Mt Rushmore szn is officially back at PMT, and Big Cat wasted no time tossing a curveball into the calendar. Today's pick: the preseason Mount Rushmore of Non-Alcoholic Drinks, a category broad enough to start fights in every group chat in America. Water? Coke? Chocolate milk? Welch's grape juice at a baseball banquet? Everyone has a hill, and Big Cat just handed everyone a shovel.
Big Cat teeing up the preseason Rushmore himself.
PMT followed up with the official rollout a few hours later, which is when the discourse really started boiling. Rushmores are the segment that built half the pod's lore, and the non-alcoholic angle is a sneaky-great prompt because it forces you to weigh sentimental picks (Gatorade after a two-a-day) against the everyday workhorses you'd never actually rank if forced to.
The official Today's Mount Rushmore post from PMT.
But the Rushmore wasn't even the loudest moment of the episode. Buried in the same pod was Hank, professional Barstool wet blanket, going out of his way to pre-empt chaos at the upcoming San Antonio live show — specifically, pleading with stoolies not to throw eggs at Memes and Zac. PardonMyMeme's counter, delivered with the grin of a man who has now been dared, was to smuggle in a carton on Sunday and aim it at Hank instead.
Hank issuing the no-eggs decree and PardonMyMeme immediately negotiating an exception.
That bit, plus Hank apparently in full hater mode elsewhere in the episode, gave the day its real shape: a Rushmore on the marquee, a low-key egg summit on the undercard, and Hank somehow at the center of both. HankHeads were already bracing — Rushmore season is a minefield for anyone whose guy is paid to dislike things on the record.
A HankHead bracing for the inevitable Rushmore fallout.
Mt Rushmore szn is a nightmare for us HankHeads NGL
Add it all up and you've got a pretty standard PMT Friday: a debate nobody asked for that everyone now has an opinion on, a live-show storyline forming in real time, and Hank doing what Hank does best — making himself the story without ever really trying to. San Antonio is going to be a scene.