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So if you have not watched episode 11, we'll put a time stamp in there, but we're going to do a lot of surviving talk as well as college football playoffs. But we first have to congratulate Rico on finally getting into the Pad Hill trophy. 53.9% on the season. Dave was 50.2. He took a shot. I had my worst season. I made a good run, actually. Yeah. I have my worst season, 46.3. Congratulations, Rico. You finally did it. Finally done. You deserve to have your name on that trophy. You do. You deserve to have that name on trophy. So good job, Rico. That's a good victory speech. Victory speech speech. Yeah, we got to get, we got to even it up now. You guys had two before I even had one. So we got to even it up. We got to keep winning and and grind it out. I got a good system where I shorten the cards and everyone's like, oh, he's playing four. I tried to pick winners. I picked winners at 53% in your head. You saw the board. You're hot in college basketball. Michigan over. Easy last night. Easy. Simple. You had a winner the night before too. Yep. Two in a row. Yeah. I did it. It did it. I was on that over last night. I was too. I was too. All of a sudden you're my biggest fan. I did see that. I guess I'll say no. I'm officially a rider. Yeah. I'm back. It's not a fucking week until I do like I fucking. I'm back. I get it. I get it. I'm not being in a company meeting. No. Here we go. I never said that. I'm firmly back in the rider camp. Yeah. Let's go. The riders. My regards. My boys are back. All right. Do we? How do we? Where do you guys want to sit on surviving? We got a million things to talk about. Yeah. I have a lot of things. But if someone wants to start with some, I mean, pink wedding was pure chaos. Probably the like, I'll start with this. That show is so well done by our producers and everyone and they work so hard on it. It's crazy to think back because like everything that happens happens in like 12 hours. Like I was thinking about it and the from the wrong elimination or no, sorry, Whitney elimination to pink wedding where I start to kind of go in my dissent if I don't want to be here anymore. All happened within like 24 hours and it's just bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. And that pink wedding, I mean, the way they created that thing was insane and it got the result of just chaos everywhere. Yeah. I have a question. When does this show come out? It's coming out tomorrow morning. So that was what I wanted to talk about as well. Because so people are going to see the episode where I ask out and I quit and I fucking hate myself for it because I went into you go ahead. Well, I haven't seen that. My I would go I was going to say something. I don't know how to deal with it. So I'm going to go on the unnamed and and those two babies are just crying out and all everyone eliminated is Christ city right now. Nothing's their fault. It's like the old Patriots when we they go in there and they beat you and then it's bell checked and whatever. So I on this show don't want to give too much of my ammo to them. That's fair. On what? Because I'm going to go fight. So if I say everything I think now they're going to have. Yeah. I don't want to play out my state. So correct. I mean, Rico and I can give our sides because we we don't have we're not going on a name. Obviously. So from my perspective. Well, you never know with me. Yeah, that's true. No, we're waiting. We're waiting for to bring guests on the unnamed till the entire show is complete. Yeah, because if we don't want to give away, there's still a lot of show. Yeah. So my so from my perspective, I last season I got voted out in four hours. I was so mad at myself. I didn't take it seriously. I was watching football. I'm a fucking moron. Hated myself from that. Everyone's like he didn't care. He didn't care. I went into this season and I was like, I'm going to play as hard as I possibly can. I was like, I'm going to I'm going to get into this game. I'm going to learn this game. I had Tommy teach me the game because I've never seen an episode of Survivor. So I went into this season being like, I'm going to play as hard as I possibly can play. Now I think I played really hard and I played well. I didn't fully expect how much of a mental toll it would take on me of having people as mad as they were at me after they voted out, which I should have realized because when Dave voted me out last year, I was mad. Like I should have I was furious. Yeah. Yeah. Like I should have realized like when you get voted out by someone, you're pissed. That's just what it is. Even if you're not the person that votes them out. Correct. So like and I was a pussy about that. Like I wanted to vote someone out and also have them be like, oh, I'm not mad at you. You can't do that. You can't have in this game. You can't have it both ways. So when it like it started with the Whitney, I felt bad about that. The Roan. I felt bad about that. Francis. Kirk. And it's like I shut down and I hate hate hate that I shut down. I'm so mad at myself. I should have just fucking kept on playing hard all the way through the game. But I didn't and I like it was partially paranoia, partially the sleep. Kirk obviously takes takes takes a shot at me and he's mad at me and he does the Newton stuff and it it bothered me. I was a terrorist. Well, no, but I'm being a terrorist. Like ironically, I'll say it on like they're there. There's why don't give away. But like they're saying you and I with the contract stuff, which I'll get it. But the true terrorist is Kirk Minnan because he's the only one on the show with the ability to hold a crush forever. Right. So he's he's the actual real terrorist. I love Kirk, but he's a terrorist. Well, yeah. And he obviously hates me now and he thinks I'm going to try to, you know, be like try to smooth it over. I'm not going to he hates me. If he hates me, I'll hate him. I'm not I'm going to stand in the pocket on this one. I'm not going to be mopey about it. He hit me where obviously it bothered me with the Newton stuff. And it is what it is. Like I I think I've it used to bother me more. I think it's bothered me less and less. I don't talk about it a lot. You know, Chicago is my home. That's why I move back here. But I yeah, and then I shut down and I'm a pussy for shutting down. I hate that I hate myself for shutting down and wanting out of that game. I was like mentally tortured through the whole process of again, I went in seeing like play hard, prove to yourself that you care. And as I got further in the game and I and I was I was making moves and I had a strategy. I don't think a lot of people had a strategy. That's the thing. There's a lot of people who didn't have a strategy in this game. They're fucking brain dead morons in this game. Right. There are apps. The people who are, I mean, well, Compton moron tail a little - Come on, moron, biz doesn't have a brain cell, Whitney, moron. These are morons. I saw a quote, they're mad that the smartest guy in the room was the smartest guy in the room. These people, the dumbest, I don't even know what they're crying about. That's why I wanted to perk out, by the way. He's the only one with a functioning brain amongst those idiots. - Will had a straight, Will was thinking right. - Will didn't play his key. - Yeah, he should've played the key. - Oh, and so the key, he got to play the key. - Kirk's mad at me for a million different reasons. The key part, we get to the pink wedding and the paranoia, you guys agree, like paranoia at this point in the game is just insane. - Well, not for Dave, but Rico, like I'm, yeah, I was mad. - Every time I'm bad spot, too. They kept me like, why'd you give him the necklace? If you fucking was torturing me, that's true. - Well Rico, I want to talk about you because it's so classic that this whole thing, like you were just a set of things. - It's actually, yeah, just everything that's happened is like, you're the centerpiece of it. - But anyway, the Dan Kirk-- - In other news, it's gonna get dark tonight. - The Dan Kirk riff is 100% on you. - I told you that, it's crazy. - But so we go, we go into, we're going into pink wedding. I made a alliance with Rhea, which everyone knows. I did ask Hank before the game even started. I was like, if you're not cool with this, I obviously will not do it. I thought that was the smartest thing, like to play the game hard. No one expected two people who don't even speak to be alive. Rhea played me like a fiddle. She did a great job playing me like a fiddle when I'm in the game. And when she comes into that room and she's like, your name's being tossed around. Before we go to pink wedding, paranoia goes fucking insane in my head. So I'm like, I'm back to, I have to figure out a way to survive. I didn't go into the pink wedding being like, here's my plan, I was like, I'm gonna survive. I win it, I win the idol the first time. Second time we go to a vote. The thing that Will said when I was watching, he was said something like, back to the original plan, was that what he said, back to the original plan. I was like, I'm the original plan. They're all gonna vote for me here. But he wasn't involved in it. Right, right. So when I hear, he said, back to the original plan, I'm watching, I'm like, fuck, you're such an idiot because you should have just realized that you had the numbers, you should have been paranoid. But I'm obviously paranoid. I go in there, I'm gonna vote for Kelly. I told Kirk I wasn't gonna vote for him. I was not gonna vote for him. In that round. And I do the key and I lose my vote. And then I flustered and I lied to him. And yeah, I shouldn't have lied to him. But like everything else, I was just going self-preservation in a game. - Hey pick 'em listeners. We're gonna take a quick break for a message from one of our partners. - Still blue coffees, new can lattes are here. Crafted with 100% Colombian coffee. Each can is a good source of protein and comes in two smooth flavors. A espresso cafe mocha and espresso sweet cream. And whether you're braving your morning commute or chasing your pup, still blue cans are for those always on the go. And for those who care. Still blue is more than just great coffee. I named the brand after my rescue dog Stella who inspired our mission to help more dogs find their forever homes. So when you drink still blue, you're not just fueling your day. Taste the difference and make a difference. All new still blue coffee can lattes now available at stillbluecoffee.com, or subscribe on Amazon for 10% off. - All right, now back to the episode. - And the biggest regret I have is that I didn't keep pushing through, I gave up. I'm a pussy about that. I hate myself for that. - And I was a mistake. - I was a mistake, it was a mistake. - By the way, I was happy when you said it. - Yeah, I know, I was still full game mode. And you and I were, I was at the point of, I don't know what's gonna happen because I thought we were about to go after each other. - Right. - And then you're like, I'm out. - I couldn't do, yeah, I couldn't. I got to a point where it's like, it was Whitney. It was Francis, it was Ron, it was Kirk. And I was like, all right, now I'm gonna have to stab either Dave or Rico in the back. And it's like, I don't know if I can fucking mentally just keep doing this. And I post it out, like, hand up. I hate myself. - It's a microcosm. We've talked about it a little bit. And obviously, everything bleeds. Like, bar stool overall and people and we're here because of Dan's and I's personalities a little bit. Like, we were both sort of doing the same thing. I relished it. - Right. - I wish I could. - Like, I was eating it. The more I heard, I didn't realize when I heard there was like, the house is like, eating each other. I thought they were coming after me and I was so happy. I was like flipping the bird on it. When I thought that it was all centering around me. - It was all of me. - Dave, I didn't know that. I've never walked into a house that like you, I don't really know how to describe it. When you walk into like a party and everyone's like, why the fuck is this guy here? That's what I did. And it, I'll be honest. It fucked me up for like a couple months. Like, I've been a little fucked up. And like, I've been powering through. Like, I'm not gonna sit here and be like, whoa is me. I've been doing my job. I haven't changed what I've been doing. But like, I've been a little fucked up. And I actually, I mean, I did start doing therapy. That was also therapy was a little, probably 25% because of this game. It's 75% because the move to Chicago is like, I'm now in charge of 70 people. And I never. - Oh, welcome. - Yeah. - I know. - Dave, I know. Oh, I know. I have a very, I have a newfound like holy shit. How has Dave done it because I deal with everyone's problems. So it's like 75% that because I, every day I deal with everyone's problems. And I don't have anyone to tell my problems to. - Yeah. - And then talk to slow. - No, it didn't talk to slow. And then 25% because I played this game in September and everyone hated my guts. Probably still hates my guts, which, that's why I disagree with that. That's where it's like, it's people just hate you in the game. - Oh, Kirk hates me. - Well, Kirk's not a real person. - Kirk's not a real person. - And also, people are getting remad watch. Like, at Simmerd, now they're watching, they're getting remad. I'm trying to think of the year before, if we had a house where all the eliminate, it was a hotel. - It was a hotel. - It was a hotel. - No, I'm saying I know that. - Oh yeah. - If we would have- - It changes, everyone's sitting there. And you, again, you gotta remember how stupid these people in the house are. You really can't put a price tag on how dumb, like Taylor LaWan is, for example. Like, Taylor LaWan, he's saying I played a bad game on the couch. He's like, he's the worst ever playing again. Your own, the comments, these fools, I don't wanna give away. When they're saying Dan and I wouldn't allow. - Yeah, well, how does that work? Like, we just had an alliance. We had an alliance. - Yeah, it's like, I didn't want Smitty to win. I put them again. And by the way, we didn't vote Taylor out. We weren't even on that team. Our alliance could have been, we don't like how Will smells. - Yeah, it doesn't matter in the game. You're just trying. - They just never broke their neanderthals. They're like, I thought survivor was just gonna be a bench press contest. They're the, and I love those guys. Like, I like 'em. But they're just the dumbest group of humans I ever got. And then you had a terrorist at the top running it in Kirk. - I think the hardest thing conveying to you, Dan, when you said the original plan part, was that Taylor was the one saying that. - I know, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. - And we never could talk to you. And we all knew, we were like, yeah, yeah, Dan, Dan, Dan. - Yeah, no, but boss, you made no sense. You made no sense with me, Bosco, when you're like, we need Dan on board, I'm like, what are you talking about? You made no sense when you told 'em, yeah, I would just throw my vote away. Because I couldn't go against you. That made it sound real, you idiot. - All right, we'll do that. - You got to understand, we're going. - But I ride. - We're going. - The pink wedding, we're going to the pink wedding. - I think when it was Rico's final move. - I've probably slept like, I don't know, four hours a night every night. And I'm like, as paranoid and crazy, like I'm paranoid that Dave's going to get me. I'm paranoid that Riko gets, like every single person you're looking at, you're like, they're going to fucking get me. And then when they say, well, they're talking about your name in the other room. Yeah, I should have had my wits and been like, well, yeah, of course Taylor's saying that and it doesn't matter. - Oh, but, but no, Dan, I fucking lost my mind. - Kelly texted, Kelly texted Riko. Yeah, saying it was you. - Right. - Rico acts like a fucking weirdo when I'm like, well, you need Dan on board. Confirms it. Then Rico's like, no, I would have thrown the vote away. I want to vote for you. Rico, Rico, Rico is telling you the plan. - Yeah. - So, and then Kirk, when Kirk's like, why didn't, why didn't you tell me? It's like, because we're being led to belief you're the ring leader. Why would you ever go up to? - Ria's saying to me that they're saying your name, like set off a chain of events that then put it in a spot where it's just self-preservation. And that's really what it ended up becoming. It's like, I gotta try to find a way to survive. And I don't know why you gotta have set, because they were gunning, like, I know, they, yeah, they were gunning for me. - That wouldn't be Whitney. - Whitney, Whitney, how do you backstab me? - If I were ifro, Whitney, to the whole thing was your greatest career moment would be killing me. And now your man, I killed you. You're just a dumb, tall glass of milk. If they, if I didn't win the idol in the first challenge, I think that I would have probably been voted out. - In the first, in the pink wedding. - No. - I don't know. - No, but I always tell her. - I still think it was Taylor. - Yeah, all right, so I, listen, this is where I was when I was like out of my mind. And I couldn't, I didn't know what was going on. And I panicked. And so when they said original plan, that's how it all unfolded. - Yeah, where they screwed up, and they screwed up greatly, is getting rid of Taylor. Too fast. Yeah way too fast. They broke that screwed the whole thing up. They had no need to do that even at the end Again, I won't give away too many nights. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, so that's kind of My whole thing is I'm just I'm mad at myself I I really tried to give a really good effort and then I quit and I shouldn't quit That's a fuck it was stupid of me, but I was just I was just so Emotionally spent from everything and like again It was like in a two and a half day period and I was like these people are gonna be pissed at me for the Oh the people next door Yeah, you gotta tell them I'm on a podcast The so yeah, I'm the one number one. That's kind of where I'm at the game The game like we shouldn't play that game with co-workers. It's so fucked up because I just like I I was so So messed up mentally from that game overall We're like I was having like I was having I don't know if you guys says I was having dreams of being in the game for like a month And I was just like well the emotional the emotional difference between Rico big cat and Dave Yeah, I think is yeah, they've had the time of his life This is my favorite day I've had on the internet. Yeah, yeah, it's the perfect the thing you said when you're like I was mentally checked out and then you put on your suit and they're gonna do this chaos game We're only a fucking psychopath would succeed. You're the psychopath who succeeded you that was your you knew You were strapping up and going to war and lining up and you gonna blow everybody off the ball and you're gonna pass block your ass off And that's what you did when I when I told tell I told Taylor the vote beforehand I literally probably go you're about to get and by the way another those morons they could have flipped after that They still didn't flip yeah, but I am having The time of my life right now I really have I hate seeing Dan yeah, like because I know how personal he's taking it And I know the psychopath so I that I do feel bad about that Rico I thought you a masterful You started it all I thought it was vintage pick masterful. Yeah Like I ride you meaning that or you just being a fucking troll right now. No, I know you're being a fucking troll You are I finally took me 11 years. You're being a fucking troll. Just a little troll with my writer, okay? I am fully what happened with Quiggs Quiggs sent me a video of Of it was like from Game of Thrones where he's reek. I hate that analogy and and I'm grace and joy Whatever it was a well-done Quiggs video a minute and a half I go Quiggs. I'm disappointed you know I can't do this reported. I sent the video to Rico. I go watch out Rico I reported him so I didn't post that video. Did I said Quiggs Quiggs? You know I can't do this I ride for my guy and I go by the way Quiggs. This is reported Were you thinking about giving that to Kirk at all Rico instead of Dave or maybe keeping it? Yeah, I was I was in a horrific spot where you're trying not to fuck over both guys and eventually you had to make a decision and that I Kirk such a baby Kirk Kirk Kirk's like giving me giving me giving me giving me giving me and you gave it to me And then he gets upset he wanted by the way better question if you got you asked can I yeah give the immunity to somebody We're gonna give that to Kirk. I don't even know and that I was so fucking people could be like why'd you give it to Dave? I was so I at that point I lost track of the money and I was like I rather him not be mad at me I know and that's a horrible way to play but Dan just said it you let the game get the best of you Yeah, and you have a slip-up everyone has that a slip-up. We'll didn't play the key Kirk didn't play you could have played the key. I played the key. I shouldn't have played the key Dave damn play the key Reapples at an idle. That's her slip-up. Yeah, no one's impervious except the fucking whack job pizza boy. Yeah, no It's right. It's a good boy. It's a sick affair. Everyone made a mistake at some point. Yes, it's just why it's so good I know you didn't do it perfect. You did not but everyone else made a mistake where they look back and they're like if I had just Not done that I would have been okay and like it just it was an incredible Like idea by the producers and everyone because how long was that whole like it's like five hours? It was so no drinks. You're standing there. It's hot. No windows. It was like the reverse of a casino. Yeah Casino pumps in fun. They were pumping in hatred and night terrors Yeah, and the internet and the fucking fans it was bad and you just go out on that turf and everyone would just be talking and you be like Who's they talking about who they talking about you're just fucking losing your mind? You're like I think I'm okay But I don't know this person this person this person it was just Perfect television. What was your reaction when After I'm like you're dead to me get away and then they go to my confession Like I'm just using three presidencies to break Rico down. Yeah, I was yeah, I mean that was insane You you used yeah, you use your mental thing over me like you're a better poker player than me, so That's also you also what what you texted me earlier in the season. You're like that hurt because you were like you put me down The list of your alliances you like I'm with Dan. I'm with me. I'm with this person and I'm just holding Rico to fucking burn Is the little dick that's what you did I said that hurts because you the one this would be again I would look like such a fucking sim if I was the one who originated this alliance you text me before the game You're like pick them three we're gonna go I'm like, okay, I think you take that serious You think you didn't look like a sim no date day. I definitely I don't know If you're gonna be fucking with them go and I thought I honestly thought it was kind of gonna be like one of our picker All I'm like so the big three and you took it dead literally, but I never really took it serious. Yeah, alright and and and and then in the game I gave you everything like I gave you Dave well. Yeah, I was the day late on most of the information, but I gave you everything I had well You also spied on me for the first three days everywhere I went Dave played the game perfectly like I think about when I was watching it back like even when our tribe Dave was Frances Ron moves via me you and we voted actually was when Whitney when we voted Whitney out because Whitney and I were We know we were working together We voted Whitney out and then we voted Frances out and I was like so now it's moves and you're like we're not voting for moves We got her let's go for Ron. It was that moment where I was like oh, fuck. I am not in control anymore like I thought I knew I thought I thought I was in control and I was like and then I played it back in my head and I was like well fuck That was stupid voting off Frances and Whitney because those guys I could have used instead of the other way where we got We got guys out that I could work with and then I look around and it's you moves Rhea and Ron and I was like wrote like Outnumber I'm now I'm now along for the ride for whatever Dave is gonna do because I just I played the numbers wrong Like that's the game you play the number strong Dave looking back Of course I was gonna take that alliance seriously because last year we were two ships in the night And if you approached me you maybe could have flipped me against Jerry that would have saved you so yeah I thought you were serious well Because you you said it's a regret what and even Kevin I was like last year. Why did you never approach Rico? I thought I thought you being back stabbed would be such good TV that I wanted to totally blindside you and see what happened now The game changes as you go like I didn't I had nothing with Rhea when we entered the game We ended up on the same team she approached me and and it continued to build trust throughout the game You were with me in the beginning so we're playing but Yeah, I did not take that our alliance remotely serious like that was a laugh that was a laugh alliance for me that hurts Those two but cuz I know yeah you rise because you got your dick sucked while I'm out on the street Yeah, exactly so you right you you're again Lexington Avenue he rides I wait before thank you have a question Hey pick them listeners. We're gonna take a quick break for a message from one of our partners Hey Kirk Herb Street here when Herb said they needed a football analyst I assume they wanted my help terms out. They wanted Peter my dog. I didn't even think Peter knew ball Well, technically he knows that ball now Peter's part of the Hertz Gold Squad And we'll be making weekly picks throughout the college football season so whether you're coming to the stadium to cheer on Peter's picks Or kicking off your own road trip book direct at hurts.com slash Peter All right now back to the episode There's you do one more though. Can we just do one? Such a back the boys are back. We go how about me finding that extra key too? Yes, yeah, I don't think anyone knows about that. Well, no, no, that's in that I'm getting eliminated Like we're taping this at four o'clock. I'm getting eliminated three hours. So I assume they put it in I it would be weird They didn't I was yeah, when I quit I was like I'm gonna just try to give Rico as much ammo to try to win this because yeah Does that look like I'm taking a free ride or like? I quit except people's free shit is not I need the mistake of quitting I should never have quit. I should have fucking fought through I was a fucking baby about it once I quit I was trying to help you why wouldn't you accept that? I'm so happy when you quit. I'm so mad I'm so mad at myself looking because I literally didn't know. I'm like all right. Now we're now it's gonna start getting hard We're gonna have to start eating ourselves and then you then you're like yeah, I'm like, whoa, okay Let's find me There was two other two other laugh out loud funny moments Which the one that I don't think got any traction, but I thought was insane was clever who's what 45 years old pizza after Taylor got eliminated He gets up off the couch. Oh, he's gonna come back with some good tea And then biz going independent was like I've never I've never left No, Dan you said let's just Voreko as well. Yeah, I was dude. I deserved it I was surprised that back. I had your back. Rico. I was so lost in everybody You're not going after my boy No, Rico. He's with us now I put the cloak of protection over he did the the the the social guys in the chop Circle would die in the way you say you heard he heard there would The image of watching it of biz just standing on the turf blinking. He's just like this He's just blinking. He's just like so mad at everyone because he didn't know what's going on God damn it says some of the darkest people on the on the It's a fucked up game It is it's a fucked up. You can't business like a real foster. I don't know what they thought they're what biz air in foster There was a few look. I don't I don't know what they are and what they were walking what they thought they're walking in you Erin foster the most confusing because I thought he was playing us because he's like I was been on reality TV shows in the beginning Yeah, so I'm like oh, he's gonna come cutthroat here You can't you and this was my ultimate biggest mistake you can't play that game With a real strategy and not fuck people over and have them be pissed at you and in the moment I should have realized that like that's the game. You got to do it. You got to be cutthroat about it I didn't that that was my biggest fault like you got to just own that you're just like hey Whitney I voted you out fuck off like that's I I wish I had done that in the moment I'm a pussy about it and I am mad at myself for quitting and that that was that was it Like I should have been like Kirk. Okay, go ahead. Say Newton you you you voted like I was trying to save myself You were trying to save yourself. You would have voted for me. I would have voted for you That's the game and I should have done that in the moment So great All right anything else what do you have Dan you were saved in the beginning? You were like I had something on the necklace I probably just opened a can of worms, but what did you have on the what do you mean? I said all I gave the necklace and you were like oh, let me get to that. You're an idiot. Did you have anything on that? Oh, no, just that you gave it to Dave. Yeah, I don't want to get it. It was crazy. It was a crazy move. Yes, I was fucked up Dude, I was fucked up. Yeah, it was a shock. That's my guy that that listen the dog Came back home. He's been wandering the streets lost, but he got that sniff He got that smell in the air. He perked up. He's like I found my way home as and now we're reunited as a fan Watching who I wasn't involved and just watching it back with the with the rest of the world like if you run the simulation of the pink wedding a hundred times Yes, Dave and Dan are getting knocked out like probably 95% of them the only reason they didn't was because of Rico Yeah, that like that's what I just could not stop laughing. I was like I don't know how it played out this way where Dave is not getting taken out and big cats not getting taken out I guess the immunity helped too, but they're like in no world should you guys have made it past that and basically the only reason you did was because of Rico And the funniest part was that it was unintentional. Yeah, and he's just in the middle of the whole chaos like he started to talk to me It's fucking brutal. Yeah, it's I mean, they played they also played a major factor that by going Taylor that quickly Yeah, if they didn't it once you turn on your own team You took out will because best friends everything's but biz doesn't know what's going on every that if they didn't do that right away They probably could have maintained it, but once they ate their own it was game And the biggest did you have a plan coming into that Dave like where you're like all right It's 11 were significantly out. No, but here. Here's what kept happening Rio is saying Kelly is with us. Dan was sort of saying Megan back and forth So and then you were so there were leaks, but Every time we were like all right who we going we Your team was saying we're all going Taylor, which made me think that's not even a vote So that's why keeping it as Kirk like voting out somebody we all agree with was that to they still have the numbers We need somebody they don't want and every time I said Kirk people are like no, no, maybe think he was part of the alliance So we just decided we'll let you guys vote out your own person and we all went on Kirk made him play the idol Right flush out the idol which the idol was he showed it to Ria and then Ria told us right away Right correct and yes, yeah, I mean that the You pulling me aside set me up for disaster too, Dave. We're like Listen, I'll say why are you talking to him like you wait a minute? I said you're going Taylor right you go well is Dan on board Yeah, because in looking back and I've played this simulation of millions of people like why'd you do this like what a In I knew we had me Megan for at least what I thought me Megan Kirk and Kelly so that's four there's 11 people at the table So and I even say to you in the thing it's like half a sentence, but I'm like you need two more I'm like you need two to get to six. I wanted to get to six to know it was Taylor and then I was going home You're you're you're doing too much thinking you're you're a peon you're like the first guy in the chess board That you just move you don't know how to what you don't know how to move diagonal or or jump or queen You just can move straight ahead and that's it. So you were getting too deep a thinking I had to know Yeah, if you guys were going Taylor that I just needed confirmation because I need to make sure those votes were going so our team could go someplace else So I and once you start thinking too much your entire world implodes around you need a leader a general like me to take you to that next spot What you didn't realize too is like you like the three of us are basically like the um, you know the guy learning to walk upright Where Rico's on all fours. I'm hunched over Dave's walking upright I I thought I was a control in the game and then I realized I wasn't and then I was like I'm just going with whatever you know like where I'm going along for the ride like that was Dave was Day I've never seen someone more in control than what Dave did at the pink wedding It was it was waiting on I literally walked up to it was like who are you voting for because I do is like I can't think for myself Like I got it you got to tell me who to vote for Oh, that's got that's gone super viral. I have one I told Will to walk away And he just did and then like we're voting Will It's and and the uh Yeah, I mean the whole thing was it was crazy. It was just a perfect setup of me and up I will say we had one big advantage not intentional everything the way we sat they should have been reversing the votes Yes, like we like me and Ria got to sit and watch chaos happen I don't know if it would have changed it, but it was definitely advantage. We got to go man. It's science seats Or did you just sit? No, we just randomly took them no like yeah, I know me being next to Kirk was what like if I was on the other side I don't even know you said I voted for Kirk and then Kirk like blacked out. Yeah, which I get it It's a game like you you should be mad at me for that like that's yeah, I would be mad at as well He's mad at me too. Yeah, yeah, it is what it is think our trivates. I think he says gonna spit in your face when he saw you Yeah, I mean you're gonna allow that like where are we stepping in? Well said he's gonna put haves on you Dave I who said that will said this this he's responded He doesn't know he doesn't know how to accept an apology. Yeah That was the other thing that helped us Dave is that They kept on winning challenges. So we went in the pink way in time And it's people looking back at like you're an idiot. How could you want to lose if we lost what from what I thought Taylor was gone I was gone totally and we still had the numbers and it goes differently So people keep in like oh, you have no heart and fucking wills chirping and fucking JP hovee who can't do a social post correct It's fucking chirping me left and right like it turns out the game is strategy you need to lose so they can do that Let me ask you a question did the chiefs lose this week on purpose against the bangles like potentially right to keep the bangles out So suck my dick JP all me But yeah that helped us a ton we had four people and we we all knew what we're doing and they had seven they were They were all over the place They just made a move on Taylor I don't really understand the move and why it was so quick I don't I don't know he was can he was kind of running shit on our side as well like or he was the girl like way He was talking to him and shit like that like he thought he was in the end. Yeah, he's in the and her but he also could have won You know like he could have won down the road like in the challenges. I think what's it? Yeah, it could have but there's a million to go. Yeah It's great to have a more great TV great TV I'm on the right up right up and like right up until I gave it did you ever think I was gonna give it to you Oh, I knew I knew you're broken. All right. Thanks. Yeah, I was so I was here I knew generally like what happened and who was getting voted off So I thought I might not be like that interested because I kind of know like what happened? I'm locked in I'm I don't even really like know what happens. I feel like yeah like each episode is is it gets better better It is it's it's it's great TV and yeah, it was it fucked me up bad I wish I could fill movie theaters and watch like you know you like you go to screen movies see the reactions when Rico gave me The the idol and by the way Francis. He's like what an idiot. It's like Francis. You do the same thing you moron even worse All right That's that I think that's good I'm pulling an idol, which was crazy too. Yeah for the old person to pull the bottle. I was that happiest guy in the world Oh, and the pig Whitney. Yeah, oh man I was so devastated when I opened that box and there was nothing in there. I was just like god fucking damn it. I can't because I Was like this is gonna be great. I'm gonna get a fucking pink bottle. I shouldn't know with my gambling luck 46 crazy this year the hit rate on that is like 2% nobody was getting. - I thought for the, this is how paranoid I got, like on Wednesday of that week, I was just like, yeah, there's nothing in those boxes. They're just fucking with us. I had a key once, I just gave it away. 'Cause I was just like, all right, I saw one, I didn't even pick it up, 'cause I was just like, I'm not taking that. I know what they're gonna do. They're gonna fucking take my vote away. I was convinced that they had rigged it against everyone, 'cause that's just how fucked up I was in my head. Incredible game. Well done by everyone behind the scenes. And Rico, just listen, I'm getting, I'm Danny Boy Kane right now. I'm having a hell of a time online. They're giving me a hell of a time. - Stand in the pocket. - Catch it, catch it, heat. - Just stand in the pocket, own it. - I played the game hard, I fucking backstab people, I own it and I shouldn't have quit, 'cause I'm a pussy. - One of the most important lessons, one of the original riders is back. - Yeah, he is, he is, he's back. - All right, I didn't know we'd ever get there. Bosco, but like I am riding. - Look at his smile. - Look at his smile. - I love it. - It's just unbelievable. - The thing I left at the most, too, was you didn't even wait till the S in Barsville sports hit the side panel of the slide in before you put that another one bites the dust video on there. Like he was fucking instant, you sick fuck, it was like instant publish. You're such a sick of fan. - Like, I don't think that's the right word. - Whatever it is, it's like a mental psychopath. - Whatever, you fucking nut. - I'm a psychopath. - I mean, I'm a rider, but I do remember your transgressions. - Hey, pick 'em listeners, we're gonna take a quick break for a message from one of our partners. - Hey, Kirk Kirk Street here. During the college football season, my Golden Retriever, Peter and I are constantly on the road. - Yep, Peter knows ball. - When you're traveled as much, you want the gold standard. That's why Peter and I partnered with Hertz. They've got a brand new fleet of rental cars, a great app, and the best loyalty perks in the biz. So if you're traveling to cheer on your favorite college team, or kicking off a different road trip, book direct at herts.com/Peter. - All right, boys, then there were two or four, sorry, two games, four teams left. Let's do, we're gonna, by the way, we're gonna have quite the scene in the cave, I think, tonight. It's gonna be Frank and Chief for Notre Dame, and large, versus Max, Connor Griffin, and Jeff D.Lo. So, yeah, quite a pack stream. But let's get to that game. We got Penn State Notre Dame, Rico, I'll start with you. I think the, let me pull up the line for right now. - One and a half is what I wrote down before I walked in here. Okay, one and a half, and the over-unders, what, 44 and a half still, pulling up, 44 and a half. One and a half, minus one and a half Notre Dame, 44 and a half is the total. - Yeah, I like Notre Dame here as well. I think, listen, they keep talking about Franklin and Frank, what do you mean as well? I just, whatever, got ahead of myself. - Yeah, I like Notre Dame. I think Franklin, they keep talking about, he's finally made a final four, Franklin always want, he hasn't won a big game yet. He was a big favorite against Boise and SMU. They were supposed to win those games. And if this was the old format, we would just be starting of him making the playoffs. So he hasn't done it yet. I'm gonna go with Freeman. I'm gonna go with that defense. Lean on Notre Dame, I think Notre Dame wins. They're not gonna make mistakes. I don't think Ryland is gonna turn it over. I'm going with Notre Dame. Plus, I'm obviously rooting for Notre Dame. Again, state Penn, obviously. So I'm going with Notre Dame. - Okay, Dave? - I'm gonna take Penn State. I think they've played better teams during the course of the season. Georgia not pressed by them. I think they stink. So I'm gonna take Penn State, but nothing, I mean, it's almost a pick 'em game. So it's certainly one surprise in Notre Dame one. But I'm gonna go with the Nitty Lines. - I've gone back and forth so much, so much about this. I think I'm gonna go Notre Dame. I hate it though. I drew out there's a better quarterback than Ryland. - Yep, I think they both stink as quarterback. - Really? I think your knowledge is pretty good. - I don't like either of 'em. - But yeah, Notre Dame's gonna be my pick. I don't really, I kind of agree with Rico. Like, James Franklin hasn't had that big game where they get a little pressure. Also, Abdul Carter, like I know he's set to play, but how effective is he gonna be? Like, he sat out the, what, the half of the Boise game? Like, he's definitely injured. So, that's a huge, huge piece, especially when you talk about the focus on him versus everyone else. I'll go with Notre Dame. And I kinda like the underbar, I'm not gonna bet it. All right, Dave, Ohio State, Texas. Ohio State minus six, over under 53 and a half. Damn, Ohio State looks good. - Yeah, I'm not a buyer of them yet. Yeah, obviously Oregon game's big. I don't like what, they beat Indiana, is that to get the playoff, which would they beat? - They beat Indiana in the area, yeah. - No Indiana, I'm not. - No, they beat Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee. - All right, so I didn't think Tennessee was very good. They've obviously come out of the gate, but it's almost too good, like, too easy. Like, there wasn't resistance. Oregon wasn't ready to come out and play. They've definitely good. Now, of course, maybe I'm biased because every time I really watch Ohio State, they get pummeled by Michigan. I don't like Texas either, but I think Texas may be able to grind them out here. I really got that Arizona State game, that bet I had, 100 grand, money line Arizona State bills, to win 3.6 million, should have had it, should have had it. It's very much targeting. I was 100%. Now, the grand thing may not have scored, they don't have a good field goal kicker, but still, yes, I agree. I'm just not sold Ohio State is nearly as good as they've seen. When they play Penn State, they barely beat them. They lost Oregon the first time. Lost in Michigan, what? All of a sudden, they just turn it on. I don't believe it. I'm gonna take Texas, but I don't like Texas either. I don't think any of that seem. I think there's a defunct. I made that video. This is the first true NIL. You don't have any super teams. Like, it's a bad, final four crop of teams. Now, people are gonna say, oh, Ohio State's a super team. Shut up. There are two loss, there are four conference teams. You can't be a super team. I'm gonna take Texas. Okay. Rico, I'm torn here because I think Texas is, I don't know. Texas has been okay. I could see this. Yours has been off. That's a big problem. But he always is kind of off. He's like one plays the best quarterback in the world, and then he'll just throw one that you're like, what was that, dude? Like that, that, that, uh, fourth and four team was incredible. The drive before two drives four is through a terrible pick. That's just what he does. Yeah, he throws a, like, lazy deep ball. Yeah. The line, oh, like, it's Ohio State minus six. Something there tells me it's, it's gotta be Ohio State. I'm going with Ohio State. I also like the over. Uh, I do think some points are gonna be scored. So I'm Ohio State in the over. Okay. Uh, I'm gonna take the over 53 and a half is what is that right now. Um. Football seasons here. And whether you're grinding your way through the week or gearing up for kickoff, there's one ride that's always game ready. The Chevy Silverado. There's a reason Chevy is called the heartbeat of America and Silverado keeps that heartbeat strong, whether you're towing, hauling or tailgating, Silverado lets you show up strong and tackle any task with best in class standard torque, the most functional bed and the advanced tech that's football guy approved. Check out offers on the 2026 Silverado at Chevy dot com. All right. Jeff Kings also has the national championship odds, Dan. Oh. Okay. So if it's Ohio State Notre Dame, it's Ohio State minus seven and a half. It's Ohio State State pen. It's minus eight and a half Ohio State. If it's Notre Dame, Texas, it's Texas minus two and a half. If it's Texas State pen, it's Texas minus three. I made a future bet in college basketball. Oh. Tell us not not Florida. Oh, University of Michigan. There. I told you. Very good. It's Texas. What are you doing? Texas with dusty last night. They look very good. Oh, I don't even know if I should say the story. Oh, here we go. Say it, say it. You're a rider. Yeah. Wait, from dinner, right? The other night, it's bad. I was told it wasn't that bad. You're going to, this is what you're going to do. You're going to end it with bad. It's bad. Go ahead. All right. Here we go. It's not bad. Go ahead. So I dinner with Caitlin Clark. Oh. Yeah. Last night. And we're talking up, and we're just talking about different stuff. And it's like, I think you may know something before I can finish. She goes, Rico. I was like, you know, Rico Bosco, she's like my boyfriend, and he texts my boyfriend all the time. And then I was like, she asked, she's like, what's Dave and Rico's relationship. And she said, he says it's complicated. What was the answer? Yeah. Yeah. How's that a fucking like crazy? Of course, it's complicated. No, it's not. Now it's great. Okay. I would say we're in a very complicated place. I just thought it was funny that Caitlin Clark, we love each other, but she asked for a couple of Friday nights. I come home with a black eye and a fucking bruise on my thigh, and you're like, it's going to be different, babe. It's going to be different. It's a complicated relationship. The fact that Caitlin Clark is talking about Rico Bosco, what am I going to ask? I've messaged with her before as well, like before. - Wait before she blew up, how long did you say what year were you just messaged her or was it when she responded. - Rika, what year? - Responded. - What year? - 2021, 2022. - Somebody said you proved, I believe it's your omerta. Like what you proved during surviving barcel was that despite everything when push came to shove and a bullet was coming at me, you would throw your body in front of it. - That's big. - That means a lot. - Yeah, me and her boyfriend are a good friend. - Oh, I love that for you. - Rika, who's your future on the college basketball? - Bam, I got 'em last April, 16 to one. - Oh, wow, excuse me. - Tell me how this does, it's almost too easy, but I put 400 on the chargers. - You did, you joined me. - Not to win the whole thing, just to win the game? - Oh. - This week, I have the Texans' future, they stink. - Yeah, I have the chargers, 40 to one. - Yeah, no, I just don't win this. - Yeah, minus two and a half this week. - I like that bet. I like that bet. What are you doing in Arizona? - I had a speaking thing at axon. - Oh, nice. - Yeah, that's why I took the report too. - Oh, okay. (laughing) All right, good job, boy. This is the last pick of the year. - Congrats, Rika. - What do you guys? - Yeah, my game time bracket sucked. I had Oregon going all the way. - Had Arizona State beating Texas, that was close. So I had, so I'm done because I had Oregon going all the way. Penn State Notre Dame, I got correct. But yeah, I had a shitty bracket. What about you, David? - I don't have it in front. I think I'm nearly perfect. I think I have Ohio State beating Penn State in the final. I don't have it in front of me. - I took a beating. I had Ohio State was correct. Texas was correct. - I had Arizona State beating Notre Dame was correct, but I only have Texas in the final four. - That's the only team I got right. - I think it's perfect, besides I have ASU beating Texas. I think on, there's on Rika, I don't have it in front of me. - Yeah. - All right. - David, I love it as much as I loved it last night, but I like the poll tonight. Plus the three seats. - I ride with, I ride with my guy. - He knows really bad. He knows really bad. - Say less, Moscow. - I also think Bama's gonna be okay tonight against South Carolina, first half or like that. - Well, that's a little bit like, so damn it first half. Like Bama, first half as well. We've been rolling. - So taken both? - Yeah, I like both. - Say less boss. - All right. - All right. - See you guys. Good pick of me or congrats again, Rika. - See you next week. - See you. - People report up to you, Jack. Like, no. - So, someone handed you a report. - You know what this is? - You would just hand it into your supermothers? - Yeah. - You would just hand it into me? - That's what you basically did. Here's the report. You just signed your name and paid for the turnfable. - Probably traded in eight ball. You paid for the turnfable. You wrote your name at the top. - Battle of Moscow. - Battle of Moscow. - It's not nice when people try to have you for little things. Right, Jack? It's not nice. - That's true. - Fair point.