The 2026 Takie Awards Featuring Celebrity Guest Presenters, Blake Griffin, Blake Bortles, Brooks Koepka And More

11:43Big Cat:Yeah, it made it work. And somebody asked me this morning if you were going to quit. No, I laughed in their face. I said, if there was a time to quit, it probably was after the first one. Correct. but now that you have two yeah you have a chance to achieve something like incredible isn't even the right word for it i'm on the cusp of greatness magic was the word i was going to use like this could be you would go down in the history books as the luckiest human being to ever live if you can hit the 50 53 times multiple times no one's ever done that i'm gonna keep going well you have

12:16PFT Commenter:the opportunity martino has like five times but i would be it would be incredible if i did it and I only spent I didn't spend that much money on it last night just nice little little donation the pot won it I was in shock it's it's awesome what what are you laughing at I feel like you're about to say how much money how much money you spent last night and then you were like that's actually a lot of money so I'm not gonna say well I got home and my wife is a hater of my 50 50 she's she's she's uh she thought I could never win it now she's like shit he's actually won it twice but she's like how much did you spend tonight and I was like a thousand dollars and I was like that's not that much she's like are you comparing it to what you spent on Monday because I know what you spent on Monday and I was like that's exactly what I'm doing because Monday got out of hand and I did not win it then but that's okay I won I won two-time winner a win is a win a win is a win memes wouldn't know he's never won the lottery ball I won no you haven't you have not it's the first show of the year you've not won the lottery we had to get a new machine I'm gonna just try to keep winning you guys cool with that yeah i might win it at the bananas this weekend taking my kids gonna win that what's 50 50 gonna be like at the banana oh i already checked i asked them i was like is there gonna be a 50 50 they're like yeah all right cool i'll be there i'm gonna win that yeah it's 50 what if i just got like a big banana half a one i mean you have to be

13:40Big Cat:presented i would assume by the bananas you think next time they're in town you think are they gonna do a big check the bananas yeah that would be or like is this check i don't mean any disrespect to the check that you got no first night but all all disrespect to the check it wasn't big enough maybe i'm desensitized as to what a big check is no pft when i think big check i think i think the jj watt check that we had pft you're exactly right martina navitrilova yes yes the big check

14:06PFT Commenter:yeah the you're it's no it's all disrespect to that check i will be bringing my own big check to my next big check it could be bigger i don't want to bring my own big check and i'm like you You got to deal with the Cubs. Because it's kind of like, you know, since it's for charity,

14:23Big Cat:the bigger the check you think to yourself, like, every inch that this check is, that could have been another meal bought for somebody that needs it.

14:30PFT Commenter:I want to bring a big check that's like the American flag that they take out on the outfield. That's how big of a check I want.

14:39Big Cat:If you win it a third time, here's what I'll do for you. I will have a skywriting plane drag a giant check in the air behind it over Wrigley Field. Like the biggest possible check. We're talking like hundreds of feet. Hundreds of feet.

14:55PFT Commenter:I love that. Speaking of, is it, this is just a totally hypothetical question. Lame or not lame to make a couple banners for yourself after winning the 50-50 for the second time? You said a couple? Well, I've won twice. I have a banner for each win oh I thought you were gonna do like the you could do it like 50-50's 1 no no no 20-25 20-26 there's two banners you gotta hang a banner every time I didn't wanna hang one banner I wanted to wait till I won second

15:28Big Cat:I thought maybe or like Billy Joel at the Garden you have one giant banner and now it just says Big Cat 2

15:34PFT Commenter:yeah

15:34Big Cat:well you couldn't

15:35PFT Commenter:the dates on it you could make it like you know like when they have like the scoring record of the school where it's like 50-50 raffle one big cat date because other people might win come on oh actually no you're right if i do the course if i teach you guys yeah yeah yeah i'm gonna sell that course all right that's a good call maybe it's yeah maybe it's that okay i think it's just one banner yeah one banner all right i'm gonna sell because when it's the second time it's kind of like having a second kid all right so i

16:00Big Cat:yeah but then you you can do a different you can do a different banner drop every time you win it

16:05PFT Commenter:obviously it's a new banner but it just it takes the place of the old all right so i now have two banners that i'm gonna have to figure out what to do with and then we'll make it one banner i think i already ordered them okay lame or not lame that's a fun game we should auction those off yeah 50 50 also patrick came back to the blackhawks which was awesome uh do you think lebron sees that he's like yeah i should do that i'm coming home to the blackhawks lebron decides to play hockey. That might spur him on. He just thinks it's whatever, 2017 again. Or 2015. Yeah. 2014. Where he won the most of his rings.

16:42PFT Commenter:It's so sick, though. I fucking love Kane. And the fact that he's back is so awesome. It's going to be... He's the man. Showtime. Showtime.

16:51Big Cat:What this does tell me about LeBron, though, the fact that he hasn't announced it yet. Every day that goes by without an announcement makes me less inclined to think that it's Cleveland. Because he's waiting for... I'd agree. He's waiting for something to make his decision. If his decision was go to Cleveland, then there's absolutely nothing holding him back from being like, I'm coming home. No one's going to hate on it. Everyone's going to be happy for him. Everyone's going to be happy for Cleveland. There's absolutely nothing. There's zero to wait on with maybe the exception of he might want James Harden gone before he gets to town.

17:20Big Cat:Yeah. Maybe that could be it. But I think for the most part, it's like if it's Cleveland, he should have said it already.

17:26PFT Commenter:Yeah. And I think you nailed it the other day when he was just trying to get Anthony Davis.

17:29Big Cat:Yeah.

17:29PFT Commenter:So maybe they just figure out a way to go to the Wizards.

17:33Big Cat:Price went up. You really want to play with AD? I know just the spot.

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19:21PFT Commenter:Okay, so 28 takey awards. If this is your first takeys, welcome. the awards change every year we have some repeat awards we always do takey of the year we always do Blake of the year just log off of the year we have new awards we have some old awards but we're going to be giving away 28 takey awards 29 if you count the four aces and we're going to start with the first award where we always start take of the year award the take of the year by the way shout out our guy Fred Siegel uh freezing cold takes he helps us with this award every single year he also has a new book coming out uh same day as our book so buy them both love it buy them both freezing cold takes college football august 18th buy it and buy the pardon my take book at the same time uh he's the man and he always helps us and he has just a treasure trove of takes so the nominees there's a lot this is our most nominated award i'm gonna go through them we're gonna start with just there's just a Knicks section of this award.

20:23PFT Commenter:There's plenty to choose from. There's a lot of Knicks. So we have to start. Brandon Tierney. Brandon Tierney is a... He was a old radio guy for WFM. No longer. Brandon Tierney tweeted in January 15, 2026, I've never wavered on this, and I never will. Knicks aren't winning a damn thing with Cat being a primary piece of the puzzle. Never was that guy. Never will be that guy. That's a tough one. We also have a former colleague, Jeff Nadeau, saying, going to be so funny watching the Knicks get dummied in the finals. Would have been funny. He's right. Current colleague, Chris Clemmer, in replying to a Meek Phil tweet who said that the Knicks are now the odds-on favorite to win the Eastern Conference, he replied, you have zero chance of winning a title.

21:18PFT Commenter:Bookmark this. you will never experience joy. The bookmark this really adds it. Clemmer really went for it there.

21:25Big Cat:Yeah, that you will never experience joy too. It felt personal. Yeah. Almost like you told him to go to an Apple store.

21:31PFT Commenter:Yeah. Never ever experience joy. Emmanuel Acho, who has won some takeies in the past, said one quarter into the NBA finals, Jalen Brunson is affirming the concerns people have about small guards being able to win it all. The closer you get, the more physical it gets. So far, Brunson's body is betraying him. Becky Hammond burner Jalen Brunson went on to win NBA MVP yeah yeah but also he's small so can you really trust a small guard that's true uh and then our friend uh Nick Wright this is just a graphic of his uh of his final four in the NBA playoffs and then champion he had the Thunder so you got that right yeah yeah credit to him Thunder playing the Nuggets Nuggets beating the Thunder to go to the finals.

22:14PFT Commenter:Nuggets lost in the first round. They did. Okay. And then the Celtics beating the Pistons and then the Celtics beating the Nuggets. So his finals was the two first round losers. Celtics, Nuggets, Celtics winning. That's tough. That's tough.

22:29Big Cat:That's a bad look. Sorry.

22:30PFT Commenter:Okay. That's our Knicks take ease section. We also have from Dave Biddle. This, this came out in, it was a couple of years ago, but a lot of these are, they come to fruition. to take ages like wine. He said, OSU dodged a bullet with Dusty May. Not sure if Jake Diebler will be great, but May's claim to fame is a lucky postseason run last year. You had never heard of him before that. And don't forget, FAU got to play 16-seeded Fairleigh Dickinson in the second round.

22:59Big Cat:Yeah, that's right. And then that's all they did, right? Was they beat Fairleigh Dickinson in the second round and then they immediately lost? No, they actually won a bunch of games that year. Dusty May, good coach, onto the big leagues.

23:10PFT Commenter:Yeah, won a title. So now he's with the Mavs. A Michigan edition of the Takey of the Year Award. We had from December 7th, 2025. Michigan head coach, Jerome Moore, says he does not expect any more changes to the football staff this offseason. Whoops.

23:28Big Cat:When you've got the culture built that you need, the one that you've been aiming for, you almost reach the point where you're like, nobody move.

23:33PFT Commenter:Yeah.

23:34Big Cat:I love this one.

23:35PFT Commenter:I think he was fired, what, like two days later? Yeah, it's pretty quick. Yeah. We also have Michigan AD Ward Manuel, who is, I think he's nominated for a takey later as well. So double nomination. He said about Dusty May and his contract extension, he will be the leader of this basketball team for many years to come. Manuel said it's Saturday's national championship celebration. It was like maybe like two more months.

24:01Big Cat:Yeah, it was a couple more months. I mean, credit to Ward Manuel because we talk about accountability. and dusty may leaves now ward manual is going to follow soon after because he's embarrassed that he was wrong about the dusty may thing yep so he's like hand up i probably shouldn't work here anymore michigan man i'll take the blame for that yep um so you can expect to see him on the move

24:21PFT Commenter:yes absolutely we have now uh some more college football uh category here not not just uh michigan But this one is from Bill Simmons from 2024 that came to fruition. He said, after watching Signetti in a playoff game for three hours, are people still unsure if Belichick will succeed in college football?

24:43Big Cat:That's a double. Double. That's a double take. That's pretty good. From both sides. That's why Bill is a legend, because he's able to combine two bad takes into one. Yeah. And no one else does it.

24:52PFT Commenter:That was cock and mouth, cock and ass. Yeah, that was good. Airtight. Zach, would you? I forgot you're not a sex guy. Cock-a-mouth, cock-a-ass, that's just an extreme move. That's all. Yeah, it's an extreme take. That is a wild take. I mean, listen, we all have bad takes here. We have some of the worst takes of all time. Yeah. But that's a gangbang take. I said Patrick Mahomes was the biggest reach in the draft. Another gangbang take. That was a gangbang. That might have been ass-mouth-peehole.

25:22Big Cat:With cuck attachment. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Wait, you're watching somebody else get ass-mouth-peehole? No, Zach's watching me. Okay, so Zach is also involved in the take. Okay, got it. How'd they get in my pee hole, Zach? Really?

25:38PFT Commenter:Small dick? Yeah. Lube. This is from our good friend, Brandon Walker, who was our college football expert two years ago. He was going back and forth with a Virginia Tech fan that was saying that Virginia Tech has got a great future. And Brandon Walker said, yeah, because you think they're getting Franklin and they're not. They did. Then they got Franklin. They did. Hot seat? James Franklin hot seat? Hot seat, for sure. Yeah. We also have ourselves. This is probably from memes. August 30th, 2025. He tweeted, Florida State football is back. They finished 13th in the ACC.

26:16Big Cat:I didn't. Hand up. I didn't realize that there were 13 teams in the ACC.

26:21PFT Commenter:So bad. What was that in context?

26:23Big Cat:They beat Alabama. Yeah, it did. They were so bad. To be fair, that was a great game. They looked like they were back. And also you could probably include as a double one in this. We pretty much pronounced Alabama football dead.

26:35PFT Commenter:Yeah. Oh, multiple times. That's definitely one of our worst takes is that we were like, yeah. Bama will not come back from this. Never, ever in a million years. Kalen DeBoer is out. This is a personal favorite of mine. Brian Drake tweeted during the Elite Eight games. Nightmare scenario for CBS is both Elite Eight games or blowouts. tough to see a large national audience hang out for the second half of a duke beatdown so that turned out to be the most watched march madness game this year because it was braylon mullins buzzer beater over duke and that's how powerful of a drug hope is the fact that it was

27:10Big Cat:it was a blowout yeah it was but we all watched because what if yeah because what what if and

27:16PFT Commenter:what if happened and it did and it was the i looked it up the most watched game i think it peaked at like 18 million uh viewers that's so good yeah yeah um we have uh this one's from our boss dave portnoy i i forgot that this playoff series happened last year but he said the you know what's crazy there's a whole generation of kids who just expect the red sox to always beat the yankees when it counts no matter the situation and the red sox always do we own this team and franchise i think that was after the red sox won game one of a three game series i forgot about that series too yeah i'll be i'll be totally honest uh sam darnold takes were good mina kimes uh when geno smith was traded from seattle said flat out this is a terrible move by seattle chances of upgrading are extremely low kind of racist on your part though right memes no it's from mina i know but i'm saying like no for you oh yeah yeah yeah kind of racist true yes extremely yes yes sam darnold did pretty well he won a super also geno smith did beat the patriots last year he did that's right that was week i was trying to another one that i'm just memory hole yep that's that was week one gino smith as a raider is just something that we we actually just broke our we broke our rule never happened it's crazy that he played a whole year without a coach too yeah uh david klug uh said tearing down a roster that was a win away from the playoffs to build around Sam Donald is a choice.

28:46PFT Commenter:Fact. That is a choice. Yeah. This is, Hank, your favorite league, the Live Golf League. This is from young Yasir Al-Rumavin. He said, my boss told me Liv is not going to go anywhere. It will be well and truly in operation, running well past his death. He's a young guy. I'm confused. What do you mean? Live Golf is playing a tournament as we podcast. Are they going to be playing in Michigan? that hasn't been officially canceled i saw there was a five percent chance it's gonna happen are they in good health a chance is the league healthy i mean they're playing right now

29:22Big Cat:and people are locked in okay yeah yeah it's actually the audience is maybe as big as ever

29:28PFT Commenter:yeah okay a couple more uh we have jason schmitz from 2023 that came to fruition he said unfortunately taylor swift isn't known for relationships that last longer than a few months i would expect the breakup by super bowl and the kelsey album before next season the new fans will follow taylor to her next thing yeah they got married they did pnv yeah we we love love yeah congratulations happy couple i think this is from our good friend uh big t uh he said in september the fake news media is attempting to link tony vitello to the open san francisco giants managerial job despite the fact it doesn't make a lick of sense okay i'm gonna take big t's side

30:05Big Cat:on this because it didn't make a lick of sense. I don't understand why you would make a splash higher still as like a major league baseball manager trying to get a college. Yeah, a college baseball coach whose job description is completely different from an MLB manager, but they did hire, but they did. It didn't make a lick of sense. Didn't make a lick of sense.

30:24PFT Commenter:All right. Last one. Stephen A. Smith in April said Philly fans will regret saying we want Boston. You're not beating this Boston Celtics. that's a good take they beat him all right winner ready drum roll and the winner for take of the year for 2026 is young yasir al-rumavin for his take my boss told me live is not going to go anywhere it will be well and truly in operation running well past his death he's a young guy. Now freezing cold takes is going to have to make note of that recording. Okay. So this will be the take of the year in two years.

31:07Big Cat:Yes. Love that. So I like that. The snake feeds itself almost. We just did our own show. That guy's boss? Yeah. Ted Turner, by the way. Oh. I just made that part up. He's dead. I made that part up, yeah.

31:20PFT Commenter:That guy's boss? Ray Charles. Been dead for 20 years.

31:25Big Cat:Okay. All right. What do we got next? All right. Next up in the 2026 Takey Awards, we have an award. I believe we debuted two years ago. Yeah. Can't win the big one award. Yeah. Can't win the big one. One of my favorites. 2026. It's a good category. The nominees are for Can't Win the Big One. Mbappe. This is, you know, he had the shootout loss. Yep. Last time in the World Cup. Mm-hmm. And this time, great, great play in the third place game. Loss, though. Lost in the semifinals. Mbappe, he's got all the talent in the world. He won the golden boot, but people are saying that he does not have what it takes to have France win the World Cup.

32:05Big Cat:I'd agree. Is he a leader capable of winning the World Cup? We don't think so. Can't win in the Premier League either. Yep. Yep. Farmers League. Or the MLS. Can't win the big one nominee, too, is Wimby. Love this one. Victor Wimbenyama. This is the dawn of a narrative that we're seeing with Wimby. It felt like if he was that guy, he would have done it already. Double silver medalist.

32:27PFT Commenter:Let's see. Yeah. Silver medal against Chet Holmgren. Silver medal against Team USA. Silver medal against the Knicks. Interesting. Triple silver medalist.

32:35Big Cat:Interesting. Dynasty of silver.

32:37PFT Commenter:Yes. He's great. He might. I'll say this. Wemby might be the greatest loser we've ever seen. He's on pace. He absolutely could be the greatest loser we have ever seen in professional sports.

32:48Big Cat:He's definitely on pace. The third nominee is Caitlin Clark. can't win the big one of the year she didn't win in college yeah she hasn't won in the nba the only thing that she's won is like people have lost their minds when it comes to talk she's just collecting brains she's won rent in everyone's head yes she lives uh completely free she's got a lot of real estate in every basketball writer's brain the most recent one from what's her name is it nancy armor yeah absolutely insane stuff but again this is good like it's good to have somebody in your league that makes writers lose their minds what was the what was the title of nancy armor uh it was saying that she needs to stop flopping but it was mostly the one paragraph that compared what she does to the death of emmett till she yes which is just an absolutely absurd

33:36PFT Commenter:thing to make yeah usa today writer says caitlin clark puts black and queer wmba players in danger by flopping okay yeah that might be taking the heat that it's what a pin in that one it's definitely Well, that might be next year's take of the year.

33:50Big Cat:It's going to be nominated. So, Caitlin didn't win in college. She didn't win. I don't think she won a state title in high school either. Is that true? So, I don't know that she's ever won a big one.

33:59PFT Commenter:Wow.

34:00Big Cat:Yeah.

34:01PFT Commenter:Okay.

34:01Big Cat:Something to keep an eye on. The next nominee is James Franklin. Last year was pretty impressive work. But it was also, he couldn't win the small one. The medium or the small. He couldn't win the regular size one last year. And then, next nominee is Cristiano Ronaldo. can't win the big one. He's won zero big ones of the year. And of course, the big one would be the World Cup.

34:23PFT Commenter:Yeah, Zach, we discussed because I think you have a presenter for us for this award and we still have a nominee, but we discussed I said to you, can you find a presenter for this? And you said, just so we're clear, Ronaldo has won the Champions League and the EPL. That's correct. And what are big ones? And what did I reply? Would you consider that the big one? And then I text back and I said, no.

34:45Big Cat:Okay. Not the big one. I rest my case. It's a big one. Yeah. Several big ones. It's one of the ones. Yeah, it's not the big one. The big one. There's some fat boys in there, but just not the big one. No, it's not the big one. Then the last nominee for Can't Win the Big One of the Year is Connor McDavid. Connor McDavid might be his last year up in Edmonton. We'll see. I almost feel like this past year he took a step back in the Can't Win the Big One discussion because he wasn't even in contention to win the big one.

35:14PFT Commenter:Yeah. I actually that's where we came up with this award because I remember we were trying to get Whitney to present it and he just replied to me. Fuck you.

35:22Big Cat:Yeah.

35:24PFT Commenter:So that's how that award came. So Zach, you have us a presenter. This is our we have a ton of guest presenters today. You have our first guest presenter for the take. I do have our first guest presenter. Yes, sir. Okay. Give it to us. We got it right here. Oh, okay. Wow. And the winner of the can't win the big one of the year is Ronaldo. I'm the gold. That was Messi you got us? I got us a guy who has won the big one, Messi. Yeah. That's pretty cool. Thank you, Zach. Why is it Messi in like half speed? Messi is, he just wants to take it nice and slow. Yeah, yeah. And how much did it cost on Cameo to get Messi?

36:12Well, Messi's priceless.

36:13PFT Commenter:But how much did it cost? Top of my head, roughly$75 to$100. Okay. That's a good deal for Messi. That's a great deal for the GOAT to do that? I mean, look, he loves the game. You know he's got a little bit of love for Renato. They've been compared their entire careers. So he's someone who's won the big one. Renato's still chasing that big one right there. So he lets him know a battery in his back. Oh,$39. Wow. The thing I love about Messi is he's so committed to the game. He never takes his uniform off. That's how we knew it was messy in that cameo. That's how good that blue and white striped kid is just phenomenal.

36:45I wouldn't take it off either, to be honest with you.

36:47Big Cat:I also like the touch to the cheek that he gave. Yeah. That's a signature move. It was soft. Yeah. Jeff Hornacek. Yeah, it's beautiful. Yeah.

36:55PFT Commenter:Okay. Next up. So congrats to Ronaldo. We'll have that graphic. Zach, I would like you to tweet that graphic from your personal account tomorrow. I can do that. Okay. I love that. And LeBron today? We got a lot of day left today, but the guys are saying this is it. All right. The next award is just log off of the year. This is for people who are too online. And the nominees are Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant, I think, has been a nominee every single year. Kevin Durant had, of course, his alleged burner, which was get off my Dickerson, exposed, where he was talking shit about his teammates, talking about how he misses Ben Simmons because at least Ben Simmons would pass him the ball, trashing everyone.

37:41PFT Commenter:So just log off, Kevin. Kevin said he will never log off. He will never log off. We also have FreddieLA7, the viral German fan, who did log off and then came back on Twitter. So he logged off. He deactivated, and then he came back and was like, you guys were all being mean to me, but I'm going to just keep doing my trip, and I might be a psyop.

38:04Big Cat:Yeah. He didn't say that part. When you do log off and then you get drawn back within a couple calendar weeks, that is the number one sign that you should, in fact, log off.

38:13PFT Commenter:Yes. Permanently. I'd agree. We have pseudoscientists. I don't know what I would. Guy who's trying to live forever. Brian Johnson. Yeah. From the guy who brought you the tweet, nighttime erection data from my 19-year-old son and me. His duration is two minutes longer than mine. Talking about tracking his son's boners. This year, he gave us this. Just gave Kate, his girlfriend, oral sex. Good night, everyone. And then followed up with, this is her vaginal microbiome report. 100 out of 100 score. Top 1 % of all vaginas. Yeah. Her sample is dominated by the single most protective bacterial species a vagina can host.

38:58PFT Commenter:Only about 25 to 30 % of reproductive age women globally are L. crisp potis dominant. it that's the number that's the top vagina yeah that's the goat that's what that's what you shoot for top one one percent of all vaginas we didn't need to know that uh we also have jalen brown for going on twitch after every single game and then saying things like honestly this is my favorite year of my career and uh talking about the refs and just being maybe two online agreed yeah two online and then finally we have our good friend sean mcveigh for his thirst trap picture with like 16 abs yeah think he got fake abs we get it we get it sean yeah it's a little

39:42Big Cat:too many it's too that's too many for a football coach you're a genius you've got a beautiful wife

39:47PFT Commenter:you've got uh hundreds of millions of dollars yeah and you also got the abs yeah football coaches

39:52Big Cat:spend more time in the film room that's more of a just time in the weight room it's more of a just

39:56PFT Commenter:log off for us like we don't want to see that yeah don't need that yeah uh okay the winner of the just log off of the year we gotta get you a drum set next year hank is brian johnson yeah for his girlfriend having a top one percent vagina which we only know about because brian

40:13Big Cat:johnson told us he told us all and then uh then unfortunately he got sick yeah the one thing that he was really really hoping to not ever do so hope you're okay brian yeah okay just log off the year just log off the next category is the 14th best quarterback of the year award one of my favorites this is a good award this is a good award who knows who it could be because there's a lot of really good nominees for it that you hear their names you think yeah that that sounds like the 14th best quarterback in the nfl uh the first nominee for 14th best quarterback in the nfl is dak prescott oh and last year i believe he won 16th best quarterback in the NFL.

40:51Big Cat:Maybe 17th. It could have been 17th. Yeah. The next nominee is Jordan Love for 14th best quarterback in the NFL. That kind of feels like the right spot for him. The next nominee is Aaron Rodgers. Okay. 14th best quarterback. He could be the 14th best quarterback. He might be. I think if all goes well. Yeah. The next nominee for 14th best quarterback in the NFL is CJ Stroud. Oh. Stroud Boys. 14th best. How the money have fallen. That's all right, little bro. You got a long future of this league. next nominee is Bryce Young how about that this is actually I would imagine that if you're a Bryce Young fan the honor of having him nominated for 14th best quarterback in the NFL huge you might

41:31PFT Commenter:as well be putting him number one on the graphic Bryce Young is now officially from here on forward in the conversation for 14th best quarterback in the league and the final nominee for 14th best

41:41Big Cat:quarterback in the NFL is Jacoby Brissett is he still going to play this year we'll see the holdout continues i don't think there's been any motion on it the cardinals you gotta pay jacoby yeah you gotta step up yeah you gotta pay him i don't know there's probably a bunch of other teams that

41:56PFT Commenter:probably want him to be a starting quarterback probably i'd agree i'd agree uh the winner of

42:00Big Cat:the 14th best quarterback of the year award max you have a cameo for us max hey hello everybody Hey, it's Coach here. Wow. I'm excited to announce the winner for the 14th best quarterback of the year. And the winner is Dak Prescott. Hey, congratulations. Dak, with that, time's yours. Oh, my God. That's incredible. This guy, I mean, you talk about a money-making scheme for all seasons. This guy just transfers straight into Mall Santa. his Andy Reid impression is literally

42:40PFT Commenter:mall Santa I'm starting to realize too that the takeies probably account for like 75 % of the impersonators on cameos yearly budget they're like alright well the takeies are coming so we'll be able to afford rent this month Andy Reid impersonator is probably making bread on you think so and messy I think both of them are doing well

43:02Big Cat:like how well it sounds like you think that they're rich they might be They're cameo rich. Every dad and grandpa who's a cheese fan, grandson's like, we got to get a Mandy Reed. Zach, can you do any impersonations? Impersonation is like really a low light of anything. I can't do impersonation. None. Unfortunately, no.

43:19PFT Commenter:I would like you to work on an impersonation and then become a cameo impersonator. Open-ended? Yeah. Well, you got to look like the person. Well, yeah. Who does he look like? That guy who eats food. Yeah, do the guy. Or do Nick Turrini. Or Nick. Okay, I can look into it. What about the guy who eats everything in two bites? Zach doing it. That guy's unimpersonatable. He is a special guy. He has a gift. You can't recreate that. You should do Nick, Barstool's Nick from KB and Nick impersonator. That could be strong. That would be sick. Yeah, maybe the guy who eats the food. That would be cool. You should eat the food.

43:58Someone DMs me that guy once a week being like, did you know that Zach had a secret account? Yeah. I get that guy 15 times a day.

44:05PFT Commenter:I love it. It's always like he's the first guy who found him. I love it. All right, so congrats to Dak. Huge award. Massive, massive. 14th best quarterback. All right, next up, this is a new award. It's the Brad Stevens No of the Year. Brad Stevens No of the Year. First up is Brad Stevens saying no to UNC. Good no. Got to make him say no. Strong no. Then we have Michigan. Brad Stevens got to make him say no there. Turned him down. Said no. Then we have the Paul George trade. Paul George, Jalen Brown, which they thought to themselves, like, we should make Brad Stevens say no. Right. But he didn't.

44:48PFT Commenter:He didn't say no. He said yes. Yeah. And finally, the Mavericks opening, job opening, that Dusty May ended up getting. But Brad Stevens had to say no to that. He said no to it first. Yeah. Okay. We have Hank. You got us a cameo for this? Yep. Okay. It's a real one. Yeah. No, this is impersonator. These are all real. Here we go. 2026 takeies. First and foremost, to Dan, to PMT, to the entire crew, you guys are the best. What a year for pardon my take. All right. The winner of the 2026 takey for Brad Stevens know of the year is...

45:35Paul George!

45:40PG, congratulations. You're the winner of the takey for Brad Stevens, Snow of the Year. Wow. I respect the committee, so I still had him do that one, but I wanted to change it to, it should have been Giannis.

45:52PFT Commenter:Why? Because he said no to Giannis. To Hugo? Because of Hugo? He didn't say no to Paul George. No, but that's why. No, he should have. But that's why you make him say no. You didn't make him say no. They just asked him, are you down for this? Which means it was a smart move. So really, this award goes to the Sixers. Yeah, they realized to not, don't even make him say no. Just say we're going to do it. Yeah, so we might have confused this award around a little bit, but I think maybe the Sixers won this?

46:20Big Cat:I think the Sixers win this award. The Sixers win this award. Because you had to make Brad Stevens say no to the trade. Yeah, congratulations. I'll accept on behalf. Thank you. And he didn't. And he didn't say no. He didn't say no. And that's why you got to make him say no, because sometimes he won't.

46:31PFT Commenter:Yeah. Okay, before we get to our next one, Can we get our guests for the next one? Should we have them come in now? Yeah, let's have them come in now. Come in now for the not. I know this is confusing because they might have the same name, but yeah, the in-person guest for the next award. I think they dressed up and they probably want to hear who the nominees are, who he's up against. Before we do that, a quick word from our friends at Twisted Tea. Summer's here and so is the Twisted Tea Summer Party Pack. Twisted Tea is a refreshing hard iced tea made with real brewed tea and 5 % alcohol. They also have a new summer party pack.

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47:33Big Cat:The next award, Big Cat, is a favorite award of ours. It's the Lib of the Year Award. Oh. The Lib of the Year. And Jersey Jerry has won, I believe, three times in a row. Yes. He's three-peated, so this is a confirmed dynasty of liberalism for Jersey Jerry. And earlier today, I asked Jerry if he would come in for the Takey Awards, because I told him we were doing an award for Bush of the Year.

47:59PFT Commenter:Bush of the Year

48:00Big Cat:Because his esports team is Telluride Bush

48:03PFT Commenter:Shout out to Bush Support the Bush

48:05Big Cat:But wanted Jerry to not know that it was the Lib of the Year award So I told him he's nominated for Bush of the Year So Jerry's coming in And we will announce the nominees In just a moment For Bush of the Year I'm going to tell him that it's not Bush Oh Breaking Moose

48:21PFT Commenter:Breaking Moose

48:27PFT Commenter:Diego Pavia Waved by the Ravens Damn, end of an era.

48:30Big Cat:What was your favorite Pavia moment on the Ravens? Mine was that video that they showed where it looked like he was shorter than the sinner's butt.

48:37PFT Commenter:I would agree with you. Yeah.

48:38Big Cat:That's a tough one to top. I like that coat. Oh. That coat. I like mine. Okay, we got Jersey Jerry in here. Jerry, welcome to the 2026 Takey Awards.

48:51PFT Commenter:How you doing? Incredible hat, Jerry. Thank you so much. Now, are you a little nervous? Because people are going to say, hey, this doesn't feel like it's on the up and up. We're giving out Bush of the Year and you're wearing a Bush gaming hat. No, I'm not worried. Okay.

49:05Big Cat:I'm not worried. All right.

49:06PFT Commenter:Bush of the Year. It could be anybody.

49:07Big Cat:Memes, can you just pan down to get the full Jerry outfit in the shot? I just want people to see the whole outfit that he's wearing. Look, he's here.

49:14PFT Commenter:What does that say? Bush records. I like that. Wait, what does it say? Telluride Bush. Oh, Telluride Bush. You don't take the stickers off the hat?

49:21Big Cat:No. In New Jersey, they kind of keep it on. I like that jacket. It's blue no matter who. That's Jerry. Yeah, it's nice, right? Turquoise. In New Jersey, they keep it on? Yeah. I guess East Coast, maybe. Maybe New York, too. This has been a big year. Yeah, they make fun of me for that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We keep the stickers on. It's been a big year for Bush. Yeah. Bush might be back. I think Bush is back. Yeah. But, Jerry, I got a confession. You're not nominated for Bush of the Year. It's the Lib of the Year award again. I just wanted to trick you to get you in here. But you did tell me earlier that you kind of missed the Lib of the Year.

49:54Big Cat:You take a little bit of pride in it I figured that was going to happen You did lie to me Yeah we might have lied to you a little I mean that's why I had the undershirt on There you go Well because he told me I was going to get a push of the year So I was like oh okay cool let me get the hat out The undershirt And we're here again So you're nominated for lib of the year This would be four times in a row for you Who could have seen it coming No this would be three Yeah this is a back to back to back So this would be for a dinosaur Well, I'm nominated. I didn't win. Yeah, if you won, it would be for a dynasty.

50:26Big Cat:Okay. The nominee is, because you're up against a tough crowd. It's a really tough one this year. Kawhi Leonard has been nominated for Liberty Year for his service planting trees. He's a tree planter. Yeah, he's trying to be the Green New Deal, a one-man Green New Deal. Okay. Then yourself, you were nominated. Can I say something real quick? Why was I nominated again? Oh, so you've become more accepting of various lifestyles this year, I think. you know, learning more about, uh, you got a cousin that maybe he's gay, maybe he's by, maybe he's straight and whatever that you learned about, like how you can go back and forth and you've expand your mind.

51:01Big Cat:You're like, Oh, maybe that could be you one day. Jerry,

51:04PFT Commenter:can I just, I'll answer your question with your own words. Okay. This is a direct quote from Jersey Jerry, uh, June 15th, eight, 11 PM. There's no way I can just turn gay. So how did that happen? Congratulations. You're accepting of it. You're missing the context. You tweeted that. I'm reading that right here. There was context.

51:23Big Cat:You were saying that you were born that way. I was not born that way, no. You just said there's no way that you can just turn. So you were born very acceptable. You and Lady Gaga were born that way. No, we weren't. It's beautiful, Jerry. Beautiful. You were running with Harry Sisson? Was that last year? No, that was last year. Yeah, it was last year. But still a pretty impressive show. Well, have you seen this? I mean, people are making this big thing about the search history. That doesn't seem very lib, does it?

51:47PFT Commenter:I know what you're talking about. Yeah, Jerry did have a screen. Do you know what we're talking about? I do know. Yeah. Screen grab of his search history. Do you have it? I don't have it. Can you pull it up and just read us what Jerry was searching? Buffet Las Vegas. This is Jerry's Google search that he accidentally had. COVID China. Hantavirus. None of these things are non-lib. Las Vegas food. Yeah. Charlie Kirk microphone gun. That's kind of like you might have been looking for it. What did you find on that one? Not much. Are you deep into the Candace Owens lore? No, not. In and out Las Vegas, who killed Steve Job, and K-Ultra.

52:33Big Cat:Who killed Steve Job? I don't know. I don't want to say the wrong thing. Allegedly, there's stories out there. Okay. Well, there is stories out there, but. Could the answer be cancer? Yes, but that actually is the answer. Can you not take medicine? But there's a reason for all that. They didn't, apparently, allegedly, from what I've read, they forced him to not take the medicine. Ah, okay. Yeah. MK Ultra. Yeah. P. Diddy Israel. Yeah. Okay. Who was part of the elite group. I mean, none of those are not. Yeah. Yeah. So, again, I mean, kind of strengthening the case a little bit. Yeah. And the other nominee, Jerry O 'Connell.

53:09Big Cat:We got two Jerry's nominated this year. He was last year, too, no? Yeah. He was nominated. This year, Jerry appeared on the Bill Maher podcast and proceeded to live out for about, I don't know, 90 minutes of just solid libness.

53:20PFT Commenter:I think he was on the... Wasn't he at a Kamala... He was. He was at the rally. He's a white dude for Kamala. Yep, white dude for Kamala. He's got daughters, right? He's got daughters. Yeah, he's got daughters. That doesn't make someone... Well, no, Jerry's got a daughter. Yeah. Jerry. Oh, you do have a daughter. I do. And you might have another daughter on the way. I might be outnumbered. Yeah. Jerry made a mistake the other night. Yeah. That was a mistake. What'd you do? I released on ovulation.

53:45Big Cat:Oh, you didn't pull out? Yeah, I didn't pull out. I kept it in. Okay. And it felt like a chick. Yeah, because it was bad. Yeah. Okay. All right. And then the last nominee for Lib of the Year is Max. Wow. Max's nominee for Lib of the Year. Wow. For what? For what? What was that for? Yeah. Why was Max nominated? I don't know. I don't know. Well, you're nominated. Congrats. Congrats, Max. All right. I'm just happy to be in the conversation. There you go. Good luck, Jerry. Love that. Thanks. You too. May the best Lib win. So, Jerry, last year we had Mayor Pete present you with an award. This year we have a very, very special guest presenter for you.

54:23Big Cat:Can we pull it up? Fanta? It is Hunter Biden. Hey, Jerry, from one brother in recovery to another, congratulations on the Live of the Year award. I know you didn't have much competition, but I'm still proud of you. We're both proud of you.

54:40PFT Commenter:Hey Jerry congratulations Keep the faith What the fuck I was not expecting that

54:48Big Cat:Joe Biden wanted to wish you a happy liberty

54:50PFT Commenter:That's President Joe Biden Jerry President Joe Biden just gave an award On the takeies To you What are we doing You won Congrats That's crazy They only need 47 of those It's starting to hit me now. Let it hit me for a second. It didn't hit me yet. I mean, that's kind of respect there. That's big time. Yeah. All right, Sleepy Joe. Thank you, brother. You want to hear it again? Yeah. One more time. Run it back. Run it back. Does he say Jerry? Hey, Jerry, from one brother in recovery to another, congratulations on the Live of the Year Award. I know you didn't have much competition, but I'm still proud of you.

55:33We're both proud of you.

55:35Big Cat:Hey, Jerry, congratulations. Keep the faith.

55:38PFT Commenter:Keep the faith. Keep the faith, Jer. Congratulations, dude. How about that? 45 men have served in 47 presidencies. Wow. You have one of 45 men who served as president of the United States of America giving you a takey for lib of the year. Just let that set in for a second. That's history. That is history right there. It's incredible. If you get in trouble at the Invitational, now you're going to get it. Yeah, 100%. He's talking to the president. President knows who I am.

56:04Big Cat:I was just on the phone with the president. The tiger wits. Yeah, just on the phone with President. Memes, can you do a Photoshop of Biden putting the presidential medal onto Jerry's neck? Can we do that? Can you stand up for that, Memes, or no? No, he's Tom Lander. Yeah, can you stand up for that real quick? Just for the meme. Sure. Where at Memes? Okay, tell them where to stand, Memes. So the meme's just right. Go to the center of the rug.

56:33Big Cat:This is a great moment in patience. To his right? Have him move to his right? Move to your right. Keep going. Keep going.

56:42PFT Commenter:Now turn. This is the first time Jerry's moved to his right. All year. There you go. Turn a little to the left. Turn a little to the left. You could do this. Look that way. You didn't have to turn.

56:57Big Cat:Is he good now, Memes? Yeah. Okay. Have him do a spin. Do a spin. Do a twirl. One little twirl. One little twirl. Okay. Okay, got it? Got it. All right. Jerry, we logged it.

57:09PFT Commenter:A president of the United States knows who you are, and he knows that you're the liberal of the year. Listen, man. I mean, Trump's never done that. So I'm going to say to that one, it's true. Trump's never done that.

57:23Big Cat:Yet. Yet. But I never see myself winning Republican of the year. I don't see that. Yeah, but there's only one way we could go for your presenter next year. Trump calling you a liberal would kill you. Yeah. Yeah, bury me. You can't beat that, though, so it's got to be it. It's unreal. I did a jump.

57:42PFT Commenter:PNT showed it to me earlier today. I was just like, what?

57:44Big Cat:I did a jump scare, too. I didn't know that the big guy was going to be there at the end.

57:48PFT Commenter:Play it one more time.

57:49Big Cat:Play it one more time for us.

57:51PFT Commenter:One more time. Hey, Jerry, from one brother in recovery to another, congratulations on the Live of the Year Award. I know you didn't have much competition, but I'm still proud of you. We're both proud of you. Hey, Jerry, congratulations, man. Keep the faith Keep the faith Love that Love that By the way He looks He looks great Not a day older than 50 Hasn't lost a step He's locked in Sharp as can be Well congrats Jerry Jerry congrats Thank you guys again For the opportunity Yes I mean I think First ever back to back to back Or no Yeah Yeah Well yeah I mean that's pretty crazy So congratulations Thank you guys I appreciate that

58:31Big Cat:One more and that's the FDR Yeah

58:32PFT Commenter:That's what they'll call that Exactly Yeah So I appreciate that boys

58:35Big Cat:Okay Where would honor?

58:37PFT Commenter:Yep. Cash prize. Never got it last year. It'll be in the mail.

58:40Big Cat:All right. Yep. So double this year. Yeah. Yeah, we'll double. Yeah. Well, inflation. Taxes. Yeah, taxes and inflation. It's a 40 spot this year. It's 90 % tax. Mm-hmm. But we got your cash prize. You understand.

58:51PFT Commenter:We're proud, okay? Maybe we'll get you a bumper sticker for it. Yeah. We will. We'll get that made up for him. That's great. All right. Great award. Next up, we're going to kind of stay in the same. same zone here we have the first ever uh cuck of the year oh cuck of the year and the nominees for cuck of the year are i don't know who this first person is josh josh hayman who's that josh hayman

59:18Big Cat:oh why don't we put that on that was uh the uh john john hayman john hayman is the guy because he said i don't know why everyone online keeps calling me a yankee cuck oh the baseball reporter said that two days ago.

59:30PFT Commenter:That's a good way to be called a cuck. All right, we have also the Wisconsin Chancellor because I, on this program, called her an anti-football pussy. She then decided to quit her job at Wisconsin and join an Ivy League school. So turned out to be right. Nailed it. Turned out to be right. We also have our good friend Jerry O 'Connell is nominated for Cuck of the Year for the time he went on Bill Maher's podcast and said that his daughters and his wife beat him up for being like, hey, you know, like even just saying something that wasn't fully Kabbalah.

1:00:09Big Cat:Even like thinking about Donald Trump. Yeah, right. They would hit him. Are you thinking about Trump right now? Thought crime is what it was.

1:00:14PFT Commenter:They just fucking slapped him across the face.

1:00:15Big Cat:And then everyone online called him a fucking cuck.

1:00:17PFT Commenter:Yeah, an absolute fucking cuck. We have Nikki Glaser. Why is Nikki Glaser on there? Nikki Glaser, I believe she told a story about... She wanted her boyfriend to go out and... Oh, yeah, yeah. To wake up with girls. Yeah, yeah. That's cuck behavior. That's also respect. Yeah. And then the Coldplay concert CEO. So remember that happened? That was like. Yeah. That was a long time ago. Yeah. But it wasn't. It was like a year ago. Exactly. All right. The winner for Cuck of the Year in the 2026 Takey Awards is Mr. Jerry O 'Connell. Wow. And would you know it? we have Jerry here live to accept his award Jerry you have just won I don't know if you heard us but you won take of the taking of the year for cuck of the year for the time that you told the story about how your twin daughters and your wife slap you around a little bit Um, yeah, kind of exciting to have two years in a row of being a takey winner.

1:01:19That's pretty exciting. I don't accept this takey, guys. I can't accept it.

1:01:29Big Cat:You're going to let another man come up and take your award, Jerry? You want to watch another man take your award? You know what? Give him two awards now because he just won again.

1:01:38PFT Commenter:Oh, that's interesting, Jerry. Two awards. We got trophies, Jerry. We got trophies for you. We got two of them. It's a man sitting in a cuck chair just for you. So we're going to send that to you. I think it's you, actually. It is you. It's you. We made you sitting in a cuck chair as a trophy.

1:01:56Big Cat:Jerry, what is it like being such a fucking cuck?

1:02:04Hey, guys, do you remember when I first came on your podcast to address the Vrabel-Rassini issue? And I implored people to stop calling me an F word cuck. Yeah. But you're now the exclusive exhibitor of your podcast, Netflix, actually wrote the actual F word in the closed captioning. Yes. So on behalf of the closed captioning person at Netflix, I want to apologize to anyone who may have been offended by, pardon my takes, closed captioning choices.

1:02:40PFT Commenter:that's such a cuck thing to do so you've come on just so we can recap you've come on you've not accepted the award and you've apologized I don't want the award it's an honor to be it's an honor to get a takey I do want to apologize to my wife and children for saying anything about them in the past I love them very much they should speak for themselves when it comes to matters about them I would only like to talk about what projects I'm working on and so on and so forth. My main focus right now is fantasy football. I'm not even kidding. I'm in so many mock drafts all the time. I'm really just concentrating on managing your team.

1:03:21And it's a really tough season. So much has happened. So many players are in so many different places. David Montgomery is a Texan. You know, we got a running back situation in the AFC East. We do. I'm just everywhere. You know, like how good is George Pickens going to be?

1:03:42PFT Commenter:Yeah, lock in, Jerry. I love this. Yeah, I just don't know. It's really – right now I'm really just trying to lock in. I'm really just trying to lock in. I'm actually – it's exhausting running our fantasy team because expectations could not be higher this season. I also want to apologize. I re-watched the episode where I told Hanky, Tubi was a growth engine and stuff, because Hanky asked what screens my Tubi movie was going to be on, what movie theater. And unlike Odyssey, Tubi is a streaming service. You know, I don't really like look at, I try to save battery on my Android, so I don't really have like, I don't really look at my reflection when I'm on your show.

1:04:30I don't really see what I'm looking like right now.

1:04:32PFT Commenter:Yeah. It was a bad physical look for me. It was. Screaming that Hanky saying very, very rude things about Hanky and all that sort of stuff. But the angle was like terrible. It was down here and I was very vascular and I had like bags under my eyes and stuff. It was, it just wasn't a good look. Hank, I do want to apologize to you for saying a lot of those things and physically what I would do to you. It's not appropriate. It's not appropriate. Yeah, that was actually... So is Tubi not a growth engine? Sorry? Is Tubi not a growth engine? No, Tubi is a growth engine. By the way, somehow the people at Tubi were very pleased with my performance on part of my take when I was saying it was a growth engine.

1:05:19I apologized vehemently because unlike at Barstool, I deal with human resources a lot. and just sort of what I was saying about what I was going to do to Hanky. And I was pretty graphic. And vascular. I was pretty graphic.

1:05:32PFT Commenter:Yeah. Yeah. But in a spin zone here, you actually were going to butt fuck Hank, which is very against your cuck-like tendencies to watch someone else butt fuck Hank, right? You're an alpha in that moment. You're an alpha.

1:05:52Big Cat:I would say if you were going to power bottom Hank, then I'd be like, yeah that makes sense but yeah if you're if you're doing the drilling yeah then yeah that's kind of you know the committee will take that into consideration next year that's badass i'm not i'm not doing any of that i i want to apologize to anyone who heard that and i also don't want to affiliate the people at tubi with what i was saying i was going to do to hank and everything tubi is a is a girth engine just to just to switch everything up for a second um hank uh Little Olive Branch, I'm really excited about your Patriots this season.

1:06:29Wow. Love that. They really look good, all of them. I got to tell you, the biggest question I have, and we'll deal with this when I do. Well, actually, let me – guys, is it okay if I start with the AFC East?

1:06:44PFT Commenter:Hey, do you accept his apology? Come on, Hank. Yeah, we'll see what he says at the end of this call. As of right now, yes.

1:06:53Big Cat:What do you mean? Hank, I'm not going to say anything. I'm not going to say anything. Hank, I'm actually done fighting with you. There's no beating you. You always say the one thing. You're like an acupuncturist with rude things to say. You're just like, oh, let's just get this nerve right there. And you just get it right in there. If I feel like I'm getting attacked, I'm attacking back every time. 100%. You are a worthy adversary. I lay down my sword, Hank. I lay down my sword. I need to concentrate on. True cock fashion. on people I can, you know, give me victory with, you know? Yeah. Yep.

1:07:31PFT Commenter:Hey, what happened with three? All right, Jerry, we'll see you. Thanks, Jerry. Thanks, Jerry. Congrats again. You could take that cuck trophy and you could shove it up your ass, both of you. You could shove it up your ass. And you know what? I am going to cuck and watch you guys get that shoved up your ass. I'm going to watch Zach and Hanky shoving it up both your butts just like this. Yeah. Yeah. And then I'm going to be a growth engine right down there. Yeah. Blood flow. shove it up there and i will watch you're right maybe i am a cuck maybe i will take this award yeah i am a cuck i want to watch that i want to watch you shove that cuck thing up your ass i want to watch it yeah yeah oh good i'm glad you're right i am a cuck i am a cuck call me a cuck i'm a cuck i want to watch big cat and pft get that trophy shoved up their their their buttholes.

1:08:23For sure, it's not the first time something has been up there, so it's going to slip right in. Yeah. Both your heads are up there all the time.

1:08:32Big Cat:Thank you, Jerry. For more information about Jerry's charity, check out 7 Sunday Heroes Foundation. By the way, I thought for sure when you said I was winning a takey, I thought it was going to be something along the lines of best impersonation of Chino Smith, which somehow still have not been canceled for that, but let me tell you something If I ever run for city council here in Calabasas, for sure that video is coming up. Yeah. Okay. Oh, Jaden Daniels came up in one of my mock drafts yesterday. Wow. Oh, huge. What'd you do? Yeah. I passed on him. Sorry. I'm fine with that because you put him, I think, number one overall last year.

1:09:13Big Cat:So I'm fine with you staying away from Jaden, please. Yeah. Looking at Caleb though. Caleb. There we go.

1:09:22PFT Commenter:You don't want that. You don't want this. Yeah. I'm a little nervous now. I don't want that. I don't want that. I want that sting.

1:09:27Big Cat:Also, we're going to have Zach learn how to do an impression of you, Jerry.

1:09:30PFT Commenter:Yeah. He's going to get on Cameo as a personator of you. Yeah. Oh, cool. Maybe he can make fun of my impediment just like Hank does every time I come on there. Yeah. He is an acupuncturist. It's pretty cool. Yeah. Ableist. Yeah. Yeah. No shame in the impediment game, Jerry. No what? No shaming in the impediment game is what Zach said. He's got you. Yeah, I mean, no, but Hank. All right, Jerry, our phone's going to die. Our phone's about to die. Okay. Are you still recording, Max? We're about to be out of battery. I don't know what you're going to say. I don't know when to stop. All right, the next award is Hank loss of the year.

1:10:11Big Cat:Hank loss of the year. From Mr. Bing Bong to Hank loss of the year. Hank's taken in the shorts in the past 15 minutes. That's okay. That's why we love him. Hank loss of the year.

1:10:21PFT Commenter:I'm excited to see these nominees.

1:10:24Big Cat:First nominee for Hank loss of the year is live golf. Okay. Because currently playing technically still a league. That's the best thing you can say about live. The Super Bowl nominated for Hank loss of the year. Never really felt like the Patriots were in that one. I was just as heartbroken as Hank. Probably if not more tough loss to Seahawks. That's true. The next nominee is the Celtics losing to the Sixers. in seven games at Max's bachelor party in Vegas with a suite full of Delentes.

1:10:58PFT Commenter:Bad. Would you say that was one of the worst losses? Yeah.

1:11:03Big Cat:Jalen Brown, great player, though. Great player. Great player. Great player. Really good player. Yeah. You got to say. Yeah. Definitely. I'm man enough to say it. Next nominee for Hank loss of the year is Hank switching to lefty. So he's losing his ability to golf right-handed. Giving up on being right-handed. That's not a loss. That's a win. I've gained another hand. That's a good way to look at it.

1:11:29PFT Commenter:That's true. You now have two hands. Most people only have one. But didn't you give up on the old hand? No, we're just adding a new skill.

1:11:37Big Cat:Okay. Most golfers only use 50 % of their God-given ability and not you. Right. The next nominee for Hank Lost of the Year is the Boston Bruins. Boston Bruins. Yeah, devastating. That was devastating for you. Heartbroken about that one. Next nominee for Hank Lost of the Year is Mike Vrabel. He's still a coach. Still a coach. Still a coach. Just took us to the Super Bowl. Except for the Sunday of the NFL draft. Yeah, he went to rehab. Guys can't get better. Guys can't fix themselves. The next nominee for Hank Lost of the Year is the Jalen Brown trade. Losing Jalen Brown. Added Paul George, though.

1:12:16And future picks.

1:12:17Big Cat:And kept Hugo. Yep. You love Paul George. And Shireman. You kept Shireman and Hugh. Only good things to say about Paul George out of Henry Lockwood. Yeah. I mean, I trust in Brad Stevens. Mm-hmm. So that's a win. You got a contract. You got Paul George's contract. Pretty good. The next nominee for Hank lost the year is when you farted during the interview with Kellen Moore. Farted really loudly. That was a win. That was very fun. I would also like to say it was just air escaping his butt. it wasn't a fart. So whoever wrote this category, not fair. And they didn't factor in physics. Physics and the chair and the fact that the Pelicans facility was right next door.

1:12:58Yeah. I was wearing the hat. Right next door.

1:13:01Big Cat:The next nominee for Hank loss of the year. There's a lot of these. Damn. There's a lot of losses. The Duke loss to UConn in front of a record-setting TV audience. Yes. Mind you.

1:13:10PFT Commenter:Yes, Braylon Mullins. So wet. And that one hurt because we watched it like 75 times. Yeah. And we reenacted it.

1:13:17Big Cat:We have a cameo, a guest presenter for Hank loss of the year. Oh, who is this? I like this. And the winner for Hank loss of the year, my unanimous decision, is all of them.

1:13:42PFT Commenter:Oh, my God. That's great. Bruce Buffer. That's the real Bruce Buffer. Yep. That's not an impersonator.

1:13:48Big Cat:No, that's him. His wife is probably in the next room just like all day. He's doing that on Cameo.

1:13:53PFT Commenter:You had to smile a little bit at that, Hank. That was funny. Yeah. It was a bad year. That hearing them all stacked up against each other like that. Because you do the Super Bowl, and then you're like, all right, that was bad. Then Liv, and then switching the hands. Switching the hands is not a loss. Liv is not a loss. Some of those were reaches. but it was a bad year. Can't win every year. No. But you also cannot. We're rebuilding. But you lost a lot this year. Lost a lot in big ways, but you got to feel the loss so you know how to overcome them and then win again.

1:14:29Big Cat:Yeah, true. But you used to just win. No, there's a lot. When you win so much, there's still losses. But usually the wins outweigh the losses. This has just been a year of L after L. You actually won at losing the most. after all. So congratulations. This is the start of your winning. Yeah, because you win this award. I'd like to thank the committee for this award for loss of the year, and I would like to officially start my championship DVD for next year.

1:14:56PFT Commenter:Awesome. Good job, Hank. Alright, next up, we have the Takey for Ratio of the Year. Some really good nominees, including some people in this room, and we'll start with PFT. You're nominated for ratio of the year because you said on June 12th hey Paraguay fuck you and then Catrial Escobar said fuck you too quote tweeting you got 7 ,600 retweets and the quote 135 ,000 likes and the retreat was just a picture of a Paraguayan football player doing a bicycle kick with the ball exploding the World Trade Centers.

1:15:43Big Cat:Yeah.

1:15:43PFT Commenter:So that was quite.

1:15:45Big Cat:I'll take that L.

1:15:46PFT Commenter:Yeah, quite one.

1:15:46Big Cat:I'll take that L. That's a hell of a ratio. How many likes?

1:15:51PFT Commenter:135 ,000 likes. That's a great one.

1:15:54Big Cat:That's absurd. I love it.

1:15:55PFT Commenter:Yeah. Hey, football. Jeff Nadeau's actually nominated our former coworker for some guy named Brandon Carr said, you corny and fat, go get in the weight room. He quote treated it and said, and you're a woman beating piece of shit. and then posted the guy's arrest record. He got 107 ,000 likes on that ratio.

1:16:15Big Cat:Wow.

1:16:16PFT Commenter:4.4 retweets.

1:16:19Big Cat:That's a man of honor.

1:16:20PFT Commenter:Yeah. Emmanuel Acho is nominated. Not once, but twice. The first one is, if I'm Shador Sanders, why am I listening to Todd Munkin? What have you won on an NFL level? He got 4 ,800 replies, 3 ,100 tweets which were mostly all quote tweets retweets and then only a thousand likes that's tough to do that's a really good ratio really

1:16:48Big Cat:really tough to do a mini watcher just continues to cement himself as being the weirdest

1:16:52PFT Commenter:guy in sports yes easily we also have our own account pardon my take account because after we lost what was this after March 17th world baseball classic world baseball classic we tweeted the USA has 60 Super Bowls, Venezuela has zero, and then Leonard Reyes quote tweeted us to the tune of 27 ,000 likes, and it says, United States zero domino championships, Venezuela 61 domino championships. That's some good shit right there. That's really good shit. And then finally, Emmanuel Acho again, because he said, the WNBA would be better without Kaitlyn Clark, because she is a bigger distraction than she is additive.

1:17:37PFT Commenter:That one got 4 ,000 replies and only 1 ,000 likes. Also, late edition nominee Pat McAfee

1:17:46Big Cat:for tweeting out an album coming out the day after he's been laid off a bunch of people. Yeah, which I will be purchasing said album. Yes. 100%. Yes. I was saying we should do McAfee karaoke at some point. Yes. I'd agree. Fall Out Boy. We're going, Don, Don,

1:18:03PFT Commenter:and early around. The winner of the Ratio of the Year, listen, I went into it being like, we actually didn't put a winner here. It's got to be Emmanuel Acho. He did such great work. Yeah, it's pretty good. I mean, those two, the Shanoor Sanders should not listen to his head coach. Yeah. Because what has he done in the league? And then Caitlin Clark is actually bad for the WNBA. Unbelievable.

1:18:28Big Cat:Yeah, his takes are sometimes indistinguishable from a man recovering in a hospital from getting attacked by hammers. that is kind of like where his brain is at most days uh he got raised to the other day too for for claiming that he that uh that ryan clark built nfl live oh from the ground up oh and then uh and then trey wingo flew in and he was like wait wait one dad burns second because if you want to talk about building nfl live let me put some stats on you um so emmanuel outro truly one of the dumbest to ever do it can't wait to see what he has cooked up for us this year yeah he really is

1:19:03PFT Commenter:I feel like every year he's just, he's basically competing against himself at this point. Yeah. There's no one else out there. He's just going to a point. He's Joey Chestnut. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's like one year that a Bertoletti won. Yeah. Everything else, no. All right, Pia, do you want to do an ad before we get to our next award?

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1:20:29Big Cat:terms apply that's code pmt20 at checkout get 20 bucks off your first order with tick pick and the next award in the 2026 takies is it's a brand new category the week one super bowl win of the year oh there were a lot of a lot of victories that in the moment felt huge and in retrospect uh we're not we're really not worth anything so the nominees for the week one super Bowl win of the year are the Philadelphia 76ers beating the Boston Celtics in game seven in the first round of the playoff. That was huge. Technically, that wouldn't be week one. That would be.

1:21:11PFT Commenter:Well, it's talking about it's the week one sentiment is like, oh, congrats on your week one Super Bowl. You're not going to win anything else. Well, that would be round. That'd be round one. Yeah, it's not an actual literal week one.

1:21:24Big Cat:Max, I'm just going to spoil it for you. None of these are actually week one NFL games. Okay. But you understand. A figure of speech. Well, like round one would have made more sense.

1:21:34PFT Commenter:Well, not all of them are round one. Three out of four are round one. One is round three. Okay.

1:21:44Big Cat:The expression week one Super Bowl.

1:21:47PFT Commenter:It's the celebration after a big win that then immediately follows a big loss.

1:21:52Big Cat:Got it. Yeah. So the Sixers were very happy And then reality came I'm curious to continue listening to these Okay the second nominee is You did the nominees with us The Chicago Bears Just wanted to make sure that one was in there

1:22:07PFT Commenter:It's on there it's number two

1:22:09Big Cat:You have the same Google document as us It's in there Actually us getting under your skin For that first nominee That was a week one Super Bowl we just had For this category So you're about to have a big loss Yeah, because we both have two nominees coming up. The Bears over the Packers in the playoffs. It was awesome. Great time. So much fun. And then you ran into the big bad man.

1:22:34PFT Commenter:He's not that big or bad. He's like medium size. Yeah. He's a good player. No, he's a good player. Hey, good player. Hey, like Jalen Brown. He's a good player. He's a good player.

1:22:44Big Cat:And McVay's six pack. Yeah. Yeah. 14 pack. The third nominee is JMU covering in the first round of the college football playoff against Oregon. That would be a victory that was not a victory at all, but we'll take them where we can get them. And then the last nominee is the San Antonio Spurs beating the Oklahoma City Thunder. And everybody thinking that this is Wimby's time to shine. Congrats to the Spurs for winning an NBA championship. Crying his eyes out. Which I had no problem with, but you got to win the title after that. Yep. So we have an award presenter for this. This was Hank. Hank got a presenter here.

1:23:20Big Cat:Two presenters. Oh. What's up, boys? The Lente Brothers here broadcasting from Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia. We're here to present the Week 1 Super Bowl winner of the year and accept the award on behalf of the Sixers beating the Celtics in Game 7 of Round 1. Yeah, very honored and privileged to be accepting this award on behalf of all of Philadelphia. As everyone knows, we were out in Vegas for this incredible feat. This isn't a good thing, boys. We just really took it to those Celtics, you know. Just put them in their place, and now we've supplanted them as the top dog in the division. We really had a hell of a time out there.

1:23:59Big Cat:That's also not true. Nick literally won the NBA championship, Nick. Crading through Las Vegas with dinners and celebrations and just good vibes all around. So it was a hell of a Super Bowl, and we're happy that we were with our buddy Hank for it. I can't believe he's doing it. If anything, I'm just a little surprised that we're not getting the award for the greatest leasing of the year. There we go. Mike Dancy just did to Brad Stevens getting Jalen Brown. Yep. And we'll say it one more time. Jalen Brown. Very good player.

1:24:28PFT Commenter:I love it. Hank, by the way, in like planning out the takeies, kind of a mishmash. I'm trying to get everything organized and sending, hey, you get this cameo. You get that cameo. this morning I saw this award and I was like oh shit we don't have a cameo for it I texted Double D and I was like hey can you send a video for this award and he's like Hank texted me yesterday me and Nick already got it so we're same wavelength and he said he noted great category though I stand by that we should have one for biggest fleecing I wanted to do Delente of the Year award I think it goes Double D just for talking to himself with a tee box saying come on Double D I would agree.

1:25:08You just like the nickname Double D. I love the Double D. That's really what it is.

1:25:11PFT Commenter:I'm a tits guy. What do you want me to say? Oh, man. We might have to do another bachelor party. Just this room partying, but bringing your brothers. I miss them. They're the best. Yeah. Look at them. I can't believe they accepted this. I can't believe they accepted it. They were like, Nick was proud to win this award. See, this is, they don't understand. No, they didn't push back at all.

1:25:37Big Cat:Hank was so happy during the entire presentation.

1:25:40PFT Commenter:Oh, man. They were, yeah. They're raising a banner. Yep. Oh, man. All right, great award. Great award. All right, next up we have Michigan Man of the Year. Michigan was big in sports this year. We had coaches getting fired for weird things. We had best-selling authors. Dave Portnoy. We had national championships in basketball. So Michigan Man of the Year, the nominees are Sharon Moore, Michigan Man of the Year, keeping Michigan on task this year. Maybe not the best year possible, but hey, listen, you know, they won a few games here and there. They also got Bryce Underwood going. So Michigan Man of the Year, Sharon Moore is nominated.

1:26:23PFT Commenter:Yeah, was a good tenure. Who's to say? Yeah. Dave Portnoy, our boss. Congratulations on the New York Times bestseller. you are nominated for Michigan Man of the Year. We also have Ward Manuel for being an AD who's won a national championship in both basketball and football. Few and far between. Yep. Dusty May. Dusty May for winning national title, then going to the Mavericks. Some say the greatest Michigan man to get out of there.

1:26:51Big Cat:But is there anything more Michigan man than leaving before the consequences arrive?

1:26:55PFT Commenter:No, that is the most Michigan man. And then we have Adam Schefter for just being a Michigan man. Yeah, through and through. Okay, I have a special guest for Michigan Man of the Year. Hi, this is Dave Portnoyne, Michigan class of 99, here to present the award for Michigan Man of the Year. And the winner is Sharon Moore. Congrats, coach. Hope you're doing well. I don't know what Quig's put in the AI prompt for Dave to go to the envelope, But if you saw, the AI got a little confused there, and he just put his hand in front of him and then pulled out absolutely nothing.

1:27:34Big Cat:I want to see which videos of Dave the AI drew on to go with that beard. Yeah. It's a good beard.

1:27:42PFT Commenter:It's actually a really good haircut he's got right there. So congrats to Sean Moore, Michigan Man of the Year. Huge. Congrats. Love that for him. He really embodies everything that Michigan is and believes. Yep.

1:27:54Big Cat:The next category is the wedding of the year. We love love on part of my take. The nominees for a wedding of the year. 2026 are Max. Max. Max getting married. Max. You got married a lot. Yeah. This is going to be before nominations. Max wedding number one is the first nominee. Next nominee is Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift got married at Madison Square Garden, something that we all thought for sure would be way, way too tacky for her. But sounds like it was a great wedding. Dean Blandino was there. and I think everybody had a great time. They couldn't sit down and eat dinner. Yeah. Oh, wow. I didn't know about that.

1:28:29Big Cat:I didn't know about that either. Standing dinner? Yeah. People were just like standing around. Wow. Wear enough seats. Yeah. The next nominee for wedding of the year is Max Wedding No. 2. Oh. The second time Max got married. Second time. Yep. The next nominee for wedding of the year is Pug. 99 Pug. Pug got married this year. Love Pug. We love you, Pug. next nominee for wedding of the year is sam darnold congratulations sam i to be honest i forgot that sam darnold got married he did get married uh the next nominee for wedding of the year is tyrese halliburton also forgot he got married oh no he got married like yesterday yeah congrats tyrese halliburton late late entry late entry um the winner for wedding of the year we have a guest presenter.

1:29:16And the winner for the 2026 Takey for Wedding of the Year. The envelope, please. Thank you.

1:29:37Max Dolente. Congratulations. Congratulations, fellow Paisano.

1:29:44PFT Commenter:Love it. That's a good Paisan. There's Furio from Sopranos, and he made an actual card that said takeies. Pretty impressive stuff. Did he do that?

1:29:54Big Cat:That's a good touch. It looked like it said 2026 takeies. That's incredible. Thank you, Furio.

1:29:58PFT Commenter:That guy does his cameos right. Yeah, that's a guy you want to go back to. Give that guy a rating. Yep, absolutely. Yeah, screenshot that. We'll use that for some promo. That's incredible. Yep.

1:30:09Big Cat:Okay. I still wish he had pushed Tony into that propeller that one time. Yeah, no. Because after that happened, then Tony goes on. He kills Christopher. Him and Carmelo were perfect together. Yeah.

1:30:20PFT Commenter:Max, congratulations. Do you accept? Yes, I accept. One more? You got one more in you? You got one more in you? Don. Don. All right. Next up, we have Animal of the Year. Animal of the Year. This has been a big year for animals. Fun animals. So first up, we have Neil the Seal, the sea lion, actually, in where was he? Was he in South Africa? South Africa, sir. It was just wrecking shit. He was like a 10 ,000 pounds, just dummying everything in sight. And everyone was just like, hey, we got to let Neil the Seal do his thing. We have the bison who flipped the old man upside down. Probably video of the year, if we're being honest.

1:31:05PFT Commenter:We have the snakes in China. the snakes in China who were in that river of the flood that was fucked up Punch the Monkey which we've spoken about Punch the Monkey I still maintain that I would like to do a vibe check on Punch the Monkey he was the monkey that got bullied and everyone felt bad for him no one asked a simple question is Punch the Monkey just a bad hang

1:31:28Big Cat:I was watching that and I was just seeing nature take its course because it seemed like they knew that Punch was going to get them in trouble

1:31:33PFT Commenter:and then the last is Jimothy the mutant raccoon that has gone viral recently. Jimothy, yeah. Is he the mascot of the Titans? He's not the mascot of the Titans. He might be. All right, do we have Animal of the Year? Oh. Oh, wow. We do. Wow. Oh, my God. Our favorite animal. Our favorite animal. What's up, guys? This is former President Pug here, just announcing the Takey winner for Animal of the Year. Without further ado, the winner is the bison who flipped that guy over. Hope all's well, fellas. Miss you. Pug. Banger. Banger. Oh, so good. Thanks, Pug. You surprised us with that. Pug. You told us it was going to be someone else.

1:32:20Well, yeah, that person said no, so. Oh, okay. Oh, so you got Pug last minute. Yeah, Pug sent that in like 20 minutes ago. Pug's always there for us. Always there. Always will be.

1:32:30PFT Commenter:Always there for us.

1:32:31Big Cat:Okay. The next category is Ball of the Year. New category. Ball of the Year. Okay. And the nominees are LaMelo. LaMelo Ball. Not the world's best driver, but he's got a change of scenery. Entire new municipality to terrorize with his car. Oldie is nominated for Ball of the Year. Yeah. Oldie's Balls, he was showing them to anybody that would look at the bonfire last year at Camp Forestool. Yeah. The pouch is what legends are made out of. Actually, I don't know what that's made out of. But shout out to Oldie and his balls. Next nominee for Ball of the Year is Solo. Solo ball. Just having solo ball on TV.

1:33:12Big Cat:Yep. Great for balls. Yep. New nominee. I just put this in right now.

1:33:17PFT Commenter:Yeah, I was wondering what that was going on.

1:33:19Big Cat:Joshua Kuroda-Grauer has been nominated for Ball of the Year. He plays for the Athletics. Foul-tipped a ball into his own ball. last night, ruptured his testicle at the plate, stayed in the game, got a base hit, and then went to the hospital. We had to have emergency surgery.

1:33:40PFT Commenter:Fuck.

1:33:41Big Cat:So that's one tough ball.

1:33:43PFT Commenter:Yep.

1:33:44Big Cat:And then the final nominee for Ball of the Year is Tyler Shuck.

1:33:48PFT Commenter:Yeah.

1:33:49Big Cat:Because it's just so fucking catchable. Such a good ball.

1:33:53PFT Commenter:I can't wait for Shuck season.

1:33:54Big Cat:Such a good ball.

1:33:55PFT Commenter:Do you guys have to play Shuck this year? I believe there's a redemption game on schedule You have two You have two twice Does anyone else have to play Shuck?

1:34:04Big Cat:Because that would break my heart Let's see what the Saints schedule is I should know this

1:34:10PFT Commenter:I do not think the Bears play the Saints this year

1:34:13Big Cat:The Saints play the Lions We do not play the Saints

1:34:16PFT Commenter:Oh shit we do play the Saints Fuck Oh yeah that's right I think we play the entire NFC South You're the only one in this room I think we play the NFC South Fuck Fuck Let's see who you get to play the NFC South. November 22nd. Okay. All right. Well, sorry, Shuck. We're going to put you down there. We're going to have to intercept that catchable ball.

1:34:37Big Cat:The winner of Ball of the Year, I believe we have a guest presenter for this one, too.

1:34:40PFT Commenter:That's right. I'm LeVar Ball, the big CEO of the Big Ball of Brand. And you know I got a hell of an announcement to make. That's right. The winner of the 2026 tacky for ball of the year is Tyler Schultz. That's how it's going down. The quarterback for the New Orleans Saints. Triple B style. Big ball of Brandon's in the building, and you know how we do this. Again, the winner of the 2026 tacky for ball of the year is Tyler Schultz. There it is. Big ball is out. Great job.

1:35:21Big Cat:Haven't heard from LeVar in a while.

1:35:22PFT Commenter:Great to see LeVar. Good to see you still out there doing his thing. Great to see LeVar. Okay, so Tyler Schuch, congratulations. Ball of the year. Well deserved. All right, next up we have a new category. It is the Gorilla Trade of the Year. The nominee is the Pittsburgh Zoo trading with the Boston Zoo, the Getting Little Joe for Frankie. And that's the only nominee. So let's get to the winner. The Takey Award for the Gorilla Trade of the Year goes to Pittsburgh for trading Frankie to Boston for Little Joe. And it's not true that Boston is going to get a gorilla to be named later. And that is the king, Mike Francesa.

1:36:07PFT Commenter:Thank you so much to Mike Francesa. He does not have Cameo, by the way. His son works for us, and he's great. and it was very funny because I asked him and Mike Frances is the best, but he was like, I was talking to his son and I was like, hey, we'd really like it if he could do the Takey Award for Gorilla Trade of the Year. Yeah. And he was like, all right, he's going to think about it. And I said, all right, well, let me know if you need me to call him or text him or anything to explain it more. He said, no, no, he understands. He's going to sleep on it. And then he got back to us, the king.

1:36:42PFT Commenter:And he's like, I've decided we're going to do this. Yeah, we're going to do this. to the gorilla trade and bonus we have a very special bonus we actually uh talked to the ceo of the pittsburgh zoo to see if he would accept the takey for gorilla trade of the year and break down the actual trade so let's do that okay now on to officially accept the takey for gorilla trade of the year is the Pittsburgh Zoo president and CEO Jeremy Goodman. Jeremy, thank you so much for joining us. First of all, congratulations. You have won Guerrilla Trade of the Year. Now, thank you so much. This is an honor. I mean, you know, it's something that as a little boy, you always think about and growing up, you know, in the zoo world about winning that guerrilla trade.

1:37:31And, you know, the fact that we were able to pull that off this year, you know, it was a

1:37:36PFT Commenter:total team effort that's awesome so so can you walk us through the trade when is the trade like are you making calls all the time are you calling zoos everywhere around america being like who's on the market is there a trade deadline with zoos how does that work yeah um there's no official trade deadline we're always uh talking with our the other zoos um you know we're more like colleagues than competitors but um you know everybody's trying to have the best zoo possible just like the best team possible. And, you know, we're always looking for new animals, different animals, trying to make sure that you get the right matches.

1:38:12You know, chemistry is really important. You can't just put two animals together and win a Super Bowl. It's just one ball. It's the same sort of thing. It's, you know, trying to do your homework and, you know, scouting and very similar in a lot of ways. And that's how you get success and get a winning team.

1:38:29Big Cat:Can you walk us through this particular trade? when you decided to pull the trigger on it, what other offers there might have been out there and what the overall strategy was for you behind why you thought this was a good fit? Yeah, I mean, you know, we were, silverback is the most important position in a guerrilla troop or guerrilla team, if you will. And we were down a silverback. You know, we just didn't have one anymore. And it was a big hole to fill and we were looking all over. And, you know, the rest of the team, you know our females we had some youngsters that really needed that kind of big role model to to look up to and somebody who would be good with the youngsters so you know we did our homework and you know little Joe was on the top of the list you know and you know his genes weren't represented but you know he we really thought he would be a great fit and you know our our younger guy Frankie You know, he was an amazing animal.

1:39:27I mean, like, you know, he was born here, homegrown talent, really just, you know, everybody loved him. But, you know, it was his time to shine and his time to move on and, you know, become part of another team, another troop. And, you know, he's wreaking havoc over there in Boston. And little Joe is just trying to fit in with his teammates, his new teammates here.

1:39:52PFT Commenter:So the plan with Little Joe, and we obviously aren't experts. We're not Adam Schefter or Ian Rapport when it comes to these type of trades. But what we understood, and maybe you can correct me, is that Little Joe now you could potentially have more gorillas. You could make more gorillas with Little Joe, whereas Frankie's not ready for that yet. So this is a play for the future where you can basically rebuild in the farm system with Little Joe potentially producing more gorillas. Absolutely. I mean, that's the job of a silverback. And, you know, that's the primary job other than defending the team and the troop.

1:40:27It's to produce little gorillas. And that's what we're really hoping for, that he hits it up with our females. And, you know, before you hit silverback age, you're in your bachelor years. And that's where Frankie is right now. And he's with the bachelor troop over in Boston. And they're doing their thing, not ready to, you know, They're just in a different stage of life as little Joe is. And this is something that we're ready now. We've got some great females here. And we're just really hoping little Joe meshes with everybody. And we have those little gorillas to help the species.

1:41:04Big Cat:That's interesting. It's a silverback-driven league is what I'm hearing. And so that was a big glaring hole that you had on your roster. It sounds like you filled it. I hope that he's able to make some more gorillas for you. How common are these types of trades? How often do you engage in not just gorillas, but maybe anything that you have at the zoo? How often are you on the phone with somebody else talking about a potential trade? Yeah, pretty frequently, actually. It's not always a one-for-one trade. A lot of times, you know, it's the player to be named later type of deal. but yeah we're talking with some other zoos right now about them taking some of our one or two of our animals and us getting a few in return and the good thing about zoos is we're all very cooperative and we all want to see each other succeed because it's all about the animals and that's really what all these trades are about is just making sure that everybody has that right winning team and combo

1:42:01PFT Commenter:As you're in your career as president ceo have you had a trade that you've looked back on and been like i kind of messed that one up um not that i've messed up but i you know there was one trade that i just had to steal the century um yeah yeah i just uh worked with another zoo um we were looking we had uh it was a giant tortoise trade and uh they were looking for some new genetics and we had some baby giant tortoises, which weren't so giant yet. And in return, we got some 600-pounders. And I couldn't believe I pulled that one off. But once again, we got what we needed, and they got what they needed.

1:42:44And that's the definition of a good trade in the end is everybody wins.

1:42:48Big Cat:You do sound like Howie Roseman. That's almost word for word what he described to us when we're like, sometimes you've had your way with a couple other teams, got some really good trades. He's like, ultimately, we want everybody to be better. The best trades that win wins. Bar for bar, you are the Howie Roseman of zoos, I think. It's smart.

1:43:05PFT Commenter:Yeah, you want to keep everyone else wanting to trade with you because if they have a bad time. A lot of parity in this league. We really want to keep everybody on an even playing field. Although we want our zoo to be the number one zoo and finish number one each year, we have no animosity to anybody else. Where do you guys rank? you know ranking zoos is is pretty arbitrary uh you know some people rank off of uh acreage number of animals uh um you know different amenities uh yeah i think we were pretty high up there uh in fact we have both a zoo and an aquarium and have over 10 000 animals here in pittsburgh is uh you know puts us pretty high on the list and uh you know certainly if little joe does his job uh we'll be moving up in those rankings i would i would measure it by

1:43:55Big Cat:smiles per customer the happier you make we have plenty of those all i gotta do is look out my window and see all the smiling kids and adults and uh just shows you why we're in this business are there ways that you can tell when maybe an animal is not happy at the zoo i know you'd never want to have an animal that doesn't feel like they're a fit there but can you tell when maybe an animal is doing their version of requesting a trade uh maybe it's like james harden they get heavy uh they appear sluggish and lethargic and at that time you know it's time to move on or Has that ever happened to you?

1:44:26You know, not every trade works out. Not every acquisition works out. You know, we try to make them all work, but if sometimes they don't, then, you know, depending on the situation, you know, sometimes you just have to move that animal on to another location where they can succeed. It really depends. You know, there's a lot of things that our staff, our keepers do to try to make sure that each and every one of the animals that comes into our facility is happy and successful. But sometimes, like you said, it's just not the right fit. And if that's the case, then we work to try to make sure that we get that individual into a better place where it is a good fit.

1:45:05PFT Commenter:Is there a win now mode for zoos? Because I feel like when you guys have when a zoo has a big birth, that's like a win now mode. Like we're in Chicago, the Lincoln Park Zoo just had a baby rhino. And I took my kids there instantly. I was like, we got to go see the baby rhino. And it was so fucking cute. So is there, do you guys, when you guys have a big baby born, are you like, oh, we got to, let's go. Let's hammer it. Let's get out in the press. Let's let everyone know, hey, we got a baby seal. We got a baby giraffe. We got all these babies. We got to, you got to come see them. Yeah. I mean, I think all zoos are in wind now mode.

1:45:37You know, I think with the rate of species becoming endangered every day and going extinct, we have to be in win now mode. You know, otherwise we're going to lose more species. So, yeah, it's something it's great, you know, for visitors to come out and see. But, you know, the bottom line is, is that we're really trying to, you know, save all these different incredible animals. And, you know, and when we had I mean, we just debuted a baby lion cub. And, you know, she is amazing. And, you know, people are coming out like crazy, but it's more than that. It's really about, you know, continuing to make sure that that species is around forever.

1:46:14And so that our grandkids and their kids can, you know, experience the same really cool animals that we do today.

1:46:22PFT Commenter:That's awesome. All right. So, Jeremy, thank you so much for joining us. I have one last question. It's a Roback question. R-H-O-B-A-C-K dot com. Promo code TAKE. 20 % off your first purchase. Q-ZIPs, polos, joggers, everything. Roback dot com. promo code TAKE. Zach, you ready? Sir, Jeremy, how are we doing today, sir? Good. How are you? Having a great day. I did have a quick question for you. I was curious, throughout your Zoo career, moving up the ranks again to the office that you do hold now, is there anyone you can point to that maybe you shaped your game after, like took inspiration from when climbing these ranks, getting to where you're at today?

1:46:54Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of folks that I've really looked up to over the years, and surprisingly enough, you You might not expect this one, but Walt Disney was a big fan, just how visionary he was. And, you know, just to look at some Florida swamp and, you know, envision this whole big, incredible park and enterprise. Very, I try to learn a lot from Walt and everything he's done. And within the zoo world, there's so many mentors that I've had that, you know, probably too numerous to name. But yeah, there's a lot of people that I've looked up to that have helped shape my career and that I owe a lot to.

1:47:35So very much indebted to all those folks.

1:47:38PFT Commenter:Great question, Zach. Great question, Zach. Well, Jeremy, thank you so much for joining us. Congratulations again. We actually could make you – we'll make you a plaque and we'll send it to the zoo if you want to put it up somewhere. I have a spot on my wall already for it. I love it.

1:47:51Big Cat:I love it. And Jeremy, if you make any more trades, let us know. We would love to be like the news breakers for any zoo trades that happen. We would love to be ground zero for those. So if you've got anything or if there's an animal that you have on the trading block right now, we can even maybe try to gas that up a little bit. Other zookeepers that listen to this podcast know that you've got something that you're looking to maybe wheel and deal on.

1:48:13PFT Commenter:Yeah, or even like other zoos. You're like, I'm here in the Kansas City Zoo is like looking for a giraffe. We'll post that. We'll put that out there. Sounds good. You guys have been first to know. Okay. Thank you so much. Appreciate it.

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1:49:50Big Cat:They duped us. What video are you seeing? They made it look like he was on the field. Yeah, they made it look like he was right there. That was bullshit. The next nominee for Still Alive Person of the Year, Joe Biden. President Joe Biden. Of course. Very much. We've just seen that Joe Biden is 100 % still alive. Also nominated for Still Alive Person of the Year, Mitch McConnell. We know that he's still alive because somebody put a newspaper in his hand, which is what you do to somebody when you take their picture. Yep. Next nominee for still alive person of the year is Mr. Pear. Mr. Pear. Mr. Pear's still alive?

1:50:23Big Cat:The turtle. Memes. Still alive has Bachelor Pad in Missouri. All right. Hell yeah. PMTbachelorpad at gmail.com. We should go visit him. PMTbachelorparty at gmail.com. Thank you. Thank you, Max. The next nominee for still alive person of the year is Ted Turner. Still alive? No. Ah. But Ray Charles is. Committee got that one wrong with Ted. Next nominee for still alive person of the year, Jeffrey Epstein. Very much still alive. Very much still alive.

1:50:52PFT Commenter:Yeah.

1:50:53Big Cat:Do your research. Next nominee, still alive person of the year, Lindsey Vonn. Congrats to Lindsey Vonn for still being alive. Remember that? Yeah, she crashed. She tore her ACL, and then she said, I'm not done skiing. Yeah. And then she crashed, and everybody was like, yeah, well, you were skiing with a torn ACL. Yeah. Probably a bad idea. Next nominee for still alive person of the year is Pug. Yeah. How do we know he's still alive? Well, because he just won. Congratulations.

1:51:22PFT Commenter:Oh, he won. Pug still alive person of the year.

1:51:25Big Cat:We love you, Pug. We love Pug. Are you guys trying to kill Pug? No. I don't know. Who decided that Pug was the winner? I don't know where that came from.

1:51:31PFT Commenter:How did Pug become the winner? Let's do that again. Let's give it to someone else. I thought we were going to give it a miss.

1:51:35Big Cat:Shane went rogue. Shane went rogue? I thought we were going to give it a miss. Does Shane hit Pug? I think so. Oh, because of the onion. Because of the onion. Oh. The real winner is... Shane.

1:51:47PFT Commenter:Shane.

1:51:49Big Cat:For still employed person of the year.

1:51:54Big Cat:No, the real winner of still alive person of the year is... Also nominated was Jerry Jones. I forgot to nominate Jerry Jones. Yeah, Jerry Jones nominated. The winner of the still alive person of the year.

1:52:04PFT Commenter:This isn't a perfect award show, people.

1:52:07Big Cat:You know that. It's not. Somebody did go rogue and put pug in there. The winner is Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones wins. Jerry Jones. Congratulations. Congrats, Jerry Jones.

1:52:17PFT Commenter:Still doing it. Congratulations. All right. Next up, we got fight of the year. Fight of the year. Oh, yep. Shane is trying to now, as always, just try to cop out of it and just be like, oh, it wasn't my fault. Pug was on the dock when I was making graphics as the winner. Oh, maybe it was Dom trying to kill Pug. Yep. Okay. Fight of the year. We got some good fights this year. We have the Knicks twerking fan fight. Remember, if you remember at the parade, the lady pulled her pants down, and then she just tossed her off a light post. We have the Dennis Rodman Spurs fan, who is from Philly, who just put on a Spurs jersey and said, I'm going to go fuck up some people.

1:52:58PFT Commenter:All due respect to that guy. Yeah, all due respect. We have Hank versus Big Dom at the NFL Combine. Great fight.

1:53:04Big Cat:Max, do you remember seeing that fight?

1:53:05PFT Commenter:Yeah. No, you ran away. That's right, you pussy. Yeah. We have Conor McGregor for those 15 seconds. 15 seconds. Then we have a couple of Barstool ones. Kelly Keegs versus Sam Goldfinger for Fight of the Year at Barstool Spring Break House. And then finally, Ben Mintz versus Crutches. It's an ongoing fight. Crutches wins by submission. Yeah. All right. The winner for Fight of the Year is Hank and Big Don. Oh, wow. Incredible fight, Hank. Would you like to accept? Yeah, I'd like to thank you guys, my partners, for giving me this award.

1:53:44Big Cat:I don't like the way you said that. Okay. And Big Dom's a worthy adversary. I think we squash the beef at the end of it, but sometimes you've got to chuck knucks and then come out stronger on the other side. Yeah. Okay, good point. Good point. Max, would you like to accept on behalf of Big Dom? No, that's Big Dom's award. I can't accept on his behalf. Okay. Okay. Okay. Next category in the 2026 takeies, the just chill out of the year. A lot of people need to chill out this year. First nominee is Max for Screaming at Meek Phil in the Gambling Cave. One of my favorite moments of the football season.

1:54:22Big Cat:Got really in his face. Next. Max, what? What's up? I did need to chill out. Just chill out. Just chill out, dude. We're not saying anything big. It's just like, hey, maybe chill out. Yeah. Maybe, yeah. Chill out, man. Just chill out. Yeah, just chill out. Yeah, take a chill pill. Chill out. Chill out. Next nominee for Just Chill Out of the Year is Max for Slapping Hank. Well, that was - Just chill out, Hank. Every Max. I was instructed to do that. Yeah.

1:54:47PFT Commenter:But just chill out. Just following orders. You could be instructed to murder someone that's still murder.

1:54:51Big Cat:Good point. What do they say to that when they do crimes against humanity and the Nuremberg trials, Max? Just following orders. Just following orders. I was. I was just following orders. Okay. There's many good Maxes. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. The next nominee for Just Chill Out of the Year is Mark Sanchez. Oh. Just chill out, man. Yeah. Just chill out. He had to chill out. I think he chilled out. He might have gotten a message. Yeah. I think he chilled. Next nominee is Ryan Clark for Going Up Pete Traeger.

1:55:22PFT Commenter:Yeah.

1:55:22Big Cat:On the air. Just chill out. Just chill out. That was a big time chill out. Not that serious, Ryan. The next nominee for Just Chill Out of the Year, Pat McAfee for releasing an album. Okay. I guess, yeah. Not super chill timing on the album. I'm still going to listen. Chill out.

1:55:38PFT Commenter:Yeah.

1:55:39Big Cat:Next nominee for chill out of the year is Max for when he ran to the kitchen, grabbed a knife, and then proceeded to stab all of our inflatable animals. Positivity rabbit. Trying to make him feel better after the Eagles lost. You weren't trying to make me feel better. We were trying to make you feel better. That's a lie.

1:55:58PFT Commenter:It's a positivity rabbit. That's a fucking lie, Max. I don't think you understand what a positivity rabbit is. Thank you. You still don't.

1:56:05Big Cat:Okay. Is that it? Yeah. I got an addition. Oh, okay. Please. Max for losing a game to the Broncos, hitting me again and taking my phone and throwing it across the room. Oh, yeah. Screaming in my face. Yeah. Doddington Bones. Also, yeah.

1:56:22PFT Commenter:You weren't here. Did you hear on Friday? The acupuncturist right there just being like that. The Doddington Bones. I found A.J. Brown signed his locker room placard after that game, and I almost won the auction. I don't know what happened. It would have been great. It was the Donington Bones game. That would have been all the time. A combo of A.J. Brown and Donington Bones. I was thinking out for you, Hank.

1:56:46Big Cat:I would love that.

1:56:47PFT Commenter:We're trying to find it.

1:56:48Big Cat:Next year, I'm going to be chill.

1:56:49PFT Commenter:No.

1:56:50Big Cat:The winner of the Just Chill Out Man Award is Max. Max. Max. All of them. Yeah, Lifetime Achievement Award and needing to chill out. Yeah, I do need to chill out. This one I will accept, and I will. It's correct. You're not trying to go back to back. Although the Mark Sanchez one's probably worse.

1:57:10PFT Commenter:Yeah, probably. Maybe. Who's to say? Probably. Okay, our next award is Dildo Toss of the Year. We had a great year for dildo tossing. We had a big, yeah, just a lot of dildo tosses. So our nominees are the WNBA Dildo Tosser on July 29, 2025, the Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries game. WNBA thrower number two, August 1st, also Golden State Valkyries versus Chicago Sky. And then WNBA thrower number three, August 3rd, 2025, the Fever versus the Sparks. Zach, you got us a cameo for this. Yes, sir. All right. What up? It's Bam Margera, and the winner of the 2026 Takey for the Dildo Toss of the Year goes to the second dildo toss at the WNBA game.

1:58:00Congratulations.

1:58:03Big Cat:All right, Bam. Thanks, Bam. Looking good.

1:58:07PFT Commenter:Oh, he looks great. Yeah. Can't wait for Jackass. Is he a Jackass? No. Zach, great get. I figured there was nobody else to get for that one. Yeah. He fell at the 1-1. No, that was a great get. Okay, we got a few left. A few left.

1:58:24Big Cat:The next category is the Apology of the Year. Apology of the Year nominees. Luke Kwan for his nine-minute long YouTube video that he posted apologizing for sleeping in, where I don't think he said that he was sorry or apologized. Nope. But it was nine minutes, and there was a lot of things that he said on it. Yep. The next nominee for Apology of the Year, Ryan Clark, for apologizing for the things that he said to Peter Schrager regarding you do not play football, you don't have an opinion.

1:58:53PFT Commenter:Yeah.

1:58:54Big Cat:The next nominee for Apology of the Year, Bajon Robinson. Bajon Robinson for saying in a post-game interview, it's like when we played Smear the Queer as a kid. The next nominee for Apology of the Year, it would be the YGT and Michael Blatt drama. Yes. Where it was the Bryan brothers and Grant Horvath that put in a clip from Michael Block that they probably should have put in. Did I get that right, A?

1:59:19PFT Commenter:No, no. It was actually a totally normal clip.

1:59:22Big Cat:It was a nothing clip.

1:59:23PFT Commenter:Yeah. And then they released a long statement apologizing for including this clip. Yeah. Got it. It was just basically Michael Block having a bad round of golf, missing a putt, and then being upset about it, which is a totally normal thing. Yeah. And then they apologized and said, we like to just only be positivity. We don't like to spread that type of negativity.

1:59:44Big Cat:Okay. Drum roll, please. Okay.

1:59:49Big Cat:I'm going to give it to YGT and Michael Block. Okay. Yeah. The nothing burger apology is always very funny. It's so funny.

1:59:57PFT Commenter:Because it also was like, everyone did the same thing where I was like, what are they apologizing for? And then I watched it. I was like, wait, what are they apologizing?

2:00:04Big Cat:What I've learned is that a lot of people that are in the YouTube golf community are very sensitive individuals.

2:00:09PFT Commenter:I don't understand how people play golf and don't bust each other's balls.

2:00:18Big Cat:I mean, don't bust balls. Also, don't you fucking take a picture in their backswing. No. We do not want to garnish attention through drama and controversy, but through high-quality golf. Yeah. I know a place where you can see high-quality golf. We are thankful for everyone's commitment and participation on the YGT, and they deserve to be portrayed in a more positive light.

2:00:38PFT Commenter:So they're just all rainbows and gumdrops. It's Kumbaya. Yeah, they were like, hey, Michael Box competed, and he's miked up. And then we put in a clip of him being upset from the competition. Totally normal. While he's still miked up. Yeah. Right. Which is what he signed up for. Correct. And also what people want to see, the human interactions. The real human interactions, not the like, oh, good shot, good shot.

2:01:01Big Cat:Now, Hank, do you see why maybe people don't want us to be Kumbaya?

2:01:05PFT Commenter:Do you guys ever think about that?

2:01:06Big Cat:You guys are the Kumbaya. What have we ever? You're Kumbaya. You started Kumbaya.

2:01:10PFT Commenter:What do you mean we're the Kumbaya? No, I made a statement, and then you guys were, whoa, whoa, I thought we were going to be Kumbaya. You guys wanted to be Kumbaya. You wanted to be Kumbaya. No, we said we wanted to be Kumbaya at the beginning of the Mount Rushmore because you have a long Mount Rushmore. Right. You were no longer at the beginning. Okay. But for the record, you guys wanted Kumbaya. No. I said we could. No, I never want to. I actually think you said it first. Yeah.

2:01:34Big Cat:Hank didn't say it first. Yes. Hank's gaslighting us.

2:01:37PFT Commenter:I think you are gaslighting us. Can someone help? They get help. Help. I don't. I don't. Help. Help. I have no opinion on this matter. It's not an opinion. It's just a memory. He wasn't listening. I have no memory. He wasn't listening. He wasn't listening. I was listening. Who was the kumbaya? Yeah. No one's kumbaya. I don't know. Chill out, Max. Could you imagine if this podcast was Kumbaya? Like if we did it like these guys. It would suck. We should do a Kumbaya episode. That's what you guys want.

2:02:08Big Cat:Yeah, do a Kumbaya episode.

2:02:09PFT Commenter:No, stop. You stopped gaslighting us, you fucker.

2:02:13Big Cat:I swear to God, you said Kumbaya. Yeah, Hank came up with Kumbaya.

2:02:17PFT Commenter:Shane, find us this clip. You might be gaslighting us. No, never. I also might have misremembered. No, I think he's gaslighting us. Lots of PFT just remembers how he wants and then says, this is what I said. I wasn't fully listening. I'm pretty sure that Hank said it first. Oh, man. All right. Next up, we have Fart of the Year. Oh, great. Who could potentially win this one? The nominees are Chuck Schumer. Oh, yeah. It's a good fart. Good fart. Good fart. Scotty Scheffler at the Open in 2025 when he farted when he was swinging. Yeah. And they admitted to it to us on our show. Iconic. Big clip. The Noah Kahn fan.

2:02:57PFT Commenter:That wasn't really a fart. That was just poop. They shat themselves, and they kind of stepped on it. That was a full-blown fart. Yeah. Yeah. And then, finally, Henry Lockwood for his fart at the New Orleans Saints facility, which is right next to the Pelicans facility. True. Fart asterisk. During our Kellen Moore interview.

2:03:17Big Cat:And also, the chair was very solid. It was a solid chair. Yeah. And circular. A circular chair, yeah. Sitting on an amp. Wait, I might have another late nominee.

2:03:26PFT Commenter:Okay. Oh, got it. Oh, this is a tight room. That was wet. That was shit.

2:03:34Big Cat:You got to wipe your butt. You got to wipe your butt. It was a little wet.

2:03:37PFT Commenter:Yeah. You're going to give Michelle a pink eye.

2:03:43PFT Commenter:Okay. The winner for Fart of the Year is Henry Lockwood. I'm raking it in this year. All those losses, I feel like I'm sitting here. We're trying to gas our guy up. You asked us to do kumbaya. Five takeies. I did not. But I would like to thank the committee. I think that Scottie Scheffler probably deserved it. Bigger clip. Bigger profile. But I'll take it. I'll take any award I can get. There's a lot of losses this year. And I'm just going to keep stacking little win after little win. That's how you end up getting big win after big win. Yeah. Yeah. I like that. Good job, Hank. Good job. And I'll keep farting.

2:04:21PFT Commenter:Yeah. Not going to stop? Never stop farting. Never stop farting. Not retiring. No. You got one more in you. Vince Carter. I got a lot more in me. Mm-hmm.

2:04:28Big Cat:Okay. Next category is the retirement of the year. The nominees for retirement of the year are the Meow Mix podcast. Mm-hmm. For walking away from covering the Carolina Panthers, and then afterwards the Panthers go on a win streak, and then they came back later on in the season. But it was all good vibes from them. Mm-hmm. Next nominee is Lee Corso. Walked away from college football. It was actually a cool way that he went out because it was the first game that he did on college football, on college game day. Agreed. The next nominee for retirement of the year, Mike Vrabel for retiring for a day during the NFL draft and then coming back.

2:05:02Big Cat:Didn't retire. The next nominee for retirement of the year is Ralphie the Buffalo at Colorado. Just had no interest in running anymore.

2:05:10PFT Commenter:Yep.

2:05:10Big Cat:So they had to send Ralphie to greener pastures. Shout out, Ralphie. We all understand what you're going through. Very relatable. The final nominee for retirement of the year is Phillip Rivers for retiring from football again after he came back. That was awesome that Phillip Rivers came back. I still can't believe that it happened. Shout out for the Colts to even ask the question. And shout out to Phil. The winner of Retirement of the Year is...

2:05:42Big Cat:The Meow Mix podcast. Congratulations to Meow Mix, and we have a video from you. Yes. Hello, everyone. It's Steven and Jerry, formerly of the Meow Mix Carolina Panthers podcast. Man, we want to graciously accept this Takey Award from part of my take for the best retirement of last year. We surprisingly earned it, maybe. Yeah, yeah. Lots of nominees out there, lots of people who retired, but they recognized us. And who do we have to thank for this? I mean, I want to thank David Tepper for putting an incredible product out on the field week after week. Yeah, I mean. I should say the turf, right?

2:06:19Not the field. uh frank reich let's thank scott fitterer your favorite coach matt rule oh matt rule yeah so many luminaries helped us get to this point jerry yeah baker mayfield you know horrible horrible here and now against us you know but when we started this we wanted to become one of the best podcasts or most popular Carolina Panthers podcast there was. And unfortunately, it just happened the day after we retired. Yes. What major news that was picked up nationally? A small Carolina Panthers podcast retires. And maybe, yeah, the message might have been a little melodramatic, but yeah, I don't know.

2:07:06The whole thing was a whirlwind. But seriously, to pardon my take, you guys were amazing. You guys seemed to get it. Like you understood. You're real fans of your teams. And you know how it feels to be in pain. And we were in massive pain for a long time as Panthers fans. Then we stopped doing it, and the Panthers go on a run. I don't want to say jinx, Jerry, but we're not going to be recording anymore just to be on the safe side. Yeah, I tried, but it's not fun without you, man. So, overall, we want to thank every listener again that listened to us and stuff. Thank you. Pardon my take.

2:07:45PFT Commenter:And on that, keep pounding. Shout out to Meow Mix, guys. They got to win retirement of the year because, like, you know, they were podcasting through some really bleak times. Yeah. Retired. And the Panthers got good. And then they got good. Yeah. So, good for them. Yeah. Great job. Season to remember. Okay, next up we have new category, Tits of the Year. Tits of the Year. So the nominees are myself. I've actually been feeling pretty flabby. I have to do some push-ups. Haven't done push-ups in a while. Barstool Big Rack. They are voluptuous right now. I just caught myself in the mirror the other day.

2:08:25PFT Commenter:I was like, damn, dude, you're stacked. Memes. Memes is nominated for Tits of the Year. his iconic picture great picture memes at the Shore Acres Golf Course Max you were nominated for Tits of the Year good job Max and then finally Sydney Sweeney great tits great tits great nominees alright here we go we have here we go let's see who's presenting these awards this award hello friends it's me Nancy Pelosi here to present the Tits of the Year Award congrats to memes my friend you have absolute cannons and much like my stock portfolio they're pointing in the right direction memes are you good at keeping secrets because i wouldn't mind being kept close to your chest big man wow memes congratulations congrats memes have you ever won a takey this is my first takey this is a huge honor uh just another win yep uh yeah if you got Are you still mad at me?

2:09:30PFT Commenter:No, I got tits. You were mad at me. No, no. It was a fine photo. Then you came the next time we played golf, you had like six layers on. Like 80 degrees. Yeah, I'll probably wear a sweatshirt Monday when we film this video.

2:09:43Big Cat:Have you hit the gym? Make any changes?

2:09:46PFT Commenter:No, dude. He just said he layered. Yeah, he's layered. Yeah, you don't have to go to the gym. You just got to wear a sweatshirt. Spanx, maybe.

2:09:51Big Cat:It's pretty easy. Yeah.

2:09:53PFT Commenter:As soon as summer's over, it's fine. I don't care about my tits. It's when I have to wear a t-shirt. It's just torture. Okay. We got a couple left. What do we got next, PFT?

2:10:05Big Cat:This is the Book of the Year. Okay. The Book of the Year Award. The first nominee for Book of the Year is Pardon My Book by Big Cat and PFT Comptor. Yes. And Hank and Memes and Max and Zach. And Shane. And Shane. And a lot of other people that were guests on Pardon My Takeover of the Years. Yes. The next nominee for book of the year is Cancel me if you can Dave's book New York Times number one bestseller

2:10:32PFT Commenter:No big deal

2:10:33Big Cat:Next nominee for book of the year Daddy Issues by Sophia Franklin That's Sophia with an F Check her out online And the winner of the book of the year award is Part of my book And the book's not even out yet but it's just that damn good that it's already won. It's going to be out on August 18th and we just got our first copies today. The first official copies of the book arrived to the office. I got to be honest with you. I did not expect to be a little emotional when I got the book. Yeah. Because I was looking through the pictures that Hank put in the middle of some of the rare photos from the last 10 years.

2:11:16Big Cat:A lot of them going back to like 2016, 2017. And it was pretty cool to look back on. So I hope you guys like it. It was a labor of love doing it. It was a lot of work, but we liked it. We enjoyed it. And we hope that you guys like reading it, too.

2:11:30PFT Commenter:And we promise, listen, when we get to the week of the book launch, we're going to have to talk about a lot because we want to be also New York Times bestseller. Yep. Maybe one as well. We need the AWS to help us out on that. We do think it's a very, very good book. The history part of my take. We're going to be signing a bunch of copies. The first signed copies are now available, though, on AndersonBookshop.com. So go get it. Customers need to preorder there before August 17th. And the book with signed sticker inside it is shipped directly to the customer to arrive the week the book goes on sale.

2:12:05PFT Commenter:So AndersonBookshop.com. Search for part of my book. And again, it comes out August 18th. So let's gear up. It is. I really think people are going to very much enjoy it because we have a bunch of our friends talk about it in ways that we, you know, we never really like sat back and been like, hey, that was crazy. Ten years. Yep. And we're going to keep going. Yep. Keep going. All right. Next up, we have the call to the president of the year. This is a new award. Yeah. Because it was a stacked, stacked year for calls to the president. First up, we have Bryson DeChambeau threatening to call the president.

2:12:43PFT Commenter:Threatening to call the president because of a penalty at the Open Championship. We then have Tiger Woods just on the phone with the president. Just got off the phone with the president. Sorry, I was just talking to the president. Yep. We have the call the president made to the U.S. men's hockey team that started a complete shitstorm. Yep. For no reason. And then we have the call that the president made to FIFA to get Balogun's red card rescinded. Yeah. So big year. Huge year. DT was on the phone a lot. He was at you. Yeah. Get those minutes. Yeah. Okay. The winner for call to the president of the year is Tiger Woods.

2:13:22PFT Commenter:Yeah. Just without a doubt. Just got off the phone with the president. Just talking to the president. All time. All time lie.

2:13:28Big Cat:And it was shocking, not just because you don't expect him to say that, But also I know that when he's driving, that's where he usually goes to be alone. Yeah. And that's where he goes to feel normal. And you wouldn't expect him to be talking to the president. And that's exactly what he was doing.

2:13:39PFT Commenter:He was talking to the president. Talking to the president. He's talking to the president. Yeah. He's got a full president. He's talking to the president. Rethink, Hank. I mean, Jerry's got that in his bag now. It's exciting.

2:13:47Big Cat:That's a good point. Yeah. Jerry could be nominated next year. True. He's talking to the president. He's talking to the president. Okay. This is a crazy category. The preemptive take of the year. We do this every year. last year. I'm trying to remember what the takes were. I don't remember. I think mine might have been that Paige Beckers is going to be better than Caitlin Clark. Okay, so you're just... By this time next year. Taking credit for being right. I think I'm taking credit for being correct. Yeah. On my preemptive take.

2:14:16PFT Commenter:Yeah, I don't remember. But let's hit it. Let's rip them. Hank, preemptive take of the year. My preemptive take of the year is that there's going to be a new women's basketball league. The WMA is going to split up. Oh.

2:14:28Big Cat:Okay. And a new league is going to form. Okay. All right. How are they going to split up? Players are going to leave. Is the WNBA going to stick around? I don't know. Yeah. That's my take. Okay. Memes? I've been right two years in a row. What? Yeah. I just picked one of your teams to do bad. What did you pick last year? Last year was the commander said they were going to implode, which they did. Year before? The Paul George trade wasn't going to work out, and they were actually going to be bad because it was a super team of losers. Okay. This year, I'm going. You're going to do it? Max gave me the hand.

2:15:09No, Hank gave me a look. I was like, that's your loser now. I thought you were going to argue that it did work out.

2:15:17Big Cat:Yeah, true. No, he said Paul George, so Hank gave me a look, and I pointed at him. The Cincinnati Bengals are going to win the Super Bowl

2:15:26PFT Commenter:Whoa Okay That's my take Okay Alright I like that That's my take Okay Is it my turn? Cincinnati Bengals to win the Super Bowl Alright My take is going to be That the Wizards are going to make the playoffs I love it And they're going to play the Celtics

2:15:48Big Cat:Smart man And the pod is going to have a hell of a couple weeks there. And Wizards are going to probably have home court advantage. No. Okay. What seed were the Wizards going to make the playoffs as? I think it's going to be a 2-7 situation. I love it. I love it. Okay. Feed it to me. So we're going to be back to the 2-seed. How'd that work out for you? Yeah, sure. I'll take it. I'll sign up for that. Yeah. Okay. Max is right. I just think there's been so much Wizard. Celtics talk that I feel like it's so much. So it's going to, it's going to end in wizard Celtics. Yeah. It's just bubbling over everywhere.

2:16:26PFT Commenter:Two teams are circling each other.

2:16:28Big Cat:Yeah. Destiny collision course. Zach, what do you got? I, uh, I'm going to go with, uh, we, we are going to get Tiger Woods at the masters in the, at the upcoming masters.

2:16:39PFT Commenter:Oh, okay. Play. Love that. By the way, Zach, this just dawned on me. The fact that I didn't nominate you for take of the year when you said, uh, I show speeds bigger than Donald Trump. That's my fault. That probably should have won. Yeah.

2:16:53Big Cat:It's a good take.

2:16:54PFT Commenter:All right. Tiger Woods, the masters. Yeah, I believe so.

2:16:56Big Cat:I think he's going to play. Not to say he's going to win, but he's going to play. Okay. Would love to see that. I think. Arch Manning is going to pull an Eli. Whatever team finishes with the worst record this year, Arch and his dad and his grandfather are going to say, my boy is not playing there. he wants to go to a different organization I'm not going to say what team is going to finish last because I don't want to incur any wrath from anybody in this room or in the booth who are you talking about? whatever team finishes with the number one why not the commanders? it could be me quarterbacks hurt all the time all the time I lived the documentary last year I'm going to respectfully opt out of Jaden Daniels' elbow content.

2:17:48Big Cat:No, more than elbow. But whatever team. Memes, I didn't say what team it was going to be. Whichever team finishes with the worst record. I'm just talking. Same. Me too. Couple guys doing a podcast. Couple guys talking. Couple guys doing a podcast. I did up with the boys. And he's going to say, no, I don't want to go to that dysfunctional organization, and they're going to pull a power play. That's what I think. And we're just not naming teams. We're not. That's an exactly accurate description of what just happened when it was two guys talking.

2:18:17PFT Commenter:Two guys talking. Two guys talking. Two guys talking.

2:18:19Big Cat:Could be the Cardinals.

2:18:20PFT Commenter:Yep.

2:18:21Big Cat:Actually, no, they've already got their quarterback, Jacoby.

2:18:23PFT Commenter:Yeah. Well, we'll see. Yeah. I have one, but can I just add on to yours, Zach? I think Phil's going to make the cut at the Masters this year. You like that? Yeah. You like that? I like that a lot. My preemptive take of the year is that there's going to be a controversy surrounding LeBron James wherever he goes and plays he's going to have an injury and then he's going to be caught golfing with that injury and everyone's going to be like does he actually love the game anymore he's going to be forced to retire I like that a lot yeah he'll never be forced to retire I liked it up until that point though okay so we'll take out the force to retire kumbaya yeah okay you can see it happening though yeah someone gets him then like oh I thought dude I thought you had a broken wrist or I thought But, you know, your hamstring is like, just can't quit golfing.

2:19:15PFT Commenter:He loves to golf. Okay. We have two awards left. Next up, one of our favorites. We have Blake of the Year. Blake Griffin versus Blake Bortles versus Brooks Koepka. We taped it yesterday, so let's get to it. Okay. It is time for one of our favorite awards. Every single takeies. It is the Blake of the Year Award. We have Blake Griffin. The nominees are Blake Griffin, Blake Bortles, and Brooks Koepka. And we've done it many different ways in the years past. I think we've perfected the best way to do it. And what we're going to do, I have alerted all three Blakes that there is a window. They had a two-hour window that they could potentially be texted a Zoom link.

2:20:05PFT Commenter:And the first Blake to join the Zoom is the Blake of the year. so the two we are right now an hour and 28 minutes into the window and we're about to send them the link so is everyone ready does anyone have a prediction i'm ready i i'm feeling an upset today

2:20:23Big Cat:i don't know why i woke up this morning and i was thinking to myself this is the year brooks kepka becomes the first ever non-blake to win blake of the year which would be important representation for everybody every youngster out there that grows up not being named blake that you two one day could possibly be blake of the year i feel i feel like it might happen this year

2:20:45PFT Commenter:okay here we go you boys ready ready come on brooksy the text has been set okay oh my god you got text has been set i'm gonna say bortles you got this bro text has been set i'd be happy It's going to be Blake Griffin.

2:20:59Big Cat:Oh! Oh!

2:21:00PFT Commenter:Oh, that was Blake! Who was first? That was... No, it was... Who was first? I saw it. I saw it. Yes. Yes. I saw it. We can't see anyone. It had to be first. No, hold on. Well, he doesn't have his video on. He doesn't have his video on. Okay, that's fine, though. Hold on. Video done count. We can't hear either of them. What's going on? I can hear you guys. Okay. There's Blake Griffin. There's Blake Bortles. Wow, this was crazy. We got a little bit of an issue. By the way, Brooks will join whenever. Brooks is not going to join. Brooks is not going to join. So we first saw Blake Griffin on the screen.

2:21:43PFT Commenter:Okay, thank you. But we have it screen recorded for which person tried to join first. and Blake Bortles you are the 2026 Blake of the Year congratulations Blake it was a split second difference we have the recording Blake Bortles I mean the floor is yours what an upset finally breaking up the dynasty good for the league Blake Griffin is now muted I don't know if he's yelling at himself you muted yourself by accident good for the league parody is good for the league we learned that Blake Bortles, you have just won Blake of the Year. What would you like to say? I mean, massive. I hate that it came down to a bit of controversy there, but, you know, it's been, what, three, four, five years in a row, and it was bleak for a long time, but I'm happy we stuck to it, and here we are.

2:22:42Big Cat:Yeah, I mean, it was a photo finish. Quite literally a photo finish sending you in over the top. Are you pacing around your house right now, or were you positioned close to the router? No, I'm in the hallway of our hotel, and I was five minutes away from just forfeiting because my family's waiting on me to catch a train to go to this Red Sox game. Oh, wow. Wow. And so you did this as an away game on the road, like with hotel Wi-Fi. On the road, hotel Wi-Fi. It is arguably better Wi-Fi than at my house, but it's nowhere near Blake's personal Starlink orbit he's got. Did you pay for the extra fast service at the hotel?

2:23:20Well, not originally, but I did upgrade to it today.

2:23:23Big Cat:There you go. Now that's thinking. That's the difference.

2:23:27PFT Commenter:What a performance. So, Blake Griffin, what's going through your head right now post-game? What happened out there? I did everything I could. I don't know. Prepared. Sometimes it just doesn't go your way. I'd like to see the tape. I will be putting a call in to President Trump.

2:23:52see if there's something we could possibly do.

2:23:54PFT Commenter:Yeah, you're calling ABS on us. Or maybe just quit.

2:23:58Big Cat:Yeah, just threaten to not play next year.

2:24:00PFT Commenter:Now, PFT doesn't know what I'm about to say because he was recording macro dosing, but let's walk through something that happened about, I don't know, 45 minutes ago. I told you guys on a text, so I had Blake Griffin, Blake Bortles, Brooks Koepka on a text. I told them, hey, look, the window opens right now. about so then all of a sudden I looked out on my phone and there's a FaceTime from Brooks Koepka Brooks start because he's never really fully competed in Blake of the Year he started his own FaceTime with the four of us and just kind of declared himself the winner wow yeah he was like we all we're like we all joined the FaceTime like who started this and Brooks was just drinking at the bar and he's like i did he's like did i win which is arguably one of the most blake things to

2:24:48Big Cat:do yeah it is now how soon after the text did he send that that's the best part a full five minutes okay so in his mind he thought that that was the text being like all right whoever calls first it's it's it's yours and so he calls i get on and it's just me and him and he goes did i win and I'm looking at him like why are you the only one I was so confused I love that he started his own tour for Blake's yeah the live tour of Blake's yeah which he immediately won yeah oh man it was

2:25:22PFT Commenter:uh that's an incredible that's probably the closest it's ever been in terms of Blake of the year and yeah you have to agree Blake Griffin that it is good for the league like we need it's it's good for the league it's good for the league Blake I'm happy for you um I feel like when one Blake wins, we all win. Rising tide raises all ships. Cheers to you, man. You're a formidable opponent. I appreciate it. I was starting to feel like the Jim Kelly 80s Bills just getting beat year after year. Now you can enjoy a baseball game with a new championship under your belt. A record breaker, too. That's right.

2:26:03Going for 16 tonight. Go Sox.

2:26:05PFT Commenter:Yeah, the Red Sox go for 16 and Blake Boyles is going to go. Was that Hank who just chimed in there? Yeah, that was Hank. Hey, Hank. Hey, buddy. Oh, man. All right. Well, thank you, boys. This is one of our favorite awards. You guys can leave. We'll stay on for a couple minutes, see if Brooks ever joins. I'm guessing no, but Brooks is now setting it up for, like, in 10 years from now when he wins his first ever Blake of the Year, it will be one of the most shy. It will be like the 1980 U.S. men's team. It will be one of the most shocking results ever. First time he plays in the States, I feel like he's going to win.

2:26:41PFT Commenter:But he's just taking vacation right now. Everyone else is back. I hope he's not playing because he was not sober on that call. I knew the longer the call went on, the less chance Blake had of getting in.

2:26:58Big Cat:He might go to bed tonight thinking that he won't. Or Brooks, I mean. And that's probably as good as an actual championship for himself. He might right now think he is current Blake of the year.

2:27:06PFT Commenter:Well, it was great sportsmanship because Blake Griffin immediately texted him and said, congrats, you won Brooks of the Year, which he did. He won Brooks of the Year. He was the first one to call in. Oh, man. All right. Well, thank you, boys. You guys are the best. All right. Congrats, Blake. Congrats, Blake. Oh, now his Wi-Fi goes. Now his Wi-Fi. Come on. See you guys. All right. See you guys. Later. All right. So now we see if Brooks is ever going to join.

2:27:34Big Cat:I saw it on the screen, too. I will verify that Blake Bortles joined the call slightly. I'm talking like a second before. That might have been the closest margin that we've ever had on this. That was crazy. Yeah.

2:27:45PFT Commenter:I'll try to call Brooks. Let's see. Yeah. PFT. Look at this. We'll put this in the show. This is me just laughing. This is a FaceTime that Brooks started. Again, five minutes late. I sent basically a text just saying the window is now open. Just to remind everyone.

2:28:06Big Cat:I could see that if you get a couple cocktails in you, that text might be implying it's time to call in.

2:28:12PFT Commenter:And he was just like, oh, shit, did I win?

2:28:15Big Cat:But then his response was to then FaceTime everybody.

2:28:17PFT Commenter:Yeah. And he thought that he had then won. That was the rule. And I had made it very clear. Now, where is he?

2:28:23Big Cat:What country is he in?

2:28:24PFT Commenter:He's in Portugal right now. It's 9.30 in Portugal. Yeah. And, oh, I even went as far. It actually kind of broke my brain. because this morning when I reminded everyone this morning, I gave them, I set up like a week in advance. I'm like, does this day work? Does this day work? Then like two days, I'm like, hey, reminder, tomorrow's the day. This morning I woke up, I reminded them, and then I actually wrote out the time zones each of them would be in. So I was like, Brooks, this is going to be from 8.30 to 10.30 your time because I didn't want any issues and anyone saying, oh, it wasn't fair. Yeah.

2:29:00Big Cat:it's fitting that he's in Portugal some might say that he might be the Cristiano Ronaldo of Blake's like a lot of accolades there's no denying one of the all time greats but can he win the big one probably not but also great body

2:29:16PFT Commenter:it is an awesome story that if he does ever find a way to win one of these it's going to be monumental

2:29:22Big Cat:I thought it was today I don't know why the Portugal aspect if I had woke up knowing that he was in Portugal probably would have changed my premonition a little bit. But then I thought it maybe. But also, he kind of did win. I see his point. Well, yeah, five minutes late. In his mind.

2:29:37PFT Commenter:Five minutes late. All right, hold on. I'm going to call him. Let's see if it pick up. I don't know if it goes overseas. Nope. It's not even going through, I don't think. Oh, man. He tried. He tried. It's tough. It was the most active he's ever been. yeah in a like i'm saying this is i i see why he would think that he might have won

2:30:04Big Cat:yeah he did not win but i could see and that really that's what's most important and again he did win my roost of the year yeah that was oh here we go

2:30:21PFT Commenter:it looked incredible where he was he was just at the i'm willing to say he will never win never never that's a never don't use the n-word max i'm he's never even come close this is the closest he's coming he started his own competition just randomly so that that was that was something but the other blakes are so good they are they take it very seriously it's two titans yeah we We got, yeah.

2:30:52Big Cat:And I think the most Blake aspect of him is that he's totally fine with finishing third every year. Yeah. And he's probably pretty chill with that. Now, if he ever does win, I don't know if he's prepared for how much his life will change overnight after he wins Blake of the Year for the first time. Because nobody will be calling him Brooks on the golf course ever again.

2:31:10PFT Commenter:No. That's a very good point.

2:31:11Big Cat:It'll just be a chorus of Blake's.

2:31:13PFT Commenter:Okay. Incredible. Incredible Blake of the Year competition this year. we should say too that we had a couple updates from Brooks afterwards the first being that he joined the Zoom how many hours after we finished? About an hour and a half hour and a half yeah I think it was about an hour hour and a half after he tried to join the Zoom I was extremely wrong in my prediction. He texted and said where are you guys? Did I win? That was an hour and a half after the competition ended. Then today I texted him and I said hey do you want to come on and explain what happened and he said yeah send me the link go into the pool so might not have phone then I texted him the link and he didn't reply and I followed up oh no actually no my last text to him was you have your phone now we can try to do this at 1124 a.m.

2:32:14PFT Commenter:today I sent him that Five hours later, he just wrote back, nope, definitely can't speak. Yep. So he's having a great time in Portugal. Absolutely. Having a blast. He might have. There are probably, like, you know how when you go back in the history of college football and you'd be like, oh, yeah, well, we won the national title this year. You know, we were undefeated. Oh, there's like 17 teams that can claim a 1912 national title. I think there's some Brooks fans that could potentially in 20 years from now Claim this year in his performance as a national title As a Blake of the year From how much of a Blake he was He's putting up numbers right now

2:32:53Big Cat:There's no doubt about it that if you look at Blake criteria The way that he has not given a fuck about the Blake of the year Is just outstanding He's actually forcing us to reframe our entire point of view on the award Correct It still goes to Blake Bortles Yes Don't get me wrong

2:33:08PFT Commenter:100 % But I'm saying, history, people will, they might raise a banner in 30 years in the Koepka household being like, actually, we claim this title. It's like ahead of his time.

2:33:18Big Cat:Yeah. In how he approaches being a Blake. Yes. Thank you, though, to the Blakes of the best. Okay. Last up, PFT. Last up. It's the award we've been waiting for.

2:33:28PFT Commenter:Yeah. The 2026 Takey Award for the top podcast listeners of the year.

2:33:36Big Cat:There's a lot of good nominees this year. Daddy Gang, nominated again, of course. The YGT Bros. Yeah. Doing all the post-round catch-ups with the Brian Bros and Grant Horvath and all the positivity kumbaya. We've really appreciated hearing about that. Also nominated would be the Stavi Gang. Shout out Stavi Gang. Appreciate you guys. Stavi as a Greek man should have been in The Odyssey. I'll just say it on this podcast. Yep. Would have been a much better movie. and also nominated are the award-winning listeners as part of my take. Oh.

2:34:13PFT Commenter:Okay.

2:34:14Big Cat:Because it would be a 10-peat. A 10-peat. A 10-peat. That sounds a lot like we're getting into Bill Russell territory. Holy shit. Yeah. You're saying rings for every single finger. Every finger. And then maybe for Jason Pierre-Paul, you got one for Dick and Balls too. Mm-hmm. A couple toes. the winner of the 2026 Takey Award for Podcast Listener of the Year

2:34:40Big Cat:the award winning list is part of my take congratulations who saw that coming?

2:34:46PFT Commenter:not me the two most shocking awards given out I think in this entire time were award winning listeners and I didn't think they were going to win it again and Hank's fart and Shane trying to kill Pug

2:34:59Big Cat:that was kind of a crazy plot twist in this whole thing. But thank you very much to everybody that's listening to the show right now, that continues to listen, that has listened to the past. I sincerely appreciate each and every one of you. I really do. We have the best job in the entire world. It is not lost on me. I feel like we say it. We try to say it as much as possible because I mean it. And it's very, very, very special to me that you guys take the time and you opt in to hearing the sound of our voice every day. That is a crazy thing. And I really love all you guys. That's why I end every show saying it.

2:35:33Big Cat:I truly appreciate you all. Love you very much. Thank you for being there over the last 10, 11 years. I would not trade any of this for the world. It's been magical. And I hope to do 10 more with you guys if you'll have us. Thank you so much. We love you so much.

2:35:48PFT Commenter:Yeah. It's the 10-year writing the book, the 10-year anniversary. I've been getting a little bit sentimental. Yeah. Not in like a bad way of like, oh, it's ending. But in just a holy shit. But 10 years is a long time. And it's like everything kind of floods back when you have an anniversary. So 10 years. It really is just unreal how many people have supported us and listened. And I think I wrote this in the book. But the thing that makes me happiest is when I'm walking on the street. I'll be walking Stella. And someone will walk by with their phone or their headphones. And they'll be like, dude, I'm listening to you right now.

2:36:28PFT Commenter:And I was like, fuck, that's fucking wild. Like, it still kind of blows my mind. Like, holy shit. We're idiots. But it's been number one for a long, long time. And it's all because of you guys. So I think that's also like the day we're not number one, then we won't give them AWL. Yeah, we'll punish you. Yeah, but you guys have shown up for us year in and year out, day in and day out, month in and month out. So thank you so much. And I know Hank wants to say something as well. Yeah. yeah no I love you guys I mean I said it in the book as well like I don't I think if you ran a simulation in my life when this podcast before this podcast started like 99.9 of them would not have worked out as good as doing this podcast has been for the last 10 years of my life I can't believe any of it's real time flies feels like just yesterday we started and I appreciate you guys and I appreciate the

2:37:25Big Cat:listeners the most yeah it does yeah there was a moment too for me big cat when i i got the book today i was flipping through it and it just it hit me all of a sudden which is like if if you were to tell the story of my life probably the biggest part no without a doubt the biggest part of my life is doing this podcast yeah it's what i'm going to be remembered for one day uh hopefully far distance into the future um but it's a testimony to the listeners and um none of this would ever be possible without you guys and i i do love you all thank you so much for allowing us to

2:37:58PFT Commenter:uh to be part of your life and it's it's cool to also i know we're getting very sappy now but it is cool i think it's very important as you get older and i've been trying to do this more is like enjoying the moment and and embrace like the start of the show was such go go go go mania of like we got to keep going we got to keep going and it's not like we don't we haven't lost that we're still trying to get better and trying to get interviews and doing funny stuff but um being able to just say holy fuck man like we this is this is pretty substantial what has happened here um you got to enjoy it and it's because of our listeners like that if they're not listening we're nothing and and all this that we have and the the fact that we get to do this with our friends and we all remain friends and just fuck around we talk about all the time but we our biggest problem our biggest flaw as a podcast is we chill too hard before the show just shooting the shit like we have a problem with it where we say we're going to start at like 7 p.m.

2:38:59PFT Commenter:and we just sit in our chairs and just shoot the shit for like an hour we do an extra podcast yeah but yes it is the listeners who make this thing go we never ever lose sight of that so thank you all and let's finish with numbers memes wait I do have breaking moose oh breaking moose

2:39:21Big Cat:Jacoby Brissett is at practice today Oh Our long national nightmare might be over Hold out of the year? I think hold out of the year might be done Now he's holding in

2:39:29PFT Commenter:Wow Alright Memes have you ever gotten this? I have No you haven't I have won this Did we ever find out who was Kumbaya? It's Hank Hank's the Kumbaya Shane's in his feelings right now with onions Oh so Shane You say one thing and you just lose Shane He shuts down He shuts down Try to kill Pug

2:39:47Big Cat:He did try to kill Pug. He tried to kill Pug. What did he say to me? What are you pointing at me like that? I don't think you initiate. I think the word Kumbaya came up first and then Hank agreed. When did this happen? Who said Kumbaya? The first episode, Big Cat took an absolute ricochet at me. I think it was the start of Mount Rushmore season. He would never do that. No, I would not. See, thank you memes. And then you guys were like, let's just do Kumbaya. No, we're in agreeance of Kumbaya. What's crazy is that I don't think. And then Kumbaya. I think Hank and Zach have won this year. Mount Rushmore They don't have a single win Kumbaya bro Just stats Shane did you ever find out Shane did you ever find out It was Dom

2:40:28PFT Commenter:No Kumbaya I thought you were talking about the Pug You tried to kill Pug it's fine You tried to kill Pug You always hated Pug It's fine I love Pug Who said Who said Kumbaya First I think it was Hank

2:40:49Big Cat:Alright so then we're fine That's good enough That was a great look

2:40:55PFT Commenter:Hank's still serving looks That was great There's no way Changes Whatever I think it was Hank I think it was Hank We're gonna find it out Alright numbers I'm gonna do 99 Let's do 11 5 For the 11th takeies 86 Do 10 Shout out Pug 69. 88 for Patrick Kane. Remember when the AWLs almost didn't win the award? Yes. Because Big Cat was addicted to coin flipping? Yeah. I was just thinking about that. That was crazy. I forgot about that. I thought every year I think there's a chance that you'll do it again. We should do this. I should do it again. You already did it. How exhilarating would that be? You already did it.

2:41:32PFT Commenter:I want to do that next year. Zach, remind me. We got a coin flip. I thought you just called us a coin flip. I'm sorry. Got you. The coin flip, I'm out on that. But listen, it's in God's hands. The coin's going to always land the right way. That was my fault. Do we not agree that God is an AWL with the one in a billion shot of all of this coming together? Yeah. So? It'll call tails. God, you wash your apples? Does anyone have a coin right now? Let's just see what it would have been. Let's see what it would have been. Does anyone have a coin? Oh, wait. Oh, wait. You're holding a coin. I'm holding this.

2:42:06It's a ball marker.

2:42:07PFT Commenter:This doesn't count, obviously, because we already gave it to them, and they deserve it this year. Because this year was a great year, and we know they're going to show up for the book, and they're the best. What if it hits, we release cool 10-year anniversary t-shirts? Oh. Okay. That we are releasing.

2:42:27Big Cat:Regardless. Regardless, but. I like what you're saying.

2:42:30PFT Commenter:All right, so let's just say that this is just purely hypothetical. I'm just going to prove to you guys that God is an AWL. I'm going to prove to you guys so if it is tails then the AWLs would have won if we had done this as a coin flip the AWLs would have won a tenth in a row and if it is heads what what has your fucking face on it dude I'll be head turn your brain on dude and if it's heads then they we would have given it to Stavigang alright Max also has a mic behind him Tails Just like I said Did you see that That was one fucking flip He's an AWL Don't worry about it It's in God's hands Do you see this Memes Max you see this The mic's just behind So you were worried Never be worried No but I would have made the argument That even if it wasn't Tails We already gave the award So it didn't even matter I'm not Correct You said that I said that I'm just saying hypothetically if it had been a coin flip today, what would it have been?

2:43:35PFT Commenter:And it would have been still they got it. Shirts on sale. Barstool Sports Store. Love it, memes. Good call. Flash him on screen. Now what are you doing? Tails if Max is done getting married. Heads if he's got another one. Tails, bang. Told you. I got you, dude. I trust the coin. All right. That was actually way more nervous than the first one We probably would have cut that I was very nervous We probably would have cut that one Very nervous Another bachelor party would rock Or it would be his third bachelor party 11 One I think we should do one number One number I don't think we do another one

2:44:25Big Cat:One's a number I don't need to beg for it Yeah. Memes, if you want to. One's the number. Seems cool. You guys are number one. There you go. Love you guys. Also, happy birthday to Barry Bonds. Happy birthday to... I'm not going to say this name. Nope. I'm not going to say Carl Malone. Happy birthday... Happy birthday to Cody at Barstool. He tells jokes. Love you guys.

2:44:49PFT Commenter:Oh, wait. Hold on.

2:44:54PFT Commenter:Brooks.

2:44:58PFT Commenter:Brooks! He's butt dialing me, I think. You see this? Hey, Brooks, what's up?

2:45:07Big Cat:How we doing, buddy?

2:45:12Hey!

2:45:14PFT Commenter:Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yes! Hold on, I got a shot. I'll be right back. I got a shot. Say hi. What's up? It's us. What happened yesterday? Fuck you, Dan. Fuck you. Uh-uh, here we go. What's up? Fuck you, Dan. Who's that guy? I don't know. I can't hear you. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. All right. Oh.

2:45:52PFT Commenter:Do you have a... You almost won. You almost won yesterday. do you have a message for everyone who was rooting for you uh listen i'm a foreign loser

2:46:05PFT Commenter:i'll never be any good um yeah just a foreign loser i'm a born loser i don't know what to tell you guys okay yeah you got five majors i'm a barcel guy i love that all right next year blake of the year you're gonna win

2:46:29i'm a heavy favorite to finish third

2:46:33PFT Commenter:all right we love you brooks thanks brooks all right all right see you have fun bye

2:46:56Thank you.

2:47:26Thank you.

2:47:59Thank you.

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