THESE GUYS! - NORMAL GUY COMBINE, DOWN BAD ACCUTANE + GRBAC GETS A GIRLFRIEND?

Episode Date: March 3, 2026

"Nobody has gone from constantly having a dip in their mouth to being terrified to dip faster than Gerbach." Imagine the absolute heartbreak of watching your high school middle linebacker friend get a girlfriend and immediately trade his cut-off shirts and Grizzly Wintergreen for an Abercrombie V-neck. We look back at the glory days of Oklahoma Sooners shiny helmets and settle the debate on why the Florida Gators are strictly an AFC college football team. Plus, we draft the all-time greatest smells, from fresh tennis balls and AutoZone to the sheer danger of taking a whiff of arts and crafts rubber cement. 📬 *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/joeymulinaro🧢 *50% OFF ALL MERCH with code BALD at checkout*https://www.benedictmerch.com00:01:13 Discussion about calling Soulja Boy and rappers putting phone numbers in songs00:03:05 Hearing about running a normal guy combine to catch a loose dog00:04:36 Conversations about doing ladder drills and foot fires00:06:43 Remembering the linebacker name Elvis Grbac00:07:30 The trauma of being the high school acne kid and taking Accutane00:10:34 The absolute heartbreak of Gerbach dating a girl and changing his vibe00:14:13 Listening to memories of driving a rusty Ford Taurus00:15:24 Getting number one buzzcuts at Supercuts00:19:10 Realizing Gerbach is quitting dip for his new girlfriend00:26:55 Hearing about the shiny Oklahoma Sooners helmets and long numbers00:29:00 The glory of watching Oklahoma play in the Cotton Bowl00:29:42 Breaking down college football conference vibes00:30:52 Deciding why the Florida Gators are strictly an AFC team00:35:07 Drafting Mel's best available smells00:36:50 Making a gas station run for gummy worms00:39:10 The pure magic of opening a fresh can of tennis balls00:41:07 Remembering the 4:00 AM spring break departure smell00:44:38 Listening to memories of walking into AutoZone and hitting the plastic keyboard00:47:47 The underrated glory of pushing an orange cart around Home Depot00:52:24 Remembering the absolute heat of fresh blacktop parking lots00:56:40 Smelling fresh Play-Doh and subway bread01:00:38 The sheer danger of taking a whiff of rubber cement as a kid01:02:45 Falling to jersey death in moccasins01:05:22 Reading emails about nostalgia for Big East tournament hoops01:07:24 Hearing about dads on a BlackBerry with a trackball01:09:28 Discussing nostalgic games and Brett Favre on Monday Night Football01:12:13 Breaking down the athlete name bracket with Dexter McCluster01:16:48 Deciding between Euchre, pickup hoops, and senior skip day on a spring night

Yeah, it's kind of a bigger jersey. You got to grow into it. White Eddie George jersey is the number one answer for that. Wow. How come that was, I was like wearing, in my head, I was like, he's not going to say that. Not bad for a fat guy. What's up, Clubhouse? It's Joey Molinaro.

This is Benny Palizzi. Hey, be sure to follow us on Instagram at These Guys, L.O.L. Email us so we can talk about it on the show. Team These Guys at Gmail.com. Hey, on this week's episode, we talk about. that friend you had in high school that you didn't think we'd get a girlfriend and then they disappear when he does. We got a new segment for you.

It's called Mel's Best Available. We talk about Mel's Best Available Smells. We decide whether or not Florida could ever be good at football again and smelling rubber cement as a kid. Plus the best spring break nights. Benny, let's start the show. 6, 7, 8, triple 9, 8, 2-1-2. Mm.

Stations all about this. Rappers putting their phone numbers and songs. You know that I miss you. I want to get with you. But I can't right now. So baby gives me through the phone. Dude, I didn't know they were saying a phone number. And when I figured that out,

the amount of times I called Soldier Boy that night. Hey, yo, this Soldier Boy, leave a message after the tone. I wonder what I said. How old are you? Just me and Joe King driving around. playing NCAA on PS2. Probably just got back from the gas station. I just called Soldier Boy like six times on the way there and back.

Just maybe like hoping he'd call me back or something like that. Junior year type beat. So I was going to say, so that would have been like 2007, 2008? Probably about 1934. Women still couldn't drive. The two oldest guys in the world. Oh, man. don't get me started.

Johnson and Joe King. Bro, got to be the oldest. Got to be the oldest guy of all time. Oh, man. Dude, I tell you what, I, well, one,

I am recording in Uncle Bill's pet shop, not a local podcast. Set up shopping pet smart. So you could see in the YouTube channel Clubhouse. I'm going in the old living room. It's a living room set up. It's a fireplace shot. because it's we're recording at night

and so the kids are down the family's down I like to have you know I like to have the TV set up on in the background just a little something to it's a little bit more of a cozy vibe you know I haven't turned my TV off in two years because of that

but up here I got I got the two dogs I got two cats roaming around now my in-laws dog is staying with us again same dog that two weeks ago the same week of the episode that Ben was like I never want to text you because I'm always this like, yeah, Joe, he's probably chasing a dog.

And I was like, oh, yeah, that's funny. Yeah, that's, it's probably right. And then no joke, three days later, I text Ben. I'm running up and down college avenue, chasing my in-laws dog. Normal guy combine. Let's go.

No false step. Bro, most I've ran in seven years. I know. When you got to do something, and out of the ordinary and run fast for a change, you're like, don't show that to anybody. Don't show that to anybody.

So out of shape. Also was just feeling like, yeah, feeling combo. I was like, damn, I wish my three cone drill was way better. I got to work.

I wanted to go on Amazon and buy a ladder. And not one to go up and fix the roof, Johnson. Oh, God. Oh, geez. He's not painting this office,

people. I wanted to get a little bit of... He's getting the foot chops down. What's the one where it's like... Dada cha, do the cha, da, cha. Oh, is that karaoke? I don't know, but there's one, like, no matter who you are, you can kind of kill. Yeah, it's like da-da-da, right foot out, and then it's...

You know what I mean? It's like the Dion Sanders one. There was always, there was always that one kid that just the wires would not cross and he couldn't figure it out. Really? That was you? There were a couple ladder. drills like one time we just had a ladder session and I was like all right bro like I got this but like there were a couple and I was like I don't know how to do this one like it was taking me

everything to figure out like I was like how you guys doing this so fast yeah I was surprising because you were the you were the running back like you were it's so surprising I could get the the like six ones that you always do but Hurricane Cyphreys would throw some curveballs in there hold up yo I'd have to I'd be in the front like on some senior captain and I'd be like a yo good yeah I got a I got a mirror your feet I'm too dumb petri Petrie get up here I don't want to meet behind Petrie bro no but that's where I was thinking as I was running through old north side downtown Indianapolis I was like damn I need to get the foot fires going back again I got to I got I got them get them chop and get them pick them up and put them

down. Because my in-laws dog is he's a little yap dog. Right? So we have this juxtap. We have this juxtap. Is that still happening? I don't know. I feel like the this and yap trend.

I feel like I saw that for like two months on the Instagram stories and not so much anymore. I saw a story the other day. This and Yap. I was like, oh, we're still on it. Huh? Next podcast and these guys network. this and yap You mean the title of this one?

These guys will have cheesehead chucks I gotta give my dad a show So he'll come up with something He already has like three And then This and Yap This and it's our It's our attempts to get to like pop culture

YouTube Type shows that my wife would like Yeah You know like Paige de Sorbo And Hannah Burner and the toast and all that. Yeah, four seconds into us trying to be like interneting. We start talking about Elvis Gerbach.

God damn it. Oh, shit. Elvis Gerbach. Wow. Real name? Elvis? Hey, Gerbach? What type of...

So, so weird when positional, like, when positions names don't match up. Elvis Gerbach, that's a linebacker, brother. Yeah, I don't know That's not a QB name Sorry, I'm just listening to your dog Fuck up a milkbone You can hear that? No, it sounds pretty good

Is that me eating or your dog? Elvis, Elvis kind of a quarterback name. I was thinking about that too. Gerbach's so linebacker, high school linebacker. A lot of acne linebacker. All over the shoulders.

cheat a lot of cheek acne feel bad for him you know what I mean you're just like damn hey you'll hey it's gonna be all right like when people had acne growing up I'd be like yo it's gonna be good you're gonna have a couple tough years just don't worry about it I know I know I was luckily blessed I didn't you know I had just like kind of regular run on the middle every now and then one would pop up you know some blackheads and shit that you know but was it like you yeah you do man you had some kids that you're just like God Dang, man. Like, I'm really sorry.

You just want to say that to me, like, I look, like, I won't know I'm on, I want you to know I'm on your side. I want you to know I'm on your side. Right. I know it's going to get better. And it's not that bad. Yeah. Deep down, you're fine. You're fine.

Yeah. And then, yeah, like you see pop up on Facebook people you might know now and they're all good. And you're like, it's you. Okay, five step solution. Okay, proactive. Good. Let's go. No, what's the other one?

that people would take the pill once people started popping the pill for acne I was like oh it got real huh God what's it called it was one that was intense I know exact two guys that haven't been through anything two guys with the easiest road through life

so what's these guys about it's just the two guys that just had the easiest path to success possible acutane acutane Acutane Acutane was some serious shit

It was like no People's parents Because it was kind of expensive I think or something But yeah It was like they try everything for acne It was this Neutrogena oil free acne

Watch in the orange bottle It was proactive It was acne free And then that was like the last Straw And then I was like Okay we'll do acutane Well that all

Those first four that you just said We're all just like Over the counter You can just pop it anyway like, yeah, I need to try to get this mixed up, you know. But then the acutane is you got to schedule a doctor's appointment that had to be prescribed. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

A lot of side effects. Oh, okay, hormones. Whoa. Can't tell if you're an acutane or not. Lips so chapped. They're peeling off somebody's face. I'm like, oh, all right. Hey, take care of it.

Take care of it. Got to do what you got to do. Okay, hard nipples. Two weeks in a row, hard nipples. Whoops. Clear it up. Can see it through your shirt. Can't see them on your face anymore though.

Hey, Gerbach linebacker though with the cheek acne, like there'd always be that time that you'd be at a party, not a reminiscent high school podcast. And all of a sudden, Gerbach would, Gerbach would, like there'd be a girl that would be feeling Gerbach.

That you get hype for it. Yeah. That you were, you weren't like, oh, okay, Gerbach. Best time of your life might get really mad very quickly and ruin the whole thing.

But for right now. Yeah, chill on Gerbach, dude. Let Gerbach just handle it. Like, don't. Please don't cowtip Gerbach. You never, you don't know when this is going to just totally flip on a dime here. But right now, he's got, he's got a cut off shirt on, maybe thinking about taking it off. Girl sitting on his lap, even with the cheek acne.

Okay. She has his Oklahoma Sooners Landryd on Whoa He trimmed his arm in hair for this You're kind of Yeah you like try to You kind of

You know Try to get a lot Contact with them You try to Hey Gerbach's in his own Do not depants him Yeah And it's like

God this is so dumb It's like kind of like An off night For the regulars you know Like, and the regular, the regulars are like happy for, they're more, they're like, you know what? I get my action plan. I, I, I'm cool with Gerbach. We're all winning because Gerbach's winning right now.

Big dub. Hey, I'll take a bye week for Gerbach. Get them on the board. Let's boost morale around here. No, you know what that was? Dude, that's, that was, that was, that was, that was high school load management. Like, you know what? You know what Tyrese Halliburton is like, you know,

they're just, oh, Tyrese Halliburton's going to be out tonight. And then he's so high for Quentin Jackson or whoever it is, you know, that's what that was. Yeah. We're playing.

We're playing the Celtics tonight, bro. We're good. We can take night off. The Celtics good. I have no idea. We're playing the heat tonight. We're good. Oh, God.

Yeah, you're like, I don't know, man. Like, Seahart doesn't need another night. See, Hart, you're good. Like Gerber. Gurbock get a turn. Right.

That's what I'm all about that. Maybe to a fault. I'm like, yeah, you always, you know, always been about that. Like,

you would rather be like sitting up on the kitchen counter replaying the same song six times in a row. You get yours, baby. I'm just here. Don't worry about me. I'll be in an attic hanging upside down somewhere during this party. I don't know

Gerbach, dude Yeah, love it It is Yo What? Kind of card does Gerbach have I got one in mind Okay, hold on

Let me Leah, let me Gerbach, dude Um Gerbach Gerbach drives Gerbe drives like a I hope you say it

Like a Like a 1990 rusty gold Chevrolet truck with a bed with a truck bed that fits him I was thinking like

that's his personality big time rough tough gritty Gerbach always in the wait room hands beat to hell but that's not the car he drives it doesn't match his person he got his dad's 2002

Ford Taurus and you're like Gerbach whipped that? He's always pop in the trunk, putting his shoulder pads in the back. Gurie, like, looks like Mr. Incredible, like, crammed in there. Yeah. Is that what you're saying? Like, it just doesn't. Yeah, it's like not, like, bro, he would never drive that. But like, you just got to take what you're giving. You know what I mean? It is gold, though. It is gold. Or it's like, it's like his mom's convertible.

Oh, that was like. crazy when dudes had that. But it's like a little feminine, but you're like pretty sick. Driving home girl and at the prom the next day that you saw him with at the party. Okay, Gerbach. What's up top, top down Gerbach? Top down. I like my beat down the.

What kind of haircut does Gerbach have? Oh, just the give me whatever. at super cuts. Just a football haircut. Just a straight buzz. Like if you're talking about the pictures on the wall of all the guys' haircuts, it's just number one.

Yeah. You know, you walk into a barbershop and it's like one through 26. What haircut do you want? You ever been in one of those? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's kind of like, yeah. There's just, number one is always just like, just like a white guy that's like,

I don't know, I just need my haircut. Like, I have no opinion on my style. Just shorten it literally. Yeah. Just don't even want a style. Just want it shorter. Then he gets his girl. The hair on top starts growing a little bit.

Yeah. I like it in your hands like long. Gerbach starts to lose himself a little bit. I don't like to see that. You flash back to that night and you're like, yo dude, that was sick. But you were Gerbach. I don't even know who this guy is anymore. Hey, not in the scene anymore.

He comes to the workouts and he's out of there. You're like, I miss my Gerbach, you know? Because Gerbach used to hang around, kind of like scared the underclassman a little bit. You know, maybe bark at him. He's putting in work, you know, but then he's like fucking around with you guys. Hey, what's the plan tonight? Yeah, he's all business now because he's got to get out to home girl, talk to her at the car. I just car.

Oh, he's a big car talker with her. that was such a big deal your girl by your car I was like for like an hour and 40 minutes like bro okay can't tell if you're dating or not the girls by the cars

I was like just go home they're spending way too much time out here yeah his style starts to change and shit too hair he's got hair now bro's got twilight clothes Gerbach shows up and a little bit

a little bit of a rugged pair of jeans that are in style and a V-neck and you're like, Gerbach. Where's the, where's the Sooners? Where's the Sooners land? I like grungy Gerbach way better than

Abercrombie Gerbach. Yeah. Evercrombie Gerbach's. This ain't you, dude. And then you tried, you did all this. It's all our fault at the party. We were like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Get yours, boy.

Yeah, all that. And now he's got his and we're like, not the Gerbach I used to know. Yeah. I don't even know what we've created, you know. Hey, all of a sudden, is he even playing next year? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, Gerbach was like on a fast track to go to like a small D2 school and play ball. but now

the girl now it's like I think Gerbach just might go to IU and follow oh no oh no oh my God dude and not even play oh no he's not going to try to walk on or anything he's just going as a student

he's just going there to follow Sophia I thought he had a full ride to Westminster last year what are we talking about now he's like super locked in on just being like just that whatever guy Gerbach dude bro could have played an OLB

at Westminster for sure nobody nobody has gone from constantly having a dip in their mouth to being terrified to dip faster than Gerbach dude I can't bro I can't

yeah you're like in like three weeks time you're like you had like a log in your book bag constant. There was never a time that Gerbach didn't have. What? We called you the Grizzly guy.

You called you the Grizzly guy. You called you the grizzly bear, Gerbach. Because you're big and you're kind of a badass. And you constantly had grizzly winter cut long cut or wintergreen long cut. And now you don't even want us to dip around you because it's like guilt by association. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Like if your girl comes around and we have dips in, we're in trouble. Your girlfriend hates us.

We're the reason you too. Never mind. Never mind. You wouldn't understand. We went back that far. And then, yeah, then you're not even friends anymore. And then you see him at like a college party three years later. And he's like, yeah. You're like, how's Sophia? He's like, yeah. I mean, you know, it's good. You know, think. you good same old same all probably about to uh probably probably probably probably about to uh you know been ring shopping and you're like oh wow dude geez and then you're like you know dude i remember that first night that you got that was crazy man you come full circle it's just a total 180 he asked you to be in his wedding no let's try gerbach it'd be something that prior to that night, you're like, dude, I might be Gerbach's best man.

Oh, yeah. You got to self-sabotage. Get out of there. No, no, no. Prior to the night that you're like, let's go Gerbach, yeah. Prior to the night that he gets locked in, you're like, dude, I'm definitely going to be in the wedding. I might be the best man. I don't know.

Being Gerbach are boys. Yeah. Then that happens. then you have that conversation with them at a college party. And you're like, I think I might get invited to that wedding. You know what I'd be. Go ahead. But you're like, you're like, I think I might get the invite to that wedding.

Definitely not going to be in it. But in the back of your head, you're like, no, no. I don't even think I'll get the invite. She hates me. All just from high school and the dipping. Because you knew Gerbach before she got the claws into him. Yep. I knew the real Gerbach before Sophie era.

Sophie hates me. She's like worried. She's like worried that like if you come back into Gerbach's life, that he'll just like refer back to what he knew. I just like don't like his vibe, Sophie. I just like, I don't know. I don't like it when you hang out with him. All because you'd be like, bro,

you just hold up a can of dip. And all of a sudden he's like, Gert, Gert, turns back into Gurbok. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You get regular Gourbach back? Gerbach back. Gerbach.

But he, yeah, but he transformed into Huntie. But then you would bring it out. you know what I mean you would bring it back out of him like get him from this trance that he's in right back to the one I used to know O LB Gerbach what happened to Ford Taurus Gerbach what happened to acne on the cheeks Gerbach yeah having a heart to heart

one night with him like when he's all he's like I know man he's sitting in like a lawn chair it's like 3 a.m he's like starting to he's starting to realize like he's had a little bit too much to drink but he's not like a problem he's just like saying some shit that he's been thinking about just be like, oh man, like, you know, Sophie's great and everything, but like, I don't know, I don't ever see you guys anymore. You know, I don't ever like, what?

And then that's where you, you get in his ear. What happened to cut off shirt constantly Gerbach? Mm-hmm. What happened to go sooner is Gerbach? What happened to boomer sooner Gerbach, huh? What happened to me and you pre-gaming the Red River, Red River shootout

in your basement, dude. That's just how important that game was. Never even see you wear that DeMarco Murray's yours anymore. Like, remember that time that you wanted to kill me because I dressed up as Jordan Shipley for Halloween. That's crazy to say that, bro. Oh, my God. Oh, man.

Clubhouse, I hope that you guys can't. We just ran with that for a bit, but I hope you guys can all, relate to to the Gerbach's out there either you are one or you're around one and you know go ahead what are you going to say that's stupid shit

what happened when he had Stoops Nation on your Facebook page what happened why is he an Oklahoma fan because it's a ride of passage for every high school guy to have a random college team to their family.

When you had that picture of Kenny Stills in your locker, what happened to that, Gerbach? Real clubhouse right now, real clubhouse right now. Getting real clubhouse here around here. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yep.

Hey, you want you want something else? That's for this and yap. We'll get that later. This is clubhouse. Internet meme jokes or clubhouse? What do you want? We got two podcasts. Pick your poison, babe.

You want Kenny Stills talk? I go on about those Oklahoma teams. Station out by Ryan Broils? Damn, bro. They were dangerous, too. I want to be Ryan Broils so badly. He was so smooth. Cool's face mask.

Like the one bar face mask, but it didn't look, it didn't look nerdy. because he had a visor coming down on the one bar. Those Oklahoma helmets shining. Jordan kind of ruined Oklahoma, too. Piss me off. Yeah, they try to, they try to, hey,

they try to get into the mat every now and then with the helmets, with the Jordan. I know. I'm like, not you, bro. Not you. Oklahoma is Adrian Peterson's shiniest, like, ruby red helmet of all time. white yeah white face mask

sooners OG font not their new one that Nike like made for them long numbers that look terrifying you know what I mean like the numbers are a little too long yeah they're a little I know I love that you know what I'm talking about because Nike changed everybody's fonts to like this is your font now

but those OG long numbers bro Adrian Pearson that looked that was a scare that was a horror movie running down Damn. Yeah, the reason that I know about the long numbers is because of Ryan Broils. Broil's bro. It was number 85.

That shit took up his whole entire back and chest. You know, it looked good too. It fit right. I know. Made them look athletic and like lean and long. Now they're all chunky and stupid looking. God, there's nothing better than,

I swear, from like 2007 to 2012, every week one, Oklahoma would just be playing like, Arkansas or Oregon or Missouri. Like someone in like Jerry's world, you know, in like a like a neutral site. Oh, they were always like that.

Oklahoma was always playing some random matchup that you're like, oh, they're playing week one? Oh, yeah. Let's go. Week one. The craziest matchup. You'd be like week one they're playing them? It was always just such a saving.

Grace because you know you get like two or three of those they're starting to do more and more of that now yeah but mostly it's just like you know Alabama against Charleston or some shit like that you're like okay college football's back but mm-hmm then you'd have Oklahoma and jerry's world playing who I mean I feel it I feel it was like Florida or something I was like yeah that's week one are you sure I to check like four times like they're actually playing this week. Oh my God. Whoever Sam Bradford got hurt against, they were playing in Jerry's

World and it was one of those like, wait a second. You got, what are you even doing playing? Is this an NCAA match? Like the video game? Like an NCAA video game matchup? This is just the Cotton Bowl, dude. Oklahoma So Cotton Bowl. Geez. Oklahoma

Cotton Bowl and also Sugar Bowl. I'm like, is that their bowl? I always remember Oklahoma playing real late. In that late Sugar Bowl game. Yeah. Always watched it. God, it's weird, though, because I could see Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl, too.

They had to run at the Orange Bulls for a while as well. Yeah. They've really been in time. They're not a Rose Bowl team. Not at all. I can't even picture that. And even though they've played in a couple of Fiesta Bulls, they're not really a Fiesta Bowl team to me either. It's cotton, sugar, it's sometimes orange.

Oklahoma's so NFC, dude. My God. Okay, Oklahoma NFC, Texas AFC? I don't know. I think they're kind of leaning both NFC. Yeah, you're right. Texas does seem NFC as well. Just because, like, defense, burnt orange.

I'm just trying to associate. Burnt orange isn't really an AFC. Yeah, I don't know. It doesn't scream. Tough color. Yeah, they're both NFC. That would be like, you know, that would be like bears pass.

or something. Yep. The most AFC college team of all time is Oregon, though. Really? Yeah. Fun.

New. Got the top recruits. Doing all the trendy stuff. Neon. Not really playing D. Putting up points. I was going to say

the most AFC college team to me is Florida. I was going to say that too, but Oregon just in my head, just for some reason I had to say it. But Florida is, yeah. I think that's why I feel like, and then those like 08, 09 years when Alabama was just coming out.

Like I felt like it was the Super Bowl in the SEC championship game because it was Florida Alabama. And I was like Florida's AFC, Alabama's NFC. Yeah, God, it's a good matchup. Florida orange pants, so so AFC. Oh when Florida

used to go blue on blue I always made them go blue on blue on the video game I was like they just look so good Riley Cooper Blue on blue

blue on blue with the orange lid I know I know just someone every Florida game they have a kick return or a punt return every single one

I'm like okay I mean again every year every week another kick return another part who's doing Florida's special teams.

Oh my God. Station now he's doing Florida special teams? Just get that guy a bigger gig. Ah, he's good. Hey. I'm good in the swamp, baby. Swamp, though, is a little NFC. A little NFC creeping in for swamp time.

But everything else is so AMC. Swamp, dude, I can't get over. I just kidding. That's just so. The big orange walls in their stadiums that like pops out and it says you're in the swamp or whatever. I'm like, this is so sick. They honestly could, I think that they could even embrace it even more.

They don't really. Well, I mean, it's going to put some. I mean, no, I've been down there. But like I'm talking in the stadium. Like, I don't know, put some like vines and shit hanging, like some like soupy, like lily pads or some shit. Like on the sideline, like, I don't know, man. make that shit feel like Dagaba from Star Wars.

Put it in a pond. Just a bit. Put it in the middle of a big pond. Muddy. Are there, is there an alligator on the field for them? Not on the field, but you know what I mean?

Like how the Texas Bivo shit. No, like Mike the Tiger at LSU. There's a real tiger at their games? Jesus Christ. Dude, college football can do anything they want. Dude, his house is like literally right outside the stadium.

I follow him on Twitter. Tiger has a house before me. Auburn probably has the last bald eagle in the world as it's like fly around National Anthem thing. Yeah, they're all extinct. We just bought it. They can do whatever they want. Yeah, it's weird.

Like, I don't know. You would think that Florida really just nests. it with the swamp and the gators. That's so freaking sick, dude. But like, it's also how good. How Florida, their logo is so sick that the gator and all the colors, green, orange and blue, that's insane to have that as your school colors and white. And it's not even on their helmet.

Yeah. Oh, they just, they're the OG script helmet. I need Florida to be good again. I need Florida to be good again. I know. I know. Florida logo here and then remember they had like the Pact 12 logo right there or whatever. Or no, the NCAA pennant. It's it.

Yeah. That's Grossman days right there, baby. Chris Leak is the most Florida player of all time. Even maybe more than Tim Tebow, I swear to God. When I think of Florida, I'm like Chris Leak, dude. Dude, when I think of Florida, I think of Dallas Baker I don't even know who that is He's number 81 that like tight-in receiver

On that 06 team That's insane What a poll Yeah Should we do Do Bell's best available I didn't know we were recording actually That's

That truly was an insight to just like, that was us in the car. Yeah. On the way to Chicago. Yeah. New segment. Mel's best available. Mammal's best available. This is a segment where me and Joey will like rank something every week.

Not rank, but like we have a subject and then you got to give the most available. the best available choices for that subject. Like Mel's best available during the draft. Yep, you have that little bar, that ticker there on the draft that's coming up. You see it every year. And I don't have like this year. First pick, obviously Mendoza, that second pick, maybe gets a little while with Jeremiah I love or something.

But yeah, that's the idea is that so one of us will go first. You have the first thing, then you got to go back and down and down. So if Ben takes one, obviously, that's off my drive. draft board. I can't take it. And I go to the next one. Nice. Hold on a second, though. I think my dog just opened the door or something. So just, just, just quick pause. I just got like a random.

I just got like a random breeze. All good though. Doors not open. You, you pick, you get a now and later too. While you're up is that what? Hey, my, hey, my dog just opened the door. Jesus Christ, I need some candy. I did a little drive-by. I did a little drive-by.

Oh, are the gummy worms? Oh. Those are just in your house right now. Danger zone. Yeah, I forget what I was doing last week, but I had to run to the gas station and I was like, and I rake strolled it. And I came away there with like some Jolly Rancher ropes,

very, very gummy worms, and some zens. It's great trip. I saw it. I don't know what I saw today. I went to 7-Eleven today and just peeped the candy. And there was just some things. I just didn't even want to stare at for too long. I was like,

that is just crazy that they're doing that now. In the trolley gum. I was like, what? What filled? Oh my God. It's ridiculous, man. Now and later's though. Are they good or not?

I like, it's been 75 years of me trying them and being like, I don't know. I still don't know. I know. I think that's the thing is that there's something that in your It's like some placebo effect In your mind you think and you see them

You're like yeah this should be amazing But then so that's why you keep going back to them Is you like it should be I think maybe I just need to give this flavor Maybe I need to just try this one and then it just never When you get that big one on Halloween you like save it for last Because you're like I don't even know if I'm old enough to eat those Yeah That's definitely on the trail like that's gonna fuck my teeth up

That's like a 17 year old's candy right there Like, I'm not, I need to fill out of form to eat this now and later. It's like in that. Gerbach's chewing on that. Okay, Mel's Best Available. Now, I'm going to give it a go, and we're going to start. Mel's Best Available, smells. Smells?

Smells? Oh, gosh. Oh, gosh. This guy. You go first. No, you was your, you hit it smells. So you go first, and you'll have final say, because I'm thinking we'll do five. All right.

my draft team needs I'm not going by I'm going by who I think fits my team the best might not be the best guy on the board here but like he might be so I'm taking this I'm going can of fresh tennis balls

wow I mean you pop open the pen doesn't happen often I think that's why it's a good smell I can't wait for your Kuiper analysis. That's pretty niche. It's the, I know, because I haven't done it that many times either. It feels like sacred when I have a fresh can of tennis balls.

Yeah. And you pop it and it's like the thrill of popping the top too. And then you can, I don't even know what to compare it to, but it is, you kind of almost don't even want to hit the tennis balls after that. You're like, yeah, I just need to put this in my house somewhere. For sure. How long does that, how does that last? Not long.

Yeah. It's like one of those, one of those hubba bubble tea things of gum where you get like four, four chews and then that amazing flavor is gone. Yeah. It's, uh, it's, and that's why it's so good too. You're just like, man, doesn't last long, but Jesus. Those first like five minutes. And once you crack a can of tennis balls, like they start to automatically like wear down a little bit. It's like when you drive a car off a lot.

You know what I mean? Right, right, right, right, right. Okay, I like, um, okay, so that's one. That's top of the board. That's top of the board. And I will say I'm happy about it because it wasn't on my board. So I got a lot of different directions that I can go here. And a few of mine, like this one, I think that I'm going to go with my best available.

It's not necessarily like, hey, you need a, sometimes you need a, an interior delinement. Okay, stay with me here. My best available smell the first morning of spring break. Florida air. Well, let me set the scene a little bit. That didn't even have to be Florida air. Say it's late March.

Golf shores air. It's late March. You've got a road trip. You know, you're, you got to get up super early, load up the van. You're car pulling. You're going in. You're taking the road. trip.

It's 3.30. 3.34 in the morning. You're like, we're hitting the road at 4.30. So 4 a.m. You're up. It's early. Birds are already chirping. It's kind of warm.

Kind of not. You know you're about to hit the road to go to Florida. So excited. You're not tired. Exactly. There's something about that that if I could put it in a tennis can bottle or if I could put it in a candle, I think I would be a billionaire. there. But that moment and that smell, when you just take, when you just stop after you've got

your bag and everything in, shit, am I good, everybody good. Yeah, all right. My parents are. Everybody. Yeah, yeah. All right. I think I'm going to get the bag. Back. See, be sick. Yeah. And you're standing outside the car waiting for maybe somebody else to get there or like whoever's coming with you to be ready and get their stuff in as well. And you just maybe you can start to see a little bit of the sun at like 5 a.m. or something like it's. Oh, so you're not even talking about when you arrive to the destination. You're talking about before you leave to go. Ooh.

That's freaky right there. Yeah. It's probably like 54, 58 degrees. You can hear a goose in the air too. Like,

ah, you're like, oh my God. They're heading where I'm heading. Yep. Flying V following you. I know what you mean.

In my head, I was thinking, when you get to Florida. Or like, you know, like you make a couple of gas. stops on the way. Yeah, yeah. That could also be, but I just have vivid, distinct memories

probably at least five times of my life where that exact situation, because my family, we were always big on, we weren't flying, obviously, and then we weren't leaving in the evening going overnight. It was always like, we're hitting the road at 4 a.m. We're hitting the road at 5 a.m. and we're going to try to be through Louisville before rush hour traffic or whatever. You know what I mean? Your dad dead set on that. Ooh, don't mess with Pops' pace. Yeah. He's dialed in.

And there's just something mix of the weather that's like, oh, my God, it does feel nice out. It's going to get even better. And the excitement and then the freshness in the air, there's just all that came up with this concoction that's very distinct. But it's what I want my heaven smell to be. Wow. Just so excited to go. Just so hype to go. Hey, a little part of you kind of sad, though, because you're going to miss your crush.

Hey, that's... Yeah. Yeah, you wish. Just text game on a millie in the back of the van. Mom pissed because I only have certain amount of messages that I can send. Already way past that. Oh, you wiped them out, bro. Mad mom on vacation?

All right. Now I just ruined it. Okay. Mel's best you. Best you. Yeah. When you walk into an auto zone. I don't know what it is.

Why really kind of almost any like mechanic. Yeah. What the hell? It's almost like their hands and then like they're the sound of them like typing on that keyboard that's covered in plastic while you're like. You know? The soft keyboard. Their fingers on the number pad. A little different.

Their fingers are so big too because they've been like turning lug nuts all day. You're just like, God, dang. They always got glasses. They always know exactly what they're talking about. They're not going to point you in the wrong direction ever, I feel like. It's a wild mix of like tire rubber, fresh, clean garage, and then also

oil? Like oil? Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. That would be the recipe, I think, those three things. It's just, God, dang. It's never smelled bad in there.

Yeah. It can because it's so overpowered by the freshness of the car leather and the tire, the new tires. Windshield wipers. everywhere in there. It's crazy. There's funnels. So many funnels. And like when you walk into like a auto parts, what is the, the main advanced auto parts? That's my number one auto parts. O'Reilly's. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We know. We heard the song. Advanced auto parts. Got my soul. And I feel like AutoZone. It's good. Get in the zone. Auto zone. Auto zone.

I think one time I went to advance auto parts when I really had no idea it was happening with my car and they did the guy at the desk did this thing he was like just park it out front I'll handle it I was like wait you're just gonna be my dad for like an hour and like do it

and he was like yeah it's probably your belt I'll look at it I'm like oh hey hear the wrench and the screw the little bit of that like I can't do it but yeah the ratchet thing that's a great sound every now and then a little

a little bit of that's got to be the coolest I could never be on a pig career because I just be like what do do do do do do dark what are you doing oh shit

never mind we just lost the race it just sounded cool I'm sorry become a DJ from that um all right so that was kind I was like new car was in

on mine so I'll say you took one of mine kind of there. So that's best available. I'll include that in that bunch. I feel like I'm getting great value here. Mel's best available smells, Home Depot.

Mm-hmm. I thought about taking him. But, yeah, I don't know. Auto parts just felt more like my guy. Yeah. For some reason, it just fit my team. needs.

I mean, Home D, like, I'm not even a handy guy. My wife's more handy than I am. And every time she's just like, hey, I got to run to Home Depot. I'll go. Sign me up. Yeah, I'll just go to Home Depot on like Thursday nights sometimes, like before they close. I could be in there forever.

I'm in there so long. I'm like, can I pee in one of these toilets? You know? Like, you see the toilets more. the one time, you know, see how it goes? Sure. Yeah. That's kind of the whole idea, right?

Like, you want to... Yeah, try it out. A little test run. You can take the car off the lot. Can't you take a piss in the toilet? Let's sit down on this thing. See how it feels on the cheeks. They got like,

underrated part of Home Depot, just that whole entire, like, aisle of front doors. I'm like... I could open 24 doors in there and be like, all right, let's go back. Down and back, boys. Dude, I think an underrated part of Home Depot is the aisle that just has all the pipes and the tubes and shit. Oh, my God.

I'm like, they got everything you need. They really do, though. Home Depot is everything you can even think of needing. Decorations, gardening, pipes, doors, paint. Everything. They damn near have food enclosed. That's what I'm saying. Closing on Costco, bro.

Get some, you already got like, they have a pretty decent checkout snack section. Like I can't go to Home Depot. Yeah, I can't go to Home Depot and not be like, should I grab some Sarah Skittles? Am I at the movie theater? And when I'm with my kids,

I mean, it's over. They see all the shit. Yeah, they want all the candy or the thing. What a magical experience that is for a kid to walk into Home Depot. Hey The lighting section I'll propose in there Will you marry me

The tubes just like all of a sudden Just become Darth Mall In aisle 27B With a double-sided tube So many weapon possibilities in there What about the Dude the carts they have That it's just an orange pad

Yeah Hey no no walls on this cart Babe In orange pad Yeah it doesn't matter You just got the bar in the orange pad in front of you Go ahead I'm like is this

Can I do this? Do I have to ask someone Do I have permission to have an orange Slab You got to you got to You know That can kind of separate you there You can kind of get to where

You know the The guys that would say Hey I'm an everyday guy You're a Saturday guy That can separate because I feel like you start pushing one of those. It can become pretty clear, pretty quick. He doesn't know what he's doing. Yeah.

Separates the men from the boys. The Home Depot card. Does he know how to, can he 360 turn this thing in the garden section? That knocking over a fern? Right. Yeah. Breaking a vase. Wouldn't even matter, bro.

Just part of the game at Home Depot. The garden section does like, it apart big time though. Because like you forget because you never go out there. I don't. And then one time you go out there to find like a hose and you're like, am I in a safari? Am I in a rainforest right now? Yeah.

Even the garden section though still has that lingering Home Depot smell. It's like a home, it's like the Home Depot smell with a little bit of like fresh mulch. Fresh good, you know, not manure, like the fresh good mulch that. They got those soil bags in there too. Miracle grow bags. Mm-hmm. Yep. All right.

Fed close this out here with the, because he really only does about five, I feel like. So you get last word here, best available that you're sliding in there. Okay. It's only happened a few times. Maybe more for me because I lived next to one. Mm-hmm.

Fresh black top on a parking lot. Ooh. Summer. You live next to a fresh... Oh, you're at the school that coach P's... Right, right, right, right. You said, right, right. You said roller...

Yo, when they went fresh blacktop and it was like 94 degrees outside and you rollerblade on that, it was like, is this... Are we allowed to be on here? Like, if I press my hand into the parking lot, is it going to leave a handprint? Yeah, Hollywood Walk of Fame type shit.

Yeah. I remember it happened at St. Barnabas. I was like, God, dang. Like, when are they... Can we get a new kickball? Diamond? Yeah. Then one year, one year on first day of school, fresh blacktop.

New backboards on the basketball hoops in the parking lot. I was like, okay, Mr. Beckham. Dude, yeah, everything's so flat and smooth. New paint. The brightest yellow paint for parking spots. Even the kickball diamond. Yeah. You're like, wow.

They really went to work on here. Really good shades of yellow. It was like macaroni gold. You know what I mean? Like velvita yellow for the parking spaces. And then that handicap light blue, yo. And it like, yeah, it all just looks. Yeah, it all looked pop.

Exactly. It all looks so poppy because of how pitch night black that new pavement was. Oh my. And the 94. degrees first day of school so hot that smell you wanted to be that's the only time you're like crank that motherfucker make it 103 it's i want to see those weird lines where you look across the black top and what is it called the fucking i want to see a mirage down there yeah yeah i want to see heat lines rising yeah that's crazy when you look so far into the distance when it's hot outside

and you can see that. You're like, what? Yeah, that new pavement, for sure. I want tar to bubble up by the basketball. Yeah. Yeah. I want to smell all that. I want my new school shoes.

Maybe they start getting a little bit melted. Maybe they're starting to stick to it a little bit. You see the edge of the parking lot for the first time ever, and you just see like that thick tar, like ledge. You're like, whoa. Like it's so like heated up by the sun and it's so fresh. It feels like you're like running on like turf kind of. You're like you can get your foot like bounce a little bit.

We're in new LeBron's. You're like, Yeah. Yo, don't let me kick a home run out here. Yeah. Okay, Miss Schnell. Yeah, the the pavement, it does feel so bouncy that you're like, the boy might be slamming.

I don't know, dude. I'm definitely grabbing a rim Oh yeah I'm grabbing a rim When we're lining up to go back inside watch Grabbing rim to a point To where it kind of tilts the rim a little bit And you're like yeah I did that shit

Ha It's gonna be like that for the next 25 years Had the rim get tilted Yeah Ben Politi man One day just new pavement Just fucking yammed it Got the tension Almost ripped his hand in half

But he tried it Yeah, maybe Connor Trumbull, throw me an oof or something. Oh, wow, that's the name I haven't heard in a long time. Yeah, so that's Mel's best available. We'll tinker with it a little bit, but, you know, we can just, the topics are unlimited, obviously. With us, it could be anything. Let's hear what else you got on your board, though. Oh, shit, okay.

We'll make it quick. I just want to hear some stuff. I'll go to commercial break after that top of mind right now with the kids fresh Play-Doh thought about taking that

with my fourth overall or with the best available with number four putting that up there fresh playto man I've just been literally suffocating myself Loki red too

God dang man it's so good and it's edible weirdly I'm like who's not eating that is it I mean if it

it's for kids it's got to be edible because you know a kid would try to eat that yeah okay just a kid not me I wouldn't twist them together and pretend it was a fruit by the foot or anything walking into subway mm-hmm not really like being in there but just when you first walk in in or looking at the board god the bread bro I had walking by a burger king that fried ass smell you're just like god dang is that really what they're doing in there uh

fresh new school shoes when you first get those out of the Nike box and you man puff them out yeah get a quick literally bury your nose in the fucking in the fucking in the fucking soul

of that shoe the first the first seven hours you get in your shoes. It's, oh man, that is good stuff right there. Two more for me.

Actually, three more. Old books, like the page, like if you just open up, if you just grab a book, whether it's paperback or hard back,

open it straight up to the middle, straight to the face. Same thing. You know, you know, when it's a good smell there. I do the act out, but you know, I don't have a book in my room.

Right. Yeah. Guy who hasn't read in 30 years. Same but or similar but different. A glossy magazine. Oh yeah. Like a good thick magazine. That's like a way too expensive for some reason at the airport.

But the pages are glossy, dude. Yeah. Oh, shit. Like if you're getting like the fantasy 150, you know, and like July on July 28th where it's a preview of everybody coming out, you know, the big board. Sporting news magazine with Beanie Wells on the front Yeah the college football preview

That's essentially that's exactly what I'm talking about The college football preview with this year Probably be Arch Manning and C.J. Carr or whoever Always three guys on the front Yeah and you're like God I can't wait for the video game That I'm not going to run but whatever And then lastly December 23rd

Oh, man. Just like everything you're smelling there, it's like the coffee, the baking that's going on, the candle that's in the house, the tree that's in the house, the wreath, the, just everything, man. The, the, the, the, the smells in the air of the season. Your grandma's neck when you hug her. Exactly. Yes. When you walk into a used sporting goods store. Hmm.

You're just like, a lot of, a lot of. Leathers. A lot of leathers and shit going on in there. Guy at the front desk, Gerbach. Hey, Gerbach, if he never met Sophie. Oh, you're a day one dog. Just knows everything about hockey pucks for no reason. You're like, part of the job. I'm getting blasted with Gerbach right now,

and he has a dip in at play it against sports. Best guy ever. Trying to sell me big league chew. I'm like, bro. Yeah, I'll take one. I'll take one. All right, what else we got? My last thing I had was rubber cement.

Remember the first time he smelled rubber cement? It's like 10 times the amount of Sharpie almost. Like Sharpie's a good smell. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But rubber cement is like comes in a jar. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The first time you smell it, you're like, that's illegal. Like I shouldn't be, I should not be doing that.

Dude, totally. Totally you think that. I remember like my, and I think because my mom was like, definitely my dad was like you'll lose brain cells if you get too many whiffs of that. So I was like, feel it. You smell it once. You're like, I forgot every vocabre word I've ever learned.

It's like those memes. It's like, you know, when my friend's mom said she was making like, pen ale of vodka and you're like, yeah, you're like, Just had a margarita pizza.

Oh, yeah. What's it going on? That's rubber cement. Yeah. Don't do that, man. You'll lose brain cells. Take one long whiff. Oh my God.

We had like an arts and crafts cabinet. And I was like looking for something in it. I was like 10. Saw my sister's rubber cement that she was using for like an art project. Took a whiff. I was like, I think I'm going to die. I said like 40 prayers that night. Thought I was going to die.

Hey, went right back in. Yeah. Then I was like, what, there was like a brush on the cap coming. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yo, I was like putting it on the sides. Like, what type of, what are we doing around here? Like, is this for bricking a house? What are we sticking together that we need this like NASA fluid for?

Yeah, you're like, hey, I already take a whiff. So if I'm going down, might as well go down swinging. Yeah. How do you die? There was rubber submit 10 years old. In the kitchen. Rubber cement nose. White Eddie George jersey on.

Mocasson's on your feet. Yeah, it's kind of a bigger jersey. You got to grow into it. White Eddie George jersey is the number one answer for that. Wow. How come that was, I was like wearing, in my head, I was like, he's not going to say that. The moccasins on 9.48 p.m.

Did he falls? Did he fall asleep early? Did he fall asleep early? Yep. He actually passed away. Mom's still pissed because you didn't fucking do your math homework. Dead.

Thousand ways to die. It's Sunday. You're kind of sad and shit. Your team lost. I better just take a hit. your feet in the kitchen too yeah you were like looking for

you were like trying to sneak some pop tarts or some shit just just fucking fall to your death oh man mouth oh that was

that mouse let's get to a couple eyes crossed dude just like you did Like, no, just X is in your eyes, man. Full on, just 1920s movie. Let's get to a few clubhouse here.

Those are males are best available. We'll try to sprinkle that in every now and then. We'll never do that again. I'm just kidding. Oh, all right. Team of these guys at gmail.com. Let's go to Zach. Old Big East.

Fellas love the show. Your topic of what is the, the most spring break game you can think of had me reminiscing on the old big east having attended a big east school during that era the big east tournament at the garden always lived up to the hype you would have a scrappy sensey team taking number one seed syracuse down to the wire the matinee of marquette and louville who are both about to be three seats in the big dance and they have to face each other in the first round all while local st johns is about to tip at six p.m and the garden starts buzzing with the hometown team up next night in night out best basketball conference in the

country during that era. Yeah, dude, Big East at the garden. What the hell was that? That was like actual electricity in there, man. St. John. He said it too. The Maddenay. Yeah, Big East was always playing day games and you'd be like,

they're at Madison Square Garden at 1230 on a Wednesday. What? Did Madison Square Garden do the, like, the lights on the court thing? The like theater lighting for those games? Or was it all bright everywhere? You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, I don't think it was as dark as like Nick's Eastern Conference or like Nick's Wednesday night primetime game or something.

But it's still like it was the guard, you know, you tell. I'm always wondering. I'm like, how are they filling that up? Like, you know. Yeah. He does say, got me thinking, what are some random nostalgic games that don't necessarily get talked about in history, but you vividly remember? mine is Brett Farv on Monday night after his dad died He's throwing rocket balls and Hail Mary's left and right

And somehow every single ball was caught Attached the Brett Farv best of miced up In honor of the discussion a few weeks ago You got any left-handed footballs? I remember that dude Country-ass Brett Farv Thanks for a lot, fellas smack my ass With Aaron Rogers Turtleneck on a cold December night

Knowing he is about to throw for 314s against the bears On Sunday night football Sit for my dad's Blackberry with a track ball, I would ask if I could play Brick breaker on after I finished my homework. Dude, every dad had the Blackberry with the Scroller ball, man. I think my dad did too.

I used to ask him if I could play Colts games, like during timeouts. I really wasn't watching the game. I was like, yo, can I just play Brickbreaker? He'd be like, no. That was a right of passage for your dad. Your mom had a razor and your dad had a scroly ball,

Blackberry. Yeah, it seems like every other conference, I don't care about their, I don't care about basketball. Like Big Ten basketball is different for you, but I'm like, when Ohio State plays Michigan State on TV, I'm like, whatever, dude. But when it's Pack 12, like you're like Syracuse, ooh, anytime Syracuse is playing basketball, I'm like, I got to watch this game. Yeah, Big East at that time especially. I mean, the Big East tournament was the Premier one. Like that was where it was like, oh shit. Basketball conference.

I always like Big Ten though because I'm like Big Ten like they don't cut down the nets typically. But like the regular season, I mean, you're, you know, you're talking about Michigan State. I.U. Purdue. Yeah. Illinois. I was always randomly good. Like. Oh, yeah.

They are. For us as like regionally. And because Indy typically hosts the big. tournament. So I was always like, oh, hell yeah. But yeah, for sure. The Big East is the one that was just like, yeah, that's the one you want to watch 8 p.m.

You know? Fun conference. He wants to know game, like random games that don't get talked about a lot, but like mean a lot to you. Hmm. I've got one off the jump. What is it? Steelers, Packers.

2009. Oh, like an actual game, not like a matchup in your head that Yeah, I think he was talking about like an actual game that happened. That's just kind of one-off, but 2009, I think it was like two days before Christmas, two or three days before Christmas. And Big Ben hit Mike Wallace literally at the buzzer for a touchdown to win the game. Mike Wallace, man. Every team.

For every team. Rogers and Routherzberger were just going back and forth. I think each one of them had. Rathesberger definitely had like four touchdowns, like 400 some yards. Rogers, at least three touchdowns. Random Pittsburgh, it was in Pittsburgh. It was so cold, but like both quarterbacks just airing it out.

Joe Buck and Troy Aikman on the call, of course. And yeah, I think with like seven seconds to go, the Steelers were down by six from like the 23 yard line and Big Ben just threw a dart to the corner of the end zone and Mike Wallace caught it falling out of bounds two feet in, kicked the extra point

as time expired game over perfect it's amazing how they can go back and forth like that in cold weather I'm like I know I know I know I know different level I guess the only one for me would probably be like

2,000 Rams Buccaneers for some reason on the astroturf actual astroturf not to say some 90 years old but Ronde Barber

was like unreal these unies yeah I love these Rams uniform I also kind of miss their golden navy too

yeah for sure I was thinking that like the the early 2000s Marshall Falk Tori Holk Tori Hold, Isaac Bruce joints, which they all played for those Rams too, but... Mm-hmm.

Not a Rams podcast. We might talk about the Rams more than Jesus, anything. It's so crazy that they ran my life. They ram my life. Oh, God, come on. Oh, geez, this guy, he just keeps him coming. This guy can't be serious. Oh, my God.

He's gone mad. Oh, shit. it. Appreciate it, Zach. From Will. Appreciate Jose. Go back. From Will,

athlete named March Madness. These guys, what's up? I'm well, love the show. Short time listener, first time emailer. I was listening to the most recent pod

and think you guys struck old with the idea of athlete named March Madness. If you randomly and immediately came to mind, I've got maybe a first-for situation for you guys. Here you go.

He gives Ray Maluluga, DJ swearing, Oh yeah, man, dang. Bonus points for his real name. You know this bed? I see it right in front of me, so I won't. Day Arlo Jamal. De Arlo Jamal, DJ.

He was so good. Jaquavius Woody Marks played for USC and the Texans. And then Dexter McCluster. God. I'm like, I want to, if that was a candy, I would eat it. The extra McClusters. Yeah,

he said that's, he said that's an 11 seed with a couple of nail-biting upsets to get the elite eight. Love the idea. These are my suggestions. Sent from a pay phone on the side of a busy highway

in Newark, like one, Tony Soprano. Will. Ray Malaluga. Yeah. Hey, also in that category,

Lofa Titu. I was just going to say that. I get that name out of my head for the past two weeks. Lofa Tupu every five seconds in my head. I'm like, Is that a dance I should know? Is that a dance move?

The loa to Tupu? He's doing the loa He's doing the loafa. You're giving him a loafa. Hey, you guys don't want to have a loa fa on film. No loaphas around here. You can wash with one, but you can't be on the field with one.

Yeah, DJ Sweringer too. Like something about that name is a safety. He was everywhere. Picks, big hits. And like he was getting traded around. too for a minute. I'm like, why doesn't anyone

want to keep this guy? He was like Cardinals, like Washington, Texans, Washington. Dangerous, DB. Yeah.

36, too, 36 when he played for Washington, like kind of, like I want 21 because Sean Taylor, but I'm going to take 36 because, yeah. Yeah,

yeah, yeah. That's funny about Dexter McCluster with the candy. That would be sick. Also, like it plays on like, I don't know if it's,

because of Dexter's lab on Cartoon Network growing up, but I just see that in my head too. Dexter McClusters, just like the, God, I would, you know, it's just like chocolate covered. There's some peanuts in there. There's, really, I thought, I thought that I was, I was going the other way. I saw Dexter's, saw Dexter McClusters and they're like sour,

lightning bolts everywhere. They're just like a little, I started to feel that. When you said Dexter's lab, lab I was like all right yeah but oh g I was thinking like I can work that way too yeah as long as they're just like just a lumped up ball of just just everything dude like turtles maybe yeah like take five a take five

that's a dexter McCluster not that I not that I care or anything not that that means the most to me I'm looking at that two right now that I think could go in this bracket. Carmelo Anthony. Jesus is this a real name? Fake name. Even Vince Carter. Yeah, not as good as Carmelo Anthony, though.

No, he has the Carmelo. Yeah, the Carmelo is just flows and smooth and different. But Vince Carter. Yeah. Kind of a super villain name if you take it out of context. Yeah. Like if I saw Vince. Vince Carter, I'd be like, is he trying to kill Superman?

Yeah, is he running an evil corporation stationed out by Vince Carter's corporation? Corporation now about this? Thanks, Will. Thanks, glad you're glad you're listening. Keep listening, man. Appreciate you. Let's go to, we'll do one more here from Rob. Better spring evening.

Picture this. Midwest Spring. April, 73 degrees. What is the better feeling? One, first full court pickup game of the season. Temperature's so nice that girls are out watching. You lavo ball to your best friend and eat dunks. You order pizza to the courts from Thomas Pizza and you chill until everyone leaves.

Two, first Ugar game on the patio of the season, fire pits going, stories are flying, girls stop by, mom brings out food, pops. You're 17 and 18, but you are still her baby. Yeah, that makes sense And then three First Senior Skip Day You start at Bob Evans And ended up at the mall And messed around Spencer Gifts

Catch a movie with the crew And land out of friends house To play video games Metal Gear solid AFC 307 NFC Flip them I think so Oh 7

Super AFC vibes to me Mm Sexy agent Kissing all the girls Suit the whole time Metal gear solid. I feel like he's like tough, rough, rugged. Sure.

He says the poster currently in my office is Michael Jordan Dunk Contest, foul line dunk. Yeah, it's a classic. Probably from the sideline where he's... I like that one where he's doing the cradle and you can like see his gold chain. I'm like, damn. Yeah, that does go hard.

Yeah, he was wearing a chain. That's cool. That's good. We were watching the combine. Like we weren't not watching the, combine at all times this week. But literally me and Ryan on Saturday night, we, like, they got the kids down. And it was just us.

And we just had the combine on. She was actually invested. It was pretty funny. She was like, how do they, how do they do that with the chains like that? Because they're cool and really good. Yeah. Wow. What a question.

What a question I don't have the answer for. Not athletic enough to answer that question. Right. Can't even, yeah, can't even begin to fathom. Yeah. So Rob wants to know what the better feeling is on that night. It's April 73 degrees. Kind of that spring break vibe where it's like one of the first like,

oh shit, it's starting to get warm again now. He laid out those three options. And I think we're probably going to differ here. Do you remember him? What was the first one? First one is first full court pickup game of the season and pizza afterwards. Ooh. Then the next one's like having the boys over.

You're on the patio. You're playing cards. Fire pits going. Third one is what? Senior Skip Day. Oh, Bob Evans in the mall. I would probably do that. Yeah.

I, like, I want to pick two, though, kind of. Because it just seems like I've done that a lot. I was thinking you would probably pick three. Yeah, see, I'm going to one, because I do love Uker, but two, because I feel like that's just something that can just keep going all night. Like, you're out on the patio, you got a table. You're not doing anything. wrong.

Like, if I was doing that feeling. If I was doing number three, I would just be paranoid the whole time. We're going to get caught. We're going to be in trouble. We're going to see somebody's parent. We're going to see my mom. The school's going to find out. We're going to be fucked.

Number one, I'm not, I'm good on all the physical activity like that. I was never really a big, like, pick up hoops guy too much. I was like, what are we doing? Like, I'm just kind of sprain my ankle or fuck up my knee. Like, yeah, I wasn't either really. well sometimes, but never outside. It was always the inside. And yeah, so I love Yucre.

I love that idea of just like, we're posted up here. Like, yeah, they're probably going to just have some beers or something. Yeah, come through. Fire pit. So it's already warm, but you're like, it might get a little chilly, but this is nice. Number two for sure. Gerbach's here. Gerbach got away.

Yeah, he's bringing dip too. Good. Thank God. I need it. I need it. I'm out. Entie-ass can. Gerbach comes with a log, throws it at you.

Yeah, that's my Gerbach. He's back. He's back. Gerbach. All right. Team these guys at gmail.com. Hell yeah. Got a full inbox.

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