Pardon My Take
Playoff Baseball, CFB With Brandon Walker, Ole Miss Head Coach Lane Kiffin, Jets And Bengals Are A Disaster + Guys On Chicks
01 Oct 2025
Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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We have a twofer for the people. We have the finest of Mississippi. We have Brandon Walker in studio talking some college ball narrative talk. Great time with Brandon, our number one college football expert. We also have Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin on the show.
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Chapter 2: What are the highlights of the playoff baseball games?
So we're talking a lot of college football. We're going to talk some playoff baseball. Monday Night Football was a double disappointing games, but the Broncos look very good. The Jets, we do a little status check with memes on the Jets. We have Hot Seat, Cool Throne. We got Guys on Chicks, a packed Wednesday show for you.
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Chapter 3: What are the current issues facing the Jets and Bengals?
Welcome to a part of my take. Today is Wednesday, October 1st, and October means one thing, PFT. Playoff baseball. We started the wild card, and it was Haas Day. I was going to say it's time to wake up Billy Joe Armstrong.
Yes.
Yes, you're also correct. Tarek Skubal was awesome today. What did he have, 14 strikeouts? 14 strikeouts. Tarek Skubal was a Haas. Garrett Crochet was a Haas. Blake Snell was a Haas. First time I think he's ever had six innings. What are you doing there, Hank? What are you doing? Southpaw. Southpaw day. The Hosses came to play today.
We had the opening round of the wild card in playoff baseball, which... Underrated day. We were saying it. The boys were chopping it up before we were recording. We're doing this on Zoom right now. We're back in studio for the rest of the show with Brandon Walker and Lane Kiffin. We were saying this is kind of underrated.
This sneaky, great, great day in the sports calendar year where you're like, oh shit, we get four baseball games all day and we just like noon hits and you're like, holy shit, it's playoff baseball time. It's a really good day, but I think maybe the all-time great day talk might be influenced by the fact that you guys have three teams in the playoffs that you're all super excited about.
That's fair. That's totally fair. It was mostly ā Max loves baseball. Max is a baseball guy. He is through and through, and he was saying that. He loves baseball. He was tuned into every team. He's a seam head. That's facts, Max, right? Yeah, I know. Meaningful sports that are ā
mean this much during the day the work day don't come around often that's true so it's like that's all i was saying is that there's only a few days in the calendar year well i said meaningful meaningful sports that mean this much during the day don't come around that often i mean you're right
Like, having good, meaningful sports on during a meaningful day is extra meaningful. Right. Big time. And it's meaningful to me. Right. And that's really what matters. Yeah, it means a lot to you. But, yeah, let's break down what you got, Hank.
I just can't get over, ever since Zach has joined these Zoom calls with the nice camera, looking at Zach and then looking at Max looking like he's doing sales, it's tough to get over. Zach's camera, I don't want to take this in a weird direction, but it does look like we're about to enter a porn with Zach. They're like, oh shit, it's the 4K girl with the POV glasses.
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Chapter 4: What insights does Lane Kiffin share about his recent game performance?
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Henry, hot seat, cool throne. My hot seat is... I mean, it's basically just all... It's a lot of people with the NBA media day. It was yesterday. Kawhi had some weird answers. He got asked about the investigation. Everything was Steve Ballmer.
Pablo Torre also came out with another updated podcast this week about more suspicious funds and all these weird backdoor sponsorships where there's no deliverables. People are getting paid to do nothing. And Kawhi's answer was just like... It's a conspiracy. It's clickbait. It never happened. It's a clickbait conspiracy.
And credit to Ramona Shelbourne because she just kept asking the follow-up questions. At one point she asked him, what's one example of something that you did for this sponsorship? And he was just like, I mean, there's a lot of stuff, but I'm not going to get into the details because it's a lot of conspiracies out there about it.
And she's like, okay, but like one thing that you did to earn the $49 million or whatever. He's like, you know, there's just a lot of people talking. They're going to get their clicks. I'm just here to play basketball. Yeah. I think I need to use the word allegedly here, but he's allegedly very, very guilty of everything that Pablo Torre is accused of. And I don't really blame Kawhi. No.
He wants to get paid money. Yeah, I don't blame Palmer.
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Chapter 5: How does Lane Kiffin address the narrative surrounding his daughter's relationship?
And if somebody offers... Listen, the Clippers have offered no-show jobs in the past to James Harden. Yeah. But this is... It's more unfair in terms of the competitive balance if your team isn't doing this. It seems like they're going to cover it up because I think there's a lot of teams. Right.
So Pablo's investigation is great, and I believe all the work he's done, but I also just keep having the feeling of I wish my owner did that. Yeah. I think most fans have that. It's not, how could the Clippers do it? It's more like, hey, Jerry Reinsdorf, can you start paying people under the table? Yeah. And then the NBA can figure it. You're right. The NBA does feel like the Clippers should.
I think I said this when this first came out. The Clippers are going about this the wrong way. Like, Ballmer going and defending himself, Kawhi saying clickbait. What the Clippers should do is just burn the whole fucking thing down. Just be like, this team, this team, this team, they all did it too. Mm hmm.
Just fucking take everyone down with you because they're not going to be able to suspend everyone. Right. Yep. I also like the fact that both Balmer and Kawhi Leonard are going the they actually conned me route. Yeah. Kawhi is like, they owe me money. I'm the victim. I don't know. They're they're fraud. So I listen. They I'm a victim just like anybody else in this case.
What was the most shocking, oh, that guy's on that team now? Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant? Yeah. I was going to say Chris Stops. Yeah. Didn't realize he was on the Hawks. Yeah.
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Chapter 6: What strategies does Lane Kiffin suggest for recruiting and player development?
I forgot about that. Also, Chris Paul, just looking so old. Like, the most washed anyone's ever looked is Chris Paul. I think it's because he shaved his head fully. Yeah, that was a shocking one. Kevin Love. Kevin Love on? The Jazz. Whoa. That's weird. He said they're going to call him up. Holy shit. Yeah, I've heard Warriors, sad. LeBron saying this may be his last media day. Oh, of course.
Wow, Kevin Love on the Jazz. LeBron's definitely starting another league. He's got a little gray ghoster tag in him. LeBron's starting another league? Yeah. Okay. I mean, the Saudi, that's what I was going to talk about on Cool Throne, but EA Sports sold for $55 billion. What happened there? They sold for $55 billion. To who? To the PIF and Jared Kushner company. Yeah. They're just buying that?
Yeah. Saudi Arabia now owns EA Sports. $55 billion. They're taking it private so they can do whatever they want with it. Let me hold the bill. So now there's going to be, like, they are just completely sports washing everything. Yeah, they're doing an unbelievable job.
They're trying to find every way to reach anyone under the age of 40 in America and then make them think that Saudi Arabia is a cool place. Really cool guys. Chill people. Yeah. What, Hank? $55 billion.
Yeah.
Yeah, paid a premium. Who owns EA Sports? Who did own EA Sports? I'm not sure. The one guy who just made off with like 20 bill? I'm not sure who actually sold it. They've been a publicly traded company since 1990. But I don't know who the CEO was. The largest all-cash sponsored private investment in history. Yeah, so they're taking it completely private. They're going to be off the stock market.
That's crazy. And yeah, they just have enough money. And they're smart because they know that the fossil fuels that they sell, that's not going to last forever. There's only so many dead dinosaurs that they can dig up. So they're trying to diversify all their funds and make sure that they're going to be rich as fuck for the next 100 years as opposed to just the next 50 years.
And there's not a lot that we can do about it. No. Because if they offer somebody a million dollars to do a 30-minute stand-up set, they're going to do the 30-minute stand-up set. What? How much for a one-off pod? We've already said we will do this pod just personally, do this pod for $100 million. $100 million is my price for everything. We'll take it offline, and we'll just do the pod.
We've got more than that. No, $100 million, I will do anything. You think we've got to do more than that? Negotiate for it. I'll be a very principled man when it comes to Saudi Arabia. I turned down some live money. $200 million? $300 million? $300 million? Stop me. $55 billion? I think we could get at least a billy. You think we get a billion for a bar in my dick? I don't think so.
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Chapter 7: What challenges does Penn State face in college football?
For Penn State to get to where they need to go, they need to go through the teams blocking them. They have a lot of Michigans. They have a lot.
Every top five team's a Michigan.
Ohio State's a Michigan, and Oregon is now a Michigan. Oregon's a Michigan. But again, I was like, Oregon's a Michigan. Wait, was Boise State?
Was that a big one? No, that's not.
Last year? It wasn't. It's not fair that it wasn't, but it wasn't. They were handed an easy road in the playoff, and they took advantage of it. And then Notre Dame was the first one that was like, you can prove it here. And then they had Notre Dame, and just in the fourth quarter, melt it down again. Yeah.
We should say, by the way, because the game, obviously, the narrative is the narrative, and James Franklin pointed out the narrative. Dante Moore is really fucking good. Really good. And Dan Lanning is an awesome coach. He is an awesome coach, but I just want to point this one thing out.
They had this gigantic win in October last year when they beat Ohio State 31-30, and they propelled themselves to number one. And when those two teams met in the playoffs, one was ready and one was not. No, they got stomped in the playoffs. So I'm just saying now his narrative needs to become, do this shit in the playoff. Well, he's also early in his narrative. He is.
He's only, what, three, four years? But a couple years ago, they had multiple chances to beat Washington, and they dropped the ball, especially late in the season. That was basically a playoff game to get in the playoff, and he loses that one. So he can do it now. Make sure we do it down the road. He could be the next narrative guy. I'm sure at some point he will, but...
I think it helps James Franklin's case that the game was over. Dan Lanning called game. He said game over, hit the throat slash on him, and then from that point on, that's when Penn State woke up. So it's almost like Penn State was one and one on the afternoon. I'm not going to sit here and piss on your leg and tell you it's raining. I'm not going to tell you. Thank you.
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Chapter 8: How does Kirby Smart's coaching style affect Georgia's performance?
I don't have bladder problems. I pee a lot. I'm a big man. He's every sign of a diabetic. You should have a big bladder. Yeah. How many times a night are you getting up? Yeah, go ahead, Max.
I just have one question from the game.
Yeah, yeah. Max was there.
I was there. I'm not going to be a guy to blame the refs, but it is something to talk about the fumble.
Sounds like he's about to blame the refs. You're talking about the knee touching the blades of grass replay? I watched it 100 times. I still don't know if he was down or not. Grazed. So how do you overturn the call?
I don't know.
I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. You're a big grazing guy. What do you think? That was mean what he just did, but you have to answer the question. He's short. Okay. All right, so that's that game. Oregon is really fucking good. I was so impressed with Dante Moore because that was his first real road start in this type of environment. They obviously played Northwestern. That doesn't really count.
It felt, as an Oregon duck, because obviously he played a couple years ago, but I was very impressed with Dante Moore. I think he's a bona fide dude.
he was impressive and i tell you who else was impressive the bodies they have on defense yes like the the big thing about coming to this conference and going east and playing these big established teams that are going to run the football and play defense is physically you wouldn't expect a west coast team to be ahead of the game physically oregon is just beautiful looking on defense they've got these big huge defensive linemen that can all run the linebackers like they they look like ohio state looks on
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