Good. Afternoon, everybody. Welcome into the Winkler Verse. I'm Bart Winkler. This is Just a random Tuesday in March.
In which we present to you the proceedings for the week here live on the Dan Shaney. YouTube stream live on tape. I should say. We're not live. Grant Bills alongside.
What are you eating today? Peanut butter toast. It's all I had. I threw a couple slices of bread and a jar of peanut butter in my lunchbox. A lot of times I'll look at my fridge and my cabinet and I'll say, All right, Bart, you're not going anywhere and eating anything else until all this food is gone.
And then I went shopping today. and bought multiple pizzas. Paul Immig is here as well. Paul, I went with Red Baron today because they were. 599 discounted to 399.
Digital coupon $299. Wow. I mean, I couldn't pass up those savings. But is it good? Yeah, I think Red Baron was f I think I was okay with Red Baron.
I think I was all right with that one. Used to get frozen pizzas for $2.99.
Now, Woodman's is like, you can get four of them for $15. Like, they put a sticker. I'm like, that's not a. That's not even a deal. Why not?
I was getting Jackson College three for five. Three for five. Five or fifteen. Lick my testicles. That's what I said out loud in the store.
Yeah, at Woodman's. All right. Um, So here's what I'm doing Thursday. I think. I saw some guy.
Tweet at a bunch of people. Not me. But I piggybacked off of it. And I signed up to be an extra. For Sunday Night Baseball, NBC.
They're like, what? They're like, they're like. At at Miller Park. On Thursday. They're doing some like concert opening.
And they need extras to be in the crowd.
Okay. And it's like an eight-hour call window on Thursday night. On the field. Really? Yeah, I don't know much about it.
The age range is 18 to 42. Oh, you just made it. I just made it. I'm gonna try to bring my brother along. But that's what I'm doing Thursday.
Should all go according to plan. What do you pay? Yeah, what's the pay? Yeah, you get like 200 bucks. Really?
Yeah, but I don't know if I'm still Sega After a member? I was going to say, normally they use Union people when they come to town, like TV and radio people. That's how they get the, you know, if they're shooting somewhere, but are you still Union? I don't know. I still have to.
I still have to pay in May based on my last year's salary. Foul.
So I'll have to. But what if you just don't? Um I think I don't know. Good question. I am testing that theory with the hospital right now, by the way.
They'll just keep asking. They have no recourse. When I cut my finger and it's costing me $1,700. for the stitches they did not give me. Mm.
I put in a request. On like January 2nd, they said 45 days, we'll tell you. And then it's still. It hasn't been. They keep sending me the bill.
And I'll pay it. As soon as they take some money off. Then I'll pay it. You're not playing with the healthcare system. Yeah.
I am. I have a lot of complaints about the American healthcare system.
Well, yeah, get in line, but I don't think that's how it works. I don't think you can just be like, get in line is my main complaint with the American healthcare system. Best I can do is 1400. Like, I don't think that's how it works. I'm waiting for under a G.
They'll not hagel you. They basically, they'll. They're like, as long as you just pay something. Please, God. Playing.
Yeah. Anyway, I think we'll get into it. There's a lot of news. A lot of Packers news. I saw the Tweet from Zach Cruz, which I'll read, which basically tells you everybody that is gone.
Oh, this was a topic. All right. Rashawn Gary. Elton Jenkins. Jenkins was kind of a surprise, right?
So I mean to re to release this early, yes. Quay Walker is gone. Malik Willis, we knew, and we knew where he'd go, and he did. Uh Nate Hobbes Just did not work out. Kingsley and Gabari.
I was surprised at that one. I was surprised that you still don't know how to say his name. Say it for me then. An egg barre?
Well Matt Schneidman Josh mauers it and says enag bare.
So he might be right, but he's the only one who says it that way. I just heard you doing the national perspective and I was like, oh, yeah. American family fields. Family fields. Romeo Dobbs signs with New England.
Just what they need is a fifth Romeo Dobbs on that fucking team. He's the best Romeo Dobbs of all their Romeo Dobbs, but he is still just Romeo Dobbs. Romeo Dobbs is the best Romeo Dobbs currently on the Patriots. Easton Booty is the DiMario Douglas of Romeo Dobbs. Then who does that make DiMario Douglas?
Kyle Williams is the DiMario Douglas. The Matt Collins of Mac Collins's. Uh Rasheed Walker and Colby Wooden.
Now, they did bring in the linebacker from the Colts. Zaire Franklin. And they brought in a cornerback, I believe. They juiced. Yeah.
And that's it. And something that I think did you from this list here. Is Rasheed Walker signed somewhere? Or is it is it or is that just presuming that it'll happen? I think he's presuming he sent this even before Dobbs signed anywhere.
Yeah. That's what journalism's come to, Paul. A lot of changes since you've left the business. Yeah, it's not who's right, it's who's first. And um I think the other thing I was going to say on that was something that Grant had texted.
Did you text this? Did you say something else has to be coming? I mean, something could be to Paul's point about the release of Jenkins, like, they didn't have to do that. He had no kickers or bonuses due.
Now, I'm willing to the possibility, I'm open to the possibility that they just love Jenkins and as a gesture to him, they wanted to let him go at the beginning and not hang on to him and hold him hostage.
So, maybe, but. They've created more space than they've needed to create. They've created a million Elton Jenkins. Yeah. They've created a lot of people.
I would think I don't like. See, I get triggered when someone says. Another move's coming. Because The night that we got Kanan Yelich. I was doing the huddle.
that night. And so that turned into a brewer show. But then the next day, no one gave a shit about Kanan Yelich. It was all.
Well, they wouldn't do this if another move wasn't coming. They've got to be getting a pitcher. I just feel like. We always do the hit rate on another moves coming. And another move actually.
From once it came. is very low if if zero from whence The Jesus Christ. No, I wasn't correcting you. I just like this very Joe Babooth of you.
Okay. From whence you came. You're also correcting him, I think. And you did correct me, yeah.
Well, I didn't, whatever. Different than I usually correct you, which is more just like, did you just say Ango Babarbi? I think most people that watch Into the Winklerverse understood what I was saying. Who's this Mark Antonasio guy? Anastasio.
Yeah. I always forget. Afficello. Who's Kevin Harland? Kevin Harlan.
Mm. Kevin Harlan. Okay. Um. I don't know what I was going to say.
Paul texted me the other day that I said Harland instead of Harland. And, um I punched some shit. I punched some shit. This is why you need friends like me, though. You need somebody to do.
I wasn't mad. I said it wrong. I was mad at you. I know, but you need it. You need this in your life.
I think I have enough of that in my life, actually. I've seen that when someone surrounds himself with too many yes men, it can be problematic. Yeah, I've surrounded myself with too many no-men is the problem. That's the problem. You need just someone to pump you off.
Just one fucking person. One fucking person. One fucking person. Just tell me everything I do is great. I just need one person.
You have plenty of people like that. The difference in baseball compared to the Packers and like the next move, which I agree with your general sentiment. But the baseball, it's not like, but they still have 20 million in cap space left.
So the Brewers are obviously going to do something else after this Yellichen. And Kane thing. In this case, it's like you can start saying, wait, why would they do this post-June 1 designation for Nate Hobbes? And why would they release Elton Jenkins now? And You can look at the math and you'd say well There's They want this many open dollars to do the following moves.
So, you can follow the money there a little bit more than you could with a brewer situation. I just don't know.
Well, let me actually, I have a topic about what theoretically this might be about.
So, should we go there? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh yeah, what way is it? Why wait? Jalen Carter.
Is speculation of a Packers trade? You're putting some stock into the possibility that the Packers trade For Eagles star defensive lineman Jalen Carter. Mm-hmm. Or mm. who, by the way, would need a massive extension.
if he is traded.
Well Mm-mm, I'm putting no stock into it. I'm not. When does that happen also? When does it happen where. Packers fans agree on a move.
And think it's going to happen, and then it actually happens. But this isn't Packer fan speculating. Yeah, but Goody's always hashtagging the mix. Probably, but did you expect that? We got Parsons, but was that a real thing?
Was there a lot of build-up to that, or was it just kind of like one day? Oh, by the way, we got Parsons.
Well, there was buildup, yeah. In our own group checks, we were saying like Graham got mad at me because he thought I was poo-pooing the possibility because I was saying, oh, are we taking this as like a real thing now? And I meant it in the terms of like, oh, like. And we turned a corner from speculation to like. We can actually imagine this being real.
All I would say is. Jalen Carter, the headache that he is. is amazing. on the field. when he's available.
So If you can start to picture, so I didn't expect that name to come up. And if that name did come up, certainly not like, will the Packers trade for Jalen Carter? But.
Okay, Grant, you're putting some stock into this possibility. Or mm-mm. I'm putting stock into the idea that they called. That the paracters called. Yeah.
That's probably where it ends for me though. I don't see it. Like with what picks are they trading? And they can make the money work. You can always make the money work.
Sure. I also Nate Hobbs wasn't considered a good fit in Green Bay because he hit a guy in practice once, a guy who's, by the way, made of glass.
So, like, I'm not clutching my pearls over what happened to Marshall Moyd. I'm to believe that Jalen Carter is supposed to come and be a part of Matt LaFleur's Packer culture. I like Matt LaFleur. A little, I guess, just a fine amount. I don't see that.
I don't see. Would you say you've actually crossed the line from ambivalent to like? You like Matt LaFleur? No, I'd say I would cross the, I've gone backwards from the really like Matt LaFleur to I like him.
So, you don't like them. You're trending in the right direction. Yeah. I'm trending in the wrong direction, technically. From AtlaFleur's perspective, I don't want to be the team that gives that guy a mountain of money.
It does seem really dangerous. Why don't the Eagles want to do it? Why does Howie Roseman not want to give that? Because you'll play your first snap of your first game, he'll spit on somebody and then he'll be out. Because that's why, I mean, like, I get if you can get.
Real value for him if you're a Philly. I get it, but also. This is not nearly as much of one of those things where, what was the story that he walked into, Goody walked into LaFleur's office and said, So, should we go trade for Micah Parsons? And then LaFleur was like, obviously, this is not that. But Jalen Carter Uh I mean, this is hard to say with Micah Parsons being as dominant as Parsons is, but Jalen Carter is almost every bit as dominant at his position.
as Parsons is at his. Yes.
So if you are really all in, all in, and you've re-signed the whole front office. And You have a. Two three year window to make this work now and you've officially entered that That stage where you've re-signed everybody in front office and head coach and. You've got this mammoth Micah Parsons contract. How about this?
Jalen Carter Is worth the risk? Or I want you to answer that in the sense of. The personality being injected into the locker room, the contract it would take. Problem with him? He's a maniac.
Why don't we want him? I mean, you've, I mean, you've, you've. Seen some of the stuff. I mean, I'm more the hit and run. When he got kicked out of that game right away for spitting?
I mean, Grant just hit on one thing: there's the spitting thing. I don't really care about the spitting thing, I care more about the hit and run thing. Uh Yeah. The dude should have been a top three pick. Yeah, he shouldn't have been.
He should not have. And even though he still was picked, what 12-ish overall? Yeah. But stations for the team who picked him, if they thought that that, if. If they thought this is a young, outstanding individual who can be a cornerstone for our franchise for years to come, they would have paid him already.
He's unbelievable.
So why aren't they doing it? Why is Howie Roseman shopping him? I've got three hot takes on the matter here. Three things can be true? Three things that I feel.
that may not be Um That may not be popular. The first thing is These guys that have off the field issues. I would like If my team was full of role models and outstanding citizens. It's also not my job to gatekeep that.
So I know that we used to have topics about would you want this guy on your team? He did this, he did that. I'm that that's not why I watch sports. Oh, it doesn't offend me in the slightest. I'm just afraid the Packers are going to give him $200 million and then he's going to go.
Sure. End up in jail. And then the Packers are bone. Then that's on the Packers. I don't care.
It comes to the bank. I mean, I got enough fucking going on. Believe it or not. Self-created, a lot of it, but yeah.
Well, I'm just talking about like generally in life. Yeah, again, again. A middle-aged fucking man. Do you know where on my list? Did the Packers sign a good person is?
It couldn't be lower. It's just not it's not my job. If they got through the system. And look, I just can't take that on, I guess. My mom would say, I can't open that tab.
I have too many tabs open. Oh. Yeah. Is that a bar reference turned to an internet reference? Internet, she meant like a Google Chrome situation.
Progressive grandmother. I like it. You know, a lot of times my mom says shit stuff like that, and we make fun of her, but. I think she hit a. A fucking triple on that one.
So, congrats to my mom. Quick, quick pause on that. I want you to do your other two. But yeah, the. I had to write Packer people or Packer person.
More than a handful of times in my years, and that was partially because Ted Thompson would mention it.
So I hear what you're saying, but It's not like this is just a fan thing saying, I need nice guys. I need role models. It was. It was part of the calculus for the front office once upon a time. I guess to answer your question, I would appreciate if there's smoke to this fire because.
We have none defensive linemen, if I am not mistaken. I mean for the Who's on the defensive line? As Louis C.K. would say, we haven't linemen currently. There are, there are fucking none of them.
Speaking of Louis C.K., I've been thinking about him constantly. Because Not for any of the bad stuff. He made a joke, though, where he went to the doctor. He's like, My ankle's fucked up. And the doctor's like, You're just old.
Mm-hmm. I have Louis C.K. ankle. I can't walk. I'm limping.
It's very awful. This is a good tangent in a conversation based around unbelievably talented humans who might have a checkered moral background. It's actually quite. Topical. I don't care if Jalen Carter is the worst human in the world.
My fear is that he's James Pierce Jr., where it's like we trade a first-round pick to go get the guy, and now he's in jail. And we don't have him or the first round pick. Yeah. It's just a football thing. My second hot take is Micah Parsons tweets too much.
Too fucking much.
Now, just to be clear, that's you saying this. I can't take the words out of my mouth. I love that him and Bukowski crossed streams today because if you're at the urnal often enough, and those guys are, eventually you're going to cross streams. That's a good way to put it. Wow, that is really good.
Yeah. He tweets too much. And then I don't need to see his brother fucking tweeting either. Is that Terence? Yeah.
Could you imagine if one of my brothers, like, my brothers, like, run from this shit. Could you imagine if one of my brothers was just like always commenting on my things? Be done. Uh the third thing is Remember when we did that thing about Justin Tucker for a second? I swear this is my next topic.
Go ahead.
Well, my answer is fuck yeah. That's who I want. I don't give a shit about no Jalen Carters. I want me a Brandon Aubrey. I'm not even kidding you.
Next on my list, I'm going to read it to you word for word. We can revisit Jalen Carter. I think we're good on Jalen Carter. And I quote on my own writing. Revisiting a new version of an old classic, let's see if this one ages any better.
The Packers should trade a second-round pick for Brandon Aubrey and give him a record kicker contract. Mm-hmm. Or mm-mm. Mm. Mm-hmm.
Absolutely. This is like a slam dunk. Grand, right? No, he's Grand is disapproving. You guys, we did this two years ago with Justin Tucker.
Now, when the game has changed, we're kickers with the kickoff. Maybe more important than ever. Maybe the second most important position on a team other than quarterback. A good scoff at your field position. That's 20 yards that adds up.
I agree. If Brandon Aubrey was a Packer tomorrow, he would be one of the five most important Packers of 2026. Mm-hmm. Or I I'm not kidding when I say you'd be two. I'm not kidding when I say you guys are love Parsons and Aubrey.
Love Parsons and Aubrey. Yeah, three. Grant, you are off in the wilderness compared to us on this. Say more. I just, it's a kicker.
They're kicking outside. Dome, dome product, dome merchant. Stop. Cable merchant. I don't know how you could watch.
Now, now, now. Brandon McManus missed a couple kicks last year.
Okay, I'm willing to accept that, but I don't know how you could watch the team last year in the big picture on balance and be like, they're a kicker away. It doesn't mean they shouldn't look to upgrade. I understand, but. I just can't believe you guys are doing this. We did this two years ago, and you were proven so wrong.
Justin Tucker. Justin Tucker is this is not, this is different. Yeah. This is who Justin Tucker was at the time. This is the new Justin Tucker.
But he's a bad guy, and I've made clear I don't want those kinds of guys on my team. That's true. That's true. I don't think we knew that at the time, though, did we? I'd have to go back to check.
Also, Jim. Justin Tucker was 34 at the time. Aubrey is currently 30.
So there's a four-year age difference between When we debated the two guys.
Now, could Matt LaFleur use him the right way? I feel like somehow Matt LaFleur would fuck that up.
So also Here's the You know, I've never done this for a player that was not a baseball player, but I just pulled up home road splits. on Brandon Aubrey seen as Seeing as Grant is like saying that he's a uh gerrydome merchant. But From 50 plus, he was better on the road this year. Eight for 10. Three for seven at home from 50.
Well, all the road games must have been outside in the elements. It's no possible way you could have also played in some domes on the road. I understand what you're saying. Division opponents are indoors, and when you're in Jerry World, subconsciously, you're thinking about that thing over your head. Here's indoors versus outdoors from 50 Plus.
Outdoors. Four for six from 50 Plus. Indoors, seven for 11. Mm. the same.
Let me tell you another fourth hot take. I don't first of all, I don't like the kicker balls. I feel like I was like. You should have to play with the same ball. I don't even like that they go through 40 baseballs in a game.
I think you should throw it back and get it back to the pitcher. Like, use the same fucking ball. We have to use the same fucking ball when we go outside and play. That's the game I grew up playing. We kicked and threw the same ball the whole game.
Yeah. Use the same fucking ball, man. And you know they're going to adjust. They're going to like. They're going to shrink the uprights.
They're going to move the uprights back or something. When really, they should just make them not be able to massage the ball on the sideline and keep it all dry and nice. Do you think we will get to a point in the NFL where we don't have kickers? No. Mm-hmm.
Because the UFL is going the other way. They're adding the four-point kick. After 60 yards. That'll be that would happen before kicker elimination, which you should like because that's going to bring in more strategy. Like if it's fourth and nine.
You know, you might fall down at fourth and five instead of fourth and one.
So that you can have the 60-yard kick, depending on where you are. It's going to be. The more that I can get my sports to be fucking chess, The more I'm in. I know you're joking. I'm not joking when I say mm-hmm to that statement.
Um so Bart and I are clearly We are just going to breeze past The mistakes of our Justin Tucker passed, and but definitively, this one. Grant, you were just like the complete opposite. I'm opting out of this conversation entirely because give it two years and you guys will both look back and be like, Yeah, we're a little hot and heavy on that one. Do you think, like, Brandon Aubrey, we're gonna just find out, like, Stuff is like what do you what do you talk about? Justin Tucker is not out of the league because he Is it the second-round pick that gives you pause, my friend Grant?
And also, Justin Tucker stopped being good at kicking a ball. He didn't disappear because he was creepy to women. The Ravens cut him because he was bad. He was bad. He got bad at kicking.
If you can create someone who immediately makes your team better and all it's going to cost you is, I don't know, Marshawn Lloyd. I mean, that's the kind of shit they're drafting. I thought you guys were asking, I thought you guys were talking about giving him a huge contract.
Well, you would have to give him a huge contract. Yes.
A huge kicker contract is like 6 million per year. Mm-hmm. So like Benjamin Satan juiced money. Yeah. Was he two for ten?
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's how much Jack's pizzas cost these days. A second callback. Fuck! I was stepping all over you, sorry.
I was going to say, Andrew Brandt reminds us that all these deals are really like two years and we'll see. You have to keep. Hey, I got a question. What is Andrew Brandt? Like I know what he was, but what is he now?
Does he just tweet and ask people? To give him a phone call when they want to talk to the 90s Packers or Rodgers? Are you saying, like, what is like, what is he? Where is he making his money? Yeah, what does he do?
I think he's at Villanova Law. Oh yeah, I'm just wondering. What is it that you do here is what you're wondering.
Well, nothing here per se. Should I look into that? Should I look into teaching? My mom told me I should do that to make extra money. Aaron.
I could go teach at the campus in Milwaukee. What about substitute teaching? Maybe I could do that. I could do that. There's another guy here.
KB teaches at Marquette. You should ask him. Maybe you guys could. Mine meld a little bit over some classes. Because I want a job.
No, you don't. But I want it to be in between nine and three. Flexible to my podcast.
Okay. To be clear, I heard. you admit publicly. the way you intend on making money. Ideally.
Getting hit by a car. Yeah. You I almost did today. They were not fucking slowing down today, brother. Grant is perplexed.
The next car in Milwaukee that slows down will be the first. I don't gather from you that money is some crippling issue. It seems to me that you need a scheme. Come on! That's what you need.
And getting hit by what I my point is getting hit by there's better schemes, there's better savings like going to be a fan at Miller Park on Thursday. That's a scheme. Your whole life is. You're Kramer right now. That's what you're doing.
My brothers and I, we've been scheming our whole life. One of my brothers. Yeah, sure, I'll tell it. One of my brothers, um Fuck, I don't think I should. Pendillum.
He went around the neighborhood collecting money for. A tragedy that happened? Oh no. And then he kept all the money. Oh no.
And then my parents found out he had to go return it to every house. That's bad. And he was like, Yeah. Oh no. Part eight.
My goodness, this is like it's not about the money, it was the scheme. What does he need the money for? What did you buy? in the late 80s early 90s kind of spider-man toys Sega games. Yeah, they were probably four dollars a piece.
Now, Call of Duty 70, and you need to buy it three more times just to keep it working throughout its lifespan.
Well, you got the updates. Everything that you described, Bart, just is an episode of The Office that I watched recently, which is when Creed Bratton. Didn't do his job in quality control. And then he got the lady from the Warehouse fired, and then he went around and collected money for Debbie Brown, if I remember correctly. Debbie Brown.
And they all put money in the card. He throws the card away, keeps the money. I didn't know that was just a. A reliving of the customer. Almost was telling me yesterday about when he worked at a clothing store, he used to just pocket cash that customers gave him.
Someone commented, Should Carlos say that he's currently looking for work? I mean, it was 15 years ago. No one no one deals in cash anymore. You're probably okay. Yeah.
All right. So I like Aubrey. I like Aubrey.
So, Grant, let me just ask you this. You're. Am I correctly summarizing? You're out on a big move for Aubrey or Jalen Carter. You're out on both of those.
Yeah, I guess I am for very different reasons. Sure. So if you wake up from your nap. And one of those guys is a packer, you're gonna be like, what? Like, are you gonna, you're not gonna be, you're not gonna be like, whoa, you're gonna be like, ugh.
No, I mean, I would be look. I mean, if they acquire Jalen Carter, I'll mobilize to get myself to love it. Which, by the way, I did with Dame and I did with Miles Turner, and I shouldn't have because I always thought Dame was overrated, and I always thought Miles Turner sucked. And when they got to Milwaukee, I'm like, ah, but this will be great. And it.
0 for 2.
So I need to I just need to be more pessimistic and accept it. All right. Before we pivot into my next question. Bart, I'm worried that you have forgotten what you said you were going to do as a follow-up to last week's. Which is your bartometer about the eight items?
Is this happening? When can I count on this? Uh, no, instead, I'm gonna do something better. I am going to read some of the comments from the YouTube video. Which is good because I didn't have to do any work.
and it will give shout outs to people that watch the video. Which, by the way, shout out to those who did because that means they made it to the last minute. Yeah. And I really only thought of one answer. Which is one real answer.
And this was your question about um Which fast food item would you never try? No, would be the most difficult for you to like. pretend to enjoy a la like the mcdonald ceo being like This is Great. What would be like the toughest item for you to pretend to enjoy? Um mine personally would be the McRib.
Okay. I don't know what it is. I don't think I've ever had it. It's very squishy. But for reference, if you were hungry right now and I gave you a hot McRib.
You would eat it, wouldn't you? Yeah, I don't think there's an answer you could I don't I don't think I would say no to any of this. That's what I'm so it's all relative. Like, yeah, I don't know that the Rick Mc I don't know that I would love the McRib, but I'd eat three of them if you gave them to me right now for free. I definitely saw some things in the comments last week that I didn't know existed.
But that I am not eating.
Well, let's shit on a bunch of restaurants. Here we go. You guys ready? Corey says the flaming hot burrito at Taco Bell. That I have not had.
He also says the KFC double down. What is so? Do you know what that is? That was the sandwich where instead of buns, it was two chickens. Oh.
I don't believe I had one. Me and my buddy, when I was in La Crosse. We did have a run of KFC Potato Bulls. The one on the north side? Yeah.
The south side. It's north side. Yeah. Up by the river there. Yeah, by the boxes by the hotel.
Yeah, that shitty hotel. Across from the storage unit building. Um We also have here Wow. Jake says, I've tried the Taco Bell spicy potato taco twice and regretted each time. Last item on the menu.
Horseshit take best, a spicy potato taco is the best item on the for the for the money for the price, it's the best item on the menu. I agree. Chris says, any fish sandwich? I think I got a lot of fileto fishes on here. I haven't had a fileto fish in forever.
Maybe I'll try one this week. A long time. Um squirrel vomit.
Okay. Is that the item, the food item, or the ya YouTube name? I'm not sure. Either the item or the name. One is Squirrel Vomit.
The other is Long John Silver's entire menu. I was going to ask: are you guys miffed by Long John Silver's? Because I think I might be. I don't think I've ever eaten anything. There's one in Green Bay still, right?
Or do they take that down? Don't know. It was like buy the Arby's with the old um Yep. Um right on O'Neida. Did you guys, did you guys ever have the Taco John's apple grande?
Never ate Taco Johns either? It's fucking awesome, but if you Google a picture of it, it looks like the worst thing you've ever eaten in your life. Oh, it looks just terrible, but it's so good. And then MPW says anything Subway. In which I will once again.
Publicly stand for Subway. Wow, that's so bizarre. I... Love. Subway.
And you've had it in the last 10 years? You mean the private equity era of Subway? That's exactly what I'm referring to. Yeah. Jimmy John's makes my tummy hurt.
But you have a skill issue, by the way. Jimmy Jones is awesome. Cousins.
Well, I love Jimmy Johns, but it makes my tummy hurt. Cousins is the best. Cousins is very good.
Okay. But there's a little I feel like there's a little bit of entitlement with cousins. I feel like cousins knows they're pretty good. That's okay. And I don't like that they randomly serve fries also.
I don't mean randomly. Why is it random? Because then, when you order fries, it takes longer. Be random. Because they dare to make them fresh?
Yes, I don't need fresh food when I go to fast food. We make it fresh. That's not why I'm fucking here.
Well then you don't go to colours? I just don't need it to be like the The selling point. Diet.
Well, this fast fruit makes it fresh. You think I can tell the difference between fresh and not fresh? This is a man who eats a burger. This is a man who eats hot pockets three times a week. You think that was my breakfast?
That's disgusting. What was the other sub? Oh, Jersey Mike's. Too much. Too much meat.
Too much. Don't get a burger for Christ's sake. Like, it's. And they slice it for you like it's the 1930s. Like, come on.
Get out of here. Just soaking it with juice.
So I can't get all hype on Jersey mics. It's good. I'm not saying it's not good. But I'm saying I, yeah, I love, I love Subway. All right, Grant, this topic?
It's the Grantometer, number one. What's number one for you, Grant? Mm. The fast food item that would be the most difficult for you to feign enjoyment of. Probably something from Probably something from Subway.
I just. Not for me. Is this anything from Subway?
So Bart's favorite is Grant's number one. I'm gonna try to get a sponsorship deal with Subway. Good luck. They're going to be like, we don't do that anymore. We made him a big mistake.
Are you um Are you going to document your Thursday night thing? Are you allowed to document your Thursday night? I don't know. I don't know what. I told my brother, I said, this is either going to be like one of the best things we ever do, or it's going to fucking suck.
Can you drink before you go? Can you pre-game it? I don't know. It does say. Oops.
We should do our own hair and makeup before we come. I'm glad they clarified that. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know much about it. I just know I'm doing it.
Where's the invite come from? I saw somebody tweet it to like Rami and Sparky, and I just jumped on it. All right. Talon will be asked to arrive camera ready with hair and makeup done. Wear clothes you would normally wear to a baseball game.
Nice casual, no obvious logos, no team clothing, no baseball hats. And you didn't have to like. You know, you're just if you show up, you're in. I had to apply. But you got an acceptance like, hey, you're in.
Yeah. Was there a photo involved? Like, what was the Yes, I had to send a photo.
Okay. Yeah. And they thought, this looks like a guy we could Really capitalize on. You have headshots? I have one picture that they took at me at KFIZ.
Where my hair was not. No, it should be the old podcast picture from the fan with you in the suit with your arms crossed. That's what I figured you would have used. Iconic. No, I used um Alright, I have this one.
On the Dan Shaney YouTube stream. That's the one. Oh, that is the podcast day? No, I'm just saying that's the one I would have used if I was trying to get $200 to show up at a random thing.
Okay, and then there's one more that I use. uh that I will show you and that's this one. Oh, you're much younger there. Yeah, well that's the one I sent. And my hair is This was washed in the sink.
Yeah. Which is why there's the little sprout in the back of my head. Yeah. Yeah. And I should have probably whitened my teeth with AI.
Like I did for my profile picture on Twitter. Did you really? I did. You AI white teeth? I did.
Right. One more, then I gotta go. Any other uh fast food takes? Yeah. Did you make yourself look more tan in that picture too?
In what? The Twitter picture? Yeah, I'm just looking at it now. No, no, no, no, no.
Okay. No, I just said whiten the teeth, please. And then ChatGPT said.
Okay, but we're going to need to go to a lake instead of the river we normally use for the water that we're going to fucking burn. I said, that's fine. Take it from Wakasha. Yeah. Did you guys take Nathan Marzion's Bucks approval ratings poll.
Polls. No, I didn't. I'm sorry I missed that. You know what I'm referring to. No, but I can guess.
We can probably use context clues to participate, Paul. All right, so each player strongly, like in terms of wanting them back, I think it was like strongly. Approved. slightly approve slightly disapprove or basically like do you want them to come back next year or not Um before I ask you my mm-hmm mm-mm. Which This includes head coach and GM.
Who do you think are the top five most approved? Bucks players slash head coach slash GM. Who are the top five that you think got the highest approval rating? And can you get and can you get it in order? Oh, I did, I did see, I did see what Doc's approval rating was.
Okay. I'll spoil that one. 2.4%, it was last place. I bet that number one is Giannis.
Well, Maybe not, but I bet he's up there. I bet two of the highest players are the Frenchmen. Ujman Dang, because we know nothing about him and we haven't watched him long enough to realize. I was going to wait. Go ahead.
Good job. And Rollins. I see why you do it. It's great. Rollins and Jang, because we haven't had an opportunity to watch them in anything important enough to realize they're not that good.
Let's say those two players are probably the highest. Jan is slightly behind because people want him, but realize that it might also be time.
So that would be my guess for the top three. Yeah. Um Rollins is in there. That asshole AJ Greens probably in there. I've seen duty shots.
He's not good. I'm sorry. He's not. I feel like I feel like we are statistically, he's one of the best catch and shoot three-point shooters in the league in the world, but okay. With A.J.
Green now, we are at the place we will be with Ryan Rollins and Ujman Jang in like a year and a half. We've just had a chance to experience A.J. Green longer. That's my theory. We're the top five.
Top five. Jesus Christ. Number five.
Well, Bobby is not five, right? Bobby. Although Twitter, Bobby is. At least he cares. Bobby is a shit.
Fourth. from the bottom. Yeah. Bobby is bottom four. Number four.
No, enough. Move on. Number five.
Jericho Sims. Yeah, that's. I mean, that's a process about fucking elimination. There's nobody else. There's nobody else just slightly Beat out.
Kevin Porter Jr. Yeah. So it's Jang, A.J. Green, Rollins, and then Giannis. Giannis is one.
Rollins 2. Usman three. Green four. Jericho See, these aren't approval ratings. These are what's your non-disapproval rating.
Kinda. Yeah. Nobody likes any of these guys. We used to compete for championships. Remember that?
All right. Listen to the players that are coming out of your mouths right now. We've just slowly become numb to this. I'm not numb to this. This is fucking nuts.
I just had a conversation with my barber today. Shout out, Phil. Shout out, BU Salon. Why are they not sponsoring you? Go ahead.
I I uh Good question. Yeah, what the fuck, Phil? Yeah, Phil.
So please. I just had a conversation with him today about Drew Holiday. Mm. And how Drew Holiday is one of the most. Underrated players in the NBA ever.
Mm. And we were trying to figure out why that is, and we couldn't. Mm. But those are the kind of Titans that we used to discuss around here. Mm-hmm.
Now we're only liking some of these guys. Jericho Sims, Usman Jang. Ryan Rollins, only because it's like. They're still the new kid at school, and they gave us a sandwich once. We don't know them.
Yeah. You don't fucking know Uzman Jeng. We barely know Jericho Sims. We just know he's less shitty than Miles Turner when there's three minutes to go. He tries.
So I told you who number six was with this Kevin Porter Jr. Seven was Pete Nance. Eight Cam Thomas. Nine, Miles Turner. 10, John Horst.
11 Bobby Portis, 12 Gary Trent Jr. Then Kyle Kuzma and Doc Rivers at the way end. There is an expansion draft happening tomorrow. The Bucs get to keep Giannis and one other player. Everyone else is a free agent.
The only other you can only protect one more, the player you're protecting. from this expansion draft tomorrow is Bango.
Okay. Is Ryan Rollins or Gruber? I'd protect Marcus Johnson before I protected any of those guys. I would prioritize keeping him on television over keeping any of the players on that list. I'm not kidding.
I'm not kidding. They could, every single one of them can go. They could purge the entire roster. I wouldn't care. I'd be sad to see Bobby go because there's some memories, but.
Findings for the memories. Even though they were so great. Bart. You could only protect one other player. It's Ryan Rollins.
I got another sitcom comparison. I mean, it probably would be, Paul, to give you a serious answer. It'd probably be Ryan Rollins. It's Rollins. There's nobody else.
And Rollins is going to get traded in two and a half years for. Shit.
Next, the next Ryan Rollins for Ryan Kalkbrenner or something when he's like not good anymore. Um Bobby, do you watch the paper yet? No. No. The Not spin off.
But Oscar's in that from the office. That's Bobby Portis. Oh. He's an Oscar in the paper.
Okay. Like, okay, you're... You're important. You're not like... A star, but You add some credibility by being here.
Yeah. And still being around. I mean, look at this fucking team.
Okay. It is it is it is just a bunch of Neighborhood. It is just a bunch of guys. You see Grotsky's tweet? Look at these morose motherfuckers right here.
Look at this.
Now, what did SG say? They're serial. SG, the Bucs' last eight losses are by an average of 26.5 points per game, with the closest being 131, 113. Oh, I did see that. I'm like, now I remember the theory that it's good when they're bad because we can take our kids to games?
Mm-hmm. So I took my kid to the heat game a couple weeks ago. Four bucks a piece to get in? We got great seats. We he caught a t-shirt.
The guy next to us caught a ball, gave it to him.
So I was like, what an experience. Mm-hmm. They're so fucking bad right now that now now To protect his Bucks fandom, I have to not take him to games. Oh, no. Like the game the game Saturday.
They barely beat the jazz. Then they get waxed by the magic.
So this team is. They're going to lose by anyone good. Like, the Suns are going to beat them by 25 points tonight. Everyone's beating them by 25 points. And then when they play a really shitty team that's not trying.
They'll barely win. What I don't get is they look like. Unless it's the Bulls. If I were to look back at the schedule. And you gave me no context on anything that's happened.
But the only thing you told me is: hey, Giannis was hurt this year. I would look at the weekend where Giannis came back, and I would think, oh, that must be when he got hurt. Based on how they've played since. But that's when he came back. And it doesn't make any sense.
It's like Giannis got back and they're all like, okay, we fucking quit. Like, we're done. It doesn't make any sense. Rollins doesn't know what to do. I don't think any of them do.
Like Rollins and KPJ had this thing going, and then. Ron's like, uh, so then the one game he had like 12 assists because he's like, I just gotta pass. I can't, I can't fucking shoot now. I don't know what to do. I had a few days of joy in Bucksworld when I thought.
That Doc was retiring after this season, only for that to be mostly refuted by Doc Rivers. I was really looking forward to being in the playing tournament. I really, truly was.
So, you're to be clear, as a follow-up to last week, once they lost to the Hawks on Wednesday. That was your, you're out now, right? That's what he said to Justin.
Well, yeah, I mean, mathematically, I have to be out. They're four games back of the Hornets. Mm-hmm. The hornets are good. Yeah.
The Hawks have won six in a row. Mm-hmm. I like what the stupid Hawks team. They got all these guys that need to prove something. Yeah.
You know? Mm-hmm. I like what they're doing. Yeah. Do you have any comments about Magic City?
I mean, I sent it to you because Adam Silver's only tackling the important stuff.
So, if I hosted a show that needed to address such issues, I would do it. I might do it tonight. We'll see. Callers have been slacking this week, which is fine. But I might do it tonight where it's like, hey, Adam Silver, you have a coach whining that there are too many games, you have teams that aren't trying.
And you're like, we need to get to the bottom of the Hawks doing Magic City Night. And may I say this? Kawhi is allegedly getting paid under the table. Yeah, Pablo Torre's one-handedly taking down the fucking Clippers. Yes.
And you're like, I don't like this promotion because Luke Cornette complained. Right. That's the thing with silver. All you got to do is bitch online about it. And then he'll change it.
As long as it's not like actually important to the game. Yeah, as long as it's something that's fucking meaningless. Mm-hmm. I got one more thing to say on the NBA, another unpopular opinion. Oh.
These are the only opinions you enjoy sharing. We talked about this a week or two ago. No, I like. I'd be more shocked if you had a popular opinion. Yeah, yeah.
The time I hear you say, I think everyone's going to be on board with this before delivering a take will be the first fucking time. That'll be the only time I've ever heard you say that. I like the World Baseball Classic. Yeah, I do too. Because I fucking hate spring training.
It is a, it's so fucking long. And people are like, I'm going to grill and listen to the spring training broadcast. Just listen to some fucking music. Yeah. It's not summer yet.
I don't think you get to pretend. I don't think you get to pretend that that weekend where it was 50. In mid-February. It was 70 yesterday.
Well, yeah, but there was a weekend in February where it was like 60. And I went fishing, I was wading in a creek with boots, like, I didn't even have waders on. And it was great, but there was still something in my body where it's like. But it's not, no, no, it's great, it's nice, it feels good, but it's not. And I think the same thing with spring training.
Like, if I were to try to go outside and grill, if I had a patio or a grill or an outside, and if I were to do that, I think my body would be like, I don't think so. My take is: as someone who loves the 90s. Loves NBC, loves the NBA. Dial it down on the nostalgia. It's a little too much from them.
the whole the whole it was the whole switch back to nbc was just based on the fact that they were using round ball rock we talked about this months before it ever happened it's like hey guys you can listen to the song anytime you want it's on youtube and and sadly the deceased guy voiceover guy's ai commentary Yeah. Maybe. They're doing AI with that stuff. Yes.
It's bullshit.
So I crashed out listening to Spiro Deeds on Saturday, by the way. I don't know if this is a take-we-share. I'm normally pro most announcers, but I can't listen to that asshole call a college basketball game. I can't either. And then when he calls the Bucs, he says, Yanis!
Well, he does badge, he goes, The Badgers. It's like, what the f. What are you who are you trying to be? What is it? Who are you?
Oh, and then every time I have like a block of time to just watch a game, it's fucking Mark Davis. Also just brought hotter than pig grease. I'd rather fuck you! I'd rather have 10 Mark Davises than one Spiro Deeds. I won't listen to either.
And that's not even like hyperbolic. Like, I turn off games. I just, I'm like, nope. I just I just don't I just won't do it. I've never listened to a Davis announcer that I liked.
Who else could that be? Seth Davis? Ted Davis? Oh, I forgot about him. Ted Davis?
Like Ted Davis. You didn't exactly want to leave that in suspense. You're just like, I'll just say it. No, Ted Davis is fine. If you're Ted Davis.
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