Millennial vs Gen Z Guess The Athlete Game + Dude Perfect CEO BTS Secrets

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The guys are out of town again. So welcome. Thank you. Yeah, glad to be the sub. Yeah, absolutely. You all are the third alternate. So, you know, that's something. Well, hey, that's up from four. Yeah. Always looking up. Six man of the year. I'll take it. Coming up on today's app, since Jackson and Grammar here, we're going to have a Millennial vs. Gen Z Face Off testing our sports knowledge. We're going to check in on first week of MLB action and hopefully last longer than my boy Paul Skeens did in his first outing. We're bringing on the CEO of Dude Perfect. That's right. The head honcho himself, Andrew Yaffe. But first, let's talk about the madness that was March. So I'm going to go ahead and say it. I'm some Tennessee, Tennessee. They, uh, is everyone to start? Tennessee. No, I don't. That game's not worth any of our time. Yeah, actually, that was a Michigan man handle. I feel like Duke got robbed. I'm going to go ahead and say yes. And here's why a self-induced ride. They self-induced robbed, but during that craziness, Dan Hurley head butted a referee. You've got to be pretty psycho. And I think he falls just in that category. He's psychotic, man. That is an automatic. He beef checked him is what we call that. It's an automatic technical foul, which would have put Duke on the free throw line. Sure. But also put that ref in witness protection if he calls that D. But it's a T though. I don't disagree. This is like, this is again. If that's a regular season game, again, like I'm not trying to argue for Duke. Actually, don't care about Duke. I think it's funny that it, you know, our CEOs do gradually a tough combo. You know, I don't even care about that. What I care about again is consistency. And you cannot let the moment dictate a call. I don't, you just can't do that. That's, that's not fair to the game. You see that a lot fair to those kids either. That's a common theme in sport. It is. You remember the missed PI call in the playoff game Ram Saints very much was a too big of a moment, you know, type situation. It's a pass interference. It should have been called. That should have been a technical foul. Like, I mean, I hate to say it. It was just a motion got the best of them. And, you know, Duke still would have had to go down to make two free throws and a crazy, very emotional situation. Not saying it would have been, but like at the end of the day, that was the right call. To piggyback that, I'm going to sound a lot like you. It absolutely irks me. Pet peeve of mine is when a officiating crew calls a game a certain way for one half and then completely night and day, all of a sudden the hand checks a foul. Just be consistent as a ref. If you're going to let him play early, let him play late and vice versa. So we see the same on that. But what a clutch shot by the kid. It was a freshman and 18 year old hitting that shot poetic too that he's from the state of Indiana. Final four, Indy. So he took also special, you know, my question is where does this shot land in like all time, March Manus moments? Because it's a one versus a two seed, two blue bloods, elite eight, you know. It was a good game. It's a great question. It's a great game. The best way to go about that is think of the shots that are maybe a tad bigger than that. It's a short list. Jordan Pohl. Jordan Pohl's possibly. But even that was, I don't think that was to go to the elite eight. No, the Villanova went to win the championship. The Villanova, Chris Jenkins for the championship, I think is the all timer. Yeah, for sure. What's funny is Christian Latner shot that he hit was against Yukon for 36 years ago. So this one felt like 36 years in the making payback. Totally. I do feel for the kid because like it was 10 seconds on the dot. You could just run it out and take a turnover and times out. Did you see what he saw though? Kayden Booser. I did see what he saw. Nobody's in the front court. But again, but again, no need. You got two people on you. You just run around. I'm with you. I'm with you. You just can't do that. Either he has to get it off quick with some air to get over the top of it or head fake bounce pass something or just saying if he makes that pass into the front court and nobody's there, we're not talking about, oh, should he have passed the ball or not? Can you literally not just take a back court violation? You can't. They haven't even established in the front court yet. So I mean, yeah. I'm saying it was 10 seconds on the dot. Or if you could take the 10 second violation and you're leaving him what, 0.4? Was it 10 on the dot? It was 10 on the dot, dude. I feel that's where my heart goes. I sympathize for the kid who turned it over a little more than the kid who made it. But what a game. What a great shot, though. I mean, what a great shot. Half quarter, basically. 19-0. Point comeback, which I believe is the biggest March comeback against a one seed ever. Oh, really? 19-1 point. And the other one seed, Michigan, looks the part. It's such a bummer to me that Michigan and Arizona, they play similar style basketball. Two Titans, man. And I hate that they're the elite. I wish you could kind of reseed a little bit in the final four. You feel like that's the de facto national championship at this point? I do. At this point, yeah. I do. Illinois does have some good size, but I don't see either one of those teams beating a Michigan or Arizona. I think the champion's going to be Arizona or Michigan. There was somebody in the comments this week who mentioned that we needed to eat crow if Illinois beat Houston. And so I'll admit, Illinois in the Big Ten in general has had a special go of it. I think the Illinois got more than a fighting chance now that they're there. Yeah. They're not the home crowd. You have to have luck to kind of win some sports in Illinois. Illinois lucked out. I mean, at the end of the day. At the end of the day. Sometimes destiny. Iowa taking care of Florida was a huge, huge get for them because I'm not sure Illinois takes down that Florida team if they're playing good. I agree. Fun Michigan stat. They are believed the sixth team to go at least four tournament games of scoring 90 plus. Yeah. They're scoring 90 plus in every game. Still have possibly two more games left. This game right here against Arizona, I think the first to 100 may win. Michigan. It's going to be a high pace. Michigan also beat Gonzaga by 40 this year. Michigan is so good. I actually saw that they're already tweeting to Jalen Rose about like which Michigan team is, you know, the 89 or this team. And, you know, if they went, if they, if Michigan wins the national championship, they have an argument that this is the greatest Michigan team of all time. Without a doubt. Yeah. Absolutely. That team never, never finished the mission. The Fab Five squads never won at all. Yeah. What a, what a tournament. And I want to shout out Dusty May, who I think, you know, you always try to, right? You may to Final Four, Four of Atlantic, and which is incredible, but you always try to find the John Woodens before they happen. I think that guy, we're going to look up in 20 years and he's going to be, have quite the resume. Okay. So now that we know who is in the men's Final Four, I've been horrible at this bracket, started off well early and spent atrocious late. So whoever I pick is not going to win it. Who would you all pick? I would pick, actually don't know. I think Illinois is playing really good and Yukon surviving right now. So I'd go Illinois versus Arizona. Illinois versus Zona. Okay. I actually think it's going to be Yukon versus Arizona. Okay. I'm not huge on Illinois right now. I think they've kind of like, but, but Yukon is like, I know, I know, I know. We could see an all Big Ten Final if it's Illinois, Michigan. That'd be pretty crazy. That would be, that would be kind of cool. That'd be kind of cool to have a Big Ten Final. They deserve it, dude. They were, they were good all year. Big Ten was good all year. All year. All year. All year. And they've showed out in the tournament. Granbo, what about you? Probably Michigan, Yukon. Okay. And what about you, Sparks? Um, yeah. I mean, if Yukon does it, that's, that would be three out of four. First time since the 70s, UCLA, speaking of John Wood, and that would be incredible. Officially a dynasty if they not considered one. Yeah. Give me Yukon. I think Yukon does it again. Really? And give me Michigan, Yukon Final with Michigan winning the final. Cool. That'd be my guess. Yeah. It, I just hope for good games. A couple of these last games have been just kind of blowouts. So. Are we cool with like how chalky it is? Do y'all feel like your march is a little subdued when you don't have that? I don't. That's where I started cheering for the Hawkeyes big time. I was a nine seed and they should, they had a chance to beat Illinois. They did. So Texas had a chance to beat Purdue. Yep. They were an 11 seed and they were, no, they would have gotten absolutely smoked by Arizona. Like Purdue got smoked by Arizona. It might be one of those things you're thankful you didn't get to this point. They would have got to the elite eight as an 11 seed, which is pretty good. Yeah. And even Purdue had the halftime lead on Zona and look like they were in a prime position to, you know. Yeah. I don't remember. I just saw a thing about the most expensive college teams. I'm not sure. I wonder who that is. Most. I think it's Arkansas is actually number one. No, no, no. I think it is Arkansas. Based on 2025-26 NIL data, Indiana, Tennessee, Zona and BYU are among the highest spending. Okay. Seeding seven to 10 million. That is an insane amount of money they're pouring in to these college programs. 32 mil for Indiana. That's nine mil more than Tennessee. Other than Michigan, like you're seeing like it. Yeah. I mean, it Arizona, you can pay your way there. Yeah. How bad do you fit? Pay to win. The Hoosiers right now. You should pay to win though. Hoosiers kind of had a... Well, you got your football title. So the sting is a little less. But ma'am, when you spend nine more mil and you don't even make the tournament, folks in Assembly Hall, they're thankful they have their football title. Did you see... Speaking of Indiana, do you see Signeti blast that new transfer from Michigan State for wearing gold cleats at practice? No. No way. Man, he's a tough coach. He's a national champion. Yeah, he is. We even coached that too. You watching any women's? Yes. Yes. My champion's still there. Yeah. You took the horns. No, I took Yukon. You did take Yukon. You threw a late audible at the line of scrimmage. That's right. And a couple of teams can double dip. We talked about the old Gloria's double dip, which hadn't happened since Florida, I believe, Jared pulled up. But you got what? Michigan and Yukon, both still in it from the ladies and men's side. Yeah. What a fun time to be a fan of those programs, huh? Well, okay, enough about basketball. It was opening week MLB, baby. Yeah, it was. Do you know the first time ever it lined up on my birthday? Opening day was on my B-day. Yeah, special. It's like they MLB did that for me. So I want to shout out Rob Manfred and all the higher ups there at Major League Baseball for bringing that up in a lot. Yeah, really generous. It's fun, though. Fun starts of the season. We took two out of three in Philly, which is awesome. The Rangers off to a hot start. I'll say one of my favorite things so far that I've learned is Mason Miller's walkout song this year is electric. Dude. What is it? It's electric. Corn. They need corn, the light show and all that. Oh, dude. It is one of the greatest. It's electric walkout song. I think the coolest walkout I've ever seen was Bryce Harper. He's like, living in a big blue world. And then he just walks out grand slam. Just an incredible walkout. It's a vibe. But where is this for the starting pitchers? You know, I saw a couple starting pitchers say, why don't we get a little walkout? We stay starting. That's actually a great point. Like they need the starting pitchers should have a walkout like this and get that crowd so hyped. Go watch the video if you haven't seen it. Yeah. It's ESPN unbelievable, dude. Oh, what it makes you feel like you can throw your fastball 95 just from watching it. Well, 105 from Miller. Well, for him, maybe 115 after that entrance. But, yeah, Rangers. Rangers off to a hot star versus school. How about the Angels, baby? They look pretty good. Yeah, Trout dipping back in the time machine. He was like a 13th round pick in my fantasy baseball draft. Happy I claimed him. If you're a fan of the Arizona Diamondbacks, Colorado Rockies, San Francisco Giants, the Athletics or the Chicago White Sox, not a great weekend for you. You're 0-3. And you know who's 3-0 though? Miami Marlins. Isn't that shocking? With those teal jerseys. I was about to say their Sunday teals might be the best uniform in Major League Baseball right now. Those things are sharp looking. Fun baseball games, man. I mean, you got the Brewers coming back from like eight runs down. Yep. A couple of walkoffs have been like a couple of walkoffs. And then. You're doing well. So it was just a fun week. I'm just glad baseball. This is why I feel like this end of March, early April is the best time in sports. It's pretty peak, dude. And we haven't even talked masters. And that's going to be a big talk. But you're like, you're getting ready for NHL playoffs. You're getting ready for NBA. You got the Masters. You got baseball season. Sports overload. It is. You got LPGA cooking. I was 3 monitored up this weekend. Yeah. The whole time. You have to be. You have to be. At this time, that's why it's the best sports time, man. It is. Our boy, Paul Skiens, did run into some trouble though, man. He couldn't get out of the first inning. Granted, his defense behind him. Well, that was lacking. That was, yeah, it was O'Neill's fault there. O'Neill Cruz. Catch a fly ball, bro. That's your job. Yeah. Couldn't get out of the first though. Tough pill to swallow. Luckily, Paul should make many, many, many more starts this year. Sometimes you need that to kind of lock back in a little bit. Yeah. So your ERA is 67 and a half. He just went from the world baseball classic to this. And you know, it's just. There's a lot going on. A lot going on. And Livy Dunn was on Baywatch. Yeah, he's got it. You know, Tex Livy back too. Ah, stuff like that. I can't wait to cook you guys in this knowledge-based sports game we're about to play because. Yeah. We're a little one-handed too. I don't know how they're going to get it. I don't got that much in the 10. Absolutely cooked. Before we get there, there's a debate on X. Zach By said, I can't believe I'm even going to ask this, but we're having a split debate behind the scenes at the station. If the Denver Broncos played the Colorado Rockies 162 times, would the football players win a single game? And the answer is absolutely. You would win multiple games. You think so? What? I would say zero. Multiple games. Yeah, zero. I don't think they win. I actually go nine games. I would actually go as far to say one of my least favorite hypotheticals is like would Alabama beat the Cleveland Browns? And it's not even a six-touch game. I think that's closer than this. You just think because pitching. Pitching alone. Pitching alone. Well, it's like, are they fresh every single game? Like 162 games is that like a regular season? It's a regular season. I don't think they win one, Gar. I'm going to be really honest with you, fully transparent. I think there's a guy on the Broncos that was drafted for baseball that can pitch and win you a game. That would be the only way is if the Broncos had somebody that was a baseball or specifically a pitcher that could somehow go out there and give up. Throw a complete game. Yeah. Give up one run and you score two off two bombs. Boom, done. I'm actually surprised 34% of people said. Yeah, I agree. I think this is like there's no way. I think the Bama debate against the Browns is a closer game than this. I agree. Yeah. That's good though. What about you flip the sports? No. Oh, no, even worse. Even worse. Football wins every time. The Colorado Rockies win a football game against the Denver Broncos. Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no, no. That's really early. Really early. There's a higher chance I'm CEO of this company. What about what about the most mental sport other than golf? What do you what do you think the most mental is? I think it's a little taxing. Mentally. Is that a sport? Yeah, I wouldn't consider that a sport. I think baseball is the most. There's a lot going on. You get the you can get in your head way more in baseball than like a football game or. Baseball, there's a lot of moving parts of that. I think the the normal fan doesn't see. You're off a millisecond with your swing and everything's off. Yeah, you also have that quick to realize whether it's a breaking ball or a fast ball. And I'm saying when you're that when you're off just by a hair, you're done. You look foolish. You're too early. You're too late. Can't catch up. And you're looking like Josh Young right now from the Rangers. Bad, dude. Hitless and 12 at bats this this series. What about tennis? He needs to go down, by the way. Can we talk about it? Mental. No, it's too early, too early. OK. I like to give a month in baseball before I even evaluate numbers. I shouldn't be a GM. I think I'm too quick to decisions. You'd be cutting people day one. Get out of here, dude. First at bat. Yeah, bro. Strike out, look and you're gone. He's like, brother, that's our 11 times shortstop. All stars shortstop. I don't care. I don't care. What about ABS? So we I was under the impression each batter had to they only have two as a club. So it's really that made more sense. And I like that because I was too scared. They was throwing an e-brake on the game. I was going with it was two is a thing. And I was like, dude, why aren't these guys challenging? But with it two as a club, you really have to be selective in your timing. That does not look great. What's his name? CB Buckner. Oh, CB Buckner's been struggling for years. Did you not see it? It was like five back to back pitches. Well, like he had five challenges or something this week and they're all went against him. All against. That was like Angel Hernandez in the playoff game a couple of years ago. Missed like three straight calls at first base, which is always a tough look. You hate to be that. That's a tough look. Yeah. But the biggest ovations in Cincinnati were the back to back. You Hini Oswara is at bats where they were just off the plate and they reviewed back to back crowds going crazy. Suarez was the one that was he the Venezuelan that beat us. Yeah, I think he was on that Venezuelan team. Sure. So I think the ump was out to get him a couple of times on fairly. But I'm in. I'm in on replay man and baseball is like America's pastime where I'm all into the old. Well, what do you think you're going to lose the arm? I want to let you know I haven't given up. I haven't given up hope. Bregman's on. Bregman's on Chicago Cubs. Let's go film. Let's go get Bregman on the pod. Let's catch a fly ball at Wrigley and let us eat their new food. Accomplish three things for almost athletes. Dude, funny you say that because I didn't we go play when we go play Chicago golf club. Oh, what a day and then do a tour show by night. Yeah, that's beautiful. I was looking at our tour schedule and trying to look at the baseball games. The teams. I'm like if there's a day game, if there's a matinee, maybe I can take the mid pre-show go out there and just hang out in left field. The deed will get done eventually. I'll go to enough big league games or eventually I'm going to catch me a foul ball. But I don't want to just be a foul ball. If I sit out in left center and catch a home run ball, just a ball that was in play at some point needs to end up in my hands. You've never even caught a home run ball. In BP I have, but then not like once it's play ball game on in the actual game. Oh, even I've done the home run ball. Really? Oh, yeah. Back when I was a kid. I was in my face. All right. Should we talk about NFL ref negotiations? Oh, should you? I'm scared your blood pressure may raise. So, is NFL starting to hire and train replacement refs in case they can't come to a deal with the ref's union? The NFL has a list of college reps that they have been recruiting. According to the owners, the refs have resisted performance and accountability measures. How much worse can replacement refs be? Oh, I don't know if we want to know the answer to that. I don't either. It's kind of like what Greg Sanky says for the SEC refs are like, dude, these are the best refs. You're like, are they? What's worse than this? You know? Little leagueers, little league games you've seen that firsthand. I got to say, dude, I can't even believe I didn't start the whole show with this, bro. 8am, Saturday morning. Kids have a soccer game. The weather in Texas is not friendly, dude. It's windy. It feels like 25 degrees. It's chilly. They start off so slow. Versa a team that, you know, they barely beat this team last year, but this team should not be challenging these kids. And it's just grueling. First half, it's 1-1. It's miserable. I'm sitting there like so mad at my kids, like, dude, pick it up, bro. Like, I'm not freezing out here for nothing. You're regretting even, yeah, having kids in the first place. I cannot wait to have a kid. The other team? Wow. Project Mbappe. Why? That kid is going to be, I'm going to strictly soccer. You're not doing anything else. No friends, no phone. So friendly. No nothing. Just straight soccer. And if you're not like top 10 in the nation by high school, I got to deal with you. Whoa. This is why you're never going to get kids, dude. But the other team, halftime, switch goalies. And this kid comes out and we're starting to play better, whatever. And our backline guy, he passes it out. And I mean, it looked like I was playing FIFA. You know, when you play FIFA and you're that aggressor who's like, you're hitting the X button, always sliding tackling. Yeah, studs up. Six, six seconds. Dude, six seconds after the ball's gone. Our defender backline passes the ball out in this goalie who is now their striker. I mean, leaps. What I feel like is a five yard leap studs up takes our defender out, dude. Takes it out. Nothing. Nothing. And that's the Brexit call. That ref had plans. And I literally, I look, I'm trying to be better. And I, it was that it was the situation. Of the weather, that my team's performance. I didn't hold back. I didn't hold back. And I actually feel, I mean, it's just ridiculous. If you don't nip that stuff in the bud, there's no dip that if I go tell my, to my kid to go do that to another kid, you cannot call it. You cannot call it. Because the president has been set. The president has been set. It is horrible refereeing. Again, I do not care what league, age, whatever you are. You were signing up for that job. You got to take ownership in it. And what do you know about 10 minutes later? Dang, my boy, he did. This kid, this kid goes fouls again. And I'm like, this, this, this kid's got to go, dude. It's got to be a red card. You got to get this kid off the field. Nobody wants to issue the red in the little league game, but sometimes you have to. Sometimes you have to. Sometimes you have to. Just like the, just like the Yukon ref. Sometimes you got to call the tech that you don't want to. That you don't want to do. And you'll deal with it. Because at the end of the day, people are going to come up and after they're kind of get all let their emotions out of there. But you know what? That was the right call. I hate to say it, but you made the right call. So safe to say you're not offering up your services to the NFL as a replacement ref. No, that's my whole thing about. Give me a call. You guys know my number. Roger, if you need a replacement ref for a couple of weeks, hit me up. I can't think of a least desirable job. It's like politician ref. Bro, I do not want to be the one over the center, dude, and get smoked by a. Like, just get smoked by a linebacker, dude. That's another aspect of you're the field judge in an NFL game. Dude, you, I mean, I've got to know where to go. You got to know where to go because that Drew Brees, you know, I remember so many times like Drew Brees, like Josh Allen does it sometimes too. He kind of uses the referee a little bit and who like have this have his receiver kind of run off the ref and throw it right behind the ref. And you're like, dude, it's that's brilliant. But man, that defender's coming and he ain't. Well, do you see some things? I mean, look at hockey too. I feel rough. Yeah. It's like, we were just at a game. We saw a ref. Yeah. The hockey one that we just saw where the ref got a. We saw a stars game recently and one of the refs took it in the arm. Yeah. He was shaking. Yeah. I mean, they're tough. I think maybe the most underrated ones baseball since you the little league IG one where I was crying, laughing where he takes three to the downstairs. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm going to sip it guys for some of those baseball guys. Like a pitch. Do you think so? Yeah. I was on tip and I mean, you can see it from from the jump from college athletes to the NFL. Is it the same for referees? I think so. Is it that much different for the quickness of it? Yeah, I do. Like you can't take the best SEC ref and go implement like go insert one week. I think it's going to be bad. I think so too. I think if you're as much as I as much as I bash the refs, I think they are the best you can get. Unfortunately, I think to the non-casuals, the replacement refs won't make that big of a difference. But if you're watching every Sunday, if you're dialed seatbelt on with Scott Hansen riding for seven hours, you're going to see some pretty bad officiating at times. Dude, I miss Scott so much. He'll be back. I texted him. I wish we had a ref for our office, dude. Like today, Tyler just what a what a social that would be. Tyler just we have these like meals provided for the five of us now and tie tie went to Wisconsin today and he took one bite, dude. One bite. Sorry, Amy. I know it's disgusting. Amy's our CPA. She's not going to be happy about that. One bite and then leaves it on the table and just the paint and then leaves. That's a yellow. That's a dude. That's a that's a 15 yard penalty minimum. Like he's the refs throwing the flag on that. We need to have like kangaroo court, something like that. That would be so funny to have a referee just come in like ref the office for a day. Yeah. That's a tag. That's a tag. I think it's a tag. Dude, the sandwich was this big and it was oily too. I got oil on my hands. He literally he grabs it takes one bite. He's like, man, this is good. I got to go like, dude, what are we doing here? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a yellow guard. Dude, that's kind of let's do it. Let's get a referee in our office just to start like refereeing our daily interactions around here. I'm right. I was left for lunch about seven minutes early too. I thought that was time wasting. Yellow yellow yellow shirt today. That's so good. How much more efficient would the workday be if you had a referee watching you? Yeah. 10 second violation. What are the penalties? I don't know. We got to come up with penalties. That's funny. But if you had like and then yeah, again, if you like get two yellows and you're out, you get suspended pay for a day, dude. Yeah. But still, they just take your money. It's the opposite of PTO. You have to come but you won't get paid. That's what happens when you get two yellows and we're sitting outside the bathroom door for the people that like to squat on the toilet a little bit too long, you know, on the company time. That's good. Yeah. You go in there, you're counting down, you're like, hey, I already heard you wipe in there. Get out. You leave the cappuccino machine dirty? That's penalty. Bro, I think we got something going on. We'll go talk to HR next. Well, maybe we'll have Lindsey, our head of HR on and maybe talk to her on live on the pod. She can't really, once you're live, dude, you kind of have to say what you, you know, nothing can't get around. And kind of corner in there. Truth comes out. Yeah. So who here in the office is going to be the biggest villain? Ty would, he would be up there. I mean, because flashbangs are straight red. Yeah. When he issues a flashbang on a Friday to the edit team, I mean, he's getting sent out. Yeah. Immediately. Probably Tyler. Three game ban right off the bat. Cody Jones would, I think, rack up some penalties as the year goes on. But we leave a lot of body armor water half drank around our office. That is true. Well, we're on a shortage. We're on the, we're on the great drought of 26. Do you know how I saw that we're on the great drought of 26? Yeah. Shout out body armor. It does send them to my door. Those made it to my door. They did make some eye-doubts. What? Yeah. Y'all were getting deliveries to your home. Dude, almost athlete. How can we indulge in some of that? I can give you some alkaline water. Thanks. Now get a 24 pack. You can have two or three. Yes. Six or seven, or do you would say? That's great. Let's, I'm going to give you guys that initiative for later. Y'all go try to find us a referee. I'm sure, I'm sure. Well, that'd be a banger intern, real. Andrew, Andrew actually is about to be on the show. We can talk to him live about making a hire. Refing and sports league. I mean, Jackson, I could put in a little time. Yeah, let us. We got the jerseys. Yeah, let us walk around and I see Luke Mayer, instead of doing work, he's hitting their dry scoop of protein. Tech, tech them up. Tech them up. I love that. I think y'all would epitomize almost refs. So that's a good pivot point. Because I want to talk almost sports. Yes. Ooh. I've got an almost sport today, boys. That's going to be a y'all drop. Thank you, man. Yeah. Transition defense wins ball games. This is called ostracizing. This is called ostracizing, man. I don't know where this happens. Oh my goodness. Did you see him fall off? Look, similar to horse racing, but with less control due to the bird's unpredictable nature. Meeting. Is he wearing a polo? What are we doing here, boys? Jackson and Graham, this is exactly why we brought you here, because guess where we're going next, boys. Are we actually going? You guys are doing it. Hey, wait, wait, are we actually doing this? Graham and Jackson are going to ostracize. I actually want to do that. Can we actually do this? Oh, yeah. We're going to do it, dude. Don't you worry. Me and Sparky. Sparky, who are you going to take? Jackson or Graham? Can I see a little bit of training first? No, I need to drop. I would probably pick Jackson. I think so too. He's lighter. Where are we going? I need to drop 15 pounds. Dude, that goes fast. I'm kind of scared. Oh, yes. I've done this before on Fantasy Factory way back on date. You've done this before? Yeah. With Rob Deirdic, dude. Rob Deirdic. And in such a funny episode. Yes. His cousin's drama and big cat did it. Boys, start training now. What are you trained for? You have to be 150 pounds or less. Okay, I'm going to drop 15. I actually think I need to gain five pounds. Yeah, I'm 165 right now. I could drop it. Give me. I'm 145 right now. Give me. Two months. At least Jackson's doing it. I want to see you Graham cut weight for this. Yeah, dude. Honestly. I don't know how committed to the big arm. This looks like so much fun. This is like tying the bull riding. You know. Yeah, a little different. For you better. Different. So, what sort of mountain must you do? What you guys say this is a sport? I think you got to be an athlete for this. Say horseback riding. Like horseback riding, it's difficult. Like it takes it out of you. It takes courage too. You got to have strong bikes too. Yeah, actually like. Squeeze ability. Yeah. I low key want to become the goat of this sport. Dude, you don't want to. Like who's the goat of this? You don't know him, but you can know me though. Yeah, dude. You don't want to get run over by an ostrich. Yeah, it's probably some little guy though. Like when you think about. I feel like. Dude, hold on. Hold on. Rewind a second. Rewind a second. These guys aren't under 150 pounds. That's what I was going to say. I know what. There's some chalkers. But they're falling off. They might have some special, like plus size birds, I think. Okay. We need to get a plus. We need a plus. Yeah. Jacks and I the other day actually, I saw an ostrich IRL. And it was hit. It was hitting a low dance. Oh, was it? It was hitting like the, I think it was like their mating dance or something. But it was if you guys had to. Pull up a video of the dancing ostrich. Race a horse and ostrich or ride a bull, which one are you going with? Ostrich. It's definitely not bull. Yeah. I enjoy my life a little bit. You'd rate the horse. Yeah. But I feel like the clickability on that video is not as fun as an ostrich. Oh, see, I'm not a county. Yeah. Look at him. They hit that little move. Oh. Hey. That's actually. Yo. That's cool. If I hit that at the function. That's kind of like a doggie. Literally every girl is flocking to me, bro. Flock? I get it. Oh my gosh. Like a bird. We got referees in the office and we got ostrich racing. That's true. I got weight training. Where is it going to be? You guys know what that is? Yeah. Where is it? Where is it? Job security. Is that international? Job security. Ostrich happening is like it's in it's Kansas and Texas. Oh, yeah. There we are. I'm from Kansas. Home turf. Oh, you're going back home. Home field advantage. I'm now taking advantage. Wow. And the ostrich rates. Dude, I'm pumped for you boys. That's going to be fun. I'll go. I'll just support you. Shall we transition to the to the millennial? Is this the millennial versus Gen Z game? Yeah, I think it's time. Well, first we're going to take a quick break and we'll come back with our millennial versus Gen Z game. Hey. Almost there. Please. Almost. Everyone has been talking about AI lately and we're no different. We've started incorporating it into our daily workflow here at Dude Perfect. But to really make AI work for you, you need the right tools. You need Zapier. That's right, Sparky. Our analytics and operation teams, Dude Perfect, are big fans of Zapier. But it's not just us. 3.4 million companies already use Zapier to streamline their marketing, sales, IT, HR, and more. And Zapier connects to AI models your team is probably already using, like ChatGPT and Clawd. You can even use Zapier to coach your team members. Do you think Zapier could coach Jackson to stop saying six, seven? I really hope so. Our analytics guy, Patrick, used to create a whole new workflow where Zapier prompts Jim and I and post updates in Slack. But you don't need to be an AI expert like Patrick to make Zapier work for you. Unlike other AI tools, there are no bottlenecks and no complexities with Zapier. We've heard all the hype about AI, but Zapier is a platform that actually gets results. Join the 3.4 million companies already automating with Zapier and transform how you work with Zapier and AI. Get started for free by visiting zapier.com.a. That's Z-A-P-I-E-R.com.a. Welcome back to Almost Athletes. Time to gamify this bad boy. We're going to play a little game to test our sports knowledge, but we're going to do it in a unique way. One of us starting with Jackson is going to wear a headband with a picture of a famous athlete or sports figure. The person wearing the picture gets to ask us questions about the athlete to figure out who it is. And then it's the next person starting to wear the headband. So let's do it. Let's do it. Jackson, go ahead and headband up, bro. And Jackson. These are yes or no questions. All right, dude. I look good. Yeah, you look great, dude. For those of you watching or listening back home, Jackson is picked Shaquille O'Neal. Can I ask like what's just yes or no? No, yes or no questions. Yeah. Okay. Is it a male? Yes. Yeah. Okay. That's one. Is he over six foot? Yes. Yes. Yes. Is he over six, five? Yes. Yes. That's three questions. You get a maximum of 20, by the way. Okay. Does he play basketball? Yes. Okay. Did. Did. Okay. So he's retired. You probably should have told me that. Is he African American? Yes. Okay. Doesn't really. You have 15 more questions. You're in a really good place right now. Does he play in the Eastern Conference? Or did he play in the Eastern Conference? Yes. Did he play in college? Yes. Okay. Is he known for like playing in college or is he more known for NBA? That's not a yes or no question, Jackson. Yes. Right. Yeah. Good rebuttal, Gene. I think about that one. Okay. Ignore that one. Did he recently retire like in the last like two to three years? No. No. Really? Okay. I might be cooked. Still have 12 questions. Let me get there. Hang on. Let me get there, boy. Okay. Does he play point guard? No. No. Does he play center? Yes. Okay. I think I have it. All right. Let me hear it. Hang on. Let me just ask one more. All right. Did he play for the Lakers? Yes. Shakil O'Neal. Yes. Give me that. Give me that. The Lakers, of course. The Lakers. Take a look at the picture. 11. I go boy. That's a good pick. That's gonna be tough to beat. 11. I feel like Shak's pretty automatic though. Like if they're all on this fame level. Like if you get Rosie O'Donnell, that's gonna take or require a couple of questions. This is just sports though, right? I don't know. It's in the sports category. Okay. Oh yeah. I know who that is. Oh gosh. Dude, that makes it better. That makes it easier. You're like, oh yeah, I can do it guys. Yeah. For those listening and watching, Garrett has been given Rob Gronkowski. Does this person still play professional sports? No. No, why Graham, why did you say that? I'm sorry. I just got excited. I got excited. Don't let Graham answer. He didn't finish the question. I just got excited. Sorry. No, he does not. So it's a heave. Thank you. No. Oh my. Wow. Did this person play baseball? No. No. Is that only two questions? Yeah. Don't ask all at once, Garrett. Did this person play basketball? No. No. Did he play for the National Football League? Yes. Play for the National Football League? We played in the National Football League. No. Yeah. OK. Yeah. Sure. Retired National Football League. Does this person have any records in the NFL? Yes. Yeah. Somewhere. Yeah. Yeah. I think so. Bro, sorry. I know ball. Cool, dude. Was this person on the offensive side of the ball? Yes. Yes. Was he on the defensive side of the ball? No. He did one play. I remember he did play defense one time. He's kind of known for it too. That's kind of more than a yes-no question answer. Sorry. Yeah, you're right. That's all me. He just got excited, you know? That's seven questions. I have four left, dude. Jeez. So you know he's an NFLer. Yeah, offensive NFL. You know he's the offensive side of the football. And he's retired. And he's retired. What do we say about this? Max number of questions? 20. 20, but then Jackson already got 11, dude. I have four. That's the score to be. How about this? I only have to stop, Jackson. Have you tried thinking about just locking in? No. Gee whiz, dude. Let me lock. Let me cook for a second. And has records, but it wouldn't be a quarterback because he would know he has a record. Does this person play a wide receiver? No. Kind of. I mean, there's definitely formations. Formations where the person played wide out, but not his natural position. Ronny back, retired. This person played for the Dallas Cowboys? Never. Okay, two left. You really got to think about your question here because it's got to, you got to dial it in on this question. I know, bro. I know. Offensive side of the ball has records. Played one play defensively. I think the one play that's being talked about was actually maybe offense turned to defense. Like there was a turnover on the play. We're thinking about the Miami game, right? Did this person play for the Patriots? Yes. Is this person white? Yes. Okay, that's my last question. I got to make a guess. Is it Rob Grunkowski? No. No. It's wrong. I love it. Nice. It's wrong. Dude, I knew I sold myself short whenever I brought up Miami. Did that help you at all? Did it? No, I was, I knew when I said, when you had to think about maybe a thing, it couldn't be a quarterback. Like a record. Well, whenever you were saying running back, I was like, this boy is cooked. This boy is cooked. Grunk, baby, let's go. That's a good pull. Really good pull. Grunbo. Get cooked by Gen Z or baby. I can't wait. I feel good about that. Hey, you're going to have a lot of questions. He, Graham, no way he gets it. If you get it within 20, I'll actually be surprised. For those watching and listening back home, Graham has picked Danika Patrick. If he gets this inside of 20 questions, I'll give him a hundred bucks. It's just a toughy, especially for you, Graham. You're never getting this. If G-Krat gets this, I would be stunned. I don't even think Cody could look at it. Cody might even be able to look at the picture and not get it. Cody Jones would get it. Yes, he would. Well, you just gave me a little hint. You said Cody Jones. So I'm going to guess, is this in the racing category? Yes. Yeah. And I still don't think you get it. First question. At this point now, it's just like start ripping out any. Rip it, dude. Dale Earnhardt. No, that's two. That's a question. Who said that it was NASCAR, dude? Is it NASCAR? Yes. That doesn't help me. I know. That's a bad question. Lightning McQueen, I don't know. Great guess, no. I'm trying to think of racers. I can't believe Lightning McQueen was the second racer. Lightning McQueen and Talladega Knights is like all I know. I'm surprised you know Talladega. Is he white? No, no. No? Yes. Yes. Flaw with the question. Yeah, I said there's a flaw. Flaw with the question. Oh, wait, like I can't ask that? No, it's just a flawed question. It's unanswerable. What does that even mean? It means that part of your premise is wrong. Yes. Is it a girl? Yes. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. A female racer. You're cucked, buddy. You're cucked. Go ahead and give up. I'm not getting this. Do you know who this is? Yes, but I would never in a million years be able to guess this. I need to start. Okay, I need to rethink how I'm doing this. I need to think of like letters now. Yeah, letters. Does her name start with a D? Yes. Okay, because I feel like I've heard of a female with a D name. Yo, you might get this. I'm like low key kind of mad. I'm nervous. I'm nervous. How many questions am I on? You got three left. Yeah, you're at eight. You're doing well. If you get this faster than me, I walk off. Diana? Duh. I ask a question, brother. Deborah? Ask a question. I don't have a question. Just ask. Is it Deborah? Is it Deborah? No. No. Oh, that doesn't help. Okay, I only have two left. Yeah. Okay. I had to ask questions to get there, though. You could have two million. I don't think I need to ask questions. You have to. I said, or a guess is it a question. Dude. Locking it on the D first try is nuts. Because I feel like I've heard of a D racer female. You have? You've definitely. She's everywhere. Everywhere? Everywhere, dude. And she's not Dale Earnhardt. No. Oh, Dale Earnhardt's not a she. Delilah? No. But you still have nine left. Or it was 25 or 20? I don't think I'm going to get 20. I think you should now take the paper off, look at it and tell me if you know, because I still think you won't know. I have no idea who this is. Danica. Danica is right. Last name? No idea. We have, we have. I will give you this. We have her last name working in the office. As a first name. Danica Patrick. There you go. Oh my gosh. The go daddy.com commercial. I mean, I got it there eventually after I saw her name. And we gifted you that with the NASCAR right off the bat with Cody. Yeah. All right, Sparks. Hey, let's show these little young ins. For those watching and listening back home, Sparky has picked Kevin Garnett. Woo. This actually gives me jazz. Go ahead, dude. Yeah, you got this. You feel it in your bones, dude. You already know. Is it Lance Armstrong? Oh, gosh. Oh, I like that. Is it a man? Yes. Did this person play one of the main four American sports? Yes. Does this person still play? No. One of the main, okay. So a retired main four supporter. Does this person play baseball? No. Does this person play football? No. Does this person play basketball? Yes. Have I just burned three of them right there? That was a quick burn. You got four left. Does this person still work within the league, whether it's like a low key L question, dude. I'm not going to lie. Bad question. That was a bad question. Well, he asked it, bro. You have to say yes or no. Don't answer it. I'll let you take it back. It's not a good question. Yeah, I feel like it does if the person's either a front office coach or on TV. Okay. Is this person in the basketball hall of fame? I don't know. I got to look that up. Look it up for me. So we've got a fringe hall of famer. Yes. In the basketball hall of fame. Yes. Did this person predominantly play in the Western conference? Yeah. Yeah. I think so. Did this person retire in the last 10 years? Yes. Is this person Caucasian? No. I'm going to throw one off the hip here and just hope that I can tie both G and J. Is my basketball player Vince Carter? No, but not a bad guess. That is a bad guess. Toronto is not Western. Oh, yeah. Fair. Yeah, fair. That was a terrible guess. Wow, that was a really bad guess. Now that I can't get 11, I'm just trying to get it sub 20. Is this person American? Yes. Was this person's last stop in the Western conference? No. Interesting. Well, technically yes, but I mean. This person never played for the San Antonio Spurs? No. It's a clear miss here you're not thinking of. Does this person work in television? Yes. Because I think I know who this is. Who is it? If you guess, I'll- Did he play for the Minnesota Timberwolves? Yes. Is it Kevin Garnett? Oh. Yes. It is. It is. I should have asked if you go to college because that would have been a dead giveaway. And said no and it would have been like Dwight Howard or KG. All right. That's a tough one. It is tough. So we have a tie, we want to do a tiebreaker? I want to do one. All right, I'll go first. For our tiebreaker, Garrett has been given Ken Griffey Jr. Jackson has been given Joe Burrow. Listen to my question. Does my person play a professional sport? No. Okay. Jackson? Oh, okay. That's a good question. Okay. Does my person play a professional sport? Yes. Yes. Is my person retired from a professional sport? Yes. NFL? Yes. Is my person working TV? Not to my knowledge. Okay. Is my person a quarterback? Yes. You're cooking right now, dude. You're cooking, dude. You're cooking, bro. Did my person play in the NFL? No. Okay, Sparky, I have to ask you this question. Is Graham's on the line? No, you have to ask Graham now. I have to? Yeah. Graham, do you know what the NFC is? Yes, he's in the NFC. Dude, I'm in my bag. I'm low-key unstoppable. He is. Okay. Jackson, you got to cool down for a second, dude. Dude, this is- Gen Z is coming hot on the heels of the millennials right now. Jackson, cool down for a second, dude, all right? We got this, G. One question at a time. We'll piece it together. You're always good at puzzles, too. Did my person play basketball? No, not professionally. Oh, he's not even. It's okay. We're trimming. Like, right clips. He's getting a little trim. Okay, I just need to know. I just need to know NFC West or NFC East. You can ask, is he playing NFC West? Okay, Graham, do you know what the NFC West is? Like, do you know who the teams are? He's looking around. He doesn't. That's what I'm saying. I'm just- And then it's a bad question. It's a bad question? Yeah, if you're a take-your-person, I know how to answer. Oh. Yeah, and you have to wait for it. You have to wait for it. No, I can say, I can say- You set me up wrong. He plays for the NFC. Dude, that's a good play. Patrick Mahomes. No. Oh, I thought I- My person playing the MLB? Did I already ask that? No, you haven't. Yes, he- Retired MLB by- Yep. Okay. Was this person just in the playoffs? You can look it up. I need you to look it up. I need you to look it up. As he's looking that up, I'll go ahead and ask a question. Was this a pitcher? No. I've got Goo Goo ready. Goo Goo ready. Okay, okay, okay. Goo Goo ready. Goo Goo Gaga. Justin Fields. No. No, yeah. He's trying to lead you astray. How do you not go after it? You have to- That's why I'm going there. You're doing that, right? Dude, did you not just hear- I messed up on the AMC thing, and he was gaslighting you. So, you're taking the red plate. So, is it- Is it a hitter? Hitter, like a record hitter? Yeah. Like, holds records for hitting an AMB. Okay, yeah, he said yes. He said yes. Go, Jackson. Shoot your shot, Latwin. Shoot your shot, dude. Onyx. No. Wait, no, he was- That's a good guess. That's an awful guess, because he was in the playoffs. I don't know why I guessed that. Yeah, he was tearing it up too until he got injured. Did he play for the San Francisco Giants? No. Oh, holy dude. Got this, dude. Come on, dude. You're breathing. You're making my heart rate so high right now, dude. Just get there, just get there. I'm right there, I feel it. Got such an easy one compared to me. That is true. Okay, is this person on just a really bad team? That's a subjective question, Jackson. Like, if you think about this team, yeah, and you're like, they're not, yeah, it's a bad team. Yeah, okay, my question now. Is my person Caucasian? No. Is this like a top 10 QB in the least? Yes. It is. Okay, that's your question. It's like for sure. Like you think he's top 10? Yeah. Oh, wait, wait, I got it. You already asked a question. It's my turn to ask one more. Correct. Right now, you know, it's a baseball player that's not a pitcher. Yeah. That's retired. Not on TV that has some records. You're fried, bro. I mean, that's a large tough. That is so tough. Did he play in the outfield? Yes. Okay, there, that's his question. That's my question. So I have to make a guess after you make a guess. I'm just going for it. Joe Burrow. Yes. Let's go, Eddie. Give me that. That's too easy. That's actually too easy. I mean, I guess I'll just make a guess. Is it Tori Hunter? No, you're in the right direction there. King Griffey Jr. King Griffey Jr. Yep. Yep. Such a layup, dude. Give me one more, Burstjax. I can't handle losing you. Dude, I'm fine. You know what? No, I'm done. The kid. Dude, my boy, my boy got just... Dude, so easy. And then he said he was a... He played on a mid-team? I mean, I don't know, dude. That was actually a bad answer for me. Bro, and then straight off the bat, he goes, Dude, I don't even have to look at my phone, bro. Like, in the CCC. Well, y'all like, clarify the phone. Like, dying. And I'm sitting there and trying to... I know it. Dude, it's... And you're voodooing on us, man. I'm looking forward to somebody like Blue. I was still going to do that. I would have... Hey, game-recognized game, though, dude. Maybe you didn't know, Baldi. Job boys. This kid doesn't, though. Dude. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't claim to. I didn't claim to. Dude, next time we play that game, because I wouldn't have known half the questions you asked about, Kevin Garnett. Like, I didn't know he was... He got inducted in the Hall of Fame already. Yeah. And I didn't know... They say he was on TV. Dirk, I think. Yeah, he's doing the podcast, the Area 51 or the 41. I didn't know either of those. And I didn't know how long... Because I was like, dude, he played on Celtics for quite a while. And Nets. Brooklyn, too. And Nets. But then he went back to... Minnesota. God, that would have been tough. The Rock would have been tough. Yeah, these are some good ones. Rock. Oh, Romo. And I pulled that ribbon upon one. Ken Griffey, the kid. That's on me, though. How do I not go? Beco, that would have been good. Well, that was fun, dude. Should we hit some announcements before we kick you all out? Why don't you give it to him, dude? Yeah, I go. All right, boys. Squad Games Tour starts in three months. Couldn't be more excited. All right. What? When you're given like an announcements, dude, that says couldn't be more excited and you sound like you're asleep, okay. You ready? I guess. Let's cook, dude. Squad Games Tour starts in three months. I couldn't be more excited. There you go. I hope you all already see the dudes go head to head against some crazy, talented squads. Check out dudeperfect.com slash tour for tickets and keep a close eye on our socials the next couple of weeks for full... For the full guest squad announcements. I'm like sweating right now. Dude, I appreciate you telling the people the announcements and realizing that... Dude, it's a tough job. It is tough. It's a tough job when Ty gets up there and just rips a four paragraph for by memory. Dude's talented, man. You guys look way easier than it is. So anyways, if you didn't understand anything Jackson said, we're going on tour, baby. Sparky, me, the rest of the dudes. Unfortunately, Jackson as well. Maybe Graham. I don't know. Dudeperfect.com slash tour for tickets, dude. We would love to see you out there on the road with us. We're going to be competing against some sick squads. We're going to be announcing that. I think April 10th. April 10th is the date. So be on the lookout for those. So be on the lookout. But up next, we got the head honcho coming in to take Graham's seat. So I got to kick you guys out. Andrew Yaffe. All right, the big Yaffe. Boys, it was fun. The big Yaffe Tron. Put in a good word for me. Grab some of them. Lil Yaffe and Hymer. D, April 15th tax deadline is coming fast. But don't worry, Sparky. You can hand off your taxes to a TurboTax expert today. I know I've been dragging my feet, G, but the old ways of doing taxes is so stressful. First, you have to find someone to do them for you. Then you have to work around their schedule and chase them for updates. And you still never know if things have been done right or if they missed something. Let go of the old way, Sparky. With Inuit TurboTax, you can hand off your taxes to a dedicated full service expert. They understand your specific tax situation and can do your taxes for you entirely from start to finish. Online or in person at one of their new tech-enabled store locations. I know all about this, G. You can have your tax forms directly imported right into the app and hand everything off to your TurboTax expert. While they work on your taxes for you and work tirelessly to get you every dollar you deserve, you can go about your normal routine, giving me time back to work on my 2027 March Madness Bracket. But March Madness 2026 isn't even over yet. It is for me. Yeah, me too. So who do you have? I'm not sure. Do you think Inuit TurboTax can help with that? Probably not. Maybe you should just let them focus on doing your taxes for you. Don't wait. Visit TurboTax.com and hand off your taxes to a TurboTax expert today. You know what I've been wondering about lately, Gare? 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Let's cut right to it, Andrew. Least favorite dude. I'm just happy that it's small. It means people are actually working at ice parks. Yeah, they are working. Yeah, you've ordered the question, man. You ordered the question, though. Yeah. Who's not here? No, I, yeah. It is one of the favorite questions we ask fans. Least favorite dude. Because, you know, we always ask like the favorite dude you're going to get your Tyler's 98% of the time. I love when you catch the occasional kid who no hesitates when you ask him your least favorite dude. He's like, Cody, obviously. Yeah, I was like, yeah. I got you, brother. Yeah, like, right, dude. It's, it's, it's, when we first started doing this, it kind of was like, oh, dude, like, why are you taking shots of me? And then it just got to be like, dude, that's funny, man. Like, sweet, we enjoy it. So anyway, it's Cody. My least favorite is, honestly, each of you is my favorite at a different moment. At a different moment at a different time. All be your least favorite at a different moment. So that's exactly how I need to get that question. You can hit me with that. And I'm like, well, one day of the week. Well, you forgot to mention he is a Duke alarm. You gotta go there. Yeah, we gotta go right into it. Fresh off. You had a rough night there, dude. Yeah, this was not my favorite weekend. Big Duke basketball fan. And we had a great 39 minutes and 55 seconds, but couldn't close. Well, I wouldn't say it was a great 39 minutes, 55 seconds. I mean, you did blow a 19 point lead. Let's just, that takes time. That takes time. We did. Though I saw us that earlier today, that Duke lost three games this year, total of five points. And in the second half, we led by at least, we led for at least 18 minutes and 30 seconds in three of those games. That's crazy. That makes the steamer worse. Out of the absolute super teams that Duke has assembled over the years, which one do you think is the most surprising that didn't get it done? That's a great question. That's a phenomenal question, actually. The team, well, I mean, last year with Cooper Flyden, last year was a good con. It's a great squad. I mean, you look at it, they had a couple other picks. The whole team was playing in the NBA this season. That one could have, up six in the final minute, they should have closed out Houston last year. The Zion team with RJ Barrett and Cam Reddish, that was an amazing squad too. I mean, that team was stacked. Yeah, that team was dominant. They couldn't get it done either. So there have been a few over the last few years. A lot of talent, a few fewer championships than we'd like, but that's okay. We, it's always next year. And then, when do we start questioning John Chire's big game ability? I think Coach Chire will be in the lab this off season, trying to figure out why we have blown three 15-point leads, or four 15-point leads in big games over the last two years. We need to figure that out. So we're not quite at the point. I mean, guys, I think something like 70 and seven over the last two years, three ACC titles in his first four years. So we're not questioning them too hard just yet, but we've got to figure this out. I mean, look, Dallas Stars went to three Western Conference finals. Guy had an ultimate and we fired DeBoer. Look, there's going to be a time where like, you don't make the final four with these teams and these rosters that are going to cost you $20 million. Yeah. Like Hubert? This is Hubert getting the axe. Hubert got caught. I was surprising a little bit. He would never fit UNC for me. Really? He didn't fit like the vibe. But all right, that's enough on Duke, I guess. Yeah, I'll cry myself to sleep getting an eye. There's always next year, man. What year did you graduate, Duke? 2008. How many points per game did you average? 0.00. And I know, I was actually, I was a manager. I walked in the first day for one day. I walked in my freshman year, fall, and I was like, I want to be a manager on the basketball team. Basketball is everything here. I walked in the first training. They were like, you need to give everything this program, all day Saturday, all day Sunday, wear a suit, show up at 5 a.m. if we ask you. I turned right around and walked down. I was like, that's not for me. I'll go work for the newspaper. You were like, I could see myself fitting in with the Cameron Craigsman. Yeah, that's a little better. Yeah, there's no footage of that. He's your race. I don't know if there's any footage of Yoffie with the student section, but I would love to see you painted up court side. That'd be fun. No comment. You worked for the NFL officiating department. I did. It was actually my first job. Do I need to sit in between y'all? Yeah, dude, this is. Oof. I didn't know that in the interview. That was held for me. That would have been a dock on you. Smart play by Andrew. Yeah, I kept that one in my pocket before. So what were you doing there? This was very early in my career. I was cleaning the supply closet. I was mailing officials, their uniforms, and penalty flags. Have you ever... Did you ever miss a shipment? Not to my knowledge. Wow. What a stressful job, dude. I was good at what I did. Yeah, and actually, I was so good at it that they promoted me to game observer, which meant that every Sunday I got to go in, they paid me 50 bucks, they fed me pizza, and I got to watch a football game. Literally the best job. Sorry. Better than CEO, dude. Perfect. That's the job I will ever have. Look, I'm not, you know, you got to get yourself a better negotiator. $50 in a box. I was 17. It doesn't matter. Those things are like... Watching professional football. Those things are like four hours. Dude, that's a... I mean, look, middle wage is... I get it, but man, dude. Getting paid to do something you were going to do anyway is... That's as good as a guess. So did you have to wash the... No, no, no, no, no. No, okay. This was preseason, so I was just... So they actually have to like... Once they have their uniform, they have it. Yeah. Okay, then it doesn't come back. This... Not to my knowledge. Okay. Yeah. All right. Any chance you replacement ref? Throw your name in the hat? Yeah, dude. I did not want to talk about it. When I worked there, they talked to me about like, hey, wanting to get involved in the training. Similar to the manager thing, though. It was like, that sounds like a lot of work. They're not. They're about every Saturday, every Sunday. They're about to go on strike here. And I was thinking maybe, you know, I probably... It might be my time to get into the game. Oh, yeah. They need better refs. And I'm telling you, dude, if Dan Hurley comes and headbutts me, he's not just getting dejected. I'm like, I'm throwing assault charges on the guy. I... You know, ref needs to take this seriously, man. You ask what I do with Dude Perfect, I would make some content about Garrett becoming a row. Without that, I think we all would watch. Okay, so now fast forward from 17, we do the ref stuff. What transpired after that? Worked... Went to Duke after that. Worked a few different places, ended up at the NBA. Spent... It's pretty... I've heard of him. Yeah, I've heard of him. Yeah, I've heard of him. It was a fun place to work, spent almost 15 years there, total. Led before I came here was leading all social and digital content for the league. So over to our YouTube and our app and our streaming service, documentary films, all sorts of fun stuff. Any favorite story from behind the scenes with your time in the NBA? So many. What can I say? If it can be legally said. Middle world peace, jumping in the stands. No, I wasn't there for that, thankfully. Yeah. One, actually, when I start... Right when I started at the NBA, I got to go to the 2011 All-Star game. 2011, good year. Great year. Good year. Or 2012, 2011, 2012. Long time ago. Los Angeles, this was the Dung Contest where Blake Griffin jumped over a car. Yeah, Kia. And my job was to be a seat filler. And so whenever a celebrity had to get up, go to the bathroom, do whatever they needed to do, I went down, sat courtside, got to sit in their seat. So for the Dung Contest, I was sitting front row, directly under the basket, Blake Griffin coming right at me, Javail McGee dunked on two baskets right in front of me. That was the coolest. Like another moment you can't stop. Dude, this is so fascinating because I know my next hire. I got to get a seat filler for the meetings, dude. Yeah, that's good. A seat filler for the meetings. I got to get one, man. Hey, dude, that's all right. I'm going to bounce out of here, but we've got to fill the seat for me, dude. Company's not paying for that just so you know. Well, yeah, we can make some budget adjustments. I'll tell you what, seat filler, that's a dangerous job, though. I'd be liable to be like, oh, you see the Blake Griffin dunk, X-Lax in their drink trying to make that bathroom stay a little longer. I could fill this seat. And that's pretty crazy. Yeah. And once I sat down, I didn't get up. So you started as, did you start as like a media person, like low in media guy? I started doing ticket pricing. So I was like a data nerd looking at how much tickets were priced. Before AI, dude. This was a long time ago. Yeah, there was barely, barely computers. And so I was trying to figure out how both increase and decrease tickets. And from there, went into the media side of the business after that. And then when you went into the media side, obviously you just built up like every so often, you got that next job, that next job before you're running hire many people. Yeah. When I left, I was running, it was about 350 people on my team. So this is tiny compared to what the NBA has going on over there. Now we have 70s. About 70. 70 plus. Something like that. So good speed limit here in Texas. 70 something. I don't even know a couple of people walking around the office, man. I can't even imagine 300. Yeah, I'm going to come clean that there was a seven brew person in there. I was like, we haven't met yet. I'm sorry. I thought they were on our team. They're like, well, we're so happy to be here with seven brew. And I was like, that's right. Yeah, you are. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. We haven't gotten quite to name tags for all employees yet, but we're thinking about it. So I don't know what year total at the NBA you would have been getting some minutes with the NICS. I'm sure that was coming down the line. It was, dude. Close. I get the 25 year mark. Yeah, they let you. They give you an honorary. It's like senior night. They like let you go out there for a minute just to earn it. But when I started the NBA was Linsanity as an ex-fam. Oh man, what a incredible run. Which was another great memory of getting to go. That gave every kid in America hope that, hey, you know what? I could do that. Yeah. The Ivy League kid. Yeah. So do we come looking for you or are you looking around? How does that work? A little bit of both. A little bit of both. Yeah. I'm not asking for a friend. You might not remember this. We were at an event and the twins, the five of you were there and I was there. It was a YouTube event. And yeah, I remember, dude. The twins came up to me and just started walking me through a presentation on Dude Perfect World. And I was like, well, this is something. And we had a long, we probably spent 45 minutes together in the green room. And I was like, oh, these guys, these guys have their act together. And they put on a facade. Good job, boys. Good job, twins. Twins did a good, a good pitch session. And like six months later, I got a call from a headhunter and put two and two together and came on down to Frisco. It was 108 degrees. We shot a video outside. You had to be thinking. Ooh, that was one of the stereotypes videos. Yeah, with the rough riders. Yeah, they shot the rough riders. Yeah. And it was hot. And if I survived that, I figured if I can do August and Frisco, I can do. I can do the rest of the year. I'm just questioning why a headhunter hasn't called me yet. I was wondering why I didn't get an email back when I put my name in the hat for CEO. Britain, brother nature was all about it. He was running the campaign. One Christmas party, I was like, man, I've got this in the bag. Yeah, if he blindsided me. I think we're both in the right roles. Fair. Yeah. So what was it that ultimately made you, obviously, you really seemed happy at the NBA. You were crushing it, elevating up the ladder. What was it about Dude Perfect? That was so gravitating that you felt the need to get up and move. Yeah. I mean, one is just a fun place to work. Like I'm not just saying that because I get to hang out with you guys on this comfortable podcast studio. The people here are awesome. What we're trying to accomplish is awesome. And the idea that we're building something new and different. Like I love that, right? Like totally. The NBA is great, but whether I was there or whether I left, the NBA is still going to be there. Here we're building something new and different and exciting. And every day we're adding something that Dude Perfect has never done before. And that's just an incredibly fun mission. You know, we've been talking a lot about how, like, if we were going to wrap what Dude Perfect tries to do into a mantra, it'd be to inspire play. And I'm a dad. I've got a seven-year-old and almost five-year-old in there. Big DP fans. And the idea that I every day can go to work and do something that gets them to want to get off the couch and go try and hang out in our driveway and try a trick shot or go in the outdoors is really exciting and is really meaningful to me. And so that's a, it's a fun place to show up and it's a meaningful place to show up. I don't want you to take this the wrong way, but the inspire play. Just be careful with that. You personally, the kids all good. I just, that feels like a soft tissue injury waiting to happen at this time. Yeah, killies these days for us, man. I tore a calf muscle playing golf. So yeah, I'm past my play days. That's pretty almost as a... Yeah, it is on a long list of almost that play moments for me. Obviously, you mentioned it earlier. Dude Perfect World. Want to give the peeps a little update? Yeah, we've kind of left them hanging on that. Yeah, I do. I always say the idea of a theme park is sort of the North Star of our vision. But like I was just saying, I think we love when we get kids out and doing something. So we're cooking up something here at Dude Perfect that might not be at the scale of a full theme park, but it... Not yet. Yeah. Not yet, but it's going to get kids to go to a place and get to try things that they've been watching for years in the videos. And that'll be everything from throwing balls to potentially throwing through things to hitting. And there'll be more to come on it, but we're spending a lot of time here. Dudes, business team, figuring out exactly where it'll be. But we'll have something to announce really soon that we're excited about. Very cool. I look forward to that. So yeah, anyways, we got the book. Dude Perfect and Panda. The first one's Operation Trick Shot comes on May 12th. We got Squad Games Tour. Yep, whole new concept. With the squads getting announced April 10th. Yeah, so look for that. It's a big one. Yeah, we got Trick Shot. We're calling it Trick Shot Town. I don't know what it's going to be called yet, but that's going to be exciting. We are going to launch maybe a Christmas little thing locally. So we got some fun plans. And more to come. And more to come. And I just hope now I just keep my Achilles dude through it all. You know? Yeah, I feel like it. It's got to stay seated as much as possible. Yeah, that's what we got. Squad Games Tour. Squad Games Tour is, you know, it's tough. But yeah, there's a question on here. Are there plans to replace the dudes with robots? I sure hope so. I'd take a robot Cody version over just the normal version. I would take a robot. Me, I can make it more... You know, I don't know. I just am injured all the time now. I can't even run three miles without getting injured anymore. That's a problem, dude. It's brutal, dude. So you're not going to do the marathon with me? No, I'm going to still, I'm still going. I'm still going. I actually have to run tonight. I've got to run tonight. I'm trying to get him to do the New York marathon with me. Look with that. He's trying to kill me, dude. See this guy? It's for content. It's a big life insurance policy. I'll say that if I, if I'd nined that marathon, dude. That's company money. Yeah, I know. That's what I'm saying. You want to stage it? Golly. Thirteenth mile you just pass out. All right. Well, let's talk about the fun hitters here. Look, we just got done with some year in reviews here at DP. First time ever, by the way. Yeah. That was. Can I say something about my, oh yeah, go ahead. It was with Kevin and Lindsay, both awesome people. I was more nerve wreck. I was, my nerves were jumping up and down way more than like a tour show of 15,000 people. And I said that to him and they laughed out loud. But as the honest to goodness truth, that was new territory for us. Well, I hope I'm not spoiling anything. Sparky got a pretty good review of it. So we're happy for him. Guys, yeah, I can't even say mine. Mine was a little. Garrett less so. I got work to do, but see, that's the thing though. It's like. This is why we do it. Is why you do it. You need to work on. Leave feedback. But here's the deal. We hired a bunch of young kids. Some 18, some 19, some 20s. How's the Gen Z adapting the corporate life? I told Jackson. Jackson, I think, is probably the king of our Gen Z employees. And when he came to me with the idea of starting a DP interns channel. Oh, that was his idea. Oh, yeah. First thing I said to him was like, Jackson, if I understand what it is you're talking about, probably means you're doing something wrong. And he is. You haven't understood anything yet. He has lived up to it because I have no idea what he's talking about. He made me. He made me. And it's getting 10 million views of video and I'll take it. He made me do this one today, which I have to ask and he makes fun of me. He's like, dude, I am sick and tired of describing trends to you. And I'm like, bro, like I. And it was like, dude, I need to, I'm going to say Travis Scott is dead. I'm like, okay. But he, but he's not right. And he's like, no, no, no, no, he's totally alive and fine. But he's like, you're going to act like who's Travis Scott. And then when I say the fortnight guy, you're going to freak out. And that was the whole real today. That's a tough sale. Yeah. It sounds like it sounds like it's going to, it's going to crash. Do you know what I'm talking about, Susie? It does feel like you guys are being asked to do things and you have no idea. We have no idea. But I think that's part of the charm. Like it is part of the charm. If you have no idea what's going on because also clear Garrett has no idea what that is about. I will say this for 16 and a half years or however long until Judah came. Dude, our social guy, which was us for a long time, and it was Chad Coleman, they couldn't pay me to do some of the stuff. Chit Judah has made me do the last two weeks. And everyone's like, dude, what's happening to you? And I'm like, I don't know, dude, Judah's just kept coming here and telling me to do it. He's selling me on it. It is tough though. It reminds me of like going over and trying to teach my mom a Roku and how to like go about that. That's pretty similar with the intern sometimes. Well, yeah, OK. I mean, Gen Z, they're the future of our company. So they're like fitting in well the corporate life, you'd say. I think they're doing a great job for what we asked them to do. He doesn't know exactly what they're doing. But again, if I knew what they were doing, we'd have a problem. I don't think you want to be in this job for 20 years. So I have the ability to say this. I think if I had to put it, if I was a betting man here, dude, I think Graham might be CEO of Dude Perfect in like 30 years. He's got a little something. I was the first to call that. We should do it before he dropped. I heard it from Jared and I was like, that's not bad. I heard it from Jared and I was like, but dude, I could see it when he's like 50 years old. Pretty buttoned up for his age way much more than I was. I would be honored to be replaced by Graham. His current rate of meteoric rise, he might be the CEO in about two years. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. That's not bad. I don't know. That's two years. I don't know. He needs to know. That's like Dan Hurley putting a face into the rap. He might be our podcast producer in about 10 minutes. There you go. Graham. That's funny. 10 minutes. Graham needs to figure out who Danica Patrick is before he gets to CEO. That's earlier in the episode, Andrew. Glad you weren't here to see that. Family life. So there's Dude Perfect, but there's also a family aspect. You got up and moved everybody, but give the people at home a little tidbit on the family, how large it is. And my wife, Tristan, I got a daughter, Hannah. She's seven. My son Leo is about to turn five. Like I said, they're big DP fans. We all moved down here this summer from New York City. It's a tough time to move, dude. Yeah. Someone should have told me before we moved in the middle of June. Yeah. And it's hot here, but if we can survive a summer, you know, we can survive. We can make it work. So golf season is a lot longer here. That's great. That's true. They kids haven't seen the kids haven't seen the tornado season yet. That's we're about to enter it. You've seen it. Yeah. I every whatever it's the first Wednesday of every month when the sirens go off, they still get to me. I still want to hide. I don't know. What's going on here? Yeah. Yeah. I said to I said to Mark when I started, I was like, hey, Mark, where's the tornado shelter at the office anyway? And he was like, let's go to the bathroom. And I was like, OK, cool. You could call the closet. Right. Sounds good. It's a good spot to be. No wind. I'm not sure I'm going to stay stick around this this office. Yeah. The tornado comes ripping through here. Literally under any of the like the mezzanine should be fine. That that thing is built so an airplane can land on it. Yeah. As a guy grew up in a double line, I feel comfortable here. Yeah. I feel comfortable here than I did in Winesboro, Texas. I don't like that you've thought about it that much that that's kind of you get better over contingency playing Andrew. I lay in bed thinking like, do I get my family up? And we we now we now have decided we're not. And if the tornado hits our house, dude, it's just it's the Lord's timing. It's every man for himself. It's every man for himself. Oh, when you better survival. Well, I told you we were just we were just hiking Palladero, dude. And I, you know, my daughter looked at me and she was like, are there mountain lines here? And I was like, there are. Don't be slower than Lincoln. They go good advice, care. Good advice. Just don't be the last one and you're fine. So a five and a seven year old that makes me think, do they ever give you ideas for the channel? They they give me lots and lots of ideas. Some good, some bad I take. We were waiting on a good one. We're going to get to a good one at some point. A lot of wheel unfortunate punishments. My daughter has a lot of ideas for those. So she love that again. Again, we'll get to a good one eventually. She's not she's not Gen Z yet or she's whatever comes after Gen Z. That's that's them alpha. She's a Gen Alpha, maybe beta. Who knows. Better than Gen Z. Anyways, and so we even figured out exactly what the content vision is for Gen Alpha yet. Okay. What's the best part of living here? What do you think? Just the golf season? Love the golf. Love the food. Who you over New York? Over New York food. Well, I miss there's certain restaurants I miss in New York for sure. But like I love barbecue. I'm a big barbecue fan. So yeah, I've been eating a lot of it. It's not good. It's not it's not it's tough lunch though. Yeah, that's a night. That's a night. Needle needle. Needle like yeah. And shower after that. Yeah, post barbecue coma that a competition is the same way with Tex-Mex though. Tex-Mex is unbelievable that you can follow into that in two and a half hours later. Be hungry yet again. Ramen. I put ramen in that category too. Ramen's a nap food for me. Oh no. I can handle. I can handle my ramen. This guy eats sea urchin. Man, that was the most uncomfortable I've ever been to Japanese restaurant. We went to an LA and this guy was eating like... What's it called? Ooni. Ooni. That stuff's awesome. Ooni and sweet shrimp. Let's go. You'd have to pay me a significant amount of money. I still get to stop talking about him in a puke. I have by the way, I don't want to say I have a significant amount of money. We can we can get some Ooni in here. No. And that sounds like a great... I've already done it. I've already done it. I've already done Ooni. I don't need to do it again. How'd it go? It was... I don't think it doesn't sound like Sparky's Ooni. I didn't make eye contact with it. When it like broken my mouth, it took me... I was like play through it. You did. I noticed that face. She was like, I'm okay. And then you were like... It's got some serious mush to it. Yeah. It is not a sensation you're used to. I'm with Jared though. It's good stuff. Yeah. Okay. Well... I miss Ooni in New York. There you go. That's a food that... Yes. Wouldn't eat Texas Ooni. Texas is better than New York, right? Well, I didn't say that. No. Well, I'm asking. I'm asking. Both places have great sports parts. That's for sure. There's a lot more sports here, which I really like. Just better professional teams. I don't know about that. The Cowboys are better than our Giants. What are we going to say it, dude? Really? Are the Cowboys better than Giants? I don't think so. I like our future. I'm a Giants fan. I like our future. Jackson Darris, Blake Neighbors. Yeah, you like your future. Get something built up. I'm doing Carter. I can't wait to see how it all crashes down. That'll be fun to watch from the door. It will. It will. Well, we played this game with Bob-omb. And we played it with Luca. Yeah. Texas Test? I am honored to be in a third after Bob-omb and Luca. How Texas are you game? So we'll just ask a couple of questions and we'll see how we do. So question number one, what gas station chain is widely considered the greatest gas station in the world by Texans? Buckeys. Yes. Correct pronunciation. Correct. Correction too. I have never, I've never, I've never been to a Buckeys. Whoa. Whoa. There's one in Den. There's one in Melissa. We've got to fix that. Take the kids to a Buckeys. They won't be disappointed. That sounds like a good, we can like, you need some beaver nugs. Change your life. And I've said on podcasts before, best place to go to the bathroom even beat your home. I don't know how they do it. I don't know how they do it. Every toilet is more clean than your own home toilet. All right. Shocking. Once you leave the toilet, somebody walks in to clean it. That doesn't happen in my home. I know. That's what I'm saying, dude. Especially with kids, dude. Boys. Brutal. That's a one. Good start. Next question. What Texas grocery store do locals treat almost like a religion? I'm going to go with HEB. Yes. Correct. Let's go. All right. I go to the one on Maine. Never, they're big. I'm actually not one of these people that treat it like a religion. I'm much more of like a whole foods guy. Yeah, you are. Yeah. I'm a whole foods guy. Yeah, you are. Yeah. And I don't know why because I get to. I was very whole foods. I get three bags of chips and it's $400. But I still go back every time they get me. HEB and Central Market, I will say the fresh tortillas. They bake the tortillas in store. They give you off. That is fresh yeast. That's my Saturday morning snack. The only bad thing about HEB is they're over fire code every time I go in there. There's got to be about 4,000 people in there. If someone says they're going down to the Hill Country, where are they probably heading? Somewhere near Austin and San Antonio? Somewhere over there? Yeah, I think that's correct. Yeah, people say Hill Country. Are there hills? I feel, yeah, there are hills. It's very, Austin, have you been to Austin? I have. Didn't see Matt Hilly. Austin's very hilly. Okay, Austin and Frederick. See, I say, I think Hill Country is more Fredericksburg. Yeah. But Austin's part of it. Is Frederick, I should go there? Frederick, you and Kristen. That's a good trip. That's a good trip. A little romantic getaway. Yes. Oh, yeah. Leave the seven and five year old though, probably for the. Yeah, they got some wineries there. It's fun, man. It is. It's a. In Texas is extremely flat. So those places are, I like hills. Yeah. Okay. That's good. Well, you know more than I thought. Definitely more than Boban. Let's see how we do. What Texas Convenience Store is famous for its collochies? Good question. This one's tough. There's only. I'm going to go Bucky's yet again. Well, they do. They do have really good collochie games. So is this the one in Waco? We're talking about the Czech store? Yeah, there is that one. But it doesn't be the answer. That is one of the answers. Okay, good. Either the Czech store or just race track in general. Race track. I wouldn't put race track in the same category. No, that's doing the that's doing the check wrong. And remind me a collochie is it's a it's the one that's a hot dog wrapped in a biscuit. If you ever. I'm picking a blanket. Yeah. Yeah. Is you ever. If you ever go down to like Waco or driving through that area to get to Austin, there is a. Like a gas station. Yeah. It's called the Czech stop, right? Czech stop. Yep. Just outside of West. It is unbelievable. All right. Right next door to that. I got a lot of road trips. This is actually on the way to Hill Country. On the way to Hill Country. And I think there's a buck. He's about 10 miles away. One trip and you can knock off a lot. Yeah, you can knock off a lot. All three of them. It says a romantic getaway like a giant pig in the mullet. She'll love it. You'll have like hands and they have like hands and kids. They have all of it. Right. So good. I'll I'll leave my kids there. Then you can go to Frederick. Yeah, we're going to come back. All right. Race track. I'm offended. Yeah. That was from an internet source. Literally I'm about to go stop by a race track on the way home. You're curious. You know. All right. Number five in Texas barbecue culture. What kind of meat is widely considered the king of barbecue? This I know. This is brisket. Yes, for sure. Has to be. Again, this is just so I like to call it the moist brisket. I feel like lean brisket is miserable. Agreed. But we'll call it we have it to brisket. I have smoked a brisket. You've already smoked a brisket. I have already smoked a brisket. It didn't go off. The barbecue hasn't even done that. I didn't. I have inch. It was it was barely out of bulk. You really are taking. You really love this. I'm a half Texan by now. Yeah. Wow. I should have had him at Cowboy Hat today. Oh, all right. That's correct answer. You're killing it. What dessert brand from Brenham, Texas is so beloved that Texans will argue it's the best in America. I can I phone a friend on this one? Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and get it easier. What ice cream brand? There we go. No, I don't know. Bluebell. Oh, you're going to need to remember that one going forward. I don't know. I also know if you want to want my opinion, it's not the best. Easy. It's not, dude. Don't you a blind taste test? Bluebell and then Tillamook, Tillamook, the cheese brand, but they make an ice cream that will blow your socks off. If Tillamook's brand is watching, we should we do like a vanilla ice cream blind taste test? That'd be phenomenal. Possibly. I love that. I love that. Yeah, we can do that. We'll see if a blue. Truly is the best vanilla. Yeah. Bluebell is the best. You need to lay lips on cookie two step again, Gary. That's shocking. Now you kind of talk down on Bluebell. It's just blue gets to I just like softer ice cream. The whole food's just changing you. Maybe it's because I'm holding it back to lose my teeth and get dentures. That's all it is. Ancient. Yeah. In Texas highway culture, what is the unofficial real speed limit most drivers follow even when the sign says 70? I think that if the Dells North tollways any indication, the answer is N A that you can go as fast as you want. That's what it is. That works. At least 10 over. With the flow of traffic, which is usually about 10 over. Oh yeah. Yeah. I've seen people on the tollway going 110 easy. Oh, easy. Very easy. People fly on that road. Yeah. So here's where I say it gets more dangerous is when no offense to the Californians and the New Yorkers that moved here during COVID. But Texas has, it is, it's a fast-paced driving. If you go anywhere else, it's completely different. But when you put a slow-paced driving in the middle of a fast-paced driving, it gets way more dangerous than just all fast. Because all these people are used to it and then out of nowhere, you're right up on this dude and have to cut over to a fast guy and it's just a dangerous situation. I don't have a source, but statistically, I've always heard the slower drivers at more risk too in that situation. I agree that what I've observed, I'm from not Texas. What I've observed is here, everyone's either 10 to 15 above it or 10 to 15 below it and almost nobody's in the middle. Yeah. And so you have this major mismatch of velocity everywhere. It's real bad. Also, I was wondering why my car insurance went up when I moved here. Oh yeah. Because car insurance is very expensive. Really? It's because the per capita accident rate in Texas is higher than anywhere. Wait till you have a kid driver, kid driver. And the beauty is you can go the proper speed limit in Texas without being chastised as long as you're in the correct lane. As long as you're in that right lane, nobody will bat an eye at you. But the second you get in that far left-hand lane going 70, yeah, you better watch out. I will say, big change. The stereotype is people like trucks here. People really like trucks here. Tyler, Tony. I love it. I drive a 250 for no reason. I've towed golf clubs. They're just sick. They fill the whole lane. Love it. I love a big truck. Texas, including those two babies. Yeah. Okay, good. What Texas weather pattern is famous for turning a 70 degree afternoon to a freezing night within hours? I don't know the exact name, but... I have no idea. I will say, my only Texas weather experience, I spent a summer in Lubbock. Sorry about you. And there's a dirt... You've seen some stuff. You've seen some dust storms. Yeah, the dust storms. The Haboobs are a West Texas legend where dust storms are all in. So I know that's the wrong answer to this question, but the only Texas weather pattern I know is a Haboob. Yeah. What is this answer? It's a blue norther. Blue norther. You made that up. Yeah, I've never even heard that before. Graham, our new podcast producer, is going to have a much better answer. I will say. I was just in the panhandle on spring break and we had that dust storm. And dude, it is... It's a nightmare, bro. I can't believe people like... I can't believe people live there. I was wondering... I really... It's insane. How do people live in these places 150 years ago when it was like, you can't get in a car and leave? I don't understand it. So many people are no desa. Permian was a power and you're like, how was that ever a power? Yeah. It just shocks you. All right, last question. What famous motto appears on a Texas license plate and tourism campaigns? Everything's bigger in Texas? Close. Close. We'll give it to me? Do we get a point? What is it? Texas. Correct. I should have known that. Don't mess with Texas. I should have known that, yeah. Don't mess with Texas. It's really taken a thing of its own. We recently... We should probably change that title. I think people are taking it a little too far. Five, correct? That was it? It felt like seven. No, it felt way more than... He's short changing you. He is. Graham. Stickler. Stickler. Graham's going to be moving in. Watch yourself, brother. All right. Two last things. Almost athlete moment. Yeah. In which one? So many. I got a lot. I got a few. Yeah. When I worked at the NBA, we did a deal with a company called Home Court and they had an app that would record on your iPhone you playing basketball and it would have your shooting percentage and it would have your makes and misses and you could draw a shot chart. It was incredibly cool. When we went out to close the deal, we flew out to California and we played a pickup basketball game and in this game, I was a point guard in my youth. Nice move in the perimeter, gets the basket, fake a guy out, wide open layup, knee gives out and I just crumple. Ball doesn't get off my fingers and I'm up on the ground under the basket and the worst part is we're recording it. Of course, because that's the app. And so now my business partner, all my colleagues, it gets texted around. I actually asked someone for the video earlier today and within five minutes he was able to find it. So on this was 10 years ago. So it is that video has lived in infamy. I've been trying to live it down. Yeah I'm lucky I don't have video evidence of mine. Video evidence is what makes it worse. It's bad dude. You don't want video evidence. The kids now these days all have video evidence. Of everything. That video evidence, send it on in to almost. Yeah send in your almost athlete moments and let us rank them. Once Graham is CEO, I'll share this video with you. You can buy it. Almost CEO moment. I wasn't prepared for that one. Almost CEO moment. Some of the hires you made. For a little something in my paycheck this week, I'll blow you out of this. You can have some time to think about it and send it in. We'll rank them. I'm just trying to get a second appearance on the podcast. I'm so honored that after you know green light and this thing and 30 episodes. How many episodes is this? This is the 29th episode. 29. We got your one before 30. All it had to do I just needed Duke to lose in crushing fashion and it got me in. I already told him if I was like dude, I was texting last night. Duke's up by 19. We're not having Yaffe on. If they have a 28 point blowout dude. I'm not listening to that. I was gonna gloat for 45 minutes. And then dude. The ball was in the air for mulling shot. He was already sitting in the tech. Get Yaffe now. We didn't have a guest today so you know it just worked out. Duke blown it. There's our whistle. That's our two minute warning where we get to rant. Do you got something? Yeah. I have a little something unless Andrew has something. Go forth, Barks. Mine was gonna be on the topic of everybody's welcoming April and April Fools. I'm done with it. With AI out there with all the fabricated stories floating around. It just feels like April Fools has lost its luster. And I gotta tread lightly here because it is my mom's birthday. Shout out mom, happy birthday. Happy birthday. Is it her birthday? It is. Oh, I didn't know if you were gonna April Fools with me. See, that's the problem with April Fools though is it just has an overarching reach that never ends and it gets scary out there and I feel like with everything going on in today's world, the need for April Fools is just not there. I feel like we talked about this on the pod before, I think. I think it just needs to be the entire month. It's like a prank month. So you don't know what day it's gonna be, but it's doable to do a prank in April. Sure, I guess. I just also dislike the fact that it lands on April 1. You're welcoming in, you're ushering in a new month the wrong way. You know? April has a bad rap already. You're saying it's like spring, we're getting started, the summer's coming out. Should be positive. We got the masters. We got Azaleas. Somebody hits you with one that's way over the top. You know, like Tiger Woods rolled his SUV and you're like, stop. And then they're like, no, no, here's the picture. Offer it. Offer it. Yeah. So that's just my rate. No April Fools for you. We need an April truth instead of an April Fools. We need to... Yeah, with AI, I agree with you. I said, I like that, Sparks. Looks like our time is up. We'll be back next Wednesday with an all new app. Follow the show on all socials, at almost athletes, like and subscribe on YouTube or listen and subscribe wherever you get your pods. Rate us five stars. Greatly appreciated. Share with a friend. Almost athletes with Dude Perfect is a wave original. 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