Pardon My Take - WWE Superstar Nikki Bella, Tony Scheffler and The Mt Rushmore Of Farm Animals

Episode Date: July 31, 2019

We're stuck in the last day of July with the only news being Lebron James AAU celebrations (2:27 - 6:20). Jon Gruden is trying to make Nate Peterman happen and Jerry Jones vs Ezekiel Elliot is the hol...d out of 2019 (6:20 - 14:15). Hot Seat/Cool Throne including the Mets incompetence and USWNT salaries (14:15 - 26:26). Old time friend, recurring guest and former NFL TE Tony Scheffler joins the show to talk about the famous 2 on 1 video and the Mt Rushmore of farm animals (26:26 - 47:06). WWE Superstar Nikki Bella joins the show to talk about her career in wrestling, twin kissing theories, and is wrestling real (47:06 - 88:03). Segments include Bachelorette talk for guys that dont watch the Bachelorette, Respect the Biz Stephen A Smith, PMT Sports Biz Minute, and Guys on Chicks. You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, pardon my take listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen, ad-free, on Amazon Music. On today's part of my take, we have Mount Rushmore Farm Animals with our good friend Tony Scheffler, old-time recurring guest, good friend of the program, and also one of the most famous videos in Barstool history, Tony Scheffler. And we also have Nikki Bella, WWE superstar, former WWE superstar, really, really fun interview.
Starting point is 00:00:34 It was one of those ones we went into, we're like, we don't know a lot about Nikki Bella, but we had, we walked out of it being like, I think we're best friends because this was a ton of fun. We have Hot Seat Cool Throne, we have Bachelorette Talk for guys that haven't watched The Bachelorette, and if you actually have not watched it, by the way, there's spoilers, and we have guys on Chicks before we get to all that. Part of my take is brought to you by the Cash App, the number one finance app in the App Store.
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Starting point is 00:01:51 Do it for the animals and be a lover. Download the Cash App today. Enter code Barstool, get some money, and save some animals. Okay, let's go! Welcome to part of my take presented by the Cash App, go download the Cash App right now, put in promo code Barstool, you get $5 for free and $5 for ASPCA. Today is Wednesday, July 31st, and I didn't realize there were 31 days in July. I thought it was 30.
Starting point is 00:02:58 It's one of those months that sneaks up on you a little bit for sure. It's like 30 days have July. It should be in there. It's in the middle of summer, nobody needs another 95 degree day. Wait, is it? Is it tomorrow? August 1st? No.
Starting point is 00:03:10 It's not. Okay, all right. Yes, so today's July 31st. I'm ready for August. Just get done with July already, but there's nothing better than a late July news story in the sports world that is completely inconsequential, totally exhausting, and yet here we are. It's LeBron James, AAU Watch Day 3. We now have enter into the Coliseum a worthy foe, and that is Jason Whitlock saying that
Starting point is 00:03:37 LeBron James is addicted to being a celebrity. It's more dangerous than being addicted to cocaine. It's very true. I agree 100% with Mr. Whitlock on this one. I would actually say that the worst thing that LeBron James is doing, the proof that he doesn't actually love his kids, is that they're playing basketball and not football. Like LeBron James should have been a football player to begin with. He's always kind of taken the coward's way out.
Starting point is 00:04:00 But the fact that his son is at AAU basketball, yeah, that's a pretty big indictment right there. Yeah, this though is such a classic case of, you know, a few people made some jokes. We had some fun. And then because of the time of year and the down cycle in news, sports stories, everyone's in training camp, but we haven't played any training camp games or preseason games. We get, essentially, everyone has to weigh in, literally every single person has to weigh in on LeBron James at AAU games.
Starting point is 00:04:30 And you just look back, you're like, wait, we just, people are just kind of making a couple of jokes. Like we don't really have to be this serious about it. We don't have to talk about whether, you know, his marriage is a father and how people are going at him for that's like, we just kind of thought it was a little awkward that he was dunking in a layup line and that technically is a technical foul if we want to go by the letter of the rules. So he's hurting his son's team by assessing a technical foul before the game even starts.
Starting point is 00:04:55 And he could also break the goal, which is an issue and his player safety issue. It's all stupid. Yeah, we could sit here and nitpick all day about this sort of thing. But I think, you know, if you really want to know the correct take, you can just go back and listen to Monday's part of my take, because I think we said everything that needed to be said at the time. Yeah, but this doesn't, that doesn't mean people aren't going to milk it for a couple more days.
Starting point is 00:05:15 I guess we're technically doing it right now, but it also shows where we're at because if there were football games going on, this is actually Roger Goddell's fault. If we had more football games, if we had a 20 game season, we probably already would have started at all the preseason games. We'd be able to talk about that instead. We're stuck talking about this stupid fucking story that we're all sick of. So let's agree to move on. Oh, Hank has one last thing.
Starting point is 00:05:35 I have a quick sign. Oh, good. I know regarding this story. It's more about the Fox Sports anchors and people, we talked about Nick Wright's hair being real, but the fact that Coward's hair is so ridiculous and now Whitlock's hair is so ridiculous. It does not help Nick Wright's case at all. No.
Starting point is 00:05:52 Like the three of them together is just a, it's a preposterous looking cast of weird hair. Hank, you make, you make a very, very good point. And that's like when you put him side to side with those other two guys, it's tough. It's a tough sell. I still stand firmly in the camp that, that Nick Wright has genuine hair right now. He's just never grown it out until he went on vacation. But yeah, you're right.
Starting point is 00:06:14 It's like, if you're looking at like a group of offensive linemen and two out of the three of them looked like they've been jamming steroids up their butt for the last six years. And then one guy is just like really big. You're going to point at that guy and say like, this dude's on steroids too. Correct. All right. Enough about Tennessee Titans. Let's talk about some football news.
Starting point is 00:06:32 So we had the best news that happened in the NFL. That was a nice little double burn right there. Not just not only the fact of the steroids with the Titans, but also saying, okay, let's stop talking about the Tennessee Titans and instead talk about football. Yeah. Let's talk about football. The biggest news that has come out from training camp so far, there's two big news stories are going to get you.
Starting point is 00:06:55 But the number one news story, John Gruden on backup quarterback battle. This Nate Peterman guy is growing on me. The greatest news I have ever seen. This is, this gave me goosebumps in late July and just a little like a nice trick that John Gruden played there. Not Nathan Peterman, Nate Peterman. That's a different guy. He knows.
Starting point is 00:07:20 If you change a guy's name like that, he is ready to go. We tried to do it with John Manziel. Didn't really work. Nate Peterman probably still won't work, but I love it. Well, we called this a while ago because when, when he was coming out of college, you recall that John Gruden fell in love with the fact that he was able to operate a huddle efficiently. He had command presence in the huddle, which is like, that's the number one thing that John Gruden looks for.
Starting point is 00:07:45 Ultimate looks good in short sky. You'll remember back in Tampa Bay, he would just every single off season, he'd bring in like six over the hill quarterbacks that knew how to, how to, um, like get in and out of a huddle in less than 10 seconds. And as long as you could do that, he'd be like, uh, yeah, Jake DeLome, bring him in. Jake Plummer. He loved Jake Plummer and that guy could get in and out of huddle. Now what he did after he got out of the huddle wasn't so great, but, uh, but yeah, Gruden
Starting point is 00:08:08 added, he went on about Nathan. I would actually say, excuse me, Nate, I would say he went on and he gushed about Nate Peterman. He said he's smart. He's done a good job. He's been consistent. And I think he's starting to get his confidence back. So if we get to see a confident Nate Peterman is a great world to be in. If we get to see Nate Peterman this year, I will just be the happiest boy in the world.
Starting point is 00:08:33 That's like all I want. All I want is I want to see Nate Peterman get out there and just chuck the ball around. Maybe even break his own record. Could you imagine how great of a moment that would be if he threw six interceptions in the first, first half? Was it five? Is the right? Did he throw five?
Starting point is 00:08:48 I think he threw five and I think he did it twice. So yeah, he is very consistent. It's so bad that you almost don't believe facts when it comes to Nate Peterman. Like you, you say five interceptions in the first half and you say, no, wait, that can't, that can't be right. Like my memory is obviously going here, but no, it is exactly right. The other news we had is Jerry Jones versus Ezekiel Elliott is fully on. Ezekiel Elliott is, has gone down to Cabo.
Starting point is 00:09:16 He's going to hang out there and train. And Jerry Jones said, you don't have to have a rushing champion to win a Superbowl. Everyone on the internet dunked on Jerry Jones because when the Cowboys won their three Superbowls, yes, that's right. They had the rushing champion in Emmett Smith, but I'm here to defend Jerry Jones. We make fun of them for, for being stuck in the nineties. He's right. You do not need a Russian champion to win a Superbowl in today's NFL.
Starting point is 00:09:40 So as much as we make fun of them for being like out of, out of touch and holding on to the glories of the nineties, he actually is right here. And I think he's actually kind of like evolved enough to realize you should not pay Ezekiel Elliott way too much money. Yeah. No, we do make fun of Jerry Jones, most notably for coming inside of shoes, masturbating into shoes for talking about glory hole. We need the glory hole.
Starting point is 00:10:04 Get me some glory hole for talking about all sorts of stuff like circumcising the mosquito. Jerry Jones is a pretty big, pretty big part of the NFL and a pretty big part of the NFL media community. And I will never let that go. But I think he probably is right about Ezekiel Elliott, even though I do think you should pay him. I think that he's right in the grand scheme of things. Like you don't need to have the best running back in the NFL to win a Superbowl.
Starting point is 00:10:29 That's definitely true. But I think Ezekiel Elliott is really, really good and they should pay him. I'm, I'm team Zeke on this one. I say, go hang out, go hang out in Cabo with Sammy Hagar and Guy Fieri. Drink your tequila, get a nice little suntan, hang out down there for a while. I think they're going to end up paying him actually because Jerry Jones is the kind of guy that needs a splash on his team. And right now, his team's pretty boring.
Starting point is 00:10:53 Even Dak, Dak is a boring quarterback. Amari Cooper is an awesome wide receiver, but he's also kind of boring. Like I guarantee you Jerry Jones would like Amari Cooper better if he flew into training camp on a hot air balloon. But here's, okay. So here, here's the alternate sides. I'll say that I, they're going to sign him. They will sign him, but I don't think they should.
Starting point is 00:11:12 I think they should hold firm because as it stands right now, Ezekiel, it has one year left on his deal and then he can obviously be franchise. What is he going to do? Sit out two years? That won't happen. Like he can't sit out two years of football and expect to make up that money. So I would just be like, Hey dude, come to camp, play next year and then maybe deal with it after that because this is one of those situations where the teams that are successful
Starting point is 00:11:34 in the NFL have a plan and they stick to that plan. And what you just said is exactly correct that Jerry Jones loves a splash, but you just have to think like, could you imagine Bill Belichick being like, well, you know what, like let's pay him because the fans like him and we need a splash. Like if you have a plan, you stick to the plan and you don't deviate from it and paying a running back an insane amount of money, pay him, pay him a good salary. That's fine. But if you basically pay him so much money that other parts of your team can't be paid
Starting point is 00:12:05 and the line can't be paid, both defensive and offensive, then you're just hurting yourself in the future. Just to confirm, we're talking about like whether or not Jerry Jones has a plan. I think Jerry Jones, he doesn't know. I think he does have a plan. It's just get drunk before noon every day. And then at that point, everyone's got a plan until your liver gets punched in the face and he will just change his mind.
Starting point is 00:12:26 He'll get out at some point during the early August, Jerry Jones will get drunk enough that he'll say, fuck it. Let's just sign him. Bring that kid up here. Yeah. Give him the football. Yeah. Fun.
Starting point is 00:12:38 And so he just really what it is, this this contract hold off out is essentially just waiting for Jerry Jones to get in a good mood. Yeah. Because as soon as he's in his next good mood, he'll be like, fuck it. Let's do it. Yeah. Let's do it. Let's get all the boys together.
Starting point is 00:12:53 He's getting some great advice, wait till Jerry Jones gets blackout drunk at some point because he's going to make a decision and that's that's what's going to get the gang back together. Slide a contract right under Jerry Jones knows the minute before he comes in a shoe. He'll sign that. That's that's one great option. Another good one would to be so you're down in Cabo, right? That's Baja California, I think, right?
Starting point is 00:13:16 I don't know. I don't know anything about geography, but so you're down there. You're just south of Oxford, California, chug a bot, chug half a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue, put a signed contract in there that says three years, $95 million, throw it in the ocean, wait till it gets up to Oxford, Jerry will find it eventually. Let's sign it again. Let's bring this get up here and go bring me three more glory holes. I don't think that's how tides work.
Starting point is 00:13:40 I think they go the other way. What do you mean they go out? Also, no, I think that I think if you look at the title currents, like I think it's going the opposite way. Isn't it? Also, Oxner is in inland, right? It'll get up to the LA area and then someone Jerry Jones will sniff out a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue.
Starting point is 00:13:58 Yes. All right. Wasn't that complicated? So should we do our who's back and then we'll get to our Mount Rushmore with Tony Scheffler, which is a very fun Mount Rushmore farm animals. Yes. And there's a new legend that will be born out of this, a certain animal that Tony owns. By the way, Hank, remind me I have pictures of that animal.
Starting point is 00:14:21 We will tweet that out. Let's do who's back though. Hank, why don't you start? Oh, no, sorry. Hot seat, cool throne. Yes. That is people who think U.S. soccer is sexist and doesn't pay the women enough. Because our good friend DR came out with a tweet today where he showed that the U.S.
Starting point is 00:14:40 soccer responded for the first time ever with us, with what shows that they're independently audited finances that show that their women players actually earn more than the men. So they came with the receipts, they dropped it on the world and they didn't really like, they could have done this in real time, I guess, but they waited, they got their shit together and then they came out with like a very organized structure to show that in fact the women are getting paid more than men. And I still am confused whether that's the case because they like muddied the water with the NSWL and all these things.
Starting point is 00:15:10 This is, we have now reached the peak internet argument where both sides have enough like pseudo facts to arm themselves to say that they are right. And I still feel like anyone with a brain is sitting here saying, why don't they just release all the fucking money, like all the numbers and let us decide. Because it's so many, so many weird things that have been released like, well it's the World Cup pool and it's bigger but the U.S. men's didn't make it and then the U.S. men's don't have guaranteed contract. Just tell us exactly how much money everyone makes and then tell us the, and tell us the
Starting point is 00:15:45 percentage that each side makes. And let's just do that. What you just described was the internet in a nutshell in 2019, which is you're going to believe what you already believed beforehand and come hell or high water and you're going to go out there and you're going to find any fact that you can possibly come across to back up your argument and you're going to ignore anything on the other side. From what I read, and I could be really way off on this because I'm not a financial expert like Mark Brunel, but what I've seen is that with the women's contract, they're paid by
Starting point is 00:16:14 their major league team as well as from the national team. The U.S. SL or whatever covers all that money out of their pocket. When it comes to the men, they get a paycheck from the U.S. national team and then the MLS team separately pays their paycheck and then you get a, they both get a share of World Cup appearances, but then the men didn't make the World Cup one year. So the women get more total money from the World Cup because they have another entire year that they were in it, that the guys weren't in it and it's just very, very confusing. I don't know what's going on.
Starting point is 00:16:48 Congratulations internet. You've defeated me. My brain doesn't understand what should be a very simple equation because I can't trust any of you. Yes. I can't trust it. I have no idea what the actual numbers are. I've heard so many of them and it feels like one of those situations where no one has
Starting point is 00:17:03 a straight answer. So just give us the books. That's what I'm going to say. Instead of the, what's the chant they were doing? Oh, I believe that we will win. No, not that one. The other one. We will win.
Starting point is 00:17:14 The other one. The pay. No, fuck you guys. Fair pay or pay them more. Pay them equal. Something whatever. I just want to say, we just need to release the documents, release the documents right here.
Starting point is 00:17:28 I've been pulling through. No, I don't even know if that would make a difference because then the documents would get out and then the first like three people that would speed read through them would write about them and proving their own point. So then it would just be like an even bigger mess. I say just just take away the United States soccer federation entirely and just have them both go on Patreon or, or here's, here's, here's an alternate one. We could have picked someone who, who thinks it's unfair, someone who thinks it's fair.
Starting point is 00:17:58 Have them read the documents. Have them both just write a headline because let's be honest, that's all we're ever going to read. We're not going to read the article and then best headline wins and then whatever happens from that. So if the pay them more wins headline or it's already equal headline, whichever wins will then just go from there. Yeah, I agree to that.
Starting point is 00:18:19 Yeah. Hank, what's your cool throne? My cool throne is Lil Nas X. Yeah. So he is officially the, has the longest running number one single ever, 17 weeks in a row. Country single? No, period. Billboard charts all time.
Starting point is 00:18:33 But the country doesn't let him on them, right? That was, that was, that was the beginning of this whole thing. That was like the country things wouldn't let him on. And then he did the remix with Billy, Billy Ray, no, he did the remix with did a bunch of remixes. Amazing Ramsey. Dolly Parton. So he passed Mariah Carey and Boys to Men with a song that was called One Sweet Day,
Starting point is 00:18:55 which I don't even know. Are you serious? The song that was called One Sweet Day? Yeah. There was a song called One Sweet Day. A lot of us lost our hand job virginity to that song, Hank. Boys to Men was the best. All right.
Starting point is 00:19:06 So, so he's, he's got the record. Got the record. I mean, that's that equal dollar figures. A lot. I mean, how much are we talking boatload? Seven figs, crock load. I mean, definitely seven. How slow?
Starting point is 00:19:19 Seven figs. I mean, I would hope seven figs. Maybe eight. Here's the thing. That's all I care about. In the streaming economy, what does Spotify pay like 0.005 cents a song? Something like that per stream. So he probably hasn't made like a shitload of money off of yet.
Starting point is 00:19:35 But the best thing that ever happened to him was when, well, off like merchant tour and stuff like that. But the best thing that happened was when the country charts didn't let him on at the got a lot of buzz going. So for our next single that we put out, like, let's say a trunk tour or whatever, we'll just make a big announcement at the start. Like they won't include sunny digital and our, our, our, our collaboration on the country music charts.
Starting point is 00:20:01 And it's fucked up. And we'll see if we can get like a little extra buzz off that, because some articles written. Yeah. And we'll be like, yeah, it's not even a country song. We're just wearing cowboy hats. Exactly. And drinking Jim Beam.
Starting point is 00:20:11 So he should count. Is that it, Hank? That's it. What do you got? Well, first of all, I got some breaking news real quick. I'm going to speak a little bit quietly, breaking news, because Bubba's asleep right now. He's in the room.
Starting point is 00:20:27 I heard you snoring, Bubba. I heard Bubba snoring. Hang on. Wait, Bubba would like to respond. Bubba, I heard, I heard a snore. I'm looking right at PFT right now, listening to the Zoom report with your, with your eyes open. He wants to know if your eyes were open the whole time.
Starting point is 00:20:44 Yes. I heard a snore. I heard a snore. Bubba's been awesome. So I'm on the road right now. I'm in DuTois, Michigan for the debates, interviewed John Hickenlooper. We're interviewing Tim Ryan tomorrow. Bubba's been working very hard and he's not asleep.
Starting point is 00:21:00 I want it to be known for the record that he was not asleep. What did the poll say? Also in this weird Detroit hotel room, and there's one chair in it, so I'm sitting on PFT's bed. Okay. He's sitting in a very comfortable place. So yeah. My hot seat, I'll get into that, is the Los Angeles Clippers are on my hot seat because
Starting point is 00:21:22 Steve Ballmer said that he would change the name. He would consider changing the name of the team if a good one popped up. So he's looking at this time in the history of the Los Angeles Clippers being like the big watershed moment, the big transformative season because they finally have some good players besides when they were in Lobb City, when they had Blake Griffin. But yeah, he's saying he'd be open to changing it if he came up with some good names or somebody hit him with one. So I say let's do it.
Starting point is 00:21:50 What better time than now? Yeah. I'm in. I'm in. I mean, you should just call it the Los Angeles Barbers. Traffic. Do you think they'll ever be a team where they just name it after the owner? That would be sick.
Starting point is 00:22:00 The governor? I don't know. Probably not. Yeah, the governor. I don't think so. The Los Angeles Redskins. The Los Angeles governors. I like that.
Starting point is 00:22:09 Oh, Los Angeles owners. And then we can have a whole debate whether we're allowed to say their name or not. Yeah. The awards. Yeah. Are they could do what the, what the Raptors did back in 1994 or whatever and just name your team after whatever pop culture phenomenon. The Los Angeles Lil Nas X's.
Starting point is 00:22:26 Perfect. Perfect. The Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Vapors. Los Angeles, Old Town Road, the Los Angeles Thanos. The Los Angeles Clouds is not bad. The Los Angeles Clouds is Los Angeles Dabbers. The LA Clouds would be sick. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:42 The LA Clouds. The LA Smog. What about the LA Smog? That would be a great game. And that's going to be like the defense. It's going to be all over you. Yeah. That would be good.
Starting point is 00:22:51 Or the LA Earthquakes. That would be good too. That'll be one of those good names until the quake actually happens and it's like, wow, shit. Probably shouldn't have named our team after video game. Yeah. That was stupid. All right.
Starting point is 00:23:04 What's your cool throne? It's Ryan Fitzpatrick. So Ryan Fitzpatrick is in the Catbird seat. He has been named by Miami head coach Brian Flores as being the presumptive starter. So it's his job to lose the starting job in Miami after six weeks, which he will. But he is leapfrog Josh Rosen on the death chart. And I'm just, I for one am very excited that we are, we're definitely going to have Fitzmagic at least in September.
Starting point is 00:23:32 Yes. Yes. We, not good for their tanking. They want to and we've talked about it, but Ryan Fitzpatrick is always good for a few wins out of nowhere. So if you want to tank, don't have Ryan Fitzpatrick be your quarterback, but Brian Flores is going for it. All right.
Starting point is 00:23:47 My hot seat is Madden codes. So Madden, the new Madden's coming out and everyone wants their code. I guess they'd give it to like influencers. So everyone basically just goes around the internet for the next week saying, yo, can I get a Madden code? Yo, can I get a Madden code? So we love our AWLs and I have two Madden codes to give out. So the first one is six, two, five, nine, B, G, eight, six.
Starting point is 00:24:16 So plug that in. Yeah, I just got it. There's zero, three, nine, six, five, eight, G, J as in Janine, Q, four, six, seven. Okay. Liam just got that one. So those are our two Madden codes. We just gave out to the part of my take listeners. You guys can go have fun, dominate Madden on us, use that code and give us a shout out
Starting point is 00:24:43 when you put that code in and it works. Okay. All right. My cool throne is the Mets because the Mets are being very Mets like and I love it when a team does exactly what you expect from them. And by that, I mean having no plan whatsoever. So everyone, rightfully so the Mets fans are saying, why are we trading for Marcus Strowman and then trading Noah Cindergaard?
Starting point is 00:25:05 Are we going for it, but not going for it? And why didn't we do this last year and all these things? And they all are fair questions, but I love when the Mets have no plan, but pretend they have a plan because that's what you can rely on. So when you look at it from afar, their plan is working perfectly. They're no plan plan is a perfect plan for the Mets. They are, their plan is like a hungover Jerry Jones as opposed to a drunk one where that that moment in the morning where you're waking up, you're still kind of foggy, not making
Starting point is 00:25:38 any correct decisions, nothing that you're saying is informed to rational. You just are hoping to get from that point until bedtime later on that night. Still alive. That's what that's how the Mets run their team. So that is a plan. Yes. The no plan plan. So I love what the Mets are doing.
Starting point is 00:25:53 Okay. Let's get to our Mount Rushmore. We were out in Michigan on Monday and we had our good old friend Tony Sheffler on the show. Mount Rushmore, a farm animals. He's actually one of the most, what was the date Hank that he first appeared on the show? So that means that Tony Sheffler was probably one of the first 15 guests ever on, on a part
Starting point is 00:26:17 of my take. So shout out Tony. He's the best. Before we get to Tony Sheffler, if you want to watch our interview with Tony Sheffler and our interview with Nikki Bella, go download barstoolgold.com slash PMT right now barstoolgold.com slash PMT. You can watch all of our interviews, all of our shows, check it out barstoolgold.com slash PMT.
Starting point is 00:26:35 Okay. Here's the Mount Rushmore. Okay. Time for our Mount Rushmore and we have a very special guest. We alluded to it. One of the first, probably 10 part of my take guests of all time, Tony Sheffler, former Detroit lion, former Denver Bronco, former loser of the great Dave and Big Cat first Tony two on one basketball game, the, the original bro show, the original bro show.
Starting point is 00:27:02 How fat Dave, skinny cat, yes, times were weird. Okay. Let's, before we do the Mount Rushmore, how many times in a month does that get mentioned to you? That video, that whole scene ruined my life. So if you go to YouTube and put my name in, that's what you see first, first off, played what, seven years, almost 400,000 views, eight years in the end of the act. Here's what we have to do.
Starting point is 00:27:29 We have to get, we have to have like an award winning list or put together a Tony Sheffler actual NFL highlight tape. Just to try to get that SEO back on in the middle, then in the middle of the highlight tape cuts to you getting dunked on by Dave and Big Cat. There's some highlight comp, compilations on there of me. Those have about three, 4,000 views. The two one high low death, slow death, 400,000 views. So now when these, I'm coaching youth softball, that sort of thing, these youngsters, you
Starting point is 00:27:59 know, they, they find out their coach played. Their old coach played in the NFL and they go to the YouTube and that's what they see. So it's been a problem. And we, I've alluded to it before that. I'm pretty sure it ended my career when the lions saw that video, it pretty much ended me. I hurt my thumb in that game. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:20 And what people don't know is I, training camp was like two days later. Yes. No, no, no, it was, no, it was the start of the season was two days. Oh, the season. Yeah. It was like right before labor day. I came to the season with a taped up thumb, a banged up thumb from that game. I jam my thumb.
Starting point is 00:28:35 You guys cheated me. There's just, it's so deep. The, there's so many things that you can, you can peel back that, that onion in that game. The scoring was, it's scoring. In the comments we found out later on weeks later that the word winning listeners found out that I got cheated on the score. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:53 Listen, I just know Dave was going to call 46 timeouts. He's going into it. Got out of breath. He had to catch his breath. It's a player safety issue. He called a timeout. I was mid layup and he's 10 feet off the play. His shoe had fallen off.
Starting point is 00:29:08 He called a timeout as the ball was in the air. His safety hazard. Yeah. Exactly. It's load management. And we know I was up 10, six in that game and all that, that one bucket wins me the game. Yeah. That's good coaching.
Starting point is 00:29:19 That's a great timeout call. So now it'd be a real shame if you were to get your ass kicked and I'm out rushed more by us again, like that to be your second biggest video. I don't plan on getting out done today. Yeah. This is your mouth. You're on my turf. We're in the backyard.
Starting point is 00:29:33 I mean, we played the hoop game right here, right across the pond here at my house. And we, you know, we obviously are good friends and we talk pretty much daily, but every now and then, like once a month, you'll text me and be like, I was going to a sports authority or I was getting coffee and the like shithead 17 year old behind the counter was like, Hey, what happened against big cat and Dave? It's never about the ball anymore. It's never about football. It's never about the NFL career.
Starting point is 00:30:00 It's always about that high low people. How could you get high load by those boys? Um, I mean, Dave got hot. He was, he was hitting jumpers. The bet he was. He was getting really hot. That two handed push shot. I mean, the whole thing is just so good.
Starting point is 00:30:14 It's not okay that it was down like that. The best was when you went to right when you were about to retire, you went to, I think he was like a Redskins, uh, uh, workout and the kid who picked you up from the airport. You told me like the 30 minute drive. That's all he talked about. Was that right? Yeah. Like that's what I'm coming in.
Starting point is 00:30:33 You know, that's what they're seeing to me. Like you guys ended my career. I want you to know that. Uh, and Hey, every time you guys yourself, every time you guys have an interview and then something goes bad, you know, I'm the first one to jump on. Yes. Bar stool curse. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:49 Yeah. But you're doing well and you have, you just trying to try to call my way back. Yeah. Yeah. You guys really dug a hole for me there on that video. You're coaching. You have a cattle ranch. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:04 You're living a good life in Michigan. Um, slow. Yeah. Yeah. So let's, let's do Mount Rushmore of farm animals in honor of your cattle ranch and your farm. Uh, we don't know what we literally were just Googling farm animals. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:18 That's a bit concerning. Yeah. Well, I mean, what are we going to do? You guys do this for a living. So you're, you're familiar with improvising, uh, thinking on the fly. Correct. So I've got a set list coming from my farm that I'm real comfortable with, but you know, now you guys scoop one of those up or two, then, then it might get weird.
Starting point is 00:31:36 You're in trouble. But here's the thing. Like a lot of times what Hank likes to do is not necessarily use the picks that he likes the most, but he picks picks that he knows the audience will like he panders to the audience. So just, just letting you know that just because you like a certain animal, you might want to take it to account. Like what would Hank's idea of the listener? So we're in a tough spot right now in our Mount Rushmore scene.
Starting point is 00:31:59 PFC has been triggered for like 37 hours. Rushmore's in a row and is taking out. He's been triggered for like half. He's been picking on me. Yeah. No, I'm, I'm comfortable with my Mount Rushmore. I can look myself in the eye at the end of every Mount Rushmore. Maybe.
Starting point is 00:32:12 Yeah. He's been triggered for a week. I'm not triggered at all. I'm not triggered. I'm in the car and then accused everyone else of bringing it up. Alright. So you know, I know I followed Kirk Cousins, do you think he's like a perfectly average quarterback in the NFL?
Starting point is 00:32:26 Um, I'd say step below that step below you. So there you go. So he's wrong. He's round average. Uh, all right. So he's actually average for our animals. Okay. You ready to go?
Starting point is 00:32:37 I am. I mean, I feel like if I'm the first pick, I feel like I should state the obvious right away. Okay. We don't know what the office is. Which would be the goat. OK. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:48 All right. The first one. Are you going to say rabbit? No. I mean, a lot of reasons. I'm thinking logically how much they eat, the reproduction, the price per pound coming from the farm. There's a lot of variables.
Starting point is 00:33:03 But the first domesticated animal on Earth. And it is the goat. It is the goat, one-one. I mean, you know. Who decided the goat was the goat? The goat is the goat. It's quite obvious. I'm probably going to get some burns down in the comments
Starting point is 00:33:17 for picking the goat right off the bat. No, don't worry. No, that's the only one that worries you. Yeah, everyone reads the comments. I mean, come on. It is. Yeah, he's the only one who worries. You're fine.
Starting point is 00:33:24 I really don't worry. I'm comfortable. You totally don't worry. As long as you're comfortable, you can fix your soul matters. Don't worry. Yeah. I figured it was going to get picked. It's the most obvious right out the gate.
Starting point is 00:33:36 It's an easy introduction to this. For you guys, I plan on winning this thing. But I got a goat at the farm. The thing is a great swimmer. Did you guys know goats are great swimmers? I had no idea. This is the fact that you're going to beat the goat. So wrap your head around this.
Starting point is 00:33:51 I mean, you walk onto the farm. I got the in-ground pool in the back, right? You walk around. Not a big deal. Not a big deal. You walk around the corner there, and there's a goat swimming in the pool. What are you thinking?
Starting point is 00:34:03 That's pretty cool. Please don't shit in the pool. Right? Yeah. Did you know goats could swim? No. They had no idea. There you go.
Starting point is 00:34:09 So they're really smart. That's good. They've got good eyes, too. I like the shape of a goat's eyes. Don't eat a whole lot. They eat goats. They're fucking hilarious. Yeah, fake goats are very funny.
Starting point is 00:34:20 When they spring up, when the baby goats just jump straight up in the air, that's cool, too. So I'm going to go with a goat. OK, great pick. Get off the list. All right, Hank, you're up. All right, that's a good pick. That's a good pick.
Starting point is 00:34:31 I mean, the cow. Yeah, the cow's a good pick. All right, is it, though? Cow's a good pick. Oh, yeah. What do you mean? Stop? No, no, no.
Starting point is 00:34:38 Provides food for your family? Like, isn't that one of the most important parts of a farm is providing for your family? My kids are lactose intolerant. So I didn't think about that, Hank. All right, I'll go with pigs. I'll go with pigs. You go to a farm, you hear the pigs oinking.
Starting point is 00:34:54 Also, everyone loves pork. Everyone loves bacon. Whoa. What? So you have the animal, or do you love the food? Well, no, some religions don't. The whole thing works together. It's kind of religiously intolerant.
Starting point is 00:35:05 You can't have a, the cow doesn't do anything if it's not milk and meat. We have it. It says milk. You can have a cow and not kill it. Yeah, but it produces stuff. Yeah, but vegans, dude, don't even do that. All right, pig.
Starting point is 00:35:17 All right, pig. I actually don't mind the pighead's choice. That's good first choice. My first pick, I'm going to go with horses. OK. Got the horses in the back. You can ride around on them. They're just cool.
Starting point is 00:35:28 I'm getting the cow for sure, yeah. Yeah, the first car is a noble horse. For my second pick, I'm going to go with, I'm going to go with chickens. Love the cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck. Like the sound of the wings wrestling. Love eating chicken wings. Love eating chicken.
Starting point is 00:35:46 And a rooster crow is kind of cool stuff, too. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Chicken's different than a rooster, right? It's the same. I'm over here on pins and needles wondering the same thing. I think it's a male chicken. It's a male chicken. It's a cock?
Starting point is 00:35:57 Yeah. A rooster is a male. I just heard a Tony. A rooster is a male chicken. But we're talking with farm animals here. Yes, they exist. So that's where the roosters are. That's where the chickens are.
Starting point is 00:36:07 They both exist on the farm. Rooster may have been next on my list. So we need to get an official ruling here on that situation. Let's split them up. Let's split them up so we have more picks. You have chickens. Don't eat. I mean, yeah, you're going to have to.
Starting point is 00:36:24 It's too seriously, PFT. It's not a big deal. Very upset. We know. All right. Two very different things, though. I'll go with, what's the goat, the same as a sheep? No, absolutely not.
Starting point is 00:36:37 All right, I'll take the sheep. Is that a serious question? I'll fucking know. You guys have been in New York far too long. Wait, is it goat? I don't know any of these things. A goat is a male sheep, though, right? A goat is a goat.
Starting point is 00:36:49 I think they're different. Oh, a ram is a male sheep. Yeah, a sheep. All right, so I'll take the sheep. Give you fucking wool. I don't know what else they do. Yeah, just back. Heard them.
Starting point is 00:36:57 You can herd them. They have a lot of opinions about lions. Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK. I had sheep too, fuck. I'll go with the llama. Wow, that's good. Very fun farm animal.
Starting point is 00:37:10 Yeah, yeah, we'll just cool to see. That is fun. They're spitters, though. That is fun. OK, spitters or quitters. I'm going to go with two. You have two picks. OK, two picks.
Starting point is 00:37:18 I'm going to go with the rooster. OK. That was high on my list. Good pick. Yep. For a lot of reasons, you know, first thing moving. We have alarm clock. Cock-a-doodle-doo, alarm clock.
Starting point is 00:37:30 All the hens, you know, flashy, big, bold, beautiful. Did you know? Cock-a-doodle-doo. Cock-a-doodle-doo. Yes. Rooster in the henhouse. Yeah. Closest living relative to the T-Rex.
Starting point is 00:37:44 Oh, yes, I did know that. Did we know that? Yes. The rooster. Yes. I did know that. Do you think that T-Rex has had feathers? I do.
Starting point is 00:37:52 There's a lot of cons for saying that. My son is six and he's hardcore dino guy. He is of the opinion that they did have some feathers. But scientists can't. This is good fact checking. You're like, oh, I'm going to tell me. I like to, I just imagine my T-Rex is just no feathers, just bald.
Starting point is 00:38:10 It's concerning to me to imagine like a T-Rex with like a little waddle hanging from it. It's crazy to think about dinosaurs, not to get too like, whoa, but how we envision dinosaurs is what we see on the movies when it's like they could be totally different. We have no idea. Just in Chicago, they had the biggest T-Rex ever found there.
Starting point is 00:38:28 Yes. Pretty impressive. Yeah, dinosaurs could meow like cats. So that's too weird. OK, yeah, that is too weird. All right, you have another pick. So this is number three, huh? I'm going to go with the Muscovy duck.
Starting point is 00:38:44 Whoa. Yes, good choice. Just an interesting looking creature, large, oversized, quackless. Quackless, a quackless duck. You know, living on a farm, there's noises everywhere. So any animal you can get that's quiet is a good thing. I've got cows that are bulls that are pretty loud and goats
Starting point is 00:39:04 that, you know, so this goes on. They're tasty, too. Yeah, tasty. A lot of reasons. They eat mice. They're mean. Tuximethy. All right, big Muscovy ducks.
Starting point is 00:39:16 And they have like 30. You know, if you let the hens hatch out their eggs, it's like 30 at a time. That's a pretty cool thing. You see a hen walk up with 30 babies. That's crazy. Pretty cool thing. That is ducklings.
Starting point is 00:39:27 We'll go Muscovy duck. OK. Specific. Have you ever been around for the hatching of a duck and they imprinted on you? No, I haven't. I've heard of that type of thing. How sad is it when all the animals die?
Starting point is 00:39:40 Life on the farm is pretty morbid, yeah. But it kind of prepares you for how tough life is, I guess. OK. That's good. Things die, for sure, on the farm. Yeah, I just thought of that. Like all these animals mean all these animals have to die. At what point does a pig become a hog
Starting point is 00:39:56 and you have to slaughter it? I'm not a big pig guy. OK. Shots fired. It depends if they're breeder pigs or they're raised to go to market under a year. Most of that stuff takes 10, somewhere around 10 months, somewhere around there.
Starting point is 00:40:13 Let's not take too much. All right. This is Hank. I'll go with Charlotte from Charlotte's Web. Good one. Greatest farm animal of all time. Yeah. With the whole team on her back.
Starting point is 00:40:22 Yeah. Spider. All right. How about you could tell me if this is wrong, Tony, but a working dog. Working dog is a must. Needed on a farm. It's a must.
Starting point is 00:40:34 I have not had one yet, but I've seen them in action. Hurting dogs. Oh, my god. Hurting dogs or. Well, no, just like a dog. It's that you're not getting a chihuahua for a farm. You're getting a good working dog, or some of the labs are good dogs.
Starting point is 00:40:48 Retrievers. It's mostly like Australian cattle dogs. Yeah. 100%. Glue healers. Retrievers. Good for hunting. The cows are really dumb.
Starting point is 00:40:55 Yeah. And those dogs can whip them right around. Yeah. A working dog. Super important on the dog. I had Border Collie as my next pick. So good pick, big cat. Hey, thanks.
Starting point is 00:41:03 So I'm going to call an audible on this one. I'm going to go with, for my next one, a mule. Nice mule. They're good working animals. They're tremendous. They're for water. Tremendous leapers. I don't know if you know that.
Starting point is 00:41:16 But yeah. My aunt owns two mules. Oh, nice. They're very cute. Vinnie and Vinnie, too. Yes, there's mule jumping competitions in West Virginia that you can go to, which is basically an excuse to drink moonshine and then forget about your mule.
Starting point is 00:41:31 And then my last one, this might be controversial. I'm going with bees. They're actually the most important animal that you can have. And when they're dying at an alarming rate, then all the other plants and animals in the ecosystem, they face those like a rapid decline in population once the bees are gone. OK.
Starting point is 00:41:49 My last pick, I'm going to go with an ox. Strong like an ox. Strongest animal there is in the history of the world. I've never seen one on a farm. Well, they are a farm animal. I Googled it. I Googled farm animals, and there were somewhere on that list, an ox.
Starting point is 00:42:02 Like in a different country? No, dude. They're fucking ox. They're stronger horses. They're a horse and they're not. Like cows. No, but they're strong. That's they pull carts and shit.
Starting point is 00:42:12 They do the same work as a horse. Yeah, they pull the sled. They're not related to a horse. No, no, yeah, they pull the sled. Yeah, yeah. It's more common, I think, over in China. There's a lot of oxen in China. Wherever it may be, there's a farm right now
Starting point is 00:42:25 that ox is like, what's up? Not in America. Well, no, there's ox farms in America. Is there? I'm sure you could Google it. I don't fucking know. This is hard Mount Rushmore. Ox is just a good name, I think, for an animal.
Starting point is 00:42:38 Ox, O-X. I had a roommate in college. He was a D-Lieman. Had a nickname, Ox. That's a cool nickname. Where do oxes live, Google, real quick? Maybe he was an old animal. He didn't play a lot.
Starting point is 00:42:51 With a name like Ox, I feel like you have to have a nickname. Ooh, Russia, that's pretty sick. There's no ox here. No ox. Oxen. Oxen. Wait, wait, in Oregon Trail, you had an ox, right?
Starting point is 00:43:04 Yeah, dude. And they all died fording the river. They pulled the wagon. They're the one who pulled the wagon. The dales are just filled with oxen with diphtheria. It really is. And the ox was a central part of it. All right, Hank.
Starting point is 00:43:17 I'll go with the rabbit. You just said earlier that rabbits weren't in the farm. You said that. Then all of my lists went away. Yeah, exactly. It's hard to think. And there's not really much else to take. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:43:28 I mean, rabbits are cool. Rabbits are cool. They just fuck all the time. Two rabbits? Probably a good pet. I was about to say something really dumb, never mind. Do rabbits lay eggs? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:43:38 That was going to be my question, too. Thanks to you, you massive idiot. They don't, right? No one wonders that. Live birth. Live birth? How many bunnies do they squirt out at once? A bunch, I think.
Starting point is 00:43:49 Yeah. Six, seven, something like that. It's so weird to think that inside of a furry rabbit, there are like six other furry, slimy rabbits at any given time. You guys need to get out of this. Last pick. The concrete jungle for the bar too long.
Starting point is 00:44:03 Barncat. That's a good pick. I thought of that just, yeah. Barncat. What are they doing? Cat. Scouty. Shout out to Scouty the Barncat.
Starting point is 00:44:11 Shout out to Scouty wherever you are right now. Big orange barncat. He's just a panther. I mean, he's always a killer. He's a killer. So what are they always hunting? What's cooking out the window? Oh, Scouty's on something.
Starting point is 00:44:21 Got a pigeon in his mouth. Mice, rats, you name it. He's always on the hunt. And then the house is only 300 feet away from the barn. So the storm's rolling. Scouty's at the door. He's looking to get inside. He can lay it down for a day or so.
Starting point is 00:44:37 Can get inside, beat the heat if he wants. He's got the best of both worlds going. Now, does he respect the main house? Like, does he, when he comes in the main house, does he stay maybe like in the kitchen or does he stay? Yeah, he kind of lays low. He goes and lays it down. Doesn't bother with the people.
Starting point is 00:44:53 He knows he's not a house cat. Nice. So there is a difference between a house cat and a barn cat. I kind of like how a house cat is a barn cat. Does Scouty ever bring you offerings? Like, if he kills a mouse or something? 100% he leaves it on the front porch. He's real proud of his killings.
Starting point is 00:45:06 Sometimes I'll send these guys. There'll be a, I'll walk out. It'll be just ahead of a mouse. So just drop the head right on the front porch just to let you know he's still there. He's still killing, he's doing his job. Does anyone pet him? Oh yeah.
Starting point is 00:45:19 Is he like getting pet? Oh yeah. Okay. But he doesn't, he's not one of those like demanding cats that needs to be pet. We actually had two, we started off with two cats. They were in their house cats. They got pushed outside and Scouty drove the other one off.
Starting point is 00:45:30 He's an alpha, you know? He's just, yeah, he drove it. It was a really, it was a hard time at our house for one of my daughters. Wondering what Scouty did with the other cat. What was other cat's name? I still don't even remember it at this point. That's the concussion thing coming back to that.
Starting point is 00:45:47 What was the cat's name? That's just a beta cat getting lost to the winds of history. Scouty drove off his sister into the nature and Scouty, Scouty is a thug, but he's always there. You know, you'll be out there. You'll feed, feed and stuff. You turn on Scouty on your, on your, on your shoulder. I liked that.
Starting point is 00:46:05 He's like the eyes of the barn. Yeah. He kind of runs a show out there for sure. I liked that. Okay. We're going to put in the Mount Rushmore specific, we'll say barn cat specifically Scouty. And you'll probably win just from the Scouty pick.
Starting point is 00:46:18 Scouty is a legend already. Shout out to Scouty. My kids will be really pumped. I guess. No, wait, does Scouty have a tag or he does not? I like it. He's just free range. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:46:28 We are moving soon and it's a big discussion at the house if we'll Scouty, Scouty's trying to re-home. That's a concern. Like he'll run back. Yeah. Back to his range. I like that. I did that.
Starting point is 00:46:42 I just go back to my old house. Damn. And we, when we sold our house. The people that moved into the house were like, what the fuck? How far away was it? So we might lock him in the house for a little bit, for a week or so.
Starting point is 00:46:53 I don't know. We're Googling that we're concerned. Maybe release a bunch of mice. So he's like, oh, all the mice are here. And when the first people came to look at our house, one of the comments they left was that they loved the giant orange cat that greeted them when they went to the barn.
Starting point is 00:47:09 Fucking low scouts. I believe Scouty had a hand in selling the house. You gotta text me a picture so we can put it on the show. Okay, yeah, for sure. Yeah, Scouty in his natural habitat. All right, Tony Schaeffler, thank you. Our CQ weapon. That's it.
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Starting point is 00:50:19 How does it feel to be retired? Let's start there. Oh gosh. You know, actually I would say like the typical, like it doesn't feel any different, but it's not true because WWE having tag titles. My sister and I really wanted to go back and just, you know, start chaos with the girls
Starting point is 00:50:38 that hold them and I can't do that. So it's been tough that way of knowing like when you can't, like it's not like I was able to just say, hey, I want to retire, you know, my body retired me. Yeah. So did you have to file like official paperwork? Cause I know in like baseball you have to submit things. You know, I've actually been pretty bummed
Starting point is 00:50:58 because I haven't had like a huge retirement party. Yeah, you need that. I kind of was like, Brie, you're my twin sister. Like I get it, you are having babies, but I feel like I need it to be official. I need like a party about me. It's kind of selfish of her to have all those kids right in the middle of your retirement.
Starting point is 00:51:12 Yes, 100%, like you selfish mom. Yeah, yeah. So I wanted to start at the beginning though, your path to becoming a WWE superstar. You started at soccer, right? Was your like first love? Oh my gosh, yes. So would you play in college?
Starting point is 00:51:30 So well, I did 11 years competitive. And then when it came a week before, I was going to sign with Arizona State University. I snapped my leg in half. Oh, Jesus. And so it kind of just took me out of the game. I mean, well, it literally took me out of the game. And then it took out my mindset.
Starting point is 00:51:46 I was like, I just don't want to heal and come back to soccer, but it was my whole life. And so a few years later, I ended up playing for Grossmont College. The coach knew who I was and knew my background. And so he let me walk on. And then we went to state. And so that's over in San Diego.
Starting point is 00:52:03 And then I was going to go play in Italy. So the women's league in the United States had already folded. And I was also going to do that while being in college that I had like my whole future set up, right? And I just went in different direction. But the women's league in Italy was like blooming, right? And I'm Italian, so they're like,
Starting point is 00:52:22 we'd love for you to come play over there. And then all of a sudden, WWE came to my door. Okay, so one last question about soccer. Are you messy or Ronaldo? You know, I guess I'd be a messy. Okay, good answer. We're about to kick you out of here. Yeah, right?
Starting point is 00:52:39 I'm like, oh, you're like, that's it. Thanks for stopping by. Bad opinions on soccer all around. So you got to gloss over that a little bit. So you were done with soccer and then you were like, I'll give WWE a shot. That's not the path that most people go through when they're like done playing soccer.
Starting point is 00:52:55 I would imagine. So what was that process like? So it was my twin sister, Brie. They, I didn't grow up a WWE fan. Like my brother started watching it. Like when I was in high school is when he got into it. But no one that I was around was really like die hard, WWE fans.
Starting point is 00:53:12 And I remember when I worked at Hooters. Nice. Right, never heard of that place. Yep. When I had my wings, I didn't. Okay. Wait, did you work there? You mean Tiger Woods?
Starting point is 00:53:23 No. But you worked there with your sister? I did. Double trouble. That's fishing with dynamite. That's every guy's dream, twins. We do like, what was our Tuesday? We do something on Tuesday.
Starting point is 00:53:33 Oh, double lunch, punch Tuesday. So you know, you come in for lunch or you give you two little punches. Nice. Yeah, it was fun. But so I remember when I'd see the paper views of WWE and I just wasn't there in that attitude era and kind of how they were with women.
Starting point is 00:53:46 It just, it didn't attract me. But I was always, I always loved the entertainment industry. Since I've been a little girl, all I ever wanted to do was act. I really loved the old Hollywood side of it, like Marilyn Monroe and all those type of women. And so when Brie ended up bringing WWE to me and she was like, Nicole, you have to see what they were doing.
Starting point is 00:54:08 I immediately went to my hooter days. Like, wait, they were doing bra and panty matches, like no thanks. She's like, no, they're really like kicking butt in the ring. Like you need to check it out. So I like saw it. And what really turned me on to WWE is not only were these women like showcasing athletic ability,
Starting point is 00:54:23 but they got to be these characters. And like you were either the superhero, the villain, and you would either be in a love story. And I was like, this is actually really cool. And we went and auditioned and tried out and then the rest is history. So you're auditioning, how much of your own background did you have to write into a character
Starting point is 00:54:42 as you were going through the auditioning process? So, you know, they just, everyone for so long would immediately look at my sister and be like, okay, they're twins. Like that's it. So always that's it. Guys are problems. We are idiots.
Starting point is 00:54:54 We literally look at you, we're like twins. Twins. Nice. Yep, fantasy. Love sisters. It's a weird fantasy. You have to admit, right? I mean, were you a Game of Thrones fan?
Starting point is 00:55:05 You all felt weird, right? About Cersei and Jamie. So I felt like that my whole life when I hear about fantasy. When everyone was like, hey, you guys are twins. It's very gross when you break it down. It's like, you know what my fantasy is? Like a little bit of incest.
Starting point is 00:55:18 Yeah. I was watching stuff like that. Right, and we're not even fighting for a throne. So it's messed up. Oh, Coors Light, those twins were cool. I was like, actually, that's awesome. And I guess the turn on was like, whoa, there's two. There's two of them.
Starting point is 00:55:30 It's double trouble. It's really just guys, we're idiots at the end of the day. And we're like, two girls are better than one. Yes. No, we are dumb. We're definitely dumb. So yeah, so you were going through the audition process and they're like, we only see twins.
Starting point is 00:55:42 Yeah, so, and they liked it. They're like, okay, twins and everything in that beginning stage was just identical. Like we dressed like they wanted us to talk at the same time. And really when like Fearless Nikki took off, which is my character name, was when I finally put myself into my character fully. I was like, you know what?
Starting point is 00:56:02 I am now gonna, like my character ended up looking like my soccer character. Like I did the jersey and the shorts and the kicks with the socks and the snapback. I mean, I wanna wear a snapback on a field. But when I like finally put myself into that, is when like, I feel like Embry was her or hippy self, is when our superstars like really blossom.
Starting point is 00:56:23 But just the twins, I mean, they still took us because they were looking for twins. But goodness for years, it was like, I'd look at her and I'm like, you're my clone. It was nuts. So how much, I always, I'm curious to say, I was a big wrestling fan in the late 90s. How much do the like the superstars have a say
Starting point is 00:56:39 in the character writing? Like what happens to your character? Or is it just like, you have to do this, you lose this match, you win this one. It's sad. Well, so when it comes like as far as characters, especially back when I started, you would come up with your own ideas
Starting point is 00:56:54 and you just keep pitching it and you would show them outfits you would make. And they'd be like, yes, no, now they have kind of their own character development. So they may have an idea for you or you bring your own ideas. But as far as like your gear and everything, what you wear, like you decide that.
Starting point is 00:57:09 Unless there's something specific Vince wants, your entrance, like the things you do, you come up with everything. So I could wear a t-shirt. I'd never have to take off my shirt. If you're like, I'm the t-shirt guy and that's that. I'm the guy who wears a sweatshirt. Kevin Owens, I mean, he's the t-shirt guy.
Starting point is 00:57:24 He wrestles with a t-shirt, right? Right, exactly. But as far as finishes, well, I mean, I wish I could write my finishes. But unfortunately, that's the man that does that. Did you ever think about leaking a script? Oh, never. Yeah, that'd be big trouble.
Starting point is 00:57:40 Oh, my big trouble. And people have done that. But like for me, I really fell in love with the wrestling industry. And like, I have so much respect for it. And I was like those kids, like I would, my imagination would get lost in it and creativity. And I would get excited to not only be a part of the shows,
Starting point is 00:57:57 but to see them. Cause I couldn't wait to see like what my fellow co-workers or people that I was fans of, what they were going to create that night. And then when I knew something was really good, I couldn't wait to see the fans reaction. Like, oh, they're not even, they're in for a treat. It was like really fun for me.
Starting point is 00:58:12 Has there ever been a point where you, as a wrestler, maybe you're a little bit in character or whatever, but you see somebody else who's so far into their character and they're just being a heel, that you actually find yourself getting pissed off at that person in real life? Oh my gosh, yeah. It's like, especially like when they're in with someone
Starting point is 00:58:30 you love, you're like, don't do that to him. Like Jester or her. So even though you're like part of the show, you're also like taking in the show like we are. Yeah, it becomes real life. Yeah. It's about when you kissed your sister's husband before she did.
Starting point is 00:58:45 Ew, that was like, I know, right? I mean, that was real life, right? Real life, but they weren't together yet, but it was like, they would flirt a lot. Is that awkward now? And I knew they liked, it was, oh no. Okay. I think cause we're all weird, I don't know, maybe.
Starting point is 00:58:57 It's like, when that was so quick, like it would be weird, I think maybe if it was a really big passionate kiss. Right. But I remember even when I did, they weren't even together, but I was like, well, that's nothing. And like it was like such a quick peck.
Starting point is 00:59:10 Right. But they were flirting for a long time. I mean, I knew they had a crush on each other. It was, and I could even tell the kiss in the ring, me it was like real quick and like whatever, like if I was his mom and then him and Bri like pecked really long, like twice. And I was like, hmm.
Starting point is 00:59:24 Interesting. Yeah. I always thought I was the better twin. Is it more fun to be booed or cheered? You know, That's a good question. It's a very good question. It's a very good question, she said it too.
Starting point is 00:59:35 I have always loved getting booed. Love it. There's something to make people feel that is like so empowering. It's really awesome. But when I did turn really good and I, because I broke my neck and I had this comeback story and I was like,
Starting point is 00:59:53 people were like the living day Wonder Woman. And because my character turned so inspiring that when people were chanting for me, like it was like a different cheer in a way. Like, because they were so inspired and that felt good. It wasn't like, oh, let's just cheer for her because she's the good guy. Like they were so happy that I overcame something
Starting point is 01:00:11 and you felt that love and support in the cheer. So, I mean, other than that, I'd always, I loved, I had embraced getting booed. It was the best. When you were injured, I always do this with wrestlers, like they get real injuries, but I always think it's fake.
Starting point is 01:00:24 Like when you had your neck brace, I laugh when I see that picture, but you actually were injured. But it's like doctor's orders. Does that suck that like people are like, ah, she's just doing a work. Yeah, right. I mean, I guess it depends the payoff.
Starting point is 01:00:36 Okay. Like I knew at the end of the day, like even the doctors would tell me, no, you won't ever get back in the ring. I knew I was going to get back in the ring. So, because showing my neck brace so much and people thinking real or fake, it ended up making it such a great superhero story.
Starting point is 01:00:50 Like I was like, when I debuted at SummerSlim, which they called me a week before. And I was like, my neck brace has been off for a month and I had only trained for like, I actually like a week at that point or two weeks. But when my music hit, I was like, yeah. Were you scared getting back in the ring after all that? Totally.
Starting point is 01:01:08 It was like, I would try not to think about it, but I will admit, what would get me in trouble is when I'd be out there, I'd forget. Like I thought I was untouchable and then I'd do too much and I come back and I'm like, oh my gosh, like Nicole, like you're going through this and I would just forget all the time. It's your adrenaline, you know, you could do anything.
Starting point is 01:01:28 You could lift cars. Yeah, so would you say, is wrestling real? Yeah, I would say wrestling is real. You know what I always say? Why is that real? We have predetermined finishes. And I like to say that we were like... No, different than the NBA, the Warriors always win.
Starting point is 01:01:41 100%, right? Or a boxing match, and I hear rumors about that. Oh yeah. We're like abroad with body slams. You know, we're a form of entertainment that you can't get anywhere else. It's true. You know, we're kind of like...
Starting point is 01:01:56 Yeah, probably like 10,000 backyards in America, but other than that. Yeah, right, exactly. But I think why people get so upset when you say it's fake, it's because of what we're really putting our bodies through. And the stories we're telling, you know, a lot of people's stories
Starting point is 01:02:12 have a lot of their own emotions or what they're going through in them. And so, I mean, imagine it's like someone coming up and being like, everything about you is fake, your life. So, I mean, I've been hit hard. There's nothing fake about it. Did you ever cut yourself? No, gosh, no.
Starting point is 01:02:27 I would not want to do the scars. Did not do the old razor. I see the old timers. I was like, ugh. You ever get bit by a snake? Did I get... No. I am terrified.
Starting point is 01:02:37 He got bit by a snake. Well, he actually was, he put on a work. He pretended to get bit by a snake so that he could get stonked. But Jake the snake, he actually brought a snake out and bit somebody on the arm, right? Yeah, I was scared of that. They don't do that anymore.
Starting point is 01:02:48 I don't like being around when people have pet snakes. I'm like, no thank you because, yeah. I'm like, you can't control this wild animal. And if it wants to strangle us, it's just gonna do it. Do you know Dwight Howard, the basketball player? He's in town, he's got a lot of snakes. So just steer clear of him. No way.
Starting point is 01:03:04 He keeps them on his person. I may have made that part up, but just stay away from it. I was like, he does have snakes? He does have snakes. Yeah, he does. I don't know where he may or may not. Unconfirmed as a press time. That's nuts.
Starting point is 01:03:16 So I have a bone to pick with you because you share a Twitter account with your sister. Oh yeah. That's kind of weird. People hate it. That's really weird. So this is the thing. It's also smart.
Starting point is 01:03:26 Yeah. Because you can be chilling really mad and be like, it was my sister. Yeah, actually, that's a good point. So when they were starting the whole Twitter, when Twitter was brand new and they came to WWE and wanted us all to sign up, again, they looked at us as one person, like the twin thing,
Starting point is 01:03:42 and they just did app Bella Twins. And then Twitter started to become really cool and over. And there was already such a following that we had talked to them about, should we get our own now? And they're like, well, I mean, you guys have your own Instagrams, you're fine. So Brie and I have always, like Brie's, I do more on Twitter because Brie's like,
Starting point is 01:03:58 whatever, you just do it. Like she doesn't even have Twitter app on her phone. So we've even talked about times of changing it just to my name, but we're like, you know what? It's a brand, it's branded. And I'll see people will always say it and it does suck. It's just weird, like the McCordy Twins, they play for the Patriots, they do the same thing.
Starting point is 01:04:17 But Big Cat's right, it's like, you can always blame the other person. That's true. If they tweet something problematic and be like, hey, it wasn't me, nobody knows who to point their finger at it, actually. So it's smart from people. I agree, actually.
Starting point is 01:04:28 I didn't think of it that way, but I'm definitely gonna start blaming her. I emotionally tweet. All the bad tweets are hurt. You like greed, dang. Absolutely. Have you ever sneezed around with men, Superman? Sneezed.
Starting point is 01:04:38 Yeah. No, because he doesn't like germs. You guys heard about that? I wouldn't know if you had sneezed around him. Yeah. He doesn't like people who don't have control. It's not the germs, it's they don't have control. Of their germs?
Starting point is 01:04:48 Of their body. He likes to be in voluntary reaction. He gets so mad at himself when he sneezes. They just like stews and raises blood pressure 15 points. Wow, I didn't even. So have you sneezed around him? Thank goodness. I have not sneezed around him.
Starting point is 01:05:01 But I do remember one time we were overseas in, was it Iraq, we're in Afghanistan, and we were doing a thing for the troops, tribute to the troops. Thank you. Yeah, you're welcome. And I was eating a corn dog in front of him. And he goes, you're eating a corn dog.
Starting point is 01:05:20 And I was like, yeah, I mean, I'm on a military base. So I mean, it was like not in french fries. I didn't really have choices. I mean, maybe deli meat. I don't know. He was so grossed out. And he's like, do you know what those are made of? And I mean, at the time, I didn't really care.
Starting point is 01:05:34 I was like, just hungry. I mean, I'm in Afghanistan, you know what I mean? Like, went in Rome. Yeah, right. Did you ever get called into his office? No, thank goodness. But I've never had a corn dog since. OK.
Starting point is 01:05:46 Never. So he's an anti-hot dog, presumably, too. I just, I don't know what it is about a corn dog. But all I know is I then felt grossed out at myself that I had a corn dog. He made you buy into his. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe this stuff.
Starting point is 01:05:58 I want to say, is it the corn dogs that are always the rumors about the cockroaches or the cockroach legs? Or is that Snickers bars? Oh, my God, Snickers bars. Snickers for me. No, it's definitely Snickers to me. God damn it. There are cockroach legs in corn dogs?
Starting point is 01:06:13 There are some. We might have to Google. But that's like a new thing. That's like a new hippie thing is putting cricket flour into stuff and making bread out of bugs. Oh, yeah. They eat crickets. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:06:24 I literally was in yoga class the other day. I'm trying to get my Zen on hot yoga. Hot yoga. Core power. It's amazing. I'm sweating, getting my Zen on. And then there is a cricket in this hot weather. Or well, not weather, but the hot room.
Starting point is 01:06:39 In the room, yeah. I was so grossed out. And people eat them now? Yes. They grind them up into flour too and put them in cookies. So you never know. If you're eating cookies out on the street. I just remember going to eat again.
Starting point is 01:06:50 How about that? Yeah, that works. So you have started podcasting. I love podcasting. OK. Do you need any tips? Yeah, give me tips. We're kind of a big deal.
Starting point is 01:06:59 Yeah, ask us. Yeah. So we're number one sports podcast. You interview us. Not to brag. I know. And I see your guys is dot com all the time. Your guys is interviews or articles go viral all the time
Starting point is 01:07:10 in the wrestling world. Oh, yeah, yeah. And I see it when you guys have talked bad about me. I personally haven't. Oh, that's all right. That's Robbie Fox. Yeah. You can beat him up easily.
Starting point is 01:07:18 Thanks, Robbie Fox. Robbie Ways and I see you. He's our guide, but we'll sell him out for you. Much as one of your arms. Good. Yeah. Easily. Oh, I'll get him.
Starting point is 01:07:26 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ambry, Robbie. Yeah, Ambry. So what is the podcast? How often does it come out? Every Wednesday, we drop a new episode. And we're kind of like a variety show, like a happy hour. Like we didn't.
Starting point is 01:07:39 There's so many amazing inspirational talks. And there's, I mean, we can't do what you guys do with sports and everything like that. Yeah, we're just, you know, no, of course. You guys are two of a kind. Go on. I sense a problem. You guys are too good looking to be podcasters.
Starting point is 01:07:56 Yeah, you should get fat. You should get short. Yeah, junk yourself up a little bit. Because nobody likes to see. Well, we do drink on our podcast. That's the good, we're like a drinking show. We're kind. And we talk about crazy stuff.
Starting point is 01:08:08 Yeah, we'll kind of drink. We usually pop open a bottle of something. Cody. Nice. No, we usually do wine, champagne. We actually did mocktails last week, which was weird, but we had a 19-year-old on, so we felt weird. We just started to have, we've only had a few guests,
Starting point is 01:08:24 but we usually, it's just Brie and I, and I don't know if you guys heard of like, we used, we had this game show that started on YouTube and it kind of went a little viral, but called Bella Brains, which is kind of the concept of, are you smarter than a fifth grader? Okay. Are we smarter than the fellas?
Starting point is 01:08:37 Can we play already though? Well, so it's Brie's husband, Daniel Bryan. He will make one of us leave the room and then he asks, we'll ask me three questions and he asks Brie and then we keep score. And I'll be like, name the planets or, and for some reason, my sister, I've bought you a lot of stuff on that.
Starting point is 01:08:52 Okay. Do you want to play the Bella Brains right now? Yeah, give us a question you've gotten. Yeah, why don't, I'll leave the room and then you leave the room. No, we should. Actually, we need it. Well, like, yeah.
Starting point is 01:09:01 One of the questions you've gotten. Name the planets. Uranus. Neptune. Venus. My very, Ernest's mother just served us nine pizzas. Saturn.
Starting point is 01:09:13 Who? That's the, that's the acrostic thing you can use to remember. Oh really? Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter. Not Earth. Earth's a planet.
Starting point is 01:09:23 Earth's a planet. Oh, shit. Oh, it's a star. She's right. Bella Brains herself. I was gonna say, I don't think Earth is. Yeah, Earth is most definitely a planet. Mars.
Starting point is 01:09:31 Dang, that one was like a few weeks ago. 100% a planet. So here you go. This is our issue. So this is Bella Brains that we're making on our podcast. Okay, I like that. We also, Brie and I, debate about something. So like our first debate we had,
Starting point is 01:09:43 and I want to hear from you guys is. No. Okay. Your anti-abortion. Is that what you just said? No. I don't speak at all about politics. But.
Starting point is 01:09:51 Gun rights. Or religion. Okay. Is one I'd stand. Vaccines. Sober or drunk. Which one would you prefer? No, what do you prefer?
Starting point is 01:10:00 Oh, I would say drunks. Cause then you can last more than like 20 seconds. Really? Yeah. But if you're too drunk then it's whiskey. Yeah. It's like the whiskey should go with a rope. We totally debated about it.
Starting point is 01:10:09 I would say, I like sober. Yeah, thank you. High five. I like to be in control of my body. Me too. So I can operate at maximum efficiency. If you're gonna add a number, you might as well know if you're gonna like it or not.
Starting point is 01:10:20 Yeah. I got a pleasure. God gave me a pleasure making body. And if I'd be disrespecting him, if I diluted that with the devil's liquor. I like to be drunk. Cause then she doesn't remember that I kept my shirt on. See, wine is Jesus juice to me.
Starting point is 01:10:31 Yeah. Yeah. Just keep your shirt on. You're the t-shirt guy. The t-shirt guy. It's my brand. Yeah. Are you a t-shirt guy at the pool?
Starting point is 01:10:38 Actually, no, I'm not. But I actually. Isn't it funny when people wear white t-shirts at the pool? Yes. I'm gonna go, we see it. It's not people. It's okay. I actually have to take my t-shirt off a little bit here.
Starting point is 01:10:47 And we have to ask one question that's maybe a little uncomfortable, quickly move on from it. You obviously were in a relationship with John Cena. He came on our podcast. Oh yeah. Right before you guys broke up. Oh no.
Starting point is 01:10:58 I showed him my belly button and he looked at it like he wanted to fuck it. And I think it might have had something to do. It's a deep belly button. He looked at it like, oh my God. I'm about to risk it all for this belly button. That is crazy. And then you guys broke up like a week later.
Starting point is 01:11:14 Do you blame me? It was your belly button. Yeah. That's too bad. I'm just not deep enough. Okay, I wrote a poem. You have a, you do poetry too, right? I love poetry.
Starting point is 01:11:25 Okay, here we go. I wrote a poem for you. Lost in your depths. I find myself yearning for more. How, why, horny? Your belly button, can I fuck it? Wow. I wrote it in John Cena's mind.
Starting point is 01:11:38 By the way, that was really good. Thank you. You're welcome. I appreciate it. It was very creative. He's writing a poem about how you wanted to fuck your own belly button. I think so.
Starting point is 01:11:47 I didn't want to fuck my belly button. Yeah, but through. He takes masturbating to a whole new level. Yeah. It's like. So I apologize. I probably had something to do with it. It was obviously, real question.
Starting point is 01:11:59 It's life. Did it suck having it be so public? Oh yeah. It's, you know, I think like being a reality star, I know what comes with that. And I'm an open book and I put everything out there. I never expected it to be that public. Like, and just how every, like your headline almost every day,
Starting point is 01:12:19 but it's stuff that's so untrue. And you just get so sick of fighting for yourself because then it makes you look defensive. Or then people take those words of you trying to protect yourself or stick up for yourself. And then that turns into another headline. And what people don't realize is like, there's two people hurting really bad.
Starting point is 01:12:34 Right. And then you have to go through that. Oh, we know he was. He was very sad. I know. That was sad. It made me sad. Yeah, he's a great guy.
Starting point is 01:12:41 And he loves you. He loves my belly button. He loves my belly button. He loves my four nipples, too, but we're not going to get into how he won. You have four nipples? You guys are all on the team. So he kind of wanted to titty-fuck white.
Starting point is 01:12:51 You want to do your strap? No, no. Your bra strap. So I got this one right here. And he wanted to titty-fuck that one. Yeah. And then this one. It's all after the belly button.
Starting point is 01:13:00 This one, he wasn't impressed with it so much. People must get so turned on when they're in there. He was horny. He was horny. Is my body ready for WWE? Totally. Okay. You can do great work.
Starting point is 01:13:11 Good to know. I have a serious question. Actually, it's not that serious. But what hurts more, taking a folding chair to the back or watching your twin sister get one? Oh, gosh. You know what it'd be?
Starting point is 01:13:23 Watching Brie get one. Yeah. That would hurt more. Can you feel her pain? I like twin stuff. I could feel her nerves. Like, it's really where I could feel her sadness. Anything emotionally I could feel.
Starting point is 01:13:32 Have you ever had that where you like woke up one day and you're like, uh-oh, Bree's in trouble? Like, twin, what do they call it? They're stuff that, it's... Oh my God, I'm just... ESP. Yeah. It's like, not the twin bond.
Starting point is 01:13:43 It's the twin, like connection or whatever. Twin-ception. Can she feel that you're like having a great time right now and laughing? Probably, she'll write text and be like, so... What were you doing? Who were you hanging out with? We'll get weird feelings about each other.
Starting point is 01:13:53 Did you see any play buttons you wanted to fuck? Yeah. That was crazy. Kinda got Joseph's and titties you saw. Yeah. Um, yeah, it's, I don't know. It's a weird, weird thing. All the twins out there, you know what I mean.
Starting point is 01:14:06 You have to be a twin to get it. I got one more twin question. Oh, shoot. I've had a lot of people come at me and say I'm wrong for this. But, at any point, I have a theory that every twin, they kiss at some point. Ew.
Starting point is 01:14:19 Because they're like, you look like me, I look like you, like we're all like kinda narcissistic. Like if I saw myself, I'd be like, give myself a little smooch. Really? Did you do that? No. Are you lying?
Starting point is 01:14:30 I think you've been watching too much. Game of Thrones. Okay. No, I've never kissed my sister ever. Not once. Not once. No peck, no. You look cute.
Starting point is 01:14:40 She's so cute. No. You look the same. My sister and I, I have to admit, like I could definitely see other twins out there doing it. Yes, thank you. For sure.
Starting point is 01:14:49 Or female. But Brie and I, like we even have a hard time hugging. Like we're like one person, but we're very different. But we're, we've always just been very tomboyish too. So like, we're not, my mom used to laugh because like we're such huggers in PDA with like everyone except each other. Interesting.
Starting point is 01:15:07 She's like, you guys are so weird about that. So I know something probably happened to my child. I don't have to figure it out in therapy, but yeah. We've never, ever kissed. Yeah. Ever. Okay. I don't believe you, but okay.
Starting point is 01:15:18 No, I swear. No, I don't. I could swear on anything. I don't believe about you, but it's okay. You're Italian though, right? Yeah. You kiss every time you say hello. Yeah, before you monge.
Starting point is 01:15:25 It's customary. It's weird, it's like my sister and I don't do it. Before the seven feasts. We get weirded out. Seven feasts. You monge. Fish number six. Come on, La Familia.
Starting point is 01:15:34 Kiss on the cheek. Omerza. You know what? It's like all the Italian stereotypes. You know what? It's Omerza. They're not allowed to talk about it. That's it.
Starting point is 01:15:43 That's all we got. And I'm Mexican. So like Italian Mexican. They both do it. They do. There you go. Yeah. Not us.
Starting point is 01:15:49 Sorry. Were they disappointing twins? No matter what you say, Big Cat's not gonna believe you. No, I won't. She's had this theory baked in for the last 30 years of his life. Imagine it. Well, it's one of those perfect theories
Starting point is 01:15:58 because every twin's gonna deny it. Yeah. And then you're always on the hunt for it. I don't know. I think some twins would actually be honest. I think there's some. If I saw myself right now, I'd kiss myself. You guys would look each other's belly button.
Starting point is 01:16:09 I would be like, yeah. 69 belly buttons with each other? Yeah. I don't think it's ever been done before. That would be amazing. I just invented a new sex position. You could actually have like a dildo and like actually do the other belly button.
Starting point is 01:16:21 Yeah. I mean, it would be like a Chinese finger trick. It would be like, yeah, the double side or whatever they call it. Double side belly button. It's not crazy. I don't hate the idea. I'm down for it.
Starting point is 01:16:33 New invention. I make a lot of money. What's the key to cutting an awesome promo? Heart, having, well, I don't mean, of course, heart. Having something truthful there. Like, of course you could always tell a story but everyone that I've seen cut a really amazing promo. They have truth in it.
Starting point is 01:16:51 So they either really don't like the other person and when they're hitting them below the belt, like there's truth to it or they bring it, or you know what, not true. I should say personal. They make it personal. That is how I've done some of my best. And anyone I've seen that I've enjoyed,
Starting point is 01:17:06 I know that it was personal. And the other person never says some of those words coming. They weren't a part of the script. Is it like, is the WWE behind the scenes very clicky? I would assume it's... Yeah. I mean, we're together a lot. So you definitely like smack down, you know,
Starting point is 01:17:21 they have their group that travels the time and they'll be clicks within there and then raw as well. Cause I mean, we're together when you're on it full time. Like you're with people more than your family, your friends, your kids. I mean, five days, four days a week. And then when you go overseas, you're 14 days straight. I know, it's nuts.
Starting point is 01:17:38 No breaks, no off season. That's it, you know. Have you ever got a script and just been like, I don't want to do this shit? Oh my God, yeah. Can you ever just not do it? You have? So I've, in the beginning of my career,
Starting point is 01:17:51 the one thing that I regretted was I played by the rules so much because I just, I do have so much respect for my bosses, but I think because being a competitive soccer player for so long, like you listen to your coaches, that's what made you better. So I took that mentality into the WWE, but what I realized is that actually held me back.
Starting point is 01:18:09 Like I came off so vanilla at times, like not that interesting because I didn't break those rules or when I cut those promos, I didn't make it personal. And until I started like my Divas championship reign, I just started making it personal. And the best thing I ever heard was like, apologize later.
Starting point is 01:18:25 And I really took it like, I would never know something so bad about someone to put that out on live TV. But I would definitely start to go off script and sometimes you get yelled at. Like one time I made a Cinco de Mayo joke about Trump and I got in a lot of trouble, but I thought it was really funny.
Starting point is 01:18:45 So, and the crowd thought it was hilarious. Right. And I don't ever get political, but I was Mexican and it was there. It was like so, it was a layup. And he was like getting his head shaved in the center of the ring at the time too. So it's like, hey, we can't make fun of this guy anymore.
Starting point is 01:18:59 It was, I thought it was so funny, but that's when I was like, okay, I'm never gonna do anything like that again. Like nothing with politics, but I thought because I didn't touch a playful way because I hate, I don't ever talk about politics or religion because I thought I did it playfully. That was the only thing I would never touch again.
Starting point is 01:19:14 Right, right. How scary is the undertaker? Please say scary. I'm very. Okay, good. I didn't want to be like, oh, he's such a teddy bear. No, he's, yeah, very intimidating. Yes, I mean, he's dead, he's a dead man.
Starting point is 01:19:25 Right, right. He, you know what it is, is people have so much respect for him backstage. So he just, I mean, he's iconic and he's a legend and he's treated like that when he's backstage. Like you wait in line to shake the undertaker's hand. Good, good. I'm happy to hear that.
Starting point is 01:19:40 That makes me feel good. So you're not into politics, but like there have been wrestlers that have gotten into politics. Kane, Jesse the body, Jesse the body probably gonna be present one day. You ever gonna get into politics yourself? Oh, hell no.
Starting point is 01:19:54 No, no, no. No, what if you could be a senator? No. If you'd be president. No. You wouldn't want to be president? No way. I wouldn't want that job.
Starting point is 01:20:02 What about president of WWE? Well, you know, maybe that. No, actually, I don't know if I'd want that job either. So you're gunning for Vince's job. No, yeah, I don't know if I want to, sorry, I don't know if I want that job. I am, it's, you know, being in that position, I would enjoy being a leader,
Starting point is 01:20:18 but something where no one is ever gonna ground and it's gonna bring hate. I don't want to be a part of that. Like you're in such a bad and like around bad energy all the time and I like being around good energy. Yeah. I just, I don't stick around people who make me feel bad or they bring bad juju in my life.
Starting point is 01:20:35 I'm like, no, I'm out. Like you're out of here. So I couldn't do it. I wouldn't want to do it. Are you the most famous pair of twins? Olsen twins? I mean, yeah, the Olsen twins. The Winklevoss twins.
Starting point is 01:20:48 The who? The Facebook founders of Facebook. Oh, yeah. Well, they would have found allegedly. If they found Facebook, they would have found it Facebook. They're yotters. Right. They own a yacht.
Starting point is 01:20:57 Barbbers? Tina Tamera. Tina Tamera. Who's that? You didn't know? Oh, yes, just a sister. Come on. Tiki and Ronde Barber.
Starting point is 01:21:04 Yeah. Who else do we have? Who are the guys that, they used to be on the suns, right, or ones on the suns and ones on the... Oh, the Morris twins. Yeah. They're identical. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:21:14 That's crazy. They'll also fight you if you try to fuck their mom. Oh, yeah. Did you try to? No, I didn't, but someone else did. We tried to fight them. Oh my gosh. Well, good thing.
Starting point is 01:21:22 I'm not an Indian woman. Yeah. Who, I mean, there's... I think you're up there. I think you're like... I mean, I do think we're up there, which is kind of cool. It's Olson and then you.
Starting point is 01:21:30 I think Olson just because of how long they've been around. Right. But if you guys keep going, you might be able to take that over. I've tried to ask to compete with them in the ring for WrestleMania. That would be awesome. That would be so cool.
Starting point is 01:21:41 Holy shit. It would be so sick. It would be awesome. They come in like their big robes. Yeah. Did they, did the WWE end up asking them? Probably not. And they probably were like, what?
Starting point is 01:21:51 Yeah. Like who? Are you serious? All right. I got one last question. It's a C-keek question you put in promo code take. You get $10 off. C-keek purchase.
Starting point is 01:22:00 Go to a WWE match. C-keek, $10 off. How hard is dancing with the stars? The hardest thing I've ever done in my life. Harder than wrestling? Yes. No. Yep.
Starting point is 01:22:13 But you just get out there and do the cha-cha-cha. Yeah. I wish it was that easy. That's what I thought. Okay. So being an athlete, like my whole life, I've trained like in soccer, you train a certain way. And what I learned in soccer helped me a lot in the ring
Starting point is 01:22:26 with like my footing and stuff. Dancing is way different. Like how we hold our bodies, like we're ready to fight and get hit. They're always out. So they were trying to like retrain my muscles, which my muscles were like, no. But not only are you trying to learn to dance
Starting point is 01:22:40 and you're trying to be graceful. Like I thought I had some grace to me and now I'm so far off. But it was like, so you're learning, you think 90 seconds or a minute, it was like a minute, 15 is like not a lot. It is so many steps. Then you're on live TV, then you know you're going to be judged.
Starting point is 01:22:57 And before what you guys don't hear is like, when we're on set, there's three clicks that play to the whole house. So you know your music is about to start. So you better be ready. I started to have nightmares about those three clicks. Really? It was like crazy.
Starting point is 01:23:09 Even my sister, because she would come and watch me a lot. She had nightmares on the three clicks because she gets so nervous for me. But it was the hardest thing I've ever done. Would you finish? And it was hard on my body. I made it to the seventh week, I think. So I feel like I got gypped.
Starting point is 01:23:23 I should have kept, I had another week or two. Be careful, that's problematic. We have gypsy listeners. So we don't want another trump. That's what's out here. Gypsy? Oh, I thought I got- So you deal with them at the fair and the gypsy?
Starting point is 01:23:36 Yeah, we stole your magic. And now they're called gyp? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You have no soul. Like that kind of shit. Wow. See, this is the type of stuff you don't necessarily know get in the podcast game.
Starting point is 01:23:45 You can't say gyp. You gotta be careful. You can't say the G word. We know everything. Seriously, you guys are being honest. Because I never know if you're being like serious. We usually are joking. Well, you know what else I got in trouble for saying?
Starting point is 01:23:57 What? Bums. Bums. Bums. You have to say homeless people. Yes, yes. And I didn't know that was a bad word. That was bad.
Starting point is 01:24:05 That was problematic. Oh my gosh. The internet, yeah. I didn't know that B word. Oh my gosh. Yeah, you're not saying that. So it's no- I was like, why can't I say buns anymore?
Starting point is 01:24:13 So no gyps. No gyps. No buns. I just said it. Gypsy. No, you say, I got Jude. Oh my gosh. It's worse.
Starting point is 01:24:24 What do I want to say now? I got ripped off. You just left me open there for that joke. That was good. I got ripped off. Yeah, you got ripped off. That sucks. Yeah, don't say it's OK.
Starting point is 01:24:35 Can you guys send me a list of what you want to say? Yeah, we can get you everything. I put my foot in my mouth constantly. Yeah, that's OK. As long as you're not doing it maliciously. Yeah, right? You can't say red skits anymore. I don't know this world, though.
Starting point is 01:24:45 Can't say what? Washington R words. The R words, not the red skins. We'll give you a whole one. So you probably don't get it to get a whole sheet. Yeah, we'll get you a sheet. We haven't seen that either. What's that?
Starting point is 01:24:58 We're in a bad spot. Disabled. Also, a joke that I made last night that I wrote down on Big Cat's pad that he scratched out. You can't say that either. We're not going to tell you what that was. I have one last question. Who would you like to body slam?
Starting point is 01:25:14 Just like an outside of wrestling. Name one person. Gosh, good question. That's really good. Anyone in the world. There's a few people I've done business with that I'd love to body slam. Name names, spill it.
Starting point is 01:25:29 I can't do to lawyer stuff, but. Let's get that tea. The day the paperwork's official, they probably have a few body slams in their future. I like it. I would not cross you. No, I have a side that I get. Yeah, it's the Italian.
Starting point is 01:25:43 I'm a fireball. When you cross out, and it takes a little bit, which is kind of surprising. But when you cross that. Italian temperatures go bang on a drum. And I'm Latin, and I'm Scorpio. Like I don't know how to do things. I'm all fire.
Starting point is 01:25:56 November 21st. What is Scorpio supposed to do? I'm Aquarius. What is that? Lover? Probably. No, Scorpios. Drunk, drunk lover.
Starting point is 01:26:06 Who else? I mean, I technically actually, right now, a lot of people who are speaking in Alabama, I like to body slam. There we go. There we go. We don't get political, but I agree. I agree with you.
Starting point is 01:26:19 Smash their ass through the table with you. Yeah. Could you kick our ass? Totally. If me and Big Cat attack you at once. This is the one thing I will say is. I'm fat. No.
Starting point is 01:26:31 Men, you guys do have a strength that, like, when I go to wrestle, all of a sudden, you guys, you just, there's something that you're like, OK, wow. It's a different kind of strength. It's all that sperm. I know. I don't know, but some might not have it. This is a good thing we feel really strong.
Starting point is 01:26:48 Right? But then there's, but I have ways where I could kick ass. Yeah. Stamina. I would be. I would be out of breath. And I could kick really hard. Yes, I bet.
Starting point is 01:26:58 And then I would kick someone in the nuts so hard, and then I'd hit him with wrestling moves. Yep. OK. And I probably shoved my foot up their butt. Oh, OK. That's nice. Because some people are into that, though.
Starting point is 01:27:07 Like, foot people. Yeah, but I would make it so not enjoyable. And as I was doing it, I probably ripped their hair and like, yeah, yeah, pull my hair. Pull my hair. Yeah. Right to you. Choke me, daddy.
Starting point is 01:27:19 You want to hear a funny thing? So I was at a part, this was years ago. I'm at a party in the sky. Like, wouldn't stop saying like, you can't take me down, whatever. And I'm like, oh, this dude won't shut up. I literally walked up to him and I grabbed his head and flipped him over.
Starting point is 01:27:32 I did a headlock takeover. His face and everyone was like, oh, shit. He's like, oh, my gosh. And I was like, so what? Hell yeah. Like, yeah. Hell yeah. I know how to, I know how to do that.
Starting point is 01:27:41 Yes, absolutely. I once broke a guy's wrist in a club two one time. He grabbed my friend's thigh and literally my first reaction. I grabbed it. And you know when you do like, with this. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So I want to stop me from breaking it.
Starting point is 01:27:53 Damn it. I didn't want to stop. You should have. Wow. Just like bent it over. All right. Well, we won't fuck with you. I was going to.
Starting point is 01:27:58 The last question was going to be defend yourself and then we're going to attack you. Like spider monkey jelly. I think you've proven that you would take this shit out of us. Yeah. But everyone go listen to the Bella Twins podcast. Every Wednesday. Yep.
Starting point is 01:28:09 They never say the word. Jip. Yeah. No, we don't say bad words, but we drink a lot. Yes. So check it out if you're smarter than us. Yes. Thank you, Nikki.
Starting point is 01:28:16 This was awesome. This was fun. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thanks, Nikki. Yeah. That interview with Nikki Bella was brought to you by Quip. We're not the first to say it, but we're the first that I've
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Starting point is 01:30:54 Tell them PFT sent you. And boom, you're going to get a free pair of nunchucks with your pair of bird dogs. OK, let's get to some segments. First up, we have Bachelorette Talk. For guys that don't watch The Bachelorette, but PFT, I have some news for you. You're not going to like this?
Starting point is 01:31:12 Hank spoiled The Bachelorette for me. How dare you, Hank? He told me the winner on our plane, and I said, what the fuck, dude? I love this show. I watch it religiously. I don't watch it religiously. And now my whole night's ruined.
Starting point is 01:31:27 I actually, other thing I got to tell you, I don't remember who he told me won. So he spoiled me, but my brain unspoiled itself, because I don't know any of the names. I can't keep them straight. Well, that's just your brain operating at a very high level, it's self-preservation. You deflected the spoiling.
Starting point is 01:31:43 Hank, when you spoiled it, did you whisper it, or did you say it out loud? Because you might have spoiled it for other people on the plane. I said it out loud, and Big Cat reacted very loudly, so that's definitely true. So that's what the Mount Rushmore of annoying travelers, people that spoil endings to The Bachelorette.
Starting point is 01:31:59 While eating Chick-fil-A on the flight, that's what he did. At least he didn't masturbate, like that guy who put a cloth over him and just went fucking hammer time on his penis. PFT, so I got Chick-fil-A, the line was wicked long, and then by the time I got it, like our plane was boarding,
Starting point is 01:32:13 and Big Cat and his pride, he was like, give me some chicken nuggets, and I gave it to him, and we could have boarded, and he was like, I'm not getting on there with this, and fucking shoved eight chicken nuggets into his face in like a minute. Yup, yeah, in order to decrease the amount of time that he was eating hot food on a plane,
Starting point is 01:32:30 eat it all at once. Correct. And yeah. Yes, I ate zero hot food on the plane. Hank, are we confirmed that you didn't pound off while you were eating the Chick-fil-A? Yes, can't confirm. You did have a blanket up by your mouth
Starting point is 01:32:41 for a long portion of the flight. If you're a Chick-fil-A customer, you shouldn't be touching guy parts as part of the contract. Hank and I were doing the Rain City Jax on the plane from Detroit to New York City. All right, well, so it's a two-part Bachelorette episode. Yesterday was the season finale, this is recording beforehand.
Starting point is 01:32:59 I'll give you the recap from last night, and then I'll tell you what I know. Oh, it was Tennessee Jed, that's who won. Yeah. That's who he spoiled me with. Yeah. What the fuck, big guy? At the Rose Ceremony.
Starting point is 01:33:10 We can fuck that out. No, no, it's fine. No, no, we'll fuck that out. It's out today. Yeah, but some people don't watch right away. Wait, we're gonna talk about it. We're not doing spoilers in case people have their DVR set. Yeah, what?
Starting point is 01:33:22 What are you talking about? That's a fucking point in this show. At the Rose Ceremony, Hannah sends Pete the pilot home, leaving Tyler and Jed as the final two. She also mentioned that Pete the pilot, and her had sex four times, not two. Whoa. So, aggressive.
Starting point is 01:33:36 Well, that just means that he nutted real quick. Yeah, so actually, that's what I thought too. He must have just been holding it in for like the whole time until that point. Is that when we determined that sex has occurred, by the way? Like once the guy nuts, that's one time? If so, that's very sexist.
Starting point is 01:33:50 Yeah, that's true. The woman has to orgasm for it to be sex. Yeah, or lactate. I've never had sex. Jed meets Hannah's parents, and they're skeptical of his career as a singer-songwriter. They're worried he won't be able to provide for her financially. Jed tells him he will be able to support her
Starting point is 01:34:07 because he recently made a jingle for a dog food commercial. OK. There you go. Hold it up. So the winner made a dog food commercial? So last night, Tuesday night, it's Tyler versus Jed. Jed wins. Jed wins.
Starting point is 01:34:22 We don't know what happens, though, because I guess if you're listening to the show and you watched last night, you do. But after the show ends, they reveal that Jed wins, but then they show what happens in the months following, and whether or not they're still together. So you guys can choose what you think if Hannah and Jed are still going strong.
Starting point is 01:34:39 Are you 100% sure that they will show who wins tonight? Yes. Is there a chance that we spoil the world? No. OK. No. All right. That would have been thrilling.
Starting point is 01:34:48 Fuck. Damn it. So what do you guys think? Do you think they stayed together? Keep in mind that Jed was one of the people that had a girlfriend the whole time, and Hannah didn't know that while they were together. What the hell?
Starting point is 01:34:57 These couples always stay together for life, right? I mean, Jed sounds like a catch. She'll have all the puppy chow that she'll need for life. Sounds like, yeah, I think these two are going to make it. I think they stay together until it's always they do, like a People Magazine story about the couple. About nine months later, they're usually living in some really nice Nashville house,
Starting point is 01:35:22 and they're like, we love our new life, and everything's been so great, and we just like to slow down a little. Our partying days are over. It's right when that comes out, they'll break up within a month. Agreed. Yeah. That's when you find out that she's
Starting point is 01:35:35 like fucking the safety on the Titans. Mm-hmm. All right, that's the last one for a while. OK. Ah, too bad. That's too bad. Yeah. That is too bad.
Starting point is 01:35:44 I'm going to miss not watching that show. Yeah. All right, let's do Respect the Biz for Stephen A. Smith. Let's play this clip real quick. Stephen A. Smith, what's up, you bona fide scrub? How are you, man? I think you're wrong, because LeBron is the best player to ever play the game.
Starting point is 01:35:57 Stop right there, stop right there, stop right there. Don't you ever call up to my show again and open up disrespecting me. You don't have a right to do that. You don't have a right to do that. Mind your damn manners. Regardless of what you think about me, you still called up to my show.
Starting point is 01:36:15 So you will address me as Stephen A. or Mr. Smith. You won't call me a bona fide scrub, and then continue to talk on my damn show. Do we understand one another? Yeah, I got you, Stephen A. All right, now speak respectfully before you throw the insults. And then you might have a chance to get your point,
Starting point is 01:36:33 of course. Now go ahead. All-time clip, Stephen A. Smith, you can say whatever you want on his radio show, but you better address him as Stephen A. or Mr. Smith before doing that. Well, and also credit to him. He left the door open.
Starting point is 01:36:46 He's like, now if we get into an argument and you beat me in the argument, then you can call me a chump. I'll take my lumps if you defeat me in an argument, knowing full well that nobody on earth is physically capable of defeating Stephen A. Smith in an argument. But I'd like to make the same request of our listeners.
Starting point is 01:37:02 And when you call in, please refer to me as either Stephen A. or Stephen A. Smith. No, yeah. Refer to PFT as Stephen A. and me as Mr. Smith, please, whenever you call in. Why is he in a sling? We don't know. I think, I don't know if he knows.
Starting point is 01:37:21 I think he's like a dog. Somebody took him to a doctor one day because he was limping around. They put a sling on him. He's just ignoring it. Just seeing him in an arm sling. I don't know what, I mean, I assume it's probably like an ass eating experience gone wrong,
Starting point is 01:37:36 knowing Stephen A. Smith, but it's very funny just like popping open the Twitter and seeing a clip of him in an arm sling. I love those type of injuries. We gotta start doing that, by the way. We need to just randomly just pick times where it's like, boom, I just have a cast on my arm. Or like, boom, PFT's got a neck brace.
Starting point is 01:37:55 Just spice up the visual of our show and never give an explanation for what went wrong. We did that at the Super Bowl. I did a show in a neck brace when I was down there, but I agree, like just an unexplained injury adds a little bit of spice to it. It's also possible that Stephen A. Smith injured his arm in a tragic cranking off accent
Starting point is 01:38:13 because he's so horny all the time at all hours of the day. True, true. Maybe he's the guy on the airplane. So we're gonna look out for that. We're gonna big bend ourselves and just slide on a walking boot or a sling or a neck brace at any point in the next six months.
Starting point is 01:38:29 We're gonna do one of those shows where everyone be like, damn, what happened? We should do it together, too, because then they'd be like, wow, did they get in a car accident or something? Yeah, you should see the other guy. I bet you actually that Stephen A. Smith is just wearing the sling to low max color men
Starting point is 01:38:42 into a false sense of security, like let Max smell a little bit of blood and then he'll just take the sling off and be like, I'm fine, you dummy. Yeah, he's like Antonio Banderas with his guitar case full of shotguns. He just whips the sling out and he's got all these facts about LeBron
Starting point is 01:38:57 that no one ever thought of. He's just got an even bigger pair of pants hidden inside of his sling that he takes out and puts on, then dominates him in a conversation. All right, we got our PMT Sports Biz update from Jake, who's been killing it all summer. Let's do that real quick. Good morning, this is Jake Marsh
Starting point is 01:39:15 with the PMT Sports Biz Minute. Tomorrow night, you'll be getting a live slide in from a certain football color commentator on NBC. That's right, we are just one sleep away from the beginning of the NFL preseason. It's the Broncos and the Falcons in the 2019 Hall of Fame game from Kenton with Alan Chris on the call.
Starting point is 01:39:33 The chief sculptor for the Hall of Fame bust is a man by the name of Blair Buswell. Since 1983, he's made around 100 busts ranging from players, coaches, owners, and even broadcasters. We do know that Buswell was not the man responsible for that wacky Ronaldo bust a few years back. I mean, who knows what the heck that guy is up to right now.
Starting point is 01:39:53 The MLB trade deadline is at 4 p.m. today. Something that's always fascinated me with some of these deadlines is the player to be named later. I'd love to see what goes on behind the scenes of these GMs, like who has the final say on what players get involved. Big Poppy, Moises, Alu, Coco, that's your PMT Sports Biz Minute, Mr. Cat.
Starting point is 01:40:12 Mr. Commenter, back to you. Last up, we have guys on checks. Let's finish off the show. By the way, just a reminder, Friday we have Joe Harris on the show and then Monday, look out for it. Training camp week, we've already done half of our interviews. We're gonna get back out on the road next week,
Starting point is 01:40:29 so look out for where we might be next week for a couple days, but we got a good video that's gonna be dropping. Couple good videos to get you hyped for football finally being back and we've already done a few really, really good interviews. So get excited for training camp week next week. Okay, I'm a relatively new listener
Starting point is 01:40:48 as of the last few months and in that time, I've noticed my boyfriend of six years doing something strange. He brings up topics that are simply PMT takes were gravitated as if they're his own thoughts. The thing is, he doesn't know I listened to the podcast. He never mentioned PMT by name and I started listening on my own accord,
Starting point is 01:41:07 which is why I found it so odd when his conversations were matching up with each new PMT episode. For example, over the last two weeks, he's talked about how prolific NASA's t-shirts are, how we haven't been to Dave and Buster's in over a year, and how Blake Griffin is the goat. My boyfriend has also been pointing out Toyota Camrys and commenting on how many he sees.
Starting point is 01:41:26 He even started a slug bug punch war, but with Camrys and called it the Camry Crush. I think he's probably doing this because he finds your content relatable and doesn't think I'd understand the PMT references, but I have no idea how long it's been going on since I only recently started listening. What if the last six years,
Starting point is 01:41:42 I thought I was talking to my funny, relatable boyfriend when I'm actually just an intellectual, in an intellectual relationship with Big Cat PFT and Hank all at once? Anyways, my question is this, should I tell him I've been listening to PMT and I know where he's getting all these takes? Do I keep pretending they're his own thoughts
Starting point is 01:41:58 just to give him the ego boost, or should I start bringing up PMT topics before he does just to fuck with him? Thanks for the advice, guys. Okay, that's a lot. I've got a theory here. This is a tough situation that you're in and what's even more tough is right now,
Starting point is 01:42:12 there are probably like a couple of hundred thousand guys that are listening, thinking that their girlfriend's talking about them. And so I think what you have to do, you have to tell them. If you're the girlfriend that wrote this in, you have to tell your boyfriend that way all the other listeners
Starting point is 01:42:27 can keep regurgitating and stealing our takes and being in a happy relationship and being very, very secure in that because right now there are a lot of people sweating it out. Yes, there are a lot of egos on the line here. So you specifically need to tell him that it was you, everyone else just be cool, play it cool, don't do anything crazy
Starting point is 01:42:49 because this has the possibility of breaking up many, many relationships. So yeah, just be cool. Like, don't say anything. Just let him think that he's smart and we'll, you know what? We should give you something to maybe bring up to him. That's how you can tell him.
Starting point is 01:43:07 So tell him, we think, tell him, hey honey, I've been thinking, and I think Nate Peterman's gonna have a breakout season for the Raiders this year. So say that exact line to him and he'll know when he gets to this point, boom, busted. That's exactly who you got. Yeah, this is actually in a weird way,
Starting point is 01:43:26 the 2019 plot of, if you like Pina Coladas, just two people don't know that the other person is doing the exact same thing. You meet like ships in the night, crashing into each other, things will be great. That song ends well. Caught in the rain. Yep, all right, Hank, next one.
Starting point is 01:43:44 All right, there's a lot of dog questions. I'm gonna rip up through a few of these. Subdilfcat, rockin' PFT and Hank, my new boyfriend doesn't like dogs. When should I end it with him? Yesterday. Well, he might be really into Scouty. He just might be a huge Scouty fan
Starting point is 01:43:58 and if that's the case, it's cool. But yeah, if you- Scouty though, Scouty's not a cat. Scouty's a dog cat hybrid, it's cat dog. He's wasn't on a show on Nickelodeon. Like that's, you can't consider Scouty to be a full cat because he's just too cool for it. Scouty's like a lion that got shrank
Starting point is 01:44:17 by Rick Moranis in some weird movie. Yeah, I agree, like Scouty is not a house cat, but I agree with Big Cat. If you just hate dogs, that is the biggest red flag there is. I would rather date a serial killer than somebody that didn't like my dog. So boys, my friend met a guy on Tinder and the group chat thinks she shouldn't do a second date.
Starting point is 01:44:39 Conversation started with him sending dog memes, totally normal and chill. On their first date, they went to a place that you can bring dogs and he would drift out of the conversation to point out dogs around them. He continued to only text about dogs since then and uses a puppy talk voice in his messages. At one point, he sent her listings
Starting point is 01:44:58 for a puppy's up for adoption. Then he asked her for a second date if she wanted to go to a dog park. This man does not have a dog. This is too weird, right? I think he is a dog. I think it's one of those freaky Friday things because if he just keeps looking at every other dog
Starting point is 01:45:13 that comes in the dog bar and being like, we need to go to a dog park. I got a lot of energy, I gotta get out. This guy is a dog. Just throw a tennis ball and see what he does. Yes, somewhere is a dog walking around with this guy's brain in it because they got electrocuted while holding hands.
Starting point is 01:45:29 Use a dog whistle and see if he reacts. See if he covers up his ears. Yeah, or just get a dog and become goals on Instagram. This also sounds like one of the things that the listeners try to fool us on from time to time, where they send us something that's just a plot of a movie or a TV show that we haven't seen yet and they frame it as their own question.
Starting point is 01:45:50 So I'm a little bit woke on this one. I'm not sure if Dog Boy, the dogless Dog Boy is real. Here's an idea. If you are a female listener and you think you're gonna break up with your boyfriend soon, get him to get a puppy so that you get at least a few good gram pictures from it.
Starting point is 01:46:06 Don't get attached to the puppy, then break up with both of them. Yeah, but if you're the guy, then you can do, this is your only opportunity. You'll ever have to do a fake pregnancy scare. Just tell your girlfriend that your dog's pregnant and there'll be more puppies coming. But that's better for the gram.
Starting point is 01:46:22 Yeah, better for the gram so she'll stick around. Okay, but puppies can't get pregnant, can they? I don't know the age of, yeah. I don't wanna think about that. Alan Dershowitz probably thinks that. No, he's written several op-eds. Well, I mean, in dog years, yeah, Alan Dershowitz thinks that you should be able
Starting point is 01:46:39 to have sex with a dog once it's two years and one month old. Constitutional rights. Yeah, constitutionally, when our forefathers, when Thomas Jefferson sat down, quill in hand, he was like, Congress shall make no law abridging the right of a man to copulate with a canine prior to the age of two years. Alan Dershowitz asks the very important question,
Starting point is 01:47:00 are bestiality laws a little outdated in today's society? Well, he wasn't asking the question. He was saying that many people have asked the question and not that he's advocating for it. Including his friend who's currently arrested for a pedophile ring. Many people have been asked. It was so funny the way he framed it
Starting point is 01:47:21 because he was like, I'm not necessarily advocating for this, but I couldn't help but notice the constitution allows you to have sex with a 15-year-old. Like, I couldn't help notice that if one wanted to, that you kind of should be in there. Alan Dershowitz literally did the asking for a friend thing, except it was a whole article
Starting point is 01:47:41 seeing if you should be able to have sex with minors. Just asking for a friend. Name Jeffrey Epstein. Fucking scumbag piece of shit. All right, go ahead Hank. Hey guys, especially Dadcat. Who? Last weekend, my boyfriend and I came back
Starting point is 01:47:56 to my apartment after a night out. We were both pretty drunk and started doing what drunk couples do. I started S-ing his D, but while doing so, my drunkness- Yo, I'm fucking hot right now. While doing so, my drunk- That was hot, that was hot. All right, keep, keep, okay.
Starting point is 01:48:10 Oh no, oh no, wait, read the first part again so I can remember that. Hey guys, especially Dadcat. Yeah. Last weekend, my boyfriend and I came back to my apartment after a night out. We were both pretty drunk and started doing what drunk couples do.
Starting point is 01:48:22 Watching Netflix and pass out. I started sucking his dick. Yes. But while doing so, my drunkness got the best of me and I threw up all over my boyfriend's dick and stomach. No! I laughed hysterically while he freaked out. Days later, he is still upset about it.
Starting point is 01:48:37 I don't think it's that serious. How do I make it up to him? That's kind of the deal with the devil that you make when you're getting your, when the S-ing of the D is going on. Anything can happen at that point because that's like, you're at the top of the line right now. So if you get stabbed, if you get thrown up on,
Starting point is 01:48:55 at that point it's just like, you know what? I was getting my DS at the time so it's not that bad. I think he just has to puke in your vagina and then call an eye for an eye kind of thing. Like eye for an eye doesn't really work but it does in this situation. Talk about how your boyfriend should react to your past sex life when they ask.
Starting point is 01:49:20 What do you think matters or doesn't? The real answer is don't ever fucking ask you idiots. Both sides. That is the quickest way to get into a fight that no one will ever win and that will just give like a heavy feel of resentment in the relationship. If you say, what's your number?
Starting point is 01:49:40 Or hey, that guy, did you used to fuck him? Or hey, that girl, oh, I bet you fucked her. You're an idiot. Don't ever do that. Yeah, I would say the correct response when you're hearing about your partner's sexual past is just putting your fingers inside of your ears and just saying, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,
Starting point is 01:49:58 over and over. We're sex positive. We are very sex positive. Either that or just like write an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal about how you feel. Yeah, we're sex positive so no sex shaming but it's one of those things where every conversation that has started along that path is like,
Starting point is 01:50:15 no, no, go ahead, tell me, I won't be upset and it's always upset. So just know you're not different than anyone else. Don't fucking ask and just pretend it didn't exist and move on with your life. Or just say something like, give him a number that's astronomically high and then back it down to what the real number.
Starting point is 01:50:32 Well, for, I think women usually go like 50% of what it is. So like start out at 5,000 and then say, okay, gotcha. You're not that worried now. So because it's much less, it's like 50. Yeah, all right, that's our show. We'll see everyone on Friday. Joe Harris, very good interview with him coming up and then training camp week, football is back.
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