PMTPMT DB

Takes

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#PMT-2020-0710-17405
Billy FootballBilly Football

I thought the police were defunded so I could speed 89 in a 55

I got a really bad feeling, I got a speeding ticket. Turns out there was a speeding camera that caught me... I thought they defunded the police. I actually was like, 'no police.' I read the news, they defunded these guys. I'm good.

Police departments still exist and speed cameras are automated; he was objectively wrong that he wouldn't be ticketed.
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#PMT-2020-0706-6794
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Once 2020 ends, everything will get back to normal and be perfect

Once 2020 ends, everything's going to get back to normal to be perfect. You think 2020 is going to run up the score on us?

PredictionLifeMediumSarcastic
The COVID-19 pandemic continued through much of 2021 and 2022, with many social and economic disruptions persisting.
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#PMT-2020-0701-300
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

New York City will have an eerie and calm Fourth of July because people used up all the fireworks in June.

Right now people have bought up so many fireworks and used enough of them already that there's not going to be enough left over for the fourth, at least in New York City. First, it'll be like a calm-ish, calmer than normal Fourth of July in New York City, which should be—that'll be kind of eerie.

While there were rumors of shortages, official displays and illegal fireworks remained very prevalent on July 4th in NYC.
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#PMT-2020-0626-9739
Billy FootballBilly Football

You can treat scabies by buying horse medicine (Ivermectin) at a tractor supply store

you just go to the Tractor Supply store and get Ivermectin if you think you have scabies... you get it like a tractor supply store because you get the horses. If you can't get from your doctor, they sell it in big tubes like toothpaste.

While Ivermectin is used for scabies in humans, using veterinary-grade horse paste is dangerous and not medically recommended for humans by the FDA.
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#PMT-2020-0626-9743
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

I could kitesurf right now by just letting the wind do the work

I don't think windsurfing is at heart I said for those I don't think it's nice I just fucking hang on I said right here I think I could kitesurf yeah just let the wind do all the while I watch it I was like dude all you gotta do is listen up and then bring you down.

Kitesurfing is notoriously difficult and dangerous for beginners, especially without training.
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#PMT-2020-0617-3259
Billy FootballBilly Football

I want to create a giant mutant species of bullfrog using CRISPR technology

So African bullfrogs really cool... he sells these Gene I think it's and it's for frogs. So he does it on like home lab frogs... we could This frog which is already giant. We could make it even bigger. if I were Jack Ewing... Can we just I am backing to make a mutant frogs Yeah, but it's totally legal with science.

While CRISPR exists, a Barstool intern creating giant legal mutant frogs in a home lab is scientifically and legally improbable.
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#PMT-2020-0610-17461
Big CatBig Cat

I will have the greatest gambling season of my life because of clovers in my new yard

I'm moving and I got a little patch of grass, shrubbery at the new place... Talk to the previous tenant, he said if you look close enough, there's a bunch of four-leaf clovers in there. So I'm about to have the greatest gambling season of my life.

Big Cat famously had a rough 2020 football gambling season (specifically with the Bears), contradicting the 'clover luck'.
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Take Slip·Jun 8, 2020
#PMT-2020-0608-3085
Billy FootballBilly Football

You can get a million dollars for selling a kidney

You can get like a million dollars for a kidney. It's way more than what you need.

The black market price for a kidney is nowhere near $1 million, and selling organs is illegal in the US. Legal donor compensation is also not $1 million.
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#PMT-2020-0601-5497
HankHank

Going to space isn't impressive because we've already done it a lot

I think it's cool that we've done it 100,000 times already... We went to the moon in the 60s. Technology has advanced a long way. We're not going to learn anything new from Elon Musk going to the moon. It's just for him to pat himself on the back.

The SpaceX Demo-2 mission was significant as the first crewed orbital launch from US soil since 2011, providing new commercial aerospace data.
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#PMT-2020-0518-7090
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The water cup from beer pong is the world's most powerful disinfectant and can help stop the virus

the most powerful disinfectant thing known to man, the water cup in beer pong. So we've had the solution in front of us our whole lives... it's scientifically proven that if you fill a red solo cup up two-thirds of the way with room temperature water and then get everybody in the party to dip their fingers in it over the course of the night, no one's getting sick. If that ball hits the ground, you dip it in the water cup, you're good to go.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
A beer pong water cup is notoriously unhygienic and does not act as a disinfectant.
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Take Slip·May 15, 2020
#PMT-2020-0515-5272
Big CatBig Cat

Sports teams should secretly tape games during the season to release during future pandemic lockdowns

My idea is every single sports franchise needs to, every single year, play a game that is secretly taped that we do not know the result of, and then save it in case of something like this happening again. Because could you imagine if we had even the NBA champion Mavs from that season playing a game against the Heat... and we broadcast it, and it's like, boom. You don't know what's going to happen. You can bet on it.

While interesting, no major league has implemented a system of 'secret banked games' for future release.
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Take Slip·May 15, 2020
#PMT-2020-0515-5276
Big CatBig Cat

I think Ronnie Coleman was clean because you've got to believe in something

I think Ronnie Coleman was clean. Bro, you got to believe in something. Ronnie Coleman's a hero.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
While Coleman has never officially admitted to illegal steroid use in a way that led to sanctions, the professional bodybuilding world is synonymous with PEDs at that level. Big Cat is clearly joking.
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#PMT-2020-0513-13846
Big CatBig Cat

Children can't lie

I would like to speak to the children? Children can't lie. Okay?

Children can and do lie frequently as part of developmental growth.
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#PMT-2020-0504-9392
Billy FootballBilly Football

My 'Crisis Fuel' supplement will provide enough energy and mass to survive 40 days in a wildfire or pandemic

I developed a proprietary blend... it's like 2,000 calories a punch. It's protein, carbs, good additive, cornstarch to it... if there's a wildfire approaching your house, screw the food, grab your 10-gallon bucket of Crisis Fuel which is all powder and a bunch of water, throwing your car, you have enough meals for 40 days.

PredictionLifeScorchingSarcastic
The product never launched, and surviving 40 days on a cornstarch-based powder and water is nutritionally questionable and medically dangerous.
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#PMT-2020-0501-4128
Big CatBig Cat

Animals likely understand everything we say but are collectively choosing to ignore us

What if all the animals actually understood what we were saying but just just ignoring us... like the minute they figure out that we know shit's gonna get crazy and they can't talk back.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Biologically incorrect, though it makes for great comedy.
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#PMT-2020-0427-18389
Billy FootballBilly Football

Contracting toxoplasmosis from cats will make you a fearless 'Berserker' warrior

45% of the population has this parasite called toxoplasmosis that comes from cat feces... it makes mice not fear predators so they just wander on and then the cats eat it... I want to be fearless. The Berserker cult has to contract toxoplasmosis and we'll all just be fearless Berserker warriors... when I contract toxoplasmosis, I will be an absolute fearless warrior and it will be sick.

While toxoplasmosis is linked to behavioral changes in rodents and some studies suggest links to risk-taking in humans, intentionally contracting a parasite for 'warrior' traits is medically ill-advised and doesn't function as a superpower.
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#PMT-2020-0413-16363
Billy FootballBilly Football

Bigfoot is a prehistoric ape called Gigantopithecus that hides its tracks by burying its dead

There's actually a giant ape, a prehistoric ape called gigantopithecus... If they were burying their dead, it means that they have ways to cover up their tracks. So if they like kept going on this, they could definitely figure out ways to like totally avoid humans at all costs like secret tunnels and stuff under the woods.

Gigantopithecus did exist, but there is no scientific evidence it survived to the present or is the source of Bigfoot sightings.
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#PMT-2020-0413-16365
Billy FootballBilly Football

There are alligators living in the New York City sewers

New York city sewer gators... they brought them home, they then saw that they were getting way too big or they got bored of them and were flushing down the toilet. They're all the New York City sewers eating giant rats. They're actually down there because it's super hot during the winter, it's super cool during the summer. Confirmed.

While individual alligators are very rarely found in NYC (usually abandoned pets), there is no breeding population 'confirmed' living in the sewers.
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#PMT-2020-0413-16367
Billy FootballBilly Football

Donating blood and platelets frequently is like an oil change for the body

I like the idea of donating my blood more frequently because it's like a car oil change, right? Yeah, like if my body if I'm walking around with old blood then I'm going to act sluggish. It's not going to be as efficient. But if I give a bunch of my blood, the new blood's better.

Hot TakeLifeFireSarcastic
While the body does regenerate blood after donation, medical professionals do not compare it to an 'oil change' for efficiency and warn against donating too frequently.
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Take Slip·Apr 10, 2020
#PMT-2020-0410-19234
Big CatBig Cat

March usually has 30 days, but this year it had 31 just to punish us for the lack of basketball

March was awful... You cannot convince me that March is normally 31 days. That's your shit. March is usually 30 and this year it was 31 just like twist that knife and to be like, there's no basketball, there's nothing going on.

Hot TakeLifeMildSarcastic
March definitively has 31 days every year.
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#PMT-2020-0406-12651
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Global dimming will cause a short-term increase in global warming this summer

There's something called global dimming which is the effect that aerosol and all those little particles have... It actually protects us a little bit from the sun's rays and makes the earth a little bit cooler because we put so much shit into the atmosphere now that all that's dipping down. It's actually going to increase the short-term effect of global warming, so we're doubly fucked.

While aerosol reduction does reduce cooling, scientists found that the 2020 lockdowns had a negligible impact on overall global temperatures, making the 'doubly fucked' heatwave prediction somewhat inaccurate for that specific summer.
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#PMT-2020-0403-7030
Big CatBig Cat

I could take a boa constrictor in a wrestling match

I think I could take a boa constrictor. I don't think a boa constrictor could take down like a fucking well... I just punch it in its brain over and over. I would you kick a boa constrictor up doesn't have to take down a boa constrictor our python an anaconda might get you.

A large boa constrictor or python is biologically capable of killing a human, making this a very risky claim.
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Take Slip·Apr 1, 2020
#PMT-2020-0401-6363
Big CatBig Cat

I am officially cancelling all sports until 2022 to avoid further heartbreak

I'm approaching [cancellations] the exact opposite way. I am cancelled sports for 2020, 2021 and possibly 2022 and anything that we get that comes sooner than that is a bonus. I'm not gonna let myself get my heart broken over and over... the world has ended and sports are over.

Sports returned much earlier than 2022 (summer/fall 2020), making this literal prediction incorrect.
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Take Slip·Mar 27, 2020
#PMT-2020-0327-7523
Big CatBig Cat

The US government should issue medals to everyone staying inside for quarantine

They should mail us medals for staying inside because we are saving lives. Great generation. This is our D-Day. They should just ship us as you create a new type of life-saving medal from the US government and send us like one every week so we can pin them to our shirts walk around feel good about it.

The US government did not issue weekly medals to citizens for staying home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Take Slip·Mar 27, 2020
#PMT-2020-0327-7527
Lavar BallLavar Ball

I will not get the coronavirus because my resistance level is too high

My resistance level is very high. I ain't gonna get no coronavirus man. Last time I got sick I was in kindergarten.

It is scientifically impossible to be 'immune' based on 'resistance levels' without a vaccine or previous exposure, though it is unknown if he personally contracted it later.
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Take Slip·Mar 18, 2020
#PMT-2020-0318-10399
Dr. Anthony FauciDr. Anthony Fauci

The virus could potentially resolve within 8 to 10 weeks if mitigation is successful

In this case for China, it was somewhere between 8 and 10 weeks. That doesn't mean that we're going to have to be doing this for that long period of time... Hopefully if we really carefully and successfully implement these mitigation strategies... we may be able to cut that time down.

The mitigation did not end the pandemic in 10 weeks; it lasted through 2022 in varying degrees of severity.
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#PMT-2020-0311-3343
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The butt is the easiest hole to get any disease through

I think the—let's be honest—the butt is the easiest hole to get any disease through.

This is medically dubious but reflects the show's humor regarding the virus at the time.
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#PMT-2020-0309-18253
HankHank

Daylight Savings Time adds an hour of sun to the day

Hank thinks we've added an hour of sun with the change we have. [Hank:] We have an extra hour of sun this afternoon. Correct.

Daylight savings does not add more sunlight to the earth's rotation; it merely shifts the clock forward to provide more daylight in the evening.
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Take Slip·Mar 9, 2020
#PMT-2020-0309-18256
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Chugging Tito's Vodka can help prevent Coronavirus

I think it's a bitch. I'm going to chug. I think I saw some people that were making their own hand sanitizer out of Tito's vodka and like aloe vera. Okay, so I think if you stay drunk then it's going to kill all the incoming virus and it won't be able to attach ourselves. Right? This is alcohol is an anti. Yeah antiviral.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Ingesting alcohol does not prevent or cure COVID-19 and can actually weaken the immune system.
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#PMT-2020-0306-5887
Big CatBig Cat

Coronavirus is an overrated, fraud of a disease

It's a bitch little disease... I agree. We called it out as being a fraud being overrated last week. I'm not I'm not changing that up... I'm not convinced about this Corona thing. I'll take coronavirus to the face right now.

Coronavirus was not a fraud and caused a global pandemic that killed millions and halted sports for months. This is perhaps one of the most famously incorrect takes in show history.
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#PMT-2020-0228-10270
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Coronavirus is an overrated threat with a 'trash' mortality rate

I would say that the Corona virus is overrated because it only has a two percent mortality rate, which frankly is trash like 2% get Okay, and I would I would honestly get coronavirus just for the content. I think it would be a good addition to the show.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
The COVID-19 pandemic became one of the most significant global events in history, causing millions of deaths and major social upheaval, far exceeding an 'overrated' 8-seed ranking.
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#PMT-2020-0228-10271
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Coronavirus is currently a solid 8-seed in the 'Who's Now' bracket

I'll say it to you this way in my who's now bracket. The Corona virus is a solid eight seed.

OpinionLifeHotSarcastic
Within weeks, the virus essentially shut down the entire world, making it the clear #1 seed of global concerns for years.
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Take Slip·Jan 29, 2020
#PMT-2020-0129-4810
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

I am officially 5'10"

All I wanted from that interaction [with police] at the time was just to have my information put in an official police record That says that I'm 5'10". And they were never going to allow that. Because at that time, from that moment on, I am officially 5'10".

PFT's actual height is generally estimated to be around 5'7" or 5'8".
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Take Slip·Jan 10, 2020·FAQ
#PMT-2020-0110-7346
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Human hearts have a finite number of beats, so running is bad for you

As far as I'm concerned, your heart only has a finite amount of beats programmed into it at birth. It's like eggs in a woman. So I don't want to raise my heart rate too high because then it's not going to be around to beat when I'm past the age of 70.

Fact ClaimLifeFireSarcastic
This is a long-debunked biological myth (famously associated with Donald Trump). While a human heart has an average number of beats over a lifetime, cardiovascular exercise improves heart efficiency, lowering resting heart rate and typically extending life.
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Take Slip·Oct 30, 2019
#PMT-2019-1030-12016
Dog the Bounty HunterDog the Bounty Hunter

I have a 100% capture rate in my 41-year bounty hunting career

8,000 captures over 8,000 41 years this February... it's a hundred percent. We got one right now we're chasing a million dollar Bond.

The 100% claim is largely disputed as part of his TV persona; there have been documented cases where he did not catch his target.
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Take Slip·Oct 4, 2019·Whoas
#PMT-2019-1004-11113
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Time was invented by women to make men feel bad about their performance in bed

Time was just invented by women to make you think that you don't last long enough at sex.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Time is a physical dimension of the universe, not a social construct for bedroom shaming.
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Take Slip·Oct 4, 2019·Whoas
#PMT-2019-1004-11117
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

It is selfish to live past 100 years old

Once the clock strikes 100, at that point, you should just let go. You're being selfish if you live past 100. Yeah, you're kind of trying to show everyone up.

Hot TakeLifeFireSarcastic
The value of human life is not capped at 100 years by any consensus moral or biological standard.
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#PMT-2019-0925-19059
Big CatBig Cat

The umbilical cord acts like a snorkel so pregnant women can swim without the baby drowning

Umbilical cord is like a snorkel. So if you keep your belly button above the water is fine. That's actually fact for real. Yeah, that's how babies breathe.

Fact ClaimLifeFireSarcastic
Physiologically incorrect; babies receive oxygen via the placenta through the umbilical cord, but not by it acting as a literal 'snorkel' to the outside air.
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#PMT-2019-0911-10039
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Vaping is about to see a spike in use because it has become 'rebellious' again

My cool throw is vaping because there's been a real spike... in vaping deaths. So now vaping has kind of turned the corner. It's like it's a bad boy thing... well now vaping has entered that realm because it's killing people... I think it's going to see a spike in use.

PredictionLifeFireSarcastic
Vaping use among teens actually saw a significant drop following the 2019 EVALI outbreak and the 'T21' federal law raising the tobacco age to 21.
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Take Slip·Sep 6, 2019·FAQ
#PMT-2019-0906-16126
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Nobody can ever truly achieve a first down because of Zeno's paradox

If you really want to get philosophical ... Nobody can ever truly achieve a first down because in order to get ten yards you first have to go five yards. And then you have to get five yards. You have to go two and a half yards and so you will never actually make it all the way to a down.

OpinionLifeMildSarcastic
It's a satirical application of Zeno's paradox of motion; in reality, first downs are achieved.
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Take Slip·Aug 30, 2019
#PMT-2019-0830-5126
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Andrew Luck's shoulder failed to heal because Indianapolis was the first city to get 5G service

There is a doctor out there. He specializes in holistic medicine... He thinks that Andrew Luck shoulder didn't heal correctly because Indianapolis was the first city in the country to get 5G service. And he thinks that all the data swimming through that City interferes with the Regeneration of stem cells. Oh, so he thinks that Andrew Luck's his shoulder is actually never going to repair because of that.

There is no scientific evidence that 5G service interferes with stem cell regeneration or caused Andrew Luck's injuries.
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#PMT-2019-0821-6497
Big CatBig Cat

Peeing in a pool is safer and more logical than getting out to use the bathroom

Stop peeing in the pool? Don't pee in a pool. You're unsafe... You're more likely to injure yourself getting out of a pool and getting back in true than you are if you just stay in the pool and P true... if you walk through the house after being in a pool, you're creating an enormous slip and fall Hazard facts... p in that Soul tip.

Peeing in a pool creates chloramines which are irritants; the injury risk argument is logically flawed but humorously intended.
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#PMT-2019-0722-4744
HankHank

I could catch a fish with my bare hands in an Alaskan river in one day

I said, hey, coach [Jeff Fisher], do you think that I could catch a fish with my bare hands in an Alaskan river? And he said, absolutely... One day. One Alaskan day. Catch it out of the water, kill it, eat it.

Hank famously attempted this on a later trip and failed miserably, nearly getting hypothermia and catching zero fish.
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Take Slip·Jul 17, 2019
#PMT-2019-0717-10225
Jacoby BrissettJacoby Brissett

The sky is actually flat

The sky is flat. The earth's not flat, the sky is. The sky's flat.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
The sky/atmosphere is not a flat object; it's a layer of gases surrounding a spherical planet.
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#PMT-2019-0715-2017
Big CatBig Cat

The Area 51 storming petition is an alien or government setup

This is a setup, though, don't you think? ... The government is trying to get rid of all the people that are like crazy and do theories online. Or is the setup that the aliens have set this up and they're trying to eliminate everyone who believes in aliens.

Hot TakeLifeHotSarcastic
The event ended up being a small, peaceful gathering with no government stings or alien abductions.
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#PMT-2019-0715-2022
HankHank

I can catch a fish with my bare hands in a river in Alaska

If I had a day on a river in Alaska, I could catch a fish with my hands. ... I've been watching a lot of Planet Earth. Their method is not that crazy. ... Give me enough time in Alaska.

Catching wild salmon by hand is notoriously difficult for humans without specialized skills or bear-like reflexes.
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#PMT-2019-0624-16749
Ryen RussilloRyen Russillo

Blue suits will be out of style in two years

I think in two years, everybody's been looking at their closet going, why do I have seven different blue suits? So I would get out of the blue suit game right now.

Blue/navy suits remain the most common staple in men's formalwear years after this prediction.
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#PMT-2019-0531-14194
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

I am officially quitting the Juul and invite fans to slap me if they catch me using it

I'm also quitting Juul, which is official... If you catch me Juuling, slap me. If you see me with that motherfucking thing on me, slap me right in my jaw.

PFT continued to struggle with nicotine and Juuling for several years following this episode, making the 'quitting' claim incorrect in the long term.
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Take Slip·May 29, 2019
#PMT-2019-0529-6112
Zac EfronZac Efron

I can get Big Cat a six-pack in one summer of training

If you come and spend a summer out here in Cali, how about I could show you guys? [Can you get me shredded in a summer?] Yeah. [Six-pack?] In a summer of training? Yeah.

Big Cat did not get a six-pack over the following summer (or any summer since).
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#PMT-2019-0415-18235
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The Olympics should be held every year in Las Vegas

They should do the Olympics every year... Just do it in Vegas every year. Because no city wants it. Just do it in Vegas every year.

The Olympics are still every four years (split winter/summer) and move cities.
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