Greg Olsen, Mt Rushmore Of Everyday Villains, The Boys Get Their Championship Rings And Lebron Is Not Retiring

2023-07-17 01:59:05

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1Speaker 1
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Hey, Pardon My Take listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime. members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music on today's Pardon My Take. We have our good friend Greg Olson on the show. haven't had him on for a while in person.

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Great to catch up with him, also, get a little. We get a little teary at the end because we're talking about his son. Great story. We have the Mount Rushmore of everyday villains, so villains you encounter in your everyday life.

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1Speaker 1
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?Unknown Speaker
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Boy.

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Boy.

1Speaker 1
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Now in the street, there is violence.

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And not a lot of work to be done.

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1Speaker 1
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2Speaker 2
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Presented by Marshall Sports.

1Speaker 1
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Welcome to pardon my take. Today is Monday, July 17th and PfT. Our long national nightmare is over. LeBron James is coming back for another season.

2Speaker 2
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I was so worried about that, I was shocked, I was shocked when he made the announcement. Honestly, I'd forgotten that. He had teased that he might retire. But he had also been saying for the last three years he was going to come back and play with his son.

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Yes, that was his ultimate goal. So unless Brani had a Daniel Monte reverse type situation where he's a lot older than we thought, that he was. Yeah, this was as much of a given as you can have in the sports world that he's going to come back.

1Speaker 1
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And it was so perfect. So we obviously had the Takeys on Friday that were pre-recorded, so we missed what happened in the ESPYs. This was really the only clip I saw LeBron James getting in front of everyone.

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He said I asked myself, Can I play without cheating this game? The day I can't give everything on the floor is the day I retire. Lucky for you guys, the day is not today. So probably the most public non-retirement, even though we all knew he wasn't going to retire. Speech ever given.

2Speaker 2
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It's basically the decision to. And I think he planned this out just because he was like, you know what I want to make? I want to make a splash at the ESPYs this year. How can I do that? Okay, I'll tease it.

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I'm going to retire after getting swept by the Denver Nuggets. And then, yeah, and in mid July, in early July, when nobody's paying attention to sports, I'm going to dominate the news cycle.

1Speaker 1
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He also just wants everyone to clap for him and be like, Thank you so much, Bron. Like I, I'll say this right now, there's been a lot of rumors, a lot of talk. I'm not retiring, not today.

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Not today, I will not retire today, as you're listening to this right now, I'm not retiring today.

2Speaker 2
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You know who had the best day when he found out that LeBron James was going to come back? Skip Bayless Yes, old Skip. Had he put out a great, maybe the creepiest video? It looked like he was doing some sort of. He looked like a terrorist that had just taken over 737 and was making his demands.

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But he was like, you know, LeBron James and I were connected. We both started our professional careers on television the same year. It's like, Yeah, you can't tell the story of LeBron James without the story of Skip Bayless. Yeah, Hank, I saw that look on your face.

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Skip was, he was like a columnist, and then he became Skip Bayless on TV. Back in. I guess that would be 2003 when LeBron came to the NB.A. so Skip was very happy. At one point, he just shakes it, he goes, Lebron Bleepin, James, man.

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LeBron Bleepin, James.

1Speaker 1
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He's not retiring.

2Speaker 2
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You think Ernestine filmed Skip's videos for him? Yeah, Skip's going through it right now. Yeah, he is, he's having, he's unwanted.

1Speaker 1
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He doesn't have a person to debate with, and it's gotta, it's gotta be killing him inside.

2Speaker 2
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Lil Wayne.

1Speaker 1
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Yeah, lil Wayne. It's also very funny that Skip Bayless is like trying to find his new co-host, which not really a co-host, it's more like Skip's sidekick. It really has only one rule they have to be pro-Lebron.

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Because I was thinking about, like, what would happen if a guy who was anti-Lebron went and joined Skip? It would then become like he would have nothing to debate.

2Speaker 2
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It should actually just be somebody that's more anti-Lebron than Skip Bayless is.

1Speaker 1
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Yeah.

2Speaker 2
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That would go worse, that would blow his mind. Have Trump, Dave?

1Speaker 1
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Dave Bordwell That would be great if Dave was like, if Skip was like bashing LeBron, and Dave was just like, actually, LeBron's an ISIS.

2Speaker 2
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Actually, he's a disgusting human being, yeah.

1Speaker 1
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Perfect, all right other things going on in the sports world. We had Rory finally win one, the Scottish Open, which I don't think anyone could watch on TV.

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Golf just keeps crushing it, they're like, Hey, golf's never been hotter.

2Speaker 2
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And ESPN cut off the feed before the 18th hole.

1Speaker 1
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Yeah.

2Speaker 2
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ESPN Plus.

1Speaker 1
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But I was happy for Rory because I think that was like the fourth or fifth time, or maybe third or fourth time that he's been leading. After 54 holes this year. And if he didn't do this one, it would have been like, Dude, are you like? you just can't, you can't finish the deal. But back to back birdies 17 18, good for Rory.

2Speaker 2
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Good for Rory Is that the fifth major if you're a British guy?

1Speaker 1
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It's got to be, I mean, is it?

2Speaker 2
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It's the open.

1Speaker 1
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Do you also want to win the Scottish Open when the British Open is right the next week? Like, is that it's a tune-up?

2Speaker 2
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You can make the case, it's a tune-up, but I have a hot take.

1Speaker 1
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Okay, late on.

2Speaker 2
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I think he's going to miss the cut. I think everything. Because the last time they played here was the last time he won a major. He's been playing good golf, he won this weekend. Everyone. It's almost, it's almost too much of a storybook ending.

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And I think he's just going to come out and blow up. I mean, last year was supposed to be the storybook ending where he blew up on the back nine, but that's quite, that's quite a take. Hank, You know, they play, all the players play in quilts.

1Speaker 1
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Yes.

2Speaker 2
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I think I'm looking for kilts, kilts. Well, yeah, offline. Before we started recording, Hank was talking about golfing overseas, and he referred, he referred to kilts. He thought that there were quilts, that everybody wore, quilts.

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It's an all-time prime moment.

1Speaker 1
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I wish they were recording, yeah, yeah, so yeah, that happened. DeAndre Hopkins is on the Titans.

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Yeah.

2Speaker 2
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What was his list of reasons why he wanted to join your team? He wanted like an established quarterback?

1Speaker 1
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It was established quarterback, good defense, consistent GM, which I think they just fired theirs, didn't they?

2Speaker 2
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This is a new GM that they have.

1Speaker 1
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New GM.

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Yeah, that DeAndre Hopkins, like, I still think he's good, He's not DeAndre Hopkins best receiver in the league. Good, which he was, you know, five years ago or four years ago. But way to take the air out of it.

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Like if he had been added to a Chiefs and Eagles. Like one of these niners, like one of these teams that's competing for Superbowl. He's going to the Titans. Everyone's like, Okay, cool, like he'll be good. I guess it's good for the Titans, but I feel like the Titans are in a weird transition period right now. Not, uh, we're competing for a Superbowl right this second.

2Speaker 2
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I mean, this is an ultimate ricochet shot at the entire Patriots Organization, too. When those are his three criteria. And he's like, I want to play for a good quarterback, and he picks Ryan Tannehill over Mac Jones. Sounds like he listened to our show where we did the quarterback tiers ranking, yeah.

1Speaker 1
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Yeah, hank.

2Speaker 2
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Yeah, I'm excited for Will, I'm happy for him.

1Speaker 1
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Yeah, it's good for Will.

2Speaker 2
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You have to feel a little bit of stuff though, right? Don't you hank? Like the fact that he he visited your organization, it was on his list of, I think.

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Ultimately, two teams that he was going to play for that were in a bidding war and he chose the Titans. I mean, Belichick's definitely pissed off at Vrabel for this one. Yeah, probably a little bit.

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I feel like the Patriots never, I mean, besides Randy Moss, but like, I feel like the Patriots never really get those big name signings. I was not, I was obviously hopeful, but I was not like surprised he didn't sign with us.

1Speaker 1
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Yeah.

2Speaker 2
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It was just, it's not the patriot way.

1Speaker 1
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It did feel like everyone was like, Where's DeAndre Hopkins going to go? And now that he went to the Titans again, the Titans, this is actually where the Titans love to be. Is everyone's doubting them? Because that means they'll probably win the AFC South and they'll probably win like 11 or 12 games, cause that's how the Titans always roll. But didn't it feel like it was a an announcement we were all waiting for? Because we assumed he was going to go to a team that was maybe one of the final four teams last year of Bills?

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Like, like I said, the diners, the chiefs and the titans, like, Okay, cool. No state income tax.

2Speaker 2
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Yeah, I guess good for him. It became a financial decision, he's getting like 12 mil guaranteed next year.

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And he's got escalators that can kick it up to 15 million, so he's going to make, he's going to make good money. But if I was DeAndre Hopkins, I would, I would want very badly to finish my career with a good quarterback. Cause he's played with some trash quarterbacks outside of Deshaun Watson for a couple of years, he's played with. Maybe out of all the best wide receivers that you can name in the in the history of, I guess the last like 15 years. He might be the best quarterback that's had, or the best wide receiver that's had the worst run to quarterbacks.

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Besides, maybe Andre Johnson, yeah, who was also part of that Texas carousel of sadness.

1Speaker 1
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Yes, yeah, it's true, and it's, uh, I mean, money is always. I don't know what everyone else was offering him, but it's nice to say I want to go compete for a ring. But if the Titans offered him 12 and everyone else was offering him five, $7 million is probably nice, too.

2Speaker 2
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It makes a lot of difference. Yeah, I was hoping for the bills, I really wanted him on the bills.

1Speaker 1
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I know, I know, um, okay, other things. We got our rings.

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Do you want to give them to us? Yes.

2Speaker 2
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We have the rings, uh, the water dogs won the championship last year and I went to ring giving ceremony and I have it for you.

1Speaker 1
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Yeah, also known as a wedding, we want to do. You want to do any highlights from it from the ring giving ceremony?

2Speaker 2
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It was awesome. Water dogs won. Uh, this one's yours.

1Speaker 1
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Okay, Jake was on the call.

2Speaker 2
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Look at this, Jake killed it.

1Speaker 1
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Dude, this is actually a sick ring.

2Speaker 2
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Dude, those are really expensive.

1Speaker 1
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Okay, can you show me?

2Speaker 2
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I want to see my ring. Can you just hold it up?

1Speaker 1
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Actually kind of fits, cause we told when Paul Rabel asked for a ring size, I didn't know, and I just told him like, I don't know, average.

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Yeah.

2Speaker 2
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Regular is the size that we gave him. Oh, that's awesome Bill, that's such a sweet ring. Where's Hanks?

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Oh, do you have hanks?

1Speaker 1
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Do we not have hanks?

2Speaker 2
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Hanks is coming in the mail.

1Speaker 1
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How much do we know how many diamonds are in this? So I could resell it.

2Speaker 2
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I had no idea and they were so like, they, they look expensive, they feel expensive. So I've been sweating my balls off, trying to make sure I get them here right now.

1Speaker 1
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Okay, I might get it appraised, and just just for curiosity's sake, and then.

2Speaker 2
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Dude, they're big time.

1Speaker 1
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Yeah, these are big time.

2Speaker 2
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I want to punch somebody in the face while I wear it and just leave the impression on them like an ace Ventura.

1Speaker 1
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PFT. We got to go to a water dogs game and show up with them and just be like, What are you talking about?

2Speaker 2
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I actually, when I saw, when I saw the rings, I thought to myself, I might just wear that around all the time. Yeah, it's that cool ring, yeah.

1Speaker 1
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We have rings now.

2Speaker 2
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And then can you take it off your weird fingers?

1Speaker 1
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There was some take it off.

2Speaker 2
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Yeah, I don't know where those hands have been warm.

1Speaker 1
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Did you, uh, chuck beers at the ceremony?

2Speaker 2
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Yeah, maybe.

1Speaker 1
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Yeah, how'd you do?

2Speaker 2
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Uh, very well.

1Speaker 1
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Yeah.

2Speaker 2
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Uh, Dukes is witness.

1Speaker 1
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He is.

2Speaker 2
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Dude, Fairfield is the best, uh, venue for lacrosse. I just have to say like those are people who love lacrosse, and it's it's an amazing venue.

1Speaker 1
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I feel like, though, if we sent you anywhere where you got Championship rings and free beer, you'd be like, Dude, fucking. Baghdad is the best place to watch lacrosse. It's so sick.

2Speaker 2
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No, but Fairfield, Fairfield County, is a lacrosse hotbed. Okay, it is pretty sick, yeah.

1Speaker 1
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Connecticut does lacrosse well, yeah.

2Speaker 2
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Billy, What was the reaction of the team like, when when they all got their Championship rings and they're like, Oh, and also Billy football? Yeah, no, it was a big imposter syndrome. When you're walking in line and these guys are like, Who the fuck is this guy, right?

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No, it's not really imposter syndrome that is actually just being the last person to get his ring, yeah, and finally, representing the owners.

1Speaker 1
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Ideally, football. I did hear some criticism online that we're terrible owners for not being there for ring night. But I have to just push back and say, were we getting rings? For winning a championship? The team that we own? That seems pretty good, right, yeah?

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Well, our our favorite ring, I don't want to speak for you PFT, but I think we're aligned as an ownership group. Our favorite ring is the next one.

2Speaker 2
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Yeah, and also we're hands-off owners, right? And we're especially hands off the rings. We don't need to be there to take the spectacle away from the players.

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It's not the N.B.A. where the hand the hand, the Championship trophy to stand cranky first. And then he just whispers sweet nothings in the sideline reporter's ears. We don't need that spotlight on us, we're we're behind the scenes guys.

1Speaker 1
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Yeah, I'm so, he's so much culture, I'm sorry.

2Speaker 2
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That's what we do.

1Speaker 1
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I'm so hands-off as an owner that I'm going to sell my ring, no, like, that's how hands-off I am.

2Speaker 2
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I'm so hands-off that no, please don't do that. I can definitely name at least two players on the team. No, Dylan, Dylan.

1Speaker 1
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And then, um, Dylan's the goalie, Dylan Ward, Dylan Ward. I didn't know if it was his last or first name.

2Speaker 2
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And then, uh, Copeland.

1Speaker 1
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Yeah, Andy Copeland.

2Speaker 2
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Andy Copeland is a G. Yeah, he is. I was, uh, we almost fired him. No, no, but like, I was standing next to him. When I was like, this guy probably thinks I'm a fucking clown and he was a G.

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He was, he was chill, yeah.

1Speaker 1
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It was sick. Yeah, no, he definitely did. He definitely thought you were a clown. You're our clown.

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Fucking yeah, yeah, we sent you, you did your job.

2Speaker 2
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Those look awesome, I'm happy for you guys.

1Speaker 1
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Hank, I'm sure yours is in the mail.

2Speaker 2
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Shouts Did they actually say that? Billy? No, No, I mean. shout Steve Dimpoli and, uh, Ryan Brown.

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Some, uh, not alumni, but retired guys who came back for the ring and we just had a great time. Well, we're out.

1Speaker 1
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So are they retired? Yeah.

2Speaker 2
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They're retired, they those are the two guys. I was like, Yo, a lot of the water dogs are retiring cause they want to chip, and they were tired, yeah.

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Wait, did they say my rings in the mail? or no, you got a ring coming?

1Speaker 1
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Oh, okay.

2Speaker 2
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They definitely haven't made those. So I was talking about, I'm getting the fan, I'm getting like what they give, like the fans. So I was told replica for like, 200 bucks, I was told from, uh, the higher ups.

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They were like, Hank submitted his ring size late. Oh, and that's why it's coming late, as opposed to me and Big Cat, who didn't submit a ring size at all.

1Speaker 1
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Hey, listen to this, listen to this, hank ready.

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See, banging on the couch? Yeah, it feels good, yeah.

2Speaker 2
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Dude, these are serious fucking ring, yeah.

1Speaker 1
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They're great ranks.

2Speaker 2
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I'm happy for you guys and for the team. You're sending mine out to me, right? Because I can't if I own a Championship ring, I feel naked when I'm not wearing it, I can't, what?

3Speaker 3
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Yeah, what?

2Speaker 2
00:16:05.80 – 00:16:13.58

Sorry, dude, can you get your riverside right? So I'm going to keep this safe. I've been keeping them safe for two days and it's been a nerve wracking, okay?

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It's like you and Billy, those Tamagotchi pets.

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My tamagotchi is still alive before Billy kills this ring.

1Speaker 1
00:16:22.24 – 00:16:25.32

All right, what else do we have? We had a Wimbledon.

2Speaker 2
00:16:27.30 – 00:16:36.24

Oh, and that alcatraz, alcatraz happened. Thought he was a clay court guy? yeah, thought he was, thought he was an alternate surfaces guy, not a grass guy.

1Speaker 1
00:16:36.42 – 00:16:37.70

Yeah, but he loves grass.

2Speaker 2
00:16:38.68 – 00:16:42.62

I, uh, passing you the torch, big cat. Well, yeah, I have a question, big cat.

1Speaker 1
00:16:42.68 – 00:16:53.54

Yeah, okay, go ahead. But I I have a statement first, um, afterwards, I don't know, but if you guys saw. But Djokovic was maybe the most gracious, uh, competitor of all time.

00:16:53.54 – 00:17:09.32

He said People have been talking in the past 12 months or so about his game. Talk about Alcaraz, Uh, consisting of certain elements from Roger, Rafa and myself, I would agree with that. I think he's got basically best of all three worlds, so Djokovic is basically saying, this guy is going to be next up.

00:17:09.74 – 00:17:19.04

So I'm counting that as a win, that's my 25th major that I've won. So I'm Alcaraz fan now, not as big of a Djokovic, but I'm Alcaraz fan as well.

2Speaker 2
00:17:19.52 – 00:17:30.62

Uh, yeah, he was a talk, he felt like he was a baby, he baby brought him. He pretty much said, like, this guy reminds me so much of myself. I'm happy to see him when he's 16 years younger.

1Speaker 1
00:17:30.62 – 00:17:42.44

He's got all the fucking, you know, testosterone and and jumping around. I mean, Djokovic and Federer and Rafa are all the exact same age, so you can't make that same argument. He had to play someone 16 years younger.

2Speaker 2
00:17:43.02 – 00:17:52.22

That was my question, big Cat. Not only did Joker's lose today, but it's like he doesn't have to play versus Federer and Nadal. He's going to be Rafa's Grand Slams in like five years.

1Speaker 1
00:17:53.04 – 00:17:55.54

Wait, who Alcaraz?

2Speaker 2
00:17:55.60 – 00:17:58.38

Is coming for the the Goat Crown.

1Speaker 1
00:17:59.64 – 00:18:02.04

Djokovic has the most majors, just so you're clear.

2Speaker 2
00:18:02.04 – 00:18:10.16

He had to go against Federer and Nadal. So I'm saying, like, you had to watch him lose today and realize like in 10 years I'm also going to lose the Goat Crown.

1Speaker 1
00:18:10.28 – 00:18:20.96

But you just, you know, you just said what you just said means that Djokovic is the Goat. He went against Roger and Rafa and won all those, so Alcaraz is going to win Mickey Mouse majors, that's fine.

00:18:21.96 – 00:18:22.86

Alcaraz is going to dominate.

2Speaker 2
00:18:24.00 – 00:18:26.34

You judge by major champions. Well, I'm an Alcaraz fan.

1Speaker 1
00:18:26.40 – 00:18:29.86

I don't know why you guys are turning this. I'm an Alcaraz fan, he's got to help me out.

2Speaker 2
00:18:30.18 – 00:18:46.42

Can someone help me out here to go? And I don't know why. I've never thought of this before when I'm watching tennis. But in that third set, there was that. There was that one game that took shit, like 27 minutes, 27 minutes, right? And it was basically whoever wins that one game is going to win the entire match.

00:18:46.68 – 00:19:04.86

Why the fuck do they score so fucked up in tennis? Why is it 15 15 and then 30 15 and then 40 15, and then it's love ads, deuce and all this shit? Why is it? Can somebody explain to me why it's 15, 30, 40 and then the game? Oh, it makes no sense.

00:19:05.20 – 00:19:12.66

English stuff metric system is it kilometers? is this kilometers? It is so dumb.

1Speaker 1
00:19:12.68 – 00:19:13.48

It's so dumb.

2Speaker 2
00:19:14.14 – 00:19:18.60

They should score like a real sport, where it's seven, seven, six, one, three.

1Speaker 1
00:19:18.60 – 00:19:23.64

Sometimes a two for safety. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's how, that's how real men play sports.

2Speaker 2
00:19:24.20 – 00:19:34.96

Tennis scores were shown in the middle ages on two clock faces on each score. The pointer moved around a quarter from zero to 15, 30, 45. Somehow the 45 got truncated to 40 when the clock faces dropped out of use.

1Speaker 1
00:19:35.08 – 00:19:45.18

That's stupid, that makes no sense. Did you see? Djokovic got penalized for holding his for too long? He literally was, he was just like.

2Speaker 2
00:19:47.54 – 00:19:52.24

Oh, and he got a he got a time violation today. Yeah, he did.

1Speaker 1
00:19:52.44 – 00:19:56.26

See, they were out to get him and I felt like the wind was only affecting him.

2Speaker 2
00:19:56.62 – 00:20:05.66

It took too long for him to walk back to his towel, pick up his towel. Which, you know why they? They moved the towel station and they don't have the ball boys handing the towels out anymore, right?

1Speaker 1
00:20:06.16 – 00:20:06.46

Why?

2Speaker 2
00:20:07.00 – 00:20:08.76

Covid, Covid, it was a Covid change.

1Speaker 1
00:20:08.80 – 00:20:14.78

Yeah, so they're all they're out to get. Djokovic, Yeah, he's our coat. Just cause you didn't want to get vaccinated.

00:20:14.90 – 00:20:15.94

We're going to persecute him.

2Speaker 2
00:20:16.38 – 00:20:24.04

Yeah, they put his towel basically in South Hampton, and he has to go by foot over there horseback carriage to dry his hands off and come back.

1Speaker 1
00:20:24.10 – 00:20:36.70

Either way, I will admit that that was a very thrilling Wimbledon. It was, it was good theater and it is. It is an all time. Uh, I wasn't hung over, but I feel like I'm perpetually hung over with kids, but it was all time.

00:20:37.08 – 00:20:52.92

Like, tennis on grass is such a great hungover watch early in the morning, cause it's just ball moving on grass, not a lot of. Like. You don't really have to be paying too much attention. It moves at a good pace, nice little breaks, some grunting.

00:20:53.16 – 00:20:55.00

It's a great sport to watch in the morning.

2Speaker 2
00:20:55.42 – 00:21:12.58

You remember this was probably like 15 years ago, maybe even longer, when Monica Sellis was still playing and they, uh, I forget who she was playing against. But they warned both of them. They're like, Hey, you guys grunt too much, it's unladylike. You're not allowed to grunt in this game or in this match. And then Monica Sellis went out there and gave a grunting performance for the ages.

00:21:12.70 – 00:21:22.34

Basically said, Fuck you, you can take my grunts from my cold, dead hands, and it was, yeah, it was all time. I think at Wimbledon, that's the only place that they would ever try to, that could tell.

1Speaker 1
00:21:22.34 – 00:21:30.36

What, that might be a bunk, uh, that? Also. Monica Sellis learned tennis, Bro Monica, how do you know that she got stabbed?

2Speaker 2
00:21:30.46 – 00:21:37.16

She got stabbed hank and she was also like, one of the best tennis players of all time. Here, I'll do Monica Sellis court ready.

00:21:47.84 – 00:21:48.20

Hank.

00:21:50.06 – 00:21:51.44

You should start doing that when you golf.

1Speaker 1
00:21:52.68 – 00:22:00.78

Oh, we should start doing, we should. We should do. A Mount Rushmore later this season where we grunt in each other's backs. Mount Rushmore moans, Yeah.

2Speaker 2
00:22:00.86 – 00:22:01.80

Don't just spell them out.

1Speaker 1
00:22:01.90 – 00:22:02.96

It's like, What's your next pick?

2Speaker 2
00:22:08.00 – 00:22:13.20

It's a good one. Oh, I like that, okay, um, we also had hard knocks.

1Speaker 1
00:22:13.98 – 00:22:14.14

Yeah.

2Speaker 2
00:22:14.26 – 00:22:21.00

Hard knocks decision has been made. Another national nightmare is over. Yes, and it's going to be the New York Jets, the New York Jets.

00:22:21.08 – 00:22:37.50

I mean, Aaron Rodgers, it's got, it's got all the storylines behind it. They're going to show him, like moving into his Brooklyn apartment. Which, by the way, you remember when we interviewed Aaron last year and he was like, Oh, you guys live in New York. You're probably some like, Cool Brooklyn guys, right? I guarantee you Aaron Rodgers is going to be living in Brooklyn.

1Speaker 1
00:22:37.62 – 00:22:48.36

Although the commute would suck, it'd be an idiot to live in Brooklyn like I. That was like, when we had to drive to Hoboken, that was from Brooklyn, it sucked.

2Speaker 2
00:22:48.76 – 00:22:52.44

But, uh, last time the Jets were on hard knocks, they went to the AFC Championship.

1Speaker 1
00:22:52.80 – 00:23:16.36

Oh, I mean, we have a We. We still have to figure out the stakes of our bet, but I think Aaron Rodgers is going to have an incredible year. I become the the the script has been flipped on me, where I'm now defending Aaron Rodgers, the player, publicly, and it feels dirty. But I also, I want, I don't want him to fall off when he's gone. That would suck for me. I want him to be really good.

2Speaker 2
00:23:16.52 – 00:23:33.64

I understand that, but I think it would also be so poetic if you follow the Brett Favre story arc completely like Brett Favre was good. And he hurt his arm. Sends a bunch of weird dick pics to people. Leaves New York, goes to Minnesota, has a career resurgence, and then he gets arrested for defrauding Mississippi.

1Speaker 1
00:23:34.18 – 00:23:53.20

Well, if you, if you put in that that, uh, the Bears end his career. Corey Wooten When he, when he remember when Brett Favre was like, he looked like a chalk cutout. On the on the pavement, on the frozen, on the frozen Minnesota turf. Cause they were playing outdoors for a couple of seasons. That if you can give me that, I might, I might sign up for it.

2Speaker 2
00:23:53.56 – 00:23:59.98

Yeah, that's what, that's what I'm rooting for. I also just love Hard Knocks. in general. Hard Knocks is such a good TV show to just remind you that football is coming back.

00:24:00.44 – 00:24:06.66

And I think I actually think you could take any major profession, any minor profession and make a hard knocks out of anything.

1Speaker 1
00:24:06.88 – 00:24:32.54

They're doing it, and we also we. We will review the quarterback show on Netflix. Uh, either Friday or Monday, we're going to watch it. Uh, I've heard good, like people complain about it. But if you just show me any behind the scenes football clips, I'll watch it. Like, when, when, when they I'll do, like, in between the Championship games and the Super Bowl, I'll watch like the 30 minute episodes that the teams put out just to hear the mic'd up players.

2Speaker 2
00:24:32.82 – 00:24:43.58

Yeah, the mic'd up players, the alternate camera angles of plays that you have already seen, like seven times, right? I think I watched the end of that Vikings-Bills game nine times, just from like different vantage points.

1Speaker 1
00:24:43.70 – 00:24:49.56

So the Chiefs-Bills-AFC Championship game, I must've watched a hundred times on all the angles, Billy.

2Speaker 2
00:24:49.56 – 00:25:00.50

Uh, pft. the ring stuck on my finger. Uh, I'm trying. I'm trying to get it off. It's not. It's not going well. We're going to have to cut that finger off bill.

1Speaker 1
00:25:01.80 – 00:25:04.34

I'll give you a pill, that's when he knows.

2Speaker 2
00:25:04.94 – 00:25:09.60

Yeah, we're going to have to cut that shit off bill. Can we cut the metal? can we cut the metal?

1Speaker 1
00:25:09.90 – 00:25:11.86

No, no, absolutely not, that's your finger.

2Speaker 2
00:25:12.12 – 00:25:14.50

Jake, Jake, can you try to pull that ring off Billy's finger?

1Speaker 1
00:25:14.62 – 00:25:15.46

Come on, get over here.

2Speaker 2
00:25:15.76 – 00:25:16.54

I think Billy's lying.

1Speaker 1
00:25:16.76 – 00:25:22.54

How sick would that be if you had a necklace? If you had a necklace, that was the ring, but also Billy's finger.

2Speaker 2
00:25:22.92 – 00:25:28.92

Yeah, it'd be awesome, or we could maybe spray some some sort of cooking oil on there, lube it up real good, get some ky jelly.

1Speaker 1
00:25:29.52 – 00:25:33.98

Oh, it actually is stuck. it's actually stuck. Billy, let me get it.

00:25:35.96 – 00:25:36.58

Jake's being nice.

2Speaker 2
00:25:36.58 – 00:25:37.60

It's like sword in the stone.

1Speaker 1
00:25:37.72 – 00:25:38.36

Make it straight.

2Speaker 2
00:25:38.56 – 00:25:39.30

Make your finger straight.

?Unknown Speaker
00:25:40.60 – 00:25:41.66

Get off, get off, get off.

2Speaker 2
00:25:42.36 – 00:25:45.60

Commentate it, Billy, commentate on the mic. I got it, I got it all right.

00:25:45.60 – 00:25:46.26

Thank you big cat.

1Speaker 1
00:25:46.36 – 00:25:47.14

Don't put it back on.

2Speaker 2
00:25:47.62 – 00:25:48.44

Oh, it's stuck again.

1Speaker 1
00:25:48.64 – 00:25:49.46

Oh, no.

2Speaker 2
00:25:50.04 – 00:26:02.04

Keep that shit off there, Billy. But yeah, I, I just love hard knocks. I'm just so amped up for football, the decision that which team is going to be at hard knocks. That is the true restarting of the football year.

1Speaker 1
00:26:02.10 – 00:26:22.66

It is, and I've, uh, there's just nothing that gets me more juiced up than the countdowns. People just tweeting out like this is. We have seven Sundays from today, or 51 days till college football. I don't care if it's going to be a random like New Mexico State versus Hawaii on on a streaming platform, none of us have, I don't care.

00:26:22.76 – 00:26:26.16

Just as soon as the first game kicks off, I'm ready to go.

2Speaker 2
00:26:26.74 – 00:26:36.22

Yeah, the start of the football, the official start of the football calendar is Hard Knocks, right? the first episode of Hard Knocks. After that, it's the Pro Football Hall of Fame game.

00:26:36.76 – 00:26:39.38

After that, it's college football Week zero.

1Speaker 1
00:26:39.58 – 00:26:43.68

Uh, throw in one random, really good player gets injured in preseason.

2Speaker 2
00:26:44.10 – 00:26:45.56

Yep, that and a suspension.

1Speaker 1
00:26:45.84 – 00:26:46.00

Yeah.

2Speaker 2
00:26:46.70 – 00:26:51.38

Today, today, Scott Hanson said. Red Zone returns in a mirror octobox of Sundays.

1Speaker 1
00:26:51.62 – 00:26:52.24

Octo eight.

2Speaker 2
00:26:52.28 – 00:26:58.98

That means eight Sundays. Yeah, he made us try to do math and that made me move.

1Speaker 1
00:26:59.20 – 00:27:02.76

Well, we've won the war, so I don't, I don't have to. There is no options.

2Speaker 2
00:27:02.90 – 00:27:03.14

Right?

1Speaker 1
00:27:03.28 – 00:27:10.16

I will now be critical of Scott Hanson because there is no. He, he's, he's a monopolized red zone. Is he not?

2Speaker 2
00:27:10.60 – 00:27:11.90

To my knowledge, yes, yeah.

1Speaker 1
00:27:11.90 – 00:27:27.02

So be ready for that, Scott, I'm coming for that ass. You better, you better tell us, you better let us know gambling things and and don't give us the fake out. Where it's like. And we cut to, we cut to Kansas City, and it's like a seven yard out and you're expecting to be a fumble.

2Speaker 2
00:27:27.46 – 00:27:30.92

Nope, nope, got to be on your a game. Billy. I have a question for you, Yes.

00:27:31.00 – 00:27:43.62

Do you think that this is going to play into your whole New York media? Is going to make Jets quarterbacks worse? Having a bigger magnifying glass under the media of Aaron Rodgers, No, so Aaron Rodgers is immune to the media circus.

00:27:44.06 – 00:28:03.62

It is going to be immune, or is he vaccinated? he's immune, he's got natural immunity to the New York media. But, uh, what I'm? What I'm thinking is, I just can't wait to see what Zach Wilson and Aaron Rodgers talk about. When they're like, you know, in drills throwing, which is like, I can't like, that's just something you're going to buy into Zach Wilson again.

00:28:03.76 – 00:28:05.48

No, I mean, I think he is the future.

1Speaker 1
00:28:05.64 – 00:28:07.02

He's never actually gone, he's in the future.

2Speaker 2
00:28:07.18 – 00:28:20.48

You think you still think he's? I still think that he has the physical capabilities to be, you know, an amazing quarterback. The man, the man can make any throw on the field. I mean, his head, you know, he's young, he's confused.

1Speaker 1
00:28:20.74 – 00:28:21.18

We're doing this.

3Speaker 3
00:28:21.42 – 00:28:21.74

He's short.

2Speaker 2
00:28:22.38 – 00:28:24.54

He's not short, he's not short, he's six, two.

1Speaker 1
00:28:24.70 – 00:28:25.86

He's a dixie, he's like five.

2Speaker 2
00:28:26.04 – 00:28:32.22

He's shorter than me, shorter than me, the man, the man can make some amazing throws and I hope Aaron Rodgers gets his head right.

1Speaker 1
00:28:32.50 – 00:28:41.56

Um, all right, let's do Who's back of the week? Then we have Greg Olson, and then we have, uh, the Mount Rushmore of Everyday Villains.

2Speaker 2
00:28:41.90 – 00:29:02.36

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00:29:02.36 – 00:29:10.66

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1Speaker 1
00:29:11.84 – 00:29:14.02

Hank, you had how many coors light you have this weekend?

2Speaker 2
00:29:15.24 – 00:29:24.60

The limit does not exist. Uh, still going, all my friends. Flights got delayed, so we're probably going to have a few more tonight. PFTS video on his vacation with the bathing suit.

1Speaker 1
00:29:24.66 – 00:29:26.40

Yes, hilarious. Yeah, we got new Merch, too.

2Speaker 2
00:29:26.48 – 00:29:36.36

And the part of my take store the swimsuits. The mountains turn blue. They come out when you get them wet, so if you go piss dogs on them, it's a. It's a great visual, it's always good for a laugh.

1Speaker 1
00:29:36.60 – 00:29:40.42

Oh, is that your who's back? Hank? Yeah, we were. I was going to talk about Rogers and Roar.

2Speaker 2
00:29:40.46 – 00:29:45.26

We talked about that. I am also I was wearing the swimsuit earlier for it did my first lake jump.

1Speaker 1
00:29:45.60 – 00:29:46.00

Nice.

2Speaker 2
00:29:47.36 – 00:29:53.14

And it's, it's honestly unbelievable, the technology is unbelievable. It is like, PFT can, it can attest.

1Speaker 1
00:29:53.28 – 00:29:54.98

What do you mean? Lakes? No, no, no.

2Speaker 2
00:29:55.04 – 00:30:02.26

No, the bathing, the bathing suit, the bathing suit. Mountains turning blue after you get them, like in the water, is is very, very sick.

1Speaker 1
00:30:02.40 – 00:30:05.64

That would be funny. If you were just talking about lakes, you're like, how'd they get all this water here?

2Speaker 2
00:30:06.02 – 00:30:12.42

Well, yeah, they just got an ocean, they have an ocean in Chicago. Lake Superior is the Goat Great Lake. Why I'm a Lake, Michigan guy.

00:30:12.62 – 00:30:26.18

No, no, it's just the why, because it's cold and it's clear, and it's see-through. Okay, yeah, um, it'd be a real shame if people started taking videos of themselves peeing their blue mountain swimsuit.

00:30:26.30 – 00:30:27.72

No, that wouldn't be a top trend.

3Speaker 3
00:30:28.00 – 00:30:28.14

Yeah.

1Speaker 1
00:30:28.40 – 00:30:28.64

Yeah.

2Speaker 2
00:30:29.42 – 00:30:38.00

Shout out to the people out there that were like, look at this grown-ass man. Like, like, I'm not going to sit there and piss myself after being out in the sun for six hours, drinking Coors lights.

1Speaker 1
00:30:38.24 – 00:30:48.08

Also, we piss ourselves all the time. We're not grown-ass men. we're definitively not grown-ass men. we are, we are in in age only. are we grown-ass men?

00:30:48.68 – 00:30:50.40

Uh, okay, good, who's back, Hank?

2Speaker 2
00:30:51.04 – 00:30:51.50

Thank you.

1Speaker 1
00:30:51.72 – 00:30:53.78

PFT's video Uh, Pft.

2Speaker 2
00:30:54.66 – 00:30:59.30

Shorts, no shorts, so specifically coors lights one shorts are back.

00:30:59.36 – 00:31:05.66

Okay, well, I guess, let's let's play the hits. My who's back of the week is Dan Snyder? Oh, I told you.

1Speaker 1
00:31:05.82 – 00:31:16.80

I told you, Oh my God, so so people who don't know we. We taped the Takies like three weeks before they aired. I kept on getting tweets. I was like, Wait, what was my future take of the year?

00:31:16.82 – 00:31:20.14

And then I forgot that it basically kind of almost came true already.

2Speaker 2
00:31:20.44 – 00:31:40.08

No, no, it didn't almost come true already. A report came out last Wednesday. Uh, from I think it was probably Dan Vinata and, uh, Seth Wickersham. They're always the ones that put out these bombshells at like, 7am. About Dan Snyder. It happens like once every two months, and it was behind the scenes of how Dan tried to strong arm the NFL and John Gruden.

00:31:40.26 – 00:31:57.14

And basically, he was behind all these leaks that happened, which is, if you had a brain, you knew who was behind those leaks. Of course, when they were coming out, like everyone, got mad at John Gruden for the contents of the email. But to me, the bigger story was always like, Why is this email being selectively leaked? That was the result of a commander's or Redskins investigation?

00:31:57.14 – 00:32:22.74

And the story was always going to be Dan Snyder being a piece of shit asshole, uh, and so that story came out. And then the following day, a followup report said that things are in jeopardy with the sale of the team. Because there's some loose ends in regards to indemnifying Dan Snyder against all the bullshit that he pulled while he was still the owner of the team. And no, hank, you don't get to shrug. I was literally just copying Billy and whatever.

00:32:22.84 – 00:32:26.24

It hasn't happened yet, it hasn't happened yet. Okay, listen, listen.

1Speaker 1
00:32:27.06 – 00:32:28.38

Almost came true.

2Speaker 2
00:32:30.28 – 00:32:40.96

We, we've yet to see it. I'm waiting for all the facts to come out. But if Dan Snyder, why don't you do that? When they signed? This would be the most diabolical fucking thing this man has ever done.

00:32:41.04 – 00:32:54.14

If he goes this far, makes specifically, I would feel targeted, I would feel like I was the one that he was going at. If he goes this far. Throughout the process of selling the team gives me six months to celebrate him selling the team.

1Speaker 1
00:32:54.14 – 00:33:02.96

And then you got to return all those t-shirts, you got to do a buyback program and then I'm out.

2Speaker 2
00:33:03.18 – 00:33:07.68

Then I'm out, I'm out. If Dan Snyder comes back, I'm out, I'm out, I can't do it.

00:33:07.74 – 00:33:14.92

I can't, I can't turn back. I'll root for any team in the NFL. I'm going to become a Texas fan or a Bears fan. I'm in Chicago.

1Speaker 1
00:33:15.04 – 00:33:17.02

Yeah, that's on par for bad.

2Speaker 2
00:33:17.50 – 00:33:22.66

Yeah, it's on par, but at least it's, at least it's not the fucking Dan Snyder's. You guys can't be on the same team.

1Speaker 1
00:33:22.66 – 00:33:24.30

That would be so awesome if you were Texas.

00:33:26.44 – 00:33:30.26

We just like, forget to bring them up on Mondays. You're like, what about my team?

2Speaker 2
00:33:30.66 – 00:33:34.02

Yeah, maybe the c-words, maybe I just have to root for the c-words.

00:33:35.68 – 00:33:51.42

But yeah, I was very upset, and I still am very upset because I'm realizing that. There's probably like a 25 possibility that he does stick around for the rest of my life, owns the team, and I'll probably die before he does.

1Speaker 1
00:33:52.56 – 00:33:52.96

25%.

2Speaker 2
00:33:53.70 – 00:34:03.80

That's all, yeah. 25. Hey, you don't know anything about how big transactions are done. okay? You don't know anything about the world of finance. You don't know about getting all your ducks in a row on this shit.

00:34:04.28 – 00:34:13.50

I know you don't pop champagne before the Super Bowl, you don't pop champagne if the deal's not signed, that's all I know. The interest rates weren't right, bro, yeah.

00:34:14.68 – 00:34:16.64

Has nothing to do with the interest rates.

1Speaker 1
00:34:16.68 – 00:34:18.68

It was definitely too high. Yeah, thanks.

2Speaker 2
00:34:18.72 – 00:34:26.04

Money's too expensive. Give me Mohammed bin Salman, give me the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund. Anybody, anybody but Dan Snyder.

00:34:26.14 – 00:34:29.78

I don't care, give me Billy, give me Billy, owning the team, I don't give a shit. No, you don't want that.

00:34:30.04 – 00:34:32.94

No, no, no way, way over Billy and Dan Snyder. Why would a fucking team be sick?

1Speaker 1
00:34:34.44 – 00:34:35.16

Uh, okay.

2Speaker 2
00:34:35.46 – 00:34:44.96

And there's a lot of sickos out there, by the way. Who told me, like, I'm so glad this is happening to you? When it looked like, Dan Snyder, I'm like, come back, there's a lot of freaks that are....

1Speaker 1
00:34:44.96 – 00:34:46.16

Shut up hank.

2Speaker 2
00:34:46.44 – 00:34:59.08

There's a lot of freaks that are rooting for me to be miserable for the rest of my life. This is the worst thing that's ever happened. They did a list, they did a fucking list of the best players from each position during the Dan Snyder era. And it was the most depressing list that you'll ever read.

00:34:59.24 – 00:35:02.92

The best quarterback that they had from the entire Dan Snyder era.

1Speaker 1
00:35:03.12 – 00:35:03.74

Had to be RG3.

2Speaker 2
00:35:03.76 – 00:35:05.50

Was RG3 for six weeks?

1Speaker 1
00:35:05.58 – 00:35:06.08

Oh, he was very good.

2Speaker 2
00:35:06.08 – 00:35:06.72

In 2012.

00:35:06.78 – 00:35:10.98

He was very good, it was a great six weeks, it was a great six weeks.

1Speaker 1
00:35:11.34 – 00:35:20.90

He was sick. Um, all right, my uh, who's back? is Andy Dalton? Andy Dalton's back? I don't know if you guys saw this quote, Uh, that was dropped.

00:35:20.98 – 00:35:38.20

I think it was Miles Sanders, who's now on the Panthers. He was doing a podcast and he said, We've got a very, very, uh, very, very good young quarterback that's being mentored by a very, very, very good quarterback. Future Hall of Famer Andy Dalton.

00:35:39.04 – 00:35:40.56

So Andy Dalton's back.

2Speaker 2
00:35:41.04 – 00:35:41.66

All the way back, Which Hall of Fame?

1Speaker 1
00:35:42.02 – 00:35:46.34

Uh, I was thinking about it. I don't know if he's even in the Redhead Hall of Fame.

00:35:50.48 – 00:35:56.46

Conan O'Brien, Ed Sheeran, Lindsay Lohan, Bill Walton.

2Speaker 2
00:35:57.98 – 00:36:01.36

I'd put, I'd put him in over over Lindsay Lohan.

1Speaker 1
00:36:01.58 – 00:36:03.44

Oh, I don't know what about Emma Stone, No.

2Speaker 2
00:36:03.70 – 00:36:06.92

Lindsay Lohan was was she, had she had a decade run of.

1Speaker 1
00:36:06.96 – 00:36:07.48

Sean White.

2Speaker 2
00:36:07.78 – 00:36:10.22

Andy Dalton was just a quarterback in the NFL for like.

1Speaker 1
00:36:10.58 – 00:36:18.18

Yeah, Mark McGuire, it's, it's Prince Harry, it's. It's a question of whether he's in the Redhead Hall of Fame, yeah.

2Speaker 2
00:36:18.24 – 00:36:22.62

He's not, I don't think that they're. He's not a shoo-in for any Hall of Fame, I'll put it that way.

1Speaker 1
00:36:22.72 – 00:36:29.72

Right, so he is back, though, um, also Kevin Durant's back, he's very online. And, uh, he had to refute a fake quote.

00:36:29.72 – 00:36:47.20

That made me laugh. The the like, one of those N.B.A. central fake accounts tweeted Uh, Kevin Durant quote. I'm seven feet tall and have the skillset of a shooting guard. I'm the best scorer in N.B.A. history. My only weakness is injuries. And I just that it does actually sound like something, he would say to someone in a reply.

00:36:48.02 – 00:36:50.14

Like that, that's not that far off.

2Speaker 2
00:36:50.34 – 00:36:59.54

It really does actually just sound like something that a Kevin Durant stand would say about Kevin Durant in an argument about whether Kevin Durant is the best player of this generation.

1Speaker 1
00:36:59.80 – 00:37:02.72

And the stand is actually Kevin Durant in a burner account.

2Speaker 2
00:37:02.92 – 00:37:03.90

In a burner account, yeah.

1Speaker 1
00:37:04.12 – 00:37:14.72

Yeah, so I just saw that I was like, Oh yeah, and it also, I think it got community noted. Uh, and it just says, as inferred by Kevin Durant, this is a fake quote.

00:37:14.72 – 00:37:19.46

That's like the weakest community notes ever. It doesn't even say it's fake.

2Speaker 2
00:37:19.90 – 00:37:26.16

I thought you were saying it got community noted, because somebody was like, Actually, Kevin Durant isn't the best scorer by these metrics.

1Speaker 1
00:37:27.48 – 00:37:34.26

Actually, he's got more weaknesses, his his handle gets a little loose in the playoffs. Um, okay, Billy, what's your who's back?

2Speaker 2
00:37:34.78 – 00:37:48.66

Uh, water dogs and the Gilgo Beach serial killer has been caught. This might be a little local, uh, Long Island guys will know what I'm talking about, but they caught him. I was an architect, and he was, uh, murdering people.

1Speaker 1
00:37:49.10 – 00:37:55.40

And they and they caught him in the most long island way ever. They got DNA off of a pizza box where he didn't finish his crust.

2Speaker 2
00:37:55.90 – 00:37:59.26

Exactly, got to eat that crust, you got to eat your crust, dude.

1Speaker 1
00:37:59.52 – 00:38:06.32

I would never, I'll tell you one thing, if they get me for DNA, there's a million ways you can do it. You could never get it for pizza, cause I always finished the whole slice.

2Speaker 2
00:38:06.58 – 00:38:13.20

Yeah, always. That's what people should tell their kids from now on. Here's why you should be a member of the Clean Plate Club. If you don't, you might get arrested for being a serial killer.

1Speaker 1
00:38:13.20 – 00:38:17.80

Also, it's not fun, it's not a funny story, obviously, because he's a serial killer and people died, but.

2Speaker 2
00:38:17.80 – 00:38:18.72

We got his ass.

1Speaker 1
00:38:18.84 – 00:38:36.94

There was a twist that gave me a little chuckle. He was, he did a, uh video with some French dude, uh, who like interviews architects in New York City. And so this video that probably had 20 people who watched it. I clicked on it and it has like a million and a half views on YouTube.

2Speaker 2
00:38:37.14 – 00:38:38.80

So yeah, interview with a serial killer.

1Speaker 1
00:38:38.80 – 00:38:43.06

That guy has a his. His revenue is popping this month.

2Speaker 2
00:38:43.28 – 00:38:53.20

Any serial killers of this next generation? There's going to be a treasure trove of online content that they've left behind. Yeah, that is not linked at all to whatever their crime is. That we're going to get to go through, it's going to be wonderful.

1Speaker 1
00:38:53.40 – 00:38:56.54

Yeah, this guy, he's a real fucking piece of shit.

2Speaker 2
00:38:56.90 – 00:38:58.50

So what's? How many people did he kill, Billy?

1Speaker 1
00:38:59.46 – 00:39:06.60

Four that we know, four that we know of, and it was all like, in a uh, short stretch in 2010. So it's been a while.

2Speaker 2
00:39:07.00 – 00:39:18.96

So he just quit, he just he got out the game. Was he the one that was like dumping them on the beach? I don't know how serial killing works, but he just like, just had a had a kick.

1Speaker 1
00:39:19.06 – 00:39:35.96

I think he was back on the game. PFT because there was someone. A woman filed a police report recently. Being like, this guy was just being the biggest creep ever at the beach, like, kind of stalking me. And he fit the description of the serial killer, and so yeah.

2Speaker 2
00:39:36.28 – 00:39:41.92

You can only stay aware for so long you don't hear about any serial killers. Just like walking away at the peak of their at their talents.

1Speaker 1
00:39:42.04 – 00:39:43.08

Yeah, went to high school.

2Speaker 2
00:39:43.18 – 00:39:44.76

Barry Sanders of Serial Killers Yeah.

1Speaker 1
00:39:44.76 – 00:39:45.96

Went to high school with Billy Baldwin.

2Speaker 2
00:39:46.24 – 00:39:46.60

Yeah.

1Speaker 1
00:39:47.32 – 00:39:51.58

Wow, Billy Baldwin just tweeted that he's like, Oh wow, I went to high school with this guy.

2Speaker 2
00:39:51.70 – 00:39:52.80

Could have been me, whoa.

1Speaker 1
00:39:53.36 – 00:39:56.46

Shit, uh, okay, Jake, finish this off.

2Speaker 2
00:39:56.60 – 00:40:01.68

Um, I. Who's back is Steph Curry. Yes, he joins the Summer 2023 hole in one crew.

1Speaker 1
00:40:01.80 – 00:40:02.74

Real hole in one.

2Speaker 2
00:40:02.88 – 00:40:04.92

Max Homa, Blake Griffin and now Steph Curry.

1Speaker 1
00:40:05.32 – 00:40:08.04

Oh, Blake Griffin, Redhead Hall of Fame, yeah.

2Speaker 2
00:40:08.88 – 00:40:10.96

Yeah, easy. So that was a sick hole in one.

1Speaker 1
00:40:12.16 – 00:40:13.90

Yeah, well, cause we saw the whole thing.

2Speaker 2
00:40:13.98 – 00:40:21.72

Yeah, I, if I had the camera crew, I did as much as I could. Jake, you're a real hole in one. Does Blake Griffin identify as a redhead, though? Thanks, Bill.

00:40:21.80 – 00:40:22.62

I don't know I got you.

1Speaker 1
00:40:23.10 – 00:40:26.24

I don't know he's down right now. He lost Blake of the year.

3Speaker 3
00:40:27.16 – 00:40:28.60

I don't think that you get to determine if you feel identified or not.

2Speaker 2
00:40:28.60 – 00:40:37.78

You're putting a title on him that he might not, he might not want to identify. As I don't think you get to decide that, I think that's for people that want to make fun of you. Yeah, no, it's a they're the ones that get to decide.

00:40:38.76 – 00:40:39.02

No.

1Speaker 1
00:40:40.08 – 00:40:46.82

What identify, however, you want? By the way, do we have the the intro to the show? do we change? It was going to change it to the one, he said.

2Speaker 2
00:40:47.14 – 00:40:48.18

No, okay.

1Speaker 1
00:40:48.22 – 00:40:51.48

So what do I need to text him and have him send me? This may never get back.

2Speaker 2
00:40:52.74 – 00:40:56.10

It's part of my take, presented by Barstool Sports.

1Speaker 1
00:40:56.26 – 00:41:01.12

It's part of my take, presented by Barstool Sports. So he's, Yeah, all right, you want me?

00:41:01.30 – 00:41:03.50

I can text him if you want. Oh yeah, text him, text him and get it.

2Speaker 2
00:41:03.92 – 00:41:07.60

Ah, yeah, so that tournament is great, there's always great clips, yeah.

1Speaker 1
00:41:07.60 – 00:41:10.74

We're going to go next year, put it on the map, that was so cool, we're going.

2Speaker 2
00:41:10.88 – 00:41:12.24

Did Steph Curry play with a mouthpiece?

1Speaker 1
00:41:12.68 – 00:41:13.32

No, no.

3Speaker 3
00:41:13.96 – 00:41:14.48

That would have been sick.

1Speaker 1
00:41:14.66 – 00:41:28.34

That would have been sick. Zaha, our colleague, good friend of all of ours, had maybe the craziest take of all time. He's like, I saw Steph Curry golf at a barstool classic. as good as he is at basketball, he's that much better at golf.

00:41:28.80 – 00:41:38.46

It's like, Ah, he's like a top 15 basketball player of all time. So I don't think he really understood what he was saying in that, in that tweet, but it was great.

2Speaker 2
00:41:38.54 – 00:41:41.16

He also finished off the tournament with an eagle to win.

1Speaker 1
00:41:41.56 – 00:41:42.74

Yeah, crazy.

2Speaker 2
00:41:42.86 – 00:41:44.72

He might be a better golfer than he is a basketball player.

1Speaker 1
00:41:44.74 – 00:41:49.80

He could be, I mean, I'm still waiting. Like, how sick would that be if Steph Curry just went pro?

2Speaker 2
00:41:50.20 – 00:41:51.40

Can't be better than your class.

1Speaker 1
00:41:51.52 – 00:41:58.90

Like, Tony Romo should have, like, I, that's the thing, though. Tony Romo was always talked about as such an incredible golfer, he's never sniffed pro, right?

2Speaker 2
00:41:59.92 – 00:42:02.30

No, but he's come close to qualifying for some U.

00:42:02.30 – 00:42:12.96

S So I Danny Woodhead is at like the same level as Tony Romo is. Steph Curry might be better, but I mean, Tony Romo was competing in this week's tournament, too, and Curry Dustin.

1Speaker 1
00:42:13.40 – 00:42:13.76

Oh, okay.

2Speaker 2
00:42:13.92 – 00:42:19.48

So maybe I'm looking at the scorecards. Tony Romo was got some injuries. Tony Romo was eight over on three rounds total.

1Speaker 1
00:42:19.64 – 00:42:20.98

So, like, what was Steph Curry?

2Speaker 2
00:42:22.64 – 00:42:25.86

Steph was even one over, three under, so two under.

1Speaker 1
00:42:26.08 – 00:42:31.46

Still very far away. Like I would imagine if a pro played that course, they would be like minus 16, yeah.

2Speaker 2
00:42:31.46 – 00:42:36.18

I don't know, I don't know. You think he's better? I think he might be, yeah.

00:42:36.20 – 00:42:39.54

I think I might agree with that. I think he's playing the wrong sport.

1Speaker 1
00:42:40.32 – 00:42:49.32

Um, okay, let's get to Greg Olson, and then we have Mount Rushmore of Everyday Villains. Uh, Billy and Jake are on a fucking heater, by the way it is now.

00:42:49.32 – 00:42:51.84

What's the official standings? 11 to 10.?

2Speaker 2
00:42:51.96 – 00:42:54.14

You guys are up one on us and we're up two on Max.

1Speaker 1
00:42:54.16 – 00:43:01.08

Okay, so Max and Hank, they need some, they need something, they need some juice.

2Speaker 2
00:43:01.62 – 00:43:07.76

This is usually the time of year when when Hank decides to blow up his own team and go in a different direction, Yeah.

1Speaker 1
00:43:08.24 – 00:43:12.28

Yeah, true, they're one of us, not us, okay?

00:43:12.82 – 00:43:15.62

Not you guys, all right, let's get it to, uh, Greg Olson.

2Speaker 2
00:43:16.28 – 00:43:35.54

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00:43:35.70 – 00:43:50.78

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1Speaker 1
00:43:52.68 – 00:44:02.92

Okay, we now welcome on one of our favorite recurring guests. It is Greg Olson. He is the man who called the Super Bowl this past year. We're at tight end.

00:44:02.98 – 00:44:09.76

You, you're, you're a baby. Tight end you, you and George. Uh, so year three, let's start with tight end you, year three.

00:44:09.96 – 00:44:13.42

How do you think it's going? Do you think we're getting tight ends more money?

3Speaker 3
00:44:13.94 – 00:44:28.16

I think so. I think our business model from the beginning is how much money can we spend on, how much corporate money can we spend on the camp? To have professional tight ends make more money in the N.FL? I think that was the business model and the inspiration behind the entire camp. I think we're doing pretty well.

00:44:28.32 – 00:44:45.92

Last year we had 82, got 80 guys, I think this year we have 82, so we're. It's. It's grown, I don't know how much bigger we can physically expand to, and, like, still keep the integrity of the event. But it's grown a lot faster than. I mean. We had 25 or 35 the first year, so we're at 82.

00:44:45.92 – 00:44:51.08

Now it's, uh, and we have a lot of guys that reach out last minute. We're like, we don't have any rooms left, yeah.

2Speaker 2
00:44:51.08 – 00:44:59.36

Have you thought about getting Jimmy Graham to teach a class? And just having him say, take the letters t e out of your bio on Twitter? And then they have to pay you as a wide receiver.

3Speaker 3
00:44:59.36 – 00:45:10.74

And line up less than four yards from more than four yards from the tackle. And then when he would have won his arbitration hearing back in, like, 14, yeah, so that's on him, he should have not lined up so close to the tackle.

00:45:10.80 – 00:45:19.58

So often, he should have moved out one more yard and he would have broke the bank, so that's a missed opportunity. But yeah, we, we, we'd love to have Jimmy come, we've, we've got Gronk coming this year.

00:45:19.64 – 00:45:30.28

First time he's ever come, so that'll be cool. Um, obviously, Kelsey at Kittle. We've had Waller the last two years and we've named them, we've had them come through here, so it's, uh, it's pretty cool.

00:45:30.48 – 00:45:30.66

It is.

2Speaker 2
00:45:30.76 – 00:45:46.78

It's a cool environment to be in. And I, I'm going to gas you up because I know that you're too classy to gas yourself up on this. But after the Superbowl this year, we said Greg gave Fox Sports something to think about with Tom Brady with your performance in the Superbowl.

3Speaker 3
00:45:46.80 – 00:45:51.80

And I hope it wasn't biased. I hope you guys, Jen, I hope our friendship didn't cloud that comment.

2Speaker 2
00:45:52.12 – 00:45:56.38

No, you did such a good job that they somebody is having a conversation right now.

1Speaker 1
00:45:56.38 – 00:45:58.28

That's like, Oh, we got Greg.

3Speaker 3
00:45:58.60 – 00:46:09.66

Well, I appreciate that, I'll be honest, since every person I know obviously listens to PMT, including myself, but I hadn't listened to that one yet. And I had a buddy call, they're like, Hey, you need to put on, you need to put on PMT.

00:46:09.66 – 00:46:16.44

This week they just did their Superbowl kind of recap show and they talked about you. I was like, And I, so I went back and listened, I'll be honest.

00:46:16.50 – 00:46:37.80

I appreciate that that was, that was super cool, but listen, I said. From the beginning, I knew how awkward it was going to be with the Brady, with the Brady stuff. You know, when that news came down. And then obviously they ended up putting me in temporarily, you know, for that year. Assuming when he retired that he would do it this season, the 23 season, you know, I knew last year that was going to be the swirling question.

00:46:37.80 – 00:47:02.86

I knew that was going to be kind of the the uncomfortable elephant in the room of. Well, yeah, you're doing it now, but you're just kind of the bench warmer, you're just keeping the seat warm until, you know, until Brady comes. And and I. My approach was just lean into it, you know, like, be the one that makes it awkward, be the one that brings it up. Like, don't shy away from it, because you can either let it crush you, or you can just kind of lean into it and make it fun. And say, hey, I'm going to have a blast with this thing until they they literally call me and kick me out, yeah.

00:47:03.02 – 00:47:17.76

And that was, that was how I tried to do it. I didn't try to call the game the way other guys do. I didn't try to call the game the way I thought Brady would do it. I just tried to call the game the way Kevin and I did. The year before, when we were on the number two crew, and um, the only difference this year is just more people watched our game.

1Speaker 1
00:47:17.88 – 00:47:31.66

A lot more people, a lot more people. We were unbiased because we've you did a fantastic job. And I think I even said, Uh, in an unbiased way, you were a piece of shit for not mentioning how bad the turf was. Uh, specifically for the eagles.

3Speaker 3
00:47:31.86 – 00:47:48.08

Yeah, because they changed the turf when the eagles were out there, the turf was worse, and then when the chiefs went out, you know, they roll it in and out. So no, I, I, I didn't. I probably should have been more clear on that, I probably should have been clearer that the turf was different for each team.

00:47:48.08 – 00:47:54.02

Yeah, um, which was unfortunate. I feel like I did make up for it, though. On the pass interference, holding, slash, holding ball.

1Speaker 1
00:47:54.04 – 00:47:54.72

You were on that.

3Speaker 3
00:47:54.78 – 00:47:57.02

Um, still don't think it was a great call.

1Speaker 1
00:47:57.34 – 00:48:01.78

Um, and also if, uh, who was it, Bradbury?

3Speaker 3
00:48:02.18 – 00:48:02.62

Bradbury.

1Speaker 1
00:48:02.62 – 00:48:07.24

If he didn't afterwards say I held them, it would have been a bigger story.

3Speaker 3
00:48:07.48 – 00:48:20.24

It would have been, and he made me look bad. So I'm mad at James. Um, because when he took ownership, when he went, like, full professional post-game locker room, like, that's on me. I did hold them call. It really kind of made my argument strong in real time.

1Speaker 1
00:48:20.46 – 00:48:27.00

But, uh, you, you did a great job in that moment. Because I think even let's say yes, okay, he held them. That's the letter of the law, they call it.

00:48:27.06 – 00:48:38.46

You were basically saying what everyone in America was thinking at that moment that this is an all-time classic Superbowl. And to have it end end in this way sucks. It just does it sucks.

3Speaker 3
00:48:38.72 – 00:48:55.00

And I think after the performance that we saw from both teams at halftime, we didn't know if my homes was going to be able to play anymore. He re-stings the ankle. Then they go, they trade, blows, they go back and forth. That game deserved for Philly, and Jalen hurts to get the ball with. I don't know was there a minute, minute 30??

00:48:55.12 – 00:49:16.34

I don't remember exactly how much time there was there would have been. After the incomplete on third down, settle for three and they get the ball and they go. But instead, we got an unbelievably historically exciting game that came down to a Neil Neil timeout, in essence, a walk-off field goal. It felt like the air in the stadium came out.

00:49:16.40 – 00:49:32.54

And I think something that I try to remind myself of I'm not always going to be perfect in the booth. But you're a fan, right? Like we're all fans of professional football, we're fans of NFL football. I don't care who wins the game. I want to see what was a historically great Superbowl have a historically great ending.

00:49:32.64 – 00:50:03.46

And I think when the MVP runner-up has a chance to have the ball to answer a score that the MVP quarterback just had before him. I think everyone in there, except a Kansas City Chiefs fan, I think the rest of the world was calling for that ending. And just because we were in the booth, we were too. Like it wasn't such an egregious, such a ridiculous penalty that you have no choice to throw it right? I'm not one of those guys that says, Hey, when the game's on the line, you swallow your whistle and basketball, you stick your penalties or penalties, fouls or fouls. I get it.

00:50:04.22 – 00:50:11.94

But I don't know. It just seemed so ticky tack at the moment. And it changed, it changed the way that game was viewed. From a historical context, there's no question.

2Speaker 2
00:50:12.00 – 00:50:16.38

It had nothing to do with the fact that you had, you were telling us earlier you put a hundred grand on the game. No, it had nothing to do with that.

3Speaker 3
00:50:16.46 – 00:50:20.44

We can't joke about that anymore, guys are getting that was a joke.

1Speaker 1
00:50:20.58 – 00:50:22.16

Can we edit it? This was an edit.

3Speaker 3
00:50:22.42 – 00:50:25.44

I do not have hank get this figure that out.

1Speaker 1
00:50:25.44 – 00:50:34.50

I have a question, get that out. I have a question, was it more? Were you more nervous to play in a Super Bowl or call a Super Bowl?

3Speaker 3
00:50:35.58 – 00:50:41.46

I think play, really, yeah, and I think there's twofold. I think I had never been there.

00:50:41.84 – 00:50:59.20

Right, I think it was a. It was a career long journey. I had been close when I was my last year in Chicago. We lost to the Pack, to the Packers in the NFC Championship game. So I had I'd gotten close. I'd played in some big playoff games, been in some moments. But you know, people can prepare you all they want for what playing in the Super Bowl is like.

00:51:00.20 – 00:51:14.18

But until you're out there, it really is a surreal moment, you know? I remember walking off the field. And you get into the locker room after the game and you're like, Wait, it can't be over. Like, I want to go back and redo it, like we got to start over again. It just it's a very, it's hard to explain.

00:51:14.58 – 00:51:25.82

I think playing it, it was my lifelong dream. You work, your entire world revolves around playing at the highest level. We get into that point, it was, and you're like, I'm here, like, let's not fuck it up.

00:51:25.86 – 00:51:44.26

And we did, we did fuck it up and we played the worst game of our entire season and blew it. I think now coming back in a different role, but had been at the Super Bowl before. It's you're not the one on the field, right? You're just reacting to what's going on. I had been at the Super Bowl, I didn't. The wins, the winner and loser, had no bearing on me.

00:51:44.26 – 00:51:54.40

Like, so I just think that the role of the game was obviously a lot different. I was older, I probably was more mature for it. I don't know, I just I felt very comfortable.

00:51:54.64 – 00:52:00.74

Once the ball got kicked off, it felt very normal. Standing up in the booth with Kevin, kind of calling it the way we had all year.

1Speaker 1
00:52:00.84 – 00:52:30.22

I mean, that's awesome, that's a testament to what you guys were able to build this year. Now. Uh, other game and we're not going to all talk, all broadcasting, but the Eagle, the NFC Championship game. Like once Brock, Purdy gets hurt. Are you guys just going through like a list of stories you can tell? We're going to have to this game, cause it really didn't have any. Once he was hurt and then Josh Johnson got concussed. It was like, we now have two more hours of this game, that is in no doubt.

3Speaker 3
00:52:30.62 – 00:52:42.56

It's so funny. We have like, a so. We do our production meetings all week, and then the night before the game, we have like our big crew-wide production meeting. And the way it works is all week. We all share, you know, whether it's texts and emails and phone calls, whatnot.

00:52:42.72 – 00:53:04.64

And we get, like, our top storylines of the game, the overarching themes of the game. And then each storyline of San Francisco's offense. San Francisco's defense, in this case, Philadelphia's offense, Philadelphia's defense. And you kind of set the tone and most games go exactly according to plan, right? Early in the game, man, it's all about the quarterbacks, whatever, whatever the storylines are, let's like, let's dive into the quarterbacks.

00:53:04.74 – 00:53:18.94

Let's let the game unfold, we don't need to force in a lot of things early in the game, let's let it breathe. And as the game goes on, you kind of follow ABC and D, and you kind of go through your checklist as the game goes. This game was one of those games where it's like, you better have a full bucket.

00:53:19.22 – 00:53:48.04

Like you like, you better have a full bucket of content to talk about. Because every once in a while you get one game a year that just goes sideways. And nothing you prepared for all week, none of the storylines, none of the players, nothing goes the way you thought it was, and you better have some shit to talk about. Well, our one game last year just happened to be the NFC Championship and a game that we thought going in had the makings of like an all-time matchup. And then it just completely fell on its face.

00:53:48.30 – 00:53:54.06

And we went an entire what was it? Half. Did Josh Johnson get concussed early in the third quarter? Late?

1Speaker 1
00:53:54.22 – 00:54:01.18

It was also the member that I think. The Eagles scored right before half and it looked like the Niners were going to score and then there was an interception or something, or a fumble.

3Speaker 3
00:54:01.34 – 00:54:32.60

So they played almost an entire half of the N.F.C. Championship and they were not in a place to throw a competitive downfield pass. It's, I mean, it was, it's, it's unmatched, and it just happened to be on such a big scale. But I remember walking out of the game and we were pissed, right? Like you want to call big matchups, big moments. 42-40 come down to the last two minute drive and timeouts and this big ending. And we are literally running smoke screens. McCaffrey's at Wildcat quarterback.

00:54:32.88 – 00:54:46.76

They're running triple reverse passes, I mean, it's it's recess, right? They're playing gym class football out of necessity. And I remember walking out of the stadium and it was such a buzzkill we had to get. You know, we're like, yeah, we get to call the Superbowl, but fuck like that game sucked.

00:54:46.90 – 00:55:03.28

There was nothing exciting about it. Well, at the same time, like, after a couple of days passed, we're like, you know what? If we can call that game, we can call any game in the history of the N.FL. We just called a game with 50 million people watching it and we had a team that was incapable of throwing a forward pass.

00:55:03.34 – 00:55:05.98

It was like we were watching Army in, like, 1850.

00:55:05.98 – 00:55:26.76

You know, it was just it was very, that was a very surreal game to broadcast. But I also think a really good one. To kind of put in the bank and say, hey, you got to figure it out, do it all, you got to figure it out and find ways to get around it. Because the broadcast doesn't stop, and there's still 50 million people that are listening to every word you say. And they're not going to give you a break just because of the circumstances of the game.

00:55:26.78 – 00:55:29.72

You still better be able to keep them entertained, and you better know your shit.

2Speaker 2
00:55:29.84 – 00:55:45.74

I think that's a fair point. Me and Big Cat started this podcast. It was pretty much right as March madness was ending and we didn't. At this time of year in the sports calendar, nothing to talk about. So we basically filled our first four months, five months, with doing an entire second half of the N.FC Championship game.

00:55:45.86 – 00:55:51.86

Then football season comes around, it's like content overload, Superbowl comes around for you, you nail it. Do you actually do?

00:55:51.86 – 00:55:55.32

Go back and listen to your old broadcast. Do you critique yourself?

3Speaker 3
00:55:55.96 – 00:56:05.48

You know, it's funny, you said I was with Burkhart. I was playing golf with him the other day and he goes, Hey, for the first time I went back and watched the Superbowl. I was like, really.

00:56:05.80 – 00:56:14.52

He's like, man, I really like the sound of it. I wanted, you know, six months has passed, five months, whatever, and I wanted to go back and take a listen. He's like, I really thought it was good. I was like, I'll be honest with you, man.

00:56:14.76 – 00:56:28.06

I haven't listened to one of our broadcasts. I caught about 20 minutes of our Minnesota Vikings wildcard round between the Vikings and the Giants. When the Giants beat the Vikings this year. We called that that game was awesome.

00:56:28.56 – 00:56:52.56

I caught like 20 minutes of that on, like a random Wednesday night at 10 o'clock. It came on NFL Network. So I listened to, like, the end of the third quarter and I was like, all right, like, that's it. But I had never, I had never once gone back and listened to one of our broadcasts. We did a quick crew meeting one time where our crew played the first quarter of a game just to talk through some different mechanics and whatnot with the truck.

00:56:52.64 – 00:57:06.36

But I don't go back and listen to them. I don't like the sound of my voice, I don't like. I would say the biggest reason that I don't is. After every game, it's no different than as a player, you replay every. You guys probably do it.

00:57:06.42 – 00:57:24.54

Like, you do an interview and you're like, Shit, I should have asked him this, or I should have went this like you replay every game. I don't want to get into the habit where I, when I watch it post. I second guess everything I did in real time and then the next game, the next week. I have that recall in my head, and I'm like, and I'm second guessing myself, like.

00:57:24.54 – 00:57:29.62

I want it to be natural, I want whatever comes out to come out, and when it's over, it's over.

1Speaker 1
00:57:29.62 – 00:57:30.14

Yeah.

3Speaker 3
00:57:30.28 – 00:57:38.38

I don't want to cloud the real time decision-making that goes on, calling a game by being like, Johnny, you know, Monday morning quarterback.

1Speaker 1
00:57:38.84 – 00:57:43.26

And I'm sure there's people that you have that do that for you, they give you pointers, yeah.

3Speaker 3
00:57:43.44 – 00:57:57.76

Yeah, my first year. Every Tuesday, our director would give us, like, a long email by Tuesday morning. It was long and I would look forward to reading it. And it was a minute by minute breakdown of the entire broadcast. Not just me or the booth, but the truck.

00:57:57.76 – 00:58:09.36

Camera A. You've got to be on the seven yard line, you were on the 12 yard line, you missed your angle. Hey truck, we've got to be better getting the replay back to the booth, booth. You guys got to sit out longer because you came in whatever it was.

00:58:09.56 – 00:58:23.28

It's a minute by minute, timestamped analysis of the entire broadcast. Like that was super helpful. Last year, my producer and director would call me in the middle of the week with Hey in the open. You know, don't feel like you have to go so long or hey in the lineup.

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