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2025 Takie Awards, Guest Presenters And Award Winners, 25 Awards Including Blake Of The Year, Podcast Listeners Of The Year, Bonk Of The Year + We Talk About The Fox/Barstool Deal
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Big Cat
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Big Cat
Pardon my take the 9th Annual Takey Awards. We are all dressed up. If you're watching us on YouTube, we have 25 awards that we're giving away, including Blake of the Year, Podcast Listeners of the Year, Bonk of the Year, Ratio of the Year. Just log off and many, many more with some guest presenters. Some of our winners might be joining us to accept their awards. It's going to be great. We're also going to talk a little bit about the Fox deal because I'm sure people have questions and PFT has promised us a big surprise.
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PFT Commenter
Major surprise.
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Big Cat
Huge surprise.
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PFT Commenter
I'm going to reveal the he told us we're going to want to sit down. Yeah. I'm going to reveal the results of me and Hank's golf game. Oh. Live on the show.
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Big Cat
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PFT Commenter
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Big Cat
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PFT Commenter
Yeah. Martin. Mike. Yeah. Bar.
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Big Cat
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PFT Commenter
We look great. We really do. Got the ties on. Hank's rocking the bow tie.
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Big Cat
Hank looks like Pee Wee Herman.
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PFT Commenter
Extra saucy. Yeah, Herman. All time handsome guy.
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Big Cat
Yeah. Great dude.
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PFT Commenter
You look really good. All the boys in the booth, too. The big concerning thing was Memes has been wearing the suit all day, which kind of creeps me out a little bit.
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Big Cat
He came to work in the suit. He looked like he was going to court. He looks like a custody battle.
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PFT Commenter
He looks like a guy that your office brings in to fire people.
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Big Cat
Yes.
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PFT Commenter
Like an outside consultant to be like, you're fired.
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Big Cat
A cold, heartless man.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah.
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Big Cat
Who just comes in. No. No emotions.
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PFT Commenter
Puts you on a pipe.
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Big Cat
Just. See ya. See you, buddy. All right, so we have 25 awards we're giving out. If this is your first takeies, welcome. It's. We do this every single year this week, every year when there's no sports going on. We have, you know, a year that we look back at the past year. So it's also kind of confusing because it always. The takeies kind of go from July to July.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah.
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Big Cat
So we're looking at that. That's, you know, times.
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PFT Commenter
One thing I always like about the takeies though, is the time frame of it. Because this is what the calendar should be, Right? Like, the calendar should start. Football season, starts the year, and then we have a sports calendar that ends at the end of the NBA playoffs, the Stanley cup playoffs. And that's the year. That's the year in review that we. Do. You know what I just realized? We didn't do something what we should have done in memoriam.
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Big Cat
Oh, well, we could do it.
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PFT Commenter
We can maybe do it at the end. How about we just do it off the top of our heads?
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Big Cat
Okay. Bill Walton.
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PFT Commenter
That's a great one.
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Big Cat
Mm.
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PFT Commenter
Rob Ford.
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Big Cat
Rob Ford.
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PFT Commenter
That's a good. I watched that documentary last night.
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Big Cat
Yeah, it's really good.
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PFT Commenter
Few years ago, but, yeah. In Memoriam.
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Big Cat
Bob Barker.
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PFT Commenter
Was that this year?
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Big Cat
No, I. No idea.
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PFT Commenter
Okay. Is he still. He's dead.
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Big Cat
Dead. He's dead. He's for sure dead, right?
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PFT Commenter
Yes.
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Big Cat
Live. Barker.
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PFT Commenter
Bob Barker.
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Big Cat
All right.
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PFT Commenter
Probably still alive. O.J.
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Big Cat
O.J. Was this year.
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PFT Commenter
That was in. Adam Schefters from this year, right?
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Big Cat
That's right.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah.
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Big Cat
Okay. Anyone in the booth have a death that they. I can't. The years kind of blend together. Boys. David Bowie. Oh, for sure.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah. Yeah.
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Big Cat
David Bowie.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah.
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Big Cat
RIP Yep. RIP David Bowie, the Queen.
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PFT Commenter
That was a couple years ago because, remember, they made Close Enough.
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Big Cat
That's close Enough.
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PFT Commenter
They made us do, like, a minute of silence before opening kickoff for the Queen.
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Big Cat
Yeah, that's close enough, though.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah. I think that's about it.
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Big Cat
Yeah.
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PFT Commenter
I think it's everybody that died.
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Big Cat
Yeah. All right, so before we get to the takeies, obviously some big news announced on Thursday. Fox Sports, barstool collab. Pretty exciting stuff. I'm sure there are some people who are like, hey, how's this going to change this show or any shows? I'll say right now, it's not going to change this show at all. We made sure of that. We were. It's going to be a great. Like, this is very different than the ESPN partnership back in 2017. The faithful barstool van talk. Fox is a very willing partner. They're very excited. We're very excited. They believe in us. We believe in them. A lot different than what we went through with espn. So what's. What. What is it going to look like, though? So we have the college football show that we've been doing for a very long time. That's actually not going to change. We are going to. The only change on that is we used to go on the road six to seven times a year. Now we're Going to go still on the road six times a year, but we are going to do it in conjunction with Big Noon Kickoff. So we're going to have the, the Barstool College football show take place right next to Big Noon Kickoff right before Big Noon Kickoff. But it's still going to be the same show. So it's going to be the same show. There'll be seven or so shows from studio, six or so shows from location. Dave's going to go on Big Noon Kickoff. So that's very exciting. I think there's a couple of dates that he can't make that I might have to go on Big Noon Kickoff. So that will be that. That's the college football portion of. And then also there will be a TV show that will run out of this office, the Chicago office, from 7 to 9 Central every morning, Monday through Friday on FS1, which is going to be Barstool. It's going to be an ensemble, so it's PFT Will be on it from time to time. I'll be on it from time to time. But it's not going to take away from what we do here.
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PFT Commenter
It's going to be. Yeah, it's going to be a mix of everybody in this office and people that might not be in this office right now that might stop in. It's just going to be a big melange of people that work here at Barstool. And yeah, I don't, I don't expect to be spending a, a full time job's worth of time going on the show, but I'll, I'll go to try to make it on like once a week is what we discussed something in that neighborhood. And that way it's not going to cannibalize part of my take. Yeah.
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Big Cat
I think tonight probably won't go on at the same time just because we don't want to be like, oh, we're. They're just doing, pardon my take on tv. But we will both appear on the show weekly.
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PFT Commenter
We keep that for you guys.
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Big Cat
Yeah, we keep that.
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PFT Commenter
That's, that's, that's just for you.
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Big Cat
Yeah.
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PFT Commenter
The only show I think it could cannibalize is Wake Up Mincy. I'm concerned about that.
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Big Cat
Let's move to the afternoons.
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PFT Commenter
Okay. Well, that's good.
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Big Cat
So we're good.
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PFT Commenter
Well, it's gonna preempt Wake Up Mincy.
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Big Cat
Yeah, that's true.
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PFT Commenter
Okay.
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Big Cat
But I'm excited. It's, it's actually, it's very odd feeling because we've been through this and We've been through the congratulations and I'm always that, that maybe jaded me a little of like, hey, there's no congratulations until it starts happening. Kind of like when people congratulate us on the book. Oh, remember, we got to write a book.
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PFT Commenter
We haven't started, though.
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Big Cat
I did have someone congratulate me when we were doing the, the baseball stream the other night on the restaurant. I appreciated that guy.
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PFT Commenter
That's good.
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Big Cat
He's like, congrats on the book and the rest. Yes.
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PFT Commenter
I actually think, think about this way. Every single day that goes by, it's going to be harder to quit. Like, there's never going to be an easier time to quit the book than right now, right now, right this very second. It's only going to get harder.
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Big Cat
Do you, I mean, listen, AWL has better promise to buy this book.
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PFT Commenter
They better promise because I'm promising to write this book.
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Big Cat
Right? Yeah, we need, we need a promise off.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah.
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Big Cat
You promise to buy it, we'll promise to write.
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PFT Commenter
But I'm pumped about the TV show. It's going to be cool to, to get back on the air a little bit. And you're right. Fox Sports, they want to work with us. We want to work with them. They're going to let us do us right, which is a very cool thing. They trust us. Balls in our court. Go around, do whatever you want. I'm excited to share the airwaves with Colin Coward.
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Big Cat
Yes.
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PFT Commenter
I really am.
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Big Cat
Yes. Who might be up for a takey.
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PFT Commenter
He might be up for.
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Big Cat
Might be up for a take. But yeah, it's exciting. It's, it's big for Barstool. And my excitement is, is like, it's just different than it was 2017. But I think it's better because like I said, this is a partnership that feels like it can work because they wanted us and we're like, hey, let's do this instead of trying to beg to get, you know, time slot at 1:00am yeah.
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PFT Commenter
And if you are an awl that owns a gym, if you own a gym, we're going to need every television on fs.
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Big Cat
Correct.
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PFT Commenter
That's on you. First of all, you, congratulations on owning a gym. That's fucking sick. You're probably in really good shape and hot, so that's cool. But we need you to have our TV show on Monday through Friday, 7 to 9 Central, after you watch all.
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Big Cat
Part of my take on YouTube and listen to it on all your podcasts. Correct.
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PFT Commenter
Correct. But we're counting on you guys.
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Big Cat
Yeah. So, yeah, we're not. It's not like, hey, Boomers in the fall are now going to be on FS1. No, no. This show is not changing at all. I made sure that was a very big sticking point. We love this show. We've learned through the years that this is our audience. We love you guys. We'll see if you win a podcast listener of the year, but we love you guys so much and we don't want to change any of that. This is an in addition, so we're excited for it. Hank, are you excited?
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PFT Commenter
Very excited. Hank, does this make Tom Brady your co worker? Yeah, I think it does.
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Big Cat
Yeah.
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PFT Commenter
Your peer. He might be involved in the show later, too.
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Big Cat
In this show? Yeah, in today's show. Takeies.
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PFT Commenter
Oh, no way.
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Big Cat
Okay. You say he might be and he's not. He might be. Okay. That would be very funny. We need to start doing that. Like, hey, listen, this is the ninth annual take. He's. You want to do something special?
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PFT Commenter
Dr. James Andrews.
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Big Cat
LeBron James might be involved in this. Actually, can I tell you a funny story? So we have guest presenters. I tried to reach out to Dr. James Andrews for Injury of the Year. Did not get.
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PFT Commenter
Which one?
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Big Cat
The one that we had on nine years ago who correctly diagnosed Kyle Schwaber's injury. We. I emailed him.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah.
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Big Cat
Professor. Have not heard back. We should revisit that, though. I did make the effort.
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PFT Commenter
We should have him on again.
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Big Cat
Yeah, we should absolutely have him on again. That. That. That was a. That will be in the book.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah.
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Big Cat
Yeah.
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PFT Commenter
Did we do that with Aaron Rodgers or. We almost did with Aaron Rodgers. A different guy named Aaron Rodgers. I think we talked about it.
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Big Cat
Yeah.
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PFT Commenter
I think we almost did it.
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Big Cat
I think we did it the exact right amount of times. Once.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah.
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Big Cat
Because if we had just done an entire podcast where every single day we had a guest name that was similar to a famous person, people would get mad.
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PFT Commenter
I think so, yeah.
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Big Cat
Okay. Pft. You're surprised.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah. So last night, if you watch the takeaward Shane, or. Excuse me, the SB Awards, Shane Gillis hosted, and he did the monologue at the start of it. I thought it was pretty funny. I thought he told some pretty funny jokes.
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Big Cat
Incredible.
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PFT Commenter
Shane's a funny guy.
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Big Cat
Shout Little Sass.
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PFT Commenter
Our dear friend Lil Sass wrote some of the jokes for him, which I thought was very cool. So I know how these award shows go. I know that he probably wrote a lot of jokes that didn't get included. So I reached out to Little Sass this morning and I asked him if he had any leftover jokes.
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Big Cat
Oh, nice.
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PFT Commenter
And I got some leftover jokes from Little Sass that were meant to be on the sbs. Didn't make the cut. Maybe too spicy for tv. And I want our good friend Zach to do the opening monologue.
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Big Cat
Oh, for the takeies. I love this.
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PFT Commenter
With Little Sass's joke. So we have an opening monologue this year and Zach has not read these. I just now, as I'm talking, sent him the jokes. So this is going to be Zach reading Little Sass's jokes for the first time.
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Big Cat
And that's so perfect because Zach actually, he did a Daniel Day Lewis method act this morning where he, much like Little Sass, woke up at 11:30 in the morning. He did.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah. He was a little bit late this morning.
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Big Cat
Yeah. This is my first time reading through these jokes and I am happy to present them to you guys. Okay. Okay, great. What about the part about the deplorable move on my end? I can't apologize enough. Anybody who, everyone who was here at.
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PFT Commenter
The scheduled time, I, I, I want to apologize for not, not respecting your time to the best of my ability.
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Big Cat
And it's not, not a good move. And I, I couldn't be more. Anything you guys need me to do to make up for it, I'm willing to do.
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PFT Commenter
And I, and I'm sorry for being late today.
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Big Cat
What did I say to you, though?
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PFT Commenter
Don't do it again.
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Big Cat
No, that's not what I said. Well, I did say that, but I also said if we fired people for sleeping in, Hank would have been fired a thousand times. Fact.
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PFT Commenter
And he did walk in the room and give the best apology of all time. And instantly, always for people who don't know.
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Big Cat
So we had a commercial day today. We had to take a bunch of commercials. We're here at 8am Was the call time. Zach, what, what happened? Did you, did your alarm not go off?
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PFT Commenter
I didn't plug it back in.
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Big Cat
So you have your phone.
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PFT Commenter
He's got a plug in alarm clock next to his bed.
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Big Cat
So it's.
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PFT Commenter
So it's a Alexa, but it's, I.
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Big Cat
Use the, like the top volume on.
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PFT Commenter
It, so usually I can't tell her in the morning. Alexa cut off the alarm because she.
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Big Cat
Can'T hear me because she's going so loud. So I pull the plug out the back every morning? Yes. So you yell at Alexa every morning. She doesn't listen, and then you have to pull out the plug. So I just go to plug usually and I pulled the plug. I didn't replug why don't you use your phone?
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PFT Commenter
Not loud enough. You go too.
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Big Cat
Alarm. But I will say that I came in and Hank goes. As a sleeping guy. Zach is a quintessential sleeping guy. He, like, no, he. It was a spider man meme. He's like, I know Zach. He's also asleep.
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PFT Commenter
People were, like, freaking out, being like, is that. I was like, I. You know, I think he's going to be all right. I can tell, like, that's a guy that just slept.
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Big Cat
It. Police was on the way to Zack's apartment. Did we. Did someone go and wake you up?
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PFT Commenter
Well, no. We brought someone there. His building wouldn't let them up. And then they were like, basically, only if police comes and says, we, you know, have to go check, will they let someone in. Our security guard is a. Is a cop and has a friend that's a police officer. So like, we were sending someone there to find out.
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Big Cat
Got it.
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PFT Commenter
So we were very relieved when you came in this morning.
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Big Cat
I'm so sorry you guys went through that this morning. I was unaware of that aspect.
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PFT Commenter
I agree. Like, the alarm clock. Sit. We talked about this a couple. The alarm clocks aren't annoying enough anymore. They're too relaxing.
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Big Cat
What would.
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PFT Commenter
What would have gone through your face? What would have gone through your head if you saw a police officer at the door to wake you up? That you would have. You would have been. I would assume that First.
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Big Cat
First. First thought I would have known.
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PFT Commenter
Do I go?
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Big Cat
Do I know what time it is when I meet the cop at the door?
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PFT Commenter
Well, it's time to. Time to go. Yeah. Okay. It's laid out.
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Big Cat
Yeah. Is it.
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PFT Commenter
Is it.
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Big Cat
Is there just a police officer? Is someone else accompanying the cop that I would recognize? We.
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PFT Commenter
We had said someone else because I was worried for that reason. Okay. I don't want you to be too.
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Big Cat
Yeah. What was the worst text message you had in your phone? The worst text message I had in my phone. There was some oak. Are you okay?
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PFT Commenter
Are you alive?
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Big Cat
And I was like, oh, my goodness gracious. Yeah, this is not good.
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PFT Commenter
It's a bad feeling.
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Big Cat
Terrible feeling. Max got Matt at, like, 9:20. I just fired off a text. You said, are you coming in? Question mark. Max was like, that's gonna kill him.
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PFT Commenter
That one. That one. I was in the Uber, and I was like, okay. Well, my time here was very short.
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Big Cat
I appreciate all the opportunity, and I've. I knew I'd fuck it up, but I didn't know it'd be this soon.
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PFT Commenter
I tried to get him not not to send it because I knew that you would have. That one was going to set you off.
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Big Cat
It's all right. We love you, Zach. It's all right. It's just. Don't do it again, all right?
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PFT Commenter
Yes, sir. So, Zach, maybe. Maybe start the show with a monologue. Welcome, Everybody, to the 2025 Takeies. I'm your host and presenter, Zach. And then just rip into the jokes.
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Big Cat
I would like to welcome Everybody to.
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PFT Commenter
The 2026 Takeies Awards. Okay, I'm Zach here, and I'd like to. I'd like to warm welcome. Let's get things started here, gentlemen.
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Big Cat
Happy Takeies. Happy take.
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PFT Commenter
Happy Takeies. Shohei Ohtani became the first player ever with 50 homers and 50 steals in a season 51 if you count the 17 million in his transfer portal.
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Big Cat
Okay, okay. Wait. In his transfer portal.
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PFT Commenter
Okay, let's. Let's run that one again. Let's read this one slow. Shohei Ohtani became the first player ever with 50 homers and 50 steals in a season 51 if you count the 17 million in his transfer portal. 51 if you count to 17 million. His.
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Big Cat
His.
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PFT Commenter
Shohei Otani became the first player ever with 50 homers and 50 steals in a season 51 if you count the 17 million his translator stole.
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Big Cat
Okay, that's good. Transfer. Tough read. It's on me.
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PFT Commenter
Short Sanders slid to the fifth round in the draft because teams are worried he would be a distraction in the locker room. But luckily, the Browns needed a distraction from their distraction. Anything to pull focus from the ankle monitors.
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Big Cat
Nice. Love that.
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PFT Commenter
Yep.
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Big Cat
Love that.
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PFT Commenter
How's everybody doing tonight? Everyone feeling good?
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Big Cat
Feeling loose? Ready for the Takeies?
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PFT Commenter
Oh, yeah.
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Big Cat
That's awesome. I love that for you guys. Let's take it up here.
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PFT Commenter
But Angel Reese spoke out Angel Reese spoke out online against the WNBA after a bad call from the officials. Bold move considering she could face up to 25 push in fines. Okay, yeah, I think that was supposed to be Bucs, but it autocorrected the push. Okay, if I'm guessing. Yeah. Kylie Jenner and Timothee Chalamet went to the NBA finals together.
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Big Cat
Kylie said if it was rude how.
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PFT Commenter
Players were coming up to the couple being flirtatious all night. But in Cat's defense, he didn't realize Timothy had a girlfriend.
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Big Cat
That's good. All right.
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PFT Commenter
It's a good one. Mike Tomlin looks like he washes his eye.
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Big Cat
His eyeballs with soap every morning. That's right to the point.
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PFT Commenter
That's the closer, right?
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Big Cat
Yeah. That's great.
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PFT Commenter
All right. Good job, Zach.
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Big Cat
Job, Zach.
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PFT Commenter
Good job, Zach.
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Big Cat
Monologue. Great monologue.
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PFT Commenter
It was cool seeing his name in the credits. Yeah, that was funny last night might have been misspelled. That's okay.
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Big Cat
Yeah, that's fine. That's fine. They added an extra L to him. I think actually they probably did that on purpose to fuck with them. Great, Espo. Shane is the man. All right. Should we do it, boys?
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PFT Commenter
Do it.
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Big Cat
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PFT Commenter
Yeah.
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Big Cat
Let's get going. I got the tropical twist in front of me. I also have the Citrus Crush. My favorite is the strawberry smash truly unruly. 8% ABV. It hits hard but still tastes amazing. Comes in four fresh flavors. Tropical Twist, Berry Blast, Citrus Crush, Strawberry Smash. It's the official hard seltzer of Pardon my take, get unruly with Truly today. We love Truly. Thank you to truly and let's get to the takeies. Okay, boys, it's time. Here we go. 25 awards we're giving out and I think we do this every year. To start off with the take of the year. This is not our preemptive take, which we will do later. The take of the year. We had a lot, a lot of nominees here. Thank you. To Freezing Cold takes. He always helps us out. He's the best. Go follow him, buy his book. He helps us out with compiling a bunch of these.
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PFT Commenter
He's a great litmus test for people that if he, if he reposts one of your bad takes, if you get mad at him, you're probably a dickhead.
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Big Cat
Correct.
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PFT Commenter
And if you're able to laugh at yourself, you're probably a good hang.
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Big Cat
Correct. Because we have some bad takes all the time. But these are the nominees for take of the year. So I actually separated this year because he did such a good job of sending me them. I have a Rent. Rent Came Due category that I just want to briefly touch on because there's some takes that happened a couple years ago, but they finally came due this year. Robert Salah in 2022. Robert Saleh and the jets are keeping receipts on those that mock the team. He said, I'm going to be more than happy to share them when it's all said and done. Robert Salah finished with a 20 and 36 record and was fired after five games. This year, unceremoniously, Rent came due. Zach Rosenblatt said in 2021, Daniel Jones still has a lot to prove, but I think it's safe to say he's a lot better than Jalen Hurts. That one came due this year.
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PFT Commenter
We'll see.
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Big Cat
Big, big way. Adam Coffler two years ago said Jameer Gibbs is the stone cold worst pick the Lions could have made at 12. But whatever. Dan Campbell. In two seasons, Jameer Gibbs has 3190 yards from scrimmage and three 31 touchdowns in two years.
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PFT Commenter
Pretty good. Pretty good start.
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Big Cat
We also had this famous one. Maybe you guys can tell me who wrote this. Man, Bronnie. Definitely better than some of these cats I've been watching on league pass today. Lightweight, hilarious. Four crying face emojis.
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PFT Commenter
Just my thought as a sports junkie. Regardless, my own sport I play.
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Big Cat
That was LeBron James in 2023. Bronnie averaged 2.3 points per game and 0.7 rebounds. Uh, and then finally for the Rent Came due section of this, which none of these are eligible to win, but I Thought we'd have to say them. Dion Sanders a year and a half ago said in a response to a tweet that said tell your son stop acting like he the coldest one out there. When he put up a 4 and 8 season, Deion Sanders said he will be a top 5 pick. Where your son going? L O L O. L O L O. I got time today lo.
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PFT Commenter
It's a lot of out louds.
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Big Cat
Yeah. It got community noted he wasn't a top five pick. Top five for five rounds.
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PFT Commenter
He was. Yeah. Top five rounds.
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Big Cat
Top five rounds. All right. So this year's takes and then we will get to the winner. We have our good friend Peter Schrager who before the season last year said aaron Rodgers is my Pick for the 2024 NFL MVP. What he's about to do for the jets fans this season is something even he couldn't grasp or foresee. Memes. Did he do that for you?
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PFT Commenter
That first drive against 49ers.
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Big Cat
Thought we were in Super Bowl. That was it.
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PFT Commenter
That was great.
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Big Cat
We also had new Bears punter Tori Taylor said he got this text from Caleb Williams. Hey, you're not going to punt too much here. The Bears were the second highest team in punts with 82 in the 2024 season.
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PFT Commenter
I like the confidence. I like the confidence room. Also means let's not forget that Aaron Rodgers top five in virtually every category. Does that justify Peter Schreger?
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Big Cat
He was better stats than Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes. I think I had to throw a couple of these in here because I also had some really bad takes about the Bears. Obviously last season. You could just, I mean, you listen to the show. I had some really, really bad takes. But Nick Wright also said in August it was the Chicago Bears were his pick to go to the Super Bowl. We had Albert Brear last summer. Said, I think Gerard Mayo's a special coaching prospect. I think he has special qualities.
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PFT Commenter
He does. He had. He didn't say what type of special.
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Big Cat
That's true. That's true.
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PFT Commenter
Special is a wide spectrum.
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Big Cat
Yeah. And then Kurt Signetti on Indiana vs. Notre Dame. We don't just beat top 25 teams. We beat the shit out of them. They lost and they were down 27 to 3 in the fourth quarter.
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PFT Commenter
At the time, he was correct.
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Big Cat
Yeah.
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PFT Commenter
That they had done that.
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Big Cat
Well, except for Ohio State.
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PFT Commenter
Also. He, I mean, he, he did have. He was the king of making scores look better at the end of these blowouts.
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Big Cat
Yes.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah.
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Big Cat
Yes. But the take of the year is going to actually Come from a one subsect of topics here and it's Max, you're going to be happy about this. There were a lot of takes about the Philadelphia Eagles this year. So here are the official nominees for take of the year. We had Nick Wright during the Super Bowl. He said, Chiefs down 10, which means finally the game can start. It's a weird part of the dynasty that they're totally unable to play well in Super Bowls until they're down exactly 10 points. But it's verifiably true. The Chiefs lost the game 40 to 22 and we're down 34, 0 and 40 to 6 after being down 10. Bobby Spence said, I honestly believe when all is said and done, Saquon's biggest regret of his career will be signing with Philadelphia. That's a tough one. Skip Bayless also said saquon Barkley to Philly does not scare me one bit. And then we had finally the last two nominees. The Eagles are going to miss out on hiring Bill Belichick because they're too big of cowards to fire Nick Sirianni. True, that was from at barstool Jordi. And then finally the winner of take of the year. Drumroll. It goes to our new colleague Colin Coward who said before the super bowl this year the Eagles may not get into the red zone against Kansas City. And then The Eagles scored 44 points and had 345 yards total offense. That is our winner for take of the year. May not get. Listen, if Coward said may not get in the end zone, that's one may not get into the red zone against the Kansas City Chiefs.
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PFT Commenter
Now to be fair, they did score a couple touchdowns where they didn't get into the red zone.
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Big Cat
That's true.
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PFT Commenter
They did have a long beyond the.
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Big Cat
20 yard line, a long touchdown. But they also had a field goal where they got in the red zone.
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PFT Commenter
That's true.
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Big Cat
But yeah, that is our winner for take of the year. That is so, so abysmally bad.
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PFT Commenter
And I love Colin. Yeah, I do. But this is an honor, Colin. I. I hope you appreciate it.
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Big Cat
Yeah. Come, come collect your takey in person.
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PFT Commenter
He's gotta be double digits.
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Big Cat
Oh, yeah, he's definitely won a lot of take.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah, he's got a lot of hardware.
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Big Cat
Yeah. All right, next up. Pft.
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PFT Commenter
Okay, so we have the just log off of the year award. I believe we started this a couple years ago. Relatively new addition to the takeies. And the nominees for just log off of the year are. RG3 for his ongoing feud against Ryan Clark.
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Big Cat
Ooh, that one's a spicy one.
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PFT Commenter
RG3 for deep throating the croissant at the Olympics.
- [28:25]
Big Cat
Yep. That was. We couldn't. We were shocked when we were putting together. Take you to that happened this year.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah, that felt like it was a while ago. And the final nominee for just log off of the Year Award, RG3 for his post regarding Angel Reese where he posted an image that nobody had seen for the world to see and then said that Angel Reese's inner circle was contacting him to discuss how she's jealous about Caitlin Clark while he asked people not to bully Angel Reese. Okay, three great nominees this year.
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Big Cat
Who's going to win?
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PFT Commenter
The winner of the 2025 take you for just log off of the year award is RG3. And it was a tie for all three of them. Oh, it was a tie. So great. All around performance historical year. Big numbers. We might not ever see him again. Just put the phone down once in a while.
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Big Cat
I actually think we will. Yeah, we will. Do you think that he, like, at any point was. Is like, hey, maybe I should just chill out?
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PFT Commenter
No, Just log off. No. Twitter.com. i live for this. Okay, that's RG3. He. He likes the interactions. I think he. Sometimes he. He pokes the hornet's nest and he enjoys the swarm.
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Big Cat
Okay. RG3 with the second take, he given away today. All right, we have next up bet of the year. Very important category. We actually should go through our, like, history of the takeies and see how many different awards we've given because we have some repeats, but we have a ton that are just.
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PFT Commenter
We have a list. Yeah, we do. It's like 150.
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Big Cat
It's. Anyone could be nominated for anything.
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PFT Commenter
I woke up in the middle of night last night in a cold sweat, panicking because we are not doing southern or the year this year. I was like, oh, shit, we forgot that one.
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Big Cat
But that makes it more illustrious that you don't. You don't know when, what, what year your award may come up, right?
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PFT Commenter
Like, if you're doing the Oscars and there are no good movies, right, you could just be like, we're just going to do best, Best cinematography. We'll do best costume design. We're not doing best picture. You all suck.
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Big Cat
Yeah, it's. There should be like, you should be able to change it year to year and there should be an award like it was an okay movie of the year. Yeah.
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PFT Commenter
There were no good documentaries this year, so we will not be giving that award.
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Big Cat
Yeah. Movie. I'D like to most jerk off to.
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PFT Commenter
That's. Now that's an award.
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Big Cat
That should be an Oscar award. Yeah. Swordfish.
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PFT Commenter
That's a good one.
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Big Cat
Good call. All right, Bet of the year. We have some really good nominees. We have first off, the K State burrito guy who tweeted, if K state loses to BYU, I'll shove a beefy five layer burrito up my ass. BYU won the game 38 to 9. And then he went on to shove the burrito up his ass and BYU tweeted Liv Moss their final score.
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PFT Commenter
That's. That's fourth meal.
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Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah. We have next up, the FSU poop guy who really set the tone for bets of the year this year when he said that if Florida State loses to Boston College this weekend, I will eat dog out of a red solo cup with a spoon and. And post a video of me doing it. Book it. Florida State lost 28 to 13 to Boston College. He did not. He actually deleted his account. He's a coward. He's a fraud. We should never forget.
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PFT Commenter
It was a disgrace. He ruined Florida State season.
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Big Cat
Yep. Next up, we have the Travis Hunter Heisman bet by all of us. Good job.
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PFT Commenter
Job.
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Big Cat
Good job. Nominee.
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PFT Commenter
Great bet.
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Big Cat
We also have Hank saying he could dunk.
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PFT Commenter
This was a good bet. Well defined. Good. I got in good shape.
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Big Cat
Okay. Well actually that's funny because the next nominee is Hank saying he'd have a six pack.
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PFT Commenter
This was old.
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Big Cat
You've been saying it a lot.
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PFT Commenter
I almost had a six pack at one point. Dunk bet.
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Big Cat
Okay. And then finally Hank saying he could out drive. Pft.
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PFT Commenter
This was a bad bet. This was a really bad bet. Really dumb. You kind of bullied me into it and it was. I regretted it every day ever since. Was on the heels of losing the dunk bet. And you had to. You had to try to reclaim your masculinity at that point. Yeah, I understand you're under pressure.
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Big Cat
Ok.
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PFT Commenter
But hey, eight yards.
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Big Cat
Yeah.
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PFT Commenter
Not bad. Could have been a lot worse. Good bet.
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Big Cat
All right. Bet of the year. The winner is K State burrito guy. He shoved a full five layer burrito up his ass. He wins the takey for bed of the year. Salute to that guy.
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PFT Commenter
Great follow through on his part.
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Big Cat
I remember seeing it and I was like, wow, he did it. Okay. I don't know if we actually wanted this, but okay.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah. When you crap out a seven layer burrito or what was it, five layer. Five layer that you shove up your ass, does it look different than if you had eaten it?
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Big Cat
Oh, I don't know.
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PFT Commenter
I feel like it's probably pretty similar.
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Big Cat
This though this is the bed of the year because it was right off the heels of the FSU poop guy. And he basically was like, this is how it's done at K State. We shove food up our ass when we say we're going to win a game and then lose that game.
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PFT Commenter
Imaw.
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Big Cat
Yeah. Every man a wildcat. All right, next up, pft.
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PFT Commenter
Our fourth award of the night is a very special one. It is the 17th best quarterback of the year award. 17th best quarterback in the NFL and last year who won? Dak Prescott won the 17th best quarterback of the year award. He is nominated again. And the nominees for the 17th best quarterback of the year of 2025 are. Geno Smith, Dak Prescott, Daniel Jones, Joe Flacco, Kyler Murray, Bryce Young Tua and Sam Darnold. Great pack. Great pack of nominees this year. And we have a special video for the 17th best quarterback of the year award.
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Big Cat
Excited for this? Excited for this. I heard AFDM Max talking about takings. Yeah. College football top personality. What do you beat out? Andy Staples and Dave's not weighing it. No. Cornelli Big Cat's really impressed.
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PFT Commenter
This is a.
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Big Cat
This is a bit. What's. What's happen? What are you doing? You won. Have you been sent here? I only send myself. I overheard Max and PFT talking 17 minutes ago. Why do you know 17 minutes? TJ, do you agree he's been weird? I guess. Speaking of 17, Dak Prescott finished 8th in the 17th best quarterback award. Tanky. So that's pretty cool. What are you doing? Why are you telling me the results of the takeies? Because I'm an informant and I support you. I look out for you. How long you been here? Right here. No, no, no. How long has it been working? December 2023. You've been my greatest ally. You've never informed me of anything before. That's untrue. Last week I gave you roughness info. That's just because I was ignoring the group chat. Yeah. I tell you things here and there. All right. He didn't announce the winner.
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PFT Commenter
He didn't announce the winner. That was a quite a conversation. It was a nice peek behind the scene, peeking in the air. And for everybody that says Brandon Walker, he's different. He plays a character when he's on the air. I think that's a pretty good conclus that he's not.
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Big Cat
That was good.
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PFT Commenter
But the winner of the 17th best quarterback of the year is Gino Smith. Oh.
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Big Cat
Did it go?
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PFT Commenter
Congrats. Dak did finish in eighth place. Okay, that so something for next year.
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Big Cat
Very close. Okay, next up, congratulations, Gino Smith. Next up, we have the can't win the Big One of the year award. I said that wrong. Can't win the big one.
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PFT Commenter
No, it's the can't win the big one Award of the year.
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Big Cat
Award of the year. The nominees are Caitlyn Clark. Can't win the big one. Cannot win the big one. Patrick Mahomes.
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PFT Commenter
Didn't win the big one.
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Big Cat
If we're doing this year, he can't win the big one.
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PFT Commenter
What have you done for me lately?
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Big Cat
Connor McDavid has not been able to win the big one, sadly. And Arch Manning, Texas quarterback.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah. Did you see that his. His grandfather signs all his texts to him. Archie.
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Big Cat
Oh.
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PFT Commenter
After every text that he writes.
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Big Cat
That's cute.
- [36:30]
PFT Commenter
I thought that was nice.
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Big Cat
That's very cute. We have a guest presenter for the can't win the Big One of the year award. Max, can we bring in our guest presenter? It's time for the Takeies.
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PFT Commenter
And I'm here to announce a big.
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Big Cat
Award for big cat. You know.
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PFT Commenter
And it's the award for.
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Big Cat
Choking in a big game. Choking under spotlight. Yes, that's right.
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PFT Commenter
The guy who can't win the big one. And whoo.
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Big Cat
Slam poetry.
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PFT Commenter
You know, you just can't win the big one. Best player, but can't win the big one.
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Big Cat
Great. In a regular season, but can't win the big one. I booked him on camera. There's only one person that could be.
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PFT Commenter
Connor McDavid. Oh, Connor. Always a bridesmaid, but never the bride.
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Big Cat
As he watched the Panthers once again go for a victory ride as Lord.
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PFT Commenter
Stanley continues to bask in the sun of Florida. And the Oilers just wallow, wallow, wallow. Oh, yes, Connor McDavid. Once again, he can't win the big one. And Witt. Oh, well, just think whit wins no matter what.
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Big Cat
One of his teams wins the Stanley Cup.
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PFT Commenter
I know he liked being in Edmonton more than he liked being in Florida. But Connor McDavid just can't win the big one. And he gets to takey.
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Big Cat
Well, that's something he got he wanted take. Yeah, but he can't. Big one. Way to go, Connor. Way to go. A couple things. Thank you to Frank. I booked that cameo. You can go book Frank the Tank on cameo. I was able to secure that. I just thought of the idea we should. We should. This might be mean, but, like, what if we did a hidden camera and we rewired Frank's house for the clap on. Clap off lights.
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PFT Commenter
That would be such a good prank. Yeah, yeah. Put it to his blender.
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Big Cat
Also, for this award, it's Groundhog's Day because he did win this last year. And it's also Groundhog Day because for two years in a row, I asked our good friend Ryan Whitney to be the guest presenter. And he declined to the point where I actually called him and I was like, hey, I have a favor to ask for you. And I asked him and he was like, dude, you asked me this last year. I said no. I was like, oh, fuck.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah.
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Big Cat
I just forgot. He just keeps not winning the big one.
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PFT Commenter
Well, this is a big one, but it's not the big one.
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Big Cat
Yeah.
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PFT Commenter
Right. So he can't win the big one. Maybe until he gets traded. Maybe until he's a free agent and he resigns with an American team.
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Big Cat
Yeah.
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PFT Commenter
Maybe then he'll be able to win the big one.
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Big Cat
Yeah. Whitney did say that if they don't get to the finals next year, he will. He will guest present for the can't win the big one award.
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PFT Commenter
If they don't even get to the.
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Big Cat
Final, they don't get to the finals.
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PFT Commenter
I mean, they're going to get to the finals again.
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Big Cat
They might. They might. They might not. Okay, we ready for our next award?
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PFT Commenter
Yeah, let's.
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Big Cat
We might have someone on who can actually accept this award.
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PFT Commenter
So this is a very special new award, never given out before in the history. Part of my take. It is the part of my take. Citizen of the Year award. And this is maybe the biggest honor that we give out.
- [39:58]
Big Cat
Yes.
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PFT Commenter
Because it means that you've gone above and beyond as a citizen. And we have some great nominees. We have Paul Bissett, our great friend for taking the defense of all the staff at the restaurant, getting into a fight with the Irish travelers and. And kind of getting boot in the face outside of cvs.
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Big Cat
Yep.
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PFT Commenter
We have Steph Curry nominated for Citizen of the Year. First performance in the Olympics, delivering the gold medal to the United States of America in the gold medal game.
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Big Cat
Yep.
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PFT Commenter
Great game. Good job, Steph. We have Bonnie Blue nominated for Citizen of the Year.
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Big Cat
Why?
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PFT Commenter
I'm not sure. That was not my addition to the nominee list.
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Big Cat
Okay.
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PFT Commenter
But she's. She's made a lot of people very happy. Yep. It's about community service.
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Big Cat
Yeah, yeah. She serves the community.
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PFT Commenter
It's C U M M service. We have. The Saints defense has been nominated for Citizen of the Year for Giving Mike Evans 10 more yards on the Last catch of the season. Oh wow. And letting him continue the streak of thousand yard seasons.
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Big Cat
Okay, okay.
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PFT Commenter
A lot of good nominees and this year the citizen of the year award goes to our dear, dear friend, Paul Bisson.
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Big Cat
Yes, let's let him in. We have Paul Bisson at here.
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PFT Commenter
Thank you for your service, Paul. Congratulations.
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Big Cat
I didn't realize it was this intense. We have Paul Bisson at here. He has won citizen of the year. Congratulations, Paul. You are citizen of the year for the 2025 takeies. Well, you know, you mentioned yesterday via text I thought that was going to happen and you gave it to me originally. I didn't realize you guys had a annual award show for it.
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PFT Commenter
Yep.
- [41:40]
Big Cat
And I remember like gambling it away. Remember I was trying to like promote gambling, which I suck at. And I put it on the, I believe the Notre Dame Fighting Irish QB to pass for a certain amount of touchdowns, a certain amount of yards. I think it was a three leg parlay and I don't think one of them hit so completely mushed the Fighting Irish. So I thought I actually lost Citizen of the year.
- [42:01]
PFT Commenter
No, my hands gave it right back to you.
- [42:03]
Big Cat
Yeah. Okay. Despite my horrible gambling efforts and trying to draw attention to DraftKings, I still get to retain the award. So if I have, do I have to give it a yeah. Oh yeah. Speech. Please, please, please. I just thank the people at Barstool. Man, what, what a company to work for.
- [42:24]
PFT Commenter
Just.
- [42:24]
Big Cat
Yeah, I'm just grateful to be a part of this crazy pirate ship, obviously, you guys included. And yeah, I'll dedicate it to back to Barstool.
- [42:33]
PFT Commenter
Okay. What about the, what about the people of Houston's.
- [42:36]
Big Cat
Yeah, what about the people of Houston's to find staff, find family establishment. Well, that's a given. I thought I said that very clearly in my post game comments. When do the officer body cams where I fully tire pump the staff and saying it's one of the best restaurant establishments on the planet as far as like price point consistency, the way they, they handled efforts. People told me that I was wrong in saying it was like, like military, like. Yeah.
- [43:03]
PFT Commenter
Or did I say militaristic? I think you said militaristic, but I think you're referring to their discipline.
- [43:08]
Big Cat
The discipline. Yeah. And. And I just marvel at it. And it's why I frequent there and especially at the end of playoffs when I was like completely gas like going 10 months the full season where the last thing I want to do is cook or do groceries. Like guys, I was going there like nine times a Week. Yeah, I think I have. I think I have a Houston's addiction.
- [43:27]
PFT Commenter
Well, yeah, you stopped going there. Then you got gout. What does that teach you?
- [43:32]
Big Cat
So I would always get the steak there, the filet. I would do the traditional salad and then. And then followed up with the filet, with the potato calcone or sometimes the baked potato. Sometimes I'd go to the rice. If it wasn't a certain time where they made the calcone or baked potato available, I think that's before 5:00'. Clock. But, yeah, what a speech. But. But going back to it, I think there were other elements that were hurting my gout. I read something recently that, like, glucose intake has a lot to do with it, where I don't drink alcohol anymore, but, like, my treat is I drink pops. Maybe a couple pops a day. And I was shocked, though, that, you know, even at 40, I wouldn't be able to do at least a couple Coca Colas. People told me to go to Diet Coke. I hate Diet Coke, so. But I've. I've cut out pops, I've cut out a lot of sodium intake. And I think it just kind of brings it all back to Houston's. They saved my life. Yeah. I think my life.
- [44:30]
PFT Commenter
I. I admire how the links that you're willing to go to. To say that it's not the two steaks a day that caused the gout. It's got to be something else.
- [44:37]
Big Cat
Yeah. Well, I've been threatened by the. The Carnivore society. Yeah. If I. If I blame it on red meat.
- [44:45]
PFT Commenter
That'S a bad society. You get threatened.
- [44:47]
Big Cat
I have a red dot on my forehead. If I blame the red. That way I'll get sniped. I'm in Jackson, Wyoming, right now. The last thing I'm going to do is blame steak or any type of red meat to blame for anything. That's like. You're hardcore out here. That's smart. Well Biz Citizen of the year, incredible title. You mentioned at the beginning here, you've never seen a Takeies. You didn't know we were doing this? Every year there's our ninth annual Takeies. Do you want to stick around for one? Just one more award just so you can see how it goes? I would. I would love to. Okay, great. I was also gonna ask you guys quickly, though. You got to go to that golf tournament in Tahoe. Like, that must have been an unreal experience. Shout out to Joe Pavelski. Yes, Badger. He's a. He's a Wisconsin badger. One of the most well liked guys to play the game. And I would probably say top 10 who never won a Stanley cup, where people, even from other teams who rooted for other teams would say, ah, I wish Pavelski would have got one. Yeah, I wish Joe Thornton would have got one. OVI would have been on that list if he wouldn't have won one. But he did. Maybe next year we'll do a takey first giving away a Stanley Cup.
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PFT Commenter
That's very nice.
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Big Cat
Yeah.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah, that's. Yeah, that's great, Paul. I. I also think it was a big win for the NHL over the NBA to have Pavelski beat Steph Curry.
- [46:07]
Big Cat
Yes, that's.
- [46:08]
PFT Commenter
That's huge for the sport.
- [46:09]
Big Cat
Big. Hockey's on the rise, man. Hockey's on the rise. On the rise. All right. Hockey's on a heater, as we always say on the podcast the last two years. And on top of that, boys, we're heading into an Olympic year.
- [46:20]
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
- [46:21]
Big Cat
Four nations. Nonsense.
- [46:22]
PFT Commenter
Whole nonsense.
- [46:23]
Big Cat
Yeah. Stakes are going to be. Yeah, they are. All right, so. So, Biz, you're going to stick around for this next award? Can you maybe do whatever the award ends up being? Can you do an acceptance speech for that? Because that was such a great acceptance speech for the year. All right, great. All right, so the next award is exhibition win of the year. So this is who had the best win in exhibition game that ultimately did not matter.
- [46:45]
PFT Commenter
One that was just kind of for fun.
- [46:46]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [46:47]
PFT Commenter
Laughs yeah. And nobody took two cares.
- [46:49]
Big Cat
Right. No one remembers, remember an exhibition game. Right. So, like, we want to. We want to let everyone know, like, hey, these wins, like, hey, this was the best exhibition win. It doesn't really matter at all, but we're giving a takey. All right, so the nominees are Shaq OGs in the NBA All Star game. Huge win for Shaq OG.
- [47:08]
PFT Commenter
What an exciting game that was. Who could forget? I think there were four teams.
- [47:11]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [47:12]
PFT Commenter
And they emerged the champion. Yeah. I mean, it's like March Madness, but for the nc. It's for the NBA. It was an incredible experience. And I think we all remember where we were when Shaqs OG's won.
- [47:21]
Big Cat
Yep. What was the final score?
- [47:23]
PFT Commenter
No, no, no.
- [47:24]
Big Cat
Don't care. Oh, geez. Isn't that an important detail about this award? Well, this is the exhibition of the year. It's the game that literally does not matter. Okay. Yeah. You guys also said that about the foreign. Okay, so here we go. Next up, we have Team Manning in the Pro Bowl. Team Manning won the Pro Bowl. I don't know which Manning. It Was. Yeah, I see what's happening.
- [47:44]
PFT Commenter
I think it was. I think it was Cooper.
- [47:45]
Big Cat
Next up, we have Mexico versus us. Mexico won that game in the Con Calf final exhibition of the year. And then finally, the last nominee is Team Canada in the Four nations, and the winner is Team Canada.
- [47:59]
PFT Commenter
That was a great exhibition match.
- [48:02]
Big Cat
All right. And, Bishop, you promised that you do an acceptance speech. So accept the award of exhibition of the year for Team Canada. I actually was. I. I kind of was ahead of the answer. Yeah, you did. Caught on After. After Team Manning. You caught on. That might have been the smartest thing that's ever happened. Like, holy. Do I get the biz idiot title removed? No, no, because you accepted this.
- [48:26]
PFT Commenter
No, no, no.
- [48:27]
Big Cat
When you got Matthew and Brady Kachuk and. And, you know, and all the guys on that team starting fights in a round robin game. Exhibition. Exhibition.
- [48:39]
PFT Commenter
That was a different game.
- [48:40]
Big Cat
The exhibition. It's literally. Don't tell me My wife. Exhibition win of the year. Tell me how to fuck my wife. I'll tell you whether it's exhibition or not. Okay, well, business. A fucking. I was a win for Canada and. And a precursor to the Olympics coming up. It ain't the Olympics. We all know that. But don't act like they weren't playing for something. They were playing for pride. They were playing for exhibition win of the year, which they got. So accept the award. Do you accept? I decline. No, I decline. I decline. This idiot is gone. This idiot is gone.
- [49:19]
PFT Commenter
So by declining that award, you're admitting that Connor McDavid can't win the big one? Because you just said that's. I'm not accepting it. Exhibit, blah, blah, blah. It's not a big one.
- [49:28]
Big Cat
Oh, double check. I have a phone. A friend here.
- [49:33]
PFT Commenter
Which one do you want?
- [49:34]
Big Cat
Could I get a phone friend?
- [49:36]
PFT Commenter
A really nice thing by. By acknowledging the beautiful, beautiful state of Canada.
- [49:41]
Big Cat
Phone a friend.
- [49:41]
PFT Commenter
Should I go ahead?
- [49:42]
Big Cat
Should I call. Should I call Connor McDavid even though he would never. No. Should I just call? He's like, oh, I thought I had your number blocked. His agent doesn't know, Judd, so I'll have to. I have to go through him. I. I do not accept. Okay, Your. Your. Whatever. Your. Your. Your. What do you say when you're. You're spouting off talking. Anyway, everything you're saying, you can't win the big one. Screw you.
- [50:08]
PFT Commenter
I'm j.
- [50:08]
Big Cat
You guys jam me up. All right? Jam me up. And if I could have a phone, a friend, it would actually be oldie. Yeah, it was kind of Brought into the whole fold during all this. And who supplied column? Go ahead, give him a call. You can call him right now. Call oldie. Yeah. Do you have his phone? Do you have your phone? Yeah, let's see.
- [50:28]
PFT Commenter
I mean, that was. It was an exhibition match for his. For his nuts.
- [50:31]
Big Cat
All you have to say, though, you have to. You have to say oldie, they should we accept the exhibition win of the year. Takey or not. Okay. That's all you got to say? Business getting smart. I don't have his number stored, which is shocking. So I have to go find it back in text. Oh, here, I know how to find it. I'll type into my search bar. There you go. Busy, busy, busy, busy. Do you have his number? Yeah, I'll send it to you right now.
- [51:02]
PFT Commenter
I bet if you search busy, I bet it comes up.
- [51:05]
Big Cat
It's probably going to be the first result. Okay, got to go. Oh, he. He supplied me with all my weed at the. The writer cup. Oh my God, dude, I couldn't even fucking think straight there. Okay, you're right. It was busy, busy. Oh, no, no, that's not it. I just said it to you. Okay, thank you. Thank you for. For your patience. And what's the question? Do you accept the exhibition of the win of the year taking on behalf of Canada? All right. Only it's biz. So I'm being presented an award right now on behalf. On behalf of Canada. I have to accept on behalf of Canada. Keep in mind, this may or may not be a trap. Okay, just keep that in mind before I ask it. Would you accept an exhibition win of the year on behalf of Canada in the four nations tournament? An exhibition win? Yes, Exhibition win of the year. If you were. If you were being offered that award, would you accept on behalf of Canada or would you decline? I think you got to say yes on that. Yep. Pump the boys.
- [52:23]
PFT Commenter
Wheels gotta go. Busy, busy.
- [52:24]
Big Cat
No, I don't know. Oh, what do you say? Do you say no? I think you say yes, babe, you gotta go. You gotta say, yeah, I know, but you gotta go. But. Okay, so I don't even know what did. Because I. I declined because I feel like they're trying to discredit the victory that Canada had by calling it exhibition. It wasn't exhibition. The boys were playing for keeps. So you. We were playing for keeps. This is not an exhibition. I'm declining. No, no, no, no, no, no. It wasn't an all star game. It wasn't an all star game. It was a fucking four nations cup. That four Competitive hockey teams played to their best ability.
- [53:01]
PFT Commenter
That's right, Russ.
- [53:02]
Big Cat
That team Canada won the Four Nations Cup. That's what that was.
- [53:07]
PFT Commenter
It was not an exhibition. It was not an exhibition. No, no, no, no. I thought they were saying, like, give.
- [53:11]
Big Cat
A little grief a little award for this. No, not. I don't think so at all. I agree with you and thank you for being the. That's off the rocker. We. So on behalf of all the. Excited because I sent an award.
- [53:22]
PFT Commenter
I just heard a war.
- [53:25]
Big Cat
Thank you. Seen everyone in my life get awards around me entire life. Not an award guy. That's why I asked if I could phone a friend. And. And. And you were the second person I thought of. Who did I say originally? Connor McDavid. Oh, I said Connor McDavid, but I knew that he wouldn't answer. Yeah, you can't be.
- [53:42]
PFT Commenter
You can't be doing that.
- [53:43]
Big Cat
I was just literally cleaning the cabin air filter in my.
- [53:45]
PFT Commenter
My little whip here Honda. And all of a sudden, my daughter's my youngest.
- [53:50]
Big Cat
She's like, yeah, dad, your phone's ringing. I said, okay.
- [53:52]
PFT Commenter
She's like, okay, I'll answer it. I'm gonna see who it is.
- [53:54]
Big Cat
And I say, she grabs him.
- [53:56]
PFT Commenter
I said, who is it anyway?
- [53:56]
Big Cat
Just who's cooking with us? She goes, it's Biz. And I said, got I go past the phone. You're not answering this one. All right, well, I love you. I love you too, buddy. Great seeing you at the Writer Cup. I couldn't see straight for a few days. I don't know what you brought over there. We were. We were hitting straight gas. But I appreciate you, brother. Whenever the boys buzzed over there for the barn for us, going for the little mission for us. So that was duty, but, yeah, that.
- [54:20]
PFT Commenter
Was an absolute light show.
- [54:21]
Big Cat
That was a good rip and a half. It's always good.
- [54:23]
PFT Commenter
It's always good during the day, but.
- [54:24]
Big Cat
It'S even better at night. Just hanging with the boys, real talking.
- [54:27]
PFT Commenter
And out having a class with boys.
- [54:28]
Big Cat
Bumping and grinding. Right? That's what it's about. Bumping and grinding. Baby, I love you. Good to see you. Good to see you, buddy. Love you. All right, so. So we declined. We declined. All right, so that was perfect because that was Canada's two greatest minds coming together trying to work out a puzzle.
- [54:48]
PFT Commenter
Trying to work out a two piece.
- [54:49]
Big Cat
Puzzle to figure out if they should accept the exhibition of the year year award or not. Biz.
- [54:54]
PFT Commenter
What do you call it in the NHL when it's. It's like halfway through the Season and you take a week off before you get back for the second half and the playoff push. What's that called?
- [55:03]
Big Cat
Oh, just. I mean, like all star breaking.
- [55:05]
PFT Commenter
Oh, so it was the all Star game. Okay, so it was the all star game. Gotcha.
- [55:08]
Big Cat
Okay. No, they canceled that and then now they replaced it and then now they actually canceled next year's in Long island. And then that's when. Why people think that the Islanders got the first overall pick as like a. Sorry. Because I think that was part of the agreement for them to take state funded money to help build the arena. So I love that. I love a tinfoil hat conspiracy just as much as the next guy. So shout out to Matthew Schaefer and the Islanders. Man, did you guys. He was on our. Our podcast. The kid carved me for 45. Yeah, he was great. He was great. So I don't think you need a nurse job. Frankie Borelli and the Islanders. I might hop on the wagon with a fisherman. All right, biz. Thank you. Official scoring. He has accepted citizen of the year. He has declined exhibition year. Appreciate you. We love you. And congrats on citizen of the year. Love you, boys. That was awesome. Okay. What a. What an award that was.
- [56:03]
PFT Commenter
I mean, very un Canadian to decline an award.
- [56:06]
Big Cat
So we have the official scoring and citizen of the year award has been accepted and the exhibition win of the year award has been declined. But we are giving it to Canada. So it will just. It will just stay out in the open.
- [56:16]
PFT Commenter
I guess we'll keep it.
- [56:17]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [56:18]
PFT Commenter
Hang on to it for him.
- [56:18]
Big Cat
Oh, yeah. So did we win four nations? Yeah.
- [56:21]
PFT Commenter
Congratulations to us.
- [56:24]
Big Cat
All right. That was so funny. Just biz and oldie, like they. I. I could watch them. We got to get them in an escape room.
- [56:30]
PFT Commenter
A reality show together.
- [56:32]
Big Cat
Holy.
- [56:32]
PFT Commenter
Yeah, they. If they were on talking it out. If they were on amazing Race together, trying to navigate their way across, like, Florida.
- [56:39]
Big Cat
Oldie, just oldie. Just saying. I heard the word award and I blacked out.
- [56:43]
PFT Commenter
Not kind of. He's never been an award guy.
- [56:45]
Big Cat
Everyone else sweating them around him. Yeah, not him. Okay, we got some more awards coming up before we do that. The snack wrap in front of us. McDonald's. This episode of Pardon My Take is brought to you by McDonald's. Ever since snack wrap was removed from the McDonald's menu, the fans have been relentless to get it back. Traveling to different countries to get it on foreign menus, making petitions, posting every day until it came back, creating accounts around it, Facebook support groups, making memes about how life would be different if the snack snack wrap came back. People have been obsessing over it for nine years. Hank is eating one right now. Memes has had one. We love the snack wrap. I like the spicy snack wrap. That's my personal favorite. But it is the best. It's the best menu item. So thank you, McDonald's for bringing it back. Try the snack wrap that broke the Internet at a McDonald's near you today. So shout out McDonald's. The snack wrap is back. Go get it now. Everyone, the snack wrap is back. We're snap snack wrapping this summer. Okay. Pft. Are you up?
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PFT Commenter
I am. Yes. Another award. We have the I can't believe they put all that in their mouth of the year award.
- [57:54]
Big Cat
Okay.
- [57:55]
PFT Commenter
Big year for mouths.
- [57:56]
Big Cat
That's huge.
- [57:57]
PFT Commenter
First nominee is again. Bonnie Blue has been nominated again. Joining her is Lily Phillips, joey chestnut, and RG3.
- [58:08]
Big Cat
Wow.
- [58:09]
PFT Commenter
For the croissant, RG3 already bringing home some hardware tonight. We'll see if he can make it. Two trophies in his case. And the winner of the I can't believe they put all that in their mouth of the year award is. RG3. Robert Griffin III.
- [58:23]
Big Cat
Congratulations.
- [58:24]
PFT Commenter
Just enjoying a nice croissant on the balcony with his lovely wife Greta.
- [58:28]
Big Cat
Still an outrageous. I think if we look back at that picture, it's. It's the cupping of the croissants balls.
- [58:34]
PFT Commenter
It's the cupping. It's the, the passion in his eyes too.
- [58:38]
Big Cat
Yeah. The mouthful, the cupping. It's everything.
- [58:40]
PFT Commenter
He felt it.
- [58:41]
Big Cat
He felt it. So he is the winner for his second take you today.
- [58:45]
PFT Commenter
Second take. He big winner of the day so far.
- [58:47]
Big Cat
Damn.
- [58:47]
PFT Commenter
RG3.
- [58:48]
Big Cat
Okay, next up, the ninth award. Jordan of the year. This is a.
- [58:54]
PFT Commenter
Anyone's game.
- [58:55]
Big Cat
Anyone's game. Some very big names in this one. First up we have Jordan Spieth. He's still out there playing golf.
- [59:03]
PFT Commenter
He is. He's. He's swinging it.
- [59:05]
Big Cat
Yeah. Next up we have Jordan. Bill Belichick's Jordan.
- [59:09]
PFT Commenter
Jordan Hudson.
- [59:10]
Big Cat
Jordan Hudson.
- [59:11]
PFT Commenter
Jordan Belichick.
- [59:12]
Big Cat
Jordan Belichick. Next up nominee, Jordan Davis. Won a Super Bowl.
- [59:18]
PFT Commenter
He did.
- [59:19]
Big Cat
Won a Super Bowl.
- [59:20]
PFT Commenter
Big boy. Good season.
- [59:20]
Big Cat
Big boy. And then finally, Jordan Schultz for breaking news. And also maybe fighting Ian Rap Port.
- [59:27]
PFT Commenter
That was such a funny interaction outside the Starbucks. Nonetheless.
- [59:30]
Big Cat
Yes. Okay, the winner of Jordan of the year goes to Jordan Belichick. Wow.
- [59:39]
PFT Commenter
That's not her last name.
- [59:41]
Big Cat
That is her last name.
- [59:42]
PFT Commenter
I did see a picture of Bill's hands and he's. He's wearing a ring.
- [59:46]
Big Cat
Got a ring on.
- [59:47]
PFT Commenter
On his. On his finger. He's got a ring on there.
- [59:50]
Big Cat
He does.
- [59:50]
PFT Commenter
That's not her last name.
- [59:51]
Big Cat
The punch buggy clip.
- [59:53]
PFT Commenter
I saw that. Yep.
- [59:55]
Big Cat
Jordan Belichick. Classic queen. Gonna take UNC football to new heights.
- [60:00]
PFT Commenter
I'm so excited for what happens this season.
- [60:02]
Big Cat
Oh my God, she is. She's a shining star.
- [60:05]
PFT Commenter
Do you think that before the the end of Belichick's tenure at UNC she will try to launch a shitcoin for Bill Belichick? No.
- [60:14]
Big Cat
If she does, please make it Jordan of the year.
- [60:16]
PFT Commenter
Yes.
- [60:17]
Big Cat
And I'll buy it. Let me know before we'll rug pull the shit out of that. Okay. Pft. You have a award up.
- [60:24]
PFT Commenter
Yes. The next award is the Heisman of the Year award. Okay, the Heisman of the Year award. And we have a special guest presenter as well. The nominees are Travis Hunter.
- [60:35]
Big Cat
Oh, he won a Heisman.
- [60:38]
PFT Commenter
He did win the Heisman Trophy.
- [60:40]
Big Cat
Okay.
- [60:40]
PFT Commenter
Ashton Genti. Great season from the running back from Boise State. Excited to see what he does in the NFL. More than deserving of.
- [60:48]
Big Cat
More deserving. More than deserving.
- [60:49]
PFT Commenter
Cj, Cursed from the water dogs.
- [60:53]
Big Cat
Oh, yeah. He won whatever the Heisman is for Lacrosse.
- [60:56]
PFT Commenter
Heisman. Lacrosse. Heisman.
- [60:57]
Big Cat
Yes.
- [60:57]
PFT Commenter
The Rabel.
- [60:59]
Big Cat
The Rabel. The Paul Rabel.
- [61:01]
PFT Commenter
Also nominated, Dylan Gabriel. Great season from Dylan.
- [61:05]
Big Cat
Great season for the Ducks.
- [61:06]
PFT Commenter
And also nominated for Heisman of the year. O.J. simpson.
- [61:09]
Big Cat
Ah.
- [61:09]
PFT Commenter
Heisman winner and Heisman loser.
- [61:12]
Big Cat
And yes. And then winner again.
- [61:13]
PFT Commenter
And then winner back. That was Reggie Bush.
- [61:15]
Big Cat
Oh, yeah, he tried to steal it.
- [61:17]
PFT Commenter
I think he was Heisman winner, Heisman loser, Heisman fever.
- [61:23]
Big Cat
Temporarily, temporarily winner. Because he had it back probably for a minute before he got arrested.
- [61:28]
PFT Commenter
He cared so much about the Heisman trail, he went to jail. For the Heisman truck.
- [61:31]
Big Cat
For the Heisman.
- [61:32]
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
- [61:32]
Big Cat
Yeah. For nothing else.
- [61:33]
PFT Commenter
Nothing else. That's it.
- [61:34]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [61:35]
PFT Commenter
Hank. Yes. We have a guest presenter. We do have a guest presented for this. Okay, let's see who it is.
- [61:43]
Big Cat
Oh, what's up?
- [61:45]
PFT Commenter
Up.
- [61:46]
Big Cat
Very excited to be announcing the Takeee award for Heisman of the Year.
- [61:50]
PFT Commenter
A lot of great nominees this year, guys.
- [61:51]
Big Cat
And look, I myself not a Heisman winner, but I did play against a Heisman. That's right. Cam Newton.
- [61:58]
PFT Commenter
The best football player I've ever seen.
- [62:01]
Big Cat
Live the frieza of college football. Stiff farm pet peeve on the way.
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PFT Commenter
To the end zone and winning a Heisman. But this year it's about one man.
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Big Cat
And I'm proud to announce that the taking for Heisman of the year is Ashton Genti. Wow. Wow.
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PFT Commenter
I mean the stuff that he did as a running back at a. At a mid major. It was incredible for a group of five guy to show that much flash, that much burst. We've never seen a running back like him in the history of the sport of college football.
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Big Cat
And I think that more than anything, I'm happy for Boise State fans. They should be celebrating this in the streets of Boise because this is a huge, huge accomplishment for the program. They now officially have a Heisman of the Year taking.
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PFT Commenter
That's so, so cool. So they got the low man of the Year award.
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Big Cat
Yep.
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PFT Commenter
And they also got the Heisman of the Year award.
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Big Cat
They don't have much room left for all these trophies.
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PFT Commenter
This is incredible. Great season from Ashton. Great season from Boise State. The most deserving on this list of the Heisman of the Year.
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Big Cat
Heisman of the year. Okay, next up, we have a new. This is a new takey. It is Innocent Person of the Year. A lot of people on trial this year.
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PFT Commenter
A lot of exonerations.
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Big Cat
Exonerated. First up, Karen Reed.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah.
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Big Cat
Innocent.
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PFT Commenter
Yep.
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Big Cat
Jeff Nadu, who was accused of being on a no fly list.
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PFT Commenter
He can fly.
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Big Cat
Innocent. Josh Bartlestein, the Sun's exec. Innocent.
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PFT Commenter
Maybe innocent.
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Big Cat
Maybe innocent. Diddy.
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PFT Commenter
Possibly not guilty. On three charges.
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Big Cat
On three charges, yeah. Jeffrey Epstein, completely innocent.
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PFT Commenter
Exonerated. Can we stop talking about this guy?
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Big Cat
Young thug. Innocent. Ish.
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PFT Commenter
Innocent. Ish. Innocent. Not allowed in Atlanta.
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Big Cat
Go ahead, Zach. Completely innocent. Completely innocent. Completely innocent. Okay, the winner for Innocent Person of the Year goes to. Jeffrey Epstein.
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PFT Commenter
Wow.
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Big Cat
Everyone, please drop it. Congrats in memoriam. But also, everyone, just please drop it. I don't know why we made a big deal of it. Let's move on. Hey, gals. Boys. What's up?
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PFT Commenter
In many cases, gals.
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Big Cat
Yeah, we're just. Listen, we're moving on.
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PFT Commenter
He's the man who. Who won't die.
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Big Cat
Yeah, we. Yeah, did. People obsess about it for a lot of years and then one day we just said we had to drop it. Yeah, maybe.
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PFT Commenter
And was the video that was uploaded and sent to the media, was that edited several times and then re saved and put in Adobe Premiere and then re saved and then sent out as raw footage? Who's to say?
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Big Cat
Who's to say? That's. That's actually the sign of an innocent man.
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PFT Commenter
I'm not an expert.
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Big Cat
Yeah. So Jeffrey Epstein, innocent Man of the year or person of the year. All right, next up. Pft.
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PFT Commenter
This is. This is a big award. This is a really big award. Every year we do this award and we take it Very seriously in part by take it is the Lib of the Year award for excellence in living. We've got big nominees. First nominee, Jack Mack. Having a great sit down with Harry Sisson. Talking through some things, platforming them. We should give him a lifetime.
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Big Cat
I do love Jack. Mac, unpack with Jack Mack. He. That's my number one news source.
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PFT Commenter
Yep.
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Big Cat
But he is a lib.
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PFT Commenter
It was, it was a excellent moment in livery.
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Big Cat
Yep.
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PFT Commenter
Kyle Long.
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Big Cat
Yeah.
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PFT Commenter
Nominated for Lib of the Year.
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Big Cat
Many time winner.
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PFT Commenter
Many time. Chris Long nominated for Libra Lifetime lifetime achievement. Lifetime achievement in lib.
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Big Cat
In lib.
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PFT Commenter
Kamala Harris nominated for Lib of the Year.
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Big Cat
Kamala.
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PFT Commenter
Kamala. And Jersey Jerry nominated for Lib of the Year. He. He met with a would be Pfizer executive to do an ad.
- [65:44]
Big Cat
Yes.
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PFT Commenter
That was maybe may or not have been set up by us as a fake Pfizer executive to see if he would do the ad which he agreed to. He has also been discussing immigration war change.
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Big Cat
His stance on immigration.
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PFT Commenter
Completely flipped on immigration. Very welcoming to immigrants. Law abiding immigrants who have not been accused of violent crimes. Thinks that they should stay in America.
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Big Cat
Also drives a minivan. And when I say drives, his girlfriend drives him in the minivan. He sits in the back seat.
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PFT Commenter
How progressive.
- [66:11]
Big Cat
How progressive. So. Oh, that's, that's him in the minivan right now.
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PFT Commenter
We got him in the minivan. And it's a, it's a foreign minivan too.
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Big Cat
Sway, who's the winner?
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PFT Commenter
Well, we have a very, very, very special guest presenter for Live of the Year award. Let's bring him on.
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Big Cat
Hey, Jersey Jerry. I have the honor of congratulating you on not just winning Live of the Year, but defending your title as Live of the Year. Because this is the second year in a row and the takeies are right. You have earned this. From your evolving perspective on immigration, to being open to the idea that vaccines actually work. I want you to really relish this moment. You know, your commitment, your passion to being a Lib. Right alongside your fidelity to Mitch Trubisky or your commitment to losing wacky sports bets over and over again. Really captured the spirit of being the Lib of the Year. And I'm looking for you to make a three peat. So we'll talk again a year from now. Wow.
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PFT Commenter
Mayor Pete, actually.
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Big Cat
Mayor Pete Pudd.
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PFT Commenter
Secretary Pete.
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Big Cat
Incredible.
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PFT Commenter
Your hero. Jerry.
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Big Cat
Jerry, Congratulations. Live of the Year.
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PFT Commenter
You know, Dan, you, you know, you.
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Big Cat
Just know how to ruin a great day. What you just.
- [67:26]
PFT Commenter
TJ Walk got paid. TJ Walk got paid. Oh, okay.
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Big Cat
Congratulations. Really good. And you.
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PFT Commenter
And listen, big win for organized labor.
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Big Cat
Yeah. And you. You would be more than happy to make sure that T.J. watt pays more. A lot of taxes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, dad, listen, let's cut the. With these awards, okay? Where's my cash prize? Where's the 20,000 I was promised last year?
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PFT Commenter
I. I don't remember.
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Big Cat
I don't. I don't remember that. Maybe we tax this year. Taxes. Yeah, yeah, but. Well, actually, this year's 40 then. Wait. But no, last year, you said that you would take your. Your $20,000 and you wanted us to donate to Kamala's campaign, which we did. In your name.
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PFT Commenter
Oh, yeah, yeah, I forgot about that, Dan.
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Big Cat
Yep.
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PFT Commenter
Yep.
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Big Cat
Listen, bro, listen. These fucking take issue, too.
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PFT Commenter
They're fake awards.
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Big Cat
No, they aren't.
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PFT Commenter
A very real award.
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Big Cat
They're not real.
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PFT Commenter
What makes an award not real? Do people ever say anything to you in. Outside. In public?
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Big Cat
I. Yes, they do.
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PFT Commenter
So then it's real?
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Big Cat
Yeah. So then it's real. And people should keep saying, where's my plaque? I want a plaque then. Done. Okay, we will make you a plaque. That's the easiest thing.
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PFT Commenter
Bumper sticker.
- [68:33]
Big Cat
Yeah, bumper.
- [68:34]
PFT Commenter
That's your bumper sticker for the van.
- [68:36]
Big Cat
Black bumper sticker, please. Everyone tweeted Jersey Jerry. Congratulate him if you see him in person. He is the two time Live of the year winner. Yeah.
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PFT Commenter
You have anything to say to Mayor Pete? He had some very nice things to say about you. I don't got one word for that guy.
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Big Cat
Okay. Because you. Cause you're just. You're out of words.
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PFT Commenter
Speechless.
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Big Cat
Emotional. Speechless. Speechless. Seeing him. Yep. Seeing him makes you speechless.
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PFT Commenter
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Broke down inside.
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Big Cat
Yep. Jerry, I got a question. As Live of the year two time Live of the year winner. Congratulations. Congratulations again. Are you. Are you zooming in from your minivan? It is still mine, correct?
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PFT Commenter
Yes.
- [69:17]
Big Cat
I made a different purchase. Correct. Okay. But this is mine. All right. And I can see you're in the back seat because your girlfriend's driving in the front seat.
- [69:24]
PFT Commenter
Are we done, Dan? Are we done? And Jerry. Jerry, where was that car made?
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Big Cat
Korea, right? Yeah. Okay.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah. Foreign. Yeah. Import. Yeah.
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Big Cat
Nice.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah. Yeah.
- [69:35]
Big Cat
You really, really believe it? Yeah. Who.
- [69:39]
PFT Commenter
Who was. Who.
- [69:39]
Big Cat
Who was up in the running with me?
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PFT Commenter
Was there anybody else who was just.
- [69:42]
Big Cat
Like, let's give it to Jerry again? No, it was Kamala. Kamala, Jack Mack, Chris Long.
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PFT Commenter
Okay.
- [69:51]
Big Cat
All right. I don't know how I'd be Kamala, but. Okay. I mean, she lost.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah. You didn't lose.
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Big Cat
You're. The fight goes on with you. Yep.
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PFT Commenter
So how many years we're gonna do.
- [70:02]
Big Cat
This in a row, Dan?
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PFT Commenter
Yeah, we should make a bumper sticker that's. I'm with Jer.
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Big Cat
Yeah.
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PFT Commenter
With the arrow pointing forward.
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Big Cat
Yeah. I love that. I love that. Congratulations. Hey, thank. Thank you guys for the award and I'll carry it with dignity and honor. Oh, thank you, Jerry. Appreciate it. What a beautiful moment.
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PFT Commenter
You can tell that meant a lot to him.
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Big Cat
Yeah. Jersey Jerry, Live of the year. Back to back, champ. Incredible.
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PFT Commenter
You can tell it's a big live award, right? When he got it, he was like, well, let me get some money from you. Let me get some of that money from you.
- [70:35]
Big Cat
Yeah, let me get. Give me the money. Give me the money. But, yeah, incredible job by Jerry. He's done it again.
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PFT Commenter
I'm excited to see what he has in store for next year.
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Big Cat
Okay, next up, we have a Ratio of the year award. By the way, I'm to the panel. I think this should be Ratio of the year award in name of Shane Dawson because he is still the number one ratio. If you don't remember, this was, what, 10 years ago? Six years ago, he won Ratio of the year because he tweeted, I didn't fuck my cat. I didn't come on my cat. I didn't put my dick anywhere near my cat. I've never done anything weird with my cats. I promised myself I wasn't going to make apology videos after last year's thing. So I'm just trying to be as short and honest with this as possible. But just in case you didn't get what I said, I did not have sex with my cat.
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PFT Commenter
The Streisand effect.
- [71:23]
Big Cat
Yes, he is the Ratio of the year forever winner. Uh, so Ratio of the Year nominees, we have representative Josh Williams from Ohio who said, I am proud to introduce the O H O I O Sportsmanship act to make flag planting at midfield a felony in the state of Ohio. Behavior that incites violent brawls and puts our law enforcement officers in danger has no place on the football field. This got 16.4 million views. 32,000 replies for this. This take after Michigan won at the shoe and then decided to plant the flag.
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PFT Commenter
Back in the day, we used to build statues of guys planting flags at midfield.
- [72:05]
Big Cat
That's a fact. That's a fact. We have the Hollywood Reporter. Hollywood, meet your new A list. From staggering, staggeringly talented tick tockers to the Instagram stars we can't look away from. These are the names who will and should be dominating the business of new and old media. And it's just a picture of a bunch of tick tockers. I can't name any of them, except I think Brianna's in there. Maybe Josh Richards.
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PFT Commenter
Rizzler.
- [72:25]
Big Cat
Rizzler's not in there.
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PFT Commenter
Oh, that's bullshit.
- [72:27]
Big Cat
List 25,000 retweets. Probably all of them. Quote tweets and 7,000 replies.
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PFT Commenter
Pretty good.
- [72:34]
Big Cat
7,000 replies. We have Katy Perry. When it was announced that Katy Perry donated all the revenue she has made from her album 143 to the victims of the California fire, she was quote tweeted by Liam Fennessy, the wildfire victims. And it's a clip from the hit movie Super Bad, which is. I'm going to play the clip real quick. Are you fucking serious? Seven bucks? Yep. That was a big time ratio. The quote tweet ratio always hurts. Tyrese Halliburton, who Ben Stiller said to during the Knicks Pacers series, Tyrese Halliburton said Halle pulled up to game six in all black fit. Ben Stiller said, good thing he brought his duffel for the flight to New York for what he was alluding to his game seven. And Tyrese Halberton said nah was to pack y' all up. And that one ratioed the fuck out of Ben Stiller.
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PFT Commenter
Packed him up.
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Big Cat
Packed him up. And then finally, our last nominee is Kevin Durant replying to Emmanuel Acho. When Emmanuel Acho had his legacy formula and Kevin Durant. So the legacy formula was championships. One divided by teams played forward equals player legacy. So Steph has a 4.0, Braun has a 1.3, and Katie has a 0.4 Legacy rating.
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PFT Commenter
Yep.
- [73:56]
Big Cat
Kevin Durant replied according to the great Kevin Durant's legacy formula that was created in the best labs at mit, Emmanuel is the worst linebacker of all time. You sure want to listen to this guy about greatness.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah, I think that we should have an award for equation of the year.
- [74:10]
Big Cat
Yeah.
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PFT Commenter
The legacy ratio has changed the way that sports talk is done.
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Big Cat
He had 73, 000 likes compared to Emmanuel's 10,000.
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PFT Commenter
Really good.
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Big Cat
Okay. And the winner is Kevin Durant.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah. Good job.
- [74:24]
Big Cat
Kevin Durant, for his legacy formula, formulated the Kevin Durant legacy formula that was created in the best labs at mit and he ratioed the out of Emanuel Acho.
- [74:34]
PFT Commenter
In the great words of Kevin Durant, there's no relax, champ. No relax. When I'm on Twitter, I'm on 10. Until the second I close the app, you relax.
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Big Cat
Love it. Love It. So congratulations, Kevin Durant, please come on the show to accept your award.
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PFT Commenter
Next up, we have the AI Video of the Year award. Now, some of these might be controversial because we're still not 100 sure on if they were AI or not. The first nominee for AI video of the Year goes to. The kangaroo trying to get on the airplane. Oh, emotional support. Kangaroo.
- [75:02]
Big Cat
I remember that one.
- [75:03]
PFT Commenter
Little Joey. Hank.
- [75:04]
Big Cat
Thought it was real.
- [75:05]
PFT Commenter
So did you. The next nominees. The whale is being cleaned off by heavy machinery.
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Big Cat
Heavy machinery.
- [75:12]
PFT Commenter
Heavy machinery. Heaviest machine full on crop dusting. Whales are huge, so it made sense. And stable.
- [75:19]
Big Cat
Yeah, stable. The dollar washing of whales.
- [75:23]
PFT Commenter
The dog diving video that we all saw and love. Big Cat tweeted this one too.
- [75:27]
Big Cat
Well, I tweeted at you and said, is this real?
- [75:30]
PFT Commenter
The dog weightlifting video from the Olympics. I did not see that live when it happened, but it was an incredible display of strength from the dogs.
- [75:37]
Big Cat
Correct.
- [75:38]
PFT Commenter
And then the lady diving and sinking an entire boat has been nominated.
- [75:43]
Big Cat
She's actually been doing that a lot.
- [75:44]
PFT Commenter
It happens over and over again. If you see that lady coming, you're on your boat. You. You tug the other way almost every day. And Hank, we have a guest presenter.
- [75:51]
Big Cat
For this very special.
- [75:52]
PFT Commenter
Guest presenter. Okay. Oh, I alluded to it earlier in the show. Is it Mayor Pete? Nope.
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Big Cat
Was that AI?
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PFT Commenter
No, that's real. Hey, everybody, Tom Brady here. Seven time super bowl champ and apparently now take you presenter. Life comes at you fast.
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Big Cat
First off, big shout out to my guy.
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PFT Commenter
Hank, I know you're a massive fan. I appreciate the support over the years even when it borderlines on obsession. And don't worry, Hank, I'm gonna come on the show eventually. Right after you figure out how the Internet works. Seriously, how many times is this gonna happen, man? Send me a text.
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Big Cat
Brady.
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PFT Commenter
Look at this kangaroo getting on a plane. Hank, buddy.
- [76:34]
Big Cat
Oh, you text him?
- [76:34]
PFT Commenter
That thing is faker than my retirement for the first time. You know who else isn't getting on a plane anytime soon? Tiffany Gomez.
- [76:42]
Big Cat
Bing Bong.
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PFT Commenter
Hanky.
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Big Cat
All right, let's get to it.
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PFT Commenter
The nominees for AI Video of the year are the dog diving in the Olympics video, the kangaroo boarding the airplane video, and the whale barnacle cleaning video. All incredibly fake. All incredibly watched by Hank multiple times. And the take, he goes to the whale AI video. Congrats to everyone who contributed to that. That beautifully fabricated undersea lie.
- [77:19]
Big Cat
Enjoy the rest of the takeies.
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PFT Commenter
And Hank, seriously, if it's in 4K and makes you say no way, it's probably not real. Champ, thank you to Tom. Thank you, Tom.
- [77:31]
Big Cat
That's incredible. Incredible.
- [77:33]
PFT Commenter
He's gonna. Come on.
- [77:35]
Big Cat
He texted you.
- [77:36]
PFT Commenter
Why haven't you asked him? On text? I have. Many times.
- [77:41]
Big Cat
Okay. Before we do the next Takey Award, pft, you got a couple ads.
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PFT Commenter
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Big Cat
Okay, next up, we're at number 15. We have the fight of the year. We had some really good fights this year. Great fights. First nominee is our good friend Paul Bissette for his fight against the Irish Travelers in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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PFT Commenter
Took some, gave more.
- [79:16]
Big Cat
Yep. Next fight is the recent fight from Taraski or Taransky.
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PFT Commenter
Taran.
- [79:22]
Big Cat
No, Taraski. I screwed it up.
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PFT Commenter
On the course.
- [79:25]
Big Cat
On the course.
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PFT Commenter
Bang, bang, bang. On P. Lake.
- [79:28]
Big Cat
Also very Canadian. For both those guys to go on media afterwards and apologize.
- [79:33]
PFT Commenter
It's a good donnybrook.
- [79:34]
Big Cat
Yeah. We also have Jordan Schultz versus Ian Rapport, which you got the inside source on pft.
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PFT Commenter
I mean, what an incredible fight between those two. Forget.
- [79:43]
Big Cat
Yeah, security was called. Security was called. And then finally, Mike Tyson versus Jake Paul. Remember that fight?
- [79:50]
PFT Commenter
Oh, yeah, that was awesome. I kind of. I kind of remember that. It was on Netflix. Yeah.
- [79:55]
Big Cat
Jake Paul's basically spent nine rounds being like, I don't want to hurt Mike Tyson.
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PFT Commenter
Great fight.
- [80:00]
Big Cat
Tuned in. The winner of the Fight of the year for the 2025 Takey Awards is. Nick Tarnaski.
- [80:12]
PFT Commenter
Yes. Congratulations, Nick. Bang bang, walk away.
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Big Cat
Incredible. What a fight. We're so lucky to get something like that.
- [80:20]
PFT Commenter
And Rob Mack was right. It was. It was incredible to watch.
- [80:23]
Big Cat
It was the best. It was the best. Okay, Pft. You have our next award.
- [80:28]
PFT Commenter
The next award goes to the GM of the Year. The General Manager of the Year award nominees are. Brick Johnson, general manager of the New York Jets, Nico Harris.
- [80:41]
Big Cat
Remember when he GM'd?
- [80:42]
PFT Commenter
I do remember via Madden.
- [80:43]
Big Cat
Incredible.
- [80:44]
PFT Commenter
Nico Harrison, general manager of the Dallas Mavericks, pulled off the trade of the Year.
- [80:50]
Big Cat
He got the number one pick.
- [80:51]
PFT Commenter
Got the number one pick. Cooper Flag. Ad Now I'm hearing Braun wants to go there. One exciting movement. That would be Joe Shone from the New York Giants.
- [81:01]
Big Cat
Oh, yeah.
- [81:02]
PFT Commenter
For not being able to sleep at night anymore and still GMing.
- [81:05]
Big Cat
Yeah. Having Saquon Barkley have a career year right in his face, right in his division, and then win a Super bowl title.
- [81:10]
PFT Commenter
Rob Polinka from the Los Angeles Lakers for accepting a meeting with Nico Harrison and saying, yes, please. Thank you.
- [81:18]
Big Cat
Yes.
- [81:19]
PFT Commenter
And then Joe Dumars from the New Orleans Pelicans. He's just been all around great GM.
- [81:24]
Big Cat
Yep.
- [81:25]
PFT Commenter
The General Manager of the Year for 2025 award goes to. Nico Harrison. Wow. Securing the number one overall pick. Cooper Flag. The future of the draft and getting rid of some guy. He wasn't that good.
- [81:38]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [81:38]
PFT Commenter
I forget who it was.
- [81:39]
Big Cat
Nico Harrison, but also I think biased.
- [81:43]
PFT Commenter
The committee is.
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Big Cat
Yeah.
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PFT Commenter
Very unbiased. I also think that Brick Johnson got hosed on this.
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Big Cat
He did it. Probably. Should we give it to Brooks Johnson?
- [81:50]
PFT Commenter
Yeah. Let's get a Brick Johnson gets it.
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Big Cat
Nico Harrison. Haha. Motherfucker.
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PFT Commenter
We're Brick, guys.
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Big Cat
We punked you. Yeah, Nico. I can't wait to see Nico's face when he's listening to this show. And he thinks he won and then he didn't.
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PFT Commenter
Hey, Nico, trade proposal. You get the General Manager of the Year award and then you have to give it back. You receive nothing.
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Big Cat
Absolutely nothing. Brick Johnson deserves this.
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PFT Commenter
He does.
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Big Cat
I mean, he. Whenever you can be a GM from mad.
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PFT Commenter
His name is Brick Johnson.
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Big Cat
His name is Brick. And he's definitely a stoolie.
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PFT Commenter
Yes, 100%.
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Big Cat
Okay, next up we have Injury of the Year. So this is kind of a sad one.
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PFT Commenter
Yep.
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Big Cat
Don't love celebrating injuries. We don't celebrate injuries.
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PFT Commenter
Don't root for them. We do watch them on repeat.
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Big Cat
Yeah. But there was a lot of injuries this year, so we need to at least talk about them. The nominees are Jason Tatum for his torn Achilles. Yeah. Any thoughts?
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PFT Commenter
Minor setback for a major comeback. He's already rehabbing. He's looking good, working hard. Okay, good here.
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Big Cat
Tyrese Halberton for. Also a torn Achilles. Any thoughts?
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PFT Commenter
No.
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Big Cat
Okay, good. Well said.
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PFT Commenter
You're in a much better position.
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Big Cat
Yes. We had Max's ankle when he decided to walk drunk.
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PFT Commenter
Well, the. The ankle. I had an ankle and a foot.
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Big Cat
Which one was the drunk walk?
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PFT Commenter
The. The foot was. The broken foot was.
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Big Cat
It's all the same.
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PFT Commenter
What was the ankle? The ankle was when I was at the Awl's bachelor party.
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Big Cat
Okay.
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PFT Commenter
Were you drunk? So they were both drunk walking.
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Big Cat
Yeah.
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PFT Commenter
I was probably tipsy. Yeah, I was definitely. Whatever.
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Big Cat
Yeah. Next up nominee. The first time I got kidney stones. This first time, PFT got kidney stones. The second time, PFT got kidney stones. And then the second time I got kidney stones.
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PFT Commenter
Now, is that one nominee or four?
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Big Cat
That's four nominees.
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PFT Commenter
Four nominees.
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Big Cat
Four nominees.
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PFT Commenter
Packed pairing.
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Big Cat
Yeah. We also have Hank's Panic Attack.
- [83:39]
PFT Commenter
Yep, yep. Don't smoke and think kids.
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Big Cat
Injury. And then finally we have Anthony Richardson for being tired that one time.
- [83:48]
PFT Commenter
Yep. That was. He was very injured.
- [83:50]
Big Cat
Took himself out of the game. All right, we have a guest presenter for this award, so let's go to it. All right. Very excited to present the injury of.
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PFT Commenter
The year award at the pardon my take.
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Big Cat
20, 25 takeies. I think this is my fourth appearance.
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PFT Commenter
On pardon My Take. Not quite as many.
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Big Cat
Not enough, Jerry, but who's counting? No, I'm kidding.
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PFT Commenter
I love you, Jerry.
- [84:09]
Big Cat
I love you, Jerry. With teammates, you're my guy. House call this fall.
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PFT Commenter
Check it out.
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Big Cat
But anyway, injury of the year, it's presented to Max Delente.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah.
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Big Cat
World Series regional runner up.
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PFT Commenter
Never made it to the World Series.
- [84:20]
Big Cat
Might have been a little too heavy.
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PFT Commenter
Is what it is. Nobody's counting is what it is. He was there.
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Big Cat
Just kids. He was a little kid.
- [84:26]
PFT Commenter
They're just kidding. Still fat now, but is what it is. Injury of the year. Got drunk with Jackie. Tables. No surprise.
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Big Cat
Hurt. Tripped his foot.
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PFT Commenter
You know, a.
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Big Cat
Some people say it's hard to walk and chew gum at the same time.
- [84:39]
PFT Commenter
I guess it's hard to have, you.
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Big Cat
Know, too many and walk home and make it home safe. You couldn't do that, Max. No surprise to me. But yeah, you and Jackie maybe find new friends, find yourself hanging out with.
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PFT Commenter
People who do better for you push you. But injury of the year, Max Valente.
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Big Cat
Your first, you know, pretty, pretty bad. I think Yankel was tore up a little bit. Not as bad as you tore up your hero Shane Victorino's sunglasses. What a fucking fumble that was.
- [85:06]
PFT Commenter
And you're talking to a guy who fumbles. So, yeah.
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Big Cat
Injury of the year, 2025. Max Delente, congratulations. You finally won something.
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PFT Commenter
You couldn't make it to a Little League World Series, but you took it down. Way to be, Max.
- [85:17]
Big Cat
Oh, congratulations, Max.
- [85:19]
PFT Commenter
Best presenter yet, Rico Bosco. He makes a good point. You couldn't make it to the World Series, unlike the guys that we all remember, like Big Al.
- [85:25]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [85:25]
PFT Commenter
Who hit all those dingers. Yeah. No, he was literally World Series legend for sure.
- [85:30]
Big Cat
Absolutely.
- [85:31]
PFT Commenter
I wish that I could have done that.
- [85:32]
Big Cat
But Monet Davis, who won the whole thing.
- [85:35]
PFT Commenter
Oh, yeah.
- [85:35]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [85:35]
PFT Commenter
That's incredible.
- [85:36]
Big Cat
She was the best. She was.
- [85:37]
PFT Commenter
She was the most talented Little League World Series winner ever, ever, ever. Number one.
- [85:42]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [85:43]
PFT Commenter
Okay, shout out to the umpires there, by the way. They do a great job. Excellent job.
- [85:47]
Big Cat
Max, do you accept?
- [85:49]
PFT Commenter
Of course I accept.
- [85:49]
Big Cat
Love that.
- [85:50]
PFT Commenter
Yeah, no, it's, it's an honor to win a takeie. No matter how you're gonna do it. I wish I didn't break my foot, but I'm, I'm happy that I got some hardware out of it, for sure. And you never had to do the pitching thing, so it worked out well. Yeah, I will do the pitching thing.
- [86:04]
Big Cat
Oh, okay. Sure.
- [86:05]
PFT Commenter
Well, sure. I've been, I've been, I've been talking. Whatever. We don't talk about pitching thing. It's not going, it's not going well. But I'm trying. I, I, I've sent out some feelers. Important.
- [86:16]
Big Cat
Yeah. Okay. Pft.
- [86:18]
PFT Commenter
We have the Newcomer who Steals the show of the Year award.
- [86:21]
Big Cat
So this is an award that we named after the famous Jaguars fan woman. Can you play that video? They're not listening anymore.
- [86:32]
PFT Commenter
Memes didn't get the joke of the, the, he just kept, he was like.
- [86:36]
Big Cat
He was like, Big Al didn't make it.
- [86:37]
PFT Commenter
Big Al didn't make it.
- [86:39]
Big Cat
That's, that's what got distracted. That Rico gets mad when people say.
- [86:44]
PFT Commenter
That Big Al was.
- [86:45]
Big Cat
Keep all this in. Yeah. And Monet Davis, this is, Listen, we're not the Oscars. We don't run seamlessly here.
- [86:52]
PFT Commenter
All right, all right.
- [86:53]
Big Cat
We're back. Yeah. Hold on. Okay, so this is a new award. Newcomer of the Year award. No, no, no. Play the, Play the video of the Woman. The Jaguars woman picks. They say they have the best draft in the entire NFL. Are you surprised to hear that? Certainly not. The first year we took it to.
- [87:09]
PFT Commenter
The limit and I was in Miami with my new beach house.
- [87:14]
Big Cat
Well, it was a couple minutes from the beach. It's been 20 years since then. We haven't been too strong in the last few years. Oh, we've been strong.
- [87:21]
PFT Commenter
We're just playing by the rules. You can't have a newcomer come in and steal a show.
- [87:29]
Big Cat
Thank you. Love it.
- [87:30]
PFT Commenter
Love that woman.
- [87:30]
Big Cat
Love it.
- [87:31]
PFT Commenter
Rip.
- [87:32]
Big Cat
So that is that. This is the award is named after her.
- [87:34]
PFT Commenter
Yes. The nominees for newcomer who steals the show of the year award are. Jaden Daniels came in, stole the show. Great rookie season.
- [87:44]
Big Cat
Great.
- [87:44]
PFT Commenter
Won all the accolades from Max Delente, Bo Nix. Also great rookie season. I've got a boner. Jacob Mizrowski for coming in, starting what, four games?
- [87:55]
Big Cat
Yep.
- [87:56]
PFT Commenter
Making the all star team. Star team Flamethrower. And Zach on part of my take.
- [88:02]
Big Cat
Our guy Zach.
- [88:03]
PFT Commenter
Our guy Zach nominated. The winner of the newcomer who steals the show of the year award is.
- [88:09]
Big Cat
We have a video. The 2025 newcomer of the year.
- [88:19]
PFT Commenter
Takey goes to no one other than Zach.
- [88:25]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [88:26]
PFT Commenter
Congrats from Santa Margarita to the club. Bob.
- [88:30]
Big Cat
Welcome to the club. Love it. That is our good friend Julian Edelman from Italy.
- [88:36]
PFT Commenter
Maybe the first award presenter to actually do a thirst trap while presenting the award.
- [88:40]
Big Cat
Yes. So, Zach, congratulations. Are you. Now we should say clarify for all the people who are on the committee and voting. We did give him. We decided the winner last night before we found out that Zach was going to sleep in past the commercial shoot, so. But he still wins newcomer of the Year. I would like to say I appreciate.
- [89:01]
PFT Commenter
You guys for nominating me for newcomer.
- [89:03]
Big Cat
Of the Year and allowing me to. Ultimately, the committee allowed me to win.
- [89:07]
PFT Commenter
I just want to say. Pft, big guy, thank you very much for the opportunity Memes, Max, Hank, Shane, Jack and Pug.
- [89:13]
Big Cat
Thank you guys for being so open. Any questions I've had so far. And we're back to ground zero because we were late today, but I'm free to help the team anyway I can. Okay.
- [89:22]
PFT Commenter
Thank you, Zach.
- [89:23]
Big Cat
Love that.
- [89:23]
PFT Commenter
Well earned.
- [89:24]
Big Cat
Great job, Zach. Okay, we're wrapping up. We have 19. It is the still alive person of the year, which is a prestigious award that we give out every year to Jimmy Carter. We gave last year's award out to Jimmy Carter. The year before, I think, was Queen Elizabeth. Elizabeth. I think it was Tommy Lasorda. The year before that. Quite, quite A list.
- [89:43]
PFT Commenter
This is an award that I, at some point, I would love to win.
- [89:46]
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah. All right, so Still Live Person of the year nominees are. Frankie Valli.
- [89:53]
PFT Commenter
He's still out there kicking it.
- [89:55]
Big Cat
Jersey boy crooner. Yeah. Lee Corso. Last game day coming up. Still love Lee Corso. Still Live. Joel Embiid.
- [90:04]
PFT Commenter
Still alive.
- [90:05]
Big Cat
Still alive.
- [90:06]
PFT Commenter
Right?
- [90:06]
Big Cat
He is Max.
- [90:08]
PFT Commenter
Yeah. No, there's just great article that came out on Joel Embiid.
- [90:11]
Big Cat
Okay.
- [90:12]
PFT Commenter
Regarding alive.
- [90:13]
Big Cat
Being alive.
- [90:14]
PFT Commenter
Yeah. Being alive and thriving.
- [90:16]
Big Cat
Okay.
- [90:17]
PFT Commenter
And people are mean to him.
- [90:18]
Big Cat
Oh. Oh, no. And then finally, last up, another Philadelphia legend, Bill Cosby.
- [90:25]
PFT Commenter
Yeah. Bill Cosby.
- [90:26]
Big Cat
Yes. So the winner. Do you have a guest presenter for.
- [90:32]
PFT Commenter
Still Live Person of the Year award? There is a guest presenter.
- [90:34]
Big Cat
Okay. Oh, wow. This is huge. What a cat death is nothing to joke about. The fact that Burton might take has.
- [90:46]
PFT Commenter
This award tells me that they have.
- [90:47]
Big Cat
Achieved zero personal growth. I mean, one time I knew a guy that died. Not funny, but congrats to Bill Cosby.
- [90:54]
PFT Commenter
He is the winner.
- [90:55]
Big Cat
Still Alive Person of the Year.
- [90:57]
PFT Commenter
Wow. That was John Cena. John Cena joined us. It is not a joke about. He's right.
- [91:01]
Big Cat
Yeah. But Bill Cosby has won the Still Alive Person of the Year would be a real shame.
- [91:05]
PFT Commenter
Fantastic. Good for Bill. Hope that this award comes with all the trimmings of the past award winners.
- [91:10]
Big Cat
Yes, yes. Enjoy it for an entire year. Or maybe less.
- [91:14]
PFT Commenter
Maybe less.
- [91:15]
Big Cat
Maybe less. Okay. Pft.
- [91:17]
PFT Commenter
You're up Next award is for Pope of the Year. The Pope of the Year award. The nominees are Mark Pope from the University of Kentucky, Pope Leo.
- [91:31]
Big Cat
Wow.
- [91:31]
PFT Commenter
The American Pope. Pope Francis. The not American Pope.
- [91:37]
Big Cat
Okay.
- [91:38]
PFT Commenter
Not nominated for Still Alive Person of the Year. The broken Pope bobblehead that you got as a gift. Big cat that got smashed.
- [91:45]
Big Cat
Beautiful.
- [91:46]
PFT Commenter
And put back together right there.
- [91:47]
Big Cat
Shane. Shout out. Shane. He got me that bobblehead that broke.
- [91:50]
PFT Commenter
And also nominated Mike Francesa. Oh, Sports Pope.
- [91:55]
Big Cat
Sports Pope.
- [91:56]
PFT Commenter
Great job by Mike. Had a great review of the Superman movie recently. If you haven't checked that out, give it a look. The winner of the 2025 Pope of the Year award is. Pope Leo.
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Big Cat
Wow. We got Leo.
- [92:11]
PFT Commenter
We had a Pope. We got a Pope. Duh.
- [92:15]
Big Cat
Pope. Wow. Pope Leo.
- [92:17]
PFT Commenter
Chicago Pope.
- [92:18]
Big Cat
I kind of wanted him. I want him to just talk English more.
- [92:22]
PFT Commenter
That'd be great.
- [92:22]
Big Cat
Just more viral clips and maybe some tweets from Pope Leo.
- [92:25]
PFT Commenter
And he definitely watched the hot dog eating contest, right?
- [92:27]
Big Cat
Absolutely.
- [92:28]
PFT Commenter
First Pope to ever do that.
- [92:29]
Big Cat
Absolutely. I just would like a little more. Just a couple tweets.
- [92:32]
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
- [92:33]
Big Cat
Here and there I liked it when.
- [92:34]
PFT Commenter
The old pope used to accidentally tag the Saints. Yeah, that was always good for last.
- [92:38]
Big Cat
That was great. Okay, next up we have the Just Chill out man of the Year award. This is a very important award. Someone who maybe got a little too excited about something.
- [92:49]
PFT Commenter
Just chill out.
- [92:51]
Big Cat
We have Daryl Doucette. Why is he nominated Memes? Daryl Doucet got mad at NFL players trying to participate in flag football. Ah, that guy. The quarterback. Yes. Yes. Who could have forgot? Who could have forgot household name. He's.
- [93:12]
PFT Commenter
He's right, though.
- [93:13]
Big Cat
Yeah. No.
- [93:14]
PFT Commenter
Patrick Mahomes is nowhere near his level.
- [93:16]
Big Cat
Good at football. Mel Kuiper for his takes on Shador Sanders on draft weekend.
- [93:21]
PFT Commenter
That's good. He almost cried.
- [93:22]
Big Cat
He almost cried. We have Elon Musk when he got upset about Trump.
- [93:27]
PFT Commenter
Yeah. He got upset about the Epstein files. Just chill out. We already said no one cares.
- [93:32]
Big Cat
He's innocent. Innocent Person of the Year. I don't know if you listen to that part of the show, Elon, but he's Innocent Person of the Year. Trevor Ogilvy, the guy who lost the golf fight to Nick Turnaski.
- [93:42]
PFT Commenter
I think he may have already received his award.
- [93:44]
Big Cat
Yeah. And then we finally have Jerry o' Connell at the Beck gala for screaming into Hank's ear. Which actually wasn't why Hank lost his hearing. It was his ear not popping.
- [93:55]
PFT Commenter
Yep. But he also was rock hard and just thrusting in my face.
- [94:00]
Big Cat
That might come up later.
- [94:01]
PFT Commenter
Hank should be nominated. Just Chill out man of the Year. Your ear was fine.
- [94:04]
Big Cat
Yeah. Okay. The winner of the Just Chill out man of the Year award is Mel Kuiper.
- [94:13]
PFT Commenter
Mellow. Congratulations.
- [94:14]
Big Cat
Congratulations.
- [94:15]
PFT Commenter
You really laid your emotions out on the line this year. It was a great bit of television. I hope you've chilled out since then, though.
- [94:21]
Big Cat
Yes. You spent an entire weekend getting upset about Shador Sanders falling in the draft. To the point where I'll say this. It was great tv. I was glued to it. I've never been more glued to a fifth round of the NFL Draft watching him. Oh.
- [94:41]
PFT Commenter
Nine time NBA All Star Damian Lillard is finalizing a three year, $42 million contract to return Portland Trailblazers. Sources tell ESPN. Wow.
- [94:50]
Big Cat
Wow.
- [94:51]
PFT Commenter
It's coming home.
- [94:52]
Big Cat
That moves the needle 0%.
- [94:55]
PFT Commenter
This feels like he's retiring.
- [94:57]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [94:57]
PFT Commenter
Like he's gonna. He's gonna get paid for three years to not really do all that much.
- [95:02]
Big Cat
Yeah, yeah.
- [95:03]
PFT Commenter
3. 3 year, 42 mil in NBA is basically nothing.
- [95:07]
Big Cat
Ashtray.
- [95:07]
PFT Commenter
Yeah. Yeah. But he's still getting paid by the bucks, right? Yeah, probably.
- [95:13]
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah.
- [95:14]
PFT Commenter
So he didn't need to get paid that much.
- [95:17]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [95:17]
PFT Commenter
Good for him. For him. You're saying that wasn't even breaking moves worthy?
- [95:21]
Big Cat
No, I'm just saying it doesn't. Who cares?
- [95:24]
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
- [95:24]
Big Cat
Yeah, Mike, Francesca.
- [95:26]
PFT Commenter
Who cares? Yeah. He's just getting paid to go back home.
- [95:28]
Big Cat
Like, I guess maybe the Trailblazers would make the playoffs at least once in his last three years. Well, he's not gonna play this year, so. Last two years. That would be nice. Maybe he'll want. You know what? He'll hit one big shot.
- [95:40]
PFT Commenter
They're just signing old guys. They're just going. Going old.
- [95:43]
Big Cat
He'll hit one big shot.
- [95:44]
PFT Commenter
Huge. The next. Not the next category for the 2025 takeies. The preemptive take of the year award.
- [95:52]
Big Cat
Okay.
- [95:53]
PFT Commenter
Preemptive take of the year award. So we're going to go around and we're going to give our preemptive takes.
- [95:58]
Big Cat
This is a take that we will then grade later. We don't remember what our takes were last year, but that's okay. That's how the show runs.
- [96:04]
PFT Commenter
Big Cat, what is your preemptive take of the year nomination?
- [96:07]
Big Cat
My preemptive take of the year in the year 2026. It will be. So the back half of the next year's the Tush Push will be banned.
- [96:21]
PFT Commenter
Feels like.
- [96:22]
Big Cat
I'm not saying I want it to be.
- [96:23]
PFT Commenter
Yep.
- [96:23]
Big Cat
But that is my preemptive take. I'm staking my reputation on. I think it will be banned. I think that more teams will start.
- [96:29]
PFT Commenter
Complaining, winning, and I think that the NFL wants it banned.
- [96:31]
Big Cat
Yes.
- [96:32]
PFT Commenter
Even though it is a wet dream of a play.
- [96:34]
Big Cat
Yes. Max, I am on the side of the Tush push. I do not want it banned. I'm just. This is my preemptive take of the year.
- [96:39]
PFT Commenter
I just feel like that's not a very hot take.
- [96:40]
Big Cat
What do you mean? We've done it every year.
- [96:42]
PFT Commenter
Everyone's talking like it's gonna come out next year. That's a chalky preemptive. Yeah.
- [96:46]
Big Cat
Okay. Sorry, guys. I didn't know I was going first. I had to go fast. I'll come back around. Snake draft.
- [96:54]
PFT Commenter
You might be right. Yeah. You might be right, though.
- [96:56]
Big Cat
Yeah. Okay. Hank.
- [96:58]
PFT Commenter
My parents. Take of the year. Shador Sanders is going to lead the Cleveland Browns to a wild card spot and make the playoffs. Wow.
- [97:08]
Big Cat
That is.
- [97:08]
PFT Commenter
That's a good take, Hank.
- [97:09]
Big Cat
That's a good take. That's a good take.
- [97:11]
PFT Commenter
I. I appreciate somebody going out there for maybe an injury. I think we did it with the NFL Schedule release. I think after like week four, he's not going to start. Something's going to happen. Maybe Flacco gets injured, steps in, leads him to glory.
- [97:25]
Big Cat
Okay, I have a new preemptive take.
- [97:28]
PFT Commenter
Okay, this is a hot take. All right.
- [97:32]
Big Cat
The Philadelphia 76ers will make it to the Eastern Conference finals. Whoa. Wow. Now that. Is that not crazy?
- [97:39]
PFT Commenter
I mean, we just.
- [97:40]
Big Cat
There it is.
- [97:41]
PFT Commenter
The opposite of chalk.
- [97:42]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [97:42]
PFT Commenter
Still alive.
- [97:43]
Big Cat
Yes. Okay, memes, just so we're on record.
- [97:48]
PFT Commenter
My preemptive take was right last year, which was I said the 76ers were.
- [97:52]
Big Cat
Going to implode with the trade of Paul George. You were dead right. Do you know anyone else's? Not off the top of my head. You just remember that one. Okay, so I have an NBA or an NFL one. Okay, go both. So NBA is kind of wild. I think Nikola Jokic is going to force a trade out of Denver at the end of the season to the Chicago Bulls. Whoa. Number one, Serbia population in America. Wow.
- [98:18]
PFT Commenter
That's just a wild one.
- [98:19]
Big Cat
Love that. And then NFL fun fact, too.
- [98:22]
PFT Commenter
That's fun fact.
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Big Cat
The Washington Commanders are going to miss the playoffs.
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PFT Commenter
Duh.
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Big Cat
And Jaden Daniels is going to finish dead last out of the 2024 QBs.
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PFT Commenter
In that draft class. You're such a piece of shit.
- [98:33]
Big Cat
Wow. Wow. Okay, Matt.
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PFT Commenter
It's a good take. Like, I respect. I respect you putting your balls out there. Memes.
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Big Cat
Thank you.
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PFT Commenter
You got a split, Booth. Honestly, like, one of them thinks he's going to be, you know, all time great. One of them thinks he's going to fall off a cliff. Well, I mean, listen, I. I don't want memes to hear this or just between the three of us, the fact that he's going after Jane Daniels like that kind of racist. Kind of racist memes. We would never say such a thing about Justin Fields.
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Big Cat
You had him as bad.
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PFT Commenter
Question mark. Question mark. It was a question. We're having a conversation.
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Big Cat
It's a question.
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PFT Commenter
Touche. I read the Joel Embiid article last night, and I went to the DraftKings sportsbook to place this preemptive take of the year. And then I read a little bit further in this article and I took it away the better way.
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Big Cat
But I will be saying that Joel Embiid will be winning the MVP. Wow. Wow.
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PFT Commenter
MVP.
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Big Cat
Well, that's not really. He's won one. 70 to one. Has he ever been to Eastern Conference finals? It's seven. Sounds like mine's a little crazier than yours.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah, we can look at the odds of that. But then I went back. I was going to make the bet, and then I went back and then it says that he's. He will not be returning until he's 100% and he will not be priority prioritizing the regular season this year, which made me second guess that take a little bit. But I'm going back to my original idea. It's like when you're, you know, in school and you're taking a test, you.
- [99:58]
Big Cat
Always got to go with your. Your gut.
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PFT Commenter
And my gut said that Joel Embiid is going to win MVP this year. And I'm sticking with Joel Embiid will win the mvp.
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Big Cat
Okay.
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PFT Commenter
I mean, that's. That's a wild take on the DraftKings sportsbook. 70 down year for the East. Yeah, I could see it.
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Big Cat
Zach. My take is that I watch a.
- [100:15]
PFT Commenter
Lot of Commanders football back home because my mom, my mother and my brother are Commanders fans. So we're house divided there.
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Big Cat
Shut up.
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PFT Commenter
Zach's mom. How you doing? Respectfully, of course. Respectfully.
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Big Cat
Yeah, I do. So I do have a lot of.
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PFT Commenter
Fun watching Jayn Daniels play football and.
- [100:28]
Big Cat
I think that he's going to defy the sophomore slump and have a fantastic season.
- [100:31]
PFT Commenter
Love that got all his guys coming back.
- [100:33]
Big Cat
Probably. Are you guys going to say anything about that? That was way chalkier than my Terry.
- [100:37]
PFT Commenter
No, he's right. That's a great take, Zach. That's an awesome.
- [100:39]
Big Cat
Jaden Daniels is still going to be good. Zach's mom knows that's crazy. Hank, back me up here. That's not a great take.
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PFT Commenter
Well, yeah, no, it's a good take. It's a really good newcomer of the year right there. I love it. Zach. We got fast. Ebo probably Terry. Probably. Sky's the limit.
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Big Cat
He may do it the entire season with a smile on his face.
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PFT Commenter
He might. Yeah. And no. What about girls that will get a girlfriend. That.
- [101:02]
Big Cat
That would be a hot take.
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PFT Commenter
There was a video that came out the other day. Hank. Yeah. I don't know if it's real or not, but he was having a good time with juju. Oh, yeah. Real good time. Cousins or something. I would like. No. What memes? What are you laughing about?
- [101:21]
Big Cat
Nothing. Nothing. I thought you were gonna say he was having a good time at a fast food restaurant with the bell.
- [101:25]
PFT Commenter
Nope, Nope, he was not.
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Big Cat
Okay. Yours.
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PFT Commenter
My take.
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Big Cat
Do you have one?
- [101:34]
PFT Commenter
I'm kind of scared to say mine.
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Big Cat
Because it's in the same vein as last year's. All right.
- [101:37]
PFT Commenter
Last. Last year. We'll remember that.
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Big Cat
Well, I was gonna refresh.
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PFT Commenter
Last year, I said Gus Edwards would lead the league in rushing touchdowns. Okay. And I couldn't have been more wrong. So I'm gonna go Omari and Hampton, offensive offensive rookie of the year. What about Naji?
- [101:53]
Big Cat
Doesn't have an eye.
- [101:54]
PFT Commenter
Oh, allegedly. There's no eye in Naji.
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Big Cat
Also, let me just toss in one more preemptive take. I think this is the year that Shane's gonna start liking onions. No, he sleeps with an onion.
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PFT Commenter
Could. That's true. Could.
- [102:05]
Big Cat
I want you to storm out so bad.
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PFT Commenter
All right. My preemptive take of 2025, 2026. I. I truly believe this. By the way. I think that the situation that Caleb Williams is in right now. Oh, you're such a. Is the best situation in the history of second year quarterbacks. It might be in the entire NFL. Think about it. They short up the offensive line. Big weakness from last year. Right. They got rid of Matt Eberfluss. That's good for six wins right there. They finally have a GM and a coach that are lined up on the same contract. They've got an offensive wizard at head coach who's got a bag that's deeper than the Mariana Trench bars. And he's just a good quarterback. He's still got the physical. The physical tools were there. He had a good season last year. Statistically, it was okay. Not as bad as many of the haters said that it was. This is the best setup possible for a second year quarterback in the history of the NFL.
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Big Cat
Do you know what you just did? What? You just made me almost go to six and a half out of ten. I didn't, but you almost made me get there.
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PFT Commenter
I'm at a 10. I'm at a 10 on Caleb.
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Big Cat
I like that take. Okay. Good takes of the year. Preemptive takes of the year. All right, we got three left. We have Bonk of the year. We have Blake of the Year. We have podcast listeners of the year. Three huge awards. Massive, huge, huge awards. Next up, Bonk of the Year. The nominees are the entire Internet for Sydney Sweeney breaking up with her boyfriend. And also the soap thing.
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PFT Commenter
And also Hank. You should probably try to get with her. Yeah, I am. Actively.
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Big Cat
You should. We have joc, our good friend Jerry o' Connell for not wearing underpants and being rock hard in Hank's face during the Celtics Knicks game at the back gala.
- [103:52]
PFT Commenter
Pretty incredible.
- [103:52]
Big Cat
Pretty incredible. Pft. For whatever you said.
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PFT Commenter
For the whole thing.
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Big Cat
Steve Smith. Kind of a story we forgot.
- [104:03]
PFT Commenter
Yeah, noted.
- [104:04]
Big Cat
Yeah, noted. One of the Best.
- [104:08]
PFT Commenter
How about pft for when he tweeted Casey Anthony's back. She's so back.
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Big Cat
Yeah, she. She is so back. Huh? She looks. She looks good. She looking good. Steve Smith. Let's just read the text real quick. This is with the guy that he cucked or no, sorry. This is with the girl that he was having sex with. He was having sex with a married woman. She said, take me deep down your throat like you kind of like or no? So he said, take me deep down your throat like you kind of like you wanted to suck me off. She wrote back, I did. I would have gagged on it, but if I. But I had to come home. He said, you enjoy it. You like to feel it. She said, I like feeling it deep in my wet pussy. He replied, me too. Letting you taste, though, would be a turn on. I would have shot my nut all inside your pussy. She wrote back, I love making you come. I enjoy it more when you come inside me. He replied, noted.
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PFT Commenter
Wasn't there some IUD rearrangement that went on in that too? Yeah, I think he stirred things up a little bit.
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Big Cat
Oh, man. Noted. That is very bonk worthy. And then our final nominee for Bunk of the Year, Shannon Sharpe. Just for everything.
- [105:23]
PFT Commenter
The Instagram live and the rest. Everything.
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Big Cat
All right. The winner of Bonk of the year for the 2025 part of my take Takeies is our good friend, Jerry o'. Connell.
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PFT Commenter
Jerry. Congrats, buddy.
- [105:37]
Big Cat
All right. And he is here to accept his award. Wow. Wow. What.
- [105:45]
PFT Commenter
What an honor.
- [105:47]
Big Cat
I got to tell you, I didn't. It's an honor to have this. I want to thank the Academy. By the academy, I mean the three of you and Max and Zach and Memes. But, you know, I wasn't expecting to be aroused when I got there. And then when the Knicks came back from 20 in the fourth quarter and Hank was next to me, and Hank was dressed like a cowboy, I just. I gotta move for a second because I'm actually. I'm sitting next to my daughter right there. I got so.
- [106:24]
PFT Commenter
I got so fucking rock hard and.
- [106:26]
Big Cat
Excited because the Knicks were gonna beat the Celtics, and they did, and I just couldn't believe it. And just blood started flowing everywhere. And you know what?
- [106:36]
PFT Commenter
At first, when you said I got.
- [106:38]
Big Cat
The Bonk of the Year award, I was kind of ashamed. But no, now I'm proud and I'm excited, and I just want anyone to know, for any man, I'm sorry to assign gender who's feeling not, like, vital, not alive. Just let Mr. Bing Bong, Mr. Bing Bong flow through your bloodstream, through your veins, and there's nothing quite like it. So I accept this award for Bonk of the Year. And I'm really excited. Now let me go sit down next. Back. Back to my daughter.
- [107:09]
PFT Commenter
Congratulations, Jerry.
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Big Cat
You hear what I said? Honey? Honey, I'm on part of my take. Hello. Testing, testing. Yeah, I'm off of the year.
- [107:19]
PFT Commenter
She'll never know.
- [107:20]
Big Cat
Her mom will never know. It's great. Yeah, it was a good one. I would have preferred it if. Maybe if it had something to do with Tiffany Gomass. I was rubbing up on Hank. I just want to say Hank and.
- [107:34]
PFT Commenter
I have a thing now.
- [107:36]
Big Cat
We have a connection. It's a fact. It's a lifelong connection.
- [107:41]
PFT Commenter
Honey, I'd like you to meet your new dad. His name is Hank.
- [107:48]
Big Cat
That's your dad. He's gonna teach you golf. Hank, you and I, we're a modern couple. Get with it. Be cool with it. Hank, I know you're, like, a little weird about stuff like that, but just be open, all right? Be open to the universe. Say hi to your new dad. Say hi. All right. Thank you, Jerry. Kids, you believe this? Yeah. You're the best, Jerry. Thank you. We can't wait to see you. Camp Barstool.
- [108:14]
PFT Commenter
Love you, Jerry.
- [108:15]
Big Cat
Love you. Love you. All right, bye. That was incredible.
- [108:20]
PFT Commenter
That was great.
- [108:20]
Big Cat
That's our guy.
- [108:21]
PFT Commenter
That was good. I like that. Mr. Bing Bong isn't something that lives inside Jerry's brain. It's actually his dick. He's Mr. Bing Bong when it gets hard.
- [108:28]
Big Cat
Oh, I'm so happy we didn't tell him that he was winning that award. We need to do that with more of these winners. Just bring them on and just be like, hey, you won this award. Jersey Jerry Biz, Jerry o'. Connell.
- [108:39]
PFT Commenter
It's been a great takeies.
- [108:40]
Big Cat
Yeah. And now we have one of my favorite awards. We have the Blake of the Year award, one of the greatest awards that we give out every single year. This is our eighth time giving out Blake of the Year, so let's get to Blake of the Year.
- [108:54]
PFT Commenter
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Big Cat
Okay.
- [109:29]
PFT Commenter
It's time.
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Big Cat
Probably the most important take you. We give out every single year. It is the Blake of the year time. Blake Bortles, Blake Griffin, Brooks Koepka, they are all nominated for Blake of the year and we're going to do it like we've done it a few times before, old school style. We are going to send a zoom link to all three Blakes. They've been given a window. So I was, I told them there's a three hour window that we could decide Blake of the year. So they're at least aware because this was a time zone disaster. Blake Griffin's in Hawaii. Blake portals is in Florida. Brooks Koepka is in Northern Ireland.
- [110:10]
PFT Commenter
Yeah. It's crazy. I mean the big storyline at home is can Blake win the big one?
- [110:15]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [110:15]
PFT Commenter
Because Brooks Koepka has not won.
- [110:17]
Big Cat
He's not.
- [110:18]
PFT Commenter
And that weighs heavily on him.
- [110:19]
Big Cat
So what is the actual tally do we have? I think it's. Is it four for Blake Griffin and three for Blake Bortles?
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PFT Commenter
I think Griffin's got four. So he's going.
- [110:27]
Big Cat
He was pulling it up.
- [110:28]
PFT Commenter
One for the thumb for him. This is going to be a big one. This would be just dominant.
- [110:32]
Big Cat
Yup.
- [110:32]
PFT Commenter
Dynasty. But yeah, we don't know can Brooks Koepka, can he kind of dig himself out of that hole? He only cares about big tournaments.
- [110:41]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [110:41]
PFT Commenter
This is the biggest tournament of them all.
- [110:43]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [110:43]
PFT Commenter
And he still has that glaring empty space on his mantle.
- [110:47]
Big Cat
It would be a shocker if he wins this. I think it's. I think every year, if you had to. To release odds, it's like Blake Griff, Griffin -150. Blake Portals probably -1 20.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah.
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Big Cat
Brooks Koepka 40 to 1.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah. I, I would say that's fair. I mean there's, there's a lot of doubters out there for Brooks Koepka. Yeah. Is he even a Blake? Well, we're starting to ask some people.
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Big Cat
Then also revers say him not caring about this makes him the most Blake.
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PFT Commenter
I would say that that is 100% accurate. Like when he, when he didn't call in for about two hours.
- [111:17]
Big Cat
I think it was like two days.
- [111:18]
PFT Commenter
He was in Portugal, I think.
- [111:19]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [111:20]
PFT Commenter
That's the most Blake move that there is. But unfortunately this is the way that we decide the award.
- [111:23]
Big Cat
Yep.
- [111:24]
PFT Commenter
And yeah. Maybe the best Blake win.
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Big Cat
All right, so what do we have? Memes. It's four to three, and it does look like Blake Griffin has won all phone calls and zoom calls. Okay. Wow. There was a time that Blake Bortles. Yeah. He lost by last, like, a split second. That was a heartbreaker for him. All right, so here we go. We have the zoom up. We have all three Blakes on one text chain. Are you guys nervous? I'm always.
- [111:47]
PFT Commenter
I'm very nervous.
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Big Cat
I'll start a timer.
- [111:48]
PFT Commenter
What do you guys. What do you guys got for over. Under. On. On time?
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Big Cat
I think.
- [111:51]
PFT Commenter
Cool shirt, Hank.
- [111:52]
Big Cat
I think we're going to have our first.
- [111:53]
PFT Commenter
Yeah, you too.
- [111:53]
Big Cat
I think we're going to have our first Blake within. Within a minute. I also like. This also is one of those things.
- [111:59]
PFT Commenter
Did you send it?
- [111:59]
Big Cat
Are they? No, I haven't. Like, is your zoom set up? Sometimes you have to update. These things matter.
- [112:06]
PFT Commenter
Are you connected to wi fi?
- [112:08]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [112:08]
PFT Commenter
I feel like Blake is the only one. Blake Griffin is the only one that would be remotely have a zoom. He trains. Blake Griffin trains for the Blake of the year.
- [112:15]
Big Cat
Does reps. That's why he's got four.
- [112:16]
PFT Commenter
He's the only one. He. He puts it in his calendar. He preps. He stays close to the route. Remember the year that he. He sat close to the router.
- [112:22]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [112:22]
PFT Commenter
To get the better wi fi.
- [112:24]
Big Cat
5 to 3 would be a commanding lead. Yeah.
- [112:25]
PFT Commenter
This is gonna be. There's gonna be Blake Griffin, but a.
- [112:27]
Big Cat
4 to 4 would be an incredible.
- [112:30]
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
- [112:30]
Big Cat
Turn of Blake of the year, I think.
- [112:31]
PFT Commenter
Four to four, obviously, like, what a storyline. That would be five to three. You start to have the pickup. Starts to feel like Brady Manning. And if it's Brooks, we're going nuke.
- [112:41]
Big Cat
Oh, we have. We should get champagne.
- [112:44]
PFT Commenter
I think we got a party.
- [112:44]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [112:46]
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
- [112:46]
Big Cat
All right, you guys ready? Count me down.
- [112:49]
PFT Commenter
Five, four.
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Big Cat
Started.
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PFT Commenter
Five, three. What do you want me.
- [112:53]
Big Cat
I want to start.
- [112:54]
PFT Commenter
20, 30, 31, 29. Meme said he thinks it's gonna be within five seconds.
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Big Cat
27 seconds, I think.
- [113:04]
PFT Commenter
23 seconds. 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5.
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Big Cat
4, 3, 2, 1, 6. It's been sent.
- [113:37]
PFT Commenter
That was awesome.
- [113:38]
Big Cat
And now we wait.
- [113:40]
PFT Commenter
You guys. Countdown should have been on the Mount Rushmore of seas.
- [113:43]
Big Cat
Oh, yeah.
- [113:44]
PFT Commenter
That was. That was. Oh, my God.
- [113:45]
Big Cat
Oh. Oh, my God.
- [113:48]
PFT Commenter
Dear God.
- [113:49]
Big Cat
12 seconds.
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PFT Commenter
12 seconds.
- [113:51]
Big Cat
Oh.
- [113:54]
PFT Commenter
No. You win Blake of the year.
- [113:59]
Big Cat
Who is it? Just me. Yeah. Blake Bortles. Joined about two seconds after you.
- [114:04]
PFT Commenter
That's five.
- [114:05]
Big Cat
Oh, my God. Can we get Blake Bortles in here? That's five. Five. All the way from Hawaii, from way downtown. Blake was right there. Portals again is second place. Can you hear me? Yeah.
- [114:26]
PFT Commenter
You came in second by like two seconds.
- [114:28]
Big Cat
It was that close. It's devastating, dude. It's just devastating. I mean, Blake Bortles, you have to ask yourself. It feels like every year we're in this exact same spot where you join the zoom and Blake Griffin's already here. Yeah.
- [114:43]
PFT Commenter
I. I think it just comes down to, like, I'm bouncing my head off my ceiling. Like, this is just as good as I get. Yeah. It's like running into Patrick Mahomes every year.
- [114:52]
Big Cat
That's right. There's no way around it. Seconds just gotta be where you live. Oh, man. All right, Blake Griffin, you are now a five time Blake of the year. Blake bottles has three championships. This is. This is the separating one. Like, it was four to three. We were saying beforehand if it went four to four. Yeah. Like, hey, we got a real rivalry now. You're. You're peerless. You have no peers. You have five of them. Listen, I put in the work. I flew out to Hawaii. I've been holed up in a house in Hawaii for the past two weeks waiting for this. Oh, my God. It does feel good. I would like to talk about Brooks. What's going on?
- [115:30]
PFT Commenter
Yeah, but we were saying this is the most Blake thing that you can do, arguably, is just not care.
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Big Cat
Not care. Yeah. Yeah. He. He. Yeah. I don't know if he'll join. We'll, like, he is in England. He's about to play in the open championship. Maybe next year we'll find a different weekend that he's not this many time zones away. But yet again, it's. It's Blake versus Blake and. And Blake has won a. Blake always wins.
- [115:58]
PFT Commenter
Would you say this. Is this the hardest one that you've had to win, being in Hawaii and all?
- [116:02]
Big Cat
Yeah, I think just. Just like, you know, you can become complacent sometimes. I think. I don't know. I just. Every year I know Bortles is bringing it. I would only really have to worry about Brooks, which is kind of nice.
- [116:15]
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
- [116:17]
Big Cat
So I don't know. Wasn't it like 2 seconds last year as well? Yeah.
- [116:21]
PFT Commenter
Yeah. I think this is the fastest one.
- [116:23]
Big Cat
Yeah. So. So Blake Bortles, are you. You have lost back to back years, maybe four seconds total. That has separated you. Is there anything you can do Are you going to train or is there, like. Are you just like, hey, this is what I have. Like, I'm just going up against the monster?
- [116:40]
PFT Commenter
Yeah. It's definitely. It's going to be an obstacle to overcome. I just. I don't know how much better I can get. I've maxed out my potential. You know, the first 15 minutes of this window, I was staring at my phone. Then I got briefly sidetracked by children and then I locked back in and couldn't have clicked on the link any faster.
- [117:00]
Big Cat
That's. Do we have Heartbreaking.
- [117:01]
PFT Commenter
Do we make sure that Zoom was updated? Was that good to go? Yeah. I was on a Zoom call earlier today. Everything was fine. I mean, everything was. Was ideal for a win today and. And I lose again. There will be people who ask, is it time to change the format of Blake of the Year? Because Blake Griffin's been so dominant on the phone. I don't know if we're ready to have that conversation yet.
- [117:21]
Big Cat
Should we go back to the lottery balls? That was fun. Yeah, we could.
- [117:27]
PFT Commenter
We could do. We could do seating for next year.
- [117:29]
Big Cat
Yeah, we could do seating. I'm open to. I'm open to switching up the format. Okay.
- [117:36]
PFT Commenter
I mean, could you imagine if. If the 1 verse 16, if. If Brooks Koepka somehow beat Blake Griffin in the first round next year? Yeah, that would be incredible.
- [117:43]
Big Cat
True Cinderella story. Yeah. I think our odds were exactly right. We said beforehand our odds are Blake Griffin minus 150, Blake Bortles plus 120, Brooks Kapka, 40 to 1. And it feels like that just proves true every year.
- [117:58]
PFT Commenter
I mean, it's also kind of unfair. He is playing in a major this weekend.
- [118:01]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [118:02]
PFT Commenter
So he's, you know, he's probably on the course grinding.
- [118:05]
Big Cat
Well, isn't it. He's in England. Isn't it like 8pm there? Yeah, it is 8pm yeah. Grinding. I mean, on the course grinding.
- [118:13]
PFT Commenter
Yeah, yeah.
- [118:15]
Big Cat
Blake portals. Have you finished your house? Yes, it's complete.
- [118:19]
PFT Commenter
We're living a minute.
- [118:20]
Big Cat
Are you sad that your construction guys are gone?
- [118:23]
PFT Commenter
I am, yeah.
- [118:24]
Big Cat
I think they.
- [118:26]
PFT Commenter
I made friends with them. I'd bring beer and I think that could have caused it to take six to eight months longer than it should have been. But I enjoyed our Friday afternoons together, so I wouldn't have changed it. Blake Bortles, did you hear any of the interview with Trevor Lawrence that we had this week? Because he had nothing but the nicest things to say about you. I did not. I missed it.
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Big Cat
How.
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PFT Commenter
How'd it go?
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Big Cat
Trevor's the man.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah. He just said that. That your reputation was. Was pristine. That locker room, we could still feel your presence in there. So he's. He actually said he might cut his hair if he wins the Super Bowl. In. In a tribute to you.
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Big Cat
Yeah.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah. I mean, if I could, I'd have his hair and I'd trade in a heartbeat with him. Mine is shaved, you know, by default.
- [119:05]
Big Cat
Yeah. He also said that he would let us stay at his house without him there. Wow. Yeah. Which is something you. Blake Griffin, we never asked you that. Would you let us stay at your house without you there? Yeah, I'm in Hawaii. You guys want to pop over to the house? Perfect.
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PFT Commenter
Swing by the crib.
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Big Cat
Perfect. Yeah. Because Blake portals did do that once where he forgot we were coming over to stay at his house. And he was like, oh, just here's the code. I'll be back in like five hours. And we just hung out at his house waiting for him. That's. I mean, that's a true Blake right there. I mean, shirt off. Shirt off your back house, off your property.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah.
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Big Cat
Yeah.
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PFT Commenter
You guys had filmed a whole music video on the back walkway, but by the time I got home. That's right. Drink paint. Yeah. Blake Griffin, have you thought about legacy yet?
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Big Cat
I've. I've. I've. It's sort of been washing over me. I. I've been thinking, like, do you do the thing you get. Try to get six and then retire like Jordan? Although you can never truly retire from being a Blake. I don't know. I. I'm just soaking it up right now, to be honest.
- [120:04]
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
- [120:04]
Big Cat
Okay. All right, last question for both of you. I don't know if you saw the news that we're writing a book for the 10 year anniversary of Pardon my Take, you guys are both gonna have to write at least one chapter. All right, well, chat. GPT will be on it. Yeah. Who are you playing? Portal. She. Can you write a chapter for us?
- [120:23]
PFT Commenter
No, I. I mean, you remember the. My research and work ethic towards the.
- [120:28]
Big Cat
Book club that we had? Wikipedia club, period of time.
- [120:32]
PFT Commenter
Yeah. I can give you a sentence.
- [120:35]
Big Cat
Okay. All right. Yeah, send a sentence. I'll take a sentence.
- [120:38]
PFT Commenter
You just talked to her ghost, right? Writer for five minutes. He writes the chapter.
- [120:41]
Big Cat
Yeah. Why don't we. Why don't we each give you a sentence and then we just. We don't know what the other one's writing, and we hope that. That those two sentences flow together.
- [120:48]
PFT Commenter
Yeah, I like that. Yeah, we'll. We'll finish. Blake Griffins. And then it's choose your own adventure to read Blake Bortles section, turn two pages.
- [120:57]
Big Cat
All right, well, thank you, boys. We appreciate it so much. This, we love doing this award and I will. We'll keep the zoom open for. For Brooks Koepka. He. He'll probably never arrive.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah.
- [121:08]
Big Cat
We'll see if he does. Congrats again to Blake Griffin, five time Blake of the year. Back to back champion. Is it three in a row? Is it three in a row? No, two in a row. No.
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PFT Commenter
Is it?
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Big Cat
You won. You won three times ago.
- [121:25]
PFT Commenter
You've won two in a row.
- [121:26]
Big Cat
Yeah. Two in a row. I won two in a row. Yeah. Blake, one of those. 20, 23 Blake of the year. Yeah. So next year's going for a three peat. That's historic. Yeah. We got to break that up.
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PFT Commenter
Well, next year. Is that the ten year anniversary.
- [121:40]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [121:41]
PFT Commenter
Of Blake of the year.
- [121:42]
Big Cat
Nine year.
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PFT Commenter
I think we didn't. Nine years. Okay. All right. That's going to be a big one. That's going to be the diamond one.
- [121:46]
Big Cat
Yeah. Because there's been eight Blake of the years. Blake Griffin has five, Blake Bortles has three. Never been a three, Pete. Wow.
- [121:53]
PFT Commenter
I got to say, the real winner is the listeners because this was a great competition.
- [121:57]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [121:57]
PFT Commenter
Like neck and neck Fairfax. I feel I. I shout out the aws.
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Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah.
- [122:02]
PFT Commenter
No losers in this one except for Blake Bortles.
- [122:04]
Big Cat
Well. And Brooks Kep. Yeah.
- [122:06]
PFT Commenter
There's two losers. Yeah. Yeah.
- [122:09]
Big Cat
All right. Thank you, boys.
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PFT Commenter
Should we just stay on till Brooks joins?
- [122:12]
Big Cat
Yeah, we'll stay on till Brooks joins.
- [122:13]
PFT Commenter
We'll let you guys go.
- [122:14]
Big Cat
Yeah, we'll see you guys.
- [122:15]
PFT Commenter
See you guys.
- [122:15]
Big Cat
Congrats. Oh, there he is. Why does this happen every time I'm overseas? So Brooks Kapka finishing in third place in Blake of the year for yet another year. The timer was up. I think it was. I think you joined. Let's see. You joined a solid 17 minutes after Blake Griffin won the award. I'm not surprised Blake won. Are we shocked? He's got five now joining us. Five. And Blake Bortles has three and you have zero. We, we said beforehand we put the odds that you. I think you were 40 to 1 to win this. Yeah. I think it was a longer shot.
- [123:04]
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
- [123:05]
Big Cat
Gambling, man. I think it was a lot longer. What do we have to do to get competitive next year? I really think we maybe do this while I'm on the same time zone. Okay.
- [123:17]
PFT Commenter
That's actually not a bad.
- [123:19]
Big Cat
We got to push it back a week. Okay.
- [123:21]
PFT Commenter
We push it back or do we move it forward?
- [123:28]
Big Cat
I. I gotta. I gotta figure out what I'm doing next year. I gotta look at the schedule. Yeah.
- [123:32]
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
- [123:33]
Big Cat
I still think we should try to do it all three Blakes in the same place. We gotta. We gotta maybe figure that out, because it would be some kind of competition or some kind of something where we're all together. Yeah, that's the fairest. But, hey, props to Blake for winning. Wow, what an effort.
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PFT Commenter
It's just been an incredible run for him.
- [123:50]
Big Cat
What.
- [123:51]
PFT Commenter
Where were you when you saw the text? And what went through your head?
- [123:56]
Big Cat
The same thing that usually goes through.
- [123:58]
PFT Commenter
God, I'm so late in this.
- [124:02]
Big Cat
Was there even a small percentage of you that was like, hey, maybe I just got lucky this year?
- [124:08]
PFT Commenter
I was hoping, but there's.
- [124:10]
Big Cat
Yeah, I'm an idiot. I don't know. 17 minutes later.
- [124:14]
PFT Commenter
Yeah, I mean, I. I think that saying I forgot is a completely acceptable reason.
- [124:19]
Big Cat
Yeah, I think it is. Hey, you know, it's funny. I looked at my phone, and I saw the. The text that was like, hey, it's open.
- [124:30]
PFT Commenter
We're good.
- [124:31]
Big Cat
All right. And I was like, okay. All right, great.
- [124:33]
PFT Commenter
And I felt like I literally checked.
- [124:35]
Big Cat
My phone five seconds later, and then, boom, here I am, 17 minutes late. You blacked out. Yeah, because I sent the text right at the beginning of the window saying, hey, we are now officially open for Blake of the year, Just so you guys were all aware. And then. Yeah, it just. You. You blacked out, and I'm gonna blame it on the bad wi Fi. Okay, that's the excuse I'm going with. That's what I'm gonna stick with.
- [124:58]
PFT Commenter
Good excuse.
- [124:59]
Big Cat
You also have a fair excuse. You are literally playing in a golf major this week, and the other two Blakes are currently unemployed. So that's a big, big. That's a big difference. I do have that going for me. Yes. Yeah, you have that going. That I'm still an active participant in a sport.
- [125:17]
PFT Commenter
How are you feeling about this weekend?
- [125:19]
Big Cat
I feel good. I feel good.
- [125:21]
PFT Commenter
I swear. We're gonna.
- [125:22]
Big Cat
If. If I win this week, we're gonna have to organize the. All the Blakes get together. All of us get together, because we're coming to Chicago, I think, soon. Yeah, I actually. I'm gonna say this right now. I think if you win the open championship, you win Blake of the year this year. I think Blake Griffin should agree to that. I think. I think Blake Griffin should agree to that. Hold on. I'll call him real quick.
- [125:44]
PFT Commenter
I think he would I think he would say that's fair.
- [125:46]
Big Cat
Yeah, I'm gonna call him real quick.
- [125:48]
PFT Commenter
That would be great. Bordeaux might get upset because Bortles was about 2 seconds after Blake Griffin this year.
- [125:54]
Big Cat
Well, he didn't win, so he doesn't.
- [125:55]
PFT Commenter
Yeah, it was super close.
- [125:56]
Big Cat
Yeah, I'm gonna say that. I definitely called first.
- [125:58]
PFT Commenter
It's just the wi fi is.
- [126:00]
Big Cat
Blake, we're talking to Brooks right now. Literally just called in two minutes ago. This is. This is. This is 100% your. Your call. I do not want to force you into anything, but I have proposed the idea that if Brooks Koepka wins the Open championship this weekend, he officially gets your Blake of the year title this year. Are you willing to do that? Okay, so he's got a chance. He's got a redemption. I'm not dead. I love it. He's not dead.
- [126:29]
PFT Commenter
You're playing for something big, bigger than yourself this weekend.
- [126:31]
Big Cat
Oh, absolutely.
- [126:32]
PFT Commenter
You're playing for Blake.
- [126:33]
Big Cat
I'm playing for all the Blake. I. I would like, at some point in the interviews, I would like acknowledgement. Okay. Yeah. Yes. That's fair. That's totally fair. I think it literally might just be a mic drop.
- [126:48]
PFT Commenter
It's.
- [126:48]
Big Cat
It. I gotta acknowledge at least Ricky Elliott, my caddy. Yeah. Course interview. But, you know, the press conference. Yeah, he just said in the press conference. Said it doesn't all have to be on the course. It could be in the press conference. Whatever. I literally will just say Blake Griffin and then walk right out. Yeah. All you got to say is, and this means that I'm now Blake of the year, thank you to Blake Griffin for. For so generously giving me this opportunity verbatim, that's what it'll be. Okay. All right. All right. We're good. Thank you, Blake. All right.
- [127:18]
PFT Commenter
I mean, what a story. What a story this would be.
- [127:21]
Big Cat
Yeah. Blake of the year is not. We've decided it, but it's still. Open it.
- [127:25]
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
- [127:26]
Big Cat
Oh, man. So hard.
- [127:28]
PFT Commenter
I'll tell you what. Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, they've never won a Blake of the year on the same day they won a major.
- [127:35]
Big Cat
Yeah, that's very true. Yeah, I mean, that's. That would be the. If I won this week, that would be the seventh major. Yeah, you gotta. You gotta hold up seven and have everyone be confused. Like, what the. He's only got six. No, he's got. I've never wanted to win a golf tournament so bad. All right, well, Brooks, thank you. You're the best. Best of luck this week, and we're rooting for you hard. Yeah, yeah, no, I'm. I'm rooting for myself very hard right now. All right. All right. See you, man. All right. See you, boys. Okay, I think we're done, right?
- [128:12]
PFT Commenter
Yep. No. Oh, no, we're not. What we got? Got one more award.
- [128:18]
Big Cat
Oh, PFT. Let me ask you real quick. The Roback question. Rhobac.com promo code, take 20 off your first purchase. Q zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts. Roback.com promo code take. What's the last award?
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PFT Commenter
The last award of the takeies is the Podcast Listeners of the Year award. Ooh. Now we've got big. Some huge nominees. We've got one that has just been a constant mainstay and that's the award winning listeners. Part of my take. They've won eight takeies.
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Big Cat
Eight takeies.
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PFT Commenter
Eight takeies.
- [128:49]
Big Cat
Bad for the league.
- [128:50]
PFT Commenter
Bad. Very bad. We've got Talk to a. The Talk to A fans have been nominated for Podcast Listeners of the Year. They followed their leader off the cliff. They got rug pulled.
- [129:02]
Big Cat
Yep.
- [129:03]
PFT Commenter
Great podcast, though. Really enjoy talk to her. I consider myself a talk to a boy. Also nominated for Podcast Listeners of the Year award are the MD Foodie Boys fans.
- [129:13]
Big Cat
Yes.
- [129:14]
PFT Commenter
Great podcast. Highly recommend. Give them a shot. Snack wrap. Snack wrap. Good, good. Awesome review, Hank. Two poppies. Their listeners have been nominated for Podcast fan here.
- [129:28]
Big Cat
I'm a listener.
- [129:28]
PFT Commenter
I forget who they are.
- [129:29]
Big Cat
They are the Arizona State frat boys. And they're. Remember the clip? They were boys. And they fought.
- [129:36]
PFT Commenter
The boys.
- [129:36]
Big Cat
Yeah. And they. And they threw hands.
- [129:38]
PFT Commenter
Yes, but they were.
- [129:38]
Big Cat
You said they were boys.
- [129:39]
PFT Commenter
They're boys. Yeah.
- [129:40]
Big Cat
No way.
- [129:43]
PFT Commenter
We have another nominee for the Podcast Listeners of the Year award. That is the Daddy Gang. Daddy Gang just stays winning. Daddy Gang. Doing everything to support their girl Alex, including giving a massive round of applause at Wrigley Field during the seventh inning stretch. Just an incredible scene for everybody. And our final nominee for the Podcast Listeners of the Year award, it's one guy, one single guy. The guy who clips parts of the episodes of Part of my Take. Whenever we mentioned Darren Revell's name and then sends it to Darren Ravel, that guy is also nominated.
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Big Cat
Okay.
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PFT Commenter
And the winner for the 2025 podcast Listeners of the Year, it's a nine, Pete.
- [130:26]
Big Cat
Wow.
- [130:26]
PFT Commenter
It's a nine, Pete. The awl is having it again. Just dominance. Dominance in the field of listening to podcasts. Yes, we do appreciate each and every one of you. I was thinking about you guys earlier today, how lucky I am. I do Think about it all the time.
- [130:44]
Big Cat
Oh yeah.
- [130:45]
PFT Commenter
The best job in the entire world. I am the luckiest man on the face of the earth because I get to do this podcast with my friends and there are so many people that listen to it and it's. It's remarkable and I. I love you guys more than you love me. I promise you that. I appreciate each and every one of you and it means the world to myself and to everybody else who's lucky enough to work on part of my take that you guys are out there. So shout out to you guys. Couldn't do without you. Love you.
- [131:10]
Big Cat
Well deserving listen it's PFT said it but it is the greatest job ever and I was actually thinking about it as well because we have to write this book and aws do I have to buy it now that they've won nine in a row. But it's like it's pretty crazy especially in the media business and everything that goes on and it's a hard business to be in and there's people who lose their jobs, get their jobs, new shows, all this stuff to do the same show with the same guys for nine years and still love it just as much as day one. And that's really the truth. Like we love coming in and working together and we love doing a really stupid podcast for all of you that listen and watch and can't thank you enough because you guys are you. You. You are the reason why we have this and you are the reason why we did get. We do it every single day for you guys and if it weren't for your support, none of this would be possible and we do not take that for granted a single day. And so well deserving nine time awls out there. There's a lot of you out there that are nine times and even if you're a five time, six time three time one time doesn't matter. We thank you so, so much from the bottom of our hearts that you listen and you participate and you enjoy the show because we're going to keep making it for as long as we can.
- [132:29]
PFT Commenter
I'd like to hear from the one timers just.
- [132:31]
Big Cat
Yeah it's probably interesting to see probably really confusing episodes.
- [132:35]
PFT Commenter
One timer yeah is actually one I'd like to introduce.
- [132:38]
Big Cat
Interested to hear about.
- [132:39]
PFT Commenter
I want to hear from somebody that this is their very first episode upon my take that they're listening to someone's girlfriend. Yeah yeah yeah. Shout out to you just won an award.
- [132:47]
Big Cat
Hit us up. We promise not to sick Zach on you Zach lady Killer Lady Steeler. That's a fact. Hank, do you have anything you want to say to the nine time aws?
- [132:57]
PFT Commenter
Love you guys. Love seeing you guys out there. Supportive, you know, say mean stuff online, but they're always nice in person.
- [133:04]
Big Cat
Why you throw stuff online.
- [133:06]
PFT Commenter
This is the Spotify wrapped all over.
- [133:08]
Big Cat
Yeah. What the. Dude? Why you say the mean stuff online?
- [133:10]
PFT Commenter
I don't know. That's. That's how I feel about it. It's like sometimes people are like, oh, like, people are. People are mean. It's like, I've never had a bad interaction with an awl in person, and that is all that matters. But also, I appreciate that they do give us sometimes. We up a lot, so we're. We're human when we up. Make fun of us.
- [133:27]
Big Cat
I also don't think we know the full strength of the awls, because we don't weaponize them. You know what I mean? We don't.
- [133:34]
PFT Commenter
Memes does occasionally.
- [133:35]
Big Cat
Memes does occasionally. But we know you're there, and we love you. And even for the people that aren't online who aren't responding or, you know, commenting, we love you, and we appreciate you so much, and you're heard and seen as well. Max, you want to say something? Aws.
- [133:49]
PFT Commenter
No, I was just. Memes was just talking about whether he weaponizes the awls back here.
- [133:54]
Big Cat
Oh, he does.
- [133:55]
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
- [133:55]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [133:56]
PFT Commenter
But, yeah, no, they're the best. I love seeing you guys out in the wild all the time. It's. It's funny, though, because people. Probably the number one thing that I get is Hank, so. So, yeah. So that's great.
- [134:11]
Big Cat
And I love you guys.
- [134:12]
PFT Commenter
I've only haven't been here for nine years, but the time that I've been here has been great. And hopefully there's nine more years in the future. Yeah.
- [134:19]
Big Cat
And more and more.
- [134:21]
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
- [134:21]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [134:21]
PFT Commenter
And. And if you do see Memes out in the wild, just make sure to give them some advice on the lottery bowl.
- [134:26]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [134:26]
PFT Commenter
He appreciates it, always. No, but it is. It's a very. It's a very lucky thing that we have. And so doing this job changed my life, changed Big Cat's life, change Hank's life. And from the bottom of our hearts, we really do appreciate you guys, and we love you very deeply, very, very much.
- [134:42]
Big Cat
Very much. And you guys deserve this award because you are year in and year out, we see the numbers, you're there, and you deserve it. Okay, we're gonna do a quick, quick firefighter best. Before we do that, PFD your last Two ads. Then we'll do lottery ball and we'll send everyone on on the way for the weekend. Incredible takeies, boys. Incredible takeies. I love doing this. Takeies.
- [135:04]
PFT Commenter
Action packed.
- [135:05]
Big Cat
Action packed. A lot of guest presenters, guest acceptors. I still am laughing about the the Canadian summit of oldie and biz.
- [135:14]
PFT Commenter
Should we accept this award now? I don't know. It seems like it's a. It's a two faced deal. Busy, busy.
- [135:21]
Big Cat
They're great.
- [135:22]
PFT Commenter
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Big Cat
Real quick, Hank.
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PFT Commenter
Not too bad. More of an ice fest. Ice fest. I over. It's nothing crazy but just drunk purchase. That was one of the probably top, top tiered worst drunk purchase I've ever made. I think I bought a beanbag once drunk, that was like four times too big than I thought. And it was. It filled up. I lived in a loft. It filled up my entire loft space.
- [137:10]
Big Cat
You ever break one of those?
- [137:12]
PFT Commenter
A beanbag?
- [137:13]
Big Cat
Yeah. No. Yeah, it's pretty Shout out. My, my college friend Tommy, he cut one out of anger and it, it literally, it takes forever to clean up.
- [137:21]
PFT Commenter
Yeah, that sounds like a Nightmare. But over 4th of July break, our, our co worker Francis made a video. He's like, I bought this ice maker. It makes like clear cubed ice. And I was, I was blasted. I don't even remember ordering it. But I like, you know, clicked the link, order one for myself. I came home, it's like, francis, what is this? And he's like, it was like 400 bucks too. It was like, it'll change your life.
- [137:44]
Big Cat
It's the best ice you'll ever have.
- [137:45]
PFT Commenter
If you drink Old Fashions, which I don't and I don't really drink. Like, I don't make drinks at my house and. But he's like, if you drink Old Fashions, it'll change your life. It's these big clear ice cubes.
- [137:56]
Big Cat
You don't drink the drink that you need it for. But you, you still correct. Okay.
- [138:00]
PFT Commenter
I got. This was after I bought it. I was like, I got home. So why'd you saw the package? Because I was drunk. I really don't know. I like, I came home, didn't know what it was, opened it and I was like, oh, I think Francis posted a video about this. I was like, francis, what is this? Like, is this ice going to change my life? He's like, yeah, it's great for old fashions. It's like the, you know, the ice, the big ice cubes that you'd buy at a cocktail bar. Okay. Super clear. And I now owner of one of those. And you don't use it. I have used it. It takes eight hours to make a single. It takes eight hours cubes, Four cubes.
- [138:28]
Big Cat
Eight hours.
- [138:29]
PFT Commenter
You can just get an ice tray with four cubes in it, put that in the freezer. That's cloudy cubes though. That's true. Fair point.
- [138:36]
Big Cat
Got you there.
- [138:37]
PFT Commenter
And guy like you that needs your cubes clear, that's just not gonna cut.
- [138:41]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [138:41]
PFT Commenter
So that I've just been. I, I've thought about returning it, but it's like, what am I, am I gonna return something? Probably not. Am I ever gonna use this? Doubtful. I have just been making ice like every day and just putting them in my freezer so I have big cubes. But, but really I thought it was like, oh, this will be cool to have. It's not, it's pointless. Can I put you on a different iceman? I might have to become an old fashioned guy. That's no, no, I know. No, but, hey, this.
- [139:06]
Big Cat
I. I have.
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PFT Commenter
I have.
- [139:08]
Big Cat
I don't have. Listen, no, hear him out.
- [139:11]
PFT Commenter
Hear me out.
- [139:11]
Big Cat
Hear him out. You have. You have a four cube, eight hour maker.
- [139:16]
PFT Commenter
I used to sell ice makers, by the way, so.
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Big Cat
Of course you did.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah. Hank, I've got an ice maker that will change your life. Life. This thing, it's like the Sonic ice, and it's on your countertop. It's soft, it's chewy, it makes it really, really fast. It makes probably like six or seven glasses at a time. Is it cloudy? No, it's. It's clear. But it's the tiny, soft little pebble ice, the nugget ice, and you can get that on your countertop for the low, low price of about 300 bucks. I got one ahead of Thanksgiving this year. Had some people over. It was the biggest hit. I can't go into four figures on ice. I think you haven't seen financially. I.
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Big Cat
Does your refrigerator not make ice?
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PFT Commenter
Oh, no, it does.
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Big Cat
Oh, I was gonna say, like, what are we talking about, Hank?
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PFT Commenter
The one cloudy ice, though, the one that you bought, you said was like 400 bucks. I'm. I'm selling you one for 300 bucks.
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Big Cat
Wait, so I've been just using cloudy ice?
- [140:02]
PFT Commenter
Yeah. Sorry. So cloudy. Oh, getting air bubbles everywhere. Yeah.
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Big Cat
Damn it.
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PFT Commenter
No. This will change your life, Hank. Get the soft. Get the pellet ice. Text me. I'll shoot your text this week when I'm drunk, and then maybe you do that pitch again and I'm in. I'm probably just gonna send you a link at like 12:30 on Friday night. Yeah, yeah.
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Big Cat
Friday. Yeah. Don't do Saturday. He's going to be watching ufc.
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PFT Commenter
That's true. Well, Friday is also a weekday, so I don't know if he's going to be drunk.
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Big Cat
It's true.
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PFT Commenter
Go to the Cubs game.
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Big Cat
Okay, so you're going to be drunk. Good fire fest.
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PFT Commenter
Great firefest.
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Big Cat
Can you. Can you please make a video of you making the ice? I'd like to see him.
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PFT Commenter
Do you want a time lapse?
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Big Cat
Yeah.
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PFT Commenter
Eight hour time lapse. You put a GoPro inside as it. As it freezes. Yeah. Well, yeah, I've. I've had some failed missions. I'm like 2 for 4 on successfully making it because it makes it over the course of eight hours, but if you don't take it out in a certain amount of time, it melts. And so, like, you have to time it up perfectly. How many old fashions is Francis drink?
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Big Cat
I guess a Lot.
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PFT Commenter
I. I'm literally. I have literally never. I've drank it in. Old fashioned, maybe with you. Like, you've ordered one. I'm like, yeah, I'll get one of those too. I have never made one. I don't even know what. How to make one, and I don't.
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Big Cat
Want to make one.
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PFT Commenter
I don't even like old fashions.
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Big Cat
Wait, why don't you just set up the ice maker before you go to bed and then when you wake up, Up.
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PFT Commenter
That's what I've been doing. But the. The timing.
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Big Cat
Sometimes I. Oh, ten hours sleeping? No.
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PFT Commenter
Or it's less, but yeah.
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Big Cat
Okay.
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PFT Commenter
This sounds like a job for the cream team.
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Big Cat
Give. I give. Zach.
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PFT Commenter
I also don't. But I. I have like 8 cubes in my freezer. I'm good. I'm cubed up. So you. You freeze the cubes.
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Big Cat
So cute.
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PFT Commenter
Then you move them to your freezer and then they stay in the freezer? Yep. Do they get cloudy in the freezer?
- [141:33]
Big Cat
Nope.
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PFT Commenter
They stay clear. Yeah. All right. That's a good purchase. No.
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Big Cat
Okay.
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PFT Commenter
My fire fest of the week is spider related. Hank, you might be interested in this or you might have some advice for me. I was down in my basement the other day, and I was taking a big. And as I'm taking the shit, I see a giant spider that's walking across the floor. And I'm in the position where I'm. I'm physically. There is happening at this point, so I can't get up. I'm just looking at this spider as it's crawling across the floor. It was big, it was brown. It looked mean. I took a picture of it, and it just keeps walking. And all I want to do is get up, grab it with some toilet paper, and then flush it, because this thing is up. But I'm. So. I'm at the point where I actually can't get up and do that. By the time I finally end taking this, the spider has disappeared behind my sink. It's nowhere to be found. So I took a picture of the spider. There are websites that you can go on to where you can upload pictures of a spider that you took, and it'll identify what kind of spider it was.
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Big Cat
Okay.
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PFT Commenter
It's a brown recluse. Oh, I had a brown recluse in my bathroom. I had every opportunity to kill it and flush it, and it's somewhere now it went away. What do I do?
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Big Cat
Spider expert.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah, I mean, I have. I got. I got some ammo, like firepower, if you want to Keep it strapped in your bathroom. I have a. I have shout out to my daddy. Got it for me. It's like a big fight. Spider repellent spray gun. Yeah, that. You know, whenever I. Whenever there's a sign of a spider, I just go out and just. Just fire away. Is it spray or is it spray? Okay. And it's. It's strong. Spray kills them on contact. Well, my problem isn't that I'm afraid of killing a spider. I'll kill.
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Big Cat
This is like.
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PFT Commenter
It's preemptive. Like you. I spray every corner, every. Like, I'm on the spray house. It's. No, no. Outside.
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Big Cat
Outside. Yeah. Yeah.
- [143:30]
PFT Commenter
It's been. It's been a two year battle, but I think I'm. You spray the outdoors with spider repellent. I was like, we better stay inside.
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Big Cat
You're just carpet bombing your balcony. Yes. Okay.
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PFT Commenter
My problem though is. Well, they're outside on the other side. But it's like if they want to come towards my balcony, they're going to be like, nope. So I went looking for the spider after I finished taking the. In the bathroom. I looked everywhere. I. I opened up the medicine cabinet. I. I looked under the sink. I saw that there are pipes that aren't necessarily like, like, fully fitted to the wall. So there's a small gap that a spider could easily go into. I think the spider might have just gotten out of town.
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Big Cat
Oh.
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PFT Commenter
I think it just might be like living in my walls right now, waiting to come out.
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Big Cat
Yeah, that's scary.
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PFT Commenter
Scary.
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Big Cat
You. You have to move.
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PFT Commenter
I think. I think I have to burn the house down.
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Big Cat
Yeah.
- [144:13]
PFT Commenter
It's gonna be like Vesuvio.
- [144:15]
Big Cat
Yeah. You gotta. Oh, my God.
- [144:16]
PFT Commenter
Yeah, it was. It was not. Not. I was. But why didn't you act the spider? Because the spider had me hostage. I had pooh Poop that was literally coming out of my butt at that point. You know, big cat, you're. You could use your legs.
- [144:27]
Big Cat
I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm a hand in the trash bag guy.
- [144:30]
PFT Commenter
Yeah. But you know, like when you're taking. When the poop is happening.
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Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah.
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PFT Commenter
What am I gonna do? Walk across the room and just drag a trail with me?
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Big Cat
If you had known as a brown recluse, would you have done that?
- [144:40]
PFT Commenter
I would have pooped on the spot.
- [144:41]
Big Cat
All right, so now, you know if. I now can't catch you.
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PFT Commenter
But except for when you sleep, if anybody.
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Big Cat
Every single night.
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PFT Commenter
And Blake.
- [144:48]
Big Cat
Blake would probably fuck the spider.
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PFT Commenter
Blake would fuck that spider up.
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Big Cat
Yeah.
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PFT Commenter
He'd eat it. He's a good boy.
- [144:52]
Big Cat
Yeah. What happens if you get bit by. Oh, it's not fatal. Cause significant localized tissue damage.
- [144:59]
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
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Big Cat
And require medical attention.
- [145:01]
PFT Commenter
I can't have that. I've been bitten by a brown recluse before.
- [145:05]
Big Cat
Oh, so you're fine.
- [145:06]
PFT Commenter
Yeah. Maybe I'm immune like Spider man.
- [145:07]
Big Cat
Yeah, you're a survivor. Okay.
- [145:11]
PFT Commenter
My fire fest lifespan one to two years. Yeah. So maybe, who knows? Wait him out. Maybe.
- [145:17]
Big Cat
Two years old, it could die.
- [145:18]
PFT Commenter
It's at least gonna be gone in one to two years.
- [145:20]
Big Cat
Yeah, that's true. That's a great point. If it was a baby, you got.
- [145:24]
PFT Commenter
Two years still alive. Person of the year. The brown recluse spider that was in my house.
- [145:29]
Big Cat
All right. My fyre fest is pretty simple. My body is broken. I'm too old for some of this shit. I did tweet that I was thinking about retirement. Not retirement from like this show, but retirement from our physical challenges. We played, we did six hour stream on Tuesday night. How many swings did we take? 200. Ish. 200 plus. And then the boys played softball on Wednesday. Rallied for a big win. But. Oh, my God, I can't walk right now, so I'm done.
- [145:57]
PFT Commenter
It was a lot of twisting.
- [145:59]
Big Cat
It's just the.
- [146:00]
PFT Commenter
How are the hands?
- [146:01]
Big Cat
Hands hurt so bad.
- [146:03]
PFT Commenter
How's the back?
- [146:03]
Big Cat
Back hurts so bad.
- [146:05]
PFT Commenter
How's the legs?
- [146:06]
Big Cat
Got a weird thing. I made an error in the first inning in our softball game and I. I felt a little like twinge in my knee. And then thankfully I don't move fast, so I don't think I re injured it, but I don't know what's going on there. Yeah, my body's broken. I don't know what to do. I think I need to retire from sports. I need to just be a walking guy.
- [146:25]
PFT Commenter
We got to get one of those cryo chambers, dude.
- [146:29]
Big Cat
I gotta do. So I gotta start stretching because I did the same thing I did every single time. When softball ended, I just got in my car, went home, got out of my car, in my garage, 10 minute drive, could barely stand.
- [146:39]
PFT Commenter
That's the thing. You never stretch after physical activity. Yeah.
- [146:43]
Big Cat
Proud of the boys, though. Big win in softball. We've rallied because it was. It was. It was looking bad because we. I couldn't hold a bat. Holding a bat hurts right now.
- [146:54]
PFT Commenter
Yeah, I had to be. I wore one batting glove because I just. I couldn't do it. I had too many blisters on my hand. That's a sick look, though. No, it's bad look for softball. It was kind of like Michael Jackson.
- [147:03]
Big Cat
Kind of a sick look. Zach, do you want to finish us off? You got a fire fest. Very quick firefest. My firefest is showing up extremely late today and getting a text message from Big Cat 9:30 saying, Are you coming in today? And then not knowing what to say to that and just thinking like, all right, well, it's over. You're not. It's not over. Quick. I know we don't have to talk about. But you did go on the date and it went well.
- [147:23]
PFT Commenter
I did go on the date.
- [147:24]
Big Cat
Did go well. Love that. That's all you need for hell yeah.
- [147:27]
PFT Commenter
Was she pretty?
- [147:29]
Big Cat
I would say, yeah, 100%, Pete.
- [147:30]
PFT Commenter
She's very pretty. I do have one question about the date. What did you wear on the date? I just went black shirt. Black shirt, black pants. These shoes. Love it. Sneakers. Keep it simple.
- [147:40]
Big Cat
And it was a longish date.
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PFT Commenter
It was a couple hours.
- [147:44]
Big Cat
Yeah. Love that. Good for you, Zach.
- [147:46]
PFT Commenter
Thank you.
- [147:46]
Big Cat
Big excited. Will there be a second date? There will be a second date.
- [147:50]
PFT Commenter
Let's go. Yes. Let's go, Zach.
- [147:51]
Big Cat
Fuck yes. That's our guy.
- [147:54]
PFT Commenter
Do you have any thoughts on what the second date activity is going to be?
- [147:56]
Big Cat
Arcade. This is when you hit the hitter with the arcade.
- [147:59]
PFT Commenter
They already did the arcade.
- [148:01]
Big Cat
Oh, yeah, that's right. Arcade was day one.
- [148:03]
PFT Commenter
Yeah. They went on two dates, hit her.
- [148:05]
Big Cat
Again with the arcade.
- [148:06]
PFT Commenter
Back to back.
- [148:06]
Big Cat
Just be like, we're. We're an arcade couple. We're either arcades or nothing.
- [148:10]
PFT Commenter
Well, he did say that of all the games that they played at the arcade, they ended up tied. So now you got to be like, we got to go back and figure out who's winning the arcade.
- [148:18]
Big Cat
Yeah, No, I think she might be up one.
- [148:22]
PFT Commenter
Oh, okay. She might be up.
- [148:23]
Big Cat
You let her win. Win. I was.
- [148:25]
PFT Commenter
No, I was trying to win in full transparency. I was trying to win.
- [148:30]
Big Cat
All right, Happy for you, Zach. Good job. All right, memes, have you thought about what this would be when we're doing the takeies? Numbers. Three.
- [148:41]
PFT Commenter
99. Wow.
- [148:43]
Big Cat
Max took. I'll take nine for our fans. Okay.
- [148:46]
PFT Commenter
Actually, Pug, I don't want 99. No, you already said it. Yeah, you got.
- [148:49]
Big Cat
Already said it. What? I. We give up numbers all the time, scumbag. He doesn't want it. He's not accepting it.
- [148:55]
PFT Commenter
Yeah, he's not accepting it, Pug.
- [148:57]
Big Cat
That was my way of. That was my.
- [148:59]
PFT Commenter
That was my offense for you. I don't want your sloppy second.
- [149:02]
Big Cat
Oh, okay.
- [149:04]
PFT Commenter
I.
- [149:04]
Big Cat
That.
- [149:05]
PFT Commenter
I swear to God, I did that.
- [149:06]
Big Cat
To beat memes of.
- [149:08]
PFT Commenter
To getting it so that I could always.
- [149:10]
Big Cat
You were always going to give it back. That was. That was the goal, scumbag.
- [149:15]
PFT Commenter
I don't know.
- [149:16]
Big Cat
All right?
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PFT Commenter
I swear to God.
- [149:17]
Big Cat
That was because you don't have the.
- [149:19]
PFT Commenter
Headphones, so you can't do. You can't play the offense. So I was playing offense for you, scumbag.
- [149:25]
Big Cat
All right.
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PFT Commenter
Yeah.
- [149:26]
Big Cat
No, you can't do that. Can't do that. Nope. He already said it.
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PFT Commenter
He already said it.
- [149:29]
Big Cat
You had 99.
- [149:30]
PFT Commenter
I'll go with a 99.
- [149:35]
Big Cat
Straight. We do pass numbers. We pass numbers.
- [149:37]
PFT Commenter
Wait. Off.
- [149:37]
Big Cat
Wait.
- [149:38]
PFT Commenter
Pug, you're the president. You get to decide. Yes. Account.
- [149:40]
Big Cat
He wants it. Great point.
- [149:41]
PFT Commenter
Point. I'm democracy. So if the people vote, I vote. Paul gets 99. Yeah, that's the majority.
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Big Cat
Zach, put your hand up.
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PFT Commenter
Thank you.
- [149:52]
Big Cat
Okay, then it counts. All right, so Hank has three, memes has nine. Pug has 99.
- [149:59]
PFT Commenter
Nope.
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Big Cat
I'll go 11. 6. 6.
- [150:04]
PFT Commenter
I'll go 11.
- [150:04]
Big Cat
Okay, that was mean.
- [150:06]
PFT Commenter
I'll go 61.
- [150:07]
Big Cat
30. 21 memes. Have you thought about what this would be if you win the lottery ball on the takeies with number nine? This would be incredible.
- [150:18]
PFT Commenter
Kind of a move, honestly, stealing the thunder away from the Awl.
- [150:21]
Big Cat
Yeah, the awl should get nine.
- [150:23]
PFT Commenter
Yeah, I'm.
- [150:24]
Big Cat
I'm an Awl fan. First you were. You're kind of obsessive. I like our fans. Unlike Hank, off his headphones.
- [150:35]
PFT Commenter
Not give a.
- [150:36]
Big Cat
No. We're laughing at him right now.
- [150:39]
PFT Commenter
Look at that face, that head turn. Laughing at him.
- [150:42]
Big Cat
He doesn't have no idea. 82.
- [150:51]
PFT Commenter
82. Love you guys. What he say?
- [150:57]
Big Cat
I like our fans. I'm like, hey, the.