Best of Macrodosing 2025 | Part 2

Summary

Macrodosing: Best of Macrodosing 2025 | Part 2

Podcast: Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter
Host: Barstool Sports
Air Date: December 30, 2025

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Episode Overview

This “Best of” episode stitches together a blend of the show’s classic irreverence and deep-diving conversation, capturing the spirit of Macrodosing—part brain “tickling,” part hot takes, part group therapy. The crew, led by Arian Foster and PFT Commenter (Big T), alongside their cast of regulars, cover everything from petty car scams and the evolution of wedding merch to wild Disney heists, NFL NIL deals, and (of course) cannibalism, with a healthy dose of political commentary and Halloween candy rankings.

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Key Topics and Timestamps

1. Getting Scammed at the Car Wash (00:13–08:38)

• Big T’s Weekend ‘Scam’
  Big T recounts a suspicious encounter: a man offers unsolicited dent repair at a car wash. The team breaks down the red flags, from the “put your foot on the brake” request to a dubious epoxy cover-up.
  • Big T: “I always say, like, I’m mentally tough, I’m immune to being brainwashed... but I think I got taken for 150 bucks.” (03:55)
  • Arian: “Maybe I’m dumb. What was the purpose of putting your foot on the brake?” (04:16)
  • Key Insights:
    • Car dent repair scams often follow an identical ‘pitch.’
    • Regret is more about being fooled than the money lost.
    • Online validation of the scam.

Memorable Moment:
Big T’s blend of embarrassment and hope—maybe he just got a bargain, maybe he got hustled.

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2. The Disney Springs Heist & Defining ‘Heist Movies’ (09:00–19:00)

• A Crime as Art
  Aryan brings up a recent non-violent heist: a scuba-suited thief steals $20,000 from a Disney Springs restaurant.

  • Aryan: “If you commit a crime non-violently that is so funny or cool sometimes, you deserve to get away with it.” (09:00)
  • Group discusses inside-jobs, classic bank robbing, and the nuances of what counts as a heist.

• Best Heist Movie Debate
  A passionate argument erupts over what is, and isn’t, a heist film—“National Treasure” vs. “Ocean’s Eleven,” “Heat,” “The Town,” and even “Inception.”

  • Aryan: “The best heist movie ever made is Disney’s National Treasure.” (14:11)
  • Aaron/Big T: “That’s not a heist; the goal wasn’t to steal anything.” (15:27)
  • Timestamps for highlights:
    • National Treasure debate: (14:11–18:52)
    • Recs: (19:00–21:44)

Notable Quote:
“You need a crew. This is what I love about heist movies—you’ve got to have your intel guy, your comms guy, your lock-picking guy...” – Aaron (12:32)

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3. Acting, Artistry, and Favorite Films (21:44–28:49)

• Do Actors Matter?
  Aryan is skeptical: all actors feel “the same to me”; it’s about the story, not the performer.
  • Big T/Aaron: Counter that certain actors elevate material (Tom Hanks, Denzel, Nicolas Cage, etc.).
  • Aaron: “I don’t think you have a love for the arts like that.” (24:16)
  • Big T’s Analysis: “Story has a lot to do with it...” (25:27)
  • A brief foray into the merit (or lack thereof) of star-studded casts.

Notable Films Mentioned:
Shawshank Redemption (Aryan’s #1), Training Day, My Cousin Vinny, Book of Eli, The Town, Hell or High Water, Alpha Dog.

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4. The Donner Party & Cannibalism (29:14–47:18)

• A Historic Deep Dive with Humor The crew shifts gears into the grim realities of the Donner Party’s ordeal—starvation, failed attempts at drawing straws for who gets eaten, debates over the tastiest body parts, and the dark humor of history.
  • Dana: “They cooked their own dogs... hunted mice... canvas soup was a delicacy.” (30:11)
  • Big T: “I feel like everyone should know how to fish. Back then, every man should’ve known how to fish.” (32:01)
  • Favorite Cannibalism Cuts/Office ‘Edibility’ Rankings: Who in the Barstool office would be tastiest? Lighthearted macabre speculation abounds. (38:48)

Memorable Moment:
”Your next Mount Rushmore should be: dudes you want to eat.” – Dana (38:47)
Timestamps: Cannibalism chat and cut rankings (35:49–44:25)

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5. NIL, College Football, and the Saudi Question (48:30–52:49)

• Who Would Take Saudi Money First?
  Speculation about which colleges would be first to accept Saudi investment for athletes’ NIL deals; Auburn and LSU top the list.
  • Aryan: “They’ll do anything to win. LSU as well... stole money from a children’s hospital.” (48:55)
  • Discussion: Player payments, coaching buyouts, ethics, and transfer portal impact.

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6. Wedding Culture & The Rise of Wedding Merch (71:39–80:00)

• Weddings as Competitive Performance
  Aryan asks: has social media turned weddings into an “arms race”?
  • Aaron: “We used to have Bridezilla—this was our era... but women always wanted it to be this extravagant flower party.” (73:03)
  • Trend Watch: Wedding merch—hats, t-shirts, even possible commercialized “merch tables” at weddings. (75:38)

Best Merch Quote:
“Wedding merch would be fire, dog... If the merch is cracked!” – Aaron (74:43, 77:33)

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7. Pumpkins, Pregnancy, and the Existence of Big Goldfish (87:12–90:45)

• On Pumpkins’ Rise: From Irish immigrant folklore to pumpkin spice everything.
• Pregnancy and the Miracle of Life:
  Mackenzie: “I don’t like living creatures in me. Good thing I’m not a woman, you know?” (90:03)
• Big Goldfish Existence Debate:
  Aaron googles and is astonished: “Holy shit—they get this big? Can you eat them?” (89:26)

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8. Golf (and Social) Drama: Luke Kwan’s Invitational Debacle (103:24–118:52)

• Internet Invitational Golf Fiasco
  Big T details his sour partnership with golf YouTuber Luke Kwan, who overslept, showed a lackadaisical attitude, and failed the basic standard of teamwork.
  • Aaron: “He started that. I will reciprocate the energy you give me.” (111:41)
  • Big T: “Once Luke got there...we could have won. We used both my approach shots. But, yeah, it was tough sledding.” (113:25, 116:33)
• Lessons About Ego, Sportsmanship, and Content Creation

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9. Congressional Baseball Game, Sports and Policy (119:32–129:08)

• Why Do Democrats Always Lose the Congressional Baseball Game?
  Stats: Outscored 83–31 over five games; Dems searching for a ringer.
  • Congressman: “The Republicans start their practices earlier in the morning... We need to step up our game.”
• Broader Issue:
  Using sports to build bipartisan relationships; flag football game is bipartisan.

Favorite Burn:
“I want to know your thoughts on Marjorie Taylor Greene’s evolution in her diplomacy... I think it’s fully self serving.” – Congressman (124:10–124:36)

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10. Social Media’s Effect on Politics (125:44–129:08)

• Social Media: Incentivizing Extremism
  • Big T: “Politicians shouldn’t be on social media.”
  • Congressman: “Could not agree more. This is like fuel on the fire of all the bad incentives... The algorithms reward the bad, divisive stuff.” (127:18, 127:27)

Annotation:
Brief reflection on Chuck Schumer’s “Get the hell out of here with the car tax” video as a sign of how politicians clown for clicks now.

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11. Meet Django—Aaron’s Reluctant Puppy Love (129:39–144:17)

• Aaron gets a dog (again, but for real):
  The group celebrates Django “Unchained” Foster joining the squad. Discussion of puppy-raising pains, puppy vs. human baby (Aaron insists baby is easier), and children/dog dynamics.
  • Big T: “You could say he’s unchained.” (132:28)
  • Aaron: “He’s a right now dog... pissed 3 times in my room.” (130:26)
  • On housebreaking: “I think it’s easier to raise a human.” (141:24)

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12. Closing Political Banter & Conspiracy Watch (146:31–158:43)

• On Nancy Mace & Charleston Airport Meltdown:
  Humor, gender politics, and the absurdity of tweet-wars with airports.
• Anna Paulina Luna’s Jewish SS Grandfather
• Turning Point USA Fest—Comedic Analysis of Speaker Lineup
• Epstein Files Drop Imminent:
  Panel debates what bombshells (if any) remain.
  • Dana: “Do y’all think we get another arrest?” (158:13)
  • Political Commentator: “I don’t think so... Jean Luc Brunel... also found hanging in his cell.” (158:19–158:43)

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Additional Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Cannibalism Teamwork:
  “If you’re the only person that’s against eating somebody, you’re going to be the first one eaten.” – Dana (35:08)
• On Adulthood:
  “Every man should know how to buy food at a supermarket. I definitely do.” – Big T (32:11)
• On Halloween Candy:
  “Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup—number one with a bullet.” – Big T (97:00) “KitKat’s in the running for my one.” – Aryan (97:00)

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Tone and Takeaways

Typical Macrodosing:

• Irreverent but intellectually curious
• Deep dives with casual, playful debates
• Self-aware laughs at themselves and society at large
• Equal parts group chat, brain candy, and late-night dorm room discussion

For Listeners Who Missed It:

• You’ll hear stories (some embarrassing), strong opinions about movies and candy, actual learning about history, sports politics, and a running meta-game of irony and camaraderie.
• Through humorous, sometimes ridiculous debates, you’ll get a surprisingly honest look at American culture, from the scam economy to what drives wedding expenses and the side effects of being extremely online.

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Suggested First Stops:

• Scammed at the Car Wash (00:13–08:38)
• Donner Party Deep Dive (29:14–47:18)
• Wedding Merch Marketing Plan (71:39–80:00)
• Luke Kwan Invitational Drama (103:24–118:52)
• Django Foster’s Introduction (129:39–144:17)
• Congressional Baseball Game & Political Social Media Critique (119:32–129:08)

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(For brevity, a full list of movie, political, and candy rankings is omitted but can be supplied in detail if desired. Skipped: ads, intro/outro, non-content segments as requested.)

Transcript

[Big T]

You want to stick? I'll give you choose your own adventure. You want to stick with football, or do you want something that happened to me over the weekend that I'm a little bit embarrassed about?

[Aryan]

Let's do that and then we'll go back.

[Big T]

Okay. I think I got scammed this weekend.

[Aryan]

Oh, no.

[Big T]

I'm usually awesome at detecting scams. I always say, like a mentally tough, I'm immune to being brainwashed. Brainwashed. I've. I've had experiences where I've been in like, a cult recruitment situation. I just laugh and I'm like, you people are ridiculous.

[Aryan]

Before you continue. I got a new scam text this weekend, and it didn't get me unflappable, but I am curious. Was it a text?

[Big T]

It was not. It was an IRL scam.

[Aryan]

Oh, really? Okay, continue. I thought you may have fallen for a new.

[Aaron]

No.

[Big T]

This. This happened to me live in flesh. So on Saturday, halftime of the Vols Bulldogs game, which we can get into in a little bit, I made a quick trip to Home Depot to pick up some stuff.

[Aaron]

Okay.

[Big T]

On my way back, how doers get more done. Stopped by the car wash because my car got towed last week. It's a long story. They put it in a impound lot that was apparently made from moon dust. So it was just my car was the outside looked like. So I stopped at a car wash, get it washed, and I start to vacuum out a little bit of the inside. I pull up, park. The guy next to me pulls up, he goes, I love your car, dude. I love that car. And I knew something was weird because this guy was like, very assertive and like, yeah, my car, it's an okay looking car, but this was not the El Camino, by the way. So I was like.

[Aaron]

But nobody.

[Aryan]

I guess that with the car wash bit.

[Big T]

Yeah, nobody, nobody would ever, like, approach me on the street, be like, dude, what a sick ride. That's awesome. So my antenna was up a little bit, and he goes, I love those cars, man. I see them all the time. And that's my favorite kind of car in the world. I was like, thanks, man. Just trying to vacuum my car. And he goes, I see you got a dent in the side of it, which I do because of Hank's pole that he put up in the parking lot that he did not.

[Aryan]

You just left it.

[Madeline]

You still have it.

[Big T]

It was a little bit of a scrape and a small dent. Yeah, because I. I didn't feel like taking it into the body shop. And I knew they were going to try to Charge me, like, you know, 1500 bucks. So. And it was a. It was a small dent, but it was there. And so the guy goes, I see you got that dent in the side of it. I work at a. I work at a body shop, and I got the tools with me right now, and I can fix that dent and take all the scratches out of the side of your car. And I was like, okay, But I'm trying to, like, move the conversation along to see what he's really getting at. So he's trying to go down this whole sales pitch with me. I was like, how much do you want? He's like, they would charge you $3,000 for this. I was like, tell me how much you're gonna charge me right now. He was like, I'll do it for. For 150 bucks. And I was like, 150 bucks. He's like. He's like. He's like, just get in your car and hit the brake. And then he. He took. He took, like, the tools out of his car. And I was like, wait, wait, wait. How much are you going to charge me for? He's like, 150 bucks right now. I was like, let me get your card, and I'll give you a call back. He's like, I can't. I can't give you a car. I don't have a card. And he's like, just get in your car, sir, and put your foot on the brake, because I'm about to pull this out, and I don't want your car to move while I'm trying to pull it out. That. To me, hand up that. That should have been red flag right there. That was red flag because my car was in park. It's like, what's my foot on the brake gonna do that the. The parking brake won't do? And so I get in, put my foot on the brake. I hear this pop. And then I come out, and he's, like, smearing all this epoxy stuff or whatever it is on the side of it to fix the scratch. He's like, wipe this off in, like, two hours with. With soap and warm water. I was like, okay. So I paid him the money. He drove away. Then I started to look closer at the. I. I don't think he got the dent out. I think it was. I think it was a fake thing that he did. There's still, like, a. I haven't looked at it under the sunlight yet because I drove it home. It still had all this white shit all over it. And then I parked it on the street, and I haven't gone back to, like, inspect it since then, but I think I got taken for 150 bucks.

[Aryan]

Can I. Maybe I'm dumb. What was the purpose of putting your foot on the brake?

[Big T]

There was no purpose. He was telling me because.

[Aryan]

To get in the car.

[Big T]

Yeah. So that. Yeah. So from his point of view, he was like, I don't want this guy watching.

[Aryan]

All right. Yeah, I pull it out. I couldn't. Okay, I got it.

[Big T]

And I think putting the, like, scratch fixer on top of it afterwards was a way for me to not be able to see if he got the dent out or not. Wait, hold on.

[Aaron]

So we don't know if the dent is out or not.

[Big T]

I haven't taken a quick look when I drove it home and I parked it.

[Aaron]

I look at say, you got scam and you don't know you got scammed.

[Aryan]

Did you not do what he told you to do with the soap and warm water?

[Big T]

Yeah, but it was dark out when I did that.

[Aryan]

You should be able to feel a dentist.

[Big T]

Yeah, well, there's also, like, a natural dent in the side of the car. Like, the way that the door is designed has, like, a natural dent. Well, it has like a. It's the design of the panel. It's curved. So I need to get. I need to get closer and do a thorough visual inspection of both sides of the car to see if the symmetry is there.

[Aaron]

I don't. I don't know that you got scammed.

[Big T]

So I was thinking about that, but then I went home last night and I looked it up online. I was like, car dent fix scam. And it was everywhere. Online.

[Aaron]

That's what you. That's what you typed.

[Big T]

It was everywhere. Everyone's like, beware of this, of this current scam that's going on right now. And step by step, what the guy did to me, that was the scam. But I'm going to go home today, I'm going to inspect it. There is a chance that he just did good work for me, but he did it using the exact same steps of trying to do a scam.

[Aryan]

I mean, worst case scenario, you're at 150 bucks. You made it sound like something terrible happened, right?

[Big T]

No, I mean that. That is the worst case scenario.

[Aryan]

You're either out 150 or you got.

[Big T]

Your dent fixed for 150.

[Aryan]

And you're not. You don't even know.

[Big T]

So my problem wouldn't necessarily being. Being at 150 bucks for it, because all in all, it could be a lot worse.

[Aryan]

It's allowing yourself to be scammed.

[Big T]

It's allowing myself to get tricked by a very obvious scam. That's what I have a problem with.

[Aryan]

But we haven't even conclusively determined that it was a scam.

[Big T]

We have not yet. Okay, we have not. But. But again, it followed all the exact same steps as an established scam.

[Aaron]

A car dent fix scam involves unsolicited individuals in parking lots offering quick on the spot repairs for dents, often for cash upfront payment. These scams are fake, use improper tools like plungers, and typically leave vehicles worse off by damaging the paint or metal. So do you just. You didn't see the tools that he used?

[Big T]

I saw. Yeah. It was like a bright green suction cup that had a handle on it that he stuck on the side of the car.

[Aaron]

Did he do any twisting move?

[Big T]

Yeah, there was some twisting and then some pulling.

[Aaron]

He might have got you, right? I'm curious to see. I don't know.

[Big T]

Yeah, he might have done great work for a reasonable price. In which case, like, I. I'm gonna feel kind of like a genius.

[Aryan]

No, it should feel kind of like an.

[Aaron]

Well, you tell. You tell the world a man scammed you people.

[Aryan]

Listen to this.

[Aaron]

Saved you $3,000.

[Big T]

Well, hand up. I also. I tipped him an extra 50 bucks on top of it.

[Aryan]

Here, got two more for y'.

[Aaron]

All.

[Big T]

Yeah, I did hook him up because I. In the moment, I was like, this guy just did me a solid. But then.

[Madeline]

Okay, so you thought it was fixed when you tipped him?

[Big T]

Yeah, but it was covered in. It was covered in this, like, white foam, so I couldn't even see the dent at the time.

[Madeline]

Okay.

[Aaron]

Okay.

[Big T]

But yeah, in the moment, I was like, yeah, he. He hooked it up.

[Aryan]

We need to know when you get home if the dentist.

[Big T]

Okay.

[Aaron]

Expeditious.

[Aryan]

Okay.

[Big T]

I'll take a picture of both sides of it in the sunlight because I didn't. I. I took it home. It still had the. The foam on it. Then at night, I went out, I washed it off. Didn't get a great look at it. It was parked on the street, though.

[Aaron]

Like, how you don't feel?

[Big T]

Not.

[Aaron]

You know, I feel like you would have felt the indentation on the. You'd have felt.

[Big T]

Well, no, I'm saying there is an indentation on the car, but that's the design of the panel. Both. Even the side that was not dented has a certain indentation on it. So I don't know if it's that same indentation or if it's a little bit deeper or if it's different and the shape is different.

[Aaron]

Like you'd have felt the inconsistency while you're rubbing your hand over the. The pan.

[Big T]

I might have, but yeah. Then on Sunday morning, I just went to the gym, went to work, and did not inspect the car. So we'll see the car here now. No, it's not. Drove the El Camino today.

[Aaron]

Oh, okay.

[Big T]

So I will go home and inspect it.

[Aaron]

We gotta clear. We gotta clear my man's name. And in the. In the case that he did you. He did you, right?

[Big T]

Yep. Also, big T in the news that you sent over, one of the best heists that I've seen in recent memory.

[Aryan]

I am all for law and order, but if you commit a crime non. Violently, that is so funny and. Or cool sometimes, you deserve to get away with it.

[Big T]

Okay. All right, I'll hear you out. So. So what happened was this at Disney World.

[Aryan]

Yeah. So this guy. So Disney Springs, which is like the. The shopping area at Disney World, has like a lagoon, I guess, in the middle of it.

[Big T]

Okay.

[Aryan]

This guy was wearing a full scuba suit, swam up to a restaurant that's on the water.

[Big T]

It's called the Paddlefish Restaurant.

[Aryan]

Yeah. And got up. You can't see it. He's in full scuba goggles, the whole deal. He spray paints all the security cameras black and took, I think they said, 20 grand, and then dove back into the water and got away.

[Aaron]

A thousand percent. An inside job, you think? Oh, no question.

[Madeline]

This is a restaurant.

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

To be able to know that there's a route in there to get in and out aquatically.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

And then to have the wherewithal to know where all the security cameras are is a thousand percent. An employee or ex employee or something to do with the. With used to have been working there.

[Big T]

There's a couple things that. That make me agree with you, Aryan. He knew where they counted the money and he knew when they counted the money. And so he went up. It was after the restaurant was closed, and he had his scuba gear, swam up, went to the manager's office, told everybody get in the corner. Did not have a weapon or did not produce a weapon, told everyone to get into the corner, and then he stole the money, got back in the water, swam away. Also, this restaurant that he swam up to is a replica steamboat that he swam up to. Is that a robbery? If you just go in. If you just walk in and you're like, hey, give me all that money.

[Aryan]

Yeah. Someone got charged with armed robbery even though they didn't have a gun because they slid over a note that said, I have a gun.

[Big T]

I agree with that.

[Aryan]

That was considered armed robbery.

[Big T]

But if you don't, I think the.

[Aryan]

The standard is, like, if you make a reasonable person assume that you are robbing it, like, you can be charged with rob.

[Big T]

Okay. So if you come in after hours and you're just like, give me all the money that you're counting right now.

[Aryan]

Correct.

[Big T]

Then that that counts also.

[Aryan]

I did miss that. He tied up a couple of employees. That changes things slightly.

[Big T]

Okay.

[Aryan]

However, still kind of funny.

[Big T]

It's the fact that it was at Disney World too.

[Madeline]

Yes.

[Big T]

Objectively, the happiest place on earth.

[Aaron]

I think they're all in on it. Hey.

[Madeline]

The fact he had to swim there.

[Aaron]

Let me slide by. I'll throw you five racks.

[Big T]

Oh, you think that like the people that were in the store that were tied up in the restaurant. Yeah.

[Aryan]

Interesting.

[Big T]

That'd be a great way to rob a bank. Not that anyone should.

[Aryan]

Also must Not a bank robber movie.

[Big T]

Best bank robbery movie.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Big T]

I mean, there's.

[Aaron]

I love heist movies. This is some. This is one of my favorite genres.

[Big T]

I want to be in a heist one day.

[Aaron]

That's.

[Big T]

I don't.

[Aaron]

FBI.

[Aryan]

I don't know that you do.

[Big T]

How exhilarating would it be? Heist simulator.

[Aaron]

Okay, now you're.

[Aryan]

Now that could be much more.

[Aaron]

Okay, so you have to gather the crew. This is what I love about heist movies.

[Big T]

Right?

[Aaron]

You got to have your intel guy, your. Your communications guy. You have to have the lock picking guy.

[Big T]

Yep.

[Congressman]

Right.

[Aaron]

You have the guy that. You have to have the. With the shits guy who's willing to go in there and, you know, the. The strong arm it to muscle it. What are those? You got to have a getaway driver. Right. You have to. You have to. You have to corral these dudes and you have to execute. That might be one of the fun of games. I'm with that.

[Big T]

Yeah. Put your crew together. You have to have a van and your comms guys in the van with.

[Aaron]

A headset keyboard tapping into the security.

[Big T]

He's so fast.

[Aryan]

Breaking into the mainframe.

[Aaron]

Break into the mainframe. The way they type all them buttons. How many times as a kid did.

[Big T]

You pretend you was doing that?

[Aaron]

10 years.

[Aryan]

By the way, the answer to best heist movie. You need to answer it because there's a clear cut answer.

[Aaron]

Hold on, hold on. Let's.

[Aryan]

And it's not. It's I'll give you a hint. And that it's not one that you're expecting.

[Big T]

I agree. Ocean's Eleven.

[Aryan]

No, I've never seen those.

[Big T]

What you got to watch O Big T. You got. You have to watch. You surprise me more and more.

[Aryan]

That's that. Be that as it may, that's not. That's not it.

[Big T]

That's. But you've never seen it. That you could make an argument that's the best. One of the best heist movies of all time. I haven't seen the original, but the. The remake was incredible. I think it's. It might be Jeff D. Lo's favorite movie. The Town is pretty good.

[Madeline]

The one with the old guys, but I don't know the name of it.

[Big T]

The old guys? What are these old guys?

[Aaron]

They're like, I'm need you to hold on.

[Big T]

Let me find Wild Hogs.

[Madeline]

No, it's like they're just like older men, and they're like robbing a bank.

[Aryan]

While you break that up.

[Big T]

Point Break is up there.

[Aryan]

The best heist movie ever made is Disney's National Treasure.

[Big T]

That's an adventure movie.

[Aryan]

It's a heist.

[Political Commentator]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

They steal something far more difficult to steal than money.

[Big T]

It's different. That's a.

[Aryan]

That's a heist movie.

[Big T]

It's a historical adventure.

[Aryan]

Sure. Wrapped up in a heist.

[Big T]

Okay. All right. Yeah. I mean, they pretend to kidnap the president.

[Aryan]

That's National Treasure, too.

[Aaron]

Wait, no. This wouldn't be a heist.

[Aryan]

Why not? Has all the elements.

[Aaron]

Because they weren't trying to steal it. They were trying to. They were trying to. 1. His whole goal was to clear his family's name.

[Aryan]

Sure.

[Aaron]

And to clear your family's name, you had to prove that the treasure was real. The goal of a heist is to heist. To hijack a specific thing. That was never their goal. Their goal was to reveal it, but to do so.

[Aryan]

What did they have to do? Had to go steal it.

[Aaron]

No, they didn't steal it.

[Aryan]

The Declaration of Independence. They absolutely did.

[Big T]

He does say, I'm going to steal.

[Aryan]

The most famous line in the movie.

[Aaron]

But their goal wasn't to steal the Declaration of Independence. That was a. That was a.

[Aryan]

It was in furtherance of another goal. But it was their goal.

[Aaron]

But the goal was never to steal anything.

[Aryan]

And yet they stole it.

[Aaron]

That's not a heist.

[Aryan]

It's a heist. They have the FBI going after him.

[Big T]

I don't think it's a classic. It's not a classic heist, but it's.

[Aryan]

A twist on a heist.

[Big T]

It is. It's a play on a heist.

[Aaron]

Great movie. Another great one is Inside man with Denzel. Yep, that's a great one.

[Madeline]

The one I was thinking of is called Going in Style with Morgan Freeman, Michael Kane, and Alan Arin. It's more of like a comedy, but it's very funny.

[Big T]

It's a. It's like a whimsical comedy about old guys that used to be crim. Criminals that get together for one. One last job. Yes, okay. Yeah, I've seen that one.

[Aaron]

Here's a. Here's. Here's another one that is kind of a heist. Inception.

[Big T]

I don't know that you can make the argument with a straight face that National Treasure is not a heist and Inception is.

[Aaron]

Okay, okay. You're trying to steal an original thought from a man by implanting another one inside of him.

[Aryan]

This is infinitely more tenuous.

[Big T]

It's less heist.

[Aaron]

You try to.

[Aryan]

You got.

[Aaron]

You have to. You have to take. You're taking his original feeling about his father from him. That's a heist.

[Aryan]

I honestly don't even remember.

[Aaron]

You're hijacking his. His entire thought process. That is. Yes, absolutely, there's a heist.

[Big T]

I understand what you're saying, but the fact that you. You poo pooed Big team.

[Aryan]

In order to hold that opinion, you must also hold the opinion that National Treasure is correct.

[Aaron]

Yeah, n. Because you're not taking anything.

[Aryan]

They took the Declaration of Independence, bro.

[Aaron]

They're go. Listen, maybe. Maybe I'm up because I don't know the definition of a heist. I'm gonna look it up.

[Aryan]

And I completely understand what you're saying. You're saying they did that in furtherance of something else.

[Aaron]

A heist is a planned and usually daring robbery or theft, often valuables from a secure place like a bank or museum. But it could also be.

[Aryan]

You could not write a better definition for what they do in that movie.

[Aaron]

They do that. No, that's not their goal, though.

[Aryan]

But that's. Read it again. Read it again. Maybe, maybe. Maybe I'm wrong. Read it again.

[Aaron]

No, no, you. You are wrong.

[Aryan]

Not. Not based on the definition. You just read.

[Aaron]

The act of stealing or breaking into a place to steal.

[Aryan]

Yes.

[Aaron]

That's not. That's not their goal.

[Aryan]

It's what they do.

[Aaron]

No, it's. Okay. So any. Anytime they.

[Aryan]

They illegally gain entry into a party at the National Archives in order to go steal the Declaration of Independence, a secure location, such as a bank or museum, I believe you said.

[Aaron]

That wasn't their goal, though.

[Aryan]

What are we doing?

[Big T]

Yeah, come on. Come on, Aryan.

[Aaron]

No, I can't give it to you.

[Big T]

You're being stubborn.

[Aryan]

I didn't plan on feeling strongly about this, but now I do.

[Big T]

Now you're being stubborn, Aaron.

[Aaron]

No, I can't. I can't. I can't let it fly.

[Aryan]

It is the.

[Big T]

I know that look, Aaron.

[Aryan]

You're being definition.

[Aaron]

I don't think so.

[Aryan]

You're saying because they had a goal beyond that.

[Big T]

He's not going to agree with you no matter what you say.

[Aryan]

But. But he's wrong.

[Aaron]

I disagree.

[Aryan]

Now this is all I care about. I is. Is defining National Treasure as a heist.

[Big T]

I got two other heist films that I think are better than National Treasure in addition to the ones that I've said.

[Aryan]

You can name them. You'll be incorrect.

[Big T]

Ocean's Eleven is. Is better.

[Aryan]

Can't be. I haven't seen it.

[Big T]

I think the Town is better.

[Aryan]

I haven't seen that either.

[Aaron]

So it can't be Solipsism.

[Big T]

I would say that Heat is better. Pacino, De Niro.

[Aaron]

Yeah, I haven't seen that. I've heard about that one, though.

[Big T]

Really good heist movie. And then I would say Hell or High Water. Have you seen that?

[Aryan]

None of these, brother.

[Big T]

Hell or High Water has I think the most underrated actor in modern history in it. Ben Foster. Ben Foster.

[Aryan]

Is he Gandhi?

[Aaron]

I don't know.

[Big T]

He. If he was Gandhi, I would. I would watch him play Gandhi.

[Aryan]

Ben Kingsley.

[Big T]

Ben Kingsley. Okay. Yeah. No, this was. It was Ben Foster. He was also in. He was in that movie with Justin Timberlake. Alpha dog. Did you ever see that?

[Aryan]

Never heard of it.

[Big T]

Kidnapping movie based on true story. Also was the best actor in that. By far.

[Aryan]

More of a trolls 2 guy with JT.

[Big T]

Gotcha.

[Aryan]

That's a joke, by the way.

[Big T]

Yeah. I think. I think I provided you with a list that are better. But I do enjoy National Treasure.

[Aaron]

Great movie. It's not a heist movie.

[Big T]

But Big T, you. You have to watch Oceans 11. I've given you so many great movies that you would enjoy. I don't think you've seen a single one of them.

[Aryan]

Incorrect. I watched.

[Big T]

Training Day.

[Aryan]

No. Alabama Court.

[Big T]

My cousin Vinnie.

[Aryan]

Correct. Enjoyed it.

[Aaron]

Okay.

[Big T]

There you go.

[Aryan]

Liked it a lot.

[Big T]

This is. These are movies that I would say you'll enjoy.

[Aryan]

I'm not a George Clooney going on a mission type guy.

[Big T]

You might like this though. It's fast paced. It's in Vegas. It's Interesting. A lot of great actors in it.

[Aryan]

I am. It's possible. I'll check it out.

[Big T]

You will. I promise you that you will enjoy Ocean's Eleven.

[Aaron]

It is the best heist movie. Legitimate heist movie.

[Aryan]

What is the plot? Other than they're going on a heist? What is the purpose?

[Big T]

They're. They're planning a heist in Las Vegas.

[Aryan]

That's it.

[Big T]

No.

[Aryan]

For no apparent reason.

[Big T]

There's layers to it. Andy Garcia owns a casino. Andy Garcia is dating George Clooney's ex wife who goes by the name of Julie Roberts in real life.

[Aryan]

Maybe. I'll check it out.

[Big T]

Incredible cast.

[Aryan]

I'll let you know if you're looking.

[Big T]

At star power in a cast. I think that's. That's got to be up there too.

[Aaron]

Don Cheadle's in that movie.

[Big T]

Don Cheadle.

[Aryan]

I would actually say. And this is just me thinking off the top of my head. So I. I'd have to do some reflection and think about it. I think the more, quote, star studded a cast of a film is, the less likely I am to enjoy it sometimes.

[Big T]

You're right about that.

[Aryan]

I think. I don't like big actors in that. That kind of like. I. This is going to sound weird. I've never understood the concept of having a favorite actor. They're all the same to me. It's dependent on what the movie is.

[Big T]

Well, if you.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Big T]

If you enjoy somebody's performances.

[Aryan]

I've never noticed one actor to be better than another.

[Aaron]

What?

[Big T]

There's no actor that. You're like that person. I've seen them in three films and I really enjoyed their monumentally bad thing.

[Aryan]

I've.

[Big T]

All actors are the same.

[Aryan]

Yeah. I don't really think Nicholas Cage and.

[Aaron]

Tom Hanks are the same caliber actors who.

[Aryan]

So like they do different movies. I don't. It's. It's about the movie. To me.

[Big T]

I don't like what you're implying about Nicholas Cage here. That seemed targeted because you. You're still disagreeing. National Treasure.

[Aaron]

I was trying. I was trying to find a middle of the ring actor who is like not known for his acting but more.

[Big T]

Known for his roles. Even like a Keanu Reeves.

[Aaron]

Right.

[Big T]

There's a. There's a. There's a.

[Aaron]

A thousand football fields difference between Keanu Reeves acting and Tom Hanks acting. Like there's just.

[Big T]

It's just different brother.

[Political Commentator]

It can say.

[Aryan]

But they do radically different things.

[Big T]

Okay. What about this? Jason Statham, Matt Damon. Who's the better actor?

[Aryan]

I don't know that I've ever really seen anything Jason Statham is in, so I can't.

[Big T]

Okay.

[Aryan]

But I, I don't know if you were to venture a guess, probably Matt Damon. But I also think there's an element of. You do one or two really good movies, you become, you know, a star in Hollywood or whatever and then you're given better opportunities.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

Than some other people who might get like Jason Statham is pigeonholed into shitty action movies. Right. So that's all he's gonna do.

[Big T]

Right.

[Aryan]

Whereas Matt Damon now is a, is a star. So he gets top of the line movies.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

I think it's all dependent on the movie.

[Big T]

You get presented better opportunities. For sure.

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Big T]

But yeah, there's, there's different caliber actors.

[Aryan]

I understand that. It just doesn't usually make a difference to me.

[Big T]

Okay, what's your all time favorite movie?

[Aryan]

Probably Shawshank.

[Big T]

Okay. Now that, that has some heavy hitters.

[Aryan]

Sure. Do you think there. How many actors do you think could be in the role of Tim Robbins? And the movie doesn't change in quality. I think it's quite a few.

[Aaron]

You know what it is? I don't think you. I don't mean to disrespectful, but I don't think you have a knack or a, A love for the arts like that. So like when you.

[Aryan]

I agree for the most part.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Big T]

So.

[Aaron]

Yeah. So when we were talking about music, Right. Like, like playing a guitar gives you.

[Big T]

Or playing a piano gives you a.

[Aaron]

Different listening experience when you're listening to music. Like you start to develop an appreciation for the art of it, not necessarily the product of it. I think you like the product. You don't like the art of it.

[Aryan]

For the most part, I would agree.

[Aaron]

Yeah, that makes sense.

[Big T]

I also think that Big T is just too authentic of a guy for him to really identify with somebody that's good at playing somebody that they're not. No, because what you see is what you get with Big T. He's like, why is this guy. Why are you paying money? Why Paying your hard earned money to go watch a man lie to you for two hours.

[Aryan]

You could not sound less like me. But no, I just, I, I care about the. If, if the movie's good. There is no actor that I could go watch a movie and I would be like, even if I didn't like the movie that much, I enjoyed watching that actor. Does that make sense?

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Big T]

I mean, story has a lot to do with.

[Aryan]

For instance, the Braves are terrible. I paid good money to Go watch the Braves when they were in Chicago a couple of weeks ago because they still have Ronald Acuna and Matt Olson and these awesome baseball players that I really enjoy. Even though the team sucks. I. There is no actor that would make me feel that way.

[Big T]

Yeah, I think that's a fair take. Like, if. If Tom Hanks in a movie and everyone's like, this movie sucks, then, yeah, I probably won't go see it just because I enjoy time. But when Captain Phillips comes out, I'm like, yeah, I want to go watch a great story with a guy that is at the peak of his craft.

[Aaron]

Like. Like a movie that was kind of ass, but the acting from him was amazing. It was like Book of Eli. Like, Denzel killed that role, but the movie was kind of. Have you ever.

[Big T]

Because.

[Aaron]

Have you ever gone to see, like, a Broadway play couple?

[Big T]

You didn't.

[Aaron]

Did you enjoy the acting in it, or.

[Big T]

Or you were just there for, like, for the story?

[Aryan]

Yeah, yeah. Just. Just the story. I don't think the act.

[Big T]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron]

I think that's what it is. I don't think you, like. I don't think you take a liking to the arts of it. I grew up in, like, I wrote poetry, loved poetry. That turned into me being, like, being into playwriting, and I acted in plays as a kid. And so it's like, like, knowing and understanding that side of the craft was fascinating to me. And you.

[Big T]

There's a.

[Aaron]

A very big difference between Tom Hanks and.

[Aryan]

And again, I understand that. I'm not disputing that. I'm just saying it doesn't make. And although I kind of contradicted a minute ago with what I said about the Braves, I think I've said kind of the same thing about sports, too. I. I like the people who love professional sports because the players are so much better. That doesn't make a ton of difference to me. I would rather just watch Tennessee play regardless of how much better or worse the players are than a professional.

[Aaron]

Yeah, I think I pinned it. You like the product, not the.

[Big T]

Not the.

[Aaron]

The art of it.

[Big T]

What are some great performances by great actors in dog movies? I think you could probably go down the list of anything Philip Seymour Hoffman was in. He was in a lot of good films, too. Philip Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly have probably done a lot of, like, they were great actors that did great movies, but they probably also did their fair share of just money making bad films.

[Aaron]

I don't remember how good the movie was, but to me, this is how dope the role Was. It might have been a good movie, but I just remember Leonardo DiCaprio and what's eating Good With Grape. Yeah. Unbelievable performance in that.

[Aryan]

I'm asking Chad GPT about the best performances in bad movies.

[Big T]

Okay.

[Aryan]

Michael Fassbender in Assassin's Creed.

[Big T]

All right.

[Aryan]

Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean. Sequels.

[Congressman]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aryan]

Ian McKellen in the Hobbit trilogy.

[Aaron]

I don't think they bad movies.

[Aryan]

Nicolas Cage and Ghost Rider.

[Big T]

Okay. The Talking Car.

[Aryan]

Jared Leto in the House of Gucci, James McAvoy and split. I thought Split was a good movie.

[Big T]

I never saw that one.

[Aryan]

That's the M. Night Shyamalan movie where it turns out it's a prequel to Mr. Glass. Or what's the movie that has Mr. Glass in it from the 90s? Samuel L. Jackson. I forget. But that's the big reveal at the end of the movie.

[Madeline]

It's the multiple personalities. Right?

[Aryan]

Yes.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Big T]

We got a movie coming out that.

[Aaron]

Was a bad movie. I don't think it was that bad.

[Aryan]

I thought it was good.

[Big T]

We got a movie coming out soon. How to Rob a Bank. Next year, a heist film with John C. Reilly, Christian Slater, Zoe legend, Pete Davidson. I'm interested. You have my attention. I watch Imagine Entertainment. Yeah. Nothing like a good heist. The planning, the execution, the tropes. I do enjoy those. So they killed their animals. They cooked their own dogs. They would boil the animal hide roofs of their cabins and of their wagons, and they would make, like, a pasty soup out of the small amount of fat that was still in the hide that they used to cover their wagons.

[Dana]

The kids were loving the rugs. Yeah, they were. The kids loved rugs.

[Big T]

They loved it.

[Dana]

It's a nice little treat for the boys and girls.

[Big T]

They would. They would hunt m mice that would make little nests inside their lean twos or cabins. And then they would boil the mice in the canvas soup that they had made.

[Dana]

Mice and canvas mice.

[Big T]

Canvas soup was a delicacy for them. They just. They ran out of all their food. They had. They had no food left.

[Dana]

And this is when they're posted up at the lake.

[Big T]

Yeah, this is when they're posted up at the lake. And they also kept sending different members of the group to go look for help.

[Dana]

Oh, I do love what they named that party of 15 that set out.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Congressman]

Yeah.

[Dana]

That's sick.

[Big T]

It happens so many times and so many people. You would send out a party of, like, 15 people, and then that party would get stranded. Then they'd send out, like, three people from that party to go, and they'd give themselves another party name. They'd find more people, bring them back to help rescue them, then they'd get stranded, and then one person would have to leave that party and go look for help. It was just a disaster.

[Dana]

None of them knew how to fish.

[Big T]

Yeah, that's what's weird.

[Dana]

That blew my mind.

[Political Commentator]

Yeah.

[Dana]

So I was wondering about that. The lake wasn't frozen over.

[Political Commentator]

Oh, really?

[Dana]

None of them knew how to trout fish?

[Aryan]

What? I mean, I guess there's not a lot of fishing in Illinois. At least in Springfield.

[Big T]

Brandon disagrees. It's great fish. Again, I said in Springfield there's one fish.

[Dana]

Well, I know, but I just figured if you're an adventurer like I, I assume somewhere along the line you would have maybe come up with that skill that would be in the top three skills I'd want to know. Yeah. Fire venturing, fire shelter. Fishing might be better than hunting.

[Big T]

I think so. Because if you can find. Yeah. If you can find a lake, you got water and you got fish, they're contained and you got fire, you're good to go. But yeah, they didn't know how to fish.

[Dana]

I assumed it was frozen over.

[Aaron]

That's insane.

[Dana]

Big oversight.

[Big T]

I also feel like every man back then should have known how to fish. Yeah, right.

[Dana]

Nobody taught them. They just fed them.

[Big T]

Like in today's day and age, teach.

[Dana]

A man to fish.

[Big T]

Exactly. Every man should know how to, how to buy food at a supermarket. I definitely do.

[Dana]

Imagine you have a group of 86.

[Aryan]

And just like, I don't know how.

[Dana]

To, I don't know how to check.

[Aryan]

Out of this grocery store.

[Big T]

Does anyone here have Instacart? Oh, starving in a grocery store just.

[Mackenzie]

Laying on the ground.

[Big T]

I just deleted.

[Dana]

I ate. Pft in the Jewel.

[Congressman]

Oscar.

[Dana]

There'S nothing we could do.

[Big T]

It is, it's ridiculous.

[Aryan]

I will say, obviously, to the point that nobody can check out of a grocery store is ridiculous. But I don't go in anymore. I bring it out to my car, put it in, and I go home.

[Dana]

Yeah, I love a grocery store.

[Aryan]

I, I, I do it on the phone. They put it in my car, I leave. And so I feel like in 20, 30 years, like maybe people don't know what, how to do that.

[Dana]

Yeah, but you always find. But if it was like desperate times, you were starving, sure.

[Aryan]

You could figure it out.

[Congressman]

Yeah.

[Big T]

So that, that group that you mentioned, T. Bob, the group of Forlorn Hope.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Big T]

They set out in mid December after they got stranded and they were trying to get over the mountain and try to find. There were some camps that were allegedly on the other side. They're like, we're gonna go talk to these people. Bring back a search party. And they went with two Miwok Native Americans, Luis and Salvador.

[Dana]

Man, poor Luis and Salvador.

[Big T]

And they brought some supplies. I think they. They scavenged up, like, a compass and some rice and that type of stuff. Maybe it was flour was at a premium for the people in the camp. But they're like, hey, we're your only hope. You have to give us your supplies. We'll go. We'll go find help. So they went, and they eventually shot both of the guides in the head, butchered their bodies and ate them. Yeah. Yeah.

[Dana]

Now, okay.

[Political Commentator]

I did.

[Dana]

So Lewis and Salvador, right. They didn't want to eat people, right. And so they ended up being like, we got to get the out of here. Right. And they tried to leave on their own, but then later, the four Loan Hope party found them kind of laid out.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Like, they had. They had gotten exhausted, and so, I mean, they did shoot them in the head and eat them, and they'd helped him. That's up. But were they already dead?

[Big T]

They were shot, though.

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Who's to say? My guess is they probably wouldn't have used bullets on them if they were already dead.

[Aaron]

No, no, no.

[Aryan]

I know.

[Dana]

I. I mean, like. Like, functionally, like, are you gonna carry these two people who are now exhausted? And, like. I mean, it's up either way.

[Big T]

I think if you're hanging out with a group of 80 people and there's a loud commotion about, hey, maybe we should start you eating ourselves.

[Aaron]

I'm with.

[Big T]

They're like, let's get the out of here. And then there were probably, like, five other people that were like, oh, yeah, it's really up to eat people. Good call, Luis. Good call, Salvador. I. I agree. Let's go. Hang on. Let me just get my gun. Yeah, it'll be fine.

[Dana]

Manifest destiny. If you're the only person that's against eating somebody, you're going to be the first one eating.

[Big T]

Yeah, for sure. You got to fall into line because you want. Yeah. People won't trust you. It's like, we all have to do this together. So after the party leaves to go look for help, they're starting to think about maybe doing some cannibalism because they're out of food, thinking about dabbling in it. And I. I want to know how the first person broached that topic because they had some ideas, and they all Kind of agreed once somebody broached it. It's not a bad idea. Maybe we should draw straws for it. Or maybe we should flip a coin. Or maybe the person who's oldest should like volunteer. Someone should volunteer themselves.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Big T]

For the good of the group. So they drew straws and this one guy lost. And then they all couldn't do it. Oh. So I think maybe a guy that they all liked was the one that got the short straw, which completely it.

[Dana]

Completely they wanted to eat.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Political Commentator]

Yeah.

[Big T]

And they were hoping that it was going to be that guy. And then when it wasn't, they probably.

[Dana]

Stuck that straw up real high for his turn.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

It's like flip a coin. You'll know what you want to do while it's in the air.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Political Commentator]

And.

[Big T]

And when the guy got the short straw, they're like, we shouldn't do this.

[Aaron]

We.

[Big T]

We've gone too far.

[Aryan]

I have that guy for not like.

[Big T]

Sprinting away or I wonder how he.

[Dana]

But that's why everybody liked him so much in the first place. Cuz he was like it. You know what? Guys just laid right down. You got. You're right. You got to eat me. And like.

[Aryan]

Yeah. As I'm thinking through this, how could people who didn't know how to fish, Like, I can't. Im. So you kill a guy, you've gotta like cut him open.

[Dana]

Well, they could dress animals.

[Political Commentator]

Yeah.

[Big T]

They knew how to hunt.

[Dana]

They could dress animals, they could hunt. But I guess they just.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Because they ended up finding like a bear. Right? Oh God, that would have been awesome. They ate a bear.

[Aryan]

Have you ever had bear?

[Big T]

No.

[Dana]

I did once in Alaska. You can only have it if it's roadkill.

[Congressman]

Horrible.

[Dana]

It didn't taste like blueberries. No. It tasted bad. Gamey, stringy. Gross.

[Big T]

Is it oily? Yeah, I've heard it's really oily. That might have just been from the book Hatchet.

[Dana]

Oh, Hatchet was so fun.

[Big T]

That's a great.

[Dana]

That's the one that's.

[Congressman]

Dudes love Hatches.

[Aryan]

Dudes love Gary Pulse.

[Big T]

You guys want to reread Hatchet dude?

[Congressman]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Elementary school. Just a book club and every week it's Hatchet.

[Big T]

Yeah, that was, that was my fantasy when I was like nine years old. What if I get stranded in the woods? I could survive.

[Dana]

He could fish though.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Remember he was. He was stabbing down on him.

[Big T]

He learned about the like the reflection and then. Yeah. He learned how to spear him. They did know how to hunt. Some of them knew how to hunt. Knew how to field dress an animal. And so when. When the meat supply got low, that's when they went insane and they said, yeah, okay, maybe we should just start eating each other.

[Dana]

Am I crazy, or did. Did they say something about, like, they knew where people had died along the way, and they had kind of stored them in the snow a little bit.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Dana]

And then did they, like, go. They're like, all right, I guess we got to go get Big T's body.

[Big T]

I think it was like, yeah, they would popsicle. They would mark some graves, and. And I think it all depend on how hungry they were at the time. Like, if you died and they were very hungry, they'd be like, okay, we should probably eat this one. But the very first one, they do straws. They couldn't kill the guy. But then, like, I'd like.

[Dana]

I like to think that guy looked. Looked so unappetizing. He's like, the ugliest dude.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Horrible acne.

[Big T]

Too skinny.

[Dana]

Oh, like, I feel like you. I've always thought that I look like I'd. I'd be pretty good to eat. I agree.

[Big T]

I think you'd put. You'd be in the top five.

[Dana]

That's what I'm saying.

[Big T]

Went down to the barstool office, like this back strap.

[Dana]

I've always said I would volunteer, though, because my legs could feed a lot. Your next Mount Rushmore on PMT should be dudes, you want to eat.

[Big T]

Yeah, dudes you would eat.

[Mackenzie]

Yeah.

[Big T]

We could just even say, like, in this office right now, Big T, you're.

[Aryan]

Looking pretty tasty too, man.

[Dana]

We can bland like a potato. I think it's just, like, a red hair thing.

[Aryan]

Yeah, sure. I don't have red hair, by the way.

[Dana]

Strawberry blonde.

[Big T]

Yeah, it's kind of red brown, brother.

[Aryan]

Oh, beard is. Yeah.

[Big T]

He gets very upset when you said.

[Aryan]

Well, it's just factually inaccurate. It's going gray. It'll be gray in a little while.

[Big T]

Max would probably be up there, I think, for like, a holiday.

[Dana]

A little gamey.

[Political Commentator]

Yeah.

[Dana]

I think, like, it could be, like, a cheap. He'd be a crock pot meal.

[Big T]

You leave the house a Christmas feast.

[Dana]

But I think, like, we're doing kb.

[Aryan]

KB seems small.

[Big T]

Yeah. Not is. Is the juice worth the squeeze?

[Dana]

Tough meat. Yeah, maybe it's a bit.

[Big T]

That's what I. That's how I would lobby for not eating me. I'd be like, I'm so small. I'm just a little guy.

[Dana]

Yeah, but you'd be like, ve.

[Big T]

Yeah, maybe.

[Dana]

I feel like Dana would taste Pretty good.

[Big T]

Dana would. Yeah.

[Aaron]

Nice.

[Big T]

Marbling.

[Dana]

Yeah, dude. Egyptian.

[Big T]

Oh, yeah. Yeah, that'd be good.

[Aryan]

What do we think about Brandon?

[Dana]

Brandon would be greasy. Yeah. I think I'd feel like afterwards.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Probably puke. I'd probably eat them and throw.

[Dana]

How offensive would that be if you ate me and puked me up.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

That'S what I was gonna say. Calories with Brandon, Depending on how old I was. Like, these. These guys, they were in their, what, 40s? Like, you know, toward the end of their lives. At that time, if it's like, hey, listen, we're gonna start eating people, I'd be like, y'.

[Aaron]

All.

[Aryan]

Y' all can just kill me. I don't.

[Big T]

I don't know.

[Dana]

I think. But isn't there with the end of the lives thing, isn't there a thing where it's like, yes, life expectancy was short, but because you made it. Yeah, but if you made it past X age, you actually had, like, a pretty good chance of living a long life.

[Political Commentator]

Yeah.

[Big T]

You would probably live till still 50s, 60s. If you made it past.

[Dana]

Excuse the data.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

12.

[Big T]

Yeah, but if. Yeah, if you got sick before the age of 12, you were. You're pretty much.

[Aryan]

But even so, if it's like, hey, we're gonna eat people in hopes we can make it a little while longer, I'd be like, just go and kill me.

[Big T]

I think there's. There's got to be some sort of survival instinct that kick that kicks in. I don't think I would do it either, but everybody says that. Everyone says that. I would just. If you're, like, crazy hungry, you haven't eaten in weeks. I know.

[Dana]

I would just want y' all all to spread rumors after you ate me that I just had, like, an obscenely large penis.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Dana]

It took us, like, three days.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Dana]

So I get just like. Like, Rasputin. Rasputin's dick has echoed through time. Like, I want to be famous for just having a crazy big haul. That would be amazing.

[Aryan]

Is that true? I never heard that.

[Dana]

Yeah, Rasputin, he used to. He used to women to, like, spiritually heal them.

[Aaron]

Wow.

[Big T]

His penis is on display.

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Mackenzie]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

You're kidding.

[Aaron]

No.

[Dana]

If it really is his penis, it's a massive pickled penis.

[Aryan]

Where is this?

[Dana]

13 inches.

[Big T]

Probably somewhere in Russia.

[Dana]

And that's shrunken, too. Like, oh, my.

[Big T]

You have to imagine. Yeah. It's been sitting in formaldehyde or.

[Dana]

No, somebody stole Napoleon's penis, right?

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Dana]

It couldn't have been that big.

[Aryan]

Did somebody still Napoleon's.

[Dana]

Look, this is. I mean, this is supposedly Rasputin's penis here too.

[Aryan]

You see that? Look at that thing that.

[Dana]

No, that can't be it.

[Aryan]

No, it's not. That's.

[Dana]

That's what they say of a beast. I told you, dude. He was. He's had like a 13 inch.

[Big T]

Yeah, you either. If you're Rasputin, you. You have to become like a soothsayer at that point, or else they're gonna think that you're Satan.

[Aryan]

He did what you're doing.

[Dana]

He would the hysteria out of women. No, but he would while he was alive. I'm doing a different thing where I'm just lying and trying to get it, like to echo through time. It's pretty. That might not be his dick, but it is, I would say, confirmable that he had a massive dick.

[Aryan]

It's the first I'm hearing.

[Big T]

So they, they, they drew straws, but they also. One of their better ideas was, we'll draw straws, but two people are going to lose, and then those two people will duel.

[Aryan]

And that seems fair.

[Big T]

Yeah, that seems also like they better. They wanted a sport. They wanted to watch sports. Like, this is. This is cool. We get to what a matchup we got tonight.

[Dana]

You had side bets on the, like, choicest cuts of meat.

[Big T]

Yeah, I got dibs on. Probably the quad would be one of the first ones. Yeah, I think that's, you know, if X.

[Dana]

If X wins, then I get the quad. If the other guy wins, you get the quad.

[Big T]

Yeah. I feel like the ribs would be really hard to do because that. You're reminded.

[Dana]

That's so human.

[Big T]

Yeah. When you're eating a rib, you know exactly where that came from. Neck probably the same.

[Dana]

I mean, is. Is this back strap, you know, like, you ever had fried back strap from a deer?

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Good. I always feel like that'd be pretty tasty. That's where baking come from, right? Really? Yeah. That makes sense.

[Big T]

Then the ass might be good, ass might be good.

[Dana]

But then you imagine getting the chin.

[Big T]

It's like a chin on your bad chin.

[Dana]

Again, Mom.

[Aaron]

Yeah, you'd want.

[Big T]

You want outer ass. You want like, I got the top.

[Dana]

Of the ass like a calamari.

[Big T]

That's, that's, that's the cut. You don't even want like the inside of the cheek. You gotta just say just the bottom of the ass, please, for me. So, yeah, they tried to do duels, but eventually what happened after they. They discussed this out and they planned, here's the most fair way to do it, like, a day later, people started to die, and so they died naturally, and then they just. They ate some of them and. Yeah, it's. They've. The legend of the Donner party made it after they eventually got rescued, and not everybody got rescued. I think. What I have it written. How many people. How many people of the original 47 survived?

[Dana]

Of the 84, 11 men, 36 women and children.

[Big T]

Okay.

[Dana]

Wow.

[Big T]

So the relief parties got to the settlers in February of 1847, but they didn't have that many supplies, and so by the time they got there, they were too weak to travel. Some of them died from the rescue efforts because they brought them food and they gorged themselves and died. So when you're, like, starving to that extreme, you can't eat a lot. You have to be like, slowly.

[Aryan]

That's the.

[Big T]

That would be the worst.

[Dana]

You're in the clear pretty much. And you ate too much. It's like, that would have to hurt so bad, too.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Dana]

It's like the soldiers who die in, like, a pointless final battle.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Where, like, the treaty's already been signed or something. Just fucking brutal. Did anybody die on the lifeboat of the Titanic? Oh, I'm sure. Yeah.

[Big T]

Right.

[Dana]

Yeah. That would be a bummer, too.

[Big T]

You're, like, playing charades to pass the time and you accidentally slip over the edge.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Damn it. I was so close. So after the rescuers met up with the. The stranded members, they made their way back to their camps and stuff, and the story of what happened started to come out in the press, come out in the news, word of mouth, and it was sensational. It was a crazy story. And they even, like, exaggerated some of the tales and made it out to be like it was just an entire pack of roving cannibals. Many of them were cannibals, but they made it out to seem like it was, like, more way more brutal.

[Dana]

They wanted to eat people.

[Big T]

Yeah, it's brutal. But they made it out to seem like they. They relished in the opportunity.

[Dana]

That's not quite fair. They've been through a lot, man.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Does anybody else find it funny that it's the Donner Party very close to dinner party, when I'd never heard of.

[Aryan]

Any of this, And I thought this was some sort of cabal of cannibals who made that joke? That was, like, the thing.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

And then I read it, I was like, wow, way off.

[Big T]

So as these stories came out, they needed, like, a leader to blame. They needed one guy to be like. It was this guy that. That did it. And that person ended up being Louis Kesselberg. And Lewis Kessberg was Prussian. And he was the last guy that they found in 1847. It was April of 1847. And they found him with a cauldron of cooked flesh and discarded bones. That's the last thing you want to be found with. That's.

[Dana]

That's pretty incriminating. It's a witch in the woods.

[Big T]

That's a guy that, almost, like, you wonder, could he have been rescued? And he was like, I just, like, it's kind of nice out here. I got my thing going.

[Dana]

Cauldrons are never, for good reasons, nefarious.

[Big T]

Having a cauldron.

[Aryan]

Yeah, you can have a pot. You have a pot, but you can't have a cauldron.

[Big T]

What do you have in there? Is it a soup or is it some sort of witch's brew?

[Dana]

What are you doing with that eye? A newt. Yeah, I. I always. I mean, it's funny too, because I guess it doesn't exist anymore. But Prussians were. Prussians were always around in American history.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Prussians were always hanging out, mercenaries, adventurers.

[Big T]

And now they're, you know, you don't hear too much about the Prussians anymore. Like, I'm. I'm of Prussian descent. You don't hear anyone say that.

[Aryan]

How would you characterize a vat?

[Dana]

A vat is something you fall into, become a superhero or villain, Scientific or life.

[Aryan]

So can they be positive or negative?

[Dana]

Yes.

[Political Commentator]

Okay.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

Cauldron. Exclusively. Bad.

[Dana]

Bad.

[Big T]

A vat. Yeah. It could be a scientist that has a. A vat of something that they're working on, a new formula.

[Aryan]

Sure.

[Dana]

But vat can also be for, like, lard.

[Big T]

Right, Right. Yeah. You can render in a vat, but yeah, a cauldron. You've got a giant wooden stick that you're stirring a child around.

[Dana]

I would love to do, like, the. An alignment chart of vessels, liquid vessels from like.

[Political Commentator]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Chaotic good. True neutrals.

[Dana]

Cup.

[Congressman]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Chaotic evils.

[Aryan]

Cauldron.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Chaotic good would be Beer bong.

[Mackenzie]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Yeah, we should make that chart.

[Aryan]

But yeah, that.

[Mackenzie]

That's a pretty good idea.

[Big T]

Big T, are you concerned at all because you're a big gamer? You love the college football game this year.

[Aryan]

It stinks. I honestly haven't played it very much at all. But yes, on General.

[Big T]

I do like video games now. Is. Do you think that Saudi Arabia is going to start actually doing nil stuff? Like what college? Do you think that Saudi Arabia, Auburn.

[Aryan]

Would sign up for the pif? In a heartbeat.

[Big T]

You think they're the most likely?

[Political Commentator]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Why is that?

[Aryan]

They'll do anything to win. LSU as well. Famously stole money from a children's hospital. Look up that one.

[Big T]

They got. They got some. Some oil connects down there.

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Big T]

A and M. They don't.

[Aryan]

They don't need to do it.

[Big T]

Yeah, but A M, you know that Texas A and M would do it. They.

[Aryan]

They already have.

[Political Commentator]

They already know that you got a link through Bush there, too.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

CNA and M guy.

[Political Commentator]

No, but he's Texas.

[Big T]

Yeah, he's Texas. I think that the dads. I think George H.W. bush's presidential library might be on the A and M campus.

[Aryan]

Okay. But they already have money.

[Big T]

They got money, but they could always use more.

[Aryan]

The answer is Auburn. Auburn would do anything.

[Big T]

I think it also matters. How much money do you owe a coach that you hate in a. Buy in a buyout. Yeah, like if you owe.

[Aryan]

That's becoming a big thing now with firing coaches is like it used to be. All right, pay him whatever. We'll pay the new guy. You got to pay your players.

[Big T]

Yeah, but like Alabama turned on paying players now.

[Aryan]

Yep.

[Political Commentator]

How much are you getting for that depends.

[Aryan]

But some of them, a lot.

[Political Commentator]

Like, or what are we talking, millions of dollars?

[Aryan]

Like the top players in college football this year are making four, five, six million dollars.

[Political Commentator]

Wow. Oh, they probably get to live in the coolest dorm.

[Aaron]

They.

[Big T]

They definitely live.

[Political Commentator]

Like, I bet they get the prettiest girls in school. Get to talk to.

[Aryan]

Man.

[Political Commentator]

And they probably get to pay to do their home. Pay some guy to do their homework. Could you imagine being a professor of a guy who's making $6 million?

[Big T]

No, you just like, fuck you.

[Political Commentator]

He's just like sitting in class fucking looking at Tick tock sound on. And he's just like.

[Aryan]

I think. And I've said this for a long time, but now it's so self evident. Just stop making them go to school.

[Political Commentator]

Stop making them go to school.

[Aryan]

I don't.

[Political Commentator]

What are we doing here?

[Aryan]

I just want a football team with the best players we can find that put on an orange jersey that says Tennessee on it. I don't care if they're going to class. They're not going to class anyway.

[Big T]

They can go to class if they want.

[Aryan]

Yeah. Yes. If you want to. I think that would be. That'd be great for you to do.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Congressman]

But.

[Aryan]

But if you don't. I don't care. Like, especially now with the transfer portal like you. You can just transfer in the middle of the school. Year like nothing matters. Just stop making them go to school. It's stupid.

[Political Commentator]

Big T, let me ask you this, because what's your, what's the school you like?

[Aryan]

Tennessee.

[Political Commentator]

Don't you feel that maybe Tennessee players should get paid more than, like, Harvard players? Because the Tennessee players are getting probably a worse education.

[Aryan]

All right, well, they do get paid more than them. But run, run this exercise through with me.

[Political Commentator]

Well, for instance, say I.

[Aryan]

So you're saying because they're, they're earning potential later, if they don't play, professional football will be less.

[Political Commentator]

I play for Harvard and I get out and okay, I can't play football because I tore my acl, but I can get a job at an investment firm because I went to Harvard and I can hang out with Vivek Ramaswamy. However, I go to Tennessee, I go to the college that you like and I get out and they make, they send me back to high school.

[Aryan]

Well, first of all, I would note, I would note that the University of Tennessee's admission standards have gone way up since we got good at football. But also anybody that's playing football in the sec, their only thing is trying to play professional football anyway. Yeah, they're not. And if you're great at Tennessee and you don't end up being able to play professionally, there's a guy who owns a car dealership or something that will give you, that will give you a Kawhi Leonard job making 100 grand a year. You don't actually have to do anything just because he loves Tennessee, but you.

[Political Commentator]

Just do some eastbound and down shit where you just go like throw the fucking football through a, through like a Tesla or whatever.

[Aryan]

Which is actually another thing I find interesting with the whole transfer portal thing is there's a lot of guys who leave school, go transfer for an extra 50 grand to play one season of football, whatever. And you're ruining connections that could have made you hundreds of thousands of dollars later in life.

[Big T]

Right? Maybe not millions, sure. But yes, it would, it would be worthwhile if you just stuck around for a little bit longer.

[Political Commentator]

Big you jack off on a cyber truck if there was like a 20% chance that Grok was listening to it.

[Aryan]

All right, there's a lot to unpack there.

[Aaron]

Why? Why?

[Aryan]

Why?

[Political Commentator]

I guess which part is why?

[Aryan]

Why am I in a cyber truck? Why am I masturbating?

[Political Commentator]

You own one, you're horny.

[Aryan]

Okay, presumably it's parked right self driving, autopilot mode. Yeah, yeah, no, I'm too paranoid for that. Also, if it's Parked. It's either in public, in which case no, or it's at my house, in which case I could just go, no, it's.

[Political Commentator]

But you.

[Aryan]

All right.

[Political Commentator]

Your house burned down. There's been a horrible, horrible pandemic that has killed 99% of the world's population. Okay, that itself, those two events.

[Aryan]

Well, at this point, nothing else. Then nothing matters.

[Political Commentator]

I know, but there's. Those two events happen concurrently, and they've so like you up that you haven't jacked off for two months because you've been so busy. Like, fuck, like the hospital. Like everything is just falling apart, falling apart, falling apart, falling apart. Finally, you're like, fuck it. I'm hitting the open road. I have to find some other survivors. But Grok is still working, of course. And you, you're like, all right, I'm parked outside of Mobile, Alabama. I'm going to head in the morning to hopefully find other of people there that are still living. I'm gonna whack off. But Grok is like, hey, Big T.

[Aryan]

What you thinking about in the scenario you've laid out? It just seems like the, the rules of society have gone by the wayside at this point.

[Political Commentator]

So you're doing it again.

[Aryan]

I don't understand the necessity, but I, I'm not, I don't, I'm not a po. I, I don't know. I, I, I don't know.

[Political Commentator]

Yeah, life is, there's all sorts of mysteries, right? I, I think I would do it probably like traffic.

[Aryan]

There's no traffic.

[Political Commentator]

No, no, no, no. I'm talking the pandemic. That, that shit ain't happening.

[Aryan]

Oh, this is just normal.

[Political Commentator]

Just normal. Like, I'm going to, like, Trenton.

[Aryan]

There's a, a catcher for, I want to say he plays for the Red Sox now. He was on the Blue Jays at the time. He got arrested for jerking off in his car.

[Big T]

Oh, yeah.

[Political Commentator]

Oh, my God. I would never. I first don't know how to drive. But second of all, where was he?

[Aryan]

I want to say he was parked at, like, a gas station or something. His name's Rhys McGuire. I'll find the story. And then when they played, like, his first game that next season, I think was at the Braves, and the organist played Beat it when he came up to the.

[Political Commentator]

Oh, my God.

[Big T]

He was jacking off in a Florida strip mall parking lot.

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Political Commentator]

Wow. Maybe he had, like, a meeting he had to go to or something.

[Big T]

Yeah, I. He's like, people don't really talk about that. People kind of forgot about that story. Big T, thank you for bringing it back up.

[Aryan]

I don't think baseball fans forgot.

[Big T]

Yeah. But, yeah, it doesn't get talked about baseball itself.

[Political Commentator]

There's a lot of, you know, a lot of you going on there with the bats and the mitts and everything.

[Aryan]

I'm looking at the arrest video. It was February 7, 2020. What a year for that guy.

[Big T]

20.

[Political Commentator]

Wow. Well, he must be pretty stoked because that kind of got knocked out of the news cycle pretty quickly, right?

[Aryan]

Yeah. I mean, in baseball circles, it's lingered, but that's true.

[Big T]

If you're going to get caught jacking off. February 2020 is. Is maybe the best time in the history of the United States to do it.

[Political Commentator]

Yeah. Because if it's like, if it's, if it's like a week after the pandemic starts, it's going to be in the news, but like, if it's right before the pandemic starts, it's getting knocked out.

[Big T]

Yeah. If it's, if this was like the second week of March, we'd be talking about it because we had something as a nation to discuss during the, like Tiger King. Well, it's not a great documentary, but everybody knows it because it's all that we had.

[Political Commentator]

Yeah, it's. And that guy really is. He really did think he was going to get pardoned by Trump.

[Big T]

He did. That's. I feel bad for him.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Political Commentator]

Well, he did kill someone, right? Right.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Political Commentator]

Isn't that why he's in prison? Why is he in prison?

[Big T]

Tiger King guy, It was either killing somebody or, or like paying somebody to kill somebody.

[Political Commentator]

And then they made two dramatization TV show that was. There was too much going on in Hollywood. They made two different TV shows dramatizing an already fairly dramatic documentary with pretty good. It's like, why are you going to have a guy just play an already insane, entertaining guy to watch?

[Aryan]

By the way, Tiger King sucked. Can we all admit that now?

[Big T]

I think it was. It was okay, but it was an.

[Aryan]

Opportunistic release by Netflix.

[Political Commentator]

Here's the deal. A lot of people have never dealt with a tweaked out gay guy before. Big T, you and I have. It's all bread and butter, but it is, it is. I think a lot of people were just like, wow, this guy is so crazy. He was a crazy interesting guy to watch, but again, I don't remember anything that he did except abuse animals and then like, try to get some lady killed.

[Big T]

Yeah. So he, he ran for president in 2020 or. Sorry, yeah, 2020. And then again, he tried to run as a libertarian with Vice President Andrew Tate.

[Political Commentator]

Okay, I can see it.

[Big T]

He did not get. Yeah. In August 2024, he suspended his campaign and endorsed Donald Trump.

[Political Commentator]

Yeah, I think he was really looking for a. I think he's looking for a pardon from Trump pretty heavily. And it's just like, Trump didn't watch that dude. Like, Trump's not like watching Netflix. What do you think he does watch, though?

[Big T]

The news. I think he's got the news on.

[Political Commentator]

Big T. Can I ask you something? Because you still like Trump, right?

[Aryan]

Yes and no.

[Political Commentator]

What the fuck was up with him posting that AI video of the med.

[Big T]

Bed thing we talked about?

[Aryan]

So I actually didn't see that until we talked about it on Monday. Yeah, I don't know.

[Political Commentator]

It's. I want J.D. vance to have. Because you know how J.D. vance is always like, you know, like he's always laughing back at people that he thinks are being mean to trump. I want J.D. vance to like, have to like, sit down across to someone and answer what the. That video is. Yeah, that's like Biden, where you're like. Because he didn't do anything like that. But it's like something a senile guy would do.

[Aryan]

Because he talks in the video.

[Political Commentator]

Yeah, like, he talks in the video.

[Aryan]

Did he think I. I really. I don't know. Did he think that? He really said that?

[Big T]

These are the questions.

[Aryan]

I would think it was funny. I don't. I don't know.

[Big T]

Did he do that?

[Political Commentator]

Not even funny. It's like a real.

[Aryan]

Right.

[Political Commentator]

60 Minutes hit me up last year and was like, do you want to go try a med bed? And I was like, how the did you. I've never done anything like that before. Like, no news organization has ever hit me up before. I was like, yeah, I would love to go try a med bed. And we were going to go to this place called like Tesla Med Bed in I think New Mexico, Arizona. And then I think they might have heard the show and some comments that I made revolving around certain events in the Middle East.

[Aryan]

And that was. Hang on. Now I'm confused. Are these are real?

[Political Commentator]

So there's fake. No, just to be clear. No, they're not real.

[Aryan]

To clarify my question, I understand the thing in the video isn't real. I didn't know if there was something that's in production that like maybe does a scan of your whole body or something and it.

[Political Commentator]

So that's what you would think, that there's like some like, weird, you know, tech, like a Theranos Kind of like fake thing that's like, we scan you for cancers. No. There are beds in Arizona you can go sleep on for an hour that have a black box that contains, I believe, nothing in it underneath the bed that they say will cure all your diseases. It's called. Yeah. T. Look up Tesla med beds. And I was really excited. I was gonna get to go do it. I think they were gonna pay me, like, 300 bucks, which is. That's how much you get paid if.

[Big T]

You don't have a manager.

[Political Commentator]

But, yeah, they said. They said no.

[Big T]

Yeah. So my understanding, because I didn't know anything about med beds until Sunday morning when I saw the video, I didn't know that it was a deep QAnon thing that they had been talking about, that it's like the. The Cabal has stored this technology. They've kept it away from the masses, and Trump is going to take that technology and make it available to the. To all the United States citizens. And all you have to do is just lay down in this bed, and all your problems are going to be solved. I didn't realize that it was such, like, a deep reference to that. Then I thought maybe he put that out there just as, like, a wink to the QAnon people to say, hey, everything you believe about me, it's still going to happen. Keep following. Trust the plan. Right.

[Political Commentator]

I. It's funny because he does just post Q sometimes, but this one was like. This one was so. Because this is, like, deep Q, this is like. This is like, side. Like. Like, it's not even.

[Aryan]

It's.

[Political Commentator]

It's kind of mainstream QAnon, but it's like a side. It's like a. It's like a tentacle off of QAnon.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Political Commentator]

It's like my whole thing with the med beds is I'm like, well, wouldn't they use it on Bill Clinton? He looks like.

[Big T]

Or. Or Biden or by.

[Political Commentator]

Yeah. Or Biden.

[Dana]

Get him in the med bed.

[Political Commentator]

Right?

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Political Commentator]

I mean, a regular bed would have probably been good for Sleepy Joe.

[Big T]

That's true. But, yeah, like, before the debate, just charge him up in the med bed for a couple hours. He's good to go now, do you think? Because I. I was looking at the post, and it looked like he. He embedded the video himself.

[Political Commentator]

Yes. So it's saved on his phone or.

[Big T]

Like, so since iPad, somebody sent it to him, or was that somebody that works with him? I access.

[Political Commentator]

I. So I bet a lot of really insane Florida people just have his number because of Mar A Lago and so someone probably sent that to him and he was like, wow, I don't remember doing it, but this is great. I love this. And, and uploaded it. And I guarantee if you ask him about it, he will just do that thing where he kind of like, he's really good at it because sometimes he doesn't know what people are talking about. And Biden would just kind of be like, yeah, you know, like, sort of like do like a deaf guy nod. But Trump just starts talking and just like kind of changes the subject. And like you, by the end you're like, oh, he answered the question. You're like, actually he just talked for like two minutes, but I have no idea what the he said.

[Big T]

Yeah, he just like start talking about his social media in general and yeah, he, he'd figure out a way to not. That's why I'm interested to see what, what Levitt's talking points are going to be if somebody brings up the med beds to her.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Political Commentator]

Yeah. Oh, she, I think that's maybe how she got, she got all that set of work done. She should do the Emma Stone thing and become Chinese.

[Big T]

She gets to share. Tick tock. Yeah.

[Political Commentator]

Karen levitt. What is she, 26? That's a tough 26, huh?

[Madeline]

She's 27 and married to a 59 year old.

[Political Commentator]

Wow. Oh, I bet he's got a wrinkly old thing. But she is, that is, she's from Florida, Right.

[Big T]

I know that she went to school in the, in the northeast somewhere.

[Madeline]

Yeah, I believe she's from like, I think she's from like Rhode Island. Yeah, yeah, I think Rhode Island.

[Political Commentator]

Well, he might be New Hampshire.

[Madeline]

New Hampshire. New Hampshire. New Hampshire. And correct me, she recently turned 28.

[Big T]

Okay, you, you seem excited to announce.

[Political Commentator]

That she barely looks 37.

[Madeline]

No.

[Big T]

Brace. I got one other thing that's sports related I'd like to just educate you about because I don't think this has come across your desk yet. Have you heard about the open Senate seat that's going to be up for grabs in Alabama?

[Aryan]

No.

[Big T]

So there's, there's two guys that are, are speculated to be potentially running for the seat. One would be Bruce Pearl. He is the head coach of Auburn basketball.

[Aaron]

Former.

[Big T]

Former. Yeah, he just recently stepped down from that like a week ago. And then he was also the head basketball coach at the University of Tennessee, where Big T is an alum. And he's been very political, outspoken. He's a big, big pro. Israel guy wears it on his sleeve, talks about it a lot.

[Political Commentator]

Alabama needs that.

[Big T]

Yeah. People are, are thinking that, that Bruce Pearl might run. And then like two days ago, a guy by the name of Paul Feinbaum said that he's considering running for that seat now. Paul Feinbaum, he is a sports journalist, a sports radio call in talk show host who also has television shows now. But he became famous by doing like a Monday morning weekend wrap up college football call in show where people just call in and scream at him about how they want their coach fired. And he would just kind of sit there being like, okay, like very dryly, like, let them do all the comedy. He just responds to it. So he's considering also running for this seat. My thought when I heard about this was just that we're going to have every. Like everyone who's been on a sports talk show at some point reaches a part of their career where they want to transition to politics. Like Stephen A. Smith. Yeah. Is thinking about doing it too. But this guy, Fine Bomb, I think he's very popular in Alabama. I guess it goes back and forth. It really depends on how good their team is at the time. If their team is really, really good, then they like Paul Feinbaum because his show is always gassing them up if their team sucks. They hate Paul Feinbaum because they think that he's biased against their team.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Big T]

For saying bad things about him.

[Aryan]

I would guess people living in Alabama might feel about Fine Bomb. Like he's kind of a sellout now. Like he's a national guy.

[Aaron]

Oh.

[Political Commentator]

Cause he's not just an Alabama sports guy.

[Aryan]

He. Yeah. He was like a Birmingham radio guy. Now he works at, he has, he's like ESPN's one of their top college football guys.

[Political Commentator]

Who do you got?

[Aryan]

Big T. What do you mean?

[Political Commentator]

In this, in this race, who do you got?

[Aryan]

Oh, I don't care because.

[Political Commentator]

Oh, so you don't even like the Tennessee guy. You know, you like Pearl even though he was a Tennessee.

[Aryan]

Oh, I, I actually what I wanted to happen was Bruce Pearl to run for this senate seat, lose because our coach, who's very good, is going to retire in a year or two. Lose. And then Bruce Pearl comes back.

[Political Commentator]

Gotcha. Okay.

[Big T]

Because he's a great basketball coaching.

[Political Commentator]

Yeah, is, is fine. Fine. But they're both running as Republicans, I assume.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Political Commentator]

I think we got to get some other sports figures in there.

[Big T]

I got one.

[Aryan]

Well, you do know who the current senator is, right?

[Aaron]

No.

[Aryan]

Tommy Tuberville, who was the head football coach at Auburn.

[Aaron]

Oh, I didn't.

[Political Commentator]

I knew who Tommy Tuberville was, which is by the way. You got to talk to your people. You guys cannot be named like that. You cannot have an Alabama football coach be named Tommy Tuberville. And you know what? Technically, I should find out what. What it was because I realized my stepmom's dad was a Tennessee assistant football coach.

[Aryan]

Really?

[Political Commentator]

Yeah. But I don't know where. But let me. I'll ask my dad about that.

[Aryan]

And what's his name?

[Political Commentator]

I. I. First of all, I'm not saying that on podcast. And second of all, I actually genuinely don't know. He died, like, in the 80s.

[Aryan]

Got it.

[Political Commentator]

But. And she never. She didn't. I don't know. He was a very good dad. I shouldn't like to talk about him, but. Wow, I didn't realize. So there's precedent here already for a lot of press.

[Aryan]

Yes. This. This seat is reserved for Auburn football, basketball coaches and commentators.

[Big T]

Now, Tuberville, he was. Was he placed or did he win election.

[Aryan]

He won the election.

[Big T]

He won the election. It's. It's shocking, too, because Tommy Tuberville not. Not a good coach either, really.

[Political Commentator]

Well, maybe they'll be like, we don't want him back in coaching. We have to make sure he has another job.

[Big T]

That's not. That's actually a good point. It's like, keep him away from.

[Political Commentator]

That's the kind of guy that's like, he. That's like the kind of guy who offers butter subsidies.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Tommy Tilberville. Hi, it's me, Mr. Tilberville. I think that they should, if you want to throw another sports name into that. That race. Charles Barkley. He's an Alabama guy.

[Political Commentator]

Is he now?

[Big T]

Yeah. That would be amazing if it was Paul Fine bomb against Charles Barkley for the United States Senate.

[Aryan]

I would love Tommy Tuberville. Also, by the way, Brace, when he was the head coach at Ole Miss, said, they'll have to carry me out of here in a pinewood box. And I believe, less than a week later, took the Auburn job.

[Political Commentator]

I love it. I love it, I love it. This is. This is why. So there's another guy, speaking of politics, that's been saying shit like this, Curtis Sliwa, who I like. I like Sliwa, but he is, like, refusing to drop out of the New York mayoral race. And he said a similar thing. They'll have to carry me out here in a coffin. And I think he does mean that. And I did text him a few days ago to see if he'd come on the show, and he has not written me back, even though he said he Would come on the show before.

[Aryan]

Well, he runs like every time, right. Because he was running when I lived in New York.

[Political Commentator]

He's a perennial guy. Yeah.

[Big T]

How many casts?

[Political Commentator]

And I met him once on the Coney island boardwalk. And you've never seen a man that was this magnetic.

[Big T]

For women it was.

[Political Commentator]

And for, I mean, for women of a certain age who live on Coney island or in Coney Island. So it was rather leathery type of.

[Big T]

Right.

[Political Commentator]

But they were surround. It was, it was like seen. I mean it was, it was. I've never seen anything like this. It was like. It was. Who's that? Austin Butler. It was like seeing Austin Butler walk by a, you know, a sorority. It was insane. He was surrounded. He had his little guardian angels. He like about 4 foot tall. 4 or 4 foot tall Puerto Rican guys in the little berets around him. Like having to like bat away these sort of leathery breasted women who are. Who are slimming all over him. But I read in New York Post that he is impotent. He said to the York Post, I am impotent. And he kind of implied that it was because he cheated so much.

[Big T]

He had. He. He fucked himself out.

[Political Commentator]

It was like, it's a divine, it's divine justice. No, no. He was like, I feel bad for what I did. He also did get shot in the leg by I guess a John Gotti associate in the 90s. But he's like, I was so unfaithful that God sort of cursed me with my penis.

[Aaron]

Not working anymore.

[Big T]

That's fascinating. Doesn't he also have 13 cats?

[Political Commentator]

19 cats? And I asked him about that when I saw him. I said, Curtis, you have 19 cats and your wife in the studio apartment. How do you do it? And he said, mark Twain had one more cat than me. He had 20 cats and he was a genius. I'm not quite Mark Twain's level, but I'm like, that doesn't answer your question. My question? I'm not asking who has more cats than you. I'm asking you why you have so many cats and no answer. It's. Imagine the stink in there, man.

[Big T]

Yeah, that's a concerning amount of. He hopes that he gets carried out in a coffin because those cats are going to eat him after he dies.

[Political Commentator]

Well, I'm saying too, he hopes he gets into Gracie Mansion so he's place for the cats.

[Big T]

Yeah, that would be very funny. Like the, the next mayor to move in after Curtis Lewa steps into that mansion is like, we gotta, we gotta bulldoze this thing.

[Political Commentator]

His rent has to be like $5 a month or something. There's no, it's like, it's, it's, you know, I think he lives in like, South Brooklyn too. I'm like, you get like, probably a one bedroom for not that much there.

[Big T]

Yeah. He's a fascinating guy, though.

[Political Commentator]

I know. Totally fast.

[Big T]

All right, let's get into wedding culture in the United States. Wedding culture. What should be the happiest day of your life can usually set you back years when it comes to other parts of your life for one big party. And now sometimes the parties are great. Sometimes they're fantastic parties. Sometimes people take it to the next level and it becomes like a social standing thing where it's like we got to show off how much money we're willing to spend on this one giant party that we're going to have. And it's actually very interesting to dive into how weddings became like an industry in the United States.

[Aryan]

Y' all are obviously a little bit older than Mackenzie, Madeline and I. Yo. Just a little bit.

[Big T]

Oh, it's true.

[Aryan]

Has this, I, I feel like. And this could just be my, you know, youthful inexperience. It's only in the last, like 10 years that this has become like the, the deal it is now. And I think that's because of social media.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

Like, weddings obviously were a thing and you could have as big a wedding as you wanted, but I, I really feel like up until the last 10, 15 years, it was not an arms race.

[Big T]

Yeah, I would agree with that. I think that, I don't know if I do wedding. They've always been a social marker.

[Aaron]

Yeah, we've had, we used to have a thing. You remember Bridezilla? We used to have that thing that was, that was our era, Eric.

[Big T]

Yep.

[Aaron]

Like, that's always been a thing. I think social media has for sure increased the, the photographers price, for sure. But I think, I think women have always, I would say all women, but like, from my perspective, women have always wanted it to. This is what they dreamt about when they was little girls, to be married in their dresses and to have this extravagant flower party. This has always kind of been a thing. I, I, I, I'm out the game.

[Big T]

Like, so I'm not even nowhere close to getting married.

[Aaron]

So I don't know, I don't know what the lick read anymore, but it's always been pretty expensive.

[Big T]

Yeah, I, I think, yeah, Aaron's right. It's always been a big thing. It's been a big deal. And by always I mean, like, in terms of my lifetime. But I think Big T is right that social media has exacerbated the problem a little bit. You want everything to look like it's perfect. There's a lot of the small details that look like they're probably pretty expensive that you have to put money into if you want this one picture or one vision that you have to. To turn out perfectly down to, like, even the smallest details of what everyone's wearing, where certain pictures are going to be, what color frosting you want on the cake, all that. I think it's gotten worse. But, yeah, the Bridezilla phenomenon has always.

[Aryan]

That's.

[Big T]

That's been a thing for a long time.

[Aryan]

Yeah. It just feels like now every wedding has to have, like, a thing. Like, oh, we have a photo booth. We have a, you know, insert whatever.

[Big T]

We got cornhole tables, merch. Wedding merch.

[Aaron]

Wedding merch would be fire dog wedding merch.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

That would kind of be lit.

[Aryan]

Hang on. But you're never going to use that ever again.

[Aaron]

What? I have a shirt from my. One of my favorite ramen spots. If one of my homeboys get married, believe he had a merch table.

[Madeline]

The merch I've seen for weddings, it's all, like, influencers, so take that with a grain of salt.

[Aryan]

They.

[Madeline]

They have to go, like, literally, top of the, you know, craziness. But I saw a girl get married this summer, and at their, I guess, like, welcome party slash, like, rehearsal dinner, they. They made hats for everyone with their dog on it, and then on the back, it had their initials of, like, W and G, you know, whatever the date was that they got married. And then I've seen. I've seen hats. I've seen, like, T shirts, sweatshirts, whatever. Oh, yeah. Like, I've seen some merch pop up.

[Aryan]

So this is the first thing I've heard that has mildly intrigued me because I'm a hat guy. But no. What do you put on a hat that anybody's ever gonna use again? That's.

[Madeline]

But, like, I think the dog is actually like, a pretty good one because it wasn't, like. It was, like, a pretty cute logo, obviously. Arian, I'm not even, like, consulting you in this one.

[Aaron]

I was not. That was just a natural. I wasn't.

[Madeline]

I know, but, like, obviously for you, like, that's just not gonna happen. But, like, the dog on a hat is not some, like, crazy moniker of, like, oh, that's a wedding merch.

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Big T]

You don't want to put the hashtag.

[Madeline]

That's What I'm saying is like, I think if it's done that way, where it's. I don't know if tasteful is the right word, but like generic. Generic enough where it's like, that could just be from J. Crew.

[Big T]

Yeah. It could stand alone as its own piece of merch. It's the same thing. Like if you see somebody wearing a pair of sunglasses that have a brand, like a, I don't know, like a fast food brand or whatever written on the side. It doesn't matter how cool the sunglasses are, you're probably not going to wear them that much because it's like, oh yeah, these are very obviously free swag sunglasses that I got in like a gift bag somewhere. But if you have a generic logo or something that can stand alone. I, I like the idea of a merch table or like, like almost concert T shirts, but for your wedding. That would like fire too.

[Aaron]

I do.

[Aryan]

Like, I've seen some people with like hoodies and stuff with roman numerals on it of like their wedding anniversary. You could maybe do that.

[Aaron]

And think about this though, Mindy, you can make a legal recoup a little bit back. You know what I mean? Pay for.

[Aryan]

Oh, you're thinking about selling them?

[Aaron]

Oh, yeah.

[Big T]

Wait, you were thinking about giving them away.

[Madeline]

Oh, these are free. This is free.

[Big T]

I'm with Arian.

[Madeline]

I felt like party favor.

[Aryan]

Yeah, you can't. I know. I think people would be mad if they showed up and you were selling stuff.

[Madeline]

Stuff.

[Big T]

It depends on. It depends on how sick your merch was.

[Aaron]

If the merch is cracked. See, you got a dope ass logo of. You know what I'm saying? His and her.

[Madeline]

We could do it at your wedding where we all get it for free at the wedding and then we sell it.

[Aaron]

I wouldn't be offended if, if, if my man's invite you to wed. I, you know, say I gotta travel that. And then they have a merch table set up and they trying to recoup some of the expenses from the. That makes sense.

[Big T]

It's quality merch.

[Aryan]

So now you're selling it at a markup. You also, you have to order enough that like, if you're assuming, say half the people are going to want and then what if you don't sell it now you're losing more money, then you.

[Aaron]

Have dope ass merch from your wedding.

[Aryan]

And then you have to just give it out anyway for free. If everyone at the wedding is like, hey, we're not going to pay for this. Just wait till the end. And then they got to give it away.

[Big T]

No, then you. Then you have to do, like, a world tour, and you have to, like, go to. You know, maybe you renew your vows on the early side, and then you got your inventory of merch that you can still sell.

[Aaron]

Then you got the OG Merch. You'd be like, hey, yeah, hey, we almost sold out.

[Political Commentator]

We.

[Aaron]

We put it back in stock.

[Big T]

You could create demand.

[Aaron]

This is good.

[Aryan]

When she said merch, I was under the impression this was being given away.

[Big T]

No, no. Then you see somebody that, like, that shows up to the vow renewal, they don't have the merch from the original tour, and you're like, oh, you're a fan of Michael and Julia. Name three of their kids. I don't. I don't think you're a real fan. I think you're a fake fan. I got the original. The original shirt.

[Aaron]

I was there for their first fight. Buddy.

[Big T]

Yeah, that's at my house when she kicked him out.

[Political Commentator]

All right.

[Aaron]

I think. I think it's dope. And I think. Think about it, like, you can really, like.

[Big T]

Like, if.

[Aaron]

If. If you're a fan of. Of your. Of your. Of your friends, right? Like baby showers. Think about baby showers. You always show up with a gift, right? More often than not. People have you ever registry for your wedding?

[Big T]

Anyway, I think people in good spirit.

[Aaron]

Could understand that it's costly to put on a wedding. I wouldn't mind. I wouldn't mind getting a big T and Mrs. Big T shirt.

[Big T]

Mr. And Mrs. T. I just talked.

[Aryan]

To Mr. Somebody where we're going to look into this. I said Aryan Arian is interested in merch.

[Big T]

He's right, though. You need a. You need a great logo. I think a logo would. Whether it's an animal, like cooking.

[Aryan]

I'm going to make this my project as well. Well. And we'll compare notes.

[Aaron]

All right?

[Big T]

All right.

[Aaron]

Yeah, let's do that. I'm. I'm.

[Big T]

I'm down for a. Yeah, let's.

[Aaron]

Let's converge on a logo.

[Big T]

Okay, guys, thinking of a couple ideas. Big T, big T, big. Is there something that we could do with a big letter T? Maybe an orange letter T?

[Aryan]

There's one that's copyrighted. Oh, speaking of which, I have some. Some somber news that is just broken. Tennessee baseball coach Tony Vitello is finalizing a deal to become the next manager of the San Francisco Giants.

[Big T]

You were right. I was wrong.

[Aryan]

I tell. It will be the first ever to jump from college coach to MLB manager without any professional experience. I got change hats.

[Big T]

Diva. A song.

[Aryan]

I wore this hat in. In. In remembrance of all the memories Tony has given us. I have this beautiful flag here that I paid way too much money for right after the national championship. It was. It was a good run. We had a good run.

[Big T]

And I'm sure that you're just going to reload.

[Aryan]

Yeah. Elander. I assume Josh Elander will be promoted to the head coach. He's. He's been a great assistant. We have a lot of talent. But let's. At least we got one. This would actually really suck if we never won a title. But we got one, so.

[Big T]

Got one. You. That flag. That's going to fly forever.

[Aryan]

Correct. I won't be mad until he gets fired and goes back to college and beats us.

[Congressman]

Yeah.

[Big T]

What would be nightmare scenario?

[Aryan]

Arkansas.

[Big T]

That's last.

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Political Commentator]

We've.

[Aryan]

We've had quite a budding rivalry with Arkansas because that's where he came from. And they were always like, he's going to take over for Dave Van Horn. And better programs than Arkansas tried and failed to get him. But then I don't begrudge him for taking this job. I understand.

[Big T]

Did they try to warn you who Arkansas fans were like, he's just going to leave.

[Aryan]

But they thought it would be for them. Not the San Francisco Giants.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

It's only 30 of those jobs. I get it. All right, let me work on merch.

[Big T]

So, yeah, I was saying maybe a giant letter T. Maybe something in. You like to wear orange a lot. So maybe a big orange tea could work. But you put. Pointed out that we might get in trouble. That's a copyright. Okay, so now I'm thinking about your initials. What about just ck, Just letter C, K in like a cool font, like almost like Calvin.

[Aryan]

Oh, that's another one for that as well.

[Big T]

Damn it. All right.

[Madeline]

Can't you just do a big T in a slightly different. Also wait, if we're not. If we don't sell this. Can't you just do the tea anyway? Who's gonna get mad?

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

I mean set it low.

[Aryan]

Like I'm sure we probably could selling.

[Big T]

Tennessee merch at his way.

[Political Commentator]

Right.

[Aryan]

Well, if you just give it away.

[Madeline]

Could you do big, big T in whatever font or whatever orange hue you decide.

[Aaron]

Do you want T or C?

[Aryan]

I don't. I don't know. I'm going to come up with a couple different things.

[Madeline]

And then if it's a T, two big T together forever.

[Aryan]

See, that's too. But it has to be generic enough that people will want to wear it. Yeah. I, I'm fixated right now on the, the Roman numerals idea.

[Big T]

Okay.

[Aryan]

Because I've seen that before. And then people will be like, oh, what's that? What's that hat?

[Big T]

That.

[Aryan]

What. What do those numbers mean? It's like if you have to ask, you can't afford it.

[Madeline]

Mysterious.

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Yeah. I don't want to name any names. I. I recently received a hat in the mail and the hat had a logo I was not. Was not familiar with, but it seemed like it was a pretty well made hat. And I was like, okay, that's a. It was delivered in a very ornate gift box. And it seemed like the hat was a big deal, but it, it felt kind of like just a well made baseball cap. And then I looked it up online and it is like a $200 baseball cap. That's like a new sat. A new status symbol. Kind of how you remember the trucker hats that we got back in the day, Aaron.

[Aaron]

I did not.

[Big T]

You don't remember the trucker hat craze of like the, the mid 2000s?

[Aryan]

I think they're still going strong.

[Aaron]

When, when those was popping for y' all fitted caps was. Was popping for us. You know, like the, the over oversized.

[Dana]

Like.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

NBA baseball, whatever with all the stickers and on it. Sometimes like you'd have the NBA pat shits where you have all the NBA team. Like that. That was, that was cracking for us.

[Aryan]

When I was a kid, people would leave the stickers on the brim of the, the new era hats.

[Aaron]

That. That was the vibe back then. I think that was the Sperry's. The Sperry Sperry side of things.

[Big T]

It was. Yeah, like the, the Paris Hilton era.

[Aaron]

Yep.

[Big T]

When she was like the, the number one celebrity in the United States for a while. Okay. But back to, back to the merch. I like the idea of this merch. I think that we can maybe make some money back.

[Aryan]

I don't think you can sell it. I think if you do merch, it has to be a party favor.

[Big T]

What are their shoes?

[Aryan]

You're. That's a quite a significant undertaking.

[Big T]

They become.

[Political Commentator]

Yeah.

[Big T]

The wet. The go to wedding shoes. Like comfortable. Comfortable enough to dance in. They feel like basketball sneakers.

[Aaron]

They.

[Big T]

They look like dress shoes. I don't know.

[Aryan]

Do those not exist? I'm just thinking out loud that that, that could actually be a solid idea. Do those exist? I think there's like dressy sneakers now.

[Big T]

Yeah, but I mean like a. It feels like a, like a tennis shoe. Feels like a sneaker that you would wear, but it gives the illusion to the outside eye that maybe these are fancy shoes, like, super fancy.

[Aaron]

What's Mrs. T's favorite color?

[Aryan]

I think pink. That's what I. That's what I see most often.

[Big T]

Okay.

[Aaron]

I love that. Very poignant and assertive answer. You knew it right away.

[Aryan]

I love that big T. Are you trying to. Are you trying to combine colors?

[Aaron]

Something of the sort. Yeah, you know, I'm. I'm trying to make it, like, visually appealing, but still, you know, adult.

[Big T]

You know, I feel like there can be some. Yeah. Some room to work here with the. The pastels.

[Aryan]

Well, also, here's another thing about. About weddings. I'm. I'm told. I think there's, like, a color scheme now for your wedding.

[Aaron]

Oh, okay.

[Big T]

What is.

[Aryan]

I believe. I don't want to speak out of turn. I. I got a couple guidelines on what I could and couldn't say, but I probably should have nailed down more. I think it's, like navy and Carolina blue, I think is the. The theme for the most.

[Big T]

Okay.

[Aaron]

I love those colors, by the way.

[Aryan]

Yeah, I think that's what I'm doing. Instead of, like, a tux, I might just do a navy suit with some.

[Aaron]

Carolina blue highlights in this, like, tie. Yeah, tie in a pocket square.

[Aryan]

I think that's what I'm leaning towards.

[Aaron]

Now we're talking.

[Aryan]

I don't love. I don't love a black tux.

[Aaron]

I'm with you on that one. Looks very. It's a very baseline. I'm with you.

[Aryan]

And also, again, to the cost of things. If I'm buying something and asking other dudes to, like, rent us. Rent a tux or whatever, I'd be like, just buy a suit. It's, like, a little more expensive, but then you have it.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

Like, I rented a tux for a wedding a little while ago, and it was exorbitantly expensive.

[Big T]

Pumpkins. Way easier to carve. So they switched up to pumpkins, because once the Irish got to the United States and they saw pumpkins, they're like, this is way better for our weird lanterns that we do every year than a turnip is.

[Aryan]

I never got into that big. Best thing that's ever happened to pumpkins. You don't really. You don't hear about them otherwise.

[Big T]

Pumpkin pie.

[Mackenzie]

Pumpkin pie is good, but pumpkin stinks.

[Aryan]

But I think all of those are derivatives of them being, like, a fall thing. You think?

[Big T]

So you don't think that we'd be making pumpkin pie if it wasn't for.

[Aryan]

I Think if it wasn't for Halloween, you wouldn't really hear about pumpkin. Pumpkins.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Pump I. I love pumpkin spice. No, but no pumpkin spice. You would.

[Madeline]

That's like a fall thing.

[Aryan]

I think this is downstream of. Of Halloween.

[Mackenzie]

You see those big ass pumpkins though?

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Mackenzie]

Those things are unbelievable, dude.

[Big T]

I read that like we might start growing pumpkins on Mars.

[Mackenzie]

Why?

[Big T]

And that we could grow like a 50,000pound pumpkin on Mars in the environment there. Just because pumpkins here on Earth have gotten out of control.

[Mackenzie]

Yeah, dude, those competitions. I would like to be in one.

[Big T]

Of those someday just to see.

[Mackenzie]

See how I stack up with the boys.

[Big T]

I, I don't know. It's got to be about the seeds, right?

[Mackenzie]

Yeah, I think the. I, I've seen videos on them. It's very, it's a.

[Aryan]

What's the word?

[Big T]

Thing.

[Aryan]

It's complicated.

[Mackenzie]

There's a lot goes into it.

[Big T]

Agriculture.

[Congressman]

I don't know.

[Big T]

I give up.

[Mackenzie]

It takes a lot of effort.

[Big T]

Intensive process.

[Mackenzie]

Intensive might be a good convoluted.

[Aryan]

Is that the word?

[Mackenzie]

No, forget it. This happens to me once a day. I have a word and it goes away.

[Big T]

It'll be back.

[Mackenzie]

Let me think about it. Keep talking.

[Big T]

I think, I think that pumpkins are like goldfish. Like they grow to the size of the environment that they're in.

[Aryan]

I don't like when a goldfish is too big. It's freaky.

[Big T]

I agree.

[Aaron]

I agree. I've never seen a big goldfish.

[Aryan]

Oh, Google it, dude. It's. It's terrifying.

[Aaron]

Big goldfish being googled right now.

[Mackenzie]

Intricate.

[Big T]

Intricate. There we go.

[Aaron]

Holy shit. Yeah, they get this big. The fuck. Can you eat them?

[Big T]

I don't think you'd want to eat a goldfish.

[Mackenzie]

Did you ever do that?

[Political Commentator]

What?

[Big T]

Eat a goldfish?

[Mackenzie]

Yeah. Don't people do that in college? They'll like swallow one and then puke it out or whatever.

[Big T]

Yeah, I never. Did you?

[Mackenzie]

No, no.

[Big T]

Would you ever boof a goldfish?

[Mackenzie]

No, that's too far for me. I don't like living creatures in me.

[Big T]

Yeah, that's. That's a good way to go through life. They should be dead. Anything inside?

[Mackenzie]

Good thing I'm not a woman, You know?

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Mackenzie]

Not that there's anything wrong with being a woman.

[Big T]

No, no, no, no. I know what you're saying. Just because of your perf. Personal preference to not having another live person inside of you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Madeline]

Oh, okay. Okay.

[Big T]

What do you think I meant? Oh, I don't know.

[Madeline]

I was confused.

[Mackenzie]

Yeah. Because pregnant. What do you think I meant.

[Big T]

Yeah. Pregnancy.

[Mackenzie]

Pregnancy or.

[Big T]

Or sex.

[Mackenzie]

It's more thinking about.

[Aryan]

I was.

[Big T]

I was thinking about sex.

[Mackenzie]

No.

[Big T]

You kind of go back to back on that one. Like. Yeah, it's a twofer.

[Aryan]

More.

[Congressman]

More.

[Mackenzie]

I was thinking about having a living thing in me, and then I thought, oh, that's what women have all the time.

[Political Commentator]

Yeah.

[Madeline]

Yeah.

[Big T]

It is pretty crazy.

[Mackenzie]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Well, not all, dude. Well, yeah, a lot of the time they grow them.

[Mackenzie]

I know, dude. Don't get me started. Like, it's nuts.

[Big T]

Like pumpkins. It's an intricate process.

[Mackenzie]

It's just a little sperm and then, boom.

[Big T]

Me.

[Mackenzie]

This is me. How, dude? Yeah, it's crazy.

[Big T]

It is. It actually is nuts.

[Mackenzie]

So many sperm, too.

[Madeline]

Imagine being us, and we have to, like, actually do it.

[Mackenzie]

I know. I have a lot of respect for women.

[Madeline]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Have you ever thought about this, Dana? Like, what happens to the. The millions of sperm?

[Mackenzie]

I think about it constantly.

[Big T]

Don't get there.

[Aryan]

Yes.

[Mackenzie]

None of it makes sense.

[Big T]

Like, they. They just die.

[Mackenzie]

I've been having to talk in therapy lately about how nothing makes sense.

[Big T]

Yeah. What.

[Dana]

What.

[Mackenzie]

How did nothing makes sense, man? Do you think there's so many sperms.

[Big T]

Do you think the sperm, like, they. They can think and that, like, they just die? I don't know. And that we don't. We never get to tell their stories?

[Mackenzie]

I don't want to go down that road.

[Big T]

Imagine what a battle that has to be to get to the end. Like, you beat. You beat a million other people in a race.

[Mackenzie]

It makes no sense.

[Big T]

Makes zero sense.

[Mackenzie]

Shout out to all the pregnant people, though.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Madeline]

Yeah.

[Mackenzie]

Thank you for what you do.

[Big T]

Yeah, More Halloween stuff real quick. When immigrants came over from Scotland and Ireland, they brought their Halloween to the United States. So that was like the 1800s. And they would go door too, with their kids, and they would just pull pranks on everybody. Is she dressed up? We got. We got Halloween. Let's see what we got.

[Aaron]

So. So for Halloween. This ain't my costume. I'm gonna be Sully from Monsters League.

[Madeline]

Stop it. She's not booed. Don't tell me she's Boo.

[Mackenzie]

Let's go.

[Aaron]

It's adorable.

[Madeline]

Oh, my God, it's so cute.

[Big T]

Happy Halloween.

[Political Commentator]

Boo.

[Aaron]

Daddy, can you say happy Halloween? Yep. Hey, say happy Halloween.

[Big T]

No.

[Aaron]

See? Kids are.

[Big T]

So cute. That's adorable.

[Aaron]

Yeah, it's super dope. I'm be Sully. She gonna be Boo.

[Aryan]

Oh, you know what we gotta put in at the end.

[Aaron]

It's that time of year.

[Big T]

Baby Aaron wrote a Halloween song. And it. It's a banger.

[Mackenzie]

Really.

[Big T]

It's a banger.

[Aaron]

It's. I would say it's top three Halloween songs of all time.

[Aryan]

That's dope.

[Aaron]

And I say that very humbly.

[Aryan]

How many others are there?

[Aaron]

Number one is Thriller.

[Aryan]

It's. I would. I would consider that a Halloween song.

[Aaron]

Absolutely.

[Congressman]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

You're just not gonna beat that. Then you get into, like, the old ones. The. What's the. What's the. I forget the names of them.

[Madeline]

Monster Mash is that one we did.

[Aaron]

Bash. Monster Mash. Yeah. But this one's called Knock knock. You got it. You gotta. You gotta peep it. So I have my kid. So my kid. I have a list. I have an album full of kids songs that my kids do because I got a studio upstairs. And music is. It's. It's a pastime. And so I made. They wanted to make a Halloween song. And so anytime my kids, like, can we do a song? It's. I got to do the whole. I got to do the beat. I got to do the lyrics. I got to coordinate the whole thing. But this always fun to do, man. And it came out really good. And it's a video. It's a little slapper.

[Aryan]

Hell yeah.

[Big T]

It is a great song. What are you guys, Top candies?

[Aryan]

All right, I have my list. I'm going to shock you guys here with my number one Butterfingers.

[Aaron]

It's number one.

[Aryan]

I was. I was looking at Butterfinger and I was considering. I have five here. It was just off.

[Big T]

But you can only.

[Mackenzie]

They're so sticky. That's a bad. The bad side.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Maybe it's just me, but I. I can't have more than one Butterfinger.

[Aryan]

Oh, I can go to town on those suckers.

[Big T]

Like one. You give me one fun siiz Butterfinger. I enjoy it, but I'm all Butterfinger.

[Aryan]

One fun size.

[Big T]

Yeah. I get butterfinged out.

[Mackenzie]

No, Come on.

[Aryan]

Pfd.

[Big T]

I. I just can't. Something about the. It's like, too crunchy.

[Aryan]

And I can eat three full size anything or fun size? Anything.

[Mackenzie]

I have a dark horse almond, Joyce.

[Aryan]

Okay, that is a dark horse.

[Mackenzie]

Was that like a you don't like it noise?

[Aryan]

Oh, come on.

[Big T]

Are you anti coconut?

[Madeline]

I'm anti coconut.

[Aryan]

Coconut.

[Madeline]

And I'm anti nuts in my candy.

[Aryan]

Agreed.

[Mackenzie]

Well, the almond is the worst part of the Almond Joy.

[Aryan]

Then you would for sure. Well, there's mounds. Why wouldn't you just.

[Mackenzie]

Mounds don't have. It's the same thing.

[Madeline]

Mounds just don't have.

[Aryan]

Dana that's their very famous slogan for the last 50.

[Mackenzie]

What do you mean?

[Big T]

Almond Joy has nuts. Mounds don't.

[Mackenzie]

Mounds are the same thing.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Mackenzie]

Just without it.

[Big T]

No, the exact.

[Mackenzie]

No, I swear to God. That's. I thought there was a difference.

[Big T]

Exact same.

[Aryan]

They've made it their branding for the better part of.

[Mackenzie]

Why the am I eating almond choice?

[Aryan]

I don't know.

[Big T]

You've been throwing out the almond.

[Mackenzie]

I hate the almond, dude.

[Big T]

Top candies. Dane, I've got great news for you.

[Aryan]

Incredible.

[Big T]

Go get some Mounds. Treat yourself. Have some Mounds.

[Aryan]

Wow.

[Mackenzie]

I'm such a coconut guy. Oh, my God.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

I'm gonna bring you a Mounds tomorrow, dude.

[Mackenzie]

That I swear to God. Like, people are gonna think I'm lying. I had no idea.

[Big T]

Coconut cake. You like coconut cake?

[Mackenzie]

Yes.

[Big T]

Coconut cake is delicious, too, but yeah.

[Mackenzie]

Pina coladas.

[Big T]

It's gonna change how you look at Halloween now.

[Mackenzie]

Almond choice, dude.

[Big T]

You're even like, Almond Joy was your number two.

[Mackenzie]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Despite the fact that you hate.

[Aryan]

You don't even like it.

[Mackenzie]

I want the nut out. I get the nut out every time.

[Big T]

So does mounds become number one?

[Mackenzie]

Yes. I didn't know. But I have gotten away from. I'm just like. Again, I'm forgetting the word neglected now. Mounds. Because I thought they tasted different, and I just never really tried them. I've never heard this song my life.

[Big T]

You've never heard somebody say, sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't?

[Aryan]

No.

[Big T]

Now you have.

[Mackenzie]

I'm a sheltered human.

[Big T]

Now you have.

[Mackenzie]

Wow.

[Aryan]

That's from the 70s.

[Mackenzie]

Okay. And then my third one is Kit Kats.

[Aryan]

Kit Kats in the running for my one.

[Big T]

Number one for me with a bullet. Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. Classic. Number two. This is where it gets tough. Because I want to say Reese's Pieces.

[Aaron]

Mm.

[Big T]

Hey, fuck it. I'm gonna say Reese's Pieces. Number two.

[Aryan]

Not nearly as good as the regular Number three.

[Big T]

M M's Number four. Milky Way.

[Aryan]

It's just all chocolate. Milky Way, man.

[Big T]

Yeah. And number five, Sour patch. Now, what I love about Milky Way, it doesn't get. Why does Snickers get all the shine? Because Milky Way is better. I think Milky Way is better than Snickers.

[Congressman]

I do, too.

[Aryan]

I'm with you.

[Madeline]

No nuts.

[Big T]

It's the no nut.

[Mackenzie]

I think no nut.

[Big T]

November.

[Mackenzie]

I think people might be turned off to the bottom is the bottom layer.

[Big T]

What is it?

[Madeline]

It's like of the Milky Way.

[Big T]

Oh, the nougat.

[Aryan]

The nougat.

[Big T]

I love nougat.

[Mackenzie]

I do, too. But I Think people are turned off.

[Aryan]

To that part of the bar.

[Big T]

So Snickers, I think has nougat too, but maybe. Maybe less nougat.

[Mackenzie]

And I think it's a lot less nougat.

[Big T]

Yeah. All the space is taken up by the nuts would be nougat.

[Aaron]

And caramel.

[Big T]

And caramel. Yeah. Three Musketeers is also my honorable mention because I love nougat.

[Aryan]

Not for me. I've got KitKat one. I have a. This was in the running for my one. I just couldn't. Couldn't do it. I have sour skittles too. Oh, you don't hear about the sour skittle as much.

[Big T]

They're very good people.

[Aryan]

Give all the love to the regular. When I see sour skittles, I get them. They can your mouth up though. Oh, yeah. You. You only two or three at a time. If you put too many of those, you're in for a rough night.

[Big T]

You ever have the. The atomic warheads? Yeah, those things will fuck you up.

[Aryan]

Yeah. Reese's three, Bucky's, Shout out, Aryans costumes, Strawberry sour power belts or four. I mentioned those recently and. And I was struggling to come up with the five and I just googled like or I chat GPT show me the top 50 candies in America and it brought up one that every time I have I'm like, why is this not a bigger deal? And that's the airhead. Just the regular straight up airheads.

[Big T]

Airheads are good.

[Aryan]

It made me want some.

[Big T]

They're very. They're very chewy.

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Very sticky. But yeah, Airhead. It's a good treat. You remember the mystery flavor?

[Aaron]

Of course.

[Aryan]

White.

[Big T]

White cherry. I think that's what it ended up being.

[Aryan]

I thought it changed. Oh, I think it was always white cherry. I believe now we need to do an investigation because I'm pretty sure you could get different ones.

[Big T]

Yeah, I don't. I don't know. I always thought that it was just white cherry.

[Mackenzie]

I don't hate just like a standard Hershey bar, you know, like that's up there for me.

[Aryan]

Run the football, run the ball.

[Mackenzie]

I'm.

[Aryan]

I'm astounded by this Almond Joy news.

[Aaron]

Not a candy guy anymore. But when I did with candies, I'll give you my top, like four. I don't know if I could do five. I don't like candy like that. Gummy worms.

[Aryan]

Sour or regular?

[Aaron]

Your regular Jones.

[Aryan]

Gummy bears.

[Aaron]

Sensing a trend, I'm working down to up now. So the number one's coming. My number two is it's a little mango. It's a Mexican candy. Little mango candy where you dip into chili powder.

[Congressman]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

Them shits is cracking. I could eat them today. And my number one when I did eat candy was Reese's piece. Can't eat it anymore.

[Big T]

Reese pieces is solid.

[Aryan]

I have an honorable mention I'd like to add to my list. The individually wrapped strawberry things that no one has ever bought. And I don't know if they still exist, but would just show up in your grandparents house.

[Big T]

Oh yeah, yeah. They had the like little bit of like jam on the inside.

[Aryan]

Yes.

[Big T]

Yeah, those are good.

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Big T]

I like.

[Aryan]

If I knew if someone knows where to buy those, please send it my way. I would buy them.

[Big T]

I also like, I enjoy candy corn. I know it's a controversial take.

[Aryan]

I'm with you.

[Big T]

Candy corn is good. Don't. Don't eat a lot of it. But it's. Candy corn is just fine by the way.

[Aaron]

Called strawberry delights.

[Aryan]

Big thing are then they're. They're still in circulation, still popping. I might buy a bag of those. The white mystery airheads Flavor is always changing as it is made by combining leftover flavors from the production line that are not fully cleaned out between batches.

[Aaron]

Hmm.

[Big T]

Wow. Did not know that.

[Aryan]

So it's the scraps I got to show some.

[Dana]

Love to.

[Mackenzie]

Skittles.

[Big T]

Yeah, Skittles is solid. Very solid. And I don't think Skittles like the standard. That candy has not changed in what like normal Skittles probably 100 years. Standard Skittles.

[Political Commentator]

Yeah.

[Big T]

And yeah, it's good now that's the.

[Aryan]

Other thing I hear. All the Skittles are the same flavor.

[Big T]

That. That can't be true. There's no chance.

[Aryan]

I think that's what they say.

[Big T]

There's no chance. Zero chance. I would feel lied to.

[Aryan]

I mean they do just create like an amalgamation like in your mouth.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

Google's telling me they're not the same flavor, but I've seen a lot of people.

[Mackenzie]

You guys ever have Advil that tastes like candy?

[Madeline]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Yeah, it's good shit.

[Big T]

It is really good. It's dangerous.

[Madeline]

It's the one that looks like the Eminem.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Big T]

The brown. The brown Advil.

[Mackenzie]

Yeah, they just, they just have a coat of sugar.

[Big T]

Every day I wake up, I'm like, I think I got another headache.

[Aryan]

We're talking about like the Burgundy.

[Mackenzie]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

I guess those taste like candy.

[Big T]

They do.

[Madeline]

They taste like an. The coating of an M and M. Yeah, they put.

[Big T]

They put some sort of sweetener on the outside. It's so good.

[Aryan]

Wait, like, actually.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

I've never experienced this.

[Big T]

Yeah, you got to try this. Advil.

[Mackenzie]

Just pop a couple.

[Aryan]

Interesting.

[Big T]

Nothing. Yeah, you can have Advil, right? You can have Advil. If you're not. I would have a lot of it. But there's no harm if you were to just go out to the medicine cabinet that we have here and be like, ah, take a couple Advil.

[Aryan]

I could use a couple. Sure. Yeah. I've just never noticed that.

[Big T]

Aaron, are you to keep the mask on?

[Aaron]

No, it's running his course.

[Big T]

I was hoping that you would give some like, serious takes about something, like get into like a political argument with Big T while. While having that spider Man.

[Aaron]

Let's talk about it real quick before I change my mind.

[Big T]

We get a lot of stuff that we're going to get into today. Mad Dog just asked me before we started taping if I would be able to talk about Luke Kwan. Yeah. So we can talk about the Internet Invitational. And there's another episode that's coming out today. First, first off, first off, I'm kind.

[Aaron]

Of crushed about this. I'm kind of crushed. I've been following Luke since before he was with. Good, good.

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

So, like, I'm like a fan of Luke. Like I with him.

[Big T]

You know what I'm saying?

[Aaron]

And it's like, I'm not crushed, like, for real, but it's like, come on, dogs. You know what I mean? Like, come on, dogs.

[Big T]

I, I, it's just, you know what I mean?

[Aaron]

You just got to take accountability there, you know?

[Big T]

Yeah, it's.

[Aaron]

I wouldn't in mind. Okay. You overslept. That happens. You know, we all human, but then when you got there, you so lackadaisical. You. So like, here's what it is. Then you start talking to you and it's like, come on, B. It's like, I get it, but it's just not a good look. I, with Luke, I still, with Luke still following, but it's just, come on, dog. You gotta, you gotta take accountability there. You know what I mean?

[Big T]

I don't think he realized in the moment how many people he was pissing off because there was, there were so many people. And because of the nature of the Internet Invitational, you've got people who have their own massive, like, golf platforms that they've established. You've got like half of barstool sports, so you've got like the hockey guys with biz and wet. You've got the foreplay guys. You've got part of my take there. And I don't think it occurred to Luke. And that's in addition to, like, all the other major, like golf, YouTube groups and video gamers and stuff that. That were represented at the Internet Invitational. He didn't realize how many people he was going to piss off. And I. I feel like if he had to do it again, he probably would have done things differently easily.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Big T]

But, yeah, the night before, I got introduced to him, and I was like, okay, like, let's get some good vibes going. We're on the same team here. Wanted to meet all the teammates because.

[Political Commentator]

There are a lot of people that.

[Big T]

Didn'T know each other. Like, they were familiar with each other because of running in the same space online. And, you know, you've heard of these guys, but you never actually got to cross paths with a lot of them. And so trying to just meet some of your teammates, introduce yourself and get the vibes going on. On a night before the tournament kicked off, and I. I went up to him and he was just like, yeah, I don't really care about you. We're not going to use any of your shots. You suck. I'm good. You just have to just hang out there. So I was. I understood, by the way, that I was.

[Aaron]

He said. He said that off rip.

[Big T]

Yep, pretty much. I. I don't know that he said that I suck, but he's just like, yeah, you're. You're not good, but you don't have to worry. I'm. I'm really good. We won't use any of your shots. And I was like, well, I've been. I've been practicing a lot, and I think that we'll probably end up using some of mine. Like, I want to contribute. I want to be. I want to be an asset to the team, but I. I fully understood my place being paired with Luke. My place was going to be give him a read on every putt that we hit and so that he can use that and try to make a shot and then maybe use an approach shot, maybe use one or two drives like it's a scramble, so you never know. He could. He could hit a bad shot. I'm capable of hitting a good shot every now and again. It won't be, like, a constant thing, but felt like I could contribute. And he was just, like, adamant about, dude, don't even worry about it. You don't have to be there. So that was a very strange way to start things off. So I get to the course the next day, and I got there early because it's a important tea time. Didn't want to miss it. And I get some breakfast. And before I go out to the range, I'm looking around for Luke because they loaded my golf clubs up into a cart, and that was going to be the cart that Luke and I were going to use on the day. And I didn't see Luke around. So I. I put off going to the driving range because I thought, I don't want to take the cart away from Luke because Luke is going to need that to get to the range and start practicing. It's way more important that he gets warmed up than it is that I get warmed up. So I was like. I was looking around for him. Eventually, after a while, I was like, okay, maybe he's at the range. So I drove up to the range. He wasn't at the range. I hit a few shots to get going. Still don't see Luke. But then I assume, you know, he's, what, 33? I don't need to be, like, looking after Luke. He's played probably a thousand times more golf than I have, so he's probably got his routine that he's doing. So then I go down to the chipping area, and I went to the putting green, and still don't see Luke. And I'm asking around if anyone's seen him. No one's seen him. Now, at this point, the first tee. To get to the first tee, you have to, first of all check in with somebody, and then you have to drive through this crazy little rock outcrop cave area. It's a very cool golf course, but it's, like, built into some. I don't know if they're caves or just, like, rocky cliffs or whatever. So it's kind of a drive to get to the first tee, and it's about 15 minutes, I think, before tee time. And so I'm like, maybe he's not at the first tee. But I. There's only one way to do that, and that's to take the drive down there and check it out. So I drive down there, and he's not there. And then everyone's talking about, like, where is he? Where is this guy? And eventually, they sent somebody to his cabin, and he was just asleep the entire time, and they got him up. And I tried to delay it as much as I could on the first tee before we teed off just in hopes that he would. He would finally show up. And then Dave got madder and madder about the situation. People were, like, getting Dave wound up. He was upset at first. And then the more he heard people say, like, this is insane that he's here. It's disrespectful. Dave was like, yeah, you're right. So it started off from being that Luke can't tee off. Then it became Luke can't play on the first hole. Then it was Luke can't play until like he can't join in the middle of a hole. So if I tee off on the second hole, he has to wait till the third one. And then eventually it was no three holes, then it was four holes. And at that point I was just. I was. Because, sorry. I was playing against Frankie and Bubby and in a scramble. Those guys are both really good and I'm not that good. So I was from the get go on that one and I, I did not play well on the first like three holes. And that was. Yeah, I was a little bit.

[Aaron]

Shoot. Did you concede a lot or would you shoot?

[Big T]

I conceded. Yeah. I want to say I probably had a double on the first hole, probably at least a double on the second hole. And then I think on the third I had like a bogey or something like that.

[Aaron]

But it'd be so fire if you part out. That'd be so fire.

[Big T]

I was just hoping I could at least I could tie on on a hole or two. That would have been big if I could do that. But I didn't. I was a little bit rattled. Not gonna lie, going against those guys in a. Because it's not just like I'm, I'm playing golf if I'm doing it by myself. If I'm like on a, even a two man team, I usually don't get that nervous even doing it on, on camera. But add in the fact that the whole format on me got flipped up at the last second and now my teammate who was supposed to really carry me wasn't there. And also I've got what, 12 other teammates and we're playing for 1.7 million. I was, yeah, I was, I was, I was flustered at that point.

[Aaron]

So there's between me and you. Pft. I thrived in that situation.

[Big T]

Probably also. You're much better.

[Aaron]

Big time. Big time players make big time plays in big time situations. That was your opportunity to step up. Pft.

[Big T]

I know, I know. But I, I did not, I did not step up. But then once Luke got there, I kind of stepped up. So Luke led this whole thing off by being like, dude, we're not going to use any of your shots. Don't show up and then first he, Luke hits, I don't know, 30ft from the pen or par three. I, I stick a dot just, just behind the pin.

[Dana]

Go.

[Big T]

And so I was like, oh, okay, that's, that's pretty cool. And then on the next hole, I.

[Aaron]

Put, you got, you got a chirping right there. You got to chirp him right there.

[Big T]

You got to say, looks like we're.

[Aaron]

Losing some of my shots after all, huh?

[Big T]

So, yeah, I could have, but I, I, I, I took the approach of being like, he's here. Let's shock the world. Let's beat them five holes in a row now. Let's, let's try to get a point. So I didn't want to, I, I didn't want to have, like, an openly antagonistic relationship with my partner as we were playing golf in that moment.

[Aaron]

He started that.

[Big T]

He did. He did. Yeah.

[Aaron]

I'm, I'm of the ilk.

[Big T]

I'm, I'm mature ish.

[Aaron]

As I sit in a Spider man costume. I'm a mature ish grown man. I will reciprocate the energy you give me, especially if it's something like that. You know what I'm saying?

[Big T]

That's fair.

[Aaron]

If you, if you respect me, it's respect. If you with me, I with you. If you want a laughing joke, I'm laughing. A joke. You want to disrespect, I can do that.

[Big T]

That's fair. That is a fair point. I think a lot of other people would have taken that approach. I know Whitney would. Whitney was so pissed off at him. But part, part of what goes into that, at least for me, I'm, I'm not very good at golf. So, like, it's not. Yeah, it's not really in my nature to talk to somebody at something that I'm not very good at, you know?

[Aaron]

See, See, I look at it differently. This, this is what you do. You supposed to be the man, and I just beat you on a hole. You. This, this supposed to be your tighten up. Late boy.

[Big T]

Yep, late boy.

[Aaron]

That's what I'd have took that approach.

[Big T]

But so, so, yeah, we were, you know, we played two holes after he joined us, used both of my approach shots on those two holes, and we pushed both of them despite Luke not really playing that well when he did show up. So it was, it was tough sledding and then afterwards. So Luke didn't really seem to care that much about, like, really golf in general. And we had some good conversations in the cart and, and, and talked about a lot of stuff. Got to know him a little bit. I don't, I don't hate Luke Kwan. I think he's probably a good guy. That, that up and then was a. About up. Which really, that's really what where the problem is. It's like when you, if you screw something up like that got to be humbled a little bit. Gotta. Gotta.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Put your hat in your hand.

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Big T]

But he just kind of doubled down on it and then we, we ended up playing like two or three holes after our match was over just because we're on the course anyways. The holes were open in front of us so we played a couple holes and, and had a decent time and then yeah, Wit kind of laid into him after the fact and he. I, I didn't, I didn't feel. I guess it comes out to like I didn't feel confident enough in my golf abilities to talk that much to him even after he got there. Because when he was saying stuff like you're not going to make this putt anyways, which is a thing for your partner to say about you. Don't get me wrong, that's a thing. But also in the back of my head I was like, he's probably right. Like I'm not, I'm not very good. But it, But I, I should not have had that mentality because I think sometimes, sometimes that it's self fulfilling.

[Aaron]

But I think, I think you're just below an average golfer like that. I'm not disrespecting, but yes, you're pretty good at golf, bro. Like, like, don't. I don't. I think you short yourself, you know what I'm saying? Like, like a. Against Luke Qua. Yeah. You're not very good to him. He used to be pro. He's be on a corn fairy tour. Like that's what he used to do. You know what I'm saying?

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

So it's like for him to be talking like that, that's, that's why I got upset. Not upset. Like, I don't, I'm not gonna lose no sleep over this. But it's like, it's bothersome as a fan of somebody like that to like I could take if that's the content you put out, but that's not the content he usually puts out, you know, saying like he, he, he. He's a little snappy and snarky at points. But in the instance like this when there's a inferior golfer and like you to you, the better one, you would look to see like hey man, I got you on some pointers and some tips like you used to do this. Like this is your profession.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

On top of the fact the shit that you mentioned is like at the Internet Invitational, if you don't have the fuck if this is what you're doing with your life, this is. Luke Kwan is a YouTube golfer now. Right. If that's what you doing with your life, you don't see the monumental look that is of every who's who in the YouTube golf space is there. All their fan bases is going to be watching, sponsors are going to be watching. So you don't think at any point you being kind is going to go a long way. Like that shit's what. It blows my mind. Like how did you think that was going to go, dog? Like that's, that's what's crazy. And then you did it to my man's like Eric, you my man's. I joke with you a lot but like you can't fuck with the family, you know. So like Luke, Luke Kwan, like down two points in my book, you know.

[Aryan]

Spider man hates Luke Kwan.

[Congressman]

Yeah.

[Big T]

I love Arian by the way. That was awesome. You were giving me a pump up speech and rocking Spider man full mask. No, yeah, it was, it was a, it was a strange thing to be a part of. And yeah, there's watching it back, you, you pick up on some things that you didn't really pick up on in the moment. And I think you're right. You can't do that if you're, if you're the superior golfer. Because as, as somebody myself, I, I agree with you. I don't think I'm a bad golfer. I think I'm, I'm slightly below average, which is actually pretty good for the amount of golf that I played.

[Aaron]

Absolutely.

[Big T]

But also going into that I, I had my confidence in my own game was there. But it was also paper thin. Like if I, if I things up as not as a not very good golfer, if things start to go wrong with me, if there's any doubt that comes into my brain that's very bad for my game. If I'm feeling good and confident and the vibes are high, then yeah, I'm, I'm capable of being, I'd say average at golf. I, we could have won for. I think we, what we saw is once he did show up, the way that we played together, we easily could have won that match. And, and that it was just not going to happen the way that, that it all shook out.

[Aaron]

Yeah. Like, like when Me and you was paired up, right? Like, I know I'm a little better than you. You know what I'm saying? But, like, never in a thousand years would I be talking to my partner while we playing somebody. I'm gonna talk to them.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

All day. You know what I'm saying? But it's like, why would I do that? And especially if I'm lukewarm. Luke Kwan used to be. Like, imagine me coming out on a football field and you actually really trying, and I'm shitting on you.

[Big T]

You know what I'm saying?

[Aaron]

Like, I'm literally shitting on you. Like, I know you can't make this throw, though. You know what I'm saying?

[Big T]

Like, that's.

[Aaron]

That's crazy to me. Like, that I don't. I just don't understand the mind. Like, what's the goal? Like, your goal to be snappy and edgy.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

In a. In an Internet invitational where you have the opportunity to bolster your platform, and that's what you do. Oh, no, man. Spider Man's not happy. I'm gonna be honest.

[Big T]

I appreciate that. Well, there's more golf to be played and. Yeah. So, yeah, I'll just say that on Thursday, get a new partner and vibes could not be any any more different. Loved who I played with on Thursday. We're friends now. I'll have this guy's back for forever.

[Aaron]

And that's what it could have been. See, that's the bottle, bro. I was with Luke for a long time. Like, I watch his. All his. When his videos drop, you know, I. I pop in, like, he's good golfer, funny dude. He's always been a good dude from the camera's point of view, you know?

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

That's like. You never meet your heroes. Well, lukewarm is not my hero. But I'm saying. You know what I'm saying?

[Big T]

Maybe. Maybe we caught him on a bad day. That could be it, too. Bad week.

[Aaron]

I'm willing to give grace. Jesus forgives. Right, Big T? And so who am I to not forgive? You know what I mean, Big T?

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

Agreed.

[Aaron]

Yeah. So, you know, it's. He's strike one, though. You know, I'm only human.

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Strike one.

[Madeline]

He has all three strikes.

[Aryan]

I'm on all three strikes.

[Big T]

Mad Dog's out. Mad Dog's out. Kirk Manhan just texted me. He said I would have shot him. Can you imagine?

[Madeline]

One time. Madeline's on Kirk. I am on Kirk's side of that. I agree. Kirk.

[Big T]

Can you imagine? Can you? Because Kirk lobbied Pretty hard to be a part of this.

[Madeline]

I remember that.

[Big T]

Can you imagine if Kirk was actually on Luke Kwan's team?

[Madeline]

No.

[Aryan]

It wouldn't have been able to be put on film.

[Aaron]

That have been, that have been fun to watch.

[Big T]

Stephen Che would have looked like Kirk's best friend.

[Madeline]

Right.

[Big T]

Compared to what Kirk would have said to Luke.

[Madeline]

Yeah.

[Big T]

I think Big T might have an idea of, of one step that the Democrats could take to start to win backs. You know, the, the image of being a masculine party.

[Aryan]

And I definitely know what that is.

[Big T]

It involves sports.

[Aryan]

Maybe you're going to have to enlighten me.

[Big T]

Maybe. My position is maybe occasionally win a congressional baseball game.

[Aryan]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay, so Congressman.

[Big T]

Like once in a while.

[Aryan]

So you only played this past year, right?

[Congressman]

I played two years. I'm a terrible baseball player, by the way.

[Aryan]

Okay.

[Congressman]

Not a good base. I've never been a good baseball player. And I'm so the team is so bad that they even had me on the team because, like, I'm under, you know, 70 years old and can run around.

[Aryan]

So I'm in what has to be the 99.9 percentile of Americans in terms of fans of the Congressional baseball game. I watch it. I couldn't, I couldn't find individual statistics. But in the last five years, y' all are oh and five and have been outscored 83 to 31. So I'm just curious what the preparation for that looks like. Are y' all practicing, like, what's. And is there a plan to maybe bring in some ringers at some point and try to win one?

[Congressman]

For sure there is. I'm trying not to be. Well, I'll just be. I'll be super blunt. I wouldn't be mean to my colleagues, but like the Democr, the Republicans start their practices earlier in the season. They start their practices earlier in the morning. They run a much more tight operation on, on, you know, just what they do to prepare. And we, we need to step up our game on that. Like, just, you know, preparation matters, especially as, you know, I'm 43 and I'm one of the youngest people on the team. So, like, a lot of it's just starting earlier and doing that. We struggled on pitching. We had an amazing player pitcher. His name was Cedric Richmond from Louisiana. And when he left, that's when we got on this losing streak, this 5, 5 season losing streak. So in a game like this, the pitching really, really matters. And the Republicans have had two good pitchers for a while. So that, that's, that's Made it tough for us to. To compete. But a lot of us are pushing to just practice earlier. And then we are. We've been trying to recruit people to run who are. Who are good. Like, there's a minor league pitcher out in Iowa who at one point was going to run for the house. We're trying to get him on the team. So I think we just gotta take it more seriously. But I actually do think it's like, it's a lighthearted thing. We raise money for charity. We raise almost $3 million for charity, which is awesome. But it's an example of. Yeah, winning matters on whatever the thing is. And we got to get back to being focused and disciplined and. And having a real team that's about winning. So not trying to knock any of my colleagues. A lot of us are, you know.

[Aaron]

Trash is gonna say it.

[Aryan]

Gotta keep it close. You can't get some of the scores. I had them in front of me.

[Congressman]

Like, I was a pinch runner on the team, so every player on the team is better than me. I'm. I'm not trying to criticize my individual teammates, but we. We're going to. We're going to keep. We're going to work on it next year. That's my.

[Aaron]

That's lock in. Lock in. Congressman.

[Congressman]

We need. Yeah, we need. We need you guys to come whip us.

[Aaron]

If y'. All. If y' all do. If y' all do a. A flag football game, I'll consider running. That's cool.

[Congressman]

There is. There is actually.

[Aaron]

There is a really.

[Congressman]

It's flag.

[Big T]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron]

And which I'm not get you over.

[Big T]

What's the record in that? Are we. Are the Democrats any better at flag football than they are at baseball?

[Congressman]

So the football one's interesting. Football is a bipartisan, where it's actually the. The member. The House members of both parties play together, and then they play Capitol Police, actually. And then each team is allowed to have some pros or former pros play. So that's like. It's a more interesting game. And I actually kind of wish. I think it'd be better, frankly, if it was two bipartisan teams playing each other, because a lot of what I've gotten out of this is actually just building friendships with colleagues that I wouldn't otherwise have time to hang out with because our schedules are kind of crazy. So I think it'd be nice if we actually had two teams that were bipartisan, and then you get to build those relationships, because so much of what's not working in Congress is like it's just become like a blood sport on the partisan level and then it's hard to overcome that when it comes to actually doing stuff together.

[Big T]

Yeah, has, yeah. Aaron, go ahead.

[Aaron]

I was gonna say right for that line. So we've kind of seen. I want to know your. I know you're gonna give me a politically correct answer, but do your best. I want to know your, I want to know your thoughts on Marjorie Taylor Greene's evolution in, in her diplomacy in these last couple months or so.

[Congressman]

I don't, I, I hope you don't consider this politically correct. I think it's fully self serving. It's because she wanted to run for something in her state and Trump didn't support her, so she's pissed at him about that and she has a grudge about that. I think that's primarily what's, what's driving it. And, and now she's getting a lot of nice press coverage about it. So that sort of strokes the ego for me. Like, I always welcome if people serious to actually change their mind and apologize for stuff. I think that's important. But to me, like, and folks might not agree with me, but what she did around January 6th, in my opinion was traitorous. And I think that that's like a red line for me. Until she owns that, it's hard for me to kind of like, I personally think trying to overthrow or cancel the people's votes in a national election transcends partisan, should transcend partisanship. And she was a big part of that. So I would like to see some accountability for her from that. Then I'd be like, okay, that's real.

[Big T]

And kind of along those same lines, we're talking about getting the feedback and the recognition from the media. I almost feel like social media is also one of those things that have people doing things in Congress for not the right reasons, where, you know, just like anybody else, you get, you, you log on to social media and you get the dopamine hits. When people like whatever it is you post or whatever in your opinion on the inside, do you see a lot of congresspeople that are like clout chasing, that are, that are trying to just repeat whatever they see on social media that they know will get traction as opposed to thinking about actually leading and, and learning about issues instead of just reading like a copied and paste headline and that informs their political view? Because I've noticed a big shift in like the last six, seven years. I just did it big T. But I've noticed, I've noticed a big shift Where I'm almost like, politicians shouldn't be on social media and I understand why you are, because you have to communicate. But I think it's a very toxic thing for current members of our government to be trying to chase whatever Internet cool points are out there. If it's the left wing and you're going the most woke, or if it's the, the right wing and you're just like repeating what you've seen from a bunch of anonymous accounts that have bubbled their way up to the top of the eco, like it doesn't matter which side it is. I think that chasing Internet fun points are actually serving as an extremely large detriment to public service right now. And I'm curious what you've seen on the inside.

[Congressman]

Yeah, could not agree more. It's, it's like it was already bad, but this is like fuel on the fire of all the bad incentives being rewarded.

[Aaron]

So.

[Congressman]

And then it also leads on a slightly later note to like some of the most cringy shit you, you've ever seen of trying to emulate something that was authentic, someone else that then is not to that person. And yeah, but I think even, just, even the last two years it's gotten so much more extreme on this front. But as traditional and legacy media are dying and you guys know this better than anybody, this is the best way to communicate with constituents. The problem is the algorithms obviously reward the bad divisive stuff. So there are on a more serious note, real, there's real work to do for Congress to put some guardrails around. Just the running wild of kind of bringing out the worst of everybody basically to get more clicks and drive more revenue to companies that are trillion dollar companies ready while we descend into like borderline fricking civil war here so they can make a little bit more money and grow their companies bigger. So that's something we got to take on. I don't, yeah, there's no easy. Like that's kind of the big answer and otherwise I think it's actually unfortunately going to get a little bit worse here before it gets better in the next few years. Because TikTok just is about to get handed to a bunch of kind of people very close to the president and that's just going to get rewarded. You know, this is going to get, the division's going to get further rewarded around that, that deal. So it's, it's. I got six and four year old boys and I'm like, this is this ha. Like we gotta fix this immediately obviously, but Just on a personal level, I'm like before these guys have smartphones. I gotta, we gotta put some boundaries here.

[Big T]

Yeah, I mean Chuck Schumer's post about the car tax the other, the other month was an all timer. Get the hell out of here with the car tax. He ripped the sheet up. I, that's it made me laugh so hard when I was watching. I was like great job Chuck. You're. You're connecting with the youths. Well done. All right, we're back. It is Tuesday, December 2nd and this podcast just got a new member. Aryan's dog.

[Aryan]

Climb it up.

[Big T]

Aaron got a dog.

[Aaron]

He did it.

[Big T]

He did it. If I can change and you can change then anyone can change.

[Aaron]

Let's pump the brakes. I didn't change. I've had a dog before.

[Big T]

Okay.

[Aaron]

I still don't like yalls dogs. I just like this dog. I ain't changed too much but it's like a, a little uptick of a change. We could say maybe.

[Big T]

Yeah. You have a dog. You, you now. Do you love your dog?

[Dana]

Love?

[Aaron]

What is love?

[Aryan]

Oh, it's a good start.

[Big T]

I think he loves. He's just. He's too proud to admit that he loves.

[Aaron]

I like him. I mean love, love is an interesting concept in general. You know he's a little right now. I'm gonna be honest though.

[Big T]

Yep.

[Aaron]

He's a right now dog. Him pissed 3 times in my room. He on my carpet this morning.

[Big T]

He's.

[Aaron]

He's starting to learn routine though. You know he's starting to learn routine. The crate has been a big help. I don't do it for punishment.

[Big T]

Yep.

[Aaron]

I just do it. But I do do it for break time. Cause sometimes he just. He's just gonna. He just chews everything dog. And so you. Except for the chew toys I give. He's 32 toys and he choose everything else but the I gave him. But no, it's been fun. I taught him how to sit already.

[Big T]

Smart dog.

[Aaron]

Yeah, he's pretty smart. Taught him how to sit with the help of chat GPT. Yeah, it's been fun. A lot of energy this little has. But he sleeps a lot. Definitely sleeps a lot.

[Big T]

Yeah man.

[Aaron]

It's been. It's been interesting. A lot. A lot of compliments. People that like dogs love them. Cool. So this is just a. I'm tired of though. I had to get up at 3:30 this morning go let him out. Go pee. Yeah. Fun.

[Congressman]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

I saw SVP was, was excited. You got the same dog.

[Aaron]

Yeah, he's in the Ridgeback Family shout out to SVP man.

[Big T]

Yeah, I think he's a serial Ridgeback owner. I think this might be his second Ridgeback that he's had. And, Aaron, this is a. It's a big step. I'm glad. I'm happy for you. It's a sweet little dog. His name is Django. I would love to see Django.

[Aaron]

Yeah, his name's Django. Hold on, let me see if I can corral this.

[Big T]

All right, here he goes. Making his podcast debut. It is Django Foster. That's a cool name. It kind of sounds Australian. Django Foster. Reeds back.

[Aryan]

Australian for dog.

[Big T]

Australian. Australian for good boy.

[Aryan]

That's not a bad Australian you got there.

[Big T]

I. I fade in and out between Australian and British whenever I do it. Look at him.

[Aryan]

There he is.

[Big T]

Look at him. There's Django. Django doesn't have a leash on. You could say he's unchained.

[Aaron]

Ah, changed. Yeah, so he's. He's pretty chill for his species, but yeah, man, he cool.

[Big T]

Oh, look at him. Hey, Django.

[Aaron]

Say what's up.

[Big T]

Look at all that loose skin you got, Django. I love that.

[Madeline]

Gonna grow into that.

[Aaron]

Yeah, he got some big ass paws. And, you know, the Internet says, you know, get him used to, like, touching and feeling and, like. So when he's eating and stuff, I'll touch him and. Yeah, like.

[Big T]

Yeah, that's smart.

[Aaron]

They're pretty cool, man. He's pretty cool.

[Big T]

Yeah, you're right, though. A little puppy, you have to let him out all the time.

[Aaron]

Every, like, three or four hours, he has to go do stuff.

[Big T]

They got tiny little bladders, and so whenever they drink water just goes right through them. Hey, buddy. How we doing? Django. Yeah. You did good. Good job, Aaron.

[Aaron]

Still can't kiss me in the mouth, though. That's weird.

[Big T]

That's fine. You'll get there. Hold on.

[Aaron]

Let me go put him in this.

[Congressman]

Hold on.

[Big T]

Okay. That's a great dog. That's a great dog. I'm very happy for Aaron.

[Aaron]

Hey, is a cup of coffee possible.

[Big T]

For the dog?

[Aryan]

You tell us.

[Madeline]

No. Very bad for the dog.

[Big T]

Yeah, don't give your dog coffee real quick while.

[Aryan]

While he's gone. And we talked about JMU football. Condolences on the departure of Coach Chesney.

[Big T]

Bob Chesney. Yeah. So the thing is, he's a great. He's a great coach. I hope that he's going to be able to. To coach throughout the playoff if Jamie makes it. I know the report was that they plan on letting him do that?

[Aryan]

I think so, yeah.

[Big T]

We'll see what happens. But I think he will. I think that at this point, if you're losing a coach to a, to a power conference, all the group of five schools seem to be rather chill about letting their coaches move on. And, and it's not like a big drama filled exit.

[Aryan]

Right.

[Big T]

We're friends. We know that. We knew that this day was coming. It still kind of sucks. So now, now I guess I'm in the coaching search bucket. So I need to, I need to get with my guys and figure out who we're going to hire because I want the next up and coming guy. He's probably going to leave in two years, but this is, you know, this is the life that I choose.

[Aaron]

Mike. Vic.

[Big T]

Mike Vick for jmu.

[Aryan]

Were they good this year?

[Big T]

You just put Django away.

[Aaron]

Who cares? Mike, he couldn't hear it.

[Big T]

The Duke Dogs. I mean, can you imagine the pictures of Mike Vick next to her? Or mascot.

[Aryan]

They went 1 and 11 this season.

[Big T]

Listen, I think Mike Vick has, he's paid his society. He's, he knows a lot of football. He knows the area that. I'll say that about Mike Vick. He'd be able to recruit the out of Virginia.

[Aaron]

That's what I'm saying. You give a, you give a guy like that access so he can get talent.

[Big T]

Yep. So. So this morning I'm actually behind on the news. Big T. I did not actually hear about Bob Chesney until I sat down at this desk like 15 minutes ago.

[Aryan]

Really?

[Big T]

Yeah, I, I had, I, I do this once every like six years. I fell asleep last night, did not set my alarm. I usually wake up at 8:39 regardless on a Monday morning. It's a late night sometimes on Sundays for, for part of my take. So I, I usually go to bed around like 2, 2:30 and then I'll wake up right at like 8:30 and get ready to come in on Monday. This morning I rolled over, I looked at my phone, it was 11:15. Wow. The panic that sets in.

[Aryan]

That would explain your text at. Hold please. Yeah, your text at 11:26am at 9:33 MacKenzie said, would you guys be able to start at 11:15 or 11:30? Arian? And I said yep, no problem. PFT at 11:26. Said my bad guys gotta go at noon.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

Which is fine.

[Big T]

Yeah, I, I try not to do that. And that's on me for being late. I'm usually pretty good about. I, I usually do set an alarm. I guess I forgot to last night. But when I don't set an alarm, I usually wake up anyways at 8:30 or 9. But the, the feeling that you get when you look at your phone, it's 11:15. You planned on being awake like two and a half hours ago. And all the text that you missed, all the stuff that you have to catch up on, it is the most anxiety inducing moment ever.

[Aryan]

See, I actually am envious of your ability to do that. I wake up at about between 7 and 7:30 every single day, regardless of what time I go to bed. Yeah, if I go to bed at 10, I will wake up at 7. If I go to bed at 2:30, I will wake up at 7. That's just what time I wake up. So I'm keenly aware of that. Anytime I. On a Friday night, I play video games too long, I look up and it's 1:15. I'm like, this is, this is going to suck tomorrow morning because I'm waking up at 7. Yep, that's just what time I wake up.

[Big T]

Yep. It's good to have that internal alarm and I usually do. But this morning it was all different.

[Aaron]

It was.

[Big T]

But yeah, it's, it's a stressful way to wake up. Being behind on everything, behind on the news. But. We're back. We're back. I feel like I'm. I'm locked in right now for this episode mostly because of Django is so happy and excited to see Django for the first time. Are you letting him sleep with you?

[Aaron]

No. What the. Listen, I told you I ain't like, I'm not like he not going to kiss me in the mouth, not going to sleep with me. He sleeps. I allow him to lay on me when he's resting. You know what I mean? That's, that's, that's. I. But like as far as like sleeping in my bed. No dog. Hell no. He's still a dog, you know what I mean? But he's just the homie. Like, you know, like he sleeps in a little crate beside my bed.

[Aryan]

Are you going on walks with him or just like letting him out in the yard?

[Aaron]

No, no, I, I take him on walks every day. Like twice. Twice a day.

[Aryan]

Love that.

[Aaron]

Not that interested in ducks as I thought he would be because we got a duck pond like right by the crib and he just kind of like looks at him and then go on about his little smelling business. Don't know how he interacts with other dogs yet. I took him to the fence of another dog who's Like a little. One of those little purse dogs. He always be yapping when we go to the duck pond. And Django's kind of scared. He didn't know what to make of it. But I know he. I know he's been around, like, his brothers and sisters because, like, we got him from a farm. Like, these people own, like, a farm. There was chickens and cows and goats and. Was crazy. So he's been around other animals and stuff in his life, but, like, in the city, he hasn't really yet, so we'll see how that goes. And that was that. That's another note. That was kind of sad, too, prying him away from his family. That was kind of sad, though. I ain't gonna lie. Yeah, I had second. I had second thoughts while. While his mom was, you know, I mean, like, I was like, damn, I'm about to kidnap this.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Big T]

But the thing is, they. It's natural for them. Like, they're.

[Aaron]

You can justify how you want. I am.

[Big T]

Do you think that if you. That if humans did not adopt dogs, you think that they would just live with their, like, parents and grandparents and brothers and sisters until old age?

[Aaron]

I don't know about old age, but they're pack animals.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

Are they not? I thought. I mean, I know they're descended from wolves, and wolves are definitely pack animals.

[Big T]

They're social animals. I. I guess that'd be interesting to find out. Like, what. What happens. What happens with, like, wild dogs?

[Aaron]

Well, they're domesticated now, so. Well, yeah. Yes, dogs are considered pack animals, and they naturally live in social groups for survival.

[Congressman]

Yeah.

[Big T]

So how much.

[Aaron]

No, I definitely connected, huh?

[Big T]

How much does he eat now?

[Aaron]

He's like two, three times a day. And he. We mix in. The lady told us to mix in some wet food with his kibble, and she suggested which kind we get. And so we mix in the wet food with his kibble and kind of make him. It's like his vegetables, you know, we got to make him eat his vegetables. So he eats pretty pretty much the. They told us to get one of those called slow feeding bowls. Yeah, I had no idea what that was. But apparently if he. His type of breed, if he don't get a slow feeding bowl, he just inhales his food and doesn't really chew it or something. I don't know. So he has to, like, kind of work for it a little bit in his bowl. So. Fun times, man. Up early and late.

[Big T]

Yep.

[Aaron]

Cleaning up pissed. That's the thing that's pissing me off the Most is this little be peeing everywhere dog, and you have to attack it. You got to get a certain chemical to dry it up and to vacuum it. It's just. It's a hat. It's like having a child over again, except at least with a child, you put a diaper on them. You know, I think it's easier to raise a. Like a. In, like a baby. I think a baby's easier.

[Big T]

Yeah, good point. I agree with Aaron.

[Aaron]

I'm serious. I got five of them. Like, babies are, like, more delicate, but when they're young. Young like that, they just. They'll cry. Sure. But I could deal with the crying, the puppy cries. It's just the constant monitoring, monitoring. And you gonna.

[Aryan]

Something up.

[Aaron]

You're gonna chew something. You're gonna rip something down. You got. And my house isn't puppy proof, so it's like everything is a. Is a target for him. And with the baby, it's like they. They start to understand. Well, I don't know. We'll see, man. But as of right now, easier to raise a human.

[Big T]

I like that. I appreciate that. I hope that anybody out there that would yell at me for. For saying something like that heeds Aryan's words, because Arian knows. He knows.

[Aaron]

Wait, is that controversial?

[Big T]

No, I. I say that sometimes just to piss people off. Like, I'll be like, yeah, I got a dog. It's pretty much harder than having a baby.

[Aaron]

And then a puppy is for sure.

[Big T]

There you go. There you go. No, you do have to let a dog out all the time. You got to make sure that they're not chewing on stuff. It took until Blake was probably, I'd say, nine months old to let him kind of, like, be on his own in a room that I wasn't in, because, yeah, they like to chew, and we have to get you a Hank chew toy.

[Aaron]

Well, now, see, I've seen this joke flying around on me on Twitter so much, but I have no idea what is the reference. What is a Hank chew toy?

[Big T]

No, it's just a great dog toy that we invented at part of my take. And so we sold it for Black Friday. It sold out within five minutes and.

[Aaron]

All right, send me one.

[Big T]

Yeah, we'll get you one as soon as we get. Actually, you know what? I think I have one in the studio. They're sold out right now, but I can package one up and send. Send my personal one to you, Aaron.

[Aaron]

I appreciate that, man. Have Hank sign it.

[Big T]

Oh, that's good. Yeah, I'll have Hank, like, just. I'LL rub it on Hank so it'll get some of his scent. And then when your dog meets Hank for the first time, he's gonna be like, it's my best friend. Except he's huge now around.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

Well, so by the time I. Yeah, but if he ever meets him, then Django gonna be huge too.

[Big T]

Yep.

[Aaron]

He gonna be a big ass dog.

[Big T]

I think so. What are they saying, like 110, 120 pounds?

[Aaron]

The lady said 120 to 130.

[Big T]

Yep. It's a good dog.

[Aaron]

I like, I want, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna soft. Yeah. Like a softy at heart. But if somebody walk in, he'll. You know what I'm saying? He can give it to you if we. If it need be. That's what I want it.

[Big T]

Good protection dog.

[Aaron]

Yeah. And he's, he's a gorgeous looking dog. Like his coat is exactly what I was looking for. Remember I told you I was looking for like a fox red? Yep. Lab at first, but like I found a ridgeback with that red tint.

[Big T]

Yep.

[Aaron]

Yeah, man, I'm excited. It's fun. It's been a fun experience. It is tough as shit, but like, it's. It's fun. It's fun to be a part of. Kids love him. Kids absolutely love him.

[Big T]

Are they gonna take care of him? They're gonna help.

[Aaron]

They already have. My daughter, 16 year old. She. She been on him when he, when he was in the car. We was riding the back, she threw up on her and she was like, hey, this what mama gotta do.

[Big T]

The game is the game.

[Aaron]

The game is the game. So everybody loves him except for my youngest. She's. She's the, she's the youngest. So he like naturally he tries to like. And maybe you can give me some experience here. Cause this is kind of like odd to me. Anytime she's by herself, he like goes directly to her, like. Cause she. And she just kind of like turns her back. She's kind of intimidated. Cause he's, you know, and he's not trying to like bite her, but he's like, he's like very excited to see her when everybody else kind of like can chew him away or at least calm him down a little bit. She can't. And so like every time he sees her, he's just on her.

[Big T]

Yeah. So some kids are like that and they'll. Especially younger kids, they'll move away from the dog and try to get away from it. And that makes the dog want to go after you more because it becomes like A game. If they see like a kid. If it's a little puppy that sees a kid, like running away from it, it will just chase that kid because it's like, okay, they're trying to get away from me. That means I should probably chase them. So it's like a catch 22. It's just something she'll get better with when she gets more comfortable with the dog.

[Aaron]

Yeah, my seven year old was like that at first, but I told her, you have to like. I don't know if this is the correct terminology. I was like, you have to establish it like a hierarchy.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

So that he knows that he's lower than you in the back and like, once you kind of stand your ground, he kind of just like leaves you alone.

[Big T]

Yeah. So, yeah, I would just say don't tell. Tell your kids, like, don't run away from it.

[Aaron]

Got you.

[Big T]

Yeah. Stand your ground from him.

[Aaron]

Don't. Don't misgender my dog.

[Big T]

Stand your ground from him.

[Aaron]

There you go. Yeah, not. Not like too much, but, you know.

[Big T]

Yeah, not. Yeah, not like Castle doctrine, but just, you know, ten toes down.

[Dana]

There you go.

[Big T]

Ten toes down around this dog. Let the dog know. Well, congratulations. I look forward to watching Django grow up and become a happy, well adjusted, beautiful young dog.

[Political Commentator]

Can you guys get Nancy Mason?

[Big T]

Would love to.

[Aryan]

I would love to.

[Big T]

I would love to talk to her about the Charleston airport.

[Dana]

I have.

[Political Commentator]

Well, I've. I've become an expert on her problems with the Charleston airport. I think that would be a great episode.

[Big T]

What have you learned about it? Because all I know is that she was not afforded the security that she was told that she was going to get. And then she yelled at somebody. And then she spent the next two weeks tweeting @ the airport because she was.

[Political Commentator]

Angry. At the airport, nothing you said was. Was.

[Big T]

Incorrect.

[Political Commentator]

Okay. However, let's add a little nuance to this. First of all, women have only, you know, women are put upon in a sexist way often. And a certain gentleman was murdered in Utah named Charlie Kirk. And as you know, murders often go. One boy, one girl. One boy, one girl. She is a prominent conservative voice. She was going to the airport, which is a place where, okay, granted, basically no shootings ever happened at the airport because it is a place where there's actually a lot of police. Oftentimes they even have guns there in New York here. They have the National Guard there, even. However, anything can happen. That's what we've learned from all the events of the past since Christ died, really. And and so she goes to the airport. These guys are supposed to meet her. Yes. She doesn't come in the car that she said she was coming in. Yes. It was a different color car. You're police officers. Situational awareness is your number one thing. Eyes everywhere. Okay, I see. That's a red car. Not a red car. It's a gray car. Whatever you see Nancy Mace in that car, she is unmistakable. And again, sexism is a big problem. So I don't mean it in a sexist way when I say that body is unreplicable. And those police officers should have been able to note.

[Aaron]

Her.

[Political Commentator]

Yep. Exiting the car no matter what car it was. Okay, maybe it was a different place where she was dropped off than she said she was getting dropped off. Doesn't matter. Doesn't.

[Big T]

Matter.

[Political Commentator]

It's. It's just. And then. And then they're mad that she's on the phone being like, these guys. These cops fucking suck. I hate the cops. Guess what? Five years ago, summer 2020, everybody was talking like that. And just because. Yes. If she. It takes her. She's a South Carolina. Takes a little while to catch up. Yeah, I understand. She's her acab moment or whatever came a little late. Fair enough. And then to have Lindsey Graham support the Charleston airport instead of this woman named Nancy Mace, who should be his friend. I don't understand. Lots of women have a gay friend. Oftentimes it's an evil influence in their life. And let's. Let's not. And this isn't anything about gay people. This is anything about women. But a lot of women have a cruel homosexual whispering in their ear, like the man in the horse kingdom in Lord of the.

[Dana]

Rings. Worm.

[Political Commentator]

Tongue. Of course I'm talking about the famous worm tongue. And so I don't understand why Nancy Mace doesn't have a worm tongue relationship with Lindsey Graham. Is it because he's too fat? I mean, this is the question we're all asking, is the reason that Lindsey Graham doesn't advise Nath. Nancy Mace is because maybe he. She thinks he's too fat. And this could be. Could be a lot of the cause of this. She's like, I don't want an advisor who makes the floorboards creek when he comes to secretly advise me. However, she did appear to tweet out what appeared to be. I'm using appear as many times as possible. The sentence allegedly appeared to me to be a. A photoshopped or rather groked image of her possibly pregnant in front of a Christmas tree with gray Hair the other day. That greatly disturbed.

[Big T]

Me. I saw that, too. Is she not actually.

[Political Commentator]

Pregnant? No.

[Aaron]

Right.

[Big T]

I. It's. That would be a wild thing to tweet out if. If you.

[Political Commentator]

Weren'T. Maybe, but it's like, who's tweeting out, like the baby bump begin showing? You know what I.

[Big T]

Mean? Yeah. You would typically wait for I. I would guess maybe four or five.

[Political Commentator]

Months, maybe six after the kid is born, when you're like, check it out. I got.

[Big T]

Triplets. Yeah, that. I mean, that would be wild if that was actually what she tweeted. But I. I agree. Listen, I stand with Nancy Mace. I think we made that pretty clear when we first discussed it, that we stand with Nancy Mace. Nobody likes airports.

[Political Commentator]

Nancy. Dude, you know who you actually got to get on? Anna Paulina.

[Big T]

Luna. Yeah, I know. That's. That's your.

[Political Commentator]

Girl. No, she's not on my girl, but she's like the. She's like the congresswoman whose portfolio is like.

[Big T]

Conspiracies. Yeah. Yeah. She would. Didn't she go on. On Rogan a while.

[Political Commentator]

Ago? Oh, I don't know. It's hard for me to.

[Madeline]

Watch. She was just interviewed by the Daily.

[Big T]

Show.

[Madeline]

That. That guy that goes to all of the Trump rallies. I'm forgetting his.

[Big T]

Name. Oh, yeah. Jordan is his name.

[Madeline]

Jordan. Positive Blonde.

[Big T]

Man.

[Aryan]

Yeah. Jordan.

[Aaron]

Klepper.

[Aryan]

Yeah. The worst to ever do it.

[Madeline]

Yeah. He just interviewed her, and she pulled out a scroll during the.

[Big T]

Interview. A.

[Madeline]

Scroll?

[Big T]

Yeah. Did she unfurl.

[Political Commentator]

It?

[Big T]

Yep. It was wrapped.

[Madeline]

Up.

[Political Commentator]

Yep. What was on the.

[Madeline]

Scroll? It was talking about how she thinks I'm not. I'm paraphrased it, but something about how Trump is king to.

[Big T]

Her.

[Political Commentator]

Okay. She wrote the.

[Madeline]

Scroll.

[Big T]

Yes. I would assume if you have a scroll, it's something that you.

[Madeline]

Uncovered. I'll find the.

[Big T]

Clip. Like a long lost.

[Political Commentator]

Uncovered. I didn't know they were even making new.

[Big T]

Scrolls. How do you even write on a.

[Political Commentator]

Scroll? Did she. I thought that this is like, something you get at Joanne's fabrics or.

[Madeline]

Something. It seemed. It seemed about that on.

[Political Commentator]

Par. What I love about her is that she said she was Jewish, and it turns out her grandfather was Jewish, and it turns out that he was actually on the other side of that.

[Big T]

Conflict. Oh, no.

[Political Commentator]

Way. Yes. And. And there's a great picture of him in his little, I believe, versus, I think actually he might have been in the ss, but not the real ss. He was in, like, the. The. What do you call.

[Madeline]

It?

[Political Commentator]

The. The, like, poser ss. The Waffen.

[Big T]

Ss.

[Political Commentator]

Okay. Gotcha yeah, or ver, but I mean, whatever. They're all the.

[Big T]

Same. Have you seen the graphic for the TP USA Fest this weekend? No. Let me send it over to.

[Aryan]

You. Aran and I were talking about trying to get down.

[Big T]

There. I. I want to.

[Political Commentator]

Know. I want to go. So t. Where is.

[Big T]

It? I'm sending. I'm sending over to you right now. It's in Phoenix this weekend. I was just fascinated by the graphic because I want to know everything that went on behind planning this graphic and all the drama that happened where, like, who was pissed off that they weren't featured high enough on this list. How many people on this list wanted certain other people not to be invited? That's the real story behind this is. I want to see documentary like a Hard.

[Political Commentator]

Knocks. Oh, my.

[Big T]

God. How they did.

[Political Commentator]

This. Oh, they got gut filled.

[Big T]

Dude. They got gut.

[Political Commentator]

Filled. Yeah, That's a scary score. Oh, Grant Cardone, who I believe is a Scientologist. I might be.

[Madeline]

Wrong. He's very high up in.

[Political Commentator]

Scientology. Okay. He is a Scientologist. So a little bit crazy the Christians are having him there. James o', Keefe, of course. Alex Baronson. Oh, interesting choice. Interesting choice. Jonathan Keeperman. Very interesting. There a sort of reformed alt right guy. Riley Gaines. Oh, Ali Beth.

[Big T]

Stuckey. I don't know too.

[Political Commentator]

Much. I find. I find her to be gorgeous. Steve Bannon. Donald Trump Jr. Tulsi Gabbard. I don't hear much from her lately. Jesse Waters. I dislike looking at him, but he looks kind of like that one guy, the method actor who was on Succession. Ben Shapiro, of course. Glenn Beck, Vivek Ramaswale, and Matt Walsh. Michael Knowles. Benny Johnson. Okay, so I guess he's weathering the allegations. Sean Duffy, we love him. Rachel Campos. Duffy. Never even heard of her. That's crazy that Ben Carson's that high up.

[Big T]

There. Really? You think so who.

[Political Commentator]

The. What the has he done.

[Big T]

Lately? I don't know. What has he been? He's been a little too quiet, hasn't.

[Aryan]

He? Well, he was.

[Aaron]

The.

[Big T]

Yeah. Is he going back to. Back to.

[Aryan]

Surgery? Is he in. In the.

[Big T]

Administration? He was in the last one. He was housing. Housing Urban.

[Political Commentator]

Development. That sound like. What is his job.

[Big T]

Now? I'm not sure. Yeah, I don't think he has a.

[Political Commentator]

Podcast. No, he probably.

[Big T]

Does. He probably does. You're.

[Aryan]

Right. Yeah, the. The HUD was his last.

[Big T]

Position. Yeah. Russell Brand, That's a.

[Political Commentator]

Guy. This is.

[Big T]

Tough. Russell Brand is an all time.

[Political Commentator]

Guy. Wait, who the is Nelda.

[Big T]

Buckman? See, I don't know, some of these people, I. I feel like maybe I'm getting washed by. Because I don't recognize some of them. I just assume everybody has a.

[Madeline]

Podcast. Nelda Buckman is the creator of a studio, like a movie studio, who I believe makes conservative media. Based on what I'm looking.

[Big T]

At, you know who I feel bad for on this list is Congressman Mike Collins. He has been reduced to first, second, third, fourth, fifth. He's in the sixth row. He's a sitting U.S. representative, and he's right behind Gary Breca, Graham Allen, Greg Laurie, John Amanchukwo, and Brandon Tatum, who is Millicent.

[Political Commentator]

Cedra. That's like a Game of Thrones fucking.

[Big T]

Character. It is.

[Dana]

Yeah. It does look like.

[Big T]

Bing. Carson has a podcast, Common Sense, last upload on YouTube two months ago, though. So, yeah, he's not really. He's like 146 videos. Yeah, but that's like a lot of. A lot of athletes that. That retire and they're like, I'm gonna start a podcast. Yeah. And then they run out of.

[Political Commentator]

Stories. That was having sex accidentally on Instagram.

[Big T]

Live. Shannon.

[Dana]

Sharp. Shannon.

[Big T]

Sharp. Well, no, he wasn't at. He was purposely having sex, but accidentally went.

[Dana]

Live.

[Political Commentator]

Yeah. I'm just saying Ben Carson, I feel like to revive his career, should fuck on.

[Big T]

Live. Yeah, I think that's a great way to do.

[Political Commentator]

It. Are you going, Big T? Are you going to.

[Aryan]

This? No. Arian and I talked about it on Monday. He's actually in Phoenix right now, but he's leaving tomorrow. And we couldn't. They're. They're like, sold. It's completely. You can't get in. They're. They're sold out at passes and.

[Political Commentator]

Everything. God damn, dude. I'm going. I'm. We're going on vacation. Okay. Christmas break. We do a break every year and it's always this one sucks because I want to go to this. And also the Epstein files come out the day that we go on break, which I guess is good. I can get time to read them, but I want to go this so.

[Aryan]

Bad. How much of that are you gonna read? Like, how do we have a guess even.

[Political Commentator]

How? I have no idea. But I'm gonna be. I'm on a little bit of a mission for like the first ten days of break. And so I'll be. I'll be. I'll have kind of a lot of down time to read.

[Big T]

Them. If you were to just like, guess what? We're gonna fight. Is there going to be a bombshell in.

[Political Commentator]

There? Dude, I think there will be some bombshells in there, but I don't know what the. They could possibly be like. I don't, I have no idea. I, I gotta be honest, I've, I, I don't, I don't even fully even really understand all of what they're.

[Big T]

Releasing. Yeah, I think it's the, the grand jury stuff with Ghislaine, all the stuff that went into the investigation that eventually got Jeffrey Epstein.

[Political Commentator]

Arrested.

[Big T]

Yeah. And maybe some financial stuff from.

[Political Commentator]

Before. Yeah, I guess I, Yeah, I guess. Like, I'm like, is it going to be like the evidence they collected from his house afterwards? Like, is it? And yeah, I mean, it's just there's so much. It could be that I just have no.

[Dana]

Idea. Do y' all think anybody. Am I wrong here? Has anybody been arrested outside of Ghislaine and.

[Political Commentator]

Epstein? Yeah.

[Dana]

Yeah. So do you think, do you think we get another.

[Political Commentator]

Arrest? I don't think.

[Big T]

So.

[Political Commentator]

Damn. I don't think. But Jean Luke Brunel, like, to sort of like sec. One of his, A Ghislaine type figure with him was arrested in France and also subsequently was found hanging in his cell in.

[Big T]

Jail. Oh.

[Political Commentator]

Interesting.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Political Commentator]

Coincidence. But yeah, there's a. I don't know. I have no idea. The. I've been like, still reading all through the Ehud Barack.

[Big T]

Emails. It's pretty crazy.