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Welcome to part of my take. Today is Wednesday, April 12th, and we've got NBA playoffs, kind of NBA play-in game. We're watching OT right now. There's 35 seconds left. Live it up, PFt.

We have NBA playoffs, play it.

It's its own thing, it's no man's land.

The points with 35 seconds left in overtime, this game sucked. The fourth quarter was so bad. I think everybody out there with a pulse that's ever seen basketball or heard of the state of Minnesota before knew that the Timberwolves were going to give this up.

The Lakers were going to come back, the N.B.A. David Stern was going to figure out a way for LeBron James to advance.

Everyone was like, Rudy Gobert, who now we can play five out, we've got all this flexibility. Carl Anthony Towns is playing great. Even though they just kept on giving them fouls. And every time he had to sit, the Lakers would crawl back.

And then we got to the fourth quarter and they scored a combined 31 points. In the fourth quarter. The Timberwolves scored 12 points. The Timberwolves didn't score. They scored their last field goal with six minutes left in the game.

The next time they scored was Anthony Davis. This is how dumb the game was. The Lakers go up by three with a minute or a second and a half left. Memes tweets it from the part of my take account game winner.

Anthony Davis fouls Mike Conley, shooting a three from basically behind the basket. The Timberwolves hadn't scored in fucking six minutes, and he fouls Mike Conley, shooting a three up three.

That was awesome. A former teammate of Mark Titus, he hasn't, he hasn't mentioned that. Yeah, also, I took a piss next to Ed Sheeran one time, but yeah, Mike Conley played basketball with Mark Titus.

Great game, legacy game under the bright lights of the play in tournament for Mike Conley. And, uh, they scored. The Timberwolves scored with 0.1 seconds left on the clock, and then they didn't score until, uh, overtime with, like, a putback layup.

We almost just got double overtime there for a second.

Damn you stream, snipe me hank, Uh. And now it's probably going to happen, we'll get the live reaction. Well, I don't know what's happening, I'm watching on my computer.

Uh, so I'm a cord cutter, like all the new kids. Uh, but yeah, this game, this game. Oh man, oh shit, you're right, we almost did.

They bricked a number, another three. This game was so bad, though this game was revenge for everyone who said, Why would you watch March madness? It's just a bunch of dudes missing shots and throwing the ball out of bounds, cause there was that sequence where the Timberwolves just missed every shot.

And then, like LeBron threw one out of bounds, there was the loose ball foul, like everyone, just sucked. And here's my thing with the play in tournament, I like it in theory, because more basketball, more fun.

These teams suck, these teams aren't going to. Like, I need a play in tournament team to win a title for me to start respecting the play in tournament. Because the N.B.A. playoffs, like historically, are the. You know, the top seeds are usually the teams that you see at the end of the end of the whole thing, you know what I mean? Like, you were just deciding who's going to go get. Maybe the Lakers will, ESPN will tell us tomorrow. The Lakers watch out for them, they're going to take down the Grizzlies.

Maybe the Hawks are going to go after Hank Celtics, I don't think so. Like the heat were so bad tonight, we'll get to them in a second. But like, at the end of the day, these teams are just not, none of these teams are going to win a title.

Well, the eight teams in the play in tournament are not going to win a title.

We'll do, we'll do, like a special thing where the Pelicans can technically play some, some playoff games and get ratings on it. Also, the N.B.A. just wants another event to slap a sponsor on, so they're like, Okay, it's the play in tournament presented.

But the Mavericks pissed all over that this year. So, like the Mavericks, like the after watching this game. The N.B.A. should stop their investigation against the Mavericks. Because the Mavericks were like, Hey, we'd rather a draft pick than play in this.

You can always flip it where it's like, well, that team needs some reps, that's big time playoff, playoff pressure for them. A lot of guys who haven't been there. Well, the, uh, the pelicans.

Is it officially over? You're faster than us? No, it's not over yet. Okay, well, let's just say the Lakers, The Lakers have advanced to play against the Grizzlies.

Maybe they can beat the Grizzlies. Oh, they just showed, uh, Rob Lowe slash, Rob Polinka, uh, watching his team playing game for for number one picks in this playing game.

So that that's often.

We're not in football shape. This is also the first time since the Mavericks became a franchise in 1981. I want to say that no teams from Texas made the playoffs. Oh, wow, yeah, wow.

So it's like a reverse of.

I don't think Anthony will, uh, Anthony, uh. Edwards can play worse than he played tonight. He was so, so bad over nine from three.

And then it just never went. I tweeted this out. But you remember how when you were in, Uh, like, when you were playing basketball, when you're in elementary, middle school. And the coach showed you a hoop, a basketball hoop, and then put two balls inside of it. It was like, Look how big this rim is like, you get, you should be able to make these shots easily. That's what they needed to do for Anthony Edwards tonight.

Um, cause he was, he was so bad, so bad, and he kept shooting.

He's not out there.

And I'm not trying to just be a prisoner of the moment. But they got absolutely bullied 63 to 39 on the rebounds, absolutely bullied and in a reverse. Like how we just said Anthony Edwards couldn't play worse, I don't think Kyle Lowry could play better. They got the best Kyle Lowry game and they still lost.

Uh, I, I was like, I thought that he were going to win. I still believe in heat culture, I think it might be dead. They got absolutely bullied, yeah.

Uh.

And so this was like Trey Young revenge game on his own, his own franchise, essentially being like, Fuck you. I'm going to show you what I can still do. Um, yeah, it was. It was a great game. Quinn Snyder did a great job, Quinn Snyder.

I think we can say, like, if you need, if you need one guy to win you one N.B.A. game with, like, an average roster. Quinn Snyder is probably the.

Um, a couple other things I was thinking about it. So, 63 to 39 on rebounds, I think that's the third largest, uh, 24 point, 24 point margin you can have. So I was thinking, I wrote them all out, this is, this sounds very stupid.

It's one in the morning. I think 43 19 is a bigger margin. Oh yeah, yeah, no.

And I think 94 69 is also a bigger margin, and then 63 39 I've talked about.

Yeah, yeah, so uh yeah, so that's my uh, quick.

I wish you could see my computer right now, cause I was writing them all out. And 33 nine was like, Well, that's early in the game, they'll, they'll catch up. You know, it feels large, but you're like, that can't be the end of the game.

Yeah, no, all numbers are not created.

Jake's spicy tonight Cause?

Yeah, yeah, Jake, what do you want to say, your heat culture? Jimmy Butler had like a tweet that like a f, or a post-game comment that sounded like a fan tweeted it with like three followers.

He said Come Friday, we have to play the legit exact opposite.

I have a question, Jake, Basketball, if you're let's pretend you're the basketball gym, let's pretend you're you're, you're Pat Riley. Do you think? Having a roster with the only powerful? BAM is a power forward playing center, so when you put him at center, your other two power forwards are Kevin? Love, who we love. Any dominance has. Who's 55 years old, do you think that might be?

So I think there's a lot of pressure on him to reshuffle some things over the summer. Yeah, I mean, in in Pat Riley's defense.

But it was one of those things I was.

It's been a long twilight. So did Mack McClung do it as a last game of the year? But but in in reality, you probably want your power forwards to not be. You don't have Haslam and Kevin love, you know, playing game, or have Bambi or power forward and have a center that could also work. It sounds like you're saying, or any game, or any game, or any game, or any game, Uh, I guess. Cody Zeller is also on the roster, which is always fun name to say.

Yeah, in what way? Cause he does the West.

Those are going to be on on TNT. It's going to be Charles Barkley doing the halftime show and he's like, just do yourselves a favor, don't watch the first round.

It's just.

If the Heat do make it to the playoffs, they're going up against a team that can't rebound at all in the Milwaukee box. Wait, shit, I forgot they have Giannis.

That's going to be, I mean, I don't want to watch that, I don't want to watch that. Uh, hank your scared meter for the Hawks, is it? It can't be zero? Uh, I mean, if it can't be zero, then it's one.

Okay, that's fair. Well, it can't be zero, just.

Yeah, that's really the only thing I think we already have.

I think even if Jalen or Jason doesn't play, it's going to be a whopping.

That's dangerous. A ton of kettle corn, that's also not happy city. you can't, you don't eat kettle corn when you're watching sports.

No knockout.

But that's not a little more salt. That's like, that's like holiday food, you have it around the holiday. What do you mean? Renaissance was the original sport.

You don't eat kettle corn when?

And I'll probably be like, watch out for the Lakers, cause they just trot everyone out. To be like, the Lakers could do something. And then I'll just be like, fuck it, maybe the Lakers could do something.

The NBA is kind of rigged. I can take this back if the Celtics won the championship, but like that game was, there's some NBA games. When you're like, you just know what's going to happen. It didn't matter what happened the whole game, you just knew the Lakers were going to win the Lakers, the Lakers are good.

They beat a Timberwolves team that some people were saying could win the N.B.A. title this year. No, you never said that, I said, never said that. I said, Could they beat a team? I want to defend you.

Some media members that don't know ball, we're saying that the Minnesota Timberwolves could win potentially two series. Oh, yeah, I.

Sixers, Celtics So Jake can eat all his kettle corn and Lakers Warriors, so we can have Steph versus LeBron.

I mean, if you lost the LeBron.

I retire, I retire from life, all right, let's kick it to ourselves. Back in studio, we have an awesome interview with Adam Richmond in studio as well.

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Hot seat, Cool throne, Henry, My hot seat is love. Oh, no, I don't like that.

Isn't this? Isn't this good thing, though, because it means that we're going to get some bangers out of Taylor Swift. There's, there's nothing like a good Taylor Swift breakup album. I had a little debate with our colleague.

Taylor's the problem. I mean, didn't she have that as a lyric, too? Yeah, it's me, it's me.

I'm the problem, she is the problem. She is emotionally not vulnerable enough. So every time she breaks up and everyone's like, Oh my god, it's so sad. No, no, no.

I'm telling you if you, if you're a fan of music, having a Taylor Swift break, you know what? It's about to be another sad girl autumn. That's fine. It's going to be. It's going to be great. I like Taylor.

The leaves are going to turn. What's that mean for the summer? I mean, single girl, you know? What we should do? What we should do is we should try to get Billy with Taylor Swift and just have Billy break her heart so we can get more bangers. On the drive of the 405, we spent like two hours talking about ways we'd be terrible boyfriends to Taylor Swift to make her have the best album.

Yeah, just like completely emotionally neglect her and just drive her insane.

Yeah, no, no, somebody should be. yeah, you should be a scumbag.

To Taylor, I might. I'm going to call her right now, she's going to date Pete Davidson. It's going to happen. That's kind of tacky for her.

Nah, I think she went from a British actor. Single girl Summer. He's the perfect rebound.

She's.

It's Taylor Swift easy, Nah, it's so easy, so easily, that Coachella performance Taylor can never you can't. No one can name a single Beyonce song, Lemonade.

Single ladies who runs the world? I'm just trying to get people mad at girls. No, you guys, you guys. No one knows a single Beyonce song, right? No idea, no idea.

Isn't she like, old? Yeah, she's super old. Taylor Swift, much better vocalist, Wait, Single Ladies, Rihanna or Beyonce, It's Beyonce.

Yeah, to the left, to the left. oh oh, oh, oh, oh oh, if I was a boy.

I'm aware, Hank, we're trying to go fucking viral here. I will say it's a legacy tour right now.

I just like, she clearly is, you know, breaking up with these guys and then having everyone be like, Oh, poor Taylor. She is not letting herself become emotionally vulnerable and finding love. Love should trump all, and it's fine if she wants her career over love.

That's great, but don't cry me a river when you're, like, you know, 70 years old by yourself. Taylor, Not that she will be. No, I mean, I'm very scared of the swifties, very.

You can tell I'm very, I'm couching all my language, I don't, I don't know who out there.

She's just too tall. Lana del Rey is the true goat, though that was unnecessary a lot of their way. I love Lana del Rey.

She's like, she just got engaged. Oh no, yeah, she had a breakup, damn.

She just dropped a new album that was killer after the breakup. There's a tunnel under Oceans Boulevard. Oh, you know what? In in the spirit of solidarity amongst dudes, I'm sick of dudes having their hearts broken by Taylor Swift.

I'm saying, as guys, we should all band together and say we should go on strike from dating. Taylor Swift and the Swifties are so strong. Like, it's, it's kind of a joke, but there's definitely. She's has such a big fan base, even if it's 1 of 1 of the diehards that are like Taylor. Swift. Broke up with her boyfriend. I'm breaking up with mine like that.

100 has happened all over the world. Yeah, yeah, so likewise, all dudes, if you're a real dude, you're not dating Taylor Swift this summer.

There you go, go Joe Allen go. I just found out who you were like two days ago, but I've been a big fan for life. I didn't even know his name.

I just wrote.

Uh, my cool throne is John Rahm's dad. Yeah, hank, you're stealing all of mine. That was, that was, that was my, that was going to be my cool throw, sorry.

Today can I take it? I have another one, I have another one. Cool Throne is John Rahm's dad.

Turns out still very much alive, so shout out John Rahm's dad. Right after the mass, he did so.

I got confused because Jim Nance was talking about how it was 70 by a steroids. His birthday. Seve, obviously a major champion Spanish golf icon. And I was. I was probably looking between screens at the time, and my brain morphed that all into one story. So John Rahm's dad is still very much alive early front runner for Still Alive Person of the Year.

You florian him? Yeah, so yeah, I mean, yeah, Florio's with Terry, Terry Bradshaw. At some point when Terry Bradshaw dies, Florio will have been the first to report it.

That's true. Um, hopefully, hopefully Mr. Rahm has a long life ahead of him. Can see his son when. Several more green jackets, yeah.

But still, we can allow us to be the first to report that. John Rahm's dad.

You did it, a lot of people die all the time. You didn't. Yep, so think about that, survivor.

Yeah, absolutely tough as nails of of fake deaths, as reported by.

Yeah, the pitch clock has been great. I've been a pretty known baseball hater, probably since, you know, the existence of this podcast. I played it a lot growing up, got super bored watching it as I got older, but I'm getting into it. I like, I like the speed of the games.

It makes it a lot more watchable. It's awesome. I've watched more baseball this spring than probably the entire last two years combined. They also changed another rule that goes along with the pitch clock rule, which is, uh, they're extending beer sales into the eighth inning now, which is huge because the game moves so much faster. People were getting cut off earlier.

Now you could also make the argument that, well, the eighth and ninth innings go by faster. So they should cut off the beer sales earlier because the same thing, not us. We would not make that argument, but I think the Brewers were the first team to extend beer sales into the eighth inning. So have you ever seen that, that list when they do, uh, like, the 20 drunkest cities and towns in America? And I think.

Yeah, no, it's real. no, it's they have like, licensing and.

You could drink at the bar with your parent under 18.

You could be in.

Yep, how it should be done.

And the answer has been steroids, but now they've figured it out that you don't have to just do steroids. Yeah, you can just make the basis.

Nevermind, I've talked myself into the cubs, being scrappy enough to make the point. They're going to be sneaky, not bad, but I've now upgraded them to sneaky. Might make the playoffs.

I like that we've gone up the ladder, I also I like.

He's going to be the next great player to get hit by pitches, cause his dad was fucking elite at it. I love it. I was just going to say, go into the game now, kind of. It says it's shorter.

Like, I used to like how a baseball game used to be a whole day activity. Oh, see, I like, I like that. It's like a two and a half hour game is perfect. It was just like a good excuse to, like, get away.

Um, on the World Series ring, they typically have the scores of the games of the World Series. in this instance, they have the scores of all the.

Like, I legit got sent, I thought it was. I thought, Oh, this is a funny.

No, I need to do some research because I haven't done any research. I know for certain that this is just a normal thing, that all of a sudden this year people are trying to make a big deal. I wouldn't know.

You probably wouldn't. They had the Red Socks rally song True or False? The Dong Bong should have been something that happened in Philadelphia first. Yeah, probably true or false.

You got no hit in the World Series.

It was a zero hitter. We've established that, but yeah.

If you bundle it with Red Zone, so Billy, that's a steal, it's. It's actually not that much different than the direct TV prices from the years before. But where it's going to get crazy for bars is, I don't know if you guys know, many bar owners or bar managers. But they're going to have to figure out how to get YouTube on all their TVs at once, and they are going to be completely lost. Week one of next year. What's that, Hank?

Well, no, that's not. That's a brings up, a good point. Do they have to have eight accounts? Is there going to be like, cause, couldn't you then hypothetically do that in your?

What was the price? Uh, it's $349 per season, uh, $249 if you purchase before June 6th, and then $389 early if you if you bundle it with Red Zone. My math isn't exactly right. Cause?

Yeah, bleep that out. People get mad if you give up their their shady streaming service. You had the local, you have whatever's.

You couldn't even see the batter or the pitcher, or the catcher, you were just going off. Like, where the camera was falling, watching a walk-off home run with a giant black stripe across the center of the screen was electric. It was so fun. The other big problem with this is going to be that, um, I think, uh. Recurring guest Warren Sharp pointed this out.

YouTube, their UH streaming service, is about 54 seconds behind. It's got a lag behind reality, so people are going to be watching on all different. Yeah, shit's going to get spoiled.

We got to figure.

Yeah, fuck, okay, okay, all.

Uga 10 won back-to-back national titles, Uga 10 went 84 and 15 as the mascot of the Georgia Bulldogs. It also evaded a bevo the longhorn. He also evaded Bevo the longhorn. Uh, the only other Uga that could be potentially in the Goat debate is Uga 3, who went 71 and 32 and also won a national title. But I think it's Uga 10 in a route now, Uga 11..

Like, how do you follow Uga 10?

They have to clone. Uga 10, it's, it's crazy. Uga 10 was the Goat Uga mascot. He saw the greatest years of Georgia football.

I also just started going down a little rabbit hole. Uh, of the Ugas, uh, uga, let's see eight. That was a sad one, he went four and two, and then, yeah, I got cancer. And his epitaph on the they all have, like, uh, their gravestones. I think in the stadium, his was just he never had a chance, which is pretty sad. That's pretty sad. Uh, I'll go for, uh, not not in the Goat debate, but still a very good Uga.

He was, uh, the dog of the decade, That's pretty fucking cool, cause he went from 81 to 90. Uh, what was the other one that was great? Uh, I believe it was, uh, oh, I'll go.

I'll Go Five was the one who bit the Auburn player. So there's some notable Ugas out there. And there was also, Oh, I'll go One was just damn good dog.

Yeah, hell yeah, like that, that was great. And then I'll get two is not a bad, not bad for a dog.

Oh, that's, that's, that's so mean to Uga, too.

What is he? Four and two, though, four.

Wise he was, so that's tough. Numbers never lie.

Damn good dog, though, in his epitaph, Uh, all right, my uh cool throne is white. N.B.A. players.

So I don't know if you guys saw this. Deli, a comedian by the name of, Uh, Carl Tartt, joined a random league, Uh, for fantasy basketball. He's called an African-American. He joined a random league for fantasy basketball and drafted only white guys and won the league. Wow, yeah.

Pretty impressive. Well, they can shoot like Joel Embiid, he had, uh, yeah, he had Luca Tyler, Harrow, Hero, uh, Corey, Kispert, Porzingis, Vuchovic, Bogdanovich, Sabonis, Valanchunas. I mean, he just all white, Austin Reeves, I didn't, he didn't have.

Caruso needs to be on there, I was waiting for Caruso. C.J. McConnell, Uh, Lori Marketing on his bench, Dante Divincenzo on his bench, he had kispert on a starting lineup. Yeah, dude.

Kispert shooting the lights out. Yeah, so shout out Carl Tartt. I mean, what a he won the league, yeah.

Now I need to try to do Fancy Hockey League where he has all Black guys. Yeah, uh.

All right, yeah, he's gonna try that also. Uh, Covid is over, so cool.

We did it, guys, we did it. They released a statement being like the the it's over sweet. The White House released a statement being like, the national emergency is hell.

Yeah, I don't know that. There has to be at least one fucking loser in, like, probably New York City, who just now is going to leave their house. Yeah, thank you, Joe.

Thank you, Joe, we finally.

You're welcome, America. Funny, finally wrestled that bitch to the ground. Can't believe.

It's long, weirdest, longest, three years in terms of like, I don't remember someone was talking about the Bubble Championship in the N.BA. It's like that was so that feels like a hundred years that never happened.

That was Covid never had a chance once Wonder Woman started to sing John Lennon.

The best part about Covid was I got to watch Game of Thrones all the way through for the very first time. It was worth it, Covid was worth it.

Go.

You got us through three tough years of American history. My hot seats. The Dalai Lama. Yeah, he was being a creep, he was a little kid to suck his tongue.

Uh, I did the research, it wasn't a mistranslation, nothing got lost in translation, it was just as.

He's definitely asking dudes to suck his tongue in private. Oh yeah, that's not the first time that it's ever happened. He's been asking people to suck his tongue for years, yeah.

I just if the Dalai Lama asked me to suck his tongue, I probably would do it just because, like, what if you get? what if you get Nirvana? What is the Dalai lama? So the Dalai?

Yes, but there's those monks hank. This is crazy when when the Dalai Lama dies, they believe in reincarnation, so they have to go select a new Dalai.

It's kind of like, Uga, yeah, actually. They have to go select a new Dalai lama, and the way they do it is they get like a bunch of nominees. And then they, the other lamas, the other heads of this religion, and then they put these old artifacts that used to belong to the Dalai Lama in front of the kids.

And then the kid has to be like, Oh, I recognize this thing, and they're like, Oh, it's the reincarnation of the previous. That's probably exactly what they do with Uga.

I think that if.

Maybe one tongue, maybe we should just look into the.

Are you saying that, uh, someone who has, like, complete and in total power, uh, and basically never gets second guess, might be taking advantage of their power? I would never say that, okay, all right, never said that.

He also has a Notes app. His apology Yeah, that was sad, because that was like, Dude, I I thought that you'd think that the Dalai Lama has got something better than the Notes app, yeah.

But yeah, total creep move, weirdo. And he definitely does it in private. You don't, you don't all, you don't wake up at 86. And however many months he is, it'd be like, today's the day I'm going to see if someone wants to suck.

But, even honest, he never had a choice. If you're chosen as a Dalai Lama and you've achieved eternal life, you've achieved nirvana. You should have a piece of technology that's one step up from, like a relief pitcher that gets busted for domestic violence. Like. The Notes app should not be your go-to at that point.

When was?

No, were you like? No, were you like?

I listen, I know your playbook, I got you my cool Thrones. Gamers Uh, turns out a bunch of gamers, uh, hacked the Pentagon and got special files. Yeah, that feels not so like as a joke.

Yeah, it was like hackers, they got into an argument, saying, well, it was. First. They found out that, uh, either you either die a gamer, or you live long enough to become a hacker. I would imagine most hackers are true. Oh, for sure.

Yeah, basically, in a gaming discord, two gamers got into an argument about, uh, political issues. So one of them just hacked the Pentagon and got files that supported his side of the argument and leaked a ton of documents that now have been spread across the world. Respect, yeah.

And he won the argument, those.

Yeah, you always change the other person's mind when you.

He got up and finished the parade, but then got surgery. How heavy was that person?

That's so funny, so do you get it? Yeah, So are you going to redouble your blue check?

Okay, but like, you guys might have to do it, okay, all right, yeah.

Probably not.

I wanted to see, I wanted to see if the uh, like the engagements, did go down. So I did this experiment where I grew a sasquatch in a bucket of water. It was like, Well, you know, this figurine sounds very scientific. So, like I did day over day and looked at the engagement. For each post, similar post is just a picture of a thing growing in a bucket. And every time it grew like, people be like, Oh, look, progress.

And it, it was doing consistently through a couple of days, and then one day the engagement was terrible on it. And then eventually people were like, Okay, we get it. Billy's got a figurine in a bucket. But I kept growing.

If he takes it away and it's like, I need this for my job, I will buy it, but I'm not gonna. I'll play the chicken with them.

You guys don't have to worry about.

Yeah, I did that, like, three times you sold out, and then the last time they did it, you wanted the Verified Mentions tab.

The last time they did it to me, they forced the blue check mark on me, it's okay. And then we got an email asking us if people wanted to get verified, and you said, yes, I couldn't get rid of it, hank.

I tried so very hard. They mean nothing, though Instagram now Instagram used to be the Instagram was hard, like it took me a long time to get verified.

I tried to go through the proper channels.

Chicks Okay, well, goddammit, he just. I've been working on this story for two years and he just went and said it.

There's like an illusion to it, like.

Therefore, I did not come on my cat. yeah, never was near my cat. I also can post full length 10 ADP like graphic animal videos, okay?

That's probably where I was then. That actually is sick. Uh, okay, good hot seat.

Cool thrown everyone for 20, that's so funny.

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Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest. It is Adam Richmond. You may remember him from a man. Verse food. He is now on the History Channel and he has a bunch of new shows.

Yeah, watch the food that built America. uh, you have watched it. is it toys that built America as well?

It's called the greatest of all time, and Rebels that built America is coming up. That's awesome because I, I like I was reading.

And to, to, actually, like, have, be part of a show where, like, that's kind of gritty and real. And like, you see Dr. Kellogg giving his brother orders through the bathroom door while he's dropping a deuce. I was like, Hell, yes, this is real.

This is the real shit and like.

It saw that his dogs were kind of into it, made a biscuit, they couldn't give a shit. He molded it into the shape of a bone, and they almost took his fingers off, and that was the milk bone. But I think that the thing with, um, like the sporting goods episode, like, I didn't realize that fans used to think that players were kind of like pussies.

If they just, they wore gloves and they didn't catch the ball barehanded. So guys were buying work gloves, putting cotton wadding in them and painting them flesh tone with fingernails on it. So it looked like they were catching it. And I was like, you know, Scrooge edition hockey was traditionally played without helmets. Doesn't make it a good idea.

But I also love, and we were talking about your incredibly delicious coffee. Not paying to say it yet. No, I'm just kidding, I'm breaking stones, but the thing is, we were talking about the name and that's the thing I love this season.

We talk about chick-fil-a and Popeye's, and I never really knew the story. I never knew that chick-fil-a started as a menu item at Waffle House. Oh, I never knew that Popeye, actually, the uh, big al who created it. He actually got sued by, you know, the whole Mel Blank thing, and he said, No, no, no, no, no, it's about Popeye Doyle, the Gene Hackman character in French Connection.

What he's like, Yeah, that's it. Sydney with Curtis Candies babe Ruth tried to sue him for the candy bar. He's like, No, no, no.

Baby Ruth is about Grover Cleveland's baby daughter Ruth. Oh my god, that's genius and I didn't even know this. One of the cats by. And when I look, this is from this season. There's just the peanut butter episode is really, really, really good.

And not just for, like, single guys who have a dog. I'm saying that the Peanut Butter episode is actually really kind of enlightening. And that one of the dudes who built Peter Pan was screwed over by the government and by his partner, and he pivoted and created Skippy. And to this day, he has never paid the J.M. Barry Estate one freaking penny for the name Peter Pan.

And it wasn't like sanitarium, meaning like people losing their sanitary, but it was no, it was meant to be like a place to go for wellness. And he also had, like, his fixations against red meat masturbation, the whole thing. In fact, there's a movie called The Road to Wellville where Anthony Hopkins plays that kind of character. But anyway, he would make them do marches.

Anyway, the short version is this. His younger brother, the younger Kellogg, was the real innovator. And they would make this kind of mush, this sort of grain mush, like this, paste well. Some of it had been left on a roller overnight, and he cranked it in the morning when it was dry. And it made these flakes. And people loved it more. So, he said, Screw it, happy accident.

Let's keep making it. And people were loving it. Well. There was one executive named CW Post, whose company sent him there to, like, chill out and not be an angst ridden fuck. And can I say that?

Sorry, and I apologize to A and e network. I know how we do and no. And so CW Post stole the formula and he created Postum and there was this big race.

And actually, between the two Kellogg's, that's what created corn flakes. The K was actually from his signature Coca-cola. That's the accountant's signature, and it's. It's kind of wild when you see these like little tiny things like.

I never knew, like I never knew before doing this show. That Hydrox not only came out before the Oreo, but the name comes because they wanted to try to evoke purity, cause they had been fired from Nabisco. And these guys were like, screw you guys, and they wanted to evoke purity. So they took water, hydrogen, and oxygen became hydrox, and.

Yeah, right, but this?

He's about that life. Yeah, you don't want to talk.

Listen, we got. listen, we'll hop in with you. No, I'm on Kwame. No, no, kwame Brown is Hydrox. I'll be in there with you.

We'll go back to back.

With with corn flakes, I've.

Who's 16 year old son Kurt Russell played for the team. There's that that movie Battered Bastards of Baseball is about it. But this dude saw a bat boy chewing some like shredded black stuff, and he knew his mom. He's like, Todd, I'm going to break your arm.

What are you doing? your mama kick your ass or she knew you were chewing tobacco? He's like, No, no, no, no, no.

It's licorice, I shredded licorice, and that's where they had the idea about, they said, Why did you do that? He said. I want to feel like I'm in the big leagues. And then so this one guy, Rob Nelson, turns to Bob Nelson, whichever you call Nelly, turns to Jim.

Bout me, rest in peace. And for me, Yankee pitcher says, What about shredded chewing gum? what would you call it? He goes, I don't know, big league chew.

And they made the first batch in the kitchen of a lady named Candy Field. She's still alive, she still lives in Portland, and her son is Todd Field, who just directed Tar, the one from Cape Blanchett erected in the bedroom.

It's the crazy, all these stories about the food is nuts, so it's amazing.

Like Reagan said, you could advertise directly to children. And you have. Like this arms race between General Mills and Kellogg's, so suddenly General Mills does cheerios. Kellogg's has this crappy cereal called Okays, where the pieces are O's and K's. So the guy says, screw that.

William Lamoff says No more case, let's just do the O's and let's make them fruit flavored. He chooses the toucan. Ironically enough, a toucan has no sense of smell, but because of the colored loops, and what's crazy is fruit loops.

Don't take, don't have an individual taste. Your mind makes you think that the orange tastes like orange, yellow tastes like lemon or banana. No, that's not.

Yeah, they do, they're not any more scientific facts. They nerfed her.

Like, like the woman who ran Totino's right, she and her husband had, like, so many jobs. She busted her ass. She actually, this is a true story. She wanted a loan for a pizzeria.

No one in America knew what a pizza was. She had to make a pizza, bring it to the guy at the bank for him to try the pizza, to get the loan. That must've blown his mind, right, exactly.

Like, you know, like in that movie yesterday, like, imagine being the first fucking person to hear someone play, let it be like the first person to try pizza. So he naturally writes her alone, but people forget she was so poor during the depression. She used to hide and go back in her schoolyard after everyone left to find orange peels to eat. The little bit of pulp off of, that's how hungry she was. And she went on to become the very first executive in the entire history of. I believe it was, um, was either Pillsbury or General General Mills at that point and made millions of dollars on this.

In fact, everything, even the Gino's pizza roll, became like under the Totino's brand. And it's just this like, I guess I really love, like, the individual stories, like, Yeah, I didn't know that famous Amos discovered Simon and Garfunkel, or that he was an agent with William Morris. That he got his first, the first three people that cut him a check to open the first famous Amos store. At that sketchy end, the sketchy end of sunset, let the eastern end of sunset, where shit gets a little real. Um, yeah, it's like it was Helen Reddy, Marvin Gaye and everyone's favorite mixologist, Bill Cosby. Oh man.

That's crazy.

Oh, okay, yeah, because the eighties was such a shift. Remember we had reaganomics, so it was a switch of supply side economics. Tons of money floods the market first decade that has two, two parents working.

So you have latchkey kids able to let themselves in cocaine, you have an f okay, yeah, right.

Big shoulder pads Big shoulder pads.

Crazy hair, crazy hair, right? So then the other thing is, you have advertisers advertised directly to children. You now have a kind of modality that the kids can cook with. Like parents didn't want kids working with flame and knives and stuff, but a microwave. You put the damn thing in, you press a couple buttons.

So a latchkey. Kids suddenly had agency and could say, I want to eat this, I want to eat that. So the microwave technology changed it, and I feel that like the microwave dinner, as it has changed. Like as certain flavors, like back in the day, is like a little fat fucking Brooklyn.

My mom would buy Stouffer's lean cuisine because she was working a bunch of jobs and it was just easy, and she knew calorically. I wasn't really pummeling my body with garbage. But now you find all tortellini and and artichoke bottoms and you know, curries and all kinds of things. It's incredible and it's. But it's a direct correlation to where American tastes are at the time.

Like, Swanson only created the Turkey dinner, cause there was a surplus of Turkeys, he had too many.

He interviewed a guy who, uh, was a butcher, and he said that, like ham used to be the meat and then turkey just completely took over for him. Sometime in the last, like 20 years.

We come to find there was a Black man named John Young who lived on Jefferson, which was essentially the Black main street in Buffalo. He was doing a version of what people in D.C. know as mumbo sauce wing. So if you're going to compare, like, the hot wing is hot sour butter, whereas hot sour sweet is the mumbo sauce wing. And then, when racial violence gripped Buffalo, he and his family went to Tulsa and then Chicago. And then the Bellissimo's got the credit.

But what's even crazier is that wings were considered shit. wings were the thing you used for a soup, the thing is used for a sauce, right? No one wanted it. And then this simple thing made it this incredible bar snack.

And it never was a big thing. Like you were talking about that. Ham turkey substitution as we learn more things. You know, you know, when I grew up, people were eating veal, no one cared. Then suddenly this cruelty thing and our knowledge of veal changed, and then we wanted a different protein.

And I think, I don't know. I think what's also crazy is to see how we've been manipulated. Yeah, there's an episode about booze and we talk about the Moscow mule. And what's crazy is this guy is like, how in the fuck do we sell a Russian spirit to America in the middle of the Cold War?

And so he goes to a bar in Hollywood. The owner of the bar is making his own ginger beer. And he's also just started hanging out, dating, sleeping with this actress who's just inherited a copper mine and a copper fortune. So he says, Listen, let's make the drink with your ginger beer, your copper mugs, my vodka and a lime, and then we're going to make this thing.

And he was one of the first people to have one of those instamatic polaroids, so he would go to all the bars in Hollywood going. I'll give you a picture that you could take home to your wife if you try serving my drink.

It's crazy, like I read, that lobsters used to be peasant food a hundred percent. lobster was served to prisoners a hundred percent.

Why did that change? I forget the story behind it.

And that's exactly why they were considered poor people. Food like, I'm from Brooklyn. You drive over the Bell Parkway and you would see people fishing off the Bell Parkway and people would go, Oh, how ghetto, how gross, how whatever.

It's like, they're not paying for dinner tonight. How ghetto is that, right? But the thing was because it was so plentiful, and because it was understood to sort of be a bug of the ocean. No one cared about it once it became less available, and once other chefs started going, Oh, this is a really delicate, flavorful.

They gentrified bugs. Yeah, they gentrified bugs. You're not wrong. That's kind of the crazy thing.

And now it's a felony to rob someone's lobster pot. And there's a rule you have to make the door of a lobster pot biodegradable, so if a lobster goes into an abandoned pot. It's not like a death sentence. They can still get out, but it's this deeply beloved thing. But it's a really cool thing that you know that. And it's even wild when you begin to realize how. For example, Pepsi folded before World War II because Coke got the contract for sugar.

And it was only after the war that someone revitalized the Pepsico brand. Herman Lay said that potato chips were an essential thing, and he got the contract that a bunch of chip manufacturers went down. Hector Boyardee spelled B-o-i-a-r-d-e-e, who then, of course, changed it to Boyardee. He used his canning stuff to make rations for the U.S armed forces in World War II.

So you begin to see how the little historical things change. That's crazy, I mean, it's.

I actually got upset with you when you lost all that weight. I just want to get that out in the open. I did write a blog being like, Fuck Adam Richman, why'd he lose all this weight? You were supposed to be the guy that we all looked up to because you had the dream job.

So bygones be bygones on that, but yeah.

I just remember you took a cover photo. Well, no, I took a centerfold, but that wasn't why. So they have a thing in Manchester at Old Trafford, where Manchester United plays every two years, called Soccer Aid. And it's celebrities and former pros from England versus celebrities and former pros from the rest of the world. Playing soccer on the pitch, on television, and I played a whole bunch in my youth.

And so I dieted for two years with the sole goal of playing for soccer aid, so that was my goal. That wasn't about fat shaming or wasn't.

No, I know it wasn't. I was a stupid blogger. I was just like, you have the dream job, go back and eat.

Because I used to watch your show and be like, that looks like an awesome place.

Food Nation. When I had that kind of discipline, it made me aware a of how many calories those things were. But my cheat meals were built into my schedule, so I'd work out, I'd do a shake and then go to a place and have. Because I knew, basically, I would take a bite in three different focal lengths, they would do a two shot of me and the chef.

One where they would follow the burrito up from the plate, one where it's a wide shot of me biting the burrito and one of me doing it. And then jizzing and like, Oh, it's so good afterwards. So I knew that I had at least four bites. So generally speaking, if you're keeping a low diet, four or five bites of a mega King Kong burrito, you're good. So how did you get into that?

Was that your idea? I auditioned, Oh, you auditioned, and I never had done a food challenge before my final screen test.

I went to Yale for my drama degree and I got signed by agency. Totally, I mean, have you not heard the dorky ass facts of it spraying out totally totally?

Billy went to Williams, He.

That, like, made you answer there was no, like, I'm not sure you had to have a definitive answer about things, and I'm not kidding you. I did this reverse flow chart exercise and it came to.