Pardon My Take - Charissa Thompson And Erin Andrews Plus Post Vacation Recap Of Everything We Missed

Episode Date: February 23, 2022

We're back from vacation and tanned as fuck. We talk Juwan Howard, Lebron, All Star Weekend, Aaron Rodgers and tons more (00:02:35 - 00:37:25). Hot Seat/Cool Throne including Hank the Tank the Bear, Drunk Ideas, and Stefon Diggs Valentines Day (00:37:25 - 01:06:44). We welcome on Erin Andrews and Charissa Thompson to talk about their careers, podcasting, hardest parts of their job and more (01:06:44 - 01:51:56). We finish with a special edition of Vacation FAQ's.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

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We went to Aaron Andrews office, Super Bowl Week. Great interview, great talk with both of them. And her dog was there too. Her dog was there. Yes, it was a great time. Beautiful, beautiful office. We're gonna talk LeBron. We're gonna talk Aaron Rodgers.

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Welcome to part of my take presented by BetterHelp.com. Go right now to BetterHelp.com slash PMT and get 10% off your first month. Today is Wednesday, February 23rd. Tan everywhere, Jan everywhere. We're back from vacation. Credit to us for taking a vacation. Hit the reset.

Way to go boys. We're back. We just got a little hard reset on our bodies. It does feel- Vacations rock. Hank was right. Yeah, no they do. And we'll do our vacation FAQs at the end

and talk about our vacations. But it was, it's also awesome to take a vacation right after Super Bowl because you feel like a football player. You're like, yeah, long season. Gotta break. It was funny. So I was on a beach

and there were at least three guys that I saw and I was like, you know, I think that guy's actually on the Cowboys. Yeah. And I was like, yeah, I'm at the same place. This is where we all go after a long season to recharge the battery a little bit. Gotta help our bodies here for a second.

But yeah, we will do vacation talk and FAQs at the end of the show. We also have Chris Thompson and Aaron Andrews coming up. But we gotta recap some things. We missed a lot of things. Where should we start? We can start with LeBron. We can start with Aaron Rodgers.

We can start with Joanne Howard's anger management. What do you guys wanna start with? I feel like the Joanne Howard thing is the hottest story going right now. Okay. So what was your, I've given my take on multiple platforms. I obviously, I was watching the game live.

It was awesome to watch because it was like, not only do we beat Michigan, but then Joanne Howard lost his cool in such a hilarious, outrageous way. He smushed Badger legend, Joe Cravenhoff in the face. Who's one of my favorite Badgers. That's the debate is, was it a punch? Was it a slap?

It was a smush. Was it a smush? It was a smush. He smushed him. A smush is different. A smush is about that, like four games. That sounds about right for a smush. I think if it was a punch,

you'd probably say the rest of the season. Also, if the punch connects, I think that makes a big difference too. But a smush, that's a soft four games. I don't know, is your take on it that you think that Joanne Howard has an anger problem? Yeah, cause this is, he's a repeat offender. He is.

So he had that. He also claimed last year that Mark Turgeon, who's no longer the Maryland head coach, but was at the time, was coming at him and he had to defend himself. Now, Joanne Howard. I think he also said, I'm gonna fucking kill you. Yeah, he said, I'm gonna fucking kill you.

You got kicked out of that game. He had, there was a little incident with his players at Rutgers in January. He's gotten some weird technical fouls where he's like yelled at people. And the Greg Guard, he said that he was defending himself cause Greg Guard put his hands on him. I've likened, I love Greg Guard.

I've turned around on him a couple of years ago. It was actually right before COVID hit where he turned that team around. Alondo Tucker tried to ruin Badger basketball. Greg Guard's our savior. Greg Guard, like the nicest thing you could say about Greg Guard and his like, his physique is I likened him to the guy that you talk to

when you go to enterprise and they give you like a mid-size SUV and you ordered a large SUV. He's that kind of energy. Like he might, he might sign you up for a life insurance plan really quick. He might do your taxes. He's not exactly a guy who'd be like, oh man, I'm shaking in my boots.

He's gonna beat up Joanne Howard. He's not threatening. He gives off the same vibe as like a shift manager at a mid-tier chain restaurant. You know, like he can get some stuff done. No, he's the whole manager. He can get you some, yeah, he can get you some coupons.

But anything above that, he's gonna have to escalate it up to corporate. I agree that like Greg Guard is maybe the least threatening person in college basketball. Joanne Howard hit him with an excellent finger point too. Right in his face. That's almost worse, I would say, than the smush. The finger point where like the tip of the fingers

on the other guy's nose, that's like the most emasculating thing that you can do. And credit to Greg Guard for not escalating it from there because he could have beat the fuck out of Joanne Howard. He signed it not to. He was about to. Which I was happy that he didn't because I didn't want him to get suspended.

I did see people saying like, you know, we should actually take time to acknowledge the fact that Greg Guard did a good job of de-escalating the situation. It's like, yeah, Greg Guard was, he was really gonna get out. He was gonna be like the Tasmanian devil and start killing everybody. There was a strong contingent of Michigan fans

or I think have simmered down a little bit because I never thought Joanne Howard should get fired. I never thought it should have been like some big, oh my God, I really do think he just needs a nap. Yeah, you needed somebody to have that take though. I'm glad that people had to take the reactionary, fire this guy, get away from kids. He's a bad influence.

Black eye on sports. Obviously, you see, black eye on sports. Black eye on sports. What I'm doing with this is I'm smashing the good for college basketball button. Oh yeah. I love this. And there's so many people out there.

I've listened to several podcasts over the weekend because once again, I am getting back into college basketball as I do this time of year, every year. And there are a lot of people being like, this is a really ugly thing that happened. And it's a shame that this is what our sport is being reduced to for the first time all year. College basketball was leading all the major sports TV shows

and it's just, it's ugly that it has to be about this. No, no, no. I'm smashing the good for college basketball button. Of course it is. It's awesome for college basketball. It's the middle of February. People are talking about Wisconsin versus Michigan. That does not happen otherwise on All Star weekend.

Yeah. Like it's great. Yes, rivalries in college sports where it's always on the cusp of turning violent, that's just good for the sport. And nothing bad happened. A couple of the players started throwing hands which I totally agree with.

If you see your coach throw a punch, you should have carte blanche to throw a punch after that. Like imagine you're in practice with this guy every day. You're signed on to be part of his team. You believe everything that he says, you're lining up behind him. If he throws a punch, it's like, okay, we're fighting now, our whole team's fighting.

I don't have a problem with the players getting into it. They probably did deserve to be suspended for a game just because you can't like let people punch really nilly. But like a slap on the wrist was absolutely appropriate. And now I'm loving that it's turned into a debate about the handshake line in general. Well, so there was a handshake line. Yes, so there were a lot of, I love the handshake line.

If you don't have the handshake line, you don't have moments like Tom Kreen's blowbys or Coach K deciding to coach Dylan Brooks in a losing effort. Or those things happen in the handshake line. Coach Harbaugh and Jim Schwartz. Correct. Pinching each other's nipples.

Right, exactly. So these things like college coaches are bad losers. And I want to see it in the handshake line. Like at the end of the day, this was about John Howard needing a win very badly in Madison, not getting it and being really upset. Like that's all it was about. Like that's, you could pretend it was the timeouts

and this and that. No, he was mad that his team didn't perform well in the second half and Johnny Davis is a stud. But the handshake, there was a contingent of Michigan fans who were like, Greg Guard escalated, never put your hands on another man, which is hilarious cause it's literally the handshake line. Like that's when you're going there

to put your hands on each other's hands, to touch hands. Docking. Even had Deadspin weigh in with, the first line was whiteness wins again. Greg Guard didn't get suspended. Was that like 400 year streak? I don't know what, like Greg Guard didn't, he like grabbed him by the elbow to explain it.

No, that was, it's ridiculous that somebody would reduce it to that. Johan Howard did throw the smush. And he also came in hot-sing, I won't forget that. I won't forget that. And if you look at what happened, what led up to it was Johan Howard decided to press at the end of the game. On backups.

On backups. And then Wisconsin called a timeout so that they wouldn't get an eight second violation. 10 seconds. Yeah, 10 seconds. You're still getting back into college basketball. I'm still in NBA mode, obviously. But yeah, they had to call a timeout

so they wouldn't get called for a 10 second violation. And then Johan Howard got mad that they called the timeout because he was pressing. Correct. And so then it just. It also goes back to the stupid net rankings, which is the dumbest thing that college basketball does where they're going to decide

quad one and quad two wins and losses. And it actually matters how much you win and lose by. Yeah, I love the quad one wins. That's a good quad one win for this program. But credit to Johan Howard. He's very good at apologizing. Johan Howard. Well, not immediately.

Not immediately. He said he was threatened. Yeah, but in the updated one, I thought his apology hit all the right notes. I like the fact that these coaches are getting mad, but please don't take away our handshake line. No, there's a lot of stuff that we do just in life that we probably don't have to do.

And it probably leads to bad situations, but we still do it anyway because it's beautiful and fun. Dollar long Island ice tea night. Yeah, it starts a lot of fights too, but it also teaches us valuable life lessons. Yeah. About how to carry yourself at an adult. Yeah, eating chili past 7 p.m.

Exactly. We still do like this Taco Bell at midnight. It's not pretty. But yeah, I'm all in favor of these little skirmishes. Did you see the Wisconsin AD, Chris McIntosh? I loved his statement. He came out and fully supported Greg Gard. He said it's not a Greg Gard fine.

He got fine $10,000. He said it's a Wisconsin fine we're going to pay for. It's a program. And it is when these things actually happen, usually everyone's got to be like, oh, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. It's like, no, no, no. Greg Gard really didn't like, OK,

he grabbed him by the elbow. If that's the start of, if grabbing someone, I like to do, if grabbing someone by the elbow in a handshake line started a fight, Coach K would have gotten his face smushed 10,000 times in his career. Like that's just a fact. How sick would that be if somebody just

punched Coach K in the face in a handshake line? Yeah, that'd be great. It's been great though. I've loved every second of it because I had like the rare, not only am I on the right side of history, but my team won. So it's like, it's just the whole thing has been awesome. Yeah, I don't think anybody with an objective set of eyes looks at what happened.

And they're like, you know what? Greg Gard was really the instigator in this. I think it's pretty obvious, John Howard instigated it. He did tell him, stop touching me. He said several times, stop touching me. But that's that Midwestern niceness by Greg Gard. He just had to grab his elbow. He wanted to keep touching him.

John Howard just said, let me scoop by there real quick. Yeah. And then it would be all fine. It's, yeah. And at the end of the day, I did not think John Howard should be. I do think he should probably see better help because he does have.

Their defense needs to see better help. Yes, they have some anger problems. Well, Johnny Davis is that good. But it was great for college basketball. All right, next topic. What do we want to do? LeBron, Aaron Rodgers. Suck, Bron.

Suck All-Star Weekend. All-Star Weekend was awesome. I only watched Highlights. I didn't actually watch anything live. I was watching the dunk contest at a bar, and everyone was like, this sucks. I heard it was terrible. It was really, really bad.

Cream Ability Bar got up and walked away during the dunk contest. Yeah. And people say that it's been bad for a while. But 2016 was like the best dunk contest of all time. Yes. It's not that far removed from that. You just need guys to want to try and want to be part of it.

And it's like, I don't know. I mean, there's a real simple answer for all this. It's actually a good segue for LeBron because LeBron. Should be in the dunk contest. Ruined the dunk contest by never doing it. Correct. Thus setting the precedent for the best players to never do it.

He ruined it by saying he was going to do it too. You remember that? Yeah. And then just never did it. I think what they should do, they should just put a shit load of money in the pot for the win of the dunk contest. Yeah. It's very simple.

Just get a big sponsor, get everybody to pitch in, and be like $2 million to the winner of this. No. Do even better. Do better than $2 million. Be like, if you win the dunk contest, you're eligible for a seven-year super max. Or a free agent.

Yeah. You can win your free agents. That would be cool too. Like a 10-day contract. Bring in the YouTube dunkers. Yeah. Mixing. You get paid whatever John Wall is getting paid right

at this moment. That'd be sick. That would be awesome. What is John Wall? Is he alive? 37 million? Well, all right. So that's why LeBron was very upset,

because LeBron wanted the Lakers to trade for John Wall. I don't know where we even want to start with LeBron. He put on a tour de force. I'll give you a couple quotes. One was, he said, it's like Cleveland has three All Stars this weekend talking about Jared Allen and Darius Garland and LeBron, even though he's not on the calves.

But it is like Cleveland had three All Stars. Yeah. He also said, talking about Luca, he said, I love everything about his game. I love everything about him. The way he plays reminds me of my game. Yes. Yes.

Great compliment. That's awesome. Great compliment. And then LeBron. So LeBron basically spent the entire weekend just making everyone in the Lakers front office and anyone who's on the Lakers roster feel like shit. So he wanted to trade Russell Westbrook at the trade deadline.

They're like, no, LeBron, because you literally wanted, you wanted Buddy Heald, you made us get Russell Westbrook. I don't think that people give enough credit to LeBron for being such a shitty general manager. Yes. He's actually not good at it. And but in another way, he's very good at it. And that Russell Westbrook was the perfect guy

for LeBron to get on the team to be like, this is why we're bad because of him. Right. And so he spent, he went to Cleveland. He complimented Sam Presti, the Oklahoma City GM. He was like, he's the MVP of the Thunder. He went cross sport. He complimented Les Snead.

He said, that's my type of guy because Les Snead traded all his picks for the super team. And then the best was he complimented Colby Altman, the GM of the Cavs, who he hated in 2017 and 18, with like all the Kyrie stuff. And he wanted, he wanted to trade all the picks for his current talent. He's like, he's doing a great job basically leaving the door

open for him to come back to Cleveland. But he said he'd only come back for a max deal. We also said, never say never. Never say never. He's not closing the door on, but he'd come back for a max deal if they drafted Brawny. Well, no, he'd come back for, he, that's going to happen in a few years.

So that's a whole separate thing. He, he's going to be this summer. He has an extension that he can sign, which he probably won't. So he might try to come back to Cleveland sooner than later. But the best part about the coming back to Cleveland and complimenting Colby Altman, and he's like, he built a great team and what they've done.

The reason why they built such a great team is because they just didn't listen to LeBron in 2017 and 18. LeBron wanted to trade all the picks for current LeBron. And they're like, no, fuck that. You're probably going to leave anyway. And then they got Darius Garland with a pick. They got a Coro with a pick.

They got Evan Mobley with a pick. And they traded a pick for Jared Allen. So literally the entire team is built because they're like, LeBron, we're not letting you be the GM anymore. And then he comes back and he's like, that GM's really good. Even though he did the opposite of everything I wanted.

You think that there's a chance that LeBron is playing like seven dimensional chess right now and he's trying to fuck up the Lakers roster so badly that they will be in a position to draft Brani. So then he goes back to Cleveland and then he comes back to LA to play with Brani. He might be, yeah, you might be right. He's already played with his dad, Delante West.

Now he wants to play with his son. Yeah, that one ready to go. No, that's off the dome. People don't talk about that whole thing enough. Yeah, well, Delante West, it's not been great. That's true. I hope he's well. Yes, I hope he's well too.

I think he had somebody of him working out. Yeah, just shooting around in a gym. Yeah, looked good. That's like a prime NBA like Twitter meme. Anytime you have LeBron's like, let's throw in a Delante West. Don't let that distract you from the fact that Golden State blew a 3-1 lead.

There we go. We have forgotten about that one. We have forgotten about that one. Skull emoji, skull emoji, who did this fam? But yeah, LeBron put on an unbelievable performance all weekend and also hit the game winning shot, which I hate the elemending. That's so stupid.

And that's not because I thought that the game could go over, but it didn't because of that stupid fucking math. Yeah, there's too much math involved at the end of the game. I don't like that. It's like, oh, it's sick. It ends with a shot.

It's like, no. Give me a clock. Just play the game. I understand a clock. It counts down when it all hits zero. That's the end of the game. Yeah. It's easy enough.

What are you going to say, Hank? There's also a lot of good moments when in season 5, ceremony M.J. came. Everyone was kind of show-stopped the crowd. Everyone stopped. They was like taking pictures with him. He got a bigger pop than LeBron. Yup.

In Cleveland just saying, also the clip of him saying to magic put on your shoes, let's play one-on-one right now. And everyone in the room, did you see his clip? No. Everyone in the room's laughing. And then it cuts back for one split-second at the end to M.J.

And he's dead serious. He's like, no, no, I wanna play one-on-one right now. That doesn't sound like something to joke about at all. That, there's a clip of Paul Pierce and KG standing next to each other and they introduce Ray Allen and they just stiff them, they don't talk to him and all LeBron comes up and embraces them and KG literally looks the other way.

He was so mad, it was awesome. That was petty funny. That was great. And then Dennis Rodman, there's a picture of the Banana Boat crew, it was like LeBron, Chris Paul, Dwayne Wade, Carmelo Anthony, maybe Steph Curry too, taking a picture on the stage. And Dennis Rodman got caught up basically,

he was up there but didn't want to be up there. And it's just standing there. Like Dennis Rodman being like, what am I supposed to do? And they're like, you have to take a picture? And we like got in. Dennis Rodman had the vibe all weekend if you saw any of the clips of like everyone

basically said to themselves, I don't want to be caught talking to Dennis Rodman for more than 30 seconds. Cause North Korea is gonna come up and he's gonna say some weird shit. So like everyone was doing like a quick like, hey Dennis and then keep on walking. Yeah, no Dennis is, you should go back

and listen to the interview that we did with Dennis Rodman a few years ago. You made a lot of sense about a lot of things. Wait, Carmelo wasn't on the banana boat though, was he? He was like, wasn't he like the last man out? Remember, we said he wasn't, yeah. He's still on the banana boat crew though. He is, he said that when we were with him.

Banana boat cinematic universe. Yes, yes, yes. We're gonna say Billy. He was on the beach. That's right, or yeah, that's right. He said he was on the beach. So yeah, I mean, the all star game, like staff was incredible.

I don't know. How pissed were those guys that they had to go out and party in Cleveland though? The three point contest kind of impressive. What are you gonna say? Just like if you're an all star maybe you're a first time all star and you get voted into the game and it's in Cleveland,

that's gotta kind of suck, right? I think they have a good time no matter what. What do they do? They go to that casino? No, they go to fucking Dante's club. Yeah, true. Forward, yeah. There's a good B-dubs there too.

Yeah, Kat winning the three point contest was great just cause then everyone can be like, Cal didn't let him shoot threes, which is always fun. Also, I think MJ has a party every all star game that he like rents out like a huge warehouse. Yeah, that's crazy. I imagine the entertainment's gotta be pretty good at that party too.

Yeah, I feel like they have still have a very good time. Where would the funniest place for Brani to be drafted be? Well, Boston. Boston would be very funny. I mean, it's no brainer. Boston, Utah would also be funny. Utah would be funny. Cantrick wine.

Sacramento. Boston would be... Yeah, I mean it would be- People's heads would explode. Mine included. Hank, when I saw that quote- But I would have to be a fan. When I saw that quote, I was like,

Oh, that's kind of cool. Cause like you can't hate on LeBron wanting to play with his son, even though his son's probably not a first round draft pick and he should probably be in college for two or three years, but he's gonna stun his growth, even though that. But then I immediately was like, Fuck, what if he comes to the polls and I have to root for LeBron in a farewell season?

Cause that's the thing. It's not just LeBron. It's LeBron's farewell season. Brani, yeah, Brani Jr. is probably gonna not even want that. Dude, like I do think it's cool. I think LeBron's a good dad, except for the times when he makes his daughter drink wine. It tastes like rocks.

Makes her eat rocks. Yeah, eat rocks. I do think though- And he teaches the cultural appropriation of tacos. Yes, it probably's gotta suck a little for Brani Jr. because- It's like Lonzo Ball, but way worse. Yeah, cause he's not like-

Bavar ball. And again, there's no knock on him, cause he's a kid, but like if you see any of the draft projections or watch him play, it's like, he's good. He's not lottery pick good, but someone's gonna spend a big, like they're gonna do a first round pick on him cause they can then get LeBron. And then LeBron's gonna retire

and the team's gonna be like, wait. We tanked for Brani? Wait, you're not that good. Yeah. I hope he's better, but like there's a chance it could really suck for Brani. Then what they're gonna have to do is make LeBron the GM. Or own the team, yeah.

Yeah, there's a small chance it could suck for Brani where he's like, plays a full year with LeBron and then LeBron retires and he's like, uh. He's gotta grow. I wish I had stayed in college. Okay, I'm officially rooting for LeBron to go to the Celtics. That would be so funny to watch.

I'm not, but I can acknowledge that it would be funny because I literally don't know what I would do. I think it's gonna end up being like a team, a smaller market team that is doing it because they're like, we get to sell out for a year. Is he gonna wanna go to play for MJ? Charlotte, mm. That would be great.

Get the two goats on the same franchise. I could see him go into like, yeah, maybe New Orleans. Zion's probably gonna eat himself out of the league. Well, I'm convinced. Remember Zion? Yeah, I'm convinced that MJ, or that LeBron is doing something with Zion behind the scenes right now. I wish.

I like watching Zion. I love watching Zion. Playing. I just wish he'd pick up CJ McCollum's phone calls. Yeah, it's rude. Yeah, maybe, I think Sacramento is probably like, I could totally see Sacramento. I'm like, hey, we're gonna sell tickets for a year.

Yeah. This will be sick. Let's do it. I don't think he'd do it though. I think he would pull a power play. Oh. And he'd be like an Archie Manning to his way, way worse son and be like,

you're not gonna draft my son and then get me. Right. You have to trade that pick to somebody. Yeah. All right, I mean, it's gonna be whatever it's gonna happen. I think I was on with my guys, Waddle and Sylvie Day, they posed a question over, under one and a half teams that LeBron plays for, for the rest of his career.

Like besides the Lakers. Over. I think it's over. I think it's under. I think, I think he's gonna go to Cleveland and then he's gonna make the Cavs draft Brownie. He thinks so? Yeah.

Even though Kobe Altman has kind of flexed on him, like just not listening to him. I think that's gonna happen. I think, And if the Cavs make a run this year, like do you even want LeBron? That's the thing. Is he just gonna,

especially if he wants a max feel. I think the number one Cavs fan on this podcast like you are keep this team the way it is. It's fun to watch LeBron would ruin everything again. He did take them to a championship. One, their first one ever. Traymont Green. That was bullshit.

If you didn't kick, who are you kicking the nuts? Shit. What was that? You know, incidental, incidental contact. Yeah. It was total incidental. All right. Let's do Core's Light real quick.

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he loves people asking the question. He just giggled at me. Is he going to a tiring? The picture that he put up, that was Randall Cobb and Devonte Adams with a gap in between them. Did he Photoshop that? No, it was when he had COVID.

Oh, okay. This year. Which time? Yeah, jail. So he had everybody fooled because everyone was like, we've cracked the code. And then he's like, I'm gonna take some more time. Actually, if you don't believe my take

that Aaron Rodgers is straight up macro doses, mushrooms and LSD in the off season, go listen to his most recent interview. He's joined here the 12 day cleanse. Yes, give it to us, Billy. The Panchakarma cleanse, which I don't know if he did all of this, but under the Panchakarma sort of thing they do,

it includes therapeutic vomiting, oil embolisms, relaxatives, basically. With enema? Yeah, they put it up. They put stuff up to clear it out, like a douche type thing. He's been douching his butt for two weeks. And puking.

And then putting like ghee, which is butter, up his nose, bloodletting, which is like medieval, yeah, or leeches. Dude, you could just call your parents. Yeah. And then eating solely just rice, veggies, and ghee, butter for 12 days. It's just a classic thing like Jack from Twitter does.

Rich people do this shit all the time. Whenever they get bored, they just decide to take two weeks to make themselves feel uncomfortable because their life kicks so much ass all the time. And they're like, you know what? I'm gonna live in a cave and butt funnel saltwater for a fortnight,

and I'm gonna come back with some crazy ideas. Didn't Zuckerberg do something where he's like, I'm gonna start raising, like the only thing I eat is things that I can kill with my hands. I kill myself. Yeah. And then he was just like,

quit after like a couple of weeks, like this sucks. Rick Ross got a bull. That was pretty hype. That was actually sick. That was just like a flex. That's how to do it. Yes.

That's how to do it. I fell for it. I totally fell for it. I woke up this morning. He posted it late last night. I woke up this morning. I saw it. I was like, today's the day.

Cause I think the GM's got a press conference tomorrow. I was like, today's the day. Aaron Rodgers is out of my life. I can't wait for this. And just nothing happened. He's the king of doing things like cryptically and then being like, why is everyone looking into these things?

Why is the media making a big deal about this? Yeah, no, but the stuff he was doing was it was like very, very intentional. Yeah. I did like the message that he wrote on Instagram though, which is just like, hey, shout out to my, my former fiance. Yeah.

I learned a lot. Thank you for letting me learn about you. Yes. And so I guess all those rumors about her buying an apartment in Pittsburgh and then Rodgers going to be a stealer next year. Source was Jersey Jerry. Source was Jersey Jerry.

No, I heard somewhere else. There was somebody else that said that too. Yeah, probably Jersey Jerry. Probably Big Cat from Jersey Jerry. Yeah, probably, yeah. It was probably a game of telephone. I absolutely loved the whole realtor sources scene. That's my second favorite, I think,

right behind tracking the private jets is knowing somebody whose wife works in real estate in a city. Oh, guess what? The fiance of the Green Bay Packers quarterback was looking for an apartment last week. Remember, it wasn't the realtor though. It was the chef.

Oh, that's right. Jersey Jerry said that there was a chef that was working for Shailene in Pittsburgh and Aaron Rodgers is on his way. And we were like, Jerry, I don't think they're together anymore. I think there might have been two separate sources. There might have been a chef and also a realtor.

Well, she had to rent an apartment. Yeah, that's true. So I don't think that we know anything else about what his plans are. I don't know. I was just under, like operating under the assumption this whole off season that he was not going to return to Green Bay.

Going back to last year, when he wanted to get out, you would think that he would want to get out by now, right? It's cold. He doesn't like playing in the cold. It's, but it's all going the other way now. He said like he's had, he was more positive leaving this year than last year. I think he probably had, maybe through like putting butter

up his asshole, he realized that the Packers actually have a really good roster. Stop complaining about it because the alternative is going to Denver and having to play Patrick Mahomes and Justin Herbert four times. Yeah, that was a stupid idea that was getting thrown out there. Like I understand that the Broncos are the team

that you go to when you want to win a Super Bowl at the end of your career, but why would you want to go to that division right now? Right. Plus they got drew locked. And he says. And Aaron Rodgers did apologize to me though. So he did say he wanted to apologize to all the people

that got caught in the shrapnel when he made his COVID comments. And so he said to these people, I just say, I'm sorry, I never meant to get you in the middle of it, but you got into it by proxy because of your relation to me. I think I consider myself part of that because I did, I was, I was dragged a little bit online when I was demanding he go to jail.

People were calling me lib cat and they were getting upset about that. So I apology accepted from Aaron Rodgers to me, but still in jail. Absolutely still be in jail until he retires. I mean, it sounds like he's doing some really freaky shit. He's not. The butter get him in jail.

I feel like if you had a good relationship when the whole butter up the asshole thing started, that's something that you that a solid rock solid relationship can probably tolerate for a week. Right. And then after a full week when you've gone Monday through Sunday of having somebody assist you by putting,

was it fermented yak butter up your asshole? Yup. At that point, they're probably like, Hey, can we try something else? Like maybe a new hobby? Well, it really boils down to like, it sounds like, and I don't want to talk about Aaron Rodgers private life, but it does sound like he just might not have a lot of friends

because I don't know when I want to clear my head. Hey, let's go, let's go on vacation. Have a couple of cores light. You could do that and feel gratitude to the people in your life. The same as putting butter up your asshole for 12 days. Yeah. Every rich person should just have somebody

that hangs out with them. They don't even really need to be friends. Just somebody that says like, yeah, that sounds crazy. What are you doing? Just like a bring her down to earth guy. It would be great if you could just do a rent a crew. Yeah. And it's like, these are your college buddies.

You got a sully. You got a. Or just Tinder for bro. Yeah. You got a Steve. Meet up with somebody, have a hang, maybe play pick up hoops. And then once you start floating the weird ideas about like,

hey, I need a saltwater inima. They're like, bro, there's a game on. Yeah, dude. Let's play some beer pong. Exactly. Right? Like let's just hang out. Let's fucking have some fun.

Let's let's flick each other in the dick. That's what real bros do. I still put butter up our ass. We hit each other in the nuts. Real hard. I still hope he leaves. I just want to see Aaron Rodgers in different uniform. I think that'd be cool.

Yeah. I very much hope he leaves. Very, very, very much. And it is crazy. I do think he just probably did this. What's it called, Billy? Pantchakarma cleanse. This is going to be a moment that hurts me to say,

but he probably did the Pantchakarma cleanse and was like, wait, I played the Vikings, the Lions and the Bears. Why would I leave that? You get to kick our ass. I actually might want to get in on this, the Pantchakarma cleanse. It sounds like he put a good head on our shoulders.

Yeah, he clearly wants back with his ex. He definitely wants back with Shailene after the cleanse. How do you do all this stuff and not die, though? I think they have someone watch like a lifeguard. You need a trained professional to do it. Someone who's ready to plunge your asshole for butter. You need a spiritual guide, a shaman. Oh, no.

He's starting to not breathe correctly. Let's get better. Make his asshole bigger. Let's get it. Let's fucking get this land of lakes out of his butt before it gets too bad. All right. That'd be all the time, though, if Aaron Rodgers accidentally

killed himself by putting too much butter up his butt. I don't wish for that. I just wish for him to go to jail. Much different. All right, that was a good recap. Anything we else we missed before we get to Hot Sea Cool Drone. I think that was pretty much everything.

It was good. It was good to be gone. And it was good to also see things happen and not be like, fuck, we're missing so much. We've got to get back. Yeah. You know what I mean? I think enough happened where it kind of piled up.

Yeah, right. Where it was like, ah, this is OK. Fuck it. Phil Mickelson is apologizing. Oh, yeah. Phil Mickelson. He had an oopsie. Listen, we all make mistakes.

He just kind of, you know what he did? He yada, yada, yada, Saudi Arabia beheading homosexuals. Yes. Yes. He was like, he was like, that's all thing they do. He was like, listen, say what you want about their human rights violations and also having 19 of the 20 hijackers in 9-11. But they're going to pay me a shit load of money

to go play golf over there. So who's to say if the regime is truly bad? Yes. Yes. The Rory, I think, won everything when he said, I don't want to kick someone while he's down, obviously. But I thought Phil Mickelson was naive, selfish, egotistical, and ignorant.

Good thing he didn't kick him when he was down. So right now, the Super League in Saudi Arabia, they have they tentatively signed Bryson? Bryson is involved, right? No, it's done. No, it's done. Oh, they ended it? Yeah, Bryson's out.

Bryson announced that he was out. I think he realized after Phil was out that he was probably, he had to go. I love what a dumbass Bryson is that he finally gets just a hair of public sentiment on his side after the whole let's go Bruxy thing. He does the match. He shows a little bit of his personality.

And then he's like, OK, everyone's on my side. I'm going to go basically be an indentured servant for the Saudi regime right now. Put a shit load of cash. Yeah, it's win every tournament. All right, let's do Hot Sequel Throne. That's it. If there's a Saudi shake that wants to a podcast,

exclusively get in touch with us. Well, we'll use it as negotiating tactics like Phil. Yeah. The best way to use a negotiating tactic like that is just say it out loud like Phil did. That wasn't very smart. He's like, oh, man, Phil. I listened to an interview where he was like, yeah,

Phil Mickelson is his own worst enemy at all times. Also, just as a general thumb, you shouldn't be trusting professional athletes to get your geopolitical takes. That's true. That's a very good point. Hello. He also said he pulled out of context.

And I said it. I thought I was saying it off the record. Oh, well, yeah. It's an off the record quote that was taken out of context. The quote was in an unauthorized biography, I think. But I don't know how you take that quote. Because he actually wrapped all the context in the world around that quote.

Yeah, he said it all. That was my plan. He said Saudi Arabia has a lot of things that give me pause. But it could also make me a lot of money. Right. I think that's all the context that you need. Yeah, he was like, I want to make more money. So that's why I'm cool with them killing a bunch of people.

I disagree with them dismembering Washington Post journalists. But if they want to sponsor a 17th whole, whole in one challenge where I get $7 million if I get within 30 feet of the pen, then yes, sign me up. Yeah, all the way in. All right, let's do hot seat cool. Throwing brought to you by 3G. 3G is the industry leader in Delta 8 and other THC products

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3G is awesome. Great way to relax on the weekends. 3G.com, use promo code part of my take for 5% off your purchase. OK. Hank, hot sea cool throne. My hot sea are the Olympics. The Olympics have come and gone. Yeah.

The average total audience was 11.4 million viewers for the 2022. And that's a sharp decline. In 2018, it was 19.8 million. Which was the previous lowest ever? Yikes. So they had a serious decline from already a very low number? Stuff. I'm convinced it's the hockey.

Like it's hockey, not having the pros, and not having it as like a tent pole. Because they came and gone for me. I literally, I was like drunk at a bar in Mexico. And I saw the closing ceremonies like, oh, that's interesting. And maybe it's a little bit of a Super Bowl going longer and getting into that like two week stretch. But yeah, I didn't watch a single.

I didn't watch a single event. I bet on a curling match. Shout out, Mr. Ice. Real Mr. Pete. Yeah. But yeah, they were nothing to me. I agree. I think that if you're not going to have the pros

playing in the Olympics, you at least need another. You need something that catches people's eyes and catches their attention. Because then you're drawn in. If it's Bob Costas' pink eye. Something as silly as that gets me involved in the Winter Olympics. We did watch some of the women's hockey.

I watched the gold medal game. I did watch that, yes. Yeah, the gold medal game unfortunately lost to those fucking canucks. But overall, the only event worth watching, I thought, was the Double Lose. Did you watch the Double Lose? No, I did not.

You guys need to watch some highlights of the Double Lose. It's the funniest event. I have no idea how it became a sport. You know the Lose, you lay on your back. And then you go feet first down the ice. The Double Lose is just you lay on your back on the sled. And then another dude lays on top of you. I like it.

Just stacked up and then he'd go down the ice. And the best of all time in the Double Lose are I think they're these Lithuanian brothers that just grew up doing the Double Lose together the entire time. It's such a fucking funny event to watch. Yes, I mean, I love those niche events. It's like, there's probably 100 people

who do this in the world. So congrats. There's, it was like 15 years ago where I think the Winter Olympics really embraced some of the extreme sports and they added a bunch of stuff to it. Yeah, the X-Games stuff. They need some new sports in the Winter Olympics.

Maybe even switch some of the Summer Olympic sports that don't need to be held in the summer. Just like throw the Winter Olympics a bone. You better put them in a country that doesn't have civil rights abuses. That'd be good too. But damn, PFT taking a stand on today's point of my take. Sorry.

Listen, I went out on vacation. I saw the world a little bit. Really opened my eyes. U.S. Virgin Islands. I've got some perspective. You're traveled. All right, you're cool thrown. I have another hot seat if that's all right.

Oh yeah, please. It's me. My house self is on the hot seat. JJ Watt thinks I hate him. And that's kind of scary. You do. Well, no, so this is all right, so this is what happened. No, you do.

Which we need to play. No, no, Hank, there have been so many times when me and Big Cat have said nice things about JJ Watt and you're like, you guys are so soft. Boo, boo, boo, boo. Yeah. I'm playing this because I did as, again, I was on vacation as well and I had a lot of time

to do some reflection, watching the sunset. We tweeted a clip from, or whatever it was, Wednesday show with TJ Watt talking about the Watt family. We tweeted on Twitter and then JJ Watt responded to that clip saying, but does Hank still hate me? And I was thinking about it and it's not that I hate JJ Watt at all. The reality of the situation is,

thinking back on this show a lot of funny times, legitimately, the hardest I've ever laughed thinking about our group text, this was way back when the, hey, JJ was in its prime and we were talking about how we were gonna basically charity shame JJ Watt into coming on the podcast, was like the hardest I've ever laughed at you guys just going back and forth, busting balls

and the, hey, JJ segment was so funny, so it's not that I hate JJ Watt personally, I just hate that that's not a thing anymore because he's such a nice guy and whatever. Well, also you gotta move on from it. I know, I know, I know, but that's not, I don't hate JJ Watt personally, I just, I miss those days a little bit.

But you realize that if we had stayed doing the JJ thing, we would have just become the world's biggest assholes. And also just lame. Yeah. Like wait, you're doing this joke for six years now? Yeah, it'd be like if we brought back Harambe. Right, never, we killed him with that shirt. Sickos.

Actually, that summer was Harambe and, hey, JJ. Yeah, it was just a perfect. And it was great, best summer of my life. Yeah, it was sick summer, ticks out for Harambe. That was a goat summer. That was a goat summer, yeah. But yeah, we, you do hate him. We had the whole Russell Wilson JJ Watt discussion,

you're like, Russell Wilson's way worse, I mean, JJ Watt's way worse. I think you said Russell Wilson's way cooler. Yeah. You did, we had that whole, that had nothing to do with that. That's not a hate thing. That's not a hate thing though.

No, JJ Watt's right, we stand with JJ. Yeah, absolutely. Oh, hey, Hank. I said, oh no, whoops, didn't mean to do that. Is that a Hank? I have a cool throne. Okay, go ahead. It's drunk ideas.

Oh yeah. Yeah. PFT, BigHack came in and said he had one, PFT came in, he said one, I said, let's hear yours, PFT. Yeah, mine, I think Hank will actually appreciate this, this drunk idea. It's not really a drunk idea, it's a high idea, but I wasn't high, I was on an airplane.

And I deal with some issues when I get on a plane. And I know the Hank deals with some of these too. I get the worst gas and bloating ever when I get on a plane. Whenever it goes up in the air, doesn't matter what I've had to eat, doesn't matter what I'm currently doing on that plane. If I'm like sleeping, if I'm awake,

if I'm getting up to use, no matter what, if I'm on a plane, my stomach feels like it's about to explode. Your bag of potato chips. Yeah, exactly, it's the air pressure. I think that changes in your stomach. And there's nothing you can do about it. You just have to fart.

And my idea was to get fart pants, to invent fart pants. And it would just consist of pants that were soundproof. So you could wear them, they were maybe like airtight. And you could wear them, you could bust ass. Cause when I fart on an airplane, it's never smelly. It doesn't stink, it's just air. And it's just super loud. Wait, what happens with the airtight pants

when the pressure? Yeah, they balloon up a little bit too. I don't know, listen, I'm not a physicist. It's like, hey dude, are those fart pants? No. Why are they fucking so huge? Your poking holes in the pants. This is the exact same thing.

No, that's what we need is a literal hole in the pants. It's the exact same thing that happened when I came up with the idea of pants that charge your cell phone in the pocket when you put them in there. There are a million reasons why it will never work. No, I think it could work. We just gotta figure it out.

It's a spruce for your butthole. Yeah, I'm not trying to naysay, I'm trying to tell you, hey, when we go to Shark Tank, let's have this not actually air-proof. Yeah, well, okay. And this is actually a good prep because. Oh yeah, Cube's is coming by. Yeah, I'll have to sell them on fart pants.

Now, it might not even be airtight. It might just be soundproof pants. Yeah. It might have some of that stuff that you put on the walls in recording studios where you can just sit there calmly fart and nobody knows about it. What about a gun silencer for your butthole?

That's what, yeah. Yeah, you put it in your butthole and it's just like, it's a gun silencer. No, it's like, you know, like you ever smoke indoors when you put a bunch of tissue paper in the toilet paper thing? Maybe that's what you do. Stuff a bunch of toilet paper in your ass.

But for your butthole. That's actually the prototype. Next time you go on an airplane, stuff a bunch of toilet paper in your asshole, see how it goes, and then we go from there. Yeah, I'm sure, like going through the X-ray machine and that scanner, they're like, oh, this guy's got a lot of stuff jammed up his ass.

You can do it after that. You can do it in the, you know. I like the idea of, I think the pants, I think that there's a place in the market for pants that will dead in all sounds. Yeah, I also, this is unrelated, but kind of related. I was on a boat in Mexico and I thought, I was very drunk, but I was like,

if I ever own a boat, how funny would it be to just name it The Fart Box? Yeah, it'd be pretty funny. Like people would just be like, what? It'd be very funny, actually. It's the fart box. Get a lot of honks. You want to hop on the fart box

for a little, for a little Saturday afternoon drinking? How do people go about naming their boats? They can just call it whatever they want. I, yeah, I think, I think they just, and they try to make it classy, but the fart box, like you would remember the fart box. For sure. And you'd also, it'd be fun to get up,

like, like, what'd you do this weekend? Had a hell of a time on the fart box. So just some, no one's steal that from me. Can you, they're not like horses, right? You can name boats anything. The way you do fart box too. Yeah, maybe I do fart box too. People are like, what happened to the first one?

Yeah, you do fart box one, three and four. Yeah. And I was like, wait, fart box two is out there somewhere. My drunk idea wasn't even, well, I was drunk, but it was more of a full idea. I think restaurants should offer. So it was a sober idea, but you were drunk. It was a drunk idea, but it was more,

it was less about being drunk and more about being full. But it was an idea you had when you were drunk. Correct, but the drunkenness wasn't what brought on the idea of the fullness was. Got it. Restaurants should offer an oversized sweatshirt, or even a blanket so that you can keep eating through that like, oh man, I'm full.

This sucks, period. I think it actually, remember when we went to Dave and Buster's and I was, and I got a sweatshirt and I was like, great, now I can eat everything? Or just a smock. Yeah, it's like a giant tarp to a poncho. Yeah, it's a blanket, a smock, or a sweatshirt, but a sweatshirt, you can then advertise your restaurant.

So they walk out, they're like, hey, had a great time, but it should be an option like right somewhere between appetizers, maybe right after appetizers, like sir, are you planning on eating past full? Well, yeah, always. Can we offer you this 3XL sweatshirt so that you can come to a black sweatshirt so it looks a little slimming?

Slimming, and keep eating. Maybe it's got some pinstripes on it going vertically. Keep eating. That's not a bad idea. I think most buffet places should have snuggies available. Yeah. Because you need to take a quick nap in between your third and fourth plate.

Same principle, which is yeah, you can overeat, overeindulge, nobody sees the bulge come out. Yeah, I like it. See, I like you helping me. I'm not offended by you fixing my idea. So these pants. Like you were with my pants. So the pants, the pants could actually play a part in this.

Sure. Where you can sit around farting while you eat. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, you're just walking around in a moon man suit. Yeah. Why not? You just cover everything up.

I really do think I would eat so much because you know that feeling when you're at a restaurant, a nice restaurant, maybe you got a button down shirt, you're dressed up and you're like, do I really want to keep eating here? Yes, because it's delicious, but no, because it sucks to be like so constricted. Give me a fucking sweatshirt.

I never feel more like, you know, that gift of Cam Newton where he does the, okay, it's time to go. Like when I'm super full at the end of a nice dinner and they're like, you want dessert? Yeah. And I'm like, yeah, you know what? I can sack up and power through this.

I was actually getting hated on by the group I was with on vacation because every night we went out, I did the desserts and I just, I literally was like, do them all. So every night we had like seven desserts. Yeah, that's a lot of desserts. But it was great every single time. I had two ice cream cones on the last night

after eating a full dinner. It was delicious. Is that it Hank? All right, PFT, your hot seat cool throne? My hot seat is the queen. Uh-oh. The queen is on the hot seat. I think she's 97 years old and she's got COVID, unfortunately.

So everyone's watching. Long time AWL. What's going to happen? The queen. Huge stool lead the queen. Thoughts, prayers up to her. I think she might be asymptomatic, but at that age, how can anybody know if you're asymptomatic?

You're 97, you probably are extremely symptomatic every day when you wake up of something. You're just old. Old, yeah. So we're keeping her in our thoughts and prayers right now. Do you think the queen though, like, I was thinking about this, COVID can't be that bad compared to, like,

everything she's been through in her life, like her son is a pedophile. That's pretty bad. She's tough. No, she's been through some shit. Tough, tough woman. She's tough cookie. I did learn a fun fact about the queen this weekend, though.

Yeah? Did you know that the queen technically owns every mute swan in the world? No, I didn't. What's a mute swan? It's like the white swans. Oh, got it. The big white swans.

She is in charge of all those swans. Anywhere you see one, it belongs to the queen. Damn. Yeah. So it's cool. Who's that, like, Pablo Escobar's hippos? It might be. Yeah, I'm curious who gets all the mute swans when she dies.

The next queen. Or king. No, it's king, right? It's William. It's William. No, Harry disavowed. Because Maggie won. Harry looks so much like Carson Wentz

when he took that picture with the Super Bowl trophy. It's Charles. Oh, yeah, it's Charles. You're right. Charles. It's Charles. It's Harry's dad. Harry wins dad.

Oh, that guy's still alive. Princess dies, old husband. Big years. Yeah. I thought he got disavowed. Big years, Charles. Yeah. No, Andrew, because he's the pedophile.

I thought Charles did kind of because of the. They got divorced. Well, that and, didn't he say some shitty things to William when he got married? And they were having the kid. Wait, we're really, I don't know, but that's Harry. Harry, Harry. Yeah, he might have said some fucked up shit.

But Harry's out. But I don't think he can cancel the monarchy. No, they've done way worse comments. Like, you want to think this is bad? Don't go back through our real Twitter history. Yeah. Um, yeah. So I think it's, you're right.

I think it is Charles, even though he got divorced. I think they changed that rule. They changed that rule just for him. Yeah. And then Harry disavowed, right? William would be the next and then. They should just skip, Charles. Yeah, they should.

They should go to William. They should go to Little Kid. Little Kid Kings are awesome. When it's like five years old, it's like, you're the king. Yeah. You could actually give him power. Like serious power, like throwback power. Yes.

Yeah. Where he can invade. Inside everything. Yeah, he can invade countries and shit, start wars. I think we just did the plot to season two of Game of Thrones. I would watch, I mean, are you saying if there was a reality show about a child king? Yeah.

I would. The content. Yes, the content would be incredible. The content would be great. All right, and your cool throne? And then my cool throne is true love. So we didn't get a chance to talk about this last week. But on Valentine's Day, it's reported that Stefan Diggs

treated himself to having two girls in the same hotel, but different rooms and didn't tell them that the other was also having their Valentine's Day. That's according to Wags Unfiltered. I'm pretty sure that's a credible source. So yeah, he had two different girls in two different hotel rooms on Valentine's Day, and he managed to get away with it, which is incredible.

That's like a sitcom situation. Yes. Where he like sprints back and forth, goes into one room and calls the girl by the other girl's name accidentally. Then they meet each other in the hallway. And then they like team up against him. Yes, you're absolutely right. It is.

It's like, yeah, it's like even Stevens does that on Valentine's Day, like eighth grade. I never watched that show, so that's probably really wrong. Yeah, but I mean, this honestly sounds like a whole lot of work. And I'm looking at the pictures of the hotel rooms that he has. They make my set up in the Bass Pro Shop pyramid look like challenge play. Probably like 300 roses in each room.

That's just a lot of work. That shows me good time management. That shows me attention to detail. He's doing it all. I'm moving him up on my fantasy rankings for next year. Yes, absolutely. Um, Stefan Dix, way to go, dude. Straightest receiver in the league besides DK.

Yes, yes. Are you DK? Wait, is DK in the news recently? Oh, no, he said Tyree kill. He's faster than Tyree kill. I think that's wrong. I wouldn't do that in the hundred. I think yeah, like Usain Bolt in the hundred.

Tyree was so fucking fast in like college and high school. I'd say he ran an actual track. Tyree short distance, a hundred percent. But DK might beat him out in like a 200, a hundred percent. This is good because we're negging him. So they have to do it. Yeah, this I think Tyree smokes them. The stride length.

Smokes them in a 200. Oh, wait, I'm looking up Tyree kills. Yeah, that's he ran a hundred and nine point. Yes, yes. That's pretty fast. He was so fast. And I think he ran in college even. But I know in high school, he was so fast.

He was one of those guys who could have done very well if he just went straight track. Correct. Yeah. Nine point nine eight is ridiculous. I think DK's was like 10 point four. So nice try slow. Never happened, bro. Ten four, a hundred.

Yeah, remember, he competed last summer. Yeah, it didn't didn't go well. All right, my hot seat is St. Patrick's Day coming up. You got to buy your part of my take merch. We got all new shirts. Parcel sports stores got everything in it. Like this is probably the last week.

You can buy it, right? Yeah, get it in time. Yeah, so do it. You know, I buy, but you want to be wearing a green shirt on on March 18th. No, look like a fool. Also hot seat Hank, because he just left. And I think he's got diarrhea.

Yeah, he texted me. He's got diarrhea. He's confirmed diarrhea. Any time Hank just rushes out of the studio and then doesn't come back for 15 minutes. Actually, let's call him real quick. Stomach in shambles. It's always text me when they start doing ads.

All right, I'm going to call him and I'm going to say, Hey, we're about to ads. Where are you? Right. Is he getting mad at me? No. I mean, that's what it always is. Whenever Hank leaves just abruptly, he's got a butt issue.

Oh, I hear the skateboard. Damn. I hear the skateboard. Oh, we didn't find out about his best man's speech. Oh, he said he nailed it. We could talk about it on vacation. FAQs. We didn't actually have any reason to call you there.

I just, we just knew that you were diarrheaing. Anytime you rush out. How are you feeling? Stomach in shambles. Shambles. All right, so we haven't done anything since you left. Oh, great. All right, my cool throne.

I mean, I was, I was, we were talking about it in my, I was like sweating. I'm sure you can see it on the camera on video, but I was like just trying to get through my my hot seat cool throne because it was bad. Yeah. All right, my cool throne is the internet. The internet is on my cool throne because the internet did it again.

If you missed it, I don't think most people missed it, but there was a photographer at the Rams Super Bowl parade that fell off of a stage and it only became a big story because there was a clip of Matthew Stafford like basically seeing her fall off the stage and then turn around and be like, I don't want anything to do with that. And Kelly Stafford went and helped her. She ended up breaking her back, which horrible.

Like it was a horrible thing. People were dragging Matthew Stafford, even though he was drunk and it's like what I mean, it's not like he saw her falling and was like didn't say anything. It was after she felt that he like looked up. It was just an all time, not a good look. Yeah, right. So everyone's dragging him.

And then this woman, she had to go fund me. The staffers have said that they're going to chip in to pay for all of her medical expenses. Great story. Except, of course, the internet is the internet. Someone decided, hey, this woman who literally just broke her back doesn't deserve this go fund me money, looked up her old tweets, not great tweets by her from about 10 years ago. But it was like it was just such a I remember it all taking place

when I was on vacation and I explained it to the people I was with. And they all were like, wait, really? That's that can't be real. Yeah, what you said is like, yeah, Matthew Stafford watched a woman fall, break her back. There was a go fund me and the internet cancelled her because she said some racist shit 10 years ago. Yeah, no, moments like that, when you explain exactly what happened

on the internet to people, they give you this look that's like you spend all day on there. Like that's where you are all the time on on the internet. It sounds awful and it is awful. Like that's I kind of feel bad for her because obviously her back is broken. Her back is broken. And there's no way to like foresee like you breaking your back, getting your old tweets dragged up.

But she probably should have tweeted those things. No, she shouldn't have. But we probably like we should not we should not know who this person is. Who is the person who was like, oh, man, fuck this chick who's got a broken back. We got a we got a dragger ass. It has to be like an ex boyfriend or something. What he probably used to like all the tweets.

What it's it asks you. It begs the question. What injury would stop the internet from canceling? So somebody paralyzed. Someone's going to die and then get cancelled after they die. That's happened. That guy. Yeah, I'm glad he's dead. Oh, my God.

It was just like, what are we doing here? Why? Why is this now a thing? Where she broke her back. She's a she is a private citizen and she broke her back and we're like, fuck her. And shout out, by the way, to Dan Orlovsky, who is Matt Stafford's like mentor, right? They played together for a long time in Detroit. This is a prime example of being alone with a woman.

She's laying down in front of you. You turn around, you walk away. Yeah, he's like, fuck that. No chance. Kelly was like, thank you, Matt. That's a respectful way to go. Matthew, Matthew, Matthew. Billy, Hot Seat Cool Throne.

My hot seat are Hanks, specifically Hank the Tank. Hank the Tank is a 500 pound black bear who has been breaking into homes in the in California, somewhere I forgot the exact place, but breaking into Lake Tahoe, Lake Tahoe, breaking into a ton of homes, breaking, entering full home invasions and just eating everyone's food. He's probably got diarrhea too. He, yeah.

100 times the police have been called for Hank the Tank. He's awesome. I love him. He doesn't know how to hunt because he's so dependent on humans. He cannot be relocated to the wilderness or he would die of starvation because he's completely has zero motivation to, you know, plus he just, it sounds like he just likes good food. Well, and the quotes were so good from this article.

They're like, he is completely, he's not afraid of humans whatsoever. And like someone was like, he doesn't growl. He doesn't make ugly faces. He just sits there and eats. Yeah. And bear videos are so awesome when they're breaking into homes because the doorway always explodes. It looks like a bomb went off and then there's just this big fat bear that just kind of waddles through and then kind of rolls around on the ground

looking for food inside. He's not a violent bear at all. In fact, I think that Hank the Tank is like, I think we can all root for Hank the Tank, right? Yeah, no, I do not want Hank the Tank to die. The cops are looking the other way at this point when they get a call about Hank the Tank. It's also great just reading about a bear who's like, the living is so good.

I'm not going to hibernate. I'm going to go against everything that's like my body and in thousands and hundreds of thousands of years that have been built into me because, dude, this street down the block, they get pizzas on Thursdays and I eat. And if you want a solution to this, it's pretty simple. You just you bring back the days of baking pies and putting them in your windowsill to cool off. Then Hank comes up, eats the pie of the windowsill.

He moves along. Yeah. Has no one thought about just putting out a big honey pot and having his hands stuck in there? Yeah. Why not? Billy, this bear, he's way too big, right? He's way too fat. So reply, reply guy, heard it from a guy. Turns out he's breaking into people's wine sellers.

Oh, he's getting drunk. He's getting hammered. This bear kicks ass. I mean, if you look at like bears that eat trash and stuff, they're usually not that large, like they're not well fed. They're like a little more like raccoonish. Yeah, like skinny and look a little like gaunt. But this bear is fat as fuck.

He's getting he's on the sheesh. What's the he's a black bear? Black bear. How how much do they usually weigh? He's a very large black bear. Very large. So like in the like, you know, in the northeast, you usually see 300 pound black bears at the largest. But this is like a thought.

This is big bear. Fucking love. He does. He looks like he's a grizzly bear. Yeah. Grizzly bears like run average 500. And he's he's that brown bear. Yeah.

We must protect Hank to tank at all costs. Yeah, no, he's going to die. He's got some eyes. If you look at his eyes. Yeah, he's going to have a heart attack. Yeah, he's going to be sick. What's his BMI? Probably insane.

But he doesn't get covered. He's drinking like super expensive bottles of wines. People's wine sellers. Damn. Yeah, I listen. I'm getting bad premonitions about how this Hank to Tank thing ends. Yeah.

But please. No, you see if they're going to kill him. If you're a game, good point, Hank. Yeah. Once you name it, we have to make t-shirts. We should probably make t-shirts while he's alive now. So that way we can make more money when he dies. You know what I mean?

Because now people are aware of it. And then it's a tragedy and we can do a whole thing and take another vacation off Hank the tank. Shout out to the H-man. It's not Hitler, Harambe. What do you say? Speaking of, was that a speaking of Hitler? No, I don't know.

I don't want to blow up their spots. Kind of funny though. What? There may have been a couple t-shirts sent out, you know, because we had the Harambe champs merch made. Yeah. But we took off the champs and sold the regular ones. Yeah.

Some people may have got the ones with the champs. Oh, no. AFC East, AFC Champs. Oh, no. I don't know if it was everyone, but I did see one picture. Oh, that just triggered something in my brain. I'm so happy that we had a vacation when the internet decided to leave Patrick Mahomes out

of the top five quarterbacks. That was awesome. Well, it was the Acho Brothers. It was the Acho, yeah. It was the same Acho that said, like, hey, you can't let athletes smoke weed in the Olympics. Yes. Because they might throw the javelin and hit somebody.

It was, yeah. What a moment. What a moment. Your cool throne, Billy. My cool throne is the Eye of the Tiger. So me and Liam were talking about this earlier. Some guy broke into a zoo and scaled multiple fences and just kept saying, like, into the tiger enclosure.

And turns out, Liam went to high school with the guy. He's a 508 Worcester guy. Yes. He was, like, on the JV football team, like, I think he's a year or two younger than me. Wait, he was only on the JV. He wasn't in varsity? Yeah, no.

And now he's breaking into tiger cages? And, like, I saw it. I saw, like, somebody tweeted out the news clip of it because I wanted to see if it was the kid. And it definitely is. But he, like, acted like he just did nothing wrong, either. He's like, yeah, I just wanted to go, like, look at the tiger. Like, I don't know, look in the eyes.

He's like, I'm a big cat. Yeah, he got arrested. I'm a big cat enthusiast. Like, I just wanted to look into the tiger's eyes because you hear that you can, like, when you look into the tiger's eyes, you see its soul and you see thousands of years of tiger's souls. Meth wasn't involved in this situation.

I think it was a hallucinogen. I don't think it was meth. I don't know. There's something going on. Because he wasn't trying to fight the tiger. And he didn't die. Didn't die. Wow.

He made it into the last line. Didn't Matthew McConaughey do this? He did. That was with a cougar. Yeah. Outside was it real. Peyote. It was in Boca.

Oh. It was Rio Catorce. And he saw a mountain lion. He got into the cage with it and just sent it vibes. Yeah. He just gave it positive vibes. Maybe that's all the guy was doing, just sending some vibes back and forth.

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It is Chris Thompson, Aaron Andrews, and Aaron's dog, Howie, who's going to be around. So you might hear some breathing. That's not me breathing into the mic. Yeah. Good dog. All right, so very excited to do this. Hi, guys.

Yes. You guys have the Calm Down podcast. You calm down. We have to, I mean, you're stepping in our turf, so we should probably start there. Well, I think you guys are OK in terms of your position in the podcast world right now. Well, we didn't get here by playing nice.

Yeah. So we came up, we invited you all. Oh, I know. I don't think I've never done anything with you guys before. Are you saying that you don't think there's at least one Calm Down podcast listener who you have taken from us who's like, I'm done with this, pardon my take, bullshit?

I'm listening to Aaron and Chris. I feel like we might have different audiences, but not competing audiences. I feel like we could have some of the same. You think? Yeah, we got our demo numbers the other day. OK. Well, they look like.

You guys are big with 23-year-old women. Yeah, 90% of the audience is women, for us. Yeah, it's crazy. We actually got our numbers back, and it's a lot of aspiring broadcast journalists listening to part of my take. Oh, really? So it is a war.

Yeah, it's a turf war. Well, that's the only war that we're willing to have right now. Interesting, huh? Because whenever we ask people what they want us to talk about, and we're like, aren't they overhearing our career advice? But they keep asking, so I mean, I don't know. Maybe we're doing something right.

So I have listened to the podcast a little bit. Thank you. And so what I liked about it is the stuff that's kind of outside of sports, and the just day-to-day stuff. Yeah, like what? I like the pimple talk. The shit that drives my husband crazy.

The pimple popping talk. Oh, yeah. That's how we were the whole situation over here. I'm dying again. And I've got kind of like a formal event on Thursday, and I'm like, this could go one of two ways. This could turn into a real. It's already like a fun divot, but it's like really in there.

And I think it's been in there since last year. If I have enough alcohol. A year and a half long pimple? How much dip do you use? Dip? Yeah. Yeah, what are you, Copenhagen, Redman? Snap, snap, snap.

Actually, we're married to an NHL player. We don't do dip in our house. Yeah, that was the one thing. Oh, he doesn't. No, NHL players don't use it. No, he doesn't, actually. We know a lot of people that do. But he does.

But no, he never did it. When he walks the dog? He never, no. The other night? Yeah, sorry to break that to you. No, he's not here. I thought I heard something else. He told me he doesn't dip.

Oh, he doesn't. I would find out. When we were at dinner the other night, we found out that hot Swedish girls dip. And we were blown away by this. And I was like, why not? When my husband played for, yeah, when my husband played for the Rangers for a hot second,

we had a good group of Swedes on the team. And one night we went out to, we went out, guys were out of town, kind of had a Christmas party. And these girls were smoking hot, first of all. And then they were all taking dip out of their purses. And I was like, what? My mind is fucking blown. Do you have their ass right now?

It was actually a fans-only page, but only fans. That's how not cool I am. Yeah, fans-only. I said members-only. I was doing a Devonte Adams interview. And there was a guy on the crew that was wearing a members-only jacket. And I was like, whoa, that's really inappropriate.

And he's like, why? And I was like, isn't that the girl fan thing? And Devonte was like, no, that's only fans for us. I'm like, shit, I got it wrong. Members-only is like old dudes in Florida golf club. I have a funny relevant for the Super Bowl Matthew Stafford story about, no, it's not. It's Matthew.

I think we need to talk about that, because you two are big J journalists. And what does that mean? What does that mean? It means that you're supposed to be above all the back channel and the favoring certain people. Oh, no, I'm friends with all these people. You're friends with Matthew.

That's not the only people we're friends with. We would never root for a quarterback, just because we knew them. You have to be impartial. You have to be impartial. You're Rob Lowe. Wait, so tell the Matt Stafford story. Matthew Stafford story.

So, well, we were talking about fans only. And I think it was my sister's. I don't know what it is. My sister was asking about it. We were all, they were with us out in the summer. And my sister goes, wait, is this the same thing as cameo? And Matthew said, no, cameo is like, happy birthday. And fans only are only fans is happy birthday.

Yes, oh, yes, oh, yes. It was one of the funniest things that stayed with me. You guys have a guy who's addicted to it. Yes, we do. I don't know anything about it. Talk about it right now. No, his name's Glennie Balls. He probably follows you both.

Yes, I don't have an Instagram account or an only fans account. But you guys, if you're starting a podcast, you should have a name for your fans of your podcast. I've heard this. So the fans only, I think, would be good. Fans only. I don't want to get it.

We'll screw it up. And then all of a sudden, they're going to be like, wow, these girls are desperate. They now have an only fans account. This is weird. So what should our listeners be called if I'm calmed down? You guys are creative. Calm down.

And we'll think about it. Calm Chowder. I don't know. That was bad. That was a fast one. Calm Chowder? I don't know. Take me by Chowder.

He was trying. I don't know bad ideas. I knew it was bad even before I said it. And I was like, fuck it, I'm going to wing it. I did want to bring up. You said that you were friends with all these players. You got a little heat for hugging Aaron Rodgers. I actually would like to give you

a different heat for that. He's not vaccinated. You spread COVID. You should be in jail with him. Oh, wow. Is he in jail? Is that right to me? It was disgusting.

It was disgusting. I looked at it a different way. People were like, oh, she's just like, this is not professional. I was like, no, she just killed like probably 1,000 grandmothers in Green Bay. Sure. For the two seconds, right?

Where was this argument when I plugged everybody out? Yeah, and I flew out on a choice plane. No, where was this argument when I've hugged everybody else? Like, it's just crazy. I'm not here to talk about the past. Oh, excuse me. The future.

The specific situation. That was kind of crazy, though, because like, I don't know. You talk to these guys all the time. We have, PFT was obviously joking, but we find ourselves in a weird spot where we root for our teams. But then we also are like, wait, we really want our friends to do well. Right, yeah.

And it's hard to be like, yeah, we want our friends to do well. We feel bad for them when they lose. There's not a lot of these guys, and I don't know how you all feel, but there's not a lot of these guys that you don't like. I mean, and I was trying to explain it to someone. We're with them during the highest and some of the lowest times of their career.

I was telling Chris, you know, there's two guys I remember their faces where I was like, I'm going to barf on the sidelines. And it was Matt Ryan when the Patriots started coming back in Houston. And it was Aaron in Green Bay. What plane happened? Well, he's used to losing.

Well, no, but you know what I'm saying. And it was just like, you look over, and you're supposed to be able to give the reaction. You want to see what they look like. So you can say, hey, hey, get this shot of Rodgers. Get this shot of Ryan. So yeah, I mean, I feel like because we've seen so much of the highs and the lows,

sometimes after these things, these guys are just like, thanks. Yeah. There's nothing to do with me. They're just like, thank god, it's over. So what you said, though, you imply that there are a couple of people you might not like. Why don't we do guys we don't like? This is a trap.

We'll start first. I don't have many guys I don't like. Damn, Marina is great. No, we don't like him. Whoa, you know what? Let us ask you a question. Why don't you like Dan Marino? Because he's bad.

Why is he bad? This is a joke. Why is he a joke? Because he's an idiot. No, we interviewed him and he did not. It was it's very hard to screw up an interview with us, because like we don't really take it that seriously. And yeah, no, you guys are already crushing it.

Well, actually, Chris has already screwed up one interview. No, you guys watched it up. You didn't do your research, right? They said I went to Washington State. They're like, oh, no, she's a community college. Yeah, exactly at Washington State. Grossmont, Mesa, you know what, I'm out in the community. No, they called Larry David and you wouldn't let us talk to him.

No, no, I called him and he, hey, La, we're busy. Let's face it right now. What's the crew? Yeah, let's call him. I love him. What's the Chris Rock? By the way, last time I talked to him, the only person he asked about, he's like,

hey, you still talk to Aaron Andrews? I'm like, every day, Larry, what is going on? Thanks for listening. Fast gas to my wedding. Wait, hold on, what's the Chris Rock joke? What's up? Careful. Oh, be very careful.

No, no, no. It was about me, it was about community college and he goes, you know what, community college is great because everyone in the community can go. No, that wasn't it. That was Chris Tucker. Chris Tucker said that. Yeah, it's a Jackie Chan.

Yeah, great. That was a great movie. Great Chris, Chris Tucker was at the master, I was still at the microphone. Chris Tucker was at the master's this past year with us and he's, what a, my dad didn't even know it was Chris Tucker. I was like, dad, wake up. I don't know.

It was just like, he was like not paying attention. I'm like, dad. All right, so we screwed up everything on the first interview. This is our. Okay, your redemption interview. We also did the, the spelling bee was the one of the weirdest things

you had to do professionally, correct? No, but I just want to say half, well you've done the real spelling bee. No, she, she did the barstool spelling bee. And it was like, we showed up, the union workers had to take a break. This was before you guys were millionaires. Okay, you were millionaires?

Yeah, they have a lot of money. Oh, you're an officer though. Way better than mine. How much do you make per episode? We pay them. Yeah. You guys, we give you, you came in with like a rolling suitcase, now you come in with a whole staff

and we have to sign NDAs. It was, it was a joke. So congratulations. You should see where I do this in my basement. It was like the wires are all tangled up. Jared's walking in and out, how he's breathing heavy. But that's how you should do it. Like I think the, you know, a lot of the times

when it comes to media now, like the big sets and all this stuff. I know you guys work on big sets as well, but like, people just want to talk to, they want to feel like they're connecting with people. Okay, let me just, let's go back. When was that spelling bee? 2016?

I think it's comfortable. Wasn't it really? So think about where your guys' lives are now compared to what was happening then. Yeah, it was a big deal showing up. We were like very excited for it and then we just totally blew it. It weren't really good with the words.

I was like cat and they're like K, E, M. Oh, we're dumb. We're very dumb people. But I remember thinking like, Carissa definitely is going to like go to her agent and be like, I should be paid more because I just had to do this. No, the opposite.

And actually I'm looking for an agent if anyone has one. Hello. I'm here for you. That's true. She's right there right now. We'll do it for you. Will you?

We got Josh Allen paid. Who do you want to talk to? Wait, this, you did get Josh Allen paid actually. 100% though. You can, I'll give you 20 at this point. I've never met Josh Allen. You've never met Josh Allen? You need to support Mark Silverman?

I think I'm okay at Fox. Yeah, I'm just looking for some other things. I actually don't know him. I know another Mark Silverman, so he's P.N. Chicago, so. But I can call him. Yeah, Sylvie, I can call him. Sylvie, okay, well great.

We'll talk about my career offline. I'll look forward to that. Although I'm very happy where I currently am. But you know, it's just, oh, what's the line? Oh, Jaylen Rose said this one time, appreciate your position, but plan your promotion. Whoa, interesting.

Oh, speaking of Jaylen Rose. So you guys have had guests on your show. We sure have. So guests, calm down podcast. Jaylen Rose, Dr. Oz, Kevin Hart, Matt Damon, Ryan Rosello, good friend of ours, Cam Jordan, Jay Kuller, who's the best? Who had the best interview?

Kevin Hart. Well, we had one that was this Thursday and I couldn't wipe the damn smile off my face. Jim Cantori, shut your banal. Oh, Weather Channel, John? Yes. Lots of weather report more than this girl. I do, so.

Freshers, humidities, bands, strands, all of it. It's funny, because I feel like, you know how they always say like, musicians want to be athletes, athletes want to be musicians? I want to be on the Weather Channel. I feel like a lot of people on TV that cover sports, especially in the sideline capacity, want to be on the Weather Channel,

because you break out. Hell, yes. What's your biggest thermometer that you own? Oh, yeah. I love the big thermometers on the sideline. We don't have that. I just have like five by my bed to see if I'm ovulating. So that's it.

But when it's hot on the field. You think I'm lying. When it's hot on the field. Wait, wait, why would you have five? Well, it's just, yeah, I got a pack one, I got to take, did I take it to Green Bay? I don't know, I left this one in San Francisco. Like, yeah, listen, it doesn't matter where you are.

Your temperature's up if you're ovulating. Kids, you just look at the moon and you're like, yeah, it's time. Okay, real question. There's the big dipper. We're ready, honey, let's do it. Well, real question, because I know you've talked about IVF

and you've been more open on your podcast. Do you guys like that? Like being able to open up and be like, hey, this is us. Because it is an outlet that's very different than being on football on Sundays. It's been hard for me. I'm really proud of Aaron, because you guys have known me for a long time.

I'm very like, what you see is what you get. I'm kind of a person and not as polished and protected. Pauliana! Yeah, and Aaron is, we've known each other for a hundred years and she's always so, we are. So is this it.

Funny and all these different things that I don't think that she allowed everyone to see because she was protective of her space for a lot of different reasons, but now you are, I'm very proud of you. You do deserve a lot of credit. It's very, like, that's a hard thing to talk about publicly and also open yourself up. But it's also sucked so much.

And I just feel like it was our last round that we did that, like I've said before, and I know you guys can relate to fertility clinics, but you go in there and it's fricking packed with guys and girl. And before I'd be like, oh my God, I don't want to see anyone. Don't yell my name. And it's like, fuck it. Like I've been here a hundred times.

So with all these people, why am I any different? And the sad thing is I'm not any different because we just haven't had success. So you just kind of want to be there for other people. It's like, I get kind of annoyed and I'm happy for these success stories. But everybody's like, we have babies and it was easy. It's not. It's fucking hard. Yeah. I'm sure that the feeling that you have, like you,

there's like a certain degree of you don't want to talk about publicly. Like you feel ashamed for something that you shouldn't feel ashamed for. Yeah. And then when you have. It's just, I think a lot of times you just don't want people to know your business, but it's like, God, so many people are dealing with it. So why not?

And I feel like that's a lot of things we deal with, our relationships, fertility, job issues. I'm like, fuck it, let's just. Skin care, bad breath. Meet it with some levity. Well, I would imagine it's also freeing because you guys and your job, like on Sundays, we see you, but we don't, it's not like a podcast

where you're sitting and talking so people can make an assumption like, oh, what's wrong? Like, why are they in a bad mood? Why are they? It's like, well, here's, here's who I am. Why is she bloated again this week? Well, I don't, no one says that. Come on. No, I do say, why is she hugging Aaron Rodgers?

Because he feels bad for me. No. Yeah. But yeah, no, I, you deserve credit for it on the podcast. Like, I'm trying, I'm learning, I'm figuring out my groove. Who's, who's been the worst guest? You can do the list I had. No, I mean, worst guest.

Dr. Oz, Kevin Hart, Matt David, Moisillo, Ken Jordan. Well, worse in terms of, that's, I don't really want to say. Well, you are, you are, you are, Dan Crestcott. Dan Marino, Dan Crestcott. Why? Why was Dan? Do you know what color is his favorite color? Who?

Dan or Dak? Dak, Dak. What color? Gray. No. That's, that's the biggest nugget that we got from that interview out of Dak. Which is, he likes the color.

You guys are Dak, Dak, Gray. He, we thought he hung up. Oh shit. And he said to his publicist, this is like, that interview sucked. We had, we kept it in the show. Now to be fair, the very first question that big cat asked him was like, so your name's Dakota Rain Crestcott.

I love that. Do you know, do you know the porn star named Dakota Rain? Yeah, right. And then that kind of, that set the interview going down a certain path. And all Dak had to say was, no, I didn't know the Rain Man. And like, let's get back on track here. All right, we'll work with Dak.

You sure he's gonna be like, yeah, I fucked her. Yeah. It's been great. That is a great reputation for America's quarterback. Sure that would go over a while. Jerry would love that. Jimmy G went to a Super Bowl. But besides, those are the only bad interviews

that we've ever had. So just the two of those. Wow. I like both of those guys. I was just gonna say. And you. And me, because you got all the information out. Now to be fair with your interview,

I did think that you went to Washington State. And also, the internet was bad. We were talking about the interview last night, actually. And Hank said that. The interview was bad? What do you mean the interview with the media? Oh, sorry, the internet. The internet was bad.

Yeah, we were zooming. We were skyping. I wouldn't have asked that stupid question about Washington State if my internet was faster. So you had cricket wireless. It was like a slow connection. I thought you guys were rich. We're at what's wrong with the city.

This is before they were rich. I also had like a washing machine over my shoulder during the interview. I missed those days. You were roasting my apartment. Yeah, because as an interior designer, I wanted to come help you with the space. Wait, so are you like full blown?

Because I've obviously keep up with your life. Thank you for respecting my draft. Yes. Well, now I follow you on Instagram. I keep up with your life. And also, you and Sarah Walsh, you post a lot. And I like that. I consider Sarah a friend as well.

But are you full blown going to eventually just be an interior designer? No, I don't want to be both. I want to be Dion. I want to play baseball and football. Because your interior design is awesome. Thank you. I always look at it.

And that's one of those things where She decided to wallpaper that wall over there. It needed some warmth in the corner. Thank you. It's one of those things where you think, oh, this is easy. And then you realize what goes into it. Like, no, it's not. Like when couches don't show up.

Yeah, yeah. But just how everything goes together, because I look at something and I'm like, yeah, just throw this couch and this couch. Well, look, I would love to design any one of your spaces. House and home is the company. But she needs to get paid. And you're rich, so you are a good client.

Exactly. But very similar to what Aaron's done with wear. Do it for free for exposure. No, that was something else. Again, you're rich. Yeah, you're a test. No, at this point, I'm really proud of the company. It started during COVID.

It's been a passion of mine for a long time. And yeah, I mean, I'm excited to see it grow. Anything we do outside of our normal everyday jobs, there's multiple hats you can wear. You should make it only fans for it. Like couch porn. Right. Look at this couch.

How awesome is this couch? Yeah, very reputable clients would want to hire me after seeing that. It's a different demo, but yes. Yeah, so is wallpaper back? Yes, I love wallpaper. We're not white marble. Let's open up.

Are viewers tuning out right now because we just love wallpaper? Yeah, wallpaper, what's up with white marble? Are we still doing that? Well, you don't do the marble. You do like a granite or a version of marble. You can do porcelain, although that's very expensive to fabricate.

But good for hot surfaces. It's fine. Wallpaper's back in a big way, and it's very expensive. Because you have to pay a professional to install it. It's almost like a puzzle. You have to have it perfectly done. Yeah, what about? This is boring.

No one cares about the stainless steel. No, I like this. Oh, you do? Stainless steel, yes or no? Thumbs up, thumbs down. I'm moving away from the stainless steel. I like to, very similar to Aaron's fridge over here, I like to cover it with a wood paneling.

So it's disguised. I don't like my appliances to show with the exception of the oven. How many pillows is too many pillows? Never. More pillows are better. You just like pillow me to death? Along with me, Paulie.

Pillows forever? Pillows forever. That's kind of a crazy move. There's definitely too many pillows. No man likes a pillow. What is wrong with you guys? I do because I like to put it on my stomach so people don't see my fat stomach when I'm sitting on a couch.

What? Yeah. I do that too when I'm bloated. I'm not going to lie. Or it's like these high-waisted jeans. What are you going to talk in the mic? Oh, yeah. I guess your chair's like, hello, hello.

No, no, no, it's so true. But the high-waisted jeans, I'll put like my, because it's like, God, there becomes a food with you. Yeah, and it's very, yeah. Love that. So you don't have to suck in. I agree. I like that move.

So maybe more body-sized pillows for bellies. For you, I'll do that. Yes. OK, great. Yes. Is it true that if you have TVs, you should either have one TV, three TVs, or five TVs, and not two TVs or four TVs?

Whoa. Like, odd numbers are better. I only have two in this house. No, I don't know. I've never heard that. I mean, on the same wall. So if you think about it like, is that too many? Oh, he only has two.

If you do the downstairs setup that he's going to do. If you look at a vase with flowers in it, and there is four flowers in it, it actually looks worse than if there are three flowers in it. Like, odd numbers look better. OK, I'll think about that. And add that into my aesthetic repertoire. Yeah, add that into our contract with you.

OK. OK. That's my agent, your negotiator. Real question, real question. Hardest part about your job that people don't recognize. Use this as a way to tell people like, you think it's this way, it's totally different. Go, yeah, I got a story.

Because I think that a lot of people have misconceptions about your jobs, and it's good to be like, you guys are wrong. This is what is difficult, or the hardest part. I love the morons, and I don't run into this very often anymore that come up to you on the sidelines. And I have my trapper keeper. I have my binder full of notes that I don't even

use a quarter of. And they're like, did you write that yourself, or did somebody else? Shut up. Are you serious? Of course I wrote this out. But I think my insecurity is there's always going to be something that happens,

and it's going to expose me, that I didn't play, right? That's just always kind of like the chip on my shoulder, right? I wasn't drafted until the sixth round or something like that. But I just am so worried something will happen. So just the preparation. I mean, if I had prepped this much in college, it probably would have been a big, I would have gotten to wear those cool pants

that everybody got to wear. What are those? It's a lot of cum laude. I didn't get one. Yeah, so just to prep, I'm a nut. I'm insane. I just, with it. And I don't think people get that.

And it's like a 24-7 thing. My husband's like, put the phone down, and you're like, what's the end wrap-up we're tweeting about? So yeah, I just think the prep, and just really the time away from home, I'm not home at all during the season. I would imagine that if you put it, the more prep you put in, it's stuff that you might not ever use during the break. But I never use it.

I get three to four hits a game. I never use it. That probably just adds to your confidence when you're on camera, though. And it lets you do a better job, because you know that shit goes sideways. I know my stuff. For every game, I sit there, and I look at the depth chart,

and I go down to the third string. I am literally googling every player and going back probably five to six months, looking at articles on their grandma. Things I just don't want to miss. Do I need that shit? No. Am I psycho, and I know I have to have it for myself?

I do, to make myself feel better. And yes, there is a time, Troy at dinner or Troy in a break will say, hey, does anyone know what this? And I'll be like, clip in, and I'll be like, hey, I do. And he's always like, thanks, Tips. I'm not sure about you guys. It didn't make air, but I did it. But that's, I mean, your job specifically,

like going live on TV, and then like you said, you're live three to four times a game, that would make me so nervous. Because if you make one little mistake, like Joe and Troy talk for four hours. So if they say one thing wrong, it's like, OK, whatever. It's a four hour broadcast. You have these short windows that you

have to nail every time. I will say the biggest, I think, where I am at my most valuable is the part people don't see and hear from me. I like to think I'm a spy on the field. Prime example, and I was so excited, it got a lot of attention because it was a huge moment. Aaron Donald is just going off on the sideline. And I just said, get a camera to him, get a camera.

I mean, there's a lot of times I'm grabbing the camera, where I'm like, go here, go here. Somebody's falling over. Somebody's got a toe thing. I mean, last year, a toe thing, toe pick. Well, COVID, so Rod is cutting edge with those of you that got the toe pick, right? No, only grand is a big place for toe pick.

Yes, stupid. That's a shingle, I didn't know that. Oh my god, that's where all my best stuff. Even Divisional last year was huge for me in terms of going off the field. I saw Antonio Brown kind of doing something with his leg. And then I just said, get a camera on Antonio Brown as he's going into the locker room.

Why? Just do it, get a camera on him. Because I knew Brady would run over to him and say, is your leg OK? And it wasn't. After the second half, he was out. So we had that footage for whatever Bruce Arian said to me. But the important thing is, Antonio Brown is out.

I noticed this before the half. It's the shit you don't hear for me, but I can get the camera and tell our producer and director. And I love it. I get off on it. I'm like, ugh. So cool. I feel like I'm a spy.

Yeah, that's important. You don't think about that. I just always assume that the cameras show up, because they just know what's about to happen. No, there's a lot of cool stuff that happens, where somebody will grab something and say something. Have you ever shown too much? Have you ever taken a camera to a place and been like, OK,

we're going to get this. And then the team got mad at you later. And they were like, hey, that's not true. Dr. Eletroge would never get mad at you. No, I run away. I let the photo get that, or the camera, the handheld get that. And then I tell the producer, and I'm just like, I'm just letting you know this is going on.

And they decide if we're going to do it. And I have a great producer and director. So like, EA, we're coming to you next. We're coming to you next. Yeah. What about you, Chris? Probably happened the other day, actually. And I called, or actually, because I saw you at dinner.

And I was like, oh, I didn't even tell you about this shit that happened to me today. I was doing the EA Madden Pro Bowl with characters. Marshawn, Chad Johnson, Micah Parsons, Justin Jefferson, Derwin James, big personalities. Well, I have a producer in my ear yelling at me to, not yelling, saying to me, we need to get in and out of breaks. You need to keep this thing moving.

Well, I have a little bit of a corral in cats and kindergarten teacher. Like, you need to sit down. You need to be quiet. And so I got over here. I don't give a shit about, at this point, again, doing this long enough, her and I are both used to people saying, you either like us or you don't like us.

We're good with that, right? We kind of know where we lie. But I've not gotten that much shit on Twitter for a long time. And they were like, she's annoying as fuck. She's yelling at them. And she's saying this. And I'm like, bro, I'm trying to keep this live event moving. And mind you, there's like alcohol involved.

Everyone's like jumping up and they're playing mad. And I get like the gaming world's like its own thing that I don't pretend to know or touch. But I have somebody in my ear saying to me, we got to move in. We got to move to this, move to that. So it just came across like I was like screaming at all of them and not letting them do their thing. So I think that's the hardest thing for me

is that there's, we have to keep things moving. And so sometimes the audience at home just sees me, giving stop signs and sort of like traffic copping it more than just letting sometimes things happen. So that's it. Yeah. I mean, that one, yeah. I mean, there's times when I have to like move a show along

or do it. Like right now, is that the hit? No. But I'm just saying that's you, because then people looking are like, why the fuck? What a dick. Yeah. Or if you're in the middle of a story and the ball is snapped

and you're like, fuck, I got to get out of this. And you're like, I have 10 more seconds to tell this story. And then it's picked, fumbled, somebody's hurt. And you're like, Joe, I'll finish up after this. And then you don't get to finish up, because the other team has the ball and you're screwed. And you know what? That was just a week worth of like Googling.

Yeah. How does that mean? That's the reason I went off the sideline. Yeah, there's rules that you hear about when it, I know for baseball announcers, if you're a play-by-play guy or if you're a color guy, actually, you're not supposed to start a story with two outs, right? Mm-hmm.

Or if there's one out and there's a run-down. Third down is for us, right? So for you, yeah. What are those rules? Like you're not, you're never going to cut in to talk about whatever you're seeing or whatever side story you have under what circumstance. I need to get it to Joe by the time the ball is snapped.

But if you think about it, Joe is second in 10. Rams have the ball. And now it's set it down to Aaron Andrews. They've already snapped it. Thanks, Joe, back to you. Right, huh? It's hard, because especially when, you know, what are they doing with the offense?

When it's like no huddle, you're screwed. You're just, you're not getting in. Yeah. What about making fun of Joe Bach's hair? I don't, I've got my own hair. Please. Well, we've had fun of it a lot. Sometimes it's fake, sometimes it's real.

You guys do? Oh, yeah. I think awesome Joe has been so vocal about the thing. Well, he almost wasn't, because he was addicted to the hair plugs, so. Well, we like full-trans. I have hair plugs some weeks. Sometimes I don't.

I'm a big fan of the weeds. Are you addicted to him like Joe was? No, I just get really bored. You guys have known. Remember the suicidal path to front beville headline? I think you and I talked about it the last time. When you actually did your research when we were on this podcast the last time.

That was the dead spin thing. That was the dead spin thing. And like, it was where I changed my hair. I mean, that was 15 years ago. I'm still changing my hair. I get bored. It goes short, it goes long, it goes like Susie Orman cut. Like, I go all over the map, and I'm not afraid.

Do you need some financial advice? Because I'm here for you. I need some hair advice, actually. Well. I've got to cut my split ends off. I'm dealing with some. I just cut mine. OK.

OK, how often are you getting a haircut? Not. Right. Ever. And that's. Z, none of the above. That was always my favorite. What are the odds on the D, all of the above,

actually being the right answer to the test? Yeah, very rare. How about the number two pencil? Did it actually make a difference on the Scantron test? Because sometimes I show up with the number one or three? Right, what happened to the one or three? There is, I think. Really?

Yeah, I think there's a different. It's the different lead size, right? It's different lead size, but I've never seen it. I don't think they make number one pencil. I think architects use one. If I used a mechanical pencil, maybe that was the problem that I didn't get. Remember the ones that you could load up,

and then they would like the little. It was almost like pezzed in a pencil. Yes. And come out. And then you write it down to a nub. And then you take it out. Test takings, it works. Oh, cool.

You ever do pencil wars? No. Yeah. What's that? Yeah, you snap them. Yeah, I was really bad at it. I was pretty good because Pintek made the most firm pencil. So if you got a Pintek pencil, they were indestructible.

As opposed to Bic, right? Bic or Ticonderoga or the Pearl Eagle, those were just easily destructible. Yeah, we just go staples. This is amazing. Yeah, no, I should probably start selling office products. But I did have a question about the sideline interviews that you do at halftime.

For me, I would be thinking like my breath stinks really bad. I do think that. Is there a regiment that you go through? You're like, I have to have my gum 15 minutes before. Or, yeah, spray down with tobacco. And I always have the first rain in my pocket. How I don't have a listerine campaign, it just chaps my ass. Let's get it done, yeah.

I've tried. And they just aren't interested. Yes, breath is always my concern. Because I've heard from athletes, just talk about certain writers and certain reporters that have horrific breath. Let's go, let's name names. Peter Camarino.

There used to be a lawn that worked at Fox that had a very bad reputation from the makeup artist for having very bad breath. And she wasn't a nice person. So I am happy that she was out of that. That narrows it down a little bit. I thought you were friends with Sarah. Sarah works at NFL Network Fox.

She was not just singularly employed by Fox, but nice try. So did you ever get to smell Britt McHenry's breath, or are you just so ridiculous? Was she at Fox? Probably. No, I think spiritually. I hope she's doing well. Oh, man.

Wait, who's the alpha, Troy or Joe? Me. You? I'm the alpha. Like when we go and eat dinner, who's kind of the leader of the pack? Is it you? I usually help with where we're going to go.

Troy is the healthiest eater. I, yeah, you know what? Half the time we're not even all together, but I'm usually the one that's like, I've already found out if this is a good restaurant, crappy hotel, I'll give you the yelp right now. I'm lucky I get on the plane. What's the best NFL city?

Well, I like Dallas because we're so comfortable there. And we know, I mean, we've been there so much, and Troy's the toast of the town, so we get the best restaurants, we get the best seats, we get the best service, best sushi. Let's see what else do we do. I love, we would love going to New England. That was always fun.

Good hotel, good vibe, good scene, good, like, we have some. Where do you, in Fox, or do you have to name the hotel? No, Fox, but like, really? Oh yeah. Interesting. I wouldn't put that up there. And what's the worst? This would be good, a good headline.

What? I lived in Detroit. I gotta be honest, but that's my experience. The Townsend Hotel is fantastic. They give you these salted caramels, delicious. Everything's close together. It's amazing. You get different service than I did.

I was on the sea crew, and I was there week after week after week, and that was the shit hotel. I love our hotel in Detroit, it's so nice. The bar's fantastic. You've got great pizza up there. Very underrated pizza in Detroit. It's like a mix of Chicago, Reed, or South. I'm always there for Thanksgiving, though,

so my experience is a little different. Yeah, do you like it on Thanksgiving? No, it's sad. I miss being with my family. Yeah, I think I liked that. Detroit was something. It seemed sad, yeah. Which is also valid.

Watching the Macy's tape parade and the games at noon, and yeah, I mean, you have to be at the field at six. I mean, it's kind of an upsetting holiday, but it's fine. You sound fine. I haven't had one. I was going to say 20 years, but yeah. So when you're on the road with Troy, how much weed does he smoke?

Very fine. Have you seen his eyes in the booth? Oh, no. Have you seen those pictures? That's not from that. What? He just goes swimming right before games? No.

No, I've got swimming. I have green hair. Similar question. When you do the pregame, are there any times where if you just stopped talking, Colin would just talk for the entire hour? No, we always made it. I'm not on your show anymore.

I know, sadly. It used to be. Yeah, but there was the running joke with Colin was this. Let's say the cameras were all looking over here and he'd be like this, just like staring off into space. I'm like, are you with us? But no, I really miss a lot of things about Colin. Having worked with him for so long, even at ESPN.

Colin was the ultimate wingman. You could give him anything. I mean, this guy talks for three hours. You could just say, talk about the third string DB, and he's like, oh, yeah, he went to Boise State in average. He's like, he knows everything. It's like Ferrari, yeah. The analogy for 37 houses.

Yeah, your first divorce, and then you get a Ferrari. I remember. It's a buffet. The analogies are, as somebody who loves an analogy. Oh, he. Oh, he. He loves him. You know what he loves?

He loves the old Netflix versus Blockbuster game. He can tie that into anybody. He's like, ours and that. Joe Burrow is like Netflix. His Instagram's out of control right now. Nothing like the skiing mountains. Good drink. Loves itself.

It's a good video, Rich. I know one time someone said to him, they were like, how do you sleep at night with these thoughts that you have, and he goes on a bed full of money next to a hot redhead. And I was like, good for you, Colin. Have you ever seen him eating soup? Yeah, a little big slurper.

Is it like a normal everyday? He claims to be a big broth head. Oh, that's just for health, because he's very healthy. You're a big bone broth, healthy. I could eat soup every single meal. I'm kind of soup. I mean, you name it, like anything in soup. Can we power rank a soup?

Are we going minestrone? We're going chicken noodle. We're going tomato. So my sneaky favorite soup is probably the Greek lemon soup, the Avgolamono soup. Where's that from? Just Greece. Petros.

Just Greece. Yeah, it is like a chicken rice soup with like a egg yolk and lemon mixture to it. But sometimes it gets that little bitter taste that gets you right here. Yeah, you get that. It's called seasoning. I love it.

Yeah. No, it's very good. I also just like any sort of chowder. Yeah. Just stews, too. Sure. Stew. Are you a Crock-Pock guy?

My grandfather used to always say, you eat the soup after the meal because it fills in the cracks of the meal. And it makes you sleepy. Yeah, so I'm just disputing Colin Coward's soup credentials, because I think sometimes he overplays his hand. Oh, I thought he likes soup. I just have heard him eat soup, and it's slurp.

It's gross. But no, it's not gross. It's just a style. Everyone's got a style. How about when people like drag the spoon over their teeth? That's a tough move. Yeah, with ice cream, too, sometimes. I know people scraping at the bowl with their spoon.

Stack, crust up. In the morning, just not my better half. But I've been in meeting rooms, and it's a big spoon. And then it's like, I'm like, really? See, I have a whole thing I can get fixated on it really fast. Like a heavy breather, a whistle, and a nose, a spoon on the teeth, just knock it off. A guy who pretends that he got vaccinated and didn't.

Or doesn't dip. Don't like him. No, he's a loser. Big Cat really doesn't like him because he's torture bears fans. He's been, Aaron Rodgers has been abusing him. He owns them. I can't wait till he goes. You got to eat your clues.

Are you excited about that, or no? I mean, look how you said it. How does that work, by the way? If a team hires a new coach, somebody that you don't know yet, how do you go about making inroads with that person and getting the inside information, getting the scoops and all that?

You just send him a text. You're like, hey, it's Aaron Andrews. I sent him a text yesterday. I'm so excited for him. And Sean. Yeah, you're really good about that, reaching out. I used to, I mean, I haven't been on the sidelines for a long time, but in production meetings

is what I miss most about being on the sidelines is because you got FaceTime with all these guys. And that's so important now. It's the relationships that have been established over the years, but that is one benefit. Sands COVID is that being in those rooms with those guys on the field before for an hour, two hours, during the whole game, post game, blah, blah, blah.

That can be a real bear, but they can be really, really awesome. I mean, we've had conference calls. Sean Payton is one of the best to have a conference call with. His conference calls are just like what you saw for his, you know, his retirement, not retirement, but his closing, I guess, presser with the Saints. Brady's conference calls with us were unfriking believable. I will miss those so much.

He did a lot on them, which I thought was great. Rogers, your friend, his conference calls are awesome. Mace of family. Listening to, no, he's great. And you know, it's awesome because I get to sit back. I get to ask my question at the end. Troy just goes through his list of questions with these guys and to hear, you know, Aaron and Tom

and Sean McVeigh break it down. It's just really, it's awesome. Yeah, it's cool. It's badass. Whenever we talk to like football guys and like get into like the details, it's just you can sit and listen to that. I'll tell you that one of the best conference calls

besides Brady Rogers, Kyle Shanahan is fucking awesome to talk to. He just breaks it down. And we did a game with him last year against the Packers where their entire roster was depleted. They didn't have anyone because of COVID. And I just, my husband was there and I said, come sit and listen to this.

This is gonna be awesome. We didn't know what quarterback was gonna play. And he just said, you know, I may actually suit up, but I just told these guys, listen, people dream for this shit. Your third four string, like let's go. See what's gonna happen. This could be a great story.

When we interviewed him, we were like, we wish we'd done it forever. Yeah. He's got so much swag. Except in the fourth quarter. Well, whoa. Whoa. I love the way.

The truth. I like Kyle Shanahan a lot. By the way, that move right there, just the whoa gets anybody brawled up. Like you could just be saying something and you're like shut the door and you're like whoa. And now everyone's like, why did I say something wrong? It's like, it's just a subtle little thing.

It's a little tug on the leash. Whenever you're uncomfortable in a situation, just go whoa, everyone will- Well, here's a little tip. What? For your podcast, just be more critical of people because then it makes headlines. Okay, actually, that's a great,

since you guys are wildly successful in this space and it's made you a ton of money. No, but you are really good at it. $75,000 an episode. And we are new, wow. Exactly. Whoa. Yep, we get a big check.

So, okay, that's a great piece of advice since we're novices in this area. Yeah. And the big check. Is being controversial. We're not really controversial people, though. Yeah, we don't do it on, like we're not controversial either.

It's more just like have, you know. Have real opinions. Yeah, right, right. Well, we have opinions. We also have employers, though. Right. You guys are your own employers now. You have to talk to a lot of these people,

which is very awkward. Like we don't- How great is it for you guys to not have to give a shit? Yeah, you never have to see these guys. You talk shit and you never have to- No, we go into locker rooms all the time. Yeah. No, the thing, the nice thing is-

You're not allowed in locker rooms right now. No, that's a good point. No, but we do, like we have them on show and then we'll say exactly what we said about them. Right. Like I've said some very mean things about DK Metcalf. And I've said, like DK, you turn with approximately the same precision as an aircraft carrier.

And I'll say it to his face and then now we're good friends. But that's how- It's disarming. I did it to Matt LaFleur. I joked about him kicking that field goal when they were down eight and he was like, well, that sucks that you brought that up. But like after, yeah, like I don't know.

Think about SNL. SNL has become, you know, for the 30 years or whatever that it's been on, making fun of people. So sometimes making fun of them means that they matter enough when you guys are in your position to care about them. And so then it becomes- I made fun of Jeff Darlington the other day.

I said he ruined my weekend. Here you go. No, it's also just, I mean, the simple rule is too, like we just make fun of ourselves more than we make fun of anyone else. Self-deprecating is our biggest thing. How is ours doing? Like the people who make fun of other people

but never make fun of themselves and like sit on a, you know, every tower, they're assholes. Thank you. And that's, I'd like to believe that, look, we, I've been very vocal about like not liking certain people in this industry because they'll act one way and then behind your back, like say another thing and I'm like, fuck it.

I'm just trying- Is that what Sarah Walsh did? Sarah, again, Michelle Beedle. It's like, I just don't understand why. It's like, if you're gonna say it or you're gonna have the opinion and look, not everyone's, my mom always said this to me, like not everyone's gonna like you clearly.

So you don't have to like everyone else. Don't be an asshole though. Like my big thing is like, if you're mean to hair or makeup or audio or if someone's running the prompter, don't say, hey, prompter, roll up. Know the fucking person's name. Like, and so when people in this industry don't do that, I have a very hard time with it.

And when networks tolerate it, I just like, I get frustrated by that. It's a lot of people go into like making everyone look good on air. Yeah, that's a big thing. Yeah, but in the end, it comes out. We know that. I think in a lot of people,

my dad is always like just sit back and watch. Yep, it's true. Talent wins out and- I hate the word talent. That's another thing too. But it does work. No, I'm saying, not talent. Like people tell me, I'm saying like if you were talented

and you keep working hard, eventually you will win out. I believe that. And I do believe being a nice person and I haven't, you know what, like there's, I'm sure there's some of us like, she was an asshole to me. Like I never intentionally want to be mean to someone.

I just think in this industry, like you're not that special, you're replaceable. Just like every athlete has been replaced by the next great athlete. Like appreciate your position, plan your promotion, but say hello to Cheryl, the prompter operator. Yeah. I am an asshole though.

When I have five minutes before I have to be on air before a big game, which every game is big for me. And I'm sitting there and I'm clearly doing my notes and someone comes in my space with their head and it's COVID and that's different though. That's different. But then you hug that guy after you do the interview with him. No, no.

No, that's just not good awareness. Yeah. Oh man. I think when you're locked in though, it's a little bit different. Like everybody has that with their job. Right. So yeah.

Like I'm a real bitch when you invade my space and I'm trying to get ready for the game. And then once I get the first hit over with, it's smooth sailing. But up until then I am crazy pants. I'm scared. I just, I don't want to fuck up. Do you have to apologize for getting into bitch mode

right before? Is it just understood like? They see you sitting there and they're so excited that they have a sideline pass and I totally get that. And please enjoy it. I don't think there's anything better than being up, you know, right there at that moment, watching the guys come out.

It's so freaking fun. But I'm not there for your enjoyment. I can't screw up. I've been working all week for this. You know, I've got a job. So yeah, people think, I like to Herb Street. And I used to say this all the time when we did college game day.

It's like a petting zoo. They're just like, over here, over here. It's like, you know, feed me fish. Like, you know, I'll do a trick. All right, last question. Calm down podcast, go listen. Great stuff every week. Last question, I was on the flight

and I hadn't watched newsroom in a really long time. And for some reason I pulled it up. Did you, did you date Will McAvoy? I didn't. And I never would ask, isn't it so great? What, 2013? It's like the opening scene of the show. Yeah, he's like, yeah.

We're on vacation with him or something too. Last episode too. So I, at that time I was working for ESPN and I had a chance with GMA to work the red carpet for the Oscars and he was there. And I just, he walked up not knowing anything. And I was like, hey, I'm Aaron Andrews and you use my name in your show

and when the hell can I make a cameo? I was like, holy shit. It's like a very funny like you. It's so random. Obviously you've done like crazy stuff in your career but like having like, oh yeah, if you go to that moment in time, it's like, all right, who's like the it girl?

Oh, Aaron Andrews, let's throw her in this. That show too was phenomenal. I'm so sad that, no, you have to. And you came up later again too. Like they did a callback. Like he was on vacation with you in the islands or something. I was like this girl.

It was like the sports version of, or the non-sports version of that, was a show that he also worked on. I feel like it was called Sports Night. Oh, Sports Night. Remember that back in like the late 90s? Yeah. Yeah, then that was on HBO, right?

Yes. I distinctly remember like tuning into a couple episodes. Did you guys ever watch George Michael Sports Machine? Yes. Pow, pow, pow. Somebody needs to bring that back. You guys could do it.

And before we go, because I know this is your guys' show, congratulations seriously. I know we make a joke about the spelling bee. And the last time you guys, you know, did this interview with us, but you guys have had a ton of success. So congratulations.

Your guys podcast is killing it. We're just gonna have to keep up. Stop hanging on my friends though. What? Hanging on my friends. Dak, Aaron, all the guys I love. We'll get better friends. Whoa!

Present company excluded of course. You guys should have Cletus on the show. Oh yeah, he's a talker. He'll say a lot. Yeah, his favorite color is also gray. So that's perfect. Perfect. All right, well thank you guys so much.

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Pardon my vape. Let's do it. How would you fix saving seats with towels and bags at the resort pool? As a dad of three, I'm up at 6 a.m., putting towels on chairs, getting the best goddamn seats, shutting out dudes like Big Bank, Hank,

but to be honest, feeling like an asshole doing it. Okay, I have one way. That makes $75,000 an episode because then you can rent a villa like I did with my friends. But that's probably a dick answer. That's pretty sick. Yeah. That's probably a dick answer.

I understand that. I would just make a big mess because it's people get mad if you have, you know, like five or six chairs reserved and there's nobody there for like three hours. They'll be like, I haven't seen anybody use these chairs with towels on it. But if you really spread the towels around,

a couple empty water bottles, really junk it up a little bit. But they clean those. Like they, at a nice hotel or resort, they clean up the area. I think you can only just sleep out there. Like why not just sleep out there with an eye mask? Sleep there, set an alarm for like 9.30.

Or you get one of those dummies like people use in the HOV lens. Yes. Where they strap it in. You just put a set of balls beachwear on like a crash test dummy and then put it under some towels and shit and lay it out there.

Boom, problem solved. Yeah. Wet towels and sandy sandals. Just get a bunch of sandals, buy them in the store, put sand on them, leave them. Yeah, the sandals might work. You're right.

Because they do. Yeah, they wouldn't clean sandals. Yeah, that might work. That's actually a genius idea, Billy. Can't you also just take your kid and at the start of the day, you wait for a couple other people to come around and then you just grab your kid and you're like,

oh, we got an emergency. And then you stand up and you leave. If you say that there's an emergency while you're holding your kid, I feel like that's gonna buy you at least a few hours. Of all your shit being still out there. But once you have it, you have it. His, he's saying like the,

what I'm understanding from this question is, it's a brutal game. You basically, if you're at a nice hotel or a resort, you have to squat on your chairs and you have it for the whole day. You basically don't leave all day because you're like, you gotta get out there at seven a.m.

and get your nice chair to the podcast thing. That was probably two shit me to say, but whatever. Hey, PFT cat and honk. I'm going on spring break this year with six other people who all were couples when we booked the trip back in October. Uh-oh. Fast forward to January and one of the couples broke up

because the girlfriend was cheating on my buddy because she said she never loved him. Oh no. Always awkward situation, but what makes it worse is that she then confessed her love for me two days after they broke up. What do I do to make this the least awkward as possible? Please help me.

All right, it's very simple because I was just in the Virgin Islands and I saw a lot of this going on. Just make some team t-shirts for yourself, but put pineapples on all of them and it's just a swingers trip now. Yeah. So now you're just,

now it's free love on your vacation. That's a sign. Apparently that's a code. I didn't know that. Where the pineapple stands for were swingers. Did you end up in an accidental situation or something? I did not. That would have been very funny if I had,

there was a moment where I thought when I got on this boat that I was staying on and I saw like there was a pineapple and somebody just told me about the pineapple thing. I was like, wait, is this boat that I'm staying on run by a lady and her swing or husband? And it's just like stay on the boat, but, you know. It can suck your way off. Yeah, the different, yeah, the cabins

are more of a suggestion. You just kind of go in whatever door that you want. I saw a... Turns out that wasn't the case for the record. I saw a boob cruise in Cancun. It was out on a boat one day. I went on vacation, there were seven of us and I, three couples and then one of my friends.

There was a boat, we were coming out of like where we docked and there was a boob cruise. And you know when it takes you like a second to like kind of pick up on something? So I was like, oh wow, those are some boobs right there. Like that's sick. I'm like, wait, that's another set of boobs. And then it was just a dude with a fucking rock hard boner

just standing on the boat. And it was just people fucking on a boat. It was crazy. It's the thing, I looked it up online. It's like a boob cruise in Cancun. You just go on it and you fuck. Do you pay a ticket to go on this thing? Or is it like invite only?

It was no, it was pay a ticket. They have rules. We went through on the act. The rules aren't, well you can't, it said select singles, which I think that's just like they put ringers on there. And that if you're in a party of single dudes it can't be bigger than two.

Which makes sense. I want to keep the ratio down. Yeah. So those are the rules. Sounds awesome. But I would come so fast on it and then I'd be on a fucking cruise for the rest of the day.

Like, oh, I already came. We didn't even leave. All right, speaking of, speaking of, this is a similar situation Dave was in. Kind of the reverse though. I was planning on going on a vacation with a bunch of my single guy friends, but my girlfriend asked if she could go.

It seemed like it was a bros only trip since we don't get to see each other very often. Should I bring her anyways help? No, no, no, no. Yes? This feels like a maybe. No, this is a definite no. This is a hard no.

Because you might have a decent time. Yeah, but then she's gonna be mad at you. Yeah, better than that. Then like going on a trip where, okay, you have two choices. One, you can not bring her which is the correct choice and go on your bros trip and deal with the aftermath which I'm sure you can pick up,

be like, oh, I didn't have a really good time. We like didn't do anything, whatever. While you're like, you know, you're really tan and your throat is like horse and everything, clearly partying or you can bring her and you guys are definitely gonna break up on the trip because all your bros wanna hang out and go like fuck around and you're with your girlfriend.

I think the most likely scenario that happens if you bring her on the trip is you end up paying a lot of attention to her and then all of your friends secretly hate you and then you just will eventually no longer be friends with those guys after that. And then, but then you like try to make up for it by then ignoring her for one night

and then she breaks up. You gotta encourage her to take a girls trip that same week, that's really the move. Correct. But you should actually, you should aspire to get to a point in life where you can go on trips with couples. That actually is very fun.

All right, good segue. I recently went on a V word with some friends and they were go, go, go. By day five, my girlfriend and I made up an excuse to split ways and take a breather. How much activities do you guys like to plan on vacation and how much time do you carve to do nothing slash have no plans?

It depends on the type of vacation. If it's a beach vacation, I usually, I pencil in about nine to 10 hours a day of doing absolutely nothing except for getting drunk, passing out, waking up and getting drunk again. Yeah, my big thing is like, if I'm going on a vacation to a tropical place, warm place, it's fine one day to do something big.

Cause then it's like mixes it up. Like go out, I went out snorkeling one day. Like then it's like, oh, we did something. Cause you want to feel like you did something, but just one day, that's enough. And it doesn't have to be anything like crazy. You're just like, oh, we did something. Cause you know, there is something about like,

if you go for like six or seven days somewhere, it's like, what'd you do? I just, I was on the beach all the time. You want to have like one thing like, oh, I did this. One thing, just one. One thing you could tell like your mom about. Yeah, one thing. That's all.

Oh, we played golf. Yeah, just one thing to put in your back pocket. Like, oh, I did that. I saw a volcano. Did you see anything cool on the snorkel trip? I told you guys a story, but I was snorkeling in the middle of the ocean and I came up to clean my mask and some dude was just like,

big cat, he was just swimming by me. I was like, what up? And I just kept on swimming. It was wild. Shout out to that guy. I hope he's listening right now. Cause he probably told people and they're like, I don't believe you.

But yeah, it was a very funny moment of all places to run into a stoolie is like in the middle of the fucking ocean. There was this one bartender and she goes, as I'm getting my tab, she goes, I like your hat. And I was wearing that, the hat that Hank's wearing right now. I was like, oh, okay.

Are you listening? And she was like, yeah, I love the podcast. I was like, thanks so much. I appreciate it. She goes, tell Jake hi. Oh, there we go, Jake. Hell yeah. I saw a turtle when I was snorkeling.

I saw a turtle as well. Sea turtles were the best. They're so cool. They're so chill. Yeah. All right, we'll do. I think we're just a vacation podcast now. We are.

I'm not addicted. I'm on island time. I'm an island boy. What if we like all went on vacation together as a podcast? Then it wouldn't be vacation. Then we'd just be doing the podcast. We'd be working. But we do like vacation stuff.

What if we move the podcast to California? That would go well with my family. There was a lot of people. I was in California, San Diego, and there was honestly like, oh yeah, oh yeah. I can't even keep track of how many people like you guys got to move out here.

And I was like, dude, I know. Yeah. When we talk to the guys. Hank, tell us about the speech though. Tell us about the best man's speech. What are the highlights? The speech went great. Shout out to my uncle,

who helped me a lot going through with the night before. You, I had the notes in hand. I didn't really look at them. I just looked down at one point to make sure I was going in the right track, but I was doing eye contact with the audience. It went great. What was the biggest word you use?

Poof. Did you try to read? No, I knew I did my best to memorize because I knew that if I was reading, I actually said this to my uncle because he was like, I would just read it. And I was like, no, I'm actually a worse reader than I am a speaker and it's saying something.

Big, big come up for you though, on Wednesday show. Yeah. Bubba was so bad at reading. PFC and I didn't even make fun of him. We're like, are you okay? We can't joke about this. Yeah. My parents came up this weekend.

I like, I'm a hotel for like their birthdays and like just had dinner. My dad just brought it up and just was laughing for like 10 minutes about it. I think we need to do this bad. We got to do like reading time as a podcast where we just take 30 minutes, just do some reading exercises.

Just start a book club. You know what it is? I have a lot of books for like three year olds so we can do this. I think we're all much better readers than people get to write it before. It's just when we're reading awful. Like if you read like a novel, like a book

and read it out loud, it's much different. Okay. You might be right, but did you listen to Bubba? Not exactly. Okay, yeah. So you would not have that opinion if you listened to Wednesday's show. But shout out to my brother.

Great wedding. Good time. There was a, I was getting a shot with some of my brother's friends and a stool we just walked up. He was like a bar back and he walked from behind the back area and like slammed the course light down for me

and was like, here you go. I fucking love you guys. Love it. Just shout out to that guy. Yes. All right, last one. Is there a worse feeling than when an awesome vacation ends?

Question mark. Also, how many notes did PFD write to the staff over under 10? Ooh. You forgot. No, I didn't. You forgot. I kind of forgot.

You forgot, but you forgot. I gave him a shitload of money at the end of it. To the point where I didn't know how much to tip somebody that's on a boat with you. I think they call that if you're overseas. That's what they call money, notes. Yeah, yeah, I left a few notes, exactly. I left a couple pounds on that boat for him.

Tough, tough follow-up from the Life Advice. Very, very tough, but you're on a boat. Provisions are scarce. I don't think that there was a pen or a piece of paper on that thing. Also, to follow-up from what I thought was the funniest part of the Life Advice was that the suit never came out at Super Bowl Week.

You did bring it to Super Bowl Sunday. Yes. I wore it, yeah. No, Saturday. Yes. Before the game. It looked as wrinkled as you think it would. It was very wrinkly.

You were in your bag for a week and a half. I really tried to get all the wrinkles up by putting it in the shower with me for about like five minutes on full power on hot water. That didn't work, it turns out. Yeah, no, coming back to this question, coming back from a vacation sucks. It's like a-

It's way worse than the winter too. Like going from some- Thankfully it was warm to the last few weeks. To like miserable weather. Yeah. It's just sad, it was dark at like three o'clock today. I did have like, I did enjoy like seeing my kids. So that was the one plus.

But I'm not saying people should have kids just so that that moment they come back from vacation isn't the worst. I think a lot of people get dogs so that when they go overseas to war, they come back and their dog gives them a nice hello. Yes. One quick one, Big Hat,

because you can answer this quickly, but this guy said I'm a new father. Please explain the difference between vacations with kids, versus vacations without kids. My wife thinks it will be appropriate to take our one-year-old and our son on a Fourth of July trip with friends this summer.

No, it's vacation when you don't have children with you and it's a trip when you do. Cause you're not, it's not a vacation when you bring your kids. It's just you're actually making it harder on you yourself. Cause all like the nice things that you have at home to help like their crib, all the like the things you have around

that help with childcare, TV, aren't there when you go on vacation. So now it's just a trip. You're making an away game parenting is so much harder than a home game. I'm a big believer in, someday my kids will come to the vacation, but not for a while.

I think until like, I saw one family bring a nanny with them. Yeah, you can do that. That's a flex. That is a flex. That's a flex. That's an expensive flex. I think it's probably better

to just go without your kids. I'm also like, like I said, like someday I hope to travel with my kids and you know, show them the world and all that stuff. But I'm a big believer, a one year old, like my kids are two and a half and nine months.

They wouldn't remember a second of a vacation. Why would I waste money on them? No offense to them. I love them dearly, but come on. Like they, it would just be a pain in my ass. Maybe when these like,

my son's like six and my daughter's like four. You can also start doing shit. It teaches them resilience on how to get along without their parents around. With no one around. I just left the bowl of water out for my kids. Yeah. Newspapers five days on the floor.

It's incredible. They both were fine. All right. Great vacation, post vacation episode boys. Should do this more often. Yeah. Podcasting it.

We're going to do it again on Thursday. No, like post vacation podcasting. Post vacation. We do have tans. I do have post vacation clarity right now. It's like, oh man. I might just still be drunk actually. Yeah.

We should do that again. All right. Numbers. By the way, people were very, you know what? We do two numbers. We fucked up. We didn't do a number at the end of the life episode.

People were very upset. So number, the first number we draw will be the life episode. Oh, I also fucked up so bad. I had a catch in the cradle take on me remix. And I'll play now. Why?

I meant to play at the end of that one. Why? After I left my kids out with a bowl of food. I was like, oh, this is a funny callback. And I forgot. All right. Here we go. First number.

64. 22. 69. This is for a Friday show. It's got it. It's 22 on the career. 28. Second number.

22. 51. No way. 69. That was your first one. Yeah, I was gonna do it again. All right, two. No, we'll both do it.

No. 22. 51. 51, 69. Six. Oh, I forgot, because it's a two man. Shout out to two man. Finally, we killed him.

RIP. Oh, sweet prince. 35. I was saying to Hank, the best part about the two man video is I just wish we had more time to make it. Cause we had nine years. I thought, and we did it in four minutes in a hotel. I thought it was perfect.

I wish we had just not run out of time. The greatest procrastination of all time was having two, two, there are two, 22, 22 sneak up on us. It's a date that we knew was coming for a decade. It was a tough. When I realized that like the week, I wasn't gonna be here the week before and then I was getting back like the night before

the day, so I wouldn't have time. I couldn't push it off anymore. I was like, oh, fuck, but I'm great. This date is actually happening. Came out great. Like every other date in the history of dates. All right. Russia has trained beluga whales and dolphins

to attack scuba divers. Love you guys. I'm talking away. I don't know what I'm to say. I'm saying it anyway. Today is another day to find you. Shine away. I'll be coming for your love.

Okay. I want to be with you. I want to be with you. I want to be with you. I want to be with you. I want to be with you. I want to be with you. I'll be coming for your love.

Okay? Make on me. Take me, yeah. Needless to say, I'm uncertain it's, but I'm being stolen away Slowly learning that life is okay, say after me, it's no better to be safe than sorry Take on me, take me on All the things they say, yeah, is it life or just to play my worries away You're all the things I've got to remember, you're shying away

Well, I'll be coming for you anyway Take on me, take me on I'll be gone in a day I'll be gone in a day I'll be gone in a day