Hockey is America's Sport Now | The Yak 2-23-26

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Yak – "Hockey is America's Sport Now" | February 23, 2026

Host: Barstool Yak crew (KBNoSwag/Kyle, Nick, Brandon Walker, Rone, Lil Sas, Kate, Stephen Cheah, Big Cat, et al.)

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Episode Overview

This lively episode of The Yak kicks off the week with the crew still buzzing over the U.S. men’s hockey team’s victory over Canada, turning the sport into a symbol of American dominance. The discussion meanders through national pride, the psychology of sport losses (especially for Canada), playful digs at Canadian culture, and various inside jokes about eating habits, wild adventures, and unexpected viral animal content. There’s also a behind-the-scenes look at group challenges, Barstool events, and the intricacies of friendship among the crew.

Tone: Unfiltered, irreverent, fast-paced, and loaded with inside jokes.

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Main Discussion Points & Key Segments

1. USA’s Hockey Victory and Canadian Reactions

[02:12–06:43]

• The crew celebrates America's hockey win over Canada, sparking playful nationalism.
• Nicknames for Canada: "Uppity," "Cope merchants," and jokes about what’s left for them (maple syrup, poutine, curling).
• Reflecting on how Americans bounce from big sports moments faster than Canadians dwell on losses.
• Notable Quote:
  Stephen Che: “We’re the best, and it’s awesome being the best... Canada’s got nothing.” [02:14]

2. Taking Canadian Culture and Sports

[03:38–06:31]

• Discussing the US “stealing” or surpassing Canada in their traditional cultural exports: hockey, basketball (invented by a Canadian), and even poutine.
• Tracing how America's larger population doesn't necessarily translate into more hockey players.

3. Hockey Hair and Minnesota Hockey Culture

[07:47–18:49]

• Donnie’s past as a high school backup goalie featured in the viral "All Hockey Hair" video.
• Minnesota’s intense hockey culture – strict, almost-pro level.
• Noted the emotional highs and lows of being a goalie, including rituals and superstitions.
• Notable Quote:
  Donnie: “Goalies have the worst superstitions too. I knew a guy who’d just sit naked in his jockstrap right up until game time...” [19:32]

4. Donnie’s Ski Trip to France

[12:13–26:15]

• Stories of a “trip of a lifetime” skiing in France amidst avalanche dangers.
• French culture quirks: long lunches, laidback avalanche safety crews, being in “French mode.”
• Anecdotes of sibling outings, off-piste adventures, and French language skills.

5. The Yak Friend Dynamics

[26:37–34:08]

• Jokes about Donnie and his best friend Wolf (an interior designer), addressing rumors about their closeness, and the group's lighthearted ribbing about being a “worldly gay couple.”
• Sharing roommate stories and a “death pact” for handling each other’s phones/pictures if one dies.

6. Workout & Group Challenge Updates

[37:30–44:50]

• Ongoing “Chinese Workout” challenge: 15-min daily arm circles and fitness, interlaced with mockery over some members’ lack of coordination.
• Updates on upcoming Barstool challenges, e.g., the “DougDoug Challenge” (fast food eat-along) and detailed plans for new events featuring Ethan and Mincy.

7. Antics, Medical Emergencies & Self-Improvement

[44:54–88:11]

• Ongoing banter about who is fit/unfit, Brandon’s “medical emergency” due to dehydration, and the psychology of personal improvement.
• Long joke sequence about drinking water, fake interventions, and the difficulties in changing habits.
• Notable Quote:
  Ethan: “I think I’m a medical anomaly and should be studied. Things are seriously wrong and we’re just joking that I can’t do stuff.” [91:05]

8. Inside Barstool: Office Meals & Team Spirit

[101:04–104:07]

• Intense debate about proper pizza ordering etiquette; strong reactions to ordering a single pizza for a group (“one pizza is crazy!”).
• Nostalgia and group memory: “People don’t forget dinner orders…” – history of Barstool stream food fails.

9. Animal and Zoo Viral Content

[79:07–95:40]

• The saga of “Punch the monkey” – viral monkey video, debates about animal group behavior, and emotional manipulation by zoo video narratives.
• Lighthearted speculation on which national stereotypes equate to “hockey” for other countries.
• Giraffes vs. ostriches, reflections on giraffe patterns, safari wish lists, and the best animal encounters.

10. Barstool Event Planning & Comedy Challenges

[56:04–70:25]

• Lindsay brainstorming for upcoming physical and creative office challenges (e.g., human curling, cooking BLTs, dog-walking competitions).
• Humorous debate on the merits and pitfalls of mixing cooking, athletic, and creative tasks.

11. Cultural Observations, Slang, and Social Commentary

[96:31–100:02]

• Exploring the evolution of American slang for being drunk (“ossified,” “ginned,” “zonked”).
• Meta-commentary on Twitter drama and the unreality of social media outrage.
• Notable Quote:
  Stephen Che: "If you think what's happening on Twitter is the most important thing... you're living a very sad life." [79:02]

12. Hair Transplants & Appearance Banter

[107:51–112:43]

• Mincy details his hair transplant journey, post-procedure rules, and jokes about his new “Peaky Blinders” look.
• Group jesting continues on appearance, self-care, and being “grossed out” by each other in a mostly affectionate way.

13. Show Closures, Logistics, and Furniture Shopping

[105:25–108:43]

• The episode ends with logistical chatter about the week’s schedule, combine events, flights, and Mincy’s quest for a new sofa.
• Tangents on furniture shopping, sitting in stores, and indoor dog-walking in Home Depot.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Stephen Che: “We’re the best, and it’s awesome being the best... Canada’s got nothing.” [02:14]
• Donnie (on goalie superstitions): “I knew a guy who’d just sit naked in his jockstrap right up until game time…” [19:32]
• Brandon Walker (on national pride): “Imagine having a small to like a medium to small Monday every Monday – that’s Canada.” [04:48]
• Ethan (on dehydration): “I think I’m a medical anomaly and should be studied. Things are seriously wrong and we’re just joking that I can’t do stuff.” [91:05]
• Stephen Che (on Twitter outrage): “If you think what's happening on Twitter is the most important thing... you're living a very sad life." [79:02]
• Mincy (about his girlfriend): "I have a beautiful girlfriend who's disgusted by me just as much as you guys are." [111:01]

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Highlight Timestamps

00:00–01:43 – Intro and ads (skipped) 02:12–06:43 — Celebrating USA hockey win; Canadian banter
07:47–18:49 — Donnie’s hockey hair, Minnesota prep culture
12:13–26:15 — French ski trip saga, speaking French 26:37–34:08 — Donnie & Wolf, friendship/death pact humor 37:30–44:50 — Chinese workout challenge banter
44:54–88:11 — Medical emergencies, fitness woes, and personal banter
79:07–95:40 — Viral animal content: Punch the monkey, giraffes, zoos
101:04–104:07 — Pizza ordering drama & Barstool office food culture
105:25–108:43 — Furniture shopping and Home Depot dog walks
107:51–112:43 — Mincy’s hair transplant adventure
112:48–114:53 — Closing out, scheduling, and final shout-outs

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Conclusion

This episode is quintessential Yak: sports-fan chaos meets friendship dynamic, with US-Canada trash talk, unexpectedly deep moments about loss and pride, and a heap of running gags. Whether discussing hockey glory, medical struggles, animal viral videos, or the perfect pizza order, the crew keeps it loose, fast, and always funny. For regular listeners or Barstool fans, it’s a goldmine of community humor and “you had to be there” moments; for newcomers, it’s a glimpse into the epicenter of Barstool’s office banter.

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For full inside jokes, friendly roasts, and plenty of sports-nerd fire, listen to the entire show wherever you get your podcasts.

Transcript

[Brandon Walker]

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[Francis]

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[Ethan]

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[Stephen Che]

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[Francis]

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[Stephen Che]

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[Francis]

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[Stephen Che]

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[Francis]

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[Stephen Che]

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[Francis]

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[Stephen Che]

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[Francis]

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[Stephen Che]

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[Stephen Che]

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[Mincy]

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[Ethan]

Hello.

[Dana]

Hello.

[Ethan]

Hello.

[Brandon Walker]

Hi.

[Stephen Che]

Usa.

[Ethan]

Usa.

[Stephen Che]

We're the best about it. Yep, we're the best.

[Ethan]

Yep.

[Stephen Che]

And it's awesome being the best.

[Ethan]

It is.

[Stephen Che]

And they. Canada's got nothing.

[Brandon Walker]

What is one thing?

[Stephen Che]

They still have curling, but they cheated it.

[Ethan]

Do they have maple syrup?

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, they do. Oldie brings.

[Kyle]

What about us though? We got.

[Stephen Che]

Well, oldie just brings it to us.

[Dana]

Vermont.

[Kyle]

Vermont has maple.

[Dana]

Wisconsin has maple syrup.

[Ethan]

I think Mark had the best point. They got poutine and we need to take it. Gravy, right?

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

And cheese curds.

[Mincy]

Eternity leave.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, yeah.

[Mincy]

We do have eight times the the population, which is an advantage Trudeau took. But I think they have more total hockey players. So it's not like.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Mincy]

Advantage at All.

[Stephen Che]

And they don't have any other sports. Look at that.

[Kyle]

Look at that. Look at that. The best.

[Ethan]

Number two.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Donnie]

No, no, no.

[Ethan]

But we did.

[Stephen Che]

No, no, hold on, hold on now. Hold on. I, we, we, we went through this on pmt. If you eliminate cross country skiing as a sport were the best then.

[Brandon Walker]

Yes.

[Stephen Che]

Norway just, they're, they're merchants.

[Mincy]

That's just a Norwegian.

[Stephen Che]

They have seven gold medals in cross country skiing. Six by one guy. Yeah, they're. They're cross country skiing Merchant.

[Ethan]

Cool.

[Stephen Che]

You found a way to do skiing in a, in a boring way.

[Ethan]

In the worst way possible.

[Stephen Che]

Super fun activity. You made it terrible. Yeah. That guy's a stud.

[Brandon Walker]

God damn, he's such a stud. This guy should be more of a legs.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, he really should. He was on my Instagram feed.

[Dana]

Hair. Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

He also just got engaged. Congrats to him.

[Brandon Walker]

Oh, congrats to him.

[Kyle]

We just have no answer.

[Ethan]

I don't know what guy.

[Brandon Walker]

We have no answer.

[Stephen Che]

Johannes.

[Brandon Walker]

Johannes Clabble.

[Stephen Che]

Rohanas. Yeah, but they were, we, I was, we were reading Canadian Cope on PMT and there was one guy who's like, the worst part about this is that 35 million people in Canada are going to spend the next four years hand wringing over this loss where all American hockey fans or all American fans are going to just go on to the next sport they care about.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Yeah. We got March Madness coming up.

[Stephen Che]

Well, I was like, I was like, that's not true. I was, well, I'll. I'll bask in this for like a week. And then I forgot. Houston, Kansas.

[Kyle]

Big Monday, Big Monday tonight.

[Ethan]

So it's over.

[Kyle]

Big Monday tonight.

[Brandon Walker]

I mean, I've moved on. I use that game to just pregame for the NASCAR race at 2.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah. Iowa and Wisconsin played like few hours later. I was like, gotta win this one. Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

I got up. I was like, I guess I'll do this. Get my brain ready.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

They don't even have Big Monday.

[Kyle]

Bill Self's never lost on big money. Dan.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

Underdog tonight.

[Stephen Che]

Houston. Two in a row loss. Big M. Imagine having a small to like a medium to small Monday every Monday. That's Canada.

[Kyle]

That's exactly right.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, we do just Big Monday. I mean Monday Night Football is always a big Monday.

[Brandon Walker]

Did Michael Greer renounce his Canadian cities?

[Stephen Che]

He kind of lost it.

[Brandon Walker]

He lost it. Did he lose the plot a bit?

[Stephen Che]

He's the number one of lost it.

[Ethan]

He's super American though.

[Brandon Walker]

He said I'm the number one immigrant.

[Stephen Che]

And he also said that he like despite. He says Canadians are the worst people ever, which I don't agree with.

[Brandon Walker]

That hit me like a ton of bricks.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

I think Canadians are pretty awesome.

[Brandon Walker]

You know, if like comes out about a celebrity and you're just like, I liked them. That was Canada to me, that they were nice.

[Stephen Che]

I am the best immigrant.

[Ethan]

I'm the best.

[Stephen Che]

Then you start going hard in the paint. He's like, they're the worst people in the world. The worst people. You know, it's like, damn, dude, I like Canadians.

[Brandon Walker]

I do too.

[Stephen Che]

I mean, I. It sucks we had to take their sport.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Because we.

[Brandon Walker]

We do.

[Kyle]

They are being about this too, though.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

They're being big.

[Mincy]

Oh.

[Stephen Che]

Because they never.

[Brandon Walker]

Canadians are uppity.

[Ethan]

He's from the most hilarious place though.

[Brandon Walker]

Wealth.

[Ethan]

Yeah. It can't be from wealth.

[Brandon Walker]

That sounds like a vaginal discharge.

[Stephen Che]

We were joking about it though, Brandon. Like, I. The only way I could see Canada getting any, like, any pride back is they have to win an SEC championship.

[Ethan]

I just don't see a path. Right. I don't see a path at all. I guess the Blue Jays could have won the World Series and they would have something. They choked it away and.

[Stephen Che]

And our. Our best boys, Shohei Otani went and stole it from them.

[Ethan]

And the pitcher.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah, our boys.

[Stephen Che]

Our best guys.

[Brandon Walker]

Drake lost the rap battle.

[Kyle]

Oh, my God.

[Stephen Che]

Our best, Sean Otten.

[Mincy]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, we went and took it.

[Dana]

Do they have college hoops?

[Ethan]

No. Yeah, well, they have college hoops.

[Donnie]

They do.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Good for them.

[Mincy]

They.

[Brandon Walker]

A Canadian invented basketball, right?

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, that's right.

[Ethan]

Nice.

[Stephen Che]

And then we took that too.

[Brandon Walker]

Took it.

[Stephen Che]

Chase Claypool.

[Brandon Walker]

Oh, yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Almost went for a first rounder.

[Brandon Walker]

Second round.

[Mincy]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Hi.

[Brandon Walker]

I think he's modeling now. He's a good looking man.

[Ethan]

Really? Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah. That was awesome, though. That was a lot of fun. Had a lot of fun. Yesterday morning.

[Ethan]

I went to. Yesterday afternoon. Late yesterday afternoon, I went to the Bucks Raptors game.

[Stephen Che]

Okay.

[Ethan]

And because the Raptors were playing, they sang, oh, Canada. There were some audible giggles in the crowd.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, that's great.

[Mincy]

Snickering at it.

[Dana]

I had a few angry Canadians in my dm. I just.

[Ethan]

You got a few angry everything in your.

[Dana]

But I just posted yesterday, I was watching the game with my kids and afterwards I just like posted a picture of the TV being like, awesome. And Canadians were like, you don't even like hockey. Like, they were like, just mad.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, yeah. Like, kid, I'm starting to get the vibe you don't like Trump.

[Dana]

I know people that do.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah, You're Due for a hand off.

[Stephen Che]

That vibe. What's that about?

[Brandon Walker]

I saw your twin. I was like, she's changing her handle tonight. What's her handle gonna be?

[Dana]

It's already changed. I'm safe.

[Brandon Walker]

Safe. People were coming at Chef Donnie for not knowing hockey, and did you see what he.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, the best reveal ever.

[Dana]

What'd he say?

[Brandon Walker]

The.

[Francis]

The.

[Stephen Che]

He was in the hockey hair video. There's a guy who makes this video every year, and it's incredible. It's. He. He rates the best hockey hair in the Minnesota State tournament, which is a big fucking.

[Ethan]

Oh, we're coming up on that, too.

[Dana]

Oh, the all hockey hair team.

[Stephen Che]

Look at that. 2015 all. I mean, he looks great. We got to find that video.

[Brandon Walker]

I know.

[Stephen Che]

I. I told him to come in today. We're going to recap, because we haven't seen him.

[Mincy]

These were, like, early viral videos.

[Donnie]

Yes.

[Stephen Che]

Yes.

[Kyle]

That shouldn't be difficult to find, right?

[Stephen Che]

No, just find. Just Google 2015. All hockey hair.

[Brandon Walker]

I. I might have ruined chef's vacation a little bit.

[Kyle]

Why?

[Brandon Walker]

He had a family skiing vacation with just, like, his siblings.

[Stephen Che]

Siblings?

[Donnie]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

And I just happened to know the guy that was sitting right behind him at a drunken dinner. And so I just called him after the dinner and told him everything. He said, oh. I said, you have a mole in your family. You know, And I told him some things that he, like, really got off.

[Mincy]

So this guest guy wasn't with Donnie?

[Brandon Walker]

No, they were just at the next table.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

You don't get credit enough for really pulling the strings behind the scenes with him.

[Brandon Walker]

I know.

[Mincy]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

But I found out some things that he, like, started questioning who the mole in his family was because he got off his chest what he named. Wanted to name his firstborn.

[Stephen Che]

Oh.

[Brandon Walker]

And I. I called and I just said it, and gotta have them.

[Stephen Che]

Come here. What does it start with?

[Brandon Walker]

E and it ends with Electron.

[Mincy]

So.

[Brandon Walker]

So I just called, and I was like, I know about electron. He said, how the. And then he, like. I guess he went in. I don't know.

[Ethan]

Hold on. His last name's Enriquez, right?

[Brandon Walker]

Electron Enrique.

[Ethan]

Oh, my God.

[Brandon Walker]

I know.

[Ethan]

That's a superstar.

[Brandon Walker]

I know.

[Mincy]

So your guy just happened to be sitting by him in France?

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Did you open up this guy?

[Brandon Walker]

No.

[Francis]

But,

[Brandon Walker]

yeah, it was just good luck on my end.

[Ethan]

But I. Electron.

[Brandon Walker]

I know.

[Ethan]

That is pretty sick name.

[Brandon Walker]

I know.

[Stephen Che]

I know.

[Brandon Walker]

He's here.

[Ethan]

Yeah, I've seen him.

[Stephen Che]

Kids on the.

[Brandon Walker]

Dinah here, Wink.

[Mincy]

Want it?

[Brandon Walker]

Got a little bit of new kids on the block for me.

[Donnie]

Dinah here, Wink.

[Brandon Walker]

He got cocky at the end. I love that dude so much.

[Dana]

I like the mustache.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, the mustache look very French. Electron Enriquez.

[Ethan]

Is he older than I thought?

[Stephen Che]

I understand what that is.

[Brandon Walker]

That's a. It's a good ass name. It's a Stan Lee kind of name.

[Ethan]

Electron Enrique. Yes. That is definitely a.

[Mincy]

That's the banter he was having at dinner.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah, I guess, like they were all saying what they want to name their firstborns because.

[Mincy]

Seriously.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah, but he was as well.

[Stephen Che]

It is a lot of pressure. I wanted to name my firstborn Dion. That didn't go well. Would have been sick.

[Brandon Walker]

It is on. Cats. Yeah,

[Mincy]

Cats. That's kind of.

[Brandon Walker]

That's like a porn star.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

What's up, Donnie?

[Brandon Walker]

Welcome home.

[Kyle]

Well, well, well, well, well.

[Stephen Che]

What do you think? What do you think? Like in, let's say, 15 years from now, and Electron is like 12 years old and he pulls up some YouTubes.

[Donnie]

The fact that somebody said that and reported it to Nick is. I thought I was in a safe space.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, you were in France. Far away.

[Ethan]

So you did say it.

[Donnie]

Of course. Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Electron. That's a sick.

[Donnie]

You don't think Electron Enriquez rolls off the toes?

[Stephen Che]

I think that kid would get. It would be tough for that kid.

[Donnie]

That's a. He's. That's a science name.

[Ethan]

But how. How do you come up with Electron?

[Donnie]

What do you mean? How do you come. How do you come up with anything?

[Stephen Che]

It's a science.

[Ethan]

There's so many names. There's so many names are already established as names.

[Donnie]

Right.

[Stephen Che]

That's a science name.

[Donnie]

Electron is top of the list.

[Ethan]

Ethan Enriquez. Pretty cool name.

[Donnie]

Yeah. There's too many Ethan's. There's two.

[Ethan]

All right.

[Dana]

That's a good nickname, too. Tron. Enrique.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, Tron's good name.

[Kyle]

I'm gonna name my kid that.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, so what?

[Mincy]

Not too late.

[Stephen Che]

No, it's like that.

[Ethan]

He's got a race kid, I guess. What?

[Stephen Che]

How was the trip?

[Donnie]

Trip of a lifetime.

[Stephen Che]

Trip of a lifetime. You're dugging.

[Ethan]

You're.

[Donnie]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Stephen Che]

You're dubbing that right now. That means you can't go on another better trip.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Donnie]

As far as skiing goes, the conditions we got there are something that. Unless you live in a mountain town, I'll probably get that maybe four, three to five times my entire life.

[Stephen Che]

That sounds like a lifetime.

[Donnie]

I mean, maybe not even that. Tommy. We got six feet of snow while I was there every night. Dumped like a foot of snow.

[Stephen Che]

That's awesome.

[Ethan]

Is that good?

[Brandon Walker]

But weren't you, like, a week removed from tragedy at that resort.

[Donnie]

Yeah. Eleven people died of her avalanche.

[Stephen Che]

But Avalanche.

[Donnie]

Yeah, it was dangerous.

[Stephen Che]

Tahoe. That was really sad.

[Donnie]

Yeah, it's dangerous. It's dangerous. But it's like, that's, you know. Come on.

[Stephen Che]

Are you. Yeah, come on. Are you? Avalanche. Like, ready?

[Donnie]

I'm not Abby certified. No, I'm not.

[Stephen Che]

But, like, do you have a backpack

[Donnie]

with a parachute and shit? No, because we weren't really. It was on, like, snow is great, but there's too much snow. That. The top of the mountain wasn't even open. Like, the. The mountain was closed until the last day, but that's a good problem to have. But it was. They were so concerned with avalanches that. Yeah, it was. Most of it was closed, but there's still plenty to ski and no snow up to your waist, man. It was fucking sick.

[Stephen Che]

Why do you say, like, stuck in French?

[Donnie]

I slipped back in the little. Yeah, I mean, being afraid. I was. I was in French mode for the whole week.

[Brandon Walker]

Were you French Passing.

[Donnie]

Oh, yeah. I think I'm. I mean, French people, when I speak to them, they don't know I'm American, but they know I'm not native French. But I think they probably assume I'm from a different European country that knows French. Or Quebec.

[Brandon Walker]

Okay, got it.

[Donnie]

But Quebec.

[Brandon Walker]

And your whole family speaks French?

[Donnie]

My sibling, all my siblings. Yeah. But I'm the only one that's kept up with it.

[Stephen Che]

How did you get along with your siblings?

[Brandon Walker]

Great.

[Donnie]

Great. No fight. Perfect trip. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No fights.

[Stephen Che]

What? I watched some of your ski videos. It looked like you just would just ski for like three seconds and just get buried.

[Donnie]

Yeah, there's a couple where I would. Well, there's a couple where I just picked the wrong line and got. And hit a tree. And this one, I see. I didn't see the metal cables right here. These kind of me right there about the ski. So I stopped. But, yeah, that was the pride pick. I thought I picked the perfect line to go straight down that. And there are these metal cables right there where I was getting buried.

[Brandon Walker]

Were you alone?

[Donnie]

But if you don't stop. I would have skied that within perfect line. No, I was skiing with one other. With Wolf on. On those runs.

[Mincy]

That looks.

[Kyle]

These are perfect conditions.

[Donnie]

Yes, yes.

[Ethan]

Not too much snow.

[Donnie]

No, no, these are perfect conditions.

[Brandon Walker]

You've been on the ground more than you've been skiing.

[Kyle]

So

[Donnie]

you do glide. Like. This is a bad. And this. I had to stop.

[Mincy]

If you don't stop this video Is showcasing you stuff.

[Donnie]

This is me stuck on your strike.

[Stephen Che]

That's what I'm saying. I watched this video, and this is

[Brandon Walker]

one of the videos.

[Donnie]

No, but there's videos. Yeah, because I said this would have been. Been a perfect line if I had not gone right into the chains and then had to dig myself out. But no, there's a. There's videos where I go, oh, you're still down. Yeah, this one's not great. Yeah, this one's not great.

[Ethan]

It looks like too much snow.

[Donnie]

This looks not too much snow. TJ There's a different one. There's one where I go T2B. And there's a great one.

[Mincy]

Little less snow. That would have been perfect.

[Donnie]

No, no, wait. T2B, top to bottom.

[Stephen Che]

Okay.

[Ethan]

You could have just said that.

[Donnie]

T to B. Oh, the backflip. Yeah. That was a little whiplash on that. That one wasn't.

[Stephen Che]

Were you sore every day?

[Donnie]

No. I mean, after the backflip, I was. Yeah. My back and neck were kind of.

[Ethan]

But if this is the trip of a lifetime, what's the China trip gonna be? What's the point?

[Dana]

This is.

[Donnie]

Okay, let me rephrase. Ski trip of a lifetime.

[Stephen Che]

Trip of a life.

[Donnie]

Ski trip of a lifetime.

[Stephen Che]

Okay.

[Donnie]

Yeah. This.

[Ethan]

We're cruising.

[Donnie]

This one's good.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Donnie]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

All right. That looks fun.

[Ethan]

It's, like, a lot of snow.

[Donnie]

It is, man, but it's.

[Dana]

Are you guys, like, the only ones there?

[Donnie]

The Europeans don't like to go off piste. They don't like to go off trail, so it's.

[Mincy]

Oh, so this is off trail. This is not a public course. Is it legal to go down this?

[Donnie]

Yeah, yeah. It's on, like, the. It's in the resort, but it's, like, off the main trail. Like, this pops back out into the trail.

[Stephen Che]

Wait, so how did you get up

[Brandon Walker]

to the top, then?

[Donnie]

You say you take the lifts up, and then there's skis that they groom. Like, there are runs that are marked, and then you can dip into the trees and do this. Like, this pops out into, like, where everyone else is.

[Stephen Che]

So you don't have the backpack or anything for the avalanche?

[Donnie]

No, not. Not yet.

[Brandon Walker]

No.

[Donnie]

If.

[Kyle]

Why go off trail?

[Donnie]

Because that's where the snow is thick. Because they groom the other one. So it's like brush all the, pack all the snow.

[Stephen Che]

What do you mean, not yet? You can't just wear the backpack?

[Donnie]

No, because if I was. This isn't true backcountry skiing, where, like, they're worried about avalanches. The resorts kind of like, make it safe to ski. That's their whole. Their whole job is, let's not have anyone die here. But 11 people sometimes, you know, the French, they fucking. Probably they take long lunches and then say, sauce come saw. They.

[Brandon Walker]

Some people, they take long lunch.

[Mincy]

Oh, the lunch break.

[Donnie]

Yeah, They're. Yes. They don't like to work that hard in France. And even the avalanche crew clearly doesn't

[Stephen Che]

like to do avalanche Death, I think might be one of the worst deaths.

[Donnie]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

I was reading about it after.

[Donnie]

Yeah. The scariest thing is you don't know if you're. Which way's up or down. So you start digging. You could be digging deeper into the snow. Yeah. No, it's got. It's terrifying.

[Stephen Che]

They had a guy who was like, an expert who survived one. He's like. It's. It's like being covered in wet cement.

[Donnie]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Stephen Che]

That's so terrifying.

[Donnie]

That'd be terrifying. But I'm not doing true, like, backcountry skiing. That's where it's like the people died.

[Brandon Walker]

Backcountry skiing that we.

[Donnie]

Yeah, I think. I don't know, honestly, where. I think on that trail.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah, it was probably that.

[Donnie]

No, no, no.

[Stephen Che]

It might have actually gone.

[Brandon Walker]

That's what you tripped. Some dude's wallet chain. You get tied up.

[Donnie]

But, like, true. Like. Like heli skiing or like, back. Back. Real backcountry cat skiing. Like, sled skiing is where you need avalanche training and beacons and the parachute. I haven't done any of that yet. I would love to someday, but that's not in my bag quite yet.

[Stephen Che]

You dunked on that guy, by the way, on Twitter.

[Brandon Walker]

I had to.

[Donnie]

Yeah, I.

[Stephen Che]

Was that a big deal when you made that video?

[Donnie]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because that's the year my high school won the state last the two years before that. And then we were trying to three peat and everyone was so sad, but then the guys on the team were like, at least you made the video.

[Stephen Che]

Like, were you the starting goalie?

[Donnie]

No, that I was. I was back up that year. I was up and down. Like, Minnesota hockey treats it like a guy deleted it. They treat it like pros, where you. If you get. If you have a bad game, you can get sent down to JV and, like, you have to work your way back up. I had the Yips as a goalie one season, and then they put the other guy in, and that was it for me. But.

[Stephen Che]

So when you won the title, you were down?

[Donnie]

Yeah, yeah, I was. I got sent down to The Miners that. That The JV that year and. But still, I mean, it was.

[Ethan]

It's.

[Kyle]

You get sit back up ever.

[Donnie]

Yeah, I got. So. Yeah, I got. I was up and down twice.

[Stephen Che]

Did you start in the tournament ever?

[Donnie]

Never in the tournament.

[Brandon Walker]

No.

[Kyle]

You guys won the title when you got it sent up?

[Donnie]

No, the two rings I got were when I was having a bad time. But goalies. That's why I would never recommend anyone to play goalie.

[Stephen Che]

It's like, you got to be a psycho.

[Donnie]

It's just. It's the best. It's the highest of highs. Like Alabuck yesterday. We've probably had like the. The being in that state. You're like, you want all those shots, five on three. You're like, what's. Oh. When you're playing that good. It's like so sick.

[Kyle]

As a goalie, I might have ball sack, but I saw he had like a quote where he was like, I woke up and every step I took was like, the right step.

[Donnie]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

He was like, sounds right.

[Kyle]

As I was walking.

[Mincy]

Ideal.

[Brandon Walker]

I knew.

[Kyle]

Out of my bed to the right to the toilet. I was like, this feels right.

[Brandon Walker]

Goalies are the weirdest of the.

[Stephen Che]

They're the weird. They're all unhinged.

[Donnie]

No, they're pretty. We're good.

[Stephen Che]

No, they're all on.

[Donnie]

We are.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Donnie]

You.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Donnie]

I think I'm on the more of a normal side of goalies that I've met.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah.

[Mincy]

So you're proving.

[Stephen Che]

But if you're an NHL goalie, you got.

[Donnie]

Oh, yeah. You're a psychopath. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Stephen Che]

It's kind of. It's kind of like being like an offensive lineman in the NFL. Like, you're. You're just something. You're just taking.

[Donnie]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

The worst job. Yeah, it just sucks.

[Donnie]

I mean, goalies have weird. The worst superstitions too. I knew a guy that would never take his jock strap off. Like, he would just sit there naked. His. In his strap. And then five minutes before he had to like, almost. The Zamboni is getting off. He throw everything together. And you do that. So you just be naked like this the whole time. Good goalie, though, man.

[Brandon Walker]

What was your superstition?

[Donnie]

I didn't really have. I would have a couple of rituals that I'd be tapping the post.

[Stephen Che]

I wouldn't work.

[Donnie]

Yeah, it wasn't. That wasn't the. They worked for a while until I got the yips and then I couldn't get rid of them. I would climb the locker room. I would always get Caught climbing the beams in the locker room.

[Kyle]

I think your question is going to be my question. Go ahead, Brandon.

[Ethan]

How does a goalie get the yips? You were just letting a lot of shots in.

[Donnie]

Yeah, you just get in your head like, you just.

[Stephen Che]

And like, not seeing the puck.

[Donnie]

You're just not seeing the puck. Yeah, it's honestly tough. I saw like a sports. Not. I should have seen hypnotist. I saw a sports, like a psychologist to try to get rid of it, but it was like. Yeah, if you think.

[Ethan]

If you saw a hypnotist, it would have fixed it.

[Donnie]

Probably could have, yeah.

[Kyle]

Yeah, the psychologist.

[Stephen Che]

How many. What was the worst game you had?

[Donnie]

I mean, the worst game I had. I didn't realize I was playing because I thought it was like that, you know, I was the backup that year. So we had a high school dance, like, not. Not the night before, but it was like that, whatever. Asking party for the dance. And I got up because I was like, I'm not playing tomorrow. I can have a good time. And I had alcohol poisoning, so I was throwing up in the locker room and coach was like, donnie, like, you're in. You're in today. And I had no. I was like, I really don't want to play. And my whole teammate, everyone was laughing, just taking slap shots at my head and warm ups. No one's trying to help me out, get me ready for the game.

[Ethan]

Sure.

[Donnie]

I let in, like, fun, though. Probably four goals just against like a shitty. Like a team that we should have beat. Eleven. Nothing.

[Ethan]

Well, let me stop you there. What's the asking party for a school dance?

[Donnie]

I don't know. It's like when the girls. The girls asked the guys. It was the. Sadie's dad. Yes.

[Ethan]

Okay.

[Donnie]

And then it was a Friday night, we.

[Brandon Walker]

Did you get asked?

[Donnie]

I got asked. Yes, of course. Yes, I think so.

[Mincy]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Yes, of course. Yes, I think so.

[Stephen Che]

I got.

[Donnie]

I went to the dance. So, yeah, I got asked. I don't remember by whom, but.

[Ethan]

You don't remember who you went to the dance with?

[Donnie]

I don't.

[Brandon Walker]

Did people go to the asking party and not get asked?

[Donnie]

No, I think you had to get asked to go to the asking party.

[Brandon Walker]

Did she ever ask you after the four goals?

[Dana]

Wait, it was an asking party, but this wasn't the dance. This was.

[Donnie]

No, this was the asking party for

[Ethan]

the day right before the dance was the day before or.

[Stephen Che]

Gotta get.

[Kyle]

How do you get that?

[Donnie]

It was a basement party.

[Kyle]

How do you get. How do you. Who gets invited to the asking party?

[Stephen Che]

Cool kids.

[Donnie]

No, the kids that get asked. It's the guests.

[Ethan]

You're already asked.

[Kyle]

Is there a party?

[Mincy]

I don't remember.

[Kyle]

I don't asking parties. The asking party is where the asking happens.

[Brandon Walker]

Where does this.

[Stephen Che]

10 years ago.

[Ethan]

I believe that's not that far ago. You can remember things 10 years ago.

[Stephen Che]

I was like five years into my barstool career.

[Kyle]

Cuz you said the asking party is not the dance.

[Stephen Che]

We probably blogged.

[Donnie]

This was more than 10 years.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, you used to blog it every year.

[Donnie]

No, no, no. I've been here for eight years. So this was more than 10 years ago. This was 2014. So 10, 12 years ago. 12 years ago.

[Brandon Walker]

Don't they just ask in school like.

[Donnie]

Yeah, they. This girls. The girls don't know how to ask normally. That defensive.

[Ethan]

Just relax.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Donnie, one thing you did miss last week. We did our haters ball. Did you have a list?

[Donnie]

No, I was gonna call in. I think I was just gonna say maltitis and then.

[Brandon Walker]

Oh, it sounds worse.

[Donnie]

French. In French. Yeah, but no. What. What was the highlight of the hater ball?

[Stephen Che]

We just had a bunch of them.

[Ethan]

We all got our hater.

[Stephen Che]

I don't know if you had anything. Yeah.

[Donnie]

Guys that have, you know, normal sized feet that think that it's funny to make fun of smaller feet. So everyone in this room.

[Ethan]

So every guy really.

[Brandon Walker]

We don't have. Ours are pretty big actually.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

Ours aren't normal.

[Stephen Che]

Don't have.

[Donnie]

Normal guys are all average. I'm slightly like nine and a half. So I'm a step away from 10.

[Stephen Che]

Okay.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

But a big step.

[Ethan]

Big step.

[Stephen Che]

A step. You can't.

[Kyle]

Especially for you.

[Mincy]

Oh yeah.

[Stephen Che]

For you. You physically can't take that step.

[Donnie]

Someday. Someday. You never know.

[Brandon Walker]

Oh.

[Ethan]

Oh yeah.

[Donnie]

That's funny.

[Brandon Walker]

The block down de.

[Stephen Che]

No.

[Donnie]

Yeah. No, those were fun. I mean kid.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Donnie]

It's like you'd get your hair ready for the tournament. Our coach was never about. He was like no nonsense kind of guy. So I had to do it without really yours.

[Brandon Walker]

Was yours a strict school?

[Donnie]

Strict hockey school. Yeah. Hockey was taken very.

[Brandon Walker]

They were the Mighty Ducks bad guys.

[Stephen Che]

The cake eaters.

[Donnie]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well the. The state, yes. Notoriously hates my high school because we are the. We're the most decorated high school in Minnesota as far as state championships.

[Ethan]

So why would the state hate you?

[Donnie]

Because everyone.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Donnie]

Like Mason. Mason West. The Mason West. The new draft pick played for our. My high school. Anders Lee was the captain of Islanders Kiefer Bellows.

[Stephen Che]

Also the. The richest.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Mincy]

You guys

[Donnie]

well, no, no, that's not true.

[Ethan]

I saw Jesse the Body Ventura.

[Donnie]

It gets a rep for being that. Yes, but it's not like it's. That's. That's not actually the case.

[Ethan]

Well, it is though, right?

[Stephen Che]

It's a nice neighborhood.

[Donnie]

It's a nice neighborhood, but it's not like it's not all. If it's. It's not all nice. You know, there's. There's bad parts too.

[Kyle]

Mean streets of a diner.

[Stephen Che]

There's like a Wendy.

[Brandon Walker]

Are there some dangerous spots under the highway?

[Donnie]

Yeah. By the highway.

[Ethan]

Yeah. Where all the cars are.

[Stephen Che]

You could get hit by a car.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah, it's dangerous.

[Stephen Che]

You go on the highway in a diner, you get hit by a car.

[Brandon Walker]

Just a heads up, stay off the highway.

[Mincy]

Ye. Damn. A dinah gets tricky.

[Donnie]

Yeah.

[Mincy]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

Do you feel refreshed coming back?

[Donnie]

I really, truly feel like.

[Kyle]

Yeah. Like it was.

[Donnie]

It was refreshing.

[Kyle]

I could change your perspective on things and stuff.

[Donnie]

It's just nice being in France. I just feel really in touch over there.

[Ethan]

It's, you know, it's in touch with what?

[Donnie]

Just the people and the, the food and, you know, getting to speak French every day is. It warms my heart.

[Ethan]

Well, you can free. You can speak French here if you'd like.

[Donnie]

Not with people. No. Because no one. There's no one to talk back with, you know,

[Stephen Che]

I don't even know.

[Donnie]

It's like a subconscious thing to slip into. Like. It's like. Yeah. I don't know. They just do a lot of fillers. A lot of. They do this ass tick stack.

[Ethan]

I can't even tell where the English is.

[Francis]

No.

[Donnie]

Brandon Walker. It's a funny guy, man. It's.

[Francis]

That's.

[Brandon Walker]

You're just doing an accent, right?

[Donnie]

Oh, myself

[Ethan]

say he's just making up.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Is it cuz you come across as smarter in France?

[Donnie]

I think I might.

[Mincy]

That's what they be saying.

[Donnie]

That's the one where I got stuck

[Ethan]

free right there.

[Donnie]

Yeah, I know.

[Stephen Che]

I didn't see it.

[Kyle]

This.

[Donnie]

Yeah, it's.

[Stephen Che]

It's.

[Donnie]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

I don't know.

[Donnie]

There's a couple trees that I was

[Stephen Che]

like, oh, I'll go through these. Oh, doesn't seem like fun.

[Ethan]

It's a struggle.

[Donnie]

It's a struggle if you do it like I did. Yeah. It's like again, I haven't.

[Ethan]

But you did do it like you did.

[Donnie]

I know because I don't ski snow like that ever. So for me it was honestly.

[Stephen Che]

Did you ever do just regular pass. Yeah.

[Donnie]

With my brother's girlfriend and stuff. When we just needed to chill out.

[Stephen Che]

Are you too good for the girlfriend?

[Donnie]

What's that?

[Ethan]

Wait, yeah. Do have what?

[Stephen Che]

You and your brother's girlfriend would go off.

[Donnie]

No, no, no, no, no, no. It's not just us, dude.

[Kyle]

No.

[Donnie]

The trip was my brother, his girlfriend, my sister, her boy, her boyfriend, and me and my best friend, and then the girls. And so we'd ski as a group sometimes, and then when they didn't want to do the trees, would you say, all right, we'll go on this, you know.

[Stephen Che]

Got it.

[Ethan]

So two. Two couples. Two couples and you and your. Your friend?

[Donnie]

Me and my best guy. Yeah.

[Kyle]

Well, yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

Wolf. So what's he do for a living?

[Ethan]

You can always.

[Stephen Che]

Three couples.

[Donnie]

Come on, Nick.

[Brandon Walker]

What's Wolf do for a living?

[Mincy]

Come on.

[Donnie]

He's an interior designer.

[Stephen Che]

No, he went on a b.

[Ethan]

No, no, no.

[Kyle]

Way.

[Donnie]

Jack Wolf designs. One of the best interior designers in Chicago. He's gonna.

[Stephen Che]

How would you guys sit when you all sat at a table? Yeah, make sure you sat next to your boyfriend.

[Donnie]

I've known him since we were this big man. He's my. He's like my brother. And then I went, like, with Kevin, my younger. The one that was here as an intern this summer. He came without a boyfriend or a girlfriend.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, no, good for you, Donnie. That's good for you. Now I understand the whole, like, I can be myself in France.

[Donnie]

No, no, no.

[Stephen Che]

I had a. I had a friend who. Who was in the closet for a long time, and we all knew he was gay. And he would, like, once a year, he'd just go on a European vacation by him. By himself.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Okay, dude, that's fine. No, like, that got. You know, it's like, yeah, go. Go to Europe by yourself. By yourself.

[Brandon Walker]

And interior designer named Wolf is a good get.

[Mincy]

Donnie.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Donnie]

Guys.

[Kyle]

Yeah, Jay.

[Donnie]

What are you laughing?

[Stephen Che]

Bleach.

[Donnie]

Blonde hair right now, dude.

[Ethan]

A chef and an interior designer. That's a hell of a gay.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, my God. I want to go to a dinner party.

[Ethan]

That's amazing.

[Stephen Che]

So bad. They have a house. Like an apartment, Like Frasier.

[Ethan]

Oh, my God.

[Donnie]

Oh, it's. It's fun.

[Brandon Walker]

I mean, I bet you the most common gay couples are interior designer and chef.

[Donnie]

I don't think so. Look, people have made jokes all through high school that we were gay because we were just best friends. Yeah. It's not like. This is not. It's not. It's. It's water off a back of a. It's duck's back.

[Stephen Che]

Yep.

[Donnie]

It's a duck's Back right now. Yeah, that joke.

[Brandon Walker]

So you guys were roommates for a while too?

[Donnie]

Yeah, in New York. And then we moved to Chicago together.

[Stephen Che]

Does he speak French?

[Ethan]

Is he the one that seen you bottomless?

[Donnie]

Wait, plenty of time you guys moved.

[Kyle]

You live together.

[Donnie]

But Peter see me naked. Everyone's seen me naked in my apartment. I'm French. Like, that's the French side of me.

[Stephen Che]

Wait, does Wolf speak French?

[Donnie]

No, he does not. Not. He know lot of words, but not a lick.

[Brandon Walker]

What does he know? Like harder or slower.

[Stephen Che]

Put it in where you want to put it?

[Donnie]

No, no, he doesn't speak French, but he's. He's. He speaks a little German, a little Dutch, a little Spanish.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, wow. You two are just a worldly gay couple. That is so nice.

[Ethan]

Europe is like your oyster over there. You just go over there and.

[Donnie]

No, there's no gayness over there, man. It's not gay.

[Brandon Walker]

There's no gayness in France. Electron's going to be very cultured. Oh, my God. Adopted electron.

[Donnie]

No, it's. No, no.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah,

[Ethan]

actually. Where?

[Donnie]

That would get you there, man. No, wait.

[Brandon Walker]

So wait, when you moved to New York.

[Donnie]

Yes.

[Brandon Walker]

He just. When you moved to Chicago. I'm sorry.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

He just came with you?

[Donnie]

Yeah, he had a job offer in New York and in Chicago and. Or no, the better one was here. So he said.

[Brandon Walker]

So that's a crazy coincidence.

[Ethan]

Successful interior designer, highly successful. Just happens to get the best offers wherever you go.

[Donnie]

He only looked at. He applied to Chicago because he thought he knew I was moving. We're best friends and he only moved to New York because I was like, dude, you get out of Minnesota. Minnesota sucks right now. Like, come check out New York.

[Ethan]

You guys share a one bedroom.

[Donnie]

We graffiti our apartment together, man. We had sick shit.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, nice.

[Brandon Walker]

Your apartment was sick.

[Donnie]

Thank you.

[Stephen Che]

Look at drapes together and shit.

[Donnie]

We don't. I don't have any. I'm not an interior design. And there's nothing. No part of that in me.

[Stephen Che]

Saturday, we're gonna go.

[Donnie]

He's got a sick job. He works with all women, all the hottest girls. And he gets all. It's all girl conferences and he like, fuck. But he's.

[Kyle]

Yeah, we know.

[Stephen Che]

Well, yeah, he's a good looking guy. He's damn good.

[Ethan]

Very present.

[Donnie]

He's a very talented interior designer. If anyone in Chicago needs an interior designer, use this. Use my boy. Use Jack. Yeah, he's. He's extremely talented. You'll see him in the paper someday.

[Stephen Che]

Really?

[Ethan]

The. What?

[Stephen Che]

That's.

[Brandon Walker]

That's really not Making it into the design.

[Donnie]

The big papers. I don't know. Big shit paper. The big news now. Okay. You'll see them on the tv, on the news.

[Stephen Che]

By the way, we are pitching Stephen Che to be featured somewhere.

[Brandon Walker]

Oh, very good.

[Ethan]

We're working on that. You missed that Kyle feature for what we were.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, yeah. You were out, too. I was the. The Chicago magazine named me 32nd most powerful Chicagoan. And then we. Because, like, those lists are, like, people pitching themselves on the list.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Which is ridiculous. I didn't do that. But we realized we need to get Shea a profile of Che in a random magazine or newspaper.

[Mincy]

Absolutely.

[Stephen Che]

Around the country.

[Mincy]

That'll be easy.

[Stephen Che]

So we got to just send out a pitch.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

In, like, do you want to profile this man?

[Brandon Walker]

More people need to be aware of Che.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

You ought to be in Wine Aficionado or something like that. Right.

[Mincy]

That.

[Stephen Che]

We were saying that. Or like I was saying, like, the goal is to like, a nice, like, South Carolina, like, real estate magazine.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Mincy]

Picture that.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah. It'd be funny for this year Rising

[Donnie]

Star, if Che could do a work as a small a. And actually, I don't know if you've pitched this at an actual restaurant for a night and people think it's serious that.

[Brandon Walker]

Oh, my God.

[Donnie]

You should do that and just give your recommendations off of. Of the knowledge you have. Because I love the sommeliers.

[Francis]

That would be tough.

[Stephen Che]

By the way, Ian Cobble's coming to the office. Is he actually. Yes. So we'll get some.

[Donnie]

Every time you guys have done show that, I've been so jealous. Yeah, that'd be awesome.

[Ethan]

You should.

[Stephen Che]

You weren't at super bowl week.

[Donnie]

Come on, man.

[Stephen Che]

We should have had you for flag football at least.

[Ethan]

Well, he was getting ready for.

[Kyle]

Yeah, why don't you pop over the studio?

[Stephen Che]

Well, black football would have been perfect.

[Donnie]

I know. I was looking at the routes that everyone was running, dreaming. But my mom never let me play football. Too dangerous, she said. Too much.

[Stephen Che]

She wagged your finger like.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

She said you played hockey.

[Donnie]

Yeah.

[Mincy]

Throwing.

[Donnie]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

I think I got unprotected sex with Wolf.

[Donnie]

It's never like that, man.

[Stephen Che]

Dangerous. You're doing parks to the head.

[Donnie]

I don't think you can get concussion.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, yeah.

[Ethan]

100.

[Stephen Che]

Without a doubt. You can.

[Donnie]

Maybe. I don't know. I was never. Well, I would do the concussion testing at school and purposely do as bad as, like, you know, you always do baseline.

[Mincy]

Right.

[Stephen Che]

Purposefully.

[Donnie]

Oh, so then the baseline's low. So then they can never tell if you're Concussed.

[Stephen Che]

That's smart.

[Donnie]

Well, looking back at it, probably not, but.

[Stephen Che]

No, it's actually really stupid.

[Donnie]

Yeah, well, what are you gonna tell, you know, 14 year old boy that with a dream.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

True. One day, that's all he was. Wolf.

[Donnie]

I'll be friends like this till the end of the time.

[Ethan]

So like. Or like this.

[Donnie]

I'll tell you this at my wedding. I've told. I have four brothers and I told them all this. I said none of you will be my best man. I pick Jack.

[Ethan]

It's Wolf.

[Kyle]

There will be one man at the altar.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah,

[Kyle]

it will be Wolf.

[Donnie]

I'll be married to a hot woman someday. Or a beautiful soul. I don't know. She doesn't have to be hot.

[Stephen Che]

Or a beautiful soul.

[Mincy]

That's.

[Brandon Walker]

What about a hot woman with a beautiful soul?

[Donnie]

Perfect. If anyone's out there, let me know. It's. Yeah, or Chinese. I mean, whatever.

[Stephen Che]

Chinese.

[Ethan]

So hot woman, beautiful soul. Or Chinese.

[Donnie]

Or Chinese.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Or a man named Wolf.

[Donnie]

Man named Wolf. Man named Wolf.

[Stephen Che]

You guys have a pact?

[Donnie]

Like if we're both single, we did a death pack. We have a death pact. Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

If one dies.

[Mincy]

What?

[Donnie]

That's like if either one of us died, we have the codes to our phone. And then instead of a funeral, it's just a slideshow of all the funniest.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, that's awesome.

[Brandon Walker]

I like that. That death to us.

[Ethan]

Is that a death pact?

[Brandon Walker]

Not really.

[Donnie]

If one of us is dead, go through the other person's phone.

[Ethan]

And when you said death pack though, I thought if one of us dies, the other going to kill themselves.

[Stephen Che]

I'd like to have that. I don't know. Like, do you think your parents would. If you died tragically? Like your parents wouldn't want that at the funeral?

[Donnie]

Well, it's not their choice. I think it's mine.

[Stephen Che]

Okay.

[Donnie]

I have a. I don't know if I would say.

[Stephen Che]

Cuz Wolf could do it on the act. We just have Donnie, remember?

[Ethan]

It's.

[Donnie]

That'd be better than okay. If I die. Funeral. I want my funeral just to be here.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, perfect.

[Donnie]

Yeah, like Brandon's. But for real.

[Brandon Walker]

Real, for real, but for real. Do you want your body to be shown? I think you're a closed casket kind of guy.

[Donnie]

I'm a shot into. I want to be shot into space. If that's allowed. I don't know.

[Kyle]

Shot into space.

[Donnie]

Yeah, if they do that. Is that a thing they do? It's like the Mart. You ever did that? Like you could sign up for the marsh. You signed Up.

[Ethan]

Yeah, I just want Anakin Nikki smokes to have a fight at your funeral.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah, get messy.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, yeah, real messy.

[Donnie]

I don't know, but space would be cool, man.

[Ethan]

All right.

[Dana]

Okay.

[Stephen Che]

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[Donnie]

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[Stephen Che]

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[Donnie]

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[Stephen Che]

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[Donnie]

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[Stephen Che]

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[Donnie]

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[Stephen Che]

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[Donnie]

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[Brandon Walker]

Smack me on the ball. The dirtiest part of my life.

[Kyle]

Starting out on a new leaf.

[Mincy]

Smacking the bottom of your shoe.

[Brandon Walker]

All right, I'm gonna go rub your shoe, then make food.

[Ethan]

Starting out on a new leaf.

[Kyle]

Started out on a new leaf.

[Brandon Walker]

He's the best of the best.

[Dana]

Speaking of chefs and Chinese, where did this come from?

[Ethan]

Che, did you just randomly decide to text us this?

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Francis]

So, I mean, Kate mentioned it last week that her goal this weekend was just have a deviled egg. And then I was in Jewel with my kids, and I was like, hey, why don't I do this? I like making deviled eggs. I've done this for office mates before, so.

[Ethan]

Yeah, Che, I had five of them. They are excellent.

[Donnie]

There's a couple more back here before

[Brandon Walker]

they all get away.

[Ethan]

They are amazing. They're very, very good. Deviled eggs. You put bacon in there?

[Francis]

Yeah, I do a thing with the bacon where I'll bake the bacon, but then I'll peel the fat off and I'll just use the meat meat part, so it'll be super crisp.

[Mincy]

Oh, like that?

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah.

[Dana]

They're the best I've ever had.

[Mincy]

Thank you.

[Dana]

They were so good.

[Francis]

The Dana Beers.

[Ethan]

Oh.

[Francis]

DraftKings.

[Brandon Walker]

Weighing in, is this the best thing you could cook, Che?

[Ethan]

Maybe.

[Francis]

Probably. I think, like, fanfare wise, I find it crazy.

[Stephen Che]

Fanfare wise.

[Ethan]

Last year, you. You just didn't know how to grill at all. Grilling is far and away the easiest way to cook. And yet you know how to delicately make a deviled egg.

[Francis]

Yeah, deviled eggs is pretty much just hard boiled eggs and putting mayo and some shit in there and then just.

[Mincy]

That's my issue.

[Ethan]

Mayo.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Mincy]

Yeah.

[Francis]

I mean, there's some secret ingredients, but yes, the mayo.

[Mincy]

And is it mustard as well?

[Stephen Che]

A Little bit of.

[Francis]

I used D. Drawns, pre, comma.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Brandon claimed he's never asked for deviled eggs. That's just not true.

[Ethan]

No. Deviled egg is a food that if you go to a dinner party or something, there might be some deviled eggs. But you have never gone to a restaurant, said, I'll have your deviled eggs.

[Stephen Che]

But knowing you, you've definitely asked your wife.

[Ethan]

Deviled eggs are only a reactionary food. They're never a proactive food. You never go searching for deviled eggs. Deviled eggs just happen to be somewhere, and you eat them and you like them.

[Mincy]

Two to three is a treat. I said this. And eight plus is a tragedy.

[Ethan]

Yeah. I'm telling you right now. Five was a problem.

[Mincy]

Stuttering.

[Ethan]

Yeah. Yeah. Should we talk about Big Cat Kyle mocking us?

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, it was. It was day seven, Chinese workout. I'm trying to go 50 days in a row.

[Ethan]

Day four for some of us.

[Stephen Che]

Yep. Brandon didn't do it this weekend.

[Ethan]

I had a medical event.

[Stephen Che]

What was your medical event?

[Ethan]

I had another medical event.

[Stephen Che]

Migraines. You didn't drink water again?

[Ethan]

I. I. Diarrhea. Whatever. He mocked us.

[Stephen Che]

Kyle mocked.

[Mincy]

I did. Well, I didn't want to do it.

[Stephen Che]

Look at this.

[Mincy]

My own instance.

[Stephen Che]

We look great.

[Brandon Walker]

The boys are in sync.

[Stephen Che]

And then there's Kyle.

[Mincy]

No rhythm.

[Stephen Che]

Dude, you could do that.

[Ethan]

That's not hard. That's six white guys.

[Brandon Walker]

Doug's not white.

[Stephen Che]

Doug's not there. Oh, Jacob, Chuck.

[Ethan]

Six of our white.

[Kyle]

Kyle, had you done the workout up to that point?

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, but he was mocking us in the arm circles. And then I saw the video.

[Donnie]

He.

[Stephen Che]

He might be the.

[Kyle]

I struggled.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, you're tight.

[Mincy]

Yeah, I'm the tightest. Tightest in Ohio.

[Ethan]

You said 2014. Titus in Ohio.

[Stephen Che]

He couldn't. He couldn't do the arm circles. Titus. But he kept on mocking us.

[Ethan]

He's got it now.

[Stephen Che]

He was like. He's like, oh, we're gonna do arm circles. This is what you guys get, like, are so nervous about. First of all, we're not nervous about that workout. I enjoy. I, like, feel look forward to.

[Mincy]

It's a good workout.

[Kyle]

It's been humbled. You've been humbled by this workout.

[Mincy]

I knew I'm. I'm not an athlete.

[Ethan]

Yeah, but you're super in shape in jail.

[Stephen Che]

Wait, go back. Listen to him.

[Ethan]

O.

[Stephen Che]

Arm circles suck.

[Mincy]

You guys are warriors.

[Donnie]

See?

[Mincy]

I'm being serious. I said I'm being serious.

[Ethan]

But you aren't.

[Brandon Walker]

You're just lifting your arms up and down.

[Dana]

I just Couldn't do it it.

[Mincy]

Dude. I'm an amateur fantasy world builder. I'm not an athlete. I'm not. I'm. I just do buys and tries. This hurts.

[Stephen Che]

When you're 47 years old, we're going

[Mincy]

to do these arm and we're going

[Ethan]

to be doing them.

[Stephen Che]

When we're 140 years old, we're going to get part two in the arm circles together. I do feel better.

[Ethan]

You know who is a Tank? Deutsch. I was here the other day. Deut is a big guy. Deutsch is 6:3. He just ripped 20 pull ups.

[Donnie]

Really?

[Stephen Che]

Oh, he's a Tank.

[Kyle]

That's.

[Stephen Che]

I was here on Saturday morning with my kids and he just showed up and I was like, what's up? You working out? He's like, just gonna walk for like two hours on the treadmill. I was like, okay, sounds good.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Tank.

[Dana]

I think he was out and about yesterday pretty hard.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

Drink 400 beers.

[Brandon Walker]

I think that was the day before and the day before and the day

[Stephen Che]

those guys all went out on Sunday morning for the game. Max got so fun, like blacked out and then was like, oh, I have to do pmt and then went home and slept. Slept and then woke up hungover same day.

[Ethan]

I like Dana's heartfelt apology that he slept through it.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, Max got hurt his neck. He said he hurt his neck. Headbang too hard.

[Brandon Walker]

Worth it.

[Stephen Che]

Look at him. He gets a side headbang too.

[Ethan]

Oh yeah, that's really going.

[Stephen Che]

Look at that booty pop. Wait, what did. What did Dana say?

[Ethan]

Dana, like, tweeted. I feel terrible. I slept through drinking beers with the boys and now I feel awful because I'm trying to catch up. Up something like that. Or I'll never catch them.

[Kyle]

I'll never.

[Ethan]

Yeah, I'll never. I'll never reach what they reached.

[Stephen Che]

Dana's wife's a saint.

[Ethan]

Yeah, she is.

[Stephen Che]

She. I. She posted a funny Instagram story that was like, when USA wins, you decide to go out all day and it's her and Dana holding hands, walking down the street, and then zoom out and Cadex holding Dana's other hand.

[Brandon Walker]

I also.

[Stephen Che]

She just goes out with these mutant.

[Brandon Walker]

I think it was her birth date.

[Stephen Che]

She's like, what are we gonna do this weekend? I don't know.

[Brandon Walker]

Go and.

[Stephen Che]

And drink a thousand beers with the fattest, dumbest dude.

[Ethan]

Okay.

[Stephen Che]

I love it though. It's good to see the boys out.

[Dana]

Yeah. I feel like Deutsche has brought new life into the.

[Ethan]

To the.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Gang.

[Ethan]

We just need to inject A new

[Stephen Che]

boy said we weren't going out today. But then USA won. What's up? How we doing?

[Kyle]

Yes.

[Brandon Walker]

Dana will slow down once he hits 30. I'm sure. Man.

[Ethan]

Who is that?

[Stephen Che]

It's the GM of the Blackhawks.

[Ethan]

Oh, that's Davidson.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah. Damn.

[Ethan]

Hey, Kyle.

[Mincy]

That's big.

[Stephen Che]

That is probably one of the best, most like respected KY's we've got.

[Ethan]

Yeah, it's a top Kyle.

[Brandon Walker]

Most respected Kyle is tough.

[Stephen Che]

He's a very respected Kyle.

[Ethan]

Yeah. Chandler.

[Mincy]

Maybe not a lot of respected Kyles.

[Dana]

Yeah, they're coming back this way.

[Brandon Walker]

Kyle. Yeah. Bush. No, he's a right. Yeah.

[Ethan]

People don't respect him.

[Mincy]

Kyle Rittenhouse Fletcher.

[Dana]

Kyle Carpenter. Medal of Honor. It's a big one.

[Kyle]

That is it.

[Ethan]

Wow.

[Mincy]

Decent feet.

[Brandon Walker]

How corver over Medal of Honor again.

[Ethan]

Chandler. The actor, Right.

[Mincy]

Is he respected?

[Ethan]

People think he's a very good actor.

[Dana]

Was.

[Stephen Che]

He lost Chandler Bing.

[Ethan]

No, he's. He was.

[Stephen Che]

Oh yeah. Yeah. That's been a lot.

[Ethan]

Oh, yeah.

[Mincy]

You always see him and you're kind

[Stephen Che]

of like very respectful.

[Brandon Walker]

You never know.

[Ethan]

He's.

[Donnie]

He's in this aun guy.

[Stephen Che]

60 year old Kyle N Guy. Yeah. That's like one idea. I couldn't ever see a Kyle president. No. No offense.

[Mincy]

CEOs.

[Brandon Walker]

Has a Kyle ever made it to 80?

[Kyle]

Kyle Gas is old Kyle.

[Donnie]

Oh, yeah.

[Kyle]

The oldest Kyle.

[Brandon Walker]

He's not 80.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

Oldest Kyle.

[Ethan]

Kyle.

[Kyle]

Kyle Gas is the oldest Kyle I can think of.

[Stephen Che]

Most famous Kyle.

[Ethan]

Kyle.

[Stephen Che]

Who is the most respected Kyle?

[Dana]

Oh, that lady from Real Housewives. Kyle. Yeah. Kyle Richards. She's pretty respected.

[Ethan]

Out about 40.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, Kyle Mooney. He's respected. He's awesome.

[Brandon Walker]

He is awesome.

[Mincy]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

41 though.

[Kyle]

Kyle Lowry.

[Dana]

Oh, look how fun that Kyle is.

[Ethan]

Kyle Lowry's respected.

[Stephen Che]

I love all like Kyle. Sandlands might might be the most Kyle radio host with that.

[Mincy]

Look how sandal lands.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Schwerber.

[Stephen Che]

Schwerbers I respect.

[Dana]

How do we get ar Kyle on this list?

[Ethan]

Keep scrolling. Here he sees there. Oh, pits.

[Mincy]

Yeah. I shouldn't be above pits. Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Either way. Yeah. It was hurtful what you did to us this morning. Don't if you're gonna do it. We're trying to better ourselves, okay? We're trying to. We're trying to. We're a bunch of guys that are out of shape. We're trying to do a 15 minute workout every day to get the body moving. And you come and just on.

[Ethan]

I gotta go pay.

[Mincy]

I think it's the perfect workout. You just have to do it every day. I'm forever.

[Stephen Che]

I told you, I'm doing it for 50 days in a row.

[Mincy]

I think that's, like, one of the workouts that will really help with aging.

[Stephen Che]

Correct. 50 days. You can do it anywhere. You can do it in your room.

[Brandon Walker]

Why 50 days?

[Stephen Che]

That's the first goal. I'm gonna keep going after 50, but I don't want to say 100 because it's like, you know, I want to get to 50.

[Mincy]

Yeah. Start small, but ultimately never stop, ever.

[Stephen Che]

I'm. There will never be a day I'm on earth that I don't do that to start the day.

[Brandon Walker]

I don't believe you.

[Stephen Che]

Okay, well, ask me how many times done in the last seven days. Seven.

[Ethan]

Wow.

[Brandon Walker]

Okay.

[Kyle]

A math adds up.

[Stephen Che]

Up right in your face. Can I talk to you real quick, Nick? We have to have a real conversation. I. You. You don't want to do the Doug Dug challenge. I. You're going to ruin.

[Brandon Walker]

I know.

[Mincy]

So why'd you pick him?

[Stephen Che]

We didn't. We. We have a list of guys for people who don't know guys have. Is it. Am I saying, is it Doug Doug challenge?

[Brandon Walker]

Yes, sir.

[Stephen Che]

The Doug Doug challenge. We did it last year. It was me, Katic, Max, and Tate. It was very funny Videos after dark video where you have to go to as many fast food restaurants as you can, and you have to get whatever the person in front of you got and see how many you can hit. I think we ended up hitting, like, 12 or 13 restaurants. We all puked in a. In a strip mall after. It was very funny. Hell, but funny. This year, we're doing it in a. I think, like in a week or 10 days or something. And we're doubling it. We're done. We're going to do eight people. We're going to do double the order. And it's the same. It's like me, Kadik, Dana, Deutsch. Max. Nick wants to be in. He's gonna ruin it.

[Mincy]

He's not gonna be able to eat right.

[Stephen Che]

I want Nick to, like, the problem I'm having now is I want Nick in because he will make the stream funnier and better. But he will. After, like, three restaurants, we're like, nick, can you help us?

[Brandon Walker]

And he'll.

[Stephen Che]

He'll be like, no, I'm full.

[Kyle]

I thought, he's gonna drink all the Sprite.

[Brandon Walker]

I want to have all the Sprite. I'm Sprite guy.

[Kyle]

He's the Sprite guy. Anybody gets a Sprite, give it to Nick.

[Stephen Che]

I want you in it, but I

[Brandon Walker]

Like, if some restaurants do it for straws.

[Stephen Che]

If you're gonna do it, you have to actually do it.

[Brandon Walker]

I want to do it.

[Stephen Che]

You're gonna actually compete with us?

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah, well, I'm gonna do what I can.

[Stephen Che]

All right.

[Brandon Walker]

When you're in, let's just hope it's like a Sprite.

[Mincy]

Heavy.

[Stephen Che]

See, this is.

[Kyle]

Oh, my God. Like, the third car. Orders 16 sprites.

[Brandon Walker]

I'm.

[Stephen Che]

You can't go anywhere. Fast food restaurant that doesn't have gluten.

[Brandon Walker]

What were, like, some of the healthier things.

[Stephen Che]

Can you eat French fries?

[Brandon Walker]

Some.

[Stephen Che]

What do you mean, some?

[Brandon Walker]

Like, some. Yeah, some.

[Ethan]

What?

[Stephen Che]

What does that mean?

[Brandon Walker]

We just. We have to.

[Stephen Che]

So we're gonna have to. I'm gonna be. I have to be the. Because I'm driving the car to be like, hey, do you. Is this gluten free?

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah, no, I'll be able to have, like. I'll be able to do, like, the Sprites. Salads, soups.

[Mincy]

You do granola?

[Brandon Walker]

Some.

[Mincy]

Do a little bit of the granola.

[Stephen Che]

You can't do ice cream.

[Brandon Walker]

I can do ice cream. Not the cone. I'll do the ice cream.

[Stephen Che]

This is milkshake.

[Mincy]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

You're coming because I want you to be there because.

[Kyle]

Yeah. I think you guys need all the help you get.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah, right.

[Kyle]

Like, when Dick would be a huge asset, man.

[Stephen Che]

Chicken.

[Dana]

You know that little fish. What do you mean, chicken?

[Ethan]

What do you mean?

[Brandon Walker]

I can eat your patties off your burger.

[Stephen Che]

Wait, what do you mean you can't eat chicken?

[Kyle]

It's all bread.

[Brandon Walker]

It's all it. I'll eat your patties off your burger.

[Kyle]

Grilled chicken, maybe?

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah, if somebody orders grilled chicken at McDonald's, I'll eat that.

[Mincy]

People just don't eat patties. A testament to the burger.

[Ethan]

Wow.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, but then someone has to eat the. The. The. The buns.

[Brandon Walker]

Let's. Listen, you're my friend. Let's. I'll have patties. You have buns.

[Stephen Che]

That sounds terrible.

[Brandon Walker]

I'll have Sprite.

[Mincy]

No, bun's the best part.

[Ethan]

Part.

[Stephen Che]

No, it's not.

[Mincy]

Have you ever taken a bite of a perfect sandwich and you're like, oh, my God, that was the perfect bite of a perfect sandwich. Then you come to find out that was just the bread and the cheese. There was no meat or insides in that bite.

[Stephen Che]

I actually can.

[Mincy]

And then you're like, that's never happened. Oh, bread and cheese is just perfect.

[Stephen Che]

Well, yeah, bread and cheese is perfect.

[Mincy]

Right?

[Stephen Che]

But he can't eat any bread.

[Mincy]

No. Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

I'll do it at the end and just get sick.

[Stephen Che]

Okay. Closer.

[Brandon Walker]

I'll be the clue.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Mincy]

Has anyone ever done that lunch MC Walker.

[Stephen Che]

He would complain the whole time.

[Dana]

Can you, like, gluten yourself to death? You over.

[Brandon Walker]

I think that's pretty. There's some bad. Like, you can. It can lead to some linings being up and dub dug dug. You'd be good at it.

[Stephen Che]

No, Brandon would not be good at it.

[Donnie]

It.

[Brandon Walker]

Can you eat in mass.

[Stephen Che]

He can, but he'd complain.

[Ethan]

I don't complain. What? What are you talking about?

[Stephen Che]

You would. If you did this challenge with us, would you not complain?

[Ethan]

No, no. I'm a soldier. I've been doing the workouts. I've done the workouts 40% of the time.

[Stephen Che]

That's. It's not what I'm saying. When you're. When like, there. This challenge, you get to a point where you're just so full and you have to keep eating, and it's miserable, and you're in a car with dudes farting. You would like that.

[Ethan]

Oh, no. That.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Oh, God, no.

[Stephen Che]

You complain.

[Ethan]

I complain. Watching y' all do it, that looks miserable.

[Stephen Che]

It is. The worst part about it is, like, you need. You need to have a rule that people watching have to also eat along, because there is. And I. I do this as well. Whenever I'm watching Parcel After Dark and they're doing a food challenge. If you're watching it with an empty stomach, you're like, that's the easiest thing ever. Why aren't they finishing that?

[Ethan]

Right.

[Brandon Walker]

Did you eat beforehand?

[Stephen Che]

No, we remember we ate lettuce.

[Brandon Walker]

Oh, to stretch the stomach.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Ate a bunch of lettuce.

[Ethan]

I just had an embarrassing moment.

[Stephen Che]

What happened?

[Ethan]

I didn't actually go to the gym.

[Brandon Walker]

Did you go talk to the gm?

[Ethan]

Yeah. And he was all the way to Chicago Studios, so I couldn't wait on the elevator. So I took the stairs, and by the time I got there, there was a group of people, and I walked up and I shook his hand, and I was out of breath, and White Sox Dave was like, you're out of breath and just. You're huffing and puffing. Just kept saying it over and over and over. And I was trying to shake the guy's hand and meet him and say what a fan I was, and I just couldn't. Couldn't. Couldn't catch my.

[Mincy]

Muster up the strength.

[Ethan]

Couldn't do it and couldn't do it. Did shake his hand.

[Brandon Walker]

What was your end goal?

[Ethan]

To shake his hand to say you

[Brandon Walker]

met him or was there something I don't know.

[Ethan]

I just want to meet him. I'm, I, I just got into hockey, like, a year ago, and, like, of the 10 people I know in hockey, he's. He's one of them.

[Brandon Walker]

Do you like the Blackhawks more than you like the Dolphins?

[Ethan]

I think right now, yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

Because of those things. More than you like the Dolphins.

[Ethan]

The Dolphins just have, have. They stir nothing inside me like they used to. So you're probably right, right. They don't, they don't do anything. I don't. I feel nothing when they lose or win. So I, I, I might have grown out of them. I don't know.

[Stephen Che]

How great was it that Jack Hughes was like, I didn't want to. And basically talking about Frank.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Like, I didn't want to end up on barstool because he got that penalty late.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

He was sitting in the penalty box

[Mincy]

thinking about, Thinking about Case scenario Fleming. Yeah. Oh, it was about. Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Well, I mean, he said. Yeah. I pictured myself on barstool sports being like the guy that America hates because Canada scores on the power play. I was like, oh, my God, here it is. That's Frank. Yeah, he's a devil.

[Mincy]

Scarred.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah. Jack uses a devil and. Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

Well, I mean, scarred from Frank.

[Ethan]

He's literally scarred from Frank.

[Donnie]

Literally.

[Brandon Walker]

Oh, his hand.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, his hand at Chicago cut.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Dana]

At Frank's birthday party. It's a crazy.

[Ethan]

That cost him like, half a season, right?

[Stephen Che]

It cost him a few weeks. Yeah.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Taking about.

[Ethan]

Yeah, taking about. He gave a Take about Frank.

[Mincy]

He runs.

[Ethan]

I did like, Frank's video, though, celebrating the win, though.

[Donnie]

Just.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

We rarely see happy Frank.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

Nothing for him to complain about after that. Except wasn't it Mets later that day?

[Ethan]

Was it time he won?

[Dana]

He got a ball. He was, like, happy at the Mets game, too. Too.

[Ethan]

Oh, is he at spring training?

[Dana]

Yes, Looks like it, huh?

[Kyle]

Kind of sucks for the hockey guys that they have to go. Like, Connor Halibuk should be just paraded around this country for months and months to just get sucked in every city

[Stephen Che]

we have said he's gonna go.

[Kyle]

He's going to Winnipeg, Right. To, like, give up, like, three goals against Utah next week.

[Brandon Walker]

Is it going to be awkward?

[Kyle]

All the Winnipeg fans hated his guts.

[Brandon Walker]

Would that be awkward to go back?

[Ethan]

Back for the Americans to go, their Canadian teams? Yeah. Like, Brady Chuck's on Ottawa.

[Kyle]

Yeah. Austin Matthews on Toronto.

[Ethan]

Yeah, probably. Probably.

[Dana]

Like, sorry, guys, are there Canadians that have to come back to us?

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Mincy]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Dana]

But they, it's more Just laugh at that.

[Donnie]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

We're just gonna laugh.

[Stephen Che]

It's gonna be good. Nature worked in the reverse like Jonathan days. And, you know, Doug and Keith had to come back.

[Ethan]

They were Canadian.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

And still are.

[Stephen Che]

Still.

[Mincy]

Are you.

[Ethan]

You don't know that. Could have changed. Could have. Through the years. I wish I had taken my time walking up there. Then I would have had more to

[Stephen Che]

say than I gotta take. That might get us in trouble.

[Brandon Walker]

Get Kyle in frame.

[Stephen Che]

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[Ethan]

Yep.

[Stephen Che]

Pretty crazy.

[Ethan]

Is it still going today? I haven't watched updates.

[Stephen Che]

I don't know. They're. Oh, they're like. Those dudes are, like, pretty upset over another dude's death. Like to the point where it might be sus.

[Donnie]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

You can only be so upset.

[Stephen Che]

Like they're just burning everything sexually. Yeah. Little to miss.

[Donnie]

A little.

[Brandon Walker]

That much.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

To just be like, damn, I'm so upset.

[Ethan]

I certainly don't know that. I agree. It's clearly their leader and they're loyal to their leader.

[Brandon Walker]

I actually. I actually don't know what's going on.

[Stephen Che]

Neither do I.

[Ethan]

Cartel leader got killed and the cartels are responding by just tearing everything up.

[Stephen Che]

Did we kill him?

[Ethan]

I think the Mexican military killed him. Oh, I believe.

[Stephen Che]

Well, I did see a funny tweet that was like, we. We beat Canada in hockey and then we killed ahead of cartel. We basically beat both countries in their best.

[Brandon Walker]

That's their hockey. That's their hockey. What's every country's hockey? I want it.

[Stephen Che]

Norway's skiing.

[Ethan]

Cross country.

[Brandon Walker]

Cross country Skiing doesn't even have to be a sport. Like Kyle. What's Thailand's hockey?

[Ethan]

Lady boys.

[Mincy]

Really hot boys.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Mincy]

Women. And it's not.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah. We need to take that from hockey.

[Brandon Walker]

Every country has a hockey I saw

[Dana]

a new sport recently. I wish I had noted what country, but, you know, like those big punching bags. It's a punching bag dangling from a ceiling. And then the dudes run flip, and they're wearing these short shirts, and with their thighs, they grab on to the bag, and it's like, who can grab onto this boxing bag and hold on to it with their thighs the longest?

[Stephen Che]

That might have to be a miny version. Teeth and dead.

[Dana]

I don't know how you would Google this, but it's, like, crazy impressive when

[Stephen Che]

you see it in person.

[Dana]

Highly recommend checking it.

[Ethan]

M. Jumping and velcro.

[Dana]

Trying to grab something because you end up, like, upside down but holding on with your legs, and it looks, like, crazy hard.

[Ethan]

I mean, Ethan could do it.

[Brandon Walker]

That's got to be India, right?

[Dana]

I don't know. Then. Have you seen. It's like in Alaska, like, the native American kick, like, how high you can kick thing.

[Mincy]

Oh, yeah.

[Dana]

That's crazy. Yeah, it's like a school sport kicking anything thing. It's. They. It's almost like the high jump, but they keep moving this little thing, like, higher and higher. And these kids run and, like, they can kick so high in the air.

[Stephen Che]

We got to come up with our list.

[Ethan]

Yeah, that's next week.

[Stephen Che]

No, week after next week.

[Ethan]

That's next.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, it's next Monday.

[Brandon Walker]

Wednesday.

[Ethan]

It's March 1st. Is. Wow.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, wait. Monday.

[Kyle]

You had a good one day again.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, we're going to do human curling.

[Kyle]

That's good.

[Brandon Walker]

That'll be good.

[Stephen Che]

With office chairs.

[Mincy]

With us in the chairs.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

And we have to have different color, like, yellow and red.

[Kyle]

It's a good idea.

[Stephen Che]

Wait, hold on. It's when?

[Ethan]

Wednesday next.

[Stephen Che]

The fourth. Okay.

[Ethan]

All right. Got something.

[Stephen Che]

No, no, I was. I got my weeks confused. All right, so we need to. Oh, it's going to be after the duck Duck challenge.

[Brandon Walker]

Will this be the furthest west Ethan's ever been?

[Stephen Che]

No, he went to Vegas.

[Brandon Walker]

Oh, my God.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah. Zoom in, Ethan. Let's get Ethan on, because he texted me today. He's like, do I have to cover my own expenses? Like, no.

[Ethan]

So what have we. What have we got so far? We got.

[Stephen Che]

Just have the meeting right now.

[Ethan]

Human curling.

[Stephen Che]

Human curling. I think we said some of the simpler things.

[Ethan]

What are we bringing back?

[Stephen Che]

I think we should bring back the cutting challenge. Like the. The. You have to cut it exactly half.

[Mincy]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

That one's easy.

[Brandon Walker]

I think weigh it after calling a different. A restaurant in a language.

[Ethan]

What was the thing? They did something to a wall last Year they were putting something up on a wall.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, that was good.

[Francis]

To a wall.

[Ethan]

Do we want to bring back any, like, popping for apples is always right.

[Stephen Che]

Yep.

[Ethan]

Okay.

[Stephen Che]

Gotta be it.

[Brandon Walker]

Lollipop.

[Stephen Che]

We also got to figure out how Clemmer is going to work into this as the final boss.

[Dana]

Is there any, like, quick poker thing we could?

[Stephen Che]

Oh, yeah. I want him to play heads up poker somehow, but I don't know how to do it fast.

[Ethan]

Just three hands maybe. Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

But then they just go all in.

[Donnie]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Yeah, you're right.

[Brandon Walker]

Do we want to do something with walking a dog for Ethan?

[Ethan]

I think.

[Brandon Walker]

I think Mincy handling a dog would be really funny too.

[Stephen Che]

That's true.

[Brandon Walker]

Or something with.

[Ethan]

I feel like it happened like the baby last year.

[Stephen Che]

Right.

[Ethan]

Oh, just doesn't.

[Brandon Walker]

Doesn't do anything. We can figure it out. We could.

[Donnie]

Let's start a. Let's start.

[Brandon Walker]

Just everybody pitch five ideas.

[Stephen Che]

Hey, your mic's not on.

[Ethan]

We got to have a cooking challenge, right?

[Brandon Walker]

Yes.

[Dana]

Okay.

[Stephen Che]

Your mic's not on.

[Francis]

Could give him 10 minutes to go outside and come back. Whoever has the most dog poop in a bag.

[Dana]

Oh, I kind of love that.

[Ethan]

That is stupid.

[Stephen Che]

Yes.

[Dana]

I love that.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

What's like a grilled cheese equivalent? They can make smoothie like a.

[Ethan]

Could they up a blt?

[Brandon Walker]

Yes.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, definitely pizza. BLT might be good because then you get a little grease fire.

[Ethan]

Yeah. Because you got. They gotta cook the bacon.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

But there needs to be, like, cutting involved as well.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Well, we'll give him a whole tomato.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, Whole tomato.

[Ethan]

A head of lettuce, cheese, and some uncooked bacon.

[Stephen Che]

They're not cheese.

[Brandon Walker]

I wouldn't mind a smoothie too. Like seeing Mincy peeling orange cutting a pineapple.

[Mincy]

Couldn't do that.

[Stephen Che]

No, he couldn't do that. He's gonna cut his arm off.

[Ethan]

I don't mind.

[Dana]

Cut his whole arm sucked into the

[Ethan]

either BLT or smoothie. Kind of works.

[Mincy]

Both.

[Ethan]

Or do BLT and a smoothie.

[Mincy]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dana]

Seeing them multitask with two items would be.

[Ethan]

That's. That's not bad. BLT in a smoothie. Yep.

[Donnie]

What is there cooking involved in a BLT, though?

[Ethan]

Bacon. Yeah. Cook the bacon toast. Just as much as there's preparation involved, especially if you give them a whole tomato and a whole piece of lettuce.

[Stephen Che]

I think we should do this, the flag football thing where they start on one end, one of them has a flag. They have to get it off of them.

[Ethan]

That's just fun.

[Brandon Walker]

I just think. I don't think you're enough credit.

[Stephen Che]

I. I think you can catch Ethan.

[Dana]

What about darts? Would be an easy.

[Ethan]

What about darts?

[Dana]

I don't know. We could just pull it right over here and darts. Maybe somebody sticks their hand in there. Just.

[Stephen Che]

I want to get them moving a little bit.

[Ethan]

What about the. You know, start them at £85 and see who can go take the bench. The highest.

[Brandon Walker]

We need to things. Think of things. Minsk can win.

[Ethan]

Win.

[Stephen Che]

So I would. Assuming I don't really want to give him $10,000.

[Brandon Walker]

Can we shut.

[Stephen Che]

That would actually break my heart.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah. Can we shut him in them in a room and whoever can get the best free thing for the office.

[Ethan]

Who can bench more? Ethan or mince?

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah, I don't know.

[Stephen Che]

Probably mince.

[Ethan]

I would say. Ethan.

[Dana]

Min.

[Stephen Che]

We got to get a. We got to get a grass on Ethan's abilities.

[Ethan]

Jesus.

[Brandon Walker]

Hey, looking kempt.

[Mincy]

Thank you.

[Stephen Che]

Ethan. Do you have Caitlyn Walker contact information?

[Mincy]

Congrats on surviving.

[Stephen Che]

All right, so you text her and she'll set up your flight and hotel and everything.

[Kyle]

Okay.

[Stephen Che]

So you can come in Tuesday and leave Thursday.

[Ethan]

Oh, hey, dog.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, look at that.

[Ethan]

Why is the phone down? Pick it up.

[Stephen Che]

Ethan, we gotta.

[Ethan]

We.

[Stephen Che]

We don't understand your athletic abilities. So we gotta figure out like, when was the last time you ran?

[Mincy]

Probably the last time I played basketball, which was probably a while ago now. Probably like five, six months.

[Stephen Che]

Okay. Can you. What's the most amount of weight you can lift?

[Mincy]

Not much.

[Stephen Che]

Okay. So I think Mincy can get a lot of these.

[Ethan]

That's what I'm saying.

[Mincy]

I think he was. Are you. You're like a shifty guy. Like, you would play athletic games in high school. You do gym class and do well or not? Yeah, I do better than average. I mean, I played soccer and stuff. So, like, I'm. I think he's pretty. I'm a little more agile. I'm not very strong.

[Stephen Che]

Okay.

[Ethan]

Maybe just push up. Challenge.

[Mincy]

Are you good at cooking? Yeah. Yeah, I'm decent at cooking. You make yourself meals? Sometimes? Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Mincy]

Like a grilled cheese? Yeah.

[Ethan]

Okay.

[Stephen Che]

How are you explaining tip to your parents?

[Mincy]

My friends want to see me in

[Ethan]

Chicago, but that's not it at all.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah, Well, I can't wait to meet them.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Mincy]

Yeah, I didn't. Yeah, I didn't get into really the details of anything.

[Brandon Walker]

So are you still in your uncle's house?

[Mincy]

Yeah, I've been. I've been here for like the last month pretty much. I feel like every day I'm just here. Do you sleep there yeah, yeah, they're in the. They're in the Dominican Republic right now.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, nice.

[Mincy]

Okay. Left just in time for the. The snow.

[Stephen Che]

Who's taking over for the dog when you're gone?

[Mincy]

That was actually a big point of contention because they. They were trying to get those dates and I said, I'm not available those dates. So I don't know.

[Ethan]

They must have been shocked.

[Brandon Walker]

That had a. Weirded them.

[Mincy]

Oh, yeah, yeah, that's.

[Stephen Che]

Wait, is there a plan for the dog or are you just gonna walk out on Tuesday and then be like, hope I come back to a dog?

[Mincy]

No, it' daily thing. I'm not like, scheduled to be here every day. It's just kind of like before the week starts till my uncle will text me the days he would need me.

[Stephen Che]

Does he know you sleeping in his house?

[Mincy]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Okay.

[Ethan]

Is he a bald man with long.

[Brandon Walker]

You have like, your own bedroom.

[Mincy]

That was. That was really up, Brandon. That was me.

[Stephen Che]

You're gonna make him cry.

[Ethan]

No, I just. I don't know. I was asking a question.

[Brandon Walker]

Do you have your own bedroom there?

[Mincy]

Pretty much. It's a guest room. Yeah.

[Ethan]

So nice. Yeah. Yeah.

[Mincy]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Okay.

[Dana]

Do you have any other, like, hidden talents or talents that we might not know about that, like.

[Donnie]

Or. Or anything?

[Brandon Walker]

You're really bad.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

What's your biggest weakness? Ethan.

[Mincy]

Off the top of my head, I don't really know.

[Ethan]

Maybe we'll give him a guitar and see what happens.

[Brandon Walker]

Commitment.

[Mincy]

Yeah, commitment, for sure.

[Dana]

Are you a good driver?

[Mincy]

Yeah, I think I'm a pretty good driver, actually.

[Dana]

Maybe like a parallel parking type deal. Maybe like some kind of vehicle.

[Brandon Walker]

Course, that's with Brandon's car.

[Dana]

Yeah,

[Mincy]

yeah. Don't parallel park, but. Yeah, I could. I could figure that out.

[Dana]

Okay.

[Mincy]

Can you, like, sing with your mouth closed?

[Brandon Walker]

You could sing with your mouth open?

[Mincy]

Yes, I can.

[Donnie]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

Is there a chance we'll see tears next week?

[Mincy]

I don't know that I. I hate. Even the tears thing isn't like, I don't just cry all the time. It's like, you know, it's got to mean something.

[Stephen Che]

Well, I think if you win this usa.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

You cried. I cried yesterday.

[Mincy]

Yeah. Yeah, because I. I like, I get caught up in like, the. The little. Like. I started thinking about, like, all the kids growing up and they'll get to tell or they'll get to be like, oh, yeah, Jack Hughes, my hero. Like that. That means something to me.

[Stephen Che]

I love that. You're like dick for meal.

[Mincy]

Yeah, it's. Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

Did you ever get the money out of Your. Did you ever get your account working? Do you have the money for.

[Mincy]

Allegedly. There's a check being sent to me soon.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, it's still going on soon?

[Mincy]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

Has that been a year?

[Stephen Che]

It's been like seven months.

[Mincy]

Been a long time.

[Stephen Che]

Okay. All right, so get text Caitlyn, get your travel booked, and then we'll see you on Wednesday. All right.

[Francis]

Right. All right.

[Mincy]

Sounds good.

[Stephen Che]

Excited for it?

[Ethan]

All right.

[Mincy]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

All right. Okay. Thanks, Ethan.

[Kyle]

Thanks, Ethan.

[Mincy]

All right. All right, love you guys.

[Stephen Che]

Bye, T.J. maybe send the whole list that we did yet last year and we can pick off the ones the. The slipper stairs is out. Slippery stairs out. But the. The in the room screaming at exactly like a minute or.

[Donnie]

Yeah, that was great.

[Stephen Che]

That was great. Trying to think maybe we actually could do that.

[Brandon Walker]

That.

[Stephen Che]

You know, what we'll do is we'll do that differently this year because I saw Beast Games. They did it. We'll just have them in the center of the court and they have to drop the ball as close to a minute.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah, that's good.

[Stephen Che]

So they're just standing out there.

[Ethan]

I thought you were kidding about watching Beast Games. No, dude, I thought you were just.

[Stephen Che]

Finale is Wednesday. I'm excited. Apparently Monica wins. I'm gonna be so pissed.

[Brandon Walker]

Based off of. She got like a cakewalk to cake

[Stephen Che]

the entire run, basically.

[Ethan]

Cake wall, fell in love and be city.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, she fell in love.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah. With like the biggest in the.

[Mincy]

There's romance.

[Stephen Che]

She sold the corn as old as time. She sold the coin, didn't tell anyone.

[Brandon Walker]

Maybe some sort of memorization for the.

[Stephen Che]

Sold the coin, Kyle, and didn't tell anyone.

[Brandon Walker]

The Beast coin.

[Stephen Che]

Was it a Beast coin coin that he gives out? It's $5 million for the winner. And then there's a coin that if you flip the coin at the end, it could be $10 million, which they did last year. And it was 10 million. It was $10 million.

[Ethan]

But she.

[Stephen Che]

So she was given the coin. So basically everyone's like can't vote her out because she has the coin. She's the only way we can get $10 million. She sold it and didn't tell anyone.

[Brandon Walker]

How much did she sell it for?

[Stephen Che]

500, 000.

[Mincy]

Oh, my God. People are just making money.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, the whole game. Yeah, it's just. He basically the entire game is just bribing people.

[Brandon Walker]

It's Mr. Bribe.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Mincy]

There's Mr. Brian.

[Brandon Walker]

No, he is character.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Mr. Beast.

[Donnie]

Mr. Big Cat Clue. The like little cars and vehicles that

[Brandon Walker]

are in the office that your kids Use over the weekend.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

Anything that we could do with those

[Donnie]

with, like, a race.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, we could do.

[Brandon Walker]

Oh, a race.

[Stephen Che]

I wonder if they could. Their weight can handle it. But that would be very funny if they just did like a go kart race. Lap race.

[Donnie]

We tried to do that last year

[Brandon Walker]

with roller blades, which was not a good idea.

[Ethan]

But we do a road course where they would. Oh, the rollerblades were great.

[Brandon Walker]

Last year, Clemmer showed us. He was.

[Stephen Che]

He got.

[Brandon Walker]

He got small, that compact. Mincy just couldn't do that, obviously. Is Mince back from New Orleans yet?

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, he was here on the show on Friday.

[Ethan]

No. Oh, he left.

[Donnie]

No.

[Brandon Walker]

What if we had them?

[Stephen Che]

Forgot. He left again. My bad.

[Brandon Walker]

What if we had them cut a bunch of onions and then make them do something while they're crying?

[Ethan]

Do or say something.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Donnie]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Maybe that's the first thing they have to do before they start cooking.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Maybe write a poem. Yeah. We have a writer amongst the group.

[Brandon Walker]

I think that Popcorn Colonel Catch had.

[Stephen Che]

Had. Yes.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Did we do that during. That was something.

[Brandon Walker]

That was Plinko day.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, we should do that. That was great. That was a lot of fun and very dangerous.

[Francis]

It hurt.

[Stephen Che]

That's what I like the day.

[Brandon Walker]

A little danger.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Maybe a little lot.

[Ethan]

Frozen jeans.

[Stephen Che]

What's that?

[Ethan]

Frozen jeans.

[Stephen Che]

Sucked Back.

[Mincy]

Painting. Replication.

[Ethan]

The train didn't work. Sucked.

[Donnie]

The train's out.

[Ethan]

A what?

[Stephen Che]

Back.

[Mincy]

Somebody paints something on your back and you have to replicate it on a canvas in front of you.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, that's great.

[Mincy]

Yeah, it's a new thing.

[Stephen Che]

Okay, we should do that.

[Mincy]

Yeah, that's great.

[Stephen Che]

They both paint on each other's backs.

[Mincy]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

And then we'll judge it.

[Brandon Walker]

Any chat submissions, teachers?

[Donnie]

J.

[Stephen Che]

That's great. Kyle.

[Mincy]

Yeah.

[Donnie]

Bubble soccer.

[Stephen Che]

What?

[Brandon Walker]

What did we do that? Mincy had to color the red picture? That was something else.

[Kyle]

Just for fun.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

I think we just totally trying to break the record for most colored in picture.

[Brandon Walker]

I think it was reddest paper. Cry off. First one to cry gets a point.

[Ethan]

I feel like Ethan's always about 30 seconds from crying.

[Stephen Che]

Miny doesn't feel emotion.

[Ethan]

Yeah. I don't know if we got Mint. If we got like Ole Miss to call him and say, listen, you're out. You've been too nice to Lane Kiffin.

[Brandon Walker]

I think, like, a mince highlight tape would make him cry.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, true. What if I'm on a water slide?

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

Just like, oh, this was good.

[Kyle]

Did we do hide and seek? Have we done that?

[Stephen Che]

We've tried.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah, it works.

[Stephen Che]

I'm excited though. It's gonna be great. We just got to figure out the final boss. That's thing with Clemmer. But I'm very excited.

[Brandon Walker]

What about like a, a content pitch? They have like five minutes to think of a content idea to pitch to you. Best idea. Just something where they have to be creative and open ended.

[Ethan]

I'm going to go ahead and go out on a limb. Men's will be traveling down south somewhere.

[Stephen Che]

He's still following up about the cruise, by the way.

[Ethan]

That was. That's tough.

[Dana]

What if they have to each pitch something to sales and then sales tells

[Mincy]

us o that's good.

[Dana]

Like we can see into the room and we can like look at their faces and stu stuff.

[Brandon Walker]

I think Ethan will just chalk that up as a N for him though,

[Ethan]

before even trying just move on.

[Brandon Walker]

But like so would Mince. I feel like Mint has more motivation to do it. Ethan's like, I, I don't work here.

[Mincy]

I don't.

[Brandon Walker]

I don't need to.

[Stephen Che]

But he could just wait and be like, I'll sell you this pen and then win. Yeah, the cruise thing. Yeah, he's still.

[Brandon Walker]

Is he texting you about it?

[Stephen Che]

He's texting Dom about it. And then Dom texts me and was like, hey, do you want Miny to do this follow up meeting? I was like, I don't care.

[Ethan]

You should just say no though.

[Stephen Che]

Well, no, I said I'll go on a cruise if they pay me $1 million.

[Mincy]

Okay.

[Ethan]

If he around and got you a million.

[Stephen Che]

I know. Then I just be like, I feel

[Mincy]

like this might be the best idea in company history there. Millions of dollars on the line, we

[Stephen Che]

just become a cruise company. It's like, hey, forget the podcasts. Forget the show.

[Ethan]

Yeah. Three cruises a year.

[Stephen Che]

I think it'd have to be more than that.

[Ethan]

Ten cruises a year.

[Stephen Che]

Do 50 cruises a year.

[Ethan]

There.

[Kyle]

There are cruises for everything. I learned that during the Olympics.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

There were commercials for the Viking cruise, which is all the old people drinking wine in the library on the, on the ship. And then they go to.

[Mincy]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Yep.

[Kyle]

Like God knows where.

[Brandon Walker]

How's that a Vikings love?

[Kyle]

And then there was a lot of Ritz Carlton yacht cruises know. Which was. I don't know. I'm not really interested in doing. But it kind of blew my mind

[Brandon Walker]

that the impractical jokers had a cruise, didn't they?

[Dana]

Oh, yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, I think so.

[Brandon Walker]

That's like the last people I'd want to be on a cruise ship with.

[Mincy]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

But yeah, there are cruises for Yeah, I would have.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

I don't know. The rich people do cruises, I guess, and I didn't realize that it's both

[Brandon Walker]

ends of the spectrum.

[Kyle]

It's cruises for everybody. Everybody wants to cruise, so why not us?

[Brandon Walker]

We're the only people not doing a cruise.

[Stephen Che]

People were calling yesterday the best drinking

[Brandon Walker]

day of the year.

[Ethan]

That.

[Stephen Che]

That just can't.

[Donnie]

I saw that a lot.

[Stephen Che]

But a Sunday just immediately eliminates the best drinking day of the year, does it not?

[Dana]

Oh, no, because it's early enough that you can get your hangover out of the way by midnight.

[Stephen Che]

Okay, but that. But if it was on a Saturday, it would be the best drink.

[Donnie]

He did.

[Stephen Che]

Like, you can't.

[Donnie]

Can't.

[Stephen Che]

The best drinking day of the year cannot be a Sunday.

[Ethan]

But don't they do it on St Patrick's Day? Best drinking day?

[Donnie]

No.

[Dana]

You know why?

[Ethan]

Because Tuesday.

[Dana]

Because the whole East Coast. Wait, I have the answer. Oh, the whole east coast knew they were going to get Monday off.

[Stephen Che]

Okay, that's fair.

[Dana]

So for at least the east coast, yesterday, Magic pounded a special 7am drinking day, knowing you have Monday off. And we want.

[Ethan]

Also, once they won, all the rules about drinking on a Sunday were off. You're just like. There's. People are just going to town.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Huh?

[Kyle]

That's too early in the year to declare it the drink.

[Stephen Che]

Way too early.

[Kyle]

There's a lot of year left.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah. We could have another Olympics.

[Kyle]

All right.

[Ethan]

What if we won the World Cup?

[Brandon Walker]

Oh, world.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, World Cup.

[Kyle]

Can't.

[Stephen Che]

Nice weather.

[Ethan]

What if we won the World cup in the summer, too?

[Donnie]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

I'd have to eat so much crow if we won the World Cup.

[Ethan]

Like, actual crow.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, probably. We're not gonna win.

[Ethan]

I think down south, people do it. People eat crow. We're not gonna.

[Stephen Che]

We can win the World.

[Ethan]

No, we can't. But we could. But what if we did?

[Brandon Walker]

We're in it.

[Stephen Che]

Yes, we're in it.

[Ethan]

What if we did?

[Stephen Che]

What if we did? That'd be.

[Ethan]

What if Canada won it?

[Francis]

That would suck.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, no, we can't win.

[Francis]

They.

[Stephen Che]

They suck at their best sport.

[Ethan]

Huh?

[Stephen Che]

The other one. The.

[Donnie]

The.

[Stephen Che]

Someone's like a country that's covered in ice 90 of the year, just lost to a country that has crocodiles. Yeah, they did.

[Mincy]

So lame, but so true.

[Kyle]

Like.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, we did. Yeah. Yeah, that happened. That happened.

[Brandon Walker]

Happened.

[Stephen Che]

Stephen, did you watch it? Did you watch USA Game?

[Francis]

I watched it as soon as it went into overtime.

[Stephen Che]

Okay, so you didn't watch it.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

So you watched Three minutes, two minutes of It. Yeah. Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Exciting. Thrilling.

[Brandon Walker]

Sorry, did you like fist. Fist pump?

[Francis]

Not really. I didn't care.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah. You know, I like that about Steven.

[Ethan]

You're not American.

[Francis]

Whatever. It's ill at bay.

[Stephen Che]

Ex. You're more of a. What's her name? Goo.

[Brandon Walker]

Eileen Goo.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Also the combines this week.

[Brandon Walker]

Combines the Barstool Combine.

[Francis]

There's a lot of basketball.

[Ethan]

One of them.

[Stephen Che]

Barstool combine's Thursday.

[Mincy]

This Thursday?

[Stephen Che]

Yes.

[Kyle]

Oh, I can't wait.

[Stephen Che]

Yes. And there's a twist.

[Ethan]

Oh my God.

[Dana]

Twist.

[Francis]

Are you allowed to reveal it or

[Brandon Walker]

whatever high level athlete will win this year.

[Stephen Che]

I won last year. Last year.

[Mincy]

What?

[Stephen Che]

The whole thing.

[Dana]

Did you?

[Stephen Che]

Yes. The scoring system was so up.

[Mincy]

You did win.

[Stephen Che]

It was like if you win one event, you're in the finals. Or if you finish like top two and one of event, you're in the finals. I finished top two in one event.

[Kyle]

You won the whole thing.

[Francis]

Yes.

[Donnie]

Yes.

[Stephen Che]

It was so. It was such a joke.

[Kyle]

You fell on your face.

[Stephen Che]

I know. 40, but it was. All you had to do is finish top two in one of the events. And then in the finals it was like. I don't even know what the final thing was, but I want was. I did not sell y were throwing footballs into. I shouldn't have been in that position.

[Brandon Walker]

There's no banner.

[Stephen Che]

I have one in my house.

[Ethan]

Oh, do you?

[Stephen Che]

Yeah. Huge.

[Ethan]

I would keep that in my house too.

[Francis]

Can I ask an objective Olympic question? Obviously the. The hockey one was yesterday. Is that more meaningful? Is that more. Is that going to be more memorable than Team USA being France.

[Ethan]

Yes.

[Francis]

The gold medal.

[Stephen Che]

Easy. Yes.

[Kyle]

And like basketball.

[Stephen Che]

Yes.

[Brandon Walker]

Yes.

[Donnie]

Oh yeah.

[Ethan]

By a mile.

[Stephen Che]

Why basketball? We're not the underdogs in basketball.

[Ethan]

Right.

[Francis]

We.

[Stephen Che]

If we don't win basketball, it's a huge disappointment.

[Ethan]

That's losing in basketball makes it memorable. Winning is just another.

[Stephen Che]

That was the first US gold medal since 1980.

[Ethan]

I mean last year was our Steph was awesome. A couple years ago.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Not this. Okay.

[Stephen Che]

We're trying to make it about basketball.

[Francis]

I'm just asking a question.

[Stephen Che]

No, the most memorable basketball things we do is when we lose easily.

[Francis]

Yeah, but I mean the. The Steph.

[Stephen Che]

No, it was an awesome moment. But yeah, we expected to win.

[Francis]

We're in Paris versus France.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

That would have been nice if it was in Canada. We did that.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

Oh, that would have been real nice.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah. It turns out like just beating can is fun more often. Like we should just be more big brother to Canada.

[Francis]

Was it not kind of a pick them yesterday? Canada slightly favored.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, I mean, we were, we were like +115. But still, they're, it's their sport. Like, the best players in the world.

[Brandon Walker]

It's their religion.

[Stephen Che]

They had the best team.

[Kyle]

It's all they have, Che. And they don't have it anymore. They have nothing.

[Francis]

I mean, SJ is the mvp.

[Kyle]

Who's that?

[Ethan]

Well, yeah.

[Kyle]

Shit.

[Mincy]

Yeah. They, they could have used that.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah. But Anthony Bennett was a bust.

[Ethan]

True.

[Stephen Che]

So there we go. Good. You got one, right? Canada.

[Francis]

Did you guys see this Dave. Kelly Keegs thing?

[Stephen Che]

No.

[Francis]

Or I guess he just put it out. Dave FaceTime Kelly Keegs for an overall wellness check.

[Dana]

Serious.

[Francis]

16 minutes ago.

[Ethan]

She's not doing well over the Trump stuff, right?

[Dana]

She's doing fine.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

The hockey stuff, she's okay.

[Dana]

She's just Kelly Keegan. She has my full support.

[Stephen Che]

15 minutes.

[Mincy]

Oh, and it's.

[Brandon Walker]

I'm going to be retweeting like this all day, so unfollow now. If you can't handle the truth. Not my fault.

[Ethan]

They talked to the President. Why are we doing this?

[Kyle]

Side note, I know wanted doing it.

[Stephen Che]

I do understand her point. Like, there was the, the, the joke about the women's. The women's hockey team should be celebrated.

[Ethan]

They are celebrated. It was a joke, correct?

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, no, it was a joke.

[Dana]

It was a joke. I think we're just tired, so why are we. Some of us are just pretty tired.

[Ethan]

Yeah, but it was a joke.

[Dana]

Wouldn't understand.

[Kyle]

But, I mean, he's the President.

[Dana]

Like, we're a little, we're a little tired.

[Ethan]

I, I, we're, we're making up to be pissed off about.

[Donnie]

About.

[Stephen Che]

Well, it's also, I, I would say, too, the amount of, like, people who are upset, like, Twitter's not real life.

[Dana]

No,

[Ethan]

for some people. For some people, though, it is.

[Stephen Che]

No, but that's what I'm saying, though. There's not, that's not real life. Like, there's not, like, what happens on Twitter. You can't be like, oh, everyone's upset or everyone feels this way. That's just not the truth. There's so many people out in the world.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

Twitter's approaching, like, 4chan territory.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah. It's just not. Nothing. None of it is. If you, if you think what's happening on Twitter is, like, the most important thing. Thing.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

You're just, you're just living a very sad life.

[Brandon Walker]

Speaking of which, where do you think Punch the monkey will end up?

[Stephen Che]

Oh, my God.

[Brandon Walker]

Sensations.

[Stephen Che]

I didn't know about this. That Was the saddest thing ever.

[Mincy]

Very.

[Brandon Walker]

He's good now.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

I don't want to talk.

[Dana]

I heard, like, a brief, and I refused to learn.

[Stephen Che]

Well, no, he got it. He got a friend, though.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah, he's good now, dude.

[Stephen Che]

He was getting dummied.

[Brandon Walker]

He was getting tossed around.

[Stephen Che]

Usually punched him up.

[Kyle]

I saw this.

[Brandon Walker]

He's running back to his stuffed animals.

[Kyle]

He's good now, right? Right?

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, he's good.

[Brandon Walker]

How is he good, though? I don't understand.

[Ethan]

Are we getting. Are we getting emotionally manipulated by somebody who's pulling the strings with these videos?

[Kyle]

Yeah, no, that's what I thought. When my wife showed me the. The rundown, I was like, is this just, like, a bunch of random videos that were put together to make a story out of it?

[Stephen Che]

I think that's what happens, though, in the wild, like, you lose, like, oh, punch a monkey.

[Mincy]

Punch a monkey.

[Ethan]

They gave him this. They found. They saw that he loved it, and they saw that he was carrying it around. Then they kind of created the narrative that the rest of the monkeys hate him.

[Dana]

I can't.

[Brandon Walker]

IKEA sold out of that doll. Oh, is that an IKEA doll?

[Ethan]

I just feel like we're.

[Brandon Walker]

They were. They were saying, what, his. His mother abandoned him because humans were tampering with him? Right. Don't they. If they're all in the zoo, don't they kind of take.

[Ethan]

Well, let me ask a question, and this is just devil's advocate. What if Punch the monkey sucks? What if he's a bad monkey?

[Brandon Walker]

He's an ass.

[Stephen Che]

He might be better now because they're. They accepted him.

[Mincy]

So bullying works, but he's kind of ugly.

[Stephen Che]

Can we see him getting dummied? That was.

[Brandon Walker]

Oh, I don't want to see. No, it's kind of dummy.

[Stephen Che]

They were just roughing them up.

[Donnie]

Yeah.

[Francis]

Look at this.

[Brandon Walker]

Don't love that. Don't love that.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, no, I didn't see that one.

[Kyle]

That's what you asked.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, no, that's the.

[Ethan]

Dan,

[Brandon Walker]

come on, show them to us.

[Stephen Che]

I saw one where they, like, pushed him. That was crazy.

[Ethan]

I didn't see that one either.

[Stephen Che]

That was nuts.

[Ethan]

He did run right to that well now.

[Stephen Che]

Okay, that was too much, dude. That other monkey sucks.

[Brandon Walker]

He's good now. He's taken it in. Somebody accepted him, right? What does that mean, though? He's still in the zoo, right? Yeah, but, like, one of the monkeys also.

[Ethan]

Why are the zookeepers letting that happen?

[Stephen Che]

Yeah. Showed Punch getting. Punch got a hug.

[Ethan]

No, it's not. It's a zoo. The Zookeepers step in and say, hey, stop doing that monkey. That's what I would have done.

[Brandon Walker]

They don't speak English.

[Stephen Che]

Brandon, can we look? See, he got a hug. He might also be squeezing him to death.

[Mincy]

Squeezed.

[Stephen Che]

He's getting squeezed. The life. It's punch tapping. He's got it. He's. He's got his chin. He's got the neck.

[Francis]

Nick, as a former zookeeper, how would you handle this?

[Brandon Walker]

Oh, I was never a zookeeper.

[Stephen Che]

Wait, what?

[Ethan]

I worked. You worked at the zoo.

[Stephen Che]

You were a zookeeper?

[Mincy]

No, but I was the middle of.

[Brandon Walker]

There are any zoos. I was the millipede guy at the zoo. I was in high school. How would I handle it? Yeah, I'd probably take him home. I'd have to.

[Stephen Che]

Then he'd rip your face off in like 20 years.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah, definitely.

[Stephen Che]

That's how it always ends. They always rip their faces off.

[Brandon Walker]

You think this time's different? It'll will rip your face off.

[Donnie]

Yep.

[Stephen Che]

Punch you. So cute.

[Ethan]

Let's get Manson, Ethan, a monkey.

[Brandon Walker]

Monkeys ripping faces off is their hockey.

[Ethan]

Uhhuh.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, you're right.

[Ethan]

What's flinging poo?

[Brandon Walker]

Playoffs.

[Ethan]

They're baseball.

[Mincy]

Yeah, baseball.

[Stephen Che]

What other countries Hockey. What? Italy is being horny.

[Brandon Walker]

It's. I think it's like a slapping ass. Pinching ass. I think.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Mincy]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

France's threesomes.

[Stephen Che]

Germany's war crimes.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Jeez.

[Stephen Che]

Trying to think what other hockey. Out on the course, they're the PGA

[Brandon Walker]

tourist best players, but in the arena, they're prime time.

[Stephen Che]

And season two of TGL, presented by

[Brandon Walker]

SoFi, is back with lights, cameras, action.

[Ethan]

We're talking big moments.

[Stephen Che]

Moments, big personalities, big names in the stands, all on the big screen.

[Brandon Walker]

Big time matchups with shot clocks, Hammer drops timeouts, overtime and playoffs.

[Stephen Che]

It's city versus city, squad versus squad. This sport just hits different under the lights. It's TGL, presented by SoFi.

[Brandon Walker]

Keep up.

[Stephen Che]

It's golf.

[Brandon Walker]

Tune in to every match only on espn.

[Ethan]

Well, what's our hockey?

[Stephen Che]

Football, Drone strikes, taking hockeys, being awesome, invading Iraq.

[Dana]

Rack.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah. That is our hockey.

[Kyle]

Oil getting oil.

[Brandon Walker]

What is our hawk?

[Kyle]

The stock market.

[Stephen Che]

I stumbled upon a. I stumbled upon a. There's a alternate history Reddit. Have you ever seen that? And like pretty much every single one's like, you know, like, what happened if. If Hitler stopped at Czechoslovakia or what happened if, you know, this guy was killed or so in every, like, almost every single one, the top comment is Bush still would have invaded Iraq.

[Brandon Walker]

He'd find a way. He'd find it.

[Mincy]

He Wanted it.

[Stephen Che]

He wanted it bad.

[Francis]

Is oil the coolest way to be rich?

[Stephen Che]

Ooh, I don't know. I think, like, being like a. Like a singer.

[Mincy]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

I don't know, man. Being like a tycoon or a bear.

[Mincy]

A rock star.

[Brandon Walker]

When you're dealing with oil, you're either a tycoon or a bear baron. Those are two.

[Mincy]

A tycoon would be nice.

[Stephen Che]

Oil is pretty cool. Yeah. Oil money is like a thing that's like you.

[Brandon Walker]

You command respect.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah. You got oil money. It might be.

[Francis]

What else would compare? Like,

[Ethan]

just inheriting all your money, I think would be cool as.

[Francis]

But it came from somewhere. All right. Which is inherently oil.

[Ethan]

Believe you're an oil guy. You know, end up. You just end up with your ex wife, right?

[Mincy]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

That's what happen.

[Ethan]

Up Arguing with your hot ex wife.

[Brandon Walker]

So hot. Over dinner.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah. Over your themed dinner.

[Ethan]

Yeah. Then your daughters.

[Brandon Walker]

What the. Is tapas?

[Ethan]

Is your. Is your Billy Bob just your Brandon Walker?

[Brandon Walker]

You sound like Billy Bob to me.

[Ethan]

I don't think so. I haven't watched Landman yet.

[Stephen Che]

Don't. I don't know why I'm so frustrated with it.

[Brandon Walker]

Don't do it.

[Stephen Che]

Still got to finish it.

[Ethan]

And it's just, like, started shorzy this weekend.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Decided I'm gonna watch all six seasons of that on Hulu.

[Stephen Che]

What was your medical emergency?

[Ethan]

Oh, I just had a. I just, you know, I think four or five days of working out and walking two miles.

[Brandon Walker]

Just four.

[Ethan]

And then I wasn't. I guess I wasn't hydrating enough. I thought I was hydrating enough. And I woke up Friday and I had no get up and go. And by.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, you lost your get up and go.

[Ethan]

By Friday night, though, it was full on. Dehydration emergency. I almost went to the hospital.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, my God.

[Ethan]

Arm twists, spewing like, explosive vomiting.

[Stephen Che]

This is the most low stress workout you could do.

[Ethan]

That's what I'm saying.

[Stephen Che]

It's like old Chinese women in a park.

[Ethan]

You. You think I'm talking about that? I was walking two miles a day on the treadmill before y' all got here.

[Stephen Che]

Every day.

[Ethan]

Yeah. I did that all week. And then I guess by Friday it accumulated. Whatever. I didn't have enough fluids in me, and I tried to get up and

[Stephen Che]

go, and you had no get up and go.

[Ethan]

I just couldn't. I couldn't get out of bed. Explosive vomiting.

[Stephen Che]

Explosive.

[Ethan]

I couldn't. Y' all are laughing. It's fun. Hey. But I was. Something went terribly, terribly wrong. Yeah.

[Mincy]

No exploding Vomit?

[Ethan]

No, it was the same dehydration headache I get every time. I don't know why. No matter what I do to be

[Kyle]

a cure for that.

[Ethan]

I drank. Y' all keep saying that. I drink water all week no matter what I drink, no matter what I do, no matter what I eat. I ate good last week.

[Stephen Che]

Gotta be.

[Kyle]

Gotta find a way.

[Ethan]

Now you're pissing me off. I, I, I, I. No matter what, I can drink every water in this building ever since.

[Stephen Che]

Do you think they have like. Do you think medical science has gotten to a point where like we could get you like chemo that to remove the.

[Ethan]

I could ask.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Donnie]

Clot.

[Stephen Che]

See if there's a problem. Maybe like invasive surgery.

[Ethan]

Oh, they have that.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

They could just be like go in, clean some stuff up.

[Kyle]

Just clean out the.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah. Maybe put like a. A manly stint in your heart.

[Brandon Walker]

It's a headache.

[Ethan]

It just.

[Stephen Che]

We're just going to clean. You know, listen, we're just going to go in. It's going to take like three or four hours. We're take out the.

[Brandon Walker]

We found a benign in your brain

[Stephen Che]

and then we're to going to. And then we'll be fine. And then you're. You're fine.

[Francis]

It's.

[Brandon Walker]

It's from the country.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, it's an Asian. Thankfully we caught it quickly. It's only been inside of you for 43 years, but we got it.

[Brandon Walker]

You're going to feel like a new man. Or a man.

[Dana]

Were you concerned going back. You walked up the stairs earlier.

[Brandon Walker]

That was.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Didn't see.

[Stephen Che]

That's when your acts up.

[Dana]

Right.

[Stephen Che]

We got to get that thing removed, dude.

[Ethan]

So I am trying to better myself. I have lost four pounds.

[Brandon Walker]

Wow. From puking.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Brandon's way of losing weight is just getting really migraine that he.

[Brandon Walker]

It's working.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Good job.

[Ethan]

This is the worst. One of the worst days of my life.

[Stephen Che]

What, today?

[Ethan]

No, Friday. Friday. It was awful.

[Brandon Walker]

Oh, your Scrubs interview came out though.

[Ethan]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

The day that I could tell you were so excited.

[Ethan]

The day that I was antiquing. Oh, I was. I watched it back. I kind of felt weird watching it back because I. I look like I'm on drugs.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah, you do.

[Ethan]

I'm like, I'm like shaking the whole time and I had the head, the fucking just taking flour off my face so I look white as a ghost and I look like I'm just tweaking. But I was just so excited to be talking to those guys. 20 minutes of talking to Zach Braff and Donald Faison which was what I was doing the day you guys did the antiquing.

[Stephen Che]

Well, no. You did it too.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

You're part of this show.

[Ethan]

Yeah, no, I was, but I, I, when, when I went and did that, people didn't know what I was doing.

[Stephen Che]

It also probably wouldn't have been a problem if you hadn't left, like, an hour early.

[Ethan]

To do what?

[Stephen Che]

To do the interview.

[Ethan]

Well, I didn't. They were late.

[Brandon Walker]

What is that?

[Stephen Che]

Oh, they were late.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

Right before you beat your idols.

[Ethan]

Yeah, they were late. My ear stuffed.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, no.

[Ethan]

Threw it all up in my ear. Look at that coming out of my ear.

[Brandon Walker]

When's the last time you drank water?

[Ethan]

Today. During, mostly. I guess.

[Stephen Che]

You gotta, we gotta get you.

[Ethan]

It doesn't matter.

[Stephen Che]

I, I, I imagine Brandon having a.

[Ethan]

Those, I cut out sugar pill containers.

[Brandon Walker]

Not even capsule, just loose water.

[Stephen Che]

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

[Ethan]

I haven't had sugar.

[Mincy]

Two milligrams of water.

[Ethan]

I haven't had sugar in two weeks. All I did last week was take your pills.

[Brandon Walker]

We got to mix it with applesauce so you can get it down.

[Ethan]

My wife prepared my meals. I was bringing chicken and, and, and some sweet potatoes for carbohydrates, and I was eating those things.

[Stephen Che]

Brandon goes to Walgreens and he's like, I'm here to pick up my prescription. They just give him a fucking case of water.

[Ethan]

I drank water. I drank water. I drank water. I drank water. And then Friday I woke up and I had no nothing.

[Dana]

You know what this is? This is withdrawal.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Dana]

You're going through lack of water, lack of sugar, lack of, of.

[Ethan]

Well, maybe you guys should encourage that. Maybe you should encourage me and my treatment facility.

[Mincy]

You got to wean yourself on the water. It's a little bit per day.

[Ethan]

Maybe you should encourage me in my journey and not, and not throw up roadblocks of, of embarrassment.

[Brandon Walker]

Do you want me to be, like, your guide as you're having water? I can keep you calm next to you. No, I, hey, man, this is fine. You might have to pee. Everything's normal.

[Ethan]

I'm having the, the requisite amount of water now. I'm, I'm.

[Mincy]

You got to do less. You're not used to it.

[Ethan]

Less from less. Am I doing too much? Yeah, I got dehydrated from too much water.

[Brandon Walker]

That's right.

[Stephen Che]

We have, we have an intervention for Brandon. We get him to a treatment facility. It's just a reservoir.

[Mincy]

Suboxone is lemonade.

[Ethan]

I think I'm a medical anomaly and I should be studied. Things are seriously Wrong. And we're just joking that I. That I can't do stuff.

[Mincy]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

I mean we already found out you're pre diabetic.

[Ethan]

But I'm working on it.

[Stephen Che]

But I think that might be your blood sugar. We got to make sure you got snickers at all times.

[Ethan]

I don't think that's right.

[Stephen Che]

Brandon's epiped is just a snicker.

[Ethan]

I gotta go see Dr. Stab me me.

[Dana]

The sharp snickers.

[Donnie]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

Penetrates directly to his stomach.

[Kyle]

KB, did you ever do the gallon of water? Was that a wrestling thing? What? What?

[Mincy]

No. I did the oppos.

[Kyle]

Walking around with a gallon gallon.

[Mincy]

That was just like dudes that lifted weights.

[Kyle]

That was weightlifting. More so than wrestling.

[Mincy]

I remember like the guys. The frat guys would have a gallon. Yeah.

[Kyle]

Do that with Brandon.

[Mincy]

We were doing the opposite it depriving ourselves of water.

[Stephen Che]

Oh yeah. To cut weight. Yeah.

[Mincy]

Just stupid. Cuz we were starting too early in the week.

[Ethan]

I wasn't right until Sunday. Saturday was bad. It was just couldn't. No matter what I did. I took Pedialyte. Pedialyte. Pedialyte.

[Kyle]

You got to get.

[Ethan]

You should. Vomiting. Kept vomiting. Kept vomiting.

[Kyle]

You should get one of those massive Stanley Cups, Brandon.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

That could be your thing. And you just sip out.

[Stephen Che]

Just walk around all sassy.

[Ethan]

What's the biggest Stanley cup you can possibly give?

[Brandon Walker]

Let's get you the. Yeah. With sanitizer attachment.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah. But you get like a Boo Boo. Yes. On his keychain.

[Kyle]

That's what you need.

[Brandon Walker]

Who's that sassy woman that makes the drinks in the big cup? Have you.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, I love that.

[Brandon Walker]

We needed videos of you making your

[Francis]

water in the morning.

[Dana]

Tapping your nails.

[Donnie]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

All right.

[Brandon Walker]

Slow day.

[Ethan]

All right. It's fine.

[Stephen Che]

We just need some water.

[Ethan]

Yeah, it's fine. No, could have. You know. It's fine. I'm in good shape. I'm good.

[Francis]

Speaking of dehydration.

[Ethan]

Thank you.

[Francis]

Would. Do you think a safari is a. Is a desirable vacation?

[Mincy]

How.

[Ethan]

Yeah, hold on. Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

He thinking like the. Is it dry and dusty arid there?

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Francis]

Just like. I don't know.

[Brandon Walker]

Is that a vacuum? It feels like that's a lot of people's dream.

[Ethan]

I feel like it feels too canned or forced. Like if you go on a safari. Are there places you can go on a real safari or they just put you in a van, take you out and some sleeping. Some sleepy tigers. Yawn. Sleepy lions.

[Mincy]

That would be a little boring.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Francis]

I think it would be like kind of a real one. I know. Francis There have been people that we've known that have.

[Kyle]

I think Roan did it.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Rome.

[Brandon Walker]

You're on a jeep without the top on.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

Just driving around Africa and you see a cheetah. That would be awesome.

[Kyle]

Yeah, that'd be pretty sick. Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

Driving a jeep without a top on is a. One of the best things. Imagine seeing a cheetah.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Dana]

I think there's the swanky like Treehouse resort too, where you wake up in the morning and a giraffe is just like right there. Right there. That'd be kind of cool.

[Kyle]

So where do you safari? Look if you want to go. What country do you go to?

[Stephen Che]

Sub Saharan Africa. So the best for. For like the big five, the. The animal. So hippo, elephant and all that. Those kinds. Our area. So Zimbabwe, Botswana. Botswana is actually very good. Botswana, South Africa, Tanzania. Anything higher than. Than like the Congo. The Congo, Rwanda area, you're getting into like jungle. So that's like gorillas and all that. And then up further north is. Is a little different.

[Ethan]

That's like camels, the desert stuff. Did you guys see the. The zoo? The giraffe and ostrich stare down?

[Mincy]

No.

[Dana]

Get caught by AI.

[Ethan]

I hope not. God damn it. I think what happened, it was.

[Dana]

Were they jumping on a trip?

[Ethan]

It was Memphis Zoo and there was a baby giraffe and an ostrich had a. Had a two minute stare down. And now that I think it was. Now I think it was a.

[Dana]

No, I'm sure no. I bet it was real. I'm an asshole. No, that's cool, Brandon.

[Ethan]

I think we're just always searching for the next baby zoo animal and we, you know, punch the monkey was last week. Now we're looking to this giraffe who stares down ostriches.

[Brandon Walker]

Maybe it was an even next up.

[Ethan]

Well, Mu Ding's time really came and went, huh?

[Brandon Walker]

Just gross.

[Stephen Che]

You got too big.

[Ethan]

Yeah. Nobody's. Everybody's moved past that fat. Uhhuh. There they are. Look at them.

[Brandon Walker]

Oh, this looks real.

[Ethan]

That's a stare down.

[Mincy]

Oh, that's.

[Dana]

Aw, you were right.

[Ethan]

That's awesome.

[Stephen Che]

That looks real.

[Ethan]

Now you. Who's going to move first, the ostrich or the giraffe?

[Dana]

Ostriches are scary in person.

[Donnie]

They are.

[Ethan]

Oh. Flinch. Still maintained eye contact though. Wow.

[Stephen Che]

Ostriches don't fly.

[Ethan]

Correct.

[Stephen Che]

What a loser.

[Ethan]

Giraffes are awesome, man.

[Brandon Walker]

I love them.

[Donnie]

They're perfect.

[Stephen Che]

Loser ass bird.

[Ethan]

I love giraffes. They didn't have to be a pattern like that. They just did it.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, they're really cool.

[Dana]

So somebody did a sad post about giraffes last week. It's giraffes. Like it was a big storm on the Serengeti and they have nowhere to go. They're just standing there super tall as it's lightning out.

[Stephen Che]

That's not really sad. That's just.

[Ethan]

Why don't they just sit down?

[Kyle]

Circle of life. Yeah.

[Ethan]

They just lay down.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Happened. That's what I would do. I'd lay down. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, Good point.

[Stephen Che]

Exactly. That's what I always say.

[Ethan]

That's just.

[Stephen Che]

They gotta say that and just chill out.

[Mincy]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Giraffe tried.

[Dana]

They tried smiling more. I should smile more up there.

[Brandon Walker]

Pretty when you man in there a little kuna matal.

[Mincy]

I gotta start saying that more.

[Stephen Che]

So did. Wait, Danny, did you go out and get ossified this weekend?

[Ethan]

They get what?

[Stephen Che]

Ossified.

[Ethan]

Ossified. Did you see that list?

[Stephen Che]

Yeah. You got ossified?

[Mincy]

No.

[Stephen Che]

What's that seem up? You don't say that. Your boys don't say it.

[Brandon Walker]

Ossified.

[Stephen Che]

You don't get ossified.

[Ethan]

There's a list of every slang we use to. To describe getting drunk from like 1901. Oh, 1901, 1902. Every year had a different ossified. Yeah,

[Stephen Che]

1901 or something. Yeah.

[Dana]

They were saying cool before. Oh, we had cool.

[Ethan]

They had lit like in 1905. Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah. There it is. All right.

[Ethan]

Lit, ginned, ossified and pot eyed.

[Stephen Che]

Pot eyed. Saturated.

[Dana]

Saturated. So good.

[Ethan]

Like tanks. They had tanked early shellac.

[Stephen Che]

I do spliticated.

[Ethan]

I'm getting jingled tonight.

[Stephen Che]

Slopped, getting jingled with the boys Oreo scene hyped. Oh, rum dum is the best oride seems offensive. O piped glasses.

[Ethan]

I'm getting croc tonight.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah. Bombed faced. 1940s.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Faced, walleyed, stinko.

[Brandon Walker]

Swacked.

[Dana]

Is that cuz you fell in your own.

[Stephen Che]

I like clobbered the Nazis.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Mincy]

Sloshed. Was that early?

[Ethan]

Zonked.

[Stephen Che]

Zonked is weed.

[Ethan]

What's fluy? I'm getting fluy. They really kind of went off the reservation on that one.

[Stephen Che]

I might be an ossified guy filled with fluids.

[Ethan]

Not bad.

[Stephen Che]

You wouldn't know. Damn it.

[Ethan]

One day I'm gonna hit all of you in the face with a hammer. Hammer. Hammer.

[Brandon Walker]

Bone smashing.

[Ethan]

Yeah, you can make you look good.

[Brandon Walker]

Be looking awesome.

[Stephen Che]

Stephen, what else you got on the prep show?

[Ethan]

That guy lost his wig.

[Mincy]

Huh?

[Brandon Walker]

I saw that.

[Dana]

Oh, yeah.

[Ethan]

The Asu Fradley or one of them. One. One of Those guys.

[Brandon Walker]

Australian one.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

You got lost his wig.

[Ethan]

They all have the same puffy hair. And he was just standing there and somebody ripped his hat off and the hair came with it.

[Stephen Che]

No way. Can I see this?

[Brandon Walker]

It was not good.

[Ethan]

It was one.

[Stephen Che]

It wasn't fake hair.

[Ethan]

It wasn't Clav. It was one of one. Somebody like him.

[Mincy]

Andrew Jenic. The Tara Chad.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, God.

[Brandon Walker]

And you can see there the cortisol. Not good.

[Kyle]

Bald, mugged.

[Ethan]

And he looks so much better with the hair.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, he knew right away. He's like, God damn it.

[Kyle]

And I don't know if this is

[Dana]

true, but I heard Clive dropped to number four on the rankings.

[Ethan]

Oh, wow.

[Dana]

He's given up and now he's just Jester gooning or something.

[Mincy]

Jester maxing.

[Brandon Walker]

That's not good at all.

[Stephen Che]

So, no, you don't want to just.

[Brandon Walker]

I think I'm over the whole thing.

[Stephen Che]

I never got into it.

[Brandon Walker]

Okay, what does drop to number four mean? On what list?

[Stephen Che]

There's rankings.

[Brandon Walker]

What are they ranking? I think Kate's doing her rankings right now.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

White Socks Dave.

[Stephen Che]

That was crazy. White Socks Dave at the stream.

[Ethan]

I.

[Stephen Che]

It took me a while to realize it was him.

[Kyle]

Yeah, I'm not sure. I actually. I am sure Taylor credits with Dave that he just said yes, but Michigan was playing, so Tate wanted to say Dave was coming. Oh, he asked Dave to come. And then Dave said he'd come. And then. Yeah, that was basically it. And then Dave's like, why?

[Ethan]

Why am I here?

[Stephen Che]

How do you want.

[Kyle]

But he did order pizzas.

[Donnie]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Did Cody. Did Cody ever formally apologize? I was actually upset.

[Ethan]

He's still fighting.

[Kyle]

He's. He's still. He's still fighting the fight. Only he knows how, which is, in a way, only he knows how, which is that he's apologizing while also, like, defending himself. Digging a bigger hole.

[Mincy]

He'll never be able to.

[Ethan]

Yeah, I'm sorry, but it wasn't my fault.

[Stephen Che]

I was mad. Play one pizza. Look, some snacks just show up.

[Brandon Walker]

Blue diamond almonds and more. Shows out almonds, cashews, and pistachios in bold flavors like honey roasted smokehouse and roasted sea salt.

[Stephen Che]

Freshness guaranteed.

[Brandon Walker]

And clutch in crunch time every bite. Try blue diamond almonds and more. The flavorful nutmegs. How many people would there have to be for you to think one pizza is okay?

[Ethan]

2.

[Stephen Che]

1.

[Kyle]

1.

[Stephen Che]

1.

[Kyle]

No, I would have. I would have ordered this for myself.

[Mincy]

Yeah, for sure.

[Stephen Che]

And I said it to him on text, like, not for air. I was like, dude, I I was like, I don't work my ass off to keep my fat guys. Like, they gotta eat.

[Mincy]

You can't be.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, we can't. We can't be. We can't be starving our guy. Like, look at my boy Rick.

[Brandon Walker]

Pizza's here.

[Ethan]

Date's such an.

[Kyle]

He's just got his hands on his hips staring at the pizza.

[Stephen Che]

I mean, that's crazy, dude.

[Kyle]

Just like, what happened?

[Stephen Che]

Per person?

[Kyle]

That's. That's less than four slices per person.

[Brandon Walker]

Oh, four or six of us.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

And I got garlic bre. Unbelievable. And garlic bread.

[Mincy]

I mean, Jesus Christ, I'm doing a nice thing.

[Ethan]

I thought.

[Stephen Che]

And Tate's here on Sundays. He understands how crazy this is

[Ethan]

to

[Stephen Che]

put up the plate on Sundays. Ebo and Jack McCarthy will order like six pizzas. Just as like a side. They'll be like, yeah, Stephen, you can back me up. Maybe that's like, oh, we got. We got barbecue. But in case anyone wants to also have seven slices of pizza, we have that covered too.

[Francis]

If it ever comes close to the line where there might not be enough food, there, there is hell to pay.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, there's like a pizza button they hit and it's just, boom, pizzas are here.

[Brandon Walker]

Was that a money thing?

[Kyle]

Cody tries so hard to do the right thing, but he also is like too bashful to ask even one question. Yeah, Stephen, even one. Like, how much pizza are you thinking?

[Stephen Che]

But EO said don't go crazy. One pizza is crazy.

[Brandon Walker]

I think don't go crazy scared the out of him that he was gonna go crazy. Like, I think that he over compensated for don't go crazy.

[Stephen Che]

Crazy.

[Ethan]

Crazy's 25 pizza.

[Donnie]

By not asking us, like not asking

[Ethan]

a follow up question. Crazy for seven people.

[Stephen Che]

Stephen would just eat it all week.

[Ethan]

Yeah, that's true.

[Stephen Che]

Like, it's not that crazy.

[Francis]

People don't forget dinner orders. Jack McCarthy ordered Jimmy John's in 2022 for week one.

[Stephen Che]

No Jersey Mike's. Week one, NFL season. 2022.

[Francis]

Yes.

[Stephen Che]

Madison. Ever been?

[Brandon Walker]

Is this the day he double sandwiched?

[Francis]

He.

[Stephen Che]

He got a sandwich. His. To start the NFL season. Start of the NFL season should be every food you could imagine.

[Ethan]

Like a feast.

[Stephen Che]

Chinese food, wings. He got his wet sandwiches.

[Brandon Walker]

I remember you guys almost killed him when he double sandwiched.

[Francis]

No, that was the. That was the day cuz he got sandwiches for the early slate and then he got.

[Ethan]

Oh, I didn't realize that.

[Francis]

Oh, yeah, not happy.

[Donnie]

It was like a lettuce wrap situation one.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, yeah, yeah. It's very funny because it's like if. If he doesn't order just the fattest thing, we all just riot.

[Kyle]

Yeah. I'm curious how you would have handled this Saturday.

[Stephen Che]

I would have been so furious.

[Kyle]

What actually would have happened next?

[Stephen Che]

You can't do that. It would have.

[Kyle]

So funny. Cody is. Yeah, he. He has zero confidence in anything he does. And then suddenly he'll have the most confidence and, like, just rip off, fluctuate. Like he's never had the right amount of confidence at any point in his life. Life ever.

[Ethan]

Nowhere near enough or way too much.

[Brandon Walker]

But it's also reversed. Like, he should have the utmost confidence ordering pizzas. And in a situation where he should be timid, he walks in. Cocky.

[Kyle]

Yes.

[Ethan]

Funny. He's also so scared to make a mistake. He does nothing but make mistakes.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

I love him.

[Francis]

I'll say this about Cody. I think he looks better with long hair.

[Ethan]

Yeah, he does.

[Mincy]

He does. It looks great.

[Ethan]

He does.

[Francis]

Speaking of deliveries, if you guys get Ubereats or whatever delivered to your home and you have leftovers, do you just throw it out or you live off the leftovers for a couple days?

[Brandon Walker]

It depends on the food.

[Ethan]

Leftovers don't last in my house. They. They just get passed on to the next person.

[Brandon Walker]

Is it a trickle down kind of thing?

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

Who's last in the pecking order?

[Ethan]

Usually me.

[Brandon Walker]

What?

[Ethan]

I'm usually the cleaner upper. Okay. I look in there and say, what? Where'd this Popeye sandwich come from? Somebody says. And I was like, all right, well, I'm gonna go ahead and eat it. That's it. Although for the last two weeks, not doing it. Not doing it at all. How long.

[Brandon Walker]

How long do you keep the leftover, Steve? Because you'll eat, like five day old pizza here.

[Francis]

Yeah, four or five days.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah, but what happens if you get, like, expired lobster, Steve?

[Francis]

I mean, there are certain downsides.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, you gotta go bounce. He's getting a new sofa.

[Ethan]

Oh, no.

[Brandon Walker]

Congratulations, man.

[Mincy]

Way to put it.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Donnie]

What?

[Ethan]

That's what you said.

[Stephen Che]

You told me I'm got to go because I'm getting a new sofa. So what would I have? How else would I have.

[Mincy]

I don't know why I said that. I have Tourette's.

[Stephen Che]

I apologize if I spoke out of turn about your new sofa that you

[Ethan]

told us about right before the show.

[Stephen Che]

My bad.

[Ethan]

Yeah. I have to leave at 145 because of my new sofa.

[Mincy]

I did say that.

[Ethan]

Is it. Your old sofa just needs attention.

[Stephen Che]

What do you.

[Mincy]

Yeah, it's a new one.

[Stephen Che]

Is it nice?

[Ethan]

Are you Texting the sofa.

[Mincy]

That's the problem. I don't know if it's nice.

[Brandon Walker]

You don't know if the sofa's nice?

[Mincy]

No.

[Francis]

Does it not fit?

[Stephen Che]

Is it big?

[Donnie]

We'll see.

[Brandon Walker]

Wait, are you in your new apartment?

[Mincy]

That's what I'm. I'm going to the new apartment with the new sofa. Yes. But I'm not in there yet.

[Ethan]

Sofa right here.

[Brandon Walker]

How could you have up on the sofa where it's not nice?

[Mincy]

It was a. It was like a. Yeah, that'll work type of deal.

[Brandon Walker]

Deal as your main sofa.

[Mincy]

Yes.

[Ethan]

Why'd you set the alarm? But still sitting here.

[Kyle]

You bought this from a furniture store, though, right? This is.

[Mincy]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

Facebook Marketplace or LoveSac. Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Nice.

[Ethan]

Oh, that's nice.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, those are nice.

[Mincy]

I bought it from a. But a sectional autist sold it to me, much to his chagrin. He want me to get a sectional.

[Stephen Che]

Can you take a picture with your new sofa?

[Mincy]

Yes.

[Stephen Che]

And send it to us?

[Mincy]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Okay.

[Stephen Che]

Which vertically or I'd like multiple shots.

[Ethan]

Okay. So he was just.

[Stephen Che]

I want you on it too.

[Mincy]

Yeah. They have this, like, these like, magnetic model sectional blocks.

[Ethan]

And he needed to sell you that.

[Mincy]

He really wanted to. He was just doing that the whole time.

[Ethan]

Even when you said, no, just a sofa, he still feels like, well, here's

[Mincy]

what I can do with the sectional.

[Ethan]

You're still here.

[Francis]

Do you guys like going to sofa or furniture stores and just send it out?

[Ethan]

I do. I don't test out, but I do. Like, there are good places to just roam when you have 20, 30 free minutes. Just go roam.

[Brandon Walker]

You love sitting.

[Ethan]

That's like your favorite thing.

[Brandon Walker]

Thing.

[Ethan]

Yeah, I do love sitting, but I use. I feel weird sitting in a. In a place like that. But I. I will make two laps of a furniture store from probably once or twice a week. Just. Just go around.

[Dana]

When I was a new mom and I didn't know where to take my son, I'd take him to Bob's Discount Furniture in the summer because it had air conditioning and free snacks, and I'd be like, breastfeeding him on a recliner. Just don't talk to me. I'm just here with my kid. It was a weird thing in hindsight, but one time there was a bad storm and we were in there for. For just forever not buying anything. But they like sit. They like. Kids love those places.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Testing out all the different seats and climbing on the.

[Brandon Walker]

I've been walking my dog at Home Depot in the cold.

[Dana]

It's nice.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

Inside the Home Yeah, I just go over to Home Depot and walk the dog. Paws get cold a. Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Do the booties?

[Brandon Walker]

Hates them.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, every dog hates them.

[Brandon Walker]

Can't do.

[Kyle]

Do it can.

[Dana]

I bet all the stores in cold places, though, like, understand? Like, we don't got anywhere else to go.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Or maybe they ate it. I don't know.

[Stephen Che]

Did my guests come through? Tj. Oh, I want to see it. See it?

[Brandon Walker]

You mutant, Bro, just shave the whole thing.

[Stephen Che]

No, show us.

[Dana]

I can't.

[Mincy]

I can shave the whole thing.

[Stephen Che]

Show it to us. Understand?

[Dana]

Like a Cynthia doll.

[Ethan]

Finished looking.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, dip your head. I want to see it like Kane

[Ethan]

when he took his mask off. Oh, my God.

[Stephen Che]

Ew.

[Brandon Walker]

How many graphs did you get?

[Mincy]

It's just. I realize. I realize.

[Dana]

Patchwork.

[Brandon Walker]

Ew.

[Ethan]

It makes your nose look bigger, too. Your whole face knows it's got a

[Mincy]

bent, to be honest.

[Ethan]

Oh, well. Well, understandable.

[Donnie]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

Why don't you just shave from the start, Jack?

[Mincy]

You actually care? Do you actually want to know?

[Kyle]

Yeah, I want to know like it.

[Mincy]

Is this something that my understanding was, first of all, you can't comb your hair. You can't shave it afterwards. You can't do anything. That's why it looks even worse than normal. But I had to get the work done on the front right here, obviously.

[Ethan]

Huh.

[Mincy]

I was under the impression that they only took from the donor area the amount that you needed from the front, but they took everything.

[Ethan]

Oh, God, he's a Nazi back.

[Mincy]

Yeah, I look. I look. I look like a Peaky Blinder. But, yeah, they took. They took all of it, so.

[Stephen Che]

No, those guys look cool.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

So what's. When are you. When are you going to be sightly? When. When can we, like, look at you?

[Mincy]

I'm coming back tomorrow, cuz I.

[Ethan]

You better not.

[Mincy]

I mean, okay, if I. If I'm good, then I will.

[Stephen Che]

No, you better.

[Ethan]

You better.

[Mincy]

I can wear a hat starting Friday, I think.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, man. That's all. That's all I wanted. I know, I know.

[Mincy]

I knew what you were calling.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah. Oh, and also, remember the day, week one, 2022, when you ordered Jersey Mike's?

[Mincy]

Yeah, that was tough, but that was really bad as one pizza.

[Stephen Che]

I don't.

[Kyle]

One pizza for seven dudes, Jack. You saw that?

[Mincy]

Well, I mean, I texted right away. I was like, this is unacceptable.

[Brandon Walker]

Do you need.

[Mincy]

Do you need pizzas?

[Stephen Che]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

No.

[Stephen Che]

You order side pizzas all the time.

[Mincy]

Yeah, I mean, I feel like, like, if quantity is never a real issue with my order anymore. The Jersey mics was bad. I Hand up.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah. Week one.

[Mincy]

Yeah. Double sandwiches. I think I did deli sandwiches for lunch and deli sandwiches for dinner. That was a.

[Stephen Che]

We don't forget that. That goes on your. That goes on the first. First line.

[Mincy]

Well aware. You don't forget. I hear about it.

[Stephen Che]

First line of your obituary.

[Mincy]

Yeah.

[Stephen Che]

Jack McCarthy ordered Jersey Mike's week one

[Mincy]

grotesque head and ordered Jersey mics in week one of 2023 too.

[Stephen Che]

So you can't put a hat on for another. Oh man, I love it. You're such a mutant.

[Mincy]

It's worse in person. Wait till you see it in person.

[Ethan]

Can't be.

[Brandon Walker]

Is it like grossing you out?

[Mincy]

Yeah, like I like will like go in the mirror to like brush my teeth in the morning and it's kind of like a jump scare. I'm like, holy, you're gross.

[Kyle]

How do you sleep? Like it. So you have to.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Mincy]

You have to sleep at like a 45 degree angle.

[Ethan]

It's horrible. This sounds like hell.

[Francis]

Hell.

[Ethan]

Is it worth it in the end?

[Mincy]

Yeah. Yes. It's 100% worth it. Shout out Estanov. They're the best.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, but like, is it worth like you're doing this to like get chicks. You could just give them free blow.

[Mincy]

Yeah, you're.

[Brandon Walker]

You're a coke guy.

[Mincy]

I have a. I have a beautiful girlfriend who is disgusted by me just as much as you guys are.

[Ethan]

I'm not sure how much longer you're going to have her.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah.

[Mincy]

Get a lot of free blow. Counting the days. No, she does not do blow stuff.

[Donnie]

Stop.

[Mincy]

Yeah, I don't know.

[Ethan]

Ear always up there.

[Brandon Walker]

Yeah, I think so.

[Dana]

I will say with like the black turtleneck in the warehouse looking apartment right now. You look like a cool evil guy.

[Brandon Walker]

You do look evil.

[Mincy]

Thank you. Well, I can't wear. I can't wear real shirts. I can only wear zippers.

[Ethan]

Ah, that's his apartment.

[Brandon Walker]

There's no way Miny's following these rules, right?

[Stephen Che]

No, no, no, no.

[Dana]

He's been.

[Mincy]

Mincy was like gallivanting New Orleans. I. I stayed home all weekend. Shout out me.

[Stephen Che]

Good for you.

[Mincy]

Big shout out.

[Stephen Che]

You shout out.

[Mincy]

I haven't drank anything. I've been fucking clean.

[Kyle]

Top five beer drinking day of the

[Mincy]

year yesterday you said I think of like all time.

[Kyle]

Maybe of all time.

[Mincy]

I think it's up there. Maybe not.

[Stephen Che]

Sunday.

[Kyle]

Was it just because you weren't out?

[Brandon Walker]

It was because you couldn't go out.

[Dana]

You thought, I think East Coast. He's.

[Mincy]

Yeah. I mean my friends, Matt's especially has been kind of a fucking Douchebag. During this whole time, he's. He just texts me fun things that they're doing when I can't drink. But no, I think yesterday was, like, a top five drinking day, like, ever.

[Stephen Che]

Wow.

[Brandon Walker]

I kind of agree, because what else is it going up against? We're not. We're not including black also in our drinking days anymore.

[Mincy]

Drinking at 7am is, like, always, like, adds a little more fun to it. Sorry, my head's itching.

[Ethan]

Can we get him off?

[Mincy]

Yeah.

[Brandon Walker]

It's maybe just audio call.

[Kyle]

Disgusting.

[Mincy]

I'll see you guys tomorrow.

[Brandon Walker]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Can't wait.

[Ethan]

All right.

[Donnie]

Thank you.

[Brandon Walker]

There we go.

[Donnie]

A little more.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Mincy]

God, I am so gross.

[Ethan]

Yeah. See you.

[Kyle]

See you, Jack.

[Ethan]

That's.

[Stephen Che]

Jack is.

[Ethan]

That guy's the amount we actually like him. Completely inverse to the. The amount we act like we like him. Yeah, we act like we don't like him, but everybody loves him.

[Brandon Walker]

I like him a lot.

[Stephen Che]

I love this strong.

[Ethan]

Okay. All right.

[Stephen Che]

Tolerate.

[Ethan]

I'm a fan.

[Brandon Walker]

I'm a fan.

[Dana]

I like him.

[Stephen Che]

Yeah, I do.

[Ethan]

I do.

[Stephen Che]

Gives you a free blow.

[Ethan]

I did like him until he turned into whatever the.

[Brandon Walker]

This is the amount of coke he has on him at all times.

[Dana]

That's crazy.

[Stephen Che]

He has the. He has the pill dispenser, but it's just blow.

[Brandon Walker]

That's what it is.

[Stephen Che]

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. I need to get that for you.

[Ethan]

Just a cup of water, guys. I'm trying.

[Brandon Walker]

Maybe like a PEZ dispenser for water.

[Stephen Che]

Oh, yeah.

[Ethan]

How is a PEZ tablet just walks

[Stephen Che]

around with a squirt gun.

[Ethan]

I'm working on it.

[Stephen Che]

Just drink a little more.

[Ethan]

I'm working on it. 270, 275.

[Brandon Walker]

Why don't you chug with me after the show?

[Stephen Che]

Oh, do a chug off. He might be.

[Kyle]

You should have a yug station's water.

[Brandon Walker]

It's the sink.

[Kyle]

Oh, my God. God.

[Ethan]

Oh.

[Stephen Che]

All right, let's spin the wheel. Steven and I are out tomorrow and Wednesday. Then we're back for the combine. We're going to the combine, out for

[Ethan]

the combine, and back for the combine. Out for the combine.

[Kyle]

A lot of combine.

[Stephen Che]

Back for the combine. It's combine week.

[Ethan]

You'll bring in your knowledge from the combine that you saw, and we'll see

[Stephen Che]

if Eddie and Dana are around.

[Ethan]

We'll grab some people.

[Stephen Che]

They should be

[Ethan]

all right. Can we just wear Pete socks?

[Brandon Walker]

I'm out Thursday.

[Dana]

Friday.

[Ethan]

All right. Dry.

[Stephen Che]

All right. See you in a while. It's a yak.

[Donnie]

Get your straws yak style. Stay for a while. It's a.

[Stephen Che]

Talk shop. Or do a Yankee Bob is the act. It's the actual.

[Donnie]

Shout out, Spider.

[Brandon Walker]

Love you guys here tomorrow, but.