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Billy Mitchell, Joey Chestnut Is The World’s Greatest Athlete, KD To The Warriors? Plus Mt Rushmore Of Arcade Games

Wednesday, July 6, 202210 takes

Joey Chestnut is the worlds greatest athlete and our nation’s greatest American. (-) Funniest places for KD to end up plus CFB realignment. (-) Hot Seat/Cool Throne including a mishap on the Pardon My Take group text. (-) Billy Mitchell, the world’s greatest villain, joins the show to talk about King of Kong, winning Video Game titles, his hot sauce Kingdom and the Mt Rushmore of Arcade Games.(-) We finish with Guys on Chicks (-)

Recap

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Take Slip·Jul 6, 2022
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Big CatBig Cat

Joey Chestnut is the greatest athlete of all time

Joey Chestnut is the greatest American that has ever lived. One of the greatest athletes of all time. And I think we can confidently say that he is the greatest eater, the greatest human eater of all time... He is the greatest athlete of all time, in my opinion.

Subjective claim about 'greatest athlete' and 'greatest American', though Chestnut is indisputably the greatest competitive eater.
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Take Slip·Jul 6, 2022
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Big CatBig Cat

The Nets should refuse to trade Kevin Durant and force him to stay

I actually am of the belief that the Nets should just be like, fuck it. You're staying on the team. You signed a four year deal. Like they used to mean something kind of pushed back player empowerment. Like, Hey, no, you can't be traded. We're going to keep you.

The Nets did eventually trade Durant to the Suns in February 2023, though they did successfully force him to stay through the start of the 2022-23 season.
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Take Slip·Jul 6, 2022
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Big CatBig Cat

The Jazz will be a championship problem in 8 to 10 years after their draft pick haul

It's essentially like the Jazz are just, and they're going to probably do the same thing with Donovan Mitchell. And it's just going to be the Jazz in like eight to 10 years are going to be a problem. I'm calling it right now.

Too early to tell as the Jazz are currently in a rebuilding phase using these assets.
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Take Slip·Jul 6, 2022
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The Big 10 should keep its name even if they grow to 30 teams because it is funny

I think the Big 10 should keep their name forever. And I hope it gets to like 30 teams. Cause that would be funny. And like, why would they change now? It's been 14 teams forever and they still have been the Big 10.

The Big 10 has expanded to 18 teams (as of 2024) and has kept the Big 10 name.
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Take Slip·Jul 6, 2022
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Big CatBig Cat

College football should adopt the NFL playoff format

Professional football has, in my opinion, the best post-season... Just do that format in college football, everybody, the whole hand ringing for the last 20 years, like, oh, I don't know if the fans are going to want to play off. Fuck you. Yes, we do want to play off. It would be incredible.

College football expanded to a 12-team playoff starting in the 2024-25 season, moving closer to the NFL style.
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Take Slip·Jul 6, 2022
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Big CatBig Cat

Notre Dame will join the Big 10 within the next five years

I just think that this is like, if I had to bet right now in the next five years, I think Notre Dame will be in the Big 10. If the conferences get into some sort of a playoff format that would make it like a necessity to be in the Big 10, then yes, they'll do it.

Notre Dame is still independent as of late 2024. The prediction window expires in 2027.

Hot Seat Cool Throne

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Take Slip·Jul 6, 2022·Hot Seat/Cool Throne
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HankHank

The Derek Jeter documentary will be boring because athletes produce their own content

Documentaries that are made by the people just suck... When you have you need to have a neutral third party director for these documentaries or as they're all like the same... Derek Jeter's going to do that thing where he's like you guys, I was famously private... now I'm going to, and it's just not going to be anything.

While subjective, 'The Captain' received criticism for being a protective and controlled narrative, aligning with Hank's expectation.

Interview

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Take Slip·Jul 6, 2022
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Billy MitchellBilly Mitchell

I am the Neil Armstrong of Pac-Man

What's absolutely gorgeous about [the perfect Pac-Man score] is other people can do it. Friends can play, we can learn. We can teach. We can have fun. They can do it. But they're simply repeating what I already did. Right. There's only one man who stepped on the moon first... so it's fun being Neil Armstrong.

Twin Galaxies and Guinness stripped Mitchell of his records in 2018 due to evidence of using emulators (MAME) rather than original arcade hardware. However, Guinness later reinstated his records after a settlement, while Twin Galaxies has not.
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Take Slip·Jul 6, 2022
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Billy MitchellBilly Mitchell

I would be the best in the world at any profession I chose to obsess over

I believe whatever I did, I would be the best at, just because I only want to be the best... I wanted to be at one point in my life thinking I wanted to be, you know, I'm a Navy pilot. I mean, I would have been the best because I would have been so obsessed with it. I wanted to be, you know, a crime fighter. I mean, I put every bad guy in jail because I'd be the best.

Inherently unverifiable claim about his hypothetical performance in other careers.

Mount Rushmore

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Take Slip·Jul 6, 2022·Mt. Rushmore
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Billy MitchellBilly Mitchell

Pac-Man is the greatest arcade game of all time

The game of the century announced on the Tokyo game show in 1999? And that would be the one that I would have to choose. Pac-Man. Pac-Man was also the first game inducted into the video game hall of fame.

Subjective ranking, though Pac-Man is widely considered one of the most iconic games ever.