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Big Cat
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We are back. We're back in studio off of the fourth of July vacation and we're ready to go. We're doing. We're basically going like it's football season a little Monday. Just the boys because we got a lot to talk about. We're going to do our Mount Rushmore of little embarrassing things. We are going to do our QB rankings which we do every year around this time. So we're going to officially put out the pardon my take Official, official QB tier. Should we tear it?
PFT
So I was thinking about doing tiers. I've got a couple that are tiered.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
And then a couple that are just straight up number rankings.
Big Cat
I like tearing.
PFT
We're going to piss so many people.
Big Cat
So many people off. We're going to. We're going to talk about our week off. Catch up. We got a lot of. Yeah, a lot of stuff. Talk about who's back of the week. It's gonna be a great show. We're gonna get to the bottom of the fact that Zach is apparently just cloned everywhere in America. Great show coming your way to get us going. Then we're heading to Tahoe for chill week. Before we do all that though, DraftKings. Nothing beats relaxing on a hot summer day and watching baseball. And the simplest way to get in on the action is to download the Pick Six app from DraftKings. It's crazy simple. Just pick more or less on the stats from for two or more of your favorite players and Boom. You're in the mix for big cash prizes. No gimmicks, no weird rules. Just ball. Nail your picks and you're heating up. Pick Six brings upside with payouts up to 500 times. Pick Six is live in a ton of states. Texas, Cali, Georgia, Missouri and lots more. Don't settle for a smaller payout. Switch to Pick six and right now new customers can take advantage of a special signup offer. Pick six from DraftKings in the most is the most fun way to play fantasy Sports. Download the DraftKings Pick Six app now and use Code Take. That's Code Take for new customers to get a special sign up offer. Better payouts, bigger wins only. With pick six from DraftKings, the crown is yours. Gambling problem. Call 1-800-G GAMBLER-HELP is available for problem.
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PFT
I'll tell you what. We're back. We're tan.
Big Cat
We're. Oh, we are. Really?
PFT
I think this is the tann this podcast has ever been.
Big Cat
Max, you Italian?
PFT
You look max swarthy right now.
Hank
Yeah, I'm Italian. I got some time in the sun this week.
Big Cat
We all got some time in the sun. Let's quick power ranking who's the most tan? Memes and sack are by far the least.
PFT
It might. It might be Big Cat. It might be Hank. But I can't tell if that's Hank's normal Hank, pretty tan. He's always tan.
Memes
I got a mean sunburn.
Big Cat
I got a mean.
Hank
But a mean sunburn turns into a great tan if you got the right skin.
PFT
Exactly.
Big Cat
No.
Memes
Two days. I'm good.
Big Cat
Have you guys been wrong? Raw dog? I've been raw dogging. In a few days. I did.
Hank
I've raw dogged every day.
Big Cat
Every day.
Hank
I didn't put on. I put zero ounces of Sunscreen.
PFT
My problem is think you're tougher than the sun. The sun, Yes.
Hank
I. I very much think that I'm.
Big Cat
Tougher than my kids have SPF like 70 lying around, and I'm like, this is. You just put on a. Put on, like a moomoo in the sun.
PFT
So I just raw dog on the 4th of July.
Memes
They're even more Italian.
PFT
Yeah, they are.
Big Cat
I'm not Italian. They are.
PFT
I had a personal challenge with the sun on the 4th, and I just stared. I stared it down.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
I said, it's you and me, Mano Imano. We've been going at it now for 40 years. Let's put it all on the line today. Didn't even get burned.
Big Cat
The bet. The best part about this being just going mono. Imano on the sun is like, you just get a nice lather, sweat, and you can trick yourself into being like, I worked out today. Where you just didn't. I was just sitting at the pool.
PFT
No, if you sweat, that's a workout.
Big Cat
That's a workout.
PFT
If you go in the sauna, that's a workout. If you get nervous, that's a workout.
Big Cat
Yeah, but we're back. We're back. So we're going no guest today because we haven't seen each other and 10 days, and we're about to head to Tahoe. We're gonna do some great interviews, and we also got some stuff we got to catch up on. Where do you guys want to start? I have so many things I want to get off my chest. I have a serious topic. If you want to do a serious topic. Let's wait.
PFT
Let's wait on the serious.
Big Cat
Okay.
PFT
Like, seriously serious.
Big Cat
It's as serious as serious could get.
PFT
I.
Big Cat
You want to do the serious topic? I would like to do.
PFT
Now I'm going to be thinking about the serious topic. If we.
Big Cat
If we don't. I would like to do the serious topic, and it's very serious. I thought about it for a long time, since Friday. I really do think that Joey Chestnut might be the greatest athlete of all time.
PFT
Yeah.
Big Cat
I actually, like, broke it down. So 17 titles. His comeback to Coney island, he goes, 70 and a half dogs. And I was thinking about it, and I was like, so I'll give you. Let's. Let's just be. Let's. Let's be liberal with it. Let's say, okay, Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps, Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali. We'll give you some of those.
PFT
Secretariat, Secretary Sachin Tendulkar.
Big Cat
But where does it. Like, where does It. Where does. Where do we. I think he's a better athlete than Pele, I think.
PFT
Oh, yeah. I mean, soccer is a team sport.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
If you have a couple guys missing from your team in a soccer game, you might not as well even play.
Big Cat
I think he's a better athlete than Wayne Gretzky. No offense to the Great one.
PFT
Yeah. I mean, like, I don't even really consider hockey to be athletics.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
It's more of just like, you know.
Big Cat
It'S ice dance, skating around with the boys.
PFT
Yeah.
Big Cat
Where. Where is Tom Brady or Joey Chestnut?
Memes
Tom Brady. But team sports is.
PFT
It.
Big Cat
Is.
Memes
It is a lot harder.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
Yeah.
Big Cat
I would say, like Tiger Woods. I would give over Joey Chestnut. Okay. I'm gonna. I'm fine with that. I don't. No offense to our good friend Scotty Scheffler. Joey Chestnut's a better athlete.
PFT
I think that Joey Chestnut can get there.
Big Cat
Johnny could get there.
PFT
It's Joey. It's Joey Chestnut, It's Usain Bolt, and it's Tiger Woods.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
That's it for me.
Big Cat
Would you say Michael Phelps?
PFT
Maybe. But he smoked marijuana. So bad example.
Big Cat
So whatever. However you slice it, he's like top five athlete of all time.
PFT
Yeah. No, what he did on the 4th of July, it was. What's so impressive about it is that there's nobody pushing him. No one's pushing him for. For second place. So the second closest got, what, like 40 something? It was a joke. It was not a contest. But he pushes himself because he's that determined of an athlete. He's intrinsically motivated.
Big Cat
Yep.
PFT
He wants to be great. He's sustained greatness.
Big Cat
And so all these are true. And it's almost 20 years now. 17 titles. Yep. I was looking at it because when you have, like, you know, these incredible once in a lifetime athletes, they're like, God, thank God I'm alive to watch this. Obviously people poke holes at it and they're like, well, he wasn't pushed because he's had to push himself. People forget Kobayashi was the greatest of all time. In his prime, he was in 2006. That was the last time that Joey Chestnut lost to Kobayashi. Kobayashi was 28 years old. It was a 12 minute hot dog race, and Kobayashi broke the record with 53 and a half hot dogs. 53 and a half.
PFT
Which was amazing at the time.
Big Cat
Amazing.
PFT
Here's the bottom line is Kobayashi was eating against plumbers and electricians.
Big Cat
Yep.
PFT
Joe Chestnut is competing against guys. Kobayashi that would have. That were Kobayashi and other guys that would have pushed Kobayashi Right.
Big Cat
So the next year after he lost that in 2006, he won. He beat Joey. He beat Kobayashi with 66 dogs. So he smashed the world record by.
PFT
13 and a half dogs.
Big Cat
He went and was like, is mine. Never looked back. 2008, first ever 10 minute contest. That was the last time Kobayashi pushed him because they had the famous overtime hot dog eat off.
PFT
Yeah.
Big Cat
Where he, he finished five dogs in 50 seconds after eating 59 hot dogs. And then here's the crazy part, because we obviously know 2015, Joey Chestnut gets broken up with a week before and Matt stoney beats him 62 to 60. Okay. I actually think that's better for his legacy because it shows that he's human.
PFT
Well, that's also true.
Big Cat
You have one blip.
PFT
Let's look at, at what Matt Stoney was doing for that one year that he showed. That's like Brady Anderson hitting 50 home runs.
Big Cat
Yeah, it's a good point. But then here's where, here's where Joey Chestnut is the greatest of all time, in my opinion, because he loses that 2015 year and then he comes back and he is the first man ever to eat 70 hot dogs. And then what does he do after that? He then beats his own Record with 72. Then what does he do after that? He beats his own record with 74. Then he has a down year with 71, and everyone's like, oh, shit, he's washed. He's like, ha ha, I'm gonna eat 75 and then I'm gonna eat 76. So he keeps pushing himself to that level. And then he obviously wasn't there last year. And everyone's like, well, is he washed? He's getting up there in age. No. 70 and a half dogs. He's the only guy who could eat 70 dogs. He's done it like six times.
PFT
Yeah. No one's going to touch him.
Big Cat
It's the greatest.
PFT
He's going to retire. When, when he calls it a day. It's. He's not going to get forced out by anybody. There's not going to be anybody that. That takes the crown from him. In fact, like, it's going to be a dark day when Joey Chestnut retires from eating. Oh, it'd be tragic because the, the next fourth of July is going to be a guy that WINS Eating like 43 hot dogs.
Big Cat
Yes.
PFT
He might actually kill the sport of hot dog eating. Yeah.
Big Cat
Yeah. No, never. Unless there's, unless there's a kid out there who's watching this and someday we'll eat 80 hot dogs. I'm. It's. We're gonna, we're gonna look back and say, hey, we were there for the greatest era of hot dog eating and it was Joey Chestnut. And again it's, it's all. It's coming up on 20 years now of Domino.
PFT
We don't even have somebody that he could pass the torch to. Right. There's no next up.
Big Cat
No Bonnie Blue? No.
PFT
I don't know.
Big Cat
No. The guy Badlands, he. I think he broke the record for most the Lemonade Chug.
PFT
Badlands booker's a cool guy.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
I got to, I got to meet Badlands booker and Joey Ch. A strip club in South Carolina. That sounds like back in like 2007. It was great. They were doing a corned beef cabbage eating contest.
Big Cat
Love it.
PFT
They were at the strip club until probably 4:00 in the morning. Just getting absolutely.
Big Cat
That's the thing is Joey Ch. I mean, you heard it on Wednesday when we had him on. He. He gets up after this. Oh, yeah.
PFT
I mean you have to.
Big Cat
When I competed in this competition, I ate 12 hot dogs and then I just laid on my bed for, I don't know, two days because I felt like such.
PFT
Yeah.
Big Cat
Joey Chestnut is like, yeah, I'm just gonna go booze more than anyone boozes after eating 70 and a half dogs.
PFT
I know that we've done it with, with the bear. The bear that sits down eats the hot dogs before. But I want to see like animals that can compete head to head against an all time eater like Joey Chessa. Like, what animal do you think would be able to accomplish the 70 hot dogs in 10 minutes?
Big Cat
It exists. Maybe, maybe like a blue whale just.
PFT
Because they could just, just throw it into its mouth.
Big Cat
Yeah, you just.
Memes
No meat though.
Big Cat
Yeah. What? They don't eat meat.
PFT
Oh, they got the, they got plankton. They got the bristles too.
Big Cat
What's going on in the whale world?
Memes
Just a lot more cleaning. Cleaning excursions. I've seen.
PFT
It's good to see.
Big Cat
Oh, okay.
Memes
People doing the Lord's work AI videos.
Big Cat
Yeah. And then we also had the Joey Chestnut. I. Max tweeted about this. The embrace debate. What was it? Max? I love this because this is peak July sports fodder. Yeah.
Hank
This was awesome. It was. If you have Usain Bolt and Joey Chestnut both at the start of 100 meter race, but neither of them are allowed to start the race until they finish a hot dog. Who wins?
PFT
I think Joey crushes.
Hank
It's not even close because you got.
Memes
To think that what about 400 400.
Hank
I think it's. Then it's Usain.
Memes
What about 200?
Hank
I think 200 is where it gets close.
PFT
I think 200. Usain Bolt would also win. I. But I think that it switches at a mile. I think Joey Chestnut beats him. No. What?
Big Cat
I don't think so. Yeah.
Hank
Where is the switch coming? I need you to explain this.
PFT
Well, stay with me here. Usain Bolt has literally never run a mile in his entire life, ever.
Hank
That's. That's a fact.
PFT
He said that on part of my take.
Big Cat
Did he?
PFT
Yeah.
Big Cat
I don't remember. His wi Fi wasn't great.
PFT
He has never run a mile in his entire life. Joey Chestnut. At least he looks like he works out.
Big Cat
Listen, I actually think Joey Chestnut. Like, if you told me Joey Chestnut could run an 11 second 100 yard.
PFT
Dash, like, probably you can do anything he wants.
Big Cat
Yeah. Right. I. I wouldn't be shocked.
PFT
I know. But I think 200 meters. I think Usain Bolt gets them.
Big Cat
Oh, yeah.
PFT
I don't know, because Usain Bolt could probably. He could take down hot dog in what, 10.
Hank
No, because, remember, so I was with PFT when we were doing this, when we were talking about this hypothetical.
PFT
Yeah.
Hank
And I tried to eat a hot dog as fast as I could.
PFT
Yeah.
Big Cat
Well, you're.
PFT
And no offense, Max, but you. I know I was about to say that you're not in as good shape as Usain Bolt, but you're probably.
Hank
What does that do with eating a hot dog?
Big Cat
I think we should do this.
Memes
How long does it take you to.
Big Cat
Eat a hot dog?
Hank
I got. It was like 10 seconds in, and I. I was like. I had bitten halfway through and I was still chewing. Like, I think it probably takes a normal person, like 30 seconds to eat a hot dog.
PFT
Can I be honest with you, Max?
Hank
What?
PFT
Until you just told me right now that you were trying to eat that hot dog as fast as you could. I had. No. I thought that's how you just normally ate hot dogs.
Big Cat
Wait, no water too, right?
Hank
No water.
Big Cat
Yeah. I think we should do this in Tahoe.
Hank
Okay.
Big Cat
Let's just find a track. Or we don't. We just do it in a field. Let's just all, like six of us just race one hot dog 100 meters.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
Just to see how long it would take.
Hank
Just to see how long it would take. The.
Big Cat
But.
Hank
But they're ne. They're not averaging either of the two things.
Big Cat
I would just like to see the video.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
I'd like to see the baseline video. Yeah. And actually we shouldn't we shouldn't do it head to head. We should do time trials because that would like everyone watching you eat a hot dog and then sprinting is awkward. That actually should be on the Mount Rushmore of embarrassing moments. Your boys watching you take down a hot dog and sprint.
PFT
But, yeah, I think. I think Joey crushes him. I don't think it crushes him.
Big Cat
Yeah, I think it's no waters. No water is. Makes it tough.
Hank
Hank will probably puke before he even has his best to run.
Big Cat
Hank's. I. I can already see it. It's going to be like, let's say Wednesday morning in Tahoe. Hank's going to be met. We're going to do it at, like, I don't know, say, 10am Hank's gonna be mad that we haven't let him eat yet. And then he's gonna be so hungry and mad at us. And then he's gonna eat half a hot dog and be like, I'm full.
PFT
That is your breakfast.
Big Cat
Yeah. And then he's gonna be mad at us that we made him too full. That's gonna be a fun day.
Memes
I'm excited.
Big Cat
Chill week. Hey, we. We made the rule last year. Chill week. We all just chill. We don't fight.
PFT
We're in a great mood last year.
Big Cat
Yeah. We're gonna do that again. Excited to go out there. So, yeah, I. That was a. When I saw you tweet about that, Max, like, this is just such a perfect, like, mid July where there's just nothing like you. You can. You can basically watch your baseball team and then have hot dog hypotheticals.
Hank
We were at a barbecue. We had the entire part. The entire party was talking about.
PFT
I love it.
Hank
Like, I. I would bring it up to one group of people.
Big Cat
There were people who were saying. You saying, oh, yeah.
Hank
Oh, yeah. There was a lot people. A lot of people online were saying it, too.
PFT
Yeah. All due respect, those people are dumb. They don't know dog.
Hank
Yeah, they don't know dog.
Big Cat
They don't. They don't respect. To go full circle here. They don't respect the greatness of Joey Chestnut.
Hank
Correct.
Big Cat
They respect Usain's greatness. They don't respect Joey Chestnuts. That's the problem. And I'm here to say he is top five. I'll give you four guys if you want to name he's top five athlete of all time. I think it's fair. I'd agree, folks. It's the foreplay. Guys, let's talk truly unruly. When you spend every Day following the countless laws of golf. Like us, it's refreshing to get a little unruly. Whether that means using the old hand wedge to escape the bunker or just cracking open a hard seltzer that breaks all the rules, few things feel better. Truly unruly is the first high alk seltzer that actually tastes good. It's hard hitting, but still light and refreshing, making it perfect for everything from the front nine to the clubhouse. Find it near you@trulyhardselter.com locations. That's trulyhardselter.com./ Locations. Hard Seltzer Beverage Company, Boston, Massachusetts. Please drink responsibly. Okay, that was my serious topic.
PFT
Okay, that was a good topic.
Big Cat
Yeah, I have a non serious topic.
PFT
Okay.
Big Cat
What's up with LeBron? Is LeBron going to Cleveland?
PFT
Is LeBron going to Cleveland?
Big Cat
Well, he's been golfing. I'll throw a couple things out there. One, he was golfing in. In. In Akron wearing a hat that said welcome home. He reposted. I believe it was the Cavs. Former Cavs athletic trainer maybe, who's like, gotta wear the, you know, the best jersey for Independence Day. And it was LeBron James, Cavs jersey.
PFT
Okay.
Big Cat
And he worked out at the Cavs facility, which that should be illegal if you're the Cavs.
PFT
Why are you letting him do that?
Big Cat
Because he's going to be a calf.
Memes
Could have just been home for the Fourth of July.
Big Cat
Oh, listen, I understand that, but he plays for the Lakers and the Cavs let him work out. Huh? Huh? Yeah. See, here it is. It's proper. Proper attire. Proper attire. I don't know. Is LeBron. Is he trying to work his way back to Cleveland?
PFT
I think that would be good. Yeah, I would like to see it.
Big Cat
And also, just throwing one more out there, Bronnie. I feel like Bronnie is starting to. I saw a press conference. I was like, hey, is Bronnie kind of getting out from underneath his dad's shadow? He was talking about how the only way he's going to make in this league is just being like a dog defensively, and that's how he's going to see the court. Didn't mention. The only way I'm going to see the court is playing with my dad for the Lakers. No, he didn't say that.
PFT
No, he didn't say that. So what about. LeBron did comment on this.
Big Cat
Okay.
PFT
On the 4th of July, what do you say? He said, and summer, since it was built, I live here still and train every summer. Got. Damn, y' all bored Man.
Big Cat
No, I don't think we're bored.
PFT
Goddamn.
Big Cat
I don't think we're bored. I think he's doing this on purpose.
PFT
Go get a plate of food somewhere and enjoy the Fourth of July.
Big Cat
Yeah, he's doing this on purpose to get everyone talking about it, and then he's gonna do it. I think he's gonna do it.
Memes
I don't think they want him.
Big Cat
I. That might be a different conversation.
PFT
Would you want him on the Celtics? No, no.
Big Cat
But the Cavs are good and they could. They also have a lot of good players that.
Memes
Theoreticals are good.
Big Cat
I know, I know. But they have the, you know, the Jared Allen, Evan Mobley. Like, there's a little redundancy there.
Memes
Do you think Cavs fans want them?
Big Cat
I don't know. I think there's definitely some Cavs fans.
PFT
Yes.
Big Cat
Yes.
PFT
I think cab fans would be completely okay with LeBron coming back to Cleveland.
Big Cat
I think, especially if they could get a guarantee that it was like, this is it, or maybe two years max, where we don't play the game of are you in or you out? Like, if the Cavs could actually strategically say, we have LeBron for a year, maybe call it two, but that's the plan. And we're not going to do, like, a song and dance and trading draft picks and doing this whole thing to try to extend LeBron's career.
PFT
I have seen.
Memes
What about Bryce?
Big Cat
What about him? Bryce Maximus, Arizona.
Memes
He wants to play with them.
Big Cat
I have seen in Cleveland.
PFT
I've seen some of the hypothetical trades that get thrown out there about. About LeBron. I don't even know if any of them actually work out. I think people just put faces on a graphic and they say, here's a trade that could work, and then hope that we don't plug it into the machine.
Big Cat
Yeah, yeah, exactly. I don't understand how any trades work. I mean, the Kevin Durant Trade would have 1717 trademark. It was insane. What did you think about LeBron's golf swing? Not bad. Does it feel good knowing that you could absolutely kill LeBron and golf? You could.
Memes
It does.
Big Cat
Like, you would. You would.
Memes
You would blame sport.
PFT
How long, though? How much. How much training would LeBron need to beat you?
Memes
Not a lot.
Big Cat
I think it's. I think it's like a week. I was gonna say like three months.
Memes
I mean, it's be. It hits the ball hard.
Big Cat
Yeah, yeah. If he had. And I mean, he'll probably get Tiger woods to teach him.
PFT
He's got a very compact swing.
Big Cat
Yeah, yeah.
Memes
Take him, like two months.
PFT
He'd probably be fine.
Big Cat
Yeah, he, he. I mean, any athlete like LeBron, they go out and they're around and he's probably, by the end of 18, was like, oh, I got a birdie on this hole. Like, how'd that happen?
PFT
How many times when he's playing and he hits a wedge through the guys that he's playing with, be like, hey, LA flop. Probably every. You got to say it every time, right?
Big Cat
Oh, yeah. I. I'm just saying Something's up with LeBron. He's at least. He's at least having fun with it. And I think there's more. I don't think LeBron. I think he does these things obviously very much on purpose.
Memes
I mean, I would respect it if he just goes home with his boys and is like, getting up, like, just. Should I just start posting this stuff?
PFT
Yeah, he might be doing exactly that.
Big Cat
But I feel like he's more calculated.
Memes
Than that when you're with your boys. Yeah, it's like kind of like fourth of July.
PFT
You got the vino out.
Memes
Yeah.
Big Cat
You're on the cold cigars. Okay. All right. So that was. Yeah, those were my serious and unserious topics.
PFT
Okay. Those are good topics.
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah. What else. What else we got going on that we wanted to touch on before we do our QB rankings, which is going to piss people off. 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.
PFT
I just have a quick seeing red on the Nationals.
Big Cat
Oh, go for it.
PFT
Permission to go there. They fired their GM a week before the draft. We've got the number one pick in the MLB draft, our general manager, Rizzo. He. He did a very good job as the general manager working for an owner that would not give him any money to spend. So he was very limited over the course of the years what he could do. He put together World Series roster, made a great roster, hit on a bunch of great draft picks, and now you're firing him. The speculation is you're firing him because you're getting. You're selling the team, and you want to get every single front office contract off the books right now. So they fired Davey Martinez, the manager, also World Series champion, and then the. The surprise, though, was firing Rizzo, the general manager.
Big Cat
I don't.
PFT
I don't know what you expect this guy to do. Like, you can't you couldn't sign Juan Soto, you couldn't sign Trey Turner to a long term contract, couldn't sign Bryce Harper to a long term contract. All because of money.
Big Cat
Right.
PFT
Not because of any. Not because of anything that Rizzo did. And he did a great job getting everything he possibly could get for stto. Like two hours before they announced that they fired him, MLB announced the All Star rosters, and two of the guys that we got for Juan stto are on their. On the All Star roster for the first time.
Big Cat
Pretty good job.
PFT
James Wood. He did a great job. I. It doesn't make any sense blaming any of the failures of the team on that guy.
Big Cat
I.
PFT
That's what I don't.
Big Cat
I agree with all of that, except for I. I think firing him before the draft. You can't make. Let him make the pick if you're gonna fire him.
PFT
He's already done all the work, though.
Big Cat
Yeah, but you can't let him make the pick. You gotta just be like, you gotta get out of here If. If you're gonna fight. Like, if they were saying to themselves, we're gonna fire him at the end of the year, just get him out before the draft.
PFT
Yeah, but like firing a GM because you didn't give him enough money to spend on good.
Big Cat
No, I agree.
PFT
That's like divorcing your wife because you got fat.
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah. Being like, why? Like, what's. What's wrong? She gained, you know, two pounds. You gained 50.
PFT
You gained 50 pounds. Yeah. Yeah. We've gained a lot of weight. Yeah.
Big Cat
Cumulatively, yeah, I. That is pretty crazy.
PFT
I don't. I don't like it, but I guess I'm hoping that it means that they're gonna sell the team soon and that's why this is all happening. But. Yeah, Just bad. I don't like it.
Big Cat
Can I. What? Dovetailing off the All Star thing. Say a Suzuki should have been an All Star. He got stopped. He got what? What? Max. Because it was Schwaber.
Hank
No, I mean, there's. There was a lot of snubs this year.
Big Cat
All right, Give us some snow.
Hank
Trade Turner. Trainer Trey Turner leads league in hits and he didn't. And he didn't even get a reserve spot.
Big Cat
Say Suzuki leads the in in RBIs, 4th in home runs, 12th and OPS stud. He should have been.
Hank
Also Christopher Sanchez should have been in over Mackenzie Gore. That makes no sense. He has a lot. He has.
PFT
I like this.
Hank
He's seven. He has. He has more wins.
Big Cat
He has a lower wing bush should have Probably.
Hank
He has a lower er and a lower whip. You don't even know what whip is.
PFT
I do know what whip is.
Big Cat
Say it.
PFT
It's what you put on your pot.
Hank
There we go.
PFT
Walks, hits, per inning pitch. I know exactly what whip is. You probably don't even know what BABIP is.
Hank
We talk about BABIP on the show. That's like the one. That's like the one thing we know.
PFT
It's the best stat for losers.
Hank
No.
PFT
Yeah.
Hank
Christopher Sanchez not being in is ridiculous. Trey Turner not being in his say. Suzuki not being in his Whatever.
Big Cat
Just put everyone.
Hank
Put everyone in loaded roster.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Everyone gets in at bat. It doesn't matter.
Big Cat
You have to give guys a batch now.
Hank
I get pissed off when you don't like that.
PFT
I have a question.
Hank
If it's your guy and they and you wait the whole game and they don't. And they don't get in.
PFT
I have a question.
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah.
PFT
They haven't announced the full Home Run Derby roster yet, have they?
Big Cat
They have not.
PFT
It's trickling out.
Big Cat
What is the. What's the current. Zach, can you, can you google what the current list is? We have some guys that I feel good about.
PFT
We got Tuna. Yep.
Memes
Cal Raleigh.
Big Cat
Yep.
PFT
Big Dumper. James Wood.
Big Cat
Yep. It's piece. No PCA is not it.
PFT
But my question was going to be. Because when I tweeted out about James Wood being the Home run derby memes said announced Yellich in the derby memes. Do you want. Do you want to see?
Big Cat
Yeah. You know your. Your job would be. You wouldn't have a job. Why? Because the show would end. The last scene of this show would be us eating each other's ass.
PFT
We can't come back from.
Big Cat
It'd be over.
PFT
You have to do a follow up podcast.
Big Cat
No, no, no, no.
Memes
Yeah.
Big Cat
It would be like. We'd be like numbers. Oh, and one last thing. I gotta eat PFT's ass and that's it. It'd be over.
PFT
It'd be the best sign off of all time.
Big Cat
You're rooting for your own demise.
PFT
I'm rooting for him to participate.
Big Cat
But when the show ends, are you gonna be like who you're. You're going to be Tim. Tim Robinson Hot dog meme. Who like we're all trying to find a guy who did. You guys did this? Well, yeah, but we're trying to not to push so much you guys. To be fair, Big not asking for yellow should be in it.
PFT
Big cat did it. I, I being a good co host. Did some. Yes. And yeah. Where you roll along with it before you know what you say, and then you realize everything that you've said. And then you're the real pervert. The real sicko is Memes, who literally wants to watch this.
Big Cat
Also, we did it for that Christian Yellich who had never hit 20 home runs. Yeah, not this Christian Yellich. You think he's gonna do it?
PFT
He's not. Yeah.
Big Cat
No.
PFT
Yes. Think of that live stream. Oh, he's not going to recall him and ask him.
Big Cat
He's.
PFT
No, I don't. I don't. I don't want to give him the. The pleasure of knowing. Hold this over.
Big Cat
You're right. You're right. Oh, God. Memes. Memes is addicted to it. I wanna. I'm gonna say this right now. Hank's best friend, Gaz, who always. Who listens to every part of my take. Shout out, Gaz. Big time awl.
Memes
Stats and info.
Big Cat
He does stats and info. Info. He also runs all of our. He's head of all of our social partial sports. I want to say right now, guys, if Christian Yellich competes in the home run derby and wins a home run derby, all of Meme's tweets should not count for his socials. Like, all of the numbers he racks up. Do not count those reports.
PFT
Throw them out, because that. Those are ours.
Big Cat
That's.
Memes
That's. Those are passion numbers.
Big Cat
Oh, my God. He'll. The numbers. He just. Ah. And then I actually think memes.
PFT
Actually, it would make us lose followers.
Big Cat
Yeah. And I also think memes. Oh, yeah.
PFT
Oh, yeah.
Big Cat
I'm actually thinking about it right now. Memes, I think will ascend to a higher being. What is it? Buddhism or. Or what is it? Buddhism?
Memes
Ketosis?
PFT
Mormon. Mormonism.
Big Cat
They ascend to a higher level.
PFT
Scientology.
Big Cat
Yeah. Scientology. Measureless. Ascend to a higher level when it's me eating PFT's ass. And then Memes makes both of our faces, Max. And that's it. Yeah, that's it. That's Memes finals. That's his final note.
PFT
Oh, he makes. He makes your butthole, Max.
Big Cat
Oh, man. He's not competing, right? I. Listen, thank God Cal Raleigh's in there because I. We needed that.
PFT
Cal Raleigh is amazing.
Big Cat
James Wood. I'm gonna be the biggest James Wood guy.
PFT
James Wood's great.
Big Cat
Yeah, I wouldn't mind if you guys.
Memes
Just have to get a jersey. Like seven jersey.
Big Cat
Rooting for every other player. Yeah, every guy.
PFT
He's not gonna do it.
Big Cat
I'm not crazy if he. Oh. Oh, that Was.
Memes
No, I think mlb.
Big Cat
That was the year that he hurt his back.
Memes
I think they're gonna slowly roll it out, and then they're gonna. He's gonna be the last person announced.
PFT
Yeah. The 2019 Home Run Derby roster. He was the number one seed going into it, and then he hurt his back.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
You don't want to hurt your back again, Christian.
Big Cat
No, you don't. Oh. Since we're talking ball, we should say that it's kind of a who's back. But guys betting on their own team. Luis Ortiz for the. For the Guardians.
PFT
Yep.
Big Cat
What an. Of all the gambling stories that have come out of who's the Giante Porter. Malik Beasley is obviously going through right now. This one is very funny. In just the simple fact that they have two pitches that, like, alerted all the systems and then showing the pitches, he just throws it 40ft. Yeah. And he just told his boys, like, dude, hammer ball to start this inning.
PFT
It's. It's pretty blatant, pretty obvious.
Big Cat
It's a tough one for him to have to try to get out of.
PFT
So he's on paid leave right now.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
So they're investigating. What is the investigation going to entail?
Big Cat
I don't know.
PFT
Just like, hey, you did this, right?
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
This is real video, right?
Big Cat
Yeah, this is.
PFT
He should be like, it's AI.
Memes
Well, no, they got to track it back to him.
PFT
I mean, first.
Big Cat
Yeah, that sounds like. But these were such egregious balls in the inning.
PFT
Yeah.
Big Cat
They weren't even close.
Memes
Some people were saying they're setup pitches.
Big Cat
Yeah, that's true. Set up your boys for a great day. So.
PFT
Yeah, I guess just a shitload of people bet on those certain pitches.
Big Cat
Yeah. And those are obviously bets that are, I would imagine, don't have a ton of action. So when there's a spike, it's pretty easy for them to be like, hey, what the fuck's going on here?
PFT
Yeah. Watching it side by side is very funny.
Big Cat
Very funny. Okay. What. Any other baseball stuff?
PFT
Baseball's.
Big Cat
It's just rocking, right?
PFT
Baseball's just going.
Big Cat
Cubs are eight home runs on. On July 4th. That was sick.
PFT
That was pretty great.
Big Cat
That was a pretty cool thing to do. Dingers only if you missed it. We all have our teams, and we're. We're smashing dingers. What are the live standings? You have a memes shout out to Awls who have live trackers. There's a couple guys out there that put out good live trackers. Oh, you. Oh, here we go. Hunter Whitlow. Shout out. Hunter Whitlow. Right now we have in first place. It is a tie. Steven Shea, Hank, Jersey Jerry.
Memes
No, Brandon.
PFT
Oh, no.
Big Cat
Jerry. Yeah. Jerry with 10 home runs. And then me, Brandon and Max with nine. And then in the rear is Zach with seven, and PFT was six.
PFT
I got to a good start. I haven't had my best last couple games.
Big Cat
Well, it's only been four days.
PFT
It's really.
Big Cat
You can say you got off to a good start when you're laughing.
PFT
No, really good start in the first, like, two days. Oh, of the league. Yeah.
Big Cat
You got it off to. Yeah, the first day.
PFT
And has anybody used Jersey? Jerry used his IR spot.
Big Cat
He did. He dropped.
PFT
His pedophile spot is still remains standing.
Big Cat
Yes, it absolutely remains there. I think he picked up Kyle Stowers from the Marlins front of the program.
PFT
Nice pick.
Big Cat
Or no. Colton Kauser from the. From the Orioles. Sorry. Colton Kauser from the Oreos Orioles, who's a great dude.
PFT
And Max still hasn't done the challenge.
Big Cat
Max still has the update.
PFT
That's right, update.
Big Cat
If there's any baseball teams in Tahoe.
PFT
Nobody cares who's in last place because. No, apparently you don't have to do the punishment. Yeah, kind of.
Big Cat
That's a really good point.
PFT
Yeah, Kind of meaningless. I'm in. I'm in last.
Big Cat
That's a really good pft.
Hank
Remind me, how long did it take you to do the permission?
PFT
Did I do.
Hank
Oh, okay.
Big Cat
Okay. Yeah.
PFT
Did I do the per.
Hank
Oh, oh, okay.
Big Cat
Yeah. Did he perm?
PFT
Did I perm?
Hank
Yeah. And it took longer. Much longer than this?
PFT
I don't think it did.
Hank
Yes, it did.
PFT
I don't think.
Hank
Oh, yes, it did. It took well over a year.
Memes
It also did nothing for a year.
Hank
Yeah, yeah, that's true. And the tattoo took forever, too.
PFT
That's not true.
Big Cat
Yes, I did mine pretty quickly.
PFT
Took about a year.
Hank
Yes. This hasn't even been a year yet.
PFT
I did the tattoo and the perm. I think. On the same day.
Hank
Correct.
PFT
Or the same week. Did I do it?
Hank
Yeah, I'm gonna do it.
Big Cat
Okay. You know what? Pft. Let me tap me in here. Max, it's that you haven't done this yet.
Hank
Okay.
Big Cat
So you can't say anything to me. Yeah, yeah, that's what I thought.
PFT
You should do it.
Big Cat
Oh, I'm going.
Hank
I'm going to.
Big Cat
You should do it like. Right.
Hank
Mallards. Hit me up. Hit my line.
Big Cat
Oh, another baseball topic.
PFT
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Big Cat
What do we think about Alvin Kamara asking for a redo on first pitch? That was crazy.
PFT
I don't think you should be allowed to do that.
Big Cat
You can't.
PFT
Athletes are perfectionists.
Big Cat
But you can't do a redo.
PFT
Yeah, you gotta. You gotta abide by the tape you put out there.
Big Cat
Yeah. That's a crazy thing to be like, hey, let me. Let me have another shot.
Memes
It's a bullpen before.
PFT
Dude, you get a reboot. You get a redo if you. If you fumble.
Big Cat
Nope.
PFT
Nope. Well, unless they overturn it.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
Also, shout out Clark, the Cubs mascot.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
Made two great catches on Alvin Kabar turkey balls.
Big Cat
He did. But, yeah, you can't get a redo. This is. It does no redos.
PFT
It does concern me that Clark doesn't wear pants.
Big Cat
He's got dong.
PFT
He's just dong. Hanging.
Big Cat
Lays some dong. Okay, should we. Should we. Should we talk about Zach being everywhere?
Memes
Talk about Max being back. Ish.
Big Cat
Oh, yeah, we should. Our guy Max Homo almost won the John Deere classic, which is the fifth major that sucked.
PFT
It was tough. Tough couple bogeys.
Big Cat
I think I like the guy. Brian Campbell, great weekend. Big. Big ten guy. I think I liked him, so.
PFT
But yeah, I was rooting against him hard.
Big Cat
I was. But I'm saying once. Once. It was once he got to the playoff, I wasn't gonna root for the foreign guy.
PFT
I do think that counts as Max being back, though, right? I think at the.
Big Cat
Very awesome.
PFT
He shot a 63 on Friday or Thursday.
Big Cat
63. And then he had a 68.
PFT
68.
Big Cat
68.
PFT
So I think at the very Least we get Max. He found something.
Big Cat
He did.
PFT
He found something.
Big Cat
He's gonna.
PFT
Golf is a mental game.
Big Cat
Yeah, I was rooting so hard. It would have been awesome. Yeah. Zach is everywhere. So this happened over the week that we were gone. Can you pull that up real quick? It was wanted. Have you seen this person? Matthew Allen. Shreveport police are searching for Matthew Allen. Accused of stealing nearly $49,000, including 7,000 in charges to only fans and using a business credit card. He faces theft and fraud charges. And this just is Zach without glasses on. And then a bunch of dudes just started replying, and Zach, is. Is he the most common looking dude out there?
PFT
Like the generic American?
Big Cat
Yeah. I don't get it.
PFT
You're everyman. Yeah.
Big Cat
So there's a guy. Who's this guy, man? What is this guy?
PFT
That's Shreveport, man.
Big Cat
This guy rank. Ranks stuff. He ranks.
Hank
This guy will eat entire menus of fast food places.
Big Cat
Wait, Zach, that's you Little.
Hank
And as. No, but in. In as little amounts of bites as possible.
Big Cat
Wait, can we watch one of these? That's awesome, Zach. That is your thing.
Zach
Alternate timelines. Yeah, we're just fractionally off each one. We do look shockingly alike. My build might just be pretty basic. Low VC on that.
Big Cat
We might have to do a Zach con.
PFT
How do they know that? This guy, he spent the money on OnlyFans.
Big Cat
I. I don't know if it's.
PFT
This feels like it might be an only fans advertisement.
Memes
It was a business business card, you said, Right?
Big Cat
Business credit card.
PFT
Oh, he used his. His company card.
Big Cat
Company card.
PFT
Is that not allowed Blow up only fans? Like, we don't know what his job is. Right?
Big Cat
That's true. So he just. He just houses these things. That's all he does. I love the Internet.
Hank
Right now he. He's 16 items through Arby's, and he's done it in 20 bites.
Big Cat
Holy shit. This is awesome.
Hank
I actually had like, this record.
Big Cat
Has he done, like a whole menu?
Hank
Yeah, I think he did Taco Bell. Let me. Let me see. Yeah. And his name is. Which is crazy.
Big Cat
This is when. So with a K. I have a lot of moments. I don't know if you guys feel the same way, but with AI with the state of the Internet, with everyone just being dicks all the time, you're like, was this really worth it? Should we have done this? Is the Internet worth it? But then guys like this come along. I'm like, yeah, you know what? I wouldn't have known this guy existed. We need this.
PFT
I think this is actually what makes America great, is that you can get rich, you can get famous by simply eating fast food in your car.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
That's a level of celebrity that you can have.
Big Cat
Wait, Hank, you pointed out this guy's name is Zach, right?
Hank
Yes.
Big Cat
Yeah. So this. I don't understand how this is so.
Hank
Right. He's going through the entire. This is the last day of the Taco Bell menu, and he's got the nacho bell grande and a cheese quesadilla, but he put the nacho bell grande in the cheese quesadilla. I've watched this video before. I think he does it in three bites. So it's two items. Three bites.
PFT
Yeah. He's making turducken out of Taco Bell menu.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
So what did he end up doing? The whole Taco Bell menu.
Hank
Let's see. Let's get to the final stats here. 52 items at Taco Bell, 106 bites. I think it took him 14 days.
Big Cat
That's incredible.
PFT
Oh, pull up the menu again real quick.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
He also ranks them of what she thinks are the tastiest.
PFT
You pull up the menu, Zach, you need to do.
Big Cat
You need to do a video with this guy. But.
Zach
But there's no pleasure. He's not eating for pleasure there. He's just.
PFT
That's awesome.
Big Cat
I know.
Hank
I think he enjoys it.
PFT
Yeah.
Zach
Okay, fair. I misspoke.
Big Cat
There's a different opinion.
PFT
Can I see the. The cheesy fiesta potatoes? That's the one I want to say.
Hank
I mean, I'm gonna. This isn't like a table of contents that I can look at.
PFT
That's a ranking. That's the last.
Hank
Yeah, this is his rank.
Big Cat
This is his ranking of.
Hank
No, no, that's not last place. There's two.
PFT
Oh, two pages.
Hank
There's two slides here.
PFT
Oh, that's right in the middle.
Hank
Yeah. 26. There was 52 items. Yeah. The cheese quesadilla was last place, actually.
Memes
But he had belgrande in it.
Hank
I know. I don't understand how he does that. Because he has a Belgrande at 37, Cheese KCD at 52, and he ate them both together. Shout out. Zach is back, I guess. Great.
Big Cat
Great plug for national sports podcast. We're hitting it all. Zach, how minor of a disagreement would. Would you be like, I misspoke? Because that was crazy what just happened there? You literally just had a differing opinion, and then you said, no, you know what? I'm gonna. I'm gonna lay down here and say, I. I didn't mean to Say that.
Zach
It just some felt like I was blatantly wrong there. The room said, hey, don't say that.
Big Cat
And I was like, all right, you.
Zach
Guys just did it in a nice way.
PFT
And I'm like, I apologize to the room. Hey, Zach, don't apologize.
Zach
I can do that.
Big Cat
Yeah, work on that. You got a lot of things you're working on. Don't we all? Yeah. All right. Sweet. Are there more Zachs underneath that?
PFT
There's a lot of guys.
Big Cat
There is a Zach. That is Zach. That's these guys. I don't even know. You're just everywhere Zach. So only fans and eating in the least amount of bites possible. That was exact way.
Zach
I was not arrested for fraud. So that first guy. Probably not me.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Zach
Not arrested fraud.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
Probably not me.
Big Cat
We need to do a Zach con. I need you. I need to get you with this. This Zach is back guy, though.
Zach
He's impressive. Absolute eater. Shout out to him.
Big Cat
Especially if you just do the. It would be great if you did the McDonald's menu with him. And then when it came to the 20 nuggets, two double cheeseburgers, two fries, but you're just taking as many bites as you want. He's just disgusted with it. All right, should we do. Should we do our QB rankings?
PFT
Yeah.
Big Cat
This is where it's going to get spicy.
PFT
Let's piss everyone off.
Big Cat
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PFT
I got some tears.
Big Cat
I have some tears as well. I think we got to just go down and if anyone in the room has a major issue with the ranking, we can discuss.
PFT
Okay.
Big Cat
Because there's. I think a lot of the guys are within. Will have like, within two or three of each other.
PFT
Yep.
Big Cat
Does that feel fair, Max?
Memes
I like tears for the graphic.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Memes
I think tears on a graphic slaps.
Big Cat
Okay. But we also have to rank them. Yeah, yeah. All right, so let's. Let's start with the elite tier.
PFT
I think Josh Allen.
Big Cat
I think Josh Allen should be one. I had Josh Allen number one coming off of mvp. I think I had Josh Allen one, Patrick Mahomes two.
PFT
Yep.
Big Cat
Lamar, Three homes might be washed.
PFT
I had.
Big Cat
Oh, go on, please. Just.
Memes
He didn't play great. At the end of the year. They choked in the Super Bowl.
Big Cat
Should we put that on the graphic? Hank thinks he might be.
PFT
We're doing wash now.
Memes
We know it's our graphic, right?
PFT
Yeah, yeah. But the graphic. The tier can be. Hank thinks he might be washed.
Memes
Yeah, yeah, that's fine.
Big Cat
You know what we could do? We could have. We'll do. We'll put Patrick Mahomes number two in elite, and then we can put him again wherever you want to think, wherever you think he should be.
Memes
I think it's Josh Allen, Lamar. I mean, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson.
Big Cat
But you see what I'm saying? Like, if you have Patrick Mahomes, like 10, we could have Hanks rank. Hank's tier is Hank's ranking of Patrick Mahomes.
PFT
Yeah.
Memes
I mean, I thought we were doing this together, but that's fine. That's fine.
Big Cat
Okay. All right. All right. So Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes. So you think it should be Lamar? Yeah. All right.
PFT
I actually had a category of. If he had Lamar's defense, he would have two rings. And that's Joe Burrow.
Big Cat
I just had him in elite.
PFT
Okay.
Big Cat
I think those are the four.
PFT
Those are the four.
Big Cat
I think those are the four elite. What's the next tier called?
PFT
I think it's called Jane Daniels. I think that's.
Big Cat
Well, this is where it's going to get interesting. I did have Jaden Daniels, 5.
PFT
I watched an hour of his highlights on the 4th of July as the fireworks were going off. And I was blitz drunk, hammered. It was the best hour of my week.
Big Cat
Okay.
PFT
I was crying.
Big Cat
So you think it's just Jaden Daniels, 5.
PFT
I think just. Yeah. He's okay.
Big Cat
Okay. And then. And then what's the tier after that? By the way, Memes misspelled Jaden Daniel's name.
PFT
Disrespect.
Big Cat
Oh, that was. Oh, that was Max. Who then wrote Jalen Hurts.
PFT
Put that on the list.
Big Cat
Interesting.
PFT
I'm putting that on. I'm making a list.
Big Cat
Can win a Super bowl with them.
PFT
I've got technically super bowl champions as my next tier.
Big Cat
So that would be Matthew Stafford.
PFT
That would make Matt Stafford, Joe Flacco, and Jalen Hurts.
Big Cat
I like that.
Memes
Russell Wilson.
Big Cat
You could put Aaron. Oh, you could put Aaron Rodgers. Rogers.
PFT
Technically super bowl champions.
Big Cat
Yeah, super bowl champions. Okay. Six. So. Yeah, good. Do it.
Memes
Jalen hurts.
Big Cat
What are you doing? What are you typing? Memes?
Hank
No, I'm typing pft. Was just saying names there. Are we actually listing it in that order?
PFT
As the order I had?
Big Cat
Yes. This is Matthew Stafford. Seven is Aaron Rogers.
PFT
Aaron Rodgers. Yeah.
Big Cat
Okay. Flat. Yeah. Then yeah. You don't want people to think we're joking.
PFT
Yeah.
Big Cat
Yeah. Eight is Flacco. Yeah. Then nine is Jalen Hurts. Yep.
Memes
Russell Wilson.
Big Cat
I don't think he can be in there.
PFT
Yeah.
Memes
But it's the technically super bowl champions tier.
PFT
But technically he lost his ring.
Big Cat
And it also was Seattle's defense. Technically. Okay. All right. So we're at 10.
PFT
You know what I realized? Put this list together. There's a lot of good quarterbacks in the NFL.
Big Cat
There are. I. I also will get to them later. But I was, like, doing it. So to do this exercise. I did it actually how I feel. And then I mess around with it a little bit. But how I felt. We're getting to, like, the 20s before we got to one. Dakota rain.
PFT
Prescott.
Big Cat
And then I went. And then I went because I wanted to make sure I didn't miss anyone.
PFT
Yep.
Big Cat
And I Googled QB rankings for 2025. Pro Football Focus. Where do you think they had Dak Prescott?
PFT
18, 17.
Big Cat
Exactly where we had them last year. All right, so. But.
PFT
But you're right. Doing the list like it was. I tried to make it work at 17.
Big Cat
Yeah. It doesn't. I couldn't make it work 17th best anymore. All right, so this is. This next tier. What do you want to call it? This is. This is Good quarterbacks.
PFT
That's a great name for it.
Big Cat
Yeah. Good quarterbacks. Jared.
PFT
Jared.
Big Cat
Jared. Jared is there could be even great quarterbacks.
PFT
Yeah, Great quarterbacks.
Big Cat
Great quarterbacks. Jared Baker at 11. Baker at 12. I had.
Hank
I'd say, wait, who's at 10?
Big Cat
10 is Jared.
Hank
You.
Big Cat
Jared Goff. Okay.
Hank
Okay, I got it.
Big Cat
11 is Baker.
PFT
I had CJ Stroud there.
Big Cat
Yep. At 12, I had CJ Stroud. I. Brock Purdy.
PFT
I had Brock Purdy, too.
Big Cat
And then I had Herbert and Trevor Lawrence.
PFT
I had one more in that list. Bo Nix.
Big Cat
Oh, okay.
PFT
I'm a believer.
Big Cat
Okay. Bo Nix is in there.
Memes
That's. That feels like a stretch, but okay.
Big Cat
I, I. Great. We're halfway through.
PFT
Yeah. Okay. Good quarterbacks.
Memes
He's in a different tier.
PFT
I think good quarterbacks might start at after Herbert.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
Go.
Big Cat
15. Trevor Lawrence at Good Quarterbacks. 16, Bo Nicks. I feel good about that. Brock Purdy.
Memes
I also great quarterbacks to stretch.
Big Cat
I mean, he went to a Super Bowl.
PFT
He was in the MVP discussion.
Big Cat
And he would have gotten another if the Eagles didn't injure him.
PFT
Probably would have won.
Big Cat
Probably would have won. Fact or fiction? You can't, you can't disagree with us on this one.
Memes
No, that's a fact. It doesn't make him a great quarterback.
Big Cat
In on that one, buddy. That's a stone cold fact.
PFT
All right, in the next category, I have a, a special category of I think this guy is going to be really good.
Big Cat
Okay.
PFT
Do you know who's in that?
Memes
Drake May.
PFT
Drake May.
Big Cat
Okay.
PFT
But he wasn't first in that.
Big Cat
Who?
PFT
Caleb.
Memes
Oh, Pander. Caleb Pander.
Big Cat
And then I had, I have Caleb down. He's got to prove it. He's got to prove it.
PFT
I think he's going to be good, though.
Memes
But Drake's proven more than he has so far.
Big Cat
I mean, that's. Statistically. I don't know if that's true.
PFT
Yeah. What do you mean by that, Hank?
Big Cat
Like, what do you mean?
Memes
Maybe per start? I don't know.
Big Cat
Per start.
PFT
Did you think about per start?
Big Cat
Like, Caleb still had a statistically very good year. He just. For a rookie quarterback, he just was on a bad team. And Jaden Daniels was significantly better. What are you, are you looking it up? You getting in the stats right now?
PFT
I mean, Hank might be right.
Big Cat
I, well, I get Drake May played less.
Memes
That's what I'm saying. Per game.
Big Cat
Oh, per game. Okay. All right, let's pull it up. Were you gonna. I was gonna wait to, to skip to some of the second year guys because I think there's that, there's a group of guys that are kind of in that middle weird spot where you're like, I think they're good, but I don't know. And it's the Kyler Murray's.
PFT
Oh, I had Kyler down this year I had.
Big Cat
It's Jordan love.
PFT
Jordan love.
Big Cat
It's tua, Sam Darnold, Gino. Like that whole mess where it's like. I think. I think they're pretty good.
Memes
No, it's okay. Up a little bit.
Big Cat
Oh, okay. Thanks. You're welcome. Yeah. All right, so. So go. Go with the next tier will be we game to game? I think it's a game to game. The game game.
PFT
Because Geno can have a great game.
Big Cat
Yeah, we'll change. Just have it say we'll change these rankings. Game to game. And it's geno. Sam Darnold, Jordan love. Jordan love. So 17 will be jordan love. 18, geno.
PFT
Yeah, I'm fine with that.
Big Cat
Although Sam Darnold took his job.
Hank
All right. We're all over the place back here.
Big Cat
But what are you guys doing?
Hank
Well, memes had to step out, so it threw everything off.
Big Cat
Why did he have to step out?
PFT
I run and get water.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
Sam Darnold took his job. But then also the Raiders didn't want Sam Darnold. They wanted Gino.
Big Cat
True.
PFT
So Gino took Sam Darnold.
Big Cat
True.
Hank
Are we still. So we're keep. We're doing Caleb then?
Big Cat
No, no, no. We're just.
Hank
We're just. We're crossing that out.
Big Cat
That will come after.
Hank
Got it. Got it.
Big Cat
I feel good about this. All right, so. So 17 is going to be Jordan Love. 18. What do we decide? Geno Smith or Sam Darnold?
PFT
The last two games from Sam were really bad.
Big Cat
They were really bad.
PFT
Can we tie?
Big Cat
I'm fine with doing Geno. Okay. Gino 19, Sam Darnold, 20. Who would.
Memes
You rather have on your team right.
Big Cat
Now.
PFT
Geno or Sam? Yeah.
Big Cat
Maybe Gino. I don't know.
Hank
When are we getting into our friend Dakota here?
Big Cat
I'm telling you, it's hard. He's not there.
Hank
He's this.
PFT
All right, wait, wait.
Big Cat
So 20 max. He's not there.
Hank
I think I would rather have. I'm a dak hater. I would rather have Dakota.
PFT
We got to go. 20 to a.
Memes
2 is game to game.
Big Cat
Very much game to game as you get. He's the definition of game. He.
PFT
He actually should be number one.
Big Cat
Yes. Yeah. Okay, then 21. Yeah, 21. Bryce Young.
Hank
I don't hate Bryce Young.
PFT
He played really good last year at times.
Big Cat
And then 22 Kyler.
PFT
Yep.
Big Cat
And then what? Tears.
PFT
And then. Then dak, then dak.
Hank
Then Dakota gets his own tier.
Big Cat
Yeah. Okay.
PFT
Just.
Hank
Just the DAX here at 23.
Big Cat
You know, it's the accurate ranking tier. Yeah. 23, Jack Prescott.
Hank
Yeah, that's a good day.
PFT
Now we get to some tough ones now.
Big Cat
Now I think is where you put the, the second year guys. Being like this is the, it's, it's basically the could, could be good put.
PFT
Put up a shot.
Big Cat
Put up or shut up here. Facts. I apologize. Facts. All right. Put up or shut up. We'll, we'll maybe change that on the graphic because that doesn't. It's still their second year. I think it's Caleb Drake, Michael Pennix, J.J. mcCarthy.
PFT
That sounds good. I do think it is very much put up a shut up for Caleb.
Big Cat
Yo. Yeah, definitely. But it's not for J.J. mcCarthy and Michael Penix. I think it should be like this is a big year for them. We'll. We'll fine tune it. All right. Anthony Richardson, I just had him as 32.
PFT
Yeah, he's, he's technically like you would fit in that group, but.
Big Cat
Yeah, bad, bad question mark. I like that. Just Anthony Richardson. No, I did. I think that's the perfect last ranking. There's five guys left. I guess Cam Ward you could put into the, to the group of guys. I didn't put any.
PFT
Yeah, no rookies. Because you could also put the entire Saints quarterback situation.
Big Cat
Yeah. All right. So bad should just be Russell Wilson, Justin Fields, Anthony Richardson. I think those are pretty good rankings.
PFT
Okay. I've got one, one change to make.
Big Cat
Okay.
PFT
I think in the put up or shut up, we might want to do Daniel Jones.
Big Cat
Oh yeah, I like that.
PFT
Yeah, yeah.
Big Cat
Daniel Jones.
PFT
Like sure. Like after. Maybe after Penix.
Big Cat
Yeah, Daniel Jones. Absolutely. Because Daniel Jones, he's basically a second year quarterback.
PFT
I might even put him over. Dad. He spent six months. He spent six months with Kevin o'. Connor. What's better? What's better, spending six months with Kevin o' Connell or spending six months with Brian Schottenheimer?
Big Cat
Yeah. You know what? Make the accurate rankings here just be 23. Daniel Jones, 24. Dak.
PFT
I've been thinking about Daniel Jones a lot the last couple weeks.
Big Cat
I love ranking quarterbacks.
PFT
I think, I think Daniel Jones might come back.
Big Cat
I agree. I love ranking quarterbacks though, especially this time of year. Just put him up there. Getting into debates with yourself. These are pretty good. These are pretty good. All right, so it's, it's one.
PFT
Be honest with you guys.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
I wouldn't be upset if you drop Jaden down. I have him personally as number five.
Big Cat
I had him as five on my rankings. I did.
PFT
Hank, you had a good year.
Big Cat
Anyone want To.
Hank
I want all the Jane Daniels hype going into this year. I want everyone talking about how good he is.
PFT
You'll get it.
Big Cat
Yup.
PFT
You'll get a big boy.
Big Cat
Yeah. You actually get it twice because you have to listen to it. Then you have to edit it. Yeah, no.
Hank
Well, you know what? We'll see what sophomore slums happen.
Big Cat
Are you saying you're not going to edit the show anymore?
Hank
No.
Big Cat
What? I said I went to national media last.
PFT
Oh.
Hank
I went to national media to hate them the fuck up.
Big Cat
Oh, you're saying you might not have to listen to it twice much past, like, September.
Hank
Well, I'm. I'm. I'm. There's a lot of hype. A lot of hype. Interesting lot of height against the worst wreck against the worst schedule in the year.
PFT
Last year. Guess what? Just saying you're talking to a big Jayden Daniels fan, so you're going to hear a lot of hype.
Hank
I know, I know. Oh, you're not the only one.
Memes
He wants it up.
Hank
I want it.
PFT
All right, well, again, I'm making a list.
Hank
Yeah, we are. We all are. This is the list. Jane Daniels, top five quarterback.
Big Cat
Without question.
Hank
Without question.
PFT
Also, please save that as a graphic and as a soundbite that I can listen.
Big Cat
Yeah, yeah.
PFT
Y. Yep.
Hank
Jalen hurts. Barely top 10.
Big Cat
No champion.
Hank
Yeah, barely top 10.
Big Cat
That's what it. That's.
Zach
That's.
PFT
Should we change Joe Flacco?
Big Cat
No, no, no.
PFT
We have to because Joe Flacco makes it seem. I want some people to look at the list and not realize that.
Big Cat
Take Joe Flaccod on purpose. Bump him down to good quarterbacks. That's perfect. At the bottom of good quarterback.
PFT
Good quarterback or game to game.
Big Cat
He should be in game to game to game. He knows that. That's no disrespect. We love Joe. That's no disrespect to Joe. Game to game, it's even further down. Max. Max, how long did it take you, like, in college to write paper?
Hank
This is like, this is difficult, what you're having me do right now. You're also just. You're. You're just telling someone to go into a tier without telling me where to put them in the tier. You're not giving me a number at.
Big Cat
The bottom of it, but you're not.
Hank
Giving me a number. So what do I.
Big Cat
22. 22. There you go. 3. Oh, that just bumped. That just bumped Dak to. Oh, no, he already was 20.
PFT
I like that you spelled Jordan from Jordan. Love Jordan.
Hank
That's that's how I think every every Jordan spelled these days.
PFT
Change the game. This is a great list.
Big Cat
I think the put up or shut up should just be too early to tell that way people because then, then people will look at it and be like, okay, that makes sense. I think this is a great list.
PFT
Oh, man, we only have 30.
Big Cat
We don't have the saints quarterback. Oh, just put 32 saints quarter, whoever they start. 32, whoever they start. No, no, it's own tier. Saints quarterback, 32, whoever they start. That feels good. That feels really good. All right. Should you do who's back? We can get to Mount Rushmore. It's just good to talk about football.
PFT
It feels great.
Big Cat
I was daydreaming about football the other day again. Just thinking about week one. So excited.
PFT
Just watching highlights, seeing the grass.
Big Cat
Do you know what's so sick? I have I'm basically my daydreaming is when sitting there week one and pft, you're going to say like, there's just so much going on. Our eyes aren't used to it. And then I'm going to be like, we're back.
PFT
Lock in.
Big Cat
And then unfortunately in my daydream. So I have this daydream of us coming in, still warm out, sitting down, watching like a quarter on all the seven TVs, you saying that line, me thinking we're back. And then Nikki smokes saying something so stupid and me getting upset and being like, now we're really back.
PFT
Jerry walking out at halftime.
Big Cat
Yeah. Jerry being like, I need this fullback to score three touchdowns.
PFT
Season's over.
Big Cat
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PFT
Mine was just close to the pen.
Big Cat
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Memes
But it's back of the week is me busting holes in Tiffany's wall.
Big Cat
Oh, yeah, Jerry.
Memes
This happened over the break. Jerry o', Connell, master milker of bits.
Big Cat
Oh, that was really rude.
Memes
He was, he, he went to Tiffany's house in Dallas.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Memes
Posted a video, full play by play.
PFT
Jerry came in her backyard.
Memes
It was, it just went everywhere. When it went mega viral that people. I didn't even see it at first. I had someone come up to me and asked me about it. I was like, what are you talking about? That was two years ago.
Big Cat
I have a question for you.
Memes
Yes.
Big Cat
Has anyone gone and done a follow up report in Tiffany's house?
Memes
Jerry.
Big Cat
Right. So. But you're, you're saying it's like a, a bit. He was doing investigative journalism that we have not had yet.
Memes
I.
Big Cat
No one followed up. We didn't know where that piece of the wall went.
PFT
No.
Big Cat
We didn't know how it all went down.
PFT
I got a question for you. Has there been work done on the house? On the wall?
Memes
On the wall?
Big Cat
Yeah, on the wall on the house.
Memes
Well, yeah, she got it. She, she fixed it up.
PFT
There's been some great work done.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
On the wall.
Big Cat
Yeah. Jerry. And she also shout out Tiffany. She had her two year anniversary. Or was it.
Memes
No, was it two years, Two year anniversary.
PFT
Has it been that long?
Big Cat
Two years of, of the plane incident. Jerry sent us some, some very funny voice notes. Not for it.
PFT
Not for air. We can't say them on the air.
Big Cat
Not for air. That I can't. Come on. That was, that was, I thought, great work.
PFT
Yeah.
Memes
It was just a wild, it's a wild, wild, wild thing to do. But.
PFT
Well, you know what else is wild? Just putting a hole in her wall.
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah.
Memes
I mean, happens when, you know, cowboys.
Big Cat
Get smoked and your cowboys get smoked. Yeah. And Jerry was down there for his daughter's volleyball tournament.
PFT
Yeah.
Big Cat
Which makes it so much funnier. So much funnier that he was like, his high school daughter was just like, here, stay at the hotel. I gotta go do some. I gotta, I gotta go see about a wall.
PFT
Yeah.
Big Cat
All right, good. Who's back also?
Memes
Oasis.
PFT
Oasis is so back.
Big Cat
So, so bad.
PFT
Looked like, it was a great concert.
Big Cat
Bucket Hats are going to be back big time.
PFT
They're doing what, Two shows in New York, two shows in la, one in Chicago.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
The United States.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
And then some. Some. Some European shows. Do we think they make it the entire distance?
Big Cat
I'd say no.
PFT
Or you think they break up before.
Big Cat
They have to break up?
PFT
I would be disappointed if they didn't break up during the tour.
Big Cat
Yeah. I think it'd be bullshit.
PFT
Right.
Big Cat
Because that means they're not playing hard enough.
PFT
And that's.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
That means that they're. They've changed.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
And I want the same Oasis. I want, like, if you're buying tickets for this, part of the rush is spending all that money on the ticket not knowing if that concert's ever going to happen. Correct.
Big Cat
Correct. It's. It looked like the best time ever. Ever. What a band.
PFT
Shout out Wales.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Memes
Shout out Wales.
Big Cat
All right, your who's back?
PFT
Yeah, before I do my who's back, can I just look at the Dakota Prescott line on the quarterback rankings draft again? I just want to see where it is again.
Big Cat
It is 24.
PFT
Yep. Nailed it.
Big Cat
Accurate.
PFT
That feels good. My who's back of the week is Bradley Beal.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
Bradley Beal might be back.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
So it looks like he's gonna get a buyout. The Suns are gonna pay him money to go away, and then he's gonna be a free agent, reportedly from. From Mark Stein. I don't think I'm done believing in Bradley Beal yet.
Big Cat
No, he actually is still a good basketball player. Just not good enough to get paid $45 million a year.
PFT
Yeah.
Big Cat
Like, if he goes to a team and gets. I don't understand how any of the contracts worked. I'd assume it'd be like one of those league minimums, mid. Mid level exceptions. So one of those.
PFT
Like, in theory, though, could he get a full contract from another team? That's not a vet minimum.
Big Cat
I think the problem is all the teams probably have a lot of their spots already spoken. So let's just say he gets, I don't know, $8 million a year. Bradley Beal for $8 million a year is a pretty good deal.
PFT
Yeah, I would agree. So I'm kind of excited to see where he goes.
Big Cat
Yeah. Especially if he goes to a good team.
PFT
Hank, you want him?
Big Cat
Although he didn't. He didn't really love coming off the bench, so that might be a problem. Yeah. Would you want him, Hank, for cheap?
PFT
Yeah.
Big Cat
How. How are you? How are you doing, Hank, with all this stuff, because it is like you and the Pacers. It feels like, all right, we're in.
Memes
A way better spot than the Pacers.
PFT
Way better.
Memes
Way better.
PFT
Why way better?
Big Cat
Because Tatum got hurt, like, a month earlier.
Memes
Better organization.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Memes
Better team. But I'm saying we'll be back sooner than the paces.
Big Cat
What I'm saying, though, I mean, the pace. Like, I'm saying both the teams feel like. Not that they're fully punting on next year, but they kind of are. They're like, all right, well, next year doesn't matter where he's gonna.
PFT
Yeah.
Memes
But even when the Celtics are rebuilding their fun, okay, I. I think they're gonna. You know, they're gonna find the right players, they're gonna find the next pieces for the next run, and. And next year, those guys are going to get more minutes than they would otherwise.
Big Cat
And.
Memes
And they're gonna be able to, you know, build for the future. How much.
PFT
How much further ahead are you from the Pacers? Like, if the Pacers got Bradley Beal, would you still say you're ahead of them?
Memes
Yes.
Big Cat
I have a question.
PFT
Yes.
Big Cat
It just popped in my head. The Wizards suck. The Bulls suck. Bulls can't make a trade to save their life, to get real picks. The Knicks are good. The Celtics are in a weird year where they're trying to figure it out. How disrespectful is it that no one even brings up that the Sixers could maybe win the East? They're just so such an afterthought. Everyone's heard in the east, and no one's talking about the Sixers being like, hey, maybe they. It could be that.
PFT
Yeah.
Big Cat
That is so disrespectful. Max.
Hank
I love it. I love it. Oh, under the radar disrespect. It's normally the opposite. It's like, here come the Sixers.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
And then this year, it's like, everyone. No one's talking about the Sixers, and they could be very good.
Big Cat
Have you let yourself believe.
Hank
Oh, yeah. Vijay Edgecombe had 28 points in his summer league debut.
Big Cat
Okay? So, yeah, that's.
PFT
That's good enough.
Big Cat
So, yeah, that's.
Hank
That's good enough.
Big Cat
You've done it.
Hank
I just need him. I. I would like to see a little bit of a status update on Joel Embiid. Yeah, I'll say that.
PFT
What is the status right now?
Hank
Nothing. No one's heard from any. No one's.
Big Cat
What do you mean? What does that mean?
Hank
I. I don't know.
Big Cat
What do you mean? They don't know what he's doing. They don't know where he is.
Hank
I, I. No one knows. No one knows what. What his health is at right now.
PFT
I'm searching for Joel Embiid. Updates.
Hank
Yep. Keep searching.
PFT
I'm not. I'm not finding anything. No one knows nothing.
Big Cat
Max, would you rather.
PFT
Oh, wait. Philadelphia's Joel Embiid has been ruled out for the. Oh, that was just seam's tweet from February 28th.
Hank
Correct.
PFT
I thought he was talking about next season.
Big Cat
It actually would be very funny now that I'm thinking about it. Like, if. If it just. The east becomes such a wasteland that the Sixers just get to the conference title just by default, there's a chance.
Hank
That they could get there without Joel Embiid, and then that would be the meme.
PFT
Oh, here we go. Here we go, Max. From a week ago. Joel Embiid is on track to return from knee surgery when training camp opens in September.
Big Cat
Oh, who said that?
PFT
The Associated Press.
Hank
Oh, I'm. I'm not. I'm. I'm not in Sixers mode, I guess that.
PFT
Daryl Morey talked to Embiid before the NBA draft. Said he's very engaged.
Hank
That means. Not that. What does that mean?
Memes
He's engaged in the conversation.
PFT
He's attacking rehab. He's doing everything he can to be out there. He had a meeting with the surgeon this week.
Big Cat
Did he get engaged?
PFT
All things, to use a NASA term, are nominal.
Hank
Don't know what that means.
Big Cat
Good.
PFT
I think.
Hank
What is not. What is that? What does that word mean?
Memes
They're not quite phenomenal, but, yeah, I'm gonna be honest.
Big Cat
Nominal is one of those words. I don't really know what it means either.
PFT
Things are going well and expected, and we expect that to continue. There's a lot of inspection.
Big Cat
Very small, far below the real value or cost.
Hank
Yeah. I mean, there's optimism that he will be back for, like.
Big Cat
Okay, yeah, this is. This is nothing.
PFT
Yeah, Very engaged.
Big Cat
There's optimism he'll be back for training camp. He's been doing well. This. This sounds like someone who's on hospice care. It's like, he's doing well.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
I don't know. That's. There's no details in that.
PFT
Embiid said one lesson that I learned is to try and stop feeling bad about myself and just live day by day. That does sound like hospice.
Big Cat
This is great. He's terminal.
PFT
Yeah.
Big Cat
This is.
Hank
We don't know. We don't know that you don't know.
Big Cat
But this is what I'M saying the. The vibes coming from that. Not. Yeah.
Hank
Likely to start the season than Jason Tatum.
PFT
Sounds like he's, like, waiting on his grandchildren visit.
Big Cat
Yeah. He's counting his blessings.
Hank
Yeah. Well, yeah.
PFT
I've lived a good long life.
Big Cat
What the hell is going on? It's in his did. Is it just. What was his actual knee injury? He didn't tear his acl. That's the other part.
Hank
Meniscus. He's torn his meniscus, like, 50 times.
Big Cat
This is the longest boo boo ever.
Memes
That's the bells.
Big Cat
Does he still have bells?
Hank
No.
PFT
He's a large guy.
Big Cat
He's a big guy. He's a large guy.
PFT
I'm actually. I'm kind of rooting for the Sixers this year. I want to see you do well in basketball.
Memes
I want all the height.
PFT
Yeah.
Hank
No, we have no height.
PFT
No, all the height. I mean, we started this.
Hank
This conversation by saying there's no height.
PFT
No, there's no. We talked about the Sixers last week on this podcast. Or two weeks ago. We're talking about them now, saying they. They could be favorites to win the East. Max.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
On this show, they might be.
Hank
Dark horse Jane Daniels. Without a doubt.
PFT
Top five quarterback. I got the Sixers in the finals next year.
Big Cat
You know what? I'm gonna. I'm gonna match and double. I'm gonna say they're gonna win the finals.
PFT
They're gonna win a chip.
Big Cat
Yeah. They're gonna win the chip.
PFT
Love it.
Big Cat
Yeah. National sports podcast. All right. That was your Bradley Beal. Bradley.
PFT
But I do think he'll be a good player for some team.
Big Cat
I'm having a great time.
Hank
This is just when the boys haven't talked in a while.
Big Cat
We hadn't seen, basically to. To. To go behind the fifth wall. Fourth wall.
PFT
Fourth wall, Fourth wall. Break the fourth wall.
Big Cat
We were texting, to be confused with Tiffany's this morning. We're like, who should we have on the show? And I was like, why don't we just. Why don't we just hang out with the boys? We haven't seen each other in ten days. That's. So. That's the long. This is the longest we go. Because I know we did Wednesday's show, but we only did, like, 20, 30 minutes to start the show. Maybe it was like.
PFT
I think it was like, 45 minutes.
Big Cat
Yeah, yeah, it was. It was longer.
Memes
75.
Big Cat
It was longer. Listen, when we get talking, we like to hang out, but we hadn't seen each other in a long time.
Hank
A lot of national sports Me, Hank and Memes had set a line for that episode.
Big Cat
Yeah. I actually had a moment. I came back down, and my wife was like, I thought you said it was gonna be 25 minutes. I was like, well, you know, we get talking, and we just like hanging out.
Hank
By the way, Hank, spot on with his. With his. 75 minutes was his line. And I think it was like, 75, 15.
Big Cat
I said, Hank doesn't want us to podcast.
Hank
I said, no, no, no, no, no.
Big Cat
All right. I am numbers.
Memes
No, no, that wasn't. That wasn't.
PFT
I just.
Memes
I'm just. We. We're setting lines. Max said 50 minutes. I sent a hundred crying, laughing emojis. I was like, 75 and a half.
Hank
I started the conversation. To be fair, before we started the show, we. I. I put Hank and Memes in a group chat. Was like, what do we think the number is here?
Big Cat
Well, when the days build up. Actually, this is when. Someday, very long from now, except for the fact that the takeies are coming up in awls. You're. You're up there.
Memes
And Christian Yellich.
Big Cat
And Christian Yellich. Let's just say 15 years from now, when we retire, we should. We should not talk for, like, five years and then see how long. If we can break the podcasting record and just catch up.
PFT
Not talk for 15 years. For five years, and then try to do a 25 minute episode.
Big Cat
Episode.
PFT
Like, let's do. Let's do the first tight episode in the history show.
Big Cat
I think we could. I actually think if we didn't speak for five years, we could do like a month long podcast.
PFT
We. You know what? We would just build up all the good stuff that we wanted to talk about and just ignore all the bad that had happened to all of our teams.
Big Cat
All right, my. Who's back is mascots. Because you guys see the chief's mascot retired?
PFT
Yeah, I did.
Big Cat
Longest tenured mascot in the NFL. Can I just point something out that I. Listen, I get it. He retired. 35 years of service. Thank you for your service. Great mascot. One of the best mascots out there. I didn't like that they took his head off in the video.
PFT
No, I don't like that at all.
Big Cat
They shouldn't have done that.
PFT
You got to go out for me. You go out on your shield.
Big Cat
Yeah. And he was doing the same dances, but without the mascot uniform on. It's like. That's what it looks like. I didn't want to see it.
PFT
Yeah, it's like your final act as mascot is to ruin the illusion of the mascot.
Big Cat
Right, right.
PFT
My four year old son Chris saw that and he was. He was crying because he thought that the wolf got its head taken off also.
Big Cat
Who's back? ESPN just up with that Bobby Jenks thing. RIP Bobby Jenks. That was such a stupid tweet for people who missed it. Bobby Jenks passed away. Really sad. He had stomach cancer. And they were. They said Bobby Jenks, two time all star pitcher for the Chicago White Sox who's on the roster when the franchise won the 2005 World Series. He closed two of the four wins in the World Series. Yeah, like the final. Crazy. Crazy, but yeah. Nothing like a big boy closer like Bobby Jenks was that.
PFT
I mean, the Pope was a massive fan of his.
Big Cat
Yeah, Pope was at the game. Okay, Zach. Who's back of the week?
Zach
My who's back of the week is Brian Steele, criminal defense attorney Brian Steele, late last year he defeated state of Georgia and Fannie Wilson.
PFT
He defeated the state of Georgia.
Big Cat
Back up. Who is this?
Zach
Brian Steele is a 34 year practicing defense attorney.
Big Cat
Okay.
Zach
And he has beat racketeering charges for his clients for the second time this last week. Just late or late last year he defeated Fonny Willis in the state of Georgia for that young thug in the Wiso conglomerate. They were wrongfully accused of racketeering charges. Brian still came out on top on this again.
Big Cat
Wait, he's young thug's lawyer?
Zach
Yeah, he. Yes, his defense attorney, but he was also.
PFT
He Young thug was exiled from Atlanta.
Zach
Yeah, that's part of his. So part of his probation limitations is he can't go to Atlanta unless like his fam. A family member's sick or a death in the family.
PFT
Yeah, but he has to play concert there like once a year too.
Zach
Yeah, benefit concert. Like don't all the money to charity. That is correct.
PFT
Yeah. There's something awesome about. About being exiled, by the way. Yeah, that is like the coolest thing that can happen.
Big Cat
So this dude's just a badass lawyer that just keeps getting everyone off.
Zach
Yes. If you got RICO charges.
PFT
And oh, you remember this one, Big head. He said the thug in Young Thug stands for truly humble under God.
Big Cat
I love that.
Zach
Yes, that's correct.
Big Cat
Okay.
Zach
This last time he just went up against the feds or the federal government. I apologize for the same thing. He had client Sean Combs was they were trying him for racketeering as well. And Brian Steele beat that case. So Brian Steele might just be the greatest defense attorney of all time.
PFT
Wow. Lockdown D. Good for him. Yes.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
So yeah, Diddy. Was he caught Two of the five charges. Right.
Zach
He did catch a couple of them. I also don't condone any charges whatsoever or criminal acts. I just want to say that Brian himself did a great job for his client.
Big Cat
Yes. He had a job to do and he did it very well. Yeah. Correct. And talk about the facts of it.
PFT
Zach is our chief legal analyst and he's just saying, like lawyer to lawyer, great job.
Big Cat
Tip of the cap. Right, Right. Okay. Brian Steele. I mean, his name alone, solid name. That's a really powerful name.
Zach
He's always doing like a great suit too.
Big Cat
Yeah. I mean, he's a good looking guy.
Zach
34 years practicing.
Big Cat
He kind of seek. Does he kind of look like Epstein?
PFT
Maybe a little bit. Oh, Epstein. He was exonerated too, right, By Brian Steele. No, somebody said today that he was like, no funny business was happening.
Big Cat
Oh.
PFT
There was no blackmail.
Big Cat
Who was saying this?
PFT
The Department of Justice said that to them.
Big Cat
Got it. You just searched Theo Epstein.
Hank
I do that all the time. I've talked about that on this show. That I get. It's a really bad mix up. I do it often. My bad, my bad.
Big Cat
All right, good. Who's back of the week? Let's get to our Mount Rushmore pfd. You got an ad before we do Mount Rushmore and then we're gonna finish with little recap of whatever how everyone's week was.
PFT
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Big Cat
By the way, before we do the Mount Rushmore breaking moves. Breaking. Our former coworker Alex Cooper sang the seventh inning stretch at Wrigley today and got booed the entire time.
PFT
Oh, no.
Big Cat
Yeah. I don't know if you could pull up the clip, but not great.
PFT
I would like to see the clip also.
Big Cat
Great. Yeah, here's the clip. Oh, here come the booze.
PFT
Oh.
Big Cat
Well, yeah. She's making a mockery of it, butchering it and she's also looking into the camera, not looking out to the fans. All right, this is good. Good sports town. Yeah, I don't even. I don't even remember working with her. You got.
PFT
You got to lean over the edge. You gotta engage the fans.
Big Cat
She did like a. A TikTok dance for it. She. That's. That's gross. Yeah, good. Good. Good booing. Good booing.
PFT
That was me out to the gluck.
Big Cat
Do you think she's embarrassed by that?
PFT
No, probably not. No.
Big Cat
Okay, let's do Mount Rushmore. Mount Rushmore of minor embarrassment. Minor embarrassing moments.
PFT
Yeah, Minor embarrassing moments. Stay with you.
Big Cat
It is Maxim Meme 6 points. Pft. And Hank 5 points. Zach and I 4 points. I believe believe is the standing.
PFT
Okay. So it's. It's anyone's game.
Big Cat
That might be wrong too. It might be 5, 4, 3. I just know that's the right order.
PFT
Do we know who's up first?
Hank
We are.
Big Cat
We're. We're.
Hank
We're not going to win this one.
Big Cat
Wait, so you're first, then you guys, then.
PFT
Yeah, then us.
Big Cat
All right, Zach, we're last.
PFT
Why are you giving up on this one?
Hank
Max, we're just not prepared. And when preparation is bad, you're not good.
PFT
Yeah, that's.
Memes
That's the one that's in every. That's in every weight room. Every football weight room.
Big Cat
Yeah, across.
Hank
Whatever that quote is.
Big Cat
Yep.
Hank
But, yeah, our preparation is bad.
Memes
Opportunity me is.
Big Cat
Let's have a good Mount Rush.
Hank
Yeah, let's have a good Mount Rushmore.
Big Cat
Okay.
Hank
And no, there's no bad picks.
Big Cat
We're not on chill weekend.
Hank
Yeah, no, yeah, no, there's no. This is the start of chill.
Big Cat
This is.
Hank
This is the start of chill week. First pick is a public trip and fall.
PFT
Okay, good pick.
Big Cat
Had it on there. All right.
Hank
Good, good, good, good, good, good. Nice, Nice.
Big Cat
Good pick.
PFT
Public trick is really Good.
Memes
I think 1:1.
Big Cat
Maybe not 1:1, but the, like, curb.
Hank
Tripping over a curb. Worse when you actually go onto the ground and people. There's like, strangers that have to come over to you and be like, are you okay?
Big Cat
Sucks stairs.
PFT
You see people telling their friends, like, that guy just.
Hank
Yeah, that guy just fell.
Big Cat
What's the. What's tripping upstairs might be the worst.
PFT
Tripping upstairs is bad.
Big Cat
Upstairs sucks.
PFT
Tripping on, like a. A running treadmill.
Hank
Yeah, that's black ice is always.
Big Cat
But that's black ice is. Gets kind of. When it's. When it's cold out. Yeah, it's icy. You get a little Bit of a pass tripping.
Memes
Like getting at the. At the top of an escalator. Like, just the little step, the smallest step in the world.
Big Cat
Tripping when you get out of a cab and. And break your foot.
PFT
Yeah.
Big Cat
You can't do the dingers.
PFT
Only thing that's a bad one.
Memes
And then find out he was actually just walking. You were never in a cab at all.
Hank
Yeah, yeah, no, that happens. That. That is honestly fine. It happens.
PFT
Tripping on the last step because you think there's another one.
Big Cat
Oh, that. Oh, I like that feeling. Gives you a little bit of ball.
PFT
That's a bad.
Big Cat
It's like a roller coaster when you just. When you. When you know that you're safe. It does. It is a little bit of a cheap thrill. Little cheap.
PFT
You know how I know it's really embarrassing because when. When dogs trip, they get embarrassed too.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
They have that same. They look at you like, oh, yeah.
Big Cat
Okay.
PFT
Okay. Our one one is going to be waving at somebody who, it turns out, wasn't actually waving at you.
Big Cat
Yep. We. We. We had this on the list as intercepting someone else's hello. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
PFT
That's brutal.
Big Cat
It's brutal. Brutal. Zach, what should we do? We have our whole board.
Zach
We do have several options right now. What are you thinking? How are we feeling?
Big Cat
I feel good about a 2, 3 combo, and also the 6 is a really strong one that I think is just very. I want you to. I want you to feel good about these.
Zach
Three is good. So three is. Is embarrassing.
PFT
Yeah, Three is pretty embarrassing.
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
PFT
And.
Big Cat
All right, let's do it. We'll start with that, and then we'll figure it out. Our first one is when you let out a little bit of a fart, thinking that it's not gonna smell, and then it just demolishes the room. And it's just the worst because you are like. Everyone has those moments. You got a little too much. You gotta.
PFT
Just gotta.
Big Cat
Basically, it's almost like letting a little bit out of, like, a tire that's over inflated. Like, I'm not. I'm not gonna really fart here. I'm just gonna leak a little bit to give myself some comfort. And next thing you know, everyone's like, holy. What the. Is that smell?
PFT
Yeah. Trying to get some breathing room. And then you also have to live with the fact that, you know, if you let the rest out, it's gonna be worse.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
And then sometimes a national reporter is sitting next to you.
Big Cat
Yes.
PFT
As you're doing that. Yeah.
Hank
We're just gonna start talking about things.
PFT
That I do that becomes news.
Big Cat
Yeah. Yes.
PFT
Yeah, yeah. It's a news story.
Big Cat
Okay. Relatable. Our. Our second pick is a simple one. It's just fucking up any type of handshake, whether it be handshake or dap or hug, and you go handshake. Just. That entire exchange sucks. Really bad.
PFT
Yep, we had that, too.
Big Cat
Yeah. Really, really bad.
PFT
Especially if it's on camera.
Big Cat
Especially if it's on camera.
PFT
All right, our next one. Calling your teacher mom.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
Yep.
Hank
I was. I was gonna go with that next.
Big Cat
So, interesting thing. Zach had never heard of this.
PFT
Really?
Big Cat
I guess just didn't do it because I said it. He's like, what do you mean? I was like, you don't remember? Like, in first grade, I called my teacher mom, and that sucked.
Zach
I never ripped one of those. It's bad when you do it.
PFT
It's just embarrassing. It's very embarrassing.
Big Cat
Were you homeschooled?
Zach
No, just public school.
Big Cat
Right. Okay.
Zach
But does she. Is she endearing about it when you say mom?
Big Cat
Oh, I think it happens all the time.
PFT
Yeah. I think the teacher is very understanding, but as a kid, you're like, that's the biggest up I could make.
Big Cat
That's not my mom.
PFT
Okay. Yeah.
Big Cat
Okay. Good pick. Yeah, we had. Was just interesting. Zach had never heard of it. All right, you guys are coming back around.
Hank
Yep. I'm going to go with staring at someone and they catch you.
PFT
Okay.
Hank
So, like.
PFT
All right. Creep.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
No, but if you're just, like, looking around a room and then someone sees you staring.
Big Cat
Yep.
Memes
Well, are you staring at them or are you looking around the room?
Hank
We had it. I didn't know making eye contact from afar with.
Big Cat
With. Would you?
Hank
Me?
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Make awkwardly making eye contact with someone.
PFT
With someone from afar when you're staring at somebody and then they catch you staring at them.
Hank
All right, whatever.
Memes
Is it more awkward if it's.
Big Cat
If it's a guy or girl?
PFT
What I wrote was.
Big Cat
It was.
PFT
It's like, have you ever, like, gone up to a girl and you drop your bag and then accidentally roll duct tape in your rope and your knife falls out? It's kind of awkward.
Hank
You act like you've never. This has never happened.
PFT
It's kind of weird if you'.
Big Cat
Wait, hold on. First of all, you're talking to the guy who wears sunglasses all the time. He could stare at anything.
PFT
Yeah.
Big Cat
So he. He's good. He's. He's. Life. Hacked life.
Hank
Correct.
PFT
Like the good pick. So the pick was making Eye contact.
Hank
Whatever.
PFT
Making eye contact with someone from afar.
Big Cat
Like, down the hallway.
PFT
There's just 30 seconds in between being like, do I say hello right now?
Big Cat
Oh, that's way it was.
PFT
That's what.
Big Cat
Yeah, no, we, we, we.
Hank
I said we had bad preparation. We had bad preparation.
Memes
I mean, you could have that for. That's a completely different.
Big Cat
Totally different thing. That is embarrassing.
Hank
Whatever.
Big Cat
That's an embarrassing. What Meme said is a good pick.
Hank
Yeah, no, I. We had bad preparation. I was reading the first. I read the first three words of that. Of that. And didn't. And didn't really continue. I started this with bad preparation.
Big Cat
You're right.
Hank
Bad preparation and bad whatever. Now. Now I'm in shambles. I'm just going to. I'm just going to. I'm just going to start ripping here to start going to the bathroom, and you have a bad shake and a little pee stain.
Big Cat
Good pick.
PFT
Okay.
Big Cat
Had it.
PFT
Peace stain.
Big Cat
Good pick.
Hank
BFT just never does any of these things over here.
PFT
I said, I say good pick.
Hank
No, I, I, I felt a tone.
PFT
There was no tone.
Memes
You're lashing out right now.
PFT
You are.
Hank
I know.
Big Cat
I'm.
Hank
Yeah. I'm. Next pick. Having a bad Mount Rushmore performance. Embarrassing.
PFT
I had your back with the kidnapping.
Memes
Can't relate to that.
PFT
All right, our next pick, we're going to be. We're going to go with calling somebody by the wrong name who you've known for way too long.
Big Cat
Good one. So we were having this debate. I think it's way Zach and I were actually disagreeing. I think it's way worse when you call. When you're close to the name, but wrong. Yep. Versus way off. Yep. Like, if someone, if someone I know called me Dave, I'd be offended. Versus, like, if someone I know called me Paul, I'd be like, dude, that's not even close to my name.
PFT
Whose name?
Big Cat
Paul. Yeah. Right.
PFT
But this was, this was, this was Hank's big pick. And I think Hank might have had an explanation behind it. It.
Big Cat
No.
Memes
I mean, I do it all the time. Even just like me, you know, you meet people. We meet a lot of people. Once or twice it's acquaintances, and that's again. And then they know your name and you don't know their name. I've gotten very good at, like, introducing, you know, managing that situation by introducing someone else. Someone else. But also, like, the one I was gonna type is. Or if you're, if you're talking to a girl at a bar and then like, 45 minutes later she's like, what's my name?
Big Cat
Yeah.
Memes
And then you just. You just blank the.
PFT
I think more people should wear name tags.
Big Cat
I. I've made all the interns wear name tags here.
PFT
I think just everybody just in general out in public should have a name tag on the.
Big Cat
It's. It's acquaintances. Because if I said you're. If I said your name right, who, obviously, you know, your brain. Like, I get my kids names wrong. I call my kids all their other. You know what I mean? But if it's someone that you've met like two or three times, that's the spot where it sucks.
PFT
And it sucks.
Big Cat
It's like they should know and.
Memes
And you've met them before, you've talked to them.
Big Cat
It's brutal.
PFT
It's almost worse if you find they.
Memes
Know your name and you're like, I feel like such an.
PFT
If you find out that you got the name wrong, like after you're done hanging out with them.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
And then you think back of all the times you called them the wrong name in that hang.
Big Cat
Yep. Yep.
PFT
Bad times.
Big Cat
All right, Zach, I think we should. I think we should go with 13. That was yours. That was good. I think that's a strong one. And I've been thinking about and laughing to myself about number seven. I think we just go for a home run. That might not work. You guys want us to send one?
PFT
All right, so go.
Big Cat
You say 13, I'll say 7. This is the good pick.
Zach
Texting in the wrong group chat.
Big Cat
Yep.
PFT
Yep.
Big Cat
That is just so bad.
Memes
1F45 Day 1.
PFT
Oh. Yep.
Big Cat
Yeah, that was bad. It's just. You can't get over it. You just feel like such. And then you try to bury it.
Zach
Or, you know, airplane mode.
Big Cat
Yeah. Try anything to not try to figure. Oh, haha. I was actually talking about this. You're just screwed.
Memes
Well, now they have the like, which is almost even a bigger roll of the dice is the unsend.
PFT
Yeah.
Memes
You don't know if they saw it or not.
PFT
Yep.
Memes
And you're like, do I unsend this?
PFT
You just assume.
Memes
You assume they saw it and then you're. It's even more awkward because it's clearly you. You can't even play it off.
Big Cat
Yeah. All right. This one is going to be. I don't know how it's going to look, but I. We have to be true to ourselves because this is the one we talked about the most. I would say, Zach, you and I.
Zach
We got to keep it honest.
Big Cat
We got to keep it Honest. Because we were laughing about this one, and we were just like, you can't. Like, this is so embarrassing. You can't do it as a grown man wearing a bike helmet. I think it's so embarrassing. I, Like, I. I understand the safety. I wear one. You just can't. You just look like a fool, and you look like an idiot, especially when you get off the bike and you're like that. That second where you're walking without the bike.
Memes
If you're on. On a normal bike.
Big Cat
Yes.
Memes
If you're. If they're. You know, if they're on the. Like, the speed bikes and they're bike riders, like, whatever.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Memes
But if. If you're just, like, on a. I'm talking. If you're on a mountain bike, like, right. Going a mile down the street.
Big Cat
Or the E bikes. Yeah, the. The city bikes. Yeah. I'm not talking about the Lance Armstrong's weekend warriors. I'm talking about just a grown, regular man, like, in a suit, in regular clothes, wearing a bike helmet, I think.
PFT
Yeah. If you purchase a bike helmet and rent bikes.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
That's a very embarrassing situation.
Big Cat
Yeah. You guys like, all right? Yeah, we're just. I mean, I. I do wear them because I. I want to be safe, but every time I clip in, I'm like, this looks ridiculous.
Zach
You have to. But there's no good way to do it.
Big Cat
There's no good way to do it. Yeah. And they try to make it like, oh, look at this cool bike helmet. And, you know, it just looks ridiculous.
PFT
You know what's really cool? Guardian safety.
Big Cat
Yeah. Not having your brain splatter on the concrete.
PFT
That's.
Big Cat
Honestly, though, I've. I've worn bike helmets that I would probably prefer my brain to be splattered.
PFT
All right, Hank, I just highlighted what I think the last one should be.
Big Cat
Let's go, boys.
PFT
Yep.
Memes
Yeah, I like it.
PFT
All right, last one.
Big Cat
Do it.
Memes
I like it.
PFT
Coming fast. Coming really too fast.
Big Cat
That's true.
PFT
Coming way too fast.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
Because you. There's no explanation for it. You can't. You can't pretend that it didn't happen.
Big Cat
No.
PFT
You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.
Big Cat
No.
Memes
You can't pretend it was a good experience.
Big Cat
No.
PFT
No. You can't unring that bell.
Big Cat
Well, for you, it was.
Memes
Yeah, but, like, sometimes you're like, oh, yeah, like, you know, whatever. Like.
PFT
But you liked it when it.
Memes
You can fake yourself, like.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
You know, you had some good moments, too, right?
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah.
PFT
No, no.
Memes
When it's yeah.
Big Cat
No, no, it's not fun. Not fun at all.
PFT
No.
Big Cat
Especially when it happens when you're just, like, staring at a chick, like, 50ft.
PFT
Away, and then she's like, you know, she's gonna tell her friends and the cops.
Big Cat
Next thing you know, you're coming too fast.
PFT
Yeah.
Big Cat
Okay.
Hank
Yeah, whatever.
PFT
What do you think about coming too fast?
Memes
I. I can't relate.
Hank
I don't want to talk about Italian style.
Big Cat
We need to normalize it.
Hank
This is a lot. This is the last pick of the draft here.
PFT
No, it is from. Yeah. The evolution, evolutionary standpoint. It's a genetic advantage to come really fast.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
And get more chicks pregnant.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
Okay.
Hank
Last pick. Just really bad pit stains.
Big Cat
Ooh, good one. I'm surprised zipper down wasn't picked zipper down. Camera light on your phone.
PFT
Yeah, that's.
Memes
We have fly downs. A good one.
Hank
Oh, fuck.
Big Cat
Having a camera light on sucks.
Hank
I also said phone. This doesn't happen to me, but I feel embarrassment for other people. When your phone ringer goes off. Like in a quiet room.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
Yeah.
Hank
Like at a wedding, if your phone ringer goes off, it's that. That's got to be the most embarrassing thing ever.
PFT
Like, your alarm goes off at a very weird. I. Setting an alarm for.
Big Cat
Zach and I had a few that we wanted to just feel out what you guys thought.
PFT
Okay.
Big Cat
Because it's kind of similar to the. We had almost like a. As a grown man category where bike helmets was the strongest one, but the other ones we had in that category were just drinking from straws.
PFT
I like straws sometimes.
Big Cat
Okay. I do, too. But it's a little embarrassing eating a corn dog.
PFT
I. I do drink from straws more often in the privacy of my own.
Big Cat
Correct. Correct.
Hank
I think drinking from straw, if it has the lid for the straw, it's fine. If you're drinking from a straw of, like, an open cup, that's embarrassing.
PFT
Fast food cups always straws.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Yeah. Like that.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
You have to have a straw.
Big Cat
Yeah. You have to.
Hank
Trying to drink out of it without a straw is ridiculous.
Big Cat
Of course. And then the other one. That maybe we'll be called misogynistic. I don't know. I'm always just a little bit embarrassed as a grown man when I have to shake a woman's hand. I just. It feels weird. Yeah, that's. That's.
Memes
That's fair. Or like when. Yeah.
Big Cat
When you meet.
Memes
When you're meeting guys and girls.
Big Cat
Yeah. And you've never met the girl. Yeah.
Memes
It's like I'm not hugging you.
Big Cat
Right.
Memes
Like, I'm gonna shake your hand.
Big Cat
Like, this is weird. Like, we don't.
Hank
Like, I always shaking it.
PFT
Not.
Big Cat
I'm not talking about business setting. I'm talking about, like, informal kind of setting. You know what I mean?
Hank
I always say I always. Like, I also feel awkward about it, but I'm just be like, all right, nice, firm handshake. I'll say it, like, out loud, because I don't.
Big Cat
Oh, that makes it way worse.
Memes
Right in the eye and shake your ass.
Big Cat
I do that. I do.
Hank
When you shake someone's hand, a lot.
Big Cat
Of times I'll do the handshake guy. Handshake guy. And then just like a meek little hello to the woman.
Hank
I think the staring is going to play.
PFT
I think.
Hank
If you get caught, stay. Like, getting caught staring is a thing. Like. No.
PFT
Like.
Big Cat
Yeah, yeah.
Hank
It. Sometimes you. Sometimes.
Memes
As long as you're working out and like.
PFT
Yeah, there's just a really hot.
Hank
I don't go to public gyms. Come on, now.
Big Cat
Oh, we had. We. Zach. Go ahead, Zach.
Zach
Working out is pretty rough, too.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
Running.
Zach
As far as embarrassments go.
PFT
Running.
Hank
Just wouldn't know.
Big Cat
Just running.
PFT
Grown man sprinting is embarrassing.
Big Cat
It's very.
Hank
It's gonna be so embarrassing when we do this hot dog thing. I already thought about you guys watching me, right?
Big Cat
Wrong. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
PFT
We had getting crossed up.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
In basketball.
Big Cat
Oh, pug. We had a. We.
Memes
Oh, pug.
Big Cat
Pug did get crossed.
PFT
When you get crossed up and it's on. It's on tape.
Big Cat
We had. I forgot. We should have done this one. I think that it's getting hit in the head with a ball, no matter how it happens, is always embarrassing. Like, I'm saying, you could be playing catch. It hits you in the head. That's very embarrassing. But even when we're playing hoops out here and, like, everyone's shooting around and you're not even looking, and the ball hits you in the back of the head, you're embarrassed.
Hank
I think the person who's shooting is more embarrassed.
Big Cat
Oh, never.
Hank
Oh, I. I feel.
Big Cat
No.
Hank
Horrendous. No, you're. You're a bad guy.
Big Cat
No, you're. You're. No, you're a bad shooter.
PFT
What if you just, like, brick it?
Hank
No, but sometimes it's not even that. Like, even if you, like, hit the side of the rim, you miss it. I always feel bad.
Big Cat
You're a bad shooter. What?
Hank
You've never missed a shot.
Big Cat
I don't miss that badly.
Hank
If you can literally hit it off of the side of the rim and it can bounce.
Big Cat
That's just the bounce of the ball, baby.
Hank
Yeah, but then you still feel bad.
Big Cat
I think you're missing the whole rim. And then you should feel bad. I missed the whole rim. I'd feel bad. Like, you. You.
Hank
You are not. You're acting like you're fucking Steph Curry.
Big Cat
I'm not. As. I'm. I'm not shooting air balls and hitting people.
Hank
I never said airball.
Big Cat
I think that's what's happening.
Hank
This is crazy. Deflection.
Big Cat
Do you feel embarrassed when it. When you make. When you shoot a real shot that has a real bounce and you hit.
Hank
Someone in the head. I feel bad, but I feel bad.
Memes
Shouldn't have been standing there.
Big Cat
I feel if I get hit, I.
PFT
Think you got to have your head on a swivel.
Big Cat
You guys are me. No. You're a bad shooter.
Hank
I don't. Yes. I never said airball, but that's really what we're talking.
Memes
I agree.
Hank
You are just creating a scenario.
Big Cat
I never said because it doesn't make sense. When you're around, if you have a regular shot that hits the rim and hits someone in the head. I don't feel. I'm not like, oh, my God.
PFT
I'm embarrassed for that. What if you swish it and it hits their head?
Hank
I would still feel bad.
Big Cat
That's crazy. That's crazy. It's like standing under the hoop. Yeah.
PFT
I feel good.
Hank
Yeah, I guess. I don't know.
Big Cat
If I had a wild shot that was like, not even close. It hits him on the head, I would feel bad.
Hank
I guess it's. You're still, like, hitting someone in the head. I don't. I don't know. Maybe it's. Maybe embarrassed is the wrong word.
Big Cat
It's more like, all right, what else we got?
Memes
That awkwardly walking faster than the person in front of you on the sidewalk. And then you have to, like, speed up to pass them.
Big Cat
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Memes
Or if it's a girl and you have to go, you know, or just the street, the eight miles.
PFT
Or say on your left.
Memes
Yeah, that's what it was.
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah. On your left.
Hank
That's great.
PFT
Got to let them know that you're there. You don't want. You don't want to surprise them.
Big Cat
The. Yeah. Or the face to face. You go one way, hallway.
PFT
I. I am an all time bad guy at that.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
I don't know what it is about me, but I. I hit on such a high percentage of those where I go the Same way. Same way. Yeah. Switch something up.
Big Cat
I had swinging and missing in a slow pitch softball game.
PFT
Yep, yep, we had that.
Big Cat
So bad.
PFT
And also on the tee.
Big Cat
Yeah, that's bad.
Hank
I wouldn't know.
PFT
Beast.
Big Cat
I didn't say. I didn't say it was you. I didn't say it was you.
Memes
Forgetting a wedge a few holes back.
Big Cat
No, that's a goal.
PFT
Butt crack.
Big Cat
Is that the whole pick? Butt crack.
Hank
I thought about it, but then. Because that's. That's not even true anymore. Like, I don't even get embarrassed about it. It's just I used to get very embarrassed about it. Yeah, what about my.
PFT
What about saying, see you later, and then you guys both go in the same direction?
Big Cat
Oh, brutal.
PFT
That's more awkward, I think, than embarrassing.
Big Cat
Yeah. Or walking the wrong direction and having to realize you have to turn around. Yeah. Like, in front of people.
Memes
Or like, have a good flight. Thanks. You too.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
You're just checking.
Big Cat
Yeah. I had thinking. Caleb Williams is entering the best situation a rookie quarterback has ever had.
PFT
That's embarrassing moment.
Big Cat
Pretty embarrassing.
PFT
Car breaking down, causing the entire city of Chicago. That's pretty embarrassing. I wouldn't call that a little embarrassing moment.
Big Cat
Yeah, that's a big embarrassment. Yeah.
PFT
Big embarrassing. Hank had forgetting your keys in your apartment.
Memes
Yeah. Like. Like getting down to your car. Be like, ah, yeah, my keys are upstairs.
Big Cat
But that doesn't really. That's not.
Memes
Yeah, he talked me off that one. Yeah, I thought that was a good one.
Big Cat
Like, you know what's a good one? That I'm not saying it's you, but like, once or twice a year, sleeping until like 1pm and having all your friends think you're dead. Yeah, that's super embarrassing.
Memes
Probably had fun, though.
PFT
What about getting once a year. Yeah. What about getting demoted as your fantasy team owner?
Memes
Oh, yeah, it's pretty embarrassing, just getting demoted.
PFT
Yeah, yeah. Demoted.
Big Cat
Yeah, yeah. Just fire you. Fire you. Like, what are you doing?
PFT
Getting pipped.
Big Cat
Yeah. Food stuck in your teeth. Sneeze, fart, sneeze, fart. Oh, Zach, you had a good one.
Memes
Wearing a sticker on your hat for an entire day and no one's telling.
Big Cat
You the fast food one. Zach.
Zach
Oh, embarrassing. You know, like fast casual workers if.
Big Cat
They know your order.
Zach
Like, if the gas station employee knows, like, what cigarettes you're there to get. Or like, oh, hey, good to see you again. Yeah, it's like always bad.
Big Cat
Yeah, yeah. Them having it. What other ones did you have, Zach?
Zach
Car declining at, like, the gas station. You're buying like, a Danish Or a soda. That's always kind of rough.
Hank
One time I went into a gas station in college and the guy behind the counter just looked at me and said, let me guess. Magnums.
PFT
Oh.
Hank
And it was like the coolest I've ever felt in my life.
PFT
That's pretty good.
Hank
I don't know. I just wanted to tell that story with what we're talking about.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Memes
Were you getting magnums?
Hank
No.
Big Cat
Oh, no, I was.
Hank
I think I was getting, like, melatonin.
PFT
That. That guy probably said that to every guy that walked in. Yeah. Probably like 20 times.
Hank
I think about. I still think about it. It was like 10 years ago.
Big Cat
The other grown man. As a grown man, non airport situation, but as a grown man, just wearing a backpack. I think that's kind of embarrassing. I do it and I'm embarrassed. I'm embarrassed by it.
Hank
One other one like that, that makes no sense, but makes sense to me.
Big Cat
Travel.
Hank
Holding an umbrella.
Big Cat
Yep. Yep.
Hank
Even though, like, it's obviously way better than being wet. There's something about holding an umbrella.
Big Cat
That's correct.
PFT
Sucks.
Big Cat
Correct. Correct.
PFT
Using sunscreen.
Hank
Yeah. Yeah.
Big Cat
I also had travel. Travel related. When you get on a flight and all the overhead storage is full, so you have to go like four rows back to put your. Your bag up. And then when you get off having to basically hold everyone up to be like, can I get my bag? I hate that moment. I hate that.
PFT
Yeah. It's pretty bad.
Big Cat
It's. So you just hope that someone's gonna help you and grab it for you.
Memes
Asking someone to put sunscreen on your back.
Big Cat
Oh, that.
PFT
That's.
Memes
That can be tough.
Big Cat
Just putting on sunscreen.
PFT
Yeah. Yeah.
Big Cat
It's embarrassing.
Hank
Especially if. If you, like, have to ask one of your. Your friends. Yeah. One of your boys.
Big Cat
We should do that for chill week oil. So anyone can ask me.
PFT
I'll do it oiled up.
Hank
I won't wear sunscreen.
PFT
Saying I love you by mistake to somebo.
Big Cat
Zach. You had that as well.
PFT
Yeah. That you don't actually love.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
Or you don't love yet.
Big Cat
Getting out of a pool without using the stairs. I just always am. This is more of a personal.
Hank
I had a fight I talked about. I was at a pool two days ago, and I was like, I have one problem with my pool here. There's no steps.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Have to use the ladder.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Ladder sucks.
Big Cat
I did it. I did it.
Hank
There's no good angles for a big guy coming in or out of a ladder.
Big Cat
I did it once over vacation, and then for the rest of vacation I just put a chair with a towel next to the stairs. So I would just walk up the stairs and grab a towel. And mind you, this is in front of my family, but I'm still embarrassed. They don't need to see this.
Hank
Chicago pools are also so packed all the time. That's.
Big Cat
Yeah. Too many people.
Zach
Too many tiny shoes.
Big Cat
Yes. Tiny shoes. Is embarrassing.
PFT
It is embarrassing. Getting an ultrasound on your testicles from a stranger.
Big Cat
Oh, yeah.
PFT
That's pretty embarrassing.
Big Cat
That is. That is very embarrassing. Not getting a wave back. Zach also had falling in the shower. How often does that happen?
Zach
Still pretty embarrassing. Like going down wet.
Big Cat
There's nothing worse going on the DL. Yeah.
Memes
After falling on the shower, how often.
Big Cat
Do you fall in the shower? Not.
Zach
Not often at all, but a couple times it's happened. I'm just like, this is the worst day ever. Go down hard because.
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah.
PFT
Dangerous.
Big Cat
Oh. One that we missed. The. I don't know if this happens to you guys, but the. When you're just, like, agreeing with someone and you're having conversations like, oh, you've seen this show? And then you say, yes. And then they're like, oh, what was your favorite part?
PFT
Or something they ask you to. You're just, like, getting caught in a white lie.
Big Cat
Yeah. Like the most innocuous. You're just trying to get out of the conversation.
PFT
Yeah.
Big Cat
Just agreeing, and then you're just fucked. Or similar. When you can't hear someone, you ask them to repeat themselves multiple times. That sucks. Sucks. Zach, what other ones do you have?
Zach
I got an accidental Instagram, like.
Big Cat
Yep.
PFT
Okay. Yeah.
Big Cat
That's kind of rough.
Memes
Good one.
Big Cat
It can happen to anyone. Perfect booties. LeBron. He did that.
Zach
That was bad, too. Just getting caught, like, in too many. Too many ass pics on Instagram. I go, that's always bad.
Big Cat
You got to flood the zone.
PFT
Yeah.
Big Cat
What was that? Was that. Oh.
PFT
Oh, this is a podcast.
Big Cat
It's a podcast. Memes. He's just pointing.
PFT
You have to guess who he was pointing at.
Big Cat
Yeah. Having a. In a stranger's house. It's terrible.
PFT
Scott. Boris is off.
Big Cat
I had on a plane. Yeah.
PFT
I don't do it, but there has been a moment where it was an emergency.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
And it's not good.
Big Cat
Pushing on a pull door.
PFT
Oh, yeah. Hank had that.
Big Cat
What? Sucks. Sucks. You feel like such a idiot.
Memes
The doors here are, like, hard.
Big Cat
What, the comp.
Memes
Or I guess you're not the conference room doors here.
Big Cat
I get it wrong every time, actually, I do that. I get my own office door wrong. Yeah. So. Yeah, I. I know what you're saying. It sucks. All right. Any other ones? Good.
PFT
Mount Rushmore.
Big Cat
Really good. Mount Rushmore.
PFT
Great job, Max.
Big Cat
Zach, did you have any other ones?
Zach
You guys ever, like, get food as a group, and then, like, you're at the table and you have, like, similar items, but maybe, like. Like, you're going, no, no onion. And I went like, no, lettuce. And then you take a bite of the wrong one before, like, you're the guy who bit. Ate the other guy's order on accident.
Big Cat
Yeah. And you ate it too fast.
Zach
Yeah, I've done that before. And I was like, oh, now there's no going back here.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
Have you guys ever done this one? You order dinner, like, your main dinner from one restaurant, and then you order a side of something else that you like from a different restaurant, and then both the delivery guys show up at the same time at your door.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
And they get confused.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
And then they look at each other like, oh, this guy's just really unhealthy.
Big Cat
Yep, yep. Yeah, that's bad. Also just minor embarrassment when you're like. When you don't see someone in, like, a crosswalk or something, it's like, when it's basically your fault. Yeah. Like, anything on the road that's clearly your fault. You're just sitting there like, yeah, that's my bad.
PFT
You just gotta take it, like, whoops. You gotta own it.
Big Cat
Sorry about that. Okay. Good job, guys. Good Mount Rushmore.
PFT
I like it. Hank, good work. Good work.
Big Cat
Staring's gonna play.
PFT
We'll see.
Big Cat
What's the actual phrasing it's gonna be.
Hank
I don't know.
Big Cat
Okay.
PFT
Someone catches at you staring at them across the room.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Getting caught staring at someone, probably.
Big Cat
Okay.
Hank
Are we good at that? You act like everyone. You could be, like, looking at someone's shirt, and. And then they would be like, are you staring at me? And then it's like, that person think.
PFT
Like, I'd be like.
Hank
What? You? What did you say?
Memes
No, no. I was gonna make a joke.
Hank
But you. You act like this has never happened.
Memes
What type of shirt?
Hank
I don't know. Sometimes shirts have, like. No, Someone's shirts have, like, sayings on them.
PFT
Is it a tight shirt?
Hank
You shirts have words. You. You can be reading. So I'm saying. I'm talking about a guy.
PFT
A guy that was staring or getting.
Hank
You guys are the ones who are making this sexual.
PFT
I was making it just about murder.
Big Cat
Murder? Yeah. What?
Hank
You are the one who wears sunglasses every single day of your life.
PFT
I think I'd already made that.
Hank
I know.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
So like you.
Big Cat
This is this your podcast didn't just skip backwards.
PFT
You staring at me, Max?
Hank
Yes. I'm having a conversation.
PFT
I must be very embarrassed.
Memes
That's not you Italian.
Big Cat
Pft.
Hank
Have you ever. How'd you do in Mount Rushmore last year? How are your picks?
PFT
I did not come in last. Thanks for asking.
Memes
I came in last and I did the punishment.
Hank
Did you come in first?
PFT
I didn't come in first, No.
Hank
I did.
PFT
All right, so that's.
Big Cat
Maybe that's. We'll see.
Hank
We'll see. We'll see who wins this poll.
PFT
That's the beauty of the poll.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
And most of the time I win.
PFT
So.
Big Cat
I like them apples.
PFT
I do think staring's going to play.
Big Cat
Yeah. All right. But it was just funny because the thing that meme said was way better.
Hank
Yeah, no, I. I read the first.
Big Cat
Because when you see someone 50ft away and you're like, have to do the entire walk up.
Hank
Yeah, that.
Big Cat
That sucks.
PFT
Did you think about putting meatballs on the list?
Big Cat
When you don't have enough meatballs.
PFT
Meatballs aren't big enough.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
No.
Big Cat
When Nona's meatballs are cold. Yeah. All right, let's do our last ad and then we'll finish up the show, talk a little vacation, and do our numbers.
PFT
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Memes
I got off pretty well. I had a good balance. I got to see, you know, got to see some family. Hung out with my nieces, went and saw my grandpa. Mom, dad went fishing. Spent some, you know, spent some time on the boat.
Big Cat
Yeah, it was a nice fish.
PFT
Couple stripers. You're really good.
Big Cat
I want.
Memes
I want to catch tuna. I've. I've learned. I've learned how hard it is to catch a tuna, and it's on my big board.
PFT
Yeah. What was the fish that those guys in Boston saw that was like. Like, holy, dude. Look at this thing. You remember those mass.
Big Cat
Yeah. It might have been a shock.
PFT
Was that a wick. Was that a shot?
Big Cat
Blue lobster.
PFT
Oh, no, it was. Is. It was a sunfish.
Memes
Might have been sunfish.
PFT
Yeah. Those things are awesome. But yeah, Hank, I saw the picture. You holding up your catch. It looked awesome.
Big Cat
Looks sick.
Memes
Fishing. Fishing's fun. I used to. I used to give my friends a lot of heat because I was like, I don't understand it. But after we did that, we did that video for Barcelona outdoors. I got. I got the itch.
Big Cat
Yeah. When is that coming out?
Memes
I don't know. July probably soon.
Big Cat
We're in July? Yeah.
Memes
So sometime this month.
PFT
How's Vanny Woodhead looking?
Memes
If anyone had a good.
Big Cat
We.
Memes
Big cat needs to send some stuff.
Big Cat
What do I have to do? You.
Memes
You know, exactly. I don't can send it to you again. I will remind you again.
Big Cat
No, you need to.
PFT
Do.
Big Cat
You need to send it to me when I have a pen and paper.
Memes
And a passport and, like, some proof of. Yes, but I. I should have just.
Big Cat
Bought the other one that I saw online that looked exactly like Vanny.
Memes
You guys can keep asking me and the answer.
Big Cat
Did you remember the one I said that was literally a clone of Vanny? It looks so good, clean.
PFT
Vanny.
Big Cat
I'm so sick of this.
Memes
You need to send, like, two pictures.
Big Cat
But does it actually work? That's the thing is. Yeah. Yes, but there's still holes in the van.
Memes
You haven't seen the van, but you just. My guy Mike has been doing work on the van.
Big Cat
But I'm not. I'm not disparaging Mike.
PFT
Hank. You literally said it might work, and then you change your mind, said, yes, definitely.
Memes
Well, yeah.
PFT
Yeah. What happened?
Memes
Once Big Cat sends the paperwork, we're gonna find out.
Big Cat
Okay, well, all right, then I'll do the paperwork.
PFT
Definitely. We're going to find out.
Memes
Golf. Well, got to go with Big Cat.
Big Cat
Zach, remind me to do the paperwork when we come back.
Memes
Chicago.
Big Cat
It's great. Okay. Yeah, our golf in Michigan was fun.
Memes
A lot of fun.
Big Cat
Good time. We had a good time.
Memes
I love Michigan. Yeah, I'm a pure Michiganist.
PFT
Yeah. The blueberries up there.
Big Cat
Beautiful. Beautiful.
PFT
Nice.
Big Cat
Zach, answer my question.
Zach
Yes, it was.
Big Cat
This was your first time going back home after becoming a public figure. What was the reception like?
Zach
This was my first time going home since I'm moving up here. The reception was great. You know, spend a lot of time with my family, was nice. You know, it takes. You take time for granted sometimes, then you step away and come back to it. It's like, oh, my God, I missed this so much. This was lovely.
Big Cat
Mm. Oh, no.
Memes
You talking about the show or going home?
Zach
Oh, I was talking about my. See my parents again.
Big Cat
Oh, okay.
PFT
Yeah.
Big Cat
But did it make you feel like I want to just come back?
Zach
Wait, what'd you say?
Big Cat
Did you. Did you feel like, why don't I just move back to Florida?
Zach
Oh, no, I didn't do that. But, no, I didn't. I didn't think that.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Zach
They call it homesick. Sometimes Everybody gets a little homesick.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Zach
So it was nice to cure the homesickness a little.
PFT
You have a home cooked meal? I did.
Zach
My mom made several home cooked meals. I ate way too much. I went into the week dieting, left the week, never dieting even a little bit.
Big Cat
Died July 4th. Yeah. That's a crazy thing.
PFT
What was the best meal that you cooked?
Zach
Best meal that she cooked would probably have to be. We did a little baked chicken, quarters, string beans, Mac and cheese.
Big Cat
Nice. Love that. What? And so your mom listens to the show?
Zach
My mom does consume a lot of the shows now.
PFT
She does.
Zach
She never did, but now she does.
Big Cat
And what? Did she have any questions or anything? She was.
Zach
She was curious what we were ranking the other day. Letter of M's. She's like, what are you talking about M's for? And then it did come up at dinner. She's like, so, Zach, what's a dinger?
Big Cat
And I didn't.
Zach
Okay, so just stuff like that where she's trying, but she's over consuming.
PFT
What did you think about Dungeons and Dragons?
Zach
She let Me know that I did terrible on costumes. I think her quote was. Yeah, you that up?
PFT
We're working on that.
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah.
Zach
Could be a redempt if you guys allow.
Big Cat
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Big time redemption. Everyone else had a good week.
PFT
I had a good week.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
I took a bunch of back shots. Acupuncture.
Big Cat
Nice.
PFT
That's what they call it.
Hank
I have a confession to make that I'm also not proud of. I. I played a lot of pickleball over the week.
PFT
Okay. You get roped into that?
Hank
No, it was that. It was just with the boys. McCarthy, Tom lay the pickle at work. It was.
Memes
Pickleball is.
Hank
Yeah.
Memes
Very fun to play. It's kind of embarrassing to say.
Hank
Yes, exactly.
Memes
But it is fun when you're actually playing it. It's the worst sport in the world to watch.
PFT
Yeah. I just don't like how there's. There's a small group of rich people that are telling America, like, you watch pickleball now on tv.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT
That's the thing that we're going to do. But it is.
Memes
When you actually play pickleball, it is fun.
Hank
I kind of went into it, like, reluctantly, like they needed a fourth. And McCarthy was like, hey, come play some pickleball. And I was like, okay, I'll. But then by the end of it, we were like. We didn't want to stop. We. We extend. We rented an out a court for an hour and we extended it.
Big Cat
You don't have to be, you know. Yeah.
Memes
You don't have to be that athletic. You don't have to, like, you know, your body. You're not going to be, like, dead tired after playing pickleball.
PFT
No.
Hank
But it still makes you feel like you did something, like you're doing something.
Big Cat
Yeah. I played it like twice and I hated it both times.
PFT
It's not. It's not bad to play, but the whole act of, like, getting the racket, reserving the court.
Hank
I didn't do any of that.
PFT
Driving to the pickleball court is embarrassing.
Memes
I've also never done it, but I feel like it's a good, like, couples, like, it can be, you know, co ed. It's not that much of a skill.
Big Cat
Gap if we're talking about athletics. There was a moment that I'm maybe not super proud of, but my kids were playing on the trampoline in the house I rented, and I lowered the hoop to eight and a half and just yammed for like 30 minutes. That's awesome. But just wasn't watching. My kids, like, trampolines are kind of dangerous. Oh, I was just having a yam sesh.
Hank
I thought you were talking about, like, the. Like, the basket pool.
Big Cat
No, there's a court and then a trampoline next to it. And they were in the trampoline. I was supposed to be watching them, and I was just throwing down. But you should have seen some of the dunks I was throwing down, dude, it felt so awesome.
PFT
I had the boys from Hard Factor came up, stayed with me. And then Pug came over on the 4th of July. Pug is a big cigar guy. So Pug brought. How many cigars did you bring up?
Big Cat
I didn't know that about you.
PFT
Yeah, he brought like, seven or eight. He hit up the group chat. He was like, I'm bringing cigars. And I was like, oh, hell yeah. I'm excited about that.
Big Cat
You ever pull Clinton?
Hank
I don't know.
Big Cat
What. What does that mean? Put a cigar in a.
PFT
No.
Big Cat
Okay.
PFT
The cigars were good, though. The people enjoyed the cigars. Cigars rocked.
Big Cat
It was a good time.
PFT
I love cigars.
Memes
NASCAR recap, Hug.
PFT
NASCAR was awesome.
Hank
The 99 driver did not do great.
PFT
Which was tough, but it was a good time.
Big Cat
Good vibes.
Hank
I might be a NASCAR guy now.
PFT
Well, they did the street race this year. It wasn't rained out.
Big Cat
Yeah. I saw the clouds.
PFT
I was like, oh, yep. I was thinking, here it comes.
Hank
It started to downpour, like, right after the race ended.
Big Cat
Oh, perfect timing.
PFT
Hell yes, Pug.
Big Cat
All right, everyone. Everyone else, memes. You had a good. No, you were sick.
PFT
Got sick. Niece coughed right in my mouth.
Big Cat
That was it. That was it. That's all she wrote.
PFT
But got caught up on the office.
Big Cat
So my work. Wait, what?
PFT
Caught up on the off. Got caught, recalled, Back up, recall back up going again.
Big Cat
I'm like, me, me, me, me, me. Oh, so many memes.
PFT
And see the all time gift show, right? Yeah.
Big Cat
You make any? Like, did you. Did you actually mentally? Were you watching? Were you like, all right, this is a meme.
PFT
Oh, you found new ones.
Big Cat
Yeah. You find new ones. What's the best one you found?
PFT
There's a bunch of season six. Follow the part of my take account.
Big Cat
Okay. They will be posted. Oh, I'm so excited for this.
PFT
There we go.
Big Cat
They just. You reloaded the clip. Yeah, I. I've got like three years worth in there.
PFT
Didn't we do that? I feel like maybe the first year part of my take. We got really high on the RV and then we drove watching spongebob, trying to find new spongebob. Memes.
Big Cat
Yes. Yeah.
Memes
That was on the way to Atlanta.
Big Cat
Atlanta. It was with. It was us, Kate and Roan. Rob did not like us smoking on.
Memes
The bus or watching spongebo. He ran away.
PFT
Yeah.
Big Cat
Oh, yeah. I got so high that Larry the. The. The bus driver, like, put me into, like, a mental crisis. Yeah, he, like, had a conversation with me. I was so high, like, had a nervous breakdown. Had to go back to my hotel room.
PFT
He'll do that. Numbers three, 33.
Big Cat
I gotta say, it was so nice going away for a week and knowing that we had already taped all the numbers, so there was no chance you could get it. Like, it felt good. Is it what you say, Max?
Hank
I mean, that's never. Are you worried about him getting it? That's what kind of what you're alluding to.
Big Cat
That's true.
PFT
That's true.
Big Cat
3. Would you say 33, 21.
Hank
Almost said 99. He was looking at what?
Big Cat
That's Shane's number. Right in Shane's face. I'm gonna go 73.
Hank
99.
Big Cat
Put 6, 16, 21. LT jet 85. Gates. Oh, okay. We're off to Tahoe on Monday, so we'll have some content coming up. We're gonna do a couple videos, but now I. We're gonna figure out how to eat a hot dog and run off also. I'm excited. Do we have a drone? Are we bringing a drone?
PFT
Yeah.
Big Cat
Should we all say, oh, the drone shot of us running 100 yards. It's gonna be awesome.
PFT
Should we be wearing a hot dog outfit?
Big Cat
We could.
PFT
I think, ideally.
Hank
Zach, can you. Can you get on that?
Big Cat
Zach, that's literally just finding a hot dog outfit.
PFT
One or.
Big Cat
We each need.
Zach
We need.
Big Cat
No, we can trade it. Okay. Yeah.
PFT
It's gonna be so smelly.
Hank
Yeah, Just get one. Disgusting.
Big Cat
Yeah, just.
PFT
You want to go first?
Big Cat
It's a hundred yards. Yeah, but meters.
PFT
Whatever.
Hank
It's gonna be high hot, and someone's gonna be.
Memes
How much house. How disgusting. Could I. Yeah, and you're gonna. Could you make a hot dog thing? And.
Big Cat
Oh, Max.
Hank
And you're gonna be eating a hot dog, too. The hot dog smell is gonna get in there.
Big Cat
Zach, how would you say you run poorly? Okay, I expected that. All right, we'll say their number again. 36. 33. 73.
PFT
12, 16.
Big Cat
85. 99. 21. 97. 97.
Hank
Love you guys.
Pardon My Take - Episode Summary
Release Date: July 7, 2025
After a fourth of July vacation, hosts Big Cat, PFT Commenter, Hank, and Zach reunite in the studio, eagerly diving into discussions as if it's already football season.
The hosts embark on their annual quarterback tier ranking, aiming to create the "Official Pardon My Take QB Tier." This segment is set to generate strong opinions among listeners.
Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson: Positioned at the top, reflecting their outstanding performances and impact on the game.
Jared Goff, Baker Mayfield, CJ Stroud, Brock Purdy, Herbert, Trevor Lawrence, Bo Nix: Recognized for their solid performances and potential.
Jordan Love, Geno Smith, Sam Darnold: Acknowledged for their ability to deliver on specific occasions but lack consistency.
Dak Prescott, Bryce Young, Kyler Murray, Jalen Hurts: Further discussion on their standings and future prospects.
A passionate debate ensues about Joey Chestnut's place among the greatest athletes ever, comparing him to legends like Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps, and Muhammad Ali.
Dominance in Competitive Eating: Chestnut's record-breaking performances and relentless drive.
Comparison to Other Athletes:
A lighthearted segment where the hosts compile their most relatable and minor embarrassing moments, aiming to create a humorous "Mount Rushmore."
Speculation surrounds LeBron James' activities and possible intentions regarding a return to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
LeBron's Golfing in Cleveland:
Bronnie James' Development:
Hank and PFT analyze the recent firing of Nationals' GM Rizzo and manager Davey Martinez, debating the rationale and future implications for the team.
As per instructions, all advertisements, intros, and outros have been omitted from this summary to focus solely on the content-rich discussions.
The hosts share updates from their recent time off, including golfing experiences, family interactions, and personal anecdotes.
Plans for upcoming episodes are discussed, including potential challenges like eating hot dogs while sprinting in Tahoe, highlighting the show's commitment to entertaining and engaging content.
Notable Quotes:
This episode of "Pardon My Take" offers a blend of serious sports analysis, humorous personal stories, and engaging debates, making it a comprehensive listen for sports enthusiasts seeking both depth and entertainment.