The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 053 - Tim Tebow, Ben Askren, & A Slew Of Magic

Episode Date: March 7, 2019

On today's show, Pat and the guys welcome in 2X State Champion, 2X NCAA Champion, member of the 2008 Olympic wrestling team, former ONE and Bellator Welterweight Champion, and one of the hottest names currently in the UFC coming off a victory at UFC 235, "Funky" Ben Askren, joins the show for an incredible conversation. They cover why the UFC/Dana White ducked him for so long and why Dana still hates him, what he wants to do with the rest of his career in the UFC, what it was like fighting in Asia for a large part of his career, some of his hobbies outside of the Octagon, his thoughts on Conor McGregor, and what some of the defining moments of his career have been (2:01-45:07). The guys also have some HUGE Tim Tebow news, chat about kids today and the issues with a participation trophy society, discuss winter weather sports, where Antonio Brown's landing spot will be as the Steelers say he should be traded by Friday, what the deal with the anti-vaccine crowd is and where it all started, what the deal with Jim Carrey is right now, and Pat chats about his upcoming plans for Orlando including going to the Avatar theme park down there. It's a good one. Come and laugh with us, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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You're probably saying the same thing, potentially. Electric, 30-plus minute interview with this guy. The man. Nice. Matt Matreon and I have known each other for a while. Chris Lytle, same thing. Ben Askren might be my new favorite active fighter. I think he is.

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He's a two-time high school state wrestling champion. A two-time college NCAA champion. He was an Olympian. He's 19-0 in his mixed martial arts career. Ladies and gentlemen, Funky Ben Askren! That was a hell of an introduction. Hey, man.

I try my best. You fighters get all that shit to happen before you. I think you deserved it. Appreciate that. Okay, Ben. It's not quite as good as Bruce Buffer. You know Bruce Buffer, he's legendary status on the introduction.

Fucking Betts good, by the way. I am okay with going head-to-head with the Buffer family. They just make a lot more money for those pipes. Okay, Ben, I've been reading up on you. So the way this all came to be, somebody tweeted, they're like, hey, you need to have Ben Askren on the show. Is it Askren? Yeah. Askren. Askren, yeah. Okay, good. You need to have ben askren on the show is it askren askren

askren yep okay good you need to have ben askren on the show uh then it started it started getting some real action in my mentions and i was like okay so i said hey let's do this you responded and you have over a hundred thousand followers on the twitter your first ufc fight was just a week ago in my head i started doing numbers. I'm like, this dude must be a fucking legend on the internet. If he's got over a hundred thousand, his first fight just happened. I'm at 175 as of this morning, I think. That's incredible. And most people in the MMA world would assume that the only way you can do that is if you go through the UFC, if you get a good push from somebody, your first fight was

literally just a week ago. And there's a lot week ago, and there's a lot of fucking controversy around you. Once I started doing some research, why does Dana White hate you? Why is this a thing? Man, that's a great question. I've been wondering this myself for many years now, and the guy still hasn't taken the time to talk to me and get on the same page or explain that he doesn't hate me or why he hates me.

Frankly, I don't really get my feathers ruffled too easily, but I do like to know why things happen, and I don't know this one. Okay, so you're 19-0 with a no contest, which I don't know all the details. It means it's when Matreon kicks a guy in the balls, basically. That's my only reference to it. Accidentally, the guy lowered his level. Lowered and no that's only that's my only reference to it uh accidentally the guy lowered his level lowered his level i guess that's the term i'm learning a lot about this but how do i figured in the fighting world if you're a guy who can fight good the biggest fight company on earth would want you fighting for them u UFC seems to be the NFL, the WWE, the MLB for fighting.

How long has it been that you've sensed, like, Dana White doesn't like you, that's why you're not getting the call-up? Like, how does that whole thing start? How does that come to be? Well, so really there was only one, so twice in my career, really. So in 2013, I finished up my concert with Bellator, who essentially was at that point the number two in the world. I was their champion for three and a half years.

I was 12-0 at that point, and I was ranked number seven in the world. And I went up for a free agency. And the UFC said they're interested, interested, interested. And I got my release, and they said, we're not interested. They pretty much screwed me over. Bad. So I found my way over to an organization called One Championship in Asia who's, they were kind of

in an infancy and now they're probably the second biggest in the world. I spent four years there. I was a champion for three and a half years. I was undefeated the entire time. And on November 24th, 2017, I decided hey man, I'm done. I'm retired. I retired. I was done. Never had

my opportunity at UFC. In October, I got done. Never had my opportunity at the UFC. In October, I got a call from the CEO of one of the championships. He said, how about we trade you to the UFC? And this is a football or baseball. This has literally never happened. This has never happened one time. This is not in existence. And I said, well, I mean, I'm up for it.

If you can do that, if that's even legal. And they traded me. The first trade ever in the history of mixed martial arts, I got traded to UFC. Like you said, I had my first fight three, four days ago. You won. A lot of question around it. Walder's right arm definitely

looked limp there for a second. You can understand why the ref stopped it. The ref's name is, what's his name? Herb Dean. Herb Dean. Herb Dean. A lot of people came after Herb Dean. Herb did not deserve that.b Dean, yep. A lot of people came after Herb Dean. Herb did not deserve that. He's a professional.

Herb's a fucking professional. He did not deserve that. Yeah. You said, you've come out and said that you're not interested in a rematch with Robbie Lawler. You have said all these things, and your record proves, by the way, that you should be as confident as ever,

I mean, from all the way back to being a high school wrestling standout. What is next for you? What would be the right move for Ben Askren? What are you looking for? Sure. I mean, the main reason I'm not interested in the rematch is I wasn't really interested in the fight in the first place. You know, like,

man, I came out blazing when I got traded to UFC. I called out, I think I called out eight of the top ten guys in the UFC. And one of the only ones I didn't call out was Robbie Wallace. I like him. He's a good dude. I got nothing bad to say about him. They forced me to fight him

anyways, so I said, okay, whatever. Now it's like, hey, I've been there, done that. I didn't want to fight him in the first place. If I beat him again, it doesn't really do anything for me. I might as well go out and fight some else. Here's the deal. I'm flying to London next Wednesday night. There's a fight between a guy named Darren Kill, who's ranked number two, and George

Mosdell, who's ranked number eight. That's next Saturday in London. And I figure I'm going to beat up the winner of that one. How does it feel to be able to say what you just said there, like with full confidence? I've never experienced that in my life. Just being like, all right. Really? I mean, I'm sure you can look at someone in your room right now

and say you beat them up, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, that's for real. But it's not like saying, you know what? These two dudes are going to human cockfight over in London, and then I'm just going to beat up whoever wins. Congratulations, whoever wins that fight. You got a chance to get your ass

kicked by Funky Ben Asker now. That's how you really feel. No, that's how I feel. I mean, but this is what we do for a living, right? I've trained my whole life. You know, wrestling is not fighting, but it's pretty darn close. You get in there and you go arm combat with someone every day, and then, you know,

since 2009, I've been training for fighting. That's just, I don't know. This is what I do. I've had a lot of success. And, yeah, I feel very, I mean, honestly, Robbie was in the top ten, top ten besides my good friend Tyrone Woodley. Robbie's my hardest matchup. Darren Till, that's an easy night in the park.

Why is that? Because the ground and pound situation? Is that why he's not good on the ground? He's from the United Kingdom. They can't wrestle worth a damn. They can't. They're terrible. They can't wrestle.

I'll take them down too easy. I want to let you know this is an international show, so what you're saying will echo and ring true over in the U.K. We interrupt this conversation that you're hearing between us and our new best friend, Ben Askren. I don't know if we've gotten to the best part yet. It's depending on where Ty decides to cut in and put this.

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Were you a fighter in high school? No, I never. There's only one person I've ever punched outside of when i get paid for it my life uh that was a college teammate and no i never really fought i mean i just sort of wrestled my whole life but i know i'm not like angry you know i feel like people who can say it's getting fight at a bar you got to kind of angry i have a little chip on your shoulder in the hospital these and i mean i never i never felt that way i never felt the need to beat up some random stranger.

You say you're not angry. That's been what's been so intriguing to me, meeting all you MMA people. I mean, if you listen to Joe Rogan, he's one of the most depth, most deep human beings mentally that you've ever been around. Now, he'll say it's obviously because of the DMT

and shit like that, but like Matrione, Matrione, the same exact way. Like, he's a very deep thinker, well thought out, everything he says. Chris Lytriarch in the same exact way like he's a very deep thinker well thought out everything he says chris leidl even the same exact way you people that get into and i yeah i mean you motherfucking people who get into a cage and get into a ring like there has to be something off or special with your brain am i correct in saying that uh i think that hmm

i wouldn't say everyone because we got a lot of dumb-dumbs in this that's true that's a fact but I think there is there's something about getting in a fight that gives you a little bit of lift up

lets you know a little more about yourself especially if you're willing to look inwardly about your experiences in fighting. I may be 19 on the cage, but especially when we talk about my wrestling career coming up and just in the practice, I got my ass kicked all the time. And it's like, you know,

football, this is what I do with college athletics. Football, hey man, if you can't make a starting team in football, they say, hey buddy, go sit on the bench, you get some nice gear gear you tell the girls you're on the football team you probably get laid a few times you're a backup on the wrestling team you just go and get your ass kicked every single day every single day and that teaches you that teaches you a hard lesson uh i could imagine i could imagine that i mean that is an insane thought, though. I never even thought about being

a backup wrestler in a collegiate. Because you're just a body. You're just a body for whoever. You're the body. That's it. Oh, my God. Good for you, man. Just getting your fucking dick kicked in. Think about that. You're the backup lineman. You're probably going to the bar.

Chicks are all over you. You're the backup 133-pounder. They don't give a damn. You're not a boring wrestling fighter, though. I think that is something that's been interesting because I watch in Bellator, a place that you were, their double champ over there,

Ryan Bader, that fight he had with Matreon was the most boring fight I've ever seen in my entire life. Fans are actually booing. Now, granted, I don't take anything away from the ability. Did Matreon play with you? No, Matreon is from Indy, though. He literally passes out in our office like once a week.

Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. That's funny. But you're an entertaining wrestling fighter, though. I mean, you are like an entertaining guy. What can stop you? Is there anybody that can stop you in the UFC? Or do you feel right now you're top of the game,

it's only you're just a volcano waiting to erupt in the UFC people's head? Yeah. I'd say that's what I feel like right now. I mean, I would say my toughest fight was me and Tyron Woodley, the guy who just lost a championship, actually. He was my college wrestling teammate. We've been close since I was 17 years old. So there's this thing where, hey, we weren't going to fight each other.

And that's my worst matchup. And, you know, we're not going to fight each other. So I don't really, you know, I'm not ever going to experience that. And so now the guys, when I look at the division, Robbie was my toughest matchup. And now I look at it like Darren Till, I think that's no problem. I think Marty Usman, that's no problem. So, yeah, I'm like, I think of all the volcano waiting to erupt. I can't wait.

Here's your word. All right, well, let's get away from fighting other humans real quick and talk about you banging chains. I got showed a video. Oh, please tell me you guys play disc golf. Oh, yeah. No, I don't play it, fucking Ben. I play real sports.

You know that. But I heard we have a guy in here who is a disc golfer, and then we looked on the internet and saw some videos of you playing. You were like an elite-level disc golfer. Yes, one of the best in the country. Yeah, I took second at Amherst National and then ninth at Amateur World's Flight. One time I played in Indiana and I got my car

or Indianapolis and I got my car robbed. I have no time to play that area now. Like the plague. How do you get into that? How do you get into disc golf? Are you from like a hippie family? Like how does that happen?

You know, I didn't play much in high, I played like twice in high school. And a bunch of my college team, college wrestling teammates played. And I just went out there and I got this like bizarrely obsessive personality that I want to be the best at everything. Then I bought a basket, I put it in my yard and I just put it and put it and put it. And then I played in a tournament and I got pissed. I freaking lost the tournament. Then I just wanted to beat everybody

and I practiced a lot. I didn't win. I almost won. I was one stroke away from winning the amateur nationals, which was my goal. I know, right? Do you ever play, what's that other one where they play the football with the ultimate frisbee? That's too much running.

Man, I work out for a living. You got to run a lot. You got to run and run and run. When I asked you when we were DMing each other, you said you have a vast amount of subjects you could conversate about. What is something that you enjoy that nobody would guess that one of the greatest human cockfighters is into? That no one would guess. You know what? Listen, I try to put my whole life out there, especially with social media now.

So I don't feel like it's too surprising. I read a lot. I love to travel. I've been to all 50 states. I've been to every national park in the lower 48. Played 750 disc golf courses. Wow. Yeah.

Let's see. What else? I'm building a disc golf course on my property. On my property. Twice. I forgot you already retired. I forgot he's already had a full career. What part of Asia?

Is that Japan? Well, I thought most of the companies located out of Singapore, but I fought in Singapore, Manila, Dubai, and Shanghai. Okay, so wrestling over there, from the professional wrestling world, it's insane. The loyalty, they treat the wrestlers as if they're old-day gladiators.

I'm assuming it's the same thing for mixed martial artist fighters and stuff like that. You get treated like a king over there? Yeah, yeah. I mean, they treat us really, really, really well. And then, man, by the time I was done with one championship, when I started, they were kind of in there. By the time I was done, man, it was

like, it was bizarre because you're from America and you go over there and you walk down the street and everybody knows your name. It's a really, really weird feeling. How'd you handle that? Because there's no way they spoke your language So they just knew funky Ben Aspin Singapore, they speak English It's perfect, but I pretty much

I hid my hotel room so I could be antisocial At times I see him just sitting in some Asian hotel With a fucking frisbee And like a little trash can They don't have Dipped up over there, unfortunately. Do you rock climb?

If you've been to every national park, do you rock climb, hike? What do you do there? You just drive through and say, well, they've been here? I've rock climbed before. Not a huge amount. My wife used to. Hiking, camping, seeing the sights. You know what?

I guess now we're going deep but I guess I would say my favorite thing about the national parks is when like I'll just give you a great example how many trees have you seen in your life

right you've seen like a million trees and then you go to Redwood and you're like holy shit they make trees like that I've never seen a tree like that

it's like the biggest thing you've ever seen in your life that's what I like do you like being surprised by things yeah have you guys been to Redwoods? Because you like the feeling of awe when you see them.

Good God. I actually had a dealer who told me that he had a Redwood strain and I smoked it and that thing got in monster. I just had Redwood. And I was like, alright, I'll get it. I'm in with it. it was overpriced

i think but it made me feel like i was in the forest for a while i uh how long how much longer are you gonna fight for uh i mean i was in retirement last year i just came out i don't know i uh i don't got too much longer left in me i never wanted to fight you know till i was really old so i don't know a year or two years. I guess we'll take it fight by fight at this point. How old are you? I should probably have known this. 34. Holy shit.

So you've lived, lived. If you've already retired, lived in Asia, 34 years old. I mean, what's next for you after fighting? Let's assume your volcano erupts. Okay? You are just oozing all over everything for the next couple years champion on a hell of a run everything's perfect massive amounts of cash endorsement deals uh post fight parties people show up at them and have a good

time they're not just at the club just to be there it's going to come to my post fight party yes yeah i want to let you know funky shit's going to get real funky and weird. I'm on my way, Ben. What is the next... I'm going to play for Fight in Chicago, so that's not going to be too far from you guys. Nice. three wrestling academies in Wisconsin and we, uh, man, we coach kids and it's a blast and I love it. Cause I get to, you know what? I get to see there's too many people in the world to tell kids they suck and they can't be something. And so we get to help them, uh, learn to achieve. I mean, I can tell you guys, and I don't know if you guys had the same experience in sport, but I, you know, in wrestling, I learned, Hey, if I work hard,

I can be good and I can achieve something. And that's like kind of carried over to the rest of my life. And I love that feeling. I love when I see it click with kids. And they think, oh, my gosh, I just did this. I never thought I could win a state title or get a college scholarship or whatever it is. So I love that part of it. And that's probably what I'll do for the rest of my life.

See, I'm really confused on why Dana White doesn't like you. I thought you must have been like a shit bum. I thought there must have been like some arrest or some terrible attitude. Nothing. I've never been arrested. That doesn't sound like it at all. Don't have any side pieces. Never missed a weight. Never failed a drug test. I don't know. I don't know what it's about, man.

It might be. I googled your name and the first picture that pops up is quite possibly the ugliest yellow singlet of all time from Missouri. Maybe that's it. Why are you hating on Missouri? I'm not. I'm not a huge Tiger fan. It's just the yellow singlet. He's thinking Dana. He's speaking for

Dana. I'm speaking for Dana, not for myself. Oh, for Dana. It's gold. I think Missouri calls that gold. It's more like mustard, maybe brown mustard. Hey, where was the Olympics at when you were on the Olympic team? Beijing, China. Oh, so were you already a hero over at that point, or were you just getting started?

You weren't even started yet because 2009 you started fighting. Yeah, I hadn't fought to that point. I won two college national titles and I made the Olympic team and then I didn't do very well at the Olympics so I said I'm done with this and I'm going to go fight and see how that goes. Okay, so was that the pivot point for you to get into fighting was after the

Olympics because your teammate on that team was Daniel Cormier, right? And Henry Cejudo. So both of my, two of my teammates are now UFC champions, and they actually occupy three of the belts, because Daniel had both the 205 and the heavyweight. And Henry's going to, I think he might be bumping up, I don't know this, but I think he might be bumping up to try to take on Dillashaw, because you remember, right, TJ Dillashaw came down to try to take Henry's belt, and Henry beat him up.

Oh, of course. Of course. I don't know that. Ben, I had no fucking idea right there. Ben, how heavy would you fight? What's the heaviest you would go to fight? What'd you say? How heavy would you fight?

Would you move up if the right matchup presented itself? Yeah, I don't think I'm going to move up because I haven't fought anyone at one step. I'm brand new to the company, and part of the magic is that I haven't fought anybody. So everyone's a target on my list. Okay, let's talk about your weight loss strategy for weigh-ins. We had a weight loss challenge here for one month where we saw humans lose. How much weight did you lose? 46 pounds 46 pounds in one month damn yeah yeah yeah wait it was disgusting i mean these people were anorexic bulimic they weren't eating anything for an entire month there was 9999.99 for tax

purposes on the line and the boys really committed how. How much weight did you lose, Zito? Oh, like 49, I think. 49 pounds. Oh, my God. Except not because you lost to me. Oh, yeah, it was by a percentage. Oh, yeah, that's right, by a percentage. Todd, you won. Congratulations. Fucking, I just came across the room.

But Zito did this warm bath, hot bath, I guess, like the night before. Yeah. Is that something that's just a known tactic? Because Matreon told him about that. What is the... Well, it's still... Yeah. Yeah, the part that everyone misses when they're thinking of weight loss,

because it doesn't make sense to do it for long term, but if there was a weigh-in, right, which you're fighting there, you lose the water weight. I mean, for example, on Friday morning, I weighed in at 170 and a half pounds, and on Saturday night, I fought at 188 pounds. So I sweated off all of that weight. There's a lot of different ways you can sweat. A hot bath is one way.

A sauna. You can put some warm clothes on and go running. But yeah, you'd be shocked how much you can sweat off, especially if you're a big person. That's so much. I'm not healthy. Well, definitely unhealthy, but do you look like Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club when you're going in to weigh in?

Yeah, a lot of them do. You look at their face when they're really bad, you can see their face and their face is all sucked in and shit. Yeah, definitely it looks rough. Oh my god. What's your after-fight meal? What are you celebrating? You know who would be a good one to look at?

If you want to see a good example, look at Conor McGregor when he used to make 145 pounds. His cheekbones are sticking out excessively. His eyes look kind of like sunken back into his head. That would be a good one for you guys to see what a face looks like that's severely dehydrated.

What are you going to say, Diggs? What do you celebrate then since you do all the cutting right before the weigh-in? Do you have a certain celebratory meal or drinks that you go with? Oh, it's more drinks. When you get that level of thirst, all you can think about is drinking. So you just Gatorade, coconut water, water, everything. Hey, hey, hey, no free ads. They don't sponsor you.

You don't say any of that. Who's your sponsor? Who's on the trunks? They don't let us have any anymore. What? It's Reebok. That's it. I didn't know that.

So UFC said. You didn't know that? UFC did that. You only can have Reebok. That's it. That was said... You didn't know that? UFC did that. Yeah, they... You only can have Reebok. That's it. That was a big deal too, right? Guys losing their private sponsorships.

Money out of the pocket. Mm-hmm. Oh, my God. Would you like to say anything? Would you like to make an official statement about that, Ben, so we can piss off Dana White a little bit more? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Would you put discraft on your trunks?

Well, actually, where I got screwed is the way that Reebok pays you in the UFC is based on the amount of fights you have in the UFC. Oh, my God. So I come in as a veteran, and I get paid like I'm a freaking beginner. Terrible. What happened in the note contest? The guy, I actually poked him in the eye and he faked like he couldn't continue. Yeah. Seems to happen a lot.

Happens a lot. Russian? Hey, I can't blame him. I do. He was Brazilian, but yeah, those Russians are sneaky, aren't they? They're just the Russians of the South. Hey, do you even train in wrestling in your camps? I would say you're probably the most dominant wrestler

They have seen in a long time Since Dan Henderson or Randy Couture Were throwing people around But do you even have to train in that aspect anymore Because they're pretty much all stand up Well I do a lot I do a lot of mixed martial arts training You know we're not going

I got good partners so we're not like Fighting fighting But we're kind of doing everything at once You know, we're not going, I got good partners, so we're not like fighting, fighting, but we're kind of doing everything at once. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, so you're still working submission defense and stuff like that. But you don't worry, you don't even sweat having to,

you can take anybody down anytime you want, right? Like, you know that going in. Yeah, so you know, we don't do, I don't really do too much, like straight wrestling, wrestling, nah, but like, you know, mixed martial arts, punches into takedowns, takedowns into submissions, those kind of things.

Ryan Bader, whenever he was fighting Matreon, said he heard Matreon was training wrestling and said it was the dumbest thing he could have ever done in his entire life. I think that's right. Oh, he said that? Yeah, he actually did say that. On our show, I think he said it. I heard that Matreon might be training wrestling.

That's the dumbest thing he could have ever thought about in his life because i've been doing this my entire life i think that's what todd was probably asking that from yeah i think i just think it's a huge advantage like when especially as someone as dominant as you are everybody else has to work to keep you from taking them down so they probably spent a huge amount of their camp just practicing that takedown what about the flying knee when you go shooting in? Is there any thought of a potential flying knee right to the face? Yeah. It's all about timing.

It's a timing thing, right? And that's kind of what you're practicing. If you're a good wrestler, you're practicing your timing. Because that's when you can really catch people on the takedowns. If they time, if you're a defensive guy and you time their shot really well, you can knee them or you can uppercut them or you can sprawl and get out of there. But, man, it's a huge timing issue.

Do you got good rhythm? You got good rhythm over there? Are you a dancer, huh? Tear down a couple of them. I've only got knee one, so it ain't too bad. What's your celebration after you win? Are you just very casual, or do you jump on top of the cage, do the yell? Do you do a point at a camera and yell?

Everybody seems to yell after they win. I would, too. Yeah, I've never jumped on the cage. You know what? Actually, I realized about halfway. I didn't celebrate the last one. It was a madness, i i was distracted but i didn't realize halfway through my career that one of the main things they show in the promos for the

next fight is the guy's celebration so then after every everyone fight they're trying to do some dumb ass celebration but you'd be shocked they put them everywhere they put them everywhere what's the hardest you've ever been hit like do you ever is there moments every night yeah your face look like you guys did you guys watch it yeah yeah yeah i did watch it but your face killed me for about 10 seconds there well that has to feel good though you can take a shot like that and just keep it moving no worries at all absolutely yeah he got my arm he got my in that slam he got my arm trapped behind my back. So I got put in a terrible position, and I couldn't really – it was really hard for me to defend myself

because I kind of had the one arm trapped underneath me, and he was behind me. So, man, I had to take some really hard shots there before I was able to escape that. Have you ever taken any shots like that? And was that ever a question in the camp? Like, hey, if you're going to get one to the face – because I assume a lot of fighters, before they get shot, you don't know if you have a good chin right until you

get a good shot you have no idea have you ever had a situation like that before in your undefeated run that would be the word that would have been the worst one i took a few knees and other things but you know i did a 23 and me dna test the only thing exciting that came back was that i have more neanderthals than 99% of the people. We love it. We talk about that all the time. Probably just bat Mitch Jones higher than me. Him and Brock, bro.

Him and Brock Lesnar are both bucking Neanderthals for sure. For sure. Would you ever get in WWE? Are you a fan of WWE? I think I'm too old for that now. I mean, I would love to do it like once or twice, but I could travel on the road all the time. Those guys got crazy schedules. That is very, very true.

All right, we got a little segment called The Room Wants to Know. The boys here will ask you a question each. Basically, we're trying to get quotes from you to market this show. I love this section because this is where you guys get me to say something stupid and then put it all over the headlines. That is correct. The first guy

was the guy that asked you a question, a big-time MMA fan, former amateur jiu-jitsu champion, I believe, right? Yeah. White belt. White belt. Don't worry about it brown belt some days if he's wearing blue uh ladies and gentlemen todd mccombs hey ben i want to know from you like when you're outside because i know you have this trade crazy training schedule and

you've really done that your whole life when you get the time to relax, who's the one person you grab to go spend a day? And what are you doing? Oh, well, I probably have my wife and kids now. And I would probably talk to them into playing some disc golf. That's my relaxation, man, all day long,

throw some disc golf. How old are your kids? I got six to be in one, so I'm busy. Oh, Jesus, you're playing. That's a full-court presser. I mean, that's a three-man zone. Next guy is Italian from Pittsburgh.

Knows next to nothing about fighting, I think. Pretty accurate. Diggs? Unaccurate. Arm bar. Password is arm bar. Oh, yeah. I completely forgot about that.

Loves fighting. His password. Mean arm bar. Yeah. Diggs is his name. Listen, Ben, you've got an incredible head of lettuce on you. Yep, you do. What do you got?

Perm? Perm? Nice frizzy hairspray? What are we dealing with here? Because I got sort of an issue going on. Yeah, that's an understatement. What's your issue? It's falling out.

It's a fucking Houdini operation going on up there. Did I do perm? What's going on? No, I got naturally curly hair. This is what God dealt me. This is the way I'm rocking since about 16 years old. You kind of look like if Lil Dicky went in the gym for the next seven days for the next year. That's kind of what you look like, to be honest.

Oh, man. I'm just coming to the studio next time. No, no, that was a good thing. That was a to come to the studio next time. Hey. No, no, that was a good thing. That was a good thing. That was a compliment. That was a compliment. Please do.

Armbar. Armbar. That was a compliment. That was a compliment. Ben, what is your favorite type of music? What do you listen to? What's your walkout song? Has it always been the same?

My walkout song has been the same since my sophomore year of college. It's Give Up the Funk by George Clinton. Oh, boy. That's kind of my theme song. And then I'd say my favorite band of all time. I listen to a lot of things, but my favorite band is Red Hot Chili Peppers. Okay. Hello.

Hello. Hello. We tried to make you feel comfortable and welcome. Next guy, he did a 23andMe and found out he's Irish. He's always been a big pro Italian guy. Kind of a kick in the dick for him. No contest, 23andMe, Nick Moroto. 3.8% Irish, right? Let's calm down.

Ben, did you beat McGregor's ass or what? Can I be whose ass? McGregor. Oh, he sucks. That's a wild statement. That was exactly what the purpose of this entire segment was for you to say something along those lines.

Why is that? But he's terrible. He would never say yes to fighting me. It would be like the worst night he's ever had. Let's go. Okay, here's my question. Was he an elite fighter at one point, and then once you get $100 million,

it's hard to be committed to waking up at 5 a.m. and rolling for two hours? Is that the case? I think that's a big part of it. And I think the other part of it is he's very, very elite at a couple things. But once you figure out a skill set, and if you have a skill set like Khabib, then, man, that's a tough road to hoe for him. And then when you make $100 million, you don't want to train or be in shape.

It's even tougher. What about Jones? If you had to meet him in a catchway, can you beat him? John Jones is gigantic. He's got big ears. He's an animal. That's a good idea, by the way. I like what you said. I thought maybe you were just going to saw down everybody, though.

I was really excited for the promotion of this podcast. I challenge John Jones to best if I take down. I think he thought I was fucking with him, but I'm serious. I want to wrestle him. Okay, I like that a lot. By the way, I have an in with the Jones family.

I played with his brother, Arthur. Art Jones. Oh, nice. Yeah, I could probably... I think he was at the fight. He was. He was. He's a big boy.

Yeah. He's de-tacted. Art, and what's the other one? What's your mother's name? Because they both played in the NFL. Chandler. Chandler. I think it was Art.

It was Art that was there, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, he was flexing on the IG. He's really proud of John, as he should be, by the way. The whole family should be. Next question's from a guy from the- I think they're twins, aren't they? Just not identical. Oh, I don't know that, actually.

You might know more than me. I believe they were in high school. They graduated high school in the same year. I believe they're twins. Did you live in Asia when you were fighting for one or were you flying back and forth? No. I'd go over there for two weeks at a time. I was about to say

because the entertainment or TV is tough. I was like, did you just study the internet all the time? That's how you know these types of facts. I didn't know. I was interested. Next guy's name is Jeffrey Gorman. Handsome older man. Ben, you know these types of facts. I didn't know. I was interested. Next guy's name is Jeffrey Gorman. Handsome older man. Ben, you're crazy like a fox. I like that about you, but let's go back to Missouri.

Let's go to the Olympic career and let's go to 19-0 professional career. What's the worst injury you've had that you've walked into the ring with? Man, none really. I've been super healthy. I, uh, the only thing I really had, I had some, I had when I was 16 and then again in college, I had some neck issues, uh, where I was losing strength in my left arm, but

I got that solved and I, man, I haven't really been hurt really at all. Let's go. Fair enough. He's a health machine. He's Neanderthal. Yeah. By the way. That's what. He's Neanderthal. Yeah. By the way, that's what it is.

Neanderthal. I'm happy that you went back to like literally his entire life. I just want to make sure. You just started in Missouri. A lot of good fights there and an Olympic

and you're a professional. He's like, no, you're an idiot. Thank you. I appreciate it. Next guy is a, he's a dumb dumb

like you mentioned earlier He's from Chicago His name's Zito Good luck with this Hey Mr. Funky How disrespectful is it When you put someone In a Saturday night ride?

Disrespectful Like are we in a wrestling match Or are we on the street? Hold on Just hold on Ben You had a podcast That's a move That's a real move.

I don't know what... That's what he's trying to pin him. What the fuck is a Saturday Night Ride? It's the most disrespectful move of all time in WP. That might be the issue. Why do you think it's a disrespectful move? Why do you think it's disrespectful?

Tell the man to his face, ear, why you think it's disrespectful. Are you a Saturday Night Ride guy? He didn't. If I gotta be. What is a Saturday Night Ride? So you basically lay on top of him.

You spread those legs out. Saturday Night Ride is... Okay, let me explain. When you basically lay on top of them, you spread their legs out. A Saturday Night Ride is, okay, let me explain. When you say you're pinning someone, you have them in their back, one of the ways they can get up their back is by digging their feet into that and bridging. You know, like they bridge up on their head to buck you off, essentially? Uh-huh. Well, a Saturday Night Ride is when you step over both their legs and then you hook them and you essentially take their legs out far enough down.

And it might look like a position that you could also find yourself in with a female. Cowgirl. Got it. So this is cowgirl? Is that what we're doing? Basically, yeah. You gotta do what you gotta do. Hey, you wrestlers do find yourself in precarious situations on a very regular basis.

The mental toughness is next level. That's funny. It's true, though. We were, I was, what's it called? Rolling? I was rolling with the guys here in Indianapolis. They have this gritty fucking basement dungeon that they train in.

And I was rolling with them, and I never wrestled in high school, so I wasn't comfortable with the people, how close they were in their body on top of me. That was something I really had to get used to. I feel like that's quite an advantage that wrestlers have going into MMA. That's something that you guys are just used to literally since you're fucking kids.

Just people laying on your face. It's next level. Yeah, it's funny because I don't have a big place about it. Put it right there. Next guy's a huge Patriots fan. He's the worst because I don't think twice about it. Put it right there. Next guy's a huge Patriots fan. He's the worst. I don't know how you sit in football. His name's Connor.

Hey, Ben. You've won at every level from high school to the pros. Is there one match that stands out as the toughest? There we go. Well, I always say there's four things that are my proudest moments. That would be winning my first high school state title, winning my first college answer, earning my college scholarship, and making the Olympic team.

Those four things are like many, many, many years' worth of work all piled into one moment. You become UFC champion. Will that become a fifth night? I would say that would be number five, yeah. Okay. Nice. Are we officially invited to that after party,

by the way? What about the birth of your children? Yeah, you're invited to all my after parties. Okay, I like that a lot. He meant professional. Except the Italian guy. He sounds too wild. Yeah, well, he also just took a shot at you for not mentioning your children there. That was him. Yeah, he should not be invited. Number six. Yeah.

Next guy's from Iowa. Midwestern boy, Ty. Hey, Ben, so I know you were thinking about the whole GSP thing, maybe fighting him, and then he retired. That kind of fell through. Who's one guy who you would love the opportunity to knock his teeth out?

Well, I think GSP. I don't think GSP's still on the table. I think that was some kind of next level negotiating tactic because he maybe wasn't getting what he wanted. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, that's nice.

I think he wanted to keep the fight, and maybe they wouldn't give him the right terms or something, and so he just wanted to give him the middle finger publicly. So I think that one's still on the table, and he's been a legend. He's someone I grew up watching. That's someone that I would love to fight if I got the opportunity. Would you think about...

No, I know. Take a second to think about this, because I don't want you to get yourself in any shit here. But if Steven Seagal wanted to fight you, would you... Would you... Did you say Steven Seagal? Yeah.

Would you... Would you... Would you... Would you say no publicly or privately? Ah, that's hilarious. If Steven Seagal had somehow been able to pull the wool over people's eyes for the last 30 years... It's incredible. ...and he could actually fight people, it's hilarious. Preach, Ben.

Preach. Hey, we have a guy, that old guy that asked you the question about earlier. He has publicly stated that he wants to fight Steven Seagal for being a big phony his entire career. Tim, right here. Oh, my gosh. I'd pay to watch. I'm in. I'm buying the tape review.

I think that's all we need to tell Seagal, right? We just tell him there's a little bit of cash involved. That guy is in. Last question is from a kid from Michigan. Very handsome fella. Know that that's coming from this. Evan Fox. Ben, I just want to know how you got your nickname.

Funky? Yeah. Well, I kind of, I don't know if I created it the right way, but I kind of brought to life this new style of wrestling. Oh, okay. In college, everyone called it the funk. And so one of my buddies made this shirt and had my in college that everyone called the funk. One of my buddies made this shirt and had my picture on it and it said funky.

We were broke-ass college kids, so we sold those dolls in that summer and it stuck. That's an NCAA violation, Ben. That is an NCAA violation. You're going to get that championship fucking yank from you. They can't trade the cash.

Hey, Ben, we thank you so much. You're the coolest dude I think I've never heard of before until now. I am so thankful. I can't wait to watch you continue this run here. Whatever you do, man, I would love to be in a steady rotation whenever you hit the media outlets. That would be an honor of ours. All right. That's awesome.

Yeah, hopefully you guys... I'm hoping to fight June 8th in Chicago, so maybe a post-draft party. We're coming. We're coming. If you're June 8th in Chicago, we're... Ladies and gentlemen, Ben Askren. Alright. Hey, I like that guy. He's a man. I feel bad because I was kind of hating on him a little bit

for beating up my boy Robbie Lawler, but he's a fucking great dude. He was, and I would assume that as soon as he says I'm not interested in a rematch, a lot of people would be like, oh, it's because you didn't really actually win. He's like, I don't have a lot of time left. I would like to accomplish more things.

That's exactly right. What did he say, maybe two years? So he's going to get his key fights in. Yeah, he's like, Robbie, I'm a big fan, he said. He said I called out eight of the top ten people in his bracket, and Robbie was not one of the people he called out. I like that guy a lot. He's a full-blown hippie, though, man.

Hey, I'll say this. I played disc golf in Nashville a dozen times. And if you ever played at Pat McAfee, you'd be hooked in a minute. Really? It's like that? Is anyone surprised? That Corbin played? No. Well, I'm just telling you. You've got to hit

your spot. You've got to goalpost. How long is it? How far are the things? Hundreds of yards. Hundreds of yards. And then they have par threes and stuff like that. So you huck it. You walk to it. Pick it up. And the net stands about this high off the ground. You have to get it in the net. People forget. I took a Frisbee class in college.

Oh, really? People forget. Do you have an advantage? I had a great backhand. I had a great backhand. The flick you didn't have, though. The forehand, though. It's tough.

Tough. Yeah, it was tough. And that's a dogleg left, I would assume, is where I would really struggle. But if he's, what, top? He said ninth? He was ninth internationally? Yeah. That's insane. Good for him that's insane good for him man

good for him living in Asia would be crazy I'm happy he said that he only went for a couple weeks at a time I don't know how

anybody lives over there I don't either I didn't know they speak English in Singapore honestly newsflash knew nothing about Singapore I was thinking

that's an untapped market maybe we break into Singapore if they speak English it's beautiful let's get in there. Get the cheat code shirts printed now. Hey, this show is a big time pro Singapore place. Oh, yeah.

We love the Singapore. A lot of huts on water. Beautiful. Oh, my God. Probably retire there for... It's definitely one of the... Probably nine to one on the dollar. Top five IG spots for models.

Yeah, they only cane you now if you do something really bad. Correct. You can steal stuff now and not get caned. What's that? What'd you just say? Singapore cane. Top five IG spots for models. Yeah, they only cane you now if you do something really bad. Correct. You can steal stuff now and not get caned. What's that? What'd you just say? Singapore cane. Sugar. Lashes.

Old cane. Lashes. That's that Saudi Arabia documentary. A lot of bamboo. Scared the fuck out of me, dude. That Saudi Arabia documentary scared the hell out of me. I don't recommend it, but I kind of do. So you see what's happening in the world.

It was scary to think about. A lot of scary places. A lot of scary places. I still haven't found a new documentary I'd like to watch. Everybody said a lot of good recommendations, but I've seen all of the ones that people have sent me. I go balls deep in that documentary thing, and I just watch and watch and watch.

That Free Solo is worth a watch, though. The Free Solo documentary? The Oscar winner? Yeah. It is worth and watch. That free solo is worth a watch, though. The free solo documentary? The Oscar winner? Yeah. Yeah. It is worth a watch. I feel like I would just have so much fucking anxiety the entire time watching that. The first couple scenes are very difficult.

That I saw over the weekend, I call it a horror film. I really do. It's a horror film, and I loved it, but watching that cat go up that thing by himself, telling nobody, and going up with no ropes. Wait, wait, wait. He doesn't say, hey, guys, I'm going to climb right now? Hold on. There's a couple different.

I mean, you're going to have to watch. Yeah. It's a documentary. It's great. Wonderful. We don't want to give away the plot. No. Okay.

But there are some sweaty. Oh. Palms are sweaty. That's the way Zito. He's weak. Palms are sweaty. That's how palms are heavy. Palms are sweaty. Well, I would say they. Palms are sweaty. That's how palms are heavy. Palms are sweaty.

Well, I would say they're more like because you put your palms in the sky and it got heavy from holding up too much. So it was like a little remix. Oh, you were making a... That's from Heartland Radio 2.0 for those not listening. Zito is filled with those

if you want to check it out. Great show. It's all of us just doing dumb things on a regular basis. That free solo was incredible. Is there anything else happening in the world? I feel like there has been a pretty dead time. I got a little something if you guys want to. Obviously, we're in the days of Lent. It's a religious time. So I've got a story that pertains to Jesus Christ.

Loves you. And this is a West Virginia story. I like that. From Grandview, West Virginia. I want to get your take on this. A huge fire. A fire that firemen could not even enter the property at because those are the worst

when they say, we can't even send guys in. It's too hot in there. Okay. Everything burned down except the crucifixes and 30, and they had 30 Bibles in there

and the 30 Bibles not burned or the crucifixes. So I'm saying this to you guys. We are in a legendary event. What was that? And what's going on in West Virginia? People see Jesus on their toast all the time.

Yeah. Those, I believe. These Bibles survived when firemen couldn't even go fight the fire. Praise Jesus. There is a time and a place for the biblical slander, and this is not one of those times. This is a memorable, historic, magical moment from your Lord and Savior,

the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. I only say it's a lie because it scares the fuck out of me. It's kind of scary to think about, right? Like, what if we're wrong? I'm pretty sure we are. Was it a Catholic church? As long as they have crosses, it has to be, right? Yeah, what if we're wrong? I'm pretty sure we are. Was it a Catholic church?

As long as they have crosses, it has to be, right? Yeah, it's crucifix. Jesus Christ on them, so... I wouldn't put a pass on the bird. You better take it easy with the way that you are. What am I saying? The emphasis you're saying on old Cousy's son, the guy that popped out of the Virgin Lady,

and then died for you to say the things you're saying right now. Well, believe me, growing up with fairran Square Lair, that's all I really heard before Jeffrey. Jesus Christ, Jeffrey. Ferran Square Lair is his dad. Great man. Hilarious man up there in Michigan. I have so many questions about the religion, man. Because somebody's going to be right.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, one of them has to be. Somebody is going to be right. And it's like, what happens then? I told you. Well, that's them has to be. Somebody is going to be right. And it's like, what happens then? I told you! Well, that's what I'm saying. Let's say the Jewish community is right. So whenever Christians die,

do their souls and spirits just get dropped off at a place where it's just a bunch of Jewish people? Dead! We fucking told you. That would be funny. We fucking told you. And then just like Gorman, bye bye-bye down the chute you go and that's your last that's the last shit that happens to you just a bunch of jewish people

telling you we we tried to tell you you guys made the sequel we told you we didn't need another story the original book is it bye-bye blocked muted that's why see you later right down the shitter so i like to fuck with them all. That's what I'm saying. Did my tone off. I like to learn about them all so that maybe there's a quiz. Correct. So when you get there, there's like a quiz and you're like, okay, I think like a wonder lick.

Yeah, like a Buddha. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So like a Buddha wonder lick. It's like an SAT. You got to have a good enough score to get in. You mean you'd like to learn about each one individually and make your own informed choice instead of being brainwashed as a child? Yeah, I got questions.

Sounds fair to me. I was going to do an entire stand-up set because this is something that I don't talk about often because religion is one of those things that really gets people going. But I honestly feel like I might be one of the most diverse knowledge humans when it comes to all the religions because I'm so intrigued by it

because religion causes wars. Religion causes billions of things to happen. There's a lot of people that won't talk to people strictly because of what could potentially happen after you die. It's a wild phenomenon to me. I am very intrigued by it all. India has thousands of gods.

Thousands of gods. And you can go see them. They're little statues, like little elephant statues on the corner of the street. Like you can go see them they're little statues like little elephant statues on the corner of the street like you just go oh this is the this is the god

for like whenever you're going through a bad road road this is the god potholes and then yeah this is the pothole god

right here and then like on the back side it's like here's the dream god if you have bad dreams you go over here then here's like the lifting strength god

over here because there's a lot of people. You need multiple gods to deal with multiple issues. If that pothole God's around, I'll sell your ass to Indianapolis. It's bad here. They were going after people for filling potholes with no licenses. What's wrong with that?

Well, what people would say is you could put, you know how you have the fake string across the street? Oh, yeah. And it's like a prank. If people were out there dumping terrible shit into these holes, I guess it could become

a bigger problem than it already is, but I don't see how. I don't see how. Everybody on the internet sends me the one meme where a guy was just drawing dicks

over the bottom. Yeah, Wanksy. Wanksy. Oh, yeah. He's all over the place. Wanksy? Wanksy's his name. He's tagging him.

That is one of the most clever. We need over the place. Wanksy? Wanksy's his name. He's tagging him. That is one of the most clever. We need him. We need Wanksy. We need Wanksy in India in a bad way. You need to distort his voice if you get him on here. What's that? You need to distort his voice because he can't like. Oh, yeah.

We'll just let you talk for him. Yeah, there you go. It works out. I'm sure he'll sign up for that. What's going on this weekend? Anything? Antonio Brown is expected to be traded by this weekend. Oh, yeah.

Where's he going? Packers, Raiders? Raiders. Packers haven't been mentioned at all. So, I don't know. We'll see. They said it's basically down to the Raiders, Redskins, and the Titans right now. Yeah, but one call from Aaron Rodgers right to AB, and that changes like that.

Yeah, because AB makes the decision, so that makes sense. Fucking idiot. It's a Steelers fan reminding everybody that the Steelers are in control of this entire situation, which is interesting because it seems like they couldn't control the situation. That's why we are in the situation that we are currently in. That's well said. Yeah, I think so.

Well, he's uncontrollable. Well, I think every single team has to balance egos. That is something that the Steelers have realized that they have not been able to do. It seems as if that could be a problem in the future with the way it is becoming quite an ego society. If you look at these rookies doing their interviews, everybody's hyping themselves up.

It used to be nobody would talk. Like, nobody would say a single thing. I want to look humble. I want to do this. Now it's like, yeah, I think I'm the best this in the game. I think I can do this. And then they get in the locker room, and you've got guys that are 45 times better than you

strictly because they've been in the league for 10 years. And now there's an issue. It's going to be interesting to see how everybody handles and manages egos going forward because this new millennial ego is next level. It's a bunch of Connors and Foxes. It is. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

It is. It's a bunch of conners. I was watching. I was disgusted. I was watching Food Champ the other night, and Chopped was over, and the remote couldn't find it, obviously, because remote's the hardest thing to find in the world. And next great baker cake contest comes on and he's like 12 year old kids and this kid is terrible just horrible deserved to never be on the show at all anyways and he gets voted off and six kids come up and run and give him hugs and like oh we're so sorry and then

he got sent home crying that's just generation disgusting that's what the pub does every time you insult one of them. Do not compare us to 12-year-olds. What? Don't compare you guys to 12-year-olds. We are 10 years removed from them. Nick made a really good point. You guys do exactly what I just described on the cake thing. What do you mean? We never baked cake once.

Not once. I never cried either. Anytime Zito says something dumb, Foxy says, It's okay, Zito. You'll get better next time. I will say this. I think Foxy's been burying his pub co-founders at an alarming rate

lately. It's awesome. And it's beautiful. I'm trying to gasoline that fire a little bit more to get that place to burn down. Well, let's think about it. We just got so many t-shirt sales that we got a new bar. And the Friday after, the Friday after, you got a chalkboard. And the Friday after, the Friday after, you got a chalkboard.

These two guys decide not to do a video for them. You got a chalkboard with shelves. Yeah. Good shelves. Glass shelves. Good shelves. Are they glass? Anyways,

that is the millennial work ethic, though. You achieve something, then decide you don't have to do it. Not on my watch. Connor quit. Not on my watch. No,

no, we're just mixing it up. You know how we do it? We're just keeping it fresh at the pub. Oh, yeah. There would be no video this week, next week, the week after that. There would be no video forever because you smell just a little bit of success. Well, I just can never leave town anymore.

I leave town once. These guys can't get a one-minute video done. That is the problem, too. I agree with that. Yeah, he's yelling at us. They need you there to get off their ass. Yeah. You need accountability there.

Yep. I need you to step up next time. Anyways, those kids crying for that 12-year-old made that kid think that there's hope that he should have won. Yeah. Trust me, there was no hope. What did he do wrong? Everything.

Be a loser. They had to make a cake that was a puzzle and piece it together. Jesus. We're talking about his baking. Not him as a person. He's a 12-year-old. As a baker, I mean. Yeah, yeah,, not him as a person. He's a 12-year-old. As a baker, I mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.

Not as a kid. But he's being taught that it's okay to lose. Correct. Because he got positive reinforcement for getting the first one kicked off the fucking shelf. I don't think there's anything wrong with people succeeding or winning. I think that is something that should not be frowned upon. Do we hate the participation?

There's also nothing wrong. Yes. Is that what we hate the most? There's also nothing wrong. Yes. Is that what we hate the most? There's also nothing wrong with losing as long as you learn from it. Exactly. There is nothing wrong with losing. This kid didn't learn.

But it just happens. He'd go home and make shitty cakes for his family and they'd be like, oh, that's a really good cake. It's not. Wait until you get out of college and you get offered a job for fucking 20 grand a year

and you just got to fucking get your dick kicked in every day. How about this? How about you having to pay somebody 250 grand to work for them? That is a weird year. People are going to be doing it. People are going to be doing it.

Losing's supposed to hurt. It is. So you don't feel it again. You work harder the next time. You just get angry. I don't want to get up on a perch, but I feel like

if it wasn't for my losses, the wins wouldn't feel as good. Correct. Exactly. Well said. You know what they say. What do they say? The brightest sun comes up.

They do say that. I've heard that. You know what they say? What do they say? The brightest sun comes up. They do say that. I've heard that. Tim Tebow loved that quote. Big pop. Big pop. By the way, can somebody quote Tim Tebow real quick so we can just say he's on this episode? Jesus. Thanks, dude.

Loves you. Loves you. Perfect. Tim Tebow's on this episode. Hey, did you see that video of somebody dropping something, a picture for him to sign down on a string? Oh, yeah. So as he's walking off the field, out the tunnel to his locker, to the locker room or whatever,

there's just a clipboard hanging from a string, probably 25 feet, just hanging right in the middle of the thing. He walks up to it, doesn't even look up at the human, doesn't even engage in a conversation, grabs the marker off the clipboard, signs it, puts the marker back on like it's a bank thing,

and then just goes right up and just walks. It doesn't even say anything to him. Just walks right off. I'm like, that's Tim Tebow. I'd be surprised if he didn't untie it, and then it just floated back up to the bank. That's risky. It might have.

If you go to reach for that and they yank on it, you look like a jackass. Yeah, they're setting you up for failure. That was like whenever kids used to dab for high fives. Tim would have saw that coming. I don't grab things on strings. I don't high five kids. That's a pretty good rule.

Low fives for kids all the time. I fist bump. I make them come to me too. I'm locked in at 90 degrees probably on my arm. Just right there. If they want to come, they can come. If not, get the fuck out. Is that sometimes worse, though, because you're just staying here the whole time?

No, no, no. Because you've got to remember, you're directing traffic at this point. It's a child. You are smarter than they are naturally. Except for some of those kids on that Kid Genius show that Neil Patrick Harris hosted. Those kids were next level. The future looks very bright if those kids can learn any grit and work ethic, which they already will probably

because they all read, I think, the dictionary and the encyclopedia. Those kids, I had a lot of hope for the future whenever those kids were on that show. But none of them have lives, so 20% of them, not making 18. It's tough. What the fuck just happened?

It's a high percentage. Non-athletic. Todd just said, I think these kids are going to get sick of life, which is a wild statement. They're also probably not vaccinated either.

Hey, what is that all about? I don't know. Polio is at an all-time high right now, I think. The measles outbreak. Can't wait to get fucking SARS again. We're hilarious.

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They're literally telling you this is a shot in the dark. We're guessing what we think the flu strain could be. This is what we think it could be. So we're going to give your body some of it. So you build up an immune to it. So I'm not all in on the flu shot. I think it's a big hustle, a big scam. When it walked backwards.

Big flu. What's that? The cheerleader can only walk backwards after she got the flu shot. That's so weird. I still think that was a hoax. Bro, we're looking for Alex Jones right now to have a full on... I told you! Oh my God. That Joe Rogan.

Those clips. They're all fire. Everyone that I've seen is so funny. Fuck that guy. We DM'd him months ago a couple of times. His Twitter was literally banned from him. This was before. A week before. He probably couldn't even was before. Before. Like a week before.

He probably couldn't even get to his messages. Old fucking Twitter guy, Jack. I couldn't even imagine that inbox. Jack was like, look at this guy off of our platform. And then Joe Rogan's like, I got you, bro. I got a bigger platform than Twitter, basically. And that's literally what happened. Yep.

But the anti-vaccine thing, how did that all come to be? I thought that was one thing that everybody was on board with. Like, yeah, we don't want these things that could sweep out our entire country ever coming back, so let's just go ahead and do this. And then all of a sudden it became the cool thing to be. Jenny McCarthy was pushing it to everyone and she was married to

Jim Carrey at the time. And you can't believe anything Jenny McCarthy says because we saw her at that Super Bowl party the one time when she was pushing people not to smoke and she was ripping darts in the club at the Super Bowl party. I respect that. She went through. I think it's one of the most impressive cigarette smokers I've ever

seen in my entire life. Now, Grant, it might just be whenever she drinks or whatever. She was having a good time. But there wasn't a single moment of that evening that I looked over that she wasn't finishing a cigarette going into another one. I don't know if I was catching her at every chain link in the chain smoking, but she was turning one over every time I looked at her. It was very impressive.

But that's how it all started is Jenny McCarthy. Yeah, because for years, I guess there was some amount of mercury in the immunization shots. People were trying to link that to autism. Fucking Dr. Diggs. Dr. Diggs will speak again here.

The real issue here with the anti-vaccinationers is that with global warming the permafrost and the glaciers are now melting and old diseases are coming back so if you're not being vaccinated for those old diseases you have a much higher percent of chance of getting that disease now than you did 30 years ago so now is the worst time to stop vaccinating. I think that's a really good call. Nobody thinks about the jackalopes that are being unfrozen underneath those things. And the diseases that they have.

It's just like the sap from Jurassic World with the mosquitoes and getting their blood in the DNA. Basically the same thing. It's a troubling issue that we've got to deal with these days. But there's no way people really... Like Jenny McCarthy's still getting her kids vaccines, right?

Yeah, she is for sure. She's saying it to take it. I don't know. I don't know. Jim Carrey is an odd looking human right now. Did you see that picture of him looking like an ant? An ant? What?

An ant? Oh, not like an ant, the insect. Like your 50 year old ant. Yeah. He looks like. Jim Carrey's best days are behind him. Yeah. Or is that what we're saying?

Yeah. He might have a comeback late in his career. He looks like a middle aged woman. This one? Wow. That's that what we're saying? Yeah. He might have a comeback late in his career. He looks like a middle-aged woman. This one? Wow. That's right. Okay, so The Grinch is my favorite Christmas movie. He's definitely got some kind of role going on there

because he grew his hair out for it. Aunt Phyllis. He does look like an aunt. He does look like an aunt there. He, though, is my favorite Grinch. My favorite Christmas. Santa Claus. Favorite Christmas movie. We've got Grinch on the other side there. He, though, is my favorite Grinch. My favorite Santa Claus. Favorite Christmas movie. Grinch on the other side there.

Jim Carrey. Jim and Andy. That documentary, one of my favorite documentaries of all time. Dumb and Dumber was a movie I grew up on. I am a Jim Carrey guy, but it seems as if nowadays, every time he gets on a microphone, it's a very interesting situation. Something went wrong.

Did he do the DMT, you think, and then something went wrong? Yeah, I'm thinking he did a lot of DMT. A lot of it? And he's lost in it. I think he's lost in it. He still is. That's exactly. You just nailed it.

I didn't think about it before, but he definitely did a bunch of DMT. I guess it makes you just dive very deep into your brain and just become like. Oh, so you access the other percentages? Yeah, it's like a reborn type situation. It's like coming out of the cave. That would make so much sense, because he speaks as if he's on a DMT trip the entire time. So it's like limitless, but like...

Yeah, it's deep, though. It's like deep, like what life is, the meaning of life and everything like that. It's as he took it in 2012, so it kind of makes sense. Oh, so he did take it. There you go. Spiritual wake-up call. I could never do that.

I'd be fucked for the rest of it. I would be Jim Carrey. I would immediately turn into someone like that. It might go well, though. Already weird, right? Joe Rogan became one of the deepest brains of all time, and he talks about it very often. Yeah, but he could also-

He handled it well, obviously. He handles marijuana very, very well, it seems like. So maybe I'm a DMT. So you probably could do it. You could handle it. Me, on the other hand, who can't take an edible, you might as well fucking put me in a clinic right after I get to the ATM. Foxy and I are going to be in Orlando next week.

We're going into Avatar. Oh, yeah. Excuse me, what? What's that about? Going into Pandora, bub. Oh, yeah. Excuse me. It's on Tuesday, diner.

How long is the flight? How do you get there? Well, it's just a walk-in type thing. Oh, Pandora Park. Yeah yeah it's a universal i think yeah universal now it's fun uh samantha's setting it up she's coming down to orlando and she wants to go see the animals i guess there's an animal kingdom oh that's a fun time huge tree tree of life but she sold me on the avatar yes she was like let's go to avatar and then i think the plan is go to Avatar, do the

walkthrough Avatar, find Jacob Solly, high-five him, congratulate him on winning the Tree of Unobtainium, get everybody out of there, do that whole thing, maybe hop on a bird or two, fly around. And then the move is probably right over to Animal Kingdom, where I guess it's just a big-ass fucking petting zoo. Hey, two parks in a day is a bold move,

my friend. It is. Do you get to go into the Avatar? Yeah, I think so. Do they have Avatar from Mario? You know what I want to be in, even though he's a bad guy? The guy with the three scars, that big... That war machine? Titanfall.

Don't forget what team you're on, fellas. The pictures look amazing for this. Yeah, whenever he said edible, that's what I was thinking. My first thought was next Tuesday, I'm probably going to... Going to need one. I'm probably going to throw one in there. I'm going to be Jacob Solley. Yeah.

I'm going to be him. I'm going to be him. That'd be cool if they gave you a suit to walk in and around all day. Yeah, and you're like eight feet tall. I've never been to any Disney parks. No, they're a good time. Never seen a Disney movie, never been to any Disney parks. I think this avatar is a part of the whole Disney thing, isn't it?

It's in that area? I've never been. So I'm excited to go check it out. You should cosplay as Jacob Sully when you go. You get a wheelchair and cut the lines. Oh! That's a great idea. Oh, so you want me to act like I'm a military vet? A paralyzed wounded veteran to get

to the front of the line at Albaton. You should get a fast pass. For sure. Go fast pass. Spring break season. I'll get you a discount on that. Of course. Is your fucking dad Walt?

Box top. Also from Harlan Radio 2.0. Check that out. Zito was on one. He had quite a day. No, I got a Disney guy. He does, actually. So fast pass. Is there like a super fast? So I went to Six Flags for the first time

Not Six Flags, it was actually the second time Cedar Point First time going to Six Flags over there in Ohio And I got talked into buying the Super Fastpass There's a Fastpass and a Super Fastpass I got talked into buying it By the person I was selling it It was a high school kid hustling the fuck out of me

At Disney they're worth it It is The Super Fast Pass though was the same exact one as the Fast Pass There's no such thing as the Super Fast Pass At least at Disney Respect to that You bought that kid's weed I was the same kid that took fucking Foxy's vape pen

I was the same kid Those goddamn kids. Do it, Hustle. That was my cousin. They're working at Carnival. Gotta do what you gotta do. It's called the Fast Pass Plus. Oh, there is one.

Yeah, see? There it is. We're going to definitely get that. I think we're going to pull the trigger. I think it's totally worth it. You should do all the parks if you're going to be down there. Well, we're going to be down there. Yeah, quite a bit.

That's where the Performance Center is for WWE. And they have us go down there. I mean, we didn't have many restrictions. No, we can do anything we want. It's like, just make some content for us, man, whatever you want to do. And like, can we let you go in here? Just tell us before you go in there. Yeah, you can do whatever you want.

How about that foam wrestling ring? Just don't tell us you're going on that. Just do that without us telling you. If you hurt yourself, we are not getting sued for that none of us are gonna take them you got it man it's awesome down there but i think that avatar thing is gonna be cool it's gonna be coming right after our uh we're taking a little road trip here are you announcing fast lane all right i'll be doing fast lane in cleveland i'm doing a watch along okay so just like joe rogan's fight companion and uh the electric chair and all these things they're gonna be showing me watching the fast lane pay-per-view and then they're gonna be

funneling in superstars to come join me whether it's after their match before their match old superstars and they're just gonna be sitting next to me so it's gonna be like a three hour open mic live yeah twitter facebook youtube is that where it's going to be like a three hour open mic for me. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube. Is that where it's going to be? All three. That's going to be awesome. Oh my God. Let's go. I didn't know that. I'm pretty excited though.

I just get to sit there and Finn Balor is going to be one of the guests in there. He's going to come through there for a second. Finn and I have met before. Oh yeah. Best friends. He's good at makeup At what? Makeup

I don't think he does any makeup No when he did the The demon The demon Oh I thought you meant like on his day to day No no no You look at him He might be

The demon was incredible Hey he is chiseled out of fucking stone He really is Yeah I'm gonna have a lot of questions about his diet, about his workouts, his day-to-day, all these things about everything. But whenever he paints on that demon, it is unbelievable.

So you're driving from Indy to Cleveland for Fast Lane with old Frankie boy and his new Jeep. Hilarious. I'm driving, by the way. You're putting miles on that lease already? Got to. Got to do it. If it's a by the way. You're putting miles on that lease already? Got to. Got to do it. If it's a lease, yeah.

You hammer it. Is there only a certain amount of miles? Yeah, yeah. If you go over, you pay. Oh, yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. Should we get a rental? It's for content.

Listen, he just got it. He has three years to cut back. Yeah. You pack those miles on early. Yeah, it's an early signing bonus. Catch him on the back side. By that time, he's going to be a thousandaire. Even if you're...

At least. At least. At least. If you're not a WWE fan, just for just a way to look at it, I'm going to have a lot of things to talk about. Oh, yeah. I'm going to be in a room filled with... They're talking about like...

The names that have been sent to me about, oh, this person will stop in there. I'm like, no way. They're like, yeah, it's easy because you're backstage. You'll be able to do whatever you want. And it's just going to be a running camera just nonstop. Awesome. I mean, I'm worried potentially because this is a PG operation

that I just have a four-hour open mic. That's going to be a wild scene, but I'm excited for that. Have fun. I think you'll enjoy it. We'll retweet it, obviously, because the WWE doesn't have enough followers, so we'll put it out to our channels to make sure that people see that it's happening. And then Pittsburgh, Monday Night Raw on Monday, obviously, is in Pittsburgh, so we're going from Cleveland to Pittsburgh, which is hometown.

Going to watch Monday Night Raw. Maybe do a little chit-chatting around town. Can't wait for that. Crowds in Pittsburgh, always electric. So I'm excited for that. Then we fly down to Orlando Tuesday down there. And then go to Avatar. Probably pet a lion.

And then Wednesday we got performance center stuff. Yep. And then we're off and running. That's awesome. Let's go. With these podcasts next week, there then we're off and running. That's awesome. Let's go. With these podcasts next week, there's going to be some good shit to talk about. A, I'm going to be in a car for four hours. I haven't done this in a long time.

I don't know how this is going to go, to be honest. Surprising. Road trip. I don't love it. This morning, I woke up and thought about getting a plane. Think about this. You said the other day that you don't mind layovers. No, you're actually driving. I was going to say, if you're You said the other day that you don't mind layovers. Think about...

Or no, you're actually driving. I was going to say, if you're sitting in the passenger seat, it's just a layover while moving. But in those layovers, you can walk around. I can go stop at a spa. Right. I can get a nice 15-minute massage. Get some yogurt.

Get some yogurt. I can go stop by... You can do that. You just stop on the road. You go to nice sheets. Yeah, but then you're not digging in. Make yourself an MTL. Your layover's getting longer when you stop.

You know what I mean? It's just getting longer. And I got a bladder. Everybody knows my bladder is not a good one. I don't know what you were thinking. I was like, I'll just drive and meet you there. You can fly. Wow.

You won the saddle up. Man, the people, Pat. I was going to drive with you, but it's Cleveland. Be some good conversation. I've also got a concussion on my schedule this weekend. Can't wait for that. Very excited. What do you got going on?

Snowboarding. Going back to Seven Springs. Are you really? You don't wear a helmet? Number one mountain resort in the mid-Atlantic. Not a big deal. Yeah, I do actually wear a helmet because I've had two concussions on the ski slopes. That's a good idea.

We heard it there and you were saying ski slopes. I am worried about you. Me too, dude. Because it's been, I haven't had a chance to get back during the winter to snowboard since I've moved out here. And it's been two years. You own a snowboard? Yeah. Hey, Diggs used to be a sloper now.

Oh, yeah. I used to go all the fucking time. I worked at the ski slopes as one of my first jobs. Nice. But what I'm saying is you used to be a very incredible athlete. Now you ran two routes on a football field. You broke your foot and pulled your hamstring. Here's the thing.

It's just like getting back in the gym where you just go way too fucking hard the first day. I assume it's going to be like that. And I'm going to... There's a concussion. I'm worried about your knees. I'm worried about your whole body, bro. Yeah.

You're 30 now. I know. Hemorrhoids. Fuck. Yeah, that asshole can't handle it. Maybe we should reconsider and do the tubing. Maybe you should do the tubing. Tubing is a win win win win you're going

down the hill you're having fun you literally can't fuck it up because if you get off the tube guess what you're still doing sliding down the hill as if you were on the tube it's a say it's a win-win the mcafees love the tubing it's a mcafees move everyone loves to be a great time my worry is if i go back out after hitting the foggy goggle, that's when bad things happen. But the girlfriend doesn't know, being from Indiana, flat place, she doesn't know how to ski or snowboard. So can't leave her inside at the bar too long by herself. So I can't be out there too long.

Yeah, because you're a gentleman. Saving myself. Yeah, you are. But I am slightly worried. I'll be honest with you. How's the powder looking for the weekend? The pow is fresh and deep, dude. Nice.

I can't take you fucking winter people seriously. I honestly can't. Back in the day, there was a little group of you guys that all worked at the slopes, and everybody talked about how much fun it is. I was like, this is awesome, and I went. I was like, I fucking hate it. I am so cold. I am one little it away from ending both my soccer and football career.

This couldn't be any worse. And everybody in here knows me, so I can't just get alcohol here. This is a fucking no-win situation. But as I get, now I'm older, I think I would enjoy being able to do something. It's fun. It's a lot of fun. But it seems like such a process, though. It is.

You got to get all your shit on. You got to waddle. You've got to get the thing all the way up the thing. You've got to go down the thing. I don't like the ski lift either. I can't trust it. Here's what's made the ski lift better now is you had to have a one-hitter or a bull. And if the wind was going, fuck your lighter.

But now, with the pens, snowboarding has become a lot more fun. A lot easier, a lot more enjoyable. You don't see any commercials about vape helping out No you really don't You don't do you just see the hurtful ones I think they're illegal Where? Commercials for selling tobacco

And helping out tobacco Oh vitamins I see a lot of vitamins commercials all the time GNC has vitamins commercials all the time All the time Gorman you're a winner guy aren't you I can tell you like the skiing I see a lot of vitamins commercials all the time. GNC has vitamins commercials all the time. Yeah, they do. All the time. Just poked a hole in your fucking theory. Gorman, you're a winner guy, aren't you?

I can tell you like the skiing. I do, yeah. You're a skier. I do not snowboard. I ski, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Your country club, dude. Club Med. Two different sides of the mountain, right?

I watched that one movie. Yeah, he's a fucking sky, dages and urchin. Great marketing strategy you came up for with the vape that they ignored, though, to sell it in extra windy places. Well, literally, like, if you were a vitamin taker. If you live in a place where it's windy.

Well, like, you had to, like, light it while inside of your jacket. It was a whole fucking situation, but now with the pen, it's like. With gloves on. You're a skier, though, huh? I love it. You do it often? Like, this winter, you've gone? I have not gone this winter.

Last winter, yes, I did. There's people that, like, make entire vacations out of it oh yeah we're going out to colorado oh wait till you see my ig post when i'm in a bathing suit in the snow it's real sexy boyne islands boyne i was gonna say you definitely gotta go to boyne yeah well that's an ig model move so are you gonna fucking do the snowboard in your own i'll have a park on with a with a bathing suit. Oh, I still flex. Sitting next to like a scarf. A tub. Hey, there's a half pipe up there, right? You want to just go hit that half pipe.

There's a half pipe. There's a bunch of board parks. I'll hit a couple rails for you guys. It's not a big deal. Cocaine. No, it's not. So growing up in Plum, where was like the slutting spot? Boys Park.

Everywhere. My house had a fucking incredible one. My house had a double whoop-de-whoop that got you really. Yeah, everywhere. It's literally, you got to remember, Pittsburgh is described as which hills do you live in? Like we grew up in the East Hills. Then there's the South Hills, the North Hills.

The hills are literally everything. That is where we grew up. That's why when you come to Indiana, it is a bit of a culture shock for a little bit. It's very weird. Oh, yeah. And then now when I go back to Pittsburgh, like on Monday, I'm probably going to get sick.

I get sick. I get altitude sickness going home. It's a weird. And then now when I go back to Pittsburgh on Monday, I'm probably going to get sick. I get altitude sickness going home. It's a wild scene. I also had a great sled riding hill behind my house, too. Straight down in the woods. I love it. What would you guys use in Pittsburgh? A lot of sledding, obviously, but not buying a sled from the sporting goods store.

Garbage bag was a good move. Garbage bag? How about a pizza? Have you ever done that? No. Hold on to a pizza. Oh, yeah. We weren't that poor. Yeah, Jesus. I think garbage bag is a little bit of a good move. Garbage bag? How about a pizza? Have you ever done that? Hold on to a pizza? We weren't that poor. Yeah, Jesus. I think garbage bag

is a little bit of a step up, but do you remember the round discs? The discs changed the game. The discs changed the game. Almost a couple near deaths, too, down on my street. Because you go down a big hill and then there's a flat area. That's where I used to

kick the soccer ball on the wall. They would go into the streets and die. Yeah. A lot of kids end up in rivers around here, Otto. Yeah, but there's no hills here. It's all flat. But to travel to a hill, they all end at a river. Yeah.

True. Yeah. Yeah, because it always rolls towards water. Just like the Grand Canyon. Everybody knows that. You have to find a river bank because we don't have regular hills. I was a head first guy, though. Oh, yeah.

You have to be. You have to be. It's the fastest don't have regular hills. I was a head first guy, though. Oh, yeah. You have to be. You've got to be, yeah. It's the fastest. You control better, too. Well, in the Olympics, I don't understand the guys that do the back lay one. The skeleton, I think. Skeleton. Skeleton.

Oh, yeah. Those ones, I don't know how they do that. They scare the shit out of me. The head first ones, though, I think is much more. My belly would get in the way. Yeah, exactly. I don't want to go out and live here. I think skeleton is the sport that we like that goes head first. Luge, I believe, is. Luge is on your back. Yeah, exactly. I don't want to go out and live here. I think skeleton is the sport that we like. It goes head first. Luge, I believe,

is... Luge is on your back? Yeah, it's on your back. I believe we're big skeleton guys. Oh, skeleton's a head first one? I believe so. That's one where people seem to get hurt in. But it makes sense to me that that's one I would want to do because it feels like you're more in control. I never understood the kids that would sit on sleds and lay down.

Well, they're nerds. I always tried to surf on them or snowboard on them on the sled. I didn't do that. Bad for your ankles? I was always worried about my legs blowing out. Smart. Good job, by the way. Skeleton is head first.

Okay, so skeleton's head first. Liz, you were right there. The bobsledding. Yes. How come that isn't a more feasibly thing to do? It is, like in Lake Placid. Well, that's what I'm saying. How come? Like't like a more feasily thing to do? It is, like in Lake Placid. Well, that's what I'm saying. Like how come...

Like recreationally, you mean? It is if you go to the place where everyone does it. If you go to the Olympic Park and maybe head over to Russia too, stop by Sochi. Seriously, I don't understand why local water parks

don't just freeze their slides and everyone can do some bobsledding during the winter. Makes no sense to me. Also known as dead. Because those hills are pretty big do water parks happen in a lot of places i mean they do where we're from pittsburgh sandcastle no shut her down it was outdoor you had to walk up these like oh no it's open still yeah yeah still open yeah but i'm talking about the sandcastle was the place to shut oh yeah yeah you had to walk up these tiny little stairs all the way up to the fucking top.

Oh, yeah. Some of them you had to carry like a tube with you. Yep. All the way up. All the way up. And those things still happen or not? Oh, yeah. There's a huge one right outside Waterloo.

They built a bunch of stuff around it. It's like one of the biggest attractions in Iowa now. That's awesome. Those are a good time. Then you lay down at night and you still feel like you're on the fucking slide. You remember those days? There's one called

Geauga Lake up by Cleveland one time. That was a go-to spot. Geauga. What are we going to do in Cleveland? They got casinos in Cleveland? I don't know, actually.

Rock and roll hall of fame? No, it's just a piece of shit. See if you guys can find maybe like a Seeger show somewhere or something. What is it called? It's the Flats? I think it's called the Flats,

the area where you're supposed to go there. Well, right, because people from Ohio came to Pittsburgh's casino because they didn't have a casino in Ohio. So let's assume that the casino is out in Ohio. We're going to be in Cleveland for basically one day where we're not really going to do much. Who are our Cavs game?

Tickets available. Don't weigh hands. We could probably secourse side there. You probably could. Probably. We might be able to get ins game. Tickets available. Don't lay hands. We could probably securse side there. You probably could. Probably. Might be able to get in the game. Might be able to get

in the goddamn game. When we go to Pittsburgh though, we're definitely There's casinos in Ohio. Yeah, I figured there probably would be because we've got them in Cincinnati now.

Live, live. Cincinnati's on the boat, right? Yeah. Cleveland's on the water as well. If they have water through there, yeah. Cleveland is on the lake.

Yeah, it's a stake by the lake. Okay, so we're going to hit a couple casinos. That's awesome. I'm excited for that. Can't fucking wait. I said we're going to hit a couple casinos. That's awesome. I'm excited for that. Can't fucking wait. Dumb rule, isn't it, though? Maybe Todd can... Oh, you get sports bet

on Monday. Yeah, in Pittsburgh. Halfway through the game, too. Which I am good at feeling out a team. And I can go bet halfway through live betting in Rivers Casino. They got a live sports book in. That's a good casino. I've been there, but I'm talking about Indiana casinos and

like you said, Cincinnati. They got to be on a boat. You got to be on water to gamble. What is that? Well, it's all hustle, right? It's all bureaucratic bullshit. Just to keep the number of licenses down so people have to pay more for them. So their friends can get them? Yeah. That's exactly what it is. Hey, respect. Just like what's happening with the

marijuana license is now too. I think that's what's going to happen with the marijuana license you got all these potheads that grow their own weed and they're all like well wait till it's legal i'm gonna do it i'm like well you better start shaking some politicians yeah yeah i got some real friends that have been doing some real damage like how high type shit with method man and they're like just waiting on it to become legal nationwide i'm'm like, well, you better get to work and lobbying for a fucking thing. Cause they're, they're going to control the license. They're going to control.

You get a permit, you get a permit, you get a permit. Cause you donated X amount to my campaign. You donated X amount to my campaign. You donate. Do they do that? So obviously not here.

Cause you could sell it in a gas station and stuff like that. But like in Pennsylvania where beer distributors, they have licenses too, like a limited number of licenses? Yeah, because there's only state stores. So in Pennsylvania, you can get liquor at a state store and then beer from a beer store. You can't get them at a gas station. You can't get them at a grocery store. You can't do any of that.

You have to go through that. I would assume that's the same type of thing. You have to petition to get a license to do this, to do that. It's probably just like bars and restaurants everywhere. Yeah, I would think so. I would assume that's the same type of thing. You have to petition to get a license to do this, to do that. It's probably just like bars and restaurants everywhere. Yeah, I would think so. I would assume that's the case. We need to get one of the marijuana ones. You know the mayor.

Yeah, we do. Of what town? Here. I've gone after him pretty hard for these potholes. And I don't know if he's the guy pulling the trigger on the marijuana dispensary. Do you know the governor? I don't know the governor, but he did follow me on Twitter the other day. That might be the first step.

I'll send him a DM. Guys, Windows Vitamins license. I'm a need dose. I think we could have a nice little operation. Somebody got a green thumb in here, I'm sure. Run to the family. Can we call it the vitamin branch?

I'm just workshop shopping, right? Work shopping. Work shopping. Word shopping. You're not buying words. Can't buy a vowel. A workshop is when you go work through something. So it's work shopping.

There you go. Spitball. Let that last part out and just say, workshopping. Atta boy. Nice Zito thought there, for sure. I'm just workshopping. Zito, Chicago. Nice place.

Ben Askren said he's had a fight there. Are we going to go to that? Do we have to go? I have a very good disc golf course over there. Oh, we're going to take him disc golfing? Because that's in June. It'll be nice, too. Oh, there's content. There's a big hill. it's like maybe like 20 40 feet up above the ground and you

shoot over it's a par three course okay hashtag end game hashtag end gang tell ben askren thank you for coming on the show on twitter and then tell him you would like for him to disc golf against me 101 in chicago in in June for his next fight. Either, I don't know when he would do it. I honestly don't know when he would do it. June 7th. The day before he's in that goddamn bathtub doing the 170. Maybe he wore a sweatsuit out there.

Oh, yeah. Wear a sweatsuit. There it is. Losing weight. Oh, so then that would make it fair. He's next to death, and I'm at my peak performance. Exactly. Okay, good. So that's what we tell him. Hasht next to death, and I'm at my peak performance. Okay, good.

So that's what we tell him. Hashtag endgame, hashtag endgame. If he responds to you, if he answers, the first one he answers, we'll give you a couple shirts from the merch store. We appreciate you all so much. From myself, at Tom McComas, at Diggs. Yeah, what is he?

Choo-choo. A-Train, choo-choo, get off the tracks. Is that not available? Is A-Train, Choo-choo, get off the tracks. Is that not available? Is A-Train, Choo-choo not available? Not enough characters. Well, you can get to Choo-choo probably. At least. A-Train, Choo-choo.

Boy, I'm getting off the tracks. Well, you can add that to it. So this is what you had to do back in the day on Twitter. So maybe it's A-Train, C-H-U, C-H-U, right? And then it's A-Train. Get off the tracks. So G-T-O-T-T. Yeah, get off the tracks.

A-Train, C-H-U, C-H-U, G-O-T-T. And tracks with a Z. He's dead At Nick Barotto At Hey Gorman At Viva Lozito At Boston Connor There's no chance you're going to find it the way you spelled it It was stupid

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Hit the. Oh, have a great weekend. Heartland Radio 2.0 tomorrow. Friday bangers. Good conversation. You'll enjoy it. We're in a little bit of a dead time here with the world. Oh, by the way, anything going on in hockey?

Yes, there are things going on. And that's hockey time. Let's go. The world up next week free agency starts okay the new year starts we appreciate you fucking with us though and spending some time we're gonna learn a lot about each other because a lot of things are about to happen in a very quick time and i hope we can give you a little bit of a behind the scenes look at how everything is building for us i think we do that on a regular basis. I feel like I'm pretty transparent. There's a lot of things potentially on the table for us, for me,

and I'll be excited to detail it through and through. And I thank you all so much for following along. What you guys did on Twitter on Monday was one of the coolest things I've ever been a part of. There it is. Good stuff, people. No, I've not been offered the gig. I don't know if I will, but we caused quite a fucking disruption in the space,

and I'm thankful for that. And if those dumbasses can't see it, that's on them, not on us. Hey, you're in the room, brother. You're in the room. We're in the room. Probably not in the booth. We'll figure it out. Thank you guys so much.

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