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12:22Big Cat:I don't think that Hank is locked in on college basketball. I don't think he is. I think that's going to start like once tip off of Thursday, then Hank will be locked in.

12:31PFT Commenter:But in Hank's defense, why would he be locked in?

12:34Big Cat:It's a foregone conclusion the Duke's going to win. I'm locked in on college basketball, Hank. Yeah? Since the Super Bowl. Listen, I'm not a guy that has room in my brain to care deeply about college basketball while college football and NFL football is going on. It just doesn't work. I can try. It doesn't work. So my cycle, which I have every year, right after the Super Bowl is over, I get heavy into college basketball. So, yeah, I'm big time into college basketball right now. Big time. Big time. It's big time. I told you my picks. It feels like the visualization pick of Izzo in his last year, going back to Final Four.

13:11Big Cat:I feel like that's going to happen. I like Houston a lot. I've been timing the Cougars. I think I timed them perfectly. And then obviously you've got the juggernauts in Nebraska and the other juggernaut in Purdue.

13:22PFT Commenter:Purdue.

13:23Big Cat:Just winning cultures. All right, Hank?

13:25PFT Commenter:He's locked in.

13:26Big Cat:That's my final four right now. I don't care what the bracket says. That's what it's going to be.

13:29PFT Commenter:It doesn't matter if they're all in the same region. It doesn't matter.

13:32Big Cat:Life finds a way.

13:33PFT Commenter:Yeah, I actually think I should probably donate my ticket from Florida and UConn because what's the point of having it, right? With Duke? Yeah. Yeah. It's like, come on, just throw it out. the other college basketball story that I saw, did you guys see the Big 12 court? the Big 12 court for the conference tournament, do you see it? I have not seen it yet Pac-12? No, the Big 12 the Big 12 court is sick Colorado's in the Big 12 and Arizona State's in the Big 12 I saw it was the Arizona State it is a glass court that was perfect you guys had an You guys had a who-doesn't-watch-who-watched-college-basketball off.

14:15PFT Commenter:PFT's like, I didn't see it. And Hank's like, Pac-12? Because Colorado. Well, I saw Arizona State. Yeah. They're the big 12. For the record, I also was not. That's been a big college story. Pac-12 just doesn't exist anymore. Does not exist. Well, it actually does. Well, yes. Yes, and it's actually growing. It's in Pac-12. Gonzaga. Yeah. Gonzaga's going to be in the Pac-12 next year. I didn't know that. Yeah. That was the last regular season game. Yeah. Got you there. Hit him with the two. Hit him with the two with the forehead. No. Yeah. We're done with that. So the Big 12 court, this new technology, it is glass, and they can change it in a click of a button.

14:54PFT Commenter:They can change it from one home court to the other. I hope and pray that they can play potentially another game on the court while the game's being played. So if, let's say, Kansas is blowing out, I don't know, West Virginia, and they're like, this game's boring, they can then play the SEC game on the court so you can watch that while they're playing. Like it's a TV. Yeah. And that would be perfect for our attention spans, would it not?

15:25Big Cat:Yeah, or if you've got two old coaches and the game sucks, just turn it into a pickleball court while they're playing.

15:29PFT Commenter:I did see the funny joke. Someone said that they're going to make it look like it's not a basketball court just so Darren Peterson will actually play. Just hologram Darren Peterson. No, no, no. Trick him into being like, this isn't a basketball court.

15:41Big Cat:And then so he's like, oh, okay, I'm down to be on this. Well, what they would have to do is they would have to have it be an NBA court.

15:47PFT Commenter:Yeah.

15:47Big Cat:And just he would have to pretend that he was in the league now. I don't understand this technology. But this would be great if they put grass or if they made it look like asphalt on the court. I kind of want – I mean, is someone going to hack into this? Because that would be very funny. It would be very funny if, yeah, like Arizona State's playing and it's just porn. It's just porn going. It's hardcore pornography on the court.

16:07PFT Commenter:And then you get... I also don't understand how it doesn't break. It's glass. I don't understand anything. Yeah. How is this... Is it going to be slippery? It has to be. It's glass. Yeah, the glass part doesn't make sense.

16:23Big Cat:Makes no sense. Somebody falls on it, it just shatters into your elbow.

16:27PFT Commenter:I think it's pretty thick glass, but still, when I hear glass, you shouldn't be playing on that. Yeah. So that's the new Big 12 court, and they're going to use it for the Big 12 tournament.

16:37Big Cat:They're trying to make everything the sphere. Yeah. That's what they're doing. This is the sphere just in basketball court format. If they want us to watch, they should turn into a football field. Yeah. Put the yard markers on there. Give us the yellow line. That would be cool. Give us the shield at half court. That would be very cool. I would watch that.

16:54PFT Commenter:Yeah. So we're getting closer and closer. The brackets are... Did Hank think that this was the Pac-12 tournament? He thought it was a Pac-12 tournament because he saw Arizona State and Colorado. That's okay. That's okay. He's still deep looking into it. I don't know what he's about. He's going to hit us with something. I'm looking up the ASB glass floor. Oh, okay. Find us some. They did it for the NBA All-Star Game in 2024. Is this the one that Luka was complaining about slipping on? So this seems like a problem because they're going to play a shitload of games on this. Unders? I don't know. Maybe.

17:29or does that favor the the offense i have no idea how this do we need a glass court here yeah we do

17:37PFT Commenter:i think we do and i think we need to get the glass court it'd be sick if it was like nba jam te

17:41Big Cat:where like a part of the court lit up and then all of a sudden that's a four-point shot around

17:46PFT Commenter:two and a half milli but our but we have a smaller court true so gotta be like more closer to two Yeah. Or high school. Oh, yeah. Look, see? The All-Star game went over by they scored almost 400 points, so we got to take the over. Glass courts. Okay. Congrats, memes. Brie Saul, franchise tagged. That's a good move? I think it's a good move. Yeah. Right? The Seahawks are moving on from the Super Bowl MVP running back. Wait, are they officially? Who? The Seahawks? Yeah. Yeah, they're not going to sign him. They're not going to sign Kenneth Walker?

18:25Big Cat:Not going to tag him? But, you know, you got to keep good players. Yeah. Yeah, so you're going to try to tag Brie Saul and then try to negotiate while he's under the tag. Yeah, extend him three years.

18:36PFT Commenter:The only question I would ask you memes about, is it a good move, is David Montgomery went for kind of a nice haul for 28-year-old running backs. David Montgomery got traded to the Texans. What was it, a fourth and a seventh? I think Rapport and Schefter got it wrong.

18:51Big Cat:Not a fourth and a seventh, Big Cat. It was pretty much a fifth. Okay. It was pretty much a fifth because Rappaport tweeted it out, and he said, yeah, it's for a fifth-round pick. And then he had to correct himself and said it was a fourth and a seventh. So, yes, essentially fifth-round value.

19:07PFT Commenter:Okay.

19:07Big Cat:So I was right about my wrong report.

19:09PFT Commenter:Fifth-round value. Yeah. And so, yeah, they both tried to rush to get it. This was predictable in the fact that we talked about it during the season that Dave Montgomery, towards the end of the season, he was averaging like seven carries a game, and they just weren't using him. He was frustrated. He still has some good years left, I would assume. Good for the Texans, although I don't understand the Texans' strategy of just constantly trading away offensive linemen when they stink at offensive line. I know Drew Scruggs is not going to be an elite. He's more of a depth guy, but still, you would think a team that's like, hey, if you could point to one thing, the Texans need its offensive line, and they've now traded offensive line in two back-to-back off seasons.

19:58Big Cat:Right, but Laramie Tunsil actually had a great year this year when they traded away. What do you mean? They traded away Laramie Tunsil. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. But that seems counterproductive for a team that needs offensive line. Well, a lot of the Houston-Texas offensive linemen have been very bad at playing offensive line. Right, but they keep trading them.

20:15PFT Commenter:Yeah. That's my point. is like you would think that you'd want to hold on to some of the things that you're really bad at for just depth's sake.

20:23Big Cat:In order to hope that they get better? Like they can't be as bad as they possibly have been in the past?

20:29PFT Commenter:What? They also traded another one to the Eagles last year. I can't remember his name. Right. He got cut within like a week. But that's kind of my point. I know that they're not good, but it's just very funny to be like, we really need offensive line help, and yet we also are going to still keep trading them.

20:41Big Cat:I think you just need to say, if you're the Texans, The more people we have playing offensive line for us that haven't played for us in the past, the better. Because it hasn't worked out. Chances are anybody else will be better than the guys that we have. Brees Hall, as a franchise guy, do you think you're going to trade him? Or you're hoping that he gets traded memes? No, if you sign him, you keep him. Yeah. You want to hang on to Brees for the long term. He's one of the guys that I feel like, I don't know, With the age of a running back in terms of when they kind of lose their window, if I was a Jets fan, I would try to get as much as I could for him and then have him go somewhere else.

21:19Big Cat:I thought that he was going to be traded last year. No, I agree with you. But that's my point with the Seahawks moving on from Kenneth Walker. That's a good franchise. Just won a Super Bowl. He was your Super Bowl MVP. They're letting him go because the value of the running back isn't that important. Yeah, I heard a wild take this morning on the way into work. I heard that the Jets should trade three first-round picks to move up one spot and get Mendoza. I feel like that works. Would you do that? You would do that?

21:49PFT Commenter:You would okay that, Mims?

21:50Big Cat:Three first-round picks, yeah.

21:52PFT Commenter:With the QB draft next year? Yeah, I mean, the thing about the QB draft, every QB draft is the best one one year later. No, but this year's not a strong one. You got one guy. Next year is going to be a strong one. But they said that about this year. What do you mean?

22:09Big Cat:Last year they said this year is going to be the best one. Yeah, but a lot of guys didn't come out. Now they're saying next year is going to be the best one.

22:13PFT Commenter:Arch didn't come.

22:15Big Cat:So, memes, you're saying –

22:18PFT Commenter:Klubnick stinks. Yeah. Drew Aller stinks. Nussie was sussy. Nussie stinks. I mean, they all just kind of stunk. I guess your point is correct, that they could all stink again. Like, next year's crop could stink.

22:29Big Cat:So, memes, you're saying that you would give up the second pick this year, and then your what's your second first round pick is that like number what number is that this year yeah 16 so you give up number two number 16 and then your first pick next year to trade up and get mendoza to get mendoza move up one spot i would do that because you still have two first round picks next year you know what i i think i probably would do if i was the jets i just don't think that the raiders would ever do that no it's like the raiders they need a

22:59PFT Commenter:quarterback and they have their guy they're there that's also a um like a job security situation where if fernando mendoza is really good then you're screwed oh yeah you're absolutely fucked

23:11Big Cat:if you traded him away there's uh there's also a quarterback that's moving up as he threw at the combine and he looked good he impressed some scouts ty simpson is now being talked about as being a first round pick i i it's always the guys that get better at football the further away they get from playing football that make me scratch my head. I don't think I would use a first-rounder on Ty.

23:34PFT Commenter:Can I throw someone out for Ty Simpson who might draft him? Maybe. He'd throw a team out?

23:39Big Cat:Yeah.

23:40PFT Commenter:Philadelphia Eagles? Mm, interesting. I think they might draft a quarterback.

23:46Big Cat:You think so? You think they're going to take a first-round quarterback? No, probably not a first round. But what if he fell to the second? What if he fell to the second, Max? There's been a history in Philadelphia of drafting guys in the second round when you don't really necessarily think that they're in the market for a quarterback. Teams draft quarterbacks every year. That's true. That's a fact. Backup quarterback. That is a fact check? Correct. Backup quarterbacks are a very valuable position in football. Why are you trading yours away then? Because starting quarterbacks are more valuable.

24:16So if you can get starting quarterback value for a backup quarterback, you take it.

24:20Big Cat:Now it's like you've got two quarterbacks. Yeah. But then if you lose your backup quarterback, you've got to replace a backup quarterback.

24:27PFT Commenter:The report came out that the Eagles are looking for a first-round pick for A.J. Brown and a top 100 pick. Two picks. That seems pricey. That's the price. That's the price. That's the price. How he set the price. If you don't want to pay that price. If you have to ask, you can't afford it. Oh, no, we have to keep him. Yeah. I like that. That's a good thought process.

24:52Big Cat:And then the odds have shifted on Max Crosby. So Max Crosby, now odds-on favorite is the Bears. So I don't understand these. So there's a minus 110 to play for the Bears next year.

25:02PFT Commenter:I don't understand these markets because it feels like, I saw it on Bears Twitter. There were a lot of people being like, it's going to happen any minute now. Is that, does everyone just go rush and bet it? Because it can't be, it feels like the next team markets can be. Manipulated? Not manipulated, but they are very, very fluid based on just one tweet can just change everything.

25:28Big Cat:Or it can just be one bet. So after we had Rossini on, I did bet the team that we edit out, and then that team just shot up in the rankings after one bet.

25:37PFT Commenter:Yeah, so it does feel like they're very, very fluid.

25:40Big Cat:It's very easy for one shithead to manipulate these markets.

25:45PFT Commenter:I would be pumped if it was Max Rossby to the Bears. I'd be very, very pumped. Yeah, he's amazing. Really, really good at football and would instantly make the Bears a really, really good defense.

25:57Big Cat:And he knows the area. He knows the Midwest. Yeah. I've seen people say that. He could look for him to go to the Lions, potentially, because he knows the Midwest.

26:05PFT Commenter:And him and Caleb doing a podcast together. Caleb went on Max's podcast, so everyone's like, well, they're friends.

26:11Big Cat:Yeah.

26:12PFT Commenter:We're actually friends with everyone who's come on this podcast. Seth MacFarlane. That's a fact. Great friend. Great guy. Fact. okay anything else before we do who's back of the week or sorry hot seat cool throne do we have any other oh i guess we can get to it on hot seat cool throne because that was the world baseball classic is coming so yeah people kind of forgot about that did you guys see aaron judge's speech i'm ready to roll man i'm ready to fucking go that was one of the worst speeches of all time if they're what don't put that out if you're world baseball classic don't put that out i think they're trying to get a little bit of the buzz from the olympics the team usa would have lost the gold medal game if if if someone stood up and gave aaron judge's speech the thing is what was the

26:58Big Cat:exact quote in baseball it's like you don't need right you don't need a guy to give you a rah-rah speech three days before you start playing a baseball game well it's a get me pumped up so

27:06PFT Commenter:i can run through a brick wall and then go stand with my hands on my on my knees yeah for for innings at a time. Well, the ball doesn't get hit my way. You're sacrificing for the brothers.

27:18Big Cat:And when is their first game? Thursday? Friday. Brazil. So this was four days before their first game and Aaron Judge giving a pop-up speech.

27:27PFT Commenter:Well, you don't want to get the guys too emotionally out of control close to first pitch.

27:32Big Cat:But you know what? The more I think about it, if this is the speech he's giving on Monday, imagine how great the speech is going to get by Friday.

27:40PFT Commenter:Yeah. By the way, did you see that Canada just is so desperate for a win in anything that Team Canada is playing against the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday as a warm-up so they can just get a win? They need a win. It's sad. Canada will win. It's very sad. One way or another, Canada will win. It's extremely sad. Yeah. Okay, let's do hot seat, cool throne, and then we'll get to our interviews. We've got the Kachuk brothers and Seth McFarlane before we do that. Hey Illinois, Stella Blue Coffee's new canned lattes are here and in a store near you. Crafted with 100 % Colombian coffee, each can is a good source of protein and comes in two smooth flavors, espresso cafe mocha and espresso sweet cream.

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29:46PFT Commenter:Twisted tea season. Half and half. Let's go. All right. Let's get to hot sequel. Breaking Moose.

29:55PFT Commenter:Breaking Moose. What do you got, Hank? We got a retirement. Yeah. Saw it. Bad. Bear Center. Bad. 27 years old. He's hibernating or retiring? He's out. He retired. Drew Dahlman. Drew Dahlman. Yeah. Retired. Shocking news. Four seasons in the NFL. Was he good? Very good. He's a good player. Really, really good. One of the best centers in the league. Pro bowler. What's up with Stanford? Listen. Well, there's two things. Let's talk about it. What's up? What's up? Are you talking about Sam Schwartzstein? I'm just saying like the early retirements in the NFL. Stanford. Yeah, they're too smart. There's like two things go.

30:41PFT Commenter:The first instant reaction was fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. Then you have to be a human about it and realize like, hey, the guy's able to walk away while he still feels healthy. That's awesome for Drew Dahlman. and then it's right back to fuck, fuck, fuck, because the Bears, a month and a half or whatever, I don't know how long the season, what is it? Two and a half months ago, the offensive line was a significant strength with Trapillo still playing, left tackle, he tore his pateller in the game against the Packers, and Drew Dahlman at center, and now they go into the draft, and it's like, fuck, we need not only a lot of help on the defensive line, but we also, one of our strengths, the strengths of our team is now something that needs a lot of holes filled.

31:30PFT Commenter:And the center position, it's very important in every team, but Ben Johnson had a really good center in Detroit, and he had a really good center in Chicago, and now, fuck, fuck, fuck.

31:43Big Cat:I mean, if you had to pick a time for him to retire, this isn't the worst time. It's like the start of free agency, so you know what you have to do for free agency for the draft. Oh, for sure. He didn't hold it out until later on when maybe some guys get off the board. He's 27.

31:57PFT Commenter:You're like, oh, we finally have a really good center. We have a really good interior offensive line. The Bears have something that you need to have a strength at. They finally did it right. That was the entire focus of last offseason. They nailed it with an awesome offensive line this year. And now you're back to – I mean, you still have Tooney. You still have Jonah Jackson. You still have Darnell Wright. Do you guys have offensive line issues? This year? No. We had a very good offensive line this year. We had a pretty good line this year, yeah. Yeah, I mean, the left tackle was a position that was kind of – I mean, Ozzy Trevillo was a rookie, and he was working his way in, and then he got hurt.

32:30PFT Commenter:But, yeah, the interior of the offensive line was like the strength of the team. That's why we were able to run the ball so well down the stretch. But, yeah, this is bad. So there's some good centers that could be available.

32:39Big Cat:One is Biatish. He was on the Commanders last year. And you said that the Bears are talking to him right now? He's at Halas Hall right now. He's a good player. He's a very good center. I was surprised that the commies moved on from him because I thought he was a great asset for us up front. And then, obviously, the Ravens haven't had an extension with Linderbaum yet.

32:57PFT Commenter:He's going to cost$20 million, most likely.

33:00Big Cat:Linderbaum is going to be an expensive replacement. I personally would love Linderbaum.

33:04PFT Commenter:The other part, and I don't know how this works, but it does feel like you were maybe gearing up to get Max Crosby, and now with another hole that you have to fill via the draft of free agency, like is that is that i don't think it's one for one that drew dolman retires you can't do the max crosby trade but the picks become that much more viable or valuable because you have another hole that you have to fill and that sucks they got extra homework they got extra homework dumped on their desk the night before free agency fucking sucks that's tough happy for drew dolman but damn

33:39Big Cat:maybe please come back you're still definitely in the bargaining phase oh yeah it's like maybe if If we just tell him, like, hey, we love you. I texted.

33:48PFT Commenter:Don't you love. Ask me if he loves football. I texted Sam Schwartzstein right away. Our friend who knows all the Stanford guys as he went to Stanford. And I said, could you please, in the nicest way possible, ask Drew Dahlman to think about unretiring. If it were me. I just. That was nice. It was a nice way of asking.

34:03Big Cat:If it were me, I wouldn't. I would never quit football,

34:07PFT Commenter:man.

34:07Big Cat:Never. That sucks.

34:09PFT Commenter:He was about to make a shitload of money. I don't know how Caleb Williams potentially. What? I'm just asking. I'm just trying to... A sinner killer. I don't know. Oh, you think that's what happened? I'm not sure. He said his tweet was, Damn Hulk with a crying face. So I think... No, I don't think so. I think he was... From the reports I've read, this has been something he's been thinking about for a while.

34:31Big Cat:But I think what Hank said, maybe he loved him too much. Maybe. Is that what you're saying? We don't know. It just happened. Let me grieve for a second. He didn't say pause when he went under sinner fast enough? Is that what you're saying? I don't know. I'm just asking questions.

34:44PFT Commenter:I would say the only small silver lining is that he wasn't, when we fixed our entire offensive line, he wasn't one of the guys we traded for. So we signed him. So he didn't trade picks. Yeah, you got him from the Falcons. If Joe Tooney retired. What? He was on the Falcons. He was on the Falcons. But if Joe Tooney retired, that would be like, hey, we also traded for that. And good for Dolman. And also Joe Tooney's the man, so please don't retire. Please don't have this become something.

35:08Big Cat:If I remember, I think Dolman, that was his second contract, right? So he was under his rookie deal for his entire time when he was on the Falcons.

35:16PFT Commenter:He was on the Falcons for four years.

35:17Big Cat:He got paid a decent amount there, but then last year was like the first year that he made big league money.

35:22PFT Commenter:Correct.

35:23Big Cat:And yeah, so I guess he's... Yeah, he made$18 million last year. He's just ready to walk away. And then, yeah, the other news, Daniel Jones' transition tag, which is... My understanding, the transition tag is you get the average of the top 10 players at your position. So he's going to be making a lot of money on a one-year deal for the Colts. but other teams have the opportunity to negotiate with him, and then the Colts have the opportunity to match any offer that he gets. I think that's what the transition tag means. Did I get it? You're a capitalologist. Yeah, you got it. Yeah, you just got on.

35:56Big Cat:Okay, fuck yeah.

35:57PFT Commenter:All right, final thoughts, fuck. Fuck. One more fuck. My final thoughts. Got to find a center, maybe Linderbaum, hopefully still Max Trosby, but it feels fuck.

36:08Big Cat:My final thought, that's baseball.

36:10PFT Commenter:That's baseball. That's porn. What's that? That's the other one they say.

36:14Big Cat:Oh, porn? Yeah. I know when I see it.

36:15PFT Commenter:Yeah. That's baseball. Okay. Hank, hot seat, cool drum. My hot seat was going to be Aaron Judge. Oh, I apologize. I'll go with any golf course I was in the running for the 2045 US Army. Yeah, this is tough.

36:30Big Cat:I thought it was going to be congressional. Yeah. It's going to be the Inverness Club. So 2045. Toledo. Book. Clear schedules. Book your stuff. They got it. That's tough. It's like college football announcements where they schedule out a conference in like 2050s. These tournaments that like 2046 is a year that I don't think is going to happen. That's like 20 years from now. No. And the announcement was like the return to like it's like it's not returning there forever.

36:58PFT Commenter:So 2045. How old are we going to be? 20 years from now.

37:02Big Cat:So 61.

37:03PFT Commenter:19 years from now.

37:06Big Cat:61. Yeah. Damn. 60, 61, yeah. Hank, you'll be 50? Yeah. Oh!

37:16Big Cat:Oh, man. You should be able to bet on these. On what? On who's going to win.

37:22PFT Commenter:2045 is so... My kids are going to... What's Scotty's kid's name?

37:25Big Cat:He's going to be in their 20s.

37:26PFT Commenter:I mean, this feels like it's... Or Max's kid. Yeah, maybe... Brooks's kid, Blake Kapka. Blake Kapka. Yeah, maybe one of my kids will be in it. Yeah. Or, you know, standing with me in the gallery watching.

37:41Big Cat:Can you just imagine Tiger, like, in the grandstands, like, walking up, hugging his kid on 18?

37:46PFT Commenter:This might be Charlie's last major.

37:49Big Cat:This is Charlie. This is Charlie Woods' last major. Charlie can... People are going to be asking if he can win the big one going into Inverness. And then Tiger's going to be there watching him. Maybe he's going to be breaking his dad's record. Yeah, this will be the one he breaks his record. What a moment. What a moment.

38:04PFT Commenter:Why did they announce it so? Do we have all the way till 2045? We do. Yeah. Rip off some. U.S. Open. I know Shinnecock is coming up again. I think it's this year, right? We've got a couple of Pinehursts. Shinnecock, it's going to be at Pebble Beach. Good segue. Pebble Beach 2027. The Pebble Beach, our Me and P50 Spyglass video is coming out on. I think we're going to do it on Sunday. Okay. Wingfoot. So there's 20. All right. 28 is Wingfoot. 29. 29, Pinehurst. Okay. 30, Marion. Okay. 31, Riviera. Oh, watch out for those weird fucking digits that they have there. 32, back to Pebble Beach. Wow. 33, Oakmont Country Club.

38:47Hopefully it doesn't rain this time. Faster Greens. Mm-hmm. 2034, Oakland Hills, the South Course.

38:53PFT Commenter:Okay. Back to Pinehurst in 2035. Back to Shinnecock, 36. Pebble. Pebble's hot. Pebble's hot. 2037, Pebble. Oh, Boston, the Country Club 2038, Matt Fitzpatrick. Los Angeles Country Club. Oh, people didn't like that one. The North Course. Okay. They didn't like the South Course. No, that was, they let the people in. That was the problem with that one. Back to Marion 2040. Back to Pinehurst 2041. Oakmont 2042. Back to Pebble. Wow. 2044. And then Inverness 2045. Oh, we have 2047. Oh, and Pinehurst 2047. And 2049 Oakmont.

39:29Big Cat:It goes all the way to 2051. 2051 back to Oakland Hills. All right. So 2046. You're on the clock. I want to get merch from the open that is scheduled right now in like 2050. They already sell hats for sure, right? For these tournaments that won't happen for another 25 years. So, okay.

39:49PFT Commenter:All right. So we're ready. I actually like the West Coast ones. Remember the LA Country Club? It was nice when the final round was at like Sunday night. Yeah. Prime time. It was awesome. So Pebble next year will be fun. Pebble next year will be awesome.

40:03Big Cat:And great tie-in for the video, Hank.

40:04PFT Commenter:Yeah. Yeah. Great job, Hank. Okay. When, your cool throne? My cool throne is respecting women. Yeah. The Atlanta Hawks announced this week that they're hosting a Magic City Monday honoring the iconic Atlanta Strip Club at their March 16th game against the Magic, which is kind of crazy, honoring a strip club. Well, lemon pepper wings. T.I. will perform. they'll serve their world famous wings at the game limited edition merch uh and then nba champion celtic legend luke cornett went on medium sounded off he said allowing this night to go forward without protest would reflect poorly on us as an nba community specifically being complicit in potential object objectification of and mistreatment of women in our society what if it was just about the lemon pepper wings but it's not it's not a wing place it's a strip club all right so luke Cornette, fine message.

40:59PFT Commenter:No problem with the message. You are not on the magic. You're not on the Hawks. I thought when I saw this, he was somehow traded to the Hawks or was playing in this game. He's got nothing to do with it. Keep your nose out of this, dude. What do you mean? Use your platform. No, keep your nose out of it. Sound off. Guys can't go to strip clubs? I did think he was on the Hawks. He's a narc. He's a narc.

41:22Big Cat:He said the NBA should desire to protect and esteem women, many of whom work diligently every day to make this the best basketball league in the world. Yeah. We should promote an atmosphere that is protective and respectful of the daughters, wives, sisters, mothers, and partners. Agreed with that. That we know and love. Allowing this night to go forward without protest would reflect poorly on us as an NBA community, specifically in being complicit in the potential objectification and mistreatment of women in our society. I think listen I respect Luke Cornett for using his platform for logging on to medium.com and setting up an account and getting back in the blogging game I would just counterpoint and say that it's okay for people to be horny also none of your business because you're not in this game the thing about being horny is people have been horny literally for the entire history of the world guys have been like tits are great but they're not allowed to promote certain places is like a strip club.

42:18PFT Commenter:But if he was playing in this game, I would totally understand it. I'd be like, all for it. Hey, man, you don't really want to be in a game. What about the kids? Would you bring your kid to Magic City Night and they're like, hey, dad, what's Magic City? Can we go? These wings are so good. But I don't think they're going to have naked answers. What if a kid goes and is like, these are the best wings I've ever had in my life. Can we please go get these wings? Yeah.

42:39Big Cat:Then I'll be like, alright, ask your mother.

42:43PFT Commenter:Alright, so here's where we're going to land. Let's be reasonable about this. Good message, Luke Cornett. Not shit on Luke Cornett. I will do one thing, though, and it will be the first thing we've done because we've done the reverse a lot. Luke Cornett, you're officially not invited to Max's bachelor party. I think that's fair. We can't have him. Banned. We cannot have him. And there's no offense to the guy. We can't have him, Hank. Do you not agree? I mean, he probably has a game anyway. You can't have him. Right, Max? You can't have him. No, that's not a bachelor party guy. Are there going to be strippers at the game?

43:20Big Cat:I don't think there's... They're not going to be on Luke Cornett's side. There's not going to be nipples at the game. I would like to maybe do Magic City Day on part of my take. Yeah, but if they have a Magic City night, you're not going to invite the staff?

43:32PFT Commenter:Well, it says right here, special live recording of Hawks. So it's Magic City's kitchen's world-famous wings. They're talking about the wings. You're actually a pervert, Hank. Just remind... You and Luke Cornett are perverts for thinking it's about the strip club. It's about the wings. Do you guys know about the Philly Wing Bowl? Yeah, of course. It kind of sounds like this. It's basically Wings and a podcast. Wings and boobs. Yeah.

43:52Big Cat:So they're doing Wings, a podcast, and they're selling a hoodie. Wait, wait. It's Magic City, Premier Atlanta Strip Club. They're doing Wings, a podcast, and they're selling a hoodie. Those are the three things that they're doing. I don't see anything on there about adult entertainment. It's Magic City.

44:06PFT Commenter:No, but similar to 11, maybe Magic City. I've never been, but maybe it's a wing place with strippers, not a strip club. MagicCity.com. Magic City, Premier Atlanta Strip Club. I'm going to go to MagicCity.com and see.

44:22Big Cat:MagicCity.com.

44:23PFT Commenter:Let's just see what the website looks like. I have no problem. Luke Cornett should use his platform wherever he wants. I happen to disagree, and he's not invited to the bachelor party. That's it. That's fair. This is like a handshake. Like, you think your thing, I think my thing. We can disagree. Great. There's no nipples on the website.

44:40Big Cat:There's no nipples? No. Luke Cornett, what he's doing is he's actually drawing more attention to the strippers.

44:44PFT Commenter:Do you think he's getting paid by Magic City? This could be viral. I think that might be it. It's literally viral. Luke Cornett. My real problem with all of this is I just assumed Luke Cornett was playing in this game, and then when I figured out he wasn't. And are the Hawks going to have Magic City on their jerseys? They probably will. And they're playing the Magic? That feels like bad planning. Let's see Magic City. That feels like crazy planning, does it not? Is it going to be the Magic City versus the Magic?

45:12Big Cat:We should really do Magic City Day on part of my take. Just for the wings. We'll just get some lemon pepper wings.

45:18PFT Commenter:Super Bowl's in Atlanta in two years. Yeah, we'll do a podcast. If Magic City wants to reach out, we'll do a podcast for Magic City. 100%. Yep, for the wings.

45:26Big Cat:I still feel like there's a stolen valor of the wing bowl. Why? Why? This has nothing to do with Philly. You think Philly invented wings? They invented wings and boobs. Wings and boobs. I was just explaining to Zach what the wing bowl was, And he still doesn't believe that it's a real thing.

45:43PFT Commenter:It's actually kind of like it's a sad part of the Eagles actually winning the Super Bowl. They stopped doing it. They stopped doing the Wing Bowl. For the people that don't know, the Wing Bowl in Philly, once a year, right before the Super Bowl, they would have a wing-eating competition at the Sixers Stadium. And for some reason, there would just be strippers also in the stadium going up and down the aisles. and it was also kind of like Mardi Gras that if the Jumbotron cut to a girl, they basically had to. Had to? Or else it would be like visceral boos from the crowd. And they did this because the Eagles had never won a Super Bowl.

46:23Yeah. And then they won a Super Bowl and they stopped. I mean, it's insane that that was a real thing that happened, but it was. It's probably good that it got canceled.

46:31Big Cat:But listen, I think that it's more offensive to women that they would be there watching a Hawks magic game. That's yeah, that that would be the real tragedy. But I think it's in our best interest to just wait for all the facts to come out. By that, I mean, let's wait to see what Charles Barkley has to say. And then whatever he says, people will be like, yeah, that makes sense.

46:49PFT Commenter:Don't you think, Hank, it's a little demeaning of Luke Cornett to be like, this is disgusting. What the strippers like strippers have the right to do whatever they want to do. Like that's that's you're demeaning their profession.

47:04strippers can do whatever they want to do.

47:05PFT Commenter:Yeah, but Lou Cornette's kind of a meeting in the profession. It's the team endorsing it.

47:11Big Cat:I mostly have a problem.

47:13PFT Commenter:I have a problem with a cancel culture guy right now.

47:17Big Cat:I'm offended on behalf of Magic City. Yeah, I just think about the kids. For the Atlanta Hawks to put their brand on it. I'm thinking about the kids. Yeah, that's true, too. There's not going to be any strippers there. I want to go to Magic City and not think about the Atlanta Hawks. Yeah. That's offensive that you make me think about that basketball team.

47:32PFT Commenter:I'm with you if they were like, hey, we're going to have strippers. You can't bring a kid to that. This is about the wings. It's not. It is. It says world famous wings. And a TI performance. And a TI performance.

47:45Big Cat:Are you a community together? You ever have the lemon pepper wet?

47:48PFT Commenter:No.

47:49Big Cat:You would like it wet. You should wait until you have the lemon pepper wet, then open your mouth.

47:54PFT Commenter:That was a really good discussion we had. Okay. I still can't believe he's not playing in the game. Was that not shocking to you? No, yes, it's a major. I thought for sure they were playing the Spurs or like I said, that Luke Cornett would have been traded to the Hawks.

48:10Big Cat:It's a major. What is Ja Rule thinking at this moment? I got to know any controversy in the NBA now. Got to rush to medium.com and see what Luke says.

48:18PFT Commenter:Okay. PFT, your hot seat, Kul Teron.

48:21Big Cat:My hot seat is stolen valor. Oh. Because me and Big Cat just stole some serious valor. We did? And it's pretty incredible. Oh, yeah. Pretty incredible. Yeah, we did. So we had forgotten about this, but these just appeared on our desk yesterday. Don't call me PFT commenter anymore. Don't call Big Cat Big Cat anymore. I'm now Colonel commenter, and this is Colonel Cat. We are officially Kentucky colonels as licensed by the state of Kentucky. Signed by the governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear. Yeah. Insane. Pretty crazy. Now, it might be from last year. It does say 2025, but we just found these certificates yesterday.

49:04Big Cat:Oh, really? I didn't realize that. I just saw it in the year of our Lord, 2025, in the 233rd year of the Commonwealth. Yeah, February 21st, 2025, Big Cat and I officially became Kentucky colonels as signed off on by the governor of the state for our work in reuniting Rick Pitino with Big Blue Nation.

49:27PFT Commenter:incredible Hank would you like to apologize to PFT and I now knowing that you were talking to two colonels no what does that even mean

49:35Big Cat:we're a colonel dude what is a colonel do you know what a colonel is it's a rank higher than you what are you yeah what are you

49:43PFT Commenter:you're not a colonel are you private what are you I'm a human we're colonels we're humans and colonels I'm a human colonel so you're popcorn respect the bat popcorn respect that that's your thing of orville reddenbach we should get badges we should gotta get guns we should get guns and badges and those are like we need to get stripes to put on our shoulders yeah we gotta we gotta get badges we gotta start flashing badges people i don't know

50:09Big Cat:what this means but i'm pretty sure that we can just go to kentucky and do whatever we want yep

50:14PFT Commenter:and oh we got a trick hank into going to kentucky with us then we arrest them oh yeah yeah no you

50:19Big Cat:have power of arrest we can be judge jury and executioner yep in the commonwealth of kentucky Thank you to the state. Yeah. I've always wanted to be a colonel, but I didn't want to sign up for the military. This is way easier.

50:31PFT Commenter:Dude, you're fucked, Hank.

50:32Big Cat:Yeah. You're so fucked. Yeah. You better stay out of Kentucky, buddy. You are so fucked. I wouldn't set foot in Frankfurt. Stay out of Louisville. It is a lifetime commission, so you're good there.

50:42PFT Commenter:Okay. All right. Done. So we always can fall back on that. If shit gets crazy, it's like, hey, we're still colonels. What do colonels get, Hank? There are 350 ,000 living colonels. All right. How many people are in the world, Hank? Seven billion. So three good odds.

51:00Big Cat:350 ,002.

51:01PFT Commenter:Yeah.

51:02Big Cat:Update that.

51:03PFT Commenter:So what do we get with it?

51:05Big Cat:Do we get chicken? I'm trying to find some other notable ones. Do we get a horse? I'm trying to look this up right now. The historic Kentucky. That also might mean like in history, Hank. Is this the first podcast ever done by two colonels?

51:19PFT Commenter:Might be. Probably Kentucky Sports Radio, maybe. You think they're colonels? No chance. I'll ask Matt Jones. I bet Matt Jones is. He probably had something to do with this. I'll ask Matt Jones if he's a colonel. Are you an official?

51:31Big Cat:Is this like being knighted? Yeah. We're knighted in Kentucky. This is like it's better than a key to the city. We can do whatever we want in the entire state.

51:40PFT Commenter:Love it.

51:42Big Cat:Let's see. We probably get free bourbon.

51:45PFT Commenter:Mm-hmm.

51:47Big Cat:Every governor decides the selection process and number of colonel C's that are issued. the process has previously required a nomination from another colonel our direct recognition i think that maybe matt jones might have nominated us to be colonels yeah it's uh we're on par with the indiana sagamores of the wabash okay the nebraska admirals okay the ohio commodores the rhode island commodores the texas admirals and the arkansas travelers we should collect them all Yeah, next to him. Bill Clinton's a colonel.

52:23PFT Commenter:Yeah, okay. Cool. Great. Awesome. Good guy. Parts of him. Had a lot of fun. We're good. Bobby Knight. Yeah. Yeah. Legend. Well, no. So take one off the 350. He's dead.

52:39Big Cat:Arkansas Traveler. That feels like the next one. Yeah. I would like to be an Arkansas Traveler.

52:43PFT Commenter:What was the Texas one?

52:45Big Cat:Admiral. Texas. I think it's an admiral in the Texas State Navy. Love it. Yeah.

52:51PFT Commenter:Love it. We're in. Okay, what's your cool throne?

52:54Big Cat:I was just too excited about that. My cool throne is going to be, it's actually more of a hot seat, but cool throne is, I guess, Hank. He's not a colonel? Because, no, he kind of turned his back on Live Golf not too long ago. And now there's like an international diplomatic crisis brewing with the Live community and the Live Tour. because you've got eight players that are in the Live Golf League that are stuck and doesn't look like they're going to be able to make it to Hong Kong for their next event of the year because of the war. So all their plans are grounded over there. And so now you've got guys like Lee Westwood and Sam Horsfield, real legends of the game, that won't be able to make it to the next Live Golf event.

53:41Big Cat:Potential four aces. And this is why you get involved with the Saudis in general is so that you can make sure to get your way out of war zone. They're really good at that type of thing. And it seems like they're taking their eye off the ball a little bit. Are any of these guys aces, Hank? Tom McKibben? Caleb Surratt? Oh, Thomas Dietry. Yes. The twin Toms, right? Twin Toms. Twin Toms. So you lost to four ace. That's not good. You've got an ace that's stuck. What are you looking up right now? Are you looking up colonels? He's looking up if there's any death penalty for killing a Kentucky Colonel.

54:15Charlie Chapman.

54:16Big Cat:Okay. Chris Tableton. Okay. All right. Yeah, we're Colonels, dude. Get used to it. And you will address us as such. Enjoy it. Enjoy our Colonel. So I would like to see you salute us, Hank. Yeah, why don't you salute us, Hank? I would not be doing that. Come on.

54:32PFT Commenter:Zach, give us a little salute. To the forehead. Look at that. Thank you, Zach. That's a good soldier. Thank you. Hey, thank you, Max. Memes? Okay. Thank you. Everyone here is respected colonel except Hank. He is not saluted. Dick Smothers. Awesome name. Very cool. Great name.

54:46Big Cat:Also, cool throwing memes. Happy birthday, memes. Happy birthday, memes. Everybody wants to know about memes' birthday.

54:51PFT Commenter:Happy birthday, memes. Happy birthday, memes. Good guy, memes. I hope you get everything you want. 30. I'm turning 30 until I turn 40. It's 31. Okay. Okay. Happy birthday, memes. We love you. You do anything fun, memes? No. Might get a blowjob. Oh, memes. Eves. Don't say that around, Hank. Yeah. Play some NCAA. Rebuild the Jets. You act like it's a good night.

55:17Big Cat:Picking up a six-pack from the sword. I'm like, I'm going to have a blowjob.

55:20PFT Commenter:I'm going to have a blowjob tonight. I love it. Okay, my hot seat is Floyd Mayweather, because I'm starting to think Floyd Mayweather might not have a lot of money left. So he's fighting Manny Pacquiao in September, which we already talked about. he's also fighting a greek kickboxer in june in athens greece it feels like floyd mayweather shouldn't be fighting this much at his age no i mean i'm i'm respectfully opting out of all

55:51Big Cat:floyd mayweather content yeah i don't think i'm gonna watch a single i i don't want to see floyd mayweather do anything i wish he would just go off and kind of be peaceful live his life respectfully floyd we had a long time when a big part of the sports attention economy was dedicated around floyd mayweather and all the weird shit that he was up to i thought it was past that so i would like to remain past that there was a first lady named ladybird yeah we know that ladybird johnson yeah that's crazy johnson's fun fact why do you say

56:21PFT Commenter:over after jfk got fucking she's a colonel ahead she's a car they have lady head woke colonels now

56:30PFT Commenter:I always wondered this if you're Floyd Mayweather and you were running out of money why wouldn't you do one of these last like the Pacquiao fight or something and then save it what do you mean save the money yeah because if you're if you've known like super insane rich and then you go broke but you have the ability to basically get out of debt with a one-time fight, wouldn't you just do the one-time fight and then be like, all right, hey, I'm going to live normal now?

57:05Big Cat:You would think that that would be... He's in debt. He's just trying to get back to zero and then he's going to accrue more debt. But every time they have a fight like this and they get paid off it, they think, oh, I still got it. People still care about me so I can do another one next time. Yeah, just... You know what he should do? He should do, like... Okay, Floyd Mayweather for one night only. I'm just going to take on the first 20 guys that want to fight me. Just like off the street. Random dude stepping in the ring. Bonnie Blue. One by one. Yeah. He should be the Bonnie. Yeah. Bonnie Blow.

57:35PFT Commenter:Yeah. Max, would you like to say anything? Correct yourself from Sunday. Queen Elizabeth. Go ahead. Mayweather. Yeah. Mayweather Pacquiao. Yeah. I said it was the first ever sporting event in this sphere. It's the first boxing event in this sphere. There was UFC card there, which I don't remember at all. Okay. But it did happen. Thank you, because people were very upset. People were mad at me. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that that one slipped my mind. It's very funny, the idea of someone in AWL, the 10-year anniversary, listening, and still being like, how do they fuck this up? We fuck up everything.

58:10Literally every show, we're littered landmines of errors and mistakes.

58:17Big Cat:That's a pretty easy one. Yeah, that's a pretty... I'd say let that one slide on us.

58:21PFT Commenter:Yeah, let that one... For the 10-year. You know what? take a couple pitches every now and then. We fuck up a lot of things. Some of them we got to just, you know, take a pitch.

58:30Big Cat:Yeah. Also, if you're going to have that energy for Max, save that energy for memes. Memes is right. Seahawks not expected to tag Kenneth Walker III. Yeah. Memes got it right. As first reported by memes on this podcast. Teddy Two Gloves, Colonel. Matt Jones is a Colonel. Lamar Jackson, not a Colonel. Wow. I would like to nominate Lamar Jackson to be a Colonel. As a colonel, I'm entitled to do that.

58:55PFT Commenter:Yeah. Would you like to nominate Hank to be a Colonel Big K? Absolutely not. He didn't salute us. My cool throne is Vincent Trocek's son, because I don't know if you guys saw this, but... Oh, so it was Matt Jones who made it happen. Oh, wait. Maybe he said yes who made that happen. I think that's him. Thank you if it was you. Vincent Trocek's son had the quote of the NHL trade deadline. By the way, I love the NHL trade deadline. They do it right, like a month before the end of the season. That's what it should be. It shouldn't be halfway through. You should be able to keep the hope alive. I like the baseball.

59:31I like the baseball trade deadline. What? It's like just enough time to make a run.

59:36PFT Commenter:Yeah. Yeah, that's closer. I'm saying, yeah, like the NFL and NBA. It's like, why are we doing this? So, you know, give us a little bit, go a little bit deeper. But anyway, Vincent Trocek said that he was, he talked to his kids about the possibility being traded to prepare them and his son who is seven uh replied well i'll stay because you know i have a hockey team here and i didn't get traded good thought by the son he's right he is 100 % right like he yeah the family doesn't get traded yeah only daddy gets traded yeah uh i i read an

1:00:07Big Cat:article about the trade deadline in the athletic the other day and it was like here's what we expect teams to do and pretty much every team was just like we expect them to make a move just like it's wide open, this trade deadline. A lot of teams. Nobody knows what's going to happen. I saw that the Avs might get active with it, get back in the game. I saw one thing that was kind of fun to look at. Goalie Bob maybe goes out to Edmonton. That would be fun. That would be a fun thing to look at.

1:00:34PFT Commenter:Yeah.

1:00:34Big Cat:I don't know. It feels like there's going to be a chaotic trade deadline. Yeah.

1:00:38PFT Commenter:Okay. Zach, finish us off. My hot seat this week is going to be Rams fans. Okay. Los Angeles Rams fans, more specifically because Pugan Kula might be focused on everything but football right now. Yeah, he seems like he's having a good time. He's on an elite bachelor run. We're talking Sarah Safari at the mall, undercover. We're talking ice side, overtime Meg.

1:01:00Big Cat:I know what all these words mean, but Hank doesn't. Can you explain them to Hank? The overtime Megan picture is so funny. I'm going to send it to you.

1:01:12PFT Commenter:Say what you said again. Ice side with overtime make. Okay, that makes sense. Instead of courtside, you know, they're at the Kings game. Yeah, yeah. Ringside, ice side, yeah, we're right there. But it looks like a great time. But I think you should be worried if you're a fan because he's not focused on the game.

1:01:31Big Cat:He did have a good line to Sidney Sweeney the other day, though. I guess that was a couple weeks ago. where she said she was looking for a risk taker, someone who goes skydiving, and he just quotes me and said, I love skydiving. He's playing the field crazy, but he's not playing the football field. So they're at a hockey game, and they've showed him on the Jumbotron, and they have the name tags. It's like Puka Nakua, and then in small font above it is his at, and it's whatever, Puka is dead. For Megan, they put overtime Megan as her official name, and then her at is her actual real name.

1:02:04PFT Commenter:Oh, that's great. That's great. By the way, Zach, I would counterpoint Puka doesn't have a game. I know, but when you're on this kind of heater, I think it's going to transcend and this is going to bleed into the regular season. This feels like Sean McVay sitting in his office being like, you know what, I'm going to give him like two more weeks, and then I'll give him a call. Okay, so he's got time. Yeah, he's got a little more time. He's got a little more time. Guys can't go to sports games? I agree. That's what I'm saying. Sean McVay's going to give him a couple more weeks, and then he's going to be like, all right, hey, OTAs are going to be here sooner than you think.

1:02:34PFT Commenter:Like, let's just get back in shape. What would Luke Cornett think about this? He'd be disgusted. Disgusted. Yeah. At a hockey game? Going to a hockey game? There might be people going to say about the NHL. Think about what if he went to Detroit and he went to a Wings game. Gross. Luke Cornett can't be around Wings. Crazy. That's what we've heard. All right, your cool throw on? My cool throw on this week is figure skating fans. Okay. Because Stars on Ice just dropped. we had a great run watching all the figure skaters in the Olympics and now if you wanted to see them compete or kind of skate around all the hitters are going to be there and there's like several dates quad god there national champion there I told this story on the yak but I felt a little bad about it so our good friend Nick Turrani got engaged and he had a little engagement party at a bar on Saturday so I stopped by and KB was there with his fiance and I was sitting there and KB was like hey my fiance had a question for you and uh because she was like you know like she likes sports she was trying to bond over sports and she was like what did you think about the quad god and the figure skating the olympics and i just went thumbs down that was my response so i and i was like after i was like that wasn't that wasn't an appropriate response that was i was acting like an idiot i think that's appropriate but i that's how i feel like i don't care about figure skating we we cleaned it up we had a further conversation but yeah i felt bad in the moment where i was like how did you that's not normal life is not to react to someone's question

1:04:09Big Cat:with when it's olympic figure skating and it's after the olympics i think it's that's appropriate oh yeah no listen our brains we changed the channel after the olympics it's like let's move on oh she was asking if i cared during and it's still yeah uh but yeah my my brain i i don't i

1:04:24PFT Commenter:I don't regret how I feel about it with the thumbs down fart sound. It's more I should have probably prefaced it with like, hey, I don't really care. Then hit her with the.

1:04:32Big Cat:It also seemed like you were trying to embrace debate, and I don't think she was ready for a debate. She was ready for a discussion. Yeah. Like a proactive, cheerful, positive discussion. Yeah. Not banter. Zach, I got a question for you. Back to overtime, Meg. Yes, sir. She's not the one that was hanging out with AB before you went nuts, was she? No, that was a falsely reported. They were trying to say that was Overtime Meg, but it wasn't Overtime Meg. Okay, because then I was going to get back on board of like, yeah, Pooker should stop. Overtime Meg used to date Kyle from Nelk. Got it. But then she caught him maybe cheating in the background of a TikTok, and then they had a public break.

1:05:11PFT Commenter:No, this is where I selectively turn off half my brain so that it's like I can't accidentally absorb any of this information. That was good. Yeah, but I don't want that to stick. Because I don't have enough storage. Yeah, that was correct. You know when you have to delete some photos in your photo album to get the storage to download something? If I took that information and held on to it, I'd have to delete other things. I don't want to do that.

1:05:35Big Cat:Yeah, about college basketball during football season. It's not worth it. Listen, I have very limited storage in my brain right now. That's in danger of pushing all my clavicular knowledge out, and I can't have that.

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1:07:39PFT Commenter:okay we now welcome on two very very very very special guests one recurring it is the kachuk brothers brady and matthew gold medal winners american heroes american heroes uh they also have a podcast which everyone should go listen to it comes out every wednesday it's called wingmen with matthew and brady kachuk boys thank you for joining us i think the first question is uh Like, how does it feel? We're a week after. Do you still have the glow? Do you still have that feeling of because it was a moment that I think we can all agree having the entire country come together and just embrace you guys and no controversy whatsoever.

1:08:18PFT Commenter:It was awesome. Yeah. Well, first of all, thanks for thanks for having us. To answer your question about the glow, I've got some serious glow on me right now, and I have since last Sunday. It's kind of that all-time high feeling that it doesn't matter what's going on in our days or whatever. For example, we're playing in the island last night, and I hear the national anthem. And every time I hear the national anthem right now, it brings me back to having my arms around my brothers, listening to it, seeing our flag go up above Canada. It's just the little things that bring you back. It seems like every day there's some moments that just continue to bring me back to this amazing few-week journey in Milan.

1:09:06Just so lucky I could do it with Brady. I'm not going to lie. I've worn this pretty much daily. Yeah, he's wearing his medal right now. The medal stays on.

1:09:12PFT Commenter:I love that. Brady, do you feel the same way? Yeah. I've got the McGregor shrug going around auto right now. Right at the rank of this. I'm feeling pretty good about myself. But no, I mean, it's just, it's still like, feels like you're in a dream and somebody's got to wake you up. And I mean, the fact you're still wearing that math, your neck's got to be as strong as ever because that thing's heavy. It's like, it's like you doing the, I got to start doing the neck warmups that you did guys. I got a quick story to add about this. So Brady, so we were crying, laughing at Brady's warmups at the Olympics.

1:09:43There's nobody plays in Ottawa other than Sanderson. So we don't see like the shit that he does. And he comes in for a warmup one day, His hands all taped up like he's about to go fight Rocky. He's wearing a sleeveless shirt that he cut himself, and he's doing these neck stuff on the bench. And guys are like, this is insane. So I think it was all part of the culture that the characters on the team built. I mean, there were some insane characters on that team, and I think that's what helped make us successful.

1:10:16Big Cat:What was the more patriotic national anthem, The one after you guys won the gold medal where you see the flag up there right above Canada's or the one that you guys sang at 11? Because that seems like... I said that every strip club should play the National Anthem. I know that 11 is not a strip club. Yeah, we had your back on the show. It's a nightclub with naked women. It's different. We had a whole...

1:10:37PFT Commenter:We're like, listen, everyone who's upset about this 11 thing, it's not a strip club. It's a club with strippers. There's a big difference.

1:10:44Big Cat:I just love the idea of playing the National Anthem before you see some tits. I think that every person should do that. So tell me about that moment and how wonderful that was. All champions, it's all roads lead to 11. We've done it the last few years. Indiana did it when they won. But I don't know. Brady, you could answer. I got to throw in another one, though, because one was really special, too, was went to Elbow Room on Wednesday, the day I got back after the White House, and they sang it a few times there. And that was pretty patriotic, too. So that's a pretty good one, two, three. I don't know.

1:11:22I don't know. I didn't really expect it at 11, so I think that caught me by surprise. But it was pretty cool looking around, seeing everybody singing it, got the flags waving. And, yeah, that was something I didn't expect.

1:11:36PFT Commenter:Yeah, yeah. All right, I got a question about the actual game because it was so awesome. And, you know, we, as sports fans, as Americans, we felt the glow too. I was walking around feeling a little extra something for a few days there. But the actual game was an incredible game. Did you guys, going into the game, before the game, did you know, you're like, hey, this is going to be a war, and it's also going to be probably one of the speed on the ice is going to be on another level. How were you mentally preparing for that as you get ready to go on the ice against Canada? Yeah, I mean, I think that we were preparing.

1:12:14like it was going to be the 40 best players in the world on the ice at the same time, which it was. Like the talent on that ice was insane. The speed, the skill, the physicality. And what people don't realize in those types of games is with that much skill, like it's never going to be a 5-4, 6-5 game. Like it's always going to be a 1-0, 2-1 because the guys take so much more pride in not giving up a goal than actually going out there and scoring one. So we knew it was going to be tight. We didn't know we were going to need the best goaltending performance of all time, but we got it. And Brady, that's actually a good reminder.

1:12:53We should probably send out our daily text to Helly. Thank you, Helly. Thank you.

1:12:58PFT Commenter:Yeah, wait. So, Helly, obviously incredible performance. Is there a moment early in the game where you knew he was locked in? Or maybe it was pregame where you're just like, oh, this is different. Because I think I realized it probably somewhere late because I'm not as dialed in. but like somewhere in the second period, I was like, oh, this is like, this is him putting the team on the back here. Like he's going to, he's going to fucking do this. Yeah. I think some point in the second when everybody on the bench kept saying, this is their best, let's just get back to our game. And then they just kept getting better and just kept shooting the puck and kept saving it.

1:13:33That I was like, okay, he's, he's locked in back there. The breakaway, I think with McDavid was in the second and just kind of outweighed him and was super like that's what I noticed just how calm and super patient he was and to be patient against McDave you have to be truly confident in yourself so that was the moment there and then we get into the third period and those three grade A chances that don't know how they didn't score I was on the ice for all three of them so I was like alright well this is meant to be we're winning this game like those three should be in the back of the net they're not I come back to the bench alright boys here we go there we go somebody's like brady how about him before overtime too yeah like he's like uh like we're just going over like somebody's gonna be the hero and then he's just like look he's like is it gonna be like is it five on five no way he's like no it's three and three he's like all all right sweet and i just carried on like it was i was like looking around i'm like oh boy but that's oh boy he was a beauty that's a testament to how locked in he is like the

1:14:35PFT Commenter:like old stories of like tom brady taking naps before the super bowl where it's like almost the guy who's who's like so calm it's weird is usually the guy who's so locked in yeah i think he was like i think he was like exactly what you want in a starting goalie like in the magnitude of that game because they did a great job of not really like we knew how big of a game it was but they did a great job of like controlling like how much we knew like people were watching like and then we come back to the U.S. and it's like a madhouse. But we knew it was big, but they kept it pretty calm-ish. And then seeing Helly and seeing him on the bus and he's taking naps on the way to games on the bus, just hanging in the bus.

1:15:18It was crazy. It was exactly what you want from a starting goalie. I mean, obviously, we don't have this gold medals without him, so we're very lucky.

1:15:27Big Cat:Thank you, Helly. You mentioned the group chat. Do you guys still have the group chat going? Oh, it's firing all day. It's still going. All day, every day since. I love that. Has anybody added somebody from Canada to the group chat just to fuck with them? Like, oops, my bad, Connor. Didn't mean to put you on here. No, that hasn't happened yet. But I knew this was like a special group when just the times that we're having. But everybody after was like, this group chat is going to stay alive for a very long time. So it's the amount of text that is just absolutely a gong show that we have going on, a bunch of inside jokes and shit like that that guys are still doing.

1:16:11And I mean, I truly miss it. I miss the boys. I miss representing our country. It was such an unbelievable experience.

1:16:19PFT Commenter:Yeah. I was listening to your guys' podcast, Wingman, which comes out every Wednesday. and I was it was funny because I was listening to it I was like these guys sound like guys who just went on the greatest bachelor party of all time and they also happen to win a gold medal at the end because that like like hanging out with the boys you guys were talking about it how like the camaraderie was there and it's got to be just like it has to be something just totally different because in the NHL you're traveling city to city and you all are like moving around and everyone you know when you have home games you're all staying at your own house did it feel like it was like like almost like summer camp or something when you guys were there that's that's so funny you say that because ike's uh jack eichel actually said the exact same thing like towards the end of it he's like i think he was shaking his head on the way to the airport um monday morning he's like boys that was the greatest three-week bachelor party of my life like that is the best way to describe what just happened um what i think is so special about the whole experience and just like how what made it so great is everybody kind of crossed paths with each other at some point like the usntdp was huge youth hockey tournaments i mean some of my best friends were on that team that i grew up playing with um you know just like besides brady like the guys that in my hockey career i've played with the longest like on that team so um i think it just helped so much to like the chemistry like from the start even from the start of four nations last year was at an all-time high and it just continued to carry it over here and then we're staying in the village which i really think was like our i don't know ace of spades like that was our like trump card on everything because we spent every second with each other and had every meal with each other team meals um playing cards every single night hanging out um you know with the women's team watching events or other athletes speed skaters figure skaters so we just got to enjoy the whole experience and uh the camaraderie with the group like i don't know if there will ever be a group that is that tight or that has that much history um you know with throughout the whole the whole squad so um i truly miss it too um and i'm honestly already looking forward to this world cup in a few years got to keep playing good so we could be on that team yeah yeah like the energy that you guys were giving off was basically like someone turns to to everyone on the last day being like why don't we just fucking why don't we all leave our families and just like play in the olympics forever like that one day at a bachelor party where everyone's like this is sick we should we just get a place together and then you're like ah shit probably can't do this every day of our lives but it would be sick yeah that that would be unbelievable that conversation probably happened multiple times in miami we should just we should just do it hey let's just do it i think we i think we have like literally five like sets of dates planned this summer for a reunion like there's like a world cup soccer game there's uh chelios is giving us his malibu place he said for the week a weekend we've got a golf trip and and now everybody wants the first weekend of august locked in every summer for like the boys weekend so we'll figure it out but uh there's a lot of great ideas

1:19:35Big Cat:floating around right now yeah i love that and probably a lot of promises made under the influence like, yeah, next free agency. Let's just all play together in the NHL. Let's just do this for the rest of our lives, boys. It was awesome to watch. And going back to last year with the Four Nations, we saw as a start of it, as American hockey fans, we fell in love with this team in that match against Canada where we were out there chucking knucks from the get-go. And it seemed like you guys brought an element of physicality to the team last year that I wanted to see in the Olympics. You weren't allowed to fight, though.

1:20:06Big Cat:How did you get all that aggression out? how did you make the team become even that much tighter when you're not allowed to get in these line brawls? I mean, that was definitely such a great experience, like the Four Nations. That was kind of realizing how impactful that was. But I mean, I know for me, it almost gave you a free just run around and you don't really have to answer the bell. So it's like, I'm just going out there and try to put your toe caps touching the ceiling and uh and then just kind of run around with knowing not to fight and knowing that uh but i think it just showed like the way we played just the way that we had each other's backs and and just the unity and and uh um just how we're willing to do whatever it takes i i've been i think everybody played that way everybody played super hard and and uh i mean there's a couple scrums where you just kind of have a free-for-all but uh i don't i don't math and i I had a fun one in Slovakia that didn't turn into anything, but some good pictures in the hallway after.

1:21:09Big Cat:Yeah. Can you tell me about the gold medals? How does the gold medal feel? Is it heavy? It's heavier than people think, but it's insane. It almost rivals the cup. Maybe not quite the cup because the Stanley Cup is only one of them, but I actually brought this to the rink yesterday. to the islanders to the game against the islanders and my sister came with one of her with her best friend and um we had to do a few things like behind the scenes with with the metal like some pictures and showing some people with the islanders organization but i'm like taryn like i'll give i'll have somebody bring it up to you and you can wear it for the game and even she said like the amount of people that are coming up just to take a picture just see if they can like hold it or touch it like it's it's uh one of the most amazing things like ever like what it does to people like people just freak out over it and uh i mean rightly so it is the olympics and it is a gold medal but it's uh it's just amazing to see and uh kind of goes like back to what we were talking a little bit um you know over the last week it's just like the support we've gotten has been incredible like we almost felt like we were like america's team there for a bit where everybody whether they liked hockey or not they were tuning in and they were cheering for us so um it just makes a whole it makes everything so much more special just knowing the support we got yeah did you guys get the Olympic ring tattoos?

1:22:31Big Cat:Need them. You got to get those. I know. The boys are talking about it. That was the 11 idea too. You're going after this, boys. You should. Everyone gets the Olympic tattoos. I feel like that's the next step. That's what you guys do on the boys' trip this summer.

1:22:47PFT Commenter:The camaraderie sounds incredible. I don't mean to maybe cause a riff, but are we a little... I mean, the Hughes brothers are kind of taking your guys' shine. You guys were the brothers, and now they're on SNL. Maybe they're just the pretty boy brothers. Is that what we've got to call them? Because they're on SNL and stuff? They're the brothers that show up and score the big goals. We're the brothers that just cause absolute shenanigans. They absolutely deserve everything that they're getting right now. I mean, Quinn, nobody's talking like Quinn had probably the biggest goal of the tournament versus Sweden just to keep us alive.

1:23:21And of course, Jackie boy, just what if like i mean i just still go back to the goal of like how and i i don't know how if you felt this way matt i don't even know if we've ever talked like just how much our brain froze in that moment of like yeah holy like did that go in and then like i i don't remember a single like the next five minutes yeah but but it's just a pure it's a pure like you just black out and you just hug and the amount of i love you's thrown out there it's like yeah the most insane few minutes And I think that Jack and Quinn, honest to God, are maybe at their positions the best three-on-three player.

1:24:00I'll throw McDavid in there too, obviously. But for a forward and for a defenseman, they have to be the two best in three-on-three in the NHL. So I think that everyone talks about all the skill and all the talent on Canada in a three-on-three or a four-on-four situation. We have just as much, if not more, in those situations. So we were very confident going into both overtimes that we were going to get it done. And those two are obviously going to be at the at the forefront for it.

1:24:26PFT Commenter:And I think one of the coolest things is like you guys know all you pretty much know each other at some point through like youth hockey. Because I read the story that Brady, you lived with Quinn lived in your house when you were in high school. Right. And what was the story about him not liking your dad's pack lunch? Because that that seemed like a crazy like a 16 year old Quinn Hughes being like, I'm going to stand up to Keith Kachuk. Like that's a bad idea. Yeah. Yeah. He, uh, I think the story was usually it was a couple of days a week. We'd like get food. Um, like my dad would go pick up like, uh, Chipotle or something like that.

1:25:01And, and, but, uh, I think this is the one day that we brought leftovers from the night before and just Quinn wanted no Chipotle instead. So he, uh, he didn't eat the leftovers that my dad gave him and then went to practice this once for the run came back and then realized he still had it but he didn't want to be like disrespectful and like be like oh i didn't like it or didn't eat it so he tossed the food like from the container out the window like by the house and then he just put it put it back on like with the utensils still like the plastic utensils like still in its wrappings comes up like puts up the lunch box up there then my dad was like uh how was lunch and was like oh it was it was really good like the leftovers were really good and he was like my dad was like well how'd you eat it if you didn't take the utensils out from the bag and then i think he like doubled down again and then finally he was like he admitted that he needed to eat it i didn't eat it yeah i didn't eat it i didn't eat it and then the next day like we're waiting it's like we're waiting for our lunch um and then all of a sudden we see my dad's car pull around like this little like circle doesn't stop rolls down the window just throws our just a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for the both of us just on the ground like i was like all right well thanks quid you

1:26:17PFT Commenter:have to be too i love it i love it but that's so cool that you guys like win a gold medal with guys that you've known for that long it makes it probably extra special i also saw like speaking of extra special the picture was going around of you guys at the 2006 i want to say olympics um which is pretty cool full circle i gotta ask though the the first picture the first thing i thought of was like holy shit keith's got an absolute whopper in his lip there what was it was it copenhagen what's he what was he doing i think back then he's often now i think it was copenhagen was long long cut just a hammer over his face i think it was grizzly just it was such a dad you don't want to fuck with because it's like you don't you obviously you know he you know he's keith chuck but if you just show someone that picture it's two little kids and then a dad with just a fucking hammer in.

1:27:08PFT Commenter:You're like, oh, man. What a dad of the year. That's a guy who's throwing peanut butter and jelly at you. Oh, yeah. Going back quickly to Quinn and Jack, we have on top of the team chat that is flying 24-7 or in another group chat that might buzz a little bit more, and that's me, Brady, Quinn, and Jack, and it's called the Golden Brothers, and it's probably one of my favorite group chats of all time and it's just a great way for us to like literally we're staying in touch just like we were at the village and every single night in the village or sorry every single night before game did we go after games too right i feel like we did both actually we did it all after the law we did it still yeah we would have a little hot stove in the hughes's room so they were the room they were 302 we were 301 right across the hall from each other.

1:27:59And those hot stoves we're going to miss forever. And honestly, were like some of the highlights of that tournament for us was just hanging out with them, shooting it, talking about nothing. And we did that pretty much every night. So the Golden Brothers chat is alive, it's well, and it is buzzing.

1:28:16Big Cat:That sounds incredible. It sounds like the best time ever. Matthew, I got to ask you, do you think that Connor McDavid wants to kill you? Do you think that he sits up at night thinking about you? Are you his sleep paralysis demon? Does he have your name written on any lists that he just stares at all? Because it's like he can't get rid of you. Every time he's close, you show up and you're just like, hey, remember, I got you. I mean, I don't say that. I mean, sometimes I definitely walk around with the chest out more than I should just because of the last couple of years. But, I mean, if roles were reversed, I'd be pretty rattled.

1:28:56so maybe he hates me. I'm sure he hates my teams more, but he's just such an incredible player that it's pretty crazy that he's been that close and hasn't got it. But eventually when you're that close and playoffs especially with a best of seven, eventually someday you got to think he's going to get it done. So I can't stop thinking, you said sleep paralysis. I can't stop thinking Brady of I saw him roommates with Brady not to change the subject away from it, but you just said that and it triggered this story. And I know Brady thought about it immediately. Brady had a sleep paralysis night in the village.

1:29:35And I was his roommate. I literally thought it was over. And Brady, Brady kept going like, just tell Doc, I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to make it. And it was like, after, after one of the games, it was just so funny. But Brady, you can tell that. yeah i don't even remember yeah no i remember i mean it ties into kind of everything it ties into the hughes like we were in the hughes's room and and then i came back i was exhausted but then like the lights were on because you were still wrapping up the conversation like i'm gonna i'm gonna die right now i'm gonna fall asleep so then i remember i sat in bed the lights were on and all of a sudden like felt my body just shut down i was like okay but my mind was still good and then you walk in the room and you're like hey what time are we waking up like what do you what time we wait and i just like tried speaking i tried like turning my head nothing so i put all my might know it i'm like call doc i think i'm dying and then then i could tell like he started freaking out my head's still buzzing like i'm still there but like i can't move and i said it again and that's like you seriously want me to call him and i finally accepted in my head i'm like you know what i can't keep fighting this anymore i finally busted up all my strength i just said if it's time it's time and i went back to bed so the boys on the team thought that was the funniest story at the tournament i slept great i can't imagine matthew slept too good

1:31:06PFT Commenter:by the way just brady we now that you guys are you know kind of in media doing your own podcast um we have you know been doing this for a long time we used to do a thing called pr 101 one I want to say you you guys you guys can always hit us up if you need help if you find yourself in a little uh controversy because listen I know you weren't the one who said close the borders but that was so easy you should have just gone in front of the media in in Canada and just been like yeah I said close the borders because I don't want to go back home I love Canada so much you should that was such a layup for you be like yeah I meant I meant I love it here so much I want them to never let me back into america yeah yeah that was an eventful media session after so i don't know if you guys saw that one but uh yeah i took it on the chin a couple times but uh that had to be was there like you guys talk about it like like the sunday scary so to speak for the guys that had to go back to canada and the guys that didn't because like it is probably a little different you have to go face the media in canada after you just rip their guts out whereas matthew gets to hang out at the fucking elbow room and go back to 11.

1:32:11Yeah, he's on a four-day bender. I'm sitting there just under the microscope. Yeah, that was... I mean, me and Austin are in the same position, right? Like being captains of Canadian teams. And I remember we were texting and he watched my media because he hadn't done it yet. So I've just been like, all right, this is what happened to me. So good luck with yours. But yeah, that was an experience for sure.

1:32:39Big Cat:Do you guys ever, when you're dealing with that with the media up in Canada, I feel like you guys should just be like, listen, I play hockey. I'm a hockey player. They're asking about international relations right now. It's like, I play hockey. I won a gold medal. I had the time of my life. If you're looking to me for any sort of political analysis of the situation, you are so far gone that we're off the planet right now. Yeah. I always came back to just unfortunate we just achieved our childhood dream. That's what we should be talking about. But yeah.

1:33:14PFT Commenter:You know what you should have hit them with? To quote Dana Beers, you should have hit them with the that's baseball. Stop. Stop it. I bet you the Canadian media watched and subscribed to the Yuggs station. Just hit them with a quick that's baseball and they're like, oh, I get it. That makes sense. Hey, Brady, I'm not using this as a recruiting tool because I don't want to get fined for whatever it's called, but we don't get asked those questions down in Florida. Just nice, easy questions. Just go about your business. You just hang out, play the game. That's baseball. That's baseball. Shout out to Ada Beers.

1:33:48Big Cat:Did you guys end up loving the song Free Bird as much as we do? Oh, yeah. We heard Free Bird courtesy of Red, White, and Blue. Dream on. In rotation 15 times in a row. Four in the USA at 11. all night. It was the world's easiest DJ job. It just kept getting better for us, but I can only imagine people feeling, all right, I've heard this song 15 times. Like Free Bird, I still listen to it every day. I'm listening to all those tunes every day just to bring me back. I will say it worked out. I listen to two songs every single day, but now, like not the whole day, but there's two videos that I watch pretty religiously every day right now.

1:34:34It's the Dream On video that our team sang in the locker room after. That's the video that I don't think anybody's seen, and we're going to keep that pretty tight because it's just a legendary video. But the one video that I've watched a lot that a lot of people have seen is JT Miller singing courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue at 11 with no music in the background. Majestic voice. I think that is the funniest fucking video ever. He's a legend.

1:35:02PFT Commenter:too so that was a hilarious time the uh i was like i said when you guys uh did your podcast recap i was laughing uh brady you said that you and jt miller were sitting next to each other in a pregame when coach said what was the exact quote like play with play smart or something he's like we're gonna have emotional control like he didn't like expecting to like go across the room just stopped right at milsy emotional control just kept hovering like hey milsy was he talking about us couldn't tell that's the shit every day like something like that like even random like points

1:35:37Big Cat:and meetings like we were just laughing about it yeah yeah what was the uh what was the pregame speech like before the gold medal game is that something that you guys have talked about like i i wish that there had been a camera in the locker room that i've seen to like really get the sense of of what that moment was like was it heavy was it tense or was it like just you know free balling and loose i think it was i mean i think it was pretty emotional in the sense like him talking about then we're talking about sully here just talking about the like the support we have from home um he mentioned that torts is uh torts his son uh who's in the military um you know all of them were watching um just the millions at home that have reached out and i just remember him always hitting like us with the American swagger.

1:36:24I mean, we're built different. This team use it like the whiskey drinkers. There's no milk drinkers. We're all whiskey drinkers, which I still, I think he meant more like just the crazy personalities we have. And

1:36:39I'm assuming he means like, we're just a bunch of animals that would just do everything possible to win and some serious, serious ultra competitors. And I just remember the American swagger, the American swagger, and then his speech before overtime, just saying, guys, who's going to be this hero in here? Who's going to be the hero that everyone's going to talk about? And I remember him just mentioning, you know, before the game, our lives have a chance to change forever after this game. And just all the emotions were hit. You know, the excited, there were still nerves. But just the excitement after that speech going out.

1:37:15I mean, I don't know if it was necessarily like the Herb Brooks miracle one that everyone sees in the movies, but it was pretty close, and it was awesome.

1:37:23PFT Commenter:Yeah. Yeah. All right, boys, I got one last question. Roback question. R-H-O-B-A-C-K.com, promo code TAKE. 20 % off your first purchase. Q-Zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts. Roback.com, promo code TAKE. Like I said, we got Matthew and Brady Kachuk. Awesome interview. You guys have a great podcast. Go listen to it. Wingmen with the two of them. You mentioned the Miracle. Dave did say before the gold medal game, he's like, you're a loser if you watch Miracle. leading into the gold medal game. Did anyone on the team pop it on during the week? I think some guys watched a documentary, the one that just came out.

1:38:02And I know we watched it before we got there, and that was unbelievable seeing the behind the scenes. I think it was Troach. Wasn't it Troach and Charlie maybe? They watched it the night before? Yeah, didn't see it, and they watched it. And I think that got the juices flowing by watching a documentary. But there wasn't a watch party. for anything. But, I mean, we had Rizzo there the night before, Mike Rizzione at dinner, and he talked about how this is just, for some guys, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity ahead of us. And he's sick and tired of being the last team in 1980, even though business is booming.

1:38:41Yeah, that's what he said. He's like, it's your guys' time, and it's our time to change the game in USA hockey for future generations. So he got us fired up.

1:38:52Big Cat:You guys don't have to name names, but as you go back to your teams, is there one person that hit up the group chat was like, boys, I am so hungover still. I know I have to play hockey tonight. I'm like, I don't know. I'm going to be able to lace them up and get out there. Oh, there's multiple. I don't know if we're going to name names, but I think the common thing that's being said in the group chat right now is I miss the good old days. that's the comment we kept saying that we kept saying that line like obviously from the office but we kept saying that all tournament like boys these are the good old days and we would just laugh we had the countdown going alright boys we have five more days of the good old days we have two hours we have one hour that's awesome have you guys thought about maybe showing up 40 years from now we're in the Olympics again and now you guys are the old guys giving the message hey you boys can do it I believe in you yeah i mean hopefully hopefully it doesn't take uh another 46 for for the united states to win um but you know i think really all we're thinking about right now is like how great of an honor it was and hopefully we can plan a few more um the best on best i mean it's it's been a shame that this was all of our first time going i think they they completely missed out on a few opportunities with that i think everybody especially from the outside watching like best on best is how it should be um so hopefully we have a chance to compete in a few more and you know can win a few more but um i think we have talked about like just the honor and what this meant for usa hockey um that they'll be talking about our team for for generations so i'm sure in 40 50 years they'll they'll they'll love for us to to come talk to that that group of players but um it really was a life-changing tournament a life-changing game um a life-changing gold medal and we're just so honored to represent the greatest country in the world and with that

1:40:45PFT Commenter:group of guys it made it that much better oh i i forgot i have one last last question um because i have to ask is people we really pissed at us yeah final final this would be really people really pissed if we don't they'll be like oh you're you know softballs all this do you guys want to apologize for winning uh on three on three because there was a lot of canadians who were very upset about that would you like to apologize for having it be three on three and winning the gold medal that way listen they listen they won four on four in 2010 nobody was complaining good point i mean good point they had it they had what they have mccarr mcdavid mckinnon out there i'm sure they would have taken that at the beginning i'm sure they were so confident going on you gotta do listen i'm gonna give you the pr 101 again what you gotta do is anytime there's something that you can't actually change yourself you gotta say that if you could you would change it so right after we won when i saw the canadians crying i was like hey just a heads up if i could go and change it to five on five i would unfortunately i'm just a guy sitting on my couch right now so there's nothing i can do but just so you know i would that's winning with class so anytime that happens you guys should just be like yeah listen we would change it if we could but we can't yeah that's almost like adding fuel to the fire oh yeah of course they know you're messing with them that's something brady and i would do yeah i don't know i don't know i think they i think they hit it i think they hit it pretty good um the whole tournament was crazy it's just so it's so different though like i don't know like brady what you think like especially after playing playoffs last year like the the difference between that and a best of seven is just like night and day.

1:42:20It's just such a different type of game, different type of tournament. They're all game seven. I really enjoyed it, though. It was a blast. I'm really looking forward to the next Best on Best.

1:42:30Big Cat:Yeah, so are we. Yes. Thank you, guys. It was so much fun to watch you guys.

1:42:35PFT Commenter:It was such a blast. Brady, when you're in Chicago at the end of March, you've got to come by again. Perfect. If we're there, I'm there. I had a lot of fun last year. You guys are the best. Thank you. Everyone go listen to Wingmen. Hopefully we see you guys soon.

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1:45:13PFT Commenter:Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very, very, very special guest. It is the creator of Family Guy, Ted 2, which is out on March 5th on Peacock. Ted Season 2, excuse me. Out on Peacock, March 5th. And he's created a bunch of stuff that we absolutely love. It's Seth McFarlane. Seth, thank you for joining us. uh what number interview are we today you're like uh like 39.5 okay okay all right because i was gonna say the last point five the last one didn't go so well i walked out or he walked out one of us walked out it was just a catastrophe but now we're moving on to pardon my take yeah and and it's a chance to reset i because we've been doing this a very long time and we could tell when it's uh One of the junkets where you're just going down the line.

1:46:08PFT Commenter:Yeah. So when did you begin? When was the first Pardon My Take? Ten years ago. When was the Pardon My Take pilot? Yeah. Ten years ago. We've been doing it for ten years. Ten years ago. Pretty much today. Yeah.

1:46:17Big Cat:Almost to the exact date. In 2016. Yeah. On leap day. So we're not really sure how old that makes us because it came out February 29th. Every day on a weekday. Yeah.

1:46:28PFT Commenter:Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That's a nice schedule. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Because people, I mean, we're pretty dumb. So people don't want to hear us that much. You know what? Join the club. So this will be perfect. Yeah. All right. So you're on the hour or whatever of doing all these interviews. What's the dumbest question you've gotten so far? So I don't ask the same question. The dumbest question I've gotten so far. Where are you guys broadcasting from? Chicago. Chicago. The dumbest question I've got is what's the capital of Chicago? Okay. The bean.

1:47:04Okay. And I said, my God, guys, Chicago's a city. Yeah. Chicago's the capital of Wisconsin.

1:47:14Big Cat:Right. I've got a pretty. That's what I said. I've got a dumb question, but I think you might have a smarter answer than the question is. Because I've always wondered when it comes to animated shows like you've created throughout the years, how you come up with the rules for who can hear who and what characters can hear other characters and understand them. but then some characters they can talk and we can understand them but the other people can't how do you come up with those rules and is it is that a fun part of the job no it's not fun at all because there's always a situation where you want the person uh for whom you've established a rule to be able to hear somebody who they cannot hear and then the rules forbid that it kind of evolved initially nobody could really understand stewie and then we were like okay chris can understand stewie and brian can understand stewie and and and that was that was uh we we gave ourselves a little bit of leeway in that regard i i'm not huge on the i tend to subscribe to the muppets uh philosophy that like look it's a frog it's a pig it's a bear it's a gonzo um everybody can understand them this is the world you live in and just kind of go with

1:48:25PFT Commenter:it yeah yeah i had a question uh about family guy because we're of the age we're both 41 so we were in that sweet spot where i i distinctly remember almost feeling like it was illegal getting the dvds a family guy after you've gotten canceled be like you got to check this out you got to see this stuff you got to get the good stuff and then having it come back how did it how did that go down where they were like hey are bad because that doesn't really happen in in show business in that industry where something gets canceled and then gets brought back. It's like, hey, we kind of screwed this up because it's actually a really good show.

1:48:59Yeah. I don't know that there's any precedent or whatever you call the thing after the precedent for that. I think Family Guy is sort of, it's a unique case. I was so young when that happened that I was... it just seemed normal to me. It's like, oh, I guess this happens all the time. Like shows get canceled and they go away and then they come back. Um, I was under a deal with Fox with 20th the whole time. So I, I, you know, it, there was never a point where I was out on the street. And right before that deal ended, they said, listen, this thing is doing very well on DVD. That's how long ago it was.

1:49:45Uh, we're, we're, we want to kind of sneak it back into production was the way they put it oh yeah um yeah and and here we are yeah it was many many years later and

1:49:57PFT Commenter:you're now you have all these you know other projects I almost said side project but do you feel that way where it's like Ted you know movies and now it's the the show that season two is is coming out but is it like hey the main thing was always family guy and I get the I'm lucky enough to be able to do all these other things or how does that how does that kind of work in your brain A hundred percent exactly like you just described it. Yeah, it's it's like family guy really is it remains the mothership that allows me to experiment and to try things. You know, there would be no Orville if family guy hadn't allowed it family guy.

1:50:34It is the it's the safety net that allows me the luxury of fucking up.

1:50:41Big Cat:Which is great to have like you get to really experiment. it oh no it's it is it's a gift yeah do you uh do you find yourself ever like saving stuff you're like man that's a that's a really good joke i just wrote i don't know if i want to use it on like a new series that i'm not sure if it's gonna are are you like maybe that's the best time to use it not not especially the only thing that i that i keep in my in my quiver um is the family guy movie that's that's the one thing that like if things ever get so bad that i really need this it's going to be there.

1:51:14PFT Commenter:I have a question about your music. The idea that you were able to revive Frank Sinatra for a lack of a better term and all the music that had sat and waited and that he wasn't able to make before he died. Can you explain that process? Because it is so awesome. For people who don't know, you made an album. You were basically not given, but you were You worked with Frank Sinatra Jr. You're able to access all of his old files and everything, all his old music. That's so cool. How did that all transpire? You know, that was, I mean, Frank Sinatra Jr. did several episodes of Family Guy, and he became a great friend to the show.

1:52:00And when he passed away, the stewardship of all of the orchestrations, all of the charts that Frank Sinatra had in his library fell to his Frank Jr. sister, Tina. And she called me and she said, would you want to acquire these things? And I said, hell yeah. And this is like 1 ,200 boxes worth of stuff. And most of it is, you know, things you've heard. And some of it are fragments of television recordings from the 50s and 60s and 70s that are 30 seconds long. But a very small part of that library consisted of songs and arrangements that he never recorded that were right in that sweet spot. There was a song that was cut from the Come Fly With Me album that was in there.

1:52:51There was a song that was cut from the Only the Lonely album, which if you're a Sinatra fanatic, is probably his greatest ballad album, with the exception of We Small Hours, Don't At Me.

1:53:06There was a treasure trove of about maybe 60 songs that were, you know, it's like if you're a Beatles fan, it's like when they wrote Revolver, there was a song and they cut from the album and here it is. It's that equivalent. So yeah, to re-record, to record those songs that had never been touched was a gift. And we, I mean, we were very serious about it. We brought in a combination of musicians from London and a combination of musicians from LA and recorded at Skywalker Ranch at their studio up there, which is one of the best studios in the country. and really, you know, treated it with an awareness of what it was that we had.

1:53:54And yeah, that became Lush Life, the album that we put out.

1:53:58Big Cat:Yeah. Kind of a lot of pressure to be recording Sinatra songs too. Like I imagine that you were very critical of your own performances, wanted to get everything perfectly because they were, you know, Sinatra songs that you were breathing new life into. Yeah. Yeah. That's, I mean, I'm from Connecticut. it so self-criticism kind of comes with the with with you know was with me from birth like you're you're conditioned to think that nothing you do is good enough and so that pushes you harder and harder and harder so that that all worked out pretty well yeah you seem like a uh like a very busy guy you've got so many projects and ideally if you start a new project it will be successful and you'll continue to work on that but then you are also like you've got that creative side to your brain where you want to come up with something new and at some point your plate gets totally full and you're like how can i how can i even find the time to come up with a brand new idea with all these series being successful that you're working on like do you have any free time right now or is it all dedicated to uh to figuring out either the the next thing or just keeping all the plates spinning

1:55:19I'm so sorry guys what was that what was the question

1:55:27Big Cat:what was that music about you we're listening to penis the musical that's monty python's the meaning of life oh

1:55:35PFT Commenter:okay okay you have that just on you have a soundboard that you're sitting on no no that's somebody calling me oh okay that's your ringtone i was like i was like fuck is he that was his answer to the question about like because it kind of fits the meaning of life yeah that'd be something if i had planned that i couldn't have planned that more perfectly yeah i was like this guy is so sharp damn i was gonna ask you what your favorite monty python song was i am go ahead ask me a question one more time so i can answer responsibly yeah what is your favorite song about penises i mean it's it's the penis song from monty python good answer i don't know that there are

1:56:19Big Cat:that many songs about penises uh my ding-a-ling by chuck berry comes to mind that's true my ding-a-ling yeah yeah that's a good one uh the penis song detachable penis god well i guess there are a lot aren't there there's a few songs about dicks yeah no it's been everyone's got one all right not everyone but we've had dicks for forever like half the people do yeah yeah we have we have for a long time that's very true a long time i see you're a student of history as well yeah and since the first primordial organism crawled out of the ooze we have had dicks have Have you thought about doing a Black Mirror episode?

1:56:53Big Cat:What do you mean doing? Like, I don't know. What would you like to do with a Black Mirror episode? Like writing, acting, producing? I don't know, man. I've met Charlie Brooker on two occasions, and he's an awesome guy. Look, I'll do it. I mean, Black Mirror, I'm a huge fan. Of course I'm a huge fan. I would be willing to entertain any kind of offer.

1:57:17PFT Commenter:Yeah. Are you ready for the dumb question that you probably haven't gotten from anyone else today? The best part of the day. Okay. Animation. How? Animation how? Yeah. How do you do it? I don't get it. Very, very slowly. Very, very. Has it gotten easier, obviously, with technology and everything? But how long does it take to do an animated show? It has not gotten. I mean, if you're into CGI animation, it's gotten easier. But I bet even then it hasn't. You know, certainly with something like TED, yeah, do you have to draw each in between and then ink each in between? No. But no, animation itself has not gotten any easier.

1:58:05It still requires the human brain to make a judgment call every few frames with regard to what's right for the moment.

1:58:14PFT Commenter:Okay, so how long does it take to do an episode, like a 22-minute episode of an animated show? Because I think that's one of those things we just are like, oh, yeah, of course, it's an animated show. That takes a lot of work. It takes about 10 months to a year to do each episode of an animated show for TV. Jesus.

1:58:33Big Cat:That's insane. That's a lot longer than I would have thought that it would have taken. After you design the characters and you've got, I guess it's not as simple as you've already got them built so you can just make them move around. you have to actually sit down because if you're if you're an actor and you go like this then you do that and that's it and camera captures it and you're done if you're an animator is it what's the what's the tone of the scene is it i'm pleading with you like this or i'm dismissive those are two different things and each of those versions has to be timed out on what's called an exposure sheet and that tells the animators like it tells them how many frames from here to here is this you know 48 frames or is this 12 frames right yeah that's crazy i never would have get

1:59:25PFT Commenter:animators need more credit there we go that's the big take most certainly do yes by the way let's get animation directors into the dga how about that that's a good start i like it yes i'm on board what's the dga yeah you're gonna have to explain the dga first but we're on board yeah

1:59:40Big Cat:yeah no we're all in it's been too long no no it's been too far they've been left out for too fucking long we insist the fact they're not the dga is absolute bullshit is that the digital the yes the the directors guild of america okay directors guild of america we yeah animation directors belong it's i will tell you having directed live action and having directed animation I don't want to get any haters here but it is a lot harder to do the second one

2:00:07PFT Commenter:alright so who can we tweet at can we just yell at anyone listen you're on pardon my take you can yell at any of your fucking mics is there a specific person who's the op right now you know what here. Yell it at Victor Garber. Okay, Victor Garber. I want you to listen to me, Victor Garber.

2:00:32Big Cat:All my homies hate Victor Garber. You know goddamn good and well that animators should be including the DGA. And you're a crook for not doing it. It's disgusting. What you're doing is you're taking money and respect out of people's pockets. There's no honor in that. Garber? Victor Garber. Mr. Garber. And I use that term loosely. No, it is Mr. By the way, it's Sir Victor Garber. Do you know that? Oh, so now you've made an enemy of a knight. Now I'm beefing with a knight. Yeah.

2:01:01PFT Commenter:I feel like we're yelling at the wrong guy, the guy in the Titanic. Yeah, you set us up. By the way, you've just described America from time immemorial. I feel like we're yelling at the wrong guy. Yeah, I feel like I'm just like, wait, this isn't the guy. But hey, Victor Garber, we don't take any of it back. We don't take any of this back.

2:01:23Big Cat:that didn't put the lifeboats on?

2:01:24PFT Commenter:Yeah, no, I think he was the captain of the Titanic.

2:01:27Big Cat:Oh, the captain. By the way, good for you. Good for you. That's the guy who said within an hour, within two hours, maybe one, Titanic will founder. Yeah. Which I always thought there should have been one guy in that scene who would have been like, is that bad? Yeah, is that good or bad? Founder? Is that like, it means sink. Yeah. Titanic will sink. Okay, got it. Great. All right, so we're in trouble.

2:01:50PFT Commenter:All right, so then, And so we know now animated, how long does it make, like, for Ted season two, by the way, out March 5th on Peacock, how long does it take to make that season? Like, you probably just introduced Peacock to a whole bunch of people. I did. Yeah, yeah. The cock. We call it the cock, just so you know. We call it the cock. We've always called it the cock. I know, right. Right. They pay us in cock coin. I like that. Can you believe that? Isn't that, yeah, there's not much we can do with it. but you know their hearts are in the right place yeah they they then they have netflix and chill we have peacock and fuck yeah i like that like that all right so how long does it take though to make a season like what's the process all in about a year geez man you're busy here it takes it takes it takes we finished um photography on this season january of 2024 oh wow and sorry sorry

2:02:47Big Cat:2025 yeah how much time do you spend going back and like uh back to kind of a little bit about animating the shows in general but when you get the voice actor lined up the guy that or the girl that you like to to voice this character do you ever go back and change anything physically about the character you had in mind because you think to yourself this this voice that this actor is doing is a little bit different than what i had originally envisioned or how does that process work lining them up do you mean for for a show like ted or an animated show i guess maybe more More so for an animated show.

2:03:17Big Cat:Yeah. Yeah. No, animated show, you can change anything at almost any time if you have it in your budget. If you're not happy with a voice, if you're not happy with a gesture or something that exists in the animation that is wrong for the moment, yeah, you can change anything you want. It's very malleable. Has there been like an example of somebody that came in, read for a character that did it in a way that you didn't think was going to fit and they changed your mind about how you saw that character? Yeah. Yeah, I'd have to. Oh, you guys in your fucking podcasts. Yeah. Who? Tell me who. Who fucked up so badly that you want to out them on Pardon My Take?

2:04:07Big Cat:No, and I'm not saying like, I'm saying somebody that impressed you. yeah oh that impressed the other way yeah that that made you be like hey this person did it really well i mean i never would have saw i never would have seen giovanni rabisi as the bad guy in ted and yet he kind of blew me away with his performance um yeah i mean it's it's you know strangely yeah there there are people who've come in i mean like mark walberg is a great example Mark Wahlberg in the Ted animated series, guys never, to my knowledge, done animation voiceover in his life and came in and just crushed it. So, yeah, it does happen.

2:04:52And we had no idea. It's like, look, this guy is great on camera. He was great at Ted. He's great in Ted 2. He's great in the 80 million movies that he's done. Can he do animation voiceover? And he knocked it out of the park. And that show comes out, I guess, later this year or early 2027, I guess.

2:05:13PFT Commenter:Yeah. So knowing how creative you are and the insane amount of work you've done and things you've produced, are you able to turn your brain off? Because I feel like a brain like that, you're just – is it always going? You're always thinking of new things? Yeah. It's the worst at night. Okay. Yeah. Sleep is, it's the trade-off. You wake up at three in the morning every night and getting back to sleep is very difficult. Yeah, it's tough to shut the brain off. It'd be nice to, that's what Xanax is for. I mean, who are we kidding? Yeah. Because it's also like, I was reading about it, like, you know, you started writing a comic strip at nine years old.

2:05:56PFT Commenter:Like, it's, I'm always fascinated by people who know exactly what they want to be their entire life and then have it work out. It doesn't really usually, you know, I want to be a firefighter or an astronaut when I was nine years old. So but so this was kind of always the plan. Is it was there ever a moment where you deviated off that? You're like, no, this is this is how my brain's wired. This is what I'm going to do. There was a brief moment when I got done with I mean, I was an animation major in in college at the Rhode Island School of Design. There was a brief moment where I had applied to the Boston Conservatory of Music for their musical theater program and had been accepted and was all set to go.

2:06:36And then I got a job offer from Hanna-Barbera, which is now Cartoon Network, and took it. That was sort of a crossroads where I was like, you know, I love this stuff, but I'm going to have a chance to do all of this if I take this offer from L.A. so yeah i mean it's it's this this animation is interesting because it encompasses so many different disciplines it's acting it's writing it's music it's visual arts it's kind of the one medium where you kind of get to work every muscle that you might possibly want to work when it comes to entertainment so i i did land in the right place who were your uh your biggest influences

2:07:23Big Cat:is like the favorite cartoonists or your favorite comic strips growing up. I mean, I loved, I mean, like hands down, Gary Larson, the far side. Yep. Hands down, like without question. I mean, you know, like in my, when I was really, really young, you know, strips like Garfield and, you know, Charles Schultz did Peanuts and all that, you know, I mean, I read the funnies every weekend, but Gary Larson was where I really kind of perked up and was like oh this is this this is more my speed uh and um yeah there's a lot of there's a lot of his influence in family guy for sure yeah i always thought that him almost being able to tell a story in one single panel was a very underrated thing that most cartoonists couldn't do.

2:08:13Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's, I think a while back we had pitched the idea to, you know, Gary Larson and his estate of, uh, of doing a far side series where we, we would take a panel and reverse engineer it from past and future into a half hour kind of mini play. It wasn't like entirely they didn't quite see it in the moment but um that's probably something we should pitch again because i yeah it's like when i think back to so many of those those panels it was yeah there's there's so as you say there's so much of a story there that is implied that that uh

2:08:55Big Cat:that you don't see try to make cow tools into uh 35 minutes how you stretch that out yeah how tools By the way, the one panel that he had to write letters explaining what that was. Cow Tools was the most misunderstood Farside panel ever. Yeah. Do you still get letters, like handwritten letters from people that are upset with something that you put on TV? I don't get handwritten letters. I don't really get, you know, it's funny. I don't get a whole lot of hate at this point. Maybe I've just inspired that by saying that. But no, it's, it's, you know, at this stage, it's, there, there was a point where broadcast standards at Fox would send us an occasional letter just for laughs.

2:09:36Big Cat:Yeah. But it's, it's been a while since I've seen a handwritten letter that, that has, you know, has, has been filled with vitriol about a specific family guy gag or Ted gag. Yeah. Yeah. Was there one in particular, like thinking back to, you know, when, when the show first came out family guy i'm speaking about like a one joke or one thing that irritated the most people for for no good reason i don't remember i do remember seeing a a social media post at one point that said look you've made fun of mentally disabled people you've made fun of the races you've

2:10:14PFT Commenter:made fun of this that blah blah blah blah blah a long list but autism is where i draw the line that was that was the the message and it was it's like that's the one that's the one that sticks in my head but you know so look everybody has their uh you know button yeah everyone has their button also social media is like the i mean no one was built for uh having that many opinions thrown at you all we were as a species we were we are not equipped to handle we we shouldn't be talking to each other as much as we do no correct correct and just having like hey here's a thought and then everyone responding to it immediately.

2:10:54PFT Commenter:That's just not natural. Yeah, humans have never... Wasn't there some sociologist that reminded us recently that we are, as a species, our brains are equipped to handle like 300 people in our immediate circle. Anything beyond that, we just can't process.

2:11:09Big Cat:Yeah, I've always said there's something that's got to be super unhealthy about having the ability for a million people to tell you that you suck at once. Yes. I don't think that's... Not healthy. That's not a good thing for our own brains to deal with. No, but you're right. Xanax.

2:11:24PFT Commenter:Does it ever get annoying when people ask you to do voices on command? Is this a preamble to you doing just that? Oh, yeah, of course. Pardon my take. Pardon my take. What is it exactly that you want me to pardon? What is it you're setting up that's so bloody offensive? Because right now you've been relatively innocuous. there's nothing you've said that i couldn't see on on you know the jay leno show pardon my take you know what pardon my indifference pardon my indifference for the for the for the blandness of what you have thrown my way thus far you know shock me shock me make me feel something

2:12:06Big Cat:that was wonderful uh i do have a question i was gonna say what did peter griffin think about bad bunny uh his halftime performance yeah bunny bad bunny i had had so many beers what was that like Like, what am I on these fucking coast? Let me tell you how many Meisterbrows. That was what my dad used to drink. How many Meisterbrows I had had by the time Bad Bunny came on. Why don't they start with the fucking halftime show? Because I'm dead. I'm asleep by the time they get to the, you know, I'm done. I'm out. I'm unconscious. Somebody has to drag me up to bed by my fucking feet.

2:12:46PFT Commenter:oh thank you that was uh that was great and i i apologize that i had to ask it that way where i pretended that i was cooler than everyone else and then i was like no i'm actually just as much of a loser as everyone else we all are we're all trying to pretend that we're you know look yeah you ready for another terrible question yeah have this be i know you have to run so i'll tee up the robot question then you can you can end up at the robot question rho back.com promo code take 20 % Send off your first purchase. Q-Zips, Polos, Hoodies, Joggers, Shorts. And go watch Ted Season 2 on Peacock starting March 5th.

2:13:20PFT Commenter:It's out on March 5th.

2:13:21Big Cat:All right, so terrible question. That went so fast. What shorts am I supposed to buy? You can buy the hoodies. You like that? The Joggers, the shorts, Roback.com. Yeah, promo code take. Rollback? Roback. RHOBACK.com.

2:13:36PFT Commenter:What? Yeah, you heard me. RHOBACK.com. You're pretending you don't know, but... You probably have a closet full of Roback. We know that. Like the Greek letter, Ro, R-H-O. Yeah, exactly. I've seen your Get Ready With Me TikToks. You got all the Roback. Yeah, you got it. Look at you. That's the name? You got to say promo code TAKE at the end. Did I say what? You have promo code TAKE. Promo code TANK? TAKE. TAKE? T-A-K-E? We just got like a million dollar worth of ads. We're going to put that together. We're going to splice it. And we'll be like, hey, Roback, we got Seth MacFarlane to do an ad for you.

2:14:15PFT Commenter:You're going to be scrolling on Instagram, and you're going to see that. That's going to be like the promo version of a ransom letter is what you're going to splice together. Yeah, exactly. All right, so last question.

2:14:28Big Cat:Okay, yeah, last stupid question. When did you find out that there was a bunch of horny guys online that wanted to fuck Lois? Wow. Good question. Just now. You didn't know until now? I mean, I guess what I would say is like, picture the guy, you know, who's been there all day at his slanted desk with his light board, drawing each frame of Lois. Probably hasn't been out in the sun in a while. You know, picture me, picture me, guys. If you're hot for Lois, picture me sitting there drawing Lois. That's really who you're jerking off to.

2:15:05PFT Commenter:Yeah, I love it.

2:15:06Big Cat:That's a good message.

2:15:07PFT Commenter:Seth you're the man we really appreciate your time and everyone go watch Ted season 2 March 5th on Peacock thank you pardon my take appreciate it Seth have fun man thanks so much man alright see ya

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2:17:01PFT Commenter:Okay, let's wrap up. we got a residual 10 year anniversary takes from the AWLs so we wanted to hear from them Hank 10 years of PMT oh Hank just saluted us that was awesome thank you thank you for saluting us at ease sir appreciate that I started listening to PMT to listen to Big Cat ran about the Bears in 2017 after the Trubisky draft I was 14 years old started listening weekly for NFL recaps slowly became every episode I've been listening throughout high school and college and now today I'm 22 will be 23 on Sunday. I just realized how the show has been there for what feels like my whole life.

2:17:38Love you guys. You've inspired my buddies and I to post on social media and record our own clips. Takes just for fun.

2:17:43PFT Commenter:I love that. So life's come full circle. That's incredible. It's very cool. That's that's scary as well because it's like a mind molded by our stupidity.

2:17:55Big Cat:I'm curious to know what your take on Mitch was after the draft. I forget that.

2:17:59PFT Commenter:I think I was in because I like no choice. but to be well I'd like to know I liked him in college I did there was that one game the Georgia game member the first week of the season when we bet on UNC because Caleb told us to and then he threw it out of bounds on fourth down to end the game Hank do you remember that so I was out on him for that but I liked him yeah um I love I love Mitch yeah I yeah I was in on Mitch the but yeah 14 man thank you so much dude appreciate you listening that's that's incredible I'm just yeah

2:18:29Big Cat:I'm humbled to know that there's kids out there that have taken up the take game. I think that should be our. I want the next generation to have takes that would make me shit myself and die. I want the next generation to be better. It's like, you know how you see like Kareem passing the torch to LeBron. I want all of our stupidity records to be shattered.

2:18:47PFT Commenter:I want someday like a goal for this podcast. our final boss should be some detailed researched article that is like the effective part of my take on sports fans, like a negative thing. Like why, why has there been a sudden rise in people screaming, shoot the puck at NHL games? It's like, well, we can trace it back to all these kids that were listening when they were 12 and now they're fucking idiots as grown adults and they're going to games. They're saying that the, like what, what max, we don't talk about the NHL. We say shoot the puck. we don't talk about the NHL enough for that.

2:19:25Big Cat:I think the shoot-the-puck guys were doing okay on their own before. So I think we boosted them. Okay, so how about this one? That they matter.

2:19:32PFT Commenter:Why did this NBA player – is this NBA player having a mental breakdown? Because there's no other way to explain his attempt to dunk from the free throw line during a free throw. Giannis. And they're like, actually, there is a reason. He was nine years old when he listened to PFT and Big Cat have an actual debate about this for far too long. that place i want that i started out listening to the show with a long-term girlfriend who i ended up getting married to yeah nice currently going through a divorce with that girl and re-entering dating okay but hey at least i got to listen to you idiots three times a week yeah maybe maybe guys on chicks gave him some bad advice yeah or good advice yeah maybe get it maybe if you hate her good advice you know what this is for the best yeah it's for the you got

2:20:21Big Cat:married too young there's a little guy that we know that got off to a bad start in a relationship where it wasn't a great fit and he just won the super bowl with the seattle seahawks okay so you're just the sam darnold of podcast listeners very well put don't get mono but yeah sorry that

2:20:37PFT Commenter:happened if you're if there's any chance that you're gonna get back with her and if there is no chance like dude you're way better off my first listen was the joe burrow coach i interview after the natty i haven't missed an episode since even through the love is blind recaps

2:20:51Big Cat:that was covid that's not our fault that was covid if i had them on there was no sports we had to talk about documentaries we had to talk about tiger king if i had to ask a question if you had to pick one episode that added the most new listeners what do you think it would be oh good question honestly might be dungeons and dragons i don't know i think i would think it would be one of our earlier episodes with a big guest. I want to say Joe Buck. Joe Buck could be one. I think Joe Buck was... SVP.

2:21:19PFT Commenter:SVP, Joe Buck. I got another one.

2:21:22Big Cat:Jim Harbaugh, the first time we interviewed him at Michigan. For sure. That was one where we looked at the charts or at the data that we got behind the scenes of how many people listened to that one. And the data was screwed up, but it did tell us like 4 million people listened to that episode, which was not at all true, but it was definitely like a bigger bigger so than our normal ones were. So I would say maybe that one. Yeah. My favorite episode you guys ever did was like the Fyre Fest breakdown. Oh, yeah. That was during COVID, too. It was just you guys and Ursillo just breaking down. No, it was before COVID.

2:21:51Just breaking down both documentaries and how much a scumbag Billy McFarlane is.

2:21:55PFT Commenter:Yeah, but I think it's got to be one of those early ones. It's still a segment.

2:21:58Big Cat:I do feel like the Joe Buck one, though.

2:22:03PFT Commenter:That's the one that I I'll still get people commenting to me like, been a listener since Joe Buck when you change my opinion on Joe Buck. Joe Buck really owes us his entire life when you when you really break it down no one knew who joe buck was before us

2:22:17Big Cat:no one knew what mount rushmore was nobody knew who joe buck was i became an awl eight years ago i started listening when i was in a very low point in my life and i truly believe listening to y 'all show brought me out of depression hank's listerine sleeping medicine and objen might have been the hardest i've ever laughed except when big cat and pft gave relationship advice during guys on chicks. The Listerquil, I believe is what this guy is referring to. Listerine, NyQuil. Yeah. Two for one.

2:22:45PFT Commenter:And you swallow both of them. From the man who brought you Barbara Cuffalo. Yep. You followed it up with Listerine. I was right about Barbara Cuffalo. Yeah, you were.

2:22:52Big Cat:100%. So you swallowed the Listerine and the NyQuil. Yep. What about the soap? What about soap and armpits? That's still valid. What is your take on that? I forgot. it doesn't work body wash doesn't work in your armpits yeah why why does why did but why does shampoo work in your hair body but body wash does work if you smell your armpits right after you wash them with body wash it smells good i'm on hank's side with this one do you still wash your

2:23:22PFT Commenter:oreos dunk my oreos yeah no wash them yeah you washed them oreos and water yeah i love that one that was yeah that was my friend showed kevin long time ago yeah uh we need some more hank events come on maybe get us a new one sometime in the next couple months because like i mean lister quill and barbacuffalo are 1a 1b greatest inventions of all time car stick car stick yeah yeah i don't think people still understand the cars the pft gnome kind of flop

2:23:56Big Cat:compared to the Hank dog toy, but that's fine. We didn't sell as many, or we didn't have as many. Have they arrived yet? Yeah. Oh. Yeah, no, we're getting a lot of tandems. Sold out. People buy both, yeah. Instantly. Okay. A lot of dog toys, though. A lot of dog toys. Like tens of thousands of dog toys. A lot of dog toys. Yeah, there's more inventory. Yeah, because they sold really well. Was sent a link by my friend in 2016. I listened and told the publicity department of show I was on I wanted to be on it. They called back and said, PMT was not interested. I then made it my life's mission to get on PMT.

2:24:32Now I'm their fantasy expert. Never give up.

2:24:34PFT Commenter:Yep. Thank you, Jerry. Jerry is 100 % correct. We said no the first time. We're like, what? That guy? The fat kid from Stand By Me?

2:24:42Big Cat:We tried to get out of it the last second. Like, Jerry was in the building. Yeah. I think he was doing wine walk. And we went up to Kelly and we said, Kelly, I don't think that we're going to do this interview. Oh, Kelly. Yeah. Yeah. We went up to Kelly booking Kelly. And she was like, you were fucking doing this interview. Yeah. Okay. You pieces of shit.

2:24:58PFT Commenter:It was the best decision that we tried to get out of in our lives. Credit to us. Credit to us. Love you, Jerry. I miss Jerry so much. It's like we go. It's the two people. Football leaves. And I get sad because football is gone. But the two people that I miss so much when it's not football season is Jerry and Stu finer because they're just they're just everything i taught a college class was too finer a couple weeks ago by the way quigs did you see quigs tweet wait you taught us college classes too fine he's a lecture yeah where university of illinois i love that yeah quig street was was spot on he i forgot this happened we had our guests on a show like eight years ago were john morant and stew finer yeah separate interviews insult graphic of me on there you

2:25:51Big Cat:what you're you're on the graphic yeah what are you doing on vacation

2:25:58PFT Commenter:oh yeah there you are looking good i remember i was sitting on the toilet in my old house reading a tweet about espn being pissed off at some dudes for trying to rip off part of the interruption in first take show i was like what the fuck i like pti but who's ripping off the first take name so i go into apple podcast or whatever the fuck it was called back then and find the show been an awl ever since mind-numbingly stupid but hilarious had open heart surgery in 2018 and you guys help me get through thanks fellas fuck the patriots very cool i like this guy dude those those those are the best though when we get you know any type of because i'll get dms or people reaching out and being like hey i was going through a tough time and you guys were consistently there those are like what make my heart grow so large where it's like hey it's it's more maybe more than just idiot podcasting like we actually mean something to people that's awesome It feels great.

2:26:48PFT Commenter:It really does. I hope we're that for a lot of people.

2:26:52Big Cat:Yeah. Does anybody that ever says, you guys provide a valuable escape for me when I'm going through something? There is value to that in your life. We all have those things where it could be something really, really stupid, but if it takes your mind off something that is really tough that you're going through, I think that's the most valuable thing in the world. So it's honestly awesome to hear people say that.

2:27:10PFT Commenter:Never taking ourselves too seriously. I've said this before, I think a few times on the show, but I used to read those messages is when I was like 22, 23 and didn't, I was like, this is, we're just fucking around in a podcast. Like this doesn't make sense. And then when I was going through something in my personal life and it was like, I started watching other stuff as like an escape. And then I like understood where it's like, I don't know these people, but I watched their stuff and it like is a great distraction for what's going on in my life. Then it like brought it together where it's like, that's awesome that we do that for other people.

2:27:41PFT Commenter:And I'll say this too. It's an escape for us. like the world is shitty there's you know not saying our own personal lives are bad but like the world is a shitty place the world's a tough place there's a lot of crap going on there's a lot of discourse that sucks everything when we come in these walls we know we're going to talk about silly trivial things and it does feel like an escape for us it's like hey just turn it off turn off all the outside news and all the shit and just have some fun with the boys so yeah it's been just as much for us as it is for a lot of people out there okay is that it yep shout out jerry love you jerry do you guys have a favorite episode i still next one next one yeah i know it's semi-recency bias but if i like close my eyes and think about the pure essence of the show, it's us sitting on an RV, screaming at each other about the color of cheese when Peter Schrager happened to walk in.

2:28:46PFT Commenter:I think it was that. Did he walk in on that debate? Yeah, he did. And just laughing at the moment of this guy, who we love, and he's a friend, but watching someone else have to see it live. and we get actually mad during Mount Rushmore season. I was thinking about that episode recently. I don't remember what side I was on. I was so passionate about whatever side that was. But I could see... Right now, I could see it being... Let me ask you.

2:29:14Big Cat:Put your nuts on the line right now. Is cheese yellow? It's white. I think it's white. You're an idiot.

2:29:21PFT Commenter:Isn't that the worst? When you have a take and you're like, wait, I think if you go back five years ago, I was the exact opposite. Shit.

2:29:27Big Cat:Another good one was on the most – yeah, I think it was the most recent Grit Week when we were on the bus and we were just in a fight with Hank because Hank thought that we had videotaped him when he was talking in his sleep. And then he was upset that he said something, but he actually didn't say anything. Yeah. So we're in a true fight about nothing with Hank. That was a great time. Yeah. Gasly me. Your favorite episode is when you gaslight me. That says a lot. Also, Max titty fucking. Max Tate fucking was good. My fucking asshole. Yeah.

2:30:05PFT Commenter:That's always Hank's favorite. My fucking asshole. He still says that to me all the time. My fucking asshole. I don't know why I got so upset about it. I think I was upset for other reasons. Max and Hank on the couch together after a Philly loss. Bill Walton, but not the Bill Walton. The Bill Walton interview was awesome, but the next day going to the game and having Bill Walton, Cause we interviewed bill Walton and I think all of us thought like that was so incredible, so much fun, but there's no way where we made an impact on him. He probably was like, I just did the dumbest thing ever. We saw him at the game and he like gave us the biggest smile and wave.

2:30:41PFT Commenter:And I think hug. And it was just like, Oh, he actually remembers.

2:30:44Big Cat:He has smile wave point. And then we, we threw him a part of my take tie dye t-shirt. Yeah.

2:30:49PFT Commenter:Yeah. So that was like, Oh fuck. That was like, that actually, you know, he, he remembers us. Yeah. It's cool. All right. I like the last 20 minutes of Beer Olympics. Oh, man. Yeah, that was something. I listen to it on every airplane. The last 20 minutes of Beer Olympics?

2:31:08Big Cat:It's so fucking funny. That's disgusting memes.

2:31:11PFT Commenter:That was a mistake. Big time.

2:31:16Big Cat:You should listen to deleted scenes from that.

2:31:18PFT Commenter:Shit.

2:31:19Big Cat:Did you mean the last hour? Yeah.

2:31:22PFT Commenter:I think there's like two hours of footage from the last... Yeah, the Beer Olympics, man. Okay. Good show. We're done with 10-year stuff until our book comes out. We have all the stories on our book. Everything. Okay. Numbers. 7. 3. 23. Max and Zach are leading. Cheese colors are back here. Zach is now just learning about this debate, but it's white. It's majority. 55. 56. I hope I was... I think I was. Oh, quick, boys, quick. 43. 86.

2:32:01PFT Commenter:94. 94. One more. One more. We got to get some more. Sure, one more. We're going to do one more.

2:32:06Big Cat:Same numbers. I mean, it's going to take one. I mean.

2:32:08PFT Commenter:Same numbers. 23. It's definitely not going to happen right now.

2:32:10Big Cat:56. Yeah, it is.

2:32:11PFT Commenter:It's going to happen right now.

2:32:12Big Cat:7. Colton, Jack, Shane, if you guys want to salute me and Big Cat. 86. 43. Some might say the other machine was rigged.

2:32:29PFT Commenter:83 Shane Close Another loser Shit Love you guys

2:32:38Big Cat:Happy birthday to memes And to George Pickens You and George Pickens share a birthday? Fuck yeah To regular brain guys Love you guys

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