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00:00 Intro
03:30 RIP Hul Hogan
08:00 We Are Outside The Top 100
20:00 Justin Fields Injured
35:40 Mt Rushmore Of Things You’d Like To Be Severed For
01:08:00 Scottie Scheffler
01:41:00 Fyre Fest

Hulk Hogan has passed away and our childhood’s are over. We talk about just missing Times 100 most influential podcast list and invite The Tennis Podcast on. Training Camo has begun and Justin Fields got carted off. LeBron is suing anyone that says he’s pregnant and more. Mt Rushmore of things we want to be severed for. Scottie Scheffler joins us off his Open Championship win to talk golf, life, Happy Gilmore 2, and we break some big news. We then finish with Fyre Fest of the week

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I would understand. [Music] I would understand insane over you know. You’re the first to find way too loud. You’re a burst of light with a burial shroud. I want you. Something’s wrong. [Music] Everyone put the past away. I wish you would step back from that ledge, my friend. This is good. Cut ties with all the lies you’ve been living in. And if you do not want to see me again, I would understand. I would understand. That’s how I feel. That song would rock for you, Hank. That song would rock. Hank, you do it with me. No, that’s me. Pifty right now. Yeah, that’s I could tell Hank was really feeling down about himself. On today’s part of my take, we have our good friend, recurring guest, Scotty Sheffller, fresh off his Open Championship win. Awesome time talking with him. also broke some news with him. Uh we have the Mount Rushmore of things you’d like to be severed for. Hank, let’s say the gloves are now off. The gloves are now off for the Mount Rushmore season. Uh we have uh Firefest. We’re going to talk a little training camps. We we taped a little out of order today, so you get instant reaction from memes after the Justin Fields injury at the end of the show, but we’ll also talk about what happened uh and the dust settling uh at the beginning of the show. Hulk Hogan has passed away and uh we’re going to send you off on the weekend and guess what? Next week is grit week. So get ready because Monday we will be on the road for grit week and part of my take is brought to you by DraftKings. Nothing says summer like long days, clutch plays, and firing off a few bets on the game. All with DraftKings Sportsbook, as the season heats up, so do the bats. And DraftKings Sportsbook has you covered with live betting, home run props, odds boosts, and more. Whether you’re chasing dingers or jumping in Midame, there’s always action to be had. Never bet on baseball before, it’s easy. 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Let’s start with Hulk. Hulk Hogan has passed away. 71 years old. Uh, I think that PFT today, July 25th, uh, 2025, my childhood is officially over. Yeah. I mean, he was the 1980s, he was the 1990s. You could make the argument that Hulk Hogan might have been the most American thing. Yeah. And I mean that in every sense of the word. Yeah. And also like Mount Rushmore of entertainers and Yeah. Listen, we’ll we’ll say it right now. Hulk Hogan, significantly better uh professional wrestler than person. Great wrestler. Great wrestler. Uh but yeah, it was uh my childhood’s done. I It It took 40 years. I’m no longer a child. I can now be charged with uh as an adult in the court of law. That that all just happened today. Starting right now. Yeah. Uh I I went back and I looked at some of his best moments. You know, whenever somebody passes away, it does like the the silver lining to it is sometimes you go back and you watch videos that make you happy and and you remember uh some of the cool stuff that they did. Uh when he choked out Richard Beller on live television, that was awesome. Yes. That was one of the best live TV moments, I think, in the history of the medium. Uh the body slam on Andre the Giant, his match against Yokozuna. His heel turn. His heel turn. Most iconic heel turn ever. You remember when he showed up in that cave, that like weird cave of doom and then he he like touched the water and he shook his hand. He’s like, “Ah, the water’s not hot.” Yeah. That’s just just incredible television. Uh he was wrestling and he he kind of transcended the sport. He made the WWF WWE what it is today. So yeah, Mount Rushmore of wrestlers for sure. Yeah, Mount Rushmore of wrestlers. Uh and these things come in threes. We lost uh a Cos a member of the the fictional Cosby family. We lost uh Azie Osborne and Al Hulk Hogan. So Aussie Osborne, another great American. Yeah, another great American. Andrew Yang said that. Yeah. By the way, I do think uh our esports correspondent Darren Revel is starting to maybe learn from his mistakes because Hulk Hogan passed and he actually had a couple funny fun tidbits on his Twitter. Uh unlike when Azie Osborne passed, I think he might have deleted one of the tweets. He uh talked about Aussie Osborne’s famous uh take me out to the ball game at Wrigley in 2003 and then followed up with yes, I do have the ticket stub. And everyone was like, so you just made his death about you. I think he deleted it. Hulk Hogan, he did, you know, he has a lot of Hulk Hogan memorabilia. I think Darren probably has like Bubba Bubba the Love sponges fitted sheets. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. He has he has a a bill from the sushi restaurant he ate at that night. Yeah. Yeah. Uh but yeah, Hulk Hogan has passed. Uh childhood over. 71’s actually pretty old for a wrestler. I feel like dog years that’s like 200. Yeah. I I honestly thought he might have been even a little bit older than that. But I I wonder if they’re going to continue to make the movie about Hulk Hogan and Gawker because Ben Affleck was going to be playing Hulk Hogan. I just want to see what that looks like. Yeah, you don’t even have to release the entire movie. Just give me some pictures of like, you know, some of the screen test that they did for it. I want to see how how Affleck’s able to pull that off. Yeah, I think they’ll definitely still make it. Uh, did we check to see if Bam Marger did he had the chance to to maybe mo make the most viral tweet of all time because if you remember Hulk Hogan uh it was a few years ago, many years ago uh said, “Damn, Bam, I wish you were still with us. I sure would love to hang out again, my brother. Love you. Miss you.” And it’s a picture of him and Bam Margera. And then Bam Marger said, “I’m alive, brother, but miss you, too.” Yeah, he could reverse it right now. I think he mistook him for Ryan Dunn. I think that’s that was definitely what happened. But yeah, Hulk Hogan’s dead. It sucks. Yeah, it’s tough. It’s a uh I mean, yeah, great wrestler. Great wrestler. Great wrestler. Great wrestler. Top top like uh Yeah, maybe top American export. The world knew who Hulk Hogan was. Yeah. Eat your vitamins. Eat your vitamins. Say your prayers, brother. Yeah. And I I think that like we’re probably dating ourselves, but the uh wrestling buddies, the the the pillows. Yeah. Set. Yeah. That Hulk Hogan was a big part of that. Uh okay. Yeah. All this probably We probably don’t even have anyone listening right now because we’re not a top 100 podcast. Hey, Zach. What’s up? Keep looking at me. You’re nervous. I was just I was paying attention while you were speaking. That was all. Okay. Yeah. PFT is sick. Uh and so Zach and Hank is out. And so Zach is sitting in PFT’s chair. How’ that might this might be the key to getting us to the top 100. Yeah. Like if this episode had come out last week and Zach’s in the chair and I’m not that I feel like we got to be above Pablo Tori finds out. Heartthrob City. But what we’re referring to is uh Time magazine uh famously named Hitler man of the year in 1939. uh that Time magazine released their top or best podcasts of all time. Top 100. Now, let me just say it to start this. Uh we don’t actually care about these [ __ ] lists, but it is funny because did I expect to be on it? Probably. Uh but it’s fun to have fun with it when we’re not on it. They also left off Joe Rogan, which makes it even better. Uh and we got beat out. We got beat out. We got to tip our hat because Men and Blazers, who we know those guys, we like those guys. is the Kelsey brothers. We know those guys. Like those guys. Pablo Tori, we we know Pablo. We like Pablo. Uh and then the Tennis Podcast, which is just a juggernaut. The Tennis Podcast beat us up. I went into this uh thinking I was going to be mad when I saw the list of of shows that they put above us. And I I like you, Big Cat. I I actually don’t care because lists are lists are made for like one of two reasons. One, just to jack to jack off your friends. The second reason would be to get people mad about the list. Um, but in this case, I saw the list of sports podcasts that were ranked ahead of us and they nailed it. Yeah. Like time absolutely nailed it. The tennis podcast is a juggernaut. We try to dip our toes into the tennis scene. U but we’re casuals. But yeah, you said it. I mean, you think of other the other all-time greats that Time magazine has put up there. Hitler Stalin was man of the year, too. Henry Kissinger, another all-time man of the year. Ayatollah Kamini, he was up there. So, I mean, if we’re getting left off this list, uh I guess I guess Misery loves company. So, more sports podcast did not make this list than made it. We have a lot of people with us that are saying nice things about us, which I appreciate. Yes. Um but yeah, you said it like Joe Rogan not on the list. Kind of crazy. Uh, no. Bill Burr on the list. Yeah. And say what you want about Dan Bonino, but the man literally podcasted his way into becoming the deputy director of the FBI. Yep. Adam Corolla like started podcasting basically. Like pretty crazy. Yeah. Talk to her. And uh but but we should say we got beat out by you know better shows like there was there’s a recap show of the Gilmore Girls that came out 20 years ago. That’s Gilmore guys. Yeah. That’s an important thing. I I was I the tennis podcast makes it so funny and no no shade at them. We actually invited them on. They declined uh cuz we wanted to get some tips on how to become a good podcast. But I think that if it were just Men in Blazers, the Kelsey’s Pabatory and Bill Simmons, I would have been like maybe a little mad. The Tennis podcast made it so [ __ ] funny. It made it so funny. And I know that I do feel a little bad that the uh they had to protect their tweets. I’m not going to apologize for our fans cuz I love our fans and and they ride or die, but uh and they just went ninetime a AWL right in the tennis podcast face, but it just makes it so funny. The tennis podcast beat us out. If you were to make a list of the hundred best podcast listeners of all time, the AWLs are number one. Easy. Number one. And we would fight if you weren’t on that list. Easy. If we made a list, what about the 100 best podcast guests of all time? Who would you have on that list? I’ve got my one one. Um, Blake Griffin. This was a bad idea when we did this last. Yeah, but we could just say No, no, no. I’m I’m talking about across all genres. Oh, not our podcast. The best podcast guest of all time. Oh, I think when uh the Milk Boys interviewed Benjamin Netanyahu, that was a bad BB. BB’s got to be the number one podcast guest of all time. Uh, my one two would be Cat Williams. Yes. Yes, I would agree with that. I would agree with that. We are so B Chrysler for a while was a professional podcast guest podcaster. He was the uh so our go we we alluded to it last show. Our ghostriter uh for our book is here. Been a great week. We actually have a pretty good plan. Less I actually said I felt bad. I said to Matt uh cuz PFT you’re out today. Uh after we met this morning I was like this isn’t that hard. Like I feel good about it. And he was like well yeah I have to write it. I was like yeah yeah you’re right. We’re going to do a lot of the writing, too. But, uh, he he did come up with the idea instantly, and we will include, uh, top 100 magazines of all time in in in the book. So, Matt, you want to give us just a couple that are top 100 magazines? Oh, yeah. We we have a bunch bunch of real good ones here. Um, we have Girls and Corpses, Linux Magazine, Ranger Rick, and Practical Sheep, Goats, and Alpacas. All real magazines, and all better than Time. So I’m just going to Those are good. Yeah. So we Rick is an all time. It is like not including Joe Rogan on the list influential podcast. That would be like if you made a list of the hundred greatest genres of film of all time and you didn’t include porn. Yeah. Yeah. It’s nuts. Joe Rogan is the biggest podcast in the world and he’s like he’s in the news all the time and think about how many careers he’s started. It’s [ __ ] nuts. Wait, what was that? Practical sheeps and alpalcas. Practical sheep, goats, and alpacas. And uh PFT, just to give you a call back to Croquet. Um number 20 on our list right now is Croquet Gazette. Oo. Oh, I love that. Yeah, I know. We’re going to order a whole stack of them. Yeah. So, we will have more of a mallet times man myself, but the Gazette’s pretty good. We will have our top 100 magazines of all time in the book. But the book is going well. We we we sat with Matt for a long time uh this week and we have some really funny stories that we retold. And again, we’re going to write a good portion of the book, too, which we do have to do PFT. Um, yeah, we’re ready to do it. We also I I’ll just say it because we I was going to say it after PFT, but we uh when I was meeting with Matt this morning because I do think that this book we’re dumb and books are dumb, reading’s dumb. So, I think we need to just be transparent throughout the entire process because people will like hearing about the process going along and they’ll be like, “Oh, this is what you were working on.” Uh, so PFT we were originally going to do like year by year. I think we’re gonna, and you could tell me if I’m wrong or this is stupid. I think we’re going to cut we’re going to do it in quarters. We’re going to make it a football game. Oh, I like that. First quarter, second quarter. Yeah. But but but different drives. Yeah. Well, no. And then in between quarters, we’ll write our stuff and and give people like we’re basically the commercial timeouts. But here here’s the one thing that concerns me about that. Yeah. What if we go to overtime? It it overtime is in play. We’re [ __ ] And then just sudden death like with just one chapter and then we’re done in overtime. Yeah. Well, no. And also also if it’s cut into fours like I like my books with the shortest chapters possible. Makes you feel No, no, no. It’s not it’s not the first quarter is not going to be one full chapter. The first quarter is going to have many chapters. It’s just a way for us to uh be like, “Hey, here’s here’s the first quarter of the podcast history.” Right. So the the prologue will be like the fly over national anthem. Yep. And then we’ll have halftime we’ll have Red Panda. Yeah. At halftime. Yes. Yes. Oh, we should get we should interview Red Panda. Matt Panda. You gonna we’re also just gonna have a bunch of pregame and postgame analysis. That’s other people writing the book, right? And I also like that we went from 10 chapters to four quarters. That makes my job a lot easier. Seems easier. Yeah. Even though there’s going to be way more chapters. It’s more palatable that way. Yeah. It’s uh also Yeah. And as the fourth quarter dwindles, the font gets bigger and bigger and bigger as we’re running the clock out. Yeah, the stakes get higher, so the font’s got to get bigger. Uh PFD, I also uh we haven’t made the decision yet, but I think you’ll be with me on this cuz like we’re writing a book. The last thing we want to do is have to write another book or update the book. So, we’re just going to go 10 more years of pard. Someone’s going to die. But we will write that part of the book, too. Are we going to look into the future? Yeah, we’re going to look in the future so that we never have to [ __ ] write a book again. I I I think episode one of the show, I forget if it was you who said it or or or me, but we said that this podcast will go until one of us develops a debilitating drug habit. Yeah. So, that may be how we finish the uh the story, but I don’t like the last thing I want is for this book to be successful and be like, “Hey guys, can you do an update like 5 years from now?” It’s like, “No, bro. We did the update. It’s right there.” I just want to say congratulations to us for not developing drug habits yet. We we use drugs the exact perfect amount on this show. Yeah. Well, let’s just hope. Well, no. I want I want I was gonna say I want Josh Allen to keep winning MVPs. Yes. But if he wins if he wins like the next five, we could be in trouble. But he can’t win multiple MVPs in a year. That’s true. That’s true. What are you going to say, Max? I was just I was just leaning forward. Okay. I might get on testosterone. We’ll talk about that later, but I I’m thinking about that. So, we It’s It’s The injuries are starting to mount up. Uh we should talk about the big news of today. Uh, memes. You ready? I’m ready. All right. Chuck-e-Cheese got arrested. Mhm. And he kept his hat on. [ __ ] good. He kept the mascot head on. Hat tip to him. Yeah. Like they they were probably going to fire him when he gets led out of there in handcuffs. But the fact that he kept the mascot head on, you’re not going to find a better replacement than that. That is the that’s the best worker for your brand. that that guy did so much not just for the kids that were in there that might have been scarred by seeing the mascot get arrested and also removing his hat. Uh it it did a lot of good for those kids to not have to deal with that. But also just like the brand impressions that it did for your company. Those pictures of Chuck-E-Cheese and handcuffs probably translated to millions of dollars in equity for the Chuck-E-Cheese brand. So um that’s the employee of the month right there. Yeah. I don’t know if this makes me a good or bad parent, but like I cannot wait to get home to show my kids this video and just be like, “Look at this. Never meet your heroes. Chuck-E-Cheese is in the in the clink. He’s he’s being thrown away right now.” Well, I actually, you know what? I might just save it for the next time they’re like, “Hey, can we please go to Chuck-E-Cheese?” It’s like, can’t. He’s in jail. You want to be associated with uh Did you know that the E and Chuck-e-Cheese stands for entertainment? I did. The mouse The mouse’s middle name is Entertainment. So, his name is Charles Entertainment Cheese. I I have spent a lot of time in Chuck-E-Cheese in the last couple years. Uh which is a place I didn’t think I’d ever go back to because I didn’t think as a kid it would last this long, but it is. It’s still going. There’s still the best air hockey tables and maybe the worst ball pits. Yeah. Ball pits. And then there’s just a lot of games and you just you just can’t get a lot of tickets. Like I tried I played so many games the other day when I was there for a birthday party and now that I’m saying this out loud, I’m just going to stop the story. Uh uh go a You know what? That actually I can say that because my childhood didn’t end till today. Yeah, I was still a kid when I was doing that last last month playing a Chuck-e-Cheese. It kind of makes me want to go back to Chuck-E-Cheese seeing the mouse get arrested. Listen, I know I know it well. We can go. I know exactly where it is and I know the games we can play the the games that will get us the most tickets. Also, the pizza, not bad. Not bad at all. Not bad at all. Uh, okay. Justin Fields was carded off this morning, but he’s fine. He has a toe injury. First, he hid behind a tree. Yeah. And then they put him on the injury cart. They carted him off and then they gave him an X-ray. Dislocated toe. So, I don’t I’ve never dislocated a toe before. Um, I would say though that if you were to pick one body part on your body to be injured, it’s probably your toe. I don’t know. Turf toe is a beast. Turf toe? But I don’t think this is turf toe. I’m just saying though, like if you had to pick one body part to get injured, turf toe is a beast. I would, you know what? Turf toe is more about like the bottom of your foot. It’s like a It’s a foot injury, not just your toe. Yeah. Pinky. What about earlobe? [ __ ] You need an earlobe for Get it pierced. Yeah. I don’t can hurt your earlo. You’re Vander Holyfield. Trump. I mean, Holyfield literally got his earlo bitten. I Yeah. Do you not know that that happened? Mike Tyson. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I know. Trump. Yeah. Uh P Cro Armstrong got I think both of his earlobes hurt, but he looks awesome now. Yeah. He looks sick. So sick. What else? Nipple. No, nipple would hurt. Nipple would suck. Yeah, nipple would suck. All right. I I Listen, we’re just throwing out body parts. Don’t even get mad at me. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. Zach, give us one. Uh nipple would be really bad. Uh forearm. Forearm. Nope. No forarm rough. [ __ ] His forearm rough. I think a quarterback would need his forearm. What about your hair? Oh, as the quarterback hair is going. Well, maybe not Justin Trustin Fields. Yeah. No. So, memes, talk us through today because it’s been up and down. It’s been to I I got PFD. I got added to a a Jets group chat. Max and I got added to the Jets group chat at Barcel Sports just to try to pump up the boys. Um Well, Big Cat was getting some takes off. I was getting some takes off, but I was they were all coming from a like I’ve been through Justin Fields. I’m rooting for the guy. I have my doubts. I think I think it’s fair for Bears fans who watched was it three seasons? Yeah. Three seasons of Justin Fields to say he’s not a guy, but I do think that this season for Justin Fields is best opportunity to try is his last ditch effort to become a guy. Okay. or less at least save his career. Save his career. That’s fair. I would agree with that. So I I just didn’t want to see him go out like this like if it was an Achilles or Yeah. No, I when it was like supposed to be That’s another thing. We need to get rid of the carded off nomenclature when it’s like we don’t especially in training camp because it’s one thing to get carded off when you’re watching the game and you can be like, “Oh, that was a really bad injury.” There’s nothing worse than the carded off tweet that you get from one of the beat reporters from your from your team’s training camp. You’re like, “What the fuck?” Because you just think the absolute worst. You think out for the season. This was not a carded off. I mean, it was obviously needed to be carded off, but it ended up not being a carded off injury. Yeah. I think that that’s credit to everybody that tweeted out thoughts and prayers. It worked. Yeah. Like everybody was just like hoping and your your thoughts, your prayers, they made it they made it not as bad of an injury. It was like that with Joe Burrow a couple years ago. remember that when he hurt his leg during training camp and everybody thought it was like, “Oh [ __ ] Joe Burrow out for the season.” Turns out I think he was even back for week one. But it was that was actually probably what you’re hoping doesn’t happen with the uh with Justin Fields because Joe Burrow was hampered to start the season, remember? And they started slow, although the Bengals start slow every year. Um but so you feeling Where are we at now? Memes, it’s been a few hours. Vibe check. Uh vibes are great. Okay, we’re back. Vibes are great unless it the the toe injury develops into like a infection or something. I also would like to say that uh and again we talk about it almost instantly after during Firefest. I didn’t PFT I don’t know if you knew this but like memes is all in on Justin Fields. Yeah. To a point that I Yeah. But to a point I didn’t I didn’t fully realize how allin memes has been all in on everybody. True. Like that’s just He’s an all-in guy. He is. I love that about you. It’s It’s like every player on that team at the start of the year, every coach, he’s all in on all of them and then he’s going to figure out who his scapegoats are. Usually he’ll go to like somebody in the media first and then after he gets on from that, he’ll he’ll figure out the one guy that he hates on the team. But yeah, memes is always all in. He’s optimistic. Uh memes, I I got a question for you. After Justin Fields, after the news broke today, did you allow yourself to get to a point where you watched Trod Taylor highlights? M no I I didn’t even get to that point. It was just walk in and then it was just on. Yeah. And then it was just fighting for your life. It was just fighting fighting for your life. And the the the tweet that’s going around about the Jets early preseason early season injuries that does suck. It’s uh Justin Fields toe which hopefully is okay. last or two years ago with Aaron Rogers, the Achilles 2022, Zach Wilson knee surgery, uh, preseason, Sam Darnold, week two, mono, which is very funny to just have on any list. Gino Smith, 2015, broke his jaw, punched by teammate, also funny to have any on any list in the preseason. 2013, Mark Sanchez preseason shoulder surgery. And then 2003, Chad Pennington preseason broken hand wrist. And then 1999, Vinnie Tessvertie toss Achilles game one. Yeah. Not fun. Yeah. You know, you want you want to at least have a full off season to be optimistic about next year. You want to go into week one with like your a loaded gun. You want to have everyone ready to go. Well, I wouldn’t say optimistic. You’re optimistic. You are optimistic. Memes is thinking soupy. He won’t say it. He won’t say anything. Thinking soupy. No, no, no. You just went You were just going through all of the units on the Jets and being like, “We’re awesome here. We’re awesome here. And and if Justin Fields could perform, the Jets will be in a good place. But I’m not I’m not optimistic. They’re – 700 to miss the playoffs. ESPN just came out with rankings that were 20 We’re ranked 28 out of 32 teams. Who cares? Who cares about rankings? I’m not I’m Yeah, I don’t You don’t You can’t You can’t You can’t now quote journalists and be like, “Look at what they’re saying. This is That is what they’re saying.” Like last season they went into the season we were ranked fourth uh in Super Bowl odds and they won five games. So it’s like you you can’t really determine your entire team based off of so what you just went full circle there. Yeah. We’re back to you you were like talking about how you’re not optimistic and then you finished with well well last year last year. Yeah. They said we’re going to be good this year. I don’t have expectations till I I have expectations. You have expectations. You went you went the media doesn’t the med the media has us finishing last and then full circle don’t listen to the media they don’t know [ __ ] that’s true it doesn’t affect your optimism the the media picking you as 28th makes you mad at the media but that doesn’t actually affect where you think that they’re going to finish correct any given Sunday you could win a football game but expectations get set pretty much immediately when you’re a Jets fan so week one or preseason when your quarterback gets card off for a toe. Yeah, the injury thing is just the only thing you don’t want in preseason because right now it’s it’s everyone freaking out mode. Uh Aaron Ro Jerry came up to me. He’s like Aaron Rogers looks bad. That’s what I’m hearing from Steelers camp. I’m like, dude, it’s day two. Who cares? Like the the Bears Caleb Williams got yelled at by Ben Johnson got the seven on seven offense got kicked off the field. I’m like, good. That’s Joe Burrow said the defense won the day against them. That’s what you should expect in preseason. The offense usually looks bad to start preseason and that would be a great job by Joe Burrow to gas up his defense early on in training camp, right? They they need to be more if I were him, I would just like let them pick me off three times a practice just to get some confidence. I saw that ESPN Cleveland is also updating on a day-to-day basis the stat lines for all their quarterbacks. Oh, so we we’re looking at the uh four horse race in Cleveland. Joe Flacco five for five. Perfect. No touchdowns, no interceptions. Shador, three for eight. No touchdowns, no picks. Okay. Kenny Picket, six for seven. They’ve let him air it out a little bit. No touchdowns, no picks. And then Dylan Gabriel 6 for seven, one touchdown, no interceptions. So I right now I have Dylan Gabriel QB1. Yeah. Joe Flacco QB2. Kenny Pickicket then Shador. Uh, I think I would probably have It depends. What was the weather like? Probably pretty nice. True. I’m gonna have I’m gonna put Yeah. Pickicket three and then Shadore 4. That Browns video, by the way, of them unveiling the new helmet. I hate that they did that uh because it ruins it for everyone else. Like for instance, so if people missed it, uh the Browns unveiled a new helmet and uh they had a guy who was taking video on this barge on the river uh or the lake fall into the lake and it went viral for a little bit and then it leaked that it was all a stunt. And what it does is it ruins when a Savannah banana smashes their face live on TV cuz that was real. So funny. That was such a funny face smash that he had. He tried to do the back flip. He’s going to get so much sympathy [ __ ] That’s Rack, right? Yeah, that’s Rack. There’s Rack that did it. Rack. He’s famous for doing the back flips. That originally I thought it might be fake just because I’ve never seen that guy miss a flip. Yeah. Um but yeah, that was a great face smash that he had there. Uh Max, by the way, the Savannah Bananas did reach out to me. Should we ask them if you want to do dingers only against him? Yep. What did they say? They said no. Oh, well, no. Actually, I didn’t ask them because I want you to never do it. You want me to never do it? We I kind of like this story. I know. I’ve thought about it and I just don’t know. You You guys don’t want You guys don’t want to go anywhere either. Like you guys don’t want to do this. Max, are you saying that uh with the travel schedule that we have up for the next like four weeks where we’re basically gone every single week? We don’t want to travel so that you can do your dingers only bet that you should have done 7 months ago. Yeah. Guilty is charged. Well, we tried to do it 7 months ago and you bailed. It rain happened multitude of times and then I there was an injury. Would you be able to do it right now? Injuries happen. I’d gut it out. No, you wouldn’t. Yeah, I would. You would you would tear an Achilles. I [ __ ] hurt my my leg when I played softball. I gutted out. Stayed on the mound. All right, I’ll hit up the bananas. I’ll let him know. They’re coming to Chicago. Yeah, that would be perfect. Okay, let’s do it at Wrigley. All right. No, they’re playing at uh at guarante. Let’s do it at guaranteed rate. That would be fun. That would be fun. PFT, I’m down. I I’m actually very lowest of keys. I’m psyched that Max has not scheduled this yet because I’m dreading having to catch for it. Catching feels like it’s going to be just as hard as pitching. Yeah. No, catching was not fun. Was not fun. I’m not My knees aren’t in the the greatest shape they’ve ever been. My ass is out of shape. It’s going to be tough. I’m going to have to gut through it, too. So, the longer Max delays on it, the good for me. But um but I still get to make fun of Max for not doing it yet. Yeah, exactly. That’s what we want to save her. Uh do we have anything else? Anything else we missed before we get to We have an awesome Mount Rushmore. We have Scotty Sheffler. We have Firefest. I got one more story here. Yeah. I don’t know how this one slipped through the cracks, but have you seen the new AI trend that is being wiped off the face of the internet? No. Is that the LeBron suing it? LeBron James. Yeah. LeBron. So, there’s an AI company that’s been making pregnant videos of LeBron James. Great thing to specialize in. Uh, and LeBron James has sent cease and desist letters to them and gotten all their content taken down off the internet, which is it is the Stryand effect. So, is he So, is he is he pregnant? I don’t know. I don’t know. I I Who’s to say? So he is it a situation where he is pregnant but he’s not ready to announce it yet. He’s pregnant. He has not done the maybe he’s waiting for the draft to announce his to like select his unborn fetus. Yeah. To join the Lakers. I don’t know what’s going on, but there were some pretty realistic videos of LeBron. Why the buddy pregnant LeBron? And uh yeah, he’s he’s really making this into a big news story by sending them cease and desist letters, whereas I don’t think I would have no one would have heard of this company that’s making pregnant LeBron videos if he hadn’t started to do this. Is that what they’re specializing in? Because Genius hat tip to them being like, “Hey, what should we do? How about LeBron pregnant videos?” And just corner the market. Yeah. I mean, that’s a great it’s a great idea for a company. If you’re going to do something, do something specialized and be great at it. So that I can tell these are pretty hyperrealistic LeBron James pregnancy videos. It sounds like I haven’t seen these videos, but it sounds like to me that he could be pregnant. He He could be very pregnant. Oh my god. Yeah, pretty pregnant. That looks pregnant. He looks very pregnant there. No gender reveal yet, but it’s nice that he did uh the They need to do it in like a Cavs jersey to be like this is how he announces that he’s going to the Cavs. I like that. I like that. Michael Jordan never got pregnant. No, that’s a fact. That’s a fact. Uh, all right. Uh, let’s do our Mount Rushmore with Hank back in studio. What’s up, Blake? Uh, he’s barking in the background. Love that. What’s up? Yeah, he probably sees a spider. And and then and then we got Scotty Sheffler and Firefest. Okay, before we get to our Mount Rushmore, there’s nothing like getting to a baseball game, especially last minute. Lucky for me, I always use Game Time, the official ticketing partner, Bar Stool Sports. Game Time makes getting tickets faster and easier. Price on the app actually go down the closer it gets to Showtime. They even get exclusive zone deals. You let them choose your seats within a given set of zones, and you get huge savings in return. 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They have chips in their brain and every time they come to work they get in an elevator and when they go down the elevator the chip activates. They go into the uh basement floor and they are a completely different person. They have no memory of their outside world and then when they get off off of work they go back up the elevator. They come out the other side and they don’t know what they did all day at work. So basically separating the painful things in your life. Turns out they made out with their wife at work. Yeah. Exactly. Big cheating scandal. So I I got a problem. We got a problem. Was team first. Zach sat down with me up in my office for our premount Rushmore meeting and he pulled out his phone. I was like sick. He’s going to have a lot of good picks. And uh he said, “Wait, what’s the Mount Rushmore?” And I said, “It’s things you’d like to be severed for.” He’s like, “Oh, I missed when we texted about that.” And then I said, “Okay, well, let’s start thinking.” He said, “What’s severance?” Okay. And I said, I said, “The show.” And he said, “Oh, I don’t even know what like not I haven’t seen severance.” It was I don’t I had never heard the word severance. It sounds like he’s been severed for watching severance. Yes. It’s actually that would be a good answer for this Mount Rushmore where you just get severed so you don’t have to deal with like years in between seasons. Yes. Get to binge it. So, uh I have he he came with some picks. Uh, but I also have a list of picks where he just completely did not understand what we were talking about that I can share after that I think you guys will enjoy. Okay. U, our team’s doing great. I’m sorry that that’s happening to your team. Me and Hank are lock step, ready to roll. Positive vibes only. We’re cooking, working as a team. I have a good feeling for looking at the sunny side of the mountain right now. Hank, I have a good feeling for your team today. Hank is down bad. What’s going on, Hank? The Instagram captions draft really, really [ __ ] him up mentally. So, you came in here uh today and you’re like, I’m done with Mount Rushmore season. That’s not real. You’re not. No, it’s football. This is a football podcast. This is just a this is a filibuster. PFT announced football is back. I think quit wish going forward when we announced football is back, that’s the end of Mount Rushmore. Okay. What uh so like the first guy to say it? First guy to say it. Would you would you want to sever Mount Rushmore season? That’s on the list. pizza toppings draft. Oh, yeah. But hey, you’re not you’re not that bad at it. We had a one bad Mount Rushmore. I think if you look at the history of this podcast, I’m the worst. That’s not true. You got to you got to stay in the fight, Hank. Stay in the fight. It’s bad. We’re in a bad spot. I you know, I was singled out for for choosing the topic. I noticed we announced the topic. Didn’t say who picked today’s. Uh PFT picked today’s, but No, no, I don’t think so. I It was down to like two. Well, no. You You offered up today’s I offered up a different one. Yeah. Yeah. That we’re not using today. Yeah. Yeah. You offered up the two for today. But it if if we’re going on the You were the one who came up with Oh, yeah. It was from the list. It was from the list. I picked two from that list. Yep. But yeah, I was I was, you know, I thought I picked a good one. The fans, you know, let me know it was a bad one. Just the topic in general. And I thought it was a great topic. I thought the topic was great. I I thought people liked the topic got smoked in it. So it was it was it was just a it was Do you think maybe bad? It was a double whammy. Do you think maybe it’s because during the take when you’re like I don’t really like the fans. I did I say that? Well, it’s kind of what was you did you did the Spotify thing again. Yeah. I never said that. I mean again putting words in my [ __ ] what you’re doing to Hank. This is [ __ ] what you’re doing to Hank. I never said that. He never said that. What did you say? I can’t even remember. I don’t know. Definitely wasn’t that. It was like the the He said they they they send some hateful Oh yeah. Yeah. That’s fair. That’s fair. Listen, I’ve never had a bad interaction with a fan in person. That’s facts. I love our fans. That’s facts. Uh, all right. So, we’re You act like you’ve never gotten hate from our fans online. Of course. So, that’s all I said. Yeah. I just I love the hate of and love the love and love it all. You love the hate. I I also want to take some responsibility from for what happened during the the Instagram captions draft because I I don’t think it sounds as good coming from me as from like a native Instagram user like Hank who’s clearly passionate about the subject and knows a lot more than anybody else in this room about Instagram. Uh so it probably it might have come off inauthentic with me saying booked and busy. That’s true. So I’m willing. You say booked and busy. No. Oh, we’re we’re on we’re moving on. All right. All right. Well, I think you should stay in the fight. I’ve let like like I don’t know if is this before or after the interview? Uh before well preview I’ve let my anger out. I’ve let my frustrations and I’m standing over the ball. I’m looking forward. Got it. Okay. That’s a good preview for Scotty Sheffller. Nice teaser. Hank, you’re back. Yeah. And tease. Let’s go. I feel like you’re still a little mad. No, no, just at just at mean a little mad. I mean, the Caleb Williams bar that he dropped on me on Wednesday’s show was awesome. I was laughing about it at night. or you want him to break a nail. Like that’s a good a spicy Hank is a good Hank. And guess what? Hank balls in your hand. Yeah. And Max Max piece of [ __ ] outside the show inside the show. But I’m I’m focused. I’m not outside. I’m not going to let that affect him. I just wanted to let him know what the people were saying. Oh no. Oh. So you you brought the hateful comments to him. I He That’s [ __ ] up. Hank, what did they say? I wouldn’t do that to you. What did they say, Hank? I’ll tell you. I’ll tell you what’s But what a couple of them said. For the record, I thought you won, Hank. That was one person. This other person said, I thought the topic was a great suggestion. For what it’s worth, Hank. Another good one. Third good one. I thought it was a great Mount Rushmore idea. Don’t let them bring you down. Yeah, love that. Awesome. How about those comments? Hank Army. Hank Army. Oh, you reposted all these, Hank. That wasn’t why I picked those. That had nothing to do that had nothing to do with why I picked those. That is the final the final boss of of Angry Hank is to find people and retweet them. It’s hard to find. It was hard to find. I was [ __ ] mining mining for gold deep in this [ __ ] I was sifting through [ __ ] What was the meanest one that you got, Hank? I don’t even know. I don’t I like I said, I I moved on. Do you remember the meanest one that he got, Max? No, I don’t I have no idea what you’re talking about. I didn’t even see any. That’s mean, Max, that you went and took him to him. I was just wondering what what he was thinking. Okay. Uh All right. Should we do it? Yep. All right, let’s do it. Who’s up first? We are. I I believe so. Okay. All right. We’re up first, Zach. Uh All right. My first our first pick. Zack. Zach understands the assignment. You feel good, Zach? I do. Stay strong. Don’t break. Yes, sir. No breaking. Uh this is a hard topic because we were thinking about a lot of things, but uh I would we would love to be severed uh from going to the gym. show up to the gym, get [ __ ] ripped, get [ __ ] ripped, get out of the gym, and be like, “Wow.” So, I had that thought and I I put it was one of the first ones I wrote down. I went back on it, though, because sometimes I get a lot of good thinking done at the gym, and I wouldn’t want to lose those. Yeah. I just I the idea my hardest part The hardest part about like going I I think we’ve probably all shared this uh like when you go to the gym and you like do two exercises and then just like you’re like, “All right, I’m done.” or you sit outside the gym, just get me to the threshold and then I’ll I’ll be a beast in there and then when I come out, I got six-pack, everything be awesome. Mhm. Guy like me, I I enjoy the pain of the gym. Yeah. I enjoy the work. Yeah, that’s the beauty of it. Okay. Uh we’re going to go with finals week in college. Oo, good one. Okay. I like learning because right when you’re done, it’s summer. It’s summer. You got to Yeah. What about all the people who didn’t go to college? Those people aren’t going to like the pick. Okay, there you I mean it does mean that you lose all the knowledge that you gained from college making your degree worthless. That’s actually not how that you you Yeah. Cuz you cram. Yeah. You wouldn’t know the things you do. Yeah. You would forget all the stuff that you Isn’t that also like a fun like fun party week? Yeah. And then you can like go out there’s always one night. No. Sometimes you go out one night and then you drink a little bit too much and you’re like I’m an Finals week is by far the worst week of all time. Is PFT right though? You would lose what you learned. Name me one thing you learned from final from a finals in college right now. Everything. Vietnam was bad. There we go. For who? Everyone. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. Smart. Bang. Just [ __ ] checkmated your ass. Checkmate. Hippopotamuses run on the bottom of the river. Still got it. Got it. Imagine if I had gotten that severed. Yeah. It’d be I wouldn’t know [ __ ] about hippopotamuses or Vietnam. Yep. Okay. All right, our first pick and second pick. Uh, we’re going to go hangovers. Yes, good pick, Hank. I had great pick. Great pick on the list. Great pick. And we’re going to go with dentist. Okay, good pick. Dentist. That was probably going to be my next pick. So, I was thinking about dentist. I I had on my list. They do do a lot of drugs now at dentist, which is kind of like borderline severance. Like I get the gas every time. Yeah. So, but you don’t get to really feel the gas before you go out. I love the gas. Oh, yeah. That’s No, no. Not the gas that like takes you all the way out like the the nitrous. Yeah. Yeah. On your Kanye [ __ ] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That [ __ ] rocks. Okay. Good picks. Great pick. Great pick. Great pick. Hank. Two picks. Great pick. Two great picks. What are you thinking? Um I’m sick. I’m sick of all this. I am going to go with What are you thinking? It’s team game. Yeah, that was what I was looking at. That was good. Uh we’re going to go with Travel Days. Okay. Okay. Good pick. So like like traveling in a plane. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I mean driving is fun. Road trips can be fun. Well, is it like it’s just a travel day? It’s essentially getting to your destination. It’s basically teleporting. You just you want to go somewhere and then you’re there. Okay. Good pick. Uh all right, Zach. Should I just take the ball? What are we doing here? Where are you feeling with the ball? Uh I was feeling uh three and eight. Three and eight are both great picks. Okay. You feel good about it? I do. Feel stay strong, don’t break. I think we’re staying strong there. Has Zach ever objected to when you ask him? No, he has. We shop upstairs. We did last Yeah. Last time we were we were in between two picks. We get quite combative in private, but this is a team game, so in public, we got to stay strong and not break it. We scream at each other. I want to see the combiveness. Yeah. Well, it’s a players only meeting. Yeah. I want to see to be a fly on that wall. Um, okay. So, we’re going to go with uh commuting to work. similar to travel days, but it’s, you know, traffic. Commuting sucks. Are you taking traffic or are you taking commuting? Well, I mean, it’s like, I mean, it’s commuting. So, I mean, you have to deal with traffic sometimes, sometimes you don’t. But there’s just like getting on a train, commuting, driving sucks. I think most of our listeners like the commute because they get to listen to our show. Oh, okay. Good. Good. Oh, so we’re just picking everyone’s apart. Okay. Got it. I mean, I mean, good job. Think about the No, no, no. That’s fine. Good, good point. Good point. Good point. That is what we’ve been doing. But you could also say most of our You could listen to this show as the innie. You could, but then you wouldn’t get it as the out. You could, but it doesn’t matter. The download will count the same. Oh, so you’re just in for the don’t care about our All right. I like this. I’m getting combative. Uh, all right. Uh, and then we’re going to go the 24 hours after a bad sports loss. Good one. Yeah. So, you lose a [ __ ] terrible game on Sunday. just [ __ ] get me to Monday Night Football. If you get drunk enough, you can kind of do that naturally. But yeah, I understand. So, let me black out the everyone talking [ __ ] online, having to think about the loss, having to think about what went wrong. Just get me another day away. Nothing worse than waking up on the Monday after a bad loss. You don’t want to look at any TV screen. They’ll probably show the highlight and you do that like just like big sigh like [ __ ] Yeah. Yeah. Mondays are way better when your team wins. They’re so much better. Yeah. You kind of look forward to Mondays. Yeah. I mean, the a star player season long injury is almost worse because it’s not like you can be like next season. Yeah. Yeah. Good point. Yeah. Okay. Like co-star player. Yeah. H for the listeners. Hank just gave a look like what the [ __ ] PFT my desire to troll Hank is way stronger than my desire to win Mount Rushmore swim or just be a good teammate. Oh yeah. Yeah. I should be like a a good You have to Would you say you’re the Jaylen Brown of your team? Yeah. Yeah, I would. Yeah. The guy you want to give the finals MVP to? Well, no, I meant healthy. Oh yeah, that too. Uh okay, who’s up you guys? Max memes. Uh yep. We’re gonna go with uh The Day After Super Bowl to March Madness. Get rid of it all. Okay. Never it all. We had that on our list, too. That’s vacation. Good pick. That is our vacation week. But we are not everyone. Actually, actually, Max, this is maybe the stupidest pick of anybody in history about You just [ __ ] You just [ __ ] won the Super Bowl, dude. You You didn’t want to enjoy that time. You would have had no time to you [ __ ] idiot. Wow. Bad pick, Max. You didn’t get to enjoy the Super Bowl, idiot. This is for next year. Yeah. What are the exact dates? I need the exact dates. What? I said the day after Super Bowl to the start of March Madness. So, you’re missing the conference tournament week and the parade. Terrible. Terrible. That depends. How are you missing conference tournament week? You love the Big East Conference tournament. I do. Okay, that that’s fine. That’s fine. That’s fine. I don’t I don’t care. You can I don’t care. That’s the pick. That’s the pick. I don’t care. You get no parade. Can we have in parentheses said by an Eagles fan who just won the Super Bowl? You don’t get to see Nova in the conference tournament. That’s not what you winning a game or two. You literally started off this argument by saying, “Yep, that was our next pick.” And then you went, “This pick [ __ ] sucks.” Guess what? Guess what? For me, it would have been awesome cuz my team didn’t win the Super Bowl. The situation remains. Okay. I would have loved the situation. would have loved not having to think about the Eagles being a Super Bowl champion for a month. Max, you’ve been you’ve been doing this this podcast now 3 years. We talk about this as being the worst time of the year every year. Can I get a timeout? Where are we? Can I get a timeout? Land are we speaking? Can I get a timeout, please? No. I never talk about conference tournament week being Yeah. Okay. Sorry. Sorry. You’re playing the best week of the year. Yes, it is the best week of the year. Sorry, we’re playing the same. Can I get a timeout? Can I get a timeout? Sure. You’re acting surprise. How long you been doing this podcast? Three years now. This is your third summer. This is my going to be my fourth week. Fourth. Fourth week. I was looking looking at that. Okay. You know how this works. Every single Mount Rushmore season, we play nicey nicy nicy and then something happens to Hank and then the gloves come off. This is true. But then I and then I get mad. And then so the the scream caption draft was the was something happened to Hank and now the gloves are off. But you’re but you’re also forgetting I’ve been here for four years. This is how I’m going to respond every single time. I know. But you have to know that the the tone was set for this draft when he tried to say that finals week rocked. Well, you might drink. I think I think you learn a lot. Oh yeah. Don’t you party during finals week? It’s the only Sorry to go to [ __ ] college, dude. Exit. said that. Yeah, Hanks Hank said that I did say that like you there’s always one night where you go out just a little bit too hard and you’re like, “Fuck, I shouldn’t have done that.” Then you take your final hung over and that sucks. But it was a great night. Yeah. No, it sucks. Yeah. When you when you do go out when you get a little wild during finals week something you’re not supposed to. Yeah. It’s Oh, it’s like stealing time. You You wouldn’t get it, Max. Also, uh you’re missing out on Valentine’s Day. I guess you don’t love. That’s okay. Again, you started this argument by saying that was my next pick. President’s Day, you hate America. You disrespecting Mr. Trump again. That’s fine. It was actually our second pick, but I didn’t choose it. There you go. Good choice, Hank. Yeah, Hank’s in the zone right now. Uh our last two picks, BFD, I need help on on the last one. We’re going to go with traffic. Good pick, Hank. That’s commuting. No, you can be in traffic, not commuting. All right. You can be driving for pleasure. Okay. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Or or driving to get to any destination. Drive. Maybe you’re late for dinner. Yeah. Late for an appointment. Nothing worse than traffic. Okay. Hate traffic. And then I I just highlighted one. Hank. I think that’s a good pick. This was This is a good pick on your part. Are you sure? Cuz author Matt said otherwise. Should we go with his pick? Yeah. Yeah. His pick. Yeah, we’ll go with Bad Breakup. Hank, what did you just say, Hank? He was in the room. What about rebound chicks? Bad breakup. Good pick, Hank. They made a whole movie on lowering your standards into they made a movie. Good pick. Eternal Sunshine. Great film. Nice job of picking Traffic also. Okay. Really good pick. You like Traffic? Yeah. No, even though that was like the exact reason. No. Good pick. Good pick. Good pick. What? No. Good pick. Good pick. No. No. No. People listen to part of my take on their commute. Like people that commute on on trains, they walk to work, they take their bike to work. In traffic, we had three different forms of traffic, by the way. No, but what was your travel day? You get you that was air traffic. Yeah, that’s airplanes. I never said air. I love driving. I love driving. Driving is one of my favorite things to do. I hate traffic. But that’s when you do listen to part of my take. Uh is when you listen to partn me listen to part of my take in traffic. I don’t listen to that’s a promise. No, but I think people listen to part of my take on a commute because that’s built into their daily routine. Traffic could be you’re trying to No, a commute with no traffic is not as I like my commute. My commute to work is easy. If I if my if my 20-minut commute turned into a 35m minute commute because of traffic I would be like I wish I could put a chip in and get over this. It’s a Saturday. You’re maybe you’re going to the beach. There’s beach traffic. Yep. Yeah, beach traffic. All right, Max. Uh we’re going to go with uh any food poisoning stomach bug. anytime that you like stomach issues being sick. It is kind of like hangover, but that’s fine. Yeah. Okay. Uh me uh Zach, permission to just go full send. Take a risk. Take a shot. This is This is a all rip one. Let it rip. Okay, I’m letting it rip. This is very niche, so it might not play any conversation with Ben Mintz. Okay. A that’s it plays right. You just get caught in it. You just want to get out. That would that would be that would be so [ __ ] up to your innie that Yeah. Your innie would try to kill themselves. Oh my god. Their entire life is they think that the only person that they talk to, the only other person on planet Earth is Ben. I’ll give you a a counterpoint though. Yeah. I was talking to Ben last week. Uh he cornered me a little bit when I was upstairs. Whatever. That’s fine. I told him he he looked good. I asked if he’d been working out. He has been working out. Uh he told me that he is planning on getting under 180 lbs and when he takes his shirt off for the first time, people’s brains are going to melt. He’s going to melt brains. And I’m so glad that I heard Ben Men’s telling me. Yeah. Well, I I my Audi would have been able to see him take a shirt off. I just didn’t have to hear the story about it cuz it was definitely not that short. I saw him I saw him today. Uh you know, some they did the Max did the 999 challenge. They were drinking beers and and eating hot dogs. Some people were, you know, hung over from the beers and and I saw Minty and he he basically said he had a hangover from hot dogs. He’s like, “Oh, you know, I’m just, you know, the hot dogs.” I’m like, “Are you are you saying you’re hung like is this a hangover thing?” Like he also on on the yak used the word, which I hadn’t heard anyone say in a long time. He said, “I tried to take a crap.” I was like, “Who says crap?” You’d also want to go crap. You would miss his winners though in football season. He doesn’t share them. He shares them after boosts though. Boost. But he shares the boosts after. He doesn’t share any of those. He’s more of a March Madness on fire. This is good. This is going to be a pick that I like I think it’s very funny, but we’ll see. It’s niche. It’s very niche. What was the widespread panic line? Something was fire. Chicago theater was literally on fire. The walls were shaking. That’s funny. The No, that was uh when when uh White Panic did uh he did they did uh Lawyers Guns and Money in uh Red Rocks. Mountains were shaking. The Chicago theater was literally on fire. It was so All right. What do we got for honorable mentions? Then I’ll do just brought us back. Yeah, he did. He brought us all back. He just brought us all back. He brought us all back. Great Mount Rush. Great Mount Rush. I wanted to do it, but I didn’t. I I am trying to win, but it would have been it would have been niche just doing the the suffocating your adult junky nephew to protect your crime family. Oh, that would have been good. Also, wife dying in a car accident. It’s a valid one. Yeah, that’s the entire point of the show. Yeah. Yeah. Uh facts. I hadn’t seen the show earlier. I had I had another uh I had another niche one, but we were trying not to get it to go nuclear here. It was going to be Hank talking about his golf round. Right. You’d say that but then other people like don’t ask. Yeah. Yeah. That’s I didn’t make that. I didn’t make the pick. But you I did not make it. You literally bring it up as much. And then you talk every single day on the Aabell golf. Well, that’s been two days because he’s the weirdest golfer ever. Uh that was a good point. That was a good point. Good point. That was a good point for Hank. Uh prison. Not really relatable, but imagine if you could sever like I actually think that we could get to a technological point where that becomes the thing. I think prison is a perfect pick. Yeah. Military service. Yeah. We had going to war. We also had getting shot. I thought about prison, but prison like you can’t that’s not like a lot. The majority of people do not go to prison. Yeah. The vast majority. But if you did, you could say that. Now, at one point, Hank was I was in my this this was in my fields. This is when I was in my fields. This is early. This is earlier in the morning when I was fully in my field. Hank was playing a game of chess against himself. Like it’s that the meme of the guy whose brain wraps all the way under the table and he’s playing chess against that. Uh he had blowing a three nothing lead in the ALCS. But then he also had Malcolm Butler’s interception and blowing a 28-3 lead in the Super Bowl. I was trying to throw people trying to make people think this can’t be Hank. Smart. Smart. Um, what about uh wedding ceremony? Jury duty. Jury duty doesn’t happen very often, but I kind of like the wedding. I mean, a wedding ceremony, you would assume it’s someone you like and care about and it’s the best day of life. No, you want to see you want to see it’s other people’s, but like someone you’re very close with. Yeah, I still get bored to the point you got invited to best day of their life. What do you It’s not even my pick and you’re arguing with them. It’s honorable mentions. Witnessing two people join for life in front of the eyes of God. Um, we were going to say labor. Going to war. Yeah, that women definitely labor. Yeah. Yeah, maybe dudes, too. I said I said military service. Getting shot. How would you say it like up until Cuz you want to be there for the b for like the actual birth part. It also be a scary thing to get off the elevator, too. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, do you guys want to hear Zach’s? Yeah. Yes. Zack, can you explain I’m going to say them and you explain them. Okay, I can do that. All right. Um, Portaotti, you you sometimes you have to use them and you just it’s a bad experience get it over pick. Excellent pick. I think that might be even a better pick of Max’s pick of the stomach issues. Yeah. Okay. Burning burn. That’s very wrong. Burning your tongue. It’s going to happen to all of us again. It’s happened before. Just I’d like to forget it. But but it’s you came back too. You’d still have a burnt tongue. And it’s also you just want to get rid of that initial shock factor is like no but the worst part of like a burnt tongue is like for the next week is that like you you still feel the burnt tongue. You want to get rid of all of that. I don’t hate that if you just want to get rid of all of that. If we could just skip anything involved with like tongue like biting the tongue too. Like tongue injury. Tongue injuries. Okay. I like that. No one likes them. Uh Mondays was a good idea. Mondays good Monday Night Football sucks sometimes. Actually Max should have taken it because he doesn’t watch Monday Night Football. Yeah, Eagles play the Pack, but he does love lasagna. Yeah. Um, he this one I liked anytime I have to take my shirt off. That’s a good one. But then the problem is that gets reversed. Pool, boat, like those are fun times. Yeah, true. So, that’s that’s where it kind of falls apart. But I not an intercourse guy. Yeah. On the surface that was a good pick. Then here’s where we we got a little sideways. Um, we Which one? Ju just math. Skip it. Yeah, skip it. It can get so difficult. That’s like if you’re like counting like what if I’m counting an over in my head? No, but that means that Yeah. Your Audi your Audi can do zero math. Doesn’t know anything math related. I think you can get around. Yeah. Um, and this one was probably the the one that made me laugh the most because I don’t know how relatable this is. Um, kidnapping. Yeah. Getting kidnapped. Yeah. Have you ever been kidnapped before? No. But if so, skip it. Yeah. Skip it. Get it. Delete it. Skip like any trauma whatsoever. I was just like, Zack, I don’t know if that one uh plays because like a lot of people don’t get kidnapped. But I would say the ones who have would be like, “Yeah, if I could just not have been if I could forget at all.” Yeah, true. But then what if what if you get what you get what if you get recovered by the police and they’re like, “Can you describe your kidnappers to us?” And you’re like, “Fuck.” Yeah. And then you have to think it could be anybody. Or you keep making the same mistake. Keep getting in that van. Yeah. I think forgetting the trauma will be better than the justice being served. So maybe they got away with kidnapping me, but at least I don’t have to remember how it went down. Okay. Anyone offers you free candy, you’re you’re kind of a sitting duck for that point. We had um we had losing Mount Rushmore that you chose. We had a pizza toppings Mount Rushmore. We had meeting your childhood hero and stepping on their sunglasses. M we had hail maries that go against your team for a while. We thought maybe we’ll just go fully we’ll just go nuclear against everybody and just really this was part of the the getting over it. We had to cleanse it with all our mean that’s good that’s healthy. Yeah. Uh last season of Game of Thrones. Oh good call. Good call. Anything else? Hank Hank, you should watch Severance. I think you would like it. Yeah, you should. What about uh like I was trying to figure out like if there’s a way that your innie could just eat healthy. We said that you said dieting but like actually having a diet. I like maybe every meal during dieting. Mhm. So it’s just like like if you’re any could like if you had the chip and every time you stepped in your kitchen and then you’re and then that guy was just eating the best food, the most healthy food and you’re like satisfied. Yeah. Yeah. And you have no idea that you you’re full, but you don’t realize you’re full on celery, right? What? What? They’re so [ __ ] by the way. They they’re they ran back inside. They’re they’re they’re just going to die in there. Oh, we’re talking real sever. Yeah. Yeah. We’ll see. It’s going to be interesting what happens. When is the next season? Do we know? Wait, didn’t you say that you didn’t watch the show? No, he watched. Yeah, we talked about it like for like weeks. Yeah. Big Cat said a second ago, “Hank, you would really really like Severance.” I think I said that because Hank told me that he’d never watched the show before we started this. Oh, good job, Hank. Mental Art of War. Very smart. So, you had appear weak when you were strong. Yes, I [ __ ] was obsessed with it, dude. Hank just Why did you tell me you’d never seen it then? I was just upset with you. What does that have to do with I said, “Why are we doing this?” And he said, I said, “Was it me Rushmore again?” You said, “It’s things you like to be seen.” I said, “What does that mean? I’ve never seen the show. Got him. What is that? Dude, you got chest You got chest pieced by him. You did. You got chest pieced. [ __ ] That’s on me. You got pieced up. Actually, yeah, I do remember talking to you about the show. Yes. Yeah. Yes. He talked about it all the time. My boy talked about together. I se I se You got pieced. You got pieced up. But I don’t understand like what where where’s the joy coming from that right now? Right now. You look like a [ __ ] idiot. 200 IQ move by. [ __ ] Sorry. What an idiot. I still got it, Hank. I feel like this might be how Hank got his groove back. I think so. No, I think you guys are going to win. Hank was in the zone. 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And he’s also in Happy Gilmore, too, which is coming out uh this week. So, let’s start there, Scotty. I know um you only give yourself two minutes to uh enjoy a major victory, but I did see you on the red carpet of Happy Gilmore 2 with all these guys and you had the Claric Jug. Was that the coolest thing? Were you a Were you able to allow yourself an extra couple days of enjoying the victory when you’re standing with the Clar Jug at a red carpet premiere? Yeah, I mean that was that was pretty cool. Um I I think I think sometimes it feels like my wife and I live like two separate lives where you have like this one life where you’re going out and doing kind of crazy stuff like that where you know one day we’re playing in the open championship and the next day we’re in New York and you know premiere of Happy Gilmore like a a movie you grew up watching and then you know the next morning we go out early get some bagels and then we catch a flight and head home and then stuff’s just back to normal. But yeah that was that was it was pretty fun. Yeah, it seemed like a good time. Uh, congratulations. You are the the champion golfer of the year. Is that the official moniker? That’s the official official deal. Yeah, the champion golfer of the year. It’s a it’s a great title to hold. And uh the jug. I I’m a big fan of the clar jug. I don’t know if you’re a big partyier, though. Like, did you drink anything fun out of the clar jug? I haven’t drank anything out of the clar jug yet. We actually we have a we have a celebration planned this Friday with a bunch of our friends here at home. So, that’ll be that’ll be the uh the time to celebrate. But really, I mean, we we got done late Sunday night, then you do all the the stuff after. And we actually had to catch a flight to get to New York to get to the Happy Get More premiere because that that was uh we had planned on that all along. So, we had to, you know, everything scheduled so kind of got out of town pretty quick. So, we didn’t have much time to celebrate. Yeah. Did you fly with the trophy? Did you carry it on or did you have to check that? Um I uh I did not bring it on the plane. It it went underneath the plane. We were riding. It was We rode over with uh with Bryson and uh Tony Feno, so I didn’t really feel like I should be just bringing the plane. That’s nice of you. I guess my question was presupposing that you were flying commercial over there and back, which I realized was a very dumb question to ask in the moment, but uh yeah, you I mean, you played really really well. I sense that watching you play in the open that the biggest moments of celebration for you on the course weren’t for uh birdies or or like you know great scores on holes but on your pars that you had your unlikely pars with your putter. Is that is that kind of how you you process it as you were going through like being able to use your putter to get you out of a jam that was what you got the most satisfaction out of? Well yeah I mean that’s that’s a good observation. I think you know I made some important putts. Yeah. Good job. Ball nowhere. Um, no, like I said, that was a good point. I think especially during Sunday’s round, I I made a nice birdie on one, good birdie on four, and then I made a really nice putt on five. And so, I had maybe a five or six shot lead. And I think when you have a big lead like that, you don’t really want to give the guys behind you much to look at in terms of like, oh, he’s making some mistakes. You know, if I can do this and that, then it’ll put some pressure on them. And so making those putts for par are really important, especially the ones I made for par. Like the putt I made for par on six was um I hit the iron shot exactly how I wanted to and the ball just didn’t did not react in the air at all how we thought it would. And then on seven it’s a reachable par five. I shouldn’t have a putt for par there. I should be having a pretty good look for birdie. And so to make that putt also both of those were really important for momentum during the round and it was just nice to kind of be able to stay ahead of those guys. Yeah. Yeah. I mean your mental game is insane. like they had the stat about, you know, when you bogey a hole, your your your bounceback is just like off the charts. Uh, and you you you mentioned you obviously have a big lead on Sunday. Human nature. At what point were you like, “All right, I think I got this.” Or do you not allow yourself at all? I mean, I I’ve allowed myself to do that once in my career and it was at the Masters in 22 and I for putted the last hole and so I mean I during the middle of the round you just you can’t let yourself think like that. Um really I didn’t really feel like it was one until you hit the ball on the green on 18 you’re like all right I can figure out a way to like lag it up there and five putts or whatever it was that I had to deal with there at the end. So it it’s very difficult, but yeah, I try not to let my mind wander or that kind of stuff and really feel like you haven’t won just because especially in Winks golf, like disasters can happen like that. I mean like I after I made those par putts on six and seven on Sunday, you know, I come back on number eight and I quickly make a double and so you just don’t know. You just don’t know what’s going to happen and so you got to be prepared for all things and, you know, try not to celebrate too early. Yeah. I mean, it was it was incredible tournament. You were on fire. Uh what what is special about Ted Scott, your caddy? Because this is not only obviously he he’s been on your bag uh for these major victories, but he was on Bubba Watson’s bag. Like it seems that he is at the top of his game at the same time that you’re top of your game. Is that fair to say? Yeah, I mean Teddy is an amazing caddy. You know, he’s a great he’s a great person. I mean he he’s one of those guys that um when he meets somebody, they feel like they’re his best friend because he just treats people so well. He’s an amazing guy to be around. Everybody’s his best friend. He’s extremely likable. Um, and so having him out there on the bag, like he he works as hard as I do, if not harder. And so when he gives me information out there on the golf course that I can really I can really trust knowing that he’s not just making stuff up. He knows exactly what slope is up there. He knows exactly how the ball’s going to react. Like he just knows his stuff so that I can go out there and just try to hit the shot. And I feel like with both of us out there, like his preparation is so important to what we do. And I mean, he’s just a great asset for me on the golf course. He’s one of my best friends in the whole world, too. And he’s just a allaround great guy. Yeah. Is there a specific time, maybe it wasn’t even this tournament, where you maybe disagreed about a shot and you lean towards him and like it was spot on. You’re like, “Fuck, he he really knows this.” Um, yeah, that’s a good question. Thank you. Yeah, great question. Gosh, I don’t have a good memory for that kind of stuff. I’m kind of one of those guys that like once the day ends, it’s I feel like I forget everything. But I I definitely have some instances of some putts for sure where there’s been like the Olympics. The Olympics last year was a great example of a week where I was just struggling on the greens and we made the turn on Sunday and I missed another easy um I missed another easy birdie put on nine and all of a sudden the tournament’s like getting away from me. Um I’m arguably out of metal contention at this point. I look at Teddy, I’m like, “Dude, I I do not know what I’m doing out here.” He’s like, “Well, just let me read some putts.” And I was like, “Okay.” And so he started reading putts for me the whole back nine Sunday um in Paris. And I basically made everything and we played great and ended up, you know, winning a gold medal. And we we got off the course and when the tournament was over, I was like, “Teddy, I literally do not think that I could have won this golf thing without you on my back. Like I I don’t think there’s a way that I could have done it.” And that was just a really cool moment for us because in golf like Teddy really is such a huge part of what we do, but I think sometimes in golf you focus so much on the player, but Teddy is, you know, a huge part of what I do. And it was really cool to be able to share that moment with him be like I I literally could not have done this without my bag. Yeah, that’s awesome. Seems like a great dude. Um, when we’re watching you dominate the field at at the Open Championship and really it’s been for the last, I’d say year or so, um, the discourse inevitably becomes, is Scotty Sheffler Tiger Woods? Everything about you gets compared to Tiger Woods and the start that he got off to. Do you find those comparisons flattering or are they like rat poison? Like, don’t tell me that. I don’t want to hear that. We’re different people. Uh, cuz I feel like if somebody compared me to Tiger Woods, I’d be like, “Hell yeah. Yeah, I’m Tiger.” you know, like I’d be excited about that. Yeah. I mean, I think anytime you can get mentioned in the same breath as some of the greats of the game, I think is really cool. But the comparisons I think are just very silly. Like Tiger stands alone in the game of golf. I mean, he completely transcended the game. He was by far the best player that I think we’ll ever see in our lifetimes. And uh I mean, I think people are always looking for that next thing, but there’s only there’s only one Tiger Woods and you know, the rest of us are just trying to do our best out there. I think that’s really all it comes down to. I think for me, I think it’s silly, too, just because like I’m my own person. I’m my own guy. I’m just trying to get the best out of myself. And um it’s not something that I think about on a daily basis, but when you see some statistics and you’re being compared to him in some way, that means you’re doing, you know, something right. Yeah. Yeah. Um I I alluded to it at the beginning. I was half joking about the you can celebrate a major for two minutes. were you had the comments on before the open championship. Were you surprised that people kind of took it in a weird way because I watched it and I said Scotty’s basically saying that you can’t have golf just be the only thing in your life because if it starts to fail then like what’s life you know and you have a family and you have faith and all these other things that are just as important to you. Yeah, I would say that that’s what I was trying to communicate because like we we are I’m sitting there in the media center again. and they’re like, “Hey, how are you going to do this to win this week? What’s what’s going to happen this week?” And and I’m just sitting there thinking like, “Guys, I’m answering the same questions over and over again.” Like, if I win this tournament, I’m going to show up at the next tournament and you’re going to be like, “All right, how are you going to win this week?” And it’s like, you just live in this this, you know, time frame where like it’s we’re always on to the next thing. And um you know that’s that’s really how it feels sometimes like u just when it comes to celebrating like it feels really awesome for those those few like fleeting moments of just like pure elation after you win a golf tournament like when the ball finally goes the whole Sunday give Teddy a hug shake hands and I you know I I see my wife and my son it’s like I mean it’s the craziest feeling in the world but it just does not last like that that adrenaline that feeling just lasts for a few moments and it’s I mean it’s like a drug you just want more of it but the feeling of like happiness and satisfaction have being able to accomplish like a lifelong dream last for me for a long time. Like I mean it’s a pretty amazing thing for me to be able to accomplish something like that and it’s something that I’m very grateful for but like you said it’s not the only thing that’s in my life. Like striving to win golf tournaments is the only thing is going to lead to a lifetime of you know disappointment basically. Right. Right. Do you did you realize when you had that press conference that it uh maybe you you weren’t planning this but it was a total mind [ __ ] for your competition because you’re playing so well and you’re like yeah and I only celebrate for like two minutes. I I remember walking out of that room and I’m I’m looking at Blake my manager up notes since I’m like 10 years old and I was like like gosh why did I just like start ranting like that? I was just I was like this is why I don’t say anything like this this going to take things get taken out of context. I’m just like I don’t know why I did that. I hope that made a little bit of sense to some people. He’s like no that’s all right. Let’s go. I I think it was good. I think you were being honest and I don’t think that you said anything that was incorrect at all. The thing I I’m starting to be concerned about do you allow your son to celebrate the championships for too long? Like does he does he is he getting a big head? Because a lot of guys use their children as as human shields when they do something bad. you do the opposite. He like deflects the success from you. Yeah. Where he might get a big head because he’s a champion. The kid all he does is win. Have you had a moment where you’re like, “Hey, this is very hard to do and they only remember that you won, you know, one week at a time. We’re on to the next one.” Yeah. Yeah. It’s been It’s been a real challenge keeping Ben humble on this time. You know, he was getting a little too big for his britches. You know, he’s getting a little uh little cocky. We’re humbling him now at home. You know, he’s getting back in line. Yeah. Is he bored of it? Like all he does is win on Sunday. Does he love winning? Loves it. He definitely has an idea of what’s going on for sure. Yeah. Yeah. 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So I I do I think that the reason why it kind of made a life of its own is that when we look at athletes, we think that’s all they care about. And you’re just being honest. You’re like, “Hey, I got other things. Like, I love this. I care about it. Obviously, if I didn’t care about it the way I do, I wouldn’t be as good as I am.” But it’s weird. Like it’s it’s almost jarring for sometimes for people be like, “Oh, these guys are humans, too, and they have other things going on in their lives.” Yeah. Yeah. I think that’s something that’ll resonate, you know, with you guys as well. Like you live a life of doing a sports show and, you know, talking to the masses day in day out. And but like that’s not your whole life. That’s what you do in a time period during the day and then you go home and you do other stuff. You know, you have a family, you have friends, and you have like like when I think about my son, like what would be my goal for my son to be in his life? And like when I think about it, I’m just like I want I want Bennett to live a full life. I want him to experience things. And so the way to experience things is like trying to be present where you are. And so, you know, when we’re here doing I’m doing this interview with you guys, you know, my phone’s up. I’m not distracted, do my other things. You know, we’re going to enjoy 15 20 minutes, whatever it is. And then I’m going to head out and I’m going to go spend some time with my son and like you just want to be present where you are and be have a full experience of things. And you know, that’s my goal for him. I don’t want him I don’t want the most important thing in his life to be his job or to be something that he can accomplish. Like I want him to just live a full life and experience things. Yeah. It’s a great it’s a great great perspective. I I have a weird question for you. Have you seen the movie Boss Baby? No. Okay. Um well, this is going to be hard to explain then. Uh it’s a animated movie. Maybe Bennett will watch it when he gets a little older. I watch it with my kids a lot and it’s basically like it’s a baby and but he can talk like a human when the other adults aren’t around and he’s like a mastermind. Is there a chance Bennett is a boss baby and he’s actually giving you all the tips of the golf game? Yeah, there there is a chance. You know, there was a there was a couple photographs that we saw on on Sunday after the round where he’s like like what what do we and it just I mean it killed us. That’s what made me think of it cuz I saw the one where he was like what this is impressive. If we do this every Sunday, yeah, he might be boss baby. And when people when people when I when I hear people say like uh Scotty Shuffler, they get annoyed like, “Oh, I don’t think he loves golf as much as I do or that that type of thing.” I think you love golf. You love winning at golf. You could you wouldn’t be at the spot that you’re at right now if you didn’t like deeply deeply care about improving as golfer, but there are things that are more important in life than than golf. So, I have a list of things. You tell me if you love winning at golf more than these things and we can put some of the, you know, put the haters in their place. Uh, mowing the lawn. Yeah, I’d rather I’d rather win a golf tournament. Okay. Ice cream. Yeah, probably golf. Okay. Obeying lawful commands from a police officer. Overrated. And then the last one, Steu Finer. Yeah, Steu Finer. Uh, as much as I love, you know, good old Steu Finer, probably sticking with golf. Okay. So, you you really love golf. What about the Dallas Cowboys? Yeah, that’s that’s a good one. If the Dallas Cowboys won a Super Bowl, I think that would be that would be up there for sure. Okay, so we found the line. What’s Yeah. What’s the conversion rate like one major for a Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl or would you give up two? Um, gosh, that’s a good question. Yeah, good question. Yeah, another another great question. Hard-hitting. Um gosh, I don’t know. I would I would trade one for sure for a Super Bowl. Okay. I mean, I’ve been rooting for a Super Bowl for a long time as well. A lot of hard work gone into, you know, cheering on the boys and a lot arguably a lot more disappointment in football than there is in golf. How many waste managements? Oh, like like 10. Oh. All right. Okay. Yeah. There’s the conversion. You know that I’m sure Steu Finder is going to be out the at the Ryder Cup for you. Yeah, it’s like in his backyard. Literally his backyard. He lives like like like a half a mile from Beth Paige. Well, that’ll be fun. We need We need all the support we can get out there. Ste would definitely be part of the uh you know, a rowdy New York crowd. Yeah. Are you excited? Do you Because like I I was saying this on a show I was doing just a second ago, like this is the time of season where I just miss Stu. I’m ready for Stu to get back. Do you Do you Do you miss Stu? Are you ready for him to be back on your Sundays? Yeah, I mean football football season is definitely something that we long for for sure. That’s what’s great about football is like you only get it for this period of time in the year and then it ends and you’re like crap. It’s like it ends in February. You’re like, “Oh my gosh, what am I going to do until September?” Yeah. You’re like And so, you know, just it’s exciting. Yeah. Yeah. Ste back ready to, you know, watch the Longhorns, watch the Cowboys. Like it’s gonna be fun. Yeah. It’s funny you say that because it’s like what do you do uh starting February? just win all the golf tournaments. That’s pretty good. Yeah, you have the best You actually have the best That was the most like relatable fan moment ever. But your off season from football, I think, is better than anybody else’s on planet Earth. Yeah. You’re just like, “But I really wish I just won another major, but I really wish it was football season.” That’s great. All right, I got a question. This probably uh you probably don’t love when when people ask for tips on their golf game, but I got a friend who I’m wondering if you can maybe fix him real quick. So, I’m going to I’m going to lay it on you and you can tell me what you could work on. Um he said, “The thing about my golf game is that I slice my driver pretty often. I’m not super comfortable hitting with woods or hybrids. My five or six irons are inconsistent. Seven and nine are solid. Pitching wedge and sand wedge are fun for loft, but I struggle chopping those. I putt the ball. I’m also just okay at putting. That’s the thing. That’s the one thing. Yeah, that’s the one thing. Yeah. Do you have any tips? Gosh, I don’t know where to start. I was trying to track it first and I just got lost. Yeah, he just kept on going. What do you think about uh this golfer, our friend Stephen Chay? Uh what do you think about teeing it up in the fairway? Would you ever do that? I mean, no, not in the fairway, but teeing it up is actually a really good way to practice when you’re learning golf. Ooh. But but by no means when you’re actually playing golf would I be teeing the ball up in the fairway. He does that. Yeah, he tees it up in the fairway. I mean, I respect it for pace of play. Yeah. Yeah, that’s it’s tragic for pace of play. Move along. Uh our our resident golf expert, Hank, probably has a question for you. Yeah. Hank Hank actually has gotten a lot better at golf, so he’s he’s What do you I don’t think I don’t think Scotty cares. No, Hank Hank is really good at golf. Like if you’re at a point in your life where you’re beating Hank, you are a very good golfer. 50 beat me last week. Um, do you have an internal monologue? Like when you when you make a bogey, Big Cow is talking about the bounceback stats. Like, do you get mad at yourself? Do you talk to yourself? Or do you just like blank everything out when you’re playing? Um, no. I mean, like when you’re on the golf course, you’re you’re on the golf course for a long period of time, especially on Thursdays and Fridays when you’re playing threes. When you’re out there for five and a half, six hours. So, your mind definitely wanders throughout the day. But I think what’s most important is the time you spend over the ball, but then yeah, when mistakes happen, I Yeah, I get really frustrated. Um, I’m not sure exactly what I say. It depends on the day for sure. Um, but yeah, I just get really frustrated and early in my career, I would definitely take it too far to the point where it would start affecting what I would do after that. But I think getting the frustration out is what’s important and like leaving it there. And so like, yeah, I may bang a club or two. I may slam something, but by the time I get over the next shot, like I’m focused on what’s at hand here. Um, but I don’t really have like a good a good trick, per se, that’d be like, “Hey, you know, you’ll get on the next one.” You’re like, “That’s that’s not going to work. I just hit in the water.” Like, “What do you mean the next one? I’m about to make double here.” Yeah. And so, I think it’s more just trying to reset, like, let the frustration be there and then when you start walking to the next shot, it’s like start playing ahead and figuring out what you’re going to do to to shoot a score. There you go, Hank. Um, we should talk real quick. Happy Gilmore 2 is out on Friday. Uh, how how are you at acting? How grade yourself? Scotty Sheffller, the actor, uh, in Happy Gilmore 2. I mean, maybe like a C minus, you know, a passing grade. Okay. I’d give myself a passing grade, but I’m definitely not going to to give myself much more than that. I mean, how many how many lines did you have? I I had a few lines. I mean, it was fun. I’ll let y’all watch the movie. We I mean, so we watched it on Monday night and I was I mean, I was surprised by how much we enjoyed the movie. I mean, it’s so hard with comedies to follow up the original, especially when the original is such a classic like that. But they did a really really good job of, you know, kind of remembering the original movie by having a lot of that stuff in there, like a lot of reminiscing about the old movie while still having like a good storyline for the new one. And lots of really funny stuff. I mean, I was cracking up. Like a lot of the guys that came in and did their cameos did an amazing job. And um you know Adam, they did such a good job on set of keeping you relaxed. Like when you walk into this area and all of a sudden we’re filming a movie. That’s something that I’m extremely uncomfortable with. And they just do job of making you feel at home, being your friend. Like everybody on set was was so amazing. I mean it was really really relaxed. then you can tell why Adam’s so good at producing movies and why he always has the same guys come back time and time again because they have fun and they do a really good job and they make everybody comfortable. So amongst your peers, other golfers, who was the best actor? I mean the one I laughed the hardest at and I actually texted Xander this the other day was was Xander’s lines in the movie are really really funny. Him and Ricky did a really good job and so so did Will Alurus. I mean to be honest with you I thought everybody did a great job. I mean, I I can’t imagine how difficult it is for real actors to deal with us trying to make a movie not look terrible. And they did a really good job of like helping us along and um do just doing a really good job with the movie. I mean, it was really entertaining and really funny. Yeah, that’s a good mental game thing, too. Again, let them be better at acting. You can handle the golf. You got you got the sneaky mental game going. Get them a little off. They’re like, “Oh, yeah. He can’t do this.” Are we going to win the RDER Cup? That’s the plan. We got to win the Ryder Cup. Please, please. Hey, nobody wants to win the round cup more than I do. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Can you can you I guess there there are a lot of rules, but like it would be awesome if you just like called your own number for every match and you just like like a chess master when they play like 10 people at once. You just do that. You walk from the first hole to like the 13th to hit your second shot, then back to the first. Yeah. No, the the RA Cup’s going to be fun. It’s it’ll be exciting. It’s good to be back on home soil. Um, and Keegan, I mean, Keegan’s been been amazing so far. I mean, he’s been he’s been great for us. He’s extremely fired up and um, I think I think the whole team right now is really excited about about getting there. It’s coming home. That’s what we’ve been saying. Uh, does Rory have any more tips for you on how to improve your game and make you more dominant? No. No. Since then, he hadn’t really had really given me any tips to be honest with you. Were you thinking about making that change? Because I know the story got written about like Rory Mroy told Scotty Sheffller, “Hey, here’s what you should change about your putter and then you did that because Rory said it, but I there might be more nuance to it than that.” Yeah, I think Rory said something about me switching putters on coverage somewhere, but I I have a putting coach Phil came in who helps with all that stuff. And um you know, he’d been trying to get me to do that for a while and he’d also been trying to get me to switch to the claw grip for a while. And I finally just, you know, gave in to Phil’s kind of pestering of me trying new things and kind of gave in. You know, a lot of this works so far. Phil’s been Phil’s been tremendous. Yeah. Yeah. It’s almost not fair how you’re good at putting now. That’s it’s really Are you good for golf? You tell me. No, I mean, you’re you’re you’re dominant and you are fun to watch and so we we respect greatness on this show. Yeah. Did you um did you happen to see the Phil Mickelson tweet? I did see the Phil Mickelson tweet. It was quite a tweet. It was quite a tweet. It was a great tweet. It was a great tweet. He said you weren’t going to win anything. And I actually think he threw in so I think the real treat was hot take. Scotty’s not gonna win anything in 2025 until the Ryder Cup. I think he was just throwing in the RDER Cup because he couldn’t go against USA there. I think he really wanted to say you’re not going to win anything. I I would agree with that. I think that’s what he was trying to say. But you can’t say that America’s going to lose the Ryder Cup when you’re an American. So he was like kind of Yeah. threw in that little cookie there at the end because Phil Phil’s not dumb. Phil’s very smart. Yeah. Yeah. But that was a really dumb tweet because you’ve won everything. Yeah. Didn’t didn’t age very well, which I’m very pleased with. Yeah. I have a very important question for you. Uh the at the the open, I’m trying to remember what hole it was. I think it was the 17th. Did you fart? Oh, yeah. That was me. It was it actually? Oh, yeah. That was me. That’s awesome. Was that just a a complete accident? I mean, no. I mean, it’s I mean, you’re out there for like six hours. Like, I’m You’re eating some different food over there. Some stuff’s going to happen. Like, did you know that it it was that loud? No. I mean, you never know when the boom mic’s there. You never know what they’re going to pick up. I’m actually I’m definitely surprised it hasn’t happened more in the past picking up stuff like that. But I I I literally didn’t think anything about it. And then after we got inside, Xander was showing me the video. He just pulled up the video and I see myself standing on 17. I was like, “Oh, I know what this is.” Wait, did did no none of the reporters asked you? No. Wow. Bad journalism. Yeah, that’s a big That’s a big get. How would you grade your fart? I thought it was very funny. It was great. It was a good robust. Yeah. Good. It was It got a nice sound to it. Just smelling cuz we were outside. It was perfect. Yeah, cuz like that actually, now that I’m thinking about it, like that’s actually a nervous situation. Like what if you had like a little like toot and it was like, “Ooh, that’s Scotty’s farts.” Like Yeah. I would judge you. What the hell? Like, what was that? That was a man’s fart. That was a man’s fart. Did it smell? No, we were outside, so I mean, breeze was blowing. Somebody else caught it. It wasn’t me. Um, all right. I got one last question. It’s a rowback question. Uh, rhk.com promo code take 20% off your first purchase. QZips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts. Robback.com, promo code take. This has been awesome, Scotty. We love having you on. Uh, Happy Gilmore 2 out Friday, July 25th, which is today when this is airing. Uh, this is an important question. I’m gonna see how you’re going to handle it because you’re actually the perfect guy to ask this question, and this is something we ask a lot of guests. Uh, do you think you’re a better golfer or person? Um, you know, I think I think right now that’s a good question. I would say that I definitely fall short as a person. Like it would be tough. It would be tough to say that I’m, you know, the best person in the world. I think I’m this is getting you higher on the person right now. Yeah. But this is this is a conundrum for us because usually when people say better human being than he is a golfer, we’re like, “No, wait a second. This guy’s far and away the best golfer in the world. He’s not top number one.” But the fact that you’re so humble, right, that you acknowledge all of shortcomings, it’s making me think. Let me ask you a different way. Do have you come to grips with the fact that you will never be a better person than you are a golfer? Yeah. I mean, I think that I mean, it’s like I just, you know, I think my my wife’s in the next room if you want her to phone right now of all my, you know, transgressions. So, you can tell I’m very far from a perfect person. Damn it, you got us. Because this is one of our favorite like cliches that like it started when JJ Watt retired and they’re like JJ Watt as good of a football player was as he was, he’s a better person. It’s like listen, he’s a great person, but that just can’t be true cuz he’s one of the best football players of all time. You can’t be one of the best 100 humans of all time. It’s not saying you’re a bad human. It’s just saying you’re the best golfer. There’s no way you’ll ever be a better person than golfer. Yeah. I think that’s that’s a fair observation. God damn it. Now he’s the best person. Now you’re the best person. It’s like Schroinger’s cat. You completely checkmated us. We’ve been doing this bit for years, and this is the first person to be like, “Yeah, you know what? I I I’m got to get better as a person, but I’m probably never going to be a better person than the sport I play.” [ __ ] This is really tough for us. I think he’s a better person. I think you as good. Yeah, I think as good a human being as you’re a golfer. Tiger. Tiger. Maybe you could make the argument Tiger was a better golfer over his career. Yeah. Scotty Shoffler. Yeah. So, you’ve got some room to go go up, but the more you win, the harder that conversation is going to be for us to have. Yeah. Damn. Yeah. I would say I have plenty of room to improve on the person front and and definitely plenty of room to improve as a golfer as well. You checkmated us. Well done. Well done, Scotty. Scotty, you’re the best, man. Uh thank you so much for your time. We really appreciate it. Happy Gilmore 2. Anytime you want to come on, we love having you on. uh recurring guest and uh congrats again, man. Incredible season. Let’s go win the RDER Cup. Yeah, let’s do it. Let’s do it. Well, thanks, guys. Appreciate all having me on. Good to talk to you guys again. We’ll see you soon. Scotty was brought to you by Wayfair. If you’re having a backyard get together, Wayfair is your one-stop shop for outdoor entertaining, cookout, shop, patio tables, grills, dishwear, a pool party, kickback with lounge chairs, dayb beds, and umbrellas. 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I want to beat me when he’s down. We also had a great Mount Rushmore today. Uh but my firefest is is Mount Rushmore related. I guess I I might have I might have had a bad day at work yesterday. I might have been lashing out left and right. Uh well, I think I what I said I think was spot on. Like this is every summer. It literally is just, you know, we go through the motions like literally any action towards you and then it’s just over and get more mature. No. Uh I don’t want you to grow or get more mature. That’s what makes this fun. It just kept coming up to me all day yesterday telling me how useless I am. Yeah. Like like when when AWLs say they’re excited for Mount Rushmore season, I think what they’re really saying is they’re excited for Hank Lashout season cuz that’s what it is. That’s the feature part of the summer. The beauty about it is we keep getting older and Hank stays the same age. He’s like Peter Pan. Yeah. But yeah, that was that was, you know, after after some reflection, I I I felt a little bit little bit bad about that. Max, I somewhat apologize. Uh so he is useful. Yeah. Sometimes accept somewhat somewhat accept. I somewhat accept. Somewhat accept. That’s that’s fair. But you show me a good loser, I’ll show you a loser. Hank Hank takes it personally. He takes it seriously. And that’s why I love having him on my team. I’d much rather have a guy like Hank on there that just lashes out and goes nuclear against everybody when they open their mouth than a guy that doesn’t care at all about Mount Rushmore. Fact. And and Scotty Scotty’s words have have actually resonated with me. I’ve been thinking about him a lot. Just just let it all out by the time you’re stepping over the ball on your next shot. You got to you got to be focused. Do you think you’re going to be able to be Scotty Shuffler? No. But I think in terms of dealing with frustrations, that’s a good way to think about it. Mhm. Like it’s like I was wondering if he maybe just like internalizes it or doesn’t get frustrated, but he was like, “No, you can get frustrated. You should get frustrated. Just get it all out.” And yesterday was me getting it all out. Okay. Wait, wait. So your takeaway from Scotty was you like lashing out and being mean to people and taking shots at people is totally fine. That’s part of the process. Okay. I like As long as you’re as long as the the next Mount Rushmore said your mind is clear or next Rushmore, you know, recorded your mind is clear. Right. So that for a second there I was like did Scotty Sheffller make Hank more mature and it’s like no he actually just told Hank Hank just interpreted Scotty Sheffller’s uh words into you’re doing nothing wrong dude. Wait. Yeah. According to Scott, don’t be mad. Just don’t be mad then before you record the next. I have something else. Scotty, he goes over the ball with like five like the next. I’m just He said, “I’m just like you, Hank. Me and you react to adversity and failures the exact same way.” Now you’re gassed out. Yeah. Hey, Max is right too though. He does go he does stand over the ball like 100 times. No, he goes over to the next ball like 5 minutes later. We do a Mount Rushmore where every two days. Yeah. So that’s and also you did carry 48 hours. You did carry it into the next Mount Rushmore. But that was was that before or after we did Scotty Sheffler? It was after. No, I was good yesterday. I mean kind of. Me and PD crushed it. No, no. Wait, wait. Are you saying good like doing well on Mount Rushmore or being nice to us? Being in a good mindset. Okay. So being nice to us is irrelevant. It’s about the mindset. Okay. All right. Got it. It’s about being nice to yourself. That’s what Scotty was saying. You have to forgive yourself for your transgressions. It has nothing to do with well you gota be what he was saying is you got to be focused like you got to be able to you know hyperfocused on what’s in front of you. Sometimes in order to win in what’s in front of me like shots have to be taken. Yeah. To get to what’s in front of you, you have to basically push everyone down. That’s Mount Rushmore season. It’s a competition. Like you got to you got to win. Who do you think loves their family more, Scotty Sheffler with his kid or Hank with his 18 kids? It’s tough. It’s tough. It’s probably Scotty. You really love your 18 kids. I do. A lot. A lot. I do. A lot. A lot. A lot. Yeah. A lot of lot of 18 kids. Sometimes 27 kids. Yeah. Sometimes 36. Yeah. Sometimes. Go ahead. 54. There you go. It’s live. Remember it’s live. All right. Empty your Mount Rush. Wait. So, or sorry, your Firefest. You’re So, hey, just in summation, your firefest is uh don’t change anything. No. False. My firefest is I was lashing out yesterday and I apologize for it. But you’re going to do it again. No. If I hit a bad shot, my goal is to not hit any bad shots. Yeah. But if you hit a bad shot, Scotty told you it’s okay to to walk up to your co-workers and tell them they’re useless. Not specifically, but that it’s okay to lash out. Okay. Okay. Yeah. By the way, I love the countdown clock. The countdown clock to football is good. I think it could be bigger, Zach. That’s my only note. Like I would I would like a bigger clock. I would like multiple clocks. And I was telling him I want this clock to explode when football hits. Like when it hits zero, I want some sort of some sort of like uh fireworks or pyrochnics that comes out of it. And then he asked me what other clocks I think we should have. What do you think about this one, Big Cat? Wait, but wait, wait. Before I want to hear the next clock, but I actually I disagree on the explode. I think it should always be resetting until the next football game starts. So like when we’re taping on Sunday night, it should be the countdown to Monday Night Football. So we’re like football’s right there. That’s another clock. Yeah, that’s fine. Is we have a separate clock for a countdown of Monday Night What do you think about this one though? Countdown clock till Hank turns 40. Love it. Let’s do it. Yeah. You want to put it up there? Yeah. Yeah. We should just have the whole wall be countdown clocks. Yeah. I love that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we got a countdown to the to the World Cup. That’s crazy. I was I was going to say what’s crazy that you’re going to be 40. Yeah. Oh, watch. We will not still be doing this podcast. Yeah, we will. Just make think about it all day every day when he’s at work. What the [ __ ] are you going to do? You’re going to be doing this podcast. I don’t. Yeah, you are. That’s That would be crazy. Yeah, you are. You’re he’s going to be 60 years old lashing out at people because he screwed up the Mount Rushmore of D easily digestible foods. Um, okay. Uh, I love that. We should get a couple countdown clocks going. Uh, Zack, get on that. Uh, PFT, what’s your Firefest? Uh, I mean, my firefest is that I’m sick, which which sucks. So, woke up in the middle of the night, cold sweat, chills, aches, not looking for any sympathy. Um, but I did happen to Google the effects of a brown recluse spider bite this morning. Uhoh. And I’ll just put it at that. Are those all the Are those all the effects? Like killed you from the grave. Do you have a spot on you? Like do you have a Sometimes it I read that it can take hours, sometimes days for the symptom to show up. Oh. So this could have it could have happened a couple days ago after I talked all that [ __ ] I don’t I don’t think that’s what it is, but I did I did notice that I got a spider bite on my arm. So, I don’t I don’t think it’s a brown recluse. It doesn’t look like a brown recluse bite, but sometimes they change. Wouldn’t it uh wouldn’t the the bite like have like a bunch of marks on it and stuff? I guess when it first pops up, it just looks like a normal spider bite, which is what the circle look like. That’s it. Yeah, I would show it to you. It’s like It’s right up here on the bicep. Uh, and I also think that I would have noticed the brown recluse on my arm. It’s not a small spider. So, well, and there’s only one, you said, and you killed it. It could be when you were sleeping. It could have been that one. There was only one, but he killed it. Yeah, I killed it. There’s no other ones. That one might have gotten me before I got it. Got it. You know, kind of like both two worthy competitors going out on their swords. Even though you killed it a week ago. I killed on Friday. Okay. So, that was almost a week ago. Almost a week ago. And yeah, I I put it at like 25% chance it’s a brown recluse spider bite that’s making me feel and you have more brown recluse spiders in your house. No, I don’t. There’s just the one. I haven’t seen any other ones. Got it. Uh but but it is like I’m glad that I’m going through this right now as opposed to next week on grit week because that that would suck. It’s like my body knows, hey, you got to get in shape for next week. Pain is just weakness leaving the body. So, I’m going to be at maximum strength next week. Iron sharpens iron. So, if it is a brown recluse spider bite, it’s like at the end of the day, we’re just two competitors going out there on the field of battle. And I I think I got the final victory against it. But he might have he might have dinged me up on the way out. Yeah. But that that’s okay. Uh that’s okay. We’ll we’ll definitely wasn’t one of his other like brothers getting revenge for you killing it friend. Definitely wasn’t that. No, spiders are dumb. They don’t they don’t know revenge. They don’t understand vengeance. Uh but yeah, that’s that’s pretty much it. Pretty clean week besides that. Um, overall nothing really to complain about. Very excited about grit week next week. Yes. Very excited. Very excited for grit week. Uh, all right. My firefest is I we we’ve we’ve talked about this. I mean, PFT, we’re 40. Um, I’m I’m getting close to a a moment where I have to make a decision of whether I should retire or not from from from sports and and activity fun activities with the boys. My body’s broken. We played softball at 10 PM last night. I have like four injuries. I puked after the game because it was so hot and I was so uncomfortable that I pulled trigger after the game and I’ve been running so much that uh I don’t know what to do. I’m I’m either going to do yoga or testosterone. Those are my two options. So, I I don’t know if people want to weigh in and tell me which one I should do, but something has to fix because I can barely walk right now and I played softball. I think you need to look at what other very successful 40-year-old athletes do like LeBron James. And I don’t think he’d do either one of those two things. So, I need to go to Miami for a couple weeks for a while. Yeah. Go. And maybe Yeah. Just like take a an extended break to regain weight that you lost in a mysterious illness. Mhm. Uh, by the way, did you see what Jeff Teague put up on Instagram to apologize? Yeah. He was just joking. That was He went create mode. Yeah. That’s That’s like prolevel notes app that he used to apologize. But yeah, once you turn 40 and you start exercising at all, you just collect injuries. You wake up in the morning and your foot hurts and you’re like, “Well, I guess my foot’s going to hurt for the rest of my life.” Yoga, you got to comm I don’t think you’re doing yoga. No, I think it’s testoster. Yeah. My problem is I in my head I can still do everything like I can still in my head and I enjoy it. That’s the That’s the real issue is I enjoy going out with the boys playing softball. What was that? Continue. Finish. No finish. I enjoy going out with the boys playing softball. Yeah. What was No, I’m saying there’s there’s other, you know, activities. You can go out with the boys and and participate in comp competitive sports like things. I that aren’t going to hurt you as much. I don’t want to play golf. Okay. I like to play softball. I like to It’s fun. It’s fun with the boys. It is. I I’ll play golf, too, but I don’t I Can we keep it to real sports? Yeah, [ __ ] Okay. Uh like playing pickup hoops here. I don’t know. I don’t want to give it up. I don’t want to give it up. I’ve got a possible solution for you. Yeah. What about tennis? No. We get we get into tennis and then we start becoming tennis boys and then the the pod numbies go way up on the roof. No. Uh pickle ball. I would never play pickle ball. I don’t know. I don’t have a solution besides golf. Testosterone. Testosterone. Golf and testosterone are my two solutions. But I just it sucks cuz I do we had fun. Max Hank’s not on the team by the way anymore PFT. So don’t worry. Uh it’s just me and Max memes. So he’s he’s out. He got retired too. Yeah. I We had fun even though it was a million degrees last night. Sorry I want to play if I I’m not playing regular season not being able to play the playoffs. What’s the point? I don’t know. Going out with the boys. Having fun. Going out with the boys having fun. Exactly. That’s that’s the fun part. But yeah, I I I literally can’t like my my I didn’t sleep last night because my leg I like one leg is hurt and the other leg is I keep getting cramped up. It sucks. It sucks. Nothing worse than like Was that your first game of the season? No, second that I played in was our third as a team. But yeah, I uh it was 90° out. That was the problem. It had the hot wind, so it was really the elements were [ __ ] me up bad. Like I was drenched in sweat and then I had to pull the trigger. I was sitting on the bench after the game and I was like, “If I don’t puke right now, I might pass out because I’m just like so exhausted.” And I puked, made some room and cuz like I took a sip of water and I was like, “Oh, I need I need room.” And I had to make room. So, there’s a uh an ultra competitive 16-inch softball league that plays right next to my house. And I stopped by. Yes. I was taking Blake on a walk yesterday. We walked past the game that’s going on and I had to just sit and marvel as a spectator. like really competitive 16inch softball. Oh, yeah. Is way more exciting to watch than pickle ball. Oh, yeah. These guys were screaming. They were they were placing their line drives like within a a 10ft span of where they were aiming. It was awesome. These dudes rock. Yeah. I used to play in one on on this one is uh the one we play in now is not really competitive, which I think that’s probably the step down. But I just turning getting to that age where you’re like, I want to keep doing the fun things with my friends, but I physically can’t is just brutal. So, I think it’s testosterone. Mhm. I think that’s a good answer. Yeah, dude. Like, when you go on the uh the testosterone supplemental stuff, you end up looking awesome. I don’t know if you’ve seen Alex Jones recently. Yeah, that’s all man. That guy’s going to live forever. Yeah, he looks great. He took up smoking, too, recently, which that’s [ __ ] cool as [ __ ] to take up smoking when you’re like 55 years old. Yeah. Uh, Zack, you got one? I do. I do have a Fireface this week. Uh, something happened a little earlier in the week. pretty eye- openening experience for me. Uh, as you guys know, uh, going through the office, sometimes there’s like some leftover takeout orders that linger around and they’re like, “Hey, would you like some fries? Maybe you like some chicken strips.” So, I did I did, uh, take the offer some chicken strips before I, uh, left the office. Uh, Muse was kind enough to give me a ride home. And then I, unbeknownst to me, I was like, “All right, it’s late. We’re here in the evening time. Let me grab some dinner.” So, I walked into the McDonald’s with McDonald’s and Oh, no, Zach. I didn’t think about it and it was so much shame. Oh, no, Zach. It was like I had I You brought you brought sand to the beach. I did. I 100% did. I didn’t want to leave the reg the rest of Tenders and Memes’s car, so I brought them with me to the McDonald’s. It just didn’t register that I was walking in there with it. So, you were standing there in McDonald’s holding McDonald’s. Ordering McDonald’s. Yes. Like, it looks like I I’m about to have a complaint with my current order, but I was really just there to order. It was very eye opening and we’re going to diet it so hard. That’s awesome. It’s like when you go into a gas station, you’ve already got a 20 oz soda in your hand and you like show the guy, you’re like, I I already got this. You tell people at McDonald’s like, “Hey, I brought this from home. I’m not stealing it.” Yeah. You always declare it. You declare it as you walk in. You’re like, “Just so you know, bringing this Bringing this in.” Yeah. Oh no, Zach. That’s a tough one. So, just never again. Yeah. I don’t know if it’s like a routine I built and it’s like autopilot I need to go and they’re all everything’s so close or what, but we’re just making insane life changes starting today. When you did go, did you get did you get the nuggets still? I I went uh So, yeah, they had a they had a a deal on the app. So, two fries, 20 nuggets. So, that was an instant cop. And then I the snack wraps back. So, I ripped some snack wraps. Oh, hell yes. Snack wraps so bad. Okay. So, was this burgers? Yeah, they were singles. Wait, what? When is this? Wait, hold on. Say the whole order now. Hold on. Say the whole order now. I knew what the order was. I knew Say the whole order. That was That was in private, Max. And you just brought that was That’s all. That’s all me. People want to know. The people want to know the order. The people want to know the order. Okay. It was It was just two fries and 20 nuggets. Because of the deal, I I had a couple snack wraps and then I went cheeseburgers, but single cheeseburgers and and the the those were like a roadie situation. Cheeseburgers on the way to the office. 20 nuggets, two fries, and extra tenders. Yes, the He didn’t eat the tenders. He didn’t eat the tenders. I did eat them, but they were on the way. It doesn’t count. That was like an in. Those don’t count. Those don’t count. How many sack wraps? Only two. Okay. Two cheeseburgers. Yes, but single patty. I’d like to press. Were these the Nashville tenders we got last week? Was that that? Yeah. Yeah. No, the big ones. Yeah. No, no. Is it McDonald’s? Yeah. Yeah. Christian McChicks. Yeah. The uh No. So, you just went you just did your regular order. You’re just like instead of a double cheeseburger, I’m going to add a snapper snack. Single and go snack wrap. Yes. And also chicken burgers, right? Yes. Two of them, but it was they’re singles though, right? So, like half of what the usual what I would consider dinner. Oh, that’s brutal. No dessert? No. There was so much shame walking out of that McDonald’s. I I couldn’t even think of eating ever again. Have you guys ever walked into a fast food place with a fast food item from a different fast food restaurant? No. No. I did that a couple times, but it was because like I liked Waterburger burgers when I was in Texas, but I would Their fries sucked. So, I would get fries from McDonald’s and then bring the fries from McDonald’s into Waterburger. I would do I do that with um Uber Eats. Like there’s one place I like I like crab ranging from this one place and I like the like Thai food from another place and I’ll double order. Mhm. I’ll get one. I’ll get both cuz I’m like I want I basically make my perfect meal through multiple Uber Eats. The The only problem with that, similar what Zach’s talking about, is when they both show up at the same time. That’s always a little awkward where you’re like, “Oh, we’re just like doing a Uber Eats gang bang here.” Yeah. And you got to kind of explain yourself. So, yeah. But Zach, that rocks. That’s awesome. That’s That’s a dude’s rock. It happens. Zach also only eats one meal a day, so it’s fine. I’ve offered him food in the middle of the day and he turns it down. Yeah. No, he’s he he’s allowed to eat whatever he wants for dinner cuz he only eats one meal a day. Don’t get sluggish. That’s how how the the eating thing works. That’s a real diet. It’s called OMAD. Yeah. Yeah. Uh memes, would you like to say anything about Justin Fields, which we talked about at the beginning of the show, but uh how are you feeling? This is actually we’re taping this part uh early in the day, so this is instant reaction. We don’t really know as we’re sitting here, so we’re getting instant memes reaction. Are you okay? Uh I’m not okay. Uh I’m down bad right now. Uh there’s no update. The update was that he was standing behind a tree and then got carded off. So nobody knows what actually what’s happening if it’s serious. Will you let me give you a spin zone or are you not ready for it now? Let’s hear it. It doesn’t sound like you’re ready for it. His phone is just playing a loop of the meme of the guy drinking bleach and killing himself. It’s just a It’s just a constant loop that’s playing in front of him. I mean, all right. I I don’t think you’re I don’t think he’s mentally Do you think he’s mentally ready for it? No. No, because he already got he already got mad at me if I tried it out and he got he yelled at me. It’s a bad take. It’s not a bad take here. You know what? I’ll I’ll tell it to you, PFT. Not to memes. Take your headphones off, memes. Um, I heard it. It’s It’s not that big of a deal because Justin Fields isn’t good. And this might actually be a good thing in the long run. That’s not a bad spin song. Like, but but the only thing the best part about Justin Fields is when he’s on your team, you can get excited because you’re like, what if he’s good this year? Right. Of course. So, you’re miss you’re missing out on the on the entire month of of August asking yourself, what if he’s just awesome? What if they get a quarterback that’s better than Justin Fields for this season? Or they get a great draft pick and there’s a lot of quarterbacks coming up. Like, again, this is not to memes. I’m I’m actually This is actually how I feel. So, I’m like doing it in peace. Uh what memes? It’s a good take. It’s a bad take. It’s a good take. Justin Fields was never going to win you like was never going to get you to the playoffs. Justin Fields was never going to win you a lot of games. Justin Fields was going to be exciting a little bit and then not do much and you would be stuck in the kind of mediocrity. The like if if Patrick Mahomes like gets carded off in preseason like Chiefs fans being like I want to drink bleach that makes sense. That’s your season. You had a real chance. There was no Joseph Beiels isn’t that good. Yeah, I mean I’m doing this nice say you’re trying to be nice. Those Bears were terrible. Didn’t have an offensive line. Didn’t have receivers. Bears averaged 27 points allowed on defense. Terrible. He never had a chance. He started off four and two as a starter. And was that because of him or the defense? You manage the game, you win the game. You’re a quarterback. All right. But you you do do what’s the ceiling for him on the Jets? Our offensive line is good. Our running back’s good. We have Gary Wilson. Okay. I’m I don’t want him to get hurt. I’m not rooting for him to get hurt. I want him to be healthy. I want him to be healthy. I just want that clear. I’m just saying if he is hurt, this would have this would have been Justin Field’s best chance to be good. I’m saying some coaching real quick, big cat. Uh it’s it’s too soon for memes. Yeah. No, that’s why I said that’s why I was saying it to you. That’s why I was saying it to you, not to memes. And I actually am like I’m not trying to be like a dick here. I’m actually trying to like be like, “Hey, this could end up working out long term.” But yeah, we’ll we could talk about it later. Like Yeah. I mean, it’s like right when your buddy breaks up with somebody. Yeah. The first thing you don’t say is is like this is going to be so good for you in the long No, I And that’s not what I’m saying. It’s not like it’s not like an awesome thing. I’m not like, “Oh, you should be rooting for this.” I’m just It’s more like a trying to spin zone. But yeah, I’m I’m being sensitive to this situation. Here’s what I would love to see for for your Jets memes. Joe Milton to the New York Jets. Can I say a name that that is a better quarterback than Justin Fields? Who? Joe Milton. Kirk Cousins. Kirk Cousins was so bad at the end of last year. Kirk Cousins is a better quarterback than Justin Fields memes in his prime. Kirk Cousins a better quarterback than Justin Fields. Did you see that Denver game last year? I saw it. But I’m just telling you like that is a your season might end up turning. That’s where I’m trying to come from. Like that’s a guy who you could maybe go a little bit further in the season, have more fun. Like think about that. Now you’re See, that’s not bad. No, Kirk sucks, too. What about It’s too early. It’s too early. Make a play for Aaron Rogers. All right. See, that was mean. That was mean what he did. I wasn’t being mean. Memes. You agree? That was mean. That was mean. That was way more mean than me trying to help pick you up and being like, “Hey, this could work out in the long run.” You’re right. That was mean. Yeah. All right. Thank you. You kind of saved me. What’s the thinking behind Aaron Rogers? Uh, just to make you mad. That’s pretty much just to be mean. That was a That was a great good cop, bad cop. That shifted 180°. You saved me. No, like when you get off the Zoom like cuz I could see Me’s face. I could see how he gets like he he I was on the kill I was top on the kill list for a second there, but as soon as you get off the Zoom and like you you uh leave the Zoom, I’m going to go up to memes and be like, “Dude, what a [ __ ] dick that was by PFT.” And he’s like, “Yeah, and I’m I’ll be fine.” And for the record, like I’m only saying that to memes because I’m behind the safety of a screen right now. Yeah. And you help me out. I owe you a solid I owe you a save my life verse memes. Uh, get out of get out of saving my save my life against memes card. Get off of hit list card. Yes, I owe you one. Yeah. Uh, I do want to see Joe Milton play though. Me and Max were talking before we started recording. Me and Max love Joe Milton and we want to see him play football. And it sucks that he’s on the Cowboys. Can we because we can’t really root for him. So, any quarterback that gets hurt, I think I’m just going to be like, Joe Milton, get Joe Milton. And he’s not. You throw the ball up. Broadway Joe. He is not good. He is good. Look how he’s so fun quarterbacking. What are we doing right now? I’ve already been looking at his training camp highlights. They He’s not good at quarterbacking. What are we doing? He threw an orange 106 yards, dude. That That part is hard to go. Like I’m I don’t really have a response to that. Okay, you know that. It’s awesome. No, I don’t have a response. Would you say Joe would be so fun as a starting quarterback in the NFL? My Joe Milton debates always go he’s not good and then and then it’s just a a a ticking time. We should actually put up a timer like and someone just says, “Oh, he threw an orange 100 yards.” I’m like, “Well, [ __ ] Now I’m done.” 106. It was 106 yards. All right. Uh, let’s uh Well, grit week. Grit week. Get excited. Grit week Monday. Awesome. Grit week planned. Get excited. Big guest. Big guest. Big big guest. Uh, memes numbers. You go first. No one say it. Seven. Whoa. I was going to [ __ ] take that. Seven. Why? Trusting Bill’s number. I’ll take. Oh, he changed from one. I’ll take three. You said three. I already I already had three. I’ll take I’ll take one with the Justin Fields. I know. Let’s see what he was in the Steelers. I think he was one PFT. I’ll take 92. 13. I’m rooting for you, memes. Two. No, he’s not hurt. I’m rooting. No, I’m rooting for you in this for the Steelers. I’m taking two. Two. Oh, he was two. Wait, was he two? Yeah, he was two. Oh, yeah. He was two station. 31 31 31 Love you guys.