The World Could Lose Gravity For 7 Seconds | Jan 8, 2026

Summary

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Macrodosing: "The World Could Lose Gravity For 7 Seconds"

Episode Date: January 8, 2026
Podcast: Macrodosing
Hosts: PFT Commenter, Arian Foster, Big T, and guests
Episode Theme: A wild exploration of viral “zero gravity” conspiracy theories, sports news, and everything in between with Macrodosing’s signature blend of skepticism, humor, and big-brain tangents.

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EPISODE OVERVIEW

This episode centers around a viral internet claim that gravity will disappear for seven seconds on August 12, 2026—a concept the hosts dive into with equal parts curiosity and disbelief. Along the way, they riff on food pyramids, NCAA controversies, NFL coaching, and plenty of classic Macrodosing banter.

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HIGHLIGHTED SEGMENTS & DISCUSSIONS

1. Cold Open: Dog Talk & New Tech in the Office

Timestamp: 00:09 – 03:58

• The crew pokes fun at dog breed stereotypes, with Arian Foster revealing he owns a Rhodesian Ridgeback (“originally bred to hunt lions”), and they riff on awkward race jokes.
• Jersey Jerry rolls in with a new laptop:

  “I did have a laptop, but last night… I tried to open up and start a stream and so you need a laptop for that.” (02:06, Jerry)

• Jerry’s discovery of built-in FaceTime and news tabs on his device leads to a tangent about how office work and gaming have changed.

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2. The Food Pyramid Has Been Flipped

Timestamp: 04:00 – 12:20

• Discussion about the new U.S. dietary guidelines that invert the traditional food pyramid—now favoring protein, healthy fats, and fewer grains/fruits:

  "This is completely different from what we had growing up. They pretty much told us, like, eat all the bread that you can find." (05:28, PFT)

• They dig into the metrics (“grams per kilogram?! Use pounds!”), the war on protein, and joke about America’s shifting health advice.
• Memorable moment:

  “I watch a lot of rugby on TV, and when they…do height and weight, sometimes they do like centimeters...when I take my dog to the vet, the scale always shows up in kilograms.” (10:08, PFT)

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3. Dog Breeds, Alpha Energy & Hierarchy

Timestamp: 12:20 – 16:52

• Extended riffing on Arian's Ridgeback—its abilities, training, comparisons to other breeds, and a hilarious analogy:

  “You treat them like dirt, they stick to you like mud. I mean, it’s not like you treat your dog like… but you let it know that it’s not a human.” (16:20, PFT)

• The crew debates establishing household hierarchies for pets and children.

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4. Polymarket, Venezuela & Prediction Market Drama

Timestamp: 17:35 – 22:14

• A recap of the recent U.S. hacking of Venezuela’s power grid, with speculation about reverse-cyberattacks.
• Heated debate about the definition of “invasion” on prediction market site Polymarket and whether they should pay out bets after military action in Venezuela:

  “The publicity that comes out is we’re not paying out this thing that I think most people would agree should be paid out. I think that’s a very dumb idea…” (20:13, PFT)

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5. Wild NCAA & NIL Contracts: The Demond Williams Transfer Saga

Timestamp: 22:44 – 33:47

• Details on Washington’s quarterback Demond Williams trying to leave despite a $4M contract, and confusion about the NCAA, NIL deals, contract enforceability, and the chaos of the transfer portal:

  “The next court case the NCAA wins will be the first. So what's going to happen when Washington sues and a court says actually that’s not binding? … You have nothing in place for anybody, anywhere.” (25:42, Big T)

• Philosophical hand-wringing over college football’s future, fan loyalty, and regulation in athlete movements.

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6. NFL Playoff Hopes, Coaching Carousel & The Steeler Fan Dilemma

Timestamp: 35:20 – 46:41

• Jerry recounts the Steelers’ recent win, “going stale” with Mike Tomlin, and the perennial tension between consistent playoffs and demands for championships:

  "If you always in the mix, you always have a shot... to me that’s the fun part of sports." (41:29, Arian)

• Classic debate: is it better to always be in the hunt but never win, or to risk bottoming out for a Super Bowl run?

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7. Home Field, Dome Teams, and NFL Cold-Weather Stats

Timestamp: 47:14 – 53:13

• Big T shares a stat: dome teams are 1–14 in road playoff games below 40°F in the past decade; they try to puzzle out the only win.
• Discussions redirect towards preferred places to live in North Carolina (Raleigh > Charlotte according to most hosts).

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8. NFL Coaching Carousel: Where Will Harbaugh Land?

Timestamp: 53:20 – 58:12

• Jerry claims credit for “ending Harbaugh,” and the group speculates where the now-available elite coach could go; Dolphins, Bucs, Packers, and surprise candidates enter the conversation.

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9. Housing Crisis—Trump’s Populist Pivot

Timestamp: 59:06 – 61:01

• Live reaction to Trump’s announcement to ban corporations from buying single-family homes:

  “People live in homes, not corporations... Blackstone stock is down 9%.” (59:43, Big T)

• Hosts generally approve: “This is...a good thing.” (60:50, PFT)

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10. Marijuana Laws, Airport Security & International Tales

Timestamp: 61:09 – 66:46

• Arian shares how Texas is still tough on weed; PFT and Jersey Jerry swap airport stoner stories (getting stopped with vapes in Colombia, being flagged for formaldehyde via stuffed animals).
• Lighthearted warnings about international travel and substance regulations.

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MAIN EVENT: THE SEVEN-SECOND LOSS OF GRAVITY CONSPIRACY

Timestamp: 66:45 – 81:08

Background:

A viral post claims that due to intersecting black hole gravitational waves, the Earth will lose gravity for 7 seconds on August 12, 2026. NASA, “they say,” knows but is building bunkers for elites.

Discussion & Breakdown:

• “Why wouldn’t they tell us, so we could prepare?” (70:56, Jerry)
  "Because 40 million deaths is better than 8 billion panicking," suggests Big T.
• The hosts deconstruct the scenario:
  • "If you’re asleep, you’ll rise up, then fall 20ft and die."
  • “Depending on how well built your house is… you might not even float away.”
• Warnings about the “Project Anchor” NASA leak, suggestions about black holes, and surviving by holding onto fixed objects.
• The eclipse on August 12, 2026 is real, but the gravity claim is just a viral hoax/meme:

  “The post... appears to be completely made up. And it’s just a bunch of people that have copied it and pasted copy pasta.” (73:43, PFT)

• They riff on selling “Macrodosing” branded survival parachutes as a bit, and agree the science (while fun to imagine) makes no sense:

  “The earth’s gravity is from its mass, it’s not from the waves of black holes.” (75:56, Big T) “The entire atmosphere would go into outer space. You would lose all air pressure… earthquakes everywhere.” (79:47, PFT)

• Arian delivers the physics real talk on gravitational waves:

  “So like Einstein predicted… you’ll be able to detect the waves, but it won’t affect us.” (76:21, Arian)

• Laugh-out-loud hypothetical: should Macrodosing sell $500 “gravity parachutes?” (81:01)

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11. Mini Follow-Up: The Ghana "Noah" Ark Prophet

Timestamp: 82:08 – 85:17

• The gang checks in on "Ebo Noah," a Ghanaian prophet who predicted a flood for Dec. 25, 2025, built an ark, and then disappeared or was possibly arrested when nothing happened.

  “He said that goats and birds were. Were finding themselves at his site of the ark. So they were coming to him.” (85:09, PFT)

• Memorable meta-joke:

  “That’s fair, dog. You know how hard it is to build a communication with the Almighty. Exactly.” (85:01, Arian)

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NOTABLE QUOTES & MOMENTS

• "You treat them like dirt, they stick to you like mud. I mean, it’s not like you treat your dog like—but you let it know that it’s not a human." (16:20, PFT)
• "The next court case the NCAA wins will be the first." (25:42, Big T)
• "If you always in the mix, you always have a shot... to me, that's the fun part of sports." (41:29, Arian)
• “Depending on how well built your house is, you might not even float away.” (68:55, PFT)
• “The earth’s gravity is from its mass, it’s not from the waves of black holes.” (75:56, Big T)
• “If I told you right now, I’ll give you a billion dollars, do you want it? ...But what if I said you can’t wake up tomorrow?... So you’re saying waking up tomorrow is worth more than a billion dollars to you?” (81:44, Big T)

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CONCLUSION

This episode is a microcosm of Macrodosing’s charm—skeptical takes on outrageous internet rumors, deep dives on unintended consequences in sports and society, and a willingness to riff on anything absurd or fascinating that crosses their newsfeeds.

Most importantly: No, the world will not lose gravity for seven seconds. But if it does, you heard it here first.

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QUICK GUIDE TO TIMESTAMPS

• Dog banter, Jerry’s laptop revolution: 00:09–03:58
• New food pyramid, nutrition debate: 04:00–12:20
• Alpha dogs, household hierarchy: 12:20–16:52
• Polymarket and Venezuela: 17:35–22:14
• NCAA/NIL transfer chaos: 22:44–33:47
• NFL coaching, playoff paths: 35:20–46:41
• Dome teams & cold weather stat-off: 47:14–53:13
• Harbaugh’s future & NFL carousel: 53:20–58:12
• Trump v. Wall Street landlords: 59:06–61:01
• Weed, airports, & smuggling vapes: 61:09–66:46
• 7-second zero gravity theory breakdown: 66:45–81:08
• Ark prophet in Ghana update: 82:08–85:17

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Transcript

[A]

Hey, Macrodosing listeners. You can find us every Tuesday and Thursday on Apple podcast, Spotify or YouTube Prime. Members can listen ad free on Amazon Music.

[B]

It is a Rhodesian Ridgeback.

[A]

Oh, wow.

[C]

I would have thought you're like a Pitbull guy.

[B]

You thought I was a pit bull?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I don't know.

[C]

I just. NFL player, maybe. Pitbull.

[D]

That could be vaguely problematic.

[C]

Why is that problematic?

[D]

Yeah, you just. Yeah, I don't know.

[A]

No, no, that's. That's one of those things where like, maybe if you think that it's racist. The jury said that maybe.

[D]

Maybe.

[E]

No, no, no, no, no.

[B]

I'm saying.

[A]

Wait, I'm saying. Oh, if you say it, then maybe if Big T thinks it. Big T actually might be.

[D]

I don't think it.

[A]

Gotcha.

[C]

Aaron, I didn't meant. I. I meant no racism. I have a pit bull.

[B]

I didn't.

[C]

I'm white.

[B]

I have a pit bull. I'm white.

[A]

Some of my best dogs are pitbull.

[B]

Guys arguing about racism.

[C]

No, it got awkward for a second.

[A]

Aaron, why you always bringing up race?

[B]

Right.

[D]

Jerry has three Pitbull friends.

[A]

Welcome back to Macrodosing. It is Thursday is January 8th, and we got the whole squad plus Jersey Jerry here today joining us in the studio. Jerry, it's good to see you.

[C]

Good to be back. Good to be back on the pod.

[A]

So we got it, Jerry. This is a big new development. I'd like to jump into it right off the bat. Jerry walked into the office. I couldn't really put my finger on it in terms of what was different about him, but he sat down at the desk and he took a laptop out and you got a laptop now. And if you don't know Jerry, Jerry has never been a guy that, that has a laptop or use a laptop. You don't have. We don't have desks here. It's like almost an amoeba type office where you can just sit down where you, you find a seat, interact with whoever's around, that sort of thing. But Jerry, now you look very professional.

[C]

Yeah, you know, listen, I. I did have a laptop, but last night, obviously, you know what the gaming stuff we've been doing, I tried to open up and start a stream and so you need a laptop for that.

[A]

Can't do it on your phone?

[C]

No, no, you can't. You have to use a laptop and then plug into the monitor, all these different things. But I had help with the setup and then I went to log into my computer and nothing was working. Like, you know, the One login and stuff like that. And then because I haven't opened it up in, you know, years and they actually gave me a brand new laptop because the last laptop I had, I think I just, it might have just crashed from inactivity.

[A]

It just kind of, it went away. Like if you don't, if you don't work out for a while, you lose all your muscles. Yeah.

[C]

So they gave me a new laptop, which is great in this thing here. Like, dude, I can literally, I don't even need my phone. I could just, there's a FaceTime app. You could just. FaceTime? Yeah, from the front because they have a camera on the screen right here.

[A]

So you didn't use your old laptop at all?

[C]

No, no, never. No, I mean I, I, I had it once I started the company and, but just to check email. But once they were sending, I mean they were sending hundreds of meat meals. I was just blocking every email that came in. So I just, I have it on my phone and just leave it on my phone.

[A]

So what are you going to be able to do with this computer?

[C]

It feels like I could go to any, anything. I mean, you name it, I could do it. I can go to any website. I can Twitter, Instagram, Tick tock, whatever. I got obs on this thing now that I downloaded. That's pretty much for the streaming stuff.

[A]

This seems like this is a big step business wise.

[C]

Oh yeah, for sure. I mean, I have access, I mean unlim access to, you name it. I mean, look, they even got a tab right here. Look, this was cool this morning. You see that? Boom.

[A]

Oh, the news tab.

[C]

Boom. Right there. I don't even have to go on the phone if I want to see news. I just click the, the tab there.

[A]

What's going on in the news today?

[C]

US Seizes two oil tanks linked to Venezuela. Trump administration rolls out new dietary guidelines. You know, just a bunch of.

[D]

Oh yeah, they redid the pyramid.

[A]

Did they?

[C]

Yeah, seen that.

[A]

What's new?

[C]

It.

[D]

Well, they in, they inverted it basically. But yeah, it's all inverted the contents of it and also flipped it upside down for some reason.

[A]

So it's the same.

[D]

No, like, you know how grains were always.

[A]

That was like the most.

[D]

Yeah, yeah. So that's flipped.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

That's like at the top, but the top is now also at the bottom.

[C]

Look at Eric. You can see it right here.

[A]

Okay, so yeah, it looks like it's saying that you should eat a lot of protein, dairy, healthy fats, fruits, vegetables, and like not very many whole grains. Yeah, that honestly, this is a good food pyramid.

[C]

Yeah. Bananas are terrible. Apparently.

[A]

The one that we had. Yeah. Why bananas? I guess, like, a lot of carbs are not bad.

[D]

I think it's just saying less fruit than the other stuff.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

That's bad advice right there, though.

[D]

I don't think it's saying don't eat.

[B]

Fruit, but a lot of times fruit sugars get lumped in with, like, you know, sugars that are in, like, candy, and they're not the same kind of sugars. And your body doesn't process those the same. So if you're eating a healthy diet, all the fruit is great for you. It's great.

[A]

Do they have anything about, like, candy fried food? I don't see any of that on there.

[D]

There's. There's a butter in it.

[A]

There is a big stick of butter.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

No, this is completely different from. From what we had growing up. They pretty much told us, like, eat all the bread that you can find.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

It'll make you strong.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Load up on carbs.

[B]

Is there any, like. I'm seeing like a. Like a. An upside down triangle of, like, mad food?

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Is there an actual, like, diagram, like, explaining what are they talking about?

[D]

There was a website. I'll find it was like HealthyFoods.gov or something.

[A]

But Jerry's moving and shaking on here. That's.

[D]

Yeah, Jerry, find it on your computer.

[A]

Fake website. Big T you just gave me.

[D]

Well, I don't know exactly what it was. It was something to that.

[C]

Let me try real quick.

[A]

I had let Jerry use his search.

[D]

New Food Pyramid website.

[B]

New food.

[A]

Jerry's hacker. He's a hacker now.

[D]

He's. He's hacking into the main frame. Yeah, give him a second.

[C]

Okay, so it's real food.gov, huh?

[D]

Remarkably similar to what I said.

[C]

Real food starts here. And I think that was it.

[A]

America is sick. The Data is clear. 50% of Americans have prediabetes or diabetes.

[C]

Oh, this is like a whole introduction.

[A]

Introducing the new food pyramid.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

That's kind of. Okay. They're giving it to us. I think it's on a delay here or something. Maybe not. I don't know. I think that's it. Oh, do I have to manually do this?

[B]

Yeah, you gotta.

[C]

Oh, okay.

[A]

Okay. So it takes you to each section. You got your vegetables and your fruits. What does it say about vegetables and fruits?

[C]

Vegetables and fruits are essential to real food nutrition. Eat a wide variety of whole, colorful, nutrient dense vegetables and fruits in their original form. Prioritizing freshness and minimal min. Minimal processing.

[A]

Scroll up to the. The meat section.

[C]

It's the meat section.

[A]

Yeah. So you got to go back to the meats.

[C]

Oh, sorry. Oh.

[A]

Oh, no. You went back.

[C]

Yeah. How do you do? Oh, everything went away.

[A]

You're closing everything now, Jerry.

[C]

Sorry. I don't know how to operate.

[D]

We are ending the war on protein.

[A]

Okay. It says, I'm good. I'm good with that.

[D]

I didn't know that was a war we were fighting.

[A]

Oh, yeah, I think that was big time. Yeah. Growing up. I mean, if you. If you looked at the food pyramid when we were growing up, it had the. The proteins, like, top right corner.

[C]

Top right. Yeah, there it is, Eric.

[A]

Yeah. Top right corner, right?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Like, stay away from protein.

[D]

Seems like in the last 10 years, that's all anybody talks about, is protein. Yeah, Protein maxing.

[A]

But now the pyramid backs it up.

[D]

Reflects.

[A]

We've got data to back it up in the pyramid.

[D]

So we fought that war in the 90s.

[A]

We won that war. I'm a veteran. Okay, all right. I won that war. I went through it.

[D]

Which wars have you won?

[A]

The war on Christmas.

[D]

Well, which side were you on in the war on Christmas?

[A]

The good side.

[D]

Okay.

[A]

I said Merry Christmas multiple times every single year when you would get thrown in prison for saying it.

[D]

Okay. Thank you for your service.

[A]

And I fought the war on protein as well.

[D]

What about the war on drugs?

[A]

I was. I think I was on the winning side of that, too.

[B]

In.

[D]

In that you were. I. I see what you're saying.

[A]

I don't lose wars.

[C]

Big T. Right?

[D]

Right.

[A]

Yeah. So protein, dairy, and healthy fats. What do we got Says we are.

[C]

Ending the war on protein? Every meal must prioritize high quality, nutrient dense protein from both animal and plant sources paired with healthy fats from whole foods such as eggs, seafood, meats, full fat, dairy, nuts, seeds, olives. Right. That's olives. Right. And avocados.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Protein target, 1.2 to 1.6 grams per kilogram of body weight per day.

[A]

I don't like that.

[C]

What does that mean?

[A]

Use pounds. Why aren't we using pounds on here? Kilograms.

[C]

Oh, that's a different metric they're using.

[A]

Yeah, it's like, roughly.

[C]

Who uses that?

[A]

Like every other country but us, we do pounds.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And the. It's equivalent to, like, the. It's not going to be exact, but whenever I look at kilograms, I, like, multiply it by two and then I add, like, a little bit to it. So, like, if you weigh 180 pounds, you probably weigh. I don't know, like 80 kilograms would be my guess.

[C]

Okay, gotcha.

[A]

Should we fact check that big T on it?

[D]

You said 180? Yeah, 81.6 kilograms. How'd you. How'd you have that so.

[A]

Well, I don't know. I don't know how. How I would guess what Something that weighed 180 pounds would weigh.

[D]

I just. Are you looking up kilograms all the time? Like, I.

[C]

He'd probably use his body weight.

[D]

I know that.

[C]

Okay.

[D]

But I'm saying no. The.

[A]

The honest answer is I've watched a lot of rugby on tv, and when they interest, they do height and weight, and sometimes they do like centimeters.

[D]

But are they in. Is their height in meters?

[A]

Sometimes.

[D]

Really?

[A]

Yeah, but then they do the kilograms, and then also when I take my dog to the vet, the scale always shows up in kilograms.

[C]

Wow.

[A]

So then I just do the math to figure out how much he weighs. By the way, clocking in at like £130 now. Big, strong boy.

[C]

Hell yeah. And that's big.

[A]

He's a big guy. Yeah, big guy, strong.

[B]

Big ass dog.

[A]

So. Do you know how big your dog's gonna get, Aaron?

[B]

Yeah, they say anywhere from 110 to 120.

[A]

That's a good size.

[C]

What kind of dog? Arian.

[B]

It is a Rhodesian Ridgeback.

[C]

Oh, wow. I would have thought you're like a pitbull guy.

[B]

You thought I was a pit.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I don't know.

[C]

I just. NFL player, maybe. Pitbull.

[D]

That could be vaguely problematic.

[C]

Why is that problematic?

[D]

Yeah, you. You just. Yeah. No, no, I don't know.

[A]

No, no, that's. That's one of those things where, like, maybe if you think that it's racist, the jury said.

[B]

No, no, no, no.

[A]

I'm saying. Oh, if you say it, then maybe if Big T thinks it. Big T actually might be.

[D]

I don't think it.

[A]

Gotcha.

[C]

Aaron, I didn't meant. I. I meant no racism. I have a pit bull.

[D]

I'm white.

[B]

I have a pit bull.

[C]

I'm white.

[A]

Some of my best dogs.

[B]

Are you guys arguing about racism?

[C]

No. It got awkward for a second.

[A]

Aaron, why are you always bringing up race? Right?

[D]

Jerry has three pit bull friends.

[A]

Yeah, I know. I. Have you got a pitbull?

[D]

No, I don't have a dog.

[B]

Oh.

[A]

I. I've sold pitbull puppies to people of all races. I. I do not. Do not have that discrimination. But it sounded like Big T was like, alluding to it.

[D]

Well, no, Aryan just kind of gave him a little look and then there was an awkward s. Joking.

[C]

But can you say the name again? A Rhodesian Ridgeback.

[B]

Rhodesian. Yeah, Rhodesian. I don't know if it's Rhodesian or Rhodesian.

[A]

Gotcha.

[B]

I never heard the Rhodesian, but there is.

[A]

What is it?

[C]

Specialized, maybe? It sounds like it's like it was.

[B]

Originally bred to hunt lions. That's so. Like, in Africa. So, like, it would. It would, like. It wouldn't, like, go kill them, but it would. It would, like, find them out and intimidate them, like, standing ground against them so that the lion hunters could go kill the line.

[A]

Holy.

[C]

That sounds like a great dog. It's. It's.

[B]

It's. It's fire. He's. And he got that in. You can tell. He got that little. You know, that little mean streak in him. So I'm trying to beat that out of him.

[C]

What kind of a dog?

[A]

Well, I don't know why Aaron keeps doing that just to mess with people.

[B]

To be like, this is dog owners off.

[C]

It's a beautiful dog.

[B]

No, he's gorgeous. Holy.

[C]

These are gorgeous, man.

[A]

So, Jerry, they've got. They call them Ridgebacks because they have this little, like, Mohawk thing on their back.

[C]

Really?

[A]

It's, like, slightly darker fur that's in a stripe that goes right down their spine.

[B]

No, it's not darker fur. All it is is it grows in the opposite direction of all the rest of the hair.

[C]

Oh, that is sick. Oh, look, look, I got a picture right there.

[A]

It's pretty cool. Scott Van Pelt has that same dog, too.

[B]

I love his dog and the breed because it's. It fits all. It can be chill. Not at first. The puppies, they're insane. But, like, when they. When they. You know, when they get grown, they could chill, but they could. They could go. They could suit whatever lifestyle you want. They don't shed a bunch.

[D]

Great with.

[B]

Great with kids, great with family. But also, like I said, made the hunt lions, so he got it in him. You know what I'm saying?

[C]

I'll be honest, Arian. I wasn't in the market for another dog, but just seeing. I mean, the stripe is selling me on a Ridgeback right now.

[B]

He's a beautiful dog. I get caught everywhere we go. Like, it's like, yo, what a beautiful. Nobody really has. I haven't seen a lot of Ridgebacks in a while. Wild in the. In the society.

[C]

Where'd you find it? Like.

[A]

Like a Ridgeback breeder?

[B]

Yeah. So originally I was looking for. I was in a dog market, and I hit chaps, and he was like, originally I wanted a Malinois. He was like, don't get a Malinois. And I was like, what? Because I loved the. How obedient they were. He's like, if you want something obedient that isn't a. An assassin. He said, do.

[C]

Do this.

[B]

He's like, this is an obedient dog. It's a good dog, family dog, but still got. Got that strong in him.

[C]

Nice.

[B]

And he sent me the. Send me the link. And I was like, oh, that's beautiful looking dog. Exactly what I wanted. Because I was also looking at. What's that dog you got, Maddie?

[A]

Fox Red Lab.

[B]

Fox Red Lab. Which is a beautiful dog, but it's more of like a, you know, that's the homie, you know, I guess he could bark and stuff, but he's not like a killer. I wanted a killer on call.

[A]

My dog is not a killer. And again, it was a great call by chaps to tell you not to get a Malinois.

[B]

Yeah, I agree. Because I seen the. The lady that's training my dog has six Malinois.

[D]

Wow.

[C]

She.

[B]

This. She's with the shits, right? And when she first brought. So she's taking him through the little course and she's showing me that she's got him to be a little bit obedient stuff. She's like, oh, he's great with other dogs too. He's like, watch. And she brings her dogs out and they're two big ass Malinois. And the. He comes directly to me. And you know, I don't like dogs, but I'm. And I'm like, I'm like not looking at him. Like, bro, try not to make eye contact. He comes. Then he sits right, like beside me. Just sits there. And I'm like, why is he. He's like, that's. She's like, that's weird because he doesn't usually like guys like that. I'm like, then get him away because I don't like him. It was mad, mad uncomfortable dog. But they, they were like. She was like, don't move. He had all these commands and they were just like. They don't miss a command. It was crazy.

[A]

You know what happened there? And you, you accidentally alpha the out of that dog.

[B]

That's what it was.

[A]

Yeah. That he realized you don't make eye contact with it. Dogs. Some dog breeds will be like, this is my. This is my boy now. This is my. I will do whatever this man says because he's not like giving me the affection. He's making Me earn it.

[B]

That's what they play hard to get. That's how you get them.

[A]

Yeah, they say that, like, when you have a dog, it's a good thing that when you get home, if, like, your family's at home, you open the door, you say, what's up to your family, give them hugs, all that stuff, and then you look at the dog, and then you give the dog attention, so it kind of learns its place in the hierarchy of things. Sounds like a.

[B]

Like a dog is a woman with father issues.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

You treat them like dirt. They stick to you like mud. I mean, it's not like you treat your dog like. But you let it know that it's not a human.

[B]

You kind of want to a little bit.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. Because a lot of people just, like, the dog will. Will find out pretty quickly if they're getting spoiled, that they are, like, the top dog in that house, and then they'll think they're entitled to everything.

[B]

That's true. That's what I told all my kids and stuff. I was like, don't be, like, smothering them, like, too much, because he gots to know, like, there's a hierarchy. Like, y', all, and y' all are above him in the hierarchy.

[A]

So. So, Jerry, you are. You're lightning fast on that computer right now.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

Yes. You're moving around.

[C]

I am. I'm just looking at the different colors. The black one looks awesome.

[A]

So what. What apps are you trying to get on that computer?

[C]

Well, I wanted to.

[B]

The.

[C]

The phone stuff is. Is built in already. I set up my barstool email, and then I kind of want, like, maybe, like, a stock app or something like that. Figure out my stocks.

[A]

Just know that all business Pete, he. He will watch what you're searching live.

[C]

No. I mean, yeah, I'm not into any of the crazy stuff at all. If I'm gonna do something crazy, I'll just Google it or something. Yeah, but, no, not like, on my phone. On my phone.

[A]

On your phone.

[C]

He's got no access to that.

[A]

There you go.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

All right.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Have you heard any more from that guy that you said was talking to you about the. The immediate cyber attack?

[C]

The guy that I met on the airplane?

[A]

Yeah. No.

[C]

Kind of 50s, kind of went dark.

[A]

That's interesting.

[C]

Yeah, kind of went dark. Haven't heard from him. Nothing.

[A]

Did you hear that when we. We went into Venezuela and got Maduro, we took out their, like, electric system?

[C]

No, I didn't hear.

[A]

We hacked into their grid in Caracas.

[C]

That's Pretty crazy.

[A]

And we shut the entire electric grid down for a while while we invaded.

[D]

Wow.

[A]

So they.

[C]

They had. They pretty much had no idea where we were, what we were doing.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Which also tells you that, like, they could do that shit to us if they wanted to.

[C]

Oh, I'm sure.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

I mean, our grid hasn't been updated in forever. Right.

[A]

And if we can do it, I'm sure that China's got somebody that's figuring that shit out too, for sure.

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[C]

You know, I did read a conspiracy about 2026, a massive power outage. Massive.

[A]

So, Jerry, we're going to get into that in a little bit.

[C]

Oh, that was.

[D]

Well, that might be different.

[A]

I think it. I think it might be similar.

[D]

It could. Yeah, it could be related. Is it in August?

[C]

I. Don't be honest. I just seen it scrolling.

[D]

Okay, well, we're talking about something similar today.

[C]

Okay, I'm interested. Yeah, perfect.

[A]

Yep.

[C]

You.

[D]

You brought up Venezuela. Do you see the poly market? Would you classify what we did in Venezuela as an invasion?

[A]

I think I just used the word invasion, didn't I?

[D]

Well, polymarket would not, because they're not paying out people who bet that there would be an invasion of Venezuela because they're saying the. The actions do not constitute an invasion.

[A]

Okay. So I am. I'm torn on this one. I think it's. I think it's hilarious that they're not paying this.

[D]

I agree. I wouldn't think it's hilarious if I was on the wrong side of it.

[A]

But I also think that Polymarket is very stupid for not paying it out.

[D]

I don't know that I agree with that. I think this is incredible publicity, bad publicity. Some would argue there's no such thing.

[A]

I think in this case, if you're a company that is allowing people to gamble on future events occurring.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And you are trying to get a lot of good publicity for your company. And the publicity that comes out is we're not paying out this thing that I Think most people would agree should be paid out. I think that's a very dumb idea, and I'm very glad that they're being very dumb about it.

[D]

I would be skeptical that this will change the trading volume on the site.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

Like, I don't think. I think people who were using Polymarket are going to keep using it.

[A]

Well, I think it'll. It could probably affect some of the different markets that they offer.

[C]

How much was wagered on that Venezuelan thing?

[D]

I'm not sure.

[A]

I think there was one guy that put in like 50 grand on it, and it was supposed to pay out hundreds of thousands of dollars. So, yeah, I'm okay now.

[D]

I'd be all for that guy, like, trying to sue. Yeah. I don't know if there's any avenue.

[A]

There's not for that. There's not. There was a dude that did bet that Maduro would be removed from power, and then people accused that person of insider trading, which, as we've talked about here, like, there's no such thing as. That's the whole point is if you do have inside information, it is 100% legal to make that bet.

[D]

Three traders reportedly made a quick $620,000 profit betting that Maduro would be removed from office, prompting Representative Richie Torres from New York to propose legislation banning government officials from trading on prediction markets. So I don't think we know if those people were in the government, but they obviously know someone who is.

[A]

Yeah, they. They definitely had inside information from somebody who was either in the government or in the military. But I am. I am completely fine with them screwing themselves over and also screwing over the person that tried to trade using inside information. I'm okay with everything.

[D]

Yeah, I mean, you got to read into what's an invasion before you place that bet. I don't know if that was listed.

[A]

Read the terms of service, dude.

[C]

Yeah.

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[A]

Big day. I want to talk to you about something that happened last night. I saw it on your sheet, but I was I was paying attention to the news last night when it broke in college football.

[D]

So this, this thing's out of control.

[B]

It's.

[A]

This is pretty crazy stuff. So the University of Washington has a quarterback that they like. Was he a redshirt freshman last year?

[D]

This season was. He was a sophomore. I don't know if he was a red shirt or not, but he's played the last two years.

[A]

So he's played the last two years. Demond Williams is his name. He had agreed to return to the University of Washington four days ago.

[D]

On January 2, he signed a contract worth between 4 and 5 million dollars.

[A]

It'S been reported, and he signed that. And the coach, Jed Fish, obviously was under the impression that given the contract in place, that he would be returning to Washington to play football there next year. And then he informed the team last evening that he was going to go into the transfer portal.

[D]

An important note. He did not inform the team. He released a statement on Instagram while most of the football team and all the officials from the Big Ten were at a memorial service for a Washington soccer player who died of cancer. Yes. Whether that was intentional or not, you can make your own guess. But that's when that news came out. And I, my understanding is pretty much all of them found out through that.

[A]

So, yeah, that's a, that's a good clarification because the team was informed, but he did not inform the team.

[D]

Sure.

[A]

He put that out there. I don't, I don't think he did that on purpose that he like, timed it to like, I don't know, take tension away.

[D]

I'm not going to assert that. But that's what happened.

[A]

Yeah, that's what happened. So he is entered the portal now, but he's entered the portal with a do not contact tag.

[D]

Well, that's also ambiguous at this point.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

Because Washington is refusing to release him into the portal, which your school technically has to do. So. Right. So William signs a contract on January 2nd for $4 million to play quarterback at Washington next year. On January 6th, he says, screw that. I'm entering the portal reportedly already with a school kind of in mind that he's going to go to who was going to give him a seven figure raise from that four million.

[A]

The figure I heard was maybe six.

[D]

Yeah. Washington says because they were with the Big Ten people already who were at that funeral.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

So they're, they're all together. Washington tells them we're, we're going scorched earth on this if he tries to leave. Yeah, because we have a contract in place. So Washington's dealing with the Big Ten. Last I heard, they hadn't released his name to go into the portal. So I don't even know what his situation is right now. But here's what I'm curious about. So let's say Washington sues and says you signed a rev share contract. You're locked in at Washington.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

The next court case the NCAA wins will be the first. So what's going to happen when that Washington sues and a court says, actually that's not binding. They're not employees. He can do whatever he wants. Now you have nothing in place for anybody anywhere.

[A]

Well, I'm not a lawyer, okay. But it would, it would stand to reason to me that if you had a contract in place with somebody, if you're above the age of 18, that it would probably, it might be enforceable.

[D]

They're not employees. This is all on a. On a wing and a prayer. Like none of this has been everything that gets challenged in court. The NCAA loses.

[A]

So, so what you're saying is that with an nil contract, you are signing a contract to get paid.

[D]

I'm not saying this is the way it should be. I'm just hypothesizing what could happen if this goes to court. Because the players win everything that goes to court.

[A]

Right. So is an nil contract a contract that you have with a local conglomerate?

[D]

Well, so this is where things also get tricky because now there are those. So the schools have about $21 million allotted through Rev Share that they can distribute amongst sports how they choose. So schools like Washington and LSU and football schools in quotation marks are going to spend the overwhelming majority of that on football. So let's say you're spending 17 a year on football. That's your salary cap. Through the money that you have as a school, you can allot that however you want. If you want to give a quarterback $10 million, fine. Above that, any nil money you give is supposed to be going through this clearinghouse the NCAA has that's supposed to be rejecting deals that aren't, quote, market value, which again, sue and find out what that means.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

So the rev Share deals are different than those. Because the rev Share deals are through the schools themselves and those have only been around for a year.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

So nobody really knows what, what the deal is with those either. And also there's another school out there that's just blatantly disregarding everything and daring people to do something about it. I'll let you take a Guess what school that is. They've got some oil around them.

[A]

Okay, so are you saying that the contract that he signed with Washington was a rev share contract?

[D]

Yes. So with the university.

[A]

So it's with the university. This, it's a, it's a really up situation because they have fake rules.

[D]

Yeah. Nothing means anything.

[A]

But then the second one person does not agree to abide by the fake rules, then there's nothing anybody can do about it, seemingly. So he's going to try to transfer. Might be going to a school that. How do I put this? Has a new coach, by the way.

[D]

You can just say it's been reported at LSU that wants him. By the way. This all breaks last night as Lane Kiffin is sitting next to Sam Levitt, another transfer portal quarterback target from Arizona State. They're sitting next to each other as that breaks. Ten minutes later, after the Damond Williams thing breaks, it breaks that Sam Levitt is visiting Tennessee today. So they're sitting next to each other at a basketball game as each party has had news break that they're both exploring other options. Yeah, and it's like this whole thing is just like, out of like this week. The past three or four days is the first time I've really been like, something has to be done. I'm a, I am a pure market capitalist. I am all for these guys getting paid whatever somebody deems their worth. But. But we don't let NFL players just hop teams every. If you want to be a professional athlete, you. You sign a contract. Well, the NBA, a real contract.

[A]

The NBA.

[B]

You want some regulation in this shit, huh, Big D?

[D]

To an extent. Just to the, to the same. You know, if you, if you want to play somewhere, then they're going to pay you handsomely to do that. Then you sign a contract that you're going to play there.

[B]

I hear you.

[D]

We can't. Like if the NFL, if every player was a free agent every season, I mean that wouldn't take very long to be.

[B]

That's, that's a real free market right there.

[C]

I do feel like, I do feel like the NFL now, like let's just say a top receiver, top running back, whatever is like, yeah, I know I'm under contract, but I want to be traded and demands a trade. Usually the trade happens, but that's the.

[D]

Team weighing if the team wants to, they can keep them, of course, but you're like, okay, if this guy's gonna be unhappy and be a nuisance, like if we can get something back for him, like we'll just go ahead and do that.

[A]

Yeah. In the NBA, I feel like the trade requests typically get granted.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And if they don't, you have legal recourse. You can get fat and then, and then force them to trade you because you're fat. Now in football, it's almost like, like Terry McLaurin requested a trade this offseason.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And that's almost now become like the new bargaining chip where it's like, okay, I can, I can hold in, so I'll show up to training camp, but I'm not going to practice. If that doesn't work, then I can hold out and I just won't show up to training camp. And if that doesn't work, then I can request a trade and then if that doesn't work, I can demand a trade. And then if that doesn't work, then I'll probably show up and play anyways. But sometimes it does work. If you make it. If you're a good enough player and you're disgruntled enough, sometimes they, they will go through with that. But yeah, it seems like there's, it does run the risk in college football where if there's no rules and everybody's leaving, it will definitely take away interest in the sport in the long term. Long term.

[D]

Well, and that's the major problem is. Yes. From people like me. Like, I, Part of, part of the allure of college football is like the meaning and the passion behind it. And if it's an NFL team, we're just like you have even NFL teams, you sign a guy to a five year contract, he's there more, more or less for five years. These guys, the team changes every year. Like, you fight, you may not know who your starting safety is. For some fans, like in the first game, you're like, who is that? Oh, well, he was on Kansas State last year.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Oh, okay. Like. And so for us, yes. But the ratings keep going up, up, up and up.

[A]

They do.

[D]

So but because casual, more casual NFL fans are being drawn in to these, the playoff and things like that. So yes, Wall, for the people who have loved this sport for a very long time, the, there's an erosion of interest and passion for it. It's being. Financially, it's doing better than it's ever done.

[A]

But I guess what I'm saying is that the people that write the checks for the nil stuff, I would consider them to be more along the lines of you.

[D]

Yes.

[A]

Like a fan of the team. Something, someone that's very like, ingrained in that culture.

[D]

Right.

[A]

That wants to see the team do. Do well, not just like a casual viewer. So what I'm saying is that if it keeps going down this road, it does feel like in the future there will be fewer people giving this type of money, fewer business owners that are willing to pony up. But we haven't reached that point yet.

[D]

But, yeah. I mean, there are some at some schools who are willing to pay an unlimited amount of money to get whoever they can.

[A]

Yeah. This is kind of a crazy story, though, and I. I feel like it should force somebody into action. I don't. I don't know what they're going to do about it, because, like you said, you can try to take them to court, but that's going to be, like, a couple years, and by the time that court hearing is over, that player will be in the NFL.

[D]

They have been like, the Nico thing was not Nico leaving, but him. There was a dispute with the NCAA about some stuff that was resolved pretty quickly. So I have a mat. I imagine they'd be able to do it, but it's just. This feels like a watershed moment that could. We need a collective bargaining agreement like that. It's never been more apparent.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

I just don't know what they're going to do about it. It's. It's insane.

[A]

Did they make a movie about that? Like, what would happen if one of the teams sat out the national championship?

[D]

Yeah. I forget. It was a terrible movie. Yeah.

[A]

I didn't watch it, but I remember the commercials. Like, what if.

[C]

What if?

[A]

Fernando Mendoza on the night of the championship is like, the system. We're not doing shit.

[D]

Well, it came out right before nil. So the premise was that these guys were like, we're making so much money for you playing in the national Championship game. We're not playing.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And I forget what the name of it was. It was terrible.

[A]

All right, well, I hope we have a good resolution of this, but this is good for Tennessee. The fact that all this happened when Sam Levitt was sitting next to Lane Kiffin at the LSU game.

[D]

I don't know that I want Sam Levitt, but.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

I think he's a pretty good player. We'll see. Unless we get him, in which case I love Sam Levitt.

[A]

I think he's a pretty good player.

[D]

Big T. We'll see.

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[A]

All right, what else we got in the news today? We're gonna do a tight show, real tight show today. Jerry, what websites have you been going to?

[C]

Right now I'm on Fox Sports.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Just reading about the Harbaugh situation. A little bit mystery seventh team.

[A]

So I want to talk to you about that. Yeah, I think I should congratulate you on defeating Harbaugh.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I love it. I mean, went into that game, I wanted to win that game. It's not like I wanted to lose that game.

[A]

Why would you say that?

[C]

Well, because, you know, some of the fan base was like, yeah, we kind of want to lose this game to see Mike Tomlin gone. And, yeah, while I don't know if I agree, if they. If the stewards lost that game, I don't know if he would be gone.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

I think he. I think he might have stuck around for another year or so.

[B]

Explain this to me from, like, NFL sp fans perspective, because from my perspective, it. It don't make a lot of sense.

[C]

Okay?

[B]

So I think there's, like. I think there are bad coaches. Right. Don't get me wrong. But I think when you surveil the league, there's like a handful of coaches that they just know how to get it done. Mike Tomlin is one of those cats.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Right. Why would you ever want to fight? Like, that's a lifelong job to me? Because it's like, you don't think he's gonna wake up one day and not know how to coach.

[D]

You know what I'm saying?

[C]

I think he. I think my Tomlin is a good coach. I really do. I think he's been a good coach for a long time. The thing is, this is. As a Steelers fan, you look at everything over these last 19 years, and it's like he always. He always just does enough. He just does enough to get you to the dance. He never really. Well, Mike Tomlin has a Super bowl ring. I don't want to take that away from him. I'm not saying that was his team that he built. He didn't build that team, but he's just. He's just. To the fan base, he's gone stale. Like, we're not developing quarterbacks. The draft hasn't been great to us. We.

[D]

We were not.

[C]

We're not a dominant offense. It's defense first with the highest paid defense. That looks like hot garbage once every two weeks. It's just.

[B]

That's why y' all are perennially in the playoffs, though, because of that recipe.

[C]

For sure. Yes. But you know, Steelers fans, we want Super Bowls.

[B]

Yeah. And I think that's the delusional part of fandom, in my opinion.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

If you look at, if you look at the history of the league and how many years there's been versus how many Super Bowls, there's Super bowl winners, there's been.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Like it's spread across it. Like there's only so many super. Because it's so hard to win in the league because of the talent pool.

[C]

Yeah. Well, what is it? It's Steelers 6, Patriots 6, Niners 5, Cowboys 5.

[A]

Is that accurate?

[D]

Could be.

[A]

That sounds right to me. But.

[B]

But to me, like, it gets no better as a head coach at that level than Mike Tomlin, than, you know, what's cuz with the Chiefs?

[C]

Andy Reid. Well, Andy Reid went stale, you know.

[B]

But the going stale just means. And this is, this is where as a player, this is where it makes sense to me. Going stale just means you don't have the players to execute like you need them. Like you need to. It just having bad players because as soon as Tom Brady left, Belichick wins there. But are we going to sit here and say Belichick isn't a good coach, a great coach? Of course not. I just don't understand, like, it's the players, the play. Michael George's hall of Fame speech was one of the best shits of all time. He said the players put the coaches in the hall of Fame. It's not the other way around.

[A]

So, Aaron, in your specific career, you've always said you've talked about really highly of Bill o'.

[C]

Brien.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

And I, I tend to agree with you. I think he was a very good coach. His downfall was he was not a very good gm.

[B]

Well, I think, I think he had his hands in too much stuff. I think if he just kept it ball, he, he'd have been amazing because his offensive mind is. He has a brilliant offensive mind. Like, he's a great. I don't say great. He's a good coach. I leave great with like, you know, and it's no disrespect to Billio, but like, I think a lot of times as fans in the NFL, we're just so used to the coaching carousel that we're just like, all right, man, we've been to the first round of playoffs every time. How many teams struggle to get to the playoffs year after year after year? And you have a coach that perennially puts them in. That is what you want. And you gotta hope that you get a. Because you're like developing quarterbacks. Like, there's only so much.

[A]

Top five.

[B]

To top 10 quarterbacks that you're gonna get all the time. It just doesn't happen.

[C]

Yeah, that's. That's the thing with the Steelers fans, including me, is like, we always pick 20 to 25. That's our range. Usually like 18, 19 to like 25, 26.

[B]

You know why, though?

[C]

Because they're always good.

[B]

Oh, good.

[C]

I know, but like, that's.

[B]

That's a good problem to have for sure.

[C]

But then, you know, once Ben leaves, it's like, hey, you want that new face of the franchise? And we. We just haven't had it. You know, we haven't had it.

[B]

It's. Because that's just unrealistic. Like, it's hard to. I mean, if you look at all the first round draft picks that have came since Ben Roethlisberger.

[A]

Right.

[B]

How many of them are franchise quarterbacks? Not many. They all. It's hard to get a franchise, to get an actual. A dog who's willing to go through the trenches, willing to study defenses. It's hard. This is. This is the top of this. The best football players in the world. So to expect to have a quarterback, like the best run from a franchise I've ever seen is Green Bay, and it's just lucky you have Brett Favre and then you happen to get Aaron Rodgers and then the new guy, he's really good right now, but Jerry's still out on him. But that's a good little track record that just doesn't happen like that. It's just not normal.

[A]

It's just not normal from the fans perspective. From like Jerry's world, when you see, like, you get to the playoffs, you get to the playoffs too soon. Yeah, you get to the playoffs, you get to the playoffs and you never do anything. At some point, you get frustrated with that. Now if you're a fan of a team, like for me, for most of my. My fandom of the Commanders, like, you die for that. I would have killed.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

To get to the playoffs every single year.

[C]

Yeah, of course.

[A]

And if that means that I lose in the first round every time, don't care that means I had eight or nine great Sundays, ten great Sundays.

[C]

But it only lasts so long.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And then. But I get always in the mix, though. You always in the mix. To me, that's the fun part of sports. I think it's unrealistic to be like, man, we haven't had a championship in like 10, dog. It's time to do something. Like, I think it's unrealistic. If you always in the mix, you always have a shot. That's the, like, who is New York when New York be New England when they were 16 0. Right. That's the type of shit to me that makes sports. It's an underdog story. So, like, you can't always be the top of the tops, but if you always in a position to. To make a run like that, to me, that's like, hey, we always. I always got something to root for. Whereas, like, pfd, you don't ever have nothing to root for. You know what I'm saying?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

That's why, like, that's the part of the. The fan base that, like, I go back and forth on is like, I wanted to win that game so bad against the Ravens to get there, but then there was the fan base that was like, who the hell wants to see this team in the playoffs? This Steelers team in the playoffs are not going to do anything. I don't know. I still think there's.

[B]

They do, though.

[C]

Yeah, I think there's a chance.

[B]

That's. That's the beauty. That's the beauty of fandom, in my opinion.

[A]

Yeah, there is a chance.

[B]

You can never tell me the Lakers are out of it.

[C]

I think. I think the Steelers, if you look at it right now, they have so far going into the playoffs, they have the second best, best strength of schedule. So they've already played really good teams throughout the season. And also they have a decent path to an AFC championship game. I'm not saying they're. They're favorites to do it. No, they're not. They're probably second to last favorite to do anything in this playoff, but like, if you can beat the Texans and somehow, some way, the Bills beat the Jaguars. And I say somehow, some way because it's pretty realistic that they probably, you know why they're gonna do that. I think the Bills are going to play the Broncos because the Broncos are the 1 seed. That would leave the Steelers to play the Chargers or the Patriots. Two beatable teams. It's not like they're juggernauts. You know, the AFC is wide open this year.

[A]

Yeah, no, it's. It's a good point. And I think that actually the matchup that you guys have against the Texans. Listen, I think the Texans are the best defense in the NFL.

[C]

I think so, too.

[A]

I think they're one of the best defenses we've seen in a very long time.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

The offense is super inconsistent.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

When it's good, the Texans are borderline unbeatable. Yeah. But there's a lot of times when that offense is just kind of stuck in mud.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And they can't do shit. And if. If that's the case and they get drawn into, like a defensive battle against the Steelers.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

In Pittsburgh, that's. The Steelers bring them down to their level and they beat them with experience.

[C]

That's like the Steelers do.

[A]

They like, we are. We're the real thing. Yeah.

[C]

The Steelers make you play their game.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

You know, you're not going to go there to Pittsburgh in. In the winter, cold, and go there and do whatever you want. You're going to play our style football.

[A]

So I saw something in. In the Steelers game on Sunday night against the Ravens. Tell me what you think about this. Obviously, the headset went out. So Roger couldn't communicate with Arthur Smith.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

Struggled getting the play calls in at times. I think that in the second half, Raji was calling a lot of his own plays.

[C]

Oh, he was.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

That's a fact.

[A]

Yeah. And I think that's a good thing. Yeah.

[C]

They know that is a good thing.

[A]

I think that's a very good thing.

[C]

It is, dude. I mean, you got to think about it like this. He's a guy who's. He's been there, done that, has seen every type of defense, knows what exactly the defense is going to do. Can he move anymore? No, he can't. But he has the advantage over every team he plays because he knows what they're in, what they're going to do, where guys are going to be. That's why I think he's so hard on his receivers and tight ends. And you've seen it throughout the year. He yells at everybody. He doesn't care who you are. D.K. metcalf, you know, Pat Fr. He'll. He'll yell, he'll scream because he expects you to be in the right spot. And he could still throw the ball with anybody. Yeah. Yeah.

[B]

He still has an elite arm.

[C]

You know, I just think.

[B]

I think he's the greatest quarterback of all time. I've said that.

[A]

I've been on the record saying it.

[C]

I just think it comes down to can the Steelers protect him long enough this game? Can they protect him long enough to where he can get the ball out? You know, then we'll see.

[B]

See this, this the beauty about NFL football to me, right. It's, it's, you have like offensive coordinators that come from a lineage of coaching trees and defensive coordinators that come from. So it's like. And you're matching up these, these old systems with new players and that's so fun to me. So Aaron Rodgers going up against d', Amico, Ryan's and the Texans. I don't think this is going to be a shootout. So it's going to be an old school game. Anybody could win those games. It's going to be one at the line of scrimmage. It's going to be one with who makes the least mental mistakes with penalties.

[C]

And stuff like that.

[B]

That's the kind of football game I love to watch. And so, and so if they, if they, if the, if Pittsburgh can make a run and make it to the AFC championship, like, because it's very possible. To me, that's what's fun about being a fan. Yeah.

[C]

But yeah, I agree.

[B]

Because if you, because if you, because if you get a coaching change, you get Mike Thomas out of there, then you got to do a whole rebuilding process. You got to get all they guys in there, all they staff in there and it's just like then it's three years of what pft go through every.

[A]

You don't want that.

[D]

Yeah, I have a good stat for jj.

[B]

Yeah, I don't think it's good for football. Could you imagine Pittsburgh 3 and 14 for the seat, you know?

[C]

Yeah, that'd be crazy.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Could you imagine Pittsburgh winning games like 45 to 10, 45 to 35. Yeah. I don't like the idea of that. Like Pittsburgh, you guys just might not be an offensive football franchise. Yeah, that's okay.

[C]

Definitely not. We're definitely not.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

We're the highest paid defense the last three years.

[D]

JJ Dome teams over the last decade are 1 in 14 in the playoffs when going on the road and it's below 40 degrees degrees.

[C]

Yeah. Stroud, I think hasn't won in below 40 degrees in the NFL yet.

[A]

Let me try to figure out who that team, that one would be. Can you say the stat again?

[D]

Dome teams in the last decade are 1 in 14 going on the road in the playoffs below 40 degrees.

[A]

Okay. Dome teams top my.

[D]

And it says SOFI counts for.

[A]

This counts as a dome.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

Did the, When The Rams won the Super Bowl. Did they go on the road somewhere.

[A]

Trying to think who they beat that year? Did they beat. Did they beat the Bucks?

[D]

It wouldn't have been below 40.

[A]

It was not. Good call. Not below 40. I feel like maybe have this.

[B]

Do you have the answer, Victor?

[D]

No, I don't.

[A]

Oh, Try to look it up. Maybe the Saints did it.

[C]

The decade, though.

[A]

Did Two Breeze ever win a. A cold weather game?

[B]

But he definitely did against the Packers. But I was more than a decade before the decade. Yeah.

[D]

Yeah. Who's beating the packers in Green Bay?

[A]

Let's see.

[C]

Not Vikings.

[A]

The Falcons. Have they.

[D]

That was in Atlanta.

[A]

No, the Falcons went up to Lambos a long time ago. Oh, well, not the last decade.

[D]

Correct. 2016, we killed the packers championship.

[A]

The Niners have beat them. But that's. That was in San Francisco, I think.

[B]

I believe y' all threw that game still. That's crazy.

[A]

Don't.

[D]

Thanks. My guess would that's because of your fucking guy.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[D]

Shanahan.

[C]

No.

[B]

I was a team for everybody. He's everybody. Everybody, but mostly him, bruh. You know, defense. Giving up the booty like that in the super bowl, you deserve to lose. Is everybody.

[A]

Did the Raiders win a game. Did they win a playoff game back in, like, 2016?

[D]

I'm trying to find it.

[A]

But they weren't a dome team then, so never mind. Take that off the list. Colts. They beat. Who did the Colts beat in the playoffs to get to that AFC championship? They beat the Broncos.

[C]

I don't know if that's a decade, though. Is it a decade?

[A]

Chiefs, but I think that might have been in. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know when Andrew Luck won that game.

[D]

I'm trying to find.

[A]

That was 2014. We got the banner hanging up. So that's over.

[C]

Over a decade.

[A]

My guess off the top of my head would be the. The Saints. Feel like the Saints might have done it.

[D]

Oh, I have it.

[B]

Okay, wait, wait. Now I want to know.

[D]

Wait, no, never mind. That was a. This guy doesn't know what he's talking about. That was a regular season game.

[C]

Dallas, they haven't won a playoff game so long, though.

[A]

Dak won a couple playoff games. Who they beat.

[B]

I thought he did. I thought he did.

[D]

Oh, I have it.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

It is. What year did the Rams win the super bowl? Was. It was 21, right?

[A]

2021. Yeah.

[D]

So it was the year we were thinking of.

[A]

It was that year. Yeah, but it was not the Rams.

[D]

I didn't say that.

[A]

Yeah, I think you would have said it was the Rams.

[D]

Well, that could have been giving a lot away.

[B]

So was it the Rams big?

[D]

It might be. It might not be.

[A]

I think it was the Rams.

[D]

39 degrees. Where. Where this team won a game.

[A]

Okay, so just barely.

[B]

Who.

[A]

Who would the Rams have beaten? I can't believe I don't remember 39 do they beat?

[D]

They beat the Niners, Seattle Seahawks.

[C]

Ah, okay.

[A]

All right. That's. That's an interesting data point, though. I'm going to remember that one.

[D]

So this weekend, that would be the Texans going to the Steelers.

[A]

Is it going to be below 40?

[C]

31 degrees.

[D]

Okay, what's it going to be in?

[B]

How does that work? How don't the Texans have home field right there? I don't know.

[D]

The Steelers won the division.

[C]

Yeah, we won our division. Oh.

[D]

Oh, really?

[B]

I wanted to. Wow. I thought y' all snuck in.

[A]

Yeah, so.

[D]

Well, they did, but it's because they play in a shitty division. Same with the Panthers, who are hosting the Rams, who are way better than.

[A]

I don't think it's going to be below 40 in Charlotte, but I think it might rain. And Matt Stafford, historically, it is going to rain.

[C]

They said.

[A]

Yeah, he's. He's stunk in the rain.

[D]

It's 74 in Charlotte today. Why do we live here?

[C]

I don't know.

[A]

Would you rather live in Charlotte?

[B]

Yeah, it's literally 74 here too, brother.

[A]

I would. No, I'm going to say I much. I prefer Chicago to Charlotte.

[D]

Really?

[A]

Yeah. Why Charlotte? Maybe. Maybe the charlatans that are out there listening to me can tell me why. Why I should love Charlotte. It's never really done it for me. I've never really felt.

[D]

I mean, I'm not in love with Charlotte, but North Carolina, great state to live in.

[A]

I. I always say. I think it's a top five state.

[D]

I agree.

[A]

But I think that Charlotte would be the place that I would least like to live. North Carolina.

[D]

You're more of a Raleigh guy.

[A]

I think I would be. Raleigh, Asheville, Greensboro. I enjoy Outer Banks or Wilmington guy.

[D]

Wilmington, good spot.

[A]

Wilmington's a lot of fun. I haven't spent enough time in Raleigh. I know that Raleigh is like, next up city.

[D]

It's kind of the. It's the new Austin, Nashville.

[A]

But I feel like that might. I. I think real Carolina heads are kind of like looking down their nose or looking sideways at Raleigh right now, like, oh, you want to move to Raleigh? Yeah, I. I figured.

[D]

I think It's a big 26 year old spot right now.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So I think I might. I'm not going to say no to Raleigh, but I. I think those other cities, I would prefer anyways. Charlotte. I'm sure that it has some great parts. I'm sure that people that have lived there their whole lives love it. I'm just not in love with Charlotte. No offense, but. Yeah. Jerry, you got Harbaugh fired.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

And now I think Harbaugh is, like, obviously the best coach that's on the market right now. So you said there's 17.

[C]

Seven. It was reported there was seven. Now six of them have vacancies that people are assuming it's the six that have the vacancies. And who is the mystery seven team?

[A]

I've got three teams.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

I think that there's more than seven teams.

[D]

I know who it is. It was reported.

[A]

I think that there's 10 teams.

[C]

10?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Which one were you saying?

[C]

The.

[D]

What was reported that the Dolphins. Yeah. Reached out to him.

[A]

Wow. Yeah. Dolphins. I think they're definitely on that list. I would also say the Bucks.

[C]

Real quick, if he goes to the Dolphins, no shot. Lamar goes. Do you think this firing was. It was either between Lamar and Harbaugh.

[A]

I think it was Lamar and the offensive coordinator.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

And then I think that Harbaugh and this has been reported, so I'm not, like, breaking news that Harbaugh did not want to part with the offensive coordinator.

[D]

Got it.

[A]

And that was like, the final tipping point where the Ravens owner probably wasn't, like, super happy with how the Ravens have performed in the playoffs recently. And like you were saying, Jerry, like, maybe the message is getting a little bit stale.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And maybe it's time to just have, like, a parting of ways. No hard feelings, hopefully. Although definitely some hard feelings.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But I think it was more like Lamar and the offense coordinator weren't getting along. I don't think that Lamar would go with them, though.

[C]

No.

[A]

I don't think it'd be like Al Pacino.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. Given Sunday, where it's like, who's coming? Where he brought steaming Willie Beeman to the. The expansion team. I think that the Bucks.

[B]

Jerry Maguire. Who's coming with me?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I mixed. Mixed up my quotes there. But the premise of the end of any given Sunday was Al Pacino and he took steaming Willie Beeman, played by Jamie Foxx, with him to the new franchise that started. I think the Bucks are having that conversation.

[C]

Yeah. Todd Bowles.

[A]

Yeah. Yep. And then I think that there is a third team, a little bit surprising.

[C]

Cleveland Browns.

[A]

I think Cleveland would love them.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. But no, a third team that has a coach. Current coach.

[C]

Okay. Okay.

[A]

I'll give you one guess. If you don't get it, I'll give you a big hint.

[C]

Okay. One guess. Okay. That has a coach right now.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

You ready? Said Buck. So that's not it. Cowboys.

[A]

Nope. This team is in the playoffs.

[D]

Oh, I actually had a guess that was in the playoffs. Was your guess the Carolina Panthers?

[A]

No. I think they like their coach.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

I think a lot of teams like their coach, but they might not like him as much as John Harbaugh.

[A]

And I will say that if the Bills lose in the first round, they will probably. They. I would not be surprised if they fired their coach. That's not the team that I'm thinking of.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

But they could emerge as, like, if The Bills fired McDermott and. And Harbaugh is still out there, they're definitely going to give him a call.

[C]

Okay. I can't see it being anybody in the NFC.

[A]

It is.

[C]

Can't be the 49ers. Can't be the Bears. Can't be the Packers. Packers.

[D]

Packers.

[A]

I think the Packers. I think packers are. Are making calls.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Really?

[A]

Packers moved on from McCarthy when McCarthy.

[C]

Was, you know, that's a good point, I think.

[A]

I think LaFleur is a very good head coach, but there's been a lot of stuff out there about, like, maybe they're not super happy with how things have gone.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

And I think that. I think the packers might be a team that is currently interested in Harbaugh. They. They. To my knowledge, they weren't making calls about anybody else. It's not like they were laying the groundwork and, like, hitting up Brian Dable now.

[C]

I kind of want them to lose in the first round to see.

[A]

Just see what happens.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. So Arian, also, the commanders moved on from both their offensive and defensive coordinators yesterday. Joe Witt Jr. Was her D.C. he's out. That's not really a surprise. Or defense stunk. But then Cliff Kingsbury, we're moving on from him. So he's going to get too much better. He's going to get offers to be a head coach somewhere. I don't know if he's going to get another head coaching gig, but I'm okay with it. I'm okay with it. And a lot was made about, like, Jaden had a good relationship with him, but my take on that was, Jaden's a big boy. He'll find new friends. Like, it'll be okay. If, if you fire his friend.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

What do you think about Harbaugh there?

[A]

Oh, Harbaugh. If Harbaugh instead of Dan Quinn.

[C]

I would take that in a second.

[A]

I think he's a way better coach than Dan Quinn. Yeah. And I like Dan Quinn. So if you could make. If that change could be made, I think that would be. That'd be really good. But I don't think that. I don't think they're thinking that way. We'll get back to macro dosing a second. It's brought to you by BetterHelp. The new year doesn't require a new you, maybe just a less burdened you. Therapy can help more easily identify what holds you back by offering an unbiased perspective to better understand your relationships, motivations and emotions. BetterHelp does the initial matching work for you so you can focus on your therapy goals. A short questionnaire helps identify your needs and your preferences. Our 12 plus years of experience and industry leading match fulfillment rate means we typically get it right the first time. If you're not happy with your match, switch to a different therapist at any time. From our tailored recommendations, BetterHelp makes it easy to get matched online with a qualified therapist. Sign up, get 10% [e-mail] dose that's better. H-E-L-P.com dose we have a.

[D]

An announcement from President Trump that's come out since we've been recording. Have you seen this?

[A]

No.

[D]

For a very long time, buying and owning a home was considered the pinnacle of the American dream. It was the. It was the reward for working hard and doing the right thing. But now, because of the record high inflation caused by Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress, that American dream is increasingly out of reach for far too many people, especially younger Americans. It is for that reason and much more that I am immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying single family homes. And I'll be calling on Congress to codify it. People live in homes, not corporations.

[A]

I like it.

[D]

Blackstone stock is down 9%.

[A]

I like it.

[D]

Since that announcement. Listen, all it took is the Epstein files coming out. This guy started to decide to start doing some.

[A]

He's moving. Yeah, he moves different now.

[B]

I think I like that one.

[A]

I do too.

[D]

This is. It's the most common sense in there can't. Surely, and I shouldn't say this, there can't be anyone in America opposed to that idea if you work for. Okay, aside from that, if you're a BlackRock, like, is this going to pass by four votes in that.

[A]

Like that'll be interesting. Now how is he doing this?

[D]

That's just, that's all we have right now.

[A]

Okay. That's, that's.

[D]

I don't know if that's an executive order he says on Congress to codify it. So I don't know.

[A]

Okay. If it's an executive order, I could see the giant financial institutions taking that to court and then we'll see whose side the Supreme Court's on. If it's an act of Congress, I.

[B]

Would expect it is kind of meddling in the free market there, Big T. I don't know.

[D]

We meddle in the free market all the time.

[A]

I would expect that Congress.

[D]

We don't have, we don't have a true free market.

[B]

I would agree.

[A]

No, if this happens, I think this is a very good thing.

[D]

I agree.

[A]

Okay, that's, that's actually surprising that he did that.

[D]

Maybe he's coming back.

[A]

We'll see. We'll see. Where are we at with the legalization of marijuana?

[D]

I don't know.

[C]

I thought it was legal everywhere now. No.

[D]

Yeah. I mean.

[B]

Nah, it's not.

[D]

It's like, it's like an NCAA thing. Just dare them to do something about it.

[B]

No, people still getting prop for it down here.

[C]

Really?

[A]

Texas doesn't around.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Wow.

[D]

Just like possession.

[B]

You can't. It's illegal. I know, but, but I mean I'm. I know some police officers and they like if they got weed. I'm not or whatever. But like if you get caught with it in a drug house or whatever. Whatever, whatever. If you got caught moving a lot or whatever.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

They gonna get you.

[A]

Yeah. If you're, if you're speeding and you get pulled over and you're not being super polite.

[B]

Yeah. It's more like if the cop wants to be a dick. Yeah. Pop you for it. Yeah.

[A]

I had some friends in Austin that, that got in trouble in those type of circumstances. So it's like an, it's a very convenient add on charge sometimes. Alex Caruso. Justice for Alex Caruso. Remember like six years ago he got busted going through. I think it was going through an airport and he had like a one hitter or something on him. Like it's just a small amount of weed. Tiny amount. And he got arrested and put in jail.

[D]

I do not recall that.

[A]

Yeah, I, I joked with him that he was the, the last person in America to get arrested for weed. But yeah, no, it's, it's still very much illegal in some. And if you fly with it Then you can get. I actually.

[C]

I know people who fly with it.

[A]

I do, too, which is crazy.

[D]

That's insane.

[A]

I have a friend that. That brought a joint with him through airport security in New York. But airports are federal property.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

So you can't do it. And he was putting stuff through the. The X ray machine, and then they pulled his bag out, and they opened it up, took out the, like, little case that he had had, the joint, and then they made him wait there. They brought police officers over. They didn't take him to jail, but they wrote him a big ticket for it.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

That's, like, on his permanent record. So. Yeah, it does. It does still happen. And I think Biden said that he was going to decriminalize. Trump said he was going to do it, too. But I just don't know where we're at with it.

[D]

I don't recall if I told this story on here or not, but I. When I was moving to New York, my mom sent me with a big plastic bag full of quarters.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

To. To take to the. The Laundromat. And when I put my backpack through tsa, they brought people over with an urgency I haven't seen before or since. And they opened it, and there was a bag of quarters, like, what is this for? I was like, well, I'm moving to New York. It's for laundry. They were like, oh, okay. We thought you had some real bad shit in here. And I was like, what? Can you not see what's in it? They're like, well, we could just see that it was a big metal coil. Yeah. So they. They thought that I was. I was into some bad stuff.

[C]

I got stopped in Colombia before.

[A]

Before.

[D]

That's not where you want to stop.

[A]

That's not where you want to be stopped.

[C]

So I. I remember I used to vape.

[A]

Yep.

[C]

I don't vape anymore. But I was going to Colombia for, like, a week, so I obviously needed to get my vapes, and I put them in my check luggage because you're not supposed to fly with them, and they carry on and whatnot. So I put it in my check lug. Two boxes of vapes, and each of them contain, I think, 10 each in each box.

[D]

Box.

[C]

Like 10 vapes. So 20 vapes total. Put it go. Everything's good. Gravy get there. Got my vapes all good. On the way back, I go, vape. Same situation. Vapes in. Everything's good. Maybe got like, seven, eight. All good. And before we're about to, like, board this guy in Like, a green uniform comes, and he's like, sir, can we step out and look to my girl? I'm like, I. They're plant. They planted something they got me with. I said, I swear I didn't. I don't have no drugs, nothing like that. Like, oh, no, come with me. Come here. Everything's okay. We want you to see. And I go. They open my suitcase. They're like, what is this? I said, oh, it's nicotine. Like, you smoke. It's like. Like a cigarette. He's like a marijuana. I said, no, no test. Do the test. Whatever you got. And it was, like, really intimidating being in that little tiny room with, like, guards and stuff.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Not. Not a place you want to be.

[A]

So they tested it?

[C]

No, never tested.

[A]

They just believe.

[C]

No, they just believed me, I guess.

[A]

Yeah, I bet you were. You were probably pretty scared.

[C]

Oh, yeah, it was. And that was my first time ever going there, so I thought for sure they seen me. This guy, he's like, yeah, we're going to. We're going to plant something on him.

[A]

Yeah. So you're the only person smuggling drugs into Colombia.

[C]

Yeah, well, true, but nothing happened in the U.S. well, I guess, because the U.S. knows what it is. Right?

[A]

Yeah. Probably got it. I had a cousin that went through airport security one time, and he had. Had. He got pulled aside, and they swiped his hands, and I don't know if you ever had.

[C]

Oh, yeah, yeah. For the gunpowder.

[A]

Yeah, For. For, like, residue.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And he dinged positive for explosives.

[C]

Oh, my God.

[A]

And they were like, sir, have you been handling any, like, chemicals or explosives? And he was like, what are you doing? It's not like, I'm. I'm not making a bomb.

[B]

Oh, no.

[A]

And then they're like, sir, just calm down. And they ran his shit through the machine again, and they said, yep, you've tested positive. I think it was for formaldehyde. Yeah.

[C]

God.

[A]

And the fuck. That.

[C]

The fuck was weird.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. So he was, like, trying to think where the formaldehyde came from. Turns out he had bought a bunch of really cheap stuffed animals. And they have, in the production, sometimes in the chemicals that they use, traces of formaldehyde. Oh, that can get on your hands. And I think he was bringing, like, a shitload of stuffed animals for, like, a younger niece or nephew.

[C]

Okay, got it.

[A]

And that's where it came from.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

But, yeah, they thought that he was, like, a bomb maker.

[C]

That's crazy.

[A]

Yeah. Pretty wild.

[C]

Yeah. That's nuts.

[A]

So, Jerry, you want to talk about this thing that you might have seen.

[C]

Well, yeah, I don't know much about it. I was just scrolling, you know, the Internet and I came across like predictions for these things to happen in the US and one of them was this massive power outage. They said a massive countrywide power power outage.

[A]

It might be related to this. So there is a viral post that's going around. It's been on Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, 4chan and Godlike Productions.

[D]

Don't forget lunaticoutpost.com I've got some cool, incredible info on there. Okay.

[A]

Lunatic outpost.com but it's, it's gaining a lot of steam and it's gotten like a lot of upvotes on Reddit. There's a bunch of Instagram posts about it that have tens of thousands of likes on it. And it's popping up everywhere. On August 12, 2026, the world will lose gravity for seven seconds. NASA, okay, NASA knows, they're preparing. Okay, but they won't tell us why. November 2024, a secret NASA document titled Project Anchor leaked online. The project's budget is 89 billion.

[C]

Oh my God.

[A]

And its goal is to survive a seven second gravitational anomaly expected on August 12, 2026 at 14:33 UTC. 7:33am Pacific Time. The duration.

[B]

How long was it?

[D]

Seven seconds.

[A]

7.3 seconds.

[C]

Most people be sleeping by then, right? 7:33. What time would it be?

[D]

Us fear it would be 10:30am Eastern.

[C]

Oh, okay, so that's not good.

[D]

That's not also what a sleep. Sleeping would be worse.

[C]

I figured if it happens in the middle of night, what's the big deal? People are sleeping.

[D]

Then you're gonna.

[C]

Math was wrong. My numbers.

[D]

No, but, but, but Jerry, here's what you're not understanding. There will be people in the world who are asleep.

[C]

Correct.

[D]

But that's gonna actually be worse for you because you're gonna just kind of float up into the air and then after seven seconds, you're gonna fall 20ft and die.

[A]

Oh, I don't know. I think that's the best. It's good if you're indoors, if you're asleep.

[C]

Why? How high are you going to go if you're outside?

[A]

Because I think that depending on how well built your house is, if it's like in the crust of the earth, you might. That house might be able to still stand for 7.3 seconds.

[D]

I don't think the house is going to float away. But you will.

[A]

But if you're outside seven seconds, you go up thousands of feet.

[D]

I'm Not. I'm not. Wouldn't be thousands. I'm not arguing to be outside. I'm arguing to be alert and awake and strapped down into a chair.

[A]

Strapped down a chair?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Indoors?

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

If you're under your covers in your bedroom and you float up 8, 9ft.

[D]

I'm saying the unconsciousness of being asleep is what is bad for you.

[A]

Yeah, it could be.

[C]

What does this have to do with power?

[D]

We don't know. We just thought what you said sounded similar to what we were talking about.

[A]

Yeah. I would imagine that without gravity that a lot of the power grid would go down. Okay, but it's saying that in the first one to two seconds, everything not secured will rise, including people, vehicles, animals. In the 3 to 4 second time span, objects will continue to rise to 15 to 20 meters. In the 5 to 6 second time span, panic and chaos will ensue as people hit ceilings. And after seven seconds, gravity returns. Everything falls from the height that it's at. The estimated consequences are 40 million deaths from falls, infrastructure destruction, economic collapse that would last over 10 years, and mass panic. 40 million deaths says the reason for this is the intersection of two gravitational waves from black holes predicted in 2019 with a probability of 94.7%. NASA has known about this for five years. NASA is building underground bunkers for essential personnel, developing securing systems for buildings. And if you want a spot in the bunker, you better be a government leader, a scientist, military personnel, and selected citizens with genetic diversity.

[C]

Well, why wouldn't they tell us?

[A]

So we have.

[C]

We could prepare.

[A]

Well, you panic.

[D]

Yeah, I think that's part of the theory is they keep it secret because 40 million people dying is better than 8 billion people thinking they're gonna die. Yeah, and freaking out.

[A]

Which I. I might agree with that.

[D]

I understand the logic.

[A]

The leak has been ignored by the media, but an independent physicist confirmed the intersection of gravitational waves. His paper was retracted and he has since disappeared.

[C]

When's this supposed to happen, Eric?

[D]

August 12th.

[A]

August 12th, 2026.

[D]

What day of the week is that?

[A]

Yeah, look, that's important.

[D]

That is a Wednesday. So we'll be in here.

[A]

That sucks that it would happen right before football season. Yeah, like we. We'd have lasted the entire off season. We had like three weeks left for kickoff, and then the Earth loses gravity.

[C]

Seven seconds.

[A]

Yeah, it says that you can follow the civilian survival protocol by staying indoors with a low ceiling, lying on the floor face down and holding onto something that is secured.

[D]

Like.

[C]

But how does it matter how much something weighs?

[D]

Everything's weight no.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Everything's weightless.

[C]

Okay. So the couch is coming right up.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

You might want to find like a radiator or a pipe, maybe a pole outside. Yeah. So it's interesting because on August 12, there is a total solar eclipse.

[D]

No kidding. I didn't even know that part.

[A]

Yeah. So it's going to begin in northern Russia, it's going to go over the Arctic, it's going to go south through Greenland and Iceland, and it will pass over the northern part of Spain and then end in the Mediterranean Sea.

[D]

Am I crazy or we haven't a lot more eclipses than we. You never heard about an eclipse until. What was that first one? It was like 2016 or 17 and there was that. We heard about eclipse, but not. There weren't. These weren't happening all the time. Now it's once a year, there's a new eclipse.

[A]

Well, there's a lot of eclipses.

[B]

There's a lot of eclipse that happen. Eclipses.

[A]

Eclipses. Eclipses. So in this eclipse, you're going to be able to see the Sun's corona for 2 minutes, 18 seconds. That's the totality. And there will be a lot more people that can see the partial solar eclipse. So that is happening. Confirmed on August 12th. The post that's going around though, appears to be completely made up. Well, and it's just a bunch of people that have copied it and paid it's copy pasta.

[D]

Sure. But we don't. What they claim is that these documents from NASA leaked and then they've scrubbed them entirely. But on the Dark web you can still find them. Them.

[A]

Okay, so where can we find them?

[D]

I didn't dig into the Dark way. I don't know where the Dark web is.

[A]

Was it total lunatics?

[D]

A bunch of people have been saying.

[A]

That the name of the website that.

[D]

You mentioned, this post is on a website called Lunatic Outpost.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

As well as Reddit and several other places.

[A]

But they don't have the documentation.

[D]

No, the people are saying that you can find the documents on the Dark web.

[A]

Okay, where are you finding there, Jerry?

[C]

I'm on the Lunatic Outpost and I found.

[A]

Given Jerry, a computer might be very dangerous.

[C]

I don't see the thread mode, maybe. Thread mode. Okay.

[E]

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[C]

Keep up.

[E]

It's golf. Tune in to every match only on espn.

[D]

Here's the thing about this. Is this gonna happen as it's described? I'm very skeptical. Am I going to grab on to something at 9:30?

[C]

Probably.

[A]

Just in case.

[D]

I mean. Yeah, what's the harm?

[C]

It's 9:30 our time.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah. It'll be 9:33am our time.

[B]

That's going to be scales wager.

[D]

Yeah, yeah, similar.

[A]

That's going to be right before we record macro dosing.

[C]

Yeah but if we're in this room, won't we kind of just go to the ceiling and fall?

[D]

Might go outside and grab like a telephone.

[B]

We said we should, we should record early that day.

[C]

Yeah. What are the chances this happens and have a countdown.

[B]

It's not gonna happen, Jerry.

[D]

Theoretically 50, 0 chance, right Aaron?

[B]

0.

[A]

But there is some truth to the black hole thing.

[D]

Yeah, that's real.

[B]

We could probably experience. I don't think we'll experience that either.

[D]

Well the, the explanation I read is the, the earth's gravity is from its mass. It's not from like the waves of black. So like there will be gravitational stuff that happens if the black holes intersect but it won't affect us.

[B]

That's what the was it. What is that? Cern, they built that ligo. I'll probably butchering that but it's that.

[D]

Large Hadron Hadron collider.

[B]

Yeah, there you go. They, they built these big ass machines that can detect gravitational waves from colliding black holes. So it's not that unique. So it, so like, so like Einstein predicted in his equations that you can, you'll be able to feel not, not us physically but like you'll be able to detect the waves because space is not empty space. It moves. Right. And so you'll be able to detect theoretically if two black holes collide that much gravity you'll be able to detect the waves that it interferes for when they collide. And they, they have done that. He got proved that, he got proved that right 100 years after he died because we built the technology to actually detect it.

[A]

Yeah, we found it in 2019 we, we discovered that the. There were these two black holes that merged and one was about the size of 66 suns, the other was about 85 sons. And so when you put those together they thought that there would be a black Hole that was about 142 suns wide in this new black hole that was formed by the merging of two of them. But according to recent studies and measurements of the vibrations from the black hole, it's not 142 solar masses wide. It's about 250 times. So, like, these two things that merge with each other actually created something, a black hole that was bigger than they thought that it would be. And it does seem to confirm Einstein's 1915 theory of gravity. It's pretty crazy that they're able to detect that and be like, yeah, that dude was right. The guy that lived before computers was. Was right. Just like with his pencil, his brain, and a piece of paper.

[C]

That's pretty insane.

[B]

Were you second greatest mind of all time?

[D]

Who's first?

[B]

Isaac Newton?

[D]

I was actually. I actually thought you might say that. What were you, a Ninja Turtles guy?

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

Do you know there was an episode of Ninja Turtles where this happens?

[C]

No.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Wow.

[D]

Lose gravity.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

1987. It's sky turtles is the name of the episode.

[B]

Oh, man. I was with my kids looking at old cartoons, kind of showing like, this what I grew up on. And there was. There was this one. Only had one season. Didn't know that at the time. Or. It's called Dinosaurs. Oh, you remember that?

[C]

No.

[B]

Alien dinosaurs came down and did whatever they did on Earth. And dog, I used to love it. And I watched an episode that is horrible.

[A]

Way worse than I remember.

[B]

It's way worse. Dinosaurs.

[A]

It's like if you ever go to a house that you lived in 20 years ago, 30 years ago, it's always way smaller than you thought that it was.

[B]

Yeah, I did that. 2015, I went back to Albuquerque, my old house. I was like, God damn.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Crazy.

[A]

So there's also a YouTube page that has done this, the calculations and what it would be like if you actually did lose gravity. And it kind of contradicts some of the stuff that this warning that we read says. Instead of going, like 20 meters into the air, it says that you would go like a mile and a half in any direction.

[C]

Oh, my God.

[A]

Yeah. And that the entire atmosphere would go into outer space. You would lose all air pressure. So everyone's inner ear would get shattered by it. And then there would be earthquakes everywhere. Because, like, if there's no gravity holding all the Earth together, then it moves around. So. Yeah, that's. That's also the water.

[B]

The amount of tidal weight. I don't know about tidal waves, but, like, the water would just have. It would have to lift up and when it comes back down. That's a lot of water.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So. Well, I don't think that it's gonna happen. There's gonna be an eclipse that day and we did find the black hole. That's pretty cool. But just in case, I think I might, I might strap myself down that.

[C]

Night.

[B]

Or walk around with a parachute.

[A]

Good point.

[D]

You could make. Should we shoot up for the show?

[A]

C H U T E. Yeah, we should make. You can make a lot of money selling parachutes.

[D]

Should we do that?

[A]

Yeah, survival parachutes.

[D]

Let's make macro dosing parachutes in case the earth loses. Start selling them now and we'll have, I mean if we could sell 10,000 of those.

[A]

These have been certified for up to 15 seconds of zero gravity.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Twice as much as you. You'll actually need.

[D]

What is a, what's a parachute cost to make that, that list. And we don't need the 30,000 foot parachutes. We need a 100 foot solid parachute that'll get you down.

[A]

I think we could probably make those for about 100 bucks a pop.

[D]

Sell them for what, five? Yeah, 500. If you're not spending $500 on, on the off chance that you're going to fall 70ft to your death, that feels like a very worthwhile investment to me.

[A]

I would agree with that. What? Yeah. You don't, you don't think that you're gonna like spend at least 500 bucks to save your life? Yeah, I mean like most companies would offer that for $5,000.

[D]

Hey. Pft.

[C]

Mm.

[D]

If I told you right now, I'll give you a billion dollars. Do you want it?

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

But what if I said you can't wake up tomorrow? Would you still take it?

[A]

No.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

So you're saying waking up tomorrow is worth more than a billion dollars to you?

[A]

You. That's a great point, Big T. Yeah. Whatever you're selling, I'm buying it.

[D]

Exactly.

[A]

If we want to do a real quick check in on the, the preacher from Ghana.

[D]

Tell me about this guy. I've, I, I've been following the dude.

[B]

That built that, that was trying to build the ark.

[D]

I've been following on the periphery. This is like, what was the video, the fight video on the golf course? Like I saw it, but I refused to engage. I. That's kind of how I've been with this story.

[A]

Yeah. So he said that the, that the flood was going to hit on December 25th.

[D]

Right.

[A]

And he said that he was the modern day Noah and animals were Already flocking to his ark by divine intervention. So he was building, he said that he was building the arks and he said that he had 250,000 pieces of special wood that he personally selected and prayed over. His name is Ebo Noah and he kind of went missing after December 25 when his predictions did not come true. So they haven't been. Been able to find him.

[D]

I thought he got arrested.

[A]

I just read that they haven't been able to track him down. There might be some people that, that have claimed that they've tracked him down.

[D]

Or was this a different guy?

[A]

I think it's got to be Ebonoa, right?

[D]

Hold place.

[A]

Well, he. Okay, I should say that he did not actually disappear right after that because he did buy, he made a video. He bought $100,000 Mercedes before he disappeared.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah. A self proclaimed Ghanaian prophet named Ebo Noah has reportedly been arrested after his prediction of a biblical style flood on Christmas failed to materialize.

[A]

Okay, what site is that? World News. Yeah.

[D]

I don't know. You know, who knows?

[A]

I don't necessarily trust World News.

[D]

Well, John Rich blog that, so it's.

[A]

Got to be okay, John.

[C]

Right?

[A]

You should have said John Rich.

[D]

Yeah. News 18.

[A]

What's the, what's the URL on that one?

[D]

News18.com.

[A]

Okay. All right. And it's got cricket updates on there.

[D]

Yeah, there's a lot of pop ups on here. I don't know if maybe this isn't.

[A]

So he might not be arrested.

[D]

But that's what, that's what John Rich is saying.

[A]

John Rich is saying he has been arrested.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay. I, I've read that there's no reputable access to him.

[D]

Well, John Rich. John Rich Barstool Sports via. John Rich has reported that this guy's.

[A]

Been arrested via news18.com, correct? Yeah. So he did buy an expensive car before he disappeared. Maybe he got caught afterwards. But the update on that is that the flood didn't happen. But he got a lot of donations and probably brought. Bought a pretty sick whip with it. But we get these guys every now and again that just claim that hey, the world's going to end and then they get a couple thousand people that believe in them and then they have to. I always like it when they have to like walk back why it didn't happen. And it's usually like God actually came to me on December 25th. So that part was right and he said that the date was wrong. And so we need, I need more time to finish building this ark.

[B]

That's Fair, dog. You know how hard it is to build a communication with the Almighty. Exactly. Get the date right, dog. I'm with him.

[A]

Yeah. He said that goats and birds were. Were finding themselves at his site of the ark. So they were coming to him.

[B]

They got the wrong date too, see?

[A]

Yep. Yep. I also think that there's a chance that he might have seen a bird. Like a bird landed nearby him. He's like, oh, my God, this bird knows. And then there was a goat. He's like, this guy knows too. This is happening. I'm right. All right, so that's the Ebono update. So that's macrodosing for today. Did a nice tight show. And we will be back next week on Tuesday for nano dosing.

[D]

We need to. I'm gonna contact somebody about the shoots.

[A]

Let's get the shoot business.

[B]

Every purchase comes with a NDA. Yep.

[D]

Why is that?

[B]

Well, not an NDA. What's the one that I like?

[D]

A liability form.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

There were a liability clause like do not use parachute.

[B]

No, this is under your. You can. We are not obligated.

[D]

We are released from any liability.

[B]

Absolutely.

[A]

How about the name?

[D]

Even those aren't really enforceable.

[A]

But we can call it see you next fall to some.

[C]

See you next one. Yeah.

[A]

How about that parachute company? You gotta have a witty pun. That's why people. People pay money and trust you with their life. If you can just turn into a pun, actually. Great.

[D]

I like that.

[A]

All right, that's macrodosing. We'll see you guys next week. Love you guys.