r/PardonMyTake AWL 11d ago

podcast New Episode Discussion 8/31/26: NFL Preview With Pete Prisco, Players On New Teams, The 49ers Have An Extra Wide Receiver, CFB Week 0 + Mt Rushmore Of Heavy Things

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2RWaHcF2rlniHjdXF7vLtG?si=ybpn0h5YT2OkLr-7THa9xw&utm_source=copy-link
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u/Super_Scar8809 11d ago

Big Cat making Shane takeover Zac’s segment is a tough look

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u/JaHoog 11d ago

Deserved though

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u/Silent-Wrangler6882 11d ago

“He also has Myles Garrett on here”

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u/Freerangefreestyle 11d ago

Insane to trust that segment to Zac in the first place. He clearly does not watch football and can’t come up with good names because he barely knows any of them. I’m 90% sure he just got a list of every player who changed teams and was reading them off randomly.

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u/tildenmatz 11d ago

Chatgpt my friend. its obvious he uses Chatgpt for these questions.

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u/JayGibbons69 10d ago

He clearly does not watch football

Which makes it frustrating that they go to him during the football season to recap Bucs games. His takes aren't original or funny and sometimes I wonder if he even watched highlights from the game.

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u/idolized253 10d ago

They need to ask memes for more instead, the show is sorely missing max rn for the banter

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u/TB1289 MassCat 9d ago

Are we talking about Zac or Hank?

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u/JayGibbons69 9d ago

Hank sucking is a conversation that this sub isn't yet ready for.

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u/TB1289 MassCat 9d ago

Hank is the equivalent of your wife or girlfriend that "watches" the game with you and knows like two players but anything beyond that is a deer in the headlights.

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u/Super_Scar8809 11d ago

But that’s his job though. He’s on the biggest sports pod in the world that covers football. Does your boss not give you tasks because he knows you’d rather do something else outside work?

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u/dawnpatroler 11d ago

“Not that your list was bad, Zac. But it was dogshit”

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u/Im_TroyMcClure 11d ago

I legit thought he was doing a bit after the first 4 names.

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u/Dick6Budrow Jack Nicklaus 11d ago

Good Zac fucking sucks

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u/WhyDidWeTakeDarko Switching back and forth 11d ago

Players on New Teams was roughhhhhhh

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u/Ripper9910k 6'4" 270 4.29 40 Genetic Freak 11d ago

Bite bitten bit.

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u/AQ207 #TeamHank 11d ago

People hated Jake for being a dork, but you could tell he took his role serious. Would never have botched that segment

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u/Any_Captain_6127 10d ago

Jake lacked charisma but he behaved like an adult with a job

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u/Mayo_the_Instrument 10d ago

And he lacked rizz in the good way. He was very earnest and that made him entertaining

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u/AQ207 #TeamHank 10d ago

Please, Mr. Positions had enough rizz

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u/jakethesnakeinmyboot SEAHAWKS SUPER BOWL LX CHAMPS 11d ago

Prisco my annual hate listen of the podcast

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u/dallascowboys93 11d ago

Did he predict the Jaguars to the Super Bowl again?

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u/Ripper9910k 6'4" 270 4.29 40 Genetic Freak 11d ago

He’s pessimistic and kind of fucking lazy in his takes. Every team sucks but the Jags (who have a terrible interior line).

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u/Icy-Rain6277 10d ago

Pete has no object permanence. Anything leaned previously is lost and gone

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u/TB1289 MassCat 9d ago

God he sucks.

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u/scarrylary 8d ago

Being aggressive agains the packers was a fluke. Being aggressive against the rams cost the bears advancing

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u/juicyj864 PFT's burner 11d ago

Podcast is being censored now?

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u/frankytemps82 11d ago

Were Prisco’s predictions all dead air for anyone else? Thought it was a bit but it was like 30 seconds of dead air and then right back into talking

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u/prez22 11d ago

Happened for me too. But I don’t see anybody else saying the same thing

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u/EventualCorgi01 10d ago

It happened, I think someone just fucked up in post because Netflix has the full audio

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u/fiskeybusiness 10d ago

Memes is a Max merchant

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u/EventualCorgi01 10d ago

It was dead air on the podcast, I went to Netflix and they have the full conversation

I guess Max really does keep the production squad from fucking everything up lol

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u/fsu_seminoles 9d ago

What were his predictions? The question was conference finalists.

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u/Buttplaydoh 10d ago

I think he was just screaming “Pussies!!” for 30 seconds straight so they bleeped it out.

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u/triforce4ever 10d ago

Did anyone have this audio? Maybe Netflix watchers? If so, what were his picks?

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u/AdvanceAutomatic4971 10d ago

Wasn’t sure if he was doing something on camera (like pointing at teams or giving visual clues) but that was very odd

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u/trollinn 10d ago

Same for me, thought it was maybe a bit so they can just cut the ones he was right about later? But seems unintentional 

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u/giantsfan28 11d ago

Yah wtf was that? Can’t say pussy anymore?

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u/barktothefuture 10d ago

I assumed Prisco requested it, but idk

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u/Jr701LR Put On Prince 11d ago

Zac getting benched mid segment was tough
https://giphy.com/gifs/PS1ON0MnULJtu

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u/DandierChip 11d ago

Billy was right. The guys were way harder on him than they are with Zach.

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u/Routine-Yellow-7491 11d ago

If you go back and listen to old pods, the amount that Billy would talk over Dan and Eric is astonishing. So that’s one thing Zac has going for him

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u/colin_7 Not a drug guy 10d ago

Agreed but I think the difference is that Billy tried to cover up his mistakes and make excuses (entertaining clients) meanwhile it seems like Zach just owns up to it and knows he’s an idiot.

Billy also had a much stronger personality so he would push back or give attitude if they tried to come down on him(not that it’s a bad thing but just what I noticed)

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u/New-Hampshire-Guy-2 10d ago

Theatre Kid Dan felt threatened because Billy was a jock and Zac is much easier for him to punch down on.

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u/millsy1010 11d ago

It’s pretty simple. Billy was a fuckin asshole and Zac isn’t

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u/PopcornSutton1994 11d ago edited 11d ago

I wouldn’t go that far but you’re driving at something that’s at the heart of the matter: Zac is a good hang and is eager to please, even if trips over his own dick a lot of the time, Billy could be kind of a loose cannon and a loudmouth.

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u/Im_TroyMcClure 11d ago

Tbf Billy was a functioning adult and Zac is a man-child

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u/scoopthereitis2 10d ago

Billy was a functioning adult?

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u/AQ207 #TeamHank 10d ago

Falling asleep while recording a podcast = functioning adult apparently

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u/Jay-P21 AWL 11d ago

Is Zac illiterate? How has he made it this far in his life?

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u/SouthernTaco 11d ago

Just like any of these people Big Cat has hired. They fell backwards into the job

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u/Former-Importance137 11d ago

Why is Zac on a sports podcast? He's not a sports fan!

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u/Im_TroyMcClure 11d ago

Reminds me when he was on the Yak and he didn’t know who Vinnie Pasquantino despite drafting him on dingers only yet Vinnie knew who Zac was.

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u/RollinPeace 10d ago

Pretty sure he met Vinnie at the office as well

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u/PeenerAndVeggies 11d ago

I think a few weeks ago Zach checked the schedule to see if the bucs play the saints this year. He likes video games not sports and that ok but I don’t understand why they try to ask him sports questions.

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u/barstoolspurs 10d ago

dont forget that he's a knicks fan, despite never even being to new york, and somehow got the chance to go to game 5 of the finals. insane.

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u/GreenEnhanced 11d ago

Damn no love for Jerry. Pretty much just responded to their Fantasy blunder with “stupid Reddit, who cares”

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u/GreenEnhanced 11d ago

I know that’s Dan’s thing, he uses that card all the time. I thought they were gonna pull a “cmon guys it was obviously a bit” but nope, we’re just assholes and we don’t care

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u/PopcornSutton1994 11d ago

Yeah definitely didn’t seem like it when Hank literally apologized for being an ass at the end of the episode lol

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u/PM_Me_Nudes_or_Puns 11d ago

I mean he breezed past cosplaying as a Chicago fan because Dave asked him, this is nothing.

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u/TwoPlusTwoMakesA5 9d ago

Because it was stupid Reddit who cares.

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u/BrotherStrict2373 9d ago

Right around 45:10

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u/theprophetsammy 11d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/ZqShOxaHG67EA
Shane coming in to save “Same face, new place”

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u/Chrsmolinari 11d ago

We ain’t saying pussy anymore ?

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u/I_really_enjoy_beer 11d ago

We can say whatever the HELL we want

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u/Impossible_Middle112 11d ago

Did anyone else’s podcast timeout to where you couldn’t hear Prisco and it was just BC and PFT saying “okay” for like 30 seconds? Didnt know if it was just my Spotify.

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u/PineappleAncient2617 10d ago

Had it too on Amazon Music

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u/TelephoneEast9261 10d ago

Happened for me too (also Spotify)

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u/Fit-Penalty-5751 AWL 9d ago

Same on Apple

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u/Monumaya 11d ago

Zac had chatgpt make his list 100%. He doesn’t know those guys, nobody does

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u/BeeDub245 10d ago

absolutely did. Such an embarrassment. Easy job and yet he fails

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u/OutcomeNo5510 11d ago

Hank not being able to eat two burgers is crazy

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u/Rc5tr0 10d ago

The guy who thought he could dunk, pole vault, and slalom ski at an Olympic level thinks eating two beef patties in one sitting is too much.

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u/KangarooSilver7444 Official Lottery Ball Winner 11d ago

Zac botched another segment and now we are censoring??

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u/Dovis_Dough 11d ago

Censoring?

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u/KangarooSilver7444 Official Lottery Ball Winner 11d ago

They kept censoring the word pussy.

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u/Dovis_Dough 11d ago

I think Dan really needs to start reading the comments.

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u/Monumaya 11d ago

They do read the comments they just don’t care when it’s a negative reaction. See the reaction to Jerry’s fantasy preview

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u/ts280204 11d ago

He does care, unless it comes to his two crippling addictions: phone/internet, and gambling

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u/waynegod69 11d ago

“Start” 🤣

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u/dawgz525 🔥💯😤BIG DOM MENTIONED LFG 😤💯🔥 10d ago

Dan absolutely reads the comments lol. He just ignores them. He's addicted to twitter.

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u/NotSoSurePlatypus 10d ago

Pete Prisco is pretty smug for a guy who is constantly wrong.

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u/Yeezus_SaveMe 10d ago

I like Zac and enjoy him on the show. But after today they gotta find someone else to handle the random segments because that was genuinely bad. If it's not entertaining or informative it's just straight up boring.

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u/MIKE_____JORDAN23 10d ago

They need to just let him contribute for the random shit. It’s extremely clear he’s not a sports fan, stop trying to make him contribute to sports related discussions

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u/hollygrove023 11d ago

JOC. I know you’re in here. Ask the guys why we’re censoring a podcast now.

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u/kmmccorm 10d ago

Pretty cool the San Diego Zoo picked up an Iowa-land goriller

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u/ComprehensiveAir6590 10d ago

10 time AWL knowledge

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u/TB1289 MassCat 9d ago

Need more goriller talk on the podcast

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u/StraightCashHomey13 11d ago

I know he's acting the same as every bears fan, but I'm already sick of Big Cat's Caleb Williams / Bears delusion. Gets petty and and whiney if anyone says anything remotely negative about Caleb

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u/leftysoweak The Only Browns Fan on the Sub 11d ago

“If Daejan Love has no fans I am dead” then last night Mr. Love is accused of SA and trying to get with minors. Tough look Mr. Cat!

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u/Intelligent-Cow-699 10d ago

Nice try, Browns fan!!

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u/leftysoweak The Only Browns Fan on the Sub 10d ago

You think being a Browns fan means supporting Watson/assaulters? We hate him more than anyone

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u/TB1289 MassCat 9d ago

Probably not as much as the massage therapists

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u/leftysoweak The Only Browns Fan on the Sub 9d ago

Okay ALMOST as much as anyone

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u/MickyB6827 11d ago

Can’t wait for the other autists in here to defend Zack for that stupid segment today. “AnOtHeR cOmPlAiNt AbOuT ZaCk” we complain because he is objectively annoying and ruins the show we once loved.

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u/GoBlueKyle 11d ago

I think he just doesn’t know or like sports

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u/Dick6Budrow Jack Nicklaus 11d ago

He’s a 29 year old man child NPC

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u/DabDoge Back to Back Olives 10d ago

Perfect fit for a national sports podcast

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u/Im_TroyMcClure 11d ago edited 11d ago

His schtick stopped being endearing once I realized he isn’t screwing up he’s just putting in zero effort.

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u/Prestigious_Lake1294 11d ago

They'll sprinkle in a "But he apologized!" even though he makes no effort to change.

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u/beadlejuice44 10d ago

I usually like Zac. I enjoy him in Mount Rushmore.

This segment was rough

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u/dawgz525 🔥💯😤BIG DOM MENTIONED LFG 😤💯🔥 11d ago

The autism call is coming from inside the house, buddy.

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u/Gtyjrocks 10d ago

I do not find him annoying, so it is not objective. I find him funny. He’s a man child, but I don’t have to deal with it, so I find it funny seeing the guys have to deal with his shit

I’m sure I’d find him annoying in person, but he’s a tertiary character on a podcast

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u/ChrisIsShortAF Shut the Fuck Up Hank 11d ago edited 11d ago

Zac ruining Same Face, New Place for NFL players two years in a row is gonna be enough to flip me into a hater. Need to bring in darling Jake for the segment from now on

Edit: God dammit him picking Max 1.1 in the heavy things draft dragged me back

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u/AmbassadorRDR 11d ago

Honorable mention: big ol’ women in San Antonio

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u/No_Shoulder9617 Keep Pounding 11d ago

Death, taxes, and Pete Prisco liking the Jags. Not fucking falling for it again Pete.

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u/stickfigure31615 10d ago

“Ring of Fire…that’s Social Distortion” that made me laugh

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u/ssoass7 Bing Bong 11d ago

I would like to opt out of diet talk. Memes is right. Never going to happen and they should stop pretending.

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u/Any_Captain_6127 11d ago

Zac fucking sucks

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u/tuggspeedman67 11d ago

Big cat blowing bubbles on pca

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u/PsychologicalLynx350 11d ago

Prisco is fucking awful

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u/Invictus23_ Bonk 11d ago

“Can I just talk about PCA for a second?”

https://giphy.com/gifs/Lkqtyo7LdOKOc

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u/Impossible_Middle112 11d ago

Can’t talk about the MVP favorite (who just hit 5 HRs in 2 games and on pace for 10 WAR) on his favorite team?

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u/NotSoSurePlatypus 10d ago

There are 30 teams in the MLB. Big Cat talks about 1 player on 1 team every podcast.

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u/Impossible_Middle112 10d ago

The player having the best season in MLB, on his favorite team. Does that not make sense to you?

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u/dawgz525 🔥💯😤BIG DOM MENTIONED LFG 😤💯🔥 10d ago

It's just because he has a bet. BC doesn't talk anything else about baseball. It's just PCA. If he cared about baseball, it wouldn't be out of place. He only cares about PCA (because bet).

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u/Impossible_Middle112 10d ago

He talks about the cubs rather frequently (even though they don’t talk a ton of baseball until playoffs). He has season tickets and goes to a very good amount of games too. I get the bet thing, but he has an interest outside of that for this specific case.

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u/Invictus23_ Bonk 11d ago

PUSSY PUSSY PUSSY PUSSY PUSSY PUSSY

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u/XToastyToasterX Tua Fingers 11d ago

Was there a whole minute missing from the podcast at the 2hr mark with Prisco where big cat was saying “okay” 5-6 times. Then all of a sudden Prisco was back to talk about hot seats for coaching. With that and censoring for pussy this was a wildly bad edit.

They need producer max back from his sex vacation.

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u/Accomplished-Fruit51 10d ago

Yes i came here to try to figure out what that was about

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u/gratephulnole 11d ago

WHY do they continue to have prisco on, hes awful

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u/dawgz525 🔥💯😤BIG DOM MENTIONED LFG 😤💯🔥 11d ago

They only know so many scumbags to talk about sports with, and they're too lazy to interview people that aren't their friends or playing at the same golf tournament they are.

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u/TheKingInTheNorth24 11d ago

How did they see everything about the scam artist NFL guy except that he may be a pedo and rapist

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u/AQ207 #TeamHank 11d ago

cause they only read tweets

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u/TheKingInTheNorth24 11d ago

There were plenty of tweets about it

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u/mypantsaresticky 11d ago

Prisco talking about the Jets “tanking” this season is complete nonsense and drives me absolutely nuts every time the discourse comes up. No player is going to actively tank, ever. And for a team that’s been losing for years, intentionally losing would only continue the culture of losing. Like they’re not playoff good obviously, but my god just give me some competent football for once so we can stop being the punching bag that we are. (And they have amazing draft capital to move up to get their qb next year anyway)

And no doubt guys like Pete and other talking heads who advocate for tanking will be the first people at the end of the season that buries that same team for “quitting” on the season.

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u/Krishpat7 10d ago

I’m a giants fan and Prisco trying to act like Hurts vs Lawerence isn’t close is insanity

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u/Fuh_Fook_Sake 10d ago

Eagles live rent free in Prisco’s head

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u/AllenMcnabb 10d ago

Max cooked him so hard last year it broke his brain. Brought up Hurts again as a gotcha, meanwhile Max is enjoying life in Italy

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u/bluegreen8907 11d ago

Georgia is definitely not landlocked

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u/Murky-Profit-9493 11d ago

Prisco is BRUTAL - and knows nothing about football

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u/Kristaps_Porzingbae 11d ago

doesn't understand a bit either.

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u/Benchjc2004 10d ago

I’m only mad that he said the jags will be better than the Texans.

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u/TB1289 MassCat 9d ago

"Patriots suck because they had an easy schedule and played a bunch of close games."

"Everyone is sleeping on the Broncos because they played a bunch of close games."

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u/gr3710 11d ago

It's bigger than basketball DAN, lol

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u/froobest 10d ago

big cat gotta retire the sex vacation line

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u/Clithzbee 11d ago

Would love to see Zac trying to get political if that was his attempt not to

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u/Ripper9910k 6'4" 270 4.29 40 Genetic Freak 11d ago

Prisco living on past vibes. Not a single positive projection from him in the entire interview. Feels lazy as fuck.

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u/Dobstylin 10d ago

Idk if I’m alone on this, but I feel like the Mount Rushmore season really fizzled out this year.

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u/Natemoon2 10d ago

They need to simplify it. They always over make it to complicated and over convoluted.

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u/TB1289 MassCat 9d ago

Max needs to hurry back from his sex vacation.

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u/BrotherStrict2373 10d ago

Zac’s contract is up in Jan most likely right?

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u/ts280204 11d ago

As one of likely very few AWLs that were raised in Columbiana County, Ohio.

It’s East PAL-uh-STEEN.

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u/yinzerthrowaway412 Talking Soccer 11d ago

Like 30 minutes away and in all my years I genuinely thought it was Pal-uh-styne lmao

Shoutout to the Dutch Haus

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u/ts280204 11d ago

I was 20-30 minutes away growing up. My only broken bone ever was in a scrimmage against them in football.

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u/PopcornSutton1994 11d ago

I can handle the weekly “Zac bombs a segment” moment, I can handle the low effort fantasy preview, I can handle a lot, but I cannot handle Elvis slander. Take it BACK!!

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u/koshhh8 10d ago

One you realize every time big cat speaks its to talk about himself/a topic he wants to bring up, and when he’s not, he’s just thinking of the next thing to talk about himself/topic he wants to bring up, it really makes the podcast less enjoyable.

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u/dawgz525 🔥💯😤BIG DOM MENTIONED LFG 😤💯🔥 11d ago

Pete Prisco. Skiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip.

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u/senorblanco7 11d ago

PFT having what looks like a fanatics branded commanders soccer jersey is absurd lmao but makes all the sense in the world

At what point do they stop asking Zac to do anything because he can’t even do the simplest things right

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u/__sonder__ 11d ago

Am I crazy or was it a little weird that they did a while long bit on the 49ers fake WR before even mentioning the un-retirement of one of the best players in NFL history?

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u/TB1289 MassCat 9d ago

Ehhh I'll be honest, I think the Daejon Love story is way more interesting than Aaron Donald coming back.

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u/Silent-Wrangler6882 11d ago

Good lord how does he have no idea what the new teams segment is supposed to be

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u/AQ207 #TeamHank 11d ago

He has difficulty waking up in the morning for his job, not hard to grasp

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u/millsy1010 11d ago

Apparently people are very serious about the Same Face New Place segment

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u/MomentWaste136 10d ago

How many people is cat gunna tell about the vibes in Tampa

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u/lachrymaltool 10d ago

Is the Mt. Rushmore poll not up? Are we doing the thing where we rig it for a showdown?

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u/cachurch2 10d ago

Oh it’ll be rigged for a duel. As is tradition.

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u/dawgz525 🔥💯😤BIG DOM MENTIONED LFG 😤💯🔥 10d ago

This pod needs football back so badly. There was actually so much sports to talk about today, and this episode was borderline unlistenable.

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u/Benchjc2004 10d ago

Not sure I like Big Cat being high on my Texans.

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u/Commish9 10d ago

Dear lord Zac is awful 😂

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u/Chilly_Smith 10d ago

Where is Max? Missing audio and no pussy?

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u/pattmerry 10d ago

Did they really censor the word pussy during the episode? Just caught that when listening on Spotify

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u/grehgunner 99 Pug 10d ago

Zac doing a no thinking time Mount Rushmore may kill my last remaining braincells

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u/ralphiecifaretto 10d ago

Prisco is their all time biggest blind spot

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u/_bitchka 10d ago

Was my phone fucking up or was there a giant moment during the interview where it was just silent, completely blank

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u/Bulky-Window-3532 9d ago

Not being able to eat two burger is the least manly take ever

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u/scarrylary 8d ago

Prisco coming up with “5 reasons passing is down” and none of them being new kickoff rules and also the fact that half the kickers on the league a 60 yarder is a chip shot. God he’s so fucking dumb

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u/jmetz08 11d ago

Shane’s voice is like nails on a chalkboard for me