THESE GUYS! - HOF weekend recap + Drake 20 v 1 + Best Necks Ever?

Episode Date: August 11, 2026

magine fumbling, crying after your senior season opener, getting back to your locker room at 11:30 p.m. after a brutal three-hour lightning delay, and finding a text from your crush saying they left at halftime to liiiike dRiNk aT sOmE bAsKeTbAll pLaYeR's lAkE hOuSe (Not a reminiscent pod) High school football is officially back, which means you're sleeping for three hours, getting sniped by Chuck Weisenbach at the local McDonald's drive-thru for trying to leave campus during your 15-minute lunch break, and getting threatened by your head fball coach with blank gray helmets all year 😭The clubhouse opens up the vault on the Pro Football Hall of Fame, which is basically Guy Area51. We lay out why walking into Canton makes you want to host your 10th birthday party at Rascal’s Fun Zone all over again, what it's like to literally slide sideways into Jerome Bettis’ clay leg molds, and the absolute shock of being handed a donut box containing Edgerrin James’ actual chopped-off dreadlocks. Plus, we debate if there is a more NFL game in existence than a late-November matchup between the Giants and Broncos ??Then, we bring back Mel’s Best Available for the ultimate draft: Necks. We're talking Takeo Spikes looking down in his Buffalo Bills headshot, Paul Posluszny’s Penn State top collar button fighting for its life, and the legend of Jason Werner's neck at Purdue that would cause a medieval guillotine to bounce right off. Finally, we sift through the mailbag to talk about high school broadcasting hot mic disasters, the traumatic memory of watching Ron Artest barrel into the Detroit stands during the Malice at the Palace, and the drippiest numbers for o-linemen💧🎟️ *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

I'm going to be honest, I can't think a one quarterback before Kerry Collins on the Giants. Went straight from Phil Sims and Kerry Collins to Eli Manning. Not even Phil Sims. That's a myth, dude. I think just the only quarterback on the Giants until Eli Manning was Carrie Collins. Just forever. Not bad for a fat guy. What up, Clubhouse is Benny Plitzy and Joey Molinaro.

On this week's TG, did they talk about having their birthday party at the Pro Football Hall of Fame? Did they talk about Drake being on? YouTube dating shows. Did they talk about the girl who had a pink razor phone in seventh grade who definitely didn't like you as much as you liked her? Did they talk about who has the best neck of all time and is it

Paul Puzzlews-Losney? I don't know. But let's start the show. TG 198. 198. 198. 198.

T-G-198. Feeling great. It's good, great, grand, wonderful Here we go, man Team camp Two days are over All right, man Start gearing up

Getting in your school Schedule All right Whatever that means to you Getting to bed at a reasonable time Start getting into that schedule At your coach At the end of summer

Man school's back. School is back in session. Now to Reminiscan Pod, but it's that time. Everybody's there. It's happening everywhere. And yeah, you're not going to sleep until 1.30 a.m. knowing I got to be up in the shower at 6.15.

First day of school. So weird. So bright. So bright in the morning. Hey, scrimmage this Friday. We're treating this like a game. This is not a scrimmage, man. Doesn't matter who we're playing.

in their eyes, it's their Super Bowl. I don't care if Franklin community comes in here. We got a target on our backs. We got a target on our backs. We're treating this like a game, but you guys don't get the decals on your helmets until you earn them. Okay.

Earn your stripes. We're going blank helmets, blank canvases for this year, right? Yeah, there's that one coach, too. Hey, we might go blank shells all year. You keep playing like this. We might just have gray helmets. Turn the state game. If we get the, if we would be so lucky.

You want that running R. You got to prove it. Hey, we got that running R. We got a couple guys. But this isn't a couple guys thing here. Team. We play for the name on front. nothing back let's go bring it up

so quick right after not a reminiscent local pod not a high school sports pod wait hold on like this is the podcast I was told to listen to but like all they do is talk about high school sports not a local podcast

but did drive back from Canton Ohio with my one of my other broadcast partners and broadcast partners bro. We're talking a lot about

one Bible level. It's up that time for India to sports talk. Ben Blancy joins us, coach who played well for you tonight. You're at the Garin Catholic Bishop

Chard game up on the north side. He played well for the screaming Eagles. It's not the screaming Eagles. I mean, the Golden Eagles. That's right. Okay, something to improve on, man. We'll talk to you next week.

Good luck. Don't you played well for you? Yo, is that a thing they do in every state? No. Did they have the radio show that just ripped high school scores? Mrs. Sinwa, 42. I was like, who, where, who is that? Yeah.

How come there's a bunch of Native American tribe high schools in Indiana? Like, what is that? Maconacqua. Yeah, dude, I'm like, cool. What the hell? I used to hit that so hard when I was doing those scoreboard updates. And I would hit, I would drag out the gua. Maconacua.

Yeah, dude. If they won. Yeah, they won. You know, big win. Yeah, lost is real quick. Mycona quad takes one down on the chin tonight. You had your favorites in like 2A, you know. You know, you're like, damn, pretty cool school.

I'd probably go there. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I'd send my kids there. Indian Creek, though. Indian Creek, what?

No, it's never been a local pod. What are we even though? Always. Always just and forever will think that they quite literally have a creek running through the middle of their school. They have to. They don't have a 50-yard line, dude. It's just literally a, like a, it's just water.

You got to hop over it. And there's there's actual Native American tribes like hanging out in their parking lot and stuff. Like there has to be. Like there's a Navajo, Navajo. You know in high schools where they have, yeah, you're over on the east wing. That's a science portion. And on the west wing over there, that's where you're going to have your government and whatever. You know, the different sides of the building.

The divider, the divider is just a creek. Yeah. Yeah. You're on the east side of the creek. Yeah, you're on the west side of the. the creek. Everybody people

run by Indian Creek not knowing what the hell is going on and that's why we love you. So.

Everybody knows, everybody had that one high school. Maybe just daydream about going to. I drove by

Indian Creek a couple times though, like, because it was right off the highway. They had a

Burger King right next to it. I was like so lucky. God, they don't know how good to have it.

Schools that had fast food joints and gas stations right on the campus pretty much? I was like, did they build that for the school?

Like, were they thinking about that? Like, well, there's a high school right there. Like, well, talking about your local hangout. Jeez. Right after school, Wopper Juniors? Still can't get over the schools that just would let people leave

and then come back? Not real. I think that's only in movies. Yeah, we like left to get food for lunch. I'm like how much time did you have? And like, how do you go and do that and lock back into school? I'd never come back. Also, if we tried to do that,

helicopter. Yeah, we got him going on on I-65. We got him. We got the grandpa of I-65. He's head towards Chick-fil-A. There was that one kid that would go out. There's one kid at every, like, Catholic private high school that would leave for lunch and like not get caught and you're like what you left you left the confidence dude if i

would have gotten in my car me or you gotten in our cars and driven to a mcdonalds during our 15 minute lunch period i swear to god like you said i think one of us would have gotten sniped and killed channel 13 or angela good know would have been doing a story live and breaking here at the 12 o'clock hour, local Catholic school high schooler on the run to go get two McDoubles and a Big Mac. Did he get a Sprite? We'll let you know.

Live shot. Live shot over the top. Sniper in a helicopter. It's just Chuck Weisenbach. The crosshair is just on your stupid head in your car. Leaning your head out the window. Trying to see. I just got a MacDobble No what?

I don't want the number 10 I want the 10 McNuggets Not the no the 10 McNuggets Not the number 10 How times that happened I was always like Hey let's just make the number 10 The 10 McNuggets

Fast food numbers man I'll never get that Hey you want the 10 McNuggets Yeah that's number eight You went eight or 10 I'm like, I think this is your guy's fault for this mix up. Yeah. Gas stations on campus?

Yeah, you always knew that was going to be, oh, we're going to high school. It's got a complex. Yeah, it's not just the athletic. It's not just the stadium. It's like the athletic complex. Colleges have that too. Except for me and you went to the college

that had like fake stores and, like, like the cafeteria area. Like there can't be a Burger King. There's got to be streets grill. Like, come on. Like put the real stuff in there, even if it's fake. No,

they had the whole, the whole kid caboodle too. They had like an off-brand Fazzolis, an off-brand subway. Oh, what was that called? I can't remember, that bread kind of banged.

It was something fresh. I was like that said, that's subway. Yeah, yeah. Had the off-brand subway. So does. are off-brand, K-Cola. Why can't I do anything on-brand, man?

My whole live spin-off brand. Yeah. They had the real little, they had the real little debbies, though. That's for show. Check this out. The Troy P? Oh, yeah. Dang.

Hey, did a pretty good job on his hair. I know. You got limitations on the bobbleheads. Scoop this. Scoop this at Pro Football Hall of Fame was there. over the last week for three days. It's just clubhouse heaven. It's just simple put, just clubhouse heaven.

I mean, you think about it. You're like, okay, how it's a museum at the end of the day. Like, how cool can it really be? And then you walk in there and you're like, I never want to be anywhere else other than here. Well, it's in there, dude. Everything. Everything from the history of football,

game worn jerseys up the bus are insane like the most random type of memorabilia like play sheets and like call sheets from Marvin Lewis in the 2001 Super Bowl that the Ravens beat the shit out of the of the Giants just like stuff like that everywhere that's sad Jason Seahorn I'm sorry I know dude

who greeted you it was like did in my imagination at you walk in to Terry Bridge I was like thanks for coming Come on in. It pretty much felt that way. It felt like, you know, it felt like I want to have my birthday party here for the rest of my life. That would be insane birthday party destination. Yeah, it's at the whole thing.

You know, dude, you know when you used to have like the fourth grade birthday parties at great times? Somebody would have the, the fourth grade, 10th birthday party at great times or the 11th birthday party at Raskill's Fun Zone, not a local pot. And you walk in there And your little 10 year old 11 year old mind just can't comprehend All the arcade? Oh my God candy Wait, they have a pizza room?

Go carts outside? Waterboats? What? Overwhelmed with joy. That's a pro football hall of fame. That's a pro football hall of fame for guys that are 23 to 65. Clubhouse party at the hall?

just unbelievable. I posted my story. I posted my story. We get in there on Thursday morning. First of all, they have their own podcast studio and live television studio that they've built out.

That is just the sickest studio setup ever. Pro Football Hall of Fame logo right behind you. And then they have a whole setup. You walk into your left, whole setup of table. One of those, it almost looks like some from the North Pole of the,

of the, the classic shiny silver coffee jugs. Huh? You know, like, like, the fancy ones that they're like, they're like sterling silver, like almost like china. Something you see, you think of it like a fine tea party or something like that. They had two of those, one with hot water for tea, one with coffee, little thing with creamer.

They've got protein bars, breakfast bars. all just scattered about right in front of those. Then you go around the corner of the table. Custom donuts that are shaped like a football with football icing. Oh my God, dude. That's all I need right there. I couldn't believe it. That's just when you walk in?

Like that's just like... Well, that's when we were doing our setup for the produce show that I do. So they had us in to do that. And inside their studio, that was kind of the... green room media food. How good was it in the whole whole? Oh man. I had to throw it away. Spiral. I had to do a little three step drop and throw it away because I ate at least half of it.

And I was just, I can't do this. I was like, I got to be on camera later. I can't have football donut face. but I still A ball donut I still had to get a little to keep your hands off that It was just

It was just It was magical I'll say that I just feel like Howie Long lives there Like I just feel like he lives there I feel like they all live there Yeah

Jimmy Johnson's got to live there You know You walk in And you go to the area With the busts And all you can think about Is why there hasn't been

an animated movie or a real life night at the museum, but about the Hall of Fame. They all wake up and play a game in the middle of the night every night. You think they talk to each other at night? They're all, they're all awake. They all revert back to the form that they were when they were playing in their prime or when they were coaching or a broadcaster in their prime.

That's all I wanted. No, but I highly recommend pro football Hall of Fame. I got this. Dude, you go into the shop. You go to the shop there and I put it in Discord. you go to the shop there and it's like three warehouse rooms the size. It's huge

because they have every team accounted for. And then they also have all of the pro football Hall of Fame merchandise that's in its own separate section. Pretty good logo. Right? I turn to my left as soon as I walk in

wall right in your left, the entire wall, Steelers. I was like, they have jerseys, like old guys and new guys? Old guys, new guys. guys. They have all of the Hall of Famers in Bobblehead form for that team. God, imagine, dude, what about

running that? Running that as your job? I know. Had Hall of Fame Merge director. They had bookshelves, right? They had bookshelves of their sound. All of them were just like that Jerome Bettis book. My story

on and off the gridiron, just all those, you know, Walter Payton's book. Terry Bray. Right. He's got a book? Yeah. Elvin Bullet has a book? Just a random ass guy. He's got a book?

What the hell? The Times and Chronicles of Jacob Lacey. I'll take it. My story, Natron means? I'll buy it. Yeah, I'll buy that. It's the journey not the destination. Nathan Vasher?

Dude, oh, we'd already have that, bro. Your dad reading that to you and you're a kid like by your bedside?

You're six. It was a windy day at the midway. Orange jerseys were the garb of choice. So windy, Nathan Vashor did a spin move and it juked 649ers.

Really? that again, Dad. The Gus from his spin move was windier than the actual like conditions outside. Right. Yeah, that's why they call it. Is that the windy?

That's because of Asher, bro. That's why it's so windy in Chicago. Nathan Bashar's spin moves. Oh, dude, they had in the interactive section. And they had just clay molds of Warren Saps' hand. I was thinking about that when you're

saying this. Bro, the coolest thing ever. Which is also the craziest thing is putting your hand inside of an NFL player's hand. Like, yeah. Hey, not gonna lie, me in New Year's hand, same size as Warren Sapp.

Shut up to it. I put it up to it. I put it up to it, swear to God. Here's a wild one. Second drum, that is mentioned. They had like the casting, the mold casting of guys' legs and their ass. No way.

I'd slip right into that. You could slip in. You could like slide sideways into Jerome Bettis's thighs. No way. No way, bro. You're making this up now. You're making this up. Swear all my life, dude.

No, right. They got Larry Fitz mold out there? I jump right into Larry Fitz's mold. What's up? What's good? They don't have them yet. But, yeah, Jerome Bettis, I felt like the skinny marker in elementary school as compared to the fat marker. Yeah, you put those two side by side.

I forget. Jerome Bettis. Places you can't bring your girl to. Oh, no, dude. This is why I was like, I'm just sitting in the clubhouse the whole time, dude. I was like, oh, dude, in the jerseys. Everywhere you look, dude, everywhere you look, different teams, different players, different. generations, it was, it's just too much to handle.

It really was. It's too much to handle. It's just like the Batcave of the NFL, you know? Batman has all his villains, like, cased, like, in the Batcave, you know? It's like that only NFL. Oh, my God. Dude, matching hands with Warren Moon.

Are we in love now? Warren Sat. Oh, Warren's... Yeah. It's like when your girl takes you into Victoria's Secret, and you're like, I don't know what to do here. That's what happened with her if you went to the, like, come on, let's go to the NFL Hall of Fame, babe.

It would be the ultimate I look to my wife. What do you think? This is pretty awesome, right? I'm just really glad you're having a good time. I'm really happy for you. You want anything? Like, just doing it, like,

offering her the world. Arms full. Both arms full of just racks of clothes, jerseys. Babe, we can both wear Barry. Sanders jerseys tonight dude mini helmets I've never seen so many

mini helmets in my life all signed mini helmets below my mind like the coolest most underrated thing how come do you have a lot of mini helmets I'm like what what happened where I don't have one mini helmet is because they're like $600 each

they're so real too they always have like the all alternate ones. I saw like a breast cancer, Oregon black and pink one. Yeah, dude, that. You could actually put that on, put that on your son and he could run through a brick wall with that and his head would be completely fine.

Son by Lawrence Timitz. The real L.T. Duh, real L.T. Wait, what's their podcast about? Do they just make up fake Instagram names for current athletic players? Maybe. Oh man, it was

Yeah, dude It was, It was too much to handle It was really like, you know, I know you don't lock in too much with You know, you're not going to sit and watch like a three hour football game

And like be locked in and that's fine. You know, that's your, that's your prerogative. But even you would be mesmerized and blown away by the pro football Hall of Fame. Jersey's with Super Bowl patches on them? Dude, they have everything.

Yeah. What I do for an Ed McCaffrey, 87 Broncos Super Bowl Patschuzzi? Me and every mom. Oh, shit. Tough. Let's see. Can you imagine in the late 90s when his Broncos Giants? You had McCaffrey v.

Jason Seahorn? Bro, that game on Fox, dude, it's such a banger. Broncos Giants Oh Bro in that era What about Is that the Is that the late 90s matchup?

Is that the late 90s matchup? That's the one right? Like 1999 1998 Gary Collins Tiki Barber I don't know if KC was there at that point

I'm gonna be honest I can't think a one quarterback before Kerry Collins on the Giants. Went straight from Phil Sims and Kerry Collins to Eli Manning. Not even Phil Sims. That's a myth, dude. I think just the only quarterback on the Giants until Eli Manning was Carrie Collins. Just forever.

Dude, the Giants are so NFL too. Like, you know, like the NFL team. Giants, Giants Broncos, that is such a good game. That's so NFC against so AFC.F. see. Yeah.

Bang. God, that's it. That'd be great. Hey, both blue teams, but it's like, it doesn't even matter. Dude,

when the Giants had red jerseys, do you remember that? Oh, yeah. What are they doing not wearing those? Red? Eli Manning, red.

Oh. Felt like it was Christmas Eve every time they wore those. Tough. Anytime the reds were on, I was like, yeah. Merry Christmas.

put my Santa hat on. What a bold move with the all red. Like when the sixers would wear blue sometimes, you'd be like, like not even really one of their colors. Like, what a swing. Yeah, I've been on record many times not liking when teams just be taking

liberties with their colors. That mostly refers to black jerseys. However, everybody just, yeah, we got all blackout. The 49ers wearing black all of a sudden. I'm like, dude, that's just, come on, man. No, no, no, no, no, okay. But when you get a little wild and take liberties with a wild card color,

six in your palette. In the palette somewhere that's not black, Sixers Blue, Giants Red. Low key, like when the Pacers brought out the yellows for the first time, and you were like, oh, yeah, why weren't we doing that? Yeah, the original. Oh, gee. I was like gold pinstripes. I wonder.

Yeah. There is a lot in there. Yeah. Yeah. Why weren't we thinking all yellow? Boy, they look hard in the yellow. Uh, yeah. Pistons like, oh, no.

The jazz had that like weird red color. And you're like, oh my God. That is so crazy of you. Yeah. The red, like burnt red, almost like a, Big red gum It kind of looked like The different elements of a chemistry

Table or whatever I think that's kind of what they were going for Yeah It looks like brick Yes Yeah there we go We're talking like Donovan Mitchell jazz era Well that

I'm talking I'm talking mailman not Jeff mail Carl Malone had that shit Yeah dude Mm-hmm When the jazz the jazz. Oh, one more thing.

Okay, one more thing. So this is, again, this is the kind of shit that is at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. One of their employees, he's taking us and showing us around. There's this box that looks like a donut box. He's like,

once you take a look in there, I look in there, he's like, what do you think that is? I'm like, pretty clearly somebody's hair takes it, opens it. Yeah, these are edge, James's dreads. Shut up.

Dude, this is fair. Swear to God, dude. Swear to God. You can't do that. You can't do that. This close to Edron James's dreadlocks that he cut off. No way.

Yeah, I thought I put it in the Discord. That kind of stuff there? Yeah, because they, like, I was like, what is going on with this? They also had a Ziploc bag that looked like it had like a cow's ear or something in it. I'm like, what is happening?

Joe Thomas had sent that in because he had cattle. And so I guess every player that gets inducted, the hall wants to form their entire story. So they ask not just for football memorabilia and clippings of their newspaper highlights and shit. They want things from their life because sports are their life. They want different mementos from all facets of their life to be able to tell the full story. of Pro Football Hall of Famer Edron James. And so Edge sent him dreads that he'd cut off. I guess after when he got tackled by his hair

and he thought it was a penalty, but they said, no, it's part of the uniform. And so he cut those off and then that's how the story goes. Oh, my God. What else is there? All that kind of stuff, bro. That's the only thing. things they showed, oh, they had shoulder pads from John Randall.

You're John Randall from the Vikings. And they were custom. And so it looked like, dude, this is just, it's so clubhouse. I mean, it's unbelievable. It looks like what? They were custom to look like a Harley Davidson motorcycle jacket. So they had, hey, so they had the shoulder pads, right? They had the on the shoulders.

and then the rib cage part of it, literally Harley Davidson, like you'd see one of those bikers who have the leather vests that say Harley Davidson, it's what his shoulder pads were. Is the Hall of Fame just like final boss man cave? Yes.

One million percent. So everybody who listens to this podcast, like when they go and their time on earth is done, it's where they want to be. I'm just thinking about what other things are just locked away in there. It's like Area 51 for guys. Look, dude, I went in there and I saw Joe Horn's flip phone. Like shit, like, you know, like stuff like that.

Dude, I just shit you not. Nailed on the head. Guys area 51, 1,000%. Dude, area 51. Yeah. Are there aliens in there? And here is the Sharpie that T.O. used to sign the football on Monday night football. Shut up.

Is that there? I know, I'm riffing here on what else could possibly be in there. To the left, you see Ray Lewis's deer antler spray. You're like, what? All right. You're like, what do you guys kind of, that was kind of a bad thing, right? Like the NFL didn't like that. Hey, part of the story.

Part of the story. In this cup, we have no Sean Moreno's tears. You're like, what? No way. Can I drink that? If I drink that, do I become him? Absolutely, man. Yeah.

all that shit it was so cool I want to go back we got to go back next year we got to go back next year because they got that pod studio there and I'm not going for the pod studio I'm going for the football donuts

you said it not me oh last thing right before I interviewed Drew Breeze it was in this area where they had kind of departed from the larger press conference with all the different outlets. And then only a few people were granted one-on-ones. And we were one of the people who was granted one-on-ones with Drew Brees.

But we were out there and while we were waiting in this area, like just us and Drew. Oh, I thought you meant like one-on-ones. Like he was thrown to you. And there's a deal. One-on-ones with Drew Brees. I'm like, all right, let's go, dog. I didn't say what I wanted to do. I said what we were allowed to do, right?

But in that area, they would bring out all the different guys who were getting inducted. You know, so out of it, Terry was out there. Luke Keekly was out there. I see that picture 10 feet away. I'm like, this is just bizarre a world been same age. Been going a different route. Oh, is that Luke Keekley? Yeah.

Oh, dang. Okay, okay. I was like, that dude, it looks like jacked. It was nice of you to say that. I didn't know who that was. I just thought it was some random guy. No wonder. I texted Ben the photo.

because I'm 10 feet away from Luke Keekeley. He's doing an interview and I said, Bizarro World You, and he just kind of like, you know, reacted to it with something. So he didn't even know what I was talking about. But yeah, that was Luke Keekely. Same age, St. X. Dude, guy could still play for sure.

But Larry Fitz came out. And so there I am. Get a little peek at the ass. Did you? Did you? Did you? He had to. Yeah. Still.

Custom. custom tailored pants for sure. Oh yeah. I think the Kelsey brothers are talking about it, but he's like, looking a little bit more like a tight in now, right? Larry Fitz, he's not playing.

So he's not, he's not a lean, mean Larry Fitz who's house in the 78 yards slant against the Steelers in the Super Bowl. Up the middle. Whoa. But the custom pants. Custom pants for sure.

And I did. I couldn't help myself. He was walking right. by said Larry, hey man, congratulations. And he was very, you know, he was very gracious and polite, but. Slept him on the ass. I wanted to. Couldn't get close enough.

He had a three or four handlers around him. Yeah. All good. That was cool. It was all just super cool. Anyways, what else we got here? Hey, real quick. What is happening with Drake right now?

What is he doing? Drake? Yeah. I think he's on like a, he was on a dating show. But he put it on? I don't know. Everybody keeps calling it.

Everybody keeps calling it 20v1. Is this like him going on dates with 20 girls? What's happening? I thought it was like five girls and he just went on dates with them. Like OG. OG. LA YouTube, like white wall. Yeah, no, because I've seen you doing this.

I'm always curious when you're doing it. I'm like, is this a factory? Where is this taking place? Do I even want to know? Yeah, dude, there's just like warehouses everywhere around here. Actually, they're all like 20 minutes away. And they just have white drops in the background. And people just film stuff on them.

Sometimes they're green. Sometimes they're white. Like, so you can put whatever you want back there. But. that's what they're called white drop videos yeah you're trying to film a white drop this weekend I'm like yeah dude let's do it yeah I've seen you I don't know what you're doing in there what's happening but yeah now Drake's doing it and gotta get the clips off baby yeah Drake's in the game now yeah you've seen some of those girls before I'm like wait was she

on my dang show like oh all of I almost text you was like dude Drake's do it it was time for us to just quit. It's just hanging up. If Drake's getting into this into our world now, like what is, what is going on? What are we doing?

Drake's doing YouTube shorts too? Let's go. Champagne poppy? In my album? Is he, like, is he trying to, yeah, so this all is just for content

and clips. He's obviously not trying to find a real date. I mean, maybe, but I mean, pretty good git. Like the Nelk boys, you know, I'm sure you heard of them. But like big YouTubers, they probably got, they probably just shot their shot. And he's like, yeah, I'll do it. Because like Drake will do like some random podcasts sometimes too that like just blow up.

Yeah. I don't know, man. There's just things every day now that I'm just like, God, I got to really figure this out because I'm getting old as shit. Yeah, I'm like, I have no idea what's going on. where this is happening, why Drake's doing it, it's on a Twitch stream, ah, fuck. Nobody knows, man. Nobody knows.

I had to get your input, though, because I would just, right before we started recording, all that, just everywhere on my phone. Like, okay, Drake doing the white background video thing. Okay. Drizzy. No guess this week. We got a couple, we got a couple coming in the works

but it just didn't work out this weekend for whatever reason hey let's get on the schedule for this week or different time to kind of stack them up whatever so no guess this week but that means we can hit up a little Mel's best available bring that back Mel's best talking about him earlier

Luke Keekeley thing that stands out about them? I mean, obviously the most intelligent linebacker about all time. Looks like Superman. Is that Clark Kent? But God dang. Just something about that neck. Mm-hmm.

Great neck. Top 10 neck in the NFL. So for this week's best available Mel's best available necks. I don't like it. Benny back to the body parts. Back to the body features. I like it.

Anybody. All right. Fire it up there, coach. I'm taking this one off the board. Have to. I mean, everybody knows. You know, I know. It's the next scene and hurt around the world.

Preseason headshot Buffalo Bills to Keogh Spikes. Best neck. Yeah. I mean, dude. Can't believe that thing. Yeah. Not even, but not even look. looking up, like we would have to look up.

Dude's almost looking down. Chin down. Eye level. Can't choke that guy. No one's choking that guy. You could hang off a cliff from his neck. Right. That's something that, yeah, you're not,

if you're in a situation like that, you're not reaching for his hand. Stick that head out there. I know it's strong enough. Spider-Man swinging through the city, sees Tchao Spike's neck. Just as strong as a telephone pole. That thing. Eagles will land on that neck.

Now, do we think that any of that is just natural genetics? Or is he just, are we doing a lot of weights on the head, pulling it? What's just going on there? I think there's got to be a little bit of both. There's no way that's like just, I woke up and I looked like this neck. Like bro, bro been hit in the neck machine. And by the way, what happened to neck machines? I feel like there had to have been some study or some.

recent you know no you need more that you need that mobility man you need to be able to you know just gone. For the first thing that had after I played like my first varsity football game I was like okay I need to get my neck like 15 times stronger by next Friday

we had one in our way room yeah I remember fire I haven't seen one since then since 2008 I was just like such an idiot I was such an idiot doing that God I didn't bro.

If you, if you ever had, I mean, you've been tackled in a high school football game before that. I was like,

I need to like become a man and train my neck. This is insane. Yeah. Best neck ever. Keats Spike. It's a really good one.

Could start a family. Start a family on that neck. Also, obviously had that one on my list. You're going to go with my first off the board here. Similar,

but different. Mel's best available. level necks, Paul puts Luson-y. It's right there. It's right there with it. Yeah.

Just came a little later, you know? Mm-hmm. Maybe wider than his head. Something about, too, just that crew cut that he's got. Yeah. He brings out the neck.

Hey, the Penn State always had the suit and tie jacket headshot. Dude. So you're just wondering. Only muscle you can see in a suit, man.

you're just wondering, you're feeling bad for that collar and that tie. Hanging on for their lives. That tie fighting for its life. Hey, dude, talk to, yeah, POV,

Paul Pozzanee's top button. Stupid. You know it, Ro. Fighting for its life. Yeah, man. If he, hey, no, hey, you look at Paul Pusely's headshots from Penn State. He's always got that serious-ass face.

It's not because he wanted to. It's because if he cracked a smile, his whole shirt. Sure will explode at any minute. Paul Puzzlees. What an Adam's apple, too. Can we talk Adam's apples real quick? My God. Unbelievable.

Cover that. Cover that. Cover that in caramel and nuts. You take into consideration the width of the neck and then the Adams apple of that guy. I mean, we're talking like 46 neck. Yeah, dude. The tape measure guy at men's warehouse before he tried on the tux. Jesus Christ.

Yeah. He's got to get a real one out, like one of the yellow ones. Yeah All Puzz Adams Apple Puzz Apple Puzz Apple Orchard Puzz

Puzz All right Mel's best available next We're going anywhere on this We're having fun Yeah Hey Kind of crazy

Kind of crazy This is insane Yeah It just all unraveled while I was thinking about this. Okay, the Hercules Disney movie neck. Mm-hmm. Great neck. I was thinking, I was like, yo, actually, Hades in the Hercules movie, great neck.

And then I'm like, hold on, no. It doesn't stop there. Meg from Hercules. Unbelievable neck. Meg Hercules. She's like the OG Disney Bad. I mean, it sounds weird to say that. Oh, this is interesting.

When we were young, like, I mean, Meg was, it, it girl. Dang, put some respect on Meg. Yeah. Do the people know about Meg? Everybody's talking about Lola Bunny and Jessica Rabbit or whatnot.

Meg? Meg kind of shape the way I date. I mean, that's it. Right? That's the baseline fundamentals of my brain. When I see a girl, I'm like, does look like, Meg? Meg's showing up at the white drop dating shows.

Games over. So this is interesting. Okay, so you go this route. Yeah? The necks in that movie are crazy. Who's ever drawn Disney necks during Hercules? Step forward. Gonna have to kiss you up and down.

You got the classic, you got Hercules. I'm looking at a photo. You got Hercules and Meg holding hands and you see the profiles. And so, yeah, it's the classic tale, you know, Hercules, the guy. He's got the very wide, strong base of a neck. Mm-hmm. And then his counterpart, the feminine Meg. Oh, wow.

Yeah. That's what we're talking about. Puzzlesney. That's Puzz right there. Get a little Puzzneck. Puzz neck. Puzz neck, yeah. You want your linebackers to have Puzz neck, coach.

That was Puzzneck. Dude, you've never been in a better era of your life than when your neck was the thickets it's ever been. That's my, I got a new theory. You felt the best and looked the best when your neck was the thickest. Yeah, but see, for you. and me, it was all just the Hey, Molinaro, not a bad neck over there.

I've seen, bro. I've seen. I've been keeping track of your neck over the years. Pretty good neck. Guys got some neck under there. It's an honor. It's an honor. Oh, yeah, dude.

Hey, when I was a sophomore in you're in eighth grade, I was like, pretty good neck. Not bad. You got something there. You know, he can do the good bones to work with. Running the fast break with a pretty good neck. Hades neck? Let's talk about it, dude.

Neck also. But how much is that, a little bit of that chin dropping down on Hades? Yeah, but you can tell Hades got some traps under their trap. That's, yeah, that dude, when the neck goes straight to the traps, that's what's a problem. Neck straight to traps and it's wraps. Wow. Look at this.

All right. Mel's best available next. Okay. You went with you and Meg a little bit of a different version of what I was thinking we were kind of going with this. So I'm going to go that route as well. Not that route, but down a different path. Mel's best available next. Neck, the song the LSU band place.

What is it? What is it? You've seen it all over social media, I guarantee. Oh, suck that. Tiger dick dude. Yeah. You kind of killed it. Look that up. I don't want to be copyright

cats, but check that out on YouTube and listen to it, try to have a keen in for it. I think they may have banned it from Tiger Stadium. Maybe Lane Train's bringing it back. I'm not sure. But yeah, dude, the Tiger band goes

crazy and everybody losing the crowd. There's a video that's all time. It's on Bourbon Street, like the night before the national championship in 2020, LSU Clemson. And the LSU band is just marching through Bourbon Street with the Golden Tiger Dancing Girls or whatever. And they're playing it. And everybody's up on the rooftops looking over on Bourbon Street going crazy.

It's a hype song. Neck. Neck. Neck. Can't beat it. Mel's best next. This is my third. God, I got so many, bro.

I've got so many. This is my last one. Oh my God. All right. Hey, might be a little too close to home here. Oh, boy. Might be a little too close to home. Mel's best next.

college football coach P oh my god is that Sylvester Stallone Mel's best necks Wow Clubhouse you gotta get this guy have to go on Discord and Clubhouse These guys LOL on YouTube to get a Get a visual this

Ben's dad is Rocky He sliced alone Middle linebacker Middle linebacker neck Dude linebackers have the best neck man. God. Hey,

you want that coach P. neck. You want that, you want that pus neck. Dude, you know who

probably had a good neck Gerbach, thick neck, dude. Fundamentally sound neck. Gerbach had the thickest

pus neck ever and then you see him four and a half years later. What happened? Kind of got a chicken neck now. What?

What happened? You get off the way? You get off the protein? You get off the way? Sophie's got me on this keto diet, you know, it's really been really working well for us. Not my Gerbach. That's not my Gerbach.

Hey, it's one of it's either goes that way. Yeah, he's doing a whole bunch of F-45. He's doing the keto diet with Sophie or. Hey, dude, good to see you. Hunty neck. Hunty, but fat-ass, hunty. Okay, okay. Fat neck. Damn, that sucks, yeah.

Neck so fat that the collar starts wrinkling up a little bit. Mm-hmm. Guy with a bent-up collar. Uh-oh. Fat sweaty neck. Fat sweaty body. Those are the two ways for Gerbach. The neck either just erodes into being an amorphous blob with his head. Or he's thin, lean, keto.

Yeah. Not a good one. It's bad skinnier. It's bad thick, yeah. Man. Fat guy neck is always a real stretched out collar, man, on the t-shirt. Like, why is it stretched out? Damn.

What are you doing to that thing? Mm-hmm. Tommy Pickles' head, Tommy Pickles' shirt. What that? always wondered sad story where'd coach be play

Hillsdale mm wow MLB Hillsdale what was his number hey whoa

kind of wild here middle linebacker 88 88 oh is that the most

like Like clubhouse Clubhouseie linebacker number Like dude that's like CYO football Linebacker number Have you asked him about this? Is that just the number that he got stuck with And wrote it out or

He is one of those cats that would just like All right, He gave me 88 and I came into freshman camp Like that's I'm gonna make you proud with it Like he wouldn't like try to get a new number I respect that Like so so X's and O's

That he doesn't even care what number he has on he's like, I'm just here to fill the gap. Yeah. I had a guy like that. Not a reminiscent of not a high school football pot, but I had a football hardo like that on my team. It was the first game for first, first game senior year. And you know how those first games go where it's 92. degrees all day, hot, humid, and then all of a sudden it'll cool down because of

a huge storm's rolling in. Lightning delays out the ass. Oh my God, dude. What's up with that? The first three weeks of high school football, bro. Guess we're playing on Saturday morning every week. What the hell? Every night? Yeah, we got to postpone the game. Oh, my God, dog. Hey, Monday through Thursday, 94 degrees. Sunny doesn't have a sniff of rain during practice. Friday night at the game. Oklahoma States, guys. Lightning bolts.

Flash flood. I'm like, is there a plague every Friday? And then, yeah, and then every time a lightning bolt flashes, it's extra 28 minutes. Every time a lightning bolt flashes. That weird time.

28 minutes from the last lightning bolt, there's another 28 minutes. You're like, God, dude. Some theory. Your coach is out there. Well, I think it moved. So it's moving north. So, I mean, if we don't get another, another lightning for another 10 minutes, we should be good to go.

As he's talking. Yep. Then he's like, all right, to locker room. I'm like, oh, God. So anyways. Stay stretched. That was what was happening is we're in like the third or fourth quarter. Lightning delay comes in.

Comes in so long and we let's go back to the locker room. as we're walking out from the stadium, the different, you know, the spectators, the fans are also leaving the stadium. And we're walking back and I'm kind of just like talking out loud. I'm like, oh man, where's everybody going? We're still going to play.

Oh, Hardo, right tackle on the team. Here's that, turns around. I don't play the game. Do we watch? I'll play the game to play the play. All right, dude. sounds good well I kind of

I kind of play to be watched a little bit but that's crazy to say okay you just take it easy there Big Zim right on buddy

crazy turn the game for me to say or him to say for him to say that absolutely bananas like getting mad too yo

there would be that guy that guy on every football team that was dead ass serious though I was like dude like now I don't even want to be here I hate that moment when you're I got I don't want to play anymore like something

happened and I just can't do this anymore like the weather delay I got Zimmerman yelling at me. The stands are going to be empty when we restart this game at 11.05. I'm going to be like wet. I'm going to be wet. And then we're still going to have to be here at the same time tomorrow morning to do our

weight lifting and watch film. Like my whole weekend's just shot, dude. God. I'm going to miss college game day tomorrow. Yeah, like at least after the game we could hit up McDonald's, maybe have a few you know, maybe have a dip and maybe go play NCAA with somebody at their house

before you wake up tomorrow and go do films. Like now none of that's happening. I should, I should just stay here because the game's not going to start for another two and a half hours in front of nobody. Girl you like is over at the guys

who the basketball player's house. Okay, cool. Yeah, we like heard you guys weren't going to be able to do anything. So we went to Jake's. You're like, fuck. It's like Labor Day weekend. so Jake's parents are out of town on a Labor Day trip

go over to his lake house. Yeah, I got delayed. So it was like a 35 minute drive to Lake Lemon. So we just went. Oh my God. Your life is so over. Your life is so over. After all of this is done,

after all of this is said, done the game's finally over, which you lose, of course. just to make matter. You can't even salvage a victory in that. Hey, you fumbled too. You fumbled and cried after the game. That's the text that you're welcome to

and you get back to your phone finally. And you're like, can we go? Can we come? And she's like says some like wishy-washy answer. You're like, Hey, you see the text from Haley or whoever it is. And you're kind of like, you get a little excited because you think it's going to be something.

Yeah. Oh, well, you know, like, Yeah, come on. Love watching tonight. Like, we're going to be here if you want to come whenever you're done with, you know, a little smiley face. And it's just that.

It's just her saying like we left at halftime to go to this dude's house. It's like kind of fun. Well, it's pretty late. So I think we're just kind of like crash here, but I don't know. Probably going to spend the night. I can like call you later. You're like, I have to get up at six. Watch myself fumble on film

It sucks Then I have my visit Tomorrow at Franklin College I didn't even want to play football anymore Not even this year No No This actually this whole process

Just making me want to quit Oh All right my last best Nick we're still doing that wow stay a little close to home here and now local pod

Mel's best available next Jason Werner at Purdue not a local pod bro Jason Warner at St. Bartamus good God oh yeah you know those like medieval

like devices that you do and you put your head and your hands through it and there's a big thing chopped your that ain't touching j-dub that thing's bouncing right off his neck and going back up and the peru's perfect too because yeah he already was like that in eighth grade and then in high school but you know they bump it up even more once you get to the big tent

pro that neck something different big 10 just stands for big 10 pounds extra on your neck once you get here because they just bulk it right up maybe Crazy. Collared shirts his whole life too. Yeah. This is definitely going to be my favorite Mel's best graphic. Oh, yeah,

dude. That's going to hit. Dude, we got so many honorable mentions. It's like unheard of. Let's see. Kenyon Martin, first guy ever saw with the kiss on his neck,

the kiss lips in the NBA. That was so crazy. I don't know if we've ever brought this guy up though but Howie Long Hey, he's talked a lot of flat top talk Pretty nice neck Pretty nice neck I'm really talking about that

Hey Tim Tebow Yeah I don't know if it's his neck Or is he just wearing a lot of suits Tim Tebow Another one that you go look at Florida Florida high school Tim Tebow Skinny little teenage neck

sophomore year Heisman Teebo UF weight room after hours I mean obviously maybe could have taken him number one just too obvious

Mike Tyson neck Jesus Christ Different breed Yeah category of its own Yeah The Rock Pretty good neck If we're talking

If we're talking different shapes I mean, a neck that just fit the body so well, Randy Johnson. Like, God, dang. Yeah, exactly. His neck looked just like an extension of his body in terms of like, you think if you shrunk down his body, that's what his neck would look like. Yeah. Good neck. Good neck.

A few honorable mentions here. Johnny Bravo. That's a great neck, man. God, dang in the black shirt Yep Johnny Brown Oh

Michael Pitman Sr. So Clubhouse Michael Pippman Senior Sorry I'm booing Johnny Bravo neck right now Going crazy

And I was that Super Bowl 36 And Come on Yeah Yeah Yeah

Uh Peyton Manning your neck Davis Mills I don't know who that is he's the long neck guy Mike Glennon yeah there it is

long neck some good necks on that list pretty good MTV show next okay never mind I'm gonna go see you guys later this guy

Hey, glass, glass bottle, glass beer bottle? Mike Lennon's neck. Oh, that neck. Yeah. Tornado top, Miller. Yeah. Now we're talking, that's crazy. Now we're talking necks here, man.

What are we doing with the tornado model? What happened to that? That just couldn't make it? I guarantee it. Something about it. I think it just tasted better. New York is they advertised how, like, how the air would. The air would filter while it was spinning around in the vortex and something about that would fumigated it.

Yeah, man. Beer, no wonder we drink, like all we did was drink, man, just because beer commercials in the NFL. Us when we were four watching Miller Light vortex commercials. What do you think is going to happen? Come back from commercial to Giants Broncos. Kind of a kind of cold. Broncos wearing white jersey's white pants. Metal Lance turf.

Metal Lance turf. Such a game you'd play on Madden, dude. You know, like that is a game that is? NFL Blitz. Oh, yeah. Is that legal? We are underway. God.

Soundbites. Dude. Giants Broncos on air. NFL Blitz arcade game. Hey, I didn't you sports park. Not local five. Smells like basketball shoes and popcorn and a door opens

because somebody walks in and you can hear the yeah. Two, three defense on your ears. Hear the squeaking, but also when the doors are closed you can hear like a thundering herd. They're running down the other end of the court. Those courts are like a little bit smaller. Those are so fired, dude.

The floor is a little bouncy, too. Never got closer to dunking than at indie sports park. Not a local pod. Not a local pod. So that's Mel's best available next. Let us know the comments. Get ahead and send us an email to. Coach you played well for you tonight.

That's so funny. The Discord as well. Bro, if I listen to this podcast and I didn't know anything, I just feel like, what? I know the Discord is going to go crazy with Best Necks. So go ahead and get on in there. Giants Broncos, Giants, Broncos, Giants, Broncos. Let's go to the clubhouse here, huh? Appreciate you, the listener.

Team these guys, gmail.com. You the listener. From Brendan. Everyone just wants to be a sports announcer. These guys, when I was a senior in high school, I had the privilege of creating my school's first sports broadcasting club along with one other guy, best year of my life, got to announce a play-by-play for at least one football game in our district.

Every week, and my favorite was doing PA and music sound effects for my school's home baseball games. Stationed now about knowing you won't get any playing time, so you just quit playing baseball to announce the games instead? Batting forth. the first baseman Blake Gerbach since we're a new

since we're a new club wow yeah we just gave a first name to Gerbach this is wild it is kind of like though since we were a new club we occasionally had a few guys that were not football guys on the mic this led to a hilarious moment where

all district running back J or G or Jai scored a touchdown and our play by play announcer for the night says or G in the end zone to our our online streaming viewership of approximately four people. The rest of the crew in the booth definitely loud out and okay, thinking this was definitely the last time he'd be behind the mic.

Did you guys ever have any slip-ups or hot mic moments while you were broadcasting games? Slap my ass with the cheapest microphones of public school can buy for two dumbass high schoolers to act like there, Al Michaels and John Madden. Orgy in the end zone, sign me up. Jeez. This guy. From Brendan. I'm trying to think, man.

And somehow I don't know if I had a slip-up. I had to have. And off-mic? Like, oh, those are on? Never had that. But God, I would have been fired immediately. I had a whole slip-up. I had a whole game that was a slip-up.

good? Okay. The most okay moment. Your top okay's in your radio career. I was broadcasting. Whole game, dude. I was broadcasting University of Indianapolis

men's hoops. No. University of Indianapolis women's hoops at Quincy. Now that's a gang guard podcast. Whatever they're called. The,

I think they were called. the owls, Quincy Owls or something. Some bird like that. And I got late into the third quarter, start of the fourth quarter, before I realized that all of the girls' names I was saying

for Quincy weren't the right names. I had gotten the rosters mixed up. Like I think I had the year prior roster. And so I was looking at the number and saying a girl that had played there like a year or two before or something. I realized it way too late.

And so I just kept going with that to finish the game. That hurts, man. I was like, I can't go back now. I'm just, these are who these girls are for the rest of this ball game. God, their numbers didn't change. This is like 12 or 13 years ago at this point.

So my recollection is a little hazy of exactly what it was. I just remember having a come to Jesus, oh my God moment coming out of a timeout where I was double checking my roster, my notes and like looking up. And I was like, they've all been wrong.

God, what a moment right there. Dude, getting hot at the scores table. Hot neck. Speaking of next, dude. They have all been wrong. Well, everybody into the game. Had the broadcast go, good, good.

Yeah, yeah. Hul games. I probably had a ton of games where I wasn't even like on air. On air! There were a couple times where I was like, I hope the mic didn't pick that up.

I'd like say something when I thought we were in commercial, but it just like never landed. Thank God. You Tom Brennan yourself? What do you mean? You ever, Tom Braddeman, the Reds broadcaster? he had that hot mic moment back in kansas city like five years ago it's about burst the whole meme of nick castiana

and there's a deep drive to left field i don't know if i'm going to put on a headset again what do you say bro it's okay so after the show look up ls u neck and then look up tom brittam and hot mike or tom brittamoneman apology either one will play so he had a hot mic you didn't realize that they were

still on that they were coming back for a break and his mic was up and he just ripped something you just can't say and so then they come back later on and it's him and he's got this real solemn look and he's giving an apology to the camera you know and then right in the middle of his apology they're still playing the game on the field and nick casinos blasts on the left field and so he's like, I may never put on a headset again. Castiano's drives one deep to left field, and that'll be a home run. I don't know if I'm going to do this again, folks,

as he's rounding the bases. God. Yeah. Yeah. Why doesn't it happen more? There's a situation. There's a situation. This is a crazy one.

like the injured guys on a college football team will they want to stand around on the sidelines the coaches will make injured guys do stuff like yo you're out for eight weeks so like you're just going to film our like Skelly in the tower behind the goal post type of type B Brian Kelly type B so you they'd go back there

and it'd be like three injured guys two cameras one guy like chart and plays. And they'd all be like bro, like the homies, you know what I mean? Like they're just dipping and bullshit up there. They're having a good time. Like it's honestly like almost fun.

They're up in the sky. Like, like, like saying, you know what I mean? Like it's cool. Like I've been up there before. It's a good time.

Tor my hamstring freshman year. But they're all up there. And like, you know, like we play, I was on a D2 college football team. There's like track practice going on. There's like girls soccer like and dudes are like scoping out girls like a yo

like shorty on the relay team like she got a fat like you know in the sound the audio is on the whole time they're recording skelly and they're just saying they're crazy talking crazy during team period like the coaches went to watch it back and they just get like oh no You know how funny that was just saying crazy like unbelievable stuff with your boys like sky high so you're not worried about anybody hearing you

they're just blasting off talking so much shit about the coach so much shit about the coaches bad bad bad bad I remember I was like yo Jay you're not filming anymore and he's like nah

they're not going to let me film me more. Like the next day. I think I'm just going to like help the special teams or something. Wow. It's a good touch. Yeah.

Never know. Never know when there's a hot mic, people. From David. Malice at the palace flash bold memories. Here you guys talk about the Jamal Tinsley era Pacers in the last pod had me reminiscing about how ridiculous that team was. The fact that Ron Artecest, Stephen Jackson, Jeff Foster, and the goat, Austin

Crocier had to regularly interact as mind-boggling to me. Anyway, I was thinking about the mouse of the palace like I do on a weekly basis, and I feel like it was the 9-11 for indie kids of our generation, not a local pod. I remember exactly where I was and being both horrified and fascinated. Where were you guys when it happened? And is there an image from that night that sticks in your mind? For me, it's either the poor dude's face as Ronortest is barely. like a methed out,

methed out rhinoceros or Jermaine O'Neill's sliding punch. That would have for sure killed the guy if he landed it. Keep doing your thing, boys. My Tuesday commute actually enjoyable. Dave, sent for my sixth grade crushes hot pink Motorola razor. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

Your crush had the hot pink razor. You were in trouble, dude. She had four or five other guys that were trying to talk to her. Not your crush. Those girls could not. Wait, what grade? Sixth grade. Oh, my God.

girl could not wait to go to high school. Girls can't wait to go to high school so bad. I'm like, can we just enjoy the moment? Can we enjoy the moment? Girls can't wait to do whatever's next. Doesn't matter what it is. It's so insane. I remember you saying that a long time ago. It was when we were just hanging out.

I was like, it's so true. I hated that. I'm like, can we just be in eighth grade? Like, this is the time. We're never going to get this again. Oh, my God. Wait. We have like orientation. Wait. bro not even eighth grade halfway through seventh grade

literally just sick of this place as a nightmare kept wait to be in high school oh my god we have to finish this year and then we have a whole another year I'm like do you guys even know like God man I was so frustrated I'm like we're never going to get this again eighth grade's about to be like it

hey same girls who were doing that it's the same girls second semester sophomore year just cannot wait to get the Fuck to B-town. Oh, okay. I just skipping head two years, huh? Yeah, it's gonna be that much better, right? Do you remember seventh grade?

Because we just did this. Okay. Okay. Yeah, see, you got these girls. I can't wait to get to the next thing, my ass. Can't just sit and enjoy me in the eighth grade. Oh, they got to be down to B-town. Okay.

I know B-town. I'm back. Ha-ha. Double D. I know Beatown. They don't know. I created Beatown. I don't even call it Beatown.

You don't cause a Beatown. You know, little guys like Zach Kiefer. They call it D-Town. My ass. Yeah, man. It never fails. It's such not a local pod, dude. Damn, that's so funny to bring shit like that up.

yeah oh my god I can't my gosh the freshman guys I thought the freshman guys I'm like oh my god

can we just enjoy the seventh grade lip sink my lord summer going into eighth grade it's supposed to be like a lit summer and we're just gonna

wash it away all right Jesus Christ Yeah, then, yeah, fall of eighth grade year, they're like going into the student section of the high school. I'm like, okay, well. Like, we are not allowed up there yet. Like, what did you earn?

You didn't earn that. So that's going to be, huh? Guess it's just me and the boys forever. In the woods. Me and the boys in the woods, spitting on trees and stuff. then those same girls get bad when you take a sophomore to prom okay when you're a senior you take somebody's younger to prom yeah you were in eighth grade hanging out the sophomore in high school okay you did the same thing

full circle we go round and round we go jack all right david wants to know about where we were when the mouse at the palace happened yeah i always i have this theory there's a theory that i've working on for well over probably close to 15 years now. Everybody who is from the greater indie area no local pod

watch the Malice of the palace live everybody's from the greater indie area played against and or guarded yogi Farrell. Good one dude. I had me

thinking a whole bit. You go to college, a freshman year, around the area. Yeah. We boxed won him. I was the guy going to. Yeah. Oh, really? Oh, okay. Yeah, dude, I'll never forget Mouse of the Palace. Like, I remember I was

locked in. Yeah, because it was that I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Like, dude, that was, the Pacers were up by like 25. It was a late Friday night and November. It's okay. It's okay if you weren't watching it live. It's all right. Hey, where were you though? And where are you?

I had just gotten, yeah, I know this is a clubhouse going to love this. I just gotten back from the Ron Collie. Me too, dude. The Ron Kelly. Obviously we were about there.

Regional or semi-state game. Yeah. What do you do after a high school football game when you're in like seventh grade, dude? You go home, you see what's on TV. and you get on like AIM or whatever it was going on because you're trying to talk to girls you saw it the game. So I just got him back.

It was at my house and I was with Jordan Reeser. Clubhouse legends. He was staying the night. And so his mom, I remember, dropped us off at my house after the game because he was staying the night. And she had come in to do the thing where she was, you know,

talking to my parents because they were friendly. and known each other for so long, blah, blah, blah. And as that was going on and down, all of a sudden, that fight broke out, and all of a sudden, Ronor tested in the stance.

And everybody's like, oh my God, what is happening? Yeah. So were you with, the question now becomes, were you with Joe King? I think I was in trouble or something,

because I was just home alone. Wasn't with any, any legends. No, I was just like, I was just chilling. I don't know what I was doing. We had a game the next day. That was probably basketball season by that point. Yeah, it was basketball.

We had a, it was a tournament game. It was some weird tournament kind of far away. But I kind of like, I watched it. I can't believe we're still talking about it. I watched it. And I was like, this is crazy. But I didn't know like the magnitude. I just was like, okay.

Like, I've seen fights. in games before, you know, there's like a little fight here and there. Like I've seen it on like ESPN classic, you know, I'm like just one of those, you know. But then the next day it was like somebody, it was like someone died or so. It was like insane. And like we like are our pregame, like everyone was talking about it at our game, like our actual game the next day. And we like our assistant coach at the time, Jamie Nwarkey, no local pub, was like talking about the whole thing. And it was getting like us fired up to playing the game. I think there might have been

a little fight at the game because of that. You know, I just get a little testy because the brawl. Yeah. Yeah. But that's what happened with that. But I do remember just watching that like Jesus Christ. The lasting memory I have two things, which is why I just told you.

One, when Stephen Jackson, this is before it really went down. Crazy pacer. Stephen Jackson was like at mid-core and he had his jersey like fully untucked already. It was just doing a bunch of like, come on you want to fuck come on but doing that to the pistons and i remember bill wadden on the espn said something along the lines of stephen jackson an absolute disgrace right now

there's something like that like steven jackson acting disgraceful said something like that you could hear the disdain in his voice i was like that's not good and then the other one is i think we flip back and forth because it's on ESPN and then obviously on like fox sports Indiana or Fox Sports Net or whatnot they had the Pacers broadcast and we were flipping back and forth and that shot where

our test is kind of just like in the middle of the court with a crazy look in his eye after it all gone down his jersey's all fucked up Reggie Miller and like Austin Crozier and Jonathan Bender like trying to corral him and he's kind of just like looking around cameras right on him and Clark Kellogg was doing the game for the Pacers

and he's just going where is the security where is the security like yelling man I was like dude is this this is gonna like someone's gonna die this is bad it did kind of feel like that

I was spooked I knew it was real when like Reggie Miller even kind of got into it and got like a two game suspension I was like he was even like thrown out right he was hurt and he was in street clothes yeah I remember him doing or saying something to a fan I was like oh it's really going down

if he's going at Pistons fans. Yeah. Edgey? God, that was a team. Pacers had a squad. You did not want to play with them. Yeah. And then it all went downhill.

And then we got Danny Granger. And everybody went to sleep. All right. We'll wrap up here with Vinny. Vinny says Brand bag lunch and school was the most NFC thing of all time. Fellas.

Skarnan. Station, I'm a proud Michigan State season ticket holder. If you fellas ever want to join, we usually have extra tickets at our spot right on the 50. And there's a very clubhouse on the home schedule this year. Toledo, Eastern Michigan, Illinois, Nebraska. I promise. Up until mid-October, the weather actually isn't bad. I also wanted to inform you guys that Michigan State and Oklahoma State scheduled a home-and-home series in 28 and 29. So it will be a battle of quite literally the sunniest stadium in America versus the darkest stadium.

When Spartans playing out, OK State is going to be a home-state. on sight for the eye for sure. Anyway, my question is something that I think about daily. What's the drippiest number for an offensive alignment? I think 66 and 77 are kind of cool, but if I was a lineman and I had to pick a number, I would just tell the coaches to assign me one

because literally none of those numbers appeal to me. 62? My ass. Pour a gallon of Prairie Farm, strawberry milk on me, pelt me with Kroger Brand gurnola bars, and slide my ass with the world's shittiest towel that seems to be in every hotel room I get. Staisern now by MSU Butler, Final 4, 2010?

Vinny. Wow. Vinny, no. Station had no idea that we had some Michigan State season ticket holders in the clubhouse

and that one, we'd love to take you up on that. We had talked about before seriously, half jokingly, but half serious

about having a clubhouse meetup in East Lansing. Anybody can come. Clubhouse meet up. That would be so sick. In East Lansing. Michigan State

can't write it any better man Michigan State Oklahoma State home and home yeah that just sounds like that that's our Super Bowl all these other pods they're going to Texas Oklahoma they're going to the Super Bowl Army Navy

I catch these guys in the clubhouse at Michigan State Oklahoma State and Stillwater Stillwater Dude just like the peak game when you're doing randoms on NCAA football like oh Michigan State Oklahoma State kind of a lit game

Hey it's the one that's on your it's the one that's on your last draw so your buddy gets Michigan State and you're like okay okay you do the randomizer okay okay state oh dude this is nothing

I get pretty high Des Bryant dude that's Brian Zach Robinson not a Zach Robinson podcast oh dripiest number for

offensive lineman. Yeah, see, the thing about O lineman is among the line, each position is in and of self more catered to a different number. It's not a one size fits all just because it's the offensive line. Yeah, I've never seen a guard in the 70s, going to be honest. Right.

I can't even picture it. So if you're thinking left tackle, give me 78. 79. You're thinking left tackle, 79, 75. If you're going guard, I will say I think guard 6-6. Polling 66? I'm following them. Yeah. Obviously, I'm biased. Alan Fannica, David DeCastro, Mason McCormick, Luke Burckhart.

Obviously, I'm biased there. I have quite a few ties to sell 6-6. I think cold toner was 66. It's a good number, bro. That's the one to get if you're like a line Interior interior. Interior. Interior line 66, but also 68 plays

as a left guard. Hey, your homie, that was number 69. How is number 69? I always want to know who's got the single digits and who got 69. Like, dude, what lineman got 69, bro? How many got 69 is the guy,

is this weed kid who survived and played football? Yeah. Weed Kid's best friend Weed Kid's O-Linman friend New variant of weed kid Like stole Always stole mall cologne and tried to sell to you at school You're like dude

Guy you got 69 is either Weid kid's variant friend Or guy that has a bunch of older brothers Yeah doesn't care anymore 69 is such a crazy number Hey if we're going Sinner though Dude, center, you get a little freaky.

Give me a... Center 52. Yeah. It's my dog. Hold it down. Anchor this thing, dude. Can't do it without you. Center 52 or 53, you're like, he's nasty, but he can move too.

Oh, yeah. Running through contact. Hey, center 52 or 53, wrestler. Hey, also, plays D-Line. This guy doesn't get tired. Flips it over, nose tackle. Let's go. What's his last name?

Ooh. Center 52 is something with a ski at the end. Center 52 is something to the ski at the end or something just. With the apostrophe in it? One punch. Just is it O'Brien? You could see it, O'Brien. O'Brien to me is a little bit more left guard.

Okay. Big old Irish 66 left guard, O'Brien. 53 center. 53 centers like either, you know, Snitkowski or something that's just like, Dowd. Dowd, Jacob Dowd, dude, 53. Jake Dowd, the center.

Jake Dowd. Yep. yeah dowdy we know dowdy's coming ready to play guys a tree stumped in there his senior

his senior banner on senior night there's no doubt about it no doubt his windshield in the parking lot the snake on the back of it

shake the snake dude yeah o'brien left guard his buddy o'brien his his senior

banners like a rainbow pot you know pot pot of gold at the end of the rainbow themed my lucky charm follow o'brien you know for your all the way to the lucky pot of gold building the clubhouse o'line his pick a a a jake douds picture arms crossed him and O'Brien or boys him and O'Brien are boys Hey O'Brien's senior picture Hey he's got an offer from Bowling Green

Yeah Nothing to worry about Really smart too In like AP calculus Yeah like he's either gonna go to the NFL Or he's not gonna make a past summer camp At Bowling Green but like pretty cool He's going there

I don't have that much faith in him But Lose track Tested well. Tested well SATs. Lose track and you find your way down to Bloomington the next year. Then there he is.

What happened? O'Brien, what happened to BG, man? Did you guys play today? You have a bye week? Nah, man, I didn't really like the coaches. Hey, it wasn't fun for me anymore. Got to find out. You got caught with weed, second week to camp,

got kicked off the team, because he wasn't that good anyways. Just head size. Yeah. Can't teach that, man. Yeah, so I'm going to say left tackle, yeah, give me 79 or 78.

Left guard. Yeah, 77 to 79, you're good. Left right guard. Left guard is 66. Right guard 68. Jack Hawkins? All right. Center, 52, 53.

Real on. size wild card they just go like 51 whoa center give me 50s under 55 55 and under cool center number that is a cool line of number

in the 50s because they like it's like wow you guys can do that you guys can like be low key like cool linebacker numbers right yeah it's kind of like a receiver being 11 90 no dude sometimes in high school receivers could get away with being

like 92 That freak me out Like in the scrimmage They'd be like putting guys in the game Like lead like you know Yeah Hey cooks get in there at running back 94 with a visor on

I'm like I don't think you can do that Like hell at all I'm like Had a kid That was 94 Got in You know

I had garbage time Dude lined up Three yards off sides who's on offense. How are you going to learn, man? Under Armour visor? No, no visor. And we're talking like school collared shirts

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