646 - LIV Strong feat. PFT Commenter (7/18/22)

Jill Lescoe mentioned.

I don’t know anything about sports, and never cared about any of them after I stopped playing baseball almost 30 years ago. Watching or talking about sports makes me want to kill myself. I skipped this episode for years because of this. I really missed out, because this was such a banger episode.

Will, you’re a really good show runner. You transition really well to planned topics while keeping the flow of conversation going

Hey it’s been 6 years just wanted to say thank you for mentioning the poverty franchise of a team I root for, the Islanders. Love the pre game shows

can you drop tonight’s episode already? i’m stuck in the atlanta airport and all the bars are closed

Well, it's sports i guess. Not clear why this matters.

Somebody needs to make a movie about Clay Higgins played by Nicholas Cage

Here’s to another four years of nonsports episodes.

PFT seems v chill

I get that they don’t personally think the US is a higher moral ground. The most lucid critique of chapo comes from Therese who accuses them of being dnc buttboys. Moments like these, where they hang Charles Barkley out for potentially doing business with the ksa, and repeatedly, emphatically hammer the point about chopping up body parts is precisely this critique. Should Charles Barkley refuse to participate in American sports because of their treatment of assange? Maybe, that’s a more interesting point of view honestly.

Eric is funny af. Here’s the thing: it’s like every episode you talk about Saudi butchery without an obvious counterpoint, the US treatment of Assange. I feel like a Russian bot. I feel like retweeting Aimee Therese. This is some subliminal dnc hackery on the level of Pod Save America.

My old neighbor was a grandson of Rocket Richard lol he loved hockey and also getting drunk

Why not get David J Roth back on? He already wrote about LIV for Defector.

Chip em n flip em

Hi - I support a real candidate for Congress that is accepting no donations and might unseat a trump supported Republican. How can I get in touch with you guys for a potential discussion on an interview?

Sports. Cool. Now do Chapo stock tips pleeeease

Interesting how society’s cracking down on certain vices like voting and abortion

Grey Wolves bet on Amber & Virgil appearances. It’s a thing

Vlad lured Brit to Russia and “snap”. PFT FOH. Clown

Matt should spin off an all Clay Higgins voice podcast

Golf is not boring to watch. It’s an awful use of resources and should only be played on 24 courses worldwide and only by top pros. Saudi league should behead golfers who miss the cut. That shit would sell

Sports integrity is at all time low. Dems should promise to save sports

Jack Nicklaus is still alive dammit

Is Dustin Johnson taking the $audi tour for coke money?

The LIV Tour v the LIVID Tour

Extreme pogo sticking is the sport of the future get excited

29:59 the REAL 9/11 😭

PFT seems like a good guy, which is why I've always been puzzled that he went to barstool. Seems like he would have fit in better with the former-Deadspin/Defector crew. Oh well, I'm never going to read barstool or listen to any of their podcasts.

Anyone placing bets on the next contestant in the Saudi bonesaw game?

that utah jazz bit is 1000% related to the TrueAnon mormon investigation

Saudi's choosing golf as propaganda makes the most sense as it appeals to the dumbest and most powerful american electorate

the only dickriders more prolific than elon stans are the barstool sports content creators for dave portnoys meat

Jameis for MVP

Y’all should’ve asked him about his union busting rapist scumbag of a boss Dave portnoy

So boring, I literally fell asleep listening to it.

Also I’m gay

PFT on Chapo let’s fucking goooooo

Sports gambling was my first entry into sports writing and it's a vile cesspool lol PFT is right, the humble ones who are honest about going 45% on the year are the best ones to follow.

Even though I don't give a shit about spectator sports apart from political stuff (like the Kaepernik hatred), I think this guest was great, appreciated how he challenged Chapo to go into tangents & really got a dialogue going.

RUGBY. It's great folks. I recommend watching the Six Nations if you want to get into it.

LIV tour is not about sportswashing. The Saudis have never cared what the rest of the world thinks about their human rights record. After the international outrage over Khashoggi's murder, the Saudis just kept lopping people's heads off in public executions and blockading food and medicine from reaching Yemen. LIV tour is really about an Arab game of dick measuring. Qatar got the soccer world cup and previously had the track and field world championships in 2019. Dubai hosts a huge golf tournament in November that is part of the DP world tour and gets a lot of top PGA pros. The most interesting aspect of these sports dick measuring contest is distance running. Dubai has a marathon with the richest prize purse in the world. But no one from Dubai goes out to watch the race because the women's race kits are too revealing and seen by most regular citizens of Dubai as being haram.

no thanks to chapo x barstool

PUTTIN THA YANKESS REDSOX LOGOS IN DA WORLD TRADE CENTAH MEMORIAL IS LIKE LETTIN A MOOSLIMB NEAR DA WORLD TRADE CENTA MEMORIAL

matt’s impression of clay higgins is just foghorn leghorn

People say "go touch grass" but telling cops "go touch fent" is sitting right there

"we're gonna push you into the water" the Writer says as he shoves the Stalker

It's "Cleatus". Important part of the lore.

40:00 but the IPL is a real league tho? Do they mean fake matches? Just sounds like copyright infringment tbh lol

"Charles Barkley recently told Pat McAfee 'If somebody gave me 200 million I'd kill a relative' in regards to PGA Tour players taking LIV money". I guess the Saudis saw that and were like "Get him on the phone".

Fun episode, I half expected some brief discussion about McMegan's RvW tweets from last week but respect that Matt might not have survived the discussion

Get big cat on

PFT is the one who got me on the barstool to chapo pipeline

I hate barstool and even I know it’s PFT *commenter*

Chapo is my favorite sports ball podcast

At 2:05 did someone say "what's fentanyl"? If you are using, get it soon...Clay is going to chip every grain of it

90% of sports gamblers quit right before they're about to hit it big.

I was thinking “oh god, I know it’s the middle of the coveted American Summer, but why are all my podcasts doing sports shows” — and then I got thirty minutes into this episode. True speed boat dope.

Been hoping you guys would talk about LIV. excited

I love the Mini golf talk- who here has seen the TV show Holey Moley. It's on hulu, best thing on TV in ten years, easy

this is a goated lineup

It's true that Brittney Griner makes something like $667,000 over 3 years, but only the stars in that league make $200,000+. For people who often have to maintain homes in 2 cities, travel a ton, require considerable paid childcare, etc., they really make shit money for pro athletes. My understanding is that a lot of the Russian women's teams are 100% underwritten by entities like oil companies, strictly for PR purposes, with no real attempt to make a profit. (Allegedly the stands are often full of homeless people who get free tickets as street promotion.) Stars like Griner, Diana Taurasi, Sue Bird, et al, can make 10 times their WNBA salaries for playing in a much easier league. Taurasi, arguably the best WNBA player ever, makes $119,500 per WNBA season and $1.5 million per season with UMMC Ekaterinberg.

Sports

Kind of fell off towards the end - felt like pft was throwing them a bone towards the end though but the chaos missed it

Meh

“Sin-a-woah-la” and “juh-les-co.” Incredible.

fuck yea he's back finally

liz strong and it's about bruenig's meltdown

All my bros have barstool flags that’s just vibes

I guess PFT is an expert in selling one's soul to make a few extra dollars.

Bonk

Fuckin sports gamblin, NFL, & Clay fuckin Higgins … hope this EP lives up to the synopsis - I need me some of this shit!

w/e

Oh boy

lets fuckin go

I still can't believe Clay Higgins exists, and I imagine him looking exactly like the Louisiana sheriff from the Roger Moore Bond movies.

buffalo bills super bowl LVII champs let’s go

Fair play to Rep. Higgins - he told them it's game on

worlds colliding

Always knew PFT was the only redeemable stoolie

the next barstool collab should be nick and kb. ANUS boys go on chapo

Damn, you guys really flexing with these guests as of late

Omfg Christmas came early lets gooooooo

Clay “The Matrix” Higgins

Sometimes you just know it's gonna be a banger

A collab I didn’t know I needed until now