2025 Takie Awards, Guest Presenters And Award Winners, 25 Awards Including Blake Of The Year, Podcast Listeners Of The Year, Bonk Of The Year + We Talk About The Fox/Barstool Deal

8:22Big Cat:Right this very second. It's only going to get harder. Do you?

8:27PFT Commenter:I mean, listen, AWL is better promised to buy this book. They better promise.

8:32Big Cat:Because I'm promising to write this book right now.

8:34PFT Commenter:we need a promise off you promise to buy it we'll promise to write it

8:38Big Cat:but I'm pumped about the TV show it's going to be cool to get back on the air a little bit and you're right Fox Sports they want to work with us we want to work with them they're going to let us do us which is a very cool thing they trust us balls in our court go fuck around do whatever you want I'm excited to share the airwaves with Colin Coward yes I really am

8:55PFT Commenter:who might be up for a takey

8:57Big Cat:he might be up for a takey

8:59PFT Commenter:but yeah it's exciting it's big for Barstool and my excitement is like it's just different than it was 2017 but I think it's better because like I said this is a partnership that feels like it can work because they wanted us and we're like hey let's do this instead of trying to beg to get you know a time slot at

9:19Big Cat:1am yeah and if you are an AWL that owns a gym if you own a gym we're gonna need every television on FSWord morning that's on you first of all congratulations on owning a gym that's fucking sick you're probably in really good shape and hot so that's cool but we need you to have our tv show on monday through friday seven to nine central after you watch all part of my take on youtube and listen to it on all your podcasts

9:41PFT Commenter:correct correct but we're counting on you guys yeah uh so yeah we're not it's not like hey uh boomers in the fall are now going to be on fs1 no no this show is not changing at all i made sure that was a very big sticking point we love this show we've learned through the years that this is our audience we we love you guys we'll see if you win a uh podcast listener of the year but we love you guys so much and we don't want to change any of that this is an in addition so we're excited

10:04Big Cat:for it Hank are you excited very excited Hank does this make Tom Brady your co-worker yeah I think it does yeah your peer probably might be involved in the show later too in this show yeah in today's

10:15PFT Commenter:show takeies oh no way okay you just say he might be and he's not he might be okay that would be very funny we need to start doing that be like hey listen this is the ninth annual take yous you want to do something special dr james andrews lebron james might be involved in this actually can i tell you a funny story so we have guest presenters i tried to reach out to dr james andrews for injury of the year did not get which one the one that we had on nine years ago who correctly diagnosed kyle schwarber's injury we i emailed him yeah professor have not heard back we should revisit that though i did make the effort we should have him on again yeah we should absolutely have him on again that that that was a set that will be in the book yeah yeah did we do that with aaron rogers or we almost did it with aaron rogers a different guy named aaron rogers i think we talked about it yeah i think we almost did it i think we did it the exact right amount of times once yeah because if we had just done an entire uh podcast where every single day we had a guest name that was similar to a famous person people would get mad i think so yeah uh okay pft

11:22Big Cat:you're surprised yeah so uh last night if you watch the takey awards shane or excuse me the sp awards shane gillis hosted and he did the monologue at the start of it um i thought it's pretty funny i thought he told some pretty funny jokes shane's a funny guy shout out little sass our dear friend little sass wrote some of the jokes for him which i thought was very cool so i know how these award shows go i know that he probably wrote a lot of jokes that didn't get included so i reached out to little sass this morning and i asked him if he had any leftover jokes oh nice and i got some leftover jokes from little sass that were meant to be on the sbs didn't make the cut maybe too spicy for tv and i want our good friend zach to do the opening monologue oh for the takeies i love this with little sass's jokes so we have an opening monologue this year and zach has not read these i just now as i'm talking sent him the jokes so this is going to be Zach reading little sass jokes for the first time and that's so perfect because Zach actually

12:17PFT Commenter:uh he did a Daniel Day Lewis method act this morning where he much like little sass woke up at 11 30 in the morning he did yeah he was a little bit late this morning yeah this is my first time reading through these jokes and I am happy to present them to you guys okay okay great what about the part about the deplorable move on my end I can't apologize enough for anybody who Everyone who was here at the scheduled time, I want to apologize for not respecting your time to the best of my ability. And it's not a good move. And I couldn't be more. Anything you guys need me to do to make up for it, I'm willing to do.

12:53And I'm sorry for being late today.

12:55PFT Commenter:What did I say to you, though? Don't do it again. No, that's not what I said. Well, I did say that. But I also said if we fired people for sleeping in, Hank would have been fired a thousand times.

13:08Big Cat:fact and he did walk in the room and give the best apology of all time and instantly always

13:12PFT Commenter:for people don't know so we had a commercial day today we had to take a bunch of commercials we're here at 8 a.m was the call time zach what what happened did you did your alarm not go off i didn't

13:20Big Cat:plug it back in so you have your phone he's got a plug-in alarm clock next to his bed so it's uh so it's a alexa but it's i used the like the top volume on it so usually i can't tell her in the morning alexa cut off the alarm because she can't hear me because she's going so loud so i pull the plug out the back every morning yes so you yell at alexa every morning she doesn't listen and then

13:43PFT Commenter:you have to pull up the plug so i just go to plug usually and i pulled the plug i didn't replug why don't you use your phone not loud enough you gotta go too long i liked it but i was saying i came in and hank goes as a sleeping guy zach is a quintessential sleeping guy he like no he was a spider-man meme he's like i know zach he's also asleep people were like freaking out being And I was like, I think he's going to be all right. I can tell that's a guy that just slept in. Police was on the way to Zach's apartment. Did someone go and wake you up? Well, no, we brought someone there. His building wouldn't let them up.

14:17And then they were like, basically, only if a police comes and says we have to go check, will they let someone in? Our security guard is a cop and has a friend that's a police officer. So we were sending someone there to find out.

14:30Big Cat:Got it. So we were very relieved when you came in this morning. I'm so sorry you guys went through that this morning. I was unaware of that aspect. I agree. Like the alarm clocks, we talked about this a couple of weeks. The alarm clocks aren't annoying enough anymore. They're too relaxing. What would have gone through your face? What would have gone through your head if you saw a police officer at the door to wake you up? That, oh, you would have been. I would assume that first thought I would have known. Do I know what time it is when I meet the cop at the door? Well, it's time to go. Yeah. Okay.

15:06It's light out. Yeah. Is there just a police officer or is there someone else accompanying the cop that I would recognize from here? We had said someone else because I was worried for that reason. I didn't want you to be too concerned.

15:16PFT Commenter:What was the worst text message you had in your phone? The worst text message I had in my phone, there was some, are you okay? Are you alive? And I was like, oh my goodness gracious. Yeah. This is not good. It's a bad feeling. Terrible feeling. Max got mad at like 920. I just fired off a text you said are you coming in question mark and Max was like that's gonna kill him that one I that one I was in the uber and I was like okay well uh my time here was very short I appreciated all the opportunity and I've I knew I'd fuck it up but I know it'd be this soon I tried to get him not not to send it because I I knew that you would have that one was gonna set you off it's all right we love you Zach it's all right it's just don't do it again all right yes

15:54Big Cat:sir good so Zach maybe maybe start the show with a monologue welcome everybody to the 2025 takeies I'm your host and presenter, Zach, and then just rip into the jokes. I would like to welcome everybody to the 2026 Takeys Awards. Okay. I'm Zach here, and I'd like to warm welcome. Let's get things started here, gentlemen. Happy Takeys. Happy Takeys. Happy Takeys. Shohei Otani became the first player ever with 50 homers and 50 steals in a season. 51. If you count the 17 million in his transfer portal. Okay. Okay. Okay. Wait, in his transfer portal?

16:35Big Cat:Okay, let's run that one again. Let's read this one slow. Shohei Otani became the first player ever with 50 homers and 50 steals in a season. 51 if you count the 17 million in his transfer portal. 51 if you count the 17 million, his... Shohei Otani became the first player ever with 50 homers and 50 steals in a season. 51 if you count the 17 million his translator stole.

17:02PFT Commenter:Yeah. Okay, that's good. Trans report. Tough read. It's on me. Shador Sanders slid to the fifth round in the draft because teams were worried he would be a distraction in the locker room. But luckily, the Browns needed a distraction from their distraction. Anything to pull focus from the ankle monitors. Nice. Love that. Yep. Love that. How's everybody doing tonight? Everybody feeling good? Feeling loose? Ready for the takeies? Oh, yeah. That's awesome. I love that for you guys. Let's take it up here. But Angel Reese spoke out online against the WNBA after a bad call from the officials. Bold move considering she could face up to 25 push-in finds.

17:48Big Cat:Okay. Yeah. I think that was supposed to be Bucks, but it auto-corrected the push. Okay. If I'm guessing. Yeah. Kylie Jenner and Timothy Chalamet went to the NBA Finals together. Kylie said it was rude how players were coming up to the couple being flirtatious all night. But in Kat's defense, he didn't realize Timothy had a girlfriend.

18:10PFT Commenter:That's good. All right. I like that one. It's a good one. Mike Tomlin looks like he washes his eyeballs with soap every morning. That's right to the point. That's the closer right there. Yeah, that's great.

18:22Big Cat:All right. Good job, Zach.

18:23PFT Commenter:Good job, Zach. Good job, Zach. Good job, Sass.

18:25Big Cat:Great monologue. It was cool seeing Sass, his name in the credits. Yeah. That was funny last night.

18:31PFT Commenter:Might have been misspelled.

18:32Big Cat:That's okay.

18:32PFT Commenter:Yeah, that's fine. That's fine. They added an extra L to him. I think actually they probably did that on purpose to fuck with him. Great espies, though. Shane is the man. All right. Should we do it, boys? Do it. Let's get to our takeies. Quick add before we get to takeies. Game time. At Boar's Head, we've been going back to school for over 115 years. And this year, every school lunch is reason to celebrate with the flavors your kids love and the exceptional quality you expect. Helping you make school lunch fresh, easy, and delicious. Ring the bell. The deli is open. Boar's Head, committed to craft since 1905.

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20:16PFT Commenter:commercial use excluded no refunds boys it's time here we go 25 awards we're giving out and i think we do this every year to start off with the take of the year this is not our preemptive take which we will do later the take of the year we had a lot a lot of uh uh nominees here thank you to uh freezing cold takes he always helps us out he's the best uh go follow him buy his book he helps us out with compiling a bunch of these.

20:49Big Cat:He's a great litmus test for people that if you repost one of your bad takes, if you get mad at him, you're probably a dickhead. And if you're able to laugh at yourself, you're probably a good hang.

20:58PFT Commenter:Correct. Because we have some bad takes all the time, but these are the nominees for Take of the Year. So I actually separated this year because he did such a good job of sending them. I have a rent came due category that I just want to briefly touch on because there's some takes that happened a couple years ago, but they finally came due this year. Robert Salah in 2022. Robert Salah and the Jets are keeping receipts on those that mock the team. He said, I'm going to be more than happy to share them when it's all said and done. Robert Salah finished with a 20 and 36 record and was fired after five games this year.

21:33PFT Commenter:Unceremoniously. Rent came due. Zach Rosenblatt said in 2021, Daniel Jones still has a lot to prove, But I think it's safe to say he's a lot better than Jalen Hurts. That one came due this year in a big, big way. Adam Koffler two years ago said, Jameer Gibbs is the stone-cold worst pick the Lions could have made at 12. But whatever, Dan Campbell. In two seasons, Jameer Gibbs has 3 ,190 yards from scrimmage and 31 touchdowns in two years. Pretty good. Pretty good start. We also had this famous one. Maybe you guys can tell me who wrote this. Man, Bronny definitely better than some of these cats I've been watching on League Pass today.

22:17PFT Commenter:Shit, lightweight, hilarious, four crying face emojis. Just my thought as a sports junkie, regardless my own sport I play. That was LeBron James. In 2023, Bronny averaged 2.3 points per game and.7 rebounds. And then finally for the rent came due section of this, which none of these are eligible to win, but I thought we'd have to say them. uh deon sanders a year and a half ago said in a response to a tweet that said tell your son stop acting like he the coldest one out there when he put up a four and eight season deon sanders said he will be a top five pick where your son going l-o-l-o-l-o-l-o i got time today l-o-l-o-l-o-l-o-l it's a lot of out louds yeah it got community noted he wasn't a top five pick Top five for five rounds.

23:03PFT Commenter:He was, yeah. Top five rounds. Top five rounds. All right, so this year's takes, and then we'll get to the winner. We have our good friend Peter Schrager, who before the season last year said, Aaron Rodgers is my pick for the 2024 NFL MVP. What he's about to do for the Jets fans this season is something even he couldn't grasp or foresee. Memes, did he do that for you?

23:28Big Cat:That first drive against the 49ers.

23:31PFT Commenter:Thought we were in the Super Bowl. That was it. That was great. We also had new Bears punter Torrey Taylor said he got this text from Caleb Williams. Hey, you're not going to punt too much here. The Bears were the second highest team in punts with 82 in the 2024 season.

23:47Big Cat:I like the confidence. I like the confidence from him. Also, memes, let's not forget that Aaron Rodgers is top five in virtually every category. Does that justify Peter Schreger? He was. Better stats than Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes.

23:58PFT Commenter:I think I had to throw a couple of these in here because I also had some really bad takes about the Bears. Obviously, last season, you could just, I mean, you listen to this show. I had some really, really bad takes. But Nick Wright also said in August, the Chicago Bears were his pick to go to the Super Bowl. We had Albert Breer last summer said, I think Gerard Mayo's a special coaching prospect. I think he has special qualities. He does. He didn't say what type of special. That's true.

24:26Big Cat:That's true. Special is a wide spectrum.

24:29PFT Commenter:Yeah. And then Kurt Cignetti on Indiana versus Notre Dame, we don't just beat top 25 teams. We beat the shit out of them. They lost and they were down 27-3 in the fourth quarter.

24:40Big Cat:At the time, he was correct.

24:41PFT Commenter:Yeah.

24:42Big Cat:That they had done that.

24:43PFT Commenter:Well, except for Ohio State.

24:44Big Cat:Also, he was the king of making scores look better at the end of these blowouts. Yes. Yes.

24:50PFT Commenter:But the take of the year is going to actually come from a one subsect of topics here, and it's Max. You're going to be happy about this. There were a lot of takes about the Philadelphia Eagles this year. So here are the official nominees for take of the year. We had Nick Wright during the Super Bowl. He said Chiefs down 10, which means finally the game can start. It's a weird part of the dynasty. They're totally unable to play well in Super Bowls until they're down exactly 10 points, but it's verifiably true. The Chiefs lost the game 40-22, and were down 34-0 and 40-6 after being down 10. Bobby Spence said, I honestly believe when all is said and done, Saquon's biggest regret of his career will be signing with Philadelphia.

25:36PFT Commenter:That's a tough one. Skip Bayless also said, Saquon Barkley to Philly does not scare me one bit. And then we had finally the last two nominees. The Eagles are going to miss out on hiring Bill Belichick because they're too big a cowards to fire Nick Sirianni. True. That was from at Barstool Jordy. And then finally, the winner of Take of the Year. Drumroll. It goes to our new colleague, Colin Coward, who said before the Super Bowl this year, the Eagles may not get into the red zone against Kansas City. and then the Eagles scored 44 points and had 345 yards total offense. That is our winner for take of the year.

26:22PFT Commenter:Listen, if Coward said may not get in the end zone, may not get into the red zone against the Kansas City Chiefs. Now, to be fair, they did score a couple touchdowns

26:33Big Cat:where they didn't get into the red zone. That's true. From beyond the 20-yard line.

26:36PFT Commenter:They did have a long touchdown, but they also had a field goal where they got in the red zone.

26:39Big Cat:That's true.

26:39PFT Commenter:But yeah, that is our winner for take of the year. That is so, so abysmally bad.

26:44Big Cat:And I love Colin. Yeah. I do. But this is an honor, Colin.

26:47PFT Commenter:I hope you appreciate it. Yeah. Come collect your takey in person. He's got to be double digits. Oh, yeah. He's definitely won a lot of takey. Yeah. He's got a lot of hardware. Yeah. All right. Next up, PFT.

26:58Big Cat:Okay. So we have the Just Log Off of the Year Award. I believe we started this a couple years ago. Relatively new addition to the takeys. And the nominees for Just Log Off of the Year are RG3 for his ongoing feud against Ryan Clark.

27:13PFT Commenter:Ooh, that one's a spicy one.

27:16Big Cat:RG3 for deep-throating the croissant at the Olympics. Yep.

27:21PFT Commenter:That was... We were shocked when we were putting together the take-ings that happened this year.

27:25Big Cat:Yeah, that felt like it was a while ago. And the final nominee for Just Log Off of the Year Award, RG3 for his post regarding Angel Reese, where he posted an image that nobody had seen for the world to see, and then said that Angel Reese's inner circle was contacting him to discuss how she's jealous about Caitlin Clark while he asked people not to bully Angel Reese. Okay. Three great nominees this year. Who's going to win? The winner of the 2025 Takey for Just Log Off of the Year Award is RG3. Wow. And it was a tie for all three of them. Oh. It was a tie. So great all-around performance, historical year, big numbers.

28:07Big Cat:We might not ever see him again. Just put the phone down once in a while. I actually think we will.

28:12PFT Commenter:Yeah, we will. Do you think that he, like, at any point is like, hey, maybe I should just chill out?

28:17Big Cat:No. Just log off? No. Twitter.com. I live for this. Okay. That's RG3. He likes the interactions. I think sometimes he pokes the hornet's nest, and he enjoys the swarm.

28:28PFT Commenter:Okay. RG3 with the second take he given away today. All right. We have next up, bet of the year. Very important category. we actually should go through our history of the takeies and see how many different awards we've done because we have some repeats but we have a ton that are just we have a list yeah we do it's like a hundred fifty

28:51Big Cat:anyone can be nominated for anything I woke up in the middle of the night last night in a cold sweat panicking because we are not doing southern or the other this year I was like oh shit we forgot that one

29:01PFT Commenter:but that makes it more illustrious that you don't you don't know when what year your

29:05Big Cat:award may come up right like if you're doing the oscars and there are no good movies right you could just be like we're just going to do best best uh cinematography we'll do best costume design we're

29:16PFT Commenter:not doing best picture you all suck yeah it's there should be like you should be able to change it year to year and there should be an award like it was an okay movie of the year yeah there were

29:24Big Cat:no good documentaries this year so we will not be giving that award out yeah movie i'd like to most

29:28PFT Commenter:jerk off to that's now that's an award that should be an oscar award get behind yeah swordfish that's good call uh all right bet of the year we have some really good nominees we have uh first off the k-state burrito guy who tweeted if k-state loses to byu i'll shove a beefy five layer burrito up my ass byu won the game 38 to 9 and then he went on to shove the burrito up his ass and byu tweeted Liv Moss with their final score.

30:00Big Cat:That's fourth meal.

30:02PFT Commenter:We have next up the FSU poop guy who really set the tone for bets of the year this year when he said that if Florida State loses to Boston College this weekend, I will eat dog shit out of a red solo cup with a spoon and post a video of me doing it. Book it. Florida State lost 28-13 to Boston College. He did not. He actually deleted his account. He's a coward. is a fraud we should never forget it was a disgrace he ruined Florida State season yep uh next up we have the Travis Hunter Heisman bet by all of us good job good job yep good job nominee great bet uh we also have Hank saying he could dunk this was a good bet well define good I got in good shape okay uh well actually that's funny because the next nominee is Hank saying he'd have a six pack this was old you've been saying it a lot i almost had a six pack at one point dunk bet okay and then finally hank saying he could out drive pft this was a bad bet this was a really bad bet really dumb you kind of bullied me into it and it was i regretted it every day

31:08Big Cat:ever since it was on the heels of losing the dunk bet and you had to you had to try to reclaim your masculinity at that point yeah i understand you're under pressure okay but hey eight yards Not bad. Could have been a lot worse. Could have been a lot worse. Good bet.

31:20PFT Commenter:All right. Bet of the year. The winner is K-State Burrito guy. He shoved a full five-layer burrito up his ass. He wins the takey for bet of the year. Salute to that guy.

31:32Big Cat:Great follow-through on his part.

31:34PFT Commenter:I remember seeing it, and I was like, wow, he did it. Okay. I don't know if we actually wanted this, but okay.

31:39Big Cat:Yeah. When you crap out a seven-layer burrito, or what was it, five-layer? Five-layer. Five-layer that you shove up your ass, does it look different than if you had eaten it? Oh, I don't know. I feel like it's probably pretty similar.

31:48PFT Commenter:This, though, this is the bet of the year because it was right off the heels of the FSU poop guy, and he basically was like, this is how it's done. At K-State, we shove food up our ass when we say we're going to win a game and then lose that game. E-Maw. Yeah. Every man a wildcat. All right. Next up, PFT.

32:05Big Cat:Our fourth award of the night is a very special one. It is the 17th best quarterback of the year award. 17th best quarterback in the NFL. and last year who won uh Dak Prescott Dak Prescott won the 17th best quarterback of the year award uh he is nominated again and the nominees for the 17th best quarterback of the year of 2025 are Geno Smith Dak Prescott Daniel Jones Joe Flacco Kyler Murray Bryce Young Tua and Sam Darnold Great pack. Great pack of nominees this year. And we have a special video for the 17th Best Quarterback of the Year Award.

32:50PFT Commenter:Excited for this. Excited for this. I heard AFC and Max talking about takeies. Yeah. College football top personality. What do you beat out Andy Staples? Dave's not weighing it. No Cornelli. Ben Cattarelli impressed. This is a bit. What are you doing? You won. Take it's number one. Have you been sitting here? I only said myself. I overheard Max and PFT talking 17 minutes ago. Why don't you know 17 minutes? TJ, do you agree he's been weird? I feel like my mom has always been kind of weird. I guess speaking of 17, Dak Prescott finished 8th in the 17th Best Quarterback Award takey. So that's pretty cool.

33:43PFT Commenter:what are you doing? why are you telling me there was also the takings? because I'm an informant and I support you I look out for you how long have you been here? no, no, no

33:57PFT Commenter:December 2023 you've been my greatest ally you've never informed me of anything before that's untrue last week I gave you roughness info that's just because I was ignoring the group chat yeah I tell you things here and there He didn't announce the winner

34:16Big Cat:He didn't announce the winner That was quite a conversation It was a nice peek behind the scenes And for everybody that says Brandon Walker He's different, he plays a character when he's on the air I think that's a pretty good conclusion That he's not But the winner of the 17th best quarterback of the year Is Geno Smith Oh Geno Smith Let's go Congrats. Dak did finish in eighth place. Okay. Eighth place. So something should be worth for next year.

34:42PFT Commenter:Very close. Okay. Next up. Congratulations, Geno Smith. Next up, we have the Can't Win the Big One of the Year Award. I said that wrong. Can't win the big one. No, it's the Can't Win the Big One Award of the Year. Award of the Year. The nominees are Caitlin Clark. Can't win the big one. Can't win the big one. Patrick Mahomes. Didn't win the big one. If we're doing this year, he can't win the big one. What have you done for me lately? Connor McDavid has not been able to win the big one. Sadly. And Arch Manning, Texas quarterback.

35:19Big Cat:Yeah. Did you see that his grandfather signs all his texts to him? Archie? Oh. After every text that he writes? That's cute. I thought that was nice.

35:26PFT Commenter:That's very cute. We have a guest presenter for the Can't Win the Big One of the Year Award. Max, can we bring in our guest presenter?

35:39It's time for the takeies. And I'm here to announce a big award for Big Cat, you know. And it's the award for choking in a big game. Choking on the spotlight. Yes, that's right. The guy who can't win the big one. Woo! Is this slam poetry? You know, you just can't win a big one. Best player, but can't win the big one. Great a regular season, but can't win the big one. I booked him on camera. And there's only one person that could be.

36:17Big Cat:Connor McDavid. Oh, Connor. Connor, Connor.

36:24Always the bridesmaid, but never the bride. As he watched the Panthers once again go for a victory ride. as Lord Stanley continues to bask in the sun of Florida. And the Oilers just wallow, wallow, wallow. Ah, yes, Conor McDavid. Once again, he can't win the big one. And Whit, oh well.

36:55PFT Commenter:Just think, Whit wins no matter what. One of his teams wins the Stanley Cup. I know he liked being in Edmonton, what did he like being in Florida? But... Connor McDavid just can't win the big one. And he gets to takey. Well, that's something he got. He won the takey. Yeah. But he can't. Big one. Way to go, Connor. Way to go. A couple things. Thank you to Frank. I booked that cameo. You can go book Frank the Tank on Cameo. I was able to secure that. I just thought of the idea. we should we should this might be mean but like what if we did a hidden camera and we rewired frank's house for the clap on clap off lights that would be such a good prank yeah because yeah put it to his blender uh also for this award uh it's groundhog's day because he did win this last year and it's also groundhog's day because for two years in a row i asked our good friend ryan whitney to be the guest presenter and he declined to the point where i actually called him and i was like hey i have a favor to ask for you and i asked him and he was like dude you asked me this last year i said no i was like oh fuck yeah i just forgot he just keeps not winning

38:10Big Cat:the big one well this is a big one but it's not the big one yeah right so he can't win the big maybe until he gets traded maybe until he's a free agent and he signs with an american team yeah maybe then he'll be able to win the big one yeah uh whitney did say that if they don't get to

38:24PFT Commenter:the finals next year he will uh he will guest present for the can't win the big one award

38:29Big Cat:If they don't even get to the finals.

38:30PFT Commenter:They don't get to the finals. I mean, they're going to get to the finals again. They might. They might. They might not. Okay. We ready for our next award? Yeah, let's do it. We might have someone on who can actually accept this award.

38:42Big Cat:So this is a very special new award, never given out before in the history of Part of My Take. It is the Part of My Take Citizen of the Year Award. And this is maybe the biggest honor that we give out. Yes. Because it means that you've gone above and beyond as a citizen. and we have some great nominees. We have Paul Bissonette, our great friend, for taking the defense of all the staff at the restaurant, getting into a fight with the Irish Travelers, and kind of getting boot-fucked in the face outside of CVS.

39:13PFT Commenter:Yep.

39:13Big Cat:We have Steph Curry, nominated for Citizen of the Year, for his performance in the Olympics, delivering the gold medal to the United States of America in the gold medal game. Yep. Great game. Good job, Steph. we have bonnie blue nominated for a citizen of the year why i'm not sure that was not my addition to the nominee list okay but she's she's made a lot of people very happy yep it's about community service yeah yeah she serves the community it's c-u-m-m-m-i-t-i-t-i service we have the saints defense has been nominated for citizen of the year for giving mike evans 10 more yards on the last catch of the season oh wow and letting him continue the streak of thousand yard seasons okay okay a lot good nominees and this year the citizen of the year award goes to our dear dear friend

40:03PFT Commenter:paul bissonette yes let's let him in we have paul bissonette here thank you for your service paul

40:13congratulations i didn't realize it was this intense we have paul bissonette here he is one

40:18PFT Commenter:citizen of the year uh congratulations paul you are a citizen of the year for the 2025 takeies well you know but you mentioned yesterday via text i thought that was going to happen and you gave it to me originally i didn't realize you guys had a annual award show for it yep and i remember like gambling it away remember i was trying to like promote gambling which i suck at and i put it on the i believe that norderdame fighting irish qb to pass for a certain amount of touchdowns, a certain amount of yards. I think it was a three-leg parlay, and I don't think one of them hit. So I completely mushed the Fighting Irish.

40:53So I thought I actually lost Citizen of the Year. No. I love my hands. Gave it right back to you. Yeah. Okay. Despite my horrible gambling efforts and trying to draw attention to DraftKings, I still get to retain the award. So do I have to give a speech? Oh, yeah.

41:09PFT Commenter:Speech. Please, please, please. I just thank the people at Barstool, man. What a company to work for. Just, yeah, I'm just grateful to be a part of this crazy pirate ship. Obviously, you guys included. And, yeah, I'll dedicate it back to Barstool. What about the people of Houston's? Yeah, what about the people of Houston's to find staff, find family establishment? Well, that's a given. I thought I said that very clearly in my post-game comments when we do the officer body cams, where I fully tire pumped the staff and saying it's one of the best restaurant establishments on the planet as far as like price point consistency the way they they handled efforts people told me that I was wrong and saying it was like uh like military like yeah or did I

41:59Big Cat:know it was I think you said militaristic but I think you're referring to their discipline the discipline yeah and and I just marvel at it and it's why I frequent there and especially at the end of playoffs when i was like completely gassed like going 10 months the full season where the last thing i want to do is cook or do groceries like guys i was going there like nine times a week yeah i think i have i think i have a houston's addiction well yeah you stop going there then you got gout what does that teach you so i would always get the steak there the filet i would do the traditional salad and then and then follow it up with the filet with the potato calcone or sometimes the baked potato sometimes i'd go to the rice if it wasn't a certain time where they made the calcone or baked potato available i think that's before five o 'clock but yeah what a speech but but but going back to it i think there were other elements that were um uh hurting my gout uh i read something recently that like glucose intake has a lot to do with it where i don't drink alcohol anymore but like my treat is i drink uh pops maybe a couple pops a day and i was shocked though that you know even at 40 i wouldn't be able to do at least a couple coca-colas people told me to go to diet coke i fucking hate diet coke so but i've i've cut out pop i've cut out a lot of sodium intake and uh i think it just kind of brings it all back to houston's they saved my life yeah i think you're my life i i admire how the links that you're willing to go to to say that it's not the two steaks a day that cause the gout it's got to be something else yeah well i've been threatened by the the carnivore society yeah if i if i blame it on red meat that's a bad society to get threatened i'll have a fucking red dot on my forehead if i blame the red meat that way i'll get sniped i'm in jackson wyoming right now the last thing i'm gonna do is blame steak or any type of uh red meat to blame for anything that's smart they're hardcore out here.

43:57PFT Commenter:That's smart. Well, Biz, Citizen of the Year, incredible title. You mentioned at the beginning here you've never seen a take-ies. You didn't know we were doing this every year. This is our ninth annual take-ies. Do you want to stick around for just one more award just so you can see how it goes? I would love to. I was also going to ask you guys quickly, though, you got to go to that golf tournament in Tahoe. That must have been an unreal experience. Shout out to Joe Pavelski. Yes. He's a hockey player. He's a Wisconsin badger. One of the most well-liked guys to play the game. And I would probably say top 10 who never won a Stanley Cup where people even from other teams who are rude of other teams would say, ah, I wish Pavelski would have got one.

44:42I wish Joe Thornton would have got one. Ovi would have been on that list if he wouldn't have won one, but he did.

44:49PFT Commenter:Maybe next year we'll do a takey for giving away a Stanley Cup. That's very nice.

44:54Big Cat:Yeah. Yeah, that's great, Paul. I also think it was a big win for the NHL over the NBA to have Pavelski beat Steph Curry. Yes. That's huge for the sport. Big time. Hockey's on the rise, man. Hockey's on the rise. It's on the rise. Hockey's on a heater, as we always say on the podcast, the last two years. And on top of that, boys, we're heading into an Olympic year. Yep. Yes. Four nations nonsense, whole body. Nonsense, yeah. Stakes are going to be high.

45:19PFT Commenter:Yeah, they are. All right, so Biz, you're going to stick around for this next award. Can you maybe do whatever the award ends up being? Can you do an acceptance speech for that? Because that was such a great acceptance speech for the season of the year. All right, great. All right, so the next award is Exhibition Win of the Year. So this is who had the best win in an exhibition game that ultimately did not matter. One that was just kind of for fun. Yeah. Laughs.

45:42Big Cat:Yeah. Nobody took too soon. Who the fuck cares? Right. No one remembers it. I don't even remember an exhibition game.

45:47PFT Commenter:Right. So we want to let everyone know, hey, this was the best exhibition win. It doesn't really matter at all, but we're giving it a takey. All right. So the nominees are Shaq OGs in the NBA All-Star Game. Huge win for Shaq OGs.

46:03Big Cat:What an exciting game that was. Who could forget? I think there were four teams, and they emerged the champion. I mean, it's like March Madness, but for the NBA, it was an incredible experience, and I think we all remember where we were when Shaq's OGs won. What was the final score? No, no. Don't care. Geez, isn't that an important detail about this award? Well, this is the exhibition of the year.

46:24PFT Commenter:It's the game that literally does not matter. Okay. Yeah. You guys also said that about the Four Nations. Okay, so here we go. Next up, we have Team Manning in the Pro Bowl. Team Manning won the Pro Bowl. I don't know which Manning it was. If it was Peyton or Eli. Yeah, I see what's happening. I think it was Cooper. Next up, we have Mexico versus U.S. Mexico won that game in the CONCACAF final exhibition of the year. And then finally, the last nominee is Team Canada in the Four Nations. And the winner is Team Canada in the Four Nations. That was a great exhibition match. All right, and Bish, you promised that you'd do an acceptance speech, so accept the award of Exhibition of the Year for Team Canada.

47:03I actually was, I kind of was ahead of the answer. Yeah, you did. You saw it coming. You caught on after Team Manning, you caught on. That might have been the smartest thing that's ever happened. Like Holy fuck Do I get the Biz Idiot title removed? No No, because you accepted this No, no, no, no, no When you got Matthew and Brady Kachuk And, you know And all the guys on that team Starting fights in a round-robin game Exhibition It ain't exhibition anymore That was a different game It ain't a fucking exhibition It's literally Don't tell me how to fuck my wife Exhibition win of the year Tell me how to fuck my wife.

47:44I'll tell you whether it's exhibition or not. Okay. That was a win for Canada and a precursor to the Olympics coming up. It ain't the Olympics. We all know that. But don't act like they weren't playing for something. They were playing for pride.

47:57PFT Commenter:They were playing for exhibition win of the year, which they got. So accept the award. Do you accept?

48:05PFT Commenter:I decline. No. I decline. I decline. Biz Idiot is gone. This idiot is gone. I declined. He's dead.

48:14Big Cat:So by declining that award, you're admitting that Connor McDavid can't win the big one. Because you just said, I'm not accepting it, blah, blah, blah. It's not a big one. No. Double jab. Can I have a phone a friend here? No. Which one do you want? Can I get a phone a friend? We're trying to do a really nice thing by acknowledging the beautiful, beautiful state of Canada. Phone a friend. Go ahead. Should I call Connor McDavid, even though he would never answer? Should I just call? You try. He's like, oh, I thought I had your number blocked. His agent doesn't know, Judd, so I'll have to go through him.

48:50I do not accept your – whatever your – what do you say when you're spouting off? Talking? Anyway, everything you're saying, saying he can't win the big one, screw you. You guys jam me up, all right? Jam me up. And if I could have a phone a friend, it would actually be Oldie. Yeah. Who was kind of brought into the whole fold during all this and who supplied me. Call him. Go ahead.

49:15PFT Commenter:Give him a call. You can call him right now. Call Oldie? Yeah. Do you have his phone? Do you have your phone? Yeah. Let's see. All right.

49:23Big Cat:I mean, it was an exhibition match for his nuts.

49:26PFT Commenter:All you have to say, though, you have to say, Oldie, should we accept the exhibition win of the year takey or not? Okay. that's all you gotta say Biz is getting smart I don't have his number stored which is shocking so I have to go find it back in text oh here I know how to find it I'll type it in my search bar let go

49:51PFT Commenter:busy busy busy busy do you have his number yeah I'll send it to you right now

49:57Big Cat:I bet if you search busy I bet it comes up

49:59PFT Commenter:it's probably gonna be the first result gotta go Oh, he supplied me with all my weed at the Ryder Cup. Oh, my God, dude. I couldn't even fucking think straight there. Okay, you're right. It was busy, busy. Oh, no. No, that's not it. I just said it to you. Okay, thank you. Thank you for your patience. And what's the question? Do you accept the exhibition of the win of the year take on behalf of Canada? All right.

50:33Hey! Oldie. Oldie, it's Biz. So I'm being presented an award right now on behalf of Canada. I have to accept on behalf of Canada. Keep in mind, this may or may not be a trap, okay? Just keep that in mind before I ask it. Would you accept an exhibition win of the year on behalf of Canada in the Four Nations Tournament?

51:02an exhibition win yes exhibition win of the year if you were get if you were being offered that award would you accept on behalf of canada or would you decline i think you gotta say yes

51:16PFT Commenter:on that yep pump the boys wheels gotta go busy busy no i don't know or what do you say do you say no i think you say yes you gotta go you gotta say i know but you gotta go but okay so i don't even know I did. Because I declined because I feel like they're trying to discredit the victory that Canada had by calling it exhibition. It wasn't exhibition. The boys were playing for keeps. So fuck you. We were playing for keeps. This is not an exhibition. I'm declining. Oh, an exhibition game. Oh, yeah. No, no, no, no, no. It wasn't an all-star game. It wasn't an all-star game. It was a four-nations cup that four competitive hockey teams played to their best ability.

51:57and that Team Canada won the Four Nations Cup. That's what that was. It was not an exhibition. It was not an exhibition. No, no, no, no. I thought they were saying, like, give a little grief, a little award for this. No, I don't think so at all. I agree with you. And thank you for being the... That's off the rocker, Paul. That's off the rocker, Paul. So on behalf of all the... I'm excited because I sent an award. I just heard an award. I've never got an award. I've seen everyone in my life get awards around me. My entire life. I'm not an award guy. That's why I asked if I could phone a friend, and you were the second person I thought of.

52:29Who did I say originally? Connor McDavid. Oh, I said Connor McDavid, but I knew that he wouldn't answer. Yeah, you can't be doing that. I was just literally cleaning the cabin air filter in my little whip here, Honda. And all of a sudden, my daughter's at my youngest. She's like, yeah, Dad, your phone's ringing. I said, okay. She's like, okay, I'll answer it. I'm going to see who it is. And I said, who is it anyway? Who's cooking with it? She goes, it's Biz. and I said, gotta go. Pass the phone. You're not answering this when I go. Alright, well, I love you too, buddy. Great seeing you at the Ryder Cup.

53:02I couldn't fucking see straight for a few days. I don't know what you brought over there. We were hitting straight gas, but I appreciate you, brother. Whenever the boys buzzed over there for the barn for us, going for the little mission for us, so that was beauty, but yeah, that was an absolute light show. That was a good rip and a half. It's always good during the day, but it's even better at night just hanging with the boys, real deal. talking it out, having a glass of voice, bumping and grinding, right? That's what it's about, buddy. Bumping and grinding, baby. I love you. Good to see you, Biz.

53:28Good to see you, buddy. Love you.

53:29PFT Commenter:You all got to go busy, busy. Love you, buddy. Cheers. Love you. All right, anytime, buddy. I got you. I got you everything. All right, so. So we declined. We declined. All right, so that was perfect because that was Canada's two greatest minds coming together. Trying to work out a puzzle. Trying to work out a two-piece puzzle. To figure out if they should accept the exhibition of the year award or not.

53:48Big Cat:Biz, what do you call it in the NHL when it's like halfway through the season and you take a week off before you get back for the second half and the playoff push? What's that called? Oh, just, I mean, like all-star break. Oh, so it was the all-star game. Okay, so it was the all-star game. Gotcha. Okay. No, they canceled that, and then now they replaced it. And then now they actually canceled next year's in Long Island, and then that's why people think that the Islanders got the first overall pick as like a sorry because I think that was part of the agreement. for them to take state-funded money to help build the arena.

54:22So I love a tinfoil hat conspiracy just as much as the next guy. So shout-out to Matthew Schaefer and the Islanders, man. He was on our podcast. The kid carved me for 45 minutes. Yeah, he was great. He was great. I don't think you need a nose job. Frankie Borelli and the Islanders, I might hop on the wagon with the fishermen.

54:41PFT Commenter:All right, Biz, thank you. Official scoring. He has accepted citizen of the year. his declined exhibition win of the year. Appreciate you. We love you. And congrats on Citizen of the Year. Love you, boys. That was awesome. Okay, what an award that was. I mean... Very un-Canadian to decline an award. So we have the official scoring and Citizen of the Year award has been accepted and the exhibition win of the year award has been declined, but we are giving it to Canada, so it will just stay out in the open. I guess we'll keep it.

55:12Big Cat:Hang on to it for them.

55:13PFT Commenter:Oh, yeah. So did we win Four Nations? Yeah, congratulations. to us all right that was so funny just biz and oldie like they i i could watch them we got to

55:24Big Cat:get them in an escape room a reality show together holy shit yeah they uh if they were on talking it out if they were on amazing race together trying to navigate their way across like florida oldie

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56:37Big Cat:Okay, PFT, are you up? I am, yes. Another award. We have the I Can't Believe They Put All That In Their Mouth of the Year Award. Okay. Big year for mouths.

56:46PFT Commenter:That's huge.

56:47Big Cat:First nominee is, again, Bonnie Blue has been nominated again. Joining her is Lily Phillips, Joey Chestnut, and RG3 for the croissant.

57:00PFT Commenter:For the croissant.

57:01Big Cat:RG3 already bringing home some hardware tonight. We'll see if he can make it two trophies in his case. and the winner of the I Can't Believe They Put All That in Their Mouth of the Year Award is RG3, Robert Griffin III.

57:13PFT Commenter:Congratulations.

57:14Big Cat:Just enjoying a nice croissant on the balcony with his lovely wife Greta.

57:18PFT Commenter:Still an outrage. I think if we look back at that picture, it's the cupping of the croissant's balls.

57:25Big Cat:It's the cupping. It's the passion in his eyes too.

57:28PFT Commenter:Yeah, the mouthful, the cupping. It's everything. He felt it. He felt it. So he is the winner for his second takey today.

57:36Big Cat:Second takey. Big winner of the day so far. Damn. RG3.

57:39PFT Commenter:Okay. Next up, the ninth award. Jordan of the year. This is a.

57:44Big Cat:Anyone's game.

57:45PFT Commenter:Anyone's game. Some very big names in this one. First up, we have Jordan Spieth. He's still out there playing golf. He is. He's swinging it. Yeah. Next up, we have Jordan. Bill Belichick's Jordan. Jordan Hudson. Jordan Hudson. Jordan Belichick. Jordan Belichick. Next up nominee, Jordan Davis won a Super Bowl. He did. Won a Super Bowl. Big boy. Good season. Big boy. And then finally, Jordan Schultz for breaking news and also maybe fighting Ian Rapport.

58:18Big Cat:That was such a funny interaction outside the Starbucks, nonetheless.

58:21PFT Commenter:Yes. Okay. The winner of Jordan of the year goes to Jordan Belichick. Wow. Our queen. That's not her last name. That is her last name. That's not her last name.

58:33Big Cat:I did see a picture of Bill's hands, and he's wearing a ring. He's got a ring on. On his finger. He's got a ring on there. He does.

58:41PFT Commenter:That's not her last name. The punch buggy clip. I saw that. Yeah. Jordan Belichick, our queen, going to take UNC football to new heights. I'm so excited for what happens this season. Oh, my God. She's a shining star.

58:56Big Cat:Do you think that before the end of Belichick's tenure at UNC, she will try to launch a shit coin for Bill Belichick. No.

59:05PFT Commenter:If she does, please make it Jordan of the Year. Yes. And I'll buy it. Let me know before. Will Rug pull the shit out of that? Mm-hmm. Okay, PFT, you have an award up.

59:15Big Cat:Yes, the next award is the Heisman of the Year Award. Okay. The Heisman of the Year Award, and we have a special guest presenter as well. The nominees are Travis Hunter.

59:26PFT Commenter:Ooh, he won a Heisman, did he not?

59:28Big Cat:He did win the Heisman Trophy. Okay. Ashton Jinty. Great season from the running back from Boise State. Excited to see what he does in the NFL. More than deserving of Heisman. More than deserving.

59:39PFT Commenter:More than deserving.

59:40Big Cat:C.J. Kirst from the Water Dogs.

59:43PFT Commenter:Oh, yeah. He won whatever the Heisman is for lacrosse.

59:47Big Cat:Lacrosse Heisman, yes. The Rabel. The Rabel. The Paul Rabel. Also nominated, Dylan Gabriel. Great season from Dylan.

59:55PFT Commenter:Great season for the Ducks.

59:56Big Cat:And also nominated for Heisman of the Year, O.J. Simpson. Ah Heisman winner And Heisman loser

1:00:02PFT Commenter:And yes

1:00:03Big Cat:And then winner again And then winner again That was Reggie Bush Oh yeah yeah He tried to steal it He tried to steal it I think he was Heisman winner Heisman loser Heisman thiever

1:00:15PFT Commenter:Temporarily winner Because he had it back Probably for a minute Before he got arrested

1:00:18Big Cat:He cared so much About the Heisman trope He went to jail For the Heisman trope For the Heisman Yeah For nothing else Nothing else That's it

1:00:24PFT Commenter:Yeah

1:00:25Big Cat:Hank Yes We have a guest presenter We do have a guest presenter For this Okay, let's see who it is. Ready, it's hot! Oh, what's up? Very excited to be announcing the Takey Award for Heisman of the Year. A lot of great nominees this year, guys. And look, I myself, not a Heisman winner, but I did play against a Heismaner. That's right. Cam Newton, the best football player I've ever seen live. The Frieza of college football. Stiff arm, Pat P, in the way to the end zone and winning a Heisman. But this year, it's about one man. And I'm proud to announce that the takey for Heisman of the Year is Ashton Gentry.

1:01:06PFT Commenter:Wow! Wow! Ashton Gentry!

1:01:10Big Cat:I mean, the stuff that he did as a running back at a mid-major, it was incredible for a group of five guy to show that much flash, that much burst. We've never seen a running back like him in the history of the sport of college football.

1:01:22PFT Commenter:And I think that more than anything, I'm happy for Boise State fans. they should be celebrating this in the streets of Boise because this is a huge, huge accomplishment for the program. They now officially have a Heisman of the Year takey.

1:01:37Big Cat:That's so cool. So they got the Low Man of the Year Award. Yep. And they also got the Heisman of the Year Award. They don't have much room left for all these trophies. This is incredible. Great season from Ashton. Great season from Boise State. The most deserving on this list of the Heisman of the Year Award.

1:01:51PFT Commenter:Heisman of the Year. Okay, next up, we have a new, this is a new takey. It is Innocent Person of the Year. A lot of people on trial this year. A lot of exonerations. Exonerated. First up, Karen Reed. Yeah. Innocent. Yep. Jeff Nadu, who was accused of being on a no-fly list. He can fly. Innocent. Josh Bartlestein, the son's exec. Innocent. Maybe innocent. Maybe innocent. Diddy. Thank you. Possibly not guilty on three charges. On three charges. Yeah. Jeffrey Epstein. Completely innocent. Totally exonerated. Can we stop talking about this guy?

1:02:31Big Cat:Young thug. Innocent-ish. Innocent-ish. Innocent, not allowed in Atlanta. Go ahead, Zach.

1:02:38PFT Commenter:Completely innocent. Completely innocent. Completely innocent. Okay, the winner for Innocent Person of the Year goes to Jeffrey Epstein. Wow. Everyone, please drop it. Also in memoriam. in memoriam but also everyone just please drop it we can i don't know why we made a big deal of it let's move on hey gals boys what's up in many cases gals yeah we're just listen we're moving on he's the man who who won't die yeah we yeah did people obsess about it for a lot of years and then

1:03:07Big Cat:one day we just said we had to drop it yeah maybe and was the video that was uploaded and sent to the media was that edited several times and then re-saved and put in adobe premiere and then re-saved and then Sonata's raw footage. Who's to say? Who's to say?

1:03:21PFT Commenter:That's actually the sign of an innocent man.

1:03:23Big Cat:I'm not an expert.

1:03:24PFT Commenter:Yeah. So Jeffrey Epstein, Innocent Man of the Year or Person of the Year. All right, next up, PFT. This is a big one.

1:03:31Big Cat:This is a big award. This is a really big award. Every year we do this award and we take it very seriously in part of my take. It is the Lib of the Year Award for excellence in living. We've got big nominees. first nominee jack mack oh having a great sit down with harry sisson talking through some things

1:03:55PFT Commenter:platforming them we should give him a lifetime i do love jack mack unpack with jack mack he that's

1:04:00Big Cat:my number one news source yep but he is a lib it was it was a uh excellent moment in livery yep kyle long yeah nominated for lib of the year many time winner many time chris long nominated for Chris Long. Lifetime Achievement in Lib. In Lib. Kamala Harris nominated for Lib of the Year.

1:04:24PFT Commenter:Kamala.

1:04:24Big Cat:Kamala. And Jersey Jerry nominated for Lib of the Year. He met with a would-be Pfizer executive to do an ad. Yes. That would maybe, may or not have been set up by us as a fake Pfizer executive to see if he would do the ad, which he agreed to. He has also been discussing immigration more Changed his stance on immigration Completely flipped on immigration Very welcoming to immigrants Law-abiding immigrants Who have not been accused of violent crimes Thinks that they should stay in America

1:04:55PFT Commenter:Also drives a minivan And when I say drives, his girlfriend drives him in the minivan He sits in the backseat How progressive Oh, that's him in the minivan right now

1:05:05Big Cat:We got him in the minivan And it's a foreign minivan too So wait, who's the winner? Well, we have a very, very, very special guest presenter for Lib of the Year Award. Let's bring him on. Hey, Jersey Jerry, I have the honor of congratulating you on not just winning Lib of the Year, but defending your title as Lib of the Year because this is the second year in a row. And the takeies are right.

1:05:30PFT Commenter:You have earned this from your evolving perspective on immigration to being open to the idea that vaccines actually work. I want you to really relish this moment. You know, your commitment, your passion to being a Lib right alongside your fidelity to Mitch Trubisky or your commitment to losing wacky sports bets over and over again really captured the spirit of being the Lib of the year. And I'm looking for you to make a three-peat. So we'll talk again a year from now. Wow. Mayor Pete. Actually, Mayor Pete. Buttigieg. Secretary Pete. Incredible. your hero jerry jerry congratulations lib of the year you know dan you you know you just know how to ruin a great day what you just tj walk up hey tj walk up hey oh okay congratulations really good and you and listen big win for organized labor yeah and you you would be more than happy to make sure that tj watt pays a lot of taxes yeah yeah yeah listen let's cut the bullshit with these awards okay where's my cash price where's the 20 ,000 I was promised last year

1:06:39Big Cat:I don't remember that

1:06:41PFT Commenter:maybe we do this year taxes yeah yeah this year's 40 then wait but no last year you said that you would take your $20 ,000 and you wanted us to donate to Kamala's campaign which we did in your name oh yeah I forgot about that Dan yep listen bro listen these fucking tankies you too They're fake awards They're not real

1:07:08Big Cat:What makes an award not real? Do people ever say anything to you outside in public? Yes they do So then it's real And people should keep saying Where's my plaque? I want a plaque then

1:07:20PFT Commenter:Done we will make you a plaque That's the easiest thing ever Bumper sticker We'll get you a bumper sticker for the band Please everyone tweet at Jersey Jerry Congratulate him if you see him in person He is the two-time Lib of the Year winner. Congrats, Jerry. Congrats, Peter Buttigieg.

1:07:36Big Cat:Yeah, hero. Do you have anything to say to Mayor Pete? He had some very nice things to say about you. I don't doubt one word for that guy.

1:07:43PFT Commenter:Okay, because you're out of words. Speechless. Emotional. Speechless. Seeing him makes you speechless. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Broke down inside. Yep. I'm a hero. Jerry, I got a question. As Lib of the Year, two-time Lib of the Year winner, congratulations again. are you zooming in from your minivan?

1:08:05PFT Commenter:It is still mine, correct. Yes, I made a different purchase, correct. Okay. But it's still mine. All right, and I can see you're in the back seat because your girlfriend's driving in the front seat.

1:08:14Big Cat:Are we done, Dan? Are we done? Are we done? And Jerry, where was that car made? Korea, right? Yeah. Okay, yeah, foreign.

1:08:24PFT Commenter:Yeah, import. Yeah. Nice. Yeah, you really believe it. Who was up in the running with me? Was there anybody else who was just like, let's give it to Jerry again? No, it was Kamala, Jack Mack, Chris Long.

1:08:41PFT Commenter:Okay. I don't know how I beat Kamala, but okay. She lost. You didn't lose. The fight goes on with you. So how many years are we going to do this in a row, Dan?

1:08:54Big Cat:Yeah, we should make a bumper sticker that's, I'm with Jer. with the arrow pointing forward. Yeah, I love that.

1:09:01PFT Commenter:I love that. Congratulations, Jerry. Thank you guys for the award, and I'll carry it with dignity and honor. Love it. Thank you, Jerry. Appreciate it. What a beautiful moment. You can tell that meant a lot to him. Yeah, Jersey Jerry, Lib of the Year, back-to-back champ. Incredible.

1:09:20Big Cat:You can tell it's a big Lib award. Right when he got it, he was like, well, let me get some money from you. Let me get some of that money from you.

1:09:26PFT Commenter:Yeah, give me the money. Give me the money. But yeah, incredible job by Jerry. He's done it again.

1:09:31Big Cat:He's done it again. I'm excited to see what he has in store for next year.

1:09:33PFT Commenter:Okay, next up we have a Ratio of the Year award. By the way, to the panel, I think this should be Ratio of the Year award in name of Shane Dawson because he is still the number one ratio. If you don't remember, this was, what, 10 years ago, six years ago? He won Ratio of the Year because he tweeted, I didn't fuck my cat. I didn't come on my cat. I didn't put my dick anywhere near my cat. I've never done anything weird with my cats. I promised myself I wasn't going to make apology videos after last year's thing. So I'm just trying to be as short and honest with this as possible. But just in case you didn't get what I said, I did not have sex with my cat.

1:10:12PFT Commenter:The Streisand effect. Yes. He is the ratio of the year forever winner. So ratio of the year nominees. We have Representative Josh Williams from Ohio who said, I am proud to introduce the OHIO Sportsmanship Act to make flag planting at midfield a felony in the state of Ohio. Behavior that incites violent brawls and puts our law enforcement officers in danger has no place on the football field. this got 16.4 million views 32 ,000 replies uh for this this take after michigan won at the shoe

1:10:50Big Cat:and then decided to plant the flag back in the day we used to build statues of guys planting

1:10:54PFT Commenter:flags at midfield that's a fact that's a fact uh we have the hollywood reporter hollywood meet your new a-list from staggering staggeringly talented tiktokers to the instagram stars we can't look away from these are the names who will and should be dominating the business of new and old media and it's just a picture of a bunch of tiktokers i can't name any of them except i think brianna's in there maybe josh richards rizzler rizzler's not in there oh that's a bullshit list 25 000 uh retweets probably all of them quote tweets and 7 000 replies pretty good 7 000 replies uh we have uh katie perry uh when it was announced that katie perry had donated all the revenue she has made from her album 143 to the victims of the california fire uh she was quote tweeted by Liam Fennessy, the wildfire victims, and it's a clip from the hit movie Superbad, which is, I'm going to play the clip real quick.

1:11:46Are you fucking serious? Seven bucks?

1:11:50PFT Commenter:Yep. So that was a big time ratio. The quote treat ratio always hurts. Tyrese Halliburton, who Ben Stiller said to, during the Knicks Pacers series, Tyrese Halliburton said, Hallie pulled up to game six in all black fit. Ben Stiller said good thing he brought his duffel for the flight to New York for what he was alluding to his game seven. And Tyrese Halliburton said nah was to pack y 'all up. And that one ratioed the fuck out of Ben Stiller. Packed him up. Packed him up. And then finally our last nominee is Kevin Durant replying to Emmanuel Acho when Emmanuel Acho had his legacy formula. and Kevin Durant.

1:12:35PFT Commenter:So the legacy formula was championships one divided by teams played forward equals player legacy. So Steph has a 4.0. Bron has a 1.3 and Katie has a 0.4 legacy rating. Yep. Kevin Durant replied, according to the great Kevin Durant's legacy formula that was created in the best labs at MIT, Emmanuel is the worst linebacker of all time. You sure want to listen to this guy about greatness.

1:12:57Big Cat:Yeah. I think that we should have an award for equation of the year. Yeah. The legacy ratio has changed the way that Sports Talk is done.

1:13:04PFT Commenter:He had 73 ,000 likes compared to Emanuel Acho's 10 ,000 likes.

1:13:09Big Cat:Really good. Okay, and the winner is Kevin Durant.

1:13:14PFT Commenter:Yeah, good job, Katie. Kevin Durant, for his legacy formula, formulated the Kevin Durant legacy formula that was created in the best labs at MIT, and he ratioed the fuck out of Emanuel Acho.

1:13:24Big Cat:In the great words of Kevin Durant, there's no relax, champ. No relax when I'm on Twitter. I'm on 10 until the second I close the app. You relax.

1:13:32PFT Commenter:Love it. Love it. So congratulations, Kevin Durant. Please come on the show to accept your award.

1:13:36Big Cat:Next up, we have the AI Video of the Year Award. Now, some of these might be controversial because we're still not 100 % sure on if they were AI or not. The first nominee for AI Video of the Year goes to the kangaroo trying to get on the airplane. Oh! The emotional support kangaroo. I remember that one. Little Joey. Hank thought it was real. So did you. The next nominee, the whales being cleaned off by heavy machinery. Heavy machinery Heavy machinery Heaviest machinery Full on crop dusting Whales are huge So it made sense And stable Yeah

1:14:10PFT Commenter:And stable The dog

1:14:12Big Cat:Power washing of whales The dog diving video that we all saw and love Big Cat tweeted this one too

1:14:17PFT Commenter:Well I tweeted at you and said is this real

1:14:20Big Cat:The dog weight lifting video from the Olympics I did not see that live when it happened But it was an incredible display of strength from the dogs Correct And then the lady diving and sinking an entire boat has been nominated.

1:14:33PFT Commenter:She's actually been doing that a lot.

1:14:35Big Cat:It happens over and over again. If you see that lady coming, you're on your boat, you tug the other way.

1:14:39PFT Commenter:Almost every day.

1:14:40Big Cat:And Hank, we have a guest presenter for this? Very special guest presenter. Okay.

1:14:44PFT Commenter:Ooh.

1:14:44Big Cat:I alluded to it earlier in the show. Is it Mayor Pete? Nope.

1:14:48PFT Commenter:Was that AI?

1:14:49Big Cat:No, that's real. Hey, everybody. Tom Brady here, seven-time Super Bowl champ. And apparently now, take you presenter. life comes at you fast first off big shout out to my guy hank i know you're a massive fan appreciate the support over the years yep even when it borderlines on obsession and don't worry hank i'm gonna come on the show eventually right after you figure out how the internet works seriously how many times is this gonna happen man send me a text brady look at this king of rude getting on a plane hank buddy oh you text him that thing is faker than my retirement for the first time you know who else isn't getting on a plane anytime soon tiffany gomez bing bong hanky all right let's get to it the nominees for ai video of the year are the dog diving in the olympics video the kangaroo boarding the airplane video and the whale barnacle cleaning video all incredibly fake all incredibly watched by Hank multiple times and the takey goes to the whale AI video congrats to everyone who contributed to that beautifully fabricated undersea lie enjoy the rest of the takeys and Hank seriously if it's in 4k and makes you say no way it's probably not real champ

1:16:19PFT Commenter:wow thank you to tom thank you tom that's incredible incredible he's gonna come on that's really cool he texted you why haven't you asked him on text i have many times okay uh okay uh before we do the next takey award uh pft iconic summer moments deserve an iconic drink reach for mountain dew an american original from its beginnings in the foothills of tennessee to your biggest summer yet. The refreshing citrus kick of Mountain Dew is the perfect companion to your American summer adventures. Enjoy the refreshing citrus kick of Mountain Dew. Tasting great since 48. Look for Mountain Dew in stores near you at MountainDew.com.

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1:17:47PFT Commenter:That's PMT20 at checkout for$20 off your first order. Okay, next up, we're at number 15. We have the fight of the year. We had some really good fights this year. Great fights. First nominee is our good friend Paul Bissonette for his fight against the Irish Travelers in Scottsdale, Arizona. Took some, gave more. Yep. Next fight is the recent fight from Tarnaski or Taranski. Taranski. No, Tarnaski. I screwed it up.

1:18:17Big Cat:On the course.

1:18:18PFT Commenter:On the course. Bang, bang, bang. I'll put you in a lake. Also very Canadian for both those guys to go on media afterwards and apologize. It's a good Donnybrook. Yeah. We also have Jordan Schultz versus Ian Rapport, which you got the inside source on PFT. I mean, what an incredible fight between those two. It was the best. Who could forget? Yeah. Security was called. Security was called. And then finally, Mike Tyson versus Jake Paul. Remember that fight? Oh, yeah. That was awesome. I kind of remember that. It was on Netflix. Yeah, Jake Paul basically spent nine rounds being like, I don't want to hurt Mike Tyson.

1:18:52PFT Commenter:Great fight. Well-tuned in. The winner of the fight of the year for the 2025 Takey Awards is Nick Tarnaski. Yes. Congratulations. Nick bang bang walk away incredible what a fight we're so lucky to get something like that and Rob Mack was right it was it was incredible to watch it was the best it was the best okay PFT you have

1:19:19Big Cat:our next award the next award goes to the GM of the year the general manager of the year award nominees are Brick Johnson general manager of the New York Jets Nico Harris remember when he GM'd I do remember via Madden. Incredible. Nico Harrison, general manager of the Dallas Mavericks. Pulled off the trade of the year. He got the number one pick. Got the number one pick. Cooper Flagg, AD. Now I'm hearing Braun wants to go there. What an exciting movement that would be. Joe Schoen from the New York Giants.

1:19:54PFT Commenter:Ooh, yeah.

1:19:55Big Cat:For not being able to sleep at night anymore and still GMing.

1:19:58PFT Commenter:Yeah, having Saquon Barkley have a career year right in his face, right in his division, and then win a Super Bowl title.

1:20:03Big Cat:Rob Palenka. from the Los Angeles Lakers for accepting a meeting with Nico Harrison and saying, yes, please. Thank you.

1:20:11PFT Commenter:Yes.

1:20:12Big Cat:And then Joe Dumars from the new Orleans Pelicans. He's just been all around great GM. Yep. Uh, the general manager of the year for 2025 award goes to Nico Harrison. Wow. Securing the number one overall pick, Cooper flag, the future of the draft and getting rid of, uh, some guy. He wasn't that good. Yeah. I forget who it was.

1:20:32PFT Commenter:Fuck Nico Harrison, but also

1:20:35Big Cat:at the end of the year. That's how unbiased the committee is. Yeah, look how unbiased we are. I also think that Brick Johnson got hosed on this.

1:20:41PFT Commenter:He did. Should we give it to Brick Johnson? Yeah, let's give it to Brick Johnson. Yeah, Brick Johnson. Brick Johnson gets it. Fuck you, Nico Harrison. Ha ha, motherfucker. We're Brick guys. We punked you. Yeah. I can't wait to see Nico's face when he's listening to this show and he thinks he won and then he didn't.

1:20:54Big Cat:Hey, Nico, trade proposal. You get the general manager of the year award and then you have to give it back. Ha! You receive nothing. Absolutely.

1:21:03PFT Commenter:nothing. Brick Johnson deserves this. He does. I mean, whenever you can be a GM from Madden. His name is Brick Johnson. His name is Brick Johnson, and he's definitely a stoolie. Yes. 100%. Okay, next up, we have injury of the year. So this is kind of a sad one. Yep. Don't love celebrating injuries. We don't celebrate injuries.

1:21:22Big Cat:Don't root for them. We do watch them on repeat.

1:21:24PFT Commenter:Yeah, but there was a lot of injuries this year, so we need to at least talk about them. The nominees are Jason Tatum for his torn Achilles. Yeah. Any thoughts? Minor setback for a major comeback. He's already rehabbing. He's looking good, working hard. Okay. Good to hear. Tyrese Halliburton for also a torn Achilles. Any thoughts? No. Okay. Good. Well said. You're in a much better position. Yes. We had Max's ankle when he decided to walk drunk. Well, the ankle. I had an ankle and a foot. Which one was the drunk walk? The broken foot was the drunk walk. It's all the same. What was the ankle? The ankle was when I was at the AWL's bachelor party.

1:22:06Big Cat:Were you drunk? So they were both drunk walking. I could have been. Drunk walking. I was probably tipsy. I was definitely, whatever. Yeah.

1:22:14PFT Commenter:Next up, nominee. The first time I got kidney stones, the first time PFT got kidney stones, the second time PFT got kidney stones, and then the second time I got kidney stones. Is that one nominee or four? That's four nominees. Four nominees. Four nominees. Packed pairing. Yeah. We also have Hank's panic attack. Yep. Yep. Don't smoke and think, kids. Injury of the year. And then finally, we have Anthony Richardson for being tired that one time. Yep. He was very injured. Took himself out of the game. All right. We have a guest presenter for this award. So let's go to it. All right. Very excited to present the Injury of the Year Award at the Pardon My Take 2025 Takeies.

1:22:56I think this is my fourth appearance on Pardon My Take. Not quite as many as Jerry. Not enough. Jerry, but who's counting? No, I'm kidding. I love you, Jerry. I love you, Jerry. We're teammates. You're my guy, house call this fall. Check it out. But anyway, injury of the year. It's presented to Max Delente. Yeah. World Series regional runner-up. Never made it to the World Series. Might have been a little too heavy. He is what it is. Nobody's counting. He is what it is. They're just kids. He was a little kid. They're just kids. Still fat now, but it is what it is. Injury of the year. Got drunk with Jackie Tables.

1:23:26No surprise. Hurt. Tripped his foot. You know, hey, some people say it's hard to walk and chew gum at the same time. I guess it's hard to have, you know, too many and walk home and make it home safe. You couldn't do that, Max. No surprise to me. But, yeah, you and Jackie, maybe find new friends. Find yourself hanging out with people who do better for you, push you. But injury of the year, Max Delente, your first, you know, pretty bad. I think Ganko has tore up a little bit. Not as bad as you tore up your hero Shane Victorino's sunglasses. What a fucking fumble that was. And you're talking to a guy who fumbles.

1:24:01So, yeah, injury of the year, 2025 Max Delente. Congratulations. You finally won something. You couldn't make it to the Little League World Series, but you took it down. Way to be, Max.

1:24:10PFT Commenter:Oh, congratulations, Max. Best presenter yet. Rico Bosco. He makes a good point.

1:24:15Big Cat:You couldn't make it to the World Series, unlike the guys that we all remember, like Big Al, who hit all those dingers in World Sport. No, he was a Little League World Series legend, for sure. Absolutely. I wish that I could have done that.

1:24:26PFT Commenter:Monet Davis, who won the whole thing. Oh, yeah. That was incredible. She was the best. She was the most talented Little League World Series winner ever. Ever. Ever. Number one. Yeah.

1:24:36Big Cat:Okay. Shout out to the umpires there, by the way. They do a great job. Excellent job.

1:24:40PFT Commenter:Max, do you accept? Of course I accept. Love that. Yeah, no, it's an honor to win a takey no matter how you're going to do it. I wish I didn't break my foot, but I'm happy that I got some hardware out of it for sure. And you never had to do the pitching thing, so it worked out. Well, I will do the pitching thing. Oh, okay. Sure. I will. Sure. I've been talking, whatever. We don't have to talk about the pitching thing. It's not going well, but I've sent out some feelers. Important, yeah.

1:25:10Big Cat:Okay, PFT. We have the newcomer who steals the show of the year award.

1:25:14PFT Commenter:So this is an award that we named after the famous Jaguars fan woman. Can you play that video? You're not listening anymore. Memes didn't get the joke of the... He was like, Big Al didn't make it. Big Al didn't make it. That's what got distracted. Rico gets mad when people say that Big Al was in the last year. Keep all this in. In Monet Davis. Listen, we're not the Oscars. We don't run seamlessly here. All right, all right, we're back. Yeah. Okay, so this is a new award, newcomer of the year award. No, no, play the video of the woman, the Jaguars woman. As far as picks, they say they have the best draft in the entire NFL.

1:25:57PFT Commenter:Are you surprised to hear that? Certainly not. The first year we took it to the limit. And I was in Miami with my new beach house. Well, it was a couple minutes from the beach. It's been 20 years since then. We haven't been too strong in the last few years. Oh, we've been strong. We're just playing by the rules. You can't have a newcomer come in and steal a show. Thank you. Love it. Love that woman. Love it. RIP. So this is the award is named after her.

1:26:28Big Cat:Yes. The nominees for Newcomer Who Steals the Show of the Year Award are Jaden Daniels came in, stole the show, great rookie season, won all the accolades from Max Delente. Bo Nix, also great rookie season. I've got a boner. Jacob Mizrowski for coming in, starting, what, four games? Yep. Making the all-star team?

1:26:50PFT Commenter:All-star team.

1:26:51Big Cat:Flamethrower. and Zach on part of my take

1:26:55PFT Commenter:our guy Zach nominated the winner

1:26:58Big Cat:of the newcomer who steals the show of the year award is

1:27:01PFT Commenter:we have a video

1:27:06the 2025 newcomer of the year takey goes to no one other than Zach yeah from Santa Margarita Welcome to the club, Bob. Welcome to the club.

1:27:24PFT Commenter:Love it! And that is our good friend Julian Edelman from Italy.

1:27:29Big Cat:Maybe the first award presenter to actually do a thirst trap while presenting the award. Yes.

1:27:34PFT Commenter:So, Zach, congratulations. Now, we should say, clarify, for all the people who are on the committee and voting, we did give him, we decided the winner last night before we found out that Zach was going to sleep in, passed the commercial shoot. but he still wins Newcomer of the Year. I would like to say I appreciate you guys for nominating me for Newcomer of the Year and allowing me to – ultimately the committee allowed me to win. I just want to say PFT, Big Cat, thank you very much for the opportunity. Memes, Max, Hank, Shane, Jack, and Pug, thank you guys for being so open to any questions I've had so far.

1:28:09And we're back at Ground Zero because we were late today, but I'm looking forward to help the team any way I can.

1:28:15PFT Commenter:Okay. Thank you, Zach. Love that. Well earned. Great job, Zach. Okay, we're wrapping up. We have 19. It is the Still Alive Person of the Year, which is a prestigious award that we give out every year. To Jimmy Carter. We gave last year's award out to Jimmy Carter the year before I think was Queen Elizabeth. I think it was Tommy Lasorda the year before that. Quite a list.

1:28:37Big Cat:This is an award that at some point I would love to win.

1:28:40PFT Commenter:Yeah. Yeah. All right. So Still Alive Person of the Year nominees are Frankie Valli. He's still out there. Kicking it. Jersey Boy. The Crooner. Yeah. Lee Corso, last game day coming up. Still alive. Love Lee Corso, still alive. Joel Embiid. Still alive. Still alive, right? He is? Max? Yeah, no. There's just a great article that came out on Joel Embiid. Okay. Regarding still alive. Being alive? Yeah. Being alive and thriving. Okay. And people are mean to him. Oh. Oh, no. And then, finally, last up, another Philadelphia legend, Bill Cosby.

1:29:18Big Cat:Yeah. Bill Cosby, yes.

1:29:20PFT Commenter:So the winner, do you have a guest presenter?

1:29:24Big Cat:For Still Live Person of the Year Award, there is a guest presenter.

1:29:27PFT Commenter:Okay. Oh, wow. This is huge. What a get. Death is nothing to joke about. The fact that Burton might take has this award tells me that they have achieved zero personal growth. I mean, one time I knew a guy that died. Not funny, but congrats to Bill Cosby. he is the winner of still alive person of the year wow that was john cena john cena joined us it is nothing to joke about he's right yeah but bill cosby has won the still alive person year

1:29:57Big Cat:would be a real shame fantastic good for bill uh hope that this award comes with all the trimmings

1:30:02PFT Commenter:of the past award winners yes yes enjoy it for an entire year or maybe less maybe less maybe less

1:30:08Big Cat:uh okay pft you're up next award is for pope of the year the pope of the year award the nominees are mark pope from the university of kentucky pope leo wow the american pope pope francis the not american pope okay not nominated for still alive person of the year The Broken Pope Bobblehead That you got as a gift Big Cat That got smashed

1:30:38PFT Commenter:Beautiful

1:30:39Big Cat:And put back together again

1:30:40PFT Commenter:Right there Shane Shout out Shane He got me that bobblehead that broke And Also nominated

1:30:45Big Cat:Mike Francesa Oh Sports Pope Sports Pope Great job by Mike Had a great review of the Superman movie recently If you haven't checked that out Give it a look The winner of the 2025 Pope of the Year Award Is Pope Leo Wow Oh, Pope Leo. We got a Pope. We got a Pope. Duh. Pope. Wow. Pope Leo. Chicago Pope.

1:31:11PFT Commenter:I kind of wanted him. I want him to just talk English more.

1:31:15Big Cat:That'd be great. Just more viral clips and maybe some tweets from Pope Leo. And he definitely watched the hot dog eating contest, right? Absolutely. First Pope to ever do that.

1:31:22PFT Commenter:Absolutely. I just would like a little more. Just a couple tweets.

1:31:25Big Cat:Yeah.

1:31:26PFT Commenter:Here and there.

1:31:27Big Cat:I liked it when the old Pope used to accidentally tag the saints.

1:31:30PFT Commenter:Yeah.

1:31:30Big Cat:That was always good for a laugh.

1:31:31PFT Commenter:That was great. Okay, next up, we have the Just Chill Out Man of the Year Award. This is a very important award. Someone who maybe got a little too excited about something. Just chill out, man. Just chill out. We have Daryl Doucette. Why is he nominated?

1:31:50PFT Commenter:Memes?

1:31:51Big Cat:Daryl Doucette got mad at NFL players trying to participate in flag football.

1:31:57PFT Commenter:Ah, that guy, the quarterback. Yes. Yes. Who could have forgot? Who could have forgot Darrell Tusset?

1:32:04Big Cat:Household name. He's right, though. Yeah. No. Patrick Mahomes is nowhere near his level. Good at football.

1:32:11PFT Commenter:Mel Kuyper for his takes on Shador Sanders on draft weekend. That's good. He almost cried. He almost cried. We have Elon Musk when he got upset about Trump.

1:32:21Big Cat:Yeah, he got upset about the Epstein files. Just chill out. We already said no one cares.

1:32:25PFT Commenter:He's innocent. Innocent person of the year. I don't know if you listen to that part of the show, Elon, but he's innocent person of the year. Trevor Ogilvie the guy who lost the golf fight to Nick Tarnaski I think he may have already received his award yeah and then we finally have Jerry O 'Connell at the Beck Gala for screaming into Hank's ear which actually wasn't why Hank lost his hearing it was his ear not popping

1:32:48Big Cat:but he also was rock hard and just thrusting in my face enjoying sports Hank should be nominated just chill out man of the year your ear was fine yeah okay

1:32:59PFT Commenter:Okay, the winner of the Just Chill Out Man of the Year Award is Mel Kuyper.

1:33:06Big Cat:Mel, congratulations. Congratulations. You really laid your emotions out on the line this year. It was a great bit of television. I hope you've chilled out since then, though.

1:33:14PFT Commenter:Yes, you spent an entire weekend getting upset about Shador Sanders falling in the draft to the point where, I'll say this, it was great TV. I was glued to it. I've never been more glued to a fifth round of the NFL draft watching him. Oh, breaking news. Breaking news. Breaking news. Nine-time NBA All-Star Damian Lillard is finalizing a three-year, $42 million contract to return. Ah. Portland Trailblazers sources tell ESPN. Wow. Wow. It's coming home. That moves the needle 0%.

1:33:48Big Cat:This feels like he's retiring. Yeah. Like he's going to get paid for three years to not really do all that much. Yeah. Yeah, three-year, 42 mil in NBA is basically nothing.

1:34:00PFT Commenter:Ashtray money. Yeah.

1:34:02Big Cat:He's happy he's not the Celtics. But he's still getting paid by the Bucs, right? Yeah. Probably, yeah. Yeah, so he didn't need to get paid that much. Yeah.

1:34:11PFT Commenter:Good for him. You're saying that wasn't even breaking moves, were they? No, I'm just saying it doesn't. Who cares? Yeah. Mike Francesco, who cares?

1:34:19Big Cat:Yeah, he's just getting paid to go back home.

1:34:21PFT Commenter:Like, I guess maybe the Trailblazers will make the playoffs at least once in his last three years. Well, he's not going to play this year, so the last two years. That would be nice. Maybe he'll hit one. You know what? He'll hit one big shot. They're just signing old guys.

1:34:34Big Cat:They're just going old.

1:34:36PFT Commenter:He'll hit one big shot.

1:34:37Big Cat:Huge. The next category for the 2025 takeies, the preemptive take of the year award. Okay. Preemptive take of the year award. So we're going to go around and we're going to give our preemptive takes.

1:34:51PFT Commenter:This is a take that we will then grade later. We don't remember what our takes were last year, but that's okay. That's how the show runs.

1:34:57Big Cat:Big Cat, what is your preemptive take of the year nomination?

1:35:00PFT Commenter:My preemptive take of the year in the year 2026 it will be. So the back half of the next year's takeies. The Tush Push will be banned. I'm not saying I want it to be. But that is my preemptive take I'm staking my reputation on it I think it will be banned I think that more teams will start complaining

1:35:22Big Cat:And I think that the NFL wants it banned Even though it is a wet dream of a play

1:35:27PFT Commenter:Max, I am on the side of the tush bush I do not want it banned This is my preemptive take of the year I just feel like that's not a very hot take What do you mean? Everyone's talking It's going to come out next year That's a chalky preemptive take Sorry guys, I didn't know I was going first I had to fucking go fast I'll come back around. It's snake draft.

1:35:47Big Cat:You might be right. Yeah, you might be right, though.

1:35:49PFT Commenter:Yeah. Okay. Hank? My pre-entertake of the year, Shador Sanders is going to lead the Cleveland Browns to a wild card spot and make the playoffs.

1:36:00Big Cat:Wow. That's a good take, Hank. That's a good take. That's a good take. I appreciate somebody going out there for... Maybe an injury. I think we did it with the NFL schedule release. I think after week four. He's not going to start. Something's going to happen. Then maybe Flacco gets injured. Shador steps in. Leads him to glory.

1:36:19PFT Commenter:Okay. I have a new preemptive take. Okay. This is a hot take. All right. The Philadelphia 76ers will make it to the Easter Conference Finals. Whoa. Wow. Now that. Is that not crazy? I mean, we just. There it is. It's the opposite of chalk. Yeah.

1:36:35Big Cat:Still alive.

1:36:36PFT Commenter:Yes. Okay.

1:36:39Big Cat:Memes. Just so we're on record, my preemptive take was right last year. Which was? I said the 76ers were going to implode with the trade of Paul George.

1:36:48PFT Commenter:You were dead right. Do you know anyone else's? Not off the top of my head. You just remember that one.

1:36:56Big Cat:So I have an NBA and an NFL one. Okay, go both. So NBA is kind of wild. I think Nikola Jokic is going to force a trade out of Denver at the end of the season to the Chicago Bulls.

1:37:08PFT Commenter:Whoa.

1:37:08Big Cat:Number one Serbia population in America.

1:37:10PFT Commenter:Wow.

1:37:11Big Cat:That's just a wild one. I love that. And then NFL. Fun fact, too. That's a fun fact. The Washington Commanders are going to miss the playoffs. Duh. And Jaden Daniels is going to finish dead last out of the 2024 QBs in that draft class. You're such a piece of shit, Mames.

1:37:26PFT Commenter:Wow. Wow.

1:37:28Big Cat:Okay, Matt. It's a good take. I respect you putting your balls out there, Mames. Thank you. You got a split booth. Honestly, one of them thinks he's going to be all-time great. One of them thinks he's going to fall off a cliff. Well, I mean, listen, I don't want memes to hear this. So just between the three of us, the fact that he's going after Jane Daniels like that, kind of racist. Kind of racist memes. We would never say such a thing about Justin Fields. You had him as bad? Question mark. Question mark. It was a question. We're having a conversation. It's a question. Touche.

1:38:04I read the Joel Embiid article last night, and I went to the DraftKings Sportsbook to place this preemptive take of the year. And then I read a little bit further in this article, and I took it away, the bet away. But I will be saying that Joel Embiid will be winning the MVP.

1:38:20PFT Commenter:Wow. Wow, MVP? This upcoming year. Well, that's not really – he's won one. It's 70-1. Has he ever been to the Easter Conference Finals? It's 70-1. Sounds like mine's a little crazier than yours. Yeah. We can look at the odds of that. But then I went back. I was going to make the bet, and then I went back, and then it says that he will not be returning until he's 100%, and he will not be prioritizing the regular season this year, which made me second-guess that take a little bit, but I'm going back to my original idea. It's like when you're in school and you're taking a test, you've got to go with your gut.

1:38:52My gut said that Joel Embiid is going to win MVP this year, and I'm sticking with Joel Embiid will win the MVP.

1:38:58Big Cat:I mean, that's a wild take on DraftKings Sportsbook. Down year for the East? Yeah, I could see it. Zach? My take is that I watch a lot of Commanders football back home because my mother and my brother are Commanders fans, so we're house divided there. Sup, Zach's mom. How are you doing? Respectfully, of course. Respectfully, yeah. Sorry, I do have a lot of fun watching Jaden Daniels play football, and I think that he's going to defy the sophomore slump and have a fantastic season. Love that. Got all his guys coming back.

1:39:26PFT Commenter:Are you guys going to say anything about that? That was way chalkier than my take. Terry. No, he's right. That was crazy. Zach, that's an awesome take. Is Jane Daniels still going to be good? Zach's mom knows all. That's crazy. Hank, back me up here. That's not a great take, Zach.

1:39:38Big Cat:Well, yeah, no, it's a good take. It's a really good take. Newcomer of the year right there. Strong take. I love it, Zach. We got Fast Ebo, probably Terry, probably. Sky's the limit. He may do it the entire season with a smile on his face. He might, yeah. And no. What about girls? Will he get a girlfriend? That would be a hot take. There was a video that came out the other day, Hank. Yeah?

1:40:00PFT Commenter:I don't know if it's real or not, but he was having a good time with Juju.

1:40:05Big Cat:Oh. Yeah, real good time. Are they cousins or something? I would like, no. What memes? What are you laughing about? Nothing, nothing. I thought you were going to say he was having a good time at a fast food restaurant with Deebo. Nope, nope. He was not. Okay, yours. My take. Shane, do you have one? I'm kind of scared to say mine because it's in the same vein as last year's. All right, go ahead. Last year, we'll remember that. I was going to refresh. Last year, I said Gus Edwards would lead the league in rushing touchdowns. Okay. And I couldn't have been more wrong. So I'm going to go Omari and Hampton, Offensive Rookie of the Year.

1:40:44Big Cat:What about Najee?

1:40:46PFT Commenter:Doesn't have an eye. Oh, yeah.

1:40:48Big Cat:Allegedly. There's no eye in Najee.

1:40:49PFT Commenter:Also, let me just toss in one more preemptive take. I think this is the year that Shane's going to start liking onions. No. He sleeps with an onion. Could.

1:40:56Big Cat:That's true. Could.

1:40:58PFT Commenter:I want you to storm out so bad.

1:41:00Big Cat:All right. My preemptive take of 2025, 2026, I truly believe this, by the way. I think that the situation that Caleb Williams is in right now is the best situation in the history of second-year quarterbacks in the entire NFL. Think about it. They short up the offensive line. Big weakness from last year, right? They got rid of Matt Eberflus. That's good for six wins right there. They finally have a GM and a coach that are lined up on the same contract. They've got an offensive wizard at head coach who's got a bag that's deeper than the Mariana Trench. Bars! And he's just a good quarterback. He's still got the physical tools.

1:41:42Big Cat:The physical tools were there. He had a good season last year. Statistically, it was okay. Not as bad as many of the haters said that it was. This is the best setup possible for a second-year quarterback in the history of the NFL.

1:41:53PFT Commenter:Do you know what you just did? What? You just made me almost go to six and a half out of ten. I didn't, but you almost made me get there.

1:42:00Big Cat:I'm at a ten.

1:42:01PFT Commenter:I'm at a ten on Caleb. I like that take. Okay. Good takes of the year. Preemptive takes of the year. All right. We got three left. We have Bonk of the Year. We have Blake of the Year. We have Podcast Listeners of the Year. Three huge awards. Massive. Huge, huge awards. Next up, Bonk of the Year. the nominees are the entire internet for Sydney Sweeney breaking up with her boyfriend and also the soap thing

1:42:28Big Cat:and also Hank you should probably try to get with her I am actively you should

1:42:35PFT Commenter:we have JOC our good friend Jerry O 'Connell for not wearing underpants and being rock hard in Hank's face during the Celtics-Knicks game at the Beck Gala pretty incredible PFT for whatever you said for the whole thing steve smith kind of a story we forgot yeah noted yeah noted

1:43:00Big Cat:one of the best how about pft for when he tweeted casey anthony's back she's so back yeah

1:43:06PFT Commenter:she she is so back huh she looks she looks good she looking good uh steve smith let's just read the text real quick uh this is with the guy that he cucked uh or no sorry this is with the girl that he was having sex with uh he was having sex with a married woman uh she said uh take me deep down your throat like you kind of like uh or no so he said take me deep down your throat like you kind of like you wanted to suck me off she wrote back i did i would have gagged on it but if i but i had to come home he said you enjoy it you like to feel it she said i like feeling it deep in my wet pussy he replied me too letting you taste uh though would be a turn on i would have shot my nut all inside your pussy she wrote back i love making you come i enjoy it more when you come inside me he replied noted wasn't there some iud rearrangement that went on in that too yeah i think he stirred things up a little bit oh man noted that is very bonk worthy uh and then our final nominee for Bonk of the Year, Shannon Sharp, just for everything.

1:44:17PFT Commenter:The Instagram Live and the rest. Alright. The winner of Bonk of the Year for the 2025 is our good friend Jerry O 'Connell. Jerry, congrats, buddy. And he is here to accept his award. Wow. Wow. What an honor. I gotta tell you, I didn't. It's an honor to have this. I want to thank the Academy by the Academy. I mean, the three of you and Max and Zach and memes. But, you know, I wasn't expecting to be aroused when I got there. And then when the Knicks came back from 20 in the fourth quarter and Hank was next to me and Hank was dressed like a cowboy, I just, I gotta move for a second because actually I'm sitting next to my daughter right there I got so I got so fucking rock hard and excited because the Knicks were gonna beat the Celtics and they did and I just couldn't believe it and just blood started blowing everywhere and you know what at first when you said I got the Bonk of the Year award I was kind of ashamed but no now I'm proud and I'm excited and I just want anyone to know So for any man, I'm sorry to assign gender, who's feeling not like vital, not alive, just let Mr.

1:45:46Bing Bong, Mr. Bing Bong, flow through your bloodstream, through your veins. And there's nothing quite like it. So I accept this award for Bonk of the Year. And I'm really excited. Now let me go sit down next to my daughter. Congratulations, Jerry. You hear what I said, honey? Honey, I'm a part of my take. Hello, testing, testing. Yeah. I went back to the year. She'll never know. Her mom will never know. It's great. Yeah. It was a good one. I would have preferred it if maybe it had something to do with Tiffany Gomez. But I guess I was rubbing up on Hank. I just want to say, Hank and I have a thing now.

1:46:29We have a connection. It's a fact. It's a lifelong connection. And Hank, honey, I'd like you to meet Your new dad His name is Hank That's your dad He's gonna teach you golf We're a modern family Hank You and I We're a modern couple Get with it Be cool with it Hank I know you're like A little weird about stuff like that But just be open Alright Be open to the universe Say hi to your new dad Say hi Alright

1:47:01PFT Commenter:Thank you Jerry Fucking kids You believe this shit Yeah you're the best Jerry Thank you we can't wait to see you Camp Barstool love you Jerry love you that was incredible

1:47:13Big Cat:that's our guy I like that Mr. Bing Bong isn't something that lives inside Jerry's brain it's actually his dick Mr. Bing Bong when it gets hard

1:47:22PFT Commenter:I'm so happy we didn't tell him that he was winning that award we need to do that with more of these winners just bring them on and just be like hey you won this award Jersey Jerry Biz Jerry O 'Connell it's been a great takeies yeah uh and now we have one of my favorite awards we have the blake of the year award one of the greatest play awards that we give out every single year this is our eighth time giving out blake of the year so uh let's get to blake of the year work hard and hydrate hard with body armor flash iv whether you're working in extreme heat or powering through a long shift body armor flash iv delivers faster longer lasting hydration with more than 2 000 milligrams of electrolytes vitamins b and c and zinc coconut water and no artificial sweeteners flavors or dyes body armor flash iv keeps you performing at your best get body armor flash iv at your local 7-eleven okay it's time probably the most important take you we give out every single year it is the blake of the year time blake bortles blake griffin brooks kepka they are all nominated for blake of the year and we're going to do it like we've done it a few times before old school style.

1:48:30PFT Commenter:We are going to send a zoom link to all three Blake's. They've been given a window. So I was, I told them there's a three hour window that we could decide Blake of the year. So they're at least aware because this was a time zone disaster. Blake Griffin's in Hawaii. Blake Bortles is in Florida. Brooks Koepka's in Northern Ireland.

1:48:51Big Cat:Yeah, it's crazy. I mean, the big storyline at

1:48:54PFT Commenter:home is can blake win the big one yeah because brooks kepka is not one he's not and that weighs heavily on him so what is the actual tally do we have i think it's is it four for blake griffin and

1:49:05Big Cat:three for blake bortles i think griffin's got four so he's going he was pulling it up one for the thumb for him this is going to be a big one this would be just dominant yep dynasty uh but yeah we don't know can can brooks kepka can he kind of dig himself out of that hole he only cares about big tournaments yeah this is the biggest tournament of them all yeah and he still has that glaring

1:49:27PFT Commenter:empty space on his mantle it would be a shocker if he wins this i think it's i think every year if you had to release odds it's like blake griffin minus 150 blake portals probably plus 120

1:49:39Big Cat:yeah brooks kepka 40 to 1 yeah i i'd say that's fair i mean there's there's a lot of doubters out there for brooks kepka yeah is he even a blake well we're starting to ask some people

1:49:49PFT Commenter:then also reverse it and say him not caring about this makes him the most Blake.

1:49:53Big Cat:I would say that that is 100 % accurate. Like when he didn't call in for about two hours. I think it was like two days. He was in Portugal, I think. Yeah, that's the most Blake move that there is, but unfortunately, this is the way that we decide the award. Yep. And yeah, maybe the best Blake win.

1:50:07PFT Commenter:Alright, so what do we have, Memes? It's four to three, and it does look like Blake Griffin has won all phone calls and Zoom calls. Okay. Wow. There was a time that Blake Bortles said, yeah, he lost by like a split second. That was a heartbreaker for him. All right. So here we go. We have the zoom up. We have all three Blakes on one text chain. Are you guys nervous? I'm always. I'm very nervous. I'll start a timer. What do you guys, what do you guys got for over under on, on time? I think we're cool. Sure. I think we're gonna have our first. Hey, too. I think we're gonna have our first Blake within, within a minute.

1:50:38PFT Commenter:I also like this also is one of those things. Did you send it? Are they? No, I haven't. Like, is your zoom set up? Sometimes you have to update. These things matter. Are you connected to Wi-Fi? Yeah. I feel like Blake is the only one. Blake Griffin is the only one that would remotely have a Zoom set up. He trains.

1:50:55Big Cat:Blake Griffin trains for the Blake of the Year award. He does reps. That's why he's got four. He's the only one. He puts it in his calendar. He preps. He stays close to the router. Remember the year that he sat close to the router to get the better Wi-Fi?

1:51:05PFT Commenter:Five to three would be a commanding lead. Yeah, this is going to be Blake Griffin. But a four to four would be an incredible turn of Blake of the Year.

1:51:12Big Cat:I think four to four, obviously, what a storyline that would be. Five to three, you start to feel like Brady Manning. And if it's Brooks, we're going nuke.

1:51:23PFT Commenter:We should get champagne. I think we got to party if it's Brooks. Yeah. All right. You guys ready? Count me down. Five. Four. Start at five. Three. What do you want me to start?

1:51:34Big Cat:I want you to start at 20. 30. 31. 30. 29. What did he say? He thinks it's going to be within five seconds. 27. Five seconds? I think 23, 6. 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. sent.

1:52:17PFT Commenter:It's been sent. And now we wait.

1:52:21Big Cat:You guys' countdown should have been on the Mount Rushmore of Seas. Oh my god. Oh shit. Oh my god. 12 seconds. Oh no. Oh no. You win. Blake of the year. Is it just me?

1:52:42PFT Commenter:Yeah. Blake Bortles joined about two seconds after you. That's five. Oh my God. Can we get Blake Bortles in here? That's five. Five. All the way from Hawaii. Damn. From way downtown. Blake was right there. Blake Bortles again is second place. Can you hear me?

1:53:06Big Cat:Yeah. Yeah. He came in second by like two seconds.

1:53:09PFT Commenter:It was that close. It's devastating, dude. It's just I mean, Blake Bortles, you have to ask yourself, it feels like every year we're in this exact same spot where you join the Zoom and Blake Griffin's already here. Yeah, I think it just comes down to like I'm bouncing my head off my ceiling. Like this is just as good as I get.

1:53:30Big Cat:Yeah, it's like running into Patrick Mahomes every year. That's right. There's no way around it. Second's just got to be where you live.

1:53:37PFT Commenter:Oh, man. All right, Blake Griffin, you are now a five-time Blake of the Year. Blake Bortles has three championships. This is the separating one. Like, it was four to three. We were saying beforehand, if it went four to four, you'd be like, hey, we got a real rivalry. Now you're peerless. You have no peers. You have five of them. Listen, I put in the work. I flew out to Hawaii. I've been holed up in a house in Hawaii for the past two weeks waiting for this. Oh, my God. It does feel good. I would like to talk about Brooks. What's going on? Yeah.

1:54:11Big Cat:But we were saying this is the most Blake thing that you can do, arguably, is just not care.

1:54:17PFT Commenter:Yeah, yeah. He – yeah, I don't know if he'll join. Like, he is in England. He's about to play in the Open Championship. Maybe next year we'll find a different weekend that he's not this many time zones away. But yet again, it's Blake versus Blake, and Blake has won. Blake always wins. Yeah.

1:54:39Big Cat:Would you say this, is this the hardest one that you've had to win, being in Hawaii and all? Yeah, I think just like, you know, you can become complacent sometimes. I think, I don't know, every year I know Bortles is bringing it. We don't really have to worry about Brooks, which is kind of nice. Yeah. So, I don't know. Wasn't it like two seconds last year as well? Yeah. Yeah, I think this is the fastest one.

1:55:04PFT Commenter:Yeah. So, Blake Bortles, you have lost back-to-back years, maybe four seconds total that has separated you. Is there anything you can do? Are you going to train? Or are you just like, hey, this is what I have. I'm just going up against a monster. Yeah, it's definitely going to be an obstacle to overcome. I don't know how much better I can get. I've maxed out my potential. The first 15 minutes of this window, I was staring at my phone. and then I got briefly sidetracked by children, and then I locked back in and couldn't have clicked on the link any faster.

1:55:41Big Cat:That's heartbreaking. Do we make sure that Zoom was updated? Was that good to go? Yeah, I was on a Zoom call earlier today. Everything was fine. I mean, everything was ideal for a win today, and I lose again. There will be people who ask, is it time to change the format of Blake of the Year? Because Blake Griffin's been so dominant on the phone. I don't know if we're ready to have that conversation yet. Should we go back to the lottery balls? That was fun. Yeah, we could. We could do seeding for next year. Yeah, we could do seeding. I'm open to switching up the format. Okay. I mean, could you imagine if the one versus 16, if Brooks Koepka somehow beat Blake Griffin in the first round next year?

1:56:23Big Cat:Yeah. That would be incredible. That's a true Cinderella story.

1:56:25PFT Commenter:I think our odds were exactly right. We said beforehand our odds are Blake Griffin minus 150, Blake Bortles plus 120, Brooks Koepka 40 to 1 and it feels like that just proves true every year I mean it's also

1:56:40Big Cat:kind of unfair he is playing in a major this weekend so he's you know he's probably on the course grinding he's in England isn't it like 8pm there

1:56:49PFT Commenter:yeah it is 8pm on the course grinding I mean on the course grinding Blake Bortles have you finished your house yes it's complete we're living in it Are you sad that your construction guys are gone? I am. Yeah. I think they, I made friends with them. I bring beer and I think that could have caused it to take six to eight months longer than it should have been. But I enjoyed our Friday afternoons together, so I wouldn't have changed it.

1:57:20Big Cat:Blake Bortles, did you hear any of the interview with Trevor Lawrence that we had this week? Because he had nothing but the nicest things to say about you. I did not. I missed it. How'd it go? Trevor's the man. Yeah. He just said that your reputation was pristine in that locker room. He can still feel your presence in there. So he actually said he might cut his hair if he wins the Super Bowl in a tribute to you. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if I could, I'd have his hair, and I'd trade in a heartbeat with him. Mine is shaved by default.

1:57:46PFT Commenter:Yeah. He also said that he would let us stay at his house without him there. Wow. Yeah, which is something you – Blake Griffin, we never asked you that. Would you let us stay at your house without you there? Yeah, I'm in Hawaii. You guys want to pop over to the house? Perfect. Swing by the crib? Perfect. Yeah, because Blake Bortles did do that once where he forgot we were coming over to stay at his house and he's like, oh, just here's the code. I'll be back in like five hours. And we just hung out at his house waiting for him. That's I mean, that's a true Blake right there. I mean, shirt off shirt off your back house off your property.

1:58:16PFT Commenter:Yeah. Yeah. You guys had filmed a whole music video on the back walkway by the time I got home.

1:58:22Big Cat:That's right. Drink paint. Yeah. Blake Griffin, have you thought about legacy yet? I've it's sort of been washing over me I've been thinking like do you do the thing you try to get six and then retire like Jordan although you can never truly retire from being a Blake I don't know I'm just soaking it up right now to be

1:58:44PFT Commenter:honest yeah okay alright last question for both of you I don't know if you saw the news that we're writing a book for the 10 year anniversary of pardon my take you guys are both gonna have to write at least one chapter all right well chat gpt will be on it yeah are you blank portal can you write a chapter for us no i i mean you remember the my research and uh work ethic towards the book club that we had wikipedia club period of time yeah i give you a sentence okay all right yeah sentence a sentence

1:59:18Big Cat:i'll take a sentence you just talk to our ghostwriter for five minutes and then he writes the chapter yeah why don't we why don't we each give you a sentence and then we just we don't know what the other one's riding and we hope that that those two sentences flow together yeah i like that yeah we'll we'll finish blake griffin's and then it's choose your own adventure to read blake bortles section turn two pages

1:59:38PFT Commenter:oh all right well thank you boys we appreciate it so much uh this we love doing this award uh and uh i will we'll keep the zoom open for for brooks kapka he'll probably never arrive yeah we'll see if he does uh congrats again to blake griffin five time blake of the year back-to-back champion? Or is it three in a row? Is it three in a row? No. It's two in a row. You won three times ago. You've won two in a row. Yeah, two in a row. 2023 Blake of the Year. So next year's going for a three-peat. That's historic. We've got to break that up.

2:00:19Big Cat:Is that the 10-year anniversary of Blake of the Year?

2:00:23PFT Commenter:Nine year. I think we didn't do it in the first year.

2:00:25Big Cat:Okay. All right. That's going to be a big one. That's going to be the diamond one.

2:00:27PFT Commenter:Yeah, because there's been eight Blake of the years. Blake Griffin has five. Blake Bortles has three. Never been a three-peat. Wow.

2:00:34Big Cat:I got to say, the real winner is the listeners because this was a great competition.

2:00:38PFT Commenter:Yeah.

2:00:39Big Cat:Like, neck and neck.

2:00:40PFT Commenter:Fair fight. Shout out the AWLs. Yeah. Yeah.

2:00:43Big Cat:No losers in this one except for Blake Bortles.

2:00:46PFT Commenter:Well, and Brooks Koepka.

2:00:47Big Cat:Yeah.

2:00:47PFT Commenter:There's two losers. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Thank you, boys. Should we just stay on until Brooks joins? Yeah, we'll stay on until Brooks joins. We'll let you guys go. Yeah, we'll see you guys. See you guys. Congrats, guys. Oh, there he is. Why does this happen every time I'm overseas? So, Brooks Koepka finishing in third place in Blake of the Year for yet another year. Yeah. The timer was up. I think you joined, let's see, you joined a solid 17 minutes. after Blake Griffin won the award? I'm not surprised Blake won. Are we shocked? He's got five now. He's joining us. Five and Blake Bortles has three and you have zero.

2:01:37PFT Commenter:We said beforehand we put the odds at you I think you were 40 to one to win this. I think it was a longer shot. As a gambling man I think it was a lot longer. What do we have to do to get competitive next year? I really think we maybe do this while I'm on the same time zone.

2:01:58Big Cat:Okay. That's actually not a bad decision. We got to push it back a week. Okay. Do we push it back or do we move it forward?

2:02:09I gotta figure out what I'm doing next year. I gotta look at the schedule. Yeah, yeah.

2:02:14PFT Commenter:I still think we should try to do it all three Blakes in the same place. We gotta maybe figure that out because it would be incredible. Yeah, there's gotta be some kind of competition or something where we're all together. Yeah. I think that's the fairest. But hey, props to Blake for winning. Wow, what an effort.

2:02:30Big Cat:It's just been an incredible run for him. Where were you when you saw the text and what went through your head? uh the same thing that usually goes through god i'm so late in this

2:02:43PFT Commenter:was there even a small percentage of you that was like hey maybe i just got lucky this year uh i was hoping but there's yeah i'm an idiot i don't know 17 minutes later yeah i mean i i think

2:02:57Big Cat:that saying i forgot is a completely acceptable reason yeah i i think it is uh hey you know it's funny i looked at my phone and i saw the the text that was like hey it's open we're good all right and i was like okay all right great and i felt like i literally checked my phone five seconds later and then boom here i am 17 minutes late you blacked out yeah because i sent the text right at

2:03:23PFT Commenter:the beginning of the of the window saying hey we are now officially open for blake of the year just so you guys were all aware and then yeah it just you blacked out and i'm gonna blame it on the bad Wi-Fi. That's the excuse I'm going with. That's what I'm going to stick with. You also have a fair excuse. You are literally playing in a golf major this week and the other two Blakes are currently unemployed. So that's a big difference. I do have that going for me. Yes, I do have that going that I'm still an active participant in a sport.

2:03:58Big Cat:How are you feeling about this weekend? I feel good. I feel good. I swear we're going to If I win this week, we're going to have to organize all the Blakes to get together. All of us get together. Because we're coming to Chicago, I think, soon.

2:04:12PFT Commenter:Yeah. I actually, I'm going to say this right now. I think if you win the Open Championship, you win Blake of the Year this year. I think Blake Griffin should agree to that. I think Blake Griffin should agree to that. I like that. Hold on. I'll call him real quick. I think he would say that's fair. Yeah. I'm going to call him real quick. That would be great.

2:04:30Big Cat:Bortles might get upset because Bortles was about two seconds after Blake Griffin this year.

2:04:35PFT Commenter:Well, he didn't win, so he doesn't have to decide. Yeah, I'm going to say that I definitely called first. It's just the Wi-Fi is bad. Blake, we're talking to Brooks right now. He literally just called in two minutes ago. This is 100 % your call. I do not want to force you into anything, but I have proposed the idea that if Brooks Koepka wins the Open Championship this weekend, and he officially gets your Blake of the Year title this year. Are you willing to do that? 100%. Okay. All right. So he's got a chance. He's got a redemption arc. I'm not dead.

2:05:09Big Cat:I love it. He's not dead. You're playing for something bigger than yourself this weekend. Oh, absolutely. You're playing for Blake. I'm playing for all the Blake. I would like at some point in the interviews, I would like acknowledgement.

2:05:21PFT Commenter:Okay. Yeah. Yes. That's fair. That's fair. That's fair. He said yes. I think it literally might just be a mic drop. I got to acknowledge at least Ricky Elliott, my caddy. Yeah. It doesn't have to be like the course interview, but, you know, the press conference or something. Yeah, you just said in the press conference. He said it doesn't have to be on the course. It can be in the press conference. Whatever. I literally would just say Blake Griffin and then walk right out. Yeah, no, all you got to say is, and this means that I'm now Blake of the Year. Thank you to Blake Griffin for so generously giving me this opportunity.

2:05:54Verbatim, that's what it'll be.

2:05:55PFT Commenter:Okay. All right. All right. We're good. Thank you, Blake. Blake? All right. Later. I mean, what a story this would be. Yeah. Blake of the Year is not – we've decided it, but it's still open.

2:06:06Big Cat:Yeah. I love it.

2:06:07PFT Commenter:Oh, man. I love it. I'm rooting so hard.

2:06:09Big Cat:I'll tell you what. Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, they've never won a Blake of the Year on the same day they won a major. Yeah. No, that's very true. Yeah. I mean, that would be the – if I won this week, that would be the seventh major. Yeah.

2:06:24PFT Commenter:You got to hold up seven and have everyone be confused. They'll be like, what the fuck? He's only got six. No, he's got seven. I've never wanted to win a golf tournament so bad.

2:06:37PFT Commenter:All right. Well, Brooks, thank you. You're the best. Best of luck this week, and we're rooting for you hard. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm rooting for myself very hard right now. All right. All right. See you, man. All right. See you, boys. Okay. I think we're done, right?

2:06:54Big Cat:Yep.

2:06:54PFT Commenter:No.

2:06:55Big Cat:Oh. No, we're not. What? We got one more award. Oh! At Raising Cane's, we focus on making the most craveable chicken finger meals, getting them right every time. That's why we hand batter every chicken finger, mix every cane sauce, butter every Texas toast, stir every slaw, salt every fry, squeeze every lemon, and brew every ounce. We do this inside every Raising Cane's every day because when you do it right, you can taste it in every bite. Raising Cane's chicken fingers. One love. What's the last award? The last award of the Takeys is the Podcast Listeners of the Year Award. Ooh. Now we've got some huge nominees.

2:07:40Big Cat:We've got one that has just been a constant mainstay, and that's the award-winning listeners, part of my take. They've won eight Takeys? Eight Takeys. Eight Takeys. Bad for the league. Bad. Very bad. we've got talk to the talk to a fans have been nominated for podcast listeners of the year they followed their leader off the cliff they got rug pulled yep great podcast though really enjoy talk to a i consider myself a talk to a boy also nominated for podcast listeners of the year

2:08:11PFT Commenter:award are the md foodie boys fans yes great podcast highly recommend give them a shot uh

2:08:19Big Cat:uh snack wrap the snack wrap good good awesome review hank two poppies their listeners have been nominated for personal fan here i'm a listener i forget who they are they are the

2:08:31PFT Commenter:arizona state uh frat boys and they remember the clip uh they were boys and they fought the boys yeah and they threw hands yeah but you said they were boys they're boys yeah no fucking way

2:08:44Big Cat:We have another nominee for the Podcast Listeners of the Year Award. That is the Daddy Gang. Daddy Gang just stays winning. Daddy Gang doing everything to support their girl Alex, including giving her a massive round of applause at Wrigley Field during the seventh inning stretch. Just an incredible scene for everybody. And our final nominee for the Podcast Listeners of the Year Award, it's one guy. One single guy. The guy who clips parts of the episodes of Part of My Take whenever we mention Darren Revelle's name and then sends it to Darren Revelle. That guy is also nominated. Okay. And the winner for the 2025 Podcast Listeners of the Year.

2:09:26Big Cat:It's a nine, Pete. Wow. It's a nine, Pete. Let's go. The AWLs have it again. Just dominance. Dominance in the field of listening to podcasts.

2:09:36PFT Commenter:Fuck yes.

2:09:37Big Cat:We do appreciate each and every one of you. I was thinking about you guys earlier today how lucky I am I do think about it all the time the best job in the entire world I am the luckiest man on the face of the earth because I get to do this podcast with my friends and there are so many people that listen to it and it's remarkable and I love you guys more than you love me I promise you that I appreciate each and every one of you and it means the world to myself and to everybody else who's lucky enough to work on part of my take that you guys are out there so shout out to you guys

2:10:10PFT Commenter:couldn't do without you love you well deserving uh listen it's it pft said it but it is the greatest job ever and uh i was actually thinking about it as well because we have to write this book uh and awls do have to buy it now that they've won nine in a row uh but it's like it's pretty crazy uh especially in the media business and everything that goes on and it's hard business to be in and there's people who lose their jobs get their jobs new shows all this stuff uh to do the same show with the same guys for nine years and still love it just as much as day one and that's really the truth like we love coming in and working together and we love doing a really stupid podcast for all of you that listen and watch and uh can't thank you enough because you guys are you you you are the reason why we have uh this and you are the reason why we get we do it every single day for you guys and uh if it weren't for your support uh none of this would be possible and we do not take that for granted a single day and so well deserving nine time awls out there there's a lot of you out there that are nine times and even if you're a five time six time three time one time it doesn't matter we thank you so so much from the bottom of our hearts uh that you listen and you participate and you enjoy the show because we're going to keep making it for as long as we can i'd like to hear from the one-timers just yeah uh-huh it's probably interesting to see probably really confusing episode of a one-timer yeah is actually one I'd like to be interested to hear about.

2:11:41Big Cat:I want to hear from somebody that this is their very first episode of Part of My Take that they're listening to. Someone's girlfriend.

2:11:46PFT Commenter:Yeah. Yeah. Shout out to you. You just won an award. Hit us up. We promise not to sick Zach on you. Zach, lady killer. Lady stealer. That's a fact. Hank, do you have anything you want to say to the nine-time media videos? Love you guys. Love seeing you guys out there. Supportive. Say mean stuff online, but they're always nice in person. Why'd you throw in the seat?

2:12:07Big Cat:This is the Spotify wrapped all over it. Yeah, what the fuck, dude? Why'd you say the mean stuff online? No, I don't. That's how I feel about it. It's like sometimes people are like, oh, people are mean. It's like I've never had a bad interaction with an AWL in person, and that is all that matters. But also, I appreciate that they do give us shit sometimes. We fuck up a lot. So we're human. When we fuck up, make fun of us.

2:12:28PFT Commenter:I also don't think we know the full strength of AWLs because we don't weaponize them. You know what I mean? We don't.

2:12:35Big Cat:Memes does occasionally.

2:12:36PFT Commenter:Memes does occasionally, but we know you're there and we love you. And even for the people that aren't online who aren't responding or, you know, commenting. We love you and we appreciate you so much. And you're heard and seen as well. Max, you want to say something to the AWLs? No, I was just memes was just talking about whether he weaponizes the AWLs back here. Oh, he does. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, no, they're the best. I love seeing you guys out in the wild all the time. It's funny, though, because probably the number one thing that I get is fuck Hank.

2:13:11so yeah so that's great um and i love you guys i've only haven't been here for nine years but the time that i've been here has been great and hopefully there's uh nine more years in the future

2:13:20Big Cat:yeah and more and more yeah yeah and uh and if you do see memes out in the wild just make sure to give him some advice on the lottery ball yeah he appreciates it always no but it's it's a very It's a very lucky thing that we have. And so doing this job changed my life, changed Big Cat's life, changed Hank's life. And from the bottom of our hearts, we really do appreciate you guys. And we love you very deeply.

2:13:43PFT Commenter:Very, very much. Very, very much. And you guys deserve this award because you are year in and year out. We see the numbers. You're there. And you deserve it. Okay. We're going to do a quick, quick Fyre Fest. Before we do that, Pieta, your last two ads. Then we'll do lottery ball and we'll send everyone on the way. for the weekend. Incredible takeies, boys. Incredible takeies. I love doing this takey show. Action-packed. Action-packed. A lot of guest presenters, guest acceptors. I still am laughing about the Canadian summit of Oldie and Biz.

2:14:16Big Cat:Should we accept this award now? I don't know. It seems like it's a two-faced deal. They're fucking great. Busy, busy.

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2:14:58PFT Commenter:like a good neighbor State Farm is there okay Firefest real quick Hank not too bad more of an ice fest uh ice fest I over it's nothing crazy but just drunk purchase that was one of the probably top top tiered worst drunk purchase I've ever made I think I bought a beanbag once drunk that was like four times too big than I thought and it filled up I lived in a loft it filled up my entire loft space um you ever break one of those a bean bag yeah no yeah it's pretty shout out my my college friend tommy he cut one out of anger and it it literally it takes forever to clean up yeah that sounds like a nightmare but uh over fourth of july break our our co-worker francis made a video he's like i bought this ice maker uh it makes like clear cubed ice and i was i was blasted i don't even remember ordering it but i like you know click the link order one for myself I came home.

2:15:55I was like, Francis, what is this? And he's like, it was like 400 bucks. It was like, it'll change your life. It's the best ice you'll ever have. If you drink old fashions, which I don't. And I don't really drink. Like, I don't make drinks at my house. And but he's like, if you drink old fashions, it'll change your life. It's these big, clear ice cubes.

2:16:13PFT Commenter:You don't drink the drink that you need it for, but you still. Correct. OK, this is after I bought it. I was like, I got home. So why did you saw the package? Because I was drunk. I really don't know. I came home, didn't know what it was, opened it, and I was like, oh, I think Francis posted a video about this. I was like, Francis, what is this? Is this ice going to change my life? He's like, yeah, it's great for old fashions. It's like the big ice cubes that you'd buy at a cocktail bar.

2:16:36Big Cat:Okay, super clear. And I now am owner of one of those. And you don't use it? I have used it. It takes eight hours to make a single. It takes eight hours to make four cubes. Four cubes, eight hours? You can just get an ice tray with four cubes in it and put that in the freezer. That's cloudy cubes, though. that's a fair point got you there and guy like you that needs your cubes clear right that's just not going to cut yeah so that i've just been i i've been thought about returning it but it's like what am i am i going to return something probably not uh am i ever going to use this doubtful i have just been making ice like every day and just putting them in my freezer so i have big cubes but really i thought it was like oh this will be cool to have it's not it's pointless can i put you on a different ice i might have to become an old-fashioned guy that's no no i'd No, but Hank, I have an ice maker.

2:17:24PFT Commenter:I don't need more ice. Listen to me.

2:17:27Big Cat:Hear him out.

2:17:28PFT Commenter:Hear me out. Hear him out.

2:17:28Big Cat:You have a four-cube, eight-hour maker. I used to sell ice makers, by the way. Of course you did. Yeah. Hank, I've got an ice maker that will change your life. This thing, it's like the Sonic ice, and it's on your countertop. It's soft. It's chewy. It makes it really, really fast. It makes probably like six or seven glasses at a time. Is it cloudy? No. Okay. It's clear, but it's the tiny, soft little pebble ice, the nugget ice. And you can get that on your countertop for the little price of about$300. I got one I had to Thanksgiving this year, had some people over. It was the biggest hit. I can't go into four figures on ice.

2:18:04Big Cat:I think you haven't seen it. Financially, I...

2:18:07PFT Commenter:Does your refrigerator not make ice? Oh, no, it does. Oh, I was going to say, like, what are we talking about here? Hank, the one that you bought... Cloudy ice, though.

2:18:13Big Cat:The one that you bought, you said it was like$400. I'm selling you one for$300.

2:18:17PFT Commenter:Wait, so I've been just using cloudy ice?

2:18:19Big Cat:Yeah. Sorry, so cloudy. Oh, fuck. Getting air bubbles everywhere. Damn it. No, this will change your life, Hank. Get the soft, get the pellet ice. Text me. I'll shoot you a text this week when I'm drunk, and then maybe you do that pitch again, and I'm in. I'm probably just going to send you a link at like 1230 on Friday night. Yeah. Yeah.

2:18:35PFT Commenter:Friday, yeah, don't do Saturday. He's going to be watching UFC.

2:18:38Big Cat:That's true. Well, Friday's also a weekday, so I don't know if he's going to be drunk. That's true. Go to the Cubs game.

2:18:42PFT Commenter:Okay, so you're going to be drunk. Good fire fest. Great fire fest. Ice fest. Can you please make a video?

2:18:49Big Cat:of you making the ice i'd like to see him you want a time lapse yeah eight hour time you put a gopro inside as it as it freezes yeah well yeah i've had some failed missions i'm like two for four on successfully making it because it makes it over the course of eight hours but if you don't take it out in a certain amount of time it melts and so like you have to time it up perfectly how many old fashions is francis drink i guess a lot i i'm literally i have literally never i've drank in an old fashion maybe with you like You've ordered one, I'm like, yeah, I'll get one of those too. I have never made one.

2:19:20I don't even know how to make one.

2:19:22PFT Commenter:And I don't want to make one. I don't even like Old Fashions. Wait. Why don't you just set up the ice maker before you go to bed and then when you wake up? That's what I've been doing, but the timing sometimes I... Oh, 10 hours sleeping?

2:19:34Big Cat:No, it's less, but yeah. Oh, okay. This sounds like a job for the cream team.

2:19:39PFT Commenter:Give Zach the ice maker.

2:19:40Big Cat:I also don't, but I have like eight cubes in my freezer. I'm good. I'm cubed up. So you freeze the cubes. You're so cubed. Then you move them to your freezer, and then they stay in the freezer. Yep. Do they get cloudy in the freezer? Nope. They stay clear. Yeah. All right. That's a good purchase. Nope. Okay. My Firefest of the week is spider-related. Hank, you might be interested in this, or you might have some advice for me. I was down in my basement the other day, and I was taking a big shit. and as I'm taking the shit I see a giant spider that's walking across the floor and I'm in the position where I'm physically shitting there is shitting happening at this point so I can't get up I'm just looking at this spider as it's crawling across the floor it was big it was brown it looked mean I took a picture of it and it just keeps walking and all I want to do is get up grab it with some toilet paper and then flush it because this thing is fucked up but I'm shitting so I'm at the point where I actually can't get up and do that by the time I finally end taking this shit the spider has disappeared behind my sink it's nowhere to be found so I took a picture of the spider there are websites that you can go on to where you can upload pictures of a spider that you took and it'll identify what kind of spider it Okay.

2:21:03Big Cat:It's a brown recluse. I had a brown recluse in my bathroom. I had every opportunity to kill it and flush it. It's gone. And it's somewhere now. It went away. What do I do? Spider expert? Yeah. I mean, I got some ammo, like firepower, if you want to keep it strapped in your bathroom. I have a... Shout out to my dad. He got it for me. It's like a big spider repellent spray gun. Yeah. that whenever there's a sign of a spider, I just go out and just fire away. Is it spray? It's spray. Okay. And it's strong spray. Kills them on contact. Well, my problem isn't that I'm afraid of killing a spider. I'll kill it.

2:21:39This is preemptive. I spray every corner. I'm on the offensive. You're just spraying your house? No, no, outside. Outside, yeah, yeah. It's been a two-year battle, but I think I'm -

2:21:49Big Cat:You spray the outdoors with spider repellent? I spray every - So it's like, we better stay inside.

2:21:53PFT Commenter:You're just carpet bombing your balcony?

2:21:55Big Cat:Yes.

2:21:56PFT Commenter:Okay.

2:21:56Big Cat:My problem, though, is... Well, they're outside on the other side, but it's like if they want to come towards my balcony, they're going to be like, nope. So I went looking for the spider after I finished taking the shit in the bathroom. I looked everywhere. I opened up the medicine cabinet. I looked under the sink. I saw that there are pipes that aren't necessarily fully fitted to the wall, so there's a small gap that a spider could easily go into. I think the spider might have just gotten out of town. I think it just might be living in my walls right now. Shit. Waiting to come out.

2:22:25PFT Commenter:Yeah, that's scary.

2:22:26Big Cat:Scary.

2:22:26PFT Commenter:You have to move. I think I have to burn the house down.

2:22:29Big Cat:Yeah. It's going to be like Vesuvio.

2:22:31PFT Commenter:Yeah, you got to. Oh, my God.

2:22:33Big Cat:Yeah, it was not a pleasant experience. Why didn't you act? Because the spider had me hostage. I had poop that was literally coming out of my butt at that point. You know, Big Cat, you're a poop guy. You could have used your legs.

2:22:45PFT Commenter:I'm a hand in the trash bag guy.

2:22:47Big Cat:Yeah, but you know, when the poop is happening, what am I going to do? Walk across the room and just drag a trail with me?

2:22:54PFT Commenter:If you had known it was a brown recluse, would you have done that?

2:22:57Big Cat:I would have pooped on the spider. All right, so now you know. Now I can't get you. Except for when you sleep. Every single night. And Blake. Blake would probably fuck the spider up. Blake would fuck that spider up. He'd eat it.

2:23:08PFT Commenter:He's a good boy. What happens if you get bit by a brown? Oh, it's not fatal. Cause significant localized tissue damage and require medical attention.

2:23:18Big Cat:I can't have that. I've been bitten by a brown recluse before.

2:23:22PFT Commenter:Oh, so you're fine.

2:23:22Big Cat:Yeah, maybe I'm immune like Spider-Man.

2:23:24PFT Commenter:Yeah, you're a survivor. Okay. My Fire Fest.

2:23:28Big Cat:Lifespan one to two years. Oof.

2:23:31PFT Commenter:Yeah, so maybe. Just wait him out. Maybe he's two years old. It could die. It's at least going to be gone in one to two years. Yeah, that's true. That's a great point. If it was a baby, you got two years.

2:23:41Big Cat:Still alive person of the year. The brown recluse spider that was in my house.

2:23:46PFT Commenter:All right. My Fire Fest is pretty simple. My body is broken. I'm too old for some of this shit. I did tweet that I was thinking about retirement. Not retirement from this show, but retirement from our physical challenges. We did a six-hour stream on Tuesday night. How many swings did we take? 200-ish. 200-plus. And then the boys played softball on Wednesday, rallied for a big win, but oh my God, I can't walk right now. So I'm done. It was a lot of twisting. It's just the... How are the hands? Hands hurt so bad. How's the back? Back hurts so bad How's the legs? Got a weird thing I made an error in the first inning of our softball game And I felt a little like twinge in my knee And then thankfully I don't move fast So I don't think I re-injured it But I don't know what's going on there Yeah, my body's broken I don't know what to do I think I need to retire from sports I need to just be a walking guy

2:24:42Big Cat:We gotta get one of those cryo chambers

2:24:45PFT Commenter:Dude, I gotta start stretching Because I did the same thing I did every single time when softball ended, I just got in my car, went home, got out of my car in my garage, 10-minute drive, could barely stand.

2:24:56Big Cat:That's the thing. You never stretch after physical activity.

2:25:00PFT Commenter:Yeah. Proud of the boys, though. Big win in softball. We've rallied because it was looking bad because I couldn't hold a bat. Holding a bat hurts right now. Yeah, I had to be.

2:25:11Big Cat:I wore one batting glove because I couldn't do it. I had too many blisters on my hand. That's a sick look, though. No, it's a bad look for softball. It was kind of sick. Like Michael Jackson.

2:25:20PFT Commenter:Zach, do you want to finish us off? You got a fire fest? Very quick fire fest. My fire fest is showing up extremely late today and getting a text message from Big Cat at 930 saying, are you coming in today? And then not knowing what to say to that and just thinking like, all right, well, it's over. You're not. It's not over. Quick. I know we don't have to talk about it, but you did go on the date and it went well. I did go on the date. It did go well. Love that. That's all you need for the big cat.

2:25:44Big Cat:Was she pretty? I would say, yeah, 100 % PFT. She's very pretty. I do have one question about the date. What did you wear on the date? I just went black shirt, black pants, these shoes. Nice. Love it.

2:25:56PFT Commenter:Sneakers. Keep it simple. And it was a longish date. It was a couple hours. Yeah. Love that. Good for you, Zach. Thank you, BK. Excited. Will there be a second date? There will be a second date. Let's go.

2:26:07Big Cat:Yes. Let's go, Zach.

2:26:08PFT Commenter:Fuck yes. That's our guy.

2:26:10Big Cat:Do you have any thoughts on what the second date activity is going to be? Arcade. This is when you hit her with the arcade. They already did the arcade.

2:26:17PFT Commenter:Oh, yeah. That's right. The arcade was day one. Yeah, they went on two dates. Hit her again with the arcade. Back to back? Just be like, we're an arcade couple. We're either arcades or nothing.

2:26:27Big Cat:Well, he did say that of all the games that they played at the arcade, they ended up tied. So now you got to be like, we got to go back and figure out who's winning the arcade. Yeah. No, I think she might be up one. Oh, no. Okay. She might be up one.

2:26:40PFT Commenter:You let her win. No, I was trying to win. In full transparency, I was trying to win. All right. Happy for you, Zach. Good job. All right, memes. Have you thought about what this would be when we're doing the takeies numbers? 99. Wow, Max took it. I'll take nine for our fans. Actually, Pug, I don't want 99. No, you already said it. Yeah, you already said it. We give up numbers all the time. Scumbag. He doesn't want it. He's not accepting it. He's not accepting it. Scumbag. Pug, that was my way of – Scumbag. That was my offense for you. I don't want your sloppy second. Oh! Okay. I swear to God, I did that to beat memes to getting it so that I could.

2:27:26Big Cat:You were always going to give it back? That was the goal. 100 % back. Scumbag. I don't know. All right. I swear to God, because you don't have the headphones, so you can't play the offense, so I was playing offense for you. Scumbag. All right. What do you have to do?

2:27:42PFT Commenter:No, you can't do that. Can't do that. Nope. He already said it. He already said it. Pug, you at 99? I'll go with a 99. That was a cast. That was a count. It counts. It counts. Max Ray, we do pass numbers.

2:27:53Big Cat:We pass numbers all the time. Wait, Pug, you're the president. You get to decide. Does it count? Great question. Great point. I'm democracy, so if the people vote. I vote Pug gets 99. I vote Pug gets 99.

2:28:04PFT Commenter:That's a majority. Zach, put your hand up. Thank you. Bullshit. Okay. Then it counts. All right. So Hank has three. Memes has nine. Pug has 99. Nope. I'll go 11 6 I'll go 11

2:28:22Big Cat:I'll go 61 30 21

2:28:26PFT Commenter:Memes have you thought about what this would be if you win The lottery ball On the takeies with number 9 This would be incredible

2:28:35Big Cat:Kind of a dickhead move honestly stealing the thunder away from the AWL

2:28:38PFT Commenter:Yeah the AWL should get 9 Yeah I'm an AWL fan first You were you're kind of obsessive I like our fans, unlike Hank. He took off his headphones. Hank doesn't have his headphones on. He doesn't know we're laughing at him right now. Look at that face. That head turned. We're all laughing at him. He doesn't have no idea.

2:29:06Big Cat:82.

2:29:10Big Cat:Love you guys. What did he say?

2:29:13PFT Commenter:I like our fans, unlike Hank.

2:29:45Thank you.

2:30:16Thank you.

2:30:43Thank you.