Rashard Mendenhall Saved the Pro Bowl - Barstool Rundown - December 19th, 2023
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00:31 The Toledo Rockets, they have a rocket on their campus that's pointing at Bowling Green.
00:36 Correct.
00:37 Their rival.
00:38 Like the trajectory of that rocket is facing towards their stadium.
00:41 I guess it's actually calibrated to hit our union.
00:45 Yeah, crazy, but it's awesome.
00:47 I kind of love that.
00:49 Love a good rivalry.
00:50 Nothing better.
00:51 Start off the Rundown, Monday Night Football.
00:55 Seahawks beat the Eagles 20-17 with some late game heroics from Drew Lock.
01:02 The Drew Lock, what was it, John Rich?
01:05 Drew Lock Legacy Drive.
01:06 Drew Lock Legacy Drive.
01:08 John Rich called it last night.
01:11 Game-winning drive.
01:12 DK Metcalf had some incredible plays.
01:15 Yeah, Jalen Hurts intercepted it.
01:18 They had a chance to go down and tie it.
01:20 We saw the fucking game, Bibs.
01:21 You were there?
01:22 You watched?
01:23 We all watched.
01:24 We were all in the room together.
01:25 We were all in the room.
01:26 You had a good time, right?
01:27 Yes.
01:28 Drew Lock.
01:29 Not Patrick Mahomes, not John Elway, not Peyton Manning.
01:32 It's prime.
01:33 Drew Lock, 92 yards, a minute 55.
01:36 Didn't even need the timeout.
01:37 Not yet.
01:38 Drew Lock.
01:39 Yeah, Jalen Hurts chucked one down to get intercepted.
01:44 All they needed was a field goal.
01:45 They needed like 13 yards.
01:46 Then they had two timeouts.
01:47 I still don't understand what happened there.
01:48 Did they explain why they threw the ball 1,000 yards?
01:51 So they only needed 10?
01:52 I'm not sure if you can see it, but simultaneously when Jalen Hurts got the play call that then
02:02 they only needed 15 yards, he blatantly shit himself.
02:07 Really?
02:08 And tried to go deep to A.J.
02:11 Brown and Devontae Smith on the sidelines for 50 yards.
02:15 When you only need Kenny Gainwell, two yards right there to get you 10 yards.
02:19 Look, Jalen Hurts, he was sick going into the game.
02:22 People are comparing him on Philly Sports Radio right now to Carson Wentz, which I don't
02:25 think is that fair.
02:27 But also might be a compliment because in 2019 Carson Wentz didn't have anybody to throw
02:31 to.
02:32 He still threw for 4,000 yards, which is the Eagles record at the time.
02:34 Don't forget that.
02:35 But Jalen Hurts, he's sick.
02:36 He made some bad decisions last night.
02:38 The Eagles overall did not play well.
02:40 James Bradbury is fucking toast.
02:43 I've never seen a defender go from an all-pro to being a burnt dick so fast.
02:50 He was thrown six passes last night.
02:53 Guess what his stats were, Vibbs?
02:55 Six passes.
02:57 Two touchdowns, 120 yards.
03:00 Six catches, 120 plus yards and a touchdown.
03:04 Wow, Vibbsy.
03:05 I watched the game.
03:06 I was watching.
03:07 We all watched together.
03:08 Drew Locke was six for six throwing to James Bradbury.
03:10 It's acceptable.
03:11 They have an issue right now.
03:14 Plus three in a row.
03:15 They're cooked?
03:16 Are they cooked?
03:17 No, they're not cooked.
03:18 They're 10 and 4 and they got problems.
03:21 When Jalen Hurts is a very mild-mannered, a leader of men, doesn't say anything to the
03:27 media or give anybody any crumbs about what's going on on the team, says that there's a
03:32 commitment problem in the locker room, that's an issue.
03:37 I think the Eagles probably won't get the number one seed now.
03:40 The Niners probably have that.
03:42 But I still really love your chance to win the division.
03:45 You guys will still have a home playoff game.
03:47 You guys will be the number two seed.
03:48 Better win the division.
03:49 Yeah, the Cowboys schedule is very hard.
03:52 Eagles played at Giants twice.
03:54 It's not that they're losing these games, it's how.
03:57 They're not scoring any points.
03:58 They don't have the it factor that they had last year coming into this year, the beginning
04:01 of the season.
04:02 They should have lost more games before they were 10 and 1.
04:05 But now they're 10 and 4.
04:06 They're struggling on offense.
04:07 They don't know what they're doing.
04:09 Christian McCaffery from the peanut gallery talking to the Mannings on the couch is literally
04:16 calling out plays before they happen.
04:19 That is so unacceptable.
04:20 Vanilla.
04:21 Vanilla offense.
04:23 Beyond Vanilla?
04:24 Yeah.
04:25 What's more Vanilla than Vanilla?
04:26 Water.
04:27 There you go.
04:28 French Vanilla?
04:29 I don't know.
04:30 Would you, so where did the, what is the Eagles final record?
04:34 They're 10 and 4 right now.
04:36 They're 10 and 4.
04:37 Yes.
04:38 They will finish 12 and 5.
04:39 I don't, alright.
04:40 I agree.
04:41 I agree with you.
04:42 You played the Giants twice in three weeks.
04:44 Why, I hate that.
04:45 I hate the Cardinals.
04:46 Why do you do that?
04:47 Like why does the NFL schedule makers do that?
04:49 I think it's stupid.
04:50 Cause.
04:51 Space them out.
04:52 It would be awesome if they were like on top of the division.
04:53 Yeah, it would be really exciting if the Giants were.
04:56 Yeah, true.
04:57 But I think you, yeah, you space them out.
04:59 Have the whatever, three in the beginning, three at the end.
05:01 It's alright.
05:02 Boston Scott hasn't scored a touchdown all year.
05:04 He's scoring four times in the next two weeks against the Giants.
05:07 Next three weeks.
05:08 Was it fun being able to watch the game with me?
05:09 Last night.
05:10 With you?
05:11 Yeah.
05:12 Sure.
05:13 There you go.
05:14 I'm a fan after all.
05:15 It's a disaster.
05:16 It's just an absolute disaster.
05:19 How uh.
05:20 They haven't beaten the Seahawks since 2008.
05:21 How's that happen?
05:22 Winning in Seattle is tough.
05:23 Anywhere.
05:24 They haven't beaten them anywhere since 2000.
05:25 I'm just saying.
05:26 It was a horrible loss.
05:27 I'm not gonna sugar coat it.
05:28 But I do think the Eagles.
05:29 The Seahawks didn't even play that well.
05:34 That's the problem.
05:35 Yeah.
05:36 Other than the last drive and the drive after the halftime.
05:38 They didn't even play well.
05:39 The Eagles just stink.
05:41 What is your mood the day after the game?
05:45 Are you full on hate life?
05:49 Want to crawl in a hole and die?
05:50 Or are you just kind of in the middle?
05:52 Like a full on ten?
05:53 You usually pretty cheery guy.
05:55 You seem like you're alright.
05:58 I'm adequate because I know they're gonna make the playoffs and they still have a chance.
06:02 But the fact that they really have a minuscule opportunity at the number one overall seed
06:08 now and just knowing you have to go into San Fran to play the 49ers, that's an issue.
06:13 Knowing that there's questions about Jalen Hurts now, that's a little bit of an issue.
06:17 Knowing that the defense still kind of sucks when it matters, that's a huge issue.
06:23 Alright, sticking with football.
06:27 Rashard Mendenhall had a tweet yesterday where he's sick of average white guys commenting
06:32 on football.
06:34 Can we please replace the Pro Bowl with all black vs all white bowl so these cats can
06:40 stop trying to teach me who's good at football.
06:43 I'm better than your goat.
06:46 Follow up tweet.
06:49 I'd like to know which average white guy broke the camel's back here.
06:53 Like what was the tweet?
06:56 Who is Mendenhall watching?
06:57 I will say it is frustrating when people that are just idiots think they're dunking on you.
07:02 It's like you don't understand what you're talking about.
07:05 But I mean, weird.
07:08 Like is Bill Belichick and Andy Reid, are they allowed to comment on football?
07:13 Do they know what they're talking about?
07:14 Like where is Mendenhall?
07:15 Like what is he?
07:16 Right, like what was he?
07:17 That's what I'm saying, he's just watching Orlovsky make a comment.
07:22 And Orlovsky's pretty good.
07:23 Yeah.
07:24 But him or like David Carr.
07:27 Maybe he's like Skip Bayless or something maybe?
07:30 I don't know what exactly he's...
07:31 Or like Hilfer.
07:33 Let's face it, the Patriots aren't good anymore.
07:35 Trent Dilfer.
07:36 They're kind of two different issues, right?
07:38 Like the black versus white bowl and then just somebody sitting on your couch like telling
07:43 him he sucks.
07:44 Like what is the relation there?
07:45 It was very weird to go into, yeah, race on this.
07:48 But...
07:49 Very weird to go into all segregation?
07:51 Yeah, yeah.
07:52 But I think Bill Compton made it funny with his video drafting, he drafted the white team,
07:59 which the experts are saying that the black team, the point spread would be astronomically
08:06 high but...
08:07 How are we going to stop the explosive nightmare of the all black offense?
08:13 I don't know, I think it'd be pretty equal.
08:15 But Will Compton was saying the white team's got to play zone.
08:18 That's going to get shredded.
08:19 You can't play zone.
08:20 I've seen the Patriots play, or play the Steelers where the Steelers play zone.
08:23 And they just dominate with Gronk and Edelman.
08:26 So I don't know.
08:28 You got to take wide receivers and put them at cornerback.
08:31 Yeah, you have McCaffrey playing both ways.
08:34 I didn't get that.
08:35 I didn't get why McCaffrey had to play...
08:38 Well, who's going to play corner for safety?
08:42 I think you just take a Cooper Cup and put him at cornerback.
08:48 I guess he'd have to play both ways too.
08:50 Yeah, yeah.
08:51 All right.
08:52 Like 1937 football?
08:53 Yeah, yeah.
08:54 No breaks.
08:55 Yeah.
08:56 I think it was good what Pat Bev did with his all white, all black team with Roan.
09:07 What was the quote?
09:08 Belt to ass.
09:09 Belt to ass.
09:10 Belt to ass.
09:11 And he ain't wrong.
09:12 Yeah.
09:13 Old player Rashard Mendenhall was like, "I'm tired of these fucking white guys talking
09:16 about football.
09:17 We need to have a white versus black Pro Bowl."
09:20 I'm curious how it would go in the NBA.
09:23 Belt to ass.
09:25 Belt to ass, man.
09:27 Hear me out.
09:28 I heard you.
09:29 Point guard, Luka.
09:30 Two, Chet.
09:31 Three, Laurie.
09:32 Four, Sabonis.
09:33 Five, Joker.
09:34 Coming off the bench, Hero, Sangoon, AR.
09:40 Gordon Hayward.
09:41 Porzingis versus everybody else.
09:44 Versus everybody else.
09:46 MB, LeBron.
09:48 KD.
09:49 Steph.
09:50 And Tatum.
09:51 I mean, you can go anywhere.
09:52 You can literally go anywhere.
09:53 The bench is wild.
09:55 Our bench gets thin fast.
09:56 Listen, the colored bench, wild.
09:58 James Harden is on the bench.
10:00 Russ is on the bench.
10:01 Like, we got some hitters on the bench.
10:05 Hitters with the ER?
10:07 It's absolutely belt to ass, but it's a fun mental exercise to think about.
10:10 That's fun, though.
10:11 That's fun.
10:12 That's different, too.
10:13 We'll wait till we talk about hockey.
10:14 A lot of depth.
10:15 A lot of depth.
10:16 Maybe the starting five in the NBA would have a chance, even though they wouldn't.
10:20 But once you get to that bench, you're done.
10:22 You are absolutely toast.
10:24 Yep.
10:25 Yes.
10:26 Nothing really to add.
10:29 I might take away more, just like, where are people not allowed to be critical?
10:34 And that's where I'm like, all right, so where is Rashad Mendenhall?
10:37 Who's allowed to comment on anything?
10:40 Like Siskel and Ebert couldn't make a good movie, but they could talk about movies.
10:44 People should be allowed to be critics.
10:45 I think that's my-- guess what?
10:47 You do entertainment for millions of people.
10:49 People are going to not like you.
10:51 That's OK.
10:52 I've spoken like an average white guy commenting on football.
10:54 That's fine.
10:55 Yeah, below average, honestly.
10:56 A white guy talking about football.
10:58 But like I said, where is the line, then?
11:00 I said, is Andy Rito out of an opinion?
11:02 Well, I don't think Rashad Mendenhall is going to have that certified.
11:07 I have no idea.
11:08 That's what I mean.
11:09 When you put a point out, you have to clarify.
11:10 I mean, then again, it took a while to determine the race stuff, so I don't know what Mendenhall--
11:13 I don't understand when he's like, I'm better than your goat.
11:16 Like, what is-- who?
11:18 What?
11:19 Yeah.
11:20 I don't know.
11:21 Very weird.
11:22 The white dude?
11:23 You mean like the greatest of all time?
11:24 Like, so he thinks he's better than Tom Brady?
11:25 I don't understand what he's referencing.
11:26 Jesus?
11:27 Right, yes.
11:28 Well, I don't know Jesus.
11:29 I don't know.
11:30 White Jesus.
11:31 Yeah, I don't know.
11:32 Was Jesus white?
11:33 I don't know.
11:34 Probably not.
11:35 No?
11:36 No.
11:37 I don't think he was.
11:38 No.
11:39 Well, this is a fun topic.
11:40 I knew this would be-- I saw this on there.
11:41 I was like, oh boy, here we go.
11:42 Yeah, it's very weird.
11:43 Like, I don't-- we were saying earlier, it's kind of weird.
11:44 I don't know.
11:45 I don't know.
11:46 I don't know.
11:47 It's very weird.
11:48 Like, I don't-- we were saying earlier, it's kind of weird how it just kind of-- I guess
11:53 Compton made a fud, but Richard Mendenhall, I don't know if people were like, dude, but
11:56 what are you talking about?
11:57 Like, why is this a thing?
11:58 I haven't heard from Mendenhall in a while, either.
12:00 This is the first time I've heard him speak about something.
12:03 Yeah, I didn't know-- yeah.
12:04 It would save the Pro Bowl.
12:06 The Pro Bowl is a two-factor pass.
12:07 Absolutely.
12:08 Who wouldn't watch that?
12:09 It saves the Pro Bowl.
12:10 Is it-- last year was the first year they did like a flag football type thing, and they're
12:13 continuing it this year?
12:14 Yeah.
12:15 And they did like dodgeball and like-- what?
12:16 Why?
12:17 Why would they do that?
12:18 Who wouldn't watch a segregated Pro Bowl?
12:20 It's so absurd.
12:21 It's-- it would get better ratings.
12:24 It would.
12:25 I mean-- It definitely would.
12:26 All right, let's go to a lighter topic.
12:27 Imagine the jerseys.
12:28 Let's go to a less hot-button issue topic.
12:36 Abortion.
12:37 Okay.
12:38 Anthony Edwards addresses $100,000 abortion text sent to an Instagram model.
12:44 So there's a model who's like, "Hey, I'm pregnant with your baby."
12:50 And he was like, "All right.
12:51 How-- why is that my problem?
12:52 Get an abortion."
12:53 He was-- no matter how you feel on the topic, he didn't have much sympathy for what she
13:00 was going through.
13:01 But then the weirdest move was her sending like an AI rendering of what the baby would
13:06 look like to him.
13:07 It's like, "All right.
13:08 Well, these-- both these people are a little crazy."
13:13 And then he had to apologize.
13:14 And the next day, he was like, "Hey, I'm sorry.
13:15 That's not who I am."
13:16 The apology was so-- if you-- you know, if you read the text that he sent the woman and
13:21 then you read the apology, it seems like a very different-- almost like a whole different
13:25 person.
13:26 Almost like his legal team wrote the apology.
13:27 Yeah.
13:28 Yeah.
13:29 For sure.
13:30 It's almost like if you add LOL after getting an abortion.
13:34 Yeah.
13:35 You might want to clarify yourself a little bit.
13:39 Yeah.
13:40 Again, another hot-button issue.
13:43 We're fucking handling the topics.
13:45 Yeah.
13:46 I thought the AI rendering of what the baby would look like was just a weird-- like--
13:53 So race-- so race relations and abortion.
13:56 I almost think John Rich is trying to get us fired.
13:58 Yeah, probably.
13:59 We got-- we're a news program.
14:00 We talk about the issues.
14:01 This is-- this is hot-- this is news.
14:03 And who better to turn to than us three?
14:04 If only-- we need a real-- a real news pundit to handle this.
14:08 We need Mincy.
14:09 We need Mincy.
14:10 He's the only man in the company that I can talk about.
14:12 We're not live.
14:13 Also, the AI thing-- that's weird.
14:15 Yes.
14:16 That's going to start becoming the norm.
14:18 Like imagine, like, gender reveal parties.
14:20 Oh, like when they're adults?
14:22 Yeah, like time reveal?
14:24 Yeah.
14:25 Exactly.
14:26 You don't think AI is going to be all over that?
14:27 Oh, man.
14:28 That's a scary future.
14:29 He's probably right.
14:30 Yeah.
14:31 Yeah, AI is-- I've said it a million times.
14:32 I think everyone agrees.
14:33 And you show the reveal and the kid looks like me.
14:36 It's like, oh, god, no.
14:37 That would be a horrible reveal.
14:39 Skinny, compact.
14:40 Well, the compact part's nice.
14:42 Yeah.
14:43 That's a nice--
14:44 A nice compact baby.
14:45 Get out of-- shoot right out of the baby chute.
14:47 All right.
14:49 Next topic.
14:50 This one shouldn't be divisive or a hot button issue.
14:54 Aaron Rodgers.
14:55 He's never said anything crazy.
14:59 But no, Aaron Rodgers, he's cleared to play now.
15:02 Yeah.
15:03 Something just kind of broke in the last, like, half hour.
15:06 He had a press conference where he basically said he wasn't going to play.
15:09 He wasn't?
15:10 He didn't come out and say it entirely, which true Aaron Rodgers leaves the door open a
15:14 little bit.
15:15 But he basically said, like, most likely would not play.
15:18 He also said he's not 100% right now.
15:20 OK.
15:21 He said he would rush back if we were in the playoff run.
15:23 Yeah, he is rushing back.
15:24 Their offensive line isn't very good.
15:26 I thought it was crazy for him to come back and play.
15:28 I'm like, what an idiot.
15:29 He shouldn't.
15:30 He's going to get hurt.
15:31 I don't hate him coming back and playing.
15:33 Like, if you go a full year without playing, like, you know, you get rusty.
15:38 You need a little-- I mean, he's a veteran.
15:40 Is this true?
15:41 Reports of him making, quote, "one-handed interceptions" will play scouts.
15:43 I haven't seen a video.
15:44 I haven't seen a video.
15:45 That's true?
15:46 Yeah.
15:47 What is he doing?
15:48 He runs the practice.
15:49 He's in charge of the team.
15:50 The only reason Salah and Hackett have a job, and even Joe Douglas still, is because of
15:55 Aaron Rodgers.
15:56 Aaron Rodgers runs the franchise.
15:57 I'm not denying that, but what is he doing playing scout team defense?
16:00 You want to do that.
16:01 Yeah.
16:02 On a bum Achilles.
16:03 See, that's what I-- you talk about getting rusty.
16:06 Obviously that can happen.
16:07 But Achilles, you need-- like, no one comes back in 12 weeks from their Achilles.
16:11 Right, right, right.
16:12 What are we doing?
16:13 I just remember, like, Paul George, when he snapped his ankle in half.
16:16 Yeah.
16:17 He missed-- he would have missed the entire season, but then he came back for, like, the
16:19 last, like, six games and got some reps in, got some practice in.
16:24 So even if you're a vet, I think you still need to--
16:26 I do think it's a little different with your Achilles, and football is such a short season.
16:29 I don't-- like, that would be unparalleled.
16:31 Yeah.
16:32 Marino, in contrast, did tear his Achilles, came back the next year, didn't have the same
16:37 mobility but could still throw.
16:38 I think that's what you expect to get.
16:40 I don't have the answer to this question, but what's more likely?
16:42 Aaron Rodgers defies all sorts of medical science and comes back after 12 weeks tearing
16:49 his Achilles, or he just didn't tear his Achilles?
16:56 I don't know.
16:57 Well, they have a new treatment now.
16:59 They call this bridge thing for your Achilles.
17:01 I'm not a doctor at all, but I guess it's new.
17:03 It's a way to expedite it.
17:05 But it does come with more risk.
17:06 Like, you know, if you're-- it's still only, what's it, 15 weeks in surgery, right?
17:10 So that is putting it at greater peril.
17:13 There is a 0% chance that the New York Jets could keep that a secret.
17:18 That would get leaked so quickly.
17:20 Yeah, Brett Favre's dick is making rounds in the Jets' locker room.
17:25 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
17:26 Training room.
17:27 Klamer, do you think he should play?
17:29 No.
17:30 This season?
17:31 Absolutely not.
17:32 He should be at home.
17:33 He should not be doing one-handed catches in practice.
17:35 He should be at home doing whatever it takes to get ready for next season.
17:38 The Jets season is officially over.
17:39 It was over even before that.
17:41 Everyone-- all the Jets should care about is preparing for next season.
17:44 I hope they lose the rest of their games, get a better draft pick.
17:47 Nothing matters.
17:48 Everything's terrible.
17:49 Get ready for next year.
17:50 You don't want them to beat the Patriots?
17:52 I do not.
17:53 I do not.
17:54 I want them to lose the Patriots.
17:55 Yeah.
17:56 So the Patriots get a worse draft pick, and the Jets can hopefully get a better one.
17:59 Klamer, my argument is that he-- ever since he joined the team, he's been advertised as
18:03 a god.
18:04 He's been advertised as a hard knock when you have that whole thing.
18:06 So to me, if he were to play, as in he's activated and he opens the drive against the Patriots
18:13 on the last week of the season, right now we have such a bitter taste in our mouths.
18:17 If he scores-- like, leads one touchdown drive, goes to the bench, he's elevated to that god
18:23 status again.
18:24 Ben, Ben, Ben, are you a Jets fan?
18:26 Yeah, major Jets fan.
18:27 OK, what happens to us in that situation?
18:29 I'm telling--
18:30 He's blowing-- you know what he's going to do?
18:31 He's going to blow his other kill.
18:32 He's celebrating the touchdown.
18:33 I don't think so.
18:34 Go home!
18:35 Or sample size is four plays.
18:37 I think that he has an extra, what, three weeks?
18:39 There's three weeks left in the season.
18:41 Everyone wants to kill themselves right now.
18:43 What if--
18:44 If they see him score a touchdown, defying all medical odds, that would be so crazy.
18:47 Can you imagine if we lost him for next year?
18:50 I don't think we would.
18:51 We still have--
18:52 Do you think that was going to happen in game one?
18:54 On the first play.
18:55 I think if he defied the--
18:56 OK, but on the first series, what if they go three and out, and everyone on the Jets
19:00 is like, well, we suck.
19:01 He's awful.
19:02 He's not--
19:03 In that case, you don't play him.
19:04 But I'm saying--
19:05 We have no hope.
19:06 That would be the worst case scenario.
19:07 Worst case scenario is--
19:08 You know, let's not forget that he's--
19:09 Probably a stretcher.
19:10 Dwayne Brown could be back by then.
19:12 For the psychological perspective, I don't think it's--
19:15 There is no psychological perspective that can possibly help you out right now until
19:20 the beginning of next year.
19:21 If he leads a touchdown drive, think about how it felt in preseason.
19:25 You're a young man.
19:26 How old are you?
19:27 23.
19:28 OK.
19:29 I'm almost twice as old as you.
19:30 I've been through a lot of these.
19:31 I always get mad when people say, oh, there's a curse in the Jets.
19:33 I don't believe there is a curse.
19:34 I don't believe curses exist.
19:35 But I will say, there's enough of the curse in me.
19:38 I'm like, just go away.
19:40 I've been through so many horrible things that have happened with this fucking team.
19:44 Just take it from me.
19:45 Take it from me, old man.
19:46 He should go home.
19:47 Be under a blanket and stay there for six, seven months.
19:50 And from an outside--
19:51 That's been the toxic attitude in the Jets the whole time.
19:53 It's always, all right, we're out of the playoffs.
19:55 We're losing 15.
19:57 And we just lose out.
19:58 No one cares for the rest of the season.
20:00 Ben, do you understand that him coming back when it means nothing and scoring a touchdown
20:05 and giving you hope and acting like you think that is a success for the Jets, not only this
20:11 season, but the future, is embarrassing?
20:14 There's rot in the program right now.
20:17 And him leading a touchdown drive in the last game against the Patriots, potentially Belichick's
20:21 last game ever, OK, that is something that the players will feel.
20:26 Brees Hall, Garrett Wilson, they're not going to stick around forever if they continue to
20:29 lose.
20:30 They've never lost like this.
20:31 I'm saying that to have that glimmer of hope, it could absolutely elevate the team.
20:35 It's not rot.
20:36 It's asbestos.
20:37 And we all breathe it in.
20:38 We're all dying slowly from it.
20:40 It is horrible.
20:41 It is black mold, old man.
20:42 And Rodgers scoring a play on the first drive is a gas mask.
20:45 Oh, I--
20:46 Gangrene.
20:47 It's embarrassing.
20:48 Yeah.
20:49 Jets gangrene.
20:50 I thought that was good.
20:51 All right.
20:52 Jets gangrene.
20:53 Dark syphilis.
20:54 Oh.
20:55 Yeah.
20:56 All right.
20:57 The first topic that I think we're safe on, massive volcanic eruption in Iceland.
21:03 No one has been hurt so far.
21:06 People have been evacuated.
21:07 Yay.
21:08 People have been evacuated.
21:10 Flights have not been deterred or affected in any way.
21:16 The funniest part about-- it looks like if you've seen the tweets, it's insane.
21:18 It looks like you're on Mars.
21:19 Well, they've known about this for a month, for a while.
21:22 Yeah, it's been--
21:23 Did it happen a month ago?
21:24 Yeah.
21:25 It is nuts.
21:26 It is.
21:27 The funniest was just the tweet from Rear Admiral.
21:29 It is-- hang on.
21:31 We'll get-- yeah.
21:32 OK.
21:33 Rear Admiral's tweet.
21:34 This shit is insane.
21:35 It's going to be ugly when Mother Nature has its big ass lava spewing, earth shaking, ultimate
21:40 orgasm.
21:41 OK.
21:42 Normal.
21:43 Kind of.
21:44 Just another reason to buy physical media.
21:47 I actually kind of agree with him.
21:48 Of course you agree with him.
21:49 Yeah.
21:50 I'm a huge physical media guy.
21:51 Yes.
21:52 R.A.
21:53 I agree, R.A.
21:54 Get out there.
21:55 I agree.
21:56 I agree.
21:57 I agree.
21:58 Yes.
21:59 Blu-rays, because--
22:00 Can't trust the corporations.
22:01 --in the world we'll not have Wi-Fi to stream.
22:02 Yes.
22:03 You just got to use those fucking-- you got to-- records.
22:04 I'm with you, R.A.
22:05 You're absolutely right.
22:06 Battery-powered DVD players.
22:07 Yes.
22:08 Yeah.
22:09 I feel like R.A. just has like a doomsday bunker kind of prepped with just hard copies
22:14 of fucking--
22:15 Yeah, like--
22:16 --the town and--
22:17 Good Will Hunting.
22:18 --and Good Will Hunting, all these Boston movies.
22:20 He's absolutely right.
22:22 This is obviously a scary situation, but everyone should buy physical media.
22:25 Is-- are volcanoes the coolest natural phenomenon disaster?
22:30 I think so.
22:31 I mean, it's wild.
22:32 It's gotta be, right?
22:33 I forget that they're like real things.
22:34 I feel like they seem in like pictures like dinosaurs, like in the back--
22:38 How about meteors striking the earth?
22:39 That's a natural-- that's wild.
22:40 That's kind of crazy.
22:41 Tsunamis are crazy.
22:42 Tsunamis.
22:43 Tsunamis.
22:44 Oh, whoa, water.
22:45 We were just talking on Twisted History.
22:47 Download, rate, subscribe.
22:50 The Christmas-- or the Boxing Day.
22:52 Christmas Day, Boxing Day tsunami in like the Philippines and stuff, how crazy that
22:56 was.
22:57 There's a video going around the internet right now where it shows like the first wave
22:59 where the water like recedes before the tidal wave.
23:02 I mean, you just have no time to react to that.
23:05 Tsunamis are insane, but I still think like visually a volcano is crazy.
23:09 The lava--
23:10 The magma, it looks like it's-- you kind of want to eat it.
23:12 Yeah.
23:13 You want to touch it.
23:14 You want to play with it.
23:15 Yeah.
23:16 You can't--
23:17 What?
23:18 You know what I mean?
23:19 You do.
23:20 Yeah, I know exactly--
23:21 You know, you look at a bar of soap and you're like, "That looks like it kind of tastes like
23:23 it."
23:24 Or Tide Pods.
23:25 Or Tide Pods.
23:26 Those look so good.
23:27 Yeah.
23:28 Those look like gummies.
23:29 Smitty, you don't agree?
23:30 You don't look at like a good bar of like zest and go, "Hey, I'm going to take a bite out
23:34 of that."
23:35 No, I don't look at soap, think it's edible.
23:36 I don't look at fire and want to touch it.
23:39 I don't look at Tide Pods.
23:40 I think that they're edible.
23:43 They look good.
23:44 Doesn't that look good?
23:45 The cool bright colors.
23:46 It looks like a--
23:47 I'm not saying I would eat it, but I think about it.
23:50 Yeah.
23:51 I have self-control.
23:52 I don't eat it.
23:53 Yeah, I don't eat it.
23:54 But I know in my head, they made that to look good.
23:57 Tornadoes.
23:58 That's my number one.
23:59 Oh.
24:00 Tornadoes, I don't know.
24:01 In Indiana, we got a lot of those.
24:02 Yeah.
24:03 Or like in the corner of Tornado Alley.
24:04 So they're just kind of old hat to me.
24:06 I don't really care.
24:07 Twister is a good movie.
24:08 Twister is a good movie.
24:09 Great cast.
24:10 Phillips is awesome.
24:11 Twister, I mean, it's, "Hey, let's go hide in this."
24:13 Or no, that's like the joke is they go hide in that building and they turn around and
24:17 there's all those like knives and blades.
24:19 Yeah.
24:20 And it's like they're like driving like a million miles an hour through the cornfields.
24:22 Yeah.
24:23 I feel like that would cut the hell out of them.
24:24 You know what I mean?
24:25 Oh, yeah.
24:26 There's windows down just getting pelted by corn.
24:29 Exciting.
24:30 Corn.
24:31 Corn is more dangerous than a tornado.
24:32 Fun fact.
24:33 What?
24:34 What?
24:35 Yeah.
24:36 More deaths from corn than there is a tornado.
24:37 Oh, probably right.
24:38 I have a big bathtub.
24:39 It's like the most dangerous things we have.
24:41 Yeah, Smitty sees right through my bullshit.
24:43 I was just trying to make it.
24:44 Oh, is that?
24:45 I'm sure people do die from choking on corn.
24:46 Actually, I'm going to say corn.
24:48 Corn is more dangerous than...
24:49 Probably volcanoes too.
24:50 I know like bathtubs kill so many people each year.
24:53 Dude, I'm young and I can at least almost slip and die in the bathtub at least like
24:58 five times a year, but I'm young and I can like catch myself.
25:00 Yeah.
25:01 But when I'm 80, I'm toast.
25:03 Yeah.
25:04 You ever slipped and fallen in the bathtub?
25:05 I almost did this morning to be honest with you.
25:07 Did you really?
25:08 Yeah.
25:09 Oh, no.
25:10 Did you yaw to yell or did you like, "Ah!"
25:11 I had to catch myself.
25:12 No, no.
25:13 It was a shower curtain hold.
25:15 Oh, really?
25:16 Damn.
25:17 The whole thing come down?
25:18 No.
25:19 We were nimble.
25:20 It was good.
25:21 Yeah.
25:22 That's how I want him to find me in the bathtub draped with a shower curtain.
25:24 Yeah, that'd be embarrassing.
25:25 Yeah.
25:26 Especially if you're old and you've got an old, gross, saggy body.
25:30 Yeah.
25:31 Helen Hunt, she was in Twister too, right?
25:33 She was.
25:34 Bill Paxton, right?
25:35 Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton.
25:36 Who's the...
25:37 Was Bill Paxton the main guy?
25:38 Yeah.
25:39 Yeah.
25:40 All right.
25:41 Philip Seymour Hoffman, like I said, he's in that.
25:42 Yeah.
25:43 Good cast.
25:44 Twister, go rent it.
25:45 Yes.
25:46 Twister was one of the first movies I remember renting from a blockbuster as a kid.
25:49 I don't know what year that was, like '96, '97?
25:52 Yeah, '96.
25:53 Yeah.
25:54 I brought a date to see it.
25:55 Oh, how'd that go?
25:56 Not good.
25:57 Yeah.
25:58 Did not go well.
26:01 What's the most...
26:02 What's the best date movie you've seen in theaters?
26:05 Or the best date you've been on?
26:06 Well, the first one I ever saw was Beethoven.
26:08 The movie with the giant dog.
26:10 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
26:11 My very first date was at Beethoven.
26:12 I was thinking like Amadeus, but yeah, the Beethoven dog.
26:14 Beethoven dog, yeah.
26:15 That was good.
26:16 That date went a little better.
26:17 I got a peck on the cheek for that one.
26:20 Oh, yeah.
26:21 13, 12 years old, something like that when that came out.
26:23 But the Twister one did not go well.
26:25 It was a one and out.
26:26 I went and saw Pirates of the Caribbean in like seventh grade with a little double date.
26:33 Sitting next to the girl, I said, "If you were a pirate, which shoulder would you put
26:36 your parrot on?
26:37 This one or this one?"
26:39 Put my arm around her.
26:40 Oh.
26:41 Real smooth, Ibsy.
26:42 What'd she do?
26:43 She liked it.
26:44 Yeah.
26:45 I was like, "Yes."
26:46 Ooh.
26:47 And you know what that's slang for?
26:50 Yeah, after show.
26:54 Sparship Spelling Bee was yesterday, or it went out yesterday.
27:01 People say they're more scared of speaking in public than death.
27:05 I am more scared of spelling in public than I am of death.
27:11 Spelling in public is my biggest fear.
27:12 I hate it.
27:13 If you watch the Spelling Bee, you can tell.
27:17 That Spelling Bee and the Spelling Bees we've done here before, even when there were 10
27:22 people working here, there are realistically only three people that can win a Spelling
27:27 Bee that work at Barstool Sports.
27:30 Yeah.
27:31 I'd say the-
27:32 Maybe five to 10 now.
27:34 I don't want to spoil it, but the finalists were, yeah, I would have-
27:38 Yep.
27:39 Yeah.
27:40 Yep.
27:41 That was pretty much who I would have expected.
27:42 So you're not going into that and thinking, you know, me, obviously, but like, Big Ev's
27:49 coming out with a national championship of spelling.
27:52 Right, yeah.
27:53 Big Ev-
27:54 That'd be a big surprise.
27:55 First person out of that, Big Ev took one.
27:59 I respect his dedication to his team.
28:01 Yeah, took a stand.
28:03 Yeah.
28:04 Yep.
28:05 Taylor Swift, PMT, some- Taylor Swift said fuck from her box.
28:09 Okay.
28:10 And PMT obviously made a joke about it, and then there's a video of a girl.
28:15 But is this woman trolling as a joke?
28:18 Yeah.
28:19 I don't know.
28:20 There's a woman very upset at part of that.
28:22 Yeah, she's very upset about their joke.
28:23 I showed Taylor Swift up in the box, and she used the F word.
28:28 Yep.
28:29 Loudly.
28:30 Yep.
28:31 And you have to wonder, like, is that the kind of girl that we want as the face of the
28:34 NFL?
28:35 Nope.
28:36 I don't think so.
28:37 Yeah, as a father of a Swiftie, I think I'm going to have to ban it now.
28:38 I mean, it's a-
28:39 I'm going to have to ban it now.
28:40 I mean, it's disgusting.
28:41 My son did actually say fuckhead the other day, and I had to- I had him tell me it again
28:46 because I wanted to laugh, and then I was like, "Don't ever fucking say that."
28:50 I have no words.
28:51 Absolutely no words for this.
28:54 I- like, if I even have to explain why that was so disgustingly misogynistic and hypocritical
29:00 and double standard, I have no hope for humanity.
29:04 We reached the part- like, the part of the internet where, like, no one is believing
29:07 what they- like, I don't know who to believe.
29:09 Who's trolling?
29:10 Like, everything now is- nothing is real.
29:14 Everything is fake.
29:15 Yeah.
29:16 Yeah.
29:17 That's kind of where I am with everything.
29:18 I assume everything is fake.
29:19 Internet used to be great when it was just, like, people not going out for clout.
29:23 Like, it was just people getting hurt, and you'd laugh, and you knew it was real.
29:26 You knew it was genuine.
29:27 But I remember-
29:28 You knew it wasn't people trying to go viral.
29:29 It's always been- I remember being, like, in junior high in, like, AOL chat rooms, and
29:33 we would say we were, like-
29:34 ASL?
29:35 Yeah.
29:36 And we'd be like, "Oh, 35, female."
29:37 Like, you know, like, we didn't- yeah, we didn't know what you were doing.
29:40 So, like-
29:41 Dits.
29:42 Dits.
29:43 Like, I've been lying, or people- like, the internet's been, like, lying since the '90s.
29:44 I think-
29:45 Yeah.
29:46 You would be a chat room female?
29:47 Oh, we didn't- we were, like, 13.
29:48 We didn't know what we were doing.
29:50 We were just fucking around.
29:51 Like, we had no idea what we were saying.
29:53 And I'm sure there were probably just other idiot 13-year-old boys in there with us.
29:56 Right.
29:57 Yeah.
29:58 'Cause, like, we would have easily been exposed pretty quick of not knowing what the fuck
30:00 we were talking about.
30:01 It's just- yeah, there's 13-year-olds.
30:02 Yeah, it's a moron.
30:03 I was an idiot.
30:04 I mean, I'm an idiot now.
30:05 I was a Mormon idiot then.
30:06 How about you?
30:07 You ever did shit like that when you were a kid?
30:08 I was in the chat rooms.
30:09 I- I- I- I was always, like- I never catfished in there.
30:10 We didn't even know we were cat- we were just, like, pretending- no one was, like, going
30:11 on dates.
30:12 We were all just pretending we were, like, just different people.
30:13 No, I know.
30:14 And I remember- I remember you couldn't trust anybody in there being, like, an actual- like,
30:15 if you got a girl, like, you can't trust anybody.
30:16 Right.
30:17 Like, you can't trust anybody.
30:18 Like, you can't trust anybody.
30:19 Like, you can't trust anybody.
30:20 Like, you can't trust anybody.
30:21 Like, you can't trust anybody.
30:42 Yeah.
31:05 Like, I- I- I don't know.
31:34 You buy.
31:35 Those kind of stuff, that kind of stuff,
31:37 kind of always bums you out a little bit.
31:38 - Yeah.
31:39 - Yeah.
31:40 Are you more of a, do you like long form podcasts?
31:42 Are you?
31:43 - Back when I had an attention span
31:48 for more than 10 minutes.
31:50 - Yes.
31:51 - But now I can--
31:51 - You have a long train ride.
31:52 What do you do on a long train ride?
31:54 Do you ever listen to like a long show or something?
31:56 - No, no, no, we read, we listen.
31:58 - Yeah.
31:59 - We try to be a member of functioning society,
32:03 but I like, obviously, why wouldn't you?
32:07 Short form is a lot more entertaining.
32:13 - Yeah.
32:14 - Yes, it's like now.
32:14 - It's just the way it is.
32:15 - I mean, that's what people like.
32:16 I know like TikTok and stuff has totally changed.
32:18 - The instinct gratification you get out of short form
32:21 than TikTok is a lot more than--
32:24 - It's so much more fulfilling
32:25 with the longer work though, I feel.
32:26 - No, I agree, it is.
32:27 - You know, like, I don't know, whatever.
32:29 - With short form though, I don't like how you have to,
32:31 like I gotta be too alert when I'm watching TikTok.
32:34 I wanna put something on, then like do other stuff.
32:36 - Yeah.
32:37 - Can't like put on like a short form something
32:39 and then go about your day.
32:40 You have to keep doing a new one.
32:43 - Going to the gym or like doing dishes,
32:45 I'll listen to a podcast.
32:45 - Yes.
32:46 - And it's like, all right.
32:48 I can't just watch a TikTok, you know what I mean?
32:49 - Right.
32:50 I'm fearful that one day, like 30 years from now,
32:56 every movie coming out to be like 30 minutes or less.
32:58 - Yeah.
32:59 - Like, are we gonna go that strong in that other direction
33:01 to appease this generation that's been raised by TikTok?
33:03 I hope not.
33:05 - I think the one thing we can all agree on with this
33:07 is buy physical media.
33:09 - Buy physical media.
33:11 I'm actually, after this show, I'm gonna go,
33:14 I bought a new DVD last night.
33:16 I bought-
33:17 - You bought a video game, did you buy a video game last night?
33:18 - I didn't buy, I didn't have a good selection.
33:20 - You have a PS5 and I said,
33:21 you know, you can just download the video games
33:22 and you said, nope, I want the hard copy in my hand.
33:24 You and Rare, very similar.
33:26 - Yes, we're also both old.
33:28 - Yeah.
33:29 - But I went and bought "Out of Sight,"
33:30 from Lopez's George Clooney movie.
33:31 - Wait, wait, wait.
33:32 - It's just a good movie, I didn't own it.
33:34 - "Out of Sight," I don't-
33:34 - I know it's a good movie,
33:35 he was buying a DVD of "Out of Sight."
33:38 - Why is that crazy?
33:39 Why is that crazy?
33:41 I like the movie, I can have it forever.
33:43 I don't want the corporate overlords to take it away from me.
33:45 It makes perfect sense.
33:46 - You think the cashier was like,
33:47 yeah, this sweet, sweet 50 year old man
33:49 in a sweater came in and bought a hard copy of "Out of Sight."
33:52 - "Out of Sight."
33:53 - If that's the story she got from her dad.
33:55 - Yeah, Oliver Stone's brother came in and bought this.
34:00 - It's a very good movie.
34:01 - That was Oliver Stone, right?
34:02 - No, it wasn't.
34:03 It was Soderbergh.
34:05 Steven Soderbergh directed that.
34:07 How about that, right before he directed "Traffic."
34:09 Huh?
34:10 The old man still got it.
34:11 - He must be so lonely if he's buying these hard copies.
34:15 - No!
34:16 - I wonder what his life looks like.
34:17 - I watched him with my wife,
34:18 and we got the dogs, the dogs enjoy the movies.
34:21 It's a hard copy.
34:23 And also, you know, if you like shows like "Sopranos,"
34:25 you'll like some of these shows.
34:27 They've already taken,
34:28 it's always sunny in Philadelphia.
34:30 - Yeah, but-
34:31 - They've removed like six episodes.
34:31 You can't get them.
34:32 You have to buy the physical media.
34:33 - Yeah, but shows like "The Sopranos,"
34:34 you can just watch and short form on TikTok
34:36 over two hours now.
34:37 - That's so weird.
34:38 - It is, it is.
34:39 - It's weird, but it gets the job done.
34:40 - No, have it on a nice TV, relax,
34:42 make some popcorn, and soak in the media.
34:44 - If you need your "Sopranos" fix,
34:46 and don't have time to watch all 40 hours of seasons,
34:51 you go through TikTok, just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
34:54 - The true treasure of "Sopranos"
34:55 is in the little moments, though,
34:56 and you get that from watching the entire series.
34:59 - You're not wrong, you're not wrong.
35:01 - It is fun to go over to someone's house, though,
35:03 and see their hard copy DVD collection,
35:05 and judge their interest from it.
35:07 - Oh yeah.
35:08 - You know?
35:09 - Yeah, usually the first thing I do
35:10 when I went to somebody's house is like,
35:11 oh, let's see the movie collection,
35:12 right, and then I would judge them.
35:13 - Yeah.
35:14 - I don't always say it was nice,
35:15 but a lot of times you're like,
35:16 this person likes some shit.
35:16 - Yeah.
35:17 - You know?
35:18 - They got "Jawanna Man" on hard copy,
35:21 and like that's the comedy you have?
35:23 - You're really like Eddie with "Whoopi Goldberg," huh?
35:26 - Yes, yeah.
35:27 - All right, John Rich, anything else?
35:29 - I think we're good.
35:30 - All right.
35:31 - I think we've covered all of our bases.
35:32 - Wait, did any of you here,
35:33 maybe, I don't know if you guys saw us,
35:35 did you see the Castellani space last night?
35:36 - No, I saw there was spaces with Castellani,
35:39 Big Cat, Rico.
35:41 - And Jerry.
35:42 - Rusillo got in there, Jerry got in on it.
35:46 - I didn't get the,
35:47 - I don't.
35:47 - Rico and Rusillo interaction was very bizarre.
35:50 - Yeah, that was, I did not hear a clip
35:53 of what they said to each other,
35:54 but everyone was saying it was a wild interaction.
35:56 - I didn't understand, yeah, Rico was asking questions,
35:59 and at one point, Rusillo.Rico was Dave Portnoy?
36:02 - Hey, Chris, I'll lighten the mood here real quick.
36:05 You gotta block out the haters sometimes,
36:07 you know what I mean?
36:08 I'm actually gonna take my shot, I see Rusillo in here.
36:11 Hey, Rod, big fan, I thought you were hysterical
36:13 on the rewatch with the town,
36:16 when you did the Massachusetts history and all those lines.
36:20 I don't know if you, you know, listen,
36:21 I'm sure you're gonna do "Jerry F the Doc,"
36:23 it's the biggest show,
36:24 but maybe you throw a bone to the old pup.
36:26 Healthy debate sometime, would love to have you on.
36:29 What do you think?
36:29 - I'm just not an embrace debate guy.
36:33 - No, no, no, it's healthy debate.
36:35 - Is this Portnoy?
36:36 - No, it's healthy debate, not embrace debate,
36:38 healthy debate.
36:39 - I was banned from first take,
36:41 so I just don't know that I fit.
36:43 Is this Portnoy?
36:44 - No, no, it's Rico.
36:45 You had mentioned me on the Life podcast last year,
36:49 when I threw a can, you said negative things,
36:51 but I have come a long way.
36:52 - Yeah, Russo is a Boston guy.
36:55 He's an interesting guy.
36:59 He had an interesting thing happen a few years ago,
37:01 walked into a house drunk and naked,
37:04 and he was found by a neighbor.
37:06 - Happens to the best of us.
37:07 - Happens to a lot of us, yeah.
37:09 No, the Rico and Russo interaction was very strange.
37:11 I don't know why he thought Rico was Dave, very strange.
37:14 The whole thing was very bizarre.
37:15 - In college one time,
37:16 I was staying at a friend's dorm at Purdue,
37:19 and we were all in our spots asleep.
37:22 The door opened and someone came in
37:24 and laid down on the floor,
37:26 and we were just like, "Oh, it's someone coming back.
37:29 "It's one of the guys."
37:30 All of a sudden, the door,
37:32 or we woke up the next morning,
37:33 and it was some random person that just came in the dorm room
37:35 and fell asleep on the floor.
37:36 - Was it Ryan Russo?
37:37 - It was not.
37:38 - It was not Ryan Russo.
37:39 - What's your problem?
37:40 - Rico's here.
37:40 - My problem?
37:41 - Yeah, I just heard you from over there.
37:42 - What's my problem?
37:43 I said your interaction was very bizarre.
37:45 - Very bizarre.
37:46 - Yeah, what was--
37:47 (laughing)
37:48 - That was what I said!
37:49 (laughing)
37:52 - It kind of sounded,
37:53 it reminds me of Ed Waterboy.
37:55 (laughing)
37:56 He calls in to the wrestling guy,
37:57 and he's like, "Hey, hey!"
37:58 Like Rico's just like, "Come on, know who I am."
38:00 And he's like, "Who the fuck is this?"
38:02 - That was perfect.
38:03 - Yeah.
38:04 - That was perfect.
38:05 - Should've just ended it on that.
38:06 - Yeah.
38:07 - Yep, yep.
38:07 - Good fight.
38:08 - All right, that's the rundown.
38:09 (whooshing)