rich. Exactly. That's what I'm saying. If you're a billionaire and you've still got the 90s relief picture goatee, you're gonna pull some shady shit. So, he got rich selling. He was sold. He sold. Fracking. Subprime auto loans. Oh close

enough. In Dallas. He looks like a frack. He's like yeah, he does. He looks like the Wolf of Wall Street if that movie was based in Youngstown. Okay. So, he so he got he got this he's drank more monster energies than oh yeah, he bangs monster than times he's ever had to piss. Breaking moves. Breaking moves. I mean, this is hilarious. I just had to bring this to attention. This guy tweeted it. It's got one like 74 replies. Okay. It is the off season but this is during the

day. Explanation point. I wouldn't want him doing this on a day off during the regular NFL season. How do you guys slash girls feel about this? Sam Darnold Jets and it's just a picture of Sam Darnold at a Yankees game like drinking like us. Oh. Vodka Sprite. Oh, he earned his pinstripes yesterday. Sam Darnold went to Yankees game. Yeah. People are even though he's a football player. Yup. Is he confused? Sam, you lost. Wow. That's a diamond. Not a gridiron bro. I mean, isn't oh

isn't mini camp coming up in like a month? Yeah. You son of a bitch. Isn't the thing with the the thing where you don't have to show up to lift but if you don't show up, you get cut coming up soon. Yeah. What about a foul ball? What if foul ball had hit you in your giant head? Good point. Statistically, Sam Darnold's like five times more likely than anyone else in attendance. Yeah. Damn. To get beaned with that Doma is. Damn. Sam Darnold got a big fucking head. Uh. Damn

Sam. Yeah. So, Sam Darnold is on the hot seat of all New York Jets fans. Sam Darnold is a fire fast. Also, that's gotta suck if you're a Mets fan and Jets fan and seeing that. Yeah. That's really. That's what that's what they're really upset. Yeah, that's really definitely what they're upset about. You can't. If he was in City Field. Yeah. They'd be fine with that. Yeah, they'd be absolutely fine. That breaking moves was brought to you by Built with Chocolate Milk

for real recovery that happens real fast. Go to BuiltWithChocolateMilk.com for more. Great job, Hank. Thanks. Appreciate it. Great job. Uh before we get to FAQs, I had a question for you guys. C-keek question. Promo code take. You get ten dollars off C-keek purchase. We'll be using C-keek for the final four this weekend. Uh so, here's my question. I now that I'm gonna be a father, I have to start doing adult things like getting life insurance. You've

changed. Yeah. Life insurance. Fucking crazy. So, I had to take a test and you have to give your piss. You have to do your blood and then on the test, it says how much uh do you take drugs and how much? What would you guys answer on that? One weed. Well, okay. So, my answer was yes, marijuana and then how much I said a little. What do you think about that? I think that what you did was actually very dumb because you set yourself up for round two. But a little can be

very like I know but some smoke every day but it's just a little but someone's gonna see that and then they're gonna come ask you more questions. So, you think a little was not a medical term? I think I would have I would have been a little bit more specific and said a bit. A a a scoche. I indulge. Scoche. I I indulge from time to time. Yeah. Hank, what would you put on that? I probably would just say nothing. But you I had to give I would normally say nothing like when you

usually fill out a form like that, you always just lie. Everyone knows that you lie, lie, lie. I they took blood sample and a pee sample. So, I was like, I gotta get in front of this and throw it out there that yeah, a little. So, it's no longer in your blood but it is in your pee. It probably's in both. It's just everywhere. It's definitely in both. The minute he was like, yeah, we're gonna need everything, I was like, okay, this is a problem. It's a weird question to ask. Right.

But I mean, I guess it's a life insurance thing. So, they're trying to figure out like, hey, this guy's gonna overdose from weed soon. Yeah. Do they know? Just heroin for this guy. Yeah. So, you would you would go with nothing Hank? You're knowing what what I'm telling you right now. I was wondering what everyone else in this situation and that anyone who's listening right now tweet us what you would actually say like when you when you do a test and you know that it's like how

much you drink a week? How much you drink? I would say, I would say recreationally. Okay. Listen, that's good. How much do you drink a week question? What would you answer Dr. Doctors have to know that you're lying. Yeah. But what would you answer? My real answer? A couple. Be your own. Friday night, like to have a good time. Yeah. Just a few. A few. I just like to have a good time. A few could be like 10. That's many few. Well, so what I do is I here's what I say. I

say not as much as I used to. Right. And then they're like, oh, good job. Good job, PFT. I was talking about 21 year old me. Yeah. And then I'm like, yeah, so I don't drink during the week and then on Friday, I'll drink 35. Yes. Okay. That's good. It's, it's always, it's always funny though, having those like little, like whenever you talk to a doctor or whenever you have to fill out a form, whenever anyone has to ask you, like, hey, give us the honest truth about your health. Yeah.

I don't really want to do that. Let's just pretend nothing is bad and we'll just keep moving on. Doctors are the one profession that we should not lie to, but we lie to them the most. All the time. It's like your doctor and your lawyer. Right. You should be able to be like, hey, listen, man, I'm guilty. I'm being straight with you. I'm being guilty, but we're going to say that I'm not guilty. But in your head, nobody says that. Yeah. In your head, you're like, I don't want to

lie to my doctor because he could put me in jail. Yeah. Which makes no sense, but you never know. You never know. I don't trust these white coats. Imagine if it was like, yeah, I rip the bong and they're like, okay, sir, lock him up. Here he goes. Yeah. There's a van outside. We got him. We got him. He admitted to it. We got the bastard. He said he smokes once a month. Hank, want to do FAQs? Surely. This first person told PFT to visit Victoria Harbor in Victoria Peak. Coolest places

in Hong Kong. Also go to the beach. Tons of British milks. Well, hey, not going to be doing a lot of hiking, but if he's not going to have any time, he's got to spend all his time on this plane with no Wi-Fi. But there are there are going to be minutes that I'm in Hong Kong. Right. But very few relatively relative waking minutes in Hong Kong relative to time without Wi-Fi on the plane. Very few. I mean, that's absolutely true. Yes. Have you ever been to Hong Kong before?

By the way, in the taping of this, PFT's anxiety keeps rising just a little bit because you're getting like, I could just hear a couple of sighs and groans from your side of the table and it's, it's, I'm petrified for you. I'm excited. This is going to be good. I have second hand anxiety. I'm fucking pumped. You're going to have to read. I just really. Have you guys, have you guys ever been to Asia? I'm really excited. I'm fucking pumped, man. It's good. Hey, all the

AWOs are in Hong Kong. Come say what's up when I'm over there. Make me feel less anxious. Make me feel, you know what, I'm probably not going to sleep while I'm over there. The thing that sucks is when you land, you're going to be like, that was a relief, 16 hours, but like two, you're going to get the check-in for your new flight within, within like a few hours. You know what's going to suck is I'm going to land and then I'm going to get to the like subway station and I'm going to

realize, oh yeah, I don't read Chinese. Yeah. Just thought about the whole language thing. Do you know any Chinese whatsoever? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, thank you. Fleggy Lila. What are you going to say? It means airplane. Bing Joling means ice cream. I was going to say you're going to. That's an important one. You're going to be on the plane. Happy New Year. You're going to refresh your Twitter and that's the feed you're going to have for 16 hours. Yeah. Like you're instinctually going to go to

Twitter, but it's going to be the same like you're just going to have to read whatever. You're going to have to hope there's some, some good tweets. Let's, let's take odds right now. What, who is going to be the last person that I see at the top of my feed on Twitter, my last refresh for 16 hours. And who would be the worst person to have stuck there? Okay. Worst. I feel it. A worst would be like someone famous tweeting you being like, Hey, PFT, what's up? Yeah. Hey, or the worst

would be like this weekend. You want to hang out the rock being like my home. Yeah. The rock being like, Hey, PFT, if you respond to this in the next 20 minutes, I'll come on your podcast. Donald Trump has ordered a code red. Oh, and then it's just like for what? Oh, no, that'd be awesome. I'm taking off. I'm flying away from all the nukes. What about that though? Yeah. What about Donald Trump? Like, what about? He's not going to nuke the ocean. I don't think. Oh,

you know what? Actually, he might. I actually will tell you what the worst, absolute worst. So, so the real answer is it's probably going to be like Mike Florey or something, your last tweet that you're looking at. Like some like Ross Tucker. Yeah. Like, yeah. Like the Jaguars just signed a backup left tackle. Yeah. You know, it's going to, it's going to be Jeff Schwartz commenting on his brother's film. Yes. Yes. But here's, here's what the worst tweet

that you could, you could have refreshed if it was from Donald Trump and it read, I didn't fuck my cat. I didn't come on my cat. I didn't pick, put my dick anywhere near my cat. I've never done anything weird with my cats. One dash question mark. Yeah. The worst would be if it's something that I really want to make a joke about. And it's a threat. Like the best incoming thread. The best material possible to work with. Yeah. You should just fire

off like five tweets when you get, when you land. Being like, this is what I would have said. But then there will be, it's going to be like five in the morning. It's going to be six in the morning. All right. What else you got Hank? I've got a woe. Do birds have any measurement of endurance? Like humans and dogs and other animals pant or breathe heavy when they're tired. Birds can like flap their wings and fly forever. Do they ever get tired? Yeah, that's true. That's

their shit, I think. So they, they poop, pee and sweat all through the same hole. Wait, but they don't, well, birds can just keep going. Like do they get tired? Where do they, what do they do when they get tired? They catch the wind. They glide, they ride the wind. Oh, no, when they get tired, they go to the back of the V. Yeah, that's true. And then they draft. And they draft it. They don't do shit. I forgot about the V. And then they find like a soccer field in suburban

America and just chill. Yeah. I would, or a golf course. Yeah. You like hit with the golf ball. I would just chill in the back of that V. Oh yeah. I would never go up front. Is there actually like, do they, do they kick you out of the group if you don't take the front? I'd imagine some, someone would probably have a word with you. On the next stop. Yes. Okay, we noticed that you didn't really take your turn at the front of the V. Where were you? We're gonna need you to do that. You

seem, you seem like you're not very tired. I'm here. I am sweating out of my butthole. When was the first time PFT and Big Cat realized that birthday was one day apart? Probably the first time we met. Yeah. Oh, no, second time. No, second time we met. First time we met. That's what that's like the first icebreaker that guys use on each other. Yeah. Hey, when's your birthday? When's your birthday? No way. It's Jamesy's. It was in Arizona when you came in and we were our 30th

birthday and I was like, we're going out for my birthday and you're like my birthday's tomorrow. Yeah. That was pretty cool. That's crazy. Hung out with the Gronkowski brothers that night. Uh how are you gonna record Monday's show if he PFT is traveling during that time? This is where I was following along and then this is where my brain is not gonna be. No, PFT, this is where my brain melted. Okay. Explain all right. Explain where you're gonna be when we're

recording on Sunday. It's not that difficult. It is. If you think about it this way, Hong Kong is exactly 12 hours in the future. So, when it's six o'clock PM here, it's six AM the next day there. Where's your flight? On Monday. So, my flight on Monday. I don't know. I forget. But, look it up. It's in the afternoon. Okay. So, we're gonna record at nine or ten o'clock at night. Eastern time. So, we can't do anything on Sunday night. Got it. We're gonna record at nine

or ten o'clock. We're gonna go to, we're gonna go to Mark Titus' party, but okay. That's on Saturday night. No, Sunday night. Okay. We're gonna record at nine o'clock or ten o'clock on Saturday night or Sunday night, excuse me. And, it's gonna be nine or ten in the morning in Hong Kong where I am. Got it. So, we're gonna Skype it. Yeah. That's crazy. It's gonna be. Yeah. He's gonna go out Saturday, Sunday. I'll let you know. He's gonna open his eyes. Yeah,

we're definitely recording earlier than nine or ten. I don't know about that. Yeah, definitely. Um, I will let you guys know what it's like in the future. Okay. Perfect. Our podcast, the present day magazines, are you afraid this industry will eventually die out too? It will. Of course it will. No, podcast. Everything's gonna die. Listen, whatever project you're working on, that thing is not gonna exist on a hundred years. I don't care who you are. So,

yeah, everything's gonna die. We're just trying to fucking squeeze every last penny out of it beforehand. That's right. Brought to you by the Cash App. How hard is it not to mention that Ray Lewis killed a guy while you were interviewing John Harbaugh? Uh, very difficult. So, actually, it wasn't, it wasn't that difficult because it would have felt wildly inappropriate. Wildly inappropriate. Um, but I wanted to. There was a part of my brain that wanted to, but

it just, it didn't come close. It was way harder when we did the FanDuel, uh, uh, event, end of the year event in New Jersey and Ray Lewis was there to not say Ray Lewis, you killed the guy. Yeah. That was more, that was the one that got really difficult. Yeah, there have been a couple of times when we've had interviews where I was just absolutely set up to say something and, uh, and held back. Yeah. Getting better at that. Yeah. You think anyone

has ever painted a room with a paintball gun? No, but we should try. Would you have a new, uh, studio coming? I guarantee you, what was the name of the shark guy from Jackass? Manny. Yeah. I guarantee you Manny's painted a room with a paintball gun. Yeah, it's like a New Age, like Las Vegas, Jackson Pollock. Mm-hmm. He's, he is, he is like a dirt bike guy. He's wearing Stussy. He's banging monsters. Uh-huh. And he's making art with a paintball gun. Some

sturs. By the way, there's this, there's a thing you can do in Hong Kong. I looked up weird stuff to do. There's a room where they just had, it's basically like a hotel room with older televisions and dressers and shit. They just give you a baseball bat and say, okay, go in here for 10 minutes and do whatever the fuck you want. That's pretty sick. I think they have it here, but it's a Hong Kong. Oh, it's a Hong Kong. Yeah. It's actually, you won't have time

for it. It's better in Hong Kong where it's pure. Uh, we're going to end with this. This is also breaking. Might have to get, might have to get on the case big hat. Uh-oh. The Dodgers are missing 42,000 Tommy Lasorda bobbleheads. Yes. I saw that. We need to go talk to death. Do you think death can talk to dead bobbleheads? 42,000 bobbleheads. Yes. They're just in a closet somewhere. How do you, how do you lose 42,000? A heist. How do you steal 42,000? What, what's the,

what is, like, I get it because if someone said to me, hey, here's 42,000 bobbleheads of Tommy Lasorda, I'd say yes, I want them. But what is the next step? I feel like this is something that a Philadelphia Phillies fan would do to be like, we got, we got, we got Bryce Harper from you. It's a fanatic that's coming back for revenge against Tommy. They had, they probably had a van parked outside with like the guy that's always on the computer and the headset in the

van. Yep. And the Philly fanatic getting lowered through some sort of vent. Yep. Problem solved. Listen, that's okay because I thought the National Enquirer is on my shit list. Let's just say that. Why is that? They just Okay. Love you guys. Love you guys. Okay, PFT is gone. Hopefully not dead. Hopefully not dead. I just want to say that out loud. But when he, uh, before he left, he said, please do a little bonus part of my take so I can listen to it on my

flight where I have no Wi-Fi and he's stuck over the, you know, Pacific Ocean forever. So with that said, hopefully he's not dead, but we actually randomly had our friend George Kittle, San Francisco 49ers, uh, tight end pro bowler in New York City. What? I think he's the number one tight end in the league now. Number one tight end in the league. All right. So wait, so let me finish the intro and then we'll ask that question. Pro bowler George Kittle 49ers. He's here for

WrestleMania and I said, stop by the office. So he came by before we go to Minneapolis. Hank and I go to Minneapolis. I figured, let's see if again, God forbid PFT passes. We need a new co-host and you are now officially in an audition for the co-host. So give us your hottest take and also are you the number one tight end in the NFL now? Hottest take. PFT's playing goes down. Oh, that's that will be bad if it does. Can we delete that? Yeah, we can delete that

as long as sleep it out. Yeah. Actually, well, yeah, that's perfect. You're already doing good. You're doing a great job because now people are going to be like, holy shit, George Kittle, what did he say? Because we bleeped it out. So we won't actually, we never do. Yeah, we don't actually do that. No, we'll bleep that out. Wink. Wink with your wrong eye. Yeah. Wink. You have to wink with one eye. Which like you're not supposed to let me see it. Okay. There you go. There you

go. All right. So George Kittle, are you the number one tight end in the NFL right now? Man, I think there's a lot of number one tight end. You fucker. You gotta bring hot hotter takes than this. You can't do the humble thing. No, but I'm going to keep going that one. It's working for me so far. What? Being humble. So who's who's the best? Who's the best? Yeah. Gronk and Tony. Gronk's not in the league anymore. Tony's pretty good. Tony Sheffler. Oh, Tony Gonzalez. Tony Sheffler

was a great tight end. So you're in you're in New York City for WrestleMania. You said you're going to go to a bunch of wrestling like how many wrestling shows are you actually going to? Well, my buddy that is an independent wrestler. So he has a match Saturday morning, but he what's his name? What's his stage name? His stage name is the Corn Belt Cowboy. The Corn Belt Cowboy. And what's his finisher? I honestly don't know what it's called. I'm really bad with that. Okay, so

George is a bad friend. Terrible friend. Mark that down. Mark that down. Very bad friend. Okay. No, but so we got that on Saturday, but he just sent me a list of all the shows that are going on and he broke it down where we're going. I think we got I'll be at Impact tonight at 11 PM. Okay. And I got about five shows tomorrow with Friday night. What is that? That's NXT Saturday. Have a couple shows with Ring of Honor at the end of the night. Okay. Which

that'll be really funny on front row seats for that one. That's going to be awesome. Friends of the Briscoe Brothers. Do you think you ever when you get front row seats to a wrestling match, do you think like, hey man, they might call on me? I've that's happened to me before. Okay. So what do you do then? Maybe walls of Jericho? What are you going to put people in? Something you don't want? You don't want to get hurt. No, no, I you know, because we're on the you know,

first road, there's still a barrier between you guys. Yeah. So but you can always go for a good Ric Flair chop. Oh, okay. So I can practice on you. Nope. That's okay. That's another right that down as well. Hank PFT has never I don't think he knows what wrestling moves are. So he never has tried to do. I don't like being around guys who like really love wrestling because eventually it always boils down to them doing the wrestling moves on you. I will pull us down and someone who

used to stun a lot of people back in the late 90s. I know how this works. All right. So does do does my father and your head of PR, the 49ers, Bob Lang, the best PR guy in all of the NFL? Does he ever say, Hey, George, cool with the wrestling? Oh no. Well, I got into a ring like two years ago. Yeah. And I didn't tell him about it. Okay. And they weren't too happy about it, but I didn't get hit. So they were like, you know what? Just don't do it again without not telling us. Okay.

So that's been clear now. You have to definitely ask for permission. Bob laid the hammer down. So have you told Bob that you're in New York about to go to 15 wrestling shows? You should probably send him a text and be like, Hey, just a heads up. I might hop in the ring and there could be some ring activity. What about your coach? Would he be like, Hey, that was sweet. Kyle Shanahan doesn't seem like a wrestling guy. No, he's he's 100% football through and

through. What about John Lynch? I feel like he would like a little wrestling. I think he was a big rock guy. I think he's yeah, he's into that. Yeah, he is. Yeah. All right. So what else do you have cooking in the off season? Are you like mid off season training and all that shit? Yeah, well, we're starting about two weeks. So I live in Nashville in the off season. Oh, that's so fucking cool. It's pretty awesome. Everyone moves to Nashville, dude. Be more basic. Hey, you

know what? I like I like Broadway. Okay. Yeah, it is Broadway is a fun time. So like you have two weeks is a start of OTAs OTAs. Which do you have to go to? Technically, no, but I will be there. Oh, here's a question. When are you going to start holding out? You're the best wide or tight end in the league. Say wide receiver. I almost did. You're well, you should try this. We should try to get that because you get wide receiver money. You're the

best tight end in the league. You're still on your rookie deal. It's become a new thing in all sports that we got to hold out as soon as we're not happy. So should we hold out? Should I hold out right and just skip the whole next season? Maybe you hold out and use this show's leverage like I just did a tryout as the co-host the part of my take and I can $90,000 an episode. Yeah. Well, we get $90,000 out. $90,000 an episode. They presented us with a huge check after every

single episode and can we veto PFT's passports? We can't come back. Well, yeah. I mean, if he, well, I know, listen, we're not going to stop PFT. I love PFT like a brother and he is the co-host of the show, but this is just in case. Oh, just in case of emergency. You need to be planned. You know, like you guys, I'm sure Kalashenian has like, hey, if everything gets fucked up, here's what we're going to do. That's this. Yeah. No, we do that. Okay. So, uh, it's called check fuck it.

Yeah. Check fuck it. So, this is the check fuck it portion of the show. So, use us as leverage to then have a big hold out. I think I need to hire more marketing guys. I think you guys would be perfect. Do you have a marketing guy? I do. How's he doing for you? He's pretty great. What was the last check he got you? Uh, from the Super Bowl. Dollar figures. No chance. Could try though. Skittles. You did the Skittles thing. I did do Skittles. I saw you hocking Skittles. I love

Skittles. Yeah, I had to, I wore a Skittles polo t-shirt around everywhere. Yeah. Trying to get a full suit for you. So, what's the next? Like, does he throw a bunch of stuff at you? How does it work? Um, and you're like, all right, I'll pick that, that, that. He gives me options. Um, I'm actually pretty lazy. I don't like doing a lot of stuff. Right. I like sitting on my couch and playing Fortnite. So, the check must have been awesome. It was all right. Yeah. That's how much

do you have left? Oh, you're winking. Okay. Do you want to give us some of the check? Because that's the other thing we do on this show is that whenever any of us is flush, we always share money with each other. Right, Hank? Hank? Yeah. Hank. I'm always, I'm always flush. When we're flush, we spread the wealth. Hank's line. So, if you're flush from Skittles money, you should probably wet the beak. I might help out, Hank. We should actually charge George to be on

this show now. I honestly would pay you. Do you ever think it's weird that your name's George? Okay. Well, no, that's not like, that's not a slight. I'm not thinking slight, but like, it's like an old man name. It's a king's name. It's both of my great grandpa's names. Oh, fuck. God damn it. ESPN said my name's Greg. So, that's, it's okay. It's just weird. Like, I don't know. George, like I like the name. It's, it's royalty, right? Like King George. I've gotten that. But I

don't know. You don't come across a lot of Georges. No. Right? It was a hard name to grow up with. Right. You get, you get bullied. Slightly. Do you want to talk about it? If PFT was here maybe. Okay. So, the last thing we need you to do is you need to say love you guys to everyone as the sendoff for the show that hopefully PFT will listen to because he's still alive. Potentially. Yeah, that was where you're supposed to say love you. Hank. I love you. No. Hank. No.

George is not the new co-host. PFT still has his job. PFT's better. Oh, that was now you're out. All right. Do the love you guys. I love you guys. There we go. I don't know what I'm to say. I'll say it anyway. Today is another day to find you. Shying away. I'll be coming for you. I don't know what I'm to say. I'll say it anyway. Today is another day to find you. Talking away. I don't know what

I'm to say. I'll say it anyway. Today is another day to find you. Shying away. I'll be coming for your love. Okay. Shying away. I'll be coming for your love. Okay. Take me I want to talk about recognizing God in the middle of the battle or recognizing God in the battle to recognize God in the battle. Understanding that that you are not in it by yourself but that God is there with you in the midst of the battle. You don't have to handle this by yourself. You

don't have to go up against the enemy in your own strength. If you just calm yourself down, God's going to get some glory out of this in spite of you. Hey man. I don't know what I'm to say. I'll say it anyway. Today is another day to find you. Shying away. I'll be coming for your love. Okay. I don't know what I'm to say. I'll say it anyway. Today is another day to find you. Talking away. I don't know what

I'm to say. I'll say it anyway. Today is another day to find you. Shying away. I'll be coming for your love. Okay. Shying away. I'll be coming for your love. Okay. I'll be gone in a day or two.