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Hello, it's the yak. Welcome in stbluecoffee.com stblue coffee.com go right now. Ready to drink cans. We got K cups, we got cold brew, we got grounds, we've got whole beans, everything. Sellbluecoffee.com Save some dogs. Nick and KB are back.
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Glad to be back, KB.
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Have you burped?
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No.
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You want to try? Are we gonna try?
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There's no. I am burp.
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There's a U.
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You guys have done it all your lives. I don't even know where to start.
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You just crack this bad boy open and take a big chug and then just let it go.
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I have this Phoenix that works too.
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That's carbonation.
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Have you had any adverse effects?
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Yeah, take a big chug.
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Yesterday I tried carbonation and just bloating, discomfort, just everything I've always had.
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Sounds like every day for me.
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Yeah, that's normal.
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No, no, mine's work. Mine's a condition.
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Bloating in discomfort.
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So it still didn't have anywhere.
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Mine is a condition.
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The passages weren't fixed and everything.
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Mine's pathological.
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Mine's my choice.
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You guys are just.
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Yeah, naturally. Yeah.
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Disgusting.
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We have Spellbinder here.
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Yeah.
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Setting up right now. We're going to have a little magic Friday.
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But not for everybody.
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Not for everybody. We're going to do. We have a couple gauntlets we're going to do because we got a national champion in the building. And Liz, who we met yesterday, our newest hire is going to do it.
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What?
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She?
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What did she win?
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There's Pat Coogan, national champion, fresh off his national champ.
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This guy.
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Hey, congratulations, man.
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Is he replacing K here?
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Listen, if Pat Coogan said, I don't want to go to the NFL, I want to work at Barstool. K's gone.
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Good, good.
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So fucking fast. Yeah. So fast. Because Pat Coogan is basically Katic. If Katic had a brain.
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I can't even picture that.
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Yeah, it's. It's a very weird thing.
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Huh?
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But yeah, Pat was. I just had lunch with these Good, good dude. And he's going to do the gauntlet. So is Liz. Did you guys see. Just recapping from yesterday, we did get the footage of Mikey Betts, the 15.
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Misses from the four foot line.
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I feel like I was completely vindicated in what I was saying.
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I didn't see it.
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Yeah.
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If I saw that as a coach.
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Before a game, you'd be like, what are you gonna. You can't play.
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Yeah.
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And I said it was. It was no different than a guy playing a carny carnival game where it's built so that you can't get it in the bucket. Like, it's tilted to a way. That's how bad it looked.
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What was he doing?
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He was taking four footers. He had to make one. This is pregame.
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Come off.
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This is where I was like, is he doing a bit?
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I think it's okay.
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This is really hard to do.
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A camera's on him.
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Even if he's missing on purpose at a certain point, with how soft those rims are, one would just triple, Right?
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Look at this.
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Oh, man, he's trying to miss.
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No, he's not. He's not. Yeah, I don't think so.
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Quickly.
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He's doing it. That's his shot. That is how he shoots.
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Come on, guys.
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We're all trying to roll up.
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Oh, see, that one should have gone.
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Yeah, he's. He's trying to get it in.
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Oh, he never made one.
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No, I made him. I made him leave because it was. We weren't going to be able to warm up.
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And so then he. He complained that he didn't get any minutes.
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He was. He was a little upset. He also said he was. He was rope a. Doping the other team because they were watching.
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Oh, wait. He had a response that I didn't understand on Twitter.
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Yeah. Harriet Tubman.
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Yeah. Did you guys try to break that down or.
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No?
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Yeah.
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I didn't get to Harry Tubman.
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Tubman reference.
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Yeah. He dropped a Tubman.
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Was he saying he railroaded the team?
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I underground railroaded the team.
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He had no idea I was about to. Harriet Tubman.
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The.
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Out of this team.
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H. He help them mean, like, lead. Help the. The. The good guy.
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Yeah.
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Help the other team. Yeah.
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She was on the Harriet Tubman. That was the yellow bird.
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She wasn't white.
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That's Toto.
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Okay.
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Oh, that's.
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That's. That's Africa. What was Harriet Tubman?
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What was Harriet Tubman?
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We're dumb.
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Well, yeah, you're.
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She was a former slave.
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Harriet Tubman was like the. The queen of deceptivism. So Harriet Tubman, when the guards were watching her, just like when this team was watching me, the other team was watching me when the guards were watching her. She played stupid. She chased around chickens. But at night, she freed the slaves. I never got the chance to Free the slaves in this, like, whole ordeal. You didn't put me on the court once. We have an all time meeting of the minds happening.
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Yeah, yeah, we got a lot going on already.
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Dante and spellbinder.
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Dante and the spellbinder.
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Dante's. Dante's like, hey, buddy, I'm gonna burn you if you do any of this fucking shit.
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Where are the doves?
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Right?
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He's also the king of having conversations right there by the act.
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Yeah.
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He doesn't know what's happening right now.
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All right, so wait, wait, wait. So you, you didn't get a chance to free the slaves?
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Yeah.
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Would be what, making a shot?
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Getting some buckets in the, in the game.
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But you understand from my point of view, when you, when that happened, I was very nervous. Brother, you're the coach.
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You should know when they're scouting, they're. They're staring right at me.
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So you were doing that on purpose?
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Brother, you're the coach.
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But, but how can you explain that? They all were pretty close to being in.
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They weren't.
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They were.
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It's all part of my plan, you guys.
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It's.
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I obviously I missed them all, and this is my spin zone. But I. I do think I could have Harry Tubman. This team.
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I didn't know she chased chickens.
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She.
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She played the dumbest lady in the world during the day, then at night. She was a genius.
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I didn't know that.
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Yeah, I didn't know that either. Harriet Tubman, Operation Fortitude, D Day, Napoleon, all used deceptive Edward Norton. What did they use, Mikey?
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Bats.
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Primal fear.
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What are you saying?
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They used Kaiser.
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What is that skill?
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Deceptivism.
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Deceptive deceptivism.
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Yeah, it's a transceptive.
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Tactics. Deception. Deception.
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Deception.
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You were using deceptivism there when you made us think you couldn't speak.
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Yeah, exactly. Deception. Yeah, that was a hustler analogy. Really? Yeah, basically, I hustled. I was going to hustle them.
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Yeah, you're doing like can't jump.
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Yeah. Like Uncle Phil when he went to pool hall. Yes.
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Yeah. Yeah. Jeffrey breakout. Lucille. You were going to say Jeffrey, break out Lucille at this point.
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So if you were really bad at basketball, you would have made all of those. So they thought you were good. Yes.
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And they would have focused on you.
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They would have focused on me. Yeah.
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Well, but.
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So you go out there and make five, four footers in a row.
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At least.
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All right, I'll be right back. Five four footers in a row.
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Five footers in a row.
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Five four footers in a row.
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We might need the magician to help you out here? I'm gonna say low.
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3 for 5.
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2.
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2 for 5.
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If he makes 3 for 5, then he was obviously missing on purpose.
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That's true.
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Yeah. You could never do it just with just one ball. And Che definitely needed to rebound these four footers.
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Okay. Oh, for one. Oh, for two over three.
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Airball. Okay, I'm not.
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Boys, he's doing it.
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I'm not buying this. I'm not buying this.
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Mikey, were you trying there?
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His pants are falling down there.
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Two in a row.
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Also, this is deceptivism, okay? Oh, oh, don't let him go.
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Deceptivism, guys.
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Deceptivism.
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Five in a row. He.
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Tubman dust.
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You did.
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You got us good. Are you mad now?
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He's just walking off.
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Wait, what?
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What are you mad?
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No, no, no, no, no, no. I can't. I can't have this guy be mad at me ever.
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He's going. He will be one day.
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I. He was.
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Why'd you stop him? He was going to free the slave, but he.
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Did you see the look he gave me?
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No, I'm not mad at you, okay? You got me tickets, so. That was amazing.
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Well, I mean, I told you I was gonna get you Derek Rosenight ticket.
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Yeah. Oh, that's awesome.
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We just got to figure out a. We've got to figure out a nickname. Donkey Kong is what he wants to serve Donkey Kong.
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I got walkie talkie.
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Walkie talkie.
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Oh, nice.
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Donkey Kong.
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But what if I just announced that we're. We're like that together?
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I need. I need other.
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Like.
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I. I gave you the. The analogy. Why do you like this guy?
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I. He's the best.
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What's there not to like?
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Everything about him?
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I'm a great guy, okay?
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Yeah.
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Why are you saying that to me like that?
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Because you. You have an attitude right now.
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I thought we were nice.
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I thought we were.
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I was gonna give you a nickname.
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Yeah, tell me a workshop. It give you a name.
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What is it?
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I don't know yet.
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Okay, I gotta find something.
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Make a nickname for Titus real quick. Keep in mind, his name's Titus. A lot you can do with that.
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A lot of directions you could go.
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Hell, you could even go something with Mark could.
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Sleep on it.
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Dark Mark. I like dark.
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Oh, yeah.
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Dark Mark.
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Not where I would have gone.
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Dark Mark is good.
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Dark Mark.
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This is why I like guy. He wants nicknames for everyone. He's the worst nickname giver of all time.
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Donkey Kong is good because why Dark Mark.
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Dark.
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His hair is dark.
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Got It.
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Yeah.
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What if we get a black mark here? Confused.
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No, we got to call him Light Mark.
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Light Mark.
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White Mark.
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Okay. All right.
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Yeah, we'll figure out a name for you guys. I need. I need it to differentiate, like. Oh, they're really like that?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Okay.
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But you can't say we're really like that, because then takes everything away. People need to. Oh, they're like that.
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Yeah, right? They see it and they're like, damn.
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Yeah.
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Those two.
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Yeah.
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Okay. All right, Perfect.
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Thanks, guys.
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See you.
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Hey, Mikey. Rage bait. Danny.
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We're good.
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We're good.
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Is that my nickname?
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Yeah.
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Well, that one's true.
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Yeah, that one is.
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Doesn't even have. Doesn't roll off the tongue at all.
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Rage bait. Danny. Dark Mark.
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Dark Mark of the Christmas sweater.
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All right.
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Was. Are you all right, Kyle?
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Yeah.
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What's wrong?
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You just burp?
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Yeah, dude, I'm just not working.
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Pat is back a couple times. Do you have to go back big?
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Are you taking a big.
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You gotta, like, really chug.
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I don't know if you chug. Have you ever chugged?
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Because of my syndrome. I can't.
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His eyes are. This isn't good. We shouldn't. You shouldn't chug anymore.
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Have you ever yugged?
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Never.
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Huh?
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I would try. Like, to beer bong. Imagine high school and college, and it was just disgrace.
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Dana's a good friend of yours.
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He.
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What if your first bump burp was during the yug station?
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Be the biggest episode ever.
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I think I'm supposed to burp first. Oh, micro burps are supposed to calm.
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Got it.
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And then I start drinking carbonation.
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Did you see that? I sent you guys a text on the group text last night, but it was literally just the pathetic titan stream last night.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. They were farting and they were drinking.
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Drinking beer off of the floor and.
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Beating the only people they could ever beat in competition.
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Barstool therapy is just facing each other.
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Yeah.
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Just doing the most pathetic titan thing.
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I think barstool camp saves a lot of lives around here.
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What do you mean?
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They come out of that feeling amazing.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, we're amazing. We dominated.
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We can do this.
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Hitting home runs. I did a flip. Everybody has one moment. Everybody leaves camp and had their one moment. It's awesome.
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Still got it.
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Even the combine, where, like, you know, there's 40 people competing, and then, you know, 20 of the people walk away being like, I was in the top half.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I'm still doing all right.
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And all of us, we get at least like one rep and 135.
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Yeah, right. You're like, all right, I can show that off.
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I can bench 135 once.
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We should like Tate.
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Nick, do you want to explain what this thing is?
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I think there's a time and a place for it.
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I need to know.
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What thing?
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The fact that he's just photographed. Yeah.
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Nick, what is that?
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What is that?
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Dude, he's up. He's in Toads too.
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It's crazy. I thought it was gonna be a guy who looks like Nick. It is Nick.
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Where?
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Yeah, where is it look like a fancy restaurant.
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This in Arizona.
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No, I think. I don't know where they were like yesterday.
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So I'm going to need an explanation why this random bar is a portrait of Nick to rain.
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And it's like, I've never seen him dress like that. What is that Nick? Where is this?
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I listen.
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I don't.
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I don't know. I have to like. I almost want to write it down so I don't skip anything, but can.
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You just tell us where it is?
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Do you want the dead honest truth?
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Yes.
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That was the first time I've ever seen that.
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What?
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I have no clue where that is.
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What?
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What?
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You don't know where.
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What photo is that?
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That's my barstool blogger photo Photoshopped onto a suit wearing man.
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Oh, that's not even your body.
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Did you make that Photoshop?
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I've never seen that in my life. I don't know where that is.
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Like the kindest thing you can do to someone.
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I know a random bar, I think.
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They were shooting a commercial and they might have had to take a picture down of like a Budweiser sign and maybe they had stuff printed out, I don't know. Because where that picture is, you don't need a picture there.
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It's.
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What do you mean by that? The Chiclets guys did this?
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No, like the producers. There was a commercial shoot, right?
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I don't know.
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They were just out.
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Yeah, I thought, no, honest to God.
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I've never seen that before.
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Where the fuck are they?
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One of the best things that's ever happened to me. So I tried to play it off cool, but now people just want an explanation. I got nothing.
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I want.
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Have you seen. You've never seen that picture before? Like you've never seen someone at that bar being.
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I don't know where that is.
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Is that legal?
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I want that picture at bars across the country. I want that bar. I want that picture everywhere.
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Uhhuh.
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Let's start a trend.
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No.
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Yeah, there's a. There's a bar in Lincoln park that's a childhood photo of me. So I think one. Somebody in my circle gave them a photo to put in a frame, and it's still up in there at the Arrogant Frog.
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Oh, the frog.
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Yeah.
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People are going to think you're missing.
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I don't know, Get Nick in your local bar tonight.
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Yeah. I don't know, but it's a huge. It was.
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You legitimately have no idea.
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I don't know what state that's in. I don't know what hemisphere.
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Where are they? Were there. Can I watch it again?
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Where they're wearing a really unique coat.
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Were there other things?
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It makes me think it's a pink Whitney commercial.
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Oh, there's a pink flag.
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So maybe they put it up.
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Maybe they had to take something else down.
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That's all we see. There's no.
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That's it.
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There's no anything else hanging.
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There's a candle.
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What? Were you in a pink Whitney commercial?
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I was once.
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Okay, so maybe an homage to that.
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Oh, that's cool. An Easter egg. I've always wanted to be an Easter egg. Yeah. I don't know. Oh, no. Stop looking at me.
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Sorry.
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This will be the greatest trick Spellbinder's ever done.
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Make me, dude.
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Make me burp, dude.
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And for my last trick, this man in his 30s is gonna burp for the first time. All right, that was. That was close. That was a micro burp.
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It was still a girl. It's still gurgle city. You hear?
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That's like a growl.
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Like a baby bird. All right.
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Let'S do some gauntlets.
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Brandon, is. Do you have anybody coming in today to the office?
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Yeah, Art's coming too.
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We were saying it Nick yesterday. Like, it's minus 5 degrees today, so.
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He has to be invisible.
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I need dick.
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Got a giant. Giant penis.
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Minus 5B. I don't know.
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Timing's gonna work out for him to come on the act.
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It might go inverse. It might be coming out of his ass.
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His spellbinder an inside out.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Now he has two tiny dicks at one o'.
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Clock. We gotta. We gotta do some business together. All right. Gauntlet.
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Yeah. Get Pat.
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Well.
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And then we'll have Liz go.
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Brandon looks country today.
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Yeah, he does.
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Oh, you're probably up all night.
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It was. It scrambled my brain. Pat. Yeah, Come in here. It scrambled my brain.
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All right.
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Pakuga national chick literally three days ago, won a national championship. Starting center for the Indiana Hoosiers.
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Did it feel good? No further questions over here.
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How was 11?
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I did not go. Oh, now Katie took my spot.
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Okay.
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No, I had a bunch of family there and the hotel lobby got pretty rowdy, so I'd enjoy the moment with them, I thought.
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And then.
F
But that looked like a scene and a half.
B
Yeah, that was. That was an incredible game. Incredible season. You played in back to back national championships. Did you give a speech before this one being like, hey, I was in this game last year.
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I gave a speech before every game to the team.
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Love that.
F
Because it was kind of just part of our routine and I'm a pretty vocal guy. You know, it was my fifth year, played a lot of ball, so I kind of took on that leadership role and then. Yeah, but it was wild. I didn't. I tried not to make it about, like, me and like, how this is like revenge, you know? Like, it was. It was about all of us.
B
Yeah.
D
Yeah.
B
Did you think that you guys should have done more when they cheap shotted Fernando and basically like, hit him underneath the chin? You got to step up for him.
F
I didn't even see that because it was on a running play and he was just carrying out a fake, like. And I didn't see the video until like Tuesday.
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He got smashed.
F
But I saw his lip. Can I curse on here? Yeah, I, I saw his practice first.
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Fucking lip, like, in the play.
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I was like, this is so badass.
B
Yeah, he is.
F
I thought, you know, he got hit. We had like a protection and he got hit from the backside. So I thought it was. It was from that. But I had no idea that happened. And that is one of the dirtiest things I've ever Seen.
B
Yeah.
D
He take back shots for the boys, didn't he?
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Yeah, front and back shots.
F
I mean, a guy like that, he'll do anything for the boys.
B
Yeah.
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Hell, yeah.
E
That is.
F
Yeah, that got clipped, obviously, but he's the man.
B
Yeah, he is the man. You guys were an incredible season. Incredible team. Kic so close to being part of it.
F
He paid his dues, though.
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There he is. He paid his dues.
F
No, I mean, when I was thinking about Indiana in the portal, Katic was huge. So a big credit to him.
B
There you go.
F
It's always nice to, like, hear from the coaches. You know, coaches are always going to tell you what you want, but being able to talk to him and be like, yo, fall camp was pretty easy.
A
That sounds like practice.
F
You know, practice schedule. And so, yeah, it was sweet. He's the man.
B
Yeah. All right. You ready for the Gauntlet?
F
Yeah, let's do it.
B
All right, so it's. I think you've. You've seen it before. Yeah, but it's. Yeah. Cornhole soccer. Wiffle ball.
F
I got to hit it over the.
B
Just over this level.
F
Oh, okay.
B
Yeah. Nice and easy. Swing football. Three pointer. Three pointer. And then you come back for sport.
E
Go. All right.
B
All right. You got this.
F
Let's do it.
B
Hopefully national champion Rose bowl mvp, right? Rose bowl mvp. Rose bowl mvp.
D
That's pretty awesome.
B
That's so sick.
D
Sun goals.
B
Yeah.
A
Oh, definitely.
D
That's the sun center. A center winning Rose bowl mvp.
B
Can you imagine?
D
That is crazy.
A
If my son one day was like that.
D
That's dream, son.
B
And he just got invited to the combine.
A
No, son.
D
The bar stool.
B
Yeah, the bar stool combine. You're also invited that.
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Nightmare nephew. Cuz then you're just thinking, not my son.
B
Your kids aren't going to compare.
A
His uncles are probably depressed.
D
Yeah.
F
If I don't make it on three.
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If you make the first, you go perfect. All right, you ready?
C
Are you smart or you like.
B
He's smarter than kid. He went to Notre Dame.
D
Are we ice and Spellbinder.
B
No, he said he needed time to.
D
He's chill.
B
Yeah, he said he needed like, 45 minutes.
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That's true.
E
Yeah.
B
All right, here we go. Three, two, one, go.
C
There we go.
B
Yeah. Spellbinder said that he needed.
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Titus, what were you watching loudly on your phone before yak started?
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It was a man in Mexico going down a water slide.
G
Oh, I too saw that.
B
There it is.
A
Watch out, Spellbinder.
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Watch the whole thing.
A
When it comes to content, I want to. I want the person to experience it. Without it being filmed and then just talk about it after.
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Oh, we got soccer. Soccer problem. Oh, Connor. What a dick. Oh, there it is. Connor's going to be so take it so easy on his.
E
Yeah.
D
Oh, yeah.
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I'm out on that, dude. Connor.
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Connor. Yeah. Why was he eating lunch outside?
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Yeah.
G
What?
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When I came in, he was just. Cuz he's trying to eat lunch outside. It's not cold. Minus 20.
B
That's not. You played baseball, Pat.
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Yeah, I know. This is bad.
B
There you go.
A
Snap it through.
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Oh, he could snap it through.
A
All right.
B
This is gonna be. Oh, not a bad shot. He's gonna make one.
C
Oh.
B
When do the lads leave for Denver? Oh, tomorrow. Credit to them for doing Tate after dark and then doing the Glove this morning. That couldn't have been a fun turnaround. There we go. Trivia, trivia, trivia. Yep.
G
You're under two minutes.
B
Here we go. Here we go. Nine teams. Nine teams in Florida. NBA, NFL, mlb, NHL. You should be able to rip that.
F
All right. Magic, Bucks, Tampa Bay Rays, Dolphins. Can I bounce around?
B
Yeah, yeah. Six states bordering Pennsylvania. There's a bunch that you get here. Oh, boy. What else can you get?
F
What's Strikeouts.
E
Nolan Ryan.
B
There we go.
F
Sandy Koufax.
B
No state's bordering Pennsylvania. You got that jersey.
D
There you go.
E
God.
B
Played ball in one of them.
E
I'm not.
B
No, wait.
F
Go geographically.
B
Okay.
F
Is Maryland New York?
B
There we go. We need two more.
F
Connecticut, maybe.
E
No.
B
Members of the Backstreet Boys.
A
Brady Bunch.
B
Brady Bunch.
F
Was Timberlake in the Backstreet Boys at the beginning.
A
That's in sync.
B
Oh, that's in. Sinks the highest. Anti Depression. You got the teams in Florida. Come on. You got those. Oh, man, you got those. You're missing a football team.
F
Portals, Dolphins, Bucks. Oh, Jags.
B
Yep.
F
NHL.
B
You missing a basketball team?
F
Basketball.
B
Yeah. Miami.
F
Oh, heat.
B
There we go.
C
There you go.
A
Time.
D
Good time. Good time.
E
All right.
B
Good time. Good time.
F
Yeah. The base. I don't know why I was swinging.
B
Hey, you played baseball.
F
I know. I don't know. I have no idea what told me to swing with one hand, but that.
B
Was a good time.
E
Where?
D
See?
F
Where was it?
B
College sports. National champion. That's pretty damn badass that you're just a national champion forever.
A
Yeah. You kind of get that?
E
Yeah.
B
Has that set in yet?
F
No, not really. I mean, there's been so many, like, emotions and stuff, and it's just like.
D
Any shocking emotions, maybe like, negative ones.
A
Well, I think like a 180 coming down from this.
F
The fact that like you know, we had such a great group of boys, like, hanging out with the boys, and now we're all going our separate ways again.
B
Yeah.
F
So, I mean, that sucks, but I'm going back tomorrow for the parade celebration, so one last night with the boys will be fun.
A
And then.
E
Yeah.
F
I mean, it's just crazy because, you know, you got to move on. I'm gonna go train and it's like non stop.
E
Yeah.
D
What are your summer goals? My summer goals or your off season goals?
F
January. Geez. Yeah, I. I got invited to combine, so I'm gonna, you know, put my best foot forward and see what happens.
B
What do you think you're gonna run the 40 in?
F
I probably won't run.
B
Oh, okay. That's smart.
F
I just got done.
C
Yeah.
F
My body's in rough shape from the season, so.
B
What are they gonna have you lift?
F
I'll just do like all the old line drills probably.
B
Yeah. Yeah.
F
Honestly, I don't know. Like, I got. We gotta talk about all.
B
Yeah. So running is scary.
E
Yeah.
D
Why do.
F
Yeah.
D
You don't need to run.
B
Yeah.
F
A guy like me, immediate, like.
B
Yeah.
F
A little bit overweight, white kid from the suburbs, you know.
B
Yeah. Like, it is true. Offensive line, like, defensive line, I could kind of get it because you're, you know, chase down and stuff. Yeah. Speed. But offensive line, what.
D
What do you need? What do you need the longest.
F
You'll have to run more about like the 10 yard. The split.
B
Yeah. To get off. Yeah.
D
Yeah. What do you think the furthest you've run in a play this year was? The furthest down.
B
Not counting, like a guy's like broken through and you're just like running to meet him in the end zone. Play is actually going.
D
You're impacting the play.
F
I recovered a fumble in the semifinal that was like 20 yards down the field.
D
Oh, yeah.
B
Oh, I remember that. Yeah. Yeah.
F
And I hit the bear, or I did too fast. But I was thinking about the Bears in that moment of the semi final and I was like, I got too fast. I gotta shout out Chicago.
B
That's great.
F
But, yeah, I, you know, I'm not used to getting first down, so I just went like this with my finger. But then I got off the sideline and I was like, dude, did I look so sick?
B
You did. You look so sick.
F
But I was so out of breath after that. Usually I'm just blocking the guys in front and I like, hit my little fat man jog, like to make it look like I'm following after the ball.
B
Yeah.
F
But Fernando's running down there like a baby deer. Like, you know, running. It's a spin move on the guy. B ball pops out. Luckily it, like, hit the guy's helmet and bounced back to me.
B
Oh, that's perfect.
F
So we got lucky there. But, yeah, I mean, might have lost.
B
The game if you didn't recover that at that point.
F
It was like 35 to 3.
B
Huge swing in the game.
F
No, it definitely would have been a much more anxiety inducing game if we didn't, like, we got a turnover and then it was like, oh, shit.
B
But yeah. All right, Pat. Well, congrats again, man.
F
Yeah, see you so much.
E
Yeah.
B
Yeah, Cool time.
F
I was telling Kate last day, it's just cool that I'm here because I live like 40 minutes south. But when Katie, you know, invited me to come in, I found a picture from, like, sixth grade of, like, Saturdays are for the boys flag.
B
Oh, fuck.
C
Yeah.
F
I was like. I posted on, like, my Snapchat story with, like, the hundred emoji, and I was like, dude, I'm the man. I have a set for the boys flag.
B
So it is very funny that, like, the NFL is like, we. We have just, like, guys going to the NFL now. Their. Their brains were molded by barstool.
D
Yeah, yeah.
B
You're playing guess that ass at sixth grade.
F
As it should be in this.
B
Yeah, exactly. Exactly. All right, Pat, thanks so much, man.
D
Congratulations.
B
Congrats again, man.
F
Thank you.
B
Are you got Liz?
E
Y.
B
Get Liz and then we'll get to spellbinder. How much more time you need to set up? Okay. All right, so right after this, we'll get going.
G
Incredible shoes on the spellbinder.
E
Oh, my God.
G
I can't stop looking at him. Gorgeous. Royal blue with silver tips.
D
Should we make Connor sit outside during the magic show?
A
Won't bother him.
G
Well, yeah, he's fine with it.
C
It's the foreign. It's the foreign roommate.
B
Okay, Liz.
C
That's it right there. I against the foreign roommate.
B
Yeah, we. We met Liz yesterday. It can kb.
D
She's Liz. Hello, Kyle.
H
Nice to meet you and not Liz.
B
Oh, yeah, yeah. It's a foreign roommate.
G
She was.
H
Do I put this on?
B
Yeah, yeah, put that on.
G
Liz.
F
She.
H
I want to make announcement. She come here yesterday, tried to steal my identity. She's a liar.
A
Good to know.
B
Okay, are you ready for the gauntlet?
H
What is that?
B
Like, you got this. You saw it. It's cornhole soccer. Wiffle ball. Throw a. Throw a football shot shot trivia.
H
Did. Did Liz Landon do it?
B
No, she didn't. She didn't have the right shoes on.
A
Oh yeah, she did. Fuck it.
H
No, she's scared.
B
Oh yeah, she did it. Yeah, she did it. She did it.
H
What did she get? She scared little baby.
B
Yeah, she scared little baby. So she.
H
Okay, I'll do it.
B
All right, let's go.
H
Brandon, I do it one right now or Che.
B
Yeah, y go right up to the cornhole.
E
Okay. All right, here she goes.
G
Okay.
B
Brandon, where are you?
G
What about. Is Art here?
B
Brandon doesn't care about us.
D
So you did incited her.
B
We met her. Her.
D
She switched it up today.
B
Yes, in the hole. Dave hired her. She's this. I think she's going to work in New York.
A
Okay.
D
Oh, not even here?
B
No, she just wanted to come up and meet everyone.
D
Cool.
B
Yeah, Brandon doesn't care about us. He's scheduling stuff.
D
What's he got going on with Art?
G
Yeah, what's he doing with Art that he's so excited?
B
Oh yeah. It's just at one o' clock in the middle of the act.
G
But what could they possibly be doing at negative eight?
A
It's a thing. Art's picking up from here from here. Yeah.
E
Yeah.
B
All right, you ready?
H
Yeah.
B
Three, two, one, go. The question is it, would Brandon ever schedule something in the middle of the Brandon Walker college football.
A
On sling.
B
On sling. Or like wrestling.
G
There we go. Overhand cornhole is uniquely American, so.
A
Oh yeah.
G
Foreign roommate struggling. I don't see a lot of.
A
Only 23 seconds. Scooting closer. Oh, almost there.
D
Whenever you're ready, go ahead, throw one in on you.
G
There we go. Oh, she's wearing very slippery shoes.
B
Yes, she is.
G
That's making me nervous.
B
There you go. Oh, nice swing. Wow, nice swing, brandon.
C
Good, good football.
E
You're.
B
You're an ankle.
G
It's brandon.
B
Oh, brandon.
C
Oh.
G
Oh my God. There we go.
E
Woo. Oh.
B
You guys missed it yesterday. Deutsch has his first idea content idea.
A
Oh, what is it?
B
It's Battle beers. Battleship with beers. Oh.
G
Got a great time.
H
It's really good.
B
All right.
D
Oh, eight bear species of the world. You probably know that.
B
Just say Anything random for Ms. Drizzles.
D
What?
G
Yeah. Magic School Bus.
B
Original Skittle flavors Brown.
H
What did they like?
F
The.
B
Oh, Brown Bear. There you go. The taste sports teams in California.
H
The Las Vegas Raiders.
B
No.
D
Okay, Russian cities east of Moscow.
H
Oh, oh, I know this one. East of and never East Soggy Raphaels. Okay, don't know that one. I got the teacher on the magic school bus.
G
What is it?
E
Yeah.
H
Mr. Sales. Miss. Miss for sales.
E
Yeah.
H
Five face cards. The queen.
B
There we go.
H
The joker.
B
There we go.
H
And the king. Okay, seven teams that. The sphinxers.
B
Oh, there we go. Sphinxers.
H
Lemon.
D
Orange.
B
Here we go.
H
Cherry.
B
We're cooking.
A
There we go.
H
Watermelon. Green. Apple.
E
Grape.
B
You're getting hung out of pillow.
F
Caterpillars.
B
Yeah. You got one more. One more, one more.
H
Banana. Hungry caterpillar. A pizza. A donut. Okay, what is it?
D
Bears.
C
A bear species.
H
A polar bear.
B
There we go.
D
Good time. A really good time. Really, really good time.
B
Awesome.
A
Let's see who you beat.
H
Did I Beatless? London.
B
She didn't do it.
F
Yeah.
A
We lied to you.
H
Oh, yeah. I don't like her. Why? Big fat wire.
D
All right, let's see who.
H
What did I. Sweating. Oh, okay.
B
So you beat Henderson, Francis, Caroline, Vaporez, Tate, Julio Soder.
H
Because you tricked me with the beanbag airs. With the use.
B
Oh, you lost Jared from Subway. Oh, yeah.
A
He was the spokesman for Subway with the big pants.
D
The big pants?
B
Yeah, the big pants. He got lost a lot of weight. It's good. Not a good dude. Rapist.
H
Subway. Yeah, I like it.
B
Pedophile rapist.
A
Oh, no, no, no. That would be kind of a good guy.
B
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
D
What's the morality on that?
B
Yeah, you're right.
D
Ethical dilemma.
A
I guess we let him go.
B
Yeah.
H
Is this the Subway?
D
Yeah, the sandwich.
H
I like the. The tuna fish sandwiches.
A
Those are good.
D
I actually do love those.
H
They're really good. They like the brown tuna.
B
Tuna meatball.
D
Brown.
H
It's a little bit gray.
D
Yeah, it is.
G
Yeah.
A
Paper mache.
H
I like a tuna a lot. I like it.
B
All right, well, thank you. Wait. El Shiva.
H
Ali Shava.
B
Elishaba. Elishava. Thank you so much.
H
Thank you.
B
Appreciate it. Stay warm out there.
H
Okay.
C
Leave the headphones.
B
Headphones. All right. Great swing. Great swing. All right. I think it's spellbinder time. Yes.
G
Oh my goodness.
B
All right, Brandon, we do the Pizza Hut ad. I'm going to take a piss and we're going to go spellbinder here.
E
The cameras are here.
G
Tj, where's the best spot for him?
D
Yes.
G
Right in the middle of the room.
A
Probably on the court.
B
No?
A
Yeah, I guess. Camera facing you.
G
Oh, yeah. Cuz we have a camera right there that can face you. So if you go out into the court maybe a little bit. Can everybody see him if he's.
A
Yeah, that'll be good.
D
That's good.
A
Tj, Would that be good? Just haven't played in the camera.
E
Yeah.
C
Yep. Before the QB says hut. You need to make the call to Pizza Hut and order the big New Yorker their biggest pizza and the biggest games. Got a couple of gigantic games on Sunday with the NFC championship game, the AFC championship game. You can get you a big New Yorker perfect pizza for the big game. Unless you're getting nil money, you'll be happy to know it's just $10 for a limited time. That's the big New Yorker New York style crust, flavor of parmesan, oregano, seasoning and massive slices so big you have to fold them. The big New Yorker is Pizza Hut's biggest pizza with. For the biggest games, pre order the big New Yorker in the Pizza Hut app or Pizza hut dot com. Spellbinder.
D
That'll be the camera. That one right there.
G
Okay. We're just waiting for our. One of our guys to get back and then we are ready.
C
Yeah, he's. He's taking a. A urination.
D
Yeah.
C
And then he. He should be back shortly. We're going to get spellbound. She did have a great swing for a Russian.
D
That was crazy.
C
Way better than that national champion center from Indiana.
D
What a boy.
A
These doves are fighting for their life right now somewhere.
F
Hurry.
A
Big cats hold their breath. It's a good thought.
E
All right.
C
He is back.
B
So excited for this.
G
Okay.
E
All right.
B
Okay, take it back over.
A
So you go more center court.
B
Yes. You tell us, tj. Is he good? Where he's at?
C
Him up a little bit. Yeah.
A
I don't know what he's doing, so, like, I don't know how much room he needs.
B
I don't know where he back up.
C
Probably about five feet.
A
I don't know what the tricks are.
B
Yeah. So the camera's right there. So. Yeah, that's your camera, so you might want to move it back.
C
Yeah.
E
So I have things that I'm bringing for you to examine. So what's going to happen then?
B
All right, wait. We got to get his bike fixed.
G
Tj, that can't. We have cameras in here too, and they're able to switch between.
B
Yeah, we have cameras in here.
E
Yeah. So you just.
G
If you come in here, don't worry about it. Just move naturally and we'll.
A
Yeah. Oh, that was almost a burp we're getting.
D
That was something. That was good.
A
It's like a baby lion learning how to roar.
E
I got it.
B
I think he's gonna get his mic.
C
Yeah, I gotta get that mic fixed.
B
Spellbinder. Spellbinder.
D
Where's Connor? I want to make sure he's not watching Spellbinder.
C
We sure we don't even want Connor to just introduce him.
A
Can Connor get in the sarcophagus?
D
Oh, yeah.
B
By the way, for maybe. We just announced maybe we're doing a live show in LA. Part of my take May 5th.
H
I was like, what?
D
I was like, is this next week? Oh, this will be awesome.
A
The worst week of Kyle's life.
D
Oh, you.
H
You.
D
You're triggered by it.
B
What?
D
Oh, yeah.
A
You.
D
You were excited. I was excited. I was like, this is gonna be awesome. I can't wait. Yeah, let's go to LA tomorrow. We going out. So what?
A
No, next week, man. Why do you want to get there so quick?
B
The tickets on sale now.
D
That's awesome.
B
Never done a real live show. PMT and we did one for like 500 people. I think this place sits 6,000.
C
Probably sell them out.
B
So have some special guests. And I will say that to note it just because I'm sure people have noted it, it is the Netflix is a joke comedy festival. And we will be on Tuesday, May 5, we will be doing a live Pardon my take show from the YouTube Theater.
E
Cool.
A
That's a.
B
When they told us what it was, they're like, oh, you fuckers.
A
That's a little fun.
B
God damn it. Yeah, be fun. And we're also. It will probably have some not for air things because we're going to go. We're doing Max's bachelor party the weekend before that in Vegas to. To the live show in la. So that's going to be quite something. All right, Spellbinder, you ready?
E
Ready.
B
All right, let's do it.
A
Does he sound all right?
C
Sounds good.
G
Yeah.
E
All right.
B
Okay.
D
Yeah.
E
So are we sure? Good afternoon. My name is Walter King Jr. They call me the Spellbinder. Let me hear you say Spellbinder.
B
Spellbinder.
E
The name comes from a style of magic I do called the art of illusion. So primarily I'm called an illusionist and often asks, what's the difference between a magician and an illusion? I did pretty much the same. Well, we're related, like cousins. But the biggest difference I have come to find between magicians and illusions magic is that we suck at car tricks, so you won't be seeing much of that little something. But what is an illusion there? An illusion is something that's happening right before your very eyes. That really happening because it's an illusion. But it is happening because you're watching it happen, but it's not really happening.
C
Let's fix this mic.
B
Fix this mic.
E
I know that's confusing, but I can prove my point.
B
All right, hold on, hold on. We're going to fix your mic. We're going to fix your mic. Sorry. Flow.
D
Killing his flow.
B
Killed his flow.
D
Killed his entire flow.
A
Be looking for his mic and p.
B
Oh, there we go. There it is.
E
Here we go.
G
Nick, you were right.
B
Yeah.
G
Hate to say it.
A
I thought it sounded weird. Why do you hate to say it? What the hell?
G
I actually don't like you very much. No, I haven't faking it.
A
What was that?
D
You tell me.
A
It was.
D
That was. That was the bong hit. That was. Physically, it felt like something a little above what I've been doing.
G
It sounded like it.
D
That sounded like the OG Sound.
C
So you took a step up from.
D
You played the clip. You played from years ago.
C
I was playing the hits now.
G
Okay.
D
Oh, yeah, it sounded similar.
C
All right, back to you.
E
Back to me. As I was saying, an illusion is something that's happening right before your very eyes that really isn't happening because it's an illusion, but it is happening because you're watching it happen, but it's not really happening. I know that's a paradox of words, but let me just prove this. I have here two signs, actually two words. But these are more than just two words. These are actually two worlds, because their meanings make them worlds apart. Like parallel dimensions, so to speak. But is this the truth you're looking at, or is this just an illusion? Well, it's easy to find the receipts because we know what these words mean, and they're going to always mean what they mean. Short is going to always mean short. Long is going to always mean long. But was that the truth you just saw, or were your eyes tricking your mind? Because that is where the realm of an illusion lives, between what your eyes see and what your mind perceives to be reality. What if these two dimensions switch places in the universe? What if the short world became the long world and the long world became the short world? Is this now the truth, or are your eyes still tricking your mind? Well, it doesn't matter what dimension these words come from, the meaning is going to be the same. Short is going to always mean short, and long is going to always mean. However, as you can see, this is just an illusion. Because as we bring these worlds together and they collide, you will see that they are both, both absolutely the same.
B
Spellbinding, cooking.
D
Yep.
E
Thank you. Here we go.
B
I love that. All right, off and running, head. Here we go.
E
So how do we create an illusion? I started when I was a kid, 7 years old. I Sucked at card tricks. But I was really not interested in that type of magic. I was more fascinated with what they call grand illusion. My favorite magician, even today is, I say illusionist is David Copperfield. And of course, Criss angel fits in there because they did the big stuff, you know, the sawing a person in half or floating someone in the air. That's what I wanted to learn. And when I was a kid, whatever I had around me, I created magic with it. I didn't know you can get one of them toy magic sets at the toy store. So I played with my legos and my blocks, my action figures. But when that's special came on television, whatever I had in front of me, I transformed myself into the person I was watching on stage. And of course, at that time, it was dinner time and I had stuff like this around me. I always. When this special came on, I always would have a spoon at my table because, well, the illusionist always had an assistant. So the spoon would be mine because it has, like a big head. I drew a little outfit on the back of a piece of paper, tape it to the back of that spoon. This would now be my assistant, and I would be the illusionist with the blade. The song in half was my favorite at the time. The concept is that a solid object cannot go through a solid object without damage. I need to come in here for a second.
B
Yeah, come on in. Please, please, please.
E
What's your name?
A
Danny.
E
Danny, can you rub the back of that spoon? Do you feel any holes, openings, slots?
A
I do not spell binding.
E
And the handle is nice and solid.
C
It sure is.
E
And Danny, can you check out that butter knife? Is it solid or is it rubbery?
A
It's solid.
E
Spell solid metal. Solid object cannot go through a solid object without damage. They would often put that assistant in some. Inside some type of a box. We're going to use one of these for the box. I'm sorry, what's your name?
G
Kate.
E
Kate, can you examine the box for us? Make sure there's no hidden secret compartments, no secret assist, extra assistance on the inside. Just open it up. Open it up. Make sure. Look on the inside. Put your finger in there. Make sure nothing is a part of that coin envelope that we are saying is a box.
A
All checks out.
E
Spell. There's a little hole in the bottom of the box so that the assistant can stick his feet through. And I need someone else. What's your name?
D
A mark.
E
Dark mark. Which can you just hold on to this and make sure sure that this does not get out of Sight very important, because I don't want anybody to think I'm switching something out. I need my knife back right now that I just dropped in here. Solid object cannot go through a solid object without damage. Can I. Can I perform here?
B
Yeah, yeah, right there. Come stand where she stand, TJ Looking straight at the camera. Turn around.
A
He wants to look at you.
E
Oh, yeah.
B
You want to look at us?
E
I want to look at you guys.
B
Oh, yeah, that's fine.
E
I want everybody to see this up close for a second. A solid object cannot go through a solid object without damage. That's why we have insurance. Except in the realm of an illusionist. Out on the course, they're the PGA Tour's best players.
A
But in the arena, they're prime time. And season two of TGL, presented by SoFi, is back. With lights, cameras, action. We're talking big moments, big personalities, big names in the stands, all on the big screen. Big time matchups with shot clocks, Hammer drops, timeouts, overtime and playoffs. It's city versus city, squad versus squad. This sport just hits different under the lights. It's TGL, presented by SoFi.
E
Keep up.
B
It's golf.
A
Tune in to every match, only on ESPN.
E
What?
B
Spellbinder?
E
No, that's the perfect illusion. 3, 360 degrees. But this is, as I said, an illusion. And what is an illusion? Something that's happening right before your very eyes that really isn't happening. Would you like to know how this is done? Yes. Well, you know, magicians don't tell this.
C
We're so stupid.
E
But I am an illusionist, right? I get a. I get a day and a night pass. I want you to just hold on to that handle. Just do not let go. You cannot do this. This is impossible. You cannot shove a solid steel knife through a solid steel spoon. Unless you have a fork.
B
What the hell? That was a fork.
E
And that's why I had you to examine this, Kate. So you see, there are absolutely nothing to be found now. I know. I know. The question is, and I'm gonna get to ask, if it's not now, and your mind is gonna ask me later, what happened to that spoon? Well, the art of illusion is not about sleight of hand. It's really mainly about the power of suggestion. Number one. Mind over matter. Mind over matter. And the power of the spoken word. There's a word magicians are known for. Abracadabra. Little corny word, we think. But it actually is derived from a Aramaic word, and it's pronounced Avra cadavra, which Means as I speak, I create, or as I speak, things change. But to better explain this and make it more sense, how many of you have seen this movie? The Matrix.
B
Yeah.
E
The first one, the good one.
B
Yeah.
E
And if you remember it, if you do not remember it, we're going to do a quick, quick recap. Keanu Reeves was playing the part of Neo. The main character who was at this particular point in the film was searching for his identity. He was looking for the oracle. And on that travel, he ran across this little child prodigy, little bald head kid with a spoon, if you remember that scene. And that kid was just bending that spoon with his mind. And Neo asked him, he said, how are you doing that? How are you bending that spoon? And the answer that that kid gave sticks with me every time I'm feeling facing something new. I call it a trans dimensional answer because it actually is a key to what the Matrix is, which we're in. They say we're living in a simulation, but we have to have in this realm what we think is real. See what he said to Neo while holding it in his hand, he said, there is no spoon. See now the paradox is Neo, who has not found out who he was yet, is facing someone who's doing something impossible. In the same realm where this kid is like, nothing is impossible. But in this realm, of course, possibilities deal with what's real. And you do have to have real material, what we call real material. You do have to have a. What?
G
A knife.
E
And you do have to have a fork. But you have to think, say, and believe. I have a spoon.
A
Whoa.
E
Welcome to the Matrix.
B
Holy shit.
A
Spellbinder.
B
Spellbinder.
E
So how do we create illusions? We always use things that are absolutely real. And I have here real material. I have here 1, 2, 3 pieces of ordinary rope. It's very important that you know these ropes are real rope. They are not magical in any way. They didn't come from a magic kit or out of a magic shop. In other words, they're not gimmicked to do anything so special that rope should not be able to do. So to further prove that, I'm gonna draft you three to examine these ropes.
B
Would love to examine.
E
Pull on them, tug on them. I'm sorry, what's your name?
D
I'm Mark.
E
Mark. I'm so bad with names. Okay, I am bad with names. Sometimes I'll get used to in a second. Give me one end of your rope. Hold on to that other end nice and tight like we're about to do tug of war. Cause we are. I want everybody to see these ropes are nice and strong. They do not come apart in little bitty sections, and most importantly, they do not stretch. Do your rope stretch?
B
No.
E
I want you to take the ends of your rope, touch one end of your rope to the other end of your rope. See where that rope stick together? Like there might be a magnet in there or twist lock and become one piece. Will it stay together without you physically holding those ends together?
C
Nope.
E
Now, the last thing we want to make sure is that none of these ropes are gimmicked to do anything special to any other rope. So if we could test every end of every rope you do not have. I know it's a little awkward right now, but it's good for you to do it and not me. So you just test every end of every rope you don't have. Make sure those two ropes do not stick to your rope. Make sure the little rope doesn't stick to marks or anything like that. And then test each other's ropes.
B
Nope.
G
They're just testing each other's ropes.
E
Nope, they were not. And just. And give all your ropes to. To the man here before I touch them again. You can have your seats. Thank you for going through that. It was very important we went through that, because if I went about doing what I'm about to do without you examining these ropes, everybody would say, oh, those are some cool trick ropes he had, but I'll take them now before I touch them, I want everybody to see I have nothing in or on my hands. I'm not even wearing jewelry. So I cannot be adding anything to these ropes or secretly switching a rope out for another. Please give them a round of applause for going through that exercise.
G
Drop your little rope.
E
Oh, man. I'm trying to get over here. Where? Good job.
C
A bit better.
D
Yes.
E
Am I good here?
B
Hold on, hold on.
D
We're moving. There we go.
B
Camera. It's that camera to your right. See that one right there?
E
I see it.
B
Yep.
E
Oh, you got me. He got me.
G
Yeah.
E
All right.
C
Yeah.
E
I hate to be far away, but it is what it is. I had to go through that exercise because if I went about doing what I'm about to do with the exam, as I said, everybody would say they were cool trick ropes, but as an illusionist, I could do what is called hack reality, disturb it, just to see where we all are right now. This rope is the what?
B
It's a long rope.
E
That's exactly it. I just want to make sure everybody is seeing the same thing at the Same time. Because of course, things are all subject to change. This rope right here, this rope is the short rope, and this one is the middle medium sized rope. I'm going to put the medium sized rope right in between. We line these up so we have short, medium, long in the real world. But watch close, do not blink, because this illusion starts now. Because an illusion is a matter of what we call perspective. From where you sit determines what you see. You're all here looking at the same three ropes in the same space and time. But each and every one of you from a totally different and unique perspective. Because nobody sees this world the same way as anybody else ever in their lifetime. Because nobody can occupy your point of view as long as you're here on this planet. Nobody's sitting in the same sea, from the same side, from the same distance or the angle, including myself. I see something totally different than everybody here sees because I'm behind the scenes. It's like an optical illusion in my hand. We got some good lighting behind me right here. I'm going to hold the ropes up into this light, and I'm going to show you this optical illusion. But now, here comes the power of suggestion. Once you see this optical illusion, you will not be able to unsee it. So when I hold the ropes up into the light, don't they look like they're the same size now? Yeah.
D
What the fucking?
E
But like I said, cool illusion. Because like I said, once you see this optical illusion, you cannot unsee it.
A
Come on.
D
Come on, now. Come on now.
C
12 on here.
B
What the.
E
1, 2, what?
C
3.
A
How in the fuck.
E
Pull on the ropes.
G
Okay.
E
Do any of these ropes stretch? Nope, they do not. Pull on the ropes. Pull on the ropes. Do any of these ropes stretch?
A
No.
E
Stretch nice and strong. I'm going to get rid of one of these ropes for right now. And I'm gonna work with these two ropes right here.
A
Ooh.
D
Oh, wait a second.
E
Yep.
D
You see it? Yeah.
E
Okay, that is very off. That's about three inches off. And I need two ropes the same size. So I tell you what, I'm gonna make this easy to follow, and I'm gonna get rid of two of these ends. I'm gonna take the good ends, I'm gonna place those in the center. Whoa. And I'm gonna start over with just one rope.
C
How about that?
E
Are we having fun yet?
A
Yeah.
B
Hell yeah, we are. This is a spellbinder.
E
Let's have some fun.
B
Yeah. Yeah.
E
Can you play me whatever funky music you can find right now?
B
Get him Some funky music.
G
Funky music.
B
Oh, yeah.
E
Oh, I'mma try and follow that. Oh. What? It goes away.
B
Oh, my goodness.
A
Come on.
E
I'm have to let this go for a second.
B
Don't do it, Spellbinder. Don't do it, spellbinder.
D
Come on, bud.
B
Don't do it.
A
Let's think about this.
B
That was awesome.
A
Not going to.
B
Oh, my God. He got so much swag too.
A
What's this?
G
What the.
B
What the is he up to? I don't understand.
E
Okay. No.
C
Wow.
E
No.
B
Jesus Christ.
G
I forgot about the other rope. Okay. What?
B
Oh, dude. I'm spellbound.
G
I'm spellbinder.
D
Incredible.
A
Spellbinder.
E
Thank you very much.
B
Holy shit.
C
How.
A
You're incredible.
B
I'm so bound.
A
I'm so bound.
E
Appreciate that. Oh. So my favorite piece of magic is the art of levitation. But before I could learn the levitation, my father taught me, you must first master the suspension. Now, what is a suspension? And what is levitation? And how do we practice before we start using people? These two items represent the human being. The suspension goes like this. Let's say if I were to take this glass and I were to hold it right up here in midair, and then I let it go and it just stays there. Midair, does not move. That is called a suspension. It would be suspended animation. If this bottle of water would suddenly begin to rise off the tabletop, that would be a levitation. But I'm going to show you something that we take for granted. We use the glass in this because it represents. Simulates a human being. The glass, because it represents the human body. We're very fragile, and what we see on the outside of each other is not who we really are. What we really are is what we are on the inside. And what are we mostly physically on inside water. So I'm going to show you something that we take for granted every day. That might be too much water, but we'll see in a second. Notice the horizon line of the water. No matter how I tilt that glass, that line never changes. Water seeks its own level. It actually controls whatever it's in. A glass, a bottle. The lake water is kind of like alive like that. And my father said, focus on what's on the inside. You can control anything on the the outside. I'm going to try and find the point where the water and the glass are both equal with gravity. And I always say this, even though we're adults. Please don't try this at home. Not because it's dangerous, but because you are going to break Glasses. So I'm going to use this as a guide to find where this water and the. This glass are both balanced in this precarious situation and bring this to total balance. I think I found it. Now, it used to take me 20 minutes to get to this point. In fact, can everybody see this? Do I need to move this back?
B
No, you're good.
E
Can you see the entire thing? Okay, let me get back there. There you go. Whoa. Now, that glass of water is almost 100% balanced in this position. The only support it has is this plastic bottle, which weighs basically almost nothing. But now I'm going to focus on the next thing that's involved, which is air. There's air in the glass because there's air in the water. One part of that water is air. But now we got physics involved because there's air pressure on the outside, Air pressure that we don't feel because it's part of gravity, but there is pressure because air is like a lie. And I'm going to do what is called or known as. As bending the air or air bending and bring that glass to total balance. I think I kind of like that music, but do you got anything a little more mysterious?
B
Let's get him some mysterious, please, tj.
D
Here we go.
B
Tj. Royal free mysterious music.
E
Good.
C
Okay.
B
Just. Just balancing. That I couldn't do.
E
No.
A
Maybe all day.
B
If that was the trick, I'd be like, holy.
E
Way.
B
No way.
C
Titus.
E
Say it.
B
Spellbinder.
E
Spellbinder.
B
Oh, my God. Holy fucking.
C
Oh, shit.
E
Wow.
A
Wow.
B
White Boy Rick looks like he's gonna die.
E
And now the art of levitation.
D
That was awesome.
E
You can either keep that one going or give me something else. Get a bit more involved.
G
Okay.
E
Can you. Let me just see when I'm up here.
B
Here. You want me to stand behind where you are? You can see it. This is.
E
Oh, this is what I look like.
B
When you're standing here.
C
Okay.
E
And if I'm. If I'm in here, you just see my back.
D
Can we get a camera behind?
E
I see there's cameras, man. You know what? I know what I'm gonna do. I'm going. I'm going to use both. I'm going to start up here because I want to bring this close. Okay. All right, Here we go.
B
Should have said Mr.
E
Smell.
A
Yeah, that's weird.
B
Box. It's a box and empty box. All the podcast listeners out there.
A
He's got keys on key.
B
I want to hear from someone who listens to. This is a podcast today. One sounded crazy.
E
Key.
D
In the box.
A
I saw McCarthy do a key in a bag once.
E
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A
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E
Keep up.
B
It's golf.
A
Tune in to every match, only on espn.
E
Oh.
G
Holy.
E
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
A
Wait a second. Tj, you need to get that camera down.
D
Down.
G
Look at this.
C
What? What the.
B
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
A
Spellbinder.
E
Enough.
C
Please.
B
No.
C
What the.
E
Why?
B
Holy God.
A
I wish I was at connor's party. How? What?
B
Get away from me. What the.
A
You kidding me? Spellbinder.
G
He lifted the blanket all the way up. There's nothing there.
E
Nothing there. What?
G
He's losing control of.
E
There.
B
Nothing there.
A
Easy now. Oh, my God. No.
B
What's he doing?
G
Hands free.
A
He has no hands on it.
G
Hands free. He's hands free.
A
Come on.
G
He has no hands.
D
Be serious.
B
He's got the key. He's got the key out of the box.
E
What?
B
How the hell?
A
Oh, my God. Boxes.
G
The box is detached from the table. Wow.
E
Holy.
D
What?
A
Huh?
B
Yeah.
E
No.
B
Unreal. Spellbinder. Spell binder.
G
Spell binder.
E
The power of air. Air is the most powerful force on the planet. Without it, the other forces cannot exist. We have four. Fire, air, water, and Earth. We can't have fire without air. We can't have water without air. We cannot have earth without water and air. And I have here. What?
D
Balloon.
E
Balloon. And what is a balloon? Without what?
F
Air.
G
Oh, jacket's coming off. Oh, wait.
B
Oh, your catch.
A
Uhoh.
D
Like that? Sound? Good sound.
G
There we go. Okay.
B
Is his mic still on?
E
Okay. Air has the power to heal. Without air, nothing can heal. Oh. Whoa. Back.
D
What's it doing?
A
It's broken.
D
What's he doing?
A
What?
C
Oh, my God.
E
Oh, my God.
B
Was healed.
E
What?
G
What?
A
The balloon is here.
E
Has the power to heal.
D
No.
B
Holy spell.
D
Second holy.
B
Ah.
E
There's something in there. Air. Air. Not only has the power to heal, it also has the power to produce. What?
B
Life.
E
Life.
G
Whoa.
C
Yes.
E
Help. Thank you very much.
B
Who is Spellbinder? Thank you, Spellbinder.
E
Thank you very much.
A
Oh, my God.
E
They call me the Spellbinder. Peace, love and magic.
C
Yes.
A
Oh, my God.
B
Unbelievable.
A
He's Unbelievable.
E
God.
A
Where he's.
G
I was watching the balloons so closely.
B
I don't understand peace, love and magic. We gotta talk to Spellbinder.
A
I would really.
G
The floating table.
A
I The smoothest.
B
Dude. I actually think that the. The glass was the craziest.
D
Glass. Crazy. Glass was crazy. I like the groovy rope.
B
Yeah, yeah, the groovy rope. We got all of it. We got a flow.
D
What a show.
B
A real flow state with the rope. Incredible.
G
Incredible.
A
Wow.
B
Unbelievable. What a guy.
D
And Connor thought none of us would like that.
B
Yeah.
D
It's not for everyone. Connor's like, you guys would hate this guy. He did say.
A
Say that.
B
Yeah.
A
Those birds come from.
B
Where the did those birds come?
A
Two living birds.
G
Two birds.
B
Spellbinder.
G
Spellbinder. Incredible.
B
Incredible.
G
Wonderful.
B
Incredible.
C
Incredible.
E
Thank you. Thank you for having me. Appreciate. Thank you.
B
Yeah. Sit on down if you want to talk to us for a minute. We'd love to talk to you.
E
Yeah.
A
It's time for you to tell us.
C
How you did it.
B
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
C
Right there.
G
That's perfect.
B
That's perfect.
G
Seat there.
B
Do the birds have names? Yeah.
E
Bebo and Suge Day.
B
Bebo and Suge Daddy Day.
E
Okay.
D
Whoa.
G
How long have you been doing this? How many years Here?
A
Let's see.
E
Four decades.
B
And we'll fix that mic. That was incredible.
E
Thank you.
B
Spellbinder set up here. Wow, that was incredible.
E
Thank you.
B
Wow. You are. You've been doing this for four decades.
E
Yeah.
B
So how old were you when you started?
E
Well, like I said, I got. I started when I was seven, but professionally when I. When I got in college.
B
Okay. Yeah. Incredible.
G
I first noticed you when that first viral TikTok from that girl's birthday party many months ago.
E
A year ago.
G
I'm sure you were doing well before then, but have you kind of blown up now? Are you like, hardly have a second to yourself or.
E
Yeah, this year has been totally different.
G
Yeah.
E
Love that. Yeah. That happened on. It went viral on 29th of December last year.
G
Yes.
E
And by New Year's Day, I was on Fox News. It had been hit 12 million. And now between Instagram and TikTok, that video has 100,000 views.
G
Wow. That's. I had people from our New York office after that video went viral, texting me, being like, you have to get spellbinder at some point in the office. Like.
E
Yeah.
G
So I'm so excited you're here.
B
Do you ever levitate for fun?
E
Oh, that's what I. That's what I had to do in the beginning.
B
I'd levitate all the time.
A
I would never. My feet would never be on the ground.
B
That's incredible.
D
So you just do it for, like, family and friends to start out. Like, how do you. How do you build an audience?
E
No, I was creating magic when I was seven years old.
D
Yeah.
E
And when I quickly let it go, by the time I got in seventh grade, I put it down. That was bullies and stuff like that.
D
Yeah.
E
You know, growing up then, they'd never seen. They never even seen a black person do magic at that point. So it was like, what do you think you are, a magician or something? That's what my friends were like. And so that was the reactions I was getting. So I quit. And long story short, going all. Going up into those years, going to college, I got into theater.
D
Okay.
E
I am a fine arts major in bachelor of arts from Columbia, but my background is theater. So I had got cast in a play where they gave me a dance part. I was a pop locker too, a street dancer. And so they had me doing the role, and I just thought it would be cool, just throw a couple of some magic in there. And I took my gloves off and turned them into flowers and made a cane appear. And this lady saw and said, I can get you books. And I didn't. I wasn't interested in being a magician. But she said, I can get you paid. And I'm like, oh, okay, I'm listening. And that's how that got started.
D
So did the magic make sense within the part? Like you're pulling out a cane. Was that like, that makes sense for the character to do that or something?
E
You're just. See the dance part. See, that's what I was known for in the beginning because I was doing a lot of the clubs. You know, back then, they had a lot of dance halls in Chicago, and they had great dance floors at that time. So I could do my large illusions on those dance floors. We were all, you know, I had a group of four of us, we pull up in a Cadillac hearse and walk into the club and set up, and we basically just did the whole show off of music, just playing music. I never talked in the show in the beginning, because you're in the club, people want to dance. They're not looking to see no more. And matter of fact, I remember one of the first times they. They said, we got the magician, Walter King Spellbinder. I'm walking past the table, they didn't know me, and they said, we don't want to see no effing magician, you know, But I knew, you know, once it got started, once. Once they got the beat that it would. It was. It's all good. Yeah.
D
That's incredible.
G
That's cool. Here in Chicago, what's. Is there any memorable event that stood out that you got to perform for, like, a celebrity or a sports team or anything like that?
E
Oh, well, yeah. Well, Chance the Rapper saw me when I came to his school when he was a kid.
A
No kidding.
E
And so then, of course, when he started doing the single at the Museum of History, the museum over there, the Field Museum, he hired me to come over and perform. We kind of reunited then. That's cool. And I've worked with Jennifer Husson and Gladys Knight. I worked Vegas in Atlantic City. So I worked with a lot of celebrities over the years.
G
Very cool.
B
Awesome.
G
Yes, very cool.
B
And people can book you on your website.
E
Yeah.
B
Okay.
E
Magic of the spellbinder.com.
A
What'S the strangest place you've ever had to perform?
E
Oh, wow. The strangest place I ever had to perform was.
A
Huh.
E
There's so many different ones. I'll say. The most challenging one was one of those Chicago boats.
A
Okay.
B
Oh, yeah.
D
That sucks.
E
And it really sucked. That was the only show because, you know, this is what I found out. Once you. Once that once the boat gets out there, your props don't stay in place. It starts rolling across the stage.
A
It was like, oh, the water glass one on a boat was. Be impossible.
E
Oh, that would have been. I wouldn't even have tried that. Yeah, I wouldn't even try that. But I'm doing big stuff like the levitation and. And then when you got. I'm trying to get my girl to stand up there and she's, you know. And she. And I'm like, whoa. And this stuff is rolling. Oh, my gosh. That was the weirdest. Yeah, that was the. That was the most difficult, I would say.
B
When did you become Spellbinder? When did you come up with that name? Because it's great.
E
Because the first name I had sucked. What was that? Because I was a street dancer. There was this guy from Detroit. He used to call me the Electrifying Baby Bobber.
B
That's pretty good.
D
I love it.
B
Electrifying Baby Baba.
D
Baby what?
C
Bopper.
E
Bopper Baba, the baby Bobber. And he got that. There was this R B singer, Gene Chandler, who had a song that was popular, I guess it was really popular in Detroit. And in the song he says, get down, Baby Baba. Baby Baba, get down. And so I'm in the club and so I'm Doing the pop locking thing. He's like, get down, Baby Boba. Baby Baba.
B
Get down.
E
So they start calling me the electrifying baby Bobba. So when they. When the girl saw me and said she could get me booked, I said, well, what's your name? I said, the electrifying baby Bob.
G
Terrible.
E
Of course, that never got. That never got announced right, Ladies and gentlemen, you got the magic of baba the baba baby. I'm like, oh, no. And so I start thinking what it is that my show does. It captures and holds one's attention. They stay focused. They stay stunned. You know, the things that stun you? And I looked that up. I said, well, what is that? And that is the word spellbinder. What? The word spellbinder means one who can capture and holds one attention, especially in the orator. If you look at the devil, a lot of people think it has something to do with casting spells or something like that, but the actual meaning is one who can capture and hold one attention.
B
Yeah. And you did that? Yeah, did that. Damn, that's awesome.
D
Incredible.
G
Yeah.
A
How long have you been working with the doves?
E
Oh, I've been working with doves for decades. So, you know, they only live to be 12.
A
Okay.
E
I've had many. I have up to six. I used to have up to 12 because I have a couple of shows where I do in Vegas where I produce six doves in their dance routine. Oh. So, yeah.
B
Is it too cold for the doves today?
E
No.
B
Okay.
E
They're good. They're good. Yeah. They stay. They stay warm.
B
I don't know where those doves came from. That was crazy.
A
I know.
E
Well, first they starting a little bitty egg.
A
Come on, Binder.
B
All right, well, thank you, everyone. Book them.
G
Yeah.
B
Because it's. That. That was so worth it. Absolutely. Oh, there he is. Quote treated. Oh, my God. That's incredible.
D
Do you remember that party?
E
Yeah, I remember that party.
B
Yeah.
E
Yeah.
D
Was it, like, packed to the gills? Like, no more people probably in that room. Do you think people. Do you think you could have got, like, three to five more people in that room?
B
Yeah, you could, but would have been uncomfortable standing. Yeah. Yeah.
E
But that would have been.
A
But it wouldn't have been, like, hard to breathe, right?
E
Oh, no, no.
D
It would have been fine.
A
Right.
C
Standard room. Still comfortable.
D
Good to know.
B
Yeah. Connor.
D
Hey.
C
Hey.
E
Thank you.
F
You're the man.
A
We've already hashed it out.
D
We're all good.
A
Yeah.
B
Beef is never with spellbinders.
D
With us.
A
I know. I'm saying.
B
Yeah.
A
We've had I've hashed it out with you.
B
Oh, no, you haven't.
C
Yeah, I have.
D
We all got Bellbinder's laughing.
F
Worse.
B
Yeah.
D
We may see in the act in person. Makes it worse that you didn't think that I would be interested going.
A
Everybody in the office would have been Connor.
D
Connor booked you for the party and he didn't invite us.
B
He didn't invite us. That's why. That's why you're here today. Because we're like, this guy looks incredible. We got to have men.
D
I.
E
You know, I saw that. I saw that episode from last week.
B
Yeah, last week. Yeah, it was earlier this week.
E
Earlier this week. Right. I saw it.
D
I was like, oh, yes, Connor didn't invite us.
B
And now maybe if he'd said, I did a magic show and I had the electrifying baby bobber there. You enjoy that. Big pass. But the spellbinder. Oh, man. All right, well, thank you so much. Really appreciate you coming in. And make sure you get some ice cream.
F
All right?
B
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Will you do the last. Was it Pizza Hut?
C
Yeah.
B
Okay, we got neutral.
D
All right.
C
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D
Oh, Spellbinder.
C
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D
He's the smooth. Yeah.
G
I really was staring.
C
Yeah.
G
At to see and I couldn't see.
A
Like the light through the balloon. You couldn't see a dove.
G
No.
E
Yeah.
A
The table, Bob. My mind. The table. Such a good ass with me.
G
I thought it was the blanket. And then he let go of the blanket.
C
Yeah.
G
And picked up.
D
He's incredible.
G
But then he picked up the Box.
D
He knows what you're thinking. He's like, I know you think that I'm doing this this way, right?
B
Like there's like rods or something in there or something.
G
I thought the blanket had.
A
I am so angry with Connor because he must think that we are the biggest curmudgeons on earth that we wouldn't like.
D
How low of an opinion. And he thinks he have of us.
C
Zupy is some sort of magic, right?
A
Oh, Zoopy will be able to appreciate this.
B
And the gall of him to be like, we hash it out. No, no. Now it's worse.
D
It so much worse.
B
So much worse. I hate him so much more.
G
Can you imagine that on a Friday night with some drinking?
B
Oh, my God.
A
I think only the Penn State mind can understand that.
D
Thank you to McKenzie, by the way, if she doesn't take that video.
E
Yeah, right.
D
Connor would have gotten away with this.
G
Yep.
B
It's true.
A
Connor would have no beef with mackenzie.
C
Yeah.
B
None.
G
Oh, she. She's the reason.
C
And no hash with Connor.
A
Not zero hash. Zero hash.
B
And now for my next trick, I'm going to show you everything Joe Pod knew. Spellbinder. No, don't, please. Spellbinder.
E
Wow.
B
That was so sick. Yeah.
A
I'm going to brush this scandal under the rug.
E
That.
B
That got my itch for magician skin.
A
We need week.
D
Yeah.
B
We got to get a couple more in because it's just so good. So many talented people out there don't have enough shine.
C
Remember when Morrow made the half court shot? Oh, yeah.
A
Would it be baller?
B
Yeah.
A
Brandon, did you miss that entire thing?
C
No, I saw some of it at the beginning. I had. Art got here and I had to help him with something.
D
And I mean, I don't. I don't know what his level of success was for the first part of his career or whatever, but that's. That's pretty awesome too. Is like the perseverance.
B
Yeah. Right.
D
I love doing this. I'm just gonna keep doing it and then.
B
Yeah.
D
I want mega viral.
B
He's like a guy. I want nothing but all the success.
D
Right.
C
I. I also disagree with him. I think the electrifying Baby Bopper is incredible.
B
It's a great name. And it's Baba Bobber.
D
So he got a bopper.
C
Right, Baba.
D
He got his start just dancing.
B
Yeah.
D
But within the dance, he's just like it. I'm just gonna do magic.
B
I'm just gonna make gloves disappear.
D
That's why I like his act. So much more enchanting than just straight illusions. He brought theater back.
B
Truly Spellbound us. I was in a. I was in a flow state.
G
Two in the dance hall. Heyday. Can you imagine rolling up in a Cadillac hearse with your buddies that rule?
D
Yeah, man.
B
Pretty sick, man.
A
I love magic.
B
Yeah, I do too.
A
Makes me feel guilty for saying jick.
D
Nah, no, none of us.
A
You won't say it to.
D
Wanted to say it today.
B
No, no, I was thinking about it. Cuz I'm usually the one who does the awkward question. I didn't want to do it. Too much respect for him.
C
Too much respect.
D
There's something about his.
B
Not all jicks are bad.
D
There's something about his presentation, too, that, like, didn't piss me off in the sense of I didn't feel duped.
B
Yeah, right.
G
Yeah.
D
Sometimes the magician, you're just like, get the. Shut the.
B
I think it's also when the magician, like. Like, they immediately start asking, like, things from you, and you're just like, all right, I just want to sit and watch. Like, all he. All he did was like, hey, check out this rope.
E
Cool.
D
Yeah.
B
Yeah, it's cool.
D
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But there. There are some guys that make me feel like Harrison Ford with David Blaine, where I'm just like, get the out of here. Yeah, But I didn't feel that way with him. I want more.
G
Yeah, that was cool.
B
Yeah. Think of your first crush. It's like, no, I don't want to, dude.
D
It's a lot of kind of that way. Oh, this is impressive. But it is that way where you're.
B
Just think really hard about your Social Security number.
D
And they're code sending. They're like, yeah, good answer. Yeah, you're good.
B
What's your favorite?
D
You're good at magic.
C
That was.
D
Oh, they have you do the trick.
B
Yeah.
D
Oh, what a good participant.
A
You could do it too.
B
I just want to be spellbound.
D
Pure. That was awesome.
B
Pure art. Danny, are you doing an investigation right now about something?
A
I am. It's a ongoing situation.
B
What's going on?
A
Cody broke the golf simulator tv. And it kind of seemed like he blatantly did it on purpose, but we're still speculating.
C
Yeah, I'm not sure what investigation you got.
A
He was really excited to show me the video of him breaking it.
C
We have footage.
D
What'd he do?
C
Yeah.
B
What the.
A
But you guys believed him when he said it was an accident.
C
I don't know that we did.
D
Yeah, I don't know that I did.
E
I.
B
So you just smashed the tv?
C
We just got tired of talking, Cody.
A
Yeah, I'll take it from Here.
D
And that's why I think he might have done it on purpose, is because I. I realized when he came in to mostly sports today that this was all so he could get more camera time.
C
Yeah.
D
So we would talk about him because we haven't really talked about Cody much.
A
Well, the thing is, when Ebo shattered the door, he was on here.
D
That's.
A
We were laughing.
D
That's right.
A
There were also, I think, almost too many witnesses. Like, he went up to Deutsche, Hank, a couple others basically just crying.
D
Be like, oh, my theory. My theory is that Cody has one or two jokes that he's written that he would like to prepare that would be like to say about smashing. And. And he set all this up. So we would bring him on the yak, and then on his way out, he would hit us with a couple jokes. That's my cracked.
B
God damn it.
A
What's the joke gonna be?
D
You think I don't know?
E
Huh?
A
Not funny.
B
No, no.
A
It's gonna be some bad playoff of a Hole in one.
B
Yeah. Something about screen time.
A
But, yeah, more to come.
B
He also did something that pissed me off today. I. I emailed the whole office saying first come, first serve for my Blackhawk tickets tonight. And he texted me, not replied on an email, And I said, that's illegal. So did he.
A
Did he get him?
B
No.
A
What if you just, like, while I'm here. How you been?
B
Like, Colton did nice.
D
What if you just, like, spanked him, like, off camera with a steel spatula?
A
No, not content.
D
Three minutes in a row.
B
Bad boy.
D
Not even like that. Like, trying to make him bleed.
E
Yeah.
B
Put a bar of soap in his mouth.
A
I'm gonna hurt you.
B
Strike that boy. What else we got? Anything? There's Anything?
A
I'm just. I'm still a little residually bound.
C
Hard to find.
B
Oh, yeah. I need to, like, snap out of being bound.
D
This is a perfect day for that.
C
I had art here, but I think he left.
B
Oh, would love to talk to tiny Dick.
C
Art start.
D
Art left.
C
Yeah, I think art left.
G
All right.
B
Left.
A
I got a little clarity on the Nick portrait in the. In the bar thing. Oh, I'd like to know.
C
Okay.
B
Oh, it is. It's.
D
Got it.
A
Okay.
B
I didn't want that.
D
Yeah, I didn't like that.
A
That's.
C
Sorry.
A
Damn it.
D
It's all right.
C
I.
B
You could have spelled out.
C
But if this does start a trend where your picture.
B
I would like that trend.
D
That's a good trend.
B
I would like that.
E
Nick.
B
Just the Nick picture of him in a suit.
D
Yeah.
B
I don't think random bars and restaurants across this country.
C
I want you to be in a bar in Henderson, Nevada. I want you to be in Iowa City.
B
We will retweet.
A
There was the. The one I was about was people were putting me in bands on Wikipedia and I liked that. So like every band list I was People were throwing me in there.
C
Just your name.
F
Yeah.
C
Okay.
G
What were some of the bands?
A
I think I'm still in. Who sings Cherry Pie? Warrants. I think I'm still in Warrant. I'm still in a couple of them that the editors didn't get to.
C
Warrants a big band?
A
I don't think so.
C
I think they are.
D
Oh yeah. Mr. Rainmaker.
C
Yeah. Warren. You're in. Warren.
B
Wow.
A
You're being humble.
E
Nick.
A
I forget what I was in a lot. I was crushing it for a little bit.
C
Huh.
A
Damn. I wish I didn't see that again.
C
I just. Let's use this as a jumping off point. Print out your terrainies in a tux or suit everywhere.
E
Yeah.
A
Put me yeah.
G
Like a little compilation on Monday.
A
Where am I?
G
Where are you?
A
Still thinking about those doves.
C
I did miss it. It sucks.
D
You missed the doves.
C
I saw the spoon and the fork and I saw that's all you saw.
A
You're used to that.
G
How do you get a dove in a balloon?
A
I hear the tacos in Mexico are a little damn salty. But still pretty damn good. 81 out of 100 I his video.
C
This morning as as we're fighting through the weather we're fighting through and I think his video this morning starts with the sound of waves crashing.
B
Yeah just.
C
It's all it is.
G
See the water slide.
B
Yeah.
G
Oh sorry.
B
Day 4 panic and Lapla night 3.
C
Review we gotta go fast because it was NASCAR night. This damn show sure as hell did open piece sponsored by Morgan Morgan.
A
No it's a spider game.
B
NASCAR night it was meant to be.
C
A rest of our set.
B
Love the good morning little school girl.
A
Why didn't we do NASCAR night? Widespread panic in Mexico. I don't know but one of his biggest no.
C
I think he's saying that's how fast.
A
The concert was NASCAR night last night not today.
B
I got to be honest with you guys. I think I've come off I don't care.
C
You should start caring.
B
No it's just more I hate this.
C
Guy who or you just his life.
A
Is say no if he ask for.
B
Content is yeah only in Mexico.
C
We got a lot of employees wanting.
B
Deserve he's yeah but again it's like that It's. It's the eternal choice of he can go there or he can be here.
C
Yeah, well, he just sits up there. He doesn't make him be here.
B
Talks to everyone.
A
I like his food reviews. He does almost nothing that describes anything about. It's always just like, this is cheesy. This is salt. Like, he doesn't describe what it tastes like. He does. This is hot.
C
Is that.
A
Yeah, this is good. He's. He squeezes a lime. Well in this. This is limey. I'll give this one.
D
This is one of the best lines.
A
Very literal with his review.
E
All right.
A
He's got the cheese, puts the lime in the palm.
B
Oh. Yep. Really?
C
No. God damn.
B
There was so much more lime on his hand than.
C
God damn.
D
It's the lime right in the palm.
A
Please don't tell me it's a little salty.
C
Let's just lick his palm now.
A
Not a little cheesy.
B
Crunchy little consum. Little lime. And the good does.
D
Another squeeze.
B
He's rinsing out a sponge.
D
Yeah.
A
He says the ingredients.
B
The good thing, though, with this, I'm going to give Miny a little credit at least. This is like something that's very relatable. So if you ever find yourself at Panic at the Playa, you have to go to the popup taco spot.
C
Right.
B
It's a review we can all try.
D
Yeah.
E
Huh.
D
You might get stuck down there, though. And that's not. I mean, that sucks.
C
That will be inevitably, inevitably ironic. That sucks are the two words he chose to describe that inevitably. Inevitably feels inevitably ironic. I'm going to end up stuck in Mexico because the weather.
B
Those aren't inevitable.
C
These are work.
B
Yeah. Those aren't the words at all.
C
Also, and I'm just saying, and this is just me thinking out loud, if he did see bad weather coming this weekend, he did have the option at that moment to just go ahead and leave. Go ahead and get out of there so he. So he can make it to work on Monday.
B
Third night of panic.
C
Yeah, you're right. You can't only see two nights of panic in Mexico.
B
That's.
C
That's on me. I fucking hate it.
A
Is there anybody else playing in Mexico next weekend?
D
Yeah. If he's stuck there and there's no music, what's the point of him being.
C
I was seeing widespread this week.
E
Ah.
B
I'm going to say something that might get me in trouble. I'm just going to say it anyway. Cartels go for it. Like, take them. Please have him. They're going to want Someone. He's your guy.
A
They're going to utilize him as a torture device.
C
Be a drug kingpin in a week.
B
Him just getting kidnapped by the. They would just give him back.
D
They would give him right back.
B
No, thank.
D
They would absolutely give him back.
B
He would give him a first class.
A
So funnily so fun. He get his head chopped off.
E
So.
B
Oh, his head would be off like.
E
Oh.
B
I'll tell you what fell. That one got hurt.
D
How the did it come off? So it'll come off so easy.
E
He didn't even.
D
He just came right off.
B
He's still talking for like 25 seconds.
G
It slides out.
B
I'm do it off my head.
D
That's just classic me.
B
Oh, that's what my body looks like.
A
Wish Tate were getting this.
E
Oh.
A
Cartels marathon. Changed everything.
B
Incredible content. They just. The cartels zoom into the act and they're like, can we give him back?
A
His head would go flying.
D
His head would go missing like the Malaysian plane. Like, we would never be able to.
F
Find where the did it go.
D
Washed up in Greenland.
C
Yeah.
D
That head would come right off.
B
Yeah.
G
But it's still talking.
A
It would make a pop. Like. Yeah. It wouldn't. It wouldn't be gruesome.
C
Just go.
E
Yeah.
B
It would bounce inside. His body is like the.
E
This.
B
The fake snake thing.
C
Yeah.
F
It would fly out.
A
Snakes in the nuts.
B
Silly string coming out of his ears.
D
It would climb stairs.
B
It's like a slinky.
E
Okay.
B
Well, good show, everyone. See everyone Monday. Stay warm. Let's spin the wheel. It's not that cold.
A
It's cold.
C
I was just.
D
It's. It's that cold today.
C
I think I took some ear damage.
D
Yeah.
B
What's on your hand?
A
No, he's just.
B
There you go.
C
Sorry.
B
Oh, that.
D
Whoa.
B
What a trick.
C
Yeah. My hand spellbound. Yeah, I think I. They were stinging when I came back in. They were. They're feeling funny. I was out there for five minutes.
G
I booked a hotel downtown tonight. Hey, I'm gonna take the kids. Cannonballing. Found one with a heated pool.
C
Oh, you're taking. Why did I think you were taking Pat? To have a nice night away.
G
No. God no.
E
Know.
C
Okay.
G
Oh, we're getting the living room and kitchen painted. And the kids have off school today, so I panicked.
D
Oh.
A
Yeah.
D
So we gotta get hotel pool.
G
Hotel pool, though.
D
Hot tub.
C
That is pretty smart. Little mini vacation inside.
D
Yeah.
E
Ready?
G
Cannonball.
C
Good day for it too.
G
I know.
C
Way to go. Good parenting, Kate.
G
Thank you.
D
Good.
A
The video of you picking them up from the trampoline. Park was so fun.
E
Oh, yeah.
A
It sucked all their energy out. They were exhausted.
G
Just screaming.
C
They were.
D
Oh, my God.
G
Screaming. It's been a long. This has been a long winter.
D
Yeah.
C
I think we're just.
A
It's the last day of the winter solstice.
C
Yeah.
D
I don't think we're started.
A
Let's.
D
All right.
C
We haven't hit February 1st yet.
D
Oh, my God.
G
Okay.
C
All right. Get that wheel spinning.
D
Oh, God.
C
You all right, Mark?
D
Oh, my God. Oh, God.
G
Dark Mark.
D
For you, Mark.
B
There he is. I'd see you on Monday. It's the act.
A
Spellbinder.
F
Love you guys.
A
See you Monday. Bye.
F
Be safe. Love you.
Date: January 23, 2026
Host(s): Big Cat, KBNoSwag, Nick, Rone, Brandon Walker, Lil Sas, Kate, Steven Cheah, and guests
Notable Guest: Walter King Jr. aka "The Spellbinder"
This episode of The Yak centers around a unique live appearance from magician/illusionist Walter King Jr., "The Spellbinder," whose viral performances have set the internet abuzz. The Yak crew, up to their usual antics, banter about burping, nicknames, sports shenanigans, and viral moments, but the main event is Spellbinder’s in-studio magic show, which awes the Barstool crew with astonishing illusions, rope tricks, levitation, and live doves. The episode blends classic Yak chaos, inside jokes, and genuine amazement during Spellbinder’s performance, followed up by a deep-dive Q&A with the illusionist on his craft and story.
0:59–2:36
"I have this Phoenix that works too." – KB, on his failed carbonation experiences (01:17)
2:09–7:14
“Harriet Tubman was like the queen of deceptivism.” – Mikey Betts (05:01)
“If Pat Coogan said, ‘I want to work at Barstool,’ K’s gone. So fucking fast.” – Big Cat (02:18)
12:15–15:07
“I have no clue where that is.” – Nick (13:00) “I want that picture at bars across the country.” – KB (14:00)
Pat Coogan (Indiana Hoosiers Center and National Champion)
17:15–29:14
New Hire Liz Attempts the Gauntlet
30:09–35:18
42:03–45:14
“An illusion is something that's happening right before your very eyes that really isn’t happening...But it is, because you’re watching it happen.” – Spellbinder (42:11)
46:45–76:47
46:48–52:32
“There is no spoon.” – Spellbinder (51:16)
53:16–58:34
62:25–67:22
“That glass was the craziest.” (77:15)
67:45–73:25
“I’m spellbound!” – Multiple hosts
“Holy God.” – Big Cat (70:35)
75:03–76:47
“Where the f*** did those birds come from?” – Multiple hosts (77:46) “Spellbinder. Incredible.” – Yak crew (77:53)
78:20–86:08
“It captures and holds one’s attention...the word spellbinder means one who can capture and hold one attention.” – Spellbinder (84:04)