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Ep. 412 - Walking Outside Without TikTok w/ Pat Mayo Feb 19, 2026

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro: Three Things to Tell a 25-Year-Old

4:30 - Walking, Screen Time & Getting an Offline Hobby

12:50 - Delete TikTok: The Case Against Vertical Video

20:00 - Missouri Sports Betting & Golf Gambling

22:20 - Prediction Markets: The Future of Betting

32:15 - Canada at the Olympics & Hockey vs. Basketball

37:10 - 2026 World Cup Hype & Soccer Nationalism

50:15 - Dad Life Update: Davis at Three Months In

1:00:40 - Pat Mayo's Journey Quitting Smoking

1:04:00 - Late Night Snack Hacks & Nutrition Talk

1:10:00 - Intermittent Fasting, Creatine & Fitness Goals

1:17:30 - The Manosphere & Biohacking Content

1:20:45 - Pat's New Show & Off-Season Content Strategy

1:25:10 - Outro

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Ep. 411 - Super Bowl Bets, Props And Locks w/ Sammy Reid and Nate Nohling Feb 05, 2026

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Sammy Reid, Nate Nohling and Davis Mattek offer their favorite bets props and picks for Super Bowl LX

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Ep. 410 - Become The Person You Are Meant To Be w/ Peter Overzet Jan 28, 2026

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Yearly tradition of New Years Resolutions podcast w/ Peter Overzet and Davis Mattek

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Ep. 409 - Life After The NFL For Patrick Laird W/ Peter Overzet Jul 09, 2025

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00:00 Catching Up With Peter Overzet and Patrick Laird

3:00 A Full Year Off Of Football

6:50 Life without the focus of playing pro football

10:00 Laird’s Golf Stats

15:40 Sauna vs Cold Plunge

22:00 Trying to convince Pat to start a Youtube channel

31:30 Bryson DeChambeau is the GOATed Youtuber

35:00 Live Streams vs Pre-produced Video Content

39:00 NFL Player Workout Gear

43:20 What is it like watching football without being on a team

47:30 The new gambling tax laws

59:00 What has Pat been reading?

1:04:00 A Davis + Peter + Pat fantasy show?

1:07:00 Patrick on Ashton Jeanty

1:14:30 Would Pat want to work for an NFL team?

1:16:00 What is the future of NIL?

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Ep. 408 - The 100,000 Reasons Alex Gladstein Wants You To Think About Bitcoin Jun 25, 2025

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Davis Mattek is joined by Bitcoin giant Alex Gladstein to discuss their journey in Bitcoin together, quantum computing, stablecoins, AI, Bitcoin being for everyone, and much.

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Timestamps:

00:00 The Long Price Journey Of Bitcoin

3:30 The Culture Of Bitcoin Lazer Eyes

8:10 Bitcoin Performing During World Wars

12:30 Bitcoin Is For Everyone

15:00 Bitcoin being banned somehow turned into a reserve currency

18:30 Will Wall Street co-opt Bitcoin?

23:00 Bitcoin on Square Reader

27:00 Digital Cash is actually here?

33:00 Bitcoin as peer to peer cash: Does it work?

36:00 The Bitter Stablecoin Debate

42:00 Bitcoin Not Crypto

46:20 Quantam Computing And Bitcoin

48:59 AI And Bitcoin?

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Ep. 407 - Everything You Have Ever Wanted To Know About NFL Defense w/ Cody Alexander From Match Quarters Jun 18, 2025

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00:00 The Base Schematics Of NFL Offenses

4:30 Offensive Coordinators playing scared

8:30 Rick Carlisle Syndrome

11:50 How do you disguise your coverage against cheat motion

17:45 Defensive Coordinators HATE to get ran on

21:00 Three Safety Formations

25:50 Travis Hunter As An NFL Player

31:30 What makes Steve Spagnuolo so Good At Coaching

36:00 Evaluating NFL Draft Prospects In The New Meta

41:20 Penny Packages/Heavy Fronts

44:30 The return to 12 personnel

48:10 What is going to be the story of the defense in 2025?

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Ep. 406 - Brian Daboll On The Ropes, Knicks Chaos, New York Sports w/ Nick Kostos Jun 11, 2025

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Nick Kostos joins Davis Mattek to break down the summer for New York Sports

00:00 In or out on Brian Daboll

2:04 Daniel Jones On Colt

4:30 Is Joe Schoen going to get fired

8:44 Kenny Pickett Is A Loser?

13:20 The New York Knicks Fired This

21:00 The 2nd Apron Is A Huge Fumble

25:20 Increasing The Popularity Of The National Hockey League

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Ep. 405 - AI Generated Content, PME Live Show, Canadian Politcs, Hockey Talk w/ Pat Mayo Jun 04, 2025

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Davis Mattek is joined by Pat Mayo to discuss AI content, Canadian Politics, Hockey's popularity and more

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00:00 Would you listen to AI Generated content?

9:05 THE PME LIVE SHOW

17:14 The DFS Content Creator Classic?

20:01 Davis and Pat Speak in french

25:00 Canadian Politics Corner

36:00 American Politics Corner

42:00 Why is hockey not more popular in the United States?

54:40 Mayo’s Golf Game

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Ep. 404 - Explosive Plays, Double QBs, NFL Salary Cap w/ Tej Seth May 29, 2025

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00:00 Why is rushing so successful in the NFL?

8:30 Will NFL teams actually want to generate more explosive plays again

10:20 Was it maybe just a personnel problem for the lack of passing?

15:45 How would Tej increase explosive plays for an offense

18:45 The Revoking of void years for NFL salary caps

23:00 The NFL Without A Salary Cap?

26:15 Does Minor League Football work?

33:00 Football academies in the USA?

35:00 The Purdy Contract

38:30 The 2025 Detroit Lions

45:00 Two Quarterback Plays In The NFL

48:40 The Chiefs Bring The Deep Ball Back?

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Davis delves into the latest NFL stats, noting a decrease in points per game. He also points out that rushing plays now have positive EPA, which is a notable trend. Hear about nfl betting and football in this breakdown!

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Ep. 403 - Life In The NFL, Playing For The Lions, Getting Fit w/ Zach Zenner May 21, 2025

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Davis Mattek is joined by Zach Zenner to talk about his NFL career and time with the Detroit Lions, Arizona Cardinals, New Orleans Saints and Miami Dolphins. They also discuss Zenner's connection to Patrick Laird and his thoughts on the NFL today + his job as a personal trainer and nutrition coach

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Timestamps:

00:00 Zach Zenner + Patrick Laird

3:00 Did Zach know that he was a cult hero?

6:30 The experience of getting drafted in the NFL Draft

12:30 It Is Always Better To Be Drafted Than A UDFA

16:50 Undrafted Free Agents Are A Fungible Asset In The NFL

21:30 The Frustration of being a running back

29:30 Being An NFL Player And A Doctor?

34:55 Zach finds his way into a medical study while on IR

37:30 What we actually know about fructose?

42:30 Zach Starts Zion Performance

47:00 Seed Oils Are Not That Bad???

50:30 How lives are getting changed by Zion performance

58:10 Football Watching Habits Of Former Players

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