John Elway, Mt Rushmore Of After School Snacks, Olympics Are Here And Team USA (Most Of Them) Played Their First Game

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On today's Pardon my take, we have an awesome, awesome, awesome interview with the legend himself, John Elway. I was teasing it on Twitter today PFT and I said that it was one of those interviews. That we don't do it very often, but I was legitimately starstruck. He's a legend, it's John Elway.

He was football.

He was part of some of the most iconic games plays, Super Bowls, college games ever. So, and we talked to every. He literally got the whole interview, he was cool with us, we even talked about Paxton Lynch, so awesome interview.

Oh, I thought he was going to join.

He's going to join us, Hank, you're not joining us yet.

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What a great weekend. It was back together weekend for the NFL.

It is back what I'm talking about now. I know that preseason doesn't matter anymore and I know the Hall of Fame game on Thursday. There will probably be no starters playing. But this is the beginning of the first week, where every single week, for the next 26 weeks, we will have football on our TV.

We're going to get to the kickoffs, see the kickoffs. No, it was Back Together weekend. I don't know if you saw that, but the NFL was making a real hard push to call this Back Together weekend.

Oh, Jim. Irsay came to a first practice. It's the first time being seen in public since December.

Yeah, it's good to see every team, you get all the little nuggets, most of them don't make any difference whatsoever. But you get to see, like a new quarterback making the easy pass to be like, Damn, that spiral looks tight.

Yeah, Daniel Jones missing the league, neighbors.

Missing the league neighbors, I saw that one, I saw one where he did complete a pass down the sideline to some league neighbors who only got one foot in. And he put that out as like, we got ourselves a weapon. Yeah, just the social media from the first weekend of the N.FL being back is awesome. Because every team you think that you're going to be like 10 wins, I can talk myself into 10 wins for any team, except for maybe not the Panthers.

Yes, football season baby Jayden Daniels looks good.

Jayden Daniels looks awesome. And then do you think we'll get to see any Caleb?

No, I don't think so, but it doesn't matter. It's about seeing on the TV the graphic, the kickoff, the helmets. Oh yeah, I'm going to watch maybe three minutes of it.

Oh, no, I'm going to watch a lot of it. And we're going to get to see probably a new score bug that we all get to complain about. Yeah, there's all sorts of cool stuff that goes in with starting a new league year. And, man, I feel like this was a long off season, but we're back, baby.

It did feel like the longest off season. We will also probably get to see a little Tyson Bajent, which will be awesome.

That'll be great, yeah.

He said that he was so locked in, he doesn't give a fuck about like, bringing in, you know, whether there was going to be someone who was brought in or not. As a competitive backup, he said, he's been grinding his absolute face off.

I love that he doesn't even know, I love that. We're also going to get for the first time this year in-game coach interviews, yeah.

Guys who don't want to be interviewed, being forced to interview, yeah.

What could go wrong? You want to see Jim Harbaugh talk on camera for five seconds a half? Yeah, that'll do it.

Yeah, this will do it, but yeah, football is back, Feels good to have football back now. This week, like we said, is a little bit of a different week. Hank's on vacation.

Tyrese Halliburton didn't get in, but I mean, no one expected him to get in. It's not like he's a top five player.

Yeah, so 10 of the 12 guys played their first game.

Steve Curry's a piece of shit, but that's really what this all boils down to. Jason Tatum did have a better plus minus than Joel Embiid. So yes, that's true.

Which Max is in Paris right now? And we have a video. We asked him to record. A video message addressing the fact that Joel Embiid was simply horrendous in this game. I think the stats were I have them right here, they were with Joel Embiid playing, they were minus eight.

And they were booing the shit out of him, too. The French fans don't like Joel Embiid because they offered him a passport back like two years ago. I think spurned him because they were like, we want to get Wimby, we want to get gay.

Wait, Gobert.

Gay, not gay, yeah, Gobert.

I was like, Is Rudy gay going to be?

Great and Toucan, Yeah, yeah, so I feel like France. They're pissed off at Joel Embiid, just like everybody else except for Philly fans are.

Okay, so, um, Derek White and Drew Holiday did play a lot and they played well. Uh, question for you, Hank? Um, does Jason Tatum do you think he took a shower after the game?

No.

Do you think he showered with the boys just to kind of feel some camaraderie?

No, probably not, yeah.

That's tough.

So you think they're going to. He's going to get heavy minutes in the second game.

Wait, are you saying Jason Tatum should at least be like a walk on scrub player?

They couldn't find time to put them in or whatever, which is just bullshit, just let them play. What Hank's saying is that the team did really, really well without Jason Tatum on the court.

Also, Kevin Durant was like, Out of this world good. He started the game eight for eight, could not miss, so you wanted Jason Tatum to play instead of him?

No, I just think when you have a guy again like he, he's, he's put in the time. He's an all NBA, you know, first team player the last two years, he just want to NBA Championship. I think you can find him a couple minutes, like, at least mix them in the rotation. It's pretty disrespectful not to, but it is what it is.

So you were saying, you, you would rather, you think that he should get the minutes of an N.B.A. finals MVP guy?

I'd never said that, but I got literally you just putting words in my mouth. I'd never, ever, once said that. But Kevin Durant played so well today, you can't take him out when he's shooting that well.

And he also is one of the NB.A. finals MVP.

I think Kevin Durant played phenomenally. Yeah, Kevin Durant's an all time player, yeah, and Kevin Durant has embraced the nickname.

And he, yeah, he was, he was incredible. Um, I mean, he does play well on super teams.

Yeah, it's true, it's a fact, it's true.

Uh, so hank any other, any other comments from vacation, cause this had to, you know, you're on vacation, you deserve your vacation. Um, to then see this happen, you're like, God damn it.

Yeah, I did listen to the podcast earlier, Prada's podcast, I got one minute in before I turn it off. So why? why? We say we were nice?

Wednesday start of a vacation.

They're all going to get together for the first time and I don't know how long. Do you mind if I take Wednesday off? Like, Yeah, absolutely no problem, do what you gotta do.

I mean, the lock would start their vacations on Wednesdays, yeah.

Do you not regretting going even earlier? Plan their vacation around the vacation you planned that you're not even taking? You should've gone earlier, hank, you should've taken two weeks, yeah.

Well, the good news is you are going to make it back next week for us to golf.

Which I didn't plan for the record.

Well, you did.

Well, I am planning it now, but you said it all up.

No, you said, Do you want to play golf? and I said, Sure.

Oh, on Friday, yeah, I thought you're talking about the crew week. Well, yeah, you, this is your you plan this vacation week, big cat.

I know and I had circumstances that made me not take a vacation, but I plan this vacation week.

Right? And then I was like, Hey, like, I know what you're playing this vacation week, my family's getting together. Do you mind? If I take one? They're like, Yeah, no problem.

And hopefully Jason Tatum plays at least a minute before you get back.

Yeah, I hope so. This is kind of like a big vacation for Jason Tatum.

Yeah, that's true. He's going over to France, get an all expensive, paid vacation to France.

His week has been the exact same as Max's, Yeah.

Probably down to how many crepes they've been eating. Yeah, yeah, okay, hank. Well, any other last words on Jason Tatum?

Yeah, love those guys, miss you guys. I miss you guys a lot.

Yeah, it was fun seeing you where you will be part of a Mount Rushmore. We taped those last week, so, uh you, you'll still hear from Hank. But we had to. We had at least check in on Oh and oh. You also turned it off, cause the aura conversation came back.

I didn't think I made it that far, yeah.

The aura came.

Well, I discussed it, and let's be honest, given what happened today, he lost a thousand aura. You can't. also you guys didn't think his aura is at all time lows, right? You can't see him on the bench, he was on the bench talking.

Don't wake the baby, um, thanks a father.

Uh, what's that? I have my niece and nephew. Oh wow, it's still just single uncle, uncle of two.

FACTS Uh, okay, well, Hank, thank you, and, uh, we'll see you in a few days.

Yeah, see you Friday. I'm looking forward to it, okay?

Yeah, for the golf.

Bye, hank, bye, hank bye.

Okay, that was, uh, Henry Lockwood, our good friend. uh, and yeah, Jason Tatum did look sad.

He looked very sad. And I like to just imagine Hank watching the game and being like, Okay, here's support my country. Jason's going to get in soon, yeah, and then the first quarter's over.

I mean, Derek White and Drew Holiday did play well, but it is Jason Tatum. I now that Hank is not on, I actually will back him, like, what the fuck is Steve Kerr doing?

It was a weird move.

Just put them in for five minutes, just so that you could. So it's not a story right now.

It's a very strange move and maybe he's going to go with a completely different rotation. In game two and have Tatum play like the entire time and have somebody else sit out for most of the game. Yeah, I don't know, I don't know what Steve Kerr's up to, but it would be awesome if Steve Kerr was just trying to fuck with the Celtics chemistry right now and just piss off their star player.

It was fun watching this team play because they're just so loaded, like watching LeBron throw alley-oops to Anthony Edwards is just fun, yeah.

And I loved LeBron was pissed off today too. Yeah, we got old school angry Lebron, which is nice to see. And yeah, made Jokic look human at times, although Jokic got whatever he wanted when he was posting up.

And he also is playing with, you know, I mean, there's. I think Jovich is on an NBA roster, but there's not like he's not playing with the guys that LeBron's playing.

It's not really fair you think Jokic is going to stop by the equestrian competition for a while. He's got to.

Let's check out some horses.

He's probably living with the horses, he's probably sleeping in the stables.

Memes was watching it today and he was like getting a little horny.

About the horses? No, the women. Okay, that's better than I thought, yeah.

Yeah, I found out, you could bet on it. It's called dressage. yeah, dressage.

Oh, that's where the horses do the they crip walk, yeah.

Um, either way, the Olympics have started. It was, uh, a wild opening ceremony that I think they've deleted from the internet, uh, because it was getting some backlash. It was weird.

The Olympics are, they're very strange about rights, though I know every year they will come at. They shut down Twitter accounts left and right for posting the highlights, yeah.

I'm saying, like, the actual Olympics, I think they, because the opening ceremonies were. It was basically, uh, watching a boat go by and then, uh, like a fever dream, uh episode, uh, or uh. Zoolander. That was what it was, there was. It was just like guys, guys and girls walking up and down a rain drenched runway. And then be like, Oh, and there is a Finland.

It was very strange. Uh, there was that one part where there was a lady that was holding her head. Yeah, and then she started singing, and then Gojira, the heavy metal band started absolutely rocking out, yeah.

And then the the blue guy, and then that was weird, Blue guy was weird. Then they had the horse in the river, uh, the white horse, that was kind of cool.

It was a balloon that went up in the area. They had Rafa Nadal carry the torch, yeah.

That was just very bizarre.

Maybe the most cuck behavior that I've ever seen to have one of your country's rivals as like a prominent figure. At the very end, it's like, wasn't Chicago supposed to get the Olympics?

Uh, we were in the running for these Olympics, thank God, we didn't get them.

Yeah, that would be like having Aaron Rodgers, yeah, or Miss O'Leary's cow gets to light the torch, yeah.

Very, very bizarre, I guess, I guess, because he is, like, always wins the French Open.

Yeah, that's it, that's it. Yeah, he's French national hero.

I guess he is kind of like, part of French history.

Yeah.

Just wins the French Open. I think that maybe that's what it was.

Like, Uh, Vietnam gets the Olympics, we're going to have Sylvester Stallone. Yeah, light the torch for his work in Rambo, yeah.

It's, uh, it was, it was. I enjoyed it, but it was also very bizarre at times. Then we also had the the picture of LeBron on the boat, which was sick.

That was a cool pic. Yeah, it looked like Washington crossing the Delaware. Yeah, just leading the leading the charge.

Well, it's also kind of sucks when you don't have enough athletes. You had to share the boat with, like, three other countries. Yeah, that's that was a little bit of a cock bait.

That's really rough, yeah.

Um, okay, what else? Uh, in the sports world? uh, we have. MLB trade deadline is this week.

Hot Stove Week.

Hot stove Week. The Yankees made a move, the Cubs made a move. We're not buyers.

The Mariners made a move.

Mariners made a move.

Uh, I feel like I feel like the Mariners could do something.

Yeah, they're, they've got good pitching, yeah, they're a good team. I mean, they, they've never done anything, but they're a good team.

They've got good pitching now, maybe they have some hitting.

Yeah, the Um the Cubs move was more was very much, uh, people are. Some people are upset because it looks like they're buyers. They got Paratus from the Rays, who is under contract for three years. So I kind of like it because it's not, it's not a rental, it's not a rent.

Yeah.

Um, so uh, but yeah, there's we got we got who jazz is on the Yankees now, Jazz Chisholm.

Jazz Chisholm Yeah, I'm familiar with his game.

I just saw a bunch of Yankees fans being like, he doesn't solve a lot of problems, but his name is really cool.

Yeah, there was that.

And that is true.

Yeah, I there was that great. Um, do you see that catch in the outfield? That wasn't in the Red Sox Yankees game this weekend? No, the dude jumped into the stands, caught the ball.

That is wild. Have the Mets done anything? Uh, memes. The Mets trade for Jesse Winker, Okay?

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, awesome, Riley pimped one.

Yeah.

And I think the uh oh Max had his moment where, uh, he thought he was getting Mike Trout, which was fun. Yeah, if. Phillies Jeff Passan tweeted that the Phillies traded like their top two prospects. UH, to the Angels for help. And it was, I think, just a picture they got.

Yeah, it's Mike Trout. I don't know if he would want to play in Philly. I think he'd want he likes football season too much.

I think he'd, I think he'd be like, great. I've been wearing a Phillies jersey underneath my Angels jersey every game.

So I think I think he loves Philadelphia, but there's probably something nice to him about just not having to worry about expectations at all.

Yeah, yeah, I know what's going to happen by the way. Uh, the Cubs just getting any name, new name in the trade deadline. Even though it's not a rental, I'm going to convince myself, like, Oh, they might get hot.

I mean, you just get into the get into the playoffs and then weird shit happens in the playoffs, yeah.

Um, we, I forgot to say, we, so. Embiid was the other story from the basketball game. And we had Max send us a video, cause he's in Europe. Uh, we didn't want him to zoom in. It's like four in the morning there, but we asked Max to please address the fact that Embiid sucks, so here's Max.

All right, I'm here in Paris.

Okay, so, uh, it's not really a long term, it's two weeks, uh, but the this is one of those times PFt where I realized, Uh, it just pays to be us and such tremendous losers. Because we're making Hank and uh, Max answer for their players. Hank has three players from his team on the on on the court, but we're making them answer for for their players. Sucking.

In front of our teams and so I, I pointed out, I made a meme.

Actually, Josh Giddey was really awesome, uh, for Australia.

I was, I made a meme earlier and it was the, Uh, the drake. When he was wearing the UK, the Kentucky outfit, and people said, Bro thinks he's on the team, it was Jason Tatum just on the sidelines, wearing Team USA, he thinks he's on the team. Somebody responded to me and they said, Can you even name your top five wizards in franchise history?

We can't let them ever figure out that they could fight against us.

No.

Because once that day happens, it's like, if they unionize against us, we're fucked.

Yeah, but we. But they also naturally hate each other, yeah.

They hate each other. And and I mean, it's one of those things that when we. If you just put us in the arena with either of them in a debate, it just it falls apart very quickly for them.

So, uh, there was one other thing about the Olympics that I wanted to make note of, and that was, Do you see the Bob the cap catch? guy? Awesome, Okay, so Bob the cap catcher? Um, one of the swimmers lost her swim cap.

Why?

Should we stay woke on Bob, the cap catcher?

Do you think it was just a viral moment that they were trying to get?

A viral moment planted. Or maybe he's, maybe he's like working for a an advertising firm, and he's like a mascot of some company. Are they trying to? are they trying to incept us into viral moments?

Do they name dudes Bob in France?

That's a that's a great point.

I think it would just be Robert.

It'd be Robert.

Yeah, yeah, there's no way there's anyone in France that's a French national, that's Bob.

No, no, it's Robert. yeah, it would be Robert. And they would never dream of shortening it to Rob. And they had the fucking minions in the opening ceremony doing advertising work for Disney.

Oh, by the way, Peyton Manning just being on the opening ceremony, that was weird. Yeah, I was just watching. It was like, Is that Peyton Manning's voice?

I don't want to share my my football players with the rest of the world. No, they don't get to know about all the cool stuff that we watch that they don't get to watch.

I do like the fact the Olympics, though, because there's so many sports, they really have to stretch it thin on announcers. So you had Peyton Manning? I think Kelly Clarkson was on it. Dwayne Wade did the USA game today, Dwayne Wade.

That part was really bad.

He did one good, he has one good line and he's like, I'm just going to fucking keep doing it.

I feel like I feel like they'll get better, they did an okay job.

No, I thought, as on in totality was fine. It's more that, like you could tell, he's, he's trying to do catchphrases on every moment. It's like, just it's fine, we're good.

Yeah.

And and Noah Eagle, like, I don't know how his voice sounds like. He's been doing it for 50 years, but it's it's insane.

Yeah, it's a big game. Voice, yeah, and then Mike, Mike Tirico was doing the opening ceremonies. That, to me, that feels like that would be a very hard thing to announce.

And Peyton Manning and Kelly Clarkson sitting on either side of you.

Yeah, they they bring out the weirdest celebrities for the Olympics. Yeah, it's really strange how they go. The people with, like, the the highest Q scores that were super popular 10 years ago.

It is so, um, yeah, that's your Olympics. We'll talk about more Olympics as the Games progress. I think we've we already won a gold medal, right?

Yeah, we got a gold.

Got a golden, the 100 meter, yeah. Dressel recurring guest.

That's right, yeah, so great dude. So was he the guy that we got into the debate with over whether the pool was blue or the water?

I believe so.

Would we figure out about that?

I don't think we got a answer to it. We gotta, we gotta restart that. Uh, oh, here's the medals race, okay?

U.S.A.

Oh, we have three golds, How? where? where'd we get all our golds? Did we dominate the Summer Olympics? It's a fucking joke. Was nice to try so hard.

Swimming events.

I think it was swimming, I think we won. oh, we won. Fence. We want a golden fencing. Shout out, Joc.

Yeah, that was, that was tough to watch. That's bad. Did you see the Taiwanese diver that landed on his back? No.

I got to see that, that's the other thing is, like, you said, the they don't let you share highlights, yeah, so it's like you can't really see anything.

I think that the that U s women's rugby could win the gold medal. Because they've got Alona Mayor, who? She had two all time truck stick runs. She's like, like a lady Rob Gronkowski, That's awesome. Um, I think it was like, I think it was a top play on Sports Center tonight, but she's fucking awesome. She's a tank running people over.

Olympics are fun, Olympics are fun, free sports, all right, wait.

The guy who just like, smashed his back, yeah, yeah.

That was awesome, that was sick.

And then South Sudan won in basketball. Shout out Lou, all day, all day.

He's got that program going the right direction. We got to play him on Tuesday. Um, okay, uh, anything else sports wise?

After school snacks, yeah.

After school snacks, which was very funny. Pft your who's back of the week?

My who's back of the week is Spygate? Oh, but this time it's Canadian. Oh, the Canadian women's soccer team has sent their coach home.

So they're out.

No, they're not out.

But six points is they're going to be out.

They won their first two games.

Oh, so, they're back to zero.

So if they win their third game, I think they qualify for the next round. Wow, they have to win all three. But their coach, it was against New Zealand, so New Zealand is practicing. And the coach hears. Like a whir in the background, he looks up in the sky.

Wow.

So they got caught, but then now they're on a fuck you tour and they're beating everybody. So if they win their next game, I'm pretty sure they automatically qualify for the next one.

So this is a dumb question. What do you spy on for soccer?

Just formations, I guess.

They're running fast down the field and let them pass to that person.

This person, It looks like they're really, really hurt. Oh, no wait, they just got up, they're fine.

I guess they're set pieces.

Yeah, you could spy, probably on set pieces and just formations, that's probably all you get got it, and they've been doing this going back years. But it was funny because you could look at where. They were alleged to have used the drone and then the result of the game, and they were getting their ass kicked with the drone.

Wasn't working.

That much for them, but they still were trying to drone, they were getting their Obama on. I kind of like that, if you're not cheating, you're not trying.

And it's also like, I don't know, soccer drones just do it.

Yeah, I mean, I am in favor of trying to get an edge wherever you can, yeah.

That's very brazen.

Yeah.

It's like, here's a drone over your practice.

I hope they don't see it, yeah.

Okay, my who's back of the week is Urban Meyer? Urban Meyer's back. I just saw that he has an update to his brew house, Urban Meyer's Brew House.

No.

Oh.

Triple X No.

Okay, it's called El Lager.

El.

El lager no e-l oh, el lager.

¿El lager.

That's great, that's great, I love it. That sounds like what Budweiser would put on with their can of beers, like the N.B.A. does during Hispanic Heritage Month.

Yeah, exactly. El lager.

Yeah.

But here's the kicker Pft.

Don't say kicker around urban.

Yeah, that's true. He took a picture from with, I guess, his co-owner, some gentleman at his brew house where they sell El Lager. He's wearing the exact same polo as the famous knight and you can't see where his right hand is. So Urban Meyer might just be putting his fingers up Buttholes again.

Urban Meyer is probably a swinger. Yeah, you remember when he was on that boat, right? and he was doing an interview.

Oh yeah.

That shirtless guy who just walked around in the background, yeah.

You can't see where his right hand is. And he's taking a picture with four gentlemen, and the gentleman to his right has the biggest smile of anyone in the picture.

He's getting goose, yeah.

And I don't think that's just the El Lager talking.

Where is his brew house?

I think it's in Columbus.

I might have to stop by.

The lager.

I'm going to be in Columbus on Friday. Yeah, you should do it, I'm going to do a little fact-finding tour.

Just do an el lager review.

I'll do a beer review of El Lager.

I just love it. It's like the laziest name you could come up with.

EL Also the fact that you're calling it EL is just red meat for Michigan fans. Oh yeah.

Huey, you're who's back of the week? My who's back? Swimming rivalries? Oh, I feel like we haven't had a good swimming rivalry since Michael Phelps days and Ryan Lochte.

Yeah, the torpedo.

Yeah, Ian Torpedo or Ian Thorpe? yeah. So now Katie Ledecky is having a couple rivalries that have just beat her in the 400 meter. Ariane Titmus It's like crispus, but for tits.

Which seems like a long time.

Yeah, it's not nothing, it's not nothing now. Katie Ledecky is still favored in the 800 meter, but at a minus 400, and favored in the 1500 meter at a minus 3500. But you know, three seconds is three seconds, that could be another 100 meters.

I'm just gonna say I am a fan of Ariane Titmus.

TITMUS Yeah, the Aussie, I got a take I'll throw out there about swimming. Michael Phelps ruined swimming for me personally.

Why?

Because he was so goddamn dominant. That in it happened so recently that I'm watching swimming and I'm like, Well, Phelps would have beaten all these guys.

Yeah, is he. Do they do the line where it's like, here's where Phelps would have been.

They should, because it's like, you know what, I mean, it's, it's. We saw it so recently. Him just dominate everyone every single year, year after year. And then to watch it. Now. They're still incredible athletes. But it's like Michael Phelps is in the studio right now. Like, he probably could get in the pool and beat all of you right this second, if you wanted to.

If he had grown up in this era, yeah, with this technology, do you have any?

I think it needs to be there, just needs to be more time, or someone needs to start breaking Phelps record. For me to feel like, Oh wow, this is incredible. We're watching because every time I just watch, maybe there have been records broken of his, but I just watch it. I'm like Phelps would have fucking killed him.

Do we have any, any good Olympic controversies? It feels like every time there's, there's like a summer Olympic Games. There's a controversy about like, a new suit somebody's wearing, or about, like, a new a new bike helmet. No. And then they go back and they're like, Do these records even count?

Yeah, I don't, I don't know. Yeah, there's a springy track.

Yeah, the springy track.

I learned one the other day. That's pretty fun in the Tour de France. There's a thing called sticky bottles. Have you ever heard this?

No.

So this is like a big cheating thing. There was a guy basically is as angry as the Tour de France can get, that's what it was, he confronted a competitor and said, Sticky, you sticky, bottled that. It's when the car passes a bottle to the guy who's biking, and the guy who's biking holds on to the bottle. For like, an extra beat and gets driven by the car because the guy, that's.

Taking the water back correct is pulling him in the car.

They'll pass the bottle out like this and they'll grab it and basically use the push.

Off.

That's smart, yeah. Sticky bottles, I don't know, it's just a fun controversy I learned about.

Can you draft the car? Can you accidentally swerve in front of the car and let it hit you lightly from behind? I don't think you can do that.

But I would sticky bottle the fuck out of the Tour de France.

Yeah, that's just a good idea. I don't blame the cyclists at all, at least they're not using steroids anymore.

The best part about the confrontation that I watched, it wasn't in English, but I saw someone explained it. One guy was like, you sticky bottled, and then the other guy was being accused, like, where do you think I learned it? basically being like, you're the sticky bottle master?

Yeah, it takes one to know one. Yeah, I saw you do it first. Yeah, I do love cyclist fights too, yeah.

Yeah, it doesn't work.

It's not really a fight.

They're in the realm of athletes that as soon as they get in a fight, they just start to try to kick.

Yeah, and you know that that's just you do, like, yeah, like a flying leg kick, because then, you know, at least the fight's over. After you do that, because somebody will jump on you on the ground and cover you up, yeah, all right.

Good job Huey memes, you got a huge who's back, sure, yeah.

When was Robert Downey Jr?

I do know the time frame because I know how many bears. Playoff 2006 Yeah, it was after they've won one game.

Not since he's been iron man.

Okay, okay, got it. So that's a funny little wrinkle there.

Did Marvel just trick America into doing Greek mythology? Pretty much, because I feel like this is our version of Greek mythology, right? Like, 2,000 years from now, there'll be a society and they're going to unearth all these old Marvel movies and be like, this is what Americans believed in. They thought that there was a giant dude that snapped its fingers.

And then Ant-man will be like, the weird question, no one gets right.

Yeah.

I just love that there's an ant-man. They made a movie. Paul Rudd, right?

Yeah, didn't he fly up some dude's butt and explode?

The minute I saw Ant-man, I was like, this has gone too far, all right?

So I can see fifth graders in, like the year 4,000, studying Marvel and being like, this is what Americans believe. Yeah, this is what they were up to.

I actually might start because we talked about on that Mount Rushmore, things we hadn't seen. I've never seen a Marvel movie, I might start with Ant-man.

Just go from there, go to Ant-man.

All right, so back to Dr. Doom original Dr. Doom got in trouble.

Oh, it's like twin brothers, so he still is Iron, man.

Yes, pretty much.

Who is Dr. Doom?

Dr. Doom Is he related to Big Justice, The Doom and Boom guys? No, afraid not, he is the bad guy in Fantastic Four.

Okay, so what does he do?

No relation to the Rizzler, no relation, okay?

Does he have any powers?

He's just a badass made out of metal.

Okay, people are excited about this, right?

Yeah, people are pumped.

I'm excited about this too, can't wait.

Because they scrapped everything and then they brought back Robert Downey Jr. The Russo brothers are directing it. Who directed the last two Avengers? Everything's been bad up until this point. Wait, it's gone bad. Yeah, this last phase of Marvel has been very bad.

Well, did they run out of source material? Are they still using the comic books?

They're kind of using the comic books, but they dove into the multiverse, which has just gotten very confusing. And now they're trying to bring it all back and save it.

Got it okay? I can't wait for Dr. Doom. I'm fucking jazzed.

Dr. Doom Slash Tony Stark Okay, thanks, meme.

I'm excited for people to watch it and then be pissed off about it because I thought it would be good and then it's not good. Yeah, I want people to be mad.

I want people to complain about the casting of a movie.

That's the best I'm excited to see. People pissed off walking out of movie theaters. Being like that was not a realistic portrayal of Dr. Doom.

Yeah, isn't there a Bob Dylan biopic coming out? People are pissed about that one.

Who's playing him?

That's why people are pissed.

Wait, who would be the person that would piss off the most people playing Robert Pattinson?

No, it's one of the new guys, the new Timothy Chalamet.

Okay, yeah.

This is pop culture with PMT.

We got our finger on the pulse, baby.

I need my kids to start fucking watching shit that they can actually help me be cool again.

Like, Marvel stuff. Yeah, yeah, it's too confusing for me. it's way too confusing.

We should have Robbie just make us a big chart. If I could see a chart, I think it would help. But there's been so many movies.

There's a timeline of movies when they came out. I also need to-.

We should sneak attack everyone and just go into a bunker and watch every single one and then just come out and just start. Heavy, heavy drops of like, you know, oh, it's like this time in this movie.

Yeah.

You're like, what the fuck just happened?

I've been doing that for the last three episodes. I've been dropping Godfather quotes. Yeah, yeah, I still haven't seen it, but I've been looking up the quotes.

Yeah, okay, let's get to our interview with John Elway.

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Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very special guest. It is our Chill Week interviews presented by Coors Light and Chevy Silverado. It is N.FL Hall of Famer John Elway, living legend. I got to tell you this, John, just to start. We've been doing this for eight years now.

No, I'm still looking out from these same eyes as I did my whole life. So no, I think that I was happy to be able to play as long as I played and very, very fortunate. But no, I'm still looking out the same eyes. And so enjoying life and glad to be here with you guys.

I think what big cats get at, too, and at least for me, is growing up. When I fell in love with football, you were football. You were a huge part of the NFL. And so those formative years where we fell in love with the game. That was John Elway, I was watching John Elway comebacks.

The children of the 90s.

Fortunately, that's a long time ago, but it was a lot of fun. While I played. I played in a great era. Danny Marino, Jim Kelly, Warren Moon, all those guys. It was Joe Montana, so we had a bevy of great quarterbacks back then.

Have you ever thought about today's day and age in the NFL? Guys are passing for such insane numbers. What your numbers would have looked like if you were...?

It would have been crazy. Not only that, I look at how they get protected now, they get protected a heck of a lot more now than we did back when we played. So I think I'd enjoy that even probably more than the money, and maybe played a little bit longer. The game has just kept growing and growing.

Yeah, so PFT mentioned us falling in love with football in the 90s. When did you fall in love with football? I know you're a son of a coach, so you were around it your whole life, but when was the first moment where you were? Like? This is the sport I love because obviously we'll talk about it.

You know, when I was younger.

Really, yeah, I'm sure you were great at that, too.

I could shoot, but I slowed down fast. And then, you know, baseball was a big part of that too, and so then dad got fired. At Washington State, we moved down to Southern California, and in the San Fernando Valley, I went to Granada Hills High School.

Started slinging. I read a very funny story that in your ninth grade year, when you showed up for the first day of practice. Your dad in the car said, What position are you going to play? And you said, running back? And he was like, you're not as fast as you used to be, which is an insane thing to say to a 13-year-old.

Well, we were in an old Chevy Impala and we pulled up. That's exactly what he said. What position are you going out for? And I said, running back and the car went into park.

I mean, it's just, I guess that speaks to your relationship with your dad. The honesty was there that he could be like, you're not that fast anymore, yeah.

How fast were you at 12? Yeah.

Well, I could, you know, when I was younger, I was faster than everybody, but then everybody caught up, right? Especially when you start growing, you know, they start catching up to you, so, you know. And he had a good feel for it and I respected him so much.