Rob Mac From Always Sunny, ACC Defending Champ Mardy Fish, Chill Week Finale + Mt Rushmore Of C Things And We’re Writing A Book

11 Jul 2025 · 2 h 24 min · 50 chapters

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In short

Chill Week finale recap from Tahoe, including announcement that Part of My Take will write a book; sports updates and a “Mount Rushmore of C-words” game; interview with Rob Mack (formerly Rob McElhenney) plus discussion of golf and a viral golf-fight video.

Guests (and who they are)

  1. Rob Mack (Rob McElhenney from Always Sunny) – actor/comedian; changed his last name spelling to “R-O-B-M-A-C” after discovering his family name had changed multiple times historically and because it was constantly misspelled/mispronounced (airports, hotels, etc.).
  2. Mardy Fish – defending champion of the ACC men’s golf tournament (mentioned as a friend and potential winner).

Key claims / notable points

  • Book: they say they’ll start writing for a 10-year anniversary next year, using a ghostwriter for some sections; they plan to ask every guest to contribute a chapter.
  • The book is intended to be “dumb/stupid,” with gimmicks like big font, puzzles, and odd chapter formats.
  • Sports: Summer League “Bronny vs Cooper Flagg” is highlighted; Brent Rooker in the Home Run Derby; Thunder contract spending discussed; Najee Harris has a “superficial” eye injury expected to return for training camp; Patrick Mahomes fat-shaming controversy noted.
  • Mount Rushmore game: team drafts C-words including college football, chicks, chocolate, cocaine, Christmas, cake, cheesesteak, cheeseburgers, candy, and more.

Notable examples

  • Rob Mack’s name-change explanation (Ellis Island spelling changes; airport check-in confusion).
  • Viral golf-course fight: an ex-NHL enforcer calmly de-escalates verbally while ultimately throwing an aggressive golfer into a lake.

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Chill Week Finale and Book Announcement

0:39 to 1:49

Hosts discuss the conclusion of Chill Week and their plans to write a book.

“On today's part of my take, we have the finale of Chill Week and an awesome interview with Rob Mack.”

Chill Week Finale and Book Announcement

2:57 to 4:28

Hosts discuss the conclusion of Chill Week and their plans to write a book.

“Today is Friday, July 11th, and we are at the finale of Chill Week, boys.”

Concepts for the Upcoming Book

4:28 to 7:24

Hosts share humorous ideas and plans for their upcoming book project.

“It felt like it would be the right time to do it.”

Concerns About Writing the Book

7:24 to 8:41

Hosts express their anxieties about meeting deadlines and the publishing process.

Sports News and Discussions

8:41 to 14:01

Hosts transition to discussing current sports events and player news.

“I don't think you should put a time frame on yourself.”

Thunder's Contract Strategy

14:01 to 18:00

Discussing the implications of recent player contracts for the Thunder and the broader NBA.

“Okay, so the Thunder in total have given$822 million in contracts to those three guys.”

Najee Harris Injury Update

18:00 to 18:40

A brief discussion about Najee Harris's eye injury and its expected recovery.

“They like wake him up and like force him to.”

Patrick Mahomes' Off-Season Body

18:40 to 20:08

The hosts share their opinions on Patrick Mahomes being fat-shamed and the public's reaction.

“She was under one, and you were calling her hot.”

Mount Rushmore of C Words

20:08 to 28:00

The hosts engage in a fun and humorous draft of words beginning with the letter C.

“I thought I prepared for a different Mount Rushmore of C words.”

Mount Rushmore of C's Discussion

28:00 to 37:48

The hosts engage in a lively discussion about their picks for a Mount Rushmore of words starting with 'C'.

“I have a good feeling of Mount Rushmore's, and that's okay.”
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Interview with Rob Mack

38:00 to 42:00

Rob Mack discusses his name change to simplify pronunciation and shares anecdotes about his career.

“Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very special guest.”

The Name Change Controversy

42:00 to 43:28

Rob Mack discusses the implications of changing his name and the humor behind it.

“And at the end of the day, I assume that most people would say the same thing, which is, it's your name.”

Golf Course Fights: A New Spectacle

43:28 to 46:47

The hosts debate the appeal of fights that break out on golf courses and their peculiar charm.

“How can we be talking about anything when the video of that man on the golf course?”

Rob's Golf Game Experience

46:47 to 49:49

Rob shares his experiences and struggles in golf tournaments, including humorous takes on his performance.

“In the airport, you're through security already.”

Business Ventures: Sports and Media

49:49 to 50:59

Discussion about Rob’s involvement with a Mexican soccer team and the upcoming television series.

“She never changed it, so she was always – she always is – She should change it to McElhinney.”

Successful Sports Ownership: Lessons Learned

50:59 to 55:23

Rob shares insights on effective sports ownership and the importance of delegating responsibilities.

“All right, so it'll be subtitled, but the vast majority of it is in Spanish.”

Investment Challenges in Sports

55:23 to 56:00

The hosts discuss the financial and logistical challenges of investing in sports teams.

Investing in Sports Teams: Challenges and Realities

56:00 to 57:35

Explore the complexities and responsibilities of owning a sports team, from financial stakes to player dynamics.

“So, yeah, I mean that I've seen a lot of people go into investment groups cause the ownership is really fun.”

The Emotional Side of Player Management

57:36 to 59:23

Delve into the emotional challenges of managing players and the impact of team promotions on their careers.

“And if you theoretically stayed down in that league, they might still have a job.”

Concrete Videos and Odd Relaxation

59:24 to 1:00:35

A light-hearted discussion about unique hobbies and the appeal of watching construction videos.

“I've got a crew out in Wisconsin, Victory Outdoor Services.”

Big Dom and the Eagles Dynamics

1:00:36 to 1:02:05

Insights into the camaraderie and hierarchy within the Philadelphia Eagles during a charity event.

“And we, I went to the, this was actually not this season, but last season, and we went to the Eagles-Rams game.”

Always Sunny: The Enduring Success of the Show

1:02:06 to 1:05:22

Discuss the longevity and creative process behind 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' and its latest season.

“Like you want to be as close to them as you possibly can, but you could see, you know, when Howie walks into a room, like everybody kind of like sits up a little bit.”

The Journey to Getting Danny DeVito on Board

1:05:23 to 1:10:03

Discover the initial challenges and eventual success of casting Danny DeVito in 'It's Always Sunny'.

“Can I ask you a question about the upcoming season?”

Collaborating with Danny DeVito

1:10:03 to 1:11:39

Learn how collaboration with Danny DeVito influenced the show's creative process.

“I think we only took another week or something like that or two weeks.”

The April Fools Prank Story

1:11:40 to 1:13:38

Discover the prank that played on Danny DeVito and its comedic implications.

Satire and Cultural Commentary

1:13:39 to 1:16:48

Explore how the show navigates satire and cultural commentary without pandering.

“I always assume the best of people and that they'll understand the joke and satire.”

The Weight Gain Experience

1:16:49 to 1:21:08

Hear about the challenges and insights gained from intentionally gaining weight for a role.

“And we're willing to check in with you for 22 minutes or an hour or an hour and a half or three hours or whatever.”

The Truth About Getting in Shape

1:21:09 to 1:23:55

Understand the realities of achieving a fit physique for acting roles.

High Times with Snoop Dogg

1:24:00 to 1:25:40

Rob shares his unique experience of smoking with Snoop Dogg and the anxiety that came with it.

“I mean, I since then stayed in pretty good shape just because it feels good.”

Sports Fandom and Community

1:26:13 to 1:31:20

Rob discusses the emotional aspects of sports fandom and its impact on community bonding.

“are you nervous at all if the city of Philadelphia wins too many titles?”

Mardy Fish Joins the Show

1:31:20 to 1:34:10

Mardy Fish talks about his tennis career, including his experiences at the Olympics and his views on sports.

Golfing with Friends and Competitors

1:34:10 to 1:38:00

Mardy shares insights about golf tournaments, his experiences with fellow players, and the dynamics of competition.

Hank's Golf Game Analysis

1:38:00 to 1:40:11

Explore the strengths and weaknesses of Hank's golfing skills.

“the tee boxes have got to be like, I'm not playing from the back tee.”

Mardy Fish's Golfing Connections

1:40:11 to 1:42:58

Mardy Fish discusses his relationships and experiences in the golf community.

“And so, yeah, he'd get to, like, number seven, which is that par three that Steph hit a hole in one in two years ago.”

The Importance of Golfing Ability

1:42:58 to 1:44:45

Conversation about how Mardy's golf skills influence his social interactions.

“The guys that like Justin Gaethje's there, like guys that like are the top of the top and like, you're just sort of sitting in there too.”

Mental Health in Sports

1:44:45 to 1:47:49

Mardy Fish reflects on his journey with mental health in professional sports.

“All right, so you're going to be wearing that hat when we watch on.”

Tennis Legends and Their Styles

1:47:49 to 1:51:52

Insights into the playing styles of tennis legends like Novak and Roger.

“I mean, it took me three years to actually talk about it, like, you know, openly, outwardly to non-close friends and family.”

Tennis Mentality and Novak's Strategy

1:52:00 to 1:54:43

Explore the mental challenges tennis players face, focusing on Novak Djokovic's strategies.

“I think that's why people don't love watching him play or don't love him watching him play as much as Nadal or Federer because they're such a classy, classic.”

Mardy Fish's Insights on Novak's Play

1:54:43 to 1:55:30

Mardy Fish shares his thoughts on Djokovic's playing style and potential future.

“That was, I don't know who won that one though.”

Fyre Fest of the Week Highlights

1:56:01 to 1:59:44

The hosts discuss their personal Fyre Fest experiences and challenges.

“Hank, Chill Week, Fyre Fest of the Week.”

PFT's Encounter with Billy McFarland

1:59:44 to 2:06:01

PFT shares a humorous interaction with Billy McFarland about Fyre Fest IP.

“Zach, what are your thoughts on the soul patch?”

Chill Week in Tahoe and Aaron Rodgers

2:06:01 to 2:08:21

The hosts share their experience at the American Century Championship and a humorous encounter with Aaron Rodgers.

“Yeah, there was a Jersey Jerry text in there.”

Frustrations with Pacific Time Zone

2:08:21 to 2:09:50

Discussion about the challenges and frustrations of being in the Pacific time zone, especially for watching sports.

“Everything's just – two nights in a row I've just pulled – What?”

Packing Woes During Travels

2:09:50 to 2:11:19

A humorous discussion about the hosts' packing mishaps and the challenges of traveling light.

“I do have a couple pairs of socks, but I didn't match them correctly before leaving.”

Starstruck Moments and Meeting Baker Mayfield

2:11:19 to 2:12:59

The hosts share their excitement about meeting Baker Mayfield and role-play an imagined conversation with him.

“We'll try to figure out a way for you to meet him.”

Dinner Drama and Onions

2:12:59 to 2:14:18

A light-hearted recounting of a dinner incident involving onions and a host's humorous storming out.

“Zach's done great this week, by the way.”

Hypothetical Discussions and Apologies

2:14:18 to 2:16:18

The hosts engage in a hypothetical discussion about who would be killed first in a bizarre scenario, mixed with apologies.

“We were talking about how Big Ed sleeps with a pillow, or most of these guys sleep with a pillow under their legs.”

Chill Week Reflection

2:20:01 to 2:20:38

Hosts reflect on their experiences during Chill Week activities.

“We'll be back in studio on Monday's show.”

Long Drive Competition

2:20:39 to 2:21:21

Discussion about the long drive competition and the participants' chances.

“Hank beat me in the long drive competition.”

Lottery Number Picks

2:21:22 to 2:21:42

Hosts take turns picking lottery numbers and making predictions.

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0:33PFT Commenter:Visit ryobitools.com slash barstool to see the full game on lineup. On today's part of my take, we have the finale of Chill Week and an awesome interview with Rob Mack. Phil Week. Yeah, used to be Rob McElhaney from Always Sunny. And we also have a good friend of ours who is an AWL and maybe going to win this golf tournament, Marty Fish. We're going to recap everything from Chill Week. We've got the Mount Rushmore of words that start with C for chill. And we also are going to write a book. So we'll talk to you about that. We announced that on Dan Patrick's show on Wednesday. And we'll finish up with Fyre Fest.

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2:17PFT Commenter:Okay, let's go. Hey, football guy. For Dean of A.W. Yeah. Part of my take. Yeah. Part of my take. Yeah. Part of my take. Yeah. Part of my take. Yeah. Part of my take. Welcome to Part of My Take presented by DraftKings. Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app right now. Now use promo code TAKE. That's code TAKE for new customers to get$150 in bonus bets instantly when you bet just$5 only on DraftKings. The crown is yours. Today is Friday, July 11th, and we are at the finale of Chill Week, boys. It's been a hell of a week. Happy Free Slurpee Day. Happy Free Slurpee Day. 7-11. Yeah. There we go. That's huge for everyone.

3:08PFT Commenter:Yep. So we're out here in Tahoe. Great week. Great week. We crushed it. So chill. I feel like we had a great chill time. Made some great videos. did some great interviews and also we announced that we're writing a book yeah ultimate future us problem oh so announcing that you're writing a book is the funnest part of writing a book oh yeah now we got to write a book yeah and you know us we if you've listened to part of my take over the years you know that a couple things about us number one we love to read it's like our favorite thing yep uh number two we're very punctual with following through on every single commitment that we ever make and promises hasn't done the dingers only thing yeah so uh max you'll need to grab the mic it's okay it's just it's just a fact that you haven't done the punishment people are heckling him by the way there was a guy yesterday whatever you do don't don't do that he's like when is max pitching you see him out and don't ask him why he's not doing the no he's only league the guy asked me and i he's like when's max pitching i was like oh he's right there go ask him and he went up to him it's like what's max pitching but yeah we we love to read and so we want to we want to share that joy with the uh the awls but no we we've been approached several times over the years to do a book.

4:15PFT Commenter:We've taken a lot of meetings. And we've ended up canceling the books at the last minute several times, which always feels great to do. Yes. But this year, it's going to be the 10th year anniversary next year. So going up into next year, we have to start working on a book. It felt like it would be the right time to do it. Yeah, 10 years is part of my take. It's been crazy. It's been awesome. And we're like, hey, we didn't want to write a book. Yeah, I mean, I think there's been like three or four times PFT and I have taken meetings about books and we've always been like no we don't want to do this it's like stupid we don't want to have uh be like hey go buy our book but then it's like 10 years that's that's a lot of history that's a lot of stories that we're going to tell uh a lot of memories maybe some unreleased photos all that type of stuff thinking empty the vault yeah hank's gonna have bad pictures uh hank's gonna write an entire chapter without the use of autocorrect yeah you seem like you guys have just been already like pawning off this book you're like oh this person's gonna write a chapter this This person's going to write a chapter.

5:10This person's going to write a chapter.

5:12PFT Commenter:I woke up this morning, and we had a text from our good friend Scott Van Pelt to PFT, and he's like, congrats on the book. And by the way, we have not written a single word. We have not done anything. So there is no congrats right now. But I immediately – It felt good to hear, though. Yeah, you're right, Scott. I immediately replied to Scott, and I was like, you know that you have to write a chapter for us. So he's in. It's like somebody congratulating you because your wife's pregnant. Yeah. It's like, yep, I did it. Yeah, look at me. There we go. Book. We wrote a book. But yeah, no, we are going to write the majority of the book.

5:45PFT Commenter:We have a ghostwriter. He's going to talk with us, then write some of the book. Then we're going to write some of the book. Then we're going to interview the ghostwriter and write a chapter of that in the book. But he has, the ghostwriter is going to have to write the chapter about himself. Correct. After interviewing us about our interview with the ghostwriter. Correct. But no, I think instead of, you know how we used to do back in the day, do you wash your apples to every guest? I think we have to add a question to every interview. Will you write a chapter in our book? Yes. To every guest. Yes.

6:14PFT Commenter:Yeah, it's going to be the dumbest book ever created. And it's not going to be – it is. Like I don't want to – we're not going to write like a tell-all that's like super serious. It's going to be stupid. I had the idea yesterday like every 20, 25 pages will be just a different quarterback kneeling in victory formation letting you know that we're trying to run out the clock to the end of the book and just get as many pages, you know, in this book. Yeah, we do want to include some good stuff in there. Oh, we're definitely going to include some good stuff. You will notice people, like, we're going to take being lazy very seriously.

6:45Correct. When it comes to writing.

6:46PFT Commenter:It's going to be fun. There's going to be some, like, we're going to have some of the people that mean a lot to us. They won't have to write full chapters, but we'll have them interviewed. Tell them, they'll be able to tell their side of it. But, yeah, it's going to be dumb. We don't want it to be, we want it to be dumb. Yep. We want to be stupid. Big font. Double spaced. word searches maybe crossword puzzles there might be a chapter that's just a full it's a full chapter of just indentation a maze yeah where it's just like the it's blank page blank page and then it's the start of the paragraph end of the chapter yeah it's gonna be fun to do i think uh excited to get into it but again we're saying that as two guys that have not started writing the book yet yes correct but i look forward to the challenge yes we do um all right what do we have so get excited it's gonna be probably next late next summer yeah uh what what was that hank what was that hank well here's the problem we actually do have deadlines that they like yeah they're real everything you guys just described nothing sounds like next summer no it's gonna have to be next summer it has to be there's deadlines and they like i feel like people miss deadlines we're gonna miss deadlines you know what they do in the publishing industry if you don't hit a deadline I have no I have they kill you that's why they call it a deadline yeah Hank and I could be like the last people on the planet to know anything about the publishing industry that's why it's well guess what the third and fourth people who know like we don't know anything we've just taken a call all I know is we've taken a few meetings with people that feel like they're way more adult than us and I don't want to disappoint those people that's fair to say right I think it's completely fair to say.

8:25PFT Commenter:Like people with their shit together are going to be like, hey, we need this and then we're going to have to, we're going to get to a fork in the road where PFDI just stop responding to these people and pretend that we never said anything about this and never did anything and have to give back the money or we're going to actually have to write a book. That will be the interesting point. You might have to delete this podcast. It's just, did Patrick's show? It's like, we never said that. Never said that. So many people congratulate us on not having to write a book we'd probably hear more from those people dude we should just hey you know what here's the other announcement you thought about canceling the book no no no no i'm thinking something different i thought because i i thought about it right now no and no you want to just say fuck it no no no i was gonna go one more think about it we we wrote a movie it's gonna come out in a couple years so everyone should congratulate us they should just get congratulations for shit we're never gonna do we're gonna talk about that it's gonna be a movie based on the book yeah right we opened a restaurant congratulations sauce

9:28PFT Commenter:okay i'm kind of addicted to just getting congratulated for shit we're never gonna every kid in my hometown that went to my elementary school i'm gonna give you a full ride to college the uh the people who are responsible for getting this book made are going to freak when they hear this yeah because we're very close to canceling what if we just said it though think about it it would it would clear up our schedule significantly it would be the van talk of books yeah we and we have all the power yeah because we just like no we're not going to write it and they haven't given us the money yet right 15 years better number 15 years good point yeah that hits better oh man zach you guys yes or no on the book yeah i think you should go book maybe We just go big font, you know?

10:19PFT Commenter:Okay. But you hold the power right now. If you say no, we will cancel the book. You should do the book. I don't think you should put a time frame on yourself. He's been paid off. I don't think you should rush it. You're in the pocket of not even know who our publisher is, but he's been paid off. Yeah. We should also release the spark notes on our book. Oh, definitely. Yeah. It's called a podcast. Did we just write a book right now? Should we go for lowest book sales ever? Okay. hey, we sell one book. Well, there's going to be a million more listens to the audiobook. Yeah. Jerry O 'Connell's doing the audiobook.

10:54But it's like Mark's grow. He doesn't know that. Where somebody pays$3 million for the one copy of our book.

11:01PFT Commenter:Yeah. Yeah. We could do that. We do know some wealthy guys might want it. All right. What's going on in the sports world? Anything that we need to talk about? We have a seventh. Huge, huge sports day today. Yeah. Bronny versus flag. Did it already happen? It's tonight. Well, it's tomorrow. It's yesterday as the show comes out. Thursday night, Summer League. Okay. Bronny versus Cooper Flagg. Huge matchup. Who's the face of the league? Who should have been the face of the league should have been? Who is the face of Summer League? Okay. All right. So it starts in an hour as we're taping this. I think Cooper Flagg went off.

11:40PFT Commenter:I think he did too. Yeah. I think he's better than we thought he was. I think he's, yeah, significantly better than we thought he was. Now that he got away from Duke. Yeah. what else? Oh, Brent Rooker is in the Home Run Derby, so we have seven out of eight now. That's huge. Announce them. Is he going to do this to us? Is he going to do it to us? Who else are we looking at? Besides the guys that have been announced, who else is up there in terms of home runs hit this year? Why isn't Aaron Judge in it? He should do it. Aaron Judge should do it. Did you guys see Juan Soto complained like he was mad that he didn't make the all-star game because it cost him money and I think it cost him a hundred thousand dollars he makes like a quadrillion dollars yeah it's okay he'll be fine he just he's all about that money hundred thousand dollars uh yeah wait what was it uh what do you think I think it's a lot of money on the table if I make it hundred thousand dollar bonus would be 0.00131 of his current salary okay so he will probably make that amount of money just in the time like bitching about not being on the all-star correct in his investments correct okay correct um all right wait so seven out of eight when are they getting out see the pop on yelich would be they they would the numbers would be pretty big on mlb for the like just to retweet sometimes who else is out there pca pca could do it he had two today judge you got 25 uh what who was that what was that max you said he's on my dingers only i think that's you i think kyle swarber well you can't talk about dingers only until you pitch that's fair last word last word i'll ever say until i pitch yeah uh swarber swarber would be great swarber's already said that he doesn't want to do it shut up max you already said that you were done talking about it that's more words those are more words you just use this is home run just had words.

13:35Home Run Derby and Dingers Only are two different things. It's Dingers. It's not only Dingers. The Home Run Derby is quite literally only Dingers. It's literally Dingers count. Yeah. But it's not our fantasy baseball. No more words. Shut up, Max.

13:52PFT Commenter:No more words. The Thunder signed all their players? Yep, they did. Well, Caruso. Yeah, they need to get Caruso. Is he next? He must be. So, yeah, they gave out a count. What was it? $270 million five years. Is that what the terms were? For Jalen Williams? Yeah. I think it was 287. And then check got paid too. Was that, when did check get paid? Yesterday. Okay, so the Thunder in total have given$822 million in contracts to those three guys. It's pretty good. Money's not real. Money is not real. And there's a lot of people who are trying to say that this will be the end of the Thunder because you can't pay all three guys.

14:31PFT Commenter:But I think what their plan is, and it might work, is that they have so many draft picks, they'll just keep drafting and not paying those guys and then pay their three guys. Yeah. And hope the role players, like, hey, you're going to play well if you get drafted, get paid very little money, but you get to play with three really good players. So what do all these contracts mean for the apron? I don't know. They might be in prison. Prison? Prison. I got to get a look under that apron. Yeah, you got to get under that apron. Do we have any other sports news? Najee Harris. Najee Harris does have both eyes.

15:03Yes. Think. He had a, quote, superficial eye injury. Yes. But is expected to be back for training camp. The superficial part of the eye, wouldn't that be the eyelid injury? Maybe his eye, yeah, that would be. Because, like, your eye is not superficial. Yeah. Right? Or I guess maybe he just scraped the skin of his eye. He doesn't sound good. He's got a little boo-boo. His eyes were closed and a firework blasted him in the face.

15:29PFT Commenter:Huh. Why would you close your eyes during fireworks, though? Because one's coming at your face. Yeah, true. We also had, I think people are fat-shaming Patrick Mahomes again. Yeah, they are. And his trainer is threatening to beat anyone up. Oh, that's fat. That's awesome. He keeps saying, like, drop your location. That's great. I like this move by his trainer. That's a good guy for Patrick Mahomes. Yes. Okay, he's got a little beer belly, dad bod, whatever. Still a good quarterback. In fact, I would prefer if my quarterback didn't have like an eight-pack. Yeah. Way too much time working on your core.

16:05PFT Commenter:Yeah. So, yeah, it was a Kansas City radio host, Rips, Disgrace, Patrick Mahomes for off-season dad bod. What does it matter? Patrick Mahomes. Yeah. He wins. I mean, it would matter maybe like later on in his career if he's like out of shape and gets injured. But if he went to – he's gone to three straight Super Bowls. He went to the Super Bowl. He did get beaten up in the Super Bowl. He did get beaten up in the Super Bowl. but I don't think that this has to be like Kansas city sports radio. Like you got to have something, but like realize that you have a pretty good and there'll be a day that will come 10 years, 15 years from now.

16:40PFT Commenter:We'd be like, yeah, maybe I shouldn't have nitpicked the guy who brought all this success to our city. I'm going to guess that it's not necessarily coming from inside the house. I think most of the accusations of fat are coming from other teams and that could actually be great for a Kansas City Chiefs fan because the last five six years you've just had to invent reasons why people hate the Kansas City Chiefs and why people doubt you now you actually have people making fun of your quarterback now you've got an actual person to be mad at yeah other than Will Compton yeah Will Compton yeah uh okay anything else sports wise no one it's July baby I just can't wait for summer league you know me yeah our interviews are great today and uh And we've been kind of out of pocket.

17:27PFT Commenter:I mean, I haven't watched anything all week because we've been working. Yep. You guys seen any? I don't know if I've seen any sports. I saw some baseball highlights. A little summer league, a little WNBA. Yeah, I did watch some at Brewers game when the Miz was pitching. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Filthy Mizness. You had to tune in for that. Oh, also happy birthday to Mudang. One years old. I forgot about Mudang. Yeah. She got a little bit big. That's the problem with pygmies. She's like tortured. What'd you say? Isn't she like a tortured animal? Why? She's in a, what are you talking about? They like take advantage of her.

18:00PFT Commenter:How so? Wasn't that a thing? Was it Jeffrey Perlman or whatever? What was the guy's name? The boy band guy? Oh, Lou Perlman. Lou Perlman. Yeah, pretty much. They like wake him up and like force him to. Her? Her to be awake when it's not supposed to be and, you know, take advantage of her. Where'd you get these facts? It sounds like what we do to Hank. It sounds like. It sounds like they wake him up and they make him perform when he's not ready to be awake. They make Mudang awake. Mudang doesn't get to play golf anymore. And when he does, they just make fun of him for it. Where'd you read this, Hank?

18:38I remember when she was hot last year.

18:43PFT Commenter:She was under one, and you were calling her hot. Like hot in the public space when you were posting her every day. You were the pervert. No, you're the pervert. You're posting videos of a one-year-old every day. It's cute. What is hippo years to human years? I don't know. I feel like they might be an animal that lives a long time because they just chill underwater and don't move. It's a human years. It means sea cow. No, that's manatee. I forget what his botamus is. Do hippos generally live 35 to 50 years, which is equivalent to around 36 human years? So a 10-year-old hippo would be roughly equivalent to a 27-year-old human?

19:21What?

19:23PFT Commenter:Oh yeah, that makes sense. So Goudang is like three almost. Yeah, so Hank, you just called a three-year-old hub. Just so you know. Howitzer. Okay, let's do our Mount Rushmore. Before we get to Mount Rushmore. At Boar's Head, we've been going back to school for over 115 years. And this year, every school lunch is reason to celebrate with the flavors your kids love and the exceptional quality you expect. Helping you make school lunch fresh, easy, and delicious. Ring the bell. The deli is open. Boar's Head. Committed to craft since 1905. Okay, boys. Mount Rushmore of C words. Things that begin with the letter C.

20:17I thought I prepared for a different Mount Rushmore of C words. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

20:20PFT Commenter:Well, that could be on there. uh done them see eight what is the what's the score eight nine i don't even know what the score is just tell me the score 10 8 6 what was our what was the phrase that we came up with that we're trying to stay strong we're stay strong uh stay strong don't stay strong don't uh don't break all right it doesn't feel like we maybe shorten that a little bit all right i don't know Our team is a little. We're still feeling it. We're shaky. We're shaky. Whose goes first? I think we're up first, right? We're last. Hank, you have the chance to do the funniest thing ever right now.

20:59Yeah. Hey.

21:03Number one. We doing Christ? Your ball. Your ball.

21:14Oh, man. Hank did put church down. But I thought Christ would be a good one, but we're not going to go to Christ. We're going to go 1-1. Chicks. Ooh, nice. Chicks. Chicks. God help me. I just love women. Okay. What do you think about that, Hank? I love it.

21:31PFT Commenter:Yeah? Feeling good about that? Yeah. Okay. I mean. Who amongst us? Who amongst us? Maybe Zach doesn't like chicks. Yeah, yeah. Oh, baby chickens? Is that the one? Were we talking baby chickens or were we talking women? Women. Okay. That's cool, yeah. Yeah. But it's good that you clarified that. Just in case. Yeah, yeah. Fair point. I think we go with our one-on-one, right? I think so, too. Okay. All right. We're going to go one – our first pick, we're going to go college football. Yep. That was our one-on-one. Mm-hmm. Do you love college football? I love college football. Do you watch a lot of it?

22:03I watch a lot of college football. Okay. All right. Why? Well, there was some debate last fall. What? Who was it? Somebody accused you of not watching that much college football.

22:13PFT Commenter:Who? I forget who it was. What? Yeah. I don't think anyone accused me of that. I remember that. Who was it? You guys are just making this up now, Hank, because you definitely don't. I know your face better than anything. What? I remember PFT's right. What we're doing to make it stuff up? Draft. Okay, you guys are up? Yep. How do you feel, Max? I might go rogue. I might go rogue. I like it. You guys need to go rogue because you're too good at this. I'm thumbsing up your message that you sent. They're too good at this. Go rogue. I think college football is a great pick. I don't know why we didn't think about this.

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22:46we could i'm we're gonna go college basketball okay yeah college basketball also great i also had that on the list and then the next is coffee yep i knew i knew it was gonna get taken that's

22:57PFT Commenter:okay soccer yeah there goes college soccer well i also i was thinking about it and if we'd end up with coffee and i had done a coffee meme like i always do every morning hank would have then accused me of possibly messing with the draft like you did on Wednesday. I tweet a picture of Jesus every morning. Their morning prayers. God is good. Okay. This is where we got to get to. This is where we got to stay strong. Stay strong. Don't break. Stay strong. Don't break. All right. What do you, I'm following your lead. You tell me what you think is going to be great here. Zach, just go wrong. Do we pivot?

23:38PFT Commenter:Pick what? I don't know what you're talking about. No, I don't think so. No, that's fine. Yeah, we'll back it down. I was going to say three here is good. Yeah, yeah. We would be both like that, right? Yeah. All right. I like it. We're going to go chocolate. Okay. Pick. Love chocolate. Very good pick. Thank you. I like her too. Yeah, we'll take cash. I had it on the list. Cash money. Yeah. Cash is king. Good pick. Hank, what do we do here for three? I think you let it rip. Let it rip. Cocaine. Okay. I had it on my list. Cocaine. Hank didn't want me to take it. I had it on my list, too. And it's not good for you.

24:13You shouldn't do it.

24:14PFT Commenter:But it's pretty good. Yeah. I had it on my list, too. Hey. I did not have it on my list. Hank did not. It's a team game. Nine? Yeah. I think everybody enjoys it. I want you to start playing. Okay. I want Zach to start playing. Oh, we're playing, boys. We're in. But I want you to play. We're in here. All right. Go. We're next? Okay. We would like to take Christmas. There you go. Good pick. Good pick. Good pick. I thought you were going to change at the last second there. I thought I was on it. We have that. You did? Yeah, I did. I did change that. You've got to tell me after what you thought you were going to pick.

24:49PFT Commenter:I can do that. Okay. All right. We can't get off track right here. You're right. We're on track. We're good. Stay strong. Don't break. We're going to go with cake. Good pick. And... This is tough.

25:10PFT Commenter:there's so many good c-words i know i'm trying to think of this is one that we should we go broad this is one we should have probably gone six everyone could have broken this up because we will do so mad at the c's that we left off yeah because we are going to do that i think at some point this this summer we're going to do a draft where we'll do a mount rush where all six of us have individual picks but all the points count for the team. Got you. Okay. Do it. Rip it. I'm going to go cheesesteak. Yeah. Great pick. All right. Great pick. Best food out there. Second time cheesesteak has been taken in this room.

25:49Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's right.

25:53PFT Commenter:Dominant. I don't know. I don't know. I'm not staying strong anymore. You are. You are. You're strong. You're strong. You take turkey club. We'll get back to I'm looking at 13. It was. So I was thinking, yeah, but 13, four, five. I got a lot of heat for that. Five is good. 13, like 13 rips, but like, does that play? Yeah, it's a great sandwich. Right, right, right. No, guys, I think this was the start of meatball, I think, for me. So 13, four, and five are like, I would think everybody. We're not saying strong. Stay strong. We're breaking. You know what? Zach is turning Big Cat into Zach. I am.

26:35PFT Commenter:I can't. D &D all over. He's so strong over here. I'm not strong right now. Go five. I'm not strong right now. Eight, seven. Time crunch, Zach. Give us. You ripped the fourth. Hank could be golfing right now. Zach, Zach, you take this bet. Yeah, time crunch. I just took the last one. He's going to take the fourth right here. Take this one. Let's go eight. Go eight. We can't go eight. I almost want to just not do a pick because I'm just, I'm so, I'm so frozen. And I don't know. You just go. You go. Okay. You go. You go. All right. Yeah, fine. Zach's getting the ball. Fourth, we'd like to take cheeseburgers.

27:06PFT Commenter:All right. I like it. Feel good. Yes. That was solid. Because I was paralyzed, and I wanted to take cheeseburgers, but then I wanted to take another thing. So you just did a great job. What was the other thing? Great job. We'll talk about that. Later. We'll circle back. Yeah. Great job. You too. Same to you. I think we stayed strong. They either are. Those are two great picks. I think we're going to point to them. I like that. I got to stay true to myself. All right, seven on our list. Candy. Good pick. Taking candy. Yep. So much variety. Great fourth-round pick. You got chocolate. You got sour.

27:35You got Twizzlers. You got everything. Candy. So what I was going to decide between.

27:40PFT Commenter:So we both get chocolate there? All of them are strong. They're all strong. You guys, I think we're going to come in third. I think I have a good view of this. I think it's going to be one. I went to one Mount Rushmore. I could guess. What is it? You guys are going to be one. You guys are going to be two. We're going to be three. Steve Kornacki? I think it's going to be one, two, three. We should get him dressed up like Steve Kornacki. I have a good feeling of Mount Rushmore's, and that's okay. No, you are the king of Mount Rushmore's. You could actually create a Mount Rushmore of C's out of honorable mentions that could win, potentially.

28:11Oh, yeah. There's so many good ones that would last. Sure. So, wait.

28:14PFT Commenter:What were you deciding between – what did you almost go rogue with? Ten. You can say it. I was thinking maybe going to Call of Duty. Yeah. The one? It's a good pick. That's a great one. But I think Christmas probably plays better than Call of Duty. Christmas, everybody. A lot of people love Christmas. You get Call of Duty. Not everybody. Not everyone. Definitely not everybody gets that. I was going to go coming. Yeah. We had that on the list. You always give us shit for sexual, but. Well, I mean, you guys went chicks first. Well, we were going to go chicks, cash, cocaine, coming. We had all those.

28:42And then we're just basically marketing to the audience of Dan Bilzerian. We're going to go to that vote. We had Chili's. We had Chili's. Crikey. I would have picked him. Crikey. Chili's. Hank put the word crikey on the list.

28:54PFT Commenter:How about a word? Crikey. Castles. Castles. Castles. Corn. Cheese. Chicago. Yeah. Cigarettes. I was debating between going cheese and broad or cheese steaks, but then I thought I was like, I get more excited to have a cheese steak than I do to have like just cheese, just a slice of cheese. Comedy. Yeah, we had comedy on there. We almost picked it with our fourth round. Couch. Couch is great. Nothing better than a couch. We had cunnilingus. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Yep. Corn. You. Nah, we've done it too much this week. Chips and dip. Oh, chips and dip is good. Chips. Just chips. Yeah, we were thinking about it because, like, chips, we don't know.

29:35PFT Commenter:You get bad chips, too, but chips and dip. And then Cool Ranch Doritos. Oh, yeah. If we wanted to get specific or the goat. I thought about just doing college in general. I did, too. But some people don't like it. We put ourselves in a spot of, like, you can't do college football and college. Correct. I can't do college basketball and college. Yeah. Concerts. Concerts are great. Computers. Yeah. Zach had cell phones. Computers sometimes suck, though, because that just worked. Carne asada. Work. Zach had an interesting one. Oh, one that would have been great is chilling with the boys. Yeah. Just chilling with the boys.

30:13I didn't say this to memes, but I thought it personally. Crank and hog.

30:16PFT Commenter:Oh, that would have been good. Zach had one that I still don't really understand, but i'll i'd like to say it and then you can just clarify i guess construction workers yeah so much infrastructure to the entire everything that we do this building all of our homes all of the uh establishments we go to i mean it's everywhere the groundwork of civilization all the construction workers is there's so much credit yeah shout out i think i also think construction equipment would have been cool too yeah also heavy duty stuff yeah Shout out Chevy. Chevy. Yes. Big time. That would have been a great pick.

30:51PFT Commenter:Yeah. Carbs. Carbs are great. We almost took carbs early, which I think would have been a mistake. Hank put – Carbs kind of have like a bad – I love carbs, but a lot of people are like, oh, carbs. You got to limit your carbs. Fuck that. You got to eat more of that. Those people are lying to themselves. Hank put corner kicks on the list. Oh, Hank. Just brainstorming. Yeah. What about – Share. I said share. Calling a timeout. Creedence Clearwater Revival. CCR. Danger. Dion. Celine Dion. I had Carmen Electra. We had Charles Barkley. Zach put in Cristiano Ronaldo. Yep. Oh, no. Yeah. I see. Chilean Seabass.

31:27PFT Commenter:Also, Zach put in Curry comma Steph. You don't like Chilean Seabass? No, your pictures make me giggle. Chris Farley, Chris Rock. He had Chris Tucker. I like Chris Farley. Chris Farley's a good pick. Chris Stapleton? Yeah. No one took cookies. That was cookies or candy. Yeah. Yeah, we had that debate. More variety in candy. Yeah, yeah. We had Cops, the TV show. Yeah.

31:54Cards. But then you put Cops on a graphic.

31:59PFT Commenter:What do you got a problem with Cops? No, but some people do. Go back to blue? Sounds like you have a problem with Cops. I do not have a problem with Cops. I back to blue. Some people do. If liking the Cops is pay during them. Some people do. Sounds like you've got a problem. Christ and Cops, that's what we're about over here. Yep. You just said the same thing about Cops. What? you the argument you are making is the same argument you just made about carbs some people will look at carbs on a graphic and be like oh but everyone likes but you like carbs that is incorrect who doesn't like kind of got me cornered on that one that was the quickest i've ever thought on my feet literally ever yeah i'm proud of chargers submitted me fast i i was i was about to spiral and then for some reason that is max evolving cars cars cars in general cars cars the movie cars the movie well you put on the graphic it's both yeah that's true yeah well no cars the movie is cars i think with a exclamation point but you could also be very excited about cars yeah true true true i'm i believe i i'm not 100 sure let me see i don't know maybe i made that up in my head uh croissants I like the same croissants we said cheese right yep we did it's not Cars the movie is not exclamation point I thought it was for some reason a lot of good a lot of good things out there we can see creeping somebody out when you're staring at them and they notice you stare at them that's a good one that would have been a good one yeah that would have been a good one that's a good one Connor it's a great name Charizard oh yeah Charizard Charmander Charmeleon Why would you take Charmander when Charizard's on the board?

33:39I honestly don't know the difference. You don't get Charizard without Charmander. It is the first stage. So you hate kids. So you hate kids. You can't have Charizard without Charmander. But Charizard is the most evolutionized form. Yeah, but Charmander gets you there. Charmander gets you there. Yeah, but Charizard is the most valuable of all Pokemon. You got to respect the journey, though. You do have to respect the journey.

34:01PFT Commenter:You have to respect the journey. That's a fair point. Crabs. Crabs is good. Eating ones. But then you – I know. I thought about that. but then it's like crabs on a graphic. What does that mean? What does that mean? What does that mean? Crab legs, maybe. That would have been crab cakes. Crab feast. I love crab cakes. Crab cakes are delicious. Crab cakes. Crawfish. Yep. Crawfish are good. Yeah, so good. Chicken. China.

34:27PFT Commenter:I thought about Canada. Uh-huh. No. Shout out to Canadians. I don't think you. No, yeah, but I like Canada. Yeah, it's fine. Could you put another country on Mount Rushmore, though? No, probably not. Yeah. Czechoslovakia. Chinese food. Oh, that is a big miss. Yep. Chinese food is a great call. That could have easily been a pick. Yeah. Shit. Fuck. Charcuterie? Yeah. Charcuterie's good. Champagne? What were some of the other ones? Championships. Championships. Championships. Fuck, I just completely forgot about that in the last – whatever. Championships. And the worst part about Mount Rushmore season is that we've listed 200 C words, and we will still have – like the first thing I'll see when I wake up tomorrow is someone saying something and me being like, how am I so stupid?

35:16PFT Commenter:Like the M words, Monday Night Football, we forgot. And I felt like the dumbest person in the world. All right, here's the rest of Zach's list real quick. You can just jump in any time to explain it. Catch. Yep. That plays. Carmelo Anthony. yep sure an interesting one player of all time i agree he was he was mocking you no i wasn't mocking you i was just saying your your stat yeah uh cruises no i disagree yeah he brain dumped that's fine we're not gonna judge uh combines chat great pick fuck i can't believe you chat's fun yeah chats uh cinema should have been sitting next movies are great crepes spelled incorrectly tough look like like grapes with a c yeah i like exactly countdowns these women what's countdowns countdowns are good just like 10 9 8 7 builds a suspense it does yeah can we fucking miss countdown dude right how do we not do that new year's eve is a great time the number one thing that people are pissed off about tomorrow fucking left countdowns off oh all right coolers cows coolers is good i was thinking cold beer but that's kind of is that would that have counted nah i feel like that's a little too that's an adjective you can't yeah right country music cola cola cola yeah um all right good job guys let's uh let's get to our interview we got a great interview with rob mack aka rob mcelini from always sunny and then our good friend Marty Fish who hopefully is going to win this tournament.

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38:00PFT Commenter:Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very special guest. It is Rob Mack, which, is that official? Should we start? Rob from Always Sunny, Rob Mack, officially changed his name. Is there a viral ad behind this? What's going on? No, there's no viral ad. I mean, there is a very brief under 60-second explanation. I would love to hear it. Online. That's easy to see. But I can keep it quick for you. It's just a lifetime of mispronunciations, misspellings, misunderstandings, which is not that big of a deal. Right. And for years, I was asked, especially when I first started, would I consider shortening my name or changing my name?

38:45A lot of people, in fact, a lot of people you're not even aware of have changed their name when they get into my business. and I was always very proud of my name and said no you know like that's my family name and I've I've had it for generations and and I don't want to change it and this year I did a full like ancestry family tree and found out that my name has changed like seven times oh okay including when they got here at at at at immigration at Ellis Island and they just changed the name completely and they were like no this is what the name is and then there was other sects of my massive Irish Catholic family that started spelling it in all sorts of different ways.

39:22So I decided, you know what? Fuck it. I'm just going to do it right now. Yeah. Now you got a whole new one. And now it's so simple. R-O-B-M-A-C, the end. Yeah. That's easy. Do you feel different? I got to be honest with you. I do. Yeah. I didn't think that I would. And it's something lighter. It's, I mean, look, again, it's really, and I addressed this in this stupid little video I made. There's so much going on in the world. and this is such a stupid little thing, but to even like spend your time thinking about. But, you know, when you're walking around and you walk into a hotel, for example, and you say, hi, and they say, name, sir, and you say, McElhaney, and they look up with confusion, and they should because it's ridiculously long in so many syllables.

40:01And then you try to explain why it's not MAC, why is it MC, and then is there a space? I've been stopped at airports for 40 years where, you know, there's a space where there shouldn't have been a space, there's a missing vowel. Right. And I just decided, R-O-B, M-A-C. So if your name's long like that, and I have a long last name as well, but it just becomes something where you say McElhinney and you immediately start spelling it for him. Exactly. Off the bat, right? And even there, you just mispronounced it and it's not your fault.

40:27PFT Commenter:Yeah. He was actually doing the third generation. Thank you. Fair enough. Yeah. Sorry for dead naming. Yeah. Thank you. Yes. Believe me, I'm going to spend a lot of time calling people out for dead naming. Yes, you have to. Oh, almost immediately. Wait, but so when you decided to do this, were you, was it always going to be Mac or were you like, maybe I'll upgrade like Rob Powers or something? Rob Sharp. I wanted to make it as. Just like your five-year-old self be like, what do I want to be? I made this mistake in high school. My sophomore year, we had this wonderful teacher and she said, she made the mistake of saying to 16-year-old boys, if you have a nickname that you go by, you tell me that.

41:04And I'll call you that for the rest of the year. And I was being, you know, a piece of shit. and I said, my nickname is Blade. And she heard, for some reason, Blaze. And I said, but then I freaked out. And she said, Blaze? And I said, yes. So then she called me Blaze for half the year, except she spelled it B-L-A-I-S-E, not B-L-A-Z-E.

41:26PFT Commenter:That sounds like a little girl in Nashville. Yeah, it seems like blase. Yeah, you don't want that. And then she noticed that all of my friends were calling me Rob, so she caught wind of that. And so I figured I'd just go keep it simple. Rob Mack, R-O-B-M-A-C. Were you surprised that, like, some people were mad about it? I saw the video and I was just like, oh, cool. He's Rob Mack now. Like, who cares? People hate change. Yeah. People hate change. I did see the comments. Some people were like, what are you doing? It's like, what do you care? Yeah. Your name. I figured there would be some blowback.

41:56And, again, people, everybody's got an opinion about something, you know. And at the end of the day, I assume that most people would say the same thing, which is, it's your name. Who cares?

42:05PFT Commenter:Yeah, you should change it, like, every year just to see, like, Like, can we get the dumbest controversy going? How can we upset as many people as possible? How can I really make it a giant narcissistic? Yeah. I mean, so it really is just to simplify things and to be able to walk into a room and say, R-O-B-M-A-C. I appreciate it because we scheduled this interview like probably two months ago. And I think at the moment that we scheduled it, I was like, all right, I got to figure out how to say his name. And then this happened a week ago. I was like, fuck. Yeah. Awesome. Yeah. Rob Mack. Yeah. it was always misspelled and I was always correcting people, but that, you know, only in official capacities because sometimes you can't get on a plane or you can't check in somewhere and then people would apologize.

42:43And I would always say, it's not your fault. It is a ridiculously long name and hidden vowels and whatnot. And so it was always like a, a 30 second longer exchange than anything had. So you're like, you guys also have nicknames. Yeah. Right. Right. Right. So it's a, it's a stage name. Your life is so much more efficient. did you think about going to M A C K as opposed to M A C? Totally fair question. I really appreciate it. I wanted to keep it as simple as possible. Yeah. I just wanted just because then the silent K essentially would maybe potentially add a little bit more confusion. That's fair.

43:17Okay. Well, yeah, it's good to have you here. How's the golf game looking? I mean, I'm so sorry because I'm sure you guys have just been talking about this all day, but how can we be talking about my name or golf? How can we be talking about anything when the video of that man on the golf course? Yeah. I mean the best it's so satisfying the best the bang bang bang and I don't know what it is about my what this says about me um but my feed on all of my social all of my socials the

43:45PFT Commenter:almost as if I turned my phone on yeah and it got pushed to me yeah you know you guys got pushed to me like that video got pushed to me on every single channel I have and it is just glorious content it's it's not only the fact that the it's an ex-nhl enforcer just kicking the shit out of a guy who is being like way too aggressive but there's just something about like guys on a golf course in polos fighting that just it does it for me maybe it's like a new ufc we could get like they do the slap maybe it's just golfers fighting it's uh they shouldn't be fighting you know it's like a very prestigious game and banners and everything and then they're just throwing each other into lakes you see it from time you see it from time to time but usually there's enough distance between people who are like upset with each other by the time they close the distance they're they're either cooler heads have prevailed but most likely one guy saw the other guy and was like nah not today in this case that didn't happen yeah uh a drunken mcjunkstein did did solve this six foot i actually don't know how big the hockey player he's a big guy yeah he's especially big even yeah i could i could tell based on the accents so as soon as i open it and i hear the guy's accent and i'm like oh he's canadian and he sounds like every every hockey player i know yeah and that's the way not just their accent but the way he's not necessarily de-escalating but he's also not escalating it he's saying hey man like just keep moving keep moving and and then eventually the guy calls him starts running towards him and all he does is throw him yeah he says i'm gonna throw you in a lake yeah it was a minute like yeah you're right it wasn't a de-escalation it was just a calm like hey i'm going to beat the fuck out of you yes keep going yeah i don't remember who it was in the video who says you're not scaring anybody yeah i think it was either the guy's friend who was filming or it was actually the hockey player but either way the calmness with which that was delivered yeah you are not you're not scaring anyone it's also never a good sign when the guy who's delivering the beating keeps saying like enough yes he's like enough you've had enough there's a moment at which the buddy comes in to maybe step in and you see that the hockey player grabs him and he could have given him a bang yeah and he chooses not to in a split second and just kind of pushes him away yeah and you know that that kind of temperance that's a noble piece he also fought him like a hockey player he grabbed him by the shirt and like held him i feel like the punches were targeted he's like hitting him on the side of the head just like he used to do back in the league and calling his own shots of a throwing him in the river and And then bang, bang, bang is amazing.

46:16And you guys know enough hockey players. And to me, hockey players are some of my favorite athletes, especially to hang out with and to play golf. Yes. And I don't know a lot of UFC fighters that play golf, but I have a lot of who are friends. And they are the funnest people to hang out with because they're the most chill.

46:33PFT Commenter:Yeah. They're so fun. Canadian hockey players, and again, this is such a broad statement, but they tend to be either from Canada or from the Midwest and from the north and they're just sweet people yeah kind people until they're not i gotta give you the business they gotta bang yes yeah and they gotta bang i think what it is about golf videos because for me it's the same way with airport fight videos yeah i like watching those too and the the common space they share is you're probably not going to see a gun pulled out yeah right it's like if you're on a golf course the guy's probably unarmed you don't have to worry about watching a video and it's just it turns into just like a a snuff film that gets tossed and you're in rhythm.

47:10In the airport, you're through security already. So it's like, all right, just boys will be boys. Square up. I'm trying to think.

47:15PFT Commenter:The only other thing that goes up for it for like golf fight videos is when you get like the dudes on bikes, like the Lance Armstrongs and like the tight jerseys. When they fight, that's fun. Start kicking. Because you just look ridiculous if you fight in that. I've always wondered when you see like NASCAR drivers go at it because they're wearing helmets. They're still willing to throw down and hit a guy in his helmet. But again, I know that we – I know I can speak for myself. I like to believe I'm someone, but my algorithm tells me exactly who I am. So when I go to open up whatever it is, Instagram or something, and I look and I go to search and it says like this is what you want.

47:53I'm like, no, it's not. Yes, it is. No, listen. We love it. I don't know why I like to watch people fight. I just do. I don't know. It's an instinctual thing.

48:04PFT Commenter:When I pull up my Instagram algorithm, it's usually just like big tits and like cheeseburgers. I'm like, they got me. They figured me out. They got it. Boobs and puppies right now. Yeah. Those are my two. Yeah. Yeah, they got it. Pretty good. But seriously, how is the golf game going? It's going okay. I have a very low bar. Last year was my first – I think it was the first tournament I've ever played in or I've never played in any of these like official pro-ams. And so last year was my first time. There were 90 participants. I came in 81st. Well, as long as you beat Charles Barkley. I didn't. Oh.

48:37I didn't. I didn't. Oh, that's your caddy over there saying this year. Yeah, your caddy saying this year. I brought an actual caddy. Yeah. Last year, I brought one of my employees, Brian, who is a great – sorry, Brian, he's just sighed. He's my chief of staff, but he's not a caddy. Right. Now I have an official caddy. A real caddy. Who I work with in Los Angeles. And this is the year I beat Barkley, for Christ's sake.

49:01PFT Commenter:Yeah. Does that put a little more pressure on you, bringing a real caddy? It's like the guy in men's league softball wearing batting gloves. If you don't perform, you have a real caddy with you. I think part of my problem last year was that I didn't feel the pressure. It was just fun. And I just got hammered and was like, ah, who cares? And then you start to care when you're negative 16, 17. And I'm watching that. And it's the opposite. Usually you want to be below par. This is the Stableford point system. So I think I finished with negative 36 points. Yeah. That's not. That's beatable. So I have that going for me.

49:41Yeah. Have you told somebody that you shot minus 36 and then not clarified afterwards? Yeah. I told my wife hoping that she would take the bait, and she didn't give a fuck either way. Is she changing her name? She just didn't care. She never changed it, so she was always – she always is – She should change it to McElhinney. Well, on her, some of her official documents, I guess it's, I feel really bad for her. It's Olsen McElhoney. Okay. And she wanted that because she wanted to have the same name as her children. So my kids now are McElhoney. Oh. It's up to them. Oh. It's up to them. Quite a pickle.

50:16Yeah, it's a bit of a pickle. But they're 15 and 13. Again, they don't give a shit. Yeah. I heard that you're getting into business with a Mexican soccer team now. I am in business. Ncaxa, right? Yes. So I don't know if he still is working around the team. We know a guy, Sam Porter, that was – Oh, yeah. You know Sam? I know Sam very well. Yeah. So he sent me like a box of Nakaxa stuff like three years ago. I like the logo. That's my limited knowledge behind the team. It's beautiful. Well, we have a television series that's going to be debuting in about a month. It's in Spanish, but you can read, right?

50:50I can read. You can read. There's subtitles. We're writing.

50:53PFT Commenter:We're writing a book, yeah. Yeah, okay. You can read and write. Yeah, yeah. Great. Ghostwriter, though. All right, so it'll be subtitled, but the vast majority of it is in Spanish. I do my best. Ryan doesn't speak any Spanish. I speak a little bit enough. But it is about our journey with Nekoxa and Eva Longoria. So this obviously spurned on from Wrexham and what you guys have done with that. You guys are in the second league now? Yeah, we're in championship, right below Premier League. It's pretty, like, that doesn't really happen. Have you had a moment to step back and be like this? You know when you buy an investment like that and it's going to be a fun story and you make a documentary.

51:34PFT Commenter:This could be really cool. You guys are just skyrocketed. Yes, it's been wild. I mean, it's never happened before in the history of English football. No team has ever gone back to back to back. Yeah. And that's what we did this past year. It's crazy. And so each year we get told, okay, well, now is the year where you slow down, You consolidate. You invest in other areas. And each year we say no. We go all in and bet on the coach and the team. And it's worked out thus far. You guys are doing ownership right. Like I would imagine the fans love this because it's revived this franchise. I spent a lot of time in the very beginning talking to a few owners who I'm friends with.

52:17Jeffrey Lurie who owns the Eagles. Just to ask him. But most importantly, I spoke to all my friends who are either pro athletes or ex-pro athletes to ask them what kind of relationship they would want to have with the owners, if at all. And so I did my research, and, you know, it's kind of great that we don't know anything about football. I'll call it soccer because this is a big thing. Yeah, please do. Or waste of grace. We don't know anything about soccer. We don't know anything about professional sports, to be honest with you, other than I like watching it. so we can't there's no reason for us to be in the locker room there's no reason for us to be talking about strategy we can just be friends with the players and the families and then we just invest in the manager and in in the the executives to make sure that they're all making the right decisions and then we're just fans yeah so it's it's kind of a perfect it's kind of a perfect situation because we're not involved in any football operations we're not involved in any of their deal making.

53:13We approve the budget, but at the end of the day, you know, if a player isn't moving on with us, that's not my call. So it allows us to become really good friends with players.

53:23PFT Commenter:Yeah. Yeah, that's awesome. I mean, you should coach at some point just because that, I feel like every owner, like when everyone says Jerry Jones is too hands-on, it's like, no, he's not hands-on enough. Like I would, I'd call some plays if I owned him. I love it when he does a press conference. It's like real great. I would love to watch Jerry Jones put on the headset. Yeah. But you know what? It's your team. Why not play? Go out and play, man. Yeah, why not? You can do whatever you want. Great. Yeah. Yeah, so we – I'm very, very, very respectful of the fact that I cannot – it's amazing how many owners or executives you see think that they're the ones that are doing it.

54:00PFT Commenter:We ain't doing it. Especially new owners. Like that's where you guys deserve a ton of credit because you see it a lot in sports where a new owner will buy a team and they'll be like, well, I was very successful in my line of work, usually business. I'm just going to do that here. And then it all blows up. It doesn't work that way. Yeah. But you can focus on the things that you know how to do really well. So working with Ryan, who's a master marketer, we knew that we could tell the story well. So I focused on making the documentary, which is a huge part of it. Ryan is a massive star all over the world.

54:29I mean, he just basically poured gasoline on the entire – rocket fuel, I should say, on the entire thing. And everybody kind of does what they can do best. and that's that's the way we kind of look at all of our businesses but very specifically very specifically sports where you see i will say though however look at the commanders this year right like a new owner new ownership comes in and he he was able or that group was able they were able to change the culture yeah and they made a couple of key moves and then put everything in place let everybody do their job and look what happened yeah it was awesome it was great i'm a commanders fan so everything that's happened the last two years has felt like i died and went to heaven yeah because dan snyder was the epitome of the example of the bad owner the guy that would like meddle with everything me and big cat we actually we own a mexican football team monterey osos and a lacrosse team we're so hands off we didn't know that we bought it yeah yeah yeah we had a press release we're like whoops okay oops yeah how they doing uh actually they're

55:30PFT Commenter:in the super bowl this week yeah in the super bowl we got to talk about that so we actually have to sign our the shares yeah yeah i gotta i knew that yeah and how much how much cash can we say can we tell the audience how much uh i don't even know we have to decide that it's as much as we want i actually i invested in swansea uh like probably three or four years before you guys bought rexham and that didn't go well yeah yeah and i just got blamed on like message boards because i like i invested like twenty thousand dollars it was nothing and they would just every time they would lose they'd be like yeah you got all the bad like liverpool has lebron and we got a fat blogger and it's like, whoops.

56:03So, yeah, I mean that I've seen a lot of people go into investment groups cause the ownership is really fun. Yeah, it is. But at the end of the day, you know, the values of some of those clubs, um, in soccer, but like in the NFL, for example, you can't buy a meaningful stake in one of those clubs for less than six,$7 billion. Yeah. The commanders sold for. Um, and so it's hard who has that, who has that money? I don't know but that's what's so great about the english system is that you can buy a team that's in the fifth division yep you keep investing in them and they keep performing then you're one year away from the premier league was it more time than you thought it would be in terms of investing how much energy how much time you're going to have to put into owning this team it's it's happened so fast um to get to this point um the the questions that we've been having are like is it responsible how quickly we're moving.

56:55You scale a business that fast. If you don't have the right personnel in place, if you don't have the right infrastructure, it's boring, but it's not sexy to talk about. It's like drafting a left tackle. It's probably one of the most offensive linemen, one of the most important decisions that you can make as a club, and yet the fans want a quarterback. They want a receiver. They want, but at the end of the day, that left tackle might be the most important, the centerpiece of the entire organization at some point so making those sort of like unsexy decisions has been tough because my job as the documentarian is to tell a fun story and no one wants to watch a story about infrastructure building right it's just fucking boring but the people that you hire when you get when you get started they might be the perfect people for that role but then you move up twice and now that's not like if you were to start from that position you wouldn't hire that guy to be in that role i'll go you one further this is where this is where it becomes really heartbreaking the players oftentimes will play themselves out of a job so in great success in league two or right one and this happened with a few of our players they gave their hearts and their souls and their effort and helped us get promoted and for that the club us the town are eternally grateful but what winds up happening is you go up a league and maybe they're 36, 37 years old, sometimes even 34, 35, and you need somebody who's 21 or 22.

58:23And if you theoretically stayed down in that league, they might still have a job. And to ask young men to do that is, it's a part of the gig and they accept that, but it still doesn't make it easy.

58:35PFT Commenter:It's not fun. It's not fun. And I found out one of my favorite players was released from the team this year and I found out via Twitter. Wow. And I was just as shocked as he was, and it was his statement. And the manager hadn't told us yet. He talked to the player, which is what he should have done. The player talked to his teammates and then put out a statement, which is his right to do. And my heart was broken, and I did not see it coming. Yeah. Yeah, by the way, I should note, some people do like to watch infrastructure being built. Zach, who took your gum earlier, he watches guys do concrete pours, like five-hour videos of it.

59:12PFT Commenter:So if you ever want to do that, if you build a new stadium. Do you find that relaxing? Yeah, he likes it. Very relaxing. Yes, sir, is what he said. And you fall asleep to it? Do you... Get up here, Zach. Yeah, Zach. Yeah, yeah. And it's actually like pouring concrete into molds? Or is it like mixing quick-crete? What are you talking about here? I've got a crew out in Wisconsin, Victory Outdoor Services. They don't mix concrete. It comes in on trucks. They pour it. So they set the forms, like pour driveways, parking lots, things like that. Okay. And you're watching five hours of that? Each video is usually like an hour or two, yeah.

59:45Are we building, like, what kind of structures are we building? Caissons? Is it, like, foundational work? A lot of driveways. Yeah, a lot of, like, neighborhood driveways or sidewalks as well, back patios. I can see that. Yeah, I can see how that works.

1:00:00PFT Commenter:So there's an audience there for it. Do you watch it dry too? No, no, no. They'll come back and spray with the sealer the next day so you'll get an update on the pour. Okay. But he said no as if that was the craziest. Yeah, like, you're an idiot. Yeah, like, what are you talking about? Why would you watch it dry? You just, you got to watch it for. Yeah. So just. Well, we are building a stadium. All right. So he'll watch. Yeah. If you want to just set up a GoPro and he'll watch that. It's actually, that would be a fun storyline. Here's a guy. Here's a stadium being built. Here's a guy watching.

1:00:26Yeah. Only because he likes to watch the concrete. Yeah. When you were talking to Jeffrey Lurie, did he say you have to get a Big Dom? Oh, Big Dom is one of my favorite people. Same. He's the best. On earth. And we, I went to the, this was actually not this season, but last season, and we went to the Eagles-Rams game. And at the end of the game, Dom, we're in one of the boxes on the field. Dom comes over, and he didn't even know it was my son. It was just a bunch of kids. He brought over one of the game balls and gave it to the kids, and my son took it home. It's like his prize possession. Yeah.

1:01:03They did that exact same thing to Max. Yeah.

1:01:05PFT Commenter:It's Max, and he's 30. Wow. they're just picking out the person that that really needs a lift we listen we were when big dom when the whole thing happened with the niners we were like actually very upset because max was like oh yeah that's big dom we're like you've been keeping big dom from us like why didn't you tell us about big dom he's the best he's heart and soul the philadelphia eagles it's really fascinating to see the dynamics i just went back um to play uh in uh the charity event that they do that the Eagles do and one of the great perks of doing what I do for a living is is getting to do those kinds of things and be invited to Marion Golf Course to play with the Eagles so just to see the dynamics and how it all works like because I'm just used to watching them on Sunday right and to see how how Jeffrey and then of course Howie Roseman the greatest GM in all of sports navigate their relationship with the players because it's tricky.

1:02:06Like you want to be as close to them as you possibly can, but you could see, you know, when Howie walks into a room, like everybody kind of like sits up a little bit. Yeah. And in fact, while I was getting food at the buffet and Jalen says, hey, do you want to sit over there? I want to ask you a couple things. I said, sure. So I go over and I'm just sitting there in a big table eating with Jalen Hurts and Jalen's asking me a bunch of questions about business. And no one's sitting with us. And I'm wondering why no one's sitting with us. But I figured out, it's cool. Talking to Jalen Hurts is great.

1:02:41So we talked for like 45 minutes and then dinner was over. And later that night, I got a text from Jake Elliott, who I'm very good friends with. He's the kicker for the Eagles. And he said, I didn't see you. I was like, where were you? I didn't see you. He goes, well, I saw you talking with Jalen and just figured I should stay out of that conversation. I'm like, what? That's a good kicker. Why? That's a good kicker. I feel like he was like, look, QB1 has decided he's sitting with you and talking. And Jake finds his own space. Yes. I'm like, wow, that's real.

1:03:10PFT Commenter:Yeah. That's real. Yeah, that's absolutely real. And it wasn't out of deference or fear. It was just out of respect for what QB1's doing. Yeah. Jake's got his thing that he's going to go do. And they're all friends. Yeah. It's like watching a nature show. Like the hierarchy in real life. And it's so natural to a good team. Yes. You know your boundaries. And you're on the same team. Right. You're literally there for a charity event, but you're there with the owner and the GM and the head coach and all the players who are, you know, they're coming back for minicamp. But you see how it all, I don't know.

1:03:42Of course, it's one big happy family, but it's still a profession and they treat it as sunny.

1:03:46PFT Commenter:Yeah. Always sunny. 17 seasons. You're on your 17th season right now. Yep. I mean, that's not done in show business. Is there a moment where you're like, are we just going to keep going? Are we going to break all the records? Because it's incredible. It's a credit to you guys to be able to do something, keep it that funny for that long that people keep loving it. Thank you. I think that this season that's coming out today or tomorrow is the funniest season. Maybe the funniest season we've ever done. That's a pretty high bar. But definitely the funniest of the last, like, decade. And Charlie and I both agreed.

1:04:22We were sitting in the editing room watching episode, I don't know, six or seven. And we were like, wow, this is probably the funniest season that we've ever done. And I think it's just because we, I value people's time beyond anything else. Like the one commodity that we can't buy more of or get more of. People live tough lives. I know that sunny for some people is just something that they can sit at home and make some laugh when they've come home from a tough day. or they've got something brutal going on in their lives and they can just watch a bunch of terrible people be terrible people and it makes them laugh.

1:04:57So I take that very seriously. And for as silly and ridiculous as the show is, the work that we put into it comes out of respect for people's time. And I feel like if people are going to show up for us week after week, year after year, like generation after generation, then at the very least I owe them the time to put into it to make it to be the best that I can make it. Can I ask you a question about the upcoming season? You have to tell me and be truthful with your answer. Ryan Reynolds, is he in it? No. Was that truthful? That's truthful. Was that truthful? Because there was a whole like is he going to be your boyfriend thing that you guys bossed around a little bit?

1:05:38No. No, he's not. He cut me out of Deadpool. I'll keep him in the documentary. Yeah, okay. that's that and you know the knock the coxer one what is my fan you can edit them out of whatever

1:05:49PFT Commenter:you want yeah when you guys are sitting there though editing season 17 you're like this is the best season do you do you take a moment and sit back and be like what what's the story you you the first the pilot you went to like a best buy and got like a a camcorder because that's before cell phones yeah that had video like 200 bucks and i got up yeah we got best i got a best buy card that i couldn't and i bought a camera i couldn't afford um and we actually bought two of them so we could cross shoot them much like this yeah um and what's wild is that those cameras we shot on on vhs so there's still our original home movie is on vhs that's amazing so cool and then you went out and pitched it and you actually had like a pretty good success of like people wanting it right yeah we uh we made the first one but we made the first one and it wasn't good enough so we did it again and then we kept going made like three or four iterations of it until finally we were like okay maybe this is pretty good but I knew that if we were going to take it out I was a waiter at the time so uh and working in a and prior to that it was a bar back in a bar so I wanted to entrust I wanted them to entrust me with running this television series I was 26 and and so I thought we should make a second episode because that'll prove that it's not just one fluke.

1:07:10Yeah. So we made a second episode that turned out pretty great from our perspective. We then took it out to the, to the town and, um, almost everybody made us an offer because we could keep it cheap. Uh, and it was, um, it was something different.

1:07:24PFT Commenter:That's, I mean, that in itself is kind of unheard of that, like everyone made you an offer. And then your decision to go with FX. I love that story because you knew you had the foresight to be like, they're going to give us the space creatively to go to places that maybe not everyone else does. Whereas a lot of people would just in your position 26 waiting giving me the most money yeah we um there was a there was an inflection point where we had offers and when we got the offers um and this is also a benefit of having multiple offers we went back with we have one demand um and that demand was that that i would be the showrunner that glenn and charlie would be executive producers we would direct the episodes write the episodes um because we didn't want to bring in it happens all the time where they say oh okay these kids made something now let's bring in an adult or professional um and everybody said oh sorry pass except fx john langraf who runs that place and still does said okay but do you guys having that ability to be like hey this is what we have to do i think that's just very rare i think a lot of people especially hungry trying to get into the business there they'll just take whatever offers given to them and then find out the hard way that things change when you when you start getting up to the big leagues.

1:08:37Yeah, you know, we just had a belief in ourselves that we could execute and that we, you know, to be honest with you, we didn't want to bring in Danny. Really? No, no. Our knee-jerk reaction was not that we had anything against Danny. Danny's an icon and hilarious, but he was a movie star. And we thought, well, if we bring in a movie star, they could screw up the dynamic, and we feel like we've got a pretty good thing going. so then um landgraft said okay well you have a choice you can either bring in a star um or you cannot do the show and we were like let's do option a yeah yeah and then it just so happened it's like we hit the lottery again because danny um was incredible and like slipped right into what we were trying to do he is when people are like what's danny really like i say okay picture danny DeVito in your head that's what he's like that's it yeah yeah and you know some people they ain't

1:09:35PFT Commenter:who they putting out in the world he is wait so was how quickly were you like this works with Danny knowing that you were it was a little bit forced on you yeah but was there a moment like even the first time or the second episode we're like oh this is gonna be awesome it actually happened when um he as part of his contract he said okay I'll do it but you only get me for uh two weeks to shoot an entire season of the show um you know we shoot really fast but only having two weeks is not a lot which means we had to front load all of his stuff in the beginning so and and he was taking a risk on us and we said okay fine great so we got about halfway through the first week about wednesday and he could see that we were like really jamming but he was having so much fun and he pulled me aside and he goes i'll give you as much time as you need oh that's So we then kept him for another.

1:10:27We want to still be respectful. I think we only took another week or something like that or two weeks. And there was that moment. And then subsequent to that, there was a time in which, you know, maybe episode three or four, he walks in. And there was a bunch of space that we didn't realize was there. And I said, okay, when you come in, you'll just have some space before you get to the next line. So just say whatever you want. and he said what should I say and I said Danny DeVito man I want you to say whatever you want to say and he said here come here for a second so what he pulls me aside and he's like I'm here because I'm old and you're young and you know what's funny and what I think is funny is what my generation thought was funny but I want to speak to your generation so you tell me what to say and I'm going to say it to the best of my ability and so I did I wrote something he said it he walked in and that was that but not only did that help um help with the chemistry of our show it taught me a very important lesson that i take with me to this day which is to always always be listening to the next generation or the next generation after that because they're the ones that are dictating what the culture is yeah that's why we listen to zach that's what we're gonna do yeah yeah yeah before we get to pour in concrete yeah that's our podcast now we had uh we had Danny on the show I think it was like four or five years ago maybe he told a great story about you guys and the April Fool's joke that you played oh yeah entire like everybody on the show fucked him in the ass yes yeah and then he got to the last page and it said April Fool's yeah now was he was he into the script uh like after three four pages did he like as he tells the story I mean we we wrote we it was actually um us and the Chernin brothers who uh have worked with us and for us for years and they also created my wife's other show called the mick and they're just like crazy funny guys and we had an idea but you know you don't have a lot of time in the writer's room but april fools was coming up and danny had done a few pranks pulled a few pranks on us and we thought how can we out how can we outdo him and we pitched it to the guys and the guys sent us back a draft and charlie and i then took a pass and went really hardcore but we were like for for it to work he's got to believe that it's a real script so like let's make our storyline as real and as funny as we possibly can be so he believes that this is true and then let's have him sent to prison in the opening scene and then every scene after that is him being abused by different by different groups in the prison and each one put their own little spin on you know how they express themselves in prison yeah uh and danny's uh body yeah and frank's body i should say yeah and he said he started like sweating because he he thought the rest of the script was funny and he was like i don't know what the punchline is going to be but man i don't i don't know if i can do this because he's done everything we've asked him to do right and finally yeah the last the last line was fuck you that's that's so good you should film that episode for the last you really that should be in the last season whenever that happens to be

1:13:39PFT Commenter:it was brutal it was graphic and you guys are so good the the the fact that you've done 17 seasons through a lot of culture changes in america and like how you know comedy and there's all these discussions about it but i think what you guys do better than anyone else is and you said it to start here like all the characters are terrible people and that's what makes it work you can make fun of anything when you the joke is kind of back at you yeah is was that a conscious effort oh yeah It allows us to do these things because in a day we're not saying these are like good people. They're bad people.

1:14:09PFT Commenter:You shouldn't be rooting for them. That's right. Yeah. And we never pander to the audience. I always assume the best of people and that they'll understand the joke and satire. And that if you're going to make a show about the worst people on the planet, then they're going to act accordingly. And that gives you a tremendous amount of leeway in so many different areas. and it i the thing that i find fun um is depends on where i am in the country because some sometimes someone will come up to me and say like oh man like i love how you you you come at the conservatives and it's like such a progressive show and i'm like really is that what you think it is yeah and then then you then i'll go into like a conservative part of the country and people be like man how do you even live in la when you're like killing the lefties like on your show and i'm like really is that what you think it is because that's that is what we're doing yeah we're we're basically looking at the the entirety the complexity of western culture american culture and we're satirizing all of it yeah and so i believe that uh that the audience again i never pander i assume that they understand what we're going for and ultimately number one we're out to entertain number two we want to make people laugh and number three we want to get them to maybe look at hypocrisy uh from you know look at however way they look at the world through this very skewed prism and we have never once taken our foot off the accelerator yeah did you think about putting a laugh track in ever no i mean we we we messed around with it when we were we did like a couple of episodes where we put it in just for fun but it would it wouldn't work i don't think on a on a show like that because it's so confusing where the laughter is like sometimes you know people you watch it with an audience it's really fun because people will laugh at different things and sometimes you do something you assume the audience is going to love it and they don't give a shit and sometimes you just put something in and you just kind of forget about it and then it's become something iconic yeah it's also it's sometimes patronizing to the audience when you watch a show and there's all this laughter and you're like none of this was funny yeah who's laughing at that why is that a joke yeah it's the same thing to me is i i i i don't know i look everybody is entitled to their opinion socially politically whatever i i feel like we have a tendency in our industry um to to need to express ourselves and again everybody's right but express ourselves outside of our medium and i kind of feel like a lot of the rejection from the public is people not saying stay in your lane they're saying hey you have a platform already uh with which you can express yourself in every way you want.

1:16:51And we're willing to check in with you for 22 minutes or an hour or an hour and a half or three hours or whatever. So if you've got something to say, say it through that. I don't necessarily need to see somebody who has that platform already then taking to another platform to express themselves. To me, that seems, again, everybody has their right to do it, but I would rather do it through the work.

1:17:14PFT Commenter:Yeah. All right. We're at the portion of the interview where I'm going to ask you a question about things that you probably have answered a million times sick of talking about but guess what you're here uh the gaining the 60 pounds that was incredible uh although I was a little offended because like we do that every football season like just naturally uh how hard was it and also it's genius because I think you even said like a lot of times the actors will get hotter I wanted to get grosser uh but how hard was it to actually gain and what was the time frame for you to gain 60 pounds the the time frame was three months two and a half months yeah was it a lot of fun yeah sort of it was fun in the beginning um and then and then it got less and less fun because we were getting closer and closer to production and we had written all these scripts that were addressing how large my character got and i wasn't putting it on you were big enough i wasn't i wasn't big big enough and like i there's almost an intervention i remember the moment very distinctly where charlie and glenn were like can we talk to you and we have these like tense conversations all the time because we've got very close relationship and we close the door in the office and they're like man you're not fat enough and uh you know we're gonna shoot this fucking show and you know in like three weeks so you better double down so that that part was like i was setting alarms in the middle of the night to wake up and eat and uh just a tip for anybody out there cottage cheese is like the worst thing you can eat right before you go to bed because it metabolizes so slowly in your stomach.

1:18:48So I was just like hammering, uh, cottage cheese and pineapples and like blueberries and anything with sugar in it. Um, and then I was taking ice cream and weight gainer and I was just melting the ice cream and then putting weight gainer in and put on, yeah, eventually the first 30 was easy the last uh you know then the next 20 was brutal and the final 10 was was really really tough did you just feel so gross i kind of felt great that's awesome like eating all that food felt like shit yeah but i was also power lifting so the problem was that i wasn't i was gaining weight just in my gut and i didn't it wasn't going anywhere else so i went to a trainer and i was like i want to look as disgusting as possible and he's like i've literally never heard that before but but i i i was like i want to get a big fat ass and i want so i was doing like power lifting so i was it was a weird thing because i was bench pressing and power lifting at the same time i was also doing all this weight gainer so i was i was in terrible shape because i wasn't allowed i had to walk slowly up the steps the trainer was like i don't even want you skipping up the steps i want you to like never get your heart rate above whatever so I was just doing like the heavy heavy heavy bench press and squatting so I felt strong as shit I mean I was like Eastern European I was crazy strong crazy strong and that so that felt good um at any point my ligament I'm sure like my ligaments were ready to my liver took a hit um and my kidneys were in rough shape but other than that like I felt pretty good I apparently Caitlin says that I snored like heavily so I had some sleeping issues but other than that yeah I felt great yeah and look the point of it was like I was watching in one of the episodes and I I decided to use a different take in and I and even though the take that I had seen was funnier and I caught myself and I was like why do I want to use a different take and I realized it was just like a moment of vanity I felt like I didn't like the way I looked in that and I was like put that shit and check that is the oh the whole point of this show is to make the anti-sitcom so the anti-sitcom is never to to make a decision based on vanity that's when it sort of started for me where in the off season i thought okay that was a scary moment where i almost made a vain decision how can i do the opposite so i pitched to everybody what if we all put on 60 pounds and everybody was like fuck you danny said yes i was like no i don't want to be responsible for killing so i said okay i'll just i'll just do it i'll just do it i wanted to make the the i love by the way i love friends i think it's a great show i've seen every episode um i thought it was a really great show but they had already done that show i wanted to do the opposite yeah i wanted to do the anti-friends and so you watched and friends as they got better and better looking as the years went on and because they had more money and they had better doctors and they had better diets and i thought these people live in a bar and they they treat themselves like shit they would look like they would look like garbage yeah so that's what i should i love it i'm happy i asked because i didn't know all of that story like that's that's incredible what about when you got shredded how do you how do you stay funny if you're actually like strong and muscular well that's that is like the the problem like you the the better shape you were in the less funny you are just naturally yeah unless you you tell your friends in the show i did this for you and the friends are like what the fuck are you talking about why and he did it just to like impress them but they're not impressed by it so ultimately getting ripped is just just as sad and that's what we really try to go for what is the saddest version of these people and anybody who's like that's the even though even though it's as vain as possible you then tip over into the other side into into the extreme side of something and so um even it was like the the extreme vanity is what made it so pathetic yeah hey man we have to have an intervention you're not fat enough you're not fat enough worse did you do any steroids um i did create i did a bunch of creatine okay and then when i got into like really ripped shape no i was still yeah i do i did creatine and then they had it was like some kind of like fucking testosterone boosting supplements that's i like the honesty there

1:23:19PFT Commenter:because i do think it's very funny whenever like an actor gets into crazy shape in like three months for a role and it's like here's what they did it's like well what about the other stuff yeah well that's what i i also i put out a post um at around the same time and i was like this is also like i don't know six six or seven years ago but um i pointed out how ridiculous like what it took to get into that kind of shape. Yeah. And that I had a trainer and that I had a studio behind me that was paying for all of it. And I had somebody preparing my meals. And so I wanted to make it like abundantly clear that this is a ridiculous thing to do.

1:23:55It's a full-time job. Right. That I have a studio backing me for. And it's not a healthy way to live. Yeah. You know, so yeah. I mean, I since then stayed in pretty good shape just because it feels good. but going back to that is just ludicrous. Yeah, another question you've probably been asked a lot about. Smoking with Snoop Dogg. You got high with Snoop Dogg. Are you going to do it again? Would you ever do it again? No, fuck no. I was on Mars. And I don't smoke a ton of weed, even though it's legal in California. I just, it doesn't have the same effect on me that it seems to have on people. It just like heightens my anxiety.

1:24:36But if Snoop asks you to smoke a joint with him, you have to.

1:24:39PFT Commenter:Yeah, you can't turn that down. So honestly, if he asked me again, I'd probably still say yes. But yeah, it was fun because I got to hang out with him. But the whole time I was having a conversation with myself like, buddy, keep it together. You're still on earth. You're sitting in a car in a giant van with Snoop watching the Lakers. He likes the Lakers. Just pretend to like the Lakers and go for the ride. Were you self-conscious about how you're hitting the joint? you're like am i is this the right way to to take the blunt am i am i i don't think he was paying attention to me uh how i was smoking it at all i think he wanted to just see if i could hang yeah so i was like okay i'll take that challenge yeah he probably gets like he probably gets high off challenging other people like that like hey take a hit to this he definitely was keeping an eye on me just to make sure that i didn't like i don't know flip out start taking off my clothes or some shit.

1:25:31Yeah. But yeah, I finished it.

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1:26:12PFT Commenter:The city of Philadelphia, your sports fandom, are you nervous at all if the city of Philadelphia wins too many titles? Does it change? because like the Eagles now have won two Super Bowls in the last whatever it is six or seven years um you know the the the Phillies have been good Sixers who knows uh but like is there any part of you that like in and would that play out in how you write the show as well well that that's a huge part of of why the entire experience of being a sports fan works is and why this is what welcome rexham is about right sport it's it's about fandom and really what it's about is about community and a community forged in tragedy because there can be only one at the end of each year and any in every and any sport and so um there's something really beautifully human about that that that we are not forged in triumph we're forged in tragedy the vast majority of the time your team loses but you're doing it together and it helps I think the reason one of the major reasons why people hold so desperately on to their fandom is because they want it's it's a way especially for men to communicate to each other that they love each other and that they want to spend time with each other and that they can they can bond with each other and they have something to talk about but ultimately at the end of the day it's a bunch of 25 year olds that you don't know moving a piece of plastic back and forth or putting it into a net or putting it whatever and we're we're putting all of this value onto it and i'm myself included i'm a massive sports fan but at the end of the day that is not what's relevant what's relevant is who you're sharing that experience with yeah and what one of the things that i i love watching is you know when when when something good happens on the field or on the pitch i love watching what people do i love watching fans and we have cameras everywhere like shooting everything and the first thing that people do is they rise they put their hands in the air and then they turn to the left and then they turn to the right and then they look down and they look behind them and they either high five or they hug each other.

1:28:35And that shows you what it's really about, which is you get to, you know, you get 85 years on this planet if you're lucky and you get, and the only thing we have is time spent with each other. So sports becomes that. So that's the circuitous way of answering your question. I think that my biggest fear coming into this year is going to the Super having it be the Eagles playing the Buffalo Bills. Oh. It would be devastating. Yeah. Because, first of all, the entire nation would be rooting for the Bills. Yep. And Philadelphia as an underdog city, that's a huge part of our identity. Yeah, you get cocked.

1:29:18It's really tough, right? And, like, I actually played golf with Josh Allen last week, and he's the nicest guy. Yeah, he's our friend. Yeah, he's such a good guy. He's an incredible player. That organization deserves to win. That town deserves to win. And, you know, those are the kind of identity-checking moments that are really, really tricky. Yeah. But you still want to win. Yeah, of course. You still want to win every year. So I don't know. I hope we win the next five Super Bowls. But I also – it seemed to me like all my friends, all my Patriot friends, like they seem to enjoy it. Yeah. The constant.

1:29:54Yeah, yeah.

1:29:54PFT Commenter:So I don't know. I don't know. It's a good answer, though. That's a good answer. But the Bills thing, that is, it would be, you guys wouldn't have any leg to stand on as like, you know, like underdog Philly. My dream scenario would be that we play the Chiefs again. Yeah, then people would root for you, the Eagles again. Yeah, I think so. But, you know, if, oh, man, I would get killed if I even said about what I was about to say, so I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to say it. I had to stop myself. Max, our producer right here, if you had said what you were about to say, he would have called you a pussy when you kicked out of the room.

1:30:26PFT Commenter:I would. so you did it's good yeah i would love to see i would read it's so difficult because i would love to win every super bowl but man it would great it would be great to see the city of detroit win a super bowl it'd be great to see cleveland yeah buffalo because it feels fucking good man yeah yeah um well thanks man this has been awesome thank you loved having you on uh best of luck this uh weekend and uh anytime you want to come back on we'd love to have you hell yeah well look i'm i'm a fan of you guys and this it's just like uh you know uh that story i told about danny you i grew up listening to sports talk radio in philadelphia and that's also something that unites us all but um you know you guys are the next generation of of young people like talking about sports so i don't know that we can ever do 40 but yeah i know but that's still eight years that's still eight years younger than me yeah wip i think that's it's only it will exist forever forever yeah yeah yeah i appreciate you having me on yeah thanks rob and now for something completely different okay uh we now have uh our good friend marty fish on the show we thought last year we were talking marty is an awl he's also a two-time winner hank actually said you were a seven-time winner i don't know if he told a lot yeah i know i asked you i was like oh yeah he did yeah he said that seven-time winner but we were like marty's the coolest dude ever he listens to the show let's have him on he's going to go win this tournament this weekend so you're when you're watching on sunday you're going to see marty fish and be like oh that guy also listens to part of my take and he's the man so marty thank you for coming by uh are you going to win this tournament um i get that question a lot thank you for having me i am a big fan of the show awl um i i was excited to meet zach yeah well everyone is zach's a star yeah he's all right i can't tell if he's serious or not but he's dead serious yeah and i love it he's so nice um yeah dude thank you for having me on big fan uh played uh okay am i gonna win um it doesn't golf is different golf doesn't work like that like golf is like a lot of of extra stuff like a lot golf is a lot of uh a lot of bounces a lot of luck a lot of this a lot of that like tennis is like if you're better than somebody you're gonna beat them mostly um i feel like i'm the best player here but it doesn't mean it doesn't mean a lot but i'd like to win yeah i did a bad job of introducing you are tennis you were a tennis pro uh ninth in the world at one point yeah seven i got to seven seven seventh in the world at one point uh won some tournaments went to some you went to the gold medal game right i did yeah i lost the um i you either win the gold win the bronze you either win the gold lose the gold or win the bronze okay yeah yeah that's especially in like you're not like a race like if you're in a race you finish second you're all you're elated but i lost and they gave me the you know silver so it's like silver's war i think silver's worse than bronze yeah absolutely 100 yeah you can because you the last thing that you remember when you win the bronze is obviously winning yeah it's another good you gotta win to get the bronze and you're elated right like you got a medal right and i was devastated that i lost the gold right and i was just standing there and they're playing the chilean anthem and i'm like this is a beautiful song but like this is the last thing i want to hear you lost to a guy that we don't even know i lost to a chilean guy that you've never heard of and then and then i mean he's a good player but yeah and then and then the guy that finished third was chilean as well so those two then when they do the because i was up two sets to one i mean this is i was up two sets to one in the final and a break in the fourth set so you don't know tennis no i do i'm following a little bit i got it but but i was up big and i lost i ended up losing and then they're joining each other on the on the in the middle on the on the podium belting out the chilean answer and you're like this kind of looks like texas but it's not it does yeah wait so what were you up in the fourth set i was up three one serving in the fourth two sets to one three one you blew it oh i know actually i actually sat down like in changeover at one point like it at like up a break in the fourth like legitimately going like holy shit i think i'm gonna win the gold medal oh that yeah and it like it kind of flipped after that don't do that uh i mean you're pretty sick at sports so i i don't know everyone here in this entire lake tahoe you're like the mayor everyone's like i want to you know everyone yeah you've won the tournament twice you beat like think about i know obviously a gold medal olympics would be sick but you come out to this tournament and you beat like the biggest names in sports that's got to feel awesome golf but yeah no i mean look i played this is my 12th year and I'm a huge sports fan so like all these guys like I've wanted to meet anyways George Kittle last night was at the player meeting and he just sat next to me and I was like hey George how you doing I'm Marty and like then they they did something with my name I just assumed he didn't know who I was so then they did something with my with the previous champion or whatever and I had the trophy he's like oh that's you you know that I was like yes George knows me yes um so yeah I try I try and like meet everybody yeah yeah it's cool what why do tennis players grunt so much um i mean you got to let out like the energy and emotion and energy i don't know like some people don't like roger fetter didn't didn't grunt at all um until like late late late in a huge match was the only time he ever grunted but then like with like there's wta tour like there's a ton of grunting and they must like i think they practice it like wta's the women's tour yeah yeah yeah yeah it was monica sellis like what yeah yeah oh well i guess ellis was you know one of the worst sharapova was loud when she got indoors as well like just would it bother you would it fuck you up if someone was grunting like crazy i mean a lot of like you get like some south american guys who would grunt and they would they would hit it and they'd go they'd hit it and then they'd go so it hit their racket it's like okay now it's hitting their racket right now like that it was like come on oh you could say something it usually end up saying something to him yeah you're losing yeah obviously world-class tennis player you're you're very close to being world-class golfer right yeah like how far away are you from being a pro i mean technically i am because i accept the prize money here yeah smart oh that is what is so is uh charles barkley oh what is the prize money um well you win 150 grand if you win okay that's real money yeah that's real money kids go to a really expensive school that's real money need to win yeah like a tour guy like how how close are you to the mid like median i get i i would get a maybe a shot and a half a side probably so like three shots around okay something like that yeah yeah i think would be like a fair you know if i got two aside i'd feel really i'd feel pretty comfortable not against like scotty scheffler by any means but like if somebody could shoot mid 60s then then i would have to shoot like high 60s or low 70s what's your best round 63 a bunch of 63s damn nervous i shot 63 here damn and they say it's a course record here but like i don't know we play like different t boxes and stuff like that so they said i shot 63 in 2020 it was the covid year and And then I came off and they're like, course record, you beat Lee Trevino.

1:37:56It was a course record. I'm like, first of all, Lee Trevino played here. Second of all, the tee boxes have got to be like, I'm not playing from the back tee. I mean, the tee boxes are all over the place. Yeah. Someone driving, you know, you can hit driver on 11. Hank knows. Yeah, Hank does know. So, yeah, the tee boxes are all over the place too.

1:38:16PFT Commenter:How close is Hank to being a professional? Yeah, break down Hank's game because you played. So Hank skipped a whole day of work. Yep. played all 18 with you and Jake Owen, said he had the best day ever while we were working. We're all like, these guys barely slept. No, there was a camera. They're just sitting here being like, he's fucking an asshole's golfing. Did you bring a camera out with you? No. My phone, it took a couple pictures. Should've. That would have been smart for an internet company, but go ahead. I took a couple. I took some video. So Hank comes up, says he's a 14, and immediately Jake is like, this is bullshit.

1:38:52This guy's a sandbagger because, like, the first couple shots, you know, you, like, ripped Driver on two. I mean, he was good. He was, like, I don't know, maybe, like, he'd be a really good traveling 14. Like, I want Hank in a member guest. Oh. So you get a lot of shots. Is that a backhand compliment? Because I've gotten that a few times, too. Yeah. It's like, yeah, so it's like we're saying. Well, you're better than. You look like you're better than you are. You're saying you are, basically. Right. Okay. Yeah. You're better than you're saying you are is a sandbagger. And I think, yeah, I think Hank, like, I think he could easily, he's got a gorgeous golf swing.

1:39:26So, like, I think he could be a five handicap, no problem. You just got to, you just got to play. You just got to let him play more. Oh, I mean, yes. Thank you.

1:39:33PFT Commenter:I don't know if he physically could play more. There's not enough time in the day for him to play more. He's just got to play more. You got to tape at night. I mean, like, just let him play during the day. So break down the weaknesses. What are the weak points? Mentals? We hit one shank on a chip. Chipping, yeah, like kind of around the green. Like he could get – keep it in front of him. He gets it up around the greens. And then I feel like, too, he's gotten better. We talked about this. He's gotten better in his game, he says. And so he's making bogeys, and he's like, no, I'm totally fine with that in making bogeys.

1:40:09I'm like, no, dude, you can make pars. Let's make five pars and four bogeys. and does not make any double bogeys. And so, yeah, he'd get to, like, number seven, which is that par three that Steph hit a hole in one in two years ago. And he'd, like, he'd play first six holes, like, really good, and then get to number seven and, like, you know, pull one over there and then chip over here. Oh, no, that was the one. That was on the back. That was the putt. He had one. Okay, he had the greatest putt I've ever seen in my life on number seven.

1:40:39PFT Commenter:Oh, man, we should have had it on camera. Damn it. That would have been sick. He hit a pretty bad tee shot on seven and then hit a pretty bad chip. The pin's in the front, and this green is like 100 feet. And the pin's in the front, and he's in the back. And if I was playing in the tournament, I'd chip it because he has to go over the corner of the bunker, basically. And so he doesn't chip it. He just hits his putt. It's like a putt-putt putt, like a mini golf putt. And he just goes right through basically the fringe, the rough, and then the fringe again and then rolls all the way down takes the break and goes like two feet or like less than less than two feet from the hole gimme great four great leg up four on to the next our plan is working perfectly because if people didn't hate hank enough for golfing they're going to hate him even more that we're just recapping his round yeah this is awesome i fucking love this this is what i do every time you set him up again yeah can i give you another strength of hank's game yeah you probably saw this once or twice when he hits a shot and then after he makes the contact like he he'll try to hit a draw yeah but he doesn't really know how to hit a draw and then after he hits it then he'll start like twisting his club to the side like he's willing it like in the old tiger woods game you could put spin on it yeah in midair he's turn his body like yeah yeah after the fact he's very good at that i i got a dumb question for you marty because watching you around here you are the mayor of this whole tournament uh is having like an incredible golf game when you're not a pro like one of the greatest like get you into places thing because I feel like everyone wants to play with you.

1:42:11PFT Commenter:You know everyone. Everyone respects the hell out of you, and it's a lot because your golf game is so good, right? I think that what it's helped me in this tournament, like at least meet a lot of people because I don't feel like everybody knows me here. And, you know, 15 years ago, I retired, you know, 10 years ago. I retired exactly 10 years ago in September. So I feel like everyone kind of looks at the top of the leaderboard usually or like who's winning or who's around there or whatever. So then I can like go and say hello. And I'm pretty friendly. So I'll like, I'm not afraid to like go say hi to somebody.

1:42:44Yeah. And like them tell me to fuck off or like, I don't know you or who is it. You can feel that. Yeah. But then most, most everybody, and that's the fun part about this place is most everybody's super friendly. It's a pretty humbling place. Like that, the player meeting last night, like Steph is there, Aaron Rogers is there. The guys that like Justin Gaethje's there, like guys that like are the top of the top and like, you're just sort of sitting in there too. And it's cool. you're the top of all of them it's really cool that's well in golf though that's something but it's something they all want to be the best yeah they want to those guys do for sure yeah they

1:43:14PFT Commenter:want your golf i could probably sell my game yeah yeah a lot of money yeah if you could do that i would do that if if you had picked golf instead of tennis would you have been a professional golfer because you were playing tennis when you were two right yeah i was playing i played golf and tennis and baseball at a pretty high level in like junior whatever i stopped baseball at 13 i stopped golf at 14 so i played like junior golf and junior tennis like kind of trying to um figure out which one or whatever which one i liked more and i like be the whitest guy ever the other yeah the country club bo jackson that's great um and so they're like so yeah so they um so they're trying i'm trying to figure out which one my father is a tennis teacher he teaches at a club in bureau beach florida and he pushed me towards tennis he's been going to the u.s open before i was born as a fan yeah so i showed like a little bit of promise in tennis and it was like that was it all tennis yeah and so i played like junior golf i was a good junior you know junior player and whatever i think i could have figured it out but um tennis was the one i think it also helps that you've got a cool name yeah marty fish like marty simpson fish i didn't deal with that my entire life could have been that that's a great name for a country singer marty marty fish yeah and it's with a d too yeah marty with a d yeah that's cool yeah uh all right so this week you're Are you going to win?

1:44:31PFT Commenter:Can you win for us so that when people watch? Do you guys bet on it? No. I mean, I should. I will. Yeah, I will. Okay. Are you sponsored? Sponsored by? Would you like to be sponsored by Pardon My Take? Love to be sponsored by Pardon My Take. I have a Pardon My Take hat. Yeah. You want to wear that hat? Love that hat. Yeah. Wear that hat. Yeah. Here, I'll trade you hats. That hat on. Game worn. I'll trade you hats. There it is. All right, so you're going to be wearing that hat when we watch on. Well, I'll ask the guys if I can wear that hat. No, you can wear that hat. They paid you. Okay, I don't want to take money out of your pocket.

1:45:03Have your caddy wear that.

1:45:04PFT Commenter:Definitely do that. Yeah, there it is. There it is. Deal. Could Hank ever play in this tournament? Could you get him in this tournament? It would be very fun. We could get in this tournament. What about me? What if I get good? I could get a lot of people in this tournament. Hank, no? That's a tough one. Zach? What about Zach? I could get Zach in this tournament. Zach's the nicest dude ever. Zach's like, no, I don't want to play. Do you think PFT and I will ever play in this tournament? I'd have to get so much better. Yeah, you guys should 100 % play in this tournament. Yeah. You guys should just do a threesome.

1:45:39PFT Commenter:That would be hilarious if they allow it. Be like, they can't win it, but they're just going to do a three-man scramble. Yeah, yeah. Just see what it is. This is part of my take score. They can't technically win it, but we're just going to put it up on the leaderboard. It'd be good for TV. I think that's the only way we can keep up with the pace of play. It would be very funny. i think we could actually figure that out throw that out to him i will because us because the other part of that is like we would just fight the entire time yeah like when we do scrambles together it's just a it's a fight on whose ball is better and like is there like another podcast that you guys can play um call her daddy all our all the golf podcasts are significantly better than us yeah maybe not them like yeah we could find one come town no free ad unite but like no free ads on anyone but like like the levitar guys can we just yeah we'd play them yeah we'd smoke them we'd smoke them rusillo by himself i brought my brother out i brought rusillo out a couple weeks ago to bel-air country club um and i didn't know he was that bad at golf how bad are we talking he's too strong he is too strong his pecs get in his stomach's too big he's too strong yeah stomach is too big to get around the club oh no he's got he's got a great golf he's got too much muscle he's got a great golf body otherwise okay okay besides the whole body besides the entire all the muscle if you take away a lot like three quarters of the muscle yeah perfect golf body shaped like a pear yeah his entire build anyways i brought him out and i was like you know rusillo we actually talked about you guys I was like, yeah, I love this guy, whatever.

1:47:20Yeah, he was like a – I didn't know he was like a 20 handicap. Yeah. I don't think he golfs a lot. No, well, yeah. He's locked into tape.

1:47:26PFT Commenter:I think he hits balls a lot. Yeah, he might. Goes out to the local muni and hits balls. Yeah. I had one last question. Were you the first person, athlete, professional athlete to talk about mental health? Because that's kind of cool. And I'm not saying it's like a brag, but like we've gotten to a place now in sports where we actually as fans like realize, oh, these are human beings. where I think 15 years ago that just didn't exist. I mean, it took me three years to actually talk about it, like, you know, openly, outwardly to non-close friends and family. I mean, I know that Michael Phelps talked about it early.

1:48:07It seemed like my Netflix doc came out at a perfect time where they actually waited because COVID happened and they waited a year to start those untold series on Netflix and, um, and it came out like a year after, uh, you know, everyone's locked up and all that. And like, I'm sure, I mean, that was a hard time for a lot of people mentally, mental health wise. And so, um, yeah, that was, it was a, it felt like I was doing, um, doing good by sharing my story, educating people on what it, what it is and how it, what it looks like or how it feels. Um, and then, yeah. And then giving people a success story to go, okay there's someone who like i may or may not have heard of them or it's an eagle easy google search but like he used to play tennis and was kind of in the fire and got taken away by mental health by severe anxiety disorder and um and then was able to go back and play again like in the same place that he couldn't play before three years later and like i wanted to share that success story and a lot of guys now are coming out i mean i look back that was 2012 i look back i didn't play at in 2013 at all um and i didn't play the us open and and put out like a press release or something it was probably on twitter but like a something like that where it was like i'm not playing can't play um knees still bothering me and had nothing to do with my knee right so it was still i still wasn't comfortable saying that people are more comfortable now it helps that guys like Max Crosby and guys like Tyson Fury and you know these are like I mean to call them soft or to call that you know not tough to you know suck it up you you know you're soft whatever um to tell those guys that I mean they're the opposite of that obviously and so um you know having having those guys and then and then you know seeing Simone Biles and seeing Naomi Osaka and guys like you know ladies like that come out and you know the top of the top of their sport um is is nice to see them being being able to do that i don't know if i had any impact on that if i did awesome if i didn't great too because they're they're still talking about it yeah you would have beaten frederick too 100 yeah you just gotta say i lost him the week before that and i was like super close too so i definitely wouldn't have beat him had i taken the court in that moment but yeah yeah that was a bad cedar goat um no novak is yes good answer novak is just because um it's like roger won one French.

1:50:38He's the best grass court player ever, but then he won one French Open. Novak has won a few French, and he's won, I think, 12 Australian Opens. Just incredible. I played three of them a bunch, and I never beat Novak. Everything came back, and everything came back with interest, and everything came back deep in the corners, and just never gave you anything. You had to earn everything. And Roger and Rafa were like, you could – Roger would dump some balls and, like, he'd try some shots that normal people wouldn't try, even professional – normal professionals wouldn't try. And then Rafa was like – Roger's the most talented player ever.

1:51:22Like, he's the most talent-laden person in – I mean, maybe in, like, any sport. Michael Phelps is, like – have you guys seen Phelps in person? He's a human dolphin. I don't think so. he's a human dolphin don't forget about joey chestnut though yeah yeah that's big yeah we just saw him yeah um uh michael phelps is a human dolphin like his torso is his entire body like it's insane yeah so yeah these um roger was like born to play tennis he's built to play tennis yeah

1:51:53PFT Commenter:yeah oh i have one last dumb question i never understood about tennis when you guys just like give up on sets what what's the point they give up on a set what's the number like where it would be like 4-1 and they'll be like i'm just not going to try anymore well you got it's got to be a three out of five set match or you got to be or it's got to be super hot or um you're playing somebody that's way better because you'll see like joker will sometimes like he'll win a match and he lost the second set six to one you know what happened for for for novak he's an inch i mean tennis is super mental like it's in like it really you leave the locker room you're all by yourself go figure it out in front of 15 000 people like just and and people watch whatever like just figure it out and uh and so you don't have anyone to bounce things off you don't have a caddy you can't call time out you don't have a you know you can't sub somebody in for you so it's like holy shit um those guys yeah like when you get to a point where it's double break and maybe you're playing like so two break like you've lost your serve twice in the set and you're playing somebody that's way better than you or better than you and you need like it's all conserving energy right but like novak honestly i feel like he needs the he's so much better than these guys that like he he'll go second set second round match in a grand slam and he'll lose the second set six one like he said and it's like where did that come from he i honestly god i think he does it to like fight like to like to put himself in uncomfortable situation right like he legitimately does like He needs to go at his player box and get feisty on the court.

1:53:26And if he's not, he's not himself. I think that's why people don't love watching him play or don't love him watching him play as much as Nadal or Federer because they're such a classy, classic. Roger's such a classic, classy player. Rafa's that brute kind of strength and in-your-face bull, but he's a sweetheart of a guy. And Novak is also very nice, but his personality doesn't come out because sometimes he looks like a dick. on the court because he's like going at his player box or yelling at someone or you know talking to the umpire or whatever but he's like putting himself in these like weird situations to like fire himself up i guess the thing too because if you try to conserve energy you're also conserving your opponent's energy because you're not working hard so it's like we're both getting a break here you're just yeah and sometimes i mean you can get into you know there's in the summer after wimbledon what's going on right now there's a bunch of tournaments in the states it's washington dc it's cincinnati it's obviously new york and the us open like in the dead of summer you know there was a term in atlanta dead of summer i mean it's 100 110 degrees and 150 on the court right like it's like incredibly hot and so sometimes your body like just doesn't respond and there's and you can't call it it's like i can't sub somebody in because i didn't sleep well yeah wimbledon is this weekend right the finals yeah yeah so who won uh they're no we're running this tomorrow i know but who's gonna win who will win i think i think novak wins this yes i really do i think this is i think this is the last thing he gets the 25 majors and i think he's the last one he wins um i don't think he can win like a hardcore he can't win the french and then he's i don't think like with sinner and alcaraz i mean it can happen but like i don't think he can win a slam outside of wimbledon anymore he's an amazing grass court player did you ever see the battle of the surfaces i'd forgotten about it and people tweeted at me it was federer against nadal and they made the court half grass half clay i remember that didn't they play didn't roger and Andre play on like the top of a helipad.

1:55:19Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

1:55:21PFT Commenter:Yeah. That was, I don't know who won that one though. Um, all right. Well, Marty, you're the man. Uh, thank you for listening. And also we're going to be rooting hard for you. Thanks for having me on. Yeah. Very special guest. Yeah. Big fan. Yeah.

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1:56:09PFT Commenter:You do? Yeah. You didn't get to play more golf with Marty Fish? I already missed Marty. Yeah. He's a great golfer. Great guy. Better person than golfer? It's tough. It's a toss-up BS. Okay, okay. That's kind of disrespectful to his golf game. Yeah. Oh, he's a great golfer, but he's just an even better dude. Yeah. Now, my Fyre Fest of the Week, which it's one of those things where it sounds crazy to say I'm not that upset about the fact that I lost$8 ,000 to PFT in a long drive contest because – Is that video out? It's out. It came out today. Okay. I love it. It came out Thursday. Go watch it. Long drive contest.

1:56:47PFT, basically after the dunk thing ended, the day of was like, all right, let's do a long drive contest,$1 ,000 a yard. and I shook his hand really without processing what the bet was. Are you calling me predatory? No, it was just one of – I shook your hand. I agree. I was just saying, Hank, me – You take advantage of him? No, a guy like me, I'm always thinking of content. I'm always thinking about producing videos, content for the show, and so I'm thinking to myself, okay, what's next up now that Hank fielded a dunk? Let's get another challenge for Hank. Yeah, so for the last six months or whatever, it's been kind of like back in my head, like I'm fucked.

1:57:19Like PFT can hit it at the time probably 60 yards, 70 yards easily further than me. So I was looking at a big check. He hurt his back. Honestly, I thought I was going to win because his back was so injured and he wasn't able to fully unload on a drive. My torque was compromised. I ended up only losing by eight yards,$8 ,000, which, again, it sounds crazy because it is a lot of money, but I'm pretty happy with that. Can I offer you something? And then I found out I owe him another$1 ,000, which I don't know. Well, I'm not making you pay the other$1 ,000. I went back through my Zelle history, and I found that in 2022 I had.

1:57:57Well, you have never accepted a Zelle. Yeah, I didn't know that I had to accept them. And so I go back, and all the payments that I've gotten there are from people who are paying me like$50,$100, whatever. And then back in 2022, I see an outstanding payment from Hank Lockwood. And we were trying to figure out where it was from. We think it was at the Final Four in New Orleans at the casino. I think I gave you a thousand bucks to gamble with that night. But I'm such a nice guy that I'm going to waive that debt. And then I'm not going to make you pay me the 8 ,000 cash for the drive. I'm going to make you work it off maybe via a series of parlays.

1:58:30Ooh.

1:58:31PFT Commenter:I also have a deal for you. Okay. Like, so you owe me 8 ,000. I'm willing to match and double. You owe PFT 8 ,000. Yeah, right. Is that right? Yeah. I'm willing to match and double. So that's$16 ,000. So you would get your debt cleared and you would make$8 ,000. And all you have to do is a one-hour comedy special that we put out on the part of my take YouTube. And it has to have a million views. No, thanks. Okay. All right. Well, hey, listen. I was just thinking about content. I'm always willing to figure out ways to negotiate this thing. How about getting a cat? Ooh. How about a soul patch? No.

1:59:11PFT Commenter:How about dunking? I tell you what, how about abs? Abs are coming. I mean, I had abs at one point, maybe not after the last two or three weeks. Listen, the Boston to Chicago to Boston, Pebble to Tahoe, I'm burned out. Yeah, that's a lot. That's so much. Sounds hard. I'm burned out. No traveling for like two weeks for me. You sound like Mincy. Hank, I can waive that debt as well, and I'll pay you$8 ,000. If Max gets a soul patch. Wait, I wouldn't do that deal, Max. If you split it with him. Yeah, get$4 ,000. I will happily decline that. $4 ,000 for a soul patch? No, thank you. Zach, what are your thoughts on the soul patch?

2:00:01I think$4 ,000 soul patch. You got to take soul patch.

2:00:04PFT Commenter:All right, if we're offering money around, Zach, what about$10 ,000? You want$10 ,000 cash? What do you need me to do for that? Just a little sex tape. i want to see how much you're not an intercourse guy it's more of an outer course nobody's watching that weak stroke game that's not gonna okay all right that's why the offer's there though if you ever get a jam i appreciate that okay hank honestly like you improved a lot as most improved driver award thank you the mid the middle you were close dude yeah i mean you also had like people should watch the video but hank had i think four really good drives PFT just hit one bomb.

2:00:44PFT hit one low, low, like he had a perfect drive. But I'm happy with my effort. Just the result wasn't what we wanted. You'll get there, Hank. You'll get there.

2:00:52PFT Commenter:You'll get there. And maybe you'll get the track man working. Yeah. As the golf guy. I will get the track man working. As the golf guy. That's a promise. Me and me, too, be grinding. Next week, we're back to the grind. And it's good to have my relationship with Hank back, not as competitors, but as, what, CEO? Yeah, the field came out. I think it's a gettable field. When is – yeah, the field for the Internet Invitational. I'm excited about it. I was looking at the lineup. It's gettable. There's no one on there that I think can be you. I'm feeling good about my game. Rick Shields, bring it on, bitch.

2:01:23PFT Commenter:When is our other Chill Week videos coming out? In the next couple weeks. Okay, because we've got two more videos that are great. One is the Usain Bolt versus Joey Chestnut Challenge, which was great. And the other one, maybe the end of me and Hank's friendship for a brief moment. Our friendship was over. We had like three olds, yeah. Yeah. I think the exact words were, I'm pretty much done with you, is what Hank told me. There was no pretty much. It was just, I'm done with you. It was, I'm done with you. After this or something. He goes, I'm for real done with you. This isn't a joke anymore. Like, it's not like when this video is over, we're going to be fine.

2:02:03Yeah. I'm done forever. I think I'm done forever was the words that came out of it.

2:02:08PFT Commenter:Oh, it was a great time. Very chill. It was very chill. Oh, all right. PFT, you got your FireFest? Yeah. My FireFest of the week is FireFest. Oh, I think it might be my FireFest. Okay. Billy McFarland from FireFest hit me up two days ago. As he does, we've got a little texting relationship. Don't really hang out that much, but one day we'll start to chill. He hit me up a couple of days ago. He said, hey, PFT, just want to let you know I am selling the FireFest IP. Oh, if you're interested in purchasing it. So I got the link right here. You can own the Fyre Festival. You can own the brand, the trademark, the IP, the social media assets, and more.

2:02:50It's for sale on eBay right now. You know how much it is?

2:02:53PFT Commenter:Okay. Sale on eBay. So is there a minimum? Well, no. It's an auction. Is there a buy it now? There's no buy it now. Is there any bids on it? There have been 114 bids. Oh, I think it probably is. 8 ,000? I was going to say 10 ,000. Okay, maybe I won't buy this anymore. Okay, what is it? It's$205 ,000 right now. Hank, you got to stop spilling this coffee, Hank. What are you doing, dude? You spilled the coffee twice in the last minute. We're good. By the way, still one more day in Amazon Prime for Stella Blue Coffee. Wait,$205 ,000? $205 ,000 for Fyre Fest. That's a lot of money. Do you think that's a good investment?

2:03:33PFT Commenter:No. $205? Yeah. $2 ,500. $200 maybe. I mean, the brand equity alone in the documentaries that have been made about Firefest. How are you going to make$205 ,000 back if you own Firefest? I'm going to do Firefest. Why can't we just do Firefest? Yeah, we could just do it ourselves. But then do it F-I-R-E. And we just light each other on fire? You want the Y. Now, okay. We already did the damn factory. Hold on a second. What if we just have an actual Firefest and we're just like flamethrowers? You're talking about Burning Man. Yeah, but like fun Burning Man, not like weirdo Burning Man. I'm talking about like basically just a Fyre Fest where it's us as 12-year-olds when you first realize that you can light a match and you're like, this is awesome.

2:04:21PFT Commenter:Pyro Fest. Pyro Fest. Pyro Fest? Yeah. Fireworks. Yeah. Okay, so the fact that you guys thought it would be like$5 ,000 or less. What are you getting? Nothing. I just said you get the iconic brand. Yeah. I have a question. What do you mean you get it? You get the – you own Fyre Fest. You own the IP. If someone owns the IP, if someone purchases the IP of Fyre Fest, can that person sue us for this segment? No. Fuck no, definitely not. It's an homage. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Also, okay, they sue us and we just say, okay, we'll just end every Friday's show with what was the worst thing that happened this week to you?

2:05:00PFT Commenter:New segment. Damn. Got us. I'm considering it very strongly, but I'm less so now that you guys thought that the value would be so much less than what they're asking. Yeah, that seems like when you play Whose Line Is It End, we'll get away for that. The market is way off. All right, so now I'm thinking about it from a bigger picture. I would be spending$200 ,000 on a name for a festival that has not happened twice. Yes. And you might pick up the existing lawsuits. Like if I know Billy. Yeah, that's true. I would fire Billy. That's true. Day one. Might be getting sued. Act one, day one, Billy, you're fired.

2:05:41Also, you're now. Yeah, here's some active lawsuits. Yeah.

2:05:45PFT Commenter:Which actually would be a genius move by him. It would be a great move. It's all up to this guy right now. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe I'd get my dick sucked, though, for a case of water. Case of water, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we'd give him some body armor. Okay, well, I'm considering it less so, but still, it's rolling around in there. Okay. All right. my fire fest i got two uh the first one uh we're out here chill week tahoe awesome thank you to the american century classic uh american century championship yep championship championship awesome event shout out steve for for hooking it up for us we love coming here hopefully you can come here every year uh but it's it's a great event and part of the event is like there's a lot of really cool athletes stars you know just hanging out doing the driving range getting on the golf course and uh i happened to run into an old nemesis of mine who's now i would say we're on good terms but uh one aaron rogers and uh i said to him do you just not respond to texts anymore because i had i think i was at about six blue bubbles uh with him and i want to say this time it was not me like asking him to come on the show i was maybe asking for an update of whether he was going to sign with the Steelers.

2:06:58PFT Commenter:Can I give you Jersey Jerry's number? Yeah, there was a Jersey Jerry text in there. So it wasn't me like asking for anything, but he had not responded for months and months and months. So I went up to him. I was like, would you just not respond to text anymore? He said, yeah, I changed my number. I was like, oh, okay. Well, that explains that. I will never have Aaron Rodgers new number. And then our friend Marty Fish, who Hank played golf with, was standing next to Aaron. And he was like, big cat, I'll give you Aaron's new number. I was like, oh, great. So I'm back. uh he sent me the new number i went to text aaron being like got your new number and it was just the same number and he was just he basically was just trying to end the conversation with me by saying he does has a new number but he's seen every time that's a classic move yeah i felt like such a fucking fool so the fact that that it's you type the number and then all my texts were right there and i was like god damn it the fact that's blue bubbles is that that means he doesn't have you muted though right uh i don't know or he hasn't blocked you i well he might have i don't So when you told me that he changed his number, the first thing I did, I was like, well, I'm going to send his old number to Jersey Jerry because now it's the old number.

2:07:59So now Jersey Jerry has Aaron Rodgers' real number, but that's Aaron Rodgers' fault for telling you a lie.

2:08:06PFT Commenter:But I have to tip my cap. That's a hilarious move to just tell someone you changed the number and just let them walk off. It's a good move. Yeah, so good move by him. And then the other fire fest is just time zones. I hate Pacific time zone. It sucks. Everything's just – two nights in a row I've just pulled – What? You love it? I don't hate it. Okay. I pulled up – like we have long days and I'll pull up the Cubs game and be like, oh, I'm going to watch the Cubs game in my hotel room and they're just like, oh, they're down eight nothing. It's the eighth inning. Fuck. Yeah, you get the notifications that games are starting here at like 2 p.m.?

2:08:40Yeah. It's like, wait, we're playing another day game today? What's going on? The Mets and Orioles are playing right now.

2:08:44PFT Commenter:It's 9 a.m. That's crazy. Yeah. It makes no sense. So, I'm not a fan of the Pacific time zone. Everyone always says it's the best time zone for sports. I couldn't disagree more. Yeah. I don't like the idea of waking up and having breakfast while football is coming on. And I've said it before, but you, like, so it's the, they always. That might be the number one conversation we've had on this show. Yeah. Well, on the internet has it. They always say, oh, well, 9 a.m. or whatever, 10 a.m. NFL Sunday. It's like, all right. And then what do you do at 8 p.m. on Sunday night? There's no more football.

2:09:13PFT Commenter:Yeah. Football is not a breakfast sport. Tennis is a breakfast sport. Correct. Golf can be a breakfast sport. Open championship coming up. Football is a beer sport. Yeah. Soccer is a morning sport. Soccer could be either way. Yeah. Mostly morning. Yeah. Soccer is a hungover sport. Yeah. Football, you need to have your wits about you. Yep. So, all right, Zach. My Fire Fist of the Week, we did travel this week, is personally packing. So I've got, right now, I probably have like 11 pairs of underwear, four phone chargers, and two pairs of headphones. But I've got two pairs of shorts. Didn't bring toothpaste.

2:09:46Had to acquire that late in the game. also no shaving cream so i'm way somehow ended up way uh you're shaving you're shaving with shaving cream is it should i do i hop somewhere else i didn't know you shaved you have a full

2:09:59PFT Commenter:beard that's a straight line i just trim it up a little bit yeah do it every day no just whenever it's like disheveled okay but uh somehow i ended up really tech heavy in my backpack and no clothes so wait you just have no clothes i i have two pairs of shorts insane amount of boxers but way too many chargers. I can't wear two pairs of headphones. Like it's not good at all. That is not good. What about socks? Socks? I do have a couple pairs of socks, but I didn't match them correctly before leaving. So like they're two different styles of socks. So like we got like high arch support on the right and then no arch support on the left.

2:10:35Oh no. This one starts moving around. It's not good. I've never packed the appropriate amount of socks. I always pack like two pairs on a five-day trip or I'll pack like 12 pairs on a three-day trip. Never the right amount. Do you have bad arch support? I don't have any arches, but the bands for the arch support, we either got to be tight on both sides or not at all.

2:10:55PFT Commenter:Oh, so you're walking on weird. Yeah, you're all fucked up. A little bit. Yeah. Okay. Who's the person you were like, that's cool that he's here? Like celebrity where you're the most starstruck. I did hear murmurs of Baker Mayfield being here. I saw him this morning. How was that? Great. Really? Yeah. How was his energy? Great. You can kind of feel around. Fantastic energy. That's awesome. That's so cool. Fantastic energy. I'd love that for you. Yeah. I wish you had been there. We'll try to figure out a way for you to meet him. What would you say? You want to practice? Do a practice. Hank is Baker Mayfield.

2:11:29Do a practice interview. Yo, what's up, Big Cat? What's up, PFT? What's up? Hey, Baker. What's going on? Hello, Baker. I'm Zach. Nice to meet you. How are you? I'm good. About to go hit some balls. That's awesome. How's your golf game doing today? Not great. We're just going to try and hit him straight. Have a good time, you know. You getting to anything fun for the offseason? Just training, you know. Anything else? Any kind of like whimsical fun stuff? No. No? Fair. All ball? I love that. Little ball, yeah. Little golf. Awesome. Take the boat out. Sweet. Oh, you're a boat guy? Huge boat guy. Swim guy?

2:12:01Yeah, I swim too. Sick. How about you? Yeah, we can hit the boat sometime. No, no, no, no, no. As if you were a boat guy. Oh, but I dabble. Yeah. Nice. It's great to meet you, Baker. Shout out to you. You too. What's your name? You're kind of a man. Zane? What was that? Oh, Zach. Nice to meet you, Baker. You're busy. I get it 100%.

2:12:24PFT Commenter:I appreciate meeting you, man. I'm canceling that interview, by the way. Yeah, yeah. Sorry about that. Sorry about that, Baker. I got to go. He's kind of a weird guy, but we love him. That was a good interview. That was good. Fair. Dropping a whimsical was bold. I would do that. Also inviting yourself onto his boat was good. I thought he opened up with a boat. He said, I have a boat. And he said, we could boat sometime. Misread. Yeah, that was a misread. It's okay. That's why we practice. That's why you do training camp. I won't do any of that if we meet him. I love to be your best friend. No, if we somehow meet him, you have to drop a whimsical.

2:12:57PFT Commenter:You have to put a whimsical in? Yeah, you have to. Okay. I can do that for you. All right, perfect. Love that. Good job, Zach. Great job, Zach. Zach's done great this week, by the way. Yes, he is. Julian Edelman, our guy Jules, said he's rookie of the year. Rookie of the year. How about that? Yeah, that was a lot. I'm not sure. I don't know how to respond to Rookie of the Year. That was very kind of him to say. I didn't see that coming. He's a man. Okay. Nice. Nice. Shout out to him. Shout out to him. Okay. Good show, boys. Great week. Do we have any other Fyre Fests? Any, like, onion-related?

2:13:31PFT Commenter:Anything else happen? Leaving dinner, Fyre Fest. Storming out. Any storming out moments that happen? fire fest no no one max meme shane anything well at one point we went to dinner last night and i didn't want onions on my tuna melt so i got upset yeah and then pug asked me if i sleep with an onion that really really set me off so i stormed out of dinner and went home oh wait no that wasn't me that was shane shane went awesome you stormed out of dinner you stormed you stormed It was the definition of a spirit. It went from I thought you were going to punch Pug to then you just. I didn't hear the Pug question, by the way.

2:14:12They talked to me afterwards. I did not hear the Pug question.

2:14:14PFT Commenter:Oh, we thought you left because of Pug. No. Because Pug roasted your ass. Yeah. I thought you were going to hate Pug. No, it was. We were talking about how Big Ed sleeps with a pillow, or most of these guys sleep with a pillow under their legs. Yeah. And Shane said something, and Pug was like, do you sleep with an onion? Yeah. It also made no sense. No. No, it was not. It made no sense. Pug was just feeling it. He was tapping in like a madman last night. follow him on tap in but shane you you you stormed out at dinner i could feel like an av1 gangbang about to happen it was so you shane does shane has some particular things that he likes and doesn't like when it comes to food he did get lied to when we went to this place and asked if the tuna salad had onions the guy said no and then the first thing that you saw was an onion that set it off on a bad foot but when you didn't set it up what the set off was we were in line and it was tuna salad was on the menu and i i just asked the guy is there onions in the tuna salad and you would have thought i pulled out a pistol and shot this man everyone was so surprised that i asked that like what was his reaction who was who was he said no there's no onions who was giving you shit every everybody they call me pussy I think the word pussy was implied I don't think it was said I'm pretty sure he's called me a pussy he might have called you a pussy oh child it's not an uncommon thing every time we order you don't like onions but you do like onion rings Zach got you on that one but also onions are in everything that's a tough thing to not like to eat because they just sneak them into all sorts of sauces.

2:15:55You probably get surprised by onions every day. You got back to the hotel.

2:16:00PFT Commenter:Tell us what happened when you stormed off. I don't remember the last time I've seen a storm off. It wasn't as dramatic as. It was pretty. We were sitting there all having dinner, having a couple beers, great live music, and you just said, you know what? Fuck you guys, and you got up and left. I did not say that. That was the opposite. What did you say? I said thank you for the meal. And then I turned around and walked away. I don't think that happened. You were being gassed right now. There's no way that happened. I did say thank you. I did 100%. Okay, but then you stormed off. My detector. I walked away.

2:16:33You got up. We were all shamed. We sat there for like an hour later. You leapt to your feet. Yeah. It was a leap to your feet. Yeah, there was a chance I thought you were going to like go and attack Pug for asking a few seconds. I didn't even hear the Pug thing. I just knew it was the tides were turning and it like it was. It was time for you to go? You mean like your brain had reached that point? When they got back, I apologized. Oh, you did? Oh, okay. Yeah, well, you guys know how these trips go. I'm like averaging four hours of sleep this week. Yeah, that's fair.

2:17:00PFT Commenter:You guys work your asses off. It's not chill for the behind-the-scenes guys. Shout-out song guy Matt, too, who's been with us all week. I was just hangry, and I apologize. Yeah. Can I tell you one discussion that happened when you left the table? I mean, you can tell me. Okay. Well, I would like your take on it because we had theories. Okay. In a hypothetical world, we were saying if Shane showed up today, so we were saying tomorrow when we start taping, with a gun, and he was going to kill all of us, who would he kill in what order? And we were all very much, memes would be killed first, without a doubt.

2:17:38PFT Commenter:Is that fair? This is hypothetical. This is hypothetical. This is hypothetical. You're asking me? Yeah, this is hypothetical. It's a crazy hypothetical. I don't know how to respond. I think it was memes max. you're asking who i would kill first yeah yeah yeah come on it's fun memes max was it hank we said hank but then hank was like no i think you go pug pug would you go pug i would kill myself before i killed no oh wow but definitely you'd kill memes first i'm not i'm all right gun to your head gun to your answer gun to your head yeah no answer yes gun to your head i don't know i haven't thought about this and all right you're thinking about it now it's a it's a who'd you guys like the all right i'll go you know what if you don't want to do it i'll go i would if i if i had to kill someone in this room i'd kill sound guy matt first we could afford to lose him

2:18:33PFT Commenter:shane who would it would be me i don't know like maybe i don't know go for a collateral that's a yes that's a yes right max yeah it's for sure and i think you're too for sure yeah The only other person. Yes. I have for sure too. I have for sure. And the hypothetical then got to the point where you killed everyone but spared Zach. And then Zach just started apologizing. He would apologize. To the staff being like, I'm sorry. They made a mess with this blood. Like, I'll clean it up. You've got to leave one guy alive to tell the tale. Yeah. Tell everyone else what happened here. That would be Zach.

2:19:04That would be Zach. I'd tell it straight, Shane. They were busting his balls at dinner.

2:19:09PFT Commenter:They deserved it. It was justified homicide. But we're cool with Pug now, right? Yeah. Like I said, I didn't even hear what Puck said. Do you sleep with an onion? No? No. Okay. Okay. All right. Well, then there we go. We got to the bottom of it. What about French onion soup? Never had it. Oh, yeah. Shane had his first burrito this week. Yeah. Shane, would you be open to doing a video series, short video series of you trying things? Because I think you would like some of these things. Yeah. Okay. All right. Maybe we'll do that. Like what are some of the things you – All right. We'll do onions. will do uh you've never had a peach uh anal uh you know random shit just throw it out there shane tries all right i'm happy that we've that uh the moment has passed yeah we yeah it was it was a good dinner it was a good dinner it's a great dinner but yeah you did leap up i thought you're gonna flip the table over and then that got me thinking about Jesus flipping tables over and I was like that's not that chill.

2:20:14Bad pick.

2:20:16PFT Commenter:Chill week. Hey listen. Chill week. We still work on chill week. Alright. Great show boys. We'll be back in studio on Monday's show. Sunday night and let's kick it to ourselves for lottery ball. Okay. Back in studio. Do numbers. I think that was PFT. 77. End of chill week. Great chill week. Great chill week. Had a blast. Hot dog race was awesome. Hank beat me in the long drive competition. Did he? I don't know. Oh, you think it's going to be close? I think Hank's got a shot. I got a shot. I got as good of a shot as I could have possibly hoped for. So we get five shots each. That's the problem.

2:20:59Yeah. My back is fucked, Hank.

2:21:03PFT Commenter:All right, wait. What was your number? PFT, you had three. I took number three. And then Shane, you had 21. Okay. I'll go six. 99. Oh, wow. It's dirty. Wow. It's getting dirty. 99 memes.

2:21:26I'll go.

2:21:29PFT Commenter:Stump. Name a number. Okay. I like that. I'll go 11. 31. I'm rooting for one. 16. Bad. Yeah, one's going to be awesome. One's going to be so awesome.

2:21:46Do you think those are the number? Mind it on.

2:21:54PFT Commenter:80. 80. Me still don't have it. Love you guys. Another week in the books. Love you guys.

2:22:11Thank you.

2:22:42Thank you.

2:23:13Thank you.

2:23:44Thank you.

From the publisher

Chill Week Finale and we’re writing a book that we come close to cancelling because it’s going to be too much work. National Sports podcast things (00:00:00-00:19:00). Mt Rushmore of C Things (00:19:00-00:37:41). Rob Mac aka Rob McElhenney from Always Sunny joins the show to talk Golf, Always Sunny In Philadelphia, the time he gained 60 lbs for the show, Danny Devito and tons more (00:37:41-01:30:48). Former Tennis Pro and American Century Championship defending Champ Mardy Fish joins the show to talk about the tournament this week, who’s the GOAT in tennis, Hank’s golf game, and mental health with professional athletes (01:30:48-01:54:20). We finish with Fyre Fest week and the conclusion to Chill Week (01:54:20-02:21:30).


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