Pete Crow Armstrong, Joe Buck, Pardon My Book Is Out + Mt Rushmore Of Things Guys Keep For Too Long

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And then we also have our good friend who wrote the forward of the book, Joe Buck on the show. It's going to be awesome, two great, great interviews. We also have the Mount Rushmore of things guys keep too long and we have a big twist for the finale, the last two and a half weeks of Mount Rushmore season. We're going to do some hot sea cool throne. We have FAQs about the book. At the end of the show, it's going to be a great show and it's brought to you by our friends at YouTube. There's no worse feeling than missing out on Sunday NFL. Seeing people talk about plays you don't get to see your fantasy running back score two touchdowns. You'd find out 10 minutes later your local broadcaster isn't carrying your hometown teams games. So you're piecing together the action from alerts highlights and text. That's not how Sundays are supposed to work. We don't want you stuck with Sunday NFL FOMO. That's why there's NFL Sunday ticket in YouTube TV every game, every Sunday all in one place. 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And boys, we did it. Our book is out. We've done it. We've set it. We've set that we've set this book and some god awful writing out into the universe. I've given this. I think I've said this before in the show, but if you please buy a book, if you buy a book, also maybe when you're on Amazon buying the book, buy a highlighter and maybe some sticky notes, because what we did was an interactive book that you can also edit along with us. We care more about telling than we do about spelling. Yeah, and I think the point gets across. If you read Zack's chapter, we know. Yeah, listen, the answer to your complaint is we know there's some misspellings in there. Who cares? But guess what? That's the English language. If you talk to any historian, it evolves. We didn't always spell words the way they're spelled right now. It's efficiency. It's efficient and Zack is nothing but efficient. It was a labor love. I'm glad that the books out. I'm glad that we're done writing it, but I did get a chance to read through parts of it just to check up on some things that I hadn't had the opportunity to look at before. First of all, big shout out to Hank for the picture selection. Oh, yeah. Great job. We put pictures in there. Great job on the pictures. We also broke it up just so everyone knows into quarters because we thought people would understand that. So there's four quarters in the entire book. For all you soccer fans out there, you need stuff broken up into quarters. We did that for you. Yep. Absolutely. Yeah, like labor love, it was cool reading every chapter written by the guests that wrote in. And there's a lot of them. I'm gonna rip them real quick. JJ watt Blake Bortles, Blake Griffin, Ryan Rusill, Chris Long, Kyle Long, Ryan Whitney, SVP Floreo, Josh Allen, Adam Schefter, Jerry O'Connell, Jim Harbock, Chris Berman, Stu Feiner, Mark Titus, Tim Woods, Mr. Portnoy Cocho, Rico Bosco, Jake Marsh, Billy Football, and then all of us. Just looking, we should have had death right in the chapter. Yeah. We should be going back to death and get that. I forgot we had a half-time speech from Cocho. Yeah. It's, I think it's a fun book. I think you guys will like it a lot. So it is truly, it's truly humbling to see people that are like taking pictures of the book with their dogs like that. It's a book. We made a book for people who don't like to read. That's really truly it. It's split into quarters. There's chapters that are two pages in length. So yeah, please buy it if you can. We love doing it going down memory lane 10 years. We promise we won't write another book till at least 20 years. And probably I'm actually going to say 25 years. I might retire from writing books. I think I'm going to retire from writing books. You can always come back if you want to. Yeah. But yeah, I think I got to retire from this. But it was very fun. We get into it with Joe Buck who wrote the forward for the book. But everyone who's bought it, who's already bought it, thank you so much. Everyone who hasn't bought it. What the hell are you doing by the book, please. And once once everyone buys the book literally every single person buys the book in America, we will stop talking about the book. So that's our guarantee. Yeah, tell a friend. Yeah. I had a moment where I went to Target this morning and I was looking to see I want to see the book in person. You know, like there's that's got to be a cool moment. I still haven't had it yet where I walk into a store and I see see my book. I went to Target and it was sold out. Oh, and there were lots of Kelsey brothers books that were still available for purchase. Interesting. I thought that was an interesting moment. And special shout out, by the way, to to Matt, our ghost writer who helped very, very much with this book, he was able to talk to the guests and help them write the chapters and he organized the book. He was a very integral part. We wouldn't be able to write the book. And also Dom, who basically Dom led us around for the last three months being like, you have to do this now. We're like, no, we don't want to do it now. And when that you know, you have to do this now. When that didn't work, he like broke it up into colors. Yeah, it's like, oh, if you see red, that means you have to do that now. Oh, at one point, he was like, you have to give me five pages tomorrow. And I was like, oh, I can't. He's like, okay, well, if we're talking real here, like, I need three. And like you just keep bringing it down. Look at that sold out. Okay, well, let's talk some sports because we've got a great show. And we're going to do some FAQs on the book at the end of the show. We need to turn injuries off in training camp. It's getting to be a problem. The chargers had, how many injuries do the chargers have? They had three injuries within an hour. It was a joint practice against the 49ers. And it was unfortunately Tyler Beattish, their center. That's not good. He went down. And now I don't know if this is true or not. I read, I did read this online that the chargers have now had gone three years where a very important offensive lineman has been injured because they're left guard through somebody into that person's legs during a practice. That tracks, like, is it the same guard every time? I don't know. It just keeps, he just keeps, he needs to learn to throw people the other way. Yeah. That tracks. But yeah, we had that. Kyle Menunga is out for a few weeks. He got tackled in no pads, which was not great. Breast Hall, how's he doing memes? I saw, it's always bad whenever you have memes just tweeting the like person jumping out of a building. And all those memes, you're like, oh, I don't know what happened, but something happened. Well, Rich the meany's a piece of shit. Okay. He tweeted it and it made it seem like he was going to be out for the season. What do you say? Max, if you scroll down, what do you say? What do you say? He's girl too far. He's girl too far. He was just basically like, he went down without being touched. Okay. And it made it seem like it was either an Achilles or a knee. All right. So did he actually, like did he say it's bad or did he just report? Like he went down without is that true? Breast Hall goes down untouched while running after a catch. That was it. He's a piece of shit. Yeah. Okay. That was like first thing in the morning. It just made it ever seen bad. That's a shit that should be illegal. When Chefs are treated that Kobe Bryant was out for eight to ten weeks. It's like, you should have to go to jail for eight to ten weeks. You can't get that wrong. You cannot get that wrong. But yeah, let's turn them off. This is a point in the season. We're so, so close to football. Just get all the guys to football season. You don't want to hear anything about your team right now. No. No. No. Absolutely. Like it doesn't matter what it is. Yeah. Any news right now. Bad news. It scares you. There's never any good news that come. I guess the only good news is when a beat reporter is like, Hey, you know that wide receiver that's probably going to be cut. He was absolutely on fire today. He caught everything. And then you're like, Oh, shit, we might have like a new number two receiver. Yeah. Jordan Tyson also for the Saints got hurt. It sucks. It all sucks. So let's just turn injuries off. Um, McCaffrey's still not there. Tighten, but probably he's tightening up with Tennessee Titan. No, he's tightening. Possibly a tight keeps tightening. He's tight. Is it possible to be too tight? Yeah, every day of my life. Yeah. I can't touch my toes. I don't know if it is possible to be too tight. I think I think we're walking examples of too tight guys. I'm probably the tightest person here. You might be enough. I'm not too far behind you, but shout out Jersey Jerry for his doctor. Yeah, if you need a doctor, talk to Jerry, he's definitely who you want. He is my number one medical guy. Yeah, absolutely. Okay, so that, that happened. We also had the Lakers. I can someone explain to me what's going on with the bus family. I think I understand. Okay, give it to me. It's like if there were a show on like one of the procedure channels, I've got a super, super like rich fan. Do you know what I'm getting at here? Yeah, yeah, yeah, winning time, the wire, the show about the Lakers. No, it's actually a combination of winning time and succession. So, uh, yeah, the team or the family thought that they could sell the team. Genie bus says, uh, no, you can't sell the team because only my signature matters. Okay. So is that true? Don't know. If that's true, has there ever been a clearer, I'm the favorite child moment than that being like, Oh, all five of my siblings want to sell the team. But daddy loved me the most. And I have the golden signature. What a flex that should, that feels like to be like, Hey, I know we joked about it at Thanksgiving and Christmas, but no, no, I'm daddy's girl. Yeah. So I guess they legally, they might not allow it to be sold. That'd be crazy. They have the minority state, though, though, the, the, the, the Mark, Mark Walters guy who, I feel like that's that we're just getting started with that because did you guys see that show, Hey, has an opt out in his contract? If he ever sells a team, I did see that. In fact, I didn't know about it until I saw some reporting that he's not expected to exercise the opt out. Yeah. But it did. It made me think for a second, like, when that be sweet, if he did, yeah. It feels like conspiracy theory. Here we go. Ready. Fingers up. It feels like this thing is a very interesting timing when we're about to hit a maybe labor stoppage in MLB and everyone's like the Dodgers are ruining baseball and, oh, whoops, the guy who owns the Dodgers is spending all the money now has to sell the Dodgers and he can't spend all the money anymore. Did we just fix baseball, huh? So the time for Laker's governor G bus says the trust vote to sell is void, arguing leal standing that requires her to be controlling owner on a lifetime basis. Her lawyer is demanding that the representatives of the trust make it clear publicly that genies the controlling owner of the Lakers and that they take no action on this vote to sell the 17.8% stake that's per Sam Amick. So I, yeah, 17.8, I don't know how much that makes a difference. Yeah. But I guess she gets to stick around and be the, be genie bus. Yes. Continue to be genie bus. Yeah. Because otherwise if she doesn't own the Lakers, she's no longer genie bus. What are you yet? Not genie bus. You're not genie bus. You're a former bus. Yeah. You're, you're a retired bus. You're like hosting podcasts now instead of driving on the road. Could you imagine that? That's actually sick idea. Yeah. A lot of podcasts. We should do that. You think genie bus can get a podcast? Yeah. Why not? Right? Why not? For sure. Yeah. And then the clippers investigation, I don't understand as well. Are they cleared or not cleared? I don't know. I think cleared. I think cleared. I think cleared. Okay. Clear. It turns out that the NBA has investigated itself and found no wrongdoing. So they don't want to ruffle any feathers with the world's six richest man. Yeah. And also if there are competent organization when it came to bribing players, they would do it in a way that Steve Balmer actually did not know about it. Like that's kind of an unwritten rule. It's like, don't bring the big man into it. I love Steve Balmer. He just, he does the rich guy thing correctly in terms of like he hasn't changed. He's still a nerd that's probably sweating through his blue collar shirts, right? Like he's not, he's not Bezos trying to get jacked and get on some gear. He's not Zuckerberg trying to choke some dudes out. He's not Bill Gates flying to some unnamed islands for parties. He's just Balmer who's like, hey, I want to win so bad. I might create a fake tree or company and do it that way. Now, if you're saying he hasn't changed, I would also argue that maybe Bill Gates, like his whole thing was I get to go spend a weekend with my ex girlfriend. Yeah, I don't think that was what got him in trouble though. Probably the Epstein stuff. Yeah. That's it. So at some point he was dating high school chicks and he was like, you know what, all you people have changed. Yeah. Not me. Yeah. That's sort of the same old Bill. Yeah. I'm cool Bill. Hang it out. What's up kids? So yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I think the Lakers sounds like Jeannie Buss has a legal case and if she doesn't move on to the podcast bus bus bus and she was the boss, yeah, boss and with the bus, boss it with the boss. It would be a good name like that. I liked that a lot. I think that now this means that the Raptors are going to get Kauai Leonard. Yeah. Which makes them very good. It'll be funny if the NBA just blamed it all on Kauai. Like Kauai. He wouldn't even react. He did everything and turns out the clippers did nothing. Yeah. They're completely innocent. He would just do his weird robot laugh. Kauai started a fake treat. Do we have anything about LeBron? I don't think he's been in the news. I did look. I looked earlier today. You got to look. You got to look every day. Let me double check. What? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. He did almost it all in one. That is. I know him as a golf creator now, not a basketball player. Mm-hmm. So talented. So many different talents. So that story about the about the cell phone usage thing. Yeah. Yeah. We had p-craw Armstrong in studio, but I was at the Cubs game on Monday night. That was awesome. He's the fucking best. He had a home run to start the game first pitch and then he had a home run to end the game last pitch. It was a playoff atmosphere. There was fighting in the bleachers. That one dude ate like 75 punches. Just I don't know. I think he kind of started. He made the first kick then he just sat down in the bleachers and just ate punches. That was a bad fight. Bad fight. I think I ran out of gas because he he went up and down steps a couple times. Yeah. Before the fight started. And that's like when what's his name, Wilder, when he made that huge walk into the ring. Yeah. And was was gas because he was wearing those big ass robes. His big dude, he went up and down those steps like three times by the time hand started flying. He was like, I just did a stair master workout. I just, yeah, I'm going to have a seat for a while. Yeah. But PCA is, I mean, he's reached that level where it's like when you get to that next level of I fully expect him to do something magical. You know what I mean? Where it's like not even a question of, oh, will he come through with something big here? No, he's going to do it and it's going to be sick when he does it. And he was, I mean, he had a two home runs single in a double. I know Shohei hit two home runs, but he was doing it in Colorado. He could fucking do that. That's a pop. Anybody kid? That's a fucking pop. I could hit a home run in Colorado. I could probably dunk in Colorado. Did you guys see Kyle Tucker? That guy is in the depths of hell right now. He dropped another easy fly ball is, I don't know what you do if you're Kyle Tucker. Like do you see Max, what do you, I mean, like do you sit him forever? You got to sit him for like a week or something. He's just got the yips right now. He's so far far in his own head. I don't hate the idea of sending him down to the miners for like a week, just like remind yourself that you're good, but not even triple A single A, let him just mash. Yeah. Send a little league. Send a Williams port. That's not a bad idea. That actually would be really funny if like that was the next he would kill a guy. The next wave of analytics is like when a guy gets yips, they have, they have a standing travel baseball team, 12 year old travel baseball team at their spring training facility. They're like, all right, dude, just go down, just fucking hit some mammoth home runs off these kids. Maybe strike a couple of them out, make a couple of them cry, then come back and, and, and be yourself. That's why the Nats offense is so good this year because their pitching staff is pretty much like a little league team. Yeah. So like in spring training, they just all got really confident. Yeah. They're like, yeah, we can all hit. But Kyle Tucker's in hell. They also are up 10 one in this game and meant absolutely nothing. Is it? Yeah. No, of course, but baseball yips are the worst yips, right? I mean, I guess golf. Yeah. Golf is pretty bad. Baseball golf are like kind of one in the same though of like it's just you and, and there's nothing you can do. Yeah. But tennis tennis serving baseball, yips may be worse just because you have the teammates to be like, yeah, I think we're letting other people down and all of them are probably not saying a word, but you know they want to say something and you know that they're like, hey, dude, are you okay? Free, free throw yips. I would say kicker yips. Kicker yips are bad. Kickers are very similar to baseball, you got the whole team and everybody could kick your ass. But, but kicker, the only saving grace for kicker yips is you can just get cut. They usually fire you. Yeah. Yeah. The kicker usually doesn't get to recover from like it's fatal. Yeah, like Kyle Tucker. You got the yips. You're done. Kyle Tucker signed a $240 million contract. You can't just be like, oh, dude, you're cut. What about this for a dumb idea? What about moving him to catcher just to just so that he thanks God when he gets moved back out to the right field? Just one inning. Yeah, he's like, I'm so glad I don't have to do that anymore. I don't hate it. It's really just his hitting is so bad that it, that every, his mentors are done with everything in the game. Yeah. He can't hit. We're shit. No, he sucks. I mean, if the Dodgers win the World Series with, it's like on expert mode, that is the one thing. It's actually very similar to kicker as well. Like he, if he hits a big home run in a playoff game, everything is forgiven. If a kicker has the yips and then hits a big kick in a playoff game, it's like, oh shit, we always love them. But man, he is in straight uphill, also just an update and it's not knock on him, but Joshua Abias has still not gotten a hit off of anyone, not named Matty Boyd. He should have retired. That's interesting. Oh, and, oh, for 16, six kids, he should have retired. - Yeah, he'd like, go out on top, dude. Just be the bet, be the guy that everyone's like, imagine if he had played his whole career, he would have had a million home runs. - Did you hear C.J. Abrams moving to second base? - No, I did not, here. - My theory on that is they couldn't find anybody that wanted trade for him. - Oh. - Because he's clearly a bad defensive shortstop. And so, but he would be like maybe not as bad second base, still one of the best hitters in baseball, right? I think they're gonna ship him off. - Don't you have a very good defensive shortstop as a prospect that they're trying to make before? - We've got two. - So I think that would probably be-- - We don't want to sell too many. - Oh, probably, yeah. - That would probably make more sense. - But I think-- - No, probably not. - I think both could be very true at the same time. - Oh shit. - I think the market on him was not what they expected it to be. - A.J. Store commits a UNOV. I'm just reading the screen. That's his fifth team. - In five years? - Really? - Phil and no, this quarterback got fucked. - Oh no. - Yeah. - All right, let's do Mount Rushmore. - Well, we're doing, we're doing, - Dashill's second baseman in Villa Nova quarterback at A.J. Store. - We've run out. - We've run out. - I was looking at Dillon Reol of the other day. - Yeah. - How much he's bounced around. So he's at Oregon now. - Yeah. - Obviously in college, he committed to Georgia. He might have committed to Ohio State too. - I don't count that as much as bounced around if you didn't go there. - Right, right. He obviously, he has been to Nebraska. He went now to Oregon. When he was in high school, he was, I think like four schools in four years kind of guy. - That's, A.J. Store, I'm pretty sure is on like eight schools in nine years. - This is like the most meathead take that I might have. And it's a little bit draft day, birthday party thing. But at some point, if you're a quarterback, you should not want to transfer schools again, just based on the fact that you've got boys. - Yeah. - Like that you have friends that you don't want to leave and you don't want to make new friends somewhere else. The fact that he's moved schools so many times, there is something that's like, why doesn't he have friends? - I think the third school is a red flag. - Yeah. - So he's got one more. - No, no, he doesn't have one more. - Yeah. - The third school is a red flag. - Like imagine your boys from college. - Yeah. - Imagine if you're just one year, you were like, "Hey, you know what, I'm gonna, I need a new change of pace." - Yeah. - I'm gonna go somewhere else. Now imagine doing that three times. - Yeah. - It's because you don't have boys. - And also it's like, what is the move you're making? Is it a lateral move? Like a lateral move is also kind of a red flag. But if it's like a, if you're moving up, if you're going from Mac to Big 10, or if you're going from, you know, Mountain West, so it's not Mountain West anymore, up to SEC, that's a different move. So yeah, I agree with that take. 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Okay, Mount Rushmore. Max, memes and I have officially clenched. We cannot statistically get last place. So we were talking about it. And I think it gets into a funky territory where if you have a team that has no urgency, no reason to submit good picks, can skew how the rest of the Mount Rushmore season goes. What do we have like 10 left, I think? No, we have eight left, eight left. Yeah, eight left. So with eight left, we don't wanna be the team that fucks everything up. And it's like, hey, if we submit a bad picks and then everyone else gets screwed up. So we're going to, and by the way, Max memes and I are at 53. I think you guys are tied, right? 40 points each. Max, I think I'm, are you ahead? I might be one point up here. Oh, no, I believe it's tied. Is it tied? Let's see. Is it tied? Shane Focus. I'm seeing, I have 40, you guys. I also see that. Hank and Zach have 39. Okay, that does kind of put a wrinkle in. All right, no, no, I think this is fine. So our idea is that we now go shift to a 1v1v1, Zach, Hank, PFT. I think we should start. PFT is up one point. That's fair. Okay. He has one point and you guys have zero points. Yeah, that's totally fair. You should get that point. I was prepared to compete to, to go down solo against the two of you, but that's fine. Yeah, well, I think it's gonna be broken up one point. Yeah, yeah. And so how we're gonna do the rest of the Mount Rushmore season the last eight is that you guys are gonna all go 1v1v1. Well, obviously Max memes and I will still discuss picks and talk about it when you guys make picks. And then at the end of the picks, Max memes and I will submit the honorable mention list. So that's how we're gonna go. I like it. It's a new, new juice, new, new, new, new something going on here. Zach, are you a little scared to go on your own? 1v1v1. PFT, I like to stand on it against these guys. I like, I love you guys' chances as well. I take every competition seriously. I take things day by day, really picked by pick. I'm a process guy. So, you know, we're just here to be the best team that we can be. Right, so today is the Mount Rushmore of things guys hold on to for too long, correct? Yep. Okay. Who wants to go for, you know what? We'll do, I'll, I'll, I'll, I have a number behind my back. Zach, do you want to guess it? I'll pass on the guess. Okay, so it's one through three. Five. It's one through three. Three. This is not saying what's going on right now. Zach, you got it right. It was three. Okay. What pick would you like to start with? This draft. This draft, I would like to take the first pick. Okay, so then let's go Zach first, Hank second, PFT third and fourth, and then we'll shift it from there. Okay? Okay. We feel good about that? Sure. All right. I don't think there's a clear one one in this. No. But I would like to. You're ripping? Yeah, let's go. Things that guys hold on to for too long. Things guys hold on to too long. I would like to take Boxers one. Pat it on our list. Great pick. Excellent pick. Great pick. I recently shot a Fruit of the Loom. I just got rid of all my Boxers and just restocked it's a great feeling and it is a great feeling. So I have the next pick, it's similar, especially when you lose one. I think that if I was going to write a biography, it would just, the title of the book would just be where, where do all the socks go? Oh. With the biography beam out. Just whatever. Where are all the socks go? About the socks. But like what would be the first page? Like what would you write to it? Well that would just be like the general title. Is it children's book? No, it's just like. I think it's children's book. It's just like an autobiography. Oh, that's actually, yeah. Under the lamp? Yeah. No. In the oven? No. The dog has them. In the drawer? No, that's mommy's still though. The sock, that doesn't mean I get rid of the one that I have left. I put it in a drawer and then when I go to put on socks, I just have a mountain of single socks. Yeah, that's why you get it. And then I spend an entire like 10, 20 minutes trying to find the matching sock, which is a lot. The sock companies know that, which is why they always do, even if you have a pair of socks, like your favorite design, they'll just make a new one that's like slightly different. This is, hey, you got to do the total sock. Overall I've talked about this before. Yeah, I do I got I did it with the for the loom I got to do it I gotta do it with socks every couple of years I just I throughout every single one of my socks and then I get like 30 pair and they're all the same brand and they're all the same thing That way you can't lose up. I still well, but no you keep you can't where do they go? What are you talking about you have all the same? Yeah, but when you do laundry you end up with singles and then you're then you're Stroll the single right. That's why I don't do I keep them too long. Okay, all right. That's good pick Because I think why don't you think one day they'll come back. Yeah, yeah, you got a wide open Those were my I had those kind of like one two so I think we're going chalk so far. I'm gonna go hairstyle Oh, guys keep the hairstyle. They don't change it up enough Just kind of through inertia. It's like I've always looked like this. So I guess I'll look like that tomorrow memes. Why are you Smiling I I didn't I didn't think that's where it's gonna go. Okay. Okay, say say more memes. No, that's it. That's always that's all I'm saying Okay, I'm gonna go I'm gonna go shoes. Hmm. I like that. She's good. Yeah, they get ratty. We had that on there And then then your worst pair of shoes. Guess what? You don't throw those out either. They just turn into lawn mowing shoes. Yeah, yeah I will take Wallet. Oh, man I the only time I've ever replaced a wallet when I've lost it. I want you guys to hear something this is actually good for the podcast This is this is the sound of my wallet That's Velcro. Yeah, bro, baby PFT has a Middle schoolers wall. Oh, yeah, it's it's also got a middle school skaters wallet It's got a place for a chain on it too. My favorite thing is to go out to a fancy dinner and then when the bill comes It's like a black tie place. I take out my wall and I go and the waiter tries not to laugh PFT check out my wallet I just got a new wallet. That's a lot of cash yet. There's a lot of cash Do you want to check out my new wallet? Yeah, do you like it? I'd say like do you see that? I can see do you see the new wallet there's tape on there? Yeah, I just got a new wallet. I The side of my wallet was broken for about three months. So once a week I would just have a complete explosion of my wallet. I would go to grab something and every single thing would fall out I got a new wallet. I and by God a new wallet. I got some electrical tape and I just taped the side of it So this button this bad boy's not going anywhere anywhere Good pick. Thank you Great pick you just can't get a new wallet like it's just it's it's it doesn't fit the same It's like it just the whole thing is just feels weird. This wall. It's been pretty good to me. Yeah Decent amount of money is passing this one year wallet again Just one second sir. Oh, yeah, that's the same one that might you lost a wallet and then you got that is a That's the same one my son has. Yeah, it's cool. It's actually it's an upscale version of that because this one's got like RFID blocking It's it's actually like an expensive middle school wall. Oh, nice What max didn't you lose a wall and you got that like on a whim? I lost I lost a wallet at The queue at quick and loans arena. Yep, before the Cavaliers play a very famous. Yeah famous wall That's home. Yeah, it brought them a championship. It was like that number one bed little bro actually what did you talk about that? My book. I might have you lost that one Max that part of my book you should you should you should hope to God that I lose my wallet inside whatever the clippers Or the the sixes read it's called. Mm-hmm. They didn't win a championship after you lost. No, they did yeah Sure, yeah 2017 okay, I thought it was 2016 wasn't that was the game that we went to the Kyrie was like I think the best player of all time Yeah, remember that machine gun cover one and half time. Yeah, yeah, I say Thomas Celtics. Was that a great week one? Nope Let me see. I know it's I know well. Yeah, I mean it was against the Celtics So I would hope you know, yeah, do you know, but yeah, I just remember Kyrie was I think it was the JR Smith Yeah, I'm out here. Oh, yeah Cleveland Cleveland Boston 2017 conference finals Bloodbath You're lucky to get that Rajan Rondo broke his hand in the first round in spools. He's up to nothing Feel forgot you forget all right, Zach you have two picks. I would like to take the second pick pillows Okay, and then third I would like to take I was the official name things are items items I know as things it's items. Oh, well, no, it can be things you can do whatever you want. Okay, okay third. I would like to take Leftovers. Okay. Yeah, yeah, good pick had it good pick very good pick Way too long look at our fridge right now. I think we have K. So in there from six weeks ago jerky from like a month ago Oh, yeah, I'm gonna eat that I Was gonna take something similar. I think it's it's still different enough Just healthy food items hmm, like you buy healthy food and then you never Consume the healthy food and then it just stays in your fridge forever and there's a yeah That kind of cows is working out when you buy like it's like a piece of lettuce Like a bag of spinach pick. Yeah, leftovers, but that's I think that's but thanks is like give us an example He left overs because they were never strawberries. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I like how many times I liked it That's our healthy fruit No, strawberries are healthy. I mean sort of like there's so that strawberry is blueberry like that's the that's a pinnacle What you do is just like for milk for healthy milk. Yeah Like I mean, it's like you go to the store avocados like you you're like all right I'm gonna eat I'm gonna eat healthy this week and then two weeks later You open the fridge and you're like oh shit these strawberries. It's just a giant thing of mold when we were doing our lists I mean eggs. I keep eggs. I'll pull out eggs and it will be like These were two months ago. Mm-hmm. I eat eggs. I actually run through eggs. I promise I eat I buy too many eggs Do you get the 16 pack? I get two 12 packs? Oh Then I'm just like I'm egg eggs. Yeah, the eggs But not like we we go in spurts. Yeah, you know, you miss time a spurt and they just got eggs I picked you have two packs. Okay. I'm gonna go with Towels. Okay, we had it on our list. We wanted to get they get janky. They get holes in them. Yeah, they're like gross Bunky the towels that are ripped and have like a weird stain It's like how did that how did you get a weird stain on a towel that's supposed to be the cleanest thing and you're just like I don't know It always blows my mind that there's no bigger difference in the world than going to like a a sophomore in college Dude's apartment. Yeah, and a sophomore in college chick's apart. Yeah, it's like there are two different species entirely correct They have fresh towels. They change them. They wash them like once a week change their sheets I've got like a beach towel that's been hanging like that's been doubling as a shower curtain for the last week hanging over my bathtub like it is just completely different species. Mm-hmm We should do a YouTube series of just going into different college dudes apartments with a black light. Yeah, no I don't we don't have a good idea. Yeah, just a documentary on dudes apartments Yeah, it's good. It's good idea. Yeah, you know I think there's something to be said to the older towels absorbing water better go on feels like there's like a there's a break in Period with towels the older ones do a better job job drying up wait. Are you saying that because like The longer you have a towel the more likely it is that's already a little bit wet No, no, wow this this towel absorbed a lot of wetness Not because it's got like four showers worth on it not so much in repetition and but between washes more so in like Years of having the towel. Yeah, you know, it's an all-time dudes moment That I'm sure everyone has had happened. I happens to be probably once or twice a month Just getting in the shower and not looking to see if there's a towel And I'm getting out and being like well, what now that's every single time I take a shower And I just like and then I just like all right I guess I'm just gonna use my shirt. I got to find my towel And it's like in a weird spot that I've literally never put a towel All you just like the little like wash cloth that is this big and just try to get as much as I can I'll just walk I'll walk and just soak the entire hallway to the wall and yell that the other day I was looking for the towel and I went into my closet and it was hanging up on a coat hanger in my closet Because I went there after the shower. Yeah put on a t-shirt had to get hangar in my hand and then Replace where the t-shirt was with the towel and hung that up for some reason. I can't begin to explain. Yeah It sounds like something I'd normally just throw on the ground Yeah, the ground is like yeah, nine times a time. Do you have another pick? I do. Yeah, I'm gonna go girlfriend Okay, dude's keep the same girlfriends for too long. Mm-hmm. It's passport. All your friends tell you hey, man We've all been talking and she sucks. Mm-hmm. Yeah, but like I already know her and like her family. No No, no one proactively does it's usually like they break up. You're like, oh my god. Thank God she sucks Yeah, and then they get back together. Mm-hmm, but you do keep them for too long. Yeah, yeah But I feel like the people just talk shit behind your back and never actually say, right like it would it has to be real bad But it'd be yeah, you just think oh be too much work to go back out there right now. I guess it's a we hate each other, but Maybe we won't I I don't think this has been taken. Maybe it has it's definitely the one that Makes me feel the most like a hoarder because I just cannot get rid of them But I have way too many of them. Hats. Yep. I don't know. I just realized there's yeah, there's a one one there's a mask. There's a massive. Yeah Permission to go back and change. No, I'm permission denied. This is like you like to appeal. Can I peel it? Yeah, you can appeal they're appeal denied But wait, no, I wasn't appealing to you. Oh, okay. You granted my appeal for the appeal. Yeah, so Max Max Max, I'd like to formally fall through with the appeal hold on. Let me talk to my counselor real quick. Yeah, he's appealing It looks like it might be the draft isn't over either. It looks like it looks like it might be a yes Appealed denied. Okay, damn, there's like a one one out there. I can't believe you guys are taking it. Yeah, we're gonna do our picks. All right I wish I could put you our picks our teams picks that we can we can put maybe we just have a columnist's honorable mentions on the on the graphic I'm gonna take a t-shirts that don't fit right now, but cook it later. That's it. That was a pick. Oh, that wasn't mine Well, not t-shirts that can't fit right now, but what do you want that on the graphic or do you want t-shirts? I just take t-shirts on the ground Thank you t-shirts are such a I have so many t-shirts that I just cannot get rid of that are just so stupid to have It's brutal. Oh come a day where you need it. All right, here's our I'm sorry. I just got a text from I'm just gonna read this Bleep this whole thing out by the way, okay, but I'm gonna say to you. I just got text from mincey Hearing pretty wild. Mm-hmm. That is pretty wild. You're gonna have to blink that out. Yeah It's good bleep. It's good bleep. All right, keep the mincey part. Yeah, all right, let's do our four picks for the honorable match Can I say the one that it might be order up picks, but it just dawned on me like this is a big time fuck up Toothbrush, well, we had toothpaste on You say this one, but just brush is like yeah, that's good one to sneakers. All right, uh, you said sneakers. Do you want to do our four picks honorable mentions? I think But you can't vote on these no, no, we won't keep it on the we won't put it on the vote. So say say something you want I like 21 Yeah, your dreams you we hold on to our dreams for way too long. Oh, we can go pro. We could do this We could do that. I could fucking run of under six minute mile. I could bench this. No, you can't You know your dreams Similar to to dreams or no items. Yeah items dreams Cups and mugs you get a free cup from bar. I have actually disagree. Those are the best But there's some that are just like so dead. I have a cup from a bar that hasn't existed for 10 years That's an awesome cup. You can't even know what's on it. He doesn't have a logo Yeah, but that's an awesome cop, but you look at it and you're like real ones now Yeah, like I had I had the dream team cups from McDonald's Probably for 12 years Fuck that one. I like 15 that used to be Christmas So yeah All right, so Dreams cell phones cell phones and electronics cell phone slash computers. We you just can't throw them out I don't know why it's self-stupid getting a new phone There's something about having like an old phone with the battery sucks and the and it's like a little bit cracked That you you still don't want to get a new one. You just hold on to that shitty one for your Probably doing it right now going through it right now. It won't charge But you don't think it a new one. I've reached the point where it's such a problem Where now I have to put a magnetic battery pack on the back of it and then plug that battery pack into a charger overnight So that the charger is then filtered from the battery pack into my phone because I there was one time in in Patucket with a pup punk I had it plugged in overnight didn't charge at all And it was on one person battery when I woke up for a flight. So I've got like a daisy chain of charge And you're right. I'm not going to get rid of it until it absolutely must go right All right, we won't even put on great. Let's just say all right, it's easier to do that uh Baseball cards. They're they're like truly worthless, you know, like the not like good ones But like you just have cards that are birthday cards. I never throw up birthday cards And I just hold on to them forever. Uh, we had sheets on there. I said iPhone boxes. I phone boxes Uh, it's good box. I throw those away like a medium. Oh, I keep those forever in your junk drawer. You just have chords. I have chords. Yep. I had no idea what they go to various charger cables They're just not none of them work for anything that you need um charges are always banged up Uh Trophies we had on there, but sometimes you want to keep a trophy, but there's some that are ridiculous meme said grudges Yeah, no, I say grudges. Oh, you said I said friends Guys hold on to friends to launch. Yeah dreams So uh something that's just broken like any item that's just broken you just have it Uh, we had toothpaste. You're feeling your feelings and then my last pick was uh things that you hold on to for too long. Uh, Ole Miss employees Yeah Just in general. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good one. It's very relatable. So I think everyone else. Yes, uh, sometimes they send you a bag or text Um, that's good. My rush one. I also had cars. Yeah on my list. I had mattresses. Mm-hmm. I had um then shampoo bottles Yeah, they've been done all the way to the end. You put some water in it and you try and shake it up to see if you You can get the last and I do that like five times And then yeah, like the third time you're like maybe I didn't fill it up and shake it hard. Yeah I'm some sure there'll be some suds that come. Oh, but when the suds do come out you feel like you're a scientist. Oh, yeah Like I figured out I've just got hacked it unlimited energy. What else any other honorable matches you guys had Mail yeah, yeah, a lot of mail in terminal shirts. Yeah, mm-hmm game ticket stubs Yeah, I like I think every guy like there everyone knows a friend receipts who actually has kept every single game ticket Stubbed and you're like that's awesome and then every guy Everyone else is like I want to be that guy And I think I have if I open up like my nightstand I think I have like three ticket stubs. It's like I was gonna be that guy once I remember when I was a kid. I had a shoe box that said stubs on and I think I had like two stubs. Yeah, right You just kid cuz I yeah, you just either are that you're like I have a friend who has like hundreds of ticket stubs And you're like that's fucking cool And then one point you're like I'm gonna do that and you aren't you aren't that guy ticket stubs also just like don't exist Yeah, that's true. I think you were just making that box so you can keep your barbecue sauce in there I want to remember it by oh, yeah, yeah Yeah, I think I think we have the big ones. I do think that toothbrush is big mess though Yeah, I keep toothpaste more I buy toothbrushes in like bulk and I'll just swap them out Like I'll buy the 10 pack of them. I try it. Yeah, but toothpaste. I will squeeze till oh there is nothing left. Yeah Nothing left and then I'll cut it open Why you can cut it open there's a whole need to when you cut it open you can open it Absolutely, you can cut it open All right, good amount rush more. Let's do hot sea cool throne then we'll get to Pete Crow Armstrong and Joe Buck hot sea cool throne is brought to you by our friends at body armor This episode is brought to you by body armor flash IV flash IV is packed with electrolytes to living faster longer lasting hydration without any artificial dyes flavors or sweeteners Whether you're training traveling just feeling the heat or cheering on your team work hard and hydrate hard With body armor flash IV grab it at 7-Eleven You need the body armor flash IV after a long weekend whether it be hanging out with your friends or training really hard You need the body armor flash IV it'll make you feel a lot better drink one grab it at 7-Eleven today They have some great flavors body armor flash IV Henry hot seat cool throne My hot seat is Zach memes and max Okay Billy football our our screen prints went on on Jake marshes podcast They're promoting the book reminiscing on old stories and and Billy brought up a good point I thought about how the league today today's day and age is soft and that Zach and memes and max don't get hazed enough Yeah, no the leagues change what society is changing. He specifically said Zach. I mean But also Billy was podcasting against like plumbers plumbers and horse That's that's who dominated the podcasting charts and Billy was around But yeah, Zach do you think that we've been soft on you memes and I were both here with Billy now some people People worked on the show together. Okay. I will say this Billy Billy probably has a fair gripe that we were maybe a little hard on Billy also didn't Maybe didn't always say like hey, I fucked up. Zach says I fucked up a lot So that might be a little different but Billy has a it was probably harder on Billy to start Jake using his one example as they made me do dip And it's like wasn't that a bet was very funny and he didn't do it. Yeah, it did have nicotine I think right. I think Billy has a fair argument. I don't know if Jake has a fair idea The other one Jake gave was doing the fake boobs. Yeah, yeah, which yeah, that's awesome Yeah, Billy Billy having to fight Jose can say go. Yeah, eat a cheese steak But Billy, I also I bet spicy cheese steak I also I would bet you that if Billy Billy Billy would say himself. He's a he's a tough he's like like a hard coaching guy You need to coach him hard. He's not a soft coaching guy But yeah, I see it. We're gonna have to be a little harder on that Well, I also Billy said in the example is like Zach had to do that bike thing And I was like, what was he talking? I was like, oh Travis Pastrana when you had to like Take a bike off a ramp and almost yeah, yeah, by far the most dangerous thing that And I mean to give Zach credit I did I did buy an ice cream machine that he had no idea about and I said you have To keep this existing that wasn't super easy Billy did that with the goldfish one time. By the way, our Larry chapter was, I wrote the Larry chapter and I went back and found the actual statistics. It's incredible. He was the greatest. Magic. Magic. It's actually insane how good of a goldfish he was. Billy also said like he's completely disconnected from the internet now. That's good. Which is great. Yeah. Happy for Billy. Yeah. Do you think it's true? No. I think disconnected a lot more than he was. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good for him. I hope he's happy. Yeah. We love those guys. They both wrote chapters. So you know, those guys are family for life. Like I truly do mean that they are part of this show. You can't like, you can't write this book without having them write in. So they did. Jake wrote a very good chapter, a very interesting chapter. Billy, the way that he like signs off on his chapters, just it if you are a Billy football fan, you will love that. It's incredible. Okay. So we got to be tougher on Zach and memes. According to Billy. Yeah. Memes, we're going to give you some tough luck. Fair, fair, hard. Memes, a show called one last day in the Billy. Oh, yeah. No, you would get your shit pushed in, buddy. Memes, just, Memes, all day he's just been looking at me. He's like, dude, we got soft. We got soft. Yeah. It is, this, this, this were my entire day. Should we put, should we put fuck memes? I mean, Memes, you do, you do that. Just put, you got to take it a little bit. Like dude, it's fine. Yeah. No, we got, we like it hard. We get hard. Who can fight? We need to make you fight somebody. What if we do anything butt fight? Yeah, butt fuck. Yeah, butt fight. Okay. We can call it whatever you want. You'll butt fight somebody. I'm open to anything. Oh, yeah. I know. Literally. Now, just if we just butt fucked memes and send it to Billy, being like, this is for you, Billy. Oh, this guy's fighting me so hard. This guy's so, this guy's so soft. Oh, man. One shit. This guy's so sick. I butt fucking the other. Okay. Oh, then my cool turn is music. Yeah. Pat McAfee put out a album. It's been, been the talk of the town the last few days. Time. Talk of the time. And then former, former co-worker, Dan Rappaport put out a Scotty Shep for song. Have you guys heard this? No. No plan. I'll play. No, this is Max play. It's kind of where I, you know, it's kind of where I'm like, Hey, Billy's got it right. We're just less internet. Less internet. He's super bullshit. Are we allowed to play it? Yeah. Is it? Who's Twitter? Yeah. He goes, we did. Is it good? I don't know. It's the banger. I think you, I think we can. Oh, this is it. Oh, this is gotta be it. Oh, it's only like 20 seconds. I don't think that we'll say. Yeah, she was back back again. Scotty's back. Song J. M. I created a monster because nobody wants to see Bennett no more. They want young Remy. He's chopped liver. Well, if you want Remy, this is what I'll give you a 68 on Thursday, but a six one is sicker. So the L.I.V. won't let me be paying John Romway more than me. 50 just need down at RBC. But it feels so empty without me. Now, this looks like a TPC. So everybody just looks to me. I want the trophy because it feels so empty without me. That's why they invented. Yeah. I'm also going to say something in defense, Dan rap, where I, he knows he's a dork. I don't know. No, he does. He knows he knows he's a dork, even dorks can. I like that about him. Like he, I think he, if you're like, dude, or you a dork about golf, he's like, yeah, I am. Remember when the tiger thing happened, we had him on the yak after and he's like, yeah, that was a little ridiculous and I was crying about tiger. Like he knows. And I'm okay with self wear dorks. So think that was parody. I think he was, no, I think he knows like, this is ridiculous, but I'm putting it out because I just love Scotty singer. No, I don't think he thinks it's a banger. I think he's like, I'm a dork and I love Scotty. Watch me, watch me drop some bars. Yeah. Honestly, it was better than I thought it was going to be had a little flow. Mm hmm. You know what? We don't haze enough on this show. No, I would like to see memes make a song. Yeah. Memes make a fucking song. Memes, you have to make a song because you guys asked I will do it. All right. Toughen up. Make a song about Gino. Toughen up. Shithead. Any Gino? No. Gino Smith in the Jats. Gino Smith and make sure they don't end the Jats. Seven Sunday heroes. It's charity. Yeah. All right. Good hot seat. Cool to own Hank. Thank you. Way to go. All right. PFT. My hot seat is our fantasy league. Oh, I alluded to this in text message to the boys last night. I have some deep concerns about the future of our fantasy league and how Jerry O'Connell is approaching this season because I'm sure the draft has to be like any week now, right? Mm hmm. It's kind of how the pattern goes. Yeah. We're right around goes. Yeah. So Jerry, as I mentioned in the past, has been extremely active in this fantasy chat. Um, it just got brought up last week. Maybe we increased the buy in this year. Okay. And I'm like, I'm fine with that. Whatever Jerry's wife will allow him to do. Let's do that. Yep. And then see Jim McComb clowned on him a little bit. Oh, no. No, Jerry. Like kind of making fun of him. Um, but I was like, no, Jerry, like, it's up to him. If you guys want to double the stakes, triple the like whatever Jerry wants, it's all good. Then everybody started texting each other last night. Everyone's, I'm sure everyone's got a fantasy league out there. And once that group check gets going, it gets out of control. It's crazy. And you'll come back to like 60 mistacks messages from that group. Correct. That's what it was like last night. So I popped in and somebody said Jordan Schultz posted, let's set a draft date and confirm buy in. What does everyone feel good with? We can proceed. And I said Jerry, question mark. And then I believe Julius Randle responded, Jerry left the chat. Oh, no, exclamation point. I went back and I looked at it. Jerry left this chat. I'm trying to find the exact date that he bounced out. Jerry left this chat a couple of weeks ago, I believe. Okay. It looks like it had to reach, I tried to add Jerry last night back to the chat. But since Jerry is a green dot guy, yeah, it would completely ruin the chat. Yeah, we'd have to rename the job. It'd be a brand new chat for everybody. Correct. And now I feel like Jerry's gone dark on us. Like he left wait. So who, who said to raise the stakes? I forget who originally said Jerry leave because the stakes were raised. I think he should call him. Yeah, I think we should call him. I think it might have been Jordan Schultz. I recommend it. We raised, which is very funny considering who his father is. Do you think we could probably, we could probably do it actually like $2,000. There's like nobody here is really fighting for it, right? Hypothetical question. And this is not against anyone. Do we think that Adam Schaefter has ever balked at someone saying, let's raise the stakes? Probably. Yeah. You think so? Okay, all right. Fair answer. I don't know. I don't think he's got money. Like, I don't think he's, he would ever be in. He's got his bag. I don't think he'd ever be in a group that would suggest raising the stakes. He's got his bag up though. No, we can't even get a hold of our fancy manager. What do you think he's doing right now? I think I'm probably retweeting compliments about himself writing the book. What do you think he's doing? Probably like charring in the bathroom of a gym somewhere. Okay. Like in the sink. What else? What else? Give us all their other, what is Jerry doing right now? Uh, he's probably waiting to like pick up his daughter from school. Okay. auditioning for a role. Maybe getting some, some dinner for the family. Well, actually Hank. No, because it's you know where Jerry is. Bring him in. I know his family. He's out here. Um, did you believe that he was here? No. All right. Well, we're, we got a, I'm a little bit. Well, next week we have where we got Jerry's with us. So we'll get to the bottom. But I, I feel like I am, I'm right to be concerned about this. Definitely. 100% who leaves the fancy football group chat unless they have no desire or intention of returning. Yeah, that is I quit. Is that not an I quit move? I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt. It's just the green. It's going to be someone with like an iPhone update or his phone. We might have to buy him a fan. He should have a fantasy phone. That's what I'm going to say. Yep. You're right. He needs just a separate phone just for fantasy. Yep. Mm-hmm. Should be one to see. It should be a fantasy phone. It should be one of the ones with the, the text buttons on it. The ones that Jeff D. Lo is reviewing. Nope, because I would still be green. Yep. True 100%. True 100%. We got it. We should, I will buy Jerry. I'll get, I'll buy Jerry a new phone before I get my self a new phone. Yeah. That's how seriously I'm, because it sounds like he just walked away from the sport that he loves. Yeah. And it's quite frankly not something that you would expect to fantasy. Fantasy. Fantasy. And then my cool throwing, it was going to be the Chargers, Chargers being Chargers, but it's also the weird relationship between players that used to play for a Harbaugh, then going directly to another Harbaugh. Because Naji Harris is now a giant. Yes. And I need somebody to make a list of like all the players that they've shared. Because it does feel like a fallback career. If you leave a job with one Harbaugh, you can immediately guess what? You've got, you've got a home with the other. Yeah. On the opposite coast. Yeah. All right. My hot seats is Penn State students that like cocaine because apparently there was two fraternities running like a narcos episode that got busted up. What Max? That was crazy. That story. You don't think so? The, the only thing I saw was that the guys were doing drugs in college. Yeah. No, but I was going to do a Max impression. I was just going, news flash. Franchard don't go. Yeah. But no, the part that was crazy was the L. alleged is all alleged that they were making pledges like like cut up bricks as part of their initiation. You get free labor. That's crazy. Yeah. Come on. I agree. Doing drugs college. Who the fuck cares? They were they're like we're getting brave. We're getting bricks and having like being like you want to be in this frat. Make some fucking bags for who told them. Was somebody that didn't get in? Probably. No, there was an undercover buyer who bought from one of the kids and then I think that kid ratted. Can't do that, bro. Yeah, you can't do it. It's quite a it's a it's most significant. The kids look. Yeah, that's the thing. They basically a bunch of codeys and arrested for for being Pablo Escobar. I think one of their dads was helping to run it. Yeah, I was trying to hide it. I think he was trying to hide the shit after they're about to get busted. Oh, so it wasn't the dad that was getting it and then sending it to the kids. I read it very quickly. I think it was like a dad was basically trying to obstruct justice and like in hide all the evidence. It's just a good dad. Yeah. But yeah, the kids look so young and they were just on their Pablo Escobar. Yeah, it's going to be a I guess there's a there's a power vacuum in Penn State now. So yeah, if you're interested in this market, the white out. Yeah, also hot seat is I'm scared to give any updates about live because Hank and Max will be mad about it. But John Rom feels like he's leaving my cool throne. And also it's going to be the last tournament come out. And this is going to be a lot of you. And are you going to go? I think so. I was telling Hank. Fuck yes. If Hank wears his four aces geared, there's a good chance that they they actually let him play. Yeah, by the last he might you might be the fourth ace you should show up. I'm going to need guys. Yeah. Yeah, it's like a live is like a softball team and and your record is like one and seven and you need guys just to finish out this schedule. Yeah, that's what they're like, hey, do you have any buddies that like maybe play in college that could show up? Hank, you can do this. And then my cool throne is Hoss's because we have Matt Tugboat Wilkinson getting called up by the giants 270 pound lefty Hoss peace so excited. We need more Hoss's dying breed. This guy is an absolute Hoss. This guy is a giant. I fucking love it. Let's get more Tugboat is just Tugboat so good. Awesome nickname. Awesome. We don't get nicknames like that anymore for a big dude. That's a 19 oh yeah, 19 20s ass nickname. Yeah, that's so good. All right, gentlemen, Tugger, Zach. My hot seat this week, we talked about we talked been stay we talked Shane, we talked guys you fight. Yep, my hot seat this week is going to be the rest of the NFL because did you guys see the ruin Bane is absolutely putting in at least an extra hour every practice this week. So what get his arms longer? No, they're saying short arms actually with the aerodynamics and the wind probably a plus side. I don't know if you guys saw that science on dudes. I did not. Yeah, wait, go back science on dudes get to the wind quicker if you way less longer arms heavier air dynamics, but they also like they weigh them too. So that's some weight. That is correct definitely have some weight, but if you see the explosion off the line here, how many sacks do you think a T Rex will get? Probably a lot. T Rex on a male NFL field. Yeah, all the sacks. What about a female? A female. No, female dinosaur. I don't think a T Rex would get all the sacks. We're also just like against other dinosaurs. You've been a really long day. We're going to get into dinosaurs playing sports with peak arms deep into dinosaurs. Yeah, so we should save that, but yeah, I think you could just run around it. I don't think T Rex has like lateral agility. So you're saying, oh, so the the T Rex is the same size as the other dude. It's a shrunken down one. No, no, no, no, have the shoe room. No, no, I'm saying a huge T Rex, but later laterally, I don't know how they can move side to side. I think we have to go forward. Then you go around. There's better ankle flake. Yeah, there's better ones for the bull rush. You could probably run underneath the T Rex. I would say like a like was it. I think the Allosaurus is like the slightly smaller T. And actual bull. I said a bull. Yeah, I mean, a bear would be a great nose tackle. Brown bear, black bear. Grizzly, but you could just, yeah, you could just play dead. We did this not grizzly. Oh, yeah, what is it? It's it's brown. If it's brown, if it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's white, say good night. White, say good night. Is it? Yeah, it's brown. Lay down. Lay down. Yeah, you play dead. Black. Black. Fight back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Here we go, boys. If it's grizzly, you're fucked. And if it's grizzly, you can't block it. No, it's polar bear. No, I know, but grizzly's also you're fucked. Polar bears brown bear. Is it? I sorry grizzly bears. No, no, no, no. Yeah, grizzly bears are brown bear polar bear. That's the one that like if it sees you, you're dead. Okay. I spend, I listen, yes, no, a weekly topic of brown bears. But not all brown bears are grizzly bears. Got it. Let's talk in bears. What about if they're back, Joey Camasta. Oh, yeah, lay down. Yeah, say what's up. Love Joey. Oh, yeah, yeah, no, the same thing. Stop it. Stand your ground. Cool. It's wrong. My cool thing is we see Netflix because Netflix announced that we're going to get an extended look presentation of GTA six. They're going to give us a cinematic view. Yeah. Which will be safe. So we get, we get a Netflix special on GTA six before we get GTA six. That's also true. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So my theory is that zero release date officially. You could pre-order. There's been like three release dates in the last like four years. So that's always going to be up in the air. But I mean, if we're going to get like a cinematic look into the game, pretty exciting. I feel like they're going to just make like every video game inside this one video game. Yeah, you can like go play three, three basketball just as like a, oh, there's a park when we just go play two cater like, oh, there's yeah. Or it's like, oh, there's a recruiting station. Now I'm playing Call of Duty. Yes. And you like get shipped off the war. Yeah. They test your eyes. I go, no, you can't fly. It gives you a rifle. Yeah. Yeah. There's it's going to be every video game wrapped up into one. Yeah. And said in Florida home game for some guys should be good. Good job, Zach. Same to you guys. 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Because it feels like you were in the zone. You just were seeing the ball perfectly on Monday night. I mean, I, dude, I made up my mind that I was gonna, that I was gonna swing at the first pitch two hours before the game. Um, because I, I had, I was scuffling for what felt like three months, but there was the last seven games or whatever. I was like, man, I'm just, I'm playing defense again. So I was like, I got to go out there and I'm making my mind up now that I'm gonna swing and sometimes that's just, that's all you need is like, I ended up swinging at the fucking first pitch. Three, three of my first four at bats, I think. Yeah. That doesn't always work, but that's, that's exactly what I needed to show you. So I think it got me, it got me back in like that, that uh, that attack mode. Wait, so you just said, so this is what I love about you, because you like reading everything and knowing a little like, your heart on yourself to, to a point where it's like, dude, you're, you're about, you're like, the odds on favor to MVP and you just said you were scuffling for three months. What it felt like again, like perspective is important. You just went 30, 30, back to back seasons, first time in Cubs history. Yeah. Um, which is scuffling. The, the, the Kansas City DC road trip, that felt like, that felt like the longest time ever, because I, last year when I was, when I was hot, like I took for granted, how easy it felt and I kind of forgot what baseball was really like. Yeah. Um, yeah. Like that, that was the first week that I had had that kind of struggle with the punchouts and I wasn't walking. I was putting weak ass contact them. So like, it felt like a long time, uh, and then getting smoked by the Cardinals didn't help. Yeah. So like, I think, you know, last year, I could have let that, that compile and, and snowball and really trend downward, but I'm not making decisions like that. I'm like, there's an active choice to, to like, a sense of urgency. Yeah. Be aggressive when you're around. Yeah. Because that, that's a big thing about your season, which has been awesome to watch is your ability to, to take pitches. Like, what, when did that start to click for you? Like, I, I, I even look back, I think it was the Kansas City series might have been before that where you did an ABS and I think it was like, 0.02 of an inch that it was a ball. Yeah. Right. It's like, how the hell did he see that? But that's feels like how you've been seeing it all year. Yeah. That's, that's a, that's a decent way to put it. Like, that's a, that's a good representation of like, of how confident I feel about, you know, or at least where my understanding of the strike zone has gotten this year. That was a lucky guess. That one, like, that was a, that was a cutter that kind of backed up and, you know, it's supposed to come back my way and it, it presented itself like it went the other way. So I thought it was a change up and I was like, well, if it, that was a change up and it's going the other way, that was definitely a ball. And then I saw it, inch in, inch in, inch in closer to the zone. I was like, no. But yeah, like, I think the Kansas City series was one of my favorites that I'll probably like look back on now because I think I got one hit, maybe two hits in those three games, but I walked five times. Right. You know, that's what I'm most proud of this year is, is my ability to, to get on base that way. But it started this year, like, yeah, I think there's different ways to play the game and have it bats where like last night, my walk last night, 1 0, like, I'd made up my mind that I was going to take 1 0 because a lot of guys like to go strike the ball with me. They like to get me to chase 1 0. And so I was like, fuck, I'll just, I'll showbunt trying to remember that. Yeah, try and see if we can get the third basement crack and open up the field a little bit. And then it ends up being 2 0. And then I'm not swimming in 3 0 against a lefty. Like, it's just, it's, I've, I've learned how to play the game a little bit differently. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can, I mean, obviously you can notice in your numbers and your patience to play. Yeah. Yeah. Once you get on base, is there, have you ever been too aggressive? Hell yeah. How do you dial yourself back? Because that's like a strength of yours. It's like, you need your super aggressive. Well, people try to take back your cycle because you got picked off right after. I don't blame him for that. I would be the first one to be like, yeah, that's, I don't, I wonder if that's ever been done. Yeah. If we want to talk about first. Yeah. Who, who, who does that? Who actually let themselves get picked off after fucking. It was, well, it was my cap. It was a perfect PCA moment because I mean, I would assume you're not really online much during the season. But like, there's, I think everyone in Chicago defends you to like the, the end degree. I know I'm at the front lines being like, he's the best. And then there's some haters. So you getting a cycle, which is objectively like an incredibly hard thing to do. And then getting picked off, it's like, you just gave that red meat to the haters to be like, buddy, got picked off. Yeah. I was giving the people what they wanted. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do you have, do you have always have the green light? Yeah. For the most part, I mean, there, there's times like, after I, after I hit that single in my second, a bat and say is up when he just took Castillo 110 miles an hour to dead center. I'm like, two outs. I don't, I don't need to run here. But then we get through strikes. I'm like, I trust in say is ability to, to like have a real at bat and extend the, the at bat. So I'm, I'm a little more aggressive, I think later on in that at bat. But picking and choosing like, I think there's just certain guys that are too, too fast to the plate where I'm like, again, I trust in hitters 2, 3 and 4 to, to at least advance me or whatever it is. But yeah, I think for the most part, the green light is, is always there unless it's, you know, we're getting our ass kicked. They're vice versa. And there's just no need for it. Like, I think there's always benefit to get on second base. Yeah. Would you say is it better to hit a walk off home run or walk off steel home? Like the, the baseball nerd in me probably says the stolen base and, you know, forcing an error. But I've never hit a walk off home or before. So that probably the home or the home or felt long. Well, that's the right answer. It's the right answer. Guys like me that would never be able to hit home run would say like actually stealing home is better. Like Tim Correction would tell you stealing home is better. But then people that can hit home runs are like, yeah, nothing like a long ball. Wait. Yeah. Had you never hit a walk off in any level of baseball? I hit a, I hit a, no, well, I hit a walk off in AAA. I hit a, I hit a walk off in double. I did, but there's, yeah, I mean, no way to compare. Yeah. Last night to any of those. It felt like the Bat Flip was, was planned. You launched that thing. I honestly, I was, I was walking and I, I think that was my time to, to think of what I was going to do to celebrate. And then I was just like, fuck it. Let me throw it in. Throw it in. Don't hit say. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah. It was, it was an incredible, incredible night. And yeah, I mean, it's just been awesome to watch this season. It feels like things. Have you, do you feel like things have clicked? Because last year, you had an incredible start. And then it, it, it tailed off. But even your, your pitch and coach said it in an interview. I think in the offseason is like, if Pete has that full season every year, like he's going to have a really good career, but you're, you're hardest critic and you're like, I need to do it for the whole entire year. Yeah. You know, last year, if I hit, I hit what, like six humbers in the second half last year, if I hit six humbers in the first half and 25 in the second half, it'd be a completely different conversation just because of the, the way that the season went, right? Yeah. Like I turned it on a little bit in the playoffs, but still it wasn't like, I was not a complete player and I, I didn't feel like my season was a, it was a complete season, but Nico phrased it in such a, such a great way for me. He was like, um, I mean, I guess I already gave it away, but he was like, if you would have hit six in 25 in a different order, how would you feel looking back at 31 humbers and these RBI? I'd have been like, well, you're right. So he's like, seasons are going to shape up how they shape up. Um, if you want to feel any type of way about the numbers at the end of it, like, feel the type of way about the numbers and the numbers only, like you hit 31 humbers last year. Right. That's really good no matter how you did it. This year though, I, I don't feel like, again, I'm making a conscious choice that I'm not going to give it away. I, I know I can walk now. I know I can, um, I know I can get on base in a much different way than last year. And, um, I feel like if the season were to end today or yesterday, like I would feel very, I'd feel very proud of like what I improved on. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'd say maybe the biggest improvement is, is the number change. Yeah. You are faster. Yeah. Yeah. Way better. Right? Like, how did, how did that all go down? Because you are so much faster. Yeah. Less, uh, yeah. There's, there's, there's less going on back there. I mean, jet, jet, though, it was jet, dude. He, uh, we would like, we would just put up shots before stretch in the morning during spring and, uh, Naperville, legend, Nikki Lopez, um, him and I were out there every morning just about and, and jet, I guess, gets a lot of shots up, uh, on his own, like it, whatever gym he goes to. Yeah. And, uh, so I guess Jets got a pretty good jumper and he was like, Hey, man, like, you ever feel like you're wearing like a lineman's number and I was like well yeah but this is one of the three choices I had when I debuted so it's not entirely like what I want to wear and he's all right well I think you need a fast guy number and uh for it just become available so he's like if I make this shot like you're changing your number okay he was right yeah he's right like yeah it's actually great for idiots like us because we say that all the time like there's fast guy numbers and there's slow guy numbers and uh yeah anything in the 50s is not a fast guy number you know I think 55 is a not a fast guy number maybe but like I would if you had to pick the fastest of the 50s I would agree yeah I'd say it's yeah although you can't put that number that's Jayden Daniels you know I respect I appreciate you changing your number out of respect for Jayden yeah you know yeah can't have the five on that we've had some conversations I don't even want I don't know one again that one yeah yeah that is the four the number change has been huge made all the difference yeah uh I have a question about your defense like is there ever a ball that you're like I can't get to it because you're just I think you're so fast and so good without off the jump that you make plays that are not normal look normal and that almost skews people to be like well yeah of course he got to it's like no you don't realize he got to that because he's jumping faster than everyone else so are there ever like are there ever balls like no I can't get this because I feel like you can get to everything uh a lot of the times there's there's balls that I'm like I have no change like that bias kid I I gave him a little courtesy jog on that first homer but in my in my right mind I'm like that that's gonna go on to Wavelin through center field yeah true he's gonna do something that's never been done before ever uh yeah there's there's balls that especially if the winds blowing out like any ball over my head and left center I'm usually like that's that's a homer unless it's hit super low yeah um but no like I'm I'm always like Adam Jones I guess had some saying um he he told me this he was like if if it hits grass it's your ass so that's I've literally remember that every day yeah and uh so maybe that helps me get to more more baseballs but no there's I mean there's always balls that O'Neill Cruz hitting a 121 mile an hour line drive through the three four hole they guess the wall you're like come on really yeah those are yeah boy let me ask that this is very this is very powerful with big cats doing right now because like he since we want you to win MVP yeah he will be your propaganda oh I already have done it so like saying if something he's already thinking about the counter I don't see him making too many diving catches because like well that's because he's so fast he gets to jump doesn't have to it's like when we head on Travis Hunter to win yeah he's been it's like well actually doesn't have that many interceptions because they just don't throw yeah yeah I mean show hey had two homeruns last night and I was very quick to say that it was in Colorado in a blow up that does not like Pete's homeruns mean more all right so let me ask it a different way are you ever surprised by your own speed where you overrun one and you're like oh shit I got to slow up here to make the catch because I've noticed that sometimes where at the very end you're like you're almost past it you're like fuck I was too fast for that there's been a few times yeah like no one gorman hit me a ball in St. Louis that I overran and kind of like slid backwards for that was last year there's little there's little ones like that they come to mind for sure um but I feel so comfortable like and this is such a baseball player thing like you watch you watch like dance be catch fly balls like he let he catches it like here and everyone's taught to catch it above your face and keep it in front of your eyes I'm like I just feel comfortable off my right shoulders yeah if I am going to my left and it looks like I overrun a ball like sometimes that's on purpose because I'll just I like catching it here yeah but yeah I mean sometimes like when I first started doing this new little prep step that that we worked on last spring I found myself getting the balls that I was like oh wait what's the prep step all the youngsters out there it's not if you were to watch an infielder if you were to watch like dance be your nico they just do like a little hop hop yeah you guys all do it at the same time yeah yeah like the whole defense well the Quentin Berry got our all our outfielders to start doing that um I mean I I can't speak for a happer but I know say a has been doing a little hop um and it's just the whole like object in motion stays in motion into whatever like the you're faster if you're already moving yeah if you're even if you get a later reaction or whatever it is like if you're already moving you're the first however many important feet covered are going to be better than if you're just standing still so like I I bought into that and that it it works that's awesome it's only there was like a nickname that we could give it with your name oh what kind of hop would it be yeah could it be the crow hop yeah yeah rebranding the crow hop well yeah yeah I like that all right I've asked too many like questions that are basically loaded to be like you're so awesome so now here's here's a not you're so awesome question for real me fuck when everyone chance PCI feel like you strike out a lot of the time I we got to stop it dude I mean if you'd like to last year yes pull up some fun stats do some do some research on on when I was having my name chant it yes um I would literally sit in my seat to be like stop everyone stop like he's going to get too hyped up I was right there with you I and it was no I my asshole got tight dude I wasn't like I wasn't hyped at all um this year has been so much better with that though like uh my hitting coach was like hey you know that they're cheering for you right like it's not like these are the opposing fans and all the energies with the picture like it's all for you dude and I was like okay like we'll see yeah let's let me just succeed a couple of times when they are chanting and then um it's been better this year but I I feel the same way okay so was it yeah because it was just like I remember just being at games late in the season being like can we not do the chant like let him just let him just bat dude it it was like uh it felt like more of a responsibility that I had to get a hit right those people were up up on their feet and and giving me that kind of love I was like I have to do this now and when you're pressing it's never gonna work so like yeah you're right man that that'd be a fun stat yeah because it's like it just human nature you hear your name being chanted and you're not gonna take a pitch yeah if it's close it's like I want to swing yeah these people want to see me hit a home run yeah but that's not always a smart thing absolutely so maybe just don't chain on on if you have if you have two strikes against you no PCA chance you know what but again like this year it's been better yeah I can I can I play the game differently I feel comfortable taking one oh like just because it's a hitter is count I don't got it I don't have to swing so like you know maybe if it's like a two oh maybe let's not okay I like that because then I'm like all right like I want to let it eat right yeah let's let him see one yeah but a lot of guys don't throw fastballs in two accounts anymore so I don't know that I think that's a good point though like yeah it's the coolest thing ever at the same time right that's what you that's the kind of shit that gives you chills and like they were chaining my name before the any even started yesterday oh yeah oh yeah I've never I've never had that happen before and that was really that was really cool yeah they're probably gonna do it before your first of that tonight that'd be awesome like it definitely's gonna happen I've got some really dumb questions for you do you have to figure out which one was asked by Stephen Chee he was the one who was sitting again Stephen Chee was the one who was sitting in with the cubs jersey in a seat that he never sits in all right and I was like why are you sitting there and he's like what I always know you don't it's because Pete's coming in so okay so I'm gonna ask you three dumb questions and you have to find the Chee question number one you're five-tool player what's your favorite tool my my glove my defense is my favorite tool it's a good tool for sure second will you sprint to first base if you get a walk no never never never I there's like one guy that can do that as brain and nimo because he's done that his whole career fire to do that I've looked like an idiot in so many ways this year that I don't need to I don't need to add to that which we tried to get Aussie albys to do it for us yeah and Matt Olson was like you guys are idiots he literally never walks he's like it's never gonna happen yeah his chase rate is like off the charts yeah like that guy's hitting balls off his shoe laces yeah swings of 40 inch bat yeah that guy's impressive man I love I think Patrick Wisdom said he would do that for us he did if you got a walk in that one specific series yeah and the third question um do players get annoyed having to sing take me out to the ball game every game during the regular season it seems like that would be an annoying song like imagine you at your office if you had to sing a song every day at work all right so that would be the Che one yeah I was gonna go with the second question until you read that one yeah uh I mean does you think that we sing along I think you might so I think you might think that yeah no no man like uh there's nothing worse than when somebody does a poor job yeah do you guys notice that oh yeah um who was it that came the rigged out scoop yeah yeah yeah former co-worker vars you know I and again like if you not everybody's got a good voice but it was just it was the way that that uh that it felt like she wanted it she was like kind of mocked yeah it was a slight it was a slight mock job yeah um so like that kind of stuff irks me sometimes but again like if you get the opportunity to sing a stretch like you're gonna do it how you want and Um, I mean, you know, I don't get annoyed by this song just because I'm, I mean, they're really pissed about getting out before and I'm like, all I can do is rerun the, the, the bad or whatever, or I'm pretty pumped or, or say, is making some funny faces at me in the right field. All right. Wait. So, uh, follow up, Chey question. I'm going to follow up the Chey question with the Chey question. Will you sing it at some point this year, just to test it out? Running out to center field. Yeah. Yeah, you know, if it's at home, you don't, yeah, yeah, yeah, but like, would you, would you consider maybe just one time and you let us know how it goes? Yeah. Sing along, for sure. Okay. For sure. End of one. You have to start saying, end of one. All right. End of two. And I got to finish with, yeah, let's, let's get some runs. Let's get some runs. Yeah, you say that to the boys in the dugout. Yeah. Let's get some runs. Get them going up. All right. They're asking for runs. You know what, uh, you know, my, my favorite, we, we all do this in the dugout is when they do the hefty hefty, yes, the whole dugout in the unison and hefty. It's great. I, I like, I dream about like, I think my, my two dream jobs, and I have a dream job. So I shouldn't, shouldn't like say this, but my two dream jobs would be the host surprises right. And then being a baseball, uh, bench coach. So like, not the manager, yeah, because it feels like the, the, the dugout, I guess it's game to game. It feels like the best hang ever. Is it pretty great? Yeah. I mean, yeah. Like, I, I wasn't like the, the best guy to be around the last three days, but for the most part, the dugout is, it's, it's like such a place where you can just kind of tune out in a way. Yeah. But the bench coach, I don't know if you're ever really just hanging as the bench coach. Like, oh, and if I was a bench coach, that's what you just be, I'd be a vibes bent guy. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe doing the light, the shoe on fire thing, yeah, you'd be the, the prank guy. Yeah. I don't think a bench coach's ever been the prank guy. You never know. Yeah. I think you can't just invent into a job for himself. Yeah. Binge coach is what he would envision his job to be. Yeah. Which is like, hang. Just good hang. Yeah. Yeah. Just hang out. I think every dugout could use some of that. Yeah. A hang guy. I think every dugout could use a hang guy. Okay. What about a fly? What about a first base coach? And they're not taking your gloves, giving you the sliding bet, uh, the, uh, uh, there, ours is on the iPad looking at like set times and times the home plate, um, pick off moves. He does a lot of work like, you know, I don't really know what he's doing during the inning, uh, that guy is like on the computer all day all night, like, what can we, what edge can we get on this guy when it comes to like, like I was saying about guys who have really fast times the plate, like all of the Kansas City Royals, it's like, he's looking for one thing, like a lean or something like Kershaw. You remember how Kershaw always had like that funky slides that he always leaned into it and you could, you know, they're just shit like that that that the first base coach looks for, but my first base coach gives me the Ick sometimes because he wraps like all of my gear really tight and he makes my batting gloves all crumpled and crumpled. So I got an issue with that, but you got to tell him, I think you just got to be honest with him. But he's done it all year. Oh, yeah. Now. I don't need him to, I just have the bat boy, the me and the bat boy are, he knows so to unfroze him. Are you afraid that you're going to hurt his feelings if you're like, hey, can you, can you fold my gloves differently? Yeah. Cause it's like, dude, why don't you tell me? I thought you liked him. Yeah. When dad does laundry and you're like, that's not how mom used to do it. I should, I should just have an honest. Yeah. I should. Maybe now you are. Maybe this is how that might be worse though. He's like, I had to find out about this in a pod. Yeah. Well, I know the first thing I'm doing when I get to the field, I got to, you know, I got two questions, we're doing the dumb question portion. So I got a guy who's, uh, helps me with prep VP, a big cat corp shout out him. He's, he's been helping me for like a decade now. He's got, he's a Cubs fan and he's got two sons nine and 12 who are the biggest PCA fans. So he, he wrote me two questions that's like, hey, this is your chance. So this is from, is verbatim. This is from Hank the nine year old. How did you know that you could have power to hit home runs and have you always hit home runs like when you were younger? I didn't hit very many homers when I was younger at all. Like I, I was that little slappy, uh, I'm going to shoot the five, six hole, uh, I can hit a nice little good looking line drive in the left center of gap. Uh, but then like my senior high school, I kind of like tapped into some more power. Um, I just didn't know how to swing prop, like, I didn't know how to pull the ball properly. Um, and that's not really even something I figured out until last year. So, uh, I always knew that I was like baseball strong, like I'm not really that strong otherwise. But I always knew that I could hit balls very flush and far. But I would say it was like 20, 22 or three, so like my first or second year of pro ball, where I was like, I, I got some juice. So that's a good answer because I, I'm just, uh, inferring here. I don't know, uh, Hank, the nine year old, but I, I'm guessing he probably doesn't hit a lot of home runs. He's wondering when he can start hitting home runs. So come later. You're nine years old. Yeah. Yeah. I hit my first home run around nine. Okay. So you're behind Hank. Not really. He's saying, when he's turned 10, man, all right. And then Reed asked, he's 12. He said, what is better stealing a base or hitting a triple? I'd say stealing a base. Triples, like, triples are pretty rewarding, but I feel like usually like you don't hit triples like very hard. Like, yeah, it's a weird bounce or something. Absolutely. Like, I've snuck so many balls off the end of my bat down the line. I'd say stealing bags because, um, I think it's, it's more of like a, I think it's more of a demoralizing thing for pitcher, catcher combo, like that they just gave that up. Like you're going to give up hits as a pitcher. So, you know, if you give up a two out triple, it's still two outs and it's the same thing as a guy being on second base. Yeah. I'd say stealing bags, stealing third base specifically is probably the most rewarding way to steal a bag. Yeah. I've got one dumb one and then one that I think isn't dumb, but maybe it is dumb so you can tell me. And then we'll go back to regular questions. Yeah. Actually, the entire interview is just awesome. Yeah. I mean, you could get the vibe. You know us. That's dumb guys. Pull podcasts. Yeah. That dumb. Do you change the way that you play defense at Rigglyfield given when the IV grows in? That's a, that's a, that's not your dumb question. No, that's what you're about to say. You're about to say to what question? No, that was actually a pretty cool question. I've never heard of that. Cool question. Yeah. I don't think that was dumb at all. No. I don't. I don't. I'm still thinking about this though. That's maybe the best answer. Yeah. That's a great answer for a cool question. I'm still thinking about this. No, because, because like the, the ball, I guess like specifically, I would play balls off the wall differently if, like early in the year when the IV is non-existent. But you still get some pretty like hard bounces off the, off the brick, even when the IV is in full, full form. I definitely feel a little more comfortable going into the IV when there's more of it than when there's none of it. That could also get you in trouble because it looks welcoming. And then you kind of forget, oh shit, there's brick behind there. And it's not like so cushy as it looks, it's, you find the brick pretty fast. And then, but when there's no IV and it's just the roots and the branches or whatever, that shit hurts. Yeah. I've been cut up and some comfort for sure. Yeah. Cool answer. That was a good question. Cool. Cool question. Yeah. The other question I had was after the Dodger series. I saw like some of the interviews that you did right afterwards where your answer was like, that was pretty cool. Ultimately, it doesn't mean much until we play them in the playoffs. But was there a part of you that after that, like it did something to the belief that the team has where it's like, we can beat, you know, the best teams in baseball and we don't need to be scared of them when it is time in the playoffs. Yeah. I mean, I don't know if that series really did that for, because excluding, excluding Tokyo last year, like we, we had the season series against them. I think four to two. So we've always loved like going and playing those guys the same way we love going and playing the brewers because they got the best, they got the best staff in baseball in Milwaukee does. So like, they're honestly as much as it pains me to say, like they're a really fun team to play against and just to kind of appreciate. And as are the Dodgers, like they have the best player of all time on their team and then you've got, I mean, you got at least three Hall of Famers on the field at one time with Shoé, Freddie, Mookie. So I don't, I don't think we'd ever needed to like prove to ourselves that like we could hang with them or that we would want to see that like we, we, we want to see whoever it is in October. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, yeah, we, we love playing those teams. Those are some of the easiest games to get up for and, and really lock in for us. It's like a, it's like a precursor to October-based. Yeah, yeah, I mean, the game on Monday night felt like a playoff app. It's absolutely really did like I was feeling it and like I had the same nerves as a playoff game. Absolutely. Yeah, that's what you guys create. They're like, that's what and it's not the same at every stadium, but that's what fans help us with and do for us. Yeah. You know, if there was nobody in the bleachers, like, that's still be a crazy game to be a part of because we're all, we're all competitors, but like, you know, that's what you want to, that's what you want to be playing in front of. Also, I did see your quote about the fight in the bleachers. Good catch at the end. Right. Yeah. I mean, I mean, it is unfortunate. You shouldn't fight in games, but there was competitive, like, there were being competitive out there. Yeah. Dude, the whole, were you in the field for that? Yeah. The whole stadium stopped and like, looked out there. Tell me, I was right there with him. It was crazy. I could, I could hear skin on the skin. Yeah. That was the upsetting part to me. I was like, man, like, you know, I, again, I'm all for like the trash talking, between fan bases and all that stuff, but I'm like, no, you're a loser. If you fight in a, in a pro sport, especially, there's nothing to do. Like, what are you doing, man, especially in the bleachers? Yeah. Like, no fighting in the bleachers. I saw a fight last year. I feel like Philly was here, but it was just this, it was this one dude. He looked like a former lineman. He was massive. He was taking on everyone, but there was like a solid eight rows of people that all fell. Yeah, right. During his day, kids were getting picked up and carried out. I was like, that's, that's where I'm slightly upset by that. Yeah. I think it's not so exciting. I, I'm, I like watching a good scrap sometimes. Yeah. We UFC. Absolutely. We've got that sanctioned. Let's not get the same. Yeah. We need like the, like a message on the jumbo drum. Like I'm, I'm sure I'm no fighting in the bleachers. Yeah. That actually would be funny. That would be good. Yeah. I, I, I loved left field after that too, because they, they'd started the, the right field. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's, that's how you handle that. And it was going back and forth. All right. I got, so last time I think you did a podcast was a couple of weeks ago with Chris and Cavalier. I have a, I, I think you got your, your stories mixed up. Probably did. Okay. So the, the dinosaurs don't exist. Babe Ruth was maybe Dominican. What? That's the, that's it. I haven't heard that one. Yes. Wait, you said, you said Babe Ruth doesn't exist. All right. All right. So I'm sure y'all will find the, the whole clip, but, and again, if I'm just completely blown smoke here, forgive me. I did, I don't buy into the conspiracy. So I, I feel like I did my due diligence and I, I, I at least started it off with. I don't really believe in conspiracies, but if I had to find one funny, it would be this. Yeah. Yeah. So if I'm going to save my own ass here, yeah. Is that like, that's fair. That would be funny. I would really, if Babe Ruth didn't exist, that would be hilarious. Yes. I think that would be like the craziest folklore of all, I'd agree, of all time. 100% agree. So for the dude that did say it on a podcast to come out and say that, I was like, that's pretty fucking funny. Yeah. That's ballsy. Yes. And funny. So I was like, well, shit, I'm not in front of a baseball crowd like you're not going to, and then of course everybody. Yeah. Everyone said it took it. But yeah, I, the, the, it's dinosaurs don't exist. That's the old I think Karl over it. Yeah. Karl over it had a belief that if you didn't see it with his own eyes, it didn't exist. Like Helen Keller might not have been totally blind. Yeah. Is that one or Stevie Wunder's not blind. Stevie Wunder's not blind. But yet Babe Ruth being Dominican is like a real theory online. No way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I will. I will. I will. Yeah. Yeah. Some literature for you. Yeah. To Peru's. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The PFT book. Oh god. If this gets me so wait for the record. No, no. Listen, we say the best part about this show is we say the dumb stuff. You just have to sit there. Gun to your head. Did Babe Ruth exist? Did he walk this earth? Yeah. I would, I would assume that he did. Like. Yeah. Okay. We're not, we're not all the way there yet. But like Karl ever. Yeah. All right. Gun to your head. If you had it, uh, let's say a T Rex 400 at bats in a season. How many home runs is he hitting? Zero. Oh. Yeah. It's correct. Okay. Zero. She doesn't have the wingspan. Yeah. You don't find a bat that works for that. Yeah. The strikes on that. Okay. Okay. Yeah. The strike. Yeah. The strikes on would be massive. Yeah. The arms would not be conducive to a good baseball swing. Yeah. It would be the best. You would get by a lot of pitches, though. What you probably would be proud of the play. What dinosaur would be the best at baseball? I think the one, the Ankley's source, the one that's got the tail, that's the club. Just use that as a bat. Oh. That dad. Oh yeah. That's the Ankley's source. Yeah. That got rock. That really come off. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. With its low heavy body for a solid batting stance in a massive club tail, they can swing. So they would use it. They would even use a bat. Yep. Use his tail, tie strikes on. Damn. Yeah. I've been going to a lot of museum pieces. Yeah. That might not have existed. That's the only problem. Teradactyl is number two. What do they say about a velociraptor? I feel like pinch runner. All right. I got. I got the. It's the Teradactyl two. I think Raptor's got a lot of good PR from Jurassic Park movies. I've read some more that they might not have. They weren't even that big. Like they were the size of like a dog. Yeah. Oh, they were tiny. Yeah. But in the movies, they're kind of they should make these things are awesome. We got to get this update because it says Teradactyl would be defensively gifted because it can fly. It would have Kevin Kiermeyer-esque range and centerfield. That should be Pete Croft Armstrong range centerfield. No, no, no, no, no, we can we can still give that to KK. Okay. He's he was he was the he was the shit. All right. In the Apatosaurus, it was tipping skills as at as many as 33 tons. The Apatosaurus is one of the largest dinosaurs of all time. Use this huge tail as a whip to deter predators, making it the rough equivalent of Prince Fielder but with better bat speed. Wow. Yeah. No shit. They're kind of taking a shot on that. Yeah. Damn. How much did that thing weigh 33 tons? That's yeah, that's kind of means. What was it like on on on measurement day? We're like, Hey, we got to measure you for the strike zone. You I mean, we literally did it like during during camp. Just went to the weight room. They had the MLB people come in. He had to like lock your legs out. You'd actually you'd you'd rather than mark you shorter than I think you are. So like a lot of egos were hurt, but at the same time like it's better. It helps you out. Yeah. I didn't want to point any fingers. I think I think Bregg been might have heard the most. Did you see that? I think he was listed as like six one or six feet and he's five nine. Listen, I'm five nine. We can't be we can't be out there telling people that were six feet tall. I don't know how you do it. I mean, he didn't he didn't need the extra two inches. The guy's got 30 playoff homers. Right. But yeah, he's not he's not six feet at all. He'd be the first to tell you that. You should just say, yeah, you know, I tricked a system. I stood in a way that made me look shorter. Yeah. So he's playing like 3d chess. Absolutely. Yeah. What I mean, yeah. I know you got to run in a minute. There's been so much fun. I got a couple last questions. So your dad grew up a Cubs fan. How is he just like text you every now and then just mean like I love you even more now because like that what a what a crazy story to have your dad is a Cubs fan and now you're the best player on the Cubs. Like that's crazy. Yeah. He's I appreciate him because he's he keeps his emotions to himself like he was geeking when I got traded. He was I was rehabbing in Florida and he was in town him and my mom just to visit and I so like I found out in the car on the way to lunch and they had already been there. So I think my dad like he excused himself from the table right before I got there and like had a little moment for himself. And I think that's if I that's how I'll I'll put the last few years. Right. It's just that like he I don't think I think he knows I don't I don't want it to be anything bigger than like I'm just if I was a national I'd hope you'd feel the same way. Right. But you know deep down. But I think I think deep down he's he's having a really good time. Yeah. Like you have siblings right? No. Oh, you don't have. I was gonna say you're you're the favorite child. You're the favorite. I mean that would have been easy one. Yeah. Yeah. Only and favorite. Um and it also was crazy like the seren like I want to say serendipity. But hobby bias you get traded for hobby bias. Hobby bias was maybe the most electric cub in the like you know that stretch. Absolutely. And then you're the most electric cub. And it's like it's just so cool. And it's like if you had those moments where like I watched the world series with my dad I watched hobby bias and then I got traded for him to the cups. Yeah. Yeah. Um. Yeah. That I I yeah. I don't know how to talk about it really because it's crazy because it is crazy. That was my favorite player. Yeah. That was my favorite player by far. I I remember trying to hit like him in the cage. I remember um. Ah god. I remember just I like him. Yeah. Yeah. I remember his first homer and cures like he just he was the most exciting thing to ever happen to my childhood probably because I was just I was all about sports and um. I did not believe it when when I found out really um. But yeah, I got to meet him last year. I got to say thank you for just existing because that's that's why I'm here now. Yeah. Um. That guy was the shit like he was he was the coolest. I don't love like baseball tattoos but if anybody's gonna have the MLB logo on their neck. Yeah. His love for the game. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I didn't get it before he got to major league baseball. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, he did all right last couple questions First one can you put on the headphones real quick so I have a question for Pete that is related to Max our producer Max a really good baseball player. He was the Matt stairs real CAA played at Hofstra. Oh, no big deal. We went and did We went and did batting practice at Riggly He was like what maybe like eight feet from going out. He's a left when was blowing in the wind was blowing it Do you have any tips for him to hit a home wrong? I think it was 20 miles an hour in from from right Yeah, it's a day that I ate the sunflower seed. You said what did you think by the way when you saw that clip? We like that's kind of weird. No, I kind of thought that that was some shit that I would do. Yeah, it's respect Yeah, and I and by the way you said at least it wasn't my dip. I would take your dip So I wouldn't let you I've been eating grass at every cool stadium that we go to like just one piece of grass to like I need to tiger stadium like and defali and LSU eight that grass Riggly grass is I think it's the tastiest This is the first I'm hearing of this you've been doing this. Yeah, yeah, I've noticed it. You just I've noticed it That's pretty that's pretty good. It's really fucked up when we go to synthetic fields. Yeah, I try Yeah, but I eat it and then I go to the bathroom. Have you done any soccer fields yet? I don't know that I've done a soccer field grass. That is good grass. Good grass. But it's done golf courses He does every golf course. Yeah. Yeah, I think I think Riggly field has the tastiest grass at the stadium that I've been shot out Dan Kiermeyer actually Kevin. Yes, give the brother a shot out ground screw. All right, Max. What's up? Max? Yeah, get help max out All right, if when the wind's blowing in you got two choices and it's to go at either scoreboard because it just blocks the wind Wind could be blowing in 40 and if you hit it low enough at the left field scoreboard It's gonna go out if you hit it Low enough at the right field scoreboard. It's gonna go out That's good. I was just trying to go down the line. That's a good tip. Yeah, you just got a yank, bro It's it's when it when the wind's blowing in you just went in doubt. You got a yank. Yeah, you were like I liked that All right, and then last question rowback question r. H. O. B. C. K. dot com promo code take 20% off your first purchase Qzips polos hoodies jogger shorts rowback dot com Zach. You ready? How are you doing today? I did have a quick question. That's cool to you So when we're sitting in the stand as fans, we see you go y'all absolutely yard it wriggly We know that's got to be an insane feeling for you, but population percentage wise none of us are gonna experience that very minimal Some guys get close like eight ten feet, but is there a common man's feeling you can closely compare it to Yeah I would say I would say like Like making an eagle and in three perfect shots, okay I think I related to that because like I'm I'm grinding my ass off trying to play golf, you know like that's Some rewarding. It's just like that's some rewarding shit. So like that or or Or like when a When like a dog really likes you and the owner said that they weren't they don't like anybody. Yeah, I like that You know, yeah, that's a good one feeling. I was gonna say like the hitting like the last shot and beer pong twice We're in the game. That feels good sure. Yeah Yeah, no rebuttal. Yeah, no rebuttal feels good. You feel like a man in that moment. Yeah Maybe like a real life 2k green bean like you hit that perfect three On 2k. Yeah, yeah, okay. I Like my dog one though. I think the dog one is relatable. Yeah, where's like all this dog's not friendly It's like just licking just like loving you and just nuzzling up. Yeah, my buddy's uncle had like a rotwiler puppy and he was freaking huge and He kind of had him as like a guard dog so he'd always be leached up out out in the backyard and he was like you can go Like look at him if you want and I was like no, I got this and Next thing you know like I can't you can't you can't get rid of me. I can't get rid of him and I would say it's like that It's a great feeling. That's a great feeling. Can you bat flip after that? Like how can I walk it off? Yeah, maybe a bone for the dog. Yeah flip a bone. Yeah, treat sent to the moon Yeah, or you just or you just walk off and and player me and my boys always talked about if we had like one song to have like a Like a walking montage in a movie or something like what would it be? I would just start playing that song. Yeah, just walk off all cool. Yeah, I don't I don't know what mine would be But if you could have like one song in like a movie montage of like The shits blowing up behind you and you're walking off in slow-mo like what would that song be? That's a conversation me I've had a lot. That's a good Mount Rushmore. Yeah, we should do it. We'll do it freeberg. That's good freeberg freeberg is yeah, it's probably a Pretty popular choice. Yeah, I like that one. It's a good one. Well, Pete. Thank you so much for coming in man Mass time. I'm on the front lines. I hope you know. I hope you see me on the front lines. I do It sucks because I do have to get like we do we do it every now and then but I have to get a little dirty And I have to I have to slander, but that's fine We sometimes you got a slander when you're in an MVP race, you know You got to just you just got to go out and just just start batting. We got to do some negative, you know publicity I'll tell you that I appreciate that behind the scene. Yeah You cannot condone it. No, I actually feel like so I love getting in like a season long debate and just like I'll just when I'm bored I'll just fire it up and be like here's some PCA stats here's some show hey stats like debate me Like come on. Let's go internet get you off man. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, and hopefully we win the debate, but yeah, you're the man. Thanks so much man. Appreciate it. 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It's actually I got a little teary-eyed reading through the table of contents and being like why the fuck did any of these people like agree to do this It's pretty damn cool So thank you. Would you say this is the dumbest book you will be part of? Uh No No, I don't think that I I well there's a few things I have to say of what you just said right there First of all, it was publicly shamed Into writing the forward to your book because it was about a year ago. Yeah I think we had the Bears week one against the Vikings and I came to your studio and you basically on the air or Whatever the internet asked me if I would write the forward now I'm put them in a saying no It takes an hour Maybe Maybe not that long and so I did it. I'm glad I did it No, it's not the dumbest book that that I could be associated with I'm excited to do it and the answer to your question is why would any of these people Uh agree to do any of this because we don't want you to pricks to turn on us true We're terrible cut. Yeah, it's it's like you know, I'm keeping you close So I can do a little bit of work. Yeah to keep you guys on my side if you're there and uh, you know We just go forward in life. That's actually I mean it's totally fair Like like one hour of your time to to get us to not turn on you uh and attack you like that's a good trait I think it is. I mean, I I think you make trades in life. You're constantly bartering and the one thing that I have Uh to barter with with you guys is my time and I gave you an hour or so uh, and Tell me the name of your Ghostwriter or we allowed to say yeah, yeah, yeah, Matthew is Really talented. Yes, and so I I actually dictated all of this Into my notes. I wrote I wrote a page and then I said you know what this is too slow I don't want to give this much time and I dictated it into my voice notes Senate to him he Crafted it. I recrafted it. That's what came out in the wash. He's fantastic. I'm actually because it's him I'm very excited to read this book and uh and get kind of a peek behind the curtain even more With with the two of you. Yeah, yeah, well that we appreciate it Joe. Thank you very much for your time time and for doing that means a lot also because we can put your name on the cover and that's our that's our trick like to everybody out there that's thinking about writing a book you should just network until you have people that are in your circle that you can ask to write your own book for you under threat of turning on them and turning their lives into an online hell afterwards. That's the best way to write a book. If you roll the tape backward the last person I wrote a forward for in their book is already lying. So I went from the debacle on HBO with the Jill Bucks slash Arty Langshoe. It was canceled after nine minutes to then getting to have a friendship and relationship with Arty who's fantastic. I knew he would be. He's got his demons in there well documented but he asked me that that's how far we got in our relationship to where he said well I'm coming out with my second book. Would you write the forward in the answer was obviously yes. So it goes Arty Lang then you guys and then I don't know who could possibly be next. I mean when we do it a sequel to our book you'll have to do that as well pardon my book again. And we'll write the forward to your book if you want us to. Yeah absolutely. That's an open invite to you. You write like one every one. Yeah yeah every two years you write one. I actually have a question about the and we asked we did an episode way back where we talked about the Joe the famous Joe Buck episode we had Arty Lang on we had Paul Rudd on. So in this book in our book we talk about our pursuit for TV and we were on ESPN for one day one episode when you were getting pitched the Joe Buck show was it was it in your head you're like yeah you know what I do need a TV show because we going through the process of writing this book we kind of revisit it and then like man we're restupid to think yeah you know what we do need a TV show like that's what we do like that's that's what yeah we need to pardon my take show like that's how it works with did you have something similar where you're like yeah I need a Joe Buck show of course I so Ross Greenberg forever had been talking to me about wanting to do a show and Bob Costas had stepped away and so it was an obvious you know I was filling in for his show I wanted to take it in a very different direction and so when I was you know in talks with Ross it's got to be edgy it's got to be fun it's got to be funny I mean I know how you guys do stuff at HBO and it's very high brow and it's very well done and you know you kind of set the standard for a lot of these magazine shows certainly with sports would would you be open to doing that and the answer was yes and and in fact I was the one that that was adamant about getting already on the show because I was a big stern fan and I knew he was a big sports fan Rudd was a longtime friend and then he kind of wrangled Sudakis onto that David Kepner was a part of this kind of last comedy piece it was a great lineup Sudakis wasn't really Sudakis yet and you know Rudd was Rudd and then I said we got to have already on to have some edge and and the story is old by now but I went into him before I met him before we walked out on stage and I said hey man I want you to let me have it I want you to come at me I want you to have fun I want this to be just kind of nuts here at the end little did I know as he admitted in that book that I wrote the forward to that he snorted, viked in and drank Jack Daniels before he came out there I wasn't aware of that minor detail yes and then it kind of went off the rails but I'm glad I did it and when when that whole thing came down I remember being on that we probably have done this probably this is the exact interview we've done before but I remember walking off the stage and it was just kind of like it was just like a pregnant pause kind of it was hanging in the air now what because that was like the end of it's like all right goodnight see you in a month or whatever we're doing the next one and and then I went right out and talked to the writers who were going to review it and the guy from the New York Times said to me uh Joe do you feel like you just got cornhold on national TV at the time the time yeah cornholds use the word cornhold I swear to god I can roll that back in my mind and then the New York the New York Post guy the stringer for the New York Post said something like uh is TMZ really your favorite website I was like we're done we're not like this this is not going anywhere good uh but but at the time I thought you know this were on Fox and it was David Hill in charge he would have kind of charged out there like PT Barnum like this is what you're gonna get on the show you never to like embrace it and and to me it was like everybody ran and hid which I hated yeah and that's why I I I basically Tom Cruise jumped on the couch saying Arty Lang is coming on the second show or I'm not I'm not doing it if already doesn't come on and he did our cold open I had to talk to the head of HBO Richard Pleppler is a long boring story but I had to basically say look I've already got a day job I'm already I'm being hit by Arty Lang jokes every time I walk into stadium let let let them come back on yeah let's have fun with it yeah and and and and and and if you don't let me do it then I'm I'm just gonna quit and they let me do it I'm glad they did and uh I I struck up a friendship with Arty who will apologize and I said no need I told you to do that and and we all go forward in life but I I'm glad I did all that yeah I feel like you learned there's no way you guys don't look back at that time on on that show and go there's something you learned yeah and beyond just the you know we shouldn't have done the show on ESPN or whatever it was there's something that you took from that that made you better today and and there's no doubt that applies to to HBO and me for sure yeah I 100% and at that New York Times reporter had done their job they would know that TMZ is not your favorite website already said what your favorite website was yeah yeah I don't know if it was C or the D word but idea I it was it was one of the two but it was like okay this is what we're doing got it yeah I think I'm good I got to go to the bathroom I've been out here for an hour and a half yeah it was great but you said in we talked about it in the book like the the I have I have a great job outside of this I don't need the you know like it this doesn't make or break me that was the big lesson we learned when we did the TV show it's like oh shit like what people gonna listen to us whether we have a TV show or not why do we why do we care about this anymore yeah and yeah and I think you know for me had had all that transfer if you go I think that was like 2009 somewhere in there if it's 2026 and that train I might be in a different place with already lying but I sat there in my mind every time the director great director Mark Peyton shot me I can just I wasn't when I watch it I can watch my mind turning like do I jump down in here with him because I'm gonna lose yeah but I'm gonna try to stand up for myself or am I just gonna sit here and grin and and fake smile and just hope it ends soon and you know and and you just I think I would maybe do it differently today maybe I would I don't know but I I think you you learn from all that stuff and I'm not saying this is true for every TV show but I have noticed over the years that a lot of even the most successful TV shows they end up hating doing television towards the end of the run if not like as they're actively putting out great TV so like sign felt walked away when it was the biggest show on earth shapel walked away bigger show on earth the game of throwing people hated doing that show by the end of it by that last season and it kind of showed at the end I just think that what we learn from is that we have a great thing going right here do the podcast and so why we don't have to do a TV show just because that might be on you know in in airports or in gyms across the country we've got a great thing here let's not strive for what we have the grass is not it's usually not greener than it is in front of you so and it's a different world now too I mean that that when you do that when when you do that when I did the HBO thing that's a long time ago now and the media has evolved and you're doing a TV show you're you're already doing it so you know it's if you want to go mainstream I was excited to be on HBO I would still be excited to be on HBO I love a lot of those guys are still really good friends of mine and and the frustrating thing for me was after all that thing came out or that that kind of that debacle happened I asked them about the ratings and like oh no the ratings were really good and actually the rating went up during the hour and I said well can you put that out yeah right they said no we don't really talk ratings at HBO I was like well can you make an exception then we can we have one thing in our column that's good and the answer was no so I I would do it again it would be different but I would kind of want to do the same show weirdly enough and and I kind of like that stuff even though it probably didn't work out in my favor uh speaking of ratings wait who has the soup all this year we do oh really oh yes oh I haven't heard you guys hadn't told us uh yeah I assume that's why you were saying are you are you NFL merchant when it comes to ratings do you you know You basically just get to ride the NFL's for all your ratings. Do you open up the ratings? You see the ratings the next day and you're like did it again? Joe Buck, my name's football, another hit. Yeah, because I know they're all tuning in to go what's he going to say? Honey, gather, get the kids, it's Joe and Troy. No, I mean, do I look? Yeah, I want my bosses to be happy. I want the people who pay a lot of money to the NFL to be thrilled that we got a great rating. But I'm also not of the mind of like, you know, I affect that. I think the only time maybe if the game is a blowout and we're having fun, a few people may stick around, but maybe not. So I don't, I am not delusion. Are you, are you, you've called NFL for a very long time. I actually saw, I think it's the longest my 33rd year. I, I saw the longest punt return, I think it was, uh, was a saints game from like late 90s. And it was you on the call and I was like, oh my God, that's Joe Buck. Because you've voiced a little higher. And it's just like holy shit. He's been calling this for a long time. He's 30, the 25th. But yeah, I was just out of the world. Yeah, is it, uh, are you shocked at all like that? The NFL, do you ever think it was going to get to this level? Where it's like, it's just when they, when they do the top, 100 shows of the year. It's like, maybe there's a one Olympic event and, and the Oscars. And then 90, 98, it's, yeah, it's between like 88, the only gap is like, there's 12 shows right literally that aren't football related. Yeah. Crazy. Yeah. Well, no, I'm, I'm glad it's gotten to this point. I think if it was at this point back then, the growth has been exponential, been incredible. I think if it was at this point back then, I probably wouldn't have gotten a chance at 25 to do a major network football. When that call went out and David Hill and then Goran, you know, they paid all that money for some role in Madden, they had a great number two team Stockton and Mad Millen. And then it was like, hey, we're going to give a bunch of people who we haven't seen on Network TV forever a shot. Are there any famous announcers who have kids? And it was like me and Kenny Albert and Brennan and Brandon and Kevin Harlan and I mean, it was, it was kind of crazy that all of us had a dad who was involved somehow already in either broadcasting or football media in the case of Kevin Harlan. But we all showed up there like, what in the hell are we doing here? Just figured this out together. I was with Tim Green, who was just off the field and it never done any TV. I had never done football. But we fumbled our way through it, so to speak, the first couple of years and then you learn and grow just like we were taught, that's what this business is all about is just kind of trial and error and fake it till you make it. I don't know if you've seen any of the like uploaded footage from the 1999, 2000 NFL seasons online, but there's a conspiracy out there. They make the broadcast look way worse than it was at the time. If you look up a 1999 NFL game, it looks like it's straight out of the 70s, the way that you see it on YouTube. I watched those games are massive. It looks grainy. Yeah. Yeah. But I watched those games. They look good at the time. It did not look like that. They're trying to make us feel old by having like, maybe misremembering as a famous person once said, I, yeah, I think, you know, with high definition TV, I remember being in telecom classes. If you go back to my college days, like back in 89 and 90 and they're like, man, when this high definition TV comes and they had the, they had the technology, they were just worried about rolling it out because it would force everybody at the time who would force everybody to buy new hardware, new TVs and it was like, it's going to, this is going to be the way of the future, but it is. I assume that in the late 90s, we were not in high definition,ville, it, that's what it looked like. That's how different our brains and eyes are now watching games with this crystal clear picture like you're there. I do think that's kind of how it looked, I'm sorry to say. So I was looking at the ratings from the World Cup this summer, were you rooting against the World Cup ratings? So you could say like one night football is still king. Even boy, I never thought of it in those terms. I would be. If I were you. I'd be right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You were waiting on the wire. You put the words on for Kielsen. Soccer, am I supposed to say soccer and football against football, I, no, I don't, that is one where I do not, you didn't think about soccer at all like that. Yeah. I got swept up in the, in the US, Mania, until it came crashing down with a thud in that final, in that final effort. But yeah, I was sitting in front of my TV night after night with my eight year old boys watching soccer, which is something that I had never done prior. So I was, I was a new fan, definitely. And now we're back to real football, thankfully, Monday night preseason football, that's, that's what we're back for. Can't wait to see it. You just showed the death truck that you had there. It made me wonder, is it harder to call preseason games than it is to call regular season game because you have to know the third, fourth stringers? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm not going to act like, you know, as I go through this list, if you get down to the third string offensive lineman, that's somebody that I know, every twist and turn of their career to this point, I think the fun of it is being able to kind of pull back and look at the league at times, look at the division that they're in. We've got an AFC South team playing an AFC West team, I'm sure at some point, we're going to look at Kansas City in Denver, who we have week one in the regular season schedule. I think it affords you it's almost like doing a baseball all-star game. There's not a ton of strategy involved in this game. We're going to be doing on Thursday night. So you start looking for individual performances and everybody will stand out and then you kind of ride that for a little bit, but then you go back to, okay, we're going to see my homes and next week one, how good Kansas City going to be, how good Denver going to be, and you can kind of take your focus off the game a little bit and if somebody jumps up, you cover them and then you go back to what you're doing. So there's a lot of names, a lot of numbers, you hope to get most of them right and then you just try to have fun for three hours and point your way toward week one. Can I ask you a sports jeopardy question? Yeah, I'll get it wrong. No, no, no, I meant about sports jeopardy that you hosted. Oh, yeah, yeah, go, yeah, sure. Why did some of those people sign up? You have to ask them, I have no idea. That was some, I watched a couple episodes and there were, there were some people didn't know anything about sports. Well, I think I do think this in their defense and I would probably have been in the same category. I think the hard thing about jeopardy, it's like doing a crossword puzzle. You have to get into what they're really asking, you have to, you have to know kind of, you know, the rhythm of the clue and not a question that I give. If you sat down in a library with a number two lead pencil, you could probably come up with the answer, but when you're on the, on the stage and you have to hit the buzzer, if they hit the buzzer before I stop reading the clue, it, it freezes them out and they have to reset. So they're doing all that. They're listening to me as I hack my way through the clue. They're reading it on the board and I think it's, it's easy to get lost in what the clues actually asking for. I don't tell you if you could do it without the pressure, you could probably come up with the right answer. Yeah. I'm not a trivia. I'm not a trivia master by any stretch. It's terrible. It's terrible. But there was a couple like, it made me feel smart. Like I think there was one moment where it was just a picture of Mark Davis and it was like, who is this? And I was like, yeah, I know Mark Davis. You can spot that haircut from a mile away, so I felt like a genius. I was like, yeah, this is awesome. I'm so smart. Yes. I agree. And by the way, when I was reading the clue, I didn't realize what was on the screen because the board is kind of around. So there were some pictures to kind of help you along. Yeah. That I wasn't even aware we're up when I was doing it. But I think the fun of it, I hope, is that the people who didn't do really well had fun and laughed at themselves and laughed at each other and I thought there was fun to be had between the contestants. Definitely. Definitely. So, I mean, if you can't get the right answer, have fun giving the wrong answer. And I felt like most people did that. Yeah, it's just like when we do a trivia leak here, like I hated doing it because I was like, would get things wrong and just be like, how did I get that wrong? Like, how did I not know that? And then you think of it later and you're like, God damn it, I'm so stupid. Can you do it? A question from me, since I did this and I wrote the forward to your book. Sure. It wasn't that hard of you to write that. Let's just. No, you dictate. You dictate. You call up our ghost writer, you said, have that dictate. Yeah, yeah. I mean, took 15 minutes for you to jump on the word dictate, I can't believe it. But on on your Instagram. Yeah, when whoever that is is going around asking like Go Can you put the friggin answer up in the thing? So I don't have to watch the whole god That's a trick and then you got to go in the comments to find the answer You off Joe. I'll send you one that's every one of them. There's not one that doesn't send me There's only a couple that I've never gotten right. I'll send you on this gonna trigger you Joe There was I think it was last week he went around chaps went around who's like what state is it? It was Missouri and like half the office didn't get it Yeah, just see I'm a Missouri like either we're we're we're just getting so bad outline of the state the Missouri and they're like I don't know I Mean the smartest group aren't you in Illinois? Yeah, no, no, listen I it doesn't make sense, but there is a it's very funny because I think there's a divide It's about the 25 year old and lower mark in this office. I don't think they ever took a geography class Like straight up did not take a geography class well straight up I didn't either and I went to a little prep school in St. Louis and I remember when my daughter My 27 year old was going through and she did geography at geography class like I Didn't know any of this and it's not just the map the United States. It's around the world I was blown away by what's taught in geography class We never had it in the roaring 80s. I never had a geography class and if you gave me all the states in the Northeast And the states in the northwest I Would struggle middle of the country? I think I could do yeah I was thinking about that the other day because I don't think I took a geography class either I think if you know geography, it's mostly people that just like are interested maps and Spend their own time looking at a map. Yeah, now Michaels that's that is so when the earthquake world series happened Part of the thing was he he's brilliant at knowing he's a map guy and And maybe that's good for the brain. I hope that I'm half as good as El Michaels when I'm at that stage of my career, which I will not be my career will be over by then But I he's a map guy. I I've never heard of a map guy other than maybe Magellan Oh my god, but Al Michaels in Magellan Yeah, I was like sit around study and maps. I just know that's I know That's when Netflix was created. I mean the amount of people in the office that guess Africa as a country in those things That's always concerned for me. It's every time. Yeah, yeah that Don't that kind of bleeds over from geography to like a an understanding of the world. Yes, correct Yes, there's that there's that line of like I'm bad at geography. It's like no No, do you even know like the seven continents? Yeah, yeah, I think that's fair. Yeah Truby's hard. It's hard. It's hard. It's hard. It's a lesson to be learned is never go on a trivia show. Yeah, you're up. Okay Truby is hard. Truby is hard. I got some of Antarctica. Yeah Yeah, so I can't wait to see what awful announcing Coles out of this. It's gonna be I can't wait to click on that website and see a recap of my HBO show I know I think it's like PFT said it's when you told our ghost writer how's my dictate? No, that's it. That's that's my big take away. Yes, and he was like he was really good, Joe And you're like your damn right it was Your goddamn right it was You want talking if felt just like a little bit of NFL this season? Because you do have to do a touch Yeah, is it Joe is this like have you thought because you mentioned like you're not gonna be doing this when you're as old as Al have you thought about retired like when what's the goal age for you to walk away? No, I have so many financial obligations to family and friends. I'm not stopping any time We're stuck with you. I love it. It's a really good because like I have kind of the only only motivating thing in my life is to Satisfied the needs of family and friends. Yeah, I therefore they will shove me out of the door and on to an airplane to go someone listen I'm not in in the book. I did my 10 gambling rules But like when people like hey when you get to slow down It's like when I have enough money that I can lose it all and then die. So like I don't want to I don't want to lose it all Like you know, you're sure I'm gonna lose it. Well cuz I'm it's I'm a losing gambler like what do you mean? I'm a losing gambler so gambling yeah, I want to have enough money so that I can I can basically like my last bet We'll be like on my deathbed. It's like there we go. Did it perfectly that would be an amazing Who an example? Preparation is a life-winding. Yeah, it's it's it's a life-lived correctly where it's like all right There it is. We just go out the counters on zero zero's all around the Texans didn't cover in that preseason game. Yeah That would be perfect. That would be perfect. How much a gambling debt do you have right now? How long is that gonna take for zero? Thank God. All right. Good to know. That's not my problem. My problem is hair plugs. Yeah, yeah Those are expensive. I know we know we read your book. That's not it. That's not a cheap endeavor Yeah, so I know in my next life I'm gonna come back as a hair transplant surgeon. Yeah, you should go to turkey with our guys We send it we send a bunch of Guys from our office to turkey every single year Christmas present to your staff. Yeah, I know Joe. I got I got a hack for it because I got him too You should get the people that do him to pay you to do him if you say where you got him from I yeah, I've kind of I've got dabbled in that my guys parsa moe happy out in in in California He's fantastic. Is Joe isn't that so funny that we've known each other long enough now that pft has we started this whole relationship of making fun of your hair plugs And now he has hair plugs well We started this whole relationship with you making fun of the size of my forehead so then I then took Measures to try and Drink my Don't blame your addiction on big cat. That's not fair and also sometimes I think you're winking at me could affirm that I can't you know, like you know that brief that brief second when you welcome everyone in and you kind of give a little smirk I think you know we've all we've come at the same time before we we you smile while I've been taking a picture of you Okay We're sicked off. We're sicked off. We are synced up. We were sympathico with your Roll up picture taking and my what was it snark with my my wink? Yeah, you wink you wink at me you wink at me every now So castic. What was the work my off my off-putting wink? Yeah. No, you have a nice little you have a nice little like Hey, no, I know. I know. Yeah, yeah, welcome Welcome, Joe. Can we make one one quick wager with you on this year's football season because you will be calling the Super Bowl on ESPN What yep, it's a fact if the bears or the commanders make the Super Bowl can we can we give you a line to sneak in Yes, oh, okay, okay, I love that. It's gotta be but but okay, but it can't be Cuz I was good Yeah, sure then you're like whoa wait a second Kids we use it. I Know let me I'm gonna get it's all within the same Interview it's gotta be something that's normal that did I yeah, like we say like let's say the bears are playing the chargers And the bears are winning you got to be like the bears are effing the chargers in the b-cheeks Or co-holy That's a word that's there and dear what about um, okay, so the commanders are the Super Bowl and I love you, Joe. I love these and yes right away that you're like hold on a second wait a second And you court cross-comers scores a touchdown when you say I was talking about you say you're talking to oh my god They're gonna make me calm But it's command it calm. C-o-m-m No, okay. All right. We'll workshop it. Hey listen if we if that if that day comes and it goes right or come up with some Some possibility. Um, all right, Joe last question rollback question our H-O-B-A-C-K dot com promo code take 20% off your first purchase Zips polo's hoodies jogger shorts rowback dot com promo code take Uh, go buy part of my book. I honestly like Joe Buck might be the you have to do that so the people don't jump through ads. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Well, no, it's always a robot question. I got a great question final question really most important rollback is yeah Yeah, but no, I would say don't act like the NFL doesn't do that. Yeah, you guys are you guys gonna have like a label like etna on the side of the blue India this year probably hey, go see this movie real quick. All right, and back to first down Yeah, come on man, but no it's just a Minions game our relationship Minions game, right? I love the Minions game Is it good? Our relationship with Joe though. I think it's like the pit of me if I was like hey how would you describe how this stupid show is kind of come together It's like Joe Buck is is is like a up there with the stories of guy who had no he you had no reason to come on this show Came on the show. Let us be idiots with you. You got a you know A little bump from it. We got a huge bump from it, and then we became friends, and it's like that's why this show works because we all got a kind of fun together - Yeah, I agree. And it was eye opening to me. And as I've told you every time I come on, everywhere I go in this country, people come up to me and mention you guys. And hey, I love you coming on the show. And it's awesome. So it was actually my honor. I am going to Barnes and Noble when we disconnect from this. - To sign what? - I'm just gonna sit outside all day. And I'm gonna welcome everybody to Barnes and Noble. I'm gonna buy a whole case of these things and hand them out. - You should sign a couple. That would be funny. - I think they go to Barnes and Noble's and I actually be like, "Hey, anyone who wants a part in my book in Colorado signed by me, Joe Buck." That would be sick. - Yeah, that would be not my style, but I just to force my autograph on people. - Yeah, no, I appreciate it. In fact, I give you or anybody else that's on the cover of this book, you can anytime you see the book, if it's an airport, sign your name. - Yep, that's fine. - Yep. - I've done that. When my book was out, I'd go in and sign them. - That's a baller move. - Got arrested, wrestled to the ground one time. - I love it. - All right, Zach, real quick. Last question, give it to Joe. - How you doing, Joe? Did have a quick question. If you were to get back in your own personal book game, what are your thoughts on Big Hat and PFT right in the forward? - Oh god, yeah. - You don't want that. - No, I know I do. That would be more my audience. I think that's a great question. So if I do, which I won't, would you commit right now to writing the forward to my second book called Lucky Bastard Part II, still lucky and still a bastard? - Oh yeah, all right, four words. I'm gonna say yes, but in Spanish. - All right. - Or in Spanish. To say, "Ola." - That's it. - The forward is in Spanish. - That's the way back I get. - I don't know how I put into this. - Don't they stop, that's El Bonio. - El Bonio. - Don't they stop, don't they stop. - El Bonio is the library. - So for your next book, how I kicked my addiction to hair plugs and then relapsed, the Joe Buck story. - Okay. - Yeah. I haven't had me since I. - Wink kicked my. - He's winking out of us right now if you're listening. He's winking. - He's doing the wink. - I know the wink. - The hair does look good, Joe. - Yeah, look at that. - It's supple. - It's fucking great hands through it. - Yeah, you could lose some. You could actually afford to lose some. - No, that's how it starts. That's how it starts. - Then your back is just a big hamster wheel of hair. - Joe, you're the best. Thank you for everything, seriously, truly. - We love you. - We love you. - We love you guys. - We can't wait to get it back. Congrats on the book. That's a big deal. - Thank you. - Here's the thing. I was a New York Times best seller because of the weird algorithm that they do. - Yeah. - I don't really know that that translates to actual financial success. - But it's cool to say. - Yeah. Like you guys were hitting me with the watch for the ratings. Are you guys gonna be having bad? - We'll guarantee it. - Yeah, I hope the Dr. Jill Biden's book doesn't sell a single copy this week. - No, no, we'll guarantee it. We're gonna be New York Times best. - I'm boycotting it as a matter of fact. And if we're not, we'll just do like update to the book and we'll call it part of my book "A New York Times Best Seller." - And then it will. - Just misspelled time. - Yeah. - T-Y-M-E-S. - We're in apostrophe. - Yeah, we're good. We got it. - All right, Jill. - You're the best. - Thanks, Jill. - Thanks, Jill. - Jill Buck was brought to you by her great friends over at Twisted T. It's officially the dog days of summer. Twisted T is our go-to for cooling down when it's heating up. When it's hot, you know I'm reaching for something ice cold. Twisted T. It's the perfect drink for late days, beach days, backyard grilling. All the good stuff Summer has to offer. Twisted T is a refreshing hard iced tea made with real brood tea, 5% alcohol. 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Also, why don't you guys have an office dog? Did Max shut that down? Thank you, pod God. I have a dog. There's a lot of people on the show that don't that don't have a dog. Mike Vick has about the office Mike Vick had lots of dogs, Max. I my dog does not check my check my dog is very safe office dog would be a terrible idea. Yeah. That would be it would be good to pet like the day one, the office dog would be great. And then you'd have to figure out like who's actually taking care of you. Yeah. So we could barely we had to give away our office turtle. Yeah. Well, that's not true. That was well taken care of. Should we get a goal this year? I mean, I think you just read, you wrote the chapter on Larry and you were like, what if we have another one? There's never going to be another Larry because you keep a goldfish alive. A goldfish? How about a dog instead? Dog, dog. I'm not sure. I'll say it. I don't know about it. I would love to keep it. Let's see how a goldfish does for a couple of weeks. Let's talk about it later. Okay. But it would be nice. It would be nice. Hey, Danielle, Erica Henrietta, Maxine, Z and Mimi, Mimi is my grandmother's name. Okay. Who is your favorite recurring guest who is not featured in the book? Oh, like that didn't write a chapter. Julian. Yeah. Who's up there? Greg Olson, maybe. Stanford Steve. Yeah. Calforber. Calforber. Peacroms. Tramazzula. Yeah. Mazzula chapter would have been good. Yeah. I mean, we couldn't do a million because it would have just made the book like 7,000 pages long. But yeah, there's definitely some people. I was like, shit. We should have had them write a chapter. Oh, Rick Patino. Just a sentence. Booger. We should have had Booger write a chapter. Yeah. Next book. Stavvy. Stavvy would have. Yeah. It would have been good. Eye parentheses. We need the full 24 hour rundown of the LSU Championship title game, How the Coach O and Burrow interviews somehow still happened all time rally from everyone involved. Ten time in A.W.L. Andre from Nashville. Okay. 2000. What? 2019. 20. Technically. Yeah. We LSU won. I think we all bit a lot on LSU to win. We went out. We started. We went and saw our friend Derek, who was coach O's right hand man. And he at that point was like, I think he said to me, he's like, hey, I'll text you if this can actually happen. And I was like, there's just no way. And then we went out all night. At one point, we were at a bar and it was like us, Jay Cutler and Anthony Rizzo all hanging out. And Stanford Steve. And Stanford Steve. Yeah. Yeah. And Chris Long. Yes. I tried to wrestle Stanford Steve. Yeah. I think go well. And then I want to say we got home around like two or three in the morning. And I think I I set an alarm for like super early. And I woke up and then Derek texted was like, it's a go. You got to be here at this time and we can do it. And it was just like mad dash. We carried this stuff there, right? And it was just a it was a we were so drunk. We were still so drunk. I think eight in the morning, I think I at some point hung out with maybe Steve Levy that night. Yeah, he was in one of the bars. He was there. Then I remember I was at that bar with Chris Long and Stanford Steve and Rizzo and Tommy Alter was there. Yeah. And I think being Tommy, we're like, it's time to go. I recall that being about four a.m. Yeah. And I looked at my phone and I think that's when you texted interview. Oh, so it was happened. Yeah, it might have happened at the end of the night. out before I went to sleep, but it was, I, I want to say it was like maybe three hours of sleep. Yeah. Fully drunk. And then carrying our stuff to the hotel and dirt, who's the man, absolute legend. Was basically like, here's the room, set up our bus leaves at nine. You guys get, you know, Joe will come in at eight, Coach, Joe will come in at eight 20. That's what I got for you. And we're like, we can make it work. And yeah, it was, I mean, to get, that was a big pinch B moment too, where it's like, these guys just won a national title and we're getting to interview them and we're fucked up. Yeah. Very cool. And then I remember when, when Coach O got done with the interview, he walked down to the hole and started screaming at everybody like, you're going miss the bus. Get on the bus. He was angry at his team, like, hey, like Coach, I don't think they care right now. They, they just won. And then later on, we were doing the podcast in one of the hotel rooms. I remember puking during that. I was so hungover. Throwing up during the podcast that we did afterwards. Yep. It was a good time. It was a great time. I don't think that we'd be able to pull that off right now, not in terms of, like, getting the interviews the day after, but being able to rally from 4 a.m to, like, to functioning at 7 a.m. Yeah. That's a young man's game. All right. Last one. What's up, boys? Have you ever seriously considered lowering the number of shows every week? I know it's something AWOs like me always look forward to knowing. I'll always have Monday, Wednesday, Friday. But you can't deny that when most people get your amount of success, they would want to ease off the gas a little bit. Thanks, boys. Love you guys. I mean, we kind of, it's not the same. But during football season, we, we do no guests on Mondays. So it's like that's less guests that we have to do and is a little bit of a lighter load for us. We've, we've toyed with maybe doing, and maybe AWOs can, can tell us what they think. But like, we had no guests on Friday. I think people really liked that episode. I've toyed with maybe doing no guests Mondays in the off season as well. Obviously, there's certain what like masters SVP, you know, selection Sunday, John, like there's certain Mondays that's like, we're still going to have a guest. But maybe being like, hey, let's have some, some more looser episodes on Monday. But I don't, I've never felt like it's like, oh my god, this is too much. Yeah. I've never felt like a fuck we ran out of shit to talk about. If we did two episodes a week, each episode would be like four hours. Yeah, they'd be long and I'll be so long if we did two episodes a week that like that does add up. Yeah. One fewer episode a week, four fewer a month was four times 12, 48 fewer a year. Like that is it. That would be a difference in terms of like total downloads, no, we love doing it. And it's like, it doesn't, it's not to the point where it feels like it's an effort to do three episodes a week. It feels like the natural, the right amount. I also, I'll say it, it's probably a sick mindset, but I take incredible pride in the fact that like there's a lot of other shows that take like a week or two weeks or like a full month off in the summer. And we don't, I take pride in that because I think that we're a show that people, we become part of their lives Monday, Wednesday, Friday. And if we broke it for two weeks, they'd go find something else and then it'd be harder to get them back. So yeah, I take pride in that. And like, we obviously do a good job of like, you know, the Tim Woods episodes which we love doing. Dinger's only stuff like that around holidays and stuff, but yeah, I fucking love it. I love doing it. I think you guys do too, right? Yeah. All right. Good show boys. Go buy a book. Let's do numbers. Five. No. 55. No, no. Double no. Seven. Hmm. I think they're in football. See, I might do my top five quarterbacks. 63. And James always. 69. Uh. 10. I'm going to go with, uh, 70, 70, just 70, just 70, that's not it there, 70, 70 there. You know, 99. That'd be a huge lot. For Pug. For J.J. What? Shut up Pug. Oh, the Pug click. Missed Pug. 15 for J.J. I'm going to do it. 15 for J.J. Good. Talk about 69. Teaching what's coming for Pug. 90. What? Oh. 93. What more? Not even close. Not even close. Close. Oh. Oh. 59. Oh. 50. Oh. Oh. It's our goal. Happy Birthday to Bucky Irving. Happy Birthday, Kirk Cousins, Patrick Chong, Morton Anderson, the goat, uh, Kirk Herb Street, Bill Clinton. Happy Birthday to John Stamos. Oh. Also, Happy Birthday to Ethan, click me on this, I was still on how to pronounce your name, bro. But you were awesome. Happy Birthday to Mitch Trebuski. Kiss and titties. Kiss and titties. Happy Birthday to Fred Durst. Come on. Love you guys. Love you guys. Love you guys. Love you guys. Love you guys. Love you guys.