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Big CatBig Cat

I am going to do a 72-hour fast to reset my system

I'm thinking about doing a 72 hour fast... People help me out. Let me know if I can do a 72 hour fast... I wanna test myself. Can I stop my addiction to food for 48 hours? Probably not.

Big Cat's history with juice cleanses and fasts suggests he likely broke this with a heavy meal shortly after.
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Big CatBig Cat

I am officially retiring from participating in physical sports challenges

My fire fest is pretty simple. My body is broken. I'm, I'm too old for some of this shit. I did tweet that I was thinking about retirement, like not retirement from like this show, but retirement from our physical challenges. We played, we did six hour stream on Tuesday night... softball on Wednesday... oh my god, I can't walk right now. I think I need to retire from sports. I need to be a walking guy.

Big Cat inevitably continues to participate in physical challenges for the show, as he does every year despite similar claims.
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Big CatBig Cat

Lactose intolerance is a sign of weakness and most people who claim it are 'pussies'

I think lactose intolerant people are just pussies. I just, when people are like, I can't eat that ice cream. I'm lact— shut the fuck up. Eat the ice cream. If you need an EpiPen, I respect you. If you are, if you like, oh, I got a little diarrhea, dude, that's my whole life is eating too much ice cream and getting diarrhea.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Lactose intolerance is a medically recognized condition involving enzyme deficiency, though Big Cat is arguing about the threshold of what counts as an 'allergy'.
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HankHank

I will give it my all and I believe I will be able to dunk

I'm in it. The bet's out there. It's 20, it's 20 k. ... I'm going to give it my all to be able to dunk. I think I'm gonna be able to do it. I know the haters and you guys and everyone in the world doesn't think I'm going to, but I I welcome that. I welcome that. ... The only way that's gonna stop me is injury.

Based on available evidence, Hank was unable to dunk a basketball. Instagram posts reference 'Hank might not be able to dunk' and his 2025 resolution was still listed as 'Dunk,' indicating he did not accomplish it by the deadline.
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Big CatBig Cat

Flacco the Owl was a slut

Even though I don't, I I I'll still stand with my take that Flacco the owl was a slut. Big time slut. I guess the pigeon herpes might've been because he was eating pigeons. ... I'm sticking with full on slut shaming a flacco. You were a slut. That's how you got the herpes.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
It is scientifically unlikely an owl's behavior qualifies as human 'promiscuity,' making this a satirical claim.
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HankHank

I will be able to dunk a basketball and hit twenty three-pointers within the next ten months

I'm going hard to dunk... summer, that's exactly my plan. I'm already over leveraged. What if I do both and hit 20 threes? I just have to basically change my entire lifestyle way of thinking and everything.

Hank famously failed to dunk despite months of 'training'.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

I have a rational confidence that I could pass the multiple-choice portion of the Bar Exam without studying

I have a rational confidence that I could pass the multiple choice part [of the bar exam]. If I studied I could definitely do it... I'm good at reading a test question and figuring out what they're trying to ask me. I've watched enough SVU I think to pass the bar exam.

PFT immediately goes 1-for-3 on sample questions provided by Big Cat, suggesting his confidence is indeed delusional.
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Big CatBig Cat

I will join the 1,000 pound club naturally within a year

Challenge myself and I'm gonna get hurt. And that's gonna suck... I'm gonna try to do a thousand pound club, Billy... It's deadlift, squat, bench. A thousand pounds... I'm doing it all natural. No, I'm doing it. It's either all natural or can't do.

Big Cat did not publicly document hitting this goal within the year and eventually focused on other fitness goals like running a mile.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Dentists are a scam

Dentists are a scam. You don't have a cavity until somebody tells you you have a cavity. People don't go to the dentist when their teeth are feeling great.

OpinionLifeHotSarcastic
Medically incorrect, but a classic PFT logical fallacy.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Only two people in the room statistically have cancer

Statistically only like two of us in this room have cancer. [Big Cat: That's a bummer].

The lifetime risk of a cancer diagnosis is high (about 1 in 2-3), but the current prevalence in a room of healthy-looking men in their 30s is likely lower than 2/6.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

I am going to have 'final four abs' by getting cool sculpting done on my stomach

When I went in to get my platelet-rich plasma injections into my scalp, I got upsold into getting cool sculpting done on my stomach. And so now my stomach hurts really bad. The good news is I'm gonna have final four abs.

PFT did not appear noticeably shredded or debut new abs during the 2023 Final Four.
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Big CatBig Cat

Vacations are for suckers and losers

Full stop. Fucking work hard. Hank vacation. Boy, you're soft bitch. All these vacations you're taking. I didn't even like doing it. I wanted to be working with the boys... vacations for suckers and losers.

Hot TakeLifeFireSarcastic
Clearly a joke statement contradicting his own actions and earlier words.
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Big CatBig Cat

I am losing 25 pounds in 2023 for my 'hard body' year

2023 is a hard body year. I'm gonna get a hard body... I'm losing 25 pounds in 2023. Losing 25 pounds in 2023... January 1st, new me.

While Big Cat did participate in various fitness challenges, he largely maintained his weight through the year, not reaching a 25lb loss.
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Billy FootballBilly Football

I may be allergic to red meat and dairy for the rest of my life due to a lone star tick bite

Turns out I must have stepped on a lone star tick nest... and I got bitten by a bunch of lone star tick larva... which the good news is the larva don't transmit Lyme's... but they can give you an Alpha-gal allergy. That means that Alpha-gal is in all red meat and dairy and I, I might be allergic to red meat and dairy for the rest of my life. I had to go vegan for a month before I get the test... I contracted veganism.

While a real medical condition, Billy eventually resumed eating meat and did not test positive for the long-term allergy.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

I am going to win the $1.2 billion Mega Millions drawing

By this time tomorrow, I'm going to be 1.02 billion in debt with a B... I've worked my own way into that sort of situation. Cuz I went out to the store. I bought $500 worth of mega millions tickets... I've fairly confident that I'm going to win the drawing tomorrow night.

PredictionLifeScorchingSarcastic
He did not win the $1.2 billion jackpot.
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HankHank

I will get a Warzone win before the new season or I'll get duct-taped to a wall

A month and a half ago I was playing War Zone... I was like I'll get a win before the new season comes out, which is next Monday or Tuesday... if I don't you'll get duct tape to wall. I was like absolutely. There's no doubt in my mind I'll get that win. No problem at all.

Incorrect. Hank failed to get the win in time and was famously duct-taped to a wall in the office as a result.
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HankHank

I will have a visible six-pack by the end of the summer

I'll have a six pack. You will never have a six pack. [Hank]: Yes, I will. All right. Great. How much time? Give me a month. By the end of the summer. Six pack summer. You're going to have a visible six pack? [Hank]: Yes.

Hank did not achieve a visible six-pack by the end of summer 2021; the bet became a recurring point of mockery for the rest of the year.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

I am officially bringing back the phrase 'Now that's paper'

I gotta start thinking about another phrase. I'm thinking now that's paper. I tried to bring back now that's paper while ago, but it feels, I feel like the times right now. Bet. I like bet.

OpinionLifeMildSarcastic
The phrase did not achieve widespread adoption outside of minor ironic use on the show.
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HankHank

My worst one was island gorilla — I thought it was a lowland gorilla from the island

My personal opinion, the worst one was island gorilla... Lowland gorilla. Oh yeah. You thought it was the gorilla from Des Moines? How sick would Iowa be if there were just wild gorillas rolling through the country?

It's a lowland gorilla, named for the low-altitude tropical forests where it lives. Not an island gorilla, though Iowa would be significantly improved by wild gorillas.
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Big CatBig Cat

I am officially retiring from giving pregame speeches

I gave them [Tony Scheffler's team] a pump up speech before state quarterfinals. And then they lost by like 40. I'm retiring from the pregame speech. We'll stop doing speeches.

Big Cat continued to give ironic pregame speeches for years (e.g., for the Arizona Bowl).
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The United States is ending Daylight Savings Time permanently

The United States Senate is passing a bill saying that we're not going to do daylight savings time ever again. So your clocks stay where they are... It looks like we're not going to be changing our clocks this summer. Ever again. Ever again.

The Sunshine Protection Act passed the Senate in 2022 but was never passed by the House or signed into law. Clocks are still changed as of 2024.
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Billy FootballBilly Football

It should be encouraged to kill bats to keep the population down and reduce the risk of mosquito bites

I feel like it should be encouraged to kill bats... [to keep the] population like to keep it down. So like no of the mosquito bites. Which also was the bats. That's true.

Bats are actually a primary predator of mosquitoes; killing them would likely lead to an increase in the mosquito population, making this claim factually backwards.
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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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Billy FootballBilly Football

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

The drug that you're going to want to ask for... I took some Ivermectin. You get it at like a Tractor Supply store because you get the horses [version]. If you think you have scabies, they sell it in big tubes like toothpaste. You just got to make sure the dosage is right—it's like one milligram for every 20 pounds.

While Ivermectin is an FDA-approved treatment for scabies in humans, the version sold at Tractor Supply is for livestock and can contain dangerous impurities or incorrect concentrations for humans.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The traditional post-game handshake in sports will likely never return

My fire fest of the week is I don't think that they're going to be any more hockey handshakes at the end of Big Time Stanley Cup Playoff Series because Dr. Fauci said that he doesn't think the handshakes ever go to I'm back. I'm happy about this... It absolutely is weird. If it was any other part of your body that you did this with it would be bizarre.

While handshakes did mostly return to sports, the initial post-COVID period saw a significant decrease in their frequency and the rise of alternatives like fist bumps.
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Big CatBig Cat

Exposure to the office 'pile' of trash has strengthened our immune systems.

I actually think that being around the pile has probably strengthened our immune systems without a doubt. My mom saw that on Twitter and texting me also if and when the pile in your office is cleaned, you will find it as full of niceness.

This is a medically dubious claim made for comedic effect.
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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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