Dude Perfect: Bobby Witt Jr. Ranks The Toughest Pitchers In Major League Baseball

Are you guys ready? The toes are in or off. Which way am I supposed to go? Put your hands on. Wait, okay, which way are we supposed to go? You go that way, I go this way. Yeah, you go inward, I think. Your ligaments may go on it. Dude, my feet are so sweaty right now. All right, you ready? Oh my shit, the phone out and everything. Toe wrestling commences in three, two, one. Almost, hey, almost that way. Almost, almost that way. Almost, almost. Almost. Almost. Welcome to Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect, a wave original. Follow the show on all social media at Almost Athletes. Like and subscribe to us on YouTube. Speaking of that, just hit 100,000 subs. Oh, I didn't know. I was wondering what the 100K balloons meant behind you. I should have known. Hey, shout out to people for making that possible. Thank you guys for believing in us and listening. So yeah, like and subscribe and rate us five stars. We're your hosts. There's only two today. Garrett? And Spark. And then we brought our PA Jackson along. PA? Yeah. You're not a host yet, but you're, you know, a PA. Personal assistant? Yeah. Okay. That's fair. Could be worse. Could be worse, man. What do we got coming up, Sparks? A loaded episode. Kansas City Royals superstar Bobby Witt Jr. stops by the set. Almost athletes, like you said, hit 100K. Shout out to people. We know the operation's not possible in here without the folks out there. Plus, Jackson's here to help with some Gen C slang. We're thrilled to announce the first book in our Dude Perfect series. The Twins are going to talk about that later. But first, USA won gold in hockey. USA! USA! USA! Jackson, did you even know Olympics were happening? Yeah, I did. Oh, you did? That's good. I mean, how can you not? It was just electric. Yeah, it was electric. Started with the women doing their thing. 2-1 overtime winner. What a game-winning goal that was. Better than Hughes', honestly. Oh, way better. Way better than him. The backhand leaving your feet. We'll get into the actual plays later. Did you guys woke up early? Oh, yeah. Early for what? The game. Oh, early. Yeah, you obviously didn't. I did. I watched some Instagram clips, and I was hyped for my voice. Dude, that's insane, man. That's sad. Yeah, I woke up. It was a 7-10 Central, so 7-10 Pup Drop AM. You know, I had the coffee brewing. The first 10 minutes of the game, it was like, dude, we were skating. Like, we're going to do this thing. And then they went on a 50-minute long power play, it felt like. I mean, dude, they were just. A lot of penalties in the game. Yeah, I mean, you know. Tight whistle for a gold medal match, but I was cool with it. 100% penalty kill by the United States. That's the difference. That's the difference. And then Helly was awesome in net, man. 41 saves. I had question marks regarding who was in the net for the Americans. Not anymore. I didn't have any questions afterwards. No. 31 big ones. Shout out to the, for picking the right keeper. I obviously would have loved to see an otter get some minutes. Sure. Sure. Selfishly. Yeah. But, hey, he's rested to come back for the dial star. So that's all that matters. Hopefully Miko is going to be back sooner rather than later. I didn't see any Canadians saying this because I really don't know any Canadians personally, but they were online at least making the Sid the Kid excuse, which I get. Crosby's a great player, but that's hockey for you, man. everybody's banged up come gold medal match, you know? That's hockey for you. And then can we just talk about it, dude? I don't like to – I've said some crazy things on this pod before and gotten absolutely roasted. And some maybe were fair. But Nathan McKinnon, you can't say that, dude. She's going to want that one back. You can't say that. I've seen Tyler Toney hit that net. The people watching know who the better team were. I don't know, the team that won the game. How poetic to do it, though. 46 years to the day of the late classic gold medal. I mean, dude, sports can be that way where they just write the story for you. Sports will also rip your heart out. We've been there. But when it comes like this, 46 years to the day, script writers in their bag. Special. I will say this because I think this is what Nathan McKinnon was saying, which I firmly agree with. Overtime has got to be five on five. I prefer five on five. We had no offense. pretty limited offense all game on five on five now when you open up the floor a little bit it's when you know us can use their speed but man i i kind of feel i love the three on three overtime like it's fun for a regular season but for a world for a gold yeah it kind of feels like a world cup coming down to the stanley cup final go down to a three on three overtime i don't love it uh i would love to know if you're a hockey purist like did you like that like if if so maybe that's i'm not like a i don't play ice hockey and like i'm not like ingrained in that culture but sure i would love to know what a hockey purist thinks of it three on three for the casual fan tons of open ice great watch but to your point gare is it the best way to determine the gold medal winner probably not in the same sense that pks in the world cup are can be tough as a fan you enjoy them when they go to the spot kicks but at the same time you're like did we really get the true winner of this um i was actually thinking how easy is it to be professional curler like do they have a don't go down hey easy hey you being a pa i'm telling you right now people be coming for you i'm telling you i i went i went in on the luge and i regret it i regret going in on the luge i wouldn't do it unless he has the luge on now dude the curlers are going to come after the curling community is going to come after you they're they're few in the curling community but they're passionate. Let me tell you. Yeah, I mean, is there like a league that you play in? Yes, of course. You need to get into a little Wednesday night curling league. See, this is what's wrong with the Gen Zers. Is there a league? Yeah. You think these people just show up and never played curling before? Kinda. That's disrespectful. You gotta get off your Pokemon geocaching or whatever you're doing. A little too much Pokemon going. The DFW Curling Club. Exactly. Sign me up. Well, no, man. You just made fun of them, and now you're never going to get invited. whatever you gen zers do you got to get more out there man you got to get involved it's time to grow up well i i get it and and i think that maybe i don't understand your guys's side of things but i think it's time that you understand our side of things so i'm gonna try and get what how you make fun of curling well not just that um there's a few few other things i'm gonna teach you guys cool um so there's some new words going around really there's more new words yes i mean there's new words every single day so kyson that's been at it dude he's your leader okay actually planting seeds kairi's hired he's he's done streaming so he's on our side now he came over to us you could say he's wait wait he's done streaming he he hasn't streamed in four months since the um what does he do the mafia thon since mafia thon and now all he does is he's working on his clothing brand and so he really has grown up yeah so is he so what happened what happened was he had this girl that he loved right and she broke up with him and went viral and now he's like a very performative male and he's there's a bunch of memes about him like sitting there just reading he'll do like youtube videos where he sits there and reads for 15 minutes and uh he'll go over his 15 minute mark and like he'll hold his phone out like this and like continue reading and people are like this is electric like i cannot believe he's bro i'm so proud of kai's right now he went to reading novels i wouldn't have guessed that yeah when is that gonna happen for you dude i'm looking forward to that day i mean this is what a girl does to a man so yeah a breakup can make you read novels for stream the girl crazy yeah so i mean i'm not in that arc yet one minute you're at mafia you think the hair is holding you back no i think my hair is fine i think it's the verbiage i think it's the lingo yeah let's get into it let's uh let's start off with a banger here. All right. Flow state. Yeah, I'm familiar with flow state. Yeah. Like flow states when you have established some rhythm, like if we're on set and I ripped intro in the first take, I'm stepping into my flow state. Were you in your flow state in the creator game? Yes, I entered. It wasn't long lived, but there was a little flow state. I would say your flow state was defined by what Kawhi Leonard did in that all-star game. Yes. Yeah. That's a good He was in a flow state, which is incredible. The guy can't play NBA regular season games but goes all out for 31 biscuit in the All-Star game. Should I get a right? Yeah, that's great. Yeah, that's good. Cool. Okay, so. My pipes have been on flow state. I would argue that flow state is not a Gen Z term. Yeah, I would. Yes, yes, I agree, but it's a term that's popular right now. Oh, it's been perfected by Gen Z? Gen Z is running out of creativity, so they're stealing. Oh, you want to bet? Okay. They're stealing from the older generation. All right, what does LARP mean? LARP? You might have got me here, LARP. I've heard you use this before, actually. Here's the bad part about the Gen Z slang is now I have to remove something from my brain, you know? And now I'm like losing the boiling point of water. Oh, you're like an iPhone that's like at capacity. I've run out of data. So I'm now going to have to forget what the boiling point of water is to remember what LARP is, you know? And that's just a horrible tradeoff. But with that being said, what is the boiling point of water? Exactly. 101. I don't know anymore. I think it's like 400 degrees? 412? 212? 212? I think. Well, Fahrenheit or Celsius. See, I knew this 30 minutes ago. It's 101. It's not 101. I know 32 is freezing. It can't be 101, Jackson. You get in a hot tub that's 101, bro. Really good, Graham. That's true. Bro, do you use your – see, this is where I'm just like – just a little common sense, dude. Just a little common sense. You know what? And I'm going to do this. I shouldn't do this because this is publicly shaming. But I got to because I feel like the Gen Z generation is making everyone lose their minds. Okay. Just like you said, you forgot the boiling point of water. That's a 412 instead of 212. Yeah. That's not me, man. Okay. Last week at our office, I will go – I won't even say their name. I won't even disclose if it's a guy or a girl. But we're just losing our minds when it comes to just like you can't throw a medicine ball at a piece of sheetrock. Yeah. I'm so glad that wasn't me. but I saw the hole in the wall. Yeah, that's what the hole's from. We're just losing. We're losing. We're slowly losing our mind here because of exactly what you said. We're trying to learn what people are calling us LARPs on the side of the road. Let's just learn common sense and don't throw a 12-pound med ball into the wall. And it's like, dude, how about it's just like, yeah, if an object's heavy, let's not throw it against something that's easily breakable. So let me just get this straight. Anyways, rant's over. Because someone threw a medicine ball at the wall, I'm getting blamed for that. Yeah, because you came up with LARP, dude, and that's on you. I'm not even going to begin to act like I know what LARP is, so you're going to have to describe this one to me. I couldn't be more out of the know. I would love to hear at least an attempt. I thought LARPing. Dude, you're so, like, you just got LARPed on. Ooh, that sounds kind of, kind of sounds hideous. She sounds hideous. Can I have it in a. I thought LARPing was like the imaginary. Fighting? Like Dungeons and Dragons, and they meet up in a field, and you. Oh, Quidditch. No. No, live action role play, like LARPing. Yes, live action role play. or like the civil war he knows he knows maybe too much in the world is that not what it is though because that would be my live action role play no no no no what is it so it's it's basically someone that's a poser or like you're being overly performative right so like what do you say like dude you're a larp so like someone that would pretend to you know pretend that they're want to go to say say i get drafted into world war three right they would never america would never do that don't you worry because i have no clue how to hold my own in world war three i saw therefore i'm a larp i'm a poser i'm not real you're a phony you're uh okay yeah so you're horrible rocky rocket league you're a larp yes okay no i'm great at rocket league you're a fake though dude easy so you're just borrowing a millennial term live action role play and then inserting it to describe somebody who's playing a role right but it's funnier when we use it i think i deserve partial credit it took a lot of heart for me to go live action role play thank you for the assist graham no problem uh sure i'll give it to you man if that makes it yeah give that one to sparky so what would you what would you say here sitting on this podcast i'm not a larp i feel like i belong you do larp tendencies okay there's larp tendencies all right uh this next one chud chud okay chud is this a is this an acronym yeah wait acronym acronym would be like larp standing for live action role play oh my god no no it's not an acronym it's an adjective Okay. Chud. It's an adjective. Yes. Okay. May you use it in a sentence? If I use it in a sentence. Yeah, it's funny, though. Just use it in a sentence. This will help me. No, I'm going to get it. That's fine. I couldn't be further away right now. Okay. My boy Sparky is a chud. Kind of like a stud? Is that what you're going with that? Far from it, brother. Washed. It's the opposite. He's washed? He's ugly. Easy. I mean. Y'all are attacking me now. It's like. It feels personal. Okay. Graham can you pull up a picture of a discord moderator what's a discord moderator dude oh is a chud just like a pringle eating stay at home mom's basement kind of guy no life so now Gen Z likes to just call people names it's you don't have lost your mind dude it's funny you don't have lost your mind it's funny it's funny to everybody but the guy you're calling chud maybe he's going through something in life If it's your homeboy that can take a joke, it's funny. Oh, so it's a joke. Yeah. It's not like if I was actually calling you that, that'd be rude, and that's not me. Okay, as long as you can admit that. Yeah. Okay. Okay, so this actually plays really well into my next word, which is high cortisol. Yeah, high cortisol is high stress. You need to talk to your doctor. High stress, high cortisol. You're stressed out. Yes. so that's not a gen z term that's like an actual medical term yes but cortisol has become a new trend to talk about because people will be like oh you've got high cortisol but then you go back to a photo like a year ago and you've got low cortisol so you're like mocking uh how can you tell if you have high cortisol through a photo i mean that you know what i mean that's not cortisol Is it not? I couldn't tell you where we are right now. I've lost my brain cells. Okay, okay, okay, okay. All right, we'll go next one. You're nuts, dude. What was the answer behind cholesterol? Type in what does cortisol mean? Just type it in for the old Jackson Gen Zers here. Cortisol. Sounds like either a clean or a nice fat, right? No. It's a stress hormone. No, dude. Oh. Okay, so I'm learning something. So whoever is – it's not Kai anymore because he retired, and he's now a poet. But whoever is your – I didn't think he was going to take the Shakespeare route. Whoever is your new leader of the Gen Z, at least like – see, this is where it's confusing. It's like the Gen Zers, you're learning what high cortisol is that's not even real. It's like, dude, let's learn the actual definition of what high cortisol is. You know what I mean? Because then there's going to come a time in your life when you're 41, and your doctor looks at you, and he's like, hey, dude, you got some high cortisol. And you're going to be like, I'm fat in my face? No, you're going to respond by like, oh, he's chud maxing. And he's actually trying to give you a good synopsis of what's going wrong. And you're going to hit him back with a chud max. See, we shouldn't be knocking that. We shouldn't have saluted that, dude. Okay, okay, okay. If I were to be like, yo, don't touch my Cinco. Like, don't touch the Cinco. Touch my Cinco? Is that Spanish for sync? Sounds. You can just put an O on it. Okay, okay, okay, okay. In my history, a lot of times they just put an O on it. I'll say it like this. If someone's robbing your house, they can take anything. But your Cinco. But the Cinco. Yeah, you can't. What is the Cinco? Your freedom. So is the Cinco like your most prized possession? It's like William Wallace, dude. Was it Tim McGraw made a song about this? Don't take the girl? Can you imagine if William Wallace was on the Braveheart scene and he was like, but they can never take our Cinco. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. don't take the girl by Tim McGraw. What if he's like, don't take the Cinco. It doesn't float as well. You know? Yeah. Baby. Girl. So no. Freedom. Bedding. It's the. Kitchen knives. Forks. It's your most valuable possession. It's the PS5. That's your Cinco? No, that is the Cinco. Just the PS5? PS5. It's the Cinco. Oh, is that slang for Cinco, meaning five in Spanish? Okay. It's the Cinco. See, I was thinking S-I-N-K-O, not. Okay. It's a Cinco. You can't touch the Cinco. Cinco. Cinco. Thank you for that. Cinco. See, that's what we should be doing is learning Spanish would be a lot more. Yeah, can we have a just – Advantageous for all of us. Can you just come on the pod and just teach for 30 minutes just Espanol instead of teaching us this? I got – Cinco. Cinco. That was passionate. Cinco. Okay, you boys are going to need to know this next one. I don't know if I will. Go ahead. I am so excited for Bobby Witt to walk through this door at any moment. All right, frame-mogged. You got frame-mogged? So you got postered? You got frame-mogged, dude. You got tore up in the comments. So you guys know what mogged means from last time? No, I really don't. I forgot, dude. I kind of forgot what mogged meant. Because I go through these, and I'm like, I don't need to remember any of that. Heavily outclassed. Okay, yeah. Does anyone have any answers? I have a guess. Yeah, so frame mogged would be like a picture that caught you at a bad angle or like a really bad picture. And you got caught in the frame or something like that. I like that. Yeah, I'm going to go with that. OK, no. Frame mogged is. So it's basically this happened recently and it was like earth shattering news. OK, so there's a streamer clavicular. Right. And he his whole thing is like wants to look the best working out like. taking all these supplements in order to look the best right and he goes and he streams and he gets frame mogged by an asu frat leader and it was earth-shattering i mean he looked worse than the asu frat leader was this and and clavicular was this right and so it was like it's like your your goat diminishing in front of your eyes it's like you were supposed to be you know the best at this i see the thing is that everybody's liable to get frame on because there's always going to be somebody that's bigger faster stronger more hair right it's like dude i wants to i used to frame garrett's head and now you could frame mug me if i had a picture with my hat off so that's the way i look at it is you're susceptible to the frame mog whenever really yeah because There's always somebody out there who's, you know, making more money or driving the faster car. Yeah. It's actually kind of deep. It is. I went deep with it. Yeah, dude. You can't compare. I just don't want kids to feel like if they get frame-mogged at school to go home and think the world's ending. Because that's just the life we live, man. Jared, can we pull up the clip? I want them to see that. We're going to see a live-action frame-mog? Yes, this is. So, clavicular is on the left. And then the ASU frat leader is right there. Brutal. i honestly thought the asu guy had a swole suit on at first yeah i mean is that not insane it looks disproportionate with all due respect um sure yeah i'm not i'm not sure like i mean teach their own i mean i would i would kind of probably stop worrying about the shoulder workout and maybe pump up some quads and some yeah i want to see the lower half badly because i think it's lacking i don't know sounds bullyish to me to call somebody to get train mugged but it's fine It's not bullying. It's more of a canon event. Do you know what a canon event is? A canon event where they release new cameras? No. A canon event is something that happens in every one of our lives. Like, it's a canon event. It's like, you know that scene from Interstellar where he's like, no, don't go. He's like, you know what I mean? That's a canon event, right? Give me an example of a canon event. Like the Berlin Wall coming down? That's a historical event. Getting heartbroken. yeah yeah getting heartbroken i don't know like i don't know maybe suffering a loss yeah well no that's not everyone really goes through that well well most yeah most uh i think i think it's like 27 billion uh to one ratio of like who dies and who lives okay i think it's something like that i think there's like been everyone dies except like one guy in in the world yeah historically speaking everybody kind of dies yeah that's a canon event interesting that's a canon event yeah Is that just like a fancy word for deja vu, kind of? Is it? I don't know. It's in the same family tree as deja vu. I'll just look through a history book and be like, I just want to rename this because I don't want to live through that again. We're going to rename what this is. Yeah, you've made a mockery of Battle of Midway. Am I calling it Battle of Mid? Y'all say that all the time. That's a mockery. Battle of Mid? That was a pivotal battle. a pivotal often painful experience that shapes an individual's career identity or life i mean i guess that's the google ai version a canon event is just called life's troubles yeah i mean it's like you get heartbroken for the first you get fired from a job it happens it's not like gonna define you whenever you're driving to school your mom's already so mad and And then you realize you forgot your backpack. Canada event. And you got to tell your mom. Mom, I never forgot my backpack. See, he wasn't one who suffered from Canada events. I did. Okay, how about this? It's 10 p.m. at night. You have a project due in the morning that you haven't started, and you need a poster board, crayons, markers, scotch tape. I've never in my life ever. Sparky. You have to understand, we are far removed from crayons in group projects. At this point in the game, brother. All right, next word. Thank you. That's the craziest thing. Let's run two more here. Actually, I got some good ones. I can't choose. All right, low-ken-u-en-ly. Say that again? Low-ken-u-en-ly. Low-ken-u-en-ly. Low-ken-u-en-ly? I don't even know what you say. Low-ken-u-en-ly. Oh, low-ken-u-en-ly. Yeah. Low-ken-u-en-ly. Yeah. This has something to do with maybe like Barbie Ken. Like you're just like, dude, you got low-ken-u-en-ly lead. I'm thinking it's a playoff low-key, keeping it kind of discreet, kind of keeping it under the radar. So it's like, Jackson, why don't you come over tonight? But we're keeping it low-kenually. Ooh, I like that. Because we don't want other people to know that you're coming over. That's smart. That's good, actually. Is that proper usage? It's not. Low-kenually is low-key and genuinely put together, right? Oh, I thought it was Luke and Keekly getting put together. One of the better linebackers of my generation. Low-key and genuinely. so I could be it's to set something up so I could be like yo my boy Sparky he low-kenually chud-maxing today you know and so now you know what that means so if I hit you with that you're like dang that was kind of rude okay all I know is I just tied the game with a half point there I don't know if I want to win this I don't I don't want to win it low-kenually low-kenually I don't want to win this okay if I'm saying like I'm overly going What does that mean? You're overly going. I'm 100% in. I'll be there. If I'm overly going, I'm going to show. If I'm breathing, I'm showing. That's like I'm not backing. I'm committed. Like I'm 100% there. Again, like it just makes no sense. You say you're committed and maybe make your word mean something. To be fair to you, though, Jackson, my friend group did create a couple things. Cheeto being one of them. I like Cheetos. Cheeto was a person of authority or like a coach walks in and you might have been goofing around in the locker room. or it's like that's what we should be coming up with not like just that can be productive that can be you you know there's a cop that's uh i like it's like cheeto cheeto to the car behind you you know you call you to you tell your boys hey cheeto on interstate 75 the one above the first one was great but overly going i think that's one of your worst ones okay my friend group also stay that's great my friend group also had cross friendship which if you said cross friendship that means you were 1000% telling the truth. Oh, really? Yeah. That's just me and my boys. You're putting it on your boys. So it's like on Sparky's life, I'm telling the truth. Kind of. Yeah. Cross friendship. Okay. It's like my boys hit me with a cross friendship. I know they're, they're telling me, they're shooting me straight. They put it on their mama. Exactly. They put it on your mama. So I can't hate on you too much. Cause there's, I have facets of Gen Z in me. That's all. Just very like a 5%. All right. Sparky is winning three to two right now. We're going to this last one, okay? Wigmaxed Wigmaxed Wigmaxed is like your hair is insane Like you got to dial it back Like wig maxed dude Like you wig maxed it out. Like let's not go crazy anymore. Yeah, I'm going to go with Garrett on that. This feels personal. Go ahead, though. It's not about hair? All right, give me that one. It's not about hair. Okay. No, it is. It is about hair. It is about hair. All right, dude, Jackson, your new haircut is wig maxed. It's not an adjective? no no no it's i can't stand ram wig maxing with his new haircut no i mean uh we can yeah no he's not so wig maxing is actually an event that happened here as of recent whoa yeah wait you came up with this word no i wish i did i would totally take credit for that if i did wig maxing happened at the office no but if it did and that would be electric so what happened is so there is this streamer that was streaming right at the office no unfortunately not he was out in public okay talking to his friends whatever doing his rl streaming had his cap on right his hair coming out of his cap i mean it looks great someone comes up behind him rips the cap off the hair on the hat goes with it and he's like he's bald he has a chopped hairline so it's me i'm wig maxed No, you're not wig maxing, though. But if we put the little golf visor on with the fake hair coming out, that's wig maxing? Yeah. So, can we play this clip? Yep. Yeah, I want them to. Yeah, you got wig maxed. Ooh, in public, a public wig max. Not the guy I would go after, to be honest. Yeah. Dude looks ripped. Oh, yeah, look at him. He's not having it either. Is that not brutal, though? Yeah, you don't want to get wig maxed in public. I will say this to all the guys going through it. I started losing my hair early 20s. It's not fun, but at the end of the day, dude, like, don't be with a girl that only cares about your hair because that's shallow anyway. Yeah, that doesn't feel healthy, if that's the only reason she's into you. And it's the easiest thing ever, dude. I can shower, like, on a whim. How long does it take you to do that flowy thing you got going? How long are you looking? three minutes four minutes times 365 days a year times 70 plus years it's a lot of time yeah it is think about that no not really yeah all those high dollar shampoos unnecessary is it just saying oh well that's that's the soap comment dude i don't know about that yeah i i think ty's wrong on well so i feel like my so jackson would you claim uh sparky in your clan of gen z ears actually yeah i mean yeah he's you you can come come hang at the crib anytime you want hang at the crib and get and flow stated up yeah with my high cholesterol in his in his flow state today i do want to hear one just like long sentence of what i taught y'all today i got you if you can okay um my high cholesterol was wig maxing so i went i was overly going to the senko can i chudded you can't say chudded dude you can't say that that sounds so bad what does chudded mean again uh ugly it's it's the discord moderator yeah you got it can you ever once you get chudded can you ever become unchudded yeah you can you just gotta ascend yes you have to ascend okay uh look i uh i want to hear one sentence out of you gare um yeah i was trying to get in the flow state but my high cortisol no hang on hang on you were lokenually trying to get oh i was lokenually trying to get into a flow state but my high cortisol um but my high cortisol had me chud maxing but my high cortisol had me chud maxing and then my senko got stolen dude Yep. There you go. Hope it was worth it. He doesn't know the capital of Germany anymore. He did this morning. So I hope it was worth it. Norway is in Germany? No. See, look, he's confused. We lost him. Thanks. Yeah, but hey, I know what chudding means, though, so we got that for me. Jackson, always a pleasure to have you. Thanks, man. Before we let you go, though, let's move into some almost sports. What I just did felt almost sporty, but we're going to go into some toe wrestling today. Have you ever heard of it? Some what? Yeah, watch this clip, boys. Got a guy laying, just sitting down. And basically, you just put the feet together. And participants sit on the ground, lock their big toes, and align their feet flat against each other. Best of three rounds. The goal is to force the opponent's foot down on the side. A toe down. um pin must be held for three seconds so it's kind of like arm wrestling but with your toes dude the locking of the big toes is brutal um so a couple things before i have a question for you is this the most disgusting sport yes i was about to say as an anti-feet guy this is brutal to go out in public and actively toe wrestle another grown man means you're at a low point in your life let me tell you about it remember jonesy had a uh had a nasty little like athlete's foot thing from the tour. No, it was like skin that was eaten up. He had like a flesh-eating bacteria. Yeah, if you had a toe wrestle that guy, I mean, I don't know if bacteria translates like that. That's a heavyweight matchup. A flesh-eating bacteria Jones versus a bunion-infused tie. That's a heavyweight matchup. Heavyweight. That I wouldn't watch. I'm not a feet guy. I'm going to be honest with you. In fact, feet on a bed might be my biggest... Are you serious? But it's bringing you to another point. If I'm a 9.5, 10 kind of guy... I am I in a weight class? Yeah, you're in a weight class. I don't need to be battling size 14. You got to be a size class. Oh, a full inspection of feet for hygiene warts and infections is mandatory. Do you grow your T-nails out just to inflict some scratches? Well, they would probably cut them before. Well, Jackson, how's your feet today? I actually got this question asked earlier. My feet are chopped. I ain't gonna lie. Your feet are chopped? That's not what I asked. They're clean, though? They're fine, yeah. Yeah, they're okay. I thought it'd be kind of a little good matchup of the Gen Zers to the little feet wrestle live on set. Let's do it, bro. I don't know. Actually, you can check if I have a bunion or not because I actually don't know. You would know if you had a bunion. Graham, you're looking at me. I want you and Jackson to toe wrestle. Y'all get, like, so mad at Jackson for all these words, and now you want to see us, like, lock feet in the middle of the studio? That's insane. Yeah, I'm hip-a-critical. That's crazy. Colby, hip-a-critical because I am. We should do it. If they're willing, by all means. Almost. Hey. Are you guys ready? The toes are in the wrong way. Put your hands on. Wait, okay, which way are we supposed to go? You go that way, I go this way. Yeah, you go inward, I think. Your ligaments may go on you. Dude, my feet are so sweaty right now. All right, we're ready. The phone out and everything. We're ready. Toe wrestling commences in three, two, one. Oh, dude. Oh, that was the quickest band I've ever seen. I got scared. That was automatic. I got scared. Can we run it back? Yeah. All right, best two out of three. Graham took game one. Is it a clean sweep? I think so. We're going to find out in three, two, one. Quick, you may have found your calling, Graham. Why are your toes so, like, masculine and weird? You have a secret bunion. I've been working them out. I don't know if there's any other time to welcome in Bobby Witt, but I think we go right to the Bobby Witt interview. This has gotten just. Found it. Noggin. He's just going to walk in. You don't have to. We love DoorDash on this show. We talk about it all the time. And we use it all the time. Maybe too much, but is there such thing as too much DoorDash? Never. Although my wife does want me to cut back on the late night cookie orders. She wants me to go vegetables instead. Yeah, that's not going to happen. Definitely not. But you know what I really love about DoorDash, Sparky? That you can order from almost every local restaurant and every other local business. That's great and all, but what I really love about DoorDash is like when life happens, DoorDash is always there for me. I know what you mean, G, but I bet it's twice as helpful as a parent. Sure is. Instead of dragging the kids to the store because they need batteries for a toy or a snack we just ran out of, I can DoorDash it. It gives me more time to spend with my kids and more time for myself. It's so true. When it's cold out and I need a blanket for my PlayStation to keep her warm, DoorDash is there for me. Or when my travel fan Wendy needs a little oil to keep her humming, DoorDash all the way. Our lives are very different. Speaking of DoorDash, I think it's time to order some cookies. I was thinking the exact same thing. Guess that's one thing we have in common. When life gets crazy, DoorDash helps bring a little order to it. Our guest is one of the most complete players in all of baseball. He was the number two pick in the 2019 MLB draft. He's a two-time All-Star, two-time All-MLB First Team, two-time Gold Glove Award winner and platinum, two-time Silver Slugger Award winner and the 2024 MLB Batting Champion. Give it up for Bobby Witt Jr. I'm exhausted, man. Dude. I was like I just ran a marathon. The resume is loaded. The accolades are strong. I'm a two-sentence guy. They're like, his nickname's Sparky. Here he is, Sparky. Wow, brother. Thank you for joining us. Yeah, thank you. DFW, man. Dallas kid, when it's a Dallas boy, we're more partial. There's no doubt about it. Oh, we raise the best athletes. Yeah, 100%. And, you know, let's just get right into it. I think we have the best barbecue. Yeah, that's. Oh, you're going a hard hitter right off the bat. Well, I mean, he's from Dallas. He plays in Kansas City. I don't know, man. You tell us. Yeah, that's a question I always try to get away from. Yeah, sure. As fast as possible. Dude, at almost athletes, we like to just go right in. But, yeah, I'm always in between. Like, honestly, like if I had a – I'll say my opinion, but I really think there's just different things from each barbecue place. Let's go through them. Yeah, so like brisket. Brisket, oh, I was going to go like Kansas City burnt ends are better. And then like the ribs, some places I like in Texas are better. And then just some of the sauces, there's differences in it. So I can't really, you know, put one or the other. All I heard is he likes Dallas better, man. You guys remember it. They're both really good barbecue. He's like, dude, I'm not going to make these people mad. Yeah, one thing that's hard, I've got to throw her on the bus a little bit, but my wife doesn't really like barbecue, so it's always just me getting it and eating a lot of it, and so, yeah, so I just had to throw that out there. Yeah. What do you all eat at home? She cooks. She's a great cook, and so, yeah, she's been doing a lot more cooking around the house, eating clean, and so she's been great with that. If she wasn't in the room with us, would you still claim she's a good cook? 100%, yeah. Just making sure. Who was it that we worked with that threw their wife under the bus cooking? Steph, it's really well done by him. He's like, yeah, he doesn't really cook as well as you think. I just remember that for some reason. Solid cut. Come from baseball royalty. Obviously your dad pitched in the bigs for, what, 16 years? Yeah. Two stints with our Texas Rangers. Did you learn anything growing up inside of a clubhouse, that kind of thing? How much did you get from your dad? So when he retired, it was in 2001, and I was one. and that was his last year was with the Diamondbacks. They won a World Series, but I always call him my cheat sheet growing up. He's still in baseball. He's a baseball agent, my agent, and so he's still around the game. And so growing up, we were always going to see his guys, see players. So just watching the game with him, I've learned so much, but also just like I call him after every game. We go over situations. Yeah, that's cool. It's not more so like the physical errors. It's more of like the mental errors. We're just talking about the game of baseball, Like, because I feel like that's kind of, we're steering away from it a little bit. Not like, because when he played after the game, guys would be in the clubhouse, be around, like, let's go over what happened. And then, so what, now we move on. And so we're getting back to that, which is great. But, like, just being able to kind of learn from your mistakes, move on, and then what can you do better, like, which is, I think, a huge thing in baseball. And so that's what he's helped me with, just being able to kind of grow as a baseball player on and off the field. That's really cool. That's pretty unique. my dad would lay into me sometimes after a bad out of your song. Do you still get that as the critique? He shoots you straight? Yeah, 100%. Even my mom, too, growing up. She's like, what are you doing swinging that pitch? I'm like, oh, now I'm getting from both of these. You're going to count leverage too well when you're chasing? That's a good mother right there. Yeah, she's great. Both of them always pushed me hard. I had three older sisters, too, in the same way. You're the youngest? Yeah, youngest of four. Wow, I'm the youngest of four. You're also the youngest. You're the favorite as well? My favorite son. That was a favorite time for sure. Good answer. Smart. Yeah. Smart. Well, this is crazy to think that I actually knew your dad before you knew your own dad. Yeah. Rewind it. April 6, 1996, one of my first ever Ranger games. A 4-2 win. Your dad started. Gave me one of my first dubs. So when you have that call later on tonight, tell him thank you. Yeah. 100%. Over the dreaded Yankees. That's awesome. Oh, baby. Let's talk pets. No kids in life yet, but you do have a dog. Yes. Barry? Barry. Barry the Bernie Doodle. Yeah, he's like. How'd we come up with Barry? It was just kind of something that, I don't know, just rhymed. Barry. I always kind of call people Barry, Larry, like, what's up, Gary? Like, just that. I don't know what it is. And so it just came to me like, oh, whenever we have a dog, we're going to have Barry. I wanted Gronk or Tom and didn't have that. That's a fan. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Growing up. I'll just tell the story. Growing up, Patriots fan. Dad's from Massachusetts diehard all Boston teams. And then 2019 rolls around, I get drafted by the Kansas City Royals and Kansas City Chiefs football team. And so they were starting, Patriots were kind of going on their decline and Chiefs were going on their incline. It's like maybe it's just me. I don't know what it is. Like the football team just kind of thrives when I'm rooting for them. But, yeah, and then now it's kind of going, not the Chiefs are going to be who they are as long as they got Pat behind there. And so, but, yeah, the Patriots now doing what they're doing. Yeah, it's fun. Well, as soon as you're ready to hop back on the Cowboys. Yeah, we certainly could use you. I've never been on that train. Have not, yeah. So other sports teams in Texas, but yeah. Yeah, it's never too late. Yeah, you mentioned other sports teams. The Dallas Stars, you recently were ice level. Got mic'd up for that. Even did some manicuring of the ice. How did that all come about? How fun was that? Yeah, it was awesome. Stars won, I think. They played the Boston Bruins, so I took my dad, so it's kind of funny. Yeah, they won 6-2 or something. But, yeah, it helped with the ice. I don't know if it's saying that I did anything to get those goals going, but yeah. Dude, I, you know, are you the missing piece to the Dallas Cowboys? Wow. My wife roots for him, so I don't know. I'm next to her whenever she's rooting for him, so I don't know. What's the contract up with the boys? That's a while. I think he signed a pretty big one. Hey, football is my second sport, so, but no, yeah. Speaking of other sports, did you play a lot of other sports growing up, or you just kind of specialized in baseball? Football was like kind of growing up like in middle school, even just playing seven on seven football. I was always almost not kind of close to being better at football than baseball. Really? So that was like my ultimate goal was going to Oklahoma to play football and baseball. Like that's the dream. And like Kyler Murray was doing that around that time. That's when Baker was there. And then so one of my brother-in-laws played football there too at Oklahoma. Two of my sisters cheered there. So that was always my dream. Parents went there. And so I was like, the dream was football, baseball, Oklahoma, receiver, shortstop, let's do it. And so, but then after my freshman year of playing football in Texas, Texas high school football is a big deal. And so just kind of like, it's a year round sports. And I'm like, I got this opportunities in baseball with USA stuff. And then after going into my freshman year of high school, that's when I committed to the University of Oklahoma just for baseball. And so at that point, it's like, all right, now what's the next step? they get drafted, and so I might have to push those football dreams to the side. But, yeah, that was something. I love playing football. I played a little bit of basketball in middle school. I wasn't very good and ran track. So, yeah. We got a common bond, man. We don't like the Texas Longhorns. Fair. Yeah, 100%. Also a common bond that I committed to Oklahoma as a freshman. They didn't know it, though. I just verbally committed myself. Yeah, mine was verbally committed, too. Yeah. You mentioned USA in there. World Baseball Classic upcoming. You got a little cup of tea there in 23. Ready to run it back in 26. I'm personally a baseball nerd. Love the incorporation of the WBC back in 06. I'm a huge fan. How cool is it to represent your country? Yeah, it was unbelievable back when we did it a couple years ago. And just being a part of that team, I didn't really – I played a little bit, but just that those guys like King Griffey Jr. is our hitting coach and just the team we had. And I was on second when Trey Turner hit that grand slam and the building was shaking. It was unbelievable just being around Mookie and those guys. But now, like, really, now it's like, all right, got second place. Now we're going to win this thing. Like, this is Team USA based. We've got to go out there and win it. And so that's the ultimate goal is just bringing back gold. And so, yeah, I'm really, really looking forward to it. And the team that's been kind of built is unbelievable. So it's going to be a lot of fun just being around those guys and then going out there and competing. Really cool. The grind of 162, man, it's a long season just watching. I probably watch 150 Ranger games. you add the WBC to that how do you stay just locked and loaded the full year keeping your body healthy is that a struggle um not yeah it's a grind but it's hard to stay healthy in the podcast room yeah you know so he's already told the secret sauce dude wife's cooking yeah oh yeah that that's helped too just like like we're talking about just eating early eating clean eating the right things eating the good stuff just to make sure your body's right sleep and all the recovery stuff, red light therapy, all that goes into play. But it also just starts like right kind of when the season ends and like what are you going to do next? What are you going to do for your body? And it's during the offseason where you're putting your body through things that are harder during the season so you can go for 160-plus games because we don't want to just play 162 games. We want to play on end of October and to the end of October. And so that's the ultimate goal. So it's goals. So the offseason is huge. just this off-season training. I had a good place here in Texas, and so it's really kind of we push each other in there. Got a couple bunch of big league guys in there, and so it's fun. But we get after it, and that's kind of like the building part. It's almost like, you know, when you build a skyscraper, you build down first, and that's like what we're doing. We're building the foundation right there. And then from there, you just go up, and you just hopefully slowly get better and better each and every day and just learn from it and then go from there. Upward trajectory reminds me of KC last year, 82 and 80. Five games out of the playoff spot. I'm sure you would put all the personal accolades to the side for the Royals to get across that checkmark and win come November. How awesome would it be to bring Kansas City to the World Series? Yeah, it's just you see what they do with the Chiefs and just what they've done the past however many years it's been, them doing it and just the sea of red whenever they have the parade and just bring in championships back to Kansas City because they World Series in 14 to 15, and then we go back to the playoffs in 2014, and you're playing that home playoff game, and you're like, wow, this place is crazy. It's rocking, and it's like we want to keep doing that, keep motivation. And so last year it was like if the years were flipped, everyone would be like fired up, but now we get to the playoffs, and then the next year we don't get to the playoffs, and it's like you don't really go back too much into the drawing board, but you're like, all right, we need to get back to that trajectory going up and keep getting better each and every day, each and every year, going into the offseason, getting better, whatever it is. But I love the team that we have, and I believe in all those guys in there. We're all going to pull on the same rope and come together, and it's going to be a lot of fun. Well said. Salvi Perez, man, one of my favorite big leaguers. That guy hacks at the first pitch so much, too. He's somehow going backwards in age. He's aging like one. It's like you see him, he's just running around like a little kid out there, enjoying his smile on his face, and he's the same guy every day, no matter what. You can't tell after a game if he's 0 for 4 with four strikeouts or if he's hitting three homers, whatever it is. He's always going to be smiling. That's what's so great for all the young guys coming up, just to be around him. Yeah, it's special. Who was your favorite shortstop to ever play the game? Growing up was probably Jeter. It was hard because being a Red Sox fan, but that was my guy. But Jeter and then Dustin Bedroy played second, but he was also like those two guys were the guys I really enjoyed watching just because of how they played both on and off the field. And that's why I wore 17 in high school because Bedroy wore 15, Jeter wore 2. and 15 plus 2. It's crazy how we get to our numbers sometimes. I justify 14. I'm like, well, I grew up on 14 rolling road. Yeah, it's crazy. It's wild. This actually shocked me, man. All those great shortstops in the game. You're the first with multiple 30-30 seasons. What feels better, though, stealing a bag off a big league catcher, which I've done off Jonah Heim at Ranger Spreaking Training. Barely, but you did. Barely, but I was safe. You got it. Bang, bang, play. Or hitting the bomb. Which one feels better? I gotta say I don't know they're both pretty good just getting in the scoring position for guys like Salvi, Vinny it's always great but then just hitting the homer it's just running around the bases getting in the dugout celebrating with the guys there's no better feeling especially late in the game or go ahead homer walk off homer those are the best I think I have more stolen bases than homers so it's more fun I think to hit homers I have more bags than homers I never knew what it felt like to hit one over the wall always have Maybe one day, but probably not. Kaufman moved in the dimensions 10 feet. You already hit pretty darn well at Kaufman. Now you're scooting it in 10 feet? I mean, what kind of damage are you going to put up? Maybe 400? Yeah, it's really like an over-under at this point. I mean, does he go over? Well, traditionally one of the tougher hitting parks, and that shortens up a little bit. I like this move. I like this move. I want to see the ball fly, and as a Ranger fan, it's been tough to go from the ballpark in Arlington where that was a jet stream to right. Like now the ballpark holds just about every fly ball. So I'm sure you're a fan. You talk to the starting staff. They're probably not as thrilled about the wall move in. Yeah, I was fired up because I kind of heard, oh, there may be a chance that we were doing this. I'm like, okay, we'll see when it actually happens. But then it happened. I'm like, oh, my gosh. And then we got a text. Hey, we got a call going on. And I kind of texted some of the guys. I was like, hey, I'm pretty sure not 100%, but this call we're going to have is about moving fences in. And then the pitchers were just like, oh, and all the haters. I bet the pitchers weren't happy. Yeah, and Sal, we got on Zoom, and Sal was just like, man, why didn't we do this way earlier in my career? So he was laughing, but, yeah, I think everyone's excited for it because how good our pitching staff is. For one, our bullpen's great, unbelievable, too. And then, two, it's just our hitters. It just gives you a little confidence. Not that it's going to make you, like, change anything in your swing, but like Kaufman, like you said, has been a defensive ballpark. It's really been actually a hitter's ballpark just because of how big the outfield's been. But it's never really been a good home run ballpark. And so I feel like sometimes you're at home, guys are like, all right, our stadium's bigger, the wind's blowing in, I've got to swing harder. In reality, that may be messing with you mentally, but you don't really have to do that. So, like, when you go on the road, it's like, oh, now I've got to hit my homers on the road, but really you don't need to. So it's a little bit of a mind game, but now it's just, for me, I'd never really thought of it like that, but just go out there and play, and we'll see how that. I've seen stuff on, oh, you could have this many more homers, of this, but that's... Still got to do it. Yeah, still got to do it. What's your favorite stadium to hit at? I would say Fenway, just growing up. Is it just the South there? Yeah, I think just growing up a Boston fan and then just knowing all the history there. Same thing with Wrigley or even Yankee Stadium just because the fans are always on. In Philly, too, they're always yelling at you. You know, authentic baseball experience. It's just a great time in all good hitters' ballparks. And then San Diego is nice just because you know the weather you're going to get. The fans are going to be in there, packed in there, and you just enjoy it. But Kaufman, too, is awesome. I have a problem with the batter's eye at Fenway on MLB The Show. I don't have a hard time picking it up. Yeah, this kid rips the show. I was telling him, his teammate, Kolek, gave me about six innings last night. It's a quality start. Six innings and one run ball. Ended up getting the dub. I don't know if you learned anything from what he said about recovering. I don't think video game was part of his recovery. Yeah. You've got to really maybe give that up. Fair. Sleep more. Fair. Got married last December. Congratulations. Thank you. At your wedding, you had a unique feature. You had a pop-up replica of a Whataburger restaurant catering it. How did this come about, and what is that go-to Whataburger order? Yeah, so it kind of came about just with we've always, like, growing up, always would go to Whataburger. Like, that was our spot after games, just late night, whatever it was. Like, we're going to Whataburger, and then people would kind of mention the name Witteburger. Oh, this is Witteburger. just like throwing it out there and then have a deal with Whataburger And like between them wedding planner everyone it was just kind of like all right we going to but we really didn have any idea We just knew we were going to have we wanted Whataburger at our wedding like from the get go Like that not one of the first things I asked my now wife, like when we get married, we got to have Whataburger, but that was kind of like, but then, and then next thing you know, we're like, all right, we're getting shown. Oh, you guys have a Whataburger in the, your wedding venue and it's called Whataburger. and we're like, what? And we show up and it's like a legit, there's Whataburger workers in there. All the signs are, the bags say Whataburger, like the little tents. It was, yeah, it was like one of the highlights of, yeah, it was really cool. Everyone loved it. Get married, have a honey butter chicken biscuit for dessert. That's a night. Did we have kind of the full golet or is it like just a burger? Yeah, I think they had like a regular cheeseburger. They had the number seven. Okay. I think that's the junior Whataburger, which is kind of like really cool. And they were doing that in Kansas City Whataburgers, a couple other Whataburgers. They would have the Whittaburger would be the number seven because the Junior Burger. But yeah, they would have, I think they had four or five things on the menu. And then, yeah, it was really cool. Everyone was just crushing Whataburger. Inspired. I think we should have a Replier store in the office. In the office every day? Yeah. Number seven? Yeah. The Whitt Jr.? That would be incredible. I love how it's like a play on numbers, a play on the name too. Yeah, it worked out. I love that. So you're Whataburger over In-N-Out. That's it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, 100%. That's good. I mean, we at least agree on that. I mean, the barbecue, I still think DFW is better, but it's okay. We understand why you have to answer that. Yeah, we get it. I get that. Almost Athlete Podcast, we ask everyone, did you have an almost athlete moment growing up? Like, were you just like, obviously not in baseball or football, but another sport where you're like, man, maybe that's not my sport. Maybe that's not my sport. I got to say it was middle school basketball, seventh grade year. We were playing, and I, like, actually got, like, I rolled my ankle, and the dude, I got crossed over. You got crossed over? And I fell, yeah. But, like, I was, like, at the time, I was, like, no, I just rolled my ankle. But then I looked back, I'm, like, that's, like, getting crossed. Yeah. And I fell. And so at that point, it's just, like. Just a sprain, like, no break. No, it wasn't even a sprain. I broke my ankle. I hopped up. I was, like, no, I fell. I tripped. I tripped. I tripped. And then looking back, like, that's the – That was like when you're like, all right, I'm going to stick to track and baseball and football. Yeah. It's okay. I didn't play my eighth grade year of basketball, probably because of that moment. Did you know, like, growing up, like, I mean, every – you sports in Texas are kind of mind-bogglingly crazy. Like, was it your dad – like, were people all around you like, dude, you're going to – you have it? Or was it, you know, your dad keeping you humble throughout the whole thing? like, hey, you got to work hard for this. You're not there yet. Yeah. He was always pushing me hard. And it was like, he didn't like push me where it's like, all right, get in the car. We're doing this. It was like, I wanted to do that. But also you like have fun with it. Yeah. But also it was like, all right, you got to know there's a guy, there's a kid in California. There's a kid in Florida. There's a kid in Atlanta. They're all, they're all working hard. They're all doing something to get to that next level. And so what are you going to do kind of about it type thing was always something that he kind of instilled in me. It's like, all right, there's someone else working harder. What am I going to do? That's just going to get me a little bit better. That one percent better whatever it was and so that was something that he kind of instilled in me in a young age and just always work hard stay humble and then be be myself and just know that the game of baseball or whatever I'm doing isn't just going to pause for me just because I'm playing it like it's going to move on so what can I do to kind of leave my mark or whatever it is and just make sure and I'm also enjoy it while you're doing it because he played 16 years in the big leagues and he's like man I wish I could go back there like it now and so but you can't it just goes on and so it's Like, now it's crazy to look back. I've been in the big leagues for four years. This is my fifth year, and it's like I remember yesterday getting a call, or calling my parents that I'm going to make my debut or whatever it is. That's a good word, man. What a fun phone call to make. Yeah. I make the same one. Again, it's the show. It's like, Mom, I got drafted in the Red Sox in a second. All those videos are cool, though, like all the minor leagues, like having to skip or somebody call the guy and be like, hey, dude, you made it. Those are fun videos. A very cool baseball exclusive thing, given the fact the minor league systems, who built up completely different. Even talking to Kershaw, how he was like, my favorite memories were in the minors when he was with all the guys, sleeping in the five guys per room. Long road trips. It's kind of like the college experience that you obviously kind of missed out on the college experience but kind of had your own. For the love of the game at that point. You're probably not making a ton of money, bus and long hours. I'm a baseball nerd, as I said, but one of the cooler aspects of baseball is I feel like we're entering the cool era, the swag era you got the chains you've got the bat flips which i'm a huge pro of um all these different things you cool with all that stuff as a new era player you're fine with all that yeah i got some like old school kind of instilled with me like just saying just with my dad being my cheat sheet and everything but yeah it's kind of just part of the game but just you can just respect the game and not do it while you're looking at the picture whatever it is i'm gonna have no problem with it but once you start doing it towards our dugout our team then it might be a little bit of issue and so like it so it's just part of having fun in the game and the game's i think growing it's yeah getting bigger and bigger each and every year just from i think it's the kid more kids are playing more high school people are playing and then so it's just like the game's always growing if that if that's what it's going to take then that's what it's going to take but also it's just like all right play the game the right way enjoy it have fun but then just don't take it sure don't cross that line but you still believe in 96 and then a little bit yeah yeah it's there it's there the ball hurts glad to hear that so yeah but on the swag front too players weekend man you had a sick piece of lumber took a pablo sanchez bat up to the dish tell me about that yeah it was it was really cool they were like hey you want to kind of just kind of fell in my hands it was almost like hey you should use this bat type thing and i'm like all right i'll i'll use it first i bet i use it hit homer or i think i lined out to center and just i hit it i was like dang i felt good and the next set bat hit homer i'm like this is sweet and then hit it with the pablo sanchez bat and then yeah it was it was really cool and it went kind of viral and so it was really awesome little extra power from the pablo yeah i had to if yes just a couple line shots of an exit velo over 100 and you're like yeah that thing's and i was like man do i keep using i don't want to break it like i don't know what to do after the only thing cooler would be to be featured in backyard yeah that'd be sick yeah keep your chin up man maybe one day one day yeah did you ever grow up like playing any backyard baseball i mean when i was a kid it was it was the game. I spent countless hours on that video. I grew up a lot on that field. I matured, you know? Yeah, I'd grind on the computer and then it was the one with the one Big Poppy was on. I don't know what year that was. Yeah, it was one of the Nintendo things. Surely you have a connection to like... Well, I got that bat, so that's got to be some way. Yeah, well let me know if you have a way in. We were in the PGA game before and it was like, but being in backyard baseball yeah would be legendary that's something that's pinnacle dude yeah that's like you peaked you can't get any better all right one last question before we do blind rankings we do this thing called squad games you know we are almost athletes no we're not your level athlete uh but if you had to pick four teammates or just you know other they don't have to be on the royals just your friends to go up against the five of us and a sports competition Who are we choosing? Ooh, I'll go teammates. Let's go five guys. Yeah, you're one of them. So four more. Four, yeah. I would say Jack Caglione. Okay. Dude's a specimen. He is. Yeah, he is. He is. Yeah, put him out there for sure. I got to go Vinny Pasquantino for the vibes for sure. In case it's some type of throwing or whatever it is, you know, Cole Reagans, lefty. From the Rangers. How many is that? You got one left. Did I say Salve? No. I got to go Salve. Okay. We're going to have a good team camaraderie. Yeah, I think that's a good team. So I just want to throw this out there. Next, let's just say next December because, you know, let's just say you're all going to win the World Series. All the way through the first week of November, you're playing ball. I think we get those five together. and we have, we're only going to know, I mean, look, you guys might on paper be the favorites, but you never know in a game. Yeah. You don't play squad games on paper. Yeah, dude. That's the good news. We play squad games and it's a fun time and we just played the Savannah Bananas. Solid athletes, by the way. I did not expect that. Yeah. That's what I think baseball players, like athletes, like they can throw a football, they can hit a golf ball, they can shoot a basketball. But hey, I think we do this. I think we do the squad game thing, man. So you got a year to prepare. Yeah. I'm just saying. We also need a year to prepare. Perfect. It works out. Mark it down. Put it down. I love it. I love that, Gary. All right. Blind rankings? Let's do it, baby. We're going to do a blind ranking top five. We want to know your toughest pitchers that you've faced. I'm going to name a pitcher, and you have to rank them somewhere between one and five. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you don't know who I'm going to name next. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Got it, yeah. First name, Shane. Shane Bieber. Shane Bieber. my debut. First pitcher I faced in the big leagues right there. Yeah, I think I swung in a curveball that hit probably that front of the carpet. Dang. I hit a homer off him this past year. Division guy. Now he's with the Blue Jays. It's just, man, he's tough. I gotta go three. Okay, putting him at three. Next name. I see it through there. Max, Mad Max Scherzer. How many times have you faced Scherzer? I faced him a couple times this year. Does the eyes go off? I got one hit off him. We actually hit him pretty good. I don't know what the stat is, but we put up some crazy number. He didn't make it to the first inning against us, and that was the first time ever in his career. I don't know what it was. We faced Bieber and Scherzer back-to-back this year. Pretty crazy up there. Memory on this man. Yeah, and man, that's tough. He's a stud. I wish I would have faced him when he was – Prime, prime? Yeah, him. But he's still knowing that he's doing what he's doing at the eight. Like, oh, man. Let's go four. Okay. Sorry, Max. It's good. Don't get mad at me. Yeah, it's tough because we're like, are these prime? Yeah. You know, like. I'm just going off of when I face it. Yeah, sure. That's good. We saw him dog out some innings in that World Series run for 23. Garrett Cole. Oh, Garrett Cole. Man, we got some good at-bats against him. I might have got a hit off him one time here and there. Got some good barrels just right at someone. I think he got probably a couple of strikeouts. Heater plays. Garrett Cole. He's like the guy that's like, all right, it's Garrett Cole. You've got to get locked in. I'm going to put him at two. Okay. I don't know. Two spot. Shohei Otani. Shohei. That's so tough. I got my first hit off him this year, too. Oh, boy. I think I was going into this year 0 for 7 with seven strikeouts, and I got a hit off him. Broke Little threw me, I think, a sweeper off the end of the bat, base hit, and he was like, I was running down back. He was running off the line after the third down. He goes, man, nice swing. I was like, man, that was the first time I touched one against him. So he can speak English. Yeah, he's got some English in there. I was going to ask you that after this whole thing. Yeah. Somebody just said, you know, biggest hot take is. He just gave it. I think Otani uses the interpreter to get out of post-game interviews. That's genius. He's awesome. He's been here for eight years. Well, I think Manny Ramirez was like in year 15 and he was still using the interpreter. I'm going to start using the interpreter. Yeah, dude, he's like, sorry, man. Yeah, but, yeah, it was cool. He was like, yeah, nice swing. I was like, thanks. That was the first time I touched a ball against you. I think we faced him a couple of years ago, and he struck out 12 and hit, like, three homers or something. That's awesome. Insane. Quickly, before we move on, do you just marvel at that guy, even as a professional baseball player? Yeah, it's pretty special. Do you ever sit back and just say, wow, this guy is simply amazing? It's special to see, like, what he's doing at the plate, and then you're like, man, he's a pitcher, too. And he's, like, a really good pitcher. And so, yeah. Was that in the ALCS when he, with that epic game? Which one? Yeah, the NL Championship Series. Oh, it didn't feel sorry. Yeah, where he hit, like, three homies. Yeah. Punched out ten over, like, seven scoreless. Video game numbers, I'd know. Where are you putting them, Shohei, one or the five spot? I want to put him at one, but also, like, I don't know who's going to be the next one. I feel bad because, like, you could put him as a hitter or, yeah, and say it's, like, not really a pitcher. You know this next one's going to be Kershaw. Yeah, it probably is. I never faced him, so I don't know. I'll put Otani at five. Wow, okay. Just because, like, it's like, you know he's good. Like, you don't need to give him any more. This is going to be brutal when they pop up Cody Jones here. It's the last name, and you've got to put him in the one spot. All right, here we go. I face him enough. He can be one. Yeah, that is Scooball. That's probably, out of all those, I faced him the most. Yeah, that's a division, mate. Yeah, I face him a lot. A lot. But somehow, like, we do well against him. I don't know, like his career wins and losses. I think he has more losses than wins against that. Like we get him good sometimes. Sometimes he gets us good too. He's a stud, man. He is a stud. He's really good. And he's just like, he gets on the mound. And so I get to be teammates with him, Team USA. So it's going to be fun. Is he the, who are the pitchers on Team USA? Him, Skeens. Oh, yeah. That's nice. Who are the others? Logan Webb, Matthew Boyd. It's a lineup, dude. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's a lineup. Yeah, the pitching staff is... Loaded. Yeah. Oh, let's do one more blind ranking before calling it a day. Joe Ryan, Clay Holmes, McClain, Kershaw. Yeah, Clay Holmes. I did see Kershaw was going to... That's cool. You know, kind of post-retirement. Just to pick his brain in it. Oh, yeah, it's going to be great. Is that just as important when you're around those guys? Yeah, I feel like you always got to have, like... You were talking about it earlier, have that glue guy. Yeah. Just be in there and just the vibes guy, whatever it is, and just really gets everyone together as one. Got to have those guys. You got to. Let's do another blind ranking. Top five favorite stadium foods. I'm going to name a food, and you have to rank them somewhere between one and five, but you don't know what's coming next. You ready? Ready. Let's do it. Starting with peanuts. Mmm. Good protein source. Yeah. Fair. Let's go number three. I'm going to need a beverage, though. Three. Penciling right in the middle. Messy, like. Yeah, the shells. Yeah. You a seed guy in the outfield? Yeah. Or a gum guy? Or a gum guy. Seed guy, gum, Chinook seeds, my go-to. Okay. But then also gum, like when I play, it's like two pieces through three innings, and then I throw it out three more, two more pieces, three innings, throw it out, and then that's kind of how I. What kind of gum? Just the double bubble. Do we have? Sugar-free. Do we have a gum sponsor? No, no, that would be really cool. I do. I do a lot of gum. I work on that. But yeah, seeds do, but no gum. I love how superstitious the baseball player is. But sugar-free gum is like. Sugar-free gum. I used to not. I'd be all about the sugar gum, but I couldn't get – the sugar-free lasts a little bit longer. Could get through three innings with the sugar-free, two pieces. That's good to tell the kid. Man, I feel like double bubble always goes out pretty quickly. Yeah, but it establishes a good jawline, double bubble, because you start chewing there late, and it gets tough, man. It doesn't stick to your teeth, too, this sugar-free one. Okay, I'll think of it a go. So, peanuts in the three hole. What's next? Dog. That's so tough. Dog. I put down a dozen in a nine-inning game. Yep. One spot. You have to go. So Dollar Hot Dog Night is like, it's. Yeah, Wednesday home games. They get me out to Arlington pretty quickly on Dollar Dog Night. I remember. I put a dozen down. I put a dozen down. We'll get them ordered from, like, when we play in Chicago, get the Chicago dogs. They'll bring them down to us. Yeah, they're good. Hand-delivered Chicago dogs. They just get mad as you put ketchup on it, I think. Okay. Yeah. Dogs in the one spot. Lead-off. That's a good lead-off hitter. It is. It has a little bit of everything. Five-to-a-player is the dog. Nacho. Ooh, nachos. Nacho, nacho man. I like nachos a lot. I get two. That's got to be a two spot. It is tough because all nachos are created equal. Fair, fair. But, man, if you get a good nacho, dude, a nacho and a hot dog, it's unbeatable. I just like the OG cheese from the whatever with a couple jalapenos on it. Sure. You get them at the Stars games. Yeah, the little bag of cheese. I need Lake Ontario worth of cheese, though. I'm a big cheese guy. More cheese than chip. But nachos, I've seen nachos spark a sixth inning rally by myself. I've gone to a nacho stand and got the Rangers back in the ballgame, so that's good. That's good. Next food item? I'm not kidding. You're laughing. I'm not. Popcorn. Popcorn. Also bad dependent here. I don't want to sign. It's your list. Yeah, I've got to go. I'm going to go five at popcorn just because it's like I crush it sometimes at the game. It's just got to be the right time. It's so salty. You've got to make sure you have the drink with it. whatever it is and then i drink i think i eat more popcorn at home like for the movies you know i think of popcorn as like a movie food same same yeah i agree with that and last but not least it's going to go in the four hole whatever it is the cleanup hitter ice cream yeah that's perfect isn't it crazy though the ice cream in the little helmet hits harder yeah it's incredible how that works you know it's not just a store-bought it's in that little batting or the or the uh the big we call the big kahunas back in the day but just the cookie scent ice cream sandwich yeah yeah i mean Dude, I used to, I mean, Lemon Chill, too. I was about to say, where did the Lemon Chill come into play? You know, that is coming back. No, that's coming back. Then they brought the watermelon flavor in for a little bit, and I was like, where are these guys? I know the guy that just bought them to bring them back. That's good. They're coming back, dude. Insider, insider, the Lemon Chill back in 26. Have you ever gone to a game and had all five of them? Because it's pretty much my lineup every time I go to a game. In that order, generally. Pretty much, dude. I gained 10. That's why I can't go to a lot of baseball games, man. I gain like 10 pounds every time I go. It's easy. Well, dude, we appreciate you being here. That was super fun. Oh, yeah. Again, let me know if Backyard Baseball gives you a call. Yeah, I will, for sure. Y'all will be the first to know. Same to y'all if y'all got some connection. Yeah, I don't know, dude. I don't know if they're calling the almost athletes. Maybe they will. Yeah, maybe. If they do, I'll make sure to give you a radio. Yeah, maybe they will. Appreciate the time, brother. When in Rome, I just happened to. This was just sitting here, actually. Believe it or not. That's incredible. You don't mind just ripping that. That would be pretty cool for the personal collection. Appreciate that. That's going to go in front of Gunnar Henderson's, by the way. Do you guys work on signatures? Because I feel like every baseball player has a really nice penmanship. I don't know. We had to sign a lot of – I used to have a longer signature when I was 14, 15, and then we did this Team USA thing. We had to sign 200 little stickers. Shorten it up. Shorten it up, and then from there, I'm in high school, all my papers, just autograph, autograph. My teachers would get mad. And I'm like, I don't know. It was just fun. I still find it funny that the twins signed their full name. It's just like in cursive, Kobe, Cotton. Not efficient. Yeah, just got a B in this W. Good guys, not efficient. The way you're doing it. Yeah, I couldn't have mine look like my dad's too because we have the same name. But I don't put the junior in my autograph. Well, good luck this year, dude. Thank you. I hope you all crush it. Go win the World Series. Thank you. Yeah, let's do it again next year, fresh off of AL Pennant and the World Series. Sweet. We'll come to the parade. Perfect. Inviting myself on. Bobby Witt Jr. everybody give it up for them February is almost over G March is on its way and you know what that means March Madness baby that's right but March is also the month where everyone's New Year's resolutions either didn't happen or it's time for them to turn into results pretty sure I forgot about my New Year's resolution right around January 7th my resolution was to hit more game winning shots and I already hit a huge one in the Creator Cup you're never going to stop bringing that up are you Sure. But if your resolution was starting your own online store, it's a lot easier than hitting a clutch three pointer. I see where you're getting at, Spark. You're talking about Shopify. We know firsthand that starting your own online store has never been easier. Thanks to Shopify. That's right, Gary. Shopify is the place to go if you want to grow or start your own business. It has everything you need in one place. And you only have one login that connects to everything you need to run your business. Not to mention thousands of design templates and formats to make it look great. That's right. In fact, our very own DudePerfect.store was built with Shopify. So if you visited DudePerfect.store to buy some of our great merch, you know how user-friendly it is for both sellers and customers. And to make it even easier to use, Shopify has an AI assistant to help you with everything from coming up with ideas to executing them. Go to DudePerfect.store to see for yourself. You can even get some merch and some ideas for your own store. And then do what we did to build our store. Use Shopify. What are you waiting for? It's time to build your brand. Head to Shopify.com slash almost to see how easy it is to start your business today. Almost. Hey. Almost that week. Almost. Excited to be joined by Kobe and Corey Cotton. But before we chat with the twins, I got a special announcement, boys. Tour. Continuing to work on what is our most ambitious and exciting tour yet, as you've probably heard, squad games themed. We're about to announce yes soon. Get your tickets at DudePerfect.com slash tour because tickets are selling fast. It is going to be so fun. It's going to be so fun. We cannot wait for the summer. Summer's right around the corner. We actually get 85, a high of 85 today here in Texas. Yeah, in late February. Concerning, Palmer's Almanac calling for a brutal summer. Don't worry about summer when summer gets here. Well, they called for a brutal winter, and they were wrong. That's true. They did call for some pre-sip, too, and we did. And that's why we're leaving town for tour. That's why I trust the Palmer's Almanac. Fine, dude. We'll be in other cities and states. But the tour's not the only special announcement today. Twins, you're here because I hear rumors of a Dude Perfect book. Yeah. Tell me more. I want to know. I'm itching to know more. Big day to announce this. I'm going to let Corey kick it off. We are definitely pumped about this here. It's a long time in the making. Guys, this is a huge deal. All right. Let me tell you a little bit about the book history of DP. Okay. A long time ago, probably like 11, 12 years ago, I wrote a book about the story of Dude Perfect. And that was cool. Realistically, it was a little early. Very much too early. It was a little early. We got excited. It's cool. It's cool. It's cool. Okay. Fast forward to a couple years ago, maybe five years ago, we did 101 tips and tricks. Cool stuff about Dude Perfect. Like a coffee table book. Really amazing. Really fun. Got the whole team involved. An incredible gift for kids, right? Then fast forward another year or two. I will say because I think it's worth mentioning. New York Times bestseller. It was. It was if you're into that sort of thing. Well, I just thought it was really encouraging. Our fans and families loved it. It was awesome. People still, every time they come to a meet and greet, people are holding the books. Third one, written not by anyone on this couch, but by someone married to someone on this couch. Kristen Hilbert, Garrett's wife. Incredible. Good night, dude. Perfect. really fun kids book one of my little kids favorite books it's a go-to at bedtime in our house i agree it's amazing and drum roll because the book we have been most excited about the concept that the people want when you're talking about dude perfect books is of course an actual fiction series ladies and gentlemen we have been cooking on this for years dude perfect would like to announce the Dude Perfect and Panda series coming soon. And by soon, I mean as of right now, officially available for pre-order books coming for sale in May. The Dude Perfect and Panda series, the first book in the series is Operation Trickshot. We got really excited about the idea of writing a fiction series where the dudes are in middle school. We're already making YouTube videos kind of on the up and our mascot panda unbeknownst to us is a secret agent coming around behind us mopping up our messes he's a secret agent we don't know there's tension back and forth about it this book is so fun it's the start of a huge series where we wanted parents to be able to have something like we did when we were kids hardy boys nancy drew what else Boxcar children. Boxcar children. Paint the cow dog. A little bit of mystery, a little bit of adventure, a lot of sports. We wanted something where parents could 100% trust it and kids would 100% love it. I could not be more proud of our team. I think we nailed it. This is the first of many to come. But we love you guys here at Almost Athletes. We know that y'all are deep, and I think y'all are the perfect audience for this. Are you trying to say, Corey, this is going to compete with Harry Potter? That would be sick. I think that would be awesome. Dude, a collab between the Operation Trickshot and Harry Potter crew. Not bad. I would get on board. You can preorder right now. Right now. It's live. I think you can get it preorder on Amazon. Where else can you preorder this? Just Amazon? Wherever books are sold. Gary, you know the lining. Wherever books are sold. Wherever books are sold, you can preorder. I didn't know that. No, I just said I'm saying the lining. It's like on As Seen on TV. Hey, wherever books are sold. Tell me the name of a place, and I'll tell you if they sell the book. I only really know Barnes & Noble and Amazon. Yes. Sparky, name a place. Target? Yes. Kobe. Walmart. Yes. The list goes on. Book releases May 12th, a day before one of the most important days of the year. Kristen's husband's birthday. That's right. May 12th, my sister's birthday. Fireworks of athletes were born around the Bay. Fun fact about Gary, doesn't care at all about Valentine's Day, but his own birthday. Oh, yeah. It's a big deal. Top two holiday. I got a couple follow up questions. Cor is one who's curious of the book series. One, you said there's many that are going to follow. How many books are we expecting in the series? Do we know that yet? That's a good question. I don't know that we've landed on a specific number. I know we have a theme for the second one, though. Okay, we do. And it's a little soccer theme. Yeah, baby. Action in London. That thinking ahead That World Cup related That one going to be launched this fall Okay The second book will be launched this fall Very cool I can tell you this part The current game plan is to release two to three a year Oh wow That what makes it fun Sure. It's like you get into a series. You want more readers. Right. You want to continue to dive in. Another question. I'm sure this is, you know, catered to the eight to 12 year old group. You nailed that. Is it fun for adults to listen to? 100%. 100%. I've thoroughly enjoyed it. Granted, I'm in the book, so it's not completely fair. But I have thoroughly enjoyed it. And also, if you're younger than 8 to 12 but a good reader, you're also invited. And also, we're doing an audiobook. I was going to ask. I was going to ask that. That's important to the people nowadays. Well, I'm going to be honest. I do a lot more audiobooking than I do reading, and I do highly recommend you guys read, you know, because that's just a good life skill. But if you're more of an audiobooker, that's fine. Toby, quick question for the fans. Are we making the fans listen to a random person read our book? Absolutely not. No, we're not. No. When Toby's talking in the book, what does he sound like? He sounds like me. Wow. That's what he's going to sound like. I was about to ask. AI? I mean, you know, I'm open to it. But no, we are doing it. We're doing it. It's going to be fun. I've always wanted to be like the voice of a character, you know? Yeah, sure. What's the overarching goal of our book coming out? My personal goal, and this may be a little sappy, so moms, lean in. Kids, you can close your ears for a second. We love families here at Dude Perfect. We internally say Dude Perfect is for the fam, is what we talk about. And so we work really hard for our videos to be completely trusted by anyone. We want them to be genuinely fun for all the kids watching, but we also want the parents to enjoy them and to feel safe that their kids or family is watching this because what you consume does mean a lot to you and it does kind of shape who you are. And so we felt like we had an opportunity to serve families by creating a book series that is completely trusted but also legitimately fun. And we know that it's important. I'm in the same situation with my kids right now. I got twin seven-year-olds, a six-year-old, and a one-year-old, and my six- and seven-year-olds are just now getting deep into reading, and they will love this series because they love reading good books. And you don't want to feel like as a parent you have to pre-read the entire book and make sure it's safe and make sure the attitudes aren't bad and your kids aren't going to come out super sarcastic and all this kind of stuff. You're like, wait, where did you learn that? We're not doing that. we're going to, in the same way that we vet all of our own videos as if our own kids are watching them because they do, we're treating the books the same way. So we just wanted to create an entire universe of this, the Duper and Panda series, that's super fun and also super trusted. So we honestly, like I said, incredibly proud of how it turned out. I'm kind of gushing about it because I think we nailed it. So I'm really pumped about it. Obviously, we'll see what people think when it comes out. But as of now, it's officially available for preorder. Well, it's a good time to tell Sparky to Corey. I'm proud of you, dude. I'm proud of all the work you put in because he has both the twins put in a lot of work on this and people in-house, too. So to see it actually with the cover around it, really cool. What a cool experience. And as a guy who admittedly kind of struggles to read a little bit with the attention deficit disorder and stuff, I feel like I as a kid would have thoroughly enjoyed having these available, especially if they qualified for AR points. I don't even know if that's a thing anymore. but you had to get so many points if that oh yeah that was a point getter i'd be reading the whole series of course that's the play right it's like it'll be part of scholastic and all the book fairs and kids this is how i felt right i remember reading a michael jordan book i'm like well i gotta read a book might as well do something fun so that's the play for sure yeah look there man the word book fair reminds us that's a top 10 as a kid yeah i'm pumped i got a long trip maybe to budapest too on end of may wow yeah hopefully going to the champions league final again congrats but I'll need a book I'll need a book to read well let's see an Almost Athlete podcast we could have used that on our Disney World record I know that's true hey Kobe pass that over you're going to love this part speaking of travel though you've been doing some traveling I have how are we doing? guys I had a good first meeting I'm actually flying back tomorrow which will be yesterday when y'all are watching this video for my next meeting but yes I went to a famous doctor in San Diego to try and help me with my smell and taste situation. Operation Taste is what we can start calling it here. We've got some preliminarily good news. They think that I'm absolutely capable of taste because I've told them my weird situation is that over the last six years, I've slowly like basically lost my ability to smell and taste. But every once in a while, I'll be on vacation. I'll jump in the ocean and I'll pop out for the next two or three hours healed. perfectly restored for two or three hours so my body's capable of it something's just blocking it i have a question for you and this is just putting you on the spot you just answer honestly i'm excited for this i'm just curious if we can't taste okay why do we drink milkshakes drink milkshakes and eat queso and do the things that are bad for you feels like a good time to dive in on the broccoli and brussels sprouts yeah it feels like a good time to just go all in on meatloaf and things that aren't good is meatloaf healthy no i have no idea but you know i'm trying to throw you a bone here i'm just curious i see you sometimes with a chocolate shake no more than i'm like more than sometimes is it what is it so this is a very fair question and you're not the first person to ask me that i am chasing a feeling chasing a memory that is the honest answer i get That's why I play golf. When you have a milkshake, okay? Amen. Tastes good, and it makes you physically feel good. Sugar is just a thing, right? That's just like it's literally become you associate that with a good time. Milkshake, good time. It is crazy. I'm going on five, six years now, and you still chase that high of a milkshake. Like that's just the honest answer is you still think you're going to have it. And weirdly, every once in a while, I still can taste a little bit. And so you think today's the day, dude. I got to order this milkshake because I bet I can taste that Nutella chocolate pretzel. It's similar to golf, dude. It's like today's the day. I'm going to flush that ball. I shoot even. Even par. And then you get eight holes in and you're like, dude, I'm shooting even par. And then the ninth comes and it's just like, no, that was a false narrative. Today, at least, you're lucky because I can smell and taste the intern's feet from when they took their socks and shoes off. So consider yourself lucky. Yeah, I can't. But I'm cheering for you, brother. Let's dive into voice smells, man. I kind of made me want to puke again. On the announcements front, we have a fun video coming out, main channel-wise, where the girls got involved. I wasn't on set for that one, so go ahead and speak what the video is. Yeah, guys, back by popular demand, I think they're going to start asking for agents. Our wives were requested heavily to come back. Your wife's going to get paid? Really? Oh, mine definitely does. She's got a little, eh? Y'all need it. Y'all need it. She's an author. She's an author, dude. Yeah, I've been reading. Amy, I call up Amy. hey amy our accountant's name is amy wow and i'll just be like hey i got you know two thousand dollar reimbursement a little day fee you're money laundering through christian that's crazy dude or no money laundering there was a big demand for the wives to come back it was we decided why not include them in an airsoft battle which i still think's crazy y'all convince them to say wives airsoft battle and i'll tell you right now my wife is 24 weeks pregnant and she said i'll be there that was crazy so there's a funny story there's a funny story there i don't know if you can zoom in here i don't know if you you see it's hard to see but there's a little bit of a dot there it's you know it's been about five days now aubrey lit him uh and uh aubrey decided to just you know hey look your balloon's not popping it's just bouncing right off the balloon so we're just gonna hit you in the jugular and then i'm gonna come over and just you know shoot him up close and it worked. Maybe she heard about Kristen's day rate. Dude, it was. She wasn't getting to partake. Was this every man and wife for themselves? It was like a team. We don't want to tell you guys too much. It was like you're on a team but you're playing individually. What a fun video premise. It was fun and it was aggressive. We'll give you guys a full download when it releases. 100% with the winners here in studio. When does that video come out? A couple things. If you're in the Dallas area which isn't everyone but if you're in the Dallas area You can watch that video on March 20th at a family night we're doing at the Omni. At the Omni PGA, yeah. You can go to our website, find more about that. That's a sneak peek. So I think the video launches a little bit after that, maybe around mid-April. Well, a lot going on in the Dude Perfect world, I tell you what. Sam busy. Books and videos and twins. Hopefully some taste and smell very soon. But, boys, we really brought you here for the voicemail. Yes. It's my favorite segment. It's everybody's favorite segment. And this segment is brought to you by DoorDash. When life gets crazy, DoorDash helps bring a little order to it. Send us voicemails with your questions, hot takes, family arguments you want us to settle or anything else at 972-805-8866. You can also find that number at almostathletes.com. Let's check a few of them out. Jared, play them voicemails. What up, dudes? My name is Brandon. This is my question to you. I want to know, in your opinion, what is the worst chore to do around the house? In my opinion, it's the dishes. I can't stand them. I just like the work when I come home and there's dishes, I'm pissed. I don't know what is the worst chore to do at the house. OK, OK. All right. I'm going to go there. That guy does not like this. Thank you, man. I appreciate the honesty. It's sometimes hard to be honest about something like that. These are these are chores. These aren't like cleaning your house type stuff. Yeah, that could be considered a chore. I was thinking like hauling hay is out of the equation. But if that was a chore, that is the anybody who grew up on some land and had to haul some hay. that'll build some character i'll tell you what i was just gonna address jared i can't completely agree with you to me the dishwasher is very satisfying um i don't like to load the dishwasher though sure sure i'm sure you're saying it's it's annoying well he said unload oh he said unload all he said was doing the dishes so you're one that finds all he said with dishes well here's what i'm trying to say right now i'm starting to question whether i heard you right jared to me specifically unloading the dishwasher is very satisfying like they're already clean you just go put them where they go that thing's empty now it's ready to be loaded i enjoy that the part that you would prefer to unload than load absolutely if you need to load it that means there's a huge mess in the kitchen and you get to clean it in the you're with me i don't want to be scraping i don't want to be scraping crusty marinara sauce you don't have to dude you got to do enough to where they come out clean from the dishwasher hey did you already get your fancy tv Do we need to get him a better dishwasher? Yeah, maybe. Almost athletes? Yeah. Hey, if you sell a good dishwasher, I guess Kobe doesn't have one. So hook a brother up. You're saying y'all never prep the dishes at all? Not to the point where it makes me not like doing it. Unloading the dishwasher is lame sauce. No, it's way better. Loading it is great. I'd rather have the clean. So here's the deal. If you have a lot of dishes, that means you're doing it the American way. And that's eating at home. And, you know, getting a healthy meal. Amen. Which is going to cause a lot of dishes. Now, there are certain things that I don't like to wash, which are things that cannot go into the dishwasher, which some things are just not dishwasher safe. Like a child? Speaking of, by the way, I heard you can wash hats in the dishwasher. That is a life hack. I put my hats, especially the wire in the dishwasher. I'm about to start it. I haven't done it. People told me, dude, just wash your hat in the dishwasher. That's a real thing. That's so smart. I'm trying that tonight. Now, if I was to open the door of the dishwasher and there's just a thing of hats in there, sure, I'm thrilled. I'm like, that's the scenario. But, dude, there's nothing worse when you have a huge pile of dishes in your sink and you open your dishwasher and it's clean dishes you have to then put up to then wash. There's nothing worse. I 1,000% agree with this. So in the same vein, do you all dislike unloading the dryer and hanging clothes? No, I see. When it comes to vacuuming, clothes drying, clothes hanging, I don't actually dry clothes. I hang dry. I know. Same. I vacuum my house every single day. That's your decompress. I go home and dance to music. You just start vacuuming. Oh, I listen to music when I vacuum. To each their own. Sure. How long is your vacuuming cycle? Oh, it goes like 20 minutes. I feel like you can go two hours on a good day. At what point in the day? It just depends. You don't even say how to your kids yet? Oh, yeah. If it's bad, I don't even say how to do it. Are you anti-robot vac? i am i am until those things listen to you man i don't like that until the robot can do better than you you're fine huh no it just depends sometimes it's after the meal which is like just under the table but then under the table kind of leaks out to the kitchen then after the kitchen leaks out to the rooms are all connected and then it's like well i just back in the hall so i brought this up last week but the chore that was like the most like you better be there be square and show up and do your job was when mom came home with groceries that was like you press share on the video games yes because if mom has to bring in eight bags on the first load and you're not going out there to help you're getting you're getting a talking here's the deal that needs to happen and i want to change this for america because i've talked to ty about this i think i've talked to you about this i think the younger generation like you know under 10 they have a problem with peeing on the toilet seat yeah we talked about that last we talked about it bathroom is getting blown up and i think just the chore that needs to happen now is like you got to clean your own toilet. Every week you're going to get in there with soap, Lysol, and you're going to be the one that wipes it all up. I bet you money your aim gets better. All of a sudden that seat starts getting lifted a little more. I think that should be the chore that should be the worst because no one wants to do that. I would pick unloading and loading dishes all day. Before I do that again. You're taking it back to the basics. We need some toilet scrubbing from the kids. Yeah, dude. You can build something. We're getting a little entitled with our chores. That's a good point, dude. Ooh, that's good. Could you consider putting lights on and off the Christmas tree a chore? Because that can be a tangling mess. Well, now they make the trees that just have them pre-lit. The pre-lits. No, but we grew up as a real tree family. Well, that's on you then, dude. I left that family. Okay, sorry. I left that family. I am now a fake tree. We are, yeah, fake tree pre-lit. But I'm telling you, man, those lights on and off of that tree in the living room is tough, dude. it's almost like you just want to throw the whole tree away with ornaments lights and everything you know you're living well if you could just take a whole christmas tree an ipad every year just to pull the plastic yeah yeah that was a crazy that's the richest thing you've ever heard that's a great question there's a lot of bad chores but gotta do i think toilet's the worst Toilet is by far the worst. Hey, guys. This is Tyler from Michigan. I have a question for mainly Garrett but also Sparky. Would you rather have your hair back or have refs in all levels of football make perfect calls? I would sacrifice an arm for the refs to make perfect calls. Oh, refs to make perfect calls. I thought you were going to say for your hair back. No, no. I would sacrifice another body part for just a ref perfectly called game. It would be unbelievable. I'm not going to lie. I've been waiting on Tyler's turkey text. I've just been hinging on it. I'm hoping he invites me later on this year. I love a world where I'd have hair back, but as a man of the people, I'd be willing to forego my hair for the betterment. To bless the rest of society. Yeah, yep. It's kind. You guys would have been proud of me. I mean, I didn't say anything. Kept my mouth shut. But the seven-year-old girl basketball game that I just witnessed with the rest, despicable, man. are you kind of curious you're like how'd you end up out there like if you're not going to do it well why do it all and then this girl on the other team dribbled like legit dribbled out of bounds like a solid five seconds and they're just play on and our coach was like she's dribbling out of bounds they're like at what age do you feel like that should have started to be called dribbling out of bounds when when you are born into this world because there's rules of a game that need to just be enforced. Yeah, but if it's three-year-olds. I never said three. This is seven-year-olds. You're born. Sorry, you're right. Born. I don't do it. You want to play basketball? Play by the rules. This isn't whatever. That's fair. As a former PUE official, though, you don't get paid by the whistle, so I get it. Do you let a double dribble go by every once in a while? I don't mind the double dribble because they're learning how to dribble. That one, as long as you continue to put the ball back and don't run the length of the court sure sure you're trying to dribble but we should understand the premise about abounds yeah it's coloring inside the line yeah it's like what are we doing here like i understand leniency but like this is getting ridiculous and you guys would have been proud i wanted to say something but i was like you know what i'm a new me new gear dude it takes a full minute for them to get from kid out of bounds to you're now out of bounds you're standing there you pass it waste a lot of the game so i think the thought process is well number one ptsd from the previous game where they refed and they maybe tried it that way and they realized that like they lost that part of their life yeah yeah but you gotta let the main thing be the main thing sometimes and when you're six people want to see them throw the ball towards the goal every once in a while can i ask you a question that i don't remember being decided on this podcast before or announced how many things have you refed gary and would you be open to an on-camera reffing in the future oh i'd be open to on-camera reffing, especially if you put me through a school to go do it, I've always said I might be one of the best refs to ever play the game. It's kind of like the one thing we tried, though, which is hilarious. I just did that to be funny. At the end of the day, when you're calling things on the TV before the ref even sees it, you're just good at your job. Or you have really good cameras, and they're just standing on the floor. Yeah, maybe. Get better camera. They make meta glasses that should have just everything now. That's a good point. I do want to see how you'd react to Timmy's mom, Rose, questioning your strike zone, though, in the first inning. I feel like my worst one would be baseball. Really? Yeah. It's so – I mean, you're really – Baseball one is ball strikes. Dude, can we do that? Let's send Gary to a – Middle League baseball game. Well, we should just pick the main sports and send him and get him graded as a ref across the different sports. When I have to leave you guys to become the head NFL chief, that'd be sick. That'd be tough, dude. Really quick climb there. Romo and Nance are bringing you in. It's like the guy who goes through his minor leagues in no time. It's like, this guy's in the NFL. He's running the league in five years. It's unheard of, dude. Would you be the type of ref that adds a little flair to your call, or you are completely by the buck, just black and white? And I will tee you up so fast if you get in my face. If I ever refed a little me back in the day. You'd throw them out so fast, dude. I would throw myself out of those games so quick, dude. I'm talking like I've been ejected from 48 games. See, you're the ref. You're the ref. So funny. I'm just going to make it about you. I don't love that. I don't love that. We had a guy in high school baseball. We called him Disco Inferno because he called strikes like that. Oh, I hate that. Didn't the coach just throw one of their own players out of the game? It's incredible if he did. Oh, yeah, Mick Cronin, UCLA. Oh, it was wild. I didn't actually agree with it. He threw his own player out? Bro, ejected his own kid. He was a player one, and it was kind of a play. And he said, get out of here. Oh, yeah. And he came back to the bench and he was like, go to the locker room. I don't mind that. See, I didn't like it because he kind of threw his own boy under the bus, his own player. But that was the game where Mick Cronin after the game was like, are you raising your voice at me? I remember that. He had a breakdown. Don't we all? We all have breakdowns. I had mine last year. You never know what people are going through. Yeah, you never know. I've had plenty on this podcast, so. Sorry. Hello, this is Jacob from Clarksville, Tennessee. Okay. And I have something on my mind. This is specifically towards the astronaut in the group. You know who you are if you're listening. So as far back as I remember, I have always wanted to go to space. If Kobe is there and he is listening, I would want to know what it was like to feel that zero gravity. because that's the part I want to experience. So if he's there, please have him respond. Well, guys, sorry. We're out of time today. For the other three of us, we've heard so many space stories. But go ahead, Kobe. Go ahead and rub it in our face. Jacob, thank you very much for what I thought was an insightful, very wise question that multitudes of people out there are interested in themselves. I would say that going to space changes you. It does. truly truly it was an amazing experience um i'm very grateful for it i've shared about that in a number of different areas and i know these guys have to listen to it a lot but um it was obviously a once in a lifetime opportunity i give my wife the credit for letting me do it people have asked like was it scary to me honestly i did not think it was scary to me the scary part was deciding to do it in the first place yeah i bailed we had a one-year-old at the time you got to sign everything away like it was it was daunting on that side like it's a wise idea like am i just doing this to make a youtube video is that a good enough reason um you know i always say there's not a lot of gray area in space travel either goes really great or not and so that was i i found that the heaviest part of the whole process was the decision up front the actual 12 minutes because that's what it was on a blue origin flight 12 minutes from like take off to landing was truly unbelievable uh it would be like if y'all laid down on this table right here and you went up and back down that was how smooth it would feel i mean it was it was un unbelievably like calm turbulence up there no turbulence very smooth uh you'll notice on the video when i'm coming back down through the atmosphere for like one second your your face kind of feels back but i mean it's over quick and uh you mentioned the floating by far the best part you're right to want that it was pretty great um that's all the time we got today man so thank you jacob um why don't you catch me on my you know personal instagram sometime happy to give you some more information i think i think you're about to launch a podcast space podcast yeah yep it's called still talking about it it's called space to talk still talking astro yeah um your brother just wants to smell again well everybody walks up to court on the street and asks him how space was and i was looking at him oh i've definitely been asked like hey how was kobe's travel space like i don't know Don't ask him. I didn't go. Hey. Thank you for the voicemails. That's our two-minute warning. Boys, y'all have anything? I have a little something today. I don't have anything. I do. I've already said my piece. Go ahead. I do have something. Wow. You came prepared. Proud of you. I don't know how hard to go on this, but I think the worst TV show ever made in the history of the world is The Masked Singer. Oh. And I do not understand how we are on season a million of this show. That's actually a really good rant. I have put myself through watching enough episodes to where now I can confidently say I don't understand. I do not get the appeal of watching this television show. I feel like when the moment finally happens and they take the mask off, it's always underwhelming. And I feel like it is physically impossible to guess the random person that is inside that mask. And look, I get it. There's a lot of stuff that maybe is even worse than this on TV, and so maybe that's why it wins. Kobe is the big network TV watcher in this group, so maybe I should ask you. Maybe you're addicted to this show, but do any of you all think that this show deserves to be as popular as it is? I've actually never watched a full episode. Never watched it? Don't know anybody who has watched it? It sounds like somebody in your household is obviously watching. I dare you to watch an entire episode of this show. This is my quick take. Again, somebody hit us with a voicemail or leave your answer in the comments on what we're missing here. My understanding of the reason people watch is because they give you breadcrumbs. It's kind of like our mystery detective battle. It's they give clues throughout. So the people out there that like playing that type of mystery game are trying to think about it from that perspective. Otherwise, I can't understand. Yeah, I didn't know that's where you were going with your rant. But I kind of like it. I don't get it. Like the show or the rant? Neither. No, I like the rant. I like the rant. I have a quick one, Spark. Sure. This is more of a hot take. I'm curious y'all's perspective. to me. We're entering into the month of March here shortly. Yes. The best two days, in my personal opinion, of sports, back to back days of any sports are the first two days of March Madness. I have stood on this for a long, long time, and I've taken some heat for it. I'm curious y'all's opinion. I think NFL is the best product. I think the best two back to back days of sports are the full slate of March Madness. It is from morning till night. Cinderella Tell us stories. I just love it. Two really good rants by two really good individuals. Thank you, Corey. Thank you, Kobe, for your time. Looks like our time's up today. We'll be back next Wednesday with an all-new ep. Follow the show on all socials at Almost Athletes. Like and subscribe on YouTube or listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Rate us five stars. Share with a friend. 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