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Big Cat
Hey, Pardon My Take listeners. You can find every episode on Apple podcasts, Spotify or YouTube prime members can listen ad free on Amazon Music. Get the crew together and head off to the course in the new 2024 Chevy Traverse with impressive cargo room, three room seating and the first ever Z71 trim Traverse can handle your buddies and their golf bags with ease. Chevrolet together. Let's drive on Today's part of my Take we're going to talk some college football. It's Wednesday. We're also going to talk Monday Night Football. The Bears suck again. We have a little cleanup of week one in the NFL. We also have our very good friend Joe Buck in studio. Awesome interview with Joe Awl's nine Time Awls know the Joe Buck can't tell the history of Pardon My Take without Joe Buck and it was great having him in studio, catching up with him, a really great time with him. We're going to bring back guys on Chicks Hot seat, Cool Throne, Great Wednesday show for you. It's all brought to you by DraftKings. Your season, your shot. The NFL season is rolling. Every touchdown can bring you closer to a payout with DraftKings Sportsbook, an official sports betting partner of the NFL. Every game is another chance to cash in. Don't just watch the action, win with it. DraftKings sportsbook delivers the unmatched intensity of the NFL right to your fingertips. For from first touchdown score to anytime, TD props or the thrill of live in game betting, every snap is loaded with opportunity. Let's see what do we got Thursday night? What's the line in in the game? It is.
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Memes
It's still three and a half.
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Big Cat
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Memes
It was an incredible talk about a fourth quarter collapse.
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Big Cat
Oh man, what a game.
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Memes
I don't think we'll see anything like.
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Big Cat
That this year because we were recording and we should have probably stopped and watched the end of the game. But we did it live. Josh Allen had 251 yards in the fourth quarter alone.
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Memes
So I did go home on Sunday night and in case you guys thought that I didn't watch enough football on Sunday, I watched the entire fourth quarter, those Ravens on my couch and it was a pretty, it was incredible that Josh Allen was able to do what he did. Now granted, the Ravens did choke it away. Yeah, the punting. I get all that. The fumble was a big thing.
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Hank
Not going forward on 4th and 2.
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Big Cat
Not going on 4th and 2 is insane.
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Memes
You're the Baltimore Ravens, but also 4th and 2. You're. You're backed up in your own territory. Your defense is going to be pissed off probably if you go 4 and 4th and 2, you're gonna be like what the dude? You don't trust it in the moment. When I was watching it not live, but when I was re watching it live, I thought to myself, I can see the Ravens punting here. Yeah, the bigger thing was the Derrick Henry fumble. Yeah, that's what the difference of the game was. But this is a John Harbaugh loss. He's got several of them. I saw the stat that he's got more double digit losses than any coach since 1991. Like double digit meaning like Double digit leads that were thrown. That's kind of a misleading stat because you have to be a very good coach to get that record.
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Big Cat
Yeah.
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Memes
Not only to build a double digit lead, but also to coach long enough to get that record.
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Big Cat
Yep.
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Memes
But it does feel like he does something like that every year where whether it's like, oh, you forgot that you had a running game or why did you punt there, or your running back fumbled or your defense didn't play anything resembling your defense from last year, especially when it counted, but Josh Allen played awesome, just unstoppable.
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Big Cat
He looks like he's playing the game on easy mode. And that was maybe game of the year in week one. That was, I mean that. I still can't believe the Bills won that game.
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Joe Buck
It's.
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Big Cat
Yeah, he looks like he's playing on easy mode. Like if I, I know there was a discussion of whether he should have won the MVP or Lamar Jackson. I know it obviously doesn't matter what happens week one, but that did feel like a statement. 251 yards passing in the fourth quarter is just, he was just dicing them up. It was. That's why you have to go for it on 4th and 2. I know what you're saying, but there's just no ch like Josh Allen was that good. It doesn't matter. And the Bills, maybe their defense gets fixed, but Josh Allen is playing at such a high level that I don't know. And that's pretty much our week one recap.
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Memes
There's some other cleanup that we should get to too.
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Big Cat
Yeah, Week one, the Bears fucking suck again. So Monday Night Football was not fun. Obviously that was a joke, guys. I, I, I know everyone was like, hey, we're the Bears. Got to start the show. That was a little, that was a little tongue in cheek that we didn't clean up the Bills Ravens game. Yeah, the Bears do not look any, any better this year than last year. Caleb Williams does not look any better. It was sloppy. It was gross. I would say the only thing that was a plus was that I actually knew we were streaming it and I said it. When the, when, when the pick six happened, I was like, this game is 17 to 6, but it's way closer than we realized because were one Vikings touchdown away from this being a tight, tight game. And the Bears offense couldn't do anything outside of the first drive. Penalties everywhere. Ben Johnson didn't have a great debut. The defense tried their absolute hardest in the first half. Had JJ McCarthy in hell. Credit to JJ McCarthy for coming out of Hell, and looking awesome in the fourth quarter. But yeah, the Bears are, are, are, are bad and it's like it's looking more like a four win team and Caleb Williams is just not good.
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Memes
I don't know if you can say they look just as bad as last year. There were some times last year when they looked real, real unfixable.
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Big Cat
They didn't improve. I mean there. They didn't improve on an improved roster and that's really more on Caleb than anything. He didn't look better than, than what he looked last year. Everything is. He's not reading the feed well. This the field well, the DJ Moore, if you watch the DJ Moore miss, that was such a clear sign of. He gets to his progression so late. He's looking in the flat. He sees D.J. more late. He tries to make a throw late and it's just air mails over it. The, the first drive, which was fun to watch, it wasn't like the first drive outside of the Roma Dunes, a pass on the sideline which was a great pass. Like it wasn't like they were so sharp and hitting everyone. It was a lot of Caleb scrambling and like, you know, check downs, which I guess credit for hitting the checkdowns. But yeah, he doesn't, he's, he's not good right now. I don't know if he'll ever be good, but I'm not going to pretend that he was like, oh, I saw a lot there. That was like very exciting. It was, it was very similar to last year where he doesn't see like it feel like he's reading the field and it feels like the ball's late on a lot of guys. And yeah, here's what I saw, here's.
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Memes
What I saw from Caleb, especially in the first half. In the second half, it didn't go well. The two missed throws that he had in the fourth quarter, one to D.J. the other I think was to Roma Dunes where he just like, I don't even know who he was really passing the ball to. Went just like so far out of bounds. But in the first half I saw him getting to his checkdowns and making the decision to scramble way faster than last year where he would like take sacks last year, but that doesn't mean.
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Big Cat
He'S reading the whole field. He's not, he's not good right now. Like you can't. I'm not going to pretend that he's, he's good. Like he's. Hopefully he still becomes good and you can't overreact. Fully to one week. But it wasn't. Watching this, I wasn't like, oh my God, he's fixed or he sees it, he's not good right now.
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Memes
I overreacted to that. That passed Roma Dunes in the first quarter. I did.
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Big Cat
Oh, it's great pass because he threw.
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Memes
The fuck out of the ball.
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Big Cat
It was a great pass.
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Memes
A laser beam. And his scrambling was pretty good too. It all went to this. Everything, everything bad happened to the Bears.
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Big Cat
In the second half. Scrambling doesn't mean you gotta be able to throw the ball in the NFL.
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Hank
And the fourth down on this was the second or third drive too.
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Big Cat
That was, that was bad. Really bad. Miss wide open, guys. I mean, Troy was saying it all night. He's just not seeing the field and it's, it's, it's frustrating to watch. And yeah, I think overall like the defense was awesome in the first half. The pass rush was awesome in the first half. It obviously faded because you can't expect your defense to be that good the entire game. Brian Flores also coached a great game in the fact that he, he kind of rope a doped the Bears.
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Memes
Yeah, he did.
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Big Cat
He didn't blitz a lot in the first half. Then he dialed it up in the second half. The Cairo. I've been saying for a year, like, Cairo Santos, nice guy. You can't survive in the NFL with a kicker who doesn't have a leg more than 50 yards. And you saw it in the, in the time situation at the end of the game where he was told to kick it out of bounds or out of the end zone. I don't think he has the leg to kick it out of the end zone. I don't know why Ben Johnson didn't tell him to kick it out of bounds. Cause it's only a 5 yard dis difference.
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Memes
We discovered a loophole in the NFL rulebook yesterday which is if you just kicked, even if you just kick the ball forward like a foot. Yeah, just move it off the tee. You breathe on the ball, knock it forward. The penalty is going to be illegal procedure. You get the ball on the 40 yard line, the clock stops. 0 seconds run off the clock.
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Big Cat
Correct.
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Memes
Like kicking it, try to kick it through the end zone and then have the head coach of the other team actually giving on the field coaching be like, yes, I approve of this return. Please run it out. That was a mistake by Ben Johnson. J.J. mcCarthy. Gamer, dude is that number one gamer that we got right now.
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Big Cat
I was super impressed with JJ McCarthy. I know the pick 6 was really really bad because it was, it was probably like the easiest pick six ever. But he was in absolute torture in the first half. He looked like the moment was way too big for him. And the way he bounced back and the way he played in that fourth quarter, that was also the painful part is the Vikings have a guy like I saw it with my two eyes and I was like this, this is what a quarterback, a winning quarterback kind of looks like. And yeah, he's still a rookie, so there'll be some ups and downs. But if you're a Vikings fan, you have to be pumped with what you saw in that fourth quarter, especially how the first half way.
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Memes
Is JJ McCarthy. Is he eligible for Rookie of the Year like in the NBA? I don't know in your second year if you don't play.
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Big Cat
I'm not sure.
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Memes
We got to get to the bottom of that. But yeah, he is. I think he's become the number one gamer now in the NFL. It's like, well, yeah, as bad as things can look. So he's just going to figure out a way to win.
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Big Cat
He's lost three football games in his life. Yeah. Since high school.
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Memes
So going back to. He didn't he lose. How many did he lose in college?
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Big Cat
He lost one or two. I think two. I think two. Or maybe only one.
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Memes
So it was, it was interesting to watch him after the game because his teammates were more fired up than he was with him. Yeah, they were like so happy for him.
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Big Cat
Yeah, he lost one. He lost one in college. He lost to Michigan, I believe his sophomore year. Shit. Kicked out of by Georgia or. Sorry. Yeah, he, they beat Ohio State. Yeah, the Georgia game down in Florida. So yeah, he's lost three games total as a starter. He's. Yeah, I. And the Vikings. The only, the only silver lining I have for how, how bad that Bears game went is that the Vikings might be really good. They remember this is a 14 win team from last year starting a rookie quarterback. Their roster is very, very good and you could see when they could start to run the ball and lean on him with Jordan Mason and Aaron Jones, like everything kind of opened up for J.J. so yeah, they're. The Vikings are good, the Bears are bad. The Bears are going to get their asses kicked by the Lions in a get right game in week two. And I don't know where, I don't know what they do. Like it has to look better soon, sooner than later with Caleb. Otherwise I don't know what you do.
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Memes
I had a very mean dream last night. Big cat okay, Very mean dream. It was like the troll brain was activated while I was asleep. I dreamt that in a surprise to you, we had Ryan Whitney on to preview the nf. The NHL today. And that you destroyed the studio.
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Big Cat
Yeah.
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Memes
You like lit the studio on fire.
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Big Cat
He's wit's. Listen, Wit is well within his right to dance on my grave right now.
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Memes
He.
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Big Cat
I texted him last night. I was like, I give up. You win. Connor McDavid is going to win a Stanley Cup. And he's like, yeah, but he's going to do it somewhere besides Edmonton because you ran him out of Edmonton. I was like, yeah, you're right. I did. I did do that. But no, Whit. Whit has every right to shit on me.
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Memes
I do have a question about Caleb and his. His attire. People were shitting on the long gray shirt last night. What are your thoughts? I have a thought.
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Big Cat
I have. My only thought is I need him to be better at football.
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Memes
Yeah, that's an appropriate. Hank, what are your thoughts? You're. You're the fashion guy.
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Hank
It was gross. It was a. It was very pft esque. It looked like he just kind of.
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Joe Buck
Oh, wow.
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Hank
Got dressed in the dark and shot.
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Memes
Yeah, because I wasn't.
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Big Cat
He was.
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Joe Buck
There was.
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Memes
There was no.
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Hank
There was no.
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Big Cat
Yeah.
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Hank
There was no thought on his. His swagger or his look. It was like he was wearing his pre game shirt and just threw his jersey on over it.
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Memes
I saw Caleb and I was like, I, like, good, feel good. I like that look for him because it tells me that he doesn't give a. What he looks. That's a bad thing. As a quarterback, I want you to just go out there and just be focused on football.
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Hank
But then he does the painting, his nails, which means he clearly cares about, you know, he cares about his. His fashion and stuff. He does. He dressed. He's considers himself, I think, a fashionable, dressy guy.
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Memes
Dressy? Like he does wear dresses? Yes.
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Hank
And like fashion. Like he, He.
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Big Cat
He's.
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Hank
It's not like he shows up just wearing like jeans and a T shirt every game.
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Memes
Right? I don't know. I. I saw it. I was like, I kind of like the fact that he might not give a fuck what people say about how he looks.
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Big Cat
He's not good right now. Don't. Doesn't matter. He could wear nothing. He's just not good. Like, I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna sugarcoat it. I'm not gonna be like, oh, I saw a little bit that first drive. No, he's gotta Be better. You're the first overall pick. You have to be better. And I'll. My. I want to say this. I think I was at a 0% bayant meter going into the game. It's not crazy, but it's like maybe a 2% right now.
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Memes
You're thinking about it.
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Big Cat
It's a 2% pageant meter. The Beijing meter woke up. It was like, whoa, this thing is going on. Yeah. Look at this.
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Hank
Yeah, but you gotta think with a coach like Ben Johnson, he can find a way to make like, if there's anyone that's going to be able to mask his flaws and, and make it work. The one thing that, that Troy Aikman kept saying, which is true, is like they. With Ben Johnson and Jared Goff, like, they were not throwing the ball deep. They were just getting the ball to their skill players and getting him in space. And he was missing those throws. Like there was a couple of them where he was just, you know, throwing screens behind the line of scrimmage and they were bad throws and they couldn't even get going.
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Big Cat
And hospital passes like D.J. more. Poor D.J. moore. I. He's. The fact that he came back in the game after that collision. There was that, that moment. There was just a car crash. Yeah, yeah, it's, it's. It was, it was even some of.
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Memes
His biggest plays were kind of like, put your guys in harm's way.
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Big Cat
Yeah. And a lot of his biggest plays were scrambles, which was nice. But what. Again, you have to be able to throw the ball. So. Yeah, I. It's. I guess the. Again, the, the two silver linings I have going is the Vikings might be really good. And I didn't get. I. So I did on the stretch with the guys that went through the entire schedule and my official prediction was seven wins. It's probably more like five now maybe. But I wasn't like, I was going into this season being like, this is a 10, 11 win team that's going to go to the playoffs. So at least.
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Hank
What were you thinking in the first or second quarter?
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Big Cat
I actually, no, I'm being totally honest. Like, first. First drive was awesome, but it was so quickly, like not good. You know what I mean? Like, it wasn't like the Bears. The Bears with competent quarterback play should have won that game by double digits because the way they had the Vikings reeling in the first half, they just didn't capitalize. And so I was very quickly like, hey, that first drive was cool, but we're not moving the ball at all now. And yeah, there Was the one, the Darnell Wright hold that wasn't a hold. Could have maybe changed. Cause that was a big play. That was a play that essentially went from, it would have been first in 10 on like the 18 to whatever it was second or third and 20 and then Cairo misses the field goal. That was a pretty big fuck up in terms of the call. But you can't blame a ref for a game where you have a lead at home and you give up 21 points in the fourth quarter and your offense can't do dick.
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Memes
Yeah, the defense was, was pretty bad, especially against the deep balls to Justin Jefferson and los. The losing the running back on like a stutter route. I don't put that in the linebacker. That's just, that's a good play call.
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Big Cat
Yeah, we did have some guys out in injury, but it doesn't matter. It's like you can't make excuses. The, the end of the, at the end of the day, if Caleb plays, I don't know, 25% better, they probably win the game. Like that's, and he didn't play well. So that's just the, that's the reality of it. You got to just be truthful about it. Like that's the reality of it. It's year two and I, I would like to see Ben Johnson have a little bit more confidence too because that the clock was kind of a up at the end, the penalties were a mess, but hopefully he figures it out. I, I, I have all my trust in Ben Johnson. That's kind of all, all my eggs are in the Ben Johnson basket.
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Memes
And I've got J.J. mcCarthy on Tebow watch. He feels like, he feels like early, early stages Tebow where it's like things, things go poorly for him. But guess what? He's going to figure out a way to win and he's going to drive people insane watching because he'll be like, this guy stinks. Oh wait, this guy's actually really good.
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Big Cat
Yeah.
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Max
We also have some cleanup on that college stat. He TCU was his only loss as a starter, but he also had two losses his freshman year.
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Big Cat
Played, but he played.
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Max
He split both of those games. He didn't technically start.
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Joe Buck
Okay.
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Big Cat
But he played.
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Max
But he played in all of those games.
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Big Cat
That was some good cleanup. Yeah.
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Memes
And then going back to high school, he just kicked the shit out of everybody.
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Max
Yeah, but everyone kicks the shit out of everybody in high school. Everyone says that about like Trevor Lawrence.
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Big Cat
Yes. Did you guys see the tweet yesterday of like there was like how often are Max and memes in your ear while you're recording pmt. That was weird.
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Max
The amount of times I say stupid just to the normal microphone. Why would I be in your ear?
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Big Cat
Someone thought we PSA wear earpieces and, like, you guys, like, give us lines to say.
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Memes
What lines would they give us? This show?
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Big Cat
The beauty of this show is it's all out.
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Hank
Talking heads.
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Big Cat
Yeah, we're. It's all out there. All the stupidity that we. That we just put into your head every single morning. It's. It's there.
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Memes
We're just beautiful people. Hank's right. We're beautiful people that just sit behind a desk. Max and memes write the whole show. We're industry plan puppets.
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Big Cat
Yeah.
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Memes
They wanted. They wanted two beautiful faces to deliver the sports news to you, so they chose us.
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Big Cat
All right, so just to wrap up, I would say blame pie. 90% Caleb, 9% Ben Johnson, and 1% Kyra Santos. No.
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Hank
Was that actually.
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Big Cat
No. Yeah, you're right. So 80% Caleb, 10% Cairo, 9% Ben Johnson, 1%.
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Memes
Say memes. Just blame it on memes.
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Big Cat
Anyone want to talk here? Anyone want to talk? Anyone want to talk? Ben Johnson should get more blame, right? Yeah. How bad.
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Hank
How bad do you think that challenge was?
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Big Cat
I still don't really understand. I feel like he punched the ball out.
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Memes
Well, his knee was down.
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Big Cat
I know, but it. No, but he didn't get touched.
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Memes
Let's watch the replay.
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Big Cat
Still don't really understand that play.
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Max
There was a couple. There was a couple of penalties that were weird.
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Big Cat
Yeah. I still don't understand that play. He punched the ball before he got touched. I think.
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Memes
1% Joe Buck.
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Big Cat
Yeah.
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Hank
No, the ball is part of your body.
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Big Cat
I don't know. I thought maybe coach or no. Yeah, coach. You know, Anyone else want to take a percent? You think Ben Johnson to get more memes? Yeah, he's like, he was the fourth down guy and the Lions, like, go for it more.
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Memes
Who cares? Just like I do.
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Big Cat
All right, so, yeah, I put a little bit more because I do think that Ben Johnson did the thing. You have to coach the team. You have. You don't have the Lions anymore. Probably should have just taken the three to start the game when they went for it on 4th and 3. And then if you're going to go on a 4th and 3 the first time, go for it the second time. Be consistent. Like, consistency is what we always talk about. Where if you're going to be aggressive, be aggressive all the time because eventually it will work out or be the take the points guy, I kind of lean towards this team and the way they're built. Probably just take the points because, you know, you have a limited quarterback, so maybe a little bit more on Ben Johnson. But is there anyone who wants to take 1% here?
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Zach
I. I'll take a 1%.
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Hank
Sure.
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Big Cat
Wow. Okay. Why?
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Zach
Because there wasn't adequate enough. There was an adequate soft serve for you for Monday Night Football for the Bears Vikings game, and that's on me.
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Big Cat
So at halftime, it's going well. Not great, but it's going well. Went to get my ice cream. Ice cream machine was off Monday Football First Week 1.
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Memes
What happened?
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Big Cat
Bears.
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Zach
Ice cream machine wasn't on in fully stocked. That's 100. What happened? And they went to get ice cream for halftime. There was an ice cream.
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Big Cat
What happened, though?
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Memes
Why was it off?
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Zach
It wasn't stuck.
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Big Cat
It like.
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Zach
So there's, like, levels to the. The mixer you put in there. And then it'll.
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Big Cat
It'll.
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Zach
When we leave. When we leave. Okay, let me. Let me get this down. When we leave in at nighttime, we flip it to where it goes into standby mode to keep the mix food safe.
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Memes
Mm.
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Zach
When it goes into standby mode, it can also be ran because it has. It throws the snowflakes on to keep it food safe. So you can pull ice cream from the machine through the night if you would like ice cream. But it was. It was in double do not. It went into do not draw, which is the. The handle. So then you couldn't. You couldn't. You couldn't even draw ice cream.
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Big Cat
Do not draw. So I went at halftime to go get my ice cream, and I saw do not draw.
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Memes
Zach.
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Big Cat
Deplorable. I actually put zero percent blame on you, Zach. I feel bad for the cream team because I did text him. I was like, hey, what's the deal with the ice cream? They're like, we fucked up.
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Max
Zach's not the only member of the cream team either.
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Big Cat
It's Jacob as well, and Owen. And they just kept apologizing on text, and I kept on being like, it's not your guy's fault. The. The Bears. The ice cream has nothing to do with the Bears sucking and Caleb Williams not being good at quarterback.
- [24:04]
Memes
What about the field? Can you blame the field? Why did soldier. Why does Soldier Field do this?
- [24:08]
Hank
Because that was gonna be my hot tip.
- [24:10]
Big Cat
Yeah, because the city owns the fucking stadium and the park district owns a stadium, and they. They do six concerts a week before the first. First game every single year. And this is why they're moving to Arlington Heights. It's a joke. Yeah. It's an absolute joke.
- [24:28]
Hank
I was going to take 1%. I was on. I was on the field for Oasis.
- [24:31]
Big Cat
Yeah. So that's your fault. Yeah. Yeah. Your weight did that.
- [24:34]
Memes
The good news is that I'm sure that great show, the international rugby game between the New Zealand All Blacks in Ireland that's taking place, I believe, on a Saturday isn't going to have any effect on Soldier Field.
- [24:44]
Big Cat
They do this every single year where right before the season starts, like, hey, let's just. It was like seven concerts in like two weeks.
- [24:51]
Memes
I'll say one nice thing. One very nice thing. They had the best national anthem maybe I've ever seen last night.
- [24:57]
Big Cat
Jim Cornelson is.
- [24:58]
Memes
It was a legend. Absolutely incredible. From the second he opened his mouth.
- [25:01]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [25:02]
Memes
The very first. Oh, I was sucked in. And then the F35 flyover was very nice.
- [25:06]
Big Cat
You know what I said on Sunday, like, you know, like, if you're a Dolphins fan, it's never bad that the number of to his cap is being floated around week one. The sign for the Bears is I turned to Eddie in the fourth quarter. I was like, how many standalone games do we have still? And he was like. I was like, can. Can we flex? And we cannot flex. I think any of them.
- [25:28]
Memes
How many do you have?
- [25:30]
Big Cat
Three more non flexible. That's not as bad as last year. Actually.
- [25:33]
Memes
You had four.
- [25:34]
Big Cat
Four more every week.
- [25:35]
Memes
It was like, more Bears. Get ready, America.
- [25:37]
Big Cat
There's four more. One of them is flexible. So Commanders Monday Night Football, which that actually. Okay. Because it's a double header.
- [25:46]
Memes
Yeah.
- [25:46]
Big Cat
So people can watch something else. And then Eagles, Black Friday, packers on a Saturday. And then the 49ers Sunday Night Football, which will undoubtedly be flexed.
- [25:59]
Memes
I think you're being very, very down about the Bears because you just saw them. It was on national tv. If this happened in the middle of a Sunday, if this happened 1pm Sunday, you'd be down, but I don't think you'd be like, caleb sucks. Ben Johnson sucks.
- [26:14]
Big Cat
I don't think I'm being down. I think I'm being realistic. Caleb does not look better. He looked bad. That's just a fact. I have to say it. Otherwise I'm just fooling myself. He looked bad. I hope he gets good, but he looked bad. And that's a game that. Don't you agree that that's a game with a. With an adequate quarterback play?
- [26:34]
Memes
Yeah.
- [26:34]
Big Cat
You win that game.
- [26:35]
Memes
I agree. I think he was a big part of the reason Why I lost. But I also think that knowing you, it was like you had. You had Monday Night Football. It was week one. So it's like all the pressure in the world. You're like. You spend the entire week thinking all week, what if we suck ass in prime time again? And then people just keep talking to me about how Caleb Williams sucks. And that's what you're going through right now, and that's okay. Feelings are never wrong, Big Cat.
- [26:56]
Big Cat
No, but I'm not.
- [26:58]
Memes
But I also think that if you look at it from a bigger perspective, it's not as bad as you say.
- [27:04]
Big Cat
It is, but it's not. When people say now that Caleb is bad, it doesn't hurt me anymore. It hurt me last year because I was hoping that there was going to be, you know, I was like, oh, the coaching staff. Oh, this, that. You can't argue against that right now. From what we've seen in the NFL from him. He is not. He is. He doesn't see it. It's not there.
- [27:24]
Memes
You can get treatment for dyslexia if that's what it is.
- [27:27]
Big Cat
That's HIPAA.
- [27:27]
Memes
That's why JJ's. I did say it was him, but that's why JJ's parents were. Were so brilliant. It doesn't matter if he's got dyslexia, he can still spell his name.
- [27:35]
Big Cat
That's hip. And you should be arrested. That's hipaa. That's hipaa. Any other cleanup from the NFL? It was a fun Sunday.
- [27:43]
Memes
It was a fun Sunday.
- [27:45]
Big Cat
Anything else?
- [27:46]
Max
You could still. You could win next week.
- [27:47]
Memes
Oh, Howie's back.
- [27:48]
Big Cat
I think that's just such a. That's such a Detroit Lions get right spot.
- [27:53]
Max
But like, the. What does that even mean? You can't have a get right spot to start the seat. It's a whole new team.
- [28:00]
Big Cat
Well, no, it's not a whole new team, but it is.
- [28:02]
Max
It's a whole. Every year is a new team. Every year is a new team with new coach. You don't know what the Lions are this year. Yeah, like, you guys played a very good Vikings team to the end. They got the shit kicked out of them by a very good packers team. It's. You have no idea.
- [28:17]
Memes
If this happened. If this happened at 1:00pm I. I think Big Cat would be down, but I don't think he'd be like, oh, but suck again.
- [28:24]
Big Cat
But hold on. I don't know. Thank you, Hank. It's not that the Bears lost. Caleb does not look any better. That's the problem. A Lot of coachable moments in this game. It's almost better to lose week one. Tell me, but do you guys tell.
- [28:41]
Memes
Me about the coachable moments?
- [28:42]
Big Cat
It has nothing to do with the actual outcome of the game. It's like, if they had lost and Caleb looked awesome, I would not be sitting here being like, damn, the Bears suck. They. They're going to lose every game. They stink. They can't win a game. It's the fact that he did not look any better.
- [28:56]
Memes
They're like, last year, they're like three or four throws that he had that. If you watch the Manning cast, Peyton Manning's face afterwards tells you everything you need to know.
- [29:04]
Big Cat
That's my point. Like, oh, and that's the kind of. That's kind of what we had going into this season is like, everything is there for him. If he gets better, the Bears could be a decent team. If he doesn't get better, they will not be good. I did not see him get any better. Hopefully he gets. Maybe next week. It's totally different. I'll obviously rally the troops and be like, yeah, let's go. But as of right now, you can't make a statement otherwise. You can't be like, he's going to get better.
- [29:29]
Memes
I also think that fair. I think that Dan Campbell is maybe the most dangerous guy when it comes to a revenge game.
- [29:34]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [29:35]
Memes
It feels like this might be a revenge game.
- [29:36]
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah. How he is up to it again.
- [29:40]
Memes
How he. He did it again. Max. Howie. Wait, is this a good Howie or a bad Howie? It's.
- [29:46]
Max
This is an, I guess Howie.
- [29:48]
Big Cat
Oh.
- [29:49]
Memes
Oh. Like Howie was bored.
- [29:50]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [29:52]
Memes
Okay.
- [29:52]
Max
I feel like that. That was going to be your take.
- [29:54]
Memes
Yeah.
- [29:55]
Hank
Howie, question mark.
- [29:56]
Memes
It's like fucking Howie. Somebody. Somebody distract Howie because he's going to keep trading.
- [30:00]
Big Cat
He just needs another running back. He just got. Yeah, he was just like, I. I got to do something with my hands.
- [30:05]
Max
Yeah, that's what. That's what it feels like.
- [30:07]
Memes
Is he addicted to trades?
- [30:09]
Max
I don't know. There was a lot of things that. That you could have seen that you need improvement from in week one. I didn't. I didn't see running back on that list.
- [30:18]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [30:19]
Memes
What was the logic behind it?
- [30:20]
Max
I don't know. But, I mean, he's a good player. I think.
- [30:24]
Memes
I think what happens is Tank Bigsby, by the way.
- [30:26]
Max
Yeah, Tank Bigsby is a good player. I think what happens is there are teams out there that are like, okay, I want to move on from this player and how he doesn't give a Fuck about what he needs. He looks at that and is like, is this a good player? Yes or no? If it's a good player, I will go try and make that trade whether I need that position or not. Which I guess is what you want from your gm.
- [30:46]
Big Cat
Like you.
- [30:48]
Max
You want to see Val. Like, he thinks that Tank Bigsby is more valuable than what the Jags were asking for. So he went and got him whether the Eagles need. Need him or not.
- [30:56]
Memes
It was like a buy low opportunity for him where it's like, Tank Bigsby might have lost the running back competition. So his stock is pretty low right now. But that doesn't mean that he's a bad player.
- [31:05]
Max
Right. Also, great name, awesome name, first team, all name.
- [31:10]
Big Cat
That name bumps him up big time in terms of, like, excitement for the trade. Yeah. Tank Bigsby, you can win with that.
- [31:17]
Max
But, like, how many more wins is Tank Bigsby going to give the Eagles?
- [31:20]
Big Cat
Probably like one and a half.
- [31:21]
Max
I guess there will be. Gets hurt. Like, it's.
- [31:25]
Memes
Maybe he's the new. Who's the guy? Boston Scott. Was that the guy that just killed the Giants?
- [31:29]
Max
Yep, that was maybe.
- [31:30]
Memes
Maybe Tank Bigsby is just going to have awesome games against the Giants this year.
- [31:34]
Max
I want to say that we could be the Giants regardless.
- [31:38]
Big Cat
Yeah, I'd say so. Although Jackson Dart might be the starter.
- [31:42]
Memes
No, I think. Didn't Dable come out yesterday? He said we're sticking with Russ.
- [31:46]
Big Cat
Oh, he did?
- [31:47]
Memes
Yeah, I think he said Russ is going to be the starter this week.
- [31:49]
Big Cat
Okay. So he's going to. Jackson Dart will be the starter soon. Yeah. I still think two and you already are proclaiming a starter.
- [31:55]
Memes
I feel like it's going to be right after that Chiefs game. Was that Chargers at home?
- [32:00]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [32:00]
Memes
Yeah, that's. That's what I've got. Circle. But yeah, if. If you're taking two days to announce your starter in week two, that means that that guy's not gonna be your starter much longer.
- [32:09]
Big Cat
Yeah. Okay. What else we got? Anything? Hank, how you feeling? Good. You love football.
- [32:17]
Memes
Last time was fun.
- [32:18]
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah.
- [32:18]
Memes
These are the hardest days to get through the Tuesdays and the Wednesdays.
- [32:22]
Big Cat
Yeah. Without Maxion. Yeah. It's very difficult. It just feels like there's. I'm gonna go home tonight and just be like, wait, where's the football? Yeah, where's the football?
- [32:32]
Memes
I might rewatch. I might. I might grind small 22.
- [32:35]
Big Cat
Are you feeling nervous, excited for Thursday night?
- [32:39]
Memes
I. I just. Again, since it's a short week, I think that the packers need to do the right thing by their players and rest. Micah Parsons, like Thursday night football is dangerous injury report. He was. He's got an injured right wrist, which is coincidentally what I get after I watch Jen Daniels film.
- [32:52]
Big Cat
Also, his mom doesn't let him date girls.
- [32:55]
Memes
Well, no, that's not true, so. That's not true, big cat. That's not true. That's fake news. That was a quote that was taken from when he was in college. Still got it. He's cleared for girls.
- [33:05]
Big Cat
Oh, he is. Yeah.
- [33:06]
Memes
He's. Yeah. System's hot.
- [33:08]
Big Cat
Is his. Is his right wrist okay?
- [33:11]
Memes
His right wrist is fine. My understanding is it's fine. It's just a boo boo.
- [33:16]
Big Cat
Just a boo boo.
- [33:17]
Memes
He's got a boo boo.
- [33:17]
Big Cat
He's got a little.
- [33:18]
Memes
And he'll be okay.
- [33:19]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [33:19]
Memes
Yeah. I'm a little bit nervous about the Packers.
- [33:22]
Big Cat
A good game.
- [33:22]
Memes
I'll be honest. Packers are a great team. They looked awesome in week one. We didn't look. We looked good. We didn't look awesome.
- [33:29]
Big Cat
Just a little labu boo. All right, let's. Let's talk some college football. Before we do that, let's talk about game time. Can you look up that game, see what the prices are for the commanders and Packers?
- [33:39]
Memes
Also, speaking of. Of injuries, this would be a good time to break out. So there's been. There's been an uptick in dogs. Breaking news on Twitter recently. Shout out. Ricky Scoops. He nailed the Micah Parsons news. This was kind of Leroy's thing. He retired from the game when he died, but I think I'm. I'm training Blake to become an injury expert because he's had three surgeries so far, so he's pretty much an expert on anything related to. To joint problems. So pro football dog is something I'm considering deploying with Blake. He wants to start breaking news, so he might have to dive into Jaden Daniel's wrist and he'll let you know what he thinks.
- [34:15]
Big Cat
Okay. Yeah, that was good. He could maybe get on the McCaffrey beat. Yeah. The Niners are just injured again.
- [34:21]
Memes
They are.
- [34:22]
Big Cat
It'll sound for a while. They.
- [34:23]
Memes
They. The Niners have, like, surprise injuries.
- [34:25]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [34:26]
Memes
That you don't hear about during the game. And then afterwards it's like, oh, yeah, this guy's hurt, too. Yeah, McCaffrey's hurt. Trent Williams got bumped out of the game. And then Kittle with a hamstring feel like. That's. That's one where it's really, really annoying. If you're George Kittle.
- [34:40]
Big Cat
Purdy also hurt Purdy also.
- [34:42]
Memes
Purdy's hurt.
- [34:42]
Big Cat
Yeah, he's on the list.
- [34:43]
Memes
That's right. So Mac Jones might have to start, right?
- [34:45]
Big Cat
Oh.
- [34:46]
Memes
Oh, God.
- [34:46]
Big Cat
Oh, dear. Oh, boy.
- [34:48]
Memes
The NFL sucks.
- [34:50]
Big Cat
Yeah, that's early for the Niners to have this.
- [34:52]
Memes
Yeah, it's like having a beer before noon. It's like. It's a little early in the season to have max.
- [34:57]
Big Cat
Yeah, it's week two to have these guys. Okay, game time. The NFL's back. Tailgates pack stands the buzz before kickoff. But getting in nightmare cues. Price jumps, getting logged out mid click. All you want is to be there. Beer in hand, losing your voice with the crowd. The Game Time app gives the advantage back to fans. The hack for unlocking amazing tickets and experiences in a few taps. It's incredibly easy to use in the gametime guarantee. Means you can Trust you'll get 100% authentic tickets on time at the. At the best price. Plus fees are always included. So what you see is what you pay. Looking at tickets for Packers Commanders.
- [35:33]
Hank
Yes, Packers Commanders. Thursday Night Football. You can get into Lambo for $156.
- [35:39]
Big Cat
Okay, Cathedral, so take the guess we got to buying NFL tickets with game time. Download the Game time app, create an use code PMT for $20 off. First purchase terms apply again, create an account redeem code PMT for $20 off. Swipe, tap ticket. Go download the game time app today. Okay. College football. By the way, speaking of college football, quickly, our good friend Todd McShay is doing a live show tonight. Wednesday, tonight, 7:00 clock at the Lincoln hall on Lincoln in Lincoln Park. I am going to be his guest. So you can still buy a few tickets. There's a few tickets still left there if you want to come out, see us, talk some ball. Go buy those tickets at Lincoln hall tonight, 7:00 Eastern. Me or sorry, Central. Me and Todd McShay. Todd, Todd, Todd. College football. USF is the best team in the country. Resume debate.
- [36:36]
Hank
Me, us.
- [36:38]
Memes
Usf.
- [36:39]
Big Cat
Usf. As I said, usf.
- [36:42]
Memes
I thought you said usc.
- [36:42]
Hank
You said us.
- [36:43]
Big Cat
Oh, I said. Yeah, I thought I said usf.
- [36:45]
Memes
I think usa, because I was. I actually thought of the same thing. They do have usf. Are they the only team that's beaten two ranked opponents?
- [36:52]
Big Cat
I believe so.
- [36:53]
Memes
So they beat Boise State and then they beat Florida. I think they're. I think you can make the case they should be ranked higher. Top 10.
- [37:02]
Big Cat
Yeah. The Florida win was. Billy Napier is. I mean, he's just dead. He's just gone.
- [37:09]
Memes
Does America have a spitting Problem.
- [37:11]
Big Cat
It does.
- [37:12]
Memes
I think we need to learn how to keep our spit to ourselves.
- [37:15]
Big Cat
It is crazy for it to be Thursday Night Football. Jalen Carter spits on Dak Prescott. You don't think that every single coach in America on that Friday morning was like, hey, guys, you see that? Don't fucking do that. Yeah. And then they did that. What?
- [37:31]
Max
You didn't tell the whole story right there.
- [37:33]
Big Cat
What do you.
- [37:33]
Max
Well, Dak Prescott was really is the first one who started this.
- [37:36]
Memes
Okay, so we had two spits. Yeah.
- [37:38]
Hank
Well, you're allowed to spit on the ground.
- [37:39]
Big Cat
You are allowed to spit on the.
- [37:41]
Max
Ground, not in someone else's direction.
- [37:42]
Memes
According to Dak Prescott, he spat on the ground because he spits a lot during.
- [37:46]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [37:47]
Max
And then he just immediately.
- [37:48]
Memes
Jalen Carter happened to be standing right in front of him at a scheduled spit time for Dak Prescott. So what do you want him to do?
- [37:54]
Max
Followed by a last spit.
- [37:56]
Memes
A.
- [37:56]
Max
A maniacal laugh right into Jalen Carter's face.
- [37:59]
Joe Buck
That.
- [37:59]
Max
That just happened to be.
- [38:00]
Memes
Oh, is there a penalty for laughing? For having a good time.
- [38:05]
Max
Would lead the league?
- [38:06]
Memes
Yeah, that's true. That's true. Did you see after the game. So I. My take on Jaden for the last year has been that he jokes and he talks to the other players so much so that they don't hit him extra hard if they've, like, got him in the grasp and throw him on the ground. And it worked twice on Sunday against Brian Burns. And then after the game, Brian Burns is like, he's too friendly during games. I don't like that. Talk to me after the game. I think he's trying to, like, become friends with me, and I think it does work. But yes, Dak Prescott, Max, he happened to spit when Jalen Carter was standing right in front of him. That's true.
- [38:38]
Big Cat
Either way, now we've got three spits. Yeah. If you're a coach, you got to tell everyone, hey, don't spit Florida, then spit. Billy Napier is all but out. And USF and Alice Golish, who's an awesome coach, he was at Tennessee before this. He was, like, kind of the. The. Not the guy, but, like, everyone's like, he's one of the important pieces of Tennessee. And Hypo and Byron Brown, they're awesome. And they have another game against Miami this weekend. I mean, if they win this one, it's that. I don't even know, but they can lose this one. And they're. They're still the front runner to get into the College Football Playoff with Those.
- [39:16]
Memes
Two, if they, if they beat Miami, they should be ranked number one.
- [39:20]
Big Cat
Yeah, they're another. There's 60 and a half point dogs again.
- [39:23]
Memes
Yeah. And they got a Gratica.
- [39:26]
Big Cat
Speaking of G5PFT, we all were rooting for you hard on Friday night.
- [39:30]
Memes
I thought we were going to talk about the Bills and the Ravens again.
- [39:32]
Big Cat
We can talk about the Bills and Ravens.
- [39:34]
Memes
That was a crazy fourth quarter. Like the first half, the Ravens just dominant with their run game. Didn't look like they could be stopped. Second half, I don't know what happens.
- [39:42]
Big Cat
I'd say fire Harbaugh 251 yards for Josh Allen in the fourth quarter.
- [39:46]
Memes
Unstoppable.
- [39:47]
Big Cat
Unstoppable. But yeah, we were rooting hard for you on Friday night. JMU against Louisville because it was a, it was a gateway game. If you win that game.
- [39:54]
Memes
Yeah, there's a path.
- [39:55]
Big Cat
There's a big path. There still is. It is a small path.
- [39:57]
Memes
It's like a little, little stream that you can swim in and hope it gets to a big river. But yeah, it's. It was a good first half for the Dukes. Second half, everything went to complete. Louisville had some big plays and they were just a better team.
- [40:09]
Big Cat
How do you feel about the 2 quarterback system? I don't love it.
- [40:13]
Memes
I think if you've got two quarterbacks, you've got two.
- [40:15]
Big Cat
Okay.
- [40:16]
Memes
Because they both. Ironically, Sluka is the better runner.
- [40:20]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [40:20]
Memes
And then when Barnett's in, you're like, oh, it's going to be a pass.
- [40:22]
Big Cat
Why is that ironic?
- [40:24]
Memes
Because Sluk is younger.
- [40:26]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [40:26]
Joe Buck
Okay.
- [40:27]
Big Cat
Yeah, yeah.
- [40:28]
Memes
No, but that, that might. With the defense coordinator a little bit. They're like, oh, the white guy's in. Oh, he's running. What's going on? Yeah, I don't mind it because, like, listen, you're a, you're like a. In the second tier of college football if you're in the group of five. So, yeah, good teams have two quarterbacks a lot. And also it probably makes it less likely that one of those guys are going to transfer after the season's over because they won't be seen as being the guy. Unlike what we see. Like out. Was it Cal, Cal's quarterback? Yeah, that's probably going to be leaving, but yeah, it was, it was a good first half. Yeah, it got my hopes up. I blame myself a little bit. Number one, I scheduled a dinner on a Friday night like three months ago and I did not realize because it's Friday night, I'm like, oh, I'm avoiding college football. I'm avoiding NFL. At the time I scheduled it, I forgot that it was both colle football and NFL. So I was at dinner for the first half checking in on the highlights.
- [41:23]
Big Cat
Inexcusable.
- [41:24]
Memes
Inexcusable. But we got a lead.
- [41:26]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [41:26]
Memes
And so then I was like, do I just stay at this dinner?
- [41:29]
Big Cat
I, I. We were texting on the group text. I was like, you have to eat another dinner.
- [41:32]
Memes
I tried to order extra dessert, and nobody at the table wanted dessert. I was like, should we just not go anywhere? And then I. You know what? Does anybody else here want to take any sort of blame for J's loss? Anyone else?
- [41:44]
Big Cat
Anyone else?
- [41:44]
Memes
Anyone?
- [41:45]
Big Cat
Zach?
- [41:47]
Zach
I'm in for 1%.
- [41:48]
Memes
No.
- [41:49]
Big Cat
No.
- [41:50]
Memes
It's a bad Zach. Not you, Zach. You had nothing to do with it.
- [41:53]
Hank
I'll double.
- [41:53]
Big Cat
I like Zach just taking 1% of blame for everything.
- [41:56]
Memes
Zach apologized for taking the blame.
- [41:59]
Zach
I can give it back.
- [42:00]
Big Cat
Okay. Okay.
- [42:00]
Memes
Anyone else?
- [42:02]
Max
Is it me?
- [42:03]
Memes
Yeah. Max.
- [42:04]
Big Cat
Mm.
- [42:04]
Memes
What did I do? I watched the second half with you.
- [42:07]
Big Cat
I. Okay.
- [42:09]
Max
You chose to come to the bar.
- [42:10]
Memes
Yeah, but you were there.
- [42:13]
Max
I don't understand how this has anything.
- [42:15]
Memes
I said 1%.
- [42:17]
Max
I'm not allowed to root on. I. I was betting on JMU with you. I know, but I bet on JMU like, five times Friday night, so it.
- [42:23]
Memes
Sounds like you had a lot to do with this.
- [42:26]
Max
Oh, this is crazy.
- [42:27]
Memes
You bet on them. You bet on it more than I did.
- [42:29]
Max
Would you prefer to me to bet against them?
- [42:31]
Memes
Sometimes.
- [42:34]
Hank
Can't exist.
- [42:35]
Memes
Yeah, this is a.
- [42:35]
Big Cat
Can exist.
- [42:36]
Max
This is a big time can exist.
- [42:37]
Memes
This is very clearly me just looking for somebody else to.
- [42:39]
Max
All right, true. I'll take. I'll take 2%.
- [42:41]
Big Cat
There it is.
- [42:42]
Memes
2%. I'll take one.
- [42:43]
Big Cat
Gotta be a fall guy.
- [42:44]
Memes
I need a fall guy. No, it was. It was a bad second half, and, I mean, there is still a path there. We're gonna need some help, but, I mean, we haven't even started conference play yet.
- [42:52]
Big Cat
Yeah. Mississippi State. Awesome win against Arizona State. That was a crazy, crazy ending. That guy is so fast for Mississippi State.
- [43:00]
Memes
Yeah. Yes. Is cover zero. One of those things that. It works a lot, but we never hear about it when it does.
- [43:05]
Big Cat
Yeah. It feels like it gets a lot of blame. It's got a cover zero's got a bad PR system.
- [43:10]
Memes
It does.
- [43:11]
Big Cat
It just doesn't. Yeah, that was. That was awesome for. Though, for Mississippi State. They didn't. They haven't had a lot to celebrate, and they've already matched their two wins from last year, so. Good for Mississippi State. Happy for our guy. Brandon Walker. Felt like a big, big moment. I was in Ames, Iowa on Saturday. Awesome crowd. Those two teams don't like each other. Those two teams also play the exact same football game every single year.
- [43:36]
Memes
Yep.
- [43:37]
Big Cat
But it's Groundhog's day. I want to. So we like Gronowski because he came in here and we met him and he's very nice kid. Is it something about the Iowa uniform that just makes it like if you're.
- [43:51]
Memes
A passer, it's a combo. I think of the Iowa uniform and the last name just seems like an Iowa quarterback too, doesn't it?
- [43:58]
Big Cat
It just doesn't work. It doesn't work. It. The Iowa was supposed to be a passing team this year. They are not. It's bad.
- [44:07]
Memes
I thought that with the Steelers scoring a shitload of points that maybe Iowa football would catch that through the uniforms. Yeah, maybe they'd be lighting it up again this year. But no, the Cyhawk game. Every year it's the same thing. I bet the over just thinking it was going to be different. That was dumb. Yeah, I'm an idiot for doing that. I'll never do that again until next year. But yeah, it was. It was not a great football game. But they. You're right, they do. I don't think that there's two fan bases that actually hate each other. Like literally hate more than Iowa and Iowa State. I think like Ohio State. Michigan is close, but I'm talking about like just mean like very dirty. They do hate each other. They hate each other, especially for that one week.
- [44:44]
Big Cat
They hate each other a lot. It's just the classic like the school, the state school that everyone knows and recognizes with the state and then the other one and Iowa State being the other one, which was an awesome campus. And I don't mean the other one, but that's the national perception where it's like you got the. It's like a Michigan, Michigan State situation. We also had. Yeah. Do you want to play this woman? This is. Kaylin Devore's got to be worried. I know the Alabama got right. They're going to probably smush the Badgers on Wednesday. On Saturday I'm fully prepared for that. But this lady is the most SEC lady ever in coming out of convenience store being asked what she would do if she won the Powerball. I tell you exactly what I'd do.
- [45:29]
Memes
With the first 70 million.
- [45:31]
Big Cat
I'd pay off Kaylin DeBoer and get.
- [45:33]
Hank
Him the heck out of the University of Alabama.
- [45:35]
Big Cat
And then I'D take whatever else it took to get rid of the ad.
- [45:39]
Memes
I give my church money.
- [45:42]
Big Cat
Caleb DeBoer's got to be worried that like any. He's got to look at the paper and be like, were there any.
- [45:47]
Memes
Yes.
- [45:47]
Big Cat
Powerball tickets winners sold in the state of Alabama.
- [45:50]
Memes
Yeah, it's weird because Texas and Missouri. Yeah, it's usually California. I think California. California gets the, like an outsized number of lottery tickets, but they don't care enough about football in California. But yeah, if it's sold in Alabama. Yeah, he's gone. Yeah, he's gone.
- [46:06]
Big Cat
I also saw that in on our. Our friend message board. Genius. He posted that their Florida fans are down so bad. They're like. One guy was like, I'll. I'll take Kayla DeBore. That's when. That's when you get to the bad part where like the SEC schools are trying to trade each other's bad coaches.
- [46:21]
Memes
Just take Urban Meyer back.
- [46:23]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [46:23]
Memes
You guys need to start cheating again.
- [46:25]
Big Cat
They want Saban. Saban is gonna. Saban could coach for.
- [46:28]
Memes
Name is price. How much do you think Alabama would pay Saban?
- [46:32]
Big Cat
A lot.
- [46:33]
Memes
Okay, let's say this lady wins the Powerball. First thing she does before she pays her church, she fires the ad. And. And the head coach, Kaylin DeBoer at out. Buys him out.
- [46:44]
Big Cat
How.
- [46:45]
Memes
What's Saban's number?
- [46:47]
Big Cat
I don't know if he has a number. Number. He's got more money than he ever needs.
- [46:50]
Memes
We do it for 100 million a year.
- [46:52]
Big Cat
I think he hates the nil and transfer portal, which is also a little. I saw that statement by him being like, the Big Ten now has all this money. It's like you were paying. The SEC was paying for years.
- [47:02]
Memes
That would be the. That'd be the funniest is if he like, let's say Penn State doesn't live up to expectations this year, fires Franklin.
- [47:11]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [47:11]
Memes
And then Saban's like, I'll coach at Penn State because the Big Ten's got all the money.
- [47:14]
Big Cat
The Big Ten's got all the money. Yeah. Let's do it. Yeah. We had Fran Brown for Syracuse with a try. Hard, hard move of the. Of the week, making his players run sprints after an overtime win over Yukon.
- [47:25]
Memes
Yeah.
- [47:26]
Big Cat
That was so late.
- [47:27]
Memes
It was. It was funny.
- [47:28]
Big Cat
That was so lame.
- [47:30]
Memes
If you're going to do sprints, you got to do. They've got to be longer than. What were they, 20 yard sprints.
- [47:34]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [47:35]
Memes
And the guys. Here's my problem. The guys weren't even sprinting no. So this is how I know it's a fake. Try hard move.
- [47:41]
Big Cat
Correct.
- [47:41]
Memes
Is because the players knew. Oh, we don't actually have to sprint. He's. This is what he's doing instead of a postgame press conference right now.
- [47:47]
Big Cat
Yeah, yeah.
- [47:47]
Memes
And also to give reporters something to ask him about so he doesn't have to answer any of his stupid coaching decisions. So if he was real about it, these guys would be running their asses off. Because a coach that would do that and mean it, they wouldn't let you leave the field until you actually sprinted.
- [48:03]
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah. You got to be puking.
- [48:05]
Memes
Yeah.
- [48:05]
Big Cat
You got to have a couple of guys puking. Also. John Mater is awesome. That Oklahoma game. I'm happy for Oklahoma fans. The way he stops and starts on a dime is so fun to watch. He has the. He has that ability where he'll at least once or twice a game stop and have a guy like go right by him. And he made some sick passes. Bryce Underwood. This is where it's weird in college football today because everyone knows how much he's getting paid. He did not have a great game. And Michigan feels like they're in a spot where there's people calling for Sharon Moore. Biff Po. Poggi, by the way, all time football guy is back. Did I just take another hot seat? Cool throne from you? Yeah, yeah. Okay. Sorry. It's fine.
- [48:50]
Hank
He's the. The all. All time interm vibes.
- [48:54]
Big Cat
Do you know what the greatest part about Biff Boji is? Like he's such a football guy. Don't know his name. He wears the cut off shirt. He was Charlotte's head coach. Do you know that He's a millionaire? Yeah. Like independently wealthy.
- [49:06]
Memes
Like, like high millionaire.
- [49:08]
Big Cat
High millionaire from. He had a hedge fund. He traded stocks made. He doesn't need to coach football. He loves football. And his name's Biff.
- [49:18]
Memes
His last name's Poggi.
- [49:19]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [49:19]
Memes
Pretty good. Washington State. Might just be that might be the number one farm system for quarterbacks in the world.
- [49:25]
Big Cat
What's that? I mean Ben Arbuckle, their OC who was there. He's now is Oklahoma's oc. He's kind of the next up. Like QB guy. Yeah.
- [49:32]
Memes
Oh, I also saw there were a couple Michigan boosters were whispering about making calls to Sharon Moore. Being like, you got to let this kid off the leash. Yeah. You got to let Bryce Underwood throw the ball more.
- [49:42]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [49:42]
Memes
So now we've got. We got millionaires telling 18 year olds how to play the game.
- [49:48]
Big Cat
Tricky.
- [49:49]
Memes
What do you think about that big cat?
- [49:50]
Big Cat
That's. That's a. That's a tough spot.
- [49:52]
Joe Buck
Where.
- [49:52]
Memes
Tough spot.
- [49:53]
Big Cat
They're just kids.
- [49:53]
Memes
As a nation. That's a tough spot.
- [49:55]
Big Cat
They're just kids.
- [49:56]
Memes
Yeah.
- [49:57]
Big Cat
Do you guys think Arch Manning is hurt? Yes.
- [50:00]
Memes
No.
- [50:01]
Big Cat
Okay.
- [50:01]
Memes
This is one of my hot seat cool throats, but we can get into it.
- [50:04]
Big Cat
Okay.
- [50:05]
Memes
I think he was just taking a.
- [50:07]
Big Cat
Okay. So that. That was what Sark said. Yeah.
- [50:09]
Joe Buck
After.
- [50:10]
Memes
I choose to believe. Sorry.
- [50:11]
Hank
What about the wincing on the throws?
- [50:12]
Memes
Yeah, he's. He's taking a. My, my. Understand if you didn't watch the clip, Arch Manning, on a couple throws, winced and made. I don't think this would qualify as a Manning face. This is like a pain face.
- [50:25]
Big Cat
It looked like he was in pain.
- [50:26]
Memes
He was in pain. And then Sark was asked about it. He says, do people take pictures of you and show your face to everybody when you're using the bathroom going number two? Because you probably make some weird faces then, too. So I think what Sark was telling us was that he himself, when he was making these passes, he had to.
- [50:43]
Big Cat
I also think there's a. Maybe a chance Sark was saying that's a writer comparison. Yeah. The writers only talk to Stark. The writers only skill is taking poops.
- [50:52]
Memes
Yeah.
- [50:53]
Big Cat
Like, Arch Control was born to throw a football. All you guys could do.
- [50:57]
Memes
Yeah, you're right. Or using that number two pencil.
- [50:59]
Big Cat
Yeah. It's like the old. Like, I don't come to your office and kick the dick out of your mouth. Yeah. Did you. So. So now this is on the message boards. The. The Sark, the Texas fans are trying to find out if he's hurt or not. So I'm gonna do a little reading. A Wednesday reading for you. This is from Texas fan Odd Guap. How's your deuce face, bro? Sark's comment about not filming reporters when they were taking a dump was really intriguing to me. I had some pluckers yesterday, including a sixer of fire in the hole. So I recorded myself dropping a deuce after the press conference. I have no shoulder issues at all and lift heavy weights five to six times per week. Was very surprised to see that my face during push phase was almost identical to the face Arch makes when throwing bad passes.
- [51:44]
Memes
Yeah, he's taking a.
- [51:45]
Hank
Like.
- [51:46]
Big Cat
It was identical, bro. Made me feel like a douche for saying Arch had a shoulder issue. Three of my bros did the same and also had deuce faces just like Arch. Anywho, do you guys know if your deuce face Is similar or identical to the arch bad past face. If you're not sure, then do the same test that I did.
- [52:01]
Memes
Yeah. Empirical evidence.
- [52:04]
Big Cat
We got to do it.
- [52:05]
Memes
Why do you think that's a bad comparison, Hank?
- [52:08]
Hank
Because one thing is done privately.
- [52:10]
Big Cat
He's.
- [52:10]
Hank
He's basically getting mad at people for watching footage. Like, he's like, you shouldn't be judging someone based off their reaction in a game.
- [52:19]
Memes
You sound like a guy that's never taken a video of your own face while you.
- [52:22]
Big Cat
We're gonna need that video. Yeah.
- [52:23]
Hank
No, I haven't.
- [52:24]
Big Cat
Yeah, we're gonna have to. That video. Please produce that video.
- [52:28]
Hank
But it would be like saying. It would be like saying people. If people reacted to a phase I made on this podcast and then me being like, why don't you. Like, why don't people take videos of you at your cubicle?
- [52:40]
Memes
Well, you get mad.
- [52:41]
Big Cat
It's.
- [52:41]
Hank
It's a different. This is a podcast that's filmed and put out because you get mad.
- [52:45]
Memes
I know that because you get resting face. Sometimes. I think Arch Manning might have resting face.
- [52:50]
Big Cat
Yeah. Eod. I'm gonna need it by eod. Okay. All right, Full video. You shitting push face. I want to see that. Okay. Okay. We'll make a judgment off that. We're just following the press conference orders.
- [53:05]
Memes
Yeah, I mean, you shouldn't be making the shit face against San Jose State, though.
- [53:09]
Big Cat
Yeah, they came out looking bad. They obviously put it on him also.
- [53:12]
Hank
Immediately after throwing the ball.
- [53:14]
Big Cat
That's a fair point by Hank.
- [53:16]
Memes
What does that have to do with anything?
- [53:19]
Big Cat
I don't.
- [53:20]
Memes
I don't understand where your head's at, Hank. I mean, you know what? I'm gonna. I'm gonna take a video of Blake shitting, and you'll see his face. Same thing.
- [53:28]
Big Cat
Yeah. Clemson might be bad. I had that written down as well. They struggle with Troy. They were down 16. Nothing. I believe at one point had to have a weather delay, then came back. We might have bought into dabo for no reason.
- [53:44]
Memes
There's a lot of weather this year.
- [53:45]
Big Cat
There's a lot.
- [53:46]
Memes
Something's going on with the weather. We need to figure this out.
- [53:49]
Big Cat
That Navy game was delayed, like, 17 times.
- [53:51]
Memes
Yeah, something. Something's wrong with the weather right now. DARPA cloud seating. I don't know what it is. They're trying to take football away from you.
- [53:58]
Big Cat
Some. Something's happened. Something's up. Any other college football thoughts? Illinois is good.
- [54:04]
Memes
This weekend is going to be awesome.
- [54:06]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [54:07]
Memes
This weekend. I cannot wait.
- [54:09]
Big Cat
Yeah, I'll be in Northwest I'll be in Evanston for big noon kickoff. Northwestern, Oregon. Oregon.
- [54:14]
Max
Or that's what I was.
- [54:15]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [54:15]
Max
Oregon looks like the best team ever.
- [54:16]
Big Cat
Well. Well, they do. Dan Lanning. We need to just remember this. Dan Lanning might be an all time grudge coach because he and Mike Gundy went back and forth during the week about paying players and all this stuff. And I like Dan Lanning's take because he was just like Mike Gundy essentially was saying, well, they pay. They, they pay all their players. They have all this money. Dan Lenning was like, why should I apologize because we paid to win. Yeah, but this is now two times that we've had direct Dan Lanning kind of being questioned and then running up the score. Remember the Colorado game?
- [54:53]
Memes
Yeah.
- [54:53]
Big Cat
Where they just absolutely destroyed him. They were going for two, I think, right the beginning of the game. They were going for fourth downs. We got to put a reminder out there that Dan Lenning, if anyone steps to Dan Lanning, take the other side.
- [55:07]
Memes
I agree with that. And take Dan Lennon also. Weird comments by Lane Kiffin. Weird comments by Lane after the game.
- [55:13]
Big Cat
How so?
- [55:14]
Memes
Apologizing to the gamblers.
- [55:15]
Big Cat
I appreciated that.
- [55:16]
Memes
So he called a timeout before Kentucky kicked a field goal at the end of the game to cover the spread.
- [55:21]
Big Cat
Right. Well, Mark Stoops was like, oh, we should probably kick after the timeout.
- [55:25]
Memes
Yeah, we should probably cover the spread. But as SVP pointed out last night, like he, they, they weren't like, it wasn't like Miss Ole Miss was covering the spread for the entire game.
- [55:37]
Big Cat
No.
- [55:37]
Memes
So it's not like he, he like blew the spread.
- [55:40]
Big Cat
No, he, he's apologizing for the timeout. Cause I think Mark Stoops then realized, I think Lane's.
- [55:45]
Memes
Lane's being too open with it right now.
- [55:47]
Big Cat
I appreciate what Lane did and said if it doesn't. If the actual game outcome is not up for grabs, because that was like Yucky was never going to win that game. They were down 10 with 15 seconds left. I'm okay with the coach being like, hey, my bad guys. I wish we had covered for you. I don't want to hear it if it's actually like a one score game. I wouldn't mind it though.
- [56:12]
Memes
I don't want to hear it if you lose either. No, I, I just think that Lane's being, he's being very, he's getting close to that line.
- [56:19]
Big Cat
I wouldn't.
- [56:19]
Memes
I'm, I'm personally fine with it, but I know that there's going to be people that Won't be fine with it.
- [56:24]
Big Cat
Do you know what? It made me feel better last week when, when Penn State let Nevada score at the end, if James Franklin had gotten up and like, hey, you know what, guys? I should have put my ones back in for that last play. So I guess the boosters, the boosters of this program and the alumni all bet. All bet Penn State every Saturday. That's my bad. We won by 40. We should have won by 47. The game was never in doubt. We got to start covering spreads.
- [56:49]
Memes
I think I just missed the days when a coach would say it without saying it and then I felt smart because I understood what the coach was saying. Yeah, it was like if, you know.
- [56:56]
Big Cat
You know, Lane, Kevin's always been a spread guy. He's always been spread him. He's always been someone who's aware of it. Okay. I'm excited. Yet college football is going. It feels very wide open. Yeah, it feels very wide open. Like, I don't know. Ohio State obviously is up there. Lsu like LSU should. That's the thing. Is lsu. That was a huge win for LSU against Clemson. Week one. Is Clemson back? So is LSU bad?
- [57:25]
Memes
I mean, Clemson looked like they were good. Good ish. In week one, but that was such a bad.
- [57:32]
Big Cat
You expect teams that lose week one big time programs to just hammer the cupcakes they play the next week. You know, like, like Alabama won by. I think they won by 70.
- [57:43]
Hank
Texas.
- [57:44]
Big Cat
Texas. Like you expect that. And then I don't know.
- [57:49]
Memes
So this week we got, got South Florida, Miami, Arkansas, Ole Miss.
- [57:54]
Big Cat
Yep.
- [57:54]
Memes
A and M. Notre Dame.
- [57:56]
Big Cat
That's a must win for Notre Dame, Florida, lsu. Yep.
- [58:00]
Memes
And then sneaky.
- [58:01]
Big Cat
Good one.
- [58:02]
Memes
Vandy. South Carolina.
- [58:03]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [58:04]
Memes
And Wisconsin. Alabama.
- [58:07]
Big Cat
We don't have to watch that.
- [58:08]
Memes
I mean, you could, you could get Kaylin DeBoer fired this week.
- [58:15]
Big Cat
Alabama was bad last year and the like 50 piece does.
- [58:18]
Memes
Oh, and then Georgia, Tennessee. Yeah, forget about Georgia. Tennessee.
- [58:21]
Big Cat
Georgia, Tennessee. Are you feeling good about that game? Memes? I don't know. The defense is as elite as possible. Mike Bobo just loves a wide receiver screen.
- [58:29]
Memes
He's like addicted to it.
- [58:30]
Big Cat
I'm so sick of wide receiver screens.
- [58:33]
Memes
Get it out of the playbook.
- [58:34]
Big Cat
Seriously. I don't. They never. It works like one out of every.
- [58:38]
Memes
Ten times and it always seems like an accident. Like, holy, I can't believe that first guy didn't tackle him. Yeah, like something bad happened.
- [58:44]
Big Cat
It's a wide receiver. A good wide receiver screen is like minus two yards. Yeah, that's where it starts. It was if they do a wide receiver screen and you lose 2 yards, you're like, all right, that wasn't that bad. Gave him a different look. Nothing good happens from wide receiver screen.
- [58:57]
Memes
We've also been hanging out with Gruden a lot who hates wide receiver screens as well more than anything.
- [59:02]
Big Cat
Yeah. I mean, that's two big time football guys that I trust their opinion. Yep. Okay, let's do hot seat. Cool throw. And then we get to our awesome interview with Joe Buck. We're brought to you by our friends at Reese's. With its perfect combination of chocolate and peanut butter. There's nothing really like Reese's peanut butter cup. I was eating a bunch of them on Sunday. I love them so much.
- [59:24]
Hank
And the sticks.
- [59:25]
Big Cat
Chocolate peanut butter went with the ice cream, went without the ice cream.
- [59:29]
Memes
I broke up one of the sticks and I, I mixed it in with the ice cream. Oh, so good.
- [59:34]
Big Cat
So, so good. So Reese's is, is my favorite snack. It really is the perfect. I think it's my one one candy. It's the perfect candy. It's a perfect snack. It's chocolate. It's peanut butter. Shop Reese's peanut butter cups now at a store near you found wherever candy is sold. I'm gonna have to eat a couple this afternoon. Hot sea cool Terrone is also brought to you by body armor. Do we have flash iv? Can we get a flash iv? This segment is brought to you by body armor Flash IV. Flash IV delivers faster, longer lasting hydration with over 22000 milligrams of electrolytes and no artificial dyes, flavors, or sweeteners like those other drinks. So whether you're training, traveling, or just feeling the heat, work hard, hydrate hard with Body Armor Flash IV and grab yours today. Your local 711 convenience store Body Armor Flash IV. Grab yours today. Here we go. Gotta go, gotta go. Tropical punch. Take a sip. That's delicious. That is delicious. All right, Hank, my hot T.O.
- [60:41]
Hank
Is Ben Simmons.
- [60:43]
Big Cat
Why? What?
- [60:45]
Hank
He got dropped by his agent.
- [60:48]
Big Cat
Oh.
- [60:49]
Hank
In a world where it seems like NBA players get, you know, guys that don't play more than 10 minutes a game get, you know, three years, $40 million contracts, you would think being an agent like you'd want to be, you would never be dropping guys, but I guess according to Mark Stein, a source said that the decision occurred after the point guard sent signals that he wasn't interested in whatever came from his agent's conversations with the Knicks. So Ben Simmons just literally doesn't care even enough to like, take a contract.
- [61:21]
Memes
Bad sign.
- [61:22]
Big Cat
So he's just not.
- [61:23]
Memes
He's.
- [61:24]
Hank
He's not represented currently.
- [61:25]
Memes
You got to be pretty bad for your agent to fire you, especially in the NBA.
- [61:30]
Hank
That's what. That's my point is like, you know, an agent's commission for an. And you can get a. A bench player and get them $30 million, and that's probably a nice payday for you.
- [61:39]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [61:41]
Hank
So if you're getting dropped, you're.
- [61:42]
Big Cat
You're.
- [61:43]
Hank
You must be bad. Bad or does not care.
- [61:45]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [61:45]
Hank
At all.
- [61:46]
Big Cat
It's in conjunction, probably. Yeah. With the Knicks turning down.
- [61:49]
Memes
Yeah.
- [61:49]
Hank
It's like, hey, the Knicks are interested, but someone's like, I don't care.
- [61:51]
Big Cat
Yeah. Be like, nah. I mean, why not Just retirees. How much? Oh, man, I'm gonna look it up. I'm gonna make. It's gonna make us so mad.
- [62:00]
Memes
Ben Simmons has made 200, 240.
- [62:04]
Big Cat
Oh, oh, all right, Wait, hold on. I'm looking it up. Max. Max, give us a guess. Might be.
- [62:13]
Max
No, I. I'll say.
- [62:17]
Memes
265.
- [62:18]
Big Cat
Ben Simmons has made $203 million.
- [62:21]
Memes
Still crazy good for him.
- [62:23]
Big Cat
203 million as much as Kirk Cousins. What does Kirk Cousins made?
- [62:29]
Memes
I think he's up to like 260.
- [62:32]
Big Cat
We should just start doing this all the time. Just. All right, hold on. I'm looking up Kirk Cousins. Kirk Cousins has made $411 million.
- [62:44]
Memes
Wait, no, he. I don't think he's made.
- [62:45]
Big Cat
I think that that's what he can make. $321 million.
- [62:48]
Memes
Okay.
- [62:48]
Big Cat
This will get cut. $321 million. He has on contract another four. 90 million. So that will be. They can get out of that. Yeah. All right.
- [62:59]
Memes
Good for him.
- [63:00]
Big Cat
Still $321 million.
- [63:02]
Memes
I guess the one way that. That he could earn all that money if he did get traded to a team, became their starting quarterback, and then played again next season. Yeah, that's what I'm hoping for.
- [63:11]
Big Cat
Just keep.
- [63:12]
Memes
Keep paying Kirk.
- [63:13]
Big Cat
All right, Good. Hot seat.
- [63:14]
Hank
My cool throne is the mountain.
- [63:16]
Memes
Yeah.
- [63:17]
Hank
Mountain from Game of Thrones Set the world record for than lifting what lifted.
- [63:22]
Big Cat
What do you think it was 1275 million. Oh.
- [63:30]
Memes
What is a thousand pounds translate to in dollars?
- [63:32]
Big Cat
1. Your guess is what?
- [63:35]
Memes
2,000. $1,800. Aka a thousand pounds.
- [63:42]
Big Cat
I'm gonna say 1300 pounds.
- [63:48]
Memes
11.
- [63:49]
Hank
24 pounds.
- [63:50]
Big Cat
Oh, so that's not even that impressive.
- [63:52]
Memes
Yeah, it's.
- [63:52]
Big Cat
I would have been impressed at 1300 pounds.
- [63:55]
Memes
Steroids or not.
- [63:57]
Hank
You gotta.
- [63:58]
Memes
I mean, you gotta go. Steroids gotta go.
- [64:00]
Hank
Have to you gotta assume.
- [64:02]
Big Cat
Dude, this is such an insane. Imagine lifting that. That's a car, right?
- [64:08]
Memes
Yeah.
- [64:10]
Big Cat
By the way, Vanny Woodhead number.
- [64:12]
Max
He did it so easy too.
- [64:14]
Big Cat
Fanny Woodhead number two looks awesome. We're gonna drive to Indy and that's about it. But it's gonna be sick when we do. It's gonna be so sick when we do. Boys, I think if.
- [64:25]
Memes
If the mountain was born like 1500 years ago in Iceland, they would think that he was a God that just ruled their island.
- [64:34]
Big Cat
He would have just been like their number one. Like, they would have gone to wars and it's like, well, we got this guy.
- [64:40]
Memes
1V1.
- [64:41]
Big Cat
We're good. We got this guy. What a beast.
- [64:44]
Hank
Also, the Ryder cup is out this week.
- [64:47]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [64:47]
Memes
Oh, Writer Cup.
- [64:48]
Hank
Writer Cup.
- [64:50]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [64:50]
Hank
Our golf tournament, Barcelona Sports Writer Cup.
- [64:53]
Memes
Excited to watch that.
- [64:54]
Big Cat
Yes.
- [64:54]
Hank
The draft match one match two match three and four out this week.
- [64:58]
Big Cat
Okay. I love that.
- [65:00]
Memes
Should be some real rivalry matches in that somewhere.
- [65:03]
Big Cat
Yeah. Pft.
- [65:05]
Memes
My hot seat is U.S. men's National Team soccer. Actually, no, I'm going to switch it. It's us. We are the problem.
- [65:12]
Hank
I got a question with this.
- [65:13]
Memes
We are the problem because coach Poke Pocatino talked to the media and to the critics. We're playing against Japan tonight. He said, we're the problem with the US Soccer. Not him, not the players. He said, you are damaging your country and damaging your players. We need to be positive. We need to be all together because the country deserves that. We are all on one side trying to help arrive at the World cup in the best condition and be competitive to do something that makes our fans proud. So it's on us.
- [65:43]
Hank
In this quote. Didn't he say something about like, we already we qualified for the World cup already?
- [65:49]
Big Cat
We did. By just this.
- [65:52]
Hank
Posting it.
- [65:52]
Big Cat
I existed.
- [65:53]
Memes
This national team in this country has qualified already for the World Cup.
- [65:56]
Hank
But then, no, we didn't.
- [65:57]
Memes
So the important that.
- [65:58]
Hank
But we didn't qualify for it.
- [66:00]
Memes
The important thing is to apply common sense.
- [66:02]
Hank
We just hosted it.
- [66:03]
Memes
If people want to talk about, they can talk about. But we feel the responsibility to provide the whole group of players. We need to give the priority for how he feels.
- [66:11]
Hank
That's like a kid having a party and then inviting all the cool kids and being like, I'm a cool kid.
- [66:15]
Memes
So here's where we're at.
- [66:16]
Hank
Everyone's at my party.
- [66:17]
Memes
Here's where we're at in terms of US Men's national team cope. Because I've been a part of many cycles of this.
- [66:21]
Big Cat
Yeah, you, Hank. Nailed that. It is. It is like, I'm. I'm one of the popular kids.
- [66:26]
Memes
Oh.
- [66:26]
Big Cat
It's actually just that my parents let me party in the basement, and everyone uses my house.
- [66:30]
Hank
Yes, they did not qualify.
- [66:31]
Memes
Yes. They did not qualify.
- [66:33]
Big Cat
Time.
- [66:33]
Memes
Here's where we're at. We're at the stage where now we're saying maybe. Maybe the coach is just, like, messing with the lineups, and he knows that they're going to suck, but he's trying to put players in different positions to see how they handle stress. It's not good. No, it's not good. Things are.
- [66:49]
Big Cat
We lose to.
- [66:50]
Memes
Things are not good. We lost to a lot of countries.
- [66:52]
Big Cat
But who do we just lose then?
- [66:53]
Memes
Lose into every country?
- [66:54]
Big Cat
Who do we just lose?
- [66:55]
Memes
We don't win again. It's football season, so I didn't watch, but we're. We're playing Japan tonight. Must win Jaden Daniels. Japan must win Jaden Danielson.
- [67:05]
Big Cat
Yeah. We lost South Korea to nothing. Dude. We just.
- [67:13]
Memes
Do you think that Jane David is going to play for Japan and flag football in the Olympics?
- [67:17]
Big Cat
Should. That'd be fun. You'd have to. You'd have to get a jersey.
- [67:21]
Memes
The rising sun of Washington.
- [67:22]
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah. You have to do it.
- [67:24]
Memes
I would.
- [67:26]
Big Cat
Are you cool? Throne.
- [67:29]
Memes
I haven't done. Oh, yeah. That was my hot seat. My other. I had two hot seats.
- [67:32]
Big Cat
Okay.
- [67:32]
Memes
Jerry o' Connell on the hot seat.
- [67:34]
Big Cat
Yep.
- [67:34]
Memes
He made the news yesterday because he got his phone stolen.
- [67:37]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [67:37]
Memes
Which I say to the thief. Good job. The guy used an Android. Bet you didn't expect that when you tried to rob Jerry Ocon. You're like, he's rich. He's married to Rebecca Romain. What is this piece of that I have.
- [67:48]
Hank
Where was it stolen from? I didn't see this.
- [67:49]
Big Cat
Yoga.
- [67:49]
Memes
His yoga class and card. So he went to yoga and he left his bag out front.
- [67:53]
Big Cat
Front.
- [67:53]
Memes
And then he came out, realized that his phone was gone.
- [67:56]
Hank
Don't they have lockers at those things?
- [67:58]
Memes
Apparently. I think he just left it in the front. It's not like it's a briefcase with fantasy football information. He didn't have anything important in there.
- [68:05]
Big Cat
Yeah. An apple. Yeah.
- [68:06]
Hank
So I love to see what type of bag it was.
- [68:09]
Memes
Oh, what do you think it was.
- [68:10]
Hank
Like a Lululemon or.
- [68:11]
Big Cat
It was like a. Like an NPR tote bag.
- [68:15]
Memes
Might have just been a whole food shopping bag. Like a reusable one. He's like, I'll just reuse this all the time.
- [68:19]
Big Cat
Time.
- [68:20]
Memes
So, yeah, he left his bag out front, somebody lifted his phone. So we've been getting texts from Jerry. We have no idea if it's actually Jerry or if it's the thief.
- [68:28]
Hank
I think news.
- [68:29]
Big Cat
I think he sent us a hot Instagram video. So I think it's Jerry probably.
- [68:33]
Memes
Or a horny thief.
- [68:34]
Big Cat
Yeah, he sent me a. A chick that was like. It was like, just a chick talking in German who just had huge tits on a tractor. And then he followed up. He's like, did you check it? Do you see that German check? I was like, yeah, I did. Yeah, yeah. He said.
- [68:48]
Memes
He said, the only real bummer is that I had a photo of Rebecca from high school in my wallet. So a four LE and a four. Four leaf clover Jack McBrayer gave me and a $2 bill I got while shooting Standby Me.
- [69:01]
Big Cat
All right, the standby Me thing, that sucks. The Rebecca thing, that's under 18.
- [69:08]
Memes
He's got a picture of a high schooler. High school girl in his wallet.
- [69:11]
Big Cat
Yeah. Did we win week one?
- [69:14]
Memes
We did win week one.
- [69:15]
Big Cat
All right, let's go, Jerry.
- [69:16]
Memes
So it sounds like. Because I think it was on Friday that his wallet got stolen. This might have been the thief that managed our fantasy team this weekend to a win. We don't. We can't even declare this to be a win by Jerry.
- [69:29]
Big Cat
Do you think? So how do you get his stuff back?
- [69:32]
Memes
I don't think he's got his phone back.
- [69:33]
Big Cat
Oh, so how is he texting us? I don't know.
- [69:36]
Memes
That's what I'm asking.
- [69:37]
Big Cat
He.
- [69:37]
Memes
He went to the cops. By the way, man card again. You saw Street Justice, Jerry.
- [69:42]
Big Cat
Let's just call it real quick, because that would be very funny if just a random dude picked up. He. Yeah, I mean, there's a chance the person just saw the Android.
- [69:55]
Memes
Yeah, I'm just like, I don't want a trash can.
- [69:57]
Big Cat
Whoops. Didn't mean to steal this. Hey, big cat. Oh, you got your phone back. Yeah, I got it back. I got it back. All right. Okay, cool. Hey, did you see I got a new.
- [70:13]
Joe Buck
I did get a new Android, though. I mean, like, I didn't like.
- [70:16]
Big Cat
But I did. I moved up two generations. Oh, nice. Hey, did you see this? I had the six, but now I have the eight. Did you see that. That German chick with the. With the big tits on the tractor? Is that something you sent me? No, you sent it to me. It's. She's Italian. Oh, you're right. She's Italian. All right. Yeah, we're on air right now. Hey, come on, man. Come on. I didn't send any videos.
- [70:46]
Memes
Hey, Jerry.
- [70:48]
Big Cat
And by the way, I think legally in the state of Illinois, you have to say, hey, you're on the air. Like that's something you have to say. So, I mean, like, what do you like? I don't want this on. We're gonna rock down to Jerry gets copyrighte. Oh, all right. Could. Or now. You need to do your Cool Throw.
- [71:15]
Memes
I'll just go hot. Double hot seat on that.
- [71:16]
Big Cat
Double hot seat. I like that.
- [71:17]
Memes
Cool Throw is going to be a plug Pup Punk is playing in Bloomington next Friday at Kilroy's. Love Bloomington. And we're doing a bunch of other shows. I think we're playing in Iowa City at El rays on. That's October 24th, Baton Rouge, October 10th at Fred's again. And then we're playing in Chicago at Reggie's on November 11th, and New York, December 18th at the racket. It's gonna be a good time.
- [71:42]
Big Cat
I want to sing a song on the 11th.
- [71:44]
Memes
Yeah. So on the 21st at Reggie's.
- [71:47]
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah.
- [71:47]
Memes
What song?
- [71:48]
Big Cat
I don't know.
- [71:49]
Memes
Freebird?
- [71:50]
Big Cat
No, I was thinking maybe Third Eye Blind.
- [71:53]
Memes
Okay.
- [71:53]
Hank
We don't look back in anger.
- [71:54]
Memes
Oh, we. You know what? We could do this actually be an appropriate song for today. Jumper, I wish you would step back from that ledge, my friend. You could cut ties with all the.
- [72:08]
Hank
Lies that you've been living in.
- [72:11]
Memes
And if you do not want to see Caleb again, I would understand. I would understand.
- [72:24]
Big Cat
All right. My hot seat is Mike McDaniel. Because now it's open season. Rex Ryan called him Mcgenius.
- [72:30]
Memes
Oh, no.
- [72:31]
Big Cat
Yep. Called him. Said Mcgenius guy or whatever the hell he is. Nerd boy. Their team has no respect for their coach. They play like that. They're soft. Every part of their football team, it's over.
- [72:41]
Memes
Mc McBrain. Yeah.
- [72:42]
Big Cat
Yeah. Nerd boy or whatever the hell he is.
- [72:46]
Memes
I think Max probably thinks anybody that wears glasses is a nerd.
- [72:49]
Big Cat
Right? 100 classic. Yeah. Anyone who knows how to turn on a computer. Yeah. Oh, little dork over here, you press the power button.
- [72:57]
Memes
See that over there? That's the man. Genius.
- [73:00]
Big Cat
Yeah, but that. That's a very bad sign for him.
- [73:03]
Memes
Not good.
- [73:04]
Big Cat
When it's open season like that, people feel comfortable calling him Nerd Boy. And McGenius. Also.
- [73:09]
Memes
Rex has been waiting for years to jump into McDaniels.
- [73:12]
Big Cat
Oh, yeah. Also hot seat. Bryce Young, because that video of him watching the Jumbotron, like the little, you know, commercial break races that they do. On the Jumbotron during the game was not a good look.
- [73:25]
Memes
No.
- [73:26]
Big Cat
We might. Bryce Young might be in trouble. He was watching the helmet race or the. The hide the ball in the helmet during a timeout instead of huddling up with his team.
- [73:37]
Memes
Did he get it right?
- [73:39]
Big Cat
You'd hope.
- [73:41]
Memes
If you got it right, I'm okay with it. If he got it wrong, that'd be bad.
- [73:43]
Big Cat
That's very embarrassing. Yeah. Yeah. And then my cool drone is also a plug. Still blue coffee. We are doing golden mug today and Tom tomorrow. Winners are getting $500 gift card to game time. So that's a. That's a pretty big gift. Go to a game, go to a concert. And we also are bringing back butter cookie. So get excited. So we got butter cookie, we got gold mug for two days. Buy everything@stellabluecoffee.com, save some dogs and get some butter cookie. And we will maybe. We'll maybe think of some type of punishment I have to do during the packers commander stream. I don't know what I can do too, but maybe like a cold tub or something or a shock collar. Maybe you can shock me. All right, Zach, finish us off.
- [74:27]
Hank
Got tasers.
- [74:28]
Big Cat
Oh, Jesus Christ.
- [74:31]
Zach
No Tasers.
- [74:34]
Hank
Personalized Axon Tasers, but maybe tasers.
- [74:37]
Zach
There's always a possibility of. Today's hot seat for me is. I know we're doing a lot of spit talk recently. Luis Suarez, previous spitter on the head of security. Three games suspension.
- [74:49]
Big Cat
So out.
- [74:50]
Zach
Three games inter Miami. Luis Suarez. So much spitting going on. First. First guy to see some real punishment.
- [74:56]
Big Cat
He's also just not good anymore. He's just old. Yeah, he's old. He's just friends with Messi.
- [75:02]
Zach
Messi's doing a lot of that. Just bringing the boys over.
- [75:04]
Big Cat
Like, let's. Let's just go.
- [75:06]
Zach
Let's keep playing and not against crazy competition anymore. Let's just have some fun, get paid.
- [75:11]
Big Cat
They basically are getting paid to play intramural soccer in Miami, which is why.
- [75:15]
Memes
It'S so weird that Suarez is still spitting.
- [75:17]
Big Cat
Yeah, it's like, why do you care?
- [75:19]
Memes
I think imagine all the times that he spits when it's not on camera.
- [75:22]
Big Cat
A lot. A lot. And your cool throne.
- [75:25]
Zach
My cool throne. I may regret saying this. We did take a reserve take or I. I took a reserve take on Week 1 after the Buccaneers Falcons game. My cool throne for today is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Because after watching Bigger go over the top to at Buka and you know, Buck Aaron didn't get a Ton of yards, but he was fighting for every yard that he got. I keep watching clips and I keep. I keep having this thought in the back of my head, like, we could just. We might. We could just make a run.
- [75:48]
Big Cat
You're gonna win Super Bowl. We. I don't know about Super Bowl.
- [75:50]
Zach
We can make a run, though.
- [75:51]
Big Cat
Okay, where does it run?
- [75:53]
Zach
It could go to the Super Bowl. It could not, but it could also go there.
- [75:56]
Big Cat
Yeah, so you might be going and so.
- [75:58]
Zach
Yeah, we might. We might be going there. I am going to regret saying this, but I got to live my truth here, and I think we could do it.
- [76:04]
Big Cat
I. That. That story that came out of the huddle, Mike Evans said that Buka basically was like, hey, Baker, I'm gonna. I'm gonna run this route. Like I'm. I'm gonna call game hit me. And that happened.
- [76:18]
Memes
Pretty cool. Also, credit to Chris Berman for coining a mecca.
- [76:21]
Big Cat
Pika buka. Ooh, Pika buka.
- [76:25]
Memes
It's pretty good.
- [76:27]
Big Cat
That is good. I like that confidence. Zach. Get a little swagger going.
- [76:30]
Zach
I know it's week one, but let's. Let's just do it. What if we just do the thing?
- [76:34]
Big Cat
Yeah, we got a little halves and have nots in this podcast. Split right here, right down the middle. It's the halves and the haves knots basically is will. Nah, that's probably will. The will. The Patriots, Jets, Bears combined wins be less than the best record of the halves of one team.
- [77:00]
Memes
Yes.
- [77:01]
Big Cat
Are you sure? Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
- [77:04]
Memes
Patriots have a very easy schedule. Jets have an easier back end schedule.
- [77:08]
Big Cat
Okay, it's week one. Yeah. All right.
- [77:12]
Joe Buck
It's week one.
- [77:12]
Big Cat
It's week one. I listen memes. If we had scored 32 points, I'd be. I'd be feeling a lot better. All right, let's get to our interview. We got Joe Buck in studio. Before we do that pit, you got a couple ads.
- [77:25]
Memes
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- [78:57]
Big Cat
Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very, very special guest, great friend of the show, recurring guest. It is Joe Buck in person. Joe, great to see you. We love having you here. First question, easy question. Want to go easy? First?
- [79:14]
Joe Buck
Yeah.
- [79:14]
Big Cat
Okay.
- [79:15]
Joe Buck
Yeah. Let's ease into this.
- [79:16]
Big Cat
Do you still hate svp? Yeah.
- [79:19]
Joe Buck
I mean, detest him with every. Everything I have. It's so funny how. And you're referencing something that was maybe two years or three years.
- [79:28]
Memes
Yeah, it was a big moment.
- [79:29]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [79:30]
Joe Buck
Yeah. I think about it, it's so dumb because people like, oh, they just got into it on tv. I'm like, okay, let's say I did not like Scott Van Pelt. Do you think I would do that on national tv? That, I mean. Well, that's a. That was a dumb question. Yeah, I think. Okay.
- [79:47]
Big Cat
I would not too much.
- [79:49]
Joe Buck
I would not.
- [79:49]
Big Cat
Okay.
- [79:51]
Joe Buck
No, he was like the one guy I knew at ESPN before I came there and felt like I could joke around with. But I don't know if you know this, but certain portions of the Internet and social media don't really get jokes.
- [80:04]
Memes
Get irony.
- [80:04]
Joe Buck
Yeah, they don't get irony. They don't get subtlety. They don't get nuanced. They don't get sarcasm. No. I mean, I. No, he's. He's my guy.
- [80:12]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [80:13]
Memes
When that, that, that spat happened, when the dispute happened, happened on live air, I actually took your side, Joe, because as we discussed on yesterday's part of my take, there's a lot of discourse around like, oh, you didn't play the game out there.
- [80:26]
Joe Buck
Well, yeah, I read about that.
- [80:28]
Memes
We think it's the other way around. You've watched so much more sports than any athlete. You've watched it, and then you've had the takes about it. So it's like they're on your turf now.
- [80:38]
Joe Buck
Yeah, I agree. And I think we should switch it with Aikman and he should welcome us into the booth, and I should be the one led to with my opinions.
- [80:47]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [80:47]
Joe Buck
Then he should take us to break.
- [80:48]
Memes
That would actually be a funny Freaky Friday thing for you guys to do one.
- [80:51]
Joe Buck
It would be. I would be. Who would be Jamie Lee Curtis? And who would be Lindsay Lohan?
- [80:56]
Memes
Wait, what? Oh, Freaky Friday. I think you're probably Jamie Lee.
- [81:01]
Joe Buck
Yeah, yeah.
- [81:02]
Memes
Cannons.
- [81:03]
Big Cat
Yeah, she does, if you know that.
- [81:06]
Joe Buck
Yeah, yeah, she does. Oh, I'm way older than you guys. Well aware.
- [81:11]
Big Cat
Did you. Did you watch the cowboy documentary?
- [81:14]
Joe Buck
I did.
- [81:14]
Big Cat
Did you learn anything new about your broadcast partner? It was a great documentary.
- [81:19]
Joe Buck
I thought it was great. The one thing I learned that was different than I was expecting to see was that by the end of. What was it, 95, those. A lot of the players were banging the drum for Barry Switzer. That took me by surprise. But, you know, I think it is exactly what was portrayed in that documentary. It's like a running drama, soap opera that just has gone on since the beginning of time, and we just get onto the train and get off at different stops and get back on. I. I loved it. I was proud of him. I mean, I'm always proud of Troy, oddly, but watching him and the way he led and the way he played and his toughness and. And that's all stuff that I've seen, you know, personally in our work relationship and to see it during his playing days, because I obviously didn't know him then. I don't know. I get some weird pride out of that.
- [82:22]
Big Cat
Yeah. I mean, it was a great, really well done documentary. I don't know if you came away with this take, but I. I was watching it, and the whole time I was like, man, Pat Summerall, that's when announcers were men.
- [82:33]
Joe Buck
Yeah, that's what I thought.
- [82:34]
Big Cat
Yeah, that's. That's. That's kind of my big boy.
- [82:37]
Joe Buck
Has this shit dropped off since then?
- [82:40]
Memes
We don't get that anymore.
- [82:41]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [82:41]
Joe Buck
Yeah.
- [82:41]
Big Cat
You don't really miss.
- [82:43]
Joe Buck
No. Yeah. I think I've said on this show, I took the bait to turn this into semi serious. Think. I think that was a joke. To turn this into semi serious was when I. When Troy and Chris Collinsworth and I took over for Pat and John.
- [82:59]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [83:00]
Joe Buck
Even though I'm Jack Buck's son and I started with the Cardinals when I was 21, I never really intentionally tried to sound like my dad.
- [83:09]
Big Cat
Right.
- [83:10]
Joe Buck
But when that happened in 2002, I think, and we were doing the main football game, it was intimidating to step onto that stage with those two guys having left and having been there and together for that long. And then the other piece of it was I took the bait and tried to sound like Pat.
- [83:28]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [83:29]
Joe Buck
And sometimes it was okay and sometimes it came off to me flat and boring. And I listen back to it and there are highlights that I'm like, man, that's really good. And then there are highlights that I listen back and I'm like, God, I just sound like I'm not excited and it's. I'm pissed at myself that I tried to sound like Pat, who, for people who don't or aren't old enough, was a player, had this really big presence, grovelly, deep voiced, who would just go, montana, rice, touchdown. And then Madden would go off and do his stuff. He was the perfect guy and partner for John Madden because he was so over the top and bombastic. And, you know, that just. That worked for Pat Summerall. That did not work for me. And I feel like I'm a completely different announcer now than I was back then.
- [84:24]
Big Cat
Okay. So to keep it semi serious, do you think you're still getting better? Because, you know, I think you're in my hall of fame of announcers. I think, you know, when I think Big game, your, Your name comes up and I mean that genuinely. Like you, you have the Big Game voice. But do you think like even three years ago you're better than that? Are you still kind of.
- [84:44]
Joe Buck
I do, but I'm the worst person to ask. But I feel like I'm. I'm more comfortable kind of doing my thing.
- [84:53]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [84:54]
Joe Buck
And I. Maybe some of that is still remnants prior to that shift. I don't know when that shift happened. Maybe after I had my vocal cord thing and I came back and I was like, oh, I can make a loud sound again. So I'm going to make a loud sound and I'm going to do it differently in baseball and football. You know, tried to do it in golf. That was bad. Which you told me both of you multiple times.
- [85:16]
Memes
But yeah, it wasn't the voice that was the problem.
- [85:18]
Joe Buck
Yeah, fuck off. So, yeah, I, I think, I do think I'm getting better. I do. And maybe I'm wrong, but at least I feel that way.
- [85:29]
Memes
I I, I agree with you. I, I enjoy listening to your calls. Do you go back. You said that you listened to some of your old calls, like when you made the decision. Okay, I'm not sounding like me. I need to start sounding like, go back to who you are. Do you listen after every week to your calls?
- [85:43]
Joe Buck
You know, it's, it's a really good question because it, it is a good. Mark that one down. Yeah. Good job. I know you.
- [85:51]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [85:51]
Joe Buck
Prepped a lot for this interview.
- [85:53]
Big Cat
No, it's like you don't.
- [85:54]
Memes
We don't even need to have you answer the question.
- [85:55]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [85:56]
Memes
We just want to ask you questions and then.
- [85:57]
Big Cat
Yeah, we can move on. Okay. Yeah. Okay.
- [86:00]
Memes
I do, I do want to know, like, do you listen? How often do you know?
- [86:03]
Joe Buck
You know, what's bad is if, and I tell young broadcasters this all the time. It's not fair to do a game and then turn right around and listen to it all. I do sometimes if it's on NFL Network and I'm like, oh, I wonder how I sounded last night or how this call went. But it's not a realistic way to watch because I can still remember what I was thinking about in the moment and I was frustrated that I didn't get to whatever story or I didn't. You know, you're making choices all the time. So if you give it a little bit of time and you kind of forget about the game or the actual moments and the words, you can listen to it on a more realistic basis. Like, like you would at home making fun of my gigantic forehead. And, and it's a better representation of how you would sound to a person sitting on a couch. Then you're just too hard on yourself. I'm too hard on myself to go back five minutes after and just dissect it. It's, that's just stupid.
- [87:01]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [87:01]
Memes
Did you grade yourself like on, on last season? How did that rank amongst all the old, you know, the Joe time or the, the Joe Buck all time seasons?
- [87:09]
Joe Buck
Yeah, I, I think last year was good. I, I, our. Think three years. Hard to believe we're in our fourth year now at espn. I think they've progressively gotten better. I think, you know, there's a lot of factors involved, but I think it took a minute for us to be like, okay, we're not at Fox anymore, we're at espn. And I think that was really good for us. And I'm speaking for Troy here, but he and I have talked about it. I think change is good. I think it made like, I Probably told you guys this before, but David Hill, who basically started Fox Sports.
- [87:41]
Hank
When.
- [87:41]
Joe Buck
I talked to him and that was all going on, and I said to him, you know, what do you think about me potentially going to espn? I thought he would go, are you crazy? You've been at Fox for 28 years. You know, you're doing the World Series, you're doing that, you're doing the NFL games, you're doing whatever they want you to do. You've got a history there. He said, go. It's going to be the best thing for you because it's going to give you, you know, new jitters. It's going to make you work with new people that. That might open your eyes up to something that you haven't done before that. And it was great advice, and I'm glad I did it because I think, like, what you said, I do think it's tweaked me a little bit to make me better than I was, let's say, six years ago. What a random number to pick.
- [88:27]
Big Cat
Yeah. Just because we are the biggest Joe Buck fans and, you know, we defend you everywhere. We defend you in private.
- [88:34]
Joe Buck
You probably defend me around this compound.
- [88:37]
Big Cat
Yeah. Oh, yeah. So I just. So we have the company line set.
- [88:41]
Joe Buck
Yeah.
- [88:41]
Big Cat
When you said the vocal cord thing. So we're going with that. Not the hair plug addiction.
- [88:47]
Joe Buck
Well, I mean, one led to the other.
- [88:48]
Big Cat
Right. But so we got to say when people. What happened? He had a vocal cord thing. Not. He had an addiction to hair plugs. He was addicted to hair plugs.
- [88:56]
Joe Buck
Yeah. And that was kind of the takeaway when I wrote my book. Like, this addiction. Like, I'm like, oh, my God.
- [89:01]
Big Cat
Yeah, I need hair plugs. You went to rehab for.
- [89:03]
Joe Buck
You gotta get. I went to rehab. Like, I need. I need that pain. I need. I need to know I'm alive. I need hair plugs.
- [89:09]
Big Cat
Hit me. I need a hit. I need a hit.
- [89:12]
Joe Buck
Rip some hair out of the back of my head and put it in the front. I need it. It was. It's that I had it a lot because I have a gigantic head and I have baby fine, thin hair.
- [89:24]
Big Cat
Beautiful hair.
- [89:25]
Joe Buck
Beautiful hair. Like, like, like, it's beautiful. Like that you'd find on a baby's bottom.
- [89:30]
Big Cat
It's beautiful.
- [89:33]
Joe Buck
That said, it took me a lot to cover what I could cover with my head. And I didn't know that at the time when I. When I wrote my book, and that's really how it starts and ends, that I also color my hair, which I. I was like, the that's the last line of my book. I know you guys both read it.
- [89:50]
Big Cat
Yep.
- [89:50]
Joe Buck
Multiple times. And it's not available anywhere, so I'm not plugging it.
- [89:55]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [89:55]
Joe Buck
Sold out, huh?
- [89:56]
Big Cat
It's sold out everywhere.
- [89:57]
Memes
I bought every copy.
- [89:58]
Joe Buck
Yeah. It's gone. It's just. Just evaporated.
- [90:00]
Memes
Yeah.
- [90:01]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [90:01]
Joe Buck
I don't know. It's one of those. It's either sold out or nobody bothers to print it any longer. But when that was all going on, I didn't realize that my name was like mud in the hair plug industry. Because they're like, you're given a terrible name to people to get hair transplants because you're saying you lost your voice. It could have been any procedure. Yeah, it was that I was intubated. If I got a new knee or somebody took my spleen out, I would have been facing potentially the same danger of the cuff in my throat hurting my nerve. That's what happened. But I. I was just over honest, if that's a phrase, and it isn't by saying that's. That's what I was doing. When. When this all happened.
- [90:44]
Memes
They knocked you out.
- [90:44]
Big Cat
You were.
- [90:45]
Memes
You were out cold.
- [90:45]
Joe Buck
Well, the first, I. I think I got eight. The first in St. Louis.
- [90:49]
Big Cat
Oh, that's an addiction.
- [90:50]
Memes
Yeah. You had eight different procedures.
- [90:53]
Joe Buck
Eight different ones.
- [90:54]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [90:55]
Memes
Yeah.
- [90:55]
Joe Buck
But.
- [90:55]
Big Cat
But you got to realize you had a problem. I know. Which one? Did you know you had a problem? Was it four or five?
- [91:00]
Joe Buck
Yeah, it was like four. And I was like, no. I was at the door the next day. I'm like, I know my hair. My head is chewed up and it's all blood. But I want more. I need more.
- [91:09]
Memes
Doctor, like, I think you've had enough.
- [91:11]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [91:11]
Joe Buck
Yeah. So then I had to find new doctors. Yeah. I had to find. Yeah, I doctor shopped. I. There. There should be a website for that.
- [91:19]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [91:20]
Joe Buck
But. Yeah, so I don't even know what the hell we're talking about, but I.
- [91:25]
Big Cat
Whatever.
- [91:26]
Joe Buck
That's what I was doing when my voice went out.
- [91:30]
Big Cat
I love that you lost, like, the hair plug community. There's like a guy sitting, watching Monday Night Football. He's like, fuck this Joe Buck guy. He made it. He made it bad.
- [91:37]
Joe Buck
For now we're good. But now we're good.
- [91:39]
Big Cat
Okay, we're good.
- [91:40]
Joe Buck
Because I've had a different style procedure out in LA where they, like, they do this machine and they take it out of the sides of your head. There's barely any pain. I did like basically an infomercial with my head all Chewed up. I put it online.
- [91:55]
Big Cat
I, I wait, so are you done? Can you say right now you're never going to get another?
- [91:58]
Joe Buck
I can say with 100 certainty I've heard that I might do it again.
- [92:03]
Memes
No, I'm done, Joe. I had him done last year and I can quit anytime.
- [92:08]
Big Cat
No, he did.
- [92:08]
Memes
At the back of his head. Yeah, he got the right on the top.
- [92:11]
Joe Buck
Oh, well, then why are you giving me.
- [92:12]
Memes
I'm just saying because as a member of the hair plug community. Okay, that's a disservice.
- [92:16]
Joe Buck
Now you're taking up the banner.
- [92:18]
Memes
I can.
- [92:18]
Joe Buck
You're taking up the band.
- [92:19]
Memes
I can recreational. Go out and have a good time and. And get a hair plug transplant and then come back the next day, feel fine, and not have an urge to go back to the clinic. Like you. Yeah, that. They look at me like I'm a crackhead.
- [92:31]
Joe Buck
Right. No, I'm sorry. And I. From the bottom of my heart, I apologize to you and all of the hair transplant surgery getters that are in your audience.
- [92:40]
Memes
I do want to know about the one in LA, though, if I need sprucing.
- [92:43]
Joe Buck
Yeah. I got a guy.
- [92:44]
Memes
Okay.
- [92:45]
Joe Buck
I got a guy.
- [92:45]
Big Cat
Because, you know, he does.
- [92:47]
Joe Buck
In the back of a van while you're moving.
- [92:49]
Memes
I'm never gonna say. I'm never gonna count myself out of having a second one, but I. I can stop whenever I want.
- [92:54]
Joe Buck
But did you get the kind where they. This is really not fascinating conversation, but you get the kind where they did the strip out of the back or did they, like, do the, the non strip. Proceed.
- [93:04]
Memes
It was the fue. Whatever. That one.
- [93:06]
Joe Buck
Yeah, that's what I'm. That's the new stuff. That's like gold.
- [93:08]
Memes
Yeah, it's gold.
- [93:09]
Joe Buck
Yeah. The old time was shoot up the back of your head, take like a strip of scalp.
- [93:16]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [93:16]
Joe Buck
And then pull them out and replace them. That. That sucked.
- [93:20]
Memes
Yeah, so.
- [93:20]
Joe Buck
So that was the question. So the first six times I did it where I was under local anesthetic, the last two times I did it, the doctor's like, you know, you can get knocked out for this. It seems like you really don't like the pain. I'm like, you think I don't like. Who does like the pain? It sucks. And he goes, well, for an extra $3,000, we can knock you out. I'm like, how about $10,000? Knock me out. I'm out. So that's when it happened.
- [93:44]
Memes
So it was the intubation that was.
- [93:45]
Joe Buck
The problem was the intubation had nothing to do with hair.
- [93:47]
Memes
Okay.
- [93:48]
Big Cat
Monday.
- [93:49]
Joe Buck
Glad we cleared that.
- [93:50]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [93:50]
Joe Buck
I say this before Monday Night Football.
- [93:52]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [93:52]
Memes
We're never going to bring this up ever again.
- [93:54]
Big Cat
Yeah. Never ever.
- [93:56]
Joe Buck
Yeah, it's fine.
- [93:57]
Big Cat
All right, so you're starting. You're here in Chicago, obviously, Monday Night Football. We're going to run this on Wednesday. We don't know what's going to happen. The schedule for Monday football, it's gotten better. You must be excited because there's some really good games you have. I have a question, though. On week three or no, week two? There's two Monday Night Football games. Why don't you call both?
- [94:17]
Joe Buck
Yeah, we've thought about that. It's just hard to call two games at the same time. I've done two games in the Young.
- [94:24]
Big Cat
Hungry Joe Buck would do it.
- [94:26]
Joe Buck
That's right. I take a trolley car to go do it. Cable car in San Francisco, which I did. I went from a football game to a baseball game. But yeah, at the same time it's a little. It's a little too much.
- [94:38]
Big Cat
Okay. All right. That's fine. That's fine. What, what is your favorite stadium set up to go to? That Maybe people don't think, you know, because obviously there's Monday football has some, some big time team stadiums, but is there one stadium? You're like, I actually really like this place. People don't realize it's a great setup.
- [94:54]
Joe Buck
The stadiums are all so good now. That used to like the one in my hometown, St. Louis, when the Rams were there, they. It's like, oh, we forgot a broadcast booth. So we were down in the seats. They took the four, you know, whatever, four sections or two sections and turned it into a makeshift broadcast booth where you were running up the steps into the concourse to go to the bathroom during commercials like that. That stuff doesn't fly anymore in the NFL. So they're all good. There's really. If you give me a stadium and the bathroom is in the booth, I'm good. I'm not the 50.
- [95:34]
Big Cat
What about sight lines? Is there one that's like your.
- [95:36]
Joe Buck
This one is really weird.
- [95:37]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [95:38]
Joe Buck
Chicago field, it's really low. Yeah, on some. For some things it's really good because you can actually see. I can see numbers kind of coming at me, but it's so low and it. Therefore it's flat. Like the far sideline and the front corners of the end zone and stuff. I have no idea. I don't know if the guy's in. I don't know if he's not. My eyes have to go from watching it. It live on the field to the monitor or I have no chance. Yeah, it's the, it's not high enough.
- [96:06]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [96:07]
Memes
How hard is week one as an announcer when you've got guys that are new on the team that you haven't seen that jersey before, Is that like the danger zone?
- [96:13]
Joe Buck
A little bit. I mean, yeah. I think you get into. We all watch so much football that by the time I do Jacksonville against the Chiefs later in the year, not that deep into the year, I will have watched enough Jacksonville to know the skill guys and the who's catching passes and who. But yeah, I mean it's, it's a little bit different for this game. Although this story tonight is about the two quarterbacks.
- [96:41]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [96:41]
Joe Buck
And it's, it doesn't really expand much. You want to talk about the interior of the offensive line? I mean it's not that exciting. It's about JJ McCarthy and it's about Caleb and you know, how much is Caleb progressed with Ben Johnson and, and who is. And how good is J.J. mcCarthy? The only time I saw him in college I'm not a huge college football guy, was in the national championship game and I was blown away. And then Harbaugh came out and basically said I would, I'd love to coach this guy in the NFL. And we met him, I don't know, three days ago, four days ago. Could not be a more impressive 22 year old. And I say that having 29 and 26 year olds myself, that you know, you like him and you want to see him do well, but that team is loaded.
- [97:31]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [97:31]
Joe Buck
And it comes down to one guy. They got the coach, they got the line, they got Justin Jefferson and Addison and a good defense. That it comes down to one guy. And that, that to me is fascinating.
- [97:44]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [97:44]
Memes
I have a favor to ask you, Joe, on behalf of my good friend Big Cat here, Bears fan. If the Vikings kicker. Who's the Vikings kicker, by the way?
- [97:52]
Joe Buck
Will Rikerd.
- [97:53]
Memes
Will Rikert. If he's. If he's perfect through three quarters.
- [97:57]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [97:57]
Memes
In the fourth quarter. If he goes out there and let's say it's like a one score game. Can you say. And he has not missed tonight, right before he kicks.
- [98:05]
Joe Buck
You want an announcer's jinx?
- [98:06]
Big Cat
Yes.
- [98:06]
Joe Buck
Calling for an announcer. That is brilliant because it's one up the whole say yabo say, you know, whatever. Playoff Lenny Ryan.
- [98:15]
Big Cat
Playoff.
- [98:16]
Joe Buck
Playoff Lenny. You for that too.
- [98:18]
Big Cat
No.
- [98:19]
Memes
Playoff Lenny was great.
- [98:20]
Big Cat
Yeah. Playoff Lenny was our favorite. Yeah. You took offense and we loved it. Playoff Lenny that's his name. Yeah. Guy shows up in the playoffs.
- [98:27]
Memes
He was great in the playoffs. But I'm not asking you to. To like, fix the.
- [98:30]
Joe Buck
What was that? Fournette?
- [98:32]
Big Cat
Yeah. Because I think it was like this. He hadn't. He maybe had been to one playoff game with the Jags.
- [98:38]
Memes
Yeah, but he wasn't. He hadn't had that great of regular season, I think. But it was time for playoff lineage showed up.
- [98:44]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [98:44]
Joe Buck
Yeah.
- [98:44]
Big Cat
There he was. And it's great. There he was. Us.
- [98:46]
Memes
Yeah.
- [98:46]
Joe Buck
Just.
- [98:46]
Memes
Just say, like, he hasn't. I'm not asking you to lie.
- [98:49]
Joe Buck
Well, that's the thing. I mean, can we all just grow up on that whole thing?
- [98:53]
Big Cat
No, absolutely not.
- [98:55]
Joe Buck
You guys, it is part. So you control. I control it.
- [98:59]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [99:00]
Memes
So I'm one of baseball watching this. And. And. And they're like, oh, that. Well, that had nothing to do with him missing.
- [99:05]
Joe Buck
So I'm doing a baseball game.
- [99:07]
Big Cat
Not anymore.
- [99:08]
Joe Buck
Somebody just.
- [99:09]
Big Cat
God doesn't like you doing baseball games. They rain that out.
- [99:12]
Joe Buck
That's true. And somebody tunes in the game. And I'm not allowed to say, hey, you know, whoever Clayton Kershaw is pitching a no hitter.
- [99:23]
Big Cat
Yeah, that's.
- [99:24]
Joe Buck
That is the dumbest thing of all time. But you have to talk around it. Like Al Michaels talking around a bet. You have to go. And so far, Clayton Kershaw, well, there have been no hits.
- [99:36]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [99:36]
Joe Buck
Like, shut up.
- [99:37]
Big Cat
No, no, we're right on this. Yeah. You jinx it.
- [99:42]
Joe Buck
Stupid.
- [99:42]
Big Cat
Do you. Do you guys who change numbers? Because I feel like numbers.
- [99:46]
Joe Buck
Oh, my God, it's so bad.
- [99:47]
Big Cat
It's so bad. So like Luther Burden tonight. Do you know these changes? Number 10 three times before he played at Snap.
- [99:53]
Joe Buck
It's. If there's one. My. I am not smart, but the one thing I can do is I can go back for the teams that I really followed, and I can oddly come up with numbers with kind of random people.
- [100:07]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [100:07]
Memes
Big head. Do you want to hit the lotto machine?
- [100:09]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [100:09]
Memes
And whatever number comes up, tell us a guy that has this number.
- [100:12]
Joe Buck
Okay.
- [100:12]
Memes
We're gonna test you. It's numbers 1 through 100. Also, if you want to pick a number, just if you want to randomly guess what number it's gonna be, that's fine.
- [100:19]
Joe Buck
But here's my point. Well, that's subtle.
- [100:22]
Big Cat
Yeah. 35.
- [100:26]
Joe Buck
35.
- [100:27]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [100:28]
Joe Buck
Well, for me, that would be Matt morris of your St. Louis Cardinals.
- [100:33]
Big Cat
Okay, so question.
- [100:34]
Joe Buck
Yeah, it's been.
- [100:35]
Big Cat
But.
- [100:36]
Joe Buck
But messes me up because you get. I get used to seeing a number. I equate a lot of things with a player.
- [100:44]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [100:45]
Joe Buck
The way they run, the way a uniform fits the number, the. And that gives me a clue as to who the hell that is running down the sideline with the ball. And when they change numbers, it just. It's like a short circuit in my mind.
- [101:02]
Big Cat
Is it screwed up now? Because we hate that they have let everyone wear every number. Like wide receivers wearing numbers in the 20s and all that stuff. Does that actually make your job harder?
- [101:12]
Joe Buck
I thought it would, but it's. Some of these numbers are so unique now.
- [101:16]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [101:17]
Joe Buck
That. You know, like Micah Parsons being number one for Green Bay, I'll be able to see him easier now because it's so weird to me that defensive end, outside linebackers wearing number one. That I'll see it a lot better than I otherwise would. If he's a punch of 92. Is it 53?
- [101:39]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [101:40]
Joe Buck
Is it? Or then you go to, like, the Tampa Bay Bucks, who had jerseys that the numbers were, like, slanted and small, thin. And it's like, you're not giving me a chance. Or Detroit was. You know, Is that an 8? Is that a 6? Is that it's. And you almost. I have to wait because you don't want to go crazy and just start saying, touchdown. You know, whoever it is. Jameson Williams. Oh, no, that's. You know.
- [102:07]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [102:08]
Joe Buck
Josh Reynolds. People would go after there, but.
- [102:10]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [102:11]
Joe Buck
Yeah, they would. They go after you for everything.
- [102:12]
Big Cat
Yeah, they do.
- [102:13]
Memes
What jerseys are the easiest to see? Steelers.
- [102:18]
Joe Buck
Steelers are pretty good. They're pretty defined. It's really just the. It's the. It's. It's Tampa Bay that I. That I come up with. It's hard to just differentiate eights and sixes.
- [102:28]
Memes
They had the alarm clock ones for a little bit that were, like, almost.
- [102:31]
Joe Buck
Yeah.
- [102:32]
Memes
They broke.
- [102:32]
Joe Buck
They were obviously. They look digital.
- [102:34]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [102:34]
Joe Buck
Yeah.
- [102:35]
Memes
Really strange.
- [102:35]
Joe Buck
Yeah. I. I don't. And Brady was there then. I don't know what they are now. We've got them next week. They've gone from. They used to be the easiest when they were more red, when they were orange. And it was kind of blended in a little bit.
- [102:48]
Big Cat
It was.
- [102:48]
Joe Buck
It was. That was harder for me to see, too. And that stayed the old. That, you know, Berman used to call the sombrero. You were, like, hanging off the clouds, calling games there, and you're looking at tops of helmets running around, and it's. It's scary when you end up doing the game off tv.
- [103:05]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [103:06]
Memes
So when it comes time to leave the stadium. I know tonight at Soldier Field, Not a very easy place to get out of.
- [103:11]
Big Cat
No.
- [103:11]
Memes
After the game. So do you have, like, a secret tunnel? Do you have a. I do.
- [103:14]
Joe Buck
Yes.
- [103:14]
Memes
You do that.
- [103:15]
Joe Buck
Yes.
- [103:15]
Memes
That you're allowed.
- [103:16]
Joe Buck
I've spent the better part of the last two weeks digging it.
- [103:19]
Memes
What's the longest you've ever had to wait after a game to get out?
- [103:23]
Joe Buck
Probably an hour.
- [103:25]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [103:26]
Memes
Not great.
- [103:26]
Joe Buck
It's not great. They're usually pretty good with helping get people out from the bowels of the stadium. Get police escort sometimes nice, sometimes not all the time.
- [103:37]
Memes
I would abuse that so hard.
- [103:39]
Big Cat
Do you go.
- [103:40]
Joe Buck
They dump us, like, at the highway.
- [103:42]
Big Cat
Yeah. Do you go right home? Do you fly right home?
- [103:45]
Joe Buck
I'm not flying right home tonight.
- [103:46]
Big Cat
Okay. No, I just realized there's a lot of double headers in the Monday Night Football schedule this year.
- [103:51]
Joe Buck
Yeah. Derek's here. Was it.
- [103:52]
Big Cat
What's going on with that?
- [103:53]
Max
Four.
- [103:53]
Joe Buck
There's four.
- [103:54]
Memes
Who's doing the other games?
- [103:56]
Joe Buck
Chris Fowler.
- [103:58]
Big Cat
Okay.
- [103:58]
Memes
Herb Street.
- [103:59]
Joe Buck
No.
- [104:00]
Big Cat
Orlovsky.
- [104:01]
Joe Buck
Orlovsky. Louis Riddick.
- [104:03]
Big Cat
Okay.
- [104:04]
Joe Buck
Are the guys calling the game?
- [104:06]
Big Cat
Are you. Do you. When there's a double header, do you get upset if the other game is really awesome? No, I would.
- [104:13]
Joe Buck
No. Why?
- [104:14]
Big Cat
Because I'd be like, what the fuck?
- [104:15]
Joe Buck
I'm. I am my game. I am espn. Yeah, you go espn.
- [104:20]
Big Cat
Joe's winking at us right now.
- [104:22]
Joe Buck
No, I really do believe that that whole rising tide lifts all ships. I hope that all of our games are great, and I root for those guys. I don't feel any competition with that.
- [104:37]
Big Cat
What, do you guys, before a game have a plan if the game is a blowout? Like, do you, like, hey, this is.
- [104:43]
Joe Buck
What we're going to hit now? I mean, Troy, if you saw his spotting boards, you would be. You'd be blown away by the amount of writing that's on it. Same with me. His is just neater. Mine is just messy.
- [105:00]
Big Cat
You write it yourself?
- [105:01]
Joe Buck
Oh, yeah. I have to do all that stuff myself. I have to plug all the names, numbers, height, weight, colleges, years in the NFL, how they were drafted, how they were acquired. I have to do all that myself. Some people farm it out, but the only way I'm going to learn it is if I actually do it. If I mess it up.
- [105:16]
Big Cat
Up.
- [105:16]
Joe Buck
Like get the US Open Champions girlfriend's name wrong. I want it to be my mistake. I don't want it to be, hey, I just gave some kid 300 bucks to do all my homework for me. No. So I. That's kind of where you go. Oh, okay. I can get into this. I can get into that. I can get into this. My hope is that I've done all of that crap for nothing. It's. It's all old. It's all history. There's nothing new that's on my board. The only new thing that I'm going to see is when they kick off at 7:15 tonight here in Chicago. And if you can keep your eyes on the game and not in your notes, because the game is so bad. We did that Super Bowl. That was Denver, Seattle. Oh, man, that. And you're like, oh, my God, there's 100 million people on the other end of this thing that I'm talking into right now. And this game is awful.
- [106:08]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [106:09]
Joe Buck
And then, you know, we're talking to, you know, first snap went over the head of Peyton Manning. Troy and I are talking at halftime. I don't even know who was doing the halftime show. We're like, oh, my God. And then Troy goes, okay, but it's Peyton Manning. If there's anybody that's going to bring him back, it's Peyton Manning. And then they kick off to start the second half, and Percy Harvin runs it back for touchdowns. Like, we're, like, throwing our pens. And that's one. If I go back and I listen to the game, the broadcast, I must have said how much time was left in the third quarter? 15 times. And with that, there's 7:12 left in quarter number three. It's just. You can't. It cannot end fast enough.
- [106:49]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [106:49]
Memes
And I both had the Broncos in that game.
- [106:51]
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah.
- [106:52]
Joe Buck
So my wife. My wife. My wife was good.
- [106:56]
Memes
I like that.
- [106:57]
Big Cat
Yeah, that was good.
- [106:58]
Joe Buck
I was a Broncos cheerleader.
- [107:01]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [107:02]
Joe Buck
Second bound.
- [107:05]
Big Cat
That would be awesome.
- [107:07]
Joe Buck
Handoff. So my wife, you know, is. Bleeds, Bronco, whatever they are.
- [107:13]
Big Cat
Orange and blue. Orange. Yeah.
- [107:14]
Joe Buck
And we did our production meetings with Denver first and then Seattle. So on, let's say, Wednesday, we met with Denver, and it was great. We're on their team bus doing our. In the back of the bus talking to Peyton Manning, and then somebody else would come back there, and it was great. Then the next day, we go, I think the Giants facilities, where Seattle was, and we met with the Legion of Boom, all as one group. And, I mean, Earl Thomas and Cam Chancellor and Troy and I walked out of that production meeting, and it was like, denver's got no chance. They looked like they were ready to run through a wall on Thursday.
- [107:57]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [107:57]
Joe Buck
And I went back to the hotel and. And Michelle's like, well, how was it? I said, I don't think you're gonna like this game. And her brother flew in and she had family and that was the game in New York. And it was just. That was one that I, I could see coming.
- [108:10]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [108:11]
Memes
Do you ever have any intrusive thoughts when you're in the booth?
- [108:14]
Big Cat
Ooh, good question.
- [108:15]
Memes
Like, what if I just said, yeah.
- [108:19]
Joe Buck
No, but I will now.
- [108:20]
Big Cat
All right, good, good. Nice.
- [108:22]
Memes
If there was a, like, you know, they do the, the Nickelodeon kids broadcast. If there was like an adult. If they didn't have any rules on.
- [108:28]
Joe Buck
What you could say, oh, I would, I would have the greatest night of my life.
- [108:32]
Memes
They should do that. I would like, I would be.
- [108:34]
Joe Buck
Yeah, but then it's. Then it's. It doesn't happen. I'm done. If I, if I say what really goes through my mind, it'd be a great last night on tv. When I'm done, I will announce it here. Oh, I will then go into the booth, lock in, and I will have the greatest night of my life.
- [108:56]
Big Cat
How many, how many years you got left? Have you thought about it? I hope you never retire. Oh, no, I mean that it would be. There'd be a huge hole in like the football. Announcing is hard and at your level is very hard. And we'd lose a big game voice and that would suck.
- [109:12]
Joe Buck
Well, thank you if you mean it. I do, but thank you. And I did. Oh, I'm just kidding.
- [109:17]
Big Cat
I mean, it's.
- [109:20]
Joe Buck
That was a big thing when I was young.
- [109:22]
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah.
- [109:25]
Joe Buck
I don't know. 10 years, 12 years, 15 years. I don't know. But, but.
- [109:30]
Big Cat
So we're not close.
- [109:31]
Joe Buck
I'm not going to do the, you know, Dan Patrick, man makes plans and God laughs. Or I'm not. I have no idea. I could get hit by a bus getting out of here. Even though our driver.
- [109:42]
Big Cat
Yeah, your driver. You're like. You're basically the President of the United States because you're driving.
- [109:47]
Joe Buck
They did a dry run.
- [109:48]
Big Cat
They did a dry run at 8:30 in the morning to the office and made sure that everything was. I think they swept it.
- [109:54]
Joe Buck
There must be a good breakfast place.
- [109:55]
Big Cat
Near here there, actually.
- [109:56]
Memes
Yes, right on the corner. Oh, well, that's exactly what happens. Just watch that got the parking lot right. Although it is a dangerous parking lot for drivers, some people have hit the pole there.
- [110:04]
Joe Buck
It's. It's a little tight.
- [110:05]
Memes
Yeah, it is.
- [110:05]
Joe Buck
You got a lot of room here. You got. Like I saw, I counted at least 4,000 employees here.
- [110:12]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [110:12]
Joe Buck
Every one of them looks the same.
- [110:14]
Big Cat
And they're not doing anything.
- [110:15]
Joe Buck
They're not doing any, any. They're just walking around.
- [110:17]
Big Cat
Like, you would think that, like, Joe Buck, like walks in and maybe try to look a little busy, but we got guys who probably should be like.
- [110:23]
Joe Buck
The von Trapp family. Yeah. Like, hello, hello, sir.
- [110:27]
Big Cat
They're like, it's the opposite.
- [110:28]
Joe Buck
Hey, what's up?
- [110:29]
Big Cat
They're like, oh, hey, you want.
- [110:30]
Joe Buck
Hey, what's the ice cream?
- [110:31]
Memes
We got the scream going.
- [110:32]
Joe Buck
Some ice cream.
- [110:33]
Big Cat
We bet on this baseball game. You want to sit down?
- [110:35]
Joe Buck
Yeah, actually, I actually prefer that. Yeah, Yeah. I, I see why you guys like this so much. If you're glad that your ego has dragged everybody to Chicago, it said, let's listen.
- [110:47]
Big Cat
You get a full basketball court golf simulator.
- [110:49]
Joe Buck
That's what you're still selling them on that?
- [110:51]
Big Cat
Oh, yeah.
- [110:51]
Joe Buck
Oh, yeah.
- [110:52]
Big Cat
I mean, hey, it's a.
- [110:53]
Joe Buck
Hey, ice cream. Yeah, but I'm uprooting my family.
- [110:56]
Big Cat
No, you get ice cream. The big sell is the not working part. Well, we got a bunch of Kawhi Leonards around here. No Showcase.
- [111:03]
Joe Buck
Seven year old twins. I. I'm. I'm aiming them right for your front door.
- [111:06]
Big Cat
Oh, I can't wait till you're. Oh, man, I can't. If we're still doing this in like 12, 13 years and I get a text from Joe Buck being like, hey, hey, my son really wants to intern over the summer. Oh, man, would that be great. Do great.
- [111:18]
Memes
Any of your kids have good voices?
- [111:21]
Joe Buck
Well, my oldest daughter sings. She's. She's got a really nice voice. Okay, the two young ones, that's be.
- [111:29]
Big Cat
Odd to too high pitched.
- [111:31]
Joe Buck
Yeah, I mean, I give them till they're 13. Maybe when things happen, they'll, they'll. You know, when I started when I was 19 with a car, I'd fill in with the Cardinals. I was 19, which back then somehow oddly felt normal. And now that I've had kids, I'm like, what was going on? Why was I doing games then? Or 21 and I sound like this. Here's a ground ball to short. Ozzy picks it up to his right, throws to first two out. And I was doing a game. My dad let me sit down. Daddy let me sit down for an extra inning. Game. And Ray Lankford bowled over Darren Dalton for a win at home over the Phillies. And my voice, I sounded like Peter Brady. It was the most embarrassing. It was like the curtain came down the whole time. I was trying to sound like I was 30 and I was 21 and my voice just broke and I Sounded like I was two. It was awful.
- [112:29]
Memes
Did you have a different voice for baseball as opposed to one for football?
- [112:37]
Joe Buck
No. I think the main thing is it's a different, like, rhythm. So maybe by the end of the game, you kind of. Like, tonight we did a preseason game, the Commander's preseason game, and both Troy and I were walking up to the booth, like, I don't know that I remember how to do this. Like, it's been so long since I've done anything. Like, when they kick it off, is it still going to work? Like, what do I say? And it takes a little bit of time to get into that rhythm of calling football. It's like. And that's why it's good. And people are like, well, you know, you moved on from Fox. But I know when he's going to jump in. He knows when I'm done. I know when he's going to go. And getting into that rhythm is just that. That's kind of what makes it good.
- [113:27]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [113:28]
Memes
Have you thought about going back to D.C. because I know that it's going to be the. The commanders and the Bears, the. The part of my take bowl. And I told Joe before he sat down that we. We're going to get a tattoo based on the outcome of this game. Whoever wins or whoever loses has to get that tattoo. Have you thought about running it back with Josh Harris and doing the handshake?
- [113:44]
Joe Buck
Oh, he's come into the booth the last. That happened, I think three seasons ago. He's come in the last two preseasons, and we make like, like, a stupid, elongated handshake as a joke.
- [113:56]
Memes
Oh, I like that. Good.
- [113:57]
Joe Buck
Yeah. And he's great. And. And I. Last year, his social media team or somebody was following him around, and so I did it. Like, we reenacted it. It was so weird, and I felt so bad because when I look at the replay of it, nobody has any idea, by the way, what we're talking about. But we're doing a preseason.
- [114:16]
Big Cat
No, no, we know.
- [114:17]
Joe Buck
And I'm talking with my hands.
- [114:19]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [114:19]
Joe Buck
And he's nervous as the new owner of the Commanders, and I have my hand, like, over in front of him, and he just, like, automatically shook it.
- [114:28]
Memes
You baited him.
- [114:29]
Joe Buck
I baited him.
- [114:30]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [114:30]
Joe Buck
So I. It's. I'm saying it was my fault. It was not his fault. I was stupidly talking, like, I don't know.
- [114:37]
Big Cat
Yeah. When you. When you're watching a game, can you turn off your, like, announcer's brain, or are you thinking like, oh, I would have said this Differently. Not that anyone's doing their job poorly, but are you thinking that while you're watching? Like, I. I, like when I'm watching porn, I'm like, oh, I would have already come.
- [114:53]
Joe Buck
What a comparison.
- [114:54]
Big Cat
Well, you know, like, you know, you just watching something, you're just kind of like, interest, you know, or inner dialogue.
- [115:00]
Joe Buck
Yeah. I'm gonna think about that next time I'm watching Mike Tico on a Sunday night. I. Yeah, I. I have a tough time turning that off.
- [115:09]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [115:10]
Joe Buck
You know, and. And then I. I am listening to. The worst thing is when you find a verbal crutch that. I don't know. If you guys go by. I'm guessing you guys do so much content here, you don't go back and listen to anything.
- [115:25]
Big Cat
No, but I have verbal crutches that I try to.
- [115:27]
Joe Buck
I. But I go back, and when I do watch stuff, that's what I'm watching for. Like, if I go. The pass is caught at the 15, I. That makes my. I am so mad at myself because I listen and I'll go through different seasons, and I'm like, my God, the whole year, I'm like, the pass is caught at the. And I'm trying like hell to break that habit. And when I hear other announcers with verbal crutches that they can't stop using, you notice, it drives me up a wall.
- [115:59]
Memes
So in this case, it's you holding out the word until you find out what happened.
- [116:03]
Joe Buck
It's me stalling.
- [116:04]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [116:05]
Joe Buck
Or coming up with the guy's name, or in the case of Tampa Bay or Detroit, figuring out who that is. It's easier when you've got Mike Evans, who's nine feet tall, and he wears number 13 in the front corner of the end zone and a jump ball. I can say Evans in the end zone. I don't have to wait, because I know that's Mike Evans. So that's. Yeah, that's kind of exactly what we were talking about before.
- [116:32]
Memes
For what it's worth, I thought that when you narrated our Dingers Only baseball challenge. You did a great job.
- [116:37]
Big Cat
You did a great job.
- [116:38]
Memes
Do you remember that?
- [116:39]
Joe Buck
I remember doing it. I. I.
- [116:41]
Memes
Do you have any idea what it was, or did you just read the words?
- [116:44]
Joe Buck
I read the words. I know. I think you provided me with video.
- [116:47]
Big Cat
Yeah, we're gonna. You're gonna have to do it again.
- [116:49]
Joe Buck
Oh. Oh, yeah.
- [116:52]
Memes
We also need you to write a chapter in our book.
- [116:54]
Big Cat
Oh, yeah. We should talk about that. You are.
- [116:56]
Joe Buck
The last forward I wrote was for Artie Lang.
- [116:58]
Big Cat
No, no, I think you got.
- [117:00]
Joe Buck
That should scare you.
- [117:01]
Big Cat
I think you got confused. We didn't ask for a forward. We need a full chapter.
- [117:05]
Joe Buck
Oh, a full chapter.
- [117:05]
Big Cat
Yes, yes. Okay. No, no, we're not asking for like.
- [117:08]
Joe Buck
You know, is this like the, the pardon my take.
- [117:11]
Big Cat
Yeah, we're doing, we're about to do. Yeah, we're about to do the 10 year anniversary, so. And you are a very big part of this show.
- [117:18]
Joe Buck
I find that that is funny. And I get comments. I know I say this every time I'm on, but somebody said it to me the other day. I said, I'm going to be on. Well, I said Wednesday because I play the game. We're doing it on a Monday. We're airing it on a Wednesday. But somebody said that to me, me on Friday. I don't know where the hell I was. And it just. I. Random people will come up and I love you on. Love you on. Pardon my take. I love it. And so, yeah, I little did I know I thought I was fired.
- [117:42]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [117:43]
Joe Buck
The first time I came on here.
- [117:44]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [117:44]
Joe Buck
Because you were giving me. And I was saying stuff back and I hung up the phone or got off the Zoom call or whatever it was before Zoom and I, I said to Jonathan Butnik, I'm like, I think I just lost my job.
- [117:58]
Big Cat
Like you, when we actually look at it, you coming on our show and then coming back on our show, which I think that's the other part of it where it's like they kind of.
- [118:07]
Joe Buck
He didn't go home.
- [118:07]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [118:08]
Joe Buck
They crying.
- [118:08]
Big Cat
Yeah. They busted balls. And then they became friends. They didn't. It wasn't like a one time because you were promoting your book and that was like a big moment for us. I think it was a big breakthrough.
- [118:18]
Joe Buck
Yeah.
- [118:19]
Big Cat
I mean, so we owe you a lot and how we're gonna repay you is have you write a chapter number.
- [118:24]
Joe Buck
What it would. That's what it. What a gift. Thank you so much.
- [118:27]
Big Cat
Homework. Yeah.
- [118:28]
Joe Buck
Good. If you want to write so free.
- [118:29]
Memes
Time, we could collab on a chapter about hair plugs.
- [118:32]
Joe Buck
Let's do it. I did the front. I did the front. You did the back one.
- [118:36]
Big Cat
Regular hair. It's perfect. But yeah, no, I. We do appreciate you. We say it every time, but it is. It's crazy to look at it and do this because, you know, we've been working, working, working, and you get to 10 years and then we look back and like, damn, we've done some pretty cool stuff.
- [118:50]
Joe Buck
And we're. You have. And now you're. Are you in bed with Fox, too?
- [118:55]
Memes
Yes, very much, yes. Me and Cletus, we share a twin size.
- [118:59]
Joe Buck
You've been out to those studios. Do they still have Cletus in the front lobby there?
- [119:03]
Memes
So. So I. I do Thursday mornings. Big cat does Tuesday mornings.
- [119:08]
Big Cat
Wake up Barcelona.
- [119:09]
Memes
And I asked if Cletus could come to the studio. They sent me a collectible figurine. I think it's back there somewhere. Oh, yeah.
- [119:16]
Joe Buck
Oh, yeah.
- [119:18]
Memes
And then they said that they're going to work on getting Cletus out for an episode.
- [119:20]
Joe Buck
I never got one of those.
- [119:21]
Memes
We gotta have Cletus do the car wash here where he goes on like every show.
- [119:24]
Joe Buck
That thing is scary.
- [119:25]
Memes
Yeah.
- [119:26]
Joe Buck
Used to come to the seminars we had and would walk around and I didn't know there was somebody in there or if it was remote controlled or. But it looked like it could rip your throat out.
- [119:35]
Memes
How big is it?
- [119:36]
Joe Buck
Gigantic. It's like nine feet tall.
- [119:39]
Big Cat
You were scared of the robot.
- [119:41]
Joe Buck
I was scared of the robot, yes. Yes, I was.
- [119:44]
Memes
Oh, there's Cletus.
- [119:44]
Big Cat
Look at.
- [119:45]
Memes
Yeah, Cletus is awesome. That's our co worker right there.
- [119:49]
Joe Buck
Yeah. It's disconcerting to be next to something that mechanical.
- [119:55]
Memes
Yeah, but no, we've. We've loved it so far. You're a colleague now. How does that make you feel? Probably pretty bad.
- [120:00]
Joe Buck
I'm not there anymore.
- [120:03]
Big Cat
If you're a teammate.
- [120:04]
Memes
If it was base. If it was baseball.
- [120:05]
Joe Buck
It was baseball.
- [120:06]
Big Cat
You're not at Fox anymore.
- [120:07]
Joe Buck
No, I. Did you guys get that?
- [120:09]
Big Cat
No, we don't know that.
- [120:10]
Joe Buck
Yeah.
- [120:10]
Memes
You're not even allowed to do baseball on Fox.
- [120:12]
Joe Buck
No, I'm not allowed to do anything on Fox. I don't even. I had Fox taken off my television in St. Louis.
- [120:16]
Big Cat
Well, you're doing this show and we're going to re. Air it on Fox.
- [120:18]
Joe Buck
Oh, no. Better not.
- [120:20]
Big Cat
Not.
- [120:21]
Joe Buck
You better not. Derek Volner will come after.
- [120:23]
Big Cat
We're going to use all the words you've said in this. Yeah. That will be actually the game of the week next Sunday. Oh, it's you calling that game.
- [120:30]
Joe Buck
Just piecing pasting words together.
- [120:32]
Memes
Oh, yeah.
- [120:33]
Joe Buck
Oh, yeah.
- [120:33]
Memes
When we do the Dingers only, we'll put the little Fox Sports logo.
- [120:36]
Big Cat
You better.
- [120:37]
Joe Buck
If you do it, we're done. That's the only thing. That's the only thing. Yeah. It can get me to not ever come back to this little frat house.
- [120:46]
Big Cat
What's the one? We'll wrap up in a second because you got to go call the game. Big fancy job. What's the one game that you wish.
- [120:53]
Joe Buck
You could have called Buffalo, Baltimore last night.
- [120:57]
Big Cat
That was pretty sick.
- [121:01]
Joe Buck
God, I don't know. Maybe the 1980 US Olympic hockey team. Yeah, Al did pretty well with that.
- [121:09]
Big Cat
Did do pretty well.
- [121:11]
Joe Buck
The Hail Mary last year.
- [121:13]
Memes
Yeah, it was pretty good.
- [121:14]
Joe Buck
That was just crazy. I think it's any one of those that's just my favorite is the Minneapolis Miracle in the. In the end of my time is my 32nd year doing NFL and if there's one that stands above the others, it's the digs touchdown along the sideline because it was. That was one where I've got my mind made up that he's going to catch it. If he catches it and hop out of bounds to try a game winning field goal, he turns around. It was brilliant awareness because I think every receiver is taught to catch it and get out of bounds. Give your kicker a chance. And he turned around, nobody's there and he took it in for the touchdown. And that place was going to come down. Yeah, it was amazing.
- [121:58]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [122:00]
Memes
When you don't have the super bowl, do you miss having the Super Bowl?
- [122:03]
Joe Buck
No.
- [122:04]
Memes
Are you like this is awesome. I get to watch.
- [122:05]
Joe Buck
Well, when we were doing it on a regular basis, we're doing it every three years and it felt like every three years was about the right, right pace to that because it is big. I can't wait to do it next year. We're doing it next year at ABC, ESPN. And where is that Super Bowl, LA.
- [122:22]
Big Cat
Okay.
- [122:23]
Joe Buck
Which. It's just, it's, it's going to be the biggest day in ESPN history. I think, you know, with, with what's on the line and, and to get back into that rotation for Troy and me, it just, there's no day like it. And in broadcasting to talk into a microphone and know that there's that many people on the other end, 94% of which are not listening to one word you're saying. They want to watch the commercials and see if their bet came worked. But it's, it's really cool.
- [122:53]
Big Cat
Does time crawl for you on Super Bowl Sunday when you're calling it?
- [122:56]
Joe Buck
Yeah, I think it's, that's kind of the small thing about being out in LA and being on Pacific Time because it comes up a little quicker.
- [123:04]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [123:04]
Joe Buck
You're kicking off it. Would it be 325 instead of 525 or 625? So yeah, it's, it's a little easier to get to game time, which is awesome.
- [123:13]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [123:14]
Memes
So who's your prediction for Super Bowl 2027 in LA. You have the script, right?
- [123:19]
Joe Buck
Yeah, I have the script. It'll be Detroit against Buffalo.
- [123:25]
Memes
Okay.
- [123:26]
Big Cat
Detroit against Buffalo. Oh, that would be a great super.
- [123:29]
Joe Buck
Bowl rematch from this year.
- [123:32]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [123:34]
Joe Buck
No.
- [123:35]
Big Cat
Okay.
- [123:36]
Memes
Damn. Who's into this year?
- [123:38]
Joe Buck
I can't say.
- [123:39]
Big Cat
Come on.
- [123:40]
Joe Buck
It's not our Super Bowl.
- [123:41]
Big Cat
That's true.
- [123:41]
Joe Buck
You'll have to have.
- [123:42]
Big Cat
You don't want anyone to. You don't want to do promo for.
- [123:45]
Joe Buck
The super bowl, right?
- [123:46]
Big Cat
Yeah, Yeah. I mean, you might accidentally end up watching, right?
- [123:48]
Joe Buck
Yeah. Then they. They would know about it.
- [123:50]
Big Cat
Right.
- [123:50]
Memes
You can spoil it then. Fewer people watch.
- [123:53]
Joe Buck
Yeah, that's true. But I think it's. I'm going to err on the side of not telling people that there's going to be a Super bowl this year.
- [123:59]
Big Cat
All right.
- [123:59]
Joe Buck
Just so they don't happen to just flip the channel and, oh, my God, the Super Bowl's on.
- [124:03]
Memes
You know what? We might team up with you in solidarity with Joe Buck. We're not going to announce the Super Bowl.
- [124:08]
Joe Buck
Are your commanders good enough to go.
- [124:10]
Memes
I'll tell you after Thursday night.
- [124:12]
Big Cat
Had a long. We had a debate about this because.
- [124:14]
Memes
I. I don't think that they are. I don't think they're a good enough team, but if they beat the Packers, I will. That will be enough to convince me that they are good.
- [124:21]
Joe Buck
Yeah, I agree with that.
- [124:22]
Memes
Thank you. Thank you, Joe. These guys tried to gas.
- [124:25]
Big Cat
No, I was thinking that was. Argue that I said that they went to the NFC Championship game last year. Going into the season, they got better. You should be thinking super bowl if you're a commander's fan. Like. Like that's not an unrealistic thought to have.
- [124:38]
Joe Buck
Yeah.
- [124:39]
Big Cat
And you can just think if there's.
- [124:40]
Joe Buck
One thing that you think would hold them back, defense. Like, I thought they should have been in on the Parsons thing.
- [124:50]
Memes
That would have been great. But I don't think Jerry was going to trade him in the division because the.
- [124:53]
Joe Buck
Or Hendrickson.
- [124:54]
Memes
Yeah, Hendrickson would have been nice. The Eagles tried to get Parsons, too.
- [124:57]
Big Cat
Yeah. They gave him the mo. The biggest offer.
- [124:59]
Memes
And then Jerry kind of stif him and said, no, we don't want to trade him to the nfc. So I don't. I don't think it was ever realistic. And then with the cap stuff, I don't know how any of the cap stuff works, but I think that was too rich for us. I don't think we could afford it.
- [125:10]
Joe Buck
Hendrickson would have been a nice ad.
- [125:11]
Memes
Hendrickson would have been a great ad. If we could have gotten him. But I. The defense is a little bit old, and I'm not. I'm not sold that they're going to be like a top 10 defense. If they're like top 15, top 10, then, yes, I could. I could see us getting to the super bowl this year.
- [125:25]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [125:26]
Memes
Next year's. You're wrong about, about the lines.
- [125:29]
Big Cat
All right, I got one last question for you. It's always great having you here, Joe.
- [125:32]
Joe Buck
Yes.
- [125:32]
Big Cat
Roback question. Rho, B, A, C, K.com promo code. Take 20% off your first purchase. Q, zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts. Roback.com promo code, take. I don't think I told this story on pmt, but I want to hear your side of it. We were in Tahoe for the golf tournament. You played well. Proud of you.
- [125:51]
Joe Buck
Right Dead middle. Yeah.
- [125:52]
Big Cat
Proud of you. I was out to dinner with my wife on that Friday night, and you were sitting a couple tables away. You hadn't noticed that I was sitting?
- [126:04]
Joe Buck
I did, yeah.
- [126:06]
Big Cat
Until the waitress brought, like, server. Server. Sorry. No, I think. I think it was a chick. The server brought. Brought like, six enormous cookies and chocolate dipping sauce and brought it to you and your wife. And you're like, we didn't order that. And then you turned around, and I was just sitting there sheepishly, like, yeah, that was my order. What did you. Because you didn't notice me until that moment. You're like, he's the cookie guy.
- [126:38]
Joe Buck
Yeah.
- [126:39]
Big Cat
That sucked for me.
- [126:40]
Joe Buck
Oh, I'm sorry. I, I, that was just pure happens.
- [126:43]
Big Cat
It was crazy.
- [126:44]
Joe Buck
I, it was. I, I'm really figuring out that there's, like, this crazy sweet tooth you have.
- [126:51]
Big Cat
I love. I love cookies.
- [126:52]
Joe Buck
I mean, the coffee's great.
- [126:53]
Big Cat
Thank you. Appreciate it.
- [126:55]
Joe Buck
This is gonna get me through at least the first half.
- [126:57]
Big Cat
There we go.
- [126:57]
Joe Buck
Tonight. Yeah. And you. And I said at least twice, hey, let's get a drink.
- [127:02]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [127:02]
Joe Buck
Guess what? Two people didn't get a drink together is you and me.
- [127:05]
Big Cat
Well, we got cookies.
- [127:07]
Joe Buck
We got cookies.
- [127:07]
Big Cat
We shared a cookie, and I ate all of them.
- [127:09]
Joe Buck
Yes. That was impressive. Those were.
- [127:12]
Big Cat
You turn around. You're just like, this fucking guy, can't stop eating.
- [127:14]
Joe Buck
Oh, that's not true at all. It was good seeing.
- [127:17]
Big Cat
It was great seeing you. Yeah. It's always fun running into you. Yeah. Maybe throw in a little Stella Blue coffee plug. I don't know.
- [127:23]
Joe Buck
Yeah. Sell it on during the game.
- [127:24]
Big Cat
Yeah. Also, you're.
- [127:26]
Joe Buck
That's called payola. I don't think I can do that.
- [127:28]
Big Cat
Well, okay. You Know what? I. You don't have to do that, but you do have to do the audiobook for our book.
- [127:35]
Memes
I like that. Good trade.
- [127:36]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [127:37]
Joe Buck
Okay.
- [127:37]
Big Cat
All right. That's great. Trade.
- [127:38]
Memes
All right.
- [127:38]
Big Cat
That's a great trade. We didn't win.
- [127:40]
Memes
We don't even need you to do the whole lot.
- [127:41]
Joe Buck
Just like my chapter.
- [127:43]
Memes
Do the first page, and then we'll use AI Joe Buck.
- [127:46]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [127:46]
Memes
And then fill in the rest with that.
- [127:47]
Joe Buck
Yeah, okay.
- [127:48]
Big Cat
We got it. Yeah.
- [127:49]
Joe Buck
I wrote. I did the audio version of my book, and they're like, okay, we have secured the studio. Four days, three hours a day. I said, oh, no, I am going to start reading it. And when I'm done, I'm done. And I read it straight through.
- [128:06]
Big Cat
That's awesome.
- [128:07]
Joe Buck
And by the end, I'm just mailing it in. Like, I. My voice was done. The end of it's got to be so bad.
- [128:14]
Big Cat
And that's got to be torture to.
- [128:16]
Joe Buck
Have to read the whole ball. It's like doing the video games. Yeah, I've done those before. Or it's like, round ball to short, bouncer to short, bouncer to short. Round ball to short. Like, can we fucking move on, please? Can we get that one more time? Bouncer to short. I'm like, I've got to do every team, every player, every. You got to do it at the end of a sentence. You got to do it at the beginning. You got to be excited. You got to be. It's. There is no work worse than that in this business.
- [128:43]
Big Cat
Yeah. I never even thought of that. How much it must suck to do.
- [128:46]
Joe Buck
Oh. And then they're like, hey, we got new names. Because I did Xbox, the first version of baseball. Like, we got new names. They send you a thing of, I don't know, 250 names. You got to do up, down, up. It's. I'm so glad other people do that.
- [129:01]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [129:01]
Memes
It was just a cash grab for you, Joe.
- [129:03]
Joe Buck
Totally. Like, oh, my God. Yeah.
- [129:05]
Big Cat
Yes. Good.
- [129:05]
Memes
Well, thank you, Joe.
- [129:06]
Big Cat
Yes. You're the best, Joe. We love you.
- [129:09]
Joe Buck
I love you guys back.
- [129:10]
Memes
You have to monitor, like, how much you talk before game.
- [129:12]
Joe Buck
No, this is actually good for me warming you up.
- [129:14]
Big Cat
We're fluffing you up.
- [129:16]
Joe Buck
You're fluffing me.
- [129:17]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [129:17]
Memes
Getting you, like, semi.
- [129:18]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [129:19]
Memes
In the voice.
- [129:20]
Joe Buck
Why does it always have to go there?
- [129:22]
Memes
You brought it up.
- [129:22]
Big Cat
You did.
- [129:23]
Joe Buck
I did not bring it up. I said, this is good, and you guys went off.
- [129:27]
Memes
We know what you mean.
- [129:27]
Joe Buck
You guys continue.
- [129:28]
Big Cat
You winked at us. Is a real game winking at us.
- [129:31]
Joe Buck
It's real good.
- [129:32]
Big Cat
I'm picking up real good. Yeah. All right, thanks.
- [129:35]
Memes
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- [130:25]
Big Cat
All right, let's wrap up. We got guys on chicks. Henry. Yeah, yeah. Hit it. Hit it, Henry. Hey, guys.
- [130:32]
Hank
Love the show. There's a bit of a problem in my friend group where none of us like one of the guys that's dating one of the original girls in our group. Original girl og. As if that makes a difference.
- [130:43]
Memes
It does.
- [130:44]
Hank
She brought him around and he started hanging out with us about one year ago and he's about three years older than. Than us.
- [130:49]
Big Cat
Whoa.
- [130:49]
Hank
He's honestly an. And he talks about us or our other friends when they aren't around. Like I said, none of us really like him, but we all feel like we can't really do much about it. Besides, he's dating our friend. Not really sure what to do. If anything.
- [131:05]
Memes
One of you sounds like.
- [131:06]
Hank
Something that's never happened before.
- [131:07]
Memes
When you guys have to sleep with him.
- [131:09]
Big Cat
Suck his dick.
- [131:10]
Memes
That would break it off.
- [131:11]
Big Cat
You got to suck his dick. Yeah.
- [131:12]
Memes
Break it up real quick.
- [131:13]
Big Cat
Just start sucking it.
- [131:14]
Memes
Take one for the team. No, I mean, you can't.
- [131:18]
Big Cat
You.
- [131:19]
Memes
Someone has to step up. You have one friend in the group that is like, she's the girl that's always like, my problem is I have no filter. You need the no filter girl to prove it right now.
- [131:28]
Hank
And you just get really drunk.
- [131:29]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [131:29]
Memes
The no filter girl in that group. You've. You are to blame for this. And you can no longer claim to be the one that's no filter. Unless you take the step up and.
- [131:38]
Big Cat
Tell this girl, I disagree. I think you just gotta do nothing because there's nothing you can do do. That's just life. You got to realize if someone's got a partner you don't like, it's, guess what? They like the partner more than like you. You could be friends forever. BFFs. It don't matter at all. Just because. Or suck his dick. Yeah. Like if you just do that. I actually do think that that would probably cause a riff. You'll have to do a little damage control. But the guy will probably be gone. Right?
- [132:09]
Memes
Mm.
- [132:09]
Big Cat
Though it'd be awkward if they, like, they stuck it out and just sucked his dick. That'd be a problem. Okay.
- [132:18]
Hank
Hey, PMT crew. How do I explain to my partner that even though my team is not playing, I want to watch the Sunday and Monday night games?
- [132:26]
Big Cat
What does that mean?
- [132:28]
Memes
I want to watch football.
- [132:29]
Big Cat
Yeah, football's on you.
- [132:30]
Memes
Just say football, question mark.
- [132:32]
Big Cat
Football. That's a crazy question. What do you. He's only. Is Jerry o'. Connell. You're not allowed to watch.
- [132:39]
Memes
It might be Max. Max.
- [132:41]
Big Cat
Did you watch Money football?
- [132:43]
Max
Full thing. Me and Memes. Well, me and Memes almost had the biggest banger parlay of all time. We had Caleb Williams, two plus rushing touchdowns.
- [132:51]
Big Cat
Are you a Monday football guy now?
- [132:53]
Max
I might be. That last play, he was. He got it to the half yard line.
- [132:59]
Big Cat
I don't understand this question.
- [133:01]
Memes
Yeah, I don't get football.
- [133:02]
Hank
Like, let's say their partner doesn't really follow football, and you're a big team, big fan of a team that played Sunday, and they're like, all right, you know, understandable. That's your team, bro.
- [133:11]
Big Cat
We're all fans of football more than anything else.
- [133:15]
Hank
All of us are.
- [133:16]
Big Cat
Yep. Yep. All of us.
- [133:19]
Memes
We all watch football.
- [133:21]
Big Cat
You just got to be like, football. I don't know. Just say that. You say it's. You're scouting for your team. Like, you have to watch the other teams to make sure you know what's coming for when your team plays.
- [133:31]
Memes
You also want to know if your team is good because you can draw some conclusions. Like, oh, this team won on Monday Night Football, but that team looked bad. And by the transitive property, that means my team might be better. You have to do all these. I don't. Again, what. What's the issue here?
- [133:47]
Big Cat
Yeah, I don't. I don't understand the issue either. It's football.
- [133:52]
Hank
The partner doesn't get it.
- [133:54]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [133:54]
Hank
How do you make them get it?
- [133:55]
Big Cat
Tell them football.
- [133:57]
Memes
Football's on. Football is on tv.
- [134:00]
Big Cat
I want to watch. I watch football. Just write that out like a caveman on a rock. Me watch football. Okay.
- [134:10]
Hank
I'm a big Giants fan and my wife is an Eagles fan. We have a two month old son. We moved to South Jersey two years ago, and I told my wife that I've always wanted a son to watch the Giants and with. I also told her it would literally ruin my life if he becomes an Eagles fan. My friends from down in Philly territory jokingly bought him an Eagles onesie jersey. She put it on him during the family vacation before the Eagles Cowboys game on Thursday. And I freaked out in front of her family. Kind of made an ass myself, but she 100 knew that I would. Now she's saying that I cannot dress him in any of the Giants here that I bought him. If she can't dress him in the Eagle, how do I make sure he grows up a Giants fan?
- [134:47]
Big Cat
I love the. The. He freaked out on a two month old. This is. This got to be. What is it not King Midas. Is it King Midas?
- [134:56]
Memes
Solomon.
- [134:56]
Big Cat
Solomon, you got to tell your wife, let's agree. We'll make him a Cowboys fan. And then if she's like, no problem, then she deserves it.
- [135:08]
Hank
Yeah, King Solomon.
- [135:10]
Max
But then you both just hate the baby.
- [135:12]
Memes
Cut the baby in half.
- [135:12]
Big Cat
But that's also kind of funny.
- [135:13]
Hank
That's what King Solomon did.
- [135:15]
Memes
He. He was told, cut your kid in half. Half. And then he was about to. And they were like, just kidding.
- [135:21]
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah.
- [135:22]
Memes
I've tested you and you passed the test.
- [135:23]
Big Cat
Yeah, the, like, if the other person. The test is if, like, hey, you got to cut the baby in half. And then one of them says, you know what I want. I care about the baby so much. You can have the baby. I will not. I will not see it get cut in half. So you got to see who. Who has that in them where they're like, you know what? I want the baby. I don't want. I don't want the baby to grow up a Cowboys fan. I would never wish that on anyone. That person is the rightful heir of the baby.
- [135:52]
Memes
It's like when we put tennis on TV on Sunday just to see if Hank's gonna watch.
- [135:56]
Big Cat
Correct.
- [135:56]
Memes
And when he does watch it, we make fun of him. But if he didn't watch it, we'd be like, okay, Hank, you can truly watch tennis because I know you're a football fan also.
- [136:04]
Big Cat
Just have more kids. Split it up.
- [136:06]
Memes
Get the rivalries going. That's like what Jerry's doing. He's raising one son. I think his son is a Republican and his daughter is a Democrat.
- [136:12]
Big Cat
Yes.
- [136:12]
Memes
Just get some debates going in the house.
- [136:17]
Hank
This is a weird one. Last one.
- [136:18]
Big Cat
Oh, hi.
- [136:20]
Hank
Daddy's X5 exclamation point. 10 explanation points. I didn't realize football season started it and then ran in an issue I had forgotten about since last season. Where am I supposed to sit on a football Sunday? My boyfriend sits on the chasse.
- [136:38]
Big Cat
Chase, chase, chase.
- [136:40]
Memes
The chase.
- [136:41]
Big Cat
Chass.
- [136:41]
Hank
A part of our.
- [136:42]
Big Cat
Is this why? It was a wild one because it had that word in it.
- [136:45]
Max
No, that's a tough word. That's a tough word.
- [136:47]
Memes
I would have Shay's lounge.
- [136:49]
Big Cat
Okay.
- [136:51]
Hank
It just looks like a word that's supposed to be said weirdly.
- [136:53]
Big Cat
Okay. Right.
- [136:55]
Hank
Part of our three person. On the chase. Part of our three person couch. And no matter where I sit, it's uncomfortable. He sets up a full camp set up over there with three venti coffees and snacks. So I've tried to sit next to him to also enjoy the snacks to which he says, there's a whole couch.
- [137:12]
Big Cat
Couch.
- [137:12]
Memes
Yep.
- [137:13]
Hank
When I sit on the other side, I might as well not be there. So I end up leaving the room to do anything else. But then a whole day happens and I don't see my guy. Help.
- [137:21]
Big Cat
Sounds like you actually answered your question. It sounds like. Where should I sit? The coffee shop? It sounds.
- [137:26]
Memes
It sounds like there's a whole couch.
- [137:27]
Big Cat
Yeah, there's a whole couch.
- [137:29]
Memes
I don't.
- [137:29]
Big Cat
Yeah. Anywhere outside.
- [137:30]
Memes
I'm confused. There's a whole couch. The. The chassis is connected to the rest of the couch, right?
- [137:37]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [137:37]
Hank
So, you guys, what is a chassis?
- [137:39]
Memes
It's like the. The part of the couch that sticks out.
- [137:41]
Big Cat
Out. Yeah, the big.
- [137:42]
Memes
So you can put your feet up.
- [137:43]
Big Cat
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
- [137:45]
Memes
What do you call it?
- [137:48]
Hank
Just a couch? Sectional. Sectional part.
- [137:50]
Memes
It's a whole couch.
- [137:51]
Big Cat
The L. Yeah. That is the primo spot. Let's just all agree that is the number one spot by far. Yeah. Listen, unless you're taller than your boyfriend, like, I don't think you get. You don't get that spot. Comfortability.
- [138:10]
Memes
It's a leg issue. Yeah.
- [138:11]
Big Cat
I think it's like a. Hey, look, you should be comfortable on the couch. I think she just is a little needy and wants to touch him. Yeah. Which is too much.
- [138:19]
Memes
Yeah. He's got his whole setup over there.
- [138:20]
Big Cat
Get a dog.
- [138:22]
Memes
There's a whole couch.
- [138:23]
Big Cat
Yeah. No, seriously, get a dog and just be like, go Take the dog out. You're good. You want a companion? Get a dog. Boyfriend doesn't exist on football weekends.
- [138:34]
Memes
Or just sit on the couch.
- [138:35]
Hank
There's an entire couch?
- [138:36]
Memes
Entire couch you could be sitting on right now.
- [138:38]
Big Cat
Yeah, but just get it.
- [138:39]
Memes
I'm taking the.
- [138:40]
Big Cat
Suck a dick, get a dog. Those are the answers.
- [138:42]
Memes
I'm taking the guy's side in this one.
- [138:44]
Big Cat
Yeah, Big time. Did anyone steal my jerky? It's in this back fridge. Okay. Were you gonna tell me?
- [138:53]
Memes
Yeah, sure.
- [138:54]
Big Cat
Totally. I was looking for it. I was like, where the. My jerky? I started getting angry.
- [138:58]
Memes
How's the weight loss going, guys?
- [139:00]
Big Cat
Down 11.5 as a team. Holy Max. Did you try the jerk jerky?
- [139:04]
Max
I did. It tastes. It tastes incredible. It tastes like steak.
- [139:08]
Big Cat
It's the best jerky ever.
- [139:09]
Max
Like, it tastes like medium rare jerky, which is.
- [139:12]
Big Cat
Yeah, you know, Shout out my guys. Applying a meat market numbers three.
- [139:19]
Max
During the Joe Buck interview. You guys say numbers?
- [139:21]
Big Cat
Maybe. Yeah.
- [139:22]
Max
A thousand times. Meme said three every single time back here.
- [139:25]
Big Cat
Hank, you can have three.
- [139:27]
Hank
You sure?
- [139:27]
Big Cat
Yeah.
- [139:28]
Hank
You want 22?
- [139:29]
Big Cat
Sure. I'll take 20, too. I like that.
- [139:31]
Max
I'll take 33.
- [139:33]
Memes
I'll take six.
- [139:35]
Max
You said 99.
- [139:36]
Big Cat
I was.
- [139:37]
Memes
I was about to give it to you, and then you started name calling.
- [139:38]
Big Cat
What do you have memes? What.
- [139:41]
Hank
What name did he call you?
- [139:42]
Big Cat
He called me a piece of. No, now. Well, now I'm keeping it. I'll be.
- [139:46]
Memes
Be.
- [139:47]
Big Cat
You're keeping 99.
- [139:48]
Memes
I was gonna give it to him.
- [139:49]
Big Cat
We don't do name calling. Yeah. Oh, yeah, we do. Yeah, we do. We don't do name calling. 91, Pug. Okay, 26.
- [140:03]
Joe Buck
1976.
- [140:13]
Memes
What if it's today?
- [140:15]
Big Cat
62. 62.
- [140:20]
Memes
Love you guys.
- [142:22]
Big Cat
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