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@PFTCommenter joins us for a tour around the wide world of sports! We talk the new Saudi golf tour LIV, Cletus the NFL transformer, gambling tips, the horniness of Yankee greats, and the future of sports media. PLUS Rep. Clay Higgins speaks directly to the cartels.

Tickets for our Fall tour available at: www.chapotraphouse.com/live

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Waffle Poet

I don’t know anything about sports, and never cared about any of them after I stopped playing baseball almost 30 years ago. Watching or talking about sports makes me want to kill myself. I skipped this episode for years because of this. I really missed out, because this was such a banger episode.

ploob

Jill Lescoe mentioned.

Keenan Brennan

A collab I didn’t know I needed until now

max longtin

Sometimes you just know it's gonna be a banger

Kevin Pinner

Clay “The Matrix” Higgins

Woke Batou

Omfg Christmas came early lets gooooooo

Michael alan

the next barstool collab should be nick and kb. ANUS boys go on chapo

Dean Phillips

Always knew PFT was the only redeemable stoolie

Luke

worlds colliding

William

Fair play to Rep. Higgins - he told them it's game on

leonard

buffalo bills super bowl LVII champs let’s go

BigBoto

I still can't believe Clay Higgins exists, and I imagine him looking exactly like the Louisiana sheriff from the Roger Moore Bond movies.

JDR 2209

lets fuckin go

Nolan

Oh boy

Josh

Fuckin sports gamblin, NFL, & Clay fuckin Higgins … hope this EP lives up to the synopsis - I need me some of this shit!

Null_null

I guess PFT is an expert in selling one's soul to make a few extra dollars.

stop watcherman

All my bros have barstool flags that’s just vibes

King Suck

liz strong and it's about bruenig's meltdown

Adam Gorvin

fuck yea he's back finally

Kevin Miller

“Sin-a-woah-la” and “juh-les-co.” Incredible.

William

Kind of fell off towards the end - felt like pft was throwing them a bone towards the end though but the chaos missed it

Michael S. Judge

It's true that Brittney Griner makes something like $667,000 over 3 years, but only the stars in that league make $200,000+. For people who often have to maintain homes in 2 cities, travel a ton, require considerable paid childcare, etc., they really make shit money for pro athletes. My understanding is that a lot of the Russian women's teams are 100% underwritten by entities like oil companies, strictly for PR purposes, with no real attempt to make a profit. (Allegedly the stands are often full of homeless people who get free tickets as street promotion.) Stars like Griner, Diana Taurasi, Sue Bird, et al, can make 10 times their WNBA salaries for playing in a much easier league. Taurasi, arguably the best WNBA player ever, makes $119,500 per WNBA season and $1.5 million per season with UMMC Ekaterinberg.

B2B Commuter

Can’t even afford her own Turtle to keister her vape carts.

AL

this is a goated lineup

Greg

I love the Mini golf talk- who here has seen the TV show Holey Moley. It's on hulu, best thing on TV in ten years, easy

Matt Murray

Been hoping you guys would talk about LIV. excited

Joe

I was thinking “oh god, I know it’s the middle of the coveted American Summer, but why are all my podcasts doing sports shows” — and then I got thirty minutes into this episode. True speed boat dope.

Pedro

90% of sports gamblers quit right before they're about to hit it big.

Degrassi Knoll

At 2:05 did someone say "what's fentanyl"? If you are using, get it soon...Clay is going to chip every grain of it

Ozzie

Chapo is my favorite sports ball podcast

Jon

I hate barstool and even I know it’s PFT *commenter*

Ethan

PFT is the one who got me on the barstool to chapo pipeline

Ethan

Get big cat on

Declan Kennedy

Fun episode, I half expected some brief discussion about McMegan's RvW tweets from last week but respect that Matt might not have survived the discussion

Lulu

"Charles Barkley recently told Pat McAfee 'If somebody gave me 200 million I'd kill a relative' in regards to PGA Tour players taking LIV money". I guess the Saudis saw that and were like "Get him on the phone".

SoConfused

40:00 but the IPL is a real league tho? Do they mean fake matches? Just sounds like copyright infringment tbh lol

Adam Bojak

It's "Cleatus". Important part of the lore.

Doug Cartel

"we're gonna push you into the water" the Writer says as he shoves the Stalker

Doug Cartel

People say "go touch grass" but telling cops "go touch fent" is sitting right there

fisher ilijasic

matt’s impression of clay higgins is just foghorn leghorn

Doug Cartel

PUTTIN THA YANKESS REDSOX LOGOS IN DA WORLD TRADE CENTAH MEMORIAL IS LIKE LETTIN A MOOSLIMB NEAR DA WORLD TRADE CENTA MEMORIAL

Bryan

no thanks to chapo x barstool

Sifl

LIV tour is not about sportswashing. The Saudis have never cared what the rest of the world thinks about their human rights record. After the international outrage over Khashoggi's murder, the Saudis just kept lopping people's heads off in public executions and blockading food and medicine from reaching Yemen. LIV tour is really about an Arab game of dick measuring. Qatar got the soccer world cup and previously had the track and field world championships in 2019. Dubai hosts a huge golf tournament in November that is part of the DP world tour and gets a lot of top PGA pros. The most interesting aspect of these sports dick measuring contest is distance running. Dubai has a marathon with the richest prize purse in the world. But no one from Dubai goes out to watch the race because the women's race kits are too revealing and seen by most regular citizens of Dubai as being haram.

Archie MacLellan

RUGBY. It's great folks. I recommend watching the Six Nations if you want to get into it.

BigBoto

Totally agree. Six Nations is great because France have amazing teams and regularly shit all over the English, which amuses me to no end.

Mark Schneider

Even though I don't give a shit about spectator sports apart from political stuff (like the Kaepernik hatred), I think this guest was great, appreciated how he challenged Chapo to go into tangents & really got a dialogue going.

poiuytrefvbj55

Sports gambling was my first entry into sports writing and it's a vile cesspool lol PFT is right, the humble ones who are honest about going 45% on the year are the best ones to follow.

WillyGetSilly

PFT on Chapo let’s fucking goooooo

Wilko

So boring, I literally fell asleep listening to it.

Eliot O'Callaghan

Y’all should’ve asked him about his union busting rapist scumbag of a boss Dave portnoy

Stim Scrounger

the only dickriders more prolific than elon stans are the barstool sports content creators for dave portnoys meat

dawood

Saudi's choosing golf as propaganda makes the most sense as it appeals to the dumbest and most powerful american electorate

Stim Scrounger

that utah jazz bit is 1000% related to the TrueAnon mormon investigation

Julie Baxter

Anyone placing bets on the next contestant in the Saudi bonesaw game?

YourMagnet_adult_version

I love this episode, great topics were covered, it was a pleasure to spend this time with you.

ZeeBee

PFT seems like a good guy, which is why I've always been puzzled that he went to barstool. Seems like he would have fit in better with the former-Deadspin/Defector crew. Oh well, I'm never going to read barstool or listen to any of their podcasts.

james

29:59 the REAL 9/11 😭

pogoaidan

Extreme pogo sticking is the sport of the future get excited

Clean Shirt Piggie

Is Dustin Johnson taking the $audi tour for coke money?

Clean Shirt Piggie

Sports integrity is at all time low. Dems should promise to save sports

Clean Shirt Piggie

Golf is not boring to watch. It’s an awful use of resources and should only be played on 24 courses worldwide and only by top pros. Saudi league should behead golfers who miss the cut. That shit would sell

Clean Shirt Piggie

Matt should spin off an all Clay Higgins voice podcast

Clean Shirt Piggie

Grillin n Chillin with Clay brought to you by Dairy Queen

Clean Shirt Piggie

Vlad lured Brit to Russia and “snap”. PFT FOH. Clown

Clean Shirt Piggie

Grey Wolves bet on Amber & Virgil appearances. It’s a thing

Clean Shirt Piggie

Interesting how society’s cracking down on certain vices like voting and abortion

jodo123

Hi - I support a real candidate for Congress that is accepting no donations and might unseat a trump supported Republican. How can I get in touch with you guys for a potential discussion on an interview?

Matthew Smith

Why not get David J Roth back on? He already wrote about LIV for Defector.

Des Mosome

I *was* going to be all like ‘only if you don’t like the ball moving out to the backline’ but then I remembered NFL. Also, thought you’d mention Ireland.

Ron Jones

My old neighbor was a grandson of Rocket Richard lol he loved hockey and also getting drunk

Weston Smith

Eric is funny af. Here’s the thing: it’s like every episode you talk about Saudi butchery without an obvious counterpoint, the US treatment of Assange. I feel like a Russian bot. I feel like retweeting Aimee Therese. This is some subliminal dnc hackery on the level of Pod Save America.

Null_null

They spent a good chunk of the conversation talking about how the morally corrupt DC establishment no longer gives a shit that about Khasshogi now that they’re in a bind and need some oil. Why bring up Assange? KSA and USA same team. The Chapo guys aren’t trying to assert some moral high ground for the US.

Weston Smith

I get that they don’t personally think the US is a higher moral ground. The most lucid critique of chapo comes from Therese who accuses them of being dnc buttboys. Moments like these, where they hang Charles Barkley out for potentially doing business with the ksa, and repeatedly, emphatically hammer the point about chopping up body parts is precisely this critique. Should Charles Barkley refuse to participate in American sports because of their treatment of assange? Maybe, that’s a more interesting point of view honestly.

Weston Smith

@null_null in case I didn’t reply correctly

George P

step away from the smartphone and get some fresh air my dude

Null_null

skip the sports episode next time.

Sean

PFT seems v chill

etienne

I also wish that all media I consumed treated me like a stupid baby and had disclaimers and whatabouts on every statement, so to avoid accidentally being seen as to unduly taking a side

Weston Smith

Nah, this isn't that. They talked about how the golf tournament was openly and clearly part of a propaganda effort, while literally parroting state department propaganda. Every time someone talks about KSA violence they get +5 America points. Chapo bits are often critically thorough, this one was weirdly liberal in a way that made me feel like Glenn

etienne

you have a very strong force of character and baloney detector for you to expose yourself to such strong and insidious propaganda and see right through it. we're really lucky to have you

Weston Smith

You're an excellent white knight and I don't know if they could have adequately defended themselves without you. My feedback is in tatters and it's all thanks to comment repliers.

etienne

thats awesome man. thanks to you im gonna be ready to drop some raw fucking knowledge on my high school philosophy classes

Weston Smith

Yeah, or for your tight five, you know, anything can be an open mic, when you have the right stuff.

Ghordo

Somebody needs to make a movie about Clay Higgins played by Nicholas Cage

Duane Bailey

Well, it's sports i guess. Not clear why this matters.

Duane Bailey

Perhaps future episodes could show why people caring about this is indicative of anything meaningful.

AbeLinkin

Sports offer valuable insight into the state of our society

will michel

can you drop tonight’s episode already? i’m stuck in the atlanta airport and all the bars are closed

Corkus

Hey it’s been 6 years just wanted to say thank you for mentioning the poverty franchise of a team I root for, the Islanders. Love the pre game shows

Hudson

ah so you're the reason it hasn't dropped yet, bravo bruh

Duane Bailey

Sure, but I would presume the hosts would articulate why/how sports offer valuable insight into the state of our society. It's clear they do. What's less clear is why sports matters and what impact they have on our society. This is no more clear on a second listen.

Duane Bailey

For anyone who's not into sports already, the entire enterprise seems a lot more like a gladiatorial match soothing the masses of unclear political stresses than anything inherently material.

Jeff Klein

Will, you’re a really good show runner. You transition really well to planned topics while keeping the flow of conversation going

Tony J Arbaugh Jr.

Him and big cat been following chapo guys on socials for like 3+ years lol