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

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Is this the 10th? It is the 10th, yeah. It has to be, right? Yeah, we did it in your words. Memes? It's the 10th of the 11th. I think it's the 11th. It's the 11th take, isn't it? It also could be the 10th. Yeah, we had this discuss the other day, and it was tough to figure out. It might be 11th. 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26. I think it's loving. Did we do one the first year? I think we did. We did. Yeah, but everyone says nine time AWL. Because I don't know if we could have had a way that year. We had an award ceremony, but that category did not exist in year one of the day. I feel a zero of the take. 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, but that should be like the. Max is confused. This is exactly how I expect it. Or take it or 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. But it's the 11th take. It's the 11th take. He's the 10th, the 10th year. And then I swear last year, we were like for the 10th, for the 10th take, we got to do something big. We're doing something. What are you talking about? This is the 11th. Oh, so we fucked up last year. Yeah. Yes. That was that was that. Yeah. That was old us. Right. One years, we're going to put it on a big. We're going to do a big. We're going to do a live show in Vegas. Yeah. We're going to get all our friends. It's going to be so big. Yeah. We're going to sell out MSG. We think to take these. Take these at the theater. Take these 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 takeys. 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. I'd like to talk to a couple like that. They just press the button. They press the button. So what happened with that? How's that work? Max memes. What diagnose? What happened? They just didn't say it at the private. So there's private and there's unlisted and public. Yeah. Well, and public. They said that they just put it on public. No, they put it on unlisted. It was on unlisted. But once you put something in YouTube, you can have generic settings that will every time you go back and put into a certain playlist and things like that. So he put it into a playlist that was unlisted. Got it. So there's ways to go into 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 about it of exactly how. It's a you don't know? No, I saw some that that they went into a playlist and found it. Got 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 Barcel 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 to 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 takies. 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 takey 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 takey 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 of sports coming back. Quit golf went to rehab. Conqueror's demons came back one on the 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? Peters and Dietrich. I have. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They sent me they sent me head covers. I see them every day. Wait, who's but I actually had to stop because I had like I had one on a three would one on a seven wouldn't they look exactly the same. So it's like this is too confusing. So it's like each ace is a different head cover. Yeah. The each Thomas. I just have a twin. I have a Thomas Dietrich and 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 ace of the year is all four aces and take you awards. So we've given out to we're going to have 29 awards. Congratulations. Congratulations. They 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. I was so I went to bed last night knowing that I had to wake up for wake up or still early this morning. I woke up. I usually try to catch up on my text 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 when we fingers? What are you thinking? Go ahead. Speak. You think it's rigged? 50 50 rigged. Why? Well, you you you won the 50 50 correct. And then Monday you got 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 going to get another big check. But I'm probably not going to do the same selling thing. I'm just getting the big check this time. You're not going to do the fit. No, they unless they do like 75 25. Those are my demands. 75 25 for the people. Otherwise, I'm not going to help. But I think 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 list. Yeah. And I also just give it all to charity. Right. It's 100%. So it's good. It's good for it's good for the league for you to win. I'm just happy I want to get I feel like I may never lose again. At this point because it's just I've won two times meme still hasn't gotten the lottery ball. I Take winning. I got a question. Yeah Now that you know, you have there's there's a pattern here. There's repeated success. It's not a fluke Yeah, should I do 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 the Cubs lose if it's late season Yeah, Cubs are making a playoff push. Do you buy tickets for the 50 50? Yeah, I we got to test it We got to see it's been tested twice. That's not a first time first time's a fluke second time's a test No, no, that's not a same. We've done a study. That's not a sample. It is a sample size has to be more than 10 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, how many 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 did ballpark that they want to they want a world series year That I played it a lot, but he didn't win, but he didn't win, but it's got to be more than two times for sample size I don't like what you got I'm going to focus on the fact that I'm getting another big check and I'm going to wave I might pay I Might not give the money the winnings to charity I might give the money to the person operating the camera at rigley field and be like buddy You got to stay on me for 10 minutes. I'm going to wave for 10 minutes straight. Yeah, do it. Do it your hard feels? Oh, I'm gonna wave Because whatever you did it wound it 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 Like incredible isn't even the right word for it. I'm on the cost for greatness magic Yeah, 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 now you got well, you have the opportunity 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 little donation the pot wanted. I was in shock. It's it's awesome. What what do you laugh 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 well I got home and my wife is a hater of my 50 50 She's she is she's she 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 spend on Monday because I know what you spend on Monday I was like I that's exactly what I'm doing because Monday got out of hand and I did not win it then But that's okay. I won I won two-time winner Winner's a win. Oh win is a win is a win. Oh 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, I might win it at the bananas this weekend Taking my kids can win that what's the 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 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. It did a full 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 no first night, but all all disrespect to the check It wasn't big enough. Maybe I'm just sensitized as to what a big check is no PFT when I think big check I think I think the JJ watch check that we had PFT you're exactly right martyne and avatrol over yes Yes, the big check. Yeah, that you're it's no it's all disrespect to that check I will be bringing my own big check to my big next big check it could be bigger that I don't want to bring my own big check And I'm like you got to deal with the cubs because it's kind of like you know it's a biob since it's for charity The bigger the check you think yourself like every inch that this check is yep that could have been another meal But for somebody that needs I want to bring a big check that's like the Like the American flag that they they take out on the outfield. That's how I want how big of a check out if you get if you get if you win At a third time. Here's what I'll do for you. I will have a sky writing plane who drag a giant check in the air behind it Overrigley field like the biggest possible check. I like we're talking like hundreds of feet hundreds of feet I love that you get speaking of is it this is just type totally hypothetical question lame or not lame to make a couple banners through yourself after winning the 50/50 for the second time You said a couple well, I want twice I have a banner for each way. Oh, I thought you were gonna do like the You could you could do it like 50/50s one no no no there's two banners. You got to hang a banner every time I didn't want to hang one banner. I wanted to wait till I won second I thought maybe or like Billy Joel at the garden. You have one giant banner and now it just says big cat two Yeah, well you couldn't you could dates on it Yeah, you could make it like you know like when they have like the scoring record of the school where it's like 50/50 Raffle one big cat date big 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, 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 banner. Yeah, one banner. All right Because when at the second time it's gonna have in a second. All right, so I might yeah, but then you you can do a different You can do a different banner drop every time you win it. Obviously. It's a new banner But it's 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 banner I think I already ordered them. Okay Lamer or not lame. That's a fun game. We should auction those off. Yeah, 50/50 also Patrick came back to the black hox, which was awesome Do you think LeBron sees that he's like, yeah, I should do that I'm coming home to the black hox LeBron decides to play hockey that might that might spare Miami He just thinks it's it's whatever 2017 again or 2015. Yeah 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 he's the man showtime showtime, which does tell me about about LeBron though the fact that he hasn't announced yet Every day that goes by without an announcement makes me less inclined to think that'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 be happy 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 and say if it's Cleveland He should have said it already. Yeah, and I think you nailed it the other day when he's just trying to get Anthony Davis Yeah, so maybe just maybe they just figure out a way to go to the Wizards price went up You really want to play with A.D. I got I know just the spot But yeah, Patrick Kane I was 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 came But he's still good and it's get like a better in presence. It's gonna be awesome So we awesome watch him in bedard when the dark 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 from the 2015 team. So um, okay, should we do the takeies? We're gonna get right back to the show on game day get sub stacked high at jersey mics like the number 13 original Italian loaded with meats Cheese and toppings or the number 56 big cajuna cheese steak with grilled steak peppers onions and mushrooms Topped with jalapenos and melty cheese get your sub fix on game day in order in store or the jersey mics app All right back to part of my take Okay, so 28 Takey awards Uh, if this is your first takeies welcome The awards change every year we have some repeat awards. We always do takey of the year We always do plague of the year just log off of the year Uh, we have new awards. We have some old awards But we're gonna be given away 28 takey awards 29 if you count the four aces and we're gonna start With the first award where we always start take of the year award the take of the year By the way shout out to our guy Fred Siegel uh 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 freezing cold takes 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 gonna go through them. We're gonna start with just there's just a nicks section of this award. There's plenty to there's a lot of nicks so we have To start Brandon Tierney Brandon Tierney is a uh He was a old radio right for wfm no no no longer Brandon Tierney tweeted in January 15th 2026 I've never wavered on this and I never will nicks 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 uh former colleague uh Jeff they do saying going to be so funny watching the nicks get dummyed in the finals Would have been funny. He's right. Current colleague Chris Clemer In replying to a meek Phil tweet who said that the nicks are now the odds on favor to win the eastern conference [BLANK_AUDIO] he replied, you have zero chance of winning a title. Bookmark this. You will never experience joy. Oh, the bookmark this really adds it. Clemmer really went for it there. Yeah, then you will never experience joy to felt, uh, felt personal. Yeah, almost like you told him to go to an Apple store. Yeah. Yeah. Never ever. Don't tell me. Uh, a menu, Acha, who's won some takeies 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 so far. Brunson's body is betraying him. Hmm. Becky Hammond burner. Jalen Brunson went on to win NBA MVP. Yeah. Yeah. But also he's small. So can you really trust a small guard? That's true. Uh, and then our friend, uh, Nick Wright, this is just a graphic of his, uh, of his final four in the NBA playoffs. And then champion he had the thunder. So you got that right. Yeah, yeah. Credit him. 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. That's sorry. Okay. So that's our Nick's, uh, uh, takeies 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. It take ages like wine. He said, Oh, it's you dodged a bullet with dusty May. Not sure if Jake Dibler will be great, but May's claim to 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 seated fairly Dickinson in the second round. Yeah. That's right. And then that's all they did, right? Was they being fairly Dickinson in the second round, then they immediately lost or did they know they actually won a bunch of games. Yeah. Dusty made good coach onto the big leagues. Yeah. One title. Now 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 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. It's pretty pretty quick. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, we also have Michigan AD award manual who is, uh, I think he's nominated for taking later as well as double nomination. He said, uh, about dusty May and his contract extension, he will be the leader of this basketball team for many years to come. Manual said it's Saturday's national championship celebration. Mm hmm. It was like maybe like two more months. Yeah. There's a couple more months. Two months. I mean, credit to word manual though, because we talk about accountability. Mm hmm. 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. Um, 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 pretty for both sides. That's why Bill is a legend because he's able to combine two bad takes into one. Yeah. No one else does it. That was that was cocking mouth, cocking ass. Yeah, that was good airtight. Zach, would you, I forgot you're not a sex guy, cocking mouth, cocking ass, I just didn't extreme move. That's all. Yeah, 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 game. I said, I said, patch of my homes was the biggest reach in the draft. Another gang, bang, take those gang, I got, I might have been asked mouth. Peel with cock attachment. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Wait, sure, you're watching somebody else get asked mouth. Peel. No, Zach's watching me. Okay. So Zach is also involved in the in the take. Mm hmm. Okay. Got it. How did they get in my peels, Zach? Really smoldered. 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 the Virginia tech has got a great future. And Brandon Walker said, yeah, because you think they're getting Franklin and they're not. Mm hmm. They did. And they got Franklin. They did. Hot seat, 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. Mm 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. They're so bad. What was that in context? Uh, they beat Alabama. Yeah, it did. They wear a show back. That was a great game. They looked like they were back. And also, you could probably include as a double win in this. We pretty much pronounced Alabama football dead. Yeah. Oh, multiple times. Yeah. That's definitely one of our worst takes is that 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. Tough to see a large national audience hang out for the second half of a Duke beatdown. Mm hmm. So that turned out to be the most watched March madness game this year because it was Braille Mullins buzzer beater 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. Because 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 at like 18 million viewers. That's so good. Yeah. Yeah. 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 a three game series. I forgot about that series, too. Yeah. I'll be, I'll be totally honest. Uh, Sam Darnell 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. Um, kind of racist on your part, though, right? Mames. No, it's from me. I know, but I'm saying like, no, for you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of racist. True. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Sam Darnell did pretty well. He wanted to, wanted to, also Gino Smith did beat the Patriots last year. He did. That's right. Raiders. Yeah. I was trying to another one that I'm just memory home. Yep. That's that was week one. Gino Smith as a Raider is just something that we, we actually just broke our, yeah, broke our rule. Never happened. And it's crazy that he played a whole year without a coach, too. Yeah. Uh, David Clue, uh, said tearing down a roster that was a win away from the playoffs to build around Sam Donald is a choice. Fact. That is a choice. Yeah. This is Hank, your favorite, uh, league, the live golf league. This is from young Yassir Al Rumavan. 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? And then as a beneficially canceled, I saw there was a 5% chance it's going to happen. Are they in good health? A chance is the league healthy. I mean, they're playing right now. And people are locked in. 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 relationships that last longer than a few months. I would expect the breakup by Super Bowl and the Kelsey album before next season. The new fans will follow Taylor to her next thing. Yeah. They got married. They didn't P and V. Yeah. We we love love. Yeah. Congratulations. Mm-hmm. Happy couple. I think this is from our good friend Big T. Uh, he said in September, the fake news media is attempting to link Tony Votello to the open San Francisco Giants managerial job, despite the fact it doesn't make a lick of sense. Okay. I'm going to take Big T side on this, uh, 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. Yeah. A 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. All right. Last one, uh, Stephen A Smith, uh, in April said, Philly fans, were regret 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 Yeseer Al Rumavin for his take. My boss told me live is not going to go anywhere. He's a young guy. Mm-hmm. Now freezing cold takes is going to have to make note of that recording. Okay. 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 that guy's boss. Yeah, Ted Turner, by the way. Oh, I just made that part. He's dead. I made that part. Yeah That guys boss Ray Charles Ben dead for 20 years. Okay. All right. What do we got next? All right next up in the 2026 take-e awards we have An award. 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 favorite 2026. It's a good category The nominees are for can't win the big one in bapa. Mm-hmm. This is you know He had the shootout lost yep last time the World Cup Mm-hmm and this time great great play in the third place game loss though lost in the semi-finals in bapa He'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 not many two is wimby. Mm-hmm. Love this one Victor Wimby, Yama This is the dawn of a narrative that we're seeing with wimby. 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 shat home grin silver medal against team USA Silver medal against the Knicks interesting triple silver medalist interesting dynasty of silver. Yes It's great. He might I'll say this when he 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 Caitlyn Clark. Ah When the big one of the year she didn't win in college. Yeah, 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 one rent in everyone's head. Yes. She lives Completely free. She's got a lot of real estate and every basketball writers brain The most recent one from what's your name? Is it Nancy armor? Yeah Absolutely insane stuff, but again, this is good like it's good to have somebody In your league that makes writers lose their minds. What was the title of Nancy armor? 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 she yes, which is just an absolutely absurd thing to make Yeah, USA today writers says Caitlyn Clark puts black and queer WMBA players in danger by flopping Okay, yeah, I might be taking the heat that it's it's what a pin in that one. It's definitely that might be next year's taking the it's gonna It's gonna be not shit so Caitlyn 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 He couldn't win the regular size one. Yeah, and then Next nominee is Cristiano Ronaldo who can't win the big one. He's one zero big ones of the year and of course the big one would be the world cup Yeah, Zach We discuss because 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 and what did 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 it's a big one. Yeah It's one of the ones. It's not it's not the big one. 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 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 take. I do have our first guest presenter Yes, sir. Okay, give it to us. We got it right here. Oh Okay, wow Is it as the winner of the cons win the big one of the year is Rorado That was that was that was messy. You got us messy. I got him. I got a sky who has won the big one messy Yeah, that's pretty cool. Thank you, Zach. Why why is it messy in like half speed Messi is uh And how much did it cost on came you to get messy? Well, Messi's priceless. But how much did it cost? Top of my head roughly Seventy seventy five two one hundred dollars. Okay, that's a good deal for me. Yeah for the goat to do that I mean look he he loves the game. You know, he's got a little bit of love for Rorado They've been compared their entire careers So he's someone who's won the big one We're not still chasing that big one right there. So he lets him know battering his back. The the oh 39 dollars 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 is messy in that cameo. That's how good those bloom that's that blue and white striped kid is just phenomenal I wouldn't take it off either to be honest with you. I also like the uh the the touch to the cheek that he gave yeah That's a signature move. It's solved. Yeah Jeff Hornstack. Yeah, it's beautiful. Yeah Okay, next up so congrats to Ronaldo. We'll 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 We got a lot of day left. I hope 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 To online and the nominees are Kevin Durant Kevin Durant. I think it's 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 because at least Ben Simmons would pass him the ball Trashing everyone. So just log off Kevin Kevin said he will never log off you will never log off We also have uh Freddie L.A. 7 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 you know a couple calendar weeks That is the number one sign that you should in fact log off. Yes permanent. I'd agree. We have So pseudo-scientists. I don't know what I would guy who's 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 genus can host Only about 25 to 30% of reproductive age women globally are L. Chris pottest dominant That's the number that's the top vagina. Yeah, that's the go. That's what that's what you shoot for Top 1% of all the genus We didn't need to know that We also have jaylen brown for going on twitch after every single game And then saying things like honestly. This is my favorite year of my career and Talking about the refs and just being maybe two online Yeah, agreed. Yeah two online and then finally we have our good friend Sean McVay For his thirst trap picture with like 16 abs Yeah, think he got fake abs. We get it. We get it Sean. Yeah, it's a little That's too many for a football coach. You're a genius. You've got a beautiful wife. You've got a 100 million dollars. Yeah, and you also got the abs. 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 Okay, the winner of the just log off of the year. We're gonna get you a drum set next year Hank Is Brian Johnson? Yeah, or his girlfriend having a top 1% vagina which we only know about because Brian Johnson told us you told us all and then uh then unfortunately he got sick Yeah, the one thing that he was really really hoping to not ever do. Mm-hmm. 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. Ooh one of my favorites. This is a good award 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 Of the next nominee is Jordan Love. Ah for 14th best quarterback in the NFL. That kind of feels like the right spot The next nominee is Aaron Rogers. Okay 14th best quarterback He could be the 14th best quarterback. He might be. I think if all goes well. Yeah Uh The next nominee for 14th best quarterback in the NFL is CJ Stroud. Oh Strabbois, 14th best, have a muddy fallen. It's all right, little bro. You got a long future this league. 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 him number one on the graphic. Bryce Young is now officially from here on forward in the conversation for 14th best quarterback in the league. 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. You got to pay him. I don't know. There's probably a bunch of other teams that would probably want him to be starting quarterback probably. I'd agree. I'd agree. 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 Malsana. 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. They're like, all right, well, the takees are coming. So we'll be able to afford rent this month. Andy Read Impersonators probably making Brad on. You think so? Oh, yeah. And Messi. 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 Amanda Reed. Zach, can you do any impersonations? I don't impersonations like really is a low light of anything. I can't do a impersonation for none. 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, that guy who eats food. Yeah. Do the guy or Duke Nick or any or Nick or Nick. Okay. I can look into it. What about the guy who eats everything in two bites? Zach. That guy's un impersonatable. He is just he's a specialized guy. I guess he has a gift. You can't recreate that. You should do Nick. Barstools Nick from K be a Nick impersonator. That's that could be strong. That would be sick. Yeah. Maybe the guy who eats the food. That would 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 DAC. Huge award. Massive mass of 14. That's correct. 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 no. 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 Gillen Brown, which they thought to himself 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 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. He's 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, KG. Congratulations. You're the winner of the takey for Brad Stevens. No of the air. Wow. That's 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 it 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 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 that I think the Sixers win this award. Sixers win this award. Because you had to make Brad Stevens say no to the trade. Yeah. 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? Yeah. Let's have them come in now. 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, we're going to get right back to the show. Hey, Alabama. Still blue coffees. New canned lattes are here and in a store near you crafted with a 100% Colombian coffee. 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And earlier today, I asked Jerry if he would come in for the take awards because I told him we were doing an award for Bush of the year. Bush of the year because his his his esports team is tell your right bush shout out the bush, shout the bush, support the bush. I wanted Jerry to not know that it was the Lib of the Year award. So I told him he's nominated for Bush of the year. Uh-huh. So Jerry's coming in and we will announce the nominees in just a moment for Bush of the year. I'm going to tell him that it's not Bush when he comes. Oh, breaking moves, breaking moves, while waiting for the breaking moves, breaking moves. Do you go Pavia waved by the Ravens? Damn, end of an era. 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 talk. I like that coach. Oh, that's like fine. Okay, we got Jersey Jerry in here. Uh, Jerry, welcome to the 2026 take-y awards. Hey 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. Okay. I'm not worried. All right. Bush of the year. It 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 that was you. What does that say? Bush records. I like it. And you got to say tell the right bush. I'll tell you right. You don't take the stickers off the hat. No, in New Jersey, like they kind of keep it on. I like that jacket. It's blue. No matter who that's sure. Yeah, nice. Right, turquoise and you're Jersey. They keep it on. Yeah. Oh, I guess he's coast. Maybe I'm in New York too. This has been a big fun for me for that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We really 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. 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 take a little bit of pride in it. I figured that was going to happen. You did lie to me. I did lie to you. So yeah, we might a lot to you a little hybrid. I mean, that's why I had the undershirt on. There you go. You know, why? Well, because he told me I was going to give you a push of the year. So I was like, Oh, okay. Cool. Let me get that hat out the undershirt. And we're here again. So you 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. Yeah, this is the back-to-back-to-back. Okay. So this, 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 because you're up against a tough crowd. The nominee is quite a litter. It's been nominated for a Lib of the Year for his service planting trees. He's true. Yeah, you know, he's like trying to be the green new deal. One man green new deal. Okay. Then yourself, you were nominated. Can I say something, Ruka? Why was I nominated again? Oh, so I mean, you've become more accepting of various lifestyles this year, I think. You know, learning more about you got a cousin that maybe he's gay, maybe he's bi, maybe Maybe you stray and whatever that you learn about like how you can go back and forth and you've expand your mind. 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 missing the context. You tweeted that. I'm reading that right here. There was context. 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. Yeah. No. Beautiful, Jerry. Beautiful. You're running with Harry Sisson. Was that last year? No, that was last year. Yeah. 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? Huh? I know what you're talking about. Yeah. Jerry did have a screen. Do you know what we're talking about? I do know. Yeah. Screen grab of his search history. Do you have it? I don't have it. 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. Mm-hmm. Hanta virus. 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 Candice Owens, Laura? No. No, not. Las Vegas. Who killed Steve Job? And Kiltra. 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. Could the answer be cancer? Yes. But that is. That actually is the answer. You're not taking medicine? Mm-hmm. But there's a reason for all that. Allegedly from what I've read, they forced him to not take the medicine. Okay. M.K. Ultra. Yeah. P.D.D. Israel. Who is part of the elite group? I mean, none of those are not. Yeah. So again, I mean kind of strengthening the case a little bit. The other nominee, Jerry O'Connell, we got two Jerry's nominated this year. Well, he was last year or two, no? Yeah, he was nominated. This year, Jerry appeared on the Bill Mara podcast, as you can see to live out for about about 90 minutes of solid libness. Yeah. I think he was on the, he wasn't he had a, uh, comla. He was. He was at the rally. He's a white dude for comla. Yep. White dude for comla. He's got daughters, right? He's got daughters. Yeah. Yeah. Jerry. Oh. You 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 down. Okay. And it felt like a chick. Yeah. Because it was bad. Yeah. Okay. All right. Uh, and then the last nominee for lib of the year is Max. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. For what? For what? For what? For what? For what? For what? For what? For what? Yeah. What was Max nominee? I don't know. Well, your nominee is congrats. Yeah. I'm gonna present you with an award. Yeah. Uh-huh. Um, this year we have a very, very special guest presenter for you. Uh-huh. Can we pull it up? Vanta? It is, uh, wow. Wow. It's Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden has an award. Wow. Yeah. 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. That's President Joe Biden, Jerry. President Joe Biden just gave an award on the take-ees. To you. Serious? What do we do? You won. You won, congrats. You're a president. That's crazy. I was going to say. I was going to hit 47 of those. Sorry. You put that against me. It's torn to hit me now. Let it hit me for a second. It hit me. It hit me. It hit me. All right. I mean, it's kind of respect there. Yeah. That's big time. Yeah. All right, sleepy Joe. Thank you, brother. You want to hear it again? Yeah. Come more time. You want to back. Run it back. Does he say Jerry? Hey, Jerry. From one brother and recovery to another. Congratulations on the lib of the year award. Hey, Jerry. Congratulations. You keep the faith. Keep the faith. Yeah. Congratulations. How about that? 45 men have served in 47 presidencies. Wow. You have one of 45 men who served as president of the 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 is history right there. It's incredible. Can we get-- If you get in trouble with the invitation, now you got-- Oh, yeah. I was talking to the president. Yeah, yeah. The president knows who I am. Yeah. I was just on the phone with the president. The Tiger Woods. 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 or not? No. Yeah. Can you stand up for that real quick? Yeah. Just for the meme. Sure. We're at memes here. Okay. Tell him where to stand, memes. So the meme's just right. Uh, dude. Go to the center of the rug. This is-- This is right. Keep going. To his right. Move to his right. Move to your right. Keep going. Keep going. Mm-hmm. Now turn. Now turn. It's 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. Okay, you're having to-- Have him do a spin. Do a spin. Full tour. Full tour. Full tour. Okay. Okay, got it. Got it. Jerry. We logged it. Fuck. 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 that one. It's true. Trump's never done that. Yet. Yet. 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. You can't beat that, though. So it's got to be it. Back back back. It's unreal. I did a jump. I peity showed it to me earlier today. I was just like, what? I did a jump scare, too. I didn't know that I didn't know that the big guy was going to be there at the end. Play it one more time. One more time. One more time. Hey, Jerry. From one brother in recovery to another. Congratulations on the. Live of the year award. I know you didn't have much competition. But I'm still proud of you. Hey Jerry. Congratulations. Keep the faith. Keep the faith. Keep the faith. Love that. Love that. By the way, he looks. He looks about a day older than fifth. Hasn't lost a step. He's locked it. Sharpers can be. Okay, grads Jerry. Thank you guys again for the opportunity. Yes. I mean, I think I first ever back to back to back or no. Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah. I mean, I mean, that's pretty crazy. So congratulations. Thank you guys. I appreciate that. That's the FDR. Yeah. Yeah. I appreciate that, boys. Okay. Where would honor? Yep. Cash prize. Never got it last year. Well, it'll be in the mail. All right. Yep. So double this year. Yeah. Yeah. Well, double. Yeah. Well, inflate taxes. It's in inflation. It's a 40 spot this year. It's 90% tax. We got you cash prize. You understand? We're proud. Okay. Maybe we'll get you a bumper sticker for it. Yeah. We will. We'll get that made up for it. That's great. All right. What's up? Uh, we're going to kind of stay in the same, same zone here. We have the first ever, uh, Cuck of the year. Ooh. Cuck of the year. And the nominees for Cuck of the year are, I don't know who this first person is. Josh, Josh Hayman. Who's that? Josh Hayman. Oh, let me put that on. That was, uh, the, uh, John Hayman. John Hayman is the guy because he said, I don't know why everyone online keeps calling me a Yankee Cuck. Oh, yeah. The reporters said that two days ago, that's a good way to, to, to, to be called a Cuck. Uh, all right. We have also, uh, the Wisconsin chancellor because, uh, I on this program called her an anti football pussy. She then, uh, decided to quit her job at Wisconsin and joined an Ivy League school. Mm-hmm. So turned out to be right. Nailed it. Turned out to be right. Uh, we also have our good friend, uh, 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 for 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. I was like, Are you thinking about Trump right now? Crime is what it was. Slapped him across states. And then everyone online called him a fucking Cuck. Yeah. It's an absolute fucking Cuck. Uh, we have Nikki Glazer. Why is Nikki Glazer on there? Nikki Glazer. I believe she told a story about, uh, she wanted her boyfriend to go out and, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. A couple of girls. Yeah. That's, that's Cuck behavior. That's also respect. Yeah. And then the cold play, uh, concert, uh, CEO. So that, remember that happened? That was like, yeah. That was a long time ago. Yeah. 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. to accept as a war, Jerry, you have just won. I don't know if you heard us, but you won take of the year for a cup 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. Yeah, kind of exciting to have two years in a row of being a takey winner, and that's pretty exciting. I don't accept this takey, guys. I, uh, I can't accept it. You're gonna let another man come up and take your award. You want to watch another man take your award? Uh, that, 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 cup chair just for you. So we're going to send that to you. I think it's you, actually, it is you. It's you. We made you sitting in a cup chair as a trophy. Jerry, what is it? What is it? What is it like being such a fucking cock? Hey, guys, do you remember when I first came on your podcast to address the verbal Rossini issue? And I implored people to stop calling me an f word, cock, but uh, you're now the ex, the, the, the exclusive exhibitor of your podcast Netflix actually wrote the actual f word. Yes. In the closed captioning. Yes. So, uh, 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 cock 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 the award. It's an honor to be. It's an honor you're going to take. Uh, I do want to apologize to my wife and children. For saying anything about them in the past. Uh, I love them very much. They should speak for themselves. Uh, 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. Uh, 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. I love this. Yeah. I just don't know. It's really. Right now. I'm really just trying a lot. I don't know. It's really right now. I'm really just trying to lock in. I'm actually, uh, it's, uh, it, 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, it was a bad physical look for me. It was. It was. That, um, Hanky, 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, you just wasn't a good question. Hey, 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, that was actually. So it was to be not a growth engine. Sorry. Is to be not a growth engine. No, to be as a growth engine. Um, by the way, somehow the people at 2B were very pleased with my, uh, my performance on, I'm part of my take when I was saying it was a growth engine. I 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 would, if you were going to power bottom Hank, then I'd be like, yeah, that makes sense. But if you're, if you're doing the drilling, yeah, then yeah, that's kind of, you know, 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 Hanky and everything. To be is a, uh, is a growth engine. Just to 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 one. 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 not going to say anything. I'm, I'm, I'm actually done fighting with you. You know, 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 a, I'm just get it right in there. If I get, if I feel like I'm getting attacked, I'm attacking back every time. So that, that 100% yeah, you are worthy adversary. I, I laid out my sword, Hank. I laid down my sword. Wow. I need to concentrate on truth. Yeah. On, on, on people I can, you know, me victory, but you know, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, what happened with three? All right, Jerry. We'll see you. Hey, Jerry. Thanks, Jerry. Congrats again. You could take that cut trophy and you could shove 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. Right. Maybe I am a cook. Maybe I will take this award. Yeah. I am a cook. I want to watch that. I want to watch you shove that cook thing up your ass. I want to watch it. Yeah. Yeah. Oh. Okay. Good. I'm right. All 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 PFT get that trophy shoved up their, their, their, their but holes. 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 information about. Jerry. By the way, I'm sending Sunday. I'm sending. I'm sending. By the way, let me. I thought for sure when you said I was winning a taking. I thought it was going to be something along the lines of best impersonation of. She knows Smith. Yeah. 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. Yeah. Okay. Oh, Jayden Daniels came up in one of my mock traps yesterday. Wow. No. Huge. What'd you do? Yeah. Uh, I, uh, I passed on. Sorry. I'm fine with that because you put him. I think number one overall last year. So I'm, I'm fine with you. Staying away from Jaden, please. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a little nervous now. I don't want that. You don't want that. I don't want that. I don't want that. I don't want that. I don't want that. I don't want that. Also, we're going to have Zach learn how to do an impression of you, Jerry. Yeah. He's going to get on cameos. Oh, yeah. Personator of you. Yeah. Oh, cool. Uh, maybe he can now make fun of my impediment just like Hank does every time I come on there. Yeah. He is an acupuncture. It's pretty cool. Yeah. Evilist. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, what? No shaming in the impediment game is what Zach said. He's got. Yeah. I mean, uh, no, but Hank. Hank. All right, Jerry. Our phone's going to die. Our phone's about to die. Okay. Are you still, uh, you still recording back? We're running out here. We're about to know what you're going to say. I don't know when to stop. All right. The next award is Hank loss of the year. Hank loss of the year. Mr. Bing Bong to Hank loss of the year. Hank's taken into the shorts in the past 15 minutes. That's okay. That's why we love him. I'm excited to see these nominees. First nominee for Hank loss 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 nominated for Hank loss of the year. Never really felt like the Patriots were in that one. I was just as hard-broken as Hank, probably, if not more. 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 delineate. - Bad. - God, would you say that was one of the worst losses? - Yeah. - Dylan Brown, great player though. - Great player. - Great player. - Great player. - Great player. - Really good player. - Yeah. - You gotta 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-handed, giving up on being right-handed. - That's not a loss. I've gained another hand. - That's good. That's 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 adding a new skill. - Okay. Most golfers only use 50% of their God-given ability. - Yeah. - And not you. - Right. - The next nominee for Hank Lost the Year is the Boston Bruins. - Boston Bruins. - Yeah, devastating. - That was devastating. - That's for you. - Heartbroken about that. - Next nominee for Hank Lost the Year is Mike Frable. - Hmm. - He's still a coach. - Still a coach. - Still a coach. - Just took us to the Super Bowl. - Except for the Sunday of the NFL Draft. - Yeah, he went to rehab. Guys can't get better. Guys can't fix themselves. - The next nominee for Hank Lost the Year is the Jalen Brown trade losing Jalen Brown. - Added Paul George, though, and future picks. - And kept Hugo. - Yep. - You love Paul George. - And 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 Year is when you farted during the interview with Killin' More. - Hmm. - Farted really loudly. Although-- - That was a win. That was very fun. - I would also like to say, it was just error escaping his butt. It wasn't a fart. - Yeah. - And the category, not fair. - They didn't factor in physics. - Physics, and the chair, and the fact that the Pelkin's facility was right next door. - Yeah. - That's why I was wearing that. - Right next door. - Well, the next nominee for Hank Lost the Year, there's a lot of these. - This is damn. - It's a lot of losses. - The Duke lost to Yukon in front of a record-setting TV audience. - Yes. - Mind you. - Yes, Billy Mullins. - So what? - And that one hurt 'cause we watched it like 75 times. - Yeah. - Yeah. - And we reenacted it. - Tammy O. a guest presenter for Hank Lost of the Year. - Ooh. - Who is this? - I like this. - And the winner for Hank Lost of the year by unanimous decision is all of them. - Oh my God. - That's great. - Bruce Buffer. That's the real Bruce Buffer. - Yep. - That's not an impersonal. - His wife is probably in the next room just like all day. He's doing that on Cameo. - Yeah, I just smiled a little bit at that, Hank. - That was funny. - Yeah. - It was a bad year. That, uh, hearing them all stacked up against each other like that. - Yeah. - It's like you get the Super Bowl and they're like, all right, well, that was bad then. Liv. - And then switching the hands. - I don't know. - Switching the hands is not a loss. - Liv is not a loss. - Liv is not a loss. - Well, some of those were reaches. But it was a bad year. Can't win every year. - No. - You also can not rebuild it. - You lost a lot this year. - Lost 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. - No, there's a lot, you know, when you win so much, there's still, there's still losses. But usually the wins out way the losses, this is just a bit of a year of, of L after all. - You actually won at losing the most after L. - So congratulations. - Yeah, you, this is the start of your winning. - Yeah. - You won this award. - Yeah, you won the team. - I'd like to thank 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, "Cottrial Escobar," said, "Fuck you, too," "quote-treating you," got 7,600 retweets and the quote in 135,000 likes. And the retreat was just a picture of a Paraguay football player doing a bicycle kick with the ball exploding the World Trade Centers. - Yeah. - So that was quite-- - I'll take that out. - Yeah, quite one. - Take that out. - That's a hell of a ratio. - How many likes? 135,000 likes. - That's a great one. - That's absurd. - Yeah. Hey, football. - Jeff N. Dewes actually nominated our former co-worker for some guy named Brandon Car said, "You corny and fat go get in the weight room." He quoted it and said, "And you're a woman beating piece of shit." And then posted the guy's arrest record. He got 107,000 likes on that ratio. - Wow. - He got 4.4 retweets. - That's a man of honor. - Yeah. - Emmanuel Acho is nominated. Not once but twice. The first one is, "If I'm Shedor Sanders, why am I listening to Todd Munkin? What have you won on an NFL level?" He got 4,800 replies, 3,100 tweets, which were mostly all quote tweets, retweets. And then only 1,000 likes. That's tough to do. - That's a really good ratio. - Really, really tough to do. And many Achoes just continue to cement themselves 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 was this after? March 17th. - World Baseball Classic. - We tweeted, the USA has 60 Super Bowls Venezuelan has zero. And then Leonard Ray's quote tweeted us to the tune of 27,000 likes. And it says, "United States zero domino championships than as well as 61 domino championships." - That's some good shit, right? That's a really good one. - That's a really good shit. And then finally, Emmanuel Acho again, because he said, "The WNBA would be better without Caitlin Clark, because she is a bigger distraction than she is additive." That one got 4,000 replies, and only 1,000 likes. - Also, the late addition nominate Pat McAfee for tweeting out an album coming out this day after it's gotten laid off. - Yes. - Yeah, which I will be purchasing. - Yes. - Sit album. - 100%. - Yes. - I was saying, we should do McAfee karaoke at some point. - Yes. - I'd agree. - Fall Out Boy. - We're going. - Don, don, and then we're going around. 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 Emmanuel Acho. He did such great work. - Yeah, it's pretty good. - I mean, those two, the Schnurr Sanders should not listen to his head coach, because what is he done in the league, and then Caitlin Clark is actually bad for the WNBA, unbelief. - Yeah. His takes are sometimes indistinguishable from a man recovering in a hospital from getting attacked by hammers. But it's kind of like where his brain is at most days. He got ratio of the other day, too, for claiming that Ryan Clark built NFL Live from the ground up. - Oh. - And then Trey Wingo flew in, and he was like, "Wait, wait, one dad burned second." Because if you want to talk about building NFL Live, let me put some stats on you. So Emmanuel Acho, truly one of the dumbest to ever do it. Can't wait to see what he has cooked up for it this year. - Yeah, he really is, I feel like every year he's just, 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 Chesta. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah. - There's like one year that a Bertoletti won. - Yeah. - Everything else? No. All right, Pete, do you want to do an ad before we get to our next. We're going to get right back to the show. - Still blue coffees. New can lattes are here, crafted with 100% Colombian coffee. Each can is a good source of protein and comes in two smooth flavors, espresso cafe mocha and espresso sweet cream. 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Yeah, it's not an actual literal week one. Max, I'm just going to spoil it for you. None of these are actually week one NFL games. Okay. Okay. But you understand figure of speaker like round one wouldn't would have made more sense. Well, not all of them around one three out of four around one. 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 I'm curious to continue listening to these. Okay. The second nominee is did the nominees. Yeah, I know. The Chicago Bears. There we go. Just wanted to make sure that one was in there. It's over to the make sure it was in there. You have the same Google document. 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. Oh, you're about to have a big loss. Yeah. Cause we both have two nominees coming up. Uh, the Bears over the Packers. Yup. In the playoffs. It was fair. Great time. 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. And hey, like Jalen Brock players. Good play. And McPhase six back. Yeah. Yeah. It's 14 back. Uh, the third nominee is, uh, JMU covering in the first round of the college football playoff against Oregon. Uh, 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 when he's time to shine. Congrats to the Spurs for winning a championship, crying his eyes out. Cry. Cry. No problem with, but you got to win the title after that. Yep. Um, so we have, we have an award presenter for this. This was a hank. Hank got a presenter here. Two prisoners. Oh, what's up, boys? The Lentay brothers here broadcasting for written house, uh, square and 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 seven of round one. Yeah. Very honored and privileged to be accepting this award on behalf of Philadelphia. As you everyone knows, we were out in Vegas for this incredible feat. This is a good thing, boys. Just really took it to those Celtics. You know, um, just put them in their place. And now we've supplanted them as, uh, the top dog in the division. Um, we really had a hell of a time on there. Nick Rady won the NBA championship in Las Vegas with dinners and celebrations and, uh, just good vibes all around. So, um, it was a hell of a Super Bowl. And we're happy that we're with our buddy, Hank. I can't believe he had 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 Stevens getting Jalen Brown. Yep. And, uh, we'll say it one more time. Jalen Brown. Very, very good. I love it. Hank, by the way, uh, in like planning out the take, he's 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. Same way. And he said he, he noted, great category thought, though I, I stand by that we should have one for biggest policing. 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. 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. They're the best. Yeah. Yeah. I can't believe they exhaust us. I can't believe they were like, Nick was proud of the win this award. He didn't see this as they don't understand. I'm in pushback at all. I think we, 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 deport. We had national championships and 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, he, you know, they want 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 Portnoy, our boss. Congratulations on the New York Times best seller. You are nominated for Michigan man of the year. We also have Ward manual for being an ADU's one in national championships. You've been 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 Shafter for just being a Michigan man. Yeah, through and through. Okay. I have a special guest for Michigan man of the year. Hi, it is Dave Portnoy. 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. But 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 videos of Dave the AI drew on to. Did you go with that beard? Yeah. It's good 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 getting married. You got married a lot. Yeah. This is going to be four nominations. Max wedding number one is the first nominee. 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 Blan Dino was there. And I think everybody had a great time. And it couldn't sit down and 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. There were enough seats. Yeah. The next nominee for wedding of the year is Max wedding number two. 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. Love Pug. We love you Pug. Next nominee for wedding of the year is Sam Darnold. Congratulations Sam. Mm-hmm. I to be honest I forgot that Sam Darnold got married. You did get married. The next nominee for wedding of the year is Tyrese Halliburton. Also forgot he got married. Oh no he got married like yesterday. Yeah. Congrats Tyrese Halliburton. Late, late entry. Late entry. The winner for wedding of the year we have a guest presenter. Ooh. And the winner for the 2026 take-y for a wedding of the year. May I have the envelope please. Thank you. Wow. Max Dolente. Congratulations. Fellow Paezano. Love it. That's a good Paezano. Furio from Sopranos and he made an actual card that said to take these. Pretty impressive stuff. Did he do that? That's good. That's a good talk. It looked like it said 2026 take these. 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. Uh okay. I still wish he had pushed Tony into that propeller that one time. Yeah. Now because like after that happened then Tony goes on. Yes. He kills Christopher. Him and Carmelo were perfect together. Yeah. Max congratulations. Do you accept? Yes. I accept. One more. One more. Do you got one more in you? You got one more in you? No. Don. Don. All right. Next up we have animal of the year. Animal of the year. This is 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? It's a fair case. It was just wrecking shit. He was like a 10,000 pounds just dumbing everything in sight. And everyone was just like, Hey, we got to 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. Yep. 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, because it seemed like they knew that punch was going to get them in trouble. - Yeah, and then the last is Jimmathy, the mutant raccoon that has gone viral recently. Jimmathy, yeah. - So the 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. - Oh wow. - We do. - Wow. - Oh my God. Our favorite animal. - Our favorite animal. - What's up guys? This is former president Pug 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. - Oh, so good. - Thanks, you surprised us with that. - Pug. - So it was gonna be someone else. - Well, yeah, that person said no, so. - Oh, okay. - Oh, so you got Pug last minute. - Yeah, Pug sent that in like 20 minutes ago. - Pug's always there for us. - Yeah, always there for us. - Oh, it's 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 this 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. - Yeah. - A campfire stool. - Yeah. - 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 Corota Grower has been nominated for ball of the year. He plays for the athletics. Fowl tipped a ball into his own ball 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 over a dimption game on the schedule. - You have two, but you have two twice. - Yeah. Does anyone else have to play Schuck? 'Cause that'll 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. And 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. I think we play the only one in this room. I think we play the NFC South, yeah. - Fuck. - Fuck. - Well, let's see you get to play the NFC South. - November 22nd, okay. - All right. Well, sorry, Schuck, we're gonna have to put it 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 Laval, balled, a big CEO with a big ball of brand. And you know, I got a hell of an announcement to make. That's right. The winner of the 2026 Techie for ball of the year is Tyler Scho, 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. Again, the winner of the 2026 Techie for ball of the year, is Tyler Scho, there he is, big ball is out in Iowa. - Great job. - Haven't heard from Laval while. - Great to see Laval. - You get to see he's still out there doing his thing. Okay, Tyler Schuck, 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 Techie 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 Francesca. - Thank you so much to Mike Francesca. 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 Francesca is the best. But he, he was like, I was talking to his son. I was like, hey, we really like it if he could do the Techie 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, I've decided we're going to do this. - Yeah, we're going to do the guerrilla trade. 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 Techie for guerrilla trade of the year and break down the actual trade. So let's do that. Okay, now on to officially accept the Techie 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 you get the right matches. Chemistry is really important. You can't just put two animals together and win a Super Bowl. It's just my ball, it's 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, I mean, 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, we had 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 James Warren 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 it was his time to shine and his time to move on and become part of another team, another troop. And he's wreaking havoc over there and Boston. And Lil Joe is just trying to fit in with his new teammates here. - So the plan with Lil Joe and we obviously aren't experts. We're not Adam Schaefter or Ian Rapport when it comes to these type of trades. But what we understood, and maybe you can correct me, is that Lil Joe now you could potentially have more grillers. You could make more grillers with Lil Joe, whereas Frankie's not ready for that yet. So this is a play for the future where you can basically rebuild in the farm system with Lil Joe potentially producing more grillers. - Now, 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 to produce little little gorillas. 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 Lil 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 Lil Joe meshes with everybody. And we have those little gorillas 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 that I hope that he's able to make some more gorillas for you. How common are these types of trades? How often do you engage in, not just gorillas, but maybe anything that you have, have the zoo. How often are you on the phone with somebody else talking about a potential trade? Yeah, pretty frequently, actually. It's not always a one-for-one trade. A lot of times it's the player to be named later type of deal. But yeah, we're talking with some other zoos right now about them taking some of our one or two of our animals and us getting a few in return. The good thing about zoos is we're all very cooperative and we all want to see each other succeed because it's all about the animals and that's really what all these trades are about. It's just making sure that everybody has that right-winning team in combo. As your career as president and CEO, have you had a trade that you've looked back on? I've been like, I kind of messed that one up. Not that I've messed up, but there was one trade that I just had to steal the century. Tell losing. Yeah, just work with another zoo. 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 600 pounders and I couldn't believe I pulled that one off, but 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 Howie Roseman. That's almost a word for word when he described to us when we're like, you know, you've had your way with a couple other teams. Got some really good trades. It's like, you know, ultimately we want everybody to be better. The best trades will win wins. Like bar for bar, you are the Howie Roseman of zoo. It's smart. Yeah, you want to keep everyone else wanting to trade with you because if they have a bad time. A lot of parity in this league. Yeah, we really want to keep everybody on an even playing field and we want our zoo to be the number one zoo and finish number one each year. We have no animosity to anybody else. Where do you guys rank? You know, rank in zoos is pretty arbitrary. Some people rank off of acreage, number of animals, different amenities. I think we're pretty high up there. In fact, we have both a zoo and aquarium. I mean, have over 10,000 animals here in Pittsburgh is, you know, puts us pretty high on the list and, you know, certainly if a little Joe does his job, we'll be moving up in those rankings. I would, I would measure it by smiles per customer. 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 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'd 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? Maybe it's like James Harden. They get heavy. They appear sluggish and lethargic and at that time, you know, it's time to move on. Has that ever happened to you? You know, not every trade works out. Not every, you know, acquisition works out. You know, we try to make them all work, but if sometimes they don't, then, you know, depending on the situation, you know, sometimes you just have to move that animal on to another location where they can succeed. It really depends. You know, there's a lot of things that our staff, our keepers do to try to make sure that each and every one of the animals that comes into our facility is happy and successful, but sometimes, like you said, it's just not the right fit. And if that's the case, then we work to try to make sure that we get 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 was like, we got to go see the baby rhino. And it was so fucking cute. So is there, do you guys, when you guys have a big baby born? Are 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 a, you got to come see them. Yeah, I mean, I think all zoos are in win-now mode. I think with the rate of species becoming endangered every day and going extinct, we have to be in win-now mode. Otherwise, we're gonna lose more species. So yeah, it's something that's great for visitors to come out and see. But the bottom line is, is that we're really trying to save all these different incredible animals. And when we had, 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, continuing to make sure that that species is around forever. And so our grandkids and their kids can, you know, experience the same really cool animals that we do today. That's awesome. Good. How are you? Having a great day. I did have a quick question for you. 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-now climbing these ranks again to where you're out today? Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of folks that I've really looked up to over the years. And surprisingly enough, you might not expect this one, but Walt Disney was a big fan just how visionary he was. And, you know, just to look at some Florida swamp and, you know, envision this whole big incredible park and enterprise. Very, try to learn a lot from Walt and everything he's done. And within the zoo world, there's so many mentors that I've had that, you know, probably two numerous to name. But, yeah, 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, very much indebted to all those folks. Great question, Zach. Great question. Yeah. Well, Jeremy, thank you so much for joining us. Congratulations again. We'll, we actually could make you a, we'll make you a plaque and we'll send it to the zoo if you want to. I have a spot in my wall already for it. I love it. I love it. And Jeremy, if you make any more trades, let us know. We would love to be like the newsbreakers for announcing 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 on. Yeah, or even like 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. Okay, what do we got next? We got a round and up. We're getting close to the end here. Great category next is the still alive person of the year. Oh, love this. Still alive person of the year. Of the nominees for still alive 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, they duped us. What, what video are you saying? 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 alive person of the year, Joe Biden. Present Joe Biden. At very much. We've just seen that Joe Biden is 100% still alive. Also nominated for still alive 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 alive person of the year is Mr. Pear. Mr. Pear. Mr. Pear still alive. The turtle memes. Still alive has bachelor pad in Missouri. All right. Hell yeah. PMT bachelor pad at you're going to come. Yeah. We should go visit PMT bachelor party at Gmail. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Max. The next nominee for still alive person of the year is Ted Turner. Still alive? No. Ah, but Ray Charles is. Committee got that one wrong. Okay. Next nominee for still alive person of the year, Jeffrey Epstein. Very much still alive. Yeah. To your research. Next nominee still alive person of the year, Lindsey Vaughn. Congrats to Lindsey Vaughn for still being alive. Remember that? Yes, I crashed. She tore ACL and then she said, I'm not going to, I'm not done skiing. Yeah. And then she crashed and everybody was like, yeah, well, you were skiing with a 20 ACL. Yeah. Probably a bad idea. Next nominee for still alive 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 the 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, shame went rogue. I thought we were going to give it to Jamie Pug. I take so because the onion because of the onion. Oh, the real winner is Shane. Shane. Shane. For still employed person. No, the real winner of still alive person of the year is also nominated was Jerry Jones. I forgot to nominate Jerry Jones. Yeah, Jerry Jones. The winner of the still alive person of the year. This isn't a perfect award 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 wins. Jerry Jones. Congratulations. Jerry Jones. Still doing it. 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 try to cop out of it and just be like, oh, it wasn't my fault. Pug was on the dock when I was making graphics the winner. Oh, maybe it was Dom. Try to kill Pug. Yep. Okay, fight of the year. We got some good fights this year. We have the Nick's 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 gonna go fuck up some, you know people. I'll do respect to that guy. Yeah, I'll do respect We have Hank verse big dom at the NFL combine great fight back to remember seeing that fight Yeah, no, you you ran away and pussy. Yeah, we have Conor McGregor for those 15 seconds 15 seconds Then we have a couple of barstool ones Kelly keg's versus Sam Goldfinder fight of the year at barstool spring break house and then finally Benman's verse crutches It's an ongoing fight. No crutches wins by submission. Yeah, all right the winner for fight of the year is Hank and big dog. Oh Hey, 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 Forgive me this award. I don't like the way you said that. Okay, and and big doms were the adversary I think I think we squash the beef at the end of it But sometimes you 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 them behalf of big dom? No, that's big doms award. I can't accept on his behalf. Okay. Okay Next next category in the 2026 takies the just chill out of the year a lot of people need to chill out this year First nominee is max For screaming at meek fill in the gambling cave. Oh one of my favorite moments a great moment of the fall season got really in his face Next I'm back. What's up? I didn't need to shoot that with that. It's just chill out. Just chill out dude. We're not saying anything big It's just like hey, maybe chill out. Yeah, that yeah, maybe yeah, chill out. Just chill out. I had this. Yeah, it's chill. I take a chill chill out Next nominee for just a lot of the years max for slapping Hank Well, I was instructed to do that. Yeah, but just okay So yeah, you can be instructed to murder someone that's still murder good point What do they say to that when they do crimes against humanity and and the Nuremberg trials just fall in order just fall in orders I was I was following 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, it's chill out man. Yeah, 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 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 right and next nominee for just chill out of the year 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 ran to the kitchen grabbed a knife and then proceed to stab All of our inflatable animals are we positively rabbit trying to make him feel better after he goes lost and you you aren't trying to make me feel better We were trying to make you feel better. Mm-hmm. 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? Yeah, what I got into addition. Oh, okay, please cool max For losing a game to the Broncos hitting me again and taking my phone and throwing it across the room. Oh, yeah screaming in my face Yeah, also when yeah, yeah, you weren't here. I did you hear on Friday the acupuncturist right there Just being like that the dotington dotting post 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. Oh, it would have been great. It was the dotington mode's game That had been all time a combo of AJ brown dodging bones. I was thinking out for you. I love that. We're trying to find out next year I'm gonna be chill now The winner of the just chill out man award It's max You had a just yeah, it's 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 you're not trying to go back to back although the Mark Sanchez one is probably worse Yeah probably Who's to say probably Okay, our next award is dildo toss of the year We had a great year for dildo tossing. We had big. Yeah, just a lot of dildo tosses. So our nominees are The WMBA dildo tosser on July 29th 2025 the Atlanta Dream in Golden State Valkyrie's game WMBA thrower number two August 1st Also Golden State Valkyrie's versus Chicago sky and then WMBA thrower number three August 3rd 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 WNBA game. Congratulations All right, thanks Bam looking good Oh, he looks great. Yeah. Can't wait for jackass. I see a jackass. Yeah, uh, no Zach great cat. I figured there was nobody else to get for that one. Yeah, he fell with the one one. No, that was great Great get. Okay, we got a five lot or a few left few left The next category is the apology of the year. Hmm apology of the year nominees Luke Kwan 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 Bajon Robinson Bajon Robinson for saying, uh, in a post game interview. It's like when we played smear the queer As a kid. Mm-hmm Uh, the next nominee for apology of the year It would be 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 nose and nothing clip. Yeah, and then they released a long statement saying I was so sorry For including this clip. Yeah, God. 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 totally normal thing. Yeah, and then they apologize and said we like to just only be positivity Uh, we don't like to spread that type of negativity. Okay, drum roll, please. Okay I'm gonna give it to YGT and Michael Block. Okay, yeah The nothing burger apology is is always very funny It's so funny because it also was like I everyone did the same thing where I was like what what what are they apologizing for? And then I watched it. I was like wait, what are they apologizing? 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 Uh 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? No Would you not want to garnish attention through drama controversy but your high quality golf. Oh yeah, I know a place You can see how 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 Block's competed and he's mic'd up and then we put it in a clip of him being upset From the competition totally known while he's still mic'd up. Yeah, right. Which is what he signed up for right And also what people want to see the human interactions the real human interaction is not the like oh good shot good shot Now hang out see why maybe people don't want us to be kumbaya You guys ever think about that? What if we ever what your kumbaya you started kumbaya. We what we mean we're the kumbaya No, I made a statement and then you guys were 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 restaurant 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 come No, I never wanted. I actually think you said it first. Yeah, Hank didn't say it first. Yes Thanks gaslighting us. I think you are gaslighting us could someone help they get help help I don't I don't know help. I have no opinion on this matter It's on opinion. It's it's just a memory. He wasn't listening. He wasn't listening. He wasn't listening. I was listening. It's who's who was the kumbaya Yeah, no one's kumbaya I don't know chill out Max because you imagine if this podcast was kumbaya like if we did it like these show suck We should know you guys want. Yeah, do kumbaya. No, it's hot you suck gaslighting us you fucker I swear to god. Yeah, yeah, Hank came up with kumbaya Shane find us this clip. I know you might be gaslighting us. No, never I also might have misremembered. No, I think that's what the pft just remembers how he wants and then says this is what I said I wasn't fully. I'm pretty sure that Hank said 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. - Iconic. - Big clip. - The Noah Con fan, who that wasn't really a fart, that was just a poop. - And something they shat themselves and they kind of like stepped on it. - That was a full blown fart. - Yeah, 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. - During our killing, more interview. And also, the chair was very solid. It was a solid chair. - Yeah, it's circular. - And circular chair, yeah. - Sitting on an amp. - Wait, I might have another sweet nominee. - Okay, oh, got it? - Oh, oh, this is a cool, this is it. - That was way, that was way. - Yeah, it was a little shit. - Oh shit. - You gotta wipe your butt. - Is a little wet. - Yeah. - And give a show, pink eye. - Okay, the winner for part of the year is Henry Lockwood. - I'm raking it in this shit. - Oh yeah. - All those losses, I feel like I'm sitting here. - We're trying to gas our guy out. - And I have 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 Sky Shepler probably deserved it. Bigger clip, bigger, bigger profile. But I'll take it, I'll take any award I can get. It's a lot of loss 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. - Good job. - And I'll keep farting. - Yeah, not gonna stop. - Never stop farting. - Never stop. - Not retiring. - No. - 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 on 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 from the college game day. - I agree. - The next nominee for retirement of the year, Mike Frabel 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 at 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 Philip Rivers for retiring from football again after he came back. That was awesome to feel. - It was so sick. - I can't believe it. - I still can't believe that had happened. Shout out for the coach to even like ask the question. - Yep. - And shout out Phil. - Yep. - The winner of retirement of the year is. (knocking on door) - The Miamics podcast. - Yeah. - Congratulations to Miamics and we have a video from you. - Yes. - Hello everyone. Steven and Jerry formerly of the Miamics Carolina Panthers podcast. - Man, we want to graciously accept this take you award from part of my take for the best retirement of last year. - We surprisingly earned it. - Maybe. - 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 want to 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 Federer. 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, 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 to 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. - Yeah. - Retired and the Panthers got good. - Then they got good, yeah, so good for them. - Yeah, great job. - Season to remember. Okay, next up we have new category, Tits of the Year. - Wow, wow. - 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 are 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 around. 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 chest, big man. - Wow. - Memes. Congratulations. - Congrats, Memes. Have you ever won a takey? - This is my first takey. - Wow. - This is a huge honor. Just another win. - Yep. - 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 it. - Yeah. - 80 degrees. - Yeah. Probably wear a sweatshirt Monday. - When we filmed this video. But you hit the gym, making changes. - Dude, he just said he layered. - Yeah, he just layered. - Yeah, you don't have to go to the gym. - He's got to wear a sweatshirt. - Yeah. - A spank, maybe. - It's pretty easy. - The suit summers over. - That'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. - The book of the year award. The nominee for a book of the year is Part In My Book by Big Cat and PFT Comter. - Yes. - At Hank and Memes and Max and Zach. - 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. - Okay. - Check her out online. - That's a good one. - And the winner of the book of the year award is - Ooh. - Part In My Book. - Oh! - Part In My Book. - Oh, congrats on you. - 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 promise, listen, when we get to the week of the book launch, we're gonna have to talk about it a lot because we want to be also New York Times best seller. 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. - 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 be like, "Hey, that was crazy 10 years." - Yep. - And we're gonna keep going. - Yep. - Keep going. Alright, next up we have the call to the president of the year. This is a new award. - Yeah. it because it was a stacked, stacked year for college. the president. We have, first up, we have Bryson, D. Chambo. Threatening to call the president. Threatening to call the president because of a 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 started off the phone with the president. Yep. We have the call the president made to the U.S. men's hockey team that started a complete shit storm 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, big year. Huge year. D.T. was on the phone a lot. He was, yeah, get those minutes. Yeah. Okay. The winner for call to the president of the year is Tiger Woods. Yeah. Just without a doubt. Just, just got off the phone with the president. Just started with the president. 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. Yeah. And that's where he goes to feel normal. And you wouldn't expect him to be talking to the president. And that's exactly what he was doing. He's talking to the president. Yeah. It's got full president. We think Hank. I mean, Jerry's got that in his bag now. It's exciting. That's a good point. Yeah. Sure. He could be nominated next year. True. Call it the president. It's talking to the president. Okay. This is a crazy category. The preemptive take of the year. We do this every year. Yeah. 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 Caitlin Clark. Okay. So you're just by this time next year. It's taking credit for being right. I think I'm taking credit for being correct. Yeah. I'm a preemptive take. Yeah. I don't remember. But let's hit it. Let's rip him. Hank, preemptive take of the year. My preemptive take of the year is that the there's going to be a new women's basketball league. The WMA is going to split up. Oh. Okay. And a new league is going to form. Okay. All right. How are they going to split up? Players are going to leave. Is the WNBA going to stick around? I don't know. Yeah. That's my take. Okay. Meams. 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 going to implode what you did year before. That's the Paul George trade wasn't going to work out and they were actually going to be bad because it's a super team of losers. Okay. Okay. This year I'm going. You're going to do it? Max gave me the hand. No, Hank gave me a look. I was like, that's that's your loser now. I thought you were going to argue that it did work out. Yeah, true. No, he said Paul George. So that's really looking. I pointed it. I pointed at them. This Cincinnati bangles are going to win a Super Bowl. Whoa. Okay. That's okay. All right. I like that. That's my take. Okay. My is my turn. Cincinnati bangles to win the Super Bowl. All right. My take is going to be that the Wizards are going to make the playoffs. I love it. And they're going to play the Celtics. Smart man. Oh, the pod is going to have a hell of a couple of weeks there. And Wizards are going to probably have home court advantage. No. Okay. What seed or the Wizards are going to make the playoffs as I think it's going to be a two set two seven situation. I love it. Okay. Feed it to me. So we're going to be back to the two seed. Have that work out for you. Yeah. Sure. I'll take it. I'll sign up for that. Yeah. Okay. Max is right. I just think I ball. There's been so much wizard Celtic stock that I feel like it's so much. It's going to it's going to end in wizard. Yeah. It's just bubbling over everywhere. Two teams are circling each other. Yeah. Destiny. Collision course. Zach, what do you got? I'm going to go with we are going to get Tiger Woods at the Masters in the at the upcoming masters. Oh, I 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 I show speeds bigger than Donald Trump. That's my fault. That probably should have won. Yeah. Yeah. It's good take. All right, Tiger Woods the masters. Yeah, I believe so. I think he's going to play not to say he's going to win, but he's going to play. Okay. We'd love to see that. I think archmaning is going to pull an Eli. Whatever team finishes with the worst record this year. Arch and his dad and his grandfather are going to say my boy is not playing there. He wants to go do a different organization. I'm not going to say what team is going to finish last. Okay. 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. It could be me. All the time. You watching the documentary. It's a couple games every game. But her brother, I lived the documentary last year. No, you should watch it. I'm going to respectfully opt out of Jane Dayton's elbow content. No more than elbow. But whatever team I didn't say what team it was going to be. Whichever team finishes with the worst record I just talking. I say me too. Couple guys do the podcast. Couple guys do the podcast and he's going to say no, I don't want to go to that dysfunctional organization and they're going to 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. Yep. Actually, no, they've already got the quarterback Jacobi. Yeah. Well, we'll see. Yeah. I have one, but can I just add on to your Zach? I think Phil's going to make the cut at the masters this year. You like that? Yeah. Like that. Like that. A lot. My preemptive take of the year is that there's going to be a controversy surrounding LeBron James. Wherever he goes in plays, he's going to have an injury and then he's going to be caught golfing with that injury. And everyone's going to be like does he actually love the game anymore? It's going to 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 force to retire. Kumbaya. Yeah. Okay. You could see it happening though. Yeah. Someone gets him and like, oh, I thought, dude, I thought you had a broken wrist or I thought, you know, you're hamstring. He's like, just can't quick golfing. He loves the golf. Okay. We have two awards left. Next up, one of our favorites. We have Blake of the year. Blake Griffin versus Blake portals versus Brooks Capka. We taped it yesterday. So let's get to it. Okay. It is time for one of our favorite awards. Every single takey's. It is the Blake of the year award. We have Blake Griffin. Denominies are Blake Griffin. Blake portals and Brooks Capka. 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 as zoom length, a 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 Capka 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 I feel like it might happen this year. Okay. Here we go. You boys ready? Ready. Come on. Bruxy. The text has been sent. Okay. Oh my God. You got text has been sent. I'm gonna say Bortles. He got this bro. I've been sent. I'd be happy with any Blake. Blake Griffin. Oh, oh, that was weak. Who's first? No, it was it was who was first. I saw it. I saw it. Yes. Yes. I saw it. We can't see anyone. It was first. No, hold on. Well, he does have his, he does have his video on. 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 Bortles. So here here. Wow. This was crazy. We got a little bit of an issue. By the way, what happened? Brooks will join whenever. I got joined. So we first saw Blake Griffin on the screen. Okay. Thank you. No way. But we have it screen recorded for which, which person joined, tried to join first and Blake Bortles. You were the 2026 Blake of the year. Oh, it was a split second difference. We have the recording. Yep. Blake Bortles. I mean, the floor is yours. What an upset, finally breaking up the dynasty. Good for the league. Blake Griffin is now muted. I don't know if he's yelling at himself. You muted some accident. Good for the league. parody is good for the league. We learned that. Blake Bortles, you, you, 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, I just, 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 it was a photo finish quite literally of a photo finish sitting 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 forefitting because my family's waiting on me to catch a train to go to this red stocking. Oh 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 what happened out there? I did everything I could. I don't know prepared. Sometimes you just doesn't go your way. I I'd like to see the tape. I will be putting a call into President Trump. See if we can see if we can see if there's something we can possibly do. Yeah, yeah, you're called ABS on us. I'm just quit. Yeah, just threaten 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 Bortles, 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, 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 of full five minutes. In his mind, he thought that that was the text being like, all right, whoever calls first, it's yours. And so I get on and 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, 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 you, man. You're, you're formidable opponent. Yeah, it's, I appreciate it. I was starting to feel like the, uh, who was it? Like the Jim Kelly ease bills. Yeah. Just get me year after year. 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 World is going to go. It was actually just chimed in there. Yeah. Yeah. Everybody. Oh, man. All right. Well, thank you, boys. This is one of our favorite awards. Um, well, you guys can leave. We'll stay on for a couple of minutes to see if Brooks ever joins. Um, I'm guessing no. Uh, but yeah, he does. And this is, uh, 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 shy. It will 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 state. I feel like he's going to win. But he did. But he he's just taking vacation right now. Everyone else is back. Yeah. So I hope I hope he's not playing because he was not sober. I knew the longer the call went on. The, the less chance to play kind of getting in. Yeah. He might go to bed tonight thinking that or 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 year. Well, it was great sportsmanship because Blake Griffin immediately texted him and said, congrats. You won 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 wife. Oh, now is wife. All right. All right. 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 Bortles 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. Well, we'll put this in the in the show. This is me just lap. There's just a face time that Brooks started again, five minutes late. I sent. I sent basically a text. You're saying the window is now open. I just a reminder. I could see that if you know, you get a couple cocktails and you that text might be implying it's time to call in. And he was just like, oh, shit. Did I win? But then he thought, but then his response was to then FaceTime everybody. Yeah. And he thought that he had then one. That that was the that was the role. And I had made it very clear. Now, where is he? What country is he? He's in Portugal right now. So 930 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 the 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 830 to 1030 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. Oh, like a lot of accolades. Yeah. A lot like there's no denying one of the all time grades. Yeah. But can he win the big one? No, probably not. The answer's no. But also a 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. The Portugal aspect, if I woke up knowing that he was in Portugal, probably would have changed my Yeah. Premonition a little bit. But then I thought it 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 going to 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. Well, man. He tried. He tried. It was the most active he's ever been. Yeah. You know, 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 that really that's what's most important. And again, he did win. My brother. Yeah. Yeah. That was. Oh, here we go. It looks incredible where he was. He was just. I'm willing to say he will never win. Never. Never. That's a never. Don't use the N wordbacks. I'm. He's never even come close. This is the closest. He started his own competition just randomly. So that that was. That was something. But the other Blakes are so good. They are. They take it very seriously. It's two Titans. 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. 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 very good. It'll just be a chorus of Blakes. Okay. Incredible. Incredible. Blake of the year competition this year. We should say to that we had a couple of updates from Brooks afterwards. The first being that he joined the Zoom. How many hours after we finished about an hour and a half? Yeah. Yeah. I think it was about 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 want to 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 in was you have your phone now. We can try to do this. Yep. At 11, 24 a.m. today, I sent him that five hours later, he just wrote back, nope, definitely, definitely can't speak. Yep. So he's having a great time in Portugal. Absolutely. Having a blast. He might have there are probably like, you know how when you go back in the history of 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, 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 Capka household being like, actually we claim this title. - It's like ahead of his time. - Yeah, and how he approaches being a Blake, yes. - 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 the award for the top podcast listeners of the, 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 Brian bros and Grant Horvath and all the positive, you cum by y'all. We've really appreciated hearing about that. Also nominated would be the Stave Gang. Shout out Stave Gang. Appreciate you guys. One of the, Stave has 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. - Okay. - So it'd 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. - You're saying rings for every single thing. - Every finger. - And then if, maybe for Jason Peer, Paul, we got one for Dick and Balls too. - Couple toes. - The winner of the 2026 Take You Award for podcast listener of the year. The award-winning listeners part of my take. Congratulations. - Wow. - Who saw that coming? - Not me. - Not me. - It was the two most shocking awards given out I think in this entire time were award-winning listeners. I didn't think they were gonna win it again. And Hank's fart. Didn't think he had enough. - 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 to 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 into 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 an 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 like the thing that makes me happy is when I'm like walking on the street, like 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 it's like, that's fucking wild. Like they'd still kind of blows my mind like holy shit. We're idiots, but it's been, we've 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, then we won't give them AWL. - Yeah, we punish you. - Yeah, but you guys have 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 when 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. 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 Cat. 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 the biggest part of my life is doing this podcast. - Yeah. - It's what I'm going to be remembered for one day, hopefully a 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 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. Like 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 we, our biggest problem, our biggest flaw is 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 gonna start it like 7 p.m. And we just sit in our chairs and just shoot the shit for like an hour. - We do an actual podcast. - We do an actual 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, let's finish with numbers. Memes, wait, I do have breaking moves. Oh, breaking moves. (mimicking music) (mimicking music) Jacobi Berset 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 haven't. - I have won this. - Did we ever find out who was Kumbaya? - It's Hank. - Kumbaya. - He's in his field right now without any of that. - Oh, so Shane, you say one thing and he just loses. - He shuts down. - He shuts down. - He's trying to kill Pug. - He did try to kill Pug. - What did he just say to me? - What do you point me? - I don't think you initiate. I think the word Kumbaya came up first and then Hank agreed. - When did this happen? - The first episode, Big Cat took an absolute ricochet at me. - I think it was the start of Mount Rushmore. - He didn't do that. - No, I would not. - I was spawning. - You mean? - And then you guys were like, let's just do Kumbaya. - No, we're all, we're in the greens of Kumbaya. - What's crazy is that I don't think. - And then Kumbaya. - I think Hank and Zach have won this year. Mount Rushmore. You don't have a single win. - Kumbaya, bro. - I know. - Just stats. - Shane, you ever find out? - Shane, did you ever find out? - Oh. - His head's down, he's down. - It was Dom. - No. - Kumbaya. - Kumbaya. - Oh. - I thought you were talking about the Pug. - Pug? - No, no, no. - You try to kill Pug, it's fine. - You try to kill Pug. - You always hate to Pug. It's fine. - I love Pug. - 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. (laughing) Hank's still serving looks. - Oh, that was great. - There's no way. - Shane just, whatever. - We're gonna find it out. All right, numbers. I'm gonna do 99. - It's two 11, five 11, for the 11 takeys. - 86. - You 10. - Shout out Pug. - 69. - 88 for Patrick Kane. - Remember when the AWLs almost didn't win the award? - Yes. - Big hat was addicted to coin flipping. - Yeah. - Oh. - 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. - And it makes me nervous. - I should do it again. - You already did it. - I want to do that next year. - Exactly remind me. We got a coin flip. - I just got a coin flip. - Yeah. - Got you. - The coin flip, I'm out on that. - I put this in some bad hands. The coin's gonna always lay in the right way. - Change the point is that. - It was my fault. - Do we not agree that the God is an AWL with the one and a billion shot of all of this coming together? - Yeah. - So? - It's actual. - It'll call tails. - God, do you watch your apples? - Does anyone have a coin right now? Let's just see what it would've been. Let's see what it would've been. - Is anyone have a coin? - You're holding a coin. (laughing) - I'm holding this, it's a ball marker. - This doesn't count. Obviously, 'cause we already gave it to them. And they deserve it this year. 'Cause this year was a great year. And we know you're gonna show up for the book and they're the best. - What if it hits? We release cool 10 year anniversary teachers. - Oh. - Okay. - That we are releasing regardless. - Regardless, but good idea. - I like your hands. - Let's just say that this is just purely happening. I'm just proof to you guys that God doesn't need to be all I'm approved you guys. Uh, so if it is Tails, then the AWs would have won if we had done this as a coin flip, the AWs would have won an 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 this. Hit if it's heads, then we would have given it to, a stopby game. 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. 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. It didn't even matter. I'm not. They said that. I said that. I've been saying hypothetically, if it had been a coin flip today, what would it have been? And it would have been still. They got it. Sure. It's 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 of fees got another one. Tails, bang. Told you. I got you, dude. It's good. Yeah. I trust the coin. All right. That was actually way more nervous than the first one. We were probably going to cut that one. Very, very much. Yeah, another batch of it. Rock. It would be a third batch of it. 11. Ah, anyway, anyway, one instead of 11. One. I think we should do one number. Yeah, do one number. No, I don't think we do another one. All right. I got to do one. One's the number. I found 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 Barstool. He tells jokes. Love you guys. Oh, wait. Hold on. Brooks. Brooks. He's butt-dialing me. I think you see this. Hey, Brooks, what's up? How are 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. I don't know. I don't know. Do you have a, 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 with you guys. Okay, that's a major. Yeah, you got my majors. I love that. All right, next year, Blake of the year you're going to win. We love you, Brooks. Thanks, Brooks. All right, see you at point today. All right. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music)