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You're not obsessed with the outcome so much.

Invited to the cookout. That's what you've got to wear.

Like Limp Bizkit, like break shit.

I can't believe it. I mean, how did you put that together? How did you? I don't understand. This is what makes March Madness so amazing is you never know what's going to happen.

Whoa! Wow! So I'm up. I'm up. I'm up big. Basically a 10x win.

Yes. Trump wins third term. I have a good feeling, dude. He's running back.

Wow.

Who's he fighting? Lopez.

Because that changes things a little bit, depending on who he's fighting. How do you know he's going to win? I'm not saying he's going to win. It just depends who he's fighting. If he's fighting someone really good.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, if it's Diego Lopez, yeah, that's second round knockout. Okay, so Mark is going on second round knockout.

Compare it to Volk. He's going to lose second round knockout. To me, I don't know.

Well, let's get a picture of Daniel Lopez.

Yeah, Leon Edwards, great guy. That guy's a good fighter. They're going to learn that fucking English. Both of these guys are badass. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Holy shit. Yeah, no, no. He's a stud. He's an absolute. No, this guy's a level on the spectrum, dude. I've seen this guy.

Yeah, no, that's Sarah Naga for sure.

I wanted to ask about character development. Like you've mentioned a few different wrestlers that, you know, you've kind of been like, oh yeah, their gimmick at that time wasn't that good. And even in your own career, there's so many different iterations before we get to Triple H, the character that we know now.

So I'm curious, how do you develop a wrestling character, find the wrestling voice, the gimmicks that work? And if a young wrestler came to you today, like, hey, here's how I want to develop, like what advice

Did it make you a better wrestler being involved in the production side?

Also the place where you had the controversial moments.

Do you think nice guys play better heels?

Keanu Reeves is maybe the only person I can think of.

Most don't.

Yeah. You know what I mean? Yes, of course. As comics, we're all familiar with bombing. Do you have any storylines or anything you've written in that you were like, oh, this is going to pay off crazy and then doesn't? And then you're watching the back like, oh, fuck.

So if a story piece bombs, you guys can get back and be like, all right, let's just pivot and then we can save it.

Well, you're in there.

He's going to get a paddle racket to the head.

I thought you didn't make it in.

I saw Chris's Instagram post with you in it. I was like, oh. He made it in.

Oh, nice. No, no, no. Chris probably asked you to take a picture.

by the way every time i see a picture of pug i just i i audibly i'm like he's just the cutest i think i don't know why i'm just like he's just the cutest guy we got you remember that that chill guy meme that went viral like i don't know two months ago yeah pug is the chill guy he's just a chill guy yeah i also like i'm so pro going to a super bowl by yourself like that like that friendship and bond because like i have a buddy who went to one of the patriots games with like another guy we work with that was a random connection and like they still will be like that's my best friend for a

And again, it's like the Eagles winning this Super Bowl and the way they did it has made me get to relive the Patriots Super Bowls. That's all I did yesterday was just re-watch the Seahawks, re-watch the Falcons.

I love that, Hank. I don't care. It's true. You guys are talking about no football. I spent probably two hours watching just Patriots, Seahawks, Patriots, Falcons, Patriots, Rams. And those memories that you have this night, it's the best. Wow. The farther away it gets, the better it gets. That's what I've learned in my wisdom of this night will get better with time.

The happiest picture is all time.

Unreal. With a cigar like that. But the farther away you get, you're going to be like, that was so sick. And it just gets sicker and sicker and sicker.

Until the... Somehow the Celtics, like Missoula, shout out to Coach Missoula, but... The first Super Bowl party I went to was the best night of my life. Like, until the parade.

How many times do you look at this picture during the flight?

You're going to ski like twice.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

And maybe the worst I saw a status like maybe any quarterback of all time.

And worst performance ever.

I actually like Max and Rowan were on something with the Jalen Hurts thing. What? He might be. I think he's better than Mahomes. Oh, I like that. Their head to head matchups. I like it. Hurts has dominated him. That's true.

What did you guys think about the... I'm going to try and bring some of them. The All-22 review. That came out, I saw, with all the sacks and all their Travis Kelsey, and they just got destroyed.

Also, I want to—

which C.J. Garner-Johnson was the person, he posted on a story a picture of him and Kelsey, and his quote was, should have stayed with that thick shit. Oh. Yeah. So Swifties are fired up.

He wasn't getting off the line.

Yeah, I mean, that's the thing. It doesn't matter because you can make the argument for anything, but all that matters is they're both Super Bowl champions. And the Chiefs are not. And the Chiefs are not.

He's got a huge mountain to climb. If he can win five more Super Bowls to beat Tom Brady, good for him.

NFL is hard. It's hard to stay healthy. It's hard to get back. We've talked to all these quarterbacks and pros where it's a constant narrative on the show. You never know. Probably one or two.

I would look at the other line. It depends how juicy the plus sign was. Who wins the Super Bowl?

Okay. Who wins the Super Bowl first?

Yeah, but again, he's just a check down merchant now. Okay.

Drake May.

He played worse than Sam Darnold did.

You know that you're going to go see the other starter. I don't know if it's customary or not to go see the backup right away.

He was playing all along. That's what Brady was saying. He's like, no one talks to me about when I've lost an AFC championship. I only get talked about about the losses in the Super Bowl.

Imagine having three Super Bowls and a negative point differential. That's embarrassing. This is more Hank's Super Bowl than Max's. I literally felt like I won the Super Bowl yesterday.

I hadn't really thought about how bad it would have been, but after the way they'd lost, I can't really put into perspective how good it is to win. And I'm happy for Pug. I'm happy for Max.

It probably would have been that one. But the Eagles was... Wait, you're talking about this year? Yeah, that would have been... This year would have been... Wait, what were you going to say, Max?

It would have been... You guys, it would have been an impossible argument to make, and it would have just been a he said, she said.

What if you're drafting? What if it's the league starts tomorrow, you have the number one pick?

Harbaugh likes fucking winners. Fred, you get a fresh draft.

Every NFL player is available.

You're drafting, yeah, you're drafting Hurts over Herbert.

My hot seat was going to be C.J. Gardner-Johnson, but we discussed that. Still tough to kind of come out of your Super Bowl hangover with the Swifties on your ass. They're not going away. Is it his mom that has that restaurant? I believe so. Yeah, that's tough. Or like someone in his inner circle.

um the other thing i was just laughing at thinking how you know crazy of a tradition is is the super bowl like seeing jalen hurts at disney world and we should have sent max or pug to disney world instead of home because like that's got to be the most miserable experience of all time yeah what disney world they have to go to disney world at like 6 a.m yeah but they fly private they just go to a couple i mean the tron ride looked sick and they've got beers at disney world yeah i guess the tron ride was awesome

I was more just thinking like Max's state and if he had to just be at Disney World.

And then my cool throne is just John Gruden. I don't think we didn't really talk about it that much on Friday. And we were kind of in the middle of Super Bowl week last week. But coming out of it, I've spent so much time just thinking about John Gruden.

We have a crazy, surreal job, and we have moments all the time where it's kind of like, pinch me, how is this happening? But going away from Super Bowl week and just being like, the amount of time we spent with John Gruden and how just...

unbelievably legendary of a guy he is off camera on camera like and just the fact that he just hangs with the like it'll be on pm tv i think but we were we had a dumb debate with him for like an hour and a half like he was max he's he's the best i i miss him you spent like the week in his house too yeah yeah no i would wake up and he would just be sitting there taking notes and like give me a quiz when i would wake up and i just be like what's going on

yeah he likes to have energy in the room yeah and he much like coach missoula like and that's i think just a trait of a good coach like i you just makes you want to be a better person what are you gonna say max well he it's hank hank is the one that he gets mad yeah for not having you do need to bring the juice no i know he he makes me want to be a better person like he makes me want to bring the juice he makes me want to just you know go so are you gonna be a better person

I'm going to try for now that I know he's, you know, watching. I mean, the coat Missoula is the same way where it's like, I, now that I've been blessed to, to meet him and be in his presence, like I want to be better for him. How can you be better pointed? I can try harder. I can go harder.

That's a fair point.

It's not like getting hard. He's not hard on me. It's just his energy.

The only other thing that I was curious about was exactly how the gumbo finished. Like, how did you finish that?

What'd you do?

How many songs in the booth does anyone know by Ludacris? Total.

Listen, I love Luda, but it does... It shows your age, I think.

I agree with that. Ludacris has more longevity.

That's always the first video. Yeah. It's just, like, a pitcher running to first.

But I feel like he stays in shape.

No, I think this is... Windhorse basically scoffed at the fact that Dwight Howard would come back. And Dwight Howard might be saying that because he's going to come back.

Windhorse couldn't believe that Stephen A. Smith suggested the Lakers could sign Dwight Howard. He's saying that Dwight Howard's retired. He's not capable of coming back.

So then Dwight Howard's saying lay off the burgers, Windy, meaning he's offended that Windhorse thinks he couldn't come back.

No, he's just being mean to Wendy. Yeah, I thought Windhorse said, like, Dwight Howard's coming back, and he said, lay off the burgers. No, I'm not.

No, you've got to soak it in. Max has kind of been a little bit scared, always worried, always not confident. Now that you're the champions, you have to just be confident. You have to just say, wait, it's playoff time. Wake me up when the playoffs start.

No matter what happens next year on this show, lose a couple regular season games, they start trying to get you trolling about Sirianni or Jalen Hurts as he washed. Is he the guy? Wake me up when the playoffs start.

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Like, we didn't want to trade you.

Like, you know...

Yeah. They also came out with a Mark Cuban report, which was like, he really tried to convince Nico not to do it, but by the time he found out, the deal was done. Which I imagine, like... a movie like Mark Cuban fell to his knees at Walmart.

Like wherever he was when he found that out, Mark Cuban, I think he actually fell to his knees.

Ratings have never really made sense, so this isn't a current thing because the Nielsen box, every time I heard how that system works, it didn't really add up to me. Didn't make sense. If they're just adding streaming numbers, they could just make up numbers. Correct. Which is what, I guess, all platforms and stuff do, but that means nothing to me.

Big red nose.

Guys on chicks. I meant to bring it up in Hot Seat Cool Throne, but I forgot. Montoya.

Dude, I said last night. It's a show. I don't even know how to explain it. It's like the crazy show of all time. It's just a fuck show.

Hey guys, I need your help picking out a Valentine's day gift for my fiance. In the past I've made slash gotten my fiance sentimental things, but I don't think guys really like that stuff. And I don't expect him to tell me that if he really doesn't, if I were you all, If it were you all, what are some things you would all actually enjoy getting that aren't basic? Thanks, and go Dukes.

I think a good one for girls is just, like, whatever sports team you are, find, like, a retro shirt or hat or something.

It's not basic, but it's a little, it's thoughtful.

It's still awesome to get cash. I guess fiancé, maybe.

Yeah. When does the joint account happen? Yeah, fiancé, marriage. Some people don't even have it.

Golf balls. Why do females typically not like guys playing video games? Seems there could be much worse activities out there. It's a way guys can also hang out without going anywhere. All in all, not one guy complains when a girl goes out with her friends.

Oh, vibing. That's what this tweet says.

We just hop on the game. What is the game for girls and how do we get them excited about it like guys do for games and get treated the same when it's flipped?

I also think girls their kind of video games are shows but those are more time like they watch for an hour they watch The Bachelor like they'll watch something for an hour or two video games if you really like playing video games you could play forever ever yeah forever and that's where it's like I'm getting off in a minute but if you're playing like you know a battle royale like

What feels like a minute is actually 40. And then you look up and you're like, oh, shit.

Or, yeah, you got to get a win.

I was full-on addicted to Call of Duty for like a solid two years.

I've been in that. I've been in that for sure. Like COVID. I think the move, like once I moved and I think it just was part of my routine and it's not really anymore. But looking back, like it was all I thought about. And I was trying to play for like sometimes I just play for 12 hours a day.

um that's a lot now it's golf yeah golf yeah yeah you remember when you were addicted to golf video games i still pj 2k is coming out i'm excited for that yeah that game's fun as fuck uh yeah it's a great combo yeah golf and then when there's dark just play golf uh last one hey part of my take great pod big fan i'm a nurse and nearly all my coworkers are chicks i'm

I'd play Don't Stop, Rick Ross. That's what they played at the first Super Bowl party I went to. It was electric.

It's a dude. And I had a few over for the Super Bowl.

I got drunk and called Kelsey a pussy bitch after a second drop in the first half. Maybe a dude. A few chicks didn't like that. They are Kelsey fans and were offended by the verbiage. Is this something I have to address with my coworkers? I'm just used to watching ball with the boys while I was rowdy. No, I feel like nurses are like...

Yeah, they're hot. It's not like corporate.

kind of impossible to have a fire fest right before a vacation uh yeah you're feeling it right now well my sleep schedule is cooked cooked has not i have not i've not come back from new orleans like i was up yesterday at 5 a.m couldn't fall back asleep was up today at 4 a.m couldn't fall back asleep sounds like you're thinking about josh allen being mvp

Got up, yeah, got up, and then fell asleep at, like, 7 on my couch. Almost, like, woke up at, you know, I'm all over the place, sleep schedule-wise.

Why? That was what I woke up.

Yeah, it's vacation. How many rounds? Well, I'm going a day early now because there's going to be snow in Chicago, so I'm adding an extra one.

I do, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, yeah, I was like, well, I should go Tuesday, hit up our friend Isner and was like, hey, you around? He's like, yep, come play golf. I was like, fine. You know what? You got to because of the snow. So Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

Yeah, me too. Ready to see the chaos.

36 Friday.

Well, the one tomorrow is like, I don't have any choice. Right, because of the snow.

No, I would say after. The second round Friday, I'll probably be hungover and my body will be sore.

And I'll be like, I'm cooked. I'll fight through. You know what? For the people, I'll fight through.

No, because I miss it so much. Yeah. What if you suck? Oh, I'll definitely suck.

I'll report back. Okay. Good. Sure. People dying to know.

They make me feel bad for asking you for a favor.

I kind of feel bad, but also you guys know you're not.

Okay. PFT. Different motivation tactics.

I have a second option.

I hope you... I mean... I hope you could, too. You would have to lose a lot of weight.

No, I mean, I know what you're doing. I would be happy if you did. I'm trying to dunk. I know you're not going to. You don't... I would... You don't believe him?

As someone who's been there before, you're going to want to look back and regret. At least you'll have those. You can just look back on the memories.

No, I've been there. I've been where you are. I understand where your head's at.

Yeah. I'm still going to.

I think I can do it.

I was close. You were not close. I think if you gave Big Cat a year. In what world were you close to dunking? I jumped 10 feet, 4 inches. I needed to get 10, 6. If you gave Big Cat a year, he could do it.

You know what? I also am going to be.

You can't really think about changing your ways before vacation, but in a week from now, I will. Fitness vacation. Fitness vacation.

So Pug took one. Rowan took one. You were just like, nah.

That also sounds about right.

I see the Dodgers score a billion runs. Dodgers aren't fun. They're ruining everything. Dodgers aren't fun for baseball. And by the way, they should be a lot better. If I was there, I'd be looking into the front office and figuring out why the Dodgers, who cost $500 billion a year, are 18-10. He cost them the game. No, they won the game. They're not fun. It's not fun to see the Dodgers.

They should be winning more. They should win every single game. The Dodgers should be undefeated with what they're paying their players. But they're not. I know. But you're like complaining. Well, it's not fun.

They should be better. They shouldn't be tied with the lowly Giants in their division. Are we agreeing with, are we disagreeing with that?

They've scored 123 runs. The Dodgers are a super team. But they're not that super. They have the second best record in baseball. Yeah. They should have the best by far, by leaps and bounds. Half a game.

I'm not sure if that's closer to a pop up, but I get your point. Oh, my God.

Put it on the poll. Can you have a pop-up in the outfield? I'm pretty sure if it's in the outfield, it's a fly ball. Yes.

I'm going to text Tim Kirk.

Guys, it's a fly ball to the center fielder. It's a pop-up to the second baseman. I'm with Dan, though. If a second baseman goes out into shallow right, I could see that being a pop-up.

Right. That is the hybrid. Game changer.

Good job by you. You got to go Jay Buhner there.

And I was like, what? Like, it was him? I was like, oh my God.

Yeah.

Luscious?

It's science.

True.

And I have a nine inch penis. Yeah.

God damn.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Kind of tight, huh?