Pardon My Take - Broncos HC Nathaniel Hackett, Grit Week Recap And Denver Airport Review + Mt Rushmore Of Candy

Episode Date: August 12, 2022

The boys climbed Everest (equivalent) (00:03:09-00:04:28). Grit week has to come an end and we recap an awesome week in Colorado (00:04:28-00:11:11). Fyre Fest of the week (00:11:11-00:25:13). Broncos Head Coach Nathaniel Hackett joins the show to talk about his incredible path to Denver, Blake Bortles, the key to offense and his love of Star Wars (00:25:13-00:54:30). Denver Airport review (00:55:45-01:16:53) and we finish with Mt Rushmore of Candy (01:16:53-01:32:04)You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

Hey, pardon my take listeners. You can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen, add free on Amazon Music. On today's part in my take, Bronco's head coach Nathaniel Hackett. Awesome interview with him. I think we're Nathaniel Hackett guys.

Big time. Big time Nathaniel Hackett guys. Talked to him about his rise in coaching, unbelievable Blake Bortles story, and a lot more. We also have a very packed show. We're gonna recap Grit Week. We do a little fire fest.

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Okay, let's go. It's a part of my take, presented by Barstool Sports. Welcome to part of my take, presented by CoorsLight, the greatest beer, ooh, that sounded great. The greatest beer ever. Today is Friday, August 12th, and this is a monumental occasion right now. If you're listening to this show,

you're listening to the first of the first of the first two shows of the year, the first of the first two shows of the year, the first of the first two shows of the year, you are listening to the first ever podcast that every single member of climbed Mount Everest. Yeah, let's go, boys. Equivalent.

Honestly, Mount Everest, low-key mid for real. Dude, I mean, dogs were hiking Mount Everest. There were like old ladies hiking Mount Everest, but we did it. People were running up and down it. People were running up and down it. We're gonna have a whole video next week sometime, the Mount Everest equivalent climb,

but yeah, that's maybe the week after. Batgirl's giving me the no, no, no, no, no, no, no, because it is gonna be probably the hardest video to ever edit because we just walked in circles around a mountain and called it Mount Everest equivalent. Let's just put it out today. Let's put it out Friday. Yeah, that's perfect.

If the video's not out Friday, tweet at Batgirl. He's at Philly Maze on Twitter and be like, hey, when's the Mount Everest video coming out? We'll put a short, tiny clip in the YouTube video. Yeah, okay, yeah, perfect. But we did it. We did it. You were listening.

There's no other podcast. There's no other podcast that is anti-Nazi and also climb Mount Everest equivalent. For sure. No chance. Because any other podcast that has climb Mount Everest, probably Nazis. For sure.

So, Grit Week, this is a finale. Grit Week, what a week it was. I had a blast with the boys. I really did. This has been one of my favorite Grit Weeks of all time. We've experienced a lot of things together. We've gone through some shit. We've experienced a little adversity.

A lot of happy times. Got some things done that maybe we didn't think we were gonna be able to get done this week. Every day we did so much. It felt like there was just a ton. Every day was jam-packed. We went for the hike with the boys. Went out to dinner.

We went to a bar last night. A little sundown saloon. Shout out the sundown saloon. Probably the greatest dive bar in Colorado. Yeah, I wish there were six inside there, but that's a small complaint. Yup. Billy did some food challenges.

Yeah. Jake really showed out. Jake, wait for some of the videos that come out because Jake is in alpha mode. He's alpha plus. We filmed a lot of stuff that's gonna be coming out. Which is good. It's grit week.

And then you're also, you know, the AWLs will get the runoff. The runoff. We have an interview that's coming too that we haven't announced that's coming as a runoff of grit week as well. Yup. And Batgirl had a great week.

Great week. First week on the road with us producing memes. I'd be looking over my shoulder. Batgirl has, he had a great week. Yeah. Really good week memes. Yeah.

Well, they are a team. They are a team. Really good week. Also shout out the guy, the AWO who gave us mushrooms. Yeah. Because those were great. That was nice.

Like we said, we were given all kinds of drugs in our meet and greet. I took Viagra yesterday before I went to Broncos training camp because I was told it would help with the altitude. Yeah. And then PFT mysteriously went to the bathroom for like 15 minutes. It's like, uh-oh.

It's called taking a shit. Yeah. And also jerking off. Yeah. After being like sitting on the bus was getting me bricked up. We hit a rumble stroke and I got real horny. Well, it just chubbed up a little bit.

And it doesn't make you horny. It just makes you, it redirects blood. You're bricked up watching Russell Wilson practice. I was bricked up. Well, he's got that cake. Yeah. Russell Wilson, that's one thing we learned at Broncos training camp.

Guys built like a dump truck. He is. He is. He's got a fat ass. Saw John Elway stretching. John Elway. Broncos camp was so boring, by the way. We went to the most boring day.

No, they said it to us. Like, thank you to the Broncos because it was incredible. They had us out there. But they were like, yeah, you guys came kind of on the worst day because we're just doing no pads. Like, you know, half, half speed scrimmage. Not even a scrimmage. So, but it was cool to be out there.

It was great. Condoleezza Rice was out there with a new ownership group. Nathaniel Hackett. He was looking over his shoulder being like, oh, head coach and weighting's here. Yeah. I think Peyton Manning was at practice as well. We believe.

We believe. Yeah. It was a big day for the Broncos. It was cool to be out there. Thank you again to the Broncos. They really helped us out a lot. Rolled out the red carpet. Made us feel welcome there.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. Nathaniel Hackett was, it's coming up, but it was a great interview. Guy that, I don't know how you can't root for this guy. Russell Wilson didn't miss a pass the entire time, although he's just throwing against those. No, one interception.

One interception. One face mask. That's right. Every pass that Russell Wilson threw, ended in a touch. No balls hit the ground. Correct. I think it was taken directly out of his face mask. Yeah.

Jerry Judy. He made the defensive coordinator puke. Yeah, that's right. Also, we had Russell Wilson after practice was over. Everyone got off the field. Russell Wilson was the last guy on there doing some mental reps. So Broncos country, you guys are ready to roll.

Next level. Yeah. Next level mental reps. Yeah. We saw our good friend Graham Glasgow there. Yep. We saw Darren, right? Yeah.

I feel like that's when we talked to him. Maybe training camp. And TJ Lang. It all goes together. Yes, we saw him. Saw Russ. Russ walked by. Notice big cat went over to him, gave him a big hug and said,

hey, Badger to Badger, let's get this. Let's ride. Yeah, let's ride. Anything else? I mean, it was, it was a great week. We worked a lot, but last night we got to go, you know, to the dive bar, play some darts, play some shuffleboard, maybe have some mushrooms in our brains.

It was great. It was an awesome win in Rome. Torchies, torches fucked me and Hank up bad because we were, we showed up to torches and we thought it was a sit down restaurant. And then Hank and I just spent like 15 minutes giggling in line, trying to figure out what to order. I ordered seven tacos. The guy behind the counter was like, I think, I think you've ordered

enough. Like he said that to me. He was like, you, I think you're good. I was like, I don't know, man. Seven. Yeah. I just went down the line as a torches veteran. I ordered off the secret menu.

I got the ace of spades taco. Highly recommend. Wow. But I ordered it and the lady stared at me like, we don't sell that taco here. And she looked at me like I was crazy for a second. I was like, oh yeah, you are on mushrooms. Maybe, maybe this might be your brain.

Like misdirecting you. Yes. It was her first day on the job. So she didn't know about the secret menu. Had to educate the people. Yes. Okay. Any, any other grit week highlights?

I mean, there's not a lot going on in the sports world. We got, we got football games tonight. Obviously the news. Tom Brady is left bucks camp for like a week and a half. Seems like it's somewhat serious. So going to just hope that everything's okay. He's coming back after the second preseason game. Yeah.

Kyle Shanahan is getting into some hat beef with the NFL right now. And we're big fans of Kyle Shanahan's hats with the logos that get smaller and smaller every year in those little squares. So he said, I have such a beef with them right now. They won't let me pick out my own hat. They won't let me wear anyone that's from a previous year. So I can't wear like an older one. I've got to wear the new ones that they give this year.

Unfortunately, there's none that I like wearing. So hopefully we can figure it out or wait till salute to service. I guess he likes that hat. That's, that's weird. They're policing hats. They're policing coach's hats on the sidelines. Damn. This might be a Goodell thing where he's going to, he's going to police it and then next year

he's like, everyone can wear whatever they want. Yeah, for sure. The fun is back in the NFL. Kyle Shanahan suspended for six games. Yeah. For wearing the wrong hat. But I, coaches should be allowed to wear helmets. Yeah.

On the sidelines. Full pads. Or Jess, I was actually thinking he could have a video hat that has that tiny little square on it. Yeah. And have it just bounce around like the DVD logo. And when they score, it hits the corner. Yeah.

And then it breaks when he's in a playoff game in the fourth quarter. It just shuts down. Yeah. It's just like his brain is just broken. Also to Sean Watson is starting preseason game one. That's kind of awkward. I would say weird. That is, I don't know.

Yeah. What kind of reception do you think he's going to get? Is it in Cleveland? The first game? I don't, let's just say, if it's in Cleveland, he'll be normally in Jacksonville. Oh, he's going to get booed. There's a nice thing about though, Cleveland, because they have the dog pound, you could be like, oh, they're actually barking for me.

Yeah. Boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo. Yeah. So if he's in Jacksonville, it would be very awkward if he got a hamstring sprain or a tear during the game. Somebody had to come out and actually massage his leg. Yeah. That's where we need the chair on the sideline.

Not the electric chair. Maybe. But no, but the actual massage chair. Actually, if Deshaun Watson were smart, he would get a sharper image like Ad Deal. Hi, I'm Deshaun Watson. I'm here for Brookstone. Yeah. I just like to sit in the chairs.

They're robots, not humans. Okay. I think that's, I think we should do Firefest real quick. Let's do it. Let's do it. All right. Hank, why don't you start us off? Let's get it.

All right. My Firefest, we kind of alluded to it. We were at the dive bar. We were playing darts. PFT and Kekub. And I'm not a great darts player. I know that. I wasn't playing well.

I wasn't really talking a lot of shit. You're going to throw a flag on that second one. And that girl said, there's a 0% chance we lose this. Because PFT could barely hit the board. It was, we had an early lead. That's just not true. And that girl was like, 0% chance we lose this. Then, and again, I never said I was good.

Hank, don't touch the mic. I never actually, I'm not touching the mic. Okay. Is he touching the mic stand? You're not touching the mic stand. I'm just saying be careful. That's the difference on the mic. Anyway.

That girl says 0% chance we lose. Jake's throwing. He's got an unusual throwing motion to say the least. Throws it like a baseball. But I was watching it. And I was like, I was, I was throwing it bad. And I was like, I can't keep, I can't watch this and not try it myself. Jake just turned that into bulletin board material.

And like they came back and when he started screaming, like we're in a, you know, a dive bar, casual, having fun. Yeah. Great jukebox, old school jukebox. Screaming at me like, you can't watch this. You can't watch this. It was he, he picked the screaming. There was some screaming.

It was, it was an interesting dichotomy because we had like John Prine on the jukebox. Yeah. Angels of Montgomery was going and you were just full of mushrooms and you're screaming in your face, Hank, which was, it was warranted because Hank is glossing over a lot of the parts where he was talking a lot of shit. And Hank, I started to make points once I understood what the rules of the game were. You fucked up by explaining the rules to me. You should just let me go on my merry way because I thought we were playing like his

way that they were playing on their, on their dartboard. But yeah, me and Jake, we just, it was a comeback for the ages. It was like 28 to three. So what's the fire fest? The fire fest was that, you know, we were just having some fun on some mushrooms and then I got, I got Jake Marsh screaming in my face after, after, after a guarantee from back girl. It was tough.

Yeah. It was tough to swallow. Very tough. And it's just not, that's like, kind of, it's just the vibe, not the vibe you're going for. Yeah. Killed the vibe. I was like, killed the vibe?

Yeah, you killed the vibe. By coming back and winning? No, you killed the vibe, yeah. Well, screaming in my face. Yeah. Strong vibes. This is good. I liked the end of grit week because it's like, you know, it's been a great week.

It's been a lot of fun, but I think we're also already just go sit in our own apartment for a minute and just be like decompressed for a second. I'm fine with it. I'm enjoying Big Cat's company. I'm enjoying everyone's company. I think it's really just Jake and Hank that are, that are buttonheads right now. We're fine. I'm fine if you're fine.

I'm great. No, you just made it your fire fest. I don't know. You guys are having a great off. Who's, who's better? Who's greater? Yeah. Jake, Jake, Jake's better.

Yeah. He's the best. Okay. Best in the office. Yeah. Best in the boss. Okay. Yeah.

He didn't deny that. All right. PFT, your fire fest. Okay. This is kind of a group fire fest for us because I just got this information a second ago. So we haven't discussed it yet on the podcast, but part of my take was slated to do a live show in New York City at the Beacon Theater in November. It was going to be for the New York City Comedy Festival.

We were very excited to do it. There's going to be a massive show and I just got information that that date has been pulled from us because James Dolan owns the Beacon Theater and we are the fucking bad boys of podcasting. We're banned from the Beacon Theater because of James Dolan. Okay. So we do trust. That's great.

Yeah. Cheers. Cheers. We don't have to do it. Well, no, we're looking at other other venues right now. Yeah. But cheers. Right.

As of right now that weekend that Saturday night is opened up, but we're banned. We're banned from the Beacon Theater. That's actually great. I'm so happy. We don't see your eyes. We'll do it because I knew this. I thought you were going to be like we have to do two shows. What was the date?

What was the date? November something. Well, November what? Give me the date. Give me the date. Yeah. No. Listen.

I wanted to do it. Watch it. Your eyes are like, oh my God. Yeah. I mean, like I've always said that if we could just invent a thing that just makes plans for it. November 12th. Oh God.

What? It's my cousin's wedding. I don't know. So Jake's not going to be there. Neither are we. We don't know why we got banned technically. We've said a lot of things about James Nolan. I mean, we have an employee that hisses at him.

I've been kicked out and arrested at the dog show. I think it might have to do maybe with a dog show that we got arrested at Hank. Or the fire Dolan shirts. Yeah, fire Dolan shirts. Countless blogs. Yeah, but for whatever reason, we've made a very powerful, hilarious enemy. All right. Yeah.

I mean, Alabama at Ole Miss, Texas A&M at Auburn, LSU at Arkansas is going to be a great game. Yeah. Wisconsin, Iowa, that'll probably be at noon. Definitely will be at noon. Nebraska, Michigan. So yeah, I mean, that's, I'm okay with it. We're looking at new venues right now. So there are a couple that want us to perform there during that weekend.

It's like couch a venue. We'll try to set something up. But the good news is it gives us great street cred right now. Yes, yes. It's awesome. Charles Oakley. Yeah, but we got banned. Yep.

Yeah. Okay. Next time I see him. Next time I see him, it's on site. I'm slapping James Dolan. I'm slapping the kazoo out of his mouth. Ah, shucks. That's, we should, we should rent out Madison Square Garden.

Can we just rent it out just for ourselves and not even do a show? Not anymore. Well, there's a price for everything. I wonder what his price is. Yeah. We get paid a lot in board apes. Let's give them all of our board apes. Yeah.

And I'll toss in three slurp juices. Yeah. I'll put in some ass coin. I'll match. Yeah. And some cum rockin. Okay. My firefest, I told you guys this when we were out just playing a little frisbee golf, which

is some videos coming in a, probably a month. But we were at the hotel. We stayed at the same hotel in Boulder two nights. And the person who was working the like little cafe, I went to get my coffee on Tuesday. And she made my coffee and then she was like, I gotta, I'm putting up this sign. I got to go to the potty and it's been in my head since and I don't like another adult tell an adult telling another adult, I have to go use the potty is the most cringe worthy. Like I can't get out of my head.

She said that. She has to be a part time kindergarten teacher. I was just like, are you, I was looking around like who is like your little kid here or something. Like who says I have to go. She said twice too. She's like, I got to go to the potty to me. And then she was walking away and said it to one of her coworkers like going to use the potty.

I was like, what's going on here? Maybe that's Colorado Slime. Maybe that's what they say. What was the coworkers reaction? Was the coworker like cringing from it? No, I think the coworkers, I think, I think she says all the time. I think she's the potty girl. Yeah.

She just is like, maybe she just got potty trained. Maybe like not too long ago. Either way, it's both good and bad because I haven't got out of my head, but it's good because that's a very minor firefest. That's how fun we, how much fun we've had this week and just being with the boys and being on the road and having laughs and driving around. So shout out Reg by the way, our bus driver. Reg, he's been killing it.

He's been, he's been absolutely crushing it. So yeah, potty, I, that one's, that one's going to stick with me. I don't know how to get that out of my head. I want to go back and just be like, did you mean to say that? Cause you probably say it a lot actually. I say it to my kids. Yeah. But like, I would never say it to another adult.

Never catch me saying potty. Okay. Billy. Firefest. My digestive system has been a wreck. Been doing a lot with it lately with the food challenges, not going to reveal what happened, but it's just been wrecking my system. So a lot of, a lot of volume, a lot of mass coming in, coming out.

How's your butt doing? Terrible. Yeah. The butt's bad. Like burning. Do you think it has anything to do with all the cum in your belly? Sure. Cum belly, Billy.

Cum belly football. Cum belly. Perfect. Perfect. There was, there was one day where Billy was late getting to the bus because he was on the toilet, which would have been a great excuse for being late to the bus. But instead right off the bat, Billy was like, this wasn't the time that we were supposed to all be here.

Like if you had just said, I was shitting out the results of the last food challenge that I did. No, because the thing was I was pissed cause I was hurrying my shit cause I would have taken longer. Right. And I was like, well, I got till eight 45. So like, I gotta get it done. Gotta get it done.

And then I rushed it and you know, wasn't doing well, then got on the bus and yeah, I ate by eight 43. It was very, it was a very billy moment because he got on the bus eight 45. We were all on the bus. We had said the night before we like, let's meet at eight 45. Actually, let's meet at eight 30. And we said eight 30. All of us were here at eight 30.

And he's like, that's not what was said, even though everyone was here. He still thinks it was said. He still thinks we were all wrong. He was right. Yeah. I mean, just say that you're sorry. We had to talk on the mountain like sometimes taking little L's is not a big deal. Yes.

Yeah. Also just being like, I was 15 minutes late. We didn't even care. It was just funny because you guys are wrong. I'm right. You know, I was in a shitty mood. Yeah, literally. Yes.

Yes. And to Billy's credit, he was a beast on the mountain. Yes, he was. He was. What is it? Sherpa. No, the rabbit who leads the rabbit. Yeah, for the marathon.

Yeah, I would say you were out there leading the pack. You were a Sherpa. You were Sherpa adjacent. It was so I can't wait till the video comes out to see some of these views because it was so beautiful. You had a great week. And Billy found a snake too. Yeah.

Actually, do I want to say he had a great week? Because then he probably you had to take a couple weeks. What are the other grades of grit? It's like alpha plus standard grit. Billy, you did your job this week. Billy, you had standard grit this week. Thank you. Room for improvement, even though you were great.

There's no way you cannot improve enough. Right. Nice. Nice. I just don't want, you know, sometimes when we give compliments, there's a setback, but you did a great job this week. I did it again. You did a standard job this week.

Yeah. Standard plus. No, you can't say thank you. You did your job. So you did your job. Expected. Yes. There we go.

All right, Jake, finish this off and we're going to get to Nathaniel Hackett. Yeah, I have two quick ones. First off, I clogged the hotel toilet. I had midnight last night. What? I had to call and they brought up the plunger. Someone clogged my toilet too. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, that happens all the time. So wait, Jake, how much did you have to eat for dinner last night? I thought it was a pretty standard meal. Three tacos. I chipped myself to death. Thanks. Oh, dude, I was. Your name, whatever you called it.

Yeah, we were sitting there eating and I, like the food just wasn't out there and I had had two whole baskets of chips. And I was so. And the tacos are big. Yes. I had seven of them. Well, you ordered some. No, I took a bite of everyone.

Really? Yeah. So that was tough. I did. I overordered for our table as well. I think you got three separate things of chips and dips. And yeah, Jake House, though. I feel like hotel toilets are usually invincible.

No. Wrong. No. Wrong. You don't ship hard enough. I've only clogged like twice in my life. Oh, dude. Again, someone clogs my toilet almost every time I go to a different hotel.

Jake, do you use when it gives you the two options of which one to push? Do you always go for the small one? Not if you're pee. Well, if you're pooping. Yeah, you've got to use the big one. I even go big one when I'm peeing. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Save the water. You've got to flush that out. Yeah, there's a lot in there. Environment, though. Yeah. It's fucked anyways. We do our parts sometimes. Yeah, we height.

Yeah, exactly. That reduced greenhouse emissions by, I don't know, what is the measurement? Two carbon footprints? I think I nailed that. If we had driven a car up Mount Everest, it would have been a lot more. Yes. And then a second, quickly, you guys mentioned Broncos camp. We were with the journalist yesterday and I felt very uncomfortable because I was wearing

basketball shorts. Yeah. I knew we were going to hide. The guy from the Broncos pulled us aside and they were like, hey, what's the story with old, like does he have a pickup game later? I saw it. We're all in shorts and I was like, ugh. There was a writer from the athletic and they're like, he was, he was just like, wait, are

you guys like, are you trying to play or what's going on here? Why the fuck is this guy basketball? So not very big Jamie. So I apologize. Yeah, it was a little embarrassing. You're still young. Yeah. So you can use that excuse.

Yeah. It's your first training camp. Stop, stop, stop doing that with the wire. You're stepping on my wire. Don't touch the mic. You're stepping on my wire. Absolutely not. Why does it keep going tight?

Yes, you're stepping on my wire. Okay. Speaking of Broncos camp, let's go to Nathaniel Hackett. So we're going to go to Nathaniel Hackett. Airport review. Mount Rushmore to finish off. Great week. It's been a great great week and it's been brought to you by our friends at Simply Safe.

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He is the head coach of the Denver Broncos. It is Nathaniel Hackett. Nate or Nathaniel? Well, either one's good. Dad's around, you've got to call me Nathaniel. Okay, we'll just go with coach. So it's grit week and we start every interview the same way. How would you define the word grit?

Ooh, I've got a lot of things kind of... Go do them all. Brain dump. You know, I remember my dad used true grit. So that's the first thing that hits me when he was at the Pitt Panthers and they had this awesome shirt and they had this whole thing and it was all true grit, true grit and they sucked. So right when I hear grit, I'm like, oh, it's one of those words. People try to use the spicy up.

But no, I think it's something about toughness. It's about toughness and perseverance. Yeah, I read that your dad was the director of special projects for the Oakland Raiders. He was at a time, yes. Was he a spy? What is a special project? That's a great question. Special projects is something that is very special, I like to think. They feel good about themselves and they just do random stuff.

Whatever somebody wants to do, they'll go ahead and do it. Yeah, I mean your background is interesting because your dad obviously coached for 40 years, was at every level. You were around pros your whole life. I was. But I was reading a story that you were 50-50 going to be a doctor at one point. Yes. And I actually have a question about that story. They alluded to it at the beginning.

You had a moment of clarity where you were doing a prank on everyone and no one laughed. What was the prank? They didn't say the prank. We were doing some things with an animal to try to test it. When you get those different arteries and veins, you can squeeze them off. If you turn one and let it go, it's like a super soaker. You could still keep it alive while you're working through everything and I thought it would be funny. It was just a little bit of an experiment. It's one of those things you go through these labs and you've got to learn so many things.

You've got to write all these papers and you're just locked into all the notes and all the different things you're doing. It's exhausting. Of course, my natural being is I want to have a little fun and try to spice it up a little bit. Some people were upset at me for that. In the end, it was all for science and something we were trying to do. I knew that my personality might not work in that world. I just love the story because how did you decide you wanted to be a football coach? Well, I sprayed blood on everyone and no one laughed.

That's pretty much it. It wasn't a lot. It was just a little bit. It's like I slipped my hand. It's a funny prank. It wasn't even a prank. I didn't know I was going to do it. My hand started to kind of slip and all of a sudden it was like, oh look at this. Now we're going to be good. There's not a lot of room in the medical community for practical jokes.

I don't think you want me doing surgery on you. But then you go from that and thinking about being a doctor and you started at the bottom. I would imagine you could have had all the connections in the world with your dad. I was actually funny. I think my dad might not have really helped me. I think a lot of people were pissed off at him because anytime you'd ask somebody, they're like, nope, we got nothing. I sent out 30 letters to all kinds of different teams just trying to become a graduate assistant. Just do anything I could.

Out of those 30, I got two responses back out of the 30 and both were no. And I was like, well, maybe I should go back to med school or something like that. And then ended up, at the last second, a guy that had coached me at Davis had gotten a job at Stanford and allowed me to come in and interview with Buddy Tevens. And next thing I know, I'm right back in the mix and worked through there and all over the place. Yeah, you had a great journey of a lot of guys that we know too. Yeah, and so you worked with John Gruden, right, at one point? I did, yes.

What was he like? I've heard from some people that he can be like a mentor if he likes you. And then if you're still new on the job, your job is to get coffee and that's pretty much it. Where did you fall on that spectrum? You know, I think the amount of football that John taught me while I was with him was unbelievable. I mean, he has a PhD in football. I mean, you put in a playbook and you've got every single play ever designed throughout the NFL and he's so good at it. So the amount of football I learned there.

So really it was kind of, you know, put yourself in a room and draw as many pass plays as you possibly could to try to keep up with his mind. And that's really all I did. I just locked myself in the room and just tried to draw every single thing I got. I think I drew like 16,000 passes I have archived in just two years. So it was quite intense. Did he use any of your plays? You know, one time he did, one time I remember, and it was pretty cool. It was versus the, we got it from the Pittsburgh Steelers and it was a cool play which a lot of people start running now.

Okay. Which is cool. We actually have it. So you're an innovator. Yeah. I kind of stole it from somebody else and thought it was a good idea. It couldn't be too innovative. You had to be sure you had the tape to show them that they would like it. Yeah, it's interesting because the day that we're here, we're at Broncos training camp and it's a big day for the Broncos.

It is. The Walton family just officially, I guess, finalized their purchase yesterday. So there are a lot of people here. Condoleezza Rice is here. I think Peyton's here. A bunch of people. So an easy question to start you off, get you in good graces. What is your favorite part about Walmart?

You know, they just redid the Walmart that I grew up going to when I was a kid at New Hampshire. And I think it's one of those things, going in there and seeing how unbelievably huge it was and now they got the grocery stores in it. Yeah. I think that blew my mind. That was, I mean, it was a nice grocery store too. And to be able to go one stop shop, I think is always great. You can get a little bit of everything. You can get some peanuts.

You can get a movie, you know, TV. Anything you want. You're going to find there. Okay, so this interview is over. We actually, the Walden family paid us a million dollars to just check. If you said that you're more of a target guy, I was going to kill you. I have a gun. I'm pretty sure that wouldn't go over well if I was doing that.

Everything I've read, like you, you know, everyone talks about your coaching style and that you love laughter and not taking everything so seriously. Has there ever been a moment though where you maybe were joking around too much and it was like, whoops. Like that was, that didn't should have, should have been more serious in this moment. Cause I love it. Like, you know, we interview football guys all the time. A lot of them are buttoned up, you know, don't want to show any personality feels like you're kind of the opposite. I mean, I don't know. I'm just going to be me.

You know, I think that that's kind of what it comes down to. And you know, I've always gone with the philosophy that when you're, you know, when you're positive, when you are the way that you are, when all of a sudden you're pissed off at something, they feel that a little more. So it's not, you know, if you're angry all the time, sometimes they don't know if you're mad. And if they love, if you're being nice, they don't know if like what's going on. Something's really wrong. Yeah. So, you know, I just think, you know, I mean, I've naturally been a positive guy, happy to be alive, happy to be doing football. And, you know, in the end, you know, if things aren't going right, you got to hold people accountable.

And as long as you can speak that, I love those uncomfortable moments. You know, I think those are always the best. Yeah. I embrace those things when other people sometimes, whether they shy away from it or don't like it. But I mean, in the end, it's about communication, accountability and having a great time doing it. Yeah. Can I ask you an uncomfortable question? Oh, it depends right now.

Okay. So, I mean, do I get a hint? I look where you've, where you've been. Okay. Had a lot of success. Okay. You know, you've got some great quarterbacks. Okay.

Would you say, what would you say to all the people? Because there are a lot of them out there that said, hey, you just rode Blakeportals coattails to that AFC championship game. I did. Without a doubt. Without a doubt. That's my dude. Yeah. That is my dude.

You know, he's a grinder, toughest. I mean, smart guy. I had a blast working with him. Blake is, he is the man. He's one of our favorite people in the world. And you brought him into Green Bay, right? Yeah, the boat. The boat, oh yeah.

So, was there, was Aaron like looking over his shoulder when Blake said like, hey, why are you bringing this guy and take my job? We were just so excited to have him in the room. You know how Blake, when he all of a sudden gets in the room, it brightens it up even more. Would you like, so I told you before that I texted Blake and said that we're going to be interviewing you. Would you like me to read the text message he sent back? So he said, he sent two text messages. This could be very exciting. One is great and the other is very uncomfortable.

Never expect the other one. Ah, you know, we've been through a lot. Yeah, this is very great. So he said, the first message was what a legend, he's my hero. Yes. Okay. Yes. The second message was, one time his youngest son told me I had a big wiener.

Top three compliments in my life. That was one of the greatest moments. I would say of my life also. This is so Blake. Well, the great thing was it was so simple. It was so beautiful. There's wieners. Well, it was, it was, here comes my, you know, when you're out there and you got the family tense, right?

And the kids are so excited to come out. I mean, I remember as a kid growing up, when dad was done coaching, you know, you just want to go hug dad and see dad. And so, you know, my kids were there and they were so excited and they know Blake really well. And they, and they love, they love Blake and my, you know, my kid at that time, you know, he was like perfect, you know, height. Right. Right. Draw time. And so he sees Blake and he just, I mean, we're talking full head of steam just running, running.

And Blake's like, Oh God, what do I do? And kind of like was right here and he just runs right into his happy spot. And it was just, it was like a bounce off and just this innocent, just, just wow, you have a huge wiener. And Blake, and Blake's like, you are my favorite person in the world. Thank you. You know, I'm just sitting here. I'm like, Oh, how do you forget something like that? I mean, it was, it was absolutely fantastic.

Cause it was just totally instant. Oh, like once a hug and Blake's got his helmet. Oh, what do I do? And it was that awkward moment and everybody's just like, that's beautiful. That was a great, that was a great moment. Top three moment in his life. I would say that that was pretty spectacular to be part of. Yeah.

So Blake, like he is, we love him. He is one of our like OG guests, guys, like he's one of those guys you really care for. What, like when you first went around him, you're like, this guy is just cool because he is. He's a dude, man. Yeah. He's a dude. I mean, he's one of those guys that, you know, it's funny. He doesn't say much, but I mean, he's just going to grind it out.

He's going to do everything he can. You know, he's going to try his hardest, you know, the toughest guy. I mean, he took some shots those years and just watching him over and over. And I mean, he wouldn't miss practice. He wouldn't was, I mean, no matter what happened. I mean, that was the stuff that I had so much respect for him just throughout that whole process. I mean, he was great. So you have a lot of respect for him.

You don't want to sign him. What's going on? Last I heard, I think he might have called it. No, no, no, no, no, no. This is my problem because we were talking on the floor last week when we were in Green Bay and he was like, oh, I miss Blake. It's like, you have the ability to change that. That is, that is true. That is true.

Right here right now, Nathaniel Hackett, will you sign Blake Portals? You know, I think I need to have a conversation with him and the general manager and the new owners, you know, can't get crazy here. He promises he won't give everyone COVID this time. Like he did last time he saw the broadcast. It happens. It happens. Yeah. All right.

We're going to, I think I'm going to hold you to that. I mean, that was a guarantee. What better way to dramatically increase the value of your franchise right off the bat than if you sign Blake Portals? He's the best. He's the best. He is the boat. Without Doug Morone, he's another one of our guys. I don't know what your relationship is like with him now.

I know there was like a falling out at some point, but you were with him. You were with him for a long time. Long time. And he is, he's, the rumors are true about the amount of baloney that he consumes. He definitely can eat a lot of baloney. Yes. Did he try to force it on you? Because when he came to our studio, he brought probably conservatively like $300 worth of baloney and made us eat it with him.

But he's a great dude. We love him. No doubt. I'm going to go home and eat a baloney sandwich. And it's one of those things. At first, you know, you weren't sure if, you know, it's not a lot of people eat baloney. But then after getting to know him after all those years, you're like, yep, he's going to go have a baloney sandwich and he's going to enjoy the heck out of it. Yeah, absolutely.

Those Jags teams, man. I'm still upset about that AFC championship game. Oh gosh. Okay. That hurt. You know, why are we bringing up all that stuff? Because it pissed me off because the Jagwars should have been in the Super Bowl. You guys beat the Patriots that year.

You know, that's how it goes. You know, that's how the game goes. You can control what you can control. And we still had an opportunity at the end there. But yeah, that one, I'll always go back. You know, I thought the guys played so well that whole year. I mean, especially when you go into a season and nobody expects you to do anything. And I mean, nobody thinks you're going to be good.

And then you're one of the best offenses in the league. You're number one in rushing. I mean, the way those guys came together and then, you know, going into that game and everybody, you know, after the Pittsburgh game, you know, how well they all played. And then you get into a game like that and your role. I mean, you're playing with the Patriots and the guys are feeling good. And then you're blinking for ever reason, whatever reason. It's all of a sudden you're in two minutes trying to go. I mean, that was that was very unique and unique situation.

But hey, that's what happens. Yeah. So all right. So you've coached a ton of different quarterbacks. Let's take Blake out of it because we love Blake and he's going to be a future Bronco. All the quarterbacks that you've coached, including Russ, who's the best? Oh, you know, they're all so great for so many different reasons. But Russ probably say one person. You know, I would sit here and I'm just so grateful to be a coach in everybody.

But just, you know, like, like you could say Russ, I'm giving you an easy out. I would say Russ and everybody. So number one, you said Russ, number two, everybody. Yeah. Okay. All right. So it's like Aaron Rodgers. There's like one A and then one A and then one A. But who's the first A?

Well, it depends because if you close your eyes, you can shuffle them around. They're all the same. But they're all A's. So there's one A and then there's one A, A, R, O, A. And then you add another A. Fat Lewis and Aaron Rodgers in the same conversation. All of them. Yeah.

Just the best type of everybody. They're all amazing. I was personally blown away with Russell Wilson's performance today. At practice. Just like Dimes. I think he was like 100%. Dimes. I think he was awesome.

What did we say, Jake? He was like 21 for 22 with 20 touchdowns. It was pretty good. It was unreal. It was pretty good. It was the best performance I've ever seen. I just like to try to build people's confidence up here. Yeah.

I've heard about his mental reps that he's been taking. A lot of mental reps. And the next level mental reps. Do you know what goes in? Like what makes a mental rep a next level mental rep? When it's super thought about and it's like super mental. Yeah. Yes.

And extra mental. So he's like put himself into his own virtual reality. I would say yes. Like every fan in the stands has a unique face to him. Yes. He hears the play call. Yes. Is he really that?

Waves to somebody over on the side. Yeah. He keeps going. Yep. Is he really that fastidious? That's a nice SAT word. Yeah. Wow.

What does that mean? Detail oriented. Is that really a word? Is he really like that much more detail oriented than other quarterbacks? I would say, you know, you always heard about how into the game he is and how he's obsessed with the process and he's obsessed with practice and all those things. And you know, you hear that and everybody always says those things. And now being around him, I mean, it's facts.

I mean, the guy is nonstop. I mean, you can get a text message at any time during the day, during the night and he's got an idea. He's got wants to do something to try to push the guys over the limit. So I mean, he is, he is definitely obsessed with the process. What's he like on text? Is he an emoji guy? Is he like emphasized message?

Little bit of everything. He emphasizes all of his own messages. It is a great mix up because, you know, you'll get a little voice, then you'll get a text, then you'll get some emojis, you know, it's a real good mix. Yeah. I like it. How many deep shots a game are we going for? Is that, is that something?

Because we think about the sport a lot differently, obviously than coaches. You just want the ball down the field. Yeah. Like, dude, take a shot. Take a shot. Yeah. Like close. Take a shot.

Usually it's when I have the over, but is there a number though that you're like, we want to take this many shots? You know, it's funny because after doing this, as long as I have my favorite thing is when everybody's like, oh, you're, you didn't take any shots down the field. Oh, that's so conservative, you know, and you're like, well, we called like 15 shots and the defense took it away. Right. You don't want the guy just to throw the ball to throw the ball down the field.

I do. You want him to make him. I do. Yeah. It depends if you have the over or who you got. I want the shot. I do. But so for us, we're always wanting to be aggressive.

We're always trying to make those explosive plays. Those are the things that get people in the stands. Right. That's what they're excited about. So I think that, you know, you're always trying to be aggressive and sometimes they work and you get what you want and then the quarterback has to be efficient and sometimes you check it down to a half back or a tight end or something like that. But I mean, we're always going to be very aggressive.

Okay. I like that. I got everybody. I got a very important question. This is going to kind of decide the rest of this interview. Okay. I've read a lot about you love Austin Powers so much so that you call the red zone the gold zone for a gold member.

It's not that good of a movie. Like, yeah, like, see, he's saying that is that offensive. Like, are you that obsessed with the movie? Because you know the content of this whole thing, you know where I am with this movie. But yes, I think it's a spectacular movie. Because it's, it's just, it's a little bizarre to be like, that's my favorite movie. I'm not going to say it's my favorite movie because I love the red zone. I'm a bit, I'm a bit, well, yeah, because everybody talks about third down, third down

is the money down. Yeah. Right. So you get, you know, third down is money down. You got to keep the drive going. Well, why does everybody call it the red zone? I guess that makes sense. Why would I want to, why would I want to stop?

Yeah. I mean that, I mean, you can call it the green zone, but everybody uses that for third down and if we're talking about money, I want the gold zone. I mean, all right. Touchdowns give you gold. All right. I mean, you feel, like see that and then who, and here you go. Who loves gold more than anything?

Gold. Gold member. Yeah. I knew that answer. We're there. Now you see where it happened. How many times have you seen it? Uh, a solid amount of times.

How many times? Uh, you know, I'd say about 10, 12 times if I had to go all the way through. If you were going to say like over 30, I'd have been like, dude. Yeah, I'm not going to go there. That's weird. That's reserved for Star Wars. Okay. Star Wars, definitely.

So you've never seen Star Wars? Yes, I am. Very much so. Very much. Spoil it for us. We've never seen it. Excuse me? We've never seen Star Wars.

Spoil it for us. No. All right. I got to go. This is really cool. Spoil it for us. Tell us what happened to Spock Die. Yeah.

Okay. Totally uncalled for. Not cool. Um, yes, it's very good. I recommend it highly. Okay. The Diamond Zone. Have you thought about it?

Diamond Zone? That's even more valuable than gold. Well, did I just completely ruin your whole system? No, but I think we can, I think we can think about that. That's like the two yard line. I think diamonds. We got to find somebody that likes diamonds in order to caprio and that was really good movie.

I mean, I got a, you know, we'd have, you'd have to work with me on that one. Okay. Diamonds of Sierra Leone. Right. Yeah. Blood Diamond. Blood Diamonds. Yeah.

Blood Diamonds. Yeah. Yeah. First thing that came to my head. Why don't you have a fullback? Hmm. That's kind of fucked up. Good question.

We do. Do you? Oh, I was missing the form. Bad question. Bad question. Depends what your definition of a fullback is. You know, my definition is a fullback. Like, do you have a fullback or do you have a fullback?

So when you stress the fullback, do you mean like in 1980 when they would go in there and smash mouth people and it was crazy? How many cowboy collars are in your locker room right now? Not a lot. You know, cowboy collars were really in. I wore one. I wore a cowboy collar. That's badass.

But for whatever happened, I thought it was really cool. I felt like I looked like Darth Vader a little bit and it's totally, totally gone away. Totally over my head. You know, don't worry about it. You guys, maybe when you watch something, you might know what it is. It was a little robot. Yeah.

A couple more robots. It was around with the gold guy. He was like, wait up for me. I'm lost. I'm fun. Yes. I thought it was hilarious. But like, when you say fullback, you have H-backs or something like that?

Definitely not H-backs. We definitely have somebody that we utilize in the fullback position. Okay. What does that mean? You're being very cryptic about your fullback. Because we don't want everybody to know what's going to happen. I mean, what are we trying to do? Give the answers to the test?

Yeah. And will everybody know what's going on? I get that. It's always like in training camp, coaches are like super paranoid and secretive and I get it. I totally understand it. But like, do you think sometimes some coaches are like way too guarded and are like, oh, we can't have anything?

You know, I used to always think that. And then you get a couple little snippets of people that you know are actually looking into it, watching this interview, watching doing different things just to try to find a way to get any edge, any nugget. And at first I didn't really care. That's great. We'll get them with that. But I mean, in the end, it's like, hey, if you don't have to say it, don't say it.

It's kind of like my wife says, don't lie. Just don't answer the question. Oh, that's good. I wish I would have known that forever. Everything would have been so much better. Wait, so I have another roster question. You have Melvin Gordon, Russell Wilson. I'm a badger.

You have a lot of badgers. Are you a little worried that your ceiling for your season is maybe an outback bowl win? Kind of the most we're going to get out of this. You know, I think that they're very, very good players. OK, I'm just warning you. Like, best case scenario, you lose in the Rose Bowl. Hey, I'll tell you, there's no bowls in the NFL.

OK, all right. Well, Super Bowl. Yeah. Pro Bowl. You haven't even thought about it. You haven't even thought about the Super Bowl. I never really looked at it from the Super Bowl compared to the outback bowl. That's the biggest one.

A little bit different. Yeah. I guess it would be for the professional level, yes. When you're going through the interview process here, I have to imagine that anyone that's being interviewed in this division has asked a question along the lines of, how are you going to stop Patrick Mahomes? So what is your game plan to stop Patrick Mahomes? And feel free to lie about it because Andy Reed is probably listening.

Misdirection. Yeah, he might be. He might be. But were you asked that? Like, I know you're an offensive guy. You know, football stuff didn't get into it too much. You know, it's more about the person you are, how you're going to work with the team, how you're going to handle the team.

I think that's kind of what most people are looking for because the X's and O's get so intricate from defense to offense. And I think, you know, a player like that, I mean, come on now, you can't stop a guy like that. Yeah. I mean, it's there. He's so talented. He's so unbelievable.

That's about containing him and doing whatever you can to score more points than him, which is, you know, what you're always looking to do. And I mean, we want to try to get a lot of rushers to him. We want to make him feel uncomfortable. Yeah. That's right. That's a smart answer. Score more points than score more points.

I feel like that was a really good answer. Yeah. That's right. Very good. Yeah. I'm just saying it's the fact. Yeah. You know, you come up in conversation on this podcast and you broke my heart because I looked

up and then. Well, you broke mine with the Star Wars comments. Yeah. Yeah. Even? Yeah. Even. Well, let me explain it.

So you, we, I looked it up. There was a podcast titled in February, Aaron Rogers to Denver done deal. And I want him out of Green Bank because you came here and he had that quote where he's like, I want to be with Nathaniel Hackett wherever he is. So that kind of sucked because you were like, you know, it felt like the, the tea leaves were reading. I'm like, oh, you go here. I like reading tea leaves.

Yeah. So that hurt me badly. Well, hey, we're very excited with what we're going on with right now. Yeah. You don't like Aaron Rogers, right? Yeah. You know, he's, uh, no, he's, he's wonderful. Oh, come on.

You can be on it. We'll turn, turn off the cameras. Fucking asshole. I love him. Damn it. Damn it. Damn it. Hypothetical situation.

Big gap. Maybe you can help me out with some of the finer points this. I might be misremembering some of the details, but we ask every head coach that gets their first head coaching job, the same question, just to kind of like gauge where they're at if they're an aggressive guy, if they're a conservative guy, whatever the case may be. So if it's, uh, hypothetically like fourth quarter, fourth quarter, uh, playoff game, playoff game, and you're down by eight points, eight points, and you have the ball on the eight yard line.

And it's fourth and goal, fourth and goal from the first and eighth, second, eight and third and eight and fourth and eight and completion, move the ball down field though to the eight yard line who potentially could be the quarterback. One of the best quarterbacks of all time through three interceptions today, hypothetically. One of the best quarterbacks of all time. So do you, do you kick a field goal? And then you give, you would give the other ball, you'd give the ball away to the best quarterback.

Okay. Okay. So good to do there. Golly. I'm glad I haven't been in that situation. Yeah. I wouldn't, I mean, you know, I wouldn't want to have to make that decision because we were, we talked to the floor last week and he was like, that was all hack it.

So he said that you're the one who said, kick the field goal, we'll kick three field goals and win this game. You know, I blacked out. I didn't even know what was happening. You know, I'm pretty sure I fainted during that process. I freaked out and I had no clue what was going on. And it was, you know, I, oh, are you talking about the hypothetical, okay, I'm just trying to get this right.

Yeah. Yeah. You know, I think I'd have to run it through the computers because I'm a nerd and I'd want to go through the statistics on everything and make sure that you made the appropriate decision. I can distill it down real quick. Okay. Three more.

Three or eight? Three. Take your time. Your failed doctor. Eight points. Yeah. Eight points. He got it.

Okay. So you're aggressive. I like that. Smart guy. Good. Eight points is good. Yes. Yes.

I hear that. Yeah. So failed doctor. Do you ever, very much. Yeah. Do you ever like imagine to yourself, like, do you ever get the hankering to practice medicine in, interested in, like, science and that sort of thing? Sometimes, you know, I like going in the training room and taping ankles.

Yeah. You know, I think that just gets you, you know, closer with the guys and gets your fix. Sometimes I don't think that they know, you know, if a guy has a surgery, I'll sneak in and watch. Yeah. Can I just do it real quick? Just give me one step. Yeah.

I want to make sure that they're okay, but at the same time, see what's happening. See if, you know, anything's changed within the medical world. But you know, I don't think I necessarily want to be a doctor. I always like to say if I could do surgery on the 50-yard line with 80,000 people watching me, I'd be totally in. Okay. I like that. Yeah.

I actually like that. I think we should ask a doctor and see if they want to do it. Yeah. And just see what happens. Yeah. I mean, it might take a while. Yeah. It feels like it should be really quick, but I think it takes some time, but I think,

you know, you can get a lot of good on concession stands. I don't want to speak out of turn for Big Cat on this one, because it's kind of a personal matter that he has. But every year, he makes a pinky bet and at the end of the season, it's like if this team wins a Super Bowl, I will cut off my pinky. It's whatever team was supposed to be good. Yep. And so if they start 0-2, I pick a team.

You could actually amputate Big Cat's pinky if you guys win a Super Bowl. I'm so in. Yeah. Because I kind of was a doctor, so it would be really clean and good. Yeah. Yeah. I will let you do it. But I can cut a pinky.

Yes. I will let you do it. Yeah. We've had some close calls. At Texans, I was like a few years ago, they rattled off like 10 wins in a row after I said I'd cut off my pinky. And how did you feel? I was nervous.

Like really nervous? No. I always, no team has ever gotten to the second round of the playoffs. So would you really cut the pinky? Yes. Tip of the pinky. Tip of the pinky. The Colts last year.

So we're not going full finger. No. We're just fingernail. Just fingernail. The Colts were my team last year. I was nervous about the Colts because they were playing really well. They were. Then they lost the Jaguars.

But it's fun. It's fun for everyone. I would do it. I've already come to grips. That's the greatest thing I've ever heard. Yeah. I've come to the grips with the fact that I will die without a tip of my pinky because I just, it will happen.

And you're going to be like a psychic because to be able to get that would be really cool. Yes. All right. I know you have to go. We appreciate the time. I have one last question. Of course. Roback question promo code take.

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Great time. Do you have moves? I like to think I still do, but what happens is, you know, you go in, it's kind of like, you know, the old guy, the things he can play basketball. Okay. You go in there and all of a sudden you pop a calf or you hurt something and you think about the things you used to do and all of a sudden you hear the music, you hear the beat, everybody starts going and then, oh, yeah, I can do some of the things that I did

and all of a sudden you think you popped out your hip or something. Yeah. And, but no, I love helping my daughter. My daughter's a big hip hop dancer. Okay. So I love helping her out every now and then. And, but no, yes, I was back in the olden days. It's a great like visual, like not many.

I would imagine not many NFL coaches are like, yeah, I'm a pretty good dancer too. Yeah. I feel like I would, I would probably win a dance contest with most, most of the coaches. And you're reading Bill Belichick versus Nathaniel Hackett. I'd be like on the Ted Lasso moment. I hope you guys like win a big game. You get in the locker room, put on swag surfing. You'll go viral.

Yeah. You'll go viral. I guess that's really good. Yeah. So when I said it, I saw the, like your, your pupils dilated and you're like, oh my God. Yeah. Like when was the last time you really, you really got after? Yeah.

Oh yeah. All right. You've got the moves. I got a little beep there. All right. Well, coach, thank you so much. We really appreciate it. It's been a lot of fun and I'm just happy that you remember the Blake Portals moment

because I made this whole interview and if y'all could have been there, I mean, it was like, it was just so innocent and just so positive and in Blake's face. I mean, he was genuinely, it like was the greatest thing that's ever happened because my son was just so happy. He's like, yeah. He's like, yeah. It wasn't like, yeah, that's, yeah, that's huge. All right.

Hey, let's go play football. Oh man. All right. Well, thanks so much coach. No doubt. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Nathaniel Hack, it was brought to you by our great friends over at SiriusXM.

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What's up, man? Denver International Airport. Airport built by Nazis, right? Well, it was built by the same company that built the underground lair. Oh, that's interesting. There's a lot of conspiracies about this place. There's miles of underground bunker real close to NORAD. So really just let your imagination run wild.

We're going to get to the bottom of it. There's some like really interesting mosaics on the ground here. That's probably, that's New World Order. It's a very crowded airport. Yeah, I was going to say, like, I don't know all the conspiracy theories. I know some of them, but like just judging based on the airport. I don't, it's not my favorite. Sometimes the simplest explanation is the correct one.

And I think it's just so crowded because there's a lot of people here to see Jesus perform at Red Rocks. Yes, yes, that's true. That is coming up. Yeah, I have one time that I've been here, or no, I've been here a couple times. One time, I think I've told this story. I thought I was having a heart attack because I almost missed my flight, my connecting flight to Montana.

And, oh, Pank's giving us a slowdown. Slow down too fast. Moving walkway. We're doing another averse equivalent right now. Stop walking, Pank, stop walking. I was, I had a connecting flight and I sprinted like the full length of a gate. And I thought my heart was going to shatter because it was high altitude. But I forgot about the high altitude, so I had one of those moments where I was

like, dude, you got to get your life together. And then I remembered I'm an athlete and I climbed Everest. Yeah, so no big deal. Yeah, exactly. So I wonder how that works for the altitude up here with the planes. It's probably cheaper to fly in at Denver, right? Well, there's more turbulence when you come in and out. Yeah, that's what I heard.

You got the rocky. So speaking of Jesus at Red Rocks, all-time quote from Antonio Brown today. Yes. He dropped breaking moves. It sounded like he was retiring from football. I don't know if that was a retirement thing, or if he was just saying, I feel sorry for not being able to watch myself play football, which respect. Oh, he thinks this is Alabama basketball.

He's made oats here. Oh, wow. I got to talk to him. I got to tell him to give. How does it feel to have Rico Bosco sucking on your dick the whole time? Billy said Alabama basketball. Billy saw some African-Americans. It was like, oh, Alabama basketball team.

Yeah, he saw one guy with an A on his shirt. It's actually a chess team, Billy. Billy, point to us. Which guy dunked on you? Who hurt you, Billy? OK, so maybe Alabama basketball. That would be good and exclusive. What would they be doing here, though?

Training? Are you guys Alabama basketball? I don't think so. I think that was a no. That was a no. Billy, ask if they're Alabama basketball. He literally saw just one guy in an Alabama shirt. And he's like, yeah.

He's hot on the case right now. All right, so Antonio Brown, oh, Billy's trying right now to ask them. And he's now giggling. What happened? Kansas? Oh, he's lying to you. Wow, he got you. OK, so Antonio Brown said today,

my biggest regret in my career doesn't involve calling my GM a cracker. I'm showing up to Raiders Camp Late in a hot air balloon with frozen feet, or throwing rocks at the UPS driver. And it definitely doesn't involve taking my shirt off and doing a victory lap around the Jet Stadium mid-game while throwing up deuces. That was a victory lap? I just want to say real quick, when I saw this quote, I didn't, someone sent it to me.

I didn't see AB tweet it. I thought it was Balsak Sports. Well, I did, I saw it too. And then I tried to check AB's Twitter account. Antonio Brown blocks me on Twitter, which is bullshit. Like, my biggest regret now in life is not being able to see AB tweet. Yeah, all right. So, so he continues, let's go over here.

Let's stand over here while we just take it in, because I'm going to finish this quote. My biggest regret is that I'll never get to see me, Antonio Brown, play a game live. Sure, I can watch the game afterwards, but I can't imagine what that was like for you all to see something like that, like watching the Beatles or Jesus perform at Red Rocks. I mean, that says it all. I like how he lumped the Beatles in with Jesus.

Jesus at Red Rock. What do you think that is? Do you think that that's them playing like, hey Jude, with Jesus on the tambourine, like in a joint concert? Here, here's the thing though, like if you if you said like Jesus at, I don't know, Bonnaroo. No, or like just pick a random stadium. Jesus at ball arena here.

I'm like, no, no, I don't care. No, Jesus at Red Rocks. That's that's iconic. That's iconic. Now I actually need to see Red Rocks put on a hologram Jesus performance. Yes, yes. All right, so we have we're standing now in the middle of Concourse A. Yeah, I don't understand what these train tracks are going up and down.

So the train tracks, there's like a bunch of train mileage underneath the state or underneath the airport right now. Yeah, there's like tunnels, right? Some say it could go out to NORAD. Some say it goes to Buckley Air Force Base, which is like 60 miles south of here, I think. OK. But the bottom line is there's something going on here

and we're going to get to the bottom of it. So we also have, you know, as we came in, you have Blue Sufer, the blue the blue Bronco outside. Yeah, now interest who made it died, right? Yeah, as he was making it, the horse's head fell on him and crushed him. And the name of the horse is Blue Sufer, its eyes glow red. And I think it was Coley that said it that it would be an awesome statue if it was at the Bronco Stadium.

Yeah, and you're like lit up when they scored a touchdown. Yeah, but it's at an airport. That's kind of strange. And also the airport's in the middle of nowhere. Like there's, you know, it's it's it's just fields around the airport. It's twice the size of Manhattan. Phew, that's crazy. Yeah, actually, it's a wow fact.

Is Manhattan even that big? No, not really. How many how many how many light posts do you think are in Manhattan? Fourteen thousand. I don't know the answer. Fourteen thousand. It's one of those stupid questions they make you make you do. Should we go up a level?

What do we want to do? Yeah, let's go up. Let's go up. Let's get more altitude. We also have a little issue because a future us issue. We probably should have done this airport review when we landed on Sunday. Yeah. So we're not able to go through baggage claim or anything like that.

So we're going to just stick around a. But again, I I'm just going to say it. PFT just initial vibes. I I take in the airport and Madison Airport. So up and Madison Airport over this airport. I really like smaller airports. I like regional airports that you can like see the gate once you get through security.

This feels like more like a shopping mall. Yeah, and a little bit. The craziest part about this airport to me. It was built in 1995 and it feels old. It does. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe that's because maybe maybe that's a long time ago, I guess. Now that I'm thinking about it, this carpet right here feels like

something that you would find in like a nursing home. Yeah. So I don't know about that. There's also a lot of tents here. Like this. Maybe a FEMA camp. This is a light. That's a big light.

That's a that's a that's the light they have out on the runways. It's a big big light. This strikes me as something where they were trying to clean up the airport and and get rid of some of the scraps and they ran out of room in the dumpster. So they said, yeah, fuck it. Let's just make it. Let's make an art installation. Hey, Bill, throw the big light up on floor six.

Actually, you know what? The more I look at this big light, the more I like it. Yeah, no, it's a very big light. I would actually like this big light in my living room. That is sick. Yeah, that's like what if this was a strobe? Oh, wow. And it could spins 360. OK, big light.

High marks for the big light. Can we on? Should we take a piece of it? Can we turn it on? Can you? I don't think I don't want to. You would think that open the big light. You would think that if they had a giant light, there would be like a sign

explaining why they had the big light. Let's take a picture in front of the iconic big light on the video. Ready? Three, two, one, big light. Iconic. OK, yeah, let's see inside. No, there's like a little dude in here. Yeah, it was just like, close this.

This is my big light. I think we're still on mushrooms. Yeah, there's definitely some residual residual. It's reminding me a little bit of there's some residual going through the Hong Kong airport coming down from MDMA. Same same internal vibes right now. There's some residuals. OK, so we're let's let's take this moving walkway

and then come back on the other one. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, I'm just going to say it like I go Indie, Madison, Denver for the three that we've ranked in the seven years we've been doing. This is in last place. Yeah, it's firm last place. That's the new power rankings are out. I also think that if it was the New World Order Secret headquarters,

it would be a lot cooler. Well, I also here's like here's what I my my theory on conspiracy theories are. If everyone knows, then it's then it's probably not true. Yeah, like if everyone can just like if everyone's fun fact conspiracy theory is the Denver Airport, it's like I don't I don't think they let you know those. Yes, they woke on it. Maybe they just built it and put in all these little nuggets for us

just to get people talking about the Denver Airport. Well, I have more people. This one back there. Well, yeah, they actually did a marketing campaign. There you go. That's what it is. Yeah. So and the people they're like, oh, we could fly into Wyoming or we could fly into Denver and drive. Oh, let's check out the fucked up airport.

Well, so I read this article and it said it said, oh, yeah, not moving, walkway, not moving. This sucks. This is my nightmare marks against it. This is my nightmare. It said that they got they gained one point five million dollars on the PR that they use. I almost tripped getting on this not moving, moving walkway. Sorry. Go ahead.

One point five million dollars on the PR they use leaning into it. That's what they gained in revenue. That just means a bunch of people fucking took a flight here just to just check it out. Losers like that's a loser move. Just fly somewhere to look at the airport. Well, that was the original idea for airport reviews. What's the plan to airports and just to the airport routine?

That was an all time cell phone. So that was a cell phone. What kind of what kind of absolute dork would do something like that? Yeah, I think we're going to go to Paris and just stay in the airport and fly back. That would be a very funny move, though. I still stand by it. I also think that would be funny.

I'll adjust what you said. If you don't have a podcast and you just fly into an airport to check it out, loser. Yeah, loser. If you have a cool podcast, then that's the most alpha plus thing you can do. Oh, let's bathroom real quick. Yeah, let's check it out.

Might as well check it out. Are you going to stay outside? Yeah. OK. Hello, sir. How was that experience? I wonder if you smashed the happy face sign. OK, this.

How could this floor be wet? I'm confused. This is a carpet. It's a rug. That's new world ownership. Now we're starting to think the conspiracy theories might be right. Something going on that doesn't add up. This might be right.

I got all the documents. I mean, trash, not really clean. I'm going to take one of these urinals for a spin. Yeah, me too. Wait, wait. Where's Ed Sheeran? Wait. Hold on.

OK. Ooh, nice air. There's some air blowing in here. How are you doing, sir? Sorry, we're doing a podcast. There's no video, so you can just walk by. If you want to. Don't worry if you fart when you're peeing.

We'll edit that out. OK, let's check out the floor. Sizeable amount of water in these toilets. I like that. You're very good at it. Me too. If you listen closely, you can hear how yellow my pee is. Oh, that's yellow.

That's almost sharp truth. I just tried to fart and I almost pooped. That was stupid. OK, let me shake. Hang on. I'm wearing white pants. I can't take any chances. That was almost a live microphone in my ass.

Shit, my pants moment. OK, I'm clean. You're tangled. I'm tangled. I'm clean. Now I'm just using the sink just so. My right hand. Just because I'm doing a podcast.

Right hand only. It didn't work beyond my control. OK, I'm just going to say right now. We don't have video here, but this area, changing area, I've had to use this for my kids. I like it. It's spacious. It's very spacious.

And the stupid fucking thing that you have to put down to do diapers, usually never, like, it's always broken. So I like that. Why is that always a koala bear? The koala bear kid's station. Do koalas shit themselves all the time? Probably.

Yeah, definitely. Koalas are the only animals that use diapers. And they're also, they get high all the time, right? What's up, man? How's it going? Nice to get a pillow. Little Dodgers like it. Gallo, you see Gallo hit a home run last night?

Yeah, hell yeah. Dude, I could talk sports with anyone. You see that? I see. That was fucking, that was a masterclass on how to chop it up with the boys. So why are people going upstairs? It seems to me like that upstairs area should not exist.

Yeah, they're going to see the big light. Yeah, the big, good point. Yeah, big light. Big lights up there, sir. All right, so let's do maybe one circle here, and then we'll call it. I don't know, I mean. I get the vibe.

Yeah, I like that shirt, wife guard. That's funny. I do have to buy a gift for my kids if we want to go Peru's real quick. That's a shirt that you only wear going through the airport with your wife. Wife guard. I wonder where his wife is.

We should kidnap her. I don't know if they're going to like us videotape. Maybe you stay out. All right, so I got to buy some gifts. I really like the Colorado State Flag, too. Colorado State, so my son's favorite colors are blue and purple, so we're looking for blue and purple. Hi, how you doing?

Good. Oh, there's a cool teddy bear over there. Little small, little extras. Let's see what this shirt. Shirt. I like these flamingos, too. I think this would fit him. I don't know.

He'll go maybe small. Might get some for my mom. Yeah, do that. Mom's love presents. All right, I got a shirt. I should send my mom a baby shirt, and she'll think that I'm having a kid. There you go.

All right, I got one shirt. Let's see, need something for my daughter? Oh, OK, that's cool. What you got there, bro? Looking around. Sasquatch? Ooh, planes. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah, for your kid, I mean. Planes always play, yeah. Yeah, not for me. Oh, Pete the cat. Pete the cat with his cool shoes. We got Air Force One here. I need something. Soap.

Mom's love soap. I need something for my daughter. Should I get my mom a soap? Maybe I'll get her a shirt, too. Matching Colorado shirts. Wait, let's stay together. I like that. I'm going to do that.

That's a cool move by me. Matching Colorado shirts. Is it ukulele over here? The state instrument of Colorado. Compression socks. This is a nice gift shop. All right, I got two shirts. I got a Pete the cat.

That looks like it's going to kill him or kill me. You wind it up, then it runs around. That's metal and a lot of sharp edges. Billy, I don't think you know what kids do. Remember, it's three-in-a-one-year-old. You've got to buy stuff that the one-year-old won't swallow and kill herself. Oh, here we go.

What do we got here? Check this out. Look at this. It's got dogs on it. It says, be positive. That's so true. It's so true. That's a big time so true.

That's a huge so true. Yeah, that is cool. But that's not a three-year-old toy. That thing has seven-year-olds. It's got metal, sharp edges, and fire on it. I was trying to kill my kids. Yeah, big guy, why don't you get your kid a lighter? Yeah.

OK, yeah, oh, yeah. Here, Billy, here's a bottle opener. Let me get that for my kid. OK, I think I'm ready to go. Just one last look, one last look, anything else. There's some hot sauce over here. Oh, I might get some green chili hot sauce. What's this?

Let me see. Dog butt magnets. That's kind of funny. Dog butt magnets. Oh, you get some hot sauce? I'm seeing if they got any green chili stuff over here. See, this is my big qualm about this airport. Besides this store, there's not a lot of Colorado vibes.

It doesn't give off the feel of the town. OK, so you can tell that I've been gone for a while, because the guilt has wreaked havoc on my brain. And I now have seven gifts for both of my kids. But that's OK. That's what you've got to do when you're dead. What's this? These planes are kind of sick.

Shit. I'm going to get some peppers, some pepper flakes. We got a four pepper blend with ghost pepper habanero. We got one with habanero and chipotle, and one with green chili and hatch. Delicious. Yeah, OK, I'm going to get this. I'm going to get this pepper blend.

Mine everything. Billy, you have stuff you want to buy? This is still on Aaron Rodgers' tab, right? From the Barstool Fund donation. Well, no, I stole his credit card when we interviewed him. Oh, nice. Yeah, he's very smart of me. Oh, wow.

That's a cool hat. It just says nugs. What? It says nugs. Where? Over there. I like that hat. Look at this hat.

Oh, nugs. Oh, yeah, that is cool nugs. Nugs, I think I have to. No, no, no. Don't want to advertise. We got enough drugs this week. Yeah, I know. By the way, shout out to Denver Airport Security.

They did a really great job. Not finding anything. They searched me there. Yeah, Billy got a full rub down. You got the Deshaun Watson treatment, right, Billy? They took my bags. It was a random search. And I got a good one.

I got a happy ending. Yeah, when you have a name like Billy Football, they see that and they're like, we're pulling this guy aside. Yeah. OK, I think I did a good job with my gifts for my kids. Got way too much, but that's kind of how you got to do it if you've been going for a while. Oh, yeah, massive guilt.

Are you kidding me? Being away sucks. Hello. How are you? I'm going to get this dried pepper blend. OK. So that book is, if I were an octopus. Yeah, and then Pete the Cat is an all-time book.

Pete the Cat, he basically just a quick synopsis for you. He has new white shoes, and then he steps in a big. Strawberries. Oh, no. And everyone's like, oh, no, his shoes are red. What's he going to do? And Pete the Cat so cool, he goes, it's all good. I love it.

Yeah. Sure, he keeps walking along and singing the song. That was the whole book. It's blueberries, and it's mud. Somebody was like, what are those? And Pete the Cat's like, it's all good. Yeah, and he's just having a good time. Then he steps in a puddle so his shoes are wet.

And then they become white again. Have you seen the octopus teacher? No. OK, thank you, 177. You should watch that movie. It's about a guy that secretly falls in love with an octopus. Yeah, it's pretty bizarre. That is very bizarre.

Not to nitpick Big Cat, but that Air Force One model that you guys completely unrealistic. I'll have to tell myself, thank you so much. We appreciate it. Thank you, appreciate it. OK, what else? Anything else? That's the Denver Airport, basically.

I think we covered all. I agree. I don't think that there's anything going on here. I think we should trust what the government tells us. And they just made a very weird airport for no particular reason. So nothing to see here. Move along.

Not a false flag. Nope, nope, nope. Nothing wrong. Hank, any last thoughts? Hank, any last thoughts? There's a map of the world down here. That could be a treasure treasure treasure. Wait, whoa, I do like maps.

Let's see. New old order, yeah. The symbolism would be their downfall. Look at that, yeah. Oh, the earth is flat. It's a flat. Well, it's a flat sculpture. Yeah.

So maybe the earth isn't flat. Maybe it's just like, it looks like a vert ramp. Yeah, everyone's been wrong. Because it's not flat or circular. It's rounded slightly. It's angled. Yeah. It's like a tent that catches a little bit

of wind underneath it. OK, this is good. Mesa Verde up there. That's from Better Call Saul, great show. Yeah. Oh, here comes the Albin basketball team. Albin basketball. Hey, guys.

What's up, guys? How are we doing? Sorry about March. Natoats. Hey, Natoats. Oh, Natoats is what? Oh, Natoats is he's starting to kill us. He's throwing up over the corner.

Oh my god. He's thinking about the NCAA tournament. He's puking in the corner. He's thinking about only one player coming to the optional shoot-around before the biggest game of their life. Yeah, we actually knew that it wasn't Alabama basketball because there were several of them here.

Yeah, right. They all showed up. All right, we did the whole circle. I think we did it, boys. I think that's it. We checked out the entire airport. So we're in agreement that Denver is third. Last place.

Last place in our airport reviews. Indy 1, Madison 2, Denver 3. Great grit week. Till next time, till the next airport review. We love you guys. Love you guys. The airport review was brought to you by our very good friends over at Sling.

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Try us today. All right, let's do Mount Rushmore. OK, Mount Rushmore. We're doing Mount Rushmore of Kandy, Hank, and his team of misfits won for the first time in forever. Great job, Hank. Yeah, Hank got really salty, because we were planning on not doing a Mount Rushmore today.

Remember, I literally said it on Monday, and Hank was like, you're just trying to keep us down because we finally won one. That was the plan all week, but Hank, guess what? Well, is it Mount Rushmore season or not? Yeah, we didn't do one for the Takies. That's different. I'm just saying.

Is it Mount Rushmore season or not? It is, but Takies is a standalone show. OK, all right, so here we go. We're doing a Mount Rushmore. All right, we're going to go one. OK, a lot of pressure. You guys are going to go second. OK, love that.

Wow, that was a mistake. That was a huge mistake. You actually played right into our hands. Thank you. And Billy and Jake will go third. OK, great. I'll let memes check the order. It's Mount Rushmore of Kandy.

That was a mistake. That was a mistake. Mount Rushmore of Kandy, here we go. I think it was actually the great choice. OK. 1-1, no brainer pick. I know it was his favorite candy. I literally had it for breakfast this morning.

Reese's. OK. Yeah, Reese's cups. Good choice. It's classic. I actually said to PFT he's going to pick this. Yeah. Yeah, I knew it.

I knew it. The only thing I was questioning whether to give Billy and Jake the first pick, not knowing if they would not pick it, but I couldn't take that risk. Yeah, I think we go two. Two is a classic. Yeah, let's do it.

All right, so we will go with Snickers, a very, very good classic candy bar. Goated. It also, what? Oh, really? Really, Batgirl? Really? You wouldn't need it?

If I gave you a Snickers right now, you wouldn't need it? No. Yeah, OK. All right, all right. OK, sounds good. Snickers is kind of weird. Snickers is a great candy bar. Memes just whispered that he's never had a Snickers.

Me neither. Snickers is old reliable. Memes has never been on a moving walkway until two days ago, and he's never had a Snickers. Yep. OK. Go ahead. Oh, we got two.

Yeah, you got two. All right, first, we're going to go with M&M's. OK. You could pick. Good pick. Most popular candy in America. OK. And then we're going to go with the classic Hershey's Bar.

Oh. Just plain chocolate, huh? OK. That is a favorite. That is another favorite. The plain chocolate Hershey's Bar. No, you're right. It's like the cornerstone of candy in this country.

It's like that. But it's like missionary. It's something you actually buy. It's fine. I buy it all the time. It's fun, but. No, it was. Listen, the plain Hershey's Bar was fucking electric in 1942.

That was it was awesome. It was like, this is cool. We're eating. We're like playing. Do you like chocolate or not? We're going out in the back, and we're going to play with like a big wooden ring with a stick and eat a Hershey Bar.

It's all. That's a good pick. There are stores on both of our candies because they are popular brands. OK. Cool. OK, so here we go with three. Three because then we can keep four because yeah.

OK. Yeah, do you think so? What's four? Yeah, yeah. All right. Because that's a. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Over the top.

All right, all right, all right. So number three, we're going to go Twix. The second time that we've taken Twix in this Mount Rushmore season, you get two of them, which is fantastic. It's a delicious candy bar. I love it. It's the only candy bar we could be Twix. You don't like Twix, do you?

I do like Twix, but I love the picks you didn't make. OK, great. That's fine. Great. Nice long crunch with Twix. Yeah, long crunch. Then do better, Hank. Go ahead.

Try to do better. We're going to go with Kit Kat. OK. Great. I think it's better than a Kit Kat. And we'll mix it up. Go off chocolate. Skittles.

Oh, OK. Interesting. Oh, OK, all right. Yeah, no, that's fine. Skittles was tier two for us. Easy. We are bad. We'll admit it.

But if we said most pop, if we did Mount Rushmore, most popular sports, and we said American football, you guys would be like, ooh. What? They gaslight us. I've been saying this for years. They, yeah. How does that gaslight you by voting you last

at the time? No, her season was a crazy pick. I didn't even have her show on my list. I think that Hershey's is a great fourth round pick. Yeah. Jake, you don't even like chocolate. I know. That's why.

So how do I? So you just went straight chocolate? OK, so you had Skittles. Because it's not Jake's Mount Rushmore. Our Mount Rushmore. Yeah, it is your Mount Rushmore. All right, we will go. Seems like you guys just typed in most popular candies,

and they're just going with that list, but that's fine. Yeah, we did. OK, so our third pick, we're going to go with peanut butter M&M's. Easy. Money in the bank. I would take that over regularly, man. Yes.

All day. Yeah. All day. If somebody handed you a bag of regular M&M's and wanted peanut butter, you're taking peanut butter every time. Yeah, absolutely. Does that count?

Yeah, you took M&M's. We took peanut butter M&M's. They're totally different candies. And there's, you know, Reese's Peasies are better than peanut M&M's, but that's a good pick. I don't know. So we take Reese's Peasies? Yeah, go for it if you want a worse pick.

Peanut butter M&M's are goaded. They are the M&M's, the preeminent M&M's. Yeah, even Batgirl's nodding his head. Yeah, Hank, don't try that. There's a lot of people with peanut allergies. OK, well, those people can go fuck themselves. I don't care. Their life sucks.

Wow. I mean, I'm being honest. If we polled someone with a peanut allergy, they'd be like, yeah, I wish I could eat peanut butter M&M's. If I had a peanut allergy, I'd be dead. Yeah, right, right. The lengths that people with peanut allergies and shellfish allergy, I feel bad, but it's like they can't.

If you have a peanut allergy, we have an editor that has one. It's like, if you eat peanut butter and you like breathe in there, maybe you can get away from me. Sometimes when you go on a plane. I might die if you like breathe too close to my face. Sometimes when you go on a plane, the attendance will be like, sorry, we're not serving peanuts today because one person on this plane

has it. That's how allergic. I'm not I'm not victim shaming. It sucks. But I guarantee if we had someone who had a peanut butter allergy right now on the show, they'd be like, you're fucking damn right. I'd love to have peanut butter M&M's. They're delicious.

OK. We are going with Twizzlers. OK, I like Twizzlers. There you go, Jake. You know what's the best part? You know what's the best part about Twizzlers? If you bite both ends, you can use it as a straw. That's true.

I don't know that movie theater move. Get a large Coke, long twizzlers bite both ends. Use the Twizzler as a straw for the coast. Twizzlers are great. Twizzlers are great. They're they're like the off speed pitch. Like I like to go when I go to a movie theater, I get popcorn, peanut butter M&M's and Twizzlers kind of mix

and match. But that's not a quote card. Billy football says if you bite both ends off a Twizzler, it becomes a straw and you can use that to ingest Coke. Fuck. Yeah, nice. And our last pick, honestly, this was more of a pick from the heart.

OK, this is going to be good. This is going to be really good. He's going to be like, like, you know. No, this this. My mom's brownies. No, this this candy, I think, endures time and is one of the best. Crunch bar.

Crunch bar is very good. Yeah, also with a crunch bar, you can take the aluminum foil and turn it into tin foil. And then you can use that to make smoking device. So all I'll say about crunch bar is I don't I don't know who does the marketing for crunch bar because I feel like it's just completely fallen off. Like no one talks about crunch where I like crunch crunch bars.

Crunch a bunch. Great. But like, who's doing a bunch of crunch? Bunch of crunch. Who's doing it? They don't need to chew their own horn. They're so good. No, but you know, that's not like there are.

If you go to a bodega or store, it's like a 50-50 chance there's not going to be a crunch bar there. That's what I'm saying. I don't know what's who's not pushing crunch. Didn't they used to have like a mascot, an angry mascot that was like a monster almost. That was a crunch guy. Something happened with crunch bars.

They haven't done a good job. I want to look it up. It's kind of like the honeycomb mascot. I feel like crunch. They don't need to advertise because they're so good. But that's like you would think that they would be in every store. They are. No, again, I like crunch bars.

I'm saying it's just a fact that like they don't get talked about. I actually personally like crunch bars over Hershey bars. Well, then you just again, sometimes Jake doesn't like chocolate. Too chocolate. This is where Billy talks 10 percent too much and ruins one of your other picks. Well, that's because the Hershey bar is so good. OK, not as good as your fourth.

Last one. All right, PFT. I think we go. I like the one that you sent me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sour Patch. Sour Patch. Sour Patch. Trash. Trash. Trash. Trash. Trash. No, that's not what we were taking. Billy's trying to gaslight us. You thought you had it.

You thought you had Sour Patch. Yeah, Billy's trying to gaslight us. Sour Patch is for like the psychos and like first period, you like like that sour stuff. Yeah, first period. We all know those very relatable to 37 year olds. They're eating Sour Patch kids at like 7 a.m. in the morning. You know what Sour Patch kids is.

So if I go if I go to a movie, I'm getting two snacks, usually in a drink. I don't know what my first snack is. Usually it's something chocolatey. My second snack, always Sour Patch kids. Elite movie. Very, very good. They're the ones who like drink like those crazy monster

like disgusting monster tasting like Mount like. Yes, so you I don't do that. You definitely drink weird like energy drinks. No, I'm a pure. I'm fucking psycho. You know, I do sometimes I get to the end of the bag and you get the sour powder. I just put my finger down there and just eat that straight up.

They're great. They're a great snack. Yeah. Yeah. Notice I said snack. Not candy. Yeah. Just all he does is awesome appetizer. That's a bad slip by me being like, yeah, there's like a very like healthy three o'clock snack. Sour Patch kids.

Hank even knows elite pick. Yeah, he was about to take it. Well, we definitely take it. OK, this is a big pick because I feel like we're right there with you. Yeah, we've done two chocolates, one non-chocolate. I'm going to I'm going to go from the heart here. This is just something I get every time as a child, as a youth. I still eat them as an adult.

I'll enjoy starburst. OK, not a bad pick. Well, no power rank, your starburst flavors. This gets controversial. People get mad at me, but I personally like orange orange. Orange. Red. See, yellow.

OK, wait, wait, pink is last. That's crazy. That is his end. Pink is number one, one, one, one, one. Yellow to three red four. Red and yellow are the best pink. Pink one, one, one, two for me. Orange, three, yellow, one, pink is the is the goat.

Pink's the only one for me. Yeah, of course. No contention there. All right, what do we miss? Milky Way was a mess. Sweetest fish I was thinking that was. Yeah, I had that on the list. Gummy worms, gummy bears.

I also, this is a candy I feel like gets slept on for some reason, but I fucking love it. I love a baby Ruth bar. Yep. I love a baby Ruth bar. Milky way. Butterfinger. Butterfinger is kind of a miss.

But Butterfinger, sometimes I get Butterfingers and they just taste stale. I don't know why. I also like three musketeers. A lot of people are like, that's too much Nougat. I'm a Nougat hound. Yeah. Charleston chew.

I've made five. I already maxed on take five, but I'm not a fan. I don't think that would pop on a graphite. Take five is good. Yeah. Not a fan. Oh, so you're pandering. In other words.

No, I personally like. No, you love it, but you don't think it would play on the graphic. No, if they both liked it and I thought as the coach that it could help the team, I would take it, but. Got it. Got it. Most coaches do throw all their players under the bus.

Yeah. Not at all. Yeah. If that play would have scored a touchdown, like it would have been bad for a quarterback stats. So, you're Pete Carroll wanting to give Russell Wilson the opportunity to win Super Bowl MVP. Greatest play call of all time.

Reese's Pieces is definitely a mess. Yeah. I mean, that's a great. I just didn't want to do Reese's and Reese's. We were saying that we wanted to make sure we didn't do it because like I love. I could have Reese's, Reese's Pieces, Reese's sticks. Hank and I are very similar that we're,

it's peanut butter and chocolate all day, every day. You know what's really good is the Reese's fast break. That's a great candy bar. Yup. Yeah, Hank. Hank, my probably favorite candy of all time is the Reese's cups with Reese's Pieces in it. Nerds rope.

I think you guys are tools for that. No, I know what that is. Memes is about it. It's good. Yeah. The new gummy clusters are really good. For what? The new gummy clusters.

They're like a very new thing. It's just little balls of gummy bears. Gummy bears, good pick. I like sour gummy worms. Yeah, I like peaches too. Peaches are good. Yup. The frogs.

I like the frogs. Oh, the sharks. Yeah, the blue and white sharks. The frogs, yeah. These are good. Yeah. Anybody here like Wax Bottles? Yeah.

Anybody here like Wax Bottles? The Coke Bottles? Yeah, I mean, as a kid, that was kind of fun, but. Sharks. Sharks. I was a big fan of the big gummy snakes and the big gummy, like the big ones. Oh, the giant worms.

Like the gummy crocodiles. Yeah, the giant worms are good. One time I was in Spain and I got one that was as long as my arm. It was awesome. Oh, one time I got one of those thick gummy worms. Yeah. It was huge.

And then we just had to slice off pieces like a cake and eat it. That is badass. Yeah. I'm trying to think if there's anything else that we missed. I do actually like Almond Joy. It's like a once and every now and then. It's not something I ever go, like it's if there's,

basically an Almond Joy is, if there's like a bowl of candy and Almond Joy's in there, every now and then I'll grab one. A lot of people think it's disgusting, but I like mounds. Yeah, I don't like mounds. I like mounds. Okay, I think that's it.

I think we did it. We crushed it. Good should be an interesting vote, Hank. Maybe a winning streak for your boys. Could be. Okay, let's do numbers and we will end Grit Week. Again, we have a bonus Grit Week interview coming on Monday. Get excited, all-time football guy.

Let's do numbers. Send everyone off. Great Grit Week. Great job, everyone in this room. Numbers. One. 48. 27.

27. Reggie. Reggie, what number you got? 1 to 100. 4, Reggie. Are ya? 55. 55.

22. Back girl's 22. 3. 3 for memes, Jonah? 9. 47. Oh, no one won. One off.

Damn. 47's a massive repeat winner. Yeah. Yeah, it's now in second place behind 52, eighth time. Wow. Wow. Billy, what do you got there? Billy's brain?

Nope. What were you gonna say? I thought it was somebody's number. That was Chris Cooley. Andrews ankle. Love you guys. Hustlin. Crissy Bay is retreatin' higher out.

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