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Matt Damon and Casey Affleck on The Instigators and Boston Sports
Football is officially back with the Hall of Fame game, even if we’re only watching guys who will be selling insurance in three weeks. Big Cat and PFT are ready for the grind, though PFT is already setting a dangerous precedent for the gambling year ahead by refusing to acknowledge the reality of preseason scoring.
PFT CommenterIt is unpatriotic to take the under on the NFL Hall of Fame game
So great to hear the music. So great to bet the over, which I'm probably gonna lose, but I'm gonna take it anyways because it's unpatriotic to take the under on the Hall of Fame game.
Beyond the Hall of Fame game, the guys caught up on the quarterback market. Big Cat gave his stamp of approval to the Packers' massive investment in Jordan Love, noting that when you find the guy, you pay him.
Big CatJordan Love deserves every dollar of the massive contract extension he received from the Packers
Jordan Love got paid and he made a lot of money and Tua got paid. He made a lot of money... [Jordan Love] deserves every dollar that he got.
They also touched on the Olympics, specifically the baffling rotation decisions by Steve Kerr that left Joel Embiid on the bench for a full game. Max sent in a heated video from Paris defending his Sixers big man, insisting that the DNP-CD was purely a tactical masterpiece rather than a reflection of Embiid's conditioning.
MaxJoel Embiid is still a top three player on Team USA
He's still the top three player on this team. Steve Kerr has said that himself. Sometimes there's matchup things and guys who don't know Ball are going to try and criticize Joelle Embiid... he's gonna drop 30 against Puerto Rico.
Mt. Rushmore of Dumb Things We Used To Think
This was an all-timer. The guys got deep into the childhood logic that shaped their worldviews, covering everything from the mechanics of reruns to the actual biology of reproduction. PFT admitted he spent way too long believing that if he just kept digging in his backyard, he’d eventually pop up in the middle of a street in Beijing.
PFT CommenterI used to think that if you dug a deep enough hole in the ground, you would eventually reach China
If you dug deep enough you could reach China. I honestly thought that I could... every kid and I I was probably is is that wrong? ... I looked this up a couple months ago. It's actually embarrassing how shallow the deepest hole ever dug is.
Hank contributed some absolute gems, including a revelation about how he viewed physical intimacy based on 90s movie editing.
HankI used to think that kissing was the same thing as having sex
Kissing equals sex... that I thought for a long time. That's a really good one. That's how you thought babies were made... whether you say sex or go, they're kissing. I was like, oh, they're naked kissing... because you would watch a movie and they would [kiss] and then whatever.
Big Cat rounded things out with a terrifyingly specific theory about the relationship between childhood snacks and his own anatomy. He convinced himself as a kid that the warnings against eating Play-Doh weren't about safety, but about localized growth spurts.
Big CatI used to think my testicles were made of Play-Doh and that eating actual Play-Doh would make them grow bigger
I thought my balls, my testicles were Play-Doh. So when my parents told me don't eat Play-Doh, I thought they were trying to be like, Hey don't eat Play-Doh because your balls will just get bigger because it will just go right to your balls... You just don't know what they are when you're a little kid and you start touching 'em, you're like, this is weird. I'm like, oh, it must be Play-Doh.
Matt Damon and Casey Affleck
Boston royalty Matt Damon and Casey Affleck joined the show to promote their new Apple TV+ film, *The Instigators*. The chemistry was immediate, mostly because they’ve known each other since they were kids. They talked about the efficiency of working with lifelong friends because you can skip the "diplomacy" and just tell each other when a take sucks.
Naturally, the conversation turned to the Patriots and the controversial *Dynasty* documentary. Big Cat and Matt Damon went back and forth on the Robert Kraft era, with Matt offering some perspective for the younger fans like Hank who have never known the struggle of the pre-Kraft years.
Matt DamonBeing a Patriots fan before Robert Kraft bought the team was a certain kind of hell
Being a Patriots fan was a certain kind of hell... and maybe this is why we have a different perspective on the Robert Kraft thing. Until Robert Kraft bought the team, it was brutal going out to Foxboro to watch them play. It was brutal watching 'em play on TV. It was heartbreaking constantly.
The guys also pressed Matt on his infamous decision to turn down the lead in *Avatar*, which came with a 10% stake in the back end. While Matt is Zen about it now, the math is still staggering when you look at the box office numbers.
Matt DamonI would have made more money than any actor in history if I had accepted the lead in 'Avatar'
I had a chance to be in Avatar... I probably would've made more money than any actor in history had I taken the part... It was 10% of the total earnings from the film... All I know is it made over 3 billion.
Before letting them go, PFT had to settle a long-standing debate about the final shot of *The Departed*. Matt gave a masterclass in film analysis, explaining that the rat wasn't just a literal pest, but a symbol of the social climbing and the past that the characters couldn't escape.
Matt DamonThe rat at the end of 'The Departed' symbolizes the main character's past and the social ladder he was trying to climb
The writer had in the script... the idea of me, of me kind of climbing the social ladder. And now I find myself in this old brownstone, but there's still a rat that you, that rat comes across and it's, it's his past. It's the thing... it's meant to symbolize all that stuff.
Fyre Fest of the Week
Hank returned from vacation just in time to sit in two hours of traffic and complain about losing a Mount Rushmore to Max. However, the real star of Fyre Fest was Huey, who revealed that his laundry situation has become so dire due to a spider-infested hallway that he has simply stopped washing his clothes entirely.
HewyI would rather buy new clothes than walk through a spider-infested hallway to do laundry
I have to share that laundry room with three other units... there's spiders all the way up and down the wall... I'm afraid to go down there... So I bought new clothes, bought just essential stuff.
Grit Week starts Sunday, so prepare your livers and your lock buttons.
