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Welcome to pardon my take. Today is Friday, October 13. And it hurts me to say this, but Max was right.

Congrats, Max.

Max was right.

The bank won tonight, and Max was.

Right more than anything. Our big long debate, which I'm sure some people didn't love on Wednesday's show, I thought it was very funny. It was the epitome of this show, debating stupid things over and over. Max said that after game two, cassianos barreled one up, and that was good vibes. What did Cassianos do the next two games? He hit four home runs.

Someone has to be dead in the world right now. Somebody very important passed away for Castellanos to go on this tear that he's been on. Congrats, Max.

Congrats, Max. You slayed the braves.

It had to take you spitting in my face to do it.

I'm sorry about the spit.

I forgive you.

What happened?

It's too much to explain. I got mad.

Castellanos hit a home run. You spit on PF?

Well, I was yelling at that was it.

I was yelling at no, you hawked a luggie on PF.

I know, but the home run was because he said that we weren't getting.

Barrels and that yeah, which is a trigger word for Max, we learned. Don't say barrels.

He's a barrel chested man. Yeah, but Max stood up, started screaming. And with Max, you know how the line between anger and pure joy is very much blurred? It's like the horseshoe theory. On one side, you're happy. On one side, you're sad. When Max gets so happy, he actually gets furious. And so he just started screaming. And then a loogie about the size of a silver dollar flew out of his mouth, and I was in the splash zone. He didn't mean to. It wasn't intentional spit.

But he spit on you.

But my arm got spat on nonetheless. I disinfected it. I burned my arm. So I think you have been sick for the last six weeks.

No, I feel good.

Whatever you got, I got.

So, Max, congratulations. Take down the Braves. Bloopy beside himself. Yeah, he tweets something like C in a couple weeks. Cowards way out.

What does that mean?

I don't know.

I don't know, but we got to read some of the replies to that. He's definitely getting ratio, getting killed.

Max NLCS d backs. Will you be rooting for our friend Dan Heron?

No, not okay.

Well, that's fucked up.

I also was not rooting.

He's our good friend.

You and Hank.

He's our good friend anybody that's ever.

Been on the show.

Yeah.

We love Dan. He was one of our first guests.

Dan Heron. Great guy, Dan Heron. You guys don't remember this? We also went to battle last year because he said that Rob Thompson wasn't a good manager. And then we started fighting. And then when the Phillies kept winning, I kept tweeting at him. What do you think about Rob Thompson now? What do you think about Rob Thompson now?

He probably didn't see any of.

Max versus Dan Heron. That's what this is about.

Okay. I'm excited.

Max, I'm happy for you. I really am.

Again.

Love the Phillies. They seem to have good vibes. They're an easy team to root for. Also, what we learned this series, Braves, kind of soft, kind of complainers. Yeah, they like to complain. And listen, if you're a Braves fan, you won a World Series a couple years ago, be happy with that. But now, you seemed pretty soft this postseason. Between the complaining about a reporter tweeting out an accurate statement from the clubhouse and you're like, that broke the sanctity of the clubhouse law. Give me a fucking break. Number one on that.

And then it was a cesspitus BBQ guy.

Yeah, yeah. And they just tweeted out, what the guy their job. And then the Braves fans acted like who was the person that said it? They acted like RCA had to be protected because English isn't his first language. It's like, how could you do this when he can't defend himself? It's like he said it. He actually said so. It's like a report. Whatever the second thing was, it acunya tonight that held up the iPad for the television cameras being like, look, that wasn't a strike that they called on me. He held up a camera. Or he held up an iPad to the camera to say, Look, I was right. The umpires are wrong.

Do you think they have a red carpet waiting for them at home?

I don't know. They should make a carpet.

I do.

Out of bloopy's skin fur.

Max, I know you won't agree with any of this. I do feel bad for Braves fans. Baseball losses, like, quick baseball losses are the most painful because you spend an entire summer invested in a team 162 games, one of the best offenses of all time, and then you go out like that. What they end up scoring in their three losses? Would they score three runs? Yeah, they scored zero runs. Game one, two, game three and one tonight. That's tough.

That's tough.

Best offense in the history of baseball.

Yeah.

And it's just like that. It's over. And you're like, the whole season is for not but the Phillies keep going. The Banks stood up statement games from the bank.

We got home field against the D backs.

Against the Rangers.

D backs don't yeah, no, the D.

Backs the D backs are scary. The D backs are scary.

They're very zach Gallon is for real.

I'm not looking at that team lightly.

At all in thought.

Yeah, but you get to reset. You get a weekend off.

Weekend off. I'm not kidding. The weekend I'm so looking forward to a weekend of not having my blood pressure at I don't even know.

People were saying you might have a heart attack.

I could. I should wear a what are those things? I'm struggling with words.

We won't make stream, like, the first couple games. Yeah. I think Thursday night's, game three, we'll stream that.

Okay.

And then we'll figure out from there.

That sounds give the people a break. Max, talk me through your emotions when you go back and you watch yourself on stream, like, later, after the fact.

I try not to watch any of it because it's never, like, a pretty sight. I'm never doing something that I look at, although the jump, I may.

You were sick.

I like the shirt rip off, too. That's just primal.

Yeah.

You thought about doing it tonight? I was so close to doing it.

And I was like, dude, a lot.

Of people are saying you look strong.

I know. That's what I'm saying. I can't do it again because that's all angles. I got a good angle. And you don't want to keep testing.

You look like Alex Jones. After his diet, he's just flexing a.

Little harder and a little also, before his diet.

And before his diet.

I'm fine with that build.

Yeah. All right. So the Phillies are into the NLCS. We're going to talk more baseball with our good friend Jared Carabas coming up. There was a football game tonight, and the Broncos are officially, like, the saddest team in the world.

So sad. So sad. So Russell Wilson stinks.

He stinks.

He's wearing a wristband, though. Did you see his wristband?

He's wearing a wristband.

It was like size zero zero eight. Font. He had every play on it.

He turtles so fast in the pocket. He threw for 95 yards. It was not even like, I know that it looks, if you look at it, 19 eight. No, it was never close. The Chiefs were up 16 nothing for what felt like the entirety of the game until the Broncos scored with, like, five minutes left. But, yeah, the Broncos are tied now for their worst start in franchise history. Sean Payton. Like, I think they might bench Russell Wilson.

They might.

He's played himself out of a hall of Fame career, as well.

They might. And also, Sean Payton called maybe the worst timeout that I've ever seen in a football game tonight.

Did it matter?

Well, at the time it did, it was at the end of the second quarter, and there were 22 seconds left. And the Broncos were about I think they were about to punt. And they called a timeout. And then they gave the Chiefs the ball. It made zero sense.

And then the Chiefs and the Chiefs.

Kicked, like, a 60 yard field goal. That would have been good from 80. And then the game was over. Also, Andy Reed, I think Andy Reid is bored with the NFL. I think Andy Reid, he's made himself play the NFL on expert mode with the weird shit that he's obsessed with doing, because I think that this Chiefs offense, if they wanted to play just normal football would have beaten the fuck out of the Broncos. It could have been 30, 40 point win. But they do all these weird plays, almost like Andy is just like he's playing with his food. He's like, I know I'm going to win, so I'm just going to get.

Really weird with it.

And maybe in practice, maybe the Chiefs are so bored winning games. Normally that in practice, Andy's like, I got to do something fun to keep these guys attention on football. So I'll do, like, double pass back and have my backup wide receiver throw a screen to my running back and then get, like, three tight ends out in space blocking for him.

It's crazy.

It's wild.

It's crazy. Patrick Mahomes, now, he is still never lost to the Denver Broncos, which is an insane stat. I think he's 16. And now the last time the Broncos beat the Chiefs was Peyton Manning.

That's crazy.

It's nuts. That's such utter domination. 2015.

Part of my take didn't exist.

Part of my take didn't exist the last time the Broncos beat the Chiefs.

That is insane to think about.

It's insane to think about.

I was 23.

It might not exist the next time. It's going to be so long.

That's fucked up, Hank.

Yeah.

What the fuck, Hank?

No, I'm saying Mahomes has got a long career ahead.

You're trying to split up the show right now?

All right, my bad.

That was unnecessary.

Henry, these are my favorite things to look at.

No, I just whatever.

What?

I was thinking, like, 15 years, you.

Might not be alive.

How about that?

You might not be alive.

None of us might be.

The last time the Broncos beat the Chiefs, they made it the Chiefs, they call today a present. The Broncos made their rivalry. When they last beat the Chiefs, it was 57 55, all time Chiefs. And now it is 72 55.

That's very sad.

That's very sad. They were that close.

Also, Taylor Swift was at the game tonight. She was in the box. So is Brittany. Mahomes showed her a lot. They showed Taylor and Brittany embracing a little bit up in the box. Do you think they're actually they looked like they were friends.

They did.

Is that a show for the cameras? I might have to wait to see if maybe show me a video. Actually, no. Show me an Instagram post where they each take pictures of themselves with each other. Where they post a picture where their friend looks way less cute than they do. And then I'll know their best friends yes.

Post the worst picture of them on their friend's birthday. But you look good.

Exactly. That's how you know that it's real.

Yes. Hopefully we don't get canceled for that one. I would like to see it. I think I see the real picture.

I think every woman listening to the show is like, yeah, that's what we do.

You're right. Okay, what else before we get to the week six pixel preview? Oh, is our ad going today?

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All right, tweet us that. I'm excited.

We've got some hard copies, too.

Oh, they are?

Yeah. Beautiful.

We'll get them framed. Will you get them framed? Yeah, I can work on it. Love it. Thank you, Jake. Great job.

Thank you, guys.

Very cool shout.

Dana Holgerson.

Yeah.

I had Virginia.

Yeah.

Fuck you.

Hey, did you not know that you.

Had didn't I didn't know you bet West Virginia. I didn't have a bet on the just, you know, like, the friends of.

Our don't we have a lot of friends in West Virginia, too, so it's tough.

Yeah.

That was crazy.

I mean, that was college football and it's fine.

It was a clean shot.

Hank.

It was college football and it's fine.

I actually didn't know it was just a crazy game.

No, I know it was nuts. And also, you can't be mad about it if you had West Virginia, because you should never have even been in a spot to cover. And then Houston had a Hail Mary with 7 seconds left. Squib kicks. Squib kicks. Squib your kicks. I'm happy for Dana, though. The first win in the big twelve. I'm happy for Coach Dana. He is our good friend. Okay, let's kick it to ourselves. Week six, picks and preview.

I actually got a question about that. Do you think that Dana would get more drunk after a heartbreaking loss to West Virginia or after a miracle win against West Virginia?

Miracle win. That was a drinking win.

Yeah.

He'll be drunk till Monday, and rightfully so.

He's going to have a great time. Yeah, that was a great win for them. He earned it in the program. Okay, picks and preview. And then Jared Carabas, and we'll see you on the other end with firefest as well. Okay. Week six picks and preview. Brought to you by our friends at Uber Eats. It's football season, and you can now get almost anything you need for game day delivered with Uber Eats. What do we mean by almost? Well, you can't get a running back delivered, but you can get baby back ribs delivered. A strong defense, that's a no. But a strong deodorant, that's a yes. A six pack of ABS, definitely no. But a six pack of beer? Uber Eats can get you that. There you have it. Get almost anything for a game day delivered with Uber Eats official on demand food delivery partner, the NFL. Order now alcohol and select markets in 21 plus to order. Product availability may vary by region. See app for details. Uber eats get almost anything. Order now with Uber eats. What are we going to order for Sunday, boys? What about wings?

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Over tenders. Also good right now. Barbecue barbecue. Barbecue. All right, let's get into the games. Week six will be the first time officially say we are a third of the way through the season. Oh, shut up. Don't say that. But it is so fast. It's crazy how fast it goes. I know you hate it when I say it, but I use it. I don't say it as a negative. I see it as a embrace every moment. Smell the roses. We love football. Football is on. We're in day, whatever. Ten of 50 straight football days. Just stop and have a moment where you're like, oh, yeah, this is awesome. This is what I like about life.

Tell you what, a third of the way through, I can live with that. If you pull the thing where you say, we're halfway done, I'm going to burn the studio down.

All right, so then I'll go two thirds after this weekend, we've hit the first period.

Okay.

All right.

Yeah.

Regular season. We still have a whole month after that, of course.

Point. Regular season.

Super wild card.

Good point.

Regular.

And then there's March Madness after that.

We're fine.

Yeah, they're the best. They're the best. Okay, first game, London game. Another London game. Ravens and titans. I have a couple things about this game. First is the travel schedule definitely favors the Ravens. I looked into it.

Without a doubt.

Ravens flew on Monday. Titans flew on Thursday night.

Thursday night after practice, after practice, I went back, I did some research, actually, on the Ravens and their travel record and how they do. So the last time they played in London was 2017. They went there on Thursday night. That was Harbaugh's strategy. That was the worst loss that John Harbaugh has ever had in his career as a head coach. They lost 40 47 to the Jaguars this year. They're going early. They already went there. They've been there since Monday. They've been acclimated to British life right now. I don't know why the Titans are flying out late.

Last time they went there in a loss.

I don't know why teams do that.

But they failed the two point conversion with time running out. So when Vrable was asked about this, he's like, yeah, the only difference is we're going to try to get the two point conversion this time.

So that's perfect variable answer, because his explanation for it was just basically, we're going full speed ahead this week. He's just like, fuck it. That's his strategy is fuck it. Losers complain about time zones, but in this case, I don't know why a team wouldn't choose to go out there earlier in the week unless it's the owner saying, we don't want to pay for hotels.

It doesn't make any sense. In fact, get there.

So the Titans practice this week with their throwback helmets on. They're spending more time getting ready for their throwback helmets next week. Smart than they are, but that is smart. It is smart than they are about.

This week, so be ready for the throwback.

I'm going to hammer the throwback uniforms against the Falcons next week, but this week mike, come on.

Yeah.

Ravens first half.

Get your ass on a plane.

Megalock. Okay, so here's my take. I'm kind of sick of the London game, and let me just explain it before anyone tells me I'm wrong. I like the early football. It's fun. I'm sick of the fact that they have made something that was unique and different into just every week. When it was, like, twice a year and it was spaced out, it was kind of cool, like, oh, shit, we got a bonus game. This is the third week in a row they're just changing the schedule on us. They're slowly getting our brains ready for football at 830 in the morning. I don't know. I liked how cool and unique it was, and now it doesn't feel cool and unique. It just feels like a burden.

It's like interleague play. Right. So what's probably going to happen is in the next, like, two to three years, there might be four games a season over there.

I think next week is they're not the Germany.

Well, the Germany. I'm talking about London.

That's a few weeks.

Okay.

All right. Third in a row.

Yeah.

So it's the third in a row. Next year, there'll be four in a row. Year after that, maybe five in a row. And next thing you know, we're going to have a team in London and we're not even going to notice. We're just going to be ready for it.

I know. So I'm saying right now I noticed. Yeah, I noticed. I noticed what you're doing. NFL, there's nothing I can do to stop it, but count me in the group of people who notice.

So it used to be that they would screw over, like, two teams a season in terms of travel schedule. Now they're screwing over, I think, seven or eight teams. So it's like a third of the league is getting boned on this London European football.

No, we're going week nine and week ten. And week ten.

Yeah.

So week nine, is that also is that Germany? And then week ten is Germany as well.

So they're going back again. So this is going to be five out of seven weeks. That again, I like more football, different time slots. I think that if the NFL was really smart, what they would do is adopt more of, like, a college football schedule. If we played 12:00 Eastern was like, four games. 330 Eastern was like, another four games, a couple of games at six, and then one game at eight. Yeah, that would be cool.

Yeah.

And it does feel like more football, but we forget it's the exact same amount of football that we'd have. It's just at different times.

But yes, it's just lost the allure. It used to be something very cool like, whoa, this is so unique. Now it's just, oh, another Sunday. Yes. They're playing a weird game over in London.

People on the West Coast, they get boned by this harder than anybody. We're going to stand up for the West Coast a little bit.

Well, I don't like when West Coast people are like, oh, it's the best time zone. And then you just say, like, oh, so what are you doing for Monday Night Football? Like, oh, well, I'm sitting on the 405.

Yeah.

Or coming home from work, or what do you do for London football? London Morning football.

What do you do for college football?

Yeah.

Starts at 09:00.

A.m. Yeah.

You can't tailgate for something. Although I guess you could make the argument that you could just stay up all night drunk and then roll right.

Into I also don't think people in La are getting up, know, eight in the morning being like, man, got to make sure that I'm up for Rutgers versus Maryland. Yeah, probably not, but they will have to now because it will be UCLA versus Rutgers. You're going to have to watch.

Okay.

Nerd Nugget for this game, the Ravens.

Have rushed for at least 100 yards in 21 straight games, marking the NFL's longest active streak. San Francisco is second with eleven games.

Okay, good.

Nerd Nugget. There was the clip of Joey Porter telling Odell Beckham, like, go spend more time with your family after the end of that game. It occurred to me yesterday what he was talking about. He was probably telling him to go ask his dad to cut up more highlights of him being open downfield. That's what that meant. Odell was open a couple of times and you get fooled by the screenshots where they have like, okay, this wide receiver is wide open on this play. You're like, why can't you throw it.

To that was it was a great game. The Ravens Steelers game of do you watch ball, bro? Because if you just look at the box score, you can be like, Lamar sucked.

Yeah.

And if you watch the game, you're like, Lamar was not the problem. Their receivers, I think it's a bounce back game for the Ravens receivers. I think they're going to catch everything.

Well, they can't drop as many passes as they did last week.

They definitely can.

I don't know. I think they maxed out on that one. I do like the Ravens, though, and I'm entirely basing this on travel.

Yes.

Hank, what were you going to say?

I mean, last week was as bad.

As it gets, but it could get worse.

I don't know. I really don't think it could.

They could try.

They could try.

They could definitely try. Okay, next game, Seahawks at Bengals. We have DK metcalf saying that David Witherspoon will get the best of Jamar Chase. And then Jamar Chase retweeted that clip on his Twitter. So he saw it.

It's a legion of spoon. Yeah, I had a dream, and I get a dream bet once every I'd say, I don't know, eight, nine months. And my dream bets always hit. So this is official PFT dream bet that I'm putting out in my sleep last night before DK Metcalf put this out there. I dreamt that Witherspoon was going to put the absolute clamps on Jamar Chase in the game. I dreamt a post game press conference with Jamar Chase being frustrated with him, asking him if he was always open this game. I had the entire thing say no. Yeah, he was like, no. He said, hats off to Devin Witherspoon. Hats off.

Hats off. Hats off.

So I'm betting the under on his receiving yards this week. That's just I got to follow the system. I think I'm two and O lifetime on dream bets.

There's also potential weather. Weather isn't real, but there is potential weather this time of year. We're starting to get a weather time. I think there might be some winds. Joe Burrow, though, looks like he's fully healthy. Was in practice this week, not wearing anything on his leg. His leg does look skinnier, but he was moving around. He didn't have the brace on. He didn't have the sleeve on his calf. So I think Joe Burrow, he did the impossible. He played himself back into health.

Yeah, he played football until he was no longer injured from playing football.

Yeah.

This is going to be a big test, though, for the Bengals, because part of me says, OOH, the Bengals are back. And then you got to remember, they also did play the Cardinals, right.

Who are feisty, but the Cardinals win game. They are the cardinals. Jamal Adams is back. Apparently. I think he's back blitzboy. And it's very disrespectful, but it's also very true.

It's a memes original, isn't it? Did you come up with Boy? No. Maybe Jack Maguire did. Someone on the Barstool main account started calling him Blitz Boy a few years ago, and I just love it.

It's like slant man and two the two Avengers.

He also has Jamal Adams. You should take away some of your paraphernalia on your arms until you start playing well again. He has way too much stuff going on. I think he has, like, six or seven weird armbands. You got to minimize that until you start playing well. Then you can add them back.

So the theme of this week is travel in the NFL. So I looked up more travel information about the Seahawks. They've won 15 of their last 18 early kickoffs when it's 10:00, a.m. Pacific time, and the Seahawks are 16 and four, including playoffs in the Eastern time zone since 2018. Because Pete has them travel early. Yeah, Pete gets it. Yeah, I'm betting.

Get it.

I'm doing all these games on travel.

This week to travel. The theme of your week.

The theme of my week travel and dreams.

Travel and dreams. Okay. What's your nerd nugget?

Since the start of the 2020 season, bengals quarterback Joe Burrow has 18 touchdown passes of 40 or more yards, which is the most in the NFL.

That was a hiccup from Max sorry.

Last week.

He throws deep.

Yeah, he throws deep.

I didn't even hear this nerd nugget because I was just sorry.

I'm sorry. No, the hiccups. The hiccups. I'm a big just one hiccup. Whatever.

Continue.

One hiccup.

No, I don't think anyone ever done one hiccup.

You'll see, I won't hiccup again. The rest of this show, that just.

Feels like I like this bet that feels like it's just food bubbling over. Did you just eat lunch?

$50. Can I tell Hank?

All right, I'll tell Max. All right. You better not fucking hiccup.

I'm not going to.

I heard a very funny hiccup story about a guy that used to be on our podcast, William Football. Apparently after the Water Dogs lost the championship game, it was a very somber mood in the dogs locker room, and the coach was giving a post game speech, thanking them for everything they did and just, like, pouring his heart out there. And Billy had been enjoying the beer garden for the entire game, and he had his head down like he was one of the guys head in his hands, like, so upset that they lost. And it was quiet. And then Billy just lets out the biggest hiccup ever because he was hammered. And everybody in the locker room turned and stared at him.

Oh, no, come on. Billy's living his best life. He's just part of, like, a street going I think he's got a pink Whitney Tour.

He's going to Tallahassee this weekend.

Using him for exactly what he should be used for. All right.

Next game.

49 ers Browns. We don't know if Deshaun Watson is playing. If it's DTR, it will be hilarious. We have record watch. McCaffrey is 14 straight games. Touchdown. 15 is the record. He would be tied with OJ. Simpson and John Riggins. And I also have a little stat for you. This comes from Jack Hammer. Great name, Jackhammer. NFL. He's a beat reporter for the 49 Ers. Jack Hammer. Kyle Shanahan has faced Jim Schwartz nine times. His teams are one and eight against him and have scored over 20 points just once. Wow. Little something there.

That's interesting still.

I'm going to take the niners, but little something there.

Yeah.

So right now it looks like it's priced in that Deshaun's not playing.

I don't know if that's true.

He's medically cleared, and I think he was medically cleared last time.

What's the line? Seven.

Last night I looked at it and I thought to myself, it was six.

Maybe now it's seven.

Nine.

Okay, now it is. Now he's not going to play. Yeah, because it was six as of yesterday afternoon.

I also read that PJ. Walker would probably get the start over DTR.

That's bullshit. DTR is so funny.

He is fun to watch.

Yeah.

This would be the only spot like the Niners have been incredible. But if you want to pick a spot, it's coming off a absolute ass whooping of the Cowboys on national television, Sunday night Football, having to go to Cleveland early kick Jim Schwartz, Kyle Shanahan. I'm not going to bet on the Browns, but if you wanted to, you could easily sell yourself on this being the place to fade the Niners.

You want to hear a travel fact?

Sure.

I have another travel fact.

These are great.

So, Kyle Shanahan. Twelve and five on the east coast.

Okay.

So the Niners travel well when they go east because they leave early.

They do. It's a fact.

Yeah.

That's a travel fact.

Yeah.

Twelve and five straight up or against the spread?

Twelve and five, straight up.

This is a nine point spread.

It's a travel fact. That Kyle shanahan.

So if you want to take the Niners to win the game, I'm actually.

Going to take the Browns in this game.

Okay.

I'm going to hold my nose and take the Browns.

Yeah.

Going against your travel fact.

Well, it is a big spread.

Yeah. Some spread. Jake.

The 49 Ers have a chance to win their 16th consecutive regular season game if they beat the Browns this week, which would mark the longest regular season winning streak in franchise history.

Whoa. Whoa. Okay.

Also, we did see David and Joku's face.

Oh, my God. Football guy of the millennium.

I can't believe he played.

Insane.

It's crazy.

Did he try to put the fire out with his face?

He was lighting a fire pit in.

His backyard and he was like, let me just put it out by blowing on it with my face.

I think he was trying to light it. I don't think he was trying to put it out.

Crazy. Crazy.

Yeah.

He's a tough motherfucker.

Tough motherfucker. Okay. Next game vikings at Bears. Bears coming off a win, but they haven't won a home game in over a year. Calendar year. September was last time they won a home game. Justin Jefferson is out. Kevin O'Connell had a little fun with that. He said, My expectations is we hit the gas with Jordan Addison this weekend. No pun intended. Pun intended. Do you think if the Bears win this game that Kirk Cousins could get traded?

I think it's a possibility. And so he's got the no trade clause.

Right.

So in order to make that work, it would have to be a team that would want him, that would then give him a massive extension that he would be happy with. That to me, is the key to getting because I don't think you're going to get Kirk to pick up his life and move his family. He's going to have to find a different Kohl's to shop at and then that's going to be a challenge for him and his family. But he's not going to go somewhere for like four months and leave again.

Unless they're really good.

I guess it's probably a possibility, but what really, really good want them.

I know.

So I'm thinking 49 ers should honestly.

Just trade for him just in case.

And have his backup.

Seriously, if you're the 49 Ers, the only thing that can derail your season is another. Like, all of our quarterbacks get hurt.

Right. So the teams that would have cap space, I noticed earlier in the week the Falcons made cap room. They did a big restructuring of a guy that they didn't think they were going to restructure right now. And then Arthur Smith was kind of coy about why they did it. I could see the Falcons trying to do something like that.

That would be interesting because if you're.

Being honest, as a Falcons fan, you're not really happy with the quarterback situation. Right. Well, right now Desmond Ritter's peak is playing well enough to right, right. So it's probably not going to happen. But if it were to happen, I would keep my eye on the Falcons.

If the falcons got Kirk Cousins, would they still start Desmond Ritter at home? That would be awesome.

Yeah, if they just kirk Cousins would look very strange in like the all black Falcons gear.

Yeah, maybe. Kind of an edge to him, though. Yeah, maybe kind of an edge. So the Bears right now, Justin Fields, he's coming off two great games. He is on pace for 3800 yards and 37 touchdowns. He would be the first Bears quarterback ever to throw over 30 touchdowns in a season. Eric Kramer had 29 in 1995. There was also the year that Josh McCown and Jay Cutler in 2013 combined for 32. So record watch for the Bears if Justin Fields can this season, if the Bear season isn't good, but Justin Fields can just erase some of the insult stats that are out there. It would be a success. Like if you could get 4000 yards if you could get over 30 touchdowns, great.

I actually think the Bears were on the receiving end of a compliment stat last week.

Well, schefter insult statted us when he was like, justin Jefferson is out for the game against the Bears. In his four seasons as a pro, he has more yards than any Bears receiver ever. Yeah, insult stat. It has an insult no reason to put that in there.

But there was a compliment stat that you guys got last week, DJ Moore, his 230 yards receiving, the second most in the Chicago Bears history. That's impressive. Yeah, when you see 230 yards, Bears, you're like, well, that's probably a season long record for them. But in this case, no. It's like they have a big game that they had as their number one. So it was like, oh shit. The Bears aren't always totally garbage at receiver.

Yeah.

He also won Offensive Player of the Week in the NFC, which I think was the first time since 1999 a Bears player has done that.

Congratulations.

So huge bears are looking up.

If you were Justin Jefferson and you're sitting out this game, you're probably out for the next three games with a hamstring and you lose to the Bears, you're probably not breaking your neck to come back and play for this season's. Vikings with your contract. Yeah.

Or your hamstring.

Yeah.

You're probably not going to want to risk that. So this feels like it could be.

It'S definitely a line in the sands game for the Vikings. Like, you should win this game and if you don't pack it all in.

This is a blow it up game.

Yeah.

The Bears could blow up the Vikings this weekend.

Let's see what the Vikings give them.

Viking funeral.

Jake, go ahead, give us your nerd nugget shootout. Incoming.

Entering this week, Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins leads the league with 13 passing touchdowns, while Bears quarterback Justin Fields is tied for second in the league with eleven.

Yeah.

So the bears are five and o to the over and the Vikings are four and one to the over, which would be five and o if the refs didn't screw them against the Chiefs last weekend. The vikings have the niners next week, Monday night football. So it could be a blowed up spot.

What's the opposite of a look ahead?

A look behind.

Yeah.

Like check your six.

Yeah.

Because rear view.

Yeah.

Because if you're the Vikings, you've got that even if you're a Vikings player, you probably have that circled as an ass kicking next week.

Yeah.

That's not going to be good. Primetime kirk against the niners.

This is a get your wins in week.

Yeah. They need to win. And listen, the Bears might be back if they win this game, and I am all the way back in Justin Fields. I liken it. To a relationship where, listen, Justin Fields threw some interceptions. I said some know we both had emotional times, but at the end of the day, don't go to bed angry. So I'm no longer going to bed angry.

Okay.

And if people want to say, oh, well, you said week three is not the guy, yeah, I did. He's the guy. Again, it's fine, we're fine. Everything is good. He's not the problem. Okay. Commanders of falcons. We're on a Sam Howell sack watch. He has been sacked 29 times on pace for 99 sacks, which would crush the record of 76 David Carr in 2002.

Yeah, offensive protection hasn't been that good. Sam Howell also needs to learn how to get the ball out sometimes. And I'm going to pay a compliment to Justin Fields in the game against the commanders. He was really good at throwing the ball away. I think not only did he have some of the best actual passes and the best passing attack with DJ. Moore, he also threw some amazing incompletions when he was about to get sacked.

Yeah.

Decisiveness.

It's good that you've got a big guy that's using his size to throw the ball away over the top of the defenders that are coming in.

Yes. Adam.

The Commanders offensive line stinks. The defense is the biggest issue. I think the offense should be okay. It'd be nice to run the ball once or twice because we just abandoned the running game last week.

The Falcons might load up the box. That's kind of well, the Falcons defense is actually better than they're getting credit for.

Yeah, the Falcons defense isn't bad. The Commanders defense stonked last week and I'm on fire. Del Rio. Fire. Jack Del Rio. Rivera is probably not going to do it because he's done at the end of the season. So why would he torch a guy that's been his guy for a long ass time if he's going to get fired or if he's not going get renewed at the end of the season? But they need to do something different on defense because Jack Del Rio is doing the exact same thing where he's got four guys rushing the passer, and then you're also having your cornerbacks try to jump routes or jump routes as they're happening. And what happened to Emmanuel Forbes last two weeks? He's gotten his ass kicked.

Yeah.

They just look undisciplined.

Yes.

That's really what it there's. There was moments mean you were at the game, but they were highlighting on Amazon Prime like Chase Young just no ability to keep the edge, letting Justin Fields run around running. The Bears running game was able to run through them. It will be an interesting game because if the Commanders win is soupy back on?

No, we're not soupy. We're not soupy. We're back to playing spoiler. We can play spoiler.

Spoiler alert.

But if they don't change the way that they're running their defense, forbes is going to continue to get cooked this entire year and he's going to be one of the worst cornerbacks in the NFL because he takes a lot of chances. The way you counteract that is by doing you know what, I never thought I'd say this. I miss dr heat on the Commanders. I miss Greg Williams. Just fuck it. Go zero blitz all the time. If you're going to have your quarterbacks jumping roots anyways, it's like give them get to the quarterback. Know that you will get to the yeah. That's how you're going to the if.

The Commanders can win this game, they have the Giants next. Know it could be back to four and three going against the Eagles at home.

Yeah.

Taylor Shanky revenge game, though, and you.

Played the Patriots the week after that.

Desmond Ritter never lost at home.

Desmond Ritter 31 and at home in college and NFL.

Okay.

Go ahead, Jake.

Sam Howell has completed ten passes of 30 or more yards through his first six career games since 2020. That's the most by a player through their first six career games. Also the most in franchise history.

Can I confess one of my deepest, darkest fears to you guys?

Yeah, go ahead.

Mine is Max is going to hiccup again.

I think he's been just swallowing him.

Hank is literally just staring at Max's face.

I love Sam Howe and I've really enjoyed watching him play and I think he's good. I also think that I might be getting into a situation where I'm falling in love with a guy and he might be like consistently above average at quarterback. And then I'm going to get so frustrated with him in like three or four years, just like I did with Kirk Cousins, that he's just not good enough to be a great quarterback. And then I'm going to start to hate Sam Howell after that. I know it's early. I know the body of work that we've seen is small and it's encouraging, but this is just me being burned so many times that I think Sam Howell is our guy. Remember we did this a while ago, the difference between he's our guy, he's my guy, versus the guy. I'm just afraid that Sam Howe is going to be my guy and not the guy.

That's okay. That's okay. We'll just play the game.

I would take my guy, though, considering all things being equal, the history of our two teams with quarterbacks, I would take my guy.

They should let Taylor Heinecke play in.

This game both ways.

Yeah, they should.

All time quarterback.

They should. Okay. Next game panthers at Dolphins. Yuck. So the big news out of the Panthers this week is David Tepper looks like an owner no one wants to work with. There was a couple quotes. So Frank Reich said there's different philosophies in ownership. Some owners kind of stay away and don't engage a lot. Other owners do. And his philosophy is he's going to engage and listen. It's only been a short experience, but it's been a good experience. It hasn't been fun. I wouldn't characterize them as fun meetings. And he also said, I talked to Tepper every week, multiple times, usually talk either Monday or Tuesday after a game. And he's super competitive, wants to bring a winner to the Carolinas. He wants it now. Wants it now and pushes me and pushes us to that end. He wants to do whatever it takes and turn over every stone, turn it as much as he has to to produce winning football. So I appreciate those conversations. They're always very challenging. He's a super competitive person. He's not going to sit idly by. That's a problem.

Yeah, I can't imagine like a real alpha type head coach wanting to work for a guy like that.

That is our owner. He basically in those two quotes, was like, yeah, this guy is putting his nose where it shouldn't be and micromanaging a football team. And that's not how a successful organization runs. You can't have that. You can't have the owner forcing the coach to have a meeting multiple times a week.

Well, the Cowboys and they were pretty good 30 years ago.

Yeah, right. The only time the Cowboys were good was when Jimmy Johnson, a true Alpha, was in there and they butted heads all the time. But yeah, that's not a good sign for the David Tepper Panthers. I think he's going to have to probably adjust that because I don't think football lifers football coaches love when the owner is like, hey, so why'd you run this play?

Yeah, so in most sports, when an owner takes over, they are like this because it's their new toy and they're obsessed with it. And then there's always an interview that the owner will give like five years into their tenure. It's like, what have you learned as your time being an owner? And they say, well, it's that I should let the football guys be football guys, and that I should take my hand off. Well, it happens every time.

Yeah.

Most owners are very wildly successful in business. And they're like, I'm going to run my football team exactly like I ran my business, and just treat everyone like that. And then they get in the building, everyone's like, fuck this guy.

Yeah, he's going to run it like Goldman Sachs. So my favorite fact about Tepper is that in his office, on his desk, he has a big pair of brass testicles that he keeps on his desk. So whenever anyone new walks into his office, he's like, you know, why keep these here? And they're like, no.

Why?

He's like, because I got brass balls.

Love that. Yeah, he sounds like a miserable person.

It sounds like a terrible, terrible boss.

I hope Devin A chain gets better because he is so much fun to watch. But I do think that, like, I don't know. This game is weird. The Dolphins should kill the Panthers, but at some point, the Panthers are going to cover a spread and do it a big spread like this. What is it right now? 14 and a half it's been climbing.

Do you think that Chase Claypool is too slow to play on the Dolphins?

They talked about maybe making him tight end.

Yeah, he might disrupt the timing because Two is used to just rockets out there.

I went on Pittsburgh radio this morning with our guys and they tried to make fun of me for Chase Claypool because obviously the Steelers ended up getting the 32nd pick. Fun fact, chase Claypool, before he joined the Bears last year, the Bears were three and five. When he joined the Bears, they went Owen twelve. And since he's left the Bears, they're one in one. So Chase Claypool is the human tank machine. So he actually is the greatest bear of all time because without him, they would not have gotten the first pick and been able to trade it for the Panthers? The Panthers? I think they I don't know. Do you think they regret that?

Maybe a little, maybe a tiny bit.

Who won the trade? I think the Bears might have won that trade with the Panthers. Just openly saying, we need a wide receiver.

Yeah.

TJ. Moore. And also not having they're the worst team in the league right now.

That, to me, sounds like a Tepper special where he's trading away one of his best players, and then, like, five weeks later, he's like, we really could use that exact same guy that we traded away.

Whoops why can't we get that guy back? Go ahead. Nerd nugget.

So it's 13 and a half right now.

13 and a half.

The Dolphins have won 14 of their past 16 home games and have never won 15 of 17 at Hard Rock Stadium since it opened in 1987. So they're playing all time good football at home right now.

Yeah, they are. They're good football teams.

Is it going to be hot?

Probably.

Give me a weather update. I need to know what those sidelines are going to be cooking at.

Slow internet.

Okay.

High of 89, low of 67.

Sunny.

It's going to be hot.

Okay.

It's going to be hot. All right. Colts of Jaguars gardner minshew revenge game.

Yes.

Gardner Minshew is starting because Anthony Richardson is out for he's out for at least a few weeks, right?

Yeah.

So it's at least four four weeks.

At least he's got a separated joint. Not not what you want as a quarterback.

Yeah. No, definitely not. Also, the Jaguars, I don't think, or sorry, the Colts don't win in Jacksonville. I had that stat. They have lost eight in a row in Jacksonville.

That's tough.

Yeah, eight in a row.

Jacksonville played like their game of the season so far. Last week, they beat the Bills, and so this maybe could be a letdown spot.

But again, it's a scheduled win for Pete Prisco.

It is. Scheduled win.

And Gardner Minchi coming back. That's a wild card. This feels like it could be a Garden revenge game.

Big time if you're trying to bet this game. Here's a little fun fact. Only eleven teams in NFL history have returned home from Europe without a by week. Every one of those teams was tied or trailing in the fourth quarter the following week.

That's a good travel note.

Yeah.

So that is a maybe. Colts first half.

I like it.

Although the Jaguars were in London for two weeks.

Well, that would make it harder to come, probably.

Yeah.

So Colts first half.

Yeah, you're right.

Okay.

What's your nerd nugget for this game?

The Jaguars have defeated Indianapolis eight straight times as the home team outscoring the Colts 232 to 104. On Sunday, the Jaguars can sweep the season series against the Colts for the first time since 2017, so keep in.

Mind those wins include wins when Urban Meyer was the head coach. And Gus Bradley correct. Was the coach. So this runs deeper than just one guy up front.

Yeah.

No, this is the class, remember, I think that was the Urban Meyer year when Carson went down there, all they needed to do was win. They lost.

Yep.

Some colors are just dominant over other colors.

Yeah.

This case, it's like the teal, the gold, the black that's going to beat the white and the blue.

Yeah.

All right, next game, saints of Texans. Dennis Allen, after we talked about how bad he was as a head coach, he's moving up. He's only the 9th worst head coach now, so he was 7th worst in NFL history last week. He's 9th worst now. Pretty big. He's putting together a win. Maybe another win. I don't know. I feel like maybe the Saints, you can't judge anything against the Patriots, but their defense is good.

Their defense is definitely good. The offense looked alive a little bit last week. How many points did they get?

24.

I don't know, because they had a pick.

Six.

It was like, probably like 20. Yeah, this was the first time they scored over 20 in a while.

It was an offensive explosion correct. For the saints. So, yeah, they might be back on the front foot, and their defense is actually good.

I might bet CJ Stroud to throw an interception this week. Yeah, I think he's probably heard us talking like, hey, these guys are right. They're stroud boys. Just got to throw one.

Yeah, throw one. And this is probably a week. It could happen because the Saints do a lot of confusing shit on they you know what the Saints do? They do like Bob Huggins does the simulated press just to get people freaking out. The Saints do a lot of simulated blitzes to get quarterbacks freaking out. And if you haven't seen it before, I might bet on Stroud as a positive because we're rooting for exactly. So this is not a hater bet.

No, we want him to throw.

Let's go, CJ. Throw a pick. Throw one chance. Throw a pick.

CJ.

Stroud. Throw an interception challenge, and then your.

NFL career officially begins. Your NFL career doesn't start until you throw at least one pick. Yes. Okay. Nerd nugget for this game.

Texans quarterback CJ. Stroud has thrown for 1461 yards this season. He's the fourth player in NFL history with at least 1400 passing yards and no interceptions in his team's first until now. Games.

He's going to throw a pick.

Patrick Mahomes in 2019, drew Brees in 2018, russell Wilson in 2019.

All great quarterbacks except for us.

Yeah.

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Why would he not?

He's not really good at quarterback.

But if he plays I mean it's a week by week.

Does he have it in his toolbox?

Two weeks ago, justin fields you were down on I just listened to you talk for an hour and a half about how justin fields is back and he's good.

Yeah.

So if mac jones hour and a half if mac jones has two hour.

And a half, mac jones has two.

Good games, it's the same situation back.

He could be okay.

Yes, he has the ability to get revenge. If he has a big game, that's revenge.

That's fair.

Is this a Jacobi myers revenge game?

No, I don't think so. I think there's hundreds of players that switch teams every year.

It's not there's bad yeah, there probably isn't bad blood because Jacoby was probably throwing the game last year. He was probably a secret raider. Right.

This is the buy low point for the patriots. Like I might actually bet the patriots on sunday because it can't get worse.

I mean know he's going to get up for brady like there is a lot know internal storylines. I don't think Jacobi myers is one but I think belichick versus not that know goes any less hard but he's gonna do everything in his power to beat him and he probably also knows a little bit more and maybe it works reverse McDaniels knowing more about belichick but they know each other well.

I think it's not that. Belichick definitely held some stuff out on McDaniels because he knew he was going to leave and probably go to a team that would be a competitor. So he probably didn't teach McDaniels everything he knew, knowing that one day he would have to defeat him. But I do think that McDaniels is this is like a big game for him because he wants to take Belichick out. It'd be a big feather in his cap. He's going to be doing some stupid shit on offense. Stupid shit. He's going to be kicking field goals on first down. Now he's going to set new precedent in the NFL with the level of inside of his own brainness that he's going to have to tap into.

The next question I have for you, Hank, there's been a debate. Brady versus Belichick. People are obviously burying Belichick right now. I think as a podcast, we should actually change the debate and make it Dante Scarneckia was the goat. He was right. So should we just do that? Be like, hey, why, like, option three?

I like that.

Okay.

All right.

So that's good.

And then the last question I have for you is Bill Belichick. There is a lot of conversations going on. You've seen them. Is there a chance if Andy Reed coaches for another 510 years as Patrick Mahomes, he could be the goat?

If they win five more Super Bowls.

Yeah. Okay.

But just from win four more.

If.

They get six, he would have to get seven.

Why would he have to get seven?

Because Belchick has six.

Right, but if he has more wins than Belichick, he's 50 behind. I think in wins right now.

I think if they both had the same amount of wins yeah.

Now, the only other question, if they.

Both had the same amount of Super.

Bowls, it would go to head to head.

But Andy Reed. That's the first tiebreaker.

But the question I only asked, have.

They played in Super Bowl?

Max, I'm trying to this show is.

Part I was just looking at Schwerber.

To hit a home run, but was it 210 again?

No, it's more. It's three to one today.

Okay. All right.

Then we'll do it.

Sorry.

So Belichick versus Andy Reid, if they get tied, it's head to head, which.

No, Hank, I think Bill Belichick is the greatest coach of all time. What I'm saying to you, Hank, is this is part of my take. We try to get in front of takes. I think that the Andy Reid is the greatest coach of all time will eventually be a conversation if he stays in Kansas City. Why would he leave? He's got patrick mahomes. Because Andy Reid without Patrick Mahomes was a very good coach. Bill Belichick without Tom Brady, his record has not been great.

How many Super Bowls?

I mean, that much longer? Like, if know, which I don't think he's going to retires this.

Reid has. Andy Reid has. Patrick Mahomes, Why would he ever walk away from that?

Because he's old.

Andy Reid is 65 years old. Bill Belichick is 70.

That's when when does your retirement kick in?

Well, if he coaches for another eight years, that's a lot of wins with Patrick Mahomes again.

But his 401K is probably popping. He's like, damn, I've been saving 65.

Hit.

Please don't be upset.

I'm not upset.

You're throwing out a take that I know is going to happen. People will I guarantee you, within the next year, this will be a conversation.

That had if he gets to six Super Bowls, it's worth having a conversation. Until then, I won't even entertain it.

Okay.

PFD, thank you for calling on me, Hank. PFT, commenter barcelona sports, part of my take podcast. Hank. How many Super Bowls has Bill Belichick gotten to without Tom Brady as a head coach? As a head coach. Because we could play the assistant coach game, too, if you wanted to.

Yeah, let's do that.

Okay.

Andy Reid as an assistant coach.

Andy Reid won a Super Bowl.

Was he coordinator of the greatest defensive team of all time?

He won a Super Bowl, one of.

The greatest defensive teams of all time.

But so your answer is zero.

Right.

So Andy Reid got to a Super Bowl without Patrick Mahomes.

Okay.

But he still like, the league MVP on his why?

The reason why I think Belichick was.

McNabb the MVP that season.

I think so.

I don't know. Did you win MVP that year?

I don't think ever won MVP.

I don't think he ever won.

I was thinking of something.

The Andy Reid was those Chiefs teams, dalc Smith won a lot of games. Like, he was competitive every single year. The reason why I think the Belichick slander is a little foolish is people forget that Tom Brady wasn't always Tom Brady. That's the part that people miss. Like, Tom Brady became this incredible passer offensive insanity in, whatever, the last two thirds of his first dynasty.

Tom Brady?

Well, no, he was still very good, but Bill Belichick's defenses were insane. That part gets missed a little.

Not by me.

Not by you. So you think there's a chance Andy Reid the goat, might be a conversation.

That started if he wins four more Super Bowls yes.

Then you'll accept it.

Okay.

I'll have the conversation because his record.

Without Patrick has been a lot better.

But however, if he wins as many Super Bowls and he's got more and he's the number one most all time wins as a head coach, it would be real tough to say that he's not the greatest.

It'd be very tough because Belichick's going for shula. But Andy Reed, if you say Andy Reid is going to coach another eight years and you have Patrick Holmes, that's like 1213 wins a year. That's a lot of wins.

Andy's lost some weight, too. He has lost and he's looking good.

Feeling spry this also is a roundabout way of being like Andy reed. Stay for as long as possible. So Matt nagy does become the head coach.

Okay.

I was just having a discussion, Hank. Yeah, it's fine. I think Bill Belichick's the best coach of all time. I'm trying to predict where the national media will go.

PFD. Yeah. Thank you.

Big cat, I have a question for you.

Yes.

Who do you think Tom Brady is rooting for in this? OOH, probably the team he's wait, I asked big cat. So he's investing in the raiders.

Yeah, I think the team he owns.

Yeah.

That's interesting. That's just interesting to think about. He's going to be in Vegas. He might put some money down.

Hank, where's your head at for this game? Are you going to get up for.

Think the even that little Tom Brady, Josh McDaniels, it got you going. It's a little rivalry there, if I'm being honest. I think the patriots are going to win this game.

I actually kind of think so.

I think that the rivalry. I think the McDaniels Belichick thing and the Brady versus Belichick thing, I think that gives Belichick an advantage in this situation. I think it actually weakens the raiders because of the stupid shit that McDaniels is going to try to do.

He's going to try to point Belichick.

Yeah.

And then Garoppolo is probably going to try to play, like, the best game of his life to show Robert Kraft like, hey, you could have had me. You could have had me.

You could have had the young bucks.

And when he tries to do that, he's probably going to make some mistakes.

Yeah.

Okay. Hit us with the nerd nugget. Patriots, raiders, you guys just had a.

Big debate about Andy Reid and Bill Belichick. This one is similar to that. Bill Belichick has won at least one game in 50 different stadiums, including the postseason. The only two current stadiums where he hasn't recorded a win are allegiance stadium, home of the Raiders, where they're playing this week, and US. Bank stadium. Andy Reid is second with wins in 43 different stadiums.

Belichick never won in Germany either, but he'll get that chance.

Yeah. The debate, just to clarify, is not a debate right now. Will it be a debate?

It's a potential future.

Will it potentially be we're debating whether the debate will happen.

Yeah.

Embrace debate, right?

Exactly.

Do you agree with us that the debate will happen?

No.

You don't think so?

I don't think he's going to win.

I think you're wrong on that.

You're wrong.

People debate it.

But he doesn't have to win four super bowls for everyone in the media to debate that. You don't think it's valid in your mind? But I'm saying if he wins two more super bowls, the debate will happen.

The debate could happen right now. In that logic.

Well, thankfully, we're not having that debate. We're having a debate whether the debate will happen.

And you don't think that the debate will happen? No, I'd like to debate you on that point. I think that it will.

Yeah, we both think that it will.

I don't.

That's a future debate that we're having currently as a debate.

No, I think it will.

Just because there's people in the national media who like to tear down the Patriots.

So then you want to move us? We just won that debate about the debate. All right, sure.

Yeah, you're right.

Okay.

We won the debate. Thank you. That was good. That was really good. All right, next game. Cardinals, rams. I don't really have anything besides the Cardinals always lose to the Rams.

So I'm looking at my sheet and I put down notes next to every single game.

Yeah.

This one cardinals at Rams. Absolutely nothing next to it. The only interesting thing I can find out about this game, there is a revenge game factor here, big cat. Did you know that? That's right. Offensive lineman Coleman Shelton. Shelton is the Rams starting center and has only played NFL games while the Rams, and he's only played for the Rams has been with them for the last five seasons. However, he spent time with the Cardinals in 2018 on their practice squad for part of that season.

Whoa.

So this is the official Coleman Shelton game. Besides that, who cares?

Yeah, who cares?

I do care.

Bet on it. So I will care.

But, yeah, I do care because I do think that the Rams are going to win eight games.

This is a must win for you.

For me? I've got this on the schedule as a must win. Otherwise it's a disaster.

Personal must win.

Remind big Cotton PFT to bet. Rams cardinals tie.

Why? Okay.

All right.

I'm in for that end of my preseason PowerPoint. You guys told me to bet Rams Cardinals.

That really fucks with my future then. Or does a tie count as 0.5?

Fuck.

Whatever it was coming out of your mouth after, does a tie count was going to be wrong?

Yeah, it should count as 0.5.

It should, but it does not.

Why?

It definitely does not.

No, 100%. It doesn't because it's the win total.

It's not wins. It's not called the loss wins and ties.

If it was a loss total that I was, why do they set half.

Points in those lines?

So that eight wins, seven doesn't.

Okay. We have a full fledged fire going outside of the New York studio right now.

Why did we want to bet on a tie in?

I have to watch it back. I should have done it before. Yeah, this is on me.

You should have.

Yeah.

You know what? I'm suspending your nerd nugget for this game.

I'm going to unsuspend it.

Okay.

I want to hear it. The minute I suspended, it was like, but what if it's really important?

Yeah.

The Cardinals, I'm going to grade your.

Nerd nugget for this game fair.

The Cardinals 716 rushing yards this season are the most through the team's first five games of a season since they rushed for 850 in 1988.

D minus because James Connor's hurt.

Right.

Doesn't really matter anymore.

The cards are di.

Mercado trying to think of the best running backs they've had. Beanie Wells also doesn't help with the tie.

I was hoping for a stat that helped.

Tied in the tie?

Yeah.

Like these two teams always play ties every last 14 times they've tied.

I think I know maybe what it is.

Does it have something to do with.

The NFC West cycle dominance?

But McVeigh does beat the Cardinals.

He does? Yeah.

The Cardinals are two and eleven in their last 13 games against the Rams.

But this isn't Kingsbury.

That isn't I don't know. He's going to listen. All right, let's go to the next game.

I'm going to bet a tie.

Eagles jets.

It's called hedging eagles.

Jets are a producer battle. Memes versus Max. The New York Jets have never beaten the Eagles owen Twelve in the history of their franchises going back to 1973, but they also have never employed the strategy of kissing the other quarterback. So Robert Salah said when they do the tush push this week, he is expecting his team to give Jalen Hurts eleven kisses on defense are the New.

York Jets horny my column eleven kisses.

On the push push. So I actually listen. It hasn't been stopped yet. Why not try to kiss him?

I have a follow up to that to that kiss commentary. Fletcher Cox has now said that the Eagles are planning on kissing Brief Hall.

Eleven times.

We're kissing our boys.

We're kissing our boys in 2023.

Advantage Philly.

They should play kiss ball. Go to the middle of the field, throw the ball up.

Let's see.

Who would your starting two on Kiss ball be? Jason Kelsey.

And who you got to say fletcher Cox. But like Jalen Carter, they throw the.

Ball in the air and they kiss as many times they kiss as many times as they can until the ball hits the ground and then the jets go and whoever wins Kiss ball wins the game.

Kiss.

Yeah.

We should play Kissball in the new office.

I can see Aaron Rodgers being really good at kissball.

Yeah, he seems like, don't kiss me on my lips.

He's very, very friendly. You remember how many times he was hugging people?

That's true. He likes to hug.

He's a big hugger.

So memes and Max, what's the bet? Loser has to kiss the winner.

Yeah, I like that bet.

Yep.

Because it's not I gotta focus on.

No, because if Memes loses and kisses you on the lips, it's not like you kissed him, you got kissed.

I can't be worried about Eagles Jets right now.

Your series will be over by then.

Yeah, but you don't be over in 4 hours.

Nice try, Hank. Actually, it will be over.

Yeah.

No matter what.

No matter what.

Yes.

Loser has to kiss the winner.

Sure.

Okay, deal. Perfect.

Fine.

On the lips. Rolled over for that.

We never said lips.

No, I mean, it's a kiss on the lips.

But then there's no winner or no loser.

No, because that's what I said. If memes has to kiss you, it's not like you're kissing him, you're just getting kissed. You should have.

No, it's got to.

Be on the tush.

No, it's got to be like Max, whoever wins does the post game video talking about the win, and then the loser has to kick in with a cheek kiss.

Yes, but is that better for the.

Yeah, okay, that's good.

Yeah, that's actually it's not good. Either way, he gets kissed, we win on the lips. Yeah, we do win. I want hand behind the head.

Wait a minute. Where do the lips come? The lips are out.

No, lips are in.

You say that.

I don't care. I'll fucking kiss my boys on the lips. That's what you said just 2 seconds ago.

I said I'll kiss my boys. I love kissing my boys.

You do?

I think it should be.

He'S been sick forever. Cheek, cheek.

Which butt?

Cheek.

Winner gets the video, loser gets lick. And you're going backwards here.

I think it should be an open mouth. It should be an open mouth kiss on the cheek.

Oh, yeah. Open mouth on the cheek.

Open mouth.

Hickey.

You got to give the lose. The loser has to give the winner no, the winner has to give the loser a hickey.

Peck on cheek.

Open mouth. Kiss on cheek. You have to suck his face a little bit.

No.

Tongue.

A little bit. But it has to go in open mouth. Like this? Yeah, exactly.

Okay.

If you want to do tongue, you.

Can do tongue if you want.

Okay, deal.

Okay.

Love is love.

What's your nerd nugget?

Jake?

He's trying to multitask.

The Eagles are twelve and all time versus the jets. The best record by any NFL franchise in a head to head series.

Oh, wow. Nugget. What? You said it at the beginning.

So the Eagles are twelve and O against the jets and six and O against Houston. Minnesota is five and o against Houston. Sorry for not listening.

That's okay. No, you're multitasking. You have to multitask.

Good nerd. I give that an A plus.

A plus. Nerd.

Nugget. All right. Lions at Bucks. The lions at Bucks. The Bucks are wearing their creamsicles.

That's all you got to know. I want to know what the Bucks career record in the creamsicles is.

Oh, I have it.

I think it's okay.

Yeah.

Probably the worst ever.

100 wins, 223 losses.

It's really bad.

That's as their main jersey, not as the throwback. They've worn the throwback a few times in their 1st 21 years existing. So they were the creamsicles from 1976 to 1996. 21 seasons three playoff appearances. They got rid of them in 1996. The next six years, they went to the playoffs five out of the six years and won a Super Bowl.

Yeah.

So I don't know why you do.

A throwback in the creamsicles are just the worst jersey in sports. Not I like how they look, but it is just if you're a Bucks fan, you can't like these jerseys.

The only good thing that happened in these creamsicles is young. Yeah, that's right. As a rookie, you had Mike Allstott running people over wearing a pirate that was winking at you, which was the most emasculating thing that's ever happened in sports. But yeah, they're cool uniforms. I like it when people wear them as throwbacks to a Bucks game when they're wearing the regular jerseys on jersey. On jersey. It's a great you're like, oh, you got the creamsicles.

Yeah, the creamsicles.

It's pretty nice.

Hank, did you know that Steve Young played for the Bucks?

Nope.

Oh, okay. Did you also know that Jerome Bettis played for the Rams?

I did not know that until we did that show.

Okay.

Everyone knew that.

I've got a Baker Mayfield quote. He's on our side, big Cat. Oh, we can count Baker Mayfield as an ally. He said when Jared Goff was not mentioned among some of the top NFL quarterbacks by Ryan Fitzpatrick, he said, coming from someone that needed a fresh start as well, jared's a stud.

Yes.

He also went on to say that Jared's great at play action, which, again, we want to take that but expand. Jared's great. Great. I'm going to revise that quote. Jared's a stud. He's great.

He's great.

He's great.

Also, Lions Bucks, first memory that comes to my mind. Our guy Tony Scheffler doing the touchdown end zone celebration where he did the sword like a pirate. Fucking badass.

A lot is going to be based on whether Gibbs and St. Brown play.

For me, I think St. Brown's going to play. I don't think Gibbs will play. St. Brown was practicing this week.

I think if one of the two of them play, I'm going to stay betting on the Lions to hammer teams.

Yeah, the lions. The only thing that makes me nervous, the Road Lions. Outdoor cats. A little different, but yeah. I don't know. The Bucks. Are the bucks? Good.

I think they are. I think Baker's good.

Yeah.

But as like, who have they played? Vikings bad.

And a lot of one games bad.

Saints.

Saints bad.

Yeah. Eagles good.

Yeah.

Just something to think about.

So if one of the two of those guys plays, I'm sticking with my formula. I'm betting on the lines.

Yes.

Okay.

Nerd nugget.

It was about cream skulls. You'd be stole from me 1976 to 1997 winning record. Just three times.

You stole it from Big Cat.

Yeah.

No, you beat me to it. But yeah, it's pretty crazy. They're such cool colors, and they stink.

In them they were bad franchise.

Also, I found it. Yeah, I can play it, but basically it was the same day that Cooper Cup got re injured and that speech from the Cardinals coach got released. And you both said you said, let's fade the Rams and the Cardinals. And you're like, just, oh, okay, that.

Makes it I mean, I have to.

Press past we'll have to do a tie. Last game. Giants, Bills. Here's a fun fact for New York teams. You ready for this? Since 2019, the jets and the Giants have played in 25 night games. What's their record? 25 night games?

Jets and the Giants 25 night games.

Let's see.

The jets beat the Bills this year.

That's one win four and 21.

I'm going to say two and 23.

That is correct. Two and 23 this year. And the Odell Catch, 2019. Crazy.

That's wild, crazy joke of a sports town.

Crazy.

I mean, the only team that plays in New York is the Bills.

Yeah.

No, but we've said it a million times. But they have two teams for every sport and they're terrible at all.

That was a stat, I think, on advisors. Jerry gave us that the Giants have not lost in the state of New York since, like, 1993.

That's pretty impressive.

So they've just beaten the Bills, like, four times.

So they're going to have another chance again.

Yeah.

Wink Martindale had a great quote about Josh Allen. He said he's got Dan Marino's arm, derek Henry's legs, and Steph Curry's mindset. So you couldn't think of another quarterback to use as a mindset one. So we went basketball on that. Yeah, but it seems like Wink building him up a little bit, just like gassing up the guy, making him think that he's got it made, that there's going to be another easy game for him, and then, boom, hit him. The worst thing that happened to the Giants was that the Bills lost last. Bills had if the Bills had steamrolled the Jaguars and then they come back and then they get the Giants, I think that they crush them. The Giants feel like their season might be bad. Seems like things are just falling apart completely. It's very if they have any fight, Brian Dable will be like, hey, this is my revenge game.

I'm not going to my son's birthday.

Party, my personal revenge game. I'm eliminating my other son's birthday entirely. We're not celebrating. He's not getting any presents. I need to show Buffalo that I've got something cooking for him and I don't know, maybe make some D's nuts jokes at the line that'll throw off Josh Allen. I don't know what the formula is for the Giants, but it feels like a shit pumping.

It feels bad. The Bills are scoring 0.5 points per play. So actually the leader leader in the NFL is the Dolphins. They're zero point 58, six points per play. The Giants are 31st .194 points per play.

That's so foreign to me to think about rooting for a team where every play is worth half a point.

Yeah, half a point. The patriots are last and zeroteen points per play, but yeah, the Dolphins, the Niners and the Bills are all averaging a half a point or more per play. That's insane brutal. That's insane nerd nugget.

The Bills lead the NFL with 21 sacks, the most by Buffalo in the first five games of a season in team history.

Okay, wait, is the giants offensive line good? They are not good. Not good at all.

Not good. Okay, should we do picks? Let's do our picks. What is the standings and who's picking.

First picks in the warm up flight? I am. Six, three and one. Max is five and five means is three and seven.

By the way, it is confirmed the Tuesday of super bowl week will be the we're going to probably do a pay per view as well so people can watch from home. Oh, man. We're getting close to having to put you boys in a box. Yeah, we're putting you in a box.

I thought there's a chance you're just going to forget about no, haven't forgotten.

We've been waiting for the new office. Put you in a box.

Will Jimmy Butler be in their box?

Yeah, Butler be in their box.

In their sweet box.

Picture of them. Okay, who goes first?

Well, main event, big cat. Five, three and two. PST. Six and four.

Hank.

Five, four and once.

Very even.

Okay.

Very even.

So we've done five weeks.

So that means me first.

Yeah.

I took the Lunder first overall last week.

PFT.

Hank big cat.

Memes.

Max?

Me. Okay.

I want to take the Lunder so bad just to steal it from Jake.

Yeah.

No, I'm going to stick to my travel plans and I'm going to take the Baltimore Ravens minus four. It's a time zone. Bet doing time zones.

I like it.

I like I'm going to go Eagles, jet Eagles minus seven against the jets.

Okay.

Phillies riding high, NLCS bound.

Stop.

They're just going to roll over the jets here.

Stop. Nice. I like that. All right, I'll go with the Bengals minus two and a half at home against the Seahawks. Memes.

Bears. Vikings.

Bears. Vikings. Over 43 and a half for memes. Good pick.

I would like to take the Browns.

The Browns plus eight and a half.

Plus eight and a half.

Gross.

Who are they playing?

Niners.

Niners.

It's really gross.

Eight and a half.

I'm going to be upset you didn't think about that.

Hank the Lunder to shine a go.

Good value.

Three and o. We're two and o.

Right now.

It's 41 and a half, so it's a lower number, but I believe in the Lunder going three for three. Ravens, Titans.

Okay, max or no, Jake gets another one.

I will also go with the Texans plus one and a half at home against the Saints.

Okay.

Like that pick.

I'm going to go with the Bucks. Lions under.

What are we at?

42 and a half.

42 and a half.

Okay.

Memes Cowboys minus two. Cowboys minus two. Monday Night Football. I will go with the Saints. Texans under 41 and a half. Saints just play unders.

Unlike Max, I support the friends of our show. I love Jared. Love Baker Mayfield. I'm going to go lions. Bucks over 42 and a half.

Nice.

Got head to head shootout in the cream school.

Suck it.

Unlike some people on the show, hasn't hiccupped yet.

Well, we breaked. And he was out in the bathroom like chugging water upside down.

So not true. Not true in the slightest.

Unlike some people on the show, I support the New England Patriots. So I'm going to take the Patriots plus three. It's belichick McDaniels. I'm taking Belichick.

Yes.

He's going to be fired up. Plus three. Sprinkle moneyline.

Wow.

Also pancakes. I'm now in last place. Hank continues to dominate with 28. Max 19. Big cat 17. Meme 14.

PST. Twelve.

Meme nine.

All right.

Wow.

Long way to go.

Wow. Okay, should we do some fantasy lad boys before we get to our interview with Jared Carabis talking baseball.

Let's do it.

Oi, oi, oi, oi, oi.

Hello, Matt. Right, here's the thing, right, Rob?

My name is Cormac Mcclagging. This week is Jada Pinkett.

Oh.

She's back on the market.

Her and Will Smith have apparently been.

Separated for seven years, but it's public now.

That's fucking wild.

She's going to be stacking bodies left and right.

Sign me up.

Right? Sign me up.

Right.

Marcettem is logan Paul.

Logan Paul.

This happened home in our home country, London. At the press conference, he got smoked with a microphone in the face. He might not be fighting on Saturday night.

What a little bitch. He's a little cunt, isn't he? Like a nice cunt. Like you call your friends, hey, what's up? Like, hey, what's up, cunt?

Too worried about the fucking lawsuits? Not worried enough about the Foy game?

Thinking about Pokemon. Thinking about Pokemon.

Not getting poked in the face with microphone.

My sleeper, Deshaun Watson.

Oh.

Everyone thinks he's not going to play. I think this might be the week he comes back against all ODS.

You're quite the best team in football.

Quite a detective, aren't you? Elementary mordeau.

Watson. Indeed. Indeed, indeed.

Deshauni.

Deshaun.

Hello.

I'm Queen Elizabeth. Oh, Queen.

You're dead, bitch.

You're Queen. That's not very nice. That's not very nice. You and your pedophile son. I'm speaking from beyond the grave and murderer. I'm starting soup. You can eat soup now because the weather's changed quite a bit. Nice. It's good meal for proper bad British teeth, too. You can just slurp it right down.

Diana loves soup.

Before you ran her off the road, you fucking bitch. She did. I'm sitting for Titans this week because they're going to be very sleepy indeed. I'm in. The big sleep right now, so I know all about it. And my sleeper this week is me.

Because I'm hi, dear.

Are we releasing the best we could?

What's up?

Your fuckers? It's terrence Titty snatcher. Hey, what's up, Terrence Titty snatcher. Titty snatcher. My stardom this week is Aaron Rogers. He's making a million bucks talking in a microphone.

That's a lot of quid.

What's the conversion rate on that?

That's a 10 billion pounds.

That's unreal.

My sith is I don't myself. I didn't write a sith.

I heard Ron Rosillo was making $3.

Million a year as a gift on.

Part of my take.

I heard that too. Jared Carabas got paid by 15 board apes for his appearance. Coming up my sith is myself. I forgot to do a sith. I'll do a sith. Sitting is all right. It's pretty good. It's the opposite of standard. Pretty good. My sit him is Max, because he's going to have to sit a lot to watch his Phillies win the World Series. They've already won the NLCS, if you listen to this. Congrats, Max.

No, they haven't.

Oh, yeah, they have.

That's like standing up cricket in it.

Yeah.

My sleeper is divorced because Lauren Bobert got divorced finally, and her and her husband looked like they were making out in the parking lot.

So she's on for Marca innit?

Divorce doesn't look so bad.

Hey, Lauren, come over here.

Crazy. A lot of people replying, that's not what my divorce looked like. Open invite to Lauren Barber and Jada.

Pinkett to come on the show.

She just makes hot videos. Gets me all hot. My Nickers. All right.

That's gotta be some proper hot sex in it.

Oh, yeah. Divorce sex with your ex husband. Yeah. What bonk list? Oh, bonk list.

Yeah.

No, that's fine. Lorne Bobbitt's going to be featured on the bonk list this year. That's a bonk list for me. I'll show you guys the video. I would really like to see her cunt. I'll show you your video and you guys can tell me she's got spooky. Vagina. The ghost. The ghost of Queen Elizabeth's Vagina. Okay. All right. I got to find this video.

It's hot. I've seen it.

Oh, you just saw it? They were, like, making out.

I saw she was in the parking lot and she was like, vaping behind the car.

Yeah, she's a baddie. She's a baddie. I want her.

She's a bad, bad girl.

She's baddie. All right, let's get to our interview with Jared Carabis, big time baseball writer. Great discussion with him.

Is he a writer?

Tweets.

He tweets.

Yeah, he tweets.

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Okay, we now welcome on up and coming baseball writer in the scene. He's trying to make a name for himself. This is the first MLB playoffs that he's covering. It is Jared Carrabbis. We thought we'd give him a shot. It's Jared Carabis. He works I don't know where he works, but he used to work with us. No, he works at DraftKings. Baseball is dead as his podcast. Please go subscribe jared, good to see you.

Good to see you guys.

Excited to have you on first question, just for context. We're taping this on Thursday midmorning. So three out of four of these series are over. We have the ALCS set, we have half of the NLCS set. We have Braves versus Phillies game four tonight. So that's why we know definitively say which one is winning. But my first question for you was what do you have to say for yourself after sucking the Braves dick all year long and then watching them? Seemingly they're on the ropes. They're on the ropes.

They're on the ropes. But, I mean, you know, I'm a notorious flip flopper. I wanted to pick the Phillies in this series, but we were going to Atlanta for a watch party and I was like, I can't pick the Phillies and go to Atlanta. Like, you just can't do that. So I picked the braves in five. But if we weren't going to Atlanta, I definitely would have picked the Phillies.

That's another flip flop.

We all openly admitted that everyone on the podcast picked the Braves because we were going if we were just going to stay put, I think the vibes would tell you and Max can attest to this, that this series had Phillies written all over. Think, you know, the whole RC it's by the way, it's stupidest storyline.

Explain it for the people who maybe are not following the MLB playoffs. I know what you're talking about, but.

Yes, if you're not following the MLB playoffs, the Braves are playing the Phillies right now. The Braves have statistically the best lineup maybe of all time. Like, if you were to put it in perspective, they tied the 2019 twins for the most home runs ever.

Who could forget the 2019 Twins.

Yeah.

And the 1927 Yankees. They're tied in like Ops plus. So, like, statistically one of the best lineups ever. Bryce Harper gets doubled off in game two to end the game. And then Orlando Arcia, who is the Brave shortstop, was kind of like making fun of Bryce Harper after the game. And there was like this whole big thing about this reporter who didn't even have a credential, had tweeted it out or reported what RC was saying in the clubhouse. And then the Braves were crying about it, saying, this ruins the sanctity of the clubhouse. And there are things in the clubhouse that aren't supposed to get out. He didn't even say anything bad. What'd he say, Max?

What, did he add a boy Bryce or something?

Yeah, he said that's it add a boy Harper t shirts in the it.

Also, um so then the idea is that the Braves it does feel like the Braves are complaining a lot. And I would argue, and maybe the don't don't agree with me that Bryce Harper hit two home runs in game three, not because Orlando Arceus said, Atta boy, Bryce. It was more because Bryce Harper's really fucking good at hitting home runs.

I would say that you have a strong case there, Dan.

Yeah.

I would say Bryce Harper pretty mean. He homered in just I'm so jealous of Philly fans because you got a player that is a a superstar, potential hall of Famer someday, and he's such a dirt bag. Like, Phillies fans. Like, he is one of them. And when he signed his deal, he was like, 13 years. I don't want any opt outs. I want to die here. Bury me in Philly. He embodies everything that that fan base is all about. He wants to win. He'll do anything to win. And he does shit like that. Like, oh, you want to talk shit now? I'm going to hit two bombs and I'm going to stare you down as I'm rounding second base. He embodies Philly. I'm so jealous of those people.

Yeah.

Would you say that your bulletin board material by picking the Braves in five was actually a gift from you to the Phillies? And they're like, Atta boy, Jared. Thank you for doing that for us. They play better, it seems like, when everybody hates no, they they if there's.

One thing that I learned about Phillies fans in my years in the Barcelona office is that they love being hated. Like, they embrace it. It's not something that rattles them. They welcome. They they live off of it. It fuels them. I was actually at all three NLCS games in Philly last year, and I haven't been to every ballpark, obviously, in the playoffs, but that it's. I don't know that I can compare anything else to it other than, like, SEC football.

Oh, okay. Way to steal a take from Jeff passon. Okay. Yeah. On SVP. That was the whole thing was Jeff passon.

Yeah, that was a big argument for.

Me of why CVP is the best. Yeah.

They might run into going up against themselves a little bit if they advance to this series and then they get the Diamondbacks. The Diamondbacks are the team that nobody believes in. Sure, they haven't lost this postseason, but nobody thinks that the Diamondbacks are going to do anything. The Phillies aren't going to be able to play the underdog card against them.

That's a good point. I didn't think about it like that. They would be a favorite in that series. I don't even think the Dodgers didn't even have a lead in that series against the D backs. So, I mean, they've been playing really good baseball. I don't know that that would continue against the Phillies if that ends up being the matchup. But it's hard to kind of say anything bad about the D backs right now.

So last thing with the Phillies, Braves, because is there is still the series isn't over. If the Braves do come back and win this, what OOH strider, lights out, game four.

I think if the Braves come back and win the series, it'll be because of how they got just they bludgeon every team to death. Their offense hasn't done dick. Obviously, they had in Game two, that big comeback, the Austin Riley two run home run in the 8th inning, but they haven't flexed their muscle. Even in that game. They needed to come back in the 7th. Like, there hasn't been a game where they just put their nuts on the table yet. If they're going to come back, they're going to have to do that. Like last night, like, perfect example. The Phillies hit six home runs. That's ties a postseason record. It was a franchise record for most home runs in a single postseason game. They're going to have to do something like that where they're just kind of establishing their dominance and they haven't done. Like when I was there for Game one, strider, first pitch, schwarber, your boy hit an absolute nuke off the wall. The entire ballpark just went silent. It's like the Braves just got rocked in the jaw the first second of the game and they didn't really recover. I mean, obviously you had the comeback in Game Two, which was phenomenal, but I'm talking about Game one.

They were just absolutely stunned. They've got to come out firing.

Okay, all right. I do want to talk more about the Diamondbacks. I have a question, though, about the Astros, who are now in their 7th straight ALCS, 7th straight. Have the Astros won enough that it doesn't matter that they cheated anymore? Because it feels like we'll get to a point where, yes, they cheated. We all know they cheated. But now they're on seven straight. ALCS, they won a World Series after they cheated. Their dominance in their like, they're just such nails when they get to the playoffs have we reached that point yet where it's like, hey, we know what happened in the past, but they're just so fucking good. You can't take anything away from this team.

Yeah, 100%. I said that. You almost have to respect it. But I get the people that are coming back saying, oh, they cheated, so I don't have to respect them. I get that, too. But I think baseball has created such parity in their sport and the randomness of the postseason, like the D backs being in the NLCS with, what, 84 wins and a negative run differential, that makes it all the more impressive that the Astros have gotten to 7th straight American League Championship Series. But I think when you go back and look at it, the Astros got caught for 2017, but I think you can still kind of, like, squint your eyes and look at 18 and 19, be like, okay, those years were kind of sketched, too. They were only punished for one year. So it is seven straight. Me, personally, I give them credit for it. It is what it is. I think that what they've proven to me and should be to a lot of people, is that they never had to cheat in the first place.

Correct.

Whether or not they would have won in 2017, that remains to be seen. Maybe the Dodgers have a strong case for, oh, they stole a World Series from us. But as far as getting there seven straight, I don't think that they needed to cheat to do that. They were talented all along to be.

Able to do that.

And Dusty Baker is so likable as a guy. He's a great shield for that organization, too, where it's like, you can root against the Astros, but then when you see Dusty doing his thing, you're like, I like that guy. I want that guy to win. Right.

It's impossible to not like when he when he won the World Series, that was a moment that it would have felt almost know, like Dan Marino never winning a Super Bowl. It's like, how do you get Dusty Baker in a dugout for that long, being such a legend, and even to have a guy like Barry Bonds and Kent, like, on his team and to not actually win a World Series with those guys. So even to all the Astros haters out there, I think when Houston won their non cheating World Series, a lot of folks are probably sitting there being like, you know what? Fuck the Astros. But I'm happy for Dusty Baker.

And Dusty Baker, he invented the high five.

People forget that he invented the high five.

It's hard not to celebrate the guy that invented the high five.

Yeah, 100%.

That's a fact. Okay, so, Astros in the ALCS going up against the Rangers. I will be fully honest. I don't know anything about the Rangers other than the fact that they feel like their offense is incredible. And then they have Scherzer at two. But Evaldi, your former guy who just shoves, why are the Rangers this good? Why are they playing this great baseball right now? Because they haven't lost as well.

So the thing you need to know about the Texas Rangers is their bullpen is absolute trash. They haven't had to run into any of those issues yet in the postseason because they've just been bludgeoning teams to death with their offense. You mentioned Scherzer. He hasn't pitched yet in the postseason. He's been hurt, but he feels good. And we could see him in the ALCS. There's a chance for that. He felt good the last time that he threw, but their offense is just I mean, this is what they've been doing all year. When you look at the matchup between the first seed Orioles, and then you have the Texas Rangers who didn't win their own division. The Rangers had a better run differential than Baltimore. So people are calling that an upset. I don't think it was, but they made one of the best moves at the deadline. They traded for Jordan Montgomery, who was on the Yankees, and then he was on the Cardinals. That was the Harrison bader deal. But Montgomery was great in his first start, not so great in his second start. But it didn't matter because I think the Rangers scored like eleven runs in that game.

But their Achilles heel all year has been their bullpen. There was a point where they had blown X amount of whatever it was like 20 games or something like that. Their bullpen cost them the division hands down. So if the Rangers don't end up in the World Series, it's going to be because the games are tight against Houston. Houston has that playoff experience. They've been there, they've done that. They can hang with you in that series. So, yeah, that's going to be what cost them if they don't get there.

The thing I've noticed about Scherzer, too, is sometimes he is his own bullpen. So he'll start out and he'll get rocked in the first inning, in the second inning, and he looks like dog shit. And if you leave him in, he'll come in for relief for himself, settle down, and then go lights out innings like three through eight if you let him. It's about just like trusting that'll get there eventually. Have you noticed that about Schozer? Is he like a guy that gets stronger as the game goes on?

Yeah, I mean, Verlander is the same way. Those dudes that was Verlander's Mo when he was younger would be he would start out throwing like 94, 95, and then he would pitch into the 8th inning and be throwing 98, 99 miles an hour. Scherzer, I think whatever you get out of him right now is a bonus. I think if you're a Rangers fan and you're looking at this series, you're thinking, all right, if we get Max scherzer at all. I'll be happy with four. Like you slide him down the rotation, maybe he only has to go in a game four situation and then available out of the bullpen in a game seven something like like he's not going to be the frontline bulldog that you're talking about. That role has been taken on by Nathan Avaldi. Nathan Avaldi, this dude has balls the size of basketballs. And we saw what he did with the Red Sox in the postseason. 2018. Did the same thing in the wild card game in 21 against the Yankees. He's been there, done that. In October, he got hurt over the summer. And when the Rangers were kind of sliding like they were a first place team and then the Mariners came out of nowhere, houston was lingering the whole time.

He just said, fuck not, I don't need rehab starts. And he just went from being on the sidelines for a month and change to put me back out there. We have games to win. And that's why going into the playoffs, a lot of people were thinking, well, what are we going to get out of Nathan Avaldi when it turns to the playoffs? He just flips a switch and he's been nailed.

He's a Haas.

Yeah, that's what Dave's been talking about. Dudes from Texas that just can squat 600 pounds and go out there and shove and that's Nathan of Aldi.

Yeah.

And just throw it right down your throat. All right. The Diamondbacks, they are the hottest team right now. It feels like they just completely emasculated the Dodgers. Actually, before we talk about the Diamondbacks, what the hell do the Dodgers do? Because it feels like every year outside of getting the entire playoff system changed, which it feels like they are trying to get where there is no you could make the argument that the teams that don't play that first week are at a disadvantage even though it's a small sample size because we've only had these new playoffs for a few years. But what do the Dodgers do? Every year is the same story. They have an incredible team. They win the west and then they get to the playoffs and they're disappointing. Mookie Betts, I don't think even had a hit.

No, he didn't. I think Freddie Freeman and Mookie were like one for 21 and it was an infield single. I think when you look at the Dodgers, it just kind of just puts it out there that the regular season is a different game than the playoffs. When you look at the Dodgers, they won, what, a hundred games? They won the division. It's the same thing. Because now people are making excuses of, well, they didn't have Dustin May, they didn't have Walker Bueller, and Tony Gonsalin got hurt and Julio Arias had the domestic violence thing. He can go fuck himself. He's not going to probably pitch in the big leagues again. That's his second strike. There any other team, you take four fifths of their rotation away and they're fucked. The Dodgers still won 100 games in their division. So, I don't know. It was next man up for them, and it was enough for them to have this. If you take out 2020, the 60 game season that they won the World Series and you go back to 2019, and then you have 2021 and 22, and then this year, they're averaging over 100 wins during the regular season a year, and then they get to the playoffs and they get bumped in the Division Series.

I think they made it to the NLCS in one of those years that I just mentioned, but it's just a different game in the playoffs. But this specific Dodger team right now, mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, maybe one of the best one two punches, the top of a lineup ever, and they went missing. And you kind of look down the rest of the lineup, you're like, if you can contain those two guys, where's the threat? Like Will Smith is not going to carry you to a World Series? So I don't know, from, like, a roster construction perspective, it's very confusing. That they were good enough to win 100 games in the regular season and then they show up in a playoff series against a team like the d backs that had a negative run differential that didn't even win 90 games, and they just get knocked around to the point where they did not have a lead. They didn't have a lead in this series. And the dude, Brandon fought that went out there and fucking started that. He had, like a ten Era, no disrespect to him. He's a good young pitcher. He's going to get better.

He's very young. But he did not have a good year this year, and he just went out there and shoved it up the Dodgers ass. I don't know as an organization what they're supposed to do to change the culture there, because it's not an issue of, oh, we don't have enough talent. Like, yes, you can talk about the injuries and the rotation. All of that is valid, but it didn't stop you from winning a hundred fucking games in the regular to they.

Need to poach Dan Heron. Dan Heron is doing the greatest job, coaching job of all time with these Diamondbacks.

Yeah.

Dan Heron is he's working miracles over yeah.

Yeah.

So when you're talking about, like, roster construction and making a team for the postseason as opposed to the regular don't, I don't know that that's an excuse for the Dodgers, because you should be able to score runs in the playoffs if you have a team that wins over 100 games. I don't think that's like a macro versus micro. But if you're talking about that, because I have heard people say it famously, I think ARod brought that up on the broadcast a couple of years ago when he just talked about macro versus micro for two innings, but he never really got into what it actually means. So if you're making a team, if you're designing a team in the lab to succeed in the playoffs and not the regular season, what are the changes you're making? What's the actual difference in product that you'd want to put on the field for playoff success versus regular season success?

Yeah, I think at this point, if you're the it's, you've gotten embarrassed enough to where their next move is going to be. Shohei Otani. I don't know that he because now Shohei is in a position where it's like, all right, everyone's got money now. All of you are billionaire owners. I'm going to pick my team. I think if he doesn't end up with the Dodgers, it's not because they didn't have the highest bidder, they weren't aggressive enough. It's because he chose a different organization. He's choosing his forever home right now. I think his next contract is going to have no opt outs in it. Like, we talked to Passen on the podcast a few weeks ago, and I thought because of his injury, that he was going to have an opt out after year two, where it's like, yeah, I'll DH for a year. Then that second year is when I'm going to pitch and reestablish my value, then opt out, then go somewhere. Passing was like, wherever he goes, he's going to have no opt outs. That's going to be his forever home. So the Dodgers are definitely going to be one of those teams they strategically got under the luxury tax that they could blow past it in the case of signing a show.

Hey, but that's what you have to do. I mean, it's not always the recipe for success is to just throw half a billion dollars at the problem. Like, we looked at what the Mets did this year. They spent a fuck ton of money and it didn't get them anywhere. They had an embarrassing season. The Padres had a World Series parade in January, and they spent a ton of money. That didn't work out. But then you look at the Texas Rangers. How crazy is it that the spent, you know, half a billion dollars on their middle infield with Semian and Corey Seeger. Corey Seeger probably had the best season in the American League outside of Shohei, but their big free agent acquisition was Jacob Degrom, and he's not factoring into any of this. And they're in the ALCS. So sometimes spending a ton of money helps. And I think that that's kind of where the Dodgers are going to have to go is fans. Just by scrolling through Twitter and all the replies and reaction to this series, they're kind of like, rip shit at Mookie. It's like Mookie Betts is an MVP, perennial candidate, and they're pissed at him for not doing anything in the playoffs.

And then after the game being like, the D backs are a good team, too. They're not nearly as good as you.

What are you talking about? So talking about the D backs, obviously, Zach Gallon is the top of the rotation, number one. But how are they doing this when Tommy FAM, I think, is batting third for them? I did love turning on the game last night, and we've been in New York all week with surviving Barcelona, so I haven't been paying a ton of attention. But seeing the Dodgers have to throw out Lance Lyn, that fat face of his costas even said it. He's very like I was like, oh, this is a problem because he's he's just going to give up dingers at some point. He did like a celebration after the third and then gave up four home runs in the fourth. But how are the Diamonds? Could the Diamondbacks win the World Series?

So here's the formula for playoff success. Good pitching, good defense, hit homers, and the D backs are hitting homers. They hit four off of Lancelin in the same inning. That's the first time we've ever seen it. So it's not about with the Dodgers, we have a little bit of length here in the middle of the like, we got guys that can hit doubles and they can get on base and they can walk a lot. That's great. But if you're not hitting homers, you're not winning in the playoffs. In the series with the D backs and the brewers, when we asked passing, who's your dark horse for the playoffs? He was blowing the brewers all day because the defense was great, one of the best in baseball, and the pitching was great. It's like, all right, well, what about the offense? Do they have guys that can hit homers? No, they didn't win a fucking game. And that's basically what you have to do. It's not about we're going to grind out at bats here and we're going to wear down the pitcher and his pitch count and all that. It's can you hit homers at a rate that you can out homer the other team?

The playoffs is all about hitting home runs. We just saw it last night with the Phillies. We saw it last night with the D backs. The teams that are hitting more home runs, those are the teams that are winning.

Yeah.

I actually go to Magic Johnson for all my baseball analysis, and I thought he hit the nail on the head. He said the Dodgers didn't hit or pitch well. That's why we lost the series to the Diamondbacks. Tough to argue, really.

Yeah.

It's hard to dispute anything that he said there.

Yeah.

So there was also another take I wanted to hear your feedback on. Speaking of the diamondbacks, there was a Wisconsin podcast host, Bart Winkler. He said the Diamondbacks aren't good. Beating the brewers in a three game series and then beating the Dodgers in a five game series doesn't. Prove that wrong, but they are now in the NLCS. This league is so stupid. Every baseball fan should be outraged by this bullshit. You are a baseball fan, Jared. You're a seamhead. Are you outraged by this bullshit?

I'm not outraged by this bullshit. Honestly, I think it gives hope to other teams out there that it just reinforces all you have to do is get in to have a chance. Which is kind of why I want to kind of, like, mix up the playoff format again. I want to go back to the one game playoff for the wild card and then I want to make the Division Series best of seven. I think that if you're an owner and you're like, well, if you want to make the wild card one game again, it's like, well, that's fewer games. We're not going to make as much money. Then you make the Division Series best of seven. I think it rewards teams with more depth by having the I still think, honestly, the DBAC still would have beat the Dodgers, but something specific to the Philly Series. Like, this deserves to be seven. Like, I feel like it has a chance to go know these two teams and we'll never know. But yeah, the D backs doing what they've been doing is only going to encourage those I don't want to say bottom of the barrel, but maybe the less financially supported teams like, hey, one move here, one move there, maybe we can't win 100 games.

Like the Orioles just pulled 100 wins out of their ass. Maybe we can't win 100 games, but maybe we win 86 games. We get in and then we see what happens. I think it only encourages a more competitive balance where teams actually care. Like the Oakland A's just throwing out the worst team in baseball history and the Kansas City Royals doing what they're doing. I think it should give hope to those teams where, like, hey, if we put in like a little ounce of effort, we could sneak in and maybe fluke a World Series or something like that.

I agree with that. I think it keeps interest higher across the board, across more fan bases. But then on the other hand, if you have it that way, then if your team is really shitty on purpose, like the A's, it makes you that much more frustrated where it's like, hey, you don't even have to spend a lot of money. You just have to make sure that you spend less money than the last place guy and we have a chance. And unless you're just dirt poor and being cheap as hell, every team should have at least some hope at the.

Start of the year. You know what they should do? They should have every team for at least the first round of the playoffs, maybe even the first and second round of the playoffs. They should have every team be in and it should go off run differential. That would be sick. The Orioles in the A's play a one game playoff game but the score starts 129 to -330 how sick would that be?

I do think they're getting to a place. Do you think that they should get rid of divisions at this point? Wouldn't that make more sense?

No, I like the idea of divisions.

But it might just be because we grew up with divisions and so it's familiar to us. But I like the idea of in division rivalries.

We're Traditionalists. We think they should make interleague play like a two week thing, like it used to be.

Yeah. I don't know. It's basically the show. Hey, rule, right? They want to be like, hey, we have this global superstar. We want everyone to come out and see him. And attendance was I think it was the best that it's ever been in, like, 30 years.

That's because the bases are bigger.

I think the bases are bigger. They're like, you know what? People want to come out and see these pizza boxes, and they're coming out in droves to see them.

Dumb Question. How big are you legally allowed to make the mitt when you get to first base? To steal second base? Could I make a mitt that's 90ft long?

I mean, I guess you could. I think when Buck Showwalter, before he took the Mets job, I think he was doing MLB Network or something like that. And he was saying, Why? Even if you don't care to protect your fingers, why isn't everyone wearing those? Because it just gives you an extra inch or two to be safe. That could be the difference of being safer out. Like, every base runner should be wearing that.

Fucking it'd be funny if it was.

Like you get to first base and.

It'S like fly fishing. See if you can just get your mitt all the way to second. My Hands.

My hands in there. Put those giant number one foam fingers on you and then slide his second with that.

Baseball is the sport where thinking outside the box and cheating and doing random things to succeed. You would think that there would be a nerd somewhere in every organization, be like, hey, I don't care if you care about protecting your fingers or not. You should be wearing the oven mitt because it gives you an extra two inches and the bases are bigger. So now it's like four and a half inches that you didn't have before. Four and a half inches? Pretty big, right, Max?

Yeah, Maybe.

We've been saying that a smart coach would just not have a catcher on the first and second pitch of an at bat. And so you get an extra fielder out there. And then the pitch is coming straight at the umpire. You don't need to catch that.

No, I I think the new rules have been think so. Dan, you'll appreciate this as a wrestling guy. Why aren't fans? Because I saw in Minnesota, the Twins, because I think it was talking about they were actually doing the pitch countdown, but they were doing it real yeah. To fuck with the yeah. Wouldn't you do the countdown like the Royal Rumble, but not the actual thing to fuck with them.

It's like college basketball. College basketball all the time. The shot clock. They'll do a fake shot clock when you're in one of the big road environments, and it will always speed up a guard at least once or twice a game.

Yes.

You need to start like 54321 at like 8 seconds, like max. You need to get the Phillies fans are the perfect fan base to do that. They're a bunch of scumbags. It's a term of endearment. They're loud. It's something that they would do. So if we're going to see it, I think we should see it at the bank. But I am shocked that in this first year of the pitch clock that we haven't seen fan bases fuck with the pitchers.

It's true. It's true.

You're talking about earlier. Where would the funniest place for Otani to end up next year be?

Japan.

Cowboys.

Yeah.

He was just like, you know what? Fuck this, dude, I want to go home. And he just left. But as far as what team, that'd.

Be great, because we could just be like he could never cut it in MLB.

Yeah.

Afraid of bright lights or would people.

Just start watching Japanese baseball more than yeah, yeah.

I don't know. I feel like probably the Mets, like whatever team would have the chance of breaking him the most would probably be the.

Pirates.

Honestly, I don't know where he's going to end up. I don't like the fact that there are rumors that the Red Sox are all hot and bothered over Show Way. Because I don't want to be the team that ruins him. I don't want to be the team that breaks him. I don't want to have to be the organization that when he's 36 years old, being like, hey, man, I think you should probably pick one or the other. I don't want to be that team.

When he got hurt, were you like Ben Verlander? Did you literally throw up?

No, I didn't literally throw I wasn't creaming throwing up like Ben, but.

He literally threw up. Is he okay?

Yeah, yeah.

He fell to his knees in the middle of a Walmart over know my heart goes out to yeah, no, that's I don't know where he's going to end up. Would you want him on the Cubs?

I'd want him on the Cubs. Why not? He's fucking awesome. I don't think the Cubs never put the money up for him, but I would love for him on the Cubs. Why not? He solves everything.

I think if you're a Major League owner right now, you have to look at it not as because I think owners now are afraid to go out and spend $400 million because it's like, well, what if this player like, look at Anthony rENDone. He is one of the highest paid players in baseball. He still has a fuck ton of money left on his contract, and he admittedly is like, I wish I could retire. His heart's not in it. His body is failing, and he's owed, like, $36 million over the next five years or something like that. So I get why owners balk at paying guys like that type of money in their 30s. But with Shohei, it's almost like a marketing expense.

Yes.

I'm not paying him for what he's going to do baseball wise. If I pay Shohei Otani to play for my team, I know that he's a baseball robot. All he thinks about is baseball. He trains for baseball. His life revolves entirely around baseball. I'm going to sell tickets. My viewership is going to go up. I'm going to sell it's. It's an attraction. So that's why I kind of expect these random ass teams to be in on Shohei knowing that, hey, it doesn't matter if this guy performs to the contract. It's just going to be.

If my.

Team is a circus, this is our Star Trek.

And also, you can't do the one guy had a bad contract because you know how owners think. Like, Bryce Harper is a perfect example of, hey, think that was worth it? Yeah, it was very much worth it.

You know, it'd be awesome, though, if Shohei went to Colorado. It was just hitting him and Chris.

Bryant hitting Nukes every day.

That'd be the best, wouldn't it?

Yeah.

Wherever he goes, I'll support him. I'll watch.

Wait, if he goes to the Yankees, you know what?

Dan is the reason why I went in on the Yankees as hard as I did. He brought the beast out of me. It was dormant for so long. I hated the Yankees in 2000 and 319 99, 2004 when Johnny Damon went there in 2006. But that beast laid dormant for so long, and then in 2018, I was just like, the Yankees are another team to me. And I meant that.

You beat them. You were better than them.

No, it was more just like, my rival is the team that stands in front of me in the way to a World Series title. And Dan was like, nope, it's the Yankees. You should hate the know. Well, I just got a little whiff of those old days, and it hasn't stopped.

It's the Yankee fans in the barstool office getting them riled. Mean, I had a lot of Know pinstripe, dan and all that's what it's about. You got to go against your rival. What's your World Series prediction? This should be easy because you only have five teams left.

I know. Well, my preseason pick was Padres Blue Jays.

Oh, God. So when you say the January World.

Series parade, you're talking about yourself. You gave them a parade.

Padres blue Jays.

Is it safe to say that the Nationals won that trade for.

Like, the Nationals? They've got what, already, like, three dudes on their big league roster from that trade already? Fleeced Soto could end up in Boston.

I wouldn't mind seeing that.

That's the scuttlebutt.

He would just go yard all day in that short.

I just don't I just don't want him to go to New York. By the way, one last note on Shohei before my World Series prediction that I'm buying time on. I don't like when we talk about the Japanese superstars and they're like, oh, they definitely want to be on the West Coast. Why? Oh, because it's closer to guys. It's not like college where you're picking a college and you go home on the weekend. Like, Shohei is not going back to Japan on the weekends. Why does it matter geographically if he's close to Japan or disagree?

I disagree.

I actually think that there are more Japanese Americans that live on the West Coast than any other.

Also, you're trying to fight against one of our favorite things on this show, is, like, sport cliches, where guy coming into the NFL draft. Oh, well, did you know that he actually had the coach of the Broncos was at a camp that he went to when he was 15 years old? There's a connection there. You got to just go connections wherever you can, even if they don't make any sense.

I get it, but selfishly, I just want Shohei on the East Coast because it's a pain in the balls to have to stay up late to watch showhay.

I agree that, yeah, you should become a flat earther.

What does that have to do with time zone?

Might just be easier to get there.

I actually think it would make it farther away.

It would?

Yeah, because it's up north, so it's like you cut a diagonal.

You could just figure out maybe become, like yeah, like a triangle earther. You have to figure out a way to make it so know straight to Europe.

You know what it's like. We expect Shohei Otani to go to the Giants or probably Seattle, because it's like well, each year old played in Seattle. Yeah, that's basically Japan.

But yeah, you can't fight against that. Just lean into just being dumb sports fans.

Yeah, you're right. World Series prediction phillies over the Rangers. Which it sucks because I just got this fucking Texas flag button up. What's the thing called?

Oh, the bolo.

Yes.

I got one of those, and I got, like, a Texas button up. And then Kevin Millar bought me this.

Cowboy hat that looks like a stripper cowboy hat. Bring it back out. That's not a real cowboy.

That's, like, leather and shiny.

Yeah, well, it's leather.

That's like Magic Mike.

Well, we bought it at a leather shop, so I've got, like, the boots. I've got the whole thing going, so it's going to suck if I have to pick against them in the World Series. But it just feels like the Phillies won't be denied. They feel more inevitable this year.

This is shit that we're doing before game four.

Agreed? Agreed. Also, Jared, because you got a bunch.

Of Texas shit, you know that the Rangers are playing against the Houston Astros.

So, Jared, last question. Rowback, question. Rho back, use promo code, take 20% off your first purchase. QS, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts. Rowback.com promo code. Take 20% off. So the Red Sox don't have a GM right now, correct?

Kind of, sort of. There's folks acting behind the scenes.

Is it a 0% chance that Jared Caravas is the next GM of the Red Sox?

Listen, we've had conversations, none of which I can speak about publicly. I know commented there, but, yeah, I'm going to play out my 30s as a podcaster, and then once I get to my 40s, that's when we bring in the big guns, like Petey, Alex, Cora goes upstairs, then we just start.

Bringing in all the big guns. But is there, like I'm being dead honest, there's got to be at least, like, a half a percent of your brain being like, what if what if they just call me up and they're like, look, you know the Red Sox better than anyone. We want you as the GM.

Did you know a little over ten years ago, I almost worked in the Orioles front office?

Really?

Basically, you've worked in a front office?

Yeah, you could say that. I'm basically like an executive. I could be a candidate at this point. I don't know that I would want to do that, though.

Oh, shut up. No, you fucking lie to a podcast criticizing yourself. No, but he doesn't criticize the Red Sox. Yeah, he doesn't criticize anyone.

Oh, my God. Yes, I do. I mean, when they're in last place, you think I'm happy?

I'miserable if you were the GM of the Red Sox, would you still do the Obnoxious All Caps Tweets after a win?

See, that's what I don't want to do those anymore.

That have to be in your contract being like, please let me keep doing.

These, but I don't even want to do those anymore. So I started doing those in 2014 after the Red Sox lost ten straight games and they finally won a game. That's when I did the first one, and I've just been doing it for every win ever since. I don't think people understand. I annoy myself. I read some of the shit that I tweet. That's why I stopped doing the Yankees lose tweet.

Those are funny, though.

But I'm annoyed. If I'm a Red Sox fan, how am I supposed to talk shit when back to back last place season?

Yeah, but no, you got to hang on to that. Hold on to whatever bit of hate that you have, because when the Yankees lose that's now, your biggest victories.

True.

And when I was in Atlanta, I thought for sure that Braves fans that came out to the watch party were going to be like, yeah, we discovered you when you started talking about the Braves lineup. Fucking no. So many people are like, oh, I discovered you because of the Yankees lose Tweets. Like, in 2019, I discovered you from hating the Yankees so much. And I was like, okay, all right. So I guess I have to go back to that.

How do you come up with the.

Nicknames for the Red Sox when you do the All Caps Tweets? Is it just like overnight you wake up and you're like, yeah, Raffy Big Sticks or whatever?

Yeah, it's usually a lot of dick references in the just they come to me. You know how Paul McCartney wrote yesterday in a dream?

Yeah.

That's how I come up with the nicknames a lot of times.

So while you're masturbating, what was this? Was there one guy who was sleeping bags or something? Duffel Bags.

Mitchie.

Two bags and scoops.

Who's Scoops?

Raffy.

Big scoops. That's what it was.

Yeah, because he ate ice cream once. No, not once. That was how they rewarded him. If he did something good, then he would get ice cream.

So you got to think ahead, like, what is Otani's going to be when he's a Red Sox?

So we also didn't do nicknames for star players. We gave nicknames to players that were lesser known. Yeah, they needed that extra fan support. So we gave them source.

What's the worst nickname you ever gave? The one that you wish you had back.

One you wish you had back? I don't know. They're all kind of bad at the end of the day, I think jared Salt Lamakia. We gave him the perm. That was pretty bad. That was pretty bad. The Ice Horse is still the best one.

That's a great ice horse.

Yeah, ice Horse is a great like.

Sometimes you give a nickname to someone you're going to that's going to pop, and then other ones you're just like, oh, man, we are trying to get something over that's. Just like it's not going to work.

Yeah.

A couple other personal questions. Jared, how many hours a week do you spend exclusively training?

Probably like two to three, because I'm on like a seven day routine now. No, I don't do steroids. I know Billy's not in there right now, but I want to deny the steroid accusations once again. I also said I'm willing to take a steroid test. If you want to randomly drug test me, I will randomly drug test.

Well, no one says you do steroids.

No.

Billy said I did. Steroids.

Yeah, you did do steroids.

I did steroids in 2011. I never did steroids.

No one's saying you do them right now, but no, Billy, you did do steroids.

Billy said I did steroids during multiple phases. Of my bartholomew.

Okay, but that means that you are a steroid user.

You are a gear head.

You have done I was a steroid user.

No, it's like fucking a goat. If you fuck a goat, you're a goat fucker.

Yeah, you've done.

That's fair. Yeah, I was a steroid user.

You're on the mitchell.

You're a recovering steroid user.

Yeah, I was on the Mitchell report.

Yeah.

But I've turned a new leaf.

Other question. Little birdie told me, and I think that if true, this is a move that kind of rocks. And I respect on your part. I've heard that in your house, your living room is just your bedroom.

Is that true?

Yes and no. I bought this house, had a big, like, a giant master bedroom. And I was like, I don't need all that room to sleep in. So I turned the master bedroom into the media room. And then the podcast studio is the walk in closet. So I just made my bedroom. It's one of the smaller rooms in the house. I'm going to sleep in there. Who cares? I don't need a lot of room in there. And then the big ass master bedroom is like the media room. It has, like, the big TV wall. I'm going to put a bar in there. And then the walk in closet is the podcast video.

So you made your master bedroom, which is so big, you turned that into the living room.

Yes.

Do you need a bar in your house? Do you have people that come over?

No, but we could sponsor it and make content out of the box.

When I make a friend, I can't wait. Serious girlfriend. And she's like, what is this house? What is going on here?

That's what I was thinking when I heard that story. I was like, Jared, the second a woman walks into that house, she's like, we're fixing all this.

He basically made a tree house. No girls.

Yeah. Again, that's awesome.

Yeah, just a full meathead. Gym in the basement and then a podcast studio. I'm doing, like a secret movie theater.

What do you mean secret movie theater? You're the only one who's in on the secret.

But I'm going to keep the secret. You're not going to know where it is.

Got it.

You know how, like the gas tanks, like if you push on the gas tank door and it pops open like that, I'm going to have a big ass picture frame that you just pop open like that and you open it, and then it's going to be like this little movie.

Yeah.

You're doing sleepovers with yourself every night. It's awesome.

Every night. It's a dude's rock.

I do have people over whenever there's a WWE pay per view. I have little dork parties. My friends come over. It's kind of like a melting pot of people from all different sectors of my life. And I just made them become friends with each other because you need a wrestling group.

Well, you've made them become friends with each other because you're not a reliable friend.

I am a reliable friend. I have every single wrestling pay per view they come over. Both of you are more than welcome to come.

I love it. You basically are like a five year old dreamed what their best house would look like when they grew up. And it's like we'll have the TVs everywhere. We'll have all my friends over for wrestling.

It's beautiful, baseball. Every, like, how late into your day do you get before you think about baseball for the first time?

Immediately, I wake up in the morning and the first thing I do is check my phone and I'll look at my but same thing that you guys do. Check my Twitter and then check Instagram and whatever. You check the news, look at baseball reddit and see what the stories mean. It's immediate.

Yeah.

So, like, you open your eyes and.

You'Re just like, baseball, baseball, baseball, baseball, baseball.

Okay.

I love that.

Jared, you probably last long in bed. You're just always thinking about that's.

That's the.

Jared Gravis has never come. But the difference is he's just always thinking about baseball. He loves baseball so much that I think makes him come.

Yeah, that's true.

Yeah, that's true. That's true.

He has to think about football.

Yeah.

Have you ever thought about baseball while ejaculating, Jared?

Yeah, of.

Yeah.

There's always a misfire there where you're thinking about baseball to last a little bit longer, and sometimes it doesn't always work.

All right, well, Jared, as always, you're a great friend. Great talking to you. Everyone.

Go.

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Miss you, too.

Love you guys. We'll do this again soon.

All right. Thank you, Jared.

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Okay, let's wrap up. We got fire fest of the week. Henry my fire fest of the week.

I don't really know. It's not like a fire fest in the sense that it's something bad that happened to me. It's just more embarrassing, I guess, to admit. I don't really know the right words for it, but two weeks ago watched one video on TikTok about the Harry Potter movies and the things that should have been in the movies that were in the book. And I was a fan of the books when I was super young. Didn't really love the movies then. I just started getting fed.

Where's this going?

More Harry Potter TikToks the algorithm got you.

I've just been watching all the Potter movies. Like one TikTok video two weeks ago has led to a large part of my free time just being spent consuming Harry Potter.

You ever wonder if the big corporations get involved TikTok algorithm? I've been thinking every and they've made you now go back and watch all the movies?

I had.

Trust me, it's all been going through my head where it's like it was truly one video. I liked it, which then just fed more videos and then I was like, I'm going to go watch the movies. And then I was like, they got me.

They got you 100%, dude.

The algorithm is so bad now. If you click on one video, you just get it fed to you constantly. I get a shitload of mom influencers because there'll be like a funny video that I'll send my wife shim back to me about parenting is this and now that's just my entire Instagram feed. It was nice when it was just like sports clips and boobs. And now it's just something different.

It's moms.

My Instagram is just like stretches for your hips that I saved one I've.

Never that could get hot though.

I don't do any of them and it's like I couldn't move my back. And now I do this stretch every day and my lower back pain is gone.

Back injury.

I don't do any of them. But every time I go you click on it.

You click on one tweet and it's just like that's all you get for the rest of the day.

You got to start just actively searching for whales and liking those TikToks and then you'll be back.

You also have to just start I've just started muting things like muting subjects as a. Whole they just get away from me.

Yeah, I've watched three Harry Potter movies this week.

You know, I've been three.

Yeah.

So I've never three, four or five. Or like half a five.

I've never seen Harry Potter movies. I've never read any of the books.

Same.

Can you give me like, in 30 seconds or less the entire Harry Potter series?

Parents kids get murdered?

What? No.

The parents kids get murdered or no.

Reverse.

It's like Batman couldn't even go one sentence.

We're at 50 seconds.

Wait, what?

How many movies have you watched?

How dark is this shit? Parents get murdered.

Fucked up wizard sets up a kid.

For a lifetime of torture and then he basically has to kill himself what? To save the realm.

Is this true?

Kind of.

Okay.

You describe Batman. That plot is to kill himself.

He does himself, yeah, but then he.

At one point Dumbledore is dumbledore, the guy that you think is like the grandpa that's always there to help him pass away in real life is actually last week. Bad sicko.

Yeah, he's not bad himself.

He kills himself, but then he comes back.

This is a prophecy. So he didn't kill himself. Oh, that's lazy.

Is that not Batman?

Yeah, no. Well, the parents murdered.

Parents were killed.

And then he flies away on a.

Helicopter and the bomb goes off.

But then he's in mean, I botched that.

Don't know.

As I'm watching, I'm like, dude, Dumbledore.

Is a piece of shit.

You know what?

Okay.

He's not though.

He knew that Harry had to sacrifice himself. He set him up.

So confused.

Set him just that was like the way it had to be.

You read them too.

I didn't read them.

Come on.

You think I was this is something that PSC.

And I just missed. Like, I remember being in college when kids were lining up to in the fucking Scarfs and shit.

I read the books and then I was like, these movies suck.

Wrong.

Which house are you?

Hank.

We also make fun of this guy all the time and no one has said anything. What, the books are better than the movies guy?

No, I know if it's Hank, I Michael Lewis. Books always better than the movie. Big Short.

Star wars.

Heard of it? Moneyball? Ever heard of it? Blindside? Not that.

Bringing down the house.

Bringing down the house. Yes. That wasn't Michael Lewis.

I haven't read any of these books. I haven't read any books in general.

You're ravenclaw.

Hank. Yeah.

You guys told me something that really hurt my feelings. That I didn't even know what it was.

Slytherin.

Slytherin.

Slytherin.

No.

I get hagrid.

You are hagrid. Yeah, that's all the YouTube. What's his cousin's name? Go watch the PMTV. By the way, Hagrid ran five k.

Hagrid ran a five k. I attempted to run a five k. Yeah.

What are the comments on that right now?

Like, you're crazy if you think anything.

That.

I just saw on the top one is pretty funny.

PFT.

Fire Fest.

No, max, you didn't raise your hand.

Max.

Max, you kind of ran the five K. We don't need to do this right now.

No spoilers.

Oh, you kind of ran a five k. Yeah.

It's not a spoiler. It's a fact.

It's just a fact.

Jake ran the Five K. No, I.

Mean, are you talking about this one? That's honestly super impressive. That's a small carton. Big Cat sat in the back the whole time. Got to think he started crampering, but he powered through it.

That's great.

Yeah. Everyone, no spoilers. Go watch it on PMTV. Max runs a five k. Kind of. I wonder what the other people running thought about Big Cat and crew just cruising on a cart, chirping a fat guy the whole run. It was a little weird. Yeah, it was a little weird.

Yeah.

Remember when you said that you couldn't run it because you had to catch a flight, and then you stayed the entire time?

I was like, I got to go to Tuscaloosa. I can't run this. And I just stayed the entire time.

We can't get on the flight.

Sweaty max, I was proud of you. That was a real company man thing.

Yep.

Thank you.

You stepped up and you tried. I tried. No spoilers.

5 seconds.

You think there's a chance you get addicted to running? Oh, did I say that to you?

Yeah, I think so. I have worked out more often since then.

You did look strong.

You looked very strong. You're a strong guy. Hagrid runs a five K. Go watch it right now, please. Upvote. Okay.

PFT.

What's your fire fest?

Plug.

God.

Tonight, Knoxville, Tennessee, 08:30. P.m Pup Punk playing Live Free show at the Hill. Free show at the Hill. Come on out.

I feel like every college should have a place called The Hill.

They should. Yeah.

It's just like, meet me at The Hill.

The hill and high lawn. I feel like there's high lawns in every college town.

Go to the hill tonight.

Go to the hill. I'm going to be at the Hill. I'm on the hill tonight. Come see me. Come see pup, punk. It's going to be me. Roan Robie nick. Caroline. We got filling guy on drums for Frankie. So please be nice and please nobody tell Frankie.

Is Frankie still on his honeymoon?

Yeah, he's fucking how long is the honeymoon?

He's fucking don't vacation shame.

I didn't I honeymoon shame.

Yeah.

The guy's name is Dom, and he was actually the first drummer in pub history. He's second place dom of the Year. Second place in Dom of the Year. He was the first drummer that we had on Back to School. He played on that track. And then we went to Smitty. Then we went to Frankie. Been very happy with Frankie. But please don't tell Frankie how good.

This new drummer is.

It really breaks him up when you hear that. So don't do it. Don't do it. No matter what.

Don't do it.

But we're going to be at the Hill. It's going to be awesome. We've got, like, I think an hour and 15 and yeah, it's going to be sick. So if you're in Knoxville, come out, say hi, balls for life. We want to see you. And we'll be there. I think we go on stage at, like, 830 or nine. So free show, come out.

So your fire fest is playing in Pop Punk?

No, I derailed the fire fest.

Oh, got it.

In lieu of my firefest. Plug God.

Got it. That makes sense.

I plug God.

That was plug.

God.

But they are some of the most fun nights that we have.

Hell yeah.

Come out. See it.

Pop Punk is a legitimately awesome band.

It's always a good time. And maybe I'll play freebird.

OOH, you won't?

Nice.

I said maybe you can't. I did. I played freebird.

Oh, no.

Really?

Yeah, I played freebird at the Macro Dosing live show. I said I'd do it one time.

He did it once.

I put my mind to it. Accomplished. Played check out my bio. Played freebird once.

Your face.

Okay.

My fire fest. I don't know. We've been stuck in the New York office all week. I miss my kids a lot. That's about it. Yeah, it's been a long week. This is a long week. I don't know why we signed up for this long of a week.

It's very long.

I have to go to LSU on Saturday, so yeah, I won't be home till Saturday night.

So we started the contest on Sunday. No spoilers. Yeah, but on Monday I was like, what day is it?

Yeah, because I thought it was Thursday. Yeah, because usually we do, like, our long we do grit week, we do Super Bowl week. But yeah, this was a random, very long week, and I do miss my children, so yeah, that would be my fire fest.

Which one do you miss the most?

My daughter. Yeah, 100%. Which? Swifties? You want to give me some credit for that?

Yeah, come on.

I always say my daughter's, my favorite kid.

Do you think that Swifties are going to watch this Thursday Night Football game and be like, thursday Night Football is a real problem. The quality of play is subpar. We need to get rid of Thursday Night Football.

They're probably going to be mad at Al Michaels because he's like, we're not going to spend a lot of time on Taylor Swift.

Yeah.

And they'll probably be like, Sean Payton, what the fuck are you doing with that timeout?

Yeah, these are all real things. And I thought this Russell Wilson guy, I thought Sierra's husband was supposed to be good. Yeah, no, he's bad.

We almost had a gomi. It was 1927 is when it first happened. New York Yankees versus Buffalo. Bisons. Forget 96 years ago.

To the day.

To the day.

October twelveTH.

Holy shit. Holy shit.

What happened?

Fucking thing sucks.

What happened?

I'm trying to bring Jake's mic up, and it's going down.

Maybe you should turn it the other way.

I was turning it the right way. This thing's fucking broken. All right, I think it's good.

Leave that all in. Leave that all in.

I love how didn't turn it the right way. I turned it the right way.

This thing sucks.

Max is getting cocky off of Phillies when I'm not so cocky that he's yelling at machines for being stupid.

It's broken. This is turning it the wrong way.

Shitty ass studio.

If this was your level at the NLDS, what's next?

I just need a break.

Imagine Phillies winning eight more games. Where else is there to can't?

Good question.

Jake, because of his shirt, he's yelling.

At people like he's spitting on people.

He went off to Lugie on his boss.

I also want to very clear this is very different. My future on the Phillies is very different than the Eagles future. If I find an opportunity to hedge out that I can, then start rooting against Max, I will.

So, Max, you're at, like a twelve today.

Hank, you'll like, that it's the NLDS.

How much player can do it?

How much higher can you get?

I don't know. I just got to live my life.

Max said during the game. He's like, my brain just shuts off during the game. It's like, when is it on?

He's like a five year old watching sports. Max, I want you to say the thing that you said about which part of watching baseball you like and which part you don't.

I'll stand that by.

This might forever controversial take alert. So if you're in the company of minors, if there's anybody that's sensitive to extreme discussions and, like, frankly, real talk that some people aren't real baseball that aren't ready to have, please turn off your radio right now. All right, max, first off, people are.

So confused right now. We're filming fire fest after the Phillies game.

Yeah.

Okay.

After I've said that?

Yeah.

I think people well, the whole show came out.

We just talked a lot about the.

Phillies winning, but before this, we were.

Like I kept being we congratulated you multiple times.

I know, but I kept being no, I kept being mad at you for doing that.

Okay.

But now people can figure it.

All right?

So what I said was, I like when my team is on offense, and I don't like when my team is on defense. That wasn't a hiccup by.

Were you on my side of the debate that I bodied everyone in in the gambling cave about the top of the 9th with the no, I was.

On your side that whole time.

For sure.

Hank, I want to see how you will answer if you're a real seam head and Jake, you can chime in, too. Top of the 9th. Three one, first batter. Would you rather give up a walk or a solo shot?

I'd rather give up a solo shot. Just there's some momentum. Guy on base.

Solo shot. Get the crowd fired up.

Wait, no, it's the road.

Would you rather shut the crowd up?

No. Both are bad for the Phillies.

All right.

It's a walk.

You'd rather give answering. What would you rather give up as.

A walk or a solo shot? Up three one in the top of.

The 9th, 1st bat.

I misheard all that. I thought we were down three one. You'd rather give up a solo shot?

Yeah.

Okay. Good.

People were disagreeing. Crazy.

I don't even remember who.

You have your closer. And your closer isn't there to get three outs if he gives up a home run. It's like you still just have to get three outs.

You get the run on first. All of a sudden, the tying run is on base.

Yeah.

And it's just all the nerves. Yeah, the nerves. I texted our friend Dan Heron. He said, no question, you'd rather give up a solo.

And all it takes is one pass ball and you've leaded off man on second.

Yeah.

He said, you got to make them put the barrel on the bat. Sorry for the trigger. Word.

Knock her out of the park.

No disrespect. Max is, like, high right now.

I don't know what I just don't.

Know about the next three weeks, if.

They go that far. Oh, God, we have three weeks of this.

Well, it's also can I say something in the trust tree? Can I say something in the trust tree that no one can get mad at me for? Can I say something?

Yes.

I want everyone to agree.

Yes.

It's like yes, you need a verbal yes.

It would be a little bit funny if you had, like, a minor, minor heart attack. No. Yeah. You said, you can't judge me, right? Not a one that I'm just saying in the middle of a game, you're like one that we can wait a couple of hours to take you to the hospital. And they're like, oh, you're fine. Drink this laxative. You're just constipated.

I'd probably sue you guys.

Just sue yourself.

No, that's worse than Taylor.

Yeah, no, I'd probably sue you.

So, Max, what would you do?

Saturday, November 4, world Series Game Seven.

Oh, my God. It's just so hard for him.

You're going to have a heart sack at this pace. You are on pace for a minor.

Hard no, I think seven game series, you have a little bit more breathing room. There's something about the short series.

It's like well, and also, like, tonight was a must win because you couldn't go back to Atlanta.

Yeah, but the short series, it's like everyone is so important because you lose one and you're just back that much.

Although when you go to a seven game series and you start the two games at home. You have to win both. At least one of them, but mostly both. But you have to win at least one. So you could be back into a must win like that. I'll be fine if you lose game one. Game two is a must win.

I'll be fine.

I'll be so chill.

I'll be so chill. I don't want I almost like it when my team you just said that you do.

I said it would be kind of funny when my team a minor.

Minor doesn't have home field.

A really minor one. Is your mom going to be mad?

Because my mom's going to be mad.

My mom called me while we were recording and just said, Call me, period. I think she's upset with the way I talked to Clemmer and I'm worried about the phone call.

Clemmer was triggering you.

I know.

By saying the word barrel.

Should we get her on the show?

No, we should not.

Then she would be right. We'll tell her I was just joking. And again, I very much qualified it as a minor. Like very minor heart attack. Yeah, very minor.

And also, I'm sorry that your son said that stuff about Titty.

Yeah.

Will you titty fuck if the Phillies win the World Series? Celebratory?

No comment. I'm done talking about Titty.

Fucking jake, your firefest.

Yeah, my confidence. Putting the golf balls at an all time low.

Oh, no.

It's really bad.

What's happening?

I'm good for one. Missed putt within 2ft every round.

PFC was a witness.

Last within 2ft.

It's bad.

How far was that putt that you missed? Probably 2ft. I think it was 18 inches, 18 incher.

It's all in my head. It's really bad.

It's winter.

Who cares?

That's when no one's watching. What's the quote like? You get better when no one's watching.

That's true.

But also, Jake, here's a piece of advice for you. Something like that. Just start cheating.

That might be a quote.

Just don't putt the ball when it's a foot away.

Pick it up. Don't putt the ball when it's 2ft away.

Pick it up. Pick it up.

Well, that's dumb. Now I don't feel bad for you.

No.

I don't take gimme's when I'm filming.

Yeah.

Now I feel bad for ball needs.

To go in the hole.

No, I feel bad. I don't feel bad for you.

You pick up the ball, it's a gimme.

But not when I'm filming.

It's mental.

Yeah.

Your tone in the videos, it's depressing.

Yeah.

Hanks roller coaster. I had to have a talk with you about how depressing the videos were.

All right, here's golf video.

I'm scared.

The hole in one was peak, but that's a legend.

Real.

It's a pretty good peak.

I'm going back there tomorrow to try it.

A hole in one for the first time.

For the second time.

Okay. I wish you luck. Make sure you video it I will.

Okay, we'll see. Yeah.

All right. Anything else? Good show, everyone. Max, get some sleep.

I got an early flight.

Fuck. Fuck.

How early? 845. Oh, man.

I guess I got to edit.

No stress.

The stress is I'm good for the weekend. Good for the weekend.

Are you supposed to travel when you have stress? When your blood pressure is that high?

Your blood pressure is probably really high.

I had it fly after the Super Bowl. I had an issue on that flight. I thought I was having a hard time.

Oh, there's nothing worse than, like, a super hungover flight.

No, I didn't drink at all.

Super bowl week.

Okay, numbers 318. 69.

Memes.

You ever gotten it? Evan, have you ever gotten it?

No.

51, by the way.

New studio, two weeks away.

Ten days.

Ten days.

Although we are not going to open the new studio. Hank is going to be gone in two weeks for a weekend. We will not open it without Hank.

Where are you going?

My best friend's getting married on Sunday.

We will wait for Hank.

Oh, nice vacation.

Yeah. All right.

My best friend's away, but I told.

Hank we're not opening the new studio without him.

No, we wouldn't do that.

If we're in the new office in two weeks, which hopefully we are, knock on wood, we'll just find one of the other studios. So we will make sure we're all together for the opening of the brand new studio. But two weeks.

Oh, also, a video went out on it was an X video. Went on x.com today.

All right, thank you.

From the top of the Gillette Stadium lighthouse, the Patriots put out a panoramic view. I didn't see any water, Hank. I didn't. I'm just being honest. I wanted I was looking you don't understand fucking videos.

You don't understand x videos.

I do understand x videos. How many X videos do you watch a week?

No, this is insane. This is just insane.

We're never getting out of here.

No, but PFD is an idiot. That's all you need to know. Factor fiction.

Never mind.

It's very simple. Okay?

If you see a video and you say that's 100 yards away versus if you're standing in person, it's much clearer. 100 yards away.

Are we doing this?

We said numbers. We said numbers.

You didn't answer the question. You can't see it because it's a fucking video. Okay, so what do you need?

If you were standing on the top of the lighthouse, you would see the federally funded Napansa River.

Because it's a video, you can't see it.

Wait, the river or the reservoir?

So when you take a video of something, you can't see it. It's not the same.

It's like when you take all right, if you're taking a picture of the moon have you ever been seen the moon and been like, oh, my God, the moon looks fucking sick tonight? And then you take a picture it looks like shit.

Yeah, and pictures. I've seen so many pictures that are way clearer. Of the moon.

Is that how far the federally funded upon the river is? As far away as the moon.

We're not getting to this is it.

The reservoir of the river.

There's two.

I'm hearing a buzzing now. All right, let's do numbers. Yeah, let's do numbers. All right. 69. 91 for Evan. Saved by the buz.

Hank, three.

Jake, 18. Max eight.

Cassiano's legend.

21. 21. Is the new lottery ball machine going to be there too? Yeah, it's ready to go. Yeah, it's actually fucking sick. And it's got colored numbers, colored balls, like different. So people can start doing all the.

Geeks out there are going to love it.

Yeah, it's going to be big time. Why'd you look at Jake when you said that? I didn't.

I'm pretty sure it's cool.

It'll be like, oh, like three purples in a row. Yeah, more little trends and shit for the geeks.

It will be okay. See everyone on Monday.

Love you guys.

Anyways. I'm not safe shy away? I'm coming for your love of? Coming for your love of? I dream I don't need it? I say it's a better thing you say to stop your fight if you could say because, baby I can say my love you all the things I thought to remember shining away all the coming to you anyway take on me take on me on Jam.