Chaos Unfolds At The White House Correspondents’ Dinner | April 28, 2026

Summary

Macrodosing Podcast

Episode: "Chaos Unfolds At The White House Correspondents’ Dinner"

Date: April 28, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode dives into the recent chaotic events at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner—highlighting the attempted security breach and attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. The Macrodosing crew also riff on internet brainteasers, the philosophy of moral choices, wild conspiracy theories, plane etiquette, the 250th anniversary of America, and unpredictable debates about fart science and bathroom habits. Listeners are treated to the hosts’ unfiltered takes, entertaining tangents, and a batch of engaging listener questions.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Kentucky Colonel & Derby Week Banter

[04:09 - 05:21]

• Arian riffs on his honorary title as a "Kentucky Colonel" during Derby Week.
• Maddie and Arian debate how prestigious or exclusive the title really is, Maddie jokes:

  "I disrespectfully decline." (05:09 - Maddie Mac)

2. The Red Button vs. Blue Button Moral Dilemma

[06:14 - 17:01]

• The hosts dissect a trending scenario: everyone in the world must privately vote by pressing a red or blue button. If >50% press blue, everyone lives; otherwise, only red-survivors live.
• Game theory, morality, and trust in humanity are debated at length.
  • Big T:

    "You gotta press the red button." (07:39)

  • Maddie argues that blue, while "moral," is irrational:

    "I would actually argue pushing the blue button is the immoral choice, forcing others to gamble their life..." (08:13)

• The group references how online poll results may be skewed by internet-savvy users, and Arian contemplates if button color taps into culture war politics.

3. White House Correspondents’ Dinner Attempted Attack

[17:13 - 24:33]

• Recap of the attempted assassination at the dinner, with discussion about how the incident intersected with other live events (NBA game).
• Criticism levied at security protocol:
  • Arian:

    "That is a massive gap in the safety procedure." (18:19)

• Secret Service’s handling, the oddity of attendees’ nonchalant or bizarre reactions—including Dana White—and discussion of the shooter’s seemingly flawed plans as described in his manifesto.
  • "He was thinking about this like a video game." (22:53 - Arian)

4. Symbolic Significance & Echoes of Past: Security Blunders

[34:41 - 37:34]

• Link drawn to the Reagan assassination attempt at the same hotel decades ago.
• Debate on the effectiveness and weaknesses in modern presidential security, with sidebars about the role of public information and due process in ongoing investigations.

5. Conspiracy Theory Time: "Time Machine" and Shooter Ties

[25:09 - 32:04]

• Big T introduces a viral X/Twitter thread about a supposed time-travel connection between the shooter, a NASA intern, cryptic tweets, and hidden references in profile images.
• The crew lampoons the far-fetched theory but enjoy the internet's capacity for wild speculation.

6. UFC on the White House Lawn & America 250

[38:18 - 41:12]

• Surprise/amazement at the upcoming UFC event at the White House for the 250th U.S. anniversary.
  • Maddie:

    "You're just finding out about this for the first time?" (38:59)

  • General agreement that it’s a “bad idea” both for optics and security.
• Conversation also covers whether the 250th anniversary celebrations are meaningful or all show.

7. Surveillance in Modern Cars and Kill Switch Laws

[55:36 - 60:50]

• New bill mandates cars to have biometric/drunk driving monitoring, possible panic detection, and potential remote "kill switches" starting with 2027 models.
  • Maddie:

    "If it, if the car can determine you're in a panic state or unfit to drive, it'll just turn off..." (56:22)

  • Everyone questions the balance between public safety and encroachment on personal liberty.

8. Fart Science, Bathroom Rituals, and Gender Myths

[61:21 - 69:08]

• Study claims women’s farts are "more potent" but men produce greater volume.
  • Maddie:

    "Imagine if Trout stayed healthy his whole career, you know?" (63:43)

• The crew share detailed, funny, personal routines around time spent in the bathroom and prepping for showers, spawning stories about 20-minute sits and the virtues of heated bathroom floors.

9. Plane Etiquette: Babies, Socks, and Outrage

[73:00 - 84:48]

• Debate rages about a viral email—neighbor retaliates to a crying baby by playing recorded baby cries at matching decibel levels.
• Maddie:

  "Baby supremacists are a threat to national sovereignty..." (74:51)

• Discussion transitions to proper and improper plane behavior: dealing with crying babies, barefoot passengers, racing to the front, and even clapping upon landing.

10. Gambling Scandal in College Sports

[85:03 - 89:54]

• News breaks mid-episode: Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby enters rehab after being caught gambling—including on his own team.
• Analysis of consequences for team, NIL (Name, Image, Likeness) money, and whether rules about betting on one's own team are just.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (w/ Timestamps)

• “If everyone acts in their own self interest... a lot of people don’t act in their own self interest.” (07:28 – Arian)
• "I just want to exist. I want to survive, and I'm banking on other humans doing the right thing." (11:03 – Big T)
• “Crazy that our guy Oz Ozamentalist was in the middle of doing a trick for Trump and Melania when this happened. There’s an outside chance it was part of the trick.” (01:09 and again at 20:01 – Arian)
• “He was thinking about this like a video game... I don’t think this guy had a serious plan.” (22:53 – Arian)
• “I’m making my vote public right now. I don’t want anyone to die.” (15:01 – Maddie)
• “The room is, like, chugging alcohol as it’s happening... Like, yeah, the whole thing was very odd.” (21:11 – Maddie)
• “Why are we still having the White House Correspondents Dinner? It’s outlived its usefulness.” (24:33 – Maddie & Arian)
• “It’s a bad idea. I’m going to be the first person that has the balls to say it. It’s a bad idea.” (39:24 – Arian, on White House UFC event)
• “Those who are willing to sacrifice essential liberty for small amount of security deserved neither.” (58:25 – Maddie, quoting Ben Franklin)
• "Women have worse smelling farts, but men fart in bigger quantities." (62:01 – Arian)
• “We're all babies once. Who's all babies? If you're anti-baby, that's the most hypocritical thing…” (75:29 – Arian and Big T)
• “Would a foot smell worse with or without a sock?” (81:00 – Maddie Mac, launching elaborate debate)
• “Just ask her if it's cool... I'm feeling the vibe, and I kinda wanna kick with you a little bit more.” (93:40 – Big T, giving dating advice)
• “He was clearly mentally deranged, as a lot of these guys are.” (107:19 – Arian, on John Hinckley)

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Interesting Tangents & Listener Engagement

• Listener voicemails: Love-life advice to a listener, with charming back-and-forth about the right way to follow up on a cross-state spark.
  • "Smitten kittens" and gentle urging to go for it—with sensitivity.
• Hollywood Filming Trivia: Hosts swap tidbits on movies shot in their hometowns, from Footloose to Breaking Bad.
• Draft Day residuals: Humorous slice of NFL-actor life—Big T jokes about $100 checks.
• Child cameos: Big T’s daughter briefly joins to say words on mic, prompting universal cooing.

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Timestamps of Key Segments

• [04:09] Kentucky Colonel/Derby intro
• [06:14] Red Button v. Blue Button debate
• [17:13] White House Correspondents’ Dinner attack breakdown
• [25:09] Conspiracy corner: time travel theory
• [38:18] UFC at the White House & America 250
• [55:36] Surveillance state & car tech debate
• [61:21] Fart science debunked
• [73:00] Neighbors' baby/Noise complaint story
• [85:03] Texas Tech QB gambling scandal
• [92:24] Listener dating/life advice segment
• [98:28] Listener Top Gun movie pitch

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Overall Tone & Closing Thoughts

True to Macrodosing tradition, the episode is nerdy, irreverent, funny, and scattered—mixing serious commentary with raucous banter and deep-cut pop culture references. The hosts’ camaraderie shines through as they dissect mysteries, political events, bizarre science, internet drama, and everyday human behavior with a blend of skepticism, wisdom, and delight.

Closing encouragement:

“Love you guys. We’ll see you on Thursday.” (114:39 – Arian Foster)

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For new listeners: This episode was a wild blend of politics, philosophy, humor, and humanity—a perfect snapshot of Macrodosing’s signature style.

Transcript

[Arian Foster]

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[Arian Foster]

Crazy that our guy Oz Ozamentalist was in the middle of doing a trick for Trump and Melania when this happened. That's just wild stuff. And there's an outside chance it was part of the trick.

[Maddie Mac]

What trick do you think he was doing?

[Arian Foster]

Like, you get to the end of the shooter's manifesto and it just says the last line is like four of clubs.

[Big T]

And.

[Arian Foster]

And no, I was just like, is this your card?

[Big T]

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[Arian Foster]

Don't worry about it. Just. I'm like, he's dead. I'm like, cherry. You just share just one word. Just one word. It's good to. It's good to see everybody. Aaron, welcome back.

[Big T]

Thank you, brother.

[Arian Foster]

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racing.draftkings.com all right, welcome back to Nano Dosing. It is Tuesday. It's April 28, and as a Kentucky Colonel, this is one of my favorite weeks of the year. What a. What a great day. It's going to be on Saturday. I cannot wait.

[Maddie Mac]

Is there a list of who they've given that out to most recently?

[Arian Foster]

Please address me as sir during Derby week.

[Maddie Mac]

No, thanks.

[Arian Foster]

I am a. I outrank you, Big

[Maddie Mac]

T. You do not.

[Arian Foster]

There's probably tens of thousands. I think that there's a ton of people.

[Maddie Mac]

There's a Find a kernel website.

[Arian Foster]

It might even be more than tens of thousands. But I do take. I take the responsibilities very seriously.

[Maddie Mac]

It says they don't know why individuals have been commissioned Kentucky Colonels, but we know when they were bestowed the title.

[Arian Foster]

Mm. Yeah, it makes sense. You can get it for pretty much anything. You just have to be a colonel to nominate somebody else. So I could nominate you? In theory.

[Maddie Mac]

I respectfully decline. Actually, I disrespectfully decline.

[Arian Foster]

You don't want to be a Kentucky Colonel?

[Maddie Mac]

No, thank you.

[Arian Foster]

We don't want you.

[Maddie Mac]

You think you're under actor, Comedian?

[Arian Foster]

I don't know.

[Maddie Mac]

Sports.

[Arian Foster]

Probably sports. We're nominated by Matt Jones from Kentucky Sports Radio, who I think listens to the Show. He's a big fan of yours, Big T. Want to say hi to him?

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah, what's up, Matt? I. I consume his content every once in a while.

[Arian Foster]

I love that he appreciates you consuming his content. I've got a embrace debate for everybody that Big T sent over on Friday. The question that's sweeping the Internet, I think we should discuss here. Arian, what do you think about this? Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or a blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who press the red button survive. Which button do you press?

[Big T]

Is that game theory, isn't it? Yeah. So if I press the blue button, everybody survives?

[Maddie Mac]

Well, no, if.

[Big T]

Well, well, if. In theory. So if everybody presses the blue button, everybody survives. If only 50 of people press the blue button.

[Maddie Mac]

If everybody presses the red button, everybody survives.

[Big T]

Oh, it's just the red button.

[Maddie Mac]

Well, no, if. If everyone presses either one, everyone survives. If. If fewer than 50% of people press blue, then only the people. If you press red, nothing happens to you. You. You walk away. It's the nothing happens button. If you press blue, you are gambling with your life that 50% of the world's population will also press blue.

[Arian Foster]

But I wouldn't say that you. I wouldn't say that nothing happens if you press the red button. If you press the red button and walk away and more people press the red button than the blue button, everyone who pressed the blue button dies, which

[Maddie Mac]

would beg the question why anyone would ever press it.

[Arian Foster]

Because they. I think the reasoning would be that you don't want to kill people that didn't press it.

[Maddie Mac]

But if everyone acts in their own self interest.

[Arian Foster]

But some. A lot of people don't act in their own self interest. That's. That's where it comes in.

[Maddie Mac]

So. So just press the red button.

[Big T]

You gotta press the red button.

[Maddie Mac]

I'm actually shocked that you said that. I know. I agree with you a hundred percent, but I'm. There is a lot of. I would say. I would guess the.

[Mackenzie]

The.

[Maddie Mac]

The red and blue button pushers, from what I have seen on social media, fall pretty hard into the party lines of those two colors. I think there's a lot of argument that the. The blue button is the moral choice, given that it saves everyone.

[Big T]

I don't know that there's a moral choice in this question.

[Maddie Mac]

I would actually argue pushing the blue button is the immoral choice, forcing others to gamble their life to make up for your poor decision.

[Arian Foster]

Wait, if you press the blue button and everybody does it, then everyone survives.

[Maddie Mac]

If you press. If everyone presses red, everyone survives.

[Arian Foster]

Right, but not if just like 51% of people press the blue button, everyone

[Maddie Mac]

survives, but it's an unnecessary risk.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, but if you go by the red button, if, let's say 60% of people press the red button, then 40% of people all die.

[Maddie Mac]

Which would beg the question why they ever pressed blue.

[Arian Foster]

Because they wanted to make sure that everybody could survive. If everybody, if everybody did what a blue vote, what a blue button pusher did, nobody would die.

[Maddie Mac]

You also have to, I believe the final.

[Arian Foster]

Actually just if the majority of people do what the blue button people do, then nobody does.

[Maddie Mac]

I believe the final tally of the poll, I'm pulling it back up right now. So it was 57.9, 58 for blue, 42 for red.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah.

[Maddie Mac]

That's people just pushing. And that's a hundred thousand vote sample size. So very large. That's just people saying, I, you know, no consequences whatsoever. Now you're in a voting booth.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Maddie Mac]

Your life is on the line. Your heart rate's at 170. And you are, you are asking yourself, am I willing to put my life on the line gambling that everyone else in the world is going to do that also? But I think it would be read

[Arian Foster]

in a landslide based on the results of this poll. Nobody dies, Correct? Yeah. Because the majority of people press blue. Now, I want to know what would happen with this poll. Like, what if we had reversed the blue and the red buttons? Do you think that Democrats reading this are, like, subtly more. More likely to press blue and Republicans are impressed by the red button, so they want to do that. I don't know, like, or if it was like a yellow button and an orange button, like red and blue. There's some marketing that goes in those two colors.

[Maddie Mac]

There were people who did various interpretations of this on Twitter also and phrased it differently. And the polls were 90 to 10 in favor of what would be the red option.

[Arian Foster]

Okay.

[Maddie Mac]

Everyone in the world has to make a decision. You either drink a cup of water or you can drink a cup of poison. If more than 50% of people choose poison, everyone immediately gets the antidote and survives. Anyone who drinks water obviously survives either way. What do you do? It's 87 to 12.

[Arian Foster]

Okay.

[Maddie Mac]

It's the exact same situation.

[Big T]

You're banking on humans. And that is the least trustworthy thing in my life.

[Maddie Mac]

I agree.

[Big T]

There's no way, like, I don't think it's a moral. I don't think it's a moral thing because it's not me. I'm not the one. Whoever designed the test is immoral. That's what I say. So I just want to exist. I want to survive, and I'm banking on other humans doing the right thing.

[Maddie Mac]

Also, your vote is out of 8 billion. It does not affect the outcome whatsoever.

[Big T]

I agree. I agree. I'm out. Red button all day, Water all day.

[Maddie Mac]

I love that. And like I said, it was 58 to 42 with no consequences. I think if that's a real test, given those results, it's 75, 25 red.

[Arian Foster]

I don't know. Well, you also have to weigh the fact that this is. The majority of people who voted in this are very online people.

[Maddie Mac]

Yes.

[Arian Foster]

That use the X.com platform in real life. If you were to give this to the entire world. Here's the case for voting blue on this. On the blue button. If you gave this to the entire world, there would be, I would say, probably a majority of people that are voting on this that do not understand game theory, including children, including people, like, under the age of 18. And if I'm voting red, I could potentially wipe out, like, 40% of the world's population, including a lot of people that were too young to understand the premise or. Or did not fully grasp the concept of game theory. Whereas if everybody just decided to vote blue, all you have to do is hit 51, 52%, and then everybody survives. So it's like, would you morally be okay with potentially killing hundreds of millions of people?

[Maddie Mac]

You're not killing.

[Arian Foster]

Didn't understand, by my choice. Contributing to their death.

[Maddie Mac]

I guess I would ask you, what do you think would happen? Like, what do you think the results would be?

[Arian Foster]

I actually think. I. I think it would be more than 50% that voted blue.

[Maddie Mac]

Oh, I think you're nuts.

[Eric]

I.

[Arian Foster]

Because I don't think everybody understands game theory.

[Maddie Mac]

I think you're nuts.

[Big T]

What are you. What are you voting?

[Arian Foster]

What would I vote?

[Big T]

Or what are you. Yeah. What are you pushing?

[Arian Foster]

The logical answer is red. I would probably. I. I don't know. Because then I think all you have to do is just get 51% for blue. And then you also have to think about.

[Maddie Mac]

That's a lot.

[Arian Foster]

You also have to think about, like, people that you actually know could vote blue and die. And then you're like, oh, I just killed grandma.

[Big T]

Grandma. I'm hitting grandma and telling her to vote red. Like, grandma's.

[Arian Foster]

Grandma's Gonna vote for everybody to live. You know that Grandma's sweet

[Big T]

grandma. Vote red or you're gonna die. Because you're dealing with people, man. You're not dealing with like, oh, you're dealing with people. People are not trustworthy subjects.

[Arian Foster]

I think a lot of people would be uncomfortable with the option that would lead them to having billions of people dying. That's what I think. So I think it would be a majority blue.

[Maddie Mac]

I would encourage everyone that I possibly could to just hit red would be the gas prices.

[Big T]

If the demand went down,

[Maddie Mac]

Probably. Probably pretty good.

[Big T]

So we off 4 billion people. 5 billion people.

[Arian Foster]

What about this gas price? Sound like Bill Gates right now? Sound like the. Sound like.

[Maddie Mac]

Well, he is a. He is a eugenicist.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Yeah. It's not.

[Arian Foster]

What about. Would it change mind at all? Big T is if the blues won, but then afterwards all the votes were public. Would that change your mind at all?

[Maddie Mac]

No.

[Arian Foster]

Whereas, like, Big T wanted all of you guys to die.

[Maddie Mac]

No. I'm making my vote public right now. I know. I don't want anyone to die.

[Arian Foster]

Okay.

[Maddie Mac]

I think it is. It behooves everyone to press red.

[Arian Foster]

It does. But not everyone's going to press red.

[Maddie Mac]

That I can't control. Which is precisely why you vote red. You just made the exact case for doing it.

[Arian Foster]

I, I actually agree, but my case. My case includes people that don't understand game theory, that have not been exposed to, like, learning about this. Doesn't make you a bad person. Doesn't make you stupid.

[Big T]

Then you have a simple choice. Press the red button and you survive. This is not. You don't have to. They don't have to understand game theory. You have to understand your survival, your basic need to survive. You press this, you survive. End of story.

[Maddie Mac]

He's right.

[Arian Foster]

It's true.

[Big T]

I don't begrudge people that would press blue. I think in a perfect world, I would press blue, but I just. We just don't live in that place.

[Maddie Mac]

I, I. Even while I don't agree with it, I understand the argument for blue. It's just not gonna. It's not gonna work great.

[Arian Foster]

I think.

[Big T]

I think it's like. It's the best of Batman. Dark Knight prisoners.

[Maddie Mac]

Yep, I'll see it at some point.

[Big T]

I think you just saw a whole boat full of Gotham.

[Arian Foster]

They showed you the good people, who they really are.

[Maddie Mac]

That was something.

[Arian Foster]

That was a great impression.

[Big T]

That's how Batman talks for whatever the. I don't know. I used to hate that. Why do you talk like that?

[Arian Foster]

Baby, let her go. And Bruce Wayne does not talk like that. I said Batman. I know, I know. But when Bruce, like, I don't know what it is, when he puts on the cape and he puts on the outfit, I start talking like this.

[Big T]

Where are they?

[Maddie Mac]

I'm Batman.

[Big T]

Where are they?

[Maddie Mac]

I just know I'm Batman.

[Arian Foster]

I'm Batman. All right, that was a good, good debate that.

[Maddie Mac]

That took over the Internet for 48 hours. Unlike anything I've seen recently. I don't remember the last time everyone was as locked in on something seemingly random. Is that.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, I would.

[Maddie Mac]

So much. So they tried to kill the president again. We haven't even gotten to it. We're 15 minutes in.

[Arian Foster]

That is true. Wait, who's they?

[Maddie Mac]

Just the general. The blue button pushers.

[Arian Foster]

The blue button put. Do you think that it correlates to voting?

[Maddie Mac]

Not probably. Strongly.

[Arian Foster]

I think there might. There might be a little bit. I was halfway joking, but there might be a little bit of correlation just because of the colors that people feel like they should vote one way or the other.

[Maddie Mac]

I think there were more correlations than that. But, yeah, I think there were. There were some similarities.

[Arian Foster]

So. Yeah, so Donald Trump was at the White House correspondence dinner on Saturday during the Wolves Nuggets game, and somebody tried to break in, had a shotgun, a pistol, knives, got taken down by security outside the dining room. And I say during the Wolves Nuggets game, because then it broke into the Wolves Nuggets coverage in the second half, and there were a lot of people that were upset that the President was talking during the second half of the game. But that's kind of how things work when somebody tries to kill the president. He survived. Obviously, the shooter was apprehended. The shooter was staying at the hotel, exploiting a security weakness. Let me just say that security system sucks. If that's. If that's what you have in place for the White House correspondent's dinner. Anybody that's staying in the hotel gets to just skip by, like, three layers of security just because they. They paid for a room like, a month ago. That is a massive gap in. In the safety procedure. So I'm thinking some people are gonna be fired after that one.

[Big T]

Did you. Were you watching the Timberwolves?

[Arian Foster]

I was, yeah.

[Big T]

Were you more concerned about the president or Anthony Edwards knee?

[Arian Foster]

That was a nasty knee injury, wasn't it? It was backwards. Yeah.

[Big T]

I was con. I was concerned. I was very.

[Maddie Mac]

It's out for a couple weeks.

[Arian Foster]

I was more concerned with Dante for being honest. Dante's Achilles. Yeah.

[Big T]

Tough.

[Arian Foster]

I Had I had Dante over. I think I laddered his threes that game. Shout out DraftKings, early exit protection. After one minute, he got out of the game. Really actually saved me. Other companies make you go and. And pay for it for the insurance, but I had it naturally baked in. That's the actual truth. I was so pumped that DraftKings, when I looked at the thing, I was like, okay, it's a bummer. That is. That is Achilles is hurt, but at least. At least we get our money back here.

[Maddie Mac]

Football. That's the best, too.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah. But, yeah, so they. They did cut into the game. Then I saw some of the clips that sort of come out crazy that our guy Oz Ozimentalist, was in the middle of doing a trick for Trump and Melania when this shit happened. Like, that is. That's just wild stuff. And there's an outside chance it was part of the trick.

[Maddie Mac]

What trick do you think he was doing?

[Arian Foster]

I don't know. I said I'm part of my take. It'd be funny if, like, you get to the end of the shooter's manifesto and it just says the last line is, like, four of clubs.

[Eric]

And.

[Arian Foster]

No, I was just like, is this your card? Obviously a scary situation. Do we know anything about the. The Secret Service agent that got shot or the security? I think he was wearing a bulletproof vest, so I don't think anybody died.

[Big T]

Right.

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah, I don't believe so.

[Arian Foster]

So everyone's safe, which is good. They. They apprehended the shooter, whose plan was to just, like, run past security and shoot his way inside. Fortunately, it didn't get to that, and. And they took him down, so I'm glad he was. I'm glad he was arrested. And then there was so much footage and so many cameras that were going on inside the building. You got to see how everyone reacted. Dana White seemed like he was just. He was taking it all in.

[Maddie Mac]

He was happy.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, he was. But he was like, this is awesome. I get to see this. He was looking around, like, taking mental notes of, like, really, truly living in the moment.

[Maddie Mac]

It was a very odd scene. Not just him, like, the. The people that were taking chugs of alcohol as it was happening. Like, yeah, the whole thing was very odd.

[Arian Foster]

And then. And then the. The post game press conference that they did. Like, Cash got up there. He looked like he was locked in,

[Maddie Mac]

which, by the way, I thought he was getting fired.

[Arian Foster]

I don't know what's going on with Cash. He was locked in, though. You see how locked in he Was.

[Maddie Mac]

No, he was just.

[Arian Foster]

He was locked in at the press conference. And then there was a clip of. Of Hegseth, like, patrolling the room after the shooting. Head on a swivel. It was. It was some scary stuff. I'm really glad that everybody's safe. I think, as much as some people don't like the. I think it'd be terrible for. For the country if. If anything happened to him, I think it'd be really, really bad. Just like, you know, when he was. When he was running for president, the assassination attempt out in Butler, like, that would be. That would be terrible for the country if. If something like that happened.

[Maddie Mac]

Did you know that Cash was not included in the. The targets. He was explicitly omitted.

[Arian Foster]

Really?

[Maddie Mac]

In the manifesto.

[Arian Foster]

What did it say? I haven't read the manifesto.

[Maddie Mac]

While I'm discussing this, I'll also go over my expected rules of engagement, probably in a terrible format, but I'm not military, so too bad. Administration officials, parentheses, not including Mr. Patel. They are targets prioritized from highest ranking to lowest Secret service. They are targets only if necessary and to be incapacitated non lethally if possible. AKA I hope they're wearing body armor, because center mass with shotguns messes up people who aren't.

[Arian Foster]

Okay, so he's. It sounds like he's thinking about this like a video game, like he's gonna run in. If it's a secret. I don't want to kill this guy, so I'll just. I'll take out my sedative, and I'll just apply to the back of his neck. He'll pass out silently, and I'll move on to the next checkpoint. I. I don't think this guy had a. A serious plan. He had this stuff to carry it out, but I don't think he had, like, an. A coherent plan for getting through security. So not. Not including Cash Patel.

[Maddie Mac]

That's what he said.

[Arian Foster]

I wonder how Cash feels about that.

[Maddie Mac]

I mean, would you feel good, I guess. I guess better for you in. In that situation that you weren't a target, but also you kind of want to be a target, right?

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, I think he.

[Maddie Mac]

I mean, you don't.

[Arian Foster]

But I think he would have felt way. He would have felt way better if the guy had actually accomplished his goals and Cash was not taken out.

[Maddie Mac]

Correct.

[Arian Foster]

But the fact that he accomplished nothing,

[Maddie Mac]

then you want to be a target

[Arian Foster]

and then also found out, oh, yeah, by the way, you weren't even a target. That's got to be kind of a kick to his ego.

[Maddie Mac]

If that's the red button is you're not a target.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah.

[Maddie Mac]

The blue button is you're a target, but he might not get. Get to kill you.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah. If enough people press the blue button, then Secret Service takes them out.

[Maddie Mac]

Right.

[Arian Foster]

Kills anybody.

[Maddie Mac]

Right.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, I think Cash probably. Yeah. In theory. I think he would like to be included.

[Maddie Mac]

So Cash is a blue button pusher.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah. As a. As a top dog. Yeah. It was scary stuff. It was scary stuff. I'm glad that. That nothing happened besides, obviously, like, sneaking in. But I'm glad nobody was. Nobody was killed because that would have been. That would have been pretty bad.

[Maddie Mac]

Why are we still having the White House correspondence dinner?

[Arian Foster]

I don't know. It's. They call it nerd prom, so it's like all the. All the dorks from the DC Political media get together, and I think the original idea behind it was let's. Let's drop the act for a night and all hang out and have a good time. And I think it's kind of outlived its usefulness at this point.

[Big T]

Yeah. Although did you hear the. There's, like, a little time travel conspiracy going on about this?

[Arian Foster]

Okay.

[Maddie Mac]

I have not.

[Big T]

You haven't heard this. All right, let me. Let me. Let me gather the evidence.

[Arian Foster]

Okay. While you gather, I'll just say big T. Without the White House correspondence dinner, Trump probably would not be president.

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

I guess we'll never know, because Obama, when he was doing one of his. He just ripped into Trump, who was in the audience. 2011 just made fun of him mercilessly. And Trump was just staring at him, and he was. He was doing the Cam Newton. Okay.

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

All right.

[Maddie Mac]

It's his origin moment.

[Arian Foster]

Head nod. And at that point, he decided he was going to. He's going to do it, and he did it. He did it, and he did that shit. All right, what's the conspiracy?

[Maddie Mac]

While Aryan finds it. Speaking of prom, did you see that high school baseball team?

[Arian Foster]

No.

[Maddie Mac]

It was in Florida. They had a playoff game on Saturday, and it was the same day as their promotion. And, like, all the seniors went to prom and they didn't play in the game and they got killed.

[Arian Foster]

That's messed up.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

The scheduling. I blame the schedule for that.

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah. So there. There are people saying, why couldn't you just reschedule the game? But, like, if you can't do that, you play in the game, you should

[Arian Foster]

be able to reschedule.

[Maddie Mac]

It was a playoff game. I don't know.

[Arian Foster]

You should be able to reschedule that. Yeah. I don't Envy the students that are put in that position. Ideally, you'd like to see your team, like, be a team and care about it, but also, like, it's these kids one chance at going to prom. They probably had their suits and dates and limos and all that shit picked out months in advance.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

You also don't want them to miss their senior prom. Yeah, I put that. You know what that school should do a second prom. Did they win?

[Maddie Mac]

No, they got killed.

[Arian Foster]

Okay.

[Maddie Mac]

I think it was 12 to 1.

[Arian Foster]

All right.

[Maddie Mac]

And their pitcher, who had a 0.94 ERA, was one of the ones who wasn't there.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah. I mean, you probably feel awesome about that, though, if you're the other team.

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

Right. You feel really, really excited about that,

[Maddie Mac]

playing the freshman team in the playoffs.

[Big T]

All right, so here's. Here's. Here's what the Internet has got.

[Arian Foster]

Hit me.

[Big T]

All right, if you look at the tweet I just sent you, there's a guy by the name of Henry Martinez who tweeted on December 21, 2023. Cole.

[Maddie Mac]

I did see this.

[Big T]

Okay, so Cole Allen's the dude that attempted the. I guess he attempted assassination. But if you look at his background photo picture, like the little header.

[Arian Foster]

Yep.

[Big T]

That. That is a. A picture taken from a. I think I'm getting this right. It is a. A website about. I think some. Some company. Okay. Here it is. A study on quality and 3D designation of tangible cultural heritage. Something about a time machine. And this was in May 2022. And Henry Martinez.

[Arian Foster]

Okay, so the header picture is from an organization called Time Machine that is dedicated. They do 3D digitalization of tangible cultural heritage to provide format, standards, benchmarks, methodologies, and guidelines. I'm going to look up this company

[Maddie Mac]

he worked at, like Lockheed Martin or something, or a guy named Henry Martinez did.

[Big T]

There you go. Okay, so Cole. Thomas Allen entered at NASA in 2014, the same year the NASA paper with Henry Martinez as the author. December 2023. That. That. That X account. Henry Martinez posts Cole Allen a screenshot of the EU Time Machine project. And. And if they. And if you look at this, a lot of people are doing this. That, that, that image also. What is it called? Over overlaid over the picture of Donald Trump when he first got shot. They say it matches.

[Maddie Mac]

So I saw this. The painting in particular. I mean, you have to be looking real hard if no one ever overlaid that and, like, did the. You know, changing the transparency, whatever. You would never see that, ever.

[Big T]

Yeah, I don't subscribe to this theory. I Just. And this is. This is what. This with the Internet is what the Internet streaks.

[Maddie Mac]

And also that tweet, this has happened before where I don't know if he actually tweeted Cole Allen three years ago and then had a bunch of other tweets and deleted them all, or if he somehow made this look like it was three years ago, whatever it was. But there are ways that you can. If you just tweet, Queen Elizabeth is going to die on August 20th of 2022 or whenever. I don't know. When did she die then? August 21st. August 22nd. And you just tweet it a billion times, eventually you're going to get it right, and then you just delete all the other ones and be like, look at this guy. He knew. So I think it's one of those situations, but who knows?

[Big T]

Yeah, no, I don't. I don't subscribe to this, but it's fun. And so the other thing was that his. His profile picture was Pepe the little frog meme holding a little glass with a tuxedo on. So it had the streets buzzing.

[Arian Foster]

It is crazy.

[Big T]

Well, there. There has been that before where, like, somebody tweeted, like, one thing randomly, years before it happened. I forget. Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

What happens from time to time is somebody will tweet a bunch of stuff and then they'll go delete everything except for the one thing that ended up being an accurate prediction. And then people be like, oh, they already knew. Like, somebody did that. I think with some sort of super bowl prediction, they'll say, like, in 2020, the 49ers and the Chiefs will play in the super bowl and the Kansas City Chiefs will win or something like that. But they'll also have same tweets being like, the Detroit Lions and the Bills will play in 2020. And then when it happens, they go back, delete everything else. This one. I don't know how many names this guy said. Cole Allen. Not the most common name, but I would say not like a crazy one of one name either.

[Big T]

Yeah. No, I don't believe it.

[Arian Foster]

But how did they take this guy out without killing him, without shooting him? That's what I want to know.

[Maddie Mac]

Well, they tried to. Right?

[Big T]

What?

[Arian Foster]

I don't know, because they.

[Maddie Mac]

There were shots in the hotel, Right.

[Arian Foster]

Because I think he might have shot a Secret Service agent who was wearing a bulletproof vest.

[Maddie Mac]

And the. The original report was that they'd killed him.

[Arian Foster]

Right. Originally they said, this guy's dead.

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah. But then I don't. I don't think he even got hit, right?

[Arian Foster]

I don't. I don't know. I haven't seen anything about that because

[Maddie Mac]

he was just kind of laying there, arrested, like.

[Arian Foster]

Well, they're gonna. So he's gonna be arraigned today, so we'll probably find out after we record this, before the show comes out. We'll probably get, like, a glimpse of him in court or at least some pictures.

[Big T]

Do we ever hear anything from. About the other guy?

[Arian Foster]

Which other guy?

[Big T]

The guy that tried to take out Trump for the Trump the first time.

[Maddie Mac]

The one that hit him in the ear?

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Maddie Mac]

No. Kind of just fizzled out eventually. The second guy is in jail, right?

[Arian Foster]

Yeah. The second guy has, like, a lengthy, lengthy paper trail of writing letters to the editor at various places that he's lived throughout his life. Mostly complaining about graffiti and weird, but like, it.

[Big T]

What about the.

[Arian Foster]

The Charlie Kirk guy? I think they're holding a lot of that very close to the vest until the trial. That's the thing I've noticed recently, like, a lot of people online, and this is not a left or right thing. In fact, I've seen it pretty evenly from. From both. Regarding Charlie Kirk, people being like, why haven't they told us anything about, like, what's going on with this guy? They don't have to tell you anything. In fact, it could be, like, an investigation. It could be detrimental to the case if they leak it to the news before the trial happens. Like competent law enforcement, they hold stuff until the trial, then they show the evidence that they have, and then they use that to get. Their job is to get a conviction, not to win over the court of public opinion. I think when Cash was getting involved, right off the bat, Cash didn't really fully comprehend the goal of doing an FBI investigation, which would be to convict the person that shot the guy. And he was more concerned about looking competent and being like, hey, we got him. Like, good job, us. Here's what we got on the guy. But I think as. As cooler heads prevailed, they're just like, we're gonna. We. You will get your evidence, but you have to wait for it, because if you leak it to the press, then you could. That could be seen as, like, tainting the jury.

[Maddie Mac]

And this is the same hotel that Reagan got shot at, right?

[Arian Foster]

I believe so, yeah.

[Maddie Mac]

Should probably look into the security measures at this place.

[Arian Foster]

Well, yeah, I mean, that was 40 years ago.

[Maddie Mac]

Two presidents getting shot in. I mean.

[Arian Foster]

Right, But I mean, 40 years, two shooters.

[Maddie Mac]

You'd prefer 40 years, zero presidents trying.

[Arian Foster]

I would. I would agree with That I would say that. That this. Yeah. Whatever security they had in place at this dinner, pretty. Pretty lackluster. In fact, I think I read that in the guy's manifesto. He just, like, he just ripped into the security.

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah. He said, I walked in with two guns and nobody even batted an eye.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah. But, yeah, for the first guy, the guy in Butler, there was, like, some stuff that got leaked a few months ago, remember? I think Tucker. Tucker Carlson put out some stuff. They found some of the YouTube comments that he had made, and it looked like he went from being, like, hardcore right to hardcore left and, like, bounce back and, like, bounce back and forth. I don't know. It was kind of crazy.

[Big T]

Like, how to swing B back and forth.

[Arian Foster]

I don't know. That's why I'm saying, like, the kid. The track record of comments that Tucker put out was just, like, all over the map, and all of his opinions were insane.

[Maddie Mac]

Do we think Trump's Secret Service is. I mean, clearly they're not doing an amazing job.

[Arian Foster]

Well, they got this guy down. Like, this guy didn't.

[Maddie Mac]

Well, after. After he got through quite a few layers of.

[Arian Foster]

I think the bottom line is if you have somebody that wants to, like, rush a security checkpoint that has guns, you can't stop that.

[Maddie Mac]

But he had been in the hotel prior because he posted that manifesto like, 10 minutes before he did it.

[Big T]

Right.

[Arian Foster]

That part is the issue, I think. The fact that, like, he. He was like, yeah, easy.

[Maddie Mac]

I scoped it out.

[Arian Foster]

I can just check into the hotel and then they won't. They won't, like, check ID for me because. Or they won't make sure that I'm here like, that I'm not invited for the dinner because I. I'm currently staying in the hotel. It's a pretty massive loophole in. In presidential security. So I don't know.

[Big T]

He.

[Arian Foster]

He seemed to just say nice things about. About Secret Service. I think he was happy afterwards that. That they took him out and that nobody got hurt.

[Maddie Mac]

But.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, this is way too close. Like, it's the third time now. I. The second time the guy had a gun.

[Maddie Mac]

Second time, it seems like they got to the guy pretty quick.

[Arian Foster]

They got to him quick. He didn't. Yeah, he, like, hit the road. Didn't fire any shots or anything, like. But still, like, you'd rather not have somebody with a gun waiting for the President on the golf course, but, like, two times where there have been shots fired in, like, an act of very real possibility that the President gets killed or some. And I guess in one of those cases running for President, you would like to button up those security measures somehow if you could.

[Maddie Mac]

And he's got three years left.

[Arian Foster]

Right.

[Maddie Mac]

I mean, this is. It's going to happen again.

[Big T]

Well.

[Arian Foster]

Oh, my God.

[Big T]

Does he real. This shit's going by slow.

[Arian Foster]

I think it will, too, big T.

[Maddie Mac]

Because I think only two years and, what, nine months.

[Arian Foster]

Trump, he loves being out in public, like, showing up at events. It's like, one of his favorite things to do is, like, show up.

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah, but I mean, it's not. I mean, one was a campaign event, which is very commonplace, and then this was something that the President goes to. He hasn't gone. Right. But pretty. The President is usually there.

[Arian Foster]

Usually goes. But you know what I'm saying, Like, he. He'll show up at a baseball game, you know, like, yeah, he'll. He'll be. It'll be like, Alabama.

[Maddie Mac]

But those.

[Arian Foster]

He'll be like, I want to go to a football game.

[Maddie Mac]

But you hear every time he goes to one of those, like, people waiting in line two hours to get into the stadium. The security at those seems to be better than these events that the President's supposed to be at.

[Arian Foster]

That is true, because I. I think massive sporting events, they have. They've got their protocols in place already.

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

For security. Like, if he goes to a UFC fight, they. They host, like, 20 of those a year. They know exactly, like, how to make sure that they can control what gets in, what gets out. This UFC thing at the White House is going to be wild, too.

[Maddie Mac]

I don't. You're telling me for the first time. Wait, I don't know about this.

[Arian Foster]

Wait, Shut up.

[Maddie Mac]

I don't follow ufc. I don't.

[Arian Foster]

Shut up.

[Maddie Mac]

They're doing UFC at the White House.

[Arian Foster]

You're just finding about this for the first time.

[Maddie Mac]

That's what I said on.

[Arian Foster]

On the T. Man's birthday, I think, also. Well, it's the 250th birthday of the United States. That's why they're doing it. But also, it happened. It just so happens that I think it's on his birthday.

[Big T]

They're having a UFC event at the

[Arian Foster]

White House on the White House lawn.

[Maddie Mac]

Really?

[Arian Foster]

Yeah.

[Mackenzie]

I'm shocked.

[Big T]

This is a parody.

[Maddie Mac]

I don't. I don't follow ufc. I don't.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, this is.

[Big T]

We live in a parody.

[Arian Foster]

It's a bad idea. It's a bad idea. I'm. I'm gonna. I'm gonna be the first person that has the balls to say it. It's a bad idea.

[Big T]

It's like some universe. I think I've said this before. It was like, there's some universe one where they're like, yo, there's a universe where like a Donald Trump is president and they have like a UFC fight on the lawn. Isn't that crazy?

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, I'm not. I wouldn't call myself a UFC hater. I don't hate the ufc. I, I watch some of their big fights. Can be very, very entertaining sport. I respect the fuck out of the people that reach the top levels of it because of the amount of training and discipline that it takes. Extremely difficult sport. It's stupid as fuck that we're doing it at the White House. We can agree, right?

[Maddie Mac]

Like, I'm requesting tickets to UFC Freedom 250 fan us.

[Arian Foster]

The security that's going to be in place, I think it's going to be outdoors for the most part.

[Maddie Mac]

Maybe not. Yeah, I mean, as we've been over,

[Arian Foster]

you're going to have. It's going to be outdoors in Washington in the summertime. What if it rains? What if there's lightning? It's going to be humid as. Because it's built on a swamp.

[Maddie Mac]

Chad, is today the 27th? The request window for UFC Freedom 250 closed at midnight.

[Big T]

Oh, no.

[Arian Foster]

I can't believe you didn't hear about this.

[Big T]

I didn't hear about it either, brother.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, it's going to be a full on UFC fight on the White House lawn.

[Maddie Mac]

Nice.

[Arian Foster]

I think this is a bad idea

[Maddie Mac]

in a, in a security way or

[Arian Foster]

just security and dumb security and spectacle type of way?

[Maddie Mac]

I mean, everything he does is, I guess, a bad idea in a security fashion.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah. I just don't think the spectacle of having it like on the White House lawn is. I don't think that's what, like, how

[Maddie Mac]

is that America, Are we doing like July 4th this year? Is there anything big extra happening? Like, I feel like it's going a little under the radar, the 2:50.

[Arian Foster]

There's no, there's a committee. Oh, now see, now you're putting down the President's efforts at recognizing 2:50.

[Maddie Mac]

I am, because I feel like we're, we're coming right up to it and I haven't heard of anything big happening.

[Arian Foster]

There is a massive committee that's in charge. It's called the Presidential 250 Committee. They've got a logo and everything.

[Maddie Mac]

I have seen the logo.

[Arian Foster]

It was on footballs.

[Maddie Mac]

It was on the super bowl uniforms.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, it was on footballs too. I think it's been on some basketball stuff. Too. He's getting it out there.

[Maddie Mac]

But are we doing something, or is it. Do we just have a logo?

[Arian Foster]

The logo went on. Did you not hear me? The logo was on. NFL football.

[Maddie Mac]

Got it.

[Big T]

It's a little snappy right there.

[Arian Foster]

He does. He didn't. He didn't respond to the fact that we had the logo on footballs. Let's see. 250, Presidential Committee. Let's see. Let's see what they're up.

[Maddie Mac]

I just want. Is July 4th gonna be bigger or are we doing a fireworks show? What's. What. What are we doing?

[Arian Foster]

I'm sure the. The downtown mall in D.C. will have a massive fireworks display.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Maddie Mac]

Are we ever getting that parade? He. He wanted to do a big parade.

[Arian Foster]

I think it rained. That's the thing is, like, I think it rained last year. So it kind of. We did a parade, but it just wasn't that. It wasn't that big. Can't control the rain.

[Big T]

Real quick. Should I allow cookies or not allow cookies?

[Arian Foster]

That's a great question. Like, in the. In the traditional sense, yeah, I always allow cookies. But in the much more real online sense, I don't know. It varies from. From site to site.

[Eric]

What?

[Big T]

You know what? Hold on. I don't even know what the fuck cookies are, man. Let me see. Hold on.

[Arian Foster]

They, like, store things from web pages that you visit.

[Big T]

See what Claude has to say about cookies. Internet cookies are small text files that websites store on your device, computer, phone, tablet, when you visit them. They're basically little notes that sites use to remember things about you and your activity. So it's like tracking your activity online?

[Maddie Mac]

Yep.

[Big T]

Should I accept cookies? Depends on the site. But a reasonable default is reject all or necessary only.

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah, usually there's a button that says only accept necessary or something.

[Big T]

All right, well, I just accepted America's Cookies. America250.org Prepare for July 4th.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, I'm looking it up right now. The Ambassador Circle is a group of people that are representing America for 250, including Lance Bass from NSync, Willie Brown from San Francisco, Gloria Estefan from Miami. I. It's still very unclear what they actually.

[Maddie Mac]

These are our. Our finest.

[Arian Foster]

No, those are some of the ambassadors.

[Maddie Mac]

Okay.

[Arian Foster]

But I don't know what the ambassadors do. They don't actually do any of the work, I don't think. But they just, like, they're maybe the face.

[Maddie Mac]

What list celebrity would you consider those people?

[Arian Foster]

Which one? Lance Bass.

[Maddie Mac]

All three.

[Arian Foster]

I think Lance Bass is a B list.

[Maddie Mac]

Really?

[Arian Foster]

Yeah. Lance Bass is B list. He's done, like reality shows and stuff. Wasn't he like with NASA for a while doing something?

[Maddie Mac]

I think a B list is a very, very famous person.

[Arian Foster]

I think Lance Bass is pretty famous.

[Maddie Mac]

I think he's solidly famous.

[Mackenzie]

I would say maybe now B minus list, C plus. But like, to a certain group, he is as famous. His name is Gets.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Who's Lance Bass?

[Maddie Mac]

Case in point.

[Arian Foster]

Yep. He was in NSync2Americas, though.

[Big T]

Oh, okay. I've seen this dude before. Name wouldn't have got me the face wouldn't.

[Eric]

So.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah. 250 big T. I'm sure we can hit up Jack Mac. He'll get you in.

[Maddie Mac]

Oh, that's true. I've never, never been to a UFC event.

[Arian Foster]

He'll get you in.

[Maddie Mac]

It doesn't. I need. I need there to be an objective beyond just beating the shit out of somebody. And I do get it. I do understand the appeal. It's just for me. I need you to try to be scoring something or.

[Arian Foster]

I know, but that's. You understand that combat sports, the objective is to make the other person unconscious.

[Maddie Mac]

I do. And I understand the appeal. I do get it.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah.

[Maddie Mac]

Because I like that element in with my other sports. I just need something a little extra.

[Arian Foster]

Okay.

[Maddie Mac]

Like when a. When a linebacker just cleans somebody's clock and you're like, he might be knocked out. I love that. Hope he's okay, but I love that.

[Big T]

Haven't heard that one in a while. Clean his clock. Clean his clock. Been a while. Yeah.

[Maddie Mac]

They don't let you do it anymore. It's probably why.

[Big T]

Yeah. Clean the clock. You just have to. You got to sweep it a little bit, you know, dust this clock.

[Maddie Mac]

Any hard hits, a penalty. It's a shame. Tick tock. Football.

[Big T]

Yeah, I watched. I watched. I haven't watched basketball. The Lakers are in the playoffs. I haven't watched basketball all year. And I was watching the Minnesota. The Minnesota who? The plan. Minnesota. I don't know. That game that got interrupted by Trump and it's just. I don't know, man. I'm old. I'm old now, dog. It's just, it's. I seen two seven footers doing this at the top of the key. Like, get the out of here with that, bro. Get your big ass down in the paint, bro. I'm off it, though. I can't. I can't watch this no more. And I. And we're gonna see a football coming right back around. What I'm feeling, but might be off.

[Maddie Mac]

Basketball, man, it's baseball season.

[Big T]

It is. And I gotta tap back in. I gotta tap back in. I have been grinding so hard to get right from my golf tournament that I just shut everything off.

[Maddie Mac]

How'd you do in this one?

[Big T]

I did not do good in this tournament.

[Maddie Mac]

Big T. That's a shame.

[Big T]

I did not do good at all. It's, it is one of the hardest courses on the PGA Tour, though. The Bear Trap PGA National. Yeah, it's just, it's just designed really well to. With your game. It's designed really well. They have this hole on number four. I hit the fairway every day, but you can't hold the green like it's designed. There's, it's, there's a, there's a sand trap in front of it. And the green slopes down and the greens are fast, so in order to hit the green, you have to spin it like a pro. And I, I can't. Like, it's just, it's hard to do. And so I was off the back every single time. Chip shots were wayward because the lies are so tight or there's some shitty grass. It was tough. It was a tough outing. Man. It made me think about my golf life for a while. Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

I had to make you think about quitting.

[Big T]

I did, actually.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah.

[Big T]

I generally thought about not playing this no more, but when I got back, I played the next day Zone.

[Arian Foster]

That's how it is. I played this, I played this course in Chicago last year and it was so hard. And I shot. I want to look at what I actually, I think it was like a 1 16, but it was that. It was probably more like a 122, 123. It was just a soul sucking round of golf. I quit at the end of it. I tried to give away my clubs afterwards. And then like two days later, I got invited to the Internet Invitational. So I was like, I'm back. And then I went back to it with Hank last week, played it on Wednesday, I think maybe Tuesday, and just tore that up. And so back. So back had a 93. That could have been easily like an 85, 86 if it wasn't for my inability to get out of bunkers. But it was like, you look at the back nine on that and it was like par, par, par, triple par, quad, par, double, which is like, yeah, like that. I'm so pumped to see all those pars. Like golf feels, it feels so fun when you're doing that.

[Big T]

A thousand percent. You feel unstoppable. And I argue it's not even. I think this is known. Regular courses are harder than PGA Tour courses. So, like, for example, the PGA national, it's not in tournament condition, right? So there's no sand in the bunkers. So the bunker shots become exponentially harder to do. So, like, if you just was to play a regular PGA Tour course, I would probably play better on that course than I would like, a municipal. That's. That's. That they don't take care of it because it's like there's.

[Arian Foster]

So. There's so many.

[Big T]

Like, the lie of the ball matters. You know what I mean? Like, there's patches everywhere. The shit that Bryson was complaining about, that's a real thing, right? And he could execute it to a way higher degree than I can, but it's harder to chip off some shit like that in the bunkers if. If, like, on the number one bunker, there's no sand, right? And then on the number three bunker, there's a bunch of sand. Those are two entirely different shots. And you have to position the club differently. The weight transfers. Everything's different. And so you have to, like, navigate that. That's just hard to do for, like, an average golfer. This is hard, man.

[Maddie Mac]

Now, Aran, you said you didn't do well. I'm looking at the leaderboard, and I don't see your name on here at all. Was there a cut?

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, there's a cut line.

[Maddie Mac]

Oh, so you. You did not make it?

[Big T]

I did not make the cut.

[Maddie Mac]

Sorry to hear that.

[Big T]

Hey, man. You know, we. We put forth our best effort in this life.

[Maddie Mac]

Shout out. Brian McCann. He was. Did you meet him at all?

[Big T]

I don't know who that is.

[Maddie Mac]

He played on the Braves. One of my favorite players as a kid.

[Big T]

Gotcha. Yeah. And the baseball player. This is why all the football players, except for one, are just playing catch up. Garrett Graham, who I used to play with for the Texans, he's a plus two, I think. Cold as fuck. But he had been playing for a long time, right? All the football players, we playing catch up because baseball players, one played for a long time, but two, like, that's the golf swing is like, they've been doing that for their own entire career, you know what I'm saying? So it's just the easier motion for them. So we're all playing catch up. It's just a different game.

[Maddie Mac]

Aryan, go on Twitter and search Junior Camino topgolf here. I'll find it and send it to you. This guy plays for the Tampa Bay Rays. And from the looks of it, like, I don't Even know if he plays golf at all. Junior 10C A M I N E R O But the Rays went to a topgolf and he just stepped up and hit the ball like. Like he was hitting a baseball, and he just sends it to the moon.

[Big T]

Yeah, I'm looking at it. Yeah.

[Maddie Mac]

And that's not like the swing of someone who plays golf.

[Big T]

It is. You think the baseball swing and the golf swing are very similar motions. Right? So he. He's.

[Arian Foster]

He's.

[Big T]

He's getting in there. He's tucking his arm. Like, that's a natural motion. Right. So, like, it took me years to understand, like, me coming over the top, like, trying to attack the ball, because everything I'm. I was training for was to go right. And so there are. They already know how to, like, move their hips, transfer their weight. That's just easy for them. And so it's basically, they struggle with slices because they. Because they come. They come under so, so much. They just have to, like. There's like a. Is like a simple switch for baseball swings, but, like, guys like us, we have to relearn the entire technique.

[Arian Foster]

But that.

[Big T]

That's a nice. He had a nice little. Which is. That's probably a slice too, though. Power. They have so much power. Like your boy, cuz name. He won it.

[Maddie Mac]

Smalls.

[Big T]

Look at the top of the leaderboard again.

[Maddie Mac]

Nah, Aaron Hicks won it.

[Big T]

Aaron Hicks. Aaron Hicks won it. His. He's like the most powerful one in the field. Like, he drives it like 350. Like, nasty. Like those dudes they just had. They have so much length. It's just hard because that's what they did their entire career.

[Maddie Mac]

That's interesting because he was a. Aaron Hicks was a. An average major leaguer, maybe at a season or two where he was pretty solid.

[Arian Foster]

I think if you're a. If you're a relief pitcher or just a pitcher in general in baseball, probably just a starting pitcher. You should get good at golf because you've got a lot of time, a lot of time to just hang out.

[Maddie Mac]

Smoltz and Glavin and Maddox would go just play with Tiger during spring training.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah,

[Maddie Mac]

I think one time. I forget if it was Smoltz who told the story or I believe it was Smoltz. He was like. He went into Bobby Cox's office during spring training. He was like, hey, Skip, Tiger woods invited me to play at Augusta tomorrow, but I know we have a game like, what's the deal? And Bobby Cox was like, it's fine. Just be back by tomorrow night. And so during spring training, John Smoltz went with Tiger, played Augusta, and then came back.

[Big T]

I mean, easily.

[Arian Foster]

I would definitely do that.

[Big T]

Why would you?

[Arian Foster]

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[Maddie Mac]

You see this?

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, well, I'm somewhat familiar with it. They're putting cameras in your cars and

[Maddie Mac]

like a kill switch.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, potentially a kill switch. So already in cars, they've got biometric data that, like, if you take your eyes off the road, it'll beep at you. On my car, it does that. If you, if I'm at like a red light and the car in front of me goes, and I don't go, it gives me like a slight tiny little beep. And I think I can turn some of that stuff off if I wanted to. But some of that stuff sort of here, like, it does monitor your eyes in a car, but now it looks like they're putting in technology that's going to try to determine whether or not you're, you're intoxicated.

[Maddie Mac]

But it also said beyond that, it was like if, if it, if the car can determine you're in a panic state or something or unfit to drive, it'll just turn off and Won't let you drive. Like what if you're having an emergency and you need to get somewhere?

[Arian Foster]

What do you mean? Panic state?

[Maddie Mac]

That was part of it. It's weird because this, so this is part of a bill that I believe passed in the House. And it seems like the technology for everything that's in the bill doesn't even necessarily exist yet. I was listening to Thomas Massie talk about, he had an amendment to strike it down and it failed. So it seems like this is for cars starting in 2027 and going forward that the government wants this stuff done, put in. And I don't even know if all the car companies have the ability to do it yet.

[Arian Foster]

Okay.

[Maddie Mac]

But some of what was listed was like yeah, it was drunk driving, which okay, sounds fine on its face. But then you keep going and it's like well yeah, if you're in, if you're unfit to drive in any way, it can track everything and all sorts of stuff.

[Arian Foster]

So the idea is in theory, if you're intoxicated, you have a car that will shut you out.

[Maddie Mac]

Yes.

[Arian Foster]

Right. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

[Maddie Mac]

I think if it was just intoxicated on its face, you could make the argument that that's good. I think it's very clear that this technology could and would be used for other things that are not good.

[Arian Foster]

Right. In case anybody wanted to shut your car down.

[Maddie Mac]

And I think being mandated by the government is an obvious sign that that is the case.

[Arian Foster]

Now what if it saved 20,000 lives a year from drunk driving?

[Maddie Mac]

I mean that there's no way to quantify that.

[Arian Foster]

You can see like how many times drunk driving has killed somebody.

[Maddie Mac]

But people could just not drive drunk also.

[Arian Foster]

Right, But I'm saying they do drive drunk.

[Maddie Mac]

Those who are willing to sacrifice essential liberty for small amount of security deserved neither.

[Arian Foster]

I, I, I'm aware of what Ben Franklin said 250 years ago, but we have this stuff every single day that does do that. Like it takes away your liberty. They go to the airport.

[Maddie Mac]

I agree.

[Arian Foster]

Got to get your scanned right. Like every we have, we have small incremental change.

[Maddie Mac]

And you're right, that is a. And, and listen, we've talked about the TSA on here, but that's a relatively small incursion upon it doesn't affect your trip that much. This would affect your life tremendously.

[Arian Foster]

I think it, yeah. If you drove drunk a lot.

[Maddie Mac]

But what if you're Florida, I think

[Arian Foster]

it would, yeah, Florida would like commutes would be way easier.

[Maddie Mac]

There are videos of cops pulling people over all the time. They're like, you're. You're drunk. All my training tells me that you're drunk. And the guy blows zero. They still arrest him, and then the. The people sue and win lawsuits because there are signs that you might look drunk and you're just not. So what about that?

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, there are, like. If you have certain medical conditions, like diabetes, sometimes there's other stuff too. So. Yeah, if they. If they don't get the algorithm, I'm not necessarily agreeing with it. I'm playing. Doing the devil's advocate thing also, like, you should not. You should never drive drunk. You shouldn't do it. But there have been emergencies where, like, somebody's legally slightly intoxicated, and they're like, I have to get to a hospital, like, asap. And they've driven, which, I mean, you shouldn't drive drunk, but there are these fringe cases that would probably be affected by this too.

[Maddie Mac]

And you're only taking the technology on its face.

[Arian Foster]

I am taking the technology. Yeah. Then when you deal with, like, giving information to, like, police department, stuff like that to the government, and right now, they still use. They use your car's data.

[Big T]

Your.

[Eric]

You're.

[Arian Foster]

If you have a modern car, it tracks a lot of stuff already.

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

That they. That's why I'm so confused on how anyone gets away with murder these days. Everything about you is tracked. Your car. Your. Your car will give, like, a play byplay of everything that you did in it to the police if they search it. Yeah, I don't know. I. I actually do agree with you, Big T. I want. I would rather have cars that just. You turn on and then you go. You go to where you want to go in your car.

[Maddie Mac]

Agreed.

[Arian Foster]

I don't think we need all this other stuff.

[Maddie Mac]

Can even be electric if you want.

[Big T]

Yeah. All right.

[Arian Foster]

Big news. Big news coming out. This was in the Washington Post last week, but we didn't discuss it. It's an excerpt from a book called you've been pooping all wrong. What do you guys think? Whose farts smell worse, men's farts or women's farts? Embrace debate.

[Big T]

Probably around the same. It.

[Maddie Mac]

I'm gonna guess, since you're asking the question, it's going to be the answer I least suspect.

[Arian Foster]

Okay.

[Maddie Mac]

Therefore, women's.

[Mackenzie]

Well, we don't, so I don't know.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, yeah. Women don't fart.

[Mackenzie]

I don't poop either.

[Arian Foster]

You can't divide by zero.

[Mackenzie]

Boom.

[Arian Foster]

Now, the real answer is kind of a mix. So according To a study in Popular Science magazine. Women have worse smelling farts, but men fart in bigger quantities. So, like, when dudes fart, we push out more gas than volume.

[Maddie Mac]

Shooter.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah. Women. Women toot. You know, like little toot. Men, we let it rip.

[Maddie Mac]

No, I think what you're saying is the opposite. No.

[Arian Foster]

Well, that's. So this is. You think women let out like huge farts?

[Maddie Mac]

I'm. I'm going off the information he just gave me. I'm not making an assertion. He said if women smarts. If women's farts smell worse, that means they are of greater

[Arian Foster]

intensity.

[Maddie Mac]

Yes.

[Mackenzie]

That's not at all how that works though.

[Arian Foster]

No. So women, women have a much greater odor intensity in their farts, but men, we let out more volume per fart than women do.

[Maddie Mac]

Okay.

[Mackenzie]

Volume and smell don't necessarily correlate into fart.

[Arian Foster]

Well, yeah, it's like a drop of a woman's fart is like a cloud.

[Maddie Mac]

It's far more potent.

[Arian Foster]

It's far more potent. But they just laid out the most adorable, cute little like, beep. You know, it smells like. But it's like.

[Maddie Mac]

And then men is like, where is this coming from?

[Arian Foster]

Popular Science. Popular Science magazine. So the study was that men we. So we produce a larger volume of gas per fart, About a half cup worth of a fart. So when you look at the concentration for a woman's fart compared to a big gas cloud for a man's fart, it's pretty much the same effect. But if women had the volume that men have, then it would be deadly.

[Maddie Mac]

They're doing more with less.

[Arian Foster]

They're doing more with less. But they just like. Yeah, it's. It's bad. It's bad when they let it out.

[Maddie Mac]

Imagine if Trout stayed healthy his whole career, you know?

[Arian Foster]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

It's a what if.

[Big T]

What I don't understand is like, how, like, when people go, boo boo, It'd be like three minutes, dog. And then they up out of there. I don't understand that.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, you gotta take time.

[Big T]

I just, I had. Like, there's more that comes. Like. I don't eat that much.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah.

[Maddie Mac]

How long are you taking?

[Big T]

Like 20 minutes. 20, like 20 minutes.

[Mackenzie]

That is like one of life's greatest joys.

[Arian Foster]

I agree.

[Mackenzie]

20 minutes is long.

[Maddie Mac]

That's a long time. Do your legs fall asleep sometimes?

[Big T]

Yeah, but I'm healthy. Big T. You know?

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah, I just. I mean, you're sitting for a while. You must have a comfortable toilet seat.

[Big T]

Pretty standard, man.

[Maddie Mac]

You know, my shit's not comfortable enough to do that.

[Eric]

How long?

[Big T]

How long you boo boo?

[Maddie Mac]

Five.

[Big T]

Whoa, really? Yeah.

[Maddie Mac]

And, and that's with me sitting on my phone for a minute.

[Big T]

That's interesting, man. I don't know, I just keeps, it keeps coming out. Like if I get up, I'll have to go right back and sit down again. So like I, I, I sit until I'm done.

[Mackenzie]

May I ask a personal question? If it just keeps coming out, how do you know when you are done? Is it just a feeling?

[Big T]

Yeah, you can feel the tank empty.

[Maddie Mac]

Interesting.

[Big T]

Yeah. I don't know man. That, that maybe that.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah.

[Big T]

It's always confusing when people go to bathroom and it's so fast. I'm like, what's going on?

[Arian Foster]

I, I think it's weird too.

[Big T]

You, you, you, you go long too?

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, I go pretty long.

[Big T]

You know what I'm saying?

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, I'll go. It depends. Like there's times you've got to. You're on a mission. You're under a gun. Like the other week right before we went on the air for, for wake up barstool 7:00am 6:45 rolls around. Oh, oh, I didn't have Stella Blue coffee for breakfast. I had a new kind of off label. Hadn't tried it yet.

[Maddie Mac]

I had one during the show last week.

[Arian Foster]

I made a mistake. I made a mistake by going to a coffee that was not Stella Blue in the morning. High fat content. I think it was like butter in the coffee or something stupid. 6:45 rolls around. Oh, gotta duck in. All business. In, out, boom, four minutes. But that's, that's the exception. I think the rule for me is typically like I'm looking at 9 to 20 and I take a little bit of time, you know, catch up on the news.

[Mackenzie]

I love just sitting on the toilet. That sounds gross.

[Arian Foster]

Make a drop of that, please. Please isolate that.

[Mackenzie]

Put in the big booty. I also love. My guilty pleasure is I'll sit on my bathroom floor before I get in the shower and just kind of hang out there for a little bit.

[Arian Foster]

Wait, what?

[Maddie Mac]

Why?

[Mackenzie]

I have done this as long as I know I just will sit on the bathroom floor next to my like on my bath mat and just hang out. It's such a comfortable like position for me to be in.

[Maddie Mac]

You find that difficult to believe.

[Mackenzie]

Up against the corner of my wall.

[Big T]

Once you just get in the shower and sit down.

[Mackenzie]

No, I don't want to sit down in the shower.

[Maddie Mac]

That's even crazier. You waterboard yourself.

[Mackenzie]

Yeah, I don't want to Sit down in the shower. But I. Because it's not.

[Big T]

Nah. Be like, you don't sit directly underneath. I mean, even if you did, I don't think you'd waterboard.

[Maddie Mac]

Well, no, but it would be uncomfortable.

[Arian Foster]

Have you thought about a comfortable shower seat?

[Mackenzie]

It's not. I don't. But I don't want to sit in the water. It's not that. I just like the corner of my bathroom. I've done this in like, where, like the shower or the tub, and then like your sink meets. I really enjoy sitting in that corner for. Oh, I'll do it for an hour.

[Arian Foster]

So you turn the shower on.

[Mackenzie]

I have gotten out of that habit because I understand how wasteful it is to just sit there with the shower on. I'll just do it without the shower.

[Arian Foster]

So. But is it always before a shower?

[Mackenzie]

Mm.

[Arian Foster]

Okay, so you go in there and as part of your prep, your pre game routine, you're just going to sit on the floor of your bathroom.

[Mackenzie]

On my phone.

[Arian Foster]

On your phone. And then. Then after five, ten minutes, you get up and you turn the water on.

[Mackenzie]

5, 10 is quick.

[Arian Foster]

Okay, so after 20 minutes, you get up and you turn the water on.

[Mackenzie]

Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

What do you do? So you just like, check your phone for 20. You just fuck around online?

[Mackenzie]

Yeah. Like, instead of sitting on my couch, like, I know I'm going to get in the shower, so I just go sit on my floor and I just hang out.

[Arian Foster]

That's. That's very strange.

[Mackenzie]

I know, but I love it.

[Arian Foster]

That's really, really strange.

[Mackenzie]

Like, my mom will call me or FaceTime me and I'll answer and I'll just be sitting on my floor and she'll know exactly where I am when I'm up to.

[Arian Foster]

You're getting ready to shower.

[Mackenzie]

Yeah. I love it.

[Arian Foster]

That's every day.

[Mackenzie]

No, not every day. Not if I'm not if I'm in a restaurant.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, because. Well, because. So for me, when I take a shower, it's part of my morning routine. It's like I'm getting ready to get up and do something. So I don't. I don't think I have time to just like, sit on the floor aimlessly for 20 minutes.

[Mackenzie]

Right? No. Yeah. No, most of the time I don't. Most of the time it's like, not necessarily a super helpful thing I do for myself. I usually end up making myself late doing it, but I've done it for at least since middle school.

[Arian Foster]

Okay. Hey, listen, I'm not gonna judge until I've tried it. I Might try it.

[Mackenzie]

Like, I'd rather sit. Like. Like when dudes do the, like, 25 minutes in the bathroom thing when they poop. Like, Arian just described. Like, I'd rather do that before I shower on my bathroom floor and just sit. Okay, it's cold.

[Maddie Mac]

Generally, that would be perceived as a

[Mackenzie]

negative, but, like, if most of the time after I. Most of the time when I'm showering, I had just worked out, so then I'm hot, and so I kind of cool down, and my apartment floors are like concrete. Like, I don't even know.

[Maddie Mac]

Another negative.

[Mackenzie]

Well, I'm not saying that that's a good thing, but, like, so the ground is really cold, and then by the time I get in the shower, then I'm like, whoo. Then the hot water hits you, and then it's like a contrast. I love it. I. I advise all of you to kind of just try it one time if you have the correct.

[Arian Foster]

I will. I will try.

[Mackenzie]

Yeah, it's perfect. Sometimes my legs fall asleep because my floor isn't that comfortable, but then that's how I know it's time to get up and get in the shower. I love it.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, I'll definitely. I'll definitely try it. I won't knock it before I've tried it, but to me, it seems like. You know what? I'm not even gonna judge you. Do you. You do you enjoy?

[Mackenzie]

I like it a lot.

[Maddie Mac]

And.

[Mackenzie]

Pft. Not to. Not to dox your house, but you have heated bathroom floors. I do imagine that.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, you're right. Yeah, good point. Good point. Okay, I'm gonna try it.

[Mackenzie]

Yeah. Turn your bathroom floor on.

[Arian Foster]

The heated floors are a real treat in the wintertime.

[Mackenzie]

I can only imagine.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, that's maybe the most bougie thing

[Big T]

I have, big time.

[Arian Foster]

You have them.

[Big T]

No,

[Arian Foster]

that's all right. You'll get there one day, Aaron.

[Big T]

Never really that cold here.

[Mackenzie]

You don't really have winter. Yeah, that's true.

[Arian Foster]

No, it's okay. You'll get there one day.

[Big T]

You're right. I'm gonna keep grinding. I'm. You know what I'm saying? Climb these podcast ranks. Do what I can in this.

[Arian Foster]

You got this. You got this.

[Big T]

Draft day residuals, they starting to really come in, especially now. The check's gonna come.

[Maddie Mac]

Oh, yeah. Do you get around this time? Do you get a bigger check?

[Big T]

No, my role was small, man. I think it's like, every year I'll get a check for, like, a hundred dollars or something like that.

[Maddie Mac]

It's 100 bucks.

[Big T]

It is 100 bucks.

[Arian Foster]

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[Maddie Mac]

So I went through the account and it seems like this person does enjoy pissing people off on the Internet. But the emails look real. Do you disagree?

[Arian Foster]

They look real.

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, for sure. Do you want to read the email back and forth and we can. We can figure out together if it's real or fake?

[Maddie Mac]

Sure. Michaela, your neighbor has reported you again for a noise complaint. We've spoken about the issue. This issue multiple times, both in person and by email. This is the final warning before we move forward with an official lease violation. Best Brandy Redacted Leasing Manager Such and such Property Management. Michaela responds. Please explain to me why I'm getting a violation and. And they are not. When it's. Please explain to me why I'm getting a violation and they are not. When it's the exact same thing. Your neighbors have a baby and babies cry. You are blasting crying baby noises through your speaker at their apartment. They are not the same thing. They actually are the same thing. I've gone through painstaking links to make sure that they are. I took a decibel reading of the baby crying. I never let the volume exceed this decibel limit. I record the times and lengths at which the baby cries and I will play the noises for the same time and length back, just on different days. I have the speaker attached to a Roomba and it moves around the apartment. So the sound isn't always in the same place. It is functionally the same thing. They're not the same thing. And you're harassing your neighbors. If it continues to happen, you will get a lease violation. Best Brandy. That is the email exchange. This person said, my neighbors just had a baby who cries for 16 hours a day. But guess which one of us is getting a lease violation. I feel like you should have to disclose to potential tenants if anyone on the floor is thinking about getting pregnant because I would not have signed this lease.

[Mackenzie]

That's crazy.

[Maddie Mac]

You think that's not real?

[Big T]

I had a similar.

[Arian Foster]

It's just so insane.

[Maddie Mac]

I think it is real.

[Arian Foster]

It's just so insane that somebody would attach a speaker with a crying baby's voice to a Roomba. The room apart. I don't know.

[Maddie Mac]

It does.

[Arian Foster]

For what reason? Just. Just to fuck with.

[Mackenzie]

Yes.

[Arian Foster]

The neighbors that have a baby and

[Mackenzie]

to prove the point that it's the same.

[Arian Foster]

Okay.

[Mackenzie]

I think.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah. So it's like I have a scientifically set up.

[Mackenzie]

Yes, that's what I think.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah. Baby simulator in my house.

[Mackenzie]

Yep.

[Maddie Mac]

She responded. Thank you for your support, everyone. We have a few negative Nancy's in here who think baby rights should trample over the rest of us, but they are in the minority. Baby supremacists are a threat to national sovereignty. And I'm glad I could start a discussion.

[Big T]

I'm okay with that, actually. And I have babies, a bunch of them.

[Maddie Mac]

But I mean, those people aren't happy that their baby's crying 16 hours a day either.

[Big T]

No, I'm, I'm saying she's right. And you're right. You shouldn't be like, babies cry. Nobody enjoys that part. It's loud. It's not a fun part, parenting, but you shouldn't dock the other person.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah. We were all babies once.

[Big T]

Who's all babies?

[Arian Foster]

Like, if you're anti baby, it's that. That is the most hypocritical thing you can be like, talk about pulling the ladder up behind you. Right. Student loan I got here.

[Maddie Mac]

I will say some of the replies from this woman seem. I think she just loves rage baiting people. But I, I, the emails I think could be real.

[Arian Foster]

It is a good way to rage bait. To just be like, I'm. I'm going to make my brand as the person that hates babies.

[Maddie Mac]

So you, you're on. You, you believe this is fake?

[Arian Foster]

I think it might be rage baiting.

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah, it's definitely rage baiting. It's just a matter of if it's

[Arian Foster]

real or not intentional or unintentional. Yeah. Big T, what is your, what is your thought process? Walk me through the steps that your mind Goes through when you get on a plane and person next to you has a crying baby.

[Maddie Mac]

I don't know that it's ever happened directly next to me. I mean, again, I don't, I don't like saying this. I'm in the front of the plane. Generally not that many babies up there. I do have very good noise canceling headphones. Like, I, I, I try to be like, listen, I, that person is probably more upset about it than I am.

[Mackenzie]

So I think you're a loser if you ever complain about babies crying on a plane.

[Arian Foster]

Because I agree.

[Mackenzie]

It's a baby. What are they gonna do?

[Arian Foster]

I agree. I agree. Well, okay, Mackenzie, what if you used to complain about babies, but then like, recently, last year, you realize that, hey, everybody was a baby at one time, and the parents don't want their baby to be crying and babies just cry, and then you, you've matured and you want to just accept people.

[Mackenzie]

That's good.

[Maddie Mac]

You're a reformed baby hater.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

Reformed baby. Baby hater.

[Mackenzie]

Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

We might have that guy working at this company.

[Big T]

Okay, who's that?

[Arian Foster]

Dante. Dante had a post like, a year ago. Just being like, something that I've actually recently figured out is that babies aren't they just. All babies cry.

[Mackenzie]

They have no idea what's going on.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah. So they're probably freaked out about everything.

[Mackenzie]

Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

Probably scared a lot.

[Maddie Mac]

I thought you were talking about yourself.

[Arian Foster]

No, no, no. I've never, in fact, like, it's always nice when a, A mom or a dad or a couple has the baby care package that they hand out to people next to you, like on a plane. But also, I kind of don't, I don't love that because you know that they're feeling guilty for something they should not feel guilty for. You know, like you shouldn't. It kind of puts it on like all the other. Unintentionally makes every other family that's traveling with a baby look like thought. Thoughtless, selfish. For not having a care package that they hand out to people that are next to them, when in reality it's like, you don't need to hand those out.

[Maddie Mac]

What is the baby care package?

[Arian Foster]

Like? You got like, earplugs?

[Maddie Mac]

I've never heard of this being done.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, I feel like it's happened less over the last couple. A couple years ago.

[Maddie Mac]

How far does that extend? Two rows, three rows. I think you can hear the baby for a while.

[Arian Foster]

I think the immediate seats next to you is what they would hand it out to.

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah, I mean, that's not doing anything?

[Big T]

No, I've. I wanted to. Like there's some. There was a mom that was like struggling and it never, it never bothers me because I have kids and I've had to travel with kids and it's like you want to do your best to be cordial to everybody else, but there's this lady that was struggling and I had. I. My favorite movies are Pixar movies. And so I had like a bunch of Pixar movies downloaded on my iPad. And so like, I just. She was right behind me, so I just put it behind me and I was like, have her listen to movies. Here's the headphones. She's like, oh my God. Like, yeah, man, don't worry about it. I do like that all the time. It's not a, it's not a big deal. That's actually my, my, my advice to people. My first advice to people when they have kids. Like one of my, my good friends has a kid and their first time parents, I'm like, yo, I'm gonna give you some advice. And my first advice is babies cry. Like, that's, that's, that's the best advice I give people because it's like, it makes you feel incompetent as a parent if you're a new parent. Like, I'm doing everything. It's fed, it's changed. Yeah, I'm rocking it. It won't go to sleep. Like, yo, sometimes the babies cry, dog. And there's nothing you can do about that. Take the burden off you as a human. You're doing a good job. Babies cry.

[Arian Foster]

Yep. Every baby cries. You, you cried when you were a baby.

[Big T]

Allegedly, yeah.

[Maddie Mac]

Now conversely, adults behaving poorly on planes. I want imprisoned. I'd be fine with no trial. More punishment based on some cases.

[Arian Foster]

Yep, I would agree with that.

[Big T]

What's that? What's a misbehaving adult? Give me a example.

[Maddie Mac]

I mean, you see videos of the fights and stuff all the time. I've never been on a plane where that happens, but like I was on a plane recently. Guy took his shoes off and he was, he wasn't even wearing socks. He was just. That's that, that should be jail. And that was in first class.

[Big T]

But he took his shoes off and wasn't wearing socks.

[Maddie Mac]

He was wearing like loafers with no socks. Took his shoes off.

[Big T]

The feet stink.

[Maddie Mac]

No, I didn't smell, but I was just looking at it like, what in the world? Why is this happening?

[Big T]

I'm okay if somebody do that with socks though.

[Maddie Mac]

I feel like socks can probably hold more odor than a barefoot would. It's just a hypothesis.

[Big T]

Yeah. I think if you're walking around and your foot all sweating in the shoe, I assume the shoe gonna smell worse than the sock. I think.

[Maddie Mac]

But a sock would like, absorb sweat.

[Big T]

That's actually a good question. Would a foot smell worse with or without a sock? I think it's. I think it's without. I think it sweats more. That's a good question. Let me ask quad.

[Arian Foster]

I think if it's, if it's skin on shoe interior smells worse, there's some interaction going on there.

[Maddie Mac]

I haven't looked into it.

[Arian Foster]

If there's a sock involved.

[Maddie Mac]

My hypothesis is a sock would exacerbate the smell. Given that it would trap all the odor and sweat.

[Arian Foster]

I think it, I think that's exactly what a sock does.

[Maddie Mac]

You just said, you just said it would smell worse without sock.

[Arian Foster]

No, I think the sat. I think the sock entraps all the odor and sweat. So when you take the sock off, are you saying leave the sock on?

[Maddie Mac]

We're saying you are wearing shoes and socks. You take off your shoes, the socks remain on. Will that smell worse? Or if you are wearing socks with no shoes and you remove the shoes.

[Arian Foster]

Okay, I see what you're saying. I think the sock. I think the sock bottles up the smell and absorbs the smell. So if you keep the sock on, take your foot out of the shoe, then it's not as smelly.

[Maddie Mac]

No, I think that is where the smell resides.

[Arian Foster]

No, but as long as it's in the sock, it's not escaping the sock.

[Maddie Mac]

Oh, no, I think it escapes the sock.

[Arian Foster]

No, I think it stays in there until such.

[Maddie Mac]

All right, so let's say you wore the same pair of socks for like a week straight.

[Arian Foster]

Okay.

[Maddie Mac]

Never took them off.

[Arian Foster]

Okay.

[Maddie Mac]

And then you come in here, no shoes on.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Maddie Mac]

You think your feet would not smell bad. Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

At that point, the sock can only do so much.

[Maddie Mac]

We're not talking how much can it do?

[Arian Foster]

Space age technology.

[Maddie Mac]

How long then?

[Arian Foster]

Okay, I would say the average length, the average duration of sock keeping on before you get on a plane. I'm gonna say balances out to six hours. You got a six hour sock on your foot. Okay, I think that's okay. I. I think it probably, it might smell a little bit, but six hour sock, nothing bad area.

[Big T]

Yeah. So, okay, so if this is what AI Chatbot's telling me for a shirt, short term, it's counterintuitive, but the sockless foot would smell Better than the foot in the sock because it. It does trap odor. But over a long period of time, the sockless foot get. It gets worse and worse because it's like a feedback loop for bacteria. And so it would. It would. It would be. It would smell more the longer it's in there. So the sock helps with the absorb absorption of that bacteria and kind of masks it in a way.

[Maddie Mac]

So call it a time.

[Big T]

Over long periods of time, sock, short term, no sock. I agree. But wear socks.

[Maddie Mac]

But also, back to the poor plane behavior. Racing to the front of the plane. Jail. Just, you know, just general asshole or about clapping. I don't know that I've ever had that happen. Really.

[Big T]

When they land and it's a. And it's a turbulent ride. I'm okay with that. Yeah.

[Maddie Mac]

Can the pilot even hear that? No, I don't think so.

[Arian Foster]

No.

[Maddie Mac]

I got headphones on.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, they got. They're talking. The tower.

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah. No, they don't hear it, but it's just like, you know, out of respect.

[Big T]

I still think playing. It's just a wild thing. I was thinking about that on plane the other day. Like, y' all just trust this. Like, I'm 30, 000ft in the air, dog. This is. This is the wild thing.

[Maddie Mac]

I try not to.

[Big T]

I do. What a. That's an amazing piece of technology. And we just. We just fly.

[Maddie Mac]

But I'm not driving longer than six hours. So I guess we're going to. We're either going to get there or we're not.

[Big T]

Those are facts.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah. All right. We got anything else today?

[Mackenzie]

I have a voicemail or two if you want to do that.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, let's do some voicemail.

[Maddie Mac]

So,

[Mackenzie]

breaking news. The Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Soresby has been checked into a gambling addiction program.

[Arian Foster]

I saw that. Yeah.

[Maddie Mac]

Really?

[Arian Foster]

So he is. He's supposed to be pretty good.

[Maddie Mac]

He is.

[Arian Foster]

I.

[Maddie Mac]

He's gonna have a big season to play at Tennessee. Very badly.

[Arian Foster]

He was. He's lined up to have a big season next year here.

[Mackenzie]

That may be called into question right now. But that just came across my desk.

[Maddie Mac]

Interesting.

[Mackenzie]

Swords. Bes addiction.

[Eric]

Or.

[Mackenzie]

Sorry, Sor's. Sorby's decision to seek treatment for gambling addiction, according to sources, came in the wake of the discovery of Sorsby making thousands of online bets on a variety of sports via gambling app, which jeopardizes his eligibility with Texas Tech also.

[Big T]

Oh, so he's not like, really? He's just doing it. Somebody told him to do it. It's like he probably Got caught doing.

[Mackenzie]

Oh, I thought you meant someone's telling him to gamble. I'm like, I doubt anyone's telling him to say that.

[Big T]

No, no, no. I think he just got caught gambling and it was like, you know, this is PR move.

[Maddie Mac]

According to sources, Sorsby bet on Indiana football while red shirting for the Hoosiers as a true freshman in 2022 season in which he played a single game as a reserve. The bets in 22, according to sources, were on Indiana to win, and none came in a game in which Sorsby appeared.

[Big T]

Pete Rosie. Huh? I never understood that either. Well, that, like, if I'm betting on me to win, why is that a bad thing?

[Arian Foster]

Well, so if you're a manager in baseball, it's a little bit different because if you bet on your team to win one night, what you might end up doing is like using all of your bullpen because you really want to win that one game and then that would affect how you are able to pitch in the next game or the game after that. Fair enough. So that's, that's the one instance where I think it's. It could be seen as an issue.

[Big T]

Yeah, that's fair.

[Maddie Mac]

I must say, I have been shocked and maybe I shouldn't be, but at the amount of athletes that have been doing this.

[Arian Foster]

So stupid. You're going to get caught.

[Maddie Mac]

I mean, you, you just have to be so dumb. So dumb. And to do it on your own team. Even another level. How much did he get paid to go to Texas Tech?

[Arian Foster]

I don't know, but I also did see that. I saw that when they asked Trump about the guy that, that made the bet on Maduro getting captured, he was like, well, did he bet on him to get captured or for not to work? All right, well, it's kind of like Pete Rose. Yeah, like that on your own team.

[Maddie Mac]

Brandon Sorsby reportedly got $5 million to play one season at Texas Tech. Don't know that he's going to get that now.

[Arian Foster]

No, I would say probably not.

[Maddie Mac]

Kind of a big mistake there.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, Big, big mistake. Don't do it. You're going to get caught. All these apps, they've got algorithms that are specifically trained to catch people doing that. You're going to get caught if you do it.

[Maddie Mac]

What does Texas Tech do now?

[Arian Foster]

I don't know. Who's out there?

[Maddie Mac]

Well, the portals closed, right?

[Arian Foster]

What can you do?

[Maddie Mac]

You could, theoretically, you'd be breaking some rules, but you could try to get a player to just withdraw from whatever school they're at entirely and then enroll at your school. That would probably lead to some lawsuits. Yeah, but they do need a quarterback. It seems so. But maybe this is the step that they think they'll. They'll be able to get him back. I don't know.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, I think. And they definitely have backup quarterbacks on the roster, so the coaches are probably like, we hope he comes back, but if not, we, like. We like the guys we have in the building.

[Maddie Mac]

Let me tell you, Cody Campbell is not paying tens of millions of dollars for the backup quarterback to be playing next year. I can just tell you that.

[Arian Foster]

No. No, he's not.

[Maddie Mac]

They got more money than God. They'll figure it out.

[Arian Foster]

Have you seen oil prices recently?

[Maddie Mac]

Surgeon?

[Arian Foster]

Yeah. Pretty good time. Good business, I would say, being Texas A and M and Texas Tech. Although somebody out there that's more educated about oil could probably tell me, like, is the. The. The Permian Basin, the oil that you're pulling out of the ground there, is that more valuable now because the raining oil is harder to get out? I don't know. I need somebody to explain that to me. I just know that oil's up so

[Maddie Mac]

that it would be even better for Texas, you're saying?

[Arian Foster]

I would think so. Yeah. But maybe. Maybe I'm wrong about that. I'm not an oil man.

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah. I don't know.

[Arian Foster]

Okay, let's do voicemail. Okay, guys. It's grit week. This is the part of the football

[Maddie Mac]

calendar where nobody's watching but everything gets built.

[Arian Foster]

Early mornings, pads back on conditioning, film reps. Spring training in football is all about putting in the work when nobody's cheering yet. And honestly, that's the same mindset behind the Chevy Silverado. This is a truck that is the definition of grit.

[Maddie Mac]

Long days, dirty work, and showing up

[Arian Foster]

day after day, no matter the conditions. Strong, dependable, and built for the grind. Because grit isn't about being flashy and

[Maddie Mac]

it's about being ready when it's time to go.

[Arian Foster]

Check out the current offers and build your [e-mail]. that's Silverado. All grit, no quit. And you can build your [e-mail] today.

[Eric]

What's up, Macrodosing? This is Mikey from Arizona calling again. I'm actually going up back up to Seattle now. Back home. Home. Just graduated college, but I just had an awesome weekend with my buddy's girlfriend's best friend was visiting from Colorado. She goes to Montana State, and we hit it off for four or five days straight, and we've been talking a ton on our phone. Since a couple phone calls. And I'm wondering, like, do I. Do I try to go visit her? She invited me. Do I try to have her come visit me for a week? I know it's not like it's only a few days, but also, like. Like, just laughing the whole time, having a blast. Went on some dates while we had time and stuff. So I'm wondering if there's, like, if it's weird to make a play there with that, or do I just say, hey, the distance, it's not gonna work out. We don't live in the same state. I'm able to move pretty soon from work to wherever. Not to get that far ahead, but that's not really an issue for me. And. Yeah. Yeah. So that's kind of my question. What do I do with that? Also, Big T, I know your Braves guy, J.R. richie. Just made his debut today. The day I'm calling. Went to Bainbridge High School, played against him in high school. He was disgusting then and he's disgusting now. So happy for. Happy for your Braves. Big T stance and stay beautiful. And I was the original person to call in with the Arian Foster toaster story by Barbara's brother years ago. Love you guys. Stay handsome.

[Arian Foster]

I love that.

[Maddie Mac]

Real quick, just on J.R. richie. Were you watching when for those unfamiliar. J.R. richie's 22, I believe. Very young guy. Made his MLB debut last week against the Nationals through a great game. Gave up two runs in like seven innings. I think first pitch he ever threw in the major leagues there show. His parents are in the stands crying. They're like, Here he is, J.R. richie, first pitch, just gets obliterated by James Wood for a homer. First pitch he ever threw in the big leagues. And then he actually pitched really well the rest of the game. But just a funny little.

[Arian Foster]

That is a fun fact.

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

Very fun fact. This is a. I think, a very common situation he's found himself in. It sounds like he's smitten. I think we got a case of a smitten listener, guys.

[Mackenzie]

A smitten kitten.

[Arian Foster]

You guys are. I think it sounds like you guys are both smitten kittens. So I love it. I say just let it. Let it ride. Let's see how it goes. Like, don't rule out going to visit her. She lives, what, in Montana? That's probably a nice place to visit during the summertime.

[Maddie Mac]

He said he's in Seattle.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah. It's not. Not too far away, I would say maybe. You see how.

[Big T]

Ask her. Ask her if it's cool. To visit first. Don't just pop up.

[Arian Foster]

Oh, sure.

[Mackenzie]

Yeah, yeah.

[Arian Foster]

Yes. Good point, Good point.

[Big T]

Just ask her if it's cool. Like, hey, man, you know what I'm saying? This weekend was I, you know, so. And I'd have been around. I'm feeling the vibe, and I kind of wanna. I want to kick with you a little bit more. It'd be cool. I'll shoot up there for a weekend or something like that.

[Arian Foster]

How long ago was this was the

[Maddie Mac]

debut, Big T. This was last week.

[Arian Foster]

Okay. So depending on how the last week conversations have been going with her. Thursday, feel it out a little bit. And then, yeah, if things seem to be going good, if you guys are having fun texting and talking, give it a shot. And I. I wouldn't say, like, I can move.

[Mackenzie]

Yeah, that's a little crazy.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah. Like, I appreciate the background and it sounds like you were giving it on background, but I. I don't think she necessarily needs that background just yet.

[Big T]

Not yet.

[Arian Foster]

But I can see that you're excited about it. You wouldn't have mentioned that if you weren't excited about it. And thinking about. I think if you really are into somebody like that, I don't think it's, like, creepy to think that, like, in the back of your head right off the bat.

[Big T]

Oh, no, you just can't.

[Arian Foster]

But don't say it. And don't, like, actually plan anything around it. But I think it's actually a good sign that you're like, oh, you know what? Like, if I. I really, really like her. And who knows? But it sounds like this might be a real thing. That's okay to feel that way, but just don't say it yet.

[Big T]

Yeah, I think we all like. If you really like somebody, the thoughts travel and be like, I could see. I could see kids in marriage. And everybody does that. If you really like somebody, that's normal. Just don't say that you can't. Sometimes you just gotta keep our thoughts ourselves.

[Maddie Mac]

Now, I'm just thinking out loud. I'm not proposing this. I just want to. Want to get the room. So you're saying you now. You'd have to be so positive that this would go well. This is not something you do if you are even 95% sure. But if you know that she's feeling your vibe, it's 10 hours and three minutes. That's a longer drive than I thought from Seattle to Bozeman, Montana. But if you did just like the grand gesture of your, like, hey, I'm actually at this restaurant in Bozeman right now. Everyone's out on that from what I hear.

[Big T]

Yeah. No, it's not a.

[Mackenzie]

Especially if you're like states away. No. But I think the bordering. But still, I would say also though, he should be the one to go visit her. To be chivalrous. I don't think you should be like, hey, come to Seattle. Right. That's where he is. I think you should be the one to go visit her after you tell her that you want to come visit and plan that with her.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah.

[Maddie Mac]

By the way, they don't border each other. Idaho's in between them.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah. The little strip, Idaho. Honestly, that part of Idaho. Probably 20, 30 minute drive to get through.

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah. Quick. Maybe 45.

[Arian Foster]

Just a little slice.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

Nice time of year to make that drive, though, I'd imagine.

[Maddie Mac]

I wouldn't have guessed that long.

[Arian Foster]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Things are big up there.

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

A lot of land like Washington State goes out pretty far east. The high desert.

[Maddie Mac]

Shout out. Montana State FCS football National Champions season.

[Big T]

Yep.

[Arian Foster]

Legends. Okay, we got another one. I'm excited for this guy, though. It sounds like. It sounds like things are good and it's a good way to make a connection. Like a friend of your buddy's girlfriend. That's.

[Mackenzie]

Yeah. Vetted.

[Big T]

Organic people don't meet like that anymore. You know, people meet online, though, and shout out to him for being a long time listener too. Dog, that shit's co.

[Arian Foster]

Crack.

[Maddie Mac]

Respect.

[Mackenzie]

Respect.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah. Yeah. In theory, you guys are both somewhat like. Yeah. Vetted by people close to that person.

[Mackenzie]

Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

And then you've got a built in group of vacation friends too.

[Mackenzie]

Right. And you would think you're like. If your best friend's girlfriend is the connection here. Like, you must be similar enough if it's like your best friend and his girlfriend. You know what I mean? I like this. I like this situation. The distance will work on you. You call us back in about a year, then we'll figure that one out.

[Maddie Mac]

By the way, Junior Richie that he was talking about, who's from Seattle, his name, I think is Ian, but he's Ian Jr. And he said. They said they didn't want him to go by his dad's name, but they didn't want to call him Junior because they thought everybody would just think they named him after Ken Griffey Jr.

[Arian Foster]

Okay.

[Maddie Mac]

So they did, J.R. okay.

[Arian Foster]

I like that.

[Maddie Mac]

But his name's Ian.

[Arian Foster]

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[Eric]

what's going on, guys? This is Kyle from Salisbury, Maryland. PFD shout out the Eastern Shore, Virginia. Listening to Tuesday's episode and your pitch for Top Gun 3 and AI drones, it's inspired me a little bit. I need to preface this. I have not seen the Top Gun movies. I suck for that. I'll admit that. I need to watch them. But your pitch, talking about it, inspired me to come up with a little bit of dialogue. Very brief. So you know Maverick superior looking at him. Obviously, Maverick not happy about these AI drones. Superior looks at him. God damn it, Maverick. Don't you understand? We're just trying to protect you. Long dramatic pause. Maverick looks this guy up and down. I squint. I never needed protection. Next thing you know, he goes off and he does the one stunt, the one thing that he knows these AI drones can't. Awesome end to the movie. Incredible scene. Yeah, I think that'll be, you know, I think that'd be cool. Let me know what you think. If you like it, please feel free. This. That one piece of dialogue, free of charge. Hope you guys enjoyed it, but love the podcast. Love what you guys do. Peace.

[Arian Foster]

I like it. That's a good scene. That's a great scene. Well read, I might add.

[Mackenzie]

Does that fit into your blog?

[Arian Foster]

It might. Yeah, that might fit into my plot. I was also thinking, you know, when I gave the. The whole spiel last week, I was talking about how, you know, the one thing that the drones can't do, the AI can't do, is know when to break the rules that are written. But then as this guy was talking, I thought of another thing that the drones can't do that humans can't do. You know what that is? Fall in love. And so maybe there's like a little love story involved in there. And maybe, like, maybe Mavericks New Love ends up being a pilot for the other side, and then Maverick has to make a decision on whether or not to shoot her down. Just, just. I'm. I'm workshopping right off the top of my head.

[Maddie Mac]

You don't think Maverick's too much of a patriot for that to even be

[Arian Foster]

a question, but you're not thinking about the. The man is a lover have you seen Top Gun one?

[Maddie Mac]

Yes. That man with American women, though.

[Arian Foster]

But he was not supposed to sleep with that woman. That was. That was against the rules.

[Maddie Mac]

He never ventures to the. The enemy.

[Arian Foster]

But that was against the code of conduct, the military code of conduct for him to sleep with his instructor. That's the thing. It's like he's already proven that he's. He's willing to break those kind of rules. But, like, what if this woman, there was a reason why she was flying for the opponent, right? Like, maybe.

[Maddie Mac]

Sure.

[Arian Foster]

I don't know. Maybe she was, like, kidnapped or something like that. Or maybe maybe the US like, bombed her dad when she was a little girl. And Maverick falls in love, and then they eject together, and then they land in the middle of the ocean and they do it in the ocean with their parachutes. What do you think about that?

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah, I mean, that's definitely interesting.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, I think it's very interesting. He's like, wow, that's quite a landing strip. And then fade to black. What do you think? All right, whatever. Hey, listen, no bad ideas. We're talking about the future of cinema here, all right? No bad ideas. The most important things and themes that you can discuss are, you know, the morality of human versus machine and. And love. And I feel like Top Gun 2, the love. The love story in Top Gun 2 was just. It was very funny because it was just kind of thrown in there. It's like, I guess we'll put a woman in there and Maverick will, like, every fourth scene, Maverick will be, like, hanging out with her.

[Mackenzie]

Show up on his motorcycle.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, show up on the motorcycle. But it was like there was really nothing important about that story at all. Maybe let's get some. Some steamy stuff going on.

[Maddie Mac]

Some could argue, you could say you could Summarized the entire film that way. There was nothing particularly important about that story at all. But it was awesome.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that's fair.

[Maddie Mac]

I don't remember what that movie is about other than the mission at the end. I just know that it was. I enjoyed watching it.

[Arian Foster]

The movie's about a mission?

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah.

[Mackenzie]

Wait, Top Gun 2, you don't remember?

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah, I just. They just kind of do cool shit the whole time, but I don't remember a particularly tantalizing plot.

[Mackenzie]

Miles Teller is the son of. Of Goose.

[Arian Foster]

Goose.

[Mackenzie]

And then that plays into it because Tom Maverick, like, grew up with him, and he's like, you're not my dad. Like, I can do this. And then he's trying to make it, and then they play football on the beach shirtless.

[Arian Foster]

Dog fight football.

[Mackenzie]

Yeah, that part.

[Maddie Mac]

Like. Yeah, like, if the second plot point you get to is they played football on the beach shirtless.

[Arian Foster]

Well, that's probably the plot point.

[Big T]

The plot point was that. I think it was an enemy tear. An enemy was setting up a base to, like, have uranium, Right?

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah, yeah.

[Big T]

And so they. They wanted to blow up the. The spot that. That. That was going to be the site to do that. And Tom Cruise was. He never made. I forget the ranks, but I think he was like, captain and, like, he should have been way higher up, but he's just, like, a troubled guy. And so he's like I Iceman. Who was in the last movie? Val Kilmer. He died. Or he was about to die. He ended up dying. And he said, I want Maverick to lead this team. And so Maverick was in charge of making the team. And Goose, Goose's son, was, you know, one of the candidates. It's a great move. It was.

[Maddie Mac]

I enjoyed it.

[Arian Foster]

Do you think that they made a call to Ryan Gosling to see if he would play Goose's son?

[Maddie Mac]

It's too old.

[Arian Foster]

Just from a nomenclature standpoint, that would have been a real hit for those of us that enjoy wordplay.

[Big T]

Goose and Gaza, I see.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, probably not. They probably didn't try to do that.

[Mackenzie]

Well, and wasn't there a plot point about how Miles Teller. I can't remember his call sign in it. Like, me, maybe he wasn't gonna make it onto the mission or something? Or am I making that up? Like, they didn't know if he was gonna. They were gonna pick him for the mission or something.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, that part. Yeah, that was in there.

[Mackenzie]

Yeah.

[Maddie Mac]

Okay.

[Arian Foster]

What if Maverick and the love interest. What if they. They were in a two seater together? What if they were in a F15EX Strike Eagle?

[Mackenzie]

Tom Cruise and Jennifer Connolly.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah. Like, what. What if he had to, like, be the backseat and he had to let go? Sometimes you just gotta let go, Mavic. You got to trust me. And she flies while he does all the radar shit in the back.

[Mackenzie]

But she.

[Arian Foster]

It doesn't have to be.

[Mackenzie]

It could be accurate.

[Arian Foster]

It could be a new love interest, because Jennifer Connelly was not.

[Mackenzie]

She was, like, the owner of the bar.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah. But there was absolutely no lore built into her until Top Gun 2 started.

[Mackenzie]

Was she. Not in the first one?

[Arian Foster]

No.

[Mackenzie]

Oh, no. The first was Meg Ryan was the.

[Arian Foster]

That was Goose's wife.

[Mackenzie]

Yes.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah. So you can just, like, invent lore right off the bat, I mean.

[Mackenzie]

Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

So, yeah, flight instructor that, you know, maybe She's a bit of a maverick herself.

[Mackenzie]

Oh. Oh, see, I like that. Play on words.

[Arian Foster]

They have to let go.

[Mackenzie]

I like that, Nav.

[Arian Foster]

Just let go and trust me.

[Mackenzie]

Well, there was also a female pilot

[Arian Foster]

in that group, but that's what. That's what I liked about Top Gun,

[Mackenzie]

too, was that she wasn't the love interest.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

There was no, like, love story between the people that were the pilots.

[Mackenzie]

That's fair. I get that. Because she was, like, badass. She, Monica Barbera, she was very badass in that movie. Yeah. I do like the love interest not being a pilot. That's. Yeah.

[Big T]

Like my pilots.

[Mackenzie]

Loveless pilots. And our FBI directors.

[Arian Foster]

Oh, big T. You know who agrees with you about this? The hotel in D.C. needing more security. Who's that? John Hinckley?

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah, I'd say so.

[Arian Foster]

The guy. The guy that shot Ronald Reagan in 1981.

[Maddie Mac]

I mean, if anyone would know.

[Arian Foster]

He said the Washington Hill.

[Maddie Mac]

He's out of jail, right?

[Arian Foster]

Yeah. Said they should stop hosting big events because it's not secure. He would.

[Maddie Mac]

He would have a point.

[Arian Foster]

He's. But he. He was outside. He shot him outside hotel, not inside the hotel. Yeah, Hinckley's out. I think he had. There was some sort of.

[Maddie Mac]

That's kind of crazy, isn't it?

[Arian Foster]

He was clearly mentally deranged, as a lot of these guys are.

[Maddie Mac]

More reason to be locked up, in my opinion.

[Arian Foster]

So I think he did it to impress Jody Foster. Right.

[Maddie Mac]

I. I do recall that being mentioned at some point.

[Arian Foster]

He thought that him and Jody Foster had, like, a love connection, that she would love him forever. And it was a bizarre thing. But I guess if you, like, treat something like that and you're not a threat.

[Big T]

If.

[Arian Foster]

If Doctors, like, after 40 years, if they. Because he was in there as 1981, I feel like he got out in, like, night or in 2017, maybe 2018.

[Maddie Mac]

So you would just think you shoot the President.

[Arian Foster]

Right.

[Maddie Mac]

That's it.

[Arian Foster]

That should, you know. Yeah. It should be one of those things, like, you shoot the President. Okay. We. We can just keep you locked up.

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

Because, like, imagine. Imagine how dumb you. Even if it was, like, completely unrelated to his previous mental issues, that he. If he did something bad again, you'd really feel like an idiot. Right. You would think, like, I can't believe we let the guy that shot the President out and then he. And then he shot somebody else.

[Maddie Mac]

What was his original sentence?

[Arian Foster]

I don't know. Also, did Jody Foster ever respond to him?

[Maddie Mac]

I can't imagine.

[Big T]

So he had a thing for Jody Foster. I'm unaware.

[Arian Foster]

I don't know if you'd call. Yeah, I guess you could call it a thing. But it was more along the lines of, like, a mental fixation. He had some sort of, like, issue. Psychological or pathological.

[Big T]

You know, My dad used to love this lady.

[Arian Foster]

Oh, really?

[Big T]

Yeah. Everybody said, man, Jody Foster. I was like, bro, what? He's like, yeah, man. I'm like, what, bro?

[Arian Foster]

The fruit of the tree you can never reach.

[Big T]

Show my dad. Yeah. She saw my dad. Like, it's the opposite of what he would usually go for. It's hilarious.

[Arian Foster]

But it's like, it's. It's forbidden. It's almost like forbidden love. Because she is forbidden fruit. Believe she is of the lesbian persuasion.

[Big T]

Oh, I think.

[Arian Foster]

Right.

[Big T]

I don't.

[Arian Foster]

Did I make that up About. About Jody Foster.

[Mackenzie]

I'm 99. Sure. She is a lesbian.

[Big T]

Yeah, she was in the movie Contact.

[Mackenzie]

Yes, she is.

[Big T]

All Hollywood does is remake now. Contact would be a dope remake nowadays.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, it would. Contact would be fire film that. They filmed part of that in my hometown. Fun fact. Just only really a fun fact for me. I realized after I said it, nobody. Nobody gives a.

[Big T]

You know, I care. I care because you care, man. Thanks.

[Maddie Mac]

I filmed the remake of Footloose in my hometown as a kid.

[Arian Foster]

Oh, really?

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

That's perfect.

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah.

[Maddie Mac]

Did you know John Hinckley filmed Breaking

[Big T]

Bad in my hometown?

[Arian Foster]

Yeah. You win.

[Big T]

Trump. Trump.

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

Film. Anything in Cleveland?

[Mackenzie]

A ton of stuff. Superman.

[Big T]

Yeah. Draft Day. Dog.

[Arian Foster]

Yeah, yeah. Dog shit.

[Mackenzie]

Whatever.

[Arian Foster]

Did you.

[Maddie Mac]

Did you ever go to Cleveland?

[Big T]

Yeah, I had to go to Cleveland for a scene.

[Mackenzie]

Wonderful town.

[Maddie Mac]

Was that, like, what, I guess at the end when they go to, like, the facility after the draft.

[Mackenzie]

Yeah. Because they shot it at the actual Browns facility.

[Big T]

Yeah. And there was a. There was like. I think I said it before, but there's a scene in that they didn't put in where, like, me, Sonny and Chad. I forget his name.

[Maddie Mac]

Vonte Mack.

[Mackenzie]

Vonte Mac.

[Big T]

And then the lady, too.

[Mackenzie]

Jennifer Garner.

[Big T]

Jennifer. Her. Yeah. We're all standing up in front of the crowd, like, going like, we did it type crowds cheering us on. I was like, this is wild. And I think another one we did was we were all dressed in football gear. Like, I was. I was in an actual brown uniform.

[Mackenzie]

Oh, my God. I wish I had a picture of you in a Brown's uniform.

[Big T]

I'm sure you could find it, though. It's somewhere.

[Arian Foster]

Did you take any pictures?

[Big T]

Pole dunk number.

[Arian Foster]

You probably got some, like. Yeah, they took Some slides from the day.

[Big T]

I remember doing it. Like, yo, this feels so weird because I was. I was literally, like, priming my career. I was like, yeah, this is wild that I'm in this uniform right now.

[Mackenzie]

What could have been Mac?

[Arian Foster]

What about upstate New York movies?

[Mackenzie]

Yeah, there definitely has been. There was one. I can't remember the name of it. I think it was. I think it was like Ryan Gosling on a motorcycle is all I'm remembering from it. But it was, like, filmed and Schenectady, New York, but I can't remember what movie it was. Likely place for him to be. Yeah, yeah. But there definitely has been. If you.

[Arian Foster]

Hello.

[Mackenzie]

Hey.

[Big T]

She's saying. She's saying sentences now. Can you say Henny, what was that word? She said this. Oh, say. Say leprechaun.

[Mackenzie]

Good job.

[Big T]

She says words. Say chocolate milk. Chocolate milk.

[Arian Foster]

That's the most adorable thing ever. It's pretty cute.

[Big T]

I love it.

[Mackenzie]

Yeah, she could be like a Gap model.

[Big T]

She's a cutie pie.

[Mackenzie]

She is. So could Henny. They all could.

[Big T]

Ms. Henny wants to say hi, too. Say hi.

[Mackenzie]

Hi. Oh, my God. Henny's, like, so grown up.

[Arian Foster]

Yes.

[Big T]

It's big now.

[Maddie Mac]

I remember when the other kid was born.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Mackenzie]

I mean, that was only, like two years ago. Two and a half.

[Big T]

Flies by fast. Big T by the. My oldest is 16. We're looking at colleges right now.

[Arian Foster]

She.

[Big T]

She took her sats and her. This is wild.

[Maddie Mac]

What colleges?

[Big T]

She wants to go to California. Somewhere in California. She's a super lip. Big thing. Yeah.

[Maddie Mac]

There is a picture of Aryan in a Browns uniform with Joe Hayden.

[Mackenzie]

What?

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Mackenzie]

Was he in that scene?

[Big T]

He was in the scene. I don't know. I don't remember if that scene made the movie. It. It's like where there's, like this pump up scene where Chad was, like, screaming like, yo, what are we gonna do? Like that kind of where the whole, you know, surround them, the whole team surrounds us, and we're, like, pumping them up. I think he was in that, if I'm not mistaken. But I think they asked a couple Brown players.

[Mackenzie]

I was gonna say that's like Joe Hayden.

[Big T]

Yeah, it was Joe Hayden prime as well. Yeah.

[Arian Foster]

All right, well, good talk. We'll see you guys on Thursday's episode of Macrodosing. I'm gonna be out next Tuesday. Gonna be out in Vegas this weekend.

[Mackenzie]

Oh, yeah.

[Maddie Mac]

Yeah. Enjoy. Enjoy your real friends bachelor party.

[Arian Foster]

I was about to say big tea party central. You have a great.

[Maddie Mac]

No, have a. Have a great time. It's gonna be a blast.

[Arian Foster]

I'm going to your wedding.

[Maddie Mac]

I appreciate that.

[Mackenzie]

We'll see you guys on Thursday too.

[Arian Foster]

Yep.

[Big T]

When's your best party again? Big.

[Maddie Mac]

This weekend.

[Big T]

Oh, yeah, I can't make that. Yeah, but I got, I got, I got, I got little ones, dog. I got 16 year old decisions I have to take care of.

[Arian Foster]

Then I'm gonna be out in Vegas and LA for the Netflix's joke show on next Tuesday. So buy tickets for that. It's still available if you're looking for them. The part of my Take Live show is going to be in la. We'll see you guys.

[Maddie Mac]

Congrats on that. Seriously, that's, that's a big accomplishment for you.

[Arian Foster]

Thank you. Yeah, Very, very happy.

[Maddie Mac]

Congratulations.

[Big T]

Very happy.

[Arian Foster]

All right, we'll see you guys on Thursday. Love you guys.

[Big T]

Goodbye.