Thieves Steal Jewelry In a Heist at The Louvre | Oct 21, 2025

Summary

Macrodosing Podcast: Thieves Steal Jewelry In a Heist at The Louvre | Oct 21, 2025

Hosts: PFT Commenter, Arian Foster, Big T, Mad Dog McKenzie
Date: October 21, 2025
Podcast Theme: A wide-ranging, brain-tickling conversation, this time deep-diving into sports woes, baseball labor wars, the epic Louvre jewelry heist, art theft and culture, contemporary movies, and listener dilemmas.

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Episode Overview

The Macrodosing crew returns for their weekly "dose of knowledge," veering from personal football heartbreak to the intricacies of baseball labor negotiations, the details and implications of a daring jewel heist at the Louvre, cultural reflections on art and film, and a mailbag filled with very Macrodosing listener questions. Anchored by the familiar dynamic between real and imagined wisdom, the episode is honest and hilarious—with deep dives, tangents, and the signature blend of sports, conspiracies, and offbeat weirdness.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Weekend Sports Recap & Existential Fandom (03:01–14:35)

• PFT Commenter's Football Despair
  • Lamenting the Commanders’ injuries and ineffective season, questioning whether to attend a possibly painful game in Kansas City.
    • “It’s about friendship. It’s about the journey…But also it’s very sad to make that entire trip knowing you’re gonna get your ass kicked.” – PFT (06:19)
• Big T’s Tennessee Football Misery
  • Describes the self-inflicted defeat against Alabama, focusing on a disastrous pick-six before halftime and its psychological aftermath.
    • “We ran literally...the dumbest play I’ve ever seen...It was a 99-yard pick six.” – Big T (08:09)
  • PFT accidentally eats a too-strong edible during the game, amplifying the agony.
    • “I just stood up on my couch and kept saying, ‘Oh no, oh my God, no.’ That is literally the worst thing that could ever happen to a football team.” – PFT (10:31)

2. Sports Coaching & MLB Labor Issues (15:11–26:26)

• The College-to-Pro Coaching Pipeline
  • Big T’s anxiety about losing Tennessee baseball coach Vitello to the San Francisco Giants, leading to musings on the contrast between college and MLB management jobs.
  • “It almost seems like two distinctly different jobs.” – PFT (16:37)
• Impact of MLB Managers
  • Debates about whether managers/rosters or systems make teams great, and how much a manager affects win totals on a powerhouse roster.
• MLB Labor Troubles on the Horizon
  • Frustrations over owners pushing for a salary cap and the ongoing disparity between spenders and low-payroll teams.
    • “I’m not a fan of a salary cap...I think you just pay your players.” – Arian (21:18)
  • Dodgers’ contract tricks with deferred payments (like Ohtani’s), the weird economics and parallels to the NBA.

3. The Louvre Heist: Daring, Humor, & Ethics (32:07–38:54)

• Recap of the Heist
  • Thieves broke into the Louvre at 9:30 am, stole crown jewels and historic gems, then escaped on motorbikes—all in seven minutes.
  • Details of the theft: Use of power tools, staff and visitor response, the loot (tiaras, necklaces, earrings from royalty), and one crown dropped during the getaway.
    • “If you do a public robbery like this...they get a week to catch you. After that, all charges are dropped. That’s impressive, dog.” – Arian (33:31)
• Debate on What Should Be Stolen
  • Why didn’t they go for the Mona Lisa? Group muses on its cultural fame, security, and how its own theft sparked its legend.
    • “The Mona Lisa wasn’t famous until it was stolen...Before the theft, it was known among art connoisseurs, but wasn’t a household name.” – Big T (37:08)
• Ethical Heisting
  • Consensus: “Museum heists > hurting people—just old relics being re-stolen.”

4. Art, Value, and Vibes (38:54–42:26)

• Personal Art Collections
  • Hosts share their most valuable “pieces of art,” ranging from framed jerseys to inherited cave rubbings to “obscure” local artists' work (Arian paying $20k+ for a Michael Kalisch piece).
• The Banksy Shredder Incident
  • Admiration for the subversive artistry: the famous Banksy piece that shredded itself after being sold for $1M.

5. News Oddities: Double Moons, Presidential Plane Corners (42:26–53:19)

• “Second Moon” Hysteria
  • NASA’s announcement of a quasi-moon (tiny asteroid) prompts comic disappointment.
    • “I disavow this new moon...That’s a chunk play, not even an explosive.” – PFT (45:02)
• PFT’s Plane Corner: Trump’s ‘Sortie’
  • Satirical breakdown of a viral video showing Trump “flying” an F-18 and dropping “ordnance” (raw sewage) on protestors, with PFT critiquing the aviation physics and comedic inconsistencies.
    • “The shit seems to come straight down from a 90-degree angle—defying Newton’s, I believe, all three laws.” – PFT (48:41)
  • Extended chat about the physics of falling poop; ChatGPT calculates terminal velocity at 65–78 mph.

6. Listener Voicemails & Cultural Talk (66:48–77:09)

• Hacks, Broke Moves, and Survival Scenarios
  • Listeners share “broke” stories (e.g., scavenging popcorn for refills). Hosts admit to times they hustled for cheap NFL Sunday Ticket or lived off $2 pizza slices.
  • “I used to eat the food people didn’t touch at my restaurant job...That was pretty gross looking back.” – PFT (69:29)
• Survival Skills: Office Standouts
  • Speculation on who would survive in an apocalyptic scenario: Sydney Wells (top athlete/outdoorswoman), Donnies (versatile), Chaps & Kate (military training), and Ella (secret “witch with hands”).

7. Mailbag: The Wedding Quagmire & Relationship Boundaries (86:08–103:48)

• The “Rando Groomsman” Dilemma
  • Listener dilemma: Should he be a groomsman at his girlfriend’s friend’s wedding, though he’s met the couple a handful of times and it’s a cross-country, dry, religious event?
    • “In no world do you pay for this. Either they can pay for it or you can pay for it—it ain’t going to be me.” – Big T (92:20)
  • Panel agrees being asked is insane; a crisis of boundary-setting in relationships.
  • Live texting ensues as they try to get an update from the caller.

8. Rapid-Fire Cultural Topics

• Movie Icons & Risk-aversion in Hollywood
  • Reflection on how the last true pop culture movie icons may be “the Minions;” consensus that franchises/IP dominate studios as investors avoid creative risk.
    • “Art should be subsidized.” – Arian (58:01)
• Rant: Modern Lucky Charms Have Virtually No Marshmallows
  • “There’s none left, and still a third of the bag. This wasn’t worth it.” – Big T (78:32)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Sports Despair:
  • “I’m thinking about pulling the plug on the trip, but it’s a birthday present for my friend. It’s about friendship. It’s about the journey. But it’s sad.” – PFT (06:17)
• On the Louvre Heist:
  • “...they broke into the Louvre. They stole thousands of diamonds...got away on motorbikes. Seven minutes, in and out. This is a big black eye for the Louvre.” – PFT (32:22)
  • “If you do a heist like that...you get a week to catch you and then after that, all charges are dropped.” – Arian (33:31)
• On Art & Museums:
  • “The Mona Lisa wasn’t famous until it was stolen...Before the theft, it was known among art connoisseurs, but wasn’t a household name.” – Big T (37:08)
• On Double Moons Disappointment:
  • “That’s a chunk play. There are probably 25 kickers in the NFL that could make a field goal longer than this new moon.” – PFT (45:34)
• On Wedding Boundaries:
  • “You’re traveling across the country for someone you don’t know? No, sorry.” – Big T (88:00)
  • “If you don’t know their middle name, you don’t need to be in their wedding.” – Big T (95:49)
• On “Broke” Living:
  • “I used to eat the food people didn’t touch…That was pretty gross looking back on it.” – PFT (69:29)
  • “You can save 300 bucks, you do it.” – Big T (73:28, on finessing an NFL Ticket student discount)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [03:01–14:35] – NFL/College Football Meltdown and Emotional Fandom
• [15:11–26:26] – Coaching, MLB Labor, and Baseball Philosophy
• [32:07–38:54] – The Louvre Heist: Details, Ethics, and Mona Lisa Lore
• [38:54–42:26] – Art Value, Banksy’s Pranks, and Personal Collections
• [42:26–53:19] – ‘Second Moon’ News/Trump Poop Sortie (Plane Corner)
• [66:48–77:09] – Listeners’ Broke Hacks & Who Would Survive the Apocalypse?
• [86:08–103:48] – The “Groomsman for a Stranger” Wedding Dilemma & Relationship Boundaries

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Episode Tone

Language & Tone:
Candid, raunchy, self-deprecating, and irreverent but always earnest when dissecting cultural and ethical questions. The hosts’ banter is a blend of informed sports insight, dry humor, and a running Socratic examination of modern life.

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Recap Takeaway

A signature Macrodosing episode—combining relatable sports heartbreak, hot-button labor disputes, analysis of a real-life art heist, cheeky sociology on art and value, and genuinely helpful advice for listeners. A must-listen for fans of sports, crime, or simply the art of funny, thoughtful conversation.

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Didn’t listen, but feel like you did? You’re ready for the heist—or a wedding you barely know you’re in.

Transcript

[A]

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[A]

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[B]

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[A]

Send a picture of me and you. It's us.

[C]

This is hilarious recording at the moment.

[D]

We need you, buddy.

[A]

Welcome back to Macrodosing. It is Tuesday. It is October 21st and we're back. Myself, Big T, Aryan, Mad Dog McKenzie. Today's episode is going to be brought to you by our awesome friends over at Game time. Game Time is the best place place to buy tickets. Best place to get into a college football game. If you're in the tailgate and you don't have tickets and you're like, hey, where am I going to sit? Guess what? They got you covered. They've got the best seats with best deals at last minute prices and they guarantee their seats too. 100 authentic tickets on time and at the best price. And the fees are always included. So what you see is what you pay. Is there any game you're looking forward to this weekend, Big T?

[B]

There are several good ones, but I, you know, we like to pick different games around here when we're looking at game time. So I went and looked at UCLA going to number two, Indiana.

[A]

Are you putting them on upset alert?

[B]

Not alert, just heads up watch.

[A]

Like heads up.

[B]

UCLA is going to be, isn't it? Watch is like there might be a hurricane. There might not. Warning is a hurricane's coming. Yeah, yeah, they're on upset watch.

[A]

Okay, that's fair.

[B]

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[B]

Had a nice long career.

[A]

It's probably going to be Jalen Lane, rookie, nice rookie at wide receiver. 2. It's probably going to be Chris Moore, journeyman at wide receiver three. And again, it's against Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs, who look like they might just be the best team in the world right now. So I don't really. I don't really. I'm thinking about pulling the plug on the trip. No, but the problem is it's. It's a birthday present for my friend. Every year I get us tickets to go to a Commander's Monday night game because those are the ones that I can go to and watch in person usually. And so this year was gonna be the Chiefs. And we're like, hey, we're gonna go to Kansas City. Both teams are probably gonna be like 5 and 1. Could be a passing of the torch game. Jaden taking that next step, beating Patrick Mahomes and Arrowhead.

[E]

You did not think that.

[A]

Oh, I did.

[B]

Oh, he. A thousand.

[A]

Oh, I thought it. I thought it was. I thought it. And now I'm looking at a very bad football team with a backup quarterback and nobody on offense against Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. And I. I don't know what to do about it. They're awesome seats, too. They're like, as. They're pretty much the best seats in Arrowhead Stadium because I was.

[B]

Go to the game.

[A]

Go to the game. So excited about going to this game.

[E]

Go to the game, bro. Go to the game.

[B]

Listen, do you. And. And I'm. I'm not. I'm genuinely asking this because people have different answers. Do you watch the Commanders because it's going to make or break your life if they win or lose, or do you watch them because it's something you can talk about with your friends? It's what you've always. It's what you've grown up on. It's what you guys have cared about for 40 years. Because that seems like this trip for, for Hard factor. Pat's birthday.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Like, that's what this is about.

[A]

Yeah. It's about friendship.

[D]

Right.

[A]

It's about the journey. But also it's. It's very sad to, like, make that entire trip.

[B]

Yeah. You would rather they win knowing that.

[A]

You'Re gonna get your ass kicked. I think they're nine and a half point underdogs. Right. I would, I would take the Chiefs.

[C]

But how sweet would it be if they just.

[A]

That's, that's, that's poisonous mentality, mackenzie, because yes, I have thought that exact same thing like, like five times this morning there. Like, but what if we just. How awesome would that be?

[D]

Crazier things have happened.

[A]

Yeah, that is true.

[D]

Chiefs are. Chiefs aren't the normal Chiefs this year.

[C]

They're.

[A]

They're.

[B]

They're back.

[A]

Yeah. I regret to inform you the Chiefs are back. Yes, 100. They're back. So that's State. Watch this space for updates as the week goes on.

[B]

What's the percentage?

[A]

Right now I'm probably like 75. Gonna go.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Okay. That's good.

[A]

Yeah. But it's a, you know, the situation remains fluid.

[B]

Sure.

[A]

Yeah. Big T, I'm sorry for your loss on Saturday night.

[B]

Yeah, Saturday, sad day, bad day. In the morning I heard some rumblings that our baseball coach might be leaving. Then in the afternoon that gets reported. Then at night we got our ass kicked. Ran literally, and I'm using literally correctly, the dumbest play I've ever seen. Arian, I'm assuming you weren't locked in on UT Bama.

[E]

It was on.

[B]

Okay.

[E]

I wasn't like locked. Yeah.

[B]

So you may, you may have seen this play, but you've played a lot of football. Second and goal with nine seconds left in the half. From the one, from the one yard.

[E]

Why Banana?

[B]

The offense does not have a timeout. I'm. Roughly 100% of the time you're going to pass that ball. More or less.

[E]

Yeah, you have to pass that ball.

[B]

Tennessee came out in a four man backfield. I'm pretty sure may have been three, but I'm pretty sure there were four guys back there under center and ran a play action like leak two man route with our two slowest tight ends. And it was a 99 yard pick six. We were down nine at the time. So that was a. We went from, could have been down a point or two to down 16 going into the break.

[A]

It's.

[B]

And then we lost by 17. We played fine in the second half for the most part.

[A]

Yeah, that, that was the game.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

When it happened, that was the game. And it was, I think it was just Spider2y banana. But they used very, very slow guys to run.

[B]

Yeah, it was.

[A]

And the route got undercut.

[E]

It was a, it was a bad throw. It was one. It was a bad throw.

[B]

It was.

[E]

But like, you gotta go outside. You cannot leave that route inside. That's where the defense is coming from. You cannot leave that.

[B]

But I, I, Joey was put in the position to have that happen. Like it was a insane play call.

[A]

I mean, Gruden would tell you, Spider.

[E]

2, White Banana coaches call the plays. You got to run and you got to execute.

[F]

How.

[E]

Now if the, now if the defender makes an amazing play and somehow miraculously gets to his outside shoulder and makes that play, that's just a good defensive play. You got to live with that. But that is the quarterback owns that. Not A good play call in my opinion.

[B]

But that the whole thing just when.

[A]

It happened, it was. There was zero seconds left on the clock when he scored. So if anybody had gotten him out of bounds or tackled him and DeSean.

[B]

Bishop almost made the tackle, almost got him.

[A]

But when that happened, Big T, I would let me just give you a little bit of background, set the scene a little bit for, for what I was up to at that point. I went out for a couple ice cold beers with good friend Mark Titus on Saturday and made it home for the Tennessee Bama game. Before I left the beers location, there was a little bakery that was next to the beers location. And at said bakery they specialize in making extra fun cookies. And so I got some good recommendations from the very nice lady that was working there saying, okay, well this cookie is 20 milligrams. That cookie is 20 milligrams and chocolate. Of fun. Of fun stuff. And so confetti. I know funfetti. Yeah, it's very kind of. Yeah, yeah. I think that I know my tolerance level pretty good. And so I got one of these cookies I divided up into four into quarters and I had a quarter of the cookie. And I'm watching this Alabama Tennessee game and right at the. As Tennessee is driving at the end of the half, I just realized, I don't know what was in those cookies, but that's. I had way too much, way too much. And they, they threw this pass and I just stood up on my couch and I just kept saying, oh no, oh no, oh my God, no. And I would, I kept saying that for probably like two minutes after, like as it went in the halftime, I just kept looking around the room being like, that is the worst thing that could ever happen to a football team. Yeah, that is literally the worst thing that is possible to happen in a football game to a football team. Just happened in Tennessee and this game is over. Yeah, the game, the game was. That's a, that's a 14 point swing.

[E]

Your starting quarterback could injure a hamstring. That's pretty bad too.

[A]

You can just shut the up.

[B]

No, no, no. This is way worse than your quarterback getting hurt.

[E]

Now you can bounce back from this. You can't, you can't bounce back with a backup dog.

[A]

A 14 point swing. And then I, I kept watching the second half. Cause I was like, what if, what if Tennessee just has a crazy play of their own? What if they just make a play on defense? But at that point it's like no matter. It was an even game in the Second half, you guys played pretty good. Played at Alabama's level. Yeah.

[B]

Sean Bishop was great. I don't know. We came out slinging the ball all over the place with two running backs who averaged 8.8 yards of carry. I don't know. The whole thing was. And then. So we're down 17 at the. @ the end of the game with like three or four minutes left. It's fourth and 10 from the 20. You need a field goal if you're not going to win. But if. If you were to somehow pull it off, you need a field goal.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

They go for it, don't get it, then we get the ball back and end the game in what may have been a touchdown. They don't call. So we should have scored 10 points at the end of the game, which, even after all that, you would have lost by seven instead of 17. And that could come into play at some point later if you somehow rattle off five straight wins, which I'm dubious of. But, like, just the whole thing was. Whatever.

[A]

There's just. Yeah. A heartbreaking play like that.

[E]

The main What's. What's. Was General Newman's main maxim.

[B]

Big T. Play four and make the breaks. And when one comes your way, score.

[E]

No team that makes the fewest mistakes will win.

[B]

Correct.

[A]

What are General Neyland's other maxims?

[E]

Oh, God. I think that's the first one.

[B]

Yeah. Team that makes the fierce mistakes will win. Play for and make the breaks. When one comes your way, score ball. Oski. Cut, slice, pursue, and gang tackle for. This is the winning edge. What's Oski Osce is what you yell when is that fumble or. It's something players yell when, like, there's a loose ball. Right.

[E]

Yeah, I think. I think Oscar's in it.

[B]

It's a pick. It's a pick.

[E]

Is it a pick?

[B]

I think so.

[E]

Minute.

[A]

Yeah. The kids still yell osce.

[E]

Probably.

[B]

When I was in high school, I remember it being a thing. Carry the fight to whoever you're playing. Keep it there for 60 minutes.

[E]

Yep. It's a pick.

[B]

Protect the kicker, the quarterback, and our ball game. How many is that? I'm missing one.

[E]

I forget. It's been almost 20 years, dog.

[B]

Oh. Press the kicking game. Here is where the breaks are made.

[F]

Here's where the breaks are made.

[B]

And if at first the game of the breaks go against you, do not let up. Put on more steam.

[E]

Put on more.

[A]

Put on more steam. I like that.

[E]

Shout out to General Nyland is my favorite time of year, though. It smells like football.

[A]

You know what I mean?

[E]

Like, when you go outside.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

And it's just. Just been my life, my entire life. Which, when you go outside, it's that brisk. A little brisk breeze. You can smell the grass. Especially, like Saturday mornings. Beautiful time of year.

[A]

Putting on a hoodie, stepping outside one time.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Legs were cold this morning. That felt good.

[E]

Yeah. I bet you was ashy, too, huh?

[A]

I'm not ashy. I take care of myself. You don't wash your legs, the soap drips down. We've been over that. We got guys at this company that don't use soap. Aaron, you should consider yourself lucky that I at least lather up.

[E]

That's wild, man.

[A]

It is so big, T. That was bad for Tennessee this weekend. And then did things get worse for Tennessee this weekend?

[B]

What? Vitello.

[A]

Yeah. Your baseball.

[B]

Well, it seems like he's dragging it out, which might be good. So.

[A]

So he's not leaving?

[B]

Well, we don't know. He was at practice last night. He was in his office.

[A]

I mean, there's no chance that Tennessee can pay him what the Giants are.

[E]

Going to pay him?

[B]

No, but he. So he makes $3 million a year right now, which would already put him, I think, in, like, the top half of MLB managers. So let's say he's going to go make six. Right. Which would be a lot.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Your cost of living from Knoxville, Tennessee, to San Francisco goes up, what, 400%?

[A]

Mm.

[B]

All right, so you have that. He's now paying an additional 12 or 13% in state income taxes. You're working every single day from February to October. Like, you're at a ballpark 12 hours a day now. Like, obviously, college has recruiting and all sorts of stuff that pros don't have. And if he leaves, best of luck. I wouldn't be mad about it. Like, I understand there's only 30 of those jobs, and that's probably something he's wanted to do his whole life. I will be mad if he gets canned in three years and then comes back to another job in the sec.

[A]

Which he might do.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

Which I think is part of the calculus of taking that job. Like, listen, if it doesn't work out, I can get whatever college job I want.

[A]

It seems like a strange leap to go from being a college baseball coach to a MLB manager.

[B]

It's never happened.

[A]

It almost seems like two distinctly different.

[B]

Jobs, at least directly.

[A]

Doesn't seem like different jobs.

[B]

Oh, very different.

[A]

If you're. If you're a college baseball coach, you probably do a lot of player development. You probably do a lot of actual coaching.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Like teaching fundamentals, working with players. As a manager, I don't know how much you do any of that.

[B]

Not really.

[A]

You do, like, a lot of strategy. You've got your hitting coach, you've got your other coaches that you talk to.

[B]

But you're an ego manager more than anything.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You got to manage the clubhouse.

[A]

That's what you do. You just kind of try to keep the boys light and. And figure out, like, the best strategy in terms of substitutions and batting order, and that's pretty much it. But if you're a great college coach, I don't think that translates at all to being a. A good MLB manager.

[B]

I think some of it does. But, yeah, his greatest strengths are recruiting, which you don't get to do. Development, which you're not really doing. So, yeah, it's interesting. It's certainly out of the box.

[A]

A really good. Like, who do you think is the best manager in baseball right now?

[E]

Pat Murphy.

[A]

You think Pat Murphy.

[E]

Wow. It's the only fucking one I know.

[B]

It's hard to say because, like, I guess you'd say Dave Roberts, though. It's not like he does anything tactically.

[A]

That I could manage that team.

[B]

Correct.

[A]

I would do a pretty fucking good job of managing.

[B]

Right. Like Murphy, you would have to say he's probably. I would guess he'll win manager of the year because they, you know, came out of nowhere and so, like, it's just hard to tell.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Like, I guess you'd have to say Dave Roberts, though.

[A]

Schneider.

[B]

I don't even know who that.

[A]

John Schneider. Blue Jays.

[B]

Oh, yeah, fine. A.J. hinch. Fine.

[A]

But if you were to take the best manager and replace that person with the worst manager in baseball, what is the difference? Like, how. How many games is the best manager worth?

[B]

Right.

[E]

Depends on the roster, honestly.

[B]

Right. Put the worst manager in Major League Baseball on the Dodgers.

[A]

Okay, Aaron.

[B]

I think they'd be fine.

[A]

Aaron Boone on the Dodgers. What does he get?

[C]

He would mess something up.

[B]

I think they'd be okay.

[C]

He'd be so bad.

[A]

If you put Dave Roberts on the Yankees. Are we talking about the Yankees just fine, like we're talking about the Dodgers?

[B]

No.

[C]

Probably not.

[A]

So that game that sh had on Friday, huh?

[B]

Unbelievable.

[C]

Insane.

[D]

Stupid.

[A]

Is that the. Is that the best day ever for anybody in any sport?

[B]

It's up there.

[A]

I think it might be.

[B]

Would you rather have, like, we were.

[A]

Talking about that Jamal Lewis game that.

[E]

No, it's kids killing that.

[A]

Yeah, it's killing.

[E]

I mean, that's GR's a great day, but that's. That. That he did was just.

[B]

It was imp.

[E]

It was just. It was impressive and fun to watch as a baseball fan. Hate that it happened against my squad. It was. That was tough. That was a tough pill to swallow. Dodgers that I had. Okay, so I've learned. And what I've learned in playoff baseball is that there is a. Another level that teams go to. There's a gear. You know what I'm saying? There's a level that teams go to, and the Dodgers went there, and you could just tell there's a difference. And proud of the squad. This is my. Give me my time. Proud of the squad. We had a fun year. I had an amazing time. And we gonna be back next year. But they already talking about shopping Freddy Peralta. Dog, I've seen. I've seen that running around. I'm like, come on, Cass. Like, this was the knock when I first started being a Brewers fans. Brewers fans would always hit me and they'd be like, dog, like, we never spend no money on no players. And it's this. It's this every year. And I'm starting to see what's happening.

[B]

I don't know how in tune you are with the MLB labor situation, but not next year, but 27, there's going to be a lockout, and it could be like, very lengthy.

[E]

What is the reason? Like, players are unhappy.

[A]

The owners want a salary cap.

[B]

The owners want a cap, which the players obviously do not. And there's a big. So some people are mad at the Dodgers for spending a ton of money and basically buying championships. Other people are mad at teams like the Pirates and the Rockies for spending no money and allowing those teams to do that. So the owners want to create a salary cap to just kind of make it, you know, like the NFL. Like, here's what you can spend, here's whatever. I'm personally not in favor of that. You could talk me into a floor. Because some of these teams that are spending $60 million on their payroll because they know they're going to make a shit ton of money in TV revenue and they don't really have to spend money on the team anyway. That's what's killing the sport. And that's not the Dodgers. Now, the Dodgers have the money to go out and do that, but so do these other teams. They just don't want to.

[E]

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know that I'm a fan of a salary cap. Being a ex professional athlete, I think, like, I Understand the argument from a fan's perspective. They're probably thinking like it's, it's, it's skewed and it, and it creates an imbalance. But I feel like an organization that is dedicated to getting the players quality players that they need. They'll do what they have to do to do that and they'll spin. Yeah. Even though I understand the argument and I know it would absolutely help, like my squad. I don't know. Nah. Even worth what everybody wants to pay.

[B]

Agreed. Maybe a system like what the NBA has where there's a soft cap and then if you go over it, you have to pay penalties like, because then if you really want to do it, you can. It just becomes very difficult. But like a hard salary cap, I hate.

[E]

Yeah, no, I'm not. Not a fan. Not a fan of it. Not a fan. Even though I know it would highly benefit the market in which my team is in that fan. I think you just pay your players, though. There's no way you let Freddie walk. Like, I don't, I don't, I don't know, man.

[A]

Yeah, it's frustrating. If they do a seller cap, there's going to be a salary floor that's put in as well. But I don't think the players are going to go for any sort of cap whatsoever. And they shouldn't. They've. Major League Baseball has had a good history at least in the last, what, like 50 years with their, their players union. They do a pretty decent job, especially if you compare it to, you know, the other major sports out there. Baseball feels like the one. And the NBA. The NBA too. But there's so many fewer NBA players than there are baseball players. But they do a good job of, of making sure the contracts are guaranteed. It's very player friendly for the most part. But then you've got all the owners and they, they do want a salary cap. And I think Rob Manfred wants a salary cap too. But yeah, just they're all. They're going to be cheap owners. That's just kind of reality of it. And I don't think that we should be babying the cheap owners by making the owners that want to spend not. Not allowed to pay that money.

[B]

I'll tell you one thing we got to put in though. Get rid of what the Dodgers do with, you know, Shohei Ohtani is making like what a good dentist makes, and then in 20 years he'll get paid $50 million a year. No more of that. You can defer, I don't know, 20% of your salary if you want. But if you want to pay a guy $50 million a year, you got to pay him at least 40 in the year that he's playing.

[A]

I don't hate that. I don't know.

[B]

Because that's ridiculous.

[A]

Yeah. Now we were trying to figure out what would be the football equivalent or other sport equivalent to what Shohei Otani did on Friday night. And we came up with like if Travis Hunter had three pick sixes and three touchdowns receiving and 300 yards receiving in the AFC championship game.

[B]

Three pick six a lot.

[A]

I think three home runs, I think.

[E]

That would actually surpass what?

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

Insane though.

[B]

So three touchdowns would be the three homers and then 10 strikeouts and six scoreless would be maybe 250 yard game.

[A]

Two picks, two picks, one pick six.

[B]

I don't even think you have to return. Return one for a touchdown. Maybe one pick and like four pass breakups or something. And then yards, you'd have to have like 230.

[A]

Okay, what about NBA?

[B]

I don't think there is an equivalent in the NBA because everybody does play offense and defense.

[E]

So it's quadruple double with. A quadruple double with blocks, points. And they're all 20 over. Over 20. Like 20 blocks, 20 rebounds, 20 steals and 50 points. That, that's what that motherfucker did and.

[A]

Went like 14 for 15 from the field.

[E]

That would be a fire game.

[A]

Pretty good game.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

That was impressive.

[A]

My.

[E]

My daughter was my, my daughter. I made all my, my kids watch the brewers. And my, and my daughter, like she had left the room. She comes back and she's like, is this the guy? I was like, yeah, that's like one of the best baseball players in the league. And she goes, okay. So like later on happens. Boom. Hits one, boom. Hits another one. She left and she comes back. She goes, oh my God, he did it again on the third one. Yeah, man.

[B]

Also, by the way, one of them, I believe, did go out of the stadium.

[A]

They were all like one came very close to go. Yeah. It like landed on top of that little tent out there or whatever.

[F]

Bomb.

[A]

There were bombs. No doubters.

[E]

Shout out, shout out to.

[A]

Shout out to him, man. It was.

[E]

You know, the, the, the greatest part about that was he was struggling that entire series. Like he was, he was struggling like he, he was, he was not. I think, I think he was like, oh for something. And then, and then all of a sudden he just comes in. Eight town stomps on the grave of the brewers dog. That was tough.

[B]

I Think he probably is the most talented baseball player that's ever lived, but if he had played in the major leagues from the time he was 21, I mean, there'd be no.

[A]

No question about.

[B]

There'd be nobody that would even be in the conversation.

[E]

How. How old is he now?

[B]

31? 32.

[E]

Oh, I thought he was younger than that.

[A]

Damn.

[E]

Look like a baby.

[B]

He's 31. Because in Japan, they. I don't want to speak out of turn. I'm not familiar with the whole thing, but I think they have to play in Japan for a little while before they can. The. Then their Japanese team can, like, put them up for sale, basically, to mlb. Because there's a guy right now, his name's Munataka Murakami, and he's supposed to be just unreal.

[E]

I got some fucking names on.

[B]

Yeah. And so he's going to be the next one to come over. I'm sure he'll go to the Dodgers.

[A]

They say that the pitchers sometimes struggle coming over to Major League Baseball because the balls are different. Like, there's slight differences. So it takes guys, like a season or two to really, really get a feel for the balls. But Ohtani seemed to pick it up pretty quick.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Crazy that that Ohtani. Ohtani and Trout were on the same team.

[B]

Never won a thing.

[A]

Never really even.

[B]

Did they go to the playoffs.

[A]

No. Mike Trout.

[B]

That's.

[A]

That's football season for Mike Trout.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

That interferes with the Birds.

[B]

Eagles. Yeah.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

The. The season ends for the Angels, and Mike Trout becomes the world's biggest Phillies fan, too. He's just like, all right, I get to watch. I don't know why he doesn't just, you know, say, hey, can you please trade me to the Phillies? Like, that's where I'd rather be.

[B]

But I think he resigned. There. That's on him.

[A]

Yeah. I feel like with him, he likes his time off in October, and there's.

[B]

Nothing wrong with that.

[A]

Nothing wrong with that.

[B]

He's going to have an incredible career, make a ton of money, and then he gets to go to Eagles games.

[A]

He's a top five baseball player of all time.

[B]

I'm no longer convinced of that.

[A]

Oh, you think he played his way out of it?

[B]

Best abilities availability.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

Just doesn't play.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

It's one of the most talented I've ever seen.

[A]

Yep.

[E]

Highlights for the brewers in that series. Jackson Churro is a star. Misorowski took a big step forward. We needed. Our bullpen was depleted after the first two games, and he showed up and did well. That's about it.

[B]

You'd rather get swept, though, than, like, whichever one of these teams loses game seven tonight.

[E]

No, no, no, no, no, no. Fuck, no. I'll tell you why. We didn't even pinch them, dog. I think for the first three games, we had, like, nine hits. Not even that.

[B]

Something. I mean, game one, they did almost have it.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

And I like that, though. The fight. I want to.

[B]

As a fan.

[E]

I want to see you fight, dog. I have my. I had my little league game last week, and them little. Almost quit on me because we was losing on the last. On the last couple drives, and I almost. I almost blew a gasket. I'm like, listen, I don't give a. I was cussing at him, too. I don't give a. If we win or lose these games. I said, but y' all is not gonna quit. I was like, this game means too much to too many people to sit here and let y' all disrespected like that. I was after. After the game, I was. I was cussing that ass out. I was like, that ain't. I ain't gonna fly.

[A]

Like, if you up. Up hard.

[E]

But don't be.

[A]

Don't be out here feeling sorry for yourselves.

[E]

Quitting. So I say all that to say, get them on. I'd rather have my.

[A]

All right.

[E]

I had a. I was on a fly with the. I went to Vegas this last week, and I was on a flight, and then one of the ladies goes. That was sitting in the. In the seat by me. She goes, do you coach for the Stallions? I was like, yeah. And she goes, my little nephew plays for. You paying? I'm paying my center. He's like, He's. He's one of the ones that didn't quit. But she was like. She was saying. My sister called and told me she was almost crying after your speech after the game.

[A]

I love that, though.

[B]

I wish we had that recorded.

[E]

I would rather have my squad fight, dawg. Like, them look laid down. I feel like, ugh, it was. It's tough. Cause then, you know what I'm saying? It was like, hey, you fought. You fought a valiant fight is what it is. You left it all out there. The team that we were throughout the entire season is not the team that showed up.

[B]

They were just outmatched.

[E]

Thousand percent. We didn't bring our bats.

[A]

We should do Hard Knocks on. On your team.

[B]

That'd be awesome.

[E]

I already. There's a. There's a film crew following us around.

[A]

Oh, no way. Yeah. Who's gonna distribute it?

[E]

I haven't even thought.

[B]

I just.

[E]

I just. I'm just getting on all the footage. I don't know yet.

[B]

I know of a. I know of a company that could do that.

[A]

You just. You're just collecting footage.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Do you know he's gonna edit good footage, too?

[E]

The.

[B]

The.

[E]

I. I haven't. I just have the footage. I. Calm down. You look like a. A horny man right now.

[A]

No, I'm. I'm just saying, like I just told you before. You told me that you were filming it, like this would make a great documentary, and then you said, yeah, actually, I'm making. I've got all the footage if you want it. I feel like there might be a natural synergy here somewhere.

[C]

Platform we could.

[E]

Yeah, let's. Let's kick that. Let's kick that idea.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

I mean, I didn't even think about. I. I just got it because, like, I wanted, like, a little. A dope video for the kids at the end of the year, and so, yeah, I mean, we'll see what they do. They see what he talking about.

[B]

That's awesome, man. I'll tell you what, when you're hungry out there, you start acting like a rookie quarterback in his first game. Making bad decisions, messing up the basics, being all out of sorts. That's where Snickers comes in, man. That thing is packed. Roasted peanuts, nugget, caramel, milk chocolate. It's like the MVP of candy bars.

[E]

And when you bite into it, boom. It sorts you out.

[B]

Get your head back in the game of life, satisfying your hunger. Remember this. Snickers handles your hunger so you can handle everything else. Snickers satisfies, man.

[A]

That's a winning play. There was big news over the weekend. Big news. It's actually very pertinent to this show and our love of heists. Have you guys seen the heist news?

[E]

The Louvre.

[A]

They got the Louvre. They got the Louvre. Thieves broke into the Louvre. 9:30 in the morning, which seems like a real strange time for a heist.

[D]

It was open.

[A]

Yeah, it was open. They broke in with, like, a ladder, crane, basic power tools. They broke into the Louvre. They stole thousands of diamonds. They stole crown jewels, and then they got away on motorbikes. 7. Seven minutes, in and out. And this is a. This is a big black eye for the Louvre. Big black eye. Black eye for the Louvre.

[E]

Gotcha. Said it fast.

[A]

What. What is the Louvre doing in terms of their security? This is is. I think this is the second time that they've Been robbed in the last, like, 10 years.

[E]

I don't know. I'll tell you this, though. And my homegirl had this tape, and I agree with her. If you do a heist like that, not. Not for personal property, not like, you know, you go into people's houses, but if you do a public robbery like this, I believe they get a week to catch you. And then after that, all charges are dropped.

[A]

I like that. Yep. You're on the clock because.

[E]

Because that's impressive, dog. Like in today's age, with all these cameras and shit like that. And you get out of there and you. You in and out with your heist. That's yours. Because the shit that they stole was.

[B]

Shit that they.

[E]

They stole. Yeah. Shit was old relics that people stole in the first place. So, like, fair game.

[B]

You.

[E]

You break in, you steal it. You got it, doggy.

[B]

How did they. Seven minutes is actually a very long time.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

To be in there stealing stuff.

[A]

Yeah. So they would think they had masks on. They threatened security guards, and they did not have traditional weapons, but they had grinders, whatever that is. I don't know what a grinder is. They broke in. Clearly, the. The alarms got triggered when they broke in the exterior window and they smashed two of the display cases. So the alarms were going off. Five staff members were there at the time of the heist, and the employees got the visitors out and contacted the police. And so when an alarm is triggered, it doesn't sound in the room, but it buzzes to the building security headquarters. And then the security headquarters then has to take the time to contact the police. And they closed after the heist was over. They're refunding people that. That purchased tickets to get in that were not able to get in.

[E]

But if you thought they refunded the people there, I'm like, that's the best day ever.

[A]

Yeah. If you. If you look at what they got, they got a tiara, a necklace, and an earring. And that was from the sapphire jewelry set of Queen Marie Emily and Queen Hortense. And they got an emerald and diamond necklace and a pair of earrings from the collection of Empress Marie Louis, the second wife of Napoleon. And they dropped one of the crowns, I guess, outside the museum as they were. As they were getting away, they dropped one of the pieces. They dropped the crown of Empress Eugenie that was found broken outside the Louvre. And so now they're on the run. I don't know how they're gonna fence this, who they're gonna go to. If you have, like, crown Jewels. Where do you go to sell those? I don't know who's gonna be buying them, but it's, it's pretty crazy. And now, now the different political parties are like taking, you know, they're taking shots at the other ones over there saying this is the state that France is in right now. This is all because of you. To their leaders. They're blaming Macron for it. I actually, my, my take on it might have been Macron. What if it was Macron's wife and Candace? The perfect crime. Yeah, this whole thing, this whole thing has been staged for the last like four years and they've been working arm in arm to break in. Now that's a documentary I would watch.

[E]

I like it.

[A]

Also, if you break, if you break into the Louvre, you got to steal the Mona Lisa, right?

[B]

I assume that's probably, I would guess maybe all of this is under some sort of lock and key.

[A]

But is that, would that not be.

[E]

More impressive painting to me though? I don't know, man.

[A]

I agree. But stealing the Mona Lisa, that would be lit.

[E]

But that's, that's like the Constitution, right? They probably got that thermal sensors on it.

[A]

Yeah, it like that post high sex has to be the best, right?

[E]

Would definitely have a cigarette. Cigarette. Yeah, you don't smoke. Just want to strength.

[B]

Okay. I thought I remembered something like this. The Mona Lisa wasn't famous until it was stolen.

[A]

Oh.

[B]

It became a global icon after being stolen from the Louvre in 1911 and the ensuing international media sensation. Before the theft, it was known among art connoisseurs, but was not a household name. And it wasn't even the most famous painting in its gallery. The 1911 theft and its two year recovery propelled the painting to a new level of public recognition that has continued to grow over time. I knew it was some, I'd forgotten that it was a theft, but I knew it wasn't always a thing.

[A]

That's crazy. I did not know that. So it's like if an artist dies, that's how some of their, their work becomes like, you know, more famous, more valuable. But if a piece is stolen, the prestige gets added to it where it can elevate it to that next step, that next level.

[E]

Where is the Mona Lisa?

[A]

So if I was an artist, I would, I would pay somebody to steal my shit.

[B]

Could be good business.

[A]

And then have it recovered. Yeah. Then next thing you know, you're rolling in dough.

[E]

But yeah, you ever see that, that Banksy thing that he did? So cold. He, he was at like an art exposition he was selling his art, and then inside of the frame, he put a paper shredder. So as soon as it. As soon as it sold for, like, I think they sold for like, a million dollars. And it was like, his statement is like, yo, art shouldn't be like this. And so it's like somebody. It got sold at an auction for like a million dollars. And as soon. As soon as it got sold, they hit the gavel. He hit the little button, and the whole painting just shredded. So fired up.

[A]

Kind of fire. Also kind of a move. I'm just gonna say that's.

[E]

That's his whole point. That's brilliant. That is amazing.

[A]

I mean, I'm not going to be out here spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on art, but I can see that being a move.

[E]

What's the most expensive art piece in your place?

[A]

Oh, let's. That's a great question, Aryan.

[E]

Thank you. Just thought of it.

[A]

I've got. Do. Do frame sports jerseys count as art?

[E]

That's an interesting question.

[A]

It hangs on my wall.

[E]

Then. Ooh. Because you can technically argue that sport is art. Yeah, I don't hate it. I'll let. I'll let it fly.

[A]

Okay, then. My number two most expensive piece of art is my autographed Bo Bowden New Zealand all Blacks jersey that hangs on my wall. My most expensive piece of art actually hangs here at the Barstool Sports office. And it is the 2014 Indianapolis Colts AFC finalist banner that hung in the stadium for 10 years and is now autographed by Andrew Locke.

[E]

Nice.

[A]

That is without a doubt my. My nicest piece of art.

[E]

That's interesting.

[A]

Now, I also have. If we're talking real art, I've got this really nice. It's a photo, but it's very artistically done, of a record collection with, like 200 records in it. And you can look and see, you know, like, they're all visible. You can look at that. I think I paid $2,000 for that.

[B]

It's.

[A]

It's like a very big picture. It's probably like 5ft tall, 2ft wide. I also have a cave rubbing that was taken from china of the Queen's procession that I think is, like, one of two in the world that I'm getting restored right now because it belonged to my grandfather. So I'm getting that restored and hung up. I don't. I don't know that you can even put a price on that. I didn't, like, pay for it or anything, but since it's, like, a very rare thing, I Think the other one is hanging up in a museum somewhere. But that's probably pretty expensive. But I'm not a guy that would ever go out and spend a lot of money on. On art necessarily. What about you?

[E]

Yeah, I'll pay for some art, man. I think that's one of the, like, I gotta love obscure art in general. I think the most expensive one. I like finding, like, small artists, too, like, who just, you know, work in regular jobs, but love to do art, and they're good at it. I support those artists all the time, and I'll overpay their shit. I think the most expensive I have is. It's when I was in the league. I don't know that I would do it now, but there's a guy by the name of Michael Kalisch. He got commissioned by the Martin Luther King family to do, like, a certain amount of pieces of him. It's like this leveled art piece, so it's like. Like little fragments, and there's like. Like, I don't know, six or seven. Six, Seven. There's like, six, seven. Like, different levels. And if you. If you look at it from the side, it just looks like little blocks. But you look at it from the front, it's Martin Luther King's face. It's pretty dope. That was probably like 20. 20 grand or something like that. Blue. Blue, the artist. I love him. I'm a connoisseur. His art.

[A]

He's a young.

[E]

A young brother from Los Angeles, and I've been buying his art since I was in the NFL. Like, he does. He got. He's actually got. Commissioned by, like, the NBA. Jordan brand, a lot of different people. Yeah, he has a Jordan shoe. He did a collab with a Jordan shoe, and I've been on him since early love.

[F]

Blue.

[E]

Shout out to Blue. That's my dog.

[A]

Shout out Blue.

[E]

Shout out Blue.

[B]

I have some breaking news.

[A]

Oh, breaking news.

[E]

Break that shit.

[B]

Big T. Have y' all seen this?

[E]

No, but to tell us.

[B]

NASA confirms that the Earth now has two moons until the year 2083.

[A]

Really? New moon just dropped.

[B]

There's a second moon for the next 60 years. I don't know.

[E]

No moon just dropped.

[B]

I guess it's in orbit for that long or something. And then it'll go like, wow.

[E]

Categorized it as a moon. It's got to be like a meteor or something, right, that just got caught in the orbit.

[B]

Yeah. I don't know. Every few years, small asteroids get caught in Earth's gravity and become mini moons for a short time looping. Around before drifting back into space. This apparently happened a couple times for like a year or so.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

But I guess this one is going to be for a long time.

[A]

So the moon is called 2025 PN7 moon PN7. It's an asteroid and Earth's most recently discovered quasi moon. Not a natural satellite like our actual moon. It orbits the sun in sync with Earth, making it appear to travel alongside our planet. It's not gravitationally captured by our gravity. It's estimated to be. Oh, this is a, this is a puny ass moon. 19 meters in diameter is what I'm reading right now.

[E]

Come on, come on.

[A]

If we're talking about the same moon, that's, that's what I'm reading right now in a post.

[E]

It says, I guess a quasi moon.

[A]

Yeah, quasi moon.

[B]

That's like.

[E]

What is the definition of a moon? Because technically, if it orbits right, sure has to some kind of qualifications to be moon.

[A]

Yeah, I, I don't know. It has to, it has to be captured by our gravitational pull. I would think it has to orbit around us. I don't know if there's a size requirement.

[B]

All right, well, I'm out on the second moon now.

[E]

Object must be a natural satellite that orbits a planet or another body, but not a star. While there is no strict minimum size or official definition, Moons are typically massive enough for their own gravity to pull them into roughly a spherical shape. So there's. I didn't even know that there wasn't a definitive metric for a moon.

[A]

So. Yeah, it has. Apparently it's been hanging with us since the 60s and could stay there until 2083, in which case it just bounces. I guess it's like, see ya. It's been real.

[C]

Got my diamond.

[A]

Yeah. All right, well. Yeah, I disavowed this new moon.

[B]

Yeah, I thought it was cooler until I read into it. I'm out. I mean that's, that's a 19 meters. That's a solid first down rush.

[A]

Yeah, it's a chunk play. Yeah, yeah, it's chunk.

[B]

It's not even an explosive.

[A]

No. Yeah. Put it this way. There are probably 25 kickers in the NFL right now that could make a field goal longer than this new moon.

[B]

A meter is a yard, right?

[E]

No meters more than a yard.

[A]

Oh, no, you're right. Yeah.

[B]

I was thinking like barely, right? It's like three and a half feet or something.

[A]

Yeah, I was thinking feet. Yeah. This is, it's like 23 yards.

[B]

Okay. So every. Yeah, that's what I'M saying it's not even an explosive play.

[A]

Yeah. Every high school kicker.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Could kick over, you could make a field goal over this moon.

[B]

Should be able to.

[A]

Yeah, for sure. Yeah. That's soft. This is a soft moon. I've got a huge, huge update in PFT's playing corner this week. Big update.

[B]

What's that?

[A]

Did you see President Trump's video that he posted?

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Arian, have you seen President Trump's video?

[E]

Unfortunately, I have, my brother.

[A]

Okay. So in response to the no Kings marches that took place around the country, the great unifier Donald Trump posted a video of him loaded up in what appears to be an F18 Super Hornet. I've studied this plane from several angles. I believe it's a Super Hornet. I. Yeah, pretty sure it's a Super Hornet painted with King Trump on the side. And then he flies a sortie over no Kings March. And then he proceeds to switch into air to ground mode and unleashes an ordinance of, I believe, raw sewage. His own or other people's shit.

[B]

It's a lot I don't know.

[A]

I don't know whose shit this is. A couple inconsistencies in the video. The plane that takes off does appear to be a F18 Super Hornet. As it becomes airborne, something happens with the wings. I don't know if it's the AI simulation. The wings appeared to be sawed off. It's a type of Super Hornet that I don't think exists. It also looks like it has one engine, no, two engines. Upon takeoff. And then as it proceeds to the waypoint where it releases its ordinance, it converts to a one engine plane. So I don't know what happened in midair, but it lost an engine. But he still fulfilled the bombing run even with one engine. That's just outstanding airmanship by President Trump. Yeah. And the shit seems to come straight down from a 90 degree angle almost directly from the sky. That just doesn't make any sense at all with the physics of how you would complete a bombing run. You release your ordinance before you've gone over the target. Your target indicator pops up on the hood and then you say pickle and you release your air to ground.

[B]

Pickle.

[A]

Yeah, you say pickle when you drop a bomb.

[B]

Interesting. Pickle.

[A]

And. And then you fly away and the bomb comes in at an angle because it's carrying the speed of the aircraft and it's not coming straight down from above because the bomb, obviously as you're flying it has. Let's say the airplane's going 600 miles an hour. That bomb on board the airplane is traveling 600 miles an hour at the time that it's released. So naturally it's going to carry forward. This shit seems to come straight down from above, defying Newton's. I believe all three laws. All three laws were violated in this. And again, someone's going to have to get back to me and explain what happened with the second engine and what plane this is.

[B]

How high is a plane flying when it drops a payload?

[A]

That's a good question, Big T. It depends on what plane it is. It depends on what kind of payload. Are we talking a like bunker buster bomb?

[B]

Let's say a gigantic amount of shit.

[A]

Okay. If it were to drop, if you're dropping shit with any sort of accuracy whatsoever, you would have to be making a very low bombing run because the nature and the viscosity of the shit as it's released in the air, as the plane's going 500 miles an hour, maybe faster, the air resistance would just turn it into brown mist and it would just become kind of a shit cloud that would rain down upon you. Now if you did that at a low level, like if you dropped, I don't know, like 600 pounds of sewage from the top of the Empire State Building, by the time it hit the ground, it would probably be like, you know, a solid. A solid splattering of poop. But the higher up you get, the more diffusion in the cloud of shit and the wider the, the target. It'd be pretty much impossible to hit a protest with any degree of accuracy with human. If you're above, I'd say 3,000ft.

[B]

Okay. So I asked that question for a follow up, which is would having shit from 3,000ft dumped on you, I mean that's gotta, is that, is that gonna kill somebody?

[A]

I think, yeah. There's gonna be infections. Oh yeah. I, I think if you have an open sore.

[E]

Oh, I thought you meant from the.

[B]

Oh, I did, yeah. Well, obviously depends on the, the makeup. Like when it's.

[E]

I don't think it's. I don't think it's has that much. So like if I, if an ant falls from the Empire State Building, famously, like, it's, it's not gonna die.

[B]

What is the terminal velocity of.

[A]

That's interesting. I don't know.

[B]

Let's ask Chat. GPT.

[A]

Okay. Because it would have to be almost a. I don't think it could get fast enough because it would, it would diffuse as a liquid. It's primarily a liquid, which actually does.

[B]

Happen in that video. So it might be a little more accurate than you're giving it credit for.

[A]

Well, I'm just saying, like, I. There's a lot of inaccuracies in this video. Just speaking strictly from an aviation standpoint.

[B]

All right. I've asked Chad, GPT, what would be the terminal velocity of poop dropped from a fighter jet at 3,000ft? It's getting back to me. It doesn't depend on height, only shape, mass, and air resistance. From 3,000ft. The poop might not reach full terminal velocity before impact, but we can still calculate what it would be in free fall if it had enough time. It's given me mass and drag coefficients and all sorts of stuff. It's still calculating. This is actually kind of impressive with all the math it's doing.

[E]

Mm.

[B]

It's giving me some whacked out formulas. 65 to 78 miles an hour, depending on the size, shape, and consistency.

[A]

How fast?

[B]

65 to 78 miles an hour.

[A]

Okay. I don't think. I don't think it would kill you.

[B]

No. That would hurt, though.

[A]

Yeah. It might knock you over, but it's.

[B]

Not like, especially a quantity of the one that President Trump dropped.

[A]

Now, if you really want to do some damage, I feel like you would just take out, like, a. You need, like, a fire hose, like massive fire cannons of shit. This is more of an artillery situation than it is, I think, an air to ground mission. It's also unclear where Trump took off from, if he has any support from Wingman while in the air, who he was on comms with. I don't. I don't understand. There's a lot of questions that go into it. So that's BFT's plane corner.

[B]

I would argue that's the best one we've had.

[A]

Yeah. Also, in PFT's playing corner, there are some. There's some issues going on in the Caribbean. You follow that big T?

[B]

No, this is the first I'm hearing.

[A]

So, you know, the. The boats that the military's been striking, the alleged narco terrorists, might have been a fishing boat mixed in there.

[B]

What's the evidence for that?

[A]

Well, there were a couple survivors, and then the government apprehended the survivors, and they're releasing them and not charging them with anything. Okay, so that would. That would seem to indicate that maybe they weren't drug. Maybe they weren't. They didn't have enough evidence to try them as drug traffickers, but they had enough evidence to kill them as drug traffickers.

[B]

Yeah. I don't know.

[A]

Seems a little shaky. Also, the guy that's in charge of the entire US Command in Central and South America abruptly resigned after one year on the job last week. Something to keep your eye on. Watch this space. What else we got in the news today?

[B]

This isn't like world news, I guess, but there was an interesting tweet that's been going kind of viral, and I'm curious Yalls thoughts on it. When was the last time an original film character became a genuine pop culture icon? There has to have been someone post Jack Sparrow, but I simply can't think of who. And I saw someone on TikTok had a good rationale for this. They said the test for this should be if you dressed as this character for Halloween, no one would have any doubt what you are.

[A]

Borat.

[B]

That's way before Jack Sparrow. Also, I would argue when was Jack sparrow.

[A]

Borat was 2005. 2004.

[B]

That sounds about right. Maybe.

[A]

No, I think it might have been either 2003 or 2004.

[B]

Right about the same time either way. But I think Borat was before. Okay, but let's say post 2008. 9, 10.

[A]

Zach Galfenac is character from the Hangover with the baby. Yeah.

[B]

That's not a pop culture icon.

[A]

You get that every Halloween.

[D]

Yeah, but I don't think everyone.

[B]

There would be people. I. Hangovers, one of my favorite movies. There would be people who didn't know what that was.

[D]

Like.

[C]

Mean Girls.

[D]

That was before.

[B]

That was still probably before, too. But yeah, I don't.

[D]

I thought.

[B]

I don't think that's an icon.

[D]

I saw an answer to this tweet I did.

[B]

I've saw the same answer twice, and I think it might be correct.

[D]

Do you know the.

[A]

The Joker?

[B]

Well, that's.

[A]

But the Joker's been around 60 years ago, I think. Yeah. This is original, right?

[E]

Original films.

[B]

Yes.

[E]

Bad guys. Jesus Christ.

[B]

Well, that was the point. It was like all the movies that come out now are adaptations of other stuff.

[E]

Oh, I got one. I got one. Squid Games.

[D]

That's not a movie.

[E]

I mean.

[B]

Yeah, that's a. That's a TV show. That. The whole point was movies.

[D]

Okay, do you want to say what the answer that we both saw was?

[B]

Yeah. A lot of people have been saying the Minions.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

And it might be interesting.

[A]

I still have never seen a Minions film.

[D]

But you know who the Minions are.

[A]

I do.

[B]

Which is actually proof of the point.

[A]

Yeah. They crossed over.

[C]

And most recently, the. I think it was some football team made a meme of them after beating. Yeah.

[D]

It was the Colts beating the Chargers.

[A]

Yeah. Because the Chargers were wearing boof assumes. Yeah, Boof ass uniforms. I like that they were boof.

[D]

Does Barbie count?

[A]

Nope.

[D]

Because that's not original. I think it's the Minion.

[C]

Hilarious.

[B]

But yeah. The whole point was that, like, no movie has come out with an original character that became very relevant in pop culture in more than a decade.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Other than.

[E]

Maybe there's actually a reason for this. Like, so I got. I got a couple. I got some people in the business. And Hollywood was, like, drying up because of obvious reasons, Internet and streaming and all that. And so, like, what they used to do is, like, I have a whole bunch of, like, scripts that they would greenlit. I mean, green light and. And they would get a bunch of. What are they called? Not investments. What are people. People that fund them.

[B]

Producers.

[E]

No, I figured it's called.

[B]

But the.

[E]

The folks that would. Would fund the movies. Right. You know how you. The box office sells. That's how they get their money back. Well, movies ain't selling like that anymore, so they're. They're. They're not taking any more risks investing in these movies because there's no return on their risks. So what do they do is they keep on bringing up the ocean. They know Superman's gonna sell. Batman gonna sell, like, all of these same concepts that are going. That they know are gonna do okay. That's what they're. They're not. No, no Hollywood investors. That's what no Hollywood investors are. Are taking any more risks on any new scripts. There's a bunch of scripts and dope art being written, but nobody's gonna take a risk for like a hundred million dollar budget.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

May or may not. May or may not go.

[A]

They'd rather make a movie where they have the IP to it, and then they know that it's a successful franchise. They sell the film. The film's gonna do well, especially, like, with kids. And then they're gonna sell all the merch afterwards and make a ton of money off that. Yeah. It's a safer bet than it is to go out on a limb and be like, oh, this is a great screenplay. Let's make it so.

[E]

I think art should be subsidized. Yeah.

[A]

We're just gonna keep getting more and more remakes and sequels and prequels.

[E]

I need to see another Batman movie, dog. He done beat up every mentally ill, poor person in the city already. I'm done. I'm done with Batman.

[B]

My parents go see every Jurassic park movie.

[E]

Oh, my God. The Last one was so bad.

[B]

And I will, too. Every time they do, like, whenever I'm talking to them, they're like, we went to a movie, and I'll say, what'd you see? And invariably every year, there's one, It's Jurassic Park. And I say, let me guess. Something went wrong, the dinosaurs broke. Contain. A secondary character got eaten, and then it was eventually contained and everything went back to normal. They're like, yeah, that's about it.

[E]

So bad. The last one was so bad. And I had. I had high hopes for it, but it was so. Oh, my God. Hated it.

[B]

They're also three months behind on this podcast, so they'll hear that in three months and talk to me about it.

[A]

They'll already have seen the next Jurassic Park.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

When is the next one coming out?

[B]

Who knows?

[E]

There's another one slotted. No way. They need to be done with that one.

[B]

I'm sure there is, dude.

[A]

I think the original is the best. And then the. I thought the first one with Chris Pratt was pretty good, too.

[E]

I didn't hate that one.

[A]

But outside.

[B]

Of that one just came out in June.

[E]

Yeah, that's the world. Rebirth.

[B]

Yeah. Jurassic World Rebirth.

[A]

Oh, shoot.

[E]

Scarlett Johansson. New woman crush, too.

[D]

Who?

[E]

Olivia Wilde.

[A]

Oh, wow.

[D]

You're late.

[A]

New. New crush.

[D]

New crush.

[B]

Well, she's just. She's just matured into his age range. That's true. She's, what, 47, 48, probably.

[A]

No, not that.

[B]

41. She's only 41?

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Wow.

[D]

Remember, she was dating Harry Styles for a while.

[B]

Well, yeah, but that wasn't because they were age appropriate. That's true.

[D]

They weren't appropriate, basically, on anything. Yeah. Olivia Wilde's beautiful.

[E]

Yeah, she's cold. I follow her on the ground. Hey, if you happen to listen to this, Olivia hit me back, you know, I mean, I haven't hit her. That's creepy. But.

[D]

So we can knock her off the list of a list. Celebrities.

[A]

Yep.

[E]

I'm not knocking. No, I don't have a list.

[D]

No, that's. That's already happened.

[A]

Yeah. I'm trying to think of other iconic characters that have had, like, made their debut in movies. The other one, I. Neo.

[E]

Neo was one, but I was. I was.

[A]

That was way before Benoit Blanc, the Daniel Craig character from Knives Out.

[D]

No.

[A]

You don't like him.

[D]

No, I love.

[B]

I love those movies. That's not a cultural icon.

[A]

We got a new one coming out soon.

[D]

I know. I'm so excited.

[A]

Do they really?

[B]

Oh, and it's coming out in theaters.

[A]

Wake up dead Man.

[D]

Yes. I'm so excited.

[E]

Who? I love a whodunit. Oh, I'm hosting a. I'm hosting a Halloween who done it Party.

[A]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[E]

So I'm creating the script. Everybody's gonna have a character, and everybody and the person who commits the murder knows that they're gonna do it. So they have to. They have to act the entire night, and it's. There gonna be a bunch of slews, and there's gonna be Halloween drinks and food. It's gonna be fired up, and I'm hosting.

[A]

I love that.

[E]

That's gonna be dope.

[A]

Do you get to pick who the murderer is gonna be?

[E]

Yeah, it's my. It's my party.

[A]

Do you know who it's going to be already?

[E]

I'm creating the script now.

[A]

Oh, you're writing the whole thing?

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

That's awesome. Do you have any, like, Is there, like, a format or template that you're using or. It's just all on you?

[E]

I've, like, googled some stuff like, you know, how to. How to do a murder mystery dinner, stuff like that. There's some good articles that pop up and stuff. Because this is new for me. I never done this.

[A]

That's gonna be fun.

[E]

That's gonna be dope.

[A]

There is a case that's going before the Supreme Court about gun control. Big T, have you seen this?

[B]

I saw the headlines about it. I haven't dived. Dove divin. What's the past participle of dive?

[A]

Dived. I haven't dived into it yet.

[B]

I think that's right.

[A]

So they're going to hear a case about whether or not people who smoke weed can own guns. How about that? There's a case against a Texas man who was charged with a felony because he allegedly had a gun in his home and he acknowledged being a regular pot user. The Justice Department appealed after a lower court largely struck down a law that bars people who use any illegal drugs from having guns. They asked the court to reinstate a case against Ali Daniel Hamam Hamani. His lawyers got the felony charge tossed out after the 5th U.S. circuit Court of Appeals found that the bankit bland is unconstitutional under the Supreme Court's expanded view of gun rights. The judges found it could still be used against people accused of being high and armed. At the same time, though the attorneys argue that the broadly written law puts millions of people at risk of technical violations, since at least 20% of Americans have tried pot. According to government health data, half of states legalize recreational marijuana, but it's still illegal under federal law. Should people who smoke weed regularly be allowed to own firearms? That's going to be an interesting debate. I don't even know. This might be one of those cases where folks won't know which side to pick.

[B]

So this is not people who have been convicted of a crime.

[A]

It'S people. Correct.

[B]

This is just self reported marijuana users.

[A]

Yeah. It's like, if you regularly smoke pot, are you allowed to own a firearm?

[B]

And currently you are not technically, because.

[A]

It'S illegal under federal law.

[B]

Sure. But there's no way of. That's not like a question you get asked on a. Like when you're buying a gun.

[A]

I don't think it is.

[B]

Yeah, I don't. That's interesting. So they just want to make it in writing legal.

[A]

I think what they're trying to do is they want to, they want to use it as a pretense. Like if they want to throw the book at you or if they want to take your guns away and they think that you're a problem, it's one thing that they can look at and be like, oh, this guy smokes weed. Okay, we're allowed to arrest him and he can't have these guns. Like, if they're going after you anyways, I think it's an easy way for them to get access to your firearms.

[B]

President Trump's administration asked the justices to revive a case against a text man charged with felony because he allegedly had gotten his home and acknowledged being a regular pot user.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

A lower court largely struck down all the bars. People who use any illegal drugs from having guns. So is it any illegal drugs or just weed?

[A]

I think it's any illegal drugs. Yeah.

[B]

Interesting.

[A]

Yeah. It's like how, you know, if a police officer pulls you over and they think that they smell weed, they can search you. If they think like this guy's a habitual marijuana user and we think that he shouldn't have these guns, then they can be like, he's not allowed to have them because he smokes pot.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

But it's, I think that's probably useful in some law enforcement aspects, but also it could just very easily be used to take away your rights. I don't know. This is one where I, I think even the people that find themselves right in the middle of the gun control debate that have like a rock solid thing that they stand on all the time, I feel like they're even gonna have to sit down and think like, well, I like drugs or I like weed, but I don't like People that smoke, that smoke too much weed and have guns, but you're allowed to have guns, but also you're a hippie, so you shouldn't have a gun. But it's going to confuse a lot of people.

[B]

The government said the FBI found Hamani's gun and cocaine in a search of his home as they probe travel and communications allegedly linked to Iran.

[A]

Okay, I feel like the. The cocaine part already answers this question, right?

[B]

Yeah, I don't know. That's. That's interesting.

[A]

Like, if you have. If you've got coke already and you've got firearms, I feel like that's already possession of a firearm while committing a felony. And they can take your gun. Yeah, interesting. Okay, we'll see what happens with that. Do we have any voicemails that we can get into today?

[B]

Arian, by the way, told us he had to leave at 1:10, and then at 12:10, he just leaves.

[C]

He was going off Eastern time, I guess.

[E]

Yeah.

[F]

Yo, what's going on? It's your boy Price.

[A]

Wait, can you pause this for a second? Sorry, I. I meant to bring this up while Aaron was here. I forgot that Arian was not in the studio last Wednesday. This FaceTime me. Oh, yeah, right. I saw that right after the commander's Bears game. I'm talking like two minutes after the game was over. And asked me for 10 push ups.

[C]

Yeah, it was on Viva. They had it on Viva tv.

[A]

This dickhead. And the brewers had just lost that night, too. He had a big glass of whiskey in his hand. He's like, pft, man, I'm sorry. Tough night. And I was like, yeah, man, tough night for you, too. He's like, yeah, you know, we're both going through. I just want to reach out, see how you were doing. Also, I'm going to need 10 pushups. And I couldn't say no. As a man of honor and man of principle, I had to do him. That's such a dirty bet. He'd entrap me into the booze versus the Nationals.

[B]

How is this still going on?

[C]

I know it seems like you done so many.

[A]

I think I've. I think I've got like, 10.

[C]

You've got to be close.

[B]

When was that series?

[A]

June, I thought. I think it was July.

[B]

That's brutal.

[A]

Yeah. Never, never making this bed again with him. All right. Sorry I interrupted Price's voicemail.

[B]

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[A]

Your favorite drafts are poured at a.

[E]

Frosty 29 degrees and rare barrel aged.

[A]

Whiskey are served just the way you Want them? It's bigger game days and bolder fight nights.

[E]

I mean, where else can you find.

[A]

A scratch kitchen that always comes in clutch?

[B]

Every day from lunch to late night only at Twin Peaks, the number one sports bar.

[D]

Twin Peaks. Scratch kitchen scores every time. Dig into hand smashed burgers, chef inspired.

[C]

Flatbreads, and more at your local lodge.

[F]

Joe, what's going on? It's your boy Price out of Columbia, South Carolina. I got a question for the whole squad. So listen to this. What is the brokest thing you've ever done? And that's not a bash at people in poverty or poor people. But, like, for example, when I was in high school and I had no money, I took this one girl to a movie, and she was like, hey, I'm gonna go use the bathroom. I'll be right back. You know, we had just gotten to the movie theater. I saw a guy throw his popcorn in the trash. He threw it, like, face up, like nothing really had been touched. So I went and I fished it out, kind of dumped all the popcorn out and got a, you know, refill for free.

[E]

Not proud of that.

[F]

She never found out about it, but, I mean, it saved me, like, 12 bucks on a popcorn. So I'd love to hear, like, the brokest thing you guys have ever done. Peace.

[A]

The brokest thing I've ever done. I mean, I used to eat when I. When I worked at a. A crab shack, like a seafood place over the summertime, and I had no money, I used to just, like, eat the. The food that people did not sometimes finish on. Like, I wouldn't dive in straight up to stuff that they had been eating. But if they had, like, a crab that they hadn't cracked open yet, I would take that crab and I would crack it open and I would eat that crab. Or if they. If there was like, a basket of rolls that they didn't eat, after I bust the table, I'd bring it back into the kitchen. I would eat a roll off that. That was pretty gross, looking back on it. Brokest moves. Besides that, though. Hmm. I mean, when I was in high school, my dad found a deal on Chex Mix where at the local supermarket, you could get a free ticket to go see the Washington Wizards play if you bought, like, a. A big, like, giant bag of Chex Mix. And so he bought, like. I think I told this story on here before, actually.

[B]

I don't remember.

[D]

I've never heard of.

[A]

Yeah, so he bought, like, these 20 giant bags of Chex Mix so I could have 20 tickets to go see the Wizards play. And he was like, you can invite all your friends. And so I was like, dad, I don't. I don't think I have 20 friends that want to go see the Wizards. And so I ended up having to invite, like, my entire grade to find 20 people that were like, okay, yeah, awesome. Let's go downtown, watch the Washington Wizards play. Because you could not give those tickets away, hence the checks Mix deal. But he found that. And then he also found that they were also doing it for the Capitals. Those tickets were a lot easier. Like, all my friends were like, yeah, let's go see the Caps play. Sounds good. But yeah, getting. Getting to go see the Washington Wizards just based on the fact that we spent like $50 on chex mix was. That was. That was a pretty broke move. But also just. He looked. The man loved the deal. So it was more about deal hunting than it was broke moves. But, yeah, the most broke move. I'm trying to think there were. I pulled some broke moves in my day when I lived in. In Texas, for sure. There was a restaurant that was right next to me that had a happy hour deal where you could eat, like free nachos if you just bought like, one beer. And so then I would just go there for my dinner and just drank like three beers and eat. And the nachos, by the way, were just like stale chips and. And cheese dip. So I lived off that for a little bit, trying to think of other. You guys have any broke moves?

[B]

Not along those lines, really. I'll. Now I'll go out of my way to, like, save some money, but I think that's just like the. The NFL Sunday ticket. I don't know if I should give this away. On the podcast. The. The. The Regular one's like 400 bucks, but for students, I think it's a hundred. Yeah, you can sign up for an Arizona State. They have like these classes that are like $20 online. And then I think if you do it and you want it to count for college credit, you can pay like 500 bucks at the end and it'll get to count, but just. You can just take the class for 20 bucks if you want, and they'll give you an Arizona State email address. So I would. In years after I was out of college and my Tennessee email no longer worked, I would sign up for that for 20 bucks. And then you can use that Arizona State Edu email address and get the student NFL Sunday ticket.

[A]

Yeah, that's.

[C]

How did you even figure that out?

[A]

Very smart move.

[B]

I remember seeing something about it, the Arizona State thing, and I was like, I wonder if that would just. So I tried it and it worked. Wow.

[A]

Yeah. It's a genius.

[B]

So, yeah, like that's just, you know, if you can save 300 bucks, you do it. Yeah, but, but I. I'm struggling to think of anything that's like getting the popcorn out of the trash. I actually. As long as you got a refill. I don't hate that.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

When he said at first, I was like, oh, but if he dumped the popcorn out.

[B]

Yes. That's not that bad.

[C]

No, not at all.

[A]

Hmm.

[D]

I mean, when I was an intern at Barstool making like zero dollars and zero cents, we had bagel Monday and Friday and I would steal like three bagels to kind of have for the weekend.

[B]

Yeah, that's actually. Yeah, that's a good point. When I was an intern, I had $2 slices of pizza for lunch every single day for four months until I was a full time employee.

[D]

Yeah. I would steal so much food from the New York office because I could not afford anything in New York.

[B]

When we went home for July 4th and I was gone for a week and I came back and I went back to my dollar slice shop, the guy was like, oh, I missed you. That's probably not good.

[A]

Yeah, I used to sit through timeshare presentations to get tickets to go to Medieval Times. That's pretty broke.

[B]

Usually you get like a three night stay somewhere.

[A]

I had my eyes set on something bigger. I my sit on a roast chicken and a flagon of Pepsi. Great stew at Medieval Times, by the way.

[D]

Never been.

[A]

You haven't been?

[C]

I haven't, no.

[D]

I don't even know if there were ones like in Cleveland where I grew. Like, I don't.

[A]

There's one close by here.

[D]

I know. It's by the airport, isn't it?

[A]

We got to organize a field trip.

[C]

Oh, yeah, we should.

[D]

I'm going to also ask something. Are those turkey legs actually good?

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Okay. I've never had one. I also have never been to Disney where they do the turkey leg thing.

[A]

So I don't know that Medieval Times does turkey leg. I think they do roast chicken. You get like a quarter roast chicken.

[D]

Oh, I'm down.

[A]

But yeah, if you go to like a street festival or you go to Disney World, you get the, the big turkey leg that you walk around with. That would be awesome if they had that. But I don't think that they do. It's been a while.

[D]

Yeah. I'm trying to think of, like, other broke things I did. The brokest I ever was was an intern in New York. Like, even in college, everything was so cheap already.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

In college, it's like, yeah. I don't know if it was necessarily broke, but, like, yeah. What Big T said, saving money I would hate. When I worked at MLB Network, I would take the train, NJ Transit from Hoboken to Secaucus, and like, the ticket was like, literally $3. But they. Sometimes they wouldn't check them, so. But on your phone, you'd have to activate it. So I would, like, buy the physical ticket rather than getting on my phone. So if they didn't check it, I could, like, save it for the next one.

[D]

That's good.

[C]

And it was like, literally $3. I'm like, it shouldn't be matter, but I was like, if they're not gonna check it, might as well just save it for the next one. But that was like, the only thing I could really think of.

[D]

I will say now that I'm thinking about it. I was an intern during this time. I was at the a bar we know and love, Village Tavern in New York City. And I went to go buy a vodka soda, which was like, I don't know, 10 bucks or whatever it was. And my card got denied. Like, my debit card. And I had to transfer $10 from my savings account to buy a vodka.

[C]

Soda at Village Tavern.

[D]

And that felt like a low. And it was also a surprise. Like, I didn't think I was, like, that bad.

[C]

Yeah. You didn't think it was gonna lower.

[D]

And they said this card didn't go through. And I was like, oh. And it was like, I had $3 in my bank account.

[B]

I think that's the opposite of what he was. You. You did. You transferred money from your savings on a debit card that was declined to still buy something.

[D]

I had already bought the vodka. Sod point. I had to.

[C]

I had to get the money.

[D]

Yeah. I wouldn't say I necessarily recommend using your savings account to buy a vodka soda. And I don't use my savings account often, luckily. But I literally was at Village Tavern and had to open my checking account to check that I had zero dollars and zero cents. And then it was like, the vodka soda is already in my hand. I must pay. So that was tough. That was like, more demoralizing too, because you're like, yeah.

[C]

And in the moment, you're like, well, I have to pay for it. So, like, let me get on my phone.

[D]

And it was a surprise broke moment. Like, I didn't have time to process it.

[C]

Surprise broke.

[B]

Pft. Your Chex mix story reminds me of what my teed off was going to be today. It's unrelated to the. The broke thing, but it's tangentially related to what you said about Chex Max the other day. I just very randomly I was like I really want Lucky Charms right now. I haven't had Lucky Charms in many years.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

But for whatever reason I was like. So I. The grocery store is right next to my apartment. So I went downstairs, went to the store, got a box of Lucky Charms. I'm. As if you had Lucky Charms recently.

[A]

Been a while.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

I don't is my go to in a continental breakfast at a hotel though. I'll get the like small little thing. A lucky charm.

[B]

I get Fruit Loops. They have. I don't know when this happened. There's no marshmallows anymore.

[A]

What?

[D]

What?

[B]

I mean no. And when I say no, there are several in there.

[E]

But.

[B]

But the ratio of the. The little crispies to the marshmallows, it's 70 to 1. I mean it's. I was like this wasn't even worth it. And by the way, don't get me started on what a box of cereal is.

[A]

Now I'm going to have to look into this big T because that it tracks. They're going to cut back on. On costs. That's the first thing you would do, right?

[B]

Yeah. I mean the dog food that they put in there's a dime a dozen. I assume the marshmallows cost a little bit more now. They did make them. The sticking. The selling point was that they're bigger now.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

They were big, but they were few and far between.

[A]

I find that hard to believe.

[B]

Which part?

[A]

That they used to be bigger or that now they're bigger now than they were?

[B]

That they just know that was on the box. It's like big marshmallows.

[A]

Okay. Because I recently have been. I've been eating a lot of Oreos double stuffs. The double stuffs are just what the single stuffs used to be. The single stuffs are paper thin. I wouldn't feed the single stuffs to my dog.

[C]

Well, good thing.

[A]

Yeah, probably correct. But I'm looking into this big T. I'm looking.

[B]

Please do. Because.

[A]

Do we have any pictures of. Of Lucky Charms from like the mid-2000s that we can compare these two?

[B]

Well, you're. You're hung up on the size of the marshmallows.

[A]

No, I'm talking about quantity now.

[B]

Well, I Can show you. I'm down to, like, there's a third of the bag left, and I've picked all the marshmallows out. There's none left, and there's still a third of the bag of. Of the. The crisp.

[A]

It's like when you're watching football on TV and somebody's like, you know, only 11 minutes of this entire show is actually football being played. It's like when you take all the lucky charms out of a bag of lucky char, you see just how much is in there, right? It's all the commercials.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, it was. It was just. It was sad day, bad day.

[A]

That's good. Teed off.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

Are we.

[A]

Got another voicemail.

[F]

Hey, what's up, Macropod? It's Matt from South Carolina. My question since y' all were talking about the Donner party and stuff last week, is which person you think from the podcast, as well as maybe from the whole barstool office, would do best in a survival scenario, either, you know, being dropped off in the middle of the wilderness or also maybe like a more violent kind of apocalyptic or zombie apocalypse style scenario where there's a little more. A little more fighting involved. So that's my question for y'.

[E]

All.

[F]

I love the podcast. Y' all are awesome. I love you. Stay safe. I do have one. A little bit of a gripe with PFT, though. September 16 said that Virginia Tech was never known for having a staunch good defense. From 99 to 2015 under the Beamer and Foster years, they had a top five defense 44 times. Finished the season ranked the top five nationally. Seven seasons. And in 2007, had the number one scoring defense in the country. So PFD. You need to know ball better. All right, love you guys.

[B]

Bye. Wait, did you say Virginia Tech never had a good defense?

[A]

I don't recall saying that specifically.

[B]

They had Cam Chancellor.

[A]

And yeah, maybe I did. I might have said that. But I think I also said that they had Cam Chancellor. I mean, Bruce Smith went to school there.

[B]

Who else? Cam chancellor was like, 2009. There was somebody else on that defense. Really good, too.

[A]

Was that. Was that d' Angelo Hall?

[B]

No, he was earlier. Answer the other question. I'll get to the bottom of this.

[A]

Now, now, I forgot his other question.

[D]

His other question is, who do you think from either macro or our or our office would do well in a, like, zombie apocalypse, like, end of world situation?

[A]

Yeah, I mean, Min is always going to find a way.

[C]

Donnie.

[A]

Somebody might mistake Miny, though. Yeah, Don, either. Donnie.

[D]

I was going to say which one, but I honestly, both I trust.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I think the Donnies would make a formidable duo. Yeah. Chaps, obviously for the marksmanship, survival skills. I'm sure he was taught some of that.

[D]

And Kate.

[A]

Yeah, chaps. And Kate.

[B]

Kate.

[C]

But now she would just be like, oh, I'm so sorry. Like, to everybody, like, they're trying to kill her. She's like, oh, I'm in your way. I'm so sorry.

[A]

The zombies running out of.

[E]

Oop.

[A]

Sorry.

[C]

I'm in your way.

[A]

Sorry. Let me just scoop by you there. Yeah, I think, I think Jerry. Jerry would figure out he's very good at like figuring out angles on stuff.

[D]

And living in like, living in pretty bad situations.

[A]

He's. He's made it through.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. Those. Those would be my first choices.

[B]

I think Brandon.

[A]

No.

[C]

Oh, he'd know.

[A]

No brand would be a mess.

[D]

No offense. I don't think any of us on the podcast would do super well.

[A]

And let's be honest, like, Brandon would be that. That's like Thanksgiving dinner for a zombie horde.

[B]

Yeah, I'm not.

[A]

That's not a weight thing necessarily. That's just like the constitution of Brandon. He would be a. A fast target.

[B]

Well, these are two different things. Outdoor survival or zombie apocalypse. Those are two remarkably different scenarios. I would not last a second if you drop me out in the middle of the woods today. Zombie apocalypse. I think I have some AIDS that would help us.

[A]

Yeah, that's important. Anybody else that's in this office, by.

[B]

The way, Jason Worlds was the other player in 2009 on that.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Defense.

[A]

We don't really have a hearty crew here. I don't think we're really made for the outdoors. We're mostly. We're indoor cats here.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Sydney Wells, easy number one.

[C]

Easy answer.

[A]

She's not usually in the office, but like easy number one answer. Yeah. She might be the best athlete at the this company.

[D]

And that includes like the people that were athletes at this company.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Yes.

[A]

Yeah. She might be the number one athlete and the number one outdoors person.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Oh, well.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

What about like T. Bob and K? How do you think they do?

[A]

Yeah, T. Bob probably has some. Some of that, like, you know, deep country outdoors, outdoors, football.

[D]

Like the football.

[C]

But they would also be targets. Like to be eaten in a zombie apocalypse.

[A]

I think T. Bob could probably spend 30 hours non stop in a deer stand and be fine. I feel like that's something that he's got in his past.

[D]

Yeah, I think his brain can entertain himself. Do you think what do you think about Kdick?

[A]

I mean, he's a. He's a large man from Pittsburgh. I don't know how outdoors he is. I know obviously, like football is one thing, but there's like two kinds of offensive linemen. One is the guy that like the Joe Thomas. Yeah. Like leaves practice and then just goes outside and sleeps, you know, outdoors hunting. And then comes in, drives into the facility the next morning with a deer loaded in the back of his truck. I don't know if that's. If that's his speed or not.

[D]

You know who I low key think could just kind of like fuck people up is Ella.

[A]

I'm scared of Ella.

[D]

Me too.

[C]

Yeah, Yeah, I am. In a good way. But yes.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

It's like very respectful. I'm afraid of you. Please don't. She's a witch. She might be a witch.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

She could like ruin someone's reputation like instant instantly. I feel like if she really wanted.

[D]

To, but I feel like she could go like crazy on a zombie.

[C]

Oh, 100.

[A]

I think Ella is a witch, but I also think that she's a witch with hands. Like she do not if it came down to it. Like, she wants to throw. She doesn't want to cast spells. She wants to punch you in the face.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

And now she's got K in her corner. So he might be teaching her some like moves.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah. She's don't with her.

[C]

No.

[A]

Good question.

[F]

All right, one more macro distant crew. Thanks for taking my call. Long time listener, first time caller. I've got a bit of an issue here. Me and my girlfriend have been together for three and a half years. One of her great friends back home on the west coast is about to get married in October. I'm on the east coast. I've met her friend twice.

[B]

Don't do it, brother.

[F]

Before. And then once at the engagement party and I'm at the groomsman. No, that was at the engagement party. Also, they have asked me to be a part of the wedding. Oh, already taking time off work. I'm already flying into the wedding and they expect me to spend an extra 2, $300, whatever it is, to rent a tux and be a part of this wedding. The kicker is that it's a highly Christian wedding, completely dry. I'm going have to bring a flask, whatever it is, to be a part of it. I do not know these folks combined. Met them a total of three times. What am I supposed to do here? This is an impossible situation to be in. Please tell me what to do. I want to support my girlfriends, but at the same time, almost on principle, you can't ask me to be in this.

[A]

Yeah.

[F]

It seems to be a case of, you know, there's eight bridesmaids and less groomsmen, so they say that. You got the numbers. I want to say no. Can I. Anyway, thanks. Stay gorgeous. Love you guys.

[B]

All right. Okay.

[F]

Amazing. You're so. July was awesome, dude. Big T, you're the man.

[E]

Love.

[B]

You're the man. Also, I'm so sorry. I forgot this young man's name. What. Do y' all remember what it was?

[D]

I don't know if he said it.

[C]

Yeah, he just said long. Okay, well, first time caller.

[B]

All right, here's the problem. This. This young man did not establish quickly enough that he doesn't put up with this.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Because he said there. He's three years in. It needs to be well known three years in. That not only are what the being in the wedding is as a separate issue in my mind, you're not going to this wedding. You're traveling across the country for someone you don't know. No, Sorry. And the being in the wedding is insane on the part of the people who asked you to do that. I actually think that works in his favor in that he. He can be like, this is so. Just beyond ridiculous. No.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I think any reasonable person would agree with that.

[A]

I think if you were asked just to attend the wedding, that's a hard. A much harder sell.

[B]

Agree. I actually think this is helping him now.

[A]

It's like this. Wow. I'm offended.

[B]

Yes. Like, that's so. That's so nuts. Who would ever do. I actually think that helps him.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Now, you may still have to go because it seems that you've allowed that to seep into your life, but there's in no world. But I think you can also be like, well, it'd be real awkward if I showed up and they'd asked me to be in it and I said no.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I think this helps him.

[A]

Yeah, good point. Good point. There's no box that you can check being like, no, I regretfully will not be part of the wedding, but I'll show, but I will attend.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You should have led with this one, Mad Dog. This is.

[A]

What do you guys think?

[D]

I didn't.

[A]

Big T makes a great, compelling case.

[C]

Yeah. Well, I kind of agree with Big.

[D]

T. It is crazy to be asked to be a groomsman, and you've met these people, like, two times.

[C]

And also the excuse of needing to even out, like, Just have two, two girls walk down with a guy. Yeah, like, it doesn't matter.

[D]

I was literally at a wedding this weekend that, that the numbers were different for the groomsmen and bridesmaids. They just had people take two.

[C]

Yeah, it's, it's, it's really not that no one cares.

[D]

Yeah, it's really not that deep. I, the being in the wedding if you are not truly close enough to that person to be involved is such an uncomfortable place to be. Because I have pity for those people who don't have close enough relationships in their life where they're like digging, like, who can I be on my, my, the, the biggest day of my life? I don't have enough of a support system. I have to start looking for randos who don't even want to go to my wedding.

[B]

I am so embarrassed to. I would much rather be up there by myself than have people I don't know.

[D]

Or if you're, if you're the groom and the bride in that point, I'm, I'm, I'm flipping the script for a second. If you're the groom and the bride at that point and you are having such a hard time gathering people to be in your wedding, don't do a bridal.

[C]

Yeah, just have nobody.

[D]

Like, like Ria and Marty did no bridal party. That's great. They have plenty of friends. But you, if you can't, if you can't have a solid group standing up there with you don't have one at all, in my opinion. Now to circle back to our, to our dear listener friend. Unfortunately, Big T is correct. You have let this kind of behavior seep into your relationship. And Big I've known Big T long enough to know he doesn't deal with that. And unfortunately, if you haven't established that, you can't establish it now.

[B]

But again, if it was just going, yeah, you're gonna have to suck it up and go. But the fact that they're like, hey, will you be in it? I think you can pitch it as, listen, this would be real weird if I went, if I went. And now maybe they don't care about that. I don't know. And then you just gotta suck it up and get on a five hour flight to go to this wedding.

[A]

Imagine if you were in the wedding and then, and 20 years from now, they look back at their wedding pictures.

[B]

And it's like, what's that guy's name?

[A]

Who's that guy?

[D]

Right?

[A]

Oh, that guy. Yeah, he was. Who was he? You knew him, right?

[C]

Yeah, so and so's girlfriend. Yeah.

[D]

Right.

[C]

It's like. Yeah, I, I also think you need to talk to your girlfriend about it because I, I think if she would be upset again, like, you've already established this, like Big T said, part of the relationship. But like, if she would be extremely upset if you said no, I think you should do it, obviously, because it's her friends, but I think if she doesn't really have an opinion, then I think you can say no to being in it.

[B]

Bear bare minimum if, if worse comes to worse and you are forced to be in these people's wedding, which I think would be just an absolute travesty. In no world do you pay for this. Yeah, you tell your girlfriend, listen, I'll do it if that's what you really want, but I'm not paying for it. Either they can pay for it or you can pay for it. It ain't going to be me.

[A]

So she's going to now have to buy your plane ticket if, if she.

[B]

Wants, if she cares that deeply about you doing this. Absolutely.

[A]

And this is a conversation that I think if you, if you had set, if you had made your, your values known years ago at the start of this relationship.

[B]

Yeah, you lost this three years ago, but there, there is still some ways to soften the blow.

[A]

If you've, if you had made your, your tolerance for nonsense known.

[B]

Correct.

[A]

Three years ago, then she would be like, oh, well, I'm probably not even going to ask him because he's going to say no. Or I'll just mention it to him. He'll say no. And I'll be like, haha, yeah, that's, that's my boyfriend. Yeah, but if you just spring this on her, then she's gonna be like, wow, he's being a real dick. But you're not. You're not. I don't think that this is a dick move at all.

[B]

No, this is crazy.

[D]

But it's also like, it's one thing to establish, like, I don't go to weddings I don't want to go to. Which is what Big T has done and what this man could have done to be fair.

[B]

Not for people. Not for. I don't want to. For people I don't know.

[D]

Right. Yeah, yeah, right. But you can't. I don't know if you can prepare for a calling like this.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

You can't prepare for a random ask to be a groomsman.

[C]

That's very true.

[B]

Yeah. No, like I said, there's no playbook. This is so crazy. It Helps him.

[C]

Groomsman is crazy too. I thought he was going to say like an usher or something that like had to get there maybe a day or two. But yeah, I don't know. In my opinion, I think it really matters what your girlfriend thinks. Like if you, if you love her and want to be with her, unfortunately, like, if she wants you to do it, it's sort of like you don't want to upset her, obviously. But if she doesn't have an opinion, I think, I really think it matters, I think it matters what she cares about because it's like her friend's wedding. So that, that's just my opinion. But I think you can say no if the girlfriend doesn't care about it.

[B]

I don't think he would have called if she didn't care.

[C]

That's also true.

[D]

Right, because then she'd be like, this.

[B]

Would have been resolved quickly.

[C]

Yeah, quickly. She would have been like, oh, haha, that's hilarious.

[D]

No, I just, I, I, I really just feel bad for this, like bride and groom.

[C]

Yeah, that's.

[D]

If you're in this kind of spot, it is just like, it's literally sad.

[C]

Yeah, that's just weird of them to, to. It's weird that they even asked him to be in the wedding. Yeah, bizarre.

[D]

And it's also then like, but if you say no and then you go, if you say no to being the groomsman and then you go to the wedding still, then it's, I fear, double weird.

[C]

I don't know if it's that weird though, because you don't know them.

[B]

Right.

[C]

So it's like, there's no ill will.

[D]

It's like, oh, hey, sorry, I like, didn't want to be your.

[B]

No, no, no. I'm assuming his preference is to just not have to go at all.

[A]

Well, really.

[B]

But if he does, if he does end up going, I'd, I'd walk right up to him. If anybody had a problem with me saying no to being a groomsman in a wedding for someone I don't know, and be like, hey, sorry about it.

[C]

Like, yeah, I think it's not weird at all to say no. Yeah, yeah. Because you don't know them. Like, right, who's your best friend? That'd be weird. But because your best friend, you had like a past and then you're like, no, I'm not going to be your groomsman and then go to the wedding. Like, that's weird.

[B]

If you don't know the person's middle name, you don't need to be in Their wedding. And this guy doesn't even. He probably doesn't know this guy's last name.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

You have to rent a suit. Yeah.

[C]

That's also crazy.

[A]

Yeah. Are you gonna be involved in the bachelor party now?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Right.

[B]

It's.

[A]

That's another trip.

[B]

Right.

[C]

It's so much. It, it seems like no, though, because it seems like they're strictly doing it out of, like.

[B]

Yeah. Oh.

[C]

They need to balance the yes. Which is also kind of like.

[B]

I'd be insulted.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

I was gonna say it's like kind of a dick punch to the guy. Like, oh, can you just come and show up and pay all this extra money?

[A]

Did she get the invite to be in the wedding party because the groom needed another. Like, what's going on with that?

[D]

No. What I'm hearing is that the girlfriend is actually close with the bride.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Like, I think she was in it already.

[D]

She's in it by account of being a good friend.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

That's what I took from it too, I think.

[D]

Yeah, I think. And maybe that's why they called upon the boyfriend.

[B]

I know what happened.

[D]

Yes. Okay.

[C]

We need this guy to call back.

[B]

Yes. No, I'm absolutely. The bride went to her friend and said, listen, let's call this guy Tom. Tom. Her soon to be husband only has, like, three friends or whatever. I have six bridesmaids. Would your boyfriend be willing to do this?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And then she took it back to him.

[C]

Yeah, I, Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

[B]

I don't think this was a request on the behalf of the husband.

[E]

Stumped.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Agreed.

[C]

I, I, I agree as well.

[B]

He may not know.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. He's like, surprise, groomsman.

[C]

She's like. He's like, okay, I have this many friends. We need to get this. She's like, okay, I'll figure out the rest.

[A]

Yeah. She wants to have.

[B]

She said she'd handle it.

[C]

Yes, exactly.

[B]

And this is how it was handled.

[A]

She wants to have all of her friends as bridesmaids because she'll probably have some friends that'll be offended if they're not asked to be bridesmaids.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

And so now she's actively recruiting them to recruit groomsmen.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

On the other side. Yeah.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

This is. Wedding culture's out of control.

[B]

I've been saying this.

[D]

The wedding industrial complex.

[C]

It really is.

[A]

Yep.

[D]

Like, big T, you're getting married. What would you do in this situation if you're the groom?

[B]

All right. Well, I would never, ever, ever ask somebody that I didn't know to like and If I found out that someone else had done that for me, I would be very upset.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Because that's, like. That's embarrassing for that guy.

[A]

It is.

[C]

It's weird. It's very.

[B]

Yeah. I mean. I mean, y' all know me. I. Similarly to how. I don't. I don't engage in this kind of stuff for other people. I don't do it for me either. Listen, I. I would never ask someone that I don't know to be a groomsman. And if. If I asked someone and they were like, even if one of my friends was like, hey, I just can't swing it. I don't want to do whatever. Great, that's fine. I truly don't care.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

So, like, I'm not. Yeah. If I was that guy, I'm actually. I think I've talked myself into. He doesn't even know this has happened.

[C]

The groom.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

Honestly, it could be. That could be the case.

[B]

I need this guy to call back.

[C]

I really do.

[B]

So bad.

[C]

Because I wonder when, like, the wedding is and when all the events would be happening.

[D]

And peek behind curtain. This voicemail is from about a month ago. Okay, so we may have a decision.

[C]

So we might have a decision.

[B]

Can you email or call him today?

[D]

I mean, do you have.

[B]

You just have a phone number?

[D]

I have his phone number.

[B]

Give it to me. I'll call him, text him. I'll call him right now.

[D]

He can call him live on the show.

[B]

Give me. I swear I'll call him right now. I need to talk to this guy.

[A]

You want to send him a text first? Be like, yeah, we just read your voicemail. There's. There's also a chance this might be a misread by the. By the woman, by the girlfriend, and she is not super looking forward to going to this wedding. Maybe there's some drama with the other bridesmaids. Maybe it's not like, where are you getting this from? I'm just saying this is another possibility. Maybe she's like, so she really wants the boyfriend. The boyfriend to come. Because she's like, I don't want to go out there and do all this on my own.

[C]

That could be the case.

[A]

I. I need a buffer zone there. I need to have somebody there.

[C]

But I also think if that was the case, he wouldn't be calling in, because if he really did love her, then he'd be like, okay, well, if that's what you want.

[A]

True.

[C]

But you never know.

[B]

We don't have this guy's name.

[D]

I. Let's listen back. One second. But I don't think we have it.

[E]

Hold on.

[F]

Macrodos and crew, thanks for taking my call. Longtime listener, first time caller. I've got a bit of an issue here.

[A]

Say, hey, man.

[D]

Hey. It's Big T for Macrodosing.

[B]

Hey, brother.

[D]

Wait, you're actually texting him?

[B]

Yes, I need to talk to this guy. Y'. All. Y' all talk much yourself.

[A]

Fascinating.

[E]

Yeah, but that.

[C]

That could also be a. That could also be a situation, and he doesn't want to, like. He doesn't want to do it, but doesn't want to let her down, but. Yeah, I don't know. That's just tough.

[D]

Yeah, it's really. This is an uncomfortable situation all around. I actually dealt with this, or I did not deal with this. Someone I was talking to over the weekend said that something like this happened where they. It was a couple that got invited to this wedding, and they were like, I haven't talked to this guy since college. Like, I don't want to go to this wedding. We've had, like, seven other weddings, you know, this year. Let's just say no to this one. Boom, surprise. Groomsman box comes in the mail. He goes, huh? I didn't even want to go to this wedding, and now I'm in it. Oh, that's.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

And then they had to go to, like, the boonies to go to this wedding. And he's like, I haven't talked to this guy in, like, seven years, and now I'm in his wedding. And again, it's like, it's. It just makes me, like, sad.

[A]

The best place to be is. Is not the groomsman, but in the bachelor party.

[E]

That is.

[C]

That is the sad. Yes.

[D]

I.

[C]

That just happened to me for a wedding that I just went to, like, two weekends ago. And it really is. It's like, it would have been fine if I was in the wedding, but I was like, went to bachelorette party, went to the wedding, and, like, she's one of my really good friends. I was like, yeah, this is ideal.

[B]

Well, sent the text.

[C]

This is so funny.

[B]

Waiting on a response. We'll give him, what, five minutes?

[A]

Five minutes. Sounds fair.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

And we can always get an update on Wednesday if we need. On Thursday's episode.

[D]

Yeah, right. I. I think he's gonna see. Hey, man, it's Big T. Yeah. And be like. Be like, wait a second.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

He might think it's like a spam.

[B]

I mean, I included enough information that. Yeah, if it was someone else, it would be.

[A]

Send a picture of me and you.

[B]

It's us.

[C]

This is hilarious recording at the moment.

[D]

We need you buddy.

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No, I've. I've got nothing. So maybe we. I assume I'll hear back from at some point, so maybe we. We couch it till Wednesday.

[D]

Yeah, we might have to have him call in on Wednesday.

[B]

I would love nothing more.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

He seems like a nice guy, too. Yeah. Like he.

[C]

He wants to do the right thing, but. But he also doesn't want to do it.

[B]

Sometimes the right thing is saying no.

[A]

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