Inside Operation Northwoods: When the U.S. Considered Deception | April 2, 2026

Summary

Macrodosing: Inside Operation Northwoods — When the U.S. Considered Deception

Barstool Sports (April 2, 2026)
Hosts: PFT Commenter, Big T, Hank, special guest Arian Foster (remote)

MAIN THEME:

A signature Macrodosing deep dive into Operation Northwoods: a secretly proposed, but never enacted, Cold War U.S. government plan involving "false flag" attacks to justify military action against Cuba. The team dissects the conspiracy, interspersed with classic Macrodosing tangents: from golf tournaments to alien hybrids, government insider trading, April Fools' pranks, and MLB/NBA debate.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. April Fools & Office Pranks
2. Arian Foster’s Golf Tournament Dispatch
3. Insider Trading, Trump, and Market Moves
4. OneTaste Sex Cult & Celebrity Lawyering
5. Kristi Noem’s Personal Life Leaks
6. Alien Human Hybrid Programs & Matt Gaetz
7. Baseball (MLB) vs. Basketball (NBA) & Nostalgia
8. Operation Northwoods Deep Dive
9. Quotes & Memorable Moments
10. Timestamps Guide

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APRIL FOOLS & OFFICE PRANKS [01:02]

• The crew opens with their annual debate: is April Fools’ Day a good or bad holiday?
• Everyone agrees the day has become “too woke,” making genuine pranks harder (01:02–02:29).
• “What if you gave a speech that was like, ‘I'm starting a ground war’ and it was like, psych?” – PFT Commenter (02:15)
• PFT teases a year-long “April Fools’” plot: “I’ve got a really good April Fool’s joke that I’m gonna pull. That’s not gonna happen on April Fool’s Day.” (03:46)
• Debate over best and worst workplace pranks, and the difficulty of fooling coworkers now (03:57–04:38).

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ARIAN FOSTER GOLF UPDATE [04:37; 82:24–94:15]

• Arian checks in, mid-tournament, with standings and celeb gossip:
  • “Tied for 60th right now,” jokes about being just above “Mike Leach” (the NFL long snapper, not the deceased coach).
  • Arguing whether Tony Romo (affectionately “Bony Homo”) is cheating at golf (07:31).
  • Tournament features stars: John Smoltz, Ray Allen, JR Smith, Nick Van Exel, Cordell Stewart, Russ Ortiz, and more.
  • Arian’s highlights: “My mom is a fan of [Tony Romo]…she likes him more as a broadcaster than a quarterback.” (84:16)
  • Ray Allen gave Arian’s son basketball tips: “My son lit up…he came up and showed love.” (85:30)
  • Candid on competitive experience: “It’s like a little fraternity almost.” (82:47)
  • On Cordell Stewart: “He didn’t have a point.”—explains modified Stableford system (86:39)
  • Goal: “If I shoot under 80 today, I have a good shot to make the cut.” (87:30)
  • On Tiger Woods’s scandals: “He needs to stop driving because he’s gonna kill somebody.” (91:01)
  • On golf camaraderie: “At the end of the day, we all just X people that used to do stuff and it’s cool to see.” (89:19)

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INSIDER TRADING, TRUMP, AND MARKET MOVES [18:18–25:55]

• PFT discusses suspicious $500M oil futures bet made minutes before a Trump announcement postponing military action on Iran—potential government insider trading.
  • "It seems like it would be, at the very, very least, worthy of investigating…somebody with that inside information…could have made that trade." (19:52)
  • Draws analogy: trading on White House secrets is “not legal, but everyone does it. Who cares? In this situation…it’s very different because…someone was trading on inside military information.” (20:43)
  • Discussion on blackmail risks, the SEC's lack of action, and legal updates.
  • “Federal prosecutors are exploring lucrative bets on prediction markets…” (24:44)

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ONETASTE SEX CULT & CELEBRITY LAWYERING [34:55–40:15]

• PFT recounts the case of Nicole Daedone’s “OneTaste”—a sex cult disguised as a wellness company, built on “orgasmic meditation.”
  • “She…just got sentenced to up to nine years in prison…it turned out to just be…a giant sex cult.” (35:01)
  • Big T is shocked: “That’s crazy.” (38:11)
  • Alan Dershowitz and Van Jones pen letters of support for Daedone (39:29; 40:18).
  • “If you want people to think you’re 100% innocent, hire Alan Dershowitz. That’s what I’ve always said.” – PFT (39:46)

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KRISTI NOEM PERSONAL LIFE LEAKS [41:22–51:40]

• Team break down the wild news around South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem and her husband’s bimbofication fetish leaks, OnlyFans spending, and open relationship with Corey Lewandowski.
  • “At this point you’re openly and outwardly having sex with another guy. Your husband’s doing this. What do you stand to gain by still being married?” —Big T (44:24)
  • Discussing whether Noem’s appearance and plastic surgery relate to her husband’s kinks.
  • Introduction of the “Shield of the Americas” role for Noem, speculating it was created just to give her a political landing spot.

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ALIEN HUMAN HYBRID PROGRAMS & MATT GAETZ [51:41–59:01]

• Matt Gaetz claims briefing on “alien–human hybrid breeding programs” and “non-human biologics.”
  • “I had someone come and brief me…on the locations of hybrid breeding programs where captured aliens were breeding with humans…” – (52:13)
  • Australian Senator “Babette” tweets cryptic April 1 messages about being briefed on hybrids (53:00), which the hosts quickly note is likely “April Fools” (54:00).
• PFT and Hank discuss belief in aliens, UFOs, and whether most sightings are just classified military tech:
  • “I think that 99% of UFO sightings…are military technology.” – PFT (55:13)
  • “At some point you’re gonna have to show me something. I’d love to see it.” – Hank (55:01)
  • On “nuclear facility” encounters: “That, to me, has made the most sense.” – PFT (59:18)

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BASEBALL VS BASKETBALL & NOSTALGIA [61:39–75:38]

• Rich sports tangents and classic Macrodosing “name-that-guy” energy.
  • MLB rule changes, “challenge system,” pitch clocks; comparing MLB and NBA popularity: “Every rule change that [Manfred]’s made to baseball has been a massive success.” – Hank (63:49)
  • Nostalgia for 1990s MLB (and Orioles): “The mid-90s Baltimore Orioles might be one of the easiest teams to name dudes off of that didn’t really ever win shit.” – PFT (74:51)
  • Extended trivia: Orioles’ opening day lineups, legendary bullpen, and the “April Fool’s” prank where PFT’s dad fake-checks him out of school for a game (65:24).
  • Play-fighting over whether Mike Trout is truly anonymous enough to eat at a Hooters without being recognized (75:49).
  • Big T: “I think Mike Trout…could eat at most Hooters.” (75:51)
  • PFT (joking): “Mike, I know you’re listening…let’s go to Hooters one day.” (78:22)

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OPERATION NORTHWOODS DEEP DIVE [104:59–132:49]

• Background:
  • Operation Northwoods was a Cold War-era U.S. plan, “real conspiracy, they’ve admitted this”—designed and proposed by Pentagon officials in the early 1960s, to stage false flag terror attacks on U.S. soil, blame Cuba, and justify military intervention.
• Details:
  • Objectives: Stop communist spread in the Western Hemisphere; specifically, remove Castro (107:55)
  • Methods floated included:
    • Faking attacks in Miami/DC with Soviet munitions, designed to look like Cuban terror (117:50)
    • Sinking boats with Cuban refugees, blaming Castro (118:49)
    • Creating fake MIG attacks on civilian planes (115:18)
    • Falsifying hijackings (“college students on fake spring break trips” with duplicate planes; planted debris) (121:38)
    • Exploding own ships (“remember the Maine” style false-flag) (119:55)
  • All part of Operation Mongoose umbrella (111:13)
  • JFK is credited with rejecting the plans—“You guys are fucking insane.” (123:03)
  • “The Joint Chiefs…thought the best way of getting the American people behind something was to stage a false flag operation in which Americans were attacked.” (123:42)
  • Mafia, LSD sprays, booby-trapped seashells for Castro assassination and wild, unused ideas (125:11; 128:18)
  • Operation Northwoods' legacy: often used by conspiracy theorists as “proof” the U.S. would consider attacking itself to manipulate public opinion.
  • RFK Jr. claims his father talked JFK out of the plans (129:21).
• Modern resonance:
  • Hosts reflect on how these “no bad ideas meetings” give pause about government secrets, but agree 9/11 was not an inside job—would require “way too many people that would have to know about it.” (131:22)
  • “I guess they’re capable of pretty much anything if this was the stuff they…putting out.” – PFT (123:58)

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NOTABLE QUOTES & MOMENTS

Politics & Scandal

• “Somebody trading on inside military information...now whoever sold that information could be on the hook for a massive amount of blackmail.” – PFT Commenter (21:32)
• “This is, it's like a little fraternity almost.” – Arian Foster, on the athlete golf tournament (82:47)

Sports

• “Game, set, match.” – Hank, on dominant Braves bullpen (09:27)
• “No, no, no, no. Sixth, right? ... Oh, not sixth. Because you said 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. And I was like, oh, well, he'll be coming next.” – Hank, on Arian’s golf ranking (05:26–05:34)
• “If you see John Smoltz or Tom Glavin, tell him that Big T wants him to come on the show.” – Hank to Arian (94:20)

Operation Northwoods

• “It was like the very epitome...Let’s throw out anything...throw out anything that you want to do, and we’ll say no if it's illegal. But you just tell us. And they came up with a lot of illegal [stuff].” – PFT (115:18)
• “They even thought about sinking an entire boat filled with Cuban refugees traveling from Cuba to the United States.” – PFT (118:49)
• “And JFK was like, ‘No, I’m not doing any of this stuff. You guys are all insane.’” – PFT (123:03)
• “The fact that we had the actual heads of our military planning…really makes you think they could suggest anything.” – PFT (130:38)

Related Tangents

• On Tiger Woods: “He needs to stop driving because he's gonna kill somebody.” – Arian Foster (91:01)
• On Alex Jones impressions: “I would classify [it] as like Patrick Mahomes after he got stung by a bee: ‘Get the... over here, you stupid bee!’” – PFT (107:55)
• “Do you think that Mike Trout is happy?” – Big T (75:13)
• “I think Mike Trout…could eat at most Hooters.” – PFT (75:51)

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TIMESTAMP GUIDE

| Segment | Topic | Approx. Time | |---------|-------|--------------| | [01:02] | April Fools’/Pranks | 01:02–04:37 | | [04:37] | Arian Foster Golf | 04:37–09:00; 82:24–94:15 | | [18:18] | Insider Trading | 18:18–25:55 | | [34:55] | OneTaste Cult Case | 34:55–40:15 | | [41:22] | Kristi Noem | 41:22–51:40 | | [51:41] | Aliens/Gaetz | 51:41–59:01 | | [61:39] | Baseball/NBA | 61:39–75:38 | | [104:59] | Operation Northwoods Deep Dive | 104:59–132:49 |

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TL;DR

• The episode delivers exactly what makes Macrodosing tick: wild U.S. history, shadowy government plans, and out-there digressions.
• Operation Northwoods was a real, declassified plan for U.S. military false-flag attacks to spark war with Cuba; Kennedy rejected the ideas.
• Golf, government scandal, celebrity sex cults, sports fame, and aliens: this episode hits them all—with irreverent humor and sharp skepticism.

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For listeners new and old: This is a Macrodosing classic—one part jaw-dropping American history, two parts hilarious, sports-obsessed rambling, and a dash of “should we worry about who’s running the country?”

Transcript

[PFT Commenter]

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[Big T]

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[Hank]

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[Hank]

Yeah, because it was a real conspiracy.

[PFT Commenter]

This is real. Yeah, it's as Alex Jones said. They've admitted this.

[Hank]

It's in the documents.

[PFT Commenter]

You got the documents right here. They've declassified all the documents. They tried. They tried to kill Castro and bomb his fields. They sent Bay. We tried to do Operation Mongoose. Welcome back to macrodosing. It is Thursday. It is April 2nd. We're taping this on April Fool's Day. Day of hijinks. Pranks. Fun. Actually, maybe the worst day. Maybe. Maybe the worst holiday.

[Hank]

We need to. We need to have a real conversation about what we want to do about this as a society.

[PFT Commenter]

It's time to have an honest conversation. And you're the only one brave enough to do it.

[Hank]

Big T. It's just I. I can't take it anymore.

[PFT Commenter]

I mean, there's really not a lot that happened. I feel like everyone's antenna is up. You can't really fool anybody anymore.

[Hank]

Right? Which has made the stuff go to just such an absurd extreme that it's like the dumbest stuff you've ever seen.

[PFT Commenter]

What if you gave a speech that was like, I'm starting a ground war. And it was like, psych.

[Hank]

No, that. That could be good. That could get the people going.

[PFT Commenter]

That would be. I think that could kill April Fools or bring it back.

[Hank]

Maybe it's like, oh, Kentucky's field's gonna be blue this year. Oh, oh, April Fools. Gotcha. Like, we. We gotta. We gotta stop. Yeah, I saw. Pft. You know, they're changing the name. It's gonna be six, seven flags now.

[PFT Commenter]

That's so good and timely. Yeah, I love that.

[Hank]

Yeah. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Did you know that they're changing the name of it to the Taco Liberty Bell?

[Hank]

Oh, really?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

Oh, that's crazy, because they sponsored.

[PFT Commenter]

They bought it.

[Hank]

That's crazy.

[Aran Foster]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Pretty nuts.

[Hank]

You'd think they wouldn't do that because

[PFT Commenter]

it's such an artifact. Like it belongs to America.

[Hank]

That belongs in a museum, but maybe they will.

[PFT Commenter]

Maybe it belongs in a Taco Bell. Yeah. Really? There's not. There's not a lot going on with. With April because I feel like we got to. Everyone's too woke to it now. Antennas are up. We couldn't even get Max. And part of my take. Max can't exist anymore. Like, the entire day. We couldn't ask him to do anything because he's just thinking that everything is an April Fool's.

[Hank]

I mean, fair enough.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

But yeah, it's the. The stuff is out of control, but, you know, maybe somebody out there enjoys it.

[PFT Commenter]

I think we need to start normalizing April Fool's jokes that don't take place on April Fool's Day.

[Hank]

So. A joke.

[PFT Commenter]

So. No, I'm talking about just lying. Just lying? Yeah, just lying for fun.

[Hank]

I think some people out there do that.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, they do. A lot of them do. I've got an idea. I don't want to say anything about it, but I've got a really good. Really good April Fool's joke that I'm gonna pull. That's not gonna happen on April Fool's Day.

[Hank]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, it's gonna be great.

[Hank]

Does it involve, like, pardon?

[PFT Commenter]

My take involves people inside this office.

[Aran Foster]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

All I'm going to say is, like, watch this channel.

[Hank]

This channel.

[PFT Commenter]

Like the. The Royal Channel. Me.

[Hank]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

My channel.

[Hank]

Okay. Not. Not the macro YouTube channel.

[PFT Commenter]

This is a great place to. To monitor my channel.

[Hank]

Sure. How soon after April this is?

[PFT Commenter]

No, this is going to be like a 12 month project.

[Hank]

Really?

[PFT Commenter]

I like the 12 month projects. Yeah.

[Hank]

Okay. So this is a boyhood endeavor.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

The long game.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, the very long game. Very long game. Arian's not here today because he's taking part in that golf tournament. And we did find the scoreboard. So I just want to give a scoreboard update for the Day 1 standings at Fallen Oak. This is Tour Stop 3, and this is Fallen Oak in Biloxi, Mississippi. We've got Bud Norris in first place, John Smoltz tied for second.

[Hank]

John Smoltz was a great golfer.

[PFT Commenter]

Really good golfer Tyler Eifert, former tight end. He is in fourth place.

[Hank]

Why'd you skip the bringer of rain, Josh Donaldson. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

He's tied for second.

[Hank]

Two Braves in the top three.

[PFT Commenter]

That's true. And then tied for fifth. We got Tony Romo. Tony Romo tied for fifth, unfortunately. Aran Foster is tied for 60th right now.

[Hank]

No, no, no, no. Sixth, right.

[PFT Commenter]

Six, zero. There's a zero after.

[Hank]

Oh, not. Not sixth. Because you said 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. And I was like, oh, well, he'll be coming next.

[PFT Commenter]

No, I just skipped 60th. I did 1, 2. Skip a few. 60th. He is tied for 60th with David Ben, Ron Harper, Nick Van Exel, Evan Gieselman, and he's currently beating Steve. Oh, this is kind of cool. We got John Smoltz, Steve Avery, and Tom Glavin all in the same tournament.

[Hank]

Wow.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't know if that's the Steve Avery from the Braves. The. Making a murderer Steve, the. The guy that. That killed the lady that came to his junkyard.

[Hank]

Well, I. I don't think he's out.

[PFT Commenter]

If he is, he's a hell of a golfer. Then we got Dexter Fowler, David Booth, Eric Cole, Bryce Butler, Brad May, Cordell Stewart bringing up the rear.

[Hank]

With a zero.

[PFT Commenter]

With a zero.

[Hank]

But this is. What. What's the stable for? You said scoring.

[PFT Commenter]

I think this looks like modified Stableford scoring system.

[Hank]

This is not. He doesn't. He is not zero. He's not at par.

[PFT Commenter]

Arian Foss or Cordell Stewart is not at par. No, I'm guessing that they do points for birdies, points for eagles. They might even do points for pars with these numbers right here. I'm guessing they might do, like, a point per par, maybe two points per par.

[Hank]

Now, Arian, you said tied for 60th. It is worth noting that in 53rd place is someone named Mike Leach. Yeah, I assume it is not the Mike Leach who has passed away, but if it is, Aaron is behind a man who has been deceased for several years.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, dead man never makes a bogey. That's what they say.

[Hank]

Is it?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. So you. You're not dealing with any. Any positive points. You can end up in the modified stable Stableford scoring system. Once you die, you end up shoot a zero. So Cordell Stewart might be dead.

[Hank]

Rip.

[PFT Commenter]

Rip. We do also have potentially explosive news coming out of this tournament, and I hope that Aryan will expand on this, but we got a text. I don't want to name any names, but he said this morning in his text to us that there's one player that he's competing against whose name rhymes with Bony Homo who might be dealing with some cheating accusations. Again, not going to name any names, but let's just call him bony Homo and let's try calling Aryan. Or do you think he's on the course?

[Hank]

I think that's why he's not on the show, is that he's playing.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Are you.

[Hank]

I want to know if we met John Smoltz.

[PFT Commenter]

Of course. Now that is kind of cool that they got all the Braves there.

[Hank]

Best rotation of all time.

[PFT Commenter]

I wonder if they should have. John Rocker just played the 18th form. John Rocker, Mark Wallers, Steve Bedrosian, bring him into close, get the whole gang out there. Mark Walters had a great mullet, didn't he? Do you remember that mullet?

[Hank]

I've seen it. He had a mullet.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. He's a great closer. Trying to remember who else the Braves had in their bullpen back then.

[Hank]

Greg McMichael. Huh.

[PFT Commenter]

Pedrosian was like a setup man. I miss those days.

[Hank]

Let's look up 1995 Braves bullpen.

[PFT Commenter]

We were talking about that the other day, weren't we, Big T Miss missing the days when you had a starter go seven innings.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Set up man. Come in, maybe close out the seventh, do the eighth, and then your. Your closer comes sprinting out.

[Hank]

Well, when I was the Brett they still have. When I was a kid, I guess it was maybe like 2012, 13. They had Eric O', Flaherty, seventh inning, Johnny Venters, eighth inning, Craig Kimbrell, ninth. And it was just if they were up after six innings, game was over.

[PFT Commenter]

Game, set, match.

[Hank]

I'm trying to find the 95 bullpen. Pedro Borbone.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, yeah, Great, great bullpen name right there.

[Hank]

Wait, let me make sure these are pictures. Yeah. Terry Clark, Brad Cl. Greg McMichael, Kent Merker.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, yeah. Kent Merker was great. Believe Kent Merker had a full beard, right?

[Hank]

I'm not sure. Mike Stanton, I think he was a full beard guy. Wallers, Alejandro Pena, Pedro Borbone, Ronald Acuna just won a challenge to walk. I love. I love the challenges. It's electric.

[PFT Commenter]

Do you like it?

[Hank]

I love it. CB Buckner is going to have to retire.

[PFT Commenter]

I have a theory about CB Buckner.

[Hank]

You think he's a plant.

[PFT Commenter]

I think he's compromised. I think he's compromised.

[Hank]

But he's been this bad for 20 years.

[PFT Commenter]

He's just been skating by because angel was taking all the heat for him.

[Hank]

I Always told people when they would bitch about Angel Hernandez, like, there are a couple umpires way worse than Angel Hernandez.

[PFT Commenter]

The call that, that Buckner made last night was just insane.

[Hank]

He wasn't even looking at the play.

[PFT Commenter]

He just, he made up in his, in his own brain that the, the runner missed first base. He's like, wouldn't that be cool if he missed first base? I think he probably did.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

You're out.

[Hank]

And even Kevin Cash, the raise manager, was laughing.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, My, my theory is that Buckner is, he's, he's going to be the one that pushes the ABS system over the edge, that we're going to see how bad umpires can be. Because he's making ridiculous calls. Not just behind home plate, in which I think he, he lost six out of eight challenges the other day and

[Hank]

two strikeouts in a row on consecutive P executive pitches.

[PFT Commenter]

But then at first base, when, when he, he kicked that call last night, I feel like that's a guy that gets put into place in order to bring along the development and the, the implementation of robot umpires.

[Hank]

Well, to be clear, I never, I never want to go full robot. I love this system as it is. 1. It creates a. It gives you a finite resource that you have to determine, do I want to use this right now? Because if I'm wrong, then you're, you're letting your team down. It creates a situation like you had with CB Buckner and Eugenio Suarez, where if the umpire keeps getting it wrong, you can humiliate him.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

And the crowd goes nuts. And it's awesome. It creates a mini game.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

And it, and it. You know, we don't need every single call. 90% of the calls these guys make are right. Way more.

[PFT Commenter]

And it's a very hard job.

[Hank]

Yes. We just need to fix the egregious ones or ones in big spots. And, you know, it creates a situation where if you have a player who's, like, really terrible at challenges and he's coming up in the ninth inning, do you want him going out there? Like, it creates a. An interesting game within the game. I love the system as it is.

[PFT Commenter]

I also appreciate the game within the game because you get. And even if it's not about, like, one batter against one umpire, you still get the moment where the, the challenge is issued and then everybody turns their attention to the, the Jumbotron. We all get. It's like another play happens, and it

[Hank]

takes the perfect amount of time. It takes like five seconds of anticipation.

[Aran Foster]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

A little anticipation. Then you're like, the only thing I would change, I want to see the pitch coming in like on the graphic. I know it shows.

[Hank]

Turns.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I know it turns a little bit, but I would like to see the pitch. Pitch tracking towards the zone like they do in tennis, where they show the, The.

[Hank]

Well, you do. It shows the ball coming.

[PFT Commenter]

Does it? Yeah, I didn't. I haven't noticed that.

[Hank]

It shows the ball coming from the batter's vantage point, and then it lands and then it flips and it shows you how far it goes from.

[Aran Foster]

All right.

[PFT Commenter]

I guess I missed that when I was watching it because every time I've seen it, I guess I've just seen the, the graphic of the ball already existing in the strike zone. So that's good. I think that, yeah, Buckner has been put in place and we'll get to more false flag operations in a little bit because we talked about Operation Northwoods. Great call, but I think Buckner is a, A false flag to take down, like, analog refs, humid umpires.

[Hank]

I would find that plausible had he not been making terrible calls for the last couple decades. Yeah, but maybe they, they knew.

[PFT Commenter]

They might be like, this is our guy. This. If they start putting him on more primetime games, then we'll know that that's, that's what they're planning on doing. So, yeah, they. I think the challenge system has been great. I've loved watching it. And if you think that, like, having no challenges is better, I, I would be okay with that, too, if there was, like, absolutely nothing. But I don't like doing. Some things are challengeable, some things aren't. I like that you can now challenge balls and strikes because it also tosses in. Like, do you have what, what batters have the green light to challenge?

[Hank]

Right. And what if your nine hitter challenges a pitch and gets it wrong? He's getting an earful.

[PFT Commenter]

Now. That might be an outmoded way of thinking about baseball lineups, though, Big T. I've seen more and more teams start to put good players batting ninth.

[Hank]

You'll put some guys who maybe would otherwise hit seventh, ninth, like the Braves hit Michael Harris ninth, usually because he has speed.

[PFT Commenter]

Because you want to get a guy on base for the top of the.

[Hank]

But he's not like one of the best hitters on the team.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, but some teams, they, they, yeah, they don't put like, their best guy hitting, right? I'd say maybe, yeah, six, maybe your six best at best would hit. Would hit ninth.

[Hank]

But if, if, if one of your bad hitters gets two challenges wrong, and wastes your entire team's challenges. That guy's going to be in trouble.

[PFT Commenter]

You're having a conversation for sure. Baseball season's been awesome. It's been great. Nationals are much, much better than I thought they'd be. They're frisky. I like this new manager we got. We got a young nerd that's running the show, Blake Butera. He's like 32 years old. I think 34 maybe.

[Hank]

Was he a catcher?

[PFT Commenter]

I'm not exactly sure. But our new GM that we got from, from Boston is also a young nerd. And so he's putting his installing like a team of nerds in the front office there. Going down to management. And he's been doing some, some wacky with the lineup. He's had our good batters hitting like C.J. abrams was batting, I think fifth, sixth. He's hit seventh. We've got this new kid, Weimer, and he was on the brewers for a little bit. Went over. He didn't really get off to a hot start in his career. I think he played for some team on the West Coast. I forget what it was, but he hasn't. He hasn't been able to crack the lineup ever since he was on the Brewers. And now he got off to the hottest start in, in Major League Baseball history. He reached base in his first 10 at bats, I believe. Yeah. Which tied the all time record. And he's hitting the dick off the ball. We got this other guy from Australia that seems to be making good contact too. And just every, every night there's a different lineup. One of the more concerning things to me was this guy, Blake Butera, the, the manager. He was asked why he took out a starting pitcher after like five innings. And he said, well, I saw his velocity. It dipped from the first inning to the second. Then it dipped from the second to the third, then third to the fourth. And then I figured my guy is losing his best stuff, so I should get him out of the game. And that type of thinking would have gotten you kicked out of Washington D.C. over the last 10 years. Like that's the first time that we've ever had a manager that's looked at at pitch velocity or any sort of data whatsoever and use that to make a decision about in game management. So this is all new for us and it works and it's kind of fun to watch.

[Hank]

By the way, Drew Buter is the, is the catcher I was thinking of.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. All right.

[Hank]

Blake Buter, a different guy.

[PFT Commenter]

Blake Buter, young guy.

[Hank]

Young Blake, Unclear if they're related, it could be okay.

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[PFT Commenter]

What else we got going on in the news today?

[Hank]

Big T. Well, by the time people are listening to this, Trump will have made his address. We have not heard it.

[PFT Commenter]

We have not heard it.

[Hank]

We know it has something to do with Iran. I'm kind of the. When I saw that he was doing an address, it reminded me of the John Mulaney joke where he talks about seeing an overturned wheelchair.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

He's like, something happened. You hope it was a miracle.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

But probably not.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. I don't know. Do you want to put pets in on it? I guess you could if you just wanted to go to the markets and you could. Yeah, you probably can cash in there. Which, by the way, I feel like we kind of brushed that under the table a little bit.

[Hank]

What's that?

[PFT Commenter]

$500 million that was invested in the futures market right before the tweet of. I've decided to pause the 48 hour ultimatum I gave them.

[Hank]

You're telling me for the first time.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, okay. So you know, like Trump, he, he said over the weekend, right. Like I'm gonna give him 48 hours and if they don't comply, then I'm gonna start bombing.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Now power plants.

[Hank]

Now it's a week and.

[PFT Commenter]

And then after about 40 hours, he tweeted out. Now, because I've like received good information, I've decided to pause it for a week or whatever. About 10 minutes before that, that post was issued by the President. There was a $500 million bet on the. The oil future market.

[Hank]

Really?

[PFT Commenter]

So on. On the. Yeah. And there was a lot more that was invested in the S P500 at the time. I think it was like 500 million in the oil future market. And this is all like publicly available data that you can look at. And then I think like 600 or 700, that was pretty much in one lump sum moved around in the S P market. Now people make trades all the time. Usually that time of the day in the oil future market, not really a very active time. So that's like a massive trade that was made. And I guess you could say this one person had like, there's probably a lot of different explanations you could, you could try to pull off on it. But it seems like it, it would be at the very, very least worthy of investigating. But I don't think we're going to investigate it. I think it's the lady that was in charge of that just resigned from the sec. But I was thinking about that more and that's, that's like, we should talk about that more. That's not something that we should just like skate by. I know there's a lot of stuff that happens every day and. But I'm not saying that Donald Trump did it himself. I'm not saying that it was one of his sons that did it or even somebody that works in the White House, but somebody that had that inside information that they got from somebody that works in the White House could have made that trade. And why is that bad? Pft, that's a good question. Hypothetical voice in my head like, okay, so people make money on inside trades all the time. It's not legal, but everyone does it. Who cares? In this situation, I think it's very different because somebody was trading on like inside military information. And let's just say that they gave that info to somebody that then themselves went on to make a massive trade and make a, a lot of money off of so that the person with the information could get a kickback. So another way to explain would be if I had inside information that Dave was going to stop his war with Bleacher Report, even though everyone thought that Dave was going to continue bombing Bleacher Report. And then I went and I sold that information to Dugs who used to work here. And then I, I'm like, Dukes, you got to pay me $10 million because I know that you're gonna make $100 million trade on this, and then you're going to end up making hundreds of millions of dollars. All I need is $10 million for this info. That's what I think might be happening is that somebody that's close enough to the information is selling that information and that's very bad because one, foreign countries can watch the markets and figure out what we're going to do with our military if they watch closely enough. And then two, it's bad because now whoever sold that information could be on the hook for a massive amount of blackmail. And by that I mean the act of selling that information is like a serious crime, like a felony. You could argue that it's treason, which treason, technically punishable by death. I don't think that anyone's going to get killed over it. But you're on the hook big time for a crime that you committed. So now somebody has blackmail over somebody that's in the inner circle of the White House. And then that is a real issue because anybody could exploit that that knows what happened.

[Hank]

I'm trying to find someone in the federal government got in big trouble for this recently, right? It's not this incident you're talking about.

[PFT Commenter]

Not this incident.

[Hank]

It was couple months ago at the Maduro thing.

[PFT Commenter]

It could have been somebody bet on Maduro, not like still being in charge of Venezuela. And I think there was some dispute about getting paid out on that.

[Big T]

But yeah, I think it was like. Because he died.

[Hank]

No, I remember that people got mad because they. If you bet on Yamaduro to not be in power on certain date, they said this didn't count because he was removed or whatever it was. But this was a government official who I think got arrested.

[PFT Commenter]

Somebody got arrested. It might have been.

[Hank]

I think. I think some people trying to find

[PFT Commenter]

it in the Department of Defense were, were fired.

[Hank]

Could have been that.

[PFT Commenter]

But yeah, somebody. Somebody very clearly had inside information and it could be somebody that's. That is inside the White House that made the trade for themselves. I think that's probably unlikely because their fingerprints would be directly all over it and they would find themselves in a lot of trouble with any investigation. And you're pretty much relying on the fact that the current administration will not investigate. But you know that the first time that party changes hands in the White House, they're going to go back and look at those trades.

[Hank]

By the way, federal prosecutors are exploring lucrative bets on prediction markets and whether those have violated insider trading and other laws. Okay, that's as of two days ago.

[PFT Commenter]

As of today. Does that include the. The future bet?

[Hank]

I assume that's talking the. The Chiefs of Securities and Commodities Fraud unit of the U.S. attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York recently met with representatives of polymarket, one of leading prediction market platforms, to discuss how existing laws could be applied to potential misconduct in the fast growing industry.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. So that. I don't think that's talking about the specific incident. I think that's more open ended, like how can we, how can we police things?

[Hank]

But this would certainly fall under that purview.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't think this was on polymarket. I think this was a future contract that was traded on the futures market, so not on Kalshi or Paul.

[Hank]

Oh, okay.

[PFT Commenter]

And then there was also a lot of money that was put just in the S P 500 at the time. So all I'm saying is that's. I think that's probably worth closer examination because it actually does have some real world implications. We shouldn't just be like, oh, let's just forget that even happened because there's another thing to talk about today. I feel like that's one we should, we should revisit.

[Hank]

All right. But do forget about that because there is something else to talk about.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Hank]

I may have found one company who is doing April Fools correctly.

[PFT Commenter]

Go on.

[Hank]

Now, this is a personal favorite of mine, so I am biased, but you saw the other day the Bunch of crunch dispenser.

[PFT Commenter]

I did see that, yes.

[Hank]

Okay. So that was pretty obviously fake. But they did. This is doing it right.

[PFT Commenter]

Pft.

[Hank]

They do that a couple days before. Oh, you can. We're going to put these in theaters. You can put it in your popcorn dispenser. Then they come out today and say, you know what, guys, that was an April Fool's joke. But people loved it so much we're going to actually do it.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, I like that.

[Hank]

So the April Fool's joke was that it's. It might not be an April Fool's joke because they put out today the Bunch of Crunch concession dispenser. Experience was an April Fool's joke, but maybe not anymore. Let's make it real. Drop a chocolate bar emoji in the comments if you want this thing to exist and we might just surprise you.

[PFT Commenter]

That is a good way to do it. Yeah. Now, do you think they had this planned out? Yes. In advance.

[Hank]

I think they did that knowing it would go viral. Some people would think it's real, some wouldn't. And then they come out and say, oh, it was fake, but now it's not going to be. That's how you do April Fools. That's March Fools.

[PFT Commenter]

March Fools.

[Hank]

March Fools. April rules.

[PFT Commenter]

I like that a lot. Yeah.

[Hank]

Shout out. Bunch of Crunch. Best theater candy in the game.

[PFT Commenter]

Really? You'd put that over Raisinets? You put that over what?

[Hank]

That's your. Your top pick.

[PFT Commenter]

I like. I like the Raisinets in the movie theater. You like the Junior Mint.

[Hank]

I can do a Junior Mint. I mean, bunch of crunch. Because you don't buy bunch of crunch. The only place you get that is the theater.

[PFT Commenter]

Sour Patch Kids.

[Hank]

Again, I'm a Sour Patch Kids fan, but that I don't do generally a fruit based candy at the movie. I will do popcorn and a chocolate. So, yeah, I always go bunch of crunch.

[PFT Commenter]

So this, to me seems like the bunch of crunch. It will exist at like one location or maybe maybe three.

[Hank]

I think this, this could be a hit. Now, I don't necessarily see the. The utility of it because you're just dispensing them into a thing of popcorn other than. Rather than buying a box and just dumping it in. But it is cool.

[PFT Commenter]

It is.

[Hank]

Imagine getting one of these in your house.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, my God. Maybe the best high snack of all time.

[Hank]

You just said it wasn't even the best movie theater.

[PFT Commenter]

But I said it. This as a high snack would be incredible. You get the crunchy, you got the salty, you got the buttery.

[Hank]

Oh, you're including the popcorn.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I'm including the popcorn in this.

[Hank]

I don't think this. This comes with popcorn. I'm gonna have to bring your own.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm going to make both. Yeah, I'm gonna make. I'm gonna make the mix.

[Hank]

Honestly, it looks really good. You are rich enough to get a movie theater popcorn experience in your home.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, let's not act like it takes an enormous amount of wealth to do that.

[Hank]

No, but it's not something that the average man can do. I. I think it's probably a lot of upkeep.

[PFT Commenter]

All in. You'd probably be able to get one in your house for under $10,000.

[Hank]

That's the number I was thinking.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I think.

[Hank]

But again, most people are dropping ten grand on popcorn.

[PFT Commenter]

You get four figures. Yeah, I think that could work. So. But I might have to do this

[Hank]

because I love popcorn. But you do the microwave thing and it's just not even.

[PFT Commenter]

Mm.

[Hank]

It's like, why am I eating this?

[PFT Commenter]

Why? What do you mean?

[Hank]

It's just not nearly as good.

[PFT Commenter]

It depends. It depends on the brand. I think there's some good popcorn out there.

[Hank]

Well, I bought. I bought like 10,000 bags from Costco two years ago, and I've still got them, so I'll be using those forever.

[PFT Commenter]

If you're talking about the movie theater experience. Are you. Do you mean mostly the. The hot butter or.

[Hank]

I mean everything I mean, you have the big machine with the popper in the corner with the. The big gathering tray.

[PFT Commenter]

We have a popcorn machine here.

[Hank]

We do not have a popcorn machine. We have a popcorn receptacle.

[PFT Commenter]

It's not making the popcorn correct that

[Hank]

people come and dump popcorn in once a week, which. For which we're very thankful. It's great. But that is not a popcorn machine. You're talking about the common misconception, the

[PFT Commenter]

one that shoots the popcorn out.

[Hank]

Yes.

[PFT Commenter]

After it pops.

[Hank]

Yes. That makes popcorn.

[PFT Commenter]

We don't talk enough about the fact that popcorn is. Is kind of magical. Yeah. Like, you get the tiny dried kernel.

[Hank]

Where does the kernel go?

[PFT Commenter]

And then you. It just flips inside out. It just explodes and it becomes more delicious. Yeah. It is really a magical piece of food.

[Hank]

Are there other foods we have not explored? Exploding

[PFT Commenter]

gushers. They work pretty good. What about seeds? Or could more seeds be exploded?

[Hank]

I don't know. Sunflower.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, I guess the. The soft part of the sunflower seed is on the inside, and you already kind of bite into that and eat it. Apples. What if you, like, heated up apple seeds? Those have arsenic in them, don't they?

[Hank]

Is that true?

[PFT Commenter]

You might create, like, poison? I think so. I think they've got a little bit of arsenic in there. Like orange seeds. What are some other good kernels?

[Hank]

Real quick? I'm good. Should I say this? Oranges. There's no seeds in oranges.

[PFT Commenter]

Oranges have seeds?

[Hank]

No.

[PFT Commenter]

You've been eating gentrified oranges.

[Hank]

Big T. No. There's no seeds.

[PFT Commenter]

Yes.

[Hank]

Yeah, I had an orange this morning. There was no seeds in it.

[PFT Commenter]

You might have genetically modified oranges. Am I Mad Dog McKenzie? Can you. Can you weigh in?

[Big T]

So it says on here whether oranges have seeds depends on the variety of orange. I'm thinking of, like, a clementine, but that's not. My sumos that I get do not have seeds.

[Hank]

You. You've eaten oranges that have seeds in them?

[PFT Commenter]

Yes.

[Big T]

What oranges? I have 104, but I don't normally navel oranges. And many clementines are typically seedless as they are cultivated to be partheno carpet.

[Hank]

Well, that's what I buy.

[Big T]

However, seeded varieties like Valencia oranges and others commonly contain seeds, or as there are known, pips.

[PFT Commenter]

Pips. Yeah.

[Hank]

I. I only do the clementines. I don't do the large citrus.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, they're not. They're not massive seeds, and there aren't a ton of them that are actually. They. They are pretty decent sized seeds, but there's not like there's a ton of them. I can't believe that you've never had an orange with seeds.

[Hank]

No, I only do the, the clementines. Cuties.

[PFT Commenter]

Those are tiny. Those are tiny little oranges. Those aren't even oranges. Mandarin also. Yeah, mandarins, tangerines, clementines. Those are not oranges. Those are like. Yeah. The same way that a chihuahua is a dog.

[Hank]

I love chihuahua.

[PFT Commenter]

I know you do. You do.

[Hank]

Been looking into getting one.

[PFT Commenter]

That sounds like a post wedding conversation.

[Hank]

Yeah, I mean it's, it's been ongoing for years.

[Big T]

You almost got one like last year, right?

[Hank]

Yeah. But it too in demand. Everyone wanted that dog. That's the thing is like you want to get a dog, I mean they treat it like they're giving you the nuclear codes. They want to do like an inspection of your home. They want to talk to you about your, your future and what goals you have. It's like I know for a fact that there are people in this country with dogs who did not go through this. I mean this is, it's an outrageous process.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, it's. It depends on what type of organization you use. So when I was selling used dogs, we, we did not do like the home visit or anything. We didn't have the time for that also. It was really kind of a fly by night organization as I detailed before. But we like made you fill out an adoption form, ask some questions about your house, if you have a backyard, if you rent, if you buy. But it didn't really make that much of a difference. It was like, we want, we just want people that would tell us about their homes and that weren't being shady about picking these dogs up. So there's a lot of places that do like reference checks, like talk to your neighbors. They'll do like a home visit where they make sure that the backyard is completely fenced in. They want to know that you're going to be around that like ideally one of, one of the members of the household could work from home. They, they take things very seriously. Sometimes when you adopt a dog, I think sometimes more seriously than adopting a human. There's a crazy story that came out over the weekend and I hadn't really heard too much about it. So I read into it more the other night. Have you heard of a company called OneTaste?

[Hank]

No.

[PFT Commenter]

And their CEO, Nicole Dadone.

[Hank]

You're telling me for the first time.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, so this lady is currently in prison. I think she just got sentenced to up to nine years in prison. She ran a massive company called One Taste and One Taste was a women's empowerment and sexual liberation company that she ran from. I think it started in San Francisco, and it turned out to just be, in the eyes of the law, a giant sex cult. So she started it out as a. I said, like, female empowerment, teaching women about human sexuality, and orgasmic meditation. You've heard of this?

[Big T]

No, I just looked it up, and it said orgasmic meditation. I didn't know if you were going to get there.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, Orgasmic meditation was the primary practice of the company, One Taste that. That she started. And apparently the workshops that she would host for One Taste just involved a lot of naked chicks getting stroked, either by themselves or by male investors in the company. And her boyfriend kind of put her. Kept her lifestyle going, just kept investing millions of dollars into the company and just giving her more and more money so she could keep this going. And in fate, in turn, she would provide sexual favors to her boyfriend from women that were signing up to take her course. And so she just was sentenced in New York, I think it was nine years that she got, for forced labor. Sexual harassment. Sexual.

[Aran Foster]

I don't.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't want to say the wrong term. Basically, running a sex cult is what she got sentenced for. And she now has a powerhouse team that is representing her post conviction, including Alan Dershowitz, who stepped into the cause to vouch for her as a human being and for her company. And he says, I'm worried that this is the kind of prosecution that can easily be directed at other groups, other religious groups. So Alan Dershowitz has written a letter and support, and my prediction is that she might be getting pardoned soon. She's hired some people that have worked on pardons recently, and I think she might be. She might be next in line. But if you want to read up more about this lady, it's kind of crazy, the stuff that she was doing with her company. Basically preying on insecure women to show up for seminars. And then some of them, like, swear by her and still really appreciate what she did for their lives. But then there's a lot of others that were made to some. There was a group of women that she had called fluffers that were meant to, like, just stroke dudes that were there. And a lot of these dudes were investors in the company. Yeah.

[Aran Foster]

Yeah.

[Big T]

That's crazy.

[PFT Commenter]

So at its height, One Taste operated centers and cities including San Francisco, New York, and Austin, offering sessions in its signature practice of orgasmic meditation, the ritual stroking of a woman's clitoris for 15 minutes in 2017, Ms. Dadon sold One Taste for $12 million to Ms. Eyre. According to former employees who testified against them, One Taste fostered a culture of fear, intimidation. Employees were instructed to sexually service prospective investors, carry out menial tasks around the communal homes, and destroy romantic relationships. All while Ms. Dadon and Ms. Churwitz, she was the head of sales, lived lavishly, benefiting from their labor, the employees said. One woman testified that Ms. Churwitz forced her to receive orgasmic meditation. Sex at one taste, prosecutors wrote to Judge Gujarati in December, was also a means of encouraging productivity. So there was threats of physical violence, threats of blackmail, confiscation of travel documents from workers. Crazy story. And now we got. We got Big Dursh. We got Big Durst stepping up. When I.

[Big T]

That's who you want. That's who you want on your side. Yeah. Save the day.

[PFT Commenter]

Reading the end of the article, and it was like, alan Dershowitz has voiced his support. It was like, yep, that checks out. I'm sure that Alan Dershowitz had absolutely nothing to do with any of this.

[Big T]

Oh, I didn't even think about it.

[Hank]

Careful.

[PFT Commenter]

I said, I'm sure he had absolutely nothing to do. I don't know how much more of a voice of support I can give to Big Dursh. If you want to be. If you want people to think you're 100 innocent, hire Alan Dershowitz. That's what I've always said, and I stand by that to this day. There's also been a couple other people that have, like, written some. Some letters of support, and I don't want to. I don't want to say the wrong. What's Van. The guy that worked for Obama.

[Big T]

Not Van Lee.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I know, I know. Is it Van Jones?

[Hank]

There is a Van Jones. He. I didn't know he worked for Obama.

[Big T]

CNN host and contributor.

[PFT Commenter]

I think it was Van Jones. I don't want. It's not Van Lathan.

[Big T]

Why do I know that name?

[PFT Commenter]

Because he's. He's in the media. He's a. He's a good guy.

[Big T]

Oh, okay. Respect to Van Lathan.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Van Jones is a political analyst, media personality, lawyer, author, and civil rights advocate. Does that read?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. So Van Jones wrote a letter of support? Yes. He's a CNN correspondent, former advisor to Obama. I'm sure Van Lathan gets that all the time. He probably gets really pissed off about it.

[Aran Foster]

I only.

[PFT Commenter]

You know what? I don't even think they look alike. I think it's just. I think it's mostly the name Van

[Big T]

Yeah, they don't look alike.

[PFT Commenter]

All right, what else we got today? I know it's. It's tough to follow the Nicole Daedon saga.

[Big T]

Can we talk about Christine Ohm's husband?

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Big T]

Which worst day of that guy's life, but it's insane.

[PFT Commenter]

So Kristi Noem, she had some pictures of her husband come out yesterday. He likes to get really dressed up. He. He's into bimbofication. I don't know what that says that,

[Big T]

like, so is she.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, he likes women that look a certain type of way. He likes it so much that he likes to look a certain type of way sometimes, too. He was having the craziest thing to me was they found that he, like, paid like, $25,000 to these different women. I don't know if it was, like, an only fans type situation where he's paying for the content or if they ever met up or. Or whatever, but. Yeah. So that came out the other day. I wonder how that leaked and who was in charge of, like, putting that together, if that was, like, some blackmail that they had against her. But, yeah, she said that yesterday was a. A tough day for. And to please respect her family's privacy as they go through this at this time. It does add up that she's, like, been pretty openly having an affair.

[Big T]

I was a long time, say, the Corey Lewandowski of it all, actually. Wait. Makes way more sense now.

[PFT Commenter]

Right.

[Big T]

And seems like they just have an arrangement.

[PFT Commenter]

Right. And for her to say that she just found out about. I don't.

[Big T]

Right. She found out in the Daily Mail.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. I don't really believe that. I think she knew that her husband was in some freak shit and she

[Big T]

was also into some freak shit.

[PFT Commenter]

She's like, well, I'm just gonna sleep with Corey then.

[Big T]

Yeah. Do you think that they, like, had a worked out, like, you can do your thing and I will fudge Corey Lewandowski and we'll just kind of reap the benefits of being, like, a married couple in politics.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. And. But then they were really bad at it. That's the thing is, like, they were. They were so bad at. At pretending that they were happy or, like, together.

[Big T]

Really?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Do you think they get divorced now?

[PFT Commenter]

I don't know. I don't know what the financial situation's like. Oh, that might complicate things.

[Big T]

Do you think she's. This is a genuine question. Is she worth a lot of money?

[PFT Commenter]

Well, she was governor.

[Big T]

Or is he. I don't. What. I don't know what he does I don't think.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't think she's worth that much. I think he is.

[Big T]

He is.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. I think I read that he was a successful businessman because she's been in public service for a long time. So I think on. On the book, she probably doesn't have that much money.

[Big T]

Is she the one that shot her dog?

[PFT Commenter]

She is.

[Big T]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

Cricket. Rip. Cricket.

[Big T]

Did you see there was one of a dog. I don't know if it was. Cricket was in one of the pictures. Oh, in the back of the door. In the back of the door.

[PFT Commenter]

Funny, I did not see that.

[Big T]

Yeah, but I, I. At this point, you're act. You're openly and, like, outwardly having sex with another. Another guy. Your husband's doing this. Like, what do you. What do you stand to gain by still being married?

[PFT Commenter]

I, I think he might have money,

[Big T]

but do you think they have this, like, ironclad prenup that's preventing her from, like, living a life that she desires?

[PFT Commenter]

I don't know. I think. I think that they. A lot of times people just don't want to get divorced and they try to make it work. Maybe there's kids that are involved for some reason. They don't want to do, like, custody. They just want to work things out on their own. I don't know. He definitely has. He's got money, so she probably. It's probably in his best interest to try to convince her not to divorce him unless they've got a prenup.

[Big T]

Right.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Some of the pictures were pretty wild. The. The balloons.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Under the tube top or whatever with the nipples. I. Listen, I've been on the Internet for a long time. I'm still finding different fetishes that exist out there and different, like, fandoms. I had no idea that the. The bimbofication thing was. Was popping off like it is.

[Big T]

Do you think that's why she got all that plastic surgery?

[PFT Commenter]

So you could say that, like, well, her husband seems to really enjoy women that are overly done up with lots of plastic surgery and body modifications. And then you see how her appearance has changed over the last, like, call it five to six years. It's pretty easy to draw a straight line between those ones.

[Big T]

I mean, but then, but, but now I'm kind of like, well, but maybe

[PFT Commenter]

that's what he's into. Maybe, like, as. Maybe she was like, this is. I. I found my husband was having these online relationships with women, and this is something that he's into, and I want him to be happy, and I'll. If that's if it would make him happy for me to look like that, then I'll give it a shot. That's something that people do sometimes.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

And that could be like a very loving, understanding way to try to cope with it. But I don't think it worked out.

[Big T]

It sure doesn't seem that way.

[PFT Commenter]

No.

[Big T]

Yeah, it's. It's a lot to take in.

[PFT Commenter]

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[Big T]

I forgot that Special envoy to the Shield of the Americas.

[PFT Commenter]

Ah, yes, yes, obviously. And remind me again what the Shield of the Americas is.

[Big T]

So

[PFT Commenter]

do we know is that that's a thing that doesn't exist yet, right?

[Big T]

I. Yeah, I don't know.

[PFT Commenter]

I think it's something that is about to exist.

[Big T]

And she's the special envoy, which that would obviously entail. It says the Shield of America's is a US led multinational military and secretary coalition announced by President Donald Trump on March 5th. Aimed at combating transnational criminal organizations, drug cartels and reducing Chinese influence in the Western hemispheres. Okay, so he just announced it.

[PFT Commenter]

It's a combined on March 5, combined military and law enforcement approach to combat cartels and trafficking routes. Often described as the America's Counter Cartel Coalition. The alliance includes about 12 to 13 countries. So I guess up in the air the summit will be held in Doral, Florida.

[Big T]

It's Christy Gnome, Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth. Oh, okay. Nightmare Blunt rotation.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. Shield of the Americas. I. So it hasn't it sounds like the Shield of the Americas is a meeting.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Big T]

What's that? Like the G7 something where they all get together and take a big picture? Yeah, that's kind of the vibe I'm getting.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. They had a meeting. Okay. They had a meeting on March 7th. And then they're like, okay, that's. Welcome to the Shield. Yeah, but I don't. Pretty much welcome to the Shield, I guess, stand. But watch this space.

[Hank]

It's.

[PFT Commenter]

It's. Watch the space for more. I don't know that anything. It sounds like it might have been a meeting that was created. I'm just speculating. They may have created this meeting so that Kristi Noem would have a job to go to.

[Big T]

Oh, 1,000%.

[PFT Commenter]

And so, like, you're special envoy. And so we're going to do a meeting.

[Big T]

I actually think I saw this because I do believe Corey Lewandowski was out this meeting as well.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, he has. He has to be there. He's a facilitator.

[Big T]

Totally. What's it.

[PFT Commenter]

He's a power broke. I don't know. Hey, listen, if. If they come up with something at this meeting that curbs the cartels, that. That's good stuff. But let's see. The proclamation commits participating nations to coordinate military and law enforcement efforts to combat transnational criminal organizations. Okay. I found out what happened. They signed a proclamation establishing the coalition at this meeting. So they created a document, and the document commits nations to have their military and police talk to each other and to the United States military and police to stop drug cartels. So it's like a promise. I mean, hey, if it works, if they start sharing valuable information. Let's go. So good job.

[Big T]

Yeah. Also, I forget that Corey Lewandowski is also married.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, is he?

[Big T]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

To who?

[Big T]

Allison Lewandowski.

[PFT Commenter]

I feel so bad for her.

[Big T]

I feel bad for her. If Corin Lewandowski hasn't posted a photo with his wife Allison since 2016. It says.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. Yeah. This whole situation is very strange. What else we got today? Big T. There was a. More military stuff or more. More military alien stuff.

[Hank]

Matt Gates.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. So what Matt Gates say?

[Hank]

He said that he was at one point briefed on alien human hybrid situations.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Hank]

Let me find alien breeding programs and non human biologics.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. He said that there were six to 12 facilities that were used in this. Yeah.

[Hank]

I had someone come and brief me who was in a military uniform, worked for the United States army that was briefing me on the locations of hybrid breeding programs where captured aliens were breeding with Humans to create some hybrid race that could engage in intergalactic communication in crashes of craft that had been recovered by the CIA. It wasn't just the hard materials. It was also biologics. But they couldn't identify a human source of these biologics is what he said.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. And there is a senator that has confirmed parts of this.

[Hank]

I did not know that. Which senator?

[PFT Commenter]

There is a post from a Senator

[Hank]

Babette, not familiar with his or her work.

[PFT Commenter]

He is from Australia.

[Hank]

Oh, so not one of ours?

[PFT Commenter]

Not one of ours. An Australian senator says, yes, aliens are already here. I was briefed by intelligence this morning on a developing situation. Details are highly classified. Australians will understand soon enough. Stay calm. That came out 6:31pm March 31, American time. What. What time? And that would be April 1 in Australia, would it not?

[Hank]

You said 6:30, 6:30pm yeah, it may be April 2.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. We might have, I don't know, past it.

[Hank]

I don't know how far ahead they are.

[PFT Commenter]

The senator Babette also said. I wish I could say more, but unfortunately everything I know about the alien HYBR hybrid program is classified. Let's just say some of you would be very surprised who's not entirely human. That also came out March 31st, American time.

[Hank]

It's currently 4:00am in Australia right now on the 2nd. So it would have been April 1st.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. And it would have been April 1st for both of these posts that came out. Good job, us. Good job us. Staying very woke on it. But still, Matt Gaetz said all this stuff about the aliens.

[Hank]

Yes. I just don't. You're an aliens guy, right?

[PFT Commenter]

What do you mean? I'm an alien.

[Hank]

You believe in aliens?

[PFT Commenter]

I think that we are not the only form of life in the universe.

[Hank]

Like, what kind of life?

[PFT Commenter]

I don't know that I believe in, like, little green guys walking around.

[Hank]

Okay. But, like, you're not talking about bacteria either, so.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I'm talking about. I think that there is life elsewhere in the universe, and it probably looks and acts a lot different than life on Earth does.

[Aran Foster]

Hmm.

[Hank]

I just. I can't get there.

[PFT Commenter]

You can't get with the aliens?

[Hank]

Yeah. I mean, at some point you're going to have to show me something. Like, I keep hearing that, you know, oh, we've got them. We've got them on tape. I'd love to see it.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I know.

[Hank]

I'm very curious.

[PFT Commenter]

I think that the military has studied a lot of stuff, and I think that 99 of the. The UFO sightings that we have are military technology.

[Hank]

A thousand percent that has not been

[PFT Commenter]

disclosed to the public.

[Hank]

Thousand.

[PFT Commenter]

And I also think that we have the more stuff that comes out about like, oh, we recovered this type of aircraft, or we have. We've witnessed this type of technology that is planted in the news so that other countries will be like, wow, the United States has really good surveillance systems that are able to detect aliens, and we haven't seen anything, so our surveillance systems must not be as good as the United States.

[Hank]

Could it also be letting them know, hey, we saw an aircraft that descended a thousand feet in a second, and then they. They know that it's ours?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, now we got it. Yes, Yes. I think that has something to do with it too. Like, we have that technology because if I think they see some of the stuff we put out and then other countries will be like, oh, well, that's clearly American military technology that they have. Oh, it's able to do all that? Yeah. That's crazy.

[Hank]

Agreed.

[PFT Commenter]

Yep. So they'll have like some guy that lives out in the middle of the desert in like, Colorado or Nevada, and he'll be like, look at this crazy thing. I just took a picture of that flew overhead and watch how it turns. And then other countries will see that and be like, yep, that's just whatever the next generation of spy. Spy plane they have. And we're. Because we don't have that.

[Hank]

Do you believe some of the stories that pilots tell about them?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I think that, I mean, pilots don't always know what's going on with, like, other branches of military and, like, the secret stuff that they have.

[Hank]

No, but I'm saying pilots that claim to have seen these things to seeing

[PFT Commenter]

crazy stuff like the.

[Hank]

The descending a thousand feet in a second.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I think some of that's true.

[Hank]

Because it sounds ridiculous.

[PFT Commenter]

I think some of it is true. I think there's technology that we have that. That rank and file members of the military don't know about.

[Hank]

But, like, why aren't we using it then?

[PFT Commenter]

We're testing some of it and then we're.

[Hank]

Some of this goes back years and

[PFT Commenter]

years, and we probably are using some of it. Like, we. If you look at, like, when the military acknowledged stuff that we did have. I forget when the military even acknowledged the fact that we had one of Those, like the B2 Raider, the Stealth bomber that flies over the Rose bowl, like, it was just. It was recently that we even openly talked about it, much less had it like, fly over football games. And so it was just like speculation that this might exist out there for A long time. So it's like probably a 10 to 20, probably like 20 year gap in between when something is used and when the military will even acknowledge its existence.

[Hank]

I'm interested that you think simultaneously all the UFO sightings and stuff is our military, which I agree with. But then you're like, I do also believe they're aliens.

[PFT Commenter]

I just don't necessarily believe that the aliens are, are flying around in saucers and like buzzing our towers.

[Hank]

Okay, so you just, you're just of the opinion the universe is too vast?

[PFT Commenter]

It's too vast. Yeah. Now I, I am also like agnostic. I think it could be true that there's aliens because they, they seem to hang out around our nuclear facilities a lot of. And in which case that would make sense that they're trying to like prevent us from blowing ourselves up. I think. I, I'm not like a hundred percent against that. I just think that until I see more proof. I am, I, I'm of the belief that aliens exist, but we have not like made hand to hand contact with them.

[Hank]

That's interesting.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

Because my, my agreement with your belief that the supposed UFOs are military leads me to believe that I'm very unconvinced of aliens.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. I don't think that alien aliens exist in the Hollywood version.

[Hank]

Sure.

[PFT Commenter]

And like, what the, the common thread throughout the years of like alien contact with, with humans has been. I don't necessarily subscribe to that, but, but I could be convinced with the, with the nuclear stuff, that to me has made the most sense.

[Hank]

Yeah. I just, I'd like to see it.

[PFT Commenter]

I'd like to see it too.

[Hank]

They keep telling us. So you're, you're not of the belief that we have some sort of avatar program where we're breeding no humans and aliens?

[PFT Commenter]

Well, Wimby. Wimby is convincing me that maybe it, maybe it is true. Which by the way, I think when we should get the mvp. What do you think?

[Hank]

The last NBA game I watched was probably 2019, so I couldn't. You should watch a good guess.

[PFT Commenter]

You should watch Wemby. Wimby is, he's different.

[Hank]

I see the clips.

[PFT Commenter]

I mean he's. Nobody has ever played the game like he plays the game already. And I also like how much he, he takes it seriously. Like he is everything that you want in an athlete. Big T. He like he went to a fucking monastery in the off season.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

To like learn how to get better at sports.

[Hank]

I love that. Now he would get the MVP because there's a provision that you have to play 65 games. That's correct. And Kate Cunningham isn't going to reach that.

[PFT Commenter]

He's not going to reach that. But there are other good players that will reach that. And he's, I think, in my opinion, the best of all those players. Like, I think Jokic is going to reach it. I think SGA will reach it. And I had this big debate with Max yesterday on part of my take about whether or not the play the NBA cup, if that final game counts towards the 65 games. And they're like, well, it doesn't count in terms of the stats from that game. I reached out to, to Ryan Rosillo, NBA expert, and he was even a little bit confused, but he came back to me. He said the stats from that game don't count, but the game does count as a game play.

[Hank]

They're still not done with the NBA Cup?

[PFT Commenter]

No, no, that was a long time ago.

[Hank]

Oh.

[PFT Commenter]

So the spurs played in the championship game of the NBA cup and there was some dispute on whether or not that game would count towards the 65 games that you have to play in to be eligible for a postseason award.

[Hank]

So the spurs are playing 83 games this year?

[PFT Commenter]

I believe so.

[Hank]

Got it.

[PFT Commenter]

And so I think that game does count.

[Hank]

What do you think about the ongoing discourse about MLB versus NBA popularity?

[PFT Commenter]

I mean, I think it's. It's kind of pointless to debate it because baseball has so many more games. And so you can like make the stats say whatever it is you want them to say.

[Hank]

What does that mean?

[PFT Commenter]

It means that like you have a lot of games actually in both leagues, but in baseball especially, that nobody cares about.

[Hank]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

And nobody will watch. But even, you know, most teams, if they have a big ass stadium even for those types of games, they'll still have 10,000 people watching the game.

[Hank]

Well, I do think I remember this was several years ago now, but of every city that had an MLB and NBA team, I believe there's only one where the NBA team outrated the baseball team on tv.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. Out of every city that had, would that be the Golden State warriors and the Oakland Athletics?

[Hank]

I don't. Let me see if I can find it.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. What year was the study was this before they moved to. They moved across the bay.

[Hank]

This was probably three or four years ago. So it might have been right around that time.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. If it wasn't them, who else could it be?

[Hank]

It might have been Boston.

[PFT Commenter]

They beat the Red Sox. I'm guessing that would surprise me if they did.

[Hank]

But also the World Series last year. Tremendously outrated. The NBA Finals and things like that.

[PFT Commenter]

The. Maybe the Timberwolves might have beaten the Twins. Oh, the Nuggets probably beat the Rockies.

[Hank]

I'll. I'll see if I can find it. But a lot of discourse right now about Major League Baseball. And I've even noticed the last several years on social media, baseball's become a lot more popular.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I agree.

[Hank]

And I think, you know, for all the crap people talk about Rob Manfred, every rule change that he's made to baseball has kind of been a massive success.

[PFT Commenter]

The bigger bases.

[Hank]

Right. I was very averse to the pitch clock. It's been awesome. The challenge system is awesome.

[PFT Commenter]

I've heard that they might be bringing the. The second base in.

[Hank]

How would they do that?

[PFT Commenter]

Like, moving it in, like, 6 to 12 inches closer to the pitcher's mound.

[Hank]

Okay, but then you'd have to move first base as well. Right.

[PFT Commenter]

I think you could do it still in the. In the base path. It wouldn't be, like, into the grass at that point.

[Hank]

No, I know. But if your second base is directly in alignment with first base, so if you move it in, it's now not straight with first.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. You would have to, like, angle. If you're running from first to second, you would just turn your body.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

It'd still be a straight. It'd be shorter. Shorter distance to go to, but I think it's to encourage. Well, it might not be shorter to get to second, but it would be a better angle to take third, which is what they're going for.

[Hank]

Okay. Yeah. This is the first time hearing.

[PFT Commenter]

I think it's the same.

[Hank]

Is this April Fools?

[PFT Commenter]

No, no. I. I heard this, like, last week, that it's something they're thinking about.

[Hank]

Yeah, I haven't heard about that.

[PFT Commenter]

It's just about getting, like, an extra half run per game and long. In the long run, we've done enough. It makes the game more exciting.

[Hank]

I think we're in a good spot right now.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I do, too.

[Hank]

Except for the fact that Chris Sale just gave up a homer. But.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. And Kyle Schwaber just doubled in the bottom of the first. So the Phillies are beating the Nats. I forgot that there was a day game today. Whoops.

[Hank]

Love the Wednesday afternoon games.

[PFT Commenter]

Surprise day. Baseball.

[Hank]

Love them.

[PFT Commenter]

A tradition unlike any other. It is April Fool's Day, and there's baseball going, this is a. The crazy day in my history. I've told that story many times before.

[Hank]

That was on April Fool's Day. Well, yeah, that was the Impetus of the joke.

[PFT Commenter]

It was on April Fool's Day. My dad came to elementary school and he said, get your glove. We're going to the Orioles opening day game. And they called me down from the main office, and I got out of my class, and he handed me my glove. I got to the car, I started to leave the parking lot, and then my brother popped up from the back seat and goes, april Fools. And then he turned around and drove me right back.

[Hank]

And remind me again why your brother wasn't at school.

[PFT Commenter]

My brother was homeschooled for a year. And so on April 1st, they were like, let's play a joke on PFT. That'll be our. That'll be our assignment for the day. And so that's what they did.

[Hank]

Yeah, that.

[Big T]

Listen, I'm project.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Group project. Yeah.

[Hank]

I'm on board with a good prank, but that's disgusting.

[Big T]

That's mean.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. And then I went home, and then my dad was so upset. He felt really bad. My mom was not happy with him that he did that. And he also felt bad because I was like, I wanted to go see the baseball game.

[Hank]

I may have sobbed as a child if that happened.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, no, it was. It was very embarrassing walking back to class and going back because they made the announcement over the PA system that I will be. I'll be leaving school because my dad's here to take me to the baseball game.

[Hank]

And now that I think about it, it's such a double whammy, because there was nothing in the world better than a surprise checkout from school. I know when they call down and then they say your name, you're. Oh, shit. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

And then they're like, you're going to opening day. I would have. If that turned out to be fake, I literally. I would have cried. I could cry right now.

[PFT Commenter]

I think he made it up to me. I think he took me to a game, like, next year.

[Hank]

But you. You can't replicate that. Yeah, the surprise checkout. Go into the. Oh. And I mean, that was that. How far was Baltimore from your house? Hour and a half.

[Aran Foster]

Yeah.

[Hank]

Probably would have been like a road trip.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, something like that. And if I had done the math right, I probably could have figured out that I wasn't going to make it there.

[Hank]

The game was in 30 minutes.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. But I didn't. I didn't think about doing any of that. I didn't know what time the game started. So. Yeah, that was. That was my April fool story.

[Hank]

Yeah. That's terrible. And the.

[PFT Commenter]

I think it Was a good joke. It's a funny prank.

[Big T]

It's funny now when you think about it.

[Hank]

Yeah, but like, is it as funny as going to opening day? Would have been sick.

[PFT Commenter]

No, no, no, it's not.

[Hank]

Who were they? What year was this?

[PFT Commenter]

I don't. I want to say it was not. I was either in third, fourth, or fifth grade.

[Hank]

Well, what were those?

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, wait, so when my brother.

[Hank]

Because they may not have even been at home.

[PFT Commenter]

No, I might have been in fifth or sixth grade then because my brother during his year that he was homeschooled. I think fifth or sixth.

[Hank]

I would love the year.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, so how old are you when you're in fifth grade? 11.

[Big T]

I think you would have been 11. So it would have been 1996.

[PFT Commenter]

Nine. Yeah, I would guess 96 or 97.

[Hank]

Okay, let's look at the 1996 schedule.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Hank]

What game did I miss in 96? They did open at home against the Kansas City Royals.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Hank]

They won 4 to 2.

[PFT Commenter]

Not really that great of a game. Unless. Was it like a walk off? The Cal Ripken Jr hit a walk off home run.

[Hank]

Let's see if 1997 was also at home. 1997. They also opened at home against the royals and won 4 to 2.

[PFT Commenter]

That's crazy. Back to back years.

[Hank]

April 2nd, 1990. Now these are both on April 2nd. Okay, so could it have been 95?

[PFT Commenter]

It could have been 95.

[Hank]

95. I'm not seeing a game till April 26th. Oh, was that the lockout?

[PFT Commenter]

It might have been. It also could be that they did this to me on April 2nd.

[Hank]

That's even more disturbing.

[PFT Commenter]

It was a delayed April Fool's joke.

[Hank]

No chance. It could have been 98.

[PFT Commenter]

98. Let's see. Give me the exact date. It had been April 1st.

[Hank]

98. They opened on March 31st. But they did play on April 1st. But it was the second game.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, so that could have been it. So 1998, I would be 13.

[Hank]

That's like eighth grade.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm just. I'm just doing the math. 1998, that's. But I turn. My birthday is like in the middle. So I started that year in 1997.

[Big T]

You would have been the age you turned already, though, because your birthday is January.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I'm just trying to do the math because I know what year I graduated high school in, which is 2003, by the way.

[Hank]

You're not going to believe who they opened up the Royals the season against on in 1998.

[PFT Commenter]

The Royals again.

[Hank]

Kansas City Royals. How many years did they do this?

[PFT Commenter]

It was a tradition unlike any other. All right, 97 then.

[Hank]

Although I guess at this time there was. There wasn't interleague yet. So they were. You only had 14 teams to pick from or. No, they played the Braves, it says, in 1998. So they did have interlink.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm just trying to do the math. 90s. So that year was started. 97. I think it might have been an April 2nd joke then, because I don't think it was. 98. I think 98. I was in seventh grade.

[Hank]

Okay, so it was either 96 or 97, both of which were four to two games against the Kansas City and

[PFT Commenter]

both of which took place on April 2nd.

[Hank]

Correct.

[PFT Commenter]

And this was an April Fool's joke, either that took place on April 2nd or was an April Fool's joke on a day in which they didn't even have a game.

[Hank]

Do you want to guess who the starting pitchers were on that day in 1996?

[PFT Commenter]

Mike Musena.

[Hank]

Mike Mosina opened for the Orioles, seven innings, five hits, two runs, quality start.

[PFT Commenter]

And the Royals had Brett Saberhagen, Kevin Appier. Oh, Apier. Yeah, Kevin Apier.

[Hank]

Never heard of him. How many of the Orioles starting lineup can you name from that day?

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, from that day. Okay, so we had, Obviously, Cal Ripken

[Hank]

Jr. Hit fourth, played shortstop, fifth. Actually, Raphael Palmero hit third, played first base. Brady Anderson let off in center.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. Behind the plate. It wasn't. It wasn't Chris Hoyles, was it?

[Hank]

It's Chris Hoyles.

[PFT Commenter]

No way. Okay, Chris Hoyles.

[Hank]

Can you name a player came in for him later?

[PFT Commenter]

Would that be Olson?

[Hank]

Greg Zahn.

[PFT Commenter]

Greg Zahn. Okay. Who else was in the outfield on that team? They have a guy named Ben Bend. Ben?

[Hank]

Not seeing a Ben.

[PFT Commenter]

There's no Ben. Mark McLemore, was he still on that team? Not seeing Harold Rains.

[Hank]

Not seeing it.

[PFT Commenter]

And this is probably too late for Eddie Murray.

[Hank]

Yeah. I'm guessing right fielder. I've heard of. Solid player.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Hank]

Initials are the same letter.

[PFT Commenter]

So it's not Mark McLemore. You're sure?

[Hank]

I'm positive.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. I don't know. Who is it?

[Hank]

Tony Tarasco.

[PFT Commenter]

Yep. Yep. And then Tony Tarrasco, I believe, was the guy that had the home run taken away from by Jeffrey Mayer.

[Hank]

Really?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. In right field? Yeah.

[Hank]

You're missing second base, third base and dh. All of these are pretty. Pretty good players.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, pretty good players. I'm impressed that I got as many as I did. Who else?

[Hank]

We got second. Who played second base for the Orioles Robbie Alamore. Correct.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Hank]

DH Is a guy. He's still getting paid by one team.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, Bobby Bo.

[Hank]

That's correct.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Bobby Bonilla. I forgot about that.

[Hank]

And third base is a fine player in his own right. I believe he played for the Braves at one point.

[PFT Commenter]

Fine player in his own right. Played for the Braves. Did he play the hot corner for the Braves?

[Hank]

Yes.

[PFT Commenter]

Third baseman for the Atlanta Braves.

[Hank]

At least I think so. Well, maybe not because he was playing during another, but this could have been when that guy was playing left field.

[PFT Commenter]

Just give me the initials.

[Hank]

B.S.

[PFT Commenter]

sirhoff. Yeah. B.J. sirhoff.

[Hank]

Correct.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Hank]

And the last player was Jeffrey Hammonds in left field.

[PFT Commenter]

All right. Yeah. Those names bring back a lot of memories. That was a man. Good ballpark, too. I love Campden Yards.

[Hank]

Johnny Damon was playing for the Royals.

[PFT Commenter]

I would say that the. The mid-90s Baltimore Orioles might be one of the easiest teams to name dudes off of. That didn't really ever win. Shit.

[Hank]

A lot of good names on there.

[PFT Commenter]

Good names on that team.

[Hank]

Any other good pitchers?

[PFT Commenter]

Let's see, besides Messina, I think we had Ben McDonald. I think he was still on that staff. Who else do we have? I don't know. But now you've got me doubting myself about Mark McLemore. What was his career like? Let's look up Mark Tramell McLemore.

[Hank]

We should just do this all day.

[PFT Commenter]

Mark Tramell McLemore. He played for the Baltimore Orioles from 1992 through 1994, so just barely missed out on that one. Let's see who else was on the 1990, 1995 Baltimore Orioles lineup. What do you guys think? Do you guys have any other nominees for the best teams that didn't do shit, like, with the best names?

[Hank]

So you're saying retrospectively, you go back and you look and you're like, how did that team not win anything?

[PFT Commenter]

Like, you recognize everybody on that team, but they didn't win.

[Big T]

The first thing that popped in my head was the Angels from, like, five years ago, but I feel like that's just Shohei and Mike Trout.

[Hank]

Good enough.

[PFT Commenter]

Rendoner.

[Hank]

Well, but he was never.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I don't think that. Do you think that Mike Trout is happy? Yeah.

[Big T]

Extremely.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

Because I think he could have left.

[PFT Commenter]

I think he is, too.

[Hank]

I think he has a. He has a great life.

[PFT Commenter]

Do you think that Mike Trout is walking around the streets of Chicago and he's not getting recognized?

[Hank]

I think Mike Trout. That bit got so overplayed that, like, people recognize Mike Trout.

[PFT Commenter]

It did get overplayed. But now I think it. I think it's more true now than it was when it started.

[Hank]

Well, I mean, he's. You know, he's older. He's not the best player in baseball anymore. Like, he was at one point.

[PFT Commenter]

I think you put a baseball cap on Mike Trout, and he can go incognito at. Like, if you get one baseball fan, they're gonna know who he is. But you could probably go incognito at most restaurants at Bavettes.

[Hank]

And no one say anything to him?

[PFT Commenter]

No, because I think at. At a place like Bavettes, your antenna is always on. You're like, that guy's somebody.

[Hank]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

You know what I'm saying? Like, you're. You're thinking that everybody that sits down could be somebody that you should recognize.

[Hank]

What's the best restaurant he could eat at that nobody would say anything?

[PFT Commenter]

That's a. That's a very good question. I think Chicago. Cut. I think he could eat at Trivoli Tavern.

[Big T]

I was just gonna say Travoli.

[Hank]

I have my. My antenna up because I've. I've been in there with famous people.

[Big T]

The Bears tight end room goes there.

[Hank]

Oh, really?

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Hank]

I sat next to Angel Reese there one time.

[Big T]

Really?

[PFT Commenter]

Which he.

[Hank]

I wasn't paying that close of attention. I sat across from a guy, and my fiance and I were just. We were like, we know that's a guy, but we couldn't place it. And he was. He's a. He's a lower level actor. He's in the. Have you seen Nobody wants this? The Sydney Sweeney, Glenn Powell movie?

[PFT Commenter]

I have not.

[Big T]

That's Anyone but you.

[Hank]

Anyone but you. What is nobody wants? Oh, that's that terrible Netflix Adam Brody.

[PFT Commenter]

Does he know that you sit around referring to him as a lower level actor?

[Hank]

I mean, maybe Anyone but you is the name of the film, and he. He is the ex boyfriend.

[Big T]

Wait, I ate dinner next to him? It was Gino and Marty.

[Hank]

It was the same week. We talked about.

[Big T]

Oh, we did talk about this.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big T]

I had. I had dinner at the same restaurant as him, too.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Yeah. But the thing about Gervoli is, though, it's dark and their chairs are really high. If you're in one of those chairs, you can kind of maybe hide.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, you could hide. You could hide in a corner at Trevoli.

[Big T]

Yeah. I mean, that's Big T. Every time we go, you're like a celebrity, you know, I.

[Hank]

The people, they. They want big T. I don't know what to tell you.

[PFT Commenter]

I think. I think Mike Trout could probably go to. I think you could eat at most Hooters.

[Hank]

No. No.

[PFT Commenter]

You don't think so?

[Hank]

No. Well, a place where people are there to watch sports. You picked maybe the worst restaurant.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't know. I'd like to do an experiment. I think that my Trout could get away with the Hooters.

[Hank]

No.

[Big T]

And I think the people that go to Hooters are maybe a bit more forward with going up to him than they would be at, like, a very fine dining establishment.

[PFT Commenter]

I'd like to do this experiment. Mike, I know you're listening to the show. Let's go to Hooters one day.

[Hank]

Could Mike Trout eat at The Hamburger University McDonald's?

[Big T]

No.

[PFT Commenter]

No, no.

[Aran Foster]

The.

[PFT Commenter]

The. The inflow of customers is too high.

[Big T]

Yeah. It is, like, touristy.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. You get a lot of people in there. There's going to be somebody.

[Big T]

See, I fear there's. There's a weird line because if you go to too nice of a restaurant, like a Bavettes or something like that, armored to jailhouse, you're almost expecting famous people.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big T]

But then if you go to maybe a lower, lower class restaurant such as a Hooters, fine, great fries, but again, lower class in terms of a steakhouse, then people are more inclined to go up to you because they're like, holy shit, that's Mike Trout. So there is like a weird middle ground.

[PFT Commenter]

Mm.

[Big T]

What about like La Scarola?

[PFT Commenter]

Oh,

[Aran Foster]

no.

[PFT Commenter]

Because I think it's the same any place that has pictures on the walls, on the wall of customers.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

I think everybody's like, is that somebody that. Whose pictures on the wall?

[Big T]

And Mike Trout's like a bigger. Like, he's like a built dude. He's. He looks pretty athletic, I would say.

[PFT Commenter]

I wonder how often people come up to Mike Trout and they're like, are you a football player? I recognize you from somewhere.

[Hank]

That's got a sting.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Because he probably deep down wishes he was a football player. He. Mike Trout would trade it all for

[Hank]

a try for the Eagles.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. For a tryout with the Birds.

[Big T]

He's got the shoulders of a tight end, I feel like.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Or like a linebacker.

[Big T]

Yeah. Is he tall?

[PFT Commenter]

I think he's like, what, six one?

[Hank]

Well, you know that all the baseball players have their real rights out there now.

[PFT Commenter]

I know.

[Big T]

I was just gonna say he's only 34.

[Hank]

This says six two, so I guess

[PFT Commenter]

that's gotta be real.

[Hank]

MLB says six one now, so he was probably listed at six two before four.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. Who are the ones that had the most Drop.

[Hank]

Oh, I mean there were guys who went from 61 to 59.

[Big T]

Was it was Austin guy.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I know that Bregman dropped from what like 61 or 62? He dropped to 510. That's tough.

[Big T]

Hilarious.

[PFT Commenter]

A few people came down to 59. Welcome.

[Big T]

Aryan did say he's in a rain delay right now though, if we want to ask him about his performance.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, yeah, let's. Can we try to zoom Aryan in?

[Big T]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

I'd like to hear more about the bony homo allegations. I mean this has a potential to be explosive and I want it to be true so bad. Oh, we got a very special guest joining the show. He's actually one of the hosts of a podcast on Barstool Sports. His name's Aran Foster and he's going to be calling in. Live from the golf tournament is brought to you by our good friends over at Pebble. One thing no one tells you about hiring globally is how unclear the cost can be. It looks simple at first, then the fees start to stack up and pebble brings clarity with upfront all in hiring cost and enables you to hire the world. Pebble is an AI powered global human resources platform built for founders, HR leaders and operators who are hiring and supporting teams around the world. Pebble helps you hire, pay and manage talent in over 185 countries with fast onboarding that can be done in minutes. Instead of juggling separate tools for contracts, payroll, benefits and compliance, pebble brings everything together with built in guidance and local expertise to support you. This is especially helpful if you're managing teams internationally or if you're planning to grow. The fastest growing companies in the world use pebble to stay organized. They reduce risk and founders use it to scale faster without feeling like they have to become HR compliance experts. The bottom line is it simplifies global people operations. Our new standard discounted price at US$399 per month per employee helps you contain costs. Go to High Pebble AI to get a free estimate. That's H I P E B L AI for a free estimate. High Pebble AI and now here's Aaron Foster.

[Hank]

There he is.

[PFT Commenter]

Great. It's good to see you. We just, we looked at the scoreboard earlier.

[Aran Foster]

We live. Don't do. Don't worry. Why are you doing that?

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, we just want to see how you're doing.

[Aran Foster]

Why are you doing that? You know, I'm doing all right. I'm like right on the cut line. You're having fun day with that. I had a rocky start today.

[PFT Commenter]

All Right. It looks good. So what's the experience been like out there?

[Aran Foster]

It's dope, man. The dope about this, this, I guess, league is like, it's a bunch of like retired athletes that compete against each other in golf. So right to the right, I got Dwight, I got Ray Allen Jr. Smith, I got Nick Van X way over here. It's like really, really, you know, high caliber ex athletes that all love the game of golf and get to compete with each other. And so it's really dope just seeing everybody in a different element and everybody's cool. It's like. It's like a little fraternity almost.

[Hank]

Have you met any of the Braves pitchers? There's several of them, yes.

[Aran Foster]

Actually, I'm paired with one today. I think he's a brave picture. Russ Ortiz.

[Hank]

Yep. I saw he was on there too.

[Aran Foster]

Yeah. So I'm paired with him today. He a cool dude. He be. He be mad as hell when he hit a bad shot, though.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. We were looking at some of the names that are on the list. It does seem like a pretty good group. So the last that we saw, Tony Romo was tied for fifth. And he's always buzzing around the top of these tournaments.

[Aran Foster]

He got a really good game, man. Really beautiful swing, really beautiful lag. Super cool dude too, man. My mom and my kids are all out here for the tournament and, yeah, he's super nice to them afterwards. My mom is a fan of him. She likes him more as a broadcaster than a quarterback.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Aran Foster]

But she's a. Yeah, she's a fan of him. So he stopped, took a picture with my mom. So anybody take a picture of. My mom's good in my book. Okay.

[Hank]

Interesting.

[PFT Commenter]

No allegations towards Tony Romo.

[Aran Foster]

Nope. Zero.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Aran Foster]

All right.

[PFT Commenter]

Be interesting to have that conversation later.

[Aran Foster]

Yeah, No, I think everybody else is competing, doing the best that they can, you know,

[PFT Commenter]

Easy way to get an area in his good grades to say hi to mom.

[Aran Foster]

Mike Tomlin. Mike Tom.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, Tomlinson.

[Aran Foster]

Ever good in my book? No, no, no. He just. He was like a super fan of him. And we played them 2014, and I went up. I went up to him before the game. I was like, yo, my mom's just here and she loves you, bro. He's like, man, say less. So after the game, he made sure he came to say hi to her. So shout out to Mike.

[PFT Commenter]

That's very cool. I see that. That Marty Fish is there too. Have you met him?

[Aran Foster]

I haven't. I don't know half the people here, and it's not because they didn't do anything. It's because I'm a hermit. So everybody here is somebody. Yeah, I just. I don't know. I just don't know. A lot of cats, man. But the dope. Another dope one is Ray Allen.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Aran Foster]

My son here and he, you know, he a Hooper and. And Ray Allen took the time out, you know, to come say some words to him. Give some courage. We get some advice. As a Hooper, my son lit up because if you asked him before the tournament who his favorite shooter was, it was Ray Allen. And he came up and showed love. It was really dope.

[PFT Commenter]

That's cool. If you see Marty, go up to him and say, hi. He's a good friend of ours, man. He's a real.

[Aran Foster]

He's around here because it's a range. Everybody's in the clubhouse.

[PFT Commenter]

He's a really good golfer. He's one that. He's won the Lake Tahoe American Century Championship a couple times. Yeah.

[Aran Foster]

Baseball players have a leg up, you know what I'm saying? Like this. This is they bag. They've been doing this for years. But I'm dedicated to beating these, man. So I'm gonna grind these next, like, years. A couple years.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Aran Foster]

I shot 83 yesterday. Really, really good. That's awesome. And I four putted and I had a birdie putt. It was really bad, but shot 83. I'm doing okay today. Ended up with three. Friday, coming to rain.

[PFT Commenter]

I love it.

[Hank]

Have you. Have you seen Cordell Stewart play at all? We noticed he was not doing the best.

[Aran Foster]

Yeah, he was struggling today, man. Or yesterday. He didn't have a. He didn't have a point.

[Hank]

What. What do you need to get a point?

[Aran Foster]

So it's the. I forget the. I think it's called the Stableford. The Stableford?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Aran Foster]

Yeah, I think so. A bogey is one. So if you get a bogey, it's one, par is two, birdie is four, eagle is six.

[Hank]

So he hasn't gotten a bogey.

[PFT Commenter]

He's gotten a lot of.

[Aran Foster]

Yeah, he didn't. He didn't get a boat.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, no, he might have rough go for my boy. He might have gotten a lot of double and triple bogeys to go along with his bogeys.

[Aran Foster]

Yeah. Yeah, it was rough day for my mess.

[PFT Commenter]

All right, so we're rooting for you. What's the goal here?

[Aran Foster]

The goal is to make the cut. Like, I know there are golfers who have been golfing for 20 plus years. You know what I'm saying? I got I'm a realist when it comes to this game. I'm competitive, but I'm a realist. And so like I, I feel like if I shoot under 80 today, I have a good shot or at least a low 80. Must have a good shot to make the cut. But I mean I shot at 83 and I was I think tied for 60 and 60 is where the cutting. So I think if I, if I shoot around there today and it's tough conditions, scores may get a little higher. Today it's a little rainy, it's a little wet. So we gonna see today I, I'm on hole seven right now. I think I'm five over, but I ended up with three pars before the rain delay. So I, I started to catch five.

[PFT Commenter]

Those are good points.

[Aran Foster]

Yeah, yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

I think if I pour out this

[Aran Foster]

and they're really easy holes, the next three holes are really easy holes. If I par out, I'm five over, which would give me a 41 for the front and I'll be prime position. Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

And then the other question was Mike Leach. Mike Leach is in the field. Is that the coach? No, it can't because Mike Leach is dead. So we're curious.

[Aran Foster]

The cult.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

Passed away several years ago.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. We didn't know which Mike Leach this was.

[Aran Foster]

Well, it can't be that one.

[PFT Commenter]

No.

[Aran Foster]

Damn. Rip.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Aran Foster]

Mike Lee. I had no idea. How'd he die?

[PFT Commenter]

Hey. Sudden it was not sure. Suddenly I think Brandon Walker drove him insane.

[Aran Foster]

Sure.

[PFT Commenter]

It has something to do with it. No, I, I don't know. I don't know which Mike Leach this could be. Maybe I'll just try Googling the other Mike Leach and see what that brings me to. But I, I believe in Yuri and I think you can do this. I think you can, you can make the cut. And do you get money?

[Aran Foster]

Yeah, I think, I think you, if you place a server, it's not, it's not life changing stuff. It's cool though, pocket change or whatever. But it's more of the competitive. Everybody here just compete. Yeah, that's what I love about it. But more than anything, it's like really, you see, like at the end of the day we all just X people that used to do stuff and it's cool to see where everybody at. Like a little fraternal bond that kind of grows and having friends from like, you know, I, I, I rode up on, I wanted to play 18 again in a practice round. I rolled up on a couple of hockey players and they were cool as bumping DMX. We was like, hey, you want to do 100? This whole. And I was like, yeah, let's bet. You know what I'm saying? We ended up pushing, but I don't remember their names. Cool.

[PFT Commenter]

Cool dudes, though. They were in this field.

[Aran Foster]

Yeah, they're all in it. We got hockey, baseball, basketball, football.

[Hank]

I'm seeing there was a Mike Leach that was a long snapper for the Broncos and Cardinals.

[PFT Commenter]

That. That might be him.

[Aran Foster]

Just as valid as a Mike Leach as the other one.

[PFT Commenter]

Yep, that's true. That's true. It's not his fault that they've got the same name. Yeah.

[Aran Foster]

Yeah. Apologies to the macrodosians. Man, I've been grinding on this golf tournament. I know y' all miss me.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I. We. We had. We had a long discussion about Tiger on Monday. You have any. Any.

[Aran Foster]

Oh, what's the. What we feel?

[PFT Commenter]

I mean, just like, he's got. He's got a real. He's lucky that he hasn't killed somebody.

[Aran Foster]

Sure. That's where I'm at with it. Just don't kill nobody. And we. We talked about it. Said I think it was Max sent the video to the group. I said that two, three years ago.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Aran Foster]

Stay your ass out of cars, bro. Hey.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Aran Foster]

Everything bad happened to that man having the cars.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. He needs. He needs to stop driving, and he needs to get some help. It sounds like he's stepping away from golf for a little bit, which is probably.

[Aran Foster]

I mean, listen, I'm. Nobody's expecting him to win ever again. I just want to. He's a rock star, man. He's the goat. And, you know, sometimes rock stars do. Stupid ass. I don't look to anybody in the entertainment industry for moral guidance, and nobody else should, so I don't expect it. I just hope he does, you know, does well for himself and his family so that they don't. You know what I'm saying? Like, they proud of. Proud of what he do. He's always gonna be my goat. As soon as that. As soon as the news broke, I went to sundayred.com to see they had, like, a sale or something. Did they.

[PFT Commenter]

It's not gonna.

[Aran Foster]

It's not gonna deter me from being a fan, bro. What you do off the course has nothing to do with what you did.

[PFT Commenter]

Right.

[Aran Foster]

You were the joke. There's certain things that, yeah, you start. Yeah, there are some things, but majority of things, you start doing drugs, you reckless, you rock star. Don't bother me.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, he just. He needs. He needs to stop. He needs to Stop driving because he's going to kill somebody. And it seem. It sounds like he's billionaire.

[Aran Foster]

My guy hired a driver.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. And it sounds like he's not. He's not healthy mentally if he's doing this type of stuff. So I hope he gets better on that.

[Aran Foster]

So I did a deep dive on Michael Jackson a while back. As you guys know, when you strip somebody at a childhood, that with you as an adult and it with everybody differently. And for him, it. Absolutely. With him, it. It. With his relationship with his. With his dad, probably with his mom, too. His. He's kind of socially awkward, you know, he doesn't know how to be personable. And he's just, like, always, like, this tear when he feels like he's above. You know what I mean? Like, he just needs to be like, realize you're a human dog.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Aran Foster]

He needs to come back to reality and just relax.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Aran Foster]

But I wish him well. That's my dog. As soon as the next collection dropped on Sunday, Red, I'm getting that.

[PFT Commenter]

They should have put a discount on there for. For, like, the real ones that were still. Still down to support Tiger.

[Aran Foster]

I went, bro. As soon as the news broke, I was like, let me see if they put a little discount in. And there's a dude on one of the Instagram comments. I was like, I'm unfollowing. I can't. Blah, blah, blah. I was like, well, I'm gonna buy double for this guy.

[Hank]

Have you seen the. The setup in, like, sporting goods stores for the shoes? What? It says there's a big advertisement says, get in the mind of Tiger Woods.

[Aran Foster]

They did that before?

[Hank]

Yeah.

[Aran Foster]

Hey. Did that before. Yeah, yeah, it's starting to come down. Beautiful.

[PFT Commenter]

Course it really is. Was it Brett Hull? Was that the guy that you played with yesterday?

[Hank]

Yes.

[Aran Foster]

No, no. Yesterday I played with Dwight Freeney and Tony Romo.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, no, I meant the hockey guys. The hockey guys.

[Aran Foster]

I don't know. I just. He just. He just walked in the door. I don't know what his name is.

[Hank]

Red Hole's a legend.

[Aran Foster]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Hall of Famer.

[Aran Foster]

I'm bad. I'm bad with names, though. Like, I. Yeah, I'm not really good with names.

[PFT Commenter]

All right, well, Aaron, good luck. We're rooting for you to make the cut.

[Aran Foster]

Thank you. Hey, miss y', all. Mr. Macrodosian man. I'll be back Monday for sure.

[PFT Commenter]

Go break 80.

[Hank]

All right. If you see John Smoltz or Tom Glavin, tell him that Big T wants him to come on the show.

[Aran Foster]

You know, What? Let me see if John smokes close. Oh, you're gonna be the biggest thing on the world. Let me see. Nah, he's super, super cool, dude. Everybody here's super cool. I'll hit him. I'll hit him up. Tell him to come on. I got you.

[Hank]

Love that.

[PFT Commenter]

All right, see you. Good luck.

[Big T]

Bye.

[PFT Commenter]

You guys harmonized that goodbye. That was a wild goodbye. You guys. That. That was a harmony in a. A perfect major third. I think that was a third. That was so funny. What the.

[Hank]

Well, I guess it wasn't a heart. They did the same noise.

[PFT Commenter]

No, it was. It. It was. I think it was different pitches of the same word. One was like bye, and the other was like by and so together. You get. It might have been in a fifth. I don't know. I'll have to listen back to that. You guys playing that?

[Big T]

No, we spent too much.

[Hank]

They just did it again.

[PFT Commenter]

Holy. The. The Falcons new gm Looks like Jersey, Jerry. Look at that.

[Hank]

Now that you say it.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, Our assistant gm.

[Hank]

I do see that.

[PFT Commenter]

Jeff Scott. It's Jersey, Jerry.

[Hank]

Have you seen the leaks of the new uniforms? No, just search Falcons jersey. It's. I guess. I don't know what I was expecting. It's fine. Very plain. I like the number font a lot, but the jersey is very rudimentary.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. I guess I'm excited about the Commanders new jersey coming out on April 15th.

[Hank]

Is it just one or a whole new set?

[PFT Commenter]

I don't know. I think it might be a whole new set. You remember the white ones that we had last year that looked like the throwbacks? Yeah, I think that's going to be. That's what it should be, our main white jersey. And then the burgundy, I think, will be kind of along those same lines where it looks like the old Redskins jerseys. And I think the helmet. I think we're gonna do the yellow face mask. Might get the spear on there.

[Hank]

That would be sick.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. So I think I trust this. This ownership group when it comes to that type.

[Hank]

I love helmets that don't have the team's logo on them. They have something else. Yeah, like Vikings, Eagles, Florida State, things like that.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. The new Falcons jersey. I'm seeing lots of leaks of it. I'll be honest. It looks a lot like the old Falcons jersey.

[Hank]

Right? It's fine.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

It's unoffensive.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, those are good uniforms.

[Hank]

The number font is cool. It looks like it has like a. Like a. Like a wing element to it. Yeah, yeah, whatever. They'll go fucking seven and nine again. Who Cares.

[PFT Commenter]

When was the last time that there's been a uniform redesign that has been like a drastic change. That has been really good.

[Hank]

Seahawks.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. But then again, the old Seahawks, that's. That's a good looking uniform too.

[Hank]

I think these are much better. But trying to think other sports, The opposite of that is baseball. All the city connects. I just, I. Have you seen the new ones for this year? They're all coming out about now.

[PFT Commenter]

I have, yeah.

[Hank]

The Braves just came out with theirs yesterday. It's. I like what they were going for. It's supposed to be a Nod to like TBS and the 80s, so that's cool. I don't love the uniform, but some of the other ones are. They're just. They're too out there. We gotta go back to, you know, we're white and gray, but whatever. It's to sell the. More jerseys to the kids.

[PFT Commenter]

That's exactly what it's about. There's one other little piece of news that we should get to before we talk about Operation Northwoods. Have you seen what TMZ is up to?

[Hank]

In what regard?

[PFT Commenter]

In Washington D.C. no.

[Big T]

They are on Congress's ass.

[PFT Commenter]

So TMZ is launching, like a Washington D.C. bureau.

[Hank]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

To try to catch lawmakers, politicians doing weird shit.

[Hank]

What do you think about that?

[PFT Commenter]

I think it's probably good. I think it's pro. Like, I don't. I don't much care for tmz, but I think that politicians have been able to kind of like get away with being scumbags for way too long.

[Hank]

In what sense?

[PFT Commenter]

In the sense of. I think. I think we'd be surprised to know that a lot of congresspeople are friendly. They hang out with each other outside of the office. Like if you're combative on TV shows or if you're combative on the House floor and the media.

[Hank]

So you want TMZ there to catch Cory Booker and Ted Cruz at dinner?

[PFT Commenter]

I want to see what's going on. I want to. Yes. Yeah. I want to see exactly how much of this is theater. How much is just them pretending to hate each other to get more donations and to make all of Americans like all of us hate each other.

[Hank]

Okay. So that's why I asked, because I was going to say it seems like most things that are newsworthy that government officials do is reported, so. But you're saying you want the opposite. You want to catch them doing being friends.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, I want to. I want to see that. And I also. I disagree with what you first said. I don't think that most of what they do is caught.

[Hank]

You don't think so?

[PFT Commenter]

No, I think that. I think that the culture in D.C. and the. The different, like, institutions like the Hill or Politico, I think there's a ton of stuff. Almost everything is, like, off the record. I think a lot of those. If you want to be, like, a reporter in D.C. you have to learn what off the record means, and you have to, like, keep resources confidential. And if you want access, you have to promise them that you're going to, like, flame all the people that they don't like.

[Hank]

Well, there's a difference between someone telling you something off the record and, like, you not reporting a major scandal or something.

[PFT Commenter]

I think there's a ton of quid pro quo journalism in D.C. that could be the case. A ton of it. I think almost. Almost all the. The access journalism is done with the understanding that they're not sharing something or they're helping the subject of who they're writing about, of what they're writing about.

[Hank]

Yeah, I don't disagree with that.

[PFT Commenter]

And so.

[Hank]

But I don't think there's a ton of major scandals that are going unreported either.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, I do. I do.

[Hank]

I. I think, like, big time stuff.

[PFT Commenter]

I think that there's, like, personal stuff. Yeah, I think there's a lot of scumbags, ton of scumbags that right now are not just. You know what? It's not just about the politicians. The people that should be really, really scared about TMZ is like the, the staffers, like the junior level staffers that work for senators and Congress. People don't get paid a whole lot. They're all super ambitious. They all have enjoyed kind of working behind the scenes outside the spotlight for a very long time. They all tend to get along with each other pretty well. There's a lot of stuff that happens there. It's kind of like. Like frats. It's like a bunch of fraternities and sororities for people that went to Georgetown or like, Ivy League schools and now are. Are advancing to the. The top of the political fields before they run for office.

[Hank]

I hate to interrupt you, but you got to check your phone. We have. We have a video from John Smoltz.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Hank]

And I'm gonna play. I haven't watched.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Hank]

Big T. John Smoltz. Big S. Way to go, Big T. Oh, yeah. Let's go, Big ass. That rocks.

[PFT Commenter]

I like that. What's up, big Ass?

[Hank]

That's big time.

[Big T]

That's awesome.

[Hank]

Need him to win the tournament.

[PFT Commenter]

He might.

[Big T]

Poor Aryan.

[PFT Commenter]

He might. I'm rooting for him. That. That would. You would be his lucky charm at that point.

[Hank]

Yeah. That rocks. Childhood hero mind.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

We're stacking some. Some big time believers recently.

[PFT Commenter]

Who do we got? We got Josh Pate.

[Hank]

Pate? Yeah. West Wilson, the guy who's in all that drama. He likes all the videos Brandon and I do on Instagram, so I consider him a bell believer. We talked about the cop the other day. Some of the Chicago police force.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just.

[Hank]

Just some big time additions.

[PFT Commenter]

Max Delinte. Not a big T. Believer.

[Hank]

Not a believer.

[PFT Commenter]

Want to tell that story?

[Big T]

Wow.

[Hank]

Crazy. I was coming out of. I went to get some coffee Sunday morning before going to the Tennessee Michigan game, and Max was walking on the other side of the street with his dog, and I kind of gave him like a, you know, hey, what's up? And he looked right at me. I mean, looked me in the eye, and I. So I was like, oh, he didn't see me till just now. I gave him another one. Hey, what's up, Max? And he just kept looking at me and then turned around and kept walking. Never acknowledged me at all. And I was like, oh, maybe that wasn't Max. That was. I waved at the wrong guy. And then I came in yesterday and I was like, hey, were you walking your dog on Sunday? And he was like, in. In Fulton Market? And he was like, yeah, I was. And I was like, you looked right at me and I waved at you five times and you never said anything. So I guess Max is not a believer.

[PFT Commenter]

That's sad. Yeah, he ignores.

[Big T]

Maybe he thought you were a fan.

[Hank]

Maybe. In which case, don't say hey to Max if you see him.

[PFT Commenter]

That's really sad. It's really sad that Max has gotten too big for his British now that he's on the needle. Interesting.

[Hank]

Yeah. Sad stuff.

[Big T]

But you got John Smoltz, so.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

I mean, good replacement.

[Hank]

Yeah. Only guy ever with, say, have 300 wins and 150 saves.

[PFT Commenter]

He's got 300 wins.

[Hank]

Might be 200 because.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. In order to get those saves, he had to.

[Hank]

213 wins.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Hank]

And I believe he has 150 saves as well.

[Aran Foster]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

One of the best starting pitchers of the 90s. One of the best closers of all time.

[Hank]

Yeah. 154 saves, 213 wins.

[PFT Commenter]

Good friend.

[Hank]

69 career war. Nice.

[PFT Commenter]

Very nice. All right, let's talk a little Operation Northwoods, if you don't mind. You don't mind, do you, Big T?

[Hank]

Even if I did. Would it matter?

[PFT Commenter]

Nope. It's brought to you by Shady Rays. I got a quick question. How are my Shady Rays that I have right here? Basically the same quality as the two hundred dollar sunglasses that I used to buy that I used to buy and I used to lose.

[Hank]

And you look sick as well.

[PFT Commenter]

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[Hank]

Yeah, because it was a real conspiracy.

[PFT Commenter]

This is real. Yeah. As Alex Jones said, they've admitted this.

[Hank]

It's in the documents.

[PFT Commenter]

You got the documents right here. They've declassified all the documents. They tried. They tried to kill Castro and bomb his fields. They sent Bab. We tried to do Operation Mongoose.

[Hank]

You. You go. You had a stretch there that was really good. But then you go too Southern with it.

[PFT Commenter]

It.

[Hank]

Well, he's from Texas, but he doesn't. He doesn't talk.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm from. Listen to me, you son of a.

[Hank]

See, that was. That's pretty good.

[PFT Commenter]

I'll kick your ass. Mincy does a better job just talking in his normal. It's almost like Alex Jones voice. I would classify as like Patrick Mahomes after he got stung by a bee. Get the. Over here, you stupid bee. We gotta get rid of these bees. So Operation Northwoods, this is a real thing that our government put together back in the 60s, and it has its roots in a couple things that we tried to do right before that. So it was the height of the Cold War, and communism was spreading around the world. And the. The number one goal of the United States military was to stop communism from spreading. The domino theory said that if one country fell to communism, then there would be one that fell right next to it. And then sooner or later, it would be at her doorstep and the United States would turn into a communist dictatorship and millions and millions and millions of people die. And so it was like the doctrine of the United States to do whatever we could to try to defeat or depose any communist country, including some ones in our own hemisphere in Central America. We engineered a bunch of coups in Cuba. We installed leaders that we liked and we thought would play ball with us. And then there was a revolution in Cuba and Fidel Castro took over and he seized a lot of the land. The government took a lot of the land, a lot of the factories, and there's a big influx of Cubans that left Cuba at that time and fled to the United States. And it was mostly the wealthier people in Cuba that left because the government was confiscating their property and their land, and they were killing a bunch of people, too. So we had in our US Doctrine, the theory that we needed to get Fidel Castro and the Cuban Communist government out of power as soon as possible. Because the closer it was to us, the worse it was for America. Not only for the possibility that America would fall to communism. But also they were kind of, like, looked at as being a satellite government of the Soviet Union, which at least

[Hank]

makes a modicum of sense. It does. Like, if the USSR got a foothold 50 miles from Miami, we would use it.

[PFT Commenter]

They would use it. Right, right. Just like the US had satellite countries in Europe where we would station some of our weapons and our missiles. And it was like a big still do. It was. Yeah, it was a cold war. So we were, like, combating the spread of the. Of communism through the Soviet Union, through Europe, by having, like, our. Our people and our governments that we were friendly with fighting the spread of communism. And then Soviet Union wanted Cuba as a foothold in our hemisphere. Right. Next. 90 miles. 90 miles from Florida is where Cuba is. Kind of crazy that it's that close. So we tried a few things to try to get rid of the Castro regime. We had this thing called Operation Zapata. I think that means Shoe, doesn't it?

[Hank]

I believe so.

[PFT Commenter]

Operation Shoe.

[Hank]

I think that's where Zappos.com comes from.

[PFT Commenter]

Good point. We had this unit, kind of a paramilitary unit called Brigade 2506. And they were trained in Guatemala. After we installed our own PUP Puppet government in Guatemala, we trained Brigade 2506 in their jungles. They were a unit that was comprised of a lot of Cuban nationals that had fled when Castro took over. We were training them for an upcoming invasion of Cuba. There was the Bay of pigs in 1961, I believe. And in 1961, that's when we sent a bunch of. It was our military, but it was. It was primarily former Cuban nationals that had been trained by us to take over Cuba from the government. And I think there were 1500 people that tried to storm the beaches in Cuba, and all of them were either killed or captured. It was a big, big embarrassment for. For the government and for the Kennedy administration as well. And it changed the way that John F. Kennedy kind of looked at his own staff and his own cabinet at that point, because he realized that they don't necessarily have. They're not. They don't always have the best head on their shoulders, that the generals will have their own agendas, and he needs to do a better job of pushing back on some of the things that they try to convince him to do. So we had a bunch of plans that were put in place called Operation Mongoose. And Operation Mongoose, it. It sounds like it was a. A no bad ideas meeting. So one of the things in Operation Mongoose Entailed painting some planes that we had to look like there were Soviet planes and then bombing some of the crops in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. And they would think that it was the Soviet Union that was bombing them, but it would really be us.

[Hank]

How recently did it become to where you can't get away with dumb shit? I think it's pretty recently. I mean, DNA came about in the, what, 90s?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I've thought about that before. Like, how easy would it be to get away with like, robbing a bank in the 1950s?

[Hank]

I think as long as you were gone, by the time the cops showed

[PFT Commenter]

up, there's nothing you could do. The cops could, like, get a description that, like, it matched your description. They could show up to your house and be like, nah, it wasn't me. I've been home all day. And then they'd be like, well, we. This one person said it looked like you. Okay, all right, now try that in court. Like, shoot. He won't admit to it.

[Hank]

Yeah. I mean, what, like before there were cameras everywhere or DNA or anything.

[PFT Commenter]

What did they do, our phones that like, track your. Right every. Like, I think right now it's. It's pretty much impossible to get away with crimes. If you have somebody that is, like, dedicated to try to find out who broke the law, they can track you down. It's mostly about just like investigators, I think, giving up.

[Hank]

I think the only way you could get away with something is if you did it to someone completely random for no reason at all, and you were good at it. But if you have any sort of motive or connection, like, they'll find you instantly.

[Aran Foster]

Yeah.

[Hank]

But for the most part, I think in Chicago, where like 90% of murders are never resolved, but I think it's

[PFT Commenter]

like the 2000s, I think the year 2000 is when it became much, much harder to get away with stuff. That was like the tipping point where most places had had cameras.

[Hank]

But in the 60s, even the top US government officials were like, we could just paint the planes.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

And bomb ourselves.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. We could do all. All sorts of crazy stuff and that would work. Yeah. So Operation Northwoods was not. It was not officially called Operation Northwoods at the time. They didn't refer to as Operation Northwoods. Northwoods was a code word that the joint chiefs used on the Mongoose documents. So the operation Mongoose, that. That was like an all encompassing plan on how to overthrow Fidel Castro and how to take over the island of Cuba for the United States. And because we. We tried doing a lot of other stuff. But by the time like 1962 rolled around, we figured that the only way that we would be able to accomplish our goals was a complete overthrow of the Castro regime, either through killing or, or capturing them. So JFK was present at the time and he initially rejected the Operation Northwoods proposal. It was like kind of beyond the pale what they, what they requested or some of the ideas. And when I say it was a no bad ideas meeting, I think it was like the very epitome of a no bad ideas meeting. Let's throw out any. If you want to get rid of Castro, throw out anything that you want to do, and we'll say no if it's illegal. But you just tell us. And they came up with a lot of illegal. So as I mentioned, they had Cuban MIGs and they thought about painting them or. Sorry, they, they had, I think they were F86s, were American planes. And they said, let's paint these to look like Cuban migs. And not only will we bomb the fields of like, nearby islands and other countries and destroy some of their, their crops, we'll also send these fake Cuban migs up into the sky and have them harass American planes. So that way we get American pilots, like civil American pilots flying, you know, just like transportation routes, commercial routes, to see that there's these Russian planes or Soviet planes up in the air. And that way we'll have like a, a paper trail of how much Cuba's been acting up in the skies. They said, let's, let's fly these planes up in the air. Let's, let's have them buzz the tower on some commercial aircraft that are flying by. We'll have them create documents reporting what they saw. Let's do all sorts of, like, terroristic activities. They thought about developing a communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area and in Washington D.C. so they thought about like, like actually detonating artillery shells on the streets of Miami, on the streets of D.C. and having the shells match up with Soviet weapons so they could be traced back to Cuba. These are all things that the United States government suggested that we do to ourselves.

[Hank]

To be clear. It would have worked.

[PFT Commenter]

Yes. Yeah.

[Hank]

So, I mean, terrible things to do.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Again, no bad ideas, but you know,

[Hank]

to accomplish their goals. It would have worked.

[PFT Commenter]

It definitely would have worked. They even thought about sinking an entire boat filled with Cuban refugees traveling from Cuba to the United States. Like the people that were trying to help, the ones that are fleeing the Cuban government. We thought about sinking an entire boat with dozens of them. And then blaming that on the Cuban government because we would do it with a ship that was flying like we were false flying a, a Cuban flag. We thought about having groups of rebels around Guantanamo Bay firing artillery shells into the, into the military complex and having the shells explode. And we would look at those and be like, oh, these are Soviet shells. It was obviously the Cuban government is attacking our base at Guantanamo Bay, but it would actually be our own, like, special forces that would be doing it. So do you remember the, the phrase remember, Remember the main?

[Hank]

Maybe, but not a ton.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, so it was a, it was a ship that sunk in Cuban waters, I think, in Spanish American war back in like the late, probably early 1900s. And so the rallying cry was remember the main? And that was our way of saying, like, don't let all those sailors have died in vain. Let's, let's bomb the. Out of them or let's, let's attack back. It was like a rallying cry. So we tried, we thought about doing another one of those, remember the main style things by blowing up one of our own ships in Guantanamo Bay and then blaming Cuba about it. And we even had some ideas. This is kind of crazy to me. The, the fake hijackings that got thrown out there, they had a plot where they were going to have like a bunch of college students planning a spring break tour. And the, the flight might have been taking off from a Caribbean island or maybe from like South Florida. And we would have a bunch of college age students on, would go up in the air, it would land, and then after it landed, we would have like a duplicate plane that had the same tail number, was painted the exact same way that would then take off and fly somewhere else. And then we would give a report that this plane has been lost. And then we'd have submarines that were in like the Gulf of Mexico or on the Caribbean Sea that had a bunch of airplane debris that they would jettison. So they would all float to the surface. So then another airplane of like somebody who is not involved in the plot would be looking for this lost plane, would find this debris field and then call that in. And then we would examine the debris field and then find out, oh yeah, that's the same plane. It was hijacked by these forces from the Soviet Union or from Cuba.

[Hank]

That actually seems like the best one in terms of not killing people, right?

[PFT Commenter]

Well, not killing people initially, but then that would, that would then be used as a pretext to correct.

[Hank]

But I'm saying better than blowing up the streets of Miami.

[PFT Commenter]

Right. Better than, than like detonating a bomb in downtown Miami being like the Soviets got us.

[Hank]

Right.

[PFT Commenter]

I agree with that. So yeah, it was, it was going to be. The Cubans would have either hijacked this airline or they would have shot down this airline that was flying to Jamaica. Either way, it would just, it would be like a group of college students and they had this idea of, of landing the plane and then taking off with a hoax plane. So that way the, the college students would maybe never know that their plane was the one that we said get hijacked.

[Hank]

I like that one.

[PFT Commenter]

And back then you could have gotten away with, with a lot of stuff.

[Hank]

Oh, I mean that would have been hook, line and sinker.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. It wasn't like we had all the open source intelligence that we had that we have right now, but that's, I mean that's some pretty crazy shit that they planned on doing. And JFK was like, no, I'm not doing any of this stuff. You guys are all insane. But the bottom line was the Joint Chiefs, the highest levels of our military and our government thought that the best way of getting the American people behind something was to stage a false flag operation in which Americans were attacked. And then the will of the people would be on their side to do whatever the they wanted to get to get Castro out.

[Hank]

And this is what gives me pause when like, you know, you hear a 911 truth or whatever and I'm like, obviously the US government did not have anything to do with 9 11. It was a horrific tragedy. But I mean, they've done shit before, so it's hard to say, well, they'd never do that.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, it is, it's, it, it's one of those things that you look at and you think to yourself, well, I guess they're capable of pretty much anything if this was the stuff that they were putting out. Right. If this was. And again, it might have been their no bad ideas meeting, in which case they're like encouraged brainstorm. And they went way too far.

[Hank]

There were enough of them that it seems like it was pretty thought out.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. So they tried to get JFK to sign off on it. JFK did not sign off on it. And in fact, JFK said, you guys are fucking insane. Then during the Cuban Missile Crisis, they tried to get him to do a lot of crazy stuff and he was like, no, I'm going to talk to my counterparts and in Russia and try to work this out. Then all the generals like were completely turned against him and then his head got Blown off shortly after the fact. And they all. They did try to get the Mafia. So this is part of Operation Mongoose. They tried to get the United States Mafia to take out Castro. We tried to kill Castro so many

[Hank]

times now, that could have been sick.

[PFT Commenter]

That would be a great movie, right? Yeah, they probably have made a movie about it before. But when Castro took over, kicked all the American businesses out. Along with that, they closed down a lot of the casinos that the Mafia had a big hand in down there. So they. They shut down the line of business. So the mob was not happy with Castro. So the CIA was like, hey, do you guys want to get back at him? And they're like, yeah, sign me up. They were never officially able to get back at. At Castro. And we. We even had like a woman that we sent over there. I think she was like a. A friend of Fidel Castro's. And she said that she would poison him. And so we gave her the poison and then he seduced her too. Good. And she couldn't do it.

[Hank]

I mean, say what you want about Castro.

[PFT Commenter]

Head game.

[Hank]

That's kind of.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Game. And he also invented the Euro step.

[Hank]

True.

[PFT Commenter]

Have you seen him Hoop?

[Hank]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we talked about that one time.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Pretty good basketball player.

[Hank]

What was the. He. He has a devastating move that.

[PFT Commenter]

What, the official quote?

[Hank]

Yeah, yeah. Now I gotta find it.

[PFT Commenter]

We also thought about spraying LSD over the port of Havana. That was another idea that we had, I guess, just to make the entire nation trip at the same time.

[Hank]

Well, Russia might be doing that to us now.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, really?

[Hank]

Well, Havana syndrome.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, Havana.

[Aran Foster]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't know if that's tripping.

[Hank]

In his frequent basketball matches, Fidel has started using a new move. He simply calls the Step. The Step. It is undeniably effective, yet its goodness equally undeniable. As revolutionaries, we must not merely pay attention to ends, but to means. I worry that this flash and pomp is not befitting of the revolutionary leader. That's what it was. Che Guevara was like, he does this thing, but it's actually anti communist, therefore he can't do it anymore.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, the. The Euro step is not like it's not meant for the revolution.

[Hank]

It serves to separate him too much from those caught in the chains of a maudlin life marred by oppression and economic strife. Yes, it leads to a basket, but at what cost to the communal spirit?

[PFT Commenter]

That can't be a real quote.

[Hank]

That's.

[PFT Commenter]

That can't be real.

[Hank]

Che Guevara's journal.

[PFT Commenter]

Are you serious?

[Hank]

December 12, 1962 it's the, it's too bougie. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Like the step is too bougie. Yeah, I like that. He, he, he just wanted like hand down, man down. Like what's, what's wrong with the bounce pass? Two handed layup counts the same.

[Hank]

That rocks.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

Now ironically called the Euro step, that is. But it wasn't communist enough.

[PFT Commenter]

We also thought about booby trapping a seashell to take out Fidel. So I don't know, I don't know what, like if this was a real plan that we had. But we knew that, that Castro liked to go diving, he liked to go skin diving. And we thought about putting like a really good looking shell in a location that we knew that he liked to dive, that he would be attracted to and then we would have it explode after he took it up to the surface. I think you got to know like exactly the right location that he likes to go in, exactly his taste in

[Hank]

shell and exactly the right shell.

[PFT Commenter]

Exactly. Yeah.

[Hank]

If you make it too obvious, then he, then he'll. An experienced diver would pick up on that.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, he wouldn't touch it.

[Hank]

But if it's not good enough, he won't go to it. It has to be the perfect middle ground.

[PFT Commenter]

It sounds like you'd spend a lot of money on this one shell and what the thing about the ocean is, it moves and there's tides. So if the weather's like windy one day that, that explosive shell might just get blown out to sea somewhere and it might end up 90 miles an hour or 90 miles away in Florida on your own beach. We thought about doing a lot of stuff. A lot of stuff. And we were unable to take Castro out, which I think probably also drove the generals insane, which made them get into these weird places where they're like, let's just, let's just bomb our own cities.

[Hank]

Yeah, all of them.

[PFT Commenter]

He did. Yeah, he really did. So RFK Jr has talked repeatedly about Operation Northwoods because he's, he's very familiar to his family. He has been discussing it openly. He's been talking about in speeches, he's mentioned it in his books. He puts the blame on the highest officials in the US military and saying how badly the American military leadership had lost its moral bearings at that point. And the most important, important part in Operation Northwoods, he claims, is his father's role and how RFK Jr says that his father, RFK, was the one that counseled JFK to turn everything down. So his dad is the hero in all this, which is Kind of crazy also. You ever think about this? There's a. There's a place where a lot of rich people like to go and get naked in the summertime and burn a giant owl. We've talked about on the show before, Bohemian Grove. There's a golf club that's adjacent to Bohemian Grove. You know what it's called? Northwood Golf Club. Isn't that interesting?

[Hank]

And where is that?

[PFT Commenter]

California.

[Hank]

Okay.

[Aran Foster]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, California. So I guess the bottom line is we planned. We threw out a bunch of ideas that got shot down by jfk. But the fact that we had the actual heads of our military planning on doing this stuff or saying that they want to do it is really something that makes you think that they could suggest anything.

[Hank]

And I'm sure they have.

[PFT Commenter]

And I'm sure they have. I'm sure there's been some stuff that's happened. I'm with you, though, Big T. I feel like if. If you were to look at 9 11, like, how everybody, like, ties a draw a straight line between this and 9 11, there'd be way too many people that would have to know about it. Yeah, way too many people.

[Hank]

The IDs of the terrorists gives me like, 1% pause.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. But other than that, I think it's really. I was reading about that last week, and I read some stuff that I did not know before, and I think it was really just like one ID was found intact and the others were like. It was like a different description than like, just happened to have found them laying on top of the rubble. It's not that clean cut.

[Hank]

Right.

[PFT Commenter]

Also, when we were. Me and Hank were down in Florida, we got a cab ride from the airport to the Airbnb that we're staying at. And the guy that was driving us, he was in the Pentagon on 911 and his wife was driving across, I think it was, I want to say, taking 295 and the plane went down right in front of her and like, clipped a telephone pole and clipped, like, a barrier. And his wife has, like, a piece of the plane that hit the Pentagon on 9 11.

[Hank]

Wow.

[PFT Commenter]

And he's like, I usually keep it in the car with me, but. And if anybody, like, doubts 911, I just say this is a piece of the plane right here. If they're like, I've never seen a plane. Like, here it is. It's right here, courtesy of my wife.

[Hank]

Wow.

[PFT Commenter]

Yep. All right, well, that was macrodosing. And we will see you guys next week. April Fools. But also April Fools on that. We will see you next week. Love you guys.

[Hank]

Goodbye.