THESE GUYS! - 4TH OF JULY + COLLEGE FBALL COMFORT GAMES + UR H0RNY FRIEND + TROY AIKMAN'S EYES

Episode Date: June 30, 2026

Nothing like being on the family computer 3 feet away from ur mom watching a RedTube Video 💕 You ever forget to clear your internet history before fball practice and then think you're gonna go to hell? We haven't either. WEED KID, H0RNY KID and your IN-LOVE FRIEND make an appearance on the pod. The Boys run through Mel's Best Available: Best Eyes, they discuss the most comforting college football teams to watch (not Utah) and they talk about how lit pep rallies actually were (not a reminiscent pod) Benny and Joy Joy go LIVE in New York City Sept 1 at Gramercy Theater Sept 1 🎟️tix below🎟️ bring your gf who hates the pod 💋🎟️ *LIVE SHOW TICKETS!*https://www.ticketmaster.com/these-guys-200th-episode-special-live-new-york-new-york-09-01-2026/event/000064C99E46D47D🤝 *JOIN THE CLUBHOUSE DISCORD*TG CLUBHOUSE https://discord.gg/7X63C4HF8y📬 *SUPPORT THE SHOW*Hit us up on the email line: [e-mail]🎧 *Listen to the full pod*https://open.spotify.com/show/0DCF4F4r78p0eXiD3fyh2Lhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/these-guys/id1649757408🍻 *Follow us on Instagram*These Guys! https://www.instagram.com/theseguyslolBenedict Polizzi https://www.instagram.com/benedictpolizziJoey Mulinaro https://www.instagram.com/joeymulinaroFollow our Facebook Page!https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61579678466463🧢 *50% OFF ALL MERCH with code BALD at checkout*https://www.benedictmerch.com

Having chicken salad sandwich, this is America's birthday. Chicken salad sandwich. What are we French? They back. Dude, forget your whole, like, thing online. You know what I mean? Throw it all away, bro. Just for dockich, like, docketch at Fourth of July,

dockage on Christmas, dockage at a garage sale, docketch ordering at McDonald's, just every video. Not bad for a fat guy. What up, Clubhouse? Benny Politsy and Joey Mulanaro on this week's TG. Do we talk about when Weed Kid joined the football team?

No, we would never do that. What's your comfort college football team? And why is it Oklahoma? Who has the best eyes? And is it Troy Aikman? And is the most terrifying moment of your life walking into a high school basketball game? Absolutely.

TG. 192. 192. Glad to be here. How about you? I do, duh. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Look at this guy.

Look at this guy at YouTube. These guys, L-O-L on YouTube. Hey, yeah, yeah. New kid on the block. New kid on the block. It's got a collar. And I feel like I'm at St. Barnabas. Oh, caller barely nowhere.

Oh, God. Oh, God. These guys are coming out. Hey, it's Fourth of July week. These guys are coming out firing. God. Jeez, man,

Johnson, good to see you. Yeah, collared kits. It's interesting. I'm always about a collar, bro. Born and raised collar guy.

Blue color. It's in our DNA. It's in our DNA. It's in our DNA. It always looks pretty good. But on a soccer kit, kind of a wild move, just like in general.

Yeah. When's that going to happen? When's that going to happen in American football? we posted about it on these guys Instagram story. I think it might have been Matt Collins or someone who had the collar

underneath the who's going to pull that out probably be against league rules for sure. Mendoza Raiders, collar underneath. That makes sense.

Yeah. You've seen like a kid in grade school though where a like a straight polo underneath shoulder pads and you're just like, how can you

even? Great school. Try high school. Go no shirt. High school. Gerbach rocking that? Gerbach rocking a collar under? Wasn't Gerbach?

It was like weed kid esk. You remember when Weed kid would come out for the football team and you're like, okay, might be a hard hitter? Yeah, he might be like crazy. Can't block him. He's like on some weird drug.

Can't block weed kid. Yeah. he got spice from the fucking local marathon across the street. Might be a hard hitter. Like he was pretty, hey, that one time in backyard football, he had like six touchdowns.

Yeah, kind of went off a little bit. Boxers under football pants. Yeah. Might be kind of hard to block. Might be kind of, hey, nightmare gunner.

Don't see that guy in special teams. Could be weirdly the kicker too. But then also could get out there. He lasts like three practices in two days. You never see him again. Is he going to show up? You see him at St. Judefest. You're like,

bro, we have practice tomorrow. Gavin, where the fuck were you today? Gavin. And he kind of does Wiz Khalifa weed laugh. And you're like, oh, okay, he's high. And he just didn't want to come anymore. But that's like the kid that the coaches always like look out for, you know? They like never give him a heart.

They like always are, come on. They're like coddling the weed kid. Yeah. Hey, hey. Troubled home. We get it, bro. All right, weed kid. We get it.

You barely see your dad. Weed kid's dad. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Daddy. Weed kid kind of long hair hanging out of his football helmet. Kind of jealous. Yeah, your girlfriend goes to your game.

Who's that? Kind of wishing Kind of wishing that Gavin Stay at the Jude Fest doesn't come around All of a sudden he's going to start getting the cropped top Having the boxers out All of a sudden, hey, weed kid of course skinny Eats whatever the hell he wants

Skinny's guy in the team Has a six pack You're like I've never seen that many abs on a person before Oh hold on a second actually We're good I just got to go kill a spider That is gonna eight-legged freak of me If I don't do it so sorry

got to do it. It's right here. And if I don't come back, it's because you know that I'm in my basement and a literal tarantula is in the corner over here. So wish me look. Dead in the basement. Give us a little P-by-P, bro. The noises. Ah, motherfucker.

Let it ride, bro. Golly. Oh, my God, it's gone. I'm just kidding. Woo, man. Nice little adrenaline on a Sunday. Hey, you can hear all this. more live in New York City on September 1st. That's two months from this week.

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You roll over at 2.30 a.m. and you see one crawl across. All that's flashing is the TV screen. That's the. rerun of the credits, the opening credits of the movie. And you're like, oh my God. I definitely am not sleeping anymore. DVD main menu.

House of Wax. You try to watch a scary movie with your friends. Dude. Didn't even get through it. You can hear us talk about that. You can hear us talk about the weed kid that joined the high school football team. All that more. September 1st live 200th episode special,

me and Benny in New York. city. Be friend. I appreciate you. Get your tickets. Yeah, dude. It was always House of Wax.

That's a good call. It was always a spooky movie like that or it was always just like the loudest, brightest, brightest intro card, main menu screen of all time, like Malbu's Most Wanted or something. Movies are so loud, bro. And it's so inconsistent, too. Every four seconds in a movie. that I can't hear.

It's like commercials on TV compared to the regular TV show you're watching. I'm like, why? Can we level out the audio? Mm-hmm. Totally.

I can't decide if it's like that for games. And if you're watching, not sports podcasts, but if you're watching football, watching football on Sundays. Football? It goes to commercial or that comes back. I can't,

I, maybe I've just been out of it for too long, that I can't remember. Longest offseason of all time, bro. Dude, I cannot remember. I don't even know. Has it been eight months? This has been the longest off season

I've ever experienced as a person in my life. This is probably going to surprise you. Do you even remember the Bill's Broncos playoff game? I was trying to think the other day, who was in the, like, championship games? Bill's Broncos playoff game happened 26 months ago. What does college football even look like on TV? Like, can you even imagine?

Can you imagine? Can you even, I can't even picture Michigan State running onto the field. Well, one, because it got rained out, but two. I was going to say, I think we have a pretty good idea of what that looks like. I can't remember. But I'm picking up what you're putting down. Yeah, what network? Who even knows?

I just want to see Oklahoma on my TV so bad. God. why is Oklahoma A, not a Sooner's podcast? Is this a sneaky Sooner's podcast? Hey, Boomer! That one guy in the back of First guess, first guess, Sam Bradford.

That one guy in the back, I think it was Sam Bradford's Heismet speech. That dude in the back, that running back from like the 70s who just was young, Boomer! Throughout the entire speech. one thing I've never watched though was a Heisman speech

Really? Dude, I love those I've seen that Michael Jordan I get a little choked up Yeah I've seen that MJ Hall of Fame speech But that's kind of it on that The The Fernando one was good

I actually quoted the RG3 Going back to last week here I actually quoted RG3's Heisman speech In my senior speech How about that? No So, so college football, dude

That's right Yeah, I always watch that shit That's a good question You're in the middle, you're in the desert of football What's the one team or one stadium You just want to see on your screen It's just gonna make you feel good For no reason or like that you just

Dude, I would The team I wouldn't want to see Hold on, let me set it For no reason It's not the team that you root for It's not the team that you like. It's not the best game. It's just if you could have that sense of comfort

and you're rolling in to the living room or your basement, man cave, wherever you're watching games, the bar could be at the sports bar and up on the screen is one stadium, one team playing. Who is it? It's Oklahoma for you? It feels good to see Oklahoma on TV for some reason. just feels like I'm

Oklahoma I don't know that's not bad definitely not like Oregon Oregon's too like overwhelming I'm like I don't you know what I mean

like Oregon like they they want you to pay attention so bad that I don't want to pay attention totally try yeah yeah yeah they got to play a little hard to get there Oregon's so high maintenance I'm like Good Lord

TCU's kind of in there It's got to be a Nike school Like I almost said Texas A&M But they're just not Yeah there's something weird About the Big 12 Kind of That that does just feel

You don't care But they're always like Top 5 in your eye Yeah I don't want to watch Dude Michigan I wouldn't want to see that on my TV really there's two yeah the expectations and a tg hot takes did michigan football pretty boring

if i'm going to be completely honest yeah notoriously not too flashy just the most pro style like yeah they had denard robinson that era okay yeah they had dinard robinson for 16 seconds everybody lost their mind tried to recreate with devon gardner war 98 fucked it all up i mean that wasn't Devin Donard Robinson, Michigan wasn't Michigan. That was just West Virginia cos playing as Michigan first two season. Not a sports podcast. But it really was. I was like, oh, this is just West Virginia in the Big Ten.

Like, all right. So you go Oklahoma. That's pretty solid. There's a team I'm missing right now. Hold on, hold on. I'm going to look it up. Dude, you go, you go. You're going to call me crazy.

No, I'm not. And it's just something about VOT Tech. I do. Dude, I have the softest spot for Virginia Tech, man. If I got Blacksburg going, you know, I got, I got, I got, I think that it was a sandstorm going. Fun team. Who are they playing. Vah Tech is playing.

I got one too. All right, go, go, go. Iowa State. Big 12. Yeah. I think. Hey, it's got to be a red school for some reason. Oklahoma over Chicago,

Iowa State. You know, do you know who would make me sick to watch right now? I'd actually just, I'd look at the TV and walk outside. Utah. I just can't. Yeah,

too far removed. Totally different planet. I'm like, are you guys in the CFL? Yeah. Utah's so weird to me. In their under armor, I'm like,

what is it? What am I watching? Hey, another red team Georgia Georgia's nice on TV You know you're safe When Georgia's on TV You feel safe

You know, yeah You're between the hedges It's 330 You know You got formerly CBS On there It's just Oh Georgia CBS

Yeah Georgia CBS Georgia CBS 330 The prequel to the nightcap game That's probably like At Alabama That's a good spot to be in that's hey that's present two out of seven

um george is good Missouri I don't like that camera angle it's a little too low the stadium and camera like in Missouri's behind their end zone

it's just like a whole entire park I'm like where is everybody bring it in yeah exactly Texas too or it used to maybe that's just a video game it used to be yeah

Texas on the video game. I was like, why don't they have a field behind their field? Piss me off. Hey. Bear cats? That like not Saturday during the day, but like on a Thursday night. Dude, Cincinnati only plays on Thursday nights, bro. There we go.

That we're talking. Yeah. So we're getting the gist of it. Is that pretty much just any college football game right now, we're like, all right, besides Michigan. Wait, wait, I got a color. No, I got a Utah, Michigan, wouldn't want to watch them. Clemson wouldn't want to watch it.

See, I was going to say that's kind of comforting to me. I don't know, like the Death Valley. I feel like they're always playing at a good time. I feel like it's never, whenever Clemson plays, especially as of late, it's always like a solid game, but it's not like do or die. Yeah, yeah, it's like maybe Clemson over the last handful of years, like Clemson might be ranked like 17th. Maybe they're playing Louisville who's like,

they're not ranked, but if they do the full listing of all the schools, they're probably like 27th or so. They're getting votes in the top 25. This is a solid game. I probably have a bet in on that game. But I don't got to be locked. I'm just kind of in and out.

Can we keep playing this or no? Yeah, sure. I got, oh dude, hold on I got one. I don't want to see on. USC. Oh my God. I hate watching USC football. I can't even stand it.

The stadium? Dude, when they play a game at home that's not happening at 11.30 p.m. Eastern time, don't want to see it. Don't want it on the screen. I don't like it at all. There's too much room in their stadium. I'm like, yeah. It's time to get over the whole Coliseum thing.

Just new stadium, please. Okay. What else you got? during the day Oklahoma State See I don't care for Cowboys I don't I'm like you with USC I don't like their stadium I don't like how close

the fans are Oh I love that Way too on top the angle of the camera Doesn't mix well with me Shiny turf too I don't really like the turf And it's always It always seems like they're playing on the surface of the sun

It's so hot. Oklahoma State is the poor opposite of Michigan State. That's very true. It's so sunny. Every time Oklahoma State plays, I'm like, Jesus, dude, is it noon all the time on their campus? The sun is right here. And they're wearing orange.

So you're just like, wait, just cramping up nonstop. That's so true. Oklahoma State. Mm-hmm. one that is comfort Iowa feels good Iowa Penn State

at Iowa though I was just about to say Penn State at Penn State too overwhelming Hey let's just let's chill out here Iowa is just a good family style game Yeah you know it's going to be like 12 to 9

you know not a whole lot of action going on but it just feels good no shootouts over in Iowa dude a lot of defense a lot of running the ball

trench work dude I can't stand like like when USF is playing at like Raymond James I hate when college teams are playing in pro stadiums I'm like what the fuck is going on

disgusting man I'm like this just doesn't make any sense I hate even thinking about like the home team traveling somewhere to play at home. I'm like, oh, yeah, even the U, dude. Dude, the Orange Bowl, the Orange Bowl not being around. There's probably some clubhouse who I'm, they're thinking like, what are you talking about? No, dude, the actual Orange Bowl where the U used to play. Miami's like stadium.

But yes, before they switch to just join with the dolphins. Yeah, ew. And they think that's like a draw like yo, you play. where the Hard Rock Stadium, I'd be like, no thanks. Hell no. I want to walk five feet away from my dorm to the football facility. Exactly. No, let's drive 12 minutes to the, ew.

Stop. Even that's a downside of, that's a downside of the Rose Bowl. Is that UCLA? I think it's changing, but that has been their home stadium. Mm-hmm. It's like 48 minutes away from their campus. and then you add in with all the LA traffic and everything. So yeah, like not only do the team have to travel,

but if you're a student going out there to watch UCLA, you have to get on literal school buses. Who's doing that? To go out there. So when I was doing my Foxy, I was literally Josh Rosen, name drop. Remember Josh Rosen, UCLA quarterback,

got drafted by the Cardinals. Didn't go on the pros. But I was doing that with him at the UCLA stop. And he was telling me all this. He was like, yeah, dude, literal school buses. like yellow-ass school buses. No seat belts. Like everybody crammed into it.

You've been pre-gaming. You dried 45 minutes on the bus to the Rose Bowl. And then you're just like stranded out there drunk after the game. I'm good. I'm so good. That's not painting a pretty picture there. Why do they do that? I don't know.

I'm sure it's something with finance. Finance. Yeah. That was fun getting a drop in the comment. Put it on the Discord, the Discord, the Clubhouse, clubhouse chat on Discord, join. You find that link in the bio on Instagram, these guys, LOL as well as pretty much anywhere we have the show located.

You can hop in there, join the Discord. And we talked about it on there, drop it in the comments. You know the deal. Should we do our Mel's Best this week? Yeah, let's do it. My, my, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, Mel's Best Available. Yeah, so we're excited to be back. Mel's available, but it's got to go to pull out.

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today we do Mel's best available best eyes can be anybody yep you ever see a pair of eyes and you're just like just took my breath away

for me go ahead start us off shooter I've been thinking in this since I saw him. Actually, think about it every night.

Beautiful. Honestly, don't know if they're real or fake. Mills are available. I'm taking it off the board. Chris Paul. Whoa. Not where I thought you were going. I thought I had you paid for where you're going to go with that.

Oh, I don't say. Chris Paul, bro. Don't know what it is. Yeah. Just saw him just saw him bending over like during a time out one time. Close up on his face. Just the honey glaze eyes. Honey glaze, yeah.

Good shape, too. Good shape of an eye, you know? It's kind of like you can you could see, you could see him easily being transferable to a Pixar character. Yeah. Yep. Mm-hmm. Yeah. He's been,

what did a random like 2006, New Orleans Hornets highlight pop up on your TikTok or something? Like, he's not playing right now. What, uh, I just like in college one time.

I was watching him play on TV. Been in your mind that long. 25 years ago. I've had this in my back pocket forever. Chris Paul's got the best eyes. And I was also, dude, I'm sitting with my roommate.

And he was like, Damn, man, C.P's eyes too, though. And I was like, he's like, nothing. Hey, don't ever say anything to anybody about that. And I was like, confirmed, bro. We were all thinking it. Yeah. One of those.

Thank God you said it. Wow. Yeah. Okay. I was like, is anybody else? Like, this is amazing. Like a post game interview? Like it.

Yeah. Got that kind of a little like just the thin stash going to? That looks great. Yeah. CP been rocking the same look for literally since Wake Forest. Yeah. All right, that's

an interesting one to start, not one that I expected. I like it. All right, Mel's best available, best eyes. This is an easy one for me. Super glad it's there. No brainer. Frank Sinatra. Oh, really?

Dude, he's literally, his nickname, one of his nickname was Old blue eyes. You can't have a nickname like that that you're known for that much. Jeez. That blue eyes. The album cover, I mean, you want to talk about Pearson Blues right there. My man Francis Sinatra. Sometimes people with blue eyes kind of, um, it's a little too much. I don't know if this album cover is really what his eyes look like, but Lord have mercy. I think they popped them a little bit there. You're talking about nothing about the best, but I mean, if you look at kind of one of his classic headshots,

definitely still blue. And it works for Frank because he's got the, he's got the, you know, the classic olive oil skin, dark hair. And blue eyes, dark hair.

What a combo. I am still holding out hope. You know, it's funny is I was like, you know, my wife, my wife, she has super dark hair.

And so I have blue eyes. I was always like, hey, maybe. I feel like it's a rare combo, but just maybe what happens to my first two kids come out, blonde hair, brown eyes. Duh. Bill flip-flop. Y'all Oklahoma State to Michigan State. Frank Sinatra number two. Mel's best available, best eyes.

Let's see what we got. I don't know. It's just something about it. This is actually a toss up here. I think they're the same color eyes. Jair Alexander. Ooh. Hey, also though, also

Thai dollar sign. Hey, same guy. Yeah, kind of like the hazel green. It's like their see-through or something. They had the look of eyes that would be someone who gains superpowers. Yeah, I was just going to say those are X-Men eyes. X-Men eyes.

Yeah. Totally. I don't know what that is, It just like makes it. It kind of makes me feel comfortable. And they're super, they're like very different. And it's almost like,

do you have like colored contacts in? Man, yeah, guys with eyes like this, just cleaning up the ladies, dude. I mean, just X-Men eyes?

X-Men eyes just, putting a literal trance on the ladies. I mean, you better pray your girl doesn't get one look into those things or you're done. Yeah.

You can't come with me. I talked to, I actually was face to face with Ty Dahlia sign. Couldn't look at him in the eye. At the Grammys or something? Yeah, I was like, I can't. They have sunglasses on now? Why would you do those things? Saw him.

Good look. Jaya Alexander slash Ty Dalla sign. It's hilarious. Kind of same guy. Kind of same guy. All right. Mel's best available. Best eyes.

Got to go with our guy, Kirk Herb Street. Ooh. In similar fashion to Frank, he's got the Pearson Blues. And I read his, I read his biography, his autobiography. Crazy.

He says in that that literally, that's one of the reasons that ESPN, way back in the day in the early 90s, hired him. It's because he did an audition and people and the executives or different hosts and stuff were kind of like questioning like

Herb Street? You know, like he didn't really play that much in college. He's kind of just been like on local and I forget exactly what the ESPN boss said. He was like, hey, you can teach people a lot of stuff on TV. You can't teach, but the camera loves those piercing blues

that Herbie has or something like that. Yeah. And hey, when you watch college game day, my man knows where those cameras are. He's never missing the beat from when the camera is on the wide shot to when it comes to him. He's already looking at that shit.

Ready for the close-up. Ready to look into your mom's eyes in the living room as she's walking through and just put her in a spell. Just two blue marbles. That's crazy. Hey, is this best eyes or just guys we have crushes on?

Seriously, though. Not a single female No, are you kidding me? Not yet, not yet I've got none on my list All right, next for me Yeah Oh man, I got a lot

Damn All right, all right Mel's best available, best eyes Troy Aikman Talk about guys, we all have a crush on, huh? I mean, Lord have mercy Troy Aikman's eyes Let me get a look at these bad boys

We've been looking at him for our entire life Yeah, like you can't remember I can't remember I didn't think of him last night or anything Good God Mm-hmm Best eyes dude And voice and hair and arm

And body Yeah He's got such He's one of the pictures just showed up here I don't have it saved or anything But What the thing you just showed up here It's your background on your computer

He's got his shirt off on a boat With a hat Looks like in the keys or something And he's got such like Classic jacked old guy body Like a little bit of leathery skin It's kind of like the skins hanging on For dear life

But the dude's just jacked Can you send that to me? Yeah yeah I'll drop it to you right I'll like it on it offline Troy Aikman Yeah he starts to come

Then he pulls out Starts to come Then he pulls out Have you seen that clip Probably yeah I love that Every football season Right when it gets going

I always gets served That like hey When announcers Go wild Or some shit like that And one of the clips is Troy Akeman Yeah it starts to come

Then he pulls out Talk about alignment or something some shit. Yeah. Kevin Harlan. He beats Cox. Sorry. Iron Eagle.

Crabtree. With an insane ability to suck in these balls. Dude, I mean, how do you not know, when announcers do that? I'm like, bro,

it didn't like even trigger. Like the first thing I think of after anyone says anything is something perverted. You didn't even, all right? I always love when the new guys, you know, it's like the kind of the newbies,

guys who are just trying to find their voice, you know, find their personality in the booth. I feel like they always go to those real quick. And they're always kind of hesitant. You can tell they're a little bit nervous to say it. They're like in their brain, they're like, you shouldn't, but just do it. Just do it.

You shouldn't, but just do it. Like JJ Watt would say some shit like that, you know, because he just started doing it last year. And then there's one, I think the best one actually is, let me get back to this. There's like a measurement. And the play-by-play guy's like, Like, ah, it didn't come up about two inches short.

And the color guy, the color commentator takes a beat, just goes, ah, story of my life. Oh, like they, okay, yeah, RG3, too. He was getting like, that's the shit. You're like, dude, you're writing those. Like, you're, that's not just off the dome. Like, you're coming in as part of your prep and you can't wait to do that. Yeah. I mean, that did kind of put him on, though.

And I kind of don't mind him either. Mel's best available favorite new commentators where do we leave off Akeman you did Troy

How did you forget God dang Hey does a good job I remember one time my Pittsburgh buddies They were like Dude just watch Just listen for Troy Eggman

Every time that he says It did a good job Like the amount of times He says that at one broadcast And I did And I think I got up to over like 34 like just does a good job

Troy Akeman on the call Troy Akeman on the call is one of the it's like same same feeling as like the team you want to see on TV I just want to hear Troy Aikman on the call

yeah Troy Akeman and Joe Buck on the call and I am just passing through the kitchen of my grandmalls with the kitchen TV in the corner

while she's making chili who's playing Packers, Bucks Oh, God, Packers Bucks, dude. Hey, Bucks, Vikings. Who's not watching that? Oh, man. Already dark, already dark.

So good. Is it cool for? Am I thinking sick? I'm going to try. I swear I have five science questions do tomorrow. Don't even know what page is around. I've got Sinatra, I've got Herbie. I think this is, I think you're going to be proud of me.

I think this took a lot for me. Okay. The clubhouse will be proud of me. I mean, they still go. And I talk about eyes. I should be talking about my ass, my ass would be back. Mel's best available, best eyes. The Baltimore Ravens Red Eyes that light up in the Red Zone.

I'm very proud of you, bro. Yeah. As I was putting it down, I was like, man. But damn, when they do, when they have it in their intro, when they do the introductions and they roll those out and those are going crazy. and then when they get in the red zone and they're on that big scoreboard at M&T Bank Stadium,

I'm like, God. This is a perfect accent. Right. Yes. Like the Ravens kind of have red in their color way. I know. That's so cool. And the eye, the focal point of the bird, like you can't miss that.

Right. Great touch. The, you know, the Falcons are kind of like about the claw, like the eagle. Obviously, the full nose and beak and everything. the Ravens, just the eyes. Dude, you know they're making that logo and the eye was just a black dot and somebody was like, hold up.

Yeah, 100%, man. And then it was like, oh, you know, that tops it off. Hey, Jerry on top. There you go. Yep. I can't believe. I can't believe,

but there's a few things about the Ravens that I give them props to. They're a beautiful team, I know. When they go, when they go black helmet, white jersey, black pants, black socks. Tough to be with the big B on their hip.

Dude, I think they ruin their unis. We're going to have to see them in, like, live on the field. You don't really know until they play in them. True, true. But I'm like, no more gold, no more Big B. The Big B on the hip was a big thing. I don't know why I just liked it. It was clean.

Yeah. On the hip, too, not the hip flexor. hip right couple only a couple squads go hip

a FSU big circle on the hip maroon pants mm-hmm mm-hmm Jaguars Jaguars

Fred Taylor on the hip black pants oh yeah just like the Ravens yeah I think you know

a lot of people talk about not Jersey uniform or sports podcast but like a lot of people give

fairly fair fair credit to you know, the best matchup, uniform matchup and football being the Raiders chiefs or the chiefs and chargers.

Sick division. Definitely. But man, there's two that for me just means so much to me. And it's when the Ravens have what I just mentioned against the Steelers traditional homes or when the Ravens have black hat,

purple jersey, black pants, against the Steelers traditional ways. I'm like, that is a battle. That is a matchup right there. It is going down. Like, you are getting, you're standing for that whole game. It's a great game.

Kids shouldn't be allowed to watch that game. Sometimes, man. Hey, back when I was in high school, like 2010, 2011, like there was some shit that I was like, this is, is this the XFL? Is this real life WWE? That one game, bro.

That one game. that put Steelers Ravens like in the combo you know what I'm talking about it was like James Harrison was just like annihilating people it was cold people's arms were like dude you know they look like they have like white pain on them

they're so cold like dude's arms you know what I'm talking about? The field and like the sideline the chalk and just all the shit yeah I'm like oh that game yep yep kids shouldn't be allowed to watch that nope or actually women shouldn't be able to either.

I still stand on. That game should be the NFL's version of the Iron Bowl. Every year, I feel like most years, Alabama, Auburn, well, they always play Thanksgiving weekend, but sometimes I play on Black Friday. Right? And how the NFL now

they implemented having that Black Friday game, as soon as they announced that, I was like, it should be Steelers Ravens every year. That should just be... Is that the number one rivalry? What is? You said... Chiefs Raiders. What's the number one?

I was talking about uniform matchup there. Oh, oh, but like, it's not even someone, it's not about like what the top rivalry is. It's just that the like black Friday, Steelers,

Ravens. Mm. Didn't even put that together. That's good. Anyway, it's get a, what is it? Get off my soapbox.

Top rivalries in the NFL? I mean, you get your, your division ones. you know. Yeah, but like just the ones, you know. To me, it's just Steelers Ravens and I'm not like even.

Steelers Ravens, Rams 49ers, Seahawks 49ers, Bears Packers, Packers, Vikings. There we go. There it is right there. Yeah. There it is. A Colts, Patriots, not a local podcast. Not a sports podcast.

I know we're talking about. All right. Aral mentions, yeah, hit some. Let's see what we got here. Best eyes. Adam Schaefter. Come on. Come on.

Dude can see right through me. Let me check these bad boys out. There's one picture of them. Hey, dreamy. Damn. Yeah, his Twitter is his little ESPN press room photo. Not bad, Sheffty. Mutant Shefter

New Twitter account Mutant Shefter What I'm being told They are talking about my eyes As being one of the best All the X-Men Showing off their powers And Adam Sheffter

Just breaks like some free agency news Hey Wolverine Yeah they'll be caring about that shit Whoa hold up what Gary got traded the Rams from whatever you to it That's a good one

Yeah these are some of these Are like you don't even think about it Until you pop that picture out Whoa Hey Terry Bradshaw Yeah Hey Howie Long

The entire The entire Fox NFL Sunday desk Wait wait They just talk about sports commentators It just turns into guys We have crushes on Which turns into Fox NFL Sunday It always comes back to Fox

Sennaval Sunday, dude. And this is our show. You got any? Yeah, yeah. You're like Jimmy Johnson. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Michael Strahan. Yeah, yeah.

Ha ha ha ha. I have the Tiger. Oh, LSU? No, like the song. Oh. Like Rocky. I have the tiger. I have the tiger.

I have the tiger. It's the I have the tiger. It's the best I to compete with the Baltimore Raven would be the middle of field at LSU though. That is serious. Yeah, I know. It's like a hurricane mixed in with a tiger. It's crazy. Oh my God.

Whoever, whoever's doing that for LSU. And also, yeah, imagine that conversation being like, okay, so we're going to paint the field and just put like LSU in the middle, right? And somebody's like, no. What we're going to do? Are we going to put the tiger in there? Like the bingles? Try again.

Both their end zones are flip-flop colors too. I'm like, they have. Finally, someone's trying. They have every five yards marked instead of every 10. Yeah. A great number font too on the field. Elsie's a unique experience, man. It is.

I, the Tiger, um, the fallen angel. You ever seen that? Check out. Type in the fallen angel. How is this?

Going back to how you don't know jack shit about religion. I knew this is going to be some Bible shit, bro. I was like, this is either like a weird video game or like, gave it away. I thought it was like a movie or like a character in a movie or something It's got a great shape of the eye A little bit of the eyebrow that's coming into it

You know it's looking cool Very similar Not a nerd Star Wars podcast But side by side a lot of influence on Anakin Skywalker And his turn to the dark side You can do the side by side of where Anakin is looking at Mace Windu Before he turns to the dark side And it's pretty similar

are pretty, pretty exactly the same as the fallen angel eye. So you can check that out. Dude. Anybody in the clubhouse. Yeah, right? Video game eyes. Fallen angel. Purdue Pete?

Maybe not best eyes, but just when you think of, I mean, you don't forget them. They're out there. You know, exactly. When you say Purdue, right? Uh-huh. Hey, and if it was all dark and you just had those eyes poking through in your basement, you would know Purdue Pete was looking at you. Sell the house. All right.

Nice. Anybody else? Not a local podcast, but Tom Young. Oh, shit. That's too good. Every week. Oh, L, such an OLB podcast. It's your weekly OLG Eagles shout out.

Don't get us started, bro. Hey, hey, hey. Cooking something up for next week, baby. Timot? Jimmy Webb. The entirety of the quad? All right. All right.

Now we're getting too crazy. Now we're getting too crazy. It's too much. It's too much. All right. I'll mention Mercedes. I will mention Mercedes Knox. Oh, wow, that's a throwback.

Yeah, that's a throwback. All right, let's go to Team These Guys at gmail.com. Tap into some emails there. We appreciate you. We'll start off here with our friend Levi. Been waiting to get to this one. Levi says, Beer League Dan Doggich. What's up, fellas?

Longtime, first time. I was playing with my buddies in a beer league softball this week and had a story I couldn't not share. It was the top of the third and I was on third base with our best hitter at the plate. Sure enough, he hits a hard liner right at me and hits me right in the ribs. The ball bounces off of me and goes fair and I run home thinking I just scored. The umpire calls the play back and calls me out because the ball hit me. I explained to him that I was in foul territory, but he was not having it.

So I went full Moulinard on him and started talking back to him and explaining why I was right. This went on for a good 30 seconds of me berating this guy. and then not even thinking about it, I left him with my best Dan Dockich, my ass, before walking back to the dog out and chugging a Coors light. Ew, he literally yells at Beer League softball umpires, Gras and Ben's famous white girl boys.

Thanks for always making Tuesdays full of laughs. These guys are the best podcast to ever grace the internet. Slop my ass with Johnny Knox's towel used on the fake punt that was called back for a penalty versus the Packers in 2011. Sent from Tom Brady's smashed Microsoft Surface, Levi. that's very kind of you Levi I appreciate that so much

means so much when you guys say that when you just said making Tuesdays full of laughs that's perfectly great and then you to grace us

with the best pod on the internet is a title that I don't think is true but one that we certainly will deny

we appreciate that Levi we do man a lot of a lot of Johnny Knox drops in the email giant Knox has shown up

almost as much as Dan Lownke I think about Johnny Knox a lot for some reason It's like two unreal years I was like who is this guy Hey where's you from? Where is it?

Wow Take a stab Take a stab for Johnny Knox This is gonna Dude This is gonna piss me off Oh God

This is crazy bro You're never gonna guess No I know I'm gonna throw a wild one out there I would say Johnny Knox went to St. Francis. Pretty much. Abilene Christian. God.

Nice uni's over there at ABC. ABC. Yeah, they should. Abilene Christian. I know. They should. No, I know. I was saying like they should use that a little bit more often.

Ooh, with the vapors, the best vapors of all times. Yeah. Any of those receivers that were of that era and of that skill set. and kind of they all had anywhere from like a year and a half to two years that were just unbelievable. You're like, what the fuck? Who is this got? It was either Abelene Christian or Mount Union. Abelin Christian or Mount Union.

Hey, Thielen, Minnesota State. Yeah, I'm crazy. Hold on a sec. I just got to show you. This is an unbelievable picture. Well, Levi, I'm proud of you for pulling out the docketch in real life. I hope everybody can get a little bit of docketch out in real life. A little bit of my ass.

A little bit of, you know, somebody says, hey Levi, hey man, you know, this 4th of July weekend. You know, you're like, hey, man, wow, you're looking good. Hit him with the, ah, nope. Let's see what they do. God, dang. God, clean. Those cleats. Those cleats and that level of sock with the skin showing.

And also that, like, uniform template from Nike was cold. Still had the holes. Oh, my God. The piping, the piping on the pants and the. the jerseys, yep. Can't teach that, man. You get the show. You get the show.

Yeah, that's my clubhouse challenge for everybody this weekend. This fourth, this fourth July holiday. Hey, one, be safe. Don't light all

with your hands. Two, football coaches. A whole bunch. Have a whole. Football coaches before Fourth of July. Yeah,

that'll come out this week on my page. We'll get 1,600 likes. All good. I'll be one of them. Yeah. Don't set up fireworks with your hands. Have plenty of good food and drink. Don't drive. And give everybody a little bit of docket. At your pool party. You're getting an arguing with your buddies. Do you have a sports debate? To your wife. Even more so. That's what I really want. It's to your wife or girlfriend.

Give them a little bit of... My ass under the breath. Hey, hit him with the, like I said, hit him with that. Wow, babe. You're looking hot. She's like, oh my gosh, thank you. And you look super cute. I love what you're doing.

And then hit her with the- Hey, babe, can you go inside and get the ranch dressing? We'll be back. Slip that in there just for us, please. Hey, when you're going, when you're going on the road trip to whoever's lake house or whatever pool party or whatnot, just start going on a rant about whoever the host is, you know? They think they know about grilling? They don't know.

They're going to set off fireworks. They think they got the big ones. They don't know. Hit him with a bunch of those, man. Do it all. It's fourths-eye weekend. Guys, making potato salad putting raisins in. We'll be back.

Raisin. Having chicken salad sandwich. This is America's birthday. Chicken salad sandwich. What are we, French? They're back. Dude, forget your whole thing online. You know what I mean?

Throw it all away, bro. Just for docketch. Like, docket at Fourth of July. Docch on Christmas. Docchich at a garage sale. Docch ordering at McDonald's. Just every video. Hey, I would...

Dude, I would unfall everybody. I lost you again. I lost you again. I'm good, but I lost your mic again. I think I got you. Check, check. Check. You hear me?

Got it. Dockey Dodge had a garage sale Oh my God Hey hey hey You got this You got this down for $1.25

Okay A piece of garbage But $1.25 I'm getting no more than 50 cents Okay This is a kind of garage sale I haven't okay

Every video is Docket I would never Stop watching bro follow in I shave my head I just go full in

the baggiest clothes every dude it's got to be crazy that we talk about him every week I know and he doesn't even know it's so funny it's just like

talking about a guy it's like not relevant at all just like every Dude, it's got to be 17 weeks in a row. Dude, Doc is beating Jason Sehorn right now for most times mentioned. Docke's just coming up on Brett Farf. I don't know if anybody, bro.

I know. I don't know if anybody will beat that, but like the amount of mentions. I didn't know that people knew him like that. Yeah, dude, in the day, another pitch for the Discord here. Dude, in the Discord, we just have like six different versions of Dan Dockich in there. Literally one is just day. Dan Dockich. Somebody else is like

Dan Dockich's bald head, like the handles from the clubhouse. They're so fun to read. Ben Utec. Let's head to Ben Uteg, man. Him and him, coward's chin and,

or cowards chin and and doesn't, go to Ron Collie. Weed kid. Weed kid, yeah. Yeah, the different characters are showing up in there. Grouchy Millers,

fingers, I kind of want to go back to talking about Weed kid joining the football team, man We had to cut that off to promote New York We can Amma some Marcia but it's not spelled like Samarja It's like Cam Newton text The hieroglyphics

Cam Newton font That's so so sick he has some font Hey, not a Panthers podcast. No. There has been. Not a Brandon Lafell. Hey, the numbers on Ellis's used field every yard line. So Brandon Lafell font.

Yeah. Aren't they? Yeah. And that booty dude, that receiver. It's just, yeah, it's just anybody that feels like they have like a Louisiana tie, you know. Yeah. Benny Snell's mouthguard from Tommy. Ben and Joey, one of my favorite bits over the course of the show

has been you guys riffing on character archetypes from our collective lives, aka weed kid, Gerbach, Huntie. On behalf of the Discord, I thought a few more we'd love to hear the backstory of and become a part of these guys' universe. The horny friend slash porn kid. Girl, you had a crush on the communion line in middle school. Never talked to her. Different teacher archetypes, the hard ass, the weird one, the young pushover.

And of course, whoever else you guys can think, I'm looking forward to hearing more about these people we all collectively know. Same lives. So I was just kind of, yeah, debriefing on the greater good that is that everybody has a Joe King in their town. Everybody has a coach Burns in their town that they grew up with that they know that they can draw similarities to that we can share this collective experience from. And those are good ones. Sometimes they kind of cross over. Sometimes the horny porn friend kind of.

kind of blurred lines with the weed kit because think about it if you're getting if you're getting away with looking up porn at your friend's house probably pretty lax parents that's weed house first

first you know first first video that you saw on on on X and XXX um also the same house where you had took a first hit of a joint for the first time yeah see the thing about the thing about the horny porn friend

is that it happened either super early on and kind of introduced you to a bunch of different stuff or it happened kind of later but then all of a sudden it was just like a switch totally flipped in this guy and you're like you're setting an alarm

to get up before school to go downstairs and try to get a glimpse of cat house that your parents don't know that they have? What? I think I just realized

that I'm porn kid. Am I porn kid? You're that a little porn kid in them. You're that desperate that you got the family desktop in the side office room and your kitchen's right there. Your mom's whipping up dinner

and you're on red tube? Right in the middle of the kitchen, dude. My computer is right in the middle of the kitchen. Sneaking. Weird out. Good Lord. Quick trigger finger there, partner. You better not get too locked in.

Just doing anything in my power to clear the history. Hey, don't know if I did. Had a bad football practice because of it. Yep. Not focused at all. Nervous football practice. In trouble practice. Tough.

Not really going hard, huh? No. I'm doing what the hell? What's going? What player are you on? Coach, you don't even want to know. Part of me kind of thinks that if you just were honest with coach, he might be like, I can level with you a little bit.

That's a tough spot to be at. So weird. Such a weird feeling at practice, man. Didn't practice good. I kind of think I'm going to hell. That's like. That's like the first version of anxiety. Yeah.

Where everything, you're just like, yeah, you, it compounds because that's all you're thinking about during practice. Then you don't practice well. And then you feel like a piece of shit because you didn't practice well. And you're in bad graces with the coaches. Probably let your teammates down. Not even focused on any of that. You tell your friend, your friend just makes fun of you. You know, it doesn't make anything to help.

No. Oh, you're like, oh my God, bro. I'm gonna quit football Hey the kid with four older brothers That like what if what is his parents not seen? What is he gonna do his parents haven't seen He didn't Gary you didn't give a shit Blame it on his brother

Yeah Yeah He did So you looked up some tits dude Big fucking deal You're like Oh God Looked up some

Cool would you do that Google images Yeah I've been over on U-Porn 6th grade You're like, whoa. Somebody somebody's getting suspended in high school. Somebody's going to have a guy

that go to at the gas station that gets them a little too much stuff when they're 16. God. Gas station kid. Circle K guy. Their gas station they had to go to

because their fucking homie was taking care of them behind the desk, you know? They got a guy. Got a guy who's getting them everything. Tobacco, wrapping paper, not wrapping paper,

wraps, whatever the fuck. Papers. Not a Christmas podcast. Not me talking to my kids about how we're less than half a year away from Christmas during bath time the night. Not like it's on my mind.

How many days? Let's see, we're 74 until the first college football, or we're 76 until the first NFL game, Sunday NFL game. I'm going to go. It's crazy, dude. I'm going to go 138. 179 days until Christmas.

Dude, that is like the most days I've ever seen. 179 days How are we going to get there 179 days until Christmas Or 179 days until the last football game I can't tell We're just in the desert What are we doing?

Please Get us some water So long Hey, hey you know what though Let's be a go Thank God 4th of July is this week Mm-hmm

Doesn't even know it was Ben didn't even know it was Fourth of Joe. It doesn't seem like it is, though. I'm like, can we get one commercial? Hey. Been seen a little too much of Walton Goggins in the Walmart back-to-school commercials already. Already?

We might be in the territory where they just kind of skip over Fourth of July and just go straight in the back-to-school. Back-to-school bash. Mills Best Available Back-to-school supplies? We can do that. we can do that come August or so now thank God it is though for real we need this we need this little

summer summer bump here summer bump to get us through hey top two fake week of the year 4th of July it's on a Saturday dude people are kind of blowing their arms off left and right

on a Saturday yeah you know your uncle mm-hmm Yeah, a lot of Jason Pierre. On Jason Pierre Paul's. Coming up on him on the six. Hey, Jalen Brunson's three celebration?

Yeah, he's not going to be the only one doing that. So funny. Oh, God. I can't imagine. Hey, what's, here we go. There's a little send-off here. What's, uh, what's Gerbach? doing on 4th of July.

Depends like where he's at in his life since we've mapped that whole thing out, but dude I think he's taking Sophie to see the OLG firework room. He's going to a pool party and then he's leaving early and all

his friends are giving him shit because he's got to go pick up Soph. No, my family party he's lying. He's about to sit on his trunk with Sofs. You said we were going to get hot dogs. Yeah, he's lying.

And everybody knows that he's lying. But you're like, you don't call him out on it. But then, yeah, but then all of a sudden you check the Instagram story or back of that day. It's probably just a straight up post. And it's like at So 333 cakes or whatever. And it's like them like cheering their ice cream cones on the city on the church. no they're not even in it yeah yeah

and then we're all like he's kind of panicked about it but he's like maybe I wasn't in it it was just it could have been anybody yeah it was just whatever bro you have your you have our football wrist band on we

here dude you're you know rubber band from our it says toughness on it we know that's you but he's like he's like saying that he's gonna come back later and shit oh my god dude when the in love friend

the in love friend does that like you know that the in love friend is just hanging out with you all day but you know he's about to dip it's just like why are you in here bro just go yeah you're throwing off the entire functuary of this thing we know you're leaving bro

like we're in here to stay we're staying the night like we're yeah we know you're gonna leave at 7 p.m. Hey your body's here but your mind couldn't be further away. You're not you're not here bro just go in love friend

and love friend so yeah he's like no no like I'm gonna you're like you're like you're dipping out kind of have to give him a little bit of hard time yeah I got to go

you know my my family's coming over for this cookout and just like I think I gotta I think get so and she's gonna go slips her in

you know slips in the name somewhere and you're like oh we've been we all know where he's going everybody knows where he's going but he's like

but I'm gonna come back you're gonna come back yeah I'm going to come back, right? I'm going to come back. So then, like, afterwards, after the fireworks are over, of course, like, he does come back. But then by that point, like, the party's gone to a different level. Everybody else is, like, on something else.

And more people have shown up. And so he comes back and he's just, he's coming off of just like, you know. And yeah, but I, I don't want to leave you. No, but I don't want to, you know, they're like rubbing noses and shit, right? Just said goodbye to her, you know? Probably pushing his fucking pushing his boners. down and shit, right? Like, getting into his car. Love mode. He's still in love mode. Then you're coming back and he's just, it doesn't match.

So he throws it off again. He throws off the whole thing again. He's trying to play catch up with the boys. And it's just not working out. Not even really because he's sitting there and he's texting Sophie the whole time because he's still so in love. Like, bro, you're just not. Yeah, you're going through the motions. He's like looking at his phone, smiling and shit. You're like, can you lock in? Can you lock in? Just stay with Sophie. All your homies in the same room Playing fart bottle

You got Gerbach On the trampoline in the backyard On the phone The trampoline phone call, dude A Two and a half hours Saying nothing Can't get enough of it though

Uh uh It's like what are you doing? I'm just like chilling It's like with the boys Oh they want you to like Get off the phone You can get off the phone if you want to get off the phone. No, I want to talk to you.

Hey, the girl, Sophie, I can like let you go. No, no, it's cool. It's cool. Hey, but she's like, she's also in love friend, but to her friends, but girls are so, like, catty at that age. They just, like, fucking don't even acknowledge her existence. So, like, at least for the guys, like, Gerbach can be in love mode, but, like, still come back.

And everybody's kind of like, right, whatever. But like, yeah, you're here. Girls, like, she has to go home because like, yeah, they just like stop talking to me. Like, I don't know, whatever. Like I just don't even think we're friends anymore. Cut throat. Cut throat, dude. She's out. She's on the outs until Gerbach's gone, you know. Might not even be allowed back in. So she's at home on 4th of July night, just by herself.

And that's why you're on the phone with, that's why Gerbach's on the phone with her. I want to talk to you. You can't get away, bro. Hey, hey. So, like, my parents were at this Fourth of July party, and, like, I think they're going to be pretty drunk when they get back. And I think they'll probably just, like, go to sleep. It's like, like, like, you could probably just come in through the basement if you want.

All of a sudden, Gerbach's, like, now, now that's another plan on the table to, like, go back, sneak back over. and then Gerbach's like Oh yeah Well like they're just gonna give me So's a hard thing You know they're gonna be on me Mom all my ass if if I do that

But like he tries to start Making it more of a thing He's like well what if What if like Can you see if Kinsey can come over Because like I think I think Kyle will come with me If Kinsey's there

You know he's tried to get everybody else involved So then he comes back in And is really like putting on He's really putting on Gerbach's like, Kyle, dude, and you're like, whoa, oh, yeah. Everybody's excited because he thinks he's good. He's just working to get the plan to go back over to Sophie's, man, because your dad's upstairs drunk and he can come in through the walking basement.

Trying to recruit. Yeah, but then all of a sudden now Kyle's like kind of going back and forth because everybody's just like, dude, that's not like, you're going to, what are you going to go over there? What are you going to go take Kinsey into like the bathroom? Like, what are you going to do? You're all going to get over there and just stare at each other. But then he's like, no, dude, like it'll be like, you know, come on. Like, well, it'll be tight.

dude. Just a constant battle. Gerbach just not just not in it to win it, bro. Come on. No. All right, let's do. Love mode.

And love friend. God dang. Fat Sats got burpy boy going on a Sunday. Holy shit. I want to know. I want to know. Took the boy to the coffee shop this morning. He,

got a medal yesterday at T-ball and Saturday at T-ball because he won like the weekly Chipper Jones Award. He won the weekly Larry Walker. Mike Piazzellon. So we were real proud of them. And so I took him this morning to the coffee shop. They have donuts there. Got some donuts.

Of course, I had one. Went over to the folks house on a little Sunday hangout. Did the oven pizzas. My dad had like a little brick oven. So we did like individual pizzas on the oven like that. My made chocolate shaped cookies. Had that and then come back home. Yeah, then come back home and split a little vanilla ice cream with the kids to try to get them to calm down and be happy before bedtime.

So it's all come back up. It's all come back up. This will make your own pizza day? Yeah, they do. What would you put on there? Pretty simple. I just like some pepperoni and banana peppers. Beperoni banana peppers

Okay exotic Triple B man Not the Not the ball brothers Bepper Bony Banana Beater pizza Yep Mm-hmm

You didn't take me as a Banana Pepper guy Fucking love banana peppers Dude love banana peppers dude Love banana peppers I feel like getting freaky Sometimes I throw a little green pepper on there Why not?

Dude yeah Hey, they taste like nothing. Green peppers? I know. Nothing. Hey, it's all about the snap, dude. Snap in the color? I know what I'm doing around here.

Come on. Green pepper. My ass. My ass. Let's go to our pal Josh. Double A to the dome. These guys. So this pertains to the pep rally assembly you would have in high school.

Do you guys have upperclassmen, Chuck items at you as you walked into the fieldhouse or gym? At my school, yes, a public school, the high school would gather into the field house with freshmen and sophomores and the bleachers on one side and juniors and seniors on the other. Us freshmen walked in, the upperclassman would chuck anything and everything from books to binders to batteries and coins.

We did the same once we became seniors, but not as severe because the faculty learned from the past. My question is if this ever happened to y'all in high school. Swank my ass with a towel Travis Kelsey threw at the ref during that one chiefs and jags game. Sent from my G-shock. G-shocks classic Appreciate you, Josh

As always College girlfriend got me a G-shock for my birthday one time Whoa G-shock and you didn't You only gave her one kind of ring Oh God Jesus God

Not the one she wanted Oh jeez Okay Yeah Yeah Pep rallies were Pet rallies were intimidating We didn't have that.

It was more like just a basketball game. You'd go to you. You get like a Gatorade bottle thrown at your head. Boom. Cool blue. Empty. Walking into a walking in to a high school basketball game. Most pressure of all time.

Most, Mel's best available highest pressure moments walking into a high school basketball game. No matter. what age, highest pressure moment. You'd be the coolest guy at the school. Doesn't matter. Your whole squad still kind of like, do I have something on my ass?

Oh, yeah, dude. Am I naked? The looks you get, man. I remember, and Josh, funny you asked this because it's not a high school podcast, but it, like, on the freshman basketball team where we went, we had to hold, they, we had a rope that went around our court. So while the varsity was warm it up, doing their layup lines and stuff, they had a rope that would go around and the freshman team had to be responsible to hold it.

So the rope was to block people from, you know, going on the court, whatever, could have gone it. But anyways. And one of the spots where you'd have to hold the rope was located directly underneath the basket where our high school was warming up. And then directly to the right of that was the student section. And when I tell you, I've never sweat more in my life that when I drew the short straw and had to do that spot, man. Because I'm sitting there as a freshman.

I got the entire student section directly next to me. So in the front row, I got like Ben and like a fucking saw mask, Joe King and a Hannibal Lecter jacket. The team wore me up to me. all the sophomores who hate me because I'm a freshman throwing shit at me you know saying I'm a pussy saying I have a little dick and all this shit like all this stuff right here you can just hear it tough tough holding the rope bro I remember that's like the only reason I want to play freshman basketball I was like I don't know that's kind of cool dude hold the rope I like I was like dude I'm a fake sick I liked it for some reason I'm going to play freshman basketball I was like I don't know I'm a fake sick I liked it for some reason. is like, I mean, I'm part of the, I'm part of the program. You know what I mean? I'm, I'm, I'm not just, I'm not just, I was like, damn, I don't want to be, dude, you're just, you're just, you're just target, target one A right there, man.

Just, just, just, can you wear anything for that? No, you had to be in like, you had to be in like, the warm up, you know, well, you had to be in, like, I think it was like jeans and like the long sleeve warm up team issued long sleeve warm up. No, you can't wear anything. Jamie Wernke wasn't letting that shit fly. He probably did that. shit on purpose to punish me.

I was a little hot head. It's a little hot head back then. It's like, yeah, get down there and let everybody just fucking roast your ass. No, but the pepper rallies, we didn't have shit like that with like batteries and books. But it was, it was intense. A lot of like, I don't know. It was just crazy that the whole school was at a pep rally. The whole school, everybody.

Yeah. And it was like class versus class. I thought it was crazy when sometimes the sophomores were louder than the seniors I was like oh shit yeah

yeah they got her ass yeah I was like they won it more than the seniors the pep brother was always wild the pepbrility was always wild but it always went to another level

he couldn't even imagine or like the head ball coach would come out and do something but like in a costume that's what I'm saying yeah yeah would do something

bro, I'll never forget, never forget this. I was probably top three of ever, the hardest I've ever laughed at my entire life. I thought I was going to have an aneurysm. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Homecoming pep rally. We did this thing at our school where to, it was to the song Sandstorm.

I don't know what he's going to get. It was the song Sandstorm. And so, and he really like, work it up, you know, like let the beat build up and start stretching out. And just every time that the song would come in, he would, you know, do a little beat. And everybody would be like, oh, my God. So the song would be building up, right?

And it's building up to the big climax where the song just starts going crazy. And it's building up. And all of a sudden, out of the darkness of the hallway, walks our head football coach. And he's just walking, his normal walk. out to where the admin guy who's doing the dance is just he's just sitting in a chair and we're like whoa what is going on here and our head football coach stopped got looked at all and then all of a sudden the beat built up enough to where he started getting crazy and dancing dude and he started dancing and losing it and then other

teachers came out and we're starting losing it and and the beat came in in and dude I like do do do does everybody do that and so and so yeah he set it off and all these different other teachers came in and the whole place was going insane and I was losing

like I couldn't breathe I was laughing so hard I thought I was losing circulation of my my head like I mean unbelievable unbelievable that's the kind of shit that we did not throwing batteries of people who convinced our head coach to do that

I want to know the backstory. Like who is the who's making that plan? Because I was a senior at the time and I was on the team and I was like I know sure shit. None of us did. And he wouldn't listen to any of us if we did. It's probably one of his daughters. He had, actually they would probably not want that. They were probably embarrassed his shit because he had daughters that were there at the time.

You imagine? But somehow somebody got into him, got the word into him. And he, it's like that's when a pep rally goes from here to like holy shit. shit is when somebody out of the ordinary comes into the closer something out of the ordinary and you're like no way and then all of a sudden they just buy in when you get the coach buy in see yeah dude weed kid horny kid jacques gerbach sophie everybody's in alternative girl that's like fuck this place it's a fascist like in she's even like whoa i'm not even going here next year yeah but she's like bought in

Pepper Raleigh's work. Yeah. The kids, like, you didn't even know if they knew they went to the school or not. They were, like, about it. Banging on lockers after it. I remember the feeling after a Peprelli walking back to your locker. I was like, that was crazy. Like, what?

And now we go home. Kind of like on the weekend? It's a dance weekend? We got a home football game? I'm going to Subway after this? Home football game. in like three hours? What world is this?

Mr. Armbrister's out there, he's tailgating right now. He's got the grill set up. They're making hot dogs. I can see the smoke. In English, yeah. You're in English class. Like, bro, they're getting ready.

They're putting cups in the fence. Beat FC. Oh my God, we're such losers. Dude, the flags are up on top of the stadium. I'm like, yo. Hey, you get a little bit of goosebumps, huh? You get a little bit of chills. Hey, remember the Titan soundtrack starts playing in your head a little bit?

Dude, when you see the other team pull up, though? You're like, oh, hey, they're here. Hey, they really came. They really came. Fuck. You think that, you think that, you think they're running back still hurt? God, dang. So they literally just talk about high school football when they play, they're fucking losers.

That's the best shit to talk about. Shut up. Shut up my ass. Drop one of those on her this weekend, huh? And say it's for you, the listener. Oh, man. We appreciate you guys. I'm going to wrap up there.

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