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Liver King on Primal Living and Mt. Rushmore of Subtle Emasculation
Football is officially back, and the energy in the studio is through the roof. Big Cat and PFT Commenter are buzzing because we’ve reached the final weekend of the year without meaningful games until February. The conversation quickly turned to the bizarre news coming out of Nebraska training camp, where Scott Frost seems to think projectile vomiting is the key to a Big Ten title.
Big CatScott Frost's claim about Nebraska's offensive line puking 15-20 times per practice feels like a lie
Scott Frost announced that his team is puking. His offensive line is puking 15 to 20 times per practice. That doesn't feel like it's... I don't know. When it was announced, everyone on Twitter was just like, that feels like a lie.
Big Cat isn't buying the hyperbole, suggesting that Frost is reaching the point where he simply doesn't care about the optics anymore because the writing is on the wall for his tenure.
Big CatScott Frost should have been fired a couple of years ago
Scott Frost also is at a point now where like he should have probably been fired a couple years ago. And so he's like, what do I care? Let's just puke.
Beyond the puke-filled practices in Lincoln, the guys looked ahead to the new broadcasting landscape. PFT Commenter has some serious concerns about Al Michaels moving to the Thursday night booth, specifically regarding whether Al's legendary voice carries the right vibe for a mid-week Amazon stream.
PFT CommenterAl Michaels does not have a 'Thursday night voice'
I don't think he brings too much gravitas to Thursday night. Well, he doesn't have a Thursday night voice, especially... He's got a Sunday night or a Monday night voice. He does not have a Thursday night voice. There are certain people that have Thursday night voices out there. Al Michaels, no. I do not want to hear him on a week... I don't want to have to go to work for a full another day before the weekend when I hear Al Michaels' voice.
The Liver King Experience
Liver King joined the program for an in-studio interview that truly tested the limits of the office's ventilation system. Walking in shirtless and smelling of what Big Cat described as a "strong musk," Liver King laid out his philosophy on why modern society is failing and how the nine ancestral tenets can save us.
Liver KingEveryone has the primal potential to be a self-made king through nine ancestral tenets
Everybody's born with the same primal potential to be a self fucking made king. Right? And so this is what this is. My job is, is to turn everybody into a fucking king, these nine ancestral tents that I model, teaching and preaching... sleep, eat, move, shield, connect, cold, sun, fight and bond.
He didn't just talk the talk; he brought a spread of raw liver, spleen, and bone marrow for Big Cat and Billy Football to sample. While the guys were skeptical, Liver King remained adamant that this lifestyle is the only way to reach peak alpha status, even suggesting that a certain former NBA player would still be on a roster if he’d just eaten some organs.
Liver KingJohn Salley would still be playing in the NBA if he wasn't vegan
[John Salley] will probably still be playing in the NBA if he wasn't vegan. This is my counter. The name is liver king because liver is king. If you wanna be an alpha organism kicking ass in life, do what other alpha organisms do.
Naturally, the conversation moved to the rumors surrounding Liver King’s physique. When pressed on whether he uses performance-enhancing drugs, he offered a classic pivot that only someone with his level of branding genius could pull off.
Liver KingI do not take steroids; I only take 'PEDs' which stands for 'Prioritize, Execute, and Dominate'
I take PEDs. Yeah. I prioritize, execute and dominate every, every fucking morning. Every morning... [I'm] completely fucking around guys [about the acronym].
He also shared some "primal" advice for improving testosterone and general health, which included ditching synthetic fabrics and finding a nice patch of sun for your more sensitive areas.
Liver KingSunning your balls can improve androgens and is 'pretty primal'
If you sun your balls, there is a study. It's an older study, I think it's from like the fifties or sixties that shows that it does improve androgens, not necessarily testosterone... I think it's pretty fucking primal. Right? I mean, we, we didn't evolve essentially with clothes... I think it's pretty primal to do.
Mt. Rushmore of Subtle Emasculation
To wrap up the show, the guys engaged in one of the most contentious Mt. Rushmore segments in the history of the podcast. The topic was the subtle ways to emasculate another man, and it nearly caused a civil war between Team Big Cat/PFT and Team Hank. Big Cat kicked things off with a classic linguistic dagger that drives him crazy when it comes from someone like Steven Cheah.
Big CatCalling another man 'buddy' or 'pal' is the ultimate subtle emasculation
Calling someone buddy or pal... buddying them. Total emasculation. And you just drop the pal or the buddy's like, okay buddy. That's just the worst. And it's very like, you can't really get mad because it is subtle enough. But dropping a buddy or a pal like Steven Cheah does it. And it drives me absolutely insane.
As the picks got more personal, PFT Commenter focused on the physical limitations that make a man look helpless, specifically when it comes to nautical transitions.
PFT CommenterHelping a man off a boat is a major act of emasculation
Helping a man off a boat. Yes. Big time. If, if you're as a man taking another man's hand to step off the boat because you can't get to where that man is without him helping you. Brutal. That's super [emasculating] and it's, and it it's like, it really only happens in boats.
The segment devolved into the cast essentially emasculating each other in real-time. PFT capped off the draft by highlighting the most infuriating thing you can say to someone who is calmly trying to make a point.
PFT CommenterTelling a man 'you're mad' when he's trying to make a point is a top-tier emasculation move
There's nothing more irritating actually than like being told that you're mad about something that you're not. And then your whole little world around you is like, people like, look how mad you are. Look how mad you are when you're not actually mad... Therefore our last pick is telling someone that they're mad. Just be like, you can't control your emotions. You're mad.
If you see a man in a boat today, just let him jump to the dock on his own.
