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Welcome to part of my take. Today is Wednesday, December 13th, and Tommy Devito has taken the world by storm. Hey, hey, hey. Him and his agent, Uh, who was straight out of central casting with the hat, his dad kissing everyone, the Giants beat.
The Packers, What a night. He's the, uh, the second quarterback, I think, who went undrafted to win three games in his rookie season and three in a row and three in a row. And it's wild.
He's, he's playing really good, he's playing and he's fun. He's. That's the thing is like, he's actually a very entertaining quarterback to watch, He's a very fun quarterback to watch.
Um, our our friend Kevin Clark's put it perfectly. I saw last night when when Tommy Devito Mania was happening. And we will talk about the other game, he said. Every other sport is absolutely desperate to generate stars, and the NFL is like the giants. Have an Italian guy and it's a national story. He's, well, that's it.
Perfect place for him. Yeah, they're like, how can we get Mike Trout more visible to the nations? Like, or the N.FL is just like, Hey, this guy likes cutlets and his dad kisses people.
He's taken the world by storm. It's like the what if Michael Vick was?
White What if Mike Trout was Italian? Yeah, it would be a mega star. Can you imagine it with the Tommy DeVito thing?
If you took this script to Hollywood, Big Cat, what would they say? They would throw you out? They'd say Bing Kingsley passed, but we saw Lindsay Lohan.
Yeah, it's, it's, it's. Um. It also is perfect because, uh, stereotypes usually are frowned upon in 2023.
Uh, Italians are the one people that you can stereotype, and it's somehow fun and funny. That's a true, that's true Max. I'm an Italian father.
I'm a proud Italian father, my children are all Italian. What are you saying? I can't say it, no, you can say whatever you want.
You're, you're an Italian father. Yeah, I'd say, Uh, I'm not in the family, but I'm. I'm like, a for them. I'm Tom Hagen here. You can do Polish, too.
Polish, yeah, but Polish still a little upset. Well, they maybe not smart enough to get upset, yeah.
They don't get the jokes, yeah, right, but Italians, for some reason, it's just like you can always just have fun with Italians because it's this weird blend of like, kind of making jokes. But it's also just the pride, like Italians, like, yeah, we're prideful people.
We eat cutlets, we throw touchdowns, Sunday dinner.
Sunday dinner, we kiss, we kiss our dudes. I also think it's that, like Italians are also probably the most, uh, like that, towards every other culture, correct? So it's like, Okay, they'll, they'll take it back.
It's also true, right? Like it's also Italians, they make jokes, they bust balls, we're just busting balls.
Yeah, we're having fun with the guys. As a 1 Sicilian, I give people permission to make fun of Tommy DeVito, Little Sunday Gravy and bust some balls. It feels good, but it's in a good way.
It's in a loving way. Like Tommy DeVito has given us a gift this year. He has made the New York giants entertaining in a year where they have no business being entertaining. And you're rooting for him. Uh, Dable told him before that final drive, just go out there and rip that son of a bitch. I love it.
I love it, yeah, it's a great, it's a great story, it's perfect. That's happening in New York.
And it's also Brian Dable deserves a.
Lot of credit because he, I don't think he was ever going to get fired. But there was a. There was a world where the giant season was trending in such a disastrous way that the question was being asked like, this is a this is a joke. They went to the playoffs last year, are they going to end up with two wins? are they going to look this non-competitive in games? What he's done with Tommy DeVito?
I mean, Daniel Jones, it would be a real shame if Daniel Jones, you know?
Slipped and fell, ended up in the marshes. That's all I'm saying. Tommy DeVito around the holidays, you know how they always get, like the local quarterback. To hand out turkeys and shit out of the back of a semi truck. What if he was just like handing out VCRS televisions out of the back of a truck? And come by swing by the parking lot outside the mall?
Well, the family hands it out.
Cutlets at their family. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was a whole whole thing, and their their family is so funny.
I'm going to say it's not, as it's not 0 chance that someone puts a horse head in Daniel Jones's bed. It's not zero, it's not. it definitely is not zero. I think it's like, maybe 1, but it's not zero, yeah.
I think he'd rather be send them like a fish in the mail, like he'd rather the team lose every game. Yeah, I mean, Tommy DeVito is like, and he's captured the hearts and minds of the entire tri-state area, and he's any Italian, any Italian is their hero.
Daniel.
Jones just had a more ethnic sounding name. Yeah, I don't think that there would be this much like uproar over Tommy DeVito. Cause it's like, we got our guy coming back. But now you got a guy named Daniel Jones that looks like, went to Duke, yeah.
It's like Ellis Island versus the Mayflower. Yeah, he looks like a white collar criminal, right? As opposed to the guys that take from those guys.
Tommy DeVito Is Robin Hood in this situation? Yeah, Daniel Jones should just be.
Like, Can I be your lawyer? TOMMY DEVITO Yeah, like, that's, that's, that's my future, but yeah, it was a very fun game. The Giants, it was also just.
This whole weekend in football was such a good reminder that, uh, even at the end of the season, teams are still trying. Tanking doesn't really exist unless you're the Carolina Panthers because the Packers went from Sunday night Chiefs huge win. Oh my God, look how good they are. I was saying it to a complete like fall on their face. Jordan Love did not look good.
Their defense did not get a sack on Tommy DeVito, I believe, which the Giants offensive line is like. I mean, Justin Pugh was on on the couch a month ago and they didn't get a sack. And now the Packers are looking like, Oh shit, maybe we read the press clippings a little bit, maybe we got a little ahead of ourselves.
Yeah, yeah, uh. Last night was also like a stroke of genius from Roger Goodell, that he's going to think that he did a great job. Because we had two Monday night football games which absolutely snuck up on America, we're like, Wait, why are we doing these two games at the exact same time this week? That doesn't make any sense.
And there were awesome games, the endings to these games were incredible. Could have been fine on their own, they would have been fine on their own. So people are going to be talking all week about what a great Monday night we had.
And Goodell is going to be like, Yep, I did it again. Now we're going to do two Monday night football games every week. I'm fine with. That's the future, I'm calling it in the future. It might not be the year after Goodell is going to want to try to get to one in a football games.
And it's I don't know if it's a good idea. in fact, I think it might not be a great idea. But the fact that these two games were so good, it's going to make him think like this was the.
Best idea of all time. I would, I would be in favor of it if they did a little bit of a stack. Even an hour, even an hour, because then it just gives us an extra hour of football to end the.
Weekend. And let's be honest, even if it was just back-to-back games, I would watch that. Oh yeah.
Give me five more hours of one ends at one in the morning. fine, easy, I'll stay up.
I moved an hour west just for this exact scenario. Yes, that was a Sergio Dip game. yes, that was nine 11..
Yeah, Sean McDermott tried to warn us about Sergio Dip, he did.
Um, the, uh, the the Packers are still in the playoffs as of right now. But that was definitely like they could have seized everything. With the fact that the Lions lost, and you know, the Seahawks keep losing, they could have put themselves in a really nice spot and now they're now. They got to win, now they got to. It's hard to win out.
It's and they don't have to win out.
But they have to, they can't drop two more now. Is it a big, big week for the Bears, too?
I mean, the bears, might bears in the hunt and a little, Um, I've, I've thought about it, Uh, they. It's one game at a time. They have to beat the Browns if they don't beat the Browns. And it's just like, this is all, this is all. But if they beat the Browns, then I'm going to start thinking about playoffs.
It has to you have to get through that hurdle. And the Browns are really good to get to a point where I can start realistically, like, I'm having fun with it in the hunt. I'm not actually thinking playoffs right now, they have to beat the Browns to think play.
In the hunt, though, you are in the perfect scenario where you can. You can root for being in the hunt, like we were talking about the other week, within the hunt. Being such a powerful narcotic. If you're a fan of one of those teams. Because it gives you the illusion that you're good when you're actually just wasting your time and get a worse pick. But with the Panthers being such dog shit you can, you can enjoy all the fruits of being in the hunt.
You get them both, and you get both. It's the best of both worlds. I read it to Matt before, by the way.
He did kick a field goal down eight, it was fourth and 10, though I was smart, but he also, uh, it was. It felt like they were going to not kick a field goal when they were down five, which I was nervous that he might try to kick another field goal. He was going to three him to death. And then Tommy DeVito just going down the field, like the Packers defense, completely like Jordan loved, didn't play good, but the Packers defense not getting a sack and also letting Tommy DeVito go down the field like that.
I'm so glad that it happened, too.
Because if it weren't for the Giants, I wish I was Italian. So I get mad at you for how you're talking down about Tommy Devito. I'm not talking down. I said, Tommy Devito took. It was a legacy drive. Tommy Devito is one of the most fun stories in the NFL.
Let Tommy.
DeVITO Drive it down like that. Yeah, the Packers defense should, like, they should be better than.
That, yeah, no, I should be better, so I'm not upset, but yeah, yeah, I'm sorry.
We're over.
Here, making inarticulate Italian noises. But we're just rooting for the guy cause he's a fun story, he's very fun. Are you saying that I should be upset? No.
Hey, Max always makes inarticulate Italian noises. You got two dates with Tommy Devito? Yeah, you a little bit worried about.
That I would like. I would like them to lose next week. What? And the Eagles? you? you want the Eagles to lose next week? I would like the Giants to lose next week before we play.
You admit the eagles are frauds? No? the computer said. No, are the eagles frauds? No, why are you asking me this?
No, the Eagles are not are the eagles frauds. Why are you keep asking me the?
Same question.
Wait, I can't you cut out for a second. Are the Eagles frauds? Yes.
Like, you guys like, set this whole thing up.
Wait, wait, wait, there's a correct in there.
I think, too, wait, Max, I thought that you said that the Eagles were good. They are good. Wait, Max.
I thought you said that the Eagles were good.
This is the worst soundboard, correct? yeah?
No, you're supposed to play the wrong one. Yeah, wait, Max, I thought you said that the Eagles were good, wrong?
Yeah, Memes might be the worst soundboard operator of all time. He's like, he's, he's looking at it like he's an 80 year old guy trying to type an email. I really do think that's.
One thing the studio needs, I know, SVP has it. It's the board that's right here that me and Big Cat can just press to get whatever sound effect we want. Yeah, yeah.
Great one you guys.
Just did this whole elaborate plan to, like, try and sneak this behind me, and I knew it was going on.
The entire time, no, no, there really wasn't elaborate plan. We just we. We don't execute plans well. It was like, Hey, let's make a soundboard facility, try to make a soundboard memes.
Can't you operate a computer?
Give us a lot of noise, give us a random one, your favorite? It's going to be such a bad night for me and you guys just want it to be so much.
Worse, all right, so we've got the Max soundboard now. I also want to put Hank's yawn on the sound.
Board Yes, just play it as loud as possible. Uh, the other game. You hate our listeners.
The other guy I love our listeners playing my yawns for the listeners is is that you hate them.
I've gone so far into my hatred of your yawns that I love them now.
We did it one time, remember on the podcast, I yelling I was going to let it out and everyone.
Was disgusted. Yeah, angry. it is disgusting. Um, oh, last thing, Tommy Devito's agent.
We're going to have to get him on the show. Stiletto Yeah, he's, uh, and I think I think Eli might've called him Slimy and then he got up. He went on New York Radio today and was very upset about it.
I like that he's playing into it, though, he's a smart guy. Like, if you have lightning in a bottle like this, you have to lean into everything, lean into the discussion that's already happening and gas your guy up. He got dressed up last night specifically because he knew it was going to create a stir on the field with the phone.
That's a good age, everything, that's a great agent right there.
He looks great. It was, yeah, it was very, very fun game. Tommy DeVito Hero, Italian American Hero. He has surpassed women. When we said when he first came in and you know what, it was a month ago and he didn't look good.
And we're like, someday he's going to be able to, you know, coach gym class and have that jersey behind him. Now. I think he's like, we're talking dealer, like a car dealership, we're talking paid appearances, used car dealership, paid appearances. We're talking cameo millionaire like he's. And and on top of all that, he might just be in the.
NFL For a long time, he's going to be in some movies too. Yeah, Tommy DeVito What a story.
So yeah, the other game, the dolphins. Uh, what a collapse. So first of all, credit to Will Levis. he looked awesome, he he drove so the game with Will Levis. They were down two touchdowns.
It's four 34 left. I think we all thought that that was it. The Titans kind of, uh, fell apart there with all the fumbles and muff punts and everything. And then he drives him down in two consecutive drives for touchdowns. Mike Rabel, Analytics guy, going for two.
Uh, but the dolphins, I know they have injuries, a lot of offensive line injuries, Tyree Kill, getting injured. That was really bad for the Dolphins, it was a bad, bad ending, it was in in their offense. I, I was getting into a little bit with Dolphins fans last night because they are very sensitive about two, which I understand.
I do consider myself part of two. And on saying Tyree kills, the MVP does not diminish to a. I think two is very good quarterback when Tyree Kill is on the field. He doesn't even have to catch the ball, what he's able to do to bend the defense.
Like when he came back that first time, I don't know if he caught a ball in that first drive. But everyone was open. Because everyone's got to worry about where he is on the field, the fastest kid alive and everything else just becomes easier. So I he. He looked to me like he's the most important player on the Dolphins and he probably should be considered MVP.
Well, sports writers are dumb, they're very dumb people like they. They see a big round number like 2000 and they will vote for him for the MVP. He gets a 2000 yards, but they're dumb, yeah.
Right, like, if he gets nine, if he gets 1,965 yards. Probably not going to be MVP. But when they see that number two, they're going to be like, Wow, never been done before Tyree kill. MVP. Yes, but yeah, when you saw him go out last night, it, it definitely affects the entire offense.
It affects their big play capability. Like even Waddle couldn't get big plays with Tyree Kill out of the game because he creates so much space for Waddle to run through. Uh, Alec Ingold had a great hurdle, but we've talked to Alec about that, he's a listener of the show.
He's on the low man committee. Alec, you God gave you the ability to get low on people for a reason. You don't need to be jumping over. Yes, yes.
Have a look at me, move from the full.
Back the Um, I do like to to. I think he's a very good quarterback, I also think that he might lead the league in hospital passes. Yep, he had a few last night.
I mean, the Jalen Waddle one, like the first pass of the game, he had another one, I think. To a chain where the ball just stayed in the air for so long that the the UH linebacker almost got there before the ball.
Got there because of the how their offense is set up, where they've got so many crossers and to a throws the ball before they even make the breaks. I know if you have one defender that makes an early cut on something, even if it's like a blown coverage that accidentally works out well for the defense. You're going to get some dude just going head to head against your receiver.
Across the middle, yeah, and that was a route. That was a really bad loss for the for the Titans. They, uh, or sorry for the lion dolphins.
They, uh, now I don't. The bills are are suddenly alive in the AFC East. Cause there's now the the Dolphins are two games ahead and they have to play. Uh, the Jets, the Cowboys, the Ravens and the Bills. Now you think they beat the jets, but who knows? because the jets have been, you know, they, they, yeah, and their their defense, they have. They have Zach Wilson spark. But let's just say if they lost to the If, they beat the Jets and then lost the Cowboys and Ravens and the Bills ran the table. Week 18 would be for the AFC East. The Amazing.
And the Bills have the the Cowboys this week, which can be very tough, but then they get the Chargers without Justin Herbert and the Patriots at home. So yeah, it's all like it happened, just like that spoiler. it happened just like that. Whereas, like, wait, hold on a second.
Are the bills alive? Yeah, I hope you win that game. Spoiler.
Uh, you got a couple spoilers coming up. I hope, I hope Hank just spoils everybody. I want the Patriots to win a bunch of games down the stretch, spoil the shit out of everyone, yeah.
Just win.
Everything down the stretch, it was a it was a crazy weekend, though, because it was basically.
So nice of you, Pft. You're usually never that optimistic about the page. I am, I think that.
It's a great franchise, I hope that, you know Bill Belichick, one of the best coaches. I think Bill still has a realistic opportunity to stick around in New England after the season. If he can put a few wins together at the end, here, I'm rooting for greatness Hank, that's a great organization. I want you guys to win every last game that you have.
One of your Super Bowl?
Contending commanders, Uh, end up getting like the number two traffic I think they would want.
To come then I didn't even think about that, but I guess that. So, if you're Bill Belichick and you've already made up your mind to go to the Commanders. The best thing you can possibly do is to win a bunch of games. As new England Patriots coach this year, give the commanders a better traffic, that's a good point, Hank, It's a really good point.
Thank you for bringing that up, um.
Yeah, the Patriots do have the, uh, they they're in prime spoiler watch. They have Chiefs, Broncos, Bills, all teams looking for seating and Broncos and bills looking to get in.
The playoffs. Yeah, did you see a Tyreek Hill on that? When he got injured on the horse collar tackle? yeah, and he, it was a horse collar drop, uh, hip drop.
Yeah, it was a combo, he hit all.
The all the bases on that one, and Sharp like, instantly tweeted about it, got to get this out.
Of the league, all of it okay. So the hip drop tackle, let's talk about the hip drop tackle, because I don't know how you're supposed to tackle somebody from behind it without it being a hip drop tackle. It's a dangerous tackle. But I also it's legal.
Yeah, it's also how you tackle somebody like tackling is dangerous, right? And when you get tackled from behind, unless you do like a shoestring, grab them around the legs. But then, you know, five years down the line could all be like, well, you can't tackle somebody low from behind. Because we've seen a bunch of leg injuries off that, it's ankle injuries.
Ball's a dangerous sport, but the hip drop tackle, okay, I understand. Horse collar, that is, it's almost like, every time somebody gets horse collared, you're like, that guy could be injured, yeah.
Um, there's really no safe way to tackle somebody from.
Behind, right, it just doesn't exist. And you, you run into the thing where defenders are now, like, even think about a defensive lineman. You can't hit a quarterback in the head or anywhere above the shoulders, and you can't hit them anywhere below the knees.
So yeah, strike zone, yeah. It's becoming harder and harder if we, if we ban this tackle, which I don't think they will.
I don't think they will, but there's enough people out there talking, yeah, the hip drop has become the buzz tackle of like, it makes you sound like you know what you're talking about. When you say, oh, that's a hip drop technique, you're talking technique now. Like you tackle somebody from behind, and then naturally your your body weight brings you down and then that.
Brings them down. That's the most efficient way to tackle someone from behind. That's how physics works. Yeah, you, just you, you make yourself a backpack.
Yeah, so um, but with Tyreek Hill's?
Injury? He looked like he was really hurt and then he got up. And he did the thing that Kittle does sometimes, where he just tells himself, I'm not injured actually, and he just sprinted off the field, that's how not injured I am. So he texted his wife at halftime.
Yes, his wife gets football Guy of the Week this week, cause Tyreek Hill. His wife was like, Uh, you better get your ass back in that game, dog. And he was like, all right and went back in.
It's on, it's on, so.
Shout out to Tyreek Hill's wife Yes, huge football, football guy of the week for sure. um, Tyreek Hill also. He's definitely in the Big Ben realm of like, and I don't even think he does it on purpose. But it does feel like, I don't know. Six times a year, you're like, Oh, he's out for the.
Season. His body's just it's just one big muscle, so he gets a lot of those like his body revolts against him. Sometimes it's like, Dude, you're going too fast.
And then he sits out for a few plays and he's like, Come on, body, we're doing this, and his body's like, Fine, yeah, also shout.
Out Mike Vrabel, that was a classic Vrabel game. Yeah, he's still is one of the best coaches. I know that the Titans have not had a good year, but you just always have to be worried about a Vrabel game where you just can't count the Titans out ever, no matter who's on the team.
DeAndre Hopkins.
Yeah, Hopkins is still really good. Yeah, just when they can get them the ball, that's, that's.
The issue? I couldn't believe that. Like, imagine the dolphins going into this game being like, you're going to get a pick six, you're going to get two fumbles in the red zone. A muff punt, yeah.
Yeah, the counting that as well, yeah, so two fumbles basically in the red zone.
And you're not going to win the game up 15 with two minutes left and we're going to get the ball.
Back, Yeah. It's a the first time in what, like seven years that a team has come back from being down 14 with under three minutes left. Yeah, well, Levis dog, dog, dog.
And did you see the chest bump that he gave on the sidelines after the game? He tried to run someone over last night?
Too, he truck stick them. Yeah, yeah, that was awesome.
Uh, okay, my fault for raising my hand.
Yes, that is your fault. Good point. Your dolphins. Are they frauds? No, but if they don't?
Beat the jets The panic button Maybe you got to worry about the jets instead of trying to worry about, uh, how the Broncos record means that you beat a team over 500? Thought, Yeah, okay, yeah, that might. That might help.
Backfired Yeah, that did back, we move on.
Beat the jets, beat the jets, must compete, must win, must win.
Ooh, okay, we've got a couple of must win, actually. I'm the bears are having a must win. We have a lot of must wins on this show this week.
Patriots.
Have a must win for me. Yeah, let's go pats. I mean, we, we need a Patriots. Wait. So you guys mathematically eliminated for the playoffs?
No, no, only you patriots. Oh, that's right, the patriots are, but I listen, we have, we have most. I can root for a tanking cause. Shut the fuck up for a second, I've already. We have most of our bases.
I'll make the playoffs and win the Super Bowl. You said that was a possibility, you did, I said. Soupy season if we beat the Bills and the Eagles back to back.
Got it? Yeah, no, you said one of the two, one of the two, and we didn't newsflash. We lost both soupy. But we've got most of our bases covered in terms of big media, successful franchises.
On this podcast, we've got Chicago, we've got Philly, we've got New York, we've got some Miami. Um, we don't have a Patriots fan on this podcast. We got Dallas, we got Dallas huge.
So I think I have to just take up the mantle and say, you know, what do your pod? I like that? That's big of you. Let's go pats.
I'm a big lighthouse believer.
That thing is legit. Cowboys, you're cowboys, you're boys, cowboys.
Yeah, you need to buy some gear, I need to see you in Cowboys gear for the entirety of January. I like, it's so funny too, cause awls are we have the best fans in the world, but them buying in just being like, Thank you Hank for repping our boys.
Like, finally, I think they're serious.
I guess it's like, it means a lot. I'm like, are you fucking? Are you going to put a future on?
Them, you should, yeah, you have to right now, yeah.
Do it right now. You might as well. The boys, how about them, boys, okay?
Other things, clean up. Patrick Mahomes, as predicted, talk to the media today. Or I think he was on a radio show and he was like, Yeah, I overreacted.
He apologized to the youngsters. Well, you usually don't hear, like an athlete, say that that's usually the realm of the guy doing the interview, like, what about the youngsters at home? Yeah.
Holmes was like, Well, you know, there's kids watching at homes. And and I apologize for how I acted in the post game, especially with Josh, cause he did. The second it happened. You knew that he was going to look back on that and be like, that's not a good look for me to be complaining to Josh about a call, yeah, and also with the benefit of hindsight. Seeing that Cadareous Tony was the most offsides person in the history of football probably made him be like, Okay, yeah, maybe Cadareous should have checked with the refs at some point.
And he did, and and then there were.
Chiefs fans trying to say he did check with the refs if you watch the clip. He literally pointed to a ref, and before the ref could even give him anything but any signal back, he just lined up.
Offsides Oh, I spilled water on your laptop. it's fine. This is a laptop from 2016. Oh, okay.
No problem, just dump it off, I'm just going to let it air dry. yeah, air dry it.
And it's body armor water. Oh, wait, you have a spill, hold on, we have a give us something to wipe it up. Do I get a shirt?
Yeah, give us a shirt. Uh, yeah, he, I. People who say they lost respect for my homes or don't like him now are the lamest people in the world. Because you're basically telling on yourself that you didn't like my homes and you were just waiting for something to be like, Yeah, that's why I don't like him, right?
He it, it was a bad moment for him. He, he looks childish, but it's also a passionate game. It's guys after a game are always going to say, shit, that is different than two days later. So, and and I know, uh, there was some Kansas City fans that were saying that, uh, pft, we're not allowed in Kansas City anymore, we're banned.
Um, cause we're an anti-Chiefs podcast, which I don't. I think there's just a lot of people who, and I understand it, fandom is crazy. We're fanatics for a reason, we're literally psychos. Uh, they, they cherry pick whenever we say bad things and don't listen when we say good things.
So I think we should say a couple of good things about Kansas City.
I also think we've been pretty consistent over the last five years, saying a lot of really good.
Things My Homes is the best uh quarterback in the N.FL fact. I think he's the best quarterback.
To ever play the game. Wow, the Chiefs are always my beloved. Tom Brady, the fucking goat. it's disgusting anybody ever mentioned him in the same breath as Tom Brady.
The chiefs are always.
Live to win the Super Bowl. Even now, with all their issues, I still wouldn't bet against them in January. Uh, and we, we were the first podcast to ask, uh, to debate whether the debate would happen about Andy Reed being the GoAt coach. It's true.
We were the first to do it, but yeah, I like Kansas City, we went there, George Brett showed us his barbecue place, it was awesome.
They don't get enough credit for having awesome uniforms either. Yeah, chiefs have just classic.
And Kansas Jayhawk fans are the most passionate. I want to go to Fog Allen at some point. That is that in. Are we allowed outside of Kansas City? are we allowed in Lawrence? We need a clarification from Kansas City chiefs, fans if we're allowed to be in the state of Kansas or Missouri, or Missouri.
Yeah, I will, preferably Missouri, yeah, but I, yeah, the chiefs are really good chiefs are.
Really good franchise. Travis Kelsey is the second best tight end of all time behind My.
Beloved gronk Yeah, the, uh. The chiefs could easily still get the buy by the way. Yeah, oh, easily.
Yeah, things are falling apart at the top, the dolphins losing the Ravens and dolphins having to play each other, the Ravens having to play the 49ers. I wouldn't say.
I wouldn't say easily, because I think they have to have a couple of teams, have a couple of losses and then they need to kind of run the table. But the Raven dolphins play each other. Yeah, and it's an easier schedule for the Chiefs. Um, but it's it's a realistic possibility.
I wouldn't be shocked if we, if, if come, you know, playoff time. We're like, wait, the chiefs still out of all that, you know, the. It reminds me actually of, like, your beloved patriots when they were, uh, running hot. There was always a point in the season where everyone would be like, they're done, yeah, and then you look up and be like, wait, hold on, I love that.
When Mark Brunel will get on TV and cry about football is when they count us out. Be like, Oh, is this the end of the Dynasty? Cause we lost one game and then we're on a Cincinnati, it's time.
To get back to greatness, yeah, so we'll do memes tomorrow, like around 11 o'clock. I want you to tweet a poll from the part of my Twitter take Twitter.
And this is a poll for Kansas City chiefs, fans and K and people in Kansas and Missouri only asking if we're allowed to go to Kansas City ever again. Yeah, the guy was, it was kind of funny, he's like, you, you come here and you're like, it sounded like I had to check in with him. It's on site.
Yeah, like, Hey, is it?
Can't you got to tap in when you go to Kansas City? I would, um, I think I would do the thing where I. If I pressed a button and one of you guys in this room would, uh, I don't want to say die, yeah, die, I would press a button.
If one of you in this room would die, but it meant that this room or that control the control room. Meaning that I would have Patrick Mahomes as my quarterback for the next 10 years. I've said I would give a random person, I would give them.
Multiple toes I give children, I'd give them multiple, I would sacrifice for you. PFt.
Yeah.
Thanks Jake, very cool. I'll give my first born child Chris. I would give Chris. I would, I would give Chris out, give Chris away to the orphanage. For Patrick Mahomes, what are you?
Going to say, you guys want to get some fun future takes wrong and just predict the playoffs, yeah.
Yeah, I like this. Who's in? Okay, Patriots out?
This is good, this is good, okay, our playoffs.
Right now, like, there's as many scenarios like, there's like 20 differences. Okay, AFC, I'm going.
To say, uh, ravens by dolphins to seed. I think there'll be able to win a couple games here. Their schedule is tough, coming up, real tough. Oh, should I do bills? I think the bills could.
Win the division, I think the bills are going to win the dolphins, fans are going to crush you.
If you jump off them again, I think the bills are going to win the division.
What are the bills? What are the bills? Got the two seat they. Could they beat the Kansas City Chiefs if the Jaguars catch another loss and the Chiefs catch another loss?
All right, I'll go, Ravens Bills.
Chiefs, I'll go Ravens, Chiefs, Bills.
Jaguars, browns, dolphins and Broncos. Okay, I'm going to go, that's my seven in order.
I'm going to do it. Texans, no Bengals, no the Tech.
I mean, C.J. Stroud, I'm going to do angles, yeah, Jake Browning, I forgot.
Jake, Jake Bengals, I'm going to Broncos, I'm going to do it.
Chiefs one seed, yeah, ravens to seed, chiefs, raven.
Okay, dolphins, three seed, okay.
Jacksonville four, Okay, Cleveland five. Yup, Chalk City.
No, I had the chiefs with the one seed.
Uh, now you made me lose my train of thought. Six and seven, six and seven. uh, six. I'm going to go with the Denver Broncos, okay, and seven, I'm going to go with the Colts.
So bills out and bangles out. Wow, okay, um, all right. And then the NFC.
It's going to be niners, cowboys, what max, you guys all stop?
There we go, memes. He's getting the dang of it. Niners, cowboys.
Lions.
Bucks.
Vikings, Packers, Eagles, wrong, wrong.
I don't even think that's possible. You'll have to lose.
Out, that would be Cowboys Eagles, round one, oh, seven.
I love it, I love it. If they have a Saturday playoff game, can I go? Yes, absolutely. Do you have someone you're going to go with?
I'm just thinking ahead.
Uh, I'm going to go niners one seed, birds two seed.
Uh, then I'll go, yeah, lines three seed.
Four seed I'm gonna say the Falcons are going to do it okay, Falcons, four seed.
Um, Cowboys five, and then it's Vikings Packers or Rams, Vikings Packers. I'm going to go Ram six.
And then Packers or Viking, I'm going to go Packers seven, I might actually put bears and.
The Eagles be eliminated. I'd like to officially revise my AFC take. I'm going to put bills in. Love it.
I'm going to put bills in over the colts, okay, and oh, by the way, you know how we're colts season ticket holders. Yeah, I did the like auto renew thing at the time and I couldn't figure out how to get the auto renew off.
I just bought a second season, that's why I did the game by game, because I couldn't figure out how to do it either. Yeah, so, um, I guess I'm just going to be giving.
Away More Colts tickets next year? Love it, Love it. AnThony RICHardson Hey, what do you guys want to do this week?
It's a Saturday game. Oh, I want to, I want to get, uh, two, two people that look the most like Santa Claus. Okay, no costume, yeah.
Just give us bearded, white bearded guys, okay, yeah, PMTN turn up barstoolsports.com, yeah.
You can do, you can even just send us a picture of Santa Claus. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right.
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Chicken shacks. We've got a great game coming up on Thursday night. Yeah, we do. It's going to be the UH, Raiders and the Chargers, so we've got AOC and Eastern Stick dueling out against each other.
Uh, I'm going to take the Raiders at home minus two and a half. love it. love it Raiders, minus for chicken.
I'm trying to get the people chicken. Yes, okay, so, uh, get excited, we'll.
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I love this. Okay, before we get to hot seat, cool Trump. Shohei Otani, the deferred man So it came out is seven year or, sorry, 10 year. $700 million contract is being deferred at the price of $68 million a year is being deferred.
So he's getting paid $2 million for the next 10 years every year. And then once the contract is up, he's getting paid $68 million every year for the next 10 years. That is awesome, it's a it's an awesome deal.
For the Dodgers, uh, 68 million a year, get it, it's. I saw a lot of people that are upset about the Dodgers doing this type of contract because it, like, violates the spirit of baseball. It's smart.
If you can find a player that's willing to do this. And also, I'm pretty sure Otani, like he is going to do some sort of tax situation with this. When he's no longer playing for the Dodgers, and he doesn't, probably won't live in California, won't live in California anymore at that point. So he's deferring most of it until after almost all of it, until after he's done.
Also, the marketing that he's going to get in Los Angeles is going to make up for a lot of that money. So he's good. Otani is going to be just fine. Um, the Dodgers are secretly rooting for.
Inflation now, yeah, so that would be really good for them. Here's the real story here with this deal. Uh, it's a genius job by Shohei and his UH agents to have everyone say seven years or 10 years, $700 million.
Oh my God, he just broke the bank. The next biggest one was Aaron Judge, nine years, three, 60, or, you know, Mike Trout, I think he did like 12 years, like three, 50 or 400 or something like that.
Uh, this is a 450 $60 million contract because of inflation and interest. Yeah, so he basically the I, I I bet you that he when he went around shopping because of the injury, he. Every single team that he talked to was probably in the 400 $500 million range. And he was like, Well, what if we just do deferment and we make it sound like it's a $700?
Million contract, the way that that baseball and the CBA calculates this. They actually have a formula to figure out what deferred payments would look like. In terms of today's money, I think his contract is for about $46 million a year on the on the luxury tax, using that proprietary formula. Yeah, so when you take into account all the money he's going to earn, it's like, if you gave him $46 million a year today, yeah.
So it's 400, it's four, it's.
And that's the genius part, because when we see the contract come out and everyone flips out and they're like. But Aaron Judge just signed for nine years, 360 million. Well, if you actually think about it, this is a natural progression of contracts. Shohei Otani signed for 10 years, 460 million. That's a natural progression from Aaron judges. Nine for three, 60. And I think that he honestly was like everyone who was negotiating with.
Shohei Otani was probably in the 400 ish range with no deferments, and maybe 500 with a few deferments. And then they're like, Hey, what if we do 700 million with all deferments? It was his idea to do this deferment. But it's sounds like he is like, he just broke the mold of baseball and all contracts. And you can say 700 million, that's insane. But that's not the value of the contract, the value of the contract.
Is somewhere in the four hundreds. Yeah, he, uh, it's. I think it's a win-win for both.
No, I do too, but I just the Dodgers are pretty happy about this. It was just it was just very funny because and I did it too. I was like, what the fuck, he just doubled Aaron judges contract.
No, he didn't. Yeah, it's. It's good for the Dodgers. Because the world might not even exist in 15 years, in which case, they don't have to pay him. That the sun could engulf the entire planet.
It also made it also, weirdly, uh, helped out all the other teams fan bases when the 700 million gets reported. Cause I know I personally was like, well, the Cubs would never spent that, so I felt good for a little bit. And then when you actually see the actual value, you're like.
Oh, the Cubs maybe could have offered that. Yeah, we just got outspent, we can't, we can't write. It was a it's a $460 million deal.
What would it have been in Canadian dollars? I don't know. The only thing I know about Canadian dollars is when I look at the back of a book and it shows the two prices on there, and it's always Canada's. A little bit more he probably would've.
Gotten a billion Canadian dollars. He just did show, he just did what the N.FL does for all their contracts. When the agents get to announce that a quarterback signs for, you know, five years, 200 million, and then you look at it and you're like, Hmm, there's only 60 million guaranteed, and they can cut them after two years.
He just did that for MLB, where they can't cut him, there's no salary cap, but they can. They can essentially say, yeah, this the value of this contract is.
Not even close to 700 million. I can see DeVito's agent being like, Yeah, we did a, uh, the first billion dollar deal in the history of football, right? It's like two of the first two years you get 4 million and then after that you can get cut.
Yeah, and then okay, yeah, but we did a.
Billion dollar deal Yeah, you do like a 100 year land lease, we got a million dollars a year.
7,000 boxes of Z.D. Five Sauces. It'd be $10 million a year. But yeah, yeah, and I don't.
Understand numbers or interests, or inflation, or anything, I don't know. That's way above my pay.
Grade I do understand well. I tried to understand the Dodgers tweet about it last night when they made it official, Yeah, you see the Dodgers tweet.
It was, it was. It was four images that were each like 500 words. Nobody read the entire thing. Was it like a mega notes app? Yeah, it was like a novel.
They they put out a novel, just basically saying, We signed Shohei Otani. I. I would. I would like to know if anybody out there actually read the entire thing. It was the, uh, the actual real life. I didn't read all that, but I'm sorry or congrats, bro.
Congrats, it happened to you, yeah.
Breaking news Uh, well, it's not news officially, it's just breaking news, I guess. Tuesday night nine o'clock. Uh, big cat has requested.
I come back on the air by myself to talk about the rumors, uh, that Bill Belichick is going to leave the Patriots and the end of the season. Max is laughing at me. Right now, I'm sitting here alone. Uh, a report came out.
It's not official, it was not a team, you know, document or announcement, so as of right now, it's just a report. Tom Kern, who is not? He's not a fan fictionist, he's he's real news.
Good Reporter said that at the end of the year, the Patriots and Belichick are probably going to part ways. It happened after the Germany game. And then Big Cat was like, you need to get on the air and do two minutes. Like, I'm, I'm staying up, which I guess is good practice, cause I have to do 60 minutes coming up. But I'm just going to go with the fact that it's a report.
Uh, and it's not true. it might be fake news. I'm hoping it's fake. I'm in the denial stage right now. I don't want it to be true.
That would, you know, force a lot of emotions to come over me that I'm not ready to accept at this very moment. Uh, and I'm talking into a microphone by myself right now, I don't even know what I'm saying.
So that's that's my take, I don't I. It's tough because I wanted. I saw the tweets and stuff people were sending me, the tweet, Big cat PFT. Jake being like, Oh, look at this, look at this green light podcast. Who took down a tweet and then put it back up, saying it was a report, which was interesting, cause if it was official, you think they would just leave up the original tweet.
Hmm, um. Justin Trudell, from the Kirk Minahan Show tweeted that he had inside sources saying it was fake. So I'm just going with that. That was a tweet I like to see, and it was like, Yes, this is now.
We got Kirk Minahan show versus a Green light podcast going for going for the news break. But then I read the actual report. And and there was rumors before the Germany game that if they lost, he was going to be on his way out. So the fact that the report said it kind of happened after the German game made it seem like it made sense. Uh, which is again, I don't want to accept that reality. So I'm not going to this is this is my two minutes saying that we're just going to wait to see what happens.
Uh, sad day, bad day. I've never podcasted alone and I hope I never have to again.
Um, okay, let's do some Hot seat Cool Throne, and then we've got Stav and Jaden Daniels coming out. It's the Hot Seat Cool Thrones brought to you by our friends at Chevy. There's a new family with unstoppable grit, and they're the official partners.
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Um, a hot seat to Detroit Pistons. Oh yeah, they've lost 20 straight games. Yeah, what's the record?
They're two and 21.
The Wizards are better than them in the standings, yeah.
Uh, which is saying that the Wizards got beat by 45 last night, but by the 76.
Yeah, the Wizards are three and 19, but the Pistons, I feel like it's kind of going a little bit under the radar. Like, 20 losses in a row is all. 20 losses in a row is insane, well.
It's actually crazy because the Pistons have 20 losses in a row, and I'm pretty sure the Spurs have 17 losses in a row. Like both of these, and then the Wizards also have a ton of losses in a row. Like, there's some, some re. Oh yeah, actually, here it is.
The the, uh, the pit. The Spurs have 17 losses in a row, The Pistons have 20 losses in a row. And I'm pretty sure that the Wizards have won one game in the last. Uh, let's see eight. It's been a while, it's their, their, uh, their one. And 14 in their last 15, their one win the Detroit Pistons.
I love that. So it's like the worst three teams, it's insane, so those teams combined are like one in 55 or something crazy.
Do you know what the record losing streak is in the N.BA? What is it? Well, it was. It's you can look at it one or two ways. Well, yeah, one is 24 and that's for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Uh, but then, eventually, over the parts of two different seasons, it was a 76 years.
Oh.
20.
Cause, remember, it also surprised the they got a great draft pick out of that. Remember the Bobcats one year won seven games? Yeah, that was crazy, but yeah, the Pistons, how do you? that's crazy?
20 in a row, 20 in a row, so I'm in the All-star break. 20 in a row is definitely like, if you get over 15 in a row, it's fire everyone. You can't do 20 in a row. No, you have to fire everyone.
I don't know, I don't know if you can legally fire everyone, but like, I'm saying, cut everyone, fire everyone, do everything 20 in a row, that's bad, real bad, uh, and then?
My cool throne, it was going to be the Dodgers. PFT kind of touched on it like that. That's the greatest deal of all time. Money's never going to matter like the world's going to end.
Yeah.
They're going to have paid him like $20 million. The big one, California, might be in the middle.
Of the ocean, yeah.
Um, you can pass. I guess my other cool throne, Paul Pierce, was keeping up the hate. I respect it. He was on him and KG Show and he said LeBron's not top five in the N.BA. Love that.
And KG flipped out, but Paul Pierce was a good point. Like, LeBron is LeBron, but he's old, he's old, he's old. But I just respect, you know, I respect haters.
It encourages me to keep my hate up because Paul Pierce is still keeping his yeah, yeah, he's, he's he, it's.
It's nice, representation matters. Yes, that's what you're saying. It's like, when they do, you know different movies with, you know, different minorities. You needed this to have someone out there still hating.
And you're like, See, I can see myself in that. Yeah, like, yeah.
Like the Little Mermaid is black, Hank's like, Yeah, seeing, seeing that on TV makes me think.
One day I can grow up to be a hater forever. Yeah, and he's hating on LeBron. Yeah, it's okay.
For me to still hate him, yeah, that's great. Uh, all right, pft your hot seat, cool throne.
Uh, my hot seat is Kenya. Oh, cause our boy Billy and Donnie are back over in Africa right now, looking for revenge? They're training on the hot seat. Billy's on. Oh, I put Billy. Billy will be fired if he comes back.
And they scored no touchdowns. No. Hey, he's never been fired, Hank, that's fake news. it's an inside joke. Billy was never fired.
Um, but yeah, I've told Billy if he comes back and he cannot call himself Billy football and go scoreless.
Against Kenya again, he's put himself in the ultimate future. Billy, where he came back, he was kind of upset, he lost and he got so, like, excited about going back. And he was like, help me get back there. I need to coach these guys. I don't even care if we get filmed.
And I was like, Billy, that makes no sense, like, Yeah, it's for content. He's like, I don't care, I want to, I want to, I want to get this team to victory. And so he's going back and he's, I mean, he's got.
All the pressure in the world, he's got all the pressure, but I'll defend Billy a little bit. When he came back and he was crying about it and he was really upset and he was crying, Uh, it's cause he cares for the boys so much. He went out there practice with him.
He got passionate. I like, passionate Billy, me too. Yeah, say what you want about Billy. Uh, when he's not passionate, but when he actually cares about something, he's usually pretty good at it.
And he, he deeply, deeply cares about this one. So the part of my cheesesteak bowl. Round two is going to happen. This is an away game, this is in Kenya at elevation. Uh, we've provided them. We actually put some money together, sit a bunch of equipment over for the Uganda football team.
So they got new footballs, they got all this equipment, pads, whistles, you name it. Billy is like a like a pack mule that we've sent over to Africa. We're growing the game and yeah, Billy will be fired if they don't score a touchdown.
That's. It's not even that they don't score. Like if they come back and they lose 40 to three, Billy's fired, they have to get a touchdown. Did you guys give him bribe money? yeah.
So that's the other funny thing is, Billy put together a little budget.
Yeah, and I actually PFT was like, Hey, we're going to, we're going to do this budget. I was like, I'm going to send it to Donnie, not Billy. Can I read the budget cause?
I was, I was like.
When he's asked me, I was like, All right, what's it going to cost? can you send me a budget? said flights 1400, hotels 400, food 50 bucks, cheap parentheses.
Extra baggage fee maybe, and then at the very bottom it goes. Hopefully I don't have to pay any bribes this time, but bribe and budget and cash. 500. Nice, yeah, so Billy's just going.
Overseas, with like a suitcase filled with ones. Good luck to Billy, he's going to score a touchdown, though. I have full confidence in Uganda. It was a wet game.
It was rainy. Billy was injured last time. He just better get a touchdown. Yeah, okay.
Your cool throne, uh, my cool throne, is traffic, so Chicago just decided that we don't need traffic anymore. Well, yeah, the construction, yeah.
So there's been construction ever since. We've moved to Chicago on the main highways and it's been a pain in the ass to drive around. As it is in most cities, trying to get around, especially at rush hour. Uh, like, two days ago, Chicago just said, you know what, let's just not do the construction and we won't have traffic anymore. And when I drove to work yesterday, it was awesome, yeah, it was so fast.
It was I felt like I was living large, like luxury. They just said, phase one, complete, yeah, so like, Oh okay, now there's just phase two, though.
We shouldn't do phase two, phase two is coming, you know, it is, because phase one, it's done, and now there's no traffic anymore. We just decided, I don't know what they were building, yeah.
Well, they were just there, I.
Think they were fixing the highway and then the, uh, yeah. Like Brandon, who drives from Wisconsin, he got here at like seven, 15. The other day. I was like, why are you here so early? And he's like, I, my commute was like half as long, yeah.
There's no traffic anymore, there's something.
There's something going on. Yeah, there's some sort of scam going on to that. My other cool throne is Drip for the boys. Uh, so you know how I bought a bunch of, uh, Darius Rucker N.F.L. collab stuff?
I did it again, where I saw a guy Fieri, NFL flavor town collab, and so I got the boys food related. I dropped like 500 on a on Fanatics the other day. And I was like, Okay, you know who would like this awesome shirt of a giant ass bear eating a deep dish pizza? My friend Big cat? You know who liked this lobster shirt? My friend Hank?
And so now we got some, uh, some guy Fieri NFL club, so if you want to sit if they, if the guy that does, the club wants to send me $20,000 worth of medium sized commander's gear with Guy Fieri influence on it. I'm open to hearing about that, but yeah, boys are gonna be decked out this weekend.
Yeah, I'm, I'm pumped, I'm ready for it. You told me that and I was like, fuck.
Yes, uh, all right, my hot seat is Al Michaels. He has been blindsided, he's not calling the NBC Uh playoff game this year.
Really, yeah, was that his choice? No, no eagle next up, yeah.
So they they, I think the the people at NBC were like, we hear Al might be not not, maybe not vintage Al. And so yeah, I think he got kind of blindsided, I don't like.
This, yeah, no, I don't like it either, I don't like this. Let Al go out on his own terms and I'll.
Keep going. But yeah, that was, uh, some news Andrew Martian had that. It was like you got blindsided, yeah.
Um, and then my cool throne is Georgia fans, so Georgia fans. They are, uh, not in the playoff, but they're in a fight right now for a five-star quarterback, Dylan Rayola. And, uh, there's a there's word on the street that he might be going to take a visit in Nebraska. And, uh, we had this from a comment section in UH, on a uh, Georgia Bulldogs, uh site, it says. Does anyone here work at Hartsfield Jackson Airport?
It's being reported that Rayola will visit Nebraska on Friday. I assume that it'll take the two 21 Delta flight, which is also the last flight of the day, to the state. Therefore, if this flight gets canceled, he likely won't be able to make the trip. And we'll stay committed to Uga. Obviously, messing with commercial flights is a slippery slope, so I'm not suggesting that anybody does anything illegal. But does anyone here work for Delta?
If some loyal UGA pilots or flight attendants, uh, call in sick at the last minute, the flight could be canceled. And we could keep Rayola. Maybe someone working could hold the flight up for maintenance issues. At the very least, he could lose his check bags. So you'd have to experience in the Nebraska winter without a jacket. I'm just spitballing ideas, but if anyone has anything else, those would also be appreciated.
The phrase obviously messing with.
Commercial air travel is a slippery slope. Was, Uh, that's an all time, all time, yada yada yada.
Yeah, obviously, we just got to get this out of the way. I don't think there's a gray area.
For that, yeah, probably not slippery slope, probably not, yeah.
Slippery slopes, doing a lot of work. Yeah, and that phrase, I'll put it that way, yes, yes.
Um, okay, your hot seat.
Uh, Jake, my hot seats the Detroit Lions because next on their schedules, the Denver Broncos and Russell Wilson has the baby bump. Yup, yup, yup, he had a baby.
Yes, so that's Saturday night. great Saturday triple header, by the way. Yes, all teams above 500..
Uh, my cool throne is hanging the banner, cause that's exactly what the Lakers will be doing for the in-season tournament championship. They're hanging a banner. Oh no, so I love it.
There's champion.
Is it going to be like a special colored? I think it has to be small, neon has to be smaller, it's.
Different than their other championships, but that has sparked some. I mean, if it stays around.
I guess you have to hang a banner. It would have been cooler if the Pacers won and hung a banner, cause that would have been like, that's nice, yeah, Lakers, like, you've won championships.
A.
Lot of them. It would also be funny if the in-season tournament never happened again and they just had the only banner, yeah, in season.
Yeah, that would also be great.
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Uh, the Greek freak, the Greek freak. He has a new Netflix special out right now, you gotta go watch it. It's called Fat Rascal. Um, let's start there.
I mean, why did you call yourself fat?
Well, I look good. Thanks man. Yeah, I do appreciate that, but this thing fat is not a bad word, you know what I mean?
I'm trying to take it back. It's you could be fat, you could be a beautiful motherfucker, you get your titties sucked, you could be fat.
People like that, you're in Chicago now, this if there's a city that respects a fat person, yeah, big, big people. I love walking, I'm respected in this.
Yeah, that is.
Power here. That was a sign of like, well, you were eating well, you had money. City of Broad.
Shoulders. There's a city where you could call someone a pipsqueak, you know what I mean?
Like, if you imagine if you brought home a skinny man, if you were a woman who had to meet your fat father. And you bring home. Like some Brooklyn fucking pussy with it's like, you know, 90 pounds, it's like they would be pissed off Skinny man here is like, how's he going to provide for you? He can't even provide for himself, to be honest, I wanted to call the special fat little slut, but they said, no, like, Hey man, if you google that, your special's not coming up.
I like a James Brown tweet, he tweeted out. Damp lips.com. I like, Uh, I like the word.
Rascal, too. That's a very underused word, I think. So, yeah.
You call yourself a rascal.
I would absolutely call myself. It's hard to be a Rascal like in your thirties, though, I know, but I think that we all actually apply to that. We're still at the Rascal you were.
Playing dodgeball out here?
It's a good thing to have. It's like, never lose your inner rascal. totally. This is like, this is truly like the little rascals. I know you have to legally probably employ what?
Four women, but this is the like he man woman haters club, you know what I?
Mean, I was listening to another show You're on and you, you said something that really hit me when you said that. You have gotten maybe not the best shape right now, but you're at a point where you can't have any black and white pictures of yourself. People will, just if they see a black and white picture of Stob, they'll just be like, Oh, he's dead, he's dead.
Yeah, I can't get into.
Photography right now. Because if people see if they see an old time, if they see one black and white. Me like gazing off, like, softly, you know what I mean? They're going to start texting my mom being like, Oh no, how can we help, you know? Like, Yeah, it's. It's tough when you've gotten so fat that you cannot. There's a couple I've hit a couple different points, you know, but.
Your brother's fucking jacked. I ran into him right before I left, uh, uh, New York. At the museum, I was with my kids, and he just came up to me. He's like, Hey, I'm Stob's brother.
I was like.
Dude, you're fucking jacked, so he's got to get you back in shape. I know it's funny, cause he started, like, Uh, he just started running a business, and I was I would just go and hang out.
I was like, Oh, sick. I'm going to help my brother with a gym. He's going to be my slave. You have to work me out whenever, and he's like, No, I have to run my gym.
Yeah, sorry, bad cocksucker, good luck out there. I was like, Fuck dude, I help you buy these fucking equipment, I'm all you throw me to the fucking wolves to get fatter for a year.
And that's what he did. But we're going to get back to, I'm going back to Baltimore.
For a couple months, nice. What kind of training are you going to do you want to do like Olympic?
Lifting, I wish I would, I have gotten so fat where I have to do. Like the training, like when an old woman breaks her hip, those are the workouts. Oh, like, you're in the pool.
Like, really thick rubber bands, I have to stretch those out a little bit, you got to.
Do like the supported treadmill, where you're, like, strapped into it. We don't want to.
We don't want to add any weight here, we're just going to do resistance bands. It's so sad cause.
I tried to, like, I tried to get back. I was like, I'm going to get a jump on it, like on the road, I'm going to work out. Oh, that's never. That is the worst thing I've ever been, I've just been injured.
Like, one lift my fucking my whole body, so I've I've been going through that the last.
I don't know. Two years where your body just accumulates injuries and they never go away. It's like you, you step out of bed one day and you like, sprain your foot. You're like, Well, my foot's going to hurt for the rest of my life. I'm just done. That's what's wrong with my.
Foot also the workout on the road. The most I work out on the road is I pack gym shoes, that's it, you pack it, and you're like, Yeah, I'll work out.
And then you just never take them out of.
Your bag, No. And now I'm getting too fat to walk, too. I'm like, Fuck, I need the elliptical like.
I'm hurting my feet, walking, and I'm like, Jesus Christ, I literally need an elliptical where my feet are locked in place. But I'm going to look for, look for a water treadmill, that's not a bad.
Idea I like walking on the Babe Ruth workout, where, like those old videos of Babe Ruth, where you just sit there and they would like jiggle him.
There you go, it's like a board that women used to.
Stand on. That would just shake them back and forth, and that would make them lose. Or you could reach the point where you're just like, I'm going to be a sauna guy. If you sweat, that's a.
Workout Yeah, the sauna era is coming. Yeah, the sauna era is absolutely here.
It's here.
Like, how different is this from just a towel around my neck? you know what I mean, like, I need to just be one towel over my dick?
One like this, hanging out for hours, I read your profile.
On GQ and the opening line of it, by the way, congrats on having a profile written, Oh, thanks.
That's crazy, gentlemen's quarterly, Yeah, when you're a gentleman.
With his tracksuit wide open, uh, with gold chains. Well, listen, when you got famous on a.
Cum podcast. And then you went on to get more famous, asking people the last time they got pussy on the internet. You gotta be in Gentlemen's Quarterly, you know what I mean?
There's some old GQ executive, you're like, what the fuck, yeah, what's happened to this?
Magazine We used to get Christian Bale every year. Why is the fattest man I've ever seen in the magazine?
We wanted to get him in a trench coat. Yeah, hell yeah, dude, I love it my boy.
Lawrence, the opening sentence is great. Two days before Thanksgiving, Stavros Halkia sits at the dining table. Was three bedroom Astoria apartment, comfortably dressed in a lavender velour. Sergio.
Takini sweatsuit That's right, actually, it's this exact suit in lavender, nice. How many do?
You own, that's another way that you can tell you're getting old, you just buy the same thing.
Bro different colors. The only thing I have splurged on in my life is track the tracksuit. If I saw a number of what I've spent on tracksuits, it would be so embarrassing. But it is.
It is if you're heavier, the tracksuit, you put on a tracksuit, and it's like Superman's cake, you become the most powerful man in the world. It's just a totally different vibe, like, if you put on that tracksuit. Everyone walks around being like, Damn dude, if I was, if I was sitting.
Here, in a tucked in white shirt into some pleated khakis. You would be like, Get this child molester out of here, you know what I mean? You'd be like, fuck the tracksuits, like, No, this guy's wheeling and dealing, making business, absolutely.
Yeah, I, I look like I own the land that this building was built on. You know what I mean? I'm not, I'm above the landlord, I just come in here.
I'm like, very good, how's everything, boys? You like the electricity I have here for you? Very much, too many lamps turn off, too much electricity you spend. When can I meet? When can I meet sports guys?
Where is Michael Jordan? I hear you guys do sports interviews.
That's who I look like.
Yeah, the tracksuit is like, that guy's got something going on and I don't know what it is.
And I don't know if I want to know what it is, dude, if you walk into, I've done this a couple of times. Where you walk into a place where everyone's in a suit and you're in a tracksuit. Everyone's like, this guy fucking rocks, everyone's like, they're like, they just won't ask any questions. You can be so dressed down that they're like, this guy's a lunatic for coming in here like this.
We're not asking any questions. Now. It turns out I'm not in the mafia. I'm just so fat, I don't want to wear clothes that buckle, but still, I protect that air. You're right.
The.
Tracksuit is like a press credential, or security credentials. Everywhere you go, no one's like, Hey, why should? why is this guy here? It's like, No, no, someone knows why he's here.
We don't ask questions. If you had a golf cart and a tracksuit, you're getting in.
You could get into the White House.
I'm the president's bookie.
You're just Hunter Biden's best friend. Hunter Biden doesn't have a friend that looks like me.
That's fucked up, dude. If you showed up to the White House, they would all just be like.
Yeah, I think he knows Hunter.
He's got to know Hunter, Yeah, that's probably Hunter's pussy connect. That's the guy who brings him horny, that's the guy who dropped off the laptop.
Yeah, well, I was like, Yeah, let me see my nephew. You could take a look at your laptop.
How many more pictures are we going to get out of that laptop? It seems like he had thousands of pictures and they're all. He took a lot of pictures of him smoking crack, that's.
Awesome, I love it, I, that's, I'm so pro hunter. It's because it's like so many politicians, kids like, steal our money and then what make foundations like that?
Like, No dude, let's fucking smoke, crack, get our dick sucked. That if, if, look, if I can't have universal healthcare, at least the people robbing me are having a good time and just think about it this.
Way, yeah, like Chelsea Clinton, she's got probably some crazy foundations, probably helping all these people. It doesn't really do anything for us. Hunter Biden is just giving us laughs and content.
Yeah, absolutely no. That's the way to do it. If you're going to be corrupt, like, look, Saddam Hussein sons. Except for, like all the murder and stuff having, like a fucking tiger that you make gold armor for and shit like that, that's awesome. That's so much cooler than the found a foundation for somebody with lupus. That probably most of it's not even going. It's mostly going to spend on, like in the office.
Yeah, or like, Yeah, you're just buying, you know, art and laundering money? Yeah, exactly, I want to see it just all out in the like. Hunter Biden makes mistakes that, like, we would make.
Totally, and he's the president's son, and he's not, he's not on a secret pedophile.
Island, it's all out there, you know what I mean, transparency, yeah.
The numbers?
It was like a million dollars in hookers in the last five years, he was just putting up like.
Wilt Chamberlain Fuck Yes, dude, that's so sick. It'd be so fun to hang out with for one night.
Like, he should actually have, there should be a cameo for Hunter Biden, or people like Hunter Biden. Just like one night, come party with me, just chill with Hunter, just chill with Hunter for a night, I'll show you.
I can show you my world when Joe's over, dude, when Joe's dead.
He might become that guy, he might rent himself out as a party companion. Yeah, we're going to.
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And now here's more Stavi. I want to talk.
About your special Real Quick So last time you were on, you had a special on YouTube.
That's that transition. I mean, is that like a no brainer? Or were you actually thinking like, well, YouTube was kind of sick because people could just watch it and you know, it got to a lot of people?
Yeah, I mean, it was. I definitely thought about it, because YouTube, I mean, the internet, like I said, has been the best thing in the world. I mean, you guys know it. Like, our whole careers, our lives are hysterical because of the internet. Like I said, from Cometown to like, just literally crowd work, like just posting clips and like, and then my YouTube channel too, like.
Tons of people find me from YouTube and so I thought about it for sure. But it just came down to, like, Netflix is the biggest streaming platform. Like, we forget about that because we made our shit on the internet. And we're like, it's just. But it's like there's so many other people to reach, where it's like just some random regular motherfuckers that are watching suits.
You know what I mean, like, Yeah, they're not on YouTube? They're not like clicking off of like, they're not going from. like, Was Jesus black? You know what I mean? Like? They're not going to like, you know, they're not going to like conspiracy YouTube over to like.
Stand up, you know, they're just like watching, you know, they're sad. The office is gone from Netflix and they need something you to watch. And it's like, let's fucking, let's expose myself to them, you know what I mean?
How many of those people do you think turned it on? They're like, what the fuck?
Yeah.
Hopefully, a lot, I hope I'm being-.
I was watching the Crown and then I got this recommended to me. What just happened? I love that idea of just people being like, what the? And they probably laughed.
I would love, yeah. Half were disgusted, half laughed, and we take that half that laughed. And then we fucking, you know, double it up, do the next one. But yeah, it's just sick. I mean, it's also the thing of like, you know, um, I know, I know you guys, I mean, not to bring up, like, fucking, I guess. It's like, imagine if Barstool van Talk hadn't failed?
That's kind of a Netflix special, you know what I mean, like, imagine if, like, and you guys got were fucked for being too like? I think it was too early, cause I think, if if I tried to make a mainstream thing back then, like, yeah, like that was canceled season, dude.
I feel like now people are kind of over it, you know what I mean? Like, if you guys wanted within a heartbeat, you could have a fucking legacy TV show, but you realize, like, fuck it, we'll make it ourselves.
Who gives a fuck? We're in a hilarious studio. I don't have the fucking barstool resources, you know? So it's cool to be with Netflix where they have, you know, they've put out some of the best specials in the last 10 years. Or, you know, and like the the the modern iteration of standup, that's pretty much the major one.
Like, so it was just a cool thing to do. They were great to work with. I was shocked, like I was worried.
They'd be like, censoring shit, they didn't give up, they were cool dude. Except for the fat little slut, except for not being able to call a fat slut, that little slut. Which, you know, I've tried to call two specials in a row and I.
Don't think it'll ever happen. Have you heard from, like, people you went to high school with that, didn't know that you were doing standup? And they're like, Oh shit, Stavi's on my TV right now.
Yeah, yeah, now it's not only them, but like, also like people and like relatives in Greece and shit. I can't pretend I'm not successful anymore, that's the hard part, it's like now.
It's like, Fuck, if there's some some expense in the village, I got a spring for it. You know what I mean, like, I gotta, fucking, I gotta, uh, but yeah, that's another thing. It's like, people just do, like, you know, people were just like, holy shit.
It to them, it felt like it feels real. Where it's like, you know, I've been out here for whatever, however long since I was 19, whatever, it's just been going good the last couple of years. But yeah, there is something perception-wise, where it's just like, you get on Netflix, you get on this like mainstream thing. And people are just like, Oh yeah, I guess, I guess you're a real comedian. Yeah, yeah, have you thought about maybe Yannis?
Sitting down on his couch and he opens up Netflix and then boom, there's Stavi, he's probably seen.
You dude, he's in the special thanks. Yannis Adeptakumbo is the last name in the special thanks.
For inspiring me to be a champion.
Wait, have people tried to cancel you at any point?
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