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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The Super Wolf Blood Moon is a sign of the apocalypse, and all hell is going to break loose on January 22nd.

Obviously these apocalyptic signs in the heavens are pointing to a catastrophic event that is just on the horizon... on January 22nd, all hell's going to break loose. If you're listening to this, we're dead.

The apocalypse did not happen on January 22, 2019.
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HankHank

Prelated is the new word for wishing someone an early birthday

When you want to wish someone a happy early birthday, say happy prelated. Because his birthday is Saturday... People are with people whose birthdays are like the next day, next week, whatever, and you don't want to say happy early birthday.

The word 'prelated' has not entered the common lexicon since Hank's attempt to coin it in 2019.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

It is never against the law to eat food that you found on the road

They're just trying to scare you. Don't listen to them. It's never against the law to eat food that you found on the road. Actually, as a taxpayer in Alabama, that's your food.

Hot TakeLifeHotSarcastic
It is generally a health code violation and traffic hazard, making this 'incorrect' as a legal claim but intended as a joke.
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Big CatBig Cat

I will carry heavy objects between my desk and the studio all year to get 'boulders for shoulders'

The new office, it's probably about 100 feet from our desk to our studio. We should just carry something super heavy, so you have to carry it back and forth. You bring it in, then you've got to bring it back... we're going to start carrying random shit around.

This was a comedic resolution that was never consistently followed through on throughout 2019.
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Big CatBig Cat

I will learn how to do an ollie on a skateboard in 2019

I would love to do an ollie... I'd love to learn how to skateboard just a little bit. I watched Mid90s the other day. Awesome movie. But I'd love to learn how to skateboard just a little bit.

Big Cat did not successfully learn to ollie or become a skateboarder in 2019.
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Big CatBig Cat

I'm going to lose 15 pounds in January

I'm going to lose 15 pounds in January. Are you really? That's the goal? Yeah. That's your baseline goal? I was just saying that. That was really... I tried to sneak attack you guys on that one.

Big Cat's weight loss goals are a recurring theme of failure on the show.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

I will get a haircut that is just a very long mullet with lightning bolts on the side

I'm going to get a haircut this year... Would it be acceptable if I got a haircut and just turned into a mullet? Like a really fucking long mullet? Lightning bolts to the side.

PredictionLifeMediumSarcastic
PFT did not get a lightning bolt mullet in 2019; he kept his hair long.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Australia doesn't exist

Australia doesn't exist. It's made up. If you're the king of England, would you rather just put all your prisoners on a boat, send them halfway across the world, and then pay for them to be fed? Or do you think that old king of England would have just sank that boat and just told everybody, hey, the prisoners are over in Australia now. They're fine.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Australia does, in fact, exist.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Men evolved to nut fast to avoid being killed by woolly mammoths

From a Darwinian perspective, it's actually an advantage. Guys evolved to nut fast. Right. So we can spread our seed and be more efficient so that we don't get killed when we're like having a romantic tryst by a wandering woolly mammoth or T-Rex.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Biologically inaccurate and comedic; mammoths and T-Rexes did not live at the same time, nor is this the accepted evolutionary reason for human biology.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

It is healthy for your dog to watch you having sex because it reinforces that you are the alpha of the household

I actually think it's healthy for your dog to see you humping because it reinforces that you're an alpha. And if they see you having sex, they're like, I need to respect this person more. That's just how the animal kingdom works.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Animal behaviorists generally do not recommend this, and there is no scientific evidence that it 'reinforces alpha status' in a domestic setting.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

If you had vaccinations, your genitalia wouldn't look like cauliflower

In terms you can understand [Reggie Bush], if Kim Kardashian had gotten the Gardasil vaccine, then your dick wouldn't look like a cauliflower.

Fact ClaimLifeScorchingSarcastic
Gardasil prevents HPV, not 'cauliflower dick' in the literal sense, and the specific application to Reggie Bush is satirical nonsense.
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HankHank

Soap can't get dirty because it cleans itself

My friend uses a bar of soap to clean his ass crack and uses it the next day on his whole body... He says soap can't get dirty, so it's fine. [Hank says] He's right. You're wrong. It's like soap cleans itself all the time because it's layers.

Scientifically, bacteria can live on the surface of bar soap, even if it is technically a cleaning agent.
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Boomer EsiasonBoomer Esiason

Cystic Fibrosis will be eradicated in 5 to 10 years

I think CF will be eradicated from this earth in about five to 10 years.

While massive breakthroughs like Trikafta have occurred, CF has not been eradicated as of 2024.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The wind is a continuous circle caused by the Earth turning

Wind... It doesn't [stop], that's because it's a circle. It just goes forever. The earth keeps, well, the wind is caused by the earth turning.

Fact ClaimLifeMildSarcastic
Wind is caused by differences in atmospheric pressure, though the Coriolis effect (from Earth's rotation) does influence its path. It is not literally a single circle of air.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

I will get a Patrick Mahomes tattoo if Big Cat eats horse poop

I'm going to get a Patrick Mahomes tattoo. You want to bet? You have to eat horse poop if I get a Mahomes tattoo?

Neither event happened.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Australia does not exist

Australia doesn't exist. Australia is not a real place... Australia was invented by the British because it was like a penal colony... airline pilots are all in on it, too... when you fly people on vacation to Australia, you just take them down to Chile, and they never know the difference.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Australia is, in fact, a real continent and country.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Millennials are killing drivers by not getting enough DUIs

Technically, by not getting DUIs, millennials are actually killing more drivers. Because the roads are worse now. Because your [DUI] tickets aren't going to fund the renovations.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
This is a satirical inverse of logic and not a factual claim about road death statistics.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Washington D.C. sports is a dynasty that will never lose another championship again

Washington, D.C. is back big time. Wayne Rooney... man of the match. The Capitals re-signed Tom Wilson... that's a dynasty. The Redskins won the offseason again... they're a dynasty at this point. The Washington Valor won the Arena Bowl... so Washington, D.C. sports will never lose another championship again.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Incorrect; while the Mystics and Nationals won titles in 2019, D.C. sports teams have lost many championships/games since this 2018 claim.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

If red hits 10 times in a row in roulette, it's more likely to hit red again

Red's hot. Red is hot. You're taking the human element out of the wheel. Red's dominating... I'd say more like 85% [chance].

The 'Gambler's Fallacy' confirms that past independent events do not influence future probability in a fair game of roulette. The probability remains roughly 47.4%.
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Chris LongChris Long

The United States should build an Autobahn with no speed limits

I think we're missing out on an Autobahn, and there's a lot of places that you could put it and just do away with the speed limit.

There is no federal no-speed-limit highway in the United States.
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HankHank

The national drinking age should be lowered to 18

I'd make the drinking age 18... Because everyone's drinking when they're 18 anyway, so why not just make it legal?

The drinking age remains 21 in the United States.
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Big CatBig Cat

Short people are being weeded out by natural selection

[Speaker 3] (1:21:17-1:21:25) No, if you look back in history, the human species has gotten taller as time has gone on, so the short people have been weeded out.

While humans have grown taller on average due to better nutrition, short people are not being 'weeded out' by natural selection in a biological sense.
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HankHank

Real dinosaurs will be recreated within five years

A famed paleontologist, Dr. Jack Horner... came out and said that we're only five years from actually recreating real dinosaurs. Using chickens.

Five years have passed since 2018 (2023), and there are no recreated dinosaurs or 'dino-chickens' commercially or publicly available.
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Big CatBig Cat

IPAs give you man boobs because they are full of estrogen

It feels like the weirdest things have estrogen in them, right? Like IPAs now give you tits. [PFT: Yeah, well, that's been true for a while.]

While hops contain phytoestrogens, scientific consensus generally holds that the levels are far too low to cause 'man boobs' in typical consumers.
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Big CatBig Cat

I might eat poop just to 'alpha' PFT because his hesitation is getting sad

I've even said to you, I might just eat poop just to alpha you because it's getting so sad what you're doing. You are like, I can't do it. I can't do it. You came off the plane. You're like, what if I eat a mushroom with a little poop on it?

Hot TakeLifeHotSarcastic
Big Cat did not actually eat poop to 'alpha' PFT.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Filling up your gas tank more often for $20 saves you $60 compared to an $80 full tank

You're saving yourself 60 bucks because you're only paying 20. So I think Shaq's right. Yeah. Okay. All right.

Fact ClaimLifeScorchingSarcastic
The math is objectively wrong; you are spending the same amount of money for the same amount of gas over time, just in different increments.
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Big CatBig Cat

The Egyptian pyramids were built just to keep the Jewish people busy

The Egyptian pyramids were just a way to keep Jewish people busy. So Pharaoh was just like, I need something to do to keep these guys busy and build these fucking rock piles.

Mainstream archaeology generally agrees the pyramids were not built by slaves, and the timeline of the pyramids (Old Kingdom) predates the biblical Exodus narrative (New Kingdom) by centuries.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Foot injuries are not serious and everyone will think you're a pussy if you complain

Nobody likes it when somebody milks an ankle or a foot injury, okay? It's not that serious. If you got bit by a dog, it'd be a different story. Foot injuries are not serious. If you complain about them, everyone's just going to take your big push.

OpinionLifeHotSarcastic
Comedic medical advice; clearly a broken ankle from a car accident is a serious injury.
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Big CatBig Cat

Rocks are squishy until someone touches them

What if rocks are squishy until someone touches it? ... Whoa. It took you a second but now whoa that's crazy that's like they're all just a bunch of squishy starfish and then you touch it and it's hard. It gets real hard.

OpinionLifeScorchingSarcastic
Literally incorrect according to the laws of physics, but the take is meant to be unfalsifiable nonsense.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

We should harness the power of tectonic plates using 'Groundmills' for energy

Groundmills. We harness the power of the Earth's tectonic plates... We just put a windmill that moves. It's a giant blade. And so whenever the fault lines shift, it pushes this huge blade that makes electricity for everybody.

OpinionLifeScorchingSarcastic
Tectonic plate movement is far too slow and irregular to be harnessed by physical 'mills' in the way described.
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Big CatBig Cat

San Antonio is the worst city in America for cell phone reception

San Antonio not only has the most chips in any city ever, it also has the worst cell phone reception in any city ever. And we have not been able to tweet or do anything basically on our cell phones the entire weekend.

Likely an exaggeration caused by the high density of people at the Final Four saturating local towers.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

A child's athleticism depends on how 'athletic' the sex was at conception

I think it has more to do with how athletic the sex was when you actually were conceived. So if you're in a weird position, if you got like a leg up on a table, you're both sweating a lot, then you're going to have a really, really fast baby.

Physical activity during conception has no impact on the genetic material (DNA) provided to the offspring.
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Buzz WilliamsBuzz Williams

Stress makes your neck wider

I read a quote that you [Buzz] said you think stress makes your neck wider. Is that true? [Buzz:] Yeah. I got the widest neck possible then.

There is no medical evidence that stress directly increases the physical width of the skeletal or muscular neck structure.
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Big CatBig Cat

I am officially winning all my bets this year

This is the year I'm going to win all my bets. So it happens every year right before March Madness. I tell myself, give myself a little pep talk, but I think this is going to be the year.

He did not, in fact, win all of his bets.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

A signature on an item technically turns it into an open-ended contract worth infinity

I have the answer for you. It's because whatever you sign, that technically becomes a contract at that point. So if I hand you a piece of paper with my signature on it, you could, after the fact, go and fill in a contract above my signature. So it's actually worth infinity.

Fact ClaimLifeMediumSarcastic
Legally, a signature alone does not create an 'infinite' contract, and forging terms above a signature is fraud.
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Mr. PortnoyMr. Portnoy

The iPhone X is a terrible phone for actual communication

I understand from people I know that are very close to me that, for instance, the iPhone, I think it's the iPhone 8 through 10, that as a telephone... They're very poor. Using this as a phone to communicate... especially like the iPhone X, it's terrible on the telephone.

The iPhone X did not have widespread reputation for poor calling quality compared to other cell phones of its time.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Anything divided by zero is infinity

But wait, isn't anything divided by zero, zero? No, it's infinity.

Fact ClaimLifeMildSarcastic
In standard arithmetic, division by zero is undefined. In some contexts of calculus or non-standard analysis, it can be treated as infinite, but generally, this is a 'PFT fact.'
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Big CatBig Cat

Players should be able to fight one fan per year

I would like to see them implement my longstanding idea that players should be able to fight fans. One fight a year. You get to fight any fan that mouths off to you. You get to go in there and beat their fucking ass. And if you lose that fight, you have to give your salary to the fan.

This rule was never implemented.
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Big CatBig Cat

The sun is a keyboard cowboy and a bitch

So the sun's like basically a little bitch, like a keyboard cowboy. Or the sun is just... We show up to its grill, and we're like, hey, say something to my face. And the sun's like, no, we're good here.

OpinionLifeScorchingSarcastic
The sun is a star and cannot be a 'bitch' or a 'keyboard cowboy.'
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Big CatBig Cat

I am going to do five crunches a day as my New Year's resolution

I'm going to try to do five crunches a day... Someone added it up, and it was like 1,900 crunches. I was like, oh, shit. That's way more than I thought.

Based on show history, Big Cat does not maintain his New Year's fitness resolutions.
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Big CatBig Cat

I will lose 15 pounds and weigh 225 by my birthday

I think I weigh about 240-ish... and I'm going to try to get to like 225 by my birthday. [February]. First, like, seven pounds come off by just me, like, not eating breakfast. So take a big dump, don't eat breakfast, boom.

Big Cat has famously never stuck to these New Year's diets.
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Danica PatrickDanica Patrick

Positive self-talk and intention can literally change the composition of water

It's about how intention changes water. So you'll talk to water and you'll say I love you and then there's that glass and then I hate you and you put that glass down... And then it shows what, under a microscope, what it looks like with the word intention associated with it. I'm all in. Positive self-talk. So you talk to water. I need to, yes.

This claim is based on the debunked work of Masaru Emoto; scientific peer review has found no evidence that human intention affects the physical structure of water molecules.
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HankHank

Aliens will eventually hack the cloud and release everyone's deleted messages and photos

I've always thought that at some point in the future that every text message, Snapchat, picture message, picture they've ever taken and deleted, that's all going to end up on the internet for everyone... Aliens are about to start that. They're aliens, so they obviously know how to get to the cloud.

No mass alien hack of cloud services has occurred to date.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The city of Buffalo gets more snow on Sundays than any other US city

I'm not a meteorologist, but I'm sure that it's going to snow on Sunday up in Buffalo. That city, and I have no facts to back this up, but the city of Buffalo gets more snow on Sundays than any other city in America.

This is a hyperbolic comedic claim. Buffalo is snowy, but 'more on Sundays' is purely observational humor.
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HankHank

I am giving up masturbation to get an edge for my upcoming fight

I've decided to give up masturbation. So for those who don't know, Hank is actually fighting. It's a real fight, Rough N Rowdy. December 15th. I need every edge I can get.

Hank lost the fight to Tex at Rough N Rowdy 1 on December 15, 2017, suggesting the edge did not work.
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Big CatBig Cat

Farting is exclusively a male activity and women are not allowed to participate in 'fart culture'

That's not funny. It's not funny. It's kind of like some words some people can use, some words other people can't use... that's kind of what farts are like. That's not your word. We're allowed to fart. We're guys. We come from fart culture. You can't use it. It's ours. We own farts.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Biological functions are not gender-exclusive.
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Billy FootballBilly Football

Viruses might actually be aliens from a meteorite

Viruses might be aliens. They might have crashed on a meteorite. No, you know why? Because viruses don't have all the facts of life. Like, life needs to reproduce. Viruses replicate. They replicate, but not like other cells. So, it would make sense that they evolved on a different planet.

This is a fringe scientific hypothesis (panspermia) but is not the consensus view of evolutionary biology.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

It is safer to be shot without a shirt on to avoid getting clothing fibers in the wound

I think it [a bullet] would pass through you cleaner. Because if you're wearing a shirt, you get the shirt fibers inside your body.

Fact ClaimLifeHotSarcastic
While fibers in a wound can cause infection, being 'safer' when shot naked is a ludicrous exaggeration of medical reality.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Drinking alcohol makes you smarter by killing your weakest brain cells first

when you drink enough, it actually kills brain cells. That's a fact... If you kill brain cells, it's targeting the smaller, weaker brain cells first. Like a buffalo herd, and if you get rid of the weak ones, then it makes your brain function more efficiently.

Fact ClaimLifeFireSarcastic
Alcohol does not selectively kill 'weak' brain cells to improve overall function; it is a neurotoxin.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

We should stop learning because mini-collisions in the brain make you dumber

Why don't we go after math? Why don't we go after learning? Because when you think about it, all learning is is a bunch of electrons running into each other. A lot of mini collisions inside your head probably makes you dumber in the long term. Basically like playing the offensive line.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
This is a satirical scientific claim that is biologically nonsensical.

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