The White House Announces Ballroom Construction | Oct 28, 2025

Summary

Macrodosing: The White House Announces Ballroom Construction

Date: October 28, 2025
Hosts: PFT Commenter, Big T, Maddie, Mac, (Arian Foster out for hair plugs)

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Episode Overview

This lively episode of Macrodosing blends banter and deep-dive, as the crew tackles the controversy over the White House's new ballroom construction. They detour into youth sports culture, reminisce about high school athletics, and answer absurd listener hypotheticals. With discussions ranging from childhood sports prodigies to the etiquette of bodily functions in relationships, the episode delivers classic Macrodosing energy—humorous, reflective, and unafraid to call out the weirdness in news or daily life. As always, the hosts ground everything in personal stories.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Weekend Recap, Sports Talk & Life Updates

• (04:49–06:16) The crew shares how their weekends went, with PFT recovering from food poisoning (“…on the toilet and I had a trash bag and it was coming out both ends… It wasn’t a good look for your boy, man.” [05:38])

• (07:03–08:35) Youth football coaching updates: Arian is out, but his little league team is back on track. Host mentions a prodigy named Cash:

  “I promise you he’s going to be a pro in whatever he wants to do.” [07:49]

• (11:56–13:03) Discussion on the excitement of watching future sports stars and how youth sports culture has shifted, with more factory-like “athlete curation.”

  “Now it’s about who has access to private coaches earlier...then it’s less about who’s good and more about opportunities.” [13:03]

• (14:00–16:06) Critique of club sports toxicity and overbearing parents. The crew stresses letting kids “be kids,” both in play and with coaching experiences.

2. White House Ballroom Construction Controversy

• (18:54–24:14)
  • Introducing the story:

    "President Trump is replacing part of the east wing of the White House with a privately funded, I think it’s $300 million ballroom...It’s got people up in arms." — Big T [19:03]

  • Social media reactions are highlighted, including a tweet comparing the construction to 9/11 Pentagon damage.
  • Inside scoop: The White House uses tents for big events since there’s no real ballroom.
  • Nuanced takes on the funding source:
    • PFT is for modernizing government infrastructure but objects to private funding:

      “I don’t think you should have private companies funding government buildings...” [21:30]

    • Big T prefers private over taxpayer money; Maddie thinks the project is “stupid” regardless.
    • Mac muses about bad optics amid social program cuts: “Bad timing.” [21:19]
  • Potential for Trumpian gaudiness:

    “Odds are he gonna have golden toilets and shit.” — PFT Commenter [23:45]

3. British Prison Release Blunder

• (25:01–28:46)
  • A convicted rapist, Hadoosh Kabatu, is accidentally released from a UK prison, wanders the town in a gray sweatsuit and avocado handbag, even tries to return to jail multiple times but is turned away.
  • The authorities later recapture him (“…they got him.” [28:22]).
  • The group expresses disbelief at the bureaucratic incompetence, jokes about “where did he get the avocado handbag?”

4. Existential Dread, Social Events & Staying Motivated

• (30:29–33:59)
  • PFT is throwing a Halloween murder mystery party (“...my whole living room is decorated in Halloween shit. It's fire.” [31:22])
  • The crew discusses the need for “something to look forward to” to fight off existential dread, especially in the winter.
  • Maddie’s Thanksgiving plans, upcoming trips (San Diego, Hilton Head, UT game), and weather woes round out this section.

5. Japan Golf Fantasy & Dog Shopping

• (41:17–42:51, 66:48–70:33)
  • PFT dreams aloud about a bucket-list 40th birthday golf trip to Japan, describing Japanese golfing rituals:

    “You’ll play nine and then you go have a meal, get a massage, get in a hot tub...then you go play the other nine. That shit is amazing.” [41:48]

  • In a running joke, the crew tries to find PFT the perfect lazy dog, eventually rejecting almost every breed for being “ugly or too energetic” (“All the lazy dogs are ugly like a chihuahua.” [69:33]).

6. Old-School College Football Schedules & Practice Limits

• (45:00–47:19)
  • Discussion about how NCAA practice hour limits are often ignored:

    “Easily 35 plus, maybe even 40 plus, depending... 20 is laughable.” — PFT [46:59]

  • Reminiscing about the nostalgic sensory experiences (like the specific “football sweat” smell) of playing sports in youth.

7. Navigating Intimacy—When Can You Fart Around Your Partner?

• (51:20–58:28)
  • Light-hearted debate about the timeline for being comfortable enough to pass gas, pee with the door open, or take a long bathroom break in a relationship.

    “I usually have a conversation before... Like, if I really like somebody, I'll be like, hey, look... this is about to happen. I'm gonna let it rat.” — PFT [52:52]

  • The women point out the “emotional litmus test” aspect.

8. Listener Questions/Calls

• (72:18–75:17):

  • Minor Inconveniences for Your Worst Enemy:
    • PFT is unapologetic:

      “If that happened to my worst enemy... I have lost all empathy...” [73:15]

    • Big T opts for “as many interactions with the government as possible” and restaurant mix-ups as his wishes.

• (75:54–84:21):

  • Skipping a Wedding for a World Series Game 7?
    • All agree it’s acceptable to skip a distant friend’s wedding for a once-in-a-lifetime sports event, provided you communicate clearly and respectfully.

      “If the groom is a huge sports fan, I think he would understand.” [76:59]

    • The only exceptions: immediate family, especially a daughter’s wedding for PFT:

      “My daughters, bro, melt me. I can’t say no.” [81:01]

9. College Football Coaching Carousel: LSU & Brian Kelly

• (59:33–61:44):
  • Kelly’s firing prompts a debate on huge coaching buyouts and why some top programs practically “run themselves.”

    “Three of their last four coaches won national championships, and two of them can’t coach their way out of a wet paper bag...” — Big T [60:46]

  • The consensus: LSU is a “dream job”; Kelly was “never a good fit.”

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Big T on Private White House Funding:
  “I mean, better than us paying for it.” [21:40]

• PFT’s take on modernization:
  “I’m always for updating infrastructure...modernize this shit.” [20:29]

• On youth sports & access:
  “Now it’s about who has access to private coaches earlier...” — Arian (as recalled by the hosts) [13:03]

• PFT on why he wouldn’t skip his daughter’s wedding:
  “My daughters, bro, melt me. I can’t say no.” [81:01]

• PFT on minor vengeance:
  “There are about two or three people in my life that if bad shit happened to them, I don’t give a fuck.” [73:15]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [04:49] – Food poisoning and weekend updates
• [07:49] – Youth sports prodigies & coaching anecdotes
• [13:03] – How youth sports culture has changed
• [18:54] – White House Ballroom Construction debate begins
• [25:01] – British prisoner mistaken release story
• [30:29] – Murder mystery party plans
• [41:17] – Japan golf dreams
• [45:00] – “20 hour rule” in NCAA football debunked
• [51:20] – Relationship comfort levels and bodily functions
• [72:18] – Listener: “Minor inconvenience for your worst enemy?”
• [75:54] – Listener: “Skipping a wedding for sports Game 7?”
• [59:33] – Brian Kelly fired, LSU as premier college job

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Tone & Style

The hosts blend irreverence with thoughtfulness, never shying from hot takes or poking fun at themselves and society. The tone is consistently conversational, self-aware, and filled with the kind of tangents Macrodosing fans expect and love.

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Final Message

• [87:01] PFT wraps with:

  “Love and kiss on your loved ones. Life is short. Laugh. Enjoy this motherfucker, man.”

Transcript

[PFT Commenter]

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[Big T]

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[PFT Commenter]

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[PFT Commenter]

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[PFT Commenter]

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[PFT Commenter]

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[Big T]

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[PFT Commenter]

So I think the only time I would not go to the game over anybody's wedding in my whole life would be my. My daughters. If my daughters is getting married. Like that game. That's my baby, man. You know what I mean? Like, that's my little baby girl.

[Big T]

Your son.

[PFT Commenter]

Nothing is more important than that. Huh?

[Big T]

What about your son?

[PFT Commenter]

I have to have a conversation. We have to have a conversation.

[Big T]

Brewers game seven of the World Series and your son's wedding.

[PFT Commenter]

We're gonna have to have a conversation. We have to have a real conversation. We're gonna do a real go. Like, listen, bro.

[Big T]

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[PFT Commenter]

All right, welcome back to Macro Dosing Podcast. I'm pft. We got Big T, Maddie, Mac and Arian's out getting hair plugs doing hobbit things. So just me and you today, Big T. How you living, baby?

[Big T]

Doing all right. How are you? I thought you were supposed to be a Monday Night Football.

[PFT Commenter]

What's Monday Night Football?

[Big T]

Well, you, you said your. Your PFT that you told us last week that you were going to Monday Night Football this week.

[PFT Commenter]

No, man. Decided to stay here. Be here with you, man.

[Big T]

I appreciate that.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, anything for you, man. We're gonna open up the pie with some sad news. I'm sure if you're a fan of Barstow, you probably heard Beef have passed away. He was. Was he on the, the, the golf podcast? The Foreplay Jump? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good dude, man. Good dude. Very sad. Nick Mangold Pass. That was. That was one of one of my peers that also passed. Sad, man. Life be life and for everybody. So hug and kiss your loved ones, man. It's sad. Beef was generally like, you'll hear it all across social media. Was really genuinely one of the sweetest dudes you'll ever meet, dog. Just kind, good hearted people, dog. All my interactions with them were really positive and he was always showing love, man. So rip to him.

[Big T]

And Titus said like working here it's kind of hard to do that like even if like everybody we got here are good people. But like you have dust ups with people. You whatever. Like he was just always the nicest dude.

[PFT Commenter]

Would.

[Big T]

Would help people with their golf swing. Do whatever you wanted. Great, great dude to just be around.

[PFT Commenter]

So yeah.

[Big T]

Sucks.

[PFT Commenter]

Sucks, man. Life. Life doth be life and is what it is, man. So how's everybody else's weekend aside from that? Man, I got food poisoning yesterday.

[Maddie]

No.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. But I was the only one that did, which is kind of weird. I'm not hoping anybody else does, but it's like, why are you like from the same place yeah, we all ate the same. Like. I don't know, man, my body just reacted differently. But maybe it's got a bad. I think it was the cocktails we had. We had this like nice little cocktail Vietnamese dish and we had a whole bunch of friends over and yeah, it might have been an oxy. Maybe I got a bad oxtail. It tasted amazing. You know, there's no wrong taste. It's just. I'm thinking that was. That was the only thing individualized. So I'm thinking maybe it's the oxtails. But. Yeah, I was on the toilet and I had a trash bag and it was coming out both ends and it's just. It wasn't a good look for your boy, man. But you know, we persevered.

[Big T]

Glad you're here.

[Mac]

You made it.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, me too, homie, me too. How about else's weekend though?

[Maddie]

Good, good.

[Big T]

Average. Maybe even a little below average. Football was bad.

[PFT Commenter]

What? Oh, oh, who they play?

[Big T]

No. Ut 1. It was just the. The whole slate of football was just. There was nothing really that interesting aside from Brandon having his heart ripped out of his chest.

[PFT Commenter]

Who's Brandon?

[Big T]

Brandon Walker. He went to Mississippi State's game against Texas. They were up 17 in the fourth quarter and lost in overtime. And the game winning touchdown was scored five feet from his face in the end zone.

[PFT Commenter]

I kind of love that actually. Yeah, it's kind of fun. That's kind of fun.

[Big T]

Yeah. Good content, but. Yeah, just bad slates of football. It was rainy.

[PFT Commenter]

Hey, but in days like this you need to remember those times, those lulls, what is it? March, April, Correct. Whatever.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

When there is nothing. Hey, enjoy the. The Kentucky State versus Connecticut Union, you know, whatever.

[Big T]

Right.

[PFT Commenter]

Whatever you enjoy, you got to enjoy it.

[Big T]

I agree. You gotta enjoy all football is good football. Yeah, that's all I did this weekend.

[PFT Commenter]

How's your high school team doing?

[Big T]

We finished the season seven and two and the playoffs start next week. I forget the name of the school that they are playing. Hold, please.

[PFT Commenter]

Holding.

[Big T]

Downers Grove north is playing Prospect High school on Friday, October 31st at 7pm at home.

[PFT Commenter]

So and so this is the. This is the playoffs.

[Big T]

Yeah. Only nine games here, which I don't like. High school football should be 10 games, but neither here nor there. I. I won't be able to make it to that one. So we need to take care of business there and get to the second round.

[PFT Commenter]

Nice. Yeah, nice. We got back on the.

[Arian]

On a.

[PFT Commenter]

On a winning track this week with my little league team. Yo, we got this little. We got this little dude named Cash, I promise you he gonna be a pro in whatever he wants to do. His best sport is baseball. Like, he misses some games and some practices so he can play in with this elite baseball club. But I promise he's one of the best athletes I've seen. He's. He's just special dog. It's so fun watching him and coaching him. So cool too. I like, I like kids that are so cool. Like, they don't really pay you no mind, but they listen. So like, so I, I'll be coaching him up. I'm like, cash, you gotta. He'll like, look at me. He'll go, go like this. I go like that. But he got it though. It's so dope. I like that. Confidence swag. I love that. But no, we're back on a winning track.

[Big T]

Did you play with anybody as a kid that ended up being a professional athlete? One or like even high school against or whatever? Yeah, but high school, kind of high school. You. You can tell, like, you know, because there are, you know, recruiting rankings and things like, you know, my question was, what's the earliest you've seen somebody that you were like, that kid's a professional athlete. I mean, me, right, but. But that would have to be somebody else, you know.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. I don't know if they knew.

[Big T]

Like, I played by hate.

[PFT Commenter]

That's probably hating. Like, nah, he ain't gonna make it.

[Big T]

I played travel baseball with a kid when we were 12 or 13 and it was. He ended up being a second round draft pick and never actually made the major leagues. But he's, he's the best player I've ever seen. And I was like, that guy. I mean, if that's what a professional baseball player looks like, right?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. So I guess I grew up when I was young. I grew up at Albuquerque and then I went to San Diego. I think when I was younger, I did play against a dude that did play in NFL. His name is Alan Branch. He played for, I believe, the Patriots for a while. Yeah, Allen. I don't know who he got drafted to though. He went to Michigan. Allen Branch. But yeah, when he was younger, he couldn't play with us because he was so big. Like, so he was my age group. But he played up because he was so big. Like, he was massive. So the weight, they didn't let him play in his age group, which probably helped him develop. But him. I played with a few dudes that were probably more talented than me, but just various different things. They couldn't, they couldn't you know, make it. My homeboy TJ Sweet. When we were middle school, he was dunking and we was in high school, you know the, like the top of the square, the backboard. He could touch that, the top of it. Easily. Yes, easily.

[Big T]

That's nuts.

[PFT Commenter]

Easily. He had the most bounce I've ever seen. There was a couple cats, man. Greg Young, Darnell Woolridge. There's a couple cats that should have did something but just life be happening. And then when I went to San Diego, there was a cat that, I mean San Diego was like running back. You, you know, Terrell Davis, Marcus Allen, you know, myself like a bunch of cats. Rashon Salaam. A bunch of cats came out of San Diego. Reggie Bush. I say Reggie Bush. There was a cat that was our age group again. His name was P.T. gates. P.T. gates was absolutely should a thousand percent have been at the very least D1. But easily some kind of pro prospect dog. He was so nice. When you talk about vision cut like a lot of my game could be attributed to, to him, man. Because I used to watch him like dog that he is nice, right? Yeah. PT Gates was probably the one where I was like, he, he, he slipped through the cracks. And I think, you know, sometimes the city get the best of cats, man. But I was always a big fan of PT I hope he's doing well. But when I watch my little man's cash, that's what I see. I see yo, he gonna go pro and some. Cause they said baseball. I haven't seen him play baseball. I told him I'm gonna get a schedule. They said he's better at baseball than he is at football and he's nice at football. He just kind of plays just, just cuz. And they say baseball is his favorite sport.

[Big T]

So there's nothing like the excitement of even if you don't care about the teams. Like going to a high school football or basketball game when there's a four or five star prospect in it and you're like, I can't wait to watch this guy.

[Arian]

Yeah.

[Big T]

UT actually has a basketball commit that's like a mile. His high school's a mile from my apartment. I'm going to go watch him this year. I love, I love just good high school sports.

[PFT Commenter]

There's nothing like it. And I feel like when maybe just me getting older, like when I was younger, the high school prospects were better around my city. I don't know if that was, that was actually the case.

[Big T]

You think better just generally.

[PFT Commenter]

Maybe it was just my eyes, you know. When you're young, everything is, you're, you're easily a little bit more not vulnerable. What's the word I'm looking for? Everything. Look, everything looks a little bit more rosy. Looking through things, through the world through rose colored glasses.

[Big T]

And I mean high school sports are so different now. Like everybody goes to these private, you know, factories.

[PFT Commenter]

Like so this is, that's, that's what's interesting about sports since it's be, it's becoming monetized in a way. And I've alluded to this before but, but sports is becoming like monetized in a way that's, it's always been a vehicle to either get an education or you know, provide for your family. But it's, it's getting to the point now where it's so odd. Like it's almost cure. They're curating athletes, which I guess is the natural progression. So I don't, I'm not mad at it. But it's now it's becoming who has access to private coaches earlier, which to me is, I don't know, it gets kind of, it gets kind of weird. I don't know, it gets kind of weird. Like then it's, then it's less about who's good at the sport and it's more about who's provided opportunities to get coached at a young age. And that, that can get, that can get tricky as well.

[Big T]

And football's really still the one where you can just, you know, start playing it, you know, whatever. You can honestly not start playing football till high school and still be great at it. But whatever age you start playing and then you just play at your public high school and you can be, you know, a star like basketball, baseball, hockey, all these. They have these eight year olds who were on three travel teams and they have a private instructor and it costs $20,000 a year.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big T]

And, and they're like, well, you have to do this or your kid's not going to get noticed, you know, whatever.

[PFT Commenter]

Which is kind of true.

[Arian]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

I mean you have some like that can slip through the cracks and you can, you can make it like it's still possible, but it's becoming harder for like a kid with nothing, that came from nothing to just be on a regular team and, and do well. Like. So there's some dude that always sends me video on Instagram. Don't know him, but he always sends me video and he sent me this, this one of this kid, it's like a 10 year old quarterback and he's going through the Most like, the drills he's doing is just ridiculous, dog. And I'm looking like, go be a kid. What the. This is a job. Like, he's doing all these drills. He's over the day. He's nice. Don't get me wrong. He's nice, but it's just so, like, oh, man, they're gonna be head cases. You still got to be a child. Let your child be a child.

[Big T]

And every coach that you talk to is like, I want guys who play multiple sports. When we recruit, we look for guys who play football, baseball, basketball. And every kid now is playing baseball year round, from the time they're 10 years old, and then they have terrible arm injuries because you're not using your body in different ways playing other sports.

[PFT Commenter]

Good point.

[Big T]

And that just becomes part of the deal.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, good point.

[Big T]

But every. But every coach says, we want guys who play multiple sports.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, no, got it. Yeah. It's just.

[Big T]

It's.

[PFT Commenter]

It's. Club ball is kind of toxic, too. Have you ever been on the sidelines of, like, little kid basketball games or football games?

[Big T]

Probably not since I was a little kid.

[PFT Commenter]

No, bro, I hope maybe you can give me some, you know, some juxtaposition from that. And like, nowadays. Nowadays, it's like, dog, every parent is a genius.

[Big T]

Oh, yeah, About.

[PFT Commenter]

About. Oh, my God, dawg. So I'd be. I. Cause my son played, you know, club basketball and. And basketball for school. He also plays volleyball, track. But, like, I be on the sidelines listening to the parents, and, like, dog, they got the kids so shook, every time the kid do something right or wrong, they look straight to the. And it's yelling, hey, you gotta do this. You gotta, bro. Let your kid play. Let your coach coach. I think it's important for kids to have bad coaches as well as to have good coaches. They have to experience bad coaches. If your kid has a bad coach, you'll know, right? Take him home, teach him the basic fundamentals. But he has. I think they. I think it's good to have him experience a bad coach so he knows what a good coach is like. It's. It's. It's wild, though. People yelling from the stands. What they gotta do is. It's crack. As parents on my team, they'll be yelling at the kids from the stands. They coming off crying. Cause dad yelling. I'm like, bro, y' all gotta chill. Let these kids be kids, man.

[Big T]

I follow a guy on TikTok who's a, like, travel baseball umpire, and he. So he has, like, a GoPro on his mask, I guess, and films all the games.

[PFT Commenter]

Probably gotta travel with security.

[Big T]

Dude, he throws parents, like, out of the games, like, because they're, they're giving him so much shit the whole time.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, it's wild. I couldn't imagine being that invested in my son's or daughters, like, the outcome of a game. Like, I love seeing my son compete. That's fun. That's fun to me. But to sit here and yell at a ref or a coach or my son, like, my son will look to me, like, if he's, if he's struggling, right? If he's struggling with a shot, he'll look to me and I'll just be like, go to the hole. Like, you know what I'm saying? Go to. Like, I'll talk to him like that. But I'm never like, that invested to where, like, he's not enjoying the game. Enjoy the game, dog. Like, it's, that's, that's why, like, when it's like commodified and monetized at this level, it gets very toxic. This is so toxic, though. These kids, these kids. You gotta let these kids swing on a monkey bars, bro. Have practice all day, every day. This is a job today, man. But what you got on your little list today, man?

[Big T]

That sounded patronizing. I do the list for you. I could have the list in front of me if I want. I do it. So you got it.

[PFT Commenter]

How's that patronizing?

[Big T]

No, the little list, is it a big list?

[PFT Commenter]

There's three things on it.

[Big T]

No, yeah, it's. I mean, it's a, it's a, It's a compact list today, but little. Anyway, first thing on there, you. You said you.

[PFT Commenter]

A little less.

[Big T]

You said you haven't been as plugged into the news. Have you seen about the ballroom?

[PFT Commenter]

I have not.

[Big T]

Oh, so you don't know anything about the ballroom?

[PFT Commenter]

I know nothing of a ballroom.

[Big T]

So. President Trump is replacing part of the east wing of the White House with a privately funded, I think it's $300 million ballroom. And there it is. Garnered quite the takes. The tweet I sent you is from this woman, Tara Set Meyer. I'm not exactly sure what she does. She has 174,000 followers. It's a picture of the construction going on. It says. Feels almost the same as when I saw the pentagon damage on 9 11. So, yeah, it's just, it's, it's got people up in arms.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. Ballroom.

[Big T]

Now, what I did not know is apparently when they have like, big state events like with foreign dignitaries or whatever, they set up tents on the White House lawn because they don't really have an area to do that kind of thing.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't know enough about it. So, I mean, it's just construction on the White House. And I'm assuming people on the left are upset because Trump is doing it.

[Big T]

Seems that way, yeah. Also, the East Wing is, like, very old and kind of not particularly useful, from what I understand.

[PFT Commenter]

I mean, I'd have to dig into it in case there's any nefarious stuff, because to pretend like Trump always does things in good faith, I will not grant him that. But if this is the case, I'm always for updating infrastructure. Like, I think when I go to New York, bro, that's some of the oldest cobblestone streets and buildings. Like, bro, modernize this shit. Like, I'm all for updating and having better infrastructure.

[Mac]

I think the coinciding, cutting funding for, like, food stamp stuff with that.

[Big T]

Well, this isn't government money. I would be upset if it was 300 million of taxpayer money, for sure.

[Mac]

I just think that to go along with that, people are taking it both in, like, coinciding.

[PFT Commenter]

It's bad timing.

[Mac]

Yeah, bad timing.

[PFT Commenter]

Privately funded. Who was it funded by?

[Big T]

I think a bunch of companies gave money, probably to curry some level of favor, I think. Yeah, that's.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, that's problematic. I don't think that you should have private companies funding government buildings.

[Big T]

I mean, better than us paying for it.

[PFT Commenter]

No.

[Big T]

You would rather it be taxpayer money.

[PFT Commenter]

That's what we pay for. We pay for taxes to have government buildings, government programs, government.

[Big T]

But those are things that the public uses. This isn't.

[Mac]

I'd rather him focus his energy on maybe the government better.

[PFT Commenter]

But.

[Mac]

Yeah, I. Yeah, I get what you're saying, but, yeah, it's weird.

[Maddie]

I mean, I wouldn't want my taxpayer dollars to go to this either. But I also think it's stupid no matter who pays for it. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

I mean, if, if we are to have. I don't mind it. I don't mind it. I just don't like that it's privately funded. I would rather have it publicly funded, honestly.

[Big T]

That's interesting.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, you take some of the shit that you funnel in everywhere else in the world and put it in. How much is it? $300 million, something like that. Yeah. That's a lot for a little side building, though. That is. I. I got. Hold on this. About to put gold and in it.

[Big T]

I mean. Yeah, you know, you got a good guess what it'll look like he did, though. This has been.

[PFT Commenter]

That. That's when you. That's when you lose me. You have me.

[Big T]

This has been a pet project of his. He. Apparently there's a video of him in. In 20. This says in January of 2016, he offered to pay for it while Obama was in the White House. He said he called David Axelrod and was like, we need a good ballroom so that they're not having these state events in tents and that they never, they never called him back.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, he gonna do the most. He gonna make it egregious. He goes, he goes to like, all these. He goes to, like, the Saudi kingdoms and he goes to like, you know, and he sees how lavish that. And he's like, this is America. America should have a lot. I guarantee that's. Yes, he's, he's superficial like that.

[Big T]

Yeah, yeah, it does seem for it, but, yeah, it'll be a Trump deal.

[Arian]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

See, I don't, I don't mind solid infrastructure with modernized buildings and technology and shit like that, but odds are he gonna have golden toilets and shit. That's, that's, that's, that's egregious. I agree.

[Big T]

Yeah, I'm sure he does loves gold.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, of course he does.

[Mac]

Apartment.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Mac]

Where he used to.

[Big T]

Yeah, his thing in New York was.

[Mac]

Like, totally gold plated.

[PFT Commenter]

Hilarious, man.

[Big T]

I'm not going back to college to be your friend. I'm going so I can get Uber One for students. It saves you on Uber and UberEats. I'm there for zero dollar delivery fee on cheeseburgers, up to 10 off smoothies and 6% Uber credits back on R. Just to be clear, I'm there for savings, not whatever you think college is for.

[Maddie]

Get Uber one for students a membership to save on Uber. And Uber eats. With deals this good, everyone wants to be a student. Join for just 4.99amonth. Savings may vary eligibility and member terms apply.

[PFT Commenter]

What else on your humongous list?

[Big T]

See, that's, that's even worse. Just call it the list. The list is fine. It doesn't, it doesn't need any qualifiers.

[PFT Commenter]

What's on the regular.

[Big T]

All right, second item on the agenda. Yeah, I'm. I'm sure you have not seen this story. So there is a guy in England, Hadoosh Kabatu is his name.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, that's a name for your ad. Okay.

[Big T]

Yeah, he was in prison for rape. And like a week or so ago, they were like, hey, you're leaving today. Best of luck. We'll see You. And he was like, are you, Are you sure about that?

[Maddie]

He.

[Big T]

He told them, like, I think you're mistaken. They're like, nope, you're good to go. See ya. And they turn him loose out of the prison. And then they realize once he's gone, oh, he's not. We fucked up. He's not supposed to be out. So he's walking around town in his prison, just gray tracksuit. And they have him on closed caption television all over the place. They have him, you know, traversing the city and they can't find him. And he's just walking around like. And he told them, let me, let me read you this part of the story. Meanwhile, a lorry driver who was delivering equipment to Chelmsford jail on Friday told Sky News correspondent Tom Parmenter he saw the confused offender outside the facility being directed by prison staff to the town's railway station. Following his release, the witness called Sim said Kabatu came out of the jail saying, quote, where am I going? What am I doing? And hanging around for about 90 minutes as he tried to find where he should be going. Sim said the offender returned to the prison, quote, four or five times, but was turned away. He said Kabatu knew he should be deported, but the prison staff were basically sending him away and saying to him, quote, go, you've been released. So they just, look, they turned him loose and now there's footage of him all over the town. He has an avocado like handbag on him that, that's his identifying marker. And they've got him just walking all around the town and. But they haven't found him.

[PFT Commenter]

This is weird to me, like. And so he even said, like, yo, you probably shouldn't let me lose.

[Big T]

Yes. Multiple times.

[PFT Commenter]

So what, what was their, what was their. I mean, I guess their reasoning in the moment.

[Big T]

I don't know if it was someone else who was supposed to be released. I don't know. I don't know what it was. But he told them, like, hey, this. I'm. I'm not supposed to be going anywhere. And they told him, no, you leave.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, somebody gonna get fired.

[Mac]

A lot of people, I hope. That's crazy.

[Big T]

I'm not. I just, I just googled his name. I'm not seeing any update. I don't believe they found him. The Met police have taken over the search. I think that's like the London Main Police Force.

[PFT Commenter]

It's even more concerning about how he got the avocado handbag.

[Big T]

Right. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Where. Where you get that from?

[Big T]

I Don't know. Also not that, like, he couldn't have found a change of clothes at some point, but your prison garb is just a gray sweatsuit. Doesn't even say anything on it. Thought that's why we put him in orange and stripes. Jesus, I don't know.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, wait, hold on. They get him?

[Big T]

I don't.

[Mac]

I'm seeing they might have gotten.

[Big T]

Oh, Where?

[PFT Commenter]

I think they got him.

[Mac]

He's back in custody after release from prison in error.

[Big T]

Oh, when. When was that?

[Mac]

I'm seeing one day ago. Articles.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, 20, 26. So yesterday they got him. This is the moment they arrested Hadish, Hadoosh Kabatu. Oh, okay, then, yeah, they got him.

[Big T]

I'm not seeing this. Oh, finally found. Okay.

[Mac]

I mean, still insane that he was out for that long.

[Big T]

All right, well, good.

[PFT Commenter]

Glad we grabbed Case Johnson.

[Big T]

Yeah, good deal.

[PFT Commenter]

Slight pivot. Wait, hold.

[Big T]

Is it.

[PFT Commenter]

Was that. Was that on. Was that it on your regular list?

[Big T]

There was one more, but just go.

[PFT Commenter]

No, no, no, no.

[Big T]

Okay. One of the Lou guys got arrested too.

[PFT Commenter]

See, now that's bad news to me.

[Big T]

You were rooting for him.

[PFT Commenter]

I was rooting for that dude, man.

[Big T]

Well, I think there's still some that are out.

[PFT Commenter]

Let him go. Let him go, man. Hey, if y' all need refuge, do they have jurisdiction over here? I don't think they do.

[Arian]

Right.

[Big T]

We definitely have an extradition treaty with France. I think the only ones we don't are, like, North Korea and a couple other bad ones. Russia, man. Snowden's still over there, I would assume.

[PFT Commenter]

I think he's in Russia, ain't he? Yeah. I ever tell you about my tweet that got to him?

[Big T]

Maybe I remember something, but I don't remember what it was.

[PFT Commenter]

So I had. Saw that movie Snowden, and did a little more research on him and stuff and thought that he should not be the enemy of state like he was. And so I just put out a tweet. This was. I think I was in the league or maybe just out of the league. Put out a tweet that says, do you think Snowden was a patriot? Yes or no? It was a poll. I put out a poll, and this shit got hella traction. And then. And he, quote, tweeted it. He's like, see? The people still agree. I was like, that's. That's dope.

[Big T]

Love that. I agree.

[PFT Commenter]

That's pretty dope.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

No whistleblowers. Okay. So what I was gonna say is I'm super hyped. So this weekend, right? I haven't been drinking for a while because I'm saving up for Saturday, you know, I mean. All right, saving up Saturday is. I'm throwing a murder mystery party. I'm hype about this. So I finally. We got a company that's gonna come in. They're gonna set up. They're gonna. They're gonna, like, do the whole spiel. They're gonna go through the. The. The characters and. And all of this stuff. And so we. We set the whole thing up. I gotta cater. I gotta do that. I gotta book that after I'm done with this. We gotta cater. They're gonna have food. We're gonna have specialty cocktails. I got a smoke machine, so when somebody walks in, there's smoke, which is probably a little bit too much.

[Big T]

No, that rock.

[PFT Commenter]

Really. It's really dope. And so my whole living room is decorated in Halloween shit. It's fire, man.

[Big T]

How many people are part of this?

[PFT Commenter]

I think it's going to be 16 total.

[Big T]

Oh, wow.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, 16 people are confirmed total so far. And so I'm hype. I'm like, extremely hype, man. We got a little drink station, and it's all going to be in a cauldron or three different drinks in three different cauldrons.

[Big T]

Love a good cauldron.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I'm hype, man. I think there needs to be more shit like this so that people don't dissolve into existential dread like myself. This helps me. This. This is. This is fun. Looking forward to.

[Big T]

Yeah. You're like me. I need something once every six to eight weeks that I'm looking forward to.

[PFT Commenter]

Yes.

[Big T]

And it doesn't even have. It doesn't even have to be something huge, just like something.

[PFT Commenter]

I agree, dog. Like, because before, this is just. I'm getting really good at golf. And that's fun, right? It's fun. You know, it's really fun. But, like, I need. I need some social events to. To look forward to, man. Like, it's. That keeps me going, it keeps me motivated, it keeps me alive, keeps me happy. And God damn it. Murder mystery.

[Big T]

It is like, this weekend, I'm going to the UT game. So that's had me for the last couple months.

[PFT Commenter]

Who are they playing?

[Big T]

Oklahoma at night? It's gonna be sick. We're in the. You should actually. Are you a Tron guy?

[PFT Commenter]

Like the movie?

[Big T]

Yeah. You don't.

[PFT Commenter]

I like. I like the movie.

[Big T]

Go to. Go to UT's Football Twitter account and watch the. The uniform reveal from this morning. It's incredible. And then after that, you know you got a month till Thanksgiving, then it's Christmas. So I'm good until now. Once January hits, I'm gonna need like a weekend trip somewhere or something because that's. January is about as bad as it gets.

[Mac]

You need things like lined up so then when the next thing ends, you know there's something else. So you're not just like depressed after the ending of the one thing?

[Big T]

Yeah, that first week.

[Mac]

January, February is in Chicago.

[Big T]

It's just not where you want to be.

[Mac]

Very brutal. Very brutal.

[PFT Commenter]

Is this, is this the dark mode activated? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nah, that's. That's hard.

[Big T]

Yeah. And that's.

[PFT Commenter]

That's hard.

[Big T]

And last year's was even better. Last year's it was a venom thing.

[PFT Commenter]

I remember that one. Yeah, yeah, I remember that one. Yeah. No, that's hard. Yeah.

[Big T]

Their whole creative team they got is awesome.

[PFT Commenter]

They do their thing. Yeah.

[Big T]

So yeah, that'll be fun.

[PFT Commenter]

That's impressive.

[Big T]

Wish your party wasn't Saturday. Would love for you to be there.

[PFT Commenter]

I would absolutely. Pull up but you know, let me see what else, what are. What other games are left on it on. I haven't gone to a game.

[Big T]

The only other home games after that are New Mexico State and Vanderbilt, which could actually be the biggest Tennessee Vandy game. I'm going to that one too. So if you want to go, I'll see you there.

[PFT Commenter]

What, what date is that?

[Big T]

The 29th. Oh, would love to see you.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm open.

[Big T]

That'd be. That'd be awesome. Yeah, you should do that. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

What the weather talking about then? Because I do want to get around a golf here but it might be.

[Big T]

It'll be. It'll be chilly, but we'll see.

[PFT Commenter]

We'll put it on a docket and.

[Big T]

That could be, you know, both teams nine and two to get into the playoff.

[Arian]

Right?

[PFT Commenter]

Huh?

[Big T]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

That may be the biggest Vander game ever.

[Big T]

If that were the case. Yeah, it definitely would be.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. And cuz from they, they. They quarterback from New Mexico.

[Big T]

Correct. And one of UT's running backs this year, Star Thomas played with Pavia at New Mexico State. New Mexico State had Diego Pavia, who's in the Heisman running. We'll say. I think he's a distant fourth or fifth, but he's in the. He's a great player. They had Eli Stowers who's also at Vandy. He's a tight end. He's going to be a second third round pick. And they had star Thomas who's an awesome running back at Tennessee all on.

[PFT Commenter]

The same team, New Mexico State.

[Big T]

Yeah, they did beat Auburn that year, so like they were pretty good.

[PFT Commenter]

But I remember that that was. Yeah, when was that? Like last year, two years ago?

[Big T]

Two years ago.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I remember that. Well, we'll see. Man, I might pull up. I might pull up to. The Vandy Gang would love that. Damn. I found somebody else died.

[Big T]

It's a bad day, y'.

[Arian]

All.

[PFT Commenter]

Y' all probably won't know him, but did you ever watch 106 apart Freestyle Friday?

[Big T]

Not. Not very familiar.

[PFT Commenter]

There's a dude who I think it was the first seven time winner. His name was Poster Boy, it looks like. Looks like he passed. Damn. Hey, man, take care of your health, take care of your. Take care of your mental. Take care of your health, take care of your family. Dog. This life thing fragile as. What are y' all looking forward to? Maddie? Mac. What's keeping y' all alive? Keeping y' all from existential dread.

[Mac]

I'm going to San Diego this weekend.

[Maddie]

Oh yeah?

[Mac]

For a friend's birthday. Yeah.

[Big T]

Hope the sun's out.

[Mac]

I know it's not the June gloom.

[Big T]

I was told it's the most beautiful city on earth. It looked like Des Moines, Iowa.

[PFT Commenter]

You had a good time?

[Big T]

No, it was great. It was great, but the weather was. I mean, it wasn't that bad. It was fine, but I didn't see the sun.

[PFT Commenter]

It does. It does have a little overcast to it.

[Maddie]

I'm going to Hilton Head for Thanksgiving so I don't have to go to very super cold Ohio. Maybe I'll golf there.

[PFT Commenter]

Maybe I'll tell the head it's a.

[Maddie]

Island in South Carolina. Big white people vacation.

[Big T]

Yeah, I'm surprised you didn't hear about that during your time.

[Mac]

Huge golf too.

[Maddie]

Yeah, a lot of golf.

[PFT Commenter]

Hilton Head Head, it sounds. I didn't really golf like that in. In college, but it's.

[Big T]

It's definitely like people in Knoxville go to Hilton Head all the time.

[Maddie]

It's a big Ohio destination.

[PFT Commenter]

Not. You keep saying it. It sounds more and more familiar. Okay, so it's. It's in Ohio.

[Maddie]

No, it's in South Carolina. But people. A lot of people from Ohio go, but it's in South Carolina. It's by like Kiawah, if you've heard of that.

[Big T]

No, I just looked it up. It's far from Kiawah.

[Maddie]

Oh, just kidding. I fly in a Savannah. I fly in a Savannah, Georgia. So it's by that.

[Big T]

Because I was actually looking up how close it was to Kiawah because I know Area knows about that.

[Maddie]

Okay. Sorry.

[Big T]

Yeah. Hilton Head's close to Savannah. Kia was closer to Charleston.

[Maddie]

Charleston. But yeah. So I'm going there for Thanksgiving, which will be fun.

[PFT Commenter]

My mom hired a karaoke DJ for Thanksgiving.

[Maddie]

That's fun.

[PFT Commenter]

It's gonna be interesting.

[Maddie]

It's a very nice. It's a good. Again. It's a good breakup. It's kind of the last sun you get before it goes. No sunlight mode in Chicago.

[PFT Commenter]

What's the weather like right now?

[Big T]

It's getting cold.

[Maddie]

It was like maybe. It's. It says it's 56 right now. It's the daylight, Aryan. It's the daylight that gets you.

[PFT Commenter]

I feel that. It's. It's just now spring in Houston. Like, it's gorgeous right now.

[Big T]

Is it next week?

[PFT Commenter]

Clock 83 right now. What'd you say?

[Big T]

Next week is when the clocks go back. Right. So then it's gonna be getting dark at 3:15.

[Maddie]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've been waking up.

[Big T]

Dude.

[Maddie]

Telling you it's not.

[Big T]

It's bad.

[Maddie]

It's not an exaggeration.

[Big T]

Once January hits and it's. It's just. It's dark at 3:30 and you've got nothing to look forward to. Those are the dark days.

[Maddie]

Yeah. But that's why it makes you appreciate Chicago in these months, these basketball players.

[Big T]

That's why I need Tennessee to be good at basketball. Because that's. That's all I got in January and February.

[PFT Commenter]

Let's go on. Let's plan a trip on J. Re, man. Let's pep up your step a little bit. You down?

[Big T]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Where y' all trying to go? All right, let's do a podcast from Mexico.

[Big T]

Okay.

[Maddie]

Okay. I've always wanted to go to Cabo.

[PFT Commenter]

You never been to Cabo?

[Maddie]

I've never been to Mexico.

[PFT Commenter]

Do you have your passport?

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Let's do it.

[Big T]

I mean, well, you know who's not going?

[PFT Commenter]

Fuck him. That guy. I'll pull up. I'm always. I'm always. I'm always looking to try. I'm. I'm looking for somewhere to spend my 40th. My 40th is coming up next year. And so I want to plan it to where I'm doing something crazy. Dope.

[Big T]

August 24th.

[PFT Commenter]

Nice big T. Okay, friend.

[Big T]

Yep. No, I've got it. Don't worry about when my birthday is. It's not important.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't.

[Big T]

I couldn't tell you. No, don't worry about. It's fine.

[PFT Commenter]

I got. I gotta. I got a best friend. I got all my Friends. I don't know where none of their birthdays is.

[Big T]

I actually do have. I've got all mine written down in a notes app so that I remember.

[PFT Commenter]

I should probably do that. Yeah, I have it in my phone. So, like, it pops up day of.

[Big T]

I think one of them is actually tomorrow. Hang on. That's actually a great reminder.

[PFT Commenter]

Was it the guy that gave us Cole Hawker?

[Big T]

No, it sure is tomorrow. Holy cow, look at that.

[PFT Commenter]

That was a Happy birthday to Connor. Rape Connor. Yeah, his name's gone.

[Big T]

It is spelled differently.

[PFT Commenter]

Same vibes, though.

[Big T]

Very similar vibes.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm thinking Japan for my 40th, man. That's what I'm thinking.

[Big T]

You're a big Japan guy.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm thinking Japan or Bora Bora.

[Big T]

Remarkably different vibes.

[PFT Commenter]

Definitely, definitely, definitely. One's both islands and the other one's like, touristy, huh?

[Big T]

Both islands.

[PFT Commenter]

Both islands, yeah. One has like, you know, I really want to do Japan golf trip though, because. Have you heard about Japan golf?

[Big T]

No.

[PFT Commenter]

Japanese golf is like, the courses are curated amazingly, of course, right. Everything they do over there is just high quality, but they have a. They have like a different culture. So, like, you'll. You'll go. You'll play nine and then you'll. And then you'll go have a meal, you go get a massage. You go get in a hot tub, like, hot spring. Like, you get pampered and then you get all dressed. It's like two hours and then you go play the other nine. See, that shit is amazing. It sounds amazing to me.

[Big T]

See, that's what I do. I just don't play the second nine. I go play nine holes, then I go eat, then I go home, take a great shower, relax. The rest of the day I just don't play. It's nine holes.

[PFT Commenter]

I got to go experience this. Like, I have to go experience this. Like, it just, it just sounds amazing. Like. So I got a group of buddies, I play golf and we travel and they like, they a little older than me and they like, man, once I get to the. Once I get to the pampering part, I'm not gonna want to play nine. I'm like. But you gotta just try it, though. You gotta give it a go. I'm gonna give it a go. That should be fun.

[Big T]

It just feels like after, if you take more than 10, 15 minutes, it's hard to. To get going again.

[PFT Commenter]

I think it is. I. I mean, I guess you just gotta love it. Like, I love golf. It's. It's keeping me alive. Big t. I love it. And so I want to play it like I had a lesson earlier this morning. As soon as we're done here, I'm gonna go back on the range and maybe go play nine and then I gotta go. I gotta coach little children. But I love it. It's just something that you either. You either with the shits or you ain't with the shits. Are you with the shits, Big T?

[Big T]

Depends what they are.

[PFT Commenter]

That's the shits. Is you with them? Yeah, big T's with the shit.

[Big T]

How long are 12 year old football practices?

[PFT Commenter]

They only allow us an hour and a half. Okay. That's not enough, to be honest. We only. We're allowed three days a week, an hour and a half. Like, I can't coach nobody like that. Like, for real. For real. When I was growing up, we had two hour practices and it was five days a week.

[Big T]

Damn.

[PFT Commenter]

Monday through Friday.

[Arian]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

But to me, that's how you get better. Like, it's. It's hard. These kids don't retain information like that, especially with their attention span the way it is nowadays. Like, you just can't retain information. So I, I think Kobe kind of alluded to this before he passed. He was talking about like club ball and stuff like that. He's like, the fundamentals are missing. Like, kids are not fundamentally sound. And you can tell. They can definitely tell. Like, and to me, that's what's missing right now in youth football. It's like, it's the fundamentals. Like, and I can't, I can't teach fundamentals all day. I have to go over plays. I have to go over things that we have to get done. And so if I had it my way, we would only be running three plays, but we'd run the shit out of those three plays. But it's. You can't. It's not realistic. And so you have to, you have to spend a lot of time doing things you don't want to do. So I don't know, man. I'm not gonna sound like an old dude now, but fundamentals are absolutely missing. Missing in today's game. But they just don't practice enough, man. We just can't. I don't know.

[Big T]

I don't want you getting the University of Tennessee in trouble, but how strictly was the. What's the hour, the weekly hour limit in college?

[Maddie]

20, I believe.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't even remember.

[Big T]

I assume that wasn't enforced very strictly.

[PFT Commenter]

20 hour weekly. So that would be five. Is that including games?

[Maddie]

No, I think it's practice. I could be wrong. I know that is.

[Big T]

Well, I think it's anything. I think it's like meetings, weights.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, yeah. Way more than five hours.

[Big T]

But then they say. They say some stuff is optional when it's definitely not.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, yeah, no, I was doing way more that than that. I mean, because you. You have. You have to work out every single day, whether it's low. You know what I don't think. I think you had to get like three or four workouts in a week. It's been a minute. And those could last anywhere from an hour to two hours. And then you have, you know, meetings. Those are two and a half hours practice, two hours film after practice, another hour. Study hall. Hell no. 20 hours, my ass.

[Big T]

Oh, I'm seeing a competition day. Does count as three hours toward the weekly limit. Oh, well, then here it's 17.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. No, it's not even close. No. Then don't. Don't have any kind of ailment or injury. You got to spend. You got to spend a whole bunch of time in the training room. Rehab, ice, stem, heat. Oh, hell no.

[Big T]

What would you say during the season, A week? How many hours? Just, I would say don't count training room because that's kind of ancillary. Like meetings, weight room, practice, games.

[PFT Commenter]

I mean, it's fine. Easily 35 plus, maybe even 40 plus, depending on what. What you got going on. Depending on, like, training room. Yeah. Easy. Easily 20. 20 is laughable.

[Big T]

Yeah. I don't think. I think, especially in football, everybody just knows that's not.

[PFT Commenter]

No, there's no how. How. It would be horrible. Ain't no way, you know, I do. There, there, there's. This is starting to be the time of year where I miss football. And it's not like I don't miss the football. It's like I miss. So, like, I have a very vivid memories of like, traveling to Notre Dame. Right. We traveled to Notre Dame. And like the fall, the trees, they're starting to turn orange and yellow. And just the smell of the morning grass, like that. Like, this is the time where I'm like, I really start to miss football. And like a lot of these memories are starting. It's like, it's like, I don't know, like it kicks in. You smell. You smell something, and it's like a lifetime of memories race through your head at one time. It's wild. Yeah, we don't anything like that.

[Big T]

Yeah. If I smell like a rubber floor, that takes me back to football.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. Okay. For the weight room.

[Big T]

Yeah. You know what I'm talking about?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, yeah. Just a while.

[Big T]

Yeah. No, like if I. If. And that there's a smell to it, like.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I know what you mean.

[Big T]

Yeah. Just like when it went. Once it starts getting dark really early and like the Sun's setting at 5 and you're like, there's. There's a Friday night like that. That just gets you going. But yeah, in terms of. Yeah, definitely rubber floors. There's. Tell me. I don't remember if I've asked you. This football sweat smells different than other sweat. Do you know what I'm talking about?

[PFT Commenter]

I know what you're talking about. I think it has to do with. It's like missed. Mixed with the outdoors in the equipment.

[Big T]

Yes, it's definitely shoulder pads or something. I don't know what it is.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, yeah, I know exactly that. That smell. That football.

[Big T]

Yes.

[PFT Commenter]

Where it's like kind of with it, you know.

[Big T]

Oh, wow. I didn't expect you to say that.

[PFT Commenter]

I mean, it's like. It's like funk. That's like. Hold on, you. You ever. You ever took a boo boo?

[Big T]

I have. Yes.

[PFT Commenter]

And he's like, not bad. You know, I kind of fuck with it. It's not. It's not good smell, but I kind of fuck with it.

[Big T]

I mean that. I. I see where you're going, but it's not. I guess you just got so used to it, like you didn't have a choice.

[PFT Commenter]

That could be the case.

[Big T]

That almost affirms your hypothesis, which I still denounce wholeheartedly, that if, like, you know, if we lived in the 1700s and people just in the street, whatever, like, it wouldn't smell bad. That does almost speak to that. But I don't know.

[PFT Commenter]

I mean, think about it. There would be more art and literature written about like, how everybody smells because the showers weren't that prevalent. But there just wasn't because everybody. That's what everybody did. Everybody chafed, you know, I mean, everybody was funky. But the. But it's not funky because relative to what? We take showers every single day. Sometimes two times showers a day, you know? Yeah, I guess like imagine like cavemen. They didn't think everybody smelled. That's just what it was. What it is.

[Big T]

Sure.

[PFT Commenter]

Relative funk. But no, man, that football smell is. Yeah, you kind of. You kind of. You kind of get used to it.

[Big T]

Yeah. I've never experienced anything like it. Like sweat every other. If. If you go play basketball, if you go lift weights, whatever. It smells the same. But football is different.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. That is different. Like, sometimes you'll go to an open gym and play basketball and be funky. Like, that's different. Like, it's body odor.

[Big T]

Like, well, that's different. That's a different thing.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah. It's a different. It's different kind of funk, man. Do women have something like this where, like, tolerable smell that you kind of fuck with?

[Mac]

Not that I can think of.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

I also don't think I, like, enjoy the smell of sweat like that. Like, it doesn't give me a nostalgic feeling. I think it's the closest thing is like. Like, you're like, oh, I don't mind the smell of my own farts.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, hold on. What's the. What's the. What's the amount of time where you comfortable enough about releasing bodily functions around your. Your significant other? Like, how long y' all gotta be together?

[Mac]

I don't know.

[Maddie]

I think it's a dependent on the relationship.

[PFT Commenter]

Like, I got together, y' all together.

[Maddie]

No, I know, I know. Like, the per. Like the person you're in. Like, I think sometimes I've never done it.

[PFT Commenter]

Really.

[Maddie]

If.

[PFT Commenter]

If that's interesting. Why would you never do it? Like, we're humans. Like, it happens. No.

[Maddie]

Yeah. I mean, let's also. Let's also. Or sometimes they happened and. And you were stealth about it. Let's be real. But I usually.

[PFT Commenter]

I usually have a conversation before. I'm like. Like, if I really like somebody, I'll be like, hey, look, man, I'm gonna let it rat. This is about to happen. I'm gonna let it rat.

[Mac]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

And if you. And if you. And if you like me, if it's about to. This is gonna be a part of it.

[Maddie]

Yeah. Like, I. Well, also, Arian, sometimes you're not in the best relationships ever, and you don't feel comfortable enough around those people to do that.

[PFT Commenter]

Imagine that's the reason y' all break up.

[Maddie]

Like, it's not. But you then look back and you're like, I didn't. I couldn't even.

[Mac]

Yeah, I didn't feel comfortable.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[Mac]

Sort of thing.

[Maddie]

Yeah. Lends itself to a larger issue at hand that's.

[PFT Commenter]

That's actually real. It could be a litmus test for your emotional. Your relationship stability. Yeah.

[Maddie]

And I'm not saying I like, look, I'm a lady. I'm not.

[PFT Commenter]

Babe. I'm about to see where we're at.

[Mac]

Yeah, let it rip.

[Maddie]

Yeah, exactly. But it's like sometimes. Sometimes in the beginning of Relationships, you're so, so cautious of it because you're like, I don't want them to think I'm gross. Or like, you know, it's that. It's that layer of perfection that you don't want to go away in the beginning of a relationship. And then. And then once. Once you. Once the first. The first brick falls and then it's like all bets are off, I think. But yeah, or it's like anything like that, where it's like, oh, my God, as Arian would say, I got the.

[PFT Commenter]

Bee Gees or I got the bgs.

[Maddie]

Yeah. Like, I think it does prove. Again, this may sound stupid, but I think it does prove of like, oh, this is how comfortable I am with you, or whatever. Or like, I would even say, like, peeing in front of your, like, with the door open or whatever.

[PFT Commenter]

See, that's. That's why that should be. I mean, that's first couple dates type shit to me.

[Mac]

That's. That's more normal, I think.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

But like, I will, like, the first couple times I. I pee and they. In the room or like, you know, say they can do something here.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

I'll put it to this. To the side, you know. Oh, toilet.

[Maddie]

So, like, block the noise out a little bit.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Minus the noise a little bit.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

That's to silence it. Yeah.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

We'll say you, ma'. Am. I'm curious, man. You're kind of conservative when it comes to most things. Yeah. I want to know how you are with that.

[Big T]

I don't remember how long it was. Yeah, I. A while. But not. I. I genuinely. I just don't remember.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I think once for me, it's like, hey, look, you finna be around me and this is. This is gonna happen.

[Maddie]

So I think a lot of times it happens, at least the way I've experienced it happens like on accident.

[Mac]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

And then you're like, okay, well, the.

[PFT Commenter]

Cat'S out of the bag. I fart. Nope. Look, right?

[Maddie]

Like, like I've. I've had it where someone I was with, like my. I have a one bedroom apartment. There's not a lot of room to hide a lot of noises like that. And he would be like, oh, I have to go run down in my car and grab something. And he would go down to my lobby bathroom and just be like, oh, I have to go to the car. I. I forgot my razor.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, that's nice. I guess it's considerate.

[Maddie]

And that was like very, very early in something. And he would be like, oh, my God. And then a couple months after that, he was like, I need to tell you something. Like, I wasn't going down to the car. I had to. I had to take second for myself.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. So if I. So if I'm at her place, I won't Boo Boo at her place.

[Maddie]

Oh, okay.

[PFT Commenter]

For a while. Because I'll be taking grown.

[Big T]

Grown up.

[PFT Commenter]

It'd be like. You know what I'm saying? It will like. And I don't know what it is, though. Maybe it's me, but like, I. When I go to bathroom, it's like 30 minutes. Like 20. 30 minutes.

[Big T]

30 minutes.

[Maddie]

That's a man.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. I don't understand, like, people go to bathroom, they'd be out in like five minutes.

[Mac]

And I'm like, wow, 30 is insane.

[Big T]

Wow.

[Maddie]

It's not as insane as you'd think.

[Big T]

30 is a long time.

[Mac]

Yes.

[Maddie]

Don't you, like, skit?

[Big T]

Yes.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Big T]

Yes.

[PFT Commenter]

20. 20 for real? Like, 20 is like a normal.

[Big T]

How do your legs feel when you get up?

[PFT Commenter]

Sometimes they go to sleep. Yeah.

[Big T]

I have to stand up, collapse.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. My kids got a joke. I'll be like, I'll be right back. I'm gonna go to the bathroom. They'll be like, oh, my God, you'll be gone forever. I'm like, what do you want me to do? Like, I have to sit until it's. Let's go.

[Big T]

I'd say, I don't know. I sit there for a while and I'm probably 10 at the most.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't know, man.

[Maddie]

Sometimes I get locked in on Tick Tock.

[Big T]

Yeah. And that's only because of Tick Tock, Right.

[PFT Commenter]

Can you imagine Boo Boo without a phone now? No.

[Maddie]

I mean, people used to read magazines.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I guess so.

[Maddie]

You had the magazine corner, man.

[PFT Commenter]

I couldn't imagine moving without a phone. You just sit there and like, what, do you just stare?

[Maddie]

Read the back of the shampoo bottle. But it was a lot quicker.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm indoctrinated. That's around. Yeah. Take some time off the Boo Boos.

[Maddie]

Yeah, but I think that. I think that kind of thing, or even Aaron to that point. Like, taking 30 minutes around a woman to go poop. It's like, you're like, this is just part of me.

[PFT Commenter]

That's what it is, man.

[Maddie]

You have to be okay with the fact that, like, I will be gone a whole episode of. Of Brooklyn 9 9, or whatever you're watching.

[PFT Commenter]

Accept my flaws. Is there any new shows we should be out on? Looking for. I'm looking for a new show.

[Maddie]

New season of Nobody Wants this came out, but I don't know if that's something that you boys would be interested in.

[Big T]

I've seen the first couple of the.

[Maddie]

First or the second season.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

It's a step down.

[Big T]

Yeah. It doesn't do anything for me.

[Maddie]

Can I say something about this show? Have you watched the new episodes yet, Mackenzie?

[Mac]

Just the first one.

[Maddie]

Okay. I'm like halfway through.

[PFT Commenter]

What is it called?

[Maddie]

Nobody wants this. It's like a rom com type show.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Maddie]

But the first season was really good. I really liked the first season and they just came out with the second one. It's like, why are you so unlikable now? Do you agree, Victe?

[Big T]

I was never enthralled with the first one.

[Maddie]

I really like the first one. It is. It is doing a bad job at making me root for these people.

[PFT Commenter]

Wait, what's the premise of the first season? I think I seen that.

[Maddie]

It's a rabbi and a podcaster.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Yeah. I like the first season. First.

[Maddie]

I really like the first season.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

Can we talk about Brian Kelly?

[Big T]

If you want.

[PFT Commenter]

Who's Brian Kelly?

[Big T]

He is the former head football coach at Louisiana State. He was fired last night.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Maddie]

But he just got fired from LSU and has a fif. What? Same buyout as James Franklin. Like 56 million 53.

[Big T]

But it seems like they're not going to pay all of it.

[Maddie]

Why? What are the ground rules there?

[Big T]

They're trying to get him to agree to a reduced buyout.

[PFT Commenter]

Good luck.

[Maddie]

But why would he agree to that? He's already fired.

[Big T]

There are. There are things that college football programs can do that it would just make your life easier to accept some money and leave.

[Mac]

Yeah, I mean, he has some skeletons already, so I can't imagine stuff that's like, not out there.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, so they saying they got some dirt on him?

[Big T]

I don't know.

[Mac]

I'm just saying, like, if that was the case, like that might be the reason he takes less money and is just like, let me get the money and get out before whatever.

[Big T]

Might be the best job in America.

[Maddie]

Lsu?

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

Do you have any people who you think might take it?

[Big T]

I think every coach should be interested in taking it. I mean, three of their last four coaches won national championships and two of them can't coach their way out of a wet paper bag. The place recruits itself. It more or less runs itself. You're in a state where every single kid who ever plays football there wants to go to your school.

[Maddie]

So did Brian Kelly just suck at lsu? Because he sucks.

[Big T]

I Think so, Yeah.

[Mac]

I mean, he's just a loser.

[Maddie]

Yeah. And he had no vibe.

[Big T]

Never fit there. Didn't know what it takes to win. There was. Was never a good fit. Best of luck. Also 64 years old. Didn't know he was at all.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, wow.

[Mac]

Me neither.

[Big T]

That young.

[PFT Commenter]

Big T. That young.

[Big T]

I didn't know he was that age.

[PFT Commenter]

There you go. But age shaming nowadays going on, man. You would never, never keep waking up. You'll get there.

[Mac]

He'll age. Shame you if you're younger.

[Big T]

Aryan likes old.

[Maddie]

Yeah. Get some more life in you, then we'll talk.

[PFT Commenter]

Aaron likes aged, refined. Big two. You know what I'm saying?

[Big T]

Mature.

[PFT Commenter]

Back on the market. Still looking for my Mrs.

[Big T]

I was actually. I was gonna ask you about that when we were done, actually.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, no, it's, you know, nothing happened. It's just, you know, we decided to go separate ways. And that's okay. Yeah, it's okay. Yeah. It's all good, man.

[Maddie]

You know, she not like, how long you took to.

[PFT Commenter]

No, I mean, that was the part. She was like, it is what it is. But, yeah, no, it's great. Great human being just didn't. Didn't. Didn't pan out. It is what it is, man.

[Big T]

Hey, 40, 40 were. It's. It's a new deal.

[PFT Commenter]

It's a new deal. But I mean, so this, like, I always said this is a hard age to date because late 30s, they're still like. Women my age are like, yo, what's up? Like, we need a family. I want to get married. And I'm like, that's that ship itself for me. Like, I'm done having kids. And so, like, they speed date, you know, you don't really get a chance to let it, like, you know, let it grow, let it. Let it nourish. It's very fat. Like, what are we doing? Are we doing this? Are we not doing this? And it's like, God damn, let's chill. Let's go have a movie or something. So I may be on this ship for go 5 years until I meet that crop of young ladies that are like, yeah, it. Let's just. Let's just. Let's just ride off into the sunset.

[Big T]

You're in a holding pattern.

[PFT Commenter]

It's dating purgatory. Not young enough to where I could start a family if I wanted to, but, like, old enough to where, like, I don't want to, you know? So that's what I'm saying. I don't. I'm done with kids. Like, these are enough Love them. Love my babies. But that's. I'm done. I need. I need a zip tie. That thing is what I need.

[Big T]

But you're supposed to. And then you didn't show up because it was 20 minutes away.

[Mac]

If only it was.

[PFT Commenter]

That's a throw way big.

[Big T]

No, it's not.

[PFT Commenter]

It is, bro. Not with bro. With my golf course.

[Big T]

10. So what's the furthest you drive to the golf course?

[PFT Commenter]

Nah, I've. I've. I've pushed. So, yeah, you. I mean, you make a fair point. I've definitely made our treks to nice.

[Big T]

Golf courses before, but, like, on a normal basis, like, are you going anywhere? What's the furthest you're driving?

[PFT Commenter]

I don't go anywhere. So my daughter's. Oh, my daughter's 16 now, so she picks my kids up from school and brings them home, so I don't got to do that anymore. So I don't like to go anywhere. I have built a fortress, Big T. This.

[Big T]

And I can appreciate that is my.

[PFT Commenter]

Bed is one meter behind this screen right here. And I get up in the morning. Most days, I get up in the morning, brush my teeth, grab something to eat, come pod. Go golf. I live. I live.

[Big T]

I live a blessed life, Big T. And that's wonderful. It just seems like. Like 20 minutes is not. It's not a long drive.

[PFT Commenter]

There's. It's not motivating enough when I could, you know, easily just, you know, you know, avoid the catastrophe.

[Big T]

Yeah, I guess. But it's something. It's something.

[Maddie]

You.

[Big T]

You made the appointment.

[PFT Commenter]

I know. I know.

[Big T]

How far?

[PFT Commenter]

See, that's what my baby mama called me. Wingman. Because I just be winging it all the time.

[Big T]

Oh, yeah, we know.

[PFT Commenter]

She's like, bro, you got a plan? I'm like, I don't, though. Not really. I. I don't. I don't want to. And so I just be winging it. So some days I feel like getting it done. But you can't do it day of. You got to plan it out. And then the day of, I don't feel like going. That's just how it is.

[Big T]

Do you go to the grocery store or you have it, like, delivered?

[PFT Commenter]

No, I delivered all the time.

[Big T]

Yeah. This guy really may never leave.

[Maddie]

Don't you get, like, stir crazy?

[Big T]

I mean, I guess if you're playing golf.

[Maddie]

I guess if you go golf.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do. I do as much as the weather permits. I golf. And even on days that I don't, like, like, I have a 98 inch TV in my living room up here I have my video game console right here. My podcast studios right here. I go upstairs is a music studio with a full whole thing. I can make music, do music, record music. I have a pool. I have a hot tub. I'm not stunting. I'm just letting you know why I don't leave. There's no reason for me to leave.

[Big T]

Yeah, no, and I respect that. It just seems that that wouldn't then make a 20 minute drive seem unbearable.

[PFT Commenter]

It's. It's ridiculous that I haven't done it. You're right. I'm not arguing with you. It's ridiculous. I know. I was thinking about getting a dog the other day.

[Big T]

Now, of all the things I would have ever expected you to say next, that would have been dead last on the list.

[PFT Commenter]

I was thinking about getting a dog the other day, man.

[Big T]

What prompted this?

[PFT Commenter]

What was it? I seen one of those Ridgebacks, man, and this little. Was cute. His little, cute little Ridgeback. And I was looking at him like, man, maybe I could if I. I'll do this if I get a shorty in the next couple years. That's legit. Like we are in lockstep and it's. It's good people and I feel like I could see it for a future with her. I'm. I think I'm giving me a dog because what I don't like is like all the maintenance and, and she agrees to it. Of course I ain't gonna put it on her. She don't want it. But like, I don't like the maintenance of heaven. You know what I'm saying? I think I can give me a little. A little mutt, man. A little, A little rat.

[Mac]

Was the Ridgeback the one you wanted like, maybe like a year or so ago we talked about on the podcast.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

PFT talked me out of it.

[Mac]

Yeah. Chaps said it was like maybe the. One of the worst dogs you could.

[PFT Commenter]

Get as like a. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mac]

So not that they're bad dogs, but just for your lifestyle. I think he was saying, yeah, I.

[PFT Commenter]

Want somebody lazy that I don't got to walk all the goddamn.

[Mac]

Yes, exactly.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. I need a. I need me in dog form.

[Big T]

Yeah. I think those dogs are like, you got to run them.

[PFT Commenter]

Yes.

[Mac]

That's what ch.

[PFT Commenter]

They're insane. They're psych.

[Mac]

You need like a. A, like a bulldog.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, those are ugly to me though.

[Mac]

A French, A French bulldog.

[Maddie]

I think they kind of run a bit more. You need like an English. If you don't want anything.

[Mac]

English bulldog.

[Big T]

English bulldogs are ugly.

[PFT Commenter]

French bulldog. Hell no. This thing looks hard.

[Mac]

Or maybe a pug.

[Big T]

He'll say, that's ugly.

[Mac]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Also Chinese.

[PFT Commenter]

Nope, nope. This the best. The Men in Black dog, ain't it?

[Big T]

You're asking the wrong crowd.

[PFT Commenter]

You never saw a Men in Black?

[Big T]

No, I haven't.

[PFT Commenter]

Jesus.

[Mac]

You may need to adopt like an old dog.

[Maddie]

Yeah, you could also adopt an elderly dog.

[Mac]

No, no, not like too old, but like, old enough that you don't have to train it. It's already trained.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm doing this for the morality, you know, I'm not doing it for the. I'm not saving a dog. These dogs, I don't care. I want a friend that. That can kick it that I don't gotta like, you know, that can take care of himself a little bit, you know, Beautiful dogs that are lazy. I just googled it. See, all the lazy dogs are ugly like a chihuahua.

[Big T]

I don't think the Chihuahuas are lazy either.

[Mac]

They're yappers.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I don't want a yapper.

[Big T]

They want to run.

[PFT Commenter]

But Great Dane. What's a Great Dane?

[Maddie]

Well, those are huge. That's not it.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. No Great Dane. Yeah. This is hard, man. It's hard to pick which animal kidnapped Great Pyrenees. What is a Great Pyrenees?

[Mac]

We can ask Chap. Chaps might have a good.

[Maddie]

Pyrenees are cute.

[PFT Commenter]

Too much. Too much fur, though. I don't. That shedding I ain't with.

[Mac]

Yeah, you might need hypoallergenic Chinese crested dog.

[Big T]

Ew.

[PFT Commenter]

What the is that? Why would somebody want that? What the is that.

[Mac]

Bro?

[Maddie]

What?

[PFT Commenter]

Some of these things are weird, man. I'll figure it out. We'll figure it out, man.

[Big T]

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[Arian]

What's up, Macro crew? This is Jesse from Baltimore, Maryland. Go Ravens. I got a quick question for you guys. You know, you always hear like, I would never wish so and so my worst enemy. Now I'm curious for you guys, what would be the thing you would wish on your worst enemy? Like, you know, a minor nuisance, like, you know, closing out Spotify when you're listening to music accidentally, you know, food always coming out, laughing or eating with a group at a restaurant or like shoddy wi Fi whenever you're watching a sporting event or a big time event. So, you know, just curious what your thoughts are. Just gotta say Joe Flaccu's Elise, Love you guys. You know, stay sexy, beautiful, handsome, all the above. And yeah, excited to hear what you guys say. Love you guys.

[PFT Commenter]

See, I'm not like this. I would never wish that on my worst enemy. I absolutely would wish. Absolutely.

[Mac]

I never understood the phrase. It's like, why wouldn't I? They're my worst enemy. Like, that's the point.

[Big T]

Well, it's saying, like, this thing is so terrible.

[Mac]

Yeah, right.

[Big T]

Even I couldn't do that.

[PFT Commenter]

But I could. I could. Absolutely. My wishes don't mean but like, if that happened to my worst enemy to do me and I don't feel bad for you, this is what it is. So, yeah, I want your Spotify to close and I want you to get hit by a bus and I want you to get.

[Big T]

You said minor inconveniences.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't. Don't care. I got. I got about two or three people in my life that bad shit happened to them. I don't give a fuck. Would not, wouldn't lose an ounce of sleep. And it's not because I'm a bad person. It's because they have done so much wrong and so much bad directed towards me that I have lost all empathy for anything that ever happens to them in their life. Like, don't care. Couldn't care less.

[Big T]

I had to immediately come to mind they're far more tame than yours. Uh, I would say just as many repeated interactions with the government as you can have just being at the DMV all day or you lose your, your driver's license. You have to get a new one. Just any interaction with the government is terrible and it takes forever and they're awful at everything they do. The second. And this is what sends me into a blind rage. Just like a minor alteration to a food order. Like, I can't tell you how many times I've said, hey, can I get a water with no lemon? It comes out and there's a lemon in it. It's like I couldn't have been more explicit. I don't know what else to say. I really don't. And it just, it's in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter. But it just, it sends me into a rage.

[PFT Commenter]

Or it's like, it's like if you, if you order. So like if I doordash adored that some. And an order comes, but it's not my order. So like they were double, you know, saying they picked up two orders and they have my order. That bothers the shit out of me. Yeah, not, not enough to be mad. Like in For Real.

[Big T]

For Real.

[PFT Commenter]

But it's like, yeah, I would rather my enemy get hit by a bus, but that would, that would be cool too, if they get the order wrong.

[Big T]

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[PFT Commenter]

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[Big T]

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[Maddie]

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[Big T]

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[Maddie]

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[Arian]

CMT mobile.com hey macro dosing. It's Anthony from New York going off of the wedding discussion from the last episode. I have one that me and my buddies were debating today. So basically my friend got invited for free to the Blue Jays Game seven of the alcs and he said he if the World Series goes to seven, that same offer might come to him. But he has a wedding that same day of what it would be scheduled for and the guy is his brother's best friend. He obviously knows him. And we were debating on if it would be acceptable to back out of the wedding to go to a Game 7 of his favorite team. Basically I said if the groom is a huge sports fan, I think he would understand. And a few of my friends said absolutely not. But just wanted to hear your thoughts on ditching the wedding for a once in a lifetime offer. Thanks.

[PFT Commenter]

I think any reasonable human would be like, yeah, now I feel you though. Go, go handle that.

[Big T]

You're saying to not go to the wedding.

[PFT Commenter]

No. 2.

[Big T]

2.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. To go to the event. Yeah. 100 games. Game seven. And that's your squad. Even if it's not your squad, if you got tickets to go to game seven. World Series. Yeah, dog.

[Big T]

Go Blue Jays haven't been to the World series since 93. So if you are younger than 32 years old, that literally is a once in a lifetime event. Also, he said it was his brother's best friend.

[PFT Commenter]

Like, how close are we?

[Big T]

Yeah, I mean, that's. I don't even know I like my best friend's brother. I know and we've talked and whatever, but like, I would never be upset.

[PFT Commenter]

Is he, Is he going to your wedding? No. Exactly.

[Big T]

Yeah. Like, I mean, if y' all are cl, like, that's great, but I don't think that's. It's not like it's, you know, your best friend or anything.

[Mac]

Yeah. Also I think like missing one person at your wedding, like that is obviously it'd be different if it was like your brother or your sibling or somebody you're extremely close with. Not to say they're not extremely close, but like if you're the groom and you're missing like one person, like you guys can hang out other times, like, there's gonna be enough people at your wedding that you're not gonna be like, oh, I can't believe, like, Charlie's not here sort of thing. Like, it's. It's a big enough event that I don't think it would be a crazy thing to do.

[Big T]

I know I'm a bit different in this regard. How many people. If y' all were getting married, Madeline and McKenzie, would you be like, are you. Like, they have to be there or it will ruin my life. Because my number is, like, three.

[Mac]

I honestly think just my immediate family.

[Maddie]

I mean, my immediate family. All of my.

[Mac]

All.

[Maddie]

All of the people who I would consider, like, as I would ask as my bridesmaids and, like, my maid of honor.

[Mac]

So let's call that.

[Big T]

But It's. It's what, 10, 15 people?

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Right. Outside, like, there are people.

[Maddie]

Well, and then I'm obviously, like, my husband's family.

[Big T]

Sure. But. But it's. It's. It's not a large. Like, there are people who you would. You would rather they go, but if they don't, like, it's not going to make a break your day.

[Maddie]

Yes. Yeah.

[Mac]

I would literally probably say, like, for it to be that extreme, like, it would really just be like, my parents and my brother and sister.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Mac]

That would be, like, my list. Not that I wouldn't want the other people there, but, like, that would ruin my day.

[Maddie]

I think I'd be really sad if certain people didn't show up that I'm really close to, but I think. Would it ruin my day Is a different story.

[Big T]

Right?

[Mac]

Like, yeah, the extreme also.

[Big T]

And that's even putting aside whether they have. If they just don't choose to not go or, like, have something like game seven of the World Series.

[Mac]

Well, yeah, Honestly, even for my dad, like, I'd be like, you should go to the game.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Mac]

You know what I mean?

[Maddie]

Like, if the.

[Mac]

Obviously, you would never do that.

[Big T]

If the Braves were in game seven of the World Series, first of all, I would. I would never put myself in this situation. But if it was my wedding in the Braves ring, game seven of the World Series, and one of my friends was like, dude, I have tickets. I'd be like, go. Literally, you should be there right now.

[Mac]

Yeah. Like, if it was a Bill's World Series, like, my sister would likely be at the game. I'm sorry, did I say World Series, Super Bowl. And I wouldn't fall, but.

[PFT Commenter]

So I think the only time I would not go to the game over anybody's Wedding in my whole life would be my. My daughters. If my daughter's getting married. Yeah, that game. That's my baby, man.

[Maddie]

Right?

[PFT Commenter]

That's my little baby girl. Nothing is more important than that. Huh?

[Big T]

What about yourself?

[PFT Commenter]

I have to have a conversation. We have to have a conversation.

[Big T]

Brewers, Game seven of the World Series and your son's wedding.

[PFT Commenter]

We're gonna have to have a conversation. Real conversation. Listen, bro, why did you have it on this date? We can't move it to a week. You know what I'm saying? Those are the conversations we're going to have to have. I'm going to be like, okay, if I do go, like, are you really gonna be mad? Keep it a beam with me, yada yada. But my daughters, right? Nah. Babies, man. And I don't know. And you feel how you want to feel. My daughters just. They have my heart more so than they do my sons, you know? I love my boys, don't get me wrong. But, like, my daughters, bro, melt me. I can't say no.

[Maddie]

Right? I would also be very upset if my fiance didn't show up. That would probably.

[Mac]

That would. That would be a given, though. I don't think that would be.

[Maddie]

That would be tough.

[Big T]

I mean, that's actually. That was pertinent information. Is that guy a Blue Jays fan?

[Mac]

Right.

[Big T]

Because that's. I mean, that's brutal.

[Mac]

I mean, that's on you, though, 100,000%.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. That's why.

[Maddie]

But, yeah.

[Mac]

I mean, yeah, I think it depends on the relationship of him and the groom, and it depends on the groom's opinion. Like, if he is okay with it, then go to the game.

[Big T]

I'd even. Even if he's not, I know if.

[Mac]

It would affect, like, your friendship and, like, the friendship of, like, the brother and him, I think maybe, but that.

[Big T]

Would be nuts for that to me.

[Mac]

But then it also would be like, okay, reevaluate your friendship. Maybe. But, yeah. Yeah. I think it just depends.

[PFT Commenter]

I think dudes in general wouldn't really care.

[Mac]

I agree.

[Big T]

I would encourage them to go.

[Mac]

Exactly. That's what I feel like the case might be.

[PFT Commenter]

I say my boys would be like, yeah, I can't get my wife to change the dog. Go ahead and skip out. Come to the. Come to the party afterwards. I feel like they'll be more like that. Come on, Dad. I want you to. Because I'm not walking him down the aisle anyway. I'm just there.

[Maddie]

I think the. I think the part that would be inconsiderate is if you don't Tell. If you end up going to the game and you don't tell the people getting married so they can arrange different people to, like, take your plate, because then that's like 200, 300 bucks. However much it costs for you not to eat, I think you should tell them so they have time. Because, like, usually I feel like people getting married have, like a backups list. Like, oh, you know, Greg can't come, but Mike. We didn't invite Mike. And Mike was, like, basically on the fringe list. Like, let's see if Mike can come.

[Mac]

I do think at this point it might be too late. And also, you don't know if there's gonna be a Game 7, so he could potentially go to the wedding. So it's hard. You, like, you kind of have to be like, well, I'll pay for my plate if that's the case, sort of thing.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Mac]

Which I think is completely reasonable.

[Big T]

Yes. Send a nice present. You go to game seven of the World Series. Like, if, if this guy went to the wedding and the Blue Jays won Game 7 of the World Series at home, he would resent that guy for the rest of his life.

[Mac]

That'd be the worst.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big T]

And that would be fair.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

I think if, if my man or my son came to me, I was like, listen, dog. Like, I know I, I need you to be here, though. It's important to me. This is my lab. I would say I, I, I would go. Still be mad, but I would go.

[Big T]

Is there. I'm actually thinking about this for you because you said your son is there. There's not really a team you care about like that, though, that you would.

[Mac]

That's what I was thinking, too. Maybe the brewers now.

[Big T]

Oh, okay. So if it was Lakers games.

[PFT Commenter]

But I'm never, I'm never gonna go to a Laker game because it's so Laker. Like, I'm a Laker fan, but not like a celebrity Laker fan. You know? Like, it's, it's like the seats there are ridiculous. You know what I'm saying? It's just, like, ridiculous. It's a fashion show type vibe. When you have, you know, basketball tickets in la, I'm not. So, like, I'm okay with watching that on the tv. I'm okay with that. But, like, brewers, that's, to me, a little bit more, like, now I have this new fandom. Like, I really enjoy the sport. I love being there. I love, I feel like I'm involved with the team more. Like, that would be more me. Like, I'll Pull up. I'll pull up on the Brewers. I'm not pulling up today. I've seen the Lakers live. I've seen Kobe live. I'm cool. Like, I don't need to say. I could watch it on TV and still be a fan, but I like. I like the Brewers. I could pull up on the Brewers.

[Big T]

Okay, if UT was in the national championship, would you go?

[PFT Commenter]

No.

[Big T]

Sad to hear that.

[PFT Commenter]

Not like. Like, no, no. No disrespect, but it's like. It's so much like. Cause, like, if I. If I go get tickets, like, I don't want to be. Like, I don't want to be in the stands. I don't. That. That could be a little. A little bougie.

[Big T]

What if you were on the field?

[PFT Commenter]

I would. I would do that. Yeah. But in order to do that, like, I would have to go through all this, like, you know, red tape and, like, talk to all these people and, like, it's just not worth the trouble for me. Like, I would love to, but it's like, yeah, I'll be right.

[Big T]

I'm counting on you coming to Vandy.

[PFT Commenter]

I'll. I'll pull up.

[Big T]

You said 27th, I think 29th. Whatever that Saturday is.

[PFT Commenter]

29Th. Yeah, I'll pull up, man.

[Big T]

I'm going to. I'm going to tell people. That will put pressure on you to go.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, well, it's been a minute since I've been to a game, man. I haven't, like, two, three years down, man. Anybody else got anything on this? Lovely. Was this. It would be Tuesday, October 28th.

[Big T]

I think that's it.

[PFT Commenter]

Amen. We're gonna close it like we opened it. Love and kiss on your loved ones. Life is short. Laugh. Enjoy this motherfucker, man.

[Big T]

Agreed.

[PFT Commenter]

Absolutely. Absolutely.