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And it was an awesome interview, it was great catching up with Baker. We're so, so happy for everything that's transpired in the past year.

Talk UFOS with him. Yeah, that short week that he had going out to L.A.

It was an awesome interview and great to have him back on the show. We're going to do the Mount Rushmore of video Games in honor of EA Sports, college football being back today, which we will talk about some more. We have a lot to recap. There were some Euros, there was some Wimbledon.

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Anti-assassination.

That's us.

That's the type of take you get on this program that you don't get on your first takes. You don't get that on your get-ups. I would get that on your Ryan Russillo shows.

I'd like to see Greeny come out and be 100 anti-assassination.

Oh, no, Greeny will never do that. No, Greeny will never in a million years. It's too controversial for him.

Way too controversial. Yeah, that was crazy. We don't really talk about the political world. But when there's an assassination attempt on a former president who's currently running for president, we have to come out and say that we are very much against assassination.

Pretty wild one turn of the head, and that's all it took, missed by inches.

Also a hell of a picture by Trump. To stand up like that. The thought in the moment being like, this is going to rock.

Did you see some of the pictures that have the bullet actually going by the back of his head? It is crazy.

It's nuts and yeah, crazy times we live in, we are an escape from those crazy times. But we had to say anti-assassination, I noticed one person in this room has not come out and said anti-assassination.

We, as a podcast, are anti-assassination. Okay, all right, I am anti-assassination.

So you are hank personally.

I am personally, and as a podcast, I am.

I didn't know that the podcast was going to be anti, I knew that I was going to be already. It sounds like Hank just kind of followed suit when he heard that we were anti-assassination.

I am anti-assassination, there we go, max memes, anti-assassination.

Chalk it up.

That is a consensus, boys. I think that's the only consensus we ever had on this podcast.

Also just goes to show you, Nick Castellanos, tremendous timing.

I mean, memes are you like? your meme just lives forever. He hit a home run and he also hit his 45th and 47th RBIS yesterday.

Incredible, maybe the funniest guy in baseball.

Memes.

I thought it died down there for a little bit and thought it was over, but he just keeps coming back now. He did hit it before the assassination attempt. But I still think Nick Castellanos anytime he homers, you just got to look over your shoulder.

On high alert. Yeah, I regret drafting him onto my Dingers only team. It feels like it's just every time. Every time something good happens for me, something bad's about to happen to somebody else.

Poor Richard Simmons as well passed away. And no one. I mean, we all thought he might have been dead for years, and then when he did die, he's like, I'll just, you know, a random Saturday in July, No?

It stinks to have your own death overshadowed by somebody else almost dying.

Yeah, instantly.

Instantly, instantly, I found out that Richard Simmons died because Trump almost got assassinated.

Yeah, because you're looking at, like, the four of you, yeah. I also found out that Ben Simmons is still alive.

Because he was probably also a traitor. Live look at the shooter.

Yes, the For You page on Twitter was popping off there. I think there was one headline that was like, From NBA star to Trump rally prankster, here's what Klay Thompson's up to. Now. It's just like, okay.

And we're going to settle this at the Battlebot. That's what Biden said tonight.

The Battlebot.

We're going to settle this at the Battlebots.

Okay, so.

By the way, that show rocked.

We also should probably do, I think we've done like Manliest moves Mount Rushmore. But in terms of most badass things, surviving an assassination attempt is 1-1..

It's definitely up there, for sure. And I always wonder, at what point do you reach assassination status? Plenty of people get killed, plenty of people get murdered or attempted murdered, but at some point, then you can be assassinated.

I think it's political, right?

If Hank were to die, would that be a murder or an assassination?

Murder?

Well, maybe an assassination. We're anti it, so there you go, Hank, Yeah, we have your back.

I think you guys would be suspects one and two.

Uh, yeah, the call the boyfriend kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, you're probably right.

Does anybody here have a middle name that they include in their main name? Because, if so, that's target number one.

Actually, Christopher Max Delente, Christopher Maxwell. Yeah, yeah, that's an assassin name. We'll just have really strong alibis, yeah.

That's rock solid.

Yeah, we don't know what happened. Uh, okay, let's talk some sports. Jalen Brunson Wind Horse meme What's going on in New York?

Kermis.

Yeah, one one right now, I mean, that is the most like the HE. He obviously still has to win a championship to, like, take it all the way. But just in terms of the path and what his last year looked like. And then doing this, I don't know what's going on. Maybe it's his father who? Rick, who is an assistant coach, is going to be the highest paid assistant coach in the N.BA.

That'd be very funny if there was a New York based name image likeness collective that got together for the Knicks. And so it's like, yeah, don't pay them as much, because you know what we're going to do. We're going to have him just be a spokesperson for MetLife.

Yeah.

Married to a supermodel?

I don't, I not think he's married to a supermodel, it's it. I have no choice but to take it at face value. I know there's conspiracy theorists and everyone's going to run around saying he's getting that money somewhere else. Pretty much the coolest move you can do.

So he, he got paid about 58, what he, what he could have gotten paid. He just waited until next off season.

How is the? How are they going to allow this? I think someone, someone is definitely petitioning C.J. McCollum right now and being like, this is not allowed.

It's probably, it's probably his agent.

Yeah, sir, please let's talk about this. please someone do this.

Maybe they're going to take that money that they saved and give it to Jay Wright, which would be a repayment on the loan that Jay Wright paid Jalen Brunson to go to Villanova.

Also, not a bad idea. Yeah, I this is. This is shocking though, like when you guys saw this, were you not like, cause guys take hometown discounts? He took half.

Well, there's another element. Maybe he thought to himself, I don't know if I can play for another season under Tibbs Watch. So, by signing early, he removes the chance of getting injured, not getting that next contract.

It's crazy. Does it make you nervous? Uh, Hank Max No, oh, that was, uh, that was, you just threw that.

It's the Knicks and it's Nova.

Okay.

What is it? Two things I'll never be worried about.

Nova won two national championships, that's true.

So, but that didn't worry Hank, he wasn't worried, yeah.

I don't know why he included. He included Nova in that to try and piss me off even though they won two national championships. Are you like, what the hell is going on, Max? Yeah, I don't understand it at all, I don't understand it at all.

It is crazy that a superstar NBA player is turning down that much money. That doesn't happen.

Hall of Fame guy.

It only happens with guys at the end of their career if they want to go somewhere to make it happen. Ring chasing I guess he's ring chasing at home.

Also, LeBron did.

Also the $3 million, yeah, $3 million.

Under the apron, second apron.

But yeah, he could have sent a $270 million contract next summer.

I feel like this all comes back to the fact that maybe James Dolan is just not around a lot anymore. Because if Jalen Brunson knew James Dolan better, he'd probably be like, Fuck that I want all his money, right? Yeah, cause like this, like, you can't be like, Oh, I'm going to, I'm going to do you a solid James.

I just think he did it because he might be afraid of getting hurt next year, yeah.

I don't know, I mean, it's it's an all time team guy move. And there is obviously people like, Well, you could have enough money, Uh, there's definitely that limit. But still, you're an N.B.A. basketball player in the prime of your career, and you don't know if you'll ever make that type of money. Ever again, you, no one passes that up.

It's also New York, no one does, it's also New York. You're going to need that extra, like $30 million, yeah.

Tom Brady did because he had Giselle.

Who's Jalen Brunson Dating?

That's what I'm trying to think. It's like a high school sweetheart.

Oh, he's former high school, got got it okay for a second, when you let off with high school, you made it sound like, Yeah, it may sound weird.

I also don't know if that's a hundred percent true. Okay, well, we'll go with it. We're not a fact show. Um, so, yeah, that was. That was the biggest story to me this weekend.

Yeah, it's not coming home.

Not coming home.

Never going to come home. It left, it, walked out the door. Yeah, empty nest syndrome, it's not coming back.

England soccer is just it's gotta be brutal to root for, yeah.

I would think so Gareth Southgate can't win the big one.

It just it felt like they were the team of destiny this year. Well, the way they were winning, yep, and just like they weren't the best team, but they were just finding ways to win games. And then, uh, Spain just said the late, that was like the 86 minute.

They kind of they, they ran out of luck where it was like their their game plan. This whole tournament was, uh, just kind of sleepwalk. After the opening whistle, get scored on and then play really hard and equalize the game, then hope that you can win an extra time. Or at the end, or maybe in PKS.

Yeah.

And then Spain was the best team. And Yamal is now 17 years old.

Oh, he turned 17 today.

He turned 17, like two days ago. Oh shit, which sounds a lot less impressive that a 17 year old won the won the Euros, yeah.

They should have hurried that up.

Yeah, they should have.

A 16 year old got to the final.

16 year old got to the final and then the 17 year old took over and said, I'll take your little boy, yeah.

He's got it, uh, and then the the Copa, which is going on right now, um, another sign of we'll never win a soccer tournament. Because the fans climbing through like the air ducts, uh, basically trampling and ruining the escalator in Miami, those fans that those are real soccer fans.

We don't know what's going to happen after the game's over because there are thousands more fans in the stands than there are actual seats.

Yeah.

So who knows, apparently what was happening is. People were just going to the seats and then the tickets were like $1,500, $2,000 to get in, so people that had tickets were going to their seats. The seats are occupied and then security can't do shit about it to kick the people out, so people are just losing seats, losing money. Real, you know what? This is a real black eye on the Miami dolphins.

Yeah.

The fact that this has never happened at a Dolphins game. But they're not, they're not used to having such passionate fans show up early.

That's true, they need to start charging the gates. Yeah, it was. The game was delayed, like an hour and a half. That's real, that's real soccer fandom.

I want that, and now I want the German butt fingers guy, that low guy, the guy that would stick his hands in his armpits and smell them, that real freak.

I'm in.

Why not? Because it seems like everybody else they're talking to is just the same iteration of Greg. Yeah, just Greg, under a different name, where it's a guy that just kisses a U..S soccer federation's ass.

Jesse Marsh doesn't want the job.

Nah, because he's smart. This is why we need to kidnap somebody and force them to be their head coach.

We're hiring Burr Halter back. That would rock.

At this point, I'm, I'm in like, fuck it, bring him back. Third time's a charm, yeah.

Hank Oh you, you look like you want to say something about soccer.

Well, no, yeah, not really at all about soccer. But this is an extremely regional complaint or concern, because this is only happening to people in Chicago. But they've had this weather tornado. Oh yeah, full screen for the entire game.

We got a tornado warning.

Means it's got to be bad.

You got to worry about the tornado. tornadoes don't hit cities, though. That's good, like big cities. I think it's something about, like the wind or something in the buildings stopping it.

Yeah, all right, let's see. Yeah, because you would think that a tornado would hit like Dallas, Oklahoma City at some point.

Hit big cities Okay, tornadoes do not hit big cities. false tornadoes can hit anywhere at any time.

I guess we just haven't had a massive one.

Yeah, I completely made it up.

Okay, yeah, I made a list.

Oh, yeah, F3 tornado hit the bank one tower in Fort Worth in 2000. 80 of the 35 stories windows were destroyed. Okay, so I did make that up 100, that was something I just told myself to make myself feel better.

I did put together a list of my top five preferred u.

Okay, let me hear it.

And it's for Project 2026.

Yeah, absolutely.

Because what we need is we need passion out of our players. I think Dan Campbell will figure soccer out and then number five is anybody except Alexi Loves.

I think that's fair as well.

I think we can make that happen.

I like that as well. Here's why I thought this.

Maybe Dan Hurley.

Dan Hurley would be great, he said, that he'd be a better football coach than basketball coach.

You think so?

No, he said that.

Let him do both.

He said that he thinks he was born to be a football coach, which he could do.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

Well, Spain happened today.

Spain did happen.

Spanish Sunday, we had Alcatraz Yep won Wimbledon, crushed Djokovic.

He's 16 years younger.

Yeah, still crushed him, though.

I think he was a straight set. I just pretended that match didn't happen.

And then Spain won, and also Sergio Garcia, yeah, won the live event.

Just threw himself in there.

Yeah, Sergio, what was his tweet today? He was like, We have the opportunity to make this the biggest sports day ever for Spain now that I've won.

After yesterday, if the soccer team wins tonight, it'll be one of the biggest days in Spanish sports history.

He's the dragon meme. Like Spain winning the Euros, Alcaraz winning Wimbledon, and then Sergio looking all goofy, being like live event wherever it was.

Yeah, the big three, yeah, triple crown.

They did it. Who would have thought Spain would do that?

I do feel bad for British sports fans, though. I love the fact that you can set your watch to certain things in sports. Yeah, you can count on certain heartbreak and misery. But it looks sad when the shirtless hooligans are walking out of the stadium holding their heads in shame after they gave so many great chants to the Germans.

They're the Buffalo bills.

They are.

They are. It's sad, but it's the truth, right?

Is there a pit in England?

I don't know I am watching this one video of this guy. He's traveling the River Thames from source to sea, every day, he updates it.

Is he on a boat?

He started walking and now he's on a kayak. He's a really cool guy. Yeah, he probably is. He got fraud alert, though, because he was like, I'm not leaving the river. And then day three, he's like, Thank you so much to the people who let me stay at their house today.

If you do that, you got to either be in a canoe the entire time or you have to walk the entire time.

Yeah, well, he's like one of those chipper English guys that's just very happy, who probably doesn't even watch soccer. That's why he's got a completely different personality than all the other English guys. But yeah, I don't know, I somehow got that in my algorithm.

In a box, in a box, in a box, Lizzie's in a box, in a box. You remember when we delayed our kickoff for NFL Week one because Queen Elizabeth died? That was disgusting, that was cool.

That was nuts and we should never have to do that, we should never, ever have to do that. Uh, okay, what else we got in the sports world?

All-star break Christian Yellich not competing in the home run derby.

I'm nervous about this because I texted him asking him, and he was like, he said, let's just call him real quick. Because I'm nervous that he's going to somehow compete in the home run Derby. He's got to say that he's not going to do it ever, is he. Do we have a Dingers only update for All-star Break?

Uh, I am in second to last place, I'm beating Jerry by two. Oh nice, I don't know, I don't know who's ahead of us.

If he doesn't pick up, we'll just cut this.

I can, I can confirm I'm not competing in this year's home run derby.

Okay, I allow the future, though. Yeah, so what, why are you not competing this year?

I just felt like you've had a tough year so far, I would give you a break.

Okay, all right, so. But but then you, you are. You are making a pledge right now to compete at some point in the future in the home run derby.

That's the plan.

I think that'd be a good goal to have, don't you think?

Uh, no, I think that's a terrible goal. You're not getting younger, dude.

I'm not so it's going to have to happen ASAP, I think.

Okay.

Hey Christian PFT commenter here from part of my take, you'll have to tape on the podcast. Can you confirm the sources that are saying that you were scared to compete in this year's home run Derby?

Well, there's some big J journalism out here.

Yeah, are you scared?

Are you afraid of home runs?

No, I think I like. I said, you guys have had a tough year and I felt it was only right to give you all a break. And we are, you are right about the age thing. I think we're gonna have to get it done in the near future. Uh, when we do it, not if we do it, but when we do it.

I don't like that. Um, happy birthday by the way. Uh, you're 37 years old tomorrow? I think so, okay.

Yeah, yeah, I'll just be watching the Derby tomorrow, but I'll just be, uh, I'll be thinking of you guys the whole time.

You're 100 not competing, correct?

A hundred percent not this year.

All right, I'm still nervous that he's going to be like, ha ha, just kidding, I'm competing.

Hey Christian, were you upset when nobody took you in the Dingers only draft?

Yeah, were you upset about the Dingers only draft?

You know, I didn't see the Dingers only draft, but I heard about the Dingers only draft.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's going to be another reason why we're going to compete in the Derby at some point.

All right, okay, all right. well, Christian. Have fun at the All-star break. you're having a great year.

Uh, let's hope not.

Yeah, that'd be a shame.

I'll probably, I'll probably see y'all in Chicago here in a few weeks.

Okay, we can, we can hash it out, then perfect.

Perfect don't ruin your swag.

All right, see ya, all right.

Thank God.

Okay, that's good, confirmed. Not because I was still nervous that there was like one slot open and he was going to just slide in. But he really thinks he's going to do it at some point.

I don't think so, I think I think that one year, the year after we made that bet, that was the danger year for us. Where he got hurt right before the the home run derby, Yeah, that would have been really bad, yeah.

You were thinking about waxing, I was thinking about wiping.

No waxing and wiping, okay, showering.

I won't wipe, uh, okay, any other sports stories before we do Who's back?

Uh, Marty fish won the American, our guy Marty fish, our guy Awl Marty. He might be listening to this.

Dude, Marty Fish, we got to get him on.

He might be, he already listened.

He already listened to it. Marty Fish We have to get him on Legend, we met him in Tahoe.

Marty's out for maybe four hours, yeah.

He is a true awl. Marty's been ride or die with us for a long time, so very cool to see him win. He's a great golfer, great.

Yeah, and we had, uh, who who came, uh, dealing who we had on came close. Joe Pavelski Badger was second, A-Rod was second to last.

Yeah, I think he was last, I think Alex Rodriguez finished in dead last.

I think Blake, Blake Griffin did pretty well. Josh Allen's a good golfer.

He got good, he's much better than he was at the match.

Yeah, all those guys, too. It's funny.

Oh, no, Messi's crying. Oh no.

Oh, he's out. Did he get hurt?

This tornado warning he's worried about.

Yeah, it looked like a hamstring that's not good for Messi.

Who hurt Messi?

I think he just ran.

This is a bad day for my uh.

All your goats are dying.

Hamas took him out.

Hamas took him out, okay.

That's how Hank pronounces Hummus, Hames, James.

Oh, you're actually talking about a real person, Yeah, got it?

LeBron Hamas.

There's a player on on, uh, Columbia.

Jaime.

No, you're thinking of that guy in England that's going from the river to the sea.

They said his name on the broadcast.

Jaime Rodriguez.

Hummus.

Hummus, it's hummus, Rodriguez.

Hummus Rodriguez This is a cool way to say, James.

Hank pronounces it Hamas.

LeBron Hummus Yeah, is it James? Yeah, spelled James.

I heard the announcer say.

No, it's spelled James. Oh, it is.

Yeah.

Hamas.

LeBron Hamas.

Um, okay, let's do Who's back? and then we have a great Mount Rushmore. Uh, for everyone, the Uh, who's back? The week is brought to you by our friends at Coors Light.

Um, my who's back of the week is Petty Wars? Oh, the so Angel Reese, uh, had a double double streak going. She was at 15 and then today she was playing the Liberty last. And in the game before, I think she had like four rebounds in the last two minutes. Kind of, kind of stat pad and a little stat padding.

No easy buckets, petty wars, yeah. And she kind of outed herself as a broke girl. Because she was talking about all the guys that keep asking her to fly them out for games, and she's like, I'm not flying any guys out for games.

The, uh, the stat padding is crazy. Angel Reese is a good basketball player. I'm a Chicago Sky fan. Uh, it is insane that anyone thinks that Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese are on the same level in playing basketball. Angel Reese is so much better.

Yeah, she wouldn't have to add.

Caitlin Clark is so much better than Angel Reese.

She got another, she got another 20 and 10 game.

It's crazy.

Now the rumor out there is that Diana Taurasi is going to have to back out of the Olympics. And then Caitlin Clark would be the next person brought in.

Okay.

Fly her out there.

That would be cool.

They're going to fly Caitlin Clark out.

That would be cool, have they decided who's going to be? Is it Derek White, officially?

Yeah, okay, he's there.

Yeah, all right. When do they start? Was it two weeks Olympics?

I think it's in, yeah, end of July, I want to say July 26 is opening ceremony.

I saw, I saw Jokic versus Wemby was was yesterday or the day before, and just it's so funny watching like Jokic looks like a like. He's six feet tall.

Yeah, I'm going to say right now I will not. I'm not okay with just a gold medal. I want domination, I want utter domination. I'm going to put it, I'm going to put it out there.

I want to see domination like the original Dream team. That's the status where you don't use a timeout at all, yeah.

I want, I want to see that type of down, by the way. So, uh, the dingers only, which we briefly touched on, uh, actually, maxes in last place. Oh, with 12..

Wow.

Uh, Brandon's got 24, I have 20, Hank has 16, Jerry has 15, Pft 14.

Okay.

That's tough, okay, Max, long season.

What if you drafted Trey Turner, though?

I would have been doing much better. I was planning on drafting Trey Turner until Gunnar Henderson fell to me. What about if you drafted, uh, Christian Yelich or Schwarber? Yeah, I don't know.

You hate your boys.

Bad math, Okay, uh, Pft, or Who's back?

My Who's Back the Week? is also Olympic related. Um, break dancing is back. Yeah, did you guys know that break dancing is a sport?

I think it was in the last Olympics, too.

I don't think so, I think this is the first time. Oh really, yeah, I think this is the the uh, inaugural season for break dancing at the Olympics.

I could see some some other country being nasty.

No, no, we can't. We can't lose break dancing, we need. we need a clean sweep and break dance. I can't wait to see how it's judged, how it's scored, what kind of music they're allowed to use.

Yeah.

I'm on, Are they B boys? is that what they call them?

These guys just flop all, like every two seconds, there's just breaks in the action, these guys are dead and then they hop right up.

Come on, Hank, have some passion for soccer. No, it's the best. Yeah, no, they do. Oh, that was a real no. that was a No.

It was great earlier, too, cause Messi got fouled when he was in the box. And then he, like, he rolled out of bounds, and then he realized he was out of bounds and then rolled three times to get back in bounds. Because that way they had to stop the play, yeah, they had to bring the trainers out onto the pitch.

I do what you gotta do, that's gamesmanship.

Yeah.

Uh, anyone else I would have called a foul.

Yeah, Hank, do you have any comment about break dancing?

I don't know that the U s is a is a favorite.

No, dude, I feel like Japan might sneaky be nice. Um, I don't know. There's some other countries that probably are really good at break dance.

Italy.

Yeah, isn't there? No, that's. There's like a subculture in Japan that has, like, they all look like, um, like 1950s, uh, like the Greasers, like Fonzie. Oh yeah, that's not break dancing, but no, that's swing dance.

It's like a gap commercial.

That's in the break dancing.

I could see, uh, I can see South American countries being good, really, Asia, all of Asia, I think, could. Could put up a fight in break dancing, but we have to. Or those, uh, those Russian dancers, the ones that, like, bend their knees and get real low, those is could probably break dance.

You know, break dancing is called b-boying.

Yeah, that's what I thought, that's what it was. They're like, B boys.

B boys are doing it.

Are they B girls, B women?

Yeah, B women, for sure, there's gotta be female break dancing as well. Um, okay.

Korea, Netherlands, Japan, Britain, France, Russia, Ukraine, USA.

We can't lose to England.

I feel like Japan's going to be hot Ukraine, I might bet on Japan if there's odds.

You think Ukraine's got it like that?

Yeah, they might, they might. Um, okay, my who's back? I have two.

He almost beat the shit out of a reporter.

So the the uh, a chief reporter, a Kansas City reporter, basically asked if the Chiefs have a good enough wide receiver, uh court to win a Super Bowl. Which innocuous question, but could be trolling Jerry Rice was basically like, you want to start something like, I'll fucking I'm about this and challenge him to a fight. And then afterwards, said told the question was like, but he was clearly trolling. I love this from Jerry Rice because a guy going that ride or die with your franchise so far after you played is so awesome.

That's the best goal, Argentina.

Offsides, Argentina Offsides should be taken out of sight, there should be no offsides.

No, I do like that. Why was Jerry? Why does Jerry Rice have a rivalry with the Chiefs?

They've beaten him twice in the Super Bowl.

Was it about that, or was it about going back to, like, his playing days?

No, I think they beat him twice in the Super Bowl, like that's, he's so ride or die niner gang, like, I fucking love that.

I respect that. Then, yeah, I do. And I gained a lot of respect for Jerry Rice this week because I found that he was. He was staying at Margaritaville. Yeah, he was with the boys. Which dude likes to get after it?

Margaritaville rocks. My other who's back is the ESPys. I had no idea they happened.

Yeah, it was fun.

The highlights I saw were Serena Williams making fun of Harrison Bucker and Drake, and then Lamar Jackson winning play of the year. For his past to himself. In the second quarter of a game, he lost. Yeah, it's a home favorite.

That was funny. What were the other nominees for Play of the year? Was it just a bad year of plays?

Drew Tranquil's uh tackle on Lamar Jackson was a better play in that, in that play, or how about Sneed's forced fumble? Yeah, that those were better plays in that game.

Yeah, it was, uh, it was a very underwhelming, uh, play to win play of the year. But stay woke. That's probably how ESPN gets people talking about the ESPYs.

True, yeah. Also we had Steve Gleason, who's a hero. love. Steve Gleason has been battling ALS for a long time.

It's crazy. The one thing that the ESPYs are great for every year is when I know they're on. I don't watch them, but what I do is I go to YouTube and I watch Norm McDonald's introductory roast that he did at the ESPys. They definitely, and that's awesome.

That was that was not the normal time of the ESPys. They they like. They slipped it in on a Thursday when no one was expecting it.

I think that's what they do every year. I think you never expect it.

But yeah, the play of the year, that was quite something. Um, speaking of which? The take ease cause ESPN has decided we used to run the Take Ease opposite of the ESPYs. Uh, we are going to run the Take ease the last week of July, so get ready.

Awl is being your best behavior.

That will be when we run the take ease and you guys are up for eight time.

Yeah.

Eight time.

Nine 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 Nine Nine Pete.

I suck at math, I hate it. Why is it so hard to count years?

Cause you have to count the first one, cause we did it year one, that's true.

Nine times.

Yeah, there was no year zero.

We've been doing that, what are we gonna do for a decade?

Live show.

No, that's great.

With the Blakes.

No, fucking, no way.

Yeah, you're crazy live show, you're crazy hank, fuck that.

What about when? When this show is old enough to drive? That's going to be crazy, think about that.

Yeah.

Okay, any other who's backs? There's some good who's backs boys. Uh, let's do our Mount Rushmore.

Jordan Addison's back.

Oh, yeah, did he.

Dui Apparently, he was parked like in the in the left lane of a highway next to Lax.

O.OF.

And so he, this is the same Jordan Addison that I think was driving 140 miles an hour last year. Oof, and so this time, make up your mind. California Highway Patrol Do you want your guy driving 140 miles an hour or zero miles per hour?

Dang, you should get a Jordan Addison jersey.

Uh, we're about to find out how many DUis or how many times drunk driving Kevin O'Connell has under his belt. Why is that? To see what the suspension is like for him.

Yeah, that's true.

If he's thousands of times.

The, uh, by the way, we have. I believe the bears are the first two bears playing in the Hall of Fame game. I should know this, um, the bit. The bears are are reporting to camp today.

That's crazy.

So we're football is so, so close to being back. Uh, they are playing the box, Texans, that's right, Texans.

I don't know, not Arian.

Yeah, uh, okay.

That was mean, that was mean, I'm sorry.

That was mean.

Let's Andre Johnson.

Andre Johnson.

Is he? he's going in? yeah?

Oh, there you go. Uh, by the way, we should actually mention a couple sad losses. We lost Jacoby Jones. Yeah, that was very sad.

They set Tampa to defense. Architect Monty Kiffin. Uh. Jacoby Jones also had that iconic play where Mike Tomlin tried to trip him on the sidelines, where he accidentally stepped on the field on purpose.

Yeah, really sad. I think it was 40, I just gave that look, cause I didn't, I didn't know that.

It was a tough week.

I know, Uh, okay.

We're, you know what? Nah, I was about to say something crazy. Should we just be an anti-death podcast?

Well, we have the Still Alive Person of the Year award, which we just gave Jimmy Carter another three weeks.

Yeah, Jimmy Carter's never going to die.

He's never going to die, what he just doesn't wake up some days, that's totally different than that.

Yeah.

All right, let's do our Mount Rushmore before we get to Baker Mayfield. It's brought to you by our friends at Better Help. Part of my take is sponsored by Better Help. Comparison is a thief of joy, and it's easy to envy other people's lives.

I've got some, yeah.

I've got a couple.

I got two, I brought two of them to the plate.

I brought four, but two of them are really bad.

Hank, How many do you have? one? Max? you got two memes. how many do you have?

Memes has got one.

Memes has one all right. How do we want to start this?

Can't watch a single NBA game or highlight until January 1st.

Can't watch highlights?

How do you please the Highlights or Sports podcast?

I don't like that either. It was because of Bulls and it's going to be taking, it is going to be bad basketball, yeah, but you literally cannot see a second of NBA until January 1st.

I don't like that one.

Okay, all right, we'll keep working. Was that one of your good ones or your bad? That was one of my bad ones. Okay, good.

I have a bad one and a good one, my bad one. You have to be locked in a dog crate for 12 hours.

Oh my god, that's bad on Mitt Romney's car, yeah.

And then driven around town.

Okay, I had coach seat middle for the rest of the for the for an entire year, every time we take a trip.

That'd be bad.

That'd be really bad.

Bad, but for the viewers.

Yeah, yeah, there's really no. That was my other bad one. I have two, two, two ones that are good for the viewers. One is almost impossible.