Dude Perfect RANKS Vanilla Ice Cream

This has got organic all over it. This one's kind of lacking a punch. It's like the starch really good and then you're waiting for that flavor kick and it just never comes. It has no left jab. Uh, blue is a six for me. I mean, you're aligned. I'd rather eat a bottle of listerine than what I just had. That was horrible. Welcome to almost athletes with dude perfect. A wave original presented by into a turbo tax. Now this is taxes. Follow the show on all social media at almost athletes. Like and subscribe to us on YouTube or listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcast. We're your host. I'm Garrett spark. Am I technically a host? Yep. You are today coach. Welcome in bud. Cody's here. Ready for masters week. What have we got coming up sparks? Cody's playing in the masters on Thursday. Shoot a one 30. The morning on Thursday and an afternoon on Friday. They really should just let an average Joe from like it would be in the south region. You know, just grab a random Texan millager. Grab your clubs. You're playing some of those old guys that that'd be fun. No, they're still playing in the masses because they're allowed to. It's still one of the greatest photos of all time. That guy that went that got tickets to the practice round and thought he was getting to play. So he brought his club. I remember him saying play. That'd be cool. I mean, if you're like Louis Ustazen in your golfing behind them, that would get old quickly as he's shooting 157, you know, you're looking at a nine hour round. Unpaired with him. No, see, that's the thing. If you shoot a 157, you can still play in four hours. You know that, right? Yeah, I'm picking up balls, I guess. That's fine though. Just keep the pace, brother. And then people don't care what you shoot. Just keep the pace. Anyways, what do we got coming up? Coming up on today's app, Her Majesty, the trick shot queen is stopping by to give us a preview of the trick shot world championships. We're going to do a taste test to crown the best vanilla ice cream in the game. We're going to check in on the NBA ahead of the playoffs, give our masters preview. But first, we have a college basketball national champion. Michigan Wolverine. Unbelievable. Congratulations, W. Congratulations, Dusty May. Well, it pays to stay. And Dusty didn't take the North Carolina bait, stayed there at Michigan. Which he should, man. He's building the gauntlet. And look at that. He ended up with a natty title. You know, didn't get a natty title. Dan. Well, Dan Hurley. He's got two of them. But is that karma showing through? For what? For what? The headbutt. Headbutt karma leaking over into the final. My favorite part was when he was like, dude, I thought he was coming in for a chest bump. I'm like, no, no, you didn't. Yeah. Who's having a chest bump the right? That's what I would have said. A chest bump and you put your head down. Like, I don't know. Even if he was chest bumping the ref, you shouldn't be chest bumping the ref back there. Go ahead. That's good. I don't know if that makes it that much better. Yeah. The Final Four was kind of lame. Whoa, lame. Using the L one. Illinois got smacked by Yukon. It wasn't a game, dude. Yeah, they were just colder than a Canadian winter. They couldn't buy a bucket. Michigan, Arizona. Michigan just dominated. Yeah, that offense has just been real. I thought Arizona was supposed to be good. Dude, Michigan destroyed them. They were by 30 at one point. Yeah, old Charles Barkley called it the Arizona Invitational, thinking that they would just sweep everybody. What, didn't show the shooters? The defense? Well, they couldn't shoot. First Michigan. They could not make a bucket. They could not make a bucket. Fell behind. I don't think they trailed during the NCAA tournament, and all of a sudden you look up, it was like 24 to 9 right off the bat. Just cold shooting, you know? And then they got down by like 30, and it was over. Yeah, then all of a sudden, Dusty Mace kids in, hitting three balls, which is just the worst feeling if you're an Arizona fan. So travel all that way to Indy and watch a walk on, just splashing threes. I do think it was the worst my bracket's ever finished. Bottom 25%. Oh, I think I got you beat. You didn't have any ones in the Final Four? Well, I did. I had Florida winning it. Okay, that didn't happen. That they lost in the, I think they lost first round. Round of 32. Yeah, to Iowa. No, I didn't pick any of the Final Four teams. That's one. That hurts. Not one team. But you know, my women's bracket was in the bottom 10%. That's hard to do. That is hard to do. That's almost impressive. I don't even, well, I did the auto pick, and it was like kind of random. And boy, that random did me dirty. If you just take the favorites in the women's bracket and make them meet in the middle. Good chance you're 85% tired of it. Congrats to UCLA, dude. UCLA, yeah, man. First time. First time in school history. Yeah. They're guys, sir, have won at a time. So UCLA, you kind of forget about UCLA. They used to be a dominant powerhouse, and they kind of gone away. Girls are bringing them back. Good. I think the landscape of College basketball is better when there's a West Coast team involved. Who is that quarterback from UCLA that beat us? They came back. Gough? No, that was Josh Rosen. Josh Rosen. Yeah, he rose that team from the dead in that game at Cal. No, yeah, remember that game, dude? We were winning. I was dove hunting at my family's ranch in West Texas, and all of a sudden we were 24, then we were down three. It took years off my life. The kid from A&M had the stick, you know, we're dancing it up pretty good. Look at you. You got it. Dude, huge news out of the NBA. Luca. Not just Luca. And AR. They're cooked. My Lakers are done. Yeah, like, are they gonna come back? Like, are they coming back? Luca can't. He grade two? Yeah, Luca's sound like he already bit rolled him out the rest of the regular season. He's going home. Well, Austin Reeves is out the regular season, but the regular season is only what? Like 10 more weeks? Yeah. So that's not that. Reeves' injury is four to six weeks, so he's out for at least the first two rounds. First two rounds. And then is, due to hamstrings, nasty. Yeah, that's hard. Like, you got to make sure that thing is, because that could be long-term damage if he doesn't rest it. He is, too. He'll all play off. I would imagine so. And if he's not, then you're thinking he's probably operating it. Well, this is my pitch then. And LeBron. Hold on. If he wins a title, better than MJ. LeBron? Yeah, with no help. With that team, 100%. With Brani. Yeah, if he wins it with Brani, MJ is second. Well, MJ goes to third, because I have Kobe second. Did you catch the Bob Does Sports with LeBron that was fantastic? So that's what I'm saying. This is my pitch. LeBron, if you get out first round and you listen to almost athletes. May I sit on our chair? Let's go play some golf. We don't have to film it. Don't worry about it, dude. Let's go play some golf. But I do need you to do an almost athlete podcast interview. That's good. Bushing. When you say let's go play golf, are we in that too? Yeah, sure. All of us. So a five-some, Brani? How are we going to? Does Brani play? He's better than me. We should offer the invite to Brani as well. Brani's better than us there. Sure. Why can't we play a five-some? That's a marido question. I'm not a member there. Sure. You've got to call ahead. He played five-some with Brani. It's an open invitation to the James family. Have you played with him there? LeBron? I've never played with LeBron. What about Gary? I've played with Garrett at Marido, but not LeBron. Yeah. What starter is going to stop LeBron and his kid from playing a five-some? We don't have a starter, so we're good there. Yeah, look, that's unfortunate for Luca. That really helps you. Yeah, it's unfortunate for me. I was all in. When he went down, it did not look good. Instant turnover. He did. That was, I do that sometime. I did that in our last airsoft battle through my gun down when I knew I was injured. Mm-hmm. You got me in the drill. I know. It felt like I tore my hamstring. Just like, I feel you, Luca. Sadly, it's just part of sport, man. And it's my least favorite part of sport. The injuries. Yeah, I pray every time before I even shoot around nowadays, because you never know when self-dissue. The killings is going to go. Yeah. So I really do sympathize. If you're just looking to. And you just rip it MCL, shooting around, that's not a good look. What do you do in that situation? I don't know. You start yelling, help. But can we talk about how good that Oklahoma City, San Antonio Spurs series going to be for the West Coast finals? Yes, selfishly. We're already there. Basketball fan, I need it. They're going to walk to the finals. That series is going to be so good. It's going to feed families. I think they get it. Now, I think Western Conference gets it done this year. You would think so. Let's take a look at the standings, though. So Lakers are going to be cooked by the Timberwolves. Probably. But the good news is they will have home court advantage, at least. That doesn't matter. Edwards is going to do them dirty. Nuggets Rockets will be a pillow fight. Who's going to get out of that one? No way. The Suns even, I mean, Spurs sweep the Suns and Thunder sweep the Cliffs. Well, they've got the play. And you know who's playing who. Yeah, it's going to be. We need our boys to make a late run. How bad the Mavs are. And we're still just, you know, too off a play. No, no, we're. Well, 10. 10 gets 10 to play in spot. We're 11 games out of it. No, no, I'm saying we're just two playoff spots back. Like, how bad they are. They let so many teams into playoffs. No, we need some lot of luck. Huge year for the Mavs. Last last first round pick we own to like 2031. Yeah, we just need Fleming or Egg Cuff. Yes, need a guard to pair with Coop, who has been spectacular. And then in two years after that, you're going to get Luca back. That's going to be great. I understand Knipple's going crazy and Charlotte and they're a good basketball team. How he has become the odds on favorite to win rookie of the year is a Travis Steele. I think they're trying to make. I think they're trying to make it dramatic, dude. Cooper has set so many records. And the last two games, Cooper's outscored Knipple's last six games. I think what's hurting Cooper's 90 plus. Cooper's case. No, it's how bad the Mavericks are. No, I hit a fade away on him for my All Star practice. Oh, you think it's you? Oh, yeah. I think the NBA. Let's just tell the voters that that was fit. That was staged. Cooper let him do that. He let me. It was the 13th take. We had to do it. That's insane that I missed 132. How do you guys feel about this? This is crazy. So 65 game ruled the eligible for the post-season awards. So Luca is not eligible. Yeah, I'm coming on the fence on that one. And the Edwards not eligible. I understand why the rules in place. Trying to incentivize obviously playing the game itself. Dude, if you can win a MVP on 64 games, that just shows how dominant you were. Well, he cost himself one by technical accumulation. Well, that one was kind of. He just had to get it. How many games has Luca played? Yeah, I think that rule is in place for a good reason. It's just unfortunately the dark side of that rule is showing. When you're not just resting to rest for the sake of it. This is a legitimate injury. No, it is. Yeah, that's one game out. He was a shoe. I think he was a shoe in for the MVP. No, they're saying Wimby and SGA. SGA is the odds on favorite by a lot right now. They're just a record card. I feel like it's SGA's though. Casey is dominant again. And this is OKC's to lose. I don't see anybody to throw into them. And that is why San Antonio is going to get it done. I can't though. I can't cheer for him. It's what's tough. Oh, I can't cheer for him either. But there's going to be a basketball purist. They have Oklahoma City's number, dude. Yeah, they do. Which means something. Just like the Mavericks do. But I don't. San Antonio doesn't have that playoff experience that OKC does. They can back to last year. Freak. In a good way. Something real about that. Yeah, 29 and 12. 91 over the last 10. The Spurs, even though they're coming off an L. Yeah, that's the de facto championship you would think. Right? Western Conference Finals, Thunder, San Antonio. That's horrible. They're going to travel right through Dallas during the West Finals, just passing up Oklahoma City and then right back through Dallas. No, they won't go through Dallas. They won't go through Dallas. I don't think. I think they're going to stay on. We could use the finals. Yeah, I guess they will go through Dallas. Yeah. This is the funny way he put it. They got to go right through Dallas. They got to go right through Dallas, don't they? Yeah, man. I think they'll probably fly. Not during the game. They'll probably fly, I would hope so. Yeah. If you're yellow bellying and the NBA falls over to Dallas. Gosh, can you imagine if, yeah, they take a school bus? That's actually how you solve the tanking issue. It's not relegation. You make them travel by school bus. If you're under 500, you have to do yellow bellies. Portland to New York. A seven footer in a school bus. That reminds me of tour. You just never know where that bus is going. All right. My champion though is going to be, I think Spurs get it done. I think they're the NBA champions. True home not. Whoa, really? Yeah. Wow, that would be something. I'm going to say thunder and hope I'm wrong. I'm going to go LeBron led Lakers. Again, dude, I will fall on my story if LeBron gets it done. Dude, he's ready. Put his name forever into history books. He's the greatest NBA player. At 41 and obviously his true passion is golf now. He hasn't even been playing basketball this year. Hey, Jordan did it. He's got more golf rums than we have in the last three years. Combined. And he's winning a championship maybe. That's crazy. That's what Jordan did. Jordan took the same round. He's like, I'm going to go fall in love with another sport and still win a title. This is a Jordan move by LeBron or at least an attempt. I just don't see that happening. Well, what about the east though? Who's representing the east? Because I think it would be a really good feel good story. I think the Celtics too, but goodness gracious with the mix Detroit Pistons not be a great story. You know what's so funny as you look at it like all like the old school basketball teams are in the east. But like I just don't view the east as like, I just don't even care. The threat. I think it was our childhood. But like I was just in Celtics. Nick's. Bulls. 76ers. The bulls like. Man. The powerhouse. Any any surprises maybe they're coming out of the east. Somebody who can make a run in the shadows. No, because everyone from three down can't win it. You don't think so? No. Cleveland men their jump shooting team. What if the Cavaliers got hot? No, they can shoot that thing. Celtics Pistons, but Pistons are is Kate back from his. I don't think so. Not quite. They're playing they're playing it. You know, safe with him. Understandably so. The pride of our pride. Take it the first series off too then. Well, you kind of can. I think me and you could play against the Hornets. That's not standing here. You know, it's out to at least the offs. So all right. Anthony Edwards also going to be a victim of falling just underneath that 65 game. I know that takes you not only out of like in the air. MVP six man that takes you out of NBA first team second team. That's what I'm saying. One more game. It's a joke, dude. It's a joke. Oh, she's bad luck. I get that you need a minimum of just things that he was. So do we lower the minimum? I just think I just think yeah, but to Sparky's point, like. You're one game and you got seriously injured. Put put the guy in. He's like the scoring leader by a lot. It's a joke. Like 34. His March was insane. Probably best point per game average. That's the worst part about injury. They always seem to come at the worst time. Luca was just balling 33 and a half. Yeah. Poor Ben and skin too. Had the had the poor set up with him and Dak at Rollertown. Didn't even get to do it. Nope. But I don't know how to fix the tanking issue. We got a tanking issue in Dude Perfect as well. Yeah. Yeah. So let me know how the NBA figures it out. How do we fix it in Dude Perfect? I don't know. It is Masters Week. Yeah, it is. Cody dressed apart. I did. Never seen Cody in pants and a vest and a polo ever. At work. At work. Yeah. I mean, I didn't know if somebody died. Nope. Not a funeral. You even got the H cut. Yeah. Got a little haircut. Took away the hard part. Time to grow up a little. For Masters Week. Is this the best week in golf? Yeah. I think. Oh, what? Simply the best week in golf. Oh, yeah. Not even close. What would rival it? Ryder cut probably. Ryder comes on to it for me. Yeah. I knew that. I would actually say the open. Yeah. I like that. Right. Would be the only thing, but it doesn't. I can't wait for it. Masters Week is just something special. Byron Nelson. Well, yeah, the Byron stuff. You got to pay me to go to the Byron. PGA you made next year. PGA. Yeah, PGA here in Frisco. That would be sick. That would be cool. What about predictions wise? This one's going to be tough, man. This is open. I like how open it is this year, though. Who's the odds on favorite? We have, I got a text from Chad Coleman, who used to work at Dude Perfect. We fired him, though. See ya, boy. I'm kidding. We did it. He left us. He is, Sparky was on this text. He just is, he's guaranteeing a Bob McIntyre. Bob McIntyre, which I like the call left-handed. And I'm just like, should Bob put it, wrap up the Valero, open up my five shots and San Antonio, you think on a Masters Sunday he's going to win it? Yeah, he would need some separation. No, he wouldn't. Leaderboard to get it done. It's either going to be a call me crazy, rookie, like a daughter up or somebody just coming in out of nowhere, or it's going to be a repeat winner. A repeat winner. I hope Bryson gets it done, that'd be sick. That'd be cool. I think Rory has a difficult year. I think the high of winning last year. He's completed, he's worried about the dinner. What does he serve him, by the way? I don't know. I didn't look at the, I don't actually see, I disagree with you. I think now that the wait's off, Rory could win multiple green jackets. That's fine. Are you going to the dinner? I got invited. Dude, I would. You got invited to the dinner? Yeah, dude. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know who, but I think DeShambo would be a really cool story. Patrick Reed would set the world on fire if he won. Dude, I could hate watch Sunday if he was in the lead. You know who I want to win? Justin Rose. That'd be great for him. He's like, he's always there. He like epitomizes what a Master Champion should be, like just outside of golf. Outside of winning. Yeah, outside of peace. He's great ambassador for the course. There's everything but win. He's buttoned up. He wins everything but the Masters. I know. And he would be an old, I think he's like 45. Oh boy. Yeah, it's kind of an hour, never time. Well, Masters, you. You can mess around in one one in your fifties. But yeah, first time since 94. That we had to have Tiger. No fill or Tiger. Wow. Or why are we even going? Easy. All right. I feel like we're going because this is the first year we're ushering in a new year. Does Spieth have a shot? He always has a shot in my heart. He must have chances to have Tony. At least he's in the field. Yeah, I do too. What is wrong with him? He just came across this game over the last couple of years, man. Haven't we all? I've lost my game. You find it. Let me know. Well, I'm excited about it. Make sure to fill out your fantasy teams for the Masters. And my, I got the Masters food kit coming to my house on Friday. What's Masters food? You're going to be there on Thursday. Yeah, I'll be at the Masters. I'll be at the Masters all week. And then when I get home, I get a little bit of taste of George in my in my fridge. Pimento cheese sandwiches. Why don't you take them home from the course? Oh, did you ever hear that story? Stuff them in your pockets. Oh, that was the moldy. Yeah, that was a Tizers bag. Tie. We couldn't figure out what was smelling so bad. It smelled like a dead rodent. Because you borrowed his travel bag. You opened up the side pocket and inside was a 2021 Masters Pimento cheese wrapped up, had totally molded over. I think it was like two years old. From 21. Yeah, you could. I mean, you know much you could have gotten for that on eBay. You think? Yeah, you resell the moldy Pimento cheese from the back nine at Augusta. He would have won 21. That would have been a Hedekie. DJ. DJ. DJ. DJ. That's good. When did Dustin? No, he was a, that was 21 COVID year. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, there was two. 21. Really close. So I didn't know. Two one and 21. Well, guys, shall we move away from sports? Yeah, let's go. Let's go out of the show. Let's go out of space next. The moon trip. You'll see this. Yeah. All the photos shot on iPhone 17 Pro. You know that? For Martinis? Apple. Yeah. They pay for that? I think so. Yeah. Great pics. And it's so funny to me. It's kind of like me not believing. And look, at the end of the day, I do believe that we landed on the moon. I don't want to believe because I just, it doesn't make any sense. It defies logic. Are you a flat earth or no? No, but all the flat earthers got to be. Non-moon guys. Well, they got to be like, I mean, the picture is clearly a circle. I thought we've debunked flat earth for a long time. Artemis just did for you guys. But man, dude, I thought a couple things. Number one, the speech from the guy was just great. Oh, I didn't hear it. Who's the guy? What's the lead astronaut's name? He gave a speech. He did. From outer space? Yeah. It was really, no, not that guy. Maybe he's not the lead. You heard this guy's speech? Yep. And then you saw a baseball thing that happened? Yeah. You guys, you two need to unplug for one weekend and just be present with nature and your fam. Oh, you're probably not. I was, I'm, dude, I was present with that. Victor Glover is who I was talking about. How did you see this? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We took a Canadian up there. I thought it was a US mission. He moved, he moved on our, on our ship. Canadian space agency astronaut Jeremy Henson. How did he get invited? Basically Victor, basically Victor Glover said, hey, look, like you guys also live on planet earth, which is pretty remarkable. So take every day. Don't take days for granted. And that's why Victor Glover is my favorite astronaut. He also said, he also said, like there's no atheist in space. Oh, because they've seen creation. Is a pretty, pretty awesome quote. That's tough for my mind to wrap around no atheist in space. Okay, I get what you're trying to say. Meaning every astronaut's a believer? I just don't think you can not be when you go up there and see the magnificence of the marble of like a boom can't create that. Yeah, it's unbelievable. I thought that was a cool quote. And but Victor did call me. He texted me and said, my moon land's looking good. I bought moon land a long time ago. Yeah, you did. Yeah. Is it on the side of the moon that we never get to see? Well, it was, but see Artemis got to see it. Got it. They went around. I just learned that yesterday. Yeah, you only see one side of the moon. Yeah, didn't know that. Oh, is that real? You only see one side of it. Then spend the dark side of the moon. That's why they say that. I just meant that it meant like, Can you give us a little backstory? Yeah. So and cool, not cool. We do the show in overtime and if they're watching almost athletes and you're having to explain overtime to them, that would blow my mind. Yeah. You know, welcome new fans. Oh yeah, LeBron. I don't think you've seen it. They might have missed that episode. I don't think LeBron seen this one. I remember when I bought that land on the moon. Yeah, technically our land. Oh yeah, all owners. I wanted to check in on our investment. He's got photos. Yeah. That did this. These photos are from the moon. I was tracking them in that part. Yeah, anyways, I bought some moon land and some sun land. That's not worth enough. Yeah, I don't think we're ever going to. I don't ever think we're going to get to the sun. But the moon we're close with with Elon. Elon has made this stuff so, so expensive. Yeah, it's like basically going to a quick trip down the street. Six acres, right? How much? Yeah, so when we sold. That's a hefty amount. Did we lose some of our moon land? No, no, we kept that. Are you sure? Yeah. 2018, I bought moon land. That's like buying Bitcoin when it was 25 cents. Oh yeah. If you had bought Bitcoin instead of this, no, that would have paid us back. Yeah, that would have been nice. Yeah, you knew it, dude. Or even Tesla stock. Oh yeah, I should have gotten giving you guys a Bitcoin in 2018. Dude, someone told me if I spent what I spent on my Cybertruck on Tesla stock back in 2019. Oh yeah, you'd be Elon. You'd be Elon. Elon should be you. Elon would be sitting here. Do you know what's a crazy revelation I just had? That you own more land on the moon than I own on earth. But it's just, it's a scary thought. That's a great one. Six more acres than I do. That's insane. Well, technically, that's more than me. Was I misinformed that is this one, are they not walking on the moon? No. No, this is just that goes around the moon. I thought we were giving this too much love. They were giving it too much love. I thought we were putting boots on the ground again. No, no, no, we will. Why? That's sheer, but why not? So here's my theory because look, I've said I didn't, I think we did go to the moon and put feet on the ground. I think it was such a miracle that we actually don't know how to go back. We just don't know how to go back. I believe that. Wow. And they want to go back. They just don't know how. Like the Rangers. Paul is just, he took a, he took like, he just, I don't know. He threw away the. I think they weren't even supposed to land on the moon maybe. And they just kind of like, dude, we literally just landed on the moon. This is crazy. It's kind of great. It's like the same setup. Like you get the lunar module attaches and comes back. It's like 1950s. We're still doing the same stuff. I know. Kind of sad. It's above my pay grade. I don't really know what's going on up there, but I did think we were getting boots on the ground. Nope. No, no, no. Next year. No boots on the ground, brother. So why are they up there for so long? To practice. It's like they're going around the back side of the moon. They're taking in data. They're looking at my land, dude. They send it without people. Then they send it with people. And then next year we're going to take a pit stop. How am I going to get cattle on the moon is the question. That's what I'm like wasting tax dollars. My moon land needs to be, it needs to be crops. That's what I know. That feels like a waste of tax pay. Remember when we first saw ice cream? Yeah. Should we move into the ice cream test? I did start my cut this morning, so I don't think I can partake. What? I'm kidding. I'll start it next week. You look great. What are you cutting from? Nothing. I was, that was a cutting from just. He's starting to cut his golf ball. I indulge this weekend. He's starting to hit a baby cut on Easter. I ate some candy. That's a bad weekend. Went to Cookie Society again, got a four pack, eight, three of them. Yeah. Of the big ones? Of the big ones, brother. Dude, I had babes. I'm still full. Bro, they had the Easter icing. Oh, dude, the sugar cookie with the icing? That's cookie in the game, dude. It is good. Shall I egg hunt? I didn't, but my kids did. You don't participate anymore? No, I'm 37, 38. No, I like to do the helicopter egg hunt, but they just drop it on you. It's like, how many can you catch? Ooh, that sounds fun. It is fun. Scary though. The helicopter? The helicopter egg drop. Are you scared that you're going to get shown up by your kids? That's a country club thing. Is that why you don't participate anymore? No, I help with my two-year-old gather. I think Lucy without eggs. Oh, that's Easter candy. Best Easter candy? Chili beans. Oh, Easter candy. I love jelly beans. I don't think of candy on Easter. What? We did scrambled eggs, me and mom. You don't think of candy on Easter? You think of scrambled eggs? Like the chocolate bunny? Yeah, like the chocolate bunny, sure. But it's not my first thought on Easter. What do you mean? Like Halloween, it's boom. It's instant candy. Me, it's like Easter. That's a little further down the chain. Give me three things that had a candy on Easter. Resurrection. Okay, I'll give you that. Let's not talk about, okay. No, no, no, no, no, stop. The meaning of the whole thing is not. I know, we get it. I want to hear it. Keep going. Resurrection. I'm going to debunk this theory right off the bat. In the family. In the family. Okay, what's your first favorite things on Christmas? You never got presents? Jesus is a birthday. That's a big deal. Sandy. I'm so proud of you. I'm so proud of you. That's so good. It is all football. You are trolling this man. Easter goodness. You are rage baiting me to the max right now. Easter could use a little sport on it, on its day. That's bad. Well, sometimes it's the masters. You never know. Yeah, that's true. It's a good point. Sometimes it's the masters. You got women's college final. You got the drive, chip and putt. And then you got the Rangers getting swept by the Reds. Yeah, don't remind me. Anyways, you got peeps, little marshmallows. See, I'm not a marshmallow guy. Yeah, I'm not either. You got the Reese's egg, which arguably is the greatest candy ever invented. You got jelly beans, which is a wild take. I love jelly beans. I love candy corn on Halloween. Yeah, I'm different. This is all making sense now. I'm Bill different. A jelly bean and candy corn guy. And I love rock candy with the stick. Baby blue, pink. All right. I say it's time for the ice cream test. Last week, we quizzed our CEO, Andrew Yafi, on how Texas he was. Mm-hmm. How did he do? He wasn't very Texas. And one claim came up. Texas-owned Bluebell vanilla ice cream is the best vanilla ice cream. I disagreed with that. Really? Yeah, I did. So we're going to find out and do a blind taste test. And if Bluebell is all of our favorite, it is, then it deserves the number one spot. But I don't think it will be. We're going to test Bluebell, Tillamook, Whole Foods 365, Hagen Dazs, Ben and Jerry's and Briars. My favorite two out of those are Tillamook and Briars. But let's see if I can put those one and two. My body is going to reject the Whole Foods 365. I'm organic. I'm what's going to say that's not real. Everyone's lactose intolerant codes. Don't worry about it. I'm extra lactose intolerant. I know you are. Yeah, I was even worse. You've got a PJ ride with him in like four hours. Watch out. It's true. I've seen him blow up a PJ. Sparky and Cody, like if you had to guess which one you're going to like the best, which would do you think you would be? I would guess Bluebell, because it's the one that my taste buds naturally gravitate towards. I just can't help it. There's a love affair there with me and Bluebell that's just undeniable. I'm going to go into it with an open mind. I've really only had Bluebell and Ben and Jerry's out of this list. You've never had Tillamook? I don't even know what you're saying. The cheese? Tillamook? You don't buy Tillamook cheese? I don't buy any cheese. Well, let me tell you, hey guys, next week we'll do a cheese taste test, because Tillamook is by far the superior cheese. My gut needs a break from this podcast. Yeah, we'll cut after this, dude. Don't worry about it. We've got plenty of time to get in shape. Can't we have a hog and dash? No, no. 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I know it. The hood. This is my favorite ice cream. We don't know. All right, let's just tell them. I don't know how to spell. Nine out of 10. This is layered beautifully. So are we, are we judging it on the best flavor? Or are we trying to figure out which brand it is? It's the best flavor. Because if it's best flavor, we should just know what it is in all taste tests, and then we rank them. No. But this is like a guessing game. It's because we don't want like Bluebell to come in and throw, no, this is just a blind taste test. Right. Because when you see Bluebell and you put it as a two, because it's not good, you're gonna be like, oh, that was Bluebell? I've been lying to you. I'm just saying, my French fry, I wasn't testing them. I was just telling you which one it was. I know, but if you knew it wasn't McDonald's, it's just, it comes with connotations. Yeah. Okay. No, that's well put. But that one was Tillamook, if you guys want to know. See, I don't think it was, but it was delicious. It was a loggy D. I gave it a 10. Woo, did you? Yeah, I gave it a nine out of 10. That was a great lead off hitter. Hit me right in the taste buds. I went nine out of 10. Did you as well? Cool. This is what? L green? Light green. Light green. Do we have a dark green? And we have a dark green. Okay. I think I know what this one's either, the color. It's not what it is. It's better or worse. This looks a little yellow. Oh, is this hogging D? See, my spoon has residual from the last one. Yeah. See, you do have some residual left over almost. Wish we had a new spoon for each one. That's ridiculous. See, this one I could tell just by the color alone, probably what it is, but I know that's not the goal here. Color bluebell. Is that what you're saying? I don't want to give you any clues away, but I think the aftertaste, it's just, that's not good. It's like a fake sweetener in there. That is unbelievable. I'm going to give it a seven. Oh man. Okay. Light green. I gave it a seven. Woo. I 9.8ed my light green. Maybe because as there was a runner, it was already on base and it came up in an RBI spot, but that hit the spot. See? Next blue. Give me some blue boys. Would you never would go bluebell is the blue, of course. You never know. Well, it looks like married bluebelly. So flingy. Jesus. Oh, and it's hard. You've got to really put effort in to get a bite. You know what? I'm going to make a call here as well. Actually like using plastic spoons with my ice cream. No way. Yeah. You're this strange. There's a reasoning. Yeah. Look how hard you got to go in there. This is bluebell. This has got organic all over it. This one's kind of lacking a punch. It's like the start's really good and then you're waiting for that flavor kick and it just never comes. It has no left jab. Blue is a six for me. I mean, you're aligned. I'd rather eat a bottle of listerine than what I just had. That was horrible. I can't wait for that to be bluebell. That we will. That's exactly right. I can't wait for that to be bluebell and you just are body bagging it. Still deciding on it. Now to be fair, I will say if it was bluebell, bluebell is known for its flavors. It's a flat five for me. Don't you agree though? Bluebell is more for like the extravagant flavor. Like the s'mores and the yeah. Your yeah. Your confetti. Like if it's just a straight vanilla bean. So if it's just a straight vanilla, you probably wouldn't never said that bluebell is the number one vanilla. Well, I do find their homemade vanilla to be quite relaxing and savory. But I always throw like Oreos or chips of Hoyas off. I see how I don't think you need to though. Well, I'll ask flat five of you. You need to throw some G worms on it. Some blue will do it. It is. No, no way. It is. No way. All right, you ready? All right. Red. Red. You're either red or dead. Oh, that makes a lot of palettes here. The color alone. Oh, I know what this is. This is hog and does. You're just talking, dude. Now this is hog and does. You're just talking. This is a homemade. Oh, that is delicious and creamy. Yeah, this has V bean to it. You can see. Give me the notes in that. Give me the secret recipe to this bad boy. They say this is what I call a cake. They all taste the same, dude. This is a cake compliment to me. This is a vanilla ice cream that is supposed to be paired with like a dry cinnamon bread or something. I don't know what whole foods is. Yeah. That's a BB. It's good on the lips. You think that one's the bluebell? The Villa B. I think it's hog and does. I'm going to go eight. I went 10. Six out of 10 for me. That's because I like vanilla bean. That's a six. Nice. Green. Last one. No, two more. Two more. I got to go run after this. I can't believe it. She's crazy. Her portions are next level. What do we got? I know. I'm trying to get you guys five. This one looks creamy too. Which one's this? Just regular green? He wants me to slip up. This one's Tillamook actually. It's too creamy. This one's too creamy. This one's actually Tillamook. This is like whipped cream. No, it could be Briars. Briars is creamy too. Is it? Yeah. All right. I'm going to throw down a B. I'm going to trust your word for it. Yeah, that's unbelievable. I'm going to get that one at 10 as well. Oh, I wouldn't have done a Tillamook. I mean, there's a chance you lose your status. You need to shoot Driver's license, boys. You messed this up. I went eight. That's good. I'm going to go 10. 10 out of that one is a good one. That one's delicious. I don't know. That's a Mortal Kombat character that didn't have a final move, that ice cream. It's like, yeah, it's good. It's good. Not great. That's a seven out of me right there in the middle. Seven out of 10. Seven out of seven. This one for me is either going to be an 11 or it's going to be a five. Oh, this is a B and J for me. Really? Yep. I'm redoing my ranking. Wow. Basal flakes. No, not ranking. I'm just the naming it. I'm ready. All right. Last but not least. And for the last, Pen and Jerry's come on in. B and J, give me an 11. Oh, this looks like Bluebell. Oh, so, guys, you've got to really pass this. It's Bluebell, dude. Yeah, there's some substance. There's some density to this. Yeah, that's Bluebell. Yeah, that could be Bluebell. It is. Tetris, not right. Not so fast, my friend. It's a lot of milk. That's not a Bbell. It's not. Yeah. Why? Because I know. I'm going to go eight. It has the creaminess I like, but I don't like how you got it. It's kind of hard, too. Eight for me. Extremely cold. Ice cream. Got to kind of tough on the teeth a little bit. I went five. Let me give one. Okay. It was so much, it was milky. Tastes like dairy. Maybe milky. I don't like that. That's a good way to put that, milky. All right. So five and a half. Aggregate scores on the number one ice cream. It looks like pink. I think it was just our first bite of ice cream for a week for all of us. I think pink wins, and I think it's Briars. Briars or Tillamooka's number one. I had light green is my favorite. The second. The second one. I'm just saying aggregate score across the board. Yeah, ag score. Woo, they're close. But boy, Blue, if Blue's not Whole Foods, I'm going to be disappointed. Dude, what if Pink's Whole Foods? That'd be, then we're going. Let's shoot. Let's shoot our all flavor. It's, um, then we're all wrong. We're going Whole Foods. All that matters is which one's Bluebell. Which, name them off. What do we got? All right. Let's start with the lowest. So Blue was. Oh, that's the most exciting one. Blue, Whole Foods, six. I had that. I had it right there. It's on the board. Blue, Whole Foods. You did too, though. Yeah. Nice. Okay. So we all got our Whole Foods right. So Whole Foods is dead last on our ratings. Yeah, it's like picking out a step child in front of the regular. The ginger one. Kind of. This is the next one. The next one is Light Green. Nope. No, Yellow. Yellow, Yellow. Yellow is our next lowest point score with 18 and a half. I went Bluebell. Hog and Dodge. Hog and Dodge. My palette was already compromised, but I H&D'd on Yellow. Hog and Dodge. Dang, I want to put Bluebell number one now. Is that a German ice cream? It just sounds very German. Yeah, Hog and Dodge. I'm doing so good. Light Green. Light Green. That one is Bluebell. Yeah, baby. Yeah, it is. You bet your bottom dollar stinks. Give me my state issued license back. Look, I got it too. And to change it from 5.7 while you're at it. I didn't get that. Was that one of your switches? Yeah, but I miss those. Red is Ben and Jerry's. Yeah. I got two right. I missed that one. Red is Ben and Jerry. Yeah, I switched Ben and Jerry's and Hog and Dodge. I see he had Briars. But I had the B&J rated it as a 6 out of 10. But I said last pod that Briars and Tillamook were my favorite, I think. And I think they're going to be pink as Tillamook. It was good. Really good ice cream. And that leaves a pink Tillamook. And what did I say last week? How, Jerry? Well. What did I say, boys? Buy stock in the company. It's also the best cheese. You're going to be shocked next week when you do that cheese test. I got off to an incredible start there, three out of three. But at least I can go home and sleep well knowing that I did have Bluebell rated as the best 9.8. And you said that you would nail Bluebell. The thing I don't like about Bluebell that's different from one is like the soft, the softness of the... That's just about how we froze it during our nice chest. No, no, no. You literally freeze however, put them in the deep freezer. I don't care when you pull out Tillamook. No. Yes. Yes. You can put whipped cream in a deep freezer and it's going to come out hard. How do you guys feel about Bluebell at 23.8? How it's not good? Yeah. You're welcome. It's the only reason it's even that high. Yeah. If it's not, it's literally all the way down in Huggendoss territory. It's overrated and you need to say it. You're crazy. It's still quality, but it is about the second ingredient, which is either cookies and cream, cookie dough, cookie two step. And that's where it shines. I think that's where Bluebell really pulls away. Yeah. It's not the first leg of the relay race. It's when you get a cookie two step, the baton. Because Ben and Jerry's was a little crazy. Then you know what's next? Uh-huh. Cookie dough ice cream ranking. Yeah. That's my favorite. We just eat ice cream. Does it get number one? We just debunked your argument. I'm going to have to stop being on the pod guys. You're just going to keep feeding us food and desserts. Yeah. It looks like number one coming in at Tillamook ice cream, cheese, whatever you want to call that company. They're great. Number two is a Briars. Briars and a choice of five. And then with a third, which this does pain me, Ben and Jerry squeaks out Bluebell. Bluebell doesn't even podium. Well, it's just, I did my part. If it does vanilla bean, I'm in. That was homemade vanilla. That wasn't really fair. Ben and Jerry's was the vanilla bean flavor. And we're getting homemade. And we're getting homemade. And so it was, maybe we need to re-rank that one. Where Bluebell is resting starters. It's just incredible. But all right. That's enough ice cream codes. Go hit the treadmill. We're going to have Trick Shot Queen. Yes. On sale. Next. Tax deadline is here. Sparky April 15th. That's next week. I know it's coming up soon and I'm really trying to get my act together. But the old way of doing taxes is so stressful. First, you have to find someone to do them for you. Then you have to work around their schedule and chase them for updates. And you still never know if things have been done right or if they miss something. Let go of the old way. 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Our guest today is known online as the Trick Shot Queen. She's a viral content creator whose incredible videos have racked up millions of views across social media. But today she's not just here to talk trick shots. She's here at DPHQ3 to compete in the second annual Trick Shot World Championships. Let's go. Where some of the best trick shot artists in the world are about to battle it out. We're literally minutes away from the competition today, but please welcome Amanda Rose. Let's go. Better known as Trick Shot Queen. Queen. I gotta be honest. Are we icing her technically? Yeah. She should be warming up right now. Hey look, here's the deal. Because you're doing this podcast, I don't even know if I'm allowed to do this. But you want me to tell you the first comp? No. I don't. And that's what we want. I don't want any. Look at that true competitive. She wants to win it. All right. Well, hey look, I would take the easy way out and that's why I'm not competing. But okay. Not just talent. I'll tell you what. Integrity. Integrity. That's what I'm talking about. Integrity. I'm a teacher. That's a 5-2 trick shot. Brodie Smith would have taken it. Yeah. Brodie Smith would have asked for what was composition. Two is why you're headed. I want to even play in field. Yeah. Yeah. How's it going? Good. Life been treating you well? Oh my gosh. It's been amazing. Been very busy. But busy is good. You know. Can't complain. Healthy busy. Yeah. I'm seeing you everywhere. It's been saying. Yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh. You hit the game winner. I saw that. I'll tell you what. Yeah. Word gets around quick. Yeah. We're not getting around to viral. Viral, dude. We're not good. Yeah. It just kind of floats around. What's your favorite sport? To play or to watch? Both. I am obsessed with watching football. Like it is out of control. I love it. You're almost an issue. You have a problem. Yeah. Yeah. A little bit. That's good. A little bit. That's good. You know. And it's one of those things where I love it so much that I'm not just watching the Falcons. Because obviously that's my team. Unfortunately we're. Yeah. Struggling a little bit. Making some bad decisions. Well. Of course. That just picked up a good backup. I'm not sure what he is at this point in his career. Tula? Yeah. I'm guessing you're saying. Yeah. I mean he's got to stay healthy. You know. Yeah. It's just that's the problem. That's when I. Don't we all. Were you shocked when we all need to stay healthy? The two in years. I was. Yeah. I'm not sure what route we're trying to go with that. I'm not either. I mean the quarterback thing is already weird because we drafted. You know, penics and then we had just signed Kurt Cousins. It's like all right. What? Where are we going? Are we going old? We're going young. You know, so I'm not sure what they're thinking. I'm not sure the Atlanta Falcons know what they're doing. Yeah. Yeah. I would agree with that. Yeah. Uh-huh. So take us back. Where did you grow up? I grew up in Dallas, Georgia. Small little town. About 30, 45 minutes outside Atlanta. So it's nice because it's close enough where you can go to, you know, those Falcons games, Hawks, Braves, but then you're out in the country. So you get your privacy. So I like it. Dallas, Georgia. Yeah. I know. It's weird to hear that, isn't it? Do you take offense when people are like, oh, you're from, you know, you're from Dallas, but you're like, no, not that Dallas. Not that. Yeah. I never can just say Dallas because I'm a Cowboys fan. You always have that in Georgia. I'm like, no, Dallas, Georgia. And they're like, really? Never heard of Dallas, Georgia. No, yeah. It's small. Ever. How big are we talking population-wise? You know, I don't even want to throw out a number because I have, it's growing though. It's growing very rapidly. I want to say like 15 years ago, we were like the fastest growing city, like top five in the nation. So yeah, we're definitely growing, but it's still, you know, kind of a small town. Well, our Dallas very much growing as well. So we can relate to that. It's beautiful. Oh my gosh, Dallas, Texas is beautiful. Well, I mean, we did come in on an airplane that had to battle like some tornadoes coming in, but other than that, it's a little bit of a time of the year. I'll tell you what. Yeah, seriously. It is a little dangerous right here. You'll see the, you'll see the storm chasers with their little like, you know, antennas and medicine balls. I don't even know what they had, they're doing with these things on top of the antennas. Fun quest video. Go get them. I'd rather not, dude. Go get them all doing a little F5 action. I'm gonna let those guys take it. That's a Tyler Tony waiting to happen. He'd be like, I'd like so in F5. I could see y'all doing that and trying to, you know, throw the basketball against the wind and get it to curve into the goal. You know, Sparky's a very good weatherman. You know this. Really? Yeah. I do that with that in my bag. Yeah. We'll show you a clip after this, but I think he has. Man of many talents. I think he has a future in this. It's that time of the year, weather with Sparky. As the cold winter temps move out and those golf warm temps move into Texas, we're going to see some isolated thunderstorms. When Pete Delkis, our guy, wants to hang it up, I think he's got a job. You can step into those shoes. Yeah. Those big shoes to fill. I mean, I bet Pete wears like a size 11, but metaphorically, it's like a size 20. For Pete Delkis, that's the man, the myth legend. 11. So it's been awesome to watch your organic growth online. It really is. It just brings a smile to my face. But there's a dark side to trick shots that people don't know about. Tell the people at home just how tough it can be at times when you're stuck on a shot for eight hours or there might be a tech malfunction. But there's a dark side to trick shots that people don't see. Yeah. It's a love hate relationship. And I feel like us as trick shotters, we're just so competitive. And that's why we're so good at it, because we're not going to let this trickshot defeat me. And that's why we keep going for sometimes like 25 hours, because it's like, I'm too competitive to let that trickshot beat me. But for the most part, I love it and I love the challenge. And I like going outside of my comfort zone and trying things that I'm not really good at. I'm not a soccer person like this guy. He's amazing. So any type of kicking trick shots, I usually struggle. But again, it's like, I want to challenge myself. I don't want to just do the things I'm good at. And it's funny how trick shots, in one sense, sometimes you get a close call and it's heart breaking. Because you're like, there was our opportunity. We missed our window. And then on the other hand, it's like, well, we're really close. Like the next one's in. So it's always weighing that. It's an emotional roller coaster. It really is. And physical roller coaster. But to your point, once you dip your toes in, it's hard not to... Yeah. You're addicted. You're addicted at that point. You're in. Is there one that you've had, you've given up on? Just recently, so I bought a new house. Congrats. Thank you. I appreciate it. And I was like, you know what? Let's do something crazy. Because I started doing over-the-house trick shots. And a lot of people don't know that my other over-the-house trick shots were actually at my parents' house. They weren't at my old house, because they have a better yard and stuff. You know, so throwing stuff over, hitting, doing the boomstick over the house. Just doing crazy stuff, you know. And so I get my house and I'm like, let's just do something crazy. And I'm like, we're going to throw a bowling ball over the house. That seems... That's a little... Yeah. Crazy is not how I'd describe that, but... Yeah. It's good. Now, I will say this. It's not a real bowling ball. It's like a trainer bowling ball where, you know, but it's still pretty heavy. And then the motion that you have to throw, it's just difficult. You know, it's underhand. And you got, you know, you're not getting to grip it yet to put your, you know, fingers in the bowling ball, obviously. And so I did have to stop that one, because I almost took my gutter off of my brand new house. So I'm like, it's time to call it quits. I hate to be a quitter, but I mean, I can't destroy my house. That's financially responsible. I would agree with that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I felt pretty good about it. I wouldn't call you a quitter. I would just say, yeah, you're just using your, you know, your brand that God gave you. I like... Yeah. And you know, I thought the comments online were really going to give me a hard time. Like, oh, she's a quitter, but most people are like, you're being smart. Like this is something that you worked hard for your brand new house. Like we, we still believe in you. And so I was happy about that. Well, you're also a middle school teacher. I am. So it's not just a trick shot artist. Right. You know, you know, shaping the future generation, which I gotta say, we have a couple of these future generations that work for us. Oh yeah. And I don't know how you do it. I don't, I would just go mental. Yeah. I don't know what money the middle school teachers are making now. Not enough. That should be double. Yeah. Triple man. Based off what we see first thing. These kids are coming up with like the craziest words. And it's... And I don't even get why they do it. And it's gotta be... Yeah, that's a tough job. So congrats to you for enduring both trick shots and that. That takes a special human. But we're almost athlete. This is the almost athlete podcast. So I had a question. You've had to have witnessed some funny almost athlete moments with these kids. Yeah. Is there like something that sticks out to you? Like that you can be like, yeah, that... Yeah, a little right there. That's not... A little right there. Impunted Jeffrey, 50 yards of hang time. Yeah. I got a couple. The one that I always think back to, and this is my 14th year teaching. So I've seen a lot of stuff. Oh, I bet. But we were in our soccer unit and again, soccer is not a strong suit. Yeah, it's tough. So just teaching the basic skills and we're doing dribbling. And this girl, she was so sweet. She worked hard. I actually, I think I could be wrong. I think she might have been a soccer player. I hope not. I hope she wasn't. I could be wrong about that. But she's dribbling and she's just looking at the ball because when you're not very good like basketball, you're just looking at the ball. And she's dribbling, dribbling and doesn't look up and runs square into the wall with her head down, hits the top of her head. And she was concussed. So that was that was a first for me. I'm like, hmm, you didn't see the big wall. But hey, you know what? She took it like a chance. At some it's like commendable that she was so focused on, you know, yes. I mean, she's also a coaching moment there. Yeah, dribbled with your head up, you know, we got to get to the point of our career where we dribble with her. I wonder if she's still playing soccer. I could be wrong. She might not have been a soccer player. She might have. I might have made that part of it. What if she's like collegiate like a collegiate player? I need to look at her. What a defining moment. What are her names? Alex Morgan. Oh my goodness. That's crazy. That's crazy. Yeah, I need to look her up and see what she's doing now. What about you personally? Almost out of the moment. Taboo. You know, mine came a little later in life. It wasn't when I was still playing sports. I played softball and basketball in high school. And then in college, I played softball and, you know, just stopped playing because it was like, all right, it's time to focus on my grades. Like we need to graduate, you know. So mine came when I was already a teacher. It was like my second year teaching and, you know, I was young because I was a second year teacher. So I played like all the time. And we do this thing called running club. And it's like where they come in, they run for a little bit before school. And then we play whatever we're playing in PE. So we were in our badminton unit. Love me. I love net games. Oh my gosh, badminton, all that stuff. Spike ball. That's like my favorites. So, you know, playing feel good, playing against a couple of kids. And then also one of the other PE teachers, he was across from me. So he was serving to me. And he was, you know, we want to beat each other, obviously. Yeah. So he serves it short. And I like jump up and try to hit it. And instantly I'm like, oh my gosh, something, like something's wrong. And I pinched my sciatic nerve. Like, like as you're in the air, you think? As I'm like going forward to hit his serve, pinch the sciatic nerve, playing badminton. I'm like, okay, that's bad. And I have one even better though. I have a second story. Playing two square. Again, it's never during like flag football or basketball. These really like. Yeah, getting out of the shower. Yeah. Oh yeah. And so we're playing two square. And again, super competitive of playing against another PE teacher. And he hits one to the side. And I actually dove. I was being kind of a courthog because I'm like, I don't want to lose. So I dove in front of the kid and hit my knee. And I'm like, that didn't feel right. Like I hit the front of my knee, the back of my knee hurts. Went to the doctor. I partially tore my PCL. Yeah. And my meniscus. I'm like playing two square. So that's when I'm like, you need to pump the brakes. When was that? When was that? 2014. Yeah. So now I don't play as much. Yeah. And that's two square. They tell you. I tell you. It's a contact sport. Yeah. You gotta be careful playing those games. I have almost athlete moments every day of my life now. Yeah. And now I do. I was telling the group of guys earlier, man, I can't even get out of bed and walk anymore. Like my tendonitis is like, I mean, yes, I'm young in a sense, but dude, I am old. I feel that actually, yeah. And that's why I'm not in the competition this year of Türksel World Championships because I would probably lose first round. No. No. That is a bad thought. It's tough out there. But I will say, okay, middle school teacher, trick shot, you know, fanatic, the thing I commend you for the most, and I would never, ever put myself in this situation because I hate the awkward moments. And I can't even, I commend you for going on America's Got Talent. Oh my gosh. Putting yourself out there to fail at the end of the day. Like it's trick shots. It's, you're not, you're literally going to fail in front of millions of people. Yes. And that takes a lot of courage. And that I, I think that's your best moment that you could show people because like you basically told kids that, hey, I have a passion for this and I'm going to fail, but I don't care because I love it this much, which I thought was really cool. Did you have a good time on the show? Oh, it was so much fun. I actually, when they reached out to me, I told them no because I was like, trick shots are unpredictable. Yeah, they are. We are. I also would have said no. Oh yeah. It was a, it was a very quick no. And I actually called my parents and I was like, you're not going to believe this. Like America's Got Talent wants me. And then I was like, I told them no. And they're like, what? And they were like, if she emails you back, you say we will make it happen. And I'm like, trick shots are unpredictable. Yeah. But, and I told her that. And then she was like, no, we will do something that you're super comfortable with. And I was like, all right, well, I'm really even more unpredictable. Football. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. We saw last year in the trick shot, well, championship sometimes that's your Achilles heel. Yeah. Like we all, a bunch of us lost and things that we were really good at. It's kind of weird, you know. Yeah. Well, I thought it was great. I watched the clip that it was just, it was awesome. It was awesome. It's a good word for it. I appreciate it. Let's just say America's Got Talent hadn't hit me or Garo. Yeah. You're doing something right. I wanted to segue into that because you are here for a reason like Sparky said, and that is, again, another big competition, the second annual. You almost made it last year all the way through. You had a, you had a, you know, great showing. Pretty average partner, if I had to say. Oh yeah. You're only as good as your partner. I would argue that he's the greatest partner for all time. Yeah. So, so the first question, are we bringing the partner back? Adam, mate Adam. Yes. He's back. He's back. Gotta be. They asked me. They were like, who do you want your partner to be this year? And I said the goat, Adam. Did your goat tell you about his medical issues lately? Yes, he did. Is that going to hinder you? Absolutely not. You're going to make him push through it? That's going to make me want to win for him even more. It inspired you even a little more. For those that don't know, our good friend, mate, British buddy, he's going through some medical issues, but he wasn't going to pass up on the opportunity for the second annual. This guy would rather, this guy would rather push his heart to failure than give up on trick shot. Rebounding plastic cuts. That just shows you his commitment to winning this competition. There's a lot of commitment going on. Adam back. I'm going to tell you right now. She flew into tornado. No, yeah. A lot of commitment. You know, people that watch it, they didn't realize that I literally met Adam five minutes before we started. Yeah, you all had that instinct chemistry. Oh my gosh. And he's like, and he told me, he said, you have to do good because if you don't, the dudes are going to blame me. He was like, you got to do good. Oh, we blamed him for when you got out too. It was his fault. It was his fault. He's amazing. And, you know, I don't know if you could really tell this from the video, but I'm telling you right now, I would not have made it through the ping pong shot. I had no idea what I was doing. He took the lead and when I said I trust you, I truly meant it. I'm like, whatever you think you do it, I have full trust in you. I'm going to make one change in just a minute. Okay. Whatever you do, I trust you. Does it get more Cinderella story than this? Oh, it does it! Oh, it does it! Can you believe it? That's pretty admirable for just meeting each other too. Yeah. Yeah, she's amazing. Have you like trained all year? I mean, be honest. Yeah, how does one train for a competition like this? You don't and people ask like... You pray? Start the prayers early? Oh, I pray every day, but especially for this, you know, I pray a little extra for this. But you can't train because, you know, I don't know if people know this. We have no idea what the trick shot is. Like we know right before we start filming. Yeah, and you know what? We can't practice. That's the beauty. How do you feel about that? It makes me so nervous. Yeah, see, so here's the deal that people need to know. Tyler knows every trick shot in every battle before we go into it. You know who doesn't know? You. The other four. Really? Yeah. And so everyone's like, Ty, the goat. I'm like, yeah, well, if I was the game master, I would win just as much. Hey, but you know what? That's what makes Belchuk so great. He's willing to toe that line, maybe film another team's practice. That's just Ty going the extra mile. Yeah. Yeah, she's even trying, you know. And that's why I try. I mean, I tried to give you the upper hand, but you wouldn't take it. Yeah, I teach integrity all the time to my middle schoolers. I'm like, you got to, you got to, you know, walk the walk and I just taught the talk. Yeah, for sure. So a couple more questions because you got the competition started to like five minutes. I know it's insane. And I would, I don't know if this is possible. I don't know if we're going to segue into this, but I would love to bring the goat out here if we could. Sure. Yeah. I mean, he is here. No, they go. We have a different definition of goat. Adam. Yeah. Well, what's up, mate? You can leave the mic off. I'm just kidding. You can pull it in. Yeah. We lost Cody on that one. For the best. Can I give you my almost athlete moment? Yeah. Oh, for sure. Because I think it's probably the best one you've had on the show. Well, when you died. Yeah. Yeah. I was playing tennis and I was playing a friend. I'd never beaten him. I got. Still haven't, I don't think. Yeah. I was, I got, I won the set and afterwards he's like, well, let's just play a little bit again. And then I dropped down dead. So does it get more almost athlete like literally literally. You told me that last year. Yeah. Yeah. Three days in a coma and. Yeah. I remember like that was yesterday. I do too. I remember where I was when I got the call. And what's crazy is I just got done with a soccer match that night. I was coming home from a soccer match and Ross called me one of our mutual buddies. And I was like legit. I was like, who's Adam? Like, I'm like, what are you talking about, dude? Like, I don't, it just like didn't even register me because I was like, can't be that. But yeah, that's a, I think that's probably the greatest almost athlete story. You're about to bring your doorbell there at Heaven's Gates. You're pretty, that's pretty almost that. It's also showing the commitment to the, to the craft, which I again, appreciate. So one last question before we let you guys go, what would it mean to have the banner hung in Dude Perfect headquarters? Immortalize. Trickshot Queen. Immortalize forever as the winner. Trickshot World Championships. You have no idea what it would mean to me. Like being so close is, you know, like Josh Allen, I always think of him. He's so close every year to the big game and it's just heartbreaking. And you can see on my face when I got eliminated in the dunk tank, like I had tears in my eyes, but I was really holding back. Like I had the lump in my throat. Like I was just, it was devastating, but it was also such a blessing to make it that far one right before the finale. And you know, I take it very seriously that I was the only female last year. Yeah. Because I feel like, you know, I'm that representation because you know, trick shots is very dominated by males, which is amazing that so many people are doing it. But like for me to show these little girls and not just little girls, just underdogs in general, that man, if you believe in yourself, sky's the limit, you know, so I take it very seriously. And if I win, I really don't even know what I would do. That would just be probably the greatest feeling in the world. And I've had some pretty cool things happen, but yeah, it would mean so much to me. Would you have a banner waiting on you? Yeah. If you do it. Let me change your mindset a little bit. And I love Josh Allen. People on the podcast know it's my boy. That's my second favorite team. But let's not go into this competition thinking of Josh Allen. Okay, that's true. Yeah. Because Josh Allen hasn't gotten it done. He, yeah, this year was bad. So let's go into competition thinking of Tom Brady. Yeah. And he's the ultimate winner and you expect to win. I can't do it. Yeah, you can. The 28-3. The 28-3 is still very smart. Yeah, but what a comeback. Oh, gosh. Because he used to go. What a comeback. And, uh, hey, your job, obviously, Adam, is to get her thinking winning. Positive thoughts. We can win. We will win. We will win. You're just the squire, isn't it? She's the knight. Yeah. I'm barely that. I'm the 7th. The trickshot 7th. I mean, I'm just gonna. The trickshot 7th. I'm here to serve my queen to win the victory. Oh, God. You're about to go. Hey, you guys got to go get prepared. Because it's a big day. Big competition. That 0-1 is not for the faint of heart. Yeah, we're jumping right in this run. So I would go out and start stretching. Start stretching. The greatest queen ever. Definitely above Elizabeth and Latifa. It is the trickshot queen. Everybody give it up for her. And for the 7th, yourself. And the 7th, Nate. Yeah, I appreciate your having me. I appreciate your having me. Yeah, thank you all so much. Always good to talk to the queen. You're not going to meet many better guests than her. What a wholesome individual. I'm looking forward to see how she does. Well, I'll tell you what, I've seen version 2. Really good. And if you're trying to watch Shot World Championships, it releases this Saturday on the tube. This Friday on the app. Don't miss it. Let's go. One of our best videos of 2026. Whoa. That's our two-minute warning where we get to rant about anything. Gary, you got anything? Go to tag team. Because I got something small. Well, you know, sick and tired. I'm sick and tired of Cody getting block A segments, man. Wow, we've had the same rant. No way. No, kind of. Yeah, go ahead and unload the clip, buddy. At the end of the day, did I make Tyler mad? Where's T-Bin? Yeah, he's been kind of avoiding that. We've been inviting him to come on block A, but he just won't show up. And we have to go, Cody, at that point. I mean, look, I can only handle so much hair from the twins. I get hair envy from them, dude. Yeah, true. Not as much from Cody, though. I do feel really short when Cody's around, which is unfortunate. But you're right. Why does he get sharpied into the A spot? Because if I'm building a lineup, he's like bottom of the order, nine-hole right field kind of guy. You kind of hide him, you know? But, you know, I was going to piggyback that. Just tired of Cody in general. Other than that, no masters this week. That's a tough one to swallow, you know? Hey, there's a dark side to being the sixth dude, and the pros heavily outweigh the cons. But one of the cons is watching your boys go to a gust this week. That's tough. Hey, but it's good. I got to take some PTO. Are you going to watch it? Yeah, of course. Of course I'm going to watch it. Well, PTO, we do it. What are we doing? Chilling, man. Just getting some time. Yeah, just getting some time at the crib. I got some things I want to do, some mass cleaning that I've put off for a while. Well, take you home some Bluebell, that 9.8. And enjoy your day off, dude. You're going to like it. And I love a good spring clean, dude. It's time. If I gave you like a little 2 by 4 inch picture of me, would you put it in your wallet just so I'd, you know, feel like I'm there? Sure, take it to Augusta. Yeah, yeah, I like that. So I'm always with you boys. I like it. I appreciate you, dude. Hey, don't forget the video, my new main channel video out this week and Trick Shot World Championships. You will not be disappointed. It's a longer runtime on this one. So sit back, relax, grab the family. And enjoy that RC battle. It is fun. Non-stop laughs. I'm still trying to get my voice back from that. But looks like our time is up. Thank you for tuning in. We'll be back next Wednesday with an all new app. Follow the show on all socials at Almost Athletes. 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