The 2026 Takie Awards Featuring Celebrity Guest Presenters, Blake Griffin, Blake Bortles, Brooks Koepka And More

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On today's part in my take presented by Draft Kings, it is the 2026 Take-E awards, and we are ready for an incredible award show, boys. We have 28 awards we're giving out. Take of the year, live of the year, part of the year, Blake of the year, and of course award winning listeners of the year. It's one of our favorite episodes we do every single summer. There's not a lot to talk about in sports, so we are giving out awards. It's the Take-E awards and it's brought to you by our friends at Chevy. Summer is in full swing. That means no schedules, no plans, just more of the good stuff. Chevy Silverado makes that possible. There's a reason Chevy is called the heartbeat of America. And the Silverado keeps that heartbeat strong. These trucks work so hard. You can chill harder. Whether that's getting out of town, heading to the lake, or just not turning around when you probably should. It's got the capability, the space, and the muscle. Everything you need for a proper summer, coolers, gear. 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It might be 11th. 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26. I think it's 11. Did we do one the first year? I think we did. We did. Yeah. But everyone says 9 time AWL. Because I don't know if we made it away that year. We had an award ceremony, but that category did not exist in year one of the day. I feel like zero of the day. And it also wasn't a full year of PMT. So I think that's year zero. I think so. I think this is the 10th. This should be the 10th. That's the 11th take-ies. But that should be like the. Max is confused. This is exactly how I expect it to take-y for zero. Yeah. How many? Okay. All right. Let's start this over. Let's embrace debate. How many years are in 10 years? 10. 10. I agree. Okay. We agree. But the 11th take-y. But it's the 11th take-y. It's the 11th take-ies. The 10th, the 10th year. And then I swear last year we were like for the 10th, for the 10th take-ies, we got to do something big. What are you talking about? This is the 11th. Oh, so we fucked up last year. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was that was that. Yeah. That was old us. Right. One year we're going to put it on a big. We're going to do a big. We're going to do a live show. And Vegas. And Vegas, we're going to get all our friends. Yeah. It's going to be so big. Yeah. We're going to sell out MSG big. The take-ies. The the-ies at the theater. Take-ies at the sphere. Yeah. No, the MSG theater. Because then we can say we sold out MSG. Got it. And we're just put in very tiny, very, very tiny font, the theater. We should just do it during darts day in the back of the real theater. That would rock. Yeah. That would rock. Before we get to the awards, we have 28 awards. We have a ton of guest presenters. Has LeBron made a decision. Zach, you said today was the day. Today could be the day we got a lot of hours left in this day, but I hear that around the league, they're saying like pretty strong. Today's the day LeBron James makes a decision. This would actually be the most annoying day for LeBron to do this because we're taping the take-ies. Yeah. I still think he's going to wait until at least the weekend. There was that thing on YouTube where the Miami Heat said they had a placeholder for a news conference, a press conference announcing LeBron James for next Monday. The Miami Heat are now looking for a new director of YouTube content after that snafu. I put it at like 75% that Barcel Sports ends up hiring the old director of content after talk talk like that. They just press the button. They press the button. So what happened with that? How's that word? Max memes. What? Diagnose. What happened? They just didn't set it to private. So there's private and there's unlisted. And public. Yeah, well, and public. They said they just put it on public. No, they put it on unlisted. It was all unlisted. But if they're once you like put something in YouTube, you can have like generic like settings that will every time you go back and will like put into certain playlists and things like that. So he put it into a playlist that was unlisted. So there's like ways to go into like their YouTube and find it through the playlist if it's unlisted. Okay, got it. I didn't know I saw someone on Twitter talking talking about it of like exactly how it's you don't know. No, I saw some that that they went into the playlist and found it. But I do know that if you put something as unlisted, not private. If it's unlisted, there is there is a way to do that because I have done that before in the past. Can we make one that says LeBron James to Barstle Sports and just have it be not private? Yeah. And just see if people find it. I have no idea how anybody would ever find it. Because it's secret. LeBron James PMT. Yeah. Yeah. Let's post that. And let's see if anyone finds it. They probably won't because they won't know. They will have no idea. He's sitting next to Hank on the couch. Yeah. There he is right there. By the way, Hank, what are you wearing? So get dressed up for the takeys. And so I got I got one of my finest outfit. Which is? It's me. Keep going. My shorts actually know where my shorts are. Shorts are. I'm wearing gym shorts. And then I have a my white four aces polo. Yeah. I have a nice blue tie and four aces hat. Who are the four aces again? Four aces. Oh, we should have done a take-y for the four aces of the year. Yeah. Dustin Johnson, Anthony Kim, Twin Thomases. Who? All right. Let's do it right now. Let's get ourselves prepped. Give us the take-y for the four aces of the year. Four aces of the year has to be Anthony Kim. Okay. Come back probably come back story of the year. Overall and all the sports coming back, quit golf, went to rehab, conquered his demons, came back, wanted to live tour. So you failed. Four aces of the year is Dustin Johnson, Anthony Kim and the twin Thomases. You can't do one ace. They're the four aces. What are the twin Thomases last names? Peter's and Dietrich. I have made the chips. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They sent me they sent me head covers. I see them every day. Wait, who's trying to actually had to stop because I had like I had one on a three with one on a seven wooden they look exactly the same. So it's like this is too confused. So it's like each ace is a different head cover. Yeah. The each Thomas. I just have a twin I have a Thomas Dietri and a Thomas Peters. Got it. Are you the only person in the world that they probably do? They one of them probably has their own. And then me. Yeah. So it's all four aces. We got to give all the four aces of the four aces of the year is all four aces. The take-y award. So we've given out. We're going to have 29 awards. Congratulations. Congratulations. This should make a head cover that's just for your driver and it's Tiger. That's good. And it's SUV. Yeah. Tiger might win an award today. We'll see it. Got no money. Before we start. So two things that happened. One. I won the 50-50 again. Congrats. Which is crazy. Unreal. I woke up to that news. So I went to bed last night. Knowing that I had to wake up for wake up are still early this morning. I woke up. I usually try to catch up on my tax from last night. I thought that I was still asleep. I thought that it was a dream because there's no chance in hell that big cat won the 50-50 again. Look at these fucking guys. What are you guys doing with your fingers up? What do you think? Good. Speak. You think it's rigged? 50-50 rigged. Why? Well, you you won the 50-50. Correct. And then Monday the big check. - Yeah. - And then Monday you sold the most amount of 50-50 tickets of all time. - Yeah. - Then Wednesday you win the 50-50 again. - Yeah. - You're gonna get another big check. - But I'm probably not gonna do the same selling thing. I'm just getting the big check this time. - You're not gonna do the thing. - No, unless they do like 75-25. Those are my demands. (laughing) - 75-25 for the people. Otherwise, I'm not gonna help. - But I do think that there's, that one of the cubs were like, if they were smart, they were like, if whenever this guy wins a 50-50, charity gets a lot more money. - This is not the worst thing. - So, yeah. - And I also just give it all to charity. - Right, it's 100%. - So it's good for, it's good for the league for you to win. - I'm just happy I wanna get, I feel like I may never lose again at this point. 'Cause it's just, I've won two times. Memes still hasn't gotten the lottery ball. - I did win it. - I got a question. - Yeah. - Now that you have, there's a pattern here. It's repeated success, it's not a fluke. - Yeah. - Should I sell a course on how to win the 50-50? Yes, I've been thinking about that. - Statistically speaking, when you win the 50-50 that comes to lose, if it's late in season, when the cubs are making a playoff push, do you buy tickets for the 50-50? - Yeah, we gotta test it. We gotta see if it's-- - It's been tested. - It's twice. - That's not a good sample. - No, the first time's a fluke. Second time's a test. - No, no, that's not a sample. - We've done a study. - That's not a sample test. A sample test has to be more than 10. - No, no, no, no. - I don't win it 10 times. How many times is a sample? - Two times is a sample. - How many times would you say that you've played the 50-50? - Every single time for 15 years. Have you figured out how many games, like if you were to ballpark that? - They won a World Series year that I played it a lot. - But you didn't win. - But it's gotta be more than two times for a sample size. - I don't like what you got to do. - Well, I'm gonna focus on the fact that I'm getting another big check and I'm gonna wave. I might pay, I might not give the money, the winning's a charity. I might give the money to the person operating the camera at Wrigley Field and be like, buddy, you gotta stay on me for 10 minutes. I'm gonna wave for 10 minutes straight. - Yeah, do what your heart feels. - Oh, I'm gonna wave. - Cause whatever you did ended up making, yeah, it made it work. And somebody asked me this morning if you were gonna quit. - No. - I left in their face. I said, if there was a time to quit, it probably was after the first win. - Correct. - But now that you have two, yeah. You have a chance to achieve something, incredible isn't even the right word for it. - I'm on the cost for greatness. - Like you, magic was the word I was gonna use. Like this could be, you would go down in the history books as the luckiest human being to ever live. If you can hit the 50, 53 times. - Multiple times. - No one's ever done that. - I'm gonna keep going. - Well, you have the opportunity. - 50 Martino has like five times. But I would be, it would be incredible if I did it. And I only spent, I didn't spend that much money on it last night. Just nice little donation to the pot, want it. I was in shock, it's awesome. What, what are you laughing at? - I feel like you were about to say how much money, how much money you spent last night. And then you were like, that's actually a lot of money. So I'm not gonna say it. - Well, I got home and my wife is a hater of my 50/50. She's thought I could never win it. Now she's like, shit, he's actually won it twice. But she's like, how much did you spend tonight? I was like a thousand dollars. And I was like, that's not that much. She's like, are you comparing it to what you spent on Monday? 'Cause I know what you spent on Monday. I was like, I, that's exactly what I'm doing. 'Cause Monday got out of hand. And I did not win it then. But that's okay, I won, I won. Two-time winner. - A win is a win. - A win is a win. - A win is a win. - A win is, memes wouldn't know. He's never won the lottery ball. - I won. - No, you haven't. - You have not. - It's the first show of the year. - You've not won the lottery. - We had to get a new machine. - I'm gonna just try to keep winning. - You guys cool with that? - Yeah. - The bananas this weekend. Taking my kids. - I'm gonna win that. - What's 50/50 gonna be like at the banana? - Oh, I already checked. I asked them. I was like, is there gonna be a 50/50? They're like, yeah. All right, cool. I'll be there. I'm gonna win that. - Yeah. - But it's 50. What if I just got like a big banana? - Half a one. - I mean, you have to be presented. I would assume by the bananas. - You think? - Next time they're in town. - You think. - Are they gonna do a big check? The bananas? - Yeah. - That would be-- - Or like, is this check, I don't mean any disrespect to the check that you got first night, but all disrespect to the check. It wasn't big enough. - Maybe I'm just sensitized as to what a big check is. - No, PFT. - Well, I think, big check, I think, I think, the J.J. watch check that we had. - PFT. - You're exactly right. - And I may be martyne and avatulova. - Yes, yes, the big check. - Yeah. - You're, it's no, it's all disrespect to that check. I will be bringing my own big check to my next big check. - It could be bigger. - I'm gonna bring my own big check. - And I'm like, you gotta deal with the cubs. - And because it's kinda like, you know, BIO BC. - BIO BC is for charity. The bigger the check, you think yourself like every inch that this check is, that could have been another meal bought for somebody that needs it. - I wanna bring a big check that's like the, like the American flag that they take out on the outfield. That's how I want, how big of a check out one. - Big, if you get, if you win it a third time, here's what I'll do for you. I will have a sky-writing plane. Drag a giant check in the air behind it, overrigly field, like the biggest possible check. We're talking like hundreds of feet. - Hundreds of feet, I love that. Speaking of, is it, this is just totally hypothetical question. Lame or not lame, to make a couple banter through yourself after winning the 50/50 for the second time. - You said a couple? - Well, I've won twice. I have a banter for each way. - No, I thought you were gonna do like the, you could do it like 50/50's won. - No, no. - 20/25, 20/25. - No, there's two banter. - You gotta hang a banter every time. I didn't wanna hang one banter. I wanted to wait till I won second. - I thought maybe, or like Billy Joel at the garden. You have one giant banter and now it just says big cat too. - Yeah, well you couldn't, you couldn't. - The dates on it? - You could make it like, you know, like when they have like the scoring record of the school where it's like 50/50 you're half a one big cat date because other people might win. - Come on. - Oh, actually, no, you're right, if I do the course. If I teach you guys. - Yeah. - Yeah, yeah. - I'm gonna sell that course. All right, that's a good call. Maybe it's, yeah, maybe it's that. - Okay. - I think it's just one banter. - Yeah, one banter, all right. I'm gonna sell it. - 'Cause when at the second time, it's kinda like having a second game. - All right, so I might, yeah. - But then you can do a different banter drop every time you win it, obviously. - It's a new banter, but it just, it takes the place of the old. - All right, so I now have two banners that I'm gonna have to figure out what to do with and then we'll make it one banter. I think I already ordered 'em. - Okay. - Lamer or not, Lamer. That's a fun game. - We should auction those off. - Yeah, 50/50. Also Patrick came back to the Black Hawks, which was awesome. Do you think LeBron sees that? He's like, yeah, I should do that. I'm coming home to the Black Hawks. LeBron decides to play hockey. - That might, that might. - Spirits Miami, he just thinks it's whatever, 2017 again. There are 2015, 2014. - Where he won the most of his ranks. - It's so sick though. I fucking love Kane and the fact that he's back is so awesome. It's gonna be, he's the man. - Showtime. - Showtime. - What does it tell me about LeBron though? The fact that he hasn't announced it yet. Every day that goes by without announcement, makes me less inclined to think that it's Cleveland. Because he's waiting for something to make his decision. If his decision was go to Cleveland, then there's absolutely nothing holding him back from being like, I'm coming home. No one's gonna hate on it. Everyone's gonna be happy for him. Everyone's gonna have it for Cleveland. There's absolutely nothing. There's zero to wait on with maybe the exception of he might want James Harding gone before he gets to town. - Yeah. - Maybe that could be it. But I think for the most part, if it's Cleveland, he should have said it already. - Yeah. And I think you nailed it the other day when he was just trying to get Anthony Davis. - Yeah. - So maybe they just figure out a way to go to the Wizards. - Price went up. You really want to play with A.D.? Like, I know just the spot. - But yeah, Patrick Kane, I was just like washed over. I was just watching highlights all morning. Just washed over with nostalgia. Just like, and he's still good. He's not obviously prime Patrick Kane, but he's still good. And it's like a veteran presence. It's gonna be awesome. We watch him in Bedard when Bedard gets back. So I'm very, very excited. I was just listening to old thing back all the way. Like five times in a row on the way in from the 2015 team. So, okay, should we do the take-es? - Let's do it. - Should we do it? - Let's do it. - All right, enough preamble. Before we do that, Traff King's this summer, whatever you're watching, baseball, golf, soccer, racing. Traff King's has you covered for every single moment of it. The Traff King's sports app is now available in all 50 states bringing the game straight to your fingertips, wherever you are. From Florida to Texas to California, you're in on the excitement at the speed of sports. 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Trade to get predictions dollars that expire in one year. $50 in rewards issued every seven days via click to claim for 14 days, when nonwithdrawable reward redeemable. Terms at dkng.co/offer, limited time offer. - Okay, so 28 takey awards. If this is your first takey, welcome. The awards change every year. We have some repeat awards. We always do takey of the year. We always do Blake of the year, just log off of the year. We have. We have new awards, we have some old awards, but we're going to be giving away 28 take awards, 29 if you count the four aces, and we're going to start with the first award where we always start take of the year award, take of the year. By the way shout out to our guy Fred Siegel, freezing cold takes. He helps us with this award every single year. He also has a new book coming out. Same days our book. So buy him both. Love it. Buy him both. The college football, August 18th, buy it and buy the part of my take book at the same time. He's the man. He always helps us. And he has just a treasure trove of takes. So the nominees, there's a lot, this is our most nominated award, I'm going to go through them. We're going to start with just, there's just a next section of this award. There's plenty to. There's a lot of this. So we have, to start Brandon Tierney. Brandon Tierney is a, he was a old radio guy for WFM, no, no longer Brandon Tierney tweeted in January 15th, 2026, I've never wavered on this and I never will. Nick's aren't winning a damn thing with cat being a primary piece of the puzzle. Never was that guy. Never will be that guy. That's a tough one. We also have a former colleague, Jeff, they do saying going to be so funny watching the Nick's get dumbied in the finals would have been funny. He's right. Current colleague, Chris Klemmer, in replying to a meek field tweet who said that the Nick's are now the odds on favor to win the Eastern Conference, he replied, you have zero chance of winning a title, bookmark this, you will never experience joy. The bookmark this really adds it. Never really went for it there. Yeah, then you will never experience joy to felt, felt personal, yeah, almost like you told him to go to an Apple store. Yeah. Yeah. Never ever. Don't tell me. Emmanuel Ocho, who's won some takies in the past, said one quarter into the NBA finals, Jalen Brunson is affirming the concerns people have about small guards being able to win it all. The closer you get, the more physical it gets, so far Brunson's body is betraying him. Mmm. Becky Hammondburner. Jalen Brunson went on to win NBA MVP. Yeah. But also he's small so can you really trust a small guard? That's true. And then our friend, Nick Wright, this is just a graphic of his, of his final four in the NBA playoffs and then champion he had the thunder, so you got that right, right, Tim? Thunder playing the nuggets, nuggets beating the thunder to go to the finals. Nuggets lost in the first round. They did. Okay. And then the Celtics beating the pistons and then the Celtics beating the nuggets. So his finals was the two first round losers, Celtics nuggets, Celtics winning. That's tough. That's a bad look, Nick. That's sorry. Okay. That's our Nick's, uh, takies section. We also have from Dave Biddle, this, this came out in, uh, it was a couple of years ago, but a lot of these are, they come to fruition and take ages like wine. He said, OSU dodged a bullet with Dusty May, not sure if Jake Debel will be great, but May's claimed a fame is a lucky postseason run last year. You had never heard of him before that and don't forget FAU got to play 16 seeded fairly Dickinson in the second round. Yeah. That's right. And then that's all they did, right? Was they being fairly Dickinson the second round that they immediately lost or did they? No, they actually won a bunch of games in here, uh, Dusty made good coach onto the big leagues. Yeah. He's with the maps, uh, a Michigan edition of, of the take of the, of the year award, uh, we had from December 7th, 2025, Michigan head coach Ron Moore says he does not expect any more changes to the football staff this off season. Whoops. When you've got the culture built that you need, the one that you've been aiming for, you, you almost reach point where you're like, nobody move. Yeah. I love. I love this one. I think he was fired what like two days later. Yeah. Yeah, uh, we also have Michigan AD award manual, who is, uh, I think he's nominated for a take you later as well as double nomination. He said, uh, about Dusty May in his contract extension, he will be the leader of this basketball team for many years to come. Manual said it Saturday's national championship celebration. It was like maybe like two more months, yeah, just a couple more months and I mean, credit to word manual though, because we talk about accountability and Dusty May leaves now word manual is going to follow soon after because he's embarrassed that he was wrong about the Dusty May thing. Yep. So he's like hand up. I probably shouldn't work here anymore. Michigan man. I'll take the blame for that. Yep. So you can expect to see him on the move. Yes. Absolutely. We have now, uh, some more college football, uh, category here, not, not just, uh, Michigan, but this one is from Bill Simmons from 2024 that came to fruition. He said, uh, after watching Signeti in a playoff game for three hours, are people still unsure if Bella check will succeed in college football? That's a double double. That's a double take. That's for the game from both sides. That's why Bill is a legend because he's able to combine two bad takes into one. Yeah. That one else doesn't. That was, that was cock and mouth cock and ass. Yeah. That was good. airtight. I forgot, you're not a sex guy. Cock and mouth cock and ass. I just didn't extreme move. That's all. Yes. It's an extreme take. That is a wild take. I mean, listen, we all have bad takes here. We have some of the worst takes of all time. Yeah. But that's a gangbang. I said, I said, Patrick Holmes was the biggest reach in the draft. Another gangbang take. That was a gangbang. I got, I, I might have been asked mouth. Peel with cock attachment. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Somebody else get asked mouth P hole. No, Zach's watching me. Okay. So Zach is also involved in the, in the take. Mm hmm. Okay. Got it. How do they get in my P hole, Zach? Really? He smelt it. Yeah. Yeah. This is from our good friend, Brandon Walker, who was our college football expert two years ago. He was going back and forth with the Virginia Tech fan that was saying that Virginia Tech has got a great future. And Brandon Walker said, yeah, because you think they're getting Franklin. They're not. Hmm. Hmm. They did. And then they got Franklin. They did. James Franklin, hot seat. Hot seat for sure. Yeah. We also have ourselves. This is probably from memes, August 30th, 2025. He tweeted Florida State football is back. Hmm. They finished 13th in the ACC. I didn't, I hand up. I didn't realize that there were 13 teams in the ACC. So bad. What was that in context? Uh, they beat Alabama. Yeah, it did. They were so bad. They were very. That was a great game. They looked like they were back. And also, you could probably include as a double one in this, we pretty much pronounced Alabama football dead. Yeah. Oh, multiple times. Yeah. That's definitely one of our worst takes as I we were like, yeah, Bama will not come back from this. Never ever in a million years. Yeah. Kaling to Bore is out. Uh, this is a personal favorite of mine, Brian Drake tweeted during the elite eight games. Nightmare scenario for CBS is both elite eight games or blowouts. I have to see a large national audience hang out for the second half of a Duke beatdown. Mm. So that turned out to be the most watched March madness game this year because it was Braille and Mullins buzzer beat her over Duke. And that's how powerful of a drug hope is the fact that it was, it was a blowout. Yeah. It was. But we all watched because what if? Yeah. Cause what, what if? And what if happened? And it did. And it was the, I looked it up. The most watch game. I think it peaked it like 18 million, uh, viewers. That's so good. Um, we have, uh, this one's from our boss, Dave Portnoy. I, I forgot that this playoff series happened last year, but he said the, you know what's crazy? There's a whole generation of kids who just expect the Red Sox to always beat the Yankees when it counts no matter the situation and the Red Sox always do. We own this team and franchise. I think that was after the Red Sox won game one of the three game series. I forgot about that series too. Yeah. I'll be, I'll be totally honest. Yeah. Sam Darnel takes were good. Meena Kimes, uh, when Gino Smith was traded from Seattle said flat out. This is a terrible move by Seattle. Chances of upgrading are extremely low. Mm. Kind of racist on your part though, right? Mames. No, it's from me. I know, but I'm saying like, no, for you to doubt. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of racist. True. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Sam Darnel did pretty well. He wanted to, also, Gino Smith did beat the Patriots last year. He did. That's right. He was weak. Yeah. Another one that I've just memory home. Yep. That's, that was week one. Mm hmm. Gino Smith as a raider is just something that we, we actually just broke our, broke our rule. Never happened. And it's crazy that he played a whole year without a coach. Yeah. Uh, David Clue, uh, said tearing down a roster that was a win away from the playoffs to build around Sam Darnel. Is a choice. Fact. That is a choice. Yeah. This is Hank, your favorite, uh, league, the live golf league. This is from young, you see your all room, Marvin. He said, my boss told me live is not going to go anywhere. It will be well and truly in operation running well past his death. He's a young guy. I'm confused. What do you mean? Live golf is playing a tournament as we, as we podcast, are they going to be playing in Michigan? As a man, as a beneficially canceled. I saw there was a five percent chance. It's going to happen. Are they in good health? Any chance? Is the league healthy? I mean, they're playing right now and people are locked in. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. It's actually the audience is maybe as big as ever. Yeah. Okay. A couple more. Uh, we have Jason Schmitz from 2023 that came to fruition. He said, "Unfortunately Taylor Swift isn't known for relations." that lasts longer than a few months, I would expect the break up by Super Bowl and the Kelsey album before next season. The new fans will follow Taylor to her next day. - Yep. - They got married. - They did in P and V. - Yeah, we love love. - Yeah, congratulations. - Mm-hmm. - Happy couple. - I think this is from our good friend Big T. He said in September, the fake news media is attempting to link Tony Vitello to the open San Francisco Giants managerial job, despite the fact it doesn't make a lick of sense. - Okay, I'm gonna take Big T's side on this because it didn't make a lick of sense. - Mm-hmm. - I don't understand why you would make a splash higher still as like a major league baseball manager, trying to get a college, college baseball coach, whose job description is completely different from an MLB manager. - But they did hire. - But they did hire. - They did hire. - It didn't make a lick of sense. It didn't make a lick of sense. All right, last one. Stephen A Smith in April said, "Filly fans, we were grit saying, we want Boston, you're not beating this Boston Celtics." - Mm-hmm. - That's a good take, they beat him. - All right, winner, ready, drum roll? And the winner for Take of the Year for 2026 is Young Yesir Al Rumavin for his take. My boss told me, "Lib is not going to go anywhere, it will be well and truly in operation, running well past his death." He's a young guy. - Now, freezing cold takes is gonna have to make a note of that recording. - Okay, so in two years-- - So this will be The Take of the Year in two years. - Yes. - Love that. - So I like that, the snake feeds itself almost. - We just did our own show. - That guy's boss? - Yeah. - Ted Turner, by the way. - Oh, I just made that part-- - He's dead. - I made that part up, yeah. - That guy's boss? - Ray Charles. - Ben dead for 20 years. Okay, all right, what do we got next? - All right, next up in the 2026 Take Awards, we have, in a word, I believe we debuted two years ago. - Yeah. - Can't win the big one award. - Yeah. - Can't win the big one. - One of my favorites. - 2026. It's a good category. The nominees are for Can't win the big one. - Embape. - Mm. - This is, you know, he had the shootout loss. - Yep. - Last time the World Cup. And this time, great play in the third place game. - Lost though. - Lost in the semifinals. Embape's, he's got all the talent in the world. He won the Golden Boot, but people are saying that he does not have what it takes to have France win the World Cup. - I'd agree. - Is he a leader capable of winning the World Cup? We don't think so. - Can't win the Premier League either. - Yep, yep. - Farmer's League. - Mm-hmm. - Or the MLS. Can't win the big one. nominee two is Wimbee. - Mm. - Love this one. - Victor Wimbee and Yama. This is the dawn of an narrative that we're seeing with Wimbee. It felt like if he was that guy, he would have done it already. - Well. - Double silver medalist. - Let's see, yeah. Silver medal against Shet Homegren. Silver medal against Team USA. Silver medal against the Knicks. - Interesting. - Triple silver medalist. - Interesting. - Dynastie of silver. - Yes. - He's great. He might, I'll say this. Wimbee might be the greatest loser we've ever seen. - He's on pace. - He absolutely could be the greatest loser we have ever seen in professional sports. - He's definitely on pace. The third nominee is Katelyn Clark. - Ah. - Can't win the big one of the year. She didn't win in college. - Yep. - She hasn't won in the NBA. The only thing that she's won is like, people have lost their minds when it comes to talk. She's just collecting brains. - She's won rent in everyone's head. - Yes. - She lives completely free. She's got a lot of real estate and every basketball writer's brain, the most recent one from what's your name? Is it Nancy Armour? - Yeah. - Absolutely insane stuff, but again, this is good. It's good to have somebody in your league that makes writers lose their minds. - What was the title of Nancy Armour? - It was saying that she needs to stop flopping, but it was mostly the one paragraph that compared what she does to the death of the Emmett Till. - Yes, which is just an absolutely absurd thing to make. - Yeah, USA Today writer says Katelyn Clark puts black and queer WNBA players in danger by flopping. - Okay. - Yeah, I might be taking the heat. - It's, what a pin in that one. - It's definitely. - Yeah, that might be next year's taking the heat. - It's gonna be, it's gonna be nothing. - So Katelyn didn't win in college. She didn't win. I don't think she won a state title in high school either. - Is that true? - So I don't know that she's ever won a big one. - Wow. - Yeah. - Okay. - So I'm gonna keep an eye on. The next nominee is James Franklin. Last year was pretty impressive working, but it was also, he couldn't win the small one. - The medium or the small one? - He couldn't win the regular size one this year. And then next nominee is Cristiano Ronaldo. - Ooh. He's one zero big ones of the year. And of course, the big one would be the World Cup. - Yeah, Zach, we discuss 'cause I think you have a presenter for us for this award. And we still have a nominee, but we discussed, I said to you, can you find a presenter for this? And you said, just so we're clear, Ronaldo has won the Champions League and the EPL. - That's correct. - Two big ones. - And what did I reply? Would you consider that the big one? And then I text back and I said no. - Okay. - Not the big one. - I rest my case. - It's a big one. - Yeah. - But it's not the big one. - It's one of the ones. - Yeah, it's not the big one though. - The big one. - There's some fat boys in there, but it's not the big one. - No, it's not the big one. - Then the last nominee for "Can't Win the Big One" of the year is Conor McDavid. Conor McDavid might be his last year up in Edmonton. We'll see. I almost feel like this past year, he took a step back in the "Can't Win the Big One" discussion because he wasn't even in contention to win the big one. - Yeah, I actually, that's where we came up with this award because I remember we were trying to get Whitney to present it and he just replied to me, fuck you. - Yeah. - So that's how that award came. So Zach, you have us a presenter. This is our, we have a ton of guest presenters today. You have our first guest presenter for the takies. - I do have our first guest presenter, yes sir. - Okay, give it to us. - We got it right here. - Oh. - Okay. - Wow. - Is it the winner of the "Can't Win the Big One" of the year is. Ronaldo. I'm the gold. That was, that was, that was messy, you got us? - That was messy. - I got a guy who has won the big one. - Messy. - Yeah. - That's pretty cool. Thank you, Zach. - Why is it messy in like half speed? - Messy is, he just want to take it. - It was just in his first lane. - Yeah, yeah. And how much did it cost on Cameo to get messy? - Well, messy is priceless. - But how much did it cost? - Top of my head, roughly $75 to $100. - Okay. - That's a good deal for my ass. - For the goat to do that? - I mean, look, he loves the game. You know he's got a little bit of love for Ronaldo, they've been compared their entire careers, so he's someone who's won the big one. Ronaldo's still chasing that big one right there, so he lets him know battering his back. - Oh, $39. - Wow. - The thing I love about messy is he's so committed to the game he never takes his uniform off. That's how we knew it was messy in that Cameo. - That's how good that's blue, that blue and white stripe kid is just phenomenal. I wouldn't take it off either to be honest with you. - I also like the touch to the cheek that he gave. - Yeah, that's a signature move. - It was soft. - Jeff Hornestack. - Yeah, it's beautiful. - Yeah. - Okay, next up, so congrats to Ronaldo, we'll have that graphic, Zach, I would like you to tweet that graphic from your personal account tomorrow. - I can do that. - Okay, I love that. - And LeBron today? - Yeah, we got a lot of day left. - Okay, the guys are saying they're saying this is it. - All right, the next award is just log off of the year. This is for people who are two online, and the nominees are Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant, I think, has been a nominee every single year. Kevin Durant had, of course, his alleged burner, which was get off my Dickerson, exposed where he was talking shit about his teammates, talking about how he misses Ben Simmons, 'cause at least Ben Simmons would pass him the ball, trashing everyone. So just log off, Kevin. - But Kevin said he will never log off. - He will never log off. We also have Freddie L.A. Seven, the viral German fan, who did log off, and then came back on Twitter. So he logged off, he deactivated, and then he came back and was like, you guys were all being mean to me, but I'm gonna just keep doing my trip. And I might be a sigh out. - Yeah, I mean, he didn't say that part. - When you do log off, and then you get drawn back within a couple calendar weeks, that is the number one sign that you should in fact log off. - Yes, I agree. We have pseudoscientists, I don't know what I would, guys trying to live forever, Brian Johnson. - Yeah. - From the guy who brought you the tweet, nighttime erection data from my 19 year old son and me, his duration is two minutes longer than mine, talking about tracking his son's boners. This year, he gave us this, just gave Kate his girlfriend, oral sex, good night everyone, and then followed up with, this is our vaginal microbiome report, 100 out of 100 score, top 1% of all the genus. - Yeah. - Her sample is dominated by the single most protective bacterial species of a genocune host, only about 25 to 30% of reproductive age women globally are L. Chris Pottas dominant. - That's the top vagina? - Yeah, that's what you shoot for. - Top 1% of all the genus. We didn't need to know that. We also have Jalen Browne for going on Twitch after every single game and then saying things like, honestly, this was my favorite year of my career and talking about the refs and just being maybe two online. - Agreed. - Yeah. - Two online. And then finally, we have our good friend, Shawn McVeigh, for his thirst trap picture with like, [BLANK_AUDIO] team abs. Yeah, think you got fake apps. We get it. We get it, Sean. Yeah. It's a little genius. It's too. That's too many for a football coach. You're a genius. You've got a beautiful wife. You've got a hundred million dollars. Yeah. And you also got the apps. Yeah. Football coach, it's been more time in the film room. It's more of a just on the weight room. It's more of a just log off for us. Like, we don't want to see that. Yeah. Don't need that. Yeah. Okay. The winner of the just log off of the year, we're going to get you a drum set next year. Is Brian Johnson or his girlfriend having a top 1% vagina, which we only know about because Brian Johnson told us he told us all and then then unfortunately he got sick. Yeah. The one thing that he was really, really hoping to not ever do. So hope you're okay, Brian. Yeah. Okay. Just log off the year. Just log off. The next category is the 14th best quarterback of the year award. One of my favorites. This is a good award. Who knows who it could be because there's a lot of really good nominees for it that you hear their names. Do you think, yeah, that that sounds like the 14th best quarterback in the NFL. The first nominee for 14th best quarterback in the NFL is Dak Prescott. Oh. And last year, I believe he won 16th best quarterback. Yes. Maybe 17. It could have been 17. Yeah. The next nominee is Jordan Love for 14th best quarterback in the NFL. That kind of feels like the right spot. The next nominee is Aaron Rodgers. Okay. 14th best quarterback. He could be the 14th best quarter. He might be. I think if all goes well. Yeah. The next nominee for 14th best quarterback in the NFL is CJ Stroud. Oh. Stroud boys. 14th best. Have a muddy fallen. It's all right, little bro. You got a long future this week. Next nominee is Bryce Young. How about that? This is actually, I would imagine that if you're a Bryce Young fan, the honor of having him nominated for 14th best quarterback in the NFL, shoot. You might as well be putting them number one on the graphic. Bryce Young is now officially from here on forward in the conversation for 14th best quarterback in the week. And the final nominee for 14th best quarterback in the NFL is Jacobi Preset. Is he still going to play this year? We'll see. The holdout continues. I don't think there's been any motion on it. The cardinals, you got to pay Jacobi. Yeah. You got to step up. Yeah. Yeah. Pam, I don't know. He's, there's probably a bunch of other teams that probably want him to be starting quarterback probably. I'd agree. I'd agree. Uh, the winner of the 14th best quarterback of the year award. Max, you have a cameo for us, Max. Hey, hello, everybody. Hey, it's coach here. Wow. I'm excited to announce the winner for the 14th best quarterback of the year. And the winner is Dak Prescott. Congratulations. Dak with that times yours. All right. God. That's incredible. This guy, I mean, you talk about money making scheme for all seasons. This guy just, he transfers straight into Malsanta. Mm hmm. He's doing Andy. His Andy read impression is literally Malsanta. I'm starting to realize too that the takees probably account for like 75% of the impersonators on cameos yearly budget. Yeah. They're like, all right. Well, the takees are coming. So we'll be able to afford rent this month. And you read impersonators probably making Brad on you think so. Yeah. And must be for sure. Yeah. But I think both of them are doing well. Like how well it sounds like you think that they're rich. There might be their cameo rich. Every dad and grandpa who's a cheese fan, grandson's like, we got to get a mandy read. Zach, can you do any impersonations? I don't impersonations like really a low light of anything. I can't do a impersonation. No, unfortunately, no. I would like you to work on an impersonation and then become a cameo impersonator. Open ended. Yeah. Well, you got to look like the person. Well, yeah. Who does he look like? Oh, that guy who eats food. Yeah. Dude, the guy or Duke Nick's Renny or Nick or Nick. Okay. I can look into it. What about the guy who eats everything in two bites? Zach, the guy's un impersonatable. He is a special guy. I guess he has a gift. You can't recreate that. You should do Nick. Barstool's Nick from KB and Nick impersonator. That could be strong. That'd be sick. Yeah. Maybe the guy who eats the food. That'd be cool. You see the food. Someone DM DMs me that guy once a week being like, did you know that Zach had a secret account? Yeah. I get the guy 15 times a day. I love it. It's always like he's the first guy who found him. I love it. All right, so congrats to congrats to Zach. Huge award. Massive. Massive. 14. That's quarterback. All right. Next up, this is a new award. It's the Brad Stevens know of the year. Brad Stevens know of the year. First up is Brad Stevens saying no to UNC. Good know. Got to make him say no. Strong. No. Then we have Michigan. Brad Stevens got to make him say no there. Turned down. Said no. Then we have the Paul George trade. Paul George, Jalen Brown, which they thought to themselves like we should make Brad Stevens say no. Right. But he didn't say no. He said yes. Yeah. And finally the Mavericks opening job opening. The dusty man ended up getting. But Brad Stevens had to say no to it. He said no to it first. Yeah. Okay. We have, Hank, you got us a cameo for this? Yep. Okay. It's a real one. Yeah. No, this is impersonator. These are all real. Here we go. 2026 takeys. First and foremost, to Dan, to PMT, to the entire crew. Hmm. You guys are the best. What a year for pardon my take. All right. The winner of the 2026 takey for Brad Stevens. No of the year is Paul George. Oh, PG. Congratulations. You're the winner of the takey for Brad Stevens. No of the year. Wow. I respect the committee. So I still had him do that one. But I I wanted to change it to it. It should have been Yannis. Why? Because he said no to Yannis to Hugo because of Hugo. Yeah. He didn't say no to Paul George. No, but that's what I should have. But that's why you make him say no. They didn't make him say no. They just asked him. Are you down for this? Which means it was a farmhouse. So really this award goes to the Sixers. Yeah. They they they realized to not don't even make him say no. Just say we're going to do it. Hmm. Yeah. So yeah, we might have confused this award around a little bit. But I think maybe the Sixers one. I think the Sixers win this award. Sixers win this award. Because you had to make Brad Stevens say no to the trade. Yeah. Thank you. And he didn't say no. He didn't say that's why you got to make him say no because sometimes he won't. Yeah. Okay. Before we get to our next one, can we get our guests for the next one? Should we have them come in now? Let's have them come in out. Come in now for the not I know it's confusing because they might have the same name. But yeah, the in person guest for the next award. I think they dressed up and they'd probably want to hear who the nominees are who he's up against. Before we do that, a quick word from our friends of twisted tea summers here. And so is the twisted tea summer party pack. Twisted tea is refreshing hard iced tea made with real brood tea and 5% alcohol. They also have a new summer party pack has a brand new twisted lemonade. It's refreshing hard lemonade made with real lemons. It's only available in their new party pack. 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So I told him he's nominated for Bush of the Year. So Jerry's coming in and we will announce the nominees in just a month for Bush of the Year. I'm going to tell him that it's not Bush when he comes in. Oh breaking moves. Breaking moves. What was your favorite Pavia moment on the on the Ravens? Mine was that video that they showed where it looked like he was shorter than the center's butt. I would agree with you. Yeah, that's a tough one to top. I like that coach. Okay, we got Jersey Jerry in here. Jerry, welcome to the 2026 takey awards. How you doing? Incredible hat, Jerry. Thank you so much. Does it now are you a little nervous because people are going to say, hey, this doesn't feel like it's on the up and up. We're giving out Bush of the Year and you're wearing a Bush gaming hat. No, I'm not worried. I'm not worried. All right, Bush of the Year could be anybody. Meams, can you just pan down to get the full Jerry outfit in the shot? I just want people to see the whole outfit. What was that say? Yes, Bush records. I like it. And you got to tell the right Bush. I'll tell you right. I'm going to take the stickers off the hat. No, in New Jersey, like they kind of keep it on. I like that jacket. It's a blue no matter who that's sure. Yeah, it's nice, right, turquoise. In New Jersey, they keep it on. Yeah, I guess he's close. Maybe I'm in New York too. -This has been a big fun for me for that. -Oh, yeah. - Yeah, yeah. - Yeah, we keep the stickers on. - It's been a big year for Bush. - Yeah. - Bush might be back. - But I think Bush is back, yeah. But Jerry, I got a confession. You're not nominated for Bush of the year. It's the Lib of the Year award again. I just wanted to trick you to get you in here. But you did tell me earlier that you kind of missed the Lib of the Year, like you'd take a little bit of pride in it. - I figured that was gonna happen. You did lie to me. - I did lie to you. - Yeah, we might have lied to you a little. - I mean, that's why I had the undershirt on. There you go. You know? - Why? - Well, because he told me, I was gonna give you a push of the year. So I was like, oh, okay, cool. Let me get that. Had out the undershirt, and we're here again. - So you're nominated for Lib of the Year. This would be four times in a row for you. - Who could have seen it coming? - No, this would be three. - Oh, I'm sorry, three times in a row. - Yeah, this is back-to-back-to-back. - Okay, so this would be four diamonds. - Well, nominated, I didn't win. - Yeah, if you won, it would be four diamonds. - Okay, okay. The nominee is, 'cause you're up against a tough crowd. This is a really tough one this year. - A quiet winner. - He's been nominated for Lib of the Year, for his service planting trees. He's trying to be the green new deal, one man green new deal. - Okay. - Then yourself, you were nominated. - Can I say something, bro, why was I nominated again? - Oh, so you've become more accepting of various lifestyles this year, I think? Learning more about causing maybe his gay, maybe his buy, maybe his straight, and whatever you learn about how you can go back and forth, and you've expand your mind, and you're like, oh, maybe that could be you one day. - Jerry, can I just, I'll answer your question with your own words. - Okay. - This is a direct quote from Jersey Jerry, June 15th, 8/11 PM. There's no way I can just turn gay, so how did that happen? Congratulations. You're accepting it. - You're midson. - The context. - You tweeted that. - I'm reading that right here. - There was context. - I'm saying that you were born that way. - I was not born that way, no. - You just said there's no way that you can just turn. - So you were born very except you and Lady Gaga, more the way. - No, no. - No, he won't. - Beautiful, Jerry. - Beautiful. - You were running with Harry Sisson, was that last year? - No, that was last year. - Yeah, that was last year. - But still pretty impressive. - Well, have you seen this, I mean, people are making this big thing about the search history. That doesn't seem very lib, does it? - Hmm. - I know what you're talking about. - Oh, yeah, Jerry did have a screen, do you know what we're talking about? - I do know, yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Screen grab of his search history. Do you have it? - I don't know. - I don't have it. - Can you pull it up and just read us what Jerry was searching for? - buffet Las Vegas. - This is Jerry's Google search that he accidentally had. - COVID China, antivirus, none of these things are non-linear. - No. - Las Vegas food. - Yeah. - Charlie Kirk microphone gun, that's kind of like you might have been looking for it like to. - Yeah. - That's what you find on that one. Not much. - Yeah. - Are you deep into the Candace Owens lore? - No. - No, not. - Who killed Steve Job and K. Ultra? - Who killed Steve Job? - I don't know. I don't want to say the wrong thing. Allegedly, there's stories out there. - Okay. - Well, there is stories out there. But. - Could the answer be cancer? - Yes, but that is. That actually is the answer. - You like not take medicine. - But there's a reason for all that. They didn't, apparently, allegedly from what I've read, they forced him to not take the medicine. - Oh, okay. - M.K. - Yeah. - Did he? Israel? - Yeah, okay. - Who was part of the elite group? - Yeah. - I mean, none of those are not. - Yeah. - Yeah. - So again, I mean, kind of strengthening the case a little bit. And the other nominee, Jerry O'Connell, we got two Jerry's nominated this year. - Okay. - Well, he was last year or two, no? - Yeah, he was nominated. - This year, Jerry appeared on the Bill Mara podcast, as he proceeded to live out for about, I don't know, 90 minutes of solid libleness. - What do you see? - Yeah, I think he was on the, he wasn't he had a, he was at the rally, he was a white dude for Kamala. - Yep, white dude for Kamala. - He was right, he's got daughters. - Yeah, he's got daughters. - Yeah. - That doesn't make someone. - Well, no, Jerry's got a daughter. - Yeah. - Jerry. - Oh, you do have a daughter. - I do. - And you might have another daughter on the way. - I might be outnumbered. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Jerry made a mistake the other night. - Yeah. - That was a mistake. - What'd you do? - I released on ovulation. - Oh, you can pull out. - Yeah, you can pull out. I kept it in. - Okay. - And it felt like a chick. - Yeah, because it was bad. - Yeah. - Okay. - And then the last nominee for Lib of the Year is Max. - Wow. - Wow. - This is how many of you have the year. - Wow. - For what? - For what? - What was that for you? - What was Max on? - I don't know. - I don't know. - Well, your nominee is Congrats. - Yeah, you got Max. - All right. - I'm just happy to be in the conversation. - There you go. - Good luck, Jerry. - Love that. Thanks. - You too. - May the best of Lib win. - So, Jerry, last year we had Mayor Pete present you with an award. - Yeah. - This year we have a very, very special guest presenter for you. Can you pull it up? - Fanta? - It is a. - Wow. - It's Hunter Biden. - It's Jerry from one brother and recovery to another. Congratulations on the Lib of the Year award. I know you didn't have much competition, but I'm still proud of you. We're both proud of you. - Hey, Jerry, congratulations. You keep the faith. - What the fuck? - I was not expecting that. - Joe Biden wanted to wish you a happy Lib of the Year award. - That's President Joe Biden, Jerry. President Joe Biden just gave an award on the takeys. To you. - Seriously? - What are we doing? - You won. - You won, congrats. You're a president. - That's crazy. - I will say 47 of those. - Sorry. - Because it's starting to hit me now. Let it hit me for a second. - All right. - I mean, that's kind of respect there. - Yeah. - That's big time. - Yeah. - All right, Sleepy Joe. - You want to hear it again? - Yeah. - You want it back, run it back. Does he say Jerry? - Jerry. - From one brother and recovery to another. - Keep the faith. - Keep the faith, Jerry. - Oh. - How about that? - 45 men have served in 47 presidencies. - Wow. - You have one of 45 men. Who served as president, United States of America, giving you a take-e for Lib of the Year. Just let that set in for a second. That's history. - That had his history right there. - It's incredible. - Can we get-- - If you get in trouble with the invitation, now you got-- - 100% pressure? - Yeah, yeah. - It's talking to the president. - The president knows who I am. - Yeah. - I was just on the phone with the president. - The Tiger Woods. - Yeah. - Yeah. - It's just on the phone with the president. - Oh, memes. Can you do a Photoshop of Biden putting the presidential medal on to Jerry's neck? Can we do that? - Can you stand up for that meme? - Yeah, can you stand up for that real quick? - Just for the meme. - Sure. - Tell 'em where to stand, memes. So the meme's just right. - Go to the center of the rug. - This is a great moment. - Two is right. - Have a move to his right. - Move to your right. - Move to your right, Jerry. - Keep going. - Keep going. - Now turn. - Now turn. - This is the first time Jerry's move to his right. - All year. There you go. - Turn a little to the left. - You could do this. - Look that way. - You didn't have to turn. - Is he good now, memes? - Yeah. - He's having to do a spin. - Do a spin. - One little twirl. - One little twirl. - One little twirl. - Okay. - Okay, got it. - Got it. - All right, Jerry. - We logged it. - A president of the United States knows who you are. And he knows that you're the liberal of the year. - Listen, man. I mean, Trump's never done that. - So I'm going to say that one. - It's true. - Trump's never done that. - Yeah. - Yeah. - But I never see myself winning Republican of the year. I don't see that. - Yeah, but there's only one way we could go for the year presenter next year. - Trump calling you a liberal would kill you. - Yeah. - Yeah, buried me. - You can't beat that, though. So it's got to be it. - It's not real. - Back back. - You got to show it to me earlier today. I was just like, what? - I did a jump scare too. I didn't know that the big guy was going to be there at the end. - Play it one more time. Play it one more time. - One more time. - One more time. - Hey, Jerry, from one brother and recovery to another. Congratulations on the live of the year award. - Hey, Jerry. Congratulations. Keep the faith. - Keep the faith. - Keep the faith. - Love that. - Love that. - It looks. - It looks. - It's about a day older than fifth. - Hasn't lost a step. - It's locked in. - Sharpers can be. - Well, congrats, Jerry. - Thank you guys again for the opportunity. - Yes. I mean, I think of first ever back to back to back or no. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Well, yeah. I mean, that's pretty crazy. - So congratulations. - Thank you guys. I appreciate that. - That's the FDR. - Yeah, that's what they'll call that. - Exactly. - Yeah. - I appreciate that, boys. - Okay. - Where would honor? - Yep. - All right. - Yep. - So double this year. - Yeah. - Yeah, we'll double this year. - Yeah, well double. - Yeah, well double. - Yeah, well double. - Yeah, well double. - Yeah, well in places. - Well in places. - Yeah, in places. - In places. - In places. - Yeah, in places. - It's a 40 spot this year. - It's 90% tax. - Mm-hmm. - But we got the cash price. - You want to say that. - We're proud, okay? Maybe we'll get you a bumper sticker for it. - Yeah. - We'll get that made up for it. - Yeah. - And the nominees for "Cuck of the Year" are, I don't know who this first person is. Josh Heyman, who's that? - Josh Heyman. - Oh, where are we put that on? - That was the John Heyman. - John Heyman. - Because he said, I don't know why everyone online keeps calling me a Yankee Cuck. - Oh, yeah. - He's called a porter. Said that two days ago. - That's a good way to be called a Cuck. All right, we have also, Also, uh, The Wisconsin chancellor, because I on this program called her an anti-football pussy, she then decided to quit her job at Wisconsin and joined an Ivy League school, so turned out to be right. Nailed it. Turned out to be right. We also have our good friend, Jerry O'Connell, is nominated for Cuck of the Year for the time he went on Bill Mars podcast and said that his daughters and his wife beat him up or being like, hey, you know, like even just saying something that wasn't fully. Even like thinking about Donald Trump. Yeah, right. They would hit him. Yeah. Are you thinking about Trump right now? Trump crime. This is what it was. Slapped him across. And then everyone online called him a fucking cuck. Yeah, it's an absolute fucking cuck. We have Nikki Glazer. Why is Nikki Glazer on there? Nikki Glazer, I believe she told a story about. She wanted her boyfriend to go out and go up with girls. Yeah. That's Cuck behavior. That's also respect. And then the cold play concert CEO. So that, remember that happened? That was like, yeah, that was a long time ago, but it wasn't. It was like a year ago. Exactly. All right. The winner for Cuck of the Year in the 2026, take the awards is Mr. Jerry O'Connell. Wow. And would you know it? We have Jerry here live to accept his award, Jerry. You have just won. I don't know if you heard us. One take of the take of the year for Cuck of the year, for the time that you told the story about how your twin daughters and your wife slap you around a little bit. Um, yeah, kind of exciting to have two years in a row of being a takey winner and that's pretty exciting. Um, I don't accept this take you guys. I can't accept it. You're going to let another man take your award. You want to watch another man take it award? You know what? Give him two awards now, because he just won again. Oh, that's interesting, Jerry, two awards. We got trophies, Jerry. We got trophies for you. We got two of them. It's a man sitting in a Cuck chair just for you. So we're going to send that to you. I think it's you. It is you. It's you. It's you. We made you sitting in a Cuck chair as a trophy. Jerry, what is it? What is it like being such a fucking Cuck? Hey, guys, do you remember when I first came on your podcast to address the variable Racini issue? And I implored people to stop calling me an f word Cuck, but you're now the, the, the, the exclusive exhibitor of your podcast Netflix actually wrote the actual f word in the closed captioning. Yes. Yes. So on behalf of the closed captioning person at Netflix, I want to apologize to anyone who may have been offended by pardon my takes closed captioning choices. Um, that's a Cuck thing. Yeah. So you've come on. You've come on just so we can recap. You've come on. You've not accepted the award and you've apologized. No. Just prove it. I don't want the award. It's an honor to be. I do want to apologize to my wife and children for saying anything about them in the past. I love them very much. They should speak for themselves when it comes to matters about them. I would only like to talk about what projects I'm working on and, and so on and so forth. My main focus right now is fantasy football. Yeah. I'm not even kidding. I'm in so many mock drafts all the time. I'm really just concentrating on managing your team and it's a really tough season. So much has happened. So many players are in so many different places. David Montgomery is a Texan. Um, you know, uh, we got a running back situation in the AFC east, um, we do. I'm just everywhere. You know, like how good is George Pickens going to be like? Yeah. Lock it. I love this. Yeah. I just don't know. It's really right now. I'm really just trying to lock in. I'm actually, uh, it's, uh, it's exhausting running our fantasy team because expectations could not be higher this season. I also want to apologize. I re, I rewatched the episode where I told Hanky, um, to be was a growth engine and stuff because Hanky asked what screens my to be movie was going to be on what, what movie theater and unlike Odyssey, it was, uh, to be as a streaming service, um, you know, I don't really like look at, I try to save battery on my Android. So I don't really have like, I don't really look at my reflection when I'm on your show. I don't really see what I'm looking like right now. Yeah. It was a bad physical look for me, um, screaming that, um, Hanky, uh, uh, saying very, very rude things about Hanky and all that sort of stuff. But the angle was like terrible. It was down here and I was very vascular and I had like bags under my eyes and stuff. It was, uh, it just wasn't a good luck. I want to, uh, Hanky, Hanky, I do want to apologize to you for, uh, saying a lot of those things. And physically what I would do to you. It's, it's not appropriate. It's not appropriate. Yeah. So it's to be not a growth engine. Oh, sorry. It's to be not a growth engine. No, to be is a growth engine, um, by the way, somehow the people at to be were very pleased with my, uh, my performance on, on part of my take when I was saying it was a growth engine. Now you had to apologize vehemently because unlike a bar stool, I deal with human resources a lot and just sort of what I was saying about what I was going to do to Hanky and, yeah, I was pretty graphic and vast. I was pretty graphic. Yeah. Yeah. But in a spin zone here, you actually were going to butt fuck, Hank, which is very against your cuck like tendencies to watch someone else butt fuck, Hank, right? That you're an alpha in that moment. You're an alpha. I would say if you, if you were going to power bottom, Hank, then I'd be like, yeah, that makes sense. But yeah, if you're, if you're doing the drilling, yeah, then yeah, that's kind of, you know, the bad ass for many will take that into consideration next year. That's bad ass. I'm not, I'm not doing any of that. I, I want to apologize to anyone who heard that. And I also don't want to affiliate the people to be with what I was saying. I was going to do to Hank and everything to be as a, uh, is a growth engine, just, just to switch everything up for a second, um, Hank, uh, little olive branch. I'm really excited about your patriots this season. Wow. Love that. They really look good. All of them. I got to tell you the biggest question I have and we'll deal with this when I do. Well, actually, let me, guys, is it okay if I start with, with the AFC East, hey, do you accept his apology? Come on, Hank. Yeah. We'll see what he says at the end of this call as of right now. Yes. What do you mean? I'm not going to say anything. I'm, I'm, I'm not going to say anything. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm actually done fighting with you. There's no, there's no beating you. You always say the one thing. You're like an act, keep puncturist with like rude things to say. You're just like, oh, let's just get this nerve right there. I'm, I'm, I'm, you just get it right in there. I get, I feel like I'm getting attacked. I'm attacking back every time. So that, that hundred percent, yeah, you are worthy adversary. I, I laid down my sword, Hank. I laid down my sword. Wow. I need to concentrate on true, uh, uh, uh, on, on, on people I can, you know, me victory, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They would happen with three. All right, Jerry. We'll see you. Thanks, Jerry. Thanks, Jerry. Congrats again. You could take that cut trophy and you could shove it up your ass, both you. You could shove it up your ass and you know what? I am going to cook and watch you guys that shoved up your ass. I'm going to watch Zach and Hanky shoving it up both your butts just like this. Yeah. Yeah. And then I'm going to be a growth engine right down there. Yeah. Blood flow. Show it up there. And I will watch. You're right. Maybe I am a cook. Yeah. I am a cook. I want to watch that. I want to watch you show that. Cocking up your ass. I want to watch it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, good. I'm right. You're right. I am a cook. I am a cook. Call me a cook. I'm a cook. I want to watch Big Cat and P.F.T. get that trophy shoved up their, their, their buttholes probably for sure it's not the first time something has been up there. So it's going to slip right in. Yeah. Both your heads are up there all the time. Thank you, Jerry. All right. Jerry's information about Jerry. Jerry. By the way, I'm sending you a send. I'm sending you a send. Oh. By the way, let me. I thought for sure when you said I was winning a take, I thought it was going to be something along the lines of best impersonation of, uh, Chino Smith with somehow still have not been canceled for that. But let me tell you something. If I ever run for city council here in Calabasas, for sure that video is coming up. Yeah. Okay. Um, oh, Jayden Daniels came up in one of my mock drafts yesterday. Wow. No. Huge. What'd you do? No. Uh, I, uh, I passed on. Sorry. I'm fine with that. Because you put them. I think number one overall last year. So I'm, I'm fine with you. Staying away from Jaden, please. Yeah. Looking at, looking at Caleb, though, Caleb. Here we go. Yeah. Yeah. You don't want this. Yeah. I'm a little nervous now. You don't want to want that. I want that thing. Also, we're going to have Zach learn how to do an impression of you, Jerry. Yeah. He's going to get on Cameo's. Oh, yeah. Personator of you. Yeah. Oh, cool. [BLANK_AUDIO] Just like Hank does every time I come on there. Yeah, he's an acupuncture. It's pretty cool. Yeah, evilist. Yeah. Yeah, no shame in the impediment game Jerry You know what no shaming in the impediment game is what Zack said he's got. Yeah, I'm in No, but Hank Hank. All right, Jerry. I'm gonna die our phones about to die. Okay. Are you still? You still recording backs? We're about I don't know what you're gonna say All right, the next award is Hank loss of the year. Hank loss of the year. Mr. Bingbong to Hank, you lost the year. Hank's taken into the shorts in the past 15 minutes. That's okay. That's why we love him. Hank lost of the year. I'm excited to see these nominees. First nominee for Hank lost of the year is live golf. Okay. It's currently playing Technically still a league. That's the best thing you can say about live The Super Bowl Nominate for Hank lost the year never really felt like the Patriots were in that one. I was just as hard-broken as Hank probably if not more Tough loss to the Seahawks. That's true The next nominee is the Celtics losing to the Sixers in seven games at Max's bachelor party in Vegas with a sweet full of dillentase Bad that would would you say that was one of the worst losses? Yeah Jill and Brock great player though Great player great player great player really good player. Yeah, I got to say. Yeah Definitely I'm man enough to say it Next nominee for Hank lost the year is Hank switching to lefty. So he's losing his ability to golf right hand Giving up on being right hand That's not a loss. That's a win. I've gained another hand That's good a good way to look at it. That's true. You now have two hands most people only have one But didn't you give up on the old hand? No, we're just lurches adding a new skill. Okay, most most golfers only use 50% of their God-given ability. Yeah, not you right the next nominee for Hank lost the year is the Boston Bruins Boston Bruins. Yeah, devastating. That was that's for you heartbroken about that. Yeah. Yeah, next nominee for Hank lost the year is Mike Brable He's still a coach still a coach still a coach took us to the Super Bowl except for the Sunday of the NFL draft Yeah, it went to rehab guys can't get better guys can fix themselves the next nominee for Hank lost the year is the Jalen Brown trade losing Jalen Brown added Paul George though and and future picks and kept Hugo. Yep, you love Paul George and Charmin kept Charmin and he only but only good things to say about Paul George at a Henry Lockwood Yeah, I mean I trust in Brad Stevens So that's a win you got a contract. You got Paul George's contract Pretty good The next nominee for Hank lost the years when you farted during the interview with Kill and More Far really loudly Although that was a win. That was very fun. I would also like to say it was it was just error escaping his butt It wasn't a fart. So we ever wrote this category not fair and the they didn't factor in physics physics and the chair and the fact that the The Pelkin's facility was right next door. Yeah, that's where the hat right next door The next nominee for Hank lost the year. There's a lot of these. This is damn It's a lot of loss to Yukon in front of a record-setting TV audience. Yes mind you. Yes, brilliant Mullins So what and that one hurt cuz we watched it like 75 times. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, and we reenacted it We have a cameo a guest presenter for Hank loss of the year. Oh Who is this? I like this Oh Winner for Most of the year by you Is All of Oh my god, great Bruce Buffer. That's the real Bruce Buffer. Yeah, that's not an impersonator No, that's him his wife is probably in the next room. Just like all day. He's doing that. I cameo Yeah, I did smile a little bit at that Hank That was that was funny. Yeah, it was bad dear that Hearing them all stacked up against each other. Yeah, it's like cuz you get the soup all and they're like all right That was bad then live and then to the switching hands. I don't Switching hands not a loss. This is not a loss. Well, some of those were reaches But it was it was a bad year. Can't win every year. No, but you also can rebuild it You lost a lot this year Loss a lot in big ways, but like you know, you got to you got to feel the loss So you know how to overcome them and then win again. Yeah true, but you used to just win Now there's a lot you know when you win so much. There's still there's the losses But usually the win's out way the losses. This is record saying the year of L after you actually won it losing the most after I'll so congratulations. Yeah, you this is the start of your winning. Yeah, yeah, cuz you went you win this war Yeah, you won the team. I'd like to thank the the committee for this award for Loss of the year and I would like to officially start my championship DVD for next year. Awesome. Good job, Hank All right, next up. We have the take-y for ratio of the year Some really good nominees including some people in this room, and we'll start with PFT you're nominated for ratio of the year because You said on June 12th. Hey Paraguay Fuck you, and then cultural Escobar said fuck you to quote-treating you Got seven and seven thousand six hundred retweets and the quote in 135,000 likes and the retreat was just a picture of a Paraguay in football player Doing a bicycle kick with the ball Exploding the World Trade Center. Yeah, so it was that was quite I'll take that out. Yeah, quite one I'll take that out how many likes 135,000 lights It's a great one. That's absurd. That's a great one. Yeah, hey football Jeff they do is actually nominator former co-worker for some some guy named Brandon car said you corny and fat Go get in the weight room He quoted it and said you're and you're a woman beating piece of shit and then posted the guy's arrest record He got a hundred and seven thousand likes on that ratio. Wow for four point four Retweets. That's a man of honor. Yeah, a man who ought to is nominated not once but twice The first one is if I'm Shedor Sanders, why am I listening to Todd Monkin? What have you won on an NFL level? He got four thousand eight hundred replies 3,100 tweets which were mostly all quote tweets. Yeah, retweets and then only a thousand likes That's tough to do. That's a really good ratio really really tough to do and many a lot So it just continues to cement himself as being the weirdest guy in sports. Yes easily We also have our own account part of my take account because after we lost What what what was this after March 17th? World baseball classic world baseball classic We tweeted the US has USA has 60 super roles. Venezuela has zero and then Leonard Ray's Quote treated us to the tune of 27,000 likes and it says United States zero domino championships Venezuela 61 domino championships. That's some good shit. Right. That's a really good. That's really good shit And finally a man you watch her again because he said The WMBA would be better without Caitlyn Clark Because she is a bigger distraction than he then she is additive That one got four thousand replies and only a thousand likes Also late edition nominee Pat McAfee for tweeting out an album coming out this day after he's gotten laid off a bunch of people. Yeah. Yeah, which I will be purchasing Said album. Yes, 100 percent. Yes. I was saying we should do we should do McAfee karaoke at some point Yes, I'd agree follow-up boy We're going down down and the winner of the ratio of the year Listen, I went into it being like we actually didn't put a winner here. Yeah It's got to be a manual watch. You know, he did such great work. Yeah, it's pretty good I mean those two The the the the snore Sanders should not listen to his head coach. Yeah Because what is he done in the league and then Caitlyn Clark is actually bad for the WMBA Unbelieve. Yeah, you his takes are sometimes indistinguishable from like a man recovering in a hospital from getting attacked by hammers That is kind of like where his brain is at most days He got ratio the other day too for for claiming that he that uh that Ryan Clark built in FL live Oh from the ground up. Oh, and then uh and then Tray Wingo flew in and he was like wait wait one dad burned second Because if you want to talk about building in FL live, let me put some stats on you So a manual watcher truly one of the dumbest to ever do it Can't wait to see what he has cooked up for us this year. Yeah, he really is he i feel like every year He's he's just he's he's basically competing against himself with this. Yeah, there's no one else out there He's just going to a point. He's Joey Chestnut. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's like one year that a bird of letty won Yeah, everything else No, all right pf. You want to do an ad before we get to our next award? Yes before we get to our next award Want to remind you guys about our great friends over at tick pick the takies are brought to you by tick pick The no fee ticket app Tick pick sent the boys to the NBA finals got to see the next one a championship. What a moment that we was I got to go out to the U.S. first Bosnian game. 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And the next award in the 2026 take is, is brand new category. The week one Super Bowl win of the year. Oh, there were a lot of, a lot of victories that in the moment felt huge. And in retrospect, we're not, we're really not worth anything. So the nominees for the week one Super Bowl win of the year are the Philadelphia 76ers beating the Boston Celtics in game seven in the first round of the play. Well, that was huge. Technically, that would, that wouldn't be week one. That'd be. Well, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's the week one. Sentiment is like, oh, congrats on your week one Super Bowl. You're not going to win anything else. Well, that would be round, that would be round one. Yeah. It's not an actual literal week one. Maximum, just going to spoil it for you. None of these are actually week one NFL games. Okay. But you understand figure of speech. Like round one wouldn't, would have made more sense. Well, not all of them around one three out of four around one is round three. Okay. The expression week one Super Bowl, it's the celebration after a big win that then immediately follows a big loss. Got it. Yeah. So the sixers, you know, very happy and then reality came. Yeah. I'm, I'm curious to continue listening to these. Okay. The second nominee is did the nominees. Yeah, I know. There's got to go bears. There we go. Just wanted to make sure that was in there. It's over there. It's over to make sure it was in there. You have the same Google document as it's in there. It's in there. Actually, us getting under your skin for that first nominee, that was, that was a week one Super Bowl. We just had. Yeah. For this category. And we do that. So you're about to have a big loss. Yeah. Cause we both have two nominees coming up. The bears over the packers. Yep. In the playoffs. It was fair. Great time. Yeah. So much fun. And then you ran into the big bad man. He's not that big or bad. He's like medium-size. Yeah. It's good play for Jay. No, he's good play. Hey, good play. Hey, Jaylen Brass. Good play. Good play. Good play. And McPhase six back. Yeah. Yeah. Fourteen back. The third nominee is J.M.U. covering in the first round of the college football playoff against Oregon. That would be a victory that was not a victory at all. But we'll take him where we can get him. And then the last nominee is the San Antonio Spurs beating the Oklahoma City Thunder and everybody thinking that this is Wendy's time to shine congrats to the Spurs for winning a B.H. Championship. Crying his eyes out. Cry to that. It's not a problem with. But you got to win the title after that. Yep. So we have we have an award presenter for this. This was Hank. Hank got a presenter here. Tupes on us. Oh. What's up boys? The Lentay Brothers here. Broadcasting for Writtenhouse Square in Philadelphia. We're here to present the week one Super Bowl winner of the year and accept the award on behalf of the sixers beating the Celtics in Game 7 of Round 1. Yeah. Very honored and privileged to be accepting this award on behalf of all Philadelphia. As everyone knows, we were out in Vegas for this incredible feat. This is a good thing, boys. We just really took it to those Celtics, you know. Just put them in their place and now we've supplanted them as the top dog in the division. We really had a hell of a time out there. Not true. Nick Radley won the NBA championship in Las Vegas with dinners and celebrations and just good vibes all around. So it was a hell of a Super Bowl and we're happy that we were with our buddy Hank. I can't believe he did. Anything. I'm just a little surprised that we're not getting the award for the greatest policing of the year. There we go. My dad's he just did. It's a Brad Steven's getting Jalen Brown. Yep. And we'll say it one more time. Jalen Brown. I love it. Hank, by the way, in like planning out the takies, kind of a mishmash. I'm trying to get everything organized and sending, hey, you get this cameo, you get that cameo. This morning I saw this award and I was like, oh, shit, we don't have a cameo for it. I texted double D and I was like, hey, can you send a video for this award? And he's like, Hank texted me yesterday, me and Nick already got it. So we're, we're same wavelength. We're alive. And he said he, he noted great category though I, I stand by that we should have one for biggest fleecing. I wanted to do delent in the award. I think it goes double D. Yeah. Just for talking to himself with a T box saying, come on, double D. I would agree. You just like the nickname double D. I love the double D. That's really what it is. I'm a tits guy. Yeah. We only say, oh, man, we got, we might have to do another batch of right just, just this room, partying, but bringing your brothers, I miss them the best. Yeah. Yeah. I can't believe they exist. They were like, Nick was proud of when this award, he didn't see this as they don't understand. No, they didn't push back at all. Hank was so happy during the entire presentation. Oh, man, they were, yeah, they, they're, they're raising a banner. Yep. Oh, man, all right, great award, great award. All right. We next up we have Michigan man of the year. Michigan was big in sports this year. We had coaches getting fired for weird things. We had best selling authors and Dave Portner, we had national championships in basketball. So Michigan man of the year, the nominees are Shron Moore, Michigan man of the year, keeping Michigan on task this year, maybe not the best year possible, but hey, listen, maybe, you know, they won a few games here and there. They also got Bryce Underwood going. So Michigan man of the year, Shron Moore is nominated. Yeah. Was it a good tenure? Who's to say? Yeah. Dave Portner, our boss, congratulations on the New York Times bestseller. You are nominated for Michigan man of the year. We also have award manual for being an ADU's one in national championship in both basketball and football. Few and far between. Yep. Dusty May, Dusty May for winning national title, then going to the Mavericks, some say the greatest Michigan man to get out of there. But is there anything more Michigan man than leaving before the consequences arrived? No, that is the most Michigan man. And then we have Adam Schaefter for just being a Michigan man, yeah, through and through. Okay. I have a special guest for Michigan man of the year. Hi, this is Dave Portner, Michigan class of 99 here to present the award for Michigan man of the year. And the winner is Shron Moore, Congrats coach, hope you're doing well. I don't know what Quiggs put in the AI prompt for Dave to like go to the envelope. Yeah. If you saw the AI got a little confused there and he just he put his hand in front of him and then pulled out absolutely nothing. Nothing. I want to see like which, which videos of Dave the AI drew on to, did you go with that beard? Yeah. It's actually a really good haircut. He's right there. So congrats to Shron Moore, Michigan man of the year, huge congrats for him. He really embodies everything that Michigan is and believes. Yep. The next category is the wedding of the year. We love love on part of my take. The nominee is for a wedding of the year, 2026 are max max, max getting married. You got married a lot. Yeah. Max before nominees. Next nominee is Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift got married at Madison Square Garden, something that we all thought for sure would be way, way too tacky for her. But sounds like it was a great wedding, Dean Blendina was there and I think everybody had a great time. And it couldn't sit down, eat dinner. Yeah. Oh, wow. I didn't know about that. I didn't know about that either. Standing dinner. Yeah, people were just like standing around. Wow. Okay. There were enough seats. Next nominee for wedding of the year is Max Wedding number two. Oh. The second time Max got married. Second time. Yep. The next nominee for wedding of the year is Pug, 99 Pug. Pug got married this year. Well Pug. We love you Pug. Next nominee for wedding of the year is Sam Darnold. Congratulations Sam. I, to be honest, I forgot that Sam Darnold got married. You did get married. The next nominee for wedding of the year is Tyree's Halliburth. Also, forgot he got married. Oh no, he got married like yesterday. Yeah. Congrats Tyree's Halliburth. That's a great entry. Late entry. The winner for wedding of the year, we have a guest presenter. Oh. And the winner for the 2026 take-y for wedding of the year. May I have the envelope, please? Thank you. - Wow. - Max Dolente. - Yay! - Congratulations, fellow Pizano. (clapping) - Love it. - There's good Pizano. - Furio from, from, from a, superannos and he, he made an actual card that said takees. - Pretty impressive stuff. - Did he do that? - That's good, that's good talk. - It looked like it said 20, 26 takees. - That's incredible. - Thank you, Furio. - That guy does his cameos right. - Yeah, that's a guy you want to go back to. Give that guy a rating. - Yep. - Absolutely. - Yeah, screenshot that, we'll use that for some promo. That's incredible. - Yep. - Okay. - I still wish he had pushed Tony into that, that propeller at that one time, I know. 'Cause like after that happened, then Tony goes on, he, he kills Christopher. - Him and Carmelo, who were perfect together. - Yeah. - Max, congratulations. Do you accept? - Yes, I accept. - One more. - One more. - Do you have one more in you? - You got one more in you? - Don. Don. (laughing) All right, next up, we have Animal of the Year. Animal of the Year. This has been a big year for animals, fun animals. First up, we have Neil the Seal. The Sea Lion actually in, where was he? Was he in South Africa? - South Africa, it was just wrecking shit. He was like a 10,000 pounds just dumbing everything in sight. And everyone was just like, hey, we gotta let Neil the Seal do his thing. We have the bison who flipped the old man upside down, probably a video of the year for being honest. We have the snakes in China. The snakes in China who were in that river over the flood. That was fucked up. Punch the monkey, which we've spoken about, Punch the Monkey, I still maintain that I would like to do a vibe check on Punch the Monkey. He was the monkey that got bullied and everyone felt bad for him. No one asked a simple question. Is Punch the Monkey just a bad hang? - I was watching that and I was just seeing nature tickets. It's course. They knew that Punch was going to get them in trouble. - And then the last is Jimmathy, the mutant raccoon that has gone viral recently. Jimmathy, yeah. Is it a mascot of the Titans? - He's not the mascot of the Titans, he might be. All right, do we have animal of the year? - Oh, we do. - Wow. - Oh my God. Our favorite animal. - Our favorite animal. - What's up guys? This is former President Pog here. Just announced in the takey winner for animal of the year. Without further ado, the winner is the bison who flipped that guy over. - Wow. - Hope all's well fellows miss you. Pug. (laughing) - Banger. Banger. - Oh, so good. - Thanks, you surprised us with that. Pug. - Joe also is going to be someone else. - Well, yeah, that person said no, so. - Oh, so you got Pug last minute. - Yeah, Pug sent that in like 20 minutes ago. - Pug's always there for us. - Yep. - Always there for us. - Okay. The next category is ball of the year, new category. Ball of the year. - Okay. - And the nominees are Lamello. Lamello ball, not the world's best driver, but he's got a change of scenery. An entire new municipality to terrorize with his car. Oldie is nominated for ball of the year. - Yeah. - Oldie's balls, he was shown to anybody that would look at the bonfire last year, a campfire stool. The pouches, what legends are made out of. Actually, I don't know what that's made out of, but shout out to Oldie and his balls. Next nominee for ball of the year is Solo. Solo ball. Just having Solo ball on TV. - Yep. - Great for balls. - Yep. - New nominee, I just put this in right now. - Yeah, I was wondering what that was going on. Joshua Karota Grower has been nominated for ball of the year. He plays for the athletics, foul-tipped a ball into his own ball. Oh, last night, ruptured his testicle at the plate, stayed in the game, got a base hit, and then went to the hospital. - Oh. - We had to have emergency surgery. - Fuck. - So that's one tough ball. - Yep. - And then the final nominee for ball of the year is Tyler Schuck. - Yeah. - 'Cause it's just so fucking catchable. - Such a good ball. - I can't wait for Schuck season. - Such a good ball. - Do you guys have to play Schuck this year? - Yeah, I believe there's our redemption game on the schedule. - You have two, you have two, twice. - Yeah. - Does anyone else have to play Schuck? - 'Cause that would break my heart. - Let's see, let's see what the Saints schedule is. - I should know this. - I do not think the Bears play the Saints this year. - The Saints play the Lions? - We do not play the Saints. - Oh shit, we do play the Saints this year. - Fuck. - Yep. - Oh yeah, that's right. - You're the only one in this room, I think we play the NFC South. - Yeah. - Fuck. - Fuck. - Let's see you get to play the NFC South. - November 22nd, okay. - All right, well, sorry Schuck, we're gonna have to shut you down. - We're gonna have to intercept that. Catchable ball. - The winner of ball of the year, I believe we have a guest presenter for this one too. - That's right. I'm LeVal balled, a big CEO, a big ball of brand. You know, I got a hell of an announcement to make. That's right. The winner of the 2026 Taki for ball of the year is Tyler Shoah. That's how it's going down. The quarterback for the New Orleans Saints. Triple B style, big ball of brand is in the building. And you know how we do this. Now again, the winner of the 2026 Taki for ball of the year is Tyler Shoah. There he is, big ball is out in Hava. - Great job. - Haven't heard from LeVal a while. - Great to see LeVal. - Good to see you still out there doing this. Okay, Tyler Shoah, congratulations ball of the year. Well deserved. All right, next up we have a new category. It is the guerrilla trade of the year. The nominee is the Pittsburgh Zoo trading with the Boston Zoo, the getting little Joe for Frankie. And that's the only nominee. So let's get to the winner. - The Taki award for the guerrilla trade of the year goes to Pittsburgh for trading Frankie to Boston for little Joe. And it's not true that Boston is going to get a guerrilla to be named later. - And that is the king, Mike Francesa. Thank you so much to Mike Francesa for, he does not have cameo, by the way. His son, it works for us and he's great. And it was very funny because I asked him. And Mike Francesa is the best. But he, he was like, I was talking to his son and I was like, "Hey, we really like it if he could do the Taki award for guerrilla trade of the year." And he was like, "All right, he's going to think about it." And I said, "All right, well, let me know if you need me to call him or text him or anything to explain it more." He said, "No, no, he understands. He's going to sleep on it." And then he got back to us. - The king. - And he's like, "I've decided." - The sports Pope, I've decided we're going to do this. - Yeah, we're going to do the guerrilla trade this. - And bonus, we have a very special bonus. We actually talked to the CEO of the Pittsburgh Zoo to see if you would accept the Taki for guerrilla trade of the year and break down the actual trade. So let's do that. - Okay, now on to officially accept the Taki for guerrilla trade of the year is the Pittsburgh Zoo president and CEO, Jeremy Goodman. Jeremy, thank you so much for joining us. First of all, congratulations. You have won guerrilla trade of the year. - Now, thank you so much. This is an honor. I mean, it's something that, as a little boy, you always think about and grown up in the zoo world about winning that guerrilla trade. And the fact that we were able to pull that off this year, it was a total team effort. - That's awesome. So can you walk us through the trade? When is the trade, are you making calls all the time? Are you calling zoos everywhere around America being like, who's on the market? Is there a trade deadline with zoos? How does that work? - Yeah, there's no official trade deadline. We're always talking with the other zoos. We're more like colleagues than competitors, but everybody's trying to have the best zoo possible. Just like the best team possible. And we're always looking for new animals, different animals, trying to make sure that get the right matches. Chemistry is really important. You can't just put two animals together and win a Super Bowl. It's just one ball sort of thing. It's trying to do your homework and scouting and very similar in a lot of ways. And that's how you get success and get a winning team. - Can you walk us through this particular trade? When you decided to pull the trigger on it, what other offers there might have been out there and what the overall strategy was for you behind why you thought this was a good fit? - Yeah, we were silverback is the most important position in a gorilla troop or a gorilla team, if you will. And we were down a silverback. We just didn't have one anymore and it was a big hole to fill and we were looking all over. And the rest of the team, our females may have some youngsters that really needed that kind of big role model to look up to. And somebody who would be good with the youngsters. So we did our homework and Lil Joe was on the top of the list. And as James were represented, but we really thought he would be a great fit. And our younger guy, Frankie, he was an amazing animal. I mean, he was born here, homegrown talent, really just everybody loved him. But, you know, it was. his time to shine and his time to move on and you know become part of another team, another troop and you know he's wreaking havoc over there and Boston and Little Joe is just trying to fit in with his new teammates here. So the plan with Little Joe and we obviously aren't experts, we're not Adam Schaefter or Ian Rappport when it comes to these type of trades. But what we understood and maybe you can correct me is that Little Joe now you could potentially have more guerrillas, you can make more guerrillas with Little Joe, whereas Frankie's not ready for that yet. So this is a play for the future where you can you can basically rebuild in the farm system with Little Joe potentially producing more guerrillas. Yeah, absolutely. I mean that's the job of Silverback and you know to it's the primary job in defending the team and the troop. It's it's to produce little little guerrillas and that's what we're really hoping for that he hits it up with our females and you know before you hit Silverback age you're in your bachelor years and that's where Frankie is right now and he's with the bachelor troop over in Boston and they're doing their thing, not ready to you know they're just in a different stage of life as Little Joe is and you know this is something that you know we're ready now, we've got some great females here and just really hoping Little Joe meshes with everybody and we have those little little guerrillas to help the species. That's interesting. It's a Silverback driven league is what I'm hearing and so that was a that was a big glaring hole that you had on your roster. It sounds like you feel I hope that he's able to make some more guerrillas for you. How common are these types of trades? How often do you engage in not just guerrillas but maybe anything that you have to do? How often are you on the phone with somebody else talking about a potential trade? Yeah, pretty frequently actually it's not it's not always a one-for-one trade. A lot of times you know it's the player to be named later type of type of deal. But yeah we were talking with some other zoos right now about them taking some of our you know one or two of our animals and us getting a few in return and the good thing about zoos is yeah we're all very cooperative and we all want to see each other succeed to solve about the animals and and that's really what all these these trades and you know are about is just making sure that everybody has that right-winning team in combo. As your in your career as president CEO have you had a trade that you've looked back on and been like I kind of messed that one up? Not that I've messed up but I you know there was one trade that I just had to steal the country yeah just work with another zoo we were looking we had it was a giant tortoise trade and they were looking for some new genetics and we had some baby giant tortoises which weren't so giant yet and in return we got some you know 600 pounders and I couldn't believe I pulled that one off but you know once again we got what we needed and they got what they needed and that's the definition of a good trade in the end is everybody wins. You do sound like how he rosy that's like almost word for word when he described to us when we're like sometime you know you've had your way with a couple other teams got some really good trade he's like you know ultimately we want everybody to be better we the best trades of win wins you like bar for bar you are the how he rosy of zoo is as I think it's smart you want yeah you want to you want to keep everyone else wanting to trade with you because if they have a bet a lot of parity in this league you know we really yeah want to keep everybody on an even playing field and you know well we want our zoo to be the number one zoo and finish you know number one each year you know we have no animosity to anybody else. Where do you guys rank? You know rank in zoos is pretty arbitrary you know some people rank off of acreage number of animals you know different amenities yeah I think we were pretty high up there uh in fact we have both a zoo and aquarium and have over 10,000 animals here in Pittsburgh is uh you know puts us pretty high on the list and uh you know certainly if uh a little Joe does his job uh we'll be moving up in those rankings. I would I would measure it by smiles per customer hmm the happier you make. We have plenty of those all I got to do is look out my window and see all the smiling kids and adults and uh just shows you why we're in this business. Are there ways that you can tell when maybe an animal is not happy at the zoo? I know you never want to have an animal that doesn't feel like they're a fit there but can you tell when maybe an animal is doing their version of requesting a trade uh maybe it's like James Harden they get heavy uh they appear sluggish and lethargic and at that time you know it's time to move on or has that ever happened to you? Um you know not every trade works out not every you know acquisition works out uh you know we try to make them all work uh but if sometimes they don't then um you know depending on the situation you know sometimes you just have to move that item along to another location where they can succeed um it really depends you know there's a lot of things that our staff are keepers do to try to make sure that each and every one of the animals that comes into our facility uh um is happy and successful but uh sometimes as like you said it's just not the right fit and uh if that's the case then we work to try to make sure that we get that that individual into a better place where it is a good fit. Is there a win now mode for zoos because I feel like when you guys have when a when a zoo has a big baby birth that's like a win now mode like we're in Chicago the Lincoln Park Zoo just had a baby rhino and I took my kids there instantly I think we gotta go see the baby rhino and it was so fucking cute so is there do you guys when you guys have a big baby uh born or you like oh we gotta let's go let's hammer it let's get out in the press let's let everyone know hey we got a baby seal we got a baby giraffe we got all these babies we got it you got to come see them. Yeah I mean I think all zoos are in win now mode um you know I think uh with the rate of uh species becoming endangered every day and going extinct we have to be in win mode uh win now mode um you know otherwise we're gonna lose more species so yeah it's something uh it's great you know for visitors to come out and see but you know the bottom line is is that uh we're really trying to uh you know save all these different incredible animals and uh um you know and when we have I mean we just debuted a baby lion cub and you know she is amazing and you know people are coming out like crazy but it's it's more than that it's really about you know continue and make sure that that species is around forever and uh so our grandkids and their kids can uh you know experience the same really cool animals that we do today. That's awesome all right so Jeremy thank you so much for joining us I have one last question is a rowback question rho back.com promo code take 20% off your first purchase qzips polo uh polos joggers everything rowback.com promo code take zack you ready. So Jeremy how are you doing today sir good how are you having a great day I did have a quick question for you uh I was curious throughout your you know zoo career moving up the reins again to the office that you do hold now is there anyone you can point to that maybe you shaped your game after like took inspiration from win uh climbing these ranks into where you're at today. Yeah I mean there's a lot of folks that I've really looked up to over the years and um surprisingly enough uh you might not expect this one but uh Walt Disney um was a big fan just uh how visionary he was and you know just to look at some florida swamp and and you know envision this whole big incredible park and enterprise um very uh try to learn a lot from uh from wealth and everything he's done and within the zoo world there there's so many mentors that I've had that um you know probably two numerous to name but um yeah uh there's a lot of people that I've looked up to that have helped shape my career and that I owe a lot to so uh very much uh indebted to all those folks great question exact great question yeah well Jeremy thank you so much for joining us congratulations again uh we'll we actually could make you uh we'll make you a plaque and we'll send it to the zoo if you want to put up I have a spot in my wall already for it I love it I love it and Jeremy if you if you make any more trades let us know we would love to be like the the news breakers for announcement for any zoo trades that happen we would love to be ground zero for those so if you've got anything or if there's an animal that you have on the trading block right now we can even maybe try to gas that up a little bit other zookeepers that listen to this podcast know that you've got something that you're looking to maybe wheel and deal yeah or even like other other other zoos you're like I'm here in the Kansas city zoo is like looking for a giraffe we'll post that we'll put that out yeah sounds good thank you so much appreciate it Pittsburgh zoo CEO Jeremy Goodman was brought to you by simply safe in the in the United States there's a break in every 26 seconds that means somewhere right now and intruder is getting closer the problem is most security systems only alert you after a break and it's already started and that's too late so I chose simply safe to secure my home using the outdoor camera series two and advanced AI alerts simply safe as a us based live agent that identifies threats on your property it helps to deter them stopping crime before it starts it's real peace of mind simply safe is a game changers been a game changer for me it could be a game changer for you I want you to experience the same peace of mind that I get which is why I've partnered with simply safe to offer an exclusive discount to my listeners right now you can get 50% off your new system you just have to visit simply safe calm slash PMT that's half off simply safe calm slash PMT there's no safe like simply safe get 50% off that new system simply safe calm slash PMT okay what do we got next pft we got around and up we're getting close to the end here great category next is the still alive person of the oh love this still alive person of the year of the nominees for Still Live Person of the Year. Ray Charles whose voice was used during the All Star game and is not still alive. But he's still alive to be in Hank. And the video too. Yeah. They they duped us. What video? They made it look like he was on the field. Yeah, they made it look like he was right there. That was bullshit. The next nominee for Still Live Person of the Year, Joe Biden, president Joe Biden. Very much. We've just seen that Joe Biden is 100% still alive. Also nominated for Still Live Person of the Year Mitch McConnell. We know that he's still alive because he somebody put a newspaper in his hand, which is what you do to somebody when you take their picture. Yep. Next nominee for Still Live Person of the Year is Mr. Pair. Mr. Pair still alive. The turtle memes. Still live has bachelor pad in Missouri. All right. Yeah. PMT bachelor pad at Chicago. We should go. PMT bachelor party at Gmail. Thank you. Thank you, Max. The next nominee for Still Live Person of the Year is Ted Turner. Still alive. No. But Ray Charles is. Committee got that one wrong. Okay. Next nominee for Still Live Person of the Year Jeffrey Epstein. Very much still alive. Very much still. Yeah. To your research. Next nominee Still Live Person of the Year Lindsey Vaughn. Congrats to Lindsey Vaughn for still being alive. Remember that? Yeah, she crashed. She tore ACL and then she said, I'm not gonna, I'm not done skiing. Yeah. And then she crashed and everybody was like, yeah, well, you were skiing with a torn ACL. Yeah. Probably a bad idea. Next nominee for Still Live Person of the Year is Pug. Yeah. How do we know he's still alive? Well, because he just won. We just, we just, oh, he won Pug. Still alive person of the year. We love Pug. We love Pug. Great. You guys trying to kill Pug. No, I don't know who decided that Pug was a winner. I don't know where that came. Yeah. How did Pug become the winner? Let's do that again. Let's give it to someone else. Yeah. I just love it. Let's go ahead. Shane went rogue. Shane went rogue. I thought we were going to give it to Shane here. Pug. I take so. Oh, because the onion, because of the onion. The real winner is Shane for still employed person. No, the real winner of Still Live Person of the Year is also nominated was Jerry Jones. I forgot to nominate Jerry Jones. The winner of the still alive person of the year. This isn't a perfect word show people. You know that. It's not somebody, somebody did go rogue and put Pug in there. Yeah. The winner is Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones was sorry. Congratulations. Jerry Jones. Still do. Congratulations. Congratulations. All right. Next up, we got fight of the year. Fight of the year. Oh, yep. Shane is trying to know. As always, just trying to cop out of it and just be like, oh, it wasn't my fault. Pug was on the dark when I was making graphics. The winner. Oh, maybe it was Dom trying to kill Pug. Yep. Okay. Fight of the year. We got some good fights this year. We have the next twerking fan fight. When the member, if you remember the parade, the lady pulled her pants down and then she just tossed her off a light post. We have the Dennis Robbins Spurs fan who is from Philly. Yeah. Who just put on a Spurs jersey and said, I'm going to go fuck up some, you know, people. I'll do respect to that guy. Yeah. I'll do respect. We have Hank Verst Big Dom. At the NFL Combine. Great fight. Max, you remember seeing that fight? Yeah. No, you ran away. Sorry, you're pussy. Yeah. Uh, we have Conor McGregor for those 15 seconds, 15 seconds. Uh, then we have a couple of barstool ones. Uh, Kelly Keiggs versus Sam Goldfinder fight of the year at barstool spring break house. And then finally, Benman's versus crutches. Uh, it's an ongoing fight. No, crutches wins by submission. Yeah. All right. The winner for Fight of the year is Hank and Big Dom. Oh, wow. What a fight, Hank. Would you like to accept? Yeah, I'd like to thank, I'd like to accept. I'd like to thank you guys, my partners. Uh, forgive me this award. I don't like the way you said that. Okay. And and Big Dom's a worthy adversary. I think I think we squash the beef at the end of it, but sometimes you've got to, you know, chuck knucks and then come out stronger on the other side. Yeah. Okay, good point. Good point. Max, would you like to accept on behalf of Big Dom? Uh, no, that's Big Dom's award. Uh, I can't accept on his via. Okay. Okay. Next, next category in the 2026 takies that just chill out of the year. A lot of people need to chill out this year. Mm hmm. First nominee is Max. Mm hmm. For, uh, screaming at McPhill in the gambling cave. Uh, one of my favorite moments. That was a great moment of the fall season. Got really in his face. Um, next time I'm back. What's up? What's up? I didn't need to do that with that. It's just chill out. Just chill out. We're not, we're not saying anything big. It's just like, hey, maybe chill out. Yeah, that, that, yeah. Maybe yeah, chill out. Just chill out. I had this, yeah, just chill out. Take a chill chill out. Next nominee for just a lot of the year is Max for slapping Hank. Mm hmm. Well, that was all right. Eric Max. I was instructed to do that. Yeah. But just chill. Okay. So yeah, you could be instructed to murder someone that's still murder. Good point. What do they say to that when they do crimes against humanity and, uh, and the Nuremberg trials? Just falling orders. Fallen orders. I was. I was falling orders. There's there's, there's many good maxes. Yeah. Yeah. The next nominee for just chill out of the year is Mark Sanchez. Oh, just chill out, man. Yeah. Just chill out. He had to chill out. I think he chilled out. You might have gotten the message. Yeah, I think he chilled. Next nominee is Ryan Clark, uh, for going up Peach Rager. Yeah. On the air. Just chill out. Just chill out. That was not that serious. Big time chill out. Not that serious, Ryan. And next nominee for just chill out of the year, uh, Pat McAfee for releasing an album. Okay. I guess it's not super chill timing on the album. I'm still gonna listen. Chill out. Yeah. Next nominee for chill out of the year is Max. For when he, uh, ran to the kitchen, grabbed a knife, and then proceeded to stab all of our inflatable animals. Uh, our positivity rabbit. Trying to make him feel better after he goes lost and you aren't trying to make me feel better. We weren't trying to make you feel better. That's, that's a lie. It's positivity. That's a fucking lie. Max. I don't think you understand what a positivity rabbit is. You still don't. Okay. Is that it? Uh, yeah. What? I got into addition. Oh, okay. Please. Max. Oh, for, uh, losing a game to the Broncos, hitting me again, taking my phone and throwing it across the room. Oh, yeah. Screaming in my face. Yeah. Doddington Bones. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You weren't here. Did you hear on Friday, acupuncturist right there, just being like, the Doddington Bones. Doddington Bones. I found AJ Brown signed his, like, locker room, like, placard after that game. And I almost won the auction. I don't know what happened. I would have, uh, it would have been great. It was the Doddington Bones game. Mm. That had been all time. A combo of AJ Brown Doddington Bones. I was thinking out for you, Hank. I would love that. We're trying to find it. Next year, I'm going to be chill. No. Uh, the winner of the Just Chill Out Man award. It's Max. Max. You had a just, yeah, like time achievement award and needing to chill out. Yeah. I do need a chill. This one, this one I will accept and I will, it's, you're, it's correct. You're not trying to go back to back. Although the Mark Sanchez one's probably worse. Yeah. Probably. Maybe. Who's to say? Probably. Uh, okay, our next award is Dildo Toss of the year. Uh, we had a great year for Dildo Tossing. We had, uh, big, yeah, just a lot of Dildo Tosses. So our nominees are, uh, the WMBA Dildo Tosser on July 29, 2025, the Atlanta Dream in Golden State Valkyries game, uh, WMBA Thrower number two, August 1st, also Golden State Valkyries versus Chicago Sky, and then WMBA Thrower number three, August 3rd, 2025, uh, the fever versus sparks. Zach, you got us a cameo for this. Yes, sir. All right. What up? It's Bam Margera and the winner of the 2026 taking for the Dildo Toss of the year goes to the second Dildo Toss at the WMBA game. Congratulations. All right. Bam. Thanks, Bam. Looking good. Oh, he looks great. Yeah. Can't wait for Jackass. Is he a jackass? Yeah. Uh, no. Uh, uh, Zach, great cat. I figured there was nobody else to get for that one. Yeah. He fell into one one. No, that was great, great, great cat. Okay, we got a five lot, or a few left. A few left. Uh, the next category is the apology of the year. Um, apology of the year nominees. Luke Quant for his nine minute long YouTube video that he posted, apologizing for sleeping in, where I don't think he said that he was sorry or apologized. No, but it was nine minutes and there was a lot of things that he said on it. Yep. Um, the next nominee for apology of the year, Ryan Clark for apologizing for the things that he said to Peter Shreger regarding you do not play football. You don't have an opinion. Yeah. Uh, the next nominee for apology of the year, Bajan Robinson. Bajan Robinson for saying, uh, in a post game interview, it's like when we played smear the queer as a kid. Uh, the next nominee for apology of the year, it would be, uh, the YGT and Michael Block drama, yes, where it was the Brian Brothers and Grant Horvath that put in a clip from Michael Block that they probably should have put in. Did I get that right? No, no, it was actually a totally knows nothing. Clips. Yeah. And then they released a long statement saying, apologizing for including this clip. Yeah, it was just basically Michael Block having a bad, uh, round of golf missing a pot and then being upset about it, which is a total - Totally normal thing. - Yeah. - And then they apologized and said, we like to just only be positivity. We don't like to spread that type of negativity. - Okay, drum roll please. - Okay. (drum roll) I'm gonna give it to YGT and Michael Bloch. - Okay, yeah. - The nothing burger apology is always very funny. - It's so funny. 'Cause it also was like, I, everyone did the same thing where I was like, what are they apologizing for? And then I watched and I was like, wait, what are they apologizing for? - What I've learned is that a lot of people that are in the YouTube golf community are are very sensitive individuals. - I don't understand how people play golf and don't bust each other's balls. - I mean, don't bust balls also. Don't you fucking take a picture in their backs one? - No. - Would you not want to garnish attention through drama controversy but through high quality golf? - Yeah. I know a place where you can see how to high quality golf. - We are thankful for everyone's commitment and participation on the YGT and they deserve to be portrayed in a more positive light. - So they're just all rainbows and gumdrops. - It's combined. - Yeah, they're like, hey, Michael Bocks competed and he's miked up and then we put in a clip of him being upset from the competition while he's still miked up, which is what he signed up for. - Correct. - And also what people want to see the human interactions. - The real human interactions, not the like, oh, good shot, good shot. - Now hang out. - Because you see why maybe people don't want us to be kumbaya? Do you guys ever think about that? - You guys are the kumbaya. - What if we ever, what? - You're a kumbaya. You started kumbaya. - What do you mean we're the kumbaya? - No, I made a statement and then you guys were, whoa, whoa, I thought we're gonna be kumbaya. - Oh, you guys wanted to be kumbaya. - You wanted to be kumbaya. - No, we said we wanted to be kumbaya at the beginning of the Mount Rushworks. You have a long, Mount Rushmore. - Right. - You were no longer at the beginning. - Okay. - But further I could, you guys wanted kumbaya. - No, I said we could, no, I think you said. - I actually think you said it first. - Yeah, Hank didn't say it first. - Yes. - Hank's gaslighting us right now. - I think you are gaslighting us. Can someone help? They get help, help? - I don't, I don't. - They're help? They're the help? - I have no opinion on this matter. - It's not an opinion, it's just a memory. - He wasn't listening. - He wasn't listening matter. - I was listening. It's who was the kumbaya? No one's kumbaya. I don't know. 'Cause you imagine if this podcast was kumbaya. Like if we did it like these guys. - I suck. - We should kumbaya. - No, look who you guys want. - Yeah, do kumbaya. - No it's not. You suck gaslighting us, you fucker. - I swear to God, you said. - Yeah, Hank came up with kumbaya. Shane, find us this clip. - You might be gaslighting us. - No, never. - I also might have misremembered. - No, I think that's it. - Lots of PFT just remembers how he wants and then says. This is what I said. - I wasn't fully listening. - I'm pretty sure that Hank said it first. Oh man. - All right, next up we have Fart of the Year. - Oh, great. - Who could potentially win this one? The nominees are Chuck Schumer. - Oh yeah, it's good fart. - Good fart, good fart. Scotty Schaffler at the open in 2025 when he farted when he was sweet. - Yeah, they submitted to us on our show. - I con it. - Big clip. - The Noah Con fan, that wasn't really a fart. That was just a poop. They shat themselves and they kind of like stepped on it. - That was a full blown fart, yeah. And then finally Henry Lockwood for his fart at the New Orleans Saints facility, which is right next to the Pelicans facility. - True. - Fart asterisk. - Turn your killing more interview. And also the chair was very solid. It was a solid chair. - Yeah, it's circular. - It's a circular chair, yeah. - Just sitting on it. - Wait, I might have another sweet nominee. - Okay, oh, got it. - Oh, oh, this is a cool, this is- - That was way, that was way, it was a little shit. - You got to wipe your butt, you got to wipe your butt. - Is a little wet, yeah. - And give him a show, pink eye. - Okay, the winner for fart of the year is Henry Lockwood. - I'm raking it in this shit, hardly. - Yeah, all those losses, I feel like I'm sitting here. - We're trying to gas our guy up. - I'm like, you asked us to do kumbaya, we're doing it. - Five takies, I did not. But I would like to thank the committee. I think the Scotty Shepler probably deserved it. Bigger clip, bigger, bigger profile. But I'll take it, I'll take any award I can get. There's a lot of losses this year and I'm just gonna keep stacking little win after little, that's how you end up getting big one after big one. - Yeah, yeah, I like that, good job, Hank. - Good job. - And I'll keep farting. - Yeah, not gonna stop. - Never stop farting. - Not retiring. - You got one more in you, Vince Carter. - I got a lot more in me. - Okay. Next category is the retirement of the year. The nominees for retirement of the year are the Miyamax podcast. For walking away from covering the Carolina Panthers and then afterwards the Panthers going to Win streak and then they came back later on the season, but it was all good vibes from them. Next nominee is Lee Corso. Walked away from college football. It was actually a cool way that he went out because it was the first game that he did on college football and college game day. - I agree. - The next nominee for retirement of the year, Mike Verabel for retiring for a day during the NFL draft and then coming back, didn't retire. The next nominee for retirement of the year is Ralphie the Buffalo, Colorado. Just had no interest in running anymore. So they had to send Ralphie to greener pastors. Shout out Ralphie, we all understand what you're going through. - Very relatable. - The final nominee for retirement of the year is Phillip Rivers for retiring from football again after he came back. That was awesome. I still can't believe that it happened. Shout out for the coach to even ask the question. - Yup. - And shout out Phil. - Yup. - The winner of Retirement of the Year is. (upbeat music) - The Miyamax podcast. - Yeah. - Congratulations to Miyamax and we have a video from you. - Yes. - Hello everyone, it's Stephen and Jerry, formerly of the Miyamax Carolina Panthers podcast. And we wanna graciously accept this take you award from part of my take for the best retirement of last year. We surprisingly earned it, maybe. - Yeah, yeah, lots of nominees out there, lots of people who retired, but they recognized us. And who do we have to thank for this? I mean, I wanna thank David Tepper for putting an incredible product out on the field week after week. - Yeah, I mean. - I should say the turf, right, not the field. Frank Reich, let's thank Scott Fitterer, your favorite coach, Matt Rool. - Oh, Matt Rool, yeah. - So many luminaries helped us get to this point, Jerry. - Yeah, Baker Mayfield, you know. - Horrible. - Hey. - The horrible here and now it gives us, you know. But when we started this, we wanted to become one of the best podcasts or most popular Carolina Panthers podcast there was. And unfortunately, it just happened the day after we retired. - Yes, what major news that was picked up nationally, a small Carolina Panthers podcast retires. And, you know, maybe, yeah, the message might have been a little melodramatic, but yeah, I don't know. The whole thing was a whirlwind, but seriously, two-part might take. You guys were amazing. You guys seem to get it. Like you understood your real fans, you know, of your teams and you know, how it feels to be in pain. And we were in massive pain for a long time as Panthers fans. Then we stopped doing it and the Panthers go on a run. I don't want to say Jinx, Jerry, but we're not going to be recording anymore just to be on the safe side. - Yeah, I tried, but it's not fun without you, man. So overall, we want to thank every listener again. That listened to us and stuff. Thank you, part of my take and aren't that keep pounding. - Shout out to me, I'll mix guys. They got a wind retirement of the year because they, you know, they were podcasting through some really bleak times, retired and the Panthers got good. - Then they got good, yeah, so good for them. - Yeah, great job for them. - Season to remember. Okay, next up, we have new category, Tits of the Year, Tits of the Year. So the nominees are myself. I've actually been feeling pretty flabby. I have to do some pushups, haven't done pushups in a while. - They're still big rack. - They are, they're voluptuous right now. I just caught myself in the mirror the other day. I was like, damn dude, you're stacked. Memes. Memes is nominated for Tits of the Year. His iconic picture, great picture memes at the Shore Acres Golf Course. Max, you were nominated for Tits of the Year. Good job, Max. And then finally, Sidney Sweeney. - Great Tits. - Great Tits. - Great Tits. - All right, great nominees. - Yeah, all right, here we go, we have, oh, here we go. Let's see who's presenting these awards, this award. - Hello friends, it's me Nancy Pelosi here to present the Tits of the Year award. Congrats to Memes. My friend, you have absolute cannons. And much like my stock portfolio, they're pointing in the right direction. Memes, are you good at keeping secrets? Because I wouldn't mind being kept close to your chess big man. - Wow. - Memes, congratulations. - Congrats, Memes. Have you ever won a Tiki? - This is my first Tiki. - Wow. - This is a huge honor. Just another win. - Yup. - Are you? - Yeah, I want him if he got him. - Are you still mad at me? - No, I got Tits. - You were mad at me. - No, no, it was a fine photo. - Then you came the next time. we played golf you had like six layers on, 80 degrees. - Yeah, I'll probably wear a sweatshirt Monday. - Hey, when we filmed this video. - Maybe if you like hit the gym, you may make it in changes. - No, dude, he just said he layered. - Yeah, he's layered. - Yeah, you don't have to go to the gym. - Yeah, he's got to wear a sweatshirt. - Yeah, a spank, it's pretty easy, yeah. - The suit's summer's over, it's fine. I don't care about my tits. It's one I have to wear a t-shirt, it's just torture. Okay, we got a couple left, what do we got next, PFT? - This is the book of the year. - Okay. - Okay. - The Book of the Year award. The first nominee for a book of the year is Part in my book by Big Cat and PFT Comter at Hank and Memes and Max and Zack and Shane, and a lot of other people that were guests on part of my take over the years. - Yes. - The next nominee for Book of the Year is cancel me if you can, Dave's book. - Yes. - New York Times number one bestseller. - No big deal. - Next nominee for Book of the Year, Daddy Issues by Sophia Franklin. That's Sophia with an F, check her out online. - That's a good one. - And the winner of the Book of the Year award is. Part of my book. - Oh! - Part of my book. - And the book's not even out yet, but it's just that damn good that it's already won. It's gonna be out on August 18th, and we just got our first copies today. The first official copies of the book arrived to the office. I got to be honest with you. I did not expect to be a little emotional when I got the book. - Yeah. - Because I was looking through the pictures that Hank put in the middle of some of the rare photos from the last 10 years. A lot of them going back to like 2016, 2017. And it was pretty cool to look back on. So I hope you guys like it. It was a labor of love doing it. It was a lot of work, but we enjoyed it. And we hope that you guys like reading it too. - And we promised, listen, when we get to the week of the book launch, we're gonna have to talk about it a lot because we wanna be also New York Times bestseller, maybe one as well. We need data to help us out on that. We do think it's a very, very good book, the history of part of my take. We're gonna be signing a bunch of copies. The first signed copies are now available, though, on Anderson Bookshop.com. So go get it. Customers need to pre-order there before August 17th. And the book with Sign Sticker inside it, is shipped directly to the customer to arrive the week the book goes on sale. So Anderson Bookshop.com search for part of my book. And again, it comes out August 18th. So let's gear up. It's, I really think people are gonna very much enjoy it because we have a bunch of our friends talk about it in ways that we, you know, we never really like sat back and been like, "Hey, that was crazy 10 years." - Yep. - And we're gonna keep going, keep going. All right, next up we have the call to the president of the year. - This is a new award. - Yeah. - And because it was a stacked year for calls to the president. We have, first up, we have Bryson, D-Shambo. Threatening to call the president. Threatening to call the president because of the penalty at the open championship. We then have Tiger Woods, just on the phone with the president. - Just got off the phone with the president. - Just talking to the president. - Yep. We have the call the president made to the US men's hockey team that started a complete shit storm. - Yep. - For no reason. And then we have the call that the president made to FIFA to get Balagan's red card rescinded. - Yeah. - So big year. - Huge year. - D-T was on the phone a lot. - He was at you, yeah, get those minutes. - Yeah. - Okay, the winner for call to the president of the year is. - Tiger Woods. - Yep. - Just without a doubt. - All time, all time, lie. - And it was shocking not just because like, you don't expect him to say that, but also I know that when he's driving, that's where he usually goes to be alone. And that's where he goes to feel normal. You wouldn't expect him to be talking to the president. That's exactly what he was doing. - Talking to the president. - Yeah, it's got a full president. Just talking to the president. - We think Hank. - I mean, Jerry's got that in his bag now. It's exciting. - That's a good point. - Yeah, sure. - Yeah, sure. - It could be nominated next year. - True. - Call it the president. - Okay. This is a crazy category. The pre-emptive take of the year, we do this every year. Last year, I'm trying to remember what the takes were. - I don't remember. - I think mine might have been that page beckers is going to be better than Katelyn Clark. - Okay, so you're just by this time next year. - It's getting credit for being right. - I think I'm taking credit for being correct. - Yeah. - I'm a pre-emptive take. - Yeah, I don't remember. - But let's hit it. Let's rip him. - Hank, pre-emptive take of the year. - My pre-emptive take of the year is that the, there's gonna be a new women's basketball league. The WMA is gonna split up. - Oh. - Okay. - And a new league is gonna form. - Okay. All right, how are they gonna split up? - Players are gonna leave. - Is the WMBA gonna stick around? - I don't know. - Yeah. - That's my take. - Okay. - Memes. - I've been right two years in a row. - What? - Yeah, I just picked one of your teams to do bad. - What did you pick last year? - Last year was a commander. Said they were gonna implode what you did. - Year before? - Did you, the Paul George trade wasn't gonna work out, and they were actually gonna be bad, 'cause it was a super team of losers. - Okay. - Okay. - This year, I'm going. - You gonna do it? - Max gave me the hand. - Oh. - No, Hank gave me a look. I was like, that's your loser now. (laughing) - I thought you were gonna argue that it did work out. - Yeah, true. - No, he said Paul George. So, he gave me a look and I pointed at him. - The Cincinnati Bengals are gonna win the Super Bowl. - Whoa! - Okay. - That's my take. - Okay. All right. - I like that. - That's my take. - Okay. - Is it my turn? - Cincinnati Bengals to win the Super Bowl. - All right. - My take is going to be that the Wizards are gonna make the playoffs. - I love it. - And they're gonna play the Celtics. - Smart man. - Oh. - The pod is going to have a hell of a couple of weeks there. - And Wizards are gonna probably have home court advantage. - No. - Okay. - What seed were the Wizards gonna make the playoffs as? - I think it's gonna be a two set, two seven situation. - I love it. - I love it. - Okay. - Feed it to me. - So we're gonna be back to the two seed. - Have that work out for you? - Yeah. - Sure. - I'll sign up for that. - Yeah. - Okay. - Max is right. - I just think. - Paul knows. - There's been so much Wizard Celtic stock that I feel like it's-- - It's so much. - It's gonna end in Wizards Celtics. - Yeah. It's just bubbling over everywhere. Two teams are circling each other. - Yeah. Destiny. Collision course. Zach, what do you got? - I'm gonna go with we are gonna get Tiger Woods at the Masters in the at the upcoming Masters. - Oh. - That's my play. - Love that. - By the way, Zach, this just don't on me. The fact that I didn't nominate you for take of the year when you said ISO speeds bigger than Donald Trump. - That's my fault. - That probably should have won. - Yeah. - It's a good take. - All right, Tiger Woods is the Masters. - Yeah, I believe so. I think he's gonna play. Not to say he's gonna win, but he's gonna play. - Okay. - We'd love to see that. I think archmaning is gonna pull an Eli. Whatever team finishes with the worst record this year, arch and his dad and his grandfather are gonna say, "My boy is not playing there." He wants to go do a different organization. I'm not gonna say what team is gonna finish last, 'cause I don't want to incur any wrath from anybody in this room or in the booth. Okay. - Who are you talking about? - Whatever team finishes with the number one or not the commanders. - It could be me. - Quarterbacks hurt all the time. - Could be me. - Not all the time. - All the time. - You watching the documentary? - Yes, a couple of games. - Every game, but hurt. - Brother, I lived the documentary last year. - No, you should watch it. - I'm gonna respectfully opt out of Jane Danes' elbow content. - No, more than elbow. - But whatever team, I didn't say what team it was gonna be. Whichever team finishes with the worst record. - I just talking. - Same. Me too. - Couple guys do the podcast. - Do it up with the boys. - And he's gonna say, "No, I don't want to go "to that dysfunctional organization "and they're gonna pull a power play." That's what I think. - And we're just not naming teams. - We're not. - That's exactly accurate description of what just happened when it was two guys talking. - Two guys talking. - Two guys talking. - Two guys talking. - Could be the carnels. - Yeah. - Actually, no, they've already got their quarterback, Jacobi. - Yeah. - Well, we'll see. - Yeah. - I have one, but can I just add on to your Zach? - I think Phil's gonna make the cut at the masters this year. - Hmm. - You like that? - Yeah. - You like that? - Yeah. - You like that a lot. - My preemptive take of the year is that there's gonna be a controversy surrounding LeBron James wherever he goes in plays, he's gonna have an injury and then he's gonna be caught golfing with that injury. And everyone's gonna be like, does he actually love the game anymore? - Yeah. - It's gonna be forced to retire. - I liked that a lot. - Yeah. - He'll never be forced to retire. I liked it up into that point though. - Okay, so we'll take out the forced to retire. - Can we buy out? - Yeah. - Okay. (laughing) - You could see it happening though. - Yeah. - Someone gets him then like, oh, I thought, dude, I thought you had a broken wrist or I thought, you know. - Yep. - Your hamstring, he's like, just can't quit golfing. He just loves the golf. - Okay, we have two awards left. Next up, one of our favorites. You have Blake of the Year. Blake Griffin versus Blake Bortles versus Brooks Capca. We taped it yesterday, so let's get to it. Okay, it is time for one of our favorite awards every single day. takeies. It is the Blake of the Year award. We have Blake Griffin. The nominees are Blake Griffin, Blake Portals, and Brooks Keppga. And we've done it many different ways in the years past. I think we've perfected the best way to do it. And what we're going to do, I have alerted all three blakes that there is a window. They had a two hour window that they could potentially be texted a zoom link link. And the first Blake to join the zoom is the Blake of the year. So the two we are right now an hour and 28 minutes into the window. And we're about to send them the link. So is everyone ready? Does anyone have a prediction? I'm ready. I'm feeling an upset today. I don't know why I woke up this morning and I was thinking to myself, this is the year Brooks Keppga becomes the first ever non-blake to win Blake of the year, which would be an important representation for everybody, every youngster out there that grows up not being named Blake, that you two one day could possibly be Blake of the year. I feel like it might happen this year. Okay. Here we go. You boys ready? Ready. Come on, Brooksy. The text has been sent. Okay. Oh my God. I'm going to say bordals. He got this bro. I'd be happy with any Blake Griffin. Oh, who's first? No, it was it was who was first. I saw it. I saw it. Yes. I saw it. We can't see anyone. It was no hold on. Well, he doesn't have his videos. He doesn't have his video on. Okay, that's fine though. Hold on. Video doesn't count. We can't hear either of them. What's going on? I can hear you guys. Okay. There's Blake Griffin. There's Blake Portals. So here here. Wow. This was crazy. We got a little bit of an issue. By the way, what would happen? Brooks will join whenever. We're just not going to join. So we first saw Blake Griffin on the screen. Okay. Thank you. No, but wait, but we have it screen recorded for which person joined, tried to join first. And Blake Portals, you were the 2026 Blake the year. It was a split second difference. We have the recording. Yep. Blake Portals. I mean, the floor is yours. What an upset. Finally breaking up the dynasty. Good for the league. Blake Griffin has now muted. I don't know if he's yelling at himself. You muted your sound accident. Good for the league. parody is good for the league. We learned that. Blake Portals. You you have just one Blake of the year. What would you like to say? I mean, massive. I hate that it came down to a bit of controversy there, but you know, it's been what three, four, five years in a row. And it was bleak for a long time, but I'm happy we stuck to it. And here we are. Yeah, I mean, it was a photo finish quite literally a photo finish sent you in over the top. Are you walking? Are you pacing around your house right now? Are you position close to the router? No, I'm in the hallway of our hotel. And I was five minutes away from just four fitting because my family's waiting on me to catch a train to go to this red stock game. Wow. Wow. And so you did this as an away game on the road, like with with hotel Wi-Fi on the road hotel Wi-Fi. It is arguably better Wi-Fi than at my house, but it's nowhere near Blake's personal Starlink, or what he's got. Did you, did you pay for the extra fast service at the hotel? Not originally, but I did upgrade to it today. There you go. That's now that's thinking. That's the difference. What a performance. So so Blake Griffin, what's going through your head right now post game? What happened out there? I did everything I could. I don't know, prepared. Sometimes it doesn't go your way. I'd like to see the tape. I will be putting a call into President Trump. See if there's something we could possibly do. Yeah. Yeah, you're calling ABS on us. I mean, just quit. Yeah, just threatened to not play next year. Now, now PFT doesn't know what I'm about to say because he was he was recording macro dosing, but let's walk through something that happened about, I don't know, 45 minutes ago. I told you guys on a text. So I had Blake Griffin, Blake Bordel's Brooks Capcom attacks. I told him, Hey, look, the window opens right now. About so then all of a sudden, I looked out on my phone and there's a FaceTime from Brooks Capcom. Brooks star because he's never really fully competed in Blake the year. He started his own FaceTime with the four of us and just kind of declared himself the winner. Wow. Yeah. He was like, we all, we're like, we all joined the FaceTime. I was like, who started this? And Brooks was just drinking at the bar. And he's like, I did. He's like, did I win? Which is arguably one of the most Blake things to do. Yeah. It is. Now, how soon after the text did he send that? That's the best part. A full five minutes. Okay. So yeah. So in his mind, he thought that that was the text being like, all right, whoever calls first, it's it's yours. And so yeah, I'll space. I get on it. It's just me and him. And he goes, did I win? And I'm looking at him like, wow, why are you the only one? I was so confused. I love that. He started his own tour for Blake. Yeah. The left tour of Blake. Yeah. Which he immediately won. Yeah. Oh, man. It was that's an incredible, that's probably the closest it's ever been in terms of Blake of the year. And yeah, you have to agree, Blake, Griffin, that it is good for the league. Like we need it's it's good for the league. It's good for the league. Blake, I'm happy for you. I feel like when one Blake wins, we all win. Rising tide raises all ships and cheers to cheers to you, man. You're you're formidable opponent. Yeah. It's pretty excited. I was starting to feel like the who was it? Like the Jim Kelly. He's they are bills. Yeah, just beat you after you. Yeah. Yeah. And now you can enjoy a baseball game and with a new championship on your belt. Record breaker, too. Yeah. That's right. Going for 16 tonight. Go socks. Yeah. Yeah. The red socks go for 16 and Blake Worlds is going to go. It's actually just chimed in there. Yeah. That was it. Oh, man. All right. Well, thank you, boys. This is one of our favorite awards. Well, you guys can leave. We'll stay on for a couple of minutes to see if Brooks ever joins. I'm guessing no. But yeah, he does. And this is Brooks is now setting it up for like in 10 years from now, when he wins his first ever Blake of the year, it will be one of the most shot. It'll be like the 1980, you know, US men's team. Like it will be one of the most shocking results ever. First time he plays in the States. I feel like he's going to win. But he did. He's just taking vacation right now. Everyone else is back. Yeah. So I hope he's not playing because he was not sober. I knew the longer the call went on, the less chance to look like kind of getting in. Yeah. He might go to bed tonight thinking that it Brooks. I mean, yeah. And that's probably as good as an actual championship for himself. But he might right now think he is current Blake of the years. Well, it was great sportsmanship because Blake Griffin immediately texted him and said, congrats you on Brooks of the year, which he did. He won Brooks of the year. He was the first one to call it. Oh, man. All right. All right. Congrats, Blake. Congrats, Blake. Oh, now is Wi-Fi. Oh, man, that was Wi-Fi. Come on. I see you guys. All right. I see you guys later. All right. So now we see if Brooks is ever going to join. I saw it on the screen too. I will verify that that Blake Bordel's joined the call slightly. I'm talking like a second before. That might have been the closest margin that we've ever had on this. That was crazy. Yeah. I'll try to call Brooks. Let's see. Yeah. PFT. Look at this. We'll put this in the show. This is me just lap. There's just a face time that Brooks are again, five minutes late. I sent. I sent basically a text. You're saying the window is now open just to remind everyone that if you get a couple cocktails and that text might be implying it's time to call in. And he was just like, oh, shit. Did I win? But then his response was to then face time everybody. Yeah. And he thought that he had then won. That that was the that was the road. And I had made it very clear. Now, where is he? What country is he in? He's in Portugal right now. So nine thirty in Portugal. Yeah. And oh, I even went as far it actually kind of broke my brain because this morning when I I reminded everyone this morning, I gave him. I set up like a week in advance. Like does this day work? Does this day work? Then like two days and I'm like, Hey, reminder tomorrow's day this morning, I woke up. I reminded them. And then I actually wrote out the time zones. Each of them would be in. Sounds like Brooks. This is going to be from eight thirty to ten thirty year time because I didn't want any any issues and any anyone saying, Oh, it wasn't fair. Yeah. Um, it's fitting that he's in Portugal. Some might say that he might be the Cristiano Ronaldo of Blake's. Oh, like a lot of accolades. Yeah. A lot like there's no denying one of the all-time greats. Yeah. But can he win the big one? No. Probably not answers. No. But also great body. It is it is an awesome story that if he does ever find a way to win one of these, it's going to be it's going to be monumental. I thought it was today. I don't know why. I the Portugal aspect. If I had woke up knowing that he was in Portugal, probably would have changed my yeah. Premonition a little bit. But then I thought maybe also he kind of did win. I see his point. Well, yeah, five minutes. - In his mind. - Five minutes late. - All right, hold on, I'm gonna call him. Let's see if it pick up. I don't know if it goes overseas. Nope, Simon going through, I don't think. Wow, man. He tried, he tried. - It's tough. It was the most active he's ever been. - Yeah, like I'm saying, this is, I see why he would think that he might have won. - Yeah. - He did not win, but I could see, and really that's what's most important. - And again, he did win my brook seven years. - Yeah. - Yeah. - That was, oh, here we go. - It looks incredible where he was. He was just at the point. - I'm willing to say he will never win. - Never? - Never. - That's a never, don't use the end word, Max. - I'm, he's never even come close. - This is the closest he comes. - This is pretty close. He started his own competition just randomly. So that was, that was something. But the other blakes are so good. - They are. - They take it very seriously. - If two Titans, yeah. - Yeah. - We got, yeah. - And I think the most blake aspect of him is that he's totally fine with finishing third every year. - Yeah. - And he's probably pretty chill with that. Now, if he ever does win, I don't know if he's prepared for how much his life will change overnight after he wins Blake of the Year for the first time. Because nobody will be calling him Brooks on the golf course ever again. - No, it'll just be, that's a very good point. - It'll just be a chorus of blakes. - Okay, incredible, incredible Blake of the Year competition this year. We should say too, that we had a couple updates from Brooks afterwards. The first being that he joined the Zoom, how many hours after we finished? - About an hour and a half. - An hour and a half. - Yeah, I think it was about an hour. - An hour and a half after he tried to join the Zoom. I was extremely wrong in my prediction. He texted and said, where are you guys? Did I win? That was an hour and a half after the competition ended. Then today, I texted him and I said, hey, do you wanna come on and explain what happened? And he said, yeah, send me the link, go into the pool so might not have phone. Then I texted him the link and he didn't reply. And I followed up, oh no, actually, no. My last text to him was, you have your phone now, we can try to do this at 11.24am today. I sent him that. Five hours later, he just wrote back, nope, definitely can't speak. So he's having a great time in Portugal. - Absolutely, having a blast. He might have, there are probably, you know how, when you go back in the history college football, and you'd be like, oh, yeah, well, we won the national title this year. You know, we were undefeated. Oh, there's like 17 teams that can claim a 1912 national title. I think there's some Brooks fans that could potentially in 20 years from now claim this year in his performance as a national title, as a Blake of the year, from how much, how much of a Blake he was. - He's putting up numbers right now. There's no doubt about it that if you look at Blake criteria, the way that he has not given a fuck about the Blake of the year, is just outstanding. - He's actually forcing us to reframe our entire point of view on the award. - Correct. - It still goes to Blake Bordles. - Yes, don't get me wrong. - Yes, 100%, but I'm saying history, people will, they might raise a banner in 30 years in the Capca household being like, actually we claim this title. - It's like ahead of his time. - Yeah. - And how he approaches being a Blake, yeah. - Thank you, though, to the Blake to the best. Okay, last up, PFT. Last up, it's the award we've been waiting for. - Yeah. - The 2026 Take a Award for the top podcast listeners of the year. There's a lot of good nominees this year. Daddy Gang, nominated again. - Of course, the YGT bros. - Yeah. - Doing all the post-round catch-ups, the brine bros and Grant Horvath and all the positivity, Kumbaya, we've really appreciated hearing about that. Also nominated would be the Stavige Gang. Shout out Stavige Gang. Appreciate you guys. One of the, Stavige as a Greek man should have been in the Odyssey, I'll just say it on this podcast. - Yep. - Would have been a much better movie. And also nominated are the award-winning listeners as a part of my take. - Oh. - 'Cause it would be a 10-peat. - A 10-peat? - A 10-peat. That sounds a lot like, we're getting into Bill Russell territory. - Holy shit. - Yeah. - I'm just saying rings for every single thing. - Every finger. - And then if maybe for Jason Pierapall, he got one for Dick and Balls too. - Mm-hmm. - Couple toes. - The winner of the 2026 Take You Award for podcast listener of the year. (upbeat music) The award-winning listeners as part of my take. Congratulations. - Wow. - Who saw that coming? - Not me. - Not me. - Not me. It was the two most shocking awards given out I think in this entire time we're award-winning listeners and I didn't think they were gonna win it again. - And Hank's fart. Didn't think he had enough time. - And Shane trying to kill Pug. - Yeah. - Yeah, and Shane trying to kill Pug. - That was kind of a crazy plot twist in this whole thing. But thank you very much to everybody that's listening to the show right now that continues to listen, that has listened in the past. I sincerely appreciate each and every one of you. I really do. We have the best job in the entire world. It is not lost on me. I feel like we say it. We try to say as much as possible because I mean it. And it's very, very, very special to me that you guys take the time and you opt in to hearing the sound of our voice every day. That is a crazy thing and I really love all you guys. That's why in every show saying it, I truly appreciate you all. Love you very much. Thank you for being there over the last 10, 11 years. I would not trade any of this for the world. It's been magical. And I hope to do 10 more with you guys if you'll have us. Thank you so much. We love you so much. Yeah, it's the 10 year writing the book, the 10 year anniversary. I've been getting a little bit sentimental. Not in like a bad way of like, oh, it's ending. But in just a holy shit, 10 years is a long time. And it's like everything kind of floods back when you have a anniversary. So 10 years, it really is just unreal. How many people have supported us and listened. And I think I wrote this in the book. But the thing that makes me happiest is when I'm walking on the street, I'll be walking Stella. And someone will walk by with their phone or their headphones and they'll be like, dude, I'm listening right now. And I was like, that's fucking wild. They'd still kind of blows my mind like holy shit. We're idiots. But it's been number one for a long, long time. And it's all because of you guys. So I think that's yet that's also like the day we're not number one that we won't give them AWL. Yeah, we punish you. Yeah, but you guys are shown up for us year in and year out, day in and day out, month in and month out. So thank you so much. And I know Hank wants to say something as well. Yeah. Yeah, no, I love you guys. I mean, I said it in the book as well. Like, I don't, I think if you ran a simulation of my life on this podcast before this podcast started like 99.9 of them would not have worked out as good as doing this podcast has been for the last 10 years of my life. I can't believe any of its real time flies. It feels like just yesterday we started. And I appreciate you guys. And I appreciate the listeners the most. Yeah, it does. Yeah, there was a moment too for me, big guy. When I got to book today, I was flipping through it. And it just hit me all of a sudden, which is like, if you were to tell the story of my life, probably the biggest part. No, without out the biggest part of my life is doing this podcast. Yeah, it's what I'm going to be remembered for one day, hopefully far distance into the future. But it's a testimony to the listeners. And none of this would ever be possible without you guys. And I do love you all. Thank you so much for allowing us to be part of your life. And it's cool to also, I know we're getting very sappy now. But it is cool. I think it's very important as you get older. And I've been trying to do this more is like enjoying the moment and the start of the show was such go, go, go, go, mania of like, we got to keep going. We got to keep going. And it's not like we don't, we haven't lost that. We're still trying to get better and trying to get interviews and doing funny stuff. But being able to just say, holy fuck, man. This is pretty substantial, what has happened here. You got to enjoy it. And it's because of our listeners. If they're not listening, we're nothing. And all this that we have and the fact that we get to do this with our friends, and we all remain friends and just fuck around. We talk about it all the time. But our biggest problem, our biggest flaw as a podcast is we chill too hard before the show just shooting the shit. Like we have a problem with it where we say we're going to start at like 7 p.m. And we just sit in our chairs and just shoot the shit for like an hour. We do an extra podcast. We do an extra podcast, yeah. But yes, it is the listeners who make this thing go. We never ever lose sight of that. So thank you all. And let's finish with numbers. Memes. Wait, I do have Breaking Moos. Oh, Breaking Moos. (humming) Jacobi percent is at practice today. Oh! Our long national nightmare might be over. Hold out of the year. I think hold out of the year might be done. Now he's holding in. Wow. All right. Memes, you ever gotten this? I have no you have I have won this did we ever find out who we Kumbaya. It's Hank, thanks to Kumbaya, you said one thing and he's loose. He shuts down. He's trying to kill Pug. He did try to kill Pug. Let's see. What did he say to me? What do you point? I don't think you initiate. I think the word Kumbaya came up first and then Hank agreed. When did this happen? Who said the first episode? Big Cat took an absolute ricochet at me. I think it was the start amount rush. We never do that. And then you guys were like, let's just do Kumbaya. No, we're all, we're in a greens of Kumbaya. What's crazy is that I don't think Kumbaya, Hank and Zach have won this year. Not a rush more. They don't have a single win. A Kumbaya, bro. I know. No, I just, just, just, just, just, just, she ever find out. Shane, did you ever find out? Oh, his head's down. He's down. It was dumb. No, Kumbaya. Kumbaya. Oh, I thought you were talking about the pub. No, no, we don't care about Pug. You tried to kill Pug. It's fine. You always hated Pug. It's fine. Who who said who said Kumbaya first? I think it was Hank. All right, so then we're fine. That's good enough for me. That was a great look. Hank still serving looks. Oh, there's no way. Change is whatever. I think it was Hank. I think it was. We're going to find it out. All right, numbers. I'm going to do 99. It's to 11, 5, 11, for the 11 takeys. 86, you 10, shout out Pug. 69, 88 for Patrick King. Remember when the AWLs almost didn't win the award? Yeah. Big hat was addicted to a coin flipping. Yeah, I was just thinking about that. I forgot about that. I thought every year I think there's a chance that you'll do it again. We should do it again. Yeah, we already done it. We already did it. I want to do that next year. Zach remind me, we got a coin flip. Just cause coin flip. Yeah, got you. The coin flip. I'm out on that. I put listening to God's hands. The coin is going to always lay in the right way. Did we not agree that God is an AWL with the one and a billion shot of all of this coming together. Yeah, so it'll call tails. God, you watch your apples. Does anyone have a coin right now? Let's just see what it would have been. Let's see what it would have a coin. I wait, I wait. You're holding a coin. I'm holding this. It's a ball marker. This doesn't count. Obviously, because we already gave it to them and they deserve it this year, because this year was a great year. And we know you're going to show up for the buck and they're the best. What if it? What if it hits? We release cool 10 year anniversary t-shirts. Oh, okay. That we are releasing regardless. Regardless, but good. I like it. Let's just say that it's just purely. I'm just proved to you guys that God is an AWL. I'm approved to you guys. So if it is tails, then the AWLs would have won. If we had done this as a coin flip, the AWLs would have won a 10th and a row. And if it is heads, what? One has your fucking face on it, dude. I'll be head. Turn your brain on it. Hit if it's heads, then they we would have given it to Stavige. All right. Max also has a mic behind him. Tails. Just like I said it again. Did you see that? That was one fucking flip. He's an AWL. Don't worry about it. It's in God's hands. He's got this. Do you see this? You see memes. I mean, Max, you see this? The mic's just behind you. So you were worried. Never be worried. No, but we, I would have made the argument that even if it wasn't tails, we already gave the awards or didn't even matter. I'm not correct. They said they said that. I said that. I was saying hypothetically, if it had been a coin flip today, what would it have been? And it would have been, still, they got it shirts on sale, bar still sports store. Love it memes. Good call. Flash on screen. Now what are you doing? Tails, if Max is done getting married, heads if he's got another one in it. Tails, bang! Told you. I got you, dude. I trust the coin. All right. That was actually way more nervous than the first one. We were probably going to cut that one. That was really nervous. Yeah, we probably would have cut that one. Very nervous. Yeah, another batch. Oh, it would be a third batch of part. 11. Oh, I said 11. One. I think we should do one number. No, I don't think we do another one. I got to do two. One's the number. I'm fine with one. I don't need to beg for it. Yeah, memes if you want to. One's the number. It seems cool. You guys are number one. There you go. Love you guys. Also, happy birthday to Barry Bonds. Happy birthday to, I'm not going to say this name. Nope. I'm not going to say Carl Malone. Happy birthday. Happy birthday to Cody at bar stool. He tells jokes. Love you guys. Oh, wait. Hold on. Brox. Brox. He's butt dialing me to see this. Brox, what's up? How we doing, buddy? Hey, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. What happened yesterday? What's up? Who's that guy? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. All right. You're almost one. You're almost one. Yes, right. Do you have a message for everyone who was rooting for you? Listen, I'm a porn loser. I'll never be any good. Yeah, just a porn loser. I'm a porn loser. I don't know what's up. You guys. Okay. That's a major. Yeah, you got five majors. I love that. All right. Next year, Blake of the year, you're going to win. We love you, brox. Thanks, brox. All right. All right. See you at once today. Bye. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] What happens when you lock 18 co-workers in an office for one week to compete for a quarter million dollars of cash? This is Surviving Bar Stools Season 5 presented by Rumble Premium or each episode releases three hours early. So get it out free before anybody else only when you join Rumble Premium. New episodes of Surviving Bar Stools will be released every Sunday and Wednesday, leading up to the Labor Day Finale on September 7. 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